Fox News host Tucker Carlson unloaded on the Biden Administration and “woke” hiring policies at airlines, asserting that recent safety scares can be blamed on Biden-sanctioned “equity-based” hiring practices. Does he have a point?
Tucker Carlson Says Recent Airline Safety Issues Can Be Blamed On Biden, Push For Equity
Carlson unloaded on Biden and a number of airlines including Southwest Airlines and United Airlines in a segment on his program that stretched over four minutes.
Airlines are dramatically lower hiring standards for pilots in the name of equity. At some point, many people are going to die because of this. pic.twitter.com/1lBMU5D0LG
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 15, 2023
I see my colleagues One Mile At A Time and View From The Wing have already addressed this issue and I think both get it right, though in different ways. Even before seeing their points, multiple readers and a family member sent me this clip so I am going to opine on it too.
Tucker’s central assertion is false:
“Biden imposed the principles of equity on the airlines, and that meant dramatically lowering hiring standards for pilots and air traffic controllers.”
That’s just not true. If you feel Carlson is correct, feel free to back up his statement with proof.
Yes, we have seen diversity preferences at United’s Aviate Academy, but those pilots are not flying yet. Plus, while I hope for a day when we can have a colorblind society, consider becoming a pilot like entering a narrow gate. There are simply not enough seats for everyone and so United has decided to use color or gender as one basis for consideration. Even so, the “standards” are not being lowered. Those aspiring pilots must complete the same rigorous training as anyone else. The moment that is no longer the case, then we have a smoking gun, but there is no evidence to suggest this is the case.
Some may point to Southwest lowering the number of hours required for new hires, but that’s not the case at all. Southwest lowered the number of turbine hours (from 1,000 to 500) in order to be accepted into its program, but the 1,500-hour minimum has not changed. Now, certain Southwest trainees will simply spend longer in training.
We have seen a lot of pilots shift equipment type during and after the pandemic, which is a result of the seniority-based system in the USA (you’re paid more for flying larger aircraft). Aircraft and personnel retirements have led to a lot of changes in that respect, which is a potential safety concern, but that cannot be blamed on the Biden Administration or “wokeness” either.
Then there is the concern over the recent United incident over Maui we covered earlier in the week. Carlson claims to have spoken to an anonymous United pilot, who told him “under its woke CEO Scott Kirby, the airline has allowed politics and racialist ideologies to trump safety concerns.” This source claimed the captain on the distressing Maui flight was “brand new” and the first officer was a “new-hire.”
That may or may not be true – I don’t know. But what we do know that even if both were new on the 777, it wasn’t diversity or Biden Administration policy that brought them to their jobs on that day.
In the end, Carlson seeks to score cheap political points by greatly simplifying a complex issue and also falsely arguing that diversity is to blame for the recent safety issues.
CONCLUSION
Carlson’s program is religiously followed by many, but you must use discernment in digesting his dialogue. He is right to this extent: there is justifiable concern over what appears to be a degradation of airline safety in the US. But his culprits are not really the culprits. If we can point to one culprit, it is probably the airline musical chairs that have resulted in many pilots flying new planes, but even that is simply a theory.
Somewhere I’ve got a picture of me with Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala back when they did Crossfire on CNN. Carlson seemed much more reasonable in those days. It may be good business to trash Biden at every turn, but when you do that it becomes far more difficult for legitimate criticism to stick.
What do you think about Tucker Carlson and his segment on airline safety?
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Not sure how a “new” captain and a “new hire” first officer could get a Maui run, even from the west coast. And, I believe all UAL 777 flights from the west coast are on the PW Hi density version. Perhaps engine trouble?
I thought I read somewhere the pilots of that flight had a combined 25,000 hours of experience
Probably the same place you read that the train crash in Ohio was Trump’s fault. The NTSB cleared that up yesterday:
While it is true that in 2018 the Department of Transportation (DOT) withdrew a proposed rule requiring trains carrying certain dangerous chemicals to use electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) brakes, this rule would not have applied to the train that derailed in East Palestine on February 3.
In addressing the train derailment on Tuesday, Buttigieg claimed, “We’re constrained by law on some areas of rail regulation,” and cited “the braking rule withdrawn by the Trump administration in 2018 because of a law passed by Congress in 2015.”
Buttigieg’s assertion, however, is incorrect.
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy announced on Thursday that if this particular rule were to have gone into effect, the mandate would have applied only to trains classified as high-hazard flammable trains.
“This means even if the rule had gone into effect, this train wouldn’t have had ECP brakes,” Homendy said, and she suggested that anyone who says otherwise is “spreading misinformation.”
This turd isn’t to be taken seriously, his own network argued this in court. He is a tool of Rupert Murdock , who isn’t from this country, to weaken the United States by angering the rubes and further dividing it. Where is Jon Stewart when you need him to smack him down again?
Murdock is not from this country exactly the same way George Soros is not and tries to bring his communist agenda to the US every single day. You cannot talk about dividing this country without mentioning Soros. He left the communism behind and keeps trying to bring it here.
What is George soros doing that’s anywhere close to what Murdock is doing? Rupert owns the media empire that has melted the brains of the entire republican party. I mean JFC, he flat out stated the pilots of the United flight in Maui were brand new, which is totally false…. but now everyone that watched it will believe it.
I knew you live under a rock but didn’t know you were so naive. Invite Soros to your birthday party.
You got schooled in another discussion where you couldn’t give specific examples so let’s do it again. Give ONE example of George soros bringing communism to the US. I don’t even ever think about George soros until you maniacs bring him up. George soros has no impact on either of our lives whatsoever. Find another boogeyman.
Actually Santastico is correct. Defending Soros? One of the most evil people in the world? This is so tiring. This topic is well researched. Try Google. Hee admitted to being an amoral person to 60 Minutes:
“I am there to make money. I cannot and do not look at the social consequences of what I do. I engage in amoral activities but the rest of the time I try to be moral”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or9pYKMKgr0
More importantly, Soros spent $40 million+ in 75 US district attorneys’ offices. Radical DAs have abandoned their duty to prosecute criminals, endangering our communities. His goal is to elect radical activists with pro-crime agendas – letting violent offenders free, eliminating bail & treating criminals like victims in the name of social justice only leads to more victims of violent crime.
Sounds like communism to me.
https://www.scribd.com/document/577278421/Justice-for-Sale-LELDF-Report
George Soros-backed groups have spent $40 million to elect 75 progressive prosecutors over the last decade – meaning one in FIVE Americans now live in areas covered by his criminal justice reformers
– Soros’s networks have worked to support left-leaning district attorneys across the country, pouring significant funds into the races
-Among the major recipients are the Los Angeles district attorney, George Gascon, and the Philadelphia DA, Larry Krasner
-Jason Johnson, president of the pro-police action group Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund (LELDF), accused Soros in a new report of harming the country
-He said the DAs were working ‘to quietly transform the criminal justice system for the worse, promoting dangerous policies and anti-police narratives’
Spending by Soros-backed groups has installed prosecutors now representing 72 million people, or one in five Americans.
The figure includes about half of America’s 50 most populous cities and counties, where 40 percent of homicides occur.
We really need more mental hospitals
@Billy Bob: please stay under your rock. That’s where you belong.
Billy Bob: that is the tip of the iceberg on Soros info. It’s freaking sad AF that commenters on an aviation blog have to be your personal researcher. WTF–find the info yourself or actually discuss the points being made instead of calling for mental hospitals. A therapist told me years ago that I am one of the most informed people she’s ever met. Thanks.
Do you and AJ really think communism is about being easy on criminals and treating criminals as victims? You two are still in grade school, aren’t you?
@AJ… are you saying you are a stable genius?
Turn off Alex Jones and get some fresh air
Yes, Aztec, I do. being lax on crime is a way to destabilize a country. It’s working
You clearly don’t know how Soros got his money?
Let’s put the historical glasses on for at moment 😉
He single handedly and over night cut hard working Swedish peoples pensions in half and pocketed the money with his, to put it midly very very questioning financial joggling (average Svenson is still paying the price).
He brought the UK economy on the brink of collapse while betting heavily against the pound.
(who paid the price average Jones).
The list goes on…
Now he is in the US. Who is going to pay the price?
You are.
Good luck I say!
You clearly don’t know how Soros
got his money?
Let’s put the historical glasses on
for at moment
He single handedly and over night
cut hard working Swedish
peoples pensions in half and
pocketed the money with his, to
put it midly very very questioning
financial joggling (average
Svenson is still paying the price).
He brought the UK economy on
the brink of collapse while betting
heavily against the pound
(who paid the price average
Jones).
The list goes on..
Now he is in the US. Who is going
to pay the price?
You are.
Good luck I say!
Such a typical Republican response…..’pivot’ and blame George Soros, or Hillary, or Obama… It’s comical. You idiots believe whatever garbage Tucks & Company make up, and repeat over and over. You are so easily played….first it was Obama’s birth certificate, than Hillary’s emails, then Benghazi, then voter fraud, and now it’s China and their balloons. I love it….balloons!
You idiots will believe anything! Fox shows that over and over….just give them someone to feel superior too, and throw in Hillary, Obama or Soros. The racism, and misogyny is so transparent to everyone but the morons being played.
Thanks for showing the world who you really are….good job!
Seeing all of the actors you mentioned are the reason we are where we are today, it’s all fair game. I’m happy to discuss the birth certificate, emails, Benghazi or any other topic. The problem is that you can’t handle the truth. The reality is that Obama completed most of the items on this list. Hillary would have, except they never thought she would lose. And now we are on to y’all. So take us out, murder us, make fun of us, live by the sword, die by the sword. Do whatever we gotta do. We aren’t afraid of you anymore. Y’all are the idiots. Not us. We are just trying to save this great nation so FOH
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Antisemitic tropes, yay.
I don’t watch him so have nothing to say about his opinion. One things I agree in general is that America is now adopting DEI way too hard and in a forced way and that is and will create a huge issue for the country. Yes, many Colleges and corporations are looking for DEI instead of quality of candidates when admitting students or hiring professionals. That’s wrong in my opinion. Just admit or hire the best no matter their gender, race, religion, etc… And before the snowflakes start to get uncomfortable, I am Latino and considered minority. My kids hate to be treated as minority at school. They want to be seen as anyone else and not placed in a separate bucket where people fell they need more attention. Just do blind interviews, disguise the voices and simply hire the best. If they turn to be transgender, black and have pink hair, great!! If they turn to be white, male with blond hair. Great!!! Self selecting a specific type of people to generate equality will put this country in the toilet.
Well stated!!!!
I find it amusing that you bash DEI and then immediately suggest one of the strongest DEI moves (blind interviews). The goal of DEI is to increase representation, and it turns out that blinding resumes and candidates is a great way to do that. I feel (and could be wrong) that there is a fair amount of DEI work that you agree with but just don’t know exists.
@Scooter: maybe the fact that English is not my primary language, I may be missing your point here. Where in DEI you have blind interviews? When a student applies to a College, the first questions are: What is your race? What is your gender orientation? How is that blind?????? Blind is to not ask those questions, not even see the candidate and offer the the spot to the best applicant based on their grades, essays, extra curricular activities, etc… When you ask about race and ethnicity and sexual orientation there is absolutely nothing blind about that but a way to target specific people they want to bring into the place to be able to share starts later on. DEI is a huge benefit for companies and colleges is used well. When companies and colleges set targets for how many black people, how many gays, how many Latinos they want in their place, that is not blind. That’s is targeted selection.
@Santastico those are hidden during the decision process and re-shown after the decision is made. I’ll use corporate hiring as an example as I have more experience there. When we did resume reviews, one member of the HR team was responsible for removing the name and neutering organizations (eg if a candidate was a fraternity president). Once that was done, the team would review resumes and screening questions for leadership potential. Interviews would be conducted to see technical aptitude and work ethic.
In short, what the dei framework has done for hiring is providing a larger pipeline to candidates. This means we hire more quality candidates. From this, I’d argue that these initiatives make it much easier to hire the best candidates. Especially in the case of flying (where startup costs for pilots are super high), United is doing the right thing to bring in pilots who might have skill but wouldn’t be able to afford the training. It’s a necessary move.
All else aside, is the hiring really ‘blind’? Now the new narrative is that women and POC are being hired for quotas, but blindly? Sounds like a lot of extra work to approve a blind application and then find out they are a white male.
@Scooter: Please!!! Who are you trying to defend here? I was part of a Fortune 100 company and we were hiring a person for a high caliber role. The hiring manager looked at all resumes and we interviewed candidates face to face. Among several white male guys there was a black lady. She was totally unqualified for the role but I heard directly from the hiring manager: “Enough of white men. We need diversity”. They gave the lady the offer and she took the job. She didn’t last 6 months because she lacked the skills needed to do the job. Same goes to Colleges, they have quotas. They want to say they admitted transgenders, Latinos, black people, etc…. Please, educate yourself.
Read this: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/10/target-pledges-to-increase-number-of-black-employees-by-20percent.html
Do you see the goal? To increase the number of black employees by 20%. How can you do that in a blind process?
Santastico, you might be the king of one-off examples. Companies having goals of increasing diversity doesn’t mean they hire less qualified candidates. Your comment above implies you think that candidates from those backgrounds are inherently worse. I know it is not your intent, but that is how it reads. Your hiring manager sounds like a moron if that was his only thought. Usually, leaders say “we need diversity” and then add “because we suffer from groupthink” or something else; not for the sake of diversity.
Work isn’t a zero sum game; if a company increases the number of diverse applicants, they get more diverse hires. FWIW, I am a Republican who is sick of seeing this stupid pearl clutching from our party.
@santastico. That story sounds totally made up. Nobody would intentionally hire someone completely unqualified just because of their race. Why even hold interviews at that point? Just hire someone off the street
@Scooter: did you read I am Latino and considered “people of color”? You might be living under the same rock as the other guy here.
@santastico I am also Latino – my entire point is that there are elements of DEI that I think you agree with but just aren’t aware that they are as common. DEI isn’t the issue – it’s people like Tucker who push baseless lies to enrage people to ignore reality.
“did you read I am Latino and considered “people of color”?”
Anybody can say anything they want to when posting anonymously on a site where your (claims to) an identity cannot be proven.
Thanks for your honesty, Santastico. As a minority myself, you a real MVP. Many blessings to you.
I believe Tucker over any petty travel blogger. Whenever some big corporation uses words like “inclusion” or “diversity” it just means they’re going to bring in unqualified people to fill some quota.
First, Tucker is a big, profit-driven corporation too. Second, your quip about being “unqualified” is demonstrably false…are you trolling here?
LOL…I believe that you believe that.
As opposed to hiring non-white people who are qualified?
Tucker Carlson is an idiot. The sad thing is, 20 years ago he knew he was an idiot. But at some point all the other idiots elected him king of the idiots, and that can really go to your head. Especially if you’re an idiot.
Maybe just treat Tucker like you would treat Whoopi Goldberg: Entertainins entertaining for their bases and making $$$ for it.
Entertainers*** blah
Great, more woke joke. I also do not watch Tucker or FOX. However, I’d love to see Tucker interview Ben to talk about OMAAT’s comment policy alone. Pretty sure that issue would finally be eviscerated.
Furthermore, there is of course zero surprise that there is zero mention in these articles today regarding the failed diversity hires of the Biden Administration: Buttigieg, Gina Raimondo, and Sam Brinton. These three alone, among many others, prove that prioritizing DEI over talent is not the best option for our country.
United: “Our flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people on board our planes every day. That’s why we plan for 50% of the 5,000 pilots we train in the next decade to be women or people of color.”
When researching this I came across Tucker’s response to this from last year: “United is mandating affirmative action quotas in its flight schools. That is a big change for the country. How will racial and gender quotas make United Airlines safer? That’s the only question that matters. African-American men account for roughly 6% of the American population, yet about 75% of players in the National Basketball Association are Black men. That doesn’t sound like equity. It sounds like disproportionate representation. So what if to remedy that lack of equity, the NBA announced tomorrow that going forward, at least half of its players had to be White, Asian, Hispanic or female to better represent the fans in the stands? How would we respond to that? We’d understand immediately, and we would say so, that it’s a racist policy. No one had even alleged that NBA players were doing a bad job. We’d all assumed, correctly, as we do with airline pilots, that the players were hired in the first place because they were the very best players the NBA could find. An airline pilot’s job is to land the plane safely. Everything else is irrelevant. If 100% of United pilots were Black women, or Malaysian Muslims, or for that matter, White men from Alabama, not a single sane person would complain about it as long as the airplanes didn’t crash. Safety is all that matters.”
Tucker may be wrong most of the time–not really sure–from what I’ve heard he’s sometimes been six months to two years ahead of the regular mainstream media. But he’s certainly correct in this comment quotation about safety. Separately, I am (partially) pleased to see that the FAA announced today that they will be conducting a review of the issues lately. Partially pleased as I have about zero trust in the FAA overall, never mind anyone in government. It’s hard to believe the results of the investigation will be anything but smoke and mirrors, kind of like the safety articles on OMAAT, VFTW, and LALF.
Overall, it would be nice if y’all could focus on actual safety concerns, instead of pieces like this that barely scratch the surface of the important topics at hand. I, for one, will be shifting my reading habits to those who actually care about safety and the many issues we face. OMAAT, VFTW, and LALF are not those outlets. All the best.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/14/business/faa-safety-review/index.html
Since you don’t trust the FAA, the blogging community, or news outlets, who would you say you trust? A man who knows ZERO about aviation – so little, in fact, that he made multiple factual mistakes in his latest screed? A man who heard something from an unidentified pilot who heard something from another unidentified pilot (something that happened to be demonstrably false)?
Are you actually that dumb? Or do you just think everyone else is so dumb that they’ll be hoodwinked by a self-professed “entertainer”?
I trust whistleblowers and citizen journalists first. They are the news now. I don’t trust privileged and biased bloggers like Ben who suppress thought and information and have little to no interest the truth and instead proclaim themselves as thought leaders– all while not allowing diversity of thought & freedom of thought to begin with. Hypocrisy 101.
I already said I don’t watch Tucker. In the past two years I can recall watching two clips of his when he spoke to Josh Yoder. Nevertheless, perhaps I should get right on trusting the FAA, seeing their important focus on gender neutral language in their 2.5 hour town hall on YouTube titled the “FAA Inclusive Language Summit” –ran by Abby Smith, the Executive Director for Aviation Policy and Plans. Gender neutral language in the cockpit, yeah, that will help safety. No. Some of the comments:
–As a female pilot, this push to change language is incredibly annoying and a waste of time. Many words, including the word “woMAN” have man in them. Should we get rid of them, too? How about “huMAN”?
This hand-holding just makes it seem like women are too weak to be able to handle words. It’s not inclusive, it’s insulting.
–Hey FAA, let’s talk important issues like safer skies, legal issues, mental health treatments for pilots and aircrew, airplane safety, maintenance, FAR AIM standards, etc.
–Too much stupidity and comedy material. FAA in its downfall to safety and regulation.
–This is the priority, instead of safety concerns of equipment, overburdened pilots and traffic controllers. Got it. Ridiculous
–Seriously stop this crap for once and for all. Thank YOU. I had a lot of respect for FAA until this video.
I agree with those comments, so, as I said, I’ll trust whistleblowers, like Sierra Lund: https://i.postimg.cc/kXynHgf7/0b96e327-73d0-4097-83a0-35fe9921168c-1336×1285.jpg
It is my view that any citizen should trust their fellow citizens over corporate and government overlords. History will not judge them or the aviation bloggers kindly. But hey, I guess I’m just that dumb.
As long as you’re honest with yourself, that’s all that matters.
Actually I’ve been honest and always have been. Nothing is more important than the truth. Our children’s future depends on it. They are the future. Not loser cucks.
Dear AJ, did you previously post as ECH? No offense is intended. Your writing style looked very familiar, so I was just curious.
Yes. Not sure why it matters but yes. Had to say what I wanted to say before I leave this earth. Don’t really care anymore, seeing this country is beyond destroyed and beyond repair anyway..I’ll make sure my family sends Matt my obituary when I’m taken out for speaking the truth so he can share it will y’all. Take care.
It doesn’t matter, and welcome back. If I may make one suggestion: I believe you, like me, are an avid consumer of information. As such, I’ve sometimes fallen into rabbit holes of information and came to conclusions with the firmest of convictions. However, whenever I stepped away for awhile from the nonstop bombardment of news and opinions we are constantly exposed to, I’ve often experienced a moderation, or some other evolution, in my views or what I otherwise believed were truths. Again, welcome back, and you take care as well, and I sincerely wish you the very best.
Always hard to know who is genuine or not on here but if genuine, thank you. I actually have had many moderations and evolutions–a bad roller coaster, obviously–but I still can’t get over the fact we forced untested medications into people flying our planes while violating long standing first class medical norms. It’s truly dumbfounding. As someone who loves freedom, flying, travel, air investigations, and the related, it’s very difficult to get past that.
I know I can be way too intense but I firmly believe that the mass COVID jab program was conducted intentionally to harm. People are struggling to accept new medical issues and health problems since that, and also hurting from many other issues. I try to step away, but not many are actually talking about these things that do matter, so for some reason I have felt the need to try to (unsuccessfully) make up the difference. We are up to five train derailments in two weeks, food processing plants burning down everywhere, power stations attacked across the nation, and way more.
I know some call it a vast right wing conspiracy, but it really does seem the satanic cabal is waging covert warfare internally. We are in big trouble in this country, at least it seems that way. I sure hope I am wrong. MLK said: “A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.”
I stand up for justice and for what is right. I certainly am open to hearing about what I have shared that is untrue. I’m certainly not trying to be in the business of sharing info. In all of my former jobs, we have had to be 100% correct.
This week World Series Poker player Aaron Duczak was caught on a hot mic talking about his chest pain after receiving the COVID jab: “I wish I never got the vaccine. I’ve been having chest pains ever since I had that thing.” It’s just not right. It’s hard to not care about that.
Before one of my best friends died from ovarian cancer, she said that my intensity was the result of caring/loving too much and having fear about what would happen with all of this. I obviously want to have faith over fear, but it’s difficult when things look bleak. The privileged will go on and use their points and miles and whatever else and this will all be a distant memory.
But one of the Wounded Warrior Project mottos is ‘the greatest tragedy in life is being forgotten’. We shouldn’t forget about those injured and killed by these nefarious plots and actors. And we should project our children. I have a niece who is less than two years old, and I think about every day what kind of world she will inherit. If we don’t stand up for the innocent, who will?
sharing *wrong info
Wow left wing political hack points and miles guys are triggered by what Tucker Carlson said ! He has more viewers than all the left wing dishonest liberal fake news hosts combined ! I guess you are tired of the airport CNN shows? Have you guys ever written once about the failure of this so called transportation secretary Pete Buttijob and Biden admin about what has happened with airlines and transportation ? Never!
Not sure if Matt is left wing, mate.
That’s because left wingers have lives and friends. Right wingers have nothing better to do than wait for fox news to tell them what to be angry about next. Don’t forget to be a good soldier and buy your “no spin zone” merchandise to let everyone know what a free thinker you are!
This is true but for different reasons than Tucker stated. While the forced anti white/anti Christian agenda management has adopted will play a role in safety issues in the future, it’s more the general agitation caused by the Biden administration that causes the safety issue. Travel has been disjointed with years of draconian Covid rule enforcement that has made working in the travel industry from air traffic controller to pilot difficult. We have constant turmoil because unions are emboldened to disrupt airline operations and blackmail airlines and their shareholders. We have arbitrary and capricious enforcement. It was the Biden supporters and bureaucrats who opposed privatizing air traffic control which would make it more efficient.
Airlines are always under pressure because of these things. Pilots are not encouraged to focus on flying skills and being safe but they worry about whatever woke policy will be forced next. They are also overly focused on their contracts despite already earning 200K-375K a year.
Airline management robbed shareholders and condemned airlines by not using Covid as an opportunity to clean house, sever union contracts, and get rid of the unions having power over how the airline operates. Instead, management kept flight attendants and pilots on and continue to renew union contracts with burdensome terms.
Look no further than the vice president or some of this administration’s cabinet members. The only reason they are where they are is because of what is between their legs, what was there, their skin color, or who they have sex with. Normally I won’t care. But when those are someone’s primary qualifying characteristics, it does put them in places they have no business being in .
Young Tucker was a conservative. Fox Tucker is a dude who knows his audience and the following that butters his bread. Sadly many show hosts live in an echo chamber. In our tribal politics and media, having an original thought is a death sentence to be avoided. Best to ignore the noise and use your own sense!
Boomers and GenX ignored the issues for decades. The “someone else will handle it”attitudes from these generations are major contributing factors to why we are where we are today. Not sure it’s good advice to ignore. Ignoring solves nothing, although ignorance is seemingly bliss for many.
Re: “Does he have a point?”, NO. Ne never has a rational intelligent point. The only person who tells more lies and distortions is his hero Trump.
So am I hearing this correctly? Is tucker Carlson and several folks on this thread, saying hiring black and brown people and women makes airlines unsafe??
Is there evidence to this? Or are we just that bigoted as a society still?
Not me. I am saying hire on ability and talent and not on race or sex. SCOTUS will be dealing with affirmative action soon anyway. We will see what happens with these quotas then.
Matthew, I’m sorry I had to go so hard. I know you must hate me but I do appreciate the ability to speak freely despite everyone wishing I did not have the right to do so. But sincerely, I’m sorry. I wish you all the best. I hope no one on Boarding Area is a bad guy and I can only hope they are all just doing the best they can. I know I’m the biggest loser compared to yall. But I had to push the needle while I’m still here. I actually just want everything cool and peaceful for all but I don’t know how to do that without speaking the truth first. The left needs to adopt diversity of thought again. Stop referring to just D and R. There’s a lot of us Independents out there. God Bless America. I pledge allegiance to the flag. My country this of thee. Amazing grace. Battle Hymn of the Republic. But that’s me at my core. It’s hard to weave that in to posts without sounding even more like a lunatic. All of that to say, there are different voices. Everyone should be heard, including people of faith, religion, or otherwise. That’s what diversity of thought is.
I’m sorry for going against social norms to try to help our country. I’m sorry for appearing unhinged and crazy. All too often I let emotion get the best of me. But it was only because I cared. I didn’t ask for this job or want to be this commenter that you hate. I saw you had another frequent commenter a while ago. I was just trying to help the world somehow. I do apologize.
AJ, have you considered Twitter to share your deep thoughts? I.e., your future obituary, satanic cabal, the “jab”, etc. Not to be mean my friend, but this is a travel blog. But conversely, I am a Boomer. I did indeed help plot the downfall of civilization as we know it.
It’s a travel blog to the extent that 1) we have pilots flying our planes 2) I fly like most other people and 3) now there are increased risks. I had a feeling that the vaccine mandates would come back to haunt aviation, and while the issue may get swept under the rug, it still matters.
Your first two points are valid, your third is ambiguous. Are you implying pilots that are vaccinated are a risk? What, they’ll have a heart attack and pitch forward onto the controls causing a sad and messy death for all on board?
It is possible and can’t be ruled out. Overall we have two pilots in the cockpit for a reason, but if one is incapacitated and the other isn’t up to par, then there could be issues. Apparently there already are issues–reported on other forums and blogs, but no one wants to speak up publicly due to understandable fear of losing their jobs.
Aj, dear, that was humour. Thank you, I labored under the false assumption that there was only one person flying the plane. Now I have to worry that both pilots will pitch forward on to the controls, causing a sad and messy death for all on board.
I don’t find pilot and aviation safety really humorous but I’m glad at least someone does. Do you think it was fine for first class medical certificate norms to be thrown out the window? Are you saying there’s nothing to be worried about? Any comments on the EKG changes? Just BAU?
Aj, yes, there is absolutely nothing to be worried about. But I will insist on a current EKG from everyone, including flight attendants. Can’t be too safe. By any chance have you watched Ron White, “Near miss plane crash”?
Okay..nothing to be worried about. My mistake
I wish you well, Aj. Really.
and I’m Oprah
Okay. Oprah, I do wish you well. Really.
Is this the same Tucker Carlson who publicly pushed one theorist’s narrative about Venezuela communists using Italian spy satellites to control Chinese thermostats to wirelessly alter voting machines . . . that the theorist’s own experts determined can’t be wirelessly altered? And, is this the same Tucker Carlson who privately disavowed that same narrative and disparaged the theorists? Just curious.
Have you seen the source code for Dominion machines or any other voting machines? Do you understand the backdoor capabilities and functionality? Doubtful.. so might be best to leave this one alone. Seeing that the machines can connect to the internet, and considering that all technology has backdoor capability–as Snowden proved–ANYTHING is possible.
The three largest voting manufacturing companies — Election Systems & Software, Dominion Voting Systems and Hart InterCivic — have acknowledged they all put modems in some of their tabulators and scanners. The reason? So that unofficial election results can more quickly be relayed to the public. Those modems connect to cell phone networks, which, in turn, are connected to the internet.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/online-vulnerable-experts-find-nearly-three-dozen-u-s-voting-n1112436
He gave supporting evidence in the video if you actually watched it.. all u have to do is look at who has disproportionately been involved in the negligence behind those scares and compare it to their overall representation in the industry and you will have your answer. But instead you write an opinionated and wrong article without any examples or supporting evidence to the contrary and say he is “wrong” lol. Hint: it’s the same ppl grossly underrepresented in historical achievement and grossly over represented in crime, std rates, violence and failure in every country they are the majority. The same ppl w an average IQ OF 65-68 in their homeland. It actually makes quite a bit of sense when u look at the big picture. But carry only w your opinion and none sense.
The author isn’t even a pilot lol. Shut up!