"Was he grave, sombre, the consoler-in-chief? Are you kidding – this is Trump. Hours after the Washington plane crash, the president’s desire to politicise tragedy was breathtaking in its audacity."

~ David Smith

#Musk #Trump #AirSafety #AirTravel #FAA #AirTrafficControl #AviationSafety #DEI #scapegoating #PassingtheBuck #lies #RankStupidity #racism
/16

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/30/trump-washington-dc-plane-crash

"Aviation safety sits at the pinnacle of what we think of as the 'good' provided by government. Trump is already taking a sledgehammer to that framework with his false public denunciations and emphasis on assigning quick and baseless blame."

~ David Kurtz

#Musk #Trump #AirSafety #AirTravel #FAA #AirTrafficControl #AviationSafety #DEI #scapegoating #PassingtheBuck #lies #RankStupidity #racism
/15

https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/the-worst-nightmare-for-doj-is-already

"This administration’s response to the crash has been consistently sickening, but not at all unexpected.

This is what America voted for."

~ Jim Swift

#Musk #Trump #AirSafety #AirTravel #FAA #AirTrafficControl #AviationSafety #DEI #scapegoating #PassingtheBuck #lies #RankStupidity #racism
/14

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-plane-crash-response-is-as-749

"Trump's comments desecrated the lives, memories, and bodies of the victims that have yet to be buried. And they insulted hundreds of millions of Americans who are not 'white male Christians,' including women, people with disabilities, and Black and Hispanic Americans."

#Musk #Trump #AirSafety #AirTravel #FAA #AirTrafficControl #AviationSafety #DEI #scapegoating #PassingtheBuck #lies #RankStupidity #racism
/13

"Never before in the history of the nation has a president made such an explicit appeal to racism during a time of tragedy."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Musk #Trump #AirSafety #AirTravel #FAA #AirTrafficControl #AviationSafety #DEI #scapegoating #PassingtheBuck #lies #RankStupidity #racism
/11

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/a-new-low

"Let’s make a couple [of] things clear:

First, only people who are inferior garbage blame things on “DEI.” Only people who aren’t good enough at their jobs or at life to garner respect without coercion blame things on 'DEI.'”

~ Evan Hurst

#Musk #Trump #AirSafety #AirTravel #FAA #AirTrafficControl #AviationSafety #DEI #scapegoating #PassingtheBuck #lies #RankStupidity
/10

https://evanhurst.substack.com/p/trump-and-hegseth-scream-dei-to-hide

“'Oh, he doesn’t mean it,' the voters said."

~ Greg Dworkin

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #morality #hate #cruelty #scapegoating
/8

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1/27/2299384/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-Trump-starts-his-FAFO-trade-war-chooses-Colombia-first

"But the women of Trumpworld have their own perverse claim to equality: when it comes to putting raw self-interest over decency or dignity or democracy itself, they can do it just as well as any man."

Let's not forget the many women who clamored to be part of Hitler's toxic orbit, who celebrated invitations to insider events, who volunteered to have blond, blue-eyed Aryan babies for the Fuhrer.

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #morality #hate #cruelty #scapegoating #women
/12

What are we to make of women choosing Trump's toxic orbit, she asks? Her conclusion:

"Participation is a choice. Celebrating this man is a choice. Those who make that choice fall into a few categories: villains, cowards, cynics, enablers. Some are all of the above. Trump and his team may not support gender equality, and are certainly working to undermine much of the progress women have made."

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #morality #hate #cruelty #scapegoating #women
/11

(continued from /9) "and that’s not even getting started on his proposals to deport millions of immigrants, his policy of separating young children from their families at the border, his pardoning of nearly 1,600 convicted criminals who attempted to overturn the results of a free and fair election, and so much more."

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #morality #hate #cruelty #scapegoating #women
/10

As a woman, Jill Filipovic asks about the women who seem perfectly happy, even deliriously so, occupying Trump's "toxic orbit." They appear "totally fine celebrating the swearing-in of a man who has boasted about grabbing women’s genitals, was held liable for sexual battery and bragged about getting Roe v. Wade overturned"

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #morality #hate #cruelty #scapegoating #women
/9

https://www.thedailybeast.com/should-we-expect-the-women-in-trumps-toxic-orbit-to-know-better/

"Normalization rules the day."

~ Margaret Sullivan

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #morality #hate #cruelty #scapegoating
/7

https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/beware-the-sanewashing-ahead-on-trumps