The hate is real, and it's still out there. Some of the far-Left reactions to the assassination attempt, from Sky News Australia:
My first question is: where is Rita Panahi?
I've seen a lot of discussion regarding the Secret Service "Diversity Hires" It's true, up to a point. The women in that PSD have no business being there, and are pretty clearly "diversity hires". Now, before you go to calling me misogynistic, understand that there ARE women out there who are tailor-made for this sort of work. Over my career as armed security, I had the good fortune - or maybe misfortune - to run into a couple of them. They weren't necessarily beefed up or "butch", either. One of the prettiest women I ever saw in that line of work absolutely scared the hell out of me. If she hadn't been so damned friendly and professional, I might have ran away screaming like a little girl.
So there are some women cut out for that line of work, but there are also a lot that are not, just like there are a lot of men not cut out for it. It's not for everyone, any more than being a secretary or a construction worker are. The women in that candidate PSD appear NOT to have been cut out for it, just going by my eye. They appear to be "diversity hires".
Now, diversity hires are fine in the Secret Service, IF THEY ARE TASKED PROPERLY. The Secret Service has a lot of other jobs that don't involve executive protection. That's just the job we hear the most about. They also investigate monetary crimes, like counterfeiting and such. Those women might have been primely capable of that sort of task, they might be able to investigate their asses off, and will probably notice details that a lot of men won't, but PSD personnel they are not.
There is more to getting people placed properly than simply hiring them because they check a gender box. They have to be vetted, and then tasked with the job they are best suited for. You don't task a cook to walk point on a patrol - if you do, you get a substandard patrol, and probably waste a perfectly good cook... and maybe the rest of the patrol gets killed, too. You put the cook in a kitchen where he can scramble up several thousand eggs to feed the patrol when they get back inside the wire. For point on patrol, you put the jumpy guy that seems to be watching everything all at once. He's the one you want looking for ambushes and such... and you don't put that guy in the kitchen, where he's just going to burn all those eggs and make everyone else grumble about it.
Proper tasking. Maybe the diversity hire currently heading and running the Secret Service hasn't been properly schooled in it.
BTW, the woman in the recordings saying "what are we doing? What are we doing?" is taking a lot of crap in the media and across the internet for saying that, but most of the crap is coming from MEN who clearly do not understand "woman-speak". She's neither lost nor confused, she is saying, in "woman-speak" "let's get all our asses on the same page, and in gear."
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My first question is: where is Rita Panahi?
I've seen a lot of discussion regarding the Secret Service "Diversity Hires" It's true, up to a point. The women in that PSD have no business being there, and are pretty clearly "diversity hires". Now, before you go to calling me misogynistic, understand that there ARE women out there who are tailor-made for this sort of work. Over my career as armed security, I had the good fortune - or maybe misfortune - to run into a couple of them. They weren't necessarily beefed up or "butch", either. One of the prettiest women I ever saw in that line of work absolutely scared the hell out of me. If she hadn't been so damned friendly and professional, I might have ran away screaming like a little girl.
So there are some women cut out for that line of work, but there are also a lot that are not, just like there are a lot of men not cut out for it. It's not for everyone, any more than being a secretary or a construction worker are. The women in that candidate PSD appear NOT to have been cut out for it, just going by my eye. They appear to be "diversity hires".
Now, diversity hires are fine in the Secret Service, IF THEY ARE TASKED PROPERLY. The Secret Service has a lot of other jobs that don't involve executive protection. That's just the job we hear the most about. They also investigate monetary crimes, like counterfeiting and such. Those women might have been primely capable of that sort of task, they might be able to investigate their asses off, and will probably notice details that a lot of men won't, but PSD personnel they are not.
There is more to getting people placed properly than simply hiring them because they check a gender box. They have to be vetted, and then tasked with the job they are best suited for. You don't task a cook to walk point on a patrol - if you do, you get a substandard patrol, and probably waste a perfectly good cook... and maybe the rest of the patrol gets killed, too. You put the cook in a kitchen where he can scramble up several thousand eggs to feed the patrol when they get back inside the wire. For point on patrol, you put the jumpy guy that seems to be watching everything all at once. He's the one you want looking for ambushes and such... and you don't put that guy in the kitchen, where he's just going to burn all those eggs and make everyone else grumble about it.
Proper tasking. Maybe the diversity hire currently heading and running the Secret Service hasn't been properly schooled in it.
BTW, the woman in the recordings saying "what are we doing? What are we doing?" is taking a lot of crap in the media and across the internet for saying that, but most of the crap is coming from MEN who clearly do not understand "woman-speak". She's neither lost nor confused, she is saying, in "woman-speak" "let's get all our asses on the same page, and in gear."
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