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UNCatTech said:
Isn't it great that companies and organizations in this country are finally realizing how important those first months of life are and providing paternity and maternity leave. So many othe countries are so far ahead of the US in this area. My company now provides 8 weeks of maternity or paternity time off.

Too bad the right again doesn't understand. Isn't there motto, "here's your bootstraps, pull them up and get to work". Or is it: "we only care while we can use you as a wedge issue, now that you're born we don't care anymore. " ?
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Or…just hire a nanny or AU pair. 😀
 
Ramrouser said:
Why couldn’t the father who wasn’t the Sec of Transportation take time off during a supply chain crisis? If you’re unable or unwilling to do your job then resign.
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Ah. But, you see, he wasn’t unwilling or unable to do the job.

He took a two-month “leave” but still engaged in high priority matters during that time. Returned fully in October 2021 with 3.25 years left to do his job.

And who resigns from their job because they feel the need to take a temporary leave?
 
Ramrouser said:
Or…just hire a nanny or AU pair. 😀
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If that's the options, then you had better be supporting a living wage or other wage increases. I can count you in as a supporter, correct?

Not everyone lives in that top 1% and can afford to pay full time salaries for such jobs.
 
Ramrouser said:
Why couldn’t the father who wasn’t the Sec of Transportation take time off during a supply chain crisis? If you’re unable or unwilling to do your job then resign.
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You know you are getting as unserious as Silence Dogood.

Do you take vacations? WHY, don't you have a job to do? Why should anyone take time off of work when there's work to be done.

And don't say you completed it. If you completed all the work, then we don't need you any longer.
 
Not that it came as a surprise but Trump's comment on Meet the Press this morning about not knowing whether or not he needs to uphold the Constitution is further proof that his supporters and voters are a combination of assholes and dumbasses.

We're a spoiled, degenerate nation. And we're about to get exactly what we deserve.

I think it will be far worse than even the skeptics currently think. The dollar may even lose reserve status after this is all over. And anyone with half a brain knows that's been the only thing propping up our way of life here for some time. Since conservatives won't tax the ultra wealthy like they used to do.
 
Occasionally, I have to be "that guy," so I will be that guy.

It still shocks me how many of you attempt to have dialogue with these bad faith, degenerate assholes. I'm convinced you just like seeing your thoughts in digital print. Or hearing the sound of your own voice, or something.

For as much as we criticize Democratic Party messaging here, many of you make the same mistakes. You don't converse with fascists and bad faith actors. You just legitimize them in the process. You talk to them. Because the alternative to "talk" is potentially war, which only the very worst among us want. But you do not converse. If you understand the distinction.

So you don't meet them on their terms, which is conversation. You throw them off balance. You ask why they hate the country. You ask why they hate children. You ask why they hate prosperity. You ask why they hate the Constitution. Etc. You don't debate them on the merits of their arguments. They'll garble back some nonsense. And as long as we still have a court of public opinion in this country, it will be the judge. If they decide some complete nonsense about how the Constitution "actually allows us to do whatever the fuck we want" great, then so be it. But you don't play on their terms.

People are emotional. Facts don't matter. So you use what you have to turn emotion on your side. To appeal to that lizard brain receptor. You don't have to appeal to the mom in suburban Philadelphia who is worried about illegal migrant hordes raping her children. She's an idiot. She's gone. But you show the rest of available swing voters how our most basic national values are under attack by allowing the opposition to be the complete unhinged assholes they are. And once the economy tanks like a stone dropped into a lake, as it surely will, you capitalize.
 
gregh1 said:
This era is so anti-incumbency that a White, Christian, straight woman potentially could win as long as she isn't attractive but also not too ugly, and strong but not "nasty"... And her running mate is all the above but male... But the economy would need to suck.
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She also needs to do what Margaret Thatcher did with her voice - learn to speak in lower tones AND absolutely no high-pitched laughter.
 
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