Hmm… Break shit, blame others, announce he will fix it, doesn’t fix shit.

The Trump presidencies in a nutshell.

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    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.

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      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.

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        It’s become very clear over the last 20 years that most people in charge all just assumed everything would continue to coast, the status quo would never change, and have absolutely no idea what to do when someone grabs the steering wheel and jerks it into the oncoming lanes.

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        I mean that’s kind of the significant problem… before it was basically stretched to the max, running in a way where an eventual problem was inevitable. Attempting to fix something that was unsustainably hanging by a thread by… thinning the thread created the insane powderkeg we have now though.

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          This is unfortunately the tip of the iceberg. Trump campaigned on the idea that the federal government was bloated and incompetent, then started firing people en masse without understanding what these people do.

          It would be easy to blame Buttigeig for this outage had Trump not immediately made the condition worse.

          Every time the federal government fails at doing something, DOGE is going to be blamed.

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    Surprised he didn’t blame it on Biden. Everything’s Biden’s fault according to Trump…