The Pattern We Are Not Supposed to Notice

Click on ZeroHedge this morning.

Big news item about President Trump demanding the release of certain Epstein files to counter a possibly-fabricated leak from the Wall Street Journal, authorized by the Journal’s editor – Emma Tucker.

Then there is an item about the latest budgetary grab at the EU promoted by the EU Commission Chief – Ursula Von der Leyen.

I am old enough to remember when Feminists claimed that the world would be a kinder gentler more rational place once women were installed in powerful roles. And yet it seems that many times when we see something dumb or damaging reported in the news, the protagonist is a … woman.

Well, at least we can’t blame women for the situation in the Ukraine. Oops! I forgot about the cookie lady!

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Yeah, you remember it but you probably didn’t believe it. Anyone with the most primitive understanding of women couldn’t.

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Well. not only that, it isn’t like women have never BEEN in power: Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great—those ladies were fairly ruthless.

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Anyone who has been in business or politics knows that a change occurred, arguably starting round about three decades ago. The call went out – promote women. And as we look around today, we see the consequence – women in all kinds of senior positions.

As Hyp notes, there have always been strong capable women who climbed to the top of the greasy pole and did great things. What happened with the push to promote women was that any female would do – competence & capability be damned!

This was triply unfair. It was unfair to the capable women who would have climbed to the top anyway, because their successes became tainted by the generally disappointing performance of the undeserved. It was unfair to the undeserved women, who were put into positions in which their failures were obvious, even if the official world looks the other way. And it continues to be very unfair to the great bulk of us, who have to live with the outcomes of their under-performance.

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Having been involved with this since the very beginning of the trajectory, I will venture to elaborate: the 1970s were the “I am woman, hear me roar!” stage of feminism, but, believe me, women did NOT get unmerited promotion nor any deference at all in the real world. At least not in law. Male attorneys constantly made ostentatiously “chivalrous” asides in court, and in the office made their disdain quite clear. For opposing counsel to refer to you as “This pretty young lady” was, actually disparaging, but you knew it wouldn’t elicit the same indulgent chuckles if you were to refer to him as “This handsome young man”. At one arbitration in a county where I wasn’t barred, I had to have a colleague from law school introduce me pro hac vice. She and I were the only women in the courtroom and when she departed, opposing counsel turned to his clients and said loudly, “I’m sorry she left—I woulda had TWO women to grind into the dust, instead of just one!”
Well, I mean—who cared? If he hoped to make me cry or sump’n , he failed. But I think even my own clients kinda…admired the sentiment. It was a man’s world.
So I think in law, women really had to earn their place, at least at first. Law firms may have been under pressure to hire women for “diversity”, but they weren’t gonna put up with,y’know, losing.

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I would agree with you about the 1970s and earlier, when there were indeed barriers to women in various professions – as well as barriers to men in other professions (but we don’t talk about that). Then there was the initial (and positive) concept of Affirmative Action, which was intended mainly to help worthy Americans of African heritage by making sure they were not overlooked or discouraged from seeking advancement.

Somehow, over time, AA became heavily co-opted by the “Daughters of Privilege” – the well-credentialed scions of the White Upper Middle Class. It was really in the 1990s that we began to see active discrimination against males of any background in the contest for employment and promotions in government and Industry – a form of discrimination about which the “Daughters of Privilege” did not complain then, and still do not complain today.

Ah well! As a society, we made our choices … and now we are living with the consequences.

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And then there was Carly Fiorina and the dashing Rajiv Gupta who were ruthless enough to spit in the face of 82% of the American public and turn silicon valley over to India.

Although not as great unaccomplishment as destroying the Western world Carly went on to rename Hewlett-Packard to HP so as to purge any memory of the settler culture in silicon valley. She also turned HP into an ink company by divesting it’s founding emphasis in instrumentation. She then built on these accomplishments to advise John McCain in his 2008 presidential campaign. Rising through the ranks of the Republicans who of course understand that the settler culture is used up and must be replaced in technology by affirmative action hires from India into the executive positions for which mid-to-late* Boomer Men had worked their entire careers to be positioned for in the 00’s, she ran for President in 2016. When that didn’t quite work out Ted Cruz took her on as VP prospect and then she endorsed Joe Biden.

All in all an exemplar for how to destroy a civilization.

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Not noticing patterns is at the heart of Our Democracy™. The powers long ago figured out the power of the “limited hangout”. I first saw it when Comey exonerated saint hillary by focusing on only the classified nature of the documents in question and callin it “careless”.

Now Hillary may be many things. One of thise it NOT “careless”. By stressing the “classified” documents which were “carelessly” mishandled, he intentionally mis-directed us from asking why she illegally use a private server in the first place. You don’t need to be a genius or political schemer to figure that out. She wanted her materials unobtainable under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (You can rest assured that Hillary opposes anything with the word “freedom” attached - unless it’s hers).

She committed two obvious felonies, never mentioned. First, she destroyed (“you mean ‘wiped’ like furniture?” - she coyly asked) various memory devices - actually caused other to perform the physical acts, of course. Shockingly, these devices were already under subpoena! Any lawyer will tell you that doing such a thing is like touching the NYC subway’s third rail. It is a "go to jail, go directly to jail; do not pass ‘go’, do not collect $200 (dems at her level require exponents of quantify their stealth finances).

Then there is the little question asked by any serious prosecutor - asked before the jury, if (s)he want a conviction: “Why”?? Why create a private server in a closet in her home? It’s elementary, my dear Watson (IBM, not Sherlock). Hide materials from FOIA requests, which pertain only to government documents stored/processed on government computers. Her co-conspirators (indicted or non-indicted), then, included everyone who replied using that obviously non-government email address. In legalese, this is perpetrating a fraud on the US government.

But saint comey was merely concerned with the handling of classified documents. Following Durham’s much anticipated investigation. We were not supposed to notice the pattern - “Durham concluded that review in 2023, which harshly criticized the bureau’s handling of the investigation into Trump” - Tulsi Gabbard. The obvious felonies committed by hillary, subsequently covered up comey, and those rolled up into a nice packet - were again covered up by Durham! He might well have characterized the crimes he saw for what they were and said the obvious: they were treasonous - an attempted coup “Our Democracy™” be damned (it surely is, if this doesn’t result in life sentences for all involved. It all but certainly involves HRH Barack Hussein Obama. Recall the manufactured “crimes” with which Trump, a former POTUS, was charged. Ask yourselves what should Obama face - in light of the democrat-initiated lawfare against Trump. Here are real, calculated, conspiratorial (with many acts in furtherance), treasonous activities of the entire upper echelon of an outgoing administration.

Publicize the pattern. Indict, try, and jail them all.

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Oh thanks for that Gerry! I just spent 5 minutes listening to the other jokes here :joy::joy::joy::joy::joy:!

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In retrospect Trump shoulda gone after her for the unsecured server and the deliberate destruction of materials under subpoena, the minute Comey was out on his ass. I get why he didn’t, but…it’s always a mistake to let the venomous snake live.
We had such high hopes of Durham, it’s pathetic. And he wasn’t the only one—there was some prosecutor in Iowa or Idaho who was supposed to investigate. Yay! Somebody outside the swamp! Welp, we didn’t hear and we didn’t hear about him, until when Barr became AG he was asked what the guy had done. “Nothing,” said Barr. “he thought he was supposed to wait”. :face_with_symbols_on_mouth::face_with_symbols_on_mouth::face_with_symbols_on_mouth::face_with_symbols_on_mouth: Mission accomplished, counsel!

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Oh and also: in Dec 2019 we got the Inspector General’s report. Damning! devastating! Delicious!! And, s it turned out, totally without consequences.

What can we hope for?

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You are welcome, Glad I could bring some levity into the discussion.

My lady friend just left, we watched “Now You See Me 2” on Netflix and then a series of shorts from “The Big Bang Theory” on YouTube.

Laughter is a good medicine.

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In the early 90s push to promote women, a young lady in our group was promoted to supervisor way too soon. I think she would have done very well if not for the push promotion. This destroyed her confidence and performance for several years.

The women that would have been good performers get demoralized and move on to something different. The poor ones never figure out they aren’t very good ("I must be great because I am getting rapidly promoted) or they just don’t care.

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Minor quibble: she actually said, “like with a cloth or something?” She, or more likely her minions, used BleachBit to do the deed. The guys who wrote the software made fun of this by selling a mouse pad with the famous quote printed on it. Unfortunately, they’d stopped selling it by the time I found out about it.

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Queen Victoria, 1837 to 1901
1897 was her Diamond Jubilee

Who are the most famous Shakespearean villains?
the Shrew?
Lady MacBeth?
King Lear’s daughters?