JustPearlyThings - Have You Ever Been Discriminated Against Because Of Your Gender？ (Call-In Show) ｜ Pearl Daily

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

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00:01:30.000 A spade, a spade on this one.

00:01:32.720 Los Angeles' response to the fires has been a complete disaster.

00:01:36.960 It's an example of what happens when you put DEI hires in leadership positions.

00:01:44.320 The mayor of LA is a woman.

00:01:46.620 The fire chief is also a woman.

00:01:49.120 And she prioritized DEI hiring of LBGTQ firefighters as her biggest priority.

00:01:56.920 Like I say on my channel all the time, men as a group are better than women at certain things. 0.98

00:02:05.020 They make 80% of the world's stuff.

00:02:07.920 And when they're in leadership positions, they tend to do a better job statistically.

00:02:13.240 That's why they're in them.

00:02:14.060 And you cannot tell me that a man would not have done a better job as mayor or somebody qualified responding to this crisis.

00:02:25.620 I would surely believe that a man is better able to handle these type of situations in general.

00:02:35.840 But what do you think, guys?

00:02:39.060 Am I wrong?

00:02:40.060 Now, the challenge we've had the last couple of years is we don't really, we're starting to blur the lines between DEI hires and who is there because they're qualified.

00:02:54.240 We're getting to the point, it's tough for the average person to tell the difference.

00:02:58.240 Now, for those of you that don't know, a DEI hire is when they prioritize hiring somebody based on their gender or the color of their skin rather than how good of a job that they do.

00:03:08.840 I call this the ultimate simping, saying that we need special treatment because of our gender.

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00:04:47.140 Now, I want to talk about the key players in this.

00:04:51.220 Karen Bass was elected the mayor of L.A. in 2022.

00:04:54.700 And her priority as mayor has been the homelessness situation, diverting money from city departments to go towards this issue.

00:05:02.780 Before the fire, she took an international trip to Ghana, where her city went up in flames.

00:05:07.240 She also slashed fire department's budget by $17 million this past year.

00:05:13.560 I'm going to bring up a clip that's going viral.

00:05:25.700 Of a reporter grilling the mayor over her handling of the wildfires.

00:05:31.560 What the heck?

00:05:32.860 Oh, here we go. 0.98

00:05:37.240 One second to see.

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00:05:53.180 It's always very risky to cover a lot of these topics.

00:05:56.520 I never know what they're going to deem as hate speech.

00:05:59.100 We're going to watch it now.

00:05:59.760 As Los Angeles battles its worst wildfire in history.

00:06:07.640 I'm definitely a critic of the mayor.

00:06:09.880 She was in West Africa while West Los Angeles was burning.

00:06:13.620 The city's top elected official, Mayor Karen Bass, is facing criticism on a number of fronts.

00:06:19.720 Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning?

00:06:23.500 Do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions of dollars, Madam Mayor?

00:06:29.180 A Sky News reporter.

00:06:30.580 Madam Mayor, let me ask you just again.

00:06:32.040 Grilling Bass after she landed in Los Angeles Wednesday, returning from a diplomatic trip to Ghana.

00:06:38.420 Bass left on Saturday.

00:06:39.940 The National Weather Service issued warnings last Thursday and again on Sunday about extreme fire weather conditions.

00:06:47.560 Monday, Bass posted on X, there is an expected destructive and potentially life-threatening wind storm.

00:06:55.420 By Tuesday, according to the city, Bass was already flying home as the Palisades fire was quickly spreading.

00:07:02.420 Since being back on the ground, the mayor has been on defense over her absence.

00:07:07.080 I've been in constant contact with our fire commanders, with county, state, and federal officials.

00:07:13.260 I took the fastest route back, which included being on a military plane, which facilitated our communications.

00:07:21.480 Another complaint, some residents say there wasn't enough water where and when it was needed.

00:07:26.880 Started with the wind, everything, and I started waiting on the floor, the roof.

00:07:35.400 The pressure of the water is going away, so I started filling up buckets, the trash cans with water.

00:07:41.600 There's not water in the fire hydrants.

00:07:43.820 I paid for it, didn't I?

00:07:47.120 Did some hydrants run low?

00:07:49.300 The short answer is yes.

00:07:51.200 Some more context.

00:07:52.060 According to the Department of Water and Power, all 114 water storage facilities were filled, but heavy use of fire hydrants depleted the supply.

00:08:02.200 Now, I want to talk about how also the ladies are going to play victim. 1.00

00:08:06.540 How many of these women that are complaining in this voted for Democrat policies? 1.00

00:08:11.480 They will vote for Democrat policies on abortion until their city literally burns to the ground.

00:08:21.720 Literally.

00:08:23.020 The extreme conditions, compounded by high winds, keeping firefighting aircraft grounded.

00:08:29.820 We all know that this has been an unprecedented event.

00:08:33.480 We also know that fire hydrants are not constructed to deal with this type of massive devastation and that the number one problem, especially on Wednesday, was the fact that we weren't able to do the air support because of the winds.

00:08:51.440 Bass now also having to defend the decision to reduce the fire department's 2024-2025 budget.

00:08:58.280 Last summer, she approved cutting more than $17 million from it.

00:09:02.400 Last summer, saying in a memo, these budgetary reductions have adversely affected the department's ability to maintain core operations.

00:09:12.320 Bass says the cuts did not impact fighting these fires.

00:09:16.700 There were no reductions that were made that would have impacted the situation that we were dealing with over the last couple of days.

00:09:24.460 Do you see this guy?

00:09:25.780 Do you see this guy in the background?

00:09:29.520 He does not agree.

00:09:30.540 He does not agree.

00:09:34.540 He does not.

00:09:35.700 This guy here, he is like, this woman is on some BS. 0.98

00:09:41.600 And you could just tell, you know, even Gavin Newsom, who also does a terrible job,

00:09:46.760 you can at least tell he would have pre-scripted answers, right?

00:09:52.940 This woman is clearly not qualified for the job. 1.00

00:09:59.060 This is a disaster.

00:10:00.940 Let me play this again.

00:10:04.280 Is it the Wi-Fi?

00:10:05.280 Okay.

00:10:05.320 Okay.

00:10:05.380 Okay.

00:10:05.440 Okay.

00:10:05.540 Okay.

00:10:07.380 Okay.

00:10:09.380 Okay.

00:10:11.380 Okay.

00:10:13.380 Okay.

00:10:14.380 Okay.

00:10:15.380 Okay.

00:10:16.380 I know people are saying it's man-made.

00:10:19.420 Look, I don't know if it was or it wasn't.

00:10:22.000 I haven't seen evidence that it was at this point.

00:10:25.340 It's possible, but I'm not one that's going to jump to the conspiracy theories.

00:10:33.620 I know there's this idea that, like, the rich do it on purpose to make money or something.

00:10:38.580 Okay.

00:10:39.500 Let me.

00:10:42.720 This sounds like.

00:10:43.600 Last summer, she approved cutting more than $17 million from it.

00:10:47.880 Last month, L.A.'s fire chief raised concerns with the mayor and city council, saying in

00:10:53.800 a memo, these budgetary reductions have adversely affected the department's ability to maintain

00:10:59.900 core operations.

00:11:01.840 Bass says the cuts did not impact fighting these fires.

00:11:05.620 There were no reductions that were made that would have impacted the situation that we were

00:11:11.800 dealing with over the last couple of days.

00:11:13.960 And, Erin, the total budget for the Los Angeles Fire Department is a little more than $800 million.

00:11:21.800 Bass has said in the past that that budget included money for things like hiring new firefighters.

00:11:28.520 But, again, her critics, and there are many of them on the ground there, being very vocal,

00:11:34.180 saying that her judgment is in question.

00:11:36.680 Now, I want to clarify my position on things.

00:11:42.360 I am not against women being in positions that they deserve. 0.79

00:11:49.960 If we complete and are able to do a job at the same quality that the men are able to do a job,

00:11:55.740 you know, I don't see anything wrong with them doing that job if they can do it to the same quality.

00:12:07.520 The issue I have is when they start lowering the requirements to give us special preferential treatment

00:12:16.020 and now people are losing their homes.

00:12:19.560 That's where I have an issue.

00:12:20.800 Or you put someone in a position that shouldn't be there, people lose their lives.

00:12:26.980 How far are we going to go to make us feel better and feel like we're competing as a group?

00:12:34.280 It's getting to the point, it's ridiculous, where I don't know if I hire somebody,

00:12:41.040 any female in any job, if they're there because they deserve it and they're good 1.00

00:12:45.880 or because there's some practice that allowed them to be there, some special privilege.

00:12:51.680 That's where we're at.

00:12:55.860 Let me do the budget article.

00:13:08.100 Los Angeles mayor slashed fire budget last year and prioritized the homeless population.

00:13:15.880 Los Angeles budget is in the spotlight as multiple wildfires rage around the city

00:13:20.840 amid revelations that Mayor Karen Bass slashed the fire department's budget last year

00:13:27.140 while prioritizing spending on the city's homeless.

00:13:30.900 For the 2023 to 2024 fiscal year, LA budgeted $837 million for the LA fire department,

00:13:38.160 which was roughly 65% of the homeless budget of $1.3 billion.

00:13:42.460 An analysis by LA City's controller last year found that roughly half the budget was reduced

00:13:49.260 by over $17 million from $837,000 to $819 million.

00:14:01.980 Bass had proposed a larger budget to cut the LAFD to about $23 million, but it was not adopted.

00:14:08.300 Fox Business has reached out to Bass's office for comment and the reasoning behind the cuts.

00:14:14.460 The budget for homelessness was also reduced in 2024 to 2025, but remained larger than the LAFD budget.

00:14:22.520 LA is currently the center of four ongoing wildfires, the Eaton, the Woodley, the Hearst fires,

00:14:30.840 and the Palisades, which have consumed countless homes and businesses and claimed two lives.

00:14:37.320 The fires have prompted evacuation orders for more than 30,000 people and come as California faces an insurance crisis

00:14:46.300 after several insurers fled the state, largely due to the costs associated with the wildfire losses.

00:14:52.600 Out of 20, the most destructive California wildfires, seven have taken place in the last five years.

00:14:59.560 The Department of Forestry and Fire Protection reported.

00:15:02.500 In terms of economic costs, the 2018 fire camp caused $10 billion in damages.

00:15:08.320 The Tubbs fire in 2017 cost $8.7 billion in damages.

00:15:12.700 And the Woodley fire in 2018 cost $4.2 billion.

00:15:20.460 Let's watch the video associated with this.

00:15:28.040 As with reaction is former LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva.

00:15:32.600 Alex, thank you for being here.

00:15:34.100 This is, by all accounts, a devastating wildfire, uncontained, two deaths so far.

00:15:39.940 You could see the damage in those live shots.

00:15:42.860 Governor Newsom declaring a state of emergency, yet some are criticizing the local authorities and the response teams.

00:15:51.660 Do you think that criticism is fair?

00:15:54.820 Well, you've got to recognize that there was a bond measure in 2014, Proposition 1,

00:16:01.100 that allocated $7.5 billion for the infrastructure to capture water in reservoirs.

00:16:07.800 To have that available, so our hydrants would be basically full of water and then times of need.

00:16:13.580 And only a fraction of that money has been spent.

00:16:15.960 It has all been tied up in bureaucratic nightmares.

00:16:18.660 Then you have the workforce itself.

00:16:20.220 You have fire, LA County, LA City fire.

00:16:22.980 Their numbers are depleted.

00:16:24.420 LAPD, LA sheriffs, their numbers are depleted.

00:16:27.120 Where is the National Guard here?

00:16:28.500 I mean, there's a lot of things, a lot of manpower that is missing.

00:16:31.540 And it all goes from 2024, the whole defunding movement, this impact.

00:16:36.640 Can we talk about that?

00:16:38.420 Because we were reading in the Post this morning that the LA Fire Department had seen budget cuts by about $17 million.

00:16:45.980 How much of this is or is not preventable based on some of those budget cuts?

00:16:51.180 Oh, this is very, very preventable.

00:16:54.360 Because you called the Fire Department both city and county fire.

00:16:58.340 Part of the whole first responder infrastructure.

00:17:01.480 That has been one of the targets of politicians from 2024 to take money away from and deplete those resources.

00:17:08.800 Supposedly under this grand scheme of we're going to reinvest it in the community.

00:17:12.440 Well, the community right now needs exactly what they don't have, which is the staffing levels for fire and for first responders, for law enforcement to be able to safely evacuate and to be able to fight these fires.

00:17:25.480 I mean, a lot of it is going to be obviously the nature is going to is having its way with us right now.

00:17:30.340 But at some point when humans can successfully contain the fire and secure the area and all that stuff and care for the evacuated, it's a humanitarian crisis that's going to unfold right now as we're seeing it.

00:17:44.280 And we don't have the resources we should have.

00:17:46.980 And those were political decisions that happened years ago.

00:17:50.120 Talk to me about the water issue because I found this very disturbing.

00:17:54.120 You've had folks on the ground fighting the fires.

00:17:56.660 They're plugged into the fire hydrants, but they're saying there's no pressure to push water because the tanks up on the hills, which is how you create the pressure, have not been filled adequately.

00:18:07.860 You're telling me that that was supposed to have been addressed in 2014 and that's still an issue right now?

00:18:14.340 Does that sit on Karen Bass's shoulders?

00:18:17.000 Whose shoulders does that sit on?

00:18:18.220 It sits on the current mayor, the previous mayor, Eric Garcetti, the Board of Supervisors, past and present, from 2014 on Proposition 1.

00:18:28.640 That's a lot of money.

00:18:29.520 I think they spent $177 million out of $7.5 billion.

00:18:34.280 All of the construction projects were designed to upgrade and create new systems that capture water from the rainfall.

00:18:41.480 I mean, two years of record rainfall and we were not able to capture it, yes, because it wasn't built.

00:18:48.640 So it all washed into the ocean, but it did fuel the growth of the underbrush.

00:18:53.460 ...mobilized too late.

00:18:56.580 Oh, way too late.

00:18:58.000 And this is something both the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, LAPD, had to know that because both agencies are missing roughly 1,500 sworn officers each, that's over 3,000.

00:19:10.280 And so any major event like this is going to generate a lot of demand for personnel over prolonged periods of time.

00:19:17.580 That's an automatic call to the National Guard.

00:19:19.840 Hey, we need a lot of additional troops to do some basic activities because now they're taking resources away from areas where they're still needed.

00:19:27.920 Like you're pulling deputies from a contract city and who's going to answer 9-1-1 and go out when everyone's out at the fire?

00:19:35.580 So this is why personnel, the staffing is critical at this time.

00:19:40.280 Alex, we so appreciate your time today and your insight.

00:19:43.720 Wish we were talking about.

00:19:45.180 So thousands of people have lost their homes.

00:19:49.020 This is devastating to the state of California.

00:19:51.760 And we're hearing that the fire could have been contained, that it didn't have to be this bad, that this is gross incompetence.

00:20:02.980 And this is, again, this is what happens when we're prioritizing put woman in role because she's a woman, not because she does a good job.

00:20:11.940 Now, the L.A., oh, wait, there's one more.

00:20:25.880 The budget cuts, hold on.

00:20:27.000 Warned in the weeks before the devastating Palisades fire that the decision to cut the department by nearly 18 million would diminish its ability to prepare and respond to large scale emergencies.

00:20:40.780 The budget reduction approved last year by Mayor Karen Bass was mostly absorbed by leaving many administration jobs at the fire department unfilled.

00:20:51.940 But that left about seven million to be cut from its overtime budget, which was earmarked for training, fire prevention and other key functions.

00:21:01.560 The reduction has severely limited the department's capacity to prepare, train for and respond.

00:21:07.540 And the L.A. fire department were used to pay for FAA mandated pilot training and helicopter coordination staffing for wildfire suppression.

00:21:19.000 And the memo said Mayor Bass said Wednesday evening that the budget cuts did not have an impact on the L.A. fire department's response to the wildfires.

00:21:28.920 I am confident that it did not, Bass answered in a response to the fire chief's memo and suggested fire spending would exceed the amounts budgeted for the fiscal year.

00:21:39.800 Bass also dismissed the criticism that she was on an overseas trip while the fires started during the intense winds that had been forecast.

00:21:49.000 Several days in advance, although I was not physically here, I was in contact with many of the individuals that are standing here throughout the entire time.

00:21:56.920 Bass said I was on the phone on the plane almost every hour of the flight.

00:22:00.780 She said the fire chief's memo was presented last month to the board of fire commissioners.

00:22:05.580 A panel of mayoral appointees who oversaid changes to air operations section impact the department's ability to adhere to current automatic and mutual agreements, provide air ambulance services, and quickly respond to woodland fires during woodland fires with water dropping helicopters.

00:22:24.800 The memo also highlighted other programs that would suffer with the cuts, including the disaster response section, which funds the bulldozer teams and cuts breaks and control lines around wildfires, and the critical incident planning and training section, which develops plans for major emergencies.

00:22:44.800 Fire officials downplayed the potential impact the cuts would have on a major emergency and referred questions to Chief Crowley, who was unavailable due to another fire igniting in Hollywood's Hills late Wednesday.

00:22:59.480 Any fire department, even our side, is stretched thin, which is why we call in our mutual aid partners, said L.A. Fire Department spokesman Jacob Rabe.

00:23:08.940 The fire started Tuesday, and fanned by powerful winds, destroyed hundreds of buildings, and burned about 15,800 acres.

00:23:21.520 It was one of five wildfires burning in Southern California.

00:23:27.860 The Los Angeles Fire Chief, Kristen Crowley, started her position in 2022.

00:23:35.080 She's the first openly LBTGQ woman to hold this office.

00:23:41.540 Right away, a big deal was made about this, and she made it her priority to hire a more diverse fire department.

00:23:49.680 She was hired after the previous fire chief had to step down due to allegations that he didn't address sexist and racist behavior within the fire department.

00:23:59.240 Talk about an overcorrection.

00:24:00.700 When talking about Kristen's nomination, former L.A. mayor Eric Garcetti said at the time that he nominated Crowley to the position, not due to her gender, but due to her abilities and skill with public safety challenges.

00:24:16.060 So, again, the ladies, you know, when you see women being burned alive in New York, what is happening is we are eating what we voted for, because most women would rather have abortion than have a proper fire department. 0.82

00:24:41.380 So, again, criminals being taken off the street, and at some point, the men are going to say, you know what, you ladies are on your own, because you keep voting for these policies. 1.00

00:24:55.000 You keep taking money out of our taxes for these policies that you guys voted for.

00:25:04.720 And, you know, again, they said that the previous chief was sexist.

00:25:12.420 So, you know what he said?

00:25:13.240 He said, okay, I'll step down.

00:25:17.380 Let's see how the ladies handle it. 1.00

00:25:19.040 Go ahead.

00:25:19.380 And, honestly, guys, to some degree, I don't blame them at all.

00:25:26.420 If we are going to keep voting for Democrats, if we're going to keep voting for these leftist policies, okay, see what happens.

00:25:36.380 See how it works.

00:25:37.780 The only way, and this is why simps are such a problem when they bail people out.

00:25:43.860 They bail the ladies out of our bad decisions, because the only way we will learn is if we actually have to feel the consequences. 1.00

00:25:54.740 You know, do you think next election, California is going to vote Republican?

00:26:01.460 Now we're going to watch the new nominee for the fire department.

00:26:07.160 Again, this is play pretend.

00:26:29.480 You know, again, I don't have a problem with women doing jobs they're qualified for. 1.00

00:26:40.300 But to give a little background, I played volleyball overseas.

00:26:46.000 I'm an athlete.

00:26:46.560 I'm six foot.

00:26:47.200 I'm taller than most men.

00:26:50.420 In terms of strength, I can deadlift close to 300 pounds.

00:26:54.500 That's more than a lot of guys.

00:26:55.640 I've played basketball with men.

00:26:57.140 Even a guy that doesn't really work out is going to beat me up.

00:27:00.800 It's not going to be hard if he wanted to.

00:27:04.360 Don't do that.

00:27:05.260 You know what I mean?

00:27:05.740 Like, don't.

00:27:06.480 But if he wanted to.

00:27:08.140 How the heck are these women going to do a better job as a firewoman? 1.00

00:27:16.520 And the other question I have, you know, if we're going to promote somebody to chief,

00:27:22.280 you know, I worked in sales for like two, three years.

00:27:26.600 And you expect the managers to be good salespeople so they can teach the salespeople coming up how to sell.

00:27:35.280 What is she going to teach a guy about fighting fires when I just cannot imagine that she has the strength that men do?

00:27:47.340 Paramedic, firefighter, captain, and chief deputy.

00:27:52.720 We met right after the announcement.

00:27:55.000 Am I crazy?

00:27:58.300 She looks chubby to me.

00:28:00.840 I just don't see athletic here.

00:28:03.940 I really don't.

00:28:05.220 Nice to meet you.

00:28:06.620 Crowley told me this was a day she had not imagined, but somehow it felt right.

00:28:11.680 I was never really shooting for that.

00:28:14.220 I just took it day by day trying to understand my job.

00:28:17.720 Now, again, what I if I believed that she was there off of merit.

00:28:23.220 I would have no problem.

00:28:24.960 I just coming from the perspective of an athlete.

00:28:29.860 And that is a physically demanding job.

00:28:32.620 I cannot imagine.

00:28:37.140 I don't think she could lift me out of a fire.

00:28:39.760 Like if I was passed out on the ground.

00:28:41.240 Do you guys really think she could throw me over her shoulder?

00:28:47.500 And she's taking the spot of a guy who can.

00:28:50.940 Now, people will argue, well, managing isn't the same as doing a job.

00:28:56.220 And you know what?

00:28:56.700 That's true.

00:28:57.260 Some people are very good at a job and they make terrible managers.

00:28:59.940 But you have to at least be decent.

00:29:05.980 And I just cannot imagine her physical strength is anywhere close to even an out of shape man.

00:29:14.940 You know, they said maybe she can.

00:29:16.600 You know, I'm open to being proven wrong.

00:29:18.420 Maybe the rest of this video I'll be proven wrong.

00:29:21.000 I don't know. 0.79

00:29:22.400 But it's getting ridiculous. 0.78

00:29:26.180 And it's all so we can feel better about ourselves. 0.73

00:29:30.840 So we can, you know, clap.

00:29:32.560 Woman's empowerment.

00:29:33.600 Oh, you destroyed the patriarchal.

00:29:36.020 You did the things that men have been the best way to do it.

00:29:38.700 The women are focusing on why. 1.00

00:29:41.100 It's kind of like, have you guys ever gotten into an argument with a woman?

00:29:45.160 And she keeps asking, why would you do that?

00:29:48.540 Why?

00:29:49.080 Why?

00:29:49.520 You know, I'm nagging on every single behavior.

00:29:52.180 Who cares about the why?

00:29:56.860 I want to know, what are you going to do to do the job well?

00:30:01.040 I mean, with COVID in.

00:30:02.360 You can't lift fire, Pearl.

00:30:03.900 I know you can't lift fire.

00:30:06.060 But if I'm passed out in a fire or I need, there's times where they have to carry somebody out.

00:30:14.760 That's reasonable.

00:30:16.540 You know, I could have passed out from the fire.

00:30:18.440 They could have found me.

00:30:19.220 How am I getting out?

00:30:20.440 She's not taking me out.

00:30:21.720 The variance in everything that's happening.

00:30:23.620 Crowley is married.

00:30:25.100 She and her wife, Holland, who is retired from the L.A. City Fire Department, have three young daughters.

00:30:31.060 She reflected today on what it means to be a role model.

00:30:34.680 And I'm ecstatic to be in the position to show both young girls and boys that, hey, this is important,

00:30:41.560 that we have people in positions of authority that work hard and you're rewarded for it.

00:30:46.640 I must say she was very engaging.

00:30:51.420 When we think about the numbers here in the L.A. City Fire Department, 3,727 employees, 3,174 of them, are fully vaccinated.

00:31:03.600 That's an 85 percent rate.

00:31:06.380 At 6 o'clock, I'll have more with Ms. Crowley and what this could mean to the city of L.A.

00:31:12.200 Laura Diaz reporting live from downtown Los Angeles.

00:31:15.080 Alex and Marla, back to you. 0.98

00:31:17.120 That is ridiculous. 0.96

00:31:23.280 Why would I have been signed out? 0.97

00:31:39.120 Okay.

00:31:40.200 What's the next one?

00:31:47.360 Oh, here we go.

00:31:50.180 The next one is Megyn Kelly. 1.00

00:31:57.820 This is Megyn Kelly's response.

00:32:00.280 As if all of this is not enough, it turns out that in recent years, L.A.'s fire chief has made not filling the fire hydrants top priority, but diversity.

00:32:11.940 Diversity is at least among the top priorities for the department.

00:32:17.280 Her name is Kristen Crowley.

00:32:18.780 She's been fire chief since 2022, and in an interview shortly after she was elevated to this position, she talked about being super inspired to make the fire department more diverse.

00:32:33.520 One more.

00:32:34.860 Okay, here.

00:32:42.020 During the firefight has been a lack of water at hydrants on the Palisades fire.

00:32:47.220 Tonight, that's getting the attention of community leaders all across California.

00:32:51.180 They're all coming to the realization that residential hydrant systems just may not be enough to snuff a fire out when it comes to battling these massive wildfires.

00:33:01.840 NBC Bears' Tom Jensen is in Oakland tonight, where station closures are already top of mind.

00:33:07.800 And now there's this water supply issue.

00:33:09.800 Everybody in Oakland has been talking about the closure of this fire station, Fire Station 25, and another one in the Oakland Hills.

00:33:19.100 But tonight, they're also talking about these fire hydrants, especially in light of what's happening in Southern California.

00:33:27.460 ...to reach a distant fire hydrant because the nearest one has little or no pressure, a serious problem that persists on the raging wildfire,

00:33:36.240 one that crews, including this one from San Francisco, keep running into.

00:33:40.960 Hydrants that aren't working properly and have extremely low or sporadic pressure.

00:33:45.800 You know what your incoming pressure is?

00:33:47.300 It's not between 10 and 50, but it's real.

00:33:50.580 Okay.

00:33:50.940 And then zero.

00:33:51.760 We can only do one inch and a half of them.

00:33:54.780 Residents whose homes are still standing are finding their own household water systems down, too, as they try to help.

00:34:00.380 We went inside the house, and there is no water inside the house.

00:34:03.640 This woman dipped a bucket from a hot tub to try to douse flames running up a hill towards a home. 1.00

00:34:08.760 Then water tenders showed up because the hydrants weren't working.

00:34:12.240 We have another water tender here.

00:34:13.740 That means we have more water.

00:34:15.460 Thank you.

00:34:16.240 Thank you.

00:34:16.840 L.A. County leaders say the hydrant systems were made to fight house fires, not large wildfires.

00:34:23.360 A firefight with multiple fire hydrants drawing water from the system for several hours is unsustainable.

00:34:28.920 The head of Oakland's firefighter union is working to save two temporarily closed firehouses in the hills and has now been tracking the hydrant problems in Southern California.

00:34:38.200 Those are our lifelink in order to get water to the pump to be able to put out fires.

00:34:43.660 So, yeah, I'm definitely very concerned.

00:34:45.640 Union President Seth Olyar says Oakland firefighters personally work to maintain hydrants and report broken ones to East Bay Mud, which is responsible for all of the hydrants across the East Bay.

00:34:56.600 The L.A. situation really highlights how fragile some of the infrastructure is here and also how dependent we are as firefighters on the water supply system.

00:35:11.560 We reached out to East Bay Mud to talk about the status of all the fire hydrants across the East Bay, but a spokesperson said nobody was available to talk tonight.

00:35:20.560 In Oakland, Tom Jensen, NBC Bay Area News.

00:35:26.600 So, let's look at some other DEI hire women failing in positions of power. 1.00

00:35:41.380 Toronto Police Superintendent Stacey Clark was demoted to ranks for a cheating scandal in August of 2024.

00:35:48.940 She was caught giving black constables test answers and other information before promotional opportunities to increase the chances of them moving up the ladder.

00:36:01.600 Clark pled guilty to seven counts of misconduct and was demoted to the rank staff sergeant.

00:36:07.460 In 24 months, she will be able to reapply for the rank of superintendent.

00:36:12.360 Why?

00:36:12.600 Because she's a woman. 0.93

00:36:15.580 I mean, I want you guys to think about this.

00:36:17.540 If a man was giving special treatment to other men, to white men, let's say.

00:36:23.260 Let's say a man decided that he wanted to give help to white men on their test answers so they could get promoted. 0.58

00:36:31.900 How would that go?

00:36:33.000 Do you think he would be able to reapply in 24 months, two years?

00:36:38.280 In emotional and raw testimony, a Toronto Police Superintendent facing discipline apologized for helping constables cheat on a promotional exam.

00:36:54.480 But as John Woodward reports, the hearing also delved into how unfair the hiring process was to black candidates to begin with and how a plan to fix it was canceled without warning.

00:37:05.300 The first part of Superintendent Stacey Clark's testimony was an apology for giving six constables questions in advance of a promotional exam.

00:37:13.460 She told the hearing it was tremendously important for me to take responsibility for what I had done.

00:37:18.380 I know it was not the right path.

00:37:19.980 But the tribunal spent much more time on what Clark called the why, and it came down to a systemic failure to promote black officers.

00:37:26.820 The often benefited white men within the service, there was.

00:37:35.980 Again, why do women get to give a why? 1.00

00:37:41.280 Only when men do something wrong, they just say they did something wrong. 0.63

00:37:45.160 They don't give a reason or an explanation.

00:37:47.320 They're not given the benefit of the doubt.

00:37:49.780 But women can literally help participants cheat on a test and be given a slap on the wrist because of DEI. 1.00

00:38:03.720 Nepotism, there was favoritism, and all types of other issues.

00:38:08.840 It's common practice that senior officers have subordinate officers whom they mentor and therefore share interview questions with.

00:38:17.760 The proposed solution that Clark supported and was adopted by Toronto's Police Service Board in 2021, a new procedure that involved providing the questions in advance to everyone.

00:38:27.140 It was based on feedback from 500 Toronto Police officers.

00:38:33.600 The Toronto Police Service Board oversees the police, but the tribunal heard even though the board approved the plan, the police service didn't put it into practice.

00:38:42.060 In a report, Professor Wendell Agitay wrote before its implementation, the TPS made an executive decision without warning to suspend the new process and revert to the original unfair practice that the members identified in the external review.

00:38:55.460 It stands to reason that had the TPS implemented the new promotional process, Superintendent Clark would not have felt the desperate need to flatten the playing field by providing black officers with the interview questions. 0.55

00:39:06.220 It's not clear why the policy was never adopted.

00:39:09.080 Somebody along the way decided that they weren't going to implement all of it.

00:39:14.300 Supporters who arrived on a bus stood by Clark.

00:39:16.900 I think instead of demoting her, they should give her a ward. 1.00

00:39:21.580 Clark became a... 1.00

00:39:22.220 Why are people so stupid? That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Fire her! 1.00

00:39:31.640 Okay, this is on Twitter a lot. Whenever I debate with another woman on Twitter, if I debate with a man, he never complains to me about harassment after.

00:39:51.500 We all know that if you go on a debate with somebody that disagrees with you, their followers are going to troll you, your followers are going to troll them.

00:40:00.800 Neither of us ask for this. This is just how it is.

00:40:04.360 But the ladies have a tendency to want to guilt me into taking videos down or not responding to them while having a high-profile account or a public persona. 1.00

00:40:18.720 Totally fine. You're welcome here.

00:40:21.140 But we don't get high-profile positions without criticism.

00:40:24.760 You don't get to be on the Internet, make this amazing Internet money without consequences.

00:40:30.340 There's like 20 hit pieces of me on the Internet. I don't cry about it.

00:40:35.080 You know, I just accept that's part of being here.

00:40:37.720 I like conservative media.

00:40:40.500 I like it. I've always loved it.

00:40:42.880 I'm very thankful you guys allow me to be here.

00:40:47.900 You will not catch me complaining, crying.

00:40:50.760 And that's the same thing she's doing here.

00:40:54.040 She's complaining about getting a high-profile position and dealing with criticism and people online making threats.

00:41:02.700 Do you think Trump cries at night because he's threatened?

00:41:05.820 That man dodged a bullet and stood right up.

00:41:08.680 You don't get both.

00:41:09.700 You get one or the other.

00:41:10.660 Life is about choices and trade-offs.

00:41:12.320 Systemic change saying, I love my job.

00:41:23.500 I love what I do.

00:41:24.660 Some may say foolishly, but I still believe we can do what we say we are going to do.

00:41:28.740 The decision whether she'll have the rank to be in a position to help will be up to the tribunal.

00:41:33.420 John Woodward, CTV News.

00:41:36.900 Okay.

00:41:37.340 Now, in November of 2024, a New Zealand warship, captioned by a British woman, sank because it was left on autopilot.

00:41:53.540 The $48 million ship smashed into a coral reef in the South Pacific and was the first ship from New Zealand to sink since World War II.

00:42:04.040 Yvonne Gray, the ship's captain, was championed as the first LGBTQ woman from New Zealand to captain a ship.

00:42:12.900 The New Zealand government has repeatedly denied that the captain's gender played a role in the sinking of the ship.

00:42:20.280 So what frustrates me, again, what they will say is that, no, it's not DEI.

00:42:27.780 They deserve to be there.

00:42:28.900 Well, how do we know?

00:42:31.880 There's too much backlash for not going to the DEI way to expect that, you know, what about the lesbian women that are there because they deserve it? 1.00

00:42:46.500 Now, you question things because of all the people they force into roles that are not meant to be there.

00:42:56.020 Melbourne Truckee has copped a spray from New Zealand's Defence Minister for comments he made on social media.

00:43:07.260 The Minister held a press conference this afternoon and called out the online hate and misogyny levelled at the captain of a Navy ship, which ran aground in Samoa.

00:43:16.380 With her Navy vessel stuck on a reef in Samoa, Commander Yvonne Gray made the call to abandon her. 0.97

00:43:24.840 You know, there are just some positions I am not comfortable.

00:43:40.380 Not all, not all, not all.

00:43:41.800 If I see a woman that is good, if we're going to, I would prefer a guy. 1.00

00:43:50.220 I would prefer it because I think that's a very high stress job and high stakes.

00:43:55.120 But if you're going to have a woman there, I expect her to be there because she deserves it. 0.99

00:44:01.460 And I want to see a badass, take-no-shit-looking woman. 1.00

00:44:12.140 But we, I have a hard time with women in military positions. 1.00

00:44:17.780 Again, if they deserve to be there, sure.

00:44:20.780 But what I'm seeing is women oftentimes that don't and they just do not understand violence the way that men do. 0.97

00:44:29.720 Again, I have an interesting point of view because I played sports and I would play basketball.

00:44:36.400 I've played basketball with men, but I always knew that I cannot charge to the basket like I do with women. 1.00

00:44:43.940 Because I would get my shit rocked. 0.99

00:44:46.200 I would, no, can't do it. 0.99

00:44:48.480 Like, I'm not breaking my, getting my nose broke over this.

00:44:51.940 I'm not doing it.

00:44:54.340 And I'm pretty strong for a woman.

00:44:56.660 But in general, we just, we don't understand violence.

00:45:07.160 So I have a hard time, I hate to bring this up all the time, but that's why I keep pointing you guys to the website.

00:45:14.900 Because, you know, we need 3,500 people on there or one yearly membership show in order to keep the lights on.

00:45:22.560 Because, you know, I don't know if she's going to dox the guy now, but this is what, when women, when our reputation is on the line, you know, historically, in order to survive, our reputation was really important. 0.99

00:45:38.380 So when our reputation is on the line, that's when women go to extreme lengths with family court, false accusations, and policing speech. 1.00

00:45:46.600 It's in order to save our reputation.

00:45:51.180 That's why a lot of the false rape accusations, the woman was just cheating on her boyfriend, got found out. 1.00

00:45:58.360 What are her options?

00:46:00.020 This woman, we're starting, it's starting to be revealed that we're not really equipped, and a lot of us are being given jobs we don't deserve.

00:46:07.000 And when that starts to get revealed, the ladies, they get mad, now they have to police the speech. 1.00

00:46:14.760 It's the same reason why, you know, Candace got mad last show. 1.00

00:46:18.500 Because I revealed that, hey, most of us ladies are here because we're giving an enormous advantage on social media. 1.00

00:46:25.820 This isn't the most difficult job in the world.

00:46:27.880 And neither of us would be here if we weren't women with men's opinions, with more right-leaning conservative opinions.

00:46:37.260 It just wouldn't happen.

00:46:38.540 We're not that special, amazing, and awesome.

00:46:40.480 And I say this for me too, right?

00:46:43.160 That's when they start to police speech.

00:46:45.960 That's when they start to lie.

00:46:47.420 That's when the lawsuits start to come out, et cetera, et cetera.

00:46:51.420 New Zealand Navy, and particularly the woman.

00:46:55.160 I looked to see what else I could find about him.

00:46:58.680 While he is someone who drives something, he drives a truck.

00:47:01.820 And I think that he should keep his comments to people who drive trucks rather than to people who drive ships.

00:47:08.880 Finishing off the salvo by saying she won't stop calling out these kinds of comments.

00:47:14.400 Efforts to clean up the shipwreck are ongoing.

00:47:17.580 Yeah, and a ship just sank.

00:47:21.460 Like, think about how serious that is.

00:47:23.720 Because people's lives are on the line.

00:47:26.340 And she is worried about the reputation of the captain.

00:47:31.440 She's worried about the comments section.

00:47:33.920 Because again, it's being revealed, hey, there's some flaw in the system.

00:47:38.800 Again, I have no problem if you show me a woman that can do the exact job that a man can do. 1.00

00:47:47.080 If she can do a better job than a man does it.

00:47:50.120 I have no problem with her getting the position.

00:47:52.620 I really don't.

00:47:54.880 The problem I have is when we're being given special handouts and everyone has to pretend they're not what they are.

00:48:03.220 And by the way, guys, we are going to do a call-in show at the end of this where you can call in and say if you've ever been discriminated against because of your gender, your race.

00:48:16.200 And I want to know what happened and how it affected the department.

00:48:20.400 But that's in a little bit.

00:48:21.820 Court of Inquiry has been called to discuss the real cause of the crash.

00:48:26.600 Tallulah Thompson for 10 News First.

00:48:33.220 So, again, these are all women in powerful positions that failed to meet the expectations put upon them. 0.96

00:48:47.980 So, I'm going to grab the Zoom link.

00:48:52.840 And we're going to do a call-in show.

00:48:57.160 And I want to know from you guys, have you ever been discriminated against based on your gender?

00:49:05.500 And I would be really curious to know how it affected the department.

00:49:15.760 Let me...

00:49:17.480 Here we go.

JustPearlyThings - January 10, 2025

Have You Ever Been Discriminated Against Because Of Your Gender？ (Call-In Show) ｜ Pearl Daily

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