Ho hum, another person killed by a crazy person in America. Why do we do this? So much wrong with this story. Surely we can do better.
«in what his defense attorney said was an episode of uncontrolled paranoia, Marable pulled out a gun and fired aimlessly across a busy street.»
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/09/02/marable-sentenced-fatal-shooting-marmet-dc/
Still… 1 in 10 is a lot.
«If one agrees with Biden that this group poses a threat to American democracy, it is reassuring that it constitutes a tenth of the public — and not, as Biden’s detractors had it — half.»
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/02/trump-republicans-biden-maga/
[points to butterfly] Is this quiet quitting?
«national labor organizers … set May 1, 1886, as a deadline for businesses to grant their workers an eight-hour workday. … That day, somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000 workers struck nationwide.»
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/09/05/labor-day-may-grover-cleveland/
And another piece of humor:
«Both May Day and Labor Day were honored in the United States by various labor groups for years, though the former had a reputation for being more political, more radical and less merry than the latter.»
Hmm. More merry or less merry? It’s kind of a dilemma.
Network TV, baby.
Oh, look, a “sensitive” warning! (It’s a photo of Shirer’s book.)
The party of Lincoln is now the party of Mussolini. That’s about right.
Ah. Yes, i thought so. You’re about 15 years late, WaPo.
How about: “After Quiet Firing, Comes Quiet Quitting”?
«But if we’re going to accuse workers of quiet quitting, we should also acknowledge the phenomenon of “quiet firing,” in which employers avoid providing all but the bare legal minimum, possibly with the aim of getting unwanted employees to quit.
They may deny raises for years, fail to supply resources while piling on demands, give feedback designed to frustrate and confuse, or grant privileges to select workers based on vague, inconsistent performance standards. Those who don’t like it are welcome to leave.»
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/09/01/quiet-quitting-and-firing/
K. I’m out, dude.
«Partisan media serves two masters, the truth and the cause. When they align, all is well. When they conflict, you choose. If you prioritize the truth, you’re a traitor; if you prioritize the cause, you’re a propagandist. One recent example of the latter is the left mocking Republicans who accepted PPP loans during the pandemic for opposing Biden’s student debt bailout. The differences between those two programs would be evident to a reasonably intelligent fourth-grader but the imperative to serve the cause by rationalizing Biden’s giveaway forced liberals to treat it as a smart own.»
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2022/09/02/farewell-to-hot-air-n494121
Thread. More “political missteps” by the Oz campaign:
Welp… I guess Republicans will hate ranked-choice voting even more now.
«Democrat Mary Peltola has defeated Republican Sarah Palin in the special election for Alaska’s vacant House seat, a big upset over the former governor in the state’s first election under ranked-choice voting.
….
Peltola is a part of the Yup’ik indigenous community and has also served as the executive director of the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, bridging over 100 tribes together in Western Alaska.»
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/31/democrat-peltola-beats-palin-in-alaska-special-election-upset-00054428
Of course… nothing’s ever permanent.
«Just to make it all a bit weirder, Peltola, Palin, and Begich are facing each other again on the ballot in November in the House general election. The winner tonight will serve out the rest of this term whereas the winner in the fall will get a full two-year term.»
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2022/08/31/live-results-the-return-of-sarah-from-alaska-n493630
[Update] As predicted:
