Hilary was awful, to be sure. But Trump is a whole order of magnitude worse. Trump to this day won't release his tax returns. The reason you want those isn't to see how rich he really is, it's so you know where all his money comes from and who could buy him off. Trump ran a scary, hate filled campaign with exactly the kinds of tactics dictators have used since the 40s (really trying to avoid Godwining the thread here but...). Trump literally said during his campaign he wanted to curtail freedom of press. He Bragged about sexual assault. I can't even remember all the horrible things he said/did.
The article is about yet another reveal of links between Trump & Russia, in particular their helping him win the election. My point is it doesn't matter how much evidence you pile on. With the Comey firing the Republican party has show they just plain don't give a shit. They're not expecting to lose anything. And I think they're probably right. Vlad Putin doesn't worry about what people think because he's got a lock on power.
And I'm not trying to stir up trouble. We've already got that. Lots of it.
either Verizon over extended itself and is now ripe for the picking (e.g. merger, which with our current administration is a very real possibility) or they're gonna jack prices like crazy. Either way this won't end well.
unless the Dems take the House since it's up to the House to bring impeachment charges. And I don't see that happening. I mean, it should. Trump and the Republicans are insanely unpopular. The corporate Dems are weaker than ever and many will lose their primaries. Some Folks like to vote the other party because a lack of Gridlock makes them nervous (e.g. true conservatives as opposed to regressives using conservative rhetoric). The pieces are all there for a land slight victory.
But as the last election proved, if anyone can blow a sure thing it's the Democrats...
they learn best with plenty of teacher/student interaction. That's your labs. But they're really, really expensive and nobody wants to pay the taxes for them (we're all Taxed to the Max, you see). So we're talking about crap like this instead of the elephant in the room that is underfunded education.
And for those who are going to start spouting figures about how much we "waste" on education every year a) Learn what inflation is and b) realize that 100 years ago we abandoned most of our population to a life of poverty.
If you've got 300+ kids in a class, or even 60+ you're not getting a lot of interaction. Nobody's gonna want to speak up and bring the whole thing to a halt. And with more and more cuts to education coming because nobody wants to pay for it expect class sizes like that. My Kid's senior year in high school she didn't have enough chairs and often had to stand in class. There were 45 of them packed in there. Of course, I'm sure at expensive private schools it's not like that...
my brother worked for did it to him at least once. He's clever (not enough to avoid fucking his life up so hard he worked at a series of small computer shops, but I digress), so he caught it every time, but usually when he got hired on the other two or three employees had the same done to them for years and the boss didn't stop until they were called out. The most common scam is working them through lunch for free. Usually with a cheap pizza to shut them up. But rounding "errors" were popular too.
Most of the time big businesses don't do this because of class action lawsuits. I worked for a call center that was doing it for years and got nailed by one (I think they've all been nailed for it at least once at this point). What sucks is with the new laws allowing arbitration agreements to be binding plus a few nasty supreme court rulings class action lawsuits are pretty much a thing of the past. Sure, it sucks that the lawyers were the only ones that got a real payout, but at least after the suit companies stopped the bullshit. Now it's full steam ahead. Things are gonna get ugly in the next 20 years.
then take it away from the old people. They use _way_ more health care and didn't pay nearly enough in Medicare taxes to cover what they use. Screw everybody or screw nobody. Arizona's flush will billionaires who retired here (you'd be surprised how many). We wanted our cake and to eat it too. We wanted free money for the old people that vote and to abandon the working poor who can't make it to the polls.
You're problem isn't you drank the Kool-Aid, you're problem is you don't have the political will or guts to take care of your poor. Neither do we. You do a much better job.
And the Feds enforced like mother fucking crazy. We don't want them to enforce. We hire those people to be maids, cooks, and farm hands. We bitch and moan about it all day long but in the end we turn a blind eye. Obama deported them like crazy. It's one of the things the left hit him on (that and the drone strikes).
Virtually all the infrastructure that makes your data center anything more than a heap of silicon was paid for by my tax dollars. The Roads, the power lines, telecom, the engineers (paid for with subsidized schooling). Everything. It wouldn't exist without my tax money.
And the total cost of providing high speed internet (datacenter + everything else including cust service)? $9/mo. How do I know this? Comcast puts that little tidbit in their SEC filing. You can lie to everyone in America except your major shareholders. Those guys we protect.
I knew those cheese eating surrender monkeys were to to no good. This is nothing short of UnAmerican. Why, as an American I won't stand for it. I need to sit awhile to catch breath anyway...
Russia's too complicated a mess to turn into anything the American people can sink their teeth into, but interfering with an investigation? Well "The coverup was worse than the crime" has such a nice ring to it. It reminds them of Nixon and (Bill) Clinton's scandals. Americans will get that.
how do you even begin to respond to something this batshit crazy? Also, you'll still find the left wing media calling him a PoS, they're just as baffled as everyone else over the firing though.
vote in your primaries. Gerrymandering means that guys like this don't have a chance in the General. But in the primary anything goes. Change your party affiliation to the one that's owns your district if you have to, but vote in your primary. Also, call your representative and remind them you'll be voting in their primary and if they don't put a stop to this crap you'll kick them out.
They're not afraid of losing the general. They _are_ afraid of their primaries.
at least the honest ones do. The Trial Lawyers who hang onto our party because the other side wants tort reform (which, BTW, you do not want if you like having any recourse whatsoever when a mega-corp does something awful)... them not so much.
We're not going to demonize you if you don't act like a demon. If you come up with a clever scheme to siphon billions into your pocket away from actual health care then yeah, we'll demonize you. You're a demon. Stop it.
we do still want poor. If you come here you'll see McMansions right next to scary looking trailer homes. The rich don't like to pay for their services. How do you think they get and stay rich? So they need to keep the poor close by. We use our drug policy to control them. Chances are if you're poor somebody you're nearby has drugs on them and the way the laws work it's basically guilt by association. So if the poors get too uppity we send the cops through to bust everybody and it's 5 year minimum mandatory sentences for all (in a private prison no less).
by their bootstraps. Though it's telling that the phrase most often used to describe getting ahead in life through nothing more than simple hard work is also physically impossible...
when you're on your way to work with no time to stop and gets more expensive after work.
This is yet another good example of how the free market isn't. The entire situation is asymmetric. Companies have more information and control supply. If there was more competition maybe, but between buyouts left and right (thanks to enormous cash reserves left from decades of not taxing anyone) and the simple fact that they can watch each other's prices... well the whole system's busted and I don't see anything fixing it short of UBI + single payer healthcare or the like putting power in consumers hands by ensuring basic needs are met.
won't for much longer. There's $880 billion in cuts coming to offset the tax cuts being proposed. I'm in Arizona and we have a law on the books that automatically rejects anyone for our low income health care program (AHCSS) if they're single. The law was preempted when Obama threatened to withhold Medicare funds from the old folks unless we also covered the poor. The stupid thing being that the money coming from the Feds to pay for low income people's health care brought more dollars to the state than we were spending. But around here we don't like paying for poor people to have, well, anything really.
Anyway, when those tax cuts hit and the funds stop the law kicks back in and anyone single gets kicked off their health care. Period. I got a buddy with type-I diabetes who didn't have his insulin until Obama made Arizona pay for it. We're gonna go back to struggling to get his insulin now.
In most of America the only money to be made in poor people is exploiting them because that's all we're allowed to do.
and either automate them or hand them off to junior employees. Use that to free up time in your day for more technical/valuable/interesting projects. When those projects are done hand them off or automate them and move on to the next project. Meanwhile watch out for other teams trying to hand simple/repetitive work to your team:). There's no better way to lose your job to an outsourcer than to take on simple, repetitive work.
Wealth Inequality. Poorer counties have shorter lifespans. I suspect if you drill into the details you'll find higher rates of smoking plus a lack of access to to medical care, especially heart disease treatment and pre-cancer screenings and treatment. I guy I work with had heart surgery recently. We make good money with good benefits so it was covered and he was able to work from home for about 90 days while he fully recovered. But if he was the night manager at a gas station he'd have just died. Period.
you scratch mine. You know they're all on each other's boards, right? Why American is so adverse to recognizing their true ruling class is beyond me. Instead we waste our time worrying about "Big Government" and ignore the biggest government in the world: The Mega Corps.
the right started using it as such and the left documented the fact. What's that old quote from Gore Vidal... "I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I'm a conspiracy analyst".
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Hilary was awful, to be sure. But Trump is a whole order of magnitude worse. Trump to this day won't release his tax returns. The reason you want those isn't to see how rich he really is, it's so you know where all his money comes from and who could buy him off. Trump ran a scary, hate filled campaign with exactly the kinds of tactics dictators have used since the 40s (really trying to avoid Godwining the thread here but...). Trump literally said during his campaign he wanted to curtail freedom of press. He Bragged about sexual assault. I can't even remember all the horrible things he said/did.
Here's a good video of Jimmy Carter explaining why Trump won.
This one and this one. Also this
The article is about yet another reveal of links between Trump & Russia, in particular their helping him win the election. My point is it doesn't matter how much evidence you pile on. With the Comey firing the Republican party has show they just plain don't give a shit. They're not expecting to lose anything. And I think they're probably right. Vlad Putin doesn't worry about what people think because he's got a lock on power.
And I'm not trying to stir up trouble. We've already got that. Lots of it.
either Verizon over extended itself and is now ripe for the picking (e.g. merger, which with our current administration is a very real possibility) or they're gonna jack prices like crazy. Either way this won't end well.
unless the Dems take the House since it's up to the House to bring impeachment charges. And I don't see that happening. I mean, it should. Trump and the Republicans are insanely unpopular. The corporate Dems are weaker than ever and many will lose their primaries. Some Folks like to vote the other party because a lack of Gridlock makes them nervous (e.g. true conservatives as opposed to regressives using conservative rhetoric). The pieces are all there for a land slight victory.
But as the last election proved, if anyone can blow a sure thing it's the Democrats...
they learn best with plenty of teacher/student interaction. That's your labs. But they're really, really expensive and nobody wants to pay the taxes for them (we're all Taxed to the Max, you see). So we're talking about crap like this instead of the elephant in the room that is underfunded education.
And for those who are going to start spouting figures about how much we "waste" on education every year a) Learn what inflation is and b) realize that 100 years ago we abandoned most of our population to a life of poverty.
If you've got 300+ kids in a class, or even 60+ you're not getting a lot of interaction. Nobody's gonna want to speak up and bring the whole thing to a halt. And with more and more cuts to education coming because nobody wants to pay for it expect class sizes like that. My Kid's senior year in high school she didn't have enough chairs and often had to stand in class. There were 45 of them packed in there. Of course, I'm sure at expensive private schools it's not like that...
my brother worked for did it to him at least once. He's clever (not enough to avoid fucking his life up so hard he worked at a series of small computer shops, but I digress), so he caught it every time, but usually when he got hired on the other two or three employees had the same done to them for years and the boss didn't stop until they were called out. The most common scam is working them through lunch for free. Usually with a cheap pizza to shut them up. But rounding "errors" were popular too.
Most of the time big businesses don't do this because of class action lawsuits. I worked for a call center that was doing it for years and got nailed by one (I think they've all been nailed for it at least once at this point). What sucks is with the new laws allowing arbitration agreements to be binding plus a few nasty supreme court rulings class action lawsuits are pretty much a thing of the past. Sure, it sucks that the lawyers were the only ones that got a real payout, but at least after the suit companies stopped the bullshit. Now it's full steam ahead. Things are gonna get ugly in the next 20 years.
then take it away from the old people. They use _way_ more health care and didn't pay nearly enough in Medicare taxes to cover what they use. Screw everybody or screw nobody. Arizona's flush will billionaires who retired here (you'd be surprised how many). We wanted our cake and to eat it too. We wanted free money for the old people that vote and to abandon the working poor who can't make it to the polls.
You're problem isn't you drank the Kool-Aid, you're problem is you don't have the political will or guts to take care of your poor. Neither do we. You do a much better job.
And the Feds enforced like mother fucking crazy. We don't want them to enforce. We hire those people to be maids, cooks, and farm hands. We bitch and moan about it all day long but in the end we turn a blind eye. Obama deported them like crazy. It's one of the things the left hit him on (that and the drone strikes).
Virtually all the infrastructure that makes your data center anything more than a heap of silicon was paid for by my tax dollars. The Roads, the power lines, telecom, the engineers (paid for with subsidized schooling). Everything. It wouldn't exist without my tax money.
And the total cost of providing high speed internet (datacenter + everything else including cust service)? $9/mo. How do I know this? Comcast puts that little tidbit in their SEC filing. You can lie to everyone in America except your major shareholders. Those guys we protect.
I'm always angry. All the time.
I knew those cheese eating surrender monkeys were to to no good. This is nothing short of UnAmerican. Why, as an American I won't stand for it. I need to sit awhile to catch breath anyway...
if Trump doesn't somebody in the Republican party will step up to hand this guy a cushy seat at a think tank and some juicy speaker gigs.
Russia's too complicated a mess to turn into anything the American people can sink their teeth into, but interfering with an investigation? Well "The coverup was worse than the crime" has such a nice ring to it. It reminds them of Nixon and (Bill) Clinton's scandals. Americans will get that.
how do you even begin to respond to something this batshit crazy? Also, you'll still find the left wing media calling him a PoS, they're just as baffled as everyone else over the firing though.
vote in your primaries. Gerrymandering means that guys like this don't have a chance in the General. But in the primary anything goes. Change your party affiliation to the one that's owns your district if you have to, but vote in your primary. Also, call your representative and remind them you'll be voting in their primary and if they don't put a stop to this crap you'll kick them out.
They're not afraid of losing the general. They _are_ afraid of their primaries.
at least the honest ones do. The Trial Lawyers who hang onto our party because the other side wants tort reform (which, BTW, you do not want if you like having any recourse whatsoever when a mega-corp does something awful)... them not so much.
We're not going to demonize you if you don't act like a demon. If you come up with a clever scheme to siphon billions into your pocket away from actual health care then yeah, we'll demonize you. You're a demon. Stop it.
we do still want poor. If you come here you'll see McMansions right next to scary looking trailer homes. The rich don't like to pay for their services. How do you think they get and stay rich? So they need to keep the poor close by. We use our drug policy to control them. Chances are if you're poor somebody you're nearby has drugs on them and the way the laws work it's basically guilt by association. So if the poors get too uppity we send the cops through to bust everybody and it's 5 year minimum mandatory sentences for all (in a private prison no less).
by their bootstraps. Though it's telling that the phrase most often used to describe getting ahead in life through nothing more than simple hard work is also physically impossible...
when you're on your way to work with no time to stop and gets more expensive after work.
This is yet another good example of how the free market isn't. The entire situation is asymmetric. Companies have more information and control supply. If there was more competition maybe, but between buyouts left and right (thanks to enormous cash reserves left from decades of not taxing anyone) and the simple fact that they can watch each other's prices... well the whole system's busted and I don't see anything fixing it short of UBI + single payer healthcare or the like putting power in consumers hands by ensuring basic needs are met.
won't for much longer. There's $880 billion in cuts coming to offset the tax cuts being proposed. I'm in Arizona and we have a law on the books that automatically rejects anyone for our low income health care program (AHCSS) if they're single. The law was preempted when Obama threatened to withhold Medicare funds from the old folks unless we also covered the poor. The stupid thing being that the money coming from the Feds to pay for low income people's health care brought more dollars to the state than we were spending. But around here we don't like paying for poor people to have, well, anything really.
Anyway, when those tax cuts hit and the funds stop the law kicks back in and anyone single gets kicked off their health care. Period. I got a buddy with type-I diabetes who didn't have his insulin until Obama made Arizona pay for it. We're gonna go back to struggling to get his insulin now.
In most of America the only money to be made in poor people is exploiting them because that's all we're allowed to do.
and either automate them or hand them off to junior employees. Use that to free up time in your day for more technical/valuable/interesting projects. When those projects are done hand them off or automate them and move on to the next project. Meanwhile watch out for other teams trying to hand simple/repetitive work to your team :). There's no better way to lose your job to an outsourcer than to take on simple, repetitive work.
Wealth Inequality. Poorer counties have shorter lifespans. I suspect if you drill into the details you'll find higher rates of smoking plus a lack of access to to medical care, especially heart disease treatment and pre-cancer screenings and treatment. I guy I work with had heart surgery recently. We make good money with good benefits so it was covered and he was able to work from home for about 90 days while he fully recovered. But if he was the night manager at a gas station he'd have just died. Period.
you scratch mine. You know they're all on each other's boards, right? Why American is so adverse to recognizing their true ruling class is beyond me. Instead we waste our time worrying about "Big Government" and ignore the biggest government in the world: The Mega Corps.
the right started using it as such and the left documented the fact. What's that old quote from Gore Vidal... "I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I'm a conspiracy analyst".