This. Can’t get this out of my head. Too many (young) (or repubs) ppl have no clue about Reagan’s Long and Destructive Arms. Imagine a world where air traffic controller’s hours, wages and working conditions were optimal.
To all the “Blue Dots in Red States,” spend some time contacting your senators while these nominations are in play. Let them know you’re going to hold them accountable if they vote to confirm. If just one or two of the Republicans wobble, it could be enough to derail these disastrous nominations.
Reagan fired all of the "Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization" (PATCO) when he was in charge.
Always thought the unions missed a golden opportunity then as all of us should have shut down the country in sympathy with them.
Instead we stood silently by..
Same ... Friend was fired by Reagan in the PATCO strike after being at his new air traffic control job for just a few months ...have never referred to that airport as anything but Washington National...
Ew, the PATCO strike. Weren’t those some terrible days to go to work? 38 yr ramp guy here. Nothing ran on time.
Connections always broken.
Bags lost.
Angry passengers.
East Coast was the worst.
Enjoy your retirement. 👊
Ok, I’m out.
I’m not trying to shift blame from trump im just saying a lot of our problems originate with Reagan. Him breaking the PATCO strike weakened the labor position of all government employees which is very relevant to today’s situation where trump is trying to intimidate many of them into resigning
Instant follow. We are where we are today because of the Reagan Administration. He broke this country and killed the middle class. There would have been no President Trump if it were not for Reagan.
I agree. Someone should really make a list of everything negative Reagan did, everything we are now all suffering the consequences from. The list would be long . . .
It’s not that I didn’t know any supporting background to this, but I’m terrified to learn today how much erosion in the system has occurred since ~1990.
Slow walking destruction of essential infrastructure for modern life. In our hearts, we know it won’t be 40+ years before the next one.
Trump appointed Peter Robb, who worked for the Reagan administration in its litigation against PATCO, as the general counsel of the NLRB. Biden fired him on January 20, 2021, after Robb refused to resign. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_B._Robb
Reagan is to the US as Thatcher is to the UK. Fucked everything up so badly that things would still be getting more and more shite even decades after they were both dead.
Hey, I sincerely don’t mean be a jerk about this, but just to make sure you know, tour dates are listed at https://tedleo.com/tour among other places, and often posted about, AND… Denver was last weekend. Next time!
Someone needs to be in charge of aircontrollers.NOW❗️❗️male/female, purple/grey
#47 snd his minions do not know anything about airports. That lack of knowledge was evident today😡😡😡😡😡😡😡🤬🤬
No shit, eh?
Irony. And then the orange powder puff that is the exact opposite of " The buck stops here." He had extra orange on this morning, anybody else notice that?
The beginning of the end was pardoning Nixon. Reagan lit the fuse on the explosives. Clinton failed to dismantle the bomb. History will not be kind. Washington National will always be Washington National Airport.😔
The fascist POS that invented Trickle Down Economics and deregulated the savings & loan industry that cost $152.9 BILLION and crashed the economy putting millions out of work.
The only nice thing I have to say about Reagan is that he knew how to ACT presidential.
He could express compassion and empathy--the speech after the Challenger crash was historic.
Too bad it was just (good) acting.
I lived in DC & flew in & out of National back in the late 70’s & 80’s. Anyone calling it “Reagan” triggers the hell out of me. It didn’t need a new name and especially not that one. I very clearly remember how bad it was for air traffic controllers then.
Consider the mental state of the air controllers.They’ve just learned about sever cuts. They already know how ridiculous that decision is because if severe shortages. Add that stress to the stress of the job. Trump, no matter how you look at this,has responsibility for this.
And the reason why there is a shortage as all those hired from back then are retiring now! So the FOTUS decides to stop all hiring on top of it. Genius right there. Also, he wants that airport named after him now.
Very important history in this thread. And isn’t it ironic that, when you boil it all down to the bottom of things, it’s Republicans right there at the center.
Reagan. The 1st Puppet of the Republican Party.
Like his friend Margaret Thatcher. 40 years after both countries are less and Less Influential.
America is in decline. Britain started to decline at. 23:01 CET 31st January 2020.
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Oh, it’s not even the first time. One of the worst was back in ‘82 (when he was just in office, not the airport’s namesake), when an Air Florida flight took off in a blizzard without enough de-icing and crashed into the Potomac. Only five people survived. But their story’s pretty inspiring.
Does anyone go to Mt. Rushmore? Thought not. So make a deal. He can have his face. Must be below the others. In return DC’s airport is renamed. RR becomes Barack Obama International Airport. Everybody’s happy.
That is were most of our problems started and most republicans still like him well now they have transformed into a cult with trump and wondering why trump has little to say about Regan?
THINGS THAT ARE UNSAFE UNDER TRUMP:
- Flying
- Driving While Black (DWB)
- Being Hispanic, Arab, Asian, Gay, Female, Recently Born, a Student, Anyone Anywhere
- Being Among People
- Being Old, Disabled or Sick
- Day to Day Living
- Being Among People
- Being Among People
#resist
Donald Trump was criticized for ordering a "dangerous" federal hiring freeze, firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard and gutting a key aviation safety advisory committee, just days before an American Airlines plane fatally collided with a military helicopter.
Fat fucking RAPIST FELON blames Obama (Of course) But in reality It's John Adams fault, the Continental Army "took over the airports" during the American Revolution. He's in charge of the airports! Know your fekkin' history folks!
I hope you're being sarcastic or something. But just in case, there were NO airports during the revolution. Aeroplanes weren't even invented then! Look up the Wright brothers in 1903. 120 years later!
Watch the people behind him. There is no glimmer of confusion when he talks about Washington's men "taking the airports".
They don't know any more than he does.
When they first re-named it, I lived in DC. Everyone refused to call it anything but National Airport. But compared to putting Trump's face on Mt Rushmore, I guess it seems like a quaint outrage
Thanks for reminding me! Almost the first thing he did, after secretly making a deal with Iran to delay releasing the hostages till after his inauguration.
That, right there, tells you how duplicitous Reagan was. I despised him and Thatcher. Most of the problems which are around nowadays are down to their policies.
My memory of that time (although granted, it has been more than a few years) is that they were on strike until Reagan broke their union and forced them back to work.
I keep saying, Ronald Reagan was as ignorant as Trump, a “movie star president” and fought for no SS, Medicare, welfare support or minimum wage increases for a $1.83 minimum wage! GOP unchanged for 75 years!
yes he was please permanently tie minimum wage to the cost of living ... because no one should be struggling to survive - especially in times of RECORD PROFITS - but really ever. capitalists without a conscience are the enemies of all people everywhere
And even then in the thrall of oligarchs. The Dem presidents in between Eisenhower and now seem like brief respites that were unsustainable against the onslaught of oligarchic power.
Some days I wonder who sanewashed Regan to make Republikkklans think he was all THAT! He helped kill a generation with AIDS, fucked with social security and emptied mental hospital patients on to our streets!
trump did this! he doesn’t care!!! and everyone see this Chaos right before our eyes!!! Nothing but bad, evil, destruction since him and vance tumbled into the white house!!!😡
FYI: Those air traffic controllers had a no strike clause in their contract. They broke that rule so they were fired. Get you history facts straight before making a broad inaccurate statement.
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Who named an airport after that jerk anyway???
Maybe his ghost is haunting it now.
Always thought the unions missed a golden opportunity then as all of us should have shut down the country in sympathy with them.
Instead we stood silently by..
Connections always broken.
Bags lost.
Angry passengers.
East Coast was the worst.
Enjoy your retirement. 👊
Ok, I’m out.
Slow walking destruction of essential infrastructure for modern life. In our hearts, we know it won’t be 40+ years before the next one.
#47 snd his minions do not know anything about airports. That lack of knowledge was evident today😡😡😡😡😡😡😡🤬🤬
Irony. And then the orange powder puff that is the exact opposite of " The buck stops here." He had extra orange on this morning, anybody else notice that?
He could express compassion and empathy--the speech after the Challenger crash was historic.
Too bad it was just (good) acting.
Think before you have the facts.
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I worked with one of the guys & he said they wouldn't & he was right.
Like his friend Margaret Thatcher. 40 years after both countries are less and Less Influential.
America is in decline. Britain started to decline at. 23:01 CET 31st January 2020.
🇪🇺🇮🇪
Except of course for the giant shit stain.
- Flying
- Driving While Black (DWB)
- Being Hispanic, Arab, Asian, Gay, Female, Recently Born, a Student, Anyone Anywhere
- Being Among People
- Being Old, Disabled or Sick
- Day to Day Living
- Being Among People
- Being Among People
#resist
Just so you know who's in charge!!
They don't know any more than he does.
Another second rate actor and scumpublican union buster
SCUMPUBLICANS ARE THE WORST VIRUS EVER MADE.
Oh, and it is still Houston International Airport (or Intergalatic, if you are of a certain age).
I know of 1 TV reporter who also never called it that, just National Airport.