July 17, 2016 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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Typical GOP group photo! How can Ryan be so absolutely blind to the fact that this country has all sorts of people, not just white people. No awareness at all of how this looks.
1Quite a diverse group of extremely white people. I used a hand held magnifying glass and couldn’t even see five o’clock shadow anywhere.
2Ok, I confess. If you look at the girl in the blue dress, top right side of photo and count five bodies to her right, there might be Pyush Jindal’s head. Helps to zoom in a little bit.
3http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/07/17/paul_ryan_posts_a_selfie_with_a_collection_of_overwhelmingly_white_interns.html
Some of the comments are interesting.
4Isn’t that a meeting of the Ayn Rand Fan Club?
5Right epo! Frame in, folks. Right side waaaaay in the back. Face is a little hidden.
One. One person of color. ONE! Damn that affirmative action!!!
Me thinks Mr. Jon Stewart will have pleeeeenty of material to use over the next 6 days. Look for the Emmy nomination to come.
6On the positive side, maybe not one person of color WANTED to be his intern. (yeah, I know)
7Looks like a meeting of Melanin Deficiency Anonymous.
8…or a meeting of Future Republicans of America.
9TTPT-are you making fun of Drumpf’s missus? 🙂
10Looking at that one darkish face…. Does anybody else remember the song, “I’m a Lonely Little Petunia in an Onion Patch,” or was that a drug-induced 60s hallucination?
11TTPT, yeah, but it mostly looks like a bunch of Republicans.
12@Rhea
just for yew…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p4u7ZcOWnA
Dick “Two Ton” Baker
13from 1947 on Mercury 5066
I discovered the ONE African American lady in that picture … right side, in the 7th row and 4th or 5th person in. Wearing light lavender and trying to look as unobtrusive as possible. For all we know, she might actually want to be there!!
14Since there is no picture of the entire crowd, who knows, there may be others in the crowd!!
Gee, I guess Mr. Ryan really believes in diversity. As long as everyone in the room with him is white. That is really as pitiful as those clips of him and his son rewashing pans at that shelter AFTER all the homeless had left.
15Besides a scene of pasty people, what in hell do all those interns do? Ferpete’ssake!
16To be fair one of the men in the picture has a friend who is Muslim.
17Well sorta, he’s actually a neighbor.
I believe the word is token….one Black woman, one maybe Asian man. Such a great representation of our country.
18Lessee, interns. Unpaid, right? Seriously, with just that consideration only white middle class or higher would punt for a chance at that experience.
19Okay, guys, let’s be open-minded about this. The second guy back, straight behind Ryan, might — just might — be Hispanic. Maybe? Do you think those poor young people feel odd that they may have been included only to keep the group from being solid pasty white? What’s the percentage that qualifies the group for the term “diverse.” One? Two? Three?
20To e platypus onion: Which particular missus did you have in mind? We have three to choose from.
I finally found the woman but never did find the man. I did see a girl on the front row that’s auditioning for Ailes and a job at Fox. She will have to bleach her hair first. Speaking of blonds is it just me out of touch or is there an awful lot of blonds in that crowd?
21Micr, thanks for the link, but I’m afraid to listen and get the blasted thing stuck in my head for days.
22In all fairness, at this point a black person working for the republikkkans would be like one joining the klan. I personally think all those women should have bags over their heads in shame. NO ONE that is in a historically minority position should be working with people like the GOP. They have become the largest, most powerful hate group in history.
23What the devil does Ryan need with that many interns on top of his paid staff as Congressman and Speaker?
24Rethuglican cluelessness. Absolutely priceless.
25A whiter shade of pale.
About as white as it can get, actually.
I guess the Black woman is Ryan’s African American. Or else she took a wrong turn and was just looking for the rest room.
26Well, I’m sure he considers himself quite the forward looking – um – well, twit isn’t the word HE would use but I will.
After all, he DID let girls in. And that’s quite a step forward, right?
27But heck. SOMEONE’S got to pour the coffee!
28Teh Gerg – Inorite?
Literally hundreds of people there to assist. And I defy you to name one blasted thing Ryan’s accomplished as Speaker that benefits the country.
When they have the staff picnic, instead of applying sunscreen, they’ll probably just fill the pool, and all bathe in it.
29Can we hope that at least one of them is LGBT? You can’t tell by looking, ya know.
30Someone had a good question: what do interns do? Actually this is a learning experience for them in political science. The big thing they are supposed to do is observe. Otherwise, its “other duties as assigned” such as running and fetching. As for all of those interns assigned to one office? Nope. Thats just the latest bale of labor for what is sometimes called the Republican Caucus in, of course, the House.
31I did see one redhead.(guy) Are wingnuts reaching out to the Irish?
32No surprise here. Good to see how well their minority outreach program is going. When asked why so many white supremacist organizations are supporting him, Drumpf said, “I don’t know”.
33Here’s the farm team.
Maggie says. Apparently, what all those interns are doing is learning how to grift their way into a lifetime grift position, a la Lyon Paul Ryan.
34As we say in Hawaii, like white on rice.
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