They're making plenty of money doing so. They can provide essential services without treating workers as disposable.

If you're being paid by some DeVos-funded org for this stuff, you're definitely not getting sick pay. 

We’ll see what comes out in the wash. It’s going to be an eventful seven months. This Chris Dodd thing now! 

I 'm very familiar with the history and various nuances of the term "leftist." None are likely to apply to anyone Katie Couric comes across at work. You can fairly call chat show people "journalists, I guess, but it's extremely generous.

Ha ha ha! I can’t believe that, in 2020, even in the US, some people are confused by a basic concept like “leftist.” And I’m not even starting with your apparently loose idea of “journalist”!

That's ok. They don't mind.

Don't judge yourself for mourning and processing a disappointment. Don't judge yourself for falling in love. Recognize that you were going down the wrong path and got yourself back to where you want to be. 

Actually, she was invited and kept indicating she was looking forward to it, but never showed up. Susan Sontag, though? 

When has she even met a leftist journalist?

I’m sure the Russians, the Chinese, and various billionaires try to influence elections around the world. That doesn’t mean that everyone not thrilled with the Dem establishment pick to be Guardian of Late Capitalism is a Russian spy. I would have voted for this guy, and may even have grudgingly helped, but I have to…

I don’t know if it would have, and I don’t know what will happen over the next seven months. I don’t think there’s much of a chance that Biden will be president, though, even if this is only a small part of that. 

It was 2014. No one thought Biden had a future. Making up stuff to discredit him and hiding it as a funny aside in a book is admirably clever, if that’s what happened.

It’s 2020. The US has had a normal left for a few years now and those two weren’t invited.

The stories about nudity in front of female Secret Service have been out since 2014.

I’m not sure who, or what, you think I am or what you mean by “the left.” Neoliberal predation with a faux-populist veneer isn't that much worse than neoliberal predation with a "social liberal" veneer. I'll miss the abortion rights, but c'est la vie.

According to MRA blogs, maybe, but ask Juanita Broderick and Christine Blasey Ford about how much fun they had. The nude swimming was discussed by journalist Robert Kessler in a book about the Secret Service and was widely covered in press in 2014.

He's not "the left." I know you're 'Murican, but...haven't you paid any attention these past five years?

There's a pattern of rape victims being treated like garbage and nothing coming from speaking up. And the Vanity Fair article wrote about his nudity in front of female Secret Service, over their objections, which is a step past "overly touchy."

Good points, except the Clinton/Biden apologists are no one’s idea of “the left.” I know this is ‘Murica, but come on!

You would think, wouldn't you? Evidently, not, though.