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[-] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 250 points 2 months ago

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

[-] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 112 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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."

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 64 points 2 months ago
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[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 33 points 2 months ago

So many rascal driving MAGAots are about to have their face eaten.

Sucks it will affect decent folks.

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 192 points 2 months ago

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

[-] jimjam5@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

He might have been looking in a mirror when thinking of what kind of demographic to blame

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[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 132 points 2 months ago

So he’s accepting personal responsibility?

[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 28 points 2 months ago

I'm not suggesting he will accept it willingly, we'll have to force it on him, as he is convicted.

[-] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 109 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] wellheh@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 2 months ago

It's mind boggling anyone would even try to dismantle the FAA- they're one of the most boring organizations out there and their #1 concern is safety. There's even tons of money to be made while worrying about safety, so it is so odd to do this. Trying to reduce air traffic controllers is an insane idea in general- without them everyone's flying blind. It's gonna take decades to figure out all the damage this moron has done just like with Reagan

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[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 102 points 2 months ago

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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[-] deacon@lemmy.world 87 points 2 months ago

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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[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 87 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So no idea of really how the crash happened, don't have black boxes yet. But somehow knows it was dei. Right.

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 months ago

….

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?

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 84 points 2 months ago

Black box is woke dei hire.

wouldn't have happened if white box.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 58 points 2 months ago

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

[-] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

I agree with trumps sentiment. Old, fat, stupid, senile people should not be in positions that need to make critical decisions.

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[-] FiremanEdsRevenge@lemmy.world 56 points 2 months ago

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

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

[-] amon@lemmy.world 63 points 2 months ago

Holy hell it's only been 10 days

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago

These 10 days have been the longest decade of my life.

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[-] FiremanEdsRevenge@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

I only said month because even when he wasn't president yet, they were already making moves like he was. But you are correct it's ONLY been 10 fucking days.

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[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 28 points 2 months ago

Think of all the covid deaths, place responsibility where it belongs, right in his lap. 1000 deaths on average per week, I don't have the long covid disabilities numbers 'off the top of my head', but they are even more.

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[-] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 43 points 2 months ago

So he blames himself? Refreshing change of pace there.

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[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 41 points 2 months ago

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

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 months ago

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

~ super intellectual president

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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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[-] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 33 points 2 months ago

More Trump projection.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 31 points 2 months 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"

[-] Tramort@programming.dev 30 points 2 months ago

Please bring another slander lawsuit against him

[-] aquinteros@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

yeah, he is god emperor immune... that's a waste of time

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[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

He's talking about himself

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 30 points 2 months ago

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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[-] DrFistington@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago

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

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

He should work a shift as an air traffic controller so that people can understand he's just a regular guy like they are.

[-] hovercat 15 points 2 months ago

People are already suffering and dying because of him, let's not make it any easier for him to take lives.

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[-] formergijoe@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

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

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago
[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Magically, for 16 years none of these issues resulted in this outcome

[-] meathorse@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Next time AF1 goes for a jaunt to pedo-island, the air traffic controllers that trump is insulting have an opportunity to become really American heroes...

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[-] aarRJaay@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago

And yet one of them is in the White House running things

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He’s projecting again

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