Perhaps worst of all, the Department of Land and Natural Resources “delayed the release of water that landowners wanted to help protect their property from fires” until it was “too late,”
according to the Honolulu Civil Beat. Four people “with knowledge of the situation” told the local outlet that M. Kaleo Manuel, the agency’s deputy director for water resource management, “balked” at a Maui property management company’s desperate request for water. The delay reported lasted more than five hours.
According to the New York Post, Manuel had previously
discussed the need for water distribution to be based on “true conversations about equity.” Formerly affiliated with the Obama Foundation, Manuel insisted last year that Hawaiians must “coexist” with resources like water.
Is that the kind of guy you want in charge of decisions that might save or cost your life?
This kind of apparent incompetence infects nearly every sphere woke activists can get their PowerPoint-clicking fingers on. Whether by hiring people who score high on
DEI rubrics instead of job qualifications, or just by flat-out hiring people who want to tear down the systems they’re supposed to be running, the folks in charge are playing with, well, fire.
For the sake of inclusivity, the Federal Aviation Administration, which is currently advertising air traffic controller positions,
notes on its website that it uses “Direct Hiring Authorities” to “expedite” hiring of “People with Severe Disabilities” such as “complete paralysis, severe intellectual disability and psychiatric disability.” Doesn’t that make you feel confident in the people you entrust with your life every time you fly?
As Peachy Keenan noted in these pages last month, airlines like United and American are openly
hiring people based on characteristics like race and sex, which, last I checked, have nothing to do with knowing how to fly a plane. In a twist of fate that definitely no one could have foreseen, “the last 12 months have delivered the highest number of near-collisions and narrowly averted disasters in modern aviation history.”
Nigel Farage wasn’t the only Brit getting de-banked this week. The UK Times ran a story yesterday headlined, “Yorkshire Building Society ‘Closed Vicar’s Account After Trans Protest’.”
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