47 steals his way into office and illegally fires a bunch of workers in the FAA. Then planes and helicopters start crashing. 47 can’t point to his own actions as the cause – he’s never responsible for anything he does – so he goes to a back-up explanation: outdated technology.

That is one of those stories that starts with a kernel of truth. The government DOES rely on outdated technology. That’s one of the earlier impacts of government revenue starvation – known more commonly as “tax cuts for the rich.” I mostly point to the GOP when it comes to government revenue starvation. That has been their stated goal for decades – starve the government of the money it needs to function, then blame the government for not being able to function.

The problem at the FAA has been in the making for decades. It has become highlighted, recently, because the only way to overcome inadequate technology was more Air Traffic Controllers and support people – the very people currently deemed ‘redundant’ and fired by Team Evil.

The very worst part about it? This has become an issue during the most corrupt and criminal regime in the history of the United States, bar none. You’re going to see an announcement that the system will be “upgraded.” Billions of dollars will be allocated but the contract will go to a crony, likely one of Muck’s safely government-subsidized businesses. Maybe the ATC system will be better. Maybe control towers will start bursting into flame. Who can say? But well-placed people behind the scenes will pocket piles of taxpayer money, rest assured…

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I have to confess, sometimes I get compassion fatigue and when I see someone who supported Donny feeling the pain of that choice – pain they were hoping for others, not for themselves – I allow myself a little schadenfreude. Other times, though, I feel a little sorry for MAGA. I know that MAGA is the product of their conditioning but keeping up with that conditioning sometimes seems like it must cause whiplash.

MAGA has been screaming about a long list of various and sundry crimes and excesses they’ve been told are being pulled off by Democrats in government. (There’s rarely any evidence.) They’ve been made to understand these crimes and excesses – always and only committed by DemocRATS, of course – are bad things that must be stopped.

Remember Hillary’s emails? Of course you do. You heard about it 24/7 for, like, ever. It was a possible security breach. Lock her up! (What fun they had with that one.) But now? Now MAGA has a guy in the regime inviting reporters to confidential meetings – accidentally – while intentionally including people with no need to know. It’s not a possible security breach. It’s an absolute security breach. Lock him up? Oh, hell no. Instead, “It could happen to anybody.” It couldn’t. Oh, and it didn’t – until Team Evil took over.

Remember when the worst thing in the world was the possibility that Hunter Biden might be selling access to the White House? Oh, the huMANity! Heaven forfend! All one had to do was ignore the fact that virtually NO evidence of such action existed. MAGA just KNEW it was true. Now 47, himself, is starring in late-night infomercials directly selling access to the White House, along with a wide variety of cheap crap. “NOW how much would you pay?!?”

In fact, the grifter-in-chief has so many illegal schemes working it would take pages and pages to cover them all. But we all know them. Even MAGA has an inkling of what’s going on and that’s the part I’m empathizing with right now: how does MAGA blame the left for ANYTHING now that the right has come out with solid evidence of doing the same thing to a FAR worse degree?

They KNEW they were just pitching theories about the Democrats. No valid evidence was ever presented, but it didn’t matter. It was just part of the game. NOW they know they’re having to bat away actual evidence which, less face it, isn’t going away. They can choose to forget it for a while but it’s going to be there later, too. They can’t even blast into social media with “Whataboutisms” since nothing the left has done even holds a candle to the corruption of this regime.

Donny has taken the fun out of their social war by being far worse in every way than anything MAGA ever accused a Democrat of doing. Now they have to start defending actions they were just condemning only months ago – or risk facing the hypocrisy of their own positions. A stronger moral compass, a determination not to lie, for example, would have protected them from this trap…

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

We’ve all been watching the deportations, right? Americans have been horrified by the defiling of the Constitution. MAGA has been thrilled to get rid of “those people” by any means necessary. I think MAGA would bristle at that characterization. “It’s not racist!” Uh-huh. Were we not supposed to notice that the ONLY people being deported are brown? Are we supposed to believe there are NO undocumented white people in this country?

No, that’s wrong. One does not even have to be undocumented to get booted from the Bizarro United States, these days. 47 is even revoking permissions and legal statuses of many legal residents – but, again, only if the person in question is brown.

All of that could be debatable. Maybe it’s just a coincidence. Maybe it’s just because it’s easier to find brown people. So, 47 had to take special action to make sure people knew it was specifically because they’re brown. He seems to have found the perfect, racist answer.

He’s bringing in some white South Africans as “refugees,” a status he automatically denies brown people. Just to make sure the racism doesn’t go unnoticed, he says, out loud, that he’s doing it because they’re persecuted white people. The cherry on top? He says he’s giving them a quick path to citizenship. DACA “Dreamers,” people who have lived here their entire lives, can’t get that but he’s going to do it for White South Africans. Because they’re being “persecuted.”

A person is known for the company they keep. If you’re still supporting an obvious racist, it seems likely that you’re at least okay with it. ‘Racist-adjacent’ isn’t a moral position I would defend and it’s not a badge I would be interested in wearing…