Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he understands the frustrations and worries of air traffic controllers who have to work without a paycheck during the government shutdown, but he and the union that represents controllers are also now emphasizing that calling out sick in protest could cost th
Reagan fired the air traffic controllers without bothering to think that through, and aviation in the USA is still suffering the after-effects of that as the workers that were trained up to fill those gaps now all retire at the same time. I don’t doubt the Republicans would make the same mistake twice, especially given that these ones are far stupider than Reagan’s people.
Probably harder to fill this time. It’s a hell of a lot easier to be an ICE scab than an ATC scab.
Well folks did elect Trump twice… so there is that.
I still don’t believe that trump won against Harris. So imo they didn’t vote for hin twice.
I mean I think it was valid Trump was pretty consistent in his votes over all three elections. The Dems had a spike during Biden and a crash during Haris. The truth is the left just couldn’t be bothered to keep him out a second time.
‘The left’ liberals didn’t vote for Harris. I mean the left didn’t either, but the reason Harris lost was because of standard ol liberals choosing not to vote for brown George w bush.
The airline industry is much bigger now. More flights happening.
Republicans (and people in general, TBH) don’t make the same mistake twice.
They make it 6 or 7 times, at least.
And especially since the goal of our enemies is to make America devolve into chaos, and the collapse of the airline industry would go a long ways in accomplishing that objective.
And their treasonous MAGA lackeys are happy to help.
Fucking boomers
It’s actually not the boomers who elected Reagan. It was their parents and the generation that immediately followed them. Boomers, that is the actual baby boom generation (born 1946 to 1955), voted overwhelmingly against Reagan.
I disagree.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomers
In 1980, it was kinda close, 45v44 (18-21yo) and 44v44 (22-29yo), but I wouldn’t say they were “overwhelmingly against”. By 1984 they seemed quite in favor of him. They had help, no doubt, but they were not largely against; marginally against at most.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_United_States_presidential_election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_United_States_presidential_election
This is an incomplete picture. Because it’s from exit polls it only accounts for those who actually voted. It doesn’t take in to account at all those who abstained. And it doesn’t list by generation just by 10-year increments. And generations don’t fall into neat 10-year increments. At that point in time boomers were anywhere from 20 to 35.
Abstained? You mean helped Reagan win? How’d that strategy work out?
False. Behold, arithmetic!
1980 election
Age (DOB) Range
18-21 (1962-1959) =3
22-29 (1958-1951) =7
30-44 (1950-1936) =14
45-59 (1935-1921) =14
60+ (1920-past)
1984 election
Age (DOB) Range
18-24 (1966-1960) =6
25-29 (1959-1955) =4
30-49 (1954-1935) =19
50-64 (1934-1920) =14
65+ (1919-past)
What they lack is a neat cutoff at 1945.
No one is doing that.
Wikipedia:
More arithmetic! 1964-1946=18
1945-1960. Sure. Seems a breath away from a neat ten year increment, but sure.
Doesn’t stop them from sucking his cadaverific cock nowadays though, frankly if they had come out swinging against him more aggressively there wouldn’t have been nearly as many issues nowadays.
K, but you could say that for any voting generation.
Id say it’s far more serious with the Boomers as a whole, pretty sure nobody is sucking Wilson’s fucking corpse cock.
My parents were boomers and they (and all their boomer friends) fucking hated Ronnie Raygun. It definitely was not all boomers.