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[–] 257 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 118 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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."

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  • [–] 198 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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    [–] 135 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So he’s accepting personal responsibility?

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  • [–] 113 points 2 years 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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    [–] 106 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 90 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years 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?

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  • [–] 89 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Black box is woke dei hire.

    wouldn't have happened if white box.

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    [–] 89 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 60 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 57 points 2 years ago (18 children)

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

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  • [–] 71 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

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    [–] 56 points 2 years 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.

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    [–] 48 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 46 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So he blames himself? Refreshing change of pace there.

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    [–] 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago

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

    ~ super intellectual president

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    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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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago

    More Trump projection.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years 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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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    Trump yet again lies by making up rambling story about imaginary people

    You could have said the same thing about the eating dogs and cats diatribe.

    He's lampshading the next groups he's going to round up. I bet there's going to be an expansion of mental health intake and transfers of the "criminal" insane to the new camps that are getting opened up.

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    [–] 32 points 2 years 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"

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years 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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    [–] 31 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago

    He's talking about himself

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Please bring another slander lawsuit against him

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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    [–] 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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    [–] 21 points 2 years 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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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years 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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    Magically, for 16 years none of these issues resulted in this outcome

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    So he actually blames himself. Fair enough

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