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March 15, 2024 - Jimmy Dore Show
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Music Ben Shapiro had some dumb stuff to say about the retirement age.
Yeah, well, he, you know what happened is he got his new Groucho Marks eyebrows and he decided to, why not be, why not be funny?
I buy the same brand of eyebrows that he gets.
I buy Lee Pres on eyebrows.
That is what it looks like.
Chestnut Brown, he gets a blanket.
So here's what he says about Social Security and the retirement age.
Listen to this.
And let's be real about this.
It's insane that we haven't raised the retirement age in the United States.
It's insane.
Is it cuckoo cocka?
It's insane that we haven't raised the retirement age.
By the way, we have raised the retirement age.
The retirement age has been raised to 67.
Most people don't know that.
Right.
But they have, what they have Americans upset about is Dylan Mulvaney, right?
Everybody knows about that, but nobody knows that their Social Security age got raised to 67, including him.
And by the way, did you know that the mandatory age for retirement in Israel is also been raised to 67?
Yeah, on the 12th.
In Israel, it's mandatory to retire and then collect a pension.
Is that bonkers to you, Ben?
Bet it's not.
Yeah, no, that they have to make people, you know, Kyle, we have all these old people in government, all those other places just staying there in their jobs.
And then the millennials and whatever can't get a job.
Israel doesn't allow that.
And because so many people have been killed fighting the war in Gaza, they go, okay, old people, you can work till you're 67 because we know your kids might have been killed fighting.
It's just like a whole different standard for Ben's first love.
Here we go.
And let's be real about this.
It's insane that we haven't raised the retirement age in the United States.
It's totally crazy.
Joe Biden, if that were the case, Joe Biden should not be running for president.
Hey, Joe Biden is 81 years old.
The retirement age in the United States at which you start to receive Social Security and you are eligible for Medicare is 65.
Joe Biden has technically been eligible for Social Security and Medicare for 16 years and he wants to continue in office until he is 86, which is 19 years, past when he would be eligible for retirement.
No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old.
Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem.
Unless you have some sort of unless you have some sort of health problem at 65 years old.
If nothing else, this video proves that Ben Shapiro has never asked anyone over 65.
So how's your health?
Unless you have some sort of a health problem at 65 years old.
I'm 58.
I take a table full of pills every day.
A table full.
I don't know.
And people would...
Also, he basically proves the president's not a real job.
Yeah.
That's what that shows me.
So do you, hang on, let's go back to this.
Everybody that I know who is who is elderly, who has retired, is dead within five years.
If you talk to people.
My dad retired.
My dad was a cop and he worked in masonry, did brickwork, and he did two jobs, sometimes three, his whole life until 57.
And his dad retired when he was 62, died like six months later.
So my dad thought he was going to die because he was the firstborn.
So my dad makes sure he retired when he was 57.
He worked two jobs, sometimes three his whole life, retired at 57 as soon as he could.
He didn't wait to max out his retirement.
He retired as soon as he could.
He ended up living till he was 94.
So this idea that most people want to retire died five years later, again, he's just making shit up.
Why is Dick Cheney alive?
Exactly.
Why the fuck is Dick Cheney still alive?
Besides somebody else.
He's just making shit up.
Okay.
Who are elderly and they lose their purpose in life by losing their job and they stop working?
You know, most people I know, if they lose their job, they don't lose their purpose in life.
They get to then go discover their purpose in life because they've been having to pay bills their whole goddamn life working a job that doesn't inspire them.
Most people don't sit in front of a camera.
Does he not know cashiers or something?
Do you not do you not?
Right, exactly.
Do you not know waitresses and waiters and cashiers and bartenders and bricklayers and firemen?
Do you really want a 75-year-old fireman?
Do you really want a 75-year-old truck driver?
These people get to retire and then find another purpose in life.
They get to have a great second act.
Again, he's, this is called living in a bubble.
This is like the right-wing version of Bill Maher.
Like he doesn't, he can't get the only people he talks to are the people who drive him places or cook his food or clean his house.
He doesn't really know it.
He doesn't really know anything.
Do you really think maids at hotels want to keep working when they're 75 years old?
Do you really think so?
Do you really think valets want to keep parking cars?
What the fuck?
He's as dumb as a Hollywood actress.
He would criticize.
That's exactly right.
Olivia Wilde made a movie called Don't Worry, Darling, which is god-awful.
It's like the Matrix for clams.
And the whole thing is these women are in a matrix.
And instead of having their full-time careers, they want to have the thing makes them think they're having a really happy suburban life where they just do whatever they want and have sex a lot.
And that's the nightmare scenario because she doesn't have a nightmare job where that would be great for her.
She is like an actress.
And he's exactly like those people.
Things go to hell in a handbasket real quick.
But put all of that aside, just on a fiscal level and on a logical level.
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt established 65 is the retirement age, the average life expectancy in the United States was 63 years old.
Right.
Today, the average life expectancy in the United States is close to 80.
Okay.
Okay.
He doesn't even know that it's gone backwards.
So it what used to be close to 80.
now, is it 75 now?
It's lowered considerably.
It went the other way.
Our life expectancy is now going backwards.
Oh, also, 67 is the retirement age, you fucking.
And 67 is the retirement age.
But even if it wasn't, even if his numbers are right, yeah, we should wring some more productivity out of the elderly.
And it's just crazy.
I mean, what?
Oh, you have more life?
Well, I guess you could work longer.
We could go.
Hey, you know, I don't.
You send your money to Ukraine.
You know, the people who want to retire from being greeters at Walmart, they won't have a purpose in their life afterwards.
Okay, here we go.
It's totally insane that you believe that you should be able to work from the time that you are essentially 20 to the time that you are 65, which is a 45-year period.
Pay in, and then you will receive Social Security benefits sufficient to support you and your family, you and your wife or whatever, for like another 20 years.
That's crazy talk.
Israel has it.
Israel has it.
Mandatory.
They have mandatory retirement at 60.
They pay for it.
And we give them billions of dollars.
I wonder if you would criticize that about Israel.
That is not fiscally sustainable.
It is almost fiscal.
100% is fiscally sustainable.
The war in Ukraine is not fiscally sustainable.
That's right.
Exactly.
How about spending a trillion dollars on warfare that doesn't do anything for us except make us less safe?
That's what not is not fiscally sustainable.
I guess the genocide they're doing over there is also fiscal.
That's fiscally sustainable.
The notion that if you have to raise the retirement age to 67 or 68, that everyone is going to fall apart.
My parents are that age.
My parents are not retired.
God damn it.
They already did that, raised it to 67.
God damn it.
And they shouldn't retire.
It would be very bad for them.
What do they do?
By the way, it's just.
What are your parents do?
I'm going to guess they're not dishwashers.
They're not washing dishes at a restaurant, are they?
Are they made?
Your dad's not a janitor.
He fixes cars or something.
Right?
Does he drive a snowplow?
What does your dad do?
It's something high up because when he's a little kid, he's playing violin.
We played the video.
Him playing violin as a little kid with that.
What's his name?
Larry?
We're not talking about people who put on a pressed shirt and a starched collar and sit behind a desk or in front of a camera.
We're not talking about that.
We're talking about most people.
So this is what I found.
His mother was a TV company executive.
There you go.
And his father, David, worked as a composer.
Oh, that's why he played Chandler's List so beautifully.
You know, the hard work of being a composer.
Boy.
Breaking a swag.
They'll still out there doing it.
Uniquely American.
67, 68, 69 years old to suggest that they are in the same shape as people who are 65 were in 1940.
It's not true at all.
Have you met a 65-year-old lately?
Have you?
65-year-olds are not old in the United States.
They're not.
And they should be out there shoveling snow, digging ditches, driving trucks, washing dishes and laying bricks.
You want a 65, 70-year-old bricklayer?
Why is this even coming up like money's an object suddenly when it comes to this?
I love that.
Oh, we got to fiscally, we're going to be responsible.
All of a sudden, we got to have all this responsibility when they spend the money on you.
That's right.
That's exactly right, Kurt.
That's like a line right out of my act.
68-year-olds are not old in the United States.
Again, Joe Biden thinks he's not old, and that dude is.
Says the 40-year-old guy sitting there.
I know.
It says the 40-year-old guy sitting in front of a camera.
For president again, and that dude actually is old, and he's 81.
I failed to see how a country in which our entire leadership class is 80-plus is telling you that we should have a retirement age of 65.
It makes no sense at all.
The answer is not get rid of them.
It's you work longer.
So Chudge of TikTok says Ben Shapiro is immediately wrong in this clip, and it invalidates the rest of his arguments.
Ben, the current age of retirement for you to receive Social Security is 67.
It's already the law.
This is literally your job to know this stuff.
It used to be.
It used to be.
Yeah, just keep working at your life forever.
It's actually crazy.
Just keep grandma, get out of that wheelchair and go work at Costco.
Remember that old lady that we covered her?
She's a flight attendant because she has to take care of her adult stepson.
That's right.
76.
Yes.
I mean, if I had to be on my feet in a plane, I can't even sit in a plane and be okay.
I mean, this is amazing.
So, Ben, you know that guy's never done menu.
You ever drive a forklift?
You want 70-year-old guys in warehouses, driving forklifts, stacking pallets?
I did that work.
I think I hate Harvard grads.
I think I hate them.
Hang on.
Ben Shapiro's sociopathic argument for slashing Social Security is what all wealthy donors and bought politicians believe, openly or not.
They will gladly work us to death unless we stop them.
Yeah, Ben, you didn't know AI was going to replace all the people and then we're going to be the useless class.
You're not familiar with that, Ben?
Because he's on board for all that shit.
Did you know your purpose in life is to work?
I didn't know that.
Thank you, Ben.
That's your purpose in life.
If you want to do that, you should be able to do it.
You shouldn't be forced to do it because you'll be in the street at 67.
So here's what Donald Trump has to say.
Donald Trump kind of agrees with him.
Have you changed your outlook on how to handle entitlement, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid?
Mr. Frederick, it seems like something has to be done or else we're going to be stuck at 120% of debt to GDP forever.
So first of all, there is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting, and in terms of also the theft and the bad management of entitlements, tremendous bad management of entitlements.
There's tremendous amounts of things and numbers of things you can do.
So first he says cut.
He doesn't say, but first he says that you can cut it.
And then he says, ah, we'll manage it better.
So at least that's a little bit of a better.
I'm into managing it better.
We'll cut down the waste.
That would be great, but cut out some other ways first.
How about that?
So when people say they want to, that, oh, Social Security is going to Be insolvent.
You hear a lot of people say that, right?
You see a lot.
I hear a lot of libertarians say that.
Well, Social Security is not going to be there for kids.
Okay.
Do you know why?
First of all, it is.
Second of all, if you're a billionaire and you stop paying into, you don't pay 6%.
So most people pay like 6% Social Security tax.
Well, if you make over $160,000, that stops.
You don't actually keep paying in over $160-something thousand dollars.
So a millionaire actually ends up paying about 1% of their income into Social Security, whereas everybody else pays about 6% into Social Security.
Do you see it?
So now if you get rid of that, then Social Security completely solvent without doing anything for the next 75 years.
So if you just have billionaires pay the same exact rate as every and millionaires pay the exact same rate as everyone else, then for the next 75 years, which I bet our planet's not going to be here in 75 years.
So Social Security will be here till the end of the planet.
Put a powdered wig on them and those knee socks and put their heads in a goddamn guillotine and go, hey, do you want to ship in or what do you want to do for the French way?
That's what I advocate.
That's what I have.
So people don't know that.
People don't know that after your income hits $165,000, you don't pay into Social Security anymore.
So if you make a million dollars, you're done paying into Social Security by March.
Every year, you're done.
You don't pay.
Whereas everyone else pays 6% of their income for the whole year.
So the richest people in the world pay in the least.
So if we got rid of that and we made it, they have to pay in just like everyone else, then we wouldn't have, there's no, so that idea that Social Security isn't going to be solvent won't be, it's all a lie.
Okay.
You know, he didn't say that shithole country thing.
I don't believe he did.
Someone claimed that.
But America is the shithole.
We are the shithole country.
We are the shithole country.
Fucking look around if you don't believe me.
So Biden-Harris headquarters, which I hate this Twitter account.
Yeah, great idea with the devil eyes on Biden.
But they said MAGA supporter Ben Shapiro calls for raising the retirement age or ending retirement altogether, echoing Trump's plan to cut Social Security.
Frankly, I think retirement itself, by the way, the cutting Social Security is bipartisan.
Joe Biden is in favor, because I'm going to show you in a second.
And you heard what Trump just said.
He thinks retirement's stupid, by the way.
The fake Biden, that's not obviously him.
So this guy says, this guy who's, I guess he is MAGA, this guy says Ben Shapiro does not speak for Trump or the MAGA movement.
President Trump has made it crystal clear that he will not cut Social Security and Medicare.
All Biden does is lie.
That's not Biden, by the way.
Obviously.
So I just played you what Trump said.
He sounds a little wishy-washy on that.
He said, yeah, you could cut, you could cut Social Security and Medicare.
He said it.
He said it.
And then he said, well, you could manage it.
By the way, I think retirement is a stupid idea.
Why is Biden, the senile guy, supposedly saying that to me?
So you're not a good guy to advertise not retiring.
Your brain doesn't work.
So here's Biden in 2018.
Here's what he said.
Paul Ryan was correct when he did the tax code.
What's the first thing he decided we had to go after?
Social Security and Medicare.
Yeah.
Now, we need to do something about Social Security and Medicare.
That's the only way you can find room to pay for it.
Oh, we can't find the room.
Okay.
Okay.
So here's from Common Dreams.
So just to let you know that Joe Biden is also a piece of it.
He says, so Democrats slammed Social Security board nominee over his history of supporting benefit cuts.
Who did?
Democrats in the U.S. Senate Finance Committee raised alarm Wednesday over the nomination of American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Andrew Biggs to serve on the Social Security Advisory Board, pointing to his long record of supporting.
And who recommended him to it?
President Joe Biden nominated him.
2022.
He nominated him in 2022 and then re-nominated him last year following the end of the 117th Congress.
In all fairness to Mr. Biggs, his views are not extreme outliers.
Elizabeth Warren said his plan is Republicans' plan.
Republican policymakers have spent years trying to undermine Social Security by pushing to reduce benefits, raise the retirement age, and cut payroll taxes that keep the program alive.
And that's the guy that Joe Biden recommended for the Social Security Board.
Keep gibbering about capitalism, how the only alternative is communism.
This is unbelievable.
And by the way, why not?
How about this?
Because it's so tight in the budget.
Why don't you do what you do for all the other things that nobody fucking wanted and sneaky earmarket into a bill and pretend like you didn't, just like you did with the border bill.
That's right.
And then have the media go, well, don't you want to fix the border?
But really, they're saving Social Security secretly in there.
Why don't you do the shit you would do for Ukraine or Israel?
How about that idea?
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So you know why we've been telling you that Boeing got taken over by a Wall Street guy.
Arthur Douglas.
McDonnell Douglas, they merged.
And McDonnell Douglas is more of a cutthroat.
They just care about quarterly profits.
So Boeing went from being a company that cared about making quality airplanes.
My grandpa worked.
Their whole thing was Boeing's ethos was if you make a quality airplane, the money will follow.
And then they merged with McDonnell Douglas and McDonnell Douglas's cut corners and make quarterly profits.
So now they've been having a slew of problems with the quality of those planes.
And every other day we're reporting something going wrong with a Boeing airplane.
An engine catching on fire, a door flying off, a wheel popping off.
Recently, a plane just fell out of the sky.
People have already died from their, remember their Super Max 737s?
So that's because they didn't want to do it correctly.
They wanted to cut corners.
So now that thing you just said?
Yeah.
You know, make a good plane and the money.
And the money will come.
And then the new place was like, cut corners because we got to make our quarter.
Right.
The second one is what capitalism is.
All these people think the first one is what kind of right.
And that's what I thought.
That's not what it is.
Right.
What it is is getting to the money and fuck you.
That's right.
All that matters is the money.
And all these people haven't got through their head yet.
Like, I'm not a communist.
I don't like communism.
Right.
But capitalism is getting to the money and fuck the product.
So that's why you have to have strong regulation.
So here, this guy who's a whistleblower on Boeing, and he's been blowing the whistle, telling people how they're cutting corners and wrecking.
So you won't be safe when you fly.
62-year-old Boeing whistleblower John Barnett was found dead in his truck after he didn't show up for a legal interview linked to the case against Boeing.
Barnett worked for Boeing for 32 years and retired in 2017.
After retiring, he spoke out about how Boeing was cutting corners on their airplanes.
Just days before his death, Barnett gave evidence in a lawsuit against Boeing.
Barnett accused Boeing of deliberately fitting substandard parts on their aircraft.
He also accused Boeing of having faulty oxygen systems, saying one in four breathing masks would not work in an emergency situation.
Barnett said a new plane builds were rushed.
The new plane builds were rushed.
When he brought his concerns forward, they were allegedly ignored by the company.
When he died, Barnett was in Charleston for interviews linked to the case against Boeing.
He was supposed to come back for more questioning on Saturday, but didn't show up.
Inquiries were made at his hotel where Barnett was found dead in his car in the parking lot.
I guess he shot himself in the head twice.
Police are investigating Barnett's death, but say he died from a self-inflicted wound.
I don't think he did.
He was so depressed he didn't want to keep talking about Boeing.
He didn't want to keep, is that it?
He wanted to die without really fucking them.
Right.
Fuck you.
The video below was a recent interview Barnett had with TMZ.
Here's his interview.
One, this is not a 737 problem.
It's a Boeing problem.
And I know the FAA's gone in and they've done due diligence and inspections to assure that the door plugs of the 737 are installed properly and the fasteners are torque properly.
But my concern is what's the rest of the airplane?
What's the rest of the condition of the airplane?
And the reason my concern for that is back in 2012, Boeing started removing inspection operations off their jobs.
So it left the mechanics to buy off their own work.
So what we're seeing with the door plug blowout is what I've seen with the rest of the airplane as far as jobs not being completed properly, inspection of steps being removed, issues being ignored.
My concerns are with the 737 and 787 because those programs have really embraced the theory that quality is overhead and non-value added.
So those two programs have really put a strong effort into removing quality from the process.
When I first started working at Charleston, I was in charge with pushing back defects to our suppliers.
And what that meant was I'd take a group of inspectors and actually go to the supplier and inspect their product before they sent it in.
Well, I'd taken a team of four inspectors to Spirit Aerosystems to inspect the 41 section before they sent it to Charleston.
And we found 300 defects.
Some of them were significant that needed engineering intervention.
When I returned to Charleston, my senior manager told me that we had found too many defects and he was going to take the next trip.
So the next trip, he went on, he took two of my inspectors.
And when they got back, they were given accolades for only finding 50 defects.
So I pulled that inspector aside and I said, did Spirit really clean up their act that quick?
That don't sound right.
And she was mad.
She said, no.
Said the two inspectors were given two hours to inspect the whole 41 section and they were kicked off the airplane.
So this is, and so the FAA is supposed to be there doing their job, and it doesn't seem like they are.
The whistleblower death compounds bad news for Boeing.
The death of has renewed attention on the aerospace giants' long history of facing allegations from inside the company and from regulators of the kinds of quality control issues that came to light after a piece of an Alaskan airline jet fell off mid-flight in January.
Almost a decade ago, the company entered into a wide-ranging settlement with the FAA in part over potentially dangerous debris left on Boeing jets, such as metal shavings and tools.
Fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019 triggered other whistleblowers to come forward to Congress to allege that relentless production schedules were causing safety and quality risks at Boeing plants.
And the January 5th Alaska Airlines incident, which investigators said was caused by faulty installation of a door plug, has prompted a Justice Department investigation as well as fresh concerns from the FAA, which gave the company 90 days to fix numerous quality control issues discovered during an audit.
Boeing weathered a deep signal.
I saw Dave Rubin on Joe Rogan say, you don't need regulators.
Everybody has a cell phone now.
They can take a picture of everything.
Oh, yeah.
The market will fix it.
The crash and die.
The market will fix it.
We'll do it with Foreign Two.
You don't need regulation.
You just, people will learn when they get poisoned what their bad drug is.
But the drumbeat of bad news.
So Boeing weathered a deep crisis after the crashes, which killed 346 people.
But the drumbeat of bad news since then, which spiked with the...
No.
But the drumbeat of bad news since then, which spiked with the January blowout, has significantly undermined the reputation of the aviation giant, one of only two major manufacturers of airliners in the world.
So it's Boeing and Airbus.
So if you can fly in an Airbus plane, you should fly in an Airbus plane.
I'm going to go.
Now, I've made flights.
I have to fly.
I fly American.
That's mine.
So I'm going to see if they have any Airbus going to Europe because I already booked it and it's a goddamn Boeing plane and I have to see if I can switch it.
The fallout from the Alaska Airlines incident is now stretching into a third month with little prospect that the scrutiny from regulators, safety investigators, and now federal prosecutors will let up soon.
So now their stock price is supposed to go down.
Is it not?
It's supposed to.
I think it's gone down.
Can you check, see if Boeing's stock price has gone down?
Boeing said in an early Tuesday statement that it was taking action based on the FAA's audit findings and putting together a comprehensive action plan to strengthen safety and quality and build the confidence of our customers and their passengers.
We are squarely focused on taking significant demonstrated action with transparency at every turn, the company said.
Yeah, I bet.
Investpedia said Boeing's stock tumble is just the latest example.
And that was started in January 9th.
And then as recent as February 13th, Boeing stocked down, Boeing stocked down, and that's Investors Business Daily that's saying that.
Back to Jimmy.
The underlying cause of problems on Boeing's production lines are not clear.
I think it's clear.
But analysts and some former employees point to pressure to meet delivery schedules and more recently, workforce turnover during the coronavirus pandemic.
Over the years, former company employees have come forward with concerns about what they viewed as sloppy work at Boeing plants.
The Senate Commerce Committee documented many of those issues in a December 2021 report after the Super Max crash.
Remember the MAX, the 737 MAX crashes?
That was based on the accounts of seven whistleblowers, seven whistleblowers.
The whistleblowers included Ed Pearson, a former manager at the 737 factory, who alleged an unusual number of quality control problems at a plant under relentless schedule pressure.
In the wake of Alaska incident, even minor incidents involving Boeing planes have drawn outsized attention.
What are the minor...
What, a wobbly wheel on a drink cart?
Or maybe malfunctioning restroom paper towel dispenser?
Or how about a wing falling off mid-flight?
Is that would be a minor incident?
What do you mean minor?
So too did the death of John Barnett, the former employee who was discovered March 9th with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
You goddamn no, that's not what happened.
Now, Jimmy, maybe it's good that he died because I don't know if you know, but Boeing is in charge of rushing smart bombs to Israel and the IDF and rushing weapons to Israel.
Oh, really?
In fact, they've been having a lot of protests.
Somebody just got arrested for blocking the entrance to Boeing.
Oh, if this guy, you know, if he's safe, now I'm just speculating here, but if these safety concerns are made a big deal of now, it's not a good time.
Israel's in a fight for its life.
And I would say Israel, especially the Mossad or CIA, anyone, is well within their rights to do whatever they got to to make sure Israel's okay because we got to get those weapons through Boeing to Israel.
How much you want to bet that's connected?
I bet you.
So this, I bet you.
Yeah, I bet you.
How much do you want to bet?
I bet you.
Because somebody got shot in the head for revealing that Boeing sucks.
Why would that even happen?
Oh, because they're really important.
Who else gets shot in the head, mysteriously dies?
Epstein?
That's right.
So get this.
At some point after transferring from Washington to Boeing 787 plant in South Carolina in 2010, Barnett, the guy who they say just shot himself in the head, Barnett, 62, he filed a complaint with the FAA about metal shavings being left inside 787 jets during manufacturing, where they could sever electrical wiring.
In 2017, the agency issued a directive requiring that those shavings be cleared out before the jets could be delivered to customers.
The FAA said Tuesday that the agency could not provide additional details without a Freedom of Information Act request.
So that's your FAA not working for you.
Robert M. Turkowitz, one of Barnett's lawyers, said the former Boeing quality manager who joined the company in 1985 was as decent a person as you can imagine.
He had high integrity.
He was honest, and he was as dedicated to making air travel safe.
Barnett retired from Boeing that year, a decade earlier than he had planned, fearing that if he didn't leave, he'd be fired.
After leaving the company, Barnett also spoke out in public, sharing his concerns with the New York Times and taking part in a Netflix documentary on the MAX crashes.
In the film, Barnett, wearing a light blue shirt, described how for years he felt proud to work at Boeing, saying the company was like family and looked out for its employees.
The company was responsive when employees identified problems, Barnett said, but the culture began to shift.
So every time I'd raise my hand and say, hey, we got a problem here, they would attack the messenger.
In that complaint, Barnett alleged that the company punished him for raising concerns about production issues.
Boeing denied that it retaliated against Barnett.
Yeah, and I'm sure they didn't kill him.
2022 order, however, denied the company.
And that sought to dismiss his claim.
So Boeing filed a thing to dismiss his claim, but in 2022, they denied the company's motion.
When he failed to show up on Saturday at 10 a.m. for the final day of depositions in the case and didn't answer his cell phone, Turkowitz said the hotel employees checked his room and then the hotel parking, finding his distinctive orange pickup truck was still parked there.
We are shocked and devastated by what happened.
As a lawyer, nothing prepares you for something like this.
Keeping planes free of left-behind tools and parts has been an ongoing issue for the company and was part of the reason for a 2015 settlement between Boeing and the FAA.
It involved the company paying $12 million in penalty and agreeing to make significant changes to its internal safety system and practices.
How much you want to bet they didn't make any even slight changes?
The problem was not eliminated because in 2019, the Air Force paused deliveries of Boeing Main tankers over concerns about debris in the planes.
In 2020, with MAX fleet still grounded after the crashes, Boeing disclosed that debris had been in the fuel tanks of undelivered jets.
Two safety issues disclosed in recent days could point to other problems at the company, although both are in the early phases of being investigated.
Last week, the National Transportation Safety Board issued a preliminary report into an incident in which the United Airlines 737 MAX experienced a stuck rudder pedal.
Boeing said that the problem was addressed by replacing three parts and that the plane was put back into service.
The company said it was not aware of the issue occurring in any other MAX and had seen only two other instances of an older generation of 737s that shares the same pedal system.
And on Monday, 50 people were injured when a 787 operated by Chilean Airlines LATAM went into a sudden drop.
The company attributed the incident to a technical event, but the cause remains invested.
Oh, good.
So thanks for that explanation.
We're all just glad it wasn't anything serious.
It was just a technical event.
What technical event?
That's great.
RFK Jr. says John Barnett worked for Boeing for 32 years.
The company worked to destroy his life after he exposed safety concerns.
I'm proud that my sister Rory worked to tell his story in an award-winning documentary called Downfall: The Case Against Boeing.
Boeing killed 346 people out of greed.
Let's hope there is a genuine investigation of John Barnett's suicide.
He puts that in quotes.
I like this.
Mark Ames tweets out this picture.
He says, Boeing said it was saddened to hear of Mr. Barnett's passing.
Yeah.
Well, remember.
Very saddened.
Remember, Arby Weinstein hired that black cube ex-Mossade thing to go follow Rose McGowan around for his charges because he was connected because he was rich.
That's right.
Well, Boeing, a valuable arms dealer to Israel.
Yeah, I bet Israel doesn't have to want the guy dead.
I'll bet if you work at Boeing, you got those connections with, you know, these, the most moral army in the world.
I'm sure you could have a real Michael Clayton scene done if you wanted.
Yes.
Yeah.
I'll bet it's just like Michael Clayton.
I'll bet it is.
So the problem with capitalism is that even when you have regulatory bodies that are supposed to regulate them, the capitalists just buy the politicians that run those regulatory agencies.
So now, so people don't realize how corrupt America is.
They don't realize that nothing gets done in Congress, almost nothing gets done in Congress without the grease of corruption.
And that's why you still go bankrupt when you get sick.
90% of Americans have health care debt.
50% of Americans can't afford a $400 emergency.
Nobody can afford it.
That's why there's homeless people everywhere.
And we're sending hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine and military bases all over the world.
This is called, people have no idea.
People think that corruption in America is just like, oh, Joe Biden got his kid a job or they all do that.
They all do that.
That's what people say.
We're talking about, we're talking about nothing gets done in Congress without corruption.
Nothing.
That's what I'm talking about.
Completely corrupt.
The whole Ukraine war thing is a money laundering operation, just like the Afghanistan war, just like Iraq, Libya, Syria.
This is all read the book, HIP Confessions of an Economic Hitman.
That's the world we're living in, right?
So your whole country's corrupt.
Your government's 100% corrupt, and that's why nothing can get fixed.
That's why we have homeless people.
We have mentally ill people.
They could take that $113 billion they sent to Ukraine and build mental health facilities and drug treatment programs, and that would clean up the streets.
They won't do it.
And by the way, that would be creating great jobs for people in America, right?
You got to have people to have therapists.
You got to have nurses.
You got to have janitors that work there.
You got to have people to build the buildings.
You got to have electricians and carpenters.
That'd be a great jobs program and would be investing in America and we'd be cleaning up the streets.
But there isn't an infrastructure of corruption to do that.
The corruption is the military-industrial complex and fossil fuel companies that own our government.
And that's why it's 100% corrupt.
And that's why he blew up the Nord Stream pipeline.
That's why we have 1,000 military bases around.
You think there's 1,000 military bases around the world to keep you safe?
It's there so we can exploit other people's countries and steal their natural resources.
Well, I'm an oil baron, so that's safety to me.
So, anyways.
Also, nobody, dude, the Jeffrey Wygan, the cigarette whistleblower, they just try to ruin it, or when Ralph Nader, the seatbelt thing, where they just tried to ruin his life with a hooker and had to apologize.
You don't get suicide unless you stumbled onto some intelligence community shit.
So there's no way they would kill the guy because I don't believe straight up.
I don't think that's a suicide.
Where's his note?
In his car, he's so depressed that he's about to go blow the lid off this thing.
He kills himself.
So that means, but just by virtue of worrying about your safety, that is stepping on somebody's toes for a much more important thing than your life, which is whatever empire bullshit Boeing's in on around the world.
I promise you that's what it is.
I would make a bet on it.
If I bet, I better stop talking like this.
Okay, yeah.
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So, Chris Cuomo, right now.
Cuomo.
Chris Cuomo was on the PBD podcast with Candace Owen, and he is going to make Candace Owen look like a genius statesman, Winston Churchill, FDR, and Abraham Lincoln all wrapped up into one.
Let's watch.
You also have to recognize that Tucker just went over and interviewed Vladimir Putin.
And this is significant because then you saw what it looks like when somebody not only has the mental faculty.
I mean, irrespective of what you thought about the interview, you cannot, you are forced to acknowledge that he's an incredibly smart person.
I mean, he started in the eighth century.
I think that it is not good that you're using Vladimir Putin as some type of positive attribute metaphor for a leader.
Okay, one sentence in, and he's a genius already.
New York elected the wrong Cuomo.
Am I right?
Cuomo.
Chris Cuomo is basically an opinionated doorman from the west side of New York.
They're smarter than that.
He's just supposed to say hello and goodbye to the ones coming and going, and then secretly talk sexist and racist shit to the elevator operator all day long.
Okay, here we go.
That's not what I did at all.
Just for saying that you're saying, well, he's smart.
He is smart.
So why would you not acknowledge someone smart?
What does that do?
Does that make me a Putin supporter?
You're clearly smart.
If you can sit down and unpack Russian history from the eighth century, what do you mean?
The point is to say that the entire world can now see this contrast of a man who can't remember what happened two hours ago, who still thinks that his son is alive, sadly, and often brings up his son as if he's still alive.
What is not true?
See, look.
What is not true, Chris?
Actually, say what is not true.
You're really going to say that Joe Biden believes that his son Bo is alive.
He has done that on camera.
He has said that.
He has misspoken as an old man that is talking about something.
So him tried to defend.
That makes it a lot better.
So to defend Joe Biden's mental acuity, you say he's just an old man, which means his brain isn't working well.
That's another way of saying his brain doesn't work because it's old.
He just undermined his own goddamn point.
Chris Cuomo's head is, he's in over his head because his head is up his ass.
That's why.
It's all New York.
I want to hear a real quote from a guy, Copy New York, when I didn't know Spotify.
Yes.
He goes, well, Biden sounds good sometimes in some of the clips.
That was his.
Are you shitting me?
Occasionally, you think he sounds good sometimes.
So that's your measure of good.
So the bullshit narrative that shit libs like Chris Cuomo have been yoked with is falling apart in front of their eyes, and they're angry at anybody who notices.
That's what this is.
Let's listen to the rest of this, and I'll try not to stop it.
Listen to you.
No, because there's no reason to do it.
There's no reason to do this.
You're doing so great.
I'm not going to let you do this to yourself.
No, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously.
There's no reason to do it.
There's no reason to do it.
Obviously, Vladimir Putin is intelligent.
There's no reason, doesn't make you anything to acknowledge the fact that any person that can, for an hour straight, unpack the history of their country starting from the eighth century, has their mental faculties about them.
That that is the only thing I have made, and I said that that contrast is now playing out in the American people's mind of, wow, okay, I don't care what I think about Vladimir Putin or Russia, right?
But the fact that they have a leader who can speak in this manner, right?
Who is able to remember these things and to communicate in this manner makes us aware of how much we are not getting out of our own leaders.
That is a very valid point.
Okay, I get it.
I hear you.
And I completely disagree.
Okay.
Because again, picking a metric of what's the guy's IQ is not enough for me.
First of all, he did not give you.
I'll tell you why.
I'll tell you why.
Because it's what do you do with your intelligence?
You think he gave you an accurate recitation of Russian history starting in the eighth century because Candace just said so.
She's wrong and you're wrong.
Okay.
He did not give you an accurate recitation.
He gave you a KGB.
He actually majored in Russian history.
And I can tell you he was completely wrong.
What are you talking about?
Would you know, would Chris Cuomo know if that was an accurate representation of Russian history?
She didn't say that either.
She said he sounds smarter than the moron we have.
Yeah.
Let's say he was able to recite the KGB history from 800 AD.
That still shows he has mental acuity that Joe Biden has not had.
Which is the only point she made.
So Chris Cuomo is conditioned to not hear this point.
Yeah.
He's acting like Candace touched him in his no-no place.
I'll tell you what a good smart leader does.
A good smart leader sends 80-year-olds infected with a novel SARS variant to nursing homes throughout his history.
Yeah.
They can mingle with people who haven't caught it yet.
So Chris is basically believing that, again, the propaganda he's been yoked with, but by CNN, right?
I mean, that's basically it.
He's standing up for the CNN narrative.
And Chris, do you remember how CNN treated you?
Do you think they treated you fairly?
Remember, you were going to launch a lawsuit after you got fired from CNN?
And you're a guy that they like.
Now, do you think their reporting is fair on a guy that they hate?
That's what he's telling us to believe.
Do you think they're reporting on Putin and Trump is fair?
Look what they did to you and they liked you.
You don't have to like either of them, but you don't have to act like you're a five-year-old.
I would say Chris Cuomo is acting like an adult child of an alcoholic, but that would involve him being an adult.
So let's listen to the rest of this.
Hang on.
Doctored look at why it's okay that he wants to reestablish the Soviet Union.
That's what he gave.
Oh, stop it.
Listen, I'm not here to play Russia good, Russia bad.
Okay.
That's exactly.
But that's a guy you want to boot.
The Soviet Union, he said.
He wants to reestablish the Soviet Union.
That is the last thing that he needs to do.
By the way, Russia's doing much better economically than before the war.
We're the Soviet Union.
Yes, that's right.
Jesus Christ.
And the biggest opposition to Putin, insofar as there is opposition within Russia, is the Communist Party.
That's exactly right.
We're the ones with a thousand military bases around the world, not Russia.
We're the imperialists, not Russia.
We invaded Afghanistan, too.
And occupied it for 20 years.
We're occupying a country right next to Ukraine called Syria.
A third of that country, the part of the country that has the oil.
We're the ones who did Iraq.
We're the ones who did Libya.
We're the ones who did Somalia and Yemen.
We're the ones who are the world's terrorists.
It isn't Putin.
This is, I mean, again, this is like having a dinner with every comedian I know in Los Angeles.
That's what this is like.
It's very sad.
This guy used to be.
This guy is supposed to be a newsman.
He's a newsman.
People get their news from this guy.
Well, in the end, he's Democratic Party royalty.
His family is.
And after he had his falling out with CNN, he made some noises about he's going to go after the truth.
He's going to go independent.
It's an election year.
And if you don't tow the party line, these people have a long memory, and none of them really want to be kicked out of the club.
None of them want to be out of the club.
It's all bullshit.
Let's listen to him embarrass himself a little bit more.
Smaller GDP than California.
So what?
So what?
They're also invading a country where they believe that Americans are economically.
He just said that they're invading, that Russia is invading Ukraine just for avarice.
Just for avarice.
Just for avarice.
Just for kicks.
The ignorance.
Wow.
So unintelligible that they are going to believe the threat that we are facing today is Russia trying to reestablish.
This is like Cold War propaganda.
We got to move on from that.
Okay.
But it's just as real now.
This is in the 1960s.
It is real then.
This wasn't real then, you idiot.
Oh, my God.
So he's saying the Cold War propaganda was real, just like it is now.
It's just, this guy will cling to the propaganda that he's been yoked with like a drowning person clings to a life preserver.
He's not going to let go because if he does, he'll drown and he'll be dead.
He's like Mayo in an officer and gentleman.
I got no placehouse to go.
I got no placehouse to go.
What am I going to do?
Start telling the truth?
I'll end up like Tucker Carlson.
With ratings.
In America, these people are allowed to be here right now doing things they could never do in Russia.
Never.
Nobody can speak out against Putin.
He is at over 75% in popularity polls because people know what happens if you answer differently.
They make no money.
They have no press freedoms.
Again, he's just making things up.
I can't even say women don't have dicks here, Chris.
Unbelievable.
And by the way, they have dicks.
I want to make that clear so I can have money and a job.
I don't know.
Tucker went to that supermarket and didn't look like people didn't have any money.
Didn't look like people didn't have impoverished drinks.
It looked like the shelves were empty.
None of that.
Jackson Hills.
That is a common thing.
When these foreign leaders who we don't like have these high favorability ratings, we always say, well, that's because the people aren't allowed to say they don't like them.
I mean, what if their standard of living is suitable?
Let's say they hate them.
He doesn't know that possibility.
Their economy is doing great.
Yeah.
I mean, they seem to be, you know, to go to the grocery store.
Like, like Tucker said, you can go to the grocery store.
You can get a few boxes of cereal for Western $100 or whatever the equivalent is.
Jackson Hinkle's in Russia right now, and he says it's some of the best food he's ever had, the cleanest cities he's ever seen.
Sarah Reed lives there.
She posts all the time.
It looks great.
Yeah.
Let's try to get through this because we got to do a locals today.
Try to exercise themselves even on the internet.
America today.
Sixers are locked out of the world.
That is something to be concerned about.
You are saying something to be concerned about.
That is confusing.
They wanted to arrest Tucker Carlson for going over to speak to a leader of a country that we are allegedly not at war with.
We just said that it's very obvious that Putin can complete a sentence and that Biden can't.
And I'm not scared to likely murder his opponents.
I mean, they have nothing but propaganda.
He's nothing but propaganda.
People couldn't do it.
Right now, they're locking up their political opponents.
They're killing the greatest, most decorated journalists of my lifetime, Julian Assange.
Not only Donald Trump and January 6th and the MAGA movement are they making illegal and criminalized.
They're doing it to the black socialists.
They're doing it to the Stop Cop City people.
The same grand jury and the same Rico statute they use to prosecute Trump.
They're using against Stop Cop City protesters.
This idea that again.
It's concerning.
It's concerning.
The Biden administration is currently appealing the Missouri ruling that the federal government cannot interfere with tech platforms regulation of their users.
So they won't let that judgment stand.
They want the right to be able to approach tech companies to complain about what's on their platforms, which the judge himself said, well, to claim that just contacting them isn't interference, that's like the mafia boss saying when you call up, you're not really making a threat.
You just say, hey, you know, maybe it would be a good idea if this guy's not on your platform anymore.
They're appealing that.
So what are you talking about?
What press freedom are you talking about?
Taitmi did a great article after the State of the Union about he said, you know, with the press going nuts about what a great speech it is.
What would the difference be in North Korea or at any state?
Yeah, what would the difference be?
What is the difference here?
When you release some new material, Biden did the same goddamn material from the last one.
They'd have some new jokes.
All right, let's fizzle.
There's only about a minute left of this.
Let's let's play it out.
By the fact, I acknowledged that we're using 19-year-old woke language now that I'm triggered.
Okay, I'm not triggered.
I got my legs crossed.
It means I'm comfortable.
Okay, well, you just seemed a little triggered.
You like setting up Putin as a model.
I didn't.
Nobody here.
Everyone is listening to what I said.
And I'm going to not just double down.
I'm going to triple down, quadruple down on the fact that it's very obvious to the American people that our leaders are extremely lackluster.
And that has been made even more.
I'm sorry, after having watched Tucker Carlson sit across from Vladimir Putin, which was heroic on his part, because we are tired of being propagandized.
We are tired of people pretending if you live in Russia, there's going to be so much propaganda.
There's so much propaganda here.
I agree.
Okay, we are suffering for the exact same thing that you accuse Vladimir Putin of doing up people's opponents, right?
I agree.
I don't agree with Lockheed.
FBI agents showing up on American people's doorsteps because they attended a rally on January 6th.
Three of my friends had FBI agents.
They didn't even step foot in the Capitol, okay?
Had FBI agents show up because they wanted any person that even showed up to hear Trump speak on January 6th to feel threatened by that because the establishment said that you weren't allowed to support Donald Trump.
So that's the world we're living in.
And jackasses like Chris Cuomo are conditioned to not believe any of it.
And he argues, he argues like a high schooler.
I felt bad for him.
You should feel bad for him.
I did.
Because that whole crowd knew he was an asswipe.
And everybody who watches his video knows an ass wipe.
And he's making Candace Owens seem like a sage, genius, genius, statesman.
And she is compared to him.
No doubt.
Well, she is.
I'm watching that.
And okay, so take those words and imagine putting them in the mouth of a radical of yesteryear and they wouldn't be out of place.
You could put those words in the mouth of Abby Hoffman, circa 1968.
Well, why aren't we talking to Russia?
We're tired of being propagandized.
This is why left and right don't mean anything anymore.
That's right.
It doesn't mean anything.
Candace Owens, that line of thought, re-Russia, that is like the radical take on the old Soviet Union.
Why aren't we talking to them?
Why do we have this hostility?
Why don't we send journalists there?
And the people who are supposed to represent the left, laughably, like Chris Cuomo are the, they sound like the old McCarthyites.
Yeah, he's just absolutely awful.
Absolutely awful.
Although, I mean, I do have to confess, I don't hate him as much as I should.
You guys did a segment on this.
Ever since I saw the Adam Friedland interview with him with the Dua Lipa, she would shit in my mouth.
Like, that is internet Hall of Fame material.
That was high art because they actually made Chris Cuomo come off likable.
Like, you actually liked him during that interview.
So I just can't bring myself to hate him.
Nick Mullen Told me.
He was likable in that interview.
That was like Andy Kaufman level art, where you take an odious guy like that and you actually make him look relatable and funny and likable.
That was genius.
That interview is Internet Hall of Fame level genius because, yeah, as you can see, outside that context, he's insufferable.
His skull is a veal cage for his brain.
All right.
Unfortunately, that's where we're going to have to end it today.
I appreciate everybody who's watched.
I want to say thank you to Russell and to Keaton for taking time out of their busy days to be with us.
Everybody, check them out at Do Dissidence.
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Thank you very much for having us.
And before we leave, I want to say, because the reason I came on, I want to hear you say, I have better hair than Ryan Grimm.
Oh, you do.
You have much better hair than Ryan Grimm.
And Kyle Karinsky.
All right.
I got what I needed.
All right, fellas.
You know, we'll be out.
I'm going to be out in New York, I think, early June.
I hope you hope you'll be around.
Oh, yeah, we'll be.
We're going to come out and do a thing for Jose Vega.
And come see me.
Yeah, we'll be there.
Come see me at Magoobies.
Oh.
At the end of the month.
At the end of this month.
March 29th through 31st, I think.
We'll be at McGooby's, which is a great club in Baltimore.
It's a great club.
All right.
All right, fellas.
Thank you very much.
We'll see you again soon.
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