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On 2025-01-31 10:15, pothead wrote:
> On 2025-01-31, -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:
>> On 1/31/25 8:24 AM, pothead wrote:
>>> On 2025-01-31, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>>> On 2025-01-30 16:52, -hh wrote:
>>>>> On 1/30/25 5:25 PM, Alan wrote:
>>>>>> On 2025-01-29 19:20, -hh wrote:
>>>>>>> On 1/29/25 10:06 PM, Alan wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2025-01-29 19:04, -hh wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I never said real bullets weren't fired.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Take a look at the picture.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Explain why Trump is pointing at a completely undamaged ear.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Ear injuries don't heal quickly; especially in the cartilaginous
>>>>>>>>>>> areas.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> You are nuts.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> No, he's quite correct.  And that consideration is before also
>>>>>>>>> factoring in how healing slows significantly with age, and DJT's 78
>>>>>>>>> years old.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Into the bin along with hollow head and snit.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Keep on *trying* to run away from reality.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Unlike these fools, I check my facts BEFORE posting.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> :-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Well, to pothead's credit, he did actually acknowledge that he failed
>>>>>>> to fact-check before he posted on the "$50M in condoms to Gaza".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Problem is that he hasn't learned that he needs to fact-check the DJT
>>>>>>> Administration on every last thing they say.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In the meantime, because of how the partisanship has always blamed
>>>>>>> the POTUS for every bad thing, know that Trump fired 100 FAA
>>>>>>> officials today, and there's been a very fatal American Airlines
>>>>>>> flight that crashed on the approach to DCA tonight.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -hh
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just saw this guy's tweet:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 'An FAA employee I know confirms agency already lacks sufficient air
>>>>>> traffic controllers. The so-called “buyouts” and other attacks on
>>>>>> federal employees won’t help.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Remember that fact when the flight delays (crashes?) commence and
>>>>>> Trumpers start falsely blaming DEI or Biden.'
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <https://x.com/schaller67/status/1884588931129184468>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And from the news reports I'm seeing, it appears that the control
>>>>>> tower at Reagan National Airport was understaffed at the time:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> '‘Not normal’ staffing in air traffic control tower
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> There's been ATC staffing shortages for decades ...
>>>>>
>>>>> ... and FYI, another little dirty detail in the fine print of those
>>>>> illegal buyout offers is that the position must be abolished.
>>>>>
>>>>> Don't be surprised if we hear within the next few weeks a claim from
>>>>> Elon (et al) that the FAA sucks because its grossly inefficient, so the
>>>>> Government should contract the whole thing out to private industry to run.
>>>>>
>>>>>    From there, watch how in a few years, the fees charged to airlines will
>>>>> skyrocket.: it will become a shit show just like Healthcare.
>>>>
>>>> Yup.
>>>>
>>>> And look at the leadership:
>>>>
>>>> <https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/immediate-assessment-of-aviation-safety/>
>>>
>>> Huh?
>>> Trump did his own briefing from the WH briefing room, surrounded by his VP,
>>> Secretary Of Defense, Transportation Secretary and others.  And he took
>>> questions, non scripted of course.
>>> Do you know how long it took Joe Biden to do his own briefing from the WH briefing room?
>>>
>>> Answer:  3.5 years.
>>
>> So what?
>>
>>
>>> There is no comparison although the MSM are attacking like sharks because Trump
>>> broached their "holy topic" DEI.
>>
>>
>> FAA announces DEI initiative for Air Traffic Controllers:
>>
>> "The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced a pilot
>> program to help prepare people with disabilities for careers in air
>> traffic operations.
>>
>> A key focus for the FAA’s Office of Civil Rights is to identify specific
>> opportunities for people with targeted disabilities, empower them and
>> facilitate their entry into a more diverse and inclusive workforce."
>>
>> <https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-provides-aviation-careers-people-disabilities>
>>
>> Published:  11 April 2019 <--- WHO WAS POTUS THEN???
>>
>>
>> -hh
> 
> <https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/about/plans_reports/performance/quarter_scorecard/pwtd.pdf>
How does that change that Trump enacted the very program he is now blaming?

'Reading from a 2024 Fox News report — which he incorrectly identified 
as being two weeks old — Trump listed conditions that he suggested 
disqualify people from being air traffic controllers: “hearing, vision, 
missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, 
severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism.”

...

But here’s the rub: During Trump’s first term, the FAA began a program 
to hire air traffic controllers with the conditions that Trump decried.'

<https://archive.is/dDusb#selection-743.0-743.142>

'Moreover, the FAA under Trump in 2019 launched a program to hire 
controllers using the very criteria he decried at his news conference.
“FAA Provides Aviation Careers to People with Disabilities,” the agency 
announced on April 11, 2019. The pilot program, the announcement said, 
would “identify specific opportunities for people with targeted 
disabilities, empower them and facilitate their entry into a more 
diverse and inclusive workforce.”

The list included:
Hearing (total deafness in both ears)
Vision (Blind)
Missing Extremities
Partial Paralysis
Complete Paralysis, Epilepsy
Severe intellectual disability
Psychiatric disability
Dwarfism'

Facts are a bitch for you, aren't they?


<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/30/faa-dei-trump-fact-checker/>