July 22, 2016, - 1:00 pm
Ivanka Trump Speech Touts Hillary-Style Left-Wing Wage Laws – The “New” GOP?
Ivanka Trump Pimp’s Bra-Burning Feminist NOW Wage Laws that Kill Jobs & Small Businesses
Last night, Ivanka Trump endorsed “wage equality” and “equal pay for equal work” laws in a speech that could have been made next week by Chelsea Clinton, Hillary, and the freaks. And yet thousands of Republicans cheered and gushed over this idiocy.
Color me unimpressed with Ivanka Trump’s left-wing political action speech in introducing her father last night at the Republican National Convention. In fact, not only was I unimpressed, I was sickened. For years, we’ve been lectured that the GOP should throw away social issues and stick with economic and foreign policy ones. But now, the Trumps have thrown them ALL away. Last night, Ivanka Trump threw away the free market principles that have been a bedrock of the Republican party at least since Ronald Reagan. She threw away basic principles that unite even vastly-differing libertarians and social conservatives.
After years of being lectured about how “smart” Ivanka Trump is and months of being told that the eldest Trump daughter is Donald Trump’s keenest adviser, her speech told us the exact opposite. I say this, again, as someone who voted for Trump in the primary and will vote for him in the general (but only because I have to–he hasn’t fooled me one iota and I don’t believe he’ll do a thing he’s promised).
Ivanka Trump told us that “my father” will make wage equality laws. But we already have a ton of those on the books. And they hurt the ability of working women to get jobs–you know, the same working women that Ivanka Trump claims her father will help. And they hurt small businesses. Wage equality laws won’t hurt the Starbucks and the Targets and the Fords of America, all of whom can and will pass on massive added costs in slight price increases to consumers. Wage equality laws hurt small businesses.
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Attention, Ivanka Trump, we Already have wage equality & equal pay for equal work. It's called the FREE MARKET #tcot #gop #RNCinCLE #Trump
— Debbie Schlussel (@DebbieSchlussel) July 22, 2016
Um, was it Ivanka Trump who just intro'd Donald Trump or Chelsea Clinton? Hard to tell #tcot #gop #RNCinCLE #IvankaTrumpisLiberalFeminist
— Debbie Schlussel (@DebbieSchlussel) July 22, 2016
@DebbieSchlussel Same thing. Rich guy's kid who wants to make us Venezuela because it'd be "nice" for everyone to make a "living wage"
— Libertarian Dad (@DadLibertarian) July 22, 2016
That's exactly what I thought! #IvankaTrump called #Chelsea For advice? Here comes doom-gloom & blaming wrong party https://t.co/wGJVMsTVpA
— Amy Venters (@Amstrix1) July 22, 2016
Ivanka Trump's speech sounded like a Democrat, equal pay for equal work&gender neutral #GOPExit #NeverTrumporHillary https://t.co/fUORdDuiOr
— Patty (@littlebytesnews) July 22, 2016
@DebbieSchlussel Ivanka Trump gave me a Lena Dunham vibe last night. Ivanka Trump looked like a classical Hollywood leftist.
— Rodrigo Veleda (@veledarodrigo) July 22, 2016
And they don’t make wage equality. They cause small businesses and even large ones to come up with pretextual reasons to get away with not hiring and promoting women of childbearing age. That’s because there really is NO “wage inequality.” The statistics Ivanka Trump cited last night are lies. The real statistics are that women who stay in the workplace and don’t have children make as much–and, in fact, usually more–than men do.
What Ivanka Trump wants–in order for married women with kids to make as much as men–is to legislate that businesses must leave jobs open for women who go away for extended times to raise their children; that the businesses keep increasing the absentee mothers’ salaries while they are away so that they will be at the levels they’d be if the mothers had never left the workplace; that the businesses allow the mothers to work from home (try doing that with a cashier or a doctor); that the businesses retrain mothers who left a job five years ago to raise their kids and restore them to higher responsibilities, as if they’d remained on the job. All of these things would be necessary for wage equality for mothers, including married ones.
What business on Earth could survive by doing this? Only state-run “businesses” that don’t really operate like businesses and don’t make a profit. I promise you the many Trump operations could not and would not succeed on this business model. This is the business model of Europe. I don’t want America to be Europe. Do you? But, sadly, we’re fast becoming that. Excessive wage equality laws are why Europe’s economies suck. They cannot afford it, so taxes are high to sustain these government-mandated policies.
That’s why these policies, including and especially the Obama-pimped Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009–which allows lawsuits over “equal pay for equal work”–have been disastrous. Apparently Ivanka and her speechwriters don’t get that these laws are already on the books. They also don’t get that legislating the economy and small businesses to death, kills them. I wonder if the Chinese factories where Ivanka Trump’s dresses are made have “equal pay for equal work” and allow the women to take years off for raising kids, giving them giant raises and promotions upon their return to work. No, I don’t wonder. I know it doesn’t happen. Yet Ivanka Trump wants American-based businesses to have to do this. Um, this is exactly how American jobs leave America. So much for the Donald Trump claims he’s going to keep jobs here.
You don’t keep or bring back jobs to America by creating more frustrating, oppressive conditions under which they must survive. You do it by making it easier to open shop and stay open. Phony “equal pay for equal work” and “wage equality” laws don’t do that. They cause plants to move to China and, yes, the Muslim Mid-East.
Marriage is a choice. So are sex, pregnancy, and having children. If you have a kid, that is your responsibility. If you choose to leave the workplace to raise it–which should be valued, but clearly isn’t by Ms. Trump–it is not an employer’s responsibility to keep your wages competitive, years later, with the men who never left the workplace. That’s a statist philosophy held by Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, NOT Republicans and not conservatives. As I noted, women who choose to be childless make the same wages as–or more than–men. More wage equality laws are the fantasy of the National Organization of (Ugly) Women and their fellow bra-burning jihadistas. Oh, and, now, Ivanka Trump, too. Even Ilyse Hogue, the President of feminist, “pro-choice” NARAL (the National Abortion Rights Action League), retweeted my tweets on this, noting that she was shocked to see Ivanka endorse her issues.
What Ivanka pimped on us, last night, is the same kind of stuff Michael Moore was pimpin’ in his latest fake-umentary, “Where to Invade Next” (read my review).
As I ranted about this, this morning on two of my radio gigs, The James Parker Show and The Mike Church Show, both hosts responded that they were bothered by something else in addition to this: that Ivanka Trump only focused on women’s worth through wages and material gain. She put no value on motherhood. And they are right. I noted that Ivanka Trump, a mother of three children, never mentioned them in her speech. She also never mentioned her husband. That was jarring to me. Apparently, they are mere accessories to her, and her workplace accomplishments (the biggest of which is emerging from a vaginal canal fertilized by Donald Trump’s sperm) are the only thing that matters. Women’s wages, especially if they are mothers (which is what she focused on), are the only thing that matters. Hey, how do you like the “new” social-issue-free GOP? Awesome, right?
The smartest thing Ivanka did last night was eschew high-priced designer fare that she usually wears in favor of a $138 dress from her clothing line. The dress has since sold out online. Yup, the speech wasn’t only a cheap commercial for more liberal wage laws, it was a shameles pimp-fest for Ivanka Trump dresses. And all the suckers followed through and bought what she was selling.
Shop Ivanka's look from her #RNC speech: https://t.co/ma42A92DYa #RNCinCLE pic.twitter.com/DwHvSOu8Ue
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) July 22, 2016
I heard from some of the suckers, last night, and lost more than 30 Twitter followers of mine who claim to be “conservatives,” “dedicated to G-d and country,” “Rush babes” and the like. They attacked me as a “liberal,” “a Democrat,” a “feminist,” and a “Hillary supporter,” for daring not to support Ivanka Trump’s Hillary-esque feminist left-wing push for more wage laws to further destroy the free market. (What next–that I’m a Muslim and member of ISIS?) Yeah, my opposition to this is “liberal” and “feminist” . . . only if you’re a complete dumbass. And, sadly, we have many morons on the Trump side. Anything that has a Trump label or endorsement slapped on it is the gospel, no matter how liberal and absurd. This is the same phenomenon we had with Obama eight years ago: a cult of personality. And personality and partisanship over principles.
Sadly, the Trumpbots are as imbecillic as the Obamabots. And just as dangerous. If you’re going to endorse anything the Trumps do, no matter how far-left, then why won’t you support Hillary for Prez? This is not about hurting the Trump campaign. It’s about speaking up when Donald Trump and his family are totally off their rockers and and completely off-base. If you don’t do it now, good luck when he’s in the White House.
Some dummy told me that Ivanka’s pro-wage-equality speech is just for the cameras and that it has now “erased” all Hillary ads and talking points that Trump hates women. Really? Did somebody send that memo to the Hillary campaign and its admakers? Did they instruct the media? I guarantee you that Ivanka Trump’s dumb “wage equality” power play did and will do no such thing. The “Trump’s war on women” mantra is election campaign gold for the Hillary campaign and Ivanka Trump’s snooty, out-of-touch-with-small-business speech will be forgotten by all who hear the continued attacks on Trumps. And if we must give lip service to all liberal positions to take those “talking points” off the table, then why doesn’t the GOP just adopt the Democrats’ platform. Sorry, it doesn’t work that way. Liberals vote for real liberals. Not fake ones (though I believe the Trumps actually are real liberals–you have to be to pimp this crap). Heck, Caitlyn Jenner is more of a genuine conservative than this chick, Ivanka, and her dad.
By the way, to all the so-called “conservative” Trump morons who called me a “liberal,” a “feminist,” and a “Hillary supporter” for opposing Ivanka Trump’s liberal, feminist, Hillary-esque “wage equality” BS, I don’t have anything to sell you.
But Ivanka has that $138 dress and a whole lot of other merchandise.
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BTW, for those wondering, I was underwhelmed and bored by Donald Trump’s speech last night. Way too long. And he just has a horrible delivery because he’s so unused to reading a speech from a teleprompter. I felt like I was being robotically yelled at, the way Hillary Clinton delivers a speech.
And, as far as the speech itself, I also wasn’t impressed. It lacked magic, lacked great one-liners, etc.
Really, the best speech all week was the Donald Trump Jr. oration. He is the only Trump who impressed me. His speech was fantastic, and so was his delivery. I felt he meant every word. I wish he were the candidate. His dad, I felt, was reading something he was forced to, and I don’t know what he really wants and plans to do with America once he’s elected.
I sure hope it’s not more wage equality laws. But Ivanka says it will be, and she has her father’s ear like no other.
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BTW, don’t look for Rush Limbaugh to denounce Ivanka the way he does NOW and other lefties when they pimp this crap. “My Trump Right or Wrong” is the never-ending soundtrack of his show, these days. Ditto for FOX News a/k/a PAWNN (the Prince Al-Waleed News Network).
Tags: Feminism, Ivanka Trump, wage equality laws
Republicans will fall in line with the candidate.
Its party over principle.
And that’s why we must check our right to disagree with everything Trump wants so he can win?
I still plan to vote for Trump but I’m not going to give him a blank check.
His only good personnel decision so far – and personnel is policy – is to name Mike Pence as his running mate.
The kind of President Trump wants to be depends on from whom he gets his advice.
Let’s hope its not from Ivanka and her moronic “wage equality” legislation project.
NormanF on July 22, 2016 at 1:24 pm