Female Pilot in Crash Trump Blames on DEI Was Top 20% Cadet
www.thedailybeast.com
Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach died when the Black Hawk helicopter she was co-piloting collided with an American Airlines jet.

Summary

Army Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach, a highly accomplished pilot and top 20% ROTC cadet, was among 67 killed when her Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines jet near Washington, D.C.

Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth blamed “DEI” for the crash despite no official cause being determined.

Lobach had 450+ flight hours and numerous military honors.

    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
      12·
      22 hours ago

      That’s why they hate veterans. They are only pro military. Veterans don’t contribute to the war machine anymore. They have no purpose unless they use their veteran status to recruit fresh meat for the war machine

      Trump just said the quiet part out loud. They never had respect for veterans. Republicans have always been screwing over veterans

    • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
      43·
      23 hours ago

      Yeah but MAGA isn’t the GOP. The old GOP, for all its faults, and however much I disagreed with it, was a respectable party with true values. MAGA is a crass personality cult that venerates ignorance, mediocrity, hatred and violence. Very much like… well, the NSDAP.

      • Zachariah@lemmy.world
        17·
        23 hours ago

        MAGA sure seem like a direct continuation and very minor evolution of the character of GOP I’ve witnessed in my lifetime.

        • jaybone@lemmy.world
          6·
          20 hours ago

          Yeah, around what like 2008 (?) there was a faction within the party known as The Tea Party, which was already starting in this direction. That’s where stuff like the “long form birth certificate” bullshit started, and mass shooting crisis actors, and various conspiracies and lies in the media. A lot of it was already there, but this was bringing it out more into the open.

          • Zachariah@lemmy.world
            4·
            17 hours ago

            To me, it seems like it was steady refinement from at least Nixon all the way to today. Jair always being as shitty as they can get away with.

            • jaybone@lemmy.world
              11·
              2 hours ago

              Well sure. If we go back far enough, we can just blame Washington. But I don’t think these TikTok zoomers voting Trump because “egg prices” have any idea who Nixon was or what he was about. If you told Nixon that was going to be a voting block for him, he would roll over in his grave, make a martini, break a Beatles album, curse heaven and earth, then roll over and die again.