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Laffy

Good point!

Via Elie Mystal:

Is anybody going to ask the entirely relevant questions of and his DEIA for incompetent Americans transportation chief Duffy if the freeze in hiring of these critical functionaries contributed to the accident?

Or is the mainstream “free press” gonna roll over for Trump like saps, again?

Sam d on Bsky:

the first fatal commercial plane crash in 16 years happened just days after Trump froze hiring of air traffic controllers that were already stretched thin

3/ Via Rupar:

From this morning:

@GottaLaff quite the transposition of headlines 😲

@GottaLaff Harry Truman said the buck stops here. The felon means the money. Nothing, ever, is his fault.

@GottaLaff I sincerely hope that his plane crashes because of this.

@GottaLaff

This is reminiscent of Reagan thinking. He fired ATC employees. Fired thousands of striking workers who refused to return to work and banned them for life from civil service jobs. I guess it's a #Republican thing.

Also, the irony of the airport where this happened is not lost.

@GottaLaff

they seemed to skip over the possibility of any Federal employees they desperately want/need to keep

@GottaLaff@mstdn. Secretary Buttigieg talked about this
FAA Hits Air Traffic Controller Hiring Goal
Monday, September 23, 2024
WASHINGTON – Today the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it exceeded its goal of hiring 1,800 air traffic controllers in 2024, with a final total of 1,811 for Fiscal Year 2024. As the largest number of hires in nearly a decade, this marks important progress in the FAA’s work to reverse the decades-long air traffic controller staffing level decline

@GottaLaff I have two grandson’s graduating from high school this year. I mentioned it to one, but he decided to go into forensics. The other one’s a little too high strong.

@GottaLaff

this is why trump should be impeached tomorrow. Get rid of that loser. He will only take us backwards. They need to understand it will fall on them if they don't take action.

@GottaLaff

An added detail is that Reagan (oops, I still call it National) is in the perhaps top 2% most dangerous airports into which to fly an approach in the country. Especially runway 19, which necessitates a final turn rollout at 300 ft AGL. The AA flight was also making a 300 ft rollout to 31, according to the news, and I'm here to tell you the pilot's concentration at that point is airspeed and aim point, not clearing for aircraft.

The only reason National is allowed to stay open is because Congress doesn't want the commute to and from Dulles. It's inconvenient. In this case, 67 souls on board inconvenient.

@skydog Yes, Lawrence covered part of that last night. It LOOKS dangerous.

@GottaLaff the normal headline with the breaking news headline. Ominous.

@GottaLaff Sean Duffy is the new Transportation Secretary. Will he care about the dead passengers? Or the airlines?

YSK that snce 2019 Duffy has accepted almost $1 millions from BRG Group to lobby for the airlines, and transportation companies. It’s totally legal!
Link to Duffy and OpenSecrets lobbying profile opensecrets.org/federal-lobbyi

Did Duffy approve of giving the Axe to TSA?
More on #Duffy here spockosbrain.com/2024/12/18/a-

@GottaLaff
Regulators save lives, livlihoods and the environment. They are key people that can't be relplaced by halfwits without calamity.

@NMBA @GottaLaff

As an example: UK Tories were about to put building regulations onto their "bonfire of red tape" (a metaphor a bit too much like book burning).

Then the fire at Grenfell Tower happened. 72 people died - mostly immigrants and working class people, dying in London's richest borough.

The Tories spent a lot of time holding up accountability for the deaths which were largely due to failing to follow / enforce the building code. Regulations save lives.

@GottaLaff Proudly proclaiming they fixed it...

@GottaLaff

A Blackhawk military helo and a scheduled airliner, attempting to land at Reagan National, appear to have collided at low altitude over the Potomac at about 9 pm.

This is tightly controlled airspace, within a minute's flying time of the White House and the Capitol. Reagan National's staff are very talented. How this happened is hard to fathom.

In late January, the Potomac is very cold and fast-moving. Survival time is short.

@huntingdon @GottaLaff without a doubt the lawless govt. had the Blackhawk somewhere it wasn’t supposed to be. Probably the lazy secdef figured he would showboat a private pick up ride.

@qualityhammer @GottaLaff

Since no one knows any of the facts you're assuming, put a sock in it.

About seventy people are in the water. So far, only four appear to have been pulled out of the water alive. No news on whether they still are. Survival time in the Potomac in January averages half an hour or less. The crash happened at about 9 pm.

Cold-water rescue and recovery work is slow and methodical. It's also the middle of the night, with sunup seven hours or so away.

@huntingdon @GottaLaff well Trump blamed ATC and Soldiers about the same time you sent this. Now he says DEI policies, guess he determined there was at least 1 non white male in the mix.

@GottaLaff not to mention creating an absolute ball of chaos distraction in the work place.

@GottaLaff Also what was the Blackhawk helicopter doing and did the new secretary of defense give them some ridiculous order while drunk off his ass… or was it involved with the mass deportation raids?

@GottaLaff I'm as critical of Trump as anyone, but it seems unlikely that these have a causal connection.

The FAA's ability to investigate and correct whatever went wrong here will undoubtedly be hindered by Trump's efforts, but I think it's very very unlikely that there would have been no collision were we living in a Harris presidency.

Accidents happen. We can develop systems to minimize them, but we can never fully correct for human error.

@louis @GottaLaff Trump spent the past 10 days waging a shock and awe campaign against the entire federal government. The federal government has started showing damage and we lost a plane full of civilians and three soldiers. The entire workforce military and civilian is rattled. (Drunk SecDef went after Milley yesterday.)

@WnknBlnkn_n_Nod @GottaLaff If it was two years from now, you might be able to draw a causal relationship. But massive bureaucracies like the FAA don't change overnight and we've had an ATC shortage since long before Trump arrived.

@WnknBlnkn_n_Nod @GottaLaff None of those things cause an immediate plane crash. Those are the kinds of things that slowly worsen services over months.

@louis @GottaLaff
Shock and awe is meant to demoralize and bear immediate results.

Trump's clear and stated intent from day one has been to break the federal government (in order to populate it with his lackeys).

This is his strategy working as intended but a little too well.

@WnknBlnkn_n_Nod @GottaLaff That's a hell of a lot of assumptions you're making.

@GottaLaff incompetent actions lead to deaths.

@GottaLaff
Could the answer to the #trump administration be to keep suing the administration for everything that goes wrong?
That would lead to thousands and thousands of lawsuits.
It is the same strategy of the “rich” (rich in money, very very poor in moral and ethics) who keep suing people.
Just a thought.
#uspol

@GottaLaff

trump should be immediately up foer Impeachement proceedings tomorrow. If there were any Repubs in Congress & the Senate who value their careers, they shoiuld dump trump NOW. he is not a guy to have put a saddle on you this time. He will continue to ruin America, if they don't stop him NOW.

@GottaLaff of course they will roll over. MSM has sold out.

@GottaLaff
Last spring, Tim Kaine, Mark Warner and others were concerned about adding even more flights to Reagan National.

“…they said they are “deeply frustrated” that negotiators on the bill “have decided to ignore the flashing red warning light of the recent near collision of two aircraft at DCA and jam even more flights onto the busiest runway in America.”

They were referring to an April 18 incident in which a Southwest Airlines jet and a JetBlue Airways plane almost collided on the runway — part of a nationwide spate of aviation near-misses that has raised alarms about the safety of America’s increasingly crowded skies.”

politico.com/news/2024/04/30/e

@GottaLaff
One might think, “It’s only been a 10-day hiring freeze, so it wouldn’t have impacted lasts night’s deadly crash.” I understand there was a promotion freeze since shortly after the election—so 2 months!

And trump’s war on federal workers added more stress to an ATC’s highly stressful job. He should be condemned for these disruptions of federal jobs that protect us.

Look for more mass disasters in the air, food safety, the workplace, pharma, etc. #trump #musk

@GottaLaff I lay this crash at the feet of Reagan who fired all the air traffic controllers