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Will be interesting to see how it plays out. I hate it for the guy and he certainly has a lot of people rooting for his death. I suspect he’s resilient enough not to care about that.
it’s also another confirmation of my “it’s everywhere” hypothesis about the Covid causing virus.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)It was as expected, really. Biden only had to stay steady to get over a low bar. Trump was trump and looks like and probably is an asshole.
on policy, for me, it’s not even close. Trump all day. But damn what a jerk.
the only question, really is whether trump can keep the frustrated masses in flyover country enthralled. I’m not sure any more. The left’s constant bias seems to have worn him down to a more frustrated nub than I realized.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Trump is in trouble. He didn’t do anything endearing in this like he did against HRC, and Biden didn’t shit his pants.
Agree that neither is worthy of the office, but here we are, and Trump has a decent track record and experience as president. Go figure.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)“more natural environment.”
No, it’s just another unnatural environment that makes some people “feel” better. A true natural environment burns off periodically.
Reminds me of a very tough conversation I had to have with one of my kids after we had to put a very old and beloved dog to sleep.
My son was painfully distraught, as was the rest of our family, at the dog dying. Once the fog cleared he just said “it’s so unnatural.” We had a great conversation on how the dog living to such a ripe old, crippled age was just as unnatural, and that in nature he would have died a long time before because he couldn’t keep up with the pack.
It’s the same with the wildfires. We have full time work forces focused on stopping wildfires before they get out of hand. That creates a totally unnatural situation where dry/dead brush accumulates. Then, the firefighters can no longer control it, and nature REALLY takes over but in a totally massive way that is just as unnatural as keeping smaller fires from burning.
When feelings are involved, unnatural is whatever I want it to be.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)That was a good read, BD.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Haha. Narcissism linked to politics, and vice versa, I’d say. A lot of genuine people who want to make a change become swamp creatures of the first order after a few years. They don’t even notice it.
It’s one of the reasons I’m intrigued by what Trey Gowdy will do next. He had all the power a congressman wants and stepped back.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I’ve seen some old life that could breathe bourbon.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Saw this.
I’m sure they are just paid actors and that this is an isolated case in any event.
Is there a law against filling somebody else’s ballot? What about being in possession of somebody else’s ballot? Seems like that ought to be near treason to me, as it is actively undermining the government.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Show me what he’s doing that’s illegal or outside the rules and I will listen.
Tax avoidance is every citizen’s duty. Being in real estate and development is a great place to be if you want to avoid taxes.
there is the other issue: trumps people have already said the NYT has the wrong info.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Bob that’s just it, isn’t it?
advocate for and adopt orphaned or disadvantaged children of color and you are a colonizer.
advocate for the disproportionate abortion of millions of black kids and you are a champion for minority rights everywhere.
rb Ginsburg said “Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”
it’s a strange world we live in. Save one or two and you are grandstanding. Exercise indifference at the ending of millions of lives, and you are a champion for the people!
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I figured that was coming. She just adopted those kids for show. Right? What a pathetic argument. It’s horribly disrespectful to the kids.
I guess it’s just not possible to be a good person who is trying to help disadvantaged people. It has to be arrogance, appropriation, and (????) colonizing.
The left has no code except to attack the things it’s not. This will backfire.
oh; and to judge ACB: You ain’t black!!!
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)“I was born a poor black child.”
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)That guy had an amazing game.
Happy for him. Leach is amazing.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The Floyd death looked really bad on tape because of the issue of correlation and causation. the correlation of the cuffed prone knee to the upper shoulders and neck on a black man who was pleading for his life and that he couldn’t breath with his immediate death was a justifiable triggering event for an assumption that the cops caused the death. I fell for it. It looked awful.
the actual causation: that Floyd had somehow ingested or otherwise taken (he said he had been “hooping” which I believe means carrying drugs in his rectum) a fatal dose of fentanyl and would have died if the cops had him sitting quietly on the sidewalk.
The real problem is that, of course, everybody is committed to their position, even the positions that were about police brutality and murder even when there was none. George Floyd would have died of the cops had given him a relaxing foot rub and sent him on his way.
This episode of american history brought out the worst of the social media age: bunch of people speculating on what they saw on a video without expertise or even all the background facts.
the cops will walk and Minneapolis will burn again. If I’m the mayor there, I want the verdict read when temperatures are below zero so the crowds don’t get out. No way I’m allowing a summertime trial.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=2769]Answers vary, of course. Before Covid, heard the CEO of a major international engineering firm speak. He had implemented a remote work force for their entire organization a decade ago, and it is wildly successful. He spoke primarily on culture in his organization and how to maintain it. A few weeks into Covid, had him talk to a small group of CEOs about working remotely effectively, and it can be done. Really was fascinating. That said, also heard (fourth hand from an well connected source) that Facebook is failing miserably at working from home, and that Zuckerberg is extremely frustrated.[/quote]
My hunch is that if the management system is set up to hire and manage remote workers, it works. A huge part of that is hiring the right people. otherwise you get the “T to T” crowd, which is to say they work Tuesday to Thursday, Ten to Two.
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