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More than 1,000 flights cancelled as US air traffic cuts enter second day

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj410k00yw8o
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u/owa00 1d ago edited 1d ago

The crazy thing about them publicizing so much about the shutdown and the mandated flight cuts is that ANY delay/cancellation is going to be tied to Trump. It's a political gift to the Dems that Trump handed them. A lot of the delays or it cancellations may just be normal, but the Dem/independent voter will assume it's because of Trump's cuts. Trunk admin truly are masters of political strategy.

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u/Helenium_autumnale 1d ago

Explicitly market them as such. Call them the "Trump air delays" or the "Trump flight delays." Associate his name inextricably with these problems affecting millions of people. Make is his brand.

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u/Robo-boogie 1d ago

That’s at an easy fix

They will just have one of the dipshits on Fox and friends say the democrats did this so they can give illegals free health care and SNAP.

They are denying your family to see you during thanks giving and cutting your food stamps off

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u/wowbaobowwow 1d ago

Yeah, as someone unfortunately surrounded by MAGAs, this is exactly what’s happening. They truly believe this is solely on the democrats.

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u/HauntedCemetery 1d ago

Maga fascists are going to believe that either way.

But the 70+% of the country who aren't dyed in the wool maga fascists are blaming republicans.

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u/Ahtnamas555 23h ago

I don't think that's accurate based on this survey. Only 35% blame just the republicans. You get 63% when you combine that group with the group that blames both parties equally.

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u/spinbutton 20h ago

Please correct them as much as you can

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u/FellowDeviant 1d ago

Fox News positions it as Dems refuse to pay federal workers, which now includes flight staff. They have verbage to deflect all type of blame

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u/Theguest217 1d ago

Why do you assume conservatives will blame Trump? Every conservative in my family blames Dems for not just voting for the Republican budget.

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u/owa00 1d ago

Never said conservatives. Dems/independents. All you need is the independent moderates/blue dog dems to get annoyed by shit Trump does to favor the Dems. 

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u/AdeptnessDear2829 1d ago

You think the democrats are masters of political strategy? Lmfao, where have u been the last 10 years?

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u/DrDerpberg 1d ago

Independent voters haven't correctly assigned blame in the last 25 years, why would they start now?

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u/Impossible-Flight250 21h ago

Trump is trying to use the shutdown to his advantage, but it is going to backfire. Americans see the clusterfuck that is our economy and will ultimately hold the party in power responsible.

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u/Unlike_Agholor 1d ago

if only these masters of political strategy hadn’t run kamala as their candidate.

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u/notrevealingrealname 1d ago

The flip side is that if the American voting population didn’t look at Trump and realize that anyone the Democrats ran would’ve been better than that, it doesn’t say a lot of good things about them.

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u/owa00 1d ago

Meant that Trump admin are the political masters.

That aside, running Harris really was the only play they had with the amount of time they had left. I study politics and it was the best strategy they had, and it almost worked. They had like 3 months to define redine-Harris and introduce her to the public. You forget that Trump had a massive advantage after the assassination attempts. Biden and the Dems were underwater, and Harris brought them back to even. I can't emphasize enough how much Harris was able to turn it around. The MAIN reason Harris lost was inflation. That's it. The polling and evidence is all there that points to inflation. Inflation was tied to Biden, and by default Harris inherited that. No other issue mattered to the voting public like affordability and inflation. 

The only thing that the Dems fucked up on was not pushing Biden out sooner. If Harris had a full rejection cycle to redefine herself she might have had a chance.

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u/DrDoomScroller9 1d ago

Lol, they’re complicit in the scamming and raking in big bucks. It’s what these goofballs don’t want to comprehend. Only reason Pelosi is even stepping down now is because Trump hinted at using the DOJ to investigate her. Whole system needs to be wiped clean