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ng about this in John Solomon and Steven Richards reporting on this in Just the News website. The question is from the committee that's trying to figure out what the so-called Biden crime family was up to and they're wondering now if Biden was giving quote defensive briefings on what Hunter was doing overseas. Now a defensive briefing would be you should just know this. Yeah. Do you know what you…

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ic kind of qualified person far exceeds the supply. And in the normal American, not American but human way that we deal with things, people are going to hire people underqualified so they can meet their diversity goals because that's your bonus this year. You won't know if the hirers did a bad job for a few years, but you want to get that bonus this year. So you're going to bend things a little bit to get your diversity goals met.

In theory, planes should be falling from the sky because of DEI as a system, not because of anybody's demographic group. Just as a system, they can't possibly work on paper. On paper, it can't work. It'd be one thing to say, well, we implemented it poorly. That's not what's happening. On paper, it can't be implemented correctly because you don't have enough supply. The only way you could do it is in the very long run where you do a much better job of training young people so that you have a better supply of diverse candidates, in which case you wouldn't need DEI.

Let me say it again. How many unemployed black aeronautic engineers do you believe there are in the whole world? Black qualified aviation engineers that can't get work. None. There are exactly zero. So if you want diversity, you fix the qualifications of the people starting in preschool and you just make sure you don't let up. Make sure everybody's got a good shot, then it takes care of itself. You would have full employment of all qualified people of every demographic group.

Now if you've got a bunch of people who can't get jobs because they're unqualified, it just means you didn't do a good enough job training them and maybe they were trained for the wrong stuff. Not everybody can be aeronautic engineers. I know I couldn't.

Well anyway, Cathie Wood, who's the CEO of ARK Invest, big investment company. She's a big name in the investment world, you should know, is going to vote for Trump. So yet another smart person in the pro-Trump family. Now remember when you couldn't really say that out loud? If you had a business, you just couldn't say it. But apparently she doesn't mind. I think

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she's pro Elon Musk as well. All right. So on Tuesday, I'm going to talk to Michael Ian Black. I'm going to have a special live stream. It'll be after this one at 11:00 a.m. my time on Tuesday, which would be 2 p.m. on the East Coast. And assuming that nothing comes up between now and then the question will be not is Trump good or bad you know I know where that conversation would go so there's no…

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