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These are the same folks who scrubbed the Navajo Code Talkers from the DoD web site for being "DEI" or some such.

we replaced them with DUI hires.

That is brilliant, and it’s heartbreaking that it’s brilliant.

I can't take credit for it, I think it traces back to Lauren Tucker's substack, but someone certainly did before that. Then again, someone else popularized it given recent events.

https://dowhatmatters.medium.com/dei-to-dui-cronyism-undermi...

For those of us who are not used to the acronyms, DUI means Driving Under Influence. Similar term is DWI, Driving While Intoxicated.

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