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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, or other mental or physical conditions"

I thought he was talking about his supporters.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 days ago
[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 256 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 118 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 67 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

It's ALL fucking in there. Every day since Jan 20 is in there.

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 35 points 1 week ago

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

Sucks it will affect decent folks.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 196 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] jimjam5@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week 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 134 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So he’s accepting personal responsibility?

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 30 points 1 week 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 113 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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.

He's still bitter over PATCO, 1981

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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 106 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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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[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 90 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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 36 points 1 week ago (6 children)

….

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 89 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Black box is woke dei hire.

wouldn't have happened if white box.

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[–] deacon@lemmy.world 89 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 60 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

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[–] FiremanEdsRevenge@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago (18 children)

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

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 71 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

[–] amon@lemmy.world 65 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Holy hell it's only been 10 days

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 30 points 1 week ago (12 children)

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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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He doesn't actually care who or what is responsible as long as he can tell people it isn't him.

If he had half a brain he would just say investigations are ongoing whenever asked.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If he had half a brain he would just say investigations are ongoing whenever asked.

No because the plan is to blame literally everything that goes wrong on minorities.

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[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, or other mental or physical conditions

So trump is confirming his numerous physical and mental deficiencies?

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[–] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So he blames himself? Refreshing change of pace there.

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[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

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[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 week ago

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

~ super intellectual president

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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 34 points 1 week ago

More Trump projection.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

More correct headline:

Trump yet again lies by making up rambling story about imaginary people causing an airliner crash before the dead bodies have gone cold

Airplane crashes a lot of times are very complicated with a lot of important factors leading up to the crash. This, combined with usually complete carnage and destruction, makes it that typical investigations take weeks, months, sometimes years.

Even if trump had been able to form a coherent message about the cause of this crash it would have been bullshit because never in the history of aviation did we know for certain what the cause of a crash was within 16 hours of a crash. It's. That. Simple.

Then again, this is trump, and no investigation will be made because this will become the official reason, the end

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[–] riskable@programming.dev 32 points 1 week 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"

[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I just want to point out that

Trump announced sweeping personnel changes, including a hiring freeze. But aviation experts said Trump had done little that could have precipitated the crash between a commercial jet from Wichita, Kansas, and a military Black Hawk helicopter. There was simply too little time – less than 10 days after Trump was sworn in – for any of his broadly worded executive orders to have had an effect, experts said.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/31/did-trumps-firing-of-aviation-officials-increase-likelihood-of-dc-crash

He is still an asshole, but the firing had, apparently, as much to do with the crash as DAI programms: nothing at all.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He's blaming everything on DEI and the democrats and black people and the mentally disability (even though he very likely has dyslexia, which might explain why people speculate that he is functionally illiterate). Don't let him have it.

[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

And he's an idiot for doing so. Non the less, if experts who know more about the inner workings say that him firing people had nothing to do with it then I will trust them on it.

I know it makes a nice narrative: Trump blames DAI but is actually the one to blame. But if that narrative doesn't hold up to reality then i think we shouldn't push it forward.

It's bad enoth that he uses the death of humans to scream about his wired anti DAI point. He doesn't need to be responsible for the crash in order to criticise that.

[–] Tramort@programming.dev 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Please bring another slander lawsuit against him

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[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

He's talking about himself

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