@George-K said in Roger Stone, hot mic: How I’ve manipulated Trump for 30 years: @Mik said in Roger Stone, hot mic: How I’ve manipulated Trump for 30 years: A 120 lb kid cannot make an 800 lb cow do anything. You have to make the cow think it's her idea. I just quoting this because we all know that @jon is going to jump on that analogy. How many cows you figure he's brought in?

Imagine being 23, and thinking like this. She played in Foxboro, which is just up the road from where I work, a couple of weeks back for three consecutive nights - the roads were insane. I was so glad I don't live there any more.

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-spectacular-corporate-hypocrisy-on-gay-rights-and-uganda/ You will be amazed at how many big U.S. and multinational corporations who are enthusiastically celebrating “Pride Month” have significant operations in countries that criminalize homosexuality. It’s not just China and Saudi Arabia, and it’s not just manufacturing in countries such as Pakistan or Indonesia. No, you’re going to be flabbergasted by which particularly controversial company at this moment has operations running in . . . Uganda, which just enacted what are probably the most anti-gay criminal laws on the planet. Corporate America gets to market to LGBT consumers stateside, and then turn around and make a bundle in some of the most anti-gay countries in the world, and apparently everyone is just fine with this systemic hypocrisy. You don’t have to look too far to find social or cultural conservatives who dislike or even seethe about “Pride Month,” as many chain stores suddenly put up giant rainbows in every display and window. It’s a free country, and you can feel about this phenomenon any way you like. But I’d argue that the most compelling objection to corporate America’s Pride Month is that it represents big companies’ support for the rights of gays in the cheapest and most consequence-free way possible. For several years now, sharp-eyed observers have noticed that many multinational corporations add rainbows to their logos in the West, but keep them unchanged in the Middle East, where governments and the populaces are much less supportive of gay rights. Big multinational corporations love standing up for gay rights, as long as it means more people buying their stuff. They are not interested in standing up for gay rights if it might cost them something. Big American companies will throw their weight around in opposition to all kinds of state laws, from restrictions on explicit materials in school libraries to limitations on hormone treatments, but then turn around and avert their eyes from governments that literally execute people for being gay. Disney objects to Florida’s new Parental Rights in Education law. The company also has no problem staging “Disney on Ice” in Saudi Arabia. Not that long ago, a Saudi court sentenced a man to 450 lashes for “setting up a Twitter account to promote and practice homosexuality.” What this demonstrates is that vast swaths of corporate America have no fundamental, principled objection to violent anti-gay views, as long as the profits are high enough. Apparently, c-suite executives’ real objection to the American opponents of gay rights is that they aren’t a sufficiently lucrative market. And in this light, the gay and lesbian communities of the West look gullible, not triumphant. Slapping a rainbow on the corporate logo on the website is the minimal-effort way to “support” the protection of the rights of gays and lesbians. It takes, what, five minutes for the graphics and website teams to do that? How much time and effort does it take for any clothing brand to put “PRIDE” on its shirts? How many of those “PRIDE” garments are actually created, sourced, assembled, or distributed in countries where it is illegal to have pride in being gay or lesbian?

LOL! Love the way the dog is looking around like, "Da rum de dum, which way did it go?"

I think managers tend to want to increase headcount under them, as that is one of their metrics of managerial success, and will justify those heads to their superiors in not quite honest ways. Combine that with the fact that managers in large companies know little to nothing about the details of what goes on under them when more than one level removed, and you get situations like this where people end up doing nothing.

I haven't, but it's on the list!

@Axtremus said in Say his name: @George-K said in Say his name: Dee-Santis or Deh-Santis? His team won't say … Bill de Blasio. Is it "Dee" Blasio, or is it "Deh" Blasio? Or, perhaps is it something else? Something tells me that Axios didn't look into that. Why would Axios look into Bill de Blasio’s pronunciation? Bill de Blasio and his campaign has so far been consistent with the pronunciation of his name. As for DeSantis, let him self-identify as he wish, there is no confusion as to who he is referring to with either pronunciation. The bigger de Blasio question to me is why so many people pronounce the s as a z… Blahzeeoo….

That much weight loss that fast would be a very painful process. In no universe did he feel great while doing it. The McDonald’s thing is a nice gimmick and I guess it got him to go viral, so well played.

@Jolly said in Let us celebrate gay marriage.: I think anything that gets in the way of procreation for the Japanese should be discouraged. So, like contraceptives, computer games, TV shows, expensive housing....

Just like on a plane, put your oxygen mask on before you help anyone else.

3! Do I hear 4 for the Trumpeter?

The World's Smartest Man. Don't believe it? Just ask him.

There was a recent case that, while not significant in culture wars, will have obvious precedent value for future culture war cases. It was decided 5-4. The dissenters? Roberts, Alito, Kavanaugh, Jackson. I’ll post about it later because it’s interesting.

They couldn't assemble it in the U.S. because the workers were laughing too hard. I mean, really. What a dopey-looking car. Beep beep.

@Axtremus said in Sorry babe, I’ll be more careful next time: Why would @WorldAndScience tweet on 2023 June 1 an old article published in 2018? Pride?

@Horace said in Jon’s Horseshoe At Work: @Doctor-Phibes said in Jon’s Horseshoe At Work: @Jon said in Jon’s Horseshoe At Work: Can't she just fucking die already? H8er Some alleged hatred is more performative, to establish a narrative of objectivity, a narrative which immediately crumbles on the altar of the real hatred of Republicans. w@nk3r

Anybody who uses violence or the threat thereof to mug a rando, forfeits any right to their own lives, during that interaction. At least that's how it would be if I were king.

God love him for trying.

Whites are not directly afraid of black people, except maybe in the proverbial alley in the middle of the night. But they are terrified of the black privilege of being able to cancel a white person for racial offenses real or imagined. This privilege has been carefully and systematically installed by progressive white people who have always been just sure that they, personally, will always be protected by a force field of their own virtue signalling. To a large degree, they are right, but not completely. But the under the table handshake, is that those black people, privileged in this certain way, will always vote the progressives into power.