Back to episode — Episode 2356 CWSA 01/17/24
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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…
← Previous segment →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 fire. It's like oh my God we hired 20 highly capable black employees to really good paying jobs. Nice professional jobs and we're quite proud of that.
So what kind of jobs did they take? Engineering? About you know high like finance jobs right? They're well where are they? They're really all in the DEI group. That's a real thing. That's actually happening. I'm not making this up. There were 12 people in this DEI group. Do you think United Airlines did not claim those 12 hires as 12 good executive hires? Of course they did. It's such a scam. It's just ridiculous.
All right let's talk about Vivek and Trump. So Vivek and Trump are appearing together. Vivek did a powerful speech pro-Trump and Trump had him up there and people were chanting Vivek for vice president. And Vivek said he's actually sort of considering it you know not that it's been offered but he said you know if Trump would agree with him on several things he thinks are important that that might be in a conversation.
So the things that Vivek thinks are important for him to be part of the administration should it be a Trump administration is he's got opposition to digital currency. He doesn't like that expensive FBI headquarters that Trump is flexible about. And he wants to pardon Assange. There might have been more but those are three that I saw.
So Vivek is negotiating behind the scenes to see if Trump's policies are compatible enough on some of the details that he'd be comfortable not having to change his opinions if he joins the team I guess. Now that doesn't mean he would join as vice president necessarily but Trump did say quote he'll be working with us for a long time. So they do seem to have some agreement.
Now how many of you saw them appear together and give me in the comments your first impression. First impression of Trump plus Vivek. Go. First impression. Did it work? Didn't work? I'll just read you comments. Yes loved it. Energy A plus. Loved it. Loved it. Totally worked. Yes yes yes yes yes. Mixed. Somebody said mixed. Interesting. Fatherly. Worked for me. Trump light. Allies. Okay so almost all of you are very pro about this.
Now you know I endorsed Vivek for president and you know that you know I like Trump's skills as well. So you're probably saying to yourself Scott you must think this is a dream team. I'm not there. Honestly I'm not there. First of all Vivek might be too strong a player for the vice presidency unless it was a Clinton-Gore kind of situation in which Clinton was perfectly happy to say that Gore was more than a partner. He was more than a vice president. He was like in the important meetings. He had a portfolio of things he was working on that were important. You could imagine Vivek having a real portfolio of power.
But does that work with Trump? Is Trump likely to give his vice president more glory than himself? Let's say he gave Vivek a really good portfolio and then Vivek nailed it and everybody was talking about it and then people start saying you know what gosh he's so good at vice president. Don't you think I don't know maybe going to write an article about maybe we got this backwards. Maybe Vivek should have been the president because look at how well he did as vice president. Do you think Trump
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could live with that? Do you think he'd be happy with Vivek overshadowing him? It's a possibility. All right now by itself I've told you that one of the things that people don't understand about Trump is he really really likes smart people. And if he's going to get along with anybody it will be because they're smart even if they disagree. I mean Trump is just addicted to smart. I mean it's practi…
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