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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day 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 1 day ago
[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 113 points 2 days ago (2 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.

[–] wellheh@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago
[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 31 points 2 days ago (3 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.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 60 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

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

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 255 points 3 days 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 115 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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 66 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

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

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

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[–] aarRJaay@lemm.ee 16 points 2 days ago

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

...or understaffed air traffic control where controllers have to do 2 jobs at once. Then you have a helicopter pilot who was not following ATC instructions.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 197 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Guitarfun@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Nepotism(hiring unqualified friends and family) is far more rampant and way more destructive than DEI policies ever could be. DEI policies may help unqualified people gain low level positions, but with nepotism it's usually high level positions.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

So he actually blames himself. Fair enough

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The fucknut Orange Nero described himself.

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[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

He's talking about himself

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

Please bring another slander lawsuit against him

[–] aquinteros@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 134 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So he’s accepting personal responsibility?

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

For those keeping score, in his journey to fuhrer, you can mark this spot on your "classification of people Trump will put in camps" bingo card.

[–] deacon@lemmy.world 89 points 3 days 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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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 105 points 3 days 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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[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 34 points 3 days 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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[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 90 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (18 children)

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

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[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 54 points 3 days ago (4 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.

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[–] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So he blames himself? Refreshing change of pace there.

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[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

He's talking about himself, isn't Trump?

[–] Ziggy@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

He must be talking about Elon

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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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[–] specterspectre@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, refuting an argument by saying "other stuff is at fault" is the work of a true well educated and informed intellectual.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 6 points 2 days ago

Blaming yourself won't help the families, Don.

[–] splonglo@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

that's a coinidence, guess what I'm going to blame America's impending economic crash on?

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[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 42 points 3 days 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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[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 48 points 3 days 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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[–] FiremanEdsRevenge@lemmy.world 57 points 3 days ago (30 children)

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

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 71 points 3 days 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 3 days ago (5 children)

Holy hell it's only been 10 days

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[–] meathorse@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I agree that it is the fault of people with severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, or other mental and physical conditions...namely Donald J. Trump and Elon Musk both of whom are donkey-brained narcissists that have untold amounts of health problems including ketamine addiction, incontinence, HGH chest, and anhedonia.

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