Prior to the Super Bowl, I was made aware of a television ad from Audi. The ad was based on the long ago discredited claim that women are systematically paid less for doing the same work as men. Here’s the ad. It’s one of those times when the PC proselytizing is actually worse than what you expected. Watching it through to the end is difficult because the smug radiates from the screen like a bad odor. It’s not the ridiculous preening that is repugnant. It is the inappropriateness. Who does Audi think buys their cars?
It’s not hard to imagine the room where this ad was screened for the executives at Audi USA. Men and women in snappy business suits talked about how to target the professional female car buyer. Maybe they had data showing that Audi lags in this segment compared to its competitors. Everyone watched the ad, nodded in agreement, felt brave and wonderful and then agreed it should be the big ad for the big game. No one bothered to ask if Audi or the ad agency pays their females less than their males.
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Audi probably has it right with their ad - their market is women and men who identify as women much of the time. Their cars seem great but break to often and way too expensively, IMO.
#5
I have at my desk a blue automatic pencil and a pink automatic pencil. Both use identical erasers and lead; the only difference is color. Although I paid the same for each pencil, the "culture" seems to be saying that I pay an approximate 17% discount for using the pink pencil.
If I were a capitalist interested in enhancing my EBITA, would I not purchase and use pink pencils exclusively?
There is much more than the Y chromosome to explain the "reduction" in pay women receive for "same" work. It's just easier to clamor along about it, because, well, math is hard.
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Love those terms "dirt people" and "cloud people"
Yes indeed
However i think it is untrue to say there is no longer any workplace issue with women being paid less for work of the same description, hours and value.
I have seen it in my former workplace.if they can get away with it they will
[Breitbart] Monday on MSNBC conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt said America was "getting tired of the pile on 24/7 " of President Donald Trump.
Hewitt: said, "I do believe the hair-trigger criticism of everyone is wearing out it’s welcome with America."
He continued, "So the overblown hysteria and Jeff was just venting there about transcripts that may or may not exist, that have or have not been seen like the BuzzFeed dossier which was trash, I think most people in America are getting tired of the pile on 24/7 of the new president. He had a very successful weekend, and Mike Flynn, by the way, very successful statement about Iran. We haven’t seen any Iranian speedboats charging at American destroyers since General Flynn made his statement. So, all in all, I think the original team is still there and Donald Trump is sticking with them."
#2
The Donks are incapable of 'getting into someone else's mind and think like them'. While they are fully capable of running false flag events, they can't conceive others doing it to them. They've stuck their neck out so far, such an act could easily be executed which would greatly delegitimatize their own standing. Who'd believe them that they weren't the perps?
#4
If they pile on everything it might be easy to trap them into opposing something they actually support. At least it might put them in a real bind. Perhaps Trump should look through his to do list and see if anything qualifies.
#8
Their piling on has only failed. Now that they are going after the people around him we have to be careful. This tactic can work if we are not careful. We need to support the next person under attack and drive this tactic back or they will isolate trump and win.
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I have started "unfollowing" anyone who posts that kind of crap on FB. It got real tiresome by 9 Nov 2016. Now my FB pages are getting vewy, vewy quiet.
h/t Instapundit
...Mike Flynn, a good man who saw the enemy clearly, and had the courage to name it, saw Russia not as an enemy but a geopolitical adversary with whom we could make common cause against Islam -- and who also vowed to shake up a complacent and malfeasant IC -- was its first scalp, and an object lesson to new CIA Director Mike Pompeo should he have any reformist notions. As for the media, having previously failed to take down Trump aides Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway, Flynn was the next best thing; their joy today is unbounded.
...Welcome to the Deep State, the democracy-sapping embeds at the heart of our democracy who have not taken the expulsion of the Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Party lightly. They realize that the Trump administration poses a mortal threat to their hegemony, and so have enlisted an army of Democrats, some Republicans, the "neverTrumpumpkin" conservative die-hards, leftist thugs, Black Lives Matter and anybody else they can blackmail, browbeat or enlist. They mean business.
I'm thinking about Mike Flynn "under the bus" a bit differently.
#2
Welcome to the Deep State, the democracy-sapping embeds at the heart of our democracy who have not taken the expulsion of the Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Party lightly.
The 'embeds' exercised full span control of our drone zapping, Affirmative Action Kenyan master and would have likely enjoyed the same freedom with HRC. Who else profits from decades of conflict in the ME? Starting with a 100 hour war in 1990, and who was President then? Not that he knew what was actually going on mind you.
These puppet masters managed to successfully extinguish the Petraeus thirst for power with the oldest of Samsonian ploys. Make no mistake, they are the king makers.
#3
Then we really have no use for them when they become just as much a danger to the republic as any external enemy. Disassemble, extreme vetting in reorganization.
#4
The previous administration ran a wire tap on the Russian Ambassador and picked up an American (Mike Flynn) having a conversation with the Ambassador. As I understand it, by law the identity of the American should have been shielded--It was not and was leaked. To spy on American citizens requires a FISA court order and sign off from someone high up in the previous administration since most of this was set in motion in a post election, pre-inauguration time frame. The nature of those conversations has not been released to the public so we don't know what was discussed. At the time Flynn was having conversations with many representatives of countries which seems appropriate for an incoming National Security Advisor. When he said, he didn't recall the exact nature of all the conversations, it not too difficult to believe. The Donks seem hell bent on lynching Flynn under the Logan Act. It's kind of like "Let's have a fair trial and then hang him."
Schumer and other Donks have been calling for independent investigations. He claims that Jeff Sessions should not be allowed to handle such an investigation. (Not much was heard or was there much clamor for such an investigation when WJC met with Lynch on a tarmac in Phoenix).
It is a bad precedent to throw Flynn under the bus. It is a bad example to others who have signed on to the Trump administration. In Washington, loyalty is a valuable commodity and it should be preserved. Dumping Flynn is red meat for the left and they will continue their witch hunt until they take down Trump. There are too many hold-overs in the bureaucracy who are sympathetic and loyal to previous Democrat administrations. Trump needs to pair down many of these agencies one way or another (personnel reductions or budget cutting or both) who are undermining him and sabotaging him.
[Bloomberg] If we are to believe the Trump White House, National Security Adviser Michael Flynn just resigned because he lied about his conversations with Russia's ambassador to the vice president. As White House senior counselor Kellyanne Conway told NBC's "Today Show" on Tuesday: "Misleading the vice president really was the key here."
That sounds about as credible as when the president told CIA employees that the media had invented the story about his enmity toward the spy agency, not even two weeks after he had taken to Twitter to compare the CIA to Nazis. It's about as credible as President Donald Trump's insistence that it didn't rain during his inauguration. Or that millions of people had voted illegally in the election he just won.
The point here is that for a White House that has such a casual and opportunistic relationship with the truth, it's strange that Flynn's "lie" to Pence would get him fired. It doesn't add up. Oh for fok's sake. These libtards simply cannot resist the temptation to mock and belittle.
It's not even clear that Flynn lied. He says in his resignation letter that he did not deliberately leave out elements of his conversations with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak when he recounted them to Vice President Mike Pence. The New York Times and Washington Post reported that the transcript of the phone call reviewed over the weekend by the White House could be read different ways. One White House official with knowledge of the conversations told me that the Russian ambassador raised the sanctions to Flynn and that Flynn responded that the Trump team would be taking office in a few weeks and would review Russia policy and sanctions. That's neither illegal nor improper.
What's more, the Washington Post reported Monday night that last month Sally Yates, then the acting attorney general, had informed the White House that Flynn discussed sanctions with Kislyak and that he could be susceptible to blackmail because he misled Pence about it. If it was the lie to Pence that sunk Flynn, why was he not fired at the end of January? The WAPO, an acknowledged guardian of truth and civility. Skipping down to the BLUF
In the end, it was Trump's decision to cut Flynn loose. In doing this he caved in to his political and bureaucratic opposition. Nunes told me Monday night that this will not end well. "First it's Flynn, next it will be Kellyanne Conway, then it will be Steve Bannon, then it will be Reince Priebus," he said. Put another way, Flynn is only the appetizer. Trump is the entree. So, the revealing of the left's target folder is somehow news ?
#1
Flynn had to know someone somewhere had ears on Sergey. The channel he used obviously wasn't deep enough or perhaps he didn't care. Either way someone was willing to reveal methods in order to bring him down. But why so public? Lake is right. This one smells like a hit job with a larger agenda.
#3
CBS is repeating the word "chaos" as often as they possibly can. Forget Flynn. This is all about Trump. It seems there are more than one way to assassinate a president.
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Alex jones says Rinsed Penis is indeed the termite undermining, the leaker-in-chief and the problem
#5
The problem here is that instead of sacking flynn, Trump should have said: so what? He should have been talking to russia along with other countries, which he did, its routine and normal. The cold war ended in 1991. Lets have a congressional investigation into Saudi influence on US elections and foreign policy instead
And start your own witch hunt into saudi influence
You'd claim hillary and obama and the deceptacon deep state
[Las Vegas Journal-Review] CARSON CITY -- State Sen. Becky Harris said a bill to prohibit forced microchipping of people is not as far-fetched as it might seem, because it happens in some places around the world.
Senate Bill 109 would make it a Class C felony to require someone to be implanted with a radio frequency identifier, such as microchips placed in pets. The idea for the bill came from a constituent, the Las Vegas Republican said.
"As I began to look into the issue, I was surprised with the merit that I believe the issue warrants," Harris told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday.
She said sales of radio frequency identifiers are escalating around the world, and a company in Australia as of June 2016 sold more than 10,000 implantable chips with do-it-yourself kits.
"Each kit costs about $100 and includes a tag and an injection tool," Harris said.
The Wall Street Journal has reported an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 chips have been sold globally, she said. Harris said the technology is used by companies in Belgium and Sweden to identify employees.
"It’s done under the idea to unlock doors or use copy machines or maybe pay for lunch, you could use your hand," she said.
Besides privacy concerns, Harris said the concept raises ethical questions, such as who owns the chip or the information contained on it, and how does someone get "de-chipped" if they are no longer employed by the company that required it. She also wondered if a chip could be hacked to harass or stalk someone. Harris said the Nevada bill is modeled after legislation passed by at least 10 other states.
"It wouldn’t prohibit the voluntary decision of a person to be microchipped," she said, adding that a nightclub in Europe offers microchipping to customers so the establishment can provide tailored service.
There was no total opposition to the bill, though some witnesses said the technology could help patients with dementia.
"Some Alzheimer’s patients wander away," said Jonathan Friedrich of Las Vegas, adding the technology could be used to help find them quickly.
State Sen. Don Gustavson questioned whether military pilots are microchipped so rescuers can find them if aircraft crash or are shot down. Harris said she would check with military officials.
#3
Alzheimer's patients wander away all the time. A lot of time and money is spent trying to find them and sometimes when they are found it's too late.
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