And the following sentence:

Before the January 29 collision, the last major fatal airplane accident involving a US carrier was in 2009,

So yeah, January 29th. The rest were February. Of course one single incident in January, and several more in February, isn’t going to have a huge impact on the number of incidents in January. February is what we should be talking about.

I have to assume that the actual message being obfuscated here is “please keep buying plane tickets, you still probably won’t die and even if you do it’s just really important for our up-going line.”

They are all either crypto-fascists or ignorant comrades

I think it’s important to keep this bit in mind. As insufferable as they can be, they’ve been fed a steady diet of anticommunism since infancy, and may have the right values but the wrong information. Of course others are just crypto-fascists, and that sucks, but if you can find the ignorant comrades, and even just like, plant a seed of doubt in the western narrative, that’s a win.

Many in Washington bristled at the public’s failure to register how strong the economy really was

“The economy is so good guys.”

“Why can’t I afford to eat?”

“Shut up I said the economy is good, OK?!”