Apparently the Trump Admin is pressed about the concept of DEI, so we're here to break down the stupid.

0:00 talk about. That's why we try and intersperse in the fun topics with the politics, right? We do entertainment and politics because it's all very entertaining. That's true. That's a good point. So. The I don't know the acronym of the year so far is the. Oh, yeah. Trump is on a. Full assault on DEI, AKA diversity, equity, and inclusion, if you don't know, which I'm pretty sure everyone fucking knows that by now. They should. You really should. At this point, like I think even secretly, or a DEI drop, I think.

0:43 No, I'm just kidding. So Trump, obviously, signed an executive order, obviously, because that's what he loves to do to ban DEI initiatives and executive branch, um, and also for, um, contractors. So, um, Trump has also blamed the DC plane crash on DEI, which made literally no fucking sense, no fucking sense at all, because he, he stated we are in the early stages of, um, you know, the flight investigation when it first happened and He said, however. Pretty much this is because of the. Which is. Fucking doesn't make sense at all. No. And then the funniest part of all of this is that his daughter -in -law, Laura Trump, gave an anti LIDI speech where she stated jobs should be given quote on merit and merit alone, which is just fucking rich. And she has a communications degree. And then with her connections with the Trump family is currently co -chair of the RNC. Yep. She took over there and see during the election. So how the fuck did she get that on merit and merit alone? So, by the way. Oh, oh, I know how I know what merit she

2:15 used. Right. She went down on Eric. I mean. I already is that a merit? I mean, it's I'm sure it's hard work. Have you seen that goofy looking motherfucker? Is it that hard work, though? It's like probably 10 seconds. Oh, no. I know. So so the thing that I did, I posted a tick tock earlier this week. And this is the point that I made about the whole discussion about DEI and what they brought up. And this is where I'm gonna bring it around. Because I think what we need to do, and this is where I think the Democrats have failed, right? Is it's a messaging issue.

3:03 And the reason I bring that up is I brought this up earlier this week. to my fellow veterans. As I said, hey, my fellow veterans, when he's talking about DEI, they're talking about you, okay? Veteran status is a protected class in this country, right? Under the Civil Rights Act, veteran status is a protected class, okay? Why? Because people discriminated for a long time especially after Vietnam against veterans because they thought you were all crazy psycho broken people Right. That's why there's things like veterans preferential hiring Right when you apply for a federal agency you get preferential hiring treatment if you are a veteran you get more if you are a disabled veteran right, so when they're talking about DEI when he's talking about Hey, the FAA was trying to push for more disabled people, right? The people they're talking about, my fellow veterans, is you, you Trump voting fucking idiots, okay? They are talking about you, okay? You are part of this DEI initiative, right? Disapply, and again, I think what they haven't done with DEI is shown how it affects Because somebody in the chat brought this up, right? They said they're using DEI as a dog whistle.

4:36 Right. And they absolutely are using it as a dog whistle. The reason they're able to is that we have not done a good job communicating the benefits of DEI and why DEI is important and who all it affects. Right. OK, it doesn't just affect people of color. and women and it's it's people who are disabled. Right. It's people who are very sexual orientations or gender identity. This affects a lot of things. OK, so when they're talking about DEI, I think more people should realize that it also applies to them. Right.

5:25 And so when the when the Trump administration is being like Dei bad and you're cheering. You might be cheering for your own demise here. You know, that's my soapbox, though. I mean, do you disagree with anything I said there? No. And this is the thing that like really like kills me is because I feel like I feel like it's a really like an attack on this like quote unquote like woke culture like you're creating a villain to go after to try to like defeat. Right. Because I sit I sit on a DEI council at work. I am it's a private company. We can do whatever the fuck we want. So fuck Trump, but. It actually came up in our management all hands today, we had an all hands of management with our CEO as well today, and it came up specifically with with the administration doing executive orders and we have federal contracts, right? How does this affect our DI initiatives? And to put not to find a point on it, they were basically like, it doesn't. First off, our company is based out of Spain. Right. So and the CEO of our company

6:56 is a woman. Right. And it's a, you know, it's a family, you know, it was a family that started. She's one of the people that started the company back in the 70s. You know, we're going to continue to do what we've been doing. You know, but yeah, it came up. Nice. But your company, the company you work for, we're going to go into details here. Yours is standing on their DEI principles. Yeah. You're on that council on that council, executive leadership kind of came out with a statement saying nothing is going to change. You know, this is this is our core value. We're going to stick it out, but. I think a lot of times though what people don't understand kind of going back to your point is like, what does this actually mean? So like for the company that I work for, what does DEI mean? Like what do we do? One of the things that we put in place is like a program, right? That will, when you upload your resume, it automatically takes out information such as your name, dates, of like when you went to school. So we can't figure out how old you are. If you were in like a sorority, right? Like you take that out. So we can't tell that you're a female. And then the hiring manager gets this resume and it is the whole thing is so that you look at their merit and their merit

8:30 alone. You're like, do I want to interview this person? Do I want to call them into the office and interview this person? instead of having some sort of like unconscious bias. It's it's it's unconscious. And this is the other thing. I don't think we've done a good job communicating. And somebody in the chat brought up John Stewart. And I'll tell you, ironically enough, it was in his book, The Daily Show, like when he wrote the book about the story of The Daily Show and how The Daily Show went. And it's all the behind the scenes stuff. It's not. that it's it's this was how the Daily Show developed over 20 years while he was hosting. He does a chapter, part of a chapter where he said they started noticing that even if they asked the the headshots and resumes they were getting for correspondence was white dudes, white dudes, because that's a lot of the comedy world is white dudes. And he said. One of the things that they had to do was a they realize that these people weren't biased intentionally. Right. It's unconscious.

9:37 It's it's a subconscious thing that they do. And he talks about the process they went through, very similar to what you're describing, where it was send me. Not name, don't. You know, and making that conscious choice to do extra right. to beat out those subconscious biases, to beat out those unconscious biases. And I think a lot of people get offended. And again, we haven't done a good job of communicating. Having an unconscious bias does not make you a bad person. Right. Everyone has them. Yeah, it's when you're letting those unconscious biases make decisions for you. And not interrogating those biases, that's when you're screwing up. Right my camera decided to wig out there. Anyway, now it's back. Okay, good Let me get all blurry for a minute. I said you're doing it again. Don't do a camera Yeah, I It's it is like really it's really interesting I don't think like At least at my company, but I kind of get a sense. This is the majority of companies out there. No one is getting a stack of resumes and then going, man, this person went to Harvard.

11:01 They have a really amazing work history, but I'm not going to hire this person because I'm going to hire this. I don't know. Communication degree major that is not relevant, but I'm going to hire them because they're. a woman or LGBT or whatever, like anything. No, no one's doing that. It's you created a fake enemy to go after. It's. It's so stupid to me, like every time when it comes up in the news, I just like cringe because I'm like, that's not. That's not what DEI is like. You guys are so stupid. Well, see, this is again where it comes back to what we were talking about in one of the earlier segments.

11:44 I feel like it's all smoke and mirrors. Right. I feel like it's a dog whistle and it's red meat to the far end of the base to make them feel better. Right. And distract them from the damage that they're doing. Yeah. Right. And that to me is is is what it is. You know, because you're right, he has no control over private companies. No. Right. And there's a lot of companies who are like, screw you, we don't care. You know, and I just again, I don't think we've done a good job communicating it. I put it in the same bucket that I do when people talk about critical race theory. Right. When people like critical race theory about I'm like, do you understand what critical race theory is? Right. Like. It becomes a boogeyman that sounds really bad and again is actually pretty difficult to explain in a really cohesive strong way and so it's really easy for shitty people to latch onto things like CRT and DEI and Turn them into these dog whistle boogeyman and be like this is your problem, right?

13:09 It's it's them but their DEI and their CRT that's why you're miserable That's why you're not successful. That's why you can't get ahead. And again, I think we've done a crappy job communicating why these things exist, why we need them. And again, this is why for me, you know, you are on the DI council, you're saying, I'm going to go back to, again, to my veterans, right? A lot of whom supported Trump. And I'm going to go, listen, dumbass, right? This is you that they're talking about when they're talking about the disabled people at the FAA They're talking about you disabled veterans, right? That's a lot of who's getting hired for these federal jobs that are disabled, right? I am considered 90 % disabled by the VA.

13:59 That's that's where I'm at, right? I am a disabled person Okay know what I mean? Yeah. I um I will say I think Alicia Keys at the uh grant Grammy has kind of put DEI perfectly. Um she stated, quote, this is not the time to shut down a diversity of of voices. DEI is not a threat. It is a gift. Uh the more voices The more powerful the sound when destructive forces try to burn us down. We will rise from the ashes like a phoenix and I Mike drop Like there you go. Boom. Yep, Alicia.

14:48 There you go Alright, we're gonna leave that one right there. Let us know what you think down in the comments below