Anonymous ID: c73399 Nov. 20, 2024, 10:52 a.m. No.22025335   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5416 >>5496 >>5641

Rep. Van Duyne to Newsmax: I'll Co-sponsor Mace's Bathroom Bill

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/beth-van-duyne-nancy-mace-transgender/2024/11/20/id/1188828/

 

Rep. Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas, vowed on Newsmax Wednesday to be a co-sponsor of the bill of her fellow Republican congresswoman, South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace, barring transgender women from using the women's restroom on Capitol Hill.

 

Van Duyne told "National Report" that "I already told Nance that I would be a co-sponsor of the bill. I think it is ridiculous that we're having to actually even have this argument. Men goes to men's rooms, women go to women's rooms. This is not rocket science. The fact that we even have to define this and there is going to be a fight is ridiculous."

 

The legislation comes after Delaware elected earlier this month the first openly transgender member of Congress, Democrat Rep.-elect Sarah McBride.

 

Van Duyne made it clear that "women should be able to have a locker room where they can change without feeling that they are in a vulnerable, sensitive space."

 

She emphasized that "we have never had to have these debates before."

 

She then lamented that "what I am finding is that the last four years we are having debates that we have never had before because common sense has some way, shape or form always entered into the debate."

 

But she said, "I tell you, the last couple of years, the radical left and their conversations, that common sense has left the building."

 

Van Duyne continued that "the fact that Mace is being threatened, I think, shows you how absolutely unhinged that this issue has gotten and how these extreme leftists are responding to it with threats of violence."

Anonymous ID: c73399 Nov. 20, 2024, 11:03 a.m. No.22025401   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5416 >>5641

Commerce Secretary Aims to Spend $50 Billion Before Trump Takes Office

https://www.newsmax.com/scitech/commerce-microchips-secretary/2024/11/20/id/1188826/

 

Outgoing Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is hoping to commit $50 billion in its microchip-subsidy program before President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House in January, Politico reported.

 

"I'd like to have really almost all of the money obligated by the time we leave," Raimondo told Politico. "That's the goal, and I certainly want to have all the major announcements done as it relates to the big, leading-edge companies."

 

During the Biden administration, Congress allocated $50 billion in subsidies for semiconductor manufacturing and research and development, but only two companies have received binding awards from the Department of Commerce's manufacturing program, Politico reported.

 

Raimondo would need to finalize contracts with Intel, Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix to hit her goal, according to Politico. Raimondo has had her staff work weekends and made calls to tech CEOs to speed up negotiations, she told Politico.

 

She believes the CHIPS and Science Act, which passed with bipartisan support, will remain in place under a Trump presidency.

 

"The Commerce Department is somewhat unique in so far as everything we've done and are doing is bipartisan, and the CHIPS Act is a national security program and still has great bipartisan support to this day," Raimondo told Politico.

 

As Commerce Secretary, Raimondo has also been focused on safeguarding AI technology. She said she will be announcing new goals for the AI safety network before she leaves office.

 

"This isn't unlike other technologies, you know, nuclear technology or other technologies," Raimondo told Politico.

 

"There have been moments in the world's history where new technology comes forward that is so powerful that we have to get the world together to agree on guardrails and restrictions and standards so that everybody is kept safe."

Anonymous ID: c73399 Nov. 20, 2024, 11:05 a.m. No.22025413   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5427 >>5436

Shouldn't be long now and that show will be gone.

 

'Morning Joe' Ratings Fall After Hosts Met With Trump

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/morning-joe-msnbc-donald-trump/2024/11/20/id/1188824/

 

Viewership plummeted for MSNBC's "Morning Joe" broadcast after hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski revealed Monday that they had met with President-elect Donald Trump to "restart communications," according to Mediaite.

 

Nielsen data shows that viewing figures started to dip just 56 minutes after Scarborough and Brzezinski began to explain their trip to Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.

 

Between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. on Monday, viewership had fallen 17% from 839,000 to 694,000. Among the 25- to 54-year-old age group, viewing figures plummeted 38%.

 

"Morning Joe," which airs for four hours each morning, regularly builds viewers hour over hour, according to Mediaite.

 

Scarborough and Brzezinski have been highly critical of Trump for years. They had maintained a cordial relationship with Trump during his 2016 run for president but later became some of his fiercest critics.

 

On Monday, they told viewers they had met with Trump for the first time in seven years and that it was time to take a new approach.

 

"For nearly 80 million Americans, election denialism, public trials, January 6th, were not as important as the issues that moved them to send Donald Trump back to the White House with their vote," Brzezinski said. "Joe and I realized it's time to do something different and that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump, but also talking with him."

Anonymous ID: c73399 Nov. 20, 2024, 11:10 a.m. No.22025440   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5441

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According to the article, Between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. on Monday, viewership had fallen 17% from 839,000 to 694,000. Among the 25- to 54-year-old age group, viewing figures plummeted 38%.

Anonymous ID: c73399 Nov. 20, 2024, 11:14 a.m. No.22025451   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Jaguar's Woke Ad Slammed as 'Bud Light 2.0'

https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/jaguar-woke-ad/2024/11/20/id/1188803/

 

Jaguar debuted an ad on X Tuesday that has brought widespread backlash for being woke and a turn-off for its upscale, male customers, Newsweek reports.

 

Under the slogan “Copy Nothing,” the 30-second video features androgynous models, including a man in a skirt, and no cars to promote its next generation of electric vehicles.

 

“Create exuberant,” “live vivid,” “delete ordinary,” and “break molds” are other slogans that appear alongside the models in neon-bright outfits.

 

“This just made me want to sell my Jaguar and I don’t even own a Jaguar,” joked conservative activist Robby Starbuck.

 

“This is so the wrong time for this,” wrote pop culture and politics columnist Jon Gabriel. “I can understand the C-suite being conned into this in 2022, but you have completely misread the moment. Bud Light 2.0.”

 

Elon Musk weighed in: “Do you sell cars?”

 

Jaguar responded to the Tesla CEO: “Yes. We’d love to show you. Join us for a cuppa in Miami on 2nd December? Warmest regards, Jaguar.” That is when, at Miami Art Week, Jaguar plans to debut its self-described “exuberant modernism creative philosophy.”

 

“This dramatic, unmistakable and unexpected expression of what it means to Copy Nothing will be a preview of the fearless approach to come from Jaguar,” the car manufacturer said in a press release. “Jaguar’s presence in Miami will establish its advocacy for artistic expression, in all forms.”

 

Jaguar is pivoting its offerings and lineup from wealthy, male car drivers to “design-minded” and “cash rich, time poor” people, although it has not revealed specifics on what this new demographic is.

 

“We assume that 10% to 15% of our current Jaguar customers will follow us, so relatively few,” Jaguar Managing Director Rawdon Glover said in an interview with Motor1 in July.

 

Santini Pietrosanti, head of brand strategy, highlighted Jaguar’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the Virgin Atlantic Attitude Awards for LGBTQ+ icons in London in October:

 

“At Jaguar, we are passionate about our people, and we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and unified culture that is representative not only of the people who use our products, but in a society in which we all live, a culture in which our employees can bring their authentic selves to work.

 

“And we are on a transformational journey of our own, driven by a belief in diversity, inclusion, creativity, policy, and most importantly, action,” Pietrosanti continued. “We’ve established over 15 DEI groups.”

 

Lulu Cheng Meservey, co-founder of Rostra PR, called the rebranding and marketing shift “disastrous.” Instead, Meservey said, Jaguar should “highlight innovation and engineering.”

 

“It is possible a marketing exec read too many think pieces about how Millennials shop based on values and forgot that people want cars that are really well built,” she continued.

 

Forsaking its traditional male audience is a big mistake,” Meservey asserted.

 

“If they’re going to abandon the male audience, they should replace it with a more lucrative audience, and it’s unclear who they’re going for here. Vegans?”

 

Last year, Bud Light suffered a massive boycott and lost its decades-long position as America’s best-selling beer after it partnered with transgender influencer and activist Dylan Mulvaney. Just in the first two months after ill-fated Bud Light campaign debuted, the stock of Bud Light parent Anheuser-Busch lost a walloping $27 billion in market value.

 

Jaguar has been hit with lagging sales in recent years, with fewer than 67,000 cars sold worldwide in 2023. There are currently only 122 Jaguar dealerships in the U.S., down from a peak of 200, according to Car and Driver magazine.