Oh, man, if there’s one thing that screams “America Last” louder than a Kamala cackle, it’s the way Joe Biden and his token transportation clown, Pete Buttigieg, turned the Federal Aviation Administration into a woke petri dish where diversity quotas trumped – pun intended – actual safety in the skies. We’re talking about a regime that prioritized checking boxes for race, gender, and whatever else over making sure planes don’t play bumper cars at 30,000 feet. Fast-forward to August, 2025, and the chickens – or should I say, the near-miss jets – have come home to roost. Trump’s now cleaning up the mess, but the damage from four years of Buttigieg’s virtue-signaling vanity project? It’s a miracle we’re not all walking to work. This isn’t just incompetence; it’s a deliberate sabotage of the air traffic control system that put lives at risk for the sake of leftist feel-goods.
Let’s peel back the layers on this farce, because the Biden crew didn’t just fumble the ball – they spiked it into a volcano. Start with the air traffic controller shortage that’s been a ticking time bomb since day one of Sleepy Joe’s nap in the Oval. By May 2024, the FAA was down nearly 3,000 controllers, leading to delays, cancellations, and controllers pulling overtime like zombies in a bad horror flick. Some towers were operating with a single controller instead of the standard six – yeah, that’s safe. And the near-misses? Skyrocketed. In 2023 alone, there were over 300 reported close calls, up from the pre-Biden era, with incidents like jets nearly colliding on runways in Austin and New Orleans. Fast-forward to January 29, 2025: A midair smash-up over D.C. between a PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 and a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter kills up to 67 people. NTSB hearings kicked off on July 30, 2025, revealing near-daily warnings in the lead-up – but hey, who needs radar when you’ve got rainbow pins?
Why the hell did this happen? Simple: Buttigieg and his DEI cult turned the FAA into a social experiment instead of a safety watchdog. From 2021 onward, the DOT under Mayor Pete – remember, the guy whose biggest prior gig was failing upward as mayor of a town smaller than my high school – pumped resources into “equity” hires while the system crumbled. They even targeted folks with “severe intellectual disabilities” and psychiatric issues for roles, part of a broader push that included over 400 equity grants totaling a jaw-dropping $80 billion by July 2025. That’s right – $80 billion flushed on “transit equity days,” multi-racial block parties for EV chargers, and windmill projects near highways, all while airlines begged for ATC upgrades. Buttigieg once told execs that modernizing air traffic control would just let them fly more planes – like that’s a bad thing? Meanwhile, the FAA’s ancient 1970s radar tech was rotting, controllers scavenging parts on eBay, and qualified applicants got the boot if they didn’t fit the diversity mold.
Dig deeper, and the rot shows. A class-action lawsuit filed in 2024 accused the FAA of rejecting applicants based on race, with blacklists for those who aced tests but weren’t the “right” demographic. By January 2025, revelations hit that the FAA academy in Oklahoma struggled with DEI quotas per class, turning away vets and ex-military types with spotless records because, under Biden’s regime, skin color mattered more than skill. VP JD Vance nailed it on February 3, 2025: “We had a shortage because we were telling controllers not to hire people because of the color of their skin.” No wonder assaults on controllers spiked, morale tanked, and the system hit record lows – Buttigieg was too busy posing for paternity leave photo ops to fix the basics.
Buttigieg’s defenders whine that DEI didn’t apply directly to ATC hires – merit-based, they say – but that’s a smokescreen. The whole agency got infected: Funding for training slashed, budgets diverted to “inclusive” nonsense, and hiring goals met only on paper (1,800 new controllers in 2024, but still short overall). Republicans in Congress blocked some of Biden’s bloat, sure, but the real crime was Buttigieg ignoring pleas for $8 billion in upgrades while blowing cash on feel-good fluff. Result? A 2024 report showed staffing at critical facilities like New York TRACON at just 50% of needed levels, forcing mandatory overtime and burnout. And the D.C. crash? Preceded by a string of 2024 incidents in that airspace, all while Pete patted himself on the back for “growing the workforce” – code for box-checking.
Trump? He’s the antidote. On January 22, 2025, he signed a memo torching Biden’s DEI madness, ordering a return to “non-discriminatory, merit-based hiring” and a full review of safety protocols gutted under Buttigieg. By January 30, after the crash, Trump baselessly? No, rightly blasted the policies for undermining safety, firing off an executive order to scrub DEI from the FAA. His One Big Beautiful Bill on July 5, 2025, allocated $12.5 billion to modernize aviation infrastructure – radars, towers, the works – because America First means planes land safely, not crashing for equity points.
This DEI debacle isn’t just bad policy; it’s deadly. Biden and Buttigieg treated the skies like a social justice playground, turning qualified patriots away while gambling with our lives. Revelations from the July 30- August 1, 2025, NTSB hearings? Near-daily alerts ignored, outdated equipment failing, and a system screaming for help that Buttigieg drowned out with woke noise. Wake up, folks – the left’s obsession with quotas over competence nearly turned air travel into Russian roulette. Trump’s draining the swamp; time to ground these clowns for good. Fly safe, or don’t fly at all under Democrats.
