Back to episode — Episode 2737 CWSA 02/01/25
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of whether it's a real photo but apparently the database with the photos is available for others to check. Yeah, and there's at least one version where it's not so square at all. So I'm going to bet against it but it's fun. So the LA Times wrote an article saying essentially that Trump was right about the water problems in California, that they were essentially self-caused. Yeah, somebody showing…
← Previous segment →it too fast you'll flood areas that we normally could manage without any flooding. Is that a thing? Will there be some extra flooding that we didn't know about? And then other people say well you can release the water but it doesn't go to the right place. You know it's going to end up somewhere where you don't need it anyway. Is that true? Or can the farmers open up new fields because they have water and they can rely on it? I don't know.
So I'm not sure if the LA Times answered all these questions but I feel like everything about this story sounds like that's what I think. Now I'm not saying that Trump didn't help. There's at least a 50% chance that that's exactly what happened, that California was unable to do the common sense logical things. Trump just forced them into it. Maybe. Maybe. But I'm pretty sure we're not hearing the whole story here. So hold your powder on that one.
You probably heard there's another jet crash. It was a small jet that did some kind of medical flights I think. It was Mexican nationals who were on it and they brought a young Mexican girl to America for some treatments that I guess were not available in her hometown. And sadly the plane went down with half a dozen people on it and they're all deceased of course.
Now one thing that's different about these plane crashes is that it seems like no matter where there's a crash somebody had a ring camera that got good footage of it. So there's unusually good footage of the actual crash from all the cameras in the world. So I don't know how many times small aircrafts the size of this one crash but I think it's way more than we know. I don't even think it makes national news. Like if a little Cessna goes down somewhere does it make national news? I don't know. But there's probably a lot more small airplane accidents than we know about.
Well the New York Post is reporting that, speaking of that plane crash, that the Army is not going to name the female pilot killed aboard the military. Okay, now until this morning there were a lot of you saying it's a DEI problem and that when you found out who was piloting it you'd find out it's some kind of DEI hire. Now I said no, don't go there. There's no evidence of that. If ever there is evidence of it then I'm with you but don't go there without evidence. The only thing we know for sure is that DEI should be breaking all of our systems. It should by design. It should make everything break.
Now even Bill Maher did an extended piece last night about how all of our systems in the country are broken. Does that sound familiar? That's me. How many times have I told you you realize that all of our systems are broken, all of them, from health care to finance to politics to you name it. And when I say broken I mean corrupt. From health care to finance to politics to you name it. And I've been saying that for a while. But when Bill Maher says it the difference is he's still not to the point where he can give a reason for it. I feel like he might be right by the way. He might think it's just the natural evolution of organizations. They might start out as a good idea but then they evolve and their budget's too big and they do DEI hiring and they lose sense of the mission and it all falls apart. But I don't think you can ignore the fact that DEI predicts complete destruction of all of our systems by focusing on the wrong stuff.
Now again it has nothing to do with anybody's DNA, has nothing to do with your culture, it's not about your gender, it's none of that. The problem with DEI is it forces you away from hiring only the best and toward making sure you hit your DEI quota. So humans being humans are going to make sure they hit the quota that's easiest to measure and the easiest one to measure is always you just count the number of people and say what are you. It's the easiest one for measuring. It's the easiest one. So of course in the real world people manage to whatever will be measured and their bonus depends on it. So yeah everything's falling apart.
But it turns out that this pilot that I had been telling you stop saying it's DEI, you don't know anything about the actual crew, it's a female pilot. Now that doesn't mean the pilot made a mistake. We're miles away from saying the pilot made a mistake. There's nothing connecting female pilot to pilot mistake. There might be. I mean at some point in the future. But even that wouldn't prove DEI as a problem. It might prove one pilot as a problem. But here's what
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I've heard from my pilot friend and I think other pilots have said something like it, that the real reason for the crash is probably several factors. It's very unlikely there's just one thing. One of the factors is the airport's way busier and more dangerous and pilots have been complaining about it forever. Another is that pilots have said you don't want the helicopters doing too much there becau…
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