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BARRY GANDER's avatar

It's not even about People at all - it's about systems and processes. Flying is now safer than sitting on the ground. Trump has it totally backwards...

https://barrygander.substack.com/p/tragedy-in-the-air-over-washington

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Tiffany Torres Williams's avatar

Thank you for sharing. I couldn’t comment on it but I found it informative and will share it with my son, who wants to be a pilot (he started taking flight classes at 10).

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BARRY GANDER's avatar

Tell your son he has picked an excellent career! My own son is a Test Pilot...

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Tiffany Torres Williams's avatar

It makes me so nervous as someone who doesn’t love flying (I don’t let that stop me, but it’s one of my least favorite activities). When we are in the air and we hit turbulence, I feel sick but he loves it. Watching him get in a plane and fly off with a pilot also always makes me a bit terrified but he’s just out there doing it like it’s nothing.

Do you like flying? How did your son get into his career?

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BARRY GANDER's avatar

These are perfectly natural feelings for a concerned parent! If he loves the flying, though, perhaps you will begin to share that treasure.

Yes, I like flying - even when my son is behind the controls! LOL It's a weird feeling, to have him do an activity that I could not help him with in any way. I've always loved aerospace, and I guess he picked it up. I trust your son will be safe - it's safer than almost everything else...

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Suzanne Maxey's avatar

It appears him blaming DEI is back firing on him.

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Michael Golden's avatar

His post-crash remarks made it clear that what we still have, just 10 days into his second term, is the same, lame shock-jock. A petulant child, who cannot rise up to meet a national moment. Not even minimally. I should not have expected more, yet it still breaks my heart. https://thegoldenmean2040.substack.com/p/he-is-the-same-awful-man

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David Gottfried's avatar

The only thing the media has done properly, in covering this story, is to rebut and renounce Trump's biased, belligerent and bellicose position that DEI caused the crash.

This is what the media got Wrong: It used this catastrophe as it uses every school shooting. They turned on the emotions and used this as an opportunity to have a media crying fest. By doing this, a media outlet can affect an air of humanity. Also, nowadays people just love to scream and cry and have tantrums, and they need very frequent disasters to appease their need for an emotional release.

And by concentrating on having an emotional release, we DEFLECTED ATTENTION AWAY FROM THE VILLAINOUS CAUSES OF THE CRASH: Ever since Reagan was elected, and the air traffic controller's strike of 1981, corporate America has been Eviscerating safety regulations

https://davidgottfried.substack.com/p/airline-crashes-can-the-cheap-tears

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Tiffany Torres Williams's avatar

So if I’m understanding correctly, the media is wrong because some people have emotions?

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Michael Lawler's avatar

DEI should be referred to as ADI: Anti-Discrimination Initiative!

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Cheryl Bramsen's avatar

Many years ago, this insane asylum would have been dealt with. Today Musk took over the Dept of the Treasury which is the checkbook for all payments to every Federal Agency including Social Security. Where are the front page headlines? I am ready to do what ever we need to do to stop this unlawful purge of our government. Every prosecutor that worked on the Jan 6th cases was fired today. We need a strong leader to start the ball rolling!

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