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Republican politicians are playing with fire. And we all risk getting burned
History shows: “When politicians break democracy, they are wrong to think they control what comes next.”
You’d think the modern Republican party would have learned this lesson. After Obama’s election, the neo-conservatives sold their souls for tax cuts. They welcomed birthers and bigots into their big white tent. They expected Paul Ryan would take the Republican mantle. Instead they got Trump. Even the most repugnant Republican politicians hated him. After Trump denigrated Ted Cruz’s wife, the brave senator shot back, calling Trump a “sniveling coward” and vowing that he would not “go like a servile puppy dog” and support then-candidate Trump.
Fast forward to this week: Cruz rushed to the president’s defense after Don Jr publicly shamed “2024 GOP hopefuls” for failing to lick his father’s boots. Ask Ted whether he’s steering the party, or whether the party is steering him.
If Republican politicians are telling themselves that “this time it will be different,” that they now know how to harness the explosive cocktail of economic displacement and racial anxiety, they’re flat-out wrong.
More at https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/14/republicans-elec
tion-donald-trump-fire
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Turning over a rock to expoze a propaganda creator: https://theintercept.com/2020/11/11/hunter-biden-china-dossier/?utm_me
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I ca hardly wait to see Biden fulfill his destiny as fixer of all that is wrong.
And if democrats don't do any different, how are they any better?
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I ca hardly wait to see Biden fulfill his destiny as fixer of all that is wrong.
Me too comrade, me to.
T
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Quote:We already know that the Republicans will stand in the way of all of it. They LIKE it broken, because their masters want to suck up all the money in the country.
Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I ca hardly wait to see Biden fulfill his destiny as fixer of all that is wrong.
Me too comrade, me to.
T
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Originally posted by reaverfan:Quote:We already know that the Republicans will stand in the way of all of it. They LIKE it broken, because their masters want to suck up all the money in the country.
Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I ca hardly wait to see Biden fulfill his destiny as fixer of all that is wrong.
Me too comrade, me to.
T
Joe Biden is GWB.
The sooner you figure that out the better off you'll be.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:The Key to Trump’s Appeal
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I ca hardly wait to see Biden fulfill his destiny as fixer of all that is wrong.
And if democrats don't do any different, how are they any better?
This 8-minute podcast by Sam Harris gives perhaps the sharpest solution ever articulated to the mystery of how tens of millions of Americans could enthusiastically support an obvious fraud, liar, incompetent, and threat to civilization. Briefly, it’s not despite his immense failings but because of them—because by flaunting his failings he absolves his supporters for their own, even while the other side serves those same supporters relentless moral condemnation and scorn. I think I had known this—I even said something similar as the tagline of this blog (“The Far Right is destroying the world, and the Far Left thinks it’s my fault!”). But Sam Harris expresses it as only he can. If this analysis is right—and I feel virtually certain it is—then it bodes well that Biden, unlike Hillary Clinton, isn’t seen as especially sanctimonious or judgmental. Biden’s own gaffes and failings probably help him.
https://samharris.org/podcasts/224-key-trumps-appeal/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Then that makes Biden* the perfect front-man for a host of job-torpedoing free trade agreements, China-servility, more war, climate change inaction (and not only that, he'll shrivel and disappear on the topic like an over-inflated leaky balloon) ... and more!
And when Biden* fails to fix anything, I'll be happy to laugh at his skinny saggy ass parading all over town in his New Clothes™.
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Georgia’s Senate Runoff Will Determine Whether the Minimum Wage Increases
Republican Sen. David Perdue, the former CEO of Dollar General, has said that raising wages kills jobs.
Sen. David Perdue claims in his official biography that during his time as CEO of Dollar General from 2003 to 2007, “he created thousands of quality jobs and helped working families make it from payday to payday.”
During that time, Dollar General opened up over 100 new stores in Georgia, bringing the total to 464 in the state. While Perdue earned over $50 million in total compensation from the company, the employees holding those allegedly quality jobs launched multiple lawsuits claiming that Perdue’s generous executive compensation was the product of wage theft and systemic exploitation.
Under Perdue’s leadership, no less than four class-action lawsuits — eventually combined into one — were filed against the company for wage theft, alleging systematic misclassification of managers to deny them overtime pay. The company’s business model relied on exploiting a loophole in overtime rules. If an employee could be classified as a “manager,” then the company could push them to work 60 or 80 hours a week but pay them no overtime or extra salary.
The company’s annual reports during the time Perdue ran it emphasized that Dollar General pursued “lean staffing of usually two to three employees in the store at any time” and stressed that “changes in minimum wage laws” could undermine the company’s bottom line. The company also warned that profits would be hit if “a significant portion of our employee base unionizes, or attempts to unionize.”
More about Republican Senators cheating employees out of their wages at
https://theintercept.com/2020/11/16/david-perdue-dollar-general-minimu
m-wage/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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