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So, no limit. Thanks.

 

I imagine we're about due for a warning that we should Be Very Careful about what we say.

 

Is that why you consider his daughter and grandchildren to be fair game?

So that's why that guy on the plane was accosting Trump ... oh, wait.

 

I don't consider his grandchildren to be fair game.

I'm saying the people who complain the loudest about the "lack of civility" are the ones who spent the last 18 months helping create that atmosphere and in fact telling us it was necessary for America's survival.

 

I'm demanding DNA testing of those "grandchildren."

 

Been there. Done that.

 

Hey YF,

What do you think about Trump tweeting about ramping up our nuclear arsenal? He's making American 1960s again.

I can't wait to put on those striped bell bottoms again.

 

That's true enough. The upper management of most such service industry employers understand that to come in and overtly say "She's not good looking enough. Get rid of her and put a pretty one up there." is to put the company at risk of being held up to a storm of public outrage via social media as well as of getting the hell sued out of them by the EEOC.

It's a simple business decision. If you're going to do it, you do it very quietly indeed, preferably by promoting those replaced. You certainly don't have the CEO come in and start demanding it, because if that gets out the company is going to catch hell and lose profits, no question.

That sets aside the issue that the 6 you throw off of the hostess station may be very personable and good at her job as well as that it's just plain wrong. How would you like to get sacked because of your looks?

 

Why didn't the Secret Service intervene? They totally should have. Don't let an irate person within reach of a protectee. Seems pretty basic to me.

 

Happens in the entertainment industry all the time. Is it a coincidence most TV news anchors and weathercasters (especially the female ones) are attractive? Sideline reporters at sports events?

 

Easy. DIRECTV at every seat. Can't blame her for that.

 

Sure it does. It's really shitty sometimes. That said, how often do they actually say "Well, Sally is an old pro, but her crow's feet are getting pretty bad. We've got a fresh young kid with cornflower blue eyes and torpedo tits, she'll look a lot fresher on camera." If you make that business decision, you handle it carefully and you never admit that its about looks, even if everyone knows that's exactly what's going on.