The Charlie Kirk Show - November 09, 2023


The Real Reason Nashville PD Concealed the ‘Tranifesto’ with Darren Beattie


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On this hour of the show, we recap my perspective on what happened on one of the biggest stages you can, the Republican primary debate. Then I bring in Darren Beattie to talk about the Tranifesto out of Nashville. Also, we have a disturbing report about your flight safety.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:00:01.000 This is Andrew Colvett filling in for Charlie Kirk, who is on assignment at UCLA today.
00:00:06.000 Say a prayer for him.
00:00:07.000 I'm actually going to be heading there right now.
00:00:09.000 So whenever you're listening to this, hopefully you don't have any more news than that.
00:00:12.000 It's going to be an eventful one.
00:00:14.000 On this hour of the show, we recap my perspective on what happened in the debates.
00:00:20.000 Vivek doing what he did on one of the largest stages you can, the GOP primary debate, was so instrumental.
00:00:28.000 Then I bring in Darren Beattie.
00:00:30.000 We talk about the Tranifesto out of Nashville.
00:00:33.000 Why was it being covered up?
00:00:35.000 Hmm.
00:00:36.000 Sometimes the most obvious explanation really is the right answer.
00:00:40.000 Also, we have a disturbing report about your flight safety.
00:00:44.000 You're not going to want to miss that.
00:00:46.000 Buckle up.
00:00:46.000 Here we go.
00:00:47.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:49.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:51.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:54.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:58.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:59.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:01:00.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:08.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:17.000 That's why we are here.
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00:01:29.000 Charlie covered the debate and really focusing on this idea of the rebellion is growing.
00:01:36.000 All right.
00:01:37.000 And a lot of you, you know, we get emails like this all the time.
00:01:39.000 I was checking the inbox as well.
00:01:41.000 A lot of you are asking, you know, what about that moment where Vivek sort of attacked Nikki Haley and her daughter for using TikTok because he's come under some criticism for also using TikTok.
00:01:57.000 I want to be really clear here.
00:01:59.000 Vivek using TikTok is just good politics.
00:02:03.000 Now, I hate TikTok. 0.96
00:02:05.000 I think most of you in this audience hate TikTok, but to act like it's not full of Gen Zers is ridiculous. 1.00
00:02:12.000 And we need to win Gen Z. 0.87
00:02:13.000 Now, the latest polls out of CNN and Time Sienna show that young people are barely breaking for Biden.
00:02:23.000 And actually, CNN has voters 35 and under one point in favor of Trump.
00:02:28.000 Now, this is a huge, huge tectonic shift that's happening. 0.99
00:02:32.000 But TikTok is still garbage. 0.97
00:02:33.000 We should abandon it. 0.88
00:02:35.000 I think Trump, from what I'm hearing from Inside Chatter, is actually going to make good on that promise if given a second shot, or he'll sell it.
00:02:42.000 I think we should just ban it, get rid of it altogether.
00:02:44.000 But realize this, folks, 50% of Gen Z uses TikTok as their search engine.
00:02:50.000 It's not just a social media platform for them anymore.
00:02:53.000 It's a search engine for 50% of Gen Z.
00:02:56.000 They use it for everything.
00:02:58.000 It's smart to get on there.
00:02:59.000 There's no, there's no, listen, as long as it's legal, Vivek is totally fine to do that.
00:03:04.000 Now, we try and do that at Turning Point USA.
00:03:07.000 Our influencers get kicked off on the daily.
00:03:10.000 They have to then reapply.
00:03:11.000 They have to appeal.
00:03:13.000 Some have been outright banned from the platform.
00:03:15.000 And we're not talking about crazy ideas here.
00:03:18.000 We're talking about run of the mill, old school, conservative ideas, small government, keep the government out of my business, that stuff.
00:03:26.000 They get banned for that kind of stuff.
00:03:29.000 So TikTok is awful.
00:03:30.000 TikTok is based.
00:03:31.000 If you logged on to TikTok right now, you would basically see a bunch of bombing of Gaza and how come Israel is so awful. 0.85
00:03:38.000 That's essentially TikTok right now and why Taylor Swift is amazing.
00:03:43.000 Now, you have to try as best as you can in this environment to create a counter voice.
00:03:50.000 Anyways, I think it's a lot of you might be coming from an older school where you say, what about the gentlemanliness in politics?
00:03:57.000 What about the cordiality?
00:03:58.000 What about the politeness, the polite politics?
00:04:01.000 Listen, folks, we're $33.6 trillion in debt.
00:04:06.000 Our border is getting invaded as we speak.
00:04:10.000 We are on the verge of some serious, serious war footing in the Middle East, in Ukraine.
00:04:18.000 World War III is a possibility. 0.69
00:04:20.000 Nuclear fallout is a possibility.
00:04:23.000 We are trying to rebel against a uniparty establishment that has led our nation off a cliff. 0.72
00:04:32.000 We're talking about 100,000 fentanyl deaths alone in this country.
00:04:38.000 Drugs just pouring over the border.
00:04:39.000 I'm sorry if some of you find it offensive.
00:04:45.000 I'm sorry if some of you find Vivek's tone and his approach grating.
00:04:51.000 Maybe it is a little bit.
00:04:53.000 Maybe to some of you, I certainly heard that last night when this was all happening, that, man, maybe that was a little bit cringy.
00:05:01.000 Maybe that was a little hard to watch.
00:05:04.000 I tell you this as clearly as I can.
00:05:07.000 The one man on that stage that understands the state of the country, the urgency with which we are dealing with right now is Vivek Ramaswamy.
00:05:17.000 Now, I actually think that DeSantis did fine.
00:05:20.000 I thought he did fine.
00:05:21.000 Now, according to the New York Times columnist and the elites and the Acela corridor, Nikki Haley won last night. 0.63
00:05:27.000 Drudge Report had a poll up.
00:05:29.000 Apparently, Drudge readers, whoever they are now, think that Nikki Haley won.
00:05:35.000 But the defining moment of last night was what Vivek did.
00:05:41.000 He dropped a thermonuclear bomb on the RNC, on the establishment.
00:05:45.000 They let the fox into the hen house.
00:05:48.000 And yeah, he had some of those lines pre-scripted.
00:05:51.000 I'm sure of it.
00:05:51.000 I'm sure he knew exactly where he was going the second he walked onto that stage.
00:05:57.000 Because I know Vivek personally, and I can tell you that if you are fed up with the RNC, if you're fed up with Ronnie McDaniel, if you're fed up with the way that this game is played, he's been living it day in, day out, working his tail off on the campaign trail, and he is pissed.
00:06:18.000 He's seen inside the curtain.
00:06:20.000 He's lifted the hood and he's seen just how awful it is.
00:06:24.000 And so when you have people like Vivek say, Rana, your time is done.
00:06:31.000 It's time for you to go.
00:06:33.000 That's because he's seen it up close.
00:06:35.000 He's seen the monster eye to eye and he said, you know what?
00:06:38.000 I'm not going to play your games. 0.81
00:06:39.000 I'm not going to dance on stage like some monkey.
00:06:41.000 I'm going to actually call it out and I'm going to use my time for something useful.
00:06:45.000 Now, Vivek is 38 years old.
00:06:47.000 Absolutely.
00:06:48.000 I get it.
00:06:49.000 He may be angling for something down the road.
00:06:52.000 Maybe he wants to be in the admin.
00:06:54.000 Maybe the option for him in the back of his mind is that, hey, if something happens where Trump is unable to proceed, God forbid, something on the health front, God forbid, these legal challenges against Trump actually have teeth and they're able to get to him before election day.
00:07:11.000 Maybe it drags him down.
00:07:12.000 I don't know.
00:07:13.000 Maybe Vivek is looking at an option B, but he is wisely.
00:07:17.000 And this is why I want to go back to something Charlie tweeted yesterday.
00:07:21.000 Vivek would make a phenomenal RNC chair, in my opinion.
00:07:26.000 Now, I know there's some disagreements.
00:07:28.000 You know, people are still learning how to trust Vivek.
00:07:31.000 But I will tell you what, if Vivek's one contribution to this is to mainstream the rebellion against the establishment, against this cronyism that has come to corrupt our party, our movement, then that will be more than worthwhile.
00:07:48.000 But I think it's more than that.
00:07:50.000 I think moments like last night help open the eyes of normie, everyday, casual observers of the American political system.
00:07:59.000 That's a tremendous thing.
00:08:00.000 Now, look at this.
00:08:01.000 I want to play cut 130 for you.
00:08:03.000 This just came out this morning.
00:08:05.000 This is how Rana deals with, and this is so hurt, so passive-aggressive.
00:08:10.000 Play 130.
00:08:12.000 I know Vivek's kind of newer to the party.
00:08:13.000 He voted for Obama, so he may not know that.
00:08:16.000 But this is something we're going to have to get right as a party.
00:08:20.000 As a suburban woman, I get this.
00:08:23.000 Ah, I know.
00:08:24.000 I know Vivek's a little newer to this, so he might not understand.
00:08:27.000 No, Vivek understands all too well. 0.98
00:08:30.000 He got in there for like two minutes and he realized the whole damn thing is rigged. 0.94
00:08:34.000 So don't you throw those barbs at him. 0.97
00:08:37.000 Rana, I am sure you are a nice person.
00:08:39.000 I've actually never met Rana, but he gets it so much more than you do.
00:08:45.000 It's infuriating.
00:08:46.000 And that contribution last night was, I think it will go down in history as one of those turning points.
00:08:53.000 It might be a smaller one.
00:08:54.000 It might be a bigger one.
00:08:56.000 History will tell.
00:08:57.000 But it was that big.
00:08:59.000 It was an absolute tectonic moment, and I'm going to remember it.
00:09:03.000 I'm going to remember where I was forever for the rest of my life when that debate happened.
00:09:10.000 I'm going to remember that exactly for that moment.
00:09:12.000 But I think here's the deal.
00:09:14.000 Vivek has learned so much so quickly.
00:09:18.000 He knows data.
00:09:19.000 He knows how to run organizations.
00:09:21.000 He's innovative.
00:09:22.000 He's not afraid to upset the apple cart and to change the way things have always been done, especially when the way we've always been doing things only makes us lose elections.
00:09:34.000 And now with Rana trying to distance herself from Virginia, from Kentucky, from saying that she didn't outright call for cutting off funding for Vivek's campaign via the RNC, and we're not giving you a red cent.
00:09:48.000 This is how it's been done.
00:09:50.000 This is the ecosystem that we have been living in here on the turning point side in the grassroots.
00:09:59.000 America's colleges and universities today are less concerned with critical thinking than with indoctrination.
00:10:04.000 It is no wonder why so many young Americans embrace cancel culture, deny free speech to conservatives, and even celebrate terrorism.
00:10:11.000 But I'm happy to report there is one college where students debate ideas openly and honestly, where they pursue truth together with their professors, and where America's great heritage of liberty is studied and revered.
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00:11:02.000 All right, I'm going to take issue with one thing Vivek actually said, and that's clip 131.
00:11:08.000 All right.
00:11:09.000 You know, I get where he's going here, but I'm going to take issue with it.
00:11:12.000 Play cut 131.
00:11:13.000 I also want to close with one message to the Democrat Party.
00:11:16.000 End this farce that Joe Biden is going to be your nominee.
00:11:19.000 We know he's not even the president of the United States. 0.85
00:11:22.000 He's a puppet for the managerial class.
00:11:24.000 So have the guts to step up and be honest about who you're actually going to put up so we can have an honest debate.
00:11:29.000 Biden should step aside, end his candidacy now so we can see whether it's Newsome or Michelle Obama or whoever else.
00:11:36.000 Just tell us the truth so we can have an honest debate.
00:11:43.000 It was like one bomb after the other.
00:11:45.000 It was the whole point of the debate was just to like get through the other guys.
00:11:49.000 It's like, okay, Chris Christie, move on, move on.
00:11:51.000 Tim Scott, nice guy.
00:11:53.000 Come on, move on.
00:11:54.000 And then it's every line was just on fire.
00:12:01.000 Anyways, the point I'm going to make here is that we do not want Joe Biden to just move on.
00:12:06.000 We want Joe Biden.
00:12:08.000 What people need to understand about Joe Biden, he is one of the most stubborn political figures ever.
00:12:16.000 The guy has ran for president, what, like, fact check me on this, like three times, three times he had to bow out because of a plagiarism scandal because he was ripping people off.
00:12:27.000 And then he just couldn't gain traction.
00:12:29.000 He could barely gain traction in this election until South Carolina, until they consolidated around him because they probably did some focus group testing and the old nice white uncle was going to unite all the different tribes within the Democratic Party. 0.58
00:12:46.000 I'm telling you, we want Joe Biden to run.
00:12:50.000 We want Joe Biden to run.
00:12:51.000 The guy doesn't run, for one.
00:12:54.000 So listen, if we push him out, that's actually a bad strategy.
00:12:59.000 Like we should, I mean, we can have a little bit of joy at his expense, at his mumbling through speeches, at his falling.
00:13:10.000 You know, I don't want anybody to get hurt, but the man has fallen.
00:13:13.000 I mean, there's montages of him falling off his bike, falling down the stairs, falling on stage.
00:13:19.000 It's really bad.
00:13:19.000 So yeah, he ran for office three total times.
00:13:22.000 First one was in 1988 for the presidency.
00:13:25.000 Meanwhile, he's been a DC establishment stalwart for decades.
00:13:31.000 But Joe Biden is so beatable.
00:13:34.000 So beatable.
00:13:35.000 And here's the truth.
00:13:37.000 We don't want Newsome. 0.82
00:13:38.000 Newsome is basically the devil incarnate.
00:13:41.000 I mean, it's true. 0.93
00:13:42.000 The guy speaks out of both ends of his mouth.
00:13:44.000 He's got a silver tongue.
00:13:46.000 You can literally see his little snake serpentine tongue protruding as he speaks, but he's slick.
00:13:53.000 And for those who are not paying attention, low information, low-prop voters, remember, the whole race comes down to low-prop voters. 0.98
00:14:00.000 And this is why the RNC's chase the voters strategy is so dumb. 0.87
00:14:04.000 It's a one-to-one. 0.96
00:14:06.000 So you're getting people that would vote on election day.
00:14:08.000 You're just getting them to put the ballot in the box earlier, which then raises other questions about chain of custody, signature verifications, all of these things.
00:14:17.000 We need low-prop voters.
00:14:18.000 And guess who's going to be fooled?
00:14:20.000 Guess who's going to be fooled by Gavin Newsom?
00:14:23.000 Low propensity voters.
00:14:26.000 He's a much, much more formidable candidate. 0.97
00:14:29.000 Michelle Obama, I'm hearing she doesn't want to do it.
00:14:32.000 Can't blame her. 0.98
00:14:33.000 She's got a nice, cushy life. 1.00
00:14:36.000 And Martha's Vineyard, she's having a nice go of it. 0.99
00:14:38.000 She's got her big Netflix contracts, and her and her husband just get to run around, pick up the phone, say, hey, pass this bill, put the phone back down.
00:14:46.000 They get to move on with their life.
00:14:48.000 But Gavin Newsom, whoo, does he want it?
00:14:51.000 He wants it bad.
00:14:53.000 And he would be a disaster for this country, an absolute disaster.
00:14:57.000 There is a clip, and I'm going to find it one of these days.
00:15:00.000 It's very hard to find, actually.
00:15:02.000 I looked for it once, but I've seen it before of him getting cornered by Adam Carolla.
00:15:07.000 Adam Carolla is actually, his studio is not far from where I'm at currently.
00:15:12.000 Gavin Newsom still thought of him as the mainstream TV guy, came on a show doing a press tour for whatever.
00:15:19.000 And Adam Carolla cornered him.
00:15:23.000 I mean, dead to rights, had him dead to rights.
00:15:27.000 And somehow you watch him wiggle out of it, wiggle out of it.
00:15:31.000 And Adam Carolla ended up going on with, I believe, Dave Rubin and explained this very story.
00:15:38.000 And it's an amazing story because he's years later sitting there going like, I don't know how this guy wiggled out of this one.
00:15:45.000 And you've seen him on with Sean Hannity.
00:15:46.000 Now, I think Sean Hannity, say what you will, he was overmatched.
00:15:51.000 He was overmatched by Gavin Newsom the couple of times he's had him on.
00:15:56.000 It's going to be very interesting to see the DeSantis Gavin Newsom debate, actually.
00:16:00.000 I mean, it's sort of a sideshow at this point, but it's very interesting.
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00:17:09.000 All right, so I'm going to bring in Darren Beattie now from Revolver.news.
00:17:13.000 Darren, you've got a really interesting piece here.
00:17:16.000 You get two pieces we're going to cover actually.
00:17:19.000 But this first one is about the Nashville Diversity Obsessed Black Police Chief Hid the Trans Shooters Anti-White Manifesto. 0.72
00:17:28.000 Now, Darren, this is this whole thing.
00:17:31.000 I mean, people were speculating for months why we haven't seen the manifesto.
00:17:35.000 Had the shoe been on the other foot, if this was a MAGA guy going in and killing like a bunch of, you know, somebody that would fit their narrative, we would have had the FBI leaking the manifesto to the New York Times on day one within like hours.
00:17:47.000 This took seven months.
00:17:49.000 And now you're doing some work diving into why it took seven months to get three pages of the trans shooters manifesto.
00:17:59.000 What are the details, Darren?
00:18:01.000 Absolutely.
00:18:02.000 And this is an evolving and quite bizarre saga as it pertains to the leaking of some of the manifesto, thanks to Steven Crowder.
00:18:10.000 And my understanding, my latest understanding, is there are multiple police officers who are now on leave, if not entirely fired on account of suspicion that they may have been responsible for the leak.
00:18:24.000 And so I think there are so many factors here.
00:18:26.000 Obviously, there's a national factor, and we may learn more in the coming days and weeks about the national level suppression of this story, perhaps going all the way up to Merrick Garland, who is a longtime janitor.
00:18:42.000 I've called him the deep states janitor because he's been doing mop-up jobs since the 90s when actually he ran Bill Clinton's portfolio for quote-unquote domestic terrorism.
00:18:53.000 And he hasn't stopped since being the deep states mop-up man.
00:18:57.000 And so there's many components about it.
00:19:00.000 This latest piece from Revolver.news focuses on the local dynamics here and specifically the police department itself.
00:19:09.000 Because while there were several, it looks like there were several heroic police officers who decided, God forbid, the American people actually know the truth about this tragedy, about this transsexual woman-to-man transsexual, which is an unusual thing. 0.97
00:19:27.000 Woman-to-man transsexual who went on to kill so many people at this Covenant school, this Christian school. 1.00
00:19:36.000 There is a racial component that I think surprised a lot of people because as the manifesto is suppressed, I think the assumption was the manifesto was all about how, you know, maybe the Christian church had been suppressing homosexuals and transsexuals.
00:19:54.000 And people were expecting that angle, which may actually materialize as more information comes out. 0.95
00:20:00.000 But in what we've seen so far, there was this really bizarre emphasis on an anti-white racial angle about killing the crackers for their quote-unquote white privileges. 0.62
00:20:12.000 An awkward grammatical formulation indeed and a depraved thought, which unfortunately reflects the entirety of propaganda that people have been exposed to for many decades now.
00:20:24.000 And the police chief, so getting to the crux of the story here, the police chief in Nashville is quite something.
00:20:32.000 His name is John Drake.
00:20:35.000 And, you know, there are several jokes, but I'll spare the audience these jokes.
00:20:40.000 I'll be a good boy and not tell some jokes.
00:20:43.000 But his name is John Drake, and he is the head of the Nashville Police Department.
00:20:49.000 He basically catapulted in his position off of a wave of the George Floyd nonsense going on.
00:20:56.000 The previous police chief had been a white guy, God forbid, who got in naughty, naughty trouble because he actually thought that the job of a police chief was to go after criminals. 0.61
00:21:08.000 But apparently that was racist.
00:21:10.000 So he was hounded out of the police department.
00:21:13.000 And the kinder, gentler, at least more anti-white John Drake took up the mantle.
00:21:20.000 And what's interesting about him: so his son is actually a criminal and he was the subject of a manhunt.
00:21:29.000 And there have been all this controversy about his son.
00:21:32.000 And ordinarily, you know, things happen.
00:21:35.000 It's not necessarily his fault, but he's stated publicly that he says it's we don't want police officers to be warriors.
00:21:43.000 We want to mentor potential criminals.
00:21:47.000 And that approach doesn't seem to have been working.
00:21:49.000 Crime is going up in his jurisdiction.
00:21:53.000 And he seems to be particularly concerned with preserving this narrative that the job of the police department is to fight racism and the perception of racism, racism always in quotes, because it means nothing to these people, rather than actually go after crime.
00:22:10.000 And so this raised the question: why would the police department itself, you know, led by this individual, be so assiduous in needing to suppress the manifesto, which has anti-white elements that could complicate the George Floyd narrative that catapulted this individual into his position in the first place.
00:22:35.000 So the piece does a deep dive on sort of the local dynamics and the local politics, which of course reflect a more national issue because the narrative about how white people are bad and all this, you know, it's become so commonplace in our national narrative as to almost be the default assumption of the ruling elite and those who run the institutions.
00:23:00.000 Well, Darren, and let's let's get into Nashville just a little bit in particular.
00:23:04.000 You're talking about a local story.
00:23:06.000 Throw the image up of John Drake Jr.
00:23:10.000 He's accused of shooting two cops, if I'm not mistaken, right?
00:23:13.000 Right, Darren?
00:23:14.000 He was on the run.
00:23:16.000 Yeah, I don't actually have the update on, but that's that's the you know, police chief's son right there.
00:23:22.000 Now, I mean, it sounds like a terrible story.
00:23:24.000 Obviously, the police chief probably doesn't like this, but you know, if you can't manage that which is closest to your own home, I think it's an interesting challenge to try and manage a whole city.
00:23:33.000 Nashville, yes, it exists within the larger red state of Tennessee, one of the more conservative states, but Nashville, Darren, is a Democrat city.
00:23:42.000 It's run by Democrats, right?
00:23:43.000 I mean, the Democrat mayor.
00:23:45.000 So it is not immune from all of these ills that are afflicting the rest of the country, whether it's Philly, Detroit, whatever.
00:23:54.000 Nashville has these same problems.
00:23:56.000 So we're seeing how race is once again being weaponized to obscure the truth, right, Darren?
00:24:01.000 I mean, every time there's a shooting, every time there's some massive story, and we don't get the race right at the front paragraph, first line, you know, in bold letters, you can basically assume that it's not in their interest to bring up the race.
00:24:15.000 Am I right, Darren?
00:24:16.000 Absolutely.
00:24:16.000 That's the case.
00:24:17.000 And you bring up a great point, an important point about Nashville as a city, as pretty much every city in the United States, unfortunately, is a blue zone.
00:24:28.000 It's a radical left Democrat zone, but actually, which, you know, and with everything that goes along with it.
00:24:36.000 But Tennessee at the state level has actually been quite disappointing until recently, at least.
00:24:42.000 We've at Revolver been covering the fact that Tennessee has traditionally been one of those states that's a red state that doesn't do what is available to it in order to combat things at a state level in terms of funding universities that engage in various anti-anti-white, anti-conservative type propaganda.
00:25:06.000 Although I am pleased to state, as partially, I think, as some pressure that we generated by we've singled out Tennessee specifically as a state that is red, that is not living up to its capability at the state level in order to address some of these cultural and institutional problems.
00:25:23.000 They recently, the state legislature, I believe, banned critical race theory and other forms of indoctrination in schools.
00:25:31.000 So they have been doing a little bit, but you're right.
00:25:34.000 Nashville is a different story.
00:25:35.000 It's plagued with a lot of the social and institutional problems that we typically associate with just any urban environment, urban municipality in the United States.
00:25:47.000 It's no exception.
00:25:48.000 And the issue going on in the police department is a perfect example of this.
00:25:53.000 But in this case, I think we have one driving force because it was literally this individual who was promulgated into his position of authority on the wave of the whole George Floyd Black Lives Matter issue.
00:26:06.000 And he's been a supporter of Black Lives Matter, of course, and this whole kind of ridiculous notion that if the police simply coddle criminals enough and make it their mission to avoid any perception of racism, that's somehow going to benefit the society.
00:26:24.000 Well, statistics do not bear that out, as is exemplified in the soaring crime rates in Nashville since this individual tenure.
00:26:37.000 Of course, Darren.
00:26:38.000 I mean, this is what's so infuriating about this.
00:26:41.000 And hopefully, eventually that country can turn a corner eventually. 0.73
00:26:45.000 I feel like we cannot turn on the television and see one of these press conferences out of one of these big news stories, big shootings, whatever, and not see a black police chief.
00:26:56.000 Now, they might be very qualified at their job, but when you see it time and time and time again, it's the crime of noticing, Darren.
00:27:04.000 That's what we always talk about.
00:27:05.000 It's like looking at commercials and the proportion of black and brown actors does not fit the proportion of the population in the United States.
00:27:16.000 The shooter, Audrey Hale, right? 0.99
00:27:18.000 I mean, she herself despised white people, crackers, privileges, and their fancy cars. 0.97
00:27:25.000 I mean, the pages of this manifesto are just shocking. 0.96
00:27:30.000 Darren, you got another story here.
00:27:33.000 It's similar to kind of what we're talking about with Nashville in the sense that you got this police chief, Drake, who rises to prominence in Nashville on the George Floyd wave in 2020.
00:27:47.000 Now we're talking about how this other story, crash landing, the inside scoop about how COVID and affirmative action policy gutted aviation safety.
00:27:56.000 This is about as big of a story as you can get because guess what?
00:28:00.000 We all travel, we all fly, and you assume that you're safe, but there are these stories percolating in the background, right, Darren, that are actually resulting in a very unsafe situation.
00:28:13.000 And hopefully, we don't have something that goes seriously wrong.
00:28:16.000 Tell us about it.
00:28:17.000 Absolutely.
00:28:18.000 Well, this is a major investigative report by Revolver.news.
00:28:21.000 It's one of our most important pieces.
00:28:25.000 It took a very long time.
00:28:26.000 It consists of a lot of research and also speaking directly with several officials within the FAA, several current and former air traffic controllers to get a comprehensive and accurate sense of what is actually going on.
00:28:42.000 Because in recent months, we've seen a dramatic surge in what they call runway incursions.
00:28:52.000 And that's when airplanes nearly collide with one another on the runway.
00:28:56.000 And we've seen an associated rise in loss of separation events in air.
00:29:01.000 That means getting very close to mid-air collisions.
00:29:04.000 And in fact, to quantify it, within the past 10 years, the number of runway incursions have, in fact, doubled, which is an arresting statistic.
00:29:14.000 And New York Times, to its credit, actually had some two pretty major reports just detailing this as a new phenomenon that we need to take cognizance of, because a lot of this data is actually secret and kept from the public.
00:29:32.000 So we dug deeper into the issue and found that there were actually two neglected causes for a lot of what we see going on recently.
00:29:43.000 And one is COVID-related, specifically COVID hiring freeze.
00:29:49.000 Now, we spoke to a former senior spokesperson for air traffic control for FAA, and the diplomatic speak, the obfuscation, was quite alarming.
00:30:02.000 But even this individual called Mr. McCormick acknowledged that COVID played an enormous role in specifically the hiring freeze in the loss of quantity for air traffic controllers.
00:30:19.000 Why did they freeze their staff?
00:30:20.000 Why did they freeze hiring in COVID?
00:30:23.000 They were worried about the transmission of COVID more than they were worried about the nation's next major aviation disaster.
00:30:31.000 And this is just what we could get him to acknowledge.
00:30:34.000 This is leaving aside what I think anyone could reasonably infer, which is that the COVID vaccine mandates actually contributed to a lot of retirements because not only was there a hiring freeze, but there was a sharp spike in retirements of air traffic controllers.
00:30:55.000 And given the statistics we know about how pilots were concerned about vaccine mandates, we could probably infer that a healthy percentage of the people who decided to retire were retiring in order to avoid having to take the COVID vaccine.
00:31:10.000 So it's the one-two punch of freezing hiring, but also accelerating retiring that contributes to this understaffing epidemic at the core of the collapse in aviation safety.
00:31:24.000 So that pertains to the quantity of air traffic controllers.
00:31:28.000 There's another side of it which affects the quality of controllers.
00:31:32.000 And this we've found to go back to an Obama-era policy of replacing testing mechanisms that are merit-based, merit-based sort of SAT-like tests for prospective air traffic controllers.
00:31:48.000 And instead of that, using tests that test what they call bio data, which is this really bizarre jargon term for just telling people about yourself.
00:32:02.000 They call it biodata.
00:32:03.000 Right.
00:32:06.000 But it sounds like the college entrance exam.
00:32:09.000 It's like the equivalent of the essay.
00:32:10.000 Tell us about your personal experience.
00:32:13.000 We don't care about your tests.
00:32:14.000 It's really amazing.
00:32:16.000 We looked at the woman.
00:32:17.000 There's this woman who's a professor of HR.
00:32:20.000 Imagine that to begin with. 0.99
00:32:21.000 She's a professor of HR.
00:32:23.000 Her dissertation was literally how to use biodata tests to increase diversity.
00:32:28.000 And so this is at the core of it.
00:32:30.000 Read the whole piece at Revolver.news.
00:32:33.000 It will shock you.
00:32:35.000 It is shocking and it's terrifying.
00:32:37.000 Thanks, Darren, so much for your time.
00:32:41.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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