this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2025
154 points (97.0% liked)

politics

19616 readers
3731 users here now

Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!

Rules:

  1. Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.

Example:

  1. Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
  2. Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
  3. No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
  4. Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
  5. No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.

That's all the rules!

Civic Links

Register To Vote

Citizenship Resource Center

Congressional Awards Program

Federal Government Agencies

Library of Congress Legislative Resources

The White House

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

Partnered Communities:

News

World News

Business News

Political Discussion

Ask Politics

Military News

Global Politics

Moderate Politics

Progressive Politics

UK Politics

Canadian Politics

Australian Politics

New Zealand Politics

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Summary

Trump blamed diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hiring policies for a fatal plane crash in Washington, D.C., despite no evidence linking them.

He accused the Biden and Obama administrations of lowering FAA safety standards, while ignoring that the crash occurred under his presidency.

His comments sparked backlash, with former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg calling them “despicable” and Sen. Chris Van Hollen condemning the politicization of the tragedy.

top 20 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] FuglyDuck 9 points 5 hours ago

“I have common sense” …. He doesn’t have enough sense to know if he filled his diaper,

[–] Xanthobilly 90 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

DEI is the new ‘fake news.’ Pay attention to his actions not his words. He just established an extrajudicial concentration camp for migrants (and soon anyone else he doesn’t like) at Gitmo. Thats the story, and its time to take action to stop this.

[–] Lasherz12 32 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The way they use it seems to also be swappable with the n-word. Republican lawmakers all seem to be chomping at the bits to express that meaning as some sort of symbolism that they've won the race war hardly anyone else is playing.

[–] dirthawker0 2 points 48 minutes ago (1 children)

This morning I was joking that he'd blame it on DEI because it was a Black Hawk helicopter. Then I heard the fuckstick really did blame it on DEI

[–] Lasherz12 1 points 43 minutes ago

Word association is literally all he offers. Always a very reasonable assumption, eg, asylum seekers are former asylum prisoners. It's so dumb I lose brain cells repeating it.

[–] breadsmasher 66 points 9 hours ago

instead of Federal Aviation Administration safety. “I put safety first – …

Right. Putting safety first.

Like gutting FAA safety. https://apnews.com/article/coast-guard-homeland-security-priorities-committees-trump-tsa-d3e4398c8871ada8d0590859442e092c

The aviation security committee, which was mandated by Congress after the 1988 PanAm 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, will technically continue to exist but it won’t have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports.

And driving out the head of FAA

https://news.yahoo.com/news/faa-administrator-quit-jan-20-045322293.html

A genius at work, folks.

[–] cabron_offsets 13 points 7 hours ago

Fucken woke planes.

[–] ceenote 38 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (3 children)

It boggles my mind that so many people can look at this obvious manchild, who's first to claim credit and last to take responsibility, and think "leader".

[–] givesomefucks 18 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Smart people doubt themselves.

Dumb people see that as weakness.

So dumb people often follow someone dumb, or someone that lies constantly.

In this case, both

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Smart people love getting books as gifts.

Dumb people view the gift of a book as an insult.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Anything to go against what the libs want. They'd vote for a literal narcissistic rapist felon... Wait a minute.

[–] pivot_root 1 points 5 hours ago

Duh. The libs want to censor their media, take away their free speech, and use their position to push their views on others.

Conservatives wouldn't ever legislate to ban "woke" media, block LGBT terms from online social spaces, or do something like try to reunify church and state... Wait a minute.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Well considering that's how a lot of them "lead"....

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

From the experience of living in Poland, be ready for this maniac blaming absolutely everything on Biden. Our conservative party blamed the former prime minister for eight years, even though obviously after eight years the former prime minister no influence over what happened in Poland.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I guess you've never heard of Jimmy Carter.

Carter had four years in office, between Nixon/Ford and then Reagan/Bush.

Somehow, everything bad that happened between 1976 and 2000 was his fault.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

And conversely it could be argued that we still have scars left from Reaganomics. Projection has always been a thing for them.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 hours ago

I say this all the time.

When Reagan came in, 'middle class' was still considered one job supporting a family of four and $1 million was considered a vast fortune.

By the time Bush Sr. was out, 'middle class' was two jobs to keep a house going, and $1 million was what a rich guy paid for a party

[–] thesohoriots 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Bro out here looking like an Oompa Loompa’s scrotum

[–] kmartburrito 1 points 40 minutes ago

🎵 I don't like the look of it 🎵

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 hours ago

Wow what a fucking ghoul. Like there are so few words here that this pile of human garbage deserves and every single one of them is vastly underselling the sheer level of malice this poor excuse for humanity is owed. What an incredibly new low for this failure of evolution to hit and it's painful to know that we're still lightyears from the bottom this sack of shit can reach. Wow, I think at this point I wouldn't be surprised for him to take a literal shit on the grave site of these people.