Cashing in on a tragedy

Stalin

Stalin

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Predictably, the personality disorder who lied his way into the white house has tried to make political capital out of the plane crash in washington dc

For "enemies" of the united states, this clown is a gift that keeps on giving

there is no new low that he cannot reach;

Equally predictably, he was backed by his lickspittles, to the hilt

"..Trump continued to turn what might have been a sombre briefing into a baseless rant against DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) despite no evidence of a link with the plane crash.

The president was backed to the hilt by the transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, who said “we can only accept the best and the brightest” in positions affecting passenger safety, and the defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, who echoed: “The era of DEI is gone at the defence department and we need the best and brightest.”

www.theguardian.com

Washington DC plane crash: Trump blames diversity policies and ‘confluence of bad decisions’ as officials say no survivors – latest

President turns collision briefing into rant about diversity policies despite no evidence linking DEI to the crash that killed more than 60 people
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

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Honestly I agree with you on this one. It was not the time to play politics.

There is a practical issue also. He is pushing for the highest standards for controllers. They were under staffed at the time of this crash. Higher standards could make it harder to have enough people. I'm not saying we need to hire brain dead people but despite the lower standards we are still having trouble having enough of them.
 
Starcastle said:
Honestly I agree with you on this one. It was not the time to play politics.

There is a practical issue also. He is pushing for the highest standards for controllers. They were under staffed at the time of this crash. Higher standards could make it harder to have enough people. I'm not saying we need to hire brain dead people but despite the lower standards we are still having trouble having enough of them.
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i.e. All o' that budget-slashing / fewer-regulations bullshit is finally catching-up....again....to you "conservatives"????
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Ya' gotta wonder....is it just a coincidence that "conservatives" get so introspective....around the same time a lotta folks die??
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"The problem was already a public health travesty. There were 36,000 auto fatalities in the U.S. in 1955. Excluding a small dip, to the mid-25,000’s, in the late war years of 1942-1945, when most young men were fighting overseas, over 30,000 Americans had died on the road in car crashes every year since 1930. These numbers were well known at the time. So let’s imagine what good leadership could have done in intervening decades, for America and the world, if Ike had made interstate auto safety (for all cars that want to drive at high speeds) as important a political issue as interstate highways."
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Newspapers not owned by the despicable Rupert Murdoch and similar WarParty lickspittles who own the "mass media"
do not share the view of the joke who has done more to damage the United States than Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev or Saddam Hussein
could, or ever do.

"..Outrages of Donald Trump’s rancid character topple over each other so rapidly and in such volume that they long ago became banal. His vileness is unremarked upon, his rottenness unworthy of further commentary. Trump’s offensiveness is an unspoken assumption. Rules and norms exist for him to break. More, he is rewarded. Meta, after discarding monitoring of hateful content and disinformation on Facebook, is paying him $25m in tribute to settle his lawsuit against it for having banned him after his attempted coup on January 6 and his potential “instances of violence” and threats to “public safety”. All is forgiven, if not forgotten. There are no gates; there are no gatekeepers. Let the bad times roll.

But Trump crashed through a new boundary after an army helicopter collided with an airliner about to land at Washington’s Reagan National airport on 29 January with the loss of 67 lives. While police and firefighters were still recovering bodies from the Potomac River, before any report from the National Transportation Safety Board and evidence was fully gathered, Trump went on TV to spew blame against enemies within and to deflect responsibility.

The Federal Aviation Authority administrator, Michael Whitaker, serving a five-year term that was supposed to end in 2028, was forced out by Elon Musk. On 24 September of last year, the FAA fined Musk’s SpaceX company $633,000 for launching rockets without a permit. “I think safety is in the public interest, and that’s our primary focus,” Whitaker testified to the House transportation committee. The administrator position was vacant at the time of the crash.

The day after Trump’s inauguration he not only fired the members of the aviation security advisory committee, created in 1989 after the terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103 that exploded over Lockerbie in Scotland, but also eliminated the committee entirely. It had recently proposed new regulations for airline safety.

The morning after the crash, Trump warmed to his blaming exercise, expanding his targets as he went on. He began by blaming the policy to hire disabled people as air traffic controllers, saying they suffered, among other disabilities, from “severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism”. The policy, in fact, was in effect during his previous administration.

Then he blamed “the FAA’s diversity and inclusion hiring plan”, which he falsely claimed was responsible for the hiring of disabled people. They have been hired under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, a signature achievement of President George HW Bush.

www.theguardian.com

The tragic air collision revealed Trump’s rancid, irredeemable character once again | Sidney Blumenthal

Trump’s pretense as king has quickly devolved into his strutting insult routine. He will always exploit tragedy to display his self-regard
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www.theguardian.com

The low keep getting lower, as shown by Trump’s response to the DC plane crash

When asked about his plans to visit the crash site, Trump made a joke: ‘The water? You want me to go swimming?’
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

comrade stalin
moscow
 
In this latest example of a race to the bottom, Trump's lickspittle cabinet, chosen from the worse of his sycophants
stepped up to the plate parroting worst of his "facts"

"Trump isn’t the only one using a tragedy to attack DEI programs. Fox’s Jesse Watters said on Wednesday that the crash may have been the result of the Obama-Biden administration trying to give jobs to “dwarves” and “people with transgender issues”.

JD Vance has similarly insinuated that even if they can’t find any minorities or women to directly blame for the crash, it was still somehow the fault of DEI. “When you don’t have the best standards in who you’re hiring, it means on the one hand, you’re not getting the best people in government,” the vice-president said in a press conference on Thursday. “But on the other hand, it puts stresses on the people who are already there.”

This sort of rhetoric isn’t just disgusting; it puts people at risk. Viral posts have been circulating online falsely identifying Jo Ellis, a transgender pilot with the Virginia national guard, as one of the pilots of the Black Hawk helicopter. One account spreading the lies wrote: “So now that the pilot of the Blackhawk has been identified as Jo Ellis, a transgender woman, can we admit Trump was right about the entire thing, or is it too soon?” Poor Ellis has had to release a statement on Facebook as “proof of life” in response to these posts.

The fact that the Maga crowd immediately blamed DEI for this tragedy is depressingly predictable. It’s been a longstanding talking point among Trumpers that DEI is to blame for all the ills of the world. When there was a safety incident on a Boeing plane last year, for example, Elon Musk went on a baseless rant about how the aviation industry had “prioritized DEI hiring over safety”. He also seemed to endorse a racist tweet suggesting students at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have lower IQs and therefore shouldn’t become pilots.

To be clear, this is what the Trump crowd’s obsession with DEI is really about: plain old bigotry. Elon Musk has called DEI “just another word for racism”, and he is right, just not in the way he thinks. DEI has become a slur; a nasty euphemism for Black people, brown people, LGBTQ+ people and everyone else Trumpers hate. What the Maga crowd seem to be saying every time they talk about DEI and meritocracy is that they think white people, particularly white men, are innately superior to everyone else. What they are saying is that they think the least qualified white man is still more qualified than the most qualified woman of colour.

www.theguardian.com

The low keep getting lower, as shown by Trump’s response to the DC plane crash

When asked about his plans to visit the crash site, Trump made a joke: ‘The water? You want me to go swimming?’
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

comrade stalin
moscow
 
After a few days have gone by we have found out a few things.

One of the reasons we have staffing issues is because they have turned down perfectly qualified white applicants for more than a decade. We have been doing this since the Obama administration.

Also 1000 air traffic controllers were fired or forced to take retirement for not taking the Covid vaccine. That is a 7% reduction.

Another interesting thing that has come up is that there is immunity for these people. You can have a complete fuck up on the job and almost cause and accident and they will not fire you. They put you in re training. :cautious:

So libtard policies are the problem.
 
Starcastle said:
After a few days have gone by we have found out a few things.

One of the reasons we have staffing issues is because they have turned down perfectly qualified white applicants for more than a decade. We have been doing this since the Obama administration.

Also 1000 air traffic controllers were fired or forced to take retirement for not taking the Covid vaccine. That is a 7% reduction.

Another interesting thing that has come up is that there is immunity for these people. You can have a complete fuck up on the job and almost cause and accident and they will not fire you. They put you in re training. :cautious:

So libtard policies are the problem.
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Some real data would be useful, but one cannot have everything

I think you missed this bit

"The day after Trump’s inauguration he not only fired the members of the aviation security advisory committee, created in 1989 after the terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103 that exploded over Lockerbie in Scotland, but also eliminated the committee entirely. It had recently proposed new regulations for airline safety.""

ibid

Funny how these unqualified people did not have a fatal for 20 years...

now when josiah blowhard comes into power there are two..after sacking the safety committe

this guy cannot help himself

remind me where the buck stops

comrade stalin
washington
 
Starcastle said:
3c18190fe9babe79a9024531e755cbaf[1].webp After a few days have gone by we have found out a few things.

One of the reasons we have staffing issues is because they have turned down perfectly qualified white applicants for more than a decade. We have been doing this since the Obama administration.
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Starcastle said:
One of the reasons we have staffing issues is because they have turned down perfectly qualified white applicants for more than a decade. We have been doing this since the Obama administration.
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Prove it. Real data. Not MAGA fantasy

Comrade Stalin
Gaza
 
It is not hard to see the real agenda here.

It could not possibly be the much vaunted massively over-hyped us military that caused this air crash.

After all, in a virtual military dictatorship, nothing cannot be allowed to stop WarParty apparatchiks and their hacks
from going to the supermarket in a chopper

no no no no no...absolutely not

so course it must be the air traffic controllers, who'se union was destroyed by the useless reagan, and who for some
strange reason have difficulty getting the right stuff, who are at fault..

despite the controller telling them to avoid the jet.

such is the slow motion disintegration that has become the modern usa.

Amerika's enemies, real and imagined, must be feasting on this cavalcade of incompetence and stupidity.

Comrade Stalin
Safe in Moscow
 
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