[Abernathy]

I might have missed it, and I know that Trump disgracefully referred to the 1500-odd 6 January violent criminal rioters to whom he issued free pardons and let out of gaol as "hostages", but was he ever asked to, or did he ever explain his "rationale" for doing so ? Because as far as I can see, there just isn't one.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

That's the joy of a 200+ year-old constitution written for a set of circumstances so very far removed from the present day - you don't need to give a reason. You are assumed to be a gentleman who would always act with honour.

[zuriblue]

I might have missed it, and I know that Trump disgracefully referred to the 1500-odd 6 January violent criminal rioters to whom he issued free pardons and let out of gaol as "hostages", but was he ever asked to, or did he ever explain his "rationale" for doing so ? Because as far as I can see, there just isn't one.

I believe it's known as "Owning the Libs"

[Tubby Isaacs]

I might have missed it, and I know that Trump disgracefully referred to the 1500-odd 6 January violent criminal rioters to whom he issued free pardons and let out of gaol as "hostages", but was he ever asked to, or did he ever explain his "rationale" for doing so ? Because as far as I can see, there just isn't one.

Don't think the President is expected to justify pardons. But the Justice Department is supposed to explain why it's dropping investigations. I think it's just dropped a couple of them (coincidientally v Trump allies) and not explained it. I think even Jeff Sessions would have felt he needed to explain and stuck something out after a month. But this is by degrees more corrupt.

[Tubby Isaacs]

$16 transportation cuts announced hours after worst plane crash since 2001.

[Oboogie]

The use of the word "hostages" was to tie in with the Israeli hostages which were the other leading news story that day. Because convicted insurrectionists in US prisons are exactly the same as prisoners of Hamas whose only crime is being Jewish.

[Watchman]

I might have missed it, and I know that Trump disgracefully referred to the 1500-odd 6 January violent criminal rioters to whom he issued free pardons and let out of gaol as "hostages", but was he ever asked to, or did he ever explain his "rationale" for doing so ? Because as far as I can see, there just isn't one.

My reading of his "pardons" is based on how every charge against him is part of a witch-hunt lead by a corrupt legal system, he is just using them to reflect his own narrative.

[The Weeping Angel]

Black people caused a plane to collide with a helicopter according to Vice-President Vance.

[mattomac]

Uber cunts

[Oboogie]

Black people caused a plane to collide with a helicopter according to Vice-President Vance.

"government"?
The people at fault were either the pilot of a military helicopter, the pilot of a civilian airliner or air traffic control - or some combination thereof. Why is Vance talking about government?

Reworded for clarity.

[Andy McDandy]

The caahncil are all lefties. They should get a man in to sort it out.

Yeah, darlin'. A man. You go mind the kids.

[The Weeping Angel]

They're convinced that DEI (Diversity Equity and Inclusion) is to blame for everything.

[Oboogie]

They're convinced that DEI (Diversity Equity and Inclusion) is to blame for everything.

You think so? Or is it that they want the public beyond their base to think that?

[kreuzberger]

These people are beyond degenerate. There is no doubt in my mind that they game-played how they could grasp at a potential advantage this morning, long before the last bodies were recovered from the Potomac.

[Crabcakes]

Just a shame a certain set of govt. officials weren’t in the helicopter but instead just got to be ghouls about it in the aftermath.

[Abernathy]

I have no doubt at all that any DEI recruitment initiatives deployed by the Federal Aviation Authority will have had no bearing whatsoever on the calibre, abilities or competencies of any of the air traffic controllers recruited, trained, or employed by that authority. There is not even a scintilla of a hint that human error on the part of an air traffic controller can be proven to have been a contributory factor in causing this accident.

And yet, Trump is so determined to leverage whatever he can in his obsession with abolishing alleged wokery, he is prepared to ride roughshod over the feelings of dozens of suddenly bereaved and grieving families.

Just when you think that he cannot possibly be more of a massive cunt, he pulls a fucking stunt like this.

But then, the good citizens of the USA knew exactly what they were voting for. Too much to hope that there just might be some buyer’s remorse abroad in that accursed nation, I suppose.

[Youngian]

Too much to hope that there just might be some buyer’s remorse abroad in that accursed nation, I suppose.

If the price of eggs doubles in Trump’s Oceania but POTUS announces egg prices have fallen, over 40 percent of regular egg buyers will believe him.

[Bones McCoy]

Staffing was ‘not normal’ at airport tower, according to a preliminary F.A.A. report.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/busi ... =url-share

The controller who was handling helicopters in the airport’s vicinity Wednesday night was also instructing planes that were landing and departing from its runways. Those jobs typically are assigned to two controllers, rather than one.

[Bones McCoy]

Meanwhile

JANUARY 20 - Trump fires the head of the Federal Aviation Administration, the department in charge of flight safety
JANUARY 21 - Trump freezes hiring for Air Traffic Controllers
JANUARY 22 - Trump disbands the Aviation Safety Advisory Committee
JANUARY 28 - Trump sends out a buyout/retirement demand to existing employees, removing experienced safety staff
JANUARY 29 - First American mid-air collision in 16 years

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I wonder...

Was Trumpet getting his retaliation in first?