Re: Immigration
 

Sure you do. If you're at all skeptical of the "resistance" or question the politics of the Left, or suggest that identity politics is playing into Trump's hand (I liked the article below, by the way), you're part of the patriarchy, the oppressors, the bigots.

Obviously, I like toying with anyone's near-sacredly held beliefs (largely, because I don't think being invested more than 70% in any ideology, or belief, other than that people should be free, makes any logical sense). I understand that can be annoying. But questioning things is... um, good. It's a healthy way to think.

Question #metoo as perhaps going too far? "Heretic." Suggest there may some silver linings to this embarrassing buffoon's presidency? "Exile for you." Take issue with identity politics? "You're a white, privileged bigot apologist is what you are."

Here's a white, straight male identity for you to consider:

1. Hate Trump;
2. Also hate most Trump critics;
3. Also hate most Trump supporters;
4. Thinks its a pack of pawns fighting over scraps while, as Ty's article notes, the .0001, Left and Right, quietly runs away with it all.

Enjoy bickering on the sucker train.

Ty's article:

Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
 

Because one way you attract higher quality talent for lower wages - and many federal employees could make vastly more money in the private sector, especially lawyers - is to offer them greater job protections. Reducing those protections reduces the attractiveness of federal jobs.

Call me crazy, but I think finding good candidates is a bigger issue than being able to get rid of lower performers, especially in a tight labor market.

Yes, that's what you want. I don't think that's what he said last night, which was an improvement. We should not do what you want.

He said (paraphrase) "In partnership with state and local authorities, and, where appropriate, private financial interests." To me, that sounds like mostly not PPP, but open to it here and there.

It's a meaningless talking point. Most of the permitting issues are state and local that he has no power over. And most of the delays aren't the permitting process, but the political haggling over what people actually want and/or will tolerate.

Yes, that's why what he said is bs.

Yes, because that's where the people with conflicting interests are.

For some reason I blanked on including opioid in his list of nonsense. There not only his offered solution - drug warring on dealers, which means doctors and PHARMA, right? - ludicrous but his own policies have already made things worse. Scaling back Medicaid and making it harder for people to get treatment actively undermines our attempts to deal with the epidemic.

Re: Immigration
 

"It's not logical to believe in any ideology except the one I believe." Do you read what you type?

No, person who most likely has not even tried to come to grips with the amount of sexual violence and harassment that goes on in the world.

No. Let's find some. The ones you keep offering, unfortunately, are mostly in your fantasy.

And even then pretty weak sauce in context.

Yes, that's what that means.

Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
 

I guess the GOP really is a train wreck.

Re: Immigration
 

I know this both-sidesism comes from your heart, but it's super-annoying because it's more about your self-image than about what the Left or Right are doing. Obama passed the ACA and Dodd-Frank. Trump is trying undo both, and passed a massive tax cut to benefit the rich. Both sides are interested in redistribution, but only one side is profiteering. This is as obvious as the nose on your face, and if you don't want to see it, whatever.

Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
 

When I was a civil servant, I was kind of bored, and in law school. So I started doing grievances for our employee union.

The thing is, the gov "protections" aren't that big a deal. It seemed the supervisors only had to follow procedure and they could unfairly fuck people. The employees who were getting fucked we typically couldn't help, because the supervisor knew he was doing something wrong, so em was careful. Who could we help? The employee that should be getting fired, because their supervisor would often act hastily. That is, I don't think it is hard to fire gov employee now.

That said, I also knew NO ONE who was their because the job had firing security. Maybe some people, especially the clerical group, were there because layoffs were less likely. People in legal jobs might have been there for experience, because it does come quicker. And the bennies were great. I had 4 weeks from the start. And the thing is, I could use it. I remember big law telling me I got 4 weeks! Might as well have been 20, you can't use it all, and still keep your job.

But I never ever heard anyone there for "hard to get fired" rules.

Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
 

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Re: Paigow
 

Maybe she was really the infamous Washingtonienne.

Re: Paigow
 

Slave knew how to pick em, for sure!

Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
 

That's been my experience at both the state and federal levels. At the municipal level and county level, less so. That's where I still can see, in a lot of places, "wired" hires who need to be moved on but who aren't. But it happens in ritzy school systems in the 'burbs just as much as or more than in cities supposedly run by political machines.

Thought of another way: Atticus still has a job.

Re: Immigration
 

Dodd Frank should be relaxed.

I had no issue with the ACA and do not agree with getting rid of it via stealth defunding without an equivalent replacement. I think that’s a huge blunder, and also inhumane.

The profiteering of the GOP is a rounding error in the bigger picture. Under either party, the money is funneling upwards. If you don’t see that both parties do little to effect real change, and only fiddle around the edges to the extent their corporate owners allow them to, whatever.

Re: Immigration
 

What would you change?

Re: Immigration
 

Relax all the restrictions and rules on mortgage lending. Don’t throw them out. Just relax them. Make is easier to qualify and close. That’ll help the housing market in those blue states getting screwed by the SALT deduction cap.

Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
 

So Scott Baio got kicked out of the Playboy Mansion because he had sex with every month's Playmate one year, and that's supposed to be a record? BFD, with a loose definition, I had sex with every month's Playmate 1972-1975.

Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
 

It’s going to be close... http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...democrats.html