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[Bland Crumbs]

There are not enough good managers

In the 00's when I was working for fairly large companies this was still the case. They used lower management as a place to bolster representation and yes that was a thing then. There were very few male team leaders and those few were usually Asian. There were some good supervisors but mostly they were dumb and had no idea how to run anything. They treated employees like children and it was a huge source of turnover.

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They keep making that slip.

Also hearing erection out of that needful picasso's face is nauseating.

 

[dustbuster]

Remember when Cruz eking out a narrow win in 2016 was the final nail in Blumpf's campaign?

I remember that shitbag announcing Ben Carson dropping out the day before.

 

[mandatorylurk]

Trump flat out shit talking Fox News while on Fox News is just

And it's apparent that Meatball has rubber banded on his Ozempic weight loss, he's back to being Chrispy Creme 2.0.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Trump flat out shit talking Fox News while on Fox News is just

And it's apparent that Meatball has rubber banded on his Ozempic weight loss, he's back to being Chrispy Creme 2.0.

he's absorbed Christie's polling
which was just food

 

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I would guess they are extremely paranoid about showing any sort of weakness. That is why there is so much pressure to make sure no one challenges Biden publicly.

IIRC, if there's a viable primary challenger, they can't play the "oh Biden can't run guess we'll just have to pick a candidate in the backrooms" game at the convention. So they have to all agree not to run a primary challenger.

To wit:


This fucking commie piece of shit is no where to be seen for some reason.

 

[mandatorylurk]

The way Trump banters with the people before asking their questions, that's what makes him work so well. You compare it to Nimrod or Meatball the previous days they seem scared, more scared than the people asking the question.

With Meatball, I think a great question to ask him would be "One reason people liked Melania was because she didn't force herself into the front of the camera compared to Hillary or Michelle. Can you promise us your wife will not be front and center?" And he won't be able to answer it because Casey will come onstage and talk about how she wants her kids to vandalize the White House.

 

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If AI/ML were ready for primetime great replacement, it would have already figured out how to filter out the retards when hiring. It can't do that even remotely.

Oh, it can. But they won't let it, because it would violate various laws and leftist pseudoreligious mandates.

Relevant reading: https://vdare.com/posts/elizabeth-spiers-ai-should-play-let-s-pretend-more

I wonder what percentage of AI work already is devoted to making sure the AI embraces leftist delusions and fantasies.

 

[King Metalia]

IIRC, if there's a viable primary challenger, they can't play the "oh Biden can't run guess we'll just have to pick a candidate in the backrooms" game at the convention. So they have to all agree not to run a primary challenger.

To wit:

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This fucking commie piece of shit is no where to be seen for some reason.

It seems Bernie has finally given up on ever being president. He finally got the DNC's message after they fucked him over hard in 2016 and 2020. Second why the democratic party supports a candidate a strong breeze could finish off I have no idea.

 

[WonderWino]

God, over 100 million dollars pissed away on Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis' worthless campaigns.

I could do a lot with 100 million.

Well said. 100 million completely wasted to run a campaign for people who never had any chance of actually winning. That money could have been put to far better use, like the US's crumbling infrastructure. At least that way they would be contributing something beneficial to the country they care to give a shit about. Might even save a few lives from some highways being fixed up a bit

 

[John.Doe]

The essential problems with both the NY and GA criminal cases is that they are being spearheaded by dumb niggers. When I say that, I mean dumb even by pavement ape standards. You haven't heard anything about NY for months because that case is dead, simple as. Twerk'n Jerk Fanni is watching her case fall apart like a cheap weave, because she decided to try making this a RICO case with 19+ defendants, which even a competent prosecutor couldn't finish before Election day. Of 2026.

As I predicted, Fanni Willis is as dumb as she is corrupt. Let me update you guys trying to follow the intricate legal shenanigans currently ongoing in Georgia regarding the DA and her....possible entanglements.
Read the allegations of misconduct against Fulton County DA Fani Willis

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Monday’s bombshell Fulton County Superior Court filing alleging an improper relationship between DA Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade has added a new layer of intrigue into a case already one of the most politically and socially divisive in American history.
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One of the 19 people charged in Willis’ indictment is Michael Roman, a former White House aide who served as the director of Trump’s election day operations. Prosecutors allege Roman was involved in efforts to put forth a set of fake electors after the 2020 election, a charge to which Roman has pleaded not guilty.

In Monday’s court filing obtained by Atlanta News First, Roman and his attorney Ashleigh Merchant accuse Willis of having a “personal, romantic relationship” with special prosecutor Nathan Wade. Roman also claims Willis and Wade benefited financially from the alleged relationship.
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The filing begins with the argument that Willis never had the legal authority to appoint Wade as a special prosecutor in the first place, thus making the DA’s investigation into the nation’s 45th president and his allies invalid.

“As a result, both indictments contain structural errors and irreparable defects and should be dismissed in their entirety as to Mr. Roman,” Merchant’s filing said. “Notably, the special purpose grand jury did not recommend an indictment or any charges against Mr. Roman. The district attorney and special prosecutor made that charging decision on their own.”

The filing also alleges Willis and Wade “have been engaged in an improper, clandestine personal relationship during the pendency of this case, which has resulted in the special prosecutor, and, in turn, the district attorney, profiting significantly from this prosecution at the expense of the taxpayers,” it said. “Accordingly, the district attorney and the special prosecutor have violated laws regulating the use of public monies, suffer from irreparable conflicts of interest, and have violated their oaths of office under the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct and should be disqualified from prosecuting this matter.”
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“Normally, this type of information would be idle courthouse gossip but this is the Trump case, and Nathan Wade has been paid over $1,000,000 for his work on the case,” said metro Atlanta defense attorney Chandelle Summer. “Some of those funds he earned, the motion alleges, have been used to pay for lavish vacations for himself and DA Willis.”

The court filing claims Willis and Wade took lavish vacations together and that Wade used part of his salary from the district attorney’s office to travel with Willis. Roman’s attorney claims to have discovered “outside of court filings” that Willis and Wade went on trips together.

Bonus round, now she's getting subpoenaed to testify in the divorce proceedings.
Fani Willis subpoenaed in top Trump Georgia prosecutor’s divorce case

The Fulton County, Ga., district attorney who brought election interference charges against former President Trump was subpoenaed in an ongoing divorce case of a top prosecutor also involved in the matter, according to a court filing obtained by The Hill.

Mike Roman, one of Trump’s co-defendants in the case, earlier this week accused District Attorney Fani Willis (D) of engaging in an “improper” romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, an outside lawyer whom Willis hired to work on the Trump prosecution.

The filing shows that a process server delivered the deposition subpoena to Willis through her executive assistant Monday. The subpoena was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

Roman’s lawyer filed court papers later in the day revealing the bombshell accusation, claiming that “sources close” to both Willis and Wade indicated the pair are involved in an “ongoing, personal and romantic relationship,” including going on vacations together.

Let me break down all the articles and filings for you:

• Fani Willis is the DA for Fulton County, Georgia.
• She has a 'special relationship' with a local attorney, Nathan Wade.
• She gets a fuckton of cash she claims will be for 'handling COVID backlog' from the County.
• She turns around and hires her 'friend', Nathan Wade, to be a special prosecutor for Trump's RICO case.
• Nathan Wade has no felony trial experience or RICO experience, and is totally unqualified. (He's a personal injury attorney.)
• Fani Willis DOES NOT get approval from the County Board to appoint him, which she apparently needed to do by law.
• Fani Willis takes the money that was approved for 'COVID backlog' and starts paying it to Nate without informing the county.
• Nathan Wade goes on to bill over a million bucks in fees, including 24 hours worth of legal work in a single day, trips to coordinate with White House counsel, etc.
• Nathan Wade spends money from the same business account to take Fani Willis on lavish vacations and cruises to romantic destinations.
• Both Nathan Wade and Fani Willis have been reported to be 'cohabiting' various locations.
• Fani Willis is now being subpoenaed in the ongoing divorce case between Nathan Wade and his wife.
• Fani is now possibly committing a number of felonies by fraudulently directing county money to enrich herself.

You see what I meant when I said that this bitch was dumb? All she had to do was run shit by-the-book and spew ass-covering lies about 'just following the law' but this fucking sheboon couldn't recognize that maybe the biggest case of her entire career would be subject to incredible scrutiny and therefore a bad vehicle for laundering money through her lover. I mean, this kind of flagrant shit would have been dumb in any event, but to do it for this case in particular is the kind of 15-second thinking you only find in Democrats and the excessively African. There aren't enough rainbows in the world for the optimism needed to believe that this will blow up the case, put Fani behind bars, and vindicate Trump - we all know by now that Democrats and TDS people get zero consequences.

What it does probably mean is that Georgia RICO case is likely even deader than it was before, as impossible as that may seem. This kind of malfeasance removes the coward elements of the local GOP best excuses about doing nothing, since naked corruption is a lot harder to foot drag about than the weaponization of the DA office to them. They really won't have an excuse any more, but perhaps worse yet is how fucking embarrassing it is for the Democrats. They desperately want to cling to some pretense of being 'dignified' and 'adult' like anyone besides them believes it, and having their champion DA fighter against Trump turn out to be a homewrecker and fraudster gives the Orange Man too much material for jokes.

My prediction is the Dem machine will do their best to smother everything in Georgia as much as possible, just give it up and secretly, surreptitiously, de facto throw in the towel. I hope that Fani is too stupid and stubborn to listen to the puppeteers trying to silence her for the good of the national Democrat machine, though. It'd be funny as shit to see her go full clown on live tv.

 

[Absolutego]

IIRC, if there's a viable primary challenger, they can't play the "oh Biden can't run guess we'll just have to pick a candidate in the backrooms" game at the convention. So they have to all agree not to run a primary challenger.

To wit:

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This fucking commie piece of shit is no where to be seen for some reason.

Bernie's also super old in a race where the biggest, easiest critique of the party man is his age.
He also went waaaay too mask off with the commie bullshit in 2020, to the point that centrist/independent voters were personally swayed against him, as opposed to 2016 where superdelegates and the media might've been capable of taking the blame for his failure.

I'm sure that people are being strongarmed left, right and center to not make Torpedo Joe's life difficult in this race, but Bernie being absent from this primary campaign isn't really evidence of that. He took his shot, missed, and nobody outside of his hardcore fanbase is sad about not being able to vote for him again.

 

[Betonhaus]

My prediction is the Dem machine will do their best to smother everything in Georgia as much as possible, just give it up and secretly, surreptitiously, de facto throw in the towel. I hope that Fani is too stupid and stubborn to listen to the puppeteers trying to silence her for the good of the national Democrat machine, though. It'd be funny as shit to see her go full clown on live tv.

I have no idea how it'll go. The true believers will still pull all the stops to try to steal the election, but every single chokepoint that helped enable the fraud has basically been wrung through the legal wringer, and if they try it again they won't have the excuse of ignorance or unpreparedness. Pretty much everyone involved with counting the fraudulent votes and certifying them (and fighting off challenges) have survived their legal challenges by the skin of their teeth, and if it happens again they will likely find themselves in deep trouble and they know it. Additionally they did all that work only to have Biden pull an Indian Midas on everything he touches, and at least some of them must have the self-awareness to realize that they made things so much worse.

Even if only 5-10% of those involved will refuse to carry the steal next time, that involves enough chokepoints that the steal should be stopped.

 

[The Last Stand]

A Republican in favor of healthcare is like a communist in favor of consumerism. There's a catch or no self awareness.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

removes the coward elements of the local GOP best excuses about doing nothing

haha, you haven't BEGUN to see excuses about doing nothing!

 

[The Last Stand]

Now DeSantis and Haley are blaming Trump for the BLM riots while bootlicking Back the Blue.

Give me a break.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

blaming Trump for the BLM riots while bootlicking Back the Blue.

that is exactly the perfect... whatever the duo of trifecta is that I would expect out of them, to so totally misread the crowd to assume that conservative voters are even a third of MUH BLUE as they were pre-J6

 

[The Last Stand]

that is exactly the perfect... whatever the duo of trifecta is that I would expect out of them, to so totally misread the crowd to assume that conservative voters are even a third of MUH BLUE as they were pre-J6

I still don't get it.

I dislike Haley's pandering for tragic shootings. It's not like she'll get an uptick of Black voters anyway.

I WILL say this: Trump could've enacted the Insurrection Act instead of just TWEETING about it damn the backlash.

 

[Glowing In The Streets]

I still don't get it.

I dislike Haley's pandering for tragic shootings. It's not like she'll get an uptick of Black voters anyway.

I WILL say this: Trump could've enacted the Insurrection Act instead of just TWEETING about it damn the backlash.

Should have used during CHAZ to test the waters

 

[make_it_so]

I WILL say this: Trump could've enacted the Insurrection Act instead of just TWEETING about it damn the backlash.

Should have used during CHAZ to test the waters

I guarantee you that if Trump had attempted to enact the Insurrection Act, it would've been the end of him. Mark Miley (Head of the JCS) would've refused and publicly stated that Trump was trying to enact a dictatorship, the Democrats in Congress would've demanded his immediate resignation and/or impeachment and all the cucks in the GOP would've gone along with it.

Everything makes sense the moment you realize that the BLM riots were an orchestrated Color Revolution with the goal of getting Trump out of office.

 

[Breadbassket]

I guarantee you that if Trump had attempted to enact the Insurrection Act, it would've been the end of him. Mark Miley (Head of the JCS) would've refused and publicly stated that Trump was trying to enact a dictatorship, the Democrats in Congress would've demanded his immediate resignation and/or impeachment and all the cucks in the GOP would've gone along with it.

Everything makes sense the moment you realize that the BLM riots were an orchestrated Color Revolution with the goal of getting Trump out of office.

Trump considered using the Insurrection Act to a large degree but was talked out of it by three officials in his administration who greatly opposed the idea apparently. These individuals were the Secretary of Defense (Esper), the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Milley) and the Attorney General (Barr).

At the time of the George Floyd riots the Senate was controlled by the Republicans and House of Representatives was controlled by the Democrats.

From a 2021 Washington Post article (highlights have been made bold):

Responding to interest from President Donald J. Trump, White House aides drafted a proclamation last year to invoke the Insurrection Act in case Mr. Trump moved to take the extraordinary step of deploying active-duty troops in Washington to quell the protests that followed the killing of George Floyd, two senior Trump administration officials said.

The aides drafted the proclamation on June 1, 2020, during a heated debate inside the administration over how to respond to the protests. Mr. Trump, enraged by the demonstrations, had told the attorney general, William P. Barr, the defense secretary, Mark T. Esper, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, Gen. Mark A. Milley, that he wanted thousands of active-duty troops on the streets of the nation’s capital, one of the officials said.

Mr. Trump was talked out of the plan by the three officials. But a separate group of White House staff members wanted to leave open the option for Mr. Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act to call in the military.

They decided it would be prudent to have the necessary document vetted and ready in case the unrest in Washington worsened or the city’s mayor, Muriel Bowser, declined to impose measures like a citywide curfew, which she ultimately put in place.

According to one former senior administration official, Mr. Trump was aware that the document was prepared. He never invoked the act, and in a statement to The New York Times, he denied that he had wanted to deploy active-duty troops. “It’s absolutely not true and if it was true, I would have done it,” Mr. Trump said.

But the new details about internal White House deliberations on a pivotal day in his presidency underscore the intensity of Mr. Trump’s instinct to call on the active-duty military to deal with a domestic issue. And they help flesh out the sequence of events that would culminate that day with Mr. Trump’s walk across Lafayette Park to St. John’s Church so he could pose in front of it holding a Bible, a move that coincided with a spasm of violence between law enforcement and protesters camped near the White House.

Although the main elements of what happened in and around the White House on June 1 have been well established, some aspects remain a subject of dispute. A federal watchdog concluded this month that the United States Park Police had been planning to clear protesters from Lafayette Park well before they learned that Mr. Trump was going to walk through the area. And a federal judge this week partly dismissed claims in a civil suit accusing the Trump administration of abusing its power in clearing the park.

A Trump adviser, echoing the former president’s insistence he did not want to deploy active-duty troops, said that Mr. Trump rejected the option when advisers presented it, and maintained that had he done so, he would have “owned the problem” politically.

Despite being persuaded not to invoke the act, Mr. Trump continued to raise the idea of deploying active-duty military in the weeks that followed, as unrest unfolded in major cities including New York, Chicago, and Portland, Ore., the officials said.

Their accounts comport with others, including one in a coming book by the Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender. Mr. Trump repeatedly urged General Milley and other top military and law enforcement officials throughout the summer to physically confront the protesters, according to excerpts from the book published by CNN.

The basic facts of Mr. Trump’s deliberations about how to respond to the protests that broke out after the killing of Mr. Floyd have been widely reported. NBC News reported on June 1, 2020, that Mr. Trump was considering invoking the Insurrection Act.

CNN later reported that the White House wanted to deploy 10,000 troops onto the streets but that Mr. Esper and General Milley pushed back on the idea.

But the new details help illustrate the intensity of Mr. Trump’s demands for militaristic action to curb the protests.

In the Oval Office on the morning of June 1, Mr. Trump was furious about the televised images he had seen of the unrest in Washington and elsewhere.

For about 20 minutes, according to the former officials, Mr. Trump went on about how to contain the protests. General Milley and Mr. Esper appeared particularly stunned by the eruption, according to one of the officials.

During his time in office, Mr. Trump had a broad view of his powers as president, claiming that he could take an array of aggressive actions using federal authorities and military personnel to handle problems typically left to local authorities.

But invoking the Insurrection Act, a rarely used authority allowing presidents to use active-duty military for the purposes of law enforcement, would have been a sharp escalation. The act has only been invoked twice in the past 40 years — to quell unrest after Hurricane Hugo in 1989, and during the Los Angeles riots in 1992.

“We look weak,” Mr. Trump said, according to one of the officials. He complained about having been taken to the bunker below the White House on the night of May 29 when the barricade outside the Treasury Department was pierced. The New York Times had reported the bunker visit a day earlier, infuriating Mr. Trump.

But all three officials pushed back against the idea of invoking the Insurrection Act. Mr. Barr, who had been Mr. Trump’s attorney general for a year and a half and had been increasingly clashing with the president, told Mr. Trump that civilian law-enforcement authorities had enough personnel to manage the situation and that a drastic move like invoking the Insurrection Act could spawn more protests and violence. Mr. Esper agreed, according to the two former officials.

Mr. Trump’s meeting with Mr. Barr, Mr. Esper and Mr. Milley was marked by his rage at being embarrassed on the world stage, according to two of the officials.

Mr. Trump grudgingly went along with their counsel not to deploy active-duty troops, according to the officials. Immediately after the meeting, Mr. Trump joined a call with governors around the country, some of whom were seeing protests increase in their states. Mr. Trump urged them to “dominate” the protesters, as he said the National Guard in Minnesota had.

Mr. Esper told associates that he was so concerned that Mr. Trump would deploy active-duty troops that he echoed the need for them to get control of their states, hoping he could encourage governors to deploy the National Guard to head off federal action. Using Pentagon terminology that he later told associates he regretted, Mr. Esper told the governors to “dominate the battle space,” a sentiment stemming from concern about Mr. Trump’s intentions.

But one backdrop for the drafting of the Insurrection Act proclamation was that discussions between the White House and city officials about containing the protests remained contentious throughout the day. At one point, White House officials suggested taking over the city police force to tamp down the unrest and impose order. That idea stunned Washington city officials.

Mr. Esper — who, associates said, so feared the situation was spinning out of control that two days later he publicly said he opposed invoking the Insurrection Act — later tried to again communicate the gravity with which he feared Mr. Trump would act when he held a handful of private calls with specific governors that afternoon, according to the former senior administration official.

Mr. Trump delivered a Rose Garden address later that evening, saying he was prepared to deploy the military if the rioting did not cease.
“If the city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them,” he said.

Active-duty military, including from the 82nd Airborne Division, were airlifted to bases outside Washington, but Mr. Esper mobilized a National Guard deployment in the city in an effort to thwart them being deployed. By June 5, they were all ordered to return to their home bases.