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Following deadly plane crash, Trump blames Democrats, DEI without evidence (youtu.be)

submitted 22 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

My heart goes out to the victims of this terrible tragedy and I look forward to the preliminary and full reports from the NTSB so we can learn from this loss of life and ensure it doesn't happen again.

Trump is such a performative shitstain and his populist ilk can fuck right off. To place blame for an accident while bodies are still strapped to seats in the water is abhorrent. The NTSB is amongst the foremost investigative bodies in any domain, full-stop. Let them do their work and they will provide answers. Of course, this becomes more difficult if the sitting POTUS is a self-serving piece of shit that will politicize ANYTHING he can to maintain power.

Yuck 🤮

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

To place blame for an accident while bodies are still strapped to seats in the water is abhorrent

Trump, like most politicians and CEOs, is a psychopath. He doesn't understand or feel empathy. More disturbingly, he doesn't feel compelled to pretend he does.

His lack of empathy and whatever rage is burning inside of him, and the fact that he's the most powerful man in the world, makes for a dangerous cocktail. There was a little mustachioed man from Austria who also made the same cocktail with the same three ingredients 92 years ago and we all know what happened.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

it's nice to know that the u.s. president is subscribed to the quartering.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I tried to control my laughter in front of my Trump loving father, but hearing him reply to the question "[how do you know it's DEI's fault]?" with "[it's totally possible]" sent my sides into orbit. That's elementary school level rhetoric.

How does this even make sense? Either someone is qualified to fly a plane or not. It's simply not about employing someone for the sake of diversity, if the requirement is a pilots licence.

But it gets at an even more stupid point. Obviously Trump wants white men flying planes, because in his mind they're the best at doing that job. Any other demographic performing that role is part of the woke mind virus or some shit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Either someone is qualified to fly a plane or not

Exactly.

Or direct air traffic. Or drive a truck. Or operate machinery. Or do accountancy...

If the person is qualified, by definition they can do the job. Whether they're in a wheelchair or 3-ft tall is irrelevant: if their disability prevents them from doing the job, then they're not qualified and they're not even hired to begin with. Otherwise, they're qualified and their disability has nothing to do with their job abilities - and none of your business to boot.

Trump always talks about merit but all I see is an ableist old man who unfairly targets of people based on their looks, sexual preferences and challenges in life that have nothing to do with their ability to perform at work.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Why can't being an old shitty twat be an incurable fatal disease?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I mean, it technically is. Eventually.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

This is just beyond absurd. It was windmills.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

don't be ridiculous, it was obviously immigrants that did it. All of them. They all went to one big Zoom call to coordinate it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I heard it was turtles. All the way down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

No need to bring McConnell into this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

Immigrants able to function well enough to communicate with each other via technology? Only cishet White males know how to use Zoom.

(/s for anyone unfamiliar with my writing style)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

It's not just absurd. It's like any pointing republican. He's responsible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Thanks Obama.