Trump Admin Emails Air Traffic Controllers: Quit Your Jobs
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Federal employees were told they could use their paid time off to explore “dream destinations” before quitting.

Summary

The Trump administration emailed air traffic controllers urging them to quit and accept buyouts 24 hours after a fatal Reagan plane crash.

At 8:30 p.m. Thursday, the email urged federal employees to pursue private-sector jobs, offering pay incentives and vacation benefits while on government payroll.

This program contradicts established rules by allowing second employment, sparking union concerns about losing experienced personnel amid an air traffic controller shortage.

Trump blamed previous administrations for safety issues and misrepresented FAA standards, intensifying culture wars as officials remain uncertain about the buyout program’s future.

  • SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works
    39·
    19 hours ago

    “…for some reason…”

    The reason is the same as all fascist takeovers. The coup works slowly, then suddenly. We are in the acceleration phase, it’s ramping up, just as they said it would in the Project 2025 documents.

    I REPEAT: THIS WAS ALL ANNOUNCED BEFOREHAND. Plus, history explains.

    The script is to combine a shock and awe campaign of massive change on so many fronts that no one could possibly resist them all, and to demoralize and deflate opposition.

    Once this phase is complete, the power thieves will have sufficiently infiltrated the monopoly on violence (military and policing management) and the bureaucratic and technocratic key elements will be gutted or loyalized, so that a full coup can occur. Full control of media, a massive apparatus of repression and surveillance, and a hot mess of mistrust throughout society.

    Interpersonal and community relations will be broken and replaced by dependency on authority for guidance and morality and information. Rights will be crushed and perverted. Power and money will only flow to the top, and poverty will become the norm.

    US international influence will contract and enemies will be constructed. Blame Canada.

    Just a warning though, when you folks are finally conscripted to invade northwards, we have a lot of methods and welcoming gifts to make it regrettable, and people here are getting prepared. I’d dodge the draft, when it comes, if I were you.

    • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      16·
      19 hours ago

      Just a warning though, when you folks are finally conscripted to invade northwards, we have a lot of methods and welcoming gifts to make it regrettable, and people here are getting prepared. I’d dodge the draft, when it comes, if I were you.

      Many of us would rather fight for y’all. Especially those at the coasts

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
        5·
        12 hours ago

        I really don’t like people pointing to things like the fall of the Roman, Spanish, and Weimar Republics because it not only plays a defeatist narrative, it’s just myopic.

        America is not any of those states, and we aren’t in those times. Yes there are similarities, especially because the fascists are deliberately playing from their playbooks, but if you get trapped into thinking only about what happened then and there you miss some of what is happening here and now.

        Trump is wildly unpopular amongst half the country. A genuine resistance has all the gas it will ever need, when he crosses the line we need to be ready to fight.

        • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          6·
          11 hours ago

          I get what you’re saying, but personally, as a queer Hispanic transwoman, I’ve spent over 2 decades of my life fighting for my right to exist only to be rewarded with this. I’m done fighting for the US, no one actually gives a shit about us. I’m catching the next metaphorical train out of here.