Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill) suggested during a subcommittee hearing that the word 'manufacturing' sounds like a guy and hence there are fewer women in this field. "I have no words to describe the level of stupidity of today's democrats," Donald Trump Jr commented. "I swear it's as if they're intentionally sabotaging their own party," another wrote.
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