High Plains Populism

The DC controllers on duty during the recent aviation disaster in Washington, DC, deserve to be considered competent unless shown otherwise. To me, at first blush, they appear to have acted correctly.

However, Mr. Laxalt’s description of the madness that permeated management of the overall air traffic control system is a stunning indictment of DEI, a system of naked racial discrimination from top to bottom.

Goodbye meritocracy:

Here are some thoughts after over a year of litigating Brigida v Department of Transportion, a DEI Air Traffic Control case against the Biden FAA and DOJ:

The FAA pushed its radical DEI agenda for decades. It watered down the air traffic control aptitude test multiple times for the stated purpose of increasing Air Traffic Control(ATC) diversity, until finally a questionable character self-assessment was worth far more than the ability to understand flight paths and intersecting angles.

Under both the Obama and Biden Administrations, the FAA was influenced by DEI fanatics to change its air traffic control hiring process. Rather than stick with the science, the agency used an ATC aptitude test – if it can even be called that – that prioritized skin color and sex over actual competence.

During the Obama Administration more than 2000 qualified & vetted men and women were lined up to become air traffic controllers. They’d demonstrated their competence and eagerness to protect the American skies and were just waiting on orders from the government. The order that came was to remove them from the ATC queue altogether. The reason: Obama’s FAA decided they weren’t racially diverse enough.

The Obama Administration threw out the results of an ATC aptitude test proven to select the best candidates in favor of a 10 minute self-assessment that had zero guardrails against cheating and even less to do with air traffic. Anyone who failed according to the FAA’s secret scoring system was denied the job, no matter how highly they’d scored on the actual ATC aptitude test.

In the name of DEI, Obama’s FAA instituted an air traffic control hiring exam that awarded applicants points for being bad at science in high school, being unemployed, and having below average communication skills. The candidates who were actually qualified to be ATCs but were denied the chance to protect American skies because they didn’t pass this sham test sued to correct the injustice, but the Biden admin championed the DEI cause in court with even greater ferocity.

Back in 2013 the Obama Administration promised a “historic transformation” of the FAA. To make our skies safer? To become more technologically advanced? To study flight patterns of the busiest airspace? Obama’s promise was to make air traffic control a more diverse and inclusive workforce, and Biden doubled down on it.

Talent and experience for these jobs is a long pipeline. Losing so many qualified applicants out of only 14,000 Air Traffic Controllers, and losing potentially countless applicants since, has resulted in chronic staffing shortages and serious overtime.

No sane American cares about ATC sex and skin color, because they know it’s an obsession that, as I predicted many times last year and as recently as 2 weeks ago, would result in tragedy.

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It’s hard to believe that the things described below were routine in the last four years.  The country was literally unhinged and the dissidents among us managed to demonstrate this only with great difficulty.    

The winning side in this contest didn’t vote against Kamala Harris so much as they voted against the Democratic Party, the Party of Chaos, of BLM riots, of drag queens in the school library, of men in the women’s swim lane (and locker room), of forced vaccinations (your bodily autonomy, sister?), of locking up grandmothers who walked through the Capitol rotunda, of state-driven censorship, of malicious political prosecutions, of ruinous proxy war, of flooding the country with criminal alien mutts, of Mao Zedong style erasing of history, of FISA court surveillance, and, finally, of the same sort of self-loathing for the nation that a three hundred pound sophomore with a nose ring and sleeve tattoos feels for herself.

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Between now and then, prepare to put your shoulder to the wheel. It’s not just the US government that begs for reform, but many of the secular operations of daily life in America, especially of an economic scene dominated by freakishly gigantic monopolies that have impoverished so many local communities, destroyed livelihoods and whole ways of life, and made slaves of citizens. That story has hardly begun to be told.

One thing missing from Mr. Kunster’s litany is the cowardice of the Supreme Court.  “Lack of standing” my foot.

“We Won’t Be Certifying The Election…”  By James Howard Kunstler, ZeroHedge, 11/9/24 (emphasis changed).

“Diversity” is code for discrimination.

“Equity” is code for special privileges.

“Inclusivity” is code for exclusion.

It’s been 75 years since Orwell’s ominous “1984” was published, yet ‘doublespeak’ is more popular than ever.

Clifton Duncan.

“If you think about it [the Democrat Party] as a group of Americans who have a view of the way the country should be governed, you’ll be scratching your head. If, on the other hand, you think of it as a HOSTILE force, one that has no interest in the wellbeing of average Americans, it makes a lot more sense.”

~ Prof. Bret Weinstein.

The destruction is deliberate.  As Sherlock Holmes used to say, once you eliminate the impossible what you’re left with is the truth, no matter how improbable.

“Professor Tells Glenn Beck That the Democrats Are No Longer a Political Party, Has Become Something Unholy (VIDEO).”  By Mike LaChance, The Gateway Pundit, 9/6/24.

I defy anyone to say that Mr. Baltar is wrong.  That the main characteristic of the West these days is as he describes. Period. End of story.

It is difficult to put a finger on the essence of a civilization – what makes it unique and different from other civilizations. It is easier if time has passed, providing context. Still, even without time and context, is clear that the main characteristic of the current western civilization is its abandonment of reality. It is not just denial of how badly things are going, leading to delusional thinking. It is much deeper than that. It has become the main thread in the fabric of the West. The abandonment of reality is the main driving force for everything western, including economic policies, foreign relations and social policies. This is a problem because operating outside reality will always lead to failure and disaster. Ask any mental patient.^<1>

The adults have everywhere left the room.  Crazy spending, pointless wars to convince foreigners how wonderful we are, and the dominance of the grotesque federal administrative state are but three central facts of our political lives.  With a dash of censorship by cretins and judicial and prosecutorial tyranny, thank you very much.  People who don’t have the sense that the good Lord gave a duck control our nation, fleece us, and engineer slaughter and destruction in foreign countries that are no danger to us.

I strongly recommend this excellent article.  Pay attention to the point Mr. Baltar makes that the destruction is intentional.

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^<1>“A Civilization Beyond Reality.”  By Gaius Baltar, Sonar21, 5/29/24.