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[quote quote=2123][quote quote=2122]I just want to know what they would have campaigned on if not for covid and George Floyd. Would it have been 100 percent Trump? Trump gets more mentions than any Democrat platform planks.[/quote] Poll numbers I heard yesterday – 59% of dems are not voting for Joe, they are voting against Trump. Beat Trump is the Democratic platform.[/quote]
Along those lines, am I the only one who found it strange that the former President didn’t endorse his VP, he only slammed Trump? Man, Obama wasn’t a fan of either Biden or Hilary.
A number of large law firms have sent their staff to low-compensation areas. Littler opened a staff facility in Kansas City (was San Francisco). Orrick was the leader, almost 20 years ago they moved staff to West Virginia. Someone brought it up when I was with a Detroit firm, but it was pointed out that Detroit was already a low-compensation area, heh heh heh.
Not uncommon at all. And now that employees can literally be anywhere, I expect more of this. My son told me his SF apartment rent dropped about 20%.
I don’t think Biden had a better choice, however. I disagree with your implied assessment of Warren’s “authenticity.” She’s a phony of the first order
Well, let me rephrase. I’m certainly not trying to imply that Elizabeth Warren is authentic, she’s nowhere close. But Kamala Harris is a bigger phony, with less going for her than Warren.
While American “anti-racists” today worry about whether wiping their face with a brown paper napkin is a micro aggression, the real racists in China, Japan, Europe, and the Middle East laugh their asses off in private.
I can’t speak for the Euros or Middle Easterners. But according to the native Japanese and Chinese I know, those societies are relentlessly, completely racist. They’re more amazed that America works at all, given the polyglot ethnic stew here.
As far as dropping the H-Bomb and civilian casualties go…Japan had between 550k and 800k civilian deaths in WWII. China had between 7.4 million and 8.2 million, all inflicted by the Japanese. And while we’re on the subject, 75 million people died in WWII, 40 million were civilians. Of the civilian losses 85% were on the Allied side, chiefly because of war crimes committed in occupied territories by Japanese and German armies.
Another fact: 1% of all American prisoners in German camps died. 40% of American prisoners in Japanese camps died. That doesn’t include the 80,000 who died on the Bataan death march.
You know…at Cornell University, they have an amazing piece of scientific equipment, the tunnelling electron microscope. This microscope is so powerful, that by firing electrons, it can actually deliver images of the atom. It can detect the building blocks of the universe. And if I were to use that microscope right now, I still wouldn’t be able to locate my interest in the welfare of WWII Axis civilians…
[quote quote=1804]If Portland had done what Detroit did early on, the rioting would never have reached this point.[/quote]
To be fair, Detroit has a ton more experience with rioting than does Portland, the Nation’s Whitest City. It wasn’t just 1943 or 1967, there have been race riots since the late 17th century in Detroit.
And if I may be frank, having lived in Detroit…the vast majority of residents are African American, and the vast, vast majority I ran across were pretty chill. And when I saw the riots on television, they looked to be majority white folks.
Biden owes his nomination to Clyburn. I think it’s Harris. Shes the “safest” choice. Telegenic. Good on the attack. . Which is important for VP candidate. Bass has no name recognition. Rice, Benghazi. Warren has huge negatives Whitmer brings nothing. I don’t think she’s particularly popular in Michigan Correct me if Im wrong, Mick. (Love your comment on the roads , Mick. Michigans roads make California’s look good.) Booker would be a better choice than all of them. But Biden stupidly boxed himself in.
Whitmer’s not particularly popular. Dem’s don’t like what she did with schools, Repubs don’t like her failure to address the roads issue, which are really intractable. They have to be the worst roads in the country.
Her predecessor, Gov. Rick Snyder was also considered as a running mate for Trump at one time. Snyder completely mishandled the Flint water situation, so he was done.
You may be right. Harris seems like the front runner. She’s got lots of negatives, she was Willie Brown’s girlfriend for two years when Willie was 60 or so and she was 29. He gave her two political jobs. She wasn’t what the Dems would consider a good district attorney, she was the opposite. Oh well. We’ll see…
[quote quote=1409]A) Welcome back. Coup de grace post. B) We lost our country when the Progressive Left took control of Education. From Kindergarten all the way to College graduation. Trump is (was) a hiccup on the way to Social Democracy or worse.[/quote]
I don’t think it’s going to be Social Democracy, not for very long. I think we’re headed towards some bastardized version of Communism. The Dems will be in charge, though. Of that, I’m certain.
Maybe a better discussion is this, Neo: what would be a better system? Are you arguing for direct democracy?
I’ve thought about it, for certain. I understand the demographics and communications challenges that, 2.4 centuries ago necessitated the electoral college. And I suppose I wouldn’t mind direct democracy, as long as it came with a system of initiatives, whereby non-felonious American citizens could vote on issues of importance.
But then I think about the intelligence of the average American, the desire of trial lawyers to see the stupidest, most easily-swayed potential jurors in the jury box and then I think “let’s just keep it the way it is.”
