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Today on the Matt Walsh show, who exactly are the people responsible for directing air traffic in the sky? We did a deep dive into what these people are posting openly online. And what we found will probably disturb you. Also, the results of the special election in Tennessee are in. It's bad news for Republicans, even though they won. Donald Trump attacked Somali immigrants saying they, quote, contribute nothing. And he's right. Quentin Tarantino gives his top films of the century and he's wrong. And what happens when a driverless AI taxi cab encounters a police standoff in the middle of the highway? Well, apparently it just drives right through it. All of that today on the Matt Walsh.
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Throughout 2023 and 2024, one of the major themes that I kept emphasizing on this show was that a major disaster involving a commercial airliner was extremely likely to occur in the near future. There were simply too many close calls in the skies happening far too often, especially close to the ground, to come to any other conclusion. Now, many of these mistakes were the result of failures by air traffic control and the faa, which openly began discriminating against qualified white applicants during the Obama year. So when 2025 began with a low altitude mid air collision at the Washington, Washington's Reagan Airport, it wasn't exactly a surprising development. If you've been paying attention, the signs were all there. Everyone who was paying attention knew that a disaster like this would happen. And then it did. Now, one of the many lessons that we should draw from that mid air collision is that when a pending catastrophe seems obvious to you, even if you're not an expert in the field, you should draw attention to it. There's a very good chance that you'll be right and the experts are wrong, as they so often are, particularly if those experts are politically motivated, which almost all of them are. When I did my monologues on the the air traffic control system a couple years ago, plenty of leftists mocked me for doing so. They said that I had no idea what I was talking about. I'm not an expert. And well, we see how that turned out. So today we're going to talk at length about a new threat that poses a significant danger to every American who travels on a plane in this country up to and including the President of the United States. This is a threat that as far as I can tell, no mainstream news outlet or commentator has mentioned, but it is urgent and federal action should be taken immediately. I'm talking about the very uncomfortable but also very apparent fact that that there are quite a few unhinged leftist air traffic controllers in this country, many of whom have spent the last year or so posting on social media about their plans to sabotage the aviation industry and the United States at large. Several of these individuals are deranged, entitled and by their own admission, dangerous, and they need to be dealt with. Before we get into specific examples, I want to briefly go back to the midair collision over the Potomac in January. There are many factors that contributed to this disaster, including poor flying by the Blackhawk pilot. We know that. But if you ask the White House and and if you listen to the audio transcripts between Air Traffic Control and the two aircraft involved in the incident, it's clear that Air Traffic Control was not entirely blameless. This is the first significant interaction between the controller and the military helicopter that would later crash into the passenger plane. If you haven't heard this, or even if you have, listen again. Here it is.
