https://twitter.com/Rschooley/status/1212382551114952704?s=20
My father said that it’s a skill all in itself to look like your working hard but never actually doing anything…
It’s a Boomer trait… 
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https://mobile.twitter.com/ImIncorrigible/status/1115143248450920448
https://mobile.twitter.com/ImIncorrigible/status/1118044807358763008
There was a math professor in a building I once worked in that affixed his whiteboard to the same wall of the door to his office. People would walk by, see him staring at that wall, and assume he was deep in thought over some proof. It was later revealed he set it up that way so he could zone out for hours at his leisure.
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This thread is wild
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It’s entirely negative. I’m not really shocked myself, but Trump has done a lot of horrible stuff and has been impeached and it has had no effect. He shouldn’t be a toss up to win the election. It’s horrible that he’s not a lock to lose.
And I live in a state with 40 million people that doesn’t matter in the election at all. I did get someone from a swing state to maybe consider Bernie over 3rd party the other day though.
In 2019, for the first year, zero carbon energy became the biggest source of electrical power in the UK, providing more than fossil fuels.
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The people who swing Trump from 35%-47% or w/e his peak is only care about the economy, their 401k or investments. Nothing else matters to them. So it shouldn’t be a surprise his approval rating goes up when the stock market does.
I’m still kinda hopeful that millennials who aren’t captured in these likely voter polls are still gonna come out in force and he’s gonna get wrecked.
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Because non-diplomacy was working so well with North Korea. I.E. fuck that guy.
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This is a popular take, but I’m not convinced, at least about their 401K/investments. I think it’s a pretty sweet spot in that for a fair number of people like me, as long as my retirement doesn’t totally shit the bed I pretty much ignore it (which is probably the best strategy, TBH) - and for a lot of people simply don’t have much of anything saved - does it really matter that you went from 20000 to 20800 over the last year or two? If those sort of people REALLY thought the economy was key, they’d be screaming about tariffs and job losses, at least in the midwest, I would think.
I think it’s a lot like health care - if you have a job/insurance, you want to keep it and hate the idea of losing it. As long as your PERSONAL economy/situation is OK, the that the idea that the “economy” is doing well seems less important. Of course, that means that a lot of that sort of voters are ginned up about stuff I’d rather not think about.
TBH, the fact that Trump isn’t running away with the 2020 election is amazing given the way the “economy” has done if you think that’s a key indicator. Any other vaguely competent candidate should have costed home by now.
MM MD
The “seasonal employee” thing is not the reason to hate Amazon. It’s what they do to them, like locking them in 100 degree warehouses and hiring ambulances to wait outside because it’s cheaper than A/C and they are afraid workers will steal stuff if they open the doors.
That and turning retail from kinda bad work into a dystopian thing where people are turned into cyborgs.
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I think a lot of people who are capable of processing these things unconsciously choose to deny they even exist. Acknowledging that these things exist would require them to also acknowledge how their actions have unintentionally contributed to some of the worst evil in the history of humanity.
Eg see civil war apologists asking for nuance that the south wasn’t really racist, modern white people who claim black people just have a different culture and that’s okay, “moderates” who define being a moderate as being willing to both sides no matter if that includes contemporary Nazis, and men who reflexively shout NOT ALL MEN! instead of trying to understand and empathize with the pain others have experienced. And maybe choose instead to make amends and right an imbalance they didn’t even realize they were benefitting from and contributing to.
Thinking of the turning workers into cyborgs, that was the thing with the post office/going postal. It wasn’t the letter carriers who went nuts, it was the people in the warehouses who were subject to time and motion studies and told exactly what to do and how to do it at all times.
Look for people going Amazon I guess, at least until it’s all robots.
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Chief Justice John Roberts’s year-end report on the judiciary praised civics education, but it was not hard to detect a timely subtext that appeared to be addressed to President Trump.
“We should celebrate our strong and independent judiciary, a key source of national unity and stability,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote.
“We should celebrate our strong and independent judiciary, a key source of national unity and stability,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote.WASHINGTON — As Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. prepares to preside over the impeachment trial of President Trump, he issued pointed remarks on Tuesday in his year-end report on the state of the federal judiciary that seemed to be addressed, at least in part, to the president himself.
The two men have a history of friction, and Chief Justice Roberts used the normally mild report to denounce false information spread on social media and to warn against mob rule. Some passages could be read as a mission statement for the chief justice’s plans for the impeachment trial itself.
“We should reflect on our duty to judge without fear or favor, deciding each matter with humility, integrity and dispatch,” he wrote in the report. “As the new year begins, and we turn to the tasks before us, we should each resolve to do our best to maintain the public’s trust that we are faithfully discharging our solemn obligation to equal justice under law.”
The nominal focus of the report was the importance of civics education, but even a casual reader could detect a timely subtext, one concerned with the foundational importance of the rule of law.
Chief Justice Roberts began his report, as is his custom, with a bit of history, recalling a riot at which John Jay, an author of the Federalist Papers and later the first chief justice, was struck in the head by a rock “thrown by a rioter motivated by a rumor.”
Jay and his colleagues, Chief Justice Roberts wrote, “ultimately succeeded in convincing the public of the virtues of the principles embodied in the Constitution.”
“Those principles leave no place for mob violence,” the chief justice wrote. “But in the ensuing years, we have come to take democracy for granted, and civic education has fallen by the wayside. In our age, when social media can instantly spread rumor and false information on a grand scale, the public’s need to understand our government, and the protections it provides, is ever more vital. The judiciary has an important role to play in civic education.”
The report seemed to continue a conversation with Mr. Trump about the role of the courts.
In 2018, the two men had a sharp exchange, with Mr. Trump suggesting that federal judges carry out the wishes of the presidents who appointed them and Chief Justice Roberts defending the independence and integrity of the judicial branch.
The exchange started when Mr. Trump called a judge who had ruled against his administration’s asylum policy “an Obama judge.” In response, the chief justice said the president had misunderstood the role of the federal courts in the constitutional system.
“We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges,” Chief Justice Roberts said in a statement. “What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. That independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for.”
Mr. Trump took issue with the chief justice’s statement on Twitter. “Sorry Chief Justice John Roberts, but you do indeed have ‘Obama judges,’” Mr. Trump wrote, “and they have a much different point of view than the people who are charged with the safety of our country.”
On Tuesday, the chief justice returned to his theme. “We should celebrate our strong and independent judiciary, a key source of national unity and stability,” he wrote. “But we should also remember that justice is not inevitable.”
The friction with the president has only added to the delicate spot the chief justice will find himself in when he takes on his constitutionally assigned duty to preside over Mr. Trump’s Senate trial. Mr. Trump has repeatedly pinned the future of his presidency on the trial, the details and timing of which have not been set.
Chief Justice Roberts’s report concentrated on the central role the judiciary has played in educating the public, notably by issuing accessible decisions, in both senses of the word.
“When judges render their judgments through written opinions that explain their reasoning, they advance public understanding of the law,” he wrote. “Chief Justice Earl Warren illustrated the power of a judicial decision as a teaching tool in Brown v. Board of Education, the great school desegregation case. His unanimous opinion on the most pressing issue of the era was a mere 11 pages — short enough that newspapers could publish all or almost all of it and every citizen could understand the court’s rationale. Today, federal courts post their opinions online, giving the public instant access to the reasoning behind the judgments that affect their lives.”
Current Supreme Court decisions in major cases are much longer than the ruling in Brown. Citizens United, the 2010 campaign finance decision, was 176 pages long, with roughly the same number of words as “The Great Gatsby.”
Chief Justice Roberts praised the many educational programs offered by federal courts across the nation in which students are invited to visit courthouses. He did not address the role that camera coverage of arguments at the Supreme Court, currently forbidden, could play in civics education.
The chief justice singled out, but did not name, a colleague, praising his exemplary educational work. “As just one example,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote, “the current chief judge of the District of Columbia Circuit has, over the past two decades, quietly volunteered as a tutor at a local elementary school, inspiring his court colleagues to join in the effort.”
That judge is Merrick B. Garland, who was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama in 2016 but denied a hearing by Senate Republicans. Mr. Trump appointed Justice Neil M. Gorsuch to fill the vacancy.
he knows but he’s going for the “well if I repeat it enough people will believe I did it” move. That shit works on people.
Sadly agree