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Tin Kitty, Childless Lady Cat's avatar

OT, but I need to believe in humanity again: one of my employees specifically asked if she could do her lab meeting presentation on diversity and inclusion in the sciences. I normally have to pull teeth to get people to talk about anything but *exactly* what they're working on, but she wants to do a month of interviews and pull together responses into a broad presentation covering age, race, gender, and education. HR's going to kill me for letting her do this, but fuck that - I'm just proud that she cares and wants to make others care too.

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Mal Speranza's avatar

I refuse to participate in the Notthatbadding of Mitt Romney. A reminder of how Romney got to be a mega- millionaire "out of touch rich guy." He bought healthy manufacturing businesses in the US, loaded them with debt, cashed out the debt, drove the companies into receivership, sold the carcasses to China, and walked away pocketing the cash. Whatever damage Trump and the MAGAs have done to the US, it can hardly be worse than the multigenerational gutting of blue collar jobs and the wiping out of our manufacturing base. Indeed, MAGAs are the people whose towns will never have jobs again.

Let's actually read the "47%" comment:

"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it -- that that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. ... These are people who pay no income tax. ... [M]y job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

Tell me again how this is not as bad as MAGA? Because he's polite and wears good suits?

The only reason he called bullshit on Trump is that he's smart enough to know that Trump will destroy the GOP and help elect Dems for a generation.

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