cities were burning to the ground because people were looting among the peaceful protestors after the death of george floyd in the summer of 2020 i didn t hear brad s party i don t want to single you out, brad. we may not have talked about it. i didn t hear democrats coming out and saying no that s not free speech. that s not what this is. no, give them room. i do remember one politician saying that. right. absolutely. and that s what is so damaging to the larger idea of equal justice under law when politicians selectively choose certain people to prosecute and certain laws to enforce while neglecting other laws and failing to enforce laws against certain people. it is incredibly damaging. and brad, you talk about 2/3 of the people against these protests. we don t a government of
political identity that is fashionable right now, what she said is very dangerous, it could ve led to war, we need to return to america were achievement in a merit-based way of achievement and that s not happening and i don t want to single out kamala harris, does anybody think lloyd austin is the very best that we have for secretary of defense or our system does not fire people when they screw up like general milley, that could mean president zelenskyy, the should of been fired after afghanistan and now they re leaving the military response and the crucial time for this country, this is make or break for ukraine we need to get back to merit-based hiring and its away from these politics and put in the very best, we have amazing country and hire the best.
goes on from a privacy perfect speculative. what can be done at this point? elizabeth warren talking about facebook s acquisition of instagram. is that stuff pie in the sky? can she do anything about how these companies have gotten so big? probably not. i watched that interview last night and frankly, i know part of us wants to cheer along with that because there really is no mom and pop marketplace any more. and i think that is to the detriment for the people of our country. some of what we hear coming out of i don t want to single out facebook. it s scary about what they collect but say and then how they can exploit it, even if they re not trying to exploded it in a me ferrous way.
when you have a new strategy or a new plan, are you listening to the way different kinds of people are hearing it? are women hearing it the same way that men are hearing it? are they comfortable? are they feeling like they can grow and develop as well? how do i do that, by simply taking them aside and having a conference? y you want to be proactive but don t want to single out different people for reasons that might make them feel uncomfortable. actually, you do. you do want to be conscious. some people think being color blind or gender blind virtue. what we re realizing is being conscious. one executive said, now i realize, i want to be color mindful. she said, i ve been mentoring a lot of women but i never thought about the fact i haven t been mentoring as many women of color. if i m more mindful of that, then i am going to pay attention to the differences. i m not going to pretend the differences don t exist.
they ve expanded it to 1.4 million cars total. which cars, specifically, peter? all right. well, they had already recalled the chevrolet coballot and the nearly identical pontiac g-5, they re recalling the chevy hhr, pontiac solstice, saturn sky and saturn ion in addition to those other cars. how many issues had gm had in recent years? i mean, gm these days, all auto manufacturers, and i don t want to single out gm, many automotive manufacturers have had a number of recalls. toyota has had a number of recalls over the years, so has chrysler. these days, especially, auto makers are really sensitive to wanting to jump on issues as quickly as possible. now, this issue dates back some years and they re finally getting on top of it. but auto makers are much more sensitive these days the about jumping on recalls, because there are serious penalties. an auto maker can be fined about $35 million for failing to recall a car in a timely fashion