You will never convince me he is not Russia's boytoy here. Putin has got to be grinning his ass off right now
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I also tend to grin when I'm getting my dick sucked.
I was reading the BBC live updates of the 'briefing' where Trump 'answered questions.' Starts at 17:21 if you scroll down.
Of course he blames it on DEI hires. He also blamed the helicopter and later said it was because of 'practicing.'
Why does he think it's DEI hires, you ask? Well, Trump answered, and I quote: "Because I have common sense, and unfortunately a lot of people don't."
What the actual fuck. Donald "I have common sense" fucking Trump. Lmfao.
European politics is like a mirror at this point. A UK politician basically said virtually exactly the same thing, "I don't make mistakes", a few days ago, and then proceeded to make an absolute tit of themselves 24 hours later.
Who?
What an absolute lunatic, we should never let the GOP live this down. Rub this in their faces, ongoingly. Never forget! Never Let Up!
You have to rub literal tons of cash into their face before you can rub their face into the mess they created. It also helps to be Russian. I don't know I'm just sayin'.
GOD DAMN DEI HIRES
Just look at this:
Rich people = Less than 10% of US population
US Cabinet = Rich people are basically all of them
God Damn DEI and the minority (Rich People) runing everything.
How did a DEMENTED OLD CONVICTED FELON became president?
Fucking woke AF
Go to a old people prison
jesus fucking christ
I’m sorry but this is almost certainly unrelated to the crash. High level firings aren’t going to suddenly make air traffic controllers bad at their jobs a week later.
In a year if there’s a major airline disaster you can start pointing the finger at Trump.
That's not what juxtaposition means. It doesn't mean thing A is caused by thing B, it just means that thing A and thing B appearing next to each other produce an interesting association.
@[email protected] this is an important distinction with this post. It's explicitly saying they are unrelated by saying it's a juxtaposition.
You might can point the finger sooner, just not for the reason OP hints at. The helicopter was military, and there a closer link to Trump and his administration given that. I wouldn't jump to conclusions, but he is already blaming DEI, because of course he is.
I mean it was a Black Hawk, that seems like a DEI hire. /s
Black Hawk Tuah is the cause of the crash!
(Also /s, of course)
Nice.
There are layers to this comment.
An ogre of a thread
They did say they wanted the military to be more lethal. Didn't think they'd start with such soft targets as domestic passenger airlines though.
Well, DEI makes the pilots gay and everybody knows what the gays do when there's a stiff stick in front of them. It's so simple.
My brother works for the FAA. It's been fucked for a while now and Trump isn't gonna make it better. They are dangerously understaffed.
That being said, yeah this wasn't Trump's or the FAA's fault. The helicopter pilot was told to maintain visual separation with the landing plane and then didn't do so.
I heard on NPR this morning that the ATC said “do you see the plane” without specifying which plane. There was another larger plane taking off at the same time. So could be partly ATC’s fault.
That being said nothing like this happens without multiple failures by multiple people.
The audio is out there, being pretty familiar with air accidents and radio call outs:
ATC wasn't clear, they just said "go behind that plane", yet if you listen to literally any of the other ATC callouts in the surrounding 10m they're all proper with heading and altitude like "AAL111 go to 3000' and hold heading 270", yet with the helo he just says "go behind them"
The helicopter doesn't change heading at all and just basically plows into the passenger jet (from what I can see on the ATC map anyway), so I think either they misjudged their speed vs the jet they hit or mistook it for another jet
Either way: ATC should have been more clear, heli pilot should have asked for clarification before proceeding without any change or even slowed when the uncertain command came through
Black Box Down is a good podcast to hear a bunch of incidents similar with communication being a huge issue in most of them
Do they have an episode on Flight 800? I'd be really interested to hear that.
Did they also receive the federal employee "buy out" email yesterday morning? I'd imagine that would induce a lot of unnecessary added stress.
Don't be sorry. No one said that this was direct causation. It is merely irony.
It doesn't need to be sudden. It's a fucking problem.
Or it's enough of a distraction that some standard protocols failed due to a psychological shift of confidence in the employees.
This is the correct answer.
Trump news conference is insane. "This is all DEI's fault". Any personnel that will have wrong race or gender despite their hiring date will be "all of their fault". Certainly anything that goes wrong in government in future, is that one black woman's fault, too.
People need to remember this as they look for hope that people will suddenly turn on Trump. Rather than the right wing media politicizing shit, it comes straight from the president. The right wing dittoheads nod along and act like headless repeaters.
Remember how LA’s lesbian fire chief who had like more than two decades of firefighting experience was a “DEI hire”? (She was in part hired to clean up a culture of sexual harassment and rape cover ups - which is what they really don’t like.)
Reminds me of boondocks when they blame the "false" uncle ruckus test results on a black intern they didn't know about.
I suppose it adds a spin on "thanks Obama"
That's what I heard (made up) Obama made this happen to make trumpy look bad. /s in case it's necessary.
But the price of eggs!
We don’t need the TSA or FAA for eggs. Chickens can fly.
Yeah but who’s gonna make sure only the right coloured cocks do the flying?
Hopefully this is his "fuck the TPP" Moment of the presidency where it makes everyone chill the fuck out with airport security theater.
A broken watch is right twice a day, that stupid netflix film is wrong, TSA are a bunch of assholes and always have been.
I remember flying into the US before 9/11 and it wasn't like you could just walk around with a bomb. They really don't achieve anything that wasn't already being done.
I get sort of why security theater happens but what I don't understand is why they seem pathologically incapable of giving coherent instructions or in fact holding on to things that they've just taken off you. "Oh you have an expensive camera that has been purposely engineered to be easy to hold" *proceeds to immediately drops it
yeah, some security is necessary , absolutely. Stop making me get undressed and fold and unfold a pram every six seconds. Don't make us dump every fucking fluid we have.
Fuck Trump and everything he stands for, but I wouldn't be sad seeing TSA's security theater recede.
I didn't hear about that, did he fire those people right before the crash?
They were fired about 9 days prior to the incident.
You're right, happened on the 21st.
apnews.com/article/coast-guard-homeland-security-priorities-committees-trump-tsa-d3e4398c8871ada8d0590859442e092c
wow that's crazy.
That's the real question.
those firings happened on the 21st.
apnews.com/article/coast-guard-homeland-security-priorities-committees-trump-tsa-d3e4398c8871ada8d0590859442e092c
Remember when abolishing TSA was an anti-Bush liberal cause - a defense of basic civil liberties against encroaching fascism? Now Trump says something negative about the TSA and the liberals reflexively jump to its defense.
Fuck Trump, fuck the TSA, and fuck anyone whose politics change with the weather.