So much for the National Weather Service

[Big Blitz]

12 minutes ago, Roundybout said:

Black people = unqualified 

 

 

thanks for the reminder!

 

I didn’t say that.  You did. 

His union reps want him gone.  
 

His priorities appear to not be in line with hiring the best - starting with him - who didn’t understand reimbursement.   

[Roundybout]

42 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:

 

I didn’t say that.  You did. 

His union reps want him gone.  
 

His priorities appear to not be in line with hiring the best - starting with him - who didn’t understand reimbursement.   

 

What does DEI mean in this context? 

 

Come on, just say it. Stop beating around the bush. 

[Big Blitz]

56 minutes ago, Roundybout said:

 

What does DEI mean in this context? 

 

Come on, just say it. Stop beating around the bush. 

 

DEI in this context?   
 

Was he the best man (black or white male or female) for the job?

 

Why didn’t he understand something so basic?  
 

That’s confirmation he was not the best for the job.  
 

 

DEI itself?  That’s simple.  Created by Marxists that hate white people.  

[gobills404]

1 hour ago, Roundybout said:

 

What does DEI mean in this context? 

 

Come on, just say it. Stop beating around the bush. 

DEI means hiring people based on the color of their skin rather than their qualifications. That’s what it means in every context.

[Wacka]

Which is just the opposite of what MLK said.

[Orlando Buffalo]

1 hour ago, Roundybout said:

 

What does DEI mean in this context? 

 

Come on, just say it. Stop beating around the bush. 

DEI means hiring for a reason besides the most qualified. I will ask directly this do you believe he would have been hired for the job if he was a white man? 

[Roundybout]

1 hour ago, Orlando Buffalo said:

DEI means hiring for a reason besides the most qualified. I will ask directly this do you believe he would have been hired for the job if he was a white man? 

 

He has been a fireman for nearly 40 years and spent a great deal of time as a fire chief in Atlanta. He has a master's degree and a certificate from Harvard. He is an Executive Fire Officer designated by the National Fire Academy. 

 

https://www.austintexas.gov/sites/default/files/files/Fire/Chief_Baker_New_Bio_2022.pdf

 

So, yes. He's completely qualified. 

 

Why, then, is he automatically assumed to be unqualified? What is the very obvious reason that agitators like Charlie Kirk think he's DEI?

[SectionC3]

9 hours ago, Orlando Buffalo said:

DEI means hiring for a reason besides the most qualified. I will ask directly this do you believe he would have been hired for the job if he was a white man? 

Serious question - you're not a DEI hire?  I always figured that you were. 

[Orlando Buffalo]

8 hours ago, Roundybout said:

 

He has been a fireman for nearly 40 years and spent a great deal of time as a fire chief in Atlanta. He has a master's degree and a certificate from Harvard. He is an Executive Fire Officer designated by the National Fire Academy. 

 

https://www.austintexas.gov/sites/default/files/files/Fire/Chief_Baker_New_Bio_2022.pdf

 

So, yes. He's completely qualified. 

 

Why, then, is he automatically assumed to be unqualified? What is the very obvious reason that agitators like Charlie Kirk think he's DEI?

That is good research, his paper trail is very strong, so I agree he is not a DEI. His decisions should get him fired but his hiring was proper. 

10 minutes ago, SectionC3 said:

Serious question - you're not a DEI hire?  I always figured that you were. 

Hence why you are terrible lawyer,intelligent people would be embarrassed to admit to such assumptions when being conservative would be a detriment to finding a job at a school most places. 

[JDHillFan]

49 minutes ago, SectionC3 said:

Serious question - you're not a DEI hire?  I always figured that you were. 

What is your definition of a DEI hire? Are DEI hires good or bad?

 

also: 

 

On 2/11/2025 at 10:15 AM, SectionC3 said:

I bet you get all the chicks when you tell them you’re an internet tough guy.  You’re so tough!  

 

[SectionC3]

3 hours ago, Orlando Buffalo said:

That is good research, his paper trail is very strong, so I agree he is not a DEI. His decisions should get him fired but his hiring was proper. 

Hence why you are terrible lawyer,intelligent people would be embarrassed to admit to such assumptions when being conservative would be a detriment to finding a job at a school most places. 

MAGA thinks DEI is code for unqualified.  Lots of people are saying that you’re unqualified to teach children because (and again, this is lots of people) you’re not very smart. All of this things made me think that maybe you’re one of those DEI hires MAGA complains about. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[JDHillFan]

3 minutes ago, SectionC3 said:

you’re not very smart. All of this things

Love this sort of post. It’s normally Tiberius that treats us to such. Good work on your part 

[SectionC3]

2 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:

Love this sort of post. It’s normally Tiberius that treats us to such. Good work on your part 

Sorry I hurt your feelings.  I googled the five things I’m supposed to do when I hurt someone’s tender feelings.  I can do some of them if you want.  Or maybe you’d like a comfort stuffy instead.  Whatever works for you is cool with me. 

[JDHillFan]

Just now, SectionC3 said:

Sorry I hurt your feelings.  I googled the five things I’m supposed to do when I hurt someone’s tender feelings.  I can do some of them if you want.  Or maybe you’d like a comfort stuffy instead.  Whatever works for you is cool with me. 

Thank you for considering my feelings but you are misreading the situation. I think we can attribute that to your recent emotional state. Since you seem confused here’s what I was referring to - you told someone they are not smart and immediately followed it up with a grammatical error. An innocent mistake but fun and Tiberius-like nevertheless. 
 

 

[Big Blitz]

 

He lowered IQ and physical standards.  
 

He made hiring based on DEI a priority:

 

 

 

Let us begin plainly. Chief Joel Baker was not hired because he was the best firefighter. He was hired because Austin, reeling from a fire department engulfed in scandal, needed a symbol. In the year prior to his 2018 appointment, the Austin Fire Department was under state, local, and federal investigation for alleged violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, including claims of both racial and sexual discrimination and harassment.
 

Multiple lawsuits and sharp criticism from across the political spectrum made one thing clear: the city needed an identity hire to stem the bleeding. Baker, a black man with leadership experience, fit the profile. Since taking the post in December 2018, Baker has made it his mission to recruit based on race, sex, and sexual identity. He has said so proudly and publicly. Programs like "Pass the Torch," which deliberately prioritize nonwhite, nonmale, and nonheterosexual applicants, are the centerpiece of his administration.
 

The result? A fire department that is more diverse, but less competent.

 

The traditional qualifications for a firefighter, strength, stamina, intelligence, rapid decision-making under pressure, have not changed. But the standards have. In response to the predictable failure of his preferred demographics to meet existing thresholds, Baker simply changed the thresholds. He launched investigations into why minority applicants were underperforming. The answer was as predictable as the question: the tests were too hard. So Baker made them easier. Lowered the IQ bar. Softened physical expectations. All to ensure that more boxes could be checked on quarterly DEI reports.

 

The irony is brutal. The very teams Chief Baker refused to deploy, the Swift Water rescue units, are disproportionately composed of white men. They represent the last meritocratic redoubt within the Austin Fire Department. Many have years of experience and have saved hundreds of lives. But Baker did not build them. He has not promoted them. In fact, he has worked to marginalize them in favor of his DEI vision.

 

So when Governor Abbott issued the request for pre-deployment on July 2nd and 3rd, before the floodwaters peaked, Baker balked.

 

But the story is larger than one man’s failure. It is about the machinery that elevated him in the first place, a bureaucracy more concerned with appearances than outcomes. DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion, sounds benign. In practice, it has become a license to discriminate against the competent and elevate the compliant.

 

Consider the broader pattern. In 2021, local media reported that nearly 75% of cadet interest cards came from "diversity targets," a term that flattens human individuality into demographic quotas. African American interest increased 10%, Hispanic interest 21%, while traditional candidate pools shrank.

 

Recruitment staff, under Baker’s orders, reoriented outreach toward these demographics, often to the exclusion of others. Qualified white male applicants were not merely overlooked; they were openly discouraged. Promotion boards began emphasizing identity over service record.

Edited 3 hours ago by Big Blitz

[AlBUNDY4TDS]

51 minutes ago, SectionC3 said:

MAGA thinks DEI is code for unqualified.  Lots of people are saying that you’re unqualified to teach children because (and again, this is lots of people) you’re not very smart. All of this things made me think that maybe you’re one of those DEI hires MAGA complains about. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do you think every dei hire is the most qualified for the positions their being hired for? That's why it's dangerous. Not every dei hire is incompetent.

[Orlando Buffalo]

1 hour ago, SectionC3 said:

MAGA thinks DEI is code for unqualified.  Lots of people are saying that you’re unqualified to teach children because (and again, this is lots of people) you’re not very smart. All of this things made me think that maybe you’re one of those DEI hires MAGA complains about. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

you sound like all the failing students in my class. I don't take offense when lowest quintile speaks up, I simply recognize it is an inability to actually process information in a meaningful way. 

[SectionC3]

1 hour ago, JDHillFan said:

Thank you for considering my feelings but you are misreading the situation. I think we can attribute that to your recent emotional state. Since you seem confused here’s what I was referring to - you told someone they are not smart and immediately followed it up with a grammatical error. An innocent mistake but fun and Tiberius-like nevertheless. 
 

 

So that’s a no on the comfort stuffy?. 

[JDHillFan]

12 minutes ago, SectionC3 said:

So that’s a no on the comfort stuffy?. 

I don’t think it’s necessary but I keep an open mind on these things. Let me google what it is and I’ll get back to you. 

[Big Blitz]

Omg