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Some for 50 years. Trump didn’t come out of nowhere. Him running for office used to be a joke.

Except they knew times would change, and so would those things in the public eye, so the document they wrote had to be malleable as well. If you think about it, while a lot of society has improved in respect to those topics, there’s still people who think that way, and we haven’t come as far as we should have in this time. So let’s not get too high and mighty because again, we could have been a lot further along by now.

Keep in mind that future us will be doing the same thing, looking back at what we’re doing or not doing and wondering, wtf was their problem?

The Founders: “Look, you guys were supposed to keep improving on it more than you did.”

Wow, the comments. Bunch of racist assholes. “They ran, they must be illegals.” No, they ran because some masked and armed men came after people illegally without consequence.

That’s a different bucket, we clearly can’t have the commons put their dirty hands in there.

They say they have DATA showing fraud, so they absolutely could find any of the problems, and certainly there have already been procedures in place to do that. This is just an opportunity to make up a new issue and use it for cruelty. A good society takes care of its people, it doesn’t make them crawl through hoop after hoop to survive.

Impeachment (or two) isn’t enough, as the current President shows. Impeachment without consequence is just something to note in the footnotes of a history book. Hell, Clinton didn’t get real consequences either, but let’s compare the impeachment findings of both Presidents as well as motives to pursue them together and compare.

North Carolina hides

That won’t have too much of a consequence, no sir.

Given the reason for finally stopping, the penny will be around a long time still, since the ones in circulation aren’t used nearly as much as before credit and debit cards.

1943 was the one year they made the zinc plated steel pennies. They’ve been various ratios of copper before and after (from 88% to 97%) until 1982, when they turned to 97.5% zinc with a 2.5% copper plating.

It’s like a race to the bottom, who can destroy things faster, Trump or Schumer. He had the support of most of the public to hold the line, right? Is he an idiot? Seems to be.

If “they” chose these members to do this, why are “they” now mad at them? Either this was not a planned move by Democrat leadership and they should be pissed, or… well, while I don’t think the Democrats are all that great, I won’t slip into the “both sides” or “it’s the same party” mindset, as they hardly are comparable and that’s a very deep conspiracy to think that this was the plan all along.

It’s terrible that people have gone through what they have, but now everyone who went through that (and will still until things get better) did it for absolutely nothing. Brilliant.

As if they passed out IDs to them when they got hired.

He may be an idiot. Maybe.

I’m game for one more test. He can have a nice front row seat too. “BIGLY!”

The glass contents are at the halfway mark, and we’re being told it’s full. Call it pessimism, call it realism, whatever.

The kicker is, what is in the glass is also diluted. Yes, I’m fun at parties.

I guess. Global air travel contributes about 2.5% of total CO2 emissions. This is 10% reduction of US aircraft, so multiply whatever percentage that is of global to the other two and that’s how much less there is. It doesn’t include any adjustments, like more car travel.

Won’t make much of a dent in things like the increase of power use emissions thanks to AI.

I would question if it’s fast anymore either. In my days of working fast food long ago we had parameters of customer quality and speed we had to meet. I do not see any evidence that any of the chains care about any of that anymore. Why would they? They give shit for shit prices and shit speed, and people keep coming back for more. Capitalism rule, why do better when it’s not needed or required?

Then why is 15/hr still such a hot topic of resistance when that number was a living wage minimum amount decades ago? And what is the federal minimum wage still at? Then there’s the issue of underemployment in both lowered expectations of what’s available for a person’s skill set, and also how many hours are actually available at whatever the rate is offered (i.e., if you give an employee a job at 20/hr but only give them 15 hours a week, that’s not a living wage).

There’s a lot of problems beyond just wage growth, and I would suggest that even if wages did start increasing faster than inflation for a while now, that just means they’re “only” too low a little less. People wouldn’t be working multiple jobs for each household member to make ends meet if wages were close to appropriate for cost of living needs.