House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said there is no need for an investigation into the ground stop issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday, instead highlighting the need for “investment.”
“We don’t really need any investigation … we need further investment,” Johnson said during an interview with Fox News’s Saturday in America. “I mean, some of this equipment dates back to the eighties so it’s gotta be updated and that’s our responsibility. We’re gonna work to get it done.”
The FAA issued the nationwide ground stop around 4 p.m. EST on Friday. The rare protocol was in place for over four hours. The agency’s last widespread stoppage, which lasted approximately 90 minutes, was in January 2023.
More than 4,500 flights within, into or out of the U.S. were delayed as of Saturday afternoon with over 5,000 canceled, according to flight tracking website FlightAware. Total reported delays on Saturday crossed 15,000.
When someone in the colluding party says “don’t investigate us, just give us money”…
…that’s your first lead in the investigation.
Murikkkans, lolololololololololololol!
That means we DEFINITELY need massive investigations and prosecutions.
Narrator from Hades: “We did, in fact, need an investigation.”
It’s true.
No investigation is needed. Everyone already knows what happened and who is responsible.
What’s needed is accountability.
All conservatives are pathological liars. They will say abolutely anything to avoid admitting fault.
Biden/Hillary/Obama did it. Antifa did it. Hackers did it. Democrats did it. No one did it. It never happened. It happened exactly as planned. Nothing to see here.
Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. Never trust a conservative. Never.
If they issued the ground stop because „old tech“ - why did they lift it after just 4 hours? The tech is still old.
Based on everything they’re saying insteadof calling for an investigation…they know exactly what went wrong. And it all boils down to an attempt to “upgrade an outdated system”, and “we need a lot more investment, before we’ll see results”.
That’s AI, folks. They’re trying to find a way to integrate AI into the air-traffic control systems…and they fucked the whole thing up.
As far as ai goes, this administration is trying to integrate it into anything and everything before someone can stop them. It’s so hard to roll back if you never plan to. Then watch the money roll in for these companies that have some trump kid on the board.
“We don’t really need any investigation” - everyone ever who really should be investigated
Always the stooge trying to cover up for Trump’s blunders. They didn’t need an Untested AI add-on to fix air traffic control. They need to pay workers well enough so it’s a viable career for people to choose so they aren’t so understaffed. The infrastructure is old, but this outage was sloppy AI implementation.
What they really need to do is hire some government employees strictly to upgrade and maintain the air traffic network
They claim a contractor, from a company linked to multiple air traffic events, was changing networking equipment from the old stuff to IP networking, and presumably they misconfigured a router and caused a packet storm
Personally, I do think it was probably some slop AI configuration that is to blame, but even if their incident report is accurate… Why the hell are we letting a little contractor with a bunch of big problems touch our super important special network?
In any sane world, we’d create a few teams to become experts on the system, and pay them well to take full responsibility for the network forever. It’s a very important legacy system, we need specialists on the payroll, not to hire the lowest cost bidder
Translation: “We know exactly what happened and it’s embarrassing as fuck. Move along citizen”
Also we’re going to use this as a(nother) chance to enrich ourselves and our buddies at the expense of everyone else, so we’d appreciate it if you turned a blind eye to that
That’s the first clue that we need an investigation.
We needed an investigation the minute they grounded the planes.
This is the first clue that Club Members are involved.
If he knew what he was doing, he would have at least said, “yeah, we should investigate what happened” and then quietly forget about it. But he swerved the wrong way and now we know we need to look deeper.
Exactly what a ventriloquist doll would say with a hand up his ass.
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Fuck you we DEFINITELY need an investigation as to why ALL flights in the United States were grounded
So it’s Trump’s fault then?
Hey, Mike.
Who’s been cutting their budget so aggressively they still have computers from the 80’s?
