Summary

Trump blamed diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hiring policies for a fatal plane crash in Washington, D.C., despite no evidence linking them.

He accused the Biden and Obama administrations of lowering FAA safety standards, while ignoring that the crash occurred under his presidency.

His comments sparked backlash, with former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg calling them “despicable” and Sen. Chris Van Hollen condemning the politicization of the tragedy.

97 points

DEI is the new ‘fake news.’ Pay attention to his actions not his words. He just established an extrajudicial concentration camp for migrants (and soon anyone else he doesn’t like) at Gitmo. Thats the story, and its time to take action to stop this.

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The way they use it seems to also be swappable with the n-word. Republican lawmakers all seem to be chomping at the bits to express that meaning as some sort of symbolism that they’ve won the race war hardly anyone else is playing.

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This morning I was joking that he’d blame it on DEI because it was a Black Hawk helicopter. Then I heard the fuckstick really did blame it on DEI

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4 points

Word association is literally all he offers. Always a very reasonable assumption, eg, asylum seekers are former asylum prisoners. It’s so dumb I lose brain cells repeating it.

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71 points

instead of Federal Aviation Administration safety. “I put safety first – …

Right. Putting safety first.

Like gutting FAA safety. https://apnews.com/article/coast-guard-homeland-security-priorities-committees-trump-tsa-d3e4398c8871ada8d0590859442e092c

The aviation security committee, which was mandated by Congress after the 1988 PanAm 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, will technically continue to exist but it won’t have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports.

And driving out the head of FAA

https://news.yahoo.com/news/faa-administrator-quit-jan-20-045322293.html

A genius at work, folks.

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It boggles my mind that so many people can look at this obvious manchild, who’s first to claim credit and last to take responsibility, and think “leader”.

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20 points

Smart people doubt themselves.

Dumb people see that as weakness.

So dumb people often follow someone dumb, or someone that lies constantly.

In this case, both

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4 points

Smart people love getting books as gifts.

Dumb people view the gift of a book as an insult.

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19 points

Anything to go against what the libs want. They’d vote for a literal narcissistic rapist felon… Wait a minute.

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Duh. The libs want to censor their media, take away their free speech, and use their position to push their views on others.

Conservatives wouldn’t ever legislate to ban “woke” media, block LGBT terms from online social spaces, or do something like try to reunify church and state… Wait a minute.

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Well considering that’s how a lot of them “lead”…

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24 points

From the experience of living in Poland, be ready for this maniac blaming absolutely everything on Biden. Our conservative party blamed the former prime minister for eight years, even though obviously after eight years the former prime minister no influence over what happened in Poland.

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19 points

I guess you’ve never heard of Jimmy Carter.

Carter had four years in office, between Nixon/Ford and then Reagan/Bush.

Somehow, everything bad that happened between 1976 and 2000 was his fault.

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14 points

And conversely it could be argued that we still have scars left from Reaganomics. Projection has always been a thing for them.

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I say this all the time.

When Reagan came in, ‘middle class’ was still considered one job supporting a family of four and $1 million was considered a vast fortune.

By the time Bush Sr. was out, ‘middle class’ was two jobs to keep a house going, and $1 million was what a rich guy paid for a party

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14 points

Fucken woke planes.

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