Elvado
Blue & Gray (over 10,000 posts)
Posts: 10,692
|
Post by Elvado on Jun 27, 2018 7:03:34 GMT -5
Nice goalpost move there. I thought so. Now tell me they are referred to equivalently in the general media discourse and I will drop this...
|
|
SSHoya
Blue & Gray (over 10,000 posts)
"Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown."
Posts: 19,198
|
Post by SSHoya on Jun 27, 2018 7:11:48 GMT -5
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2018 8:17:21 GMT -5
|
|
Elvado
Blue & Gray (over 10,000 posts)
Posts: 10,692
|
Post by Elvado on Jun 27, 2018 11:50:17 GMT -5
Right wing ideologues strike again as Public Sector Unions lose big. Where oh where will Democratic leaning unions get their money now?
|
|
TC
Platinum Hoya (over 5000 posts)
Posts: 9,477
|
Post by TC on Jun 27, 2018 20:41:48 GMT -5
Right wing ideologues strike again as Public Sector Unions lose big. Where oh where will Democratic leaning unions get their money now? Guy who complains about people calling the court "partisan" gives the game away in sentence #2.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2018 6:58:39 GMT -5
It's almost as if he gets his talking points from...
|
|
CTHoya08
Diamond Hoya (over 2500 posts)
Bring back Izzo!
Posts: 2,925
|
Post by CTHoya08 on Jun 28, 2018 9:54:06 GMT -5
Nice goalpost move there. I thought so. Now tell me they are referred to equivalently in the general media discourse and I will drop this... I know that "the media" is your personal bogeyman, but I honestly don't think I've seen terms like "right wing ideologues" used to describe the conservative wing of the Court with any frequency in the news sources that I rely on.
|
|
Elvado
Blue & Gray (over 10,000 posts)
Posts: 10,692
|
Post by Elvado on Jun 28, 2018 10:11:11 GMT -5
Okay fair enough.
|
|
aristides
Bulldog (over 250 posts)
Posts: 342
|
Post by aristides on Jun 28, 2018 13:43:43 GMT -5
Right wing ideologues strike again as Public Sector Unions lose big. Where oh where will Democratic leaning unions get their money now? It's a big blow for the American worker. I'm no expert on this topic but the analogy I think of, for example, is affirmative action. In a perfect world, advancing a candidate based on the color of their skin would be unfair and unethical. But it's not a perfect world and because people of color have suffered and continue to suffer oppression, marginalization, and disenfranchisement, then advancing a candidate based on their skin color can be an effective tool to help combat oppression. It's all about equity, or taking into consideration the historical inequality between two groups and advancing one group in the name of fairness. And so it is with unions. Collecting fees from people who want nothing to do with the union is unfair, in a perfect world. But considering the incredible levels of economic inequality between the working class and the corporations/rich, unions had been one of the few remaining defenses that the working class had in order to protect themselves. This ruling cuts out much of the power from the unions. It will assuredly exacerbate inequality in this country, which is in a crisis as it is. Some people are working 50 to 60 hours a week, via 2 or 3 part time jobs and are barely getting by. Now the rich get richer :-(
|
|
Elvado
Blue & Gray (over 10,000 posts)
Posts: 10,692
|
Post by Elvado on Jun 28, 2018 13:52:26 GMT -5
Right wing ideologues strike again as Public Sector Unions lose big. Where oh where will Democratic leaning unions get their money now? It's a big blow for the American worker. I'm no expert on this topic but the analogy I think of, for example, is affirmative action. In a perfect world, advancing a candidate based on the color of their skin would be unfair and unethical. But it's not a perfect world and because people of color have suffered and continue to suffer oppression, marginalization, and disenfranchisement, then advancing a candidate based on their skin color can be an effective tool to help combat oppression. It's all about equity, or taking into consideration the historical inequality between two groups and advancing one group in the name of fairness. And so it is with unions. Collecting fees from people who want nothing to do with the union is unfair, in a perfect world. But considering the incredible levels of economic inequality between the working class and the corporations/rich, unions had been one of the few remaining defenses that the working class had in order to protect themselves. This ruling cuts out much of the power from the unions. It will assuredly exacerbate inequality in this country, which is in a crisis as it is. Some people are working 50 to 60 hours a week, via 2 or 3 part time jobs and are barely getting by. Now the rich get richer :-( All nice points but these are Public Sector unions whose employees are not working for greedy corporations
|
|
SSHoya
Blue & Gray (over 10,000 posts)
"Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown."
Posts: 19,198
|
Post by SSHoya on Jun 29, 2018 15:34:36 GMT -5
Incompetent corrupt clowns in the White House. By LOUIS NELSON 06/29/2018 03:18 PM EDT Updated 06/29/2018 03:37 PM EDT The White House is scrambling to figure out how a prank call from a comedian who pretended to be Sen. Robert Menendez managed to get a return phone call from the president, a person inside the White House said Friday. The person inside the White House said the call was routed to the president by the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner and that it was not routed through the office of legislative affairs, which had no record of Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, trying to connect with the president. And while legislative affairs got notified of the call and subsequently tried to kill it after learning from Menendez’s chief of staff that the senator was not trying to reach Trump, the call was still put through, the person said. www.politico.com/story/2018/06/29/white-house-prank-call-bob-menendez-687897
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2018 17:48:20 GMT -5
^Of course it was Kush that patched him through after the professionals told them to kill the call....
We already know the answer..... TBH regarding foreign policy, Trump has already given Putin a lot...
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2018 19:48:35 GMT -5
Art of the Deal. Guy is a hell of a marketer though...
|
|
SSHoya
Blue & Gray (over 10,000 posts)
"Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown."
Posts: 19,198
|
Post by SSHoya on Jun 29, 2018 20:27:50 GMT -5
|
|
tashoya
Blue & Gray (over 10,000 posts)
Posts: 12,586
|
Post by tashoya on Jun 30, 2018 9:50:51 GMT -5
Georgetown isn't far from the White House. Maybe Trump can audit some econ classes. Clearly, anything earlier than 11 won't work for him.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2018 18:17:57 GMT -5
The President and his family profiting off the presidency and their public service. It is brazen and out in the open.
|
|
tashoya
Blue & Gray (over 10,000 posts)
Posts: 12,586
|
Post by tashoya on Jun 30, 2018 23:56:50 GMT -5
It's also more of the same. This isn't new. Putting innocent children in, literal, cages and keeping toddlers from their parents and forcing them to represent themselves in court is what this administration has allowed and defended and blamed on others.
If one wasn't appalled before with all of the financial and ethical and environmental and election issues and still isn't now with the immigration issue, your problem isn't your voting, it's your knowing denial and continual justification. Defend it how you like. Tax cuts, the economy fallacy, a far right Supreme Court, the North Korea joke, the Iran regression. Do what you need to do to help you sleep. But, at some point, you'll have to explain why you defended this stuff to those younger than you and why it was okay to cage human children and demonize the free press while tacitly supporting mass shootings while doing so.
The other ironic part is that the current President isn't a Republican and he isn't religious. He isn't tied to any sort of morality. In fact, that's his only consistent trait. He'll do what polls well and nothing else. If you're cool with that, you're not making America great. You're watching the very worst version of old school American Idol and riding it until your contestant issue is voted off. Best of luck to those still on board that he doesn't flip-flop on the core reason you voted for him in the first place. You're probably safe with guns and abortion. Other than that? Roll the dice and hope for the best. Hopefully, all of the fertilized eggs that are brought to term aren't killed in a mass shooting. Though, the current administration won't care if they are.
|
|
SSHoya
Blue & Gray (over 10,000 posts)
"Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown."
Posts: 19,198
|
Post by SSHoya on Jul 1, 2018 5:40:33 GMT -5
It's also more of the same. This isn't new. Putting innocent children in, literal, cages and keeping toddlers from their parents and forcing them to represent themselves in court is what this administration has allowed and defended and blamed on others. If one wasn't appalled before with all of the financial and ethical and environmental and election issues and still isn't now with the immigration issue, your problem isn't your voting, it's your knowing denial and continual justification. Defend it how you like. Tax cuts, the economy fallacy, a far right Supreme Court, the North Korea joke, the Iran regression. Do what you need to do to help you sleep. But, at some point, you'll have to explain why you defended this stuff to those younger than you and why it was okay to cage human children and demonize the free press while tacitly supporting mass shootings while doing so. The other ironic part is that the current President isn't a Republican and he isn't religious. He isn't tied to any sort of morality. In fact, that's his only consistent trait. He'll do what polls well and nothing else. If you're cool with that, you're not making America great. You're watching the very worst version of old school American Idol and riding it until your contestant issue is voted off. Best of luck to those still on board that he doesn't flip-flop on the core reason you voted for him in the first place. You're probably safe with guns and abortion. Other than that? Roll the dice and hope for the best. Hopefully, all of the fertilized eggs that are brought to term aren't killed in a mass shooting. Though, the current administration won't care if they are. "He'll do what polls well [ with his enablers and supporters] and nothing else." (I think that needs to be added) Many of Trump's unethical and immoral policies do not poll well with the majority of Americans. And I'm sure that Trump and his minions have nothing but contempt for Sister Norma Pimentel. And suggestion for Dems, do not demonize ICE as that plays into Trump's hand. Demonize Trump's policies: Every day for four years, migrants have come here to the Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley Humanitarian Respite Center — sometimes, only 10 or 20 of them; on other days, as many as 200. They are hungry, dirty, exhausted and bewildered. The adults wear shoes stripped of their laces for fear of suicide in detention. They carry blue cardboard boxes holding chargers to power the electronic monitors on their ankles. There is so much they need: a bus ticket to reach family, a bowl of warm soup, a shower, fresh clothes, ointment for an infant’s raging diaper rash, a bag of snacks for the road. Above all, they need reassurance of their own human dignity. This is a place for practicality, not politics. Some of Sister Norma’s greatest admirers are the law-enforcement officials who witness the loaves-and-fishes miracles she works with the donations she gets and how she inspires so many others to pitch in. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/god-on-the-border/2018/06/29/b291228e-7b00-11e8-aeee-4d04c8ac6158_story.html?utm_term=.a53147ad5168
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2018 10:03:23 GMT -5
Hell of a marketer.....
“There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea.” -Donald Trump, June 13, 2018
There must be a parallel universe somewhere where Republicans are beating on a Democratic president who hugged the world’s worst dictator and got totally played. But the GOP chicken-hawks and both siders are, like, nothing to see here.
|
|
SSHoya
Blue & Gray (over 10,000 posts)
"Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown."
Posts: 19,198
|
Post by SSHoya on Jul 1, 2018 11:43:06 GMT -5
I wonder whether Trump will tweet out his congrats to his handler Putin for the Russian World Cup victory?
|
|