Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

[Axaday]

I watched some clips of RFK's hearing today. Is he ill or is that his voice? You can't run for President with a voice like that.

Edit - So this guy has a neurological condition that causes his raspy voice. Several times a year he has injections of BOTULISM to treat it. Part of his brain was eaten by a parasite, I heard? I might be being terribly ableist here. Probably am. But I think the Department of Heath should be run by someone who is healthy.

And come on. He wishes he hadn't vaccinated his kids, but he injects himself with botulism.

 

[Ungnome]

He has spasmodic dysphonia. Essentially involuntary spasms of the muscles that control the vocal cords.

 

[KidTDragon]

Florida can just make their own Trump statue if they want. It'll for sure get pulled down in 20 years, but if the whole point of it is just the....erection of it, you don't have to worry about that.

Please never use the words "Trump" and "erection" in the same post again.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

He just had a small point to make.

 

[Corvus]

not picking on you, Pale Rider, but I'm wondering if we could just take a page from Reddit and ban X links?

I mentioned something akin to this days ago. Thank you for bringing it up again.

 

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

Why are we acting as if Trump's "flood the zone" strategy is smart? Yeah, he's flooding the zone by doing a hundred things at once, but all of those things are consistent with just two themes:

1: Hatred of "DEI".
2: Fascism.

It may be hard to call attention to a hundred acts, but not really that difficult when all those hundred acts fall into just two categories.

The reason it's not working to call out this behaviour is because half of Americans are OK with it, and maybe even ecstatic about it. THAT is why Trump keeps getting away with it, not because of this "flood the zone" nonsense.

Trump's Jan 6 pardons aren't about repaying people who helped him. He doesn't care about repaying people. He throws his helpers under the bus all the time.

Trump's Jan 6 pardons were about creating an atmosphere of fear. They were about telling everyone who might stand in his way "my thugs will hurt you, and when they do, I will make sure they get away with it".

It was a declaration that America is now officially a thugocracy.

Now that Trump supporters are saying they don't care if inflation goes up, maybe it's time for all the Democrat-bashing leftists to admit it was never about "struggling working class families". It was about bigotry the whole time.

 

[Axaday]

Live updates: Everyone aboard an American Airlines jet that collided with an Army helicopter is feared dead

At least 28 bodies have been recovered after an American Airlines jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, officials said Thursday.

apnews.com

There was a plane crash during BIden's term and Trump "Truthed" that things like that didn't happen when he was President because he was tough on the airline industry. This one happened actually at Washington, DC where he lives now and one of the vehicles actually works for him.

 

[KidTDragon]

This is still Biden's fault somehow. Or Obama's because he's black, and DEI or something.

 

[wonko the sane?]

He's going to blame FAA, and push for either abolishment of it, or privatization of the service.

Edit: cause wrong acronym.

 

[Rhinox]

Right now he's just blaming the "colored" and the "gays". I'm sure more recriminations will be coming soon after people start to question why this happened and so soon after he started offing people's jobs within the air safety sector within minutes of taking office.

 

[Pocket]

Right now he's just blaming the "colored" and the "gays".

OK, you're going to have to be more specific when you say things like this whether you mean it literally or just making stuff up to vent, especially if quotation marks are involved. Because at this point I genuinely wouldn't put it past Trump to do that and even use those exact words, now that he knows he's above consequences.

 

[Axaday]

so soon after he started offing people's jobs within the air safety sector within minutes of taking office.

Is that a documented thing? Are we going to find out they were shorthanded because of a review?

I'm totally armchairing here, but I would expect an airliner approaching or having just taken off from a runway to be on an established lane. Helicopters shouldn't be in such a lane at all.

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Edit - OK, I went and got information. The helicopter wasn't supposed to be there and air traffic control were talking to them and they weren't responding.

Here is AP on where Trump's consolation speech got to : “The FAA is actively recruiting workers who suffer severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website,” Trump said. He added that the program allowed for the hiring of people with hearing and vision issues as well as paralysis, epilepsy and “dwarfism.”

It is unclear to me whether Trump was aware at this point (though there is no reason he wouldn't be) that air traffic control were giving instructions to the helicopter and the helicopter wasn't answering or obeying. It didn't happened because the FAA wasn't tall enough or was having a seizure.

 

[Ironbite4]

This is still Biden's fault somehow. Or Obama's because he's black, and DEI or something.

FUNNY YOU SHOULD SAY THAT!

Donald Trump blames Obama, Biden, DEI for DC Plane Crash

It was Trump's first press conference after a plane carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided with an Army helicopter.

www.newsweek.com

Ironbite-the words I have are from a dead language and used to summon demons.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

And I'd appreciate not being summoned in vain. Brimstone isn't free, y'know.

 

[Pale Rider]

Woman given Jan 6 pardon is sentenced for death by drunk driving

A woman pardoned for her role in January 6 has been sentenced again in court after killing a person while drunk driving.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Ungnome]

It's gonna happen a lot with the insurrectionists. The fact that they stormed the capitol proves that their decision making skills are rather poor and being that they are part of the MAGA cult indicates they have a lack of empathy for the plight of others. Combine both together....

 

[G.B.Blackrock]

Like the others, the "new" crime here was committed before the pardon, but I still feel the need to respond with the words "very fine people."

 

[Pocket]

It's almost as if there's a good reason to take people who have demonstrated a willingness to commit crimes of this caliber and... I dunno, put them somewhere where they can't be a danger the rest of the population. Maybe permanently, even. Imagine that.

 

[Axaday]

Guantanamo Bay?

 

[wonko the sane?]

It's entirely possible some of them are brown, so yeah.