Summary
The Trump administration emailed air traffic controllers urging them to quit and accept buyouts 24 hours after a fatal Reagan plane crash.
At 8:30 p.m. Thursday, the email urged federal employees to pursue private-sector jobs, offering pay incentives and vacation benefits while on government payroll.
This program contradicts established rules by allowing second employment, sparking union concerns about losing experienced personnel amid an air traffic controller shortage.
Trump blamed previous administrations for safety issues and misrepresented FAA standards, intensifying culture wars as officials remain uncertain about the buyout program’s future.
Given the persistent and extreme understaffing of air traffic controllers it wouldn’t take that many quitting at the same time to have a massive impact.
What do the think is going to happen? Privatize air traffic control? Or just rank the economy so bad they buy everything up?
That has already been suggested by his minions. Let the airlines manage everything. Including baggage and body checking.
Oh god, the very idea…
Close all the exits.
That is one angle. Hmm.
US can into theocratic Stone Age.
He could totally intend to privatise ATC. They’re already halfway done with privatising education, and there’s no need to even mention healthcare.
Just get ChatGPT do it or something
How does it go again? “In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity”
The fact that they are using these tragic events as a means to dismantle the government even more quickly is horrifying to watch from the other end of the pond.
Ah yes, just what we need right now… FEWER controllers in an industry that’s already short-staffed, and with two very recent fatal plane crashes. Perfect fucking idea.
You know what, fuck it. I hope they quit. Let’s accelerate this whole bullshit to its conclusion as fast as possible. Seems to me the only way through this fascist hellscape is by pissing off enough people to provoke a popular response.
A lot of people had this attitude in Russia. Let the evil guys run the country to the ground, and then rebuild into a better structure. This will happen, I think, the only problem is that can take decades and millions of people dead in the process. No suggestions here, just a note…
I think you underestimate just exactly how popular Putin is with the Russian people, or I should say was originally. I don’t think he’s as popular now because of the “police action” in Ukraine and the number of Russians who have died to it and the economic hit the country has taken as a result of it. But he was insanely popular with the Russian populace through most of the 2010s.
Didn’t he win his last election with something like 94% of the vote. The dude is outrageously popular… or there might be something else going on.
A little of both since he is extremely popular in his country and he has also either jailed his opposition or they have gone missing or died mysteriously.
Your point does not contradict mine, unfortunately. He was and is popular. Maybe a little less so now, but he would win fair elections now, I think. The line many people in Russia take is “he is the only one who could take us out of this mess. Without him the country will collapse”. And there are, of course, a lot who wholeheartedly support his imperial ambitions, just like there are plenty of magas in the US.
Accelerationism is the stupidest idea ever. Shit being fucked is the natural state of things, and if you just let it slide, it will gradually come to it and stay there forever.
Accelerationism is helping the enemy. You should be doing the exact opposite - resisting, rallying and counterattacking.
In an apparent attempt to ignite the culture wars and further discredit the FAA, Trump falsely claimed that the agency’s website lists individuals with “hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism” as “qualified” applicants for the air controller position, CBS News reported.
Wait. Wait…
and dwarfism
Okay. Everything in his claim is wholesale made up, but what could possibly be wrong with an air traffic controller having dwarfism? There is nothing inherent about that condition that should preclude a person from being able to do this job. Many ATC coordinate flights traveling through Class A airspace, which is way up in the stratosphere, using computers. They might need a higher seat or something to reach the controls, but that’s it.
Trump genuinely thinks air traffic controllers just stare out windows all day, doesn’t he? And because he says this, now ignorant people will be imagining that their plane is coordinated by a little person in a tower, standing on their tippy toes.
And missing extremities? Are we against employing disabled veterans? I thought we loved the military?
Oh you mean the “suckers” and “losers”?
If their aim is to kill as many Americans as possible, they are doing a superb job. By that metric, Trump is the best president of all times.
I do hope the majority who get canned and who suffer voted for him. Everyone else, including myself, I feel sorry for and hope we can either ride it out or get out. His supporters should go down with the ship poor and depleted.
You first.
it is not safe to work for the federal government in trump America
It’s about to get unsafe to fly in the US.
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Expecting pilots to be sober is woke somehow I imagine. And hiring a black woman pilot over a drunken white man is DEI.
Would be funny if all remaining ATCs decided to quit and get a job on a different country. Take the land route to Canada or Mexico, or a ship to elsewhere.
Ironically Reagan fought ATC unions. They went on strike so he fired them and called in the military ATCs to cover their work.
And it was kind of a shit show for awhile.
There’s obviously overlap between military and civilian controllers, but it’s not the same job. The volume of traffic alone at a busy hub makes most air force bases look like quaint backwater airstrips.
There’s also just not a lot of “extra” military ATC.
he probably caused all this and is just blaming everyone else again
That’ll help
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