Knackered ☮️🗽

ruggedly individualish, person reflecting color, insurrection advocate, known to the State of California to cause cancer, Best if Used By 05SEP24.

[Knackered ☮️🗽 @CocaChloroform]

I expect Trump to do something very stupid in the next day or so.

[Knackered ☮️🗽 @CocaChloroform]

@meganroseruiz Why do you hate workers so much?

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

So I went back and watched the press conference again and something is not adding up…

So basically the air traffic control system went haywire at 3:36 p.m, the FAA grounded the entire country with more than 3,500 planes in the air, and when Sean Duffy and Markwayne Mullin finally walked into the White House briefing room at 8:30 p.m., Mullin went first and told everyone it wasn't a cyberattack and nobody was ever in danger, but he never said what caused it, and then Duffy took the podium for about SEVEN MINUTES and blamed old analog switches "overloaded with data," "1980s little copper lines," 25 years of past administrations, and a Congress that won't give him the $50 billion he wants, and he even bragged that the new switches he'd already put in didn't fail, but in all that time he never once mentioned that his team had been working on the system, and then when the very first reporter asked whether he could rule out a cyberattack, Duffy didn't answer it himself, he handed it to Mullin, and here's the strange part, about fourteen minutes in Mullin casually said the FAA had been "putting patches into the system" and new equipment, and that the new technology was overwhelming the older system, which is a VERY different story than old wires just giving out which is what Duffy seemed to be implying the whole time, and instead of explaining that, Duffy came back to the mic and went right back to asking Congress for money, and later when reporters asked why there was no backup plan, he said "we didn't think we would have this kind of outage," and when they asked what was different about Friday, he said they were "still working on the details," but again never mentioned what Mullin had JUST talked about which was that the installation of the upgrades had brought down the old system, so we don’t even know if that ACTUALLY is the cause of what happened so basically you have the potential real explanation buried fourteen minutes deep, the cyberattack question handed off, a possible admission that came from the OTHER secretary, and a $50 billion ask throughout the whole briefing…

Something is wrong here.

[London River @LondonRiverSFW]

@mherlihy0816 Privatize airport security, too. Some airports already do, and random tests have shown that there is no decrease in security findings or transportation safety. San Francisco International Airport has privatized security, as have several others in the country. Abolish the TSA.

[Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @RogerZenAF]

I want $50 billion dollars.

[Knackered ☮️🗽 @CocaChloroform]

@ColterOwen hold on

[𝘼𝙣𝙘𝙖𝙥 𝘼𝙞𝙧 🛫 @AncapAir]

If ATC was fully privatized, the cluster fuck would have never happened.

[Jack V Lloyd @jackvlloyd]

Privatize air traffic control.

[London River @LondonRiverSFW]

So… can we talk about privatizing air traffic control now?

It's not a novel concept. Canada did in the 90s.

[Libertarian Party @LPNational]

Privatize the FAA.

[Knackered ☮️🗽 @CocaChloroform]

@itsnwts No, you suck at math and you did it wrong.

[Axiomatic Enemy of the State @DeTocqueville14]

You might be surprised to hear this, but...

I'm pretty sure that the government is lying about the ground stop that halted all departing flights for 4 hours yesterday.

[Knackered ☮️🗽 @CocaChloroform]

The United States has 21 Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCCs), which manage air traffic across the country.

$50 billion is $2.3 billion per room.

For telecommunications equipment.

[Knackered ☮️🗽 @CocaChloroform]

@ImGinnyRobinson Or just totally remove them.

[Tim OConnor, The Freedom Variant @timforfreeddom]

Ain't nobody got the money for that.

[Knackered ☮️🗽 @CocaChloroform]

@charliekirk11 you've been resurrected

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

The FAA's “ground stop” Friday threw air travel into chaos.

The Transportation Secretary blames outdated air traffic control technology.

Government managers don't know how to update computers.

It is time to do what other countries do: privatize air traffic control.

[Knackered ☮️🗽 @CocaChloroform]

So they spent $5,000 billion dollars on the TSA and ICE and a War nobody wanted. But the real problem is they didn't spend $5,050 billion.

Hitler was a better businessman.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Sean Duffy is using this briefing not to convey information to Americans, but to go on a political rant

[Knackered ☮️🗽 @CocaChloroform]

@JillianMHurley Taking money from other people by force and spending it on bullshit to feel better actually makes you a bad person.

[Knackered ☮️🗽 @CocaChloroform]

@kurtbardella And has been for the past 50 years.

[Knackered ☮️🗽 @CocaChloroform]

@SenSanders You have no authority to regulate software.

You suck at it too. Look at your FAA.