Jay Weber Show transcript 1-31-25
I have a segment today about how California’s dem lawmakers are going to try to blame the wildfire-and every future natural disaster- on the oil companies and force them to pay for the damages.
It's a desperate gambit by radical leftists who have ruined their own state through their own fiscal mismanagement, land mismanagement, water mismanagement, and insurance market mismanagement.
The wildfires, the fact that they were so deadly, and the fact that most homeowners had no insurance- all falls squarely onto the shoulders of California democrats.
Because-as I’ve been saying for decades on this station: democrats. Ruin. Everything.
I have another great example of this today -in the form of a very interesting article from the website ‘the free press’.
It’s a column about a retired brigadier general in the air force.
This guy’s name is Christopher Walker.... he’s African American...and he’s got a great story to tell about DEI as it was thrust upon them in the air force during Biden’s regime.
General Walker ended up overseeing some part of the Air Forces DEI effort for the last two years of his service- even though- as he puts it: he was a mole who only got drawn into the ‘inner sanctum’ of Biden era DEI plotting.... Because he’s Black.
The first great tidbit about Walker’s story is: the racism displayed by the leftists atop Biden’s pentagon who pulled him into it. He tells the free press.
Walker says he was alarmed by all these new ‘DEI orders’ that were starting to be tossed around atop the Air Force brass.
What Happened When DEI Came to the Military?
The story goes on to talk about how the ‘formalization’ of DEI’s forms of racism and discrimination started under Obama in 2011- and were starting to form well before trump got into office-
But apparently- Trump and his team didn’t really notice how serious the leftists at the pentagon were...or fully understand how poisonous this was to unit cohesion, lethality, etc.
Because- this diversity and equity crap ratcheted up during the first Trump term- as it was at our universities and across state and local govts and corporations-
And so, Trump and the GOP didn’t really recognize it and fight it right away. So, when Biden got into office- he and his regime had a chance to put this all on steroids: really start to play racial and gender games-and start appointing people-across government and across the military- based on special equity status rather than merit, etc.
And Mookie, here-
Brig general walker- had a front row seat to all of it at the air force. He says- in 2020- after George Floyd died in the Twin Cities.
These are just some of the corrosive effects that Biden’s bullying DEI was having ....as they moved our military-
Our military! -from a ‘merit based’ system, to one in which you got recognized and promoted based on skin color, or gender, or whatever your ‘preferential left-wing status’ was.
This is a long article-and Greg, and I will put it up on social media- but it touches on how even the green berets weren’t immune from this.
And now, obviously, general Mookie is very relieved to see trump and Pete Hegseth come in with specific orders-and a plan- to scrap all of this and get back to a merit-based system focusing on force lethality and all of the rest.
As he puts it: diversity is great, but you can’t sacrifice meritocracy.
I’d add this: just based on how ethnically, racially, and gender and sex diverse this country is- we are going to have a diverse military. It’s going to happen naturally. We don’t need quotas and special treatments and all the rest.
We need ‘the best and the brightest and the most dedicated ‘regardless of any of those personal or physical traits.
What a terrible attack on the country, all this CRT and DEI is. It’s poisonous nonsense...and we need to keep working to ensure ‘all of it is dead’.
photo credit: Getty Images
story credit: The Free Press
audio version segment here > A retired Black Air Force General saw the damage of DEI in the military