I don't like what I'm seeing
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I feel like the entire infrastructure of the united states is crumbling down atop our heads. At a time like this, I am especially grateful to have our little community to commiserate with. I don't see a lot of places online to have these conversations.
fear is the thief of dreams
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@pique said in I don't like what I'm seeing:
I feel like the entire infrastructure of the united states is crumbling down atop our heads.
Me too. It feels very scary.
At a time like this, I am especially grateful to have our little community to commiserate with.
Me too on this account as well!!
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@Steve-Miller said in I don't like what I'm seeing:
This could get very weird, very quickly:
Petro had a few things to say. Read his full statement in this Newsweek article.
https://www.newsweek.com/colombia-president-petro-responds-trump-tariffs-full-statement-2021072
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Good on him for defending his country.
On the issue of escalation - not too sure.
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Joe Walsh is the former Tea Party guy from IL.
âDear Americans who voted for Trump,â Walsh wrote. âYou voted to put an incredibly small, petty, pathetic, un-American person in charge. You voted to make America more divided and less secure. Thatâs such a shame.â
âYou will recall, Trump was afraid of going to Vietnam to serve his country and got deferments for âbone spurs,â" podcast host Jack Hopkins reminded his followers on Bluesky. âMilley received the Defense Superior Service Medal and was nominated for a valor award for his actions in Iraq.â
Democratic strategist Chris Jackson called the decision âa move of cowardiceâ and criticized Hegseth in an X post before adding âwhat a pathetic man.ââ
I wonder how many people who voted for this madness are having any regrets yet.
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie AumĂ´nier
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@wtg said in I don't like what I'm seeing:
I wonder how many people who voted for this madness are having any regrets yet.
I wonder how many people who voted for Trump, and because they donât like what theyâre seeing, are now doing a lot of mental gymnastics to explain things in ways that still make Trump out to be the savior they thought he wasâŚ
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@ShiroKuro The GOP is still all in. Hereâs a digest of stories from yesterday. I just skimmed them, but the Republican congresscritters think everything is going swimmingly well.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/28/congress/johnson-hegseth-bessent-targeted-00200992
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie AumĂ´nier
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@Steve-Miller said in I don't like what I'm seeing:
Iâve been looking for reliable sources that report on the concentration camps under construction and I canât find them.
Links?
Guantanamo.
"Most people donât even know about it. We have 30,000 beds in GuantĂĄnamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. Some of them are so bad we donât even trust the countries to hold them, because we donât want them coming back," he added..
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So not actually under construction but theyâre thinking of using GuantĂĄnamo.
I canât think of any plan that would cost more.
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@Daniel said in I don't like what I'm seeing:
Trump is only a politician.
This is mistaken imo in that it downplays his ability to have an impact. Clearly heâs having a huge impact. Certainly, heâs not acting alone, and I like what @Rontuner said (if my memory serves, it was Ron, apologies if Iâm wrong) about not just saying âTrumpâs xâ (like, Trumpâs freeze on federal funding..) but instead saying âthe republicanâs Xâ because this acknowledges that itâs not just trump but all the politicians who are enabling himâŚ. But the fact remains, he is in fact doing things that impact the country and the world in very negative ways.
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As @ShiroKuro says, the impact that a president of the United States has is far-reaching.
I don't hate anyone; it's just not in my DNA. The emotions I'm feeling are grief and fear. The fear is not so much for myself, but for the country.
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie AumĂ´nier
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Politicians I can handle but this cult leader thing is disturbing.
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How do you ignore this?
President Donald Trump used the occasion of a deadly air crash that killed three Army aviators and 64 passengers and crew aboard an American Airlines jet to attack his two Democratic predecessors and falsely blame the crash on government efforts to increase the number of people with disabilities in government.
âWe must have only the highest standards for those who work in our aviation system. I changed the Obama standards from very mediocre at best to extraordinary, you remember that only the highest aptitude they have to be the highest intellect and psychologically superior people were allowed to qualify for air traffic controllers. That was not so prior to getting there ... and then when I left office and Biden took over, he changed them back to lower than ever before. I put safety first. Obama, Biden and the Democrats put policy first, and they put politics at a level that nobody's ever seen because this was the lowest level. Their policy was horrible, and their politics was even worse,â he said.
Trump also falsely claimed to have once again raised standards for Air Traffic Controllers by signing a memorandum upon taking office which shuttered a longstanding effort at the Federal Aviation Administration to recruit people with disabilities to serve in roles having nothing to do with Air Traffic Control.
Positions in the Air Traffic Control system require years of training, special licenses and annual physical examinations and medical certifications to ensure that controllers meet high performance standards.
Continuing, the president slammed the FAAâs disability recruitment program for having sought out âpeople with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilitiesâ and falsely claimed that the prior administration wanted people with such disabilities to serve as air controllers.
âBrilliant people have to be in those positions, and their lives are actually shortened, very substantially shortened because of the stress where you have many, many planes coming into one target and you need a very special talent and a very special genius to be able to do it,â Trump said.
He then falsely claimed that the FAA website stated that persons with conditions such as âhearing, vision, missing, extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfismâ were âall qualified for the position of a controller of airplanes pouring into our countryâ even though the requirements for controllers have long included specific physical and mental health standards.
âThe initiative is part of the FAAâs âdiversity and inclusion hiring plan,â which says diversity is âintegral to achieving the FAAâs mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel.â I don't think so. I don't think so. I think it's just the opposite,â he said.
While the president would go on to further blame the Biden administrationâs transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, for the efforts to hire people with disabilities, in fact the policy had been in place since 2013 without interruption, including during the period Trump previously served as president from 2017 to 2021.
Vice President JD Vance, who joined Trump at the briefing, also took time to blame diversity initiatives for the crash and suggested that the FAA had been lowering standards because the government has been attempting to hire non-white people for ATC positions.
â"If you go to some of the headlines over the past ten years many hundreds of people suing the government because they would like to be air traffic controllers but turned away because of the color of their skin. That policy ends under Donald Trumpâs leadership. Safety is the first priority of our aviation industry,â he said.
Coming from any politician, this is awful. From the president, the "leader of the free world" and his vice-president, ... well, let's just say this is not leadership.
If everyone isn't horrified by this....I don't know what to say.
