The best way to get rid of ants is to kill the queen. The most effective way to do away with the spread of toxic progressive ideology is to eliminate its advocates from positions of power.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion officers are like queens in the progressive anthills of corporations and universities. The good news? They’re beginning to die off.

The Wall Street Journal published an article by Te-Ping Chen and Lauren Weber this month entitled, “The Rise and Fall of the Chief Diversity Officer.” The findings will enrage leftist ideologues. Those who have been wondering what happened to common sense can sigh a breath of relief. Conservatives are likely to cheer.

According to the Journal, Netflix, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery have recently been rethinking their progressive stand on DEI to the extent that high-profile diversity, equity and inclusion executives are going to lose their jobs. Just since last year, thousands of diversity-focused workers have been laid off.

For those of us who have been scratching our heads wondering how and why corporations ever thought that DEI, gender theory, critical race theory, and the rest of the progressive nonsense would make money, the downfall of DEI not only makes sense, it was inevitable. Most people — no matter how many times progressives pump their lies through establishment media — don’t buy it, figuratively or literally.

In other words, though DEI is an effective method for radical progressives to spread their gospel, it’s bad for business. It was only a matter of time before corporate stakeholders would notice their investments were suffering because corporate leaders opted to hire postmodern-infused wokeness into their ranks.

Miriam Warren, chief diversity officer for Yelp, told the Journal about some of the challenges facing executives in the DEI field. “There’s a combination of grief, being very tired, and being, in some cases, overwhelmed,” Warren said.

I don’t want to come off as callous, but I could care less how Warren feels. How many people has she damaged while pushing her radical left agenda into the workplace? She’ll feel better in an honest line of work.

The DEI craze began in the wake of George Floyd’s death in May 2020. According to the outlet, companies rushed to hire chief diversity officers. It doesn’t say why the rush occurred, but it must have been a misguided attempt to claim the moral high ground.

Less than half the companies in the S&P 500 employed chief diversity officers in 2018. By 2022, 75 percent of those companies had created a position, according to a study from the executive search firm Russell Reynolds cited by the Journal.

According to a study cited by Blaze Media, the DEI industry ballooned to $3.4 billion in 2020. Since then, chief diversity officers have experienced 40 percent higher turnovers than their human resources counterparts.

Another study found that searches for chief diversity officers dropped by 75 percent over the last year. According to Blaze, a human resources expert claimed it was the lowest demand he’d witnessed in 30 years.

Corporate entities like Bud Light and Target must have been blinded by the noxious fumes of progressive excrement accumulating in their midst. They lost billions of dollars in revenue by continuing to push the progressive agenda this year.

It appears the DEI craze is fizzling out in the corporate world, a major nesting spot of progressive pests. Thank goodness. Why did it take so long?

One can only hope that the universities that serve as breeding grounds for these vermin will be next. When will academia realize that progressive education is not education but indoctrination?  When enrollment plummets because indoctrinated graduates are bad for business inside and outside academia?

According to Journal, when the Supreme Court overturned affirmative action in June, companies started anticipating any spillover legal action might impact them. Do the universities see what’s coming, or are they like Bud Light and Target and cannot see the forest for the trees?

Whatever the case, the downward trend in DEI is a ray of hope on a dark horizon. It’s good practice to pray at the break of day.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Ryan Samsel pictured with J6 protester with a gun who has not been arrested. Ryan says this was NOT Joe Biggs.

January 6 Prisoner Ryan Samsel called The Gateway Pundit last week. During our discussion Ryan described what Ray Epps told him on January 6.

Ray Epps was seen whispering into Samsel’s ear before the bike rack barricades came down.

According to Ryan Samsel, “I walked up to the gate on my own decision. I did not feel any pressure from Joe Biggs, nor any of the Proud Boys. And that was the gate that everybody sees in the video where you’re standing around and Ray Epps is there next to me, correct? That’s also so when I go up to that fence, I pull the fence towards me. That’s when Ray Epps says in my ear, he says, I got people who are waiting til more people come. Something along those lines.” Ryan said Ray Epps then told him, “We got to go into the building. So I pulled the bike rack…”

Ryan Samsel says he is willing to take a polygraph test to prove his innocence and that he did not rat on fellow J6ers.

Samsel said, “I want to take a polygraph test so I can clear my name just to prove to the public, although I can’t use it in court. That’s exactly what he (Epps) said. So it was actually on his count that so many of the videos that you see, because he was yelling, one, two, three and we all pushed, about 40 of us! I want to tell the public something. I pushed over the gate with a lot of other people. I noticed the officer fell. I went and pulled her away to safety because I didn’t want her to get trampled on. I didn’t want somebody to hit her. My intent was not to harm that woman. So I pulled her to safety, stood in front of her.”

LISTEN HERE:

** Please donate to help raise money for Ryan to pay his attorney here.

Hello my name is Ryan Samsel I am a January 6 defendant, the modern day political prisoner.

I am told I have to learn to change with time.  I will follow my King the son of GOD. I will not call a man a woman or a woman a man. I will not let some rich person in a high seat they built for themselves convince me murdering God’s unborn child is ok. I will surely not sit back and allow tyrants to take from my free people and there GOD given rights through a bill we inherited through our forefathers who were educated men willing to sign their death warrant called the declaration of independence. These great men set aside their own comforts and lives along with wealth so we can have a nation to call our own, a woman once asked Ben Franklin what have you given us? His response was a republic IF YOU CAN KEEP IT…many were called to January 6, many have suffered under the rule of tyrants. No church, no restaurants, taverns, or group gatherings. You see they try over and over to put fear in your heart and show you fake videos of dead bodies. Was covid real. Yes, some did die and my father was one of those people, but my father smoked 2 packs of New Ports everyday since he was a kid.

January 6th was not an attempt to overthrow the government but made up by many people who craved freedom. If you ask me we were there to remind those in there high seats GOD is with us the poor, broken, and lost.  Just as when Jesus cleaned the temple of thieves and liars, today the temple of our country has the same issue but we have people who try to force this demonic,evil ways upon us,

I was there that day to stand up for the unborn, those without a voice. I am one of those as my own mother wanted to abort me. The only thing was she was 8 months along. If she was not so high on drugs she would of paid attention to me. She had me and dropped me off at a Catholic orphanage named St. Vincent where they helped me go through withdrawal. You see those unborn babies.  I take it personal when I hear the human being advocating abortion. I was there to let them know WE THE PEOPLE are here. I did not cause violence in fact I was there saving people, cops who fell and a man shot in the face I did NOT enter the building. Before this day I was set to get pre-cancer growths removed out of my chest that was almost 3 years ago.

I was given the chance by the FBI to lie about President Trump and others that day. I could have gone home and be called a hero. If not, well, the mainstream media will destroy you, I would be tortured by government agencies, I would be beaten after being ziptied and suffering skull fractures, a broken nose, dislocated jaw, acute kidney damage, permanent loss of vision in right eye, loss of function of left arm due to blood clots in my arm,chest neck, and head.

I am put in a hard cell that keeps lights on constantly, sometimes nude with no cloths no bed, no sink, no running water with a bucket and just a bottle of water.

I have been strapped to a chair for hours on end getting burns and sitting in my own waste. While at NNRJ Warsaw VA I was beat again this time stabbed and beat unconscious later to be found by nurse who had to perform cpr the prison lied and said I was on drugs and fell out of bed. Camera footage will prove otherwise along with hospital records. I came back from the hospital and was recommended by the hospital that I needed to have follow up treatment.

Again I was given a choice to help fbi lie or this time or we will charge your wife with more charges. As all of this was going on I was not able to go home and spend the last days with my father and go to his funeral.

I refused this offer as if it were an offer from Satan himself.

Shortly after I was then transferred to Lewisburg PA with MS 13 members. I was supposed to be getting medical treatment while I was there but Lieutenant Ordonez, an evil man, would make sure I would be placed in the hole. None of the treatment I needed would be done, so stressed out that I broke out with shingles all over my body. I had a fever and could not eat because of sores in my mouth, and refused all meds and outside treatment. The only thing I had left was my faith in GOD I never gave up and still continue to fight for my life. I ask for your help, please help get my story out to the public. I’m now being held in Brooklyn. I have lawyers who I have not spoken to in 5 months. In order for me to fight back I need to raise money for a private investigator and a civil attorney. Please help me in any donation to the GSG below and pass this story around if you would like to contact me by mail you can go on the patriot mail project. Also on the GSG, attached is my judges address in order for letters of support for a medical release.

I am grateful for your much needed help

GSG: https://www.givesendgo.com/January6OffensiveFund

Love, Respect, Honor
GODSPEED
RYAN SAMSEL
(Inmate #28332509)

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