Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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President Blames D.E.I. and Biden for Crash Under Trump’s Watch
President Trump’s remarks, suggesting without evidence that diversity in hiring and other Biden administration policies somehow caused the disaster, reflected his instinct to immediately frame major events through his political or ideological lens.
President Trump blamed diversity requirements at the Federal Aviation Administration and his two Democratic predecessors for the midair collision over the Potomac River on Wednesday night, saying that standards for air traffic controllers had been too lax.
Mr. Trump cited no evidence, and even admitted when pressed that the investigation had only just begun.
Moments later, he blamed the pilots of the Army helicopter that appeared to fly into a passenger jet that was on final approach to Reagan National Airport, across the river from the capital.
Mr. Trump went back and forth between blaming diversity goals that he said were created by President Barack Obama and President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and then saying that an investigation was necessary.
His instant focus on diversity reflected his instinct to immediately frame major events through his political or ideological lens, whether the facts fit or not.
It is something he has done before: After a terrorist attack in New Orleans a month ago, he blamed illegal immigration, even though the attacker was a U.S. citizen born in Texas.
When asked how he could say that diversity hiring was to blame for the crash even though basic facts about the midair collision were still being sought by investigators, he said, “Because I have common sense.”
“For some jobs, we need the highest level of genius,” he said.
Of the F.A.A. under Mr. Obama, Mr. Trump said: “They actually came out with a directive, too white.”
An audio recording of the air traffic controllers’ warnings to the helicopter just before the crash indicated that a controller first warned the helicopter to look for a Canadair Regional Jet, and then told the helicopter pilot to go behind the jet as it was landing. That exchange will be part of the investigation.
Mr. Trump appeared in the White House briefing room with Vice President JD Vance; the newly sworn-in transportation secretary, Sean Duffy; and the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth. All three men began their comments by praising Mr. Trump’s leadership and repeating that they would eliminate diversity requirements and focus on competence.
Mr. Trump named a new acting head of the Federal Aviation Administration during the news conference; none had been appointed by him until Thursday. The appointee did not speak at the news conference, nor did the head of the National Transportation Safety Board, who was also in the room.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Yup. He just keeps saying what has needed to be said many years ago.
It's why Trump's popularity keeps rising.
Meanwhile... are you fucking kidding me, dude?
This is still "under investigation"?
The US Military knew exactly who was in that chopper and who was flying it. With the tech available to them in current year, EVERYTHING they do is recorded in the military today. The race and sex and name of every individual on that chopper was known before it took off and took 2 seconds to "investigate" by anyone in the government with the clearance.
Just because YOU don't know who was on that helicopter doesn't mean that Trump doesn't already know.
I mean for real man... You think they're sifting through ashes and collecting teeth to match against dental records right now or something? How stupid are you?
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Trump extorts $25 million from Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to settle a vacuous lawsuit that Donald Trump filed against Meta years ago. Why now? Here's all you need to know:
Toward the end of the November dinner, Trump raised the matter of the lawsuit, the people said. The president signaled that the litigation had to be resolved before Zuckerberg could be “brought into the tent,” one of the people said.
A lovely post-election dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Maybe some relaxing chat afterward about Greenland and the Panama Canal. Then Trump "signaled" that the lawsuit had to be "resolved" before Zuckerberg could be "brought into the tent."
This is extortion. Trump, as always, chose the wording of his threats carefully but the meaning was crystal clear and Zuckerberg jumped at the opportunity. What choice did he have?
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-signs-agreement-calling-for-meta
-to-pay-25-million-to-settle-suit-6f734c8c?st=1LZbq2&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
How to charge someone with extortion?
A prosecutor bringing an extortion charge usually needs to show that the defendant acquired or tried to acquire money or something else of value by threatening another person.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Good luck with that.
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"Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?" -- 6ixStringJack
Indeed we do:
America's Deadliest Airliner Crash in 23 Years Happens a Week After Trump Guts Airline Safety Groups
By Victor Tangermann | January 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM CST
https://www.yahoo.com/news/americas-deadliest-airliner-crash-23-151206
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Just over a week after firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard, eliminating all members of a key aviation security advisory group, and freezing all hiring at the Federal Aviation Administration including key air traffic controllers, the United States has experienced its deadliest aviation disaster in nearly 24 years.
The timing of the Trump administration's gutting of aviation safety prior to the crash is impossible to ignore.
Trump posted a chilling update on Truth Social in which he speculated wildly about the event in what sounds a lot like an attempt to deflect blame for the deadliest crash in the US since all 260 people aboard an American Airlines flight died just after takeoff on November 12, 2001, in New York, just two months after 9/11.
The Trump administration's gutting of aviation authorities highlights the potential consequences of throwing the entire federal government into chaos.
The National Transportation Safety Board is now investigating the incident. In the meantime, we should expect to hear more harebrained theories as to what may have led to the crash, considering the sheer amount of disorder the Trump administration has stirred up over its first two weeks.
On that note, multi-hyphenate billionaire and White House advisor Elon Musk — who has previously blamed Black pilots for causing plane crashes without providing any evidence whatsoever — has yet to comment on the matter.
"It will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of DIE," he wrote in a January 9 tweet, a bafflingly racist outburst that intentionally mixed up the letters of the acronym for "diversity, equity, and inclusion."
The deplorable utterance had civil groups horrified at the time.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Watch now, how that story which is tailored to enrage their usual moronic readership gets zero traction and goes nowhere.
And realize how 6 months ago it would have dominated the conversation for the next 3 weeks, but the world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yup. He just keeps saying what has needed to be said many years ago.
It's why Trump's popularity keeps rising.
Meanwhile... are you fucking kidding me, dude?
This is still "under investigation"?
The US Military knew exactly who was in that chopper and who was flying it. With the tech available to them in current year, EVERYTHING they do is recorded in the military today. The race and sex and name of every individual on that chopper was known before it took off and took 2 seconds to "investigate" by anyone in the government with the clearance.
Just because YOU don't know who was on that helicopter doesn't mean that Trump doesn't already know.
I mean for real man... You think they're sifting through ashes and collecting teeth to match against dental records right now or something? How stupid are you?
Ain't looking good buddy...
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1884979350249918876?mx=2
FLASHBACK: FAA turned away qualified air traffic controllers based solely on race
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/feb/1/editorial-faa-turned-a
way-qualified-air-traffic-co/
NOTE: This "Flashback" was written exactly 1 year ago tomorrow.
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A 2013 FAA document, “Controller Hiring by the Numbers,” raised the issue in stark terms, asking, “How much of a change in job performance is acceptable to achieve what diversity goals?”
When failure is measured in human blood, the answer should have been none.
You guys are FUCKED.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The worst people know how to display the outward appearance of being better people, but they have not internalized the rules of better behavior. The worst people reveal their inner rottenness when opportunities arise to profit. The worst will be the worst toward anybody, which brings me to Elon Musk.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Half breeds weren't treated any better than pure bloods. This is my family's truth.
Musk forced the head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to resign because the FAA fined Musk $600,000 for breaking the rules before Trump was elected. A little more than one week after Trump was sworn in, there was a major plane crash in Washington DC caused by a helicopter pilot who felt he could fly wherever he pleased now that Trump is the President who doesn't follow rules. Too bad that Musk fired the head of the FAA but Musk doesn't follow rules, either, just like Trump.
FAA Administrator Quit on Jan. 20 After Elon Musk Told Him to Resign
https://www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-michael-whitaker-quit-on-jan-2
0-after-elon-musk-told-him-to-resign/
Trump does his thing: Trump Fuels Crazy D.C. Plane Crash Theories With Insult to Army Pilots
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fuels-crazy-dc-plane-crash-theorie
s-with-insult-to-army-black-hawk-pilots/
Musk does his thing: Elon Musk Foe Escorted Out of Fed Office After Refusing to Resign
https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-foe-escorted-out-of-fed-office
-after-refusing-to-resign/
A 22-year veteran of the department has been investigating Elon Musk’s brain implant startup Neuralink.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
I know.
And why am I not surprised that he blaming the army for the crash.
We should all know Elon Musk is a crumb of a human being.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Brenda, I am sorry for being annoying.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:The worst people know how to display the outward appearance of being better people, but they have not internalized the rules of better behavior. The worst people reveal their inner rottenness when opportunities arise to profit. The worst will be the worst toward anybody, which brings me to Elon Musk.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Half breeds weren't treated any better than pure bloods. This is my family's truth.
Wow. Don't anybody take it personal when Second quotes you and replies with something completely unrelated.
In an exchange so rare it may as well have been the first time they've ever directly addressed one another, Second just did the exact same thing to Brenda that has been a source of annoyance for me for the last 8 years.
Autism sucks bro. I'm sorry.
6ix, I'm not sorry that my existence annoys you. Where I live in Texas, the people who admire Trump, vote for Trump, and have Trump's loathsome personality traits are superabundant and contaminate what they touch.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Thank you for the apology Second and you weren't really being annoying. I shouldn't have gone off on a tangent.
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It was either the airline's fault or the military's fault.
I have no love for either of them, so I don't care who's fault it is.
But unlike the last 4 years where anything goes, an investigation will be conducted and we will find out who was responsible.
And god help them if it was a DEI hire that killed all those people.
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