Altitude adjustment: the aviation thread

Some incredible knob-slobbering from the Transportation guy and Hegseth.

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Nice. Defense Secretary implying the dead soldiers were not the best and brightest.

Why is Vance here?

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There are cameras and they have been turned on.

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Vance: this never would’ve happened with white air traffic controllers.

lol a Rwanda question and he has no idea where that is

What do you mean “would be”?

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1885006116389601688

https://x.com/mviser/status/1885003480349184047

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1885005538099884258

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Kamala could easily just say if she was president this type of stuff would not happen.

Haha, good live fact checking from the NBC guy. Not that anything matters.

Context: the “Biden DEI language” that Trump read off was on the site for Trump’s whole administration.

nailed it trump a little bit ago

"I changed the Obama standards from very mediocre at best to extraordinary.”

He continued: “You remember that. Only the highest aptitude. They have to be the highest intellect and psychologically superior people were allowed to qualify for air traffic controllers. That was not so prior to getting there.”

Trump added: “When I arrived in 2016, I made that change very early on, because I always felt this was a job that, and other jobs too, but this was a job that had to be superior intelligence, and we didn’t really have that. And we had it. And then when I left office and Biden took over, he changed them back to lower than ever before.

*a large part

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Looks like I had this nailed last night:

It will all be blamed on DEI and immigrants within hours and at least half the Dems will vote to pass the US Figure Skating Safety Act allowing execution on sight of trans people or suspected immigrants. Jake Tapper will furiously interview GOP dudes with his brow perfectly furrowed while he attempts marble mouthed gotchas. Pos Save America will have a 107 episode debate about what this means for America while hawking MeUndies every 15 minutes.

hard to politicize this on the dem side, it’s poor taste (things that matter to us, not them), trump just again got there, and everyone is going to forget about any of this long before the next election

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1885007891284807827?t=Nkk-6IdU3uhwWFv0abDWCA&s=19

This is what Dems should be saying. Look if you want to do these dumb broad pronouncements, then you own everything that fucks up even if logically one doesn’t have much to do with the other

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anyway no survivors

one guy got barred from the flight because his dog was too big WHO IS A GOOD BOY

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I gotta admit, I still have the capacity to be stunned by the shamelessness that MAGA has for blaming everything on DEI.

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Yes. I am sure we turned over our entire atc three times in four years.

Fuck him. It’s 100% personally his and Elon’s fault. We can no longer be the staid reasonable folks talking about the rules while the dog goes for 38/16/12 and wins MVP.

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someone asked shouldn’t you wait for the list of names before blaming democrats trump basically replied “what’s the difference, they’re dead”

the moment he truly became president

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Exactly. The Dems are too busy being the party of nice and polite good boys while we get run over by this nonsense endlessly. The first step for any type of comeback for the left is for the Dems to actually acknowledge the game they are in and start playing it to win.

Do I think that will happen? Absolutely not.

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