United Airlines passenger allegedly assaulted flight attendant, tried to get into cockpit

Republicans telling people to go apeshit about wearing masks. It didn’t come from thin air. People were fine with masking and vaccines until republicans in congress started making it a political issue for the sole purpose of creating division.

I believe it started with Trump and the maga movement. I realize that every president isn't a saint, but I liken it to you dating my sister. I realize you're doing it, but don't f*** her on the couch while I'm watching tv. As a leader, there should be some sense of decorum. Not mocking disabled people, mocking senators and spouses, mocking former presidents. Late night tweets riling people up. Then we have the whole social media and conspiracy podcasts where disinformation and outright hate is spewed. Let's just take Covid for example. We knew there were a lot of deaths in China. You had government officials dumping stock after the initial closed door briefing because the prognosis was so bad. Yet getting behind wearing a mask was somehow infringing on people's rights, and somehow you wearing one totally infuriated the next guy. How do Asian countries wear masks during flu season without an uproar? But somehow it was the democrats shutting the country down. Never mind that the whole world was going through the same pandemic and shut down, it's my right to stand right in your face. So now with the anonymity of the internet people feel emboldened to say what they want. Truth, lies, bigotry, hatred it doesn't matter because the president says the same things. So now after being used to saying and believing what ever I want on the internet that's my persona in real life because nobody is going to tell me what to do. Stickers on gas pumps showing Biden saying "I did that", when the fuel prices rose because of the Russian Ukraine war but not a f****** peep now that I'm paying $5 for regular and $6 a gallon for diesel. From a war we have no clue what the objective is, at least nothing that was conveyed to the public. We've normalized hatred, when grade school teachers are "woke" because there is a "be kind" banner in their room, is this really where we are at in life? Where drawing a rainbow is frowned upon, hell that was the easiest picture for me to draw as a kid. I guess in short we've normalized hatred, we want to divide everyone. My beliefs are right and there is no place for yours if they differ. This is just my personal observation, it wasn't that long ago that I thought we all got along. I might have been naive and not realizing what was actually happening below the surface but I thought most everyone just wanted to get along and just live their lives in peace and quiet.

"forced to wear face masks" is a weird way of spinning the most basic pandemic public safety protocol since pandemics have been a thing. I swear, right-wing propaganda has done permanent damage to this country's general intelligence.

Omfg those grifters who made $$$ selling those useless “ADA mask exemption” cards. I remember seeing a few of these unhinged people at the airport claiming they had some disability and couldn’t wear a mask.

Ambien-type pills, which I think is the most popular, definitely does it and I know people who use it specifically to travel. My friend personally told me he had to lock up his phone when he took it because he was texting people wild things, but I forget the specifics.

I never had 1 problem with anyone on Spirit over the years. I've seen more shit go down on my fair share of Delta flights though.

Airfair is also expensive as hell right now and it's only going to get worse with spirit going under. Still cheaper to drive cross country than buy plane tickets if your traveling with at least 1 passenger

I haven’t stepped foot in a Sky Club in years despite having a card or status that allows it lol. Highly dependent on airport but the places I traveled were meh and folks on calls on speaker phone or loud ass laptop(no headphones). They’re bumping less folks up because they want folks to pay for them and a lot are. Even with higher status I rarely got bumped up. I had a FC ticket I paid for coast to coast heading home after a vacation. Go to check in and an error. Next day I call and I have no ticket. I was bumped for someone else in FC and never rebooked. They bumped that person back off the flight and gave me my seat back. Otherwise I’d have been fucked waiting and have to find a new flight. Like I said they’re in a race to the bottom right now with their current leadership. Their reliability is down to sixth of carriers and unless they magically hire pilots and crew, the summer is gonna suck.