Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 11/115

[SVPete]

Democrats Hope You Forget This About the Last Nationwide FAA Ground Stop

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/11/14/democrats-hope-you-forget-this-about-the-last-nationwide-faa-ground-stop-n4959359

It was inevitable that Democrats would politicize Friday's FAA ground stop, and they didn't disappoint. The loudest critics turned out to be the people with the least standing to complain.

The FAA ordered the stop just before 4 p.m. on Friday, and the cancellations quickly snowballed at the major hubs (LaGuardia and JFK in New York among them). The order was in place for just over four hours. Following the order, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy asked Congress for another $50 billion to replace the aging air traffic control and communications systems. ...

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg slammed the ground stop anyway. Buttigieg, a 2020 presidential candidate and possible 2028 contender, took his shot at the start of his remarks at the "What's Next" conference in Colorado on Friday night.

For sure, nationwide ground stops are extremely rare. Before Friday, there had been exactly two. The first followed the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. The second came in January 2023, when a broken pilot notification system grounded flights nationwide.

Who was president at the time?

That's right, Joe Biden.

Guess who ran the Transportation Department at the time.

That’s right, Pete Buttigieg.

He probably doesn’t want you to remember that.
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Buttigieg had four years, a mountain of infrastructure money, and his own nationwide ground stop to learn from. If he "got to work," where are the results?

Even Hollywood superagent Ari Emanuel went after him online.

"No one's hands are clean here," Emanuel wrote. "However, Mr. Secretary Buttigieg, you had four years in the job and infrastructure money, yet made zero progress modernizing the FAA. You left a failing system in place."

Like many top LIEden MalAdministration officials - Kammie being one such - many/most of whom were check-off box hires not hired for actual competence,"Mayor Pete" was a check-off box hire.

Unlike this past week's shutdown, the MSM didn't hype the 2023 shutdown into a national crisis, so I do not remember it. What a difference the President's party makes in MSM coverage.