In your day there wouldn’t have been a trans teacher anywhere near a school. The Overton Window is skewed so far to the left that the news story leaves out that salient fact.
What’s weird about this is they were having trouble with the diesels in the days prior and got underway anyway. Must have been big pressure to depart and perhaps fix it underway. If the issue was algae in the fuel, that’s not something you can fix underway very easily.
No tugs either. That felt strange too. You could drop anchors on a ship that size and its no guarantee your hooks will hold the ship with enough way on. No fenders around the caissons either. That makes no sense.
About time. I guess China has some sort of backup plan to replace him. They always do. As long as politicians make whores look virtuous, the Chinese always have an in.
I have to agree. I don’t think he saw this coming, and it wiped out his term. As much good as he did, this was his Amnesty moment from the Reagan years. Trump got rolled.