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

00:00:00.000 Matt Gaetz, the biggest firebrand inside of the House of Representatives.

00:00:07.560 You're not taking Matt Gaetz off the board, okay?

00:00:09.960 Because Matt Gaetz is an American patriot and Matt Gaetz is an American hero.

00:00:14.700 We will not continue to allow the Uniparty to run this town without a fight. 1.00

00:00:20.280 I want to thank you, Matt Gaetz, for holding the line.

00:00:24.380 Matt Gaetz is a courageous man.

00:00:26.400 If we had hundreds of Matt Gaetz in D.C., the country turns around.

00:00:31.160 It's that simple.

00:00:31.960 He's so tough. He's so strong.

00:00:34.000 He's smart and he loves this country.

00:00:36.360 Matt Gaetz.

00:00:38.060 It is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you.

00:00:43.300 We will save America.

00:00:45.380 It's choose your fighter time.

00:00:47.160 Send in the firebrands. 1.00

00:00:48.640 Welcome back to Firebrand.

00:00:56.460 We're live broadcasting out of room 2021 of the Rayburn House Office Building here at the Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C.

00:01:03.740 And the devil went down to Georgia, not looking for a soul to steal, but maybe a county commission seat.

00:01:09.520 That is the allegation in a recent lawsuit from Felicia Franklin, who was the vice chair of the Clayton County Board of County Commissioners.

00:01:19.860 She was running for chair to lead that local government when she had an unfortunate encounter with law enforcement.

00:01:29.100 Watch.

00:01:29.400 Ma'am, did you want to pick her up by the law? 1.00

00:01:50.080 I love what they gave me.

00:01:53.320 They love me.

00:01:55.360 They love me.

00:01:58.380 Don't leave me.

00:01:59.640 Don't leave me.

00:02:00.280 Don't leave me.

00:02:03.060 Get him away.

00:02:04.780 Get him out of the truck. 0.99

00:02:06.280 Get him the f*** out of the truck. 0.99

00:02:08.620 Get him the f*** out of the truck. 0.99

00:02:11.360 You get the f*** out of the truck. 0.99

00:02:14.000 Get him the f*** out of the truck. 0.99

00:02:16.000 Felicia, look at me. 0.98

00:02:18.120 Felicia, look at me.

00:02:19.300 The woman you just saw having the mother of all episodes is Clayton County Commissioner Felicia Franklin, 0.99

00:02:25.360 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.

00:02:36.160 But regardless of how she got to this point, the consequences Felicia will ultimately face will not be fun. 0.88

00:02:45.680 Gene on Rumble says, now I know what the devil looks like.

00:02:48.660 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.

00:03:05.340 But now she is suing, claiming institutional racism for how she was treated by those health care professionals who were there to help her.

00:03:13.860 So always interesting to check in on what is going on in the state just north of mine in Georgia.

00:03:18.660 That is apparently the state of your local government.

00:03:22.160 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.

00:03:35.820 And if there is any hope for a Middle East without this type of intergenerational conflict and hatred, you've got to break that cycle with young children,

00:03:47.720 with minds that are not somehow lashed to all of these historical grievances and religious strife.

00:03:55.720 And we're not really achieving that.

00:03:57.940 The UN schools that exist in Gaza, in parts of Judea and Samaria, are part of the problem.

00:04:07.160 And the best evidence for that is what you hear directly from the young people who are attending those schools.

00:04:14.220 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.

00:04:26.820 Take a listen.

00:04:27.220 We have to make war, to prove that we are stronger than a Jews. 1.00

00:04:36.940 People love Palestine, and they are ready to die for Palestine. 1.00

00:04:42.020 I want to fight the Jews, and defeat them in war. 1.00

00:04:49.060 At school, they teach us that Al-Aqsa, and all of Palestine, is ours. 0.99

00:04:56.460 The Jews lie, and say their temple is under the Al-Aqsa mast. 0.97

00:05:02.060 It was never there. 1.00

00:05:04.940 I hate the Jews. 1.00

00:05:06.400 Yes, they teach us, that the Zionists are our enemy, and must fight them. 1.00

00:05:17.640 They teach us, that Jews are terrorists. 0.99

00:05:21.200 At school, they teach us about Jews. 1.00

00:05:24.500 They teach us, that they are bad people. 1.00

00:05:28.340 I am ready, to stab a Jew, and drive a car over them. 1.00

00:05:33.220 I will fight. 1.00

00:05:34.380 I will ram a car into them. 1.00

00:05:37.800 We have to constantly stab them, drive over them, and shoot them. 1.00

00:05:43.480 Stabbing and running over Jews, brings dignity to the Palestinians. 1.00

00:05:49.160 I am prepared to be a suicide bomber. 1.00

00:05:52.480 With Allah's help, I will fight for ISIS, the Islamic State. 0.98

00:05:57.200 We are back live, and many of you on the live stream are just as concerned and saddened by this as we all are.

00:06:07.500 A lot of calls to defund the U.N.

00:06:10.620 Annie on Facebook, calling for a U.S. withdrawal of all participation in U.N. programs.

00:06:18.040 Star Traveler saying we need to disband the U.N.

00:06:20.920 Look, it would disband if we just stopped paying for it.

00:06:24.220 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.

00:06:31.620 When we see children out of the mouth of babes expressing this violent hate, this desire to harm and kill and even die,

00:06:43.360 you really start to see how grave the challenge is and how much the calls for the U.N. and international involvement

00:06:54.440 and globalist institutions have really failed the people there and likely will lead to even more years of death and strife.

00:07:02.860 We continue with our coverage of international events and how people are reflecting on them,

00:07:07.700 and this brings us to some reporting that we got out of the One America News Network, OAN.

00:07:15.200 Now, OAN's chief White House correspondent, Chanel Rian, committed an act of felony wrongthink recently

00:07:22.100 when she tweeted a link to a State Department memo concerning election fraud in Ukraine,

00:07:28.920 and she compared that, obviously, to the standards that we would think that we hold here in the United States of America,

00:07:35.920 but not living up to our own standards is nothing new.

00:07:42.120 There is hypocrisy in condemning other countries while simultaneously we fail to meet the bar that we set for ourselves.

00:07:51.720 It's cognitive dissidence.

00:07:53.500 Now, this was in 2004, so some of us remember how American elections were run back then.

00:07:58.860 We were still fresh off of the hanging chads and dimpled chads from the 2000 Bush v. Gore election,

00:08:06.400 and we had work to do.

00:08:07.960 We had work to do at the state level in Florida to ensure we had paper ballots,

00:08:12.980 the ability to audit, check, recount with sophistication,

00:08:16.660 but not so much so that we were overly reliant on technologies that we weren't sure we could entirely control.

00:08:23.780 So, let's look at what 2004 Ukraine and 2020 United States have had in common.

00:08:32.880 So, the illegal use of absentee ballots, election observers ejected from polling stations,

00:08:40.400 abnormally high turnout, turnout that doesn't match any voter roll, voting machines,

00:08:45.440 potentially having a lack of clarity regarding whether or not they were connected to the Internet

00:08:50.940 or otherwise vulnerable to any type of manipulation.

00:08:54.720 It was, in fact, Democrat U.S. Senators who signed letters saying that they were really concerned

00:09:00.380 about these Dominion Smartmatic machines.

00:09:03.740 So, the report that Chanel Rion is talking about could similarly indict, like, the state of Georgia

00:09:13.040 alongside the government of Ukraine.

00:09:16.120 Every one of these critiques was present in the 2020 election.

00:09:19.760 If you so much as mentioned concern about the election or evidence we were observing,

00:09:25.020 you were kicked off of social media and branded a conspiracy theorist.

00:09:28.580 Now you've got Zelensky in Ukraine actually disbanding political parties, canceling elections.

00:09:35.600 Funny how that works.

00:09:37.240 Losing confidence in the republic, the democratic process, elections, this is a bad sign for any country.

00:09:45.740 And as you can see with the current situation in Ukraine, things can devolve quickly.

00:09:50.840 Possibly the eeriest line in this report that Chanel Rion shared is straight from the American ambassador 1.00

00:09:58.040 himself.

00:09:59.280 He says, quote,

00:10:00.060 Let me say again that the U.S. wants to see Ukraine develop as a secure, independent, democratic,

00:10:07.160 and economically prosperous country that increasingly draws closer to the European and Euro-Atlantic institutions.

00:10:16.040 It's a national embarrassment that we're not holding elections indistinguishable

00:10:20.380 from corrupt, budding Slavic democracies. 0.64

00:10:24.460 Things have to change.

00:10:25.520 High-trust countries are fragile, and they are a privilege.

00:10:30.280 And without trust in free and fair elections undergirded by actual election integrity,

00:10:35.300 who knows what situation we may find ourselves in in the next 20 years.

00:10:41.620 There's a moment in a congressional hearing I want to draw your attention to as well during

00:10:46.340 the program today.

00:10:47.680 This comes from Congressman Clay Higgins of Louisiana.

00:10:50.620 He had the opportunity to question FBI Director Christopher Wray regarding January 6th.

00:10:56.380 This clip caught my eye.

00:10:58.440 Take a listen.

00:10:58.840 If you are asking whether the violence at the Capitol on January 6th was part of some

00:11:06.460 operation orchestrated by FBI sources and or agents, the answer is emphatically not.

00:11:11.620 You're saying no?

00:11:12.620 No.

00:11:13.240 You're saying no?

00:11:13.900 Not violence orchestrated by FBI sources or agents.

00:11:18.380 Are you familiar with, you know what a ghost vehicle is?

00:11:22.420 Director, the director of the FBI certainly should.

00:11:25.040 You know what a ghost bus is?

00:11:26.820 A ghost bus?

00:11:27.680 Ghost bus.

00:11:28.540 I'm not sure I've used that term before.

00:11:29.980 Okay.

00:11:31.500 Well, it's pretty common in law enforcement.

00:11:34.060 It's a vehicle that's used for secret purposes.

00:11:41.680 It's painted over.

00:11:42.800 These two buses in the middle here, they were the first to arrive at Union Station on January

00:11:47.660 6th.

00:11:48.420 0-500.

00:11:49.340 I have all this evidence.

00:11:50.660 I'm showing you a tip of this iceberg.

00:11:52.420 Mr. Chairman.

00:11:53.120 These two buses are painted completely white.

00:11:56.460 Point of order.

00:11:57.000 There's a very significant hearing, Mr. Chairman.

00:12:00.260 And these buses are nefarious in nature and we're filled with FBI informants dressed as

00:12:08.700 Trump supporters.

00:12:10.300 Deployed onto our Capitol on January 6th.

00:12:12.820 Your day is coming, Mr. Ray.

00:12:14.840 Major point, Mr.

00:12:18.200 We are back live.

00:12:19.740 Clay Higgins always bringing it, asking the tough questions.

00:12:22.720 We are still on that investigation.

00:12:25.380 There is a sentiment on the live stream from some I want to address.

00:12:29.380 Tired on Rumble saying, motion to vacate Mike Johnson.

00:12:33.300 He screwed us over.

00:12:34.260 Butch on getter says, time to vacate Johnson.

00:12:39.080 Well, that's not going to happen before we give him, like, his first month.

00:12:44.760 If Mike Johnson continues to govern by continuing resolution without a sincere commitment to our

00:12:50.740 single-subject spending bills, then he will likely face the same fate as Kevin McCarthy.

00:12:56.020 This is about the work, not the person.

00:12:58.620 And the work has to be done.

00:13:00.360 Kevin McCarthy had seven months and produced one single-subject spending bill and then sent us all on, like, a seven-week vacation.

00:13:08.260 Mike Johnson has moved these bills and admittedly passed a continuing resolution that I opposed, that 95 Republicans opposed.

00:13:18.060 But keep in mind, whether you like it or don't, and I don't, a majority of Republicans voted for that CR.

00:13:26.080 So this wasn't something that Mike Johnson, you know, forced down everyone's throat. 0.80

00:13:31.000 You had a majority of the majority backing this piece of crap legislation that didn't provide wins for the people in this country 0.94

00:13:39.480 that extended the spending of Joe Biden and the policies of Nancy Pelosi. 0.95

00:13:43.720 So what Mike Johnson has done here has bought himself tens of days, like 74 days remaining.

00:13:50.300 And in that time period, we have to pick the fights and deliver the wins on the border, on spending cuts,

00:13:58.640 and defanging this weaponized government. 0.87

00:14:01.320 And it's not going to be easy because we don't exactly have, like, the 300 in the Republican conference.

00:14:08.320 You just watched Republicans work with Democrats so that we didn't impeach Mayorkas. 0.89

00:14:16.800 That was wrong. They were wrong.

00:14:19.640 We should have impeached Mayorkas. 1.00

00:14:21.120 But you are seeing something.

00:14:23.660 This might not be the Republican fighting force that all of us would have hoped.

00:14:28.380 But we got to go to war with the army we have, not the army we want.

00:14:32.920 And when I went to try to get the FBI headquarters, the brand new building larger than the Pentagon,

00:14:39.440 out of the budget, prohibited from being constructed, 70 Republicans voted with the Democrats and the FBI.

00:14:48.180 So, like, you know, we are going to hold Speaker Johnson to account on spending reductions to the border and doing everything we can to defang this government.

00:15:00.500 But keep in mind, he is the speaker, not the dictator.

00:15:05.320 And if you've got a lot of these so-called Republican members working with the Democrats on these things,

00:15:12.140 it's going to be very difficult.

00:15:13.700 This continuing resolution was not the right approach.

00:15:16.820 It was not the right first step.

00:15:18.660 I strongly advised against it.

00:15:20.320 I voted against it.

00:15:21.320 But now we have tens of days to deliver on the real stuff we've got to do on the border, not Ukraine's border, our border.

00:15:31.020 And that will be the fight where I'll need all of you to try to put some sort of courage and rigor into the Republican effort

00:15:39.980 that I think has been rightly critiqued as lackluster to date.

00:15:45.920 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.

00:15:55.440 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.

00:16:04.200 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.

00:16:18.960 You get whoever the government put there.

00:16:21.440 And increasingly, that is leading to very dangerous skies.

00:16:24.940 There was a report that concerned me greatly that I read at revolver.news.

00:16:31.360 You'll know Dr. Darren Beattie is the publisher of that website.

00:16:35.060 He joined me moments ago to talk about crash landing.

00:16:39.640 And we should all be concerned about DEI in the skies.

00:16:43.200 Take a listen.

00:16:45.780 We are joined now by one of Firebrand's favorite guests, Dr. Darren Beattie.

00:16:51.420 He is the publisher of Revolver News, which you can find at revolver.news.

00:16:55.500 And recently, I was reading an incredible investigative report, a styled crash landing, the inside scoop about how COVID and affirmative action policy gutted aviation safety.

00:17:08.340 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.

00:17:17.280 And Dr. Beattie, I want to get into the causalities in a moment.

00:17:21.080 But before that, how would you describe the current state of aviation safety?

00:17:27.000 How dangerous has this become?

00:17:30.640 Well, you know, it's complex because on one hand, we've gone a very, very long time without a major catastrophic commercial aviation disaster.

00:17:42.180 So that's one part of the equation.

00:17:44.740 But the other part of the equation, which we address in this comprehensive and very in-depth piece, is that the number of close calls, events that aviation professionals call runway incursions, where two airplanes almost collide into each other on the runway,

00:18:04.960 or what they call loss of separation events in the air, near mid-air 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.

00:18:24.860 So on the one hand, we don't have any catastrophic accident.

00:18:31.640 But on the other hand, the close calls are multiplying and doubling over the past decade.

00:18:37.020 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.

00:18:57.060 And the pilots seem to know it.

00:18:58.580 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.

00:19:06.900 Exactly.

00:19:07.540 The pilots saying they're trying to kill us.

00:19:09.180 And the thing is, there's like an implicit hierarchy.

00:19:12.560 There's a chain of command.

00:19:13.900 You're supposed to listen to the air traffic controllers.

00:19:15.840 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.

00:19:36.660 And it's human error.

00:19:38.560 It's human error.

00:19:39.620 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.

00:19:46.460 This doubling of the error rate, you have been able to directly tie to the actual human beings that operate these systems, right?

00:19:55.880 Yeah.

00:19:56.160 Well, it's human beings in two cents.

00:19:57.940 There's quantity and quality.

00:20:02.200 The COVID hiring freezes dramatically impacted the quantity.

00:20:08.320 Now, we've spoken to a number of aviation professionals, a number of FAA officials, former spokespeople, the whole range.

00:20:17.520 Very few wanted to speak about it at all.

00:20:20.980 Still, you know, a few more said, okay, we'll talk about background.

00:20:25.460 We got one former spokesman called McCormick who was willing to answer some questions.

00:20:32.060 But the level of obfuscation and really delusion was quite remarkable.

00:20:36.240 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.

00:20:48.040 So, you know, long time ago, we've spoken about this on Firebrand Revolver did a major investigative piece using the life years metric as a means of analyzing whether the lockdown policies made sense.

00:21:02.300 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.

00:21:14.300 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.

00:21:28.440 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.

00:21:45.080 So that's for the quantity. 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.

00:22:00.180 They entirely dispensed with the merit-based test that was sort of like an SAT, but for air traffic controllers, they got rid of that entirely in favor of a test that gauges what they call bio data, which is a huge scam.

00:22:16.660 We track its source to this woman who's a professor of AR, believe it or not, that actually exists.

00:22:24.240 Wow.

00:22:24.560 Entire dissertation. She was sort of spearheaded this. Her entire dissertation was on how to use bio data scam in order to basically increase diversity in hiring practices. 0.92

00:22:39.440 And so that's what we get. 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.

00:22:53.140 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,

00:23:09.220 it hollowed out all this experience that we had, these experienced air traffic controllers would leave for one reason or another.

00:23:17.580 And then the backfill are all these DEI hires who didn't have to do the rigorous merit-based testing.

00:23:26.380 Exactly.

00:23:26.940 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.

00:23:37.700 I mean, you detail in the piece how reticent people were to speak candidly with you about this.

00:23:43.940 Why aren't more people sounding the alarm?

00:23:45.840 Well, it's unfashionable, and it's career death for many.

00:23:52.220 You know, 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, you know, systemic problem.

00:24:02.740 And it takes a long time, actually, to train air traffic controllers.

00:24:06.020 That's the other side of it 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.

00:24:18.360 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 who were extremely reluctant to take the vaccine in numbers that were significant.

00:24:34.400 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.

00:24:44.600 So it's kind of cutting it from both sides there.

00:24:47.540 And as you point out, the ones that remain very low quality hired on the basis of these new effectively diversity mandates.

00:24:55.920 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.

00:25:13.820 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, but it's like, no, no, this is very, very avoidable mistakes, extreme incompetence.

00:25:27.740 This guy went back to the air traffic control just weeks later.

00:25:32.300 He's back from the job.

00:25:34.260 And in a lot of ways, we want to advocate for the empowered consumer, right?

00:25:39.260 Don't buy food that's bad for you.

00:25:41.940 Look at it.

00:25:42.680 Observe the labels.

00:25:44.440 Don't go to media outlets that are trying to poison you.

00:25:48.620 Make sure that you're understanding the biases and the sourcing.

00:25:52.220 But when it comes to an empowered consumer in aviation, what are you supposed to do?

00:25:56.900 Because it doesn't matter what airline you're on.

00:25:59.440 You're all landing on the same runways, right?

00:26:01.940 That's a fantastic point.

00:26:03.980 And it gets to sort of the more, I guess, philosophical or contextual side of the story.

00:26:10.640 We contextualize this report in terms of what we call the collapse of our ability to maintain complex systems.

00:26:20.680 Now, you have a lot of people, you know, technologists, people like Peter Thiel, who've publicly lamented the lack of innovation in our economy outside of technology.

00:26:33.500 But this underscores how bad things really are.

00:26:37.180 Forget about innovation.

00:26:38.400 We're not even able to maintain, let alone innovate.

00:26:42.700 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.

00:27:03.600 And our system breaks down at the point of being able to pass down that institutional knowledge to the next generation of competent professionals.

00:27:12.900 And we see that in the aviation industry.

00:27:15.740 Revolvers address this general issue way back when, remember, when the Texas power grid was having issues?

00:27:23.840 I mean, ultimately, this results in a South Africa type situation.

00:27:28.760 Now, to get back to the aviation example, which I think is the most shocking because, you know, air traffic disasters really, like, kind of sees us on a visceral level in terms of how terrifying they are.

00:27:44.600 You point out there's no way to get around this.

00:27:47.540 And normally, the answer to the collapse of these complex systems is, okay, have the tragedy of the commons.

00:27:55.160 Every common space is sort of gutted and devolves to the lowest common denominator.

00:27:59.800 The very wealthy in society, the ruling elite are, you know, the diminishing numbers of them, but they're able to kind of buy their way out of it.

00:28:09.540 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 of the problems with the air traffic controllers.

00:28:21.040 And in fact, the example, some of the examples that we've given, several actually, involve private aircraft.

00:28:27.880 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.

00:28:37.040 But even then, they're dependent on air traffic coordination with the plebs and their commercial aircraft. 1.00

00:28:43.960 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.

00:28:57.540 But for this particular issue, there's no buying your way out of it.

00:29:02.700 No, it's a fully integrated system.

00:29:04.940 There's no way to tier it out for people that have the resources to basically buy their way out of these safety and danger problems.

00:29:12.660 I want to end with this.

00:29:14.080 You talk about solutions in the piece, and you essentially say throw the baby out with the bathwater, that the public sector, government-funded 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.

00:29:34.540 Have I overstated how stark you think the options are for us going forward?

00:29:39.680 No, I think that needs to be seriously looked into.

00:29:43.400 And my understanding is President Trump actually suggested something along these lines, although I'm not sure if he seriously pursued it.

00:29:53.840 But I think that's something to look into aggressively.

00:29:56.700 But ultimately, the issue is even when you go private, a lot of these laws and pressures remain in terms of the diversity aspect.

00:30:08.120 And, you know, we've covered this independently in a discussion of sort of the implications of certain areas of civil rights law.

00:30:18.960 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,

00:30:32.280 any such test for an employer is considered to be presumptively illegal on the basis of disparate impact.

00:30:41.400 So that's a civil rights law that applies to the private sector as well.

00:30:46.040 And so you can't really avoid the underlying pressures even by going private.

00:30:52.400 And the remarkable thing is, you know, you think, OK, there's this diversity imperative that exists within our society.

00:31:00.040 It's effectively the ideology of the American empire.

00:31:03.560 But you would hope there would at least be enough sense to say, OK, let's get the, you know, the diversity hires and have that maybe in the commercials or in areas that are not ultra critical.

00:31:18.140 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.

00:31:39.880 They're like, it's just superficial. It's just for show. But, you know, we still can make the trains run on time.

00:31:45.620 This this is about as trains run on time as you can possibly get is making sure the aviation industry works without catastrophic disaster.

00:31:55.040 And even that has been compromised, which kind of tells us how crazy things have gotten.

00:32:01.260 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.

00:32:11.180 Now, those all fall below the list. Crash landing, the inside scoop about how COVID and affirmative action policy got an aviation safety.

00:32:20.220 That's the piece. Go ahead, Darren.

00:32:21.280 One more thing. As far as solutions, this isn't going to be a long term solution, but something that's worth considering.

00:32:28.400 There is technology that can compensate to a large degree for the incompetence of the air traffic personnel.

00:32:37.480 And not all of our airports have this technology. And the FAA has said this is a result of a lack of funding and all these things.

00:32:47.620 So 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,

00:32:57.220 we now need to go spend a bunch of taxpayer money to create a technology system to overlay the human incompetence.

00:33:02.800 Is that is that where this all goes?

00:33:04.900 They're already saying that. And so but assuming that there is technology that works,

00:33:09.300 it's pretty amazing that we've directed a hundred billion dollars to Ukraine.

00:33:13.760 And yet we have airports that lack what the FAA is describing as critical technology to avoid the next aviation disaster.

00:33:21.960 So it's just incompetence and corruption piled on top of each other, you know, up to the stratosphere.

00:33:29.640 Oh, yeah, sure. Before it's all over, they'll say we actually need to give the money to Ukraine so that we can then glean and learn how to better keep our own skies safe.

00:33:38.060 But that will be nonsense. Revolver.news is the website.

00:33:43.060 Dr. Darren J. Beattie is the publisher. Follow him at is at Darren J. Beattie on most social media platforms. Right.

00:33:51.120 Indeed. On on Twitter is at Darren J. Beattie.

00:33:53.880 All right. Great. And Revolver.news. Make sure you are a daily reader as I am.

00:33:57.940 Thanks so much, Dr. Beattie. Thank you.

The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - November 15, 2023

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

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