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Sure I believe it. <i>Buttigieg got lucky.</i> The entirely predictable disaster didn't occur while he was still in office. But it <i>did</i> occur within mere days of his leaving it, and well before the new administration's policies had any time to take effect.
As to why Trump didn't do anything about it during his first administration... It's not that he was "fine with the FAA's DEI policies while he was president from 2017 to 2021" it's that rescinding that was not a high enough priority the first time -- and of course, a lot of Trump's orders during his first term didn't get carried out fully thanks to "the resistance."
And what evidence do I have that that the diverse FAA employees were less qualified than anyone else? That is a top contender for the stupidest fucking question I have ever heard. When you pass over the most qualified applicants in order to check diversity boxes it is abundantly self evident you are not going to have the most qualified people. When <i>anything</i> other than merit -- whether it be nepotism, cronyism, political loyalty, <i>or DEI</i> -- becomes your top criterion for selection, you are not going to have the most capable people. Period. This is basic common sense.
And this, by the way, is why people are turning against "progressive" ideology. They are sick of the incompetence and stupidity, and the way that ideology requires us to <i>pretend</i> not to know things that we know full well.
How? She sounds nothing like him. She has a husky, contralto voice that is deeper than is usual for a woman, but still quite within the normal female vocal range. She also has a posh RP accent that is totally different than Jagger's working class Cockney speech. They're both English, but that's about where the similarity ends.
<blockquote>Which "DEI hires" were responsible for the crash? Are you willing to share your special secret knowledge with us?</blockquote>
Nobody has claimed that the controller on duty at the time of the crash was a DEI hire. Saying that DEI is responsible, is not the same thing as saying A DEI <i>hiree</i> is responsible. And I think Trump is quire correct that DEI is responsible, even if only indirectly. We don't know yet that the controller on duty in the tower at Reagan airport was one of the Biden aministration's DEI hires, but what we do know is that there should have been another controller in the tower with him, and there was not, so he was doing the work of two people. We also know that under the Obama and Biden administrations, there was this push to get more "diversity" in hiring for these jobs, and the FAA has been underhiring for several years now, because they could not find enough of their preferred "diverse" personnel, and have been turning away eminently qualified white, male applicants who could have taken those positions.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/30/faa-diversity-hiring-practices-scrutiny-long-air-d/
Finally, we know that thanks to the hiring of "diverse," but less qualified controllers, and the overall shortage of controllers, we have seen a sharp increase in the number of near misses between aircraft. This is how DEI contributed to this incident.
I'd like to think that if Ford were still the struggling young actor he was fifty years ago, supporting himself as a carpenter between acting roles, he'd either support Trump and the MAGA movement, or at least <i>understand</I> them, if not support them; and that he wouldn't endorse Kamala Harris. After all, a lot of former Democrats did just that. Trump won the popular vote because he peeled away a lot of former Democrats, and Democrat-leaning swing voters, who have seen just how insane the Democrat party has become in the last few years.
As it is, having been a mega-rich A-list actor since the mid-eighties, he's just too wealthy, and too insulated from ordinary people and their concerns. He's got too much wealth to feel just how much of a hit working and middle class people have taken under Democrats and their leftist policies. He's hasn't turned into an deranged clown like Robert DeNiro, Rob Reiner, or his former Star Wars co-star Mark Hamill, but he's still just too isolated in the Hollywood leftist echo chamber.
As Tom Homan indicated, they are going after the worst of the worst first. Murderers, sex offenders, gang members, people with multiple criminal convictions. That's who they've been targeting with this initial round of deportations. That's who they've been rounding up first.
That's who she's crying for right now: murderers, sex offenders, gang members, people with multiple criminal convictions. She's crying because Murderers, sex offenders, gang members, people with multiple criminal convictions are being removed from our society.
Almost twenty years ago, Evan Sayet, summed it up very well: modern liberals -- woke people -- invariably side with evil over good, wrong over right, and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.
There's very little documented history of wolf attacks in North America, but <i>abundant</i> history of it in Europe, going back centuries. One French historian, after combing through European records between 1362 and 1918, documented over 10,000 recorded attacks, and in the majority of these cases, the wolves were not rabid.
I don't know whether Eurasian wolves are just innately more aggressive, or if the fact that Europe's greater population density meant wolves, in earlier centuries at least, were always living closer to human settlements, and developed less fear of men, or whether it was something else, but wolves for some reason have a much greater history of hunting and killing humans in Europe.
Because he loves his country and is proud of it, and people are sick of woke self-loathing and liberal guilt. Because he wants America to have a strong military, but one used for deterrence, not engaging in pointless, endless foreign wars without clear, attainable objectives. Because be believes in traditional ideas of masculinity and femininity, just like everyone did until day before yesterday, and he's pushing back against wokeness and the gender cult. Because he understands that strong leadership from the United States makes the world more ordered and safer, and weak leadership, like we had under Biden, emboldens foreign autocrats and leads to more aggression from them, undermining world stability. Because he understands that when leaders apologize for America, or appease autocrats, the bad actors of the world don't see it as generosity or magnanimity, and then reciprocate with concessions; they see it as <i>weakness</i> and they become more aggressive and more dangerous. Because he has become an adversary (and a target) of a corrupt, effete, arrogant, and incompetent ruling class that started wars it has not won, presided over a declining economy and ballooning debt, made life more expensive, raised taxes without giving us any benefit from it, and lied to and gaslighted the American people, while talking down to them and sneering at them as "deplorables" and "garbage."
And this is just for starters.
If she runs in an open primary, it will be a replay of 2016, when she had to drop out because she wasn't getting support from any delegates. She's a terrible candidate, and always was. She was picked for VP because Biden promised James Clyburn to pick a "woman of color" in return for the support of the Congressional Black Caucus. Her performance in office totally vindicated the alternate translation of DEI: Didn't Earn It. She became a textbook example of why picking people because they check diversity boxes is always a bad idea. Selection should only ever be based on merit. Anything else -- political backscratching, cronyism, nepotism, and yes, DEI -- means you end up with <i>without</i> the best people in key, perhaps even critical jobs.
Kamala Harris is unintelligent, inarticulate, and unlikable. She'll never get the nomination if she has to face real competition for it.
Because character assassination has become the go to strategy of the political establishment when they want to keep someone from being appointed to office. And they do seem to love allegations of sexual harassment or outright sexual assault -- because they know that most people think sex offenders are about as low as murderers, so they really think these are charges that will derail a nomination. They fact that they're willing to smear someone in that way purely over politics is an indicator as to how low, how sleazy, and how shameless the swamp creatures truly are.
Interestingly, Brendan Gleeson, who has a small part in this movie, looks a lot more like Collins than Neeson does. Also interestingly, Brendan Gleeson played Michael Collins in a 1991 Irish historical television film titled <i>The Treaty,</i> which was about negotiation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the Irish diplomatic delegation, which was led by Michael Collins, and the British government in 1921. This Treaty is mentioned prominently in <i>Michael Collins</i> -- you see Collins begging de Valera not to send him, and then stating after the negotiations that he got the best deal that the British were willing to consider -- but you don't see any of the negotiations themselves. Well, in <i>The Treaty,</i> you see the negotiations themselves depicted, and Gleeson does an excellent job portraying Collins. In truth, Gleeson would have been better for the part in the movie <i>Michael Collins,</i> but Neeson was the bigger star and got the nod, and Neeson delivers a fine performance.
It's a remake of Dracula because the original 1922 Nosferatu was a blatant rip off of Dracula. It was so much of a blatant rip off that Bram Stoker's widow sued the film's producers and won. The German court which tried the case ordered that all copies of the film had to be destroyed, but thankfully a few prints escaped. But any remake of Nosferatu is going to be the Dracula story, because the original was simply a plagiarized version of the Dracula story.
I did, you're as full of shit as you ever were, and you're back on the ignore list.
Yeah, that's what I thought. You can't cite your source, because <i>you don't have one.</i> You fall back on more bullshit, unsupported assertions, and never, ever admit you were wrong. Like a five year-old.
It kind of comes down to which is the dominant identity, Clark, or Superman. The dominant identity will get the better looking hairstyle. Pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths, the comic book version of Superman had Superman as the dominant identity, and the Christopher Reeve movies took their inspiration from pre-Crisis Superman. Superman is who he really is, and Clark is a disguise to let him fit in and have a semi-normal life, and this is why he doesn't mind Clark being a buffoon, a total dork, and a laughingstock that Lois will never even really respect, let along feel attracted to.
Lois and Clark took inspiration from the post-Crisis, 1986 reboot, which made <i>Clark</i> the dominant identity, and Superman was just a persona Clark adopted to allow him to use his power to help people without giving himself away to the world and losing any opportunity to fit in and have something like normal life. And, accordingly, throughout the series, Lois gradually gets over her infatuation with Superman, and comes to realize that Clark is the man she truly loves and wants to be with.
Clark is who Kal-El really is when you get right down to it, that's why he (really the series' producers) chose to give Clark the more physically attractive style.
Yep, you're a dumbass. On the ignore list you go.
Yeah "lol." You're a dumbass. We <i>know</i> Trump will deliver a better economy, because <i>he already did.</i> Before Covid, the economy of his first term was better than anything we've seen under Biden. Biden is also a corrupt influence peddler, and his raft of last-minute pardons prove it. You're a stupid fucking clown.
And you think Biden or any of the Democrats <i>are</i> for the common man? Undeceive yourself. They're <i>all</i> in it for themselves. And I trust Trump more on this matter than I do Biden, or Harris, or any of that lot. Trump at least seems like he can understand ordinary, blue-collar people, even if he's never been one of them. Probably because as a real estate developer, he's met a lot more of them and deals with them on a regular basis, which the Ivy League-educated Democrats never seem to do.
Trump will deliver a better economy, and that's what really matters. We didn't elect a drinking buddy, we elected a president, whom we expect to do a better job than that previous one did -- which he would have a hard time <i>not</i> accomplishing after the dumpster fire that was the Biden administration.
It wasn't a sermon, and it wasn't about Christian values. It was a political rant, and it was about <i>leftist</i> values. There was nothing biblical in that speech. Marianne Budde spouted a bunch of nonsense about gay and trans children fearing for their lives -- and if they really are, it is <i>only</i> because leftist ideologues like Budde have been fearmongering. Nobody is out to harm or kill these children. She also basically said that Trump wished to emulate the values of Jesus, he must abandon his entire political agenda, which is more nonsense.
Try as I might, I can't lay my finger on the passage in the NT where Jesus was comes out in favor of free migration across all borders, nor the one about transitioning boys into girls and vice versa.
Budde begged Trump to please think of the wonderful people who pick our crops and clean our floors and so on. She's too much of an idiot to understand that what she is advocating is a permanent underclass of manual laborers, barred from rising very far above that status, or assimilating into our society by the fact that they are here in violation of our immigration laws, not to mention the exploitation, the sex-trafficking, and so forth that illegal immigrants suffer at the hands of the coyotes who smuggle them over the border, all of which she helps to enable.
Oh my God! He stretched his arm out in front of his body! He's a monster! He might even be a vegetarian! You know who else was a vegetarian? HITLER!!! Does he love dogs? Hitler loved dogs!!! Hitler owned a German Shepherd. If Elon Musk owns a German Shepherd, even if he's ever owned a dog, that proves it!
AAAAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!!!! He's a Nazi!
Dude... do you have <i>any</i> idea how ridiculous you look pushing this argument?
There is video. An outstretched arm is a common gesture. Nothing Musk actually said sounds vaguely like Nazi rhetoric. Nothing he advocates resembles Nazi ideology. You are a blithering idiot. Go blither somewhere else you absolute retard.