At 3:54 p.m. today, the FAA issued an alarming notice ordering a nationwide ground stop of all flights due to “extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety.” This was only the third time in American history that this has happened, including on September 11, 2001. Almost two hours later, the president finally broke his silence and shared an important message with the American people: “MAKE OUR ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP.” As of the writing of this post, late Friday night, Donald Trump has still not publicly addressed the nationwide aviation emergency that happened today under his watch.
These clown's malevolence is hardly necessary when their inept incompetence can fuck everything up. Everywhere you look is decay and corruption. Tick tock mf's, your time has come.
Thank you Heather. Another example of not even a circus but a broken down carnival full of clowns with soiled foam red noses.. no one getting on any rides or buying food cause food poisoning is but hours away…
The Felon’s regime presser where Doofus-Duffy & Schoolyard-Bully-Mullin doing what they do best….
Blamed Dems
Blamed Congress
Blamed the system itself - “it’s antiquated the switches and routers” - “the new stuff overwhelmed the old stuff”
Attacked a female reporter when asking a smart question
Praised their boss - “he’s a builder”
...and claim they're the heroes
Little Marco wearing his oversized Florsheim shoes giving a speech at the Federalist Society Lawyers Convention.. btw he is the U.S. National Security Advisor and U.S. Secretary of State
Felon has spent between $1.6 billion and $2.3 billion in taxpayer funds since 2025 on ballroom construction, rebranding, Qatar aircraft retrofits, and promotional stuff.
The Felon down the hall thumbs banging out these messages…. “MAKE OUR ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP” and thanking “Governor Jeff Landry for his outstanding leadership, Coast Guard, Law Enforcement and First Responders”
Is Felonious Delusional Don aware that ALL flights were grounded for hours…smh..please get grandpa a sweater and make sure his name tag is affixed..
This new Congress can’t get sworn in soon enough.. make sure y’all have your sh*t together you’ve made two errors this week.. hit the ground running, don’t let off the pedal…
Let us not re re-joice too quickly and wait for what the new dems (full of old accompliced dems still) will dare to do! Like st thomas i remain sceptical until i can touch, feel and see a new reality maybe.
Thanks Heather - you summed up this maladministration with the perfect two words. A “clown show” — for sure and for certain.
As someone who spent my career in aerospace and grew up with a family in aircraft manufacturing and a father who flew F6Fs in WWII, I’ve always had respect for everyone who works in the industry. ATCs are both highly skilled and very dedicated as well as those who fly planes, build them, and the myriad systems / infrastructure that keep them in the air. The safety of the flying public is their mission.
To hear the obvious incompetence and lack of understanding of those now “in charge” is frightening, and sickening- so disrespectful to everyone who takes aviation safety seriously.
I hope we all make it to January without a total disaster — and I hope even more that our newly elected congress will take their jobs as seriously as the competent folks trying to keep planes in the sky.
The whole administration always blaming someone else and NEVER accepting responsibility for anything. Well, that's going to change come January 3rd. I have more than a feeling that Abdul (to invoke the words of John Lewis) is going to cause, “Good trouble, Necessary trouble.” I'm all for it. This is why we repudiated djt and the Republicans on November 3rd. Bring it, Abdul. We NEED you.
Thank you for saying so clearly what is getting lost in all the noise from both sides of the aisle. The incompetence of Trump loyalists and the directed destruction of all aspects of our government by the domestic terrorists of the Project 2025/Heritage Foundation will require rebuilding of departments ravaged by firings and replacement with cultists. The rebuilding and the trust lost are indeed daunting both at home and on the world stage. It will not be accomplished in two years.
Thank you, Heather for bringing the necessary backstory regarding this transportation crisis that could have been prevented if the signatories of that October 9th letter to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy were joined by Republican lawmakers also.
Here is the list - please note the presence of the letter “D” and the absence of “R”
National Capital Region Representation. Nearly half of the signatories—including the majority of the co-leads and Senator Van Hollen—represent districts and states in the National Capital Region (Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.). The FAA initially piloted SMART on September 21, 2026, across the three major D.C.-area airports (DCA, IAD, and BWI), prompting local lawmakers to raise alarms about testing uncertified AI software in congested airspace that experienced a fatal midair collision in January 2025. [https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/press-releases/ocasio-cortez-mcclain-delaney-beyer-mfume-subramanyam-and-elfreth-lead-calls]
While four members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee signed the October 9 letter, the committee's top Democrat—Ranking Member Rep. Rick Larsen (D-WA)—did not sign that specific letter. Instead, Committee Democrats pursued a separate track, formally requesting a Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit into the FAA's deployment of SMART. [https://transportation.house.gov/about/membership.htm]
I can only imagine how Trump would be blasting Democrats if this happened with Biden as president.
Sean Duffy was a D-Bag on The Real World; he was ultra-conservative then, and his now-wife… let’s just say her morals were much more “free” back then. Puck anyone??
Whenever I read the relatively coherent, overly long white house posts with sparse capitalizations, I wonder who actually wrote them.
And then I get back to watching the reality tv showing our country deprived of all regulatory safety nets and federal responsibility descend into a self created carnage and the inevitable systematic breakdowns.
"When President Donald Trump first addressed the nation as its president on Jan. 20, 2017, he depicted the nation's cities as domestic combat zones and declared "this American carnage stops right here and stops right now."
Back then, it was hyperbole at best. But it's become reality on his watch, and he has encouraged further violence."
The timing of this event is the most disturbing. They have six weeks until they lose the farm so they roll this out in an attempt to shake down the Congress for more money. They haven’t even spent the $12.5 billion already approved, yet they want another $50 billion? Another bait and switch to be able to siphon off the funds to some other project? They are scared and their desperation is showing.
Nor did they respond to the October letter asking about the SMART implementation. Deflect, distract and create fear. Hallmarks of this whole clown show.
HR-1, the so called Big Beautiful Bill, gave the FAA $12.5 billion in funding. The FAA said about half of that will be spent before the end of 2026 on system upgrades. How much have they spent to date? According to Adam Smith Washington State U.S. House Representative, about $1 billion has been spent. $875 million spent on the "SMART" upgrade, apparently not sent through its paces on test platforms before roll-out to the national air traffic control systems. Sean Duffy is saying they need more money?
The ONLY solution to a permanent and lasting peace in the Middle Esst and the world.
The planet is facing a spiritual crisis. Geo politics and global nationalism is just a smokescreen for the illusion that is the material world.
God is not concerned with our bodies and material possessions. God is concerned about our souls. Materislism fosters duality and keeps us separated from God. Jesus said about this: “Store up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither rust nor moth consume and where thieves do not break in and steal.” If you are on a purely material path in this lifetime you are in grave danger. Not your body. Your soul. Trump is a false light to show us what not to be. He is truly a beacon of deception.
2026 is the exact identical calendar as 1914 when World War 1 began fulfilling a 2,520 year old prophecy called the “Time of the Gentiles.” Luke 21:24. Pluto is back in Aquarius after 250 years during the American, French and industrial revolutions.
There are two outcomes with these energies. Global spiritual transformation or the destruction of the material world order as we know it.
It’s a matter of quantum physics. The weather patterns, global warming and environmental disasters are largely responsible by the thoughts of humans. There is a solution to reversing these disasters. It’s at: http://www.TheCenterForWorldPeace.Love
I have been sounding the alarm for decades. Only those with ears will hear. Unfortunately very few people have minds open enough to listen and hear.
Read the story of Jonah to the Ninevites. We are in the same energetic as that which should scare the shit out of everyone.
Hopefully nothing too serious will happen in 2026, the Iran war will end, Israel will stop slaughtering Palestinians and Putin will be removed from power and from this earth and Ukraine will be saved.
The clowns that DJT hired are not the funny clowns that we enjoy; he chose the scary ones that frighten us and make us want to use a fire hose on them and make them go away.
Heather, thanks for the background on the AI system being implemented. Sounds like another reflecting pool scenario with even more self-dealing.. I watched the Duffy and Mullin press conference. Monica Alba's question was indeed the question that needed to be answered. This administration has stripped the agencies and departments of their capability to address their respective responsibilities (to put public funds in the pockets of billionaires) and put characters from central casting in positions of responsibility. We might never know the real reason the air control system went down until these clowns are removed and capable people are put in charge.. Let's hope we can get through the next two years without too many more catastrophes.
These clown's malevolence is hardly necessary when their inept incompetence can fuck everything up. Everywhere you look is decay and corruption. Tick tock mf's, your time has come.
Thank you Heather. Another example of not even a circus but a broken down carnival full of clowns with soiled foam red noses.. no one getting on any rides or buying food cause food poisoning is but hours away…
The Felon’s regime presser where Doofus-Duffy & Schoolyard-Bully-Mullin doing what they do best….
Blamed Dems
Blamed Congress
Blamed the system itself - “it’s antiquated the switches and routers” - “the new stuff overwhelmed the old stuff”
Demanded $50 Billion (Congress already approved $12.5 Billion)
Insisted it wasn't A.I. that is being rolled out
Still really don't know what happened
Attacked a female reporter when asking a smart question
Praised their boss - “he’s a builder”
...and claim they're the heroes
Little Marco wearing his oversized Florsheim shoes giving a speech at the Federalist Society Lawyers Convention.. btw he is the U.S. National Security Advisor and U.S. Secretary of State
Felon has spent between $1.6 billion and $2.3 billion in taxpayer funds since 2025 on ballroom construction, rebranding, Qatar aircraft retrofits, and promotional stuff.
The Felon down the hall thumbs banging out these messages…. “MAKE OUR ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP” and thanking “Governor Jeff Landry for his outstanding leadership, Coast Guard, Law Enforcement and First Responders”
Is Felonious Delusional Don aware that ALL flights were grounded for hours…smh..please get grandpa a sweater and make sure his name tag is affixed..
“…Doo-doo-doodle-oodle-oo-doo-doo-doo, Doo-doo-doodle-oodle-oo-doo-doo-doo…”
This new Congress can’t get sworn in soon enough.. make sure y’all have your sh*t together you’ve made two errors this week.. hit the ground running, don’t let off the pedal…
Yep it's going to be a long two months!!
Let us not re re-joice too quickly and wait for what the new dems (full of old accompliced dems still) will dare to do! Like st thomas i remain sceptical until i can touch, feel and see a new reality maybe.
Thanks Heather - you summed up this maladministration with the perfect two words. A “clown show” — for sure and for certain.
As someone who spent my career in aerospace and grew up with a family in aircraft manufacturing and a father who flew F6Fs in WWII, I’ve always had respect for everyone who works in the industry. ATCs are both highly skilled and very dedicated as well as those who fly planes, build them, and the myriad systems / infrastructure that keep them in the air. The safety of the flying public is their mission.
To hear the obvious incompetence and lack of understanding of those now “in charge” is frightening, and sickening- so disrespectful to everyone who takes aviation safety seriously.
I hope we all make it to January without a total disaster — and I hope even more that our newly elected congress will take their jobs as seriously as the competent folks trying to keep planes in the sky.
Dumb, Dumber and Dumbest! But it’s actually terrifying how inept they are
“The current ground stop is not based on or a result of the SMART system.” Duffy agreed and said that there was “no possible way” SMART was involved.
These jokes just write themselves, don't they?
The whole administration always blaming someone else and NEVER accepting responsibility for anything. Well, that's going to change come January 3rd. I have more than a feeling that Abdul (to invoke the words of John Lewis) is going to cause, “Good trouble, Necessary trouble.” I'm all for it. This is why we repudiated djt and the Republicans on November 3rd. Bring it, Abdul. We NEED you.
The time and effort it will take to even halfway mend the damage they’ve done, on purpose or through incompetence, is daunting.
Thank you for saying so clearly what is getting lost in all the noise from both sides of the aisle. The incompetence of Trump loyalists and the directed destruction of all aspects of our government by the domestic terrorists of the Project 2025/Heritage Foundation will require rebuilding of departments ravaged by firings and replacement with cultists. The rebuilding and the trust lost are indeed daunting both at home and on the world stage. It will not be accomplished in two years.
Well, on a lighter note: It was Friday the 13th.
Thank you, Heather for bringing the necessary backstory regarding this transportation crisis that could have been prevented if the signatories of that October 9th letter to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy were joined by Republican lawmakers also.
Here is the list - please note the presence of the letter “D” and the absence of “R”
Full List of Signatories
Co-Leads (House of Representatives)
Rep. April McClain Delaney (D-MD-06)
Rep. Donald S. Beyer Jr. (D-VA-08)
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14)
Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-MD-07)
Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA-10)
Rep. Sarah Elfreth (D-MD-03) [https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/press-releases/ocasio-cortez-mcclain-delaney-beyer-mfume-subramanyam-and-elfreth-lead-calls]
Additional U.S. House Signatories
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ)
Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA)
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)
Rep. Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA)
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL)
Rep. Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. (D-CA)
Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME)
Rep. Sylvia R. Garcia (D-TX)
Rep. Johnny Olszewski, Jr. (D-MD)
Rep. Paul D. Tonko (D-NY)
Rep. Valerie P. Foushee (D-NC)
Rep. James R. Walkinshaw (D-VA)
Rep. Timothy M. Kennedy (D-NY)
Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA)
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD)
Rep. Jesús G. "Chuy" García (D-IL)
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR)
U.S. Senate Signatory
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
Key Context on the Signatories
National Capital Region Representation. Nearly half of the signatories—including the majority of the co-leads and Senator Van Hollen—represent districts and states in the National Capital Region (Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.). The FAA initially piloted SMART on September 21, 2026, across the three major D.C.-area airports (DCA, IAD, and BWI), prompting local lawmakers to raise alarms about testing uncertified AI software in congested airspace that experienced a fatal midair collision in January 2025. [https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/press-releases/ocasio-cortez-mcclain-delaney-beyer-mfume-subramanyam-and-elfreth-lead-calls]
Primary Document. The complete text and signature pages of the letter are available on https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&rct=j&url=https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/ocasio-cortez-evo.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/faa-smart-letter-final.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwi-noSQrIeYAxXqhu4BHQs0D58Qy_kOegYIAAgSEAc&opi=89978449&cd&psig=AOvVaw1Z4YNg8RXMZUVMKe_OjlaS&ust=1794741739566000.
Who are these responsible lawmakers?
Well, they happen to serve on highly relevant committees in Congress…please take note of the following:
Relevant Committee Assignments of Signatories
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&rct=j&url=https://transportation.house.gov/about/membership.htm&ved=2ahUKEwjBqd21rIeYAxXkCO8CHXgeH50Qy_kOegYIAAgOEAM&opi=89978449&cd&psig=AOvVaw31Aeri5gFIg80h8MQoq0ug&ust=1794741818595000 (Direct oversight of the FAA and aviation policy):
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)
Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA)
Rep. Jesús G. "Chuy" García (D-IL)
Rep. Valerie P. Foushee (D-NC) [https://transportation.house.gov/about/membership.htm]
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&rct=j&url=https://oversight.house.gov/subcommittee/full-committee/&ved=2ahUKEwjBqd21rIeYAxXkCO8CHXgeH50Qy_kOegYIAAgOEA0&opi=89978449&cd&psig=AOvVaw31Aeri5gFIg80h8MQoq0ug&ust=1794741818595000 (Investigates federal agency operations and procurement):
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)
Rep. Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA)
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL)
Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-MD) (Letter co-lead)
Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) (Letter co-lead)
Rep. James R. Walkinshaw (D-VA)
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) [https://oversight.house.gov/subcommittee/full-committee/]
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&rct=j&url=https://science.house.gov/committee-members&ved=2ahUKEwjBqd21rIeYAxXkCO8CHXgeH50Qy_kOegYIAAgOEBo&opi=89978449&cd&psig=AOvVaw31Aeri5gFIg80h8MQoq0ug&ust=1794741818595000 (Jurisdiction over emerging technologies, AI standards, and Department of Transportation R&D programs):
Rep. April McClain Delaney (D-MD) (Letter co-lead; also serves on the Research and Technology Subcommittee)
Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) (Letter co-lead; also serves on the Research and Technology Subcommittee)
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR)
Rep. Valerie P. Foushee (D-NC) [https://science.house.gov/committee-members, https://science.house.gov/subcommittee-research-technology]
Senate Committee on Appropriations (Controls federal agency funding and budget oversight):
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) [https://spectrumlocalnews.com/us/snplus/politics/2026/11/13/who-is-chris-van-hollen, https://www.baltimoresun.com/2026/11/13/maryland-van-hollen-harris-congress-leadership-power/]
Notable Absences
While four members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee signed the October 9 letter, the committee's top Democrat—Ranking Member Rep. Rick Larsen (D-WA)—did not sign that specific letter. Instead, Committee Democrats pursued a separate track, formally requesting a Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit into the FAA's deployment of SMART. [https://transportation.house.gov/about/membership.htm]
I can only imagine how Trump would be blasting Democrats if this happened with Biden as president.
Sean Duffy was a D-Bag on The Real World; he was ultra-conservative then, and his now-wife… let’s just say her morals were much more “free” back then. Puck anyone??
Whenever I read the relatively coherent, overly long white house posts with sparse capitalizations, I wonder who actually wrote them.
And then I get back to watching the reality tv showing our country deprived of all regulatory safety nets and federal responsibility descend into a self created carnage and the inevitable systematic breakdowns.
"When President Donald Trump first addressed the nation as its president on Jan. 20, 2017, he depicted the nation's cities as domestic combat zones and declared "this American carnage stops right here and stops right now."
Back then, it was hyperbole at best. But it's become reality on his watch, and he has encouraged further violence."
- June 2020
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-envisioned-american-carnage-now-he-s-got-it-n1220361
The timing of this event is the most disturbing. They have six weeks until they lose the farm so they roll this out in an attempt to shake down the Congress for more money. They haven’t even spent the $12.5 billion already approved, yet they want another $50 billion? Another bait and switch to be able to siphon off the funds to some other project? They are scared and their desperation is showing.
Nor did they respond to the October letter asking about the SMART implementation. Deflect, distract and create fear. Hallmarks of this whole clown show.
HR-1, the so called Big Beautiful Bill, gave the FAA $12.5 billion in funding. The FAA said about half of that will be spent before the end of 2026 on system upgrades. How much have they spent to date? According to Adam Smith Washington State U.S. House Representative, about $1 billion has been spent. $875 million spent on the "SMART" upgrade, apparently not sent through its paces on test platforms before roll-out to the national air traffic control systems. Sean Duffy is saying they need more money?
Clowns - all of them . Perfect discription ☹️
Hope For Humanity
http://www.TheCenterForWorldPeace.Love
The ONLY solution to a permanent and lasting peace in the Middle Esst and the world.
The planet is facing a spiritual crisis. Geo politics and global nationalism is just a smokescreen for the illusion that is the material world.
God is not concerned with our bodies and material possessions. God is concerned about our souls. Materislism fosters duality and keeps us separated from God. Jesus said about this: “Store up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither rust nor moth consume and where thieves do not break in and steal.” If you are on a purely material path in this lifetime you are in grave danger. Not your body. Your soul. Trump is a false light to show us what not to be. He is truly a beacon of deception.
2026 is the exact identical calendar as 1914 when World War 1 began fulfilling a 2,520 year old prophecy called the “Time of the Gentiles.” Luke 21:24. Pluto is back in Aquarius after 250 years during the American, French and industrial revolutions.
There are two outcomes with these energies. Global spiritual transformation or the destruction of the material world order as we know it.
It’s a matter of quantum physics. The weather patterns, global warming and environmental disasters are largely responsible by the thoughts of humans. There is a solution to reversing these disasters. It’s at: http://www.TheCenterForWorldPeace.Love
I have been sounding the alarm for decades. Only those with ears will hear. Unfortunately very few people have minds open enough to listen and hear.
Read the story of Jonah to the Ninevites. We are in the same energetic as that which should scare the shit out of everyone.
Hopefully nothing too serious will happen in 2026, the Iran war will end, Israel will stop slaughtering Palestinians and Putin will be removed from power and from this earth and Ukraine will be saved.
That is my Hope For Humanity.
Thank you Heather for being an inspiration to me.
Bruce
The clowns that DJT hired are not the funny clowns that we enjoy; he chose the scary ones that frighten us and make us want to use a fire hose on them and make them go away.
Real World meets Octagon. Brain trust. Markwaynebillyjoebob still working on his language skills.
Heather, thanks for the background on the AI system being implemented. Sounds like another reflecting pool scenario with even more self-dealing.. I watched the Duffy and Mullin press conference. Monica Alba's question was indeed the question that needed to be answered. This administration has stripped the agencies and departments of their capability to address their respective responsibilities (to put public funds in the pockets of billionaires) and put characters from central casting in positions of responsibility. We might never know the real reason the air control system went down until these clowns are removed and capable people are put in charge.. Let's hope we can get through the next two years without too many more catastrophes.