Anonymous wrote:You can see on the video that the helicopter runs straight into the plane, and should have seen it right in front of them from a ways back. You can hear the controller ask if they see it, hear them say yes, and tell them to go behind it. Instead, they went into it.
How is this the controller's fault? It's clearly the fault of the army. Why are they having "training" flights right in a major flight zone? Why didn't they see the plane right in front of them?
Whatever the reason, it almost certainly leads straight back to some stupid thing someone in the new admin did, and they are deflecting by suggesting the controller did something wrong because they only got the job as a minority. But....wasn't the controller white??
Anonymous wrote:Could it have been a suicide?
Anonymous wrote:He also blamed people with I/DD:
"I do want to point out that various articles that appeared prior to my entering office, and here's one the FAA's diversity push includes focus on hiring people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities," Trump said. "That is amazing, and then it says, FAA says people with severe disabilities are most underrepresented segment of the workforce, and they want them in and they want them. They can be air traffic controllers, I don't think so. This was in Jan. 14, [2024], so that was a week before I entered office. They put a big push to put diversity into the FAA's program. Then another article, the Federal Aviation Administration. This was before I got to office recently, second term. The FAA is actively recruiting workers who suffer severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, and other mental and physical conditions under under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency's website. Can you imagine?"
Anonymous wrote:You can see on the video that the helicopter runs straight into the plane, and should have seen it right in front of them from a ways back. You can hear the controller ask if they see it, hear them say yes, and tell them to go behind it. Instead, they went into it.
How is this the controller's fault? It's clearly the fault of the army. Why are they having "training" flights right in a major flight zone? Why didn't they see the plane right in front of them?
Whatever the reason, it almost certainly leads straight back to some stupid thing someone in the new admin did, and they are deflecting by suggesting the controller did something wrong because they only got the job as a minority. But....wasn't the controller white??
Anonymous wrote:Trump gave a pretty clear statement about the cause of the crash. Bet any investigation and findings in to the cause of the crash will agree with his statements.
Anonymous wrote:His attacks on disabled people is the most shocking to me. He said all of these comments about hiring disabled people during the press conference (for the FAA which all of those employees are not air traffic controllers) and all of his anti DEI hiring practices are DEIA, A for Accessibility. Is nobody else concerned about this? Will this rhetoric impede people with disabilities from getting jobs?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Nobody has anyway of knowing if someone is a “DEI hire” without being privy to said person’s work experience and education or the hiring processes of the organization. Otherwise you are just saying it because the person is a minority. We know nothing about the history of any of these people involved in the crash.
amen, and that is one of the problems with DEI - it raises questions about the competency of all minority hires, many of whom would have been hired without preferential treatment. That is why a lot of minorities oppose DEI hiring and came over to vote for Trump this time.
It raises questions among racists. We don't go around assuming that all whites were hired with preferential treatment even though many of them are. People hire their neighbirs' kids, their friends etc. Most of the people in hiring positions are white. Yet we don't start questioning the qualifications of all white hires.
In case you hadn’t considered all white people benefit from race affirmative action all the time.
Anonymous wrote:This is my fundamental issue with Trump as a leader is that he demonstrated In hundreds of different ways that he is completely devoid of empathy, compassion, or integrity. Even if I agreed with his politics, I would not want him to be a leader. He does not demonstrate any kind of leadership qualities?