Charlie Kirk Blames DEI for Texas Flood Disaster Deaths in Kirk County Relief Failure

[00:00] It turns out water wasn't the cause of

[00:02] all that wreckage in Texas. It was just

[00:04] a flood of DEI. This is just another

[00:07] day.

[00:10] The horrors of the devastating flood in

[00:12] Kirk County, Texas are still being felt

[00:14] by the community and our nation as a

[00:16] whole. And no one is grieving more than

[00:18] Charlie Kirk.

[00:19] >> We are in a state of national mourning,

[00:21] as we should be. And the Democrats,

[00:23] they're so despicable.

[00:24] >> Yes. I believe every good eulogy during

[00:26] a state of national mourning begins with

[00:27] the ceremonial bashing of the dirty

[00:30] libs. Please continue.

[00:32] >> What you are not being told by the media

[00:34] anywhere

[00:35] is that the death toll likely would not

[00:38] have been as high if it wasn't for DEI.

[00:42] >> Sure. But while most people can point to

[00:43] the myriad of logical causes for what

[00:45] happened, such as an act of God

[00:47] exacerbated by climate change, coupled

[00:48] with budget cuts that eliminated key

[00:50] scientific positions, the other much

[00:52] less beloved Captain Kirk has decided to

[00:55] go another way.

[00:56] >> Let me prove it to you. In 2014, the

[00:59] Obama administration sued the Austin

[01:01] Fire Department about 11 years ago, fire

[01:03] union, for supposed racial

[01:05] discrimination resulting in a

[01:07] settlement. So, the Obama administration

[01:10] was so worried that the fire department

[01:13] in Austin, Texas was racist because, you

[01:15] know, when you're putting out fires, you

[01:17] got to make sure that you have a diverse

[01:18] fighting force. So, a few years later,

[01:20] they picked Joel Baker as their first

[01:23] black fire chief. But when you hire

[01:25] people based on race, you're not hiring

[01:27] based on skill. So, right now, Baker is

[01:29] facing a vote of no confidence by his

[01:30] union for, this is the key, for denying

[01:33] the pre-eployment of resources to

[01:35] Kurville, Texas. It goes without saying

[01:37] for a guy with gums like these, but your

[01:39] argument lacks teeth. Look, if it turns

[01:42] out that Baker, Austin's fire chief, was

[01:44] in fact negligent, which the mayor of

[01:45] Austin has said he wasn't, and even

[01:47] categorize his relief effort as going

[01:49] above and beyond, that would be one

[01:51] thing. But even if he was negligent,

[01:53] that still doesn't make him a DEI hire.

[01:56] It makes him a guy who screwed up at his

[01:58] job. If you pay attention to politics

[02:00] today, you're probably intimately

[02:02] familiar with people like that. And

[02:04] let's take a step back here. What is

[02:06] Charlie Kirk accusing Baker of exactly?

[02:08] Not supplying the proper resources to

[02:10] people in need. That is literally the

[02:13] mantra of this administration. Donald

[02:15] Trump campaigns on cutting funding from

[02:17] agencies whose goal is to prevent

[02:19] disasters and giving people support when

[02:21] they inevitably do. Somehow when white

[02:24] people jeopardize the safety and

[02:25] well-being of Americans, it's not the

[02:28] time to point fingers. But when a black

[02:30] person does it, suddenly it's another

[02:32] instance of DEI destroying our once

[02:34] great nation. And it's an excuse Donald

[02:37] Trump falls back on over and over again.

[02:40] Remember back in January when military

[02:41] helicopters were crashing on his watch?

[02:44] >> I'm trying to figure out how you can

[02:45] come to the conclusion right now that

[02:47] diversity had something to do with this

[02:49] crash.

[02:50] >> Because I have common sense, okay? And

[02:53] unfortunately, a lot of people don't. Uh

[02:56] we want brilliant people doing this.

[02:58] This is a major chess game.

[03:00] >> Yeah, probably not the best example to

[03:02] use considering even a chess game has an

[03:04] equal amount of black players. Nothing

[03:06] that Donald Trump can't solve with a

[03:08] simple fix. Trump made the eradication

[03:10] of diversity, equity, and inclusion the

[03:13] centerpiece of his re-election effort.

[03:14] And the minute he got into office, he

[03:17] took action. President Trump continuing

[03:19] a record- setting flurry of executive

[03:21] actions with a new series of orders that

[03:24] aimed to end all federal diversity,

[03:26] equity, and inclusion or DEI programs.

[03:30] President Trump's press secretary,

[03:32] Caroline Levit, telling NBC News in a

[03:34] statement, quote, "President Trump

[03:36] campaigned on a merit-based society

[03:39] where people are hired based on their

[03:41] skills, not for the color of their

[03:43] skin." That's right. based on their

[03:45] merit, the caliber of their work, like

[03:47] Shawn Duffy, the guy who was leading the

[03:49] Department of Transportation when just

[03:51] months ago, Newark airport had to cancel

[03:53] tons of flights because it was deemed

[03:55] unsafe, and also the guy in charge when

[03:57] those helicopters and planes were

[03:59] running into each other more than Matt

[04:00] Gates runs into the high school girls

[04:02] track team when he just happens to be

[04:04] out for a casual jog. What did Shawn

[04:06] Duffy get for his merit?

[04:08] >> President Donald Trump names US

[04:09] Transportation Secretary Shawn Duffy as

[04:12] interim administrator of NASA. NASA.

[04:16] Sure, why not? Trump saw planes falling

[04:18] out of the sky and thought, "Okay, but

[04:19] what if they fell from a higher

[04:21] altitude?" And it's not just Duffy.

[04:23] Let's take a look at the rest of this

[04:25] administration. An administration that

[04:27] for the first time in history is based

[04:29] solely on merit. We've got a weekend Fox

[04:32] anchor as the Secretary of Defense, an

[04:34] antivax conspiracy theorist who has no

[04:37] medical or public health degree as

[04:38] Secretary of Health and Human Services.

[04:40] We've got Howard Lutnik leaving his

[04:42] full-time role as Trump's fluffer to

[04:44] serve as Secretary of Commerce. This

[04:46] administration is a who's who of people

[04:48] who have no business serving in their

[04:51] roles, which puts on full display what

[04:53] Republican protests against DEI are

[04:55] actually about. They're not looking for

[04:57] qualified. They are looking for white

[04:59] men. That's all this is. The way this

[05:01] administration paints DEI is simply a

[05:04] less explicit form of racism and is

[05:06] their scapegoat for everything. The

[05:08] Dodgers are being sued over the team's

[05:11] diversity, equity, and inclusion

[05:13] policies. That's according to a report

[05:15] from the Hollywood Reporter. The suit

[05:16] was said to have been filed Monday by

[05:18] America First Legal, a conservative

[05:21] group founded by White House Deputy

[05:23] Chief of Staff and Santa Monica native

[05:24] Steven Miller. The lawsuit claims that

[05:27] the Dodgers and their ownership group

[05:29] Guggenheim Partners illegally

[05:31] discriminate against straight white men.

[05:34] The suit was filed less than two weeks

[05:36] after the team said they denied federal

[05:38] immigration agents access to Dodger

[05:41] Stadium.

[05:41] >> Right. Because if I know anything about

[05:43] Major League Baseball, one class that is

[05:45] most underrepresented is straight white

[05:48] men. And it's not just sports. Corporate

[05:50] America is also dealing with this

[05:52] horrible scourge of DEI. They churned

[05:54] out these DEI graduates who were ready

[05:56] to go into all of corporate America and

[05:59] DEI

[06:02] their companies. There is no problem.

[06:05] There is not systemic bias in

[06:07] corporations against females or minor

[06:09] minorities. The opposite is the case.

[06:11] Females and minorities are being

[06:13] privileged at every possible

[06:15] opportunity. It's straight white males

[06:17] who are being disadvantaged by their

[06:20] race and sex and sexual preferences.

[06:22] >> Yeah. When will white guys in corporate

[06:24] America finally catch a break? And by

[06:26] the way, this war on three-letter

[06:28] acronyms is not new. The Republican

[06:30] party has been demonizing three-letter

[06:32] acronyms for decades. And I'm not even

[06:34] talking about HPV, which I'd presume

[06:37] they have in great supply. Before DEI,

[06:40] the horrific murder of George Floyd

[06:41] brought CRT into the mainstream, which

[06:44] according to conservatives became a

[06:45] worse offense than putting your knee on

[06:47] a nan's neck for 9 minutes and 29

[06:49] seconds. Before CRT, after George

[06:51] Zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting

[06:53] death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed

[06:55] black teenager, the BLM movement began

[06:57] as a reaction to people believing that,

[06:59] you know, black lives matter. And before

[07:02] even that, George W. Bush trotted out

[07:05] WMDs and painted anybody skeptical of

[07:07] his claims as America-hating traitors.

[07:10] The right has been demonizing these

[07:11] three-letter phrases for years. In fact,

[07:13] they've grown so accustomed to the

[07:15] fear-mongering about these acronyms that

[07:17] sometimes they don't even know why

[07:19] they're so afraid.

[07:20] >> Do you think that there should be rules

[07:22] about what is taught in school?

[07:23] >> Oh, absolutely.

[07:25] >> Like, what wouldn't you like to see?

[07:27] >> There's critical race theory.

[07:28] >> Yeah, that critical race theory. As soon

[07:29] as I heard about that, I'm like, why are

[07:34] we doing this?

[07:35] >> What is What is critical race theory?

[07:38] >> I I don't know. I haven't

[07:41] >> Right. I don't know what it is, but I

[07:43] hate it. What are you, a 5-year-old who

[07:44] has just served broccoli? Not only is

[07:46] the weaponization and vilification of

[07:48] three-letter acronyms nothing new, but

[07:50] trying to make it seem new is the most

[07:53] onbrand move for Donald Trump outside of

[07:55] his marriages. Talk about the rule of

[07:57] threes. The truth is that the agenda

[07:59] Trump is enacting is too unpopular to

[08:01] stand on its own feet. So instead, Trump

[08:04] slaps some gold paint on it.

[08:05] >> They've never found a paint that looks

[08:07] like gold.

[08:07] >> Sorry, goldish paint. and then attempts

[08:10] to sell a garbage product as if it's

[08:12] something great. But spinning tax cuts

[08:14] for the wealthy while then ripping away

[08:16] millions and millions of dollars from

[08:17] education and rural hospitals and

[08:20] Medicaid and weather warning systems and

[08:22] food stamps programs is not easy. You

[08:25] need to sell it. And you can't sell

[08:27] trash ideas like that without trash

[08:29] people like this. Charlie Kirk and

[08:32] everybody else in his putrid ecosystem

[08:34] on the right spends every waking moment

[08:36] of their days whipping Americans into a

[08:38] frenzy over DEI, pitting white people

[08:41] against brown people against black

[08:42] people, inflaming tensions on race, all

[08:45] so that their elected officials can get

[08:47] the cover that they need to do whatever

[08:49] they want, like making themselves richer

[08:51] at the expense of the poor. They do it

[08:53] constantly and without shame because

[08:55] villains need enemies to survive because

[08:58] without them they're just with

[09:00] a up mouth.

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