2-6-25 - 9am - DEI Crap

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Michael and Dragon get your act together over easy as
superior because you can get your toast or your biscuits
in it.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Golden lava.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Yeah, the biscuit is to be covered in sausage gravyre.
You go, yeah, yeah, I mean your goody little egg
yolk on your biscuit. No, that's just that's wrong.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
He's not wrong with the toast portion, no, no.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
But the biscuit is just that's sacrilegious. Look good. Why
don't we always talk.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Food because it's breakfast time.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
And I'm starving.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, which is why I.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Usually have lunch around eleven eleven thirty every day because
I'm starving.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Or former fat asses. So you know, we we know food.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
We do no food. So before we in that last
segment you heard from Steven Smith, well listen to him
again because I want you to hear a text message.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Because when you handle it the way that the Trump
administration is handling it, we want the most qualified, we
want the smartest, we want this, we want that.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
What you're really saying is.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
We want white dominance again, That's what you're really saying,
and that.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Really is a racist statement. First of all, there's no
basis in fact for that whatsoever, But to draw that
conclusion that you want to live in a meritocracy, you know,
where people are judged by the content of their character
and not by the color of their skin.

Speaker 5 (01:32):
Poor kids are just as bright and just as talent
as white kids.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
I'd say Steven Smith's got a racist.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
You want white dominance because if you're pointing the DEI,
and that's usually pointing towards quote unquote unqualified minorities, because
you're always using a.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Word qualified, qualified, qualified.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
As if as if qualified. Yeah, have you ever applied
for a job where they, you know what, you don't
meet the qualifications you're hired. Have you ever applied for
a job where you looked at the qualification or you
talk about, you know, applying for a job and you
look at the qualifications and you thought, man, I don't

(02:12):
meet half of those. That's something I'll find something, I'll
find something I'm qualified for. What the hell I mean?
I know who Stephen A. Smith is. I don't pay
a lot of attention to him, but I thought for
Black History Month, this was pretty outrageous.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
Everybody they got a position through DEI is not qualified.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
We know what you're implying.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
We know what you're insinuating, and you got folks in
the administrations.

Speaker 6 (02:40):
And Pete hegg says, oh my god, the nerve of
him to just join into the frame and give his
quote about making sure qualified people have these jobs. You're
at the Defense secretary whose only job prior to this
was as awaken host on Fox.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
News, And that's just ignorant. Do you really think that that?
I mean, that shows how little he's done. Why has
not any research? So Pete Hagsa's only job before becoming
the Secretary of Defense was as a host on a
morning show on Fox Man. You really are some kind

(03:21):
of stupid. But what caught my attention and made me
want to play this again was goober number eighty eight
seventy seven, who writes as follows, Michael, I'm so sick
and tired of hearing about DEI crap. It's only used
if it fits a person's narrative, like complaining about Trump,

(03:41):
so you call him a racist. If this is beautiful,
If Stephen A. Smith is for di then we need
to apply it to the NFL, the NBA, MLB, NHL,
and on and on and on and on. So let's

(04:02):
place quotas in the number of each race or the
color of your skin that you can have, and each
team must have that number represented. They no longer can
have the best players making up their team if they
don't meet the correct skin color. This would destroy sports
the same way we're destroying our country. One last observation,

(04:23):
Look how fast companies and corporations dropped DEI once Trump
came into office. Dragon boy, I hate to say it,
but whoever goober number eighty eight seventy seven is they
just hit a grand slam. Speaking of grand slams.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
You're gonna go to breakfast, you get a rudy two
D fresh and fruity.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
That was an excellent text message. You said it, which
is huh you said it better than I did. Wow, Well,
then I'm a DEI, just dumb white guy. Remember Joe
Biden decided he was going to cancel all the permits
for liquid natural gas and no more lng X sports.

(05:09):
We're going to shut down the porch and we're going
to do all of that.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Well he didn't know he did that, but he did that.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Well, yeah, you know what, Kim, Many Christmas, you're right
again today You probably, you know, maybe ought to get
that seat belt fixed today because you've been right twice,
so maybe ought to get that seat belt fixed, you know,
be right for the third time today.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
I just got to turn up the music. They don't
hear the alarm anymore.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
That's right. So missus red Beard said, you know, we
need to we need to get her a Nielsen meeter
her put her up there. Well, she's she's listening to
you way too much, way too much, because she was
smarter than that, I guess not. She's pretty, which I

(05:51):
don't understand. I mean, I understand she's pretty, Okay, careful, Yeah,
I understand she's a beautiful woman. I just don't understand
what did she see? Did she have like vision problems originally?

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Not even like I'm wealthy, I work in radio. She
makes almost twice as much as what I do.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
Just be thankful for that.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
I am very thankful for that.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
That's right. So anyway, whoever it was signed, all the
executive orders to get rid of liquid fied and natural
gas LNG, they clearly didn't understand. And I think many
Americans don't understand how important LNG exports are to our
strategic national interest. I think there are people who still

(06:37):
believe that investing in natural gas will quickly become some
sort of stranded asset because we all know that clean
energy is cheaper and can do everything that fossil fuels do, right,
I mean, and that the argument, that's the that's the
whole green New deal. There are still people who think

(06:58):
that the proper response to fuel shortages is to require
working families to invest in expensing new appliances. You know,
get rid of that gas stove. You know, your refrigerators
you know, ten years old, fifteen years old, get rid
of it. Get one that's higher efficiency rated, and stop

(07:19):
washing your dishes with a dishwasher. And by the way,
that showerhead you're using is wasting too much water. So
you need to go buy all new appliances so that
you can save the planet because sometime, and here's the payoff, sometime,

(07:41):
maybe in the farrow away future, you might get a
lower electric bill or a lower energy bill. But you
know that's not true. And there are still people who
argue that restricting access to natural gas will then force
those people that would have invested in natural gas to

(08:02):
then go invest in the new technologies to replace natural gas.
So no new pipelines, no new gas hookups and all
of the capital that would go into investing in the
oil and gas industry to investing in fools will now
take that money and go, well, crap, I can't invest
in look find natural gas. I think I'll go invest

(08:23):
in a windmill farm. Yeah, windmill farms that are going bankrupt.
I don't think that's what a smart investor would do.

Speaker 7 (08:34):
Now.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
I think some smart investors that want to steal from
the taxpayers, that want to commit fraud, will build a
big gas solar plant out in the desert of California
and say that it's going to supply all of this power,
and instead it's frying birds and it's not going bankrupt.
And who could have ever thought that a solar farm

(08:56):
or any sort of solar business would ever go bankrupts?
Who would have ever thought that solendra? I mean, I
just don't get it. Yeah, these lines of thinking are
obviously apparent when you go to some of the social
media websites. But those lines of thinking aren't just social

(09:21):
media rhetoric. They've inspired bands, they've inspired these mandates, they've
inspired policies that pretend to consumers are gonna happily ditch
gas if given the choice, Ask any chef worth their salt,
and they no, So then you have to ask yourself,

(09:42):
so what are these policies actually delivered? What has the
Green New Deal actually delivered for us? Europe is still
dependent on Russia for gas. Do you know that last
year Germany's imports of Russian LA cargoes were five hundred
percent higher than they were in twenty twenty three.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Wait a minute, I thought the Russians were the bad guys,
and I.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Thought that we were cutting off all that Russian gas
in order to starve Putin so he couldn't conduct the
war in Ukraine. Right, And then LNG exports to Europe,
or to Germany specifically, or at five hundred percent. You
don't understand math, you, mister numbers guy, just don't understand math.

(10:30):
It takes a guy like me who's horrible at math
to go huh shazam uh. Seems that those sanctions aren't working.
And Germany's recognized that green new energy is not working either,
and we need more LNG. But somehow the belief the
green energy would scale up and render natural gas completely unnecessary. Well,

(10:51):
at least in Germany, it's not panning out. And then
Biden comes along or whomever and says, here, mister presidents
signed this well causing export permits. That's not going to
help either in this country. In the United States, homes
and businesses pay more for their energy, especially in places

(11:11):
like the Northeast. Natural gas demand in Massachusetts, are you listening,
Janus is the same today as it was twenty years ago,
but because of opposition to pipelines all the other restrictions
we put on natural gas. Do you know that in Massachusetts?
Specifically in Massachusetts, you now pay nearly forty percent more

(11:36):
for it. Last year, natural gas made up more than
half of all electric power generation in New England, a
record high, but massive new federal subsidies for old electric
heat pumps water heaters were those that were supposed to
transform the market. But then you look at the latest

(11:59):
data from the Internal Revenue Service shows that more taxpayers
are using incentives for efficient natural gas units than electric
units now. Contained in that sentence is once again a
contradiction that if you don't pay attention, you would say
to yourself, Brown, did you realize what you just said?

(12:21):
The latest data from the US Internal Revenue Service shows
more taxpayers are using incentives to purchase either efficient efficient
natural gas units. Then they are using incentives or subsidies
to purchase so called efficient electrical units. The marketplace is

(12:46):
speaking even when they use subsidies, even when you're offered, hey,
you'll if you'll buy an all electric house, you'll get
certain number of rebates. But over here this house, you
can have a gas stove, you can have a gas
water heater, you can have all these things. But we'll
give you some subsidies for that too. So which you know,

(13:06):
it all pans out to be the same what you
do want, all ing with the gas because consumers know
what they want. The government does not. The government is
trying to tell you what they want, and they're trying
to force you into what you want. Let's go back
to Europe for a moment. I've often said, like I
do with California, watch California, because then so goes the nation.

(13:29):
I've also said, look across the pond. What happens across
the Atlantic is coming here too. In Europe, heat pump
sales fell by nearly fifty percent of the first half
of last year. Why because natural gas is still cheaper.
Not only is natural gas still cheaper, but it's more
efficient and it's more reliable. I don't I just want

(13:54):
you to think this is this is today's assignment. Because
when I say more reliable, I want you to think
everything you do today, how energy was involved in whatever
service you used, product, you purchased, trip, you made, meals,
you cooked, meals, you ate out. I don't care whatever

(14:17):
it is you do today, even if it's just coming
into if you're a talk radio host and you walk
into a studio, look around, I expect, oh, well, the
light bulbs actually are working. The power was there all
the time. Even if the light bulbs weren't working, there
was still power. And it was cold when I came
in here this morning and I turned up the thermostad

(14:39):
and the heat came on, and so it's bearable in here. Now.
The Wi Fi is working, which takes energy, and the
monitors are all up and running, and the microphone is working,
and Dragon's board is working.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
We're on the air.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
We're on the air. And by the way, we have
gigantic gas diesel generators back there that for some reason
the power goes out, boom, they kick in. And those
diesel engines, man, you can hear them all the way
into this studio, they crank out the power like crazy.
You know why, because that diesel is a reliable source

(15:15):
of BT used to fire up those generators. Gas demand
is not some conspiracy theory by the people that produce
fossil fuels to try to get you to buy it.
But those advocates of those in the media who keep
trying to get fossil fuel methane gas all that to
stick to this new terminology about how bad it is

(15:38):
a transparent effort to rhetorically undermine support for natural gas.
They'd actually be better off if they just acknowledged that
affordability and not language is what matters. Opponent's natural gas
have been consistently wrong about consumer preferences, and they've been

(15:59):
wrong about the trajectory of the market. Doubling down on
policies they've inspired on the belief that they're going to
deliver different results is again Einstein's definition of insanity. Liquefied
natural gas is the persistent demand. I would say for

(16:22):
natural gas is not a myth. It shows how a
free market seeks the most efficient use of your dollars,
the most efficient way to accomplish what it is you
want to accomplish, whether it's driving from point A to
point B, or it's heating your water, heating your home
or cooling your home. Whatever it might be. Natural gas,

(16:45):
whether it's natural gas that you use as a consumer
at your point of consumption or the natural gas that
produces the electricity that you consume at your point of consumption.
It's the most reliable Excel and other public utility companies
doing no shutting them down for wind and solar, even

(17:07):
as solar farms gigantic, big ass solar farms go bankrupt.

Speaker 7 (17:15):
Yes, you guys are missing the boat beaver is just nasty.
But there's nothing like fresh mud turtle.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
Mud turtle, I mean, is turtle and delicious? Ever had
turtle before.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
Mud turtle?

Speaker 2 (17:45):
I supposed there was a turtle soup. That's the thing,
isn't it.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
Well, when you just google mud turtle, you get, uh
can a stern on, a genus of small aquatic turtles
from the America is known, Tom LEAs you.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Learn your lesson about googling things with two girls one cup,
I mean, do you do not want to google something
like that, Mike Cole?

Speaker 3 (18:12):
But it might lead to uh, you know, challenging way
to describe something on air that I couldn't otherwise describe. No,
but these are they're found in Mexico's Central America, South America.
The greatest species richness is in Mexico, and only three
species are found in South America. M oh, that reminds me,

(18:35):
speaking of Mexico. Let's go back to the text messages
for a moment. Well, we've had some You guys are
really good today, which I really hate to admit.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Don't you tell them that I know, but.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
I just sometimes you just have to admit. Here we go.
This is good. Urber eighty five, twenty six. This is
back at the seven two this morning. See, I remember,
I tell you I know some people don't believe me,
but I read all of these. Some of them really
do stick in my unfortunately, stick in my brain and
I can't get them out. Mike, good morning, Good morning,

(19:09):
Mike and Dragon. Hope your day is going well so far?
Well that was at seven forty two this morning, and
it was it was pretty much downhill from that point on.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, say, everything was good till then.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
That's right. My wife and I were going to buy
a condo in Fort Panasco, Mexico, which is just south
of Phoenix. In order for us to be able to
move to Mexico, we had to show proof of minimum
I assume you mean to insert the word income here,
a minimum of four thousand dollars per month, and we
had to sign an agreement that we would not depend

(19:41):
on the government for any source of help. Why can't
we do something like that in our country if we
insist on helping those people. I am Hispanic and I
have no problem with legal immigration, but cannot stand illegal immigration.
You know, do you think the audience is a great audience?
And then some racist s ands in something like that,

(20:03):
Jiminy Christmas. But I'm thinking, wait a minute, can you
live on four thousand dollars a month in Fort Panasco, Mexico?
Because maybe, just maybe, how are the cartels down there? Uh?

(20:23):
Just asking, you know, out of curiosity, h randomly, because
one thing that happens during this show that I only
get glimpses of. But then occasionally I will go online
to our service to see what's happening. The morning shows

(20:44):
are on, and the morning shows are just an absolute,
uh mud bath, speaking of mud turtles, a mud bath
of dumb assery, and it just goes beyond the pale. Uh.
Chris Murphy, the senator from Connecticut. I for who cares Murphy?

(21:10):
He's from Connecticut or somewhere up there. Uh. He was
on with Chris Hayes. I had this to say.

Speaker 5 (21:17):
I'm Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, joins me.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Now, Senator you.

Speaker 5 (21:22):
And I I've had you on this program probably hundreds
of times at this point through the years, and and
and you're generally fairly even keeled.

Speaker 7 (21:29):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
Just which is why now even keel to me means
one thing.

Speaker 5 (21:34):
To me.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
Even keel means you're pretty emotionally stable. Even keel does
not mean you're objective necessarily, I think that. I think
even keel is an entirely different meaning than he's wanting
to place here. Even keeled. Let's just see again, let's
go to the Google even keeled, Uh function functioning normally

(22:02):
after a period of difficulty. Okay, I don't think that
means what you think it means, mister Hayes.

Speaker 5 (22:09):
In your sort of disposition, it's been notable to me
you have not been particularly even keeled over the last
few days about what's happening.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
When you say we have days.

Speaker 5 (22:17):
Like, why, why is your alarm level as high as
it is? So I just think there's a tipping point
at which you can't get your democracy back. And I
see all of these very purposeful lines of effort that
for Trump administration and Elon Musk are taking, and I
think we just have to be right now at this

(22:39):
moment on you know, red alert mode.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
Red alert, red alert.

Speaker 7 (22:46):
See.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
I told you that they were going to go back
crab crazy, and that's what they're doing. Because again, you're
the exception. There's still way too many people out there
that get their news solely from social media or from
the networks, or from MSNBC or CNN, the cables, and
it's completely skewed. They're reading the Denver Compost, They're they're reading, well,

(23:11):
I'm reading the LA Times and the New York Times,
but I do it with a critical ee. They listen
to this garbage and all it does is just reinforces
their fear that we've elected Hitler. No, we've elected Hitler, who,
by the way, was ironically at a prayer breakfast this
morning on Capitol Hill. I don't did Hitler ever go
to prayer breakfast? I don't think so.

Speaker 5 (23:33):
And what I see, right, is the normalization of violence.
I don't think you can.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
Normalization of violence. Wait a minute, who was blocking the
one oh one in California? Where were one hundred trend
O Ragua gang members arrested last night? Oh? Yeah, looks
to the east, looks towards Aurora. Yeah over there. How

(24:02):
many people went out and told us to fight, fight,
fight in the streets to stop the cleaning up of USAI.
D Oh, that was the minority leader, Chuck Schumer. So
where's the fighting going on? We had the Day without

(24:23):
an Immigrant or whatever it was called, yesterday we had
all these people show up at the state Capitol. Well
you know what, my day went long? Fine? Yeah, I
didn't suffer any tragedies or you know, inconveniences or anything.

Speaker 5 (24:38):
Underscore you can underestimate how impactful it is when you're
thinking about going out to a protest and you might
get beat up by somebody who has immunity for violence and.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
Back it up. Baby, you might go out now, I
remember he's talking to a liberal audience. You might go
out and you might get beat up. Alence.

Speaker 5 (24:59):
I don't think you can underscore you can underestimate how
impactful it is. When you're thinking about going out to
a protest and you might get beat up by somebody
who has immunity for violence in Trump's name.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
I don't who a serious question, who has immunity to
commit violence in Trump's name? I'm telling you, I also,
you do not have a clue. I don't have a
freaking clue what he's referring to. There, someone has immunity
to go commit violence in the name of Donald Trump.

(25:32):
Was there a proclamation that I missed? I'm still getting
all those White House Tom's emails. I don't remember anything
about Trump grant's immunity to a group of people to
commit violence.

Speaker 5 (25:43):
I don't think you can underestimate the impact of what's
happening in our media infrastructure, where major platforms are either
under the direct control or influence of the administration.

Speaker 3 (25:56):
Let me check the date on this. Oh yeah, it's
too six twenty five, that's today's date. I thought, maybe
for a moment, when he talked about how, you know,
the tech companies, the social media companies were under the
complete control and influence of the administration, I thought he
was talking about, you know, when Biden and all those

(26:16):
yahoos or somebody on behalf of Biden was centering content.
Is that what you're referring to? Good grief? I think
I went through you know, you know how when Captain
Kirk would, you know, go warp speed and they'd just
simultaneously move into the new universe. I sometimes think that

(26:36):
that's what I've done, and and we've we skipped over
the Biden years, and somehow we're now in the universe
where there's rioting on the streets and Trump's out there,
you know, encouraging people to go riot and beat up people.
And I guess I live in a cocoon. I don't
see it.

Speaker 5 (26:55):
And then what you're seeing now is an attempt to
capture the funding streams of the governm.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
So that eli well, yes, reference back to the earlier
segment about a unified executive, unitary executive, And here Trump
has taken control of the money that has been sent
over to the executive to spend and said, we're not
going to do this, and we're certainly we're at least
going to audit it. Why are Democrats so afraid about it?

(27:23):
Why are they so afraid of us finding out where
the money is being spent? Aren't they at least curious.
They're not because it's not their money. I'm oscar.

Speaker 5 (27:31):
Donald Trump can turn off your grant payment to your
elementary school if it doesn't pledge loyalty to Donald Trump's
political positions or your mom's solid security check.

Speaker 3 (27:44):
If I knew it was going to be in it,
I know because I read it, you might want to
alert your parents, your grandparents. Trump is cutting off Social
Security payments. Did you know that. Yeah, they're just going
to push grandma off the cliff. Remember that TV commercial.

(28:06):
They're they're they're out killing our grandparents as we speak.

Speaker 5 (28:11):
So sad she goes online and says something critical of
Elon Musk or Donald Trump.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
I mean, I just think if we don't know, I'm sorry,
you have to say something critical of the president or
Elon Musk and then they'll cut your Social Security payments off. Okay,
Trump sucks, Elon sucks. We'll see if my mom gets
her social Security checks cut off.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
Stop this very soon.

Speaker 5 (28:39):
It is going to be hard to mount a credible
political opposition in the not so distant future.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
So this is the moment to me. Okay, then mount
your political opposition, tell us where we're wrong, show us
a better path. Democrats don't have any agenda, they don't
have any policy. They have nothing to set forth except
fear fear, fear, fear, and as many people are wont

(29:07):
to do anytime there's a paradigm shift. Yes, uh, fear
tends to be the easiest route of opposition. I'll be
right back.

Speaker 7 (29:16):
I know, when it gets really cold outside, I gotta
go out and scoop snow or shovel out the cows.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
I wear my full beaver hat.

Speaker 7 (29:25):
It's got beaver four on the inside, beaver four on
the outside.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
Man. That keeps mind the head just nice and toasty. Yeah,
but I bet your head gets all sweaty too.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
They just can't let it go again. In celebration of
Black History Month, Iana Pressley Uh in celebration of I
guess Black History Month, points out that Iowa, Iowa cannot
be a model of good governance.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
Governor Reynolds, my Republican colleagues invites you're here to day
promote what they see as a model of governance. Simply put,
Republicans' vision of America is to be more like Iowa.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
Governor Reil, let's learn more about the state. Do you
know what.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
Percentage of Iowans are white, and what percentage are black?

Speaker 2 (30:19):
I don't know the exact percentages.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
Now we're by far larger percentage of white population.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
That's correct.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
Iowa is ninety percent white and only four and a
half percent black. So that is drastically different from the
national population.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
And means what so what you can only have good
governance if you have black people, or Asian people or
any other ethnicity or race.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
What so when Republicans suggest Iowa should be a national model,
they're advocating for a government that doesn't reflect our country.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
No, they're not. They're advocating for good governance.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
So let's talk about what this model of governance actually
means in practice in Iowa. You signed State Senate Bill
twenty three eighty five to eliminate more than eighty state
boards and commissions, including those reps.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
Ooh, good for her. I did not know that. I
learned something today. Eliminating different eighty different boards and commissions.
Good for her.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Presenting Black Iowans, Latinos, women, people with disabilities, and Asian
Pacific Islanders communities that are marnergerized and vulnerable and have
fought for decades to have a seat at the table
now Republicans call this fiscal responsibility. I just call it
a racer, Governor Reynolds. The Iowa Legislative Services Agency conducted

(31:45):
a non partisan analysis of that bill. Do you know
how much money was saved when you eliminated those commissions?

Speaker 3 (31:53):
I don't know what the dollar I have no clue
because I haven't looked at the transcript. I have no
clue what the dollar amount is. But this gets back
to the id if you only see you know, if
you have a billion dollar budget and you're only saving
a million dollars, it's not worth it. I don't know
what I spent for lunch yesterday, but whatever I spent,

(32:14):
you know, probably overspent. I wouldn't mind having that money
back in my pocket today. What's wrong with saving some money?

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Actually, it was not about saving money. It was about
putting more resources behind the Department of Human Rights so
that one could.

Speaker 5 (32:32):
Actually provide them more reclaim resources for minority commandities, reclaiming
my time.

Speaker 3 (32:39):
In other words, don't answer it, just let me pontificate.
I really do despise these people. Have I told you
that before.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
Let me help you with the math.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Roughly one hundred and twelve thousand dollars in your state
budget was saved, so that is point zero zero one percent,
barely a rounding error.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
So the lesson to be learned, according to Diana Presley,
is you don't want to save any money. And by
the way, what if that money was just being laundered
through to NGOs? Does she ever think about that? Of
course she doesn't, because that's not the point. The point is,

(33:28):
let's make everything about race. Everything. How effective was I
don't have time to do it. Well, tomorrow, I'll tell
you how effective the raids were last night. It's pretty amazing.