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Donald Trump goes on rant about DEI in response to DC plane crash (www.huffpost.com)

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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.

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[-] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 3 points 2 hours ago

The President in particular is very much a figurehead — he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. - HHGTTG

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. - Douglas Adams

[-] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 95 points 17 hours ago

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@lemmy.world 35 points 17 hours ago

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@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

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@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours 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@lemmy.world 67 points 17 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.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago

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

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 42 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

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".

[-] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 18 points 17 hours ago

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

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 3 points 13 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.

[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago

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

[-] wanted_paprika@kbin.earth 24 points 17 hours ago

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.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 18 points 16 hours ago

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.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 13 points 16 hours ago

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

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 16 points 16 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

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago

Fucken woke planes.

[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago

Bro out here looking like an Oompa Loompa’s scrotum

[-] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

🎵 I don't like the look of it 🎵

[-] IHeartBadCode@fedia.io 11 points 17 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.

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