This meme makes it seem like a group of troops are volunteering to fly abortion seekers around the country. The truth is much different, less impressive and mostly unrelated to the meme.
▪️Elevated Access is a volunteer pilot network that seeks to fly people in private aircraft to access abortion and “gender-affirming care.” It has no affiliation whatsoever with the military, and volunteers couldn’t wear their uniform or use military assets in any way.
https://elevatedaccess.org/about
▪️The organization claims to have 800 pilots who’ve volunteered to fly for them, but it’s unclear how many are from the military. The article bringing this to light simply says this:
🔹”The group does not know how many of those have current and former ties to the military because the application does not ask about their military background. But, some pilots have voluntarily shared their military backgrounds or sent photos of themselves in a military uniform.”
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2022/09/us-troops-are-volunteering-fly-abortion-seekers-across-state-lines/377604/
▪️So, maybe there are a handful of veterans or active duty members that volunteered, but it’s certainly not a group of troops doing this, nor does the organization have any affiliation or mention of troops on their website. It’s a manufactured story, any relation is incidental.
▪️Overall, the charity seems to be sort of a gimmick. From their website, they only list one flight launched, from Oklahoma to Kansas back in June. Which shortened a woman’s potential 5 hour drive to 10 min plus a 90 min flight, plus a ride share to the clinic.
https://elevatedaccess.org/news/elevated-access-flies-its-first-passenger-to-get-abortion-services
▪️One would assume they would list the amount of flights taken and women served if it was meaningful, but there’s no mention of it. As for the pilot volunteers, there is no obligation to perform any services, they are just signing up as a part of the network.
▪️In almost all circumstances, it would be far more efficient & cost effective to book an airline ticket or drive to the nearest clinic. Any charity seriously focused on providing access to services would go that direction. Offering private flights seems geared towards attention seeking.
▪️The requirements for pilot volunteers are only 200 hrs and a private pilot certificate, so beware. This isn’t a commercial outfit, recipients are guaranteed little more than an airplane ride from someone they don’t know, who might not be qualified to fly into inclement weather.
https://elevatedaccess.org/pilots
▪️This quote concerning their pilots might also give people some pause 😂
🔹“The easiest part is checking their pilot credentials,” Mike said. “The other part is having them send in statements of support for abortion and gender and affirming care, as well as talking to two references from them about their support for those things.”
https://www.flyingmag.com/hundreds-of-pilots-sign-up-to-provide-transport-for-womens-medical-care/
▪️It should also be noted this charity incorporated in April, before the leaked Dobbs decision even made news, so it wasn’t started initially in response to that.
As with the leftist freak out over “banned books” this is not banning books, it’s still easy to get Harry Potter and bookstores should be able to limit whatever books they want for whatever reason. But not only does it show a double standard, the rationale is far less justifiable than removing certain content from school libraries. At least there the justification was the content of certain books are inappropriate for children, clearly not every book should be available in a school library. Here, there’s no argument about the content they just don’t like the author’s politics!
Because news came out about his letter to the FBI, revealing he was a nutcase. The letter was rambling and incoherent, claiming he was trained by the US military off the books, and that Walz had instructed him to kill Amy Klobuchar so he could run for Senate. None of it made any sense (Walz is not running for Senate) and none of the assassinations made any sense, even in a diabolical way.
Nearly all of his hit list was Democrats (including Walz) and abortion clinics, but he was supposedly working for Walz?! Plus, one of the guys he killed wasn’t even on his list, and others were no longer in office or deceased. None of it makes sense from any coherent angle.
Basically, it appears the guy was mentally ill and neither the left or right can use the incident to push their agendas anymore, so the story was dropped.
This is so dumb. First, this means LA began as Spanish land founded to support Spanish missions (i.e. colonialism). Which contradicts their entire premise. But the reality is that Los Angeles is a quintessential American city.
▪️When the US acquired California in the 1840s, LA was a small town of less than 2,000 people. It was basically nothing. It became large only after the gold rush and the railroads completed in the 1870-80s, which brought thousands of new settlers and a booming commercial center.
▪️But LA had a major issue limiting its growth, no water. It wasn’t until Mulholland found a water source and built an aqueduct down from Northern California that LA had the infrastructure to grow into a major city.
▪️Then, a combination of oil, real estate and the film industry caused it to boom in the early 1900s. Post WWII, industries like aerospace continued its spectacular growth. Calling this “Mexican land” is a brain dead take. Neither the Mexicans, Spanish nor ...
