ColoradoEagle

So an article from 10 years ago by a professor in an unrelated department arguing for making political affiliation required information during the hiring process in another? How'd that come up?

I've known social workers, and yes, this definitely happens. The term "defund the police" is pretty bad from a political standpoint, especially after "defund Planned Parenthood" has been used for decades to basically say "ban abortion." That said, ideally what this movement would be about and address is what Quoner has been talking about, and what Brown was talking about. To borrow a PSA argument, we shut down asylums and didn't do anything with people with mental health issues: let the police take care of it. Instead of more local programs to help/serve the homeless population: let the police take care of it. Instead of more local programs to help and address drug addictions from 'legal' drugs like opioids all the way to meth: let the police take care of it. We need to begin shifting to a way of local government that addresses issues at their core instead of shifting that responsibility to the police. In the end, that's better for both the community and for the police.

Never said nothing to do with it, but very little. As you said, they're betting on where we may end up, but the economy today is absolutely devastated.

The market has very little to do with the economy.

True, and that's why you had Trump pressuring the Fed to lower the interest rate, despite the positive indicators. They're now having to give actual consideration to a negative interest rate. Also record deficits, cutting taxes for the wealthy, etc. I'm not being contrarian because "orange man!", but because we're now in a really rough spot economically, with a long road to recovery, and not a whole lot of tools available to get there. There's no V shaped recovery here, and thus the "Mission Accomplished" banner reaction to his victory lap yesterday.

I’ll give him credit for managing to not mess up an existing trend.

Credit for which record numbers?

It’s really sad to see Trump trying to do a victory lap for political gain when we’re still at the highest percentage of unemployed people since the Great Depression.

His wife's posts were pretty gross, and they said it was a mutual parting of ways. Almost any company you work for today is going to have a social media policy about not saying or doing things that reflect badly on the organization. Interesting that comments by his wife played into it, but it's the same concept.

It was smug, because I already knew the responses that were incoming. Most of these protests included multiple men carrying around semi-automatic weapons in public spaces. I did not have an issue with the message (we need to reopen the economy), but the intimidation, mixed with the Trump signs, mixed with the answers to why they wanted the economy reopened being almost universally very superficial made the whole thing laughable. You didn't see any damage, but the protests were far smaller and the police did not escalate, despite the presence of lethal weapons. Any time you have larger demonstrations and use of force, you're going to have 'a few bad apples'(tm). It's not for you to decide how people react to 155 years of systemic racism and when it should end, the same way it wasn't up to me to decide how people should react to not being able to get Grandma's Sampler at Cracker Barrel. All we can have are our opinions.

They can peacefully protest not being able to golf, eat brunch, or whatever strikes them as cause worthy. Far be it for me to think of them as snowflakes.

I don't think they're evil. They just protest for things like getting haircuts, not getting vaccines that helped us get rid of diseases decades ago, and their 'rights' to not bake a cake.

You have to realize that most black people see Biden as honorary black at best, and an awkward ally at worst. It's the same way that if your friend calls you an asshole, you're going to take it totally differently than if someone from SMU calls you an asshole.

On the Biden gaffe, from an assistant professor at Stanford: Obviously not a nationwide, official poll, but more scientific than what's going on in the thread.

This is basically it. Any jobs that are brought back from China will go to Mexico. Anyone sitting around thinking that any meaningful percentage of the manufacturing jobs that have left the US in the past 20-40 years are coming back is delusional.

Not at all silly.

Those numbers are likely due to 1) shutting the county down in the first place, and 2) the fact that testing in Texas is really, really low. We'll see what happens. The numbers in Texas were/are on the rise, but we're opening back up for business. That actually goes against Trump's recommendations for anyone keeping score at home. I can't even pretend that I'm staying in as much as a couple weeks ago. Went with the gf to pick up food three times this weekend, but tried to limit contact, wear a mask, and use hand sanitizer when getting back into the car.

I don't know if Kavanaugh's accuser was legitimate or not. That was never investigated thoroughly, McConnell had no interest in delaying the confirmation for the investigation to take place, and the evidence probably wasn't there due to the length of time. What was disqualifying for me personally, and a lot of other people, when it came to Kavanaugh was his behavior. Going full on Fox News/Breitbart in the middle of a confirmation hearing was disgraceful and would've resulted in him being thrown out on his ass in any other political environment than today's. And let's not forget that there are two current sitting conservative Supreme Court justices with sexual assault allegations made against them. One of which was approved by a Democratic Senate. Even if there was a double standard, it doesn't seem to matter.

Well, the double standard is kind of evident in your own post. I'm open to understanding more about the case, although early on the whole coaching from a Current Affairs journalist doesn't really help her credibility. We'll see where it goes. I also think trying to take the high ground when the most recent Supreme Court justice had multiple allegations against him, and same for the current President, is a bit laughable. As soon as the allegations became severe enough, Al Franken resigned, for example. So no, I wouldn't say this is a double standard. Serious claims are taken seriously, and we're not to the point with Biden where Franken found himself.