Hmm… Break shit, blame others, announce he will fix it, doesn’t fix shit.
The Trump presidencies in a nutshell.
Pete Buttigieg has more intelligence, integrity, and sense in his nail clippings than Trump has exhibited in his entire oxygen-wasting life.
I posted this on another thread, but thought it was worth sharing here as well.
Heads up this is about to get worse. Republicans recently voted to cut retirement funding for air traffic controllers. By cutting the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) for workers retiring before 62 (all Air Traffic Controllers are required to retire at 56 and are eligible to retire at 50), this is completely fucking over ATCs who continue working by changing their retirement math.
An open secret with ATCs is that they have numerous medical qualifications that they have to maintain to keep working. For example, if they see a doctor about sleep apnea, depression, alcoholism, etc they lose their medical qualification and are forced to take a medical retirement.
So what happens if you’re an ATC in your 40s and the government says “hey you can keep working for the next 10 years and retire without this FERS supplement… Or you can tell your doctor that you snore at night and take an immediate medical retirement right now and get paid more in retirement”?
TLDR; We’re about to have a shit load of Air Traffic Controllers taking medical retirements and these staffing problems are going to explode.
If we’re playing that game I choose to play the Ronald Reagan card
Funny, things seemed to be fine under the previous administration. Odd!
It wasn’t fine. ATC hasn’t been properly staffed in decades, and many of them are functioning alcoholics because they can’t get mental health support or they’ll be forced to take unpaid leave for 6 months.
Like everything else, Trump made it all worse, but ATC has been struggling since before Reagan due to chronic underfunding. It’s been getting worse as more and more of them retire. Trump made it worse by firing the replacements who had undergone years of training. When things began to derail, they hired back the ones that had already retired.
There’s no game plan. Congress has no game plan in place to fix this. I’m not a both sides kind of person (check my comment history), but most elected officials in Congress are completely incompetent. It goes without saying for this administration as well.
As one example, the current problems in Newark are because there are just 20 ATCs that work that airport (from Philadelphia by wire) and 5 of them went on leave. This in turn caused downstream effects in other places because airlines cancelled flights or had to reroute. Think about that: the Northeast aviation system begins to fall apart if a single-digit number of people who normally work 6 days a week, who work overtime, decide to take leave.
The reason they went on leave is because they lost all communications for like 90 seconds when they were tracking a couple dozen flights. These people are such nervous wrecks and it came so close to a major aviation disaster that they had to go on leave to recuperate from the stress.
He literally wears clown makeup. It’s just so bizarre.
And no aliens even? Lame.
Imagine you’re an astronaut for a national space agency on an exploration mission.
You are charting a usual star system named after an astronomer, Kepler.
Everything is normal but you detect trace gases of Nitrogen, Oxygen, Methane and Carbon Dioxide coming from the third planet orbitting the star.
News breaks about potentially organic compounds detected on an exoplanet and your space agency gives you authorization to approach and orbit for closer study.
When you get closer, you find an alarming sight – more than half of the planet, Kepler-3, has golden lights dotting the dark half of the planet.
Initially, it’s dismissed as natural atmospheric disturbances, but a few insightful individuals point out that they can see what look like geometric shapes, organized behavior of some kind.
It’s at this point, the close range scans indicate not just some “organic gases” but trillions of organisms , all of them alien, and worst of all, possessing a chirality opposite to your own.
Your immune system and their pathogens, and your pathogens, are wholly incompatible. You touch anything, you get sick and die, and they get sick and die.
No amount of medicine cures opposite handed chirals. So you do the smart thing, and turn around and leave.
Then, a few years later, an organism on their planet says:
“Lame. Bad event happened and not even any aliens”, being completely oblivious to the biological apocalypse their planet has been spared from.
I’ve always been leery of people who are never at fault and always blame someone else.
The buck stops literally anywhere else but here.
Nothing screams greatness and leadership like being a spineless weasel
Classic cluster B.
Wait. I thought it was DEI’s fault. Instead it’s really the fault of a guy who hasn’t worked there since Jan 20. It’s also not the cuts to the air traffic control sector of jobs that happened after Jan 20. Got it.
Of note, the producer of The Apprentice liked working with Trump because even after ratings fell and the show was in the dumpster, Trump would get out there and sell the show as brilliant, beloved, and with top ratings. It’s what he does.
But he’s not Biden…?
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Typo
I’d love to hear his rationalization for why planes falling out of the sky under Buttigieg.
you aren’t fooling anyone Donnie
