Charlie Board

You mist get REALLY tired moving those goalposts around all day.

And this is the point in the thread where 98% of you guys will huffily, self-righteously block.

If so....cya.

'unreachable due to wages' but *very next response is* doubling the wage would be 'one minor positive'

You're a cartoon caricature of 'never blue no matter what the fuck they offer or wtf the alternative is'

A PERFECT example of what I was describing with the self-identity description above!

'helped drag out'

Just totally making shit up......

No earthly idea what you're talking about. *My comment* was about *maybe* 15-20% of 'the left' - most definitely NOT about 'half the population'. No clue where you got that from.

Their entire self-identity is pride in being unreachable

Trolls gonna troll.....

I think a better definition is something like 'almost nothing left at end of month after (basic) food, shelter, transportation and utilities'

It's still wayyyy too many peopole - but it's very much a minority of people.

2/2

But that's just moving the ambiguity to 'living normally'.

Lots of people who eat out 2-3 times a week and go on 1 or more vacations will describe themselves as paycheck to paycheck.

People chunking 10% off the top into a 401k will say they have no money at the end of the month.

1/2

YOu're right but.....

But not being able to tell 2% from 4% intuitively *is* not being able to tell if inflation is low or (at least moderately) high!!!

Ok, I'll bite - what specific things in YOUR everyday life let you immediately discern whether overall inflation is 2.5% or is 4.5%?

HIs claim is that most people can't tell you what the inflation RATE IS from their day to day experience - your claim is that they can.

How?

I'm genuinely puzzled as to what you think 'fixed income' DOES mean. Can you elaborate?

I believe the phrase was created to describe people on fixed dollar value pensions and annuities where the number literally never changed.

And a mere 230k votes in three states in the electoral college….

When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies.

It was a "sideshow," I was told.

SEN. OSSOFF: “.. why are roving gangs of masked men — who look like they couldn’t pass the Army physical exam — dressed up like pretend Delta Force operators, on our streets, demanding papers, dragging people from their cars, and shooting people to death?”

@acyn.bsky.social

Actually, yeah I forgot about Tropicana.
Nevermind.

Where in the world does one find OJ that isn't from concentrate? Everything I see in a 'normie' grocery store is.
Maybe Whole Foods?

Of course, the flip side is "which of the non-reforms you get if you don't pass even a minimal a reform bill instead is going to stop it?"

Again…

I think a big part of the problem is that historically consumers have never paid directly for that labor and the death of the ad industry has now left no one else paying for it....

Exactly! I can only afford a handful of individual substacks/newsletters but I do wonder if a 'bundle' of them as a collective might draw enough subs to both justify a higher price and keep the journalists eating and housed.

I most definitely did NOT say ANYTHING was an unreasonable ask. Not even close.

I'd counter by saying they DID start out asking for much more than they have any reasonable chance of getting. They'll be very lucky to get even half of this ask

This IS a strong opening position, but not one so 'strong' as to end negotiations before they start.

Kind of.

Only:

1) They already have funding through 2029 from the One Big Murder Bill. Dems just don't have any leverage at all to take that away.

2) Trump would designate them essential and keep them going even without any funding. Note they operated through the entire last shutdown

Right.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...

"Two Arnold Palmers, please!"

There's an entire subreddit devoted to extremely large chickens?

" I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation"

They need to PUBLISH it.....