Emptywheel, a legend in their own mind over at the trashfest that is the FireDogLake blog knows why the crew of the Maersk Alabama were able to wrest control of the ship away from the Somali pirates.
Because they were members of a union
Remember how a union flight crew, union ferry crews, and union first-responders pulled off the incredible rescue back in January? Those union employees had gotten a lot of their safety training because of their union.
Well, those darn unions are at it with the heroics again. This time, it’s in vanquishing pirates.
Yes, if you follow that link you’ll be able to read their theory of how the only reason Mr. Sullenberger was able to land a US Airways on the Hudson, and the crew was able to evacuate the passengers so that the ferry captains were able to rescue them, and the Emergency Medical Crews could tend to their wounds was because they were all in unions and without said legalized left all of those poeple would absolutely have died.
I’ve asked my Teamster co-workers if they were updated on their heroism serum injections and they looked at me a little bit cross.
I then explained this theory to them, which caused quite the laugh. They said that Emptywheel needed to see someone who had had their medical smarts injection so that they could have some help getting their head out of their ass.
“Emptywheel”? More like Empty Head.
Absolutely astonishing…but sadly not surprising.
So…when did the passengers of flight United 93 unionize? On the tarmac awaiting takeoff?