Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

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nycfan said:
Sometimes he says stuff that is out of left field and I don’t even know where to put it.



“[says you can’t have multiple companies run ATC, system, it must be one company] … there are some countries that have unbelievable air controller systems and they bells would have gone off [for helicopter altitude in DC crash] but bells and whistles would have gone off, they have them where they can virtually turn the thing around it just would have never happened if we had the right equipment. [we need a bill to built the best control system]

… When I land in my plane, privately, I use a system from another country because my captain tells me, I’m landing in New York, I won't tell you what country, but I use a system from another country because the captain says the thing is so bad. … so we’re going to have the best system, it’s a lot of money but it’s not that much money …”

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I don’t actually think they can use a foreign system to land at a US airport, but would be curious what foreign country he trusts to track his plane.
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If our ATCs just had Sharpies, they could do their jobs properly.
 
altmin said:
“There could be a collision course coming here at some point,” they said when asked if there’s a brewing freak-out over Musk in Trumpworld. “He’s getting too big for his breeches.”
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I realize the spelling would be incorrect but I find the last sentence unintentionally humorous and accurate.
 
Patb78 said:
Sure looks like it. Why would the cartels want to start a shooting war with the US military. It’s a fight they can’t win.
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It really depends on the units deployed at the border. Your run of the mill NG unit will have a hard time dealing with some of the bigger cartels. Some of these cartels are absolutely armed to the teeth.
 
altmin said:
Shortly after he suggested that the federal government should deploy the young DOGE staffers as air traffic controllers—“We should use some of them in the control towers, where we were putting people that were actually intellectually deficient,” the president said—the same senior White House official quickly dismissed the comment as a serious proposal.

“Lmfao no,” the White House official told WIRED in a text message. “You guys need to learn how to cover him. He was making the point that smart bright people need to be ATC’s [sic.].”

Trump simultaneously suggested the DOGE staffers are young and “very smart,” but also that “some are young, and some are not young. Some are not young at all.”
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The IQ of every single air traffic controller at every major US airport is at least one standard deviation higher than Trump's.

Ice T React GIF by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
 
finesse said:
Now discuss a scenario where the cartels would gain anything at all by starting a shooting war.
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I guess it depends on their reaction to any perceived encroachments on their operations. From what I've seen they aren't afraid to get down, so I guess it really boils down to what our armed forces do on and around the border.
 
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“… Legal experts said that even if the courts find the Trump administration’s executive orders on immigration to be constitutionally sound, that doesn’t mean they’ll go along with attempts to punish state and local officials who refuse to carry them out.

Printz v. United States, a 1997 Supreme Court ruling, found that county sheriffs couldn’t be compelled to perform background checks on gun buyers.

Several immigration advocacy groups in Illinois filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement last month in an effort to block the agency from conducting certain immigration operations in Chicago. …”
 
MOUNTAINH33L said:
I guess it depends on their reaction to any perceived encroachments on their operations. From what I've seen they aren't afraid to get down, so I guess it really boils down to what our armed forces do on and around the border.
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I've linked stuff from the Cato Institute a number of times about the fentanyl smuggling. Something over 85% of the people are American citizens using legal entry points. Almost all comes through legal entries in total because most of it comes in such small quantities ( 10 to 20 lbs on the average) that it's easy to conceal. There's nothing really happening at the border that greatly concerns the cartels. There's definitely nothing worth starting a shooting war.
 
Oh, Lord. Doesn't give me the warm fuzzies as someone who is on a plane almost every single week. Reckon I better increase my life insurance policy so when I die in an avoidable aviation accident because Trump and Musk are imbeciles, at least my family will be taken care of.
 
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