Yeah this Russian bounty leak is so clearly an attempt to extend the Afghan war and keep Trump from following through on one of the only good policies he’s had in his presidency, the peace deal with the Taliban and the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. Also opposition to Trump’s policy is a rare instance of bipartisanship in current day Washington.
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I work in advertising. Your last sentence is simply not true. A lot of the approval process is a sham. If the person that matters says its good - out of ignorance or intentional - that’s more than enough for the underlings to convince themselves there is no there there especially because they are 100% aware they don’t actually have a voice anyway once it gets above their pay levels…
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Pretty much the exact Republican policy of blocking everything reasonable under Obama just to pass basically the exact same shit once he is out of office. 2 parties, 1 system.
What you wrote doesn’t disprove what I said at all. It just says that any kind of dissent may not be taken into account. And it also kind of proved my dumb executive theory. If a dumb executive likes it that’s all that matters, intentional or unintentional consequences. But I know you know that.
that’ll really stop US troops from being killed
You implied that its always somewhere along the line intentional. I’m not going to defend the Dove ad, for all I know it may well have had malice in it but in my experience its also just as likely that some witty AD or copywriter thought it was just a clever line and image with no racist intent and never heard anyone below go ‘actually it look a little racist’. Because those people don’t really matter in advertising. The truly brilliant people go on and make movies or write books but most just steal other creative peoples ideas and justify their ‘creativity’ with people equally bereft of an original idea.
I’ve been in this business a long time and I’m extremely cynical about it so take and weight whatever I say with that in mind 
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I believe the intentional ones are almost always at high level creative (not executive), and believe that Dove one is absolutely intentional. The beauty industry has a very bad past with racism, and both you and I know there are a lot of not ‘great’ people in advertising. While I don’t work on much advertising anymore, I’ve been in some form of the trenches of it for 25 years (TV/movie side not print) so I get the cynicism.
The ad agency portrayed in Black-ish is a really good example of how stupid s*** flies way more frequently than it should though it’s over the top parody.
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Turns out plagiarizing the Pokémon movie for a speech won’t be the dumbest thing he ever did.
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Also, Dove is specifically known for its semi-woke body positive ads and inclusivity. And that shit filters down to the troops, who stay with the company and work hard because they believe they are doing something positive. And, to paraphrase a fake Michael Jordan quote, black people buy soap too.
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Player control over the means of softball… thanks to a Trumpkin.
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I hope the tv show is okay with their new name.
https://twitter.com/hayliemac8/status/1275244259541745665
In case anyone else was curious to see what was tweeted at Trump.
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Not gonna post more from Conway daughter because shes only 15, but it’s a pretty zany family.
https://twitter.com/claudiamconwayy/status/1278737140592119811?s=19
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How bout Racquetball? I used to love playing but been out for quite a while, and don’t have the aerobic fitness now to play for more than a handful of minutes.
Love racquetball and badminton. Played the latter recently, albeit on a farm while using a half-broken fence as our net. I’ve only played racquetball a handful of times, though, and never with someone good who understood the game.
All we have to do is play on the reg for you to get that aerobic fitness up. Good thing about tennis and the like is it’s against the rules not to be socially distanced. Racquetball gonna be tough to play in a hazmat suit though.
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moderate republican plan to lower drug prices: tax cuts for drug companies and tax cuts for walgreens
far right republican plan to lower drug prices: abolish the fda, let the free market decide what drugs have what side effects or work at all
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He needs some more practice to compete with his buddy Kim Jong-Un
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