Speaker 1: You know, you get started with the world of politics.
Speaker 1: Where the world has changed over the last two days.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump was inaugurated as the forty seventh president of
Speaker 1: the United States of America and went straight to work.
Speaker 1: Within hours of his swearing in ceremony, Trump signed at
Speaker 1: least forty six executive orders and presidential actions one day
Speaker 1: that addressed the number of campaign pledges. The executive orders
Speaker 1: included the end of Biden era border policies and pardoning
Speaker 1: more than fifteen hundred people from the January sixth Capitol Riots.
Speaker 1: Trump also ordered all federal employees and diversity, equity and
Speaker 1: inclusion roles placed on paid leave by tonight, Wednesday, January
Speaker 1: twenty second. In addition to all of that, Donald Trump
Speaker 1: withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization, a
Speaker 1: significant move that drew criticism from public health experts. A
Speaker 1: couple of things get to my mind, and that's what
Speaker 1: I want to start first. Okay, first things first, in
Speaker 1: terms of pardoning folks from the Riots capital in the
Speaker 1: US Capital, January sixth, twenty twenty one, I do not
Speaker 1: agree with that decision by the President of the United States.
Speaker 1: I do believe that a lot of folks should have
Speaker 1: been pardoned, etc. But when you bring up Proud Boys
Speaker 1: and the Oathkeepers and considering the charges that were leveled
Speaker 1: against them, anybody, and I'm just using that as an example,
Speaker 1: anybody that engaged in violence, to me, that should have
Speaker 1: been different. If you're the commander in chief of the
Speaker 1: United States of America, if you preach about the importance
Speaker 1: of law and order, and someone has flagrantly engaged in lawlessness,
Speaker 1: but you give them a pass just because they supported you,
Speaker 1: you're not supporting the law. You're supporting you. Again, the
Speaker 1: vast majority of people who found themselves really under the
Speaker 1: eyes and the microscopic focus of the federal government, particularly
Speaker 1: on the left, when it came to arresting them and
Speaker 1: died them and ultimately convicted them of charges. The vast
Speaker 1: majority of people who may have been sent to jail
Speaker 1: or was scheduled to go to prison, those folks, everybody
Speaker 1: doesn't deserve that. But anybody who's engaged in violence, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: you know that that's lawless. You know, walking in to
Speaker 1: the rotunda, walking into the US capital and taking pictures
Speaker 1: and storming the gates or whatever, that might not have
Speaker 1: been something they should still be incarcerated for But if
Speaker 1: you committed violence against people, if you committed violence against
Speaker 1: law enforcement officials and you got let off, that's bad,
Speaker 1: especially when you're being let off by an individual who's
Speaker 1: supposed to be our chief law enforcement officers. Essentially, you're
Speaker 1: the commander in chief. That's how I look at it.
Speaker 1: And the attorney general on all that stuff, you're the
Speaker 1: command in chief period. That should not have happened. Just
Speaker 1: on that front, I'll leave it at that. We'll discuss
Speaker 1: that as a later date. Say something about diversity, equity
Speaker 1: and inclusion, because I've been noticing something on the right
Speaker 1: that's getting on my damn nerves. And I've appeared on
Speaker 1: numerous occasions on Fox News or I've appeared in numerous
Speaker 1: occasions on News Nation, CNN, a couple of times on MSNBC.
Speaker 1: I'm not ducking, I'm not how to just recently got
Speaker 1: an interview by Dave Rubin. I'm friends with Sean Hannity
Speaker 1: and Mark Levin. I know these people. Okay, let me
Speaker 1: be very very clear about what I want to say
Speaker 1: about when it comes to diversity, equity, inclusion. That's making
Speaker 1: me very very uncomfortable. I'm sick and tired of folks
Speaker 1: on the right, and I'm not talking about those individuals.
Speaker 1: I'm just talking about the right period in general. I'm
Speaker 1: sick and tired of folks bringing up DEI as if
Speaker 1: it's a bad thing to bring up. Like everybody who
Speaker 1: got a job under DEI must not have been qualified.
Speaker 1: They got it because of diversity, equity and inclusion policies
Speaker 1: implemented into corporate American beyond stop Stop. The reason DEI
Speaker 1: existed to begin with was because there were an abundance
Speaker 1: of qualified individuals from minority communities throughout this country you
Speaker 1: didn't give a second look to because they didn't look
Speaker 1: like you. I could come with it from a world
Speaker 1: of sports, when you look at the Rooney Rule, there
Speaker 1: were black coaches that were interviewed and ultimately got jobs.
Speaker 1: Why was the Rooney Rule necessary? Because there were qualified
Speaker 1: black coaches that were being ignored. If you're being ignored
Speaker 1: the not the opportunity to prove that you're worthy and
Speaker 1: possibly more qualified and more competent than a white counterpart,
Speaker 1: then rules and legislation need to be implemented to ensure fairness.
Speaker 1: So why you want to write preaching and speaking about
Speaker 1: DEEI in a negative way. You might actually be right
Speaker 1: in some cases, but could you at least remember why
Speaker 1: it came into existence to begin with, because you weren't
Speaker 1: interested in being fair before. Now the left might have
Speaker 1: came about and handled it all wrong and been a
Speaker 1: bit excessive in their behavior and elevated the level of
Speaker 1: cynicism that comes attached to with DEI, But you don't
Speaker 1: get to forget what role was played that provoked the
Speaker 1: existence of DEI to begin with. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm an independent, as we have articulated on this show
Speaker 1: on NEWERUS occasions, I'm not sided with any side definitively.
Speaker 1: I just want to make the point that fair is fair.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of problems that I have with and
Speaker 1: we'll continue to have and will continue to express and
Speaker 1: articulation about what we witness from the left. But I
Speaker 1: don't let you off on the right. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: those of you with mal intent. You've denied plenty of
Speaker 1: opportunity throughout history to people that come from minority communities
Speaker 1: throughout this country. That's why DEI came into existence. That's
Speaker 1: why stuff like the Rooney Rule is in existence. That's
Speaker 1: why you had affirmative action that was in existence. A
Speaker 1: lot of things are changing in this world. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff to discuss, but you don't get to
Speaker 1: forget your role in forcing that stuff to come about
Speaker 1: to begin with. You can try to gloss over history,
Speaker 1: it ain't gonna be that easy. Remember I said that,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about that in the very near future
Speaker 1: as well.