Plane crash caused by dwarfs and amputees

[Jamiet99uk]

On 20th January the head of the FAA resigned after being put under severe pressure to resign by Elon Musk, who publicly attacked him on numerous occasions.

Just days later, a terrible fatal aircraft collision occurred over Washington DC. President Trump has alleged that the accident happened because "woke" diversity policies had caused the FAA to hire air traffic controllers with "dwarfism", "amputees" and "epileptics".

So what's the verdict? Do we agree that this accident was caused by woke dwarfs and people without any arms and legs?

Should the President of the USA be blaming pro-dwarf hiring policies, or should he shut his stupid fat mouth?

[Esquire Bertissimmo]

It seems extremely unlikely that the FAA would suddenly fail in its day-to-day operations because of a change in leadership. The pundits trying to put this on Trump are playing a cynical game that will hurt them in the long-run. In the near future there will be real incidences where a thoughtless hack-and-slash approach to shrinking the federal government provably causes harm to Americans, by which point the media's boy-who-cried-wolf strategy will have made it hard to convince many Americans there is a genuine problem.

US voters really should care about the manner in which a Trump-appointed FAA head was bullied out of office by Musk, an unhinged lunatic who is now a major figure in the Trump White House, regardless of the (extremely tenuous) connection this may have had to the recent aircraft collision. Unfortunately the US political conversation I see online is not really able to engage with a slightly more nuanced discussion about whether Musk hounding specific civil servants out of office is strategic - instead, the conversation has devolved into "Did Elon cause the crash or was it the dwarves?".

Of course, Trump's claim the crash was caused by DEI is not evidenced. It's mostly-true that diversity-based hiring preference can mean someone other than the best candidate gets the job. There is, however, no evidence here that the crash was caused by some relaxation in hiring standards at the FAA. I am very skeptical that some severely underqualified FAA diversity hire caused this accident.

This episode really shows how fragile the US is right now. Can you imagine the asinine things the media and the White House would be saying if there were another 9/11? The country would tear itself apart with this stupidity.

[Jamiet99uk]

Donald Trump should be all in favour of people with physical disabilities being hired for important Government jobs. After all he is a shining example that even someone who has suffered from a severe physical impediment, such as bone spurs, can rise to the highest office in the land. He should be championing a drive to get more amputees and dwarfs into public office, not pulling the ladder up after himself!

[Esquire Bertissimmo]

Donald Trump should be all in favour of people with physical disabilities being hired for important Government jobs. After all he is a shining example that even someone who has suffered from a severe physical impediment, such as bone spurs, can rise to the highest office in the land. He should be championing a drive to get more amputees and dwarfs into public office, not pulling the ladder up after himself!

Surely it's been many years since Trump was fit enough to climb a ladder, let alone pull one up.

[Octavious]

I've never understood why the left sees Trump's avoidance of fighting in the Vietnam war as a bad thing. I understand elements of the right taking a dim view (personally if you had the option to skip that particular war and you didn't take it I think you were a bit of an idiot. We used some of the footage from Vietnam in my own army training, and it's remarkable how many holes can be made in a human body without killing them) but surely the instinct of the left should be to salute him for it?

Regarding Trump's comments regarding the plane crash it does come across as crass political opportunism. That DEI had an impact on this particular event seems rather unlikely, and whilst I'm delighted to see the political winds move against DEI using a tragedy to attack it is in extremely bad taste and utterly unnecessary.

[Jamiet99uk]

Regarding Trump's comments regarding the plane crash it does come across as crass political opportunism. That DEI had an impact on this particular event seems rather unlikely, and whilst I'm delighted to see the political winds move against DEI using a tragedy to attack it is in extremely bad taste and utterly unnecessary.

Extremely crass and very ignorant.

[Esquire Bertissimmo]

I've never understood why the left sees Trump's avoidance of fighting in the Vietnam war as a bad thing. I understand elements of the right taking a dim view (personally if you had the option to skip that particular war and you didn't take it I think you were a bit of an idiot. We used some of the footage from Vietnam in my own army training, and it's remarkable how many holes can be made in a human body without killing them) but surely the instinct of the left should be to salute him for it?

There is a much more charitable way to view the left's critique of Trump's war shyness.

The median Republican a decade ago LOVED the military. Bush II-era Republicans were neo-con interventionists. So it seems like stunning hypocrisy on the part of at least some Republicans to endorse a candidate who not only dodged the draft, but who shows no respect for American service members any time it conflicts with his personal agenda (e.g., shaming John Kerry for having been a POW, calling dead US soldiers "suckers and losers", trying to block military ballots in 2020, telling the widow of a deceased US soldier David Johnson "He knew what he signed up for, but I guess it still hurts.", etc.).

The bone spurs narrative further highlights that Trump is, in fact, a member of the elite he claims to oppose—someone who consistently puts his own interests above those of ordinary Americans. Some may credit Trump for at least being honest about this in certain instances, yet many of his supporters continue to believe that he is fundamentally on their side. In reality, like many in his position, Trump leverages his wealth and privilege to shield himself from the consequences of government policies that impact the people he claims to represent.

[Octavious]

The suckers and losers comment is very much a one man's word against another thing, and from a man who had had a major falling out with the President. Whether it happened or not none of us can say for certain, although it does follow the general direction of the truth and falls into the category of the sort of shit Trump says.

Now, if you were to ask whether all this means that Trump has a low level of respect for the military, I'd probably say that it does. I don't think he understands the mentality at all, and probably sees people who volunteer to get shot at in far away lands as idiots. This is, if we are completely honest about it, not a particularly uncommon view amongst civilians but usually remains hidden behind a facade of respect until their children express an interest in joining up.

The fact is, however, that most military types believe that this attitude is common amongst politicians, and what matters to them more than whether someone says the right words all the time is whether they show an inclination to send them to the arse end of nowhere to get shot at by the natives. Trump, thus far, has won a fair few brownie points in this regard.

Obviously someone who is reluctant to send soldiers to die in foreign adventures who also shows respect (and might even mean it) is the ideal... but it's been a while since a President has hit the kind of high standards you typically get in the general population

[Jamiet99uk]

Let's get back to the plane crash.

It's clear none of the authorities had the detail, prior to investigating.

Why did Trump pretend he knew all the answers?
Why did Trump blame it all on dwarfs and amputees?

[Jamiet99uk]

Should the President of the United States make claims like that?

What if he said that the crash was caused by lesbians and gays?

Should the President of the United States make claims like that?

What if he said that the crash was caused by black people?

It's only a matter of fucking time, and yet I expect to see assholes like Octavious finding excuses for the cunt.

[Octavious]

I refer you to my previous comments rather than your fantasies about what you'd like me to say