There’s nothing about DEI that makes someone unqualified. That is an argument by the right to destroy civil rights. DEI is about expanding the pool of qualified people beyond cis, white hetero men and then supporting them. It means someone who is better qualified may actually have a chance.
Well I noticed the sarcasm in the original post. The winking smiley was a big clue. Pete is a very intelligent and well qualified man who happens to be gay. It's only MAGATs that consider him a DEI hire (the point of the post).
It was never about the price of eggs. It was about intentionally destroying everything all soldiers bled for on behalf of Americans so Russia could take over us. He's a traitor and did this for money. Also, Cheetolini is a freaking racist.
But I will agree that there were no fatal plane crashes on his watch. I’d also like to add that he could explain things in an articulate manner, like an adult; and not repeat himself a dozen times with zero facts.
It's a joke about Republicans calling anyone not a straight cis white man a "DEI Hire". We in the Urbanist space find him a breath of fresh air and welcome all his public transit fundings: Seattle and Los Angeles got new train lines because of him reducing car dependency
Anyway, what has gay, black, white, green, trans, etc. to do with this?
If you have a working brain, intelligence, work ethic, stamina and are good at what you do, I want you to secure the airways I am travelling on. Not an orange madman with a deranged mind.
I reviewed information on the cabinet nominees, the Sec.of the Treasury, Mr. Bessent ,appeared to actually be qualified for the position.
His family situation is similar to Buttigieg . Mr. Bessent and his husband have 2 children through surrogacy.No one called him a DEI as they did Buttigieg.
That's why Trump is going so hard on the DEI thing, he sacks the FAA and planes start crashing, gotta deflect that shit.
In a developed country, this would be grounds for the leader to step down.
How some think:
Initial Flight-Flight Attendants-All Attractive White Females-Smooth Flight-Belts Needed only on Take-off & Landing
Return Flight-Flight Att. included 1 male (clearly gay) + black female-Bumpy Ride, always belted
Conclusion-God punishes DEI flights
Right Nepotism is rife in this world. Those are the ones you worry about because they are not hired because of qualifications, but because of nepotism. And they can cause a lot of issues in whatever field that they are in. Because of the lack of skills to do the job!
PETE HAD A GREAT RECORD ZERO CRASHES AND ZERO DEATHS DURING HIS 4 YEAR TERM TRAITOR TRUMP AND DIPSHIT ELON ONE WEEK INTO THEIR TERM 2 CRASHES AND OVER 70 DEATHS ALREADY THE INCOMPETENCE BY TRUMP/ELON IS ASTOUNDING
Perhaps this government is toast and we need a plan to arise from within. It doesn't have to be civil war.
Is it time for us to start a citizens' government? We could still find research, education, healthcare, etc on our own without them. I would donate to a new "government" of people I trusted.
Don’t say that. Because he is gay has nothing to do with why he was hired by Biden. He’s intelligent, hard working and has excellent communication skills. He wasn’t fulfilling a quota. He wasn’t a DEI hire.
But wait!
President Donald Trump claimed on Thursday, without providing evidence, that diversity hiring was to blame for the crash that killed 67 people. When pressed on how he knew that, Trump said "common sense."
I cannot believe we are having this discussion.
PETE HEGSETH has blood on his hands.The American army is a joke to the world. COWARDS,POIR 3XCUSE FOR A army ,afraid of Trump.whimpy Military.of America. PEOPLE are laughing.Great History America. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Not all, but most DEI hires are qualified and brilliant, and were not considered because of conditioned mindsets around gender, sexuality, and race. They weren’t pushed to the front without qualifications and experience, that’s privilege afforded to mostly heterosexual white men.
That’s the whole point. DEI has nothing to do with people’s capabilities being subpar, but quite the opposite. It allows people who have the skills & ability, not to be shut out by mediocre white men who are GIVEN positions that they aren’t qualified for, for the typical reasons they do
He's not a gay DEI hire, is he? I thought he was just hired because he was the best person for the job. Noe we're labeling everybody who's non-white straight christian male as a dei.
So, dei is not a bad thing it's used as a bad term by the Rebublicans to hide racist, sexist, and homophonic behavior. All being a dei hire is being hired by a company and being anything but a het white cis man.
I think the OP was mocking MAGA. They seem to think the only reason LGBTQ/ POC, etc, get hired is because of DEI. I do that all the time. Speak like them. Sarcasm. MOCKERY 😁
I understand and get the sarcasm. Just in general it bothers me that highly intelligent capable and accomplished people get categorized (by the right) as DEI hires. Clearly as an insult…diversity is a core value and they have weaponized it
Agree! I wouldn’t even put this out into the universe. He was extremely effective as Secretary of Transportation. I’m in WNC and I40 collapsed between Tenn & NC due to Hurricane Helene. Still down. His updates on the support & work being down were very helpful.
Agree!!!!! If we wanna mock this ideology, instead of sharing it as a "joke" (something donald uses to excuse his own bigotry) let's mock the lowering of qualifications, expectations for donald and his picks
It’s both a joke and a reclaiming of the words. As the brilliant Alicia Keyes said, DEI is a gift. Diversity, the striving for equity and the ideal of inclusion have always been my favorite three things about this country. Let’s take those words back and celebrate those ideals again.
And, people who are hired under DEI programs are also hired for their abilities and intelligence. Let’s not fall into the trap of implying they are not as the Orange one clearly is. And yes, Pete is amazing!
That IS what DEI is for!!! Hire THE most competent person REGARDLESS of the color of their skin, gender, sexual orientation, a veteran, etc and not just your golfing buddy.
It is. Anyone else can be discriminated against and not hired simply for being who/what they are. Women, POC, disabled, LGBTQ+ all were protected by DEI.
They just think DEI means hire someone less qualified for being one of the above and that's where the misconception causes problems.
He was the best person for the job who HAPPENED to be gay, that's not a DEI hire. The idea that the best person for the job quite often isn't a straight white male is simply too mindblowing a fact for the MAGA peabrains to comprehend.
Thanks saying this! Same. I know it was meant to make fun of the cabinet/junk drawer, but he is absolutely always the best, brightest, most capable in the room!
His policies and his directives to dismantle good policies are endangering MANY Americans, and I believe it's a way to decrease the poorer side of the population. It may sound super sinister, but everything he's doing is from a Nazi playbook, and look what their ultimate goal was.
Yep...cutting their nose off to spite their face. Birth rate is down on white women, force birth. BUT create color slaveforce until not needed...then eliminate by any means. After all, they still need someone to do their bidding, because they sure as hell aren't going to clean their own toilets
I knew he meant all of us but no one wanted to listen. Especially after Musk came into the picture ... no good for anyone was ever going to come of that.
Most of them are waiting to be told what to think. And that’s the fucking problem. Not hard to use some common sense and put 2 and 2 together to find 4. But some people couldn’t pour water out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel.
It also seems like sending distracting emails/extortion threats to govt employees telling them to resign now because their lives are about to get a lot worse doesn’t help them focus on their jobs either. How many times are we going to fall for the “Blame Biden” con?
I’m saddened by the tragic plane crashes. I hope these poor souls did not die in vain. Maybe these deaths can remind Americans that government matters and we must hire and support federal employees who can help keep us safe. This is not a game.
Can we at least acknowledge correlation and not necessarily causation? I mean Donald is a prime idiot but when all the facts are in it sure doesn’t seem likely that even he is to blame. Two or three months down the road, let’s look again.
Are you serious? He fired the FAA director on Jan 20th and after the 1st crash, tried getting the air traffic controllers who are actually left when there already aren't enough of them to quit. People need to stop giving him passes! If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck ... 😠
It’s. Not. A. Pass. You have correlation. Yes. The causation may or may not be there. Yet. I want him out as bad as you seem to. But I’m not willing to sacrifice critical thinking just because that’s what the MAGATs do.
This is his 100 day honeymoon period where he is supposed to get the things done he promised over and over ad nauseum to the American people. No taxes on Social Security, no taxes on tips, inflation was going to go down, lower gas prices, lower egg prices a return to a Washington that works. Nah!
To be fair, he FIRED a bunch of FAA leadership, FAA employees then threatened the jobs of the rest in addition to instituting a hiring freeze. We could argue for days about which action caused the recent incidents, but I think the answer is "nothing happens in a vacuum"
My first reaction is WHY IS ANYONE SURPRISED?
The man is totally incompetent, takes zero responsibility and is a dementia ridden criminal who only cares about himself and money.
Serious q: why? I just used it 😝 and what I mean is his gayness (in this case) has zero to do with his amazing mind and abilities (just like my hetero-ness has nothing to do with anything other than sexual preference).
I’ll stop using it if I know why and — what is the alternative?
Yes. He was exceptionally qualified for his position.
He also happens to be a ‘not cis white male’ which is why he was a “DEI hire”. The Biden administration did not succumb to anti-gay prejudice, choosing instead to hire the best person for the job. That’s DEI
Within 2 weeks of J20 2025 there have been 2 crashes and a very near miss. Is this the next Gun violence; thoughts and prayers rubbish? How many more lives lost and families shattered? I call on ALL lawmakers on both sides of the house to stand up & indict Trump for a clear over-reach NOW. NOW!!!
While I agree with the sentiment, we did have plane crashes. Most were small, fixed wing, privately owned aircraft, but we did have crashes with fatalities. And not only in the civilian world, the military saw a few as well. I get what you're saying, but transparency is important now more than ever.
Add another one. A medical jet crashed in Philly, taking a 6 year old girl who had just beaten an illness back home to Mexico...https://share.newsbreak.com/b8t8p6qh
Trump is responsible. Then he has the gall to blame DEI and a decorated trans pilot who wasn’t the pilot!! Trump is mentally unstable suffering from Oppositional Defiant Disorder.
I tell ya, if you want to hear competent, listen to air traffic control.....oh my, those folks really keep it together, astonishing when you compare it to say....a presidential press briefing....
Somehow this has to be illegal and will have caused the market crash in March after the tariffs are in full effect and DJT makes 220 billion dollars on Trumpcoin which mysteriously increases in value 20 fold at the same time that everyone else goes bankrupt.
I rarely disagree with folks here, Feisty, but I would say that Pete was a merit hire who happened to be gay. I don't think Pete or Biden would think of him as DEI. Sorry.
Hell, the 🍊🎪🤡 Felon thought Pete B. still was the Secretary of Transportation. The felon also forgot that at the time of the accident, there was no FAA director.
Oh that's okay we all know that Trump had nothing to say. He was bringing all that stuff up because he has nothing. He has a loser playbook and he follows it like the loser he is.
Let’s not cast “DEI hires” as less qualified sliding in. It’s usually extremely qualified but likely not to be hired for some stupid reason having zero to do with their abilities. Pete B has been excellent, super smart and calm, and maybe the best and clearest explainer of hard stuff ever.
The only reason they point to DEI is because mediocre white boys are butthurt. They think they will get the fancy jobs if the best people can’t get in the door. And some will. *cough* every Trump nominee *cough*
I don't view Pete's term as Transportation Secretary as a "DEI hire." He was a great choice because he's smart, hard working, and effective. Oh, I hear he's also gay, as if that's somehow relevant.
I hope everyone is enjoying your no change fees on flights and how you’re getting money refunded by airlines if your flight is cancelled as consumers should be. He and Lina Khan did that.
Seems that DEI is their standard 'go to' now. A convenient blanket to be a racist, homophobic, sexist douchebag without using the words they really want to use.
So far DEI caused the wildfires, this plane crash, and ALL the forthcoming ones for the next 4 years
There were over 300 of them, you just don’t hear about them because it’s a single pilot accident and it’s not news cycle worthy outside the local media sphere my airport last year had 4 ppl burn to death attempting an emergency landing after an oil leak
Comments
Thanks Orange Man
And I'm just about done funding it with my tax dollars. Let Elon foot the bill for a national of evil.
If you have a working brain, intelligence, work ethic, stamina and are good at what you do, I want you to secure the airways I am travelling on. Not an orange madman with a deranged mind.
His family situation is similar to Buttigieg . Mr. Bessent and his husband have 2 children through surrogacy.No one called him a DEI as they did Buttigieg.
In a developed country, this would be grounds for the leader to step down.
Initial Flight-Flight Attendants-All Attractive White Females-Smooth Flight-Belts Needed only on Take-off & Landing
Return Flight-Flight Att. included 1 male (clearly gay) + black female-Bumpy Ride, always belted
Conclusion-God punishes DEI flights
When in reality we all should be more worried about the “my daddy is rich and got me this job” hires.
Everything they say is a lie
Our skies haven’t been particularly safe this week.
Is it time for us to start a citizens' government? We could still find research, education, healthcare, etc on our own without them. I would donate to a new "government" of people I trusted.
No?
Okay, nevermind.
President Donald Trump claimed on Thursday, without providing evidence, that diversity hiring was to blame for the crash that killed 67 people. When pressed on how he knew that, Trump said "common sense."
I cannot believe we are having this discussion.
They just think DEI means hire someone less qualified for being one of the above and that's where the misconception causes problems.
DEI IS about hiring the best person for the job who HAPPENED to be [insert whatever].
It’s all about consciously recognizing the truth of the second sentence in your post and actively overcoming that bias.
This did not happen under Biden.
What should America think about this?
The man is totally incompetent, takes zero responsibility and is a dementia ridden criminal who only cares about himself and money.
I love Mayor Pete too,but don’t walk into the maga trap of subtly trashing DEI hires to defend him.
DEI policies keep high quality hires like Pete from being shut out.
Maga wants you to think
“DEI” is an insult.
Goddam it, I miss sanity! These GQP are insane.
Even if there is no correlation, you can blame the leaders
I’ll stop using it if I know why and — what is the alternative?
Thanks!
He also happens to be a ‘not cis white male’ which is why he was a “DEI hire”. The Biden administration did not succumb to anti-gay prejudice, choosing instead to hire the best person for the job. That’s DEI
Americans will be missing Pete's competence.
😉🤣🤣🤣
💙🇺🇸
Rare thing these days.
Episode 48: Trump Blames DEI for DC Plane Crash, Plans FBI Purge-a-Palooza
Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Spitify, the new platform for camel owners.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-48-trump-blames-dei-for-dc-plane-crash-not-a-misprint/id1769072538?i=1000687650145
#Trump #DEI #FBI
Somehow this has to be illegal and will have caused the market crash in March after the tariffs are in full effect and DJT makes 220 billion dollars on Trumpcoin which mysteriously increases in value 20 fold at the same time that everyone else goes bankrupt.
Don’t let the mediocre orange man redefine it’s meaning.
So far DEI caused the wildfires, this plane crash, and ALL the forthcoming ones for the next 4 years