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UPS announced it is cutting 12,000 jobs (out of about 530,000 person workforce) this year and is requiring all workers to return to the office 5 days a week.

So much for the great economy narrative

Elephant in the room is outsourcing and importation of foreign cheap labor instead of using citizens

James Carville ?

UPS announced it is cutting 12,000 jobs (out of about 530,000 person workforce) this year and is requiring all workers to return to the office 5 days a week.

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James Carville ?

Stunning to think that he is less crazy than 90% of the media AND democratic staffers/appointees today.

Elephant in the room is outsourcing and importation of foreign cheap labor instead of using citizens

Thanks to a newly-enacted law last year, Florida’s public universities are slowly healing themselves of their racist Distractions, Errors, and Incompetence (DEI) departments. The latest this week was announced by Miami’s Florida International University which, Javier Milei-like, eliminated its DEI department:




I guess it’s spreading.

The WSJ reported last year that DEI discussions on corporate investor calls have become increasingly rare.

My oldest, best friend runs a large, contrarian investment fund. One of his favorite techniques to identify his short-sale targets (i.e., betting the stock price will fall) is counting up the minutes of investor calls devoted to DEI. He swears there is an inverse relationship between the proportion of DEI chatter and future stock performance.

In other words, the more corporate officials talk about their awesome DEI programs, the more it seems like they’re trying to distract investors from problems with their fundamentals. I would add that the more time and attention top management devotes to DEI, the less time and attention it has to give its real mission, which should be delivering a superior product or service.

Let’s test the theory. Victoria’s Secret, Moderna, and ConocoPhillips all significantly expanded their DEI teams last year. But even though the market as a whole is up, the jab company and the now body-positive lingerie firm are down year-over-year. Only the oil and gas company is up, and only about +1%. So.

Meanwhile, The Home Depot cut its DEI department by over 50% last year. Its stock is way up...

So. Maybe my friend’s rule works in reverse, too. Maybe there’s a positive relationship between deep cuts to DEI and an increased stock price. Somebody should look into that (because the media won’t, that’s for sure).

DEI is not just getting punched in the face by for-profit corporations. Last week, Florida’s largest public university axed its entire DEI department. According to the WaPo article, in just the last year state legislators have introduced at least sixty-five anti-DEI bills. Last year, the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions, and the decision loaded ammunition into legal challenges against private employers’ hiring practices. Conservative groups have been suing prominent mid-size corporations over their psychotic, anti-white, discriminatory hiring practices.

Local Austin ABC affiliate KVUE ran a terrific story yesterday headlined, “Dozens of UT Austin employees in DEI-related roles to be laid off.” Well, to be honest, KVUE was not super excited about the news. The story’s first quote was Aaliyah Barlow, president of UT’s Black Student Alliance, who reportedly sobbed “honestly, I cried and I was angry.”

Thanks democrats! Welcome to 2024. This is what things have come to. Adults crying over politics. Forget about policy or even reason. It’s all emotion now: mainly grief and rage. I’m not exaggerating. KVUE’s next ‘DEI policy analyst’ quote was from UT junior Chrisdianna Mcafee, who said, "A lot of people are upset; all of my group chats are raging. All of the GroupMe’s, all of the Slacks – everybody is raging.”

Goodness. Her inability to enunciate a rational objection makes one wonder what Ms. Mcafee’s student loan balance has climbed up to. The University of Texas might be wildly succeeding in its ‘emo’ studies, but it is clearly failing students elsewhere. Is that really value for money?

The news devastating UT’s far-left students was the announcement by the school’s president that, following passage of a new Texas law, the school’s DEI department would be rolled up, its diverse faculty employees reassigned, its funding equitably redeployed, and around 60 highly-inclusive “support staff” would be ashcanned. The president explained:

Funding used to support DEI across campus prior to SB 17's effective date will be redeployed to support teaching and research. As part of this reallocation, associate or assistant deans who were formerly focused on DEI will return to their full-time faculty positions. The positions that provided support for those associate and assistant deans and a small number of staff roles across campus that were formerly focused on DEI will no longer be funded.

This is more excellent progress. And the blue-state / red-state divide grows ever wider.