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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.
It’s not good, he’s intentionally breaking things for some reason. A lot of things. A distressing number of things.
This was the Nazi playbook in the 1930s … cause widespread chaos and disruption throughout the country. Everything breaks down and becomes lawless and disorganized, so government is forced to step in and impose a heavy handed authoritarian control of everything to save the nation.
They set the fire, blame someone (anyone), then put out the fire themselves and push the message that they saved everyone from the fire. Blast the message over and over again and drown out any dissent or opposition and gain complete control of everything.
Then every professional, logical thinking individual, academic, politician, highly trained person in the land turns a blind eye and writes a book about it all 50 years from now with criticisms as to how everyone could be so deluded as to fall for the trap a second time.
Except now they have nuclear weapons. The world is done for. Thanks
obamaamerican citizens.How is Obama responsible for some asshole’s behavior?
“Thanks Obama” was a meme used by people to bring attention to the fact that Obama was regularly blamed for things he had nothing to do with. Some really stupid people went so far as to talk about Obama’s poor response to 9/11. So people started to just satirically say “Thanks Obama” basically indicating that blaming Obama lacked all meaning and credibility.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thanks-obama
I understand the meme. It was a bit obtuse on the execution end for me.
That wasn’t being suggested
Then why is it struck through?
Because “thanks Obama” is an Obama era presidency meme that the man himself even used satirically.
For more information, google “thanks Obama”.
I know the meme. It did not fit the format in the response.
“…for some reason…”
The reason is the same as all fascist takeovers. The coup works slowly, then suddenly. We are in the acceleration phase, it’s ramping up, just as they said it would in the Project 2025 documents.
I REPEAT: THIS WAS ALL ANNOUNCED BEFOREHAND. Plus, history explains.
The script is to combine a shock and awe campaign of massive change on so many fronts that no one could possibly resist them all, and to demoralize and deflate opposition.
Once this phase is complete, the power thieves will have sufficiently infiltrated the monopoly on violence (military and policing management) and the bureaucratic and technocratic key elements will be gutted or loyalized, so that a full coup can occur. Full control of media, a massive apparatus of repression and surveillance, and a hot mess of mistrust throughout society.
Interpersonal and community relations will be broken and replaced by dependency on authority for guidance and morality and information. Rights will be crushed and perverted. Power and money will only flow to the top, and poverty will become the norm.
US international influence will contract and enemies will be constructed. Blame Canada.
Just a warning though, when you folks are finally conscripted to invade northwards, we have a lot of methods and welcoming gifts to make it regrettable, and people here are getting prepared. I’d dodge the draft, when it comes, if I were you.
Many of us would rather fight for y’all. Especially those at the coasts
I really don’t like people pointing to things like the fall of the Roman, Spanish, and Weimar Republics because it not only plays a defeatist narrative, it’s just myopic.
America is not any of those states, and we aren’t in those times. Yes there are similarities, especially because the fascists are deliberately playing from their playbooks, but if you get trapped into thinking only about what happened then and there you miss some of what is happening here and now.
Trump is wildly unpopular amongst half the country. A genuine resistance has all the gas it will ever need, when he crosses the line we need to be ready to fight.
I get what you’re saying, but personally, as a queer Hispanic transwoman, I’ve spent over 2 decades of my life fighting for my right to exist only to be rewarded with this. I’m done fighting for the US, no one actually gives a shit about us. I’m catching the next metaphorical train out of here.
Perfectly valid. At least send some socks to the resistance though.
Canada should do what Ukraine did and setup a surrender hotline.
Can we preemptively surrender?
Because Trump drinks his own kool aid. He really, actually thinks these controllers are useless because of DEI, and he trusts fox over his own presidential information feed.
This is a peculiar thing to me. Many autocratic regimes are seem more self aware.
Intentional, or just an idiot. I mean the man is not smart at all. Look at what he has said and done in the past. He also sucked as a businessman, contrary to popular belief.
I’m not worried there is some masterplan here, just worried those 4 years will go by too slowly.
I fully believe Trump to be an idiot, unfortunately his handlers are not.
There is a master plan, it’s just that trump isn’t the one that thought it up. He’s not doing this alone, there’s a lot of people in on it.