I heard about the DC plane/helicopter crash on the radio when I woke up the next morning. While in the shower, I thought, “How long is it going to take before someone tries to blame the Democrats for this?”
I didn’t have to wait much longer. By midday, TFG
declared the crash the fault of Dem-induced DEI at the FAA. Then as if by
magic, all his minions appeared across the internet to parrot their Fuhrer’s line
of bullshit.
And they stuck to their script, even after it came out that there were no “DEI beneficiaries” in the tower at that time. In case you’re keeping
score, that means when white guys screw up, it’s because somewhere in their
organization, Black, brown, or female people have jobs.
It’s funny how DEI is the problem now rather than at any time during the last four years of such hiring practices. If what they’re claiming is true, there should have been multiple plane crashes on our soil. Instead, there were none.
So, maybe shutting down FAA oversight committees, and directors, and tendering resignation requests among the staff might have had a
leeeetle to do with it, but surely not as much as knowing a minority works
there somewhere.
This is what we’re reduced to today. It’s a clown show
held in a house of mirrors. Bizarro World government.
The day after a crash, nobody should be politicizing it,
from either side, for the simple reason that no one knows jack shit yet. And no
one will know anything definite until they review and release the data
from the helicopter’s black box.
You’ve probably seen the film. You can plainly see the
helicopter fly straight into the side of the oncoming airplane. Maybe there’s a
case to be made that the helicopter should have been routed elsewhere. But it’s
an uncontestable fact that the copter should have seen the plane coming in, all
lit up in front of it. Helicopters have a complete range of visual access from
far left to far right; with 180 degrees of visual range. All it had to do was move
up, down, or left in the five to ten seconds before impact to avoid it.
Given that, I want to hear what was happening in the helicopter that was compelling enough to draw the pilots’ attention away from the jet airliner smack dab in front of them. Was there an injury, a heart attack, or a seizure? Did the steering system break down?
None of us know any of that and I hope we do soon. The
faster we have the facts, the faster we’ll learn that DEI had nothing to do
with any of this.
But then, who am I kidding? The Right never admits they’re
wrong. If the pilot was having a heart attack, they’ll claim a DEI Army doctor
missed the signs. If it was a mechanical problem, it would have been a DEI Army
mechanic who didn’t see a damaged stick (or whatever.) You can’t win when one
side will adapt any situation to match their core beliefs, facts, evidence, and
common sense be damned.
Republicans have decided DEI is the cause of everything that ails the country and will stretch the truth to asinine proportions to make their point. I mean, look at this knob:
On Facebook, I saw the father of an old childhood friend
and faithful MAGA fall in line with this completely, claiming that because he
flies a small aircraft, he can attest that DEI is dangerous because each “DEI
hire” robs who he assumes to be a more qualified white man of his rightful job.
It’s funny that some of us thought that after Obama was
elected, we’d reached a “Post-racial” environment. Au contraire. What it did was shock the racists so hard that they
vowed that they would never let such a thing happen again. And the result of
this mental reset is the MAGA we know today.
Lucky us.
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