But it’s not just that he wasn’t actively doing fieldwork as a geologist. It’s that he never was one to begin with. He doesn’t have the credential, which is an MS followed by a PhD, or the experience. Majoring in geology in undergrad doesn’t make one a geologist. You’ve got to do the postgraduate work, which is…

Exactly. That is accurate. He studied geology in undergrad some 30 years ago. That is not at all the same as working as a geologist.

So you actually had a specific job, and didn’t do that job for a while? That is different. This guy has never worked as a geologist, not for a week, not for a day. If you got a degree in accounting 30 years ago, but never worked as an accountant, you can’t call yourself an accountant.

Have a career in geology with professional experience and expertise. If you get a degree in accounting and never do accounting, you are not an accountant.

I’m guessing that one would need professional certifications or graduate degrees to make the claim to being a geologist.

He should say he majored in geology, not imply that he has done advanced worked work in the field in the recent past.

I would be more forgiving if he backed up his scientific assertions with actual data or reasoning, rather than “I’m a geologist”.

Seriously, the number of people keen to penalize a working mother, just because no one made concessions for them, is astounding.

Just out of curiosity, how much direct, intimate, prolonged contact have you had with an infant?

This is called a false equivalence. My personal choices for who I want to date/marry/have sex with are not the same as choices a business makes when hiring someone, but OK.

Working mother who pumped here too. If we can make rules changes that make it easier for other women then I am all for it. It was brutal when I had to leave my baby, find a private place to pump then parade through an office with milk to the break room. I don’t want other women to have to go through this. None of us…

So maybe the point is that the US should make these concessions easier for more working women. This is classic “We can’t be happy she got it because not everyone has it.”

Most mothers are able to take at least a few weeks off after they give birth. Babies eat constantly during that time. Sen. Duckworth can’t take time off because she would miss votes. But the baby still needs to eat every couple hours.

And even if it was a typical workplace, if people can bring their dogs to the office all the damn time, women should be able to occasionally breastfeed their children.

I’m so sick of the automatic response of all American (liberal, conservative, libertarian, or Satanist) to be that because other women/people/whatever have it harder then this woman/person/whatever then they should just deal. The article is pretty clear why this is unacceptable.

She can run. Her father was an American citizen so that makes her a natural born citizen no matter where she was actually born.

Why shouldn’t it be okay for her to bring a breastfeeding infant with her if she doesn’t even get to take maternity leave? She didn’t say that she was going to have her child around all the time, just when it was needed. This isn’t exactly a typical office environment.

I hope she breastFeeds on the Senate floor because I have pretty good idea what Mike Pence would look like with blood flowing from his ears and I’d like to confirm my suspicions.

I’ve been saying for some time, I think she might just be our first woman president. Tammy has it all on paper. Maybe a little more Senate time under her belt and not sure if she’d even want to run on this next cycle with a little one. But yeah...she ticks a lot of boxes. Hopefully in a few short years I can cast my…

A future President of the United States, if there is one.