Possible but probably not. ATC have been understaffed and overworked for years and this is the inevitable result.
Combine that with a military that has historically always done whatever the fuck it… err, support the troops and thank you for your service. Can I have my salmon tossed under the broiler please?
But yeah. This is less a consequence of trump and more a consequence of our fundamentally broken culture and government that predates him.
This is going to have very big ramifications even medium term. But the work culture and lack of personnel were already a major problem long before… last week. At most, trump accelerated this.
Now, the horrific response to this is all fuckface.
As an aside: it is REALLY obnoxious to post two giant images as a reply.
Odds that this has anything to do with the government falling apart?
ATC are fed employees, this happened at the worst-named airport in DC …
Possible but probably not. ATC have been understaffed and overworked for years and this is the inevitable result.
Combine that with a military that has historically always done whatever the fuck it… err, support the troops and thank you for your service. Can I have my salmon tossed under the broiler please?
But yeah. This is less a consequence of trump and more a consequence of our fundamentally broken culture and government that predates him.
Literally impossible for this to result in that crash
I know we want to associate everything bad with the new admin but this was just regular old american calpitalist incompetence
They even just removed it from their website.
We then find out the real reason for the crash is empty seats https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/business/air-traffic-control-staffing-plane-crash.html
How many air traffic controllers recieved Elon’s buyout email?
Ya, it’s obviously DEI like Trump is saying.
I’mma let you in on a secret:
The CEO doesn’t do shit. ANYWHERE.
This is going to have very big ramifications even medium term. But the work culture and lack of personnel were already a major problem long before… last week. At most, trump accelerated this.
Now, the horrific response to this is all fuckface.
As an aside: it is REALLY obnoxious to post two giant images as a reply.
My friend is an ATC and I saw him last week. From my conversations with him they haven’t been hit with Trump shenanigans…yet