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[–] [email protected] 257 points 1 week ago (3 children)

He's going to use this as an excuse to repeal the Americans with Disabilities Act. I'm calling it.

[–] [email protected] 119 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nostradamus [Belle] two days ago:

"If they keep the details quiet [of the recent closed-door meeting], you'll be able to tell what they're going after [in the budget] by listening to their rhetoric".

"They'll start scapegoating a demographic, to try and prime the [voter] base to accept their cuts."

(e.g.) "If they start talking about able-bodied people, it's Medicaid."

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

It's ALL fucking in there. Every day since Jan 20 is in there.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

So many rascal driving MAGAots are about to have their face eaten.

Sucks it will affect decent folks.

[–] [email protected] 198 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sounds like a good description of the guy who just tried to fire the entire FAA.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

He might have been looking in a mirror when thinking of what kind of demographic to blame

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[–] [email protected] 135 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So he’s accepting personal responsibility?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

I'm not suggesting he will accept it willingly, we'll have to force it on him, as he is convicted.

[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Timeline:

Jan 20 - Federal Aviation Administration Director fired.

Jan. 21 - Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen

Jan. 22 - Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded

Jan. 28 - Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees

Jan. 29 - first American mid-air collision in 16 years

By golly, Trump is actually correct. Someone with severe intellectual disabilities did fuck us over.

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think I will blame Trump instead. He was dictator on day one. How could the Orange Turd let this happen!

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

So no idea of really how the crash happened, don't have black boxes yet. But somehow knows it was dei. Right.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (6 children)

….

PAT25(?) announced that they have a visual on the CRJ. ATC instructed them to maintain visual separation and then proceed behind the CRJ. They didn’t. No maydays, no panpans.

It’s pilot deviation or pilot error.

What would you be interested in with the black box? If the TAWS warned the CRJ pilots?

[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Black box is woke dei hire.

wouldn't have happened if white box.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Its like he goes out of his way to project.

Have you ever noticed how absolutely fixated this guy is on assigning people mental issues?

I am officially upgrading that from 🤔 to Ominous.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"We may never find out what caused this terrible tragedy, but rest assured that a minority was involved."

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I agree with trumps sentiment. Old, fat, stupid, senile people should not be in positions that need to make critical decisions.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago (18 children)

You killed 67 people, and it's only been a month of your "presidency."

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor 70 points 1 week ago (4 children)

A month? 10 days, mate. Months have around 30 days, so he still has time to raise that number.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Holy hell it's only been 10 days

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

These 10 days have been the longest decade of my life.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

I only said month because even when he wasn't president yet, they were already making moves like he was. But you are correct it's ONLY been 10 fucking days.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Think of all the covid deaths, place responsibility where it belongs, right in his lap. 1000 deaths on average per week, I don't have the long covid disabilities numbers 'off the top of my head', but they are even more.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He doesn't actually care who or what is responsible as long as he can tell people it isn't him.

If he had half a brain he would just say investigations are ongoing whenever asked.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If he had half a brain he would just say investigations are ongoing whenever asked.

No because the plan is to blame literally everything that goes wrong on minorities.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, or other mental or physical conditions

So trump is confirming his numerous physical and mental deficiencies?

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So he blames himself? Refreshing change of pace there.

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[–] Mouselemming 44 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Report is that one ATC was doing the work that's supposed to be done by two, due to staffing shortages.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago

Helicopters go up. Helicopters go down. They go up. They go down.

~ super intellectual president

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

He blamed it on DEI and NTSB ex chief said trump did more to degrade the safety they’ve built than anyone in 40 years

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

More Trump projection.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

More correct headline:

Trump yet again lies by making up rambling story about imaginary people causing an airliner crash before the dead bodies have gone cold

Airplane crashes a lot of times are very complicated with a lot of important factors leading up to the crash. This, combined with usually complete carnage and destruction, makes it that typical investigations take weeks, months, sometimes years.

Even if trump had been able to form a coherent message about the cause of this crash it would have been bullshit because never in the history of aviation did we know for certain what the cause of a crash was within 16 hours of a crash. It's. That. Simple.

Then again, this is trump, and no investigation will be made because this will become the official reason, the end

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

It's time to preorder Trump's guide to being a good conservative: "Everything bad that happens is the fault of the people I hate"

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

Keep insulting the air traffic controllers that allow AF1 to land safely...

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Please bring another slander lawsuit against him

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

As an autistic person (and no, we don't throw Nazi Salutes as stimming...) I honest to fucking god am so numbed by this guy's bullshit that it is kinda incredible.

All I could think of is how the mentally disabled were the first victims of the holocaust in WW2. Starting in 1939 around the time of the invasion of Poland.

The accident is 100% on Elon Musk and Trump. They fired the FAA safety officials and never replaced them, in addition to cutting massive amounts of funding and personnel that made an accident like this inevitable.

Fuck him. Fuck him HARD.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

He's talking about himself

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Oh hey, we're headed towards useless eaters rhetoric really quickly

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

And Trump knows best, he has all the listed conditions himself.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

He should work a shift as an air traffic controller so that people can understand he's just a regular guy like they are.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Why's he gotta bad talk the president like that.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

And once again, Trump controlled the conversation, and all the actual evidence is out there window for most people.

It would be awesome if there was an unspoken “don’t feed the troll” understanding among journalists, influencers, mods, forum commenters, everyone. When Trump says something outrageously stupid, just… briefly acknowledge it, and then ignore it and proceed as usual. Like he doesn’t exist.

That’s a narcissist’s worst fear.

Sure, he'd bounce around in the conservative echo chamber, but at least he wouldn’t pull more people in.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago
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