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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago (1 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

Trump yet again lies by making up rambling story about imaginary people

You could have said the same thing about the eating dogs and cats diatribe.

He's lampshading the next groups he's going to round up. I bet there's going to be an expansion of mental health intake and transfers of the "criminal" insane to the new camps that are getting opened up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

It's amazing how well this works on n his base.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

He blamed it on DEI and NTSB ex chief said he did more to degrade the safety they’ve built than anyone in 40 years

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Yes, he blamed DEI and specifically said it was due to the FAA hiring people with mental and physical disabilities.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

So he blames himself? Refreshing change of pace there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

There is a good chance this was caused in large part by Trump and his enshitification efforts. Right now the entire federal workforce is demoralized by various actions of Traitorapist Trump, degrading the quality of government across all levels. Air traffic controllers are part of the federal workforce. They were also short staffed, which in itself was likely cause by the poor morale. Blaming the hiring of minorities makes no sense given that a big part of the problem was not enough staff.

Trump knows this and knows that other people will make that connection too, and so him blaming this on DEI was his way of deflect the blame away from his rapid enshitification of government.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 hours ago

Why's he gotta bad talk the president like that.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 hours ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

the plan is to blame literally everything that goes wrong on minorities.

Instead of Trump's own major enshitification of the quality of government causing the morale of federal workers to plummet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Never give up a good or even bad opportunity to try and throw someone in front of a bus. An opportunity not seized is a opportunity missed.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 76 points 11 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 206 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 hours ago

it's in project 2025

[–] [email protected] 90 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours 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."

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 hours ago

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

Sucks it will affect decent folks.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 hours ago

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

So trump is confirming his numerous physical and mental deficiencies?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 hours ago

Magically, for 16 years none of these issues resulted in this outcome

[–] [email protected] 166 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 12 hours ago

He might have been looking in a mirror when thinking of what kind of demographic to blame

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

So he’s accepting personal responsibility?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

This is 10000% on Trump and Musk. I give them 30 days of they stay in the country

[–] [email protected] 83 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I think I will blame Trump instead. He was dictator on day one. How could the Orange Turd let this happen!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

He caused this to happen with his various actions of enshitifying the quality of government.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 29 points 12 hours ago (5 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?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

The ATC queries them multiple times if they have visual on the CRJ and they repeatedly respond in the affirmative.

also the published helicopter corridor has them maintain a ceiling of 200 feet, they were well above 350 at the time of the collision.

It's either pilot negligence or instrument failure.

also TCAS is inactive below ~~800~~900 feet.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Black box is woke dei hire.

wouldn't have happened if white box.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

New EO just dropped. We're calling them white boxes and painting them to prevent future tragedy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago

This is even funnier because black boxes are bright orange

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

TCAS doesn't give resolution advisories (alerts that say to climb or descend to avoid traffic) below 1000'. It does have a warning noise still, but from my understanding it's common for it to go off on approach due to all the other aircraft around and on the ground at the airport, so it may have been ignored.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 13 hours ago (17 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

TrumpBodyCount = TrumpBodyCount + 67

[–] [email protected] 61 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 58 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Holy hell it's only been 10 days

[–] [email protected] 33 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 12 hours ago (6 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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[–] [email protected] 38 points 13 hours ago

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

~ super intellectual president

[–] [email protected] 28 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 12 hours 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"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

He’s projecting again

[–] [email protected] 32 points 13 hours ago

More Trump projection.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago

it could've been

Holy shit. Yeah, and it could also have been you. We don't know right? Just use common sense right?

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