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In 2019 he voted no to upgrade air traffic control system systems now he’s the transportation secretary we truly live in an upside down world right now

Because it’s owned by Elon.

Too bad Republicans refused to fund Pete Buttigieg’s request in 2019 for more equipment

Oh so *now* he can pretend to be concerned. Great. If I recall correctly his previous response was “I’m at home making tacos LMAO”

Fire the people who maintain the machine, then blame the machine for its lack of self-maintenance.

“How you can shut down the summer travel season” by Scott Duffy

Great reason(s) we cancelled our trip to Japan, Maine, and Florida this year. No family visits (minus my son's dream trip). So sick of this administration costing jobs, lives, & morally bankrupting our country's values for the world to see.

Wow! Way to build confidence

This is by their own making and concocting stories isn’t helping. We see right through this.

This is all so musk / trump can get rid of the Verizon upgrade contract signed two years ago just to hire musk to “fix” it.

Duffy is the proof, that our air system control network isn't foolproof...

somehow I have a funny feeling he has no idea of what he's talking about. I mean, where would he get that depth of technical knowledge about a wide assortment of highly technical equipment and systems? I mean, reality TV? Politics? Lawyer? No background at all.

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For Musk

I want Pete back

Funny this wasn’t happening when Pete Buttigieg was a secretary of transportation. And this fool when he was in, Congress voted against upgrading the equipment.

Hey now, it didn't happen immediately upon their takeover. It took at least 2 weeks for them to screw everything up.

If only 🇺🇸 wasn't in a trade war at the moment, it would have been easy to get the required parts quicker from around the world.

Republicans all voted against it, so somehow it becomes Buttigieg's fault.

It wasn't that many years ago that Agent Orange claimed credit for air safety. www.usatoday.com/story/news/2...

I work with aerospace professionals and Duffy is very low information Yes there are legacy systems in place - but there are plans to transition to cloud and fiber The unique challenge with that transition in aerospace is that if you get it wrong planes fall So that’s why it’s slow - for safety

"copper wires"? What about them? Never trust an MTV actor.

So, he wants to scare Americans and internationals from flying?

😳😳😳🫣🤯not very reassuring 😳🤯🫣

Airlines probably cringe when they see this guy talking. He sure isn’t instilling confidence in anyone who’s thinking of spending a small fortune on a plane ticket.

They can get the “parts”, the problem is they fired the people who know what the parts actually are.

If Duffy is concerned about every airport in the US he should quit his job NOW.

And he and DOGE fired a lot of the people who maintained them. Reap; sow.

What I think they have done is sack the people who could patch stuff in real time and knew the system inside out, to keep things going. Now if it breaks it’s broke.

Trump does something terrifying every freaking day. My terror meter is exhausted.

curious then that in 2019 Congressional Republicans voted no on updating equipment.

Translation: I'm concerned with letting Elon grift the fuck out of this. What could go wrong? www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

If it's for everyone, it's SoCiAlIsM!!

It’s happening because they want to break it so badly they “have no choice” but to sell air traffic control to the Nazi.

Did Welker giggle and ask him to show his ass to the camera?

maga/doge: WE HATE BUREAUCRACY also maga/doge: *never a straight god damn answer it's always someone else's or nobody's fault*

Dude is a failure, how come this only happened under dump and his shit administration

Omg. This guy is going to get people killed. SMH.

I can't remember what his job is, but it goes something like this. Suck at the teat of the taxpayer. Aside from worshiping your boss, do nothing but blame problems on your predecessor.

lol. this joke is in charge eh?

They're willing to see Americans die and lives to be put at risk just so they can justify giving this to Elon. It's all a game to gain wealth and power. Hell is too good for these assholes.

Not concerned enough to skip the Sunday shows and be at the office, looking for a solution, I guess

Funny how that same equipment all worked fine under Biden and Buttigieg. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Next line will be, we need Elon musk .

Yeah does this fool understand that while he maligns the whole industry over & over to leverage for a blank check & no oversight that he’ll have to rebuild that trust once he “fixes” it? You can’t say “it’s a death trap!” 900 times than say it’s safe now I did it & expect people to just believe you

Ok now lead. Leadership is not blaming the previous administration. You took the job, there were no assurances it would be easy

We can't buy parts for new?

Completely incompetent and unqualified for this important position

I'm kind of wondering what type of equipment the military uses. Is it as antiquated?

el está preocupado, pero hijoeputa, tu eres el secretario de transportación. Comienza a hacer tu trabajo cabrón

#iMissButtigieg

Let's just hope it's all still fucked up to hell when Arab Force One is on delivery. Maybe a BBQ

"I'm concerned about the whole airspace." And China isn't delivering. 😎 People, don't get on the planes. 🤨

No, no one, seems to be their modus operandi! 🙄

Weird how many “emergencies” with our systems suddenly started after Trump took power. How unlucky that there was just about to be a cascade of issues, completely and utterly unrelated to staffing cuts and freezing of money, that was just about to occur no matter what. Is that right?

Yes, we desperately need a privatized, for-profit air traffic control system. Look how well our for-profit healthcare system works. Let’s model everything on that.

Yet he spends his time going on news shows to complain

Now cover @facethenation.bsky.social appearance by CEO of United Airlines, Scott Kirby. He’s so far up the DOGE a$$, it’s like the FAA-tRumpf-Musk version of the Human Centipede

Musk smells an opening...

“So Elon will take it over…” 🙄

Musk wants to install a Starlink system and test it on us as he gets it up to speed. Occasional airline collisions and communication shutdowns will be part of the learning curve.

So what are YOU doing to improve things. Blaming somebody else does not fix a fucking thing…I am so tired of Trumpists going around and just blaming people without an ounce of a solution being presented…

She’s too complicit with the Republicans. I wish the late Tim Russert was alive to grill them on their bull crap.

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So why fire the people you did? Why did the republicans block funding How quickly will you pivot to Elon’s ownership

Maybe the royal family of Qatar can donate some parts.

Seems like everything worked fine until Elon and his minions started messing with things. Hmm, and I guess Elon’s got the solution on how to fix it. I’ve seen this movie before and it’s clear the guys who say they can fix it, broke it, and they can’t actually fix it.

Musk broke shit and republicans ignore the shit they did!!

So who thinks that musk has undermined the system so as to cause problems in order to get lucrative government contracts to run 🇺🇸 airspace?

Airline pilots need to strike for public safety. Grind everything to a halt. This regime number 2 is so exhausting already.

Whoops, plane suddenly no work!

Can’t possibly be because of all the support (tech) and safety people they fired could it.

He is the biggest bullshiter ever! Naw, Duffy got rid of important jobs or DOGE, now its coming back and biting them in the ass. They were there bc of a reason! Shit goes smooth when you have all the pieces! /s

WHAT??

So if you survive your flight to the US, you can still be arrested and jailed on a whim. Got it.

It was working fine until….

Why not just ask trump to lend you his airplane from Qatar?🤷🏻

Transportation Secretary tells Americans to stop flying. I have to believe airline executives are flooding the White House with calls. I miss Pete.

"We can't buy parts for new" ...because some fuckwit put tariffs on it all?🤦‍♂️

Far past time to replace the floppy disks, Mr. Duffy.

Love it when the Transportation Secretary says he's concerned about the entire airspace. Really makes me feel confident in air transport.

Joel, don't try to compare, we all have anti-vax drones, but neither of our countries has been so absurdly stupid as to make one health secretary 🤣🤦‍♂️ You have to hand it to them, but just do it at a distance 😁😉

Quite frankly I am concerned about the whole airspace too. But that started after Pete was gone.

All about getting Musk another contract.

Gosh, air traffic control equipment is so horrible that within minutes of this administration taking office it is failing everywhere. I’m sure it has nothing to do with the Musk’s DOGE children getting into every computer system as fast as they can to disrupt government.

Any follow up on the system updates that were almost completed but were canceled by DOGE?

Hmmm, the old network seemed to be working fine, albeit not perfectly, right up until roughly inauguration day this year. Probably a pure coincidence though 🤦

Modernizing equipment would take infrastructure spending which the Republican fight against tooth and nail. So yeah, what a joke.

Clearly this Real World idiot has no idea what’s going on. Why are we paying his salary and benefits with our tax-payer money? Look at how dumb he is. Nobody even knows his first name. 💩🤡 #fafo Is America great again yet?

What exactly were Sean Duffy’s qualifications & did she ask him why they fired 400 FAA traffic controllers?

Well, dickhead, do you remember when the Biden admin tried to get the FAA systems updated, and the GOP voted down party line, unanimously against it!

@meetthepress.com @kristenwelker.bsky.social Just stop‼️ We need at least one day where these LYING UNQUALIFIED FELON'S SYCOPHANTS aren't given a platform.

Yeah, we can only hope nothing bad happens while this buffoon spends valuable time spinning on cable networks when he should be out there getting this shit fixed. Btw, he does know about fiber optic cable, right?

Are they trying to get people not to fly?

Liar!! Duffy is a liar.. all was well in the skies till trump took over!!

Time to upgrade our aviation system. Too bad the republicans voted against a plan to do this back in 2019. Tax cuts to the rich is more important.

What's the fucking plan, Duffman?

They already want to cut $2 trillion from federal services for all Americans in order to give tax cuts to the rich. How much more are they going to fvck us so they can pay Musk or some other oligarch to take over our skies?

Then why did DOGE kill the upgrade?

And perhaps this should also make us question putting those systems on a satellite coms platform built by the guy who can’t get body panels glued on a rolling dumpster securely? 🤔

Spitballing here, maybe don’t use tariffs?

Great way to instill confidence in air travel, Sean.

You guys are so rough on Sean. He took the train on MTV's Real World Boston Episode 1. He must know the transportation system well.

But what about the PRIVATE good?🤔

Don't know how and don't want to.

See: Texas power grid

They are still angry the New Deal was successful.

Verizon was contracted to deal with this problem BEFORE this administration. They turned it over to Musk… see how this works

Verizon has a contract already

Fuck Welker. Tired of her treating MAGAts as serious politicians.

This failure.

But from Elon? Whole thing is a grift.