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Adam Carolla Applied To Be a Fireman In LA and Was Told To Wait 7 years To Test Because He Is White
Liberty Daily via Rumble ^ | Liberty Daily staff

Posted on 01/09/2025 5:26:36 AM PST by Strict9

Adam Carolla applied to be a firefighter in Los Angeles and was told to wait seven years because he was White. He got a job picking up garbage at construction sites and seven years later he was told to report for an interview with LAFD. Once in line he turned to a black lady behind him and said it took them 7 years to respond and he asked her when she applied—- she replied, “Wednesday.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: adamcarolla; california; carolla; dei; drdrew; drdrewpinsky; fires; gavinnewsom; karenbass; la; losangeles; loveline; rickcaruso; wildfire
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I was born in Los Angeles County and lived there for years. One of the reasons I moved was because it was always so difficult to find a good job. I would apply and they would ask if i spoke Tagalog, or Vietnamese or some such. Plus, minorities received special points so even if you scored well on tests, you could still suffer. I moved to Florida and it’s different here. My latest job I still got dinged because they give veterans 10 points extra on testing or something but, if you study hard and do your best you can still compete. I am making over double what I made in California and the cost of living here is slightly lower.
1 posted on 01/09/2025 5:26:36 AM PST by Strict9
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To: Strict9

DEI till it hurts


2 posted on 01/09/2025 5:30:38 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: Strict9

Black Women May have had the DEI golden ticket but black men, college graduates are still low man on the employment ladder.Merit will be the only sure cure.


3 posted on 01/09/2025 5:33:25 AM PST by cnsmom
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To: Strict9

Liberals: “Racism is bad!”
News item: White people are being discriminated against.
Liberals: “Racism is good!”

🙁


4 posted on 01/09/2025 5:33:47 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: Strict9

His books are very funny. Give them a read.


5 posted on 01/09/2025 5:35:28 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: cnsmom

yeah I don’t know if I’d suggest college to everyone. My friends who stayed in college aren’t doing so well. I work a trade job out in the sun in Florida which is not ideal but at least I’m doing well. I don’t go to school reunions because I don’t want people to tell me they’re in their climate-controlled offices on the phone.


6 posted on 01/09/2025 5:37:35 AM PST by Strict9
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To: Leaning Right; All

Tom Fitton
@TomFitton
“When the latest fires erupted, the city had nearly 100 fire trucks and ambulances out of service because it doesn’t have enough mechanics to fix them”—WPOST quoting LA county councilwoman....

https://x.com/TomFitton/status/1877231307949797817

UNSTATED in the above: Not enough mechanics because of the DEI requirements and the administrators making $400,000 (fire chief makes $650,000) suck up the budget.

Then the Mayor cut the budget by $17 million.


7 posted on 01/09/2025 5:44:08 AM PST by TigerClaws
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> I don’t know if I’d suggest college to everyone. <

I suggest college to anyone who wants to enroll to learn a skill, a marketable skill. Something like engineering, medicine, computer science.

But if the goal is a degree in English Literature, better take some time to rethink that position before shelling out all that tuition money.


8 posted on 01/09/2025 5:45:35 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: Strict9

Bttt


9 posted on 01/09/2025 5:45:40 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there)
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To: TigerClaws

in another article, Adam said—“This is why Californians pay the highest taxes: So that their government can completely fail them in their time of need.”


10 posted on 01/09/2025 5:46:16 AM PST by Strict9
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To: Leaning Right

yes, regarding a college degree I would also factor in AI: so far robots can’t do a lot of things but give it a few years.


11 posted on 01/09/2025 5:48:22 AM PST by Strict9
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To: Strict9

I was at Front Sight training in the Nevada desert back in 2000.
A DEI prison guard showed up and before she could shoot herself in the foot, they suggested she go get more range time back in her home town.
Dang that woman was dangerous.


12 posted on 01/09/2025 5:56:02 AM PST by Zathras
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To: Zathras

When I was in high school in ROTC we spent a week at Camp Pendleton in San Diego with the marines and we got to shoot automatic rifles. I was waiting in line when a tiny hispanic girl pulled the trigger and the power of the weapon frightened her and the recoil caused her to move back. She laughed and turned around and said something to her friends in spanish and as she did, she aimed the weapon at me unknowingly. A marine grabbed the weapon and aimed it away and took it off of automatic. They stopped doing that particular training after that.


13 posted on 01/09/2025 6:02:23 AM PST by Strict9
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I can see California as being a nice place to visit for a short time. But living there is like living in New York, you cannot wait to move to another state.


14 posted on 01/09/2025 6:03:53 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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I remember when I lived there, every time you came to an intersection, you would have to wait for the tiny mexican lady to cross with 4-5 kids in tow. Sometimes the tiny young kids would be pushing the strollers with the tinier younger kids.


15 posted on 01/09/2025 6:13:03 AM PST by Strict9
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To: Strict9
Just to be clear, he was told to wait 7 years because he is white and male.

If he had the important female genitalia for firefighting, he'd have been called immediately.

16 posted on 01/09/2025 6:15:02 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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yeah and if LBTGq+@ he’d be fire chief the next day


17 posted on 01/09/2025 6:16:45 AM PST by Strict9
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To: Strict9

California is third world.


18 posted on 01/09/2025 6:35:19 AM PST by FreedBird (p)
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To: Strict9

You have nothing to be ashamed of. There’s great honor in the trades. The idiots are the arrogant office drones who look down on you until they need to call you for help screwing in a light bulb cause they can’t handle it. Charge accordingly.

My brother-in-law is like that. He looks his nose down at my kids because they chose careers they wanted, not what he said they should do. One has no degree and is a book editor. Know what she’d be doing if she had a degree? She’d be a book editor.


19 posted on 01/09/2025 6:42:27 AM PST by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: cyclotic

I’ve known a few people who have had great office jobs and have been laid off. People I originally envied.


20 posted on 01/09/2025 6:45:18 AM PST by Strict9
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