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ots of goals. But as I've been teaching you for a long time, systems are what you need because goals can't be supported without a system. So it's a system that's the important part. And as Victor Davis Hanson points out, the water storage system was bad. The forest management was bad. Handling the insurance industry was bad. And he mentions the DEI hierarchy of the leadership. And he called it a…

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he's a Black man, but that is a coincidence and you can't say that that's DEI-related. That's just one person who's acting badly.

Now, but at least in the fire department, you know, you don't have so much of a DEI problem, right? Well, I mean the head of the fire department is a lesbian, but nobody's saying that lesbians can't do fire department jobs. And she's got tons of experience relevant. So if you're going to say oh, she's only there because she's a lesbian, that would ignore all of her many, many years of very relevant experience.

And as luck would have it, the person just below her, I think would be the assistant chief. Well, another lesbian. Two lesbians at the top. But I think that you could call that a coincidence. Yeah, there are plenty of lesbians. It's not like the biggest coincidence in the world that two of them would be the number one and number two. Let's look at the third in line. Let's see. I don't know if it's third in line, but the equity chief. Well, lesbian.

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So you've got three lesbians in executive positions. But I warn you that if you're thinking there's a problem with lesbians because of these three, no, that doesn't follow. It doesn't follow that there's some other lesbian who isn't the best person to be the chief of police or the chief of the fire department. So this is sticky stuff. If you're just assuming that somebody is a DEI hire and theref…

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