Supreme Court Rules 9-0 That Reverse Discrimination Is Good Cause for Lawsuit; Left Frets That This Ruling Will "Complicate" Their Desire to Discriminate Against Straight White Men

Oh no! We can't complicate the left's mission to turn America into Rhodesia!

Rights groups say the court made it easier to sue employers

Lawyers warn the ruling may also threaten diversity programs
The US Supreme Court's ruling that a St. Louis police sergeant can sue over a job transfer she claims was discriminatory was championed by human rights groups as "an enormous win for workers."
However, hours after the decision Wednesday, lawyers were warning that the outcome could have a chilling effect on employers' diversity initiatives because it adds to questions about what's legal.

Let me clarify this confusion for you: It's illegal to discriminate against someone based on their race. Even if the race being discriminated against is white (spit!).

And even if your justification is "equity."

This lawsuit was actually about sex discrimination against a woman. So, the standard sort of discrimination suit.

That's not what makes this dangerous for DEI programs. Minorities and women have been filing discrimination lawsuits for 60 years.

What makes this dangerous for DEI is that the Supreme Court set a somewhat-low threshold for what level of harm someone has to allege to have grounds for a discrimination suit.

...
Workplace discrimination due to sex or other protected characteristics -- like race, color, religion or national origin -- is illegal, but courts across the country have disagreed about how substantial the unequal treatment must be to merit a legal claim. In this case, the city argued that Muldrow's lateral move at the same pay grade wasn't significantly harmful enough to meet the standard.
The Supreme Court disagreed, saying an employee just needed to show "some harm" under the terms of their employment, but it doesn't need to be "material," "substantial" or "serious." The decision makes it easier for workers to sue over discriminatory job transfers.
Some employment lawyers say the same reasoning could be carried over to workplace development programs or employee resource groups designed to benefit traditionally underrepresented cohorts: for example, a fellowship that only accepts Hispanic students or a leadership program only open to women.

Yes, because that's discrimination. These people are insisting that there's "good discrimination based on innate characteristics" and "bad discrimination based on innate characteristics."

There is no such distinction in the law. All discrimination based on innate characteristics is unlawful.

"Could you say that exclusion from participation in an mentoring or leadership program materially disadvantages someone?" said Jonathan Segal, a partner specializing in employment and labor law at Duane Morris. Even before the opinion, Segal was advising companies to eschew development programs that only allow people of protected groups to participate, he said. Now, he says, "the risk is even higher."
The Supreme Court's decision to overturn affirmative action in college admissions last year prompted executives across the country to reexamine their diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI programs. At the same time, conservative legal groups refocused their attentions on corporations, arguing that some initiatives meant to benefit marginalized groups amount to reverse discrimination.
Though the racial justice group Legal Defense Fund praised the ruling, Senior Economic Justice Counsel Pilar Whitaker acknowledged opponents of DEI programs likely "will see this as an opening" to launch new attacks on diversity programs.

They're all shocked to hear that discrimination may be bad when you're discriminating against white people.

The left should be celebrating a lawsuit extending employees' right to sue over discrimination based on skin color or sex. Instead, they're alarmed. Because this will limit their ability to discriminate against whites and men.

What the Court finds here can give rise to a suit is the situation where an employer continues paying an employee the same wage, but changes the other elements of his job so that the job is worse.

This is EXACTLY what Disney, for example, is alleged to have done to drive out it's "Pale and Male is Stale" animators, giving them the worst assignments despite them having the most experience, skill, and seniority, to make the job humiliating enough that they'd quit. Which many of them did.

And now the Supreme Court says this is actionable.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:15 PM

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1 Well, good.

Posted by: Catherine at April 19, 2024 05:16 PM (ZSsrh)

2 Oh, well, I'm sure there's a way around it.

Posted by: huerfano at April 19, 2024 05:16 PM (VGOMa)

3 Corgis called.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 05:16 PM (a3Q+t)

4 9-0

Who'd a thunk it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2024 05:17 PM (IeFUY)

5 Otters fetched.

Posted by: Catherine at April 19, 2024 05:18 PM (ZSsrh)

6 Good. Even though the plaintiffs' bar in the world of employment tilts heavily leftward ideologically, the one thing they care about more than ideology is money.

They're piranhas.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 05:19 PM (+myjY)

7 5 Otters fetched.
Posted by: Catherine at April 19, 2024 05:18 PM (ZSsrh)

Discriminating against Corgis are we 🧐

Posted by: browndog holds his fingers as high as he possibly can at April 19, 2024 05:20 PM (FdRXM)

8 Pet Peeve of mine....there is no such thing as "reverse discrimination". If someone is denying you something because of the color of your skin that is discrimination.

And a 9-0 decision with this court is nearly a miracle.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 19, 2024 05:20 PM (QNSds)

9 Huh... some folks will be... uh, less than pleased.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 19, 2024 05:20 PM (Q4IgG)

10 Glad I'm retired. Hope I can afford to stay that way.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 19, 2024 05:20 PM (MvF+J)

11 What about discriminating on the basis of sartorial choice, e.g. The Book Thread?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 05:20 PM (a3Q+t)

12 Otters fetched.
Posted by: Catherine at April 19, 2024 05:18 PM

River or Sea?

Posted by: Arthur, King of the Britons at April 19, 2024 05:21 PM (a3Q+t)

13 Affirmative Action has done a lot to divide and destroy this country. I guess it's time the worm turned.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 19, 2024 05:21 PM (YRsIm)

14 Great googly moogly - you mean discriminating based on race is illegal and unconstitutional - what will the DNC left do now?

Posted by: Boswell at April 19, 2024 05:22 PM (K+UlC)

15 I don't understand why it took 60 years to acknowledge that reverse discrimination is still unlawful discrimination in the first place. 'Affirmative action' should have been strangled in the cradle.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 05:22 PM (+myjY)

16 DEI by its very definition is discriminatory. The goal is to include or promote people not based on merit, but based on physical characteristics. That runs contrary to almost all federal law. In fact, I would argue having a DEI program at all, or a DEI officer within a corporation is actionable because it is a sign of discriminatory intent.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 19, 2024 05:23 PM (8bQ1C)

17 Two 9-0 rulings this year.
Are there pigs in the air?

Posted by: Erebus-ex-killer whale at April 19, 2024 05:23 PM (bPal/)

18 13 Affirmative Action has done a lot to divide and destroy this country. I guess it's time the worm turned.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 19, 2024 05:21 PM (YRsIm)

The original Civil Rights Act did. The 60s were politically just as insane as now. And just as destructive.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 19, 2024 05:23 PM (tQPzC)

19 This is EXACTLY what Disney, for example, is alleged to have done to drive out it's "Pale and Male is Stale" animators, giving them the worst assignments despite them having the most experience, skill, and seniority, to make the job humiliating enough that they'd quit. Which many of them did.

And now the Supreme Court says this is actionable.
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Whoops! Whoopsie!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 05:24 PM (BpYfr)

20 Right now it's straight white dudes. But then it'll be just straight dudes.

Supreme Court decisions aside, this idea is doomed to failure. Chicks and faggots can't run shit yesterday, today, or tomorrow. The whole idea is retarded.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2024 05:24 PM (0FoWg)

21 The Cultural Marxists went for it?
That is shocking

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 05:24 PM (fwDg9)

22 > Pale and Male is Stale

Mary Sue Girlbosses are so hot right now!

Posted by: Leftist Blue-hairs at April 19, 2024 05:25 PM (eyxn4)

23 But when can we expect Boeing planes to be airworthy again?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 05:25 PM (+myjY)

24 And a 9-0 decision with this court is nearly a miracle.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 19, 2024 05:20 PM (QNSds)

Wait til you see how I rule on something you really want later....

Posted by: The Roberts Court at April 19, 2024 05:25 PM (0eaVi)

25 See this is what happens when you have a Supreme Court that is all right wing white males and the husband of an insurrectionist!!!

Right!?!?!

Posted by: Just Lily at April 19, 2024 05:25 PM (vivhj)

26 However, hours after the decision Wednesday, lawyers were warning that the outcome could have a chilling effect on employers' diversity initiatives because it adds to questions about what's legal.
_______
Oh no! Not that! Anything but that!

Posted by: Eeyore at April 19, 2024 05:25 PM (1bNHn)

27 This decision will kill Beau Biden all over again.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 05:26 PM (+myjY)

28 The Cultural Marxists went for it?

I'll wager good money those three chics saw a chance to rule for another chic ... that was the end of it. They'll have no trouble ruling against a white dude.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 19, 2024 05:26 PM (tQPzC)

29 Lemme see if I got this straight (heh): The Court says people can sue employers who discriminate in any direction... and lawyers are complaining?

Doesn't this just mean more business for them? It's like being bisexual, and complaining when your singles club lets in both men and women.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 05:26 PM (dGCAG)

30 9-0. So KBJ voted to be sent back to the cotton fields?

Posted by: Eeyore at April 19, 2024 05:26 PM (1bNHn)

31 This decision will kill Beau Biden all over again.
Posted by: Cicero

Isn't he a pile of poop somewhere?

Posted by: Erebus-ex-killer whale at April 19, 2024 05:26 PM (bPal/)

32 "Oh no! We can't complicate the left's mission to turn America into Rhodesia!"

Every minority group in the US is working as hard as it can to be the winner of the US Minority Musical Chairs Contest, and rule the nation with an iron discrimination fist. This contest will end badly for everyone in every minority group. And end very badly for those cursed to have been born with white skin.

Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 05:26 PM (5fDan)

33 9-0? Sotomayor must have been in a glazed donut-induced coma to let this slip past her.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 05:27 PM (+myjY)

34 This decision will kill Beau Biden all over again.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 05:26 PM (+myjY)

During George Floyd's funeral.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2024 05:27 PM (dGCAG)

35 However, hours after the decision Wednesday, lawyers were warning that the outcome could have a chilling effect on employers' diversity initiatives because it adds to questions about what's legal.

Then put on a fucking sweater.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2024 05:27 PM (R1Ziy)

36 this is fantastic news!

hmm I wonder if it covers age discrimination in tech hiring...

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 19, 2024 05:27 PM (AcWfM)

37 30 9-0. So KBJ voted to be sent back to the cotton fields?
Posted by: Eeyore at April 19, 2024 05:26 PM (1bNHn)

I'm sure this goes against everything in this particular universe, but could she be "growing in office"?

Posted by: Just Lily at April 19, 2024 05:27 PM (vivhj)

38 I think this 9-0 ruling pretty much tells the world the gig is up. This was a warning from the 3 liberal judges to the DEI world, we cannot protect you, absent action from Congress, the conservatives interpretation of this is spot on, and we cannot find any fault in it without look in a manner so stupid that even we refuse to go there.

Corporate diversity programs are going to fall like crazy starting now. Including certain applicant pool enhancing recruitment schemes.

The lawyer (Segal) is saying what every large corporate attorney groups are telling their clients. Get out in front of this before the next big domino falls - making affirmative action programs illegal. Companies like Disney, who move too slowly or have been egregiously violating discrimination law, are going to get torched.

Posted by: Black JEM at April 19, 2024 05:28 PM (GZYu7)

39 Funny thing is how HR et al plainly state they're only going to hire on the basis of MUH DIVERSITY AND PRONOUNS when the law specifically says this is illegal

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at April 19, 2024 05:28 PM (VTu1l)

40 Two 9-0 rulings this year.
Are there pigs in the air?
Posted by: Erebus-ex-killer whale at April 19, 2024 05:23 PM (bPal/)

Posted by: Pink Floyd at April 19, 2024 05:29 PM (FCbAQ)

41 But when can we expect Boeing planes to be airworthy again?

****************

Every time my job asks me to fly I say

if it's Boeing, I'm not going

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at April 19, 2024 05:29 PM (VTu1l)

42 The SCROTUMs Decision Just Proves The Sun Even Shines On A Dog's Ass Some Days...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 19, 2024 05:29 PM (R/m4+)

43 Two 9-0 rulings this year.
Are there pigs in the air?
Posted by: Erebus-ex-killer whale at April 19, 2024 05:23 PM (bPal/)
Posted by: Pink Floyd at April 19, 2024 05:29 PM (FCbAQ)

Uh, we tried to say Yes, but Pink is stoned as usual

Posted by: Pink Floyd at April 19, 2024 05:30 PM (FCbAQ)

44 Honestly, I think they're *just* smart enough to realize that their monster babies are slaughtering the straight white male gander that laid all their golden eggs. I know that's a weird metaphor, but maybe the gander identifies as a goose, buddy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2024 05:30 PM (0FoWg)

45 Some of the opposition the original Civil Rights Act was indeed prejudicial and rooted in racism. But if you go back and look at the record there were some concerned with the fact it was unconstitutional in the sense it represented institutionalized discrimination. Those were actually well founded claims written off as cloaked discrimination- the latter being the real pathos based fraud.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 19, 2024 05:31 PM (8bQ1C)

46 But when can we expect Boeing planes to be airworthy again?

****************

Every time my job asks me to fly I say

if it's Boeing, I'm not going

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at April 19, 2024 05:29 PM (VTu1l)
==
This probably also will torch all supplier set aside programs as well. It's going to all fall down at some point. Boeing has made some interesting contracting decisions overly focused on diversity - be nice if their entire C Suite became unemployed this month.

Posted by: Black JEM at April 19, 2024 05:31 PM (GZYu7)

47 The one woman who doesn't know what a woman is is for letting women sue for discrimination.

Posted by: torabora at April 19, 2024 05:31 PM (AvZ3a)

48 Someone on our school board was accused of illegal activity and resigned. The Board sent out a notice: The Board recognizes that an event such as this can cause the community to question their confidence in their elected officials."

Ya think?!! I'll admit that I laughed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2024 05:32 PM (XkYcA)

49 248 Max Azzarello is the name given by the man who set himself on fire outside the Trump trial in New York after leaving behind a “rambling” manifesto and social media accounts in which he sang about starting a “revolution.
Posted by: SMOD at April 19, 2024 04:51 PM (RHGPo)

320 BREAKING: Man Who Set Himself on Fire Identified — Wrote a Manifesto Online Warning of an “Apocalyptic Fascist World Coup” — Calls for Revolution -Gateway Headline

The flamer is still living in 2019-2020
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 19, 2024 05:09 PM (cOq4q)
=====
The Ponzi Papers substack
https://tinyurl.com/bdd9nuw3

Image of leaflets/pamphlets he was handing out earlier:
https://tinyurl.com/y8wn4rb7
scroll down a tiny bit; no video at the link now as it's been deleted from X.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 05:32 PM (vtyCZ)

50 " 9-0. So KBJ voted to be sent back to the cotton fields?"

She's dumber than a bundle of sticks. I doubt they want her.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 19, 2024 05:32 PM (8bQ1C)

51 It's funny how SCOTUS has a lot of power and influence in some areas of the law, but the country has collectively chosen to ignore it in other areas.

SCOTUS told Biden he couldn't forgive loans. He did it anyway. He's on video bragging about defying SCOTUS.

SCOTUS slammed the door shut on the 2nd Amendment issue with Bruen. Left wing states are churning out 2nd Amendment infringements faster than ever. A judge in WA is on video bragging about putting out a stay so gun magazine size stays restricted without reading the opinion he was staying.

Somehow Casey is being treated seriously, though.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2024 05:33 PM (eyxn4)

52 > But when can we expect Boeing planes to be airworthy again?
___________

Generally speaking they're safe. DEI infiltration into the manufacturing processes is what resulted in several top CEO's to bailout. (pun intended)

Maintenance on the other hand...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 19, 2024 05:33 PM (Q4IgG)

53 I think this 9-0 ruling pretty much tells the world the gig is up. This was a warning from the 3 liberal judges to the DEI world,

No way in Hell. At least five of these Black Robed Deities have no shits to give about intellectual honesty or consistency.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 19, 2024 05:33 PM (tQPzC)

54 Well, given that my plans for the Feeb's entire 7th floor, was to re-assign them all to empty offices in barn style warehouses in Nowheresville, NB, I guess we're still good to go.

Transferring ALL of them would then be discriminating against NONE of them.

Get all six-hundred Federal Marshals to escort the U-Hauls n' Ryder Trucks, and it'll be like Riding Herd on a Traitor Roundup!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 19, 2024 05:34 PM (e6UQI)

55 Isn't he a pile of poop somewhere?
Posted by: Erebus-ex-killer whale at April 19, 2024 05:26 PM

He'll be starring in the reboot of the Streets of San Francisco.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 05:34 PM (a3Q+t)

56 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 19, 2024 05:34 PM (T4tVD)

57 This only goes to show that there are not nearly enough Justices on the Supreme Court.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 05:34 PM (+myjY)

58 50 " 9-0. So KBJ voted to be sent back to the cotton fields?"

She's dumber than a bundle of sticks. I doubt they want her.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 19, 2024 05:32 PM (8bQ1C)

Can someone tell me again how to tell if a cotton boll is rotten?

Posted by: KBJ at April 19, 2024 05:35 PM (5fDan)

59 Gosh, I hope they don't apply this to Congress. The Black Caucus will lose it's identity.

Posted by: Orson at April 19, 2024 05:35 PM (dIske)

60 Love to see Trump in jail in C block, doing a rally with the brothers.
CNN losing their minds

Posted by: Redenzo at April 19, 2024 05:35 PM (V/pbu)

61 Love to see Trump in jail in C block, doing a rally with the brothers.

He goes in ? He does not come out alive.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 19, 2024 05:36 PM (tQPzC)

62 Discrimination used to mean something good. Another term the Left flipped on its head.

Posted by: ... at April 19, 2024 05:37 PM (lX8VI)

63
Middle age white men who voted for Obama? Guess what his supporters are chanting now? Hey, ho, old white men have got to go.

Please begin redistributing any wealth now. Biden's second term is promising taxes on 'unrealized gains'. Did your home or IRA or stocks increase in value this year? Pay up. 90,000 new IRS agents are waiting to have you BOHICA.

Tired of the Eeyore types around these here parts. These are nothing but straight out communists coming out of the woodwork and you're bitching about what exactly?

Sure, there are problems, but sitting out an election is gonna net you everything you deserve for sitting out the election.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2024 05:37 PM (RKVpM)

64 55 Isn't he a pile of poop somewhere?
Posted by: Erebus-ex-killer whale at April 19, 2024 05:26 PM

He'll be starring in the reboot of the Streets of San Francisco.

karl malden hardest hit

Posted by: anachronda at April 19, 2024 05:37 PM (v3pYe)

65 Afternoon.

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 05:37 PM (qnO/N)

66 Can someone tell me again how to tell if a cotton boll is rotten?
Posted by: KBJ

Tampon joke?

Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2024 05:37 PM (eyxn4)

67 Someone on our school board was accused of illegal activity and resigned. The Board sent out a notice: The Board recognizes that an event such as this can cause the community to question their confidence in their elected officials."

Ya think?!! I'll admit that I laughed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2024 05:32 PM (XkYcA)

"You did not see what you just saw."

Posted by: ... at April 19, 2024 05:38 PM (lX8VI)

68 "We can't complicate the left's mission to turn America into Rhodesia!"
*********
More like Zimbabwe.

Posted by: Cosda at April 19, 2024 05:38 PM (sjyKm)

69 Can someone tell me again how to tell if a cotton boll is rotten?
Posted by: KBJ at April 19, 2024 05:35 PM

When you can't pick very much cotton:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PomVdp3noLU

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 05:38 PM (a3Q+t)

70 9-0

Who'd a thunk it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2024 05:17 PM (IeFUY)

Nine lawyers in black robes opened up new job opportunities for all practicing lawyers.

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 05:38 PM (qnO/N)

71 Gosh, I hope they don't apply this to Congress. The Black Caucus will lose it's identity.
Posted by: Orson at April 19, 2024 05:35 PM (dIske)

At present, you're still free to associate with whomever you wish, even if you decide to confine your associations to other black people. (Or white people.)

That said, I have no doubt that some CA legislator will soon offer a bill that requires individuals to meet specified racial and gender quotas in their personal friendships or face civil and criminal consequences.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 05:39 PM (+myjY)

72 44 Honestly, I think they're *just* smart enough to realize that their monster babies are slaughtering the straight white male gander that laid all their golden eggs. I know that's a weird metaphor, but maybe the gander identifies as a goose, buddy.

only the eggdicator knows for sure

Posted by: willy wonka at April 19, 2024 05:39 PM (v3pYe)

73 Lowering the plaintiff’s burden to show harm for a discrimination suit sounds good in theory. But it will be used almost exclusively by the same rent seekers and ambulance chasers that abuse these lawsuits now, and it will make it much easier.

Crap employees from protected classes just got much harder to fire.

What does “some harm” mean? It could mean anything. That sound you hear is lawyers rushing to the phones to order new Porsches from the fat legal fees they’ll get from this. The liberals on the court voted for this. What does that tell you??

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 19, 2024 05:40 PM (Btbyw)

74 64 55 Isn't he a pile of poop somewhere?
Posted by: Erebus-ex-killer whale at April 19, 2024 05:26 PM

He'll be starring in the reboot of the Streets of San Francisco.

karl malden hardest hit

Posted by: anachronda at April 19, 2024 05:37 PM (v3pYe)

I did my best acting, ever, on the Streets of San Francisco series! I've been conning everyone for 50 years!

Posted by: Michael Douglas at April 19, 2024 05:40 PM (5fDan)

75 Two 9-0 rulings this year.
Are there pigs in the air?
Posted by: Erebus-ex-killer whale at April 19, 2024 05:23 PM (bPal/)
Posted by: Pink Floyd at April 19, 2024 05:29 PM (FCbAQ)

Uh, we tried to say Yes, but Pink is stoned as usual
Posted by: Pink Floyd

What round for flying pig
And a good windshield cleaner...

Posted by: Erebus-ex-killer whale at April 19, 2024 05:40 PM (bPal/)

76 38 I think this 9-0 ruling pretty much tells the world the gig is up.

__________________________________

I think it, more accurately, showcases just how stupid some of those Judges on the left happen to be. They probably didn't make the association and were too focused on siding with the woman in the case.

Posted by: Orson at April 19, 2024 05:41 PM (dIske)

77 The fascists are going for broke… I am puzzled as to how the SC ruling furthers their agenda… has some memo been sent unbeknown to us???

Posted by: tubal at April 19, 2024 05:41 PM (PCK5/)

78 That said, I have no doubt that some CA legislator will soon offer a bill that requires individuals to meet specified racial and gender quotas in their personal friendships or face civil and criminal consequences.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 05:39 PM (+myjY)

I have zero friends of any race.

Equity!

Posted by: An Antisocial Missnthrope at April 19, 2024 05:41 PM (JAhdn)

79 IMF sounds alarm on US debt.

Unsustainable, something has to give.

Posted by: It's happening at April 19, 2024 05:41 PM (tN3kf)

80 Maybe it is just me but I find Roger Waters an impediment to enjoying Pink Floyd..

Posted by: tubal at April 19, 2024 05:43 PM (PCK5/)

81 Meaningless. Blue states with a couple of Purple states disregard the SCOTUS out of hand. They are a nonentity to these states.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 19, 2024 05:43 PM (aFNOf)

82 Don't make the mistake of blaming us for sitting out your elections. Blame your ridiculous Party for it. They did that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2024 05:43 PM (0FoWg)

83 Maybe it is just me but I find Roger Waters an impediment to enjoying Pink Floyd..
Posted by: tubal at April 19, 2024 05:43 PM (PCK5/)

You and David Gilmour.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 05:44 PM (+myjY)

84 Live by the woke, die by the woke...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 05:44 PM (BpYfr)

85 Meaningless. Blue states with a couple of Purple states disregard the SCOTUS out of hand.

Even blue states have federal courts.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 05:45 PM (+myjY)

86 So, will this end up like their ruling on Forgiving student loans ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 05:45 PM (Akjoo)

87 IMF sounds alarm on US debt.

Unsustainable, something has to give.
Posted by: It's happening at April 19, 2024 05:41 PM (tN3kf)
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Send in Ethan Hunt! Oh, wait. He's a straight white male...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 05:46 PM (BpYfr)

88 We can't complicate the left's mission to turn America into Rhodesia!

When the theoretical underpinnings of "affirmative action" were being developed in the 1970s, the two great "success stories" of affirmative action were Yugoslavia and Sri Lanka.

How did that turn out?

Posted by: The Criminal Justice System! at April 19, 2024 05:46 PM (YAtuc)

89 Indonesian Transgender Prostitutes hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 19, 2024 05:46 PM (WdTNG)

90 Compare and contract the reactions between the right having a ruling go against them and the left having one.

One of those seems to generate change.

The other, not so much.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 19, 2024 05:46 PM (Q4IgG)

91 Psst...
DEI is already illegal, it violates the Civil Rights Act of 1966.
Psst, pass it on.

Posted by: gourmand du jour wants to know at April 19, 2024 05:46 PM (MeG8a)

92 The fascists are going for broke… I am puzzled as to how the SC ruling furthers their agenda… has some memo been sent unbeknown to us???

*shakes head*

*sighs*

They're not a monolithic, coordinated bloc. And they don't have a master plan:

The three chics sided with the chic. They'll side with whatever screws over white males next week. Thats it. End of story.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 19, 2024 05:47 PM (tQPzC)

93 I see that a 37 year old athletic software engineer for ESPN has died of suddenly.

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on needing to work until they're 80 at April 19, 2024 05:48 PM (MFZft)

94 44 Honestly, I think they're *just* smart enough to realize that their monster babies are slaughtering the straight white male gander that laid all their golden eggs. I know that's a weird metaphor, but maybe the gander identifies as a goose, buddy.
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Shorter version: but for straight white males, this country would be shit.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2024 05:48 PM (YqDXo)

95 I thought the Constitution was a harness on government action.
And I'll give you there are many quasi government companies.

But still private companies that discriminate can as long as they don't promote badges of slavery.

I think the idea here is that freedom of association requires people to find a good fit where they work or just leave the attitude at home. Do the job you are hired for usually works.

Posted by: torabora at April 19, 2024 05:48 PM (SzDO/)

96
Maybe it is just me but I find Roger Waters an impediment to enjoying Pink Floyd..

Posted by: tubal at April 19, 2024 05:43 PM

His political views are as stench filled as Joe's wet diaper.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2024 05:48 PM (RKVpM)

97 38 I think this 9-0 ruling pretty much tells the world the gig is up. This was a warning from the 3 liberal judges to the DEI world, we cannot protect you, absent action from Congress, the conservatives interpretation of this is spot on, and we cannot find any fault in it without look in a manner so stupid that even we refuse to go there.

Posted by: Black JEM

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I don't know.

Admittedly I know very little, but I wonder if this is a sacrifice in order to shore up the very idea of "anti-discrimination" law.

I mean, some of us think that a private employer should be able to discriminate. Freedom of contract and all that.

So is this the left saying that they know the whole gov. mandated "fairness" in dictating who the fuck you hire (or serve - public accommodation, or pick to be your neighbor....) is fake law and unconstitutional, but let's agree to make it stronger by enforcing it both ways since if we say it only works sometimes it will reveal the fraud.

Posted by: The astonishing Gentlemen TIJM at April 19, 2024 05:49 PM (VskGF)

98 “61”
Are you shitting me.
If Trump went to jail secret service would follow him in. Armed. And would fuck u any homo pretend gangster who got near him.
Really? WTF are you thinking

Posted by: Redenzo at April 19, 2024 05:49 PM (V/pbu)

99 69 Can someone tell me again how to tell if a cotton boll is rotten?
Posted by: KBJ at April 19, 2024 05:35 PM

When you can't pick very much cotton:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PomVdp3noLU

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 05:38 PM (a3Q+t)

Nice, but to really experience this song, I believe you have to go with the guy who wrote it, not some whitebread boys from SoCal

https://tinyurl.com/mwwbdxm4

Posted by: Michael Douglas at April 19, 2024 05:49 PM (5fDan)

100 https://tinyurl.com/yabk6xz7

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2024 05:50 PM (npL9l)

101 Or ruling is planned to work some way the Marxists have planned.

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 05:50 PM (fwDg9)

102 PFE up 2.4% on news of Taylor Swift album release.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 19, 2024 05:51 PM (MvF+J)

103 82 Don't make the mistake of blaming us for sitting out your elections. Blame your ridiculous Party for it. They did that.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I will not be voting R this go around. No way in Hell.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 19, 2024 05:52 PM (aFNOf)

104
Don't make the mistake of blaming us for sitting out your elections. Blame your ridiculous Party for it. They did that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2024 05:43 PM

Everyone with an IQ north of 100 knows that even in a simplistic game like checkers, blocking a win is better then losing.

I wanna block the commies. I know our side should be better, but they're not. Doesn't mean I wanna lose at checkers.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2024 05:53 PM (RKVpM)

105
I wanna block the commies. I know our side should be better, but they're not. Doesn't mean I wanna lose at checkers.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2024 05:53 PM (RKVpM)

What you said

Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 05:53 PM (Akjoo)

106 There are some people I will be voting for in November that will have an “R” tacked on behind them… this is incidental.

Posted by: tubal at April 19, 2024 05:54 PM (PCK5/)

107 About effin' time for something like this.

And I'm fine with turning America into Rhodesia. Sme aspects of it, anyway. By which I mean the original Southern Rhodesia, say around 1930.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2024 05:54 PM (omVj0)

108 “Weak People Become a Host for Evil – That’s Exactly What’s Happening to Mike Johnson” – Tucker Carlson

Weak is an understatement describing this four-eyed little shitstain. Vacate his ass.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 19, 2024 05:55 PM (aFNOf)

109 In general, the Court seeks to maximize federal government power in general, and especially their own, specifically. It's the common thread that runs back to 1803. Not universally true, but close to it.

They perceive some advantage for the Article III judges in this. My guess is that they'd like to impose themselves at the center of the processes which our nominally private institutions use to pick winners and losers and sacrificial victims.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2024 05:55 PM (0FoWg)

110 Everyone with an IQ north of 100 knows that even in a simplistic game like checkers, blocking a win is better then losing.

Plenty of people, regardless of IQ, fall for the trap of playing a rigged game because its the only game in town.

If the game is rigged ... don't play. If you play anyway ? You'll lose in the long run - no matter how high you score on an IQ test.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 19, 2024 05:55 PM (tQPzC)

111 Rhodesia? We say Zimbabwe now, don't we?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 05:56 PM (Xw32h)

112 I will not be voting R this go around. No way in Hell.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 19, 2024 05:52 PM (aFNOf)

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Is it too late to primary the aisle jumpers?

Posted by: Decaf at April 19, 2024 05:56 PM (unUNN)

113 If the game is rigged ... don't play. If you play anyway ? You'll lose in the long run - no matter how high you score on an IQ test.
Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 19, 2024 05:55 PM (tQPzC)

So you're saying Biden is better than Trump ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 05:56 PM (Akjoo)

114 98 “61”
Are you shitting me.
If Trump went to jail secret service would follow him in. Armed. And would fuck u any homo pretend gangster who got near him.
Really? WTF are you thinking

Posted by: Redenzo at April 19, 2024 05:49 PM (V/pbu)

I think what would actually happen is Trump immediately seeks-out the leader of the strongest gang in the joint, lays the old Trump razz-ma-tazz on him, and that gang becomes his prison-wide bodyguard. In return for some favors Trump can arrange to get in for the gang. Then Trump tells the SS detail to go protect someone who actually needs it. Media heads all go mushroom-cloud.

Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 05:56 PM (5fDan)

115 Nice, but to really experience this song, I believe you have to go with the guy who wrote it, not some whitebread boys from SoCal

https://tinyurl.com/mwwbdxm4
Posted by: Michael Douglas at April 19, 2024 05:49 PM

How about adding some down-home terpschorean expression to it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnXMqHLN9JA

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 05:59 PM (a3Q+t)

116 I commented earlier....

I think the money allocated to Congress is managed by the left. They decide who, what gets funding.

The GOP is subservient. It's really obvious.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 19, 2024 06:00 PM (Q4IgG)

117 Why trust the Secret Service?

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 19, 2024 06:00 PM (MvF+J)

118 I never understood the concept of righting historical inequalities by perpetrating inequalities today against people who had nothing to do with it and benefitting people who were not disadvantaged. This is civilization-destroying stupidity.

Posted by: Decaf at April 19, 2024 06:00 PM (unUNN)

119 117 Why trust the Secret Service?
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 19, 2024 06:00 PM (MvF+J

I agree.. I always hope Trump has some of his own security

Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 06:01 PM (Akjoo)

120 When the checkers are all attached to the pins of grenades, play something else.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2024 06:01 PM (0FoWg)

121 So you're saying Biden is better than Trump ?
Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 05:56 PM (Akjoo)

I'm saying how we voted last time didn't matter ... so I'm not holding my breath this time. And voting GOP in general hasn't mattered in 40 years.

So no ... I don't give a shit about political sport. I've grown out of it. Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat was more entertaining, and no less scripted.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 19, 2024 06:01 PM (tQPzC)

122 The GOP is subservient. It's really obvious.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 19, 2024 06:00 PM

"Bring out The Gimp!"
-- Nancy Pelosi & Chuck Schumer

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 06:02 PM (a3Q+t)

123 Kee p saying We are in the Looting of the Empire stage before the collapse

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 06:02 PM (fwDg9)

124 Trump is a flawed human being. Biden will complete the destruction of this country. That's it. It's that simple.

Sit out the election if you want to, but don't don a cloak of righteousness while doing so.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 19, 2024 06:03 PM (2UnvF)

125 AWFLs can be AWFULs as well, the U is for urban as these females are almost all urban-dwellers. There is no way they would be among the despised rural population.

Posted by: Decaf at April 19, 2024 06:03 PM (unUNN)

126 Blabbermouth: DAVID LEE ROTH Releases New Song 'Scotch And Sofa'

https://tinyurl.com/9cscf833

Video at link.

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 06:04 PM (WxVVv)

127 Trump is a flawed human being. Biden will complete the destruction of this country. That's it. It's that simple.

If I knew Biden would ? I'd fill out my ballot today. The sooner we get this over, the sooner we can move on to whatever is next.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 19, 2024 06:04 PM (tQPzC)

128 123 Kee p saying We are in the Looting of the Empire stage before the collapse
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 06:02 PM (fwDg9)

I have to admit sometimes I wonder if it would be better to let Biden have it and quicken the demise of the Country But I would like one more tiny chance that Trump might be able to stop it.. I know.. Not likely ... I'll be voting anyway

Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 06:05 PM (Akjoo)

129
Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 19, 2024 05:55 PM

Go f yourself while you masturbate over the Penn State logo and regret things that could have been.

I'm lighting a Coach Joe Paterno candle while you continue on your three day binge. Before your manic episode crashes into depression. What was it - 18 hours you were manic yesterday? I was like WTF?

Sorry if the Cobs have decided not to clean out the riff-raft. No tip-jar from me. How about a nice brag from you?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2024 06:05 PM (RKVpM)

130 think what would actually happen is Trump immediately seeks-out the leader of the strongest gang in the joint, lays the old Trump razz-ma-tazz on him, and that gang becomes his prison-wide bodyguard. In return for some favors Trump can arrange to get in for the gang. Then Trump tells the SS detail to go protect someone who actually needs it. Media heads all go mushroom-cloud.
Posted by: Gre

Trump. " hear me now you fucking lazy fags, I'm not in here with you, you're here with me!"

Posted by: N at April 19, 2024 06:05 PM (RjBju)

131 “61”
Are you shitting me.
If Trump went to jail secret service would follow him in. Armed. And would fuck u any homo pretend gangster who got near him.
Really? WTF are you thinking

Posted by: Redenzo at April 19, 2024 05:49 PM (V/pbu)

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[Reprising my comment from earlier today:]

Bennie Thompson introduces bill to deny Trump Secret Service protection and ensure that he's Epsteined if convicted of a felony and goes to prison:

[Washington Times:] http://tiny.cc/hj4txz

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 19, 2024 06:05 PM (IcPqy)

132 Bennie Thompson introduces bill to deny Trump Secret Service protection and ensure that he's Epsteined if convicted of a felony and goes to prison:

[Washington Times:] http://tiny.cc/hj4txz
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 19, 2024 06:05 PM (IcPqy)

Yeah, makes sense.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2024 06:07 PM (di6C2)

133 If I knew Biden would ? I'd fill out my ballot today. The sooner we get this over, the sooner we can move on to whatever is next.
Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 19, 2024 06:04 PM (tQPzC)

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Yeah, winning later by losing now is a brilliant strategy, genius.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 19, 2024 06:07 PM (2UnvF)

134 Scogg, did your mom drop you on your head or did you have to work to get this stupid?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 19, 2024 06:08 PM (2UnvF)

135 Yeah, winning later by losing now is a brilliant strategy, genius.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 19, 2024 06:07 PM (2UnvF)

To be fair, the Let it Burn caucus has been with us a while.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2024 06:08 PM (di6C2)

136 11 What about discriminating on the basis of sartorial choice, e.g. The Book Thread?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 05:20 PM (a3Q+t)
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You have a beef about you briefs?

Posted by: Ciampino - this is short for book thread at April 19, 2024 06:08 PM (qfLjt)

137 It's not a cloak of righteousness. It's more like a turtleneck sweater.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 19, 2024 06:08 PM (dg+HA)

138 Since 2016 I've been hearing the argument that PDT isn't presidential and I cannot vote for him so I'm sitting out this election. WTH, how is potatus presidential? Not voting for PDT is a vote for the veggie in chief. If nothing else vote for the least offensive of the two and if you think potatus is it you're an idiot.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 19, 2024 06:09 PM (bQU1b)

139 My sartorial, my choice.

Posted by: Needs work at April 19, 2024 06:10 PM (dg+HA)

140 I am going to vote R and encourage everyone I know to do so. I am not going to surrender one fucking thing to the dems. Come and get it, assholes

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 06:11 PM (Xw32h)

141 I never understood the concept of righting historical inequalities by perpetrating inequalities today against people who had nothing to do with it and benefitting people who were not disadvantaged. This is civilization-destroying stupidity.
Posted by: Decaf at April 19, 2024 06:00 PM (unUNN)

It's all about money, graft, vote buying, rape, water walkers, doo gooders, karens, virtue signaling, rape and money.

One gets paid to be "disadvantaged".

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 19, 2024 06:12 PM (R/m4+)

142 I live in a Red state. I like it. Will not be voting for Leftists. I say this without alluding to Republicans. Easy.

Posted by: tubal at April 19, 2024 06:12 PM (PCK5/)

143 I am going to vote R and encourage everyone I know to do so. I am not going to surrender one fucking thing to the dems. Come and get it, assholes
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 06:11 PM (Xw32h)

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Right there with you.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 19, 2024 06:12 PM (2UnvF)

144 Yeah, winning later by losing now is a brilliant strategy, genius.

Again, you folks addicted to voting keep insisting that its a choice between two distinctions. In the macro - it simply has not been. For decades.

When Trump won the first time - the GOP blocked him harder than the DNC. When Trump won the second time - the GOP closed their eyes and covered their ears while he got screwed. And when Trump wins the third time ? They'll do the latter first, then the former if need be. There is just no reason to get excited.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 19, 2024 06:13 PM (tQPzC)

145 On bright side, vote because there is the chance a hundred million people like us are fed up seeing their costs skyrocket and government cronies living like kings

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 06:13 PM (fwDg9)

146 138 Since 2016 I've been hearing the argument that PDT isn't presidential and I cannot vote for him so I'm sitting out this election. WTH, how is potatus presidential? Not voting for PDT is a vote for the veggie in chief. If nothing else vote for the least offensive of the two and if you think potatus is it you're an idiot.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 19, 2024 06:09 PM (bQU1b)

The dopes who hate Tump for not being presidential consider Obummer and Potatus to super-Presidential in bearing, tone, speechifying, gravitas, etc. Dopes.

Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 06:13 PM (5fDan)

147 136 You have a beef about you briefs?

it's a potato, actually, but the chicks think it's beef

Posted by: nigel tufnel at April 19, 2024 06:13 PM (v3pYe)

148
I'm waiting for Scoog to tell us he hits the tip-jar with the girthy weight of 10,000 John Holmes on an LD dose of viagra.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2024 06:13 PM (RKVpM)

149 Nihilism or Fatalism?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2024 06:14 PM (di6C2)

150 I never understood the concept of righting historical inequalities by perpetrating inequalities today against people who had nothing to do with it and benefitting people who were not disadvantaged. This is civilization-destroying stupidity.

Posted by: Decaf at April 19, 2024 06:00 PM (unUNN)

It's not stupidity, it's intentional.

The mind-numbing evil of it is they are using past wrongs of their *own* compatriots to justify doing all the same shit today.

Posted by: ... at April 19, 2024 06:14 PM (lX8VI)

151 Praise God there is hope for the Republic.

Posted by: setnaffa at April 19, 2024 06:14 PM (jeNdr)

152 Ollie, the potato goes in the front!

Posted by: Just the punchline at April 19, 2024 06:14 PM (dg+HA)

153 About ten years.

Posted by: Just the punchline again at April 19, 2024 06:15 PM (dg+HA)

154 Why trust the Secret Service?
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 19, 2024 06:00 PM (MvF+J

We need to lay off the "don't trust the secret service" stuff. I have been hearing that since 2015 when Trump won the primary....we can't trust the secret service they will let Trump get killed, etc. It's time to let that go.

Iffn it ain't happened in 9 years I don't think it is going to happen this year.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 19, 2024 06:15 PM (QNSds)

155 152 Ollie, the potato goes in the front!
Posted by: Just the punchline at April 19, 2024 06:14 PM (dg+HA)

Right next to the onion.

Some cubed beef and you have stew.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2024 06:15 PM (di6C2)

156 I am going to vote R and encourage everyone I know to do so. I am not going to surrender one fucking thing to the dems. Come and get it, assholes

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 06:11 PM (Xw32h)
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THIS.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2024 06:16 PM (YqDXo)

157 Nihilism or Fatalism?

On the forced march into Dachau ? Realism. The guy that still insists on stopping to smell the roses outside the gate ? An asshole.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 19, 2024 06:16 PM (tQPzC)

158 Now do the 9th appeals court, that just ruled unanimously that cops couldn't arrest people just because other people might resort to violence to stop them from talking.

If I stand on the street corner and say abortion is evil, in Seattle, they could arrest me, because my words might cause other people to become violent.

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at April 19, 2024 06:17 PM (mvURQ)

159 On the forced march into Dachau ? Realism. The guy that still insists on stopping to smell the roses outside the gate ? An asshole.
Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 19, 2024 06:16 PM (tQPzC)

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You've got your shrink on speed dial, don't you?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 19, 2024 06:18 PM (2UnvF)

160 @sentdefender
·
18m
Significant Airstrikes by Unknown Aircraft have been reported against a Major Iranian-Backed Militia Base in the Babylon Governorate of Eastern Iraq to the South of Baghdad.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2024 06:18 PM (LkLld)

161 I think everyone knows that AA only has the following effects.
- It promotes the unqualified, thus making that class look even worse.
- It stains the qualified, and everyone things they Didn't Earn It.
- It enshitifies everything, destroying society.
- It is cash for lawyers and power for politicians.

So,.... The Purpose of a System Is What It Does.

The purpose is to HARM the favored class, and that is all it accomplishes.

Posted by: The astonishing Gentlemen TIJM at April 19, 2024 06:18 PM (VskGF)

162 Use the ballot box and have the other box that's not the soap box available.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 19, 2024 06:18 PM (R4t5M)

163 Iffn it ain't happened in 9 years I don't think it is going to happen this year.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 19, 2024 06:15 PM (QNSds)

Perhaps. I am not saying that they cannot be trusted, but completely separate from the direction the rest of the thread is going:

Would anyone actually want to be a SS guy? There is a certain amount of... amorality implied in the job. You protect your assigned guy, no matter what. You stand outside the door if he is cheating on his wife. You watch out for threats while he is sniffing and feeling up a 12 year old.

I dunno, there is a certain... emptiness to it. Just something I have thought about since... I'd say Dave the movie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2024 06:19 PM (di6C2)

164 I misread the headline as "Supreme Court Rules 9-0 That Reverse Discrimination Is Good. . ."

I should read more than one line.

Posted by: RS at April 19, 2024 06:19 PM (E7m29)

165
Hey, Scoog - does CBD have your email addy? He has mine.

Oh wait, he keeps blocking you, you keep coming back with your same manic message to give the hell up. Go to hell, along with your assorted socks that mysteriously like to s__k you dick.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2024 06:20 PM (RKVpM)

166 On a lighter note, the Feds are now warning that all our base are belong to China.

Funny how quickly we flipped from "China is no competition and we are well ahead," to "We lost."

Posted by: The astonishing Gentlemen TIJM at April 19, 2024 06:20 PM (VskGF)

167 164 I misread the headline as "Supreme Court Rules 9-0 That Reverse Discrimination Is Good. . ."

I should read more than one line.
Posted by: RS at April 19, 2024 06:19 PM (E7m29)

Yeah, a scan got my blood pressure pumping until I waited and reread.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2024 06:20 PM (di6C2)

168 Like I said I'm voting... Haven't missed a vote since I was first allowed to vote.

Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 06:20 PM (Akjoo)

169 OT Risky Business is getting a Criterion release in July.

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 06:21 PM (MnmvL)

170 Pale and Male is Stale

Mary Sue Girlbosses are so hot right now!

Posted by: Leftist Blue-hairs

I have four females between me and my CEO. One is white and has a solid career professionally as an EE engineer, she is my director and supervisor. The next one i never heard of in the 27 and a half years I've been in the company. Supposed to be a mechanical engineer, but poofed into existence last year as the division vice president engineer. The next two vice presidents are from HBCS schools with shitty reputations for the professional graduated engineers. One is the division senior executive engineer responsible for profit and loss, the other is the business area executive vice president over 135,000 employees and maybe $300B in sales, profit and loss. In a field dominated by white males, and asian males, around 90%...thus is discriminatory on the surface and outright evil.

Only my supervisor understands how to decompose requirements and develop a system design. The two hbcs Veeps are 100% clueless in that area. I've worked with both of them before they made vp, very early in their careers. Didn't earn it.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 19, 2024 06:21 PM (MsrgL)

171 It's not stupidity, it's intentional.

The mind-numbing evil of it is they are using past wrongs of their *own* compatriots to justify doing all the same shit today.
Posted by: ... at April 19, 2024 06:14 PM (lX8VI)

Soros and other communists DESIRE CHAOS and dysfunction. That's the goal of anti-white discrimination, DEI, trans rights, bail "reform," etc etc.

Bottom up > top down > inside out

They DESIRE crime, violence, death, mass graves, famine, no energy, and all things non civilized because the west wouldn't bow to communism in the state it was.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at April 19, 2024 06:21 PM (U8kCF)

172 "I mean, some of us think that a private employer should be able to discriminate. Freedom of contract and all that."

right ... and this is how they snuck these reg's by us over the decades. They make them only apply to companies with over 50 employees, or whatever number works. Most small businesses were not impacted ... at first.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 19, 2024 06:21 PM (Cus5s)

173 Not since Babylon
Not since Nineveh
Not since Tyre went up in a pyre of fire!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 06:22 PM (vtyCZ)

174 163 Iffn it ain't happened in 9 years I don't think it is going to happen this year.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 19, 2024 06:15 PM (QNSds)

Perhaps. I am not saying that they cannot be trusted, but completely separate from the direction the rest of the thread is going:

Would anyone actually want to be a SS guy? There is a certain amount of... amorality implied in the job. You protect your assigned guy, no matter what. You stand outside the door if he is cheating on his wife. You watch out for threats while he is sniffing and feeling up a 12 year old.

I dunno, there is a certain... emptiness to it. Just something I have thought about since... I'd say Dave the movie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2024 06:19 PM (di6C2)

They soothe their troubled consciences by banging hookers by the dozen every chance they get, and no doubt find ways to charge some or all of their 'fun' to the taxpayers. IMHO.

Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 06:22 PM (5fDan)

175 I dunno, there is a certain... emptiness to it. Just something I have thought about since... I'd say Dave the movie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2024 06:19 PM (di6C2)

The Praetorian Guard - with guns. Honest men would either never take the job, or routinely resign.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 19, 2024 06:22 PM (tQPzC)

176 Simple rule for schools to avoid lawsuits:

1) Have every applicant take a standardized test to enroll.
2) Above a certain score, you are in automatically.
3) below a certain score, you are rejected automatically.
4) Between the two scores - lottery admission.

The decision is perfectly fair. This will save students and colleges loads of money - no lengthy application process, no essays, no interviews. Easy peasy.

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at April 19, 2024 06:23 PM (mvURQ)

177 168 Like I said I'm voting... Haven't missed a vote since I was first allowed to vote.
Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 06:20 PM (Akjoo)

You are like everyone else here, I would imagine…mthe Horde is engaged… unlike most people.. which seems to be an intractable problem. Maybe impoverishment will get their attention.

Posted by: tubal at April 19, 2024 06:23 PM (PCK5/)

178 169 OT Risky Business is getting a Criterion release in July.
Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 06:21 PM (MnmvL)

Reminder: Rebecca De Morney

https://tinyurl.com/5n9a5psk

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2024 06:23 PM (di6C2)

179
Like I said I'm voting... Haven't missed a vote since I was first allowed to vote.

Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2024 06:20 PM

Don't give up. Some want you to believe this is some 3D chess game. It's not. It's checkers. Block them from winning, even if it comes to a draw every single time.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2024 06:23 PM (RKVpM)

180 Would anyone actually want to be a SS guy? There is a certain amount of... amorality implied in the job. You protect your assigned guy, no matter what. You stand outside the door if he is cheating on his wife. You watch out for threats while he is sniffing and feeling up a 12 year old.

I dunno, there is a certain... emptiness to it. Just something I have thought about since... I'd say Dave the movie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2024 06:19 PM

Pretty sure the good ones don't spend more than 5-10 years before they quit in disgust. However, the meme that Trump can't trust the secret service after 9 years needs to be put to rest.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 19, 2024 06:25 PM (QNSds)

181 " I am going to vote R and encourage everyone I know to do so. I am not going to surrender one fucking thing to the dems. Come and get it, assholes

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 06:11 PM (Xw32h)
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THIS.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara"
*********
Agree.

Posted by: Cosda at April 19, 2024 06:25 PM (sjyKm)

182 https://tinyurl.com/3ap4h2s3
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 06:25 PM (fwDg9)

183 am going to vote R and encourage everyone I know to do so. I am not going to surrender one fucking thing to the dems. Come and get it, assholes

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 06:11 PM (Xw32h)
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THIS.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2024 06:16 PM (YqDXo)
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Preach it BH, I’m with you . They win game over for a long time.
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Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at April 19, 2024 06:26 PM (VFjIl)

184 At the risk of being.... well...

Voting for Republicans is no draw. Or have you not watched Republicans for the last 40 years. We are voting for our own destruction with a shape that's slightly more pleasing.

Trump is different for absolute certain, but the rest of them... hell, forget it. Republicans hate your fucking guts every bit as much as Democrats do, they just lie about it for the most part.

Posted by: ... at April 19, 2024 06:27 PM (lX8VI)

185 Systematic discrimination against white men in corporate hiring might be the most underreported form of injustice in America today.

Posted by: leb at April 19, 2024 06:27 PM (zTK4r)

186 Trump has his own security detail.

Posted by: ... at April 19, 2024 06:27 PM (lX8VI)

187 1) Have every applicant take a standardized test to enroll.
2) Above a certain score, you are in automatically.
3) below a certain score, you are rejected automatically.
4) Between the two scores - lottery admission.

The decision is perfectly fair. This will save students and colleges loads of money - no lengthy application process, no essays, no interviews. Easy peasy.
Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law

Uhhh,,,,
(I am starting to question your credentials as a Mariachi Attorney)

Posted by: Griggs, Ricci,,... at April 19, 2024 06:28 PM (VskGF)

188 Nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2024 06:28 PM (di6C2)

189 Rhodesia was the "good" one. What you don't want is Zimbabwe. (Rhodesia was trying to get the Africans ready for independence ... Z is saying "you're fine the way you are"...)

Posted by: SouthCentralPA at April 19, 2024 06:28 PM (6mBpS)

190 nood crime

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 06:28 PM (vtyCZ)

191 "Pretty sure the good ones don't spend more than 5-10 years before they quit in disgust. However, the meme that Trump can't trust the secret service after 9 years needs to be put to rest."
*******
Many years ago I met a SS agent who had been on the FLOTUS detail. Somebody joked about letting females into the WH backdoor for Bill Clinton. The agent replied that it did happen but not always for Bill.

Posted by: Cosda at April 19, 2024 06:29 PM (sjyKm)

192 I might try to get some on the left to vote for RFK Jr ... if I knew any such leftists. But if you want the climate deniers locked up, RFK Jr is the better "leftist" choice (as long as he doesn't win ... still perhaps better than Brandon).

Posted by: illiniwek at April 19, 2024 06:29 PM (Cus5s)

193 SATs are staggering good at predicting success in college. Seriously - the score translates directly to % finishing degrees, how many degrees earned, etc.

Why would you use any other measure to determine who gets in? You want people who will benefit from attending college. This how you get that.

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at April 19, 2024 06:30 PM (mvURQ)

194
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 06:25 PM

"For everything else, there's HaMasterCard."

Burn.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2024 06:30 PM (RKVpM)

195 If a school wants to lower their threshold for admission, go right ahead. You'll get a lot more dropouts and didn't finishers.

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at April 19, 2024 06:31 PM (mvURQ)

196 Voting for Republicans is no draw.

Wasting your time. You are arguing against faith. No different than sports fans that can dismiss any egregious call by the officials with the old line "can't let the stripes decide the game".

They look at this, like a lot of other shit, in black and white absolutes. Win or lose. In reality ? DNC wins we lose. GOP wins we still lose half our initial bet. Because the game is rigged.

Their answer ? Play harder. Its all they know.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 19, 2024 06:32 PM (tQPzC)

197 Karl Malden is an actor who should have kept his nose to the grindstone.

Posted by: James Francis Durante at April 19, 2024 06:33 PM (V5BDR)

198 193 Why would you use any other measure to determine who gets in? You want people who will ~~benefit from attending college~~ generate lots of interest income by racking up a huge amount of debt. This how you get that.

fixt

Posted by: nigel tufnel at April 19, 2024 06:34 PM (v3pYe)

199 >Reminder: Rebecca De Morney

https://tinyurl.com/5n9a5psk

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2024 06:23 PM (di6C2)

She was incandescently hot in Risky Business.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 19, 2024 06:34 PM (GTqXr)

200 There always is a nood after I post Bad Blue

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 06:36 PM (fwDg9)

201 Powerful people are breaking laws . Corruption, if given enough time gets weeded out and hung.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 19, 2024 06:42 PM (J8LnB)

202 Now do the 9th appeals court, that just ruled unanimously that cops couldn't arrest people just because other people might resort to violence to stop them from talking.

If I stand on the street corner and say abortion is evil, in Seattle, they could arrest me, because my words might cause other people to become violent.
Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at April 19, 2024 06:17 PM (mvURQ)

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The very concept that I mustn't speak because a lunatic may be set off to commit violence is utter nullification of the 1st A. There is nothing in it that says "unless you hurt the feelings of mentally deranged people".

Posted by: Decaf at April 19, 2024 06:46 PM (unUNN)

203 Only my supervisor understands how to decompose requirements and develop a system design. The two hbcs Veeps are 100% clueless in that area. I've worked with both of them before they made vp, very early in their careers. Didn't earn it.
Posted by: BifBewalski at April 19, 2024 06:21 PM (MsrgL)

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This is guaranteed to destroy the faith in any woman's achievement in reaching the top of the tree. It really must be that only a very few have got there on merit since they feel they cannot complain or even they will be replaced by the didn't earn it brigade.

Posted by: Decaf at April 19, 2024 06:51 PM (unUNN)

204 Scogg, You’re redundant.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2024 06:54 PM (IQY71)

205 What's funny is that objective standards were originally designed to ensure unqualified men did not get jobs.

Posted by: N at April 19, 2024 06:55 PM (RjBju)

206 I was hoping that I wouldn’t be around for the demise of our country due to my poor health. But, it looks like I’m going to be right smack in the middle of it. This isn’t going to end well.

Posted by: Unkaren at April 19, 2024 07:42 PM (d1Q1Y)

207 When I left high tech 5 years ago, I left with a bad taste in my mouth. This was near the beginning of bringing diversity to STEM jobs.

The worst part of the situation then (and probably now) was that all the bad parts of affirmative action come with these diversity hires. Their bosses don’t really respect them because they doubt their abilities, so they get the worst or do nothing jobs.

Posted by: SMOD at April 19, 2024 08:22 PM (RovqD)

208 The people who should worry the most will be academia. Their high and mighty “were smarter than you so shut up” attitude should lead to many discrimination lawsuits. Jewish students are being forced to abandon all activities and lock themselves down at night. Students who were subjected to “university kangaroo courts” can sue. The Asians can sue every Ivy League school for discrimination.
Between this and forcing the universities to reimburse the government for all the student loan bailouts, it’s time to bankrupt them.

Posted by: djaymick at April 20, 2024 08:28 AM (kYJUa)

209 It's not "Reverse Discrimination" it's merely "Discrimination" based on immutable characteristics. Stop using the work reverse to describe it.

Posted by: JD at April 21, 2024 09:56 AM (2JnDM)

210 Karl Marx is up to about 1000 RPM about now.

Posted by: David at April 22, 2024 08:57 AM (1kYcm)

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