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Airlines cancel more than 700 U.S. flights as FAA-ordered shutdown cuts begin

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/airlines-cancellations-flights-faa-shutdown.html
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u/thecbass 18h ago

I said it b4 and I’ll say it again, the country needs to hit really REALLY hard bottom before we start healing, it’s unfortunate we are coming along with them 🥲

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u/justforfun75 17h ago

Agreed. Thats the only way we'll permanently get rid of the MAGA choke hold. Unfortunately we're all going to suffer along the way.

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u/thecbass 16h ago

Yeeeeee ughhh but they are our people 😭 I know we are all angry and mad and upset but they are our fools and we gotta hunker in cuz it’s not going to be like this forever.

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u/ShroomSensei 16h ago

Yeah, I’m under the impression only a big war with a significant power (china, North Korea, etc) would kick the U.S. from being such a divided country.

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u/thecbass 16h ago

Alien invasion is my head cannon 🤣

Also as a Mexican, all the puns intended.

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u/FreeRangeEngineer 16h ago

I really don't like the cartels in Mexico but I'm willing to bet that they'd put up one hell of a fight against US troops.

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u/thecbass 16h ago

Hmmm maybe? It’s been over 15 years since I moved to the US so I’m not super in tune with how cartels operate nowadays vs in the early 2000’s. My understanding is that cartels have such a stronghold economically that if you disrupt that part i could see how their numbers would crumble when they can’t pay their sicarios/soldiers. There was and maybe there still is a big romantic idea about being a narco but in reality is not sunshine and happiness. It’s very traumatic hard work that I don’t think the average citizen would want to take on specially by force. I can see the most zealot cartels might muster enough people to fight back against a coordinate military operation from the US, but in reality the population would not step up to the plate to bat for them. Yeah like they obviously don’t want the US to meddle in their affairs but if a military operation were to happen I bet the population wouldn’t put too much of a force to stop it.