Are you brave enough to fly?

[Anonymous]

I feel much safer flying with fewer unqualified DEI hires operating helicopters around DC air space like that unqualified helicopter pilot who killed some 67 people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is quite incredible.

When Fox News host Martha MacCallum asked if he had any additional information from the Pentagon about the flyover, Duffy said, “I don’t.

MacCallum noted she didn’t understand why the Pentagon “hasn’t gotten back to you on this yet. But we hope they sure do soon.”

“So do I,” Duffy replied.

When the Transportation Secretary can't get a response from the Pentagon, what does that tell you about how well this country is being run? Hegseth is so concerned about preserving his image as a competent SecDef, that everything else comes second.

A decade ago this chain of events would DOMINATE the news cycle.
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Chopper flies an unnamed VIP for purposes not related to urgent national security. Then flies into airliner.

Stupid chopper routes that caused dozens of issues for years, finally prohibited.

Chopper flies the prohibited route. Interrupts final approach of two airliners.

Country's top transportation official asks military what happened. Military ignores them.

Of note: country's top military official talks about top level plans with his wife, brother, and personal lawyer. This is AFTER he faces criticism for accidentally leaking top level plans to a journalist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel much safer flying with fewer unqualified DEI hires operating helicopters around DC air space like that unqualified helicopter pilot who killed some 67 people.

Who was the white guy who thought letting choppers fly around airplanes was a good idea? That would fall under Hegseth. And then they continued this practice and have had more close calls?

Why? Because the DUI white men hires don't want to drive or ride in cars and deal with traffic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is quite incredible.

When Fox News host Martha MacCallum asked if he had any additional information from the Pentagon about the flyover, Duffy said, “I don’t.

MacCallum noted she didn’t understand why the Pentagon “hasn’t gotten back to you on this yet. But we hope they sure do soon.”

“So do I,” Duffy replied.

When the Transportation Secretary can't get a response from the Pentagon, what does that tell you about how well this country is being run? Hegseth is so concerned about preserving his image as a competent SecDef, that everything else comes second.

A decade ago this chain of events would DOMINATE the news cycle.
----
Chopper flies an unnamed VIP for purposes not related to urgent national security. Then flies into airliner.

Stupid chopper routes that caused dozens of issues for years, finally prohibited.

Chopper flies the prohibited route. Interrupts final approach of two airliners.

Country's top transportation official asks military what happened. Military ignores them.

Of note: country's top military official talks about top level plans with his wife, brother, and personal lawyer. This is AFTER he faces criticism for accidentally leaking top level plans to a journalist.

I suspect that they had dropped off Elon Musk at the CIA. This is my best guess based on what was happening with DOGE at that time. Elon would never want to ride in a car all the way out to Virginia as he is obsessed that he will be shot by somebody.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:these things only started happening when trump took office. They didn't happen under Biden. the idea that Duffy is trying to put this on the previous administration is laughable.

Somehow the Trump admin doesn't realize that firing a whole bunch of staff at agencies that are barely hanging on doesn't cause improvement.

I'm sure the Pentagon has a few billion they could share.

They realize it. They don't care. Their game is to kill as many of us as they can.

Food shortages are coming. They discourage vaccines. MTG says the covid vaccine doesn't work. And on and on. They are all about killing the little guy while they enjoy their real estate earnings from daddy (in the case of MTG and DJT).

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Another radar outage at Newark this morning. Yikes.

[Anonymous]

Sean Duffy and 180 other Republicans literally voted AGAINST funding to fix the problems at the FAA back in 2019. The legislation back then would have provided funding for FAA operations, facilities and equipment, research, engineering and development, and grants-in-aid for airports.
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/201923

[Anonymous]

thank goodness the dei hires are gone and now we know that it's unqualified white men to blame for the collapse of the systems that (used to) keep us safe

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another radar outage at Newark this morning. Yikes.

I flew out of there last night! There were thankfully no problems, but I was on edge all week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:thank goodness the dei hires are gone and now we know that it's unqualified white men to blame for the collapse of the systems that (used to) keep us safe

Yep, thanks to them everything is MUCH improved now.

*slow clap for this administration*

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:thank goodness the dei hires are gone and now we know that it's unqualified white men to blame for the collapse of the systems that (used to) keep us safe

All in the plan. Crash a few more planes and Trump can turn everything over Musk. Here the new system will do away with 50% of the commercial flights. Trump and republicans see no need for working and middle class people to flight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is quite incredible.

When Fox News host Martha MacCallum asked if he had any additional information from the Pentagon about the flyover, Duffy said, “I don’t.

MacCallum noted she didn’t understand why the Pentagon “hasn’t gotten back to you on this yet. But we hope they sure do soon.”

“So do I,” Duffy replied.

When the Transportation Secretary can't get a response from the Pentagon, what does that tell you about how well this country is being run? Hegseth is so concerned about preserving his image as a competent SecDef, that everything else comes second.

I feel much safer flying with fewer unqualified DEI hires working at the air traffic control towers.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is quite incredible.

When Fox News host Martha MacCallum asked if he had any additional information from the Pentagon about the flyover, Duffy said, “I don’t.

MacCallum noted she didn’t understand why the Pentagon “hasn’t gotten back to you on this yet. But we hope they sure do soon.”

“So do I,” Duffy replied.

When the Transportation Secretary can't get a response from the Pentagon, what does that tell you about how well this country is being run? Hegseth is so concerned about preserving his image as a competent SecDef, that everything else comes second.

A decade ago this chain of events would DOMINATE the news cycle.
----
Chopper flies an unnamed VIP for purposes not related to urgent national security. Then flies into airliner.

Stupid chopper routes that caused dozens of issues for years, finally prohibited.

Chopper flies the prohibited route. Interrupts final approach of two airliners.

Country's top transportation official asks military what happened. Military ignores them.

Of note: country's top military official talks about top level plans with his wife, brother, and personal lawyer. This is AFTER he faces criticism for accidentally leaking top level plans to a journalist.

I suspect that they had dropped off Elon Musk at the CIA. This is my best guess based on what was happening with DOGE at that time. Elon would never want to ride in a car all the way out to Virginia as he is obsessed that he will be shot by somebody.

Probably. This is why his human shield ——err child—-is always on his shoulders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is what the president plans for air traffic control:

We're all gonna sit down and do a great computerized system for our control towers. Brand new. Not pieced together, obsolete, like it is, land-based. Trying to hook up a land-based system to a satellite system. The first thing that some experts told me when this happened is you can't hook up land to satellites and you can't hook up satellites to land. It doesn't work. We spend billions of billions of dollars trying to renovate an old, broken system, instead of just saying cut it loose, and let's spend less money and build a great system done by two or three companies, very good companies, specialists, that's all it is. They used 39 companies. That means that 39 different hookups have to happen. And I don't know how many people of you are good in terms of all of the kinds of things necessary for that. And it's very complex stuff. But when you have 39 different companies working on hooking up different cities at different people. You need one company. With one set of equipment. And there are some countries that have unbelievable air controller systems. And they would've, bells would've gone off when that helicopter literally even hit the same height. Because it traveled a long distance before it hit. It was just like, just wouldn't stop. Follow the line. But bells and whistles would've gone off. They have 'em where it actually could virtually turn the thing around. It would've just never happened if we had the right equipment.
And one of things that's gonna be, l'm gonna speaking to John and to Mike and to Chuck and everybody, we have to get together and just as a single bill just pass where we get the best control system. When I land in my plane, privately, l use a system from another country because my captain tells me, I'm landing in New York and I'm using a sys- I won't tell you what country, but l use a system from another country because the captain says 'This thing is so bad, it's so obsolete.' And we can't have that.

Simple question, OP.

We've been paying taxes since forever. WHERE did the money go?

Same with 60 yo cobol systems at social security and the IRS.

We pay and pay and get nothing. Why is that?????