America - The Official Thread

[TexRex]

ThE pArTy oF pErSoNaL ReSpOnSiBiLiTy!!i!

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

Jesus ****ing Christ.

 

[CTznOfTime]

Meanwhile god forbid poor people from receiving aids for their health, education or housing needs ....

These poor people really need to get better at working harder and stop complaining ...

So the rich can go gambling and lose money to be later compensated and fully supported by the government for their lack of responsibility...

Maga

 

[UKMikey]

I only just heard about MAGA's vendetta against Bishop Marian Budde and the Georgia Congressman who called for her to be deported somewhere for asking Trump to be merciful to the weak.

"Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?" -- Henry II

“𝘖𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘰, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴, 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘳” -- President Harry S. Truman, address to Congress, Aug 1950

“First they came for the bishops” -- Not Pastor Martin Niemöller

 

[Pupik]

The American electorate decided to give Trump another shot at the being-in-charge thing because it all worked out so well the last time ... and under Biden groceries had become more expensive. The old New World Order is going to be replaced by the new Trumpy World Order.

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.

 

[TB]

Mike's not pulling any punches here!

Senator Rips Into RFK Jr. — And Gets Him To Admit He Spread A Conspiracy Theory

Pretty sure Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) won't be supporting Kennedy's nomination.

www.huffpost.com

Unlike other jobs we are confirming around this place, this is a job where it is life and death. ... It is too important for the games that you are playing, Mr. Kennedy. I hope my colleagues will say to the president that out of 330 million Americans, we can do better than this.

 

[McLaren]

RFK Jr. could flat out admit, "Yeah, I spread a conspiracy. Yeah, I compared the CDC's work to Nazi death camps. And yeah, I played a role in Samoa".

And the Republicans will just approve him b/c that does nothing but "own" the Dems.

 

[Blitz24]

RFK Jr. could flat out admit, "Yeah, I spread a conspiracy. Yeah, I compared the CDC's work to Nazi death camps. And yeah, I played a role in Samoa".

And the Republicans will just approve him b/c that does nothing but "own" the Dems.

That's the sad thing. All you need is 2 or 3 Republicans to have a brain/spine but apparently they don't have one. Maybe they can ask where RFK Jr. got his brain worm from and join him.

 

[Famine]

This will probably develop into its own thread, but:

Washington DC plane crash: Passenger jet collides with helicopter and crashes into river

Takeoffs and landings are halted at Washington DC's Ronald Reagan National Airport as emergency services respond.

www.bbc.co.uk

American Airlines-operated Bombardier CRJ700 heading to Reagan collides with US Army Black Hawk on approach. Plane has crashed into the Potomac, no word on the helicopter.

 

[Keef]

This will probably develop into its own thread, but:

Washington DC plane crash: Passenger jet collides with helicopter and crashes into river

Takeoffs and landings are halted at Washington DC's Ronald Reagan National Airport as emergency services respond.

www.bbc.co.uk

American Airlines-operated Bombardier CRJ700 heading to Reagan collides with US Army Black Hawk on approach. Plane has crashed into the Potomac, no word on the helicopter.

You beat me to it. This is the first deadly accident for a US air carrier since Colgan in 2009.

Spoiler: Incident footage

Spoiler: Incident footage

Flight Aware

Edit: While I haven't personally landed at DCA, I'm a little familiar with their procedures, and have been a passenger several times. It looks like the PSA flight was landing on runway 33 which points northwest. They were in visual conditions so likely accepted a visual approach, which requires visual separation from traffic via eyeballs and pilot judgement as opposed to ATC control. They likely would've programmed the GPS runway 33 approach into the avionics, using the data to intercept a stable turn and descent to the runway. They were over the eastern bank of the river turning left toward the runway where the collision occurred. Even at night with lights ablaze, it would've been very difficult to spot traffic below the nose or next to the plane due to the pilot's high workload and concentration at that point. The helicopter was also likely visual over the river which is usually how helicopters operate, visual at low altitudes. Another factor is VFR rights of way which in this case would be given to the airliner as it's the less maneuverable craft - almost everything has right of way over helicopters which carry a high burden of responsibility for traffic avoidance.

In the videos above, the bright light is probably the airliner's landing light, so we're seeing it descend toward the camera. The dim light is probably the helicopter.

I'm not trying to speculate on responsbility here, just highlighting the fact that there are definitely phases of flight where pilots are primarily responsible for traffic avoidance, and we're all trained with knowledge and standards on how to conduct that. The majority of approaches I fly in a jet are "visual" backed up with avionics data and while at some airports in some airspaces we have an expectation of safe traffic separation, some other airports and airspaces are much more complex and less predictable. Obviously airports are places aircraft converge which makes them the most intense areas to operate. Even at very busy ones, our training from private pilot to ATP should allow us to see, avoid, and understand predictable choices that other aircraft will make.

 

[CTznOfTime]

 

[Pupik]

Just caught up with this accident, and the icy dark Potomac River is an awful way to go. My condolences to those affected.

American Airlines has reported 60 passengers and 4 crew members were aboard the aircraft coming from Wichita, Kansas.

Edit: incorrect info removed, my apologies

 

[CTznOfTime]

Not sure I fully get what they are saying here :


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[Scaff]

Trump's going to send civilians to Gitmo.

If you're being deported and the US can't get a country to take you, off to Gitmo you go.

Trump Says He Plans To Open Guantanamo Bay Detention Center For Migrants Living In U.S. Illegally

Trump made the announcement right before he signed the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration’s first piece of legislation.

www.huffpost.com

 

[CTznOfTime]

Trump's going to send civilians to Gitmo.

If you're being deported and the US can't get a country to take you, off to Gitmo you go.

Trump Says He Plans To Open Guantanamo Bay Detention Center For Migrants Living In U.S. Illegally

Trump made the announcement right before he signed the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration’s first piece of legislation.

www.huffpost.com

So survivor island ??
Can anyone ever be free from it ?

So many questions... And probably will never be any answers from this administration...

They may as well just execute anyone they feel like it...

 

[McLaren]

Cramming 30,000 people into a site that's only had 800 prisoners throughout its history is going to take a lot of concentration.

 

[p78]

Maybe he's counting on some dying during transport?

 

[EngieDiesel]

The more of these giant arm-flailing proclamations that come out in such a short time, the more I'm convinced that Trump knows full well the vast majority aren't going to stick and he's just using them as a smoke screen so the media won't pay attention when he starts pushing through less bombastic infrastructure bills designed to funnel government funds into his own pockets. After all, when you've got mass deportations and 1,000,000,000% tariffs on the table, who's going to bother questioning a bunch of long-term construction projects (that just happen to be pre-assigned to construction companies that he has a controlling stake in)?

That his sycophants are jumping on the crazy train too works out even more in Trump's favor if this is true, as they'll draw away even more attention and he obviously doesn't give a damn if they get swept out in midterm elections due to their abject stupidity.

 

[Fezzik]

And today people find out there is already a migrant detention centre at Guantanamo Bay (seperate from the military prison), where immigrants picked up at sea have been held by successive US governments. Trump isn't opening one, he's expanding the existing facility.

 

[Famine]

I know that there's fascination with this stuff, but please try to avoid directly embedding videos of the incident. This is a long-standing rule at GTPlanet: we don't really want to watch people die, thanks.

Not sure I fully get what they are saying here :

The helicopter was asked to confirm it could see the jet and to pass behind it.

 

[Scaff]

And today people find out there is already a migrant detention centre at Guantanamo Bay (seperate from the military prison), where immigrants picked up at sea have been held by successive US governments. Trump isn't opening one, he's expanding the existing facility.

Indeed, it has, but the scale is vastly different. Between 2020 and 2023, it held a total of 37 people, which would see (based on the EO) an increase of nearly 1000%. It's also been widely condemned for its facilities and treatment of people detained in it at its current level of use. It's quite a change of scope and scale, and one that I seriously doubt will result in an increase in the standards of detention.

Guantánamo Bay: the US prison camp in Cuba Trump is eyeing for illegal migrants

The facility has in the past two decades been used to deal with prisoners accused of terrorism-related offences with few ever charged or convicted

www.theguardian.com

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-will-instruct-homeland-security-pentagon-prepare-migrant-facility-2025-01-29/