Speaker 1: Bill cunning into Great America. Let's face promises made, promise
Speaker 1: has kept with all the immigration raids going on, with Columbia,
Speaker 1: the Nation of Columbia backing down. We won't accept the
Speaker 1: flowers nor their coffee beans. Now they're back on track,
Speaker 1: a message is being sent around the world. There's a
Speaker 1: new sheriff in town and his name is Donald John Trump.
Speaker 1: But so much needs to be said about all the
Speaker 1: other stuff, including DEI and whether that caused some of
Speaker 1: the difficulties we have right now head at Lahana in
Speaker 1: Hawaii having it all through Chicago. DEI. There's about an
Speaker 1: eight billion dollar industry built up, an American annual industry
Speaker 1: advocating the principles of DEI, which is racial and sexual
Speaker 1: discrimination masquerading as something else. Joan, you and I now
Speaker 1: is Josh Bernstein. He's been with me a couple times
Speaker 1: in the past, and he's written several columns on this
Speaker 1: He's a talk show host and a columnist and a
Speaker 1: good Barry Farbara, a legend in this business, said that
Speaker 1: he's a savant when it comes to politics. And Josh Bernstein,
Speaker 1: welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And Josh, first
Speaker 1: of all, give me your thoughts on the dismantling of
Speaker 1: DEI and the thought that it became an equal opportunity
Speaker 1: then became affirmative action, then it became DEI still embraced
Speaker 1: by Costco, by the way, but not by Walmart. So
Speaker 1: are you surprised or pleased with the fact that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's getting rid of the eight billion dollar industry called DEI.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely I am. Look, I've been calling for it
Speaker 2: for the longest time, and I've said to my audience
Speaker 2: that look, folks, just hang on, hangtight. Eventually it's going
Speaker 2: to come down to one thing and one thing only,
Speaker 2: and that is financial. It's going to come down to money.
Speaker 2: Do these companies want to be in business to make
Speaker 2: money in profits or do they want to be in
Speaker 2: business to give away their profits? And you know, coowtow
Speaker 2: to group like the Human Rights Campaign, which has nothing
Speaker 2: to do with human rights. These are a bunch of
Speaker 2: leftists that reach out to businesses and woketocracies, if you will,
Speaker 2: and try to change them permanently to their will and
Speaker 2: say if you don't do this, and if you don't
Speaker 2: accept these types of policies, then we're going to boycott
Speaker 2: your business. And thankfully that doesn't work anymore. President Trump
Speaker 2: is back in office. For a reason, the American people
Speaker 2: were tired of all the DEI stuff and the Dylan
Speaker 2: mull trainees out there, and the bud lights and the
Speaker 2: Adidas and you know, the targets and the weird clothing
Speaker 2: they're selling to children. The American people just had it.
Speaker 2: And I think what happened ultimately is that not only
Speaker 2: when President Trump was elected, but the DEI people realized, Okay,
Speaker 2: our jig is up is over for us, and thank
Speaker 2: god it is.
Speaker 1: Because isn't it racial and sexual discrimination to tell someone
Speaker 1: you're going to be hired because of your skin color
Speaker 1: or the kind of sex that you enjoy. And I've
Speaker 1: had many kids as a historian Forbes and one in
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal. You have large numbers, hundreds of
Speaker 1: thousands of kids coming out of colleges, universities, and they're
Speaker 1: the wrong color, and they're straight, and they're generally white males.
Speaker 1: For example, they can't find work. I've had many college
Speaker 1: kids tell me they've come out of Columbia, they've come
Speaker 1: out of Xavier, they've come out out of Utah State,
Speaker 1: and they can't find work because they're the wrong color.
Speaker 1: And I watched this guy named Starbuck recently in one
Speaker 1: of the morning shows that pointed out that seventy percent
Speaker 1: of the interns Goldman Sachs are persons of color or
Speaker 1: different lifestyles, and that you can't have that in a
Speaker 1: free and open society where a person's color is held
Speaker 1: against them. The Democratic Party spent decades, a century or
Speaker 1: two imprisoning, raping, and slaving black folks. And when black
Speaker 1: folks moved out of the South in the forties and
Speaker 1: fifties and sixties to come to the North, they couldn't
Speaker 1: take democratic rule anymore. They found themselves in democratic cities
Speaker 1: where now the object is discrimination against somebody else in
Speaker 1: favor of African Americans or Hispanics or gay folks. And
Speaker 1: as a consequence, the Democratic Party filled with discrimination. Two
Speaker 1: hundred years of slavery now about fifty years of affirmative
Speaker 1: action DEI. And we can't take it anymore. And so
Speaker 1: when Forbes and a Wall Street journal says, the kids
Speaker 1: and their parents are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars,
Speaker 1: and you come out of school ready to get to work.
Speaker 1: If you're the wrong color, you can't be hired. Isn't
Speaker 1: that wrong?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely, I mean it's basically reverse racism, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's unbelievable when you think about it, these
Speaker 2: affirmative action programs and how racist they were to people
Speaker 2: that were white, that were Caucasian, that you know, worked
Speaker 2: hard and went to school and did the right thing.
Speaker 2: And yet these other people that are a different color
Speaker 2: or a different minority come in, then they get these jobs,
Speaker 2: and they're not qualified for these jobs half the time.
Speaker 2: And it should be a meritocracy, right, It should be
Speaker 2: based on merit. It should not be based on skin color.
Speaker 2: It should not be based on creed or sexual orientation
Speaker 2: or any of these things. And thank god, we you know,
Speaker 2: we have you know, quote unquote a daddy back, if
Speaker 2: you will, because look, the United States of America needs
Speaker 2: a strong male leader. And that's not a knock against
Speaker 2: women or anything like that. It's just the reality that
Speaker 2: when we are making a lot of these decisions, we're
Speaker 2: taking emotion out of it and we're using logic and
Speaker 2: we're using the ability to kind of look at a
Speaker 2: situation and say what is best for America, not what's
Speaker 2: best for the individual, not what's best for you. Know
Speaker 2: DEI or what's best for you know, feelings and all that,
Speaker 2: it's what's best for America. And I think that businesses
Speaker 2: in this country are going to start to embrace that
Speaker 2: once again, and you're going to see the DEI stuff
Speaker 2: die a lonely death, which it should.
Speaker 1: Well COSTCO said no. And I think part of it is, Josh,
Speaker 1: is that the vice presidents of human resources at these
Speaker 1: big time companies come out of the university system where
Speaker 1: they're indoctrinated and they think they're they're doing the Lord's work,
Speaker 1: and those individuals also must be let go. It's wonderful
Speaker 1: to watch Pete Hegseth take a take a knife to
Speaker 1: all the DEI throughout the Pentagon and throughout the military
Speaker 1: and bringing back those who did not want to have
Speaker 1: their have their COVID shots and DEI perme permeates all
Speaker 1: through the American military, which is wrong. And also in
Speaker 1: the and you've written about California similar to Lohana, Uh
Speaker 1: that the Trumpsters telling Californians as meetings with with Karen
Speaker 1: Bass were unbelievable. I loved them, and that Uh, the
Speaker 1: DEI must die. D I E must die in California
Speaker 1: because look at what you get when you have fire
Speaker 1: chiefs and others hard because of their sexual orientation and
Speaker 1: not because of their competency. White males need not apply,
Speaker 1: especially if you're straight in a Christian and so, I
Speaker 1: don't know the lawsuits will we filed have been filed
Speaker 1: already because Donald Trump wants to get rid of racial
Speaker 1: discrimination or racial preferences and sexual preferences. He wants a
Speaker 1: merit based society, and you can't have individuals like Karen Bass,
Speaker 1: for example, who was elected of the fire chief, explain
Speaker 1: how DEI has exacerbated the problems with the fires in
Speaker 1: California and now the mud slides and more.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, look, the first thing that President Trump should
Speaker 2: have done when he was sitting at that roundtable is
Speaker 2: when Karen Bass opened up her trap and started talking.
Speaker 2: He should have said, actually, Karen, you're actually part of
Speaker 2: the issue here. You're part of the problem. And until
Speaker 2: you resign and Gavin Newsom resigns, California is not going
Speaker 2: to see one penny of federal aid because we cannot
Speaker 2: allow the same people that created this issue and problem
Speaker 2: and exacerbated these issues and problems to then be left
Speaker 2: in place as if you're going to somehow be a
Speaker 2: point person to assist in trying to fix the problem.
Speaker 2: So until you have resigned, are you planning on resigning
Speaker 2: right now today, right now at this point? Like put
Speaker 2: it right on the spot, that's what he should have done,
Speaker 2: because that's boss man energy right there, and that's what
Speaker 2: he should have done. And those are some things, you
Speaker 2: know that we have to be able to look at
Speaker 2: and say that these people need to be fired, they
Speaker 2: need to be prosecuted for what they did. Look, there's
Speaker 2: no way, there's no excuse that you can have a
Speaker 2: wildfire and then not have water in the hoses to
Speaker 2: put out the fires. And I think that some of
Speaker 2: this should be investigated. And I would start with Linda
Speaker 2: and Stuart Resnik, the Resnick family. They are basically water barons.
Speaker 2: They are multi billionaires that own a huge organic farm
Speaker 2: that uses one hundred and fifty billions of gallons of
Speaker 2: water a year, which is twice what Los Angeles County
Speaker 2: residents actually used. And in nineteen ninety four they paid
Speaker 2: off the California authorities for water and they bought the
Speaker 2: Kern Water Authority, and therefore they control fifty seven percent
Speaker 2: of all of California's water. This is a company that
Speaker 2: has a company called the Wonderful Company. They do pistachio nuts,
Speaker 2: they do Fiji water, They do know pomegranate juice. They
Speaker 2: have this huge organic farm. And I think that that
Speaker 2: ought to be investigated. Why are they the barrions, if
Speaker 2: you will, of the water in the state of California.
Speaker 2: How did they end up getting that water? And why
Speaker 2: is there no water in the fire hydrants that are
Speaker 2: able to put out these fires. I also don't understand
Speaker 2: why the fires on Malibi. Why couldn't you just drop
Speaker 2: a giant hose in the in the ocean and put
Speaker 2: a pump in there and pump the water out from
Speaker 2: the ocean and directly onto the houses. So look, a
Speaker 2: lot of things have gone wrong, a lot of things
Speaker 2: I think have been nefarious in nature, and they all
Speaker 2: need to be investigated. But we certainly cannot leave the
Speaker 2: same people Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom and the rest
Speaker 2: of them in charge to investigate the investigators. That doesn't
Speaker 2: make any sense. So I think President Trump ought to
Speaker 2: hire somebody, you know, maybe as an independent council to
Speaker 2: investigate what happened in California, so that it never happens again.
Speaker 2: But there are similarities between Lahna and California. The fire
Speaker 2: hydrants were dry, there was not enough warning that the
Speaker 2: fires were coming. I mean, a lot of the DEI
Speaker 2: stuff that you saw in Lahna you also saw resurface
Speaker 2: in California. And those are just some of the things
Speaker 2: that you know that I talked about in my book
Speaker 2: Preserving Liberty, Bold and Brave Solutions to Save America Create
Speaker 2: Permanent Freedom, which anyone can go and pick up right now.
Speaker 2: It's an easy read, one hundred and fifty pages, and
Speaker 2: you can get it on Amazon if you want. But
Speaker 2: you know, we talk about a lot of different things
Speaker 2: and preserving liberty and how to save liberty from DEI,
Speaker 2: from these leftists, from these radical extremists that believe that,
Speaker 2: you know, the government is the option to all in
Speaker 2: the solution to all of our problems. Of course it's not. No,
Speaker 2: in fact though, that's kind of what I talk about.
Speaker 1: In fact, Josh Burnston, if you look at American cities
Speaker 1: controlled by the Democrat liberal progresses for the last forty
Speaker 1: to fifty sixty one hundred years, what large American city
Speaker 1: has benefited greatly from liberal Democrats and complete control. Is
Speaker 1: it the New York City Subway? Is it the Chicago
Speaker 1: public schools? Here in Cincinnati, we can't remove snow and
Speaker 1: ice from city streets. It's that Los Angeles is in Portland,
Speaker 1: Oregon with their homelessness. What American city has grossly benefited
Speaker 1: are magnificent an opulent? American cities have grossly benefited from
Speaker 1: liberals being in charge for decades. Can you name one
Speaker 1: or two?
Speaker 2: I can't name any at all. I mean, you can
Speaker 2: go right down the list, from Colorado being a bright
Speaker 2: red state to now the California liberals moving into Denver
Speaker 2: taking over their government and just absolutely destroying it. You
Speaker 2: could look at Chicago, you could look at the state
Speaker 2: of Illinois. The state of Illinois is a bright red state.
Speaker 2: If you remove Crook County from the equation, That's where
Speaker 2: all the crime is. That's where all the murder is.
Speaker 2: That's where all the unwed mothers are, That's where all
Speaker 2: the drug trafficking is. Everything is going on, the illegals,
Speaker 2: all in these big blue cities. I talked about that
Speaker 2: in the book. How do we take away the power
Speaker 2: structure from these big blue cities and give it back
Speaker 2: to its rightful owners we the people, because it's amazing
Speaker 2: when you look at it and you realize there's three
Speaker 2: and forty two counties or county equivalents in the United
Speaker 2: States and America, and fifty percent, five oh, fifty percent
Speaker 2: of the entire population of the United States lives in
Speaker 2: only one hundred and forty four of those counties. So
Speaker 2: if you live in one of those twenty nine hundred
Speaker 2: and ninety eight less populated counties, then you are literally
Speaker 2: part of the ninety five percent of the country that
Speaker 2: has no say in who your elected officials are. So
Speaker 2: how can we sit here with a straight face and
Speaker 2: say that we are four of and by the people
Speaker 2: if only five percent of the people are making the
Speaker 2: decisions for the other ninety five percent. Jo In my book,
Speaker 2: I talked about how we can destroy that structure. You say,
Speaker 2: the left wants to get rid of the electoral college,
Speaker 2: right so that they can run up the coasts and
Speaker 2: you'd never have another Republican in office again. But what
Speaker 2: I want to do is I want to create fifty
Speaker 2: Nebraskas or fifty mains, and I want to proportion these
Speaker 2: electoral votes not based on the state, but rather based
Speaker 2: on the counties and break them down between metropolitan and
Speaker 2: micropolitan and sparsely populated. And I talk about it in
Speaker 2: the book. Theres a formula to hit fifty one percent
Speaker 2: that would change exactly how we do our elections. It
Speaker 2: would almost be similar to a runoff the Kanesset where
Speaker 2: you have multiple parties, because then what you would do
Speaker 2: is you'd separate and you would take that power structure
Speaker 2: away from these big blue cities like we're talking about,
Speaker 2: and you would take that power and give it back
Speaker 2: to be the people in the less represented counties of
Speaker 2: America and give them the political power and clout away
Speaker 2: at the expense of the big cities. So I talk
Speaker 2: about a lot of interesting things like that in Preserving
Speaker 2: Liberty as well.
Speaker 1: Josh Bernstein, that would be fantastic. But if the citizens
Speaker 1: of Chicago go from Lord Lighthead to Johnson and they're thinking, okay,
Speaker 1: anticipating different results. God helps those that help themselves, and
Speaker 1: cities have got to rise up. And I hope Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is the instrument. And nothing is going to change
Speaker 1: unless jd. Vance or someone like him takes over the
Speaker 1: presidency after Trump. We can't have four years on four
Speaker 1: years off and here comes the next I don't know,
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsan be the president. For God's sakes, we need
Speaker 1: eight to twelve years. But Josh, we got to run
Speaker 1: once again. The book is out, it's everywhere we haven't touched.
Speaker 1: Will Trump destroy the two tier justice system once and
Speaker 1: for all? Maybe next time you're on, we have to
Speaker 1: talk about that too. But Josh Burnstein, thank you for
Speaker 1: coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Don't be a stranger,
Speaker 1: and let's do it again.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Josh, anytime, any topic.
Speaker 1: God bless God, Bless America. Let's continue with more. In
Speaker 1: the city of Cincinnati, we see it here also goes
Speaker 1: what's going on in Hyde Park as an effort by
Speaker 1: the city to bring in more, shall we say, high
Speaker 1: income Americans, to paper over the tremendous financial difficulties by
Speaker 1: building up in such a way as to have more
Speaker 1: money in the city coffers with less city services. Let's
Speaker 1: continue with more. Bill Cunningham, News Radio seven hundred WLW