Reply With QuoteStop flirting with me now! 😘Originally Posted by Tuerto
Jim, can you tell us what you're saying again, just so that i can be sure this time......
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I quite like the conclusion that its me that was wound up 🤣!
Stop flirting with me now! 😘Jim, can you tell us what you're saying again, just so that i can be sure this time......
I've only seen you wound up on a couple of occasions, although i think that you were pissed to be honest as you were getting all melancholy, I think it had been a busy weekend for illegal crossings in the English channel or something like that, you were pretty distraught from memory. Although in fairness, you don't get that angry really, you smash that drum of yours, but you do keep it in order. Nice day today jim, those ducks wont feed themselves........
Sometimes you need a drum when people have fingers in their ears ;).I've only seen you wound up on a couple of occasions, although i think that you were pissed to be honest as you were getting all melancholy, I think it had been a busy weekend for illegal crossings in the English channel or something like that, you were pretty distraught from memory. Although in fairness, you don't get that angry really, you smash that drum of yours, but you do keep it in order. Nice day today jim, those ducks wont feed themselves........
Anyway, I am not meeting you by the duck pond at 2pm today after the misunderstanding last time so don't try to suggest that please.
Whereas your group of people (one) is a touch smaller…..you’re like the bloke who’s banned from ten pubs…. We’ve got a fair idea that it’s not the landlords’ faults.
I remember now, you got angry when I pointed out that there were 20 different species of wading bird in the lake that we visited, "way to much Diversity for a Sunday afternoon stroll 😂👍 Have a good day Jim.
Trump's uncalled for comment shows a complete lack of understanding of Air Traffic Control recruitment. Everyone no matter what gender, race or disability has to pass the same training and rigourous testing. The policy Trump clearly doesn't understand don't lower the bar to entry.
You're conflating two different issues though. Trump's comments were that there was a lack of 'common sense' by air traffic control and that this was due to diversity (the argument being that minorities have a lower IQ). This is the disgraceful part of it.
The shortage of staff you mention is a historic problem going back to the 80s, not helped by government shutdowns and the pandemic. No-one could argue that if a recruitment programme lead to a staff shortage it has failed but a) it might be a little bit more complicated than 'its all too woke', and b) if Trump actually cared about this ,why not just fix that scheme rather than ban all diversity hiring schemes across the entire government? I'd suggest there is another agenda at play there and it's not a nice one.
You can interpret his comments as such if you wish. Some will, those who hate Trump certainly will. I interpret it as linking a staff shortage with policies that turn people down due to their race. We don't really need to speculate on that, the courts will decide.
I think thats his basis towards pausing all, the DEI stuff and the same is happening in many private sector businesses too, as some very large pay outs based on racist policies may be forthcoming.
Anyway, I got told off by Bob for posting too much so I shouldn't have replied!
This seems to be the best summary I can find on it though. Started with a white guy and a native American and is now a class action with 1000 names. It's probably safe to assume none of us were aware of this when Trumps poorly timed crass comments were made.
https://iclg.com/news/22215-federal-...iversity-hires
And now I am off to feed the ducks with Tuerto.
I'm not the one overreaching with my interpretation :
"The FAA's diversity push includes focus on hiring people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities. That is amazing. And then it says, FAA says, people with severe disabilities are most underrepresented segment of the workforce and they want them in and they want them . They can be air traffic controllers. I don't think so. This was in January 14th, so that was a week before I entered office. They put a big push to put diversity into the FAA's program,"
When asked how he had drawn this conclusion, Trump replied: "Because I have common sense. OK? And unfortunately, a lot of people don't. We want brilliant people doing this. This is a major chess game at the highest level. When you have 60 planes coming in during a short period of time, and they're all coming in different directions, and you're dealing with very high-level computer, computer work and very complex computers."
No mention of staff shortages in his comments but I guess you know him best.
I was going to post something like this myself. Biden could have issued a decree that every single air traffic controller is diverse, and they'd all still be 100% qualified to do that job because the ones that ended up in the position would have had to pass exactly the same rigorous tests and training as all those that had gone before them.
DEI programmes aren't in place to give unqualified DEI hires jobs over qualified non DEI people, they're in place because for decades qualified DEI people weren't given the same opportunities to get certain jobs as qualified (or actually let's be honest, less qualified) DEI people
[QUOTE=JamesWales;5569852]You can interpret his comments as such if you wish. Some will, those who hate Trump certainly will. I interpret it as linking a staff shortage with policies that turn people down due to their race. We don't really need to speculate on that, the courts will decide./QUOTE]
If i call you a BS artist then you can interpret that comment as such if you wish, but i did call you a BS artist there is no interpretation needed.
No. That's not the point. You're either missing the point completely or ignoring it. The point is that a man deliberately used a tragic situation to speak about something he's very fond of speaking about and that it is designed to deflect and cause outrage. Something that appeals to the xenophobes he and his staff so calculatedly pander to. If the situation had been something more applicable to blaming immigrants, he would have done so. To blame something as technical and nuanced as a mid-air collision between a military helicopter and a commercial aircraft on DEI without any first-hand knowledge, before any sort of investigation, when there are still unrecovered bodies in the Potomac River and attribute his thoughts to common sense is not only outrageous but completely ridiculous.
Another Delta Airlines plane has crashed in Canada.
Amazing that everyone got out of that, especially with the fireball.
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