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Thursday, January 30, 2025

President Donald Trump blasted the administrations of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, along with diversity, equity and inclusivity (DEI) initiatives within the Federal Aviation Administration ...

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Dems should call for immediate hearings on what caused tonight's plane crash, including the impact of the removal of FAA safety protocols and personnel.

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-- Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts.bsky.social) January 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM

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He wanted all of the perks and none of the responsibilities. What do you expect from the traitor to the United States of America.

#1 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-30 02:02 PM | Reply

What a fat ------- -----.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-01-30 02:11 PM | Reply

Now he's blaming disabled people being hired.

Trump is disabled too. Mentally.

#3 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-01-30 02:15 PM | Reply

This is the man who people consider a leader.

Pathetic really.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-30 02:22 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Too bad he wasn't in the plane or the copter.

Anyone that was is a better human being than him.

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-30 02:24 PM | Reply

Donald Trump Blames Obama, Biden, DEI for DC Plane Crash

But why not Hillary and Benjamin Ghazi?

#6 | Posted by censored at 2025-01-30 02:46 PM | Reply

#3 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE

No he's not.

There's a pending lawsuit on how the FAA denied 1000 or so controller applicants, jobs because of their skin color.

The FAA can't complain there's a controller shortage,
simpleflying.com

Then have 1000s of applicants denied.

FLASHBACK: FAA turned away qualified air traffic controllers based solely on race
www.washingtontimes.com

#7 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-30 02:50 PM | Reply


Anyone that was is a better human being than him.
#5 | POSTED BY CORKYTHEBIGOT

So not you, or anyone you know.

#8 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-30 02:52 PM | Reply

1Nut's English as a second language teacher has a lot of 'splainin' to do.... mostly to him.

#9 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-30 03:36 PM | Reply

oneironut-

you are wrong as usual.

www.yahoo.com

Trump Is Now Blaming People With Disabilities for D.C. Plane Crash

During a news conference Thursday, Trump cited a "big push to put diversity into the [Federal Aviation Administration]'s program," which he insisted happened before his second term began.

"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,"

Take the L and move on.

#10 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-01-30 03:46 PM | Reply

Also, trump gut the aviation safety council on January 22nd, and now he wonders where all the people are.

THIS IS TRUMPS FAULT.

#11 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-01-30 03:47 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Breaking: Control tower staffing was "not normal" during plane crash, F.A.A. report says

- Also, Trump fired 400 FAA senior officials, the head of TSA, and 3000 air traffic controllers in the first week of office

~ Wajahat Ali ~

The Trump air crash killed 67.

#12 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-30 03:56 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 6

The Blues Brothers - Jake's Excuses

#13 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-01-30 04:40 PM | Reply

Reporter: "Do you have a plan to go visit the site?"

Trump: "I have a plan to visit, not the site. Because you tell me, what's the site? The water? You want me to go swimming?"

What a scumbag.

#14 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-30 04:50 PM | Reply

January 20: The FAA administrator quits after Elon Musk told him to resign.

January 23: The Trump administration puts out a fact sheet titled "PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP ENDS DEI MADNESS AND RESTORES EXCELLENCE AND SAFETY WITHIN THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION"

January 29th: Helicopter collides with passenger jet at Reagan National Airport

January 30th: "Staffing at the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport was "not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic," according to an internal preliminary Federal Aviation Administration safety report about the collision that was reviewed by The New York Times. The controller who was handling helicopters in the airport's vicinity Wednesday night was also instructing planes that were landing and departing from its runways. Those jobs typically are assigned to two controllers, rather than one."

Are we winning yet, MAGA?

#15 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-01-30 05:08 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

What a scumbag.
#14 | Posted by reinheitsgebot

He forgot what the word "boat" means.

#16 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-01-30 05:09 PM | Reply

White guy was flying the plane.
White guy was flying the helicopter.------------- gutted the FAA last week.

#17 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-30 09:23 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

This is the kind of classless bulls*&^ that makes MAGA so reprehensible.

#18 | Posted by jpw at 2025-01-30 10:07 PM | Reply

Pilot behind Miracle on the Hudson' 2009 landing reacts to crash
CNN reports that in response to President Donald Trump blaming the crash on diversity initiatives in the government, Former US Airways Capt. Chelsey Sullenberger, the pilot behind the Miracle on the Hudson' 2009 landing said:

"An airplane cannot know or care who the pilot is " what their skin tone is, what gender they are. All it can know is what control inputs are made, and everyone depends upon them being the most skillful and appropriate ones."

#19 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-30 10:09 PM | Reply

They have found both of the recorders so the NTSB will be able to determine if anyone was speaking jive.

#20 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-01-31 01:02 AM | Reply

DOGE is a prolific killer.

#21 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-31 08:17 AM | Reply

DEI was responsible for all of the-------------'s bankruptcies.

#22 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-31 09:05 AM | Reply

Are we pretending this wasn't a failure of competence?

#23 | Posted by bootyhunter at 2025-01-31 11:46 AM | Reply

The Obama administration's new biographical test was blatantly rigged to boost blacks and hurt whites by leaning in to anti-black stereotypes. From the lawsuit against the FAA filed by the Mountain States Legal Foundation:

... a candidate could be awarded 15 points, the highest possible for any question, if they indicated that their lowest grades in high school were in science ... . In contrast, an applicant was awarded only 2 points if they had a pilot's certificate and no points were awarded for having a Control Tower Operator rating or having Instrument Flight Rules experience ... . In addition, one question on the Biographical Questionnaire awarded an applicant 10 points, the most available for that question, if the applicant answered s/he had not been employed in the prior three years. Another question awarded 4 or 8 points if the applicant had been unemployed five or more months in the prior three years. Statistics from the Department of Labor indicate that African Americans had the highest unemployment rate in 2010"2014.

#24 | Posted by bootyhunter at 2025-01-31 11:48 AM | Reply

DOGE DEIncompetence is a prolific killer.

#25 | Posted by bootyhunter at 2025-01-31 11:49 AM | Reply

"Are we pretending this wasn't a failure of competence?"

Nah.

We're pretending even if all the folks in the helicopter were WASPs...

...it's still the black guys' fault.

#26 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-01-31 11:55 AM | Reply

"Are we pretending this wasn't a failure of competence?"

Lewzer blames the helicopter, so he has obviously been told the pilot was not a straight white man.

#27 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-01-31 11:58 AM | Reply

Trump said they lowered standards during the Obama and Biden years. And in his first term, he raised those standards.

The Captain of the plane was so good, he was a certified flight instructor.

Better yet: He became a Captain 6 years ago...RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY.

#28 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-01-31 12:25 PM | Reply

January 20: FAA director fired
January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years

Deplorable Trumping MAGAts: DEI was to blame!

Nothing screams "White Supremacist" more than scapegoating minorities for the actions of incompetent white men.

#29 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-31 01:03 PM | Reply

#17 Misrepresented info or not. You decide. Maybe Trump had preliminary info. It has been reported that a highly depressed female transgender dysphoric was flying the helicopter. tribune.com.pk

x.com

#30 | Posted by Robson at 2025-01-31 02:36 PM | Reply

It the posted by line is Robson, it's bullshht.

#31 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-31 02:40 PM | Reply

#17 Misrepresented info or not. You decide. Maybe Trump had preliminary info. It has been reported that a highly depressed female transgender dysphoric was flying the helicopter. tribune.com.pk

x.com

#30 | Posted by Robson

Yeah "it's been reported" by the same people who "reported" that obama had a fake birth certificate.

#32 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-31 02:57 PM | Reply

Whatever happened it is a huge tragedy. That Twitter link above is new video that shows the helicopter flying directly into the descending plane.

#33 | Posted by Robson at 2025-01-31 03:05 PM | Reply

Well we have two names of white males, the crew chief (not a pilot) and the instructor pilot (there to checkflight the other pilot), but the third crew member, female, who was the pilot, remains unnamed.
Very interesting. What are they trying to hide?
Ackhawk outside checkflight parameters, steers straight for plane with landing lights burning ...
Could this possibly be a murder suicide by disgruntled trans? No way she accidentally ran into the plane.
Just no way.

#34 | Posted by bootyhunter at 2025-01-31 07:41 PM | Reply

-------- like daddyfist tried to pin the crash on a trans pilot.

www.nbcnews.com

#35 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-31 07:46 PM | Reply

The usual suspect rwing 'media' outlets were propagandizing that the pilot was a trans person DEI hire.

But their attempt at Fake Narrative when to hell when that person posted that she is alive.

#36 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-31 07:46 PM | Reply

I knew it was a woman's fault!

#37 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-31 07:47 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

TRANSTERROR? Was the Blackhawk pilot actively trying to hit a passenger jet? Flight tracking seems to show that the pilot had three near misses before hitting the American Airlines jet. pic.twitter.com/vjWUqV7zPN

#38 | Posted by bootyhunter at 2025-01-31 07:55 PM | Reply | Funny: 3

TRANSTERROR has gripped the Republican Party!

Be sacred! Very very scared.

#39 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-31 08:00 PM | Reply

"Pilots have long worried about DC's complex airspace contributing to a catastrophe

Even in peak flying conditions the airspace around Reagan Washington National Airport can challenge the most experienced pilots."

www.nbcwashington.com

#40 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-31 08:01 PM | Reply

They could clear this up one way or the other by simply releasing the name, as is customary and correct.
It's gonna come out eventually. They're probably trying to scrub everything first.

#41 | Posted by bootyhunter at 2025-01-31 08:01 PM | Reply

The------------- needs to explain why planes are falling out of the sky every other day.

#42 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-31 08:06 PM | Reply

"At the request of the family, the name of the third Soldier will not be released at this time. That pilot is also DUSTWUN."

www.army.mil

#43 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-31 08:10 PM | Reply

The Department of Army identifies two of three Army Soldiers involved in Helicopter Crash

Army soldiers aka suckers and losers according to Putin's bitch.

#44 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-31 08:14 PM | Reply

Most likely though, this was a Proud Boy Pilot who's assignment was to create a distraction from Trump's Tariffs and other idiotic moves.

Also an opportunity for Trump to racist about DEI hires. Win-win.

(if libs were conspiracy fanatics)

#45 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-31 08:16 PM | Reply

Whatever happened it is a huge tragedy.

#33 | Posted by Robson

Made worse by the president immediately politicizing it and blaming his opponents, despite his attacks on air traffic controllers.

#46 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-31 08:18 PM | Reply

but the third crew member, female, who was the pilot, remains unnamed.
Very interesting. What are they trying to hide?

Who is they? The family? That's an easy answer, since it's her family that's refusing to release her name. Tell me you can figure this out. It's really simple. Stop here and think for a few minutes before reading the next paragraph...

Have you figured it out, yet?

Trump just went out there, blamed the military, blamed DEI, blamed ATC, blamed the FAA, Biden, Obama, people of color, disabled people and women - and you want her family to put the bullseye on themselves and her with all you fccked up looney tunes wackjobs foaming at the mouth?

#47 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-31 08:25 PM | Reply

Depeche Mode - People Are People (1984)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...
genius.com

...
People are people, so why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully?

People are people, so why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully?

[Verse 1: Dave Gahan]
So we're different colours and we're different creeds
And different people have different needs

It's obvious you hate me, though I've done nothing wrong
I've never even met you, so what could I have done?

[Pre-Chorus: Martin L. Gore]
I can't understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
...



#48 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-01 02:26 AM | Reply

'The family' doesn't get a choice. They have a right to be notified first, but they don't get to squelch transparency.
I challenge you to show me one other case of a family preventing disclosure of any similar incident involving government personnel.

#49 | Posted by bootyhunter at 2025-02-01 10:18 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Will she be 'Jane Doe' for the investigation?

#50 | Posted by bootyhunter at 2025-02-01 10:20 AM | Reply

If you were to ram a schoolbus with your car, could your family prevent your name from being mentioned?

#51 | Posted by bootyhunter at 2025-02-01 10:22 AM | Reply

If you were to ram a schoolbus with your car, could your family prevent your name from being mentioned?

#51 | Posted by bootyhunter

The name is being held because someone is worried that MAGA will target the family; because it was their female child who piloted the helicopter and Donald invoked a misogynist meme about her.

#52 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-01 10:29 AM | Reply

#51 | Posted by bootyhunter

Is it that you don't understand or won't admit what nasty people you are?

#53 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-01 10:30 AM | Reply

'The family' doesn't get a choice.

#49 | Posted by bootyhunter

Nobody gets a choice. That's the MAGA way.

How's that egg sandwich?

#54 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-01 10:32 AM | Reply

"If you were to ram a schoolbus with your car, could your family prevent your name from being mentioned?"

Interesting question. You think the military is gonna be ramming school buses full of children now that a criminally negligent incompetent narcissist serial sex abuser (and don't forget convicted felon) is in charge?

But to answer your question. Yes. If it was the military on a secret or even not so secret training mission. Yes. At least while the NTSB investigation was still under way.

#55 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-02-01 11:10 AM | Reply

Conspiracy theories are created in the absence of transparency. Unbelievable and without precedence that the name of the Blackhawk pilot is being witheld at request of family. Those involved in deadly accidents that affect the public do not get discretion to be anonymous.

#56 | Posted by Robson at 2025-02-01 12:34 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"Unbelievable and without precedence ... "

Sums up this administration nicely.

The use of the word "unprecedented" has become unprecedented in Trumplandia.

#57 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-02-01 12:40 PM | Reply

When the actual information in finally, inevitably, revealed, many people will associate it with the already supplied and debunked conspiracy theory. The well has been poisoned, and relevant social media cleansed before info release. Was there a 'manifesto', a note of some sort? we'll never know.

#58 | Posted by bootyhunter at 2025-02-01 12:44 PM | Reply

'The family' doesn't get a choice.

Your taste for her blood and the blood of her family is palpable in your posts.

Conspiracy theories are created in the absence of transparency.

No, that's the way it used to be. Now you choose to be deceived because if feels right, or because you don't put in the work to inform yourselves, so you get your information from crap places like Facebook, Instagram, Fox "news", or the biggest liar of them all - Trump.

Let me see if I can prove to you how this works. Answer this simple question:
Was Joe Biden legally elected to the office of President of the United States in a fair election?

#59 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-01 02:00 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

No answer?

#60 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-01 07:13 PM | Reply

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