Kash on the line.
Yesterday Senate democrats used childlike tactics to try and get Kash Patel to promise not to investigate anyone that President Trump occasionally advocated to be investigated. Patel always had the correct answer: " I think if anyone commits a wrong in government service, the American public deserve to know every absolute detail of that corrupt activity.” In other words, Patel wouldn't seek to investigate anyone as a form of retribution, but if officials broke laws, they need to be held accountable. The democrats did manage to get this principled opinion out of him: “As for January 6, I have repeatedly, often, publicly and privately, said there can never be a tolerance for violence against law enforcement.” The good news is that thus far, no Republicans have publicly stated their opposition to Patel’s nomination, and none raised concerns at the hearing.
Tulsi Gabbard nominated for director of national intelligence
The hearing for Tulsi Gabbard was even more infantile as democrats demanded that she declare Edward Snowden a traitor. Sadly, some Republicans joined in on that. The Republicans in the Senate can only afford to lose three votes on all things in the face of the usual democrat unity. Unfortunately, there are 3 Senators who are always at risk: 1) Maine Senator Susan Collins who frequently sacrifices what is good over principle, 2) Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, who is loosely described as a Republican and won her seat via the flawed rank voting system and finally 3) Mitch McConnell who has become the second coming of the bitter John McCain who put hated of Trump over love of country.
At a second Senate hearing for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s pick for health secretary, Kennedy defended his views on vaccination. He delivered what was without a doubt the best line of the day:
The Senate did manage to confirm Doug Burgum as Interior Secretary.
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An appeals court ruled that a longstanding ban on handgun sales to people aged 18 to 20 was unconstitutional.
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It seems that the continent of Africa is going through a World War of its own.
What's it about?
A hint: Colonizing the mineral rich Congo.
The participants: Not the mean old Europeans, nope, it's the more primitive locals.
How can that be?
You must of missed a huge part of history. For instance King Leopold ll of Belgium killed off hundreds of thousands of black Africans most in the Congo. So yes, the Europeans were mean, actually they morally bankrupt scum.
I see in your comment that you refer to the blacks today in the Congo as primitive locals. [deleted][✘]
This "column" has a history of disparaging people who are not white.
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If you want an example of a comment which disparages people of a certain race, I submit the following:
So yes, the Europeans were mean, actually they morally bankrupt scum.
The difference between the bloodbath taking place in the Congo right now and the Colonist of the past is the supplemental. For example, India has a railroad system and a level of decent discourse which they inherited. The Indonesians have resources which they would have had trouble developing. And in some places people were taught not to shit where they eat.
The current bloodbath in the Congo nothing compared to Leopold ll who killed as many a 10 million black Africans in a 30 year period and that is just the Belgians, add in the Germans, Brits, French etc and you just might understand why I said ‘’Europeans were morally bankrupt scum’’…But it seems to you that killing people by the million and raping the land for all it is worth is fine as long as they are non white…
As far people were taught not to shit where they eat is quite funny, the Europeans the greatest spreader of disease in the world because of their filthy living conditions and of course shitting in the street was commonplace.
Neither India or Indonesia is in Africa, try again.
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Clouds over Gitmo
I’d be surprised if Patel loses a single republican vote. Should be unanimous…
I feel very confident about his confirmation. He was superb yesterday.
This just kinds of skims the surface.
Wow! From the Huffington Post (the daily record for the uber feminists)
I see him as the man who unveiled FBI malfeasance. He also received retribution from the FBI in the form of the agency compelled Apple and Google to turn over Kash’s private information and gagged them from notifying Kash of this spying.
I say is the perfect choice to restore the FBI.
isn't that like a half step above CNN?
What items in the HuffPo story are not true?
The Democratic senators repeatedly quoted his own words to him and he played dumb. That should be disqualifying in itself, but many of his worst thoughts are either written down or saved on video or audio.
You probably think DEI caused the crash too, since Trump told you it did.
MAGA's are sheep.
Actually, CNN is trying to reform itself.
I'd say a half step below ABC.
The statements in the article are what is true. Are they disqualifying? He is about to take over an agency that only 41% of the American people trust.
You probably think DEI caused the crash too, since Trump told you it did.
Could it be a contributing factor? Despite what you think Trump isn't stupid, which is what he would be to make those remarks without some bit of evidence in his back pocket. He knows that the usual media degenerates would call him a "racist." He's holding something. Remember, he wasn't the only person at that podium to mention DEI.
The voice of the air traffic controller involved sure sounds like a white male to me. The pilot of the helicopter was a white male. I expect we will hear the pilots of the passenger plane were white males too.
Where will the room be for this to be the fault of DEI? As for Trump, he is a moron who leads other morons around by the nose.
And who ordered the training mission? Was he white too? What does that even mean? The tower was very short on-air traffic controllers. That air traffic controller was handling both planes and helicopters. Why have we had such a shortage?
Maybe it's this mentality:
The disturbing rise in near misses at our nation’s airports is no accident. A class-action lawsuit by the Mountain States Legal Foundation has amassed a trove of documents shedding new light on an Obama-era Federal Aviation Administration initiative that rejected prospective air traffic controllers based solely on their race.
A 2013 FAA document, “Controller Hiring by the Numbers,” raised the issue in stark terms, asking, “How much of a change in job performance is acceptable to achieve what diversity goals?”
When failure is measured in human blood, the answer should have been none.
At the beginning of the year, five people died at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport after a jumbo jet carrying 379 travelers crashed into a smaller coast guard plane that had mistakenly entered the runway. It’s the job of air traffic controllers to keep this from happening.
There hasn’t been a fatal airline crash in the United States since 2009, but it’s only a matter of time before the streak ends. The FAA recorded two serious, near-miss “runway incursions” at Reagan National and Baltimore-Washington International last year.
Vigilance is waning because the nation’s air traffic control towers are woefully understaffed. The people responsible for keeping planes from smashing into one another are tired after working long, mandatory overtime shifts to make up for the lack of controllers.
Contributing to the shortage, the FAA temporarily put the brakes on hiring in 2012 so it could replace race-blind hiring rules with a “Biographical Assessment” stratagem designed to hire more minorities.
This quiz served as further screening of applicants who had already graduated from a 200-hour training program and achieved high scores on AT-SAT, a grueling, eight-hour cognitive test that measures each of the specific skills needed to do the job properly.
The questionnaire sought irrelevant information such as the “college subject in which I received my lowest grade.” Those answering “history/political science” received 15 points. Playing four or more sports in high school was worth 5 points.
By contrast, holding a pilot’s license — a major advantage for a controller — was worth only 2 points. And having valuable experience as an air traffic controller in the military was worth no points at all.
Flashback: FAA Turned Away Qualified Air Traffic Controllers Based Solely on Race
All part of the pedigree with the problem.
Where will the room be for this to be the fault of DEI?
In all of these accidents there are fundamental causes and then proximate causes. I'm sure that DEI would be part of the latter.
‘The voice of the air traffic controller involved sure sounds like a white male to me. ’
Sounds bigoted. Do other races not sound ‘white’?
I will say this real s l o w . Vic says the accident was caused by DEI, as your moron leader Trump says.
The air traffic controller was a white male, the helicopter pilot was a white male, and I bet you the passenger plane pilot was a white male, so where is the room for "DEI" to enter into this?
That is what I meant, that is what I said, and I said nothing about white supremacy.
Approximately 25 million passenger flights have taken place in the past 16 years since the last crash. 25 MILLION FLIGHTS without a crash, all during a time when you say the standards had been lowered.
With that kind of sterling record we should keep the standards "lowered".
The argument this crash was caused by DEI is laughable, but MAGA doesnt care if they look laughable. That is how far things have deteriorated.
Why? So you can understand yourself?
is that supposed to be the answer to the question that I ask in 3.1.10 that triggered somebody?
Records are set constantly for the most passengers flying. Every holiday we hear this is the most people to go through TSA ever. Too many people want to fly, which tells you how good the economy is. I have a niece who flew from Boston to Colorado last week to go a bridal shower. No one involved lives in Colorado, it was a "destination" bridal shower. People fly all over for recreation at the drop of a hat. The system is overloaded.
Wrong direction.
It's impossible to argue the system is as safe as possible if the system incorporates DEI. It just is. Either you want to accept a higher risk of catastrophe with dei or you want to make the system as safe as possible. You can't have both.
Our country would be happier and safer if Trump didnt exist. You cant have everything.
That's one opinion.
Here is a breakdown by race of ACT. The dropout rate at the FAA ATC school is 40 to 50% and there is constant upgrading of their skills.
Yes you can have both, Sean. We have it now but as always the white male is by far the largest category.
Air traffic controllers and airfield operations specialists by gender and race
Based on 2023 population estimates
Alaska Native
Then you don't understand what DEI is.
You can either have merit or equity. The whole purpose of equity is to select someone who isn't the most qualified, but might be "qualified enough" and has the biological characteristics necessary to achieve some targeted goal. To choose using factors other than merit is literally the entire the point of DEI. It's incredibly dishonest to suggest otherwise.
I most certainly understand what DEI is. The US has not had an air traffic accident in 20 years until this one, and of course it’s DEI that caused it, per Trump. Do you have any facts to back up your statement?
We know, you demand 100% anti-diversity purity. For you it is an all or nothing situation based on a rigid approach.
How do you explain 25 million flights without a crash if DEI has damaged plane safety.
How do you know the minority hires arent more capable than the white men they are allegedly jumping past?
Why not leave it up to the agency? What they have done seems to be working.
If you insist all government positions be filled on merit then call for Trump to resign tomorrow.
most certainly understand what DEI is.
I don't think you do.
The US has not had an air traffic accident in 20 years until this one, and of course it’s DEI that caused it, per Trump.
Nice deflection that has nothing to do with what I wrote.
Do you have any facts to back up your statement?
Google DEI and focus on how the equity component is achieved if you are confused.
Read what I wrote again and try responding to my actual argument.
How do you know the minority hires arent more capable than the white men they are allegedly jumping past?
How could you possibly argue they are? You support racism, feel free to justify it.
Why not leave it up to the agency?
Lol. Don't even pretend that's a standard you would apply in other situations. Sure, let the agency exclude blacks, it's worked so far.
nt positions be filled on merit then call for Trump to resign tomorrow.
Trump was elected. You get the difference?
No sane person should waste their time arguing with MAGA fanatics.
I'd be happy if blueanon actually understood the implications of the policies they support.
Not a deflection at all since there have been minorities which seem to be the target of anti DEI crowd. So no accidents would say that everyone is doing a good job, until this disaster.
Please Sean, I asked for facts do you have any that show that DEI has caused air disasters?
It is the point. If something is working , by defintion it cannot be broken.
I am gobsmacked that people would attack an agency that went 25 million flights without a crash.
(5,500 flights a day on average x 365 days x 15 years)
I have no idea what this means nor how it bears any relation to anything I wrote.
Please Sean, I asked for facts do you have any that show that DEI has caused air disasters?
When did I say that? What imaginary position are you arguing against?
Why are you addressing this to me? Please point out what I wrote that you think this rebuts.
I'll let the comment speak for itself.
By the way, do you think FBI agents should be fired for doing their jobs ?
Not if they were done in good faith. The Peter Strozeks of the world should be
The helicopter pilot was a woman, and her name, for some reason, is not being disclosed.
Thats not what I heard. [removed][.][✘]
The third crew member on the helicopter was a female pilot with 500 hours of flying experience, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation. The Army is withholding the pilot's name at the request of her family.
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/nx-s1-5281246/pentagon-jet-military-helicopter-collision[ ✘ ]
But yet......you persist
It’s simple, there have been no air accidents for 20 years and in that time DEI was used so it means that DEI isn’t the cause of accidents.
Since you claim that DEI doesn’t get the best you should be able to show it with accidents caused by DEI hires, simple.
What is your point? How many army helicopters have been crashed by men?
If she was incompetent how did she survive 500 hours in the air?
Get that strawman! When did I claim that DEI caused an air accident?
That's not logically defensible. Try again.
To correct your misstatement.
he was incompetent how did she survive 500 hours in the air?
When did I say she was incompetent?
You insist that DEI hires are not the best, if that is correct than why hasn’t there been air accidents for 20 years until a few days ago?
It’s very defensible, you just don’t want to admit it.
Cheers
Yes, that's literally the purpose of DEI, to use factors other than merit. This isn't debatable.
No it isn't. Need I explain it to you?
Then why say it was a female.
Maybe this will help them
Let's say there is a white female applying for a job with almost impeccable qualifications. Should be a shoo in, however, it was determined that the company only has 2 percent males and had a goal of 10 percent males. There is a white male applying for the same position that is not as qualified as the withe female, but because the company wants to have equity and inclusion, they hire the withe male. Neither of the applicants are minorities, as women make up 51 percent of the population.
Minority hiring has some to do with DEI, but not everything.
Why did you say it was a white male?
This is cracking me up, Trump ridding the government of DEI and some of his appointments are DEI or better yet BLT,
BOOTLICKERS, LACKY AND TOADY. YEAH MAGA
So, instead of countering his post, you go to childish name calling.
Means you have no coherent answer.
I counter his post (s) many times, it was time to point out that getting rid of DEI is a joke since Trump is using BLT.
’’Chlldish name calling’’ LOLOL, you of all people, the irony of it, Trump is the biggest name caller in the world.
If you can’t handle it, don’t respond. Simple
Counter and being correct are two different things.
I did handle it, hence my response
You are the one that used ‘’countering his post’’…So I responded with the countered.
See that is how it works.
Cheers
Here's a reporter, a Pete Buttigieg voter, detailing in 2024 how the FAA knew switching to a new program to help DEI applicants would reduce air traffic controller performance but decided to do it anyway, because "diversity" was the priority and admitting that : "the organizational goals of maximizing performance and minimizing adverse impact (AI) appear to be in direct conflict."
This should be obvious to anyone who understands what DEI mandates but some people refuse to live in reality where tradeoffs exists.
Those who have any doubts feel free to deal with data from the FAA.
Next time post a link to what you’re referring to, X is not worth trying to read. There are many links to this.
I’ve read the whole thing and since the preference given to minorities, in this case it seemed that blacks were the minority of choice. Using those standards the FAA controllers have an excellent record in air safety. Still the overwhelming race of ATC is white. So are you saying that the DEI standards have made the ATC not qualified? Did you think that with the shortage of ATC between three and four thousand across the US just might have something to do with the outreach by the FAA.
This is really send you into orbit, my great nephew is a ACT and he is an Indian. His schooling was in the Air Force program and it was very extensive and the first few years after graduating they are still in a training mode at an airport. He will request a transfer or be transferred since he has completed two yeas OTJ training at a smaller air port.
I’m sure that to you he would be a DEI.
BTW, the San Carlos airport in Cali has NO controllers currently. Since the FAA transferred the contract to another company that isn’t paying the adjustment due for working in a high price living area. San Carlos handles part of the traffic for SFO.
In another comment congrress passed a bill in 2024 that gave RR airport 10 more slots. This senators congress men from MD and VA plus the FAA voted against it saying RR was overcrowded and opening up new spots would end in tragety, congress still voted for it and RR will get the new spots in the next couple of weeks, do you think that they will get additional ATCs?
Seems that safety was not a concern of their’s, perhaps that will change now.
Do you think that the Captain of the AA flight was a DEI hire, after all his name is Campos, could be Hispanic.
Patel is an embarrassment to our country.
I don't see Sean around, so may I ask if that is supposed to be an argument?
Not even in the same ballpark as Adam Schiff yet he is seen as a savior by many. And don't forget "Spartacus" Booker who also embarrassed himself.
Hear that huge sucking sound? That’s Patel about to get confirmed to vacuum up the pond scum that’s been inhabiting the FBI.
You sound concerned. You should be ……
It's not like that is anything new. They've done it on EVERY confirmation hearing.
That won't stop the Democrats and the left from crying. It will expose A LOT of government workers.
Well yesterday they met their match with RFK Jr who basically said: Big Pharma is yo’ mama
That won't stop the Democrats and the left from crying.
Enough to put out the fires out west.
Their fear of being investigated is very telling. If they were doing what they were supposed to and it was legal they would have no reason to be scared and lashing out like petulant children.
Or getting pre-pardons from the guy who made millions from influence peddling and got away with it.
THAT is the declaration that what they were doing wasn't legal. Sad thing is, so many don't understand that.
There is never a reason for the IRS do conduct audits. A lot can be learned from what Lois Lerner did for Democrats.
It is common sense.
A lot can be learned from what Lois Lerner did for Democrats.
She helped destroy the Tea Party. It may have saved Obama 2012.
President Gustavo Petro urges undocumented Colombians in the US to return home.
President Gustavo Petro urges undocumented Colombians in the US to return home
Gee, I wonder what made him see the light?
President Trump says helicopter in crash was flying too high.
Is he right again?
We will find out soon.
Experts ask why Black Hawk helicopter may have been flying above allowed altitude before crash - CBS News
There you go. Naturally, the President has all that information.
My question is why have the military run training missions near that airport at all?
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I'm sure the military wants realistic training missions, but I think Reagan Airport should be off limits for training.
You seem to think Trump has some insight that no one else has. I have heard, I dont know maybe a dozen experts and even regular reporters say whether or not the helicopter was too high is part of the investigation.
Why do you little yourself by praising Trump for attributes that dont exist ?
Actually, as President he does.
I have heard, I dont know maybe a dozen experts and even regular reporters say whether or not the helicopter was too high is part of the investigation.
That is part of it. Those helicopters are supposed be fly low. Another question we may never know is if the pilot of the helicopter heard the air traffic controller or was eyeing the wrong plane. There is a lot of things involved here John.
Why do you little yourself by praising Trump for attributes that dont exist ?
I'll let the history books tend to that.
In 2024 congress passed a bill to allow/open 10 more slots at Reagan Airport. All the congresspeople from VA and MD voted against it and told everyone how dangerous it would be and there was going to be a tragedy there. Congress voted for it and the 10 new slots are supposed to become available in the next few weeks.
The FAA also recommended against opening the slots.
Just a few weeks ago the head of the FAA was forced out by civilian non elected Musk. Good move Musk, was it because he fined your company for not following procedure?
Of course it matters a great deal. The Blackhawk should not have been any more than 200 feet AGL The last radar returns showed to be over 300 feet. They also showed the radar giving traffic alert signals the controller should have acted upon.
I heard that from Senator Tim Kaine last night on Special Report.
I would list that as a proximate cause.
And Trump was right.
I guarantee you that no one, no one, needed Trump to tell them that the helicopter might have been flying too high.
I'm starting to think you are pranking everyone with all this junk.
Grassley, Johnson Make Public Whistleblower Records Revealing DOJ and FBI Plot to Pin Trump in Jack Smith Elector Case
The FBI’s investigation into Trump, dubbed “Arctic Frost,” was spearheaded by a known anti-Trump agent.
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are releasing legally protected whistleblower disclosures that prove the genesis of the federal election interference case brought against President Trump began at the hands of a prolific anti-Trump FBI agent who acted outside of established protocol for opening cases.
Internal FBI emails and predicating documents provided to Grassley and released jointly by the two senators show Timothy Thibault, a former FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) who was forced to retire from the Bureau after Grassley exposed his public anti-Trump bias, authored the initial language for what ultimately became Jack Smith’s federal case against Trump regarding the 2020 presidential election. Records show Thibault essentially opened and approved his own investigation. The FBI titled the ensuing investigation “Arctic Frost.”
Records further reveal Richard Pilger, an official in the Justice Department (DOJ)’s Public Integrity Section, reviewed and approved the FBI’s Arctic Frost investigation, authorizing DOJ to move forward with a full field criminal and Grand Jury investigation that ultimately transformed into the Trump elector case. Grassley published a 2021 report that raised concerns regarding Pilger’s troubling record at DOJ.
Grassley in 2022 additionally questioned Thibault’s role at the FBI, writing , “I remain very concerned that political bias by a select group of Justice Department and FBI officials has infected the Justice Department’s and FBI’s usual process and procedure to open and pursue high-profile and politically charged investigations.” Grassley and Johnson in November called on Jack Smith to preserve all records related to Trump-targeted investigations.
Grassley, Johnson Make Public Whistleblower Records Revealing DOJ and FBI Plot to Pin Trump in Jack Smith Elector Case
Once again showing that it was NEVER about the law. This also puts Smith's already questionable reputation in a bad place.
Do you think they can accept that very basic FACT?
No. They've already shown they can't.
And it would seem that the more education they have, the more resistant they have become to FACTS.
They have to save face so they are willing to die on the hill of their fictitious narrative.
And on what better site?
Some idiot will be along to bleat Jan 6 any minute to deflect from this.
You mean yet another article will be derailed?
TGIF
There it is in 7.2
Maybe it will be a seed about someone that pretty much no one has ever heard of attending an event with Trump with some unscrupulous background…….like maybe a nazi.
OOooooooops…..that was already done.
What idiocy.
Smiths case was "opened" because of the J6 committee material , which demanded action. The J6 committee referred Trump for prosecution.
That's impossible. The Jan 6th Committee was later forced to destroy exculpatory evidence when the Republicans took over.
Oh, the evil deeds men do...
And people wonder why the received pardons.
You dont know what you are talking about.
Another inconvenient FACT.
I guess that means you give up.
Ok I need my walk anyway.
Not like there was an argument anyway.
Ah, there it is. The expected personal attack when you can't dispute something.
Vic, no one is afraid of you, least of all me.
Today's "column" is extra buffoonish.
Just an increasingly shrill attempt to derail anything Trump or Trump related.
The column is just fine, but some of the responses seem extra buffoonish.
I read 7.2 and can't find a damn thing to back up ANY of that up. Your source anonymous / Trust Me Bro?
Probably his "I got no damn idea" crystal ball.
Yesterday Senate democrats used childlike tactics
And then there is Adam Schitt. Always reliable when it comes to needing somebody to make a complete ass out of themselves in public.