imbecile guts air safety, then demands to know why a plane crashed
management-by-vendetta sure is working out swimmingly
Donny Convict and his chaos-monkey techbro besties have brought their move fast and break shit ethos to Washington. they’ve fired people, gutted whole departments, and issued conflicting orders — never once stopping to consider that gee, the well-being and safety of Americans is at stake here, maybe we should slow down a bit and consider if our actions might have consequences.
nah, fuck that. it’s more fun to set everything on fire and watch the pretty flames.
and now that everything has very quickly — and very predictably — gone to chaotic shit, King Fuckface the First is stamping his feet and demanding to know how this all could have possibly happened.
last night, a passenger jet collided with a military helicopter and crashed into the Potomac. it’s a tragedy and horrible loss of life. very little is known at this time about what went wrong — but that didn’t stop the asshole who knows more about air traffic control than all the air traffic controllers from throwing a social media shit-fit.
“The airplane was on a perfect and routine line of approach to the airport. The helicopter was going straight at the airplane for an extended period of time. It is a CLEAR NIGHT, the lights on the plane were blazing, why didn’t the helicopter go up or down, or turn. Why didn’t the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane. This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented. NOT GOOD!!!”
hey, way to express concern and sympathy for the victims and their families, you heartless shitnozzle.
never mind that Donny is president now, and can, y’know, pick up the phone and talk to the head of the Aviation Safety Committee and get all the answers he wants. he’s going to continue to be a public loudmouth — because cosplaying as the know-it-all at the end of the bar is easy. governmenting is hard.
oh wait, Donny can’t call up the Aviation Safety Committee — because right now, there’s no one at the other end to pick up the phone.
oh dear, this is not a good look.
President Donald Trump moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security Tuesday, firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard before their terms are up and eliminated all the members of a key aviation security advisory group.
The aviation security committee, which was mandated by Congress after the 1988 PanAm 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, will technically continue to exist but it won’t have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports.
Donny can’t get the answers he’s demanding because there’s no one left in government with the expertise to figure out what the fuck just happened.
so if Donny can’t ring up anyone at the Aviation Safety Committee, what about the Federal Aviation Administration? can’t Donny phone the head of the FAA?
The Federal Aviation Administration’s leader stepped down on Jan. 20, months after Elon Musk demanded that he quit.
The move by Michael Whitaker means the FAA has no Senate-confirmed leader for one of the biggest crises in its history because he quit before Donald Trump took office.
oh, how perfectly fucking lovely. there’s no one heading up the FAA right now because the Space Nazi had a personal vendetta against the guy who was running it.
apparently Whitaker’s crime was asking that maybe SpaceX shouldn’t recklessly blow so much shit up. but asking for safety was a bridge too far for the Space Nazi, whose capacity to hold a grudge is every bit as robust as Dear Leader’s.
government-by-grievance sure is working out well, isn’t is?
Team Fuckface gutted our air safety infrastructure and then they had the nerve to brag about it.
yeah, no. I don’t think Donny restored excellence and safety to anything.
this whole quote-unquote “fact sheet” is basically a treatise on why women and people of color can’t be trusted to run things.
FULFILLING PROMISE TO END ILLEGAL DISCRIMINATION AND BRING BACK COMMON SENSE: This Presidential Memorandum builds on President Trump’s day-one Executive Order ending the Biden Administration’s illegal and immoral DEI discrimination programs.
‘immorally discriminating,’ of course, against white men — who, as we all know, have a god-given right to take charge of everything.
I’m trying like to hell to find one ounce of this “common sense” that Donny is bragging about in that press release, but all I’m seeing is a bunch of ignorant dipshits running around and making the stupidest fucking decisions imaginable.
here’s another tale of Trumpian incompetence and incoherence — but also a story about how We the People can win.
on Monday night, Donny announced a freeze on trillions of dollars in federal spending.
A sweeping freeze on trillions in federal spending for grants and loans, issued Monday night by the White House budget office to federal agencies without fanfare, sparked outrage and confusion – even among fellow Republicans. The impact touched all corners of the country, with state Medicaid funding portals briefly shuttered and programs like Meals on Wheels and Head Start scrambling to figure out if they were about to lose their funding.
even MAGA freaked the fuck out over this. these short-sighted idiots found out the hard way that the cuts to federal grant programs they had been demanding didn’t just hurt drag performers and other liberal pansies, but themselves as well.
on Tuesday, a Reagan-appointed judge ruled that this aggression will not stand, man, and put a temporary freeze on Donny’s fuckery.
A U.S. judge on Tuesday temporarily paused part of the Trump administration’s sweeping directive to pause federal loans, grants and other financial assistance, granting a win to advocacy groups who said the policy would be devastating.
At a hearing in Washington, D.C., federal court, U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan ordered the Trump administration not to block “open awards,” or funds that were already slated to be disbursed, until at least Feb. 3.
then, on Wednesday morning, the OMB abruptly announced that never mind, we were only kidding about that freeze.
On Wednesday, the Office of Management and Budget issued a terse two-sentence memo rescinding the directive it had issued just two days prior, and just over 20 hours after a federal judge ordered a halt to the freeze.
now here’s where the batshit gets turned up to eleven.
WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt, out of the clear blue, declared that up is now down.
“This is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze. It is simply a rescission of the OMB memo. Why? To end any confusion created by the court’s injunction. The President’s EO’s on federal funding remain in full force and effect, and will be rigorously implemented.”
words, how do they work?
now, if you’re asking yourself, ‘what the hell does any of Karoline Leavitt’s contradictory gibberish mean?’, you’re not alone — a second federal judge is right there with you, and yesterday afternoon, he slapped everyone with a writ of get your fucking act together, shitheads.
“Federal Judge grants restraining order against Trump's funding freeze after confusing statements from Press Sec Karoline Leavitt. Judge McConnell cites her tweet, calling the OMB memo revocation ‘a distinction without a difference.’ Complete incompetence from the admin.”
take heart, because this is how we win.
for sure, these evil fucknuckles are going to break shit. but at the same time, they’re going to fall on their faces, a lot — because they’re clownfuckingly incompetent imbeciles. and there will be a ton of shit they’ll never get away with, because they’re going to overreach, and public outcry will be too great. we just saw this in action with the budget freeze.
Congressional Republicans were privately frustrated they weren’t given a heads up at a decision that stirred a direct deluge of outrage from constituents. The administration received a flood of calls from lawmakers and state officials with questions about its impact on their home states.
never stop fighting, and never lose hope.
here’s your daily reminder that I can be found on Blue Sky at this link.
this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:
practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.
to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery that’s ahead of us.
we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.
*types frantically in a mad dash to publish before Evan Hurst and Jay Kuo post their takes*
“King Fuckface the First!” There is not one brain cell in this administration.