FAA Chief Quit on Jan. 20 After Elon Musk Told Him to Resign
Michael Whitaker had only been in the role for a year but the SpaceX chief accused him of “harassment.”
This is an underrated story I think. Elon Musk literally purchased the opportunity to fire the person primarily responsible for regulating Space X which is intimately tied to his other business Starlink. This is exactly why billionaires are dangerous, why allowing unlimited political spending by private parties is dangerous, and showcases the utterly broken state of our current regulation arm. Fuck Fascist Elon Musk and all the people who enabled him to do this.
Man, this would be really damning if the rules mattered anymore
Rules only matter when people demand their enforcement.
The crash was the first casualty of making the Government more “efficient”.
Not only does the government save money on the salary and Healthcare for the fired individuals, but probably some of the 60 odd people who lost their lives may have been on assistance programs, so the government saves even MORE money. The people who had private Healthcare should've just flown private as well. Acceptable losses.
All of that with the biggest of /s
Do we have actual evidence that this incident then was a result?
Asking honestly, I just got home. Haven't read the news
Nah, the incident was instead related to Republicans taking bribes and letting airlines cram too many flights into an airspace, while ATC was understaffed.
So not directly related, just the same pattern.
The timing of this is fucking terrible and I'm disappointed the Chief volunteered to quit.
The recent air collision will absolutely be pinned on Whitaker "because guilty people quit" and let Trump move ahead aggressively with further tearing apart air safety.
Well, no matter what happens, Trump will cry and play the victim, and then casually overthrow more people's human rights. Because he can.
Sure, but now there will be a toady in Whitaker's place who will have an even freer hand to restructure the FAA because of this collision. Trump is already shouting about DEI which is the same excuse they're using to clear out long term bureaucrats in other areas.
Having someone in place who can resist these changes - even just partially - is better than a toady.
... Did nobody see what he did to Twitter?
