At this point we might as well just start leaving loaded guns in playgrounds and avoid all the handwringing and consternation about who can/can’t have them. If the slaughter of children (or anyone for that matter) is what we want (it’s certainly what we get) then let’s cut out the middle man/government from the equation and let fate take its course.
No consequences means we can expect even worse behaviour going forward. She gets to vilify LGBTQ+ while those kids and their families she supposedly represents get to live with the consequences and stigma of her words. What a piece of shit she is and the board who failed hold her accountable too. If anyone in this story is a fucking nazi it’s the woman who made the comparison to start with. Twatwaffle can fuck right off.
Edit: Read the article and while there are “soft” consequences (censure and holocaust/LGTBQ+ training) she still gets to make decisions that affect vulnerable kids. The board should have said zero tolerance. She, and the board, can still fuck right off.
Her irrational voice equals guaranteed advertising clicks for media outlets. We decided long ago that money should be the principle motivation (above truth, evidence and facts) for media outlets in this country. This is one of the many damaging consequences of that idea.
How do we even get the horses back in the barn before we close the door?
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday that Republicans will lose the presidential election if Donald Trump is the nominee and that he expects hard-right followers of Trump to force a government shutdown within days....
Words are cheap Paul, what’cha gonna actually do about it? Campaign for Biden? Put some of your net worth towards another candidate?
Na, you’re just going to play fortune teller and then hope that’s all the pushing you have to do. You’re such a weak little turd. Go fuck a cactus you twat.
White people with bags of money have to be inconvenienced or die before anyone with power will/can do something about it. Same with climate change. Until the ruling class is directly affected they will do everything in their power to retain it.
George W. Bush, the infamously anti-gay and neoconservative former U.S. president who invaded Iraq on a lie, has criticized congressional Republicans for threatening to defund the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a largely successful African HIV-prevention program that he launched back in 2003....
Hey George, go fuck yourself sideways. You have the blood of hundreds of thousands Iraqi children, women and men all over your hands and face and you’re pissed that the ghouls you enabled are repealing maybe the only redeemable legacy you have. Go fuck a cactus you war criminal piece of shit.
Never said I wanted it to die. But I don’t think anything GWB will do or say will sway anyone in the current party he helped build and enable. If he wanted to protect his legacy he should have ensured that truth, evidence and facts are the standards we use to make and maintain policy.
If he’s really interested maybe he should put some of the family wealth where his mouth is and start supporting democrats who would protect a program like this.
This is just like Mitt who has a lot to say about how things are going to shit but it’s just words and way too late. Fuck them all in a chicken basket.
Are you kidding? 2A rights people will be all over this as it concerns a US citizen who’s just trying to defend himself if necessary. Why would they turn away from this particular case against (checks notes)… yea, you’re right, it’ll be crickets this time from the group who thinks only certain Americans deserve the right to defend themselves with a gun.
I wish Hunter would fight it as if it was a legitimate 2A rights issue and demand from the 2A folks that they support him so he could spotlight their hypocrisy.
Ah good, so now he can sit on the sidelines and armchair quarterback the demise of the GOP that he himself helped create. Dr. Frankenstein is fine with his monster smashing everything while he sits back and retires.
I’ll give him some props where it’s due, but that’s his party. He voted for his wife (as a protest vote) in 2016 instead of Clinton. So in my opinion, he effectively voted for Trump.
His voting record speaks for itself (repeal of Dodd-Frank, cutting taxes across the board, no mandatory limits on GHG emissions, reducing the EPA authority and mandate - that’s just a couple of paragraphs from Wikipedia).
He’s the “moderate” republican who didn’t do enough in my opinion and now we will get to hear just how disappointed he is with the current state of affairs over and over. And all without a hint of irony.
We won’t act fast until a percentage of deniers, capitalists, oligarchs, shareholders are personally affected by climate change. Could be just a significant dip in the markets or a globally catastrophic famine. But until they directly feel the pain they will fight with all their resources against making any changes at all.
The press makes bank on reporting her stupidity; the financial incentives are too great. As long as the press is more motivated by their owners/shareholders ROI than civic duty she will keep showing up.
My god, we still hear from Alaska’s queen of the dunces every time she opens her mouth. Unfettered capitalism will always go where the money is, even if it means the dismantling of a society that favours everyone instead of the few. I wish it was different but that’s the way it is.
Because she sells a metric shit-ton of advertisements for media companies. There is a strong profit motive that will always supersede what’s right or just.
The dearth of information on taxpayer-funded investigations is a problem, some observers say, particularly because the government argued that creating Animal Welfare Services would make the enforcement of animal cruelty laws more transparent....
Older millennials, adults aged 35 to 44, had debt-to-disposable income ratios around 250 per cent in 2019, while Freestone noted that metric was roughly 150 per cent for the same age group in 1999....
Nothing better than RBC saying how fucked we all are while having another record breaking profit quarter while laying off 1% of their staff.
The information may be correct but it’s as if an oil company started saying how fucked we are with climate change while they continue to pump it out of the ground.
No, you’re right. Business should be allowed to adjust accordingly to their needs and no one is guaranteed a job.
And I’ll add to that: executives earn every single cent of their bonuses based on record profits they make and shareholders earn their dividends for supporting executive’s decisions, let’s say in this instance to fire 1500 people. And when those folks are off the payroll the profits will increase and bonuses and dividends will reflect that.
And when the Canadian government steps in to help banks, as they did after 2008 to the tune of 114 billion, the taxpayer gets to help banks maintain their profit margins so shareholders and executives can keep their well deserved rewards for their forecasting mistakes.
Just always seems to me like the dollars and cents matter to the banks (and big business) when we’re talking about a $40,000 salary but a few extra billion to executives and shareholders, well now, why should we question any of that when it’s obviously well deserved and integral to the banks ability to function.
But hey, it’s the free market. And that means some people are free to earn millions of dollars just as some people are free to all of a sudden earn nothing.
Edit: read the linked article and yes, some of this move is lateral (selling a division) but some of it is not.
My original point stands (IMO) as the RBC is saying how the younger generation is fucked while they continue to fuck us in the ass and add a service charge for the fucking.
How is it in bad faith? I agreed with your response at the beginning of my comment.
The rest was context that I added, in what I felt, would be similar to an argument that any business would posit as to why they should be allowed to reap record profits while laying people off and at the same time telling us how we’re all fucked.
My original point was that RBC is telling us that we’re fucked. Meanwhile they are contributing to the fucking of us while they take in astounding profits from their businesses practices which are designed to fuck us and to top it off they fuck over some of their own employees in the same breath. There is an overall cognitive dissonance here that I was focused on, not the minutiae of whether or not a business should be able to hire and fire who they please.
You are correct. Businesses should have the autonomy to hire/fire people as they see fit. Glad we could make sure that point of the argument is settled.
There is nowhere to begin. I agree with your point. Fundamentally, business should be able to make those decisions about who it employs and who it doesn’t.
But maybe, and hear me out here, they shouldn’t be telling us how fucked we are while they are fucking us - the consumer, the taxpayer and a portion of their own employees.
Should Ottawa slap a new tax on the record profits of oil and gas companies? (www.thestar.com)
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