WHY DEI = DIE: Part II

If you have not seen my first article, WHY DEI = DIE, you can refer to it here.

It’s truly hard, sincerely, to know where to start this article. I’ll get to the Potomac crash shortly, and I have a revelation that I’ve not seen anywhere else about the co-pilot of the helicopter which I believe will show a propensity for sloppiness, poor military conduct (i.e., attention-to-detail - huge) and undeserved favorability for her station (likely DEI). Please be patient.

I’m just going to have to plunge ahead with observations, exposures, and conclusions. First, I’ve decided to show you something truly lunatic that David Hogg said; he’s the newly elected Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee. I literally just found this:

Short of politics, let’s employ simple logic. The phrase “Trans women are women” is the equivalent of “trans women = women.” Same for the “girls” statement. Trans women are not women, and trans girls are not girls.

If Hogg’s statement were to be taken as true, then all trans people’s condition would evaporate upon transitioning, and there would be no such classification as “trans women,” or “trans” - we would be remaindered with, simply, “women.” “Girls.”

Further, and here’s the real death to the “trans” idiocy: any true “are” or “=” statements are reversible. For example: 2+2=4; 4=2+2. Expressed in Hogg’s vernacular, this would be 2+2 is 4; thus, 4 is 2+2. If we need to use the word “are,” we could say 8 apples are 2 sets of four apples; 2 sets of four apples are 8 apples. But Hogg’s statement on trans fails this simple test. Again, an example: Trans women are women; women are trans women - THAT IS A FALSITY on both sides of the “equation.” And, trans girls are not girls; girls are not trans-girls. I’m surprised no one else has pointed out the failure of logic in this whole trans delusion.

However, the political left needs new victim groups, and growing ones at that: Inconveniently for them, each element on each side of the equal sign must be the same. Same for the elements on each side of “are” (“=,” “equal,” and “are” connote equivalencies). But this is the broken thinking employed by people who are products of a debased education system, and a debased political party and associated debased ideology. It’s just that simple. The modern Democrat party, in large measure, is mentally ill and, further, one of its main agendas is to build ever-more mentally ill people (who are manipulable). There can no longer be any debate or cover about, or for, that.

Trans women (and thus trans men) must always remain “trans” - whatever any individual person thinks that means, or is entitled to, or however you think it plugs into DEI. To me “trans” simply means “screwed up.” You need help but not the sort as yielded by “gender affirming care.” And please, please, please: Keep it off the kids. To be clear: If you’re an adult and wish to live as the opposite of your assigned “identity” at birth, go ahead. Just don’t expect me to cower, validate, and dispense special favor to you. And I will not invest my time or respect in “Pride” month(s).

Everything regarding, for example, women’s sports is solved. Trans-women are not women, and therefore are ineligible for women’s sports. Follow the logic through for girls’ sports. It’s incredible that no national leader (Trump?… Vance?… etc.) can mount this simple, very, very simple, academic argument. Problem solved.

Now - a slight preface to my take on the rancid influence of DEI on our military, as well as on Control Tower efficiency and effectiveness, and the staffing of Air Traffic Controller (ATC) positions:

Like most, I’ve been following the tragic details of the mid-air collision that took 67 lives over the Potomac River this past January 29th.

In assessing these details, and in watching more than one video of the collision, it is awfully difficult to believe that it was not an intentional act - HOWEVER - I’m not saying it was. At the same time, it can be easy to believe that the crew was distracted by something. We know the pilot was male and the co-pilot was female. Was something going on? A flirtatious interaction that had them looking anywhere but “eyes front” or on the instruments? These days anything is possible. If it is something like that, we’ll probably never hear about it - and it may not be discoverable, anyway. I’m an Army veteran - I saw flirtatious situations. Never, thankfully, in dangerous situations or those requiring what we called extreme attention-to-detail.

Attention-to-detail is huge in the military (or at least it used to be). It involved everything from spit-shining your boots to… yep, flying helicopters. Have a look at this picture of Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach, the co-pilot in the tragic Potomac river crash. Current Army servicemembers and vets have a better chance than civilians at picking up on something very, very significant:

The above person is “out of uniform.” The proper wearing of any service’s uniform is a part of attention-to-detail. But further, it is necessary in showing respect for your fellow service members, and to those who lived and in many cases died while wearing the uniform of the United States of America’s various branches of service. Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach is out-of-uniform, on the job, in the cockpit of this helicopter.

How? Look at her right shoulder: Her hair is streaming out from under her helmet. If you look closely at her left shoulder, you can see wisps of hair there, too. We know she has long hair:

Very long hair, as a matter of fact. How much of it is flowing down her back? But it is clearly not pinned up and secured, as is required when in uniform and on duty.

You’ll note that in the bottom-left picture in the quad above, she does appear to have her hair pinned up. Wherever she was that day, and whomever that is she’s escorting, made that necessary, apparently. This further adds to my theory that cockpit duty was more of a joyride to her than serious military flying duties. Look at her face; look at her hair. We know what we need to know about this person - and more will come.

Now, pair this with the relatively few pictures we have of her (her online social media was scrubbed - and that tells us something, too). There is not a single picture of this woman connoting gravitas, seriousness, maturity. She looks like a girl on a rollercoaster. Is this how she saw her military duties in flying a helicopter? It was a big joy toy? Wheeeee! That’s exactly how she looks. Serious jobs require serious people and I submit that this suspiciously does not look like a serious person.

I’m maintaining a wait-and-see attitude on the rest of the story: BUT, how in hell does a helicopter (which is incredibly maneuverable) fly straight into a jet? Night vision goggles aside (and whether they were in use or not), how do you fail to see a lit jet? Wouldn’t there at least have been a last-minute oh shit! moment, and a near-instant midair stop-and-hover-action? Or a quick dive? A quick change of direction? And, indeed, I would suspect that you’d see a jet many minutes before getting to a point of… oh, let’s call it… irreversibility-and-slam. All you have to do is pay attention to your job. (Not so) stupid question: Was any member of the crew texting??

But, I’m not a helicopter pilot. I’m not even a co-pilot or crewmember. I’ve never even ridden in a helicopter. But I’ve seen them operate in-person and on video. I’ve also flown as a passenger in more than one small, privately owned, plane, in the cockpit (Cessnas). They required attention-to-detail. In none of those cases were my friends/pilots looking like kids on rollercoasters. C’mon! Something really stinks, here. In fact, driving a car is serious business. No one expects this, below, and note the similarity in the lack of seriousness to Capt. Lobach’s:

As to DEI: Male-female interactions in the cockpit (um…) aside, the one thing we know for certain at this date is that ONE person was doing the work of TWO people in the control tower at Reagan National Airport on January 29th. Apparently, the tower was severely understaffed. I’ve heard from many people directly, and seen many interviews, where people speak of being denied jobs - even interview opportunities - because they are white and serve no DEI initiatives. Organizations would rather run an understaffed crew in hopes a black/female/disabled/LGBTQ2IS+ candidate shows up. The top cartoon in my first DEI=DIE article nails it quite nicely.

As something I’ve just learned, apparently the Biden Admin turned away more than a thousand qualifying applicants for control tower positions because of race (white) and gender (male) and other non-DEI/DIE attributes.

This aggregates with all the other "smoking guns" of the past few years - all as sponsored by, and/or supported by, the political Left and the Biden Administration. The Chinese spy balloon, traversing the entire continental U.S. as it collected intelligence unimpeded; Hunter Biden being paid exorbitant salaries supposedly for his proximity to power and his use of influence; the invasion of our southern (and northern) borders by illegal border-crashers and the stress imposed on all U.S. institutions and private sector; the destruction of the U.S. economy - seemingly willfully; the depletion of the strategic oil reserve; the destruction of excellence via DEI; the destruction of education via the same means; the destruction of the U.S. workforce; the destruction of the citizenry's health as paired with the destruction of healthcare/Covid restrictions/fake “vaccines,” and now the stealing of U.S. technological innovations from small business/individuals by our own government and selling it, or giving it, to China? Sending billions to Ukraine to protect their border while ours was open?... on and on and on...

But to sum: Capt. Lobach’s hair is a clue that cannot be exaggerated. If you’re “military,” or a vet, you know. If not, ask any of your active-duty military or vet friends about it: They’ll tell you.

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David Scott Strain is a U.S. Army veteran (HQ, 500th Military Intelligence Brigade [Japan]; 1st Personnel Command [1st PERSCOM, Europe]; Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans [ODCSOPS, Pentagon], more) and a retired Fortune500 I.T. executive (Young & Rubicam, Inc., DC-NY; Burson-Marsteller, LLC, DC-NY; ShuffleLabs, Inc., Virginia, more) as well as employment at major non-profits (Nat’l. Food Processors Assoc., N. VA [now GMA]; Water Environment Federation, N. VA, more); as well as TS contract work for clients (most notably BCP, Int., Alexandria, VA). Mr. Strain has passed three FBI background checks in association with his work. He is also the author of the novel THE GRIM GRIND OF LIFE: A PI’s Strange Bounces through a Surfeit of Eateries, Juke Joints, and Dark Doorways (2020) and A Bohemian in a Precarious Belfry - Vol. I: Poetry & Prose (2023). (Available on Amazon - Kindle and paperback). Prior, he authored the MBA-text I.T. WARS: Managing the Business-Technology Weave in the New Millennium (UofW, UofMD, others).