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It seems footage has surfaced of Biden stumbling around on the beach, nearly faceplanting several times, while DOCTOR* Jill sits by without offering a word of concern, let alone a helping hand. I wonder when she ditches him to go live the Eat, Pray, Fuck lifestyle, now that he’s no longer a useful vehicle for her aggrandizement.
Joe Biden at times comes across as little more than a puppet of “Doctor” Jill Biden, who holds a doctorate in education, a field infamous for the low IQ of the people teaching it. It is quite likely that the professor teaching a course in this program is the dumbest person in the room.
https://nitter.poast.org/pic/orig/media%2FGcNzRLLX0AA3epY.png
If nothing else, we’ll spend a lot less on eyeball bleach for the next four years.
https://nitter.poast.org/AOC/status/1858275868336152645
“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC Nov 17
If people want to talk about members of Congress being overly influenced by a special interest group pushing a wildly unpopular agenda that pushes voters away from Democrats then they should be discussing AIPAC”
One difference between the left and right is that when a leftist speaks the truth, the right will admit it (Boomercucks, from whom AOC’s comment will ironically draw the hottest fire, do not count.) I wish AOC well in her journey of awakening.
In yet another sign of the cultural shift, we scored a major win yesterday when Walmart, the world’s largest company by revenue, and the world’s largest private sector employer (over 2M employees!), announced that it was rolling back its DEI initiatives:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/25/business/walmart-dei-rollback/index.html
The title of the article is “Walmart rolls back DEI programs after right-wing backlash.” For years, the left has had companies rolling over for it, no matter how silly its demands. Let’s see how they like it when the shoe is on the other foot (and our requests are actually reasonable, making them harder to criticize in a logical manner).
On that note, Apple has rediscovered that wypipo buy their products. Their latest ad even shows a white family:
Walmart discarding DEI is an enormous win. In another comment I pointed out Apple putting out an ad with a white family. Apple is one of the most valuable companies in the world, in terms of market capitalization. The big hitters are dropping DEI and sooner or latter, the rest will follow. The CEOs of big companies are close to politics. It even seems that they sometimes get orders, be it from the Democrats or Klaus Schwab. Well, there is a new guy calling the shots now. While I am critical of Donald Trump, at least he is not Biden or Kamala.
Wow, that is a great ad! The relationships seem healthy, the woman and daughter don’t show any disrespect for the father, he and the daughter clearly love each other, and he shows emotion without being a little b-tch about it. It even shows the joy of having a child without including something about what a great “sacrifice” it is. 🙂
I see an interracial couple in a Geico ad, White Man Asian Woman. Not sure that counts for DEI here.
WM/AF pairings are definitely not pushed by DEI initiatives. Normally, there is not even a white man in the picture, having been replaced by an urban gentleman. I think I have seen many more WM/AF pairings in real life than in mainstream media.
There is something similar going on in the automotive industry. While Jaguar is pushing debauchery, Volvo just put out the most moving, pro-family, pro-life car ad of all time:
There are still two elements of wokeness in it: The guy says, “she may be the reason we are going to tie the knot”, i.e. he believes he is going to have a daughter, and the newborn child may be a reason to get married. A more traditional view would obviously be if they had been married all along. Also, as he reflects on the future life of his daughter, there are somehow no additional children in the picture. Of course, one child is better than none, but it is still below replacement.
EDIT: At 2:22 we see the daughter being romantically involved with a sophisticated urban gentleman.
Australia takes steps against clown world by raising the age limit for social media to 17:
https://archive.ph/CN7hy