Elon Musk and Pete Buttigieg worked together on Twitter in a rare display of bipartisan unity. This was not just optics…it was a showcase of what is possible when we work together.
Elon Musk and Pete Buttigieg Collobaraote On Twitter To Address Airspace Issue
Musk took to Twitter/X to suggest that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was blocking private pilots from completing rescue flights in areas ravaged by Hurricane Helene.
Just received this text 20 mins ago.
The level of belligerent government incompetence is staggering!! pic.twitter.com/wWbBR7FfUo
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 4, 2024
But Transporation Secretary Pete Buttigieg responded, “No one is shutting down the airspace and FAA doesn’t block legitimate rescue and recovery flights. If you’re encountering a problem give me a call.”
And so Musk called…
Thanks for the call. Hopefully, we can resolve this soon.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 4, 2024
And it was a fruitful call.
Thanks for helping simplify the FAA NOTAM. Support flights are now underway. Much appreciated.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 4, 2024
Glad we could address —thanks for engaging.
— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) October 4, 2024
I’m with View From The Wing here…this was a great interaction and as much as I find Musk a very conflicting character and lament how the candidate he is supporting is weaponizing FEMA as a political tool, this was a great example of how we can work together when we try.
And I think that’s what people want. I was happy to watch the VP debate earlier this week and see two adults talking, not two children fighting over crowd size and eating dogs. We can do so much better in this country and we must.
This whole interaction shows that X has become the new public square and while I lament all the spam that now comes on X (and Facebook and Instagram and LinkedIn and WhatsApp…) it is a primary avenue of communication in this age; a tool to hold people accountable and for every person to have a voice.
Here in California, I’m spared from hurricanes…mostly…but if we ever have the “big one” (earthquake) I expect Twitter will also play an outsized role in communication and recovery…and with Musk now working with T-Mobile to test Starlink access on mobile phones, even a massive earthquake need not cripple our access to the world wide web and internet calling.
Perhaps FEMA spent money on supporting the illegal aliens . no ?
Don’t forget their general incompetence.
Proof?
Elon and Bootyjuice having to talk on the phone to coordinate relief efforts.
By the way…I lost my house in Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and I’m STILL fighting the state and Feds over their “programs.”
@JH … +1 .
That wasn’t much of a smoking gun…
These people want government to do everything for them then complain when that doesn’t happen. Ignore them.
Politicians Promise that government will do everything for them , but they know even as they speak it will not happen.
That is a good reason to never listen to any politician , or to have false hopes with any of them .
Camel-a is an apropos example .
https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-voted-against-fema-funding-1963980
You just look to argue over anything. Must be another symptom of that defect in your brain that makes you desire c#ck.
Makes one miss the 80’s!
Or maybe I call out dumb comments like the ones you seem to be determined to keep making?
Also stop obsessing over c#ck, it isn’t healthy.
STFU Aaron. Go back to slobbering on your MAGA Daddy’s member. Extort scumbag Pete Bathhouse can join you.
Oh look, another raging homophobe who is also strangely obsessed with gay people and also projecting their kinky fantasies onto me…
Dolly Parton donated a million dollars and went in person to offer support without a PR agency broadcasting her brand.
If Elon hadn’t purchased Twitter then these relief flights would have never happened.
He’s exposing government incompetence in real time.
@JH … +1 . Also , if Elon didn’t have Access to helicopters , then these relief flights would have never happened .
Proof? Without proof it’s just a wild guess.
Bingo. And anyone who says “proof” hasn’t followed what’s been happening for days or even a week now and just wants to espouse their politics. I have relatives in the area; it’s pretty bad and FEMA has been nonexistent.
https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-voted-against-fema-funding-1963980
That’s just proof that FEMA was fully funded, the bill past……..yet 11 days after the storm FEMA is finally making an appearance in Asheville, and that isn’t MAGA country…I’m sure the poor federal response is likely to swing a few votes ….even more justification to be wary of funding FEMA in the future when they constantly fall flat in their core mission over and over again. Those congressmen voting against it and getting outvoted look like the wise ones here.
“ lament how the candidate he is supporting is weaponizing FEMA as a political ”
BS, listen to the criminal Mayorkas and his exact words. They don’t have enough money for the next hurricane, which is coming to Florida by Wednesday.
But great work by Elon and Pete working together to get this resolved.
Trump put roadblocks and hoops in the way of any Democrat-voting areas trying to get disaster relief and had to be talked into releasing funds. But would force FEMA to give extra to areas that voted for him. He used it as a form of transaction, like he views every relationship ever. He has no interest in being a President for the entire country, he only wants power for himself. He saw FEMA as something to hold over peoples’ heads to make them dance for him.
He doesn’t even want to be a President, he wants to be a dictator. He, like all Republicans, want to RULE, not REPRESENT.
Yes, Trump sucks. But right now Biden is in charge and he sucks.
The troll force is strong on this post from the anti-government troll comments.
FEMA has been incompetent under every administration. If Elon wasnt a billionaire with a massive audience Mayor Pete would never have addressed the problem.
@jesda … Actually bureaucracy cannot solve any actual problem , because bureaucrats’ goal is self-preservation , above all . Bureaucracy can never analyze any problem without first considering their own self-preservation . Therefore it can never analyze any problem . The Osprey fiasco is a good example .
Responding poorly to a natural disaster and doing their jobs badly would not be a very good idea in the interest of self-preservation. If anything, you’d expect to see them giving too much aid in order to make people happy. Your argument here doesn’t make any sense at all.
Bureaucrats themselves, especially at lower levels, are often insulated from direct public accountability. Usually it’s politicians who bear the reputational brunt and even then they just spin it off as misinformation.
From a friend who worked with FEMA during Katrina:
The agency has a habit of being overbearing, impeding progress in the early days emergencies out of an insistence on only doing things their way. While this is good for restoring order and organizing relief longer term, it’s awful when disaster first strikes.
They block civilians from providing services, keep people from getting through, and supplies sometimes sit in warehouses, tracks, and storage facilities rotting away. They turn away civilians bringing goods, on occasion, because they give preference to their preferred government contractors. When FEMA does get their shit together the coordination begins to work. But their insistence on operating as a hard-nosed government entity with zero flexibility or common sense hurts people when they are most vulnerable.
Like most government or corporate stupidity, it takes bad publicity on an Elon scale to get them to pay attention.
Great to read the post! Not so great to read the immature and petty commentary.
Truly scary how many adults act and think like children.
Buttigieg isn’t qualified for his position, he is a dei hire and let’s not forget he and his “husband” bought a baby from a woman.
Surogacy should be banned. It’s human trafficking.
How is he a DEI hire?
Wait, if they bought a baby, then how is it surrogacy?