Jessica: The fire chief has been called a DEI hire. I would take her resume any day, 24 year vet, paramedic, engineer, fire inspector, captain, battalion chief, fire marshal, deputy chief.
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Her resume may be fabulous but she, along with the rest of leadership failed the people of LA. She did not have measures in place. She did not protect.
I can’t even tell if they believe what they’re saying or if they’re just so obsessed with attacking their perceived enemies that they’re okay with sounding stupid to do it.
So you just repeat the BS. That is how democracy fails -- people like you spreading lies that you know are lies and have no qualms about fanning the flames of ignorance.
I just read a giant poll of republicans and 85% blame Biden for the problems of the pandemic. We all lived through Trumps blundering and Biden fixing but somehow they have created their own fantasy narrative.
These things should always be open to question. Was the job well done? Could it have been better? If so, what can we change?
The problem is jumping to the double conclusion that it was incompetence and that that was because women can't be firefighters.
But they do this to divide & distract.
I watched Norah O’Donnell on CBS news this afternoon, and her needling questions to the fire chief was a big turnoff! The fire chief said she couldn’t have saved all the homes if she had a thousand trucks. You don’t have to be a genius to see this! It’s a devil fire!
As far as I can tell "DEI hire" is shorthand for somebody who got a job despite a tradition in the field of not hiring people who look like the hire -- in other words someone so compellingly good that despite the racism, sexism, homophobia, or whatever would have traditionally barred them.
If someone OVERLY Qualified is NOT good for the job...what does that say about Trump? A Felon & Rapist. Someone who by his own Criteria via Obama Era Trump, President Trump did a TERRIBLE job. If anything we see Reverse DEI where people get hired because they're WHITE!!
I will give you Hillary Clinton as example.
Nobody thought she slept to the top, eve she was wife of president. Because everybody even those who didn't agree with her or even hate her recognise she is very strong personality.
“DEI” in the mouths of right wingers is nothing but the 2025 version of saying “ni#%er”. It’s code for where raging racists and here’s our 21st century dog whistle that doesn’t even work because everyone can hear it.
24 years of experience, saving lives—sounds qualified to me. Maybe focus on the flames, not fanning hate. This is a crisis, people. We should be fighting fires - not bigotry.
So, now every woman in any position in America is a DEI hire? I sat in my office with 37 years of experience and was told by my male coworker that i was a DEI hire. I retired 4 days later.
They somehow don't realize that if women could sleep our way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top. Not because we'd all do it, but because those who WOULD do it would actually make it to the top.
Especially when you consider the fragile incels in power. Wave yesterday's panties in the wind and they'd probably come running (preferably into a pungi stick trap but I digress).
As the only woman on a team several times, there's a weird dynamic to be held to a higher standard, meeting that standard and above, doing more than her male counterparts (who sometimes sit idle at their desks) and then still the woman is considered a DEI hire. But if you say anything about it...
Lemme tell ya...I was an office manager and the sales team was so excited to hire on a new guy with an "impressive resume". I laughed hysterically inside when he came to me and asked me to RUSH OVERNIGHT MORNING MAIL an important letter to Publishers Clearing House. 🫠🙃 He was not a smart man.
😮 Have worked with some myself! One was the nephew (nepotism, hooray) of the boss who did work for another job the whole time he was there, which we all had mixed feelings about because he was an idiot & did everything wrong. But it was also more work for the rest of us.
Being a supporting character is always wild. You're always "not experienced enough for the pay" and also "required to have as much knowledge to know when the main character messes up before they mess up or to fix their problems."
The Taliban Christian Nationalists, are blaming women and the LGBTQ community for the fire. It’s the 21st Century but in America it’s the Dark Ages where religion and superstition flourish.
Nah, you can be white but if you're LGBT, a woman, have any kind of neurodivergence that has helped you build empathy for others, or born with a disability, you're a DEI hire. I have trumpers in my family. I can't even talk to them anymore without feeling my blood pressure rise.
If she was a white male, they wouldn’t question her one damn bit! Guess what??? A fucking woman can actually do more shit, better than some men! She earned her damn spot!
By whom? Only hateful creeps, misogynists, sexists… MAGA GOP losers would take advantage of the unprecedented powerful windstorm to target the LAFD Chief. They can go to hell and stay there!
As someone who has a close relative who is a major trumper who owns a business, the racism and sexism couldn't be stronger. He was so sexist he told his female and intersex children that they weren't fit to take over the company, but his son was DESPITE his son having drug charges.
😒 What in the entire FUCK??? 🙄🤦🏽♀️ California is on fire. Kansas, Texas, & various other states are freezing, and between all of the states I mentioned THERE'S NO ELECTRICITY. YET THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT TO ARGUE ABOUT??? 🤨
The type of people who seek opportunity to create division in times of crisis, don't want unity. They want unification of power...so no, we wont be able to all just get along.
Kind of like Trump in NC saying what a bad job Biden was doing in the middle of clean up while everyone forgot that when Trump was in office a hurricane roared through NC and when they asked him for help he told them to GFY and sent them 1% of the funds they requestion. B/C their Gov was/is a Dem.
I was JUST thinking about this. I was reading another article about the California fires and the number of right wingers b%tching about how Biden was a jerk to NC and never helped NC was insane. I know I should be the better person, but I also hope that at least five massive hurricanes crucify USA.
Are they seriously running with this narrative as our state is burning? FoxNews is SHIT!!! My niece has to evacuate and thousands have lost or losing their homes, and they want to talk about DEI?!?!? Fuck them.
They lost 800mill$ because they knowingly lied about the voting machines. They never had to retract as part of the settlement! Never had to go on air and so fox watchers don’t know this
My brother did not know. He didn’t know about chump losing half a bill$ in New York. Said all women who have come forward are trying to get money. Seeing there are no pictures of him with them! Fox has warped reality and they all fall inline!
Sadly, this country has made it loud and clear how much it hates females. I knew it then and I still know it. Everything that doesn't involve a mediocre old white dude with lots of $ is considered a "DEI hire". Faux news and their magats are all about dehumanizing.
And mysogenistic. I'm going back & forth with a guy who calls Amy Coney Barrett a DEI hire because she sided w/the majority yesterday to clear the way for Trump's sentencing.🙄
These are not logical people that you are trying to reach… You should try to make his brain explode by asking what that says about Trump for giving her the job to see what sort of flailing word salad you get
They know that women will run this world one day and they are scared. Any opportunity to tear down a woman, they’ll take it. This is why we never give up. 💙💪💙
I would like Fox and MAGA to explain how having white men only in the fire departments would stop this major fire from spreading. Perhaps, MAGA can change the laws of nature, physics and chemistry, in order to prevent these fires. Perhaps MAGA can share their discoveries with the rest of us.
Republicans calling for LA Mayor, Karen Bass to resign. Trump was responsible for the deaths of over 500K Americans, they did not call for his resignation, as a matter of fact, they re-elected him.
Dr Fauchi is the murderer. He funded gain of function research in the Wuhan lab. Trump as bad as he is was at the mercy of the so called ‘scientists’ calling the shots.
Trump is a moron who shouldn't be given time of the day.
But that mayor fucked up big. She needs to go. I mean, I don't mind that rich people's houses burned down, but handling of the situation by both mayor and governor is disgusting.
Defunding firefighters, no water in the hydrant system to combat fire etc... So far, they seem to have ignored every red flag. And it's not like CA isn't suspectible to fires.
Love how they are going DEI, but forget about the wind gust getting up to 100 mph or they are putting the hydrant system to the limit. Also she not in command of these incidents anymore, Calfire soCal command is now in charge of the whole thing as the state’s FD.
LA City Fire Chief Kristin Crowley is a badass. She is a white woman. Pacific Palisades is part of LA City. Altadena is not part of LA City, it's in LA County, and the LA County fire chief is Anthony Marrone, a white man. These are the two big fires. Fox idiots can just stfu about L.A.
The DEI phrase keeps slipping into sound bites. An alarm went off for me with Cheatle. A concern crossed my mind about the Kennedy faces when women were talking during the NOLA presser. Hopefully I’m wrong.We’ll see.
The Trumps: Donald +Jr, Eric, Ivanka etc. are the biggest DEI hire in history. I mean, how many unqualified kleptocratic, narcissistic grifters are there in the US?
I get your meaning but they are, of course, the opposite of DEI. They ARE, however, what they think DEI is, “Entitled, privileged, unearned.” I found it so on the nose when Trump asked the journalist on the black journalist panel to “define” DEI. It’s literally an acronym like FBI or USA. Define it?
Being DEI Hire Doesn’t Mean You Aren’t Required To Have—The Qualifications And Experience Necessary To Get The Position—-It Means As DEI —Your Chances Of Being Employed Are Now Protected Equal Opportunities—Usually Denied Bc. Of Race, Sex And Other Prejudices.
Anybody who isn’t a white man is a DEI hire to them. Ironically they fail to grasp that their anti-DEI means hiring only white men, which is even more discriminatory.
So the news across the world covers the LA fires,, but has long ago forgotten the mass murder of 18,000 children and 11,000 mothers and women being dismembered, burned alive tortured and shot in Gaza and the West Bank by the most disgusting, cowardly country on earth - Shitrael.
White people want to believe "DEI" means unqualified. In fact DEI in necessary bc her distinguished resume would not otherwise be enough to get her the job over white men.
Understandable in a country built for white people. I fully understand the desire to defend whiteness. No one wants to think poorly of their tribe. I even understand why white men feel under threat.
I just think it's their job to become self-aware rather than mine to keep coddling them.
I don’t understand the desire to defend whiteness. Or cis-men for that matter. It’s ALL WHITE MEN until the supposed “good ones” stand up and crush the rest. Until that day, they’re just flapping their gums while profiting off their brothers in arms.
Always found it funny that the guy who's behind only Tucker Carlson & Josh Hawley for being a weak cowardly impotent beta cuck, champions 50's masculinity ideals as if he isn't the farthest thing from them.
Like GOP morons carrying "Atlas Shrugged" when NONE of them would be allowed in Galt's Gulch.
True. What sucks is the right has conditioned their voters to assume DEI=less qualified minority hire. We saw Musk pushing this idea hard and the racists ate that shit up.
What's more frustrating is no qualifications changed for these jobs, yet somehow people are stupid enough to believe this crap.
Trump's picked are absolutely prood DEI should exist, because qualified people aren't considered in a country where roughly half the voting population thinks government exists to "own the libs"
I STILL can't fathom how tf trump is going to be our president. I'm freelance now, but when I was applying and interviewing for jobs I was qualified for I was beyond scrutinized and judged. I couldn't even work as caregiver because I didn't already know CPR despite the reassurance they had training.
Maybe the diversity they refer to is the token employee with skills and experience? Looking at Trump's cabinet choices that is evidently a real rarity in some American institutions...
Sadly, there is no requirement for a CEO who ruins companies and countless lives to have his solid gold parachute buckled on during a skydiving excursion.
For a certain group of jealous white men who are failing to accomplish as much and yearn for the days of having higher class gifted to them due to lower melanin levels and a wiener, yes.
It appears to me this is the new way to get by with racism without it being called racism. I think it is shameful! We have spent decades and generations fighting this poison in our society. What has changed so much that we have to fight this again?
Looking at that resume, i would rate her a better President than the corrupt fool that just got elected. If only she had lied, cheated, stole and screwed porn stars, she might have been able to run
Don’t leave out confessed to being a serial sexual assaulter, court acknowledged RAPIST, 34 times convicted felon, caught on tape demanding Ukraine make up shit about Biden, demanding Georgia “find votes” and change the election results.
The real question is: WHY DIDN’T THE DOJ charge TRUMP???
Simply put, they have no balls, that'
s why. Hide your eyes from my next statement ladies. The Trumpet only blows his own bugle and the Muskrat sucks on it. The M lady probably does a good job of that too
Trump & co. are supremacists. They believe women only exist for male pleasure and reproduction.They fear non-standard forms of gender identity and sexual orientation. They blame immigrants, POC, trans, gays, DEI & all minorities for their failures. Like the NAZIs they co-opted religion.
No, all white men got their jobs because they were the most qualified,obviously.
And apparently for decades, even centuries, they were the only ones qualified to do anything! Thank goodness we could rely on them to get the job done! /s
Meanwhile, Pete Hegseth, alcoholic, sex abuser, limited management experience, minor rank, talk show host is recommended to manage the world's largest, most complex bureaucracy, the US military. DEI indeed.
DEI is just Republican code for Black, Brown, Women leaders. They don’t care about the facts. If you’re not a white cis-man, in their eyes, you’re not “qualified” for leadership. There’s only one solution for that kind of thinking, and Luigi showed us the way.
Lee Atwater famously said you can’t say the N-word anymore so you must say busing. Today when they say DEI, they mean the N-word or some other epithet for Asian, Hispanic, female, etc. Decoding this exposes their underlying and gross viewpoint.
This is the most accurate thing I've read all week. DEI is the new N-word ESPECIALLY since Magats can't tell the difference between ethnicities or cultures.
It doesn’t matter who it is. If the fire chief were a white man he’d be called ‘woke’, if he were a republican he’d be a RINO. The point is to insult and then play the victim when mainstream society pushes back.
Whether a word is a pejorative is entirely in the intention of the person who uses it.
The whole phrase 'white cis male' here is meant in a negative way. Is it reasonable to use a person's skin colour, sex, or gender as a shorthand for expressing dislike or criticism?
But that's the thing when those types of people are doing the hiring these people of color would never get the job regardless of their resume. They are literally screaming why we need DEI.
Such a good point. According to Charlie Kirk, black people are simply incapable of flying a plane. This sounds like a very familiar argument you might hear during the time of Jim Crow.
The real DEI hires are old white men with connections. Be suspicious of them! A good chunk of them got their jobs because of who they know not what they know.
Exactly they pinned that title on Kamala as well. They’re just disgusting. They can make up any excuse for anything because they know their own failures. There are no excuses for politicians that can stand there and accept what that 🍊 🤡 says and does. It takes a MAN to own up to their mistakes.
Well they also believe a billionaire failed businessman was more qualified than a prosecutor, former attorney general, Senator and VP. Why? Simply because they are women.
And your evidence Mr Fire Scientist? How did Americans get to this level of stupidity and denial of their racism and think its acceptable? So, what are Elon and Trump's qualifications to be in any position?
What have they done or achieved except claim other people work as their own and being racists exploiters, women haters and mentally ill with money? Try and be more objective please.
Meanwhile the soon for be president has 4 years of ineffective experience and zero experience the first time. If anyone is a DEI hire it’s Trump. Plus most of his cabinet has zero experience.
I feel sorry for her every time I watch Five clips.
She talks sense to idiots and they just mansplain over the top.
She has a functioning brain; they get cheap laughs and think they’ve wrong an argument.
I heard one of those geniuses on Fox repeating a ridiculous rumor that in 1867 Harry Truman tried to buy Greenland. He was not alive yet in 1867 as he was born in 1884. They are too dumb and ignorant to know the difference.
Trumper MAGA doing their best to spew their lies. You know who the original DEI hire was: supreme court justice Clarence Thomas. It was called the affirmative action.
Affirmative Action was meant to balance long-standing unfair hiring practices whereby equally qualified women and people of color were routinely NOT hired - with jobs generally given to white men instead.
Why does anyone take exception to her being called a DEI employee? The more they level the accusation the more we should say ok. It's like anything theY tries to make into something to be ashamed about. People start saying it's not so etc. De-weaponize these things by staying the coarse. IMHO
Because sometimes they are dei hire, when they aren't qualified. I saw first hand a black woman, no management experience, hired on to a manager role, over a white man with ten years + management experience, who'd also already been at the company he was looking to get promoted within for a couple
Years, and she had been there a few months. He had people asking him for direction, as if he was already a manager, and she was still learning her first role, when she expressed interest in moving to a new one. When I later learned they'd promoted her up to check two boxes, & had decided to never
Promote him, it was a little annoying. Not surprising though, retail tends to do that. Appearances matter more than any real fairness. His isn't the only time this has happened. It won't be the last. Dei can be harmful. I've seen that side of it first hand.
Had the woman in your example worked out great and people display this anymosity over them they will unfairly suffer. Is it better to get the job and suffer or not get the job at all? This leads to suffering unless people stand by the concept and address the problem of where to use it.
But the problem ultimately rests in those responsible for the hire. What was their mindset? It sounds like they were the real problem. Did they have an issue with being forced to chose the DEI? Did they not not want to spend the time to find someone more capable?
The people in charge of promoting have directions from market & regional managers, who answer to company managers, that certain numbers & genders need to be hired & promoted. They don't gripe too much about dei, but do mention it from time to time. I wasn't privy to the time frame they were up
The response to those making these accusations is not to defend the resume of the person in question at the moment. It is to ask why they always believe a person of color was a DEI hire.
How do you politicize emergencies?!?! People lost their lives, their homes, everything and they’re politicizing these tragedies? They did this during the Pandemic and last year’s hurricanes, children getting gun downed at their school..where is the humanity? Their leadership? Their help and support?
I this is a good point. DEI and other good hiring practices encourages looking further afield for strong candidates. That makes it harder to hire just any old person. No wonder unqualified schmoozers everywhere are so threatened!
I'm not sure if these people are sincere in what they're saying on air but they seem to be "acting or role playing" from the looks of it...and it all looks so fake to me.🤔
Why are white men so afraid someone else may be successful? This woman is more than qualified. MAGA is cheering the most incompetent, evil cabinet ever put in place because they're all white men & loyal to trump. JFC
White men are NOTHING, and never have been ANYTHING and history shows this. That’s why they try to hide it. The only thing white men have ever done well is to profit off of the forced labor of others. Period.
If white men acknowledge the success of non-white men, they may have to level up - god forbid. And it’s just been so easy to be entirely mid all this time.
Because they're projecting. They believe being white and male (but most importantly being rich) means you should get everything handed to you without skill or effort put in. The whole thing with the H1B was essentially about that.
When someone else is successful, the cis het white dudes are suddenly faced with their (at best) mediocrity. They don't like the truth any more than their Mango Messiah does. They have no ACTUAL merit to make them valuable.
Because for a very long time a lot of very mediocre men got where they did solely due to their connections, skin colour, and genitalia. They don't want competition for "their" place in society because they've never faced it before and know they'll fail.
That's an insult to every dog I've ever had. Even the pitbull mix who only had nerve and it was in his stomach had more braincells than some of the right wingers. His empathy though could NEVER be matched by them.
Calling any POC a DEI hire is so inherently racist. It means they automatically think they have no merit just because they aren’t white. Most white men in positions of power have no merit, just money. They bought their way in just like Elon did. Bezos owns Washington Post. He’s not a journalist.
Bingo! The irony is there are NO DEI hires since the CORRUPT SCOTUS outlawed affirmative action. Republicans can’t even keep up with their own destruction.
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As if they aren’t the DEI hire.
What possible accommodation could THIS person have needed in order to do this job.
Oh. Wait. I know...
Permission from some white bigot who probably didn't get the job... because they were less qualified?
DEI doesn't mean LESS.
Climate change is caused by Democrats, not by burning Fossil Fuels.
how god damn stupid have Americans become?
The problem is jumping to the double conclusion that it was incompetence and that that was because women can't be firefighters.
But they do this to divide & distract.
Nobody thought she slept to the top, eve she was wife of president. Because everybody even those who didn't agree with her or even hate her recognise she is very strong personality.
She’s got AMAZING restraint in the parking garage btw!!!!
#CaliforniaFires #StayClassy
#CaliforniaFires
We are a broken country.
They're awful people.
It’s fucking childish
No more debating these FN pale males.
MAGA:
But that mayor fucked up big. She needs to go. I mean, I don't mind that rich people's houses burned down, but handling of the situation by both mayor and governor is disgusting.
I just think it's their job to become self-aware rather than mine to keep coddling them.
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
It is the same as with the Appalachian floods. They talk about talk about weather machines, not how to rebuild.
Like GOP morons carrying "Atlas Shrugged" when NONE of them would be allowed in Galt's Gulch.
Fox sucks.
What's more frustrating is no qualifications changed for these jobs, yet somehow people are stupid enough to believe this crap.
Conservatives will never think a woman, or a person of color, is the best person for the job no matter what.
In many ways, so is Trump… He certainly fucking doesn’t have a résumé for president yet less janitor.
So DEI hires are people fully qualified to do their jobs? I don’t see a problem with this. 🤷🏻♀️
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There is something that is clearly an natural disaster and it's in a state that didn't vote for him
All he has to do is say he will continue to support the emergency responders and for minimum effort he looks good, and he can't even manage that
Let’s focus on defeating them and not frustrating us.
And a new convenient replacement when they'd like to use the N-word.
She preached about that as she worked hard to get to top of RNC.
#MAGA sickness prevails
The real question is: WHY DIDN’T THE DOJ charge TRUMP???
s why. Hide your eyes from my next statement ladies. The Trumpet only blows his own bugle and the Muskrat sucks on it. The M lady probably does a good job of that too
translation
"I'm a white guy, & I feel threatened by people who aren't white and male."
🙄🙄🙄
And apparently for decades, even centuries, they were the only ones qualified to do anything! Thank goodness we could rely on them to get the job done! /s
It’s only seen as suspect because those weirdo’s don’t want everyone to have equal access to jobs. Ughhh🤢
God these men are pansies
The whole phrase 'white cis male' here is meant in a negative way. Is it reasonable to use a person's skin colour, sex, or gender as a shorthand for expressing dislike or criticism?
(It's just that they got hired so they never TELL people what they know....)
We're sorry, we couldn't find anything that isn't wrong with the Republican Party
Aha. I see.
She talks sense to idiots and they just mansplain over the top.
She has a functioning brain; they get cheap laughs and think they’ve wrong an argument.
i miss the good ol days when racists didnt try to appear normal
now they are convincing and or intimidating people into believing that if white ppl are not running the show then the show is rigged
classic #elonald
heads i win
tails you lose
actually think disassembling their argument by proving the presumptions wrong, ie: look at their resume, their qualifications
is the right thing
it leaves the BS artist's motive clear as day, when you remove all possibilities for logic of their so-called position on DEI
https://youtu.be/uFUpx1Po4C8
“Yes, a$$hole. I AM a DEI hire. I Definitely Earned It!”
People they mean:
Definitely Earned It
Did Everything In-spite
Deserves Equal Income