Politics of Petulance (title renamed to match original post)

[Family 3,988]

2 hours ago, Boiler said:

She says it all

 

 

What does 'woke' mean and why are some conservatives using it?

The definition of "woke" changes depending on who you ask.

The term has recently been used by some conservatives as an umbrella term for progressive values, often using it with negative connotations.

However, the term was originally coined by progressive Black Americans and used in racial justice movements in the early to mid-1900s. To be "woke" politically in the Black community means that someone is informed, educated and conscious of social injustice and racial inequality, Merriam-Webster Dictionary states.

A historical recording of the protest song "Scottsboro Boys" by Lead Belly in the 1930s -- as captured by Smithsonian Folkways, the non-profit record label of the National Museum -- is often cited as one of the earliest uses of the term. The Scottsboro Boys were nine Black teenagers falsely accused of raping two white women aboard a Southern Railroad freight train in northern Alabama in 1931 in a case that lasted decades, according to the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

 

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/woke-conservatives/story?id=93051138

[Boiler 45,445]

I can think of no end of words that have significantly changed their meaning just in my time, gay for example.

 

Unless I state otherwise I use words in their current normally accepted definition, and I hardly think it is necessary to explain woke, wokey etc.

[Family 3,988]

10 minutes ago, Boiler said:

I can think of no end of words that have significantly changed their meaning just in my time, gay for example.

 

Unless I state otherwise I use words in their current normally accepted definition, and I hardly think it is necessary to explain woke, wokey etc.

To be honest . I did not know woke was a bad thing ..until I saw a fellow target shooting at a case of beer😂

I thought it means something akin to enlightenment..so more like a spiritual awakening…. 

[Boiler 45,445]

They vote...

 

 

[Dashinka 24,480]

Seems more appropriate here since it is an example of KK being a very petulant boss.  I have worked for petulant bosses before, it is usually a crutch they use for their own lack of skill and intelligence.  I would say this describes KK very well.

 

Kamala Harris's staff offer unique insights regarding her leadership skills.

 

Some women make great bosses. Kamala Harris is not one of them.

 

According to numerous victim reports, Harris is a workplace abuser and a living nightmare to work for. A walking, babbling mediocrity in a flared-leg pantsuit. Arrogant, bitchy, vindictive, and smug, she has fired or driven away 92 percent of her staff. The survivors who remain are either too battle-scarred or too scared to leave. Kids, blink twice if you need rescuing.

 

https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-final-girlboss/

[Family 3,988]

1 hour ago, Boiler said:

They vote...

 

 

Good question..let’s see

 

Gender wage gap persists in 2023Women are paid roughly 22% less than men on average

March 12 is Equal Pay Day, a reminder that there is still a significant pay gap between men and women in our country. The date represents how far into 2024 women would have to work on top of the hours they worked in 2023 simply to match what men were paid in 2023. Women were paid 21.8% less on average than men in 2023, after controlling for race and ethnicity, education, age, and geographic division. 

There has been little progress in narrowing this gender wage gap over the past three decades, as shown in Figure A. While the pay gap declined between 1979 and 1994—due to men’s stagnant wages, not a tremendous increase in women’s wages—it has remained mostly flat since then.

https://www.epi.org/blog/gender-wage-gap-persists-in-2023-women-are-paid-roughly-22-less-than-men-on-average/

 

Representation of women in senior leadership

LinkedIn data indicates that the share of women in senior leadership positions – where “senior leadership” is defined as Director,¹³ Vice-President (VP)¹⁴ or C-suite¹⁵ – is at 32.2% in 2023 nearly 10 percentage points lower than women’s overall 2023 workforce representation of 41.9%. Women continue to be outnumbered by men in senior leadership positions across all industries, especially so in fields like Manufacturing (24.6% women); Agriculture (23.3%); Supply Chain and Transportation (23.0%); Oil, Gas and Mining (18.6%); and Infrastructure (16.1%).

 

 

https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2023/in-full/gender-gaps-in-the-workforce/

[Crazy Cat 41,811]

If DEI is so good, why are liberals complaining that some think Harris is a DEI pick?

[Family 3,988]

A Virginia man was charged with threatening to kill Kamala Harris.

According to an affidavit in support of a criminal complaint, 66-year-old Frank Carillo, of Winchester, made 19 threatening comments about the vice-president and Democratic presidential nominee, using the rightwing platform Gettr.

 

The affidavit cites 19 mentions of Harris on the platform by an email account associated with Carillo, including a vow to “cut your eyes out of your head while you’re alive ” and the statement: “Kamala Harris needs to be put on fire alive I will do it personally.”

 

Writing in late July, after Joe Biden withdrew from his presidential re-election campaign and Harris closed in on the Democratic nomination for November’s race, Carillo said: “Harris is going to regret ever trying to become president because if that ever happened I will personally pluck out her eyes with a pair of pliers but first I will shoot and kill everyone that gets in my way that is a ###### promise.”

The same document said federal agents “seized an RF-15 rifle and a 9mm handgun” from Carillo’s residence.

A woman with whom Carillo lived said he bought the guns in 2023 and 2024.

A comment from the account linked to Carillo, from February this year, said: “I HAVE MY AR-15 LOCKED AND LOADED.”

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/06/kamala-harris-threat

[Crazy Cat 41,811]

Crazy is crazy....regardless of which political side a person is on.

[Family 3,988]

 

[Family 3,988]

28 minutes ago, Crazy Cat said:

Crazy is crazy....regardless of which political side a person is on.

True that.This fellow did not just shoot his mouth off on social media, he called it in

https://apnews.com/article/threats-guilty-plea-marjorie-taylor-greene-7e394b80ede02345c2f0880c77bac1dc

An Atlanta man pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to threatening U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in phone calls to the Georgia Republican’s Washington office.

Sean Patrick Cirillo, 34, pleaded guilty to a charge of transmitting interstate threats before a U.S. District Court judge in Atlanta, according to court records. He will be sentenced later

[Pooky 3,780]

And the award for Dumb Democrat of the Day goes to …

 

… whichever Kamala campaign staffer thought it would be a good idea, after narrowing down the Democrat VP choice to the Governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, and the Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, to announce that Tim Walz was the pick on the day she’s holding a rally in Philadelphia, PA.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/06/tim-walz-kamala-harris-vice-president-running-mate/74512447007/

 

 

[Boiler 45,445]

8 hours ago, Family said:

Good question..let’s see

 

Gender wage gap persists in 2023Women are paid roughly 22% less than men on average

 

March 12 is Equal Pay Day, a reminder that there is still a significant pay gap between men and women in our country. The date represents how far into 2024 women would have to work on top of the hours they worked in 2023 simply to match what men were paid in 2023. Women were paid 21.8% less on average than men in 2023, after controlling for race and ethnicity, education, age, and geographic division. 

There has been little progress in narrowing this gender wage gap over the past three decades, as shown in Figure A. While the pay gap declined between 1979 and 1994—due to men’s stagnant wages, not a tremendous increase in women’s wages—it has remained mostly flat since then.

https://www.epi.org/blog/gender-wage-gap-persists-in-2023-women-are-paid-roughly-22-less-than-men-on-average/

 

 

Representation of women in senior leadership

LinkedIn data indicates that the share of women in senior leadership positions – where “senior leadership” is defined as Director,¹³ Vice-President (VP)¹⁴ or C-suite¹⁵ – is at 32.2% in 2023 nearly 10 percentage points lower than women’s overall 2023 workforce representation of 41.9%. Women continue to be outnumbered by men in senior leadership positions across all industries, especially so in fields like Manufacturing (24.6% women); Agriculture (23.3%); Supply Chain and Transportation (23.0%); Oil, Gas and Mining (18.6%); and Infrastructure (16.1%).

 

 

 

https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2023/in-full/gender-gaps-in-the-workforce/

 

That old trope

 

You can do better

[Crazy Cat 41,811]

6 hours ago, Pooky said:

 

And the award for Dumb Democrat of the Day goes to …

 

… whichever Kamala campaign staffer thought it would be a good idea, after narrowing down the Democrat VP choice to the Governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, and the Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, to announce that Tim Walz was the pick on the day she’s holding a rally in Philadelphia, PA.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/06/tim-walz-kamala-harris-vice-president-running-mate/74512447007/

 

 

Goodbye Pennsylvania electoral college votes.

[Family 3,988]

1 hour ago, Crazy Cat said:

Goodbye Pennsylvania electoral college votes.