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Air Force Two Recalled Back to Airport Due to ‘Possible Bird Strike’ — The Internet Has Funnier Ideas

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I guess Trump and Pence will be driving to every event from now on, or maybe taking the train.

After all, it was Donald Trump who told us that windmills were evil because they caused cancer in birds … we might not have that right. Windmills certainly killed birds according to Trump. And we’re sure that windmills do kill any bird that happens to get hit by a windmill fan. But that doesn’t make birds any different than the rest of us. If a portion of a windmill flies off and hits something alive, it is bad news. Windmills will kill snakes if they fly off and hit one on the head. Birds just happen to hang out around the working ones.

Regardless, Trump has said that we can’t have windmills, in part, because they kill birds. Noted bird-watcher and naturalist Donald Trump can’t have that. So now we’re now going to have to add government jets to the list of things we can’t have since we read that Air Force Two was called back to the airport due to a possible bird strike. Bird strikes are serious, ask Sully. So we’re glad they made it back safe and sound.

Given that this administration often uses plausible-sounding excuses to get around inconvenient truths, some are actually wondering whether a “bird strike” sounds serious enough to justify turning the plane around. It is also impossible to prove one way or another. Thus it’s the perfect excuse to turn a plane around if one can’t state the real reason. Like maybe if a test came back positive.

Let’s make this perfectly clear. We have no information at all that there’s anything amiss here, except that the reports are that Air Force II might have struck a bird and turned around. That is all we know.

The administration is likely telling the truth. But that doesn’t change the fact that we don’t trust this administration. On that, we’re not alone. So the net had a lot of fun with the announcement (given that everyone is safe, with the possible exception of a bird):

Funny stuff, except for the bird – if it existed.

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Jason
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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