Midnight Meme Of The Day! Revenge Is a Thing Best Served

by Noah

I'm posting this for all of you who've had recent inexcusable problems inflicted upon you when all you were trying to do was get from Point A to Point B to visit friends and loved ones. It's a general problem but what happened at our airports during the holidays was as beyond the pale as it was predictable and preventable. This post has nothing to do with yesterday's FAA computer glitch or whatever it turns out to have been. Instead, this post has everything to do with the failures of those in charge of the airlines themselves. This ongoing insanity is due to the incredible dysfunction, mental incompetence, and what amounts to downright evil of the corporations who take your money and promise to get you where you want to go in a timely fashion, knowing and not caring that they are ill-equipped to do so. This is a lot more than "profits before people."

I can't help but notice that when planes crash, the blame is rarely put on defects of the plane or the policies of those who run the airline. Things like maintenance, systems and design cost cutting, and employee exhaustion? Who cares, right? Even when Captain Sullenberger used all of his skills and experience to miraculously land a plane full of passengers on the Hudson River without a single loss of life after a flock of birds flew into the plane's engines, the airlines industry hauled him before their investigation panels in order to assign pilot error or a lapse of judgement in choosing to save lives by ditching in the Hudson rather than attempt a more risky landing at a local airport and likely crash into a city below. Captain Sullenberger was the victim of an attempted frame job. Funny how we never hear about CEO error but "pilot error" is a go to catch all when catastrophe happens. They cared more about the water damage inflicted on their plane than the people on it.

I worked for four corporations in my career and, usually, through sheer force of will and knowing what the correct thing to do was, came out ahead. I did that despite the fact that the people running things were masters at creating obstacles and were physical manifestations of the word 'farce' at best and, too often, deserving of the fruits of whatever mayhem I was fantasizing about at any given moment. I could easily fill a book of such thoughts and I imagine that many stranded holiday travelers had similar fantasies but, of course, not one of the suited mental midget scumbags who run our airlines dared to make themselves available for the abuse they had earned. By that I mean that none of them showed up at a terminal and personally apologized or dipped into their own pockets to hand out some free cash. Alas, no honor. To be honest, if they had shown up, chances are they might have been literally torn limb from limb and who could rightfully blame the crowd? As it was, some customers were arrested for the heinous crime of mouthing off but, at this point, each airline should be forced to have a flogging pole at each terminal and a whip should come with each ticket sold. Then when the chaos ensues, top airline executives can be dragged out of their vacation mansions and be delivered to the airport to be properly dealt with. And, yeah, especially if it's Christmas Eve. Those customers not whipping the executives can sing Christmas carols.

OK, maybe the crowds would not hand out some karmic justice. I say that because, most people are too damn needlessly polite, or sheepish about how they are treated by the CEO and billionaire class, not to mention the politicians owned and operated by the same class. That is one of the biggest reasons that they keep being treated as something for corporate leaders to wipe their feet on and, in case you haven't noticed, it's only getting worse, worse to the point of being intolerable and the more we tolerate, the worse it will be. Nazis love to throw the word 'woke' around but acting out on how you rightly feel when treated like airline customers are routinely being treated these days would be something that would be truly woke. What happened at our airports during the holidays is a symptom of an even greater illness. Sadly, the rightful objects of our ire are protected by laws despite any moral justification for revenge. They are protected by the very laws they pay to have written for both profit and self-protection purposes.