As we watched a minor bit of chaos hit the airline industry on Friday, my first thought was, “if this lasts into next week and gets worse, it could totally mess up the Super Bowl, or at least parts of it.” If bunches of flights get cancelled, that could affect many people getting to Atlanta, fans, crews, possibly even the teams. Imagine all those people watching the game and seeing stories about fans who were unable to get to the game, or other glitches caused by the shut down.
Is it possible that Roger Goodell put in a call to Trump? Maybe he had Belichick or Brady sound the alarm. Although it could also have been one of Trump’s aides, but they don’t have a good record of seeing bumps in the road or evaluating consequences.
Of course this is just a theory, but I’d love to see the WH call logs and/or Trump’s personal phone records for Friday.
Others also suggest Super Bowl was a factor. I think the obvious correlation was Senate Republicans yelling at McConnell combined with suddenly stacking-up air traffic. Those two (especially the air traffic) line up convincingly. Ground prepared by the Senate threatening rebellion, then news stories of closed airspace. Shutdown ended immediately after.
Unless we can point to something the Ds in Congress did or D public demonstrations or D something else, it doesn’t matter. Only the action under control of the Ds need to be studied and gamed out so that if it happens again, Trump eats a shit sandwich again. We already knew, hell everybody already knew that shutdowns end badly the longer they go on.
too funny, I actually mentioned that in another thread, a friend of mine last week shared that with me and I posted it in another thread
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"A friend a mine told me something interesting that Trump decided to end it temporary because of super bowl sunday, as in people would be delayed somehow or they could cancel it and America would not forgive Trump if it was cancelled ( the Super bowl) and right after the superbowl he will play hardball with the Democrats and shut down the government and enact the Emergency protocol.
I dont know if I believe it but it was an interesting theory"
Until I see construction of the wall and that POS Pelosi capituating to Trump, sorry he caved.
I am very disappointed in Trump, I didnt expect this, because of 800K useless bureaucrats temporary laid off, long line up at airports and such.
I was expecting a hardline stance like what Reagan did with the air traffic controller, he said you dont want to work, fine then " youre all fired"
When Gaddafi was discovered he bombed the place where some soldiers was killed, he didn’t ask to sit down with the representatives of Libya and the U.N, he ordered the attack on Gaddafi and taught him a lesson, and we didnt hear about Gaddafi until Clinton occupied the Whitehouse and ordered the bombing of Gaddafi place.
Reagan never caved, he was duped by the Democrats and traitor republicans but never caved.
There is a large difference between air traffic controlled choosing to go out on strike and the President choosing to replace them, and 800,000 government workers who did not choose to be furloughed, and had nothing at stake in the negotiations.
And my point is, the situations are drastically different. In the face of a strike, Trump might not have caved either, because public opinion might have been different.
