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Trump blames everyone he can.

“The FAA is actively recruiting workers who suffer severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website,” said Trump, noting that the program allowed for the hiring of people with hearing and vision issues as well as paralysis, epilepsy and “dwarfism.”

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago

They are going to repeal the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Right on par for Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 hours ago

Trump fired flight advisory boards on the 21st.

apnews.com/article/coast-guard-homeland-security-priorities-committees-trump-tsa-d3e4398c8871ada8d0590859442e092c

[–] randon31415 6 points 3 hours ago

Who suffer severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, and other mental and physical conditions

Projection much?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 hours ago

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"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Black hawk collides with plane. Trump thinks a white hawk wouldn't have caused it.

We need more rainbow hawks.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

He's never even been quiet about his ableism.

[–] dual_sport_dork 8 points 5 hours ago

Cool, so let's see his lard ass run a mile.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago

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

Pot. Kettle.

[–] verdantbanana 13 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 3 points 5 hours ago

Yep. He’s all-in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 hours ago

The buck stops with the last guy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

And I just saw on the news that it was the helicopter’s fault.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I mean ... it did identify as an attack helicopter.

[–] Warl0k3 6 points 5 hours ago

Didn't trump just sign a thing accidentally declaring all helicopters MH-6 littlebirds?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago