Ok boomer.
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Do you know what was very much at the forefront of getting unions and shortening the work week? If you said Hollywood, you would be right.
It must be nice to have a job that can be done from 9-3 or 9-5 or whatever on a 20 hour work week making the same as a 40 hour work week. Iāve never had one of those jobs, so I just canāt relate.
not a boomer
Said with the lack of self-awareness of your typical boomer.
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Bernie would be fantastic if he can win the nom and Iām more than happy to see him moving on up. Have been all in on Warren mostly assuming Bernie was dead to win the nom. But that doesnāt really appear to be the case all of a sudden.
The longer this goes on the more obvious to me that Bernie is the best choice.
Iām still supporting Yang because he is the only one pushing UBI but Bernie is probably the only politician that can get working class people united and fighting for change.
Warren is going to be great at policy but I donāt think she is going to energize the working class the way Bernie can.
And energizing the working class is the only way to get the politicians at the top to start voting for their interest.
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Bill Gates joins the billionaire snowflake club re: Warren today, absolute fucking sociopathy from every last one of these people, who notably make no effort to understand her actual proposals.
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We may be in for a surprise if turnout is different than what polls project. Apparently pollster response rate is below 6pct and then theyāre presumably assuming that 6pct that participate is represntative of their demographic. And then they are relying on their projection of voter turnout. Unless theyāve drastically improved their methodology, there are a lot of assumptions that could lead to more variance than 2016 which saw some states miss by double digits from the final polls. If any demographic shows up at the polls more or less than usual and they favor a particular candidate we could certainly see some surprise results in the first few non caucus states.
If the Harris plan was to extend the school by 2 hours and then reduce the work week to 4 days, she might have been on to something.
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This is what people say about polls every cycle. Every cycle the polls remain mostly accurate.
Iām cherry picking, but the final RCP average was off from the final vote in MI by 19.9%, Az by 12.3,WI by 10.9%, and NC by 10.2%. Trump numbers on the GOP side were 10%+off many times as well.
This might come off as a conspiratardy anti-vaxxer hogwash, but think of it more as sensitivity testing a model to variability in its assumptions. Two assumptions in question are voter turnout by demographic and whether the sampling methods are succsesful in capturing good representations of the true mean. If the first primary states come in close, then confidence in the polls and the risk associated with error in those assumptions drops significantly. Right now though, it seems prudent to consider the error margin of these assumptions and how large that error translates to in terms of mis-estimation of actual results.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/wi/wisconsin_democratic_presidential_primary-3764.html
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/az/arizona_democratic_presidential_primary-5466.html
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/wi/wisconsin_democratic_presidential_primary-3764.html
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/nc/north_carolina_democratic_presidential_primary-5175.html
Also Nate had Trump at 15% on Oct 26th 2016, but since Nate is really just a glorified poll averager, itās not really his fault since heās only ever as good as those pollsters.
(Pecota was great though.)
Kamala is the absolute worst because she doesnāt have a plan to mandate a 35-hour workweek.
Did he say something about the wealth tax? I havenāt seen it. I know he came out against her antitrust policy, to the surprise of absolutely no one.
Sheās the worst because her solutions to the problems are the opposite of the direction we should be heading.
He bizarrely complained that she would take all his money (she wouldnāt, duh), then refused to commit to voting for her over Trump.
Note that the guy has multiplied his net worth since pledging to give away āallā his money.
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In a vacuum Kamalaās plan sort of makes sense. Then you realize we live in the real world where the problem is people working more and more and more to make less and less and this solution is exactly the type of nonsense the Dem establishment loves to come up with. It is neo-liberalism at itās finest. We need to be trending towards policies that promote shorter work weeks, better (not longer) schools, and income redistribution so people donāt feel like they have to work two jobs/60 hours a week to support themselves so some rich piece of shit can afford his third yacht. Not policies that turn our public schools even more into babysitters than they already are so people can work more hours at their shitty job. Itās disgusting.
If you support policies like this in any shape or fashion you are part of the problem.
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Heās worth $100 billion. It is a fucking travesty that he has paid only $10 billion in taxes. And I frankly doubt heās actually paid even half that much.
And letās have an honest conversation about Buffett. Yippee, youāre good at PR. The guy has paid basically no tax, and never will.
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Iām a Buffett fan boy on a business levelā¦ but these guys bitching about a wealth tax that wonāt actually happen is a bad look.
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This is important. While I can agree with Warren supporters that she might be craftier when it comes to politics and getting things done in Washington, I still think Sandersā passion and intensity would lead to revolutionary change. Heās said on open mic that if centrists donāt get with the program then as president, heād be willing to travel the country and rally with people in the streets and threaten to primary senators like Joe Manchin if necessary. No one matches Bernieās will and desire to fight for the people. No one
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