CURRENT EVENTS - April 27-30

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Lets not forget the Blue Collar factory jobs in places like North Carolina really sucked . Gastonia Mills -gimme a break Now when Durham was all about tobacco getting a job there was a pretty damn good job for a Black women with a HS degree in 1965 Of course they were printing money then
 
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Trump is moving at breakneck speed while breaking things. He's trying to accomplish as much as he can in two years - taking on issues that no other politician in my lifetime has been willing to take on. Trump is NOT governing to be popular with poll tested policies. So, given this and given our current political environment some slippage is expected.

Plus, most of the media polls are crap and designed to fit the media's 100 day narrative. You really trust these polls that have NEVER been able to accurately gage Trump's support? Rasmussen still has him at 47+/-.

Finally, even the crap media polls show him beating Dems 37% to 30% in head to head as to whom the public prefers on major issues.
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It's the economy stupid.
 

Trump Threatens Chicago School Funding Over Black Student Success Plan​

The Education Department’s civil rights office is investigating whether the program, which helps Black students do better academically, is racially discriminatory.

🎁 🔗 —> Trump Threatens Chicago School Funding Over Black Student Success Plan

“… The investigation, overseen by the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights, is based on a complaint from Parents Defending Education, a conservative, Virginia-based group that claims that the Chicago program, the Black Student Success Plan, amounted to racial discrimination. According to the complaint, the school district was “failing students of all races and ethnicities, which makes this racially segregated program all the more egregious.”…”
 
As reluctant as I am to give the Administration credit, saving 119 million American lives is quite an accomplishment. We’ve complained a lot on this board over the past 100 days, but imagine how much worse it would have been if more than a third of the country had died during that period.

 
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As reluctant as I am to give the Administration credit, saving 119 million American lives is quite an accomplishment. We’ve complained a lot on this board over the past 100 days, but imagine how much worse it would have been if more than a third of the country had died during that period.

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119 million American lives saved in only 100 days.

Jesus could never.
 
1moretimeagain said:
As reluctant as I am to give the Administration credit, saving 119 million American lives is quite an accomplishment. We’ve complained a lot on this board over the past 100 days, but imagine how much worse it would have been if more than a third of the country had died during that period.

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22 million fentanyl laced pills.
119 million lives saved.
5.4 people saved per pill seized.
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This is sort of a weird story — they establish that (1) a GOP member of Congress from Greenville NC fired off a letter questioning why a NY hospital ran a Super Bowl ad, (2) a week later the same Congressman reversed course after he admits he had a conversation with the CEO of the hospital and lavished praise on the same hospital and (3) in between, Flight Aware data shows that a private plane of a GOP megadonor and benefactor of that same hospital landed in Greenville for two hours while the Congressman was in Greenville.

It is easy to draw an inference that the GOP megadonor personally went to change the Confressman’s mind. But the reporter’s trail stops short of any further proof supporting that — the story does not confirm who was on that plane, whether the Congressman met with the person on that plane or why the plane made a pit stop in Greenville, and says that as of now there is no record the megadonor has made any donations to the Congressman.
 
UPS on Tuesday announced it is planning to cut 20,000 jobs this year, part of a cost-cutting effort that's linked to the delivery giant's decision to deliver fewer packages from Amazon, its biggest customer.

The shipping company, which operates in over 200 countries, currently has around 490,000 employees. The layoffs will impact slightly over 4% of its workforce. This follows an announcement from UPS last year that it would cut 12,000 positions.

The move is part of the company's plan to consolidate UPS's facilities and workforce. Along with the job cuts, the company announced it will also close 73 of its buildings by the end of June 2025 and said that it may target additional buildings for closure.
 
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UPS on Tuesday announced it is planning to cut 20,000 jobs this year, part of a cost-cutting effort that's linked to the delivery giant's decision to deliver fewer packages from Amazon, its biggest customer.

The shipping company, which operates in over 200 countries, currently has around 490,000 employees. The layoffs will impact slightly over 4% of its workforce. This follows an announcement from UPS last year that it would cut 12,000 positions.

The move is part of the company's plan to consolidate UPS's facilities and workforce. Along with the job cuts, the company announced it will also close 73 of its buildings by the end of June 2025 and said that it may target additional buildings for closure.
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Yeah, this is an interesting business strategy decision that in part predates the trade war — the Amazon deliveries are apparently particularly low margin for UPS and so they are reducing the volume of those shipments.
 
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He’s not wrong.

From the transcript:

“… PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, they did sign up for it, actually. And this is what I campaigned on. I said that-- we've been abused by other countries at levels that nobody's ever seen before. We were losing $3 to 5 billion a day on trade. We were losing-- a trillion and a half to $2 trillion a year. Not sustainable.

They were takin' advantage of us like they've never -- I could've left it that way, and at some point there would've been an implosion like nobody's ever seen. But I said, "No, we have to fix it." I've -- I've wanted to do this for many years. …”
 
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