Posted on 10/30/2025 7:06:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As the Schumer shutdown drags on, the dam is starting to break against Democrats. Airline CEOs lined up on Thursday to demand the passage of a clean CR, citing the possibility of future delays and cancellations. Air traffic controllers are currently working without pay, and if the system shuts down, it's game over for commercial air travel.
Over the past few weeks, ALPA and SWAPA, which represent most major airline pilots in the United States, publicly called for the passage of a clean CR. But while you'd expect pilots, who still tend to lean right, to take that position, having the CEO of United Airlines do so, one of the most woke corporations in the country, is a different animal.
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby on the government shutdown: "It's putting stress on people, it's not fair to those people, it's also putting stress on the economy... it's been 30 days... I also think it is time to pass a clean CR."
STOP THE SUFFERING, DEMOCRATS! pic.twitter.com/6uwHABX277— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 30, 2025
We are talking about an airline that holds LGBTQ conferences and paints its planes in pride colors during June. There's no question which way its corporate culture typically leans. So to see Scott Kirby standing next to FAA Administrator Sean Duffy and Vice President JD Vance, telling Democrats to stop playing games, is a pretty big deal.
American Airlines and Delta Airlines, also not exactly known for their conservative values, followed suit.
New: American Airlines calls for passage of clean CR pic.twitter.com/qhFf5N5kfB— Max Cohen (@maxpcohen) October 30, 2025
👀 Delta, United, American Airlines, and air traffic control are all calling on Democrats to re-open the government.
How many more lives are Senate Dems willing to risk before they cave? pic.twitter.com/YV2RfVgEss— Delanie Bomar (@DelanieBomar) October 30, 2025
Democrats are now butting up against a reality they can't change. Air travel is one part of this shutdown that actually affects a broad swath of Americans. This isn't healthcare subsidies to bail out Obamacare so early retirees can buy an extra boat. It's an industry that almost every socio-economic background utilizes, many with some regularity. Now, Democrats have to face that wrath while their justification for keeping the government shut down becomes less and less defensible.
The White House is doing a very good job of messaging this whole thing. We already know Democrats are raging hypocrites who have repeatedly said in the past that you don't negotiate over shutdowns and that clean CRs are the only acceptable solution. But to make them own it in such an in-your-face way is probably something Schumer and company didn't expect to have to deal with.
NONE OF THIS MATTERS.
This is about individual Senator seat holders. The TDS effect in EVERY SINGLE STATE among Dems. If any individual Senator bends the knee, he will be removed. There is just no doubt about this. And anyone who tries to come to his aid will also be primaried and deleted.
They are protecting their jobs and do not give a damn about taking the majority.
GOP needs to pound the “Sombrero Schumer Shutdown will wipe out Thanksgiving travel and is endangering the lives of anyone boarding an aircraft.”
With Thanksgiving coming up, I can’t imagine this shutdown interrupting that short holiday break.
HOLD THE LINE, Republicans… do NOT waiver!
🚨 BREAKING: Just as predicted, Senate Democrats look to end the federal government shutdown likely after TUESDAY’S ELECTION, per Axios
It was all a political game.
Chuck Schumer always figures out how to stoop lower than last time.
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1984062206397534310
About time the demoncRATS receive the push back they so richly deserve.
When the ATC went on strike years ago, didn’t Reagan send in the military to do that? Different reason this time, but can’t they do that again?
DENY TRAVEL ON AIRPLANES TO ANY MEMBER OF CONGRESS WHO IS HOLDING UP THESE BILLS......FOR THE REST OF THEIR TIME IN CONGRESS
This MUST be a PLUS for people to vote Republicans on Tuesday... is what I think you are saying.
Trump cannot and must not blink. The Augean stables must be cleaned out. Making of U.S. citizens a permanent slave class in fealty to the dregs of just about every impoverished country on earth is the wet dream of a radicalized Democrat Party, aligned with George Soros and the Bilderberg Group. This global cabal must not be permitted to succeed. Even if it takes a major insurrection, civil war, and attendant collateral damage to stop them.
The gloves must come off.
Our enemy is already gearing up en masse to sue the DOJ. They have the lawyers and the judges to make it stick.
There are hills to die on.
This will be one of them.
Will that take us to 5 dimensional chess?
Just remember,airlins treat you like cattle.Don’t worry about them...
Put every Democrat Senator on the “NO FLY LIST.”
Nowhere near enough. There has to be 60 votes.
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