2-3-25 - 7am - DEI CTI Program

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Michael, I just want you to know that I
disagree that I always agree with you.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
No, No, I disagree that I always agree with you.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
No.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Well, let's just say I agree sometimes I disagree with you.

Speaker 4 (00:22):
Well, I disagree about your agreement to disagree.

Speaker 5 (00:27):
I agree. I yeah, I agree to so smercomish Margaret Brennan.
The cabal is all just in a dither over the
fact that Donald Trump mentions d E I about the
plane crash and the air traffic controllers. And I find

(00:52):
that fascinating because which we will in a minute. We're
going to go back because I want you to hear something.
But I need to set this up the the FAA,
the Federal Aviation Administration. I at least I always you know,
there was a time in Tamer's life. You know, she
was a young pilot. She was a pilot in high school,

(01:13):
and she loved flying, and she had thought one time
about trying to become an air traffic controller. I kind
of wish she had. I think she'd I think she'd
have been very good.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
At it, UH with with with.

Speaker 5 (01:26):
Our combined OCD, with her CD, I think she'ld have
been a very good UH air traffic controller. But anyway,
air traffic controlers from from my perspective, were always selected
through this rigorous training program, and it was always a meritocracy.
Only the best, the brightest ever sat at the helm
of a control teller or one of the regional areas

(01:51):
that they controlled. But starting in the Obama administration and
then accelerating me under Biden, there was a there was
a there was a paradigm shift, a seismic shift. Meritocracy
was abandoned in favor of DEI mandates. And I think
the consequences of that shift are kind of coming home

(02:13):
to roost when you have a decade it's do you
know how I tell you I am horrible at conflating time.
I think all of us, to some degree are horrible
at conflating time. We live in such a if if

(02:35):
you're as old as dirt like I am, if you
go back and you think about your childhood, or even
if you're not as old as dirt, if you're only
as dirt old as say sand, do you're only as
dirt as dust, and you go back and you think
about your childhood, junior high, high school, college days, whatever,
your your first job. Life just moved at a different pain. Yes,

(03:01):
and now with the advent of everything, I mean speed
and power of travel, whether that be but be by plane, train,
and automobile, unless it's by light rail, of course, and
light rail of course takes much longer.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
You know, parton, let me in, let me, let me interrupt.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
The uh the program with this bulletin dragon, Do you
want to tell us the story?

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Sure?

Speaker 4 (03:29):
I find it fascinating.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Sure, missus. Raybeard and I are nerds. So we decided
to get tickets and go to the Back to the
Future musical yesterday. And since we're old and we can't
stay out late on school nights, we went to the
mid day, the two pm showing of the Back to
the Future musical. And since I hadn't been downtown to
the DCPA, and I don't know how long, I just

(03:52):
wanted to make sure I had the cross streets right.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
You have no culture, you're not culture to all exactly.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
You know, I don't want to go downtown and see
any of the homeless. So I checked the DCPA website
and recall and see where the parking garage is located
in what streets it's on. So it's like, okay, cool,
And I was just curious, just like, oh, I got
to see how much that parking is costing, all right,
so I see what it would cost for the time
period that we would be there. It's like, okay, that's

(04:17):
very reasonable. And I keep just scrolling their page and
find out, oh they have a link to RTD. They say, hey,
take the public transportation. Check out our map and you
can see get a little scheduler located, and how much
it'll cost and all the time, and everything's looking beautiful.
All right. I'll just curiosity gets the better of me,

(04:37):
and I, of course it always does, love it. So
I put in you know, my home, and I put
in the you know, DCPA, and what time we would
like to arrive, and sure enough, and.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
You work back because you put in the time you
want to.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Arrive, correct, Yeah, yeah, And uh so okay, that's really neat.
And it popped up with several different options to when
to leave and how much it'll cost, and what train
you'll need here and what bus you'll need there, and
that kind of like, oh, this is super informative and
very helpful.

Speaker 5 (05:07):
Time out for just a moment before you get to
kind of the punchline. Did this include buses and light
rail or just solely light.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Light rail and walking and walking.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
So, so from your home you would drive to a
light rail station.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
No, no, I could. There's a bus stop not too
far away the bus stop. Fifteen minute walk okay, all right, okay, okay,
and the timing of everything said, this would take roughly
ninety minutes. This would take two hours. This would take
two hours if you do this route this, it's two
hours to get from my home to the DCPA a

(05:45):
thirty minute drive. It's like, okay, well, the cost must
just be astronomical in savings if I choose this light
rail option, this bus and light rail option, it must
be so much better than just driving and parking in
the garage that's provided right there by DCPA. No, it's
the exact same cost for both.

Speaker 5 (06:06):
Exact same costs as if you drove them part, but
double the time.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah more so more yeah, actually more so because if
it was to be four hours, I would need to
take light rail back. So that's four hours versus me
driving there and back, which is just one hour.

Speaker 5 (06:21):
And in addition to that, you also admitted that you
went to one of my formerly favorite Italian I'm sorry
Italian restaurants. Uh, and you did not calculate getting from
DCPA over to Grant and.

Speaker 4 (06:38):
Six generally that area, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (06:40):
And then getting back to light rail and then back home.

Speaker 4 (06:43):
Correct.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
We didn't do any of that math because we just decided, oh,
we've got a car. We can go where we want,
when we want, when we want, and when dinner's done.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
We can just get in the car and go home, and.

Speaker 5 (06:52):
We don't have to stand around on the platform hoping
that somebody doesn't come and try to beat us out.
We're still missus red Beer's purse, but the or you're,
for that matter.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
The exact same price for both.

Speaker 5 (07:04):
For four hours, for four hours.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
One hour versus four hours.

Speaker 5 (07:09):
Now, this didn't all right back to DEEI and faa I.
Just when I was thinking about time, that made me
think about dragon. The consequences of the shift from a
meritocracy to DEI are actually, as Reverend Wright would say,

(07:30):
the chickens are coming home to roost. So we now
have slightly more than a decade, because when I go
on the way back machine, we're going to go back
to twenty fourteen. So that you can just hear precisely
what some democrats said at that time. So let's just
say a decade of race and other you know, physical attributes,

(07:53):
hiring practices that are prioritized or do prioritize identity over expertise,
and I think that has resulted in a growing safety
crisis in aviation. Now, I don't think we're at a
crisis point, but I do think we're on a path

(08:14):
to a crisis. I'll give you an example for example
that on the way in this morning, I did switch.
I finally switched over to Fox News Headline News. I
just couldn't take the blather over it Fox and Friends anymore,
and they were talking about you know, there's a system
called no tams notice to airmen, which is a crucial

(08:38):
part of both commercial and general aviation. It tells you, like,
you know, certain caps are on where you can't fly this,
or there are just certain rules and regulations, there are
certain exceptions you can do this, or you know notices
you need to be able to fly safely. That system
is down and has been down for some time. Sean Duffy,

(09:00):
new Transportation Secretary, was part of that headline news story
and says that they have the backup system running, but
then he went on to point out that this is
the second time in a twelve month period that that
system has gone down and they've had to go on
to the backup system, and how antiquated it is, and
that they've got to figure out a way to update.

Speaker 4 (09:22):
I mean, have you.

Speaker 5 (09:24):
Seen, for example, wherever you are today, I'm sure that
at some point you're either going to look at your
phone or you're gonna look at a laptop or a desktop. Now,
if you work for iHeart, you're the exception, so I
can't ask you to do it if you're part of iHeart,
But if you're at any other publicly traded or private company,

(09:46):
look at your monitor and look how clear, crystal clear
and colorful it is, and how high death it is.
Have you seen the screenshots or even some of the
video of what the controllers we're looking at. It reminded
me of my very first Doss computer that I may

(10:09):
have purchased, I don't know, back in nineteen seventy five
or sometime. You know, it's kind of either the green
or the orange color and it's just kind of like
really kind of herky jerky kind of you know, that's
what they use now, Yeah, are you freaking kidding me.
Let's go back to this growing crisis. The number of

(10:32):
near miss incidents are surging. Major airports are the site
of harrowing close calls. Controllers atc controllers black rigorous background
that was once demanded. They're struggling under the pressure. It's
not their fault. They've got outdated, inadequate equipment. They have

(10:57):
co workers that are not nearly as qualified as some
of them are. And what began as a social experiment
has now turned into a public safety hazard. For decades,
and remember this name and the acronym. For decades, the
FAA utilized what was called, or what still is called

(11:20):
the Collegiate Training Initiative, the CTI program. The CTI program
is a pipeline that produces highly trained candidates that have
extensive coursework. They go through all sorts of aptitude testing.
It's a rigorous selection process. They're required to pass the
Air Traffic Selection and Training Exam. It's the at SAT,

(11:43):
kind of like the al SAT, the law school admissions test.
They have to pass. The Air Traffic Selection and Training
Exam is a scientifically designed test which measures an individual's
ability to excel in high pressure, precision demanding environment. Now
let's go back to twenty fourteen. The FAA completely up

(12:07):
into that system. The ATSAT was sidelined and they replaced
it with a biographical questionnaire. The goal was very explicit.
They wanted to increase demographic representation at the expense of skill.

(12:29):
Over three thousand highly qualified CTI graduates, many of whom
had already demonstrated superior aptitude, were summarily dismissed in favor
of candidates who better aligned with racial and gender quotas.
It was an affront to meritocracy in a job where
even a momentary lapse could mean catastrophe, and the implications

(12:49):
were dire. Now you want the receipts, damn it. I'll
give you the receipts. And they're all from Democrats. This
is twenty fourteen. This is Democrat Senator Patty Murray, a
Democrat of Washington State, speaking to the Department Transportation Secretary

(13:12):
folks in a hearing about these biographical questionnaires.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
But in my last few minutes here, I really want
to talk about the CTI schools and the fact that
just a few months ago the FAA made some very
dramatic changes to the way they're hiring our air traffic controllers,
and among those changes, the FAA now no longer relies
on a pool of graduates from its Collegiate Training Initiative,

(13:41):
our CTI schools. The FAA has added a new test
to screen candidates. They call the biographical questionnaire. Well, I'm
hearing from our CTI schools in my state, in Washington
State that they are very worried about their graduates, and
I'm hearing from the graduates as well. One CTI graduate
from Wrtion State, graduated with high honors, passed an FAA

(14:03):
test for initial qualification, has almost five years of service
in the Air Force and a commercial Pilot's certificate with
an instrumental rating. That young man took this biographical questionnaire
and failed it for reasons that are very unclear. And
he's not the only one in this situation. So I
want you to explain to us how the FAA has

(14:24):
improved this process. If this kind of applicant that I
just described and many others are failing this initial.

Speaker 6 (14:31):
Screening, Well, the goal of this current hiring process.

Speaker 4 (14:37):
Was, so don't gloss over that.

Speaker 5 (14:42):
He pretty much, you know, I always talk about listen
to the question and don't necessarily accept the premise of
the question. He accepts the premise of the question. The
CTI pipeline has been blown up. It's no longer meritocracy.
It's biographical. Are you gay or straight? Are you black

(15:09):
or white? Are you disabled or not?

Speaker 4 (15:12):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (15:12):
Like aological problems, because wait, we really want some crazy
ass people in the towers. He utterly admits to the
premise of Democrat Senator Patty Murray's question back in twenty fourteen,
slightly over ten years.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
Ago, failing this initial screening.

Speaker 6 (15:30):
Well, the goal of this current hiring process was to
open up the thirteen hundred or so positions the FAA
was hiring for this year. There'll be another seventeen hundred
spots available next year. And so the person that you
were speaking of will have another opportunity next year.

Speaker 5 (15:52):
Not that he'll get it, we'll use the same process,
but he'll have an opportunity next year. Yes, Murray will
have nothing.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
As you just know, we're seeing results from this first
biographical questionnaire that twenty eight thousand applicants took the test,
only twenty two hundred pass You just described how many
people we need to hire. Nobody understands what this biographical
questionnaire is evaluating or why they're not making it through.

(16:21):
I mean, normally, if you take a test, somebody will say, well,
here's the results, here's why you failed this test. We're
not getting any of that. Natka. Our air traffic controllers
situation is telling us as well that they are very
concerned about this new process. And I would assume these
rates of failure on this biographical questionnaire have to be

(16:42):
concerning to you as well.

Speaker 4 (16:44):
They are concerning.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
I will say to you, Senator that we will.

Speaker 6 (16:48):
I'll have Michael Korte from the FAA reach out directly
to you about this test. But my understanding was that
a broad away of stakeholders within FA were part of
developing the test. So it'd be surprising to me if
some of the elements within the FA are raising questions now.

Speaker 4 (17:05):
But I'll take a.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Look, Okay, I want to find out why why this
rate of success this is horrendous. And by the way,
the young man that I just talked about turned thirty one,
so he's not going to be eligible to go again
as you describe.

Speaker 5 (17:20):
Wow, So Democrats, when they made this change ten years ago,
raised questions about what the hell are you doing? Of course,
he couldn't answer. I'll get back to you. I'll get
back to you. I'll have the FAA talk to you. Really,

(17:42):
so how close to a crisis article?

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Good morning Brownie or Michael Brown Totally unrelated to the subject,
but kind of related because it's regarding a Democrat that
Jack's everything up. I was just out of town in
a different state where Wow, the shelves were stocked with eggs.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
They had regular.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
Eggs, they had kate free eggs, they had pasture raised eggs,
and they weren't expensive and you didn't have to buy
a damn bag to get them out of the store.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
What do you think, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
I think you're a communist.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
I think that freedom of choice sounds like a utopia?
Does Gebie? I can buy what I want? Where are
what really and you.

Speaker 5 (18:27):
Can drive your own car to get there when you want.
You know, I did have to go to King Supers
the other day, and I deliberately, you know, I didn't
have any bags. You know, I don't keep all the
bags in my car, so I do the self checkout
and I was basically there getting some caffeine free diet
coulture and a few other things. So I pull out

(18:49):
one of the paper bags, put it on the thing,
and I'm waiting for the question, because if the question's right,
I'm going to answer the question true fully, and I
answer the question honestly, honestly, how many bags do you
wish to purchase today? And the answer is zero? Now,
when they tell me how many bags are you? When

(19:11):
they ask how many bags are you using today, I'll.

Speaker 4 (19:14):
Answer truthfully and tell them on of course.

Speaker 5 (19:17):
But until and of course, I can't help but think
that the little pipplefaced kid watching me knew exactly what
I was doing.

Speaker 4 (19:28):
But are you.

Speaker 5 (19:28):
Gonna come over and confront me over ten cents? Because
I was kind of hoping that he would, because I
would say, let's go back and let's look at the question.
The question is how many bags do I wish to
purchase today? And I think actually the word wishes in there.
I think it is how many bags do you wish
to purchase today?

Speaker 4 (19:48):
None? I don't want to.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
Purchase any either if his wish or would like to
or would like to the answer is still the same, right.
I don't think even your lawyer brain can work around
the no.

Speaker 4 (19:59):
I can't.

Speaker 5 (20:00):
I can't ask me the question how many bags am
I using? How many bags do you are you taking
out of the store today? I'll answer that truthfully and
pay my ten cents. It just drives me batty.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Let's see, Then that question could confuse other people saying, well,
I'm using four of my own bags, so they're going
to put in four, so they've.

Speaker 5 (20:26):
Already they've already purchased those. See, the question is how
many bags do you wish to purchase today? Or how
many bags do you want to purchase today? Well, if
you're using your own you don't want to purchase any
because you've already purchased them.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
And by the way, in order to get you to
pay for the bags that you are using of theirs,
would the proper word be because you don't want to
be confusing? I was like, how many bags are you using? Well,
I'm using four of my own bags. I'm not going
to pay for bags, So.

Speaker 5 (21:01):
The proper question would be how many of our bags
are you using today?

Speaker 2 (21:08):
How many of our bags?

Speaker 4 (21:10):
Yes? You're using today?

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (21:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (21:15):
This is why King Supers workers have to go and strike.
They can't afford King Soup Kroger can't afford to pay
King Soupers. You know, a living minimum wage or whatever
the crap it is because a holes like you and
me are refusing to pay our ten cents because they're asking.

Speaker 4 (21:30):
Us the wrong question.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
That really only five or three cents go to the store.

Speaker 5 (21:36):
Right exactly? And how many times have I done that, say,
in the past twelve months? Well maybe three times. So
they're out thirty cents, so I actually get three cents,
they're out nine cents. I'll just go buy King Supers
today and just say here, I found this dime on
the floor.

Speaker 4 (21:51):
Here, put it in the till back by the way
and the tea about th hc.

Speaker 5 (22:00):
Neither Dragon nor I knew that that was some new
slang that the rugrats are now using today.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
Let's see, we just have sheltered lives.

Speaker 5 (22:10):
We do forty three forty four, says Mike. To spill
the t is the new hip way to say to
fill in the details. Okay, well I didn't know that,
Uh nor do I can't either. I don't care either,
but thanks for telling me. At least I now understand.
So back to DEI and the effect is having on

(22:31):
air traffic in this country since twenty fourteen. Now you
heard democrats wasn't some you know, it wasn't Ran Paul,
wasn't Mike Lee. It was it wasn't even no turtleneck turtlehead,
Mitch McConnell. This was Patty Murray, one of the most liberal,
progressive Marxist Democrat US senators the entire country. She's asking

(22:55):
the question, Wait a minute, I have a constituent in
my in my state, highly qualified, went through the CTI
did the atcsat got the highest score on it, and
yet he can't make it into the program.

Speaker 4 (23:14):
Why Well, we'll get back to you on that.

Speaker 5 (23:17):
So what's happened over that ten year period? Do you
know that last year twenty twenty four saw a record
breaking eleven hundred runway near miss incidents, and almost all
of those are attributed to controller errors. You know, there's
a kind of a general rule that if there is

(23:38):
a plane crash, it's almost always pilot error. Well, we
on the runway, it's almost always a controller error. Lots
of examples, but here the latest three September twenty twenty
four and the last Airlines Boeing seven thirty seven Max

(23:59):
nine to a board takeoff in Nashville to avoid collitting
with the Southwest seven thirty seven that was mistakenly cleared,
mistakenly cleared to cross an active runway. October twenty twenty four,
a Delta Airbus A three point fifty collided with a
CRJ and Endeavor Air CRJ just like similar to the

(24:20):
one that in the Potomac CRJ nine hundred at Atlanta
Hartsfield Airport, resulting in millions of damages and a full
scale INTSB investigation. So there, September October, not near missus
actual missus one.

Speaker 4 (24:38):
It was a near miss.

Speaker 5 (24:39):
Now let's go to just December twenty twenty four, a
Delta jet at LAX nearly struck a private aircraft because
of a controller's miscommunication, nearly avoiding a tragic disaster. Now
these are not just statistical outliers. They represent a trend line.

(25:00):
A growing cohort of underqualified controllers, fast tracked into roles
they are ill equipped to handle, is increasingly making costly
dangerous errors. Now I want to go back to a
text message which I think is spot on. I hate
it when I highlighted and then I moved tabs and
it drops the highlight. Kuber or not nine zero six zero.

(25:23):
You're absolutely correct, no one is saying that minorities and
females can't do the job in the FAA. As I
told you earlier, Tamer at one time seriously considered going
to air Traffic control school. She really thought about being
in ATC. But nine zero six zero rights, the FAA
has held positions open because they don't have enough minority

(25:47):
and female applicants. I personally know of an next military,
white male air traffic controller who was rejected by the
FAA four years ago. He now works in another country.
Way to go Democrats, precisely. So let's pause for a moment,

(26:09):
and let's think about Trump's statement. Trump did not say
that that Potomac incident was the direct result of DEI.
He simply pointed out that. In fact, he read from
the FAA website. You know, we want we want controllers
who actually have psychological problems. What that means A dragon

(26:37):
I could qualify to be air traffic controllers because we're
both psychologically damaged people without limbs. I mean, you know,
so just what to virtue signal? How about we just
you know, what if there's someone that is handicapped, can

(26:57):
you say handicapped? Is that somehow you know, racial or.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
I think prejudice still okay.

Speaker 4 (27:04):
But see you don't. But the best part is you
don't really know.

Speaker 5 (27:09):
You don't really know if you can say handicapped anymore
or not. Why First of all, I don't give it,
Rat says. My point is, if someone has a physical handicap,
I'm not convinced that that's a disqualifier to be an
air traffic controller. I mean, as long as you have
the ability. I mean think about how I mean, I

(27:31):
look at every every Apple product I own has accessibility features,
some of which I actually turn on, not because I
need them, because it actually makes it just easier to
use the computer. So I'm certain that somebody who has
a physical disability could qualify to be an air traffic controller.

(27:54):
But when you're more concerned about less concerned about meritocras,
and more concerned about filling all of those little identity
things about who you're going to use or not use,
go back from moment, you know, maybe this is a
good time to go back and listen to the insanity,
the utter insanity from the DNC meeting over this past

(28:17):
week about how they were going to pick people to
be Where's that SoundBite I used earlier, I still got
to hear somewhere the election rules of the leadership vote.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
You listen.

Speaker 5 (28:31):
Whatever you're doing, you listen closely, because what this person's
saying is the equivalent of DEI, and this is what's
going on inside. The FAA rules.

Speaker 7 (28:45):
Specify that when we have a gender non binary candidate
or officer, the non binary individual is counted as neither
male nor female, and the remaining six offices must be
gender balanced. With the results of the previous four elections,
our elected officers are currently to male and to female.

(29:06):
In order to be gender balanced, we must we must
elect one male, one female, and one person of any gender.

Speaker 4 (29:17):
So again, this is what we have to do.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
For this Vice Chair, Grace.

Speaker 7 (29:22):
We have to elect one male, one female, and one
person of any gender. To ensure our process accounts for male, female,
and non binary candidates, we conferred with our RBC co Chair,
our LGBT Caucus co Chair, and others to ensure that
the process is inclusive and meets the gender balance requirements
in our rules.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
To do this, our process will.

Speaker 7 (29:43):
Be slightly different than the one outline to you early
this week, but I hope you will see that in
practice it is simple and transparent. The order of balancing
is designed to ensure equal access to the ballot regardless
of gender identity, as we must elect a cam of
any gender, as well as one male and one female
vice chair. We will first ask members to elect a

(30:06):
candidate of any gender on the first ballot. Any candidate male, female,
and non binary can be elected on that ballot. After
a candidate is elected on the first ballot, we will
have one officer.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
Of the three, so.

Speaker 7 (30:22):
Then we will know which position is filled of the
one male, one female, and one vice chair of any gender.
Our second ballot would also be for a candidate of
any gender. Then our third ballot will be the third
position that is remaining based on the two results, either
a male candidate if a candidate that is not male
has not been elected, or a female candidate if a

(30:43):
female has not been elected.

Speaker 5 (30:45):
Now, when we get back, let's see if I can
come up with a rule that is probably.

Speaker 4 (30:53):
Shorter than that. And it's easy to understand.

Speaker 6 (30:56):
If you use a handbasket, you won't have to worry
about it how many.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
Bags you want to purchase. I'm just saying if.

Speaker 5 (31:03):
They took my handbasket and they won't you know what,
you try to take a handbasket outside a store. Now,
in fact, the King Supers I go to does not
have any hand baskets anymore.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
That's true too.

Speaker 5 (31:15):
They only have the little mini size grocery carts, no
handbags whatsoever. Bucko, So don't call in here trying to
one up us, because we know our bag situation.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
I'm not sure about yours. But I'm an Aurora, so
it's slightly ghettoish over there. But there is a sign
at the door that says, you know, the bags that
you can bring in to use. Yeah, don't bring in suitcases.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
No, it literally says don't bring in super I.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Know the exact wording. But there are pictures of like
rolling luggage, and you know they don't use so that if.

Speaker 5 (31:53):
You're an elderly woman that's walking a few blocks, you
go to the grocery stores and you have one of
those roller bags, you're gonna put your groceries.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
In, just saying yeah, I'll try and remember next time
I go and try and step a photo of that.
But yeah, it's it's it's like, hey, yeah, you can't
use suitcases.

Speaker 5 (32:08):
So I don't have time to play the whole sound
bite again, but you kind of get the drift of
the DNC rules about DEI.

Speaker 4 (32:13):
When it comes to.

Speaker 5 (32:14):
Their election, I would have I would say the rule
needs to be this, whoever wants to run for fill
in the blank, chair, vice chair, what secretary, treasure or
whatever it is, petition, and the top well, I don't.

Speaker 4 (32:29):
Know, maybe everybody.

Speaker 5 (32:31):
And then you can either have whoever wins a plurality,
whoever gets the most votes wins, or you know, we'll
have someone has to get a majority, so we'll have
we'll have runoffs until we get somebody that wins a
majority of the votes. And anybody can run. Just go
out and state your qualifications and white people ought to
vote for you. Pretty simple, but no, they have to

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spend two minutes explaining, you know, if we get if
we get so many men and then so many i'm
sorry male and so many female, and then we have
to fill somebody with that. And we have consulted with
the LGBTQ and the handicapped, and oh, I've sold you
can't use handicapped.

Speaker 4 (33:08):
You have to use disabled or something right, you.

Speaker 5 (33:10):
Know, screw you handicapped because it still says handicapped parking.
So as long as the signs say handicap parking. Well, frankly,
I don't care about the signs say. I'm just gonna
say what I want to say. But so back to
DEI and the FAA. Now, these discriminatory practices have not

(33:35):
gone unchallenged. There's a lawsuit Brigina versus us DOOT. That
lawsuit revealed that thousands of top performing candidates were rejected
under the DEI field hiring shift, even some minority applicants.
There was a CTI graduate who's an American Indian, Douglas Cook.
Matthew Douglas Cook found himself arbitrarily excluded because of the

(34:00):
biographical questionnaires opaque race preferential scoring system. Justice Clarence Thomas
himself has long warned of the dangers of race based
government policies, stating unequivocally that they demean everyone.

Speaker 4 (34:16):
But what happens, it.

Speaker 5 (34:18):
Gets legally challenged and the FAA doubles down. In twenty
twenty one, the Biden administration put out a Diversity, Equity
and Inclusion Accessibility strategic plan that made things even worse.
So don't start harping on Donald Trump. Donald Trump was

(34:40):
simply stating the facts. Michael Schmerconis and CNN just shut
up and sit down.