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Back to episode — Episode 2356 CWSA 01/17/24

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Republicans have no power going forward. So it's basically the idea is that the protests are all already being set up in case Trump wins and that there will literally be a coup in which they're trying to get the military to ignore Trump, get the protesters to take over the street and essentially run a coup should Trump win. And I you know this is one of those allegations where I don't know it's a…

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is the thing you can get that insurance. I wouldn't insure anybody if they had a DEI group because that guarantees problems.

Now the big companies probably don't need that kind of insurance because they are what's called self-insured meaning they could afford it if they got sued. They don't need insurance. So it won't work for the biggest companies. I assume they don't have that kind of insurance because they wouldn't need it anyway. They would need it but they have money to cover it so they don't need insurance per se.

But I have a theory. I saw the nness account showed the group picture of the United Airlines DEI office and let's just say there were no white people in that picture. They appeared to be all black or brown enough that I couldn't tell the difference. Now I finally had an insight that's going to make you laugh. Are you ready for this? You're going to be mad that you didn't think of it.

So you're a big company and you want to prove that you're hiring, let's just keep it simple, you want to prove you're hiring enough black employees especially to good jobs right? It doesn't count if you're hiring janitors. You want to hire to good professional high paying jobs so you can say you're doing your job for diversity. So you form a DEI group. Have you noticed the DEI groups seem weirdly overstaffed? Anybody notice that? Like the number of people who are on the DEI staff is weirdly high. Like you think wouldn't two be enough? Two people couldn't do it but the groups are like really big groups.

Do you see it yet? The DEI group itself counts as a diversity hire. Every person who goes into

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the DEI group is a high-paid executive that that company can say yes we're doing so well with diversity. We've hired 10 new executive level black employees and we're pretty happy about it. And all 10 will be in the worthless DEI group that doesn't do anything useful but they have inflated salaries. And as long as they exist and you can keep adding to them you can say that your DEI hiring is on fir…

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