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I agree with most of this. It’s a mess right now. I think passive investing plays a part in it, too. Many people I know don’t have savings accounts, they have a Vanguard S&P index. So they money keeps on rolling in, stock values keep rising, and the disconnect between Main and Wall Street grows. If you’re in the market, things are dandy right now. If you’re not, you’re screwed. Huge wealth transfer in the last six months. It’s ridiculous (and this is coming from a guy who made a killing based on timing and selection of stocks in early March).

I think we might agree on the economy. This whole thing is a house of cards built on credit. And it’s a huge wealth transfer opportunity for people who can afford securities. I have no idea what the solution is, but I know that it’s not firing up coal plants again. Unfortunately we wasted $2 trillion this year when we chose to buy time without having a plan to defeat the “hoax” of a virus. Now we have nothing to show for that. So the next round of stimulus has to result in something, e.g., green energy innovation, infrastructure, rural broadband, whatever. We can’t light it on fire again.

Suppression will be the day of the election, and perhaps the time leading up to the election (see Brian Kemp’s stunts in GA). The litigation is going to lie in the debates about which absentee ballots should be counted, and whether the Trump Post Office scam to delay the arrival of ballots should be allowed to knock out late-arriving absentees. I think you and I agree that it’s going to be a mess. I’m very worried that Biden’s margin of victory is going to be sitting in bins in post offices and boards of election on November 3, not to be counted for days and during which time Trump is going to lie, claim victory, and cause chaos. We all have to be prepared to wait about 10 days for a result. Even then, Trumper liars in places like Georgia or Arizona could threaten the election by not certifying their state’s delegates (assuming Biden wins, needs that certification to hit 270, and Kemp/Ducey throw their respective states and therefore the election, again assuming that Republicans retain enough state delegations should this thing reach the house) to Trump. Arizona is what really, really, really worries me right now. It’s going to be tight and Ducey is a hopeless Trumper who puts fealty ahead of country.

Isn’t the virus a hoax? So the spittle point, assuming there was spittle, is not moving to me. (And she has a mask on, so I’m not going to worry about the mouth issue. And it also doesn’t appear that she was spat upon, so we’re going to skip right past that.) Your question otherwise is pretty vague. Can she talk or get up and walk away? Sure. Why not? If you’re getting at an application of force question, the first thing she has to do in this scenario (involving a “threat” of non-deadly force and not involving a burglary of her home, assuming she’s in Wisconsin and the law there is the same as it is in NYS) is retreat. It doesn’t look like anyone or anything blocked that. So if you’re suggesting that she should have been able to strike/shoot/whatever one of the people around her, I don’t think it would have been justified based on what I saw.

I agree with you on the “recognition” point. See my Prada and pearls comment. I think you’re focusing on manufacturing, and your points about the flight of manufacturing jobs (due in some part to bad trade deals and in other, significant part to the fact that it’s simply cheaper to make things when you pay people only a couple of bucks an hour) largely is fair. The problem, of course, is that crappy trade deals or not, those people always were going to be left behind as technology evolved. Trump said he would do something for them, and he really hasn’t. On top of that, with respect to unions as a whole, Trump and Republicans did grave damage to public unions through the Supreme Court’s Janus decision — an assault upon stare decisis if ever there was one — and ignored the rule of law to manufacture a result that significantly undercut non-manufacturing unions, such as teachers unions, police unions, and elements of unions representing health care workers. The disaster point is something with which I probably disagree. If you’re suggesting that Biden will be a disaster, I couldn’t disagree more strongly. (As an aside, if this current state of affairs isn’t a disaster, I don’t know what is.) If you’re suggesting the election will be a mess because it’s going to take time for largely Democratic absentees to arrive and to be counted, and that those arrivals will be Biden’s margin of victory, and that in the meantime Trump will lie and claim a rigged election and the idiots who follow him will buy it and threaten to throw the country into chaos, then yes, I agree. I worry about that every day.

I’m not missing the point. Union members, at least in the manufacturing sector, typically are white males who buy Trump’s lies. Yes, that collectivity and strength was fading before Trump. But Trump has accelerated the process. Good for rich people, bad for the working class.

Unfortunately, yes, I agree. Laborers are voting against their own interests, and Trump’s lies have eaten away at union strength. Unions don’t vote as a block like they used to.

Nope. I’m not the one who attacked teachers’ unions last night, though. Apparently the RNC thinks it’s cool to hate on them, so I added teachers to the “Hate Week” lineup. Let me know if you disagree.

I actually agree with this. Unions run about 60-40 Dem/Trump. Which is nuts, especially if one is in a public union. Part of that is Hillary’s fault for running a Prada and pearls campaign, and part of it is the fact there are some morons out there who believe that Trump actually cares about the working class.

Some new suggestions for Hate Week. A. Windmills. Green energy, my ass. These things cause cancer. Take your cancer electricity and GTFO. B. Masks. Seriously. Not only is the virus a hoax, but it’s not a hoax that these things, too, cause cancer. The only possible upside to the mask is that it might defeat Obama’s secret facial recognition and identification program. Otherwise, take your masks and put those things straight in the effin trash where they belong. Or light them on fire to prove that climate change is a hoax. Either one works.

FYI - It looks like teachers have been added to Hate Week’s lineup. Thanks a lot, teachers, for educating our youth in what often are sub-optimal conditions for sub-optimal pay. Also, teachers, the virus is a hoax, so get back to work without PPE and without district protocols to ensure student and staff safety. And pick up some additional cleaning responsibilities, which are necessary not because the virus is real, but because there are those double-hoaxers who refuse to acknowledge that it is a hoax. Way to go, jerks.

So who’s “killing babies” with abortion then? Conservatives? Fake conservatives? I’m confused.

Still no hippo poop. Be better.

Accuracy, bro. Accuracy. Read the prior post. Henry Hill’s stomping grounds do not accurately represent the boonies.

FYI - Compulsive or pathological lying was night #1 of Hate Week, also known as the 2020 Republican National Convention. Also, if you’re taking requests, I like the videos of hippos popping better. I get a laugh out of those.

If you’re going to communicate through a photo, it should at least accurately represent where you live and work. Get a picture of a shack with a Trump flag on it, or a restaurant with a dusty deer head and some anti-immigrant paraphernalia. Or some fatties who fear not coronary artery disease but who run terrified of people with brown skin. That, at least, would be honest.

Kudos to you, but that doesn’t mean that Falwell, Jr. wasn’t recently (or isn’t, as the case may be) relevant. Hoax. I correctly set the scoreboard. Also, you now have been docked a point for cheating, meaning that it is Tiberius, 1; Rochester Rob, -1.

Tiberius, 1; Rochester Rob, 0.

Makes sense. Perhaps cucks of a feather flock together.

Your job apparently can be done remotely, and you apparently don’t believe that you should take a haircut for remote work. Yet teachers should take the haircut. So it’s OK for you to take 100% of your taxpayer-funded salary even when you’re “working from home,” but heaven forbid that somebody else does the same because it’s politically convenient for you to denigrate them, their profession, and their work. Boonies logic from a boonies attorney. Have a nice day.

I’m also amused by the recent pictures of Jerry with what apparently is the mixed drink in his hand. He’s channeling Julian from TPB. I don’t begrudge anyone a spirit now and again, but he sure seems to be living the high life with the booze and the yacht and the woman and the unzipped pants. It’s pathetic.

Parasite is the perfect word. Phony might be a close second. These losers preach the prosperity gospel, which apparently also encourages cuckolding and adultery. I actually feel somewhat badly for people like B-Man who fall prey to their lies and deceit. My God isn’t short of cash, and my God doesn’t need phonies like Jerry Falwell and Liberty University to make His case.

I actually agree with you here. What’s happened in Williamsville is a complete joke. They’ll blame it on such things as the governor, the virus, and the attendant uncertainty. But the reality (and this is coming from someone who has spent a lot of time on the reopening issue) Is the administrators are educators who aren’t used to the scrutiny and the level of detail that accompanies the reopening process. The reopening plans, by and large, parrot NYSED guidelines without any specifics. Nobody has an answer for a simple question like the location of the COVID room. How the varying instructional models are going to work is beyond me. And, in any event, it’s all going to be a mess because everyone presumes rosy, best-case scenarios. Nobody expect it to take 90 minutes to get the kids from the bus to the desk, and nobody expects the kids to do such things as be kids and remove a mask, or come to school without having a temp check, or break protocol and hug a friend or walk out of a lane in a hallway. We’ve done a lot of hard work to get right on the virus issue, and unfortunately unprepared administrators and parents eager to warehouse their kids are going to mess it all up. So what exactly have you been doing? Virtual appearances? Pleading out? Suppression hearings probably on hold. Not that it’s that busy in the boonies, anyway. Local courts are just getting back online, so you probably haven’t done traffic court in awhile. And yet you shouldn’t take a haircut, but the people who are working for free over the summer to get ready to get back to work in an unsafe environment should. Makes. Perfect. Sense.

August, Clark. When was your last jury trial? Probably still doing virtual appearances. Let me guess, got the Zoom mullet thing going on. Business on top, shorts and sneakers on the bottom. Yet the teachers shouldn’t get paid. Makes. Perfect. Sense.

OK, serious question. Are you beating the S&P this year?