How long before planes start falling like rain?

No I meant choo choo trains. I just fixed it - thanks. Cheers!

This post was edited by Nanoose at February 23, 2025 9:25 AM MST

I thought so, but it could have been taken either way.  Some want his "plans" to fail (not that he isn't merely winging it), as his "plan" is to overthrow the country and install king trump I.

To show how silly I can be - when I first read “planEs” I thought it had something to do with Musk making electric cars. Cheers!

Well if Trump gets it his way he might be the the next one falling. Right now Trump is furious because he had to start his second term flying around in a 30 year old jet. Boeing is working on 2 new presidential jets but they are behind schedule. Trump’s bonehead idea to speed things up was to have Musk look into having security clearances relaxed. Trump also suggested that well they are waiting they should buy him a slightly used new jet and re fit it. Cheers!

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/furious-trump-sics-musk-boeing-000606027.html

And his worshipers see nothing wrong with that.  he can him fire thousands of people to (supposedly) "save money", but the little baby is quite happy to (unneededly) spend money to have his air-o-planes. This post was edited by Shuhak at February 23, 2025 11:40 AM MST

After Trump talked to reporters about how they should buy him a slightly used new jet – he had a photo opp of him kicking the tire of a jet on the tarmac (like he was thinking of buying it). Turned out the jet was owned by someone that lived in Saudi Arabia. So not only will tax payers have to pay for a temporary jet they will see their tax dollars fly out of America faster than the can say Alla Baba and the 7 thieves. Cheers!

 

Open sesame:

 

If Trump thinks a used jet will do, then I'm all for it. Or maybe he could charge the government to use his own plane. He probably wouldn't charge much more the $180,000/hour that we pay for the current plane. It would be a lot less safe and secure, but oh, well...

A slightly used new jet – only been flown twice by a little old dictator from Pasadena. Trump said the used jet could be be modified to suit the need. Bet that would cost billions.

I watched the vid and I never knew how cool of an aircraft it is.

If I recall Trump’ personal jet has already had defense upgrades at the tax payers expense. Cheers!

This post was edited by Nanoose at February 25, 2025 7:54 AM MST

Trump was on a plane with the Pope and a boy. The plane was about to crash but there were only 2 parachutes. Trump grabbed a pack and jumped out of the plane. The Pope said – I have lived a long life – take the last parachute my son. And the boy said – no there are 2 parachutes left – Trump just grabbed my backpack. Cheers!

If only!

He did, however, fire the entirety of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee and all the radar, landing and navigational aid employees. The FAA is already facing a shortage of air traffic controllers and this will overtax them further. He also fired employees working on a classified early warning system in conjunction with the USAF. "I don't think they even knew what the NDP does, they just thought,  oh no big deal, he just works for the FAA" (Charles Spitzer-Stadtlander, one of the fired employees). "This is about protecting national security,  and I'm scared to death. And the American public should be scared too ... I was fired despite my position allegedly being exempted due to national security".
So when cruise missiles hit Hawaii, you know who to blame.

No air traffic controllers have been fired, either. 

There were more accidents under Biden in his first month than Trump's.   

Nothing wrong with firing those who need fired. If maintenance teams are overstaffed or not performing...sometimes you get fired. 

Air Traffic Controllers quite often use landing and navigational aid, and rely on radar. Try again.

Planes have been having issues before Trump came back in.  Some people were needing to be fired. Because the jobs were not being done properly.  

352 people were fired out of 46,000.....I believe these people were fired because they were failing to do their job correctly. 

I'm not sure how you got the inside scoop on these employees job performance. There wasnt enough time for Musk to get that kind of information either. The official reason was that they were probationary employees. That makes sense, because probationary employees are easier to fire and for the most part can't appeal their firing. I don't see why it's necessary to make comments that, if believed, will hurt their chances of getting a new job.

This whole getting rid of people is partly for show, partly to free up space to hire loyalists from the Project 2025 database and mostly about being a power play.

There are better ways to reduce staffing, that will save more money and ruin fewer lives. Having worked on the accounting side of that, I could share what I know, but I don't think anyone involved in this debacle or cheering it on has any interest in real solutions.

No one on the left complained when Biden fired 60K people on day one.  Or when he fired good people who did not take the covid shot. 
Or when Clinton came in and fired people. Or Obama who fired people because the did not line up with his vision for the country. 

It is what they all do.  If you do not do your job or simply do not agree with the leader of the country...you get fired. It stinks for the one getting fired but that is how it goes sometimes. 

Where, exactly, did you get that 60,000 people were fired by Biden on day one?  Closest I could come was about 11,000 when the Keystone Pipeline was shot down and of that number, many of those proposed workers were temporary.

Yes, Keystone pipeline.  11,000 direct jobs and approx 60,000 jobs indirect jobs all tied to the Keystone XL Pipeline.  

So, if I'm reading this correctly, all 60,000 jobs would not have been permanent, not all of those 60,000 jobs actually existed in order for employees to have been fired from them, and not all of those 60,000 jobs would have been for US workers.  Am I correct?