Carly Fiorina Loves Talking About Porn-Watching Federal Employees

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina is a favorite with conservative audiences, and one of the lines in her stump speech that’s most reliably crowd-pleasing is a remark about how, as an employee of our messed-up federal government, you really can sit around and watch porn all day and still take home the same pay as the diligent employee in the next cubicle who’s actually working for a living.

Sometimes, she says it in the context of the need to “reimagine government.” On other occasions, she cites federal porn fans in conversations about gender and fair pay. During a Wednesday news conference in front of the hotel here where Hillary Clinton was about to speak about equal pay, for instance, Fiorina said, as she has before, that one of the biggest obstacles to fair pay is the seniority system: