If health care had internal solidarity, to do this type of thing, there probably wouldn’t be a shortage of workers willing to do direct patient care.

Good for these guys. The reality is that when you stay with a job you rarely get that pay rise commensurate with skill as the years creep forward such that the newer generation can sometimes make more than you year one, after you’ve worked 10yrs. This is why unions are key. They prevent that behind the scenes BS from occurring. And push cost of living increases on your behalf. The percentage sounds like a lot but when you break it down it’s simply logical increase.

Where’s the requisite Vimes quote about boots?

Housing is cardboarded enough of late. You get good windows and great insulation even as your walls/foundations crack within the first 5 years. (Popped into the private group for the new subdivision down the way at the edge of town…the pics and complaints are not pretty. Oh. And the land they built on. The construction people had to redo an entire road between houses with people already in them because water cracked that road and bubbled up through it.). This is going to be a regulations battle going forward. I don’t think we want less regulation on these cardboard subdivision houses.

Repubs are going to scream that DEMs are preventing houses from being built by keeping current regulations in place. While DEMs are like ya, safety, find another way. Run on the problem, don’t find solutions.

I am keen to hear about this federal land thing the VP candidates touched on.

GrapheneOS. Faraday bags. Depends on you and how far you want to take it. And how much you like and rely on dynamic maps.

It’s cool when these companies get subpoenaed. Then we all know exactly what data they keep.

Yes he did. But he sold it to people who don’t know better. This is probably why no fact checking was in the rules.

(Which, how is that even allowed to be a thing?)

He also, and this reads to your point, sells it to “non elites” (the non-degreed) with his dismissal of Wharton college economists. He acknowledges their PhDs, then says they lack common sense and wisdom, which has been a key byline for the Republican Party as a whole, echoing back years.

PhDs are snobby fucks who lack common sense. Listen to me instead.

The book smarts vs common sense, like they’re mutually exclusive is a very common, much repeated sentiment among working class Midwesterners. I was so mad that he got that right, not in the sense that it is correct, but that it will swing people his way.

Name them and create a YouTube raccoon drama and you’ll have a career.

I don’t like him at all, but he was articulate and not at all unhinged. He also hammered on the magic words that T somehow failed on: she’s been in office, where are her changes? (Yes, the VP job is a minimal role unless you’re Dick Cheney, but it works as effective perception management on most people.)

Walz looked like he was sweating into his suit when the debate started, but then warmed up.

The ending on Vance’s refusal to admit Trump lost in 2020, or to answer the question on whether or not he’d certify was really damning.

This is really simple. Use Signal or WIRE. Proton or maybe Tutanota for email.

Avoid garbage like Telegram and FB Messenger. Discord as well.

Cluster B. NPD is not known for empathy.

There’s a sound bite of him at a recent rally talking about how much he hated paying overtime and how he would avoid it.

He doesn’t care.

You’re cool. I’m happy to hear it. Economics and the stock market are my least favorite and least understood topics.

I’m just tickled to have this better understanding of tariffs and inflation from all the political commentary. Economists keep showing up on podcasts.

“Decomposing tangerine” is appreciated as well. His Cluster B brain is also 80yo brain and doesn’t appear to be weathering life very well of late.

The tariff is paid by the car dealer and passed onto the consumer. As one example.

Consumers pay it, not the overseas manufacturer.

No. He’ll encourage the guy. Pretty sure Vance is going to go full Cheney, but internally, with social policy, while waiting for his handlers to tell him it’s 25th amendment time.

I was just listening to him today. The segment on how republicans who claim pro life are really just anti woman.

So relevant, that guy. And missed.

Cluster B is heavy into projection. Not surprising.

No, it’s you doing this and being this toxic shit, accuses Cluster B. Pretty much always.

Exhausting nonsense.

Steam, Kindle, Audible, what was that movies site?

And yet, it has downvotes.

This makes me think of Harmon Quest.

Can we not elect any more Cluster B personality disorders going forward? Please.

Their hopelessly entrenched in an alternative reality basic approach to the world is toxic enough on the regular lives scale. With the presidency we get crap like this.