You Don’t Hit A Girl

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

I’m tired. Maybe the fact that Canada is burning and in the air again has to do with this, or maybe it is the eternal wishful stupidity of the right. Could be either or.

Unfortunately this means I have a fever, which lately happens when I’m having an auto-immune outbreak.

For those of you who are new here, when I get a fever it’s like when other people are on prednisone. I lose what little governor I have. Also, because my head hurts, I become very short on patience.

What does this mean? Well– The old hands will tell you.

It means I roll up my sleeves, turn the Heinlein picture to the wall and speak without prettifying it for the sensitive souls. I’m sorry. But in case I haven’t mentioned it, I’m tired.

On facebook, someone took offense at my “Getting it out of the way” post. First at my saying that Kamala probably has less recent African ancestry than I do — and mine isn’t that recent. It’s someone who comments here, but he primly informed me that a little research would have prevented my embarrassing faux pas, since her father is of Jamaican ancestry so, obviously she has recent African ancestry.

Head>desk, repeat with gusto. He then insisted the “cast of her father’s features” meant he was black. I know that what y’all are conditioned to think of as “black” reads as “What?” to me, but seriously, the man looks Mediterranean with some English and I checked with people born here. Also, I’m not going to post my own family photos, but the side that so far as we know (unless that’s the tiny amount of Nigerian in my 23 and me. Yes, that’s right. I’m a princess!) has no African blood looks more African than Kamala’s father. Because, well… Portugal is a very mixed place, but also because what American’s consider “black” is not.

But even so, my contention in making that statement was not to dispute one-drop rules, because frankly who cares, but to argue that Kamala is no more black than I am: She’s not black American by culture or ancestry. Meaning that as far as there is a common (and there is) experience among Americans of (some) African ancestry whose ancestors were brought here as slaves, she ain’t got it. She got made “black” because Joe wanted a “black woman” vice president and it was her or the “real governor of Georgia.” That was it. Which is disingenuous.

For some reason this gentleman decided what I was REALLY saying was that Kamala and her family didn’t experience discrimination. (Pfui.) He then went on to lecture me about how if we say she isn’t black we’re making it so that black people rally around her. (This takes a level of double reverse leap and mental gymnastics that, given the fact I don’t have brakes right now, meant I was better off absenting myself from the discussion.)

Look, she isn’t black. Black people know she isn’t black. They were willing to fall for Barrack Obama who at least looks like an American black, but if you think they weren’t bit by that and aren’t wary of him, you’d be silly.

Now, am I saying she didn’t suffer discrimination?

Wait a moment. If I bang my head on the desk some more, with force, maybe it will stop hurting so badly at the arrant stupidity of this idea.

Yeah, she suffered discrimination. I have very bad news for you who are a little older than I: The conditions the democrats and their race obsession have set up in America, largely by poisoning kids’ minds in elementary schools, there is NO ONE that has lived in the US for the last 50 years who HASN’T experienced discrimination based on the way they look, or some perceived racial group. (Other reasons too.) Significant, marked discrimination that often affects their financial or physical well being. White men have suffered significant continual discrimination. So has everyone else. And it’s been much, much worse in the last 30 years. Largely because the left has succeeded in its endeavor of having everyone’s hands against everyone else.

Sure, people who tan have been discriminated against. I happen to know a highly educated Indian (dot) young man whose white wife had nasty things said to her in a diner while he was in the restroom, because she was a you know what “lover”. I also know that mixed race families can be extremely sensitive on that stuff, sometimes unwarrantedly. A couple of our friends, way back when used to get upset at people “staring at our kids”. The truth is both their kids were stunningly beautiful. So, yeah, people stared. Now, some might have been racist, but I suspect most were like me, awestruck at the kids’ beauty. Still, yeah, there are still racists out there, though most of it isn’t the “white supremacy” of the left’s obsession but “He/she ain’t one of us.” And all of us, everyone alive right now, has been a victim of it.

It might be that a realtor didn’t take you seriously, because you were “Mexican” and “poor” — waves hand in the air, though honestly most of it was, PROBABLY that we went to see the house dressed like college students. It was Saturday, we had a small child. We were tired — or it might be you were passed up for promotion because you’re a male of pallor (there’s a vast group of these, and frankly their wives are salty too.) Or it could be the teacher who treated your kid as mentally slow because he was “mixed race” even though being Portuguese you weren’t aware you were of a different race than your Scotts/Irish/German/Amerindian husband. Or– Never mind.

Yes, it has affected me, hence the examples, but heck, I’ve had friends discriminated against for being Mormon, which as we all know is a legion of pale.

And part of this is that people are trying to read “a certain cast” of features which can be interpreted various ways. I can post pictures here of my mom that will have you certain she’s Philippine. That I know of we have absolutely NO Asian blood other than some Indian (dot.) But between hairstyle, makeup and the peculiar artifacts of photos in the 40s, you’d swear to it.

And the problem is Americans read these tea leaves all the time, and do things like “see” some race or subrace in someone. Because they’ve become conditioned to do so. And then they make assumptions — I want you to admire what it would take to look at me and see “Mexican” because it really is astonishing. But then imagine the triple leap of the people who decided DAN was also Mexican, because…. I don’t know. He has black hair? And the truly gifted people who out of nowhere decided we were BOTH Russian and spoke Russian at home (this was after years of trying to put our kids in bilingual, Spanish education, but new principal. And this is what she attributed younger son’s deafness-driven speech issues) — and treat people a certain way. Those people get very upset and treat other people in retaliation. My younger DIL who is one of the whitest women I know has been screamed at and attacked for being “white” which is racism, exactly like attacking someone for being black.

Racism is not skin color plus power or lack thereof, for one because power is not a Marxist thing where groups have power and others don’t. A young white woman who works entry level employment for a living has far less power than a black woman with an ivy league education. To pretend otherwise requires the invention of phantoms like “Structural racism” which is invisible and undefinable bur pervades everything, supposedly, and that leads you down the rabbit hole where you start claiming holocaust survivors have “privilege.” The backlash from that kind of stupidity is going to be epic and leave scorched cities in its wake. And it’s already started.

Which brings us to the next part of this. Apparently we’re not supposed to make fun of Kamala, or refer to the fact her greatest accomplishment and so far as we can tell the only thing she was competent at was servicing a powerful man in exchange for advancement. And we’re not supposed to make fun of her cackle. And we’re not supposed to point out her stunningly bizarre lack of competence. (She’s not really any more competent than her zombie boss.)

Why not? Because you don’t hit a girl. Particularly you don’t hit a female “of color.”

This is the part I roll up sleeves.

Oh, you sweet summer child.

Apparently attacking a woman will backfire “with the American people.” As Sarah Palin can attest right? The woman who was dragged up one side the street and down the other, and called everything but a child of G-d for the offense of running for VP as GOP and being one of best governors Alaska has had? Yeah, granted, she wasn’t a “woman of color” being about one jot lighter than Kamala.

Are we for real now? I don’t know where you people are coming from, but you must have grown up in 1940s movies, where offending “a lady” was a problem.

Nowadays women will be offended if you call them ladies. No, I don’t get it either, but it’s what it is, right?

Nowadays 90 lbs women will challenge 200 lbs guys for a fist fight, because they’ve seen it in movies and it must be real. It speaks to the essential goodness of American males that fewer of them are killed than you’d expect. Nowadays there’s not a single man OF ANY COLOR alive who hasn’t been screamed at by a woman in a rage for the crime of… being nice to her? There isn’t a man alive who hasn’t seen a woman promoted over him because “has vagina.” There isn’t a man alive who hasn’t been told he’s a horrible person for having a penis. (This last includes boys.) There isn’t a man alive who hasn’t been accused of something imaginary by a woman and had a hell of a time extricating himself. And if there is one or two, maybe, he probably has close friends or relatives who have suffered through this.

The chivalry and “you don’t hit a girl” and “let the woman have her turn” of the American people have been stretched to the breaking point.

Now, do all women behave badly? No we don’t. Do all women get undeserved promotions/grades/benefits? No, we don’t. Just like not all minorities advanced are undeserving.

And frankly, the Didn’t Earn It advancement of the undeserving pisses off women and minorities who actually work for it and earned it MORE than it does the white people bypassed in favor of the incompetents. Because our hard earned success gets ascribed to the same kind of preference. And NOTHING, nothing burns more than that.

There is a meme going around about how you shouldn’t say Kamala advanced on her knees, because would you want your sisters/daughters/wives to hear that.

My response to that is, yes, when I say TRUE THINGS about how a woman in power got that power, I WANT my child to hear it. I want her to hear that sleeping with a man for power is NOT the way to achieve it, that it makes people question your competence. I want them to see strong, powerful women who achieved power on their own merit.

I mean, I may disagree with political positions held by Nikki Haley and Tulsi Gabbard (two OTHER Indian-American women), but neither of them can credibly be accused of selling themselves for power. At least not sexually.

Kamala Harris is a horror. The horror starts with her having slept her way into power she was quite incompetent to hold. It goes on through her being a convinced Marxist which at this point after all the discomfirmation of the philosophy is the refuge of the idiots who rely on discrimination to advance.

And it continues to an utter and complete lack of empathy or even understanding others are human beings. Her “I was that girl” at Joe in the primary debates — whatever you think of Joe — was her slipping a shiv in the back of a man who had materially helped her. His look was one most men will recognize. Go and look at that debate. There are recordings, I’m sure. In my opinion that was responsible for how badly she did in the primaries. Wounded men recognized the behavior. They’d suffered it before. So do the women who love them and saw them be treated that way by women they helped before.

And while on that, her complete lack of empathy is expressed in her support for Hamas and hatred of Jews AFTER THE EVENTS OF 10/7. Oh, and her help to release BLM burners and looters to burn and loot some more. All of which is her using humans as chess pieces, not really humans.

If you can look at that creature, and NOT hit her with everything you have, including that she’s pretending to be something — American black, descended from slaves — which she’s not, that she’s a woman who advanced in the oldest and most corrupt way possible, that her very utterances show either lack of brain or heavy drug use, and that she’s to all accounts an ideological monster and a horrible human being, that doesn’t make you “good”, it makes you willing to trade the future of the nation for your own self image as superior and standing above it all.

More importantly, if you’re clinging to “Gentlemen don’t hit girls, because if they do everyone will turn against them and defend the girl”, you’re a patsy. You are specifically a patsy of the leftists, and believe what they want you to believe.

They certainly hit women on our side with everything for the slightest step our of line. If you have time, I’ll show you the scars, some day. Or maybe they’re displayed well enough on this post. Also, I recommend you ask Sarah Palin about it. They destroyed her on every level.

More importantly, we DO know the culture has turned, even if the left refuses to believe it. I call to witness EVERY movie with girlbosses or even super-tan girlbosses, and their failure at the box office.

Yes, in most cases it is because those movies are horrible. But in a couple of cases, because younger son told me the movie was actually “okay” — not wonderful, but okay — and had been lumped in with the horrible ones because of the girlbosses, I watched them. And he was right. The movies were okay. But people couldn’t take another girlboss, another reboot with “girlboss of color”.

The left still thinks casting that way is infallible, because no one would dare hit the movies. They’ll get called racist! Sexist! (Which probably explains their choosing Kamala.)

They don’t get those words have lost all power. I do.

Since if I have grandkids they’re likely to tan (notwithstanding the pallor of one DIL. The other tans darker than my son despite being blond.) and since I have friends with beautiful, bright young daughters who are far darker and more “black” than Kamala, since I am a woman even if an atypical one, I beg you to stop your ridiculous chivalry to people like Kamala.

She doesn’t deserve any forbearance or respect accorded to her for characteristics of birth. And the more you give to people like her, the more you setup the rest of us for the backlash.

If you insist on behaving like patsies and let that creature be “elected” (mostly fraud, but if you shut up you let it sound plausible) you’ll probably be setting up such a backlash to the horrors she’ll put us through that you’ll set the condition of women and people who tan back to the EARLY twentieth century.

Do you want that on your conscience? I hope you do, because if you allow that to happen most of us will never, ever forgive you.

Now lecture me once more about being nice. Tell me again that I must fight with my legs in a sack. Tell me I can’t call her Kamala when most of us called George W. Bush Dubya. Tell me I can’t say chick who looks like light skinned Indian (dot) isn’t black. Tell me I can’t refer to her as being a slept-into-power woman when I said the same about Hilary.

Go ahead. Lecture me. It will be amusing. I have a fever and time to burn.

And I’m fighting for the future of women, particularly those who tan. And for that matter the future of men, particularly those who tan.

And frankly, your delicate, lilac scented feelings aren’t even in the picture as far as my concerns.

So, do go ahead. Make my day.

183 thoughts on “You Don’t Hit A Girl”

  1. Didn’t you know Sarah? Palin wasn’t a Real Woman, she was a Republican therefore she “deserves” anything that happened to her. [Sarcastic Grin]

    By the way, that idiot didn’t know you.

    After all, intelligent people who know you also know “Don’t Get Sarah Hoyt Mad At You”. [Crazy Grin]

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  2. I’ve seen a few posts on FB saying that we shouldn’t call her “knee pads” he things (which I don’t) like that because we’ll lose the women’s votes.
    As if it weren’t the women saying it?

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      1. Like what I said about Vance’s “childless women’s” comment bringing forth, “How dare you moc, women with infertility issues! Any woman who has struggled with infertility will have nothing to do with you! How cruel!

        When he’s calling out a group of women who are mostly, “Childless by Choice!” And “Reproductive Freedom!” sorts who probably look down on women who actually want children. I just don’t see it.

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        1. I’ve gone through infertility.
          And yet he’s right.
          The group he’s calling out are people who want to live like college students forever. To see yourself in it is fake outrage.
          There’s a guy on twitter on how he and his fiance don’t want kids, but he’s a business owner and reee.
          I think it’s time for a post on children again, and what having children does to you. on the mental level.
          Honestly, I don’t have grandkids. Might never have them. Does this make me slightly less detached from the future? Yeah, it does. If I knew I’d never have them for sure, I only have to worry about the next 40 years or so, of my kids lives and makin them secure.
          Do I care in the abstract, sure. BUT the personal connection is dfferent.

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          1. Before I had kids,I didn’t care about politics or what was happening in the world. Once I had kids, I was much more invested and thought differently about politics. Now that I have grandchildren, I’m MUCH more political, and more conservative. (More interested in conserving for their future!). My father, who is working on 6 great-grandchildren, has become rabidly conservative!! It does change your viewpoint and don’t let anyone shame you into believing otherwise!

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              1. I don’t have grandchildren. Probably won’t. I have a vestment in the future because I have great-nieces and great-nephews, ages 6 months to 21 (granted we don’t have contact with the older ones, but they are there). The young ones? They are an investment in the future. Want to see that they have a future. Same with all the new babies, related or not.

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    2. The one I saw was that the men shouldn’t remind everyone that she sucked her way to the top, because they should let the women do it instead.

      I guess it’s an attempt to use female social pressure to turn women off Kamala, because …. Leftist women and normal women are in the same social networks? They imagine?

      IDK.

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        1. Not me. I suffered because of women like K. Dammit. I will tell them not only “No, am not voting for that slut. But “Hell No. I am not voting for that slut.” She is a slut.

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    3. Stephen “VodkaPundit” Greene was saying it. And he added two other items

      1.) Her record is absolutely horrible, so there is plenty more to attack her with.

      2.) Women already know that she slept her way into power. If you don’t give them an emotional excuse to close ranks with her over it, then they will hold it against her. Because they know, and they hate that sort of thing.

      Point #1 is still the most important, though. Her record is terrible, and there’s a ridiculous amount of stuff to use against her.

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      1. Yes. Let us not forget the part of her record where, as DA, she suppressed exculpatory evidence on black men she’d thrown in prison so as to keep them as slaves to the state. Or all the men (especially black men) who were not innocent, but who she kept in prison longer than they should have been on the flimsiest of excuses–again, so they could be workers for the state (ie, sending them out to fight fires).

        Not only is the woman in no way the descendant of Africans brought to the US as slaves, she is ACTIVELY LOOKING TO ENSLAVE PEOPLE AND HAS IN THE PAST.

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          1. Since Jamaica is not part of the United States, the 13th amendment wouldn’t have affected them. How long did they hang onto their slaves after it was illegal in the US?

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            1. “The British Parliament held two inquires as a result of the loss of property and life in the 1831 Baptist War rebellion.[citation needed] Their reports of the conditions of the slaves contributed greatly to the abolition movement and helped lead to the passage of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, formally ending slavery in Jamaica on August 1, 1834. However, the act stipulated that all slaves above the age of 6 on the date abolition took effect, were bound (indentured) in service to their former owners’, albeit with a guarantee of rights, under what was called the “Apprenticeship System”. The length of servitude that was required varied based on the former slaves’ responsibilities with “domestic slaves” owing four years of service and “agriculture slaves” owing six. In addition to the apprentice system, former slave owners were to be compensated for the loss of their “property.” By 1839, “Twenty Million Pounds Sterling” was paid out to the owners of slaves freed in the Caribbean and Africa under the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, half of whom were absentee landlords residing in Great Britain.” Wikipedia

              Slavery in Jamaica was eliminated well before the Unpleasantness here that we dare not name – the Wrath of Sarah is formidable.

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            2. The British Parliament held two inquires as a result of the loss of property and life in the 1831 Baptist War rebellion.[citation needed] Their reports of the conditions of the slaves contributed greatly to the abolition movement and helped lead to the passage of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, formally ending slavery in Jamaica on August 1, 1834. However, the act stipulated that all slaves above the age of 6 on the date abolition took effect, were bound (indentured) in service to their former owners’, albeit with a guarantee of rights, under what was called the “Apprenticeship System”. The length of servitude that was required varied based on the former slaves’ responsibilities with “domestic slaves” owing four years of service and “agriculture slaves” owing six. In addition to the apprentice system, former slave owners were to be compensated for the loss of their “property.” By 1839, “Twenty Million Pounds Sterling” was paid out to the owners of slaves freed in the Caribbean and Africa under the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, half of whom were absentee landlords residing in Great Britain. – Wikipedia

              Slavery in Jamaica was eliminated well before the Great Unpleasantness in this country that shall not be named – the Reader fears the Wrath of Sarah.

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    4. Can we call her “Throat GOAT” (as in ‘greatest of all time’ goat.)? Please?

      Seriously, THEY can call us whatever they want and get away with it. And we’re the wrong ones for calling them out?

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      1. Yep. Because the emotive reasoning is, ” YOU’RE the ones who talk about chivalry and good manners. History is on Our Side and we can say what we want. You better live up to your own rules and treat us like goddesses, or we’ll call you hypocrits!”

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    5. Whispers are she gave so many blow jobs on the way up she developed a chronic inflammation of the jaw joint making her success a real life Fellatio Neuralgia story. Even so I do not call her “Knee Pads.” That is demeaning and disrespectful to someone in her position. Instead I choose to honor her and those who follow her by naming her:

      Slut Queen of the Big Bird Brains.

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      1. Well, you could say her policies are poopyheaded, but that might seem like the taunt of a 9 year old, versus say 12.

        It really is more effective to destroy her on her insane hard-left nuttery, versus her oration skills.

        (grin)

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    2. My mother was a Montana farm girl: between her and Daddy we lost count of the spoons broken and good leather belts worn out in the raising of us three boys (all of whom went on the commission as US military officers) and our sister.

      ¡Viva las chanclas de las mamas!

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  4. Hope you feel better soon.

    BTW we’re home, my beloved is supposed to take it easy but the cardiologist is pretty upbeat on the whole. I have mostly slept out my exhaustion.

    Just spending too much time on Twitter.

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        2. Suggesting that we kill them all and let God sort them out was enough to get me blocked until I deleted the post.

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          1. Hooligan was once the name of an Irish family, apparently. It seems their reputation is now nigh legendary.

            My maternal grandfather and his spirited brothers were not strong enough competition to wrest the title…

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  5. The one thing that had me snorting scornfully about Kamala-Sutra’s “I was that little girl!” thing was that … there was never Jim-Crow segregation in California’s public education system. No urban school system had the schools for white kids, and then the separate schools specifically for blacks, or other racial minorities. And I attended Los Angeles-area public schools from 1959 on to I graduated HS in 1972, so I would recall quite clearly how racial matters stood at that period in time, and in that state!

    What racial segregation existed was pretty much geographic – that people clustered like to like, on more of an economic basis. Poor – and there were heaps of poor white areas, as well as poor Hispanic and everything else, and the local schools reflected the neighborhoods. There were only a handful of black students at my high school, and IT WAS BECAUSE THEIR PARENTS LIVED IN THE SCHOOL CATCHMENT AREA … not because of formal desegregation or mandatory bussing or anything like that.

    What Kamala-Sutra was doing was trying to cast herself as a baby heroine of the Brown VS Board of Ed era, and painting the California public school systems as something which they definitely weren’t. Talk about stolen valor…

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    1. I went to Berkeley schools “just before” she did. Berkeley had neighborhood schools. Some were naturally integrated like LeConte which took kids who were the sons of college professors, sons of former sharecroppers, who came to work in the shipyards in WW2, daughters of Japanese who were interned in WW2, and children of refugees from the Baltic states. I went to elementary school with them in the 50’s.

      Berkeley had 3 Junior High schools, 7-9th grade. Willard on Telegraph was integrated due to the feeder schools it had. This is where I went.The other two, Garfield, and Burbank were not as diverse. Garfield served the “rich” north Berkeley kids. Burbank did not. In the late 60’s they did the bussing thing that worked so well at crashing the public schools. So K was part of the social experiment. By then I was in the Army, west across the Pacific. I was lucky. My plane stopped in Hawaii.

      Berkeley had one high school. 3,000 kids, from the entire city, “Berkeley High”. So from start to finish I went to integrated schools, with tracking. Berkeley was sane then. Some good teachers.

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  6. “NO ONE that has lived in the US for the last 50 years who HASN’T experienced discrimination based on the way they look, or some perceived racial group.”

    Can attest to. I almost lost a friend saying something like this.

    long story short, kid with pale complexion in a Calif school that was predominantly populated by students of darker complexions during mid 70’s.

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    1. I lost a friend. She asked me what I thought of the way BLM was acting. I told her. They act as if black lives only matter if they’re affected by a white life.

      She called me a racist, and we haven’t spoken since.

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      2. Not a very good friend, then.

        I’ve had those. They’re good friends until you express yourself and then (insert finger pointing and sound of Donald Southerland shrieking…)

        One, a very very good friend, one I’d helped with lots of stuff, in my hour of need (losing house due to issues) started screaming at me about Trump OrangeManBad and such.

        Sigh. Oh well, less Christmas cards to mail out. Though, to be petty, my wife and I have taken to find the most schmaltzily Christian Christmas cards to send to all our cardly receivers. Behold, you have chosen the form of your destructor….

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      3. Be grateful; for a momentary bit of pain (if that) you rid yourself of a purported human with the cognitive ability of a slug.

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    2. My grandmother was a hard-core liberal feminist, for her time. She told me once that she would never vote for a woman because “they can’t be trusted.” She also said she would vote for the devil if he ran as a Democrat.

      I asked her what she would do if a woman ran as a Democrat. Our conversation was abruptly over.

      I wonder what she would say about Camel-ah.

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      1. My mother, a true blue ‘FDR is a saint’ democrat, finally started listening to what I have been saying for decades. She actually believed everything the MSM was saying about BushHitler and Trump. And did not understand that the MSM hadn’t been involved in actual news for, well, over 60 years. I’d tell her something true about Trump, like the truth about Trump’s non-racism and such, and she’d go, “Why didn’t the news report this?”

        It was like banging my head against the wall. But I did finally get her to open her eyes.

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  7. …this, of course, assumes that Kamala Harris is a girl. Female by genes, maybe, but more akin to a dangerous snake or similar creature.

    Right now, if I was the Republican campaign advisor, I’d say “hit harder, they’re noticing it. Anybody that would be turned off by us attacking a woman wouldn’t be voting for us in any case.”

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    1. This. If they’re reeeeeing this loudly, it means you’re hitting them where it hurts. This isn’t some sedate debate; it’s a knock-down, drag-out fight. You don’t win by refusing to hit the opponent where it hurts. When you find something that damages them, *do it again, as fast and hard as you can.*

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      1. If you’re taking flak, you’re over the target.
        Go after her record and compare her to her contemporaries. Her FEMALE contemporaries.
        Show how badly she’s done at every job since she was the VP.
        Keep pointing out that she was anointed, not elected by the Democratic Party.
        And how she’s hiding Biden behind her apron strings.

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  8. You don’t hit a lady. She ain’t no lady.
    Also, what tan color she has comes from her mother, as her dad is very pale looking. I’ve met a Jamaican lady with rather blonde hair, pale complexion and lovely freckles who is obviously got African ancestry (hair and facial features even figure would fit that ultra-black fashion model that was a rage from a few years back), so yeah, might could have some African/slave ancestry, but he is mostly straight down from the Slaveholder families. Obama’s African family also was supposedly slave sellers way back. So there’s that.
    Harris showed that slaveholder side, keeping people in prison for longer than their term for the free labor.

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    2. Hell, I’ve seen Irish girls from mixed-race families whose skin is whiter than mine (and I’m very much an Irish redhead) and have extremely blonde or blonde-red hair, but also obviously have African ancestry in terms of bone structure, etc. (They’re extremely striking.)

      Reading what Sarah said about how so many Americans try to code race…yeah. That’s the lefitsts all the way, and I thank G-d that my parents really did manage to make me mostly race blind. Sure, I notice different skin colors…the same way I see hair color, or height. Of course, according to most leftists, this makes me of course a racist.

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      2. According to the idiot leftists (yeah, redundant) not noticing race (i.e., all lives matter, color blind, etc.) makes you a racist. Newspeak on steroids.

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            1. The best response to the idiots is still, IMHO, to laugh at them while (if it’s in person) you walk away shaking your head. But maintain situational awareness; they seem to think surprise attacks are the way to go.

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  9. And of course then there’s the question, does anyone honestly think Putin or Xi’s successor is going to handle her with kid gloves if she does become the president?

    Heck, which country was it that was running “but the dress was blue?” gag on laundry detergent ads back in the day?

    Kamala is no Iron Lady. She doesn’t even rise to the level of steel bouffant…

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  10. Huzzah! Hit this nail right on the head!

    I have 2 daughters and 3 DILs. Not a one of whom slept, or otherwise serviced, her way to very their very hard-won great success in their respective fields. Nor did I. I am appalled that someone would think that calling the DIE hire that is our current VP a what she so very clearly is could possibly be any reflection on me or my female relatives.

    How VERY DARE they!

    Ladies, and I do mean Ladies, we absolutely MUST push back on this.

    Period.

    *snicker, snicker*

    I said period.

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  12. This will be the election of ‘-ist’ Every criticism of the current Dem candidate will be one of two ‘-ist’ or three, if the VP she picks is Pete. The Dems absolutely hammered that in for the two terms of O, repeatedly like using a five-pound sledge to put in tacks. Doubt me? Listen to any of their speeches for more than a minute without hearing at least one criticism of their opponents as one variety of ‘-ist’ or another.

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    2. Eh, that’s been every election since Obama, pretty much. Didn’t vote for lightbringer twice? Racist. Didn’t vote for the Hildebeast? Sexist. Didn’t vote for Joe-whose-VP-is-“black and female”? Racist AND sexist!

      The power of the -ists and -phobes are washing away every time they trot it out. People are sick of it.

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  13. I’m sorry you feel poorly but damn, I like this version of Sarah.

    And if Kamala decides she is going to try to be “hood,” it’s going to be the worst and cringiest version since Pasty-American Hillary Clinton’s “I ain’t no way taaaarrrrred” during the 2016 campaign. That woman is about as authentic as a three-dollar bill. And actually, I get the feeling that “the hood” senses it. There is a lot of dysfunction in black urban America at times but also, like most people, their BS detectors are more finely calibrated and more accurate than TPTB give them credit for.

    Oh, and as for discrimination for being a Pasty-American male? Try being a Pasty-American male in your fifties. In IT. I could rant for hours (and my poor wife can assure you that I have) about what happens when first-generation or zeroth-generation Indian-Americans get the levers of power in corporate America. They hire their own. PERIOD. And the DEI bean-counters love it because Muh Diversity.

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    2. Semiconductor cubeland during my time there was very mixed, but mixed mostly direct from elsewhere via H1b indenture. While earlier on in my time in the cubes it was lots of Taiwan and mainland China with a few from the subcontinent, as time went on it became more and more subcontinental, and those that stayed moved up the ladder.

      It is also a very cyclical business, so there are booms where they can’t possibly find enough U.S. Persons who meet their job requirements, and downturns where layoffs are the rule, and the lowest cost employees tend to get retained.

      So in boom times they hire lots of H1b indentures because of scarcity, and in busts they keep lots of H1b indentures due to cost.

      Add to that the preference bias of subcontinental managers noted by Anonymoose and the mix can get far, for into astoundingly out whack. And this rolls back upstream to the universities, where the word gets around on what the hiring chances are for, say, EE grads, so there are yet fewer U.S. Persons graduating into the heavily indentured specialties, which pushes things yet further.

      If I am elected god-king I will slap a bunch of immediate restrictions on the current H1b program while cutting all current indentures loose from their servitude, and then make massive reforms.

      I am FM and I approve this message.

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      1. I work in an IT department of a F500 company in the American South, I don’t feel comfortable giving too many more details than that. Department head came in about three years ago, Indian woman. Over the past two years she’s reshuffled and greatly expanded the management to be two-thirds Indian. Full-time employees are probably 70% Indian. SOW/contractors are 95+% Indian. Diwali is now a bigger holiday than Thanksgiving in the office.

        I genuinely do not think we’ve hired a White native-born American engineer in four years. I have been there 10+ years with zero promotions despite consistent good reviews. I’ve seen folks from the subcontinent get promoted right by me into management and higher pay grades. Some deserved it. Some didn’t.

        I know I haven’t kept my tech skills *quite* up to where they should be over the past 20 years but I always figured I could make it by on soft skills, primarily excellent communication. (Not blowing my own horn too much, but I write decently, actually quite well for a tech-head. I can write really good documents.) Well, now, nobody cares about communication, because two-thirds of the audience have poor English skills. I’ll never rag on anybody for English as a second language, especially on THIS blog, but some of the emails and documents we get in our area now…YIKES. They don’t even bother to clean them up because cleaning them up would be wasted, let’s just say.

        I probably would have let my prejudices at this point get the best of me and be very reluctant to vote for, say, Vivek. That’s on me. But I don’t care if J.D. Vance’s wife is Indian, that’s not fair to him. I care where he stands on shutting down the H-1B indentured servitude program and putting Americans back to work in tech. (And honestly, the H-1B program isn’t fair to the visaholders either. It really is the closest thing to indentured servitude we have left this side of prison industries.)

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        1. Max the skillset uptake. The field is brutal.

          Be the “great communicator” for the team. Write the announcements. Write the processes. Write t he SOPs, the RCAs. Proof the others docs. Be the wiki keeper, chief author, and contribution nagger.

          Be the presenter-in-chief.

          Bang. You make them look good and are the answergeek. Bang. The smart ones will eat (dookie) to keep you around

          Doesn’t hurt to make FaceTime with as many answer-seeking VIPs as possible.

          In other words, if exploited, exploit them right back.

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      2. I was in semiconductors though the Dot Com boom (V1.0), and when that started to implode, Agilent (who had been spun off from HP as no longer cool enough–courtesy Carly Fiorina) decided to start layoffs. In our group (maybe 10 test engineers), two of us got tagged to go first. Mikael (part of the late 20th century diaspora of Russian Jews) and I both noted that late 40-early 50s white guys seemed to have been hit first. (H1B was barely a thing there in 2001, though some companies in the Valley already had Indians at the top.)

        We got metaphorical revenge, though. Seems the people who were laid off first (Agilent/HP had little experience with such, previously preferring incentives to quit) got really sweet termination benefits, unlike those who watched the division being shipped to Singapore along with the company exiting the business altogether. They didn’t get much.

        With the help of a year-long consulting gig, I retired at 50 (test engineering jobs in Silicon Valley were evaporating like mad, generally turning into “develop here, send overseas”) with enough money to get the house in good shape to sell and move to Deepest Oregon.

        And yeah, those kept longer became more DIE as the trainwreck progressed.

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    3. Indian team lead.

      Genius. Dang good engineer. Put a stop to “death by meeting” and “death by unpaid overtime” (salaried team)

      Great guy and takes care of us.

      Like tends to hire like. But he seems to identify as “ubergeeeek”

      If he is trying to replace me with an immigrant, the glowing reviews are an odd way to do it.

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      1. I had really good Indian coworkers, reports and managers, and really horrible, same distribution as everyone else. Same for Pakistanis and Bangladeshis.

        But when a round of RIFs caught a bunch of H1b indentures back after the dot0com bubble burst, all that I heard for weeks was how horrible it was they had to go home if they could not find another job, both water cooler and in staff meetings from the veeps and directors before the meeting started. And the next one caught a lot more non-H1b employees.

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        1. Strictly business, best value. Folks who do same or more work for same or less money.

          If you surface that your “management culture” stinks, get ballsy and get moving. Wishing about it won’t fix it, and you usually land better when you jump, versus being pushed.

          “You land better when you jump.”

          Have in your your sock drawer at least six months of living expense money, and job-searching is -far- less traumatic. Pay off all debts and -much- better.

          Never said “easy”.

          Pay off debt. Squirrel six months of plenty. Keep the radar on for opportunity.

          Active life folks, not passive. Same as writing.

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          1. Yep folks, strictly business. Just remember, there’s always someone in Mumbai who is as good as you are and can work cheaper than you, because the Indian government hasn’t been paid to impose regulation taxes that deliberately make your labor cost more than his.

            I love that “free trade” BS.

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            1. Yeah, about that offshoring “as good as…”

              When I was in technical marketing and my employer offshored all the tech writing, the little group I was in had to rewrite everything the offshore team produced. When we caught some schedule flak both sets of dev teams in Ireland and here all backed us, saying the Indian guys just could not produce documentation that made sense.

              One doc the input was a bullet list of points they were to write about, basically a section per bullet, and they sent back… the bullet list they were given, dropped into the doc template.

              With the time zone difference it was impossible to get anything fixed, even from Ireland, so we just redid everything.

              But salaries were a lot cheaper than the in-house tech pubs had been…

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              1. I think it may be a difference in the educational system or something else, I don’t know, but…the Indian-subcontinent workers I’ve worked with are generally very good at the tech side of the job, well-trained, mostly competent (variability is a thing, of course, they aren’t clones). But especially for the offshore folks, they are very good at rote or clearly-defined tasks. They tend to struggle with the more creative side of solution creation and thinking outside the box. Their boxes are taller, I guess. They’re really good at what they’re good at, but if you don’t clearly define the solution and constraints of what they’re to work on, they freeze up instead of coming up with a creative way around any roadblocks. That used to drive me crazy with a couple of offshore test engineers I worked with 15ish years ago. They were pleasant, talented, and did great work, but…they’d hit a small pebble-sized stumbling block in an assignment, email me for detailed instructions even though it was zero-dark-thirty my time, and then stop.

                This is lessened for the Indian folks I’ve worked with actually here in the States, but it still often has held true. I’ve worked with some absolute rock stars and some who I don’t know how they got a job, and that’s been true for all races and all backgrounds. That’s why I think it may be the way they teach in their colleges? I don’t know, but it’s definitely a tendency.

                Something else that was odd, but maybe this was our office…I gave an offshore worker a general rating of 4 out of 5 once, which is a good rating (I usually got consistent 4s with a few 3.5s, NOBODY got a 5). This guy actually called me the next morning and complained about getting a 4 because everybody else in the office was getting 4.5s. Apparently the local managers were just passing out top marks like Oprah passes out cars. Weird.

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                1. It’s culture and educational system. In Portugal even, the educational system is more “memorize vast amounts of stuff” than “work stuff out.” That stunts creativity and is a bugger to get over, even as an adult.
                  More difficult if you don’t leave the culture, I imagine.

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              2. “But salaries were a lot cheaper than the in-house tech pubs had been…”

                So instead they paid 3 people a lower salary? The numbers don’t match up.

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                1. Underpants Gnomes MBA logic.

                  Note that much offshoring has since lost much of its luster, even for stuff like call centers. And moving all manufacturing to China has now been widely identified as base folly. But for a while there the low rent, low pay rates, and nearly nonexistent benefits cost made c-suites tummies all butterfly-ie.

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            2. Yup. And lots of folks then make predictable decisions to buy labor cheap, just like most folks shop cheap.

              And they very often bitch, greatly long and loud, about folks who raise prices so they can buy/shop/hire/make local.

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  14. “There isn’t a man alive who hasn’t been told he’s a horrible person for having a penis.”

    Welllll … in sweeping generalizations, surely, but I don’t believe I’ve ever been told that to my face. Of course, I’m probably an outlier. (You know you have a disproportionate number of outliers here, right?) By nature, upbringing, and my own efforts, I’m a very polite person, circumspect in my speech and loath to give offense. Honey over vinegar; meeting aggressive assertions with indirect counters calculated to keep opponents from committing to offensiveness. So painfully nice around others that I’ve been asked (no offense!) if I’m Mormon.

    I can’t be Mormon. I’m not heavily armed enough.

    Of course, I need to consider the possibility that my demeanor just convinces people that I have nothing down there after all. This disturbs me less than it once would have, as my reservoir of caring what they think has reached severe drought levels. (Meaning I do still care, but only in limited, well-chosen instances.)

    Returning to the main topic, a point to raise with opponents who insist you have to be nice to the girl: Does any expect Xi Jinping will be thus deferential to her? Vladimir Putin? Kim Jong Un? Ayatollah Khamenei? American power politics may be squishy soft (in one direction), but global power politics is not. Anyone who can’t withstand the heat of a sharply contested election is going to melt, or sublimate, under real fire.

    We have had much more than enough of that already.

    Republica restituendae, et, Hamas delenda est.

    (The latter includes Cackles the Fellow Traveler. The former would exclude her.)

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    1. I would say the only way America would be ready for a female president would be if we had a Margaret Thatcher. And the left would HATE that, because they hate actually-strong women.

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    2. I’ve gotten reamed out for holding a door for the female behind me.
      It was a very old, very large, very thick door of solid oak, with a very tight spring, at the top of a flight of stone stairs.
      She was maybe 95lbs. and her indignation did not defy physics.
      I still get warm fuzzies remembering the karma.

      I wish I could say it was my only experience with indignant feminists.

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      1. Oh, that brings back memories! Mine was a glass door and a somewhat larger indignatrix; the door didn’t quite hit her when I let it go in her face after she ranted about “male chauvinism” when I held the door for her (as I was taught to do from an early age), but it was close. Warm fuzzies indeed…

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        1. You both would get a “thank you” from me. Sure I can open my own doors. Doesn’t mean I have to. So, “thank you, gentlemen.”

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          1. There was a story about Joan Baez where she was asked if she’d let a man open a door for her.

            Her answer basically was “When I’m carrying a baby and my guitar, if a man offers to open a door for me, I’ll let him.” [Very Big Grin]

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          2. Some very interesting discussions when I hold the door for the man behind me. Funniest one, he was a delivery guy, burdened with multiple boxes on one arm and a loaded dolly in the other hand. Insisted I should go first. “My grandmother would never forgive me.”

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  15. Well, it looks like the Democrats have lost BLM’s support. Because, and I kid you not (it’s on their X account, but I can only see screenshots and can’t figure out how to insert pictures in a WP comment), they are pissed that she secured the nomination in 24 hours by phoning up the party bosses, which they claim (rightly, holy carp!) is NOT the democratic process and smacks of an autocratic dictatorship, which the United States is NOT.

    When you’ve become too Communist for a gang of self-avowed hardcore Marxists, you know you’ve gone too far. Or at least, you should know. But given how self-aware and in-touch the DNC is these days, I doubt they realize it.

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    2. Yeah, I suspect the Wild-Eyes Bolsheviks of four years ago are (not that they’re going to admit it) starting to feel the presence of The Real World and grow up just a bit.

      Something about the gods of the copybook headings, wasn’t it?

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  16. I have now seen nine or ten different Kamala commercials, all asking for moolah.

    On the tenth one, someone has autotuned Kamala’s voice, so that it magically doesn’t have all that stopping-starting creaky voice fry.

    I’m sure you’ll see it soon. It’s the one where she’s wearing a dark suit jacket with a diagonal-necked white blouse. (Probably the best outfit she’s had on, so it’s probably new too.)

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    1. It’s been my policy to not listen to politician’s speeches/walking (though I make an exception for President Trump). I guess I should bite the bullet and catch some of Kneepads’ vocal eructions. Is her laugh actually that bad? Asking for a friend.

      (Being not-quite deaf in one ear has something to do with said policy. Some women’s voices really hurt.)

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      1. Caught the cringe-o-matic “spontaneous” phone call from The Lightbringer and Big Mike supporting Harris, but haven’t looked hard for her laugh. The voice! Now I know what extreme vocal fry sounds like. Shudders.

        I suspect I’ll do my damndest to not hear her speeches. Assuming there are legitimate transcripts. Naive, I suppose to make that assumption. Sigh.

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        1. Apparently they cut the feed when she started laughing.

          The panic is already setting in among the, “normies don’t know, and they get all their news from the media who loves her, they’re making her look good, we’re all gonna DIIEEEEEEE!” crowd.

          Tiring.

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          1. I did a search on “kamala harris laughing” and ran across a u-tube channel “Cackle with Kamala”, very much pro-Harris. Skipped the obnoxious opening “music” and caught a few seconds of her laugh. I’ve heard worse, but it was a really bad nightmare…

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            1. Kamala the Shrill, Kamala the Shrill,/If she doesn’t creep you no freaky thing will./She’s like a wierdo waitin’ for the Thrill!/Look out for Kamala the Shrill.

              Noplace is safe, nothing can hide you/Isn’t that Kamala there beside you? (Eeeeeeeek!)

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  17. You know, even the die-est of die-hard traditionalists agree that it is fine for other women to “hit a girl”.

    Good luck trying to convince us that one does not have it coming.

    Let the memes flow.

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  18. I’ve had plenty of women tell me they don’t like working with women. I’m thinking it’s because women don’t put up with crap from other women, and can be ruthless.

    Hit a women? No way. Wait long enough, and another woman will do it for you.

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    3. Amen.

      58 years ago I get a call out of the blue. “ABC wants to switch crews from S to T. What do you think about this?” Me: “Is ABC (adds descriptions)?” “Yes.” Me: “I will be the one teamed with ABC all summer?” “Yes.” “Please, no.” She wasn’t. She filed a discrimination suit. The day the crew was accompanied by the fact finder, another woman, approached the 3 of us working in the field (to be fair only 2 of us actually worked in the field, the 3rd worked in the office, but made better “percentages”. Still was part of the “crew”, just not field crew, and no I did not point that out. Not stupid.) The fact finder approached all 3 of us and asked if the work that day was “typical”. Answer. “No. Actually a fairly easy day. Guess they found a presale to make it easy on you. Last week we were going down and up slopes, running logging profile lines, that resembled cliffs.” The problem went away.

      As far as programming, never met a woman who also didn’t belong there (obviously I did, and … hmm checks, …. Yes, still a woman).

      So, yes, I am there.

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  19. Is it just me or is anyone else getting duplicate comments via email?

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    1. I’ve been getting them for a long time, over 5 years? That includes likes, and it’s here, MGC, and Cat Rotators. WPDE.

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      2. It just started doing that today so I was wondering if I did something wrong.

        Oh well, WORD PRESS MUST DIE!!!!!

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  20. I hope she picks bootygig for veep. I can just see the black guys lining up for a loud, obnoxious, fake black woman and a gay guy. Black guys, in my experience, aren’t down with the gay.

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    1. And the hilarious thing is, the dems really are that disconnected from reality that they would be utterly baffled.

      I am praying that they can’t cheat the election again, or think they won’t have to.

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    2. I am not sure why the Dems think the Indian (dot) female will appeal to black people solely because of her Pantone grade.

      Does she really come off as black in black communities? From my Silicon Valley perspective, she’s always read to me like another subcontinental.

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      3. Article pointing out this morning the media is leaning heavily on her attendance at, “historically Black,” Howard University. Suggesting she was already politically ambitious then and realized being “Black,” would get her farther than being, “Indian.”

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    3. Josh Shapiro is being floated at the same time, “There might be problems….after all, he’s Jewish,” comments have come out.

      And of course on the conservative/never Trump side, “Vance is the worst pick ever!”

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  22. I’m still furious about the way they not only slimed Palin, but drove her clear out of public life. I never forget and never, never forgive (what can I say, I’m a tragic victim of Scottish Alzheimer’s—we forget everything but the blood-feuds!) and IMO the Democrats are long, long overdue for some real payback.

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  23. Apparently the Hugo crew is playing “how low can you go” games.

    Last year, they seem to have dumped some candidates that were objectionable to the ChiComs. Gee. Kindashitty.

    But wait! There’s more!

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jul/23/hugo-awards-fraudulent-votes-paid-for-one-author-ntwnfb

    Supposedly, something like 10% of the ballots this year were fraudulent. The names were blatantly obvious, which suggests that others might not be so obvious. Because only an idiot would expect those alphabetical lists of slightly varying names were “real”.

    Well, they -eventually- caught it.

    Just wondering, hypothetical-like, if there will be …. corrections … to future ballots. And how those choices get made… Because someone with $20k to blow on messaging “your ballot security sucks” to a handful of wannabe ubergeeks, probably has more than $20k to blow. Possibly much more. So next year probably less obvious: John Smith, John Worfin, John Smallberries, John Yahyah, etc..

    Giggle Puppies?

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    1. John Bigbootay…

      Yeah, out of ~4000 ballots nearly 400 of them were obviously fake. I can’t be bothered to look it up, those numbers are close enough.

      The take-home here is that ~4000 ballots is deciding the “best” in Science Fiction and Fantasy. And some guy could have bought himself a Hugo this year for under $20k, if he wasn’t quite so lazy.

      Not to mention the ChiComs bought themselves Chengdu WorldCon for similar money. And policed the nominations for free, allegedly.

      Makes me proud to be a Sad Puppy, yes it does.

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  25. On the “things Liberals believe”.

    On another site, a discussion on Israel/Palestine is on-going and one Liberal seriously stated that American Evangelists support Israel because “all Jews/Israeli have to die before the Rapture can occur”.

    After being challenged about that, he stated “well they aren’t going to openly say that”.

    I got into End-Time Prophecies back in the 70’s so I know that’s Nonsense.

    Might not be “nice” of me but I responded with LOL’s. [Shakes Head]

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      1. To be fair, Sarah, there IS a certain strain of Evangelical that believes something close. Back when Rev Guy Hunt was AL Gov, and Primitive Baptist, one of his major supporters when he was forced to resign in 1993 unburdened herself on TV by saying “Maybe it’s for the best; if things get bad enough Jesus will decide to come back.” Arrrgggghhhh!

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          1. The difference is that I can point to actual Scriptures (in red letter, even) that show that’s wrong. With Islam, that’s more of a challenge.

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              1. Not as tough as you might think.

                He said that no man knows the day or the hour, but He also said there would be signs and portents. Too many people think that they can create the signs and portents.

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          2. It is actually Islam levels of crazy. Not the Quran, as far as I can find out, but traditions. I think it’s Shia? I can’t remember. It’s basically Isa (Christ) returns with Mohamed to wipe out the Jews. It’s Revelations turned on its head with the sides reversed and Christ on the side of the Jews’ enemies.

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            1. Essentially, both.

              Shia/Suni split is over who was the rightful heir of Mohammad. His (very) young wife Aisha was a key player in the main battle. They have essentially declared each other apostate, thus the slaughter has been epic, and far exceeds the slaughter of non-Muslims.

              I suspect the Saudis and the other key Sunni players are very much hoping the Israelis save them the trouble of finishing the fight, by nuking the Shia Iranians into Trinitite.

              Monotite? Is that a MetaMOrphic rock?

              (Gonna get my head busted, just you watch. But “epic”.)

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          3. Absolutely. But you’re far more likely to have that used as a plot device on a TV show/series than someone trying to force the return of the 12th Imam.

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            1. The Republic of Iran would like a word….

              The Twelver beliefs have raised concern in conjunction with Iran’s steeped interest in furiously pressing forward with its nuclear program, combined with threats against Israel and the West. Critics of the Islamic Republic allege that Ahmadinejad and the Supreme Leader would even go so far as to hasten a nuclear showdown and cataclysmic strike—perhaps an attack on Israel and inevitable retaliation—to hasten the arrival of the 12th Imam. Ahmadinejad has even called for the reappearance of the 12th Imam from the podium of the United Nations General Assembly. During his speeches within Iran, Ahmadinejad has said that the main mission of the Islamic Revolution is to pave the way for the reappearance of the 12th Imam.

              https://www.learnreligions.com/who-is-the-12th-imam-3555177

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                1. True…. but not the point. The point was whether ” someone trying to force the return of the 12th Imam.” was a real thing, and the answer is “apparently it is”. Trying != succeeding.

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                  1. It appears to be, but making it a plot point on any entertainment would be called out as, “Islamophobia,” while a whack-job “evangelical,” church trying thr same would be accepted without a word.

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                    1. ‘Islamophobia’ is a Magic Word to wave away all the horrendous evil perpetrated by radical Moslems. All of which their Sacred Book explicitly tells them to do.

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                    2. Sci-fi is replete with doomsday cults. Just change the names, and it’s done. No one would believe you had the effrontry to tell the truth about the religion of peace.

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        2. Immanetize the eschaton!

          Because that’s totally something we have power to influence… 9_9

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      1. https://israelmyglory.org/article/the-timing-of-the-second-coming-of-christ-its-practical-implications-matthew-2432-51/

        A number of fine Christians believe that Christ used the fig tree to represent the nation of Israel, that the time when the tree’s branch is tender and it puts forth leaves refers to Israel’s restoration as an independent nation in 1948, and that the expression all these things (v. 33) also refers to that restoration. On the basis of this theory, they conclude that Jesus was saying, through this parable, that the restoration of Israel as a nation in 1948 would be a sign that His Second Coming was near and would take place within the lifetime of the generation that would witness that restoration. 

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        1. “number of fine Christians believe”

          Um. Different Christian cults will believe anything. Jonestown comes to mind. Excuse me if I do not drink the Koolaide. Just saying.

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          1. You wondered where the idea that Israel being re-established was significant came from. That’s where.

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  26. “… you must have grown up in 1940s movies, where offending “a lady” was a problem.”

    I did. And it IS a problem for me. I am automatically mentally handicapped in any contest with a female of our species. I don’t whine about it or claim discrimination, exclusion, bias, or whatever; I just try to recognize it, and decide whether it is warranted in the specific situation or not. (And yes, that slows down cognitive reactions, but hey, I had to deal with that when I was a manager in the Air Force, and not just for female personnel, but anyone.)

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  27. FWIW, had been in first real full time job after high school for five years when it came time for the yearly performance review. Small (2500 employee) factory owned by huge multinational entity. Review was with boss’s boss which was not normally the case.

    Received outstanding marks on all review criteria and was then told that I had no path for further advancement as the parent corp had many major government contracts and it had been “suggested” that they needed to improve the ethnicity of middle and upper management. As a young white male I simply had no chance of promotion and would remain as worker bee status for that company my entire career.

    I left a few months later once I had found a better job in an entirely different industry. Stayed with that job for ten years rising from entry level to company officer in that time before leaving to get an engineering degree which allowed me to spend the next 25 years doing ground support to space operations for NASA.

    So in some ways I do owe that first performance reviewer a debt of gratitude for what at the time was quite depressing information.

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    1. By the way, had that first job from 1969 to 1974 and the parent company’s name sounds a little like Generous Eclectic.

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      1. Hm. Wonder if Dad’s decision to leave Generous Eclectic at about that same time had a similar root?

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      2. My first job after college was a temporary one with an engineering firm which got a contract with the State of PA. They hired me and a black guy to do the grunt work. Project over, out we went.

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    2. Scott Adams has stated that this is why he quit his day job.

      Though the fact that he also owns and writes a very popular comic strip likely made it easier to do so. 😋

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      1. Money does facilitate “principled decisions”, yes?

        I do so love the folks who hollar!! about unfair!! this and that , who have a closet full of Chinese clothing and junk, and drive a foreign car.

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          1. Yup. Its a strange world out there. My ancient Saturn is from Tenessee, mostly. The last ones were German. Does one chose a Mexican Ford or a South Carolinian Honda.

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  29. Personally, I think the best attack against CommieHo is to just keep pointing out her word salad interviews, and her actual actions versus what she says. You’d think that the whole keeping black men illegally jailed, and her lies about smoking weed while at the same time jailing people for smoking weed would just about kill her appeal to large segments of the left’s base.

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  30. “Maybe the fact that Canada is burning…”

    Yes, about that: https://www.westernstandard.news/alberta/breaking-liberals-warned-in-2017-jasper-was-a-tinderbox-but-govt-greenies-refused-to-act/56376

    What’s on fire right now is BC, 87 active fires, and Jasper National Park. The park is burning exuberantly, shall we say, because of government refusal to manage the woodlot and their refusal to spray for pine beetles. They haven’t done anything since 2015, roughly. They’ve been ignoring warnings since 2017.

    They’ve also been seriously under-spending on firefighting. To their advantage this year at least, the whole of Northern Ontario has been getting rained on nearly every day. I am told that the forests are utterly soaked, you couldn’t start a fire with napalm. So all the Ontario firefighters are in BC and Alberta, fighting those fires.

    As usual, you don’t have to look far to find the guilty party. #ShinyPony hoof prints, and the general refusal to reign in the greenies infesting the bureaucracy.

    Imagine what #HeelsUp is going to do.

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    1. Ah, man. We went through Jasper and Banff on our way to Alaska a few years ago. It was gorgeous.

      Also memorable for the German man who unburdened himself to us because we were *safe*, and he felt totally stifled in Germany. (As an aside, his unburdening was of things that would be totally normal and harmless in the US).

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      1. Germans and Brits will confess the most amazing things sometimes when you meet them over here. Like that they feel so guilty about how angry they get when “immigrants” f- up the train seats in Munich, or how they really liked Margaret Thatcher and they thought the Falkland’s War was excellent. And I’m the first person they every said that out loud to.

        One particular time I was in Tombstone AZ at the little olde time cowboy gunshop admiring the cap-and-ball pistols on the wall, when this German lady came in. Very polite, very curious, asked the counter guy if the guns were really for sale or if it was a museum. Was open-mouth astounded to hear it was a store. “People can really buy them?!” she says.

        But for pure joy I still recall watching Korean and Japanese men on vacation in Arizona, at the range. They rent the biggest cannon in the place and stand there in the booth, “BOOM, BOOM, BOOM!!!” with a Desert Eagle .50 or a .454 Casull, grinning from ear to ear.

        Lifetime achievement unlocked!

        For me, that’s what Arizona really is. The Korean guy grinning as he soaks up the recoil from that hand-howitzer. BOOM, baby!

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      1. Imagine how Banff is going to be. I was reading another one on SmallDeadAnimals about the forests around Banff being -prime- firewood.

        But I will tell you what, around here in Southern Ontario if I pump out the puddle in my back yard because it is growing mosquitos, or I cut the grass in the ditches because there’s ragweed, I will get a visit from Ministry of Natural Resources because I’m meddling with a “wetland”. If there’s a low spot in a field and there’s water there in July because it’s been raining so much, that is a “wetland” to these apparatchiks.

        On the other hand, but in the same breath, the Department of Highways Ontario has decided this year to cut down all the overgrowth they’ve allowed to build up along the 400 series highways in the Greater Toronto Area. They’re weed-whacking long grass and sumac copses that haven’t been cut in 15 years. And spraying Roundup in the highway medians too.

        Because the homeless have been living there semi-secretly, and DHO is getting tired of picking their corpses out of their little hovels when they overdose. Much more convenient to collect them all in a city park.

        It just makes you shake your head.

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    3. We were just in Jasper, spring 2023. Thought about getting back fall 2023 before the senor annual passes were void, but didn’t. Don’t know about beetle spraying, although by fall 2019, and spring 2023, to late would have been the key words. But the immediate area around Jasper township itself, the beetle kill were being removed around the town. As in clear cutting them out. They couldn’t get everything, but they could at least try to spare the township, the surrounding campgrounds, and area around the rivers. They were working frantically. While everyone there admitted the wildfire summer/fall 2022 when Jasper was evacuated of all tourists, but not those living there, that the fact the fire was east of Jasper, those who knew the area knew the fire wouldn’t breach Jasper proper. Because prevailing winds are from the south and west. Guess where this years wildfire started? 5KM (3 miles) southwest of Jasper, lightening strike. It overran the township in 1/2 hour. The current investigation is why the township residents and tourists were told it was 5 hours away …

      Same with Waterton, who got dang lucky with their 2017 wildfire. Took out just about everything to the west of Waterton, and south to the top of the Rockies (don’t know how much slopped over into Glacier), but spared the township proper (a lot of PSTD). Yes, we did talk to the residents and experts both at Waterton and Jasper about both prior fires (kind of an occupational hazard, well former for me. I never was on a mega fire, just small acre or two district fires. Hubby was sent out on mega fires all summer long as USFS fire crew. Before we started our post forestry degree careers.)

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      1. The Park Fire near Chico is taking out a lot of property that just escaped the Camp Fire and the Dixie Fire. One of the things in the path is a summer camp that *just* escaped the Dixie Fire—and which is on the sales block at the end of summer because the council can’t afford to fix it up. Definite mixed feelings about it being endangered due to that fact—one prospective purchaser is an energy company that wants to put up solar in some of the land that was clear-cut for a fire break earlier, so a fire wouldn’t actually be as devastating to that purpose.

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  31. The ecology movement, like feminism (and temperance/prohibition before it) started out with some good ideas but has long since curdled into something evil. All three of these movements eventually reached goals that the original founders would have considered success, but after the reasonable people left to go do something else, the movements were taken over by shrill “all-or-nothing” fanatics.

    Feminism (and temperance/prohibition) also had the problem that it was irresistible to women who had a mad-on at men, all men, and saw the movement as an unparalleled opportunity to stick pins in the evil penis people. When this generated hostility and opposition, they howled that the opponents were being mean to poor, weak women.

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    1. The True Believers have hung their entire sense of self on Crusading For The Great Cause, whatever cause it is. They can’t stop and declare victory just because all reasonable goals have been achieved. They have to Keep Up The Good Fight! Even when everybody else can see that it’s turned evil.

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    2. The best depiction of the ecology movement I have ever seen was in Larry Niven’s Inferno. The eco-agitator chained to the bicycle. It was a thing of beauty

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  32. Harris is a side piece with a white husband. For a certain demographic, this destroys her chances.

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  34. <i> it was her or the “real governor of Georgia.” </i>

    You know, if Joe had promised to take her off our hands I suspect the Fulton County plumbing would have been more stable.

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  35. that doesn’t make you “good”, it makes you willing to trade the future of the nation for your own self image as superior and standing above it all.

    I would argue it makes you a “mainstream conservative” or a “GOP regular” at this point, though. I’ve already seen the Twitter version of “the conservative case for Kamal Harris” and would not be surprised if National Review publishes an article version (although they never did “The Conservative Case for Transitioning Children” which I predicted so maybe not).

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