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Victor, here's a headline.

There's a lot in this.

And folks have heard and talked so much about fires, but some news came out yesterday. Again, we're

recording on the 11th of January. Leaked memo, leaked memo reveals L.A. Mayor Karen Bass demanded

her fire department cut an extra $49 million just one week before the wildfires broke out. This

is from the Daily Mail. Quick read here

the first three lines. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass demanded her fire department to make an extra

$49 million of budget cuts last week. A leaked memo revealed. The cut is already on top of the

$17.6 million of cuts in her latest budget, the extra cuts requested just days

before the fires broke out and devastated swaths of Los Angeles would have shut down

16 fire stations and crippled the department's ability to respond to emergencies, sources.

She hired in her budget, her $50 billion budget,

451 new positions.

And you go and look at them as I did, they're all, not all, but almost all of them are

DEI.

So remember everybody, DEI is a sin of commission and omission. It impedes

productivity. It's a commissariat

that double-guesses you and tries to audit you when you're doing

nothing wrong. But then it eats away resources. And it destroys meritocracy.

If I could just indulge everybody, I would like to just go down a check rule of this confederacy

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