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    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.

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      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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        And it’s one of the most useful government offices if you’re a billionaire who travels by plane everywhere. Plebs who have to drive everywhere are a lot less affected by overworked, overstressed, underpaid ATCs than guys like him.

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          Well thanks to the ElonJet guy they know where all the important planes are… Who needs flight control when you have xcom /s

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        1. Drastically reduce their budget
        2. Fire the most experienced people
        3. Watch it all go to hell. More accidents and close calls.
        4. Blame gov workers and democrats
        5. ???
        6. Profit!
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      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.

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

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

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    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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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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

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    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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      That might indicate that he recently was informed that he has dementia and that it’s incurable.

      Or maybe he wants all his political opponents and critics declared insane so he can have them tortured with outdated treatments like lobotomies and endless rounds of ECT.

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

    I thought he was talking about his supporters.

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    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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      ….

      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?

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      He doesn’t need evidence he has “common sense”

      Actual quote from the press conference

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      Due to his barren mental landscape, he can only rant about two or three things in a given month.

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      If you dont have a net worth that’s 6 figures minimum, or come from a nice family with a background of being an american “patriot” or otherwise having come from a not-shithole country. then you’re a useless eater.

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        “Useless eaters” are a term with a specific history of explicit oppression of the disabled (usually ablism is merely implicit).

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          Im aware. Im re-using the term with 21st century moron-think

          I have literally heard strikingly similar arguments to the “useless eaters” rhetoric in refernece to everything from housing, jobs, and even f’ing gadgets.

          have heard maniacs say “we gotta have a depopulation if we’re gonna be able to continue affording our quality of life”

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    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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      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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        You mean it’s another of those trans illegal immigrants that escaped from an asylum that worked in an airport control tower in between all the pillaging and raping? It’s crazy, how many are there of those anyway?

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        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.

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      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.

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        At the very least it’s another fact that will join him down into history. It’s not enough that he’s the worst president ever, we can tank his stats so no one ever comes close