Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, North End, Boston

Thursday, January 30, 2025

"This country will be lucky to survive him."

 


Without evidence, Trump blames FAA diversity initiatives for the crash


TRUMP, OF COURSE, IS A LYING LIAR. 









Using the tragic plane collision over the Potomac that cost 67 human souls as an occasion to slam DEI hiring was obscene. There’s zero evidence at this point that an underqualified air traffic controller or pilot had any role in this crash.
















Trump is an extremely dangerous man--stupid, vindictive, fixated on payback for his enemies. This country will be lucky to survive him.





19 comments:

Les Carpenter said...

I am becoming more and more convinced that Bone Spur Narcissist Felon prez. may very well have been the Fascist's Manchurian Candidate.

Sick Sick Sick is this nation today.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

You have evidence?

Dave Dubya said...

Page one from the Nazi/fascist playbook:
Scapegoat and blame hated minorities.
Check.
Scapegoat and blame hated political opponents.
Check.

Dave Dubya said...

I would expect -FJ should be satisfied with the kind of "evidence" Trump shows when questioned about his blaming the DC air crash on DEI:

Q: “I understand that. That’s why I’m trying to figure out how you can come to the conclusion right now that diversity had something to do with this crash.”

TRUMP: “Because I have common sense. OK?"

Well, then. There you go, amirite, -FJ?

Dave Miller said...

-FJ... We have evidence that Trump heaped fire on the coals of a disaster, rather than working to salve America's wound as we wait for facts and information about the recent crash.

Tell me why he could not wait 1 day before a new political attack. It's almost 3pm PST and we're still waiting for a statement of consolation from our president to the victims families, or anything that says he cares about their loss and pain.

Where is it? What is taking so long?

Les Carpenter said...

Do you have evidence it's not so -fj?

Plan on more of this. I'm now playing the BSNFp & MAGA game. In reverse direction.

We've listened to it since 2015 elevator ride from bozo cultists like yourself. So, prove i'm wrong.

Les Carpenter said...

Response expected from -fj... crickets

Shaw Kenawe said...


"SKY Explore‬ ‪@docworldexplore.bsky.social‬
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To recap, Trump:

-Forced out the FAA chief at Musk's insistence
-Imposed a hiring freeze that reportedly included air traffic controllers
-Fired the TSA head and gutted a key aviation safety committee
-Blamed the DCA crash on DEI.

This is disastrous leadership."

Les Carpenter said...

And it's the felon leadership ignorance, delusion, apathy, and stupidity reelected.

America thanks you NOT MAGA and the rest.

Shaw Kenawe said...


‪Tristan Snell‬ ‪@tristansnell.bsky.social‬

Donald Trump is forgetting the “Pottery Barn Rule” as noted by Colin Powell:

You break it, you own it.

Shaw Kenawe said...

HC Richardson: "Tonight (1/30), Trump held a televised signing of a new executive order blaming former presidents Barack Obama, who left office in 2017, and Joe Biden for the crash. It says that “problematic and likely illegal decisions” during their administrations “minimized merit and competence in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).” They implemented “dangerous ‘diversity equity and inclusion’ tactics,” it said, and recruited “individuals with ‘severe intellectual’ disabilities in the FAA.” The executive order says that his return to “merit-based recruitment, hiring, and promotion” will “ensure that all Americans fly with peace of mind.”

MeidasTouch posted: “Trump's handling of this situation should be treated as one of the biggest scandals in presidential history.”

But there is a larger story than that of Trump’s attempt to blame Democrats for a disaster that happened on his watch. His administration seems to be trying to replace the government Americans have created through their representatives over centuries to promote the interests of all Americans with a group of white men who can operate as they see best, without restraint.

Ashley Parker of The Atlantic reported last night that the Office of Management and Budget sent out the memo that froze all federal grants and loans—and thus prompted a constitutional crisis—without getting approval from the White House. Trump has nominated right-wing religious extremist Russell Vought, who was a key author of Project 2025, to be the director of the Office of Management and Budget, although he has not yet been confirmed.

Emily Davies, Jeff Stein, and Faiz Siddiqui of the Washington Post reported yesterday that the proposal emailed to many of the 2.3 million people who work for the federal government offering them an inducement to resign was also a surprise to the White House. The memo came from the Office of Personnel Management, now run by Elon Musk’s team, and the email had the same title as one Musk sent to Twitter employees when he took over the company."

Les Carpenter said...

White Racist Nation Rising. AGAIN.

The fight for right through DEI and wokeness must be restored. This madness, incubating in racist enclaves for

Les Carpenter said...

Hate cell phones when trying to post. Working from bed with RSV.

This madness has been in incubation for many years. The useful idiot trump just brought it to the surface.

Sanity and decency, along with real common sense, not trump delusional sense, will ultimately prevail.

Screw trump. Screw Christian Nationalism. Screw the trumpublican party.

Dave Miller said...

Now for some pesky facts... none of which will be considered by the -FJ/Joe C/Anon Troll Cabal.

1. Trump blamed DEI, without evidence, for the crash. He did so before the black boxes were found, which will tell us what happened. Why would he have done this?

2. Trump claimed those DEI programs were put in place during both the Obama and Biden Administration.

3. Trump failed to mention that in his first administration, he could have ended any Obama DEI program the same way he did last week upon his return to office. Yet he chose to all those Obama programs to remain.

4. Trump also failed to mention that he himself, in his first term, launched a specific DEI program to give severely disabled people a chance to work as Air Traffic Controllers.

5. Trump, answering the question as to whether he was going to visit the crash site, mocked the question, asking if he was supposed to go swimming. Many ppl found this to be another stunning, sarcastic lack of empathy from our President.

Here's one article,loaded with links to all of the DEI info above.

None of this however should have mattered yesterday as President Trump spoke. Even if culpability could have been ascertained by the time Trump spoke, his first and foremost job was to comfort the families who lost loved ones and exhort America to pray for those families and the first responders.

Why we should ask, was his first instinct to place blame, attack former presidents and mostly ignore the grieving families?

Dave Miller said...

Yesterday, in his press conference, President Trump said the FAA is "actively recruiting people who suffer severe disabilities, psychiatric problems, and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency's web site."

He claimed that the program was a product of the Obama and Biden Administrations. Multiple news organizations are now reporting, with the actual signed orders from Trump himself, that these programs were authorized by his administration in 2019.

We still have no idea what happened over the Potomac Wednesday night. But we do know this... President Trump has determined the cause was DEI and has attacked his predecessors for a program he created.

You can't make this stuff up.

Shaw Kenawe said...

Trump reacted EXACTLY like a malignant narcissist would be expected to react: Show no empathy and blame someone else.

Shaw Kenawe said...

Yikes! Sorry to hear you are sick with that! Alan and I were both sick for the month of December with an upper respiratory infection. Not COVID, not RSV, not flu. Nasty none the less and coughing night and day. I hope you're taking meds to keep you comfortable. Rest, drink plenty of liquids, rest.

Les Carpenter said...

Opps!

Next priority for the forgetful Bone Spur Narcissist Felon prez ... State Run Media. The hallmark of all fascist regimes.

Shaw Kenawe said...

"Why we should ask, was his first instinct to place blame, attack former presidents and mostly ignore the grieving families?"

Trump has a severe personality disorder: malignant narcissism. Why the American people would want a man with that sort of defective personality running the country is an enduring mystery to many sane Americans as well as our allies.

Trump checks all the box that are the characteristics of a malignant narcissist:

Common traits of a malignant narcissist include:

Being extremely arrogant and self-centered
Disregarding the feelings and needs of other people
Manipulating, using, or exploiting others for personal gain or pleasure
Having an extreme need for power
Acts of revenge against those who criticize them
Fantasizing about ways to obtain more power or dominance over others
Lacking conscience, regret, or remorse for their actions
Being cruel and taking pleasure in the pain of others
High levels of aggression towards other people
Paranoia or mistrust of others