your credentials?

Now she also has some kind of legal degree. Do we assume that she got that the real way by being qualified? No, I don't assume that. I assume the opposite. I assume the opposite because we're in the context of DEI. And on top of that, seems to not understand the most basic element of the topic that she was having an open hearing on. How did she not understand the most basic thing, that the pipeline is insufficient to get us all what we all want?

I think everybody would be happy if the pipeline was just full of diverse candidates that were great, and then the companies would say that's great, and then you'd go to work with all these great people and you would not see their color because you'd say my coworker is just great. I mean, my coworker is nailing it. If your coworker is doing a good job, that's the part you see. Realistically, you know, you might be prejudiced. I like to say this a lot: discrimination only lasts until you open your mouth, and then you get judged by what you say and that's it. That in the real world you can't discriminate against somebody who's talking to you because you're going to decide what you think about them based on what comes out of their mouth, period. It doesn't matter what happened the moment until they open their mouth. The moment they open their mouth, you're judging them on what comes out. Yeah, that's it.

And I don't think not everybody understands that. I think the people who are worried about what other people are thinking about them are sort of missing the biggest part of that, that if you act like a good person it's pretty much automatic that people are going to like you and want to work with you. There aren't that many good people. If you're Black, let me give you an insider tip about white people. There are not so many white people that are awesome that I have an unlimited amount. If you walk into my life and you're just like a good person, you're in the top 10% without trying. It's not that hard. It's not that hard to get into my top 10% in favor of people. The bar is just not that high. It really isn't.

All right. So I would say that the thing that Representative Crockett misses is that she and anybody who is pro-DEI creates a situation where the assumption is flipped from "wow, you must be extra qualified if you made it through some extra challenges to get here" to "you're probably not qualified" because we've built a system to promote unqualified people. The system guarantees it because of systemic racism limiting the pipeline of applicants that you would like to hire.

All right. Elon Musk being, it must be nice to be the richest person in the world because there's just that little extra bit of freedom you get. So here's something that really happened. I could not have loved it more. So Elon Musk was on some kind of online thing where he was taking press calls, VivaTech 2024 in Paris, and somebody from Business Insider got up, a reporter to ask a question. And here's the question. She starts to ask, she says, quote, "Tesla has had a bumpy few months looking at flagging sales at home, stock market decline, layoffs." When you look back, and Musk interrupts her. He interrupts her in mid-sentence. He says, "Yeah, we can stop the question right now because I don't think Business Insider is a real publication." The reporter replied and sat down. Then Musk said, "So let's move on to the next question."

Can we take a moment to slow clap that out? Can you just slow clap at home? I don't know how much to express how much I love that. Why in the world would he give respect to something that's clearly not a real publication? All right. Business Insider is just now, I think it was sort of a little bit real at one point but not now. So more of that please. More of that.

I would like to suggest as my theme today it does feel like things are changing. Let me give you some hints. Do you think I could have gone after Representative Crockett as hard as I just did even two years ago? No. Somebody would have grabbed it out of context and tweeted it all over the place and tried to get me cancelled. But now I can just tell you what is useful and true. I wouldn't say it if it weren't useful. I don't know if everybody gets that. You know, even when I got cancelled for saying get the F away, does everybody know that was trying to be helpful for everybody? Of course the news made it look like I'm targeting one group. Nope. It specifically was to help that one group that it says I'm targeting because if you don't know what's true you cannot make plans. I'm telling you what's true.

What's true is if you're going to do DEI, I'm going to try to get away from it. If you're creating a situation where you say I've got your money and you better give it back, I'm going to run away. So you can't have it both ways. You can't have it both ways. And now I can say that out loud because I paid for it. I bought the ticket. I paid full price for the free speech ticket. Now I ge