Here’s a good CNN article summing up trump’s wacko press conference yesterday.
I’d be in favor of banning windows, it would make up for the oddly-specific “No Brutalism!” directive from a few outrage cycles ago.
Banning Windows! That’s going to piss off Bill Gates. Is that to get back at him for implanting tracking devices under the skin of all vaccine recipients?
I wouldn’t say job training is “bad” necessarily (it gives unemployed people something respectable to do), but it is sadly too often worthless unless you can pretty much guarantee there will be an actual job at the end of the “training.”
The real solution to this problem is for the leadership OF BOTH PARTIES to stop enabling multinational corporations’ shipping jobs overseas that could reasonably be done here in the US. I am old enough to remember when most apparel and shoes and appliances were made in the US, often by union-represented workers who were paid enough that they didn’t need a two-income household to support a minimum standard of living. We didn’t have walk-in closets full of cheap t-shirts bought at WalMart, and if the radio or TV died, we took it to the local repair shop instead of the landfill. Now we have the nightmarish situation of outsourcing production to countries whose labor forces live the lives of serfs and whose appalling environmental records enable those low, low prices. And then the US labor force turns around and (over)buys the crap because that’s all there is or is the only thing they can afford. The current administration is all about ensuring that the uber-wealthy can consolidate even more assets so it is not likely that any of the proposed trade agreements will help the un- and under-employed. I hope the Dems get enough push from the Progressive wing to make some meaningful changes if they ever return to power.
Damn. Looks like the a.m. caffeine just kicked in.
I’ve mentioned this before, but in 2016, my 19 year old nephew was living with me. And I had never been able to get him to vote, much less engage politically.
Then along came Bernie and he was all in.
Then Bernie lost.
Within hours, before I could even talk to him, he posted a thoughtful piece about his rising above his disappointment, and the necessity of stopping Trump. The post was tagged #I’mWithHer
And he’s supporting Biden now.
If it hadn’t been for Bernie, he’d probably be one of those kids that never votes. I hope there are more like him
It wouldn’t be bad if it was actually job training they were offering.
It’s not. It’s an ad campaign that tells people maybe they should consider looking into job training if they don’t have work. That’s not too helpful, and it’s insulting to boot in our current circumstances.
Not only that, imagine a 40-50 year old, newly trained with no actual experience, trying to get a job in that field.
Republican Proverb:
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day
Teach a man to fish and you will feed him for his lifetime
Tell a man to “Go Fish” and shut the door in his face and you can feel smugly superior to him for your lifetime.
Here’s a better source: transcript straight from the Cheeto’s mouth.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-press-conference-071420/
I’m convinced that whole textual (translated into verbal) diarrhea was authored by Stephen Miller. I continue to be astounded that some people can listen to His Orangeness blather on like that for over an hour and still think “yeah, this is fine”. The fact checking on this is going to take weeks.
99% is pure fabrication with massive distortion for the rest.
< checks watch > 3.72 sec.
FWIW, I spent years eschewing pay web sites, but finally realized that you get what you pay for.
CNN (for example) occasionally has good stories online, but is completely bogged down with ads.
I pay for the New York Times and Washington Post online, and both are worth every penny to me. There are a few ads here and there, but they are relatively unobtrusive. And the reporting is top-notch.
Last but not least, I feel it’s important to do my part to support journalism. (On that note, in addition to these online newspaper subscriptions, we also subscribe to two local newspapers.)
I completely agree with both of these points.
What I would tell those who say they won’t vote for Biden because he’s not progressive enough is that there’s a lot more at stake in this election than whether the next president has a progressive agenda. The big issue is the survival of democracy in the United States. Donald Trump has been sabotaging and dismantling the institutions that limit his power: an independent justice department, a free press, the laws and traditions that keep the military out of politics, federal agencies that provide information to the public. . . He hasn’t been successful at all of these, but he keeps trying, and if he’s re-elected there won’t be anything to hold him back.
Trump wants to be a dictator. If he’s re-elected, he could come close to that, in which case future elections might not mean anything. For those who want a progressive agenda, how will they achieve it if democracy is permanently crippled?
Purity above all!
(not my view)
What Individual 1 means when he says that Biden wants to abolish suburbs:
Individual 1 rolling back Obama policy to desegregate suburbs:
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-07-02/trump-targets-efforts-to-desegregate-u-s-suburbs
This is all the fault of crypto-racist “well-meaning” liberals.
Here’s the thing about Trump “saving” jobs in coal mining.
He didn’t. He had no intention of doing so. But the coal companies had a ton of obligations to both their workers and the environment. This obligations involved money that Republicans felt should rightly go towards making really rich people even richer. It took time to revive these businesses for long enough for them to run everything through a series of increasingly sketchy business deals in order to divest themselves of these obligations so they could keep ALL the money.
I can’t even find the article I wanted to post, but there are no shortages of examples.
Well, the plan for the rich people to keep getting richer is working out fine across the board.
The economy is tanking across the country, with layoffs and bankruptcies as far as the eye can see. But the richest sliver of the country continues to do quite well, thank you.
The latest evidence came Wednesday morning as Goldman Sachs, the bluest of blue-chip banks, said it’s raking in money on Wall Street.
While other banks are warning about rising loan losses during the recession, Goldman, which tends to serve a higher-end clientele, is sounding a pretty optimistic note.
In fact, Goldman said it did better than expected, bringing in revenue of $13.3 billion, up 41% from a year ago — and its second-highest quarterly revenues ever.
It benefited from a record surge in trading of stocks and bonds as well as profits from investment banking fees.
“While the economic outlook remains uncertain, I am confident that we will continue to be the firm of choice for clients around the world who are looking to reshape their businesses and rebuild a more resilient economy,” CEO David Solomon said in a release.
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These folks won’t need retraining in new careers.
They are selling debt/money and real estate speculation to each other. It’s not a real economy, just like it wasn’t a real economy in 2008.