Trump's Theory about the Plane Crash

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Just watched his press conference in absolute disbelief. He's just blamed the air traffic controllers as apparently under the Biden administration they recruited people into the role who weren't intellectually capable. He actually blames diversity criteria and basically box ticking.... 'hiring people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities' - that's a direct quote.

As someone with ASD, anxiety and depression who works in a high level, highly skilled role, I am angry on behalf of anyone like me.

The man is a dangerous liar.

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Mental health difficulties do not make it impossible to be an ATC.

There may be some specific MH difficulties that are incompatible with the job role but it's not a catch all situation..

Trumps a twat - as if we didn't already know that!

So providing a link should be piss easy.
Was it an ad saying people who need glasses, but whose glasses correct to 20/20 vision can be pilots? Because those people are visually impaired, but not quite such a good story.

Agreed

As I said already, I didn't screenshot it at the time. It was everywhere for about a week.

Bullshit.

What matters here is the definition of 'visually impaired'. I can't believe that hasn't been addressed by your and by others making the claim. So let's have it: did the FAA seriously recruit people as pilots whose vision could not be corrected to 20/20 with glasses? If so, I'd like to see the evidence, especially as the criteria posted by a PP suggest this is not true.

I didn't make the claim, I am letting people know where Trump got it from.

That's beside the point (entirely). Are you suggesting human suffering is only worthy of outrage (revulsion, despair - just some of the terms used to describe Trump opening his mouth) and discussion when it's not expected???

Ah…it was everywhere…for a week…you saw it…
If it disappeared, so you not think it may be because it was crap disinformation you bought into?
Because it seems to me that partially sighted pilots is a scandal that wouldn’t disappear.

Of course not. But dog bites man isn’t news. Man bites dog is.

You said you saw it. You said you saw the FAA put out an advert to hire visually impaired pilots as a DEI drive. That is pure bullshit.

If they've had partially sighted pilots and air traffic controllers for a year or so I think there would have been an accident before now.

But you aren’t letting us know, you are stating something you can’t evidence.
And you’ve been insisting it’s true.

Trump is an idiot for saying something before all the facts are established.

But also the FAA does seem to have gone for some dodgy DEI recruitment targets. The best that Snopes can say is that the targets have been around for a few years - they don't debunk that they exist.
www.snopes.com/news/2024/01/15/faa-dei-initiatives/

There are also those issues with the biographical questionnaire that are covered by Tracing Woodgrains, taken from public court records in the Brigida v Buttigieg lawsuit (which I understand is ongoing).

So there may be something to this but Trump is still an idiot 🤷‍♀️

Not in the slightest, but when you are confronted with a known predator, you kind of expect it to try to eat you. Monsters gonna monster. The change from the previous administration in the US on the other hand is pretty stark - we see the basics of civilisation being dismantled in a matter of days.

This is not to say that other awful regimes do not exist or should not be reported on - but those regimes have been awful for year, decades even. With Trump, we are not quite two weeks into a shower of shit that is simply extreme. It's the swiftness of it that makes it newsworthy.

At the time, the deluge of 'woke' policies was tumbling out of everywhere and I think, although I cannot be sure, that the Harvard President and the scandal about how she got her role was the thing that came a week later so that overtook the FAA issue.

I'm guessing that was also fake news because you didn't see it. Because all real news has to run through you or something?

This is what I’ve seen referenced in the past as well as details of a a class action brought against the FAA for discrimination in favour of DEI candidates. I really don’t think it’s the time to bring it up.

I can confidently state there is nothing to this.
Nobody has provided any evidence for this mad idea.

So you're basically saying that the known liar said something he can't evidence. Got it now.

Can’t read a blurry screen shot. Link please.

The FAA has DEI targets for some roles. They are not lowering standards to hire substandard staff and blind fucking pilots. HtH.

I'm saying that's where he got it from and linked to a news story that stated the thing that he said.

Hence saying 'this is where he got it from'.

Someone else linked a podcast at the time on the same topic.

Others said they had also seen it.

So, I did evidence it, in the link that I posted.

Absolute shite

No, ‘I saw’ or ‘someone else saw’ isn’t evidence. No links in here evidence what you say they do.

Ok sure. If you say so.