Where’s the WKRP “As God is my witness I thought turkeys could fly” clip
ETA above thanks bruce!
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He’s too busy dropping soft cushions on infidels.
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“As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly…” Arthur Carlson, General Manager of WKRP.
“They’re hitting the ground like bags of wet cement…” Less Nessman, WKRP News Reporter.
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Dude’s more like a cartoon villain every day. He just needs to grow his mustache a bit longer so he can wax it and twirl it like that famous Canadian, snidely whiplash.
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I don’t doubt it. But it’s kinda several ways illegal. Small point when you’re doing God’s work, I know but…
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- I am not a lawyer
- I am not a licensed pilot
However, I did look at the regs, and both the U.S. and Canadian ones appear to only prohibit dropping objects from aircraft if it “creates a hazard”. So, assuming they take proper precautions, paradropping pillows might (see above caveats) be perfectly legal, at least as far as the flying regulations go.
I can’t say whether it might not qualify as littering … or creating a nuisance. (Cue Alice’s Restaurant.)
Crossing the border, however, does require certain procedures to be followed, and note that this is crossing both ways, so you need to pay attention to two sets of requirements.
I’d also like to note that, at this point, the cost of providing these pillows would be way out of proportion to any benefit on the receiving end. Why not just FedEx the damn things? (Answer: “Because it’s a stunt, duh.”)
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That’s the sort of statement which makes it pretty clear that all the Intel is pointing to inevitable war.
It’s the one absolute red line on putin’s side, and if him backing down now means that they’re going to rapidly move ahead to join NATO, he basically has to speak up now, or forever hold his peace.
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Meanwhile the Proud Boys will be air dropping munitions and fuel.
Another point here - MPG (MyPillow Guy) tried to bring a truckload of pillows, so he would need a pretty big aircraft to haul that load - like maybe a C130. I think that might be noticed on radar.
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I dunno, this has some serious Tiger King vibes. Just need a John Finlay character, and you know there are several of those lurking around the MyPillow universe. An enterprising documentarian could make a fortune selling this to Netflix.
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Turn the transponder off and fly map of the earth. Plenty of MAGA in the Reserves, and that’s also where most of the C130s are, should be easy to borrow one for the day.
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Not so much. Netflix is fairly skimpy on what it pays for content, so maybe net a few hundred thousand for yourself, but don’t expect to retire on it.
Has anyone ever run a chemical analysis of his blood?
Given his level of stupid, it wouldn’t surprise me if significant quantities of hallucinogens are present.
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“afterburners roastin’ chickens in the barnyard”
h/t - General Buck Turgidson
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I’d be in favor of Operation: Mike Drop
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With each Mike Lindell story on TPM, I am getting the sense that we are watching another few seconds of a YouTube video with a title like “spectacular crash.”
He’s awful in his whiny sincerity and self-righteous idiocy, but most of all he is pathetic and seems to me on a trajectory for a complete breakdown. Unless it is all just an attention-seeking schtick. In which case, he totally has got our number.
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Well known crack-head flying over an international border after being denied entry, air-dropping pillows with little parachutes.
Shark jumped.
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Well, according to the article, he’s talking about an “unnamed helicopter company”, so that could mean something the size of, say, a Bell 206. The limiting factor is likely to be volume (gotta fit in the cabin), not weight, though I don’t actually know how dense a packed-for-shipping myPillow is. And the parachutes, don’t forget those, because they’ll add bulk, too.
(I do know how dense the company’s CEO is – enough to attract protons – but that’s a separate consideration. Also, I presume they’re not going to toss him from the chopper.)
So I’d guess he’s scaling down a bit from the truckload. (And again, since the show’s the point, it doesn’t really matter.)
By the way, digging a bit further into the procedures, I noticed something interesting. There is no ADIZ (Air Defense Identification Zone) between the U.S. and Canada; the two countries operate their airspace defense and control as a combined entity, and have ever since the early days of the Cold War. (Think “DEW Line”.). So Lindell’s myPillow myChopper apparently could cross over under VFR with minimal hassle, provided it’s not planning on actually landing at a Canadian airport.
Depends on where the airspace is, though. I don’t have a sectional chart or anything like that for the Ottawa area at my fingertips, but I’m betting a lot of it is controlled or restricted in one way or another.
And doing dodgy stunts in the air over a nation’s capital city sounds like a really good way to get to fly in formation with a CF-18. And then you’re landing at an airport in Canada after all. Bring your passports, fellas, and don’t forget to monitor Guard on the radio. Don’t want to miss important things, like “attention unidentified helicopter, you are being intercepted by an armed air defense fighter…”
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