Re: Dead Cat Bounce
 

Hey! I can post from work again.

Although the legal landscape may be worse, I am still betting on marijuana stocks as winners under Trump.

Re: You don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
 

Really, Ty? DeVos is consequential because she's a Jesus Freak (NTTAWWT) who doesn't believe in public education. Which is bad enough, but that kind of disqualifies her from being Secretary of Education, no?

Losing fights still need to be waged so that our elected representatives know that we know that this is all Not Normal. And those of us who are Democrats should tell our Democratic senators that we are paying attention. Kind of a way to say "oh, hello Elizabeth Warren! By the way, oh heroine of the progressives, we saw your "yes" votes and will remember them. Know who hasn't voted "yes" yet? Corporate lackey Kirsten Gillibrand. We will remember her "no" votes."

Re: Dead Cat Bounce
 

I can say anecdotally (friends of friends) that unprescribed therapeutic use has skyrocketed since November. Or at least I think it has. My memory is a little hazy and that seems like a long, long time ago.

Re: You don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
 

I have an Uncle who was big in the teacher's union & politics out here. He worked in a school. Once when the Rs were talking about closing Dept of Educ I asked him what it actually does, "I'm not sure, I think it monitors that Federal standards are met?" There has got to be someone appointed to something more important who is a better nomination to fight.

Re: You don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
 

It's definitely a target-rich environment, but I guess my thought is that they're not going to be getting a scalp, and Dems ought to be picking fights to frame the issues that are going to matter to swing voters in two years. As terrible an appointee as DeVos is, I don't think going after her advances that ball so much.

Re: Dead Cat Bounce
 

Depends. Sessions left to his own devices is the worst imaginable Atty General for that industry. But Trump may stay that shitty old bigot's hand on the issue because: States' rights, and, We need every new industry we can get, however niche.

Re: Ball so Hard.
 

I followed your numbers. And they're for shit.

Right there. That's why they're for shit. You know what else we have more of than we have at any other time?

People.

So... No shit more of them are working than at any other time in the past!

Now look at the percentage of people working on that graph.

Can you say, "Today we have a higher percentage of people working than at any other time in the past?" Right.

Why would it ever be useful to cite a measurement as meaningless as the one you did?

Re: Dead Cat Bounce
 

True. Only Blue State work isn't plentiful enough to spread around that much. There's not even enough of it to fill most blue states these days. Tech work, by its nature, by its very design and intent, lessens the need for more work, of almost all kinds.

No Mason Dixon line today. The Trumpkin could be next door, the Progressive across the street. And they agree on a number of things!

Re: Dead Cat Bounce
 

Actually, we have severe shortages of employees around here. I think our California colleagues will report the same.

A good example of how red states shun our work: There was a multi-billion dollar federal program set up to develop clean energy technology spin-outs; it was specifically envisioned as a way to generate replacement jobs for placing losing them. The University of West Virginia was solicited to participate - a good chance to fund a couple professorships with full labs and to fund several tech spin-outs. West Virginia doesn't believe in clean energy, and didn't want the work - there wasn't a place on the faculty for those folks. MIT got two major grants for new technologies it is spinning out - Massachusetts (and New Hampshire) will get several hundred more jobs.

Re: You don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
 

She is going to do some really bad stuff. And when running for reelection, Republicans are going to have to defend supporting her. Sometimes, you just go on record as to where you stand, whether or not you win the issue.

Re: Dead Cat Bounce
 

You work? I thought you were a full-time wandering vagabond.

Re: Ball so Hard.
 

Yes, and you said, "people want work" (paraphrase). People have work.

We've looked at a variety of those measure too and they're all in the range of historical norms.

Actually, that's not really true. They're in the range of historical norms since 1990. Over a longer term a greater percentage of people are working today than did in the past.

Re: Dead Cat Bounce
 

You really have to start reading more/better sources. Jesus man. Blue areas are having a hard time finding workers.

But it's time you started living.
 

Nope. Fight all of them. Burn the motherfucker down.

And so Not Bob ends his discussion on the Politics Board for at least a while (never say never, amirite?) and starts living. So, in honor of the late* Mary Tyler Moore, he gives you Joan Jett singing "Love Is All Around" live on David Letterman.

* Poor Atticus.**

** It was him with the Laura Petrie fetish (NTTAWWT), right?

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Quote from my sister after reading another horrifying news article: "A friend of mine said that this feels like being a passenger in a car driven by a drunk driver. Feels more like a plane driven by a drunk driver."