curry pervert wrote:All those people who are expected to continue working but getting paid late should just walk off the job.Everyone with a heart in the US should have taken that step months ago, regardless of who pays them.

Oh well.Worrying when you need a backbone to even type, but yes. Here we are in 2018. I imagine Vlad's goons will roll up here about the same time as your coup, so we'll all go together when we go.

I'm not doing anything beyond helping my community as much as health allows.

bishopdante wrote:Donald Trump has shut down a large amount of the federal government by...Not paying their wages.All those people who are expected to continue working but getting paid late should just walk off the job. Strike! That'll give the orange freak something to think about. Especially if those border protection agents just let them all through.54,000 employees from Customs and Border Protection ” the agents who are currently working to secure the southern U.S. border ” were also projected to work without paychecks.41,000 federal law enforcement and correctional officers from the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and thousands of other law enforcement and correctional officers.The vast majority of Department of Homeland Security employees will also work without a regular paycheck. The nearly 90 percent of workers in the agency affected by a shutdown would include 53,000 Transportation Security Administration employees, as well as 42,000 Coast Guard employees.Up to 5,000 Forest Service firefighters and 3,600 National Weather Service forecasters will also keep working without paychecks.

Oh man, a lot of us are going to need the nuclear option after Trump s third term is declared President for Life and the camps are opened.If he runs in 2020 against some shithead like Beto you re screwed

We're not doing that "Resistance" Russian interference schtick are we?

russian bots ^

n.c. wrote:russian bots ^I don't know whether to laugh at a dry joke, or tell you to go fuck yourself. If you could clear it up that would be seasonal. Cheers.

In his telling, TYT''s Cenk Yugur got pushed out of MSNBC after performing well because he was explicitly told to tone down the Obama criticism coming from a further left/progressive stance. He was told people in D.C. were not pleased with it. The network claimed the criticism was about style and not substance. Cenk is rough around the edges, as much on purpose as by nature, but he was doing well in the ratings. I would tend to believe his account.See also the silencing of Phil Donahue in the the run-up to the Iraq War.They are largely partisan hacks, Maddow included from what I have seen of her over the last years (used to listen to her old Air America show consistently). Ari Melbourne seems alright at times, Chris Hayes too, but they are the big exceptions. There's no reason to watch that shit, there are so many other things out there that also recap the news or the horse race and give more insight and pushback across the board.

Andrew. wrote:I don't have TV (watch everything in other ways) but I've had some hotel stays for work recently, and I'll put on CNN in the room. Jesus. People get played so hard. I follow American politics but not via the corporate news cycle. The 24-hr-pay-attention cycle that CNN, Rachel Maddow, etc, perform is business. It's private profit. And it lacks good analysis and perspectives that are freely and widely available so many other places.I watch MSNBC, but this is 100% correct.Look no further than:the hagiographic coverage of dead GHWBglorifying cops (Mueller and every ex-CIA/FBI redass they have on)glorifying career military (Mattis and every ex-military redass they have on)Not to mention all the handwaving about withdrawing from Syria (illegal war) and drawing down troops in Afghanistan (pointless war).