https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/plane-crash-dca-potomac-washington-dc-01-29-25/index.html

to think that anyone who survived the initial impact, then plummeted into pitch black and freezing water is heartbreaking. Life just goes on, though…still had to clock in, this morning. The mortgage is still due on the 1st. Just makes you feel sad and a little helpless.

A man with as little experience as he has would never get that position unless they were white.

maybe I’m a cynic but this is a good way to get us to stop focusing on the mess that went down 24 hours ago.

One chaotic event after another. With social media and the 24 hour news cycle, these stories just come and go because people's attention spans are about that of a goldfish, even when it has to do with national security. Remember the Cybertruck bomb? The NJ drone hysteria? The New Years attack in New Orleans? They all seem like a lifetime ago now.

we live in an "on to the next" society.

We are going right back to the 1950s

why are they like this?!!?

Total mockery.

(as a huge RW/RR/Challenge fan)

My brain would just never put that name with that job so it didn't register.

WTF?

His wife is from Real World.

Him and Rachel (from RW SF) met on what I believe was the first Road Rules All-Stars, which was just Real World alumni doing Road Rules shit.

But the fact that he's gone from lumberjack goof to AG of Wisconsin to Congressman to holding a cabinet position is tragically comically stupid.

He did that whole Real World/Road Rules Challenge spinoff and that is what I remember him from.

To be honest, I don’t hold his reality stuff against him. We all started somewhere and while I don’t agree with his politics, this guy has actually worked his way up in politics, won elections, held public office (state and federal) and is probably one of trumps more qualified picks to head an agency.

to pay his bills without struggling.


The clown show continues.

but its not funny at all.

shit is so lame.

they will eat it up too

>they will eat it up too

I truly mean this.

In the words of Silky Johnson, "I hope all the bad things happen to you and ONLY you."

All I want is for them to get everything they voted for.

I don't care who they are. Close friends, family members, loved ones. Fuck em all. They deserve it.

Everything bad thing that happens is a result of DEI in some people's eyes

and i understand..any crazy outburst = no more press job

but jesus christ, i fucking hate how this shit is covered by mainstream media nowadays:

"welcome back, we're now joined by lisa johnson, former asst to pete buttigieg at the FAA--lisa, that you are aware of, did the FAA ever engage in the practice of hiring air traffic controllers with mental deficiencies and psychological problems?"

"no david, i was with him for 4 years and we very much stuck to a practice of no crazy people during our hiring process"

it flew DIRECTLY into the side of the plane and cut the fuselage in half.

by the Jefferson Memorial?

but the UH60 Blackhawk is easily the most common military chopper for getting from point A to point B. We used to do quick hops on them if we needed to get a small amount of pax to another base and a convoy was just not practical at the moment. Kinda like Kobe saying he started taking helicopters to avoid traffic.

but i respect the sentiment.

... half my waking hours literally ENRAGED for four years. Why are they like this. Why are there still so many people who support these scumbags. Why are we here again.

I'm dying this week. Like what do we do with this level of evil besides a revolution.

> Why are there people that don't see how scummy these pieces of shit are.

We shouldn't be surprised at this point how many Americans radiate that same spitefulness. The cruelty is what bonds them.

But I know a select few people who aren't, outwardly at least, racist, hateful, spiteful pieces of shit, who are somehow so dumb that they still find ways to defend even the worst of what these nazis do. I guess it could be chalked up to stupidity, the people I'm thinking of certainly aren't the brightest. But you don't even have to be bright to see how objectively and obviously racist and hateful and shitty trump and his cronies are.

I'll never, ever, ever understand it.

Log off all social media.

And basically only pay attention to music/sports.

I can’t keep paying attention to this shit and getting mad every day. I’m not normally mad. It’s not healthy.

Been thinking about it basically since the inauguration. I can't do another 4 years like this.

On the other hand I keep thinking, well that's just giving in.

But on the other other hand, I (like many of us here, I presume) fought like hell on so many levels during orange hitler 1.0. And all we got in return for the hard work of electing the party that, at the very least, isn't a full on nazi party, were a bunch of half assed J6 prosecutions that were ultimately overturned anyway. Our elected officials from 2020 did not come even close to meeting the moment.

So I dunno. This is all such a mindfuck. Cannot believe we're here.


>RE: I might have to try to block all news sites on my phone
>Log off all social media.
>
>And basically only pay attention to music/sports.
>
>I can’t keep paying attention to this shit and getting mad
>every day. I’m not normally mad. It’s not healthy.

I'm a Sega guy myself, but I just see lots of Nintendo characters in our future.

I'm just going to drive myself insane if I keep following all of it while he floods the zone with bullshit. Which I 100% know is the tactic.

I try to feel like living in the Bay Area shields me from a lot of it, but I realize that I'm also in a position of privilege, because a trans friend of mine is REALLY going through it, and we're living in likely the most trans friendly region of the country.

But I know it's time to cut myself off from all of the horseshit. I'll vote in all of the election (especially the local ones), but otherwise I'm dedicating myself to music, sports, TV shows and movies, and playing the Switch I bought around Thanksgiving.

there's a lot of racists that walk around "knowing" that ain't no minority better than them.

Obama really challenged that, so the over-correction so to speak, in hindsight, isn't suprising.

that said, it's gone way further than i could have imagined.

and racism ages like a fine wine.

as they refused the Vaccine, and they’d never have the numbers to even cheat their way to a win again.

Smh. I miss the better days.

it sounds like voter suppression was the real landslide, but fuck them old whites too.

https://www.theverge.com/news/603113/faa-chief-musk-dc-plane-crash-crisis

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFdwgpHRe0h/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/immediate-assessment-of-aviation-safety/

“it was the niggers and nigger lovers fault”

this dude is fucking gone.

oh the irony

all this going on and you attack me for attacking Trump.

I mean, we all known you on some Ruckus shit but gotdamn, the irony and hypocrisy is astounding.

listen to yourself.

when the FUCK did the Biden Administration become black you fucking moron.

but of course you ignored that part to focus on me in here because you are fucking obsessed with me.

gotdamn weirdo

I even said nigger lovers because that is exactly how they view dems who aren’t Black.

but this fucking guy is so hyper focused on me he can’t even see how he comes off in these threads.

so, them coming at you like that is very weird.

speaking of the racism being out in the open:

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1885396140465807378

whooooo boy.

its only one person..

but he has a bitch ass alter ego inside of him that needs to come out.

>its only one person..
>
>but he has a bitch ass alter ego inside of him that needs to
>come out.

you might be onto something

>you might be onto something

How many black folk you know ever used the put down “fuckin moron?”

.

even before the black boxes for both the helicopter and the airplane were even recovered from the crash?

I saw on the news this morning the devices were recovered early this morning; not exactly sure of the timing.

I think he issued it right after his racist press conference on the crash.

One has nothing to do with the other but this is the second time a horrific helicopter accident has occurred during the month of January as trump starts his presidency. I mean if the idiot wants to point fingers.

Peaceful rest to those who perished and prayers to their loved ones.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/30/faa-dei-trump-fact-checker/


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 link under “targeted disabilities” is now dead, but the Wayback Machine retains links from June 2017 and January 2021 that show the page was unchanged during Trump’s tenure. The list included:

Hearing (total deafness in both ears)
Vision (Blind)
Missing Extremities
Partial Paralysis
Complete Paralysis, Epilepsy
Severe intellectual disability
Psychiatric disability
Dwarfism
The June 2019 webpage for the Aviation Development Program (ADP) — also now removed but still visible on the Wayback Machine — said the program “provides an opportunity for Persons with Targeted Disabilities (PWTD) to gain aviation knowledge and experience as an air traffic control student trainee.” Participants would get up to one year of experience in an Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC), with a possibility of getting a temporary appointment at the FAA Academy.

April 11, 2019: https://archive.ph/qvk3c

Whoops.

about this specifically.

like, you blamed DEI, but what about this policy?

A reporter from NBC asked him about the website during the press

conference.

More garbage from the orange idiot.

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1885396140465807378

i fucking hate it here so much.

its like a bad Tubi movie

I have to feel sorry for the family members of the folks that died; bodies haven't even been buried yet, but the White House is finding time to politicize this tragedy for the sole purpose to push their narrow minded agendas.

This is going to be a long and painful four years indeed. Trump hasn't even been in office for a month yet, right?

>This is going to be a long and painful four years indeed.
>Trump hasn't even been in office for a month yet, right?

>
>This is going to be a long and painful four years indeed.
>Trump hasn't even been in office for a month yet, right?


They are going to say a lot of evil, racist, incompetent things but we need to save our energy for the shit they actually *do* as much as possible.

I really think this is a combination of evil, incompetence, etc AND flooding the zone/ trolling.


I think they are aiming to exhaust people.

That can only mean the person is either black, female or both.

Buckle up. It's about to get real toxic, real fast.