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That's true, if they strike they need to do so decisively and completely, force immediate action.
They should force closure of all airports and hold with that until they get guarantes and support

https://gizmodo.com/sean-duffy-threatens-to-fire-air-traffic-controllers-as-10-call-out-sick-during-shutdown-2000670689

Ten percent out sick today, and the government threatening to fire them. If they actually follow through with it I see that figure rising to 50 and closing down some of the bigger airports as a demonstration.

There's lots of professions with that clause though. Our police went on strike with mass sickness, the "blue flu".
ATCs have a bunch of clauses about not going to work impaired.
They should all go out tonight and get hammered.

Honestly I think the ATC workers are probably the one group who could really humiliate this government. All it would take is a couple of days of an all out work stoppage and it locks up the gears of billions while also making the government look very weak.
They are playing with fire.

In 2016 I would have agreed. This time everything they have done is deliberate media shock attack, keep people reeling from the last awful thing you did and before they can respond do the next one.
I can say this because its literally what their steve bannon advised them to.
Its systematic, orchestrated, choreographed, and a tool of the same old con, but smarter and meaner. There's nothing chaotic about it, and Trump doesn't have to do anything, just relax and do everything his advisers tell him to

They are starting to realise it even outside of this whole mess: Trump is bad for business

He can be given an award for not compromising his principles for a candidate that wasn't just right on his way to the forced Labour camps

I cancelled mine before the price increase, but will be avoiding the theme park and any new film of theirs

Its on every news station several days on including international ones, maybe it's not coming up in day to day life but it's being portrayed as a crises point for the US.

The point is they are going full seige mentality and they will get meaner and more forgiving of the horrifying shit the government they voted in is up to, where they were starting to realise they had been betrayed

[Later that week]

"We've been wronged by the left so let us round up and murder the homeless, as a treat"

The point is they are going full seige mentality and they will get meaner and more forgiving of the horrifying shit the government they voted in is up to, where they were starting to realise they had been betrayed

I can see the conservative base is in meltdown over this. It shouldn't need to be said that murder of you political opposition is never acceptable.

The point is, the second ammendment makes it easy, to aquire a gun legally or illegally, the supply is there.

From the looks of it, it likely will subside sooner rather then later, Russia have their "eastern corridor" down to the black sea, it is much harder to liberate a city than it is to defend it, russia is now in a defensive posture rather than trying to advance, its a horrible situation in Ukrain to admit this but it is very unlikely they will be able to accomplish anything else substantial, thats why a lot of the retaliatory gestures have been inlands, with small disruptive attacks on Moscow.

On the Russian side, they have decimated their 18-30 year old male population, they are going to have horrific cultural issues from this, hope the cost was worth it.

I wish Liberals could separate "good at mocking Trump" from "would make a good president" but that's fine for now, Newsom is definitely doing a good job of mocking Trump.

Yes his biggest task is make a tweet that causes Trump to have a stroke. If he does then, I dont know, nominate him for a regicide award.

He's wanted to pull all funding to Ukrain since day one. Bidans goverments policy of give ukrain enough to hold a line but never enough to decisively push back and run up costs for Russia and Human life was a mean cynical game that doesn't sit well with trumps isolationist policy.

He will meet zelenski, blame him for being unreasonable and then start defending them