KLB is completely correct. One of the favorite election cliches, reliably invoked every four years by pundits and politicians alike, is that “this election is about the “soul”/”future of the [Democratic] Party.” It is not. It seldom really is, but this year it is certainly not.

a 50/50 mixture of red wine and Coke

“five good years of my life wasted that I’ll never have back:

“You provided yet another example of his tariff policies hurting UAW members,”

Lindsey Graham is the chief squaddie of the “Never Trumpers” who have subsequently surrendered and chapped their thin and lyin’ lips kissing the El Cheeto Grande’s ass.I’m 66, have been paying attention to political affairs for about 55 of them, and I cannot recall a more craven cave-in by an entire political…

The ultimate advantage capital has over labor is mobility. A multi-national corporation can keep moving production to ever-shittier shithole countries, as long as they can keep importing cheaply assembled products back into markets (like the US) where they can charge premium prices. As you pointed out, Trump’s tariffs…

I recently watched the Fed Chaiman and some senators discuss the economic consequences of differences in education levels among employee cohorts. You clearly overvalued your own education investment. [<— Snark, intended to produce LOLing.]

As much as I hate Donald J. Trump, I have to admit his irrationally wacky tariff-driven trade policy is the best thing to have happened to UAW since overtime. As long as he doesn’t pitch the whole economy into the shitter.

You’re overthinking this. To a white person (and I speak from decades of personal existence) “racist” is an adjective applicable to other people, not me. [And through the Transitive Property of Caucasianism, extendable to everybody I know. Because I wouldn’t be friends with a “racist.”]

You have an econ degree, right?

This pushes all the right buttons for all those dedicated “Jeep Creeps” (they are ubiquitous and they exist in hordes.). For $2600 you could drive it for five years and then sell it for almost twice that price.

“Pole position.” No small irony that a car site (with significant attention given to automobile racing) would get those homonyms wrong. 

1st Gear: Musk tells SEC “Stop me before I stupid again!”

Not every woman is an “ally.” Various pathologies can lead women to see abuse of other, less powerful women and girls as a demonstration of their own power, worth, or primacy-of-place in the eyes of a more dominant personality. 

It seems like Ford changes its mind like a girl changes clothes.

Isn’t paying employees part of the overhead that responsible business price into what they charge for their products or services? I have no problem paying for service and I always tip 20% on the cost of the meal (I don’t include the tax.) But, this sounds like “Hey, don’t blame me!” on the part of the restaurant.

4th Gear: Trump hates word “Obama.”

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Federal offices often hire rent-a-cops. I recently retired and had to make three trips to my local SSA office for paperwork. On my third visit, the office had to wait 20 minutes or so before opening in the morning because the rent-a-cop was late.