The person in charge of USIP should be a person not only with a relevant advanced degree, but also at least couple decades of experience in international diplomacy. A 28 year-old hasn’t been on earth long enough to even sort-of have the expertise required, even if we could charitably assume they chose a once in a generation child genius who got 2 PhDs by 16.
Not only would they hit you for $30 a pop, they would reorder the charges to maximise the number of hits. If say, your paycheck cleared a day late, pushing it to Monday or something dumb like that —when the mortgage payment that came through Monday morning would get processed first, then the bar bill from Friday night and the gas up on Saturday afternoon would get rung in all before the late deposit so they could ding you 3 times instead of 1.
My personal favorite was M&T bank (you scumbag fucking pieces of shit) right out of college, when I was barely covering my expenses, decided that a check I wrote for student loans was going to drop my account too low (I would have had about $4 left in an account with no required minimum balance) so cancelled it without even talking to me.
They hit me with a cancelled check fee from the bank and from the servicer which they then deducted before crediting me the cancelled check to hit me with two overdrafts, which with the extra overdrafts caused a third due to reordering. Total was about $150 in fees for writing a check I HAD THE MONEY FOR . And then, to add insult to injury, lost me my on time payments interest rate deduction forever which probably cost me a few thousand dollars more over the decade or so it took me to pay the loans off.
‘Please don’t go looking for other chats.’
Dude, no. The 90s were better than now because the ball was closer to the top of the hill and hadn’t been rolling back down as long. The strong worker protections, economic regulations, and tax policy that built the middle class during the 50s and 60s started to be dismantled in the 70s because of compromising with economic extremists. They started blaming everything that made a strong middle class possible for high inflation and have been doing it for every economic woe since.
On the other end, the only reason many of those laws were able to be passed in the first place is because FDR and company dragged us there over the objections of the same group.
The best times this country has had economically were never because the neoliberals and their predecessors back through the robber barons were less extreme and more reasonable, but because we had politicians who were up to the task of kicking the shit out of them and overcoming their influence.
Every time Republicans advance a plan that reduces to ‘do nothing and the problem will solve itself’ I hear FDR warning us again from beyond the grave
It’s both in terms of fault. California is a comparative fault state. So if the guy’s injuries are worth 50 mil and he and Starbucks are each found equally at fault, them for giving overheated water and him for negligently handling a cup of potentially dangerously hot liquid then they’re each responsible for half the 50 mil. Or 70:30. Or 100:0. Whatever the jury decides.
Everyone believes that they’re the one who is willing to stand alone against evil, unfortunately the evidence is in and that just isn’t how the overwhelming majority operate.
This is a response to viral regressive propaganda from a couple years ago about primary students being allowed to ‘identify’ as animals as well as use litter boxes, etc in school classrooms that was pressed again during the recent US election season.
OK democratic leadership, you win; I’ll quit voting for your party.
It wasn’t just that the study was retracted, the author also lost his medical license and had a known competing financial interest in the outcome of the study. It’s literally a real life pharma conspiracy and these rubes are on the side of the conspirators.
Not to mention the US nearly entirely eliminated the use of Thimerosal anyway, out of an abundance of caution, and like two dozen national health departments committed to massive studies looking at the issues raised in the retracted article and every single one found no correlation.
Just how unbelievably poor does your reading comprehension have to be in order to conclude that my brief supply of additional context for this slice of the inexorably incoherent rambling constantly spewing from the president’s mouth in any way even remotely implies an endorsement or defense of it?
For fucks sake.
This is a brain-damaged paraphrasing of a stump he gave during the campaign. If you listen to the whole speech it’s clear he’s talking about Biden rigging the 2020 election.
Of all the leopards coming home to roost, these are the ones I was most anticipating.
Calling one reverse is an attempt to make it sound less bad.
Why would she want to make the alleged harms done to her sound less bad? Especially in the midst of a lawsuit?
Among the many, many stupid things said in service of the republican victimhood complex, ‘reverse discrimination’ has to be one of the most stupid.
Why are we naming the Trump stooges and not the opposition humiliating them in titles of articles?
What an insidious way to frame poverty and wealth disparity.
I cannot remember a time a headline filled me with such hatred and anger toward a person.
I hope Ms. Ensign gets exactly what she deserves.
In case any other parents wander in here late, the American Academy of Pediatrics operates a website specifically designed to help parents make informed health care decisions about their children called healthychildren.org, bookmark it as your list of reliable sources for that kind of information continues to grow thinner.
bred into them
No. Absolutely not. Not even maybe.
Taught. The racism is taught.
People used to say Reagan and his courting of the ‘moral majority’ were going to fracture the party and cause it to destroy itself with the embrace of a massively divisive religious rhetoric. It’s wishful thinking at best.
I want this to be true, but it just isn’t. A third of the country will follow along with whatever mental gymnastics are required to blame democrats. Another third are just not paying enough attention and vote on pure vibes, if at all. If dems try to run an unlikable, centrist candidate with a mixed at best record it will end up a toss up. And the electorate at large will forget everything that is happening now within eight years.