Yes it was DEI. And definitely not cutting out the safety regulatory body...
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All this dude had to say was "This was a tragic loss and we are investigating the matter to ensure it does not happen again."
When the obvious right answer is staring him in the face, he just can't help but spin conspiracy theories and lie about shit to further his political agenda. Hijacking a tragedy or stirring up avoidable controversy to keep all the other insane shit he's doing out of the news is basically his MO at this point.
At this point? Its his only MO. Dont forget when asked the most softball question at the start of Covid about what he would say to scared Americans he attacked the person asking the question.
Trump is not capable of that type of thought process. He doesn’t actually give a shit about anyone else but himself. He is only interested in the benefits of being in power, mainly enrichment of his own wealth.
Lies, lies, and more lies. This regime is following the same pattern as the troll farms leading up to the election. Put bullshit out as fast as you can, faster than anyone can correct or hold the attention of the population long enough to listen tot he facts before the next wave of bullshit overcomes them.
Every dumb and shitty thing Trump does is just his billionaire bosses using him to try to take support away from Luigi Mangione.
This is a fight with the 0.1%, and there's more of us.
They are going to repeal the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Right on par for Nazis.
Don't worry, they'll create special camps for the disabled where they can be taken care of.
A Million Americans died, bad, choking on their own fluids, many unable to touch or be near their families when they passed, due to a purposefully sandbagged and inept Federal Global Pandemic response. You don't make people like Pete Hegseth the head of the DOD, or Tulsi Gabbard the DNI, if you want a functioning Christofascist state, you do it specifically for the chaos so you can steal everything that's not nailed down, and for the nation and the world when interfunctioning organs of state are disrupted, then people die.
Welcome to Trump 2.0 tagline "It'll be so many more dead people this time, you won't believe it"
He is actually responsible for more American deaths than all the wars combined. This alone should have buried him.
Trump fired flight advisory boards on the 21st.
apnews.com/article/coast-guard-homeland-security-priorities-committees-trump-tsa-d3e4398c8871ada8d0590859442e092c
Time to get ahead of this boys, it could make us look real bad. Any suggestions? Yes, you there in the back.
Yes sir President sir. We can just blame this all on DEI hires and American Disabilities Act for hiring intellectually inferior women and minorities.
I like the way you think. How about a cabinet position.
Who suffer severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, and other mental and physical conditions
Projection much?
I used to think that this kind of statement would make people trust Trump less. But no, this is actually going to continue to convince more people that DEI is bad.
I've learned that a huge amount of people seem incapable of seeing pathological lying. To them, Trump's comments don't lower the dignity of the presidency, they simply gained the credibility of the presidency.
It's so backwards, it's hard to even admit to myself that that is how this is all working, but it's exactly as people with dark triad mental disorders wish it, when being manipulative like Trump - their methods in fact work. And the fact that "DEI" and "crash" were used in the same sentence means that it is going to reinforce a lot of prejudices that DEI is somehow making us less safe.
So this is digging us deeper, and oof, it's not even February 2025 and it's physically hard to keep watching. It's also hard to imagine the amount of effort it will take to dig out of this hole, when we have four years of digging us deeper to still watch.
Executive order here:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/immediate-assessment-of-aviation-safety/
"This shocking event follows problematic and likely illegal decisions during the Obama and Biden Administrations that minimized merit and competence in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The Obama Administration implemented a biographical questionnaire at the FAA to shift the hiring focus away from objective aptitude. During my first term, my Administration raised standards to achieve the highest standards of safety and excellence. But the Biden Administration egregiously rejected merit-based hiring, requiring all executive departments and agencies to implement dangerous “diversity equity and inclusion” tactics, and specifically recruiting individuals with “severe intellectual” disabilities in the FAA."
Uhh did he just call everyone in the FAA removed?
That and dwarves. I... I don't even...
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/trump-suggests-dwarves-amputees-epileptics-34586326
"'The FAA website states they include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism all qualified for the position of a controller of air planes pouring into our country, pouring into a little spot. A little dot on the map. A runway."
Black hawk collides with plane. Trump thinks a white hawk wouldn't have caused it.
We need more rainbow hawks.
Regardless of the false claims, how does dwarfism affect the abilities of an FAA ATC? Is this just ableism and he's saying the quiet part out loud?
He's never even been quiet about his ableism.
Cool, so let's see his lard ass run a mile.
Let’s see him run ten feet
severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, and other mental and physical conditions
Pot. Kettle.
In its racial categorisation, Nazism viewed what it called the Aryan race as the master race of the world—a race that was superior to all other races.[175] It viewed Aryans as being in racial conflict with a mixed race people, the Jews, whom the Nazis identified as a dangerous enemy of the Aryans. It also viewed a number of other peoples as dangerous to the well-being of the Aryan race. In order to preserve the perceived racial purity of the Aryan race, a set of race laws was introduced in 1935 which came to be known as the Nuremberg Laws. At first these laws only prevented sexual relations and marriages between Germans and Jews, but they were later extended to the "Gypsies, Negroes, and their bastard offspring", who were described by the Nazis as people of "alien blood".[176][177] Such relations between Aryans (cf. Aryan certificate) and non-Aryans were now punishable under the race laws as Rassenschande or "race defilement".[176] After the war began, the race defilement law was extended to include all foreigners (non-Germans).[178] At the bottom of the racial scale of non-Aryans were Jews, Romanis, Slavs[179] and blacks.[180] To maintain the "purity and strength" of the Aryan race, the Nazis eventually sought to exterminate Jews, Romani, Slavs and the physically and mentally disabled.[179][181] Other groups deemed "degenerate" and "asocial" who were not targeted for extermination, but were subjected to exclusionary treatment by the Nazi state, included homosexuals, blacks, Jehovah's Witnesses and political opponents.[181] One of Hitler's ambitions at the start of the war was to exterminate, expel or enslave most or all Slavs from Central and Eastern Europe in order to acquire living space for German settlers.[182]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism
and back we go
Yep. He’s all-in.
But they definitely don't mean the infirm and disabled who voted for this. They, and the minorites who voted for Trump, and the good kind of "degenerates" and will definitely get to eat eggs.
The buck stops with the last guy.
And I just saw on the news that it was the helicopter’s fault.
I mean ... it did identify as an attack helicopter.
Didn't trump just sign a thing accidentally declaring all helicopters MH-6 littlebirds?
Anyone notice the mini-Nazi salute in the picture?
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