From: Skeeter <skeeterweed@photonmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: They're Even ADMITTING It, Stupid
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2025 10:06:15 -0700
Organization: UTB
In article <vnlvaq$8mq2$1@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com says...
>
> 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/>
BLAME TRUMP