Pearl Daily’s call-in episode examines claims that DEI hiring—like Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (who cut the LAFD budget by $17M while homeless spending hit $1.3B) and Fire Chief Kristen Crowley (first openly LGBTQ in the role)—fails high-stress jobs, citing wildfires displacing 30,000 and infrastructure collapses. Critics also point to New Zealand’s warship loss under LGBTQ woman Yvonne Gray in November 2024 and defense minister comments calling her "not equipped" for command. The segment contrasts systemic backlash against women in leadership with conservative media’s resilience, framing the debate as a clash between meritocracy and identity-driven appointments. Listeners are invited to share experiences of gender or race-based discrimination in their fields. [Automatically generated summary]
This week has been a tough week for the city of Los Angeles.
First, let me say I hope and I pray that all the residents are safe.
None of us ever want anyone to lose their lives in a tragedy of this magnitude.
But we have to call a spade a spade on this one.
Los Angeles response to the fires has been a complete disaster.
It's an example of what happens when you put DEI hires in leadership positions.
The mayor of LA is a woman.
The fire chief is also a woman.
And she prioritized DEI hiring of LBGTQ firefighters as her biggest priority.
Like I say on my channel all the time, men as a group are better than women at certain things.
They make 80% of the world's stuff.
And when they're in leadership positions, they tend to do a better job statistically.
That's why they're in them.
And you cannot tell me that a man would not have done a better job as mayor or somebody qualified responding to this crisis.
I would surely believe that a man is better able to handle these type of situations in general.
But what do you think, guys?
Am I wrong?
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.
We're getting to the point it's tough for the average person to tell the difference.
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.
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Now, I want to talk about the key players in this.
Karen Bass was elected the mayor of LA in 2022, and her priority as mayor has been the homelessness situation, diverting money from city departments to go towards this issue.
Before the fire, she took an international trip to Ghana, where her city went up in flames.
She also slashed the fire department's budget by $17 million this past year.
I'm going to bring up a clip that's going viral of a reporter grilling the mayor over her handling of the wildfires.
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We're going to watch it now.
As Los Angeles battles its worst wildfire in history, I'm definitely a critic of the mayor.
She was in West Africa while West Los Angeles was burning.
The city's top elected official, Mayor Karen Bass, is facing criticism on a number of fronts.
Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning?
Do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions of dollars, Madam Mayor?
A Sky News reporter, let me ask you just again.
Grilling Bass after she landed in Los Angeles Wednesday, returning from a diplomatic trip to Ghana.
Bass left on Saturday.
The National Weather Service issued warnings last Thursday and again on Sunday about extreme fire weather conditions.
Monday, Bass posted on X there is an expected destructive and potentially life-threatening windstorm.
By Tuesday, according to the city, Bass was already flying home as the Palisades fire was quickly spreading.
Since being back on the ground, the mayor has been on defense over her absence.
I've been in constant contact with our fire commanders, with county, state, and federal officials.
I took the fastest route back, which included being on a military plane, which facilitated our communications.
Another complaint: some residents say there wasn't enough water where and when it was needed.
Started with the wind, everything, and uh, I started waiting on the floor, all the floor, the roof.
The pressure of the water is going away, so I used to fill it up buckets, the trash can water.
There's not water in the fire hydrants.
I paid for it, didn't I?
Did some hydrants run low?
The short answer is yes.
Some more context.
According to the Department of Water and Power, all 114 water storage facilities were filled, but heavy use of fire hydrants depleted the supply.
Now, I want to talk about how also the ladies are going to play victim.
How many of these women that are complaining in this voted for Democrat policies?
They will vote for Democrat policies on abortion until their city literally burns to the ground, literally.
The extreme conditions compounded by high winds keeping firefighting aircraft grounded.
We all know that this has been an unprecedented event.
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.
Bass now also having to defend the decision to reduce the fire department's 2024-2025 budget.
Last summer, she approved cutting more than $17 million from it.
Saying in a memo, these budgetary reductions have adversely affected the department's ability to maintain core operations.
Bass says the cuts did not impact fighting these fires.
There were no reductions that were made that would have impacted the situation that we were dealing with over the last couple of days.
Do you see this guy?
Do you see this guy in the background?
He does not agree.
Oh, shoot.
He does not agree.
He does not.
This guy here, he is like, this is this woman is on some BS.
And you could just tell, you know, even Gavin Newson, who also does a terrible job, you can at least tell he would have pre-scripted answers, right?
This woman is clearly not qualified for the job.
This is a disaster.
Okay, let me play this again.
is it the wi-fi i know people are saying it's man-made Look, I don't know if it was or it wasn't.
I haven't seen evidence that it was at this point.
It's possible, but I'm not one that's going to jump to the conspiracy theories.
I know there's this idea that like the rich do it on purpose to make money or something.
Okay.
Let me sound.
Last summer, she approved cutting more than $17 million from it.
Last month, LA's fire chief raised concerns with the mayor and city council, saying in a memo, these budgetary reductions have adversely affected the department's ability to maintain core operations.
Bass says the cuts did not impact fighting these fires.
There were no reductions that were made that would have impacted the situation that we were dealing with over the last couple of days.
And Erin, the total budget for the Los Angeles Fire Department is a little more than $800 million.
Bass has said in the past that that budget included money for things like hiring new firefighters.
But again, her critics, and there are many of them on the ground there, being very vocal, saying that her judgment is in question.
Now, I want to clarify my position on things.
I am not against women being in positions that they deserve.
If we complete and are able to do a job at the same quality that the men are able to do a job, you know, I don't see anything wrong with them doing that job if they can do it to the same quality.
The issue I have is when they start lowering the requirements to give us special preferential treatment, and now people are losing their homes.
That's where I have an issue.
Or you put someone in a position that shouldn't be there, people lose their lives.
How far are we going to go to make us feel better and feel like we're competing as a group?
It's getting to the point, it's ridiculous, where I don't know if I hire somebody, any female in any job, if they're there because they deserve it and they're good, or because there's some practice that allowed them to be there, some special privilege.
That's where we're at.
Let me do the budget article.
Los Angeles mayor slashed fire budget last year and prioritized the homeless population.
Los Angeles budget is in the spotlight as multiple wildfires rage around the city amid revelations that Mayor Karen Bass slashed the fire department's budget last year while prioritizing spending on the city's homeless.
For the 2023 to 2024 fiscal year, LA budgeted $837 million for the LA Fire Department, which was roughly 65% of the homeless budget of $1.3 billion.
An analysis by LA City's controller last year found that roughly half the budget was reduced by over $17 million from $83,700,000 to $819 million to $819 million.
Bass had proposed a larger budget to cut the LAFD to about $23 million, but it was not adopted.
Fox Business has reached out to Bass's office for comment and the reasoning behind the cuts.
The budget for homelessness was also reduced in 2024 to 2025, but remained larger than the LAFD budget.
LA is currently the center of four ongoing wildfires, the Eaton, the Woodley, the Hearst fires, and the Palisades, which have consumed countless homes and businesses and claimed two lives.
The fires have prompted evacuation orders for more than 30,000 people and come as California faces an insurance crisis after several insurers fled the state, largely due to the costs associated with the wildfire losses.
Out of 20, the most destructive California wildfires, seven have taken place in the last five years.
The Department of Forestry and Fire Protection reported in terms of economic costs, the 2018 fire camp caused $10 billion in damages.
The Tubbs fire in 2017 cost $8.7 billion in damages.
And the Woolsey fire in 2018 cost $4.2 billion.
So let's watch the video associated with this.
Mess with reaction is former LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva.
Alex, thank you for being here.
This is, by all accounts, a devastating wildfire.
Uncontained, two deaths so far.
You can see the damage in those live shots.
Governor Newsom declaring a state of emergency, yet some are criticizing the local authorities and the response teams.
Do you think that criticism is fair?
Well, you got to recognize that there was a bond measure in 2014, Proposition 1, that allocated $7.5 billion for the infrastructure to capture water in reservoirs to have that available so our hydrants would be basically full of water and in times of need.
And only a fraction of that money has been spent.
It's all been tied up in bureaucratic nightmare.
Then you have the workforce itself.
You have fire, LA County, LA City fire, their numbers are depleted.
LAPD, LA Sheriffs, their numbers are depleted.
Where's the National Guard here?
I mean, there's a lot of things, a lot of manpower that is missing.
And that all goes from 2020 forward, the whole defunding movement, this impact.
Can we talk about that?
Because we were reading in the post this morning that the LA Fire Department had seen budget cuts by about $17 million.
How much of this is or is not preventable based on some of those budget cuts?
Oh, this is very, very preventable because you called the fire department, both city and county fire, part of the whole first responder infrastructure.
That has been one of the targets of politicians from 2020 forward to take money away from and deplete those resources, supposedly under this grand scheme of we're going to reinvest it in the community.
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.
I mean, a lot of it is going to be obviously nature is going to is having its way with us right now.
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.
And we don't have the resources we should have.
And those were political decisions that happened years ago.
Talk to me about the water issue because I found this very disturbing.
You've had folks on the ground fighting the fires.
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.
You're telling me that that was supposed to have been addressed in 2014 and that's still an issue right now.
Does that sit on Karen Bass's shoulders?
Whose shoulders does that sit on?
It sits on the current mayor, the previous mayor, Eric Garcetti, the Board of Supervisors, past and present.
From 2014 on, Proposition 1, that's a lot of money.
I think they spent $177 million out of $7.5 billion.
All of the construction projects were designed to upgrade and create new systems that capture water from the rainfall.
I mean, two years of record rainfall, and we were not able to capture it.
Yes, because it wasn't built.
So it all washed into the ocean, but it did fuel the growth of the underbrush.
Mobilize too late.
Oh, way too late.
And this is something both LA County Sheriff's Department, LAPD had to know that because they're both agencies are missing roughly 1,500 sworn officers each.
That's over 3,000.
So any major event like this is going to generate a lot of demand for personnel over prolonged periods of time.
That's an automatic call to the National Guard.
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.
Like you're pulling deputies from a contract city and who's going to answer 911 and go out when everyone's out at the fire.
So this is why personnel, the staffing is critical at this time.
Alex, we so appreciate your time today and your insight.
Wish we were talking.
So thousands of people have lost their homes.
This is devastating to the state of California.
And we're hearing that the fire could have been contained, that it didn't have to be this bad.
But this is gross incompetence.
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.
Now, the L.A.
Oh, wait, there's one more.
The budget cuts.
Hold on.
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.
The budget reduction approved last year by Mayor Karen Bass was mostly absorbed by leaving many administration jobs at the fire department unfilled.
But that left about $7 million to be cut from its overtime budget, which was earmarked for training, fire prevention, and other key functions.
The reduction has severely limited the department's capacity to prepare, train for, and respond.
And the LA fire department were used to pay for FAA-mandated pilot training and helicopter coordination staffing for wildfire suppression.
The memo said Mayor Bass said Wednesday evening that the budget cuts did not have an impact on the LA Fire Department's response to the wildfires.
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.
Bass also dismissed the criticism that she was on an overseas trip while the fires started during the intense winds that had been forecast 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, Bass said.
I was on the phone on the plane almost every hour of the flight, she said.
The fire chief's memo was presented last month to the Board of Fire Commissioners, 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.
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.
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 Hollywoods Hills late Wednesday.
Any fire department, even our side, is stretched thin, which is why we call in our mutual aid partners, said LA Fire Department spokesman Jacob Rabe.
The fire started Tuesday and fanned by powerful winds destroyed hundreds of buildings and burned about 15,800 acres.
It was one of five wildfires burning in Southern California.
The Los Angeles fire, the Los Angeles fire chief Kristen Crowley started her position in 2022.
She's the first openly LBTGQ woman to hold this office.
Right away, a big deal was made about this, and she made it her priority to hire a more diverse fire department.
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.
Talk about an over-correction.
When talking about Kristen's nomination, former LA 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.
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.
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.
You keep taking money out of our taxes for these policies that you guys voted for.
And, you know, again, they said that the previous chief was sexist.
So you know what he said?
He said, okay, I'll step down.
Let's see how the ladies handle it.
Go ahead.
And honestly, guys, to some degree, I don't blame them at all.
If we are going to keep voting for Democrats, if we're going to keep voting for these leftist policies, okay, see what happens.
See how it works.
The only way, and this is why simps are such a problem when they bail people out, 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.
You know, do you think next election California is going to vote Republican?
Now we're going to watch the new nominee for the fire department.
Tell employees they complain of harassment, they complain of bullying.
But if anyone can change the culture, let it be Kristen Crowley.
Now, what an amazing opportunity, but I do feel ready.
Tuesday morning, the winds of change blew through LA like a Santa Ana.
Again, this is play pretend.
You know, again, I don't have a problem with women doing jobs they're qualified for.
But to give a little background, I played volleyball overseas.
I'm an athlete.
I'm six foot.
I'm taller than most men.
In terms of strength, I can deadlift close to 300 pounds.
That's more than a lot of guys.
I've played basketball with men.
Yeah, even a guy that doesn't really work out is going to beat me up.
It's not going to be hard if you wanted to.
Don't do that.
You know what I mean?
Like, don't.
But if you wanted to, how the heck are these women going to do a better job as a firewoman?
And the other question I have: you know, if we're going to promote somebody to chief, you know, I worked in sales for like two, three years, And you expect the managers to be good salespeople so they can teach the salespeople coming up how to sell.
What is she going to teach a guy about fighting fires when I just cannot imagine that she has the strength that men do?
Paramedic, firefighter, captain, and chief deputy.
We met right after the announcement.
Am I crazy?
She looks chubby to me.
I just don't see athletic here.
I really don't.
Crowley told me this was a day she had not imagined, but somehow it felt right.
I was never really shooting for that.
I just took it day by day, trying to understand my job.
Now, again, what I, if I believed that she was there off of merit, I would have no problem.
I just coming from the perspective of an athlete, and that is a physically demanding job, I cannot imagine, I don't think she could lift me out of a fire.
Like if I was passed out on the ground, you guys really think she could throw me over her shoulder.
And she's taking the spot of a guy who can.
Now, people will argue: well, managing isn't the same as doing a job.
And you know what?
That's true.
Some people are very good at a job and they make terrible managers.
But you have to at least be decent.
And I just cannot imagine her physical strength is anywhere close to even an out-of-shape man.
I, you know, they said maybe she can't.
You know what?
I'm open to being proven wrong.
Maybe the rest of this video I'll be proven wrong.
I don't know.
But it's getting ridiculous.
And it's all so we can feel better about ourselves.
So we can, you know, clap woman's empowerment.
You destroyed the patriarchy.
You did the things that men have been the best way to do it.
The women are focusing on why.
It's kind of like, have you guys ever gotten into an argument with a woman?
And she keeps asking, why would you do that?
Why, why, why, you know, nagging on every single behavior.
Who cares about the why?
I want to know, what are you going to do to do the job well?
I mean, with the COVID and you can't lift fire, Pearl.
I know you can't lift fire, but if I'm passed out in a fire or I need there's times where they have to carry somebody out.
That's reasonable.
You know, I could have passed out from the fire.
They could have found me.
How am I getting out?
She's not taking me out.
The variance and everything that's happening.
Crowley is married.
She and her wife, Holland, who is retired from the LA City Fire Department, have three young daughters.
She reflected today on what it means to be a role model.
And I'm ecstatic to be in the position to show both young girls and boys that, hey, this is important, that we have people in positions of authority that work hard and you're rewarded for it.
I must say she was very engaging.
When we think about the numbers here in the LA City Fire Department, 3,727 employees, 3,174 of them are fully vaccinated.
That's an 85% rate.
At 6 o'clock, I'll have more with Ms. Crowley and what this could mean to the city of LA.
Laura G is reporting live from downtown Los Angeles.
Alex and Marla, back to you.
That is ridiculous.
Why was I haven't signed out?
Okay.
Thank you.
Okay.
What's the next one?
Oh, here we go.
The next one is Megyn Kelly.
This is Megyn Kelly's response.
As if all of this is not enough, it turns out that in recent years, LA's fire chief has made not filling the fire hydrants top priority, but diversity.
Diversity is at least among the top priorities for the department.
Her name is Kristen Crowley.
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.
One more.
Okay, here.
During the firefight has been a lack of water at hydrants on the Palisades fire.
Tonight, that's getting the attention of community leaders all across California.
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.
NBC Barris Tom Jensen is in Oakland tonight where station closures are already top of mind.
And now there's this water supply issue.
Everybody in Oakland has been talking about the closure of this fire station, Fire Station 25, and another one in the Oakland Hills.
Tonight, they're also talking about these, fire hydrants, especially in light of what's happening in Southern California.
...to reach a distant fire hydrant because the nearest one has little or no pressure, a serious problem that persists on the raging wildfire, one that crews, including this one from San Francisco, keep running into, hydrants that aren't working properly and have extremely low or sporadic pressure.
You know what your incoming pressure is?
It's not to be 10 and 50, but it's real at zero.
We can only do one inch and a half over.
Residents whose homes are still standing are finding their own household water systems down too as they try to help.
We went inside the house and there is no water inside the house.
This woman dipped a bucket from a hot tub to try to douse flames running up a hill towards a home.
Then water tenders showed up because the hydrants weren't working.
We have another water tender here that means we have more water.
Thank you.
Thank you.
LA County leaders say the hydrant systems were made to fight house fires, not large wildfires.
A firefight with multiple fire hydrants drawing water from the system for several hours is unsustainable.
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.
Those are our lifelink in order to get water to the pump to be able to put out fire.
So yeah, I'm definitely very concerned.
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.
The LA situation really highlights how fragile some of the infrastructure is here and also how dependent we are as firefighters on the water supply system.
We reached out to East Bay Mudd to talk about the status of all the fire hydrants across the East Bay, but a spokesperson said nobody was available to talk tonight.
In Oakland, Tom Jensen, NBC, Bay Area News.
Let's look at some other DEI hires.
Sorry, guys, I'm a little sick today.
Let's look at some other DEI hire women failing in positions of power.
Toronto Police Superintendent Stacey Clark was demoted to ranks for a cheating scandal in August of 2024.
She was caught giving black constables test answers and other information before promotional opportunities to increase the chances of them moving up the ladder.
Clark pled guilty to seven counts of misconduct and was demoted to the rank staff sergeant.
In 24 months, she will be able to reapply for the rank of superintendent.
Why?
Because she's a woman.
I mean, I want you guys to think about this.
If a man was giving special treatment to other men, to white men, let's say.
Let's say a man decided that he wanted to give help to white men on their test answers so they could get promoted.
How would that go?
Do you think he would be able to reapply in 24 months, two years?
In emotional and raw testimony, a Toronto police superintendent facing discipline apologized for helping constables cheat on a promotional exam.
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.
The first part of Superintendent Stacey Clark's testimony was an apology for giving six constables questions in advance of a promotional exam.
She told the hearing it was tremendously important for me to take responsibility for what I had done.
I know it was not the right path.
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.
We often benefited white men within the service.
Again, why do women get to give a why?
Only when men do something wrong, they just say they did something wrong.
They don't give a reason or an explanation.
They're not given the benefit of the doubt.
But women can literally help participants cheat on a test and be given a slap on the wrist because of DEI.
Nepotism, there was favoritism, and all types of other issues.
It's common practice that senior officers have subordinate officers whom they mentor and therefore share interview questions with.
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.
It was based on feedback from 500 Toronto police officers.
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.
In a report, Professor Wendell Agite 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.
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.
It's not clear why the policy was never adopted.
Somebody along the way decided that they weren't going to implement all of it.
Supporters who arrived on a bus stood by Clark.
I think instead of demoting her, they should give her a reward.
Clark became a why are people so stupid?
That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Fire her emotionally, she described demeaning posts from retired officers and one threat and how it affected her children.
But she said she remained loyal to the okay.
This is the this on Twitter a lot.
Whenever I debate with another woman on Twitter, if I debate with a man, he never complains to be to me about harassment after.
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.
Neither of us ask for this.
This is just how it is.
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.
Totally fine.
You're welcome here.
But we don't get high-profile positions without criticism.
You don't get to be on the internet, make this amazing internet money without consequences.
There's like 20 hit pieces of me on the internet.
I don't cry about it.
I, you know, I just accept that's part of being here.
I like conservative media.
I like it.
I've always loved it.
I'm very thankful you guys allow me to be here.
You will not catch me complaining crying.
And that's the same thing she's doing here.
She's complaining about getting a high-profile position and dealing with criticism and people online making threats.
When you're, do you think Trump cries at night because he's threatened?
That man dodged a bullet and stood right up.
You don't get both.
You get one or the other.
Life is about choices and trade-offs.
Systemic change saying, I love my job.
I love what I do.
Some may say foolishly, but I still believe we can do what we say we are going to do.
The decision whether she'll have the rank to be in a position to help will be up to the tribunal.
John Woodward, CTV News.
Okay.
Now, in November of 2024, a New Zealand warship captioned by a British woman sank because it was left on autopilot.
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.
Yvonne Gray, the ship's captain, was championed as the first LGBTQ woman from New Zealand to captain a ship.
The New Zealand government has repeatedly denied that the captain's gender played a role in the sinking of the ship.
So what frustrates me, again, what they will say is that no, it's not DEI.
They deserve to be there.
Well, how do we know?
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?
Now you question things because of all the people they force into roles that are not meant to be there.
It's defense minister for comments he Melbourne Truckee has culped a spray from New Zealand's defense minister for comments he made on social media.
The minister held a press conference this afternoon and called out the online hate and misogyny leveled at the captain of a Navy ship which ran aground in Samoa.
With her Navy vessel stuck on a reef in Samoa, Commander Yvonne Graham made the call to abandon her.
You know, there are just some positions.
I am not comfortable.
Not all, not all, not all.
If I see a woman that is good, if we're gonna, I would prefer a guy.
I would prefer it because I think that's a very high stress job and high stakes.
But if you're gonna have a woman there, I expect her to be there because she deserves it.
And I want to see a badass, take-no-shit-looking woman.
But we have a hard time with women in military positions.
Again, if they deserve to be there, sure.
But what I'm seeing is women oftentimes that don't, and they just do not understand violence the way that men do.
Again, I have an interesting point of view because I played sports and I would play basketball.
I've played basketball with men, but I always knew that I cannot charge to the basket like I do with women because I would get my shit rocked.
I would know, can't do it.
It's like I'm not breaking my, getting my nose broke over this.
I'm not doing it.
And I'm pretty strong for a woman.
But in general, we just don't understand violence.
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 because, you know, we need 3,500 people on there or one yearly membership a show in order to keep the lights on.
Because, you know, I don't know if she's going to dox the guy now, but this is what when women, their repute, when our reputation is on the line, you know, historically, in order to survive, our reputation was really important.
So when our reputation is on the line, that's when women go to extreme lengths with family court, false accusations, and policing speech.
It's in order to save our reputation.
That's why a lot of the false rape accusations, the woman was just cheating on her boyfriend, got found out.
What are her options?
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.
And when that starts to get revealed, the ladies get mad.
Now they have to police the speech.
It's the same reason why, you know, Candace got mad last show because I revealed that, hey, most of us ladies are here because we're giving an enormous advantage on social media.
This isn't the most difficult job in the world.
And neither of us would be here if we weren't women with men's opinions, with more right-leaning, conservative opinions.
It just wouldn't happen.
We're not that special, amazing, and awesome.
And I say this for me, too, right?
That's when they start to police speech.
That's when they start to lie.
That's when the lawsuits start to come out, et cetera, et cetera.
New Zealand Navy, and particularly the woman.
I looked to see what else I could find about him.
Well, he is someone who drives something.
He drives a truck.
And I think that he should keep his comments to people who drive trucks rather than to people who drive ships.
Finishing off the salvo by saying she won't stop calling out these kinds of comments.
Efforts to clean up the shipwreck are ongoing.
Yeah, and a ship just sank.
Like, think about how serious that is.
People's lives are on the line.
And she is worried about the reputation of the captain.
She's worried about the comment section because, again, it's being revealed: hey, there's some flaw in the system.
Again, I have no problem if you show me a woman that can do the exact job that a man can do.
If she can do a better job than a man does it, I have no problem with her getting the position.
I really don't.
The problem I have is when we're being given special handouts and everyone has to pretend they're not what they are.
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.
And I want to know what happened and how it affected the department, but that's in a little bit.
Court of Inquiry has been called to discuss the real cause of the crash.
Tallulah Thompson for 10 News First.
So again, these are all women in powerful positions that failed to meet the expectations put upon them.
So I'm going to grab the Zoom link and we're going to do a call-in show.
And I want to know from you guys: have you ever been discriminated against based on your gender?
And I would be really curious to know how it affected the department.