Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - Episode 133 LIVE: DEI in the Sky (feat. Dr. Darren Beattie) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

On today's show, we have a special guest from the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington D.C. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-GA) joins us live from Room 2021 to speak about his opposition to the uniparty in the House of Representatives. We also hear from Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Representative) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D,N.J.C.) on the Iran nuclear deal and the Iran hostage crisis. Finally, we hear from a Georgia woman who is suing the state of Georgia for what she claims is institutional racism in her own local government and the treatment of her after a night out gone wrong. And we have an update on what's going on in the Middle East with the UN and what they teach our young people in their schools. We also have a call for the U.S. to withdraw all funding to the United Nations and all of their programs that promote anti-Israel hate and incitement in the education system. And we finish the show with a call to action on what we should be doing to combat anti-Semitism in our schools and other forms of hate and violence in our public schools and public schools. Thank you for being a part of the Firebrand family! Firebrand - Your Support is so Generational, Thank You, Firebrand! - The Firebrand Crew Subscribe, Share, and Share, Share and Retweet us your thoughts on this and any other stories you'd like to be featured on the next episode of Firebrand. - Firebrand: Alyssa or . and we'll get a shoutout on Firebranding in next week's episode of , Firebrand Radio on our next episode on the new episode of the podcast! and & ! Thanks for listening Tweet us your responses to this episode! Timestamps: Thank you so much for your support and your thoughts and your support is so we can keep spreading the word out there about the show! Thank You! Love, , Peace, Love, Blessings, - Timeless, Ben -- Firebrand, Ben and Blessings - Jack - EJ, -- - Sarah - Rachel - AKA Firebrand Media - Emily @ Firebrand . - Jon

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:04:40.000 You're not taking Matt Gaetz off the board, okay?

00:04:43.000 Because Matt Gaetz is an American patriot and Matt Gaetz is an American hero.

00:04:47.000 We will not continue to allow the Uniparty to run this town without a fight. 1.00

00:04:53.000 I want to thank you, Matt Gates, for holding the line.

00:04:57.000 Matt Gates is a courageous man.

00:04:59.000 If we had hundreds of Matt Gates in D.C., the country turns around.

00:05:04.000 It's that simple.

00:05:04.000 He's so tough, he's so strong, he's smart, and he loves this country.

00:05:09.000 Matt Gates.

00:05:11.000 It is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you.

00:05:16.000 We will save America.

00:05:18.000 It's choose your fighter time.

00:05:19.000 I'm sending the Firebrand.

00:05:21.000 Welcome back to Firebrand.

00:05:29.000 We're live broadcasting out of room 2021 of the Rayburn House Office Building here at the Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C. And the devil went down to Georgia.

00:05:39.000 Not looking for a soul to steal, but maybe a county commission seat.

00:05:42.000 That is the allegation in a recent lawsuit.

00:05:45.000 From Felicia Franklin, who was the vice chair of the Clayton County Board of County Commissioners.

00:05:52.000 She was running for chair to lead that local government when she had an unfortunate encounter with law enforcement.

00:06:01.000 Watch.

00:06:05.000 Ma'am, wish you wouldn't pick her up and bite her off. 1.00

00:06:09.000 I love what they gave me.

00:06:26.000 They love me.

00:06:29.000 They love me.

00:06:31.000 Don't leave me.

00:06:36.000 Get him on this truck! 0.99

00:06:37.000 Get him on this truck! 0.99

00:06:39.000 Get him the f*** out of this truck! 1.00

00:06:44.000 You give them the f*** out of their shorts! 1.00

00:06:47.000 Now, Lisa, give them the f*** out of their shorts! 1.00

00:06:48.000 Look at me! 0.99

00:06:50.000 The woman you just saw having the mother of all episodes is Clayton County Commissioner Felicia Franklin. 1.00

00:06:58.000 What appears to be a wild night out gone wrong, however, could turn out to be far more complicated once she's coherent enough to share her version of how everything went off the rails.

00:07:08.000 But, regardless of how she got to this point, the consequences Felicia will ultimately face will not be fun. 0.93

00:07:18.000 Gene on Rumble says, now I know what the devil looks like.

00:07:21.000 So the allegation here is that this county commissioner was somehow given the date rape drug rather than the five drinks that witnesses indicate that she had had at a nearby sports bar that she was found outside of.

00:07:38.000 But now she is suing, claiming institutional racism for how she was treated by those...

00:07:46.000 So always interesting to check in on what is going on in the state just north of mine in Georgia.

00:07:51.000 That is apparently the state of your local government.

00:07:55.000 From that to global government, we have increasing concerns about what is being taught to students in Gaza and in other areas where the United Nations is really pushing a curriculum that drives incitement.

00:08:08.000 And if there is any hope for a Middle East without this type of intergenerational You've got to break that cycle with young children, with minds that are not somehow lashed to all of these historical grievances and religious strife.

00:08:28.000 And we're not really achieving that.

00:08:31.000 The UN schools that exist in Gaza, in parts of Judea and Samaria, are part of the problem.

00:08:40.000 And the best evidence for that is what you hear directly from the young people who are attending those schools.

00:08:47.000 Listen to these really troubling, hateful pronouncements from children directly as a result of the flow of your tax dollars to the UN to this very hate.

00:08:59.000 Take a listen.

00:09:04.000 We have to make war to prove that we are stronger than a Jews. 1.00

00:09:09.000 People love Palestine, and they are ready to die for Palestine. 1.00

00:09:16.000 I want to fight the Jews and defeat them in war. 1.00

00:09:22.000 At school, they teach us that Al-Aqsa and all of Palestine is ours. 0.99

00:09:29.000 The Jews lie and say their temple is under the Al-Aqsa Maast. 0.95

00:09:34.000 It was never there. 1.00

00:09:37.000 I hate the Jews. 1.00

00:09:39.000 Yes, they teach us that the Zionists are our enemy and must fight them. 1.00

00:09:50.000 They teach us that Jews are terrorists. 0.99

00:09:54.000 At school they teach us about Jews. 1.00

00:09:57.000 They teach us that they are bad people. 1.00

00:10:00.000 I am ready to stab a Jew and drive a car over them. 1.00

00:10:06.000 I will fight. 1.00

00:10:07.000 I will ram a car into them. 1.00

00:10:10.000 We have to constantly stab them, drive over them, and shoot them. 1.00

00:10:16.000 Stabbing and running over Jews brings dignity to the Palestinians. 1.00

00:10:22.000 I am prepared to be a suicide bomber. 1.00

00:10:25.000 With Allah's help, I will fight for ISIS, the Islamic State. 0.98

00:10:33.000 We're back live, and many of you on the live stream are just as concerned and saddened by this as we all are.

00:10:40.000 A lot of calls to defund the UN. Annie on Facebook calling for a U.S. withdrawal of all participation in UN programs.

00:10:51.000 Star Traveler saying we need to disband the UN. Look, it would disband if we just stopped paying for it.

00:10:57.000 If it wasn't the U.S. being the world's piggy bank and dead money, probably the U.N. would have a very different shake.

00:11:05.000 So when we see children out of the mouth of babes expressing this violent hate, this desire to harm and kill and even die, you really start to see how grave the challenge is and how much the Calls for the UN and international involvement and globalist institutions have really failed the people there and likely will lead to even more years of death and strife.

00:11:36.000 We continue with our coverage of international events and how people are reflecting on them.

00:11:40.000 And this brings us to some reporting that we got out of the One America News Network, OAN. Now, OAN's chief White House correspondent, Chanel Rian, committed an act of felony wrongthink recently when she tweeted a link to a State Department memo concerning election fraud in Ukraine.

00:12:01.000 And she compared that, obviously, to To the standards that we would think that we hold here in the United States of America.

00:12:09.000 But not living up to our own standards is nothing new.

00:12:14.000 There is hypocrisy in condemning other countries while simultaneously we fail to meet the bar that we set for ourselves.

00:12:24.000 It's cognitive dissidence.

00:12:26.000 Now, this was in 2004, so some of us remember how American elections were run back then.

00:12:32.000 We were still fresh off of the hanging chads and dimpled chads from the 2000 Bush v.

00:12:38.000 Gore election, and we had work to do.

00:12:41.000 We had work to do at the state level in Florida to ensure we had paper ballots, the ability to audit, check, recount with sophistication, but not so much so that we were overly reliant on technologies that we weren't sure we could entirely control.

00:12:57.000 So let's look at what 2004 Ukraine and 2020 United States have had in common.

00:13:06.000 So, the illegal use of absentee ballots, election observers ejected from polling stations, abnormally high turnout, turnout that doesn't match any voter roll voting machines, Potentially having a lack of clarity regarding whether or not they were connected to the internet or otherwise vulnerable to any type of manipulation.

00:13:27.000 It was in fact Democrat U.S. Senators who signed letters saying that they were really concerned about these Dominion Smartmatic machines.

00:13:37.000 So the report That Chanel Rion is talking about could similarly indict the state of Georgia alongside the government of Ukraine.

00:13:49.000 Every one of these critiques was present in the 2020 election.

00:13:52.000 If you so much as mentioned concern about the election or evidence we were observing, you were kicked off of social media and branded a conspiracy theorist.

00:14:01.000 Now you've got Zelensky in Ukraine actually disbanding political parties, canceling elections.

00:14:08.000 Funny how that works.

00:14:10.000 Losing confidence in the republic, the democratic process, elections, this is a bad sign for any country.

00:14:18.000 And as you can see with the current situation in Ukraine, things can devolve quickly.

00:14:23.000 Possibly the eeriest line in this report that Chanel Rion shared is straight from the American ambassador himself.

00:14:32.000 He says, quote, Let me say again that the US wants to see Ukraine develop as a secure, independent, democratic, and economically prosperous country that increasingly draws closer to the European and Euro-Atlantic institutions.

00:14:48.000 It's a national embarrassment that we're not holding elections indistinguishable from corrupt, budding Slavic democracies. 1.00

00:14:57.000 Things have to change.

00:14:58.000 High-trust countries are fragile and they are a privilege.

00:15:03.000 And without trust in free and fair elections undergirded by actual election integrity, who knows what situation we may find ourselves in in the next 20 years.

00:15:14.000 There's a moment in a congressional hearing I want to draw your attention to as well during the program today.

00:15:20.000 This comes from Congressman Clay Higgins of Louisiana.

00:15:23.000 He had the opportunity to question FBI Director Christopher Wray regarding January 6th.

00:15:29.000 This clip caught my eye.

00:15:31.000 Take a listen.

00:15:34.000 If you are asking whether the violence at the Capitol on January 6th was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources and or agents, the answer is emphatically not.

00:15:45.000 You're saying no?

00:15:45.000 No.

00:15:46.000 You're saying not, okay.

00:15:47.000 Not violence orchestrated by FBI sources or agents.

00:15:51.000 Are you familiar with, you know what a ghost vehicle is?

00:15:55.000 Director of the FBI certainly should.

00:15:57.000 You know what a ghost bus is?

00:15:59.000 A ghost bus?

00:16:00.000 Ghost bus.

00:16:01.000 I'm not sure I've used that term before.

00:16:03.000 Okay.

00:16:04.000 It's pretty common in law enforcement.

00:16:07.000 It's a vehicle that's used for secret purposes.

00:16:14.000 It's painted over.

00:16:15.000 These two buses in the middle here, they were the first to arrive at Union Station on January 6th.

00:16:21.000 0500. I have all this evidence.

00:16:23.000 I'm showing you a tip of this iceberg.

00:16:25.000 Mr. Chairman.

00:16:26.000 These two buses are painted completely white.

00:16:29.000 Point of order.

00:16:30.000 This is a very significant hearing, Mr. Chairman.

00:16:34.000 These buses are nefarious in nature and we're filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters and deployed onto our Capitol on January 6th.

00:16:46.000 Your day is coming, Mr. Wright.

00:16:51.000 We are back live.

00:16:52.000 Clay Higgins always bringing it, asking the tough questions.

00:16:55.000 We are still on that investigation.

00:16:57.000 There is a sentiment on the live stream from some I want to address.

00:17:02.000 Tired on Rumble saying, motion to vacate Mike Johnson.

00:17:06.000 He screwed us over.

00:17:07.000 Butch on Getter says, time to vacate Johnson.

00:17:11.000 Well, that's not going to happen before we give him his first month.

00:17:17.000 If Mike Johnson continues to govern by continuing resolution without a sincere commitment to our single-subject spending bills, then he will likely face the same fate as Kevin McCarthy.

00:17:28.000 This is about the work, not the person, and the work has to be done.

00:17:33.000 Kevin McCarthy had seven months and produced one single-subject spending bill and then sent us all on like a seven-week vacation.

00:17:41.000 Mike Johnson has moved these bills and admittedly passed a continuing resolution that I opposed, that 95 Republicans opposed.

00:17:50.000 But keep in mind, whether you like it or don't, and I don't, A majority of Republicans voted for that CR. So this wasn't something that Mike Johnson forced down everyone's throat.

00:18:04.000 You had a majority of the majority backing this piece of crap legislation that didn't provide wins for the people in this country that extended the spending of Joe Biden and the policies of Nancy Pelosi.

00:18:16.000 So what Mike Johnson has done here has bought himself tens of days, 74 days remaining. 0.94

00:18:23.000 And in that time period, We have to pick the fights and deliver the wins on the border, on spending cuts, and defanging this weaponized government.

00:18:34.000 And it's not going to be easy because we don't exactly have like the 300 in the Republican conference.

00:18:40.000 You just watched Republicans work with Democrats so that We didn't impeach Mayorkas. 0.97

00:18:49.000 That was wrong.

00:18:51.000 They were wrong.

00:18:52.000 We should have impeached Mayorkas. 1.00

00:18:54.000 But you are seeing something.

00:18:56.000 This might not be the Republican fighting force that all of us would have hoped, but we got to go to war with the army we have, not the army we want.

00:19:05.000 And when I went to try to get the FBI headquarters, the brand new building larger than the Pentagon, out of the budget, prohibited from being constructed, 70 Republicans voted with the Democrats and the FBI. So like, you know, We are going to hold Speaker Johnson to account on spending reductions, the border, and doing everything we can to defang this government.

00:19:33.000 But keep in mind, he is the speaker, not the dictator.

00:19:38.000 And if you've got a lot of these so-called Republican members Working with the Democrats on these things, it's going to be very difficult.

00:19:46.000 This continuing resolution was not the right approach.

00:19:49.000 It was not the right first step.

00:19:51.000 I strongly advised against it.

00:19:53.000 I voted against it.

00:19:55.000 But now we have tens of days to deliver on the real stuff we've got to do on the border.

00:20:00.000 Not Ukraine's border.

00:20:02.000 Our border.

00:20:04.000 And that'll be the fight where I'll need all of you to try to put some sort of courage and rigor into the Republican effort that I think has been rightly critiqued as lackluster to date.

00:20:18.000 One thing that I wanted to have as a centerpiece of this report to you is a growing concern I have about what's going on in the sky.

00:20:28.000 You don't have a choice when you participate in air travel in the United States as to the quality of your air traffic controller.

00:20:38.000 There's not like an option for you to say, I'll pay extra to make sure that the people directing my plane into the airport are competent and capable and trained.

00:20:51.000 You get whoever the government put there.

00:20:54.000 And increasingly, that is leading to very dangerous skies.

00:20:57.000 There was a report that...

00:21:00.000 Concerned me greatly that I read at revolver.news.

00:21:04.000 You'll know Dr. Darren Beattie is the publisher of that website.

00:21:07.000 He joined me moments ago to talk about crash landing, and we should all be concerned about DEI in the skies.

00:21:16.000 Take a listen.

00:21:19.000 We are joined now by one of Firebrand's favorite guests, Dr. Darren Beattie.

00:21:24.000 He is the publisher of Revolver News, which you can find at revolver.news.

00:21:28.000 And recently I was reading an incredible investigative report, a styled crash landing.

00:21:35.000 The inside scoop about how COVID and affirmative action policy gutted aviation safety.

00:21:41.000 And after I read this piece at revolver.news, I turned over to my wife and said, I never want to fly in an airplane in the United States of America again.

00:21:50.000 Dr. Beattie, I want to get into the causalities in a moment.

00:21:53.000 But before that, how would you describe the current state of aviation safety?

00:22:00.000 How dangerous has this become?

00:22:03.000 Well you know it's it's a complex because on one hand we've gone a very very long time without a major catastrophic commercial aviation disaster so that's one part of the equation but the other part of the equation which we address in this comprehensive and very uh in-depth piece is that the number of close calls Events that aviation professionals call runway incursions,

00:22:34.000 where two airplanes almost collide into each other on the runway, or what they call loss of separation events in the air, near midair collisions, both of which as a result of air traffic control error, these incidents have skyrocketed and in fact have doubled in the past decade.

00:22:59.000 On the one hand, we don't have any catastrophic accident.

00:23:04.000 But on the other hand, the close calls are multiplying and doubling over the past decade.

00:23:10.000 And in recent months, there have been just a series of absolutely incredible close calls In the Austin airport and other airports across the country of just really shocking incompetence displayed by our air traffic control professionals.

00:23:30.000 And the pilots seem to know it.

00:23:31.000 You talk about the dangers in Austin, Texas, and I think you even quoted one of the pilots in the piece who said they're trying to kill us in Austin.

00:23:40.000 Exactly.

00:23:40.000 The pilots saying they're trying to kill us.

00:23:42.000 And the thing is, There's like an implicit hierarchy.

00:23:45.000 There's a chain of command.

00:23:46.000 You're supposed to listen to air traffic controllers, but the confidence that the pilots have in the air traffic controllers is absolutely diminishing and justifiably so because of this series of near catastrophes that have resulted directly and very starkly from egregious and almost unfathomable Incompetence from air traffic controllers.

00:24:09.000 And it's human error.

00:24:11.000 It's human error.

00:24:12.000 Like when we think about a near miss or a loss of separation, it's not that there was some bug or glitch in the system.

00:24:19.000 This doubling of the error rate, you have been able to directly tie to the actual human beings that operate these systems, right?

00:24:28.000 Yeah.

00:24:29.000 Well, it's human beings in two cents.

00:24:30.000 There's quantity and quality.

00:24:35.000 The COVID hiring freezes dramatically impacted the quantity.

00:24:41.000 Now, we've spoken to a number of aviation professionals, a number of FAA officials, former spokespeople, the whole range.

00:24:50.000 Very few wanted to speak about it at all.

00:24:54.000 Still, you know, a few more said, okay, we'll talk about background.

00:24:58.000 We got one former spokesman called...

00:25:02.000 McCormick, who is willing to answer some questions, but the level of obfuscation, really delusion, was quite remarkable.

00:25:09.000 But we did get him to admit that COVID hiring freezes played a dramatic role In the understaffing epidemic in the air traffic control profession.

00:25:21.000 So, you know, long time ago, we've spoken about this on Firebrand.

00:25:26.000 Revolver did a major investigative piece using the life years metric as a means of analyzing whether the lockdown policies made sense.

00:25:35.000 Well, we didn't even take into account the fact that these unnecessary hiring freezes due to COVID could have resulted in, you know, the next major Aviation disaster.

00:25:48.000 The spokesperson was much more tight-lipped and I would say deceptive maybe when it comes to acknowledging the role of the vaccine mandates in particular.

00:26:01.000 But even if we set those aside, simply the effect of the hiring freezes I think is a loan to really Further condemn the COVID hysteria, which, you know, we're still feeling the ramifications of that.

00:26:18.000 So that's for the quantity.

00:26:20.000 As for the quality, we trace a lot of the diminution of quality to pretty dramatic changes that were put in place by the Obama administration effectively to court more diversity.

00:26:33.000 They entirely dispense with the merit-based test That was sort of like an SAT, but for air traffic controllers.

00:26:40.000 They got rid of that entirely in favor of a test that gauges what they call bio data, which is a huge scam.

00:26:49.000 We track its source to this woman who's a professor of AIR. Believe it or not, that actually exists. 0.89

00:26:57.000 Wow.

00:26:57.000 Entire dissertation.

00:26:59.000 She was sort of spearheaded this.

00:27:01.000 Her entire dissertation was on how to use bio data.

00:27:06.000 This scam in order to basically increase diversity in hiring practices.

00:27:12.000 And so that's what we get.

00:27:13.000 And the pilots that we spoke to and aviation professionals pretty much all said, yes, this has led to a discernible and conspicuous decline in quality from what we had before.

00:27:26.000 It is a perfect storm of danger, because on one hand, whether it was the vax mandates, whether it was the hiring freeze, or frankly, whether it was just the cultural adoption of working from home, it hollowed out all this experience that we had.

00:27:46.000 These experienced air traffic controllers would leave for one reason or another, and then the backfill Or all these DEI hires who didn't have to do the rigorous merit-based testing.

00:27:59.000 Exactly.

00:28:00.000 I read this and I am wondering why there is not a long line of whistleblowers coming to Congress, going to the Aviation Committee to express their concern.

00:28:10.000 I mean, you detail in the piece how reticent people were to speak candidly with you about this.

00:28:16.000 Why aren't more people sounding the alarm?

00:28:20.000 Well, it's unfashionable and it's career death for many.

00:28:25.000 They have benefits, they have their careers on the line for this and nobody really wants to hear it because by now it's a very systemic problem and it takes a long time actually to train air traffic controllers.

00:28:39.000 That's the other side of it.

00:28:40.000 For the understaffing is there was the COVID hiring freeze, but then there was also a massive surge in retirements as a result, you know, in the COVID era.

00:28:51.000 Now they could pretend like that has nothing to do with the vaccine mandates, but I think given the available evidence and there were studies of pilots were extremely reluctant to take the vaccine in numbers that were significant.

00:29:07.000 Attribute any reason you want, but there was a marked increase of retirements as a result of the COVID policies enacted in addition to the hiring freezes.

00:29:17.000 So it's kind of cutting it from both sides there.

00:29:20.000 And as you point out, the ones that remain Very low quality, hired on the basis of these new effectively diversity mandates.

00:29:29.000 And just to give you a sense of how absurd it is, we opened the piece with one of the most egregious near accidents, the runway incursion, they call it, of a Southwest plane that almost ran into a FedEx plane.

00:29:47.000 And the air traffic controller who's responsible for this, and this isn't just like, oh, this is super complicated, but he made a mistake.

00:29:54.000 But it's like, no, no, this is very, very avoidable mistakes.

00:29:58.000 It's extreme incompetence.

00:30:00.000 This guy went back To the air traffic control just weeks later.

00:30:05.000 Wow.

00:30:05.000 He's back from the job.

00:30:06.000 And in a lot of ways, we want to advocate for the empowered consumer, right?

00:30:12.000 Don't buy food that's bad for you.

00:30:14.000 Look at it.

00:30:15.000 Observe the labels.

00:30:17.000 Don't go to media outlets that are trying to poison you.

00:30:21.000 Make sure that you're understanding the biases and the sourcing.

00:30:25.000 But when it comes to an empowered consumer in aviation, what are you supposed to do?

00:30:30.000 It doesn't matter what airline you're on, you're all landing on the same runways, right?

00:30:35.000 That's a fantastic point, and it gets to sort of the more, I guess, philosophical or contextual side of the story.

00:30:43.000 We contextualize this report in terms of what we call the collapse of our ability to maintain complex systems.

00:30:53.000 Now, you have a lot of people, you know, technologists, people like Peter Thiel, who've publicly lamented the lack of innovation.

00:31:04.000 In our economy outside of technology, but this underscores how bad things really are.

00:31:09.000 Forget about innovation.

00:31:11.000 We're not even able to maintain, let alone innovate.

00:31:15.000 The complex systems like aviation, like electric grid, transportation, there are a number of different systems that depend not necessarily on geniuses to keep it running, but to competent, responsible, Professionals with institutional knowledge.

00:31:37.000 And our system breaks down at the point of being able to pass down that institutional knowledge To the next generation of competent professionals.

00:31:46.000 And we see that in the aviation industry.

00:31:48.000 Revolvers address this general issue way back when, remember, when the Texas power grid was having issues?

00:31:56.000 I mean, ultimately, this results in a South Africa-type situation.

00:32:01.000 Now, to get back to the aviation example, which I think is the most shocking because, you know, air traffic Disasters really kind of sees us on a visceral level in terms of how terrifying they are.

00:32:17.000 You point out there's no way to get around this.

00:32:21.000 Normally, the answer to the collapse of these complex systems is, okay, have the tragedy of the commons.

00:32:28.000 Every common space is sort of gutted and devolves to the lowest common denominator.

00:32:32.000 The very wealthy in society, the ruling elite, are the diminishing numbers of them, but they're able to kind of buy their way out of it.

00:32:42.000 The interesting thing about the aviation example is, Even if you fly private, you're not able to buy your way out of it because the problems with the air traffic controllers And in fact, some of the examples that we've given, several actually, involve private aircraft.

00:33:01.000 So interestingly, it's one of these things that even the ruling class isn't able to buy their way out of unless they start to just operate out of entirely different airports.

00:33:10.000 But even then, they're dependent on air traffic coordination with the plebs and their commercial aircraft. 1.00

00:33:17.000 So it's really quite remarkable in that respect that it's not even one of those things that You know, if it were an airline issue, say, okay, we're left with crappy pilots, crappy flying experience, all the rich people flying private, but for this particular issue, there's no buying your way out of it.

00:33:35.000 No, it's a fully integrated system.

00:33:37.000 There's no way to tear it out for people that have the resources to basically buy their way out of these safety and danger problems.

00:33:45.000 I want to end with this.

00:33:47.000 You talk about solutions in the piece, and you essentially say throw the baby out with the bathwater, that the public sector, government-funded...

00:33:57.000 Air traffic control system is unsavable and that you believe privatization is something that needs to be seriously considered in order to raise the level of competence.

00:34:07.000 Have I overstated how stark you think the options are for us going forward?

00:34:13.000 No, I think that needs to be seriously looked into.

00:34:16.000 And my understanding is President Trump actually suggested something along these lines, although I'm not sure if he seriously pursued it.

00:34:26.000 But I think that's something to look into aggressively.

00:34:29.000 But ultimately, the issue is even when you go private, a lot of these laws and pressures remain in terms of the diversity We've covered this independently in a discussion of the implications of certain areas of civil rights law.

00:34:51.000 For instance, disparate impact law means that any kind of test that leads to a differential impact across racial or gender lines that doesn't correspond exactly with the distribution of the population, any such test for an employer is considered to be Presumptively illegal on the basis of corporate impact.

00:35:14.000 So that's a civil rights law that applies to the private sector as well.

00:35:19.000 And so you can't really avoid the underlying pressures even by going private.

00:35:25.000 And the remarkable thing is, you know, you think Okay, there's this diversity imperative that exists within our society.

00:35:32.000 It's effectively the ideology of the American empire.

00:35:36.000 But you would hope there would at least be enough sense to say, okay, let's get the, you know, the diversity hires and have that maybe in the commercials or in, you know, areas that are not ultra critical.

00:35:51.000 But the fact that we've Gotten to the point where we're doing that to the air traffic control indicates that there's a level of insanity and recklessness that really defies the notion that there's something kind of cynical and strategic about the diversity.

00:36:13.000 Like, it's just superficial.

00:36:14.000 It's just for show.

00:36:15.000 But, you know, we still can make the trains run on time.

00:36:19.000 This is about as trains run on time as you can possibly get is making sure the aviation industry works without catastrophic disaster.

00:36:27.000 And even that has been compromised, which kind of Tells us how crazy things have gotten.

00:36:34.000 I miss the simpler days when what I had to worry about most on commercial air travel was bad turbulence, bad weather, or bad passengers.

00:36:44.000 Now, those all fall below the list.

00:36:47.000 Crash landing, the inside scoop about how COVID and affirmative action policy got in aviation safety.

00:36:53.000 That's the piece.

00:36:53.000 Go ahead, Darren.

00:36:54.000 One more thing.

00:36:55.000 As far as solutions, this isn't going to be a long-term solution, but something that's worth considering.

00:37:01.000 There is technology that can compensate to a large degree for the incompetence of the air traffic personnel.

00:37:10.000 And not all of our airports have this technology.

00:37:14.000 And the FAA has said this is a result of a lack of funding and all these things.

00:37:20.000 Oh, I'm sure there'll be a government contractor who will say that because of the COVID laws that we passed and the corresponding DEI that we backfilled it with, we now need to go spend a bunch of taxpayer money to create a technology system to overlay the human incompetence.

00:37:35.000 Is that where this all goes?

00:37:37.000 They're already saying that, but assuming that there is technology that works, it's pretty amazing that we've directed $100 billion to Ukraine, and yet we have airports that lack what the FAA is describing as critical technology to avoid the next aviation disaster.

00:37:55.000 So it's just incompetence and corruption piled on top of each other, you know, up to the stratosphere.

00:38:02.000 Oh, yeah, sure.

00:38:03.000 Before it's all over, they'll say, we actually need to give the money to Ukraine.

00:38:07.000 So that we can then glean and learn how to better keep our own skies safe.

00:38:11.000 But that will, of course, be nonsense.

00:38:13.000 Revolver.News is the website.

00:38:16.000 Dr. Darren J. Beattie is the publisher.

00:38:19.000 Follow him at Darren J. Beattie on most social media platforms, right?

00:38:24.000 Indeed.

00:38:24.000 On Twitter, it's at Darren J. Beattie.

00:38:26.000 All right.

00:38:27.000 Great.

00:38:27.000 And Revolver.News, make sure you are a daily reader, as I am.

00:38:31.000 Thanks so much, Dr. Beattie.

00:38:32.000 Thank you.

Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - November 15, 2023

Episode 133 LIVE: DEI in the Sky (feat. Dr. Darren Beattie) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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