They probably do. The number of viewers they draw from the sample likely assumes that something like 2+ viewers are watching through each stream their data feed catches, so there were probably something like 4 million TVs and streamers tuned to it. They then extrapolate that to roughly 10 million viewers but in reality probably half of those TVs and streams were watched by a single woman or gay man because the people who watch that shit today don’t have families of 4 gathered around the idiot box anymore and no one in their viewing demographic is having watch parties due to The Germ.
The real number is probably closer to 5-7 million viewers. Ad rates and cable carriage fees are tied to those ratings so they have to come up with ways to polish the turd because if they reported raw feed data the collective “guh” would cause eardrums to explode.
Yeah, that’s my point - if the choice is 20 million from Somalia and around there or 20 million from Mexico and Cuba, I’ll gladly take the folks from Mexico and Cuba. I agree that our immigration policy has completely gutted certain industries and caused untold harm to large regions. But it’s even worse for Mexico. Mexico has basically lost two generations of its hardest working people to outbound immigration. Their government wants it to end because it is crushing them. Of course now there are huge waves from Central America.
I suspect as time passes the Mexican immigrants will be a bloc larger than people with German ancestry in the US, which is huge. There are stories about illegals or people under deportation orders committing crimes, but by and large I’d say the group is full of decent hard working people with very strong family values and religious beliefs and they will do well in the US.
Of course the elite class just wants them here to grow consumption, depress wages and hopefully vote reliably Democrat. Some of the most based guys I know are second generation Mexican guys. They hear these woe is me stories on the media and get pissed because they say “I went to shitty schools in bad neighborhoods and my parents didn’t speak a word of English but I still got out.” Makes it really hard to push the leftist “everything is so terrible” narrative.
I’ve been there. It just fucking sucks. Anyone with 3/8ths of a brain can tell that with these diversity initiatives the bar for promotion of someone like that is so low that merely lifting their feet will clear it, but these assholes won’t even do that and then will bitch about some -ism rather than just putting in a modicum of effort to actually to do their fucking job.
If you work around these people, ALWAYS keep meticulous records and NEVER interact with them one on one.
We had this one gal who was a massive SJW. She was also lazy but thought that tears and having a degree from a good school was all she needed to skate by.
She got assigned to a project I was supervising. I also picked up one of the new recruits for the project just so I had a witness. Gave the SJW a 4 hour project and a week to do it. When we reviewed it I had the new recruit with us. Got the SJW to commit at the outset that she had spent 20 hours on it. Needless to say it was pure trash and I voiced my displeasure to a barrage of tears. Left meeting and called HR. Turned over my whole file on this moron and they confirmed the meeting with the new recruit.
Of course, she later called HR on me the next day and when she went to meet with them she got fired.
These people not only suck, but they cause massive drains on productivity because you have to over staff projects (need a witness) and document everything which adds 10% to the workload.
My buddy’s wife supervised nurses and CNAs at a nursing home. Once the big unemployment checks kicked in they started losing the workforce because the unemployment office basically stamped everything as COVID related. No appeal. Too dangerous. Once the big stimmy checks hit accounts they hit critical staffing shortages.
The top brass were on her about staffing levels, performance metrics and some employee complaint against another employee that she didn’t address within four hours or some crap. She was doing 80-100 hour weeks. She walked in last week and handed them her badge and keys and walked out. She was over having beers last night and played a few voicemails they’d left begging her to come back. They were hilarious. This lady sang the praises of leftism in 2020 and is now probably more anti-leftist than Rush Limbaugh. It’s amazing.