More Retailers Drop Ivanka's Label

As an update to yesterday's post about Ivanka Trump's unprofitable brand name and Kellyann Conway's unethical promotion of the same via the White House, the news was shared by CNN earlier today that Sears and Kmart have also dropped Ivanka's goods from their stores. This is to be expected. Online sales of Ivanka's brand dipped 26% this past January by comparison to January of 2016. Brick and mortar stores have not done any better with it. There's no reason to continue wasting space on something that does not sell. Something that seems a bit convoluted and warped is the statement make by a senior marketer at "Ivanka Trump" Rosemary Young stated, "We believe that the strength of a brand is measured not only by the profits it generates, but by the integrity it maintains."

That's interesting. Every successful retailer measures its merchandise by the profits it generates. Elected officials, however; are measured by the integrity they maintain. It appears that the Trumps and their employees have mixed up priorities. At no time in Donald Trump's public life has integrity been a measure of anything he considers important. Generated profits, on the other hand, are a different matter, altogether to the Trumps.

Reasons Why Kansans Are A Problem For The Real World

A friend of mine shared this on Facebook. I was embarrassed, because this Republican creep is right here, in Kansas, coming forward with yet another truly stupid, Kansas-style statement. We have Kansans who feel that people with sickle cell anemia and thalassemias should report directly to work when medical advice recommends transfusions. We have Kansans who deny disabled children education that is equal to that of other children. We even have a county attorney in Marshall County who suspends the medical care of inmates in the county detention center when they insist upon jury trials and refuse to plead guilty to charges. This prosecutor isn't even concerned when these tactics result in death.  And now we have a Republican representative who thinks that a woman does not need birth control over the age of fifty. I wonder if he realizes just how risky a pregnancy can be after that age? 

This is why we have to stop getting our representatives at Kmart, folks. Seriously. And Kansas, there have been some really stupid statements made by politicians in the past, but this comment really stands out. Before you guys hate on me,(Frankfurters, I'm looking at you, here) and send me all those rude comments, some containing dialogue that is so rife with obscene language that I can barely understand you, stop and think about this. Why not direct your pith toward people like Allan Rothlisberg? 

Of course, the people in Frankfort Kansas will probably expect a pregnant woman over fifty to donate blood when she discovers that her hemoglobin is around six, and she needs a transfusion. They'd expect her to forgo medical care from an obstetrician, too.