I know right? Like air traffic controllers are still continuing to work with even more antiquated systems and yet they still manage to keep the planes in the air and from crashing into each other or falling down… Duffy is just as incompetent as the average cabinet member in this administration
Funniest thing is, the Fork emails infamously went out from a special server that the DOGE traitor tots carried inside of OPM and plugged in, after being explicitly told by career fed IT professionals not to do that thing. The Fork emails came from a brand spanking new DOGE-built illegal system.
Duffy has NO idea what he's doing. None. He lies, whines, blames Biden, etc. But in the end, he's done nothing to seriously address the issues with our airports & air traffic controllers. He should either resign or be removed from his position.
DOGE is a monstrosity that is entirely illegitimate, run by IT techboys to take control of federal government computer systems, move all our legally protected data to some offsite mega database for God only knows what illegal activities. Repubs in Congress advocated for this to happen. Traitors all.
republicans just doing what they've done since reagan:
Defund & break the government, then screech "Gubmint don't work" while privatizing it to make their billionaire buddies rich & everyone else worse off; paying more for less.
But but, their justification at the time was DEI. Shouldn't they have been freaking out about this right after the email was sent? We all know we sent an email to the wrong person 8 nanoseconds after we do it.
I wish at least the lies were clever. This is so dumb.
Oh no, that was them. They need to fucking take accountability for what they did. Fuck these fucking idiots fucking always someone else for their mistakes.
No, that’s not how it works.
This doesn’t work in a normal job, you own up to your mistakes and fix them.
Sometimes you get fired for very bad mistakes.
Why would it work differently in a high level government job where the American people depend on you? They ruined lives, planes have crashed. The safety of millions of American citizens is at risk here.
This isn’t a FUCKING GAME, not a reality show.
Most incompetent gaggle of individuals this country has ever seen. All of them are pretenders, cosplaying what they think leaders do and say. Blame others and simply lie. Shameful. We are a laughingstock country now.
It doesn't work that way.
The email system didn't write out the names of the people and send it out to them.
The insane lengths they'll go to to blame anyone/thing else.
Republicans will blame the family dog before accepting any responsibility
GOP Has never been held Accountable not only for their participation or complicity in the insurrection but now treason
If the courts all continue acting like a COUP is biz as usual then WTP must hold them accountable
It wasn't an antiquated email system that sent a notification to all federal employees to quit. It was an unelected asshole who did it. Why wouldn't any ATC controller seeing the writing on the wall not take this? This asshat is just going to blame Biden. But it was Musk.
When you send people emails telling them their work is not valued maybe, just maybe, they don't want to work for you anymore even if you later tell them the offer doesn't apply to them. Maybe, just maybe, people don't like being treated like shit.
This thought is completely lost on them. The DOGE mantra is “move fast and break things”. Actual efficiency, professionalism, respect are on the bottom of the list of priorities.
How hard would it be to put in the emails something to the effect of, "this offer does not apply to air traffic controllers"? Does this problem include they didn't know the ATCs would get it, even after they got the first email?
Hold on. It almost seems like there’s an implication that these emails were not sent out after a detailed review of personnel, but just to everybody without concern who took the offer.
When Duffy tells @murray.senate.gov he's got a new design she should have asked it that is the Doge guys trying to cancel the approved and funded Verizon contract so Elon can give SpaceX the business. Elon was undercutting Verizon back in Feb. Why is no one covering this grift? Asking the right ?s ?
The Verizon FENS was already fully designed to upgrade the FAA. In order to get funding you have to have detailed design to price it out. Why is Duffy tossing all this work? Did he fire all the techs? Has Big Balls done a new design? I have to confidence Doge can handle this.
FAA employees received TWO your-fired emails which Duffy blames on our antiquated old email systems, the same systems that were in place during Biden's tenure which did not result in the mass firing emails to FAA employees. (MASS firings, not just to "an" FAA employee, Sean.) Isn't Duffy under oath?
It’s outrageous that he has the balls to say that. I agree
With Michele that these
People need to be “body slammed” for this bullshit they spew. And by that I mean removed from their positions immediately. Every day Congress does not do that is a negligence that will cost us decades to reverse.
All of these problems were apparently handled excellently by Biden and Pete. Because we didn’t have any of these problems until they started messing with the employees at the FAA
"Uh, a dog ate my emails. You want me to fire my dog? Phone screens can go crazy when it rains. Maybe it typed out those emails because water got on the screen. I'm not going to fire anyone over that. The world is crazy! Crazy things happen! What even is reality?!?! Chewbacca!!!"
Duffy is one of the most unqualified, ignorant, stupid individuals in this administration…and that’s saying quite a lot with the Trump circus that exists now.
It Really appears that the 47th administration is doing Everything Possible to Destroy Everything That has ever made America a great nation.
A Nation of Laws that serve Everyone.
It's like they practice this stammering, deflecting and obfuscating in a very calm tone of voice so they can pretend what they're saying is rational when it's really lies wrapped in nonsensical gibberish. Is there a particular class in "How to spit Republican bullshit" that they all take?
So he doesn’t blame the fucking morons who sent the emails in the first place?
I’m willing to bet that Scott has (more than once) accidentally done a “reply all” to a work email, and then blamed the email app for his dumb-assed response.
This is so bothersome that people have forgotten the idea of whataboutism as an old Russian tactic that was used during the Russian revolution in 1917. This same tactic reemerged toward the end of Obama era and rise of Trump. All his loyalist now use it. Lawmakers have to stop engaging on this level
The naked truth is that they're highly unqualified. This usually wouldn't matter because cabinet members are just eye candy for the party. But they have dismantled the support system of competent people that used to get the job done anyway.
It's a Trump shit show and it's Trump's fault.
No one is accountable for anything now. And why didn’t some of the foo foos get taken care of during Dear Leaders first tenure? And why didn’t people so unprepared and unqualified say “ thanks I am flattered but I am not suited for that cabinet role” ?
This guy won't accept responsibility for anything. He's completely unqualified for this position, he has no idea what he's doing, and every time he screws up, he points a finger at anyone else. Coward.
"Email" is an old term like groceries, they don't use it much anymore.
Notes, scribbles on a piece of paper (paper is an old term not used very often anymore) but email is an old term for a way to talk with someone.
I invented email, you know.
I like Senator Patty Murray well enough but she’s not a lawyer & it shows. Can’t get out a decent coherent question without stumbling. She always sounds so apologetic. She has a BA in physical education. We need a bulldog lawyer type asking these questions to nail these assholes. Where’s Kamala?
I don’t know about that. Repulsives follow the same seniority shill. Case in point, Grassley. He has no business being lead on any committee, and yet.. Jim Jordan. Lindsay Graham. No where near the right person.
Duffy is just screwing around with everybody who has integrity on these panels. The reason we’re having air traffic control problems, and putting people’s lives in danger. It’s because they fired all of the air, traffic, controllers and put musk in charge of it. Idiots blaming anyone but themselves
I hate to sound conspiratorial BUT was this happening all along or can an argument be made that Elon might be glitching random airport towers to get the contract to “improve” our ATC system nationwide? I seriously smell a rat 🐀 here!! Anyone else? Am I crazy???
#AirTrafficControl
People already have. Pete kept his foot on the necks at Military Air Command and when he left, I’m told the attitude there was “Now we can do whatever we want.” because Duffy didn’t even contact them.
Still useless. Follow up questions : who approved the emails being sent? Who is responsible for them being sent? Who is in charge of the FAA? Why don’t you apologise to those impacted?
I repeat (again and again and again) this is the Peter Principle Administration, completely inept. I wonder why we are having so much trouble at various airports and such frequent air accidents.
if one is a Department Head and the Department email system sent out 'you're fired!' email to vital employees shouldn't that DeptHead have been furiously demanding a review& system fix after the 1st bad email vs still ah-shucks'ing it after the 2nd?
The BS and lies are so outrageously obvious. Every one of them was only hired for their willingness to kiss Trump’s behind and lie, exactly like this, to all of us. Remove every one of them, from the madman, criminal tyrant on down.
If I recall correctly, the emails originated from the Office of Personnel Management, which is the HR for the federal government and its employees. Remember, OPM was the first federal government agency that DOGE entered and took control of its computers and vast databases. DOGE now runs the agency.
The email server did its job. We know this because the emails were sent and received. The server is not sentient and does not draft emails and send them randomly. Why are these people so fucking dumb and why don't we have younger reps who know how to tear these bullshit artists to shreds?
Oh, I’m 67 & I know. Why can’t they get these guys to answer the questions put to them. They avoid by obfuscation & filibustering & there seem to be no consequences. These committees don’t seem to get anywhere.
Spot on. Someone drafted an email and then took all the emails for Gov employees (OPM) and sent it. Unless these servers were part of Skynet, they didn’t do this on their own.
So Sen Murray presses him on WHO sent the emails, because they should be fired. His response is priceless. "I'm not going to fire someone over an erroneous email," says to me he knows who it was an it was not erroneous.
@davidhogg.bsky.social has been talking about that quite a bit. Lots of stories about how the elderly Dems won't stop running because they don't have any backup careers, and the top brass giving them support long after their usefulness as a result. Now that he's speaking up, they want to boot him. 🤬
Sen. Murray at least makes eye contact. 🙏 So Duffy tries to claim someone had the wrong emails, which is how they got the "fork in the road" note? Please.
"not going to fire somebody for having the wrong email address"
I'm sorry, but in what REAL job in the US would someone NOT get fired for sending emails threatening jobs to the wrong people? I can't imagine NOT getting fired myself if I sent that to ANYONE I work with.
You mean the computer that DOGE plugged in to the OPM network to gain access and send the email? Guess they shouldn't have used an antiquated one, huh?
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Defund & break the government, then screech "Gubmint don't work" while privatizing it to make their billionaire buddies rich & everyone else worse off; paying more for less.
Doofy needs to go!!
That time I hit "Reply All?"
That was just an antiquated email system.
Inviting The Atlantic to the war room chat?
All someone else's fault 😏
We've ALL had email for a long time and we know that is BS.
I wish at least the lies were clever. This is so dumb.
No, that’s not how it works.
This doesn’t work in a normal job, you own up to your mistakes and fix them.
Why would it work differently in a high level government job where the American people depend on you? They ruined lives, planes have crashed. The safety of millions of American citizens is at risk here.
This isn’t a FUCKING GAME, not a reality show.
The email system didn't write out the names of the people and send it out to them.
The insane lengths they'll go to to blame anyone/thing else.
GOP Has never been held Accountable not only for their participation or complicity in the insurrection but now treason
If the courts all continue acting like a COUP is biz as usual then WTP must hold them accountable
That doesn’t sound very efficient.
With Michele that these
People need to be “body slammed” for this bullshit they spew. And by that I mean removed from their positions immediately. Every day Congress does not do that is a negligence that will cost us decades to reverse.
Yeah, that makes real trump sense.
A Nation of Laws that serve Everyone.
What a bucket of incompetent clowns.
Good job, maga.
Brilliant.
Honestly, it's not the e mail as much as the idiots sending the messages.
"Damn that send button!"
“I’m responsible”
“It’s my job but I’m incompetent”
“I can’t understand complicated things”
“I don’t care about anything but sex and money for me”
‘“I like telling people what to do - especially when I don’t know anything”
“I fucked up”
Criminal administration
Or they’re vandalizing things.
I’m willing to bet that Scott has (more than once) accidentally done a “reply all” to a work email, and then blamed the email app for his dumb-assed response.
They are so into the
Blame Game
F them
F the whole administration
It's a Trump shit show and it's Trump's fault.
Duffy would never get a cookie.
Notes, scribbles on a piece of paper (paper is an old term not used very often anymore) but email is an old term for a way to talk with someone.
I invented email, you know.
Karma is coming.
You reap what you sow!
Bunch of my coworkers immediately accepted it.
Several weeks later, management came out and said even though you were officially accepted for the fork in the road, your job series is excluded.
They then went on to mandate RTO and make us, disabled combat veterans/1
Even though the job description says "100% remote, no travel requirement whatsoever".
I was so appalled at that that I resigned in protest. How is the VA, THE VA, going to screw over veterans /2
Any of you draft dodger wannabe dictator supporters from this regime care to chime in on this?
https://bsky.app/profile/cherfan75.bsky.social/post/3lpath3uybs26
#AirTrafficControl
People will die with this clown as Sec of Transportation
also maga: *headless AI blob creature*
this game is getting old.
I'm sorry, but in what REAL job in the US would someone NOT get fired for sending emails threatening jobs to the wrong people? I can't imagine NOT getting fired myself if I sent that to ANYONE I work with.
The same answer a child with no sense of accountability or responsibility would give when asked to explain their actions.
... gotta love America 🇺🇸