Tiger337

I think that, in general, a fairly substantial number of voters got tired of hearing about DEI being shoved down their throats all over the place and that got tied to politicians, deservedly so or not. Even a dummy like Trump was able to see that and he jumped on it running campaigns around racism for 12 years. There was a chance for a politician on the other side to counter that with some kind of intelligent nuanced view on DEI, but all they did was add to the problem by hammering Trump and his followers for his bigotry. That didn't help.

I explained myself in my next post. I am here mostly to vent. I prefer to save this kind of he said she said stuff for the baseball forums!

They didn't say it. The past three Democratic Presidential candidates never said much of anything other than Trump sucks (which is good enough for me, but not everyone). The idea that everyone is racist and misogynist is all over my social media. I have had to block some otherwise intelligent people. I see non-presidential candidate politicians retweeting and supporting this stuff (mostly because the baseball people I follow retweet or like the retweets).

It wasn't that they went too far, but they got way too preachy about it. Constantly telling people that they are racist or misigonyst because they don't agree with every liberal idea about race and gender is not a good way to win elections. As far as actual actions though, there has never been a time when females or non-whites had an advantages over white males. White males have always had the advantage all things considered.

I never thought I'd see a bigger asshole than Trump, but Musk might have surpassed him.

Conservatives have always thought that empathy was for weak people. They just don't hide it now.

On the bright side, we would a day off from work on June 14. So, I would just take the day off and call it Dump Day.

If they are one issue climate change voters, then they think we are doomed either way.

Or maybe they vote for nobody.

Those of us who live in Chelmsford think Littleton is close and Boston is far away!

I do not approve of this kind of protest.

The question is which side we are going to be on.

What if someone's view are so far left that they don't support either Democrats or Republicans? For example, there are a lot of people, especially young people, who believe that we are doomed if we don't make drastic changes to combat climate change. They think that no other issues matter and neither Democrats nor Republicans come close to addressing the issue sufficiently. Why should they "get in line" when there is no party to line up behind? Regardless of what MB thinks, the Democrats are not entitled to those votes. Everybody's vote is their own and no party is entitled to it.

I have never understood why people (even reasonable ones) keep insisting that Trump is smart. At no point in his life has he ever demostrated any intellect whatsoever.

Slotkin sounded very good and someone that could unite us. It will be interesting to see how MAGA shreds her.

To be fair, Europe has been behind us in the rcovery from the 2020 economic crisis. They could be on a different cycle of the recovery.

If Meadows and Vierling miss significant time, I don't think we'll be seeing much offensive pep when they head north.

Trump, Musk, Stephen Miller

To give the countries a chance to give in to his demands and allow him to openly humiliate them.

What's TDS?

No, I am not surprised.

No doubt things are different now, but he made the Ohio comment in 2017.

It got me for a second too, but then I realized it said ankleS and I could not see how he would have broken both of them.

I think the tough part for me would be writing bullets for somebody who doesn't understand my tasks, the context of my tasks or how long it takes to do them.

Some of us do care, but you are right that it's best to keep that discussion out of this particular thread. I mean If you are deep into the investment world, you are pretty much guaranteed to be investing in something somewhere that is unclean, immoral, unethical or against your ideology. We kind of have to ignore it in this thread.