Should Democrats Take the Free Win We've Been Gifted, or Hop Aboard a Death Ship?
There are a surprising number of votes for "death ship"
Suppose it’s May 7, 1937, the day after the Hindenburg disaster. People are shocked by the gruesome horror captured on camera, and remember: These are 1930s people, who are used to seeing folks get crushed in bizarre industrial accidents and kicked through the side of a barn by a horse — their threshold for being horrified is high. Would you come out that day and issue this statement?
The Luftschiffbau Zeppelin company’s rigid airship design has been chaotic and inconsistent, but slow-moving, cloth-covered aircraft filled with flammable gas are still a great way to travel. I reject the consensus by so-called “experts” that Zeppelins aren’t safe; rigid airships are the future, and we should invest in better, more passenger-friendly designs so that you and your family can float slowly in a giant condom filled with gaseous death for decades to come.
You might issue that statement if you were the head of a rigid airship company. Of course, you also might not — you might have divested from your company and hopped on a flight to Aruba in a fixed wing aircraft before the last flaming corpse even hit the ground — but maybe you’d issue that statement. What you would absolutely not do is issue that statement if you ran an airplane company. But, if for some inexplicable reason, you did issue that statement, what would obviously, unmistakably, categorically never, ever happen is for your words to be amplified by the Alliance of Fixed-Wing Aircraft Manufacturers. That would be such an astounding fuckup that everyone involved in the decision should have to explain themselves, with any explanation that doesn’t start with “I was extremely high” leading to immediate termination.
It’s hard to imagine that happening, though it’s a bit easier now that Representative Chris Deluzio and the House Democrats Twitter account did something very similar a few days ago. Here’s a video that Deluzio and House Democrats posted last Friday, which happened to be the day that the Dow recorded its third-largest single day point drop ever (after recording its fifth-largest single day point drop ever the day before):