Tom Cotton to Woke, Anti-White Job Recruiters: You Know, Discriminating Against Members of One Race is Illegal, Right?

Tom Cotton is putting recruiting firms that discriminate against white men on notice that they are breaking the law.

Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton sent letters Thursday to ten recruiting firms regarding their diversity quota hiring practices after reporting revealed that recruiting firms are conspiring with companies to exclude "non-diverse" candidates from the hiring pool.
The Daily Caller first obtained the letters to the following ten different recruiting firms: Robert Half, Kelly Services, Randstad North America, Korn Ferry, ManpowerGroup, Egon Zehnder, Spencer Stuart, Heidrick & Struggles, Russell Reynolds Associates and Diversified Search Group. In the letters, Cotton calls on the firms to refuse any request to racially discriminate while recruiting.
"Compliance with DEI mandates may violate federal law. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, for example, prohibits private employers from basing hiring decisions on race. A member of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ('EEOC') has warned that 'diversity programs pose both legal and practical risks for companies,'" Cotton wrote in the letters.

A group is preparing to sue MIT for rejecting more-qualified male applicants in favor of less-qualified female ones.

The alumni have formed a nonprofit called FairAdmissions@MIT and currently seek male plaintiffs rejected by MIT despite "top SAT/ACT scores, great grades, strong recommendations, and substantial extra-curricular activities," the group's website states.
"This is about a return to meritocracy," said a member of the group who asked to remain anonymous for fear of possible retaliation against him for organizing the litigation.
"The entire political center of the institution has shifted so far left, and this is directly correlated," he said. "The point is to treat applicants as individuals, not as members of an identity group."

DEI is a luxury corporations indulge in times of plenty. But now, in the Bidenomics Economy, they're cutting back on Luxury Virtue Signaling.

For some reason. I don't understand. The Democrat Media Propoganda State keeps telling me this is a Miracle Economy.

(Daily Caller News Foundation) -- Corporations are quietly reversing their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices amid intense legal pressure from conservatives and even their own shareholders, multiple outlets reported.
Conservative activists, shareholders and investors have issued challenges to various corporate diversity policies, including Republican attorneys general and others sending letters challenging racial recruiting quotas, alleging unlawful discrimination. Companies have increasingly become worried about DEI following the Supreme Court striking down race-based admissions at universities in June, and they have reversed course by eliminating certain policies and renaming initiatives in anticipation of further legal turbulence, Axios reported.
Further, a coalition of lawyers and investors have begun exploring ways to utilize corporate law in an attempt to pressure firms to scale back on their DEI policies following a rise in antisemitism concerns on elite college campuses, Semafor reported on Thursday.
Diversity policies could negatively impact shareholders, as companies run the risk of missing out on qualified applicants, the coalition argues, according to Semafor. It also contends that inconsistent implementation of workplace regulations, influenced by racial or other DEI factors, could potentially violate federal employment laws.
"Shareholders have every right to question whether the DEI programs that made us feel good in the past are now unjustified because their true economic and social effect is simply replacing one form of discrimination with another," shareholder plaintiffs lawyer Mark Lebovitch, who has participated in these discussions, told Semafor.
Corporations began implementing DEI policies at warp speed following George Floyd's death in May 2020, shelling out around $340 billion to advance "racial equity" between then and October 2022, according to the McKinsey Institute for Black Economic Mobility.
"Anything that smacks of a quota" is no longer acceptable, Diana Scott, leader of the Human Capital Center at The Conference Board, told Axios.
Companies like investment giant Blackstone are focusing on socioeconomic diversity in place of racial diversity, according to Fortune. They are also using terms like "wellbeing and inclusion" instead of DEI, Scott told Axios.
"Companies are really starting to look at other ways to do the work without saying that they're doing the work," Cinnamon Clark, co-founder of DEI consulting firm Goodwork Sustainability, told Axios.
Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned over plagiarism allegations, but her resignation has contributed to escalation of the debate about corporate DEI as critics have linked the movement to her alleged lack of qualifications for her role, according to The New York Times.
Billionaire Bill Ackman suggested corporations should receive pushback for their DEI programs in a piece for the Free Press on Wednesday following Gay's resignation.
"Here we are in 2024, being asked and in some cases required to use skin color to affect outcomes in admissions (recently deemed illegal by the Supreme Court), in business (likely illegal yet it happens nonetheless), and in government (also I believe in most cases to be illegal, except apparently in government contracting), rather than the content of one's character," Ackman wrote. "As such, a meritocracy is anathema to the DEI movement. DEI is inherently a racist and illegal movement in its implementation even if it purports to work on behalf of the so-called oppressed."
Shareholder activists have also sent letters to 25 corporations alleging their DEI initiatives unlawfully discriminate and violate fiduciary duty to investors since 2021, with several of them making changes afterward, according to Reuters in December. American Airlines, BlackRock, JPMorgan Chase and Lowe's have edited their DEI language to be less racially oriented following conservative lawsuit threats.
Consulting firm Paradigm Strategy CEO Joelle Emerson disagrees with the characterization that DEI is discriminatory but acknowledges that argument is gaining steam in a commentary piece for Fortune on Thursday.
"Their strategy is working: critiquing DEI has become more mainstream," Emerson wrote. "Increasingly, even people who likely support some of the most common and visible examples of these efforts (parental leave, fair pay, and hiring processes that promote objectivity and mitigate bias) are questioning whether the movement that produced these policies has gone astray."
American Airlines, Blackstone, Lowes and JPMorgan Chase did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation's request for comment.
BlackRock declined to comment.

And on that: Blackrock just announced its own layoffs. Most of these will come from their ESG division. (ESG -- Environmental, Social, Governance investing -- pours money into nonprofitable woke corporations that push DEI.)

BREAKING: Blackrock will be laying off 600 employees, mostly from the ESG division.

ESG global investments collapsed by $5 trillion in just 2 years.

ESG is the system used by Blackrock and Vanguard to blackmail companies into adopting woke practices.

Here is BlackRock CEO… pic.twitter.com/SHLOVQhvTs
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 8, 2024

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:20 PM

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1 Yes

Posted by: JCG at January 12, 2024 03:20 PM (oNhX4)

2 Gray cotton

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 12, 2024 03:21 PM (xcxpd)

3 2nd

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 12, 2024 03:21 PM (XMwZJ)

4 Boxy in here...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 12, 2024 03:21 PM (XMwZJ)

5 4 Boxy in here...
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 12, 2024 03:21 PM (XMwZJ)

Everyone loves box

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 12, 2024 03:22 PM (xcxpd)

6 Now if we can get some AGs in good guy states to start suing these same companies we might be getting somewhere.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 12, 2024 03:22 PM (xcxpd)

7 Meow!

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at January 12, 2024 03:22 PM (sAmhv)

8 Nuts. Only 7th.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 12, 2024 03:23 PM (sAmhv)

9 Now they can say sorry we can't do that anymore. We got caught oh well.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at January 12, 2024 03:23 PM (ytSiK)

10 He doesn't cotton to it.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2024 03:23 PM (krQz2)

11 Good. Sue All They Rayciss Asses.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 12, 2024 03:23 PM (R/m4+)

12 DEI must DIE.

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 12, 2024 03:24 PM (lZVy/)

13 BREAKING: Blackrock will be laying off 600 employees, mostly from the ESG division.

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What do you call that?

Oh yeah, a good start.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2024 03:24 PM (krQz2)

14 When bolts start falling off airplanes it might be time to reevaluate your hiring practices.

Posted by: Megthered at January 12, 2024 03:25 PM (j+uWK)

15 I like Tom Cotton.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 12, 2024 03:26 PM (Ki//m)

16 Idiocracy was not supposed to be an instruction manual.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 12, 2024 03:26 PM (9UlRk)

17 Cotton? Dats rayciss!

- some leftist, probably

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 12, 2024 03:26 PM (Wnv9h)

18

Hedgefund? Oh, I thought you said Hedgehog... You should see the video!

Posted by: Hunter Bidet, Hedgehog at January 12, 2024 03:26 PM (VTUDm)

19 The thing is, they won't stop. These smug, arrogant, people, emboldened by massive wealth and power, think themselves gods. They'll simply re-market DEI as something else and keep on keeping on.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 12, 2024 03:26 PM (sAmhv)

20 When bolts start falling off airplanes it might be time to reevaluate your hiring practices.
Posted by: Megthered at January 12, 2024 03:25 PM (j+uWK)
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Sounds like past time.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2024 03:27 PM (krQz2)

21 When bolts start falling off airplanes it might be time to reevaluate your hiring practices.
Posted by: Megthered

Is DEI applied for hiring AF1 maintenance crews?

Asking for about 360 million friends.

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 12, 2024 03:27 PM (lZVy/)

22 BREAKING: Blackrock will be laying off 600 employees, mostly from the ESG division.

ESG global investments collapsed by $5 trillion in just 2 years.

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Don't worry. The dumb billionaires who funded this will fund the next rebrand of communist financing that comes along.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

23 Cotton? Dats rayciss!

- some leftist, probably
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 12, 2024 03:26 PM (Wnv9h)

You should see his campaign buttons.

Posted by: Pick Cotton! at January 12, 2024 03:27 PM (9UlRk)

24 It’s a gray area

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at January 12, 2024 03:27 PM (wu87C)

25 "Their strategy is working: critiquing DEI has become more mainstream," Emerson wrote. "Increasingly, even people who likely support some of the most common and visible examples of these efforts (parental leave, fair pay, and hiring processes that promote objectivity and mitigate bias) are questioning whether the movement that produced these policies has gone astray."

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Parental leave? They're taking credit for parental leave?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 03:28 PM (GBKbO)

26 As such, a meritocracy is anathema to the DEI movement. DEI is inherently a racist and illegal movement in its implementation even if it purports to work on behalf of the so-called oppressed."

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so-called oppressed. good.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2024 03:28 PM (V13WU)

27 Everybody's Gray!

Posted by: The Hit New Musical! at January 12, 2024 03:28 PM (/3Ygf)

28 Comments of one gray, or is it grey, color.

Posted by: davidt at January 12, 2024 03:28 PM (SYTee)

29 Ace may be a disinformation expert, but he's not a tag-closing expert.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2024 03:28 PM (krQz2)

30
Shoot if you must these old greyed links
But spare your Chuy's shelves

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 12, 2024 03:28 PM (xG4kz)

31 Everybody's Gray!
Posted by: The Hit New Musical! at January 12, 2024 03:28 PM (/3Ygf)
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That's so gray.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2024 03:29 PM (krQz2)

32 I feel pretty, and witty, and GRAAY!

Posted by: The Hit New Musical! at January 12, 2024 03:29 PM (/3Ygf)

33 "Group preps to sue MIT, alleges it rejects male applicants for less-qualified female ones."

As a woman, I supported this lawsuit.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 12, 2024 03:29 PM (NpAcC)

34
All the links are gray
And the sky is gray

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 12, 2024 03:29 PM (xG4kz)

35 Don't worry. The dumb billionaires who funded this will fund the next rebrand of communist financing that comes along.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

Hey let's get a whole bunch of other people's money and buy millions of acres of prime land with it and tell them they'll all get sweet FA back in return and then get even more money from Creepy Uncle Sam because we're saving the Earth somehow and then not even have to pay any taxes on any of it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 12, 2024 03:29 PM (9UlRk)

36 Ackman is like that kid in Andersen's fairy tale - "The King is NAKED!"

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2024 03:30 PM (V13WU)

37 22 BREAKING: Blackrock will be laying off 600 employees, mostly from the ESG division.

ESG global investments collapsed by $5 trillion in just 2 years.
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This makes me stiff in my no-no place.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 12, 2024 03:30 PM (pZ64F)

38 Let me advise you what these racially discriminatory practices are doing. They're creating racial discrimination. People are now presuming "diverse" graduates are less qualified than "non-diverse" because people aren't stupid. They realize many of these graduates didn't become who they are based on merit, but because they're "diverse". Fair or not, reap what you sow.

Do you want a surgeon working on you who got there because he or she was "diverse" or because they were the most qualified? Not really a rough choice- is it?

Posted by: Mr Unintended Consequence at January 12, 2024 03:30 PM (bNcG+)

39 I give this a passing grayed.

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 12, 2024 03:30 PM (lZVy/)

40 I don't know which is better, a page of grey, or an extensive post by Jesus.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2024 03:30 PM (krQz2)

41 Blackrock signaling an end to their DEI ESG program is a HUGE win for the US. Yes, American CEOs are pushing this crap, but a lot of the pressure to adopt DEI has come from these monster financial companies who decide winners and losers by granting loans and other measures.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 12, 2024 03:30 PM (R38qh)

42 36 Ackman is like that kid in Andersen's fairy tale - "The King is NAKED!"
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2024 03:30 PM (V13WU)

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Nah.

Ackman is the guy who advised the king to buy the cloak, watched the fitting, participated in the parade, and then gets on the kid's side when the kid announces that the king is naked.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 03:31 PM (GBKbO)

43 It's ok when we do it

Posted by: The Left at January 12, 2024 03:31 PM (ns6w/)

44 I have a dream that one day my children will be judged by the color of their skin or they/themselves pronouns for equity.

Posted by: Fartin' Roofer "Sofa" King Dumb at January 12, 2024 03:31 PM (LaNzR)

45 Sue them until they bleed money from their eyes.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 12, 2024 03:31 PM (MeG8a)

46
Parental leave? They're taking credit for parental leave?

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Yeah see, when you allow someone to not show up to work for long periods of time, you are actually including them.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 12, 2024 03:31 PM (aLrRO)

47 Blackrock will be laying off 600 employees, mostly from the ESG division.

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Miraculously, Black Rock stock is up !

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2024 03:31 PM (V13WU)

48 46 Yeah see, when you allow someone to not show up to work for long periods of time, you are actually including them.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 12, 2024 03:31 PM (aLrRO)

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I got paternal leave before DEI became a thing. That's my point.

Companies have been doing this for a long time.

And DEI advocates are taking credit for it.

Next thing they'll take credit for the 40 hour workweek.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 03:32 PM (GBKbO)

49 DIE is a luxury, yes.

But most luxuries won't eat your company.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2024 03:32 PM (krQz2)

50 Ackman is the guy who advised the king to buy the cloak, watched the fitting, participated in the parade, and then gets on the kid's side when the kid announces that the king is naked.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 03:31 PM (GBKbO)

so you've said many times. you are entitled to your opinion, of course.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2024 03:33 PM (V13WU)

51 Mmmmmmm mmm ESG!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 12, 2024 03:33 PM (Mzdiz)

52 Netflix let their diversity writers go last year. They decided they would rather make money giving people what they want, like Dave Chappelle, than justice lectures people turn off after the first ten minutes.

Posted by: PJ at January 12, 2024 03:33 PM (G1dq6)

53 As such, a meritocracy is anathema to the DEI movement.

No, no, it's not that at all. It's looking for diverse people where others haven't. Like under rocks and in outer space. We would NEVER sacrifice merit.

Posted by: Mark Cuban at January 12, 2024 03:33 PM (CsUN+)

54 "Don't worry. The dumb billionaires who funded this will fund the next rebrand of communist financing that comes along."

In many revolutions across the span of history, the aristocracy were eliminated. Usually by hanging or by decapitation. The mistake these people make is they believe their hand picked dictators will be in power forever. Five minutes casually spanning history would tell them it's not true. Every evil, diabolical despot get their comeuppance. Every. One.

Posted by: Mr Unintended Consequence at January 12, 2024 03:34 PM (bNcG+)

55 MSG > > > ESG

Posted by: City Wok at January 12, 2024 03:34 PM (lZVy/)

56 Many companies will experience a sharp decline in the quality of their signals of virtue.

But profitability will probably go up.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2024 03:34 PM (krQz2)

57 I have a dream that policemen can be railroaded for being white when a career criminal dies from packing fentanyl in his prison wallet.

Posted by: Fartin' Roofer "Sofa" King Dumb at January 12, 2024 03:34 PM (LaNzR)

58 This Blackrock CEO? He's a bad egg. I expect him to rebrand this junk to call it something else, but it'll be the same toxin. I don't understand why Vanguard is going along with it.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 12, 2024 03:34 PM (VYql4)

59 The idea that laws were applied equally went out the window a couple of decades ago.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 12, 2024 03:35 PM (lTGtQ)

60 Citibank announced they will be laying off 20,000.

Posted by: Mr Unintended Consequence at January 12, 2024 03:35 PM (bNcG+)

61 "Don't worry. The dumb billionaires who funded this will fund the next rebrand of communist financing that comes along."

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As long as the phrase "icky conservative" has vogue.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2024 03:35 PM (krQz2)

62 Every evil, diabolical despot get their comeuppance. Every. One.

*cough*

Posted by: Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili at January 12, 2024 03:35 PM (CsUN+)

63 Citibank announced they will be laying off 20,000.
Posted by: Mr Unintended Consequence

I read that in my South Park character voice.

Posted by: City Wok at January 12, 2024 03:36 PM (lZVy/)

64 The idea that laws were applied equally went out the window a couple of decades ago.

Posted by: Thomas Paine

More like 60 years ago.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 12, 2024 03:36 PM (CsUN+)

65 Ackman is the guy who paid for the Emperor's new clothes that turned out to be make believe.

Posted by: davidt at January 12, 2024 03:37 PM (SYTee)

66 Blackrock signaling an end to their DEI ESG program is a HUGE win for the US.
_____

No to worry, we are burrowing deep into companies requiring them to build and maintain expansive DEI and ESG programs using our vast regulatory powers.
- Unelected Administrative State

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 12, 2024 03:37 PM (fs1hN)

67 "
*cough*
Posted by: Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili at January 12, 2024 03:35 PM (CsUN+)"

*Spock eyebrow*

Posted by: God at January 12, 2024 03:37 PM (bNcG+)

68 > I expect him to rebrand this junk to call it something else, but it'll be the same toxin. I don't understand why Vanguard is going along with it.

I dunno. If they wanted to do that, they'd dissolve the ESG group and quietly engage a different group to continue the practice under a different name. Firing 600 people sends a pretty strong signal they're not doing that.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 12, 2024 03:37 PM (R38qh)

69 Don't worry. The dumb billionaires who funded this will fund the next rebrand of communist financing that comes along.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

Commissars For Comity.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 12, 2024 03:37 PM (BdMk6)

70 They decided they would rather make money giving people what they want, like Dave Chappelle, than justice lectures people turn off after the first ten minutes.
Posted by: PJ

I'd given up on Netflix owing to all the lectures I had to sit through, but lately I've been finding some good stuff that is Maoist Red Guard-free. It's getting better I think.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 12, 2024 03:37 PM (VYql4)

71 When bolts start falling off airplanes it might be time to reevaluate your hiring practices.
Posted by: Megthered at January 12, 2024 03:25 PM (j+uWK)

The door is what fell off. Its questionable there were ever any bolts installed.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2024 03:38 PM (eoQWY)

72 It would be fun to see a rotation away from publicly traded corporations.... as more and more entrepreneurs realize that the profitability of a company you don't own and don't control is iffy at best anymore, and eventually publicly traded corporations become a laughable meme, holding on as a relic from the bygone days when our idiot forebears had everything completely upsidedown and backwards, and all the music and movies sucked.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 12, 2024 03:38 PM (9UlRk)

73 Its a good thing the Biden economy is so strong given the number of layoffs.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 12, 2024 03:38 PM (pZ64F)

74 People demand base-level competence.

It's just a matter of how long incompetence takes to surface and be remedied in one way or another.

In a foxhole, incompetence gets you or your buddy dead quickly.

In corporate life, incompetent people can be shifted around and covered for for quite a long time until eventually the incompetents find themselves in a critical mass in one unit or another, and their work product is so bad it can't be ignored any longer.

DEI breeds intolerable incompetence. It's just taken 10 or so years in earnest for it all to start crashing down.

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2024 03:38 PM (oqH4h)

75 We need for State AGs to set up teams to "randomly" investigate colleges companies and federal offices in the State for racial-quotas practices, DEI practices and AA practices. Then fine (and convict?) them into bankruptcy.

Posted by: Ciampino - I don't know about that at January 12, 2024 03:38 PM (qfLjt)

76 If I'm a big business exec what do I care about if DEI is racist and bad for business? I'm a Party man with plutocratic barony. Public opinion doesn't matter and all my business risks are socialized.

The reason Id refuse to do DEI is that as long as I keep the bribes and other favors big enough, the Party won't complain too much about it, and I don't have to have yet more, even-nastier HR commissars running around, stepping on my dick at every turn, and generally menacing me and my fiefdom.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2024 03:39 PM (0FoWg)

77 *cough*
Posted by: Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili at January 12, 2024 03:35 PM (CsUN+)

You died in bed, but you died screaming in fear.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 12, 2024 03:39 PM (nC+QA)

78 Look at the federal debt level which this administration and some in Congress don't want you to see. It's unsustainable and about to fall on Goldilocks and crush her.

Posted by: Mr Unintended Consequence at January 12, 2024 03:39 PM (bNcG+)

79 MSG > > > ESG
Posted by: City Wok at January 12, 2024 03:34 PM (lZVy/)

DSG > MSG > > > ESG

Posted by: Volkswagen AG at January 12, 2024 03:39 PM (AA8bA)

80 Cutting out the white guy is a Marxist plan

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2024 03:39 PM (fwDg9)

81 I'm in a dancin' mood!

http://tinyurl.com/3rm36nbc

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at January 12, 2024 03:40 PM (X4yCj)

82 Who do recruiting firms hire for? I don't think I've ever worked at a job fancy enough to use recruiters. Is it for business executive positions?

In my world it's more like, "do you need a fairly nerdy engineer? Why yes, are you house broken, can you do the maths? Im mostly house broken and can do many such maths, also I'm very bald and have a grey beard. Well get your ugly bald head over here then and we may pay you, possibly feed and water you."

Posted by: banana Dream at January 12, 2024 03:40 PM (/3Ygf)

83 My stupid company keeps hiring female engineers (unicorns) and they keep getting poached by bigger companies that, like us pay them more because they look good on the company brochure. One of them was telling me about how much she has overcome in her career and said "you don't know what its like to have to compete in a field dominated by white men". As a white guy, I too have to compete against those same white guys (and everybody else just like you).

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 12, 2024 03:40 PM (aLrRO)

84 78 Look at the federal debt level which this administration and some in Congress don't want you to see. It's unsustainable and about to fall on Goldilocks and crush her.
Posted by: Mr Unintended Consequence at January 12, 2024 03:39 PM (bNcG+)

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I blame a whole lot of people for that, and it's not just Democrats.

But, there is no political constituency to actually address it. "Cut theirs, not mine," is as far as it goes for 99% of the population.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 03:41 PM (GBKbO)

85 Citibank announced they will be laying off 20,000.

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When one starts, the rest are not far behind. Citibank, Bank of America, Chase...

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2024 03:41 PM (V13WU)

86 It would be fun to see a rotation away from publicly traded corporations.... as more and more entrepreneurs realize that the profitability of a company you don't own and don't control is iffy at best anymore, and eventually publicly traded corporations become a laughable meme, holding on as a relic from the bygone days when our idiot forebears had everything completely upsidedown and backwards, and all the music and movies sucked.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 12, 2024 03:38 PM (9UlRk)
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Oftentimes the CEOs they bring in to "turn the business around" have no real stake in the outcome. They don't know how the business was built nor do they really care how to keep it growing going forward. They will institute radical changes for the sake of their "legacy" and then leave after 5 years or so with their fat golden parachute.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 12, 2024 03:41 PM (7fElN)

87 Citibank announced they will be laying off 20,000.

Posted by: Mr Unintended Consequence

Get ready for more. It was more than just politics that made the fed blink.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 12, 2024 03:41 PM (lTGtQ)

88 Imagine bridges designed by a diversity hire engineer. The possibilities are endless.

Posted by: Mr Unintended Consequence at January 12, 2024 03:41 PM (bNcG+)

89 72 and eventually publicly traded corporations become a laughable meme,
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 12, 2024 03:38 PM (9UlRk)

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Publicly-traded corporations are a great idea WHEN and ONLY WHEN the vast majority of shareholders are first-party shareholders with their own actual skin in the game and a vested interest in the long-term prosperity and profitability of their direct investment.

The more people are removed from the direct skin-in-the-game ownership of the company the worse it becomes. You abrogate your own vested interest in whatever it is to a nameless, faceless drone who is managing the asset without your direct input, and since it's not THEIR money they don't care as much.

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2024 03:41 PM (oqH4h)

90 85 Citibank announced they will be laying off 20,000.

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When one starts, the rest are not far behind. Citibank, Bank of America, Chase...
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2024 03:41 PM (V13WU)

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Wells Fargo announced a very large number of layoffs a month or two ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 03:41 PM (GBKbO)

91 Just between us, hold off on any new investments for a couple of months.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 12, 2024 03:42 PM (lTGtQ)

92 Willowed: We were discussing who else could have played Barbara Stanwyck's role in 1944's Double Indemnity:
*
Myrna Loy? Mary Astor? Lauren Bacall?
Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2024

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Myrna Loy, maybe. Not Mary Astor; she was even less of a femme fatale with Bogart in Maltese Falcon. Bacall was just getting started as an actress and was pretty young, but maybe.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 12, 2024 03:42 PM (J2vNu)

93 This is all part and parcel of the left's standard operating procedure; push, push, push the bullshit until there's sufficient backlash to require a pause. Then start up again with a slightly different tactic.

Take the gheys for example. It all started with "acceptance" of gays in society, then acceptance of public displays, then marriage, then acceptance of the alphabet people, then.... it never stops.

That's the crux right there... they never, ever stop.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2024 03:43 PM (Q4IgG)

94 92 Bacall was just getting started as an actress and was pretty young, but maybe.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 12, 2024 03:42 PM (J2vNu)

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Nah, Stanwyck wasn't supposed to be playing an alien, so Bacall would have been terribly miscast.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 03:43 PM (GBKbO)

95 As a white guy, I too have to compete against those same white guys (and everybody else just like you).
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 12, 2024 03:40 PM (aLrRO)

All those poor women whose bosses never listen to them... whose bosses take their ideas and steal them... awful. No man can know what that's like.

And their awful Boys Club. The only way any woman gets to the c-suite is by tagging along with the Boys Club and doing all the stuff they do. It's so unfair and exclusionary.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 12, 2024 03:43 PM (9UlRk)

96 Look at the federal debt level which this administration and some in Congress don't want you to see. It's unsustainable and about to fall on Goldilocks and crush her.
Posted by: Mr Unintended Consequence

The gov increased our debt by over $1 trillion just since the beginning of the NFL season. I guess all that emergency pandemic spending has just been folded into the business-as-usual budget. Such wisdom and stewardship.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 12, 2024 03:43 PM (VYql4)

97 > Who do recruiting firms hire for? I don't think I've ever worked at a job fancy enough to use recruiters. Is it for business executive positions?

Software companies have recruiters for development jobs. Sometimes they'll hire outside companies to act as recruiters.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 12, 2024 03:43 PM (R38qh)

98 Losses in securities, all are exposed.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2024 03:43 PM (V13WU)

99 *on securities - unrealized

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2024 03:44 PM (V13WU)

100 Every evil, diabolical despot get their comeuppance. Every. One.

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I want a front row seat to Klaus Schwab's comeuppance. I hope it involves a rope at the very least.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 12, 2024 03:44 PM (mupln)

101 The Commercial Real Estate Bubble is bursting, right now.

Gird your loins.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2024 03:44 PM (RVloE)

102 The Commercial Real Estate Bubble is bursting, right now.

Gird your loins.
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2024 03:44 PM (RVloE)

they will house illegals there....

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2024 03:45 PM (V13WU)

103 Next thing they'll take credit for the 40 hour workweek.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 03:32 PM (GBKbO)

38 hour work weeks. You know, because of government mandates for insurance.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2024 03:45 PM (D7oie)

104 I have to laugh at places like NY who say "education is their priority". Then they underfund all the schools, the graduation rates are abysmal, as are the attendance rates. They spend more on illegal immigrants than the taxpayers children. But go get Trump, you assholes, and spend over $30 million to do it. Then spend another $30 million fighting the Second Amendment which the Supreme Court already handed you your ass on. Yeah, priorities.

Posted by: Mr Unintended Consequence at January 12, 2024 03:45 PM (bNcG+)

105 Was ESG a ponzi scheme? I can't help thinking certain people got rich and then quietly stepped back from it with a giant smirk on their face.

Posted by: Max Power at January 12, 2024 03:45 PM (q177U)

106 101 The Commercial Real Estate Bubble is bursting, right now.

Gird your loins.
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This is good news. We can fill Manhattan with illegals and then some.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 12, 2024 03:45 PM (pZ64F)

107 Bacall was just getting started as an actress and was pretty young, but maybe.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 12, 2024
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Nah, Stanwyck wasn't supposed to be playing an alien, so Bacall would have been terribly miscast.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024

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I'll agree that the role of Phyllis called for a more mature woman, and the much-younger Lauren would have been miscast in that sense.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 12, 2024 03:45 PM (J2vNu)

108 It would be fun to see a rotation away from publicly traded corporations.... as more and more entrepreneurs realize that the profitability of a company you don't own and don't control is iffy at best anymore, and eventually publicly traded corporations become a laughable meme, holding on as a relic from the bygone days when our idiot forebears had everything completely upsidedown and backwards, and all the music and movies sucked.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 12, 2024 03:38 PM (9UlRk)

Project Veritas shows that a board can turn you out of your own company even if you are the only one anybody trusts in it. I think there was another case of a moderate left reporter who was evicted from the website he founded too.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2024 03:46 PM (eoQWY)

109 28 Comments of one gray, or is it grey, color.

Posted by: davidt at January 12, 2024 03:28 PM (SYTee)
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Brit English (The Original):
Grey is a colour, Gray is a name.

Posted by: Grammar Police & Assassins - watch your 6 at January 12, 2024 03:46 PM (qfLjt)

110 Piano wire is always a choice.

Posted by: Il Duce at January 12, 2024 03:46 PM (lZVy/)

111 >>they will house illegals there...

Still won't change the economic fallout.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2024 03:46 PM (RVloE)

112 Good. I want all the those losers working at Arby's for minimum wage and a shift meal.

Hahahahaha!

Posted by: Dick Cheney, Mastermind On Viagra at January 12, 2024 03:46 PM (R/m4+)

113 36 Ackman is like that kid in Andersen's fairy tale - "The King is NAKED!"
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2024 03:30 PM (V13WU)

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Ackman was fine with DEI as long as, due to his background, he thought he was a beneficiary as a member of an oppressed group. He was stunned to discover that people who are Jewish are always considered oppressors in DEI.

Right now, he is useful. But, let's be honest, he is entirely self serving. I continue to be amazed at how many Jewish people seek Harvard knowing its history. The character of Harvard has always been wanting.

Ackman in the future will turn on a dime and hug the latest left wing trend when it serves his interest.

Posted by: Jake Speed at January 12, 2024 03:46 PM (Vu1jV)

114 Hasn't it been a decade since a budget was passed?

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2024 03:46 PM (krQz2)

115

I support diversity in mall bathrooms!

Posted by: Pedo Pete at January 12, 2024 03:46 PM (VTUDm)

116 104 I have to laugh at places like NY who say "education is their priority". Then they underfund all the schools, the graduation rates are abysmal, as are the attendance rates. They spend more on illegal immigrants than the taxpayers children. But go get Trump, you assholes, and spend over $30 million to do it. Then spend another $30 million fighting the Second Amendment which the Supreme Court already handed you your ass on. Yeah, priorities.
Posted by: Mr Unintended Consequence at January 12, 2024 03:45 PM (bNcG+)

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Also, their education results were shit before all this.

Their literacy rates were something like 15%.

When de Tocqueville toured New York state, he estimated that literacy amongst the rural residents was something like 98%, and he was consistently surprised at how well they could talk about world events.

That was in the days of privately funded, religiously run, single house schools.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 03:47 PM (GBKbO)

117 Who do recruiting firms hire for? I don't think I've ever worked at a job fancy enough to use recruiters. Is it for business executive positions?

In my world it's more like, "do you need a fairly nerdy engineer? Why yes, are you house broken, can you do the maths? Im mostly house broken and can do many such maths, also I'm very bald and have a grey beard. Well get your ugly bald head over here then and we may pay you, possibly feed and water you."

Posted by: banana Dream

It is mostly for managerial level and above.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 12, 2024 03:47 PM (lTGtQ)

118 Was ESG a ponzi scheme? I can't help thinking certain people got rich and then quietly stepped back from it with a giant smirk on their face.
Posted by: Max Power at January 12, 2024 03:45 PM (q177U)

It was a racket, but likely not a Ponzi one. Selling ESG certs for cash, perhaps.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2024 03:47 PM (eoQWY)

119 Perfesser, the CEO of Anehuser Busch fits the description of dumb "face" of the corp.

Posted by: PJ at January 12, 2024 03:47 PM (G1dq6)

120 >>That was in the days of privately funded, religiously run, single house schools.

Ms Applebottom was a stern taskmaster.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2024 03:47 PM (RVloE)

121

Rice University is offering a course specifically to address black chemistry and chemical education while promising to touch on "inequities" in the scientific field.

Rice, the more than 120-year-old university in Houston, Texas, lists CHEM 125 001 "Afrochemistry" on its course catalog for the 2024 spring semester.

http://tinyurl.com/mw5v48vv

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 12, 2024 03:48 PM (63Dwl)

122 Dow -125
Gold +32
Crude +.75

Great economy there Joe.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 12, 2024 03:48 PM (eYF7X)

123
You can tell by the way I use my walk
I'm a woman-man, no time to talk.

Posted by: Rachel Levine at January 12, 2024 03:48 PM (krQz2)

124 That was in the days of privately funded, religiously run, single house schools.
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That, a state full of self employed yeomen.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 12, 2024 03:48 PM (pZ64F)

125 I think there was another case of a moderate left reporter who was evicted from the website he founded too.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2024 03:46 PM (eoQWY)
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Glen Greenwald, iirc.

Posted by: ballistic at January 12, 2024 03:48 PM (oqH4h)

126 92 Willowed: We were discussing who else could have played Barbara Stanwyck's role in 1944's Double Indemnity:
*
Myrna Loy? Mary Astor? Lauren Bacall?
Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2024

***
Myrna Loy, maybe. Not Mary Astor; she was even less of a femme fatale with Bogart in Maltese Falcon. Bacall was just getting started as an actress and was pretty young, but maybe.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 12, 2024 03:42 PM (J2vNu)

Jane Russell

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 12, 2024 03:48 PM (xcxpd)

127 Ackman was fine with DEI as long as, due to his background, he thought he was a beneficiary as a member of an oppressed group. He was stunned to discover that people who are Jewish are always considered oppressors in DEI.

Right now, he is useful. But, let's be honest, he is entirely self serving. I continue to be amazed at how many Jewish people seek Harvard knowing its history. The character of Harvard has always been wanting.

Ackman in the future will turn on a dime and hug the latest left wing trend when it serves his interest.
Posted by: Jake Speed at January 12, 2024 03:46 PM (Vu1jV)

Let me put it this way, I don't care.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2024 03:48 PM (V13WU)

128 DIE is a luxury, yes.

But most luxuries won't eat your company.
Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2024 03:32 PM (krQz2)

says the man who never bought two leopards and wrote them off as business expenses.
I mean, they are leopards, and leopards are freekin COOL! I mean, how many CEOs can afford to house a pair of leopards! You gotta have balls the size of MANHATTAN to keep a couple of leopards, you gotta have keepers too, you can't let them run around like some pit bulls either. Trust me. Goddamned Todd.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2024 03:49 PM (D7oie)

129 Brit English (The Original):
Grey is a colour, Gray is a name.
Posted by: Grammar Police & Assassins - watch your 6 at January 12, 2024

***
Hmph!

Posted by: Lady Jane Grey & Jennifer Grey at January 12, 2024 03:49 PM (J2vNu)

130 120 >>That was in the days of privately funded, religiously run, single house schools.

Ms Applebottom was a stern taskmaster.
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2024 03:47 PM (RVloE)

Fond of corsets too

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 12, 2024 03:49 PM (xcxpd)

131 Instapundit has a nice little video of Biden walking into a coffee shop saying, "Hi, I'm Joe Biden and I'm a government employee working in the Senate."

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 12, 2024 03:49 PM (cMXNt)

132 The Commercial Real Estate Bubble is bursting, right now.

Gird your loins.
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This is good news. We can fill Manhattan with illegals and then some.

Posted by: Pudinhead

Is Manhattan going to print money to cover the bad loan?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 12, 2024 03:50 PM (lTGtQ)

133 I have to laugh at places like NY who say "education is their priority". Then they underfund all the schools, the graduation rates are abysmal, as are the attendance rates. They spend more on illegal immigrants than the taxpayers children.
Posted by: Mr Unintended Consequence at January 12, 2024 03:45 PM (bNcG+)

The Shitty School districts underfund nothing. They rake in and spend huge amounts per classroom. Of course, none of it goes into the classroom, it all goes to the administration or is stolen in transit, but the underfunded schools in cities is a total lie and scam you shouldn't fall for.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2024 03:50 PM (eoQWY)

134 Rice University is offering a course specifically to address black chemistry and chemical education while promising to touch on "inequities" in the scientific field.

Rice, the more than 120-year-old university in Houston, Texas, lists CHEM 125 001 "Afrochemistry" on its course catalog for the 2024 spring semester.

http://tinyurl.com/mw5v48vv
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

aka: The Black Arts

Posted by: Il Duce at January 12, 2024 03:50 PM (lZVy/)

135 they will house illegals there....
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2024 03:45 PM (V13WU)

Doesn't mean they'll pay though. Added damage will just make the bubble burst all the faster.

What's scary is that the Houston metro area is growing and yet there are newly finished office complexes sitting completely empty. If it's bad here it must be awful in other places.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 12, 2024 03:50 PM (nC+QA)

136 > I have to laugh at places like NY who say "education is their priority". Then they underfund all the schools, the graduation rates are abysmal, as are the attendance rates. They spend more on illegal immigrants than the taxpayers children. But go get Trump, you assholes, and spend over $30 million to do it. Then spend another $30 million fighting the Second Amendment which the Supreme Court already handed you your ass on. Yeah, priorities.

There's a system's analysis phrase coined by Stafford Beer who said, "The purpose of a system is what it does." It's an interesting way of thinking. Instead of burdening yourself by taking in all the historical information of what a system was supposed to be and all of the many changes and iterations its gone through, simply determine what it DOES. What are all of the direct and secondary and tertiary effects?

If one applies this school of thought to most government, the purpose of its systems is sinister.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 12, 2024 03:50 PM (R38qh)

137 114 Hasn't it been a decade since a budget was passed?

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2024 03:46 PM (krQz2)

iirc, 2008.

Posted by: davidt at January 12, 2024 03:50 PM (SYTee)

138 Myrna Loy, maybe. Not Mary Astor; she was even less of a femme fatale with Bogart in Maltese Falcon. Bacall was just getting started as an actress and was pretty young, but maybe.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 12, 2024
*
Jane Russell
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 12, 2024

***
Sultry for sure.

Posted by: Lady Jane Grey & Jennifer Grey at January 12, 2024 03:50 PM (J2vNu)

139 For some reason. I don't understand. The Democrat Media Propoganda State keeps telling me this is a Miracle Economy.

If you are drawing your paycheck from Uncle Sugar or indirectly (like at the FNM or an NGO) times are pretty good. Sure the inflation sucks, but you keep getting raises.

Its the normies that are taking it in the jibblies and as the government keeps saying we have to get used to owning nothing and eating bugs

Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2024 03:51 PM (ibTVg)

140 104 I have to laugh at places like NY who say "education is their priority". Then they underfund all the schools

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Didn't they also kill all the 'excellence' schools or was that Chicago?

Posted by: Ciampino - Chi-cago means I shit in it in Italian at January 12, 2024 03:51 PM (qfLjt)

141 Look at the IPO offerings. In 2022 it was crushed. There was a slight recovery in 2023, but people then came to their senses. Many companies are opting out of the public markets because it's not worth it anymore. That's why the SEC is trying to unconstitutional expand outside their statutory authority and into the private market.

Posted by: Mr Unintended Consequence at January 12, 2024 03:51 PM (bNcG+)

142 >>"Afrochemistry"

Deshawn the Chemist is Deshawn no, more.

For what he thought was H20 was really H2SO4

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2024 03:51 PM (RVloE)

143 2024 is going to be a lit bag of dog poo placed on a front porch after the doorbell is rung.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 12, 2024 03:51 PM (MeG8a)

144 Oftentimes the CEOs they bring in to "turn the business around" have no real stake in the outcome. They don't know how the business was built nor do they really care how to keep it growing going forward. They will institute radical changes for the sake of their "legacy" and then leave after 5 years or so with their fat golden parachute.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 12, 2024 03:41 PM (7fElN)

Many CEO's are brought in to build a good company for the sole reason of being purchased by the highest bidder on Wall Street. Then Wallstreet sells that stock for money to bid on the next victim. The companies sold are many times left in the back yard to rot and wither away.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 12, 2024 03:52 PM (BdMk6)

145 Instapundit has a nice little video of Biden walking into a coffee shop saying, "Hi, I'm Joe Biden and I'm a government employee working in the Senate."
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 12, 2024 03:49 PM (cMXNt)
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Can't blame him. He was there for 150 years.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2024 03:52 PM (krQz2)

146 Every evil, diabolical despot get their comeuppance. Every. One.
Posted by: Mr Unintended Consequence at January 12, 2024 03:34 PM (bNcG+)

Pol Pot died surrounded by his remaining friends and supporters. So did Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez. And Mao.

To be honest, so did Robespierre, but that was different.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2024 03:52 PM (D7oie)

147 Brit English (The Original):
Grey is a colour, Gray is a name.
Posted by: Grammar Police & Assassins - watch your 6 at January 12, 2024

Most differences between American English and Brit English is us taking 1700s British standard and staying with it, and the Brits changing it to something else.

For example Soccer? English name first, only later changed to Football.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2024 03:52 PM (eoQWY)

148 Their literacy rates were something like 15%.

When de Tocqueville toured New York state, he estimated that literacy amongst the rural residents was something like 98%, and he was consistently surprised at how well they could talk about world events.

That was in the days of privately funded, religiously run, single house schools.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 03:47 PM (GBKbO)
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Students learned reading, writing, and arithmetic. Oh, and they were exposed to the classical philosophers and thinkers...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 12, 2024 03:52 PM (7fElN)

149 "Afrochemistry"
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Ghetto chemistry?

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2024 03:53 PM (krQz2)

150 Ech, there are dregs in the bottom of my tea.

Everything's gone to hell in a handbasket since David Lee Roth left Van Halen.

Posted by: spindrift at January 12, 2024 03:53 PM (AA8bA)

151 A whole lot of running a large business (during the good times, anyway, as Ace notes) is having your attorneys and lawyers and lobbyists sit down with the Party officials you're generously bribing, so they can all can hammer out exactly which burdens are going to be foisted on the back of your particular industry. And exactly how onerous they need to be so that you can bear the load, but none of your smaller competitors can.

DEI is likely one result of those meetings.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2024 03:53 PM (0FoWg)

152 Groper in Chief Joe Biden creeps out another young woman.

http://tiny.cc/oph0wz

Posted by: bonhomme at January 12, 2024 03:53 PM (R38qh)

153 I paid off my mortgage a while back and mailed in my property tax bill for the year this week, so I theoretically can't be thrown out of my house for another 12 months.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 12, 2024 03:53 PM (lTGtQ)

154 Rice University is offering a course specifically to address black chemistry and chemical education while promising to touch on "inequities" in the scientific field.
Rice, the more than 120-year-old university in Houston, Texas, lists CHEM 125 001 "Afrochemistry" on its course catalog for the 2024 spring semester.
http://tinyurl.com/mw5v48vv
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
aka: The Black Arts
Posted by: Il Duce at January 12, 2024 03:50 PM (lZVy/)

They need a class named "Afrounemployment".

Let the afros get a Head Start....again.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 12, 2024 03:53 PM (R/m4+)

155 Rice University is offering a course specifically to address black chemistry and chemical education while promising to touch on "inequities" in the scientific field.

Rice, the more than 120-year-old university in Houston, Texas, lists CHEM 125 001 "Afrochemistry" on its course catalog for the 2024 spring semester.
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????

Exothermic reactions work differently for black people?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 12, 2024 03:54 PM (xYckV)

156 Students learned reading, writing, and arithmetic. Oh, and they were exposed to the classical philosophers and thinkers...

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they don't need that, they can make millions on TikTok

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2024 03:54 PM (V13WU)

157 Everything's gone to hell in a handbasket since David Lee Roth left Van Halen.
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This is true.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 12, 2024 03:54 PM (pZ64F)

158 >>Exothermic reactions work differently for black people?

It's the Soul Glo.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2024 03:54 PM (RVloE)

159 Compliance with DEI mandates may violate federal law. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, for example, prohibits private employers from basing hiring decisions on race.

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Jeebus, always with the fucking weasel words, these guys.

DOES violate federal law, even if the SCOTUS Cucks & Idiots disagree -- the black-letter law language is clear.

Posted by: ShainS at January 12, 2024 03:55 PM (4DXOV)

160 Stewardesses, Southwest Airlines (1972)

https://t.ly/zNrRt

Posted by: Braenyard at January 12, 2024 03:55 PM (B8UiP)

161 Hasn't it been a decade since a budget was passed?

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2024 03:46 PM (krQz2)

iirc, 2008.
Posted by: davidt at January 12, 2024 03:50 PM (SYTee)
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Holy crap. That's a decade and a half.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2024 03:55 PM (krQz2)

162 >>> Deshawn the Chemist is Deshawn no, more.
For what he thought was H20 was really H2SO4
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2024 03:51 PM (RVloE)

LOL. Hearty yet formal applause.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 12, 2024 03:55 PM (/3Ygf)

163 Mike Lindell Says MyPillow Ads “Cancelled” By Fox News

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 12, 2024 03:55 PM (eYF7X)

164 Students learned reading, writing, and arithmetic. Oh, and they were exposed to the classical philosophers and thinkers...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Two words: charter schools

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 12, 2024 03:55 PM (lTGtQ)

165 “ I encounter CEOs who don't know the details of their technology and that's ridiculous to me. ” -- Elon Musk

When I worked for a Fortune 150 company, the head of our ‘division’ of the company was asked why “the marketing/sales guys didn’t know their products and would benefit from a technical tutorial on the products”.
He responded with … “if I caught any of my staff doing technical training, I would have an on-the-spot DOC (Discussion Of Contribution) and fire him on the spot”

Deliberate Ignorance

Posted by: SMOD at January 12, 2024 03:56 PM (RHGPo)

166 The funding of "schools" really means funding teacher retirement systems. That's where the money goes--funds are in trouble all over.

And still Chicago runs nearly empty schools, no doubt to keep the teachers employed and vested. http://tinyurl.com/556mhcad

Posted by: PJ at January 12, 2024 03:56 PM (G1dq6)

167 >>160 Stewardesses, Southwest Airlines (1972)

https://t.ly/zNrRt
Posted by: Braenyard

Stompy boots

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 12, 2024 03:56 PM (eYF7X)

168 >>Hearty yet formal applause.

There are too many dorks here for that one not to land.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2024 03:56 PM (RVloE)

169 Clifton Duncan @cliftonaduncan 6h Replying to @ScottAdamsSays
"Equity-based revisions to curriculum"
"Work to dismantle the system that allows certain students to excel, others to perish"

Fuck these people.

I took accelerated classes in science and math, then AP Physics, Calc, and English.

"Progressives" would've destroyed my education for the sake of equity.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 12, 2024 03:56 PM (2yu8s)

170 "As such, a meritocracy is anathema to the DEI movement. "

Diversity is our strength. Merit, hard work, competence and showing up on time will destroy us.

Posted by: Ripley at January 12, 2024 03:56 PM (JojsZ)

171

Let me explain the science behind having 19 different baby mommas, crackers...

Posted by: Prof. Jobobo, Afrophysicist at January 12, 2024 03:57 PM (VTUDm)

172 Blackrock just announced its own layoffs

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What a great start to the weekend!!
Learn to Code fuckwads.

Posted by: Montec at January 12, 2024 03:58 PM (bWsRe)

173 143 2024 is going to be a lit bag of dog poo placed on a front porch after the doorbell is rung.
Posted by: gourmand du jour

That's the best-case scenario at this point.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 12, 2024 03:58 PM (sAmhv)

174 What's scary is that the Houston metro area is growing and yet there are newly finished office complexes sitting completely empty. If it's bad here it must be awful in other places.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 12, 2024 03:50 PM (nC+QA)

Empty buildings in the Valley in LA. One is like 20-25 stories tall. Empty malls.

They are building trendy condos/apartments but its unclear who will live there.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2024 03:58 PM (eoQWY)

175 As such, a meritocracy is anathema to the DEI movement.
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Not to mention, racist.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2024 03:58 PM (krQz2)

176 170 "As such, a meritocracy is anathema to the DEI movement. "

Diversity is our strength. Merit, hard work, competence and showing up on time will destroy us.
Posted by: Ripley

Don't forget Innovation, like putting tampons' in the mens restroom.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 12, 2024 03:58 PM (eYF7X)

177 Mike Lindell Says MyPillow Ads “Cancelled” By Fox News
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January

And yet many people firmly believe Fox is far right.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 12, 2024 03:58 PM (NvyWM)

178 Diversity is historically a weakness…

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2024 03:58 PM (PCK5/)

179 "When de Tocqueville toured New York state, he estimated that literacy amongst the rural residents was something like 98%, and he was consistently surprised at how well they could talk about world events."

He also warned about a tyranny of a majority. Which is precisely what you have in NY. It's gone so far now and the elections are so corrupt it borders on anarchy.

Posted by: Mr Unintended Consequence at January 12, 2024 03:58 PM (bNcG+)

180 Whitey tighty. Lefty loosey.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 12, 2024 03:58 PM (J3ryZ)

181 shelling out around $340 billion to advance "racial equity" between then and October 2022

Nice little grift-pot; nice little niche industry gets set up and has its run-in-the-sun. I wonder where all that money actually wound up?

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at January 12, 2024 03:59 PM (TOe+Q)

182 The Disney Grooming Syndicate’s primary grooming branch, Pixar, will reportedly slash up to 20 percent of its staff, which amounts to more than 300 lost jobs.

“Pixar Animation Studios is set to cut jobs as the studio has completed production on some shows and now has more staff than it needs,” Reuters has learned. “TechCrunch reported earlier that Pixar was set to undergo layoffs as high as 20% this year, with the studio’s team of 1,300 people reduced to under 1,000 over the coming months.”

Posted by: SMOD at January 12, 2024 03:59 PM (RHGPo)

183 Clifton Duncan @cliftonaduncan 6h Replying to @ScottAdamsSays
"Equity-based revisions to curriculum"
"Work to dismantle the system that allows certain students to excel, others to perish"

Fuck these people.

I took accelerated classes in science and math, then AP Physics, Calc, and English.

"Progressives" would've destroyed my education for the sake of equity.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 12, 2024 03:56 PM (2yu8s)

Perhaps needs the context that Duncan is black. And he's right of course. Progressives are destroying *everyone's* chance at education.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 12, 2024 03:59 PM (nC+QA)

184 The companies sold are many times left in the back yard to rot and wither away.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 12, 2024 03:52 PM (BdMk6)

So Mittens, right?

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 12, 2024 03:59 PM (hEv4o)

185 2024 is going to be a lit bag of dog poo placed on a front porch after the doorbell is rung.
Posted by: gourmand du jour

That's the best-case scenario at this point.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 12, 2024 03:58 PM (sAmhv)
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We'd probably get the bag of poop with the M-80 in it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 12, 2024 03:59 PM (xYckV)

186 Diversity is mediocre, just checking off boxes

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2024 03:59 PM (fwDg9)

187 I hope those Afrochemists never find out Robert Bunsen's disposition towards the inhabitants of sub-Saharan Africa.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2024 03:59 PM (RVloE)

188 DIE, Black rock, die.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 12, 2024 03:59 PM (ufFY8)

189 You either know what an OTDR is and how to use it or you don't.

No amount of affirmative action is going to bridge that gap.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 12, 2024 03:59 PM (XV/Pl)

190 Watch Joe Biden's eyes in this clip. He hasn't got a single clue where he is or what's happening.

http://tiny.cc/kxh0wz

Posted by: bonhomme at January 12, 2024 04:00 PM (R38qh)

191 What's scary is that the Houston metro area is growing and yet there are newly finished office complexes sitting completely empty. If it's bad here it must be awful in other places.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette

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In my burg commercial R/E is doing quite well. I'm in a small city without any mega corps. It's small companies with 5-10 employees type of thing. And they're still leasing office space.

Posted by: Montec at January 12, 2024 04:00 PM (bWsRe)

192 179 "When de Tocqueville toured New York state, he estimated that literacy amongst the rural residents was something like 98%, and he was consistently surprised at how well they could talk about world events."

He also warned about a tyranny of a majority. Which is precisely what you have in NY. It's gone so far now and the elections are so corrupt it borders on anarchy.
Posted by: Mr Unintended Consequence at January 12, 2024 03:58 PM (bNcG+)

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de Tocqueville was in great awe of the early years of the American experiment, but there were always going to be ways for it to go wrong.

What he saw was the moral people that John Adams wanted, but things did not last forever.

However, the central point is that we don't need to spend a lot of schooling to get good results. Any system that flaunts how much they spend per student is suspect. And they all flaunt how much they spend per student.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 04:00 PM (GBKbO)

193 The aptly named Larry Fink

Posted by: steevy at January 12, 2024 04:01 PM (FQmDC)

194 "Equity-based revisions to curriculum"
"Work to dismantle the system that allows certain students to excel, others to perish"

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Everyone who wants to be a brain surgeon should become a brain surgeon, by G*d.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 12, 2024 04:01 PM (mupln)

195 In Brattleboro we does not discrimernate against any persons. Persons that are gay or Transgender gets first chance at all jobs because they are people that needs to be taken care of first.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at January 12, 2024 04:01 PM (qpLSv)

196 Racist recruiters?

That cannot explain why Army enlistent of young white men is down, hugely, among whites year over year.
At least since they installed Biden in the "coup-coup". Even ignorant southern redneck barely literate white hillbillies* recognize that.

*multi-redundent.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2024 04:02 PM (cOq4q)

197 I saw a LinkedIn profile of an assistant director of admissions for a law school. Can't remember which one. But his profile title said Diversifying Law School Admissions. Right there and then out in the open telling white men, you need not apply.

Posted by: Montec at January 12, 2024 04:02 PM (bWsRe)

198 Watch Joe Biden's eyes in this clip. He hasn't got a single clue where he is or what's happening.

http://tiny.cc/kxh0wz
Posted by: bonhomme at January 12, 2024 04:00 PM (R38qh)
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Wow. He's completely gone in that clip. He has to look down to see where he put his feet.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 12, 2024 04:02 PM (7fElN)

199 Let the afros get a Head Start....again.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

White guys can have afros!! Watched an 70s era video of Journey the other day and the guitarist had the most awesome white boy afro! It was amazing!

https://youtu.be/NPF1PjkqHQc?si=w3lxxR1A-6RNK8Zu

Killer tune too.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 12, 2024 04:02 PM (sAmhv)

200 America made a wrong turn somewhere along the line… “ when” is the question..

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2024 04:02 PM (PCK5/)

201 >>I took accelerated classes in science and math, then AP Physics, Calc, and English.

And you ended up here.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2024 04:02 PM (ZLI7S)

202 I know many of you have soured on Trump...perhaps Daily Kos has analysis that might sweeten the deal?

Pro-Trump Republican senators angle to replace McConnell if Trump wins...as a potential successor to McConnell, Barrasso's high-profile endorsement stands in stark contrast to the neutrality of Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, McConnell's right-hand man and another potential heir to the throne.

...in Trumplandia, neutrality is traitorous. House Republican leaders have made clear they are all-in for Trump. Senate holdouts appear to represent the last stand by non-MAGA Republicans. Sen. Murkowski, "There is room for an alternative to Trump versus Biden if we make that space." Sen. Ernst of Iowa, "I just have to remain neutral through the caucuses."

If McConnell was truly running the show, Thune would be the heir apparent. But Barrasso appears to be positioning himself as the conference’s most broadly acceptable pro-Trump alternative. That would put the Senate Republican caucus—the last vestige of reality-based thinking in the Republican Party—firmly within Trump's grip.

Posted by: Intercepted Daily Kos Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 12, 2024 04:02 PM (ycI94)

203 Students learned reading, writing, and arithmetic. Oh, and they were exposed to the classical philosophers and thinkers...

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they don't need that, they can make millions on TikTok
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2024 03:54 PM (V13WU)

TikTok probably has more educational content than schools these days. I see shorts of a guy doing homesteading, plumbing, other things.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2024 04:02 PM (eoQWY)

204 Everyone who wants to be a brain surgeon should become a brain surgeon, by G*d.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 12, 2024 04:01 PM (mupln)
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Brain and brain! What is brain?

Posted by: Inevitable response at January 12, 2024 04:03 PM (xYckV)

205 Bob Ross is the king of white fros.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 12, 2024 04:03 PM (R4t5M)

206 >>White guys can have afros!! Watched an 70s era video of Journey the other day and the guitarist had the most awesome white boy afro! It was amazing!

Buddy of mine in college had the King of all Jewfros.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2024 04:03 PM (RVloE)

207 Stewardesses, Southwest Airlines (1972)

https://t.ly/zNrRt
Posted by: Braenyard at January 12, 2024 03:55 PM (B8UiP)

Nothing beats Braniff Airlines during that time.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 12, 2024 04:03 PM (BdMk6)

208 Jetpack racing:

http://tinyurl.com/slowndumb

It's like a dizzy bat race, just slower and less coordinated.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 12, 2024 04:03 PM (/3Ygf)

209 I paid off my mortgage a while back and mailed in my property tax bill for the year this week, so I theoretically can't be thrown out of my house for another 12 months.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 12, 2024

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Yeah, I have to go tell my apartment office that I want a 6- or 12-month lease. Six would put me into July, and I hope to leave town before that. Twelve would put me into next January, and if I retire in March or April, I'm *not* staying here that long. I can break the lease with two months' rent payment, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 12, 2024 04:03 PM (J2vNu)

210 Empty buildings in the Valley in LA. One is like 20-25 stories tall. Empty malls.

They are building trendy condos/apartments but its unclear who will live there.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2024 03:58 PM (eoQWY)

they are building because they financed it for zero interest money from the Fed. Each building is "free" to put up and any money they get back above the payback is profit.
Until they get stuck with empty units and can't pay it back.

The Austrian school calls it "the end of the business cycle"
we called it 2008

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2024 04:03 PM (D7oie)

211 >>You either know what an OTDR is and how to use it or you don't.

I had a team of outside plant fiber techs that was top notch. Well, most of them. The dumbfucks were relegated to digging the ditches and backfilling

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 12, 2024 04:04 PM (eYF7X)

212 * A total of 44,042 new Army recruits were white in 2018, but in 2023 that had fallen to 25,070. That represents a drop of over 19,000 recruits per year.

https://www.military.com/
daily-news/2024/01/10/
army-sees-sharp-decline-white-recruits.html/amp

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2024 04:04 PM (cOq4q)

213 Brain and brain! What is brain?

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LOL @ Star Trek reference.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 12, 2024 04:04 PM (mupln)

214 201 >>I took accelerated classes in science and math, then AP Physics, Calc, and English.

And you ended up here.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2024 04:02 PM (ZLI7S)

One way trip to Palookaville???

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2024 04:04 PM (PCK5/)

215 On the inflation front...

I bought a snow blower 10, 11 years ago for $600. I was perusing craigslist and I saw one that looked just like mine, so must be of the same era more or less for sale. $600.

So a 10 year old version of something now costs what a new one cost 10 years ago. Pretty much sums up how much the dollar has been devalued.

Posted by: Montec at January 12, 2024 04:04 PM (bWsRe)

216 The thing is, they won't stop. These smug, arrogant, people, emboldened by massive wealth and power, think themselves gods. They'll simply re-market DEI as something else and keep on keeping on.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 12, 2024 03:26 PM (sAmhv)

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Then you sue them again and again and again until they learn or go broke.

Posted by: Decaf at January 12, 2024 04:04 PM (3JfbU)

217 And you ended up here.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2024 04:02 PM (ZLI7S)

Actually, he ended up in Hollywood. But he'd probably fit in well here.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 12, 2024 04:04 PM (nC+QA)

218 Even ignorant southern redneck barely literate white hillbillies* recognize that.

*multi-redundent.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

*Dusts off McNamara's Morons file* This'll do the trick!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 12, 2024 04:05 PM (VYql4)

219 Racist recruiters?

That cannot explain why Army enlistent of young white men is down, hugely, among whites year over year.
At least since they installed Biden in the "coup-coup". Even ignorant southern redneck barely literate white hillbillies* recognize that.

*multi-redundent.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2024 04:02 PM (cOq4q)

This president will get you into a hot zone with bullshit rules of engagement and no materiel to fight with. Get out if you can.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2024 04:05 PM (eoQWY)

220 Wow. He's completely gone in that clip. He has to look down to see where he put his feet.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 12, 2024 04:02 PM (7fElN)

But he's President Energizer Bunny.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 12, 2024 04:05 PM (NvyWM)

221 And all it took was for us to stop drinking BUD LIGHT! And stop seeing shitty movies!

Remember that - All we have to do to win is to put up even the slightest resistance.

Posted by: Garbled memo at January 12, 2024 04:05 PM (8E/8X)

222 212 * A total of 44,042 new Army recruits were white in 2018, but in 2023 that had fallen to 25,070. That represents a drop of over 19,000 recruits per year.

https://www.military.com/
daily-news/2024/01/10/
army-sees-sharp-decline-white-recruits.html/amp
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2024 04:04 PM (cOq4q)

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I wonder if there's been a proportional rise in black, hispanic, and asian recruits at the same time?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

223 Is DEI applied for hiring AF1 maintenance crews?

Asking for about 360 million friends.
Posted by: Joe Mama at January 12, 2024 03:27 PM (lZVy/)

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And if not I want to know why not.

Posted by: Decaf at January 12, 2024 04:06 PM (3JfbU)

224 Everything's gone to hell in a handbasket since David Lee Roth left Van Halen.
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This is true.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 12, 2024 03:54 PM (pZ64F)

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I blame Yoko Ono.

Out: Montezuma's revenge.
In: Emperor's revenge.

Posted by: ShainS at January 12, 2024 04:06 PM (4DXOV)

225 219 This president will get you into a hot zone with bullshit rules of engagement and no materiel to fight with. Get out if you can.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2024 04:05 PM (eoQWY)

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And the ruling party keeps talking about using the tools of the state to put down uppity Americans...your neighbors.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 04:06 PM (GBKbO)

226 @190

>>Watch Joe Biden's eyes in this clip. He hasn't got a single clue where he is or what's happening.

81 Million Votes Yo. He'll get north of 100M votes if that's what it takes to push this vegetable over the finish line.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 12, 2024 04:06 PM (XV/Pl)

227 "de Tocqueville was in great awe of the early years of the American experiment, but there were always going to be ways for it to go wrong.

What he saw was the moral people that John Adams wanted, but things did not last forever.

However, the central point is that we don't need to spend a lot of schooling to get good results. Any system that flaunts how much they spend per student is suspect. And they all flaunt how much they spend per student."

He was very lucid about the pitfalls. But he also felt, as many Framers did, in the inherent good of people, and that although we would face difficulties, good men would triumph over evil. I dare say there are far too men with that courage today.

Posted by: Mr Unintended Consequence at January 12, 2024 04:06 PM (bNcG+)

228 222 212 * A total of 44,042 new Army recruits were white in 2018, but in 2023 that had fallen to 25,070. That represents a drop of over 19,000 recruits per year.

https://www.military.com/
daily-news/2024/01/10/
army-sees-sharp-decline-white-recruits.html/amp
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2024 04:04 PM (cOq4q)

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I wonder if there's been a proportional rise in black, hispanic, and asian recruits at the same time?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

Drafting the underclasses is a long tradition in tyrannies. I expect it to be established here by end of 2024.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 12, 2024 04:06 PM (xcxpd)

229 * A total of 44,042 new Army recruits were white in 2018, but in 2023 that had fallen to 25,070. That represents a drop of over 19,000 recruits per year.

https://www.military.com/
daily-news/2024/01/10/
army-sees-sharp-decline-white-recruits.html/amp
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2024 04:04 PM (cOq4q)

The hidden thing in this is that many of the recruits can't operate the equipment properly and have to be rejected.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2024 04:07 PM (eoQWY)

230 I've been seeing a lot of commentary saying DEI has been exposed and is dead/dying.

I don't believe it. The left is doubling down on the stupid. When has a couple setbacks ever kept the left from implementing their insane ideas and vision for utopia? The only thing that ever stops them is social collapse (like East Europe and USSR) or death (like Chile and Spain)

Posted by: Ripley at January 12, 2024 04:07 PM (JojsZ)

231 > And you ended up here.

Anton Chigurh, is that you?

Posted by: bonhomme at January 12, 2024 04:07 PM (R38qh)

232 227 He was very lucid about the pitfalls. But he also felt, as many Framers did, in the inherent good of people, and that although we would face difficulties, good men would triumph over evil. I dare say there are far too men with that courage today.
Posted by: Mr Unintended Consequence at January 12, 2024 04:06 PM (bNcG+)

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It's very Capraesque, even!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

233 Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2024 04:04 PM (cOq4q)

But what's the overall drop?

I doubt men of other races are very much more eager to join a gay club where you risk death in pointless gun fights in return for a terrible education, terrible healthcare, and persistent monkeypox.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2024 04:07 PM (0FoWg)

234 "The Origins of Woke" is a great intro about how the federal government has made it both illegal and mandatory for businesses to discriminate based on race

Posted by: 29Victor at January 12, 2024 04:07 PM (M+gBW)

235 n Brattleboro we does not discrimernate against any persons. Persons that are gay or Transgender gets first chance at all jobs because they are people that needs to be taken care of first.
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at January 12, 2024 04:01 PM (qpLSv)

Mary, on the theme of "from each according to their ability" your neighbors are asking that you get your trash off the street where the raccoons spread it out when they knocked the cans over last week. You know the city won't pick up your trash if it is spread out like that, and if we get a warm day it will start to stink. Please, honey? You can't outstubborn maggots.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2024 04:07 PM (D7oie)

236 Sexism in the work place: There are no women race car drivers in Formula 1, Nascar Cup series or even Indy Car where they occasionally had one in the past. Saying no woman is qualified when half the men are paying for their rides and nepotism like the Dillon brothers. In Formula 1 it would be easier to list the drivers not paying for their rides or nepotism.

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at January 12, 2024 04:08 PM (KaKK0)

237 "Compliance with DEI mandates may violate federal law. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, for example, prohibits private employers from basing hiring decisions on race. A member of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ('EEOC') has warned that 'diversity programs pose both legal and practical risks for companies,'" Cotton wrote in the letters.
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They do. It's a clear, black-letter violation. Race-based hiring - outside of the narrow (and still wrong) EEOC incentives (Affirmative Action) - is illegal per my understanding.

So is sex-based hiring. Or sexuality-based hiring. Or disability-based hiring. These are things that legally *shouldn't* factor into hiring decisions - not things that *dictate* hiring decisions.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2024 04:08 PM (Zp1WF)

238 Companies like investment giant Blackstone are focusing on socioeconomic diversity in place of racial diversity, according to Fortune. They are also using terms like "wellbeing and inclusion"

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How about you focus on, you know, hiring top quality people? Here's a little secret for you. Top quality people don't give a fuck about any of this bullshit. They care about being paid well and being challenged.

Posted by: Montec at January 12, 2024 04:08 PM (bWsRe)

239 Miracle Economy.

I think it means it's a Miracle we still have an Economy ( barely functioning)

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 12, 2024 04:09 PM (JkCto)

240 How about you focus on, you know, hiring top quality people? Here's a little secret for you. Top quality people don't give a fuck about any of this bullshit. They care about being paid well and being challenged.
Posted by: Montec at January 12, 2024 04:08 PM (bWsRe)
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That's no way to be a revolutionary!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2024 04:09 PM (Zp1WF)

241 My company we all went home for COVID and never came back. We keep the office for nostalgic reasons, but we are cutting our space in half.

Posted by: Garbled memo at January 12, 2024 04:09 PM (8E/8X)

242 @222

>>I wonder if there's been a proportional rise in black, hispanic, and asian recruits at the same time?

Fractional, and recruiting is down overall.

Contrary to popular belief, whitey made/makes up the bulk of the recruits and the Teams make the whiteness of Vermont look dusky.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 12, 2024 04:09 PM (XV/Pl)

243 I wonder if there's been a proportional rise in black, hispanic, and asian recruits at the same time?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

No, none of the services (save perhaps Marines) is meeting target. I heard that the newest carriers don't have enough sailors to fill out the complement and they are trying to fix it by.....you guessed it.....redefining what a full complement is.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2024 04:09 PM (eoQWY)

244 232 227 He was very lucid about the pitfalls. But he also felt, as many Framers did, in the inherent good of people, and that although we would face difficulties, good men would triumph over evil. I dare say there are far too men with that courage today.
Posted by: Mr Unintended Consequence at January 12, 2024 04:06 PM (bNcG+)

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It's very Capraesque, even!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

How is Frank Capra doing nowadays?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 12, 2024 04:09 PM (xcxpd)

245 >>> I wonder if there's been a proportional rise in black, hispanic, and asian recruits at the same time?

Their DEI recruitment goals failed to meet expectations.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 12, 2024 04:10 PM (cOq4q)

246 >>The only thing that ever stops them is social collapse (like East Europe and USSR) or death (like Chile and Spain)

There's something else that stops them. Remains to be seen if we get to that point but I wouldn't rule it out.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2024 04:10 PM (ZLI7S)

247 244 How is Frank Capra doing nowadays?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 12, 2024 04:09 PM (xcxpd)

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Only mostly dead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 04:10 PM (GBKbO)

248 LOL. being a white male has counted against me for employment since "affirmative action" was invented by the courts, 40-50 years ago.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at January 12, 2024 04:10 PM (WsTvr)

249 Companies like investment giant Blackstone are focusing on socioeconomic diversity in place of racial diversity, according to Fortune. They are also using terms like "wellbeing and inclusion" instead of DEI, Scott told Axios.
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:: fires up translator ::

"Phrases like 'DEI' and 'inclusion' and 'diversity' have a tarnished brand because people figured out what it means and the have observed the havoc that happens as a consequence of pursuing them with single-mindless fervor. We need new terms to hide behind and to use as a cudgel against wrongthinkers as we continue to fuck the chicken."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2024 04:10 PM (Zp1WF)

250 Bidenomics! Citigroup announces 20,000 job cuts I'm "a restructuring".

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 12, 2024 04:11 PM (QvlfO)

251 Contrary to popular belief, whitey made/makes up the bulk of the recruits and the Teams make the whiteness of Vermont look dusky.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 12, 2024 04:09 PM (XV/Pl)

The "underclass" still applies, since a lot of the white recruitment is from poorer cadres of the population, or from service families where it is a tradition.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2024 04:11 PM (eoQWY)

252 Has anyone here seen the SpiritAero team video? SpiritAero makes parts, like doors, for Boeing airplanes, among others.

Thread about them on X. It's what you'd expect.

http://tinyurl.com/ya5v65em

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2024 04:11 PM (Q4IgG)

253 247 244 How is Frank Capra doing nowadays?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 12, 2024 04:09 PM (xcxpd)

========

Only mostly dead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 04:10 PM (GBKbO)

*goes through Frank Capra's looking for loose change and optimism for human nature*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 12, 2024 04:11 PM (xcxpd)

254 I'm sure they exist, but I have never met a black plumber. And I've called my share of plumbers over the years for various issues. They're always 43 year old white guys.

Posted by: Montec at January 12, 2024 04:11 PM (bWsRe)

255 I did just literally finish my Frank Capra post (which won't go up until...February 10) right before I need to pop up and pack for the trip to Florida which should start no later than...49 minutes from now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 04:11 PM (GBKbO)

256 Cornell Law Professor Bill Jacobsen over at the "Legal Insurrection" site has developed a group challenging these DEI/ESG things and has been successful. You can find more details at the LI website.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 12, 2024 04:11 PM (Ki//m)

257 134 Rice University is offering a course specifically to address black chemistry and chemical education while promising to touch on "inequities" in the scientific field.

Rice, the more than 120-year-old university in Houston, Texas, lists CHEM 125 001 "Afrochemistry" on its course catalog for the 2024 spring semester.

http://tinyurl.com/mw5v48vv
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

aka: The Black Arts

Posted by: Il Duce at January 12, 2024 03:50 PM (lZVy/)
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I love that course: NO FINAL EXAM
So everyone passes, a freebie credit towards a diluted degree.

Posted by: Ciampino - The Chemistry of Ju-Ju at January 12, 2024 04:11 PM (qfLjt)

258 This blonde in red knows it's all just naked bigotry wrapped in a cloak of phony righteousness:
http://tiny.cc/qzh0wz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2024 04:12 PM (Zp1WF)

259 Let me advise you what these racially discriminatory practices are doing. They're creating racial discrimination. People are now presuming "diverse" graduates are less qualified than "non-diverse" because people aren't stupid. They realize many of these graduates didn't become who they are based on merit, but because they're "diverse". Fair or not, reap what you sow.

Do you want a surgeon working on you who got there because he or she was "diverse" or because they were the most qualified? Not really a rough choice- is it?
Posted by: Mr Unintended Consequence at January 12, 2024 03:30 PM (bNcG+)

----------------

Perhaps that was the intention all along. If you don't trust your doctor you don't see him/her so you die sooner. See, fewer people, ecologically sound.

Posted by: Decaf at January 12, 2024 04:12 PM (3JfbU)

260

Gotta divest tidal lock, so we see the black side of the moon too!

Posted by: Prof. Jobobo, Afrophysicist at January 12, 2024 04:12 PM (VTUDm)

261 253 *goes through Frank Capra's looking for loose change and optimism for human nature*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 12, 2024 04:11 PM (xcxpd)

========

Living in small town American helps.

Posit: Potterville was just small town America becoming New York City.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 04:12 PM (GBKbO)

262 Occasionally, at my work, they announce over the PA that managers' exception reports are due. I always wish that they would add a reminder that there are new cover sheets for TPS reports.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 12, 2024 04:12 PM (xYckV)

263 I wonder if there's been a proportional rise in black, hispanic, and asian recruits at the same time?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

We have 6 o'crock you back, loundeye.

---- 2024 Army recruit.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 12, 2024 04:13 PM (BdMk6)

264 254 I'm sure they exist, but I have never met a black plumber. And I've called my share of plumbers over the years for various issues. They're always 43 year old white guys.
Posted by: Montec at January 12, 2024 04:11 PM (bWsRe)

The Structural Racism of the plumbing trade…

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2024 04:13 PM (PCK5/)

265 Gotta divest tidal lock, so we see the black side of the moon too!
Posted by: Prof. Jobobo, Afrophysicist at January 12, 2024 04:12 PM (VTUDm)
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I just don't want to see the dark side of Uranus.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2024 04:13 PM (krQz2)

266 Students learned reading, writing, and arithmetic. Oh, and they were exposed to the classical philosophers and thinkers...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 12, 2024 03:52 PM (7fElN)

I was disappointed at how few of them could put a condom on a banana, however.

Posted by: Democracy In America, footnote 77c at January 12, 2024 04:13 PM (AA8bA)

267 "It's very Capraesque, even!"

Paging Mr Deeds. Paging Mr Deeds.

Posted by: Mr Unintended Consequence at January 12, 2024 04:13 PM (bNcG+)

268 Everyone who wants to be a brain surgeon should become a brain surgeon, by G*d.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 12, 2024 04:01 PM (mupln)

-----------

"Isn't it time for blind pilots and air traffic controllers?

Why do you people h8 the site-challenged?"

Posted by: ShainS at January 12, 2024 04:13 PM (4DXOV)

269 If the diversity in ads is any indicator of future technology advancements, we should be seeing free energy, flying cars, and the cure for cancer any day now right?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 12, 2024 04:13 PM (eYF7X)

270 Blackrock signaling an end to their DEI ESG program is a HUGE win for the US. Yes, American CEOs are pushing this crap, but a lot of the pressure to adopt DEI has come from these monster financial companies who decide winners and losers by granting loans and other measures.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 12, 2024 03:30 PM (R38qh)

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So when do we start calling them robber barons?

Posted by: Decaf at January 12, 2024 04:14 PM (3JfbU)

271 What has actually happened in the past couple of years is the policies that were being quietly implemented behind the scenes went public in a spree of virtue signaling.
Anti-white, anti-male, anti-hetero, anti-christian, it's all been around long enough for the straight white christian men to notice.

But the death of St. Floyd of Fentanyl brought forth a moment for those who hate us to publicly proclaim it and make it policy.

Dei/ESG= Jim Crow for a New Age.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 12, 2024 04:14 PM (FCbAQ)

272 >>>>>>>The Austrian school calls it "the end of the business cycle"
we called it 2008

Posted by: Kindltot
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Sounds like a good place to park the illegals.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 12, 2024 04:14 PM (B8UiP)

273 I HATE the DIE aka DEI movement. I'm blessed to be the main source of knowledge of how our processing works and top debugger so I can largely skate on the mandatory "what are doing to promote DEI" with "I listen to and considered everybody's thoughts on how to do things and with my life situation I don't have time to participate in any special activities" and my supervisors score me as passing on the mandatory DEI part of annual reviews.

I know if I were super principled I'd have quit instead of just keeping my head down over the BS but I barely manage to renew vehicle licenses, insurance etc. on time; I can't imagine myself handling the needed stuff to be a tiny business of my own and every other place that would hire someone for similar work is just as stupid with DEI as my current outfit.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 12, 2024 04:14 PM (3cGpq)

274 This blonde in red knows it's all just naked bigotry wrapped in a cloak of phony righteousness:
http://tiny.cc/qzh0wz

Trouble ahead
A lady in red
Take my advice
You'd be better off dead

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 12, 2024 04:15 PM (dZVON)

275 I was disappointed at how few of them could put a condom on a banana, however.
Posted by: Democracy In America, footnote 77c at January 12, 2024 04:13 PM (AA8bA)

With their teeth.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 12, 2024 04:15 PM (FCbAQ)

276 258 This blonde in red knows it's all just naked bigotry wrapped in a cloak of phony righteousness:
http://tiny.cc/qzh0wz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2024 04:12 PM (Zp1WF)

I'd like to see her naked......bigotry.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 12, 2024 04:15 PM (xcxpd)

277 258 This blonde in red knows it's all just naked bigotry wrapped in a cloak of phony righteousness:
http://tiny.cc/qzh0wz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2024 04:12 PM (Zp1WF)

Just out of view, Agent Smith waiting to shoot you dead when you stop and gawp at her.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 12, 2024 04:15 PM (N3zMI)

278 Posted by: Montec at January 12, 2024 04:11 PM (bWsRe)

Younger Asian and Hispanic guys are trainees here, but it is Houston so there are more of those than in a lot of other places.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 12, 2024 04:16 PM (nC+QA)

279 >>This blonde in red knows it's all just naked bigotry wrapped in a cloak of phony righteousness:
http://tiny.cc/qzh0wz

Wherever that is...it isn't nearly cold enough.

I'm giving the Win to 'Nipple Girl on Beach'.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2024 04:16 PM (RVloE)

280 Posit: Potterville was just small town America becoming New York City.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 04:12 PM (GBKbO)

It did have a Times Square look to it, didn't it?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 12, 2024 04:16 PM (xcxpd)

281 I was disappointed at how few of them could put a condom on a banana, however.
Posted by: Democracy In America, footnote 77c at January 12, 2024 04:13 PM (AA8bA)

With their teeth.

Let me guess, they keep mistaking the flavored condoms for gum and chewing them?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 12, 2024 04:16 PM (dZVON)

282 What has actually happened in the past couple of years is the policies that were being quietly implemented behind the scenes went public in a spree of virtue signaling.
Anti-white, anti-male, anti-hetero, anti-christian, it's all been around long enough for the straight white christian men to notice.

But the death of St. Floyd of Fentanyl brought forth a moment for those who hate us to publicly proclaim it and make it policy.

Dei/ESG= Jim Crow for a New Age.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 12, 2024 04:14 PM (FCbAQ)
++++
What was behind the scenes and expressed as low-pressure (in my experience) "preferences" that managers were nudged toward became explicit, public policies tied directly to both manager and team compensation, with an "or else" attached to them for managers.

That's a pretty big change, and it was done with malicious glee.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2024 04:17 PM (Zp1WF)

283 This blonde in red knows it's all just naked bigotry wrapped in a cloak of phony righteousness:
http://tiny.cc/qzh0wz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2024 04:12 PM (Zp1WF)

She's kicking a poor little chipmunk.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 12, 2024 04:17 PM (BdMk6)

284 Seriously though... young, hetero patriots are the military's main demo. If you're one of those, what the actual fuck would possess you to join the armed forces, so some buttfucking Communist in a dog costume can send you to take a bullet bringing home the Big Guy's 10%?

It's no mystery why recruiting is off.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2024 04:17 PM (0FoWg)

285 >>258 This blonde in red knows it's all just naked bigotry wrapped in a cloak of phony righteousness:
http://tiny.cc/qzh0wz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Looks hot but, window treatments appear not to match the carpet.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 12, 2024 04:17 PM (eYF7X)

286 271, exactly.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at January 12, 2024 04:17 PM (WsTvr)

287 I'm sure they exist, but I have never met a black plumber. And I've called my share of plumbers over the years for various issues. They're always 43 year old white guys.
Posted by: Montec at January 12, 2024

***
The emergency guy I had to call last March and again in May for the big water leaks was black. I don't know how much wrestling he's done with pipes and the like, but he got the leak stopped. On the other hand, the cause -- an plugged, overflowing sink upstairs -- was pretty obvious.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 12, 2024 04:18 PM (J2vNu)

288 >>Looks hot but, window treatments appear not to match the carpet.

If she had any carpet, that skirt would not be hiding it.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2024 04:18 PM (RVloE)

289 In 1992, I got into Boston University law (USNews rank #25) but not into UC/Davis (rank #50) despite top 9.5% LSAT, cum laude, debate team, reserve officer. UC was later ordered to stop separately tracking pale penis people in admissions. Huh.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 12, 2024 04:18 PM (KAi1n)

290 Posit: Potterville was just small town America becoming New York City.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 04:12 PM (GBKbO)

Potterville was an example of the progress possible if you don't put your faith in fractional reserve banking.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2024 04:18 PM (D7oie)

291 My name's Joe and someone pooped my pants.

Posted by: Joe Biteum at January 12, 2024 04:18 PM (vFG9F)

292
LOL @ Star Trek reference.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Jethro Bodine wanted to be a brain surgeon.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 12, 2024 04:18 PM (63Dwl)

293 Everyone who wants to be a brain surgeon should become a brain surgeon, by G*d.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 12, 2024 04:01 PM (mupln)

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Marx's model.

Report for an afternoon of doing brain surgery. Quit in the middle if you don't think it's right for you. Like after making a blood shower of deceased person's head, and it's really no longer fun.

Perhaps you can go make cars for the rest of the day.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2024 04:19 PM (krQz2)

294 This blonde in red knows it's all just naked bigotry wrapped in a cloak of phony righteousness:

She's carrying something under her arm. My guess is she's a realtor selling properties along the Mediterranean

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 12, 2024 04:19 PM (NvyWM)

295 LOL @ Star Trek reference.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Jethro Bodine wanted to be a brain surgeon.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 12, 2024 04:18 PM (63Dwl)
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Or a fry cook.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2024 04:19 PM (krQz2)

296 290 Posit: Potterville was just small town America becoming New York City.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 12, 2024 04:12 PM (GBKbO)

Potterville was an example of the progress possible if you don't put your faith in fractional reserve banking.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2024 04:18 PM (D7oie)

Protip… do NOT hire dumbass relatives…

Posted by: tubal at January 12, 2024 04:19 PM (PCK5/)

297 I think reality is starting to put a damper on these unicorn pipe dreams that WEF has been promoting.
People questioning Wind power, EVs, DEI, open borders, the war in Ukraine. I think the money is running out. You can get away with a lot of stuff when people are flush. Inflation has caused a slow and steady change in people's spending habits. I believe they are running out of OPM.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 12, 2024 04:20 PM (t/2Uw)

298 Sundowner is a empty suite

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2024 04:20 PM (fwDg9)

299 "Afrochemistry"
Cookin Crack on the Corner

Posted by: bino at January 12, 2024 04:20 PM (4jtdv)

300 He isn't going to be the Democrats candidate in 2024

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2024 04:20 PM (fwDg9)

301 The S&P500 will just change the verbiage and continue the Long March.

They aren't giving up. They just want more plausible deniability.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 12, 2024 04:20 PM (IG4Id)

302 252 Has anyone here seen the SpiritAero team video? SpiritAero makes parts, like doors, for Boeing airplanes, among others.

Thread about them on X. It's what you'd expect.

http://tinyurl.com/ya5v65em

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2024 04:11 PM (Q4IgG)
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All women? That can't be anything but by design.

Posted by: Ciampino - Start punning at January 12, 2024 04:20 PM (qfLjt)

303 She's carrying something under her arm. My guess is she's a realtor selling properties along the Mediterranean
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 12, 2024 04:19 PM (NvyWM)
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Man, I wish I were rich enough that salesmen for stuff I buy were that hot.

Like private jets. I doubt there's a homely woman working anywhere near the Bombardier private sales division...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2024 04:21 PM (Zp1WF)

304 nood

horcrux

Posted by: banana Dream at January 12, 2024 04:21 PM (Y6IkP)

305 If the diversity in ads is any indicator of future technology advancements, we should be seeing free energy, flying cars, and the cure for cancer any day now right?
Posted by: Maj. Healey

I have it on good authority from the guy with the high hair that we have alien technology that creates energy out of thin air. It's what powers their spaceships, people!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 12, 2024 04:21 PM (VYql4)

306 All women? That can't be anything but by design.
Posted by: Ciampino - Start punning at January 12, 2024 04:20 PM (qfLjt)
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I doubt it was the entire engineering team - just all of the broads they could convince to make a cringey dance video about how great they are. That is probably a small subset of the overall engineering team - but it does show you where their marketing priorities are, if nothing else.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2024 04:22 PM (Zp1WF)

307 For some reason. I don't understand. The Democrat Media Propoganda State keeps telling me this is a Miracle Economy.
.......

You just can't see it, Ace. maybe you should go to an Ophthalmologist.

Posted by: wth at January 12, 2024 04:22 PM (v0R5T)

308 All the maintenance people I have come in contact with since i moved to Bethesda are Hispanic. All the cleaning people, painters, construction workers are hispanic. The only white contractor I have come in contact with is an electicrician who turned out to be a conservative gun enthusiast.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 12, 2024 04:23 PM (t/2Uw)

309 Meanwhile,

Supreme Court to Decide if a City in Oregon Can Prohibit Homeless Camps

A lower court said the city could NOT prohibit. Ah, the arrogance of our elites.

http://tinyurl.com/2a3d8886. May be paywall.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 12, 2024 04:23 PM (di9il)

310 281 I was disappointed at how few of them could put a condom on a banana, however.
Posted by: Democracy In America, footnote 77c at January 12, 2024 04:13 PM (AA8bA)

With their teeth.

Let me guess, they keep mistaking the flavored condoms for gum and chewing them?

Cartoon balloons

Posted by: Levon at January 12, 2024 04:23 PM (og5mY)

311 LOL @ Star Trek reference.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Jethro Bodine wanted to be a brain surgeon.

--

And a double ought spy.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 12, 2024 04:24 PM (mupln)

312 Back in the early 90's NASA was telling it's white male interns that they couldn't count on a job when they graduated. This was a 180 from previous practice.

Of course it wasn't written down anywhere they we just given a "heads up".

And let me tell you they ended up hiring some serious losers. They got rounded up into "special" groups and were given "special" projects to do. But they were all fast-tracked to management.

Place went to shit within 5 years.

SpaceX saved NASAs butt.

Posted by: pawn at January 12, 2024 04:26 PM (QB+5g)

313 Do you want a surgeon working on you who got there because he or she was "diverse" or because they were the most qualified? Not really a rough choice- is it?

Posted by: Mr Unintended Consequence at January 12, 2024 03:30 PM (bNcG+)
==
If you do not have a strong recommendation or unbiased outcome data you are increasing your chances for a poor medical procedure if done by a black American. And for the black American's who got their degrees and jobs by earning them and doing good work - my apologies. But stats are stats, and capabilities are capabilities.

Posted by: Black JEM at January 12, 2024 04:29 PM (GZYu7)

314 ----
All women? That can't be anything but by design.

Posted by: Ciampino
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Women built the bombers in WWII, it's not women, it's meritocracy.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 12, 2024 04:30 PM (B8UiP)

315 240 How about you focus on, you know, hiring top quality people? Here's a little secret for you. Top quality people don't give a fuck about any of this bullshit. They care about being paid well and being challenged.
Posted by: Montec at January 12, 2024 04:08 PM (bWsRe)
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That's no way to be a revolutionary!

---

When the communists finally won in Russia, they quickly realized that they weren't good at anything but communism. The killed large percentages of those that could actually do things like provide food.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 12, 2024 04:30 PM (aLrRO)

316 Seriously though... young, hetero patriots are the military's main demo. If you're one of those, what the actual fuck would possess you to join the armed forces, so some buttfucking Communist in a dog costume can send you to take a bullet bringing home the Big Guy's 10%?

It's no mystery why recruiting is off.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2024 04:17 PM (0FoWg)

That's not the worst of it.

Milley's already said that he would inform the Chinese military if we, you know, Americans, were about to undertake any aggressive or military actions against them.

So, tell me- would you want to fight under the command of a general who has promised to let your potential enemy know when and where and how they will be attacked-

ie. a general who's treason is painting a target right on your back so the enemy can easily kill you.

Madness.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 12, 2024 04:36 PM (nFnyb)

317 190 Watch Joe Biden's eyes in this clip. He hasn't got a single clue where he is or what's happening.
____

Oh yeah he does. Wait until you see Morgan Sherman walk up. Tall blonde. The owner directing Biden knew the look in Biden's eyes and he was protecting his employee.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 12, 2024 04:48 PM (fs1hN)

318 de Tocqueville also thought our regularly mandated elections were genius: the founders realized that all the gods we think we are electing really have feet of clay. He had seen the results, with kings and Napoleon, etc. I guess people Obama was a god too.

To me that's why elections are so important and in so much danger now.

Posted by: PJ at January 12, 2024 04:52 PM (G1dq6)

319 >>> Has anyone here seen the SpiritAero team video? SpiritAero makes parts, like doors, for Boeing airplanes, among others.

Thread about them on X. It's what you'd expect.
http://tinyurl.com/ya5v65em
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2024 04:11 PM (Q4IgG)

A lot of Spirit used to just be Boeing. Like Boeing Wichita. All shut down, cut apart, and sold off. I'm sure some accountants got fat bonuses from all that. I've heard of so many problems with Spirit. Things most people don't know about.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 12, 2024 04:53 PM (/3Ygf)

320 They do. It's a clear, black-letter violation. Race-based hiring - outside of the narrow (and still wrong) EEOC incentives (Affirmative Action) - is illegal per my understanding.

So is sex-based hiring. Or sexuality-based hiring. Or disability-based hiring. These are things that legally *shouldn't* factor into hiring decisions - not things that *dictate* hiring decisions.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2024 04:08 PM (Zp1WF)
==
Affirmative Action I believe is by Executive Order for Defense Contractors. SOme of that has spilled out beyond that - and DEI was a total spill out. It is all illegal under the CR 64. There are no provisions for it in the statute. Administrative State opining cannot include it.

We were willing to put up with it for the stupidity of 1950s race relations, but it was always illegal. DEI discriminates against the majority (even those who are a apart of it and think they are not). This has made everyone realize it is time for it to end. The law is race (and all the other categories) to be a neutral aspect to employment decisions (and some others, employment is Title 7 I believe). It's all going to end - soon.

Posted by: Black JEM at January 12, 2024 04:56 PM (GZYu7)

321 When the communists finally won in Russia, they quickly realized that they weren't good at anything but communism. The killed large percentages of those that could actually do things like provide food.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 12, 2024 04:30 PM (aLrRO)

It was a bit worse, as they found out that most of the production sold out was coming from a minority of more skilled energetic farmers that were nicknamed Kulaks. Seeing a 'class struggle' out in the farms they killed the Kulaks. Excess production for the cities cratered so they took what the cities needed anyway. Thus the less productive peasants starved to death, especially in the Ukraine.

A defector Officer talked in an amusing book about how he became an officer in the late 50s. In the huge communal farms almost nothing was produced on the major fields, but each farmer family had a small garden plot that produced just about everything for them plus to sell to the cities. One year in an involved way he obtained a tankload of fertilizer for free and put it on the plot, which killed his crop. Facing starvation himself he had to bribe his way into the army (since peasants were not allowed to join the army).

Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2024 05:49 PM (eoQWY)

322 Sue the hell out of these racist organizations and their enablers.

Posted by: Jane at January 12, 2024 08:08 PM (EcD5Y)

323 Tom Cotton to Woke, Anti-White Job Recruiters: You Know, Discriminating Against Members of One Race is Illegal, Right?

Tom Cotton is putting recruiting firms that discriminate against white men on notice that they are breaking the law.

Whoopdee-fucking-doo. There have been laws on the books for at least 2 decades stating that entering the country illegal is... illegal. Not enforced. Laws stating that companies hiring illegal aliens is illegal. Not enforced.

There are laws on the books for most crimes in inner cities. Not enforced.

If you do not enforce all laws equally, then none of the laws matter.

The reason that companies are full-speed ahead with D.I.E. the last few years is because the Marxist Left has all the power and there is no one in a position of influence to stop them. Long March succeeded. This stuff is just the boot on our necks for next few generations.

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