POLITICAL THREAD

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2018

So...

 

[BBUK]

Yeah, I just retired from a midsize wealth management firm. As we grew, we became more corporate, including internal memos about financial planning for LGBTQ clients. When my new assistant sent me an email with his preferred pronouns in the signature, I went to management and HR and said under no circumstances will my assistant be allowed to send an email to clients with that signature. HR individual was surprised and offended that I would insist on that but, as I explained to upper management who agreed with me, half of my clients would immediately start looking for another firm that doesn't wear its politics on its sleeve. Insane that someone in the financial services industry would be so clueless about subtly pushing a political view on your clients. My assistant was fine with the omission and told me he didn't want to include his pronouns but HR specifically instructed him to do so.

Ought to see DOD signatures...

 

[TheFrontRunner]

 

[BBUK]

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She's an/a Itch... Even O knows that...

 

[screwduke1]

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Joy.

 

[Cold Stout Beer]

 

[BBUK]

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Very Christ-like...

 

[HeismaNole]

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Trump is better than I would be or really any of us😂 I couldn’t shake Obama’s or Chuck’s or Pence’s hand or anyone who played a part in trying to destroy me and my family.

 

[Bigmikeydelight]

No it doesn't.

Case in point: the poor will not buy a 100K dollar car ... or they shouldn't. But a rich person will. Therefore the rich person will be affected much more. there is a lot more, but i have no desire to say more than that.

besides ... what is the fing alternative? keep the current broke, corrupt system? no thx.

That’s an extreme point. If we have sales taxes on things like food, detergent, diapers, etc. those are things poor people have to buy regardless. If we cut income taxes, which many don’t pay anyways, They are going to inadvertently pay more by higher sales taxes on above items.

Good to hear from you and I hope you’re having a good 2025.

 

[Bigmikeydelight]

They have to pay something. As it stands now they pay no income tax.

They’re also having to pay a greater percentage of their limited wages on rent and utilities. Raising sales taxes increases this burden on them.

 

[AustinTXCat]

** Wise Words Department **

"I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes."

—Richard Nixon

 

[Cold Stout Beer]

Soros is behind all this and just got the medal of freedom. 🤣 Democratic politicians a domestic terrorist organization??

 

[rick64]

 

[blubo]

i don’t see big mike at pres carter’s funeral service.

 

[BBUK]

Trump is better than I would be or really any of us😂 I couldn’t shake Obama’s or Chuck’s or Pence’s hand or anyone who played a part in trying to destroy me and my family.

#MeToo

 

[hmt5000]

Already happening. I believe someone I know was let go (forced resignation with a severance package) for not agreeing to put them in their correspondence and social media profiles. Caught the tail end of their conversation with another person at the table, but it was a major reason they were forced out.

Another friend said they're seeing this in real estate brokerages, mortgage brokerages, and another mentioned it was happening at UK.

That's what the whole Gina Carano thing was over. People act like it was other stuff but what pissed off the Disney exec's to go after her was that she was told to put pronouns in her bio and she put "beep bop boop". That was when they went after her with full force.

 

[hmt5000]

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Jennings got Crockett all upset haha. Imagine thinking 'my ancestors built the White House' is relevant to the discussion...




Crockett: "The last time I checked y'all didn't say that anything was wrong with the White House. And I can promise you it was my ancestors that built the White House.”

The fact is, stop trying to act as if only white men are the ones that are capable. Because right now you sitting at a table with three very capable black women.”



Jennings: "I'm not. I'm just simply saying that as a matter of public policy in California, the main interest in the fire department lately has been in DEI programming and budget cuts. And now we have this."

I'm so tired of the "my ancestors built this country" nonsense. One of the worst parts of slavery is that they wouldn't even let them do basic skilled labot. Slaves were used to pack material... that was about it. Craftsmen were scared to compete with slave labor so it was hugely frowned upon to even teach slaves math.

 

[Bill Cosby]

The entire California state government needs to be disbanded, and the territory can be absorbed by the other 49 when the federal government bails them out…

 

[AustinTXCat]

The biggest CA fire was started by some dipshits doing a gender reveal. The oregon fire was started by downed powerlines. The washington fire was started by lightning. The dipshits getting arrested for running around playing with matches are trumpsters trying to get their 15 minutes of fame. It's funny you don't ever hear Trump talk about utah, idaho, montana, arizona, wyoming, texas, the Dakota's. All states that are also currently on fire. They must do enough forest raking to keep him happy.

 

[hmt5000]

Damn it! WTF is going on? @sambowieshin help us out here.

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Even that ain't as bad as it should be. Several companies pushed layoffs back to after Feb so it wouldn't affect the election or Bidens legacy. The lack of fiduciary responsibility is criminal at this point.

 

[TheFrontRunner]

Federal court saves Title lX from liberal insanity:






Kentucky was one of the other five:






Riley been fighting the whole way:

 

[SDC8888]

 

[hmt5000]

I was thinking about a disease that affects mice where it has zero fear of cats. Even if the cat starts to eat other mice present the mice will act perfectly calm and not run or hide... it causes them to completely lose fight or flight instinct.

 

[JumperJack]

They’re also having to pay a greater percentage of their limited wages on rent and utilities. Raising sales taxes increases this burden on them.

The actual burden that’s being placed on them is the inflationary burden caused by government spending. You just said it yourself. Fix that, and sales taxes become manageable once again.

 

[BBUK]

Federal court saves Title lX from liberal insanity:

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Riley been fighting the whole way:

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Never was worth the first second of effort. Just unimaginable this crap has got past one person's suggestion.

 

[bigblueinsanity]

Yeah, I just retired from a midsize wealth management firm. As we grew, we became more corporate, including internal memos about financial planning for LGBTQ clients. When my new assistant sent me an email with his preferred pronouns in the signature, I went to management and HR and said under no circumstances will my assistant be allowed to send an email to clients with that signature. HR individual was surprised and offended that I would insist on that but, as I explained to upper management who agreed with me, half of my clients would immediately start looking for another firm that doesn't wear its politics on its sleeve. Insane that someone in the financial services industry would be so clueless about subtly pushing a political view on your clients. My assistant was fine with the omission and told me he didn't want to include his pronouns but HR specifically instructed him to do so.

The last point is definitely something people are unaware of. These companies kept prompting people to add pronouns. I kept declining and they eventually stopped asking but only because the climate changed. Had common sense not taken over after Elon bought Twitter, it wouldve gotten worse instead of better.

 

[BigBlueFanGA]

I am referring to your reference to post high school performance of kids in public vs private schools. My point is that kids from poverty and kids with disabilities are not going to perform as well in college (typically) as kids from well to do families from private schools.
You are comparing apples to oranges.
If you compare students from similar socioeconomic backgrounds WITHOUT learning/behavior disabilities...You would most likely see very little difference between the collegiate performance of public vs private school kids.
Socioeconomic status is the biggest indicator of student performance at all levels of school.

I dont agree with you and I'd love the debate but I dont have the energy now. Maybe in a few weeks when I'm finally out of the hospital.

 

[HeismaNole]

I'm so tired of the "my ancestors built this country" nonsense. One of the worst parts of slavery is that they wouldn't even let them do basic skilled labot. Slaves were used to pack material... that was about it. Craftsmen were scared to compete with slave labor so it was hugely frowned upon to even teach slaves math.

It's the most ridiculous revisionist history from a group who is notorious for flubbing their actual contributions to the world.

An Irish guy designed the White House. The Irish and Scot migrants did most of the important stuff. Her saying this is like a guy who carried in a box of oranges claiming to have built a restaurant and cooked a gourmet meal.

 

[HeismaNole]

The leve of evil pulling the strings to brainwash people into this is sick.

 

[cole854]

The entire California state government needs to be disbanded, and the territory can be absorbed by the other 49 when the federal government bails them out…

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If only....

Cali needs to do another recall vote after all this is over.

 

[HeismaNole]

 

[mdlUK.1]

Megyn Kelley kicking ass and taking names

 

[cole854]

Even that ain't as bad as it should be. Several companies pushed layoffs back to after Feb so it wouldn't affect the election or Bidens legacy. The lack of fiduciary responsibility is criminal at this point.

But, we need robots and AI everywhere.....F human beings who need a job.

 

[vhcat70]

Many Many of those Multi-Million dollar houses were passed down or bought when they cost pennies decades ago. Most of those people don't have any money at all.

I hope to never set foot in that state again.

You make it sound like the fires are a lib plot to buy all the burned out properties at pennies/buck iot build a mcmansion on them cheaply.

 

[TheFrontRunner]

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[vhcat70]

Megyn Kelley kicking ass and taking names

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She's still hot.

 

[Bigmikeydelight]

Fyi... State Assessments may be predictive of future academic success, if only recent, biased studies are to be believed, but not based on 5 decades of data before now, nor are they predictive of success in life or careers.

There are many reasons they fail as a litmus test outside of narrow academic settings.

Some of the biggest reasons are that they don't teach to or measure adaptability, nor measure creativity in solving problems, or indicate any level of persistence in the face of adversity. They produce drones in other words that are meant to fit within a pegged system, rather than leaders who can solve critical problems and reason through tough situations and circumstances.

Public schools teach "to the test" and have done so for over 40 years. The narrow scope of this education is perfect for indoctrination rather than truly developing an independent, objective, and intelligent mind. It is easily manipulated by simple memorization, which takes little effort at all, but ideally suits someone just wanting a job instead of a career or entrepreneurship.

It is meant to churn out more hive minded people to make the colony grow, but once the colony becomes overcrowded there is a huge die off in terms of employable drones. That's where we are now. The system cannot sustain itself because of natural limits to production and usefulness of people who all perform the same function for too long.

Private schools do not "teach to the tests" because they are busy teaching reasoning and independent thought. Many are teaching the classical education model that gave us the enlightenment and industrial revolution, as well as the robust economy of this country before the 60s led to the destruction of education itself. The last people to be trained classically in public schools graduated in the early to mid 1980s, when several people I knew first hand began teaching. Things got much worse from there and rapidly.

Classical education values a well-rounded pursuit of knowledge that doesn't discount history, literature, and reason. It's a rigorous curriculum that isn't defined by dittos and scantron tests, but essays, reports, and papers/presentations starting in elementary school. The truth of private education is that not everyone that starts out in private schools can afford to continue through high school because of costs, location inconvenience, and extra-curricular limitations that put an economic strain on families already subsidizing public education as well.

If you exclude students who have attended private schools before the high school level, you will see a drop from the upper ranks of high school graduates and statist-preferred testing measurements. There are at least 3 schools in Lexington that I know of personally whose students take the assessments and on average perform more than 10-15% greater than the average of those one or two grades higher in public schools.

They don't need to publish the results because they don't need the marketing, and they know the classical approach is too rigorous for some to take on. It's definitely too expensive for most, but more so for those in lower income brackets without some sort of voucher system. But that's the idea behind preventing vouchers. It's to keep the lower income brackets from escaping that perpetual motion machine of poverty that has ZERO accountability.

Private school teachers that don't perform their jobs well get FIRED. Can't say that about public schools AT ALL.

Most of yall knew all of this, of course, but for those who don't, you're welcome for the cognitive dissonance disruption.

Really nice propaganda you got there.

 

[AustinTXCat]

In honor of our good friend, Gassy.

 

[Girthang]

That's what the whole Gina Carano thing was over. People act like it was other stuff but what pissed off the Disney exec's to go after her was that she was told to put pronouns in her bio and she put "beep bop boop". That was when they went after her with full force.

Yes, and she did it with a sense of humor as well, but we can't have that!

 

[FirewithFire]