To be fair, 66% of the US press is controlled by Faux Newz Entertainment.

DEI is just the new “Woke” in that it means whatever they say it means. 

It’s Musk... of course it’s a made-up number!

Nailed it. And this all plays into the untold story of the past century and a half. In the late 1800's we had the Gilded Age - an era that primarily benefitted the wealthy and is again becoming alarmingly similar to ours. Wealthy oligarchs consolidated their fortunes through monopolies and manipulated the markets and…

The US Press is fully onboard with the right wing take over. The most batshit crazy people have the courts, congress, executive, press and the people with 90% of the available cash in this country. We, the small people, are in for a complete ass kicking at this point.

It might depend somewhat on where you are. I personally knew five people who died from COVID, and not all of them were old. Six if you count my father. He died last September, and while he had a lot of health problems and his death certificate doesn’t say anything about COVID, he got it and died a month later, still…

“ they have internalized the fact that white people inherently deserve everything more than any other group”

For whatever reason, the US press was really really good at hiding how truly bad Covid was here. Some nurse friends, one traveling, had horror stories the entire time. Many many hospitals had to fight to get refrigerated trucks to store the bodies before funeral homes could pick them up.
I personally know of a friend…

DEI = Woke for  a while now just fyi that’s a major dog whistle 

I mean, I’m shocked the article doesn’t say this, but

We’re at the point where republicans are pretty much just doing whatever they want and declaring it legal according to the longstanding principle of ‘because I wanna.’

Came here to say exactly that. Either it’s a made up number, or they’re classing a lot of different support programs as DEI and a lot of trump voters are shortly going to be very surprised to discover that they’re considered a minority the government is wasting money on.

We are entering an age (god I hope it’s only 4 years but who knows) of (royal) court politics- whoever has the shiniest keys to jingle in front of the Dauphin will get the most attention, and being able to blame our horribly mismanaged problems on something distracting will become paramount. 

As I’ve said elsewhere, one of the biggest DEI gains was for the elderly- age discrimination in workplaces is a lot harder thanks to DEI, because including (inclusive) elderly (diverse) workers and making accommodations for them (equity) makes our workplaces better and makes us more stable as a society.

It’s going to be tragic hilarious when all the aging boomers suddenly find that DEI includes hiring protections for the elderly, workplace accommodations for the elderly and communication accommodations for the elderly (diversity, equity and inclusion is most often for age, not race). Oh, sorry, you’re too old. You…

Sorry but there’s no way the federal government is spending 120 BILLION on DEI initiatives.

Aaaaaaand therein lies the truth. These “cuts” all look good on paper, until each Rep realizes that HIS constituency is about to get f#cked, at which point the cuts are unsupportable. Shit like “agriculture support” and stuff will NEVER be cut, because there are no more loyal GOP voters than farmers.

“We need to get rid of all diversity initiatives” says the fake government department run by an immigrant and a brown guy.

I am not a fancy expert on how the government works, but some random, made-up department can’t unilaterally make budgetary changes, correct?  Doesn’t the House still control the purse strings, as the old saying goes?  Which isn’t to say the House wouldn’t go along with this, given its current makeup, but still. 

Elon / Tesla’s plan to hire nothing but white men and immigrate slave labor from India is coming to fruition. Exciting times...