The Absurd GOP

[The Grand Nudger]

Wasn't just Jr. The whole reich wing ecosphere lit up with this. Boeing had DEI, DEI "comes at a cost".

[Rev. Rye]

Okay, now I want to know if we keep stats like “plane crashes by race of pilot” and see if that holds up.

I'd like to see the percentage of black pilots in the first place.

According to the FAA, it’s 3.4%. (Page 31 of the PDF, Page 29 numbered.)

[Jackalope]

Trump jr has also recently been against the Civil Rights Act, which bars discrimination on the basis of race, when he blamed black pilots for the airplane crashes

Okay, now I want to know if we keep stats like “plane crashes by race of pilot” and see if that holds up.

Plane crashes are an uncommon enough event that sample size seems to be a problem.

[Fake Messiah]

In a closed-door meeting, Mitch McConnell confirmed that Trump told Republicans in Congress not to pass immigration reform because he wants to run on the issue.
“We don’t want to do anything to undermine him,” McConnell said.

They don't want to fix it. They want to exploit it.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-bor...6fc770ae46

[Rev. Rye]

Okay, now I want to know if we keep stats like “plane crashes by race of pilot” and see if that holds up.

Plane crashes are an uncommon enough event that sample size seems to be a problem.

What's worth noting, I'm currently in the process of Googling "black pilots plane crashes." Here's what I'm finding so far (and I'm just counting the ones that actually are confirmed to be black):

• The Tuskegee Airmen from World War II. 
  
• Bessie Coleman, the first black female aviator, and the 1926 crash that killed her.
  
• LeRoy Homer Jr., one of the pilots of United 93; given what happened on that flight, he's probably one of the last people to blame for any loss of life.
  
• Yared Getachew, one of the pilots of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302. I actually covered this subject for a Business Ethics term paper, incidentally. It was because of, of all things, a software issue that was supposed to compensate for a shoddy redesign of the Boeing 737. Also, given the name of the airline in question, I suspect it has bugger-all to do with American DEI initiatives, unless Kenyans have had significant discrimination issues in Ethiopia. 
  
  
  Also, that movie where Denzel Washington played a pilot who managed to reduce casualties on a malfunctioning plane by FLYING THE DAMN THING UPSIDE DOWN.

But nothing about recent* plane crashes where the pilot is both A) Black, and B) made errors that caused a crash. I'm not even saying that there aren't any (there's 45,000 commercial flights in the US per day, and with 3.4% of pilots being black, 1530 of them probably have at least one black pilot, it'd be pimp-slapping willing suspension of disbelief if, multiplying all those daily flights over almost 60 years**, NOBODY fucked up), but you'd think it'd be easier to find ANY examples if it were such a problem. I'm not even finding some racist site listing a bunch of plane crashes, all united by the fact that it had at least one pilot with a significant amount of melanin.

* Note: I'm defining "recent" as "after David E. Harris was hired as the first black pilot on a commercial flight in 1964."
** Multiplying all those numbers, the number would be just shy of 34 million flights. That said, between COVID and the fact that there's no way it stayed at a constant 3.4% level for 59 years, it's probably lower; I suspect it's still in the tens of millions, though. Maybe the high single-digit millions. Still not likely that in all those flights, NOBODY fucked up.

[The Grand Nudger]

OFC they don't want to fix it™. The floating razorwire and ft. sumter cosplay are the whole thing. There's no plan or goal beyond that.

@Rev. Rye You're thinking too narrowly. They have minorities and women working at boeing. At the airports. They have dei, so the planes have dei too - and dei makes planes crash even if a valiant white man is at the yoke. Especially if a white man is at the yoke - hence all the white men involved in crashing planes.

[Fake Messiah]

Here it is. This motherfucker is calling for armed violence against the federal government.

Trump calls for states to deploy National Guard to Texas amid border feud

Former President Trump encouraged “all willing States” to deploy National Guard members to Texas amid the feud between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ® and the federal government over the removal of razor wire across the U.S.-Mexico border.

“In the face of this National Security, Public Safety, and Public Health Catastrophe, Texas has rightly invoked the Invasion Clause of the Constitution, and must be given full support to repel the Invasion,” Trump said in a statement Thursday.

“We encourage all willing States to deploy their guards to Texas to prevent the entry of Illegals, and to remove them back across the Border,” Trump continued. “All Americans should support the commonsense measures by Texas authorities to protect the Safety, Security, and Sovereignty of Texas, and of the American people.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch...rder-feud/

[arewethereyet]

Here it is. This motherfucker is calling for armed violence against the federal government.

Trump calls for states to deploy National Guard to Texas amid border feud

Former President Trump encouraged “all willing States” to deploy National Guard members to Texas amid the feud between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ® and the federal government over the removal of razor wire across the U.S.-Mexico border.

“In the face of this National Security, Public Safety, and Public Health Catastrophe, Texas has rightly invoked the Invasion Clause of the Constitution, and must be given full support to repel the Invasion,” Trump said in a statement Thursday.

“We encourage all willing States to deploy their guards to Texas to prevent the entry of Illegals, and to remove them back across the Border,” Trump continued. “All Americans should support the commonsense measures by Texas authorities to protect the Safety, Security, and Sovereignty of Texas, and of the American people.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch...rder-feud/

Looks like Trump's preferred pronoun is 'we'.

[Ravenshire]

Here it is. This motherfucker is calling for armed violence against the federal government.

Looks like Trump's preferred pronoun is 'we'.

When you think you should be royalty...

[Fake Messiah]

So Fox News is advertising dictatorship and telling people to embrace it.

JESSE WATTERS: Anyone who gets things done in Washington has to be a dictator. We're so used to empty promises that the idea that a politician could get elected and deliver the policies that people voted for quickly and efficiently is so foreign that anyone who promises real change on day one has to be a strong man. They sound terrified that Trump might secure the border, stop crime and drill. Now if you believe that you want to put America first, you're a Nazi, according to them. If you want America not first, you're a patriot. See, they're conditioning us to be ashamed of making our country great. Only the Nazis wanted a great country, I guess.

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/je...e-dictator