In Dickensian England, she probably would have argued that it’s wrong to tell children how to live their lives or what “being a child” really means, and therefore denying them the opportunity to grow and seek upward mobility in workhouses is really not in their best interest.

Sam Bee was right. Although, feckless is too kind a word for Ivanka.

I’m surprised the kids are somehow stupider than the father when they’re only half him...

Husband works for human resources in a major city and when I read him this he nodded so hard his head almost came off.

“Well, you didn’t vote for me,” the senator tells her.”

Which is it? Are they innocents being manipulated or are they mature people who need to wake up to reality?

I do mind it. Even if the kids were being used (I cared about stuff when I was like 12 and up), they didn’t know that, and this was their first encounter with a real live Representative Of The People. And she was shitty to them. She’s been in Congress for like 800 years ... she should be able to be more diplomatic…

That’s how they dismiss these kids, as though they are just pawns with no agency, just like the right did to the Parkland kids. Just like some are trying to do to the European kids. Kids raised to be concerned are acting now, and they should. I’m glad they got an adult to drive them and help them. 

She sounds just like the Boomers at my government agency who have been there since the 1970s.

Lol @ all these comments that are like “THESE POOR KIDS ARE BEING USED” as if a 16 year old girl can’t be concerned about her planet ending up a smoking dustbowl.

Oh fuck off, this wasn’t edited to twist her words, the pretentious bullshit coming out of her mouth is entirely her own.

Feinstein clearly felt ambushed (she was) BUT she seemed to forget that she is elected as a representative of the people’s wishes. Her election that she just won is not a trophy of sorts, it is merely an indication that those who voted for her thought she would represent their interests. I would love to see the…

I have had essentially this conversation with my receptionist. She’s 22 years old and has a very happy family life and is pursuing her degree at night, but she still gets very caught up in the office gossip and politics. As the hardened 40 year old, I explained to her that work is not her life. It is how she pays her…

I agree that loving your job and ~following your passion~ is bullshit, but I also don’t want to go too far in the other direction and normalize hating your job. IMO it’s not normal or healthy to actively dread going into work everyday, to be constantly miserable at your job. Work should be something you do to get a…

Wishful Thinking: A Practical Study 🤣

I’m a lot more sympathetic to that argument (which is 100% valid) than “it’s divisive.” Because EVERYTHING we want to do is going to be divisive.

One could argue that Native Americans have gotten some reparations in the form of exemptions and policies which allow things like easy paths to casinos and lending institutions. Jews got the whole of Israel, which one might recall wasn’t just empty desert when it was given to them - people were displaced in order to…

Sigh.

Bravo!

Why do black Americans only get reparations?