Is he growing out that neck beard to look the part?

Right….

Because that’s been enforced since forever.

Which the real question is how many more republicans resign?

If they have enough jump ship, that the can get a reasonable majority …. They absolutely will.

She’s probably tried several times but is just that incompetent

Even better… they’re loosing their majority fast. Heard somebody else resigned and they’re down to one

We taking bets? Loser pays for the popcorn?

Well she filed the motion to vacate. Iirc that’s the first step in the process; and they may not advance to the next step. Either way, she’s throwing a hissy fit because 9 republicans don’t actually qualify as a majority and she sucks at math.

I assume it’s only a matter of time before he’s gone.

Basically, the only question I have is will the dems vote against Johnson again?

Yes.

“Chemtrails” is what conspiracy theorists call “contrails”.

Contrails is a portmanteau of “condensation trail”. They don’t under stand physics and believe that the airlines and everyone else are literally spraying chemicals into the air for some nefarious (usually govermental) purpose (usually to mind control people)

They’re stupid.

For people wondering, contrail is caused by moisture in the jet engine exhaust cooling and becoming a cloud,

Nope. The background looks like a green screen. Hand me the popcorn?

Probably why their parents put them up to it,

Eh. A missing or damaged dump truck is gonna get noticed, also back in 2010 or so there was a massive crime wave that chopped construction vehicles so security remains mostly for anyone that had the big stuff.

Even if the keys are in there most big trucks have gps and geofenced alerts.

Tax accountants and their largest clients.

People like Bill Gates or Oprah. Their foundations are a tax avoidance scheme.

The pandemic lasted from early 2020 with a public health emergency lasting through into 2023. COVID itself has become a global endemic; similar to the flu.

The economic effects, the death toll. The social unrest. It was all only ramping up.

People stopped dying. That’s about the only way the situation has improved. But dead people are still dead and they’re not going to be coming back. Everything else has continued to degrade.

So yes. I am much worse off now than 4 years ago. Or any other time in 2020.

I’m trying to figure out if you regret this or are proud of it.

NYC was an early hotspot, remember. Nationally, the pandemic was still just getting started. I’m not trying to minimize the loss and just how down right fucked the pandemic was.

I am trying to point out that was only just starting, and most americans were still okay at that point. a month or two later? we were all feeling it.

Yes. Financially? absolutely. emphatically.

first, I think you missed the part where the pandemic was literally just starting four years ago. the shitstorm was just starting to build in March 2020, the Pandemic wasn’t at full stride yet, and the devastating consequences didn’t start coming home to roost until the summer. that said:

I managed to keep my jobs. One is a side gig company with about twenty employees I started as a retirment investment. That was growing nice and steadily and controlled before the pandemic. When the pandemic hit, I had to restructure our services to try and protect revenue; I made the decision to continue paying staff regardless of if they had hours or not… part of that was to protect their healthcare… which, very nearly bankrupted me. I did not get to have PPP loans because I didn’t have in-house lawyers that helped write the damn law (aka I and my lawyer had to read the terms and stuff.) and that cash was gone by the time we felt it was reasonable.

We haven’t recovered from that. we’re out of the woods, but that’s a hit to our growth that will set me back three to four years. I feel I did the right thing on many levels, but it wasn’t without cost. I don’t want a medal or whatever, but I need you to understand that that company is my retirement savings. as far as small businesses, a very large number of them have shuttered and won’t be coming back. I was lucky in that I could minimize overhead and get to where I wasn’t bleeding money like the Black Knight; but it still wasn’t good. I probably lost around a year and a half of growth, and the the pandemic stalled me for another three or four years.

My other job I’m a manager for contract security, our employees are essential; and in that respect, so was I, since it was my job to keep them in uniforms, supplies, current on their training; and make sure we had coverage when people got sick, etc. Another aspect of that job is reviewing new hires before sending them to clients. one of the things we look at is debt. I can tell you first hand credit card debt has gone out of control. but don’t take my word for it. Credit card debt has been skyrocketing since ~2021- around the same time significant aid has stopped going out. Evictions are also on the rise and skyrocketed after the moratorium expired. Housing costs are also ridiculous.

Take home wages are still down 3% from four years ago, too, when you adjust from inflation. This means, on top of massive economic hardship, they’re spending more just for basic necessities like housing, food, child care; as well as the massive death toll. this means people are saving less, and people that were living pay check to paycheck (which is roughly half of americans.)… they’re tappign what savings they had (which, to be blunt wasn’t much for most.); while stacking on debt to pay for things like car repairs or medical bills.

So yeah. People are doing worse. much. much worse.

eh. I believe they’ve addressed this in both the article and elsewhere.

Clerks are usually only hired for a single year. clerking for a federal judge is a golden ticket and highly competitive. She could be utterly incompetent, but it’s still a thing that will land on their resume (possibly with qualifications, sure,). Jumping ship is really just not done unless there’s something extreme going on. it’s almost unheard of for 2 clerks to leave in the same year.

one left after having a kid, apparently. so maybe it was just that. but still. it’s shocking that 2 have left, and the second is “unclear”.

ask a rando in the grocery store check out lane if they feel they’re better off compared to 4 years ago.

The virus only started spreading in 2020. (it was detected in Wuhan in november 2019. and didn’t get the first person-to-person until jan 30’th.). the economic impacts didn’t really start being felt until the lockdowns were hitting in force… so most people were actually better off four years ago than they were today.

Most people haven’t even come close to recovering from the covid bullshit. Everything is just making it worse. if he was “in touch” with normal americans, he’d know that.

yes… but I don’t think this is all that pro-biden of an article. It makes him look out of touch. so it’s not out of line with OP.

just gonna say this louder for those in the back:

Bidens only real opponent right now is himself and people not showing up.

I feel like the top 3 issues for him right now:

• Gaza and Ukraine (and genocide.)
• Immigration (boy has he moved to the right here. The GOP has ran out of ideas that don’t involve machine gun turrets and walls.)
• messaging on the economy. ( “Are you better off now than four years ago?”… No. No I am not. most people are not. Most people are worse off than four years ago, because we’ve been drawing down savings and taking on debt to survive.)