This is one of the problems with an administration comprised of misfits and pretenders and pretty faces: when an actual emergency arises, one reflexively wonders if they’re going to be able to handle it, if they’ll be honest with us.
It didn’t take long, during yesterday’s national ground stop, for the commentators and pundits to echo such concerns and to wonder about the Trump administration’s ability to deal with whatever was going on. And if they were being truthful.
It was a telling hour or so, for various reasons, as I watched MS Now. Of course, carting out Markwayne Mullin for an impromptu press conference was its own risky venture, though he did OK for the most part—other than the obligatory compliments for Trump and correcting a reporter when she said AI instead of SI.
Anyway, the trouble with an administration full of sycophants and TV personalities is that one may not have great faith in their ability to handle much of anything. In this case, from what we’re being told, it appears that our air traffic systems and related communications capabilities are suffering from age, to put it mildly.
So maybe we start spending the money and intentionally focusing on upgrades for such a critical piece of infrastructure. You know—instead of starting an ill-advised war and worrying about the next fucking vanity project.
