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Related: About this forumTrump officials stun all with humiliating moves - Another Day - Brian Tyler Cohen
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daddy took a business trip left the kids
in charge and oh what a mess they've
made this is just another
day this week Trump headed back to the
Middle East to embark on his first major
international trip after Air Force One
or as Trump refers to it Shitbox Zero
touched down in Saudi Arabia the
president showed the international
community why no other head of state can
match him when it comes to his stamina
and vigor as a leader read a lot of the
material now out of Saudi Arabia and uh
Muhammad bin Salman is saying we need a
resolution on a Palestinian state he's
like a human cup of coffee i can't wait
to see how the guy who repeatedly hit
Biden for being sleepy Joe spins his
televised catnap as simply a powerful
man recharging his overworked leader
brain but while Trump dozes overseas
many of his cabinet members have been
left stateside to handle America's
business and I got to say thank God
Trump surrounds himself with the best
people radar outages telecom dropouts
staff shortages the non-stop parade of
issues for a key travel hub frightening
reports all week about the very bad
state of our air traffic control system
new flight disruptions this morning at
one of the nation's largest airports air
traffic controllers handling flights at
Newark Airport experiencing another
communications blackout early this
morning that's right jerseys biggest
airport has been whacked thanks to air
traffic control issues and equipment
failures and transportation secretary
Shawn Duffy knows that when you're the
guy in charge there's no doubt about
who's to blame so let's talk about what
the Trump administration is doing moving
forward to fix the problems that were
left to us from the Biden uh Buddha
Judge administration the Biden Buddha
Judge administration are you kidding me
what makes you think that you can just
pull off some amateur renaming move and
people are just going to get on board oh
my bad now in fairness the issue of the
FAA's outdated equipment is nothing new
people have been sounding the alarm for
years even as far back as Trump's first
term which makes you wonder why didn't
he address this then you've been saying
that this is decades old problems and
these have these issues have been
present for years and years and years so
why didn't this administration take
change initiate changes in their first
administration the president has said
this a number of times uh he had a plan
um to come into the second part of his
administration because he knew what was
going on to actually fix it oh so Trump
was going to fix it four years ago and
didn't and that was fine but when Biden
also didn't that was bad this is kind of
like how some people look at this dress
and see it as white and gold others see
it as blue and black and Shawn Duffy
sees the whole thing as Biden's fault so
like how bad are these equipment issues
really the equipment that we use much of
it we can't buy parts for new we have to
go on eBay and buy parts if one part
goes down
ebay we're so screwed i mean at least
with Etsy we'd be screwed but have
something crafty to look at while we're
stuck on the runway for 8 hours straight
look our outdated air traffic control
problem is going to take billions of
dollars and multiple years to fix but
even while we're trying to win eBay
auctions to keep our planes in the sky
at least we can rest easy knowing that
this administration is at least making
staffing up the FAA a top priority the
Trump administration is firing hundreds
of FAA employees with probationary
status that includes critical air
traffic control employees wow Doge is
really showing their efficiency when it
comes to screwing over the American
people but besides the millions of
people looking to take a vacation this
summer something else that won't fly is
the excuse by another member of Trump's
cabinet when it comes to the legality of
his not so secret Santa gift from the
Qatari government and the attorney
general Pam Bondi reportedly said in a
memo that this was perfectly legal
because it was a donation bondi we
should say worked as a foreign lobbyist
forQatar she lobbied for Qar she runs
the Justice Department surely she of all
people can see the perils of engaging in
quidd proquo in 2013 the Donald J trump
Foundation donated $25,000 to a super
PAC tied to Florida Attorney General Pam
Bondi as her office was considering a
fraud investigation into Trump
University that investigation was never
opened damn she's a quidd proquo pro but
Pam Bondi's lacks attitude toward the
possibility of foreign influence in our
political system should not come as a
surprise considering she made opening
the floodgates a top priority on day one
on her first day in office Bondi
disbanded the FBI's foreign influence
task force and paired back enforcement
of the Foreign Agents Registration Act
despite years of warnings from the
intelligence community that influence by
other countries was a growing threat so
I guess for Bondi crossing our border to
transform America is fine as long as you
bring a gift is there any chance that a
single member of Trump's cabinet could
have set a good example for people if
anyone is willing to restore some sanity
to the US government clearly it's got to
be the guy who pledges to make America
healthy again right robert Kennedy Jr
with his grandchildren swimming in a
creek there at Dumbartan Oaks Park yeah
the problem the park service says it's
dangerous and illegal ah guess not look
RFK I hate to be the bearer of bad news
but dangerous and illegal are kind of
Pam Bondi's territory this better be
good the reason it's illegal is because
of the the the ecoli issues from their
combined sewer systems and that's why
they banned swimming in the DC area but
on Sunday Health and Human Services
Secretary Robert F kennedy Jr posted
these photos of he and his grandchildren
in Rock Creek one shows his
granddaughter splashing water at him and
another with RFK Jr fully underwater uh
did the tapeworm eat the part of his
brain that puts a stop to things like
this the head of the Department of
Health and Human Services broke the law
which would be bad enough unto itself
but broke the law so that he could swim
in E coli infested waters wow you'd
think that a guy who kisses Trump's ass
so much would have already had his fill
of eating well at least tell me
that RFK didn't do this after it rained
when bacteria levels were particularly
high rock Creek in general over the past
5 years has consistently failed to meet
water quality standards uh for safe
human contact ptoic Riverkeeper Dean
Nauk says bacteria in the water is
particularly bad after it rains as it
did on Thursday god damn it i guess you
know what they say when it comes to
gastrointestinal failure go big or go
home but surely no one would justify
such shitty behavior jesse would you
film would you swim in a sewage fil
creek that creek looks clean it doesn't
look like it's filled with sewage nay
that's not fair you can't expect a guy
to properly assess sewage levels when
he's full of himself by the way
this little weekend dip wasn't some top
secret plunge that RFK was trying to
keep under wraps he posted it on social
media i just hope he followed the
age-old swimming rule and waited 30
minutes before poisoning his entire
family trump loves to brag that he's
hired the best people but so far besides
passing blame aiding in his corruption
and partaking in a diarrhea based
baptism their main contributions have
been the ability to be loyal sick of
fans who have no qualms about repeatedly
boosting their their boss's ego when
asked and the reason that Americans
should actually care about this is that
when actual issues arise issues like oh
I don't know an impending emergency at
our nation's airports or a foreign
government looking to curry favor with
or possibly spy on our
commander-in-chief or when there's some
major viral outbreak ripping through the
country we want responsible adults in
the chair in Trump's first term he
foolishly surrounded himself with at
least some people who had some semblance
of morality as well as an inkling of how
the government should function but this
time around he's taken his electoral
victory as a mandate that he can hire
the least qualified and most corrupt
people Washington has to offer and
rather than keeping Americans safe he's
made us all more vulnerable than ever or
to put it more simply Trump has turned
our healthy country into a sea of