Let's Go, Brandon!

[merh]

Dec 2, 2021 14:04:00 GMT abbey1227 said:

Dec 2, 2021 9:11:01 GMT merh said:

There is something.

Why do so many people do bad things for Trump if it isn't charisma or something?

He's an obvious con, yet people fall for him.

You see them as bad things. What do you consider 'bad things' nowadays? Be careful, cuz I'll be mentioning people you DO like in response.

The simple answer is $Money! He wasn't so charismatic that he could talk many younger, more attractive women into the sack, right? No! Money gets that done.

Just like many other business deals get done.

Obvious con? THAT's pretty much how I see what the Cl9intons and Obamas and especially Bidens have been selling. Otherwise all these deep blue areas would have been fixed decades ago.

Most  "Deep Blue" states are purple, dude.

How blue is California?
9 of our state senators are republican.
19 Assembly members are Republican & 1 independent 

Our House membership in DC has 11 Republicans.
Kevin McCarthy is  from here.
Devin Nunes is also one of ours.
Darryl Issa is my area.

[abbey1227]

Dec 3, 2021 5:12:54 GMT merh said:

Most  "Deep Blue" states are purple, dude.

How blue is California?
9 of our state senators are republican.
19 Assembly members are Republican & 1 independent 

Our House membership in DC has 11 Republicans.
Kevin McCarthy is  from here.
Devin Nunes is also one of ours.
Darryl Issa is my area.

You really gonna cling to that sort of excuse still?
It's like still blaming Reagan for problems your pols promised to fix ages ago.

The LARGEST cities in those states are blue and have been awhile. The same is true in my state.

See if these names ring any bells for you...... Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Kenosha and Racine. They've all pretty much got the same sorta people in them and aside from the 'seat of Govt' Madison, they've all got major perpetual problems now.

Kevin McCarthy is a POS. You might as well have dug up McCain and have him represent 'conservatism'.  It'd be about as believable.

[merh]

A woman after your own heart

[merh]

Dec 3, 2021 14:26:33 GMT abbey1227 said:

Dec 3, 2021 5:12:54 GMT merh said:

Most  "Deep Blue" states are purple, dude.

How blue is California?
9 of our state senators are republican.
19 Assembly members are Republican & 1 independent 

Our House membership in DC has 11 Republicans.
Kevin McCarthy is  from here.
Devin Nunes is also one of ours.
Darryl Issa is my area.

You really gonna cling to that sort of excuse still?
It's like still blaming Reagan for problems your pols promised to fix ages ago.

The LARGEST cities in those states are blue and have been awhile. The same is true in my state.

See if these names ring any bells for you...... Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Kenosha and Racine. They've all pretty much got the same sorta people in them and aside from the 'seat of Govt' Madison, they've all got major perpetual problems now.

Kevin McCarthy is a POS. You might as well have dug up McCain and have him represent 'conservatism'.  It'd be about as believable.

McCarthy lacks a backbone, but Nunes is slimier 

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I went to Ralph's (krogers) yesterday for creamer but they didn't have the Cinnabon one so I went to the valley one today & got 3.
$1.99. Haven't seen that price for international delight all year.

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Dec 4, 2021 4:03:27 GMT merh said:

A woman after your own heart

This is the mother of the Michigan shooter.
Crumley or whatever it is.

Noooooo.
She isn't a Trump supporter..

So cool her 15 yr old used the gun he got 4 days earlier to shoot up his classmates?

Your side keeps claiming kids brought up around guns are more responsible with them.

[merh]

[merh]

The right-wing media is pushing the kid as a faithful Christian boy

[abbey1227]

Dec 6, 2021 9:18:07 GMT merh said:

Your side keeps claiming kids brought up around guns are more responsible with them.

Your side keeps insisting we can not expect 100% success with any other programs or policies.       Why this?

[abbey1227]

Dec 6, 2021 9:31:28 GMT merh said:

The right-wing media is pushing the kid as a faithful Christian boy

Which sources are doing that?

Seems like a pretty dysfunctional kid that shouldn't have been handed a gun. 

Is it true some parents kept their kids home from school cuz they saw/heard about his posts? Where was the school/authorities if that's the case?

[abbey1227]

Dec 4, 2021 4:04:59 GMT merh said:

Dec 3, 2021 14:26:33 GMT abbey1227 said:

The LARGEST cities in those states are blue and have been awhile. The same is true in my state.

See if these names ring any bells for you...... Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Kenosha and Racine. They've all pretty much got the same sorta people in them and aside from the 'seat of Govt' Madison, they've all got major perpetual problems now.

Just a few days later and some cities pop up in an article related to that election..........

Commission rejects claim that grants to cities were illegal
WEC Nov. election update(WBAY)
By Associated Press
Published: Dec. 9, 2021

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Bipartisan Wisconsin elections officials have rejected a claim that private grants which helped cities run their elections during the coronavirus pandemic were illegal.

The state Elections Commission’s rejection Wednesday follows similar rulings by three courts in the last year which dismissed claims that the grants were illegal.

The commission’s decision involves $8.8 million in grants made by the Center for Tech and Civic Life to Wisconsin’s five largest cities, including Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Racine and Kenosha.

The center is largely funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan. Conservatives who have questioned the grants have said it was improper for most of the grant money to go to communities that have large populations of Democrats.

Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

www.wbay.com/2021/12/09/commission-rejects-claim-that-grants-cities-were-illegal/

yeah, we really should get Big Money out of politics, huh?  

[merh]

[abbey1227]

Dec 6, 2021 9:31:28 GMT merh said:

The right-wing media is pushing the kid as a faithful Christian boy

Were you able to link to some pieces describing his church goings and life of faith?

He looks like the typical disheveled goofy kid to me.........his choice of avatars is a bit telling

[merh]

Dec 20, 2021 6:02:50 GMT abbey1227 said:

Dec 6, 2021 9:31:28 GMT merh said:

The right-wing media is pushing the kid as a faithful Christian boy

Were you able to link to some pieces describing his church goings and life of faith?

He looks like the typical disheveled goofy kid to me.........his choice of avatars is a bit telling

I don't watch Fox.
It was one of the personalities. Janeane Pirro? In the name of protecting guns & blaming the liberal schools.

Ignore the meat producers like Tyson doubling & tripling their profit margins during the pandemic claiming they are simply passing increased costs along to consumers?

[abbey1227]

Dec 20, 2021 9:36:42 GMT merh said:

Dec 20, 2021 6:02:50 GMT abbey1227 said:

Were you able to link to some pieces describing his church goings and life of faith?

He looks like the typical disheveled goofy kid to me.........his choice of avatars is a bit telling

I don't watch Fox.
It was one of the personalities. Janeane Pirro? In the name of protecting guns & blaming the liberal schools.

Ignore the meat producers like Tyson doubling & tripling their profit margins during the pandemic claiming they are simply passing increased costs along to consumers?

Well, then......... I don't get how you'd actually believe most people (including legal gun owners) believe that this kid was some sorta alter boy and shouldn't be locked up for life/executed for his actions.

If your side would stop using every school shooting as an excuse to drag out their same tired anti-2nd Amendment nonsense.........you might not feel it's so much about protecting guns. Those liberal schools are to blame for a lot more than just whackjobs showing up with guns. 

What if they could show you their costs went up? How do you know their profits tripled? Not that I'd be shocked, since it's a lot of 'FREE' Govt handouts floating about paying for much of this stuff now anyway. See? THAT's what happens when the printers get fired up again and money isn't worth what it was last year and the years before. How does that keep getting ignored by so many Big Govt supporters?

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Giving birth at work???
So I'm a pt manager at a retail store. I am also pregnant and getting closer to having the baby.

I was talking to my store manager today about the protocol of what will happen if I go into labor while at work. The key thing is that managers of any level are not to leave the store unattended if there are no other managers on duty. So for example, if it was just me and a cashier, I would not be able to leave the store without losing my job. Our store is small, so during the mornings, evenings, and nights we only have one manager on duty

I figured we would schedule other managers at the same time I'd work, as that would be the most reasonable thing for us to do to ensure a manager would always be there for the next few weeks.

But, I was told today that if I go into labor at work, I have to first call my store manager and then my district manager to either;

1)wait for another manager to come relive me (which could take up to an 1hr and a half)

2) get permission to close early, get all of the customers out of the store, close the store, and then complete the 30 minutes closing procedures before leaving.

Wtf? How the hell is is legal to try to put an employee in in this position? I'm not just gonna hang around and wait to see if I make it to the hospital. Guess I'll just loss my job instead of I go into labor at work.

Edit: I am aware of how labor works and I know the baby doesn't just come ripping out the moment labor begins. But there are many complications that arise during labor that can only be assess and treated by medical professionals and not in a retail store setting. There is no reason for an employer to not plan appropriately.