The Many Faces of US Politics...

[J70]

Little Marco is a front man. Based on what we've seen so far, he has little to no authority. He's just there to justify and rationalize everything after the fact. You think he was consulted on the handover of Ukraine to Putin or (coming) Gaza to Trump's son-in-law and his cronies or the Vance "tour de force" last week?

As for the Dems being the same as or worse than Trump and the GOP, you'd have to be joking! Trump wouldn't even be in office if the Republicans had had a scintilla of guts and integrity and convicted Trump in the 2021 impeachment. It was sitting there on a plate for them and would have all ended Trump there and then, leaving them free to pursue their billionaire-tax-cut and f**k-the-working/middle-class agenda in a fairly normal manner as opposed to the travesty currently underway in DC, where, in just one example out of many, they're scrambling at the moment trying to get contact details for all the nuclear arsenal safety personnel the muskrats moronically terminated last week. And if you think that's bad, they're getting the keys to the IRS today where they'll have unfettered access to do what the f**k they want with your tax and personal documents as they slash and burn the department in the middle of tax season.

[Rossfan]

Shades of Germany 1933 at every turn.

[Jell 0 Biafra]

Kids in my area who were born here are afraid to go to school in case ICE shows up and deports them.  My own kid is in tears in case his friends are deported.

This is where we are.

[Eamonnca1]

Speaking of open borders:

Trump fires air traffic controllers weeks after deadly crash

By Tara Copp | Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Probationary workers were targeted in late night emails Friday notifying them they had been fired, David Spero, president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists union, said in a statement.

The impacted workers include personnel hired for FAA radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, one air traffic controller told the Associated Press. The air traffic controller was not authorized to talk to the media and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association said in a brief statement Monday it was "analyzing the effect of the reported federal employee terminations on aviation safety, the national airspace system and our members."

Other FAA employees who were fired were working on an urgent and classified early warning radar system the Air Force had announced in 2023 for Hawaii to detect incoming cruise missiles, through a program that was in part funded by the Department of Defense. It's one of several programs that the FAA's National Defense Program manages that involve radars providing longer-range detection around the country's borders.


Due to the nature of their work, staff in that office typically provide an extensive knowledge transfer before retiring to make sure no institutional knowledge is lost, said Charles Spitzer-Stadtlander, one of the employees in that branch who was terminated.

The Hawaii radar and the FAA National Defense Program office working on it "is about protecting national security," Spitzer-Stadtlander said. "I don't think they even knew what NDP does, they just thought, oh no big deal, he just works for the FAA."


"This is about protecting national security, and I'm scared to death," Spitzer-Stadtlander said. "And the American public should be scared too."

Spero said messages began arriving after 7 p.m. on Friday and continued late into the night. More might be notified over the long weekend or barred from entering FAA buildings on Tuesday, he said.

The employees were fired "without cause nor based on performance or conduct," Spero said, and the emails were "from an 'exec order' Microsoft email address" — not a government email address. A copy of the termination email that was provided to the AP shows the sending address from the address "ASK_AHR_EXEC_Orders@usfaa.mail.outlook.com."

The firings hit the FAA when it faces a shortfall in controllers. Federal officials have been raising concerns about an overtaxed and understaffed air traffic control system for years, especially after a series of close calls between planes at U.S. airports. Among the reasons they have cited for staffing shortages are uncompetitive pay, long shifts, intensive training and mandatory retirements.

In the Jan. 29 fatal crash between a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and American Airlines passenger jet, which is still under investigation, one controller was handing both commercial airline and helicopter traffic at the busy airport.

Just days before the collision, President Donald Trump had already fired all the members of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, a panel mandated by Congress after the 1988 PanAm 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. The committee is charged with examining safety issues at airlines and airports.

Spitzer-Stadtlander suggested he was targeted for firing for his views on Tesla and X, formerly Twitter, not as part of a general probationary-level sweep. Both companies are owned by Elon Musk, who is leading Trump's effort to cut the federal government.

Spitzer-Stadtlander is Jewish and was angered by Elon Musk's straight arm saluting at Trump's inauguration. On his personal Facebook account he urged friends to get rid of their Teslas and "X," or Twitter, accounts in response.

That post drew the attention of a DOGE Facebook account, which reacted with a laughing emoji. Soon after, he saw the same account reacting to much older posts through his personal Facebook feed.

"The official DOGE Facebook page started harassing me on my personal Facebook account after I criticized Tesla and Twitter," Spitzer-Stadtlander wrote in a post over the weekend on Linked In. "Less than a week later, I was fired, despite my position allegedly being exempted due to national security."

He added: "When DOGE fired me, they turned off my computer and wiped all of my files without warning."

Spitzer-Stadtlander said he was supposed to be exempted from the probationary firings because the FAA office he worked in focused on national security threats such as attacks on the national airspace by drones.

The Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The firings were first reported by CNN.

[whitey]

Kids in my area who were born here are afraid to go to school in case ICE shows up and deports them.  My own kid is in tears in case his friends are deported.

This is where we are.

Thank the Democrats for bringing us to where we are

People are absolutely furious that they left the border wide open for 3 1/2 years

No one should be surprised as what's going down though.....Trump is doing exactly what he said he would do during the election and yet 77 million people voted for this

Extremism on both sides is bad

https://www.wpri.com/news/elections/fall-river-votes-republican-for-first-time-since-1950s-as-trump-surges-in-bristol-county/amp/

[Milltown Row2]

The endless blame game, some people are not even embarrassed with the reposting of it.

Deal with what's happening now and who's doing it and how it's affecting people today..

We could all blame Jesus for the endless holy wars that came about ffs!

[whitey]

The endless blame game, some people are not even embarrassed with the reposting of it.

Deal with what's happening now and who's doing it and how it's affecting people today..

We could all blame Jesus for the endless holy wars that came about ffs!

If there hadn't been wide open borders for 3 1/2 years Trump would never have been re-elected

The Democratic candidate he was up against was the so called "Border Czar".....a clown who couldn't answer a straight question about anything......never mind the border

They hid Joe and covered for him for 4 years , then anointed Kamala who was such a bad candidate in 2020 she dropped out before the primaries even started

But hey-Doug Emhoffs daughter.....the model with the hairy armpits....was sporting a Camo Baseball Cap.....and that was really reasonating with male voters in swing states

https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/genius-rolling-stone-writer-praises-harris-walz-camouflage-hat-for-reclaiming-southern-identity/article_f7f578d0-edfd-5def-9c0c-7c281f9fa0c8.html

[johnnycool]

The endless blame game, some people are not even embarrassed with the reposting of it.

Deal with what's happening now and who's doing it and how it's affecting people today..

We could all blame Jesus for the endless holy wars that came about ffs!

If there hadn't been wide open borders for 3 1/2 years Trump would never have been re-elected

The Democratic candidate he was up against was the so called "Border Czar".....a clown who couldn't answer a straight question about anything......never mind the border

They hid Joe and covered for him for 4 years , then anointed Kamala who was such a bad candidate in 2020 she dropped out before the primaries even started

But hey-Doug Emhoffs daughter.....the model with the hairy armpits....was sporting a Camo Baseball Cap.....and that was really reasonating with male voters in swing states

https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/genius-rolling-stone-writer-praises-harris-walz-camouflage-hat-for-reclaiming-southern-identity/article_f7f578d0-edfd-5def-9c0c-7c281f9fa0c8.html

Did the Democrats and republicans not have agreement on a Border bill until Trump decided he wanted to make political capital out of it and swayed republicans to reject it?

Kids in my area who were born here are afraid to go to school in case ICE shows up and deports them.  My own kid is in tears in case his friends are deported.

This is where we are.

Jell,
  are you not under the microscope as well or do you have citizenship?

[Milltown Row2]

The endless blame game, some people are not even embarrassed with the reposting of it.

Deal with what's happening now and who's doing it and how it's affecting people today..

We could all blame Jesus for the endless holy wars that came about ffs!

If there hadn't been wide open borders for 3 1/2 years Trump would never have been re-elected

The Democratic candidate he was up against was the so called "Border Czar".....a clown who couldn't answer a straight question about anything......never mind the border

They hid Joe and covered for him for 4 years , then anointed Kamala who was such a bad candidate in 2020 she dropped out before the primaries even started

But hey-Doug Emhoffs daughter.....the model with the hairy armpits....was sporting a Camo Baseball Cap.....and that was really reasonating with male voters in swing states

https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/genius-rolling-stone-writer-praises-harris-walz-camouflage-hat-for-reclaiming-southern-identity/article_f7f578d0-edfd-5def-9c0c-7c281f9fa0c8.html

Again, the blame game, wise up

[Keyser soze]

LOL at the insane MAGA shit Whitey posts on here while he "doesnt support Trump".

Incredible that 77M Americans also supported this craziness.

[johnnycool]

LOL at the insane MAGA shit Whitey posts on here while he "doesnt support Trump".

Incredible that 77M Americans also supported this craziness.

Whitey's point is that the Democrats were so shit and corrupt as well that it made Trump electable and it's hard to argue with that.

[Keyser soze]

LOL at the insane MAGA shit Whitey posts on here while he "doesnt support Trump".

Incredible that 77M Americans also supported this craziness.

Whitey's point is that the Democrats were so shit and corrupt as well that it made Trump electable and it's hard to argue with that.

Whiteys point is to justify voting for a brainless megalomaniac who violently threatened the overthrow of an election and is doing his utmost to subvert democracy.

[Rossfan]

Thank God I live in a relatively normal Country where workers have some protections.

[Milltown Row2]

LOL at the insane MAGA shit Whitey posts on here while he "doesnt support Trump".

Incredible that 77M Americans also supported this craziness.

Whitey's point is that the Democrats were so shit and corrupt as well that it made Trump electable and it's hard to argue with that.

Two wrongs don't make it right and he continually blames everyone else but orange face for anything, because the Dems made him do it, America is bizarre, I enjoy watch Donald though throwing hand grenades all over the place, I just hope none of them land at my door 

[whitey]

LOL at the insane MAGA shit Whitey posts on here while he "doesnt support Trump".

Incredible that 77M Americans also supported this craziness.

Whitey's point is that the Democrats were so shit and corrupt as well that it made Trump electable and it's hard to argue with that.

Whiteys point is to justify voting for a brainless megalomaniac who violently threatened the overthrow of an election and is doing his utmost to subvert democracy.

Stephen A Smith-probably the best known sports commentator in the country summed it up perfectly (He's African American BTW)

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/nba/top-stories/nba-analyst-stephen-a-smith-stunned-the-crowd-of-bill-mahers-show-with-his-upfront-verdict-on-why-donald-trump-is-president-now/amp_articleshow/117553921.cms

"The man (Donald Trump) was impeached twice, he was convicted on 34 felony counts and the American people still said 'he's closer to normal than what we see on the left'

That's my point