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2022-04-09 -Great Cultural Revolution

Geico drops Linda Sarsour as a diversity speaker after backlash from Jewish groups

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Posted by trailing wife 2022-04-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: Moslem Colonists

#1 Why? She's perfect-- a dead ringer for a gecko

Posted by Omererong Shique1588 2022-04-09 00:43|| 2022-04-09 00:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Haven't seen the jew-jitsu thingy in a while, tw. 😀

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-09 03:41|| 2022-04-09 03:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Fred rotates them periodically, or something. Will Space Laser do instead?

Posted by trailing wife 2022-04-09 07:06|| 2022-04-09 07:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Wow. I'd like to have such a patch someday. Maybe I'll wear it to church.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-09 08:13|| 2022-04-09 08:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Proving only that a lizard has more of a sense of self-preservation than a (mickey) mouse.

Posted by Mercutio 2022-04-09 08:20|| 2022-04-09 08:20|| Front Page Top

#6 I know that there had to be some kind of meeting, likely on Zoom, in which her hiring would have been pitched by a person who was excited about the idea to other people who enthusiastically approved the hiring on some rationale. I just can't fathom what could be said to convince people to do stuff that reduces their Market Cap by 20% with one gesture.
I have never been to Business School. Maybe they teach that in an elective that all the executives take because it's easy and doesn't require essays.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-04-09 13:08|| 2022-04-09 13:08|| Front Page Top

#7 I just can't fathom what could be said to convince people to do stuff that reduces their Market Cap by 20% with one gesture.

“She ticks all the boxes, guys! She was one of the organizers of the 2017 anti-Trump women’s march, she’s a Woman of Color, she’s Moslem, a BLM organizer, on one of President Biden’s advisory committees, Trump hates her, she’s Palestinian, and she wears that funny headscarf!”

Posted by trailing wife 2022-04-09 19:28|| 2022-04-09 19:28|| Front Page Top

#8 reduces their Market Cap by 20%

What are you talking about? GEICO is privately held. Its one of the jewels in the crown for Berkshire Hathaway, and Warren Buffett's best investment ever, extremely well-managed. Buffett invested $47m originally in GEICO and his stake returned over 40-fold, to $2b, within a decade.

Posted by Sloluck Ulinerong6615 2022-04-09 19:55|| 2022-04-09 19:55|| Front Page Top

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