I'm surprised CNN actually acknowledged there was any inflation.

If inflation was 9% last month and 8% this month, the media will report that inflation is “down” and celebrate that as good economic news.

Yeah, that mean person.  The only President in my lifetime that actually DID what he SAID he was going to do.  And it all was good for the country, not just special interests and voting blocks.

It was good for the working class, the very people the Marxists claim to be for but who in fact despise.

I hear that the lefties are besmirching the Queen because of British colonization.  Colonization in general “bad”.  But only when it’s white Europeans colonizing.  Anybody else, which is every single group that ever lived, who has invaded and dominated another group, never gets talked about. So I want to talk about a major genocide of my own ancestors which has never been redressed.  DNA test results show that I have several hundred times the amount of Neanderthal genes than Elizabeth Warren has Native American, yet no one ever talks about how Homo Sapiens invaded and killed all my Neanderthal ancestors. This was far worse than any British colonization, because while British atrocities did occur, complete extermination of the natives did not, and in fact the British colonies ended up benefiting enormously in the long run.  India for example became a powerful nation today largely from investment, infrastructure, education, etc. provided by the British.  My native European ancestors on the other hand, were completely wiped out, and my ancestral lands taken over entirely by the invaders, Homo sapiens, who to this day have not confessed their guilt or given me reparations.

Only if he's a Doctor.

That’s what I was going to say.

I wouldn't really argue over who's right. More like the CFI isn't comfortable with that arrangement, and that should be good enough to end the debate for me. We as pilots are ingrained early on that if you don't feel comfortable, for whatever reason, you don't make the flight. And with the finger pointing, litigation happy world we live in, I wouldn't want to be a CFI instructing in an FBO plane you aren't familiar with and don't have a working relationship with. Something goes wrong, the CFI's ass is the one on the line.

The FAA would see it that way no matter who you agreed was “PIC”.  Or maybe both would be on the line but the CFI has the higher ratings and it is admittedly an instructional flight.  He’d be held the more responsible.

John needs to buy his own airplane.

In the meantime, I agree with Username, I would not try to convince the reluctant CFI.  It may be legal but it seems the CFI has a gut feel about it that he may not be able to articulate why, but that might nevertheless not be wrong.

Here's the thing:   These Eco Lunatics are a MINORITY, a very small one at that.   Why in the hell are we constantly bowing to and trying to appease a small group of lunatics?

 Same goes with the democrat communist, another small group that demands to be the majority and we all bow and obey their every whim.

 It's time people treat these looney tunes for what they are.

It’s an incorrect extrapolation of the false belief last century that the human population explosion would overrun the planet with trash, pollution, and use up all the fossil fuels.  Now we know that the opposite is happening.  The world’s population is now headed for a collapse.  Even if we do nothing to address trash and pollution, it’s going to be self limiting.  And it is very likely we will never use up all the fossil fuels.  We will go extinct first.

So all this drama over environmentalism is now badly misaligned with reality.  Aging hippies from the 60s are now the leftists in power with an ossified and outdated world view.  You can’t change them, and they’re brainwashing the young into thinking the planet itself is on the precipice of death.  They couldn’t be more wrong. 

Congress wont act because it is a toxic issue they want no part of.
The Biden admin has to figure out which block of voters to pander to and sounds like they will screw that up.

The Biden administration has declared all Republicans enemies of the State.  His lame ass walk-back the following day must be what passes for pandering to that block of voters - half the country.