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talk about. That's why we try and intersperse

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in the fun topics with the politics, right? We

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do entertainment and politics because it's all

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very entertaining. That's true. That's a good

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point. So. The I don't know the acronym of the

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year so far is the. Oh, yeah. Trump is on a.

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Full assault on DEI, AKA diversity, equity, and

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inclusion, if you don't know, which I'm pretty

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sure everyone fucking knows that by now. They

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should. You really should. At this point, like

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I think even secretly, or a DEI drop, I think.

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No, I'm just kidding. So Trump, obviously, signed

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an executive order, obviously, because that's

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what he loves to do to ban DEI initiatives and

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executive branch, um, and also for, um, contractors.

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So, um, Trump has also blamed the DC plane crash

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on DEI, which made literally no fucking sense,

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no fucking sense at all, because he, he stated

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we are in the early stages of, um, you know,

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the flight investigation when it first happened

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and He said, however. Pretty much this is because

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of the. Which is. Fucking doesn't make sense

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at all. No. And then the funniest part of all

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of this is that his daughter -in -law, Laura

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Trump, gave an anti LIDI speech where she stated

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jobs should be given quote on merit and merit

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alone, which is just fucking rich. And she has

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a communications degree. And then with her connections

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with the Trump family is currently co -chair

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of the RNC. Yep. She took over there and see

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during the election. So how the fuck did she

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get that on merit and merit alone? So, by the

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way. Oh, oh, I know how I know what merit she

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used. Right. She went down on Eric. I mean. I

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already is that a merit? I mean, it's I'm sure

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it's hard work. Have you seen that goofy looking

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motherfucker? Is it that hard work, though? It's

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like probably 10 seconds. Oh, no. I know. So

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so the thing that I did, I posted a tick tock

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earlier this week. And this is the point that

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I made about the whole discussion about DEI and

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what they brought up. And this is where I'm gonna

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bring it around. Because I think what we need

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to do, and this is where I think the Democrats

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have failed, right? Is it's a messaging issue.

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And the reason I bring that up is I brought this

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up earlier this week. to my fellow veterans.

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As I said, hey, my fellow veterans, when he's

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talking about DEI, they're talking about you,

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okay? Veteran status is a protected class in

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this country, right? Under the Civil Rights Act,

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veteran status is a protected class, okay? Why?

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Because people discriminated for a long time

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especially after Vietnam against veterans because

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they thought you were all crazy psycho broken

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people Right. That's why there's things like

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veterans preferential hiring Right when you apply

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for a federal agency you get preferential hiring

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treatment if you are a veteran you get more if

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you are a disabled veteran right, so when they're

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talking about DEI when he's talking about Hey,

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the FAA was trying to push for more disabled

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people, right? The people they're talking about,

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my fellow veterans, is you, you Trump voting

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fucking idiots, okay? They are talking about

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you, okay? You are part of this DEI initiative,

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right? Disapply, and again, I think what they

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haven't done with DEI is shown how it affects

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Because somebody in the chat brought this up,

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right? They said they're using DEI as a dog whistle.

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Right. And they absolutely are using it as a

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dog whistle. The reason they're able to is that

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we have not done a good job communicating the

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benefits of DEI and why DEI is important and

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who all it affects. Right. OK, it doesn't just

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affect people of color. and women and it's it's

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people who are disabled. Right. It's people who

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are very sexual orientations or gender identity.

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This affects a lot of things. OK, so when they're

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talking about DEI, I think more people should

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realize that it also applies to them. Right.

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And so when the when the Trump administration

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is being like Dei bad and you're cheering. You

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might be cheering for your own demise here. You

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know, that's my soapbox, though. I mean, do you

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disagree with anything I said there? No. And

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this is the thing that like really like kills

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me is because I feel like I feel like it's a

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really like an attack on this like quote unquote

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like woke culture like you're creating a villain

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to go after to try to like defeat. Right. Because

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I sit I sit on a DEI council at work. I am it's

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a private company. We can do whatever the fuck

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we want. So fuck Trump, but. It actually came

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up in our management all hands today, we had

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an all hands of management with our CEO as well

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today, and it came up specifically with with

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the administration doing executive orders and

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we have federal contracts, right? How does this

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affect our DI initiatives? And to put not to

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find a point on it, they were basically like,

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it doesn't. First off, our company is based out

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of Spain. Right. So and the CEO of our company

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is a woman. Right. And it's a, you know, it's

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a family, you know, it was a family that started.

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She's one of the people that started the company

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back in the 70s. You know, we're going to continue

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to do what we've been doing. You know, but yeah,

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it came up. Nice. But your company, the company

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you work for, we're going to go into details

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here. Yours is standing on their DEI principles.

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Yeah. You're on that council on that council,

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executive leadership kind of came out with a

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statement saying nothing is going to change.

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You know, this is this is our core value. We're

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going to stick it out, but. I think a lot of

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times though what people don't understand kind

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of going back to your point is like, what does

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this actually mean? So like for the company that

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I work for, what does DEI mean? Like what do

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we do? One of the things that we put in place

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is like a program, right? That will, when you

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upload your resume, it automatically takes out

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information such as your name, dates, of like

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when you went to school. So we can't figure out

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how old you are. If you were in like a sorority,

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right? Like you take that out. So we can't tell

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that you're a female. And then the hiring manager

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gets this resume and it is the whole thing is

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so that you look at their merit and their merit

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alone. You're like, do I want to interview this

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person? Do I want to call them into the office

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and interview this person? instead of having

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some sort of like unconscious bias. It's it's

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it's unconscious. And this is the other thing.

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I don't think we've done a good job communicating.

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And somebody in the chat brought up John Stewart.

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And I'll tell you, ironically enough, it was

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in his book, The Daily Show, like when he wrote

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the book about the story of The Daily Show and

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how The Daily Show went. And it's all the behind

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the scenes stuff. It's not. that it's it's this

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was how the Daily Show developed over 20 years

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while he was hosting. He does a chapter, part

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of a chapter where he said they started noticing

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that even if they asked the the headshots and

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resumes they were getting for correspondence

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was white dudes, white dudes, because that's

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a lot of the comedy world is white dudes. And

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he said. One of the things that they had to do

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was a they realize that these people weren't

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biased intentionally. Right. It's unconscious.

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It's it's a subconscious thing that they do.

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And he talks about the process they went through,

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very similar to what you're describing, where

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it was send me. Not name, don't. You know, and

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making that conscious choice to do extra right.

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to beat out those subconscious biases, to beat

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out those unconscious biases. And I think a lot

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of people get offended. And again, we haven't

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done a good job of communicating. Having an unconscious

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bias does not make you a bad person. Right. Everyone

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has them. Yeah, it's when you're letting those

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unconscious biases make decisions for you. And

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not interrogating those biases, that's when you're

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screwing up. Right my camera decided to wig out

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there. Anyway, now it's back. Okay, good Let

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me get all blurry for a minute. I said you're

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doing it again. Don't do a camera Yeah, I It's

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it is like really it's really interesting I don't

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think like At least at my company, but I kind

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of get a sense. This is the majority of companies

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out there. No one is getting a stack of resumes

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and then going, man, this person went to Harvard.

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They have a really amazing work history, but

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I'm not going to hire this person because I'm

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going to hire this. I don't know. Communication

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degree major that is not relevant, but I'm going

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to hire them because they're. a woman or LGBT

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or whatever, like anything. No, no one's doing

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that. It's you created a fake enemy to go after.

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It's. It's so stupid to me, like every time when

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it comes up in the news, I just like cringe because

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I'm like, that's not. That's not what DEI is

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like. You guys are so stupid. Well, see, this

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is again where it comes back to what we were

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talking about in one of the earlier segments.

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I feel like it's all smoke and mirrors. Right.

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I feel like it's a dog whistle and it's red meat

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to the far end of the base to make them feel

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better. Right. And distract them from the damage

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that they're doing. Yeah. Right. And that to

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me is is is what it is. You know, because you're

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right, he has no control over private companies.

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No. Right. And there's a lot of companies who

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are like, screw you, we don't care. You know,

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and I just again, I don't think we've done a

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good job communicating it. I put it in the same

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bucket that I do when people talk about critical

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race theory. Right. When people like critical

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race theory about I'm like, do you understand

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what critical race theory is? Right. Like. It

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becomes a boogeyman that sounds really bad and

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again is actually pretty difficult to explain

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in a really cohesive strong way and so it's really

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easy for shitty people to latch onto things like

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CRT and DEI and Turn them into these dog whistle

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boogeyman and be like this is your problem, right?

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It's it's them but their DEI and their CRT that's

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why you're miserable That's why you're not successful.

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That's why you can't get ahead. And again, I

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think we've done a crappy job communicating why

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these things exist, why we need them. And again,

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this is why for me, you know, you are on the

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DI council, you're saying, I'm going to go back

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to, again, to my veterans, right? A lot of whom

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supported Trump. And I'm going to go, listen,

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dumbass, right? This is you that they're talking

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about when they're talking about the disabled

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people at the FAA They're talking about you disabled

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veterans, right? That's a lot of who's getting

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hired for these federal jobs that are disabled,

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right? I am considered 90 % disabled by the VA.

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That's that's where I'm at, right? I am a disabled

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person Okay know what I mean? Yeah. I um I will

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say I think Alicia Keys at the uh grant Grammy

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has kind of put DEI perfectly. Um she stated,

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quote, this is not the time to shut down a diversity

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of of voices. DEI is not a threat. It is a gift.

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Uh the more voices The more powerful the sound

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when destructive forces try to burn us down.

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We will rise from the ashes like a phoenix and

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I Mike drop Like there you go. Boom. Yep, Alicia.

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There you go Alright, we're gonna leave that

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one right there. Let us know what you think down

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in the comments below