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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSean Duffy: "Patriotic controllers are gonna stay on and continue to serve the country."
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com
Sean Duffy: "Patriotic controllers are gonna stay on and continue to serve the country."
May 13, 2025 at 10:08 AM
@atrupar.com
Sean Duffy: "Patriotic controllers are gonna stay on and continue to serve the country."
May 13, 2025 at 10:08 AM
He blames the last admin... you know, the admin that didn't have any major accidents during it.
Sean Duffy: "Patriotic controllers are gonna stay on and continue to serve the country."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-05-13T14:08:50.085Z
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Sean Duffy: "Patriotic controllers are gonna stay on and continue to serve the country." (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
May 2025
OP
Why is no one mentioning DOGE/Musk's firing (early retirement dismissal) of TSA?
hlthe2b
May 2025
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Walleye
(43,709 posts)1. So now air traffic controllers are "unpatriotic". What a bunch of shit.
ananda
(34,307 posts)10. What does patriotism even have to do with it in the first place?
!@#$%
Walleye
(43,709 posts)11. Nothing, to them patriotic means white male, I think
ananda
(34,307 posts)12. Snap. Racist code talk.
Thanks
hlthe2b
(112,625 posts)2. Why is no one mentioning DOGE/Musk's firing (early retirement dismissal) of TSA?
I've not heard a word or seen anything written about it. Obviously, that is not the only problem, but it has to be a part.
travelingthrulife
(4,316 posts)3. "Patriotic controllers"...soon they will be 'control warriors'
NCDem47
(3,315 posts)4. NY/Philly airspace was being held together under Biden/Buttigieg
Sure, there were issues. But the duct tape kept things in place.
I think somoene or several people left (fed up? or pushed out?) who knew what it took to make it work.
Sailingdiver
(340 posts)5. This fluffer also voted against
The 2019 appropriations bill in support of the FAA.
marmar
(79,134 posts)6. The "Real World" guy .......
..... this administration is a cruel joke.
Liberal In Texas
(15,942 posts)7. Maybe Musk shouldn't have fired all those probationary controllers
when he started his government butchering.
ihaveaquestion
(4,367 posts)8. Says the man who serves the most unpatriotic president in our history
Arazi
(8,682 posts)9. The GOP refused Pete Buttigieg's additional funding requests
Fuck this guy
Walleye
(43,709 posts)13. Yes, they thought, why should they work with him when they can have so much fun ridiculing him