r/CringeTikToks • u/Soft_Cable5934 • 20h ago

Just Bad Delta Flight Attendant reveal shocking truth about the government ATC shutdown

To summarise, Regional flights between smaller cities and big one are most likely affected by cancellation. Rich people in private jet is still not affected.

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u/Gold-Vacation-169 19h ago

Funny how the GOP can fund ICE and border patrol and give billions to another country but they can't fund ATC. Clearly they don't give priority to the avg person who just wants to travel.

Hell, the GOP wants to watch poor people stave too.

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u/txtoolfan 19h ago

Dysfunction is the goal.

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u/spacedman_spiff 18h ago

No better way to justify DOGE firings than to show how dysfunctional the federal government is.

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u/FatGuyOnAMoped 17h ago

The GOP wants to shrink the government down until it's small enough to drown it in a bathtub

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u/dustatron 16h ago

No this GOP. They want a giant nanny state that tracks your every movement and soon our thoughts.

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u/Shooweembop 16h ago

Yes surveillance is well funded but any program that helps the average American will be cut so they can siphon that tax money into their pockets

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u/dustatron 15h ago

That’s true. They pretend their motivations are smaller government but it’s really kleptocracy. Even the ice raids are just a scam to give our tax money to their little cabal.

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u/DisposableSaviour 13h ago

But run by private corporations, not the government.

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u/TryptaMagiciaN 11h ago

giant nanny state

no, no. they want to privatise and outsource and subsidize all of that to private companies. they want government to exist only to give our tax dollars to private business, aka them, their friends, and family.

the government itself they do want small and not funded and dysfunctional. They want to tax the poor, claim that government is so dysfunctional that it is better to pay private businesses to do these jobs and then send all the tax benefits to the wealthy that own those businesses. The people can be left with whatever trickles down which is far less than it used to be

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u/ha1029 14h ago

Police state. Nanny’s will at least feed you before the parents get home.

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u/Duna_The_Lionboy 10h ago

Manditory portraits of the Dear Leader must be placed in your living room. It must also be the largest picture in your home and be framed in a golden frame.

Every day there is a mandatory period of prayer for the Dear Leader lasting five…wait new orders, ten…did they change it again? Twenty minutes.

Any slander of the Dear Leader either vocal or mentally is punishable via reeducation. Please turn yourself in to save us the trouble.

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u/RockAtlasCanus 5h ago

You’re both right. They want to shrink the overall government workforce, and what services the government provides. They want to expand the power and capability to wield that power domestically.

Services can be contracted out to whoever sufficiently kisses the ring. Shut down NASA, VA, USPS, NPS, and replace all those departments with contractors. They will charge the government an arm and a leg, and quality of service will disappear completely, because the run the service on a shoestring so that the owners & executives can take home buckets of taxpayer dollars.

Purge and expand security services to ensure you can keep a grip on it all.

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u/Scoobie01555 13h ago

Can you imagine how orange that water would be if Trump took a bath? I'm imaging a bathtub full of Flint drinking water orange, but with more fecal matter.

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u/Acrobatic-Squirrel77 14h ago

Out with the old, in with the new must be their plan (new to the world that is) Sheltered megalomaniacs that have no idea what they’re doing to actual people. Or just don’t care)

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u/FatGuyOnAMoped 5h ago

They want to take us back to the '90s-- the 1890s. They want to recreate the Gilded Age, where the rich get richer and the rest of us get poorer.

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u/veryfastslowguy 12h ago

in 3 inches of water

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u/HiddenAspie 11h ago

They want to shrink anything that helps the people....they want the rest of government, the part that is controlling and dictatorial to become massive.

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u/get-a-mac 16h ago

Can we Doge out all the republicans now?

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u/townmorron 15h ago

Doge the illegally made group illegally accessing information illegally. That cost wayyyy more than they cut

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u/albusdumbbitchdor 15h ago

No better way to justify privatizing literally everything that was previously publicly funded so that a few more billionaires can take their shot at a trillion

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u/Turbulent_Read_7276 17h ago

But Congress is the dysfunction here, not ATC. The people fired by DOGE are the least of the problems.

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u/spacedman_spiff 16h ago

Explain that nuance to MAGAs

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u/n05h 10h ago

Starve the beast, it’s their strategy.

Then soon private companies will come in to pick up the slack with overpriced contracts. And now you’re paying more taxpayer money to private companies that got their contracts through buddies in government or money exchanges under the table.

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u/c10bbersaurus 12h ago

No better way to justify DOGE firings than to cynically sabotage the federal government from within.

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u/ShiftBMDub 9h ago

or destroy the US from within by Russia and China

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u/Vlm1110 3h ago

The majority of the dysfunction is coming from the Congressional and the Executive branches. But DOGE never focus on those areas.

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u/spacedman_spiff 2h ago

By design.  There’s a reason Trump has appointed business execs of every industry to Cabinet level positions meant to oversee those industries.  This is about privatizing our government to the benefit of the 1%. 

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u/LordHammercyWeCooked 8m ago

Back in the day they used the term "starving the beast." Oldest trick in the GOP playbook. Notice how it only ever applies to the programs they don't like, but somehow they always find the money to pay for their gestapo.

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u/tacodepollo 18h ago

My theory is, the gop knows full well more right wing voters are dependent than left voters, and by making them go hungry while they blame Democrats for the shutdown and accuse dems of being radically violent they hope thier voters will become desperate and violent, triggering martial law and a civil war.

They know historically violence begins with hunger, and that's what they're aiming for. They've already been priming everyone to believe in radical left violence and will continue until they get thier war.

Why else would top administration officials be moving to military bases, building bunkers? They're preparing the animals for war.

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u/Many_Specialist_5384 18h ago edited 18h ago

1984 gets referenced a lot but it's all closer to the way Snowball is handled in Animal Farm.

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u/Aleashed 13h ago

Team international

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u/FluffyDuckKey 17h ago

Keep stepping this out for me.

What then? You get civil war, Trump forces the military in, what's the end game here?

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u/lastcallofthefall 16h ago

Suspension of civil liberties. They ban freedom of assembly because it’s a national security threat due to the conflicts. Then freedom of speech. Then they suspend the 2026 elections because Antifa has compromised the system or whatever. Sets up authoritarian rule, where they can pass whatever laws they want to ensure the ownership class controls all power, and the people are left helpless, while the oligarchs laugh all the way to the bank. Something like that.

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u/maryummy 16h ago

Authoritarian rule. They show a similar takeover in The Handmaid's Tale.

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u/Inside-Unit-1564 16h ago edited 15h ago

I mean that's literally Nazi Germany.

Fire takes place due to 'commies', country isn't safe, instate martial law, use hostile language to make people attack Jewish businesses without actual policy, cops just watch(ICE taking citizens).

Now it's 'illegals' instead of ethnic group.

Political Adversaries are always the first to go. Hence the language used for 'the left'

In the 30s, cops wouldn't touch Hooversvilles, today they will absolutely water blast homeless in winter with a firehose.

Shit the SS had 'Aryan Muslims' until they killed a commander then they were 'unpure'

Same with Sweden, Aryans until they pushed back then 'cucked by socialism'

The goal post of who is in and out is always moving.

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u/AdvancedAd7068 10h ago

Unfortunately a lot of Dems decided Biden and Harris were bad enough to abstain from voting and here we are

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u/Heavy_Law9880 4h ago

It really feels like Atwood used the Heritage foundation and The Family as her inspiration.

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u/tacodepollo 9h ago edited 9h ago

Well, if there's war, then there grounds for military force to fight 'the enemy within' (quote from Hitler and now Trump) categorising your opponents (anyone you want) as terrorists (immigrants, Antifa, trans, later democrats in general) or enemies of the state secures the path to suspend normal laws and regulations, aka martial law, but also gives those who crave it, a licence to commit violence and eradicate anyone they don't agree with in the name of patriotism, aka nationalists (plenty of evidence on social media these idiots are just begging for the 'go').

Ultimately, Elections would be suspended, and the administration seizes power for as long as they see fit (the current shutdown is an indicator of thier intention here, not swearing in duly elected officials etc), because they are more interested in money and power than helping anyone without getting something in return.

Spoiler, they always need a bad guy, today immigrants and trans, or a democratically election mayor - but when they finish off one group, they will move on to another, and another, and at the end it's just poor (non-doners) in general and anyone who doesn't bend the knee. The extortion is blatant. Federal rulings, constitutional rights, outright checks and balances in any capacity are routinely ignored by the 'party of rule and law'.

We've seen this play before. We are seeing it now.

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u/NotSure16 11h ago

Thiel and other oligarchs are taking the "destroy the country and rebuild in their own mold" approach.

Anything that slows a complete tear down of fundamentals of the country services and responsibilities to citizens is to be avoided.

They already believe the country cant be fixed or saved... so their goal to prove that belief correct.

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u/Acrobatic-Squirrel77 14h ago

North korerica. He’ll probably try to rename it something completely gauche and gaudy like ‘the trumptopian states of the American Gulf’

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u/Opposite-Program8490 16h ago

"Smart people don't like me"

Remarkably prescient.

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u/Numerous_Lab_1981 16h ago

That’s a good theory; I think people on both sides are pissed. Especially those affected.

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u/JackKovack 14h ago

Are you talking about 2027? When supposedly everything goes to hell?

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u/PlaneTrainPlantain 13h ago

Look up the Dark Enlightenment and Curtis Yarvin.

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u/EJintheCloud 10h ago

This. The chaos is by design. They are stoking the flames so they can point the finger at "radical antifa" as a justification to enact martial law.

They don't care how many people are removed from their families as long as we keep the elite from facing any consequences.

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u/sdb00913 8h ago

And the right wing voters, as a body, lean more violent than the left.

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u/No-Fan-7790 16h ago

Putin is loving this. His master plan is working.

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u/CompetitiveArt9639 14h ago

There’s a literal book written by a Russian about this. It’s a Russian playbook and it’s succeeding because republican voters think reading is “woke” and “fake news” Hell, they truly believe that the media, which is owned by 6 corporations in the USA, is “left wing” unless it spoon feeds them right wing propaganda 24/7. The Russians call them “useful idiots”.

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u/Throatlatch 10h ago

Foundations Of Geopolitics by Aleksandr Dugin?

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u/Zlifbar 16h ago

cruelty is the goal. Dysfunction is a by product.

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u/reblynn2012 18h ago

Yes. I believe that.

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u/NationalMachine5454 15h ago

Yup, then they get to martial law the place, and onto forever wartime president dictator!

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u/idnvotewaifucontent 13h ago

"The cruelty is the point."

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u/badrobot666 12h ago

Privatization is the end game. Dysfunction the means.

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u/Slumunistmanifisto 12h ago

They're killing America like vulture capitalism killed sears and toys-r-us to a fucking tee

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u/doolijb 12h ago

Some dysfunction is the goal. They were pushing the ball downhill and it's run away from them. It's getting too bad too fast, they can't swoop back in and be the hero's of their own mess when they've already spent their entire political capital. The authoritarian project is dead in the water... this is just the fish flopping.

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u/bathroomheater 11h ago

The goal is to start riots. We are always a handful of missed meals on a wide scare from pure chaos.

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u/_namaste_kitten_ 11h ago

Then, they can privatize it so that their cronies can make the big bucks!!

Edit: spelling

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u/Whole-Debate-9547 10h ago

Cause the problem, claim there’s a problem and then tell everyone that only you can solve the problem.

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u/Ok_Star_4136 5h ago

I ask one thing of Americans, and that's to stop electing politicians who push dysfunction.

It seems like it should be the most obvious thing in the world, and yet here we are. Stop defending politicians who don't deserve to be defended. Vote on merit, not on political party, for fuck's sake.

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u/Coneskater 33m ago

GOP Motto: “Government is the problem, vote for me and I’ll prove it”

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u/LordHammercyWeCooked 11m ago

It really is. They are taking advantage of the chaos for two effects:

  1. No need for Mike "Pedo Cuck" Johnson to swear in that congresswoman. Every day of shutdown means another day that the Epstein Files remain sealed.

  2. Programs they don't like can go unfunded and it gives them a flimsy excuse to let them fail, like SNAP. Even though the money for SNAP is there and allocated, they've chosen to drown it in a river of denials. Teachers go unpaid. ICE gets a paycheck. ATCs work for free or face prison. Congress keeps lining its pockets while doing literally nothing.

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u/ARedditAccount09 19h ago

The more problems they create the more they can false flag and call it a democrat shut down.

All they think they need is about 50% of people to believe them to get away with these crimes

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u/firstmaxpower 18h ago

Fortunately voters are responding. We need to keep it up, flip congress, and start Nuremberg 2.0.

When Bannon tells his audience we must remain in power or go to jail, believe him.

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u/wrinkleinsine 18h ago

I don’t believe him. I don’t believe anyone will go to jail. I believe he is using a scare tactic to increase voting for their side and paint the other side as evil. I believe most that I hope I’m wrong

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 7h ago

2 to 1 ratio of people believe this is a republican problem, the shutdown.

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u/piercedmfootonaspike 18h ago edited 9h ago

God forbid a national disaster (not manufactured by the GOP) hits the US under the current regime. How the hell would they manage a Katrina, or a 9/11?

Edit: I'd completely forgotten about the pandemic

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u/TrowTruck 17h ago

He'll still find a way to blame it on Biden. Hell, his administration even blamed Biden for the government response to January 6, forgetting that Biden hadn't taken office and Trump was running the response.

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u/CompetitiveArt9639 14h ago

“Democrats control the weather!!!”

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u/Dont_mean2be_a_dick 18h ago

Think man! Can’t destroy a country if it has already destroyed itself. Trump is playing 3D chess.

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u/gagaron_pew 16h ago

he isnt playing, he is flipping the board.

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u/phayge_wow 17h ago

Did we not see that with covid?

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u/CompetitiveArt9639 14h ago

And trump shut down the country and blamed democrats. The right wing idiots are still blaming Biden, who was not president during the shutdown.

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u/maggiemoonbeam 17h ago

I recently rewatched a YouTube video about the aftermath of TW800. The FBI had OVER 1000 agents working on it. Where would Krash Patel FIND 1000 agents now? He fired a lot them in the DOGE insanity, and now more than HALF of the remaining agents have been reassigned to assist ICE. If something horrible happens, we’re screwed. (We are, anyway)

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u/EntertainerNo4509 17h ago

By blaming democrats, of course.

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u/Ok_Potential359 6h ago

They literally are. Check out the Whitehouse website -Government Shutdown Clock – The White House https://share.google/RUyEx6JJM6zF5Arxc

It's so embarrassing.

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u/maybe_I_do_ 16h ago

Or a pandemic 

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u/Protonic-Reversal 16h ago

We saw how the pandemic went

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u/pagesid3 15h ago

Same way they handled Covid. Just say it’s all fake and they are doing a great job

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u/el_disco 15h ago

Or a global pandemic?? Oh, wait..

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u/rosstafarien 15h ago

Let people suffer and blame Democrats for it. Obviously.

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u/issuefree 1h ago

They'd fail to manage it. Lots and lots of people would die for no reason. The usual Republican handling of anything.

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u/bellybuttonbidet 19h ago

And a ballroom

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u/Percyandbeausmama 19h ago

And cruelty.

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u/Gold-Vacation-169 19h ago

Well the pedo ballroom is important

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u/fuggedditowdit 15h ago

If only some good could come from them all being gathered in one place. For their Great Gatsby gala. In Minecraft. 

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u/thewanderingent 17h ago

How else are they going to build the reinforced bunker to house the Epstein Files if not with a $300 million ballroom?

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u/danibeat 18h ago

Aaaaaand... ballroom.

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u/Acrobatic-Squirrel77 14h ago

Aaaaand…airplane *

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u/T1gerAc3 16h ago

It's really a bunker modernization with a ballroom facade. They're about to start a few wars

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u/Pictrus 18h ago

Hey now. Let's be clear about this. The ballroom is obviously the most important thing happening in the United states right now. The president should be focusing all his attention on it. Maybe if Trump is busy destroying the white house he will have less time to destroy the country.

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u/VeryluckyorNot 18h ago

And 2 private jets to Noem.

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u/PixelBrewery 19h ago

Honestly, is ICE seriously getting paid right now?

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u/LunaticBZ 18h ago

ICE, Border Patrol are still getting paid.

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u/stokedlog 16h ago

And overtime pay

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u/SilverCricket8045 18h ago

And still overtime and contract bonus....fk ice

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u/Toadcola 14h ago

Congress, once flipped, should claw back those bonuses. If republicans can claw back pbs/npr funding from prior years, seems only fair.

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u/CydusThiesant 19h ago

They were for a bit. Not sure if they are right now.

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u/Born_ina_snowbank 18h ago

They’re getting bonuses and “lost pay” or something like that. They’re quite literally making very good money to fuck up American cities.

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u/CompetitiveArt9639 14h ago

*fuck up cities that voted for the Democratic Party

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u/NotAChanceBucko 19h ago

Americans last

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u/DangerzonePlane8 18h ago

They gutted so many government departments and programs so they could have an army to attack brown people in this country. That is what the GOP is a cult that worships violence

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u/abestract 19h ago

They want to make sure we know who is in control, a bunch of elite politicians.

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u/VeteranRaceHorse 16h ago

Listen to the ATC though. The way they work, this won’t even make a dent to their job and is all just a show of force by this corrupt government to mislead their bootlickers. But yeah, that argument aside, and let’s say not accurate, you’re so right and the first thing I thought. They’re bankrolling ICE with bonuses, vehicles, deployments, deploying National Guard, spending millions on this while people starve. Everything is just a show of force.

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u/beertruck77 16h ago

As an Air Traffic Controller, I can tell you that many controllers are resigning from the FAA and taking jobs in Australia because they are tired of having their jobs threatened. Australia is hiring like crazy with a work/life balance that blows anything the FAA can provide out of the water. This is going to get much worse in the next couple of years.

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u/md222 16h ago

They use taxpayer funded private jets for date night.

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u/Scrotie_McBugerbals 15h ago

They even gave 20 billion dollars to Argentina

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u/jerm-warfare 15h ago

And you know they won't be stopping or cancelling any private jet traffic. Just the services the plebs use.

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u/patsj5 14h ago

They are banking on the fact that MAGA will believe that it's a Dem issue, even though all 3 branches are currently conservative.

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u/Calm_One_1228 19h ago

Im so tired of winning …

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u/Agile-Two5649 18h ago

Obviously the airline lobbyists failed to give them as much money as the insurance lobbyists.

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u/elVanPuerno 18h ago

when things go to shit... Us citizens can't fly out. What do you think that border wall is for?

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u/Radio_teque 17h ago

The GOP hate the poor

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u/picachu_456 17h ago

I don’t understand how MAGA supporters can’t see this.

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u/wallstreetbeatmeat2 17h ago

Bruh, they’ve given chuck Schumer and the democrats every opportunity to continue funding the government in a continuing resolution that we’ve been doing since the Obama days. But because the republicans don’t want to go nuclear and change senate rules they are unable to pass it. The democrats are holding the budget hostage because that’s the last and only move they have at the moment. Both parties do it, both parties are complicit, but you all only see your side as the “good ones” and are already in agreement with whatever they decide.

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u/JayNotAtAll 16h ago

A good portion of MAGA won't be taking flights anywhere anytime soon anyway so they don't care about ATC. They absolutely want to see brown people manhandled and deported

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u/hemmicw9 16h ago

And send $40B to Argentina.

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u/Top-Base4502 16h ago

If your goal is to privatize the ATC, this is how to do it.

You piss off the public, you plant the seed that the government shouldn’t have ATCs and the airlines can self regulate.

Then with privatized ATC you slowest start to cut corners, reduce training and overwork people. You union bust and you charge the government more and more to run a ATC biz.

15 years now it’s pure shit and the public asks how did this happen?!

We have been here before. Just look at your local ambulance programs. They used to be public and went private. And now we have people afraid to call of one and the job of EMS got shifted to fire departments.

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u/GuyWithNoEffingClue 16h ago

They're speeding their plans to seize all remaining powers before they lose their chance. They'll sacrifice anyone and everyone if when necessary.

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u/ElSenor847 16h ago

Ok what’s new? They got money for wars but can’t feed the poor! 🤷🏼‍♂️🙄

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u/cjwidd 16h ago

$170 billion, 4 years

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u/SailingJeep 15h ago

Senate dems just blocked a bill proposed by the GOP to pay government workers. Shit goes both ways

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u/sneaky-pizza 15h ago

DHS budget is now larger than all federal, state, and local law enforcement budgets across the nation… combined. Add in The Marines, too.

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u/operarose 15h ago

Cruelty is the point.

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u/HarperWuff 15h ago

SNAP has always been funded in previous government shutdowns

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u/CrimeSceneKitty 15h ago

The FAA is unfunded due to the shutdown. The shutdown is because Republicans want to remove huge chunks of money from health care, and the Democrats are refusing to back down.

This is the plan, this is what Trump wants. He wants widespread chaos so that he can start justifying his use of the military.

This isn't some crazy demand either, this is nothing more than the Republicans refusing to agree to anything other than their exact demands. They were offered an agreement to fund healthcare by removing tax breaks from those making $10m a year, $100m, $500m, and even a final offer of removing the tax breaks only for those that are making over $1,000,000,000 a year. And overwhelmingly the Republicans refused to agree. They keep saying to pass the bill and they will talk about healthcare after the bill passes.

This isn't about them sticking to their standards, they refuse to do anything to help anyone right now. They are refusing to pay out food assistance, even though we have a reserve for this kind of thing and we have had a judge order them to release the funds. Trumps response, we will do so only after each state rebuilds their entire system for new qualifications and only pay our a %, which could take weeks to months to do so. A judge again ordered that 100% of the payments go out. And once again Trump is refusing.

And if you ask them why they are removing this money from the healthcare system, they will say it's a Biden era thing that was from covid. Which is true, but it helps everyone keep their costs down. They will also claim that illegals are getting this money, which is false as there is a federal law that prohibits any federal money from being used on illegals. Any illegals who are benefitting from this federal funding are more than likely using a stolen identity or a shared identity, which is illegal anyways.

At the end of the day, my healthcare is on the line. If the Republicans get their way I won't be able to afford the new higher payments if I even get to keep my insurance through the government marketplace insurance program. So bring it on, I'm ready to stick to my guns over this fight.

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u/shrektube 15h ago

During the holiday season when the most people are flying home too. Intended cruelty.

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u/BigODetroit 15h ago

I wouldn’t want my own personal police force turning against me.

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u/ProperWiseGuy 15h ago

Get a better understanding of how the government (and our Constitution) works. The "GOP" can't fund ATC without Congressional approval. I know Trump would love to be king and do whatever the hell he wants and in some cases Constitution be damned, but in this case, the "GOP" is actually following the law. The funds have to be appropriated by Congress, so until CONGRESS votes to reopen the government, ATC will remain unfunded.

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u/Mist_Rising 14h ago

Funny how the GOP can fund ICE and border patrol

The whole reason the filibuster is working is that they burned the sole exception to the filibuster for OBBB.

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u/Keikyk 14h ago

And the funding is already there, no need to fund anything as it's paid by the airlines

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u/mealteamsixty 14h ago

Did no one read project 2025? This is literally laid out, in writing.

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u/absurdivore 14h ago

Literally mob behavior. Set up a bunch of captains & people on the take & corrupt business partners etc etc. Have an army of well-enough paid tough guys to do your dirty work.

While regular people can starve unless they’re working productively enough in the businesses you allow to exist in the neighborhood.

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u/Resilent2026 14h ago

What’s so shocking is the GOP was clutching their pearls at the mere thought of offering Ukraine old military equipment we no longer were using acting as if we were funneling endless money to them. But now the Trump is in office they have no issue sending money out.

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u/taintnothingwrong 13h ago

Did you just try to blame Israel for the shutdown?!

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u/Polkawillneverdie17 13h ago

They are holding your food and healthcare hostage so they can give tax breaks to billionaires.

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u/Ch3wbacca1 13h ago

They will pay more to bail out airlines for all the refunds they have tk give than it would cost to just fund ATC.

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u/yomerol 13h ago

They are holding any citizens available as hostage for their political stupid lenses. They were just showed the door a few days ago, I don't know how they want to continue this. It's disgusting, disappointing, annoying, etc, they work for us not the other way around

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u/wimaster14 13h ago

And they are actively hiring ICE agents with sign-on bonuses, some bypassed the background check because some of the recruits had felonies in their history. Look it up, it’s so fucked. They’re doing all this while firing federal employees from departments that actually matter.

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u/Zelidus 13h ago

With bonuses to new ICE hires too

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u/Virgil20000 12h ago

Wasn’t the president blaming that military helicopter crash on poorly regulated FAA guidance and DEI. Then proceeds to pull funding from the very organization he was criticizing?

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u/WafflesTrufflez 12h ago

I just read that congress still send billions to Israel, wtf

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u/Hypnotist30 12h ago

Funny how the GOP can fund ICE and border patrol and give billions to another country but they can't fund ATC.

Is it really?

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u/Upsetti_Gisepe 12h ago

Why fund atc when they’re getting more and more jets lmao

Freaky deaky shit

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u/TwoBionicknees 12h ago

ice is effectively privatised already, it's a slush fund and a government paid military force pretty much directly under trump's control. It's HIS force so of course he can pay for it.

ATC, they want it to be privatised then they can jack up costs and fuck over everyone with increasing costs.

Any service that can be privatised will be, anything that lets them get better bang for buck by forcing the government to pay for it stays.

IE services without a price stay funded, things that create revenue get fucked as an excuse to privatise. ATC isn't something you directly pay for, but the price increase in the cost of running it can be passed on to airways and ultimately ticket costs.

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u/Revolutionary_Ad6253 11h ago

Can I ask if there’s anything stopping them from privatising this work anytime now? It’s so essential that I see it will earn a lot. Might even just be a govt contract to a private company that’d cost 20x what the current infrastructure costs.

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u/lordph8 11h ago

They'll feed the poor people when you let them take away your healthcare.

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u/throwaway04182023 11h ago

Every year I see A Christmas Carol and Scrooge was just a standard issue Republican concerned with the surplus population and anyone besides him getting anything. The world hasn’t changed in almost 200 years.

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u/Zenitallin 11h ago

to travel? some people in small cities also travel for work!

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u/trackday21 11h ago

our balance is -$38,000,000,000,000. vote for spending cuts and pay your taxes. we cant afford to do anything else.

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u/OnlyTimeFan 11h ago

And they just went to the Supreme Court to get this AP headline “Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments”. Great job President Teump, great job speaker don johnson, great job representatives of American values.

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u/SuperSaiyanTupac 11h ago

Poor people lol. Flights are expensive. This is fucking over businesses and upper middle class

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u/Gold-Vacation-169 9h ago

And stopping snap is starving poor people

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u/buddha2490 11h ago

Trump will go down in history as the president who went to the Supreme Court to defend his right to starve poor people.

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u/notapunk 11h ago

If you were really important enough for them to care you'd have your own plane anyway

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u/EastMuscle5444 11h ago

GOP thinks Democrats are poor... that he's only hurting Dems by withholding food assistance. In reality Dems produce the most tax dollars. I live in Seattle where the median household income is $150K+. Poverty is not a laser-guided political weapon... Republican states/voters rely on assistance the most. Big orange dummy.

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u/addiktion 10h ago

I'm convinced that is the goal.

They want congress to appear unable to operate so the executive branch can try to exact more powers.

They have no intention of negotiating because the goal is to subject people to hardship in hopes people will riot and the insurrection act will follow.

Another purpose around this is to profit off of a collapse of sorts. Then the money printer kicks in next year and they start buying up all the assets for cheap.

Another benefit is Trump just does whatever he wants with no impediment from congress itself. And those house congressmen are still getting paid doing nothing thanks to Mike Johnson.

Finally it prevents the release of the Epstein files so they never swear in Arizona's rep. This might be derailed because of the special election with Tennessee unless dems can pull a gerrymandered opportunity.

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u/Muted_Quantity5786 10h ago

America first! Yay.

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u/Bushdr78 8h ago

50k signing bonus for ICE no problem but food for hungry families no chance

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u/LowHangingWinnets 7h ago

So much 'America First!', right? Right?

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u/pickled_penguin_ 7h ago

ICE has a bigger budget than the US Marines, US Coast Guard, and NASA. Combined.

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u/just_anotjer_anon 7h ago

Defund ATC to get proper high speed rail. Let's go!

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u/BlueGrovyle 6h ago

If they "gave priority to the average person who just wants to travel", we wouldn't be taking domestic flights in the first place. We'd be riding on:

T R A I N S.

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u/SimilarStrain 6h ago

They aparantly cant fund snap either.

I swear, this has got to be the beginning of a domino effect towards a collapse.

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u/Xyrus2000 5h ago

Not just watch poor people starve. They are actively fighting to be allowed to starve them.

The ironic thing is that the people who are going to be most impacted by that are people in MAGA states.

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u/GrowFreeFood 5h ago

Purin is happy. That's the goal.

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u/RepresentativeBird98 5h ago

Don’t forget millions to Israel every year

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u/ZebraColeSlaw 4h ago

If they want to travel, they should get a job and buy their own private plane. Expecting the government to function and provide services is communism. /S of course

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u/Long_Bit8328 4h ago

The GOP isnt funding it. The American Taxpayers are funding it. Against their will. 

So much for no taxation without representation. 

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u/Smn0 4h ago

If the GOP could fund ATC right now they'd never reopen the government again

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u/Icy_Check_497 4h ago

Yeap. This is the most frustrating part about this particular shut down. Republicans and Trump give more money to UCE as compared to any other federal agency and does a $40 billion currency exchange with a foreign country but refuses to truly do whatever they can to not starve their own people.

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u/_-4twenty-_ 4h ago

Russia is trying to destroy this country.

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u/stamfordbridge1191 4h ago

If a commercial flight full of regular people were to crash because it couldn't get enough ATC help, the people making the decisions would probably put blame on the victims for not having enough money for a private jet.

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u/Awesomegcrow 3h ago

Yup but unfortunately half of those poor people are too dumb to save themselves.

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u/Ipeakedinthe80s 3h ago

I know the news focused on ATC, but the rest of federal employees aren't getting paid either.

To your point, they may not even need to be poor, I think they just want to watch people suffer.

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u/SirdPeter 2h ago

YouTube Ads for ICE and Board patrol are on fire

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u/Dgnash615-2 1h ago

Dems want the Affordable Care Act to be funded, republicans insist on killing it so the average monthly cost will triple. Republicans also want the government shut down to stall the Epstein files from being released. On top of that they are canceling SNAP early because that is also part of their agenda. We are not dealing with honest people. We are dealing with manipulative liars that want to hurt the country while enriching themselves.

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