Did you say something worthy of rebuttal? (Remember #courtesy) I guess I missed it. Refresh my memory, and I’ll see what I can do.
“For us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the ‘sacredness of human life’.
– Leon Trotsky, Terror and Communism 1920
It’s scary times. The left is trying hard to fight against certain types of speech and the President has been open about being against a free press.
So no… You don’t.
lmao
Yeah, but the POTUS bitching about the press, or any politico bitching about the press is as old as America itself. Until he actually institutes any policy, it’s all just bluster and politicking.
For nation after nation in the western world to institute “hate speech” laws, or dictate pronoun usage etc, is, objectively, an assault on free speech, and unquestionably not liberal in any true sense of the word, except todays tortured connotations of it.
I firmly believe institution of hate speech laws will be held up as one of the first dominoes by future historians to explain the implosion of the Contemporary Western World.
I view I’m going to open up libel laws and we should take NBC’s license away as more than typical POTUS bitching about the press.
A lot of politicians and presidents bitch about the media but this is pretty a direct attack on a free press. Obama bitches about Fox a lot but best as I can remember never said we should make it a lot easier for me to sue them so I can make money or maybe we should take away Fox ability to broadcast.
I think Fox had it best on their blog:
“The president has every right to complain about negative or distorted coverage, but talking about lifting licenses, in a country with a First Amendment, is troubling.“
Saying dumb things =/= doing it.
He’s playing up his base, because shitting on the legacy media works for him.
Why limit yourself to just him?
When I get time, I shall post links to corroborate this. They are profoundly illiberal and functionally worse than just being polite.
I wouldnt worry about this…big talk tiny hands
I don’t want to come off insensitive to this though. What trump said was something a POTUS shouldn’t be saying. No doubt. But at this point, I’m basically assuming whatever he says or tweets is likely the opposite of the truth until proven otherwise, lol.
He’s the POTUS so words matter. What you say you want to do and intend to do is highly important even if it doesn’t happen.
I still don’t understand the mentality of saying stupid things is ok so long as he doesn’t do it. By this logic if I was criticizing a far left cousin (like I actually did when we discussed him) saying “how is Bernie going to pay for making college free for everyone?” A rebuttal would be “he can say stupid things but don’t worry because he hasn’t made college free yet?”
Saw your reply after I posted that so never mind!
This is a good point though, and shouldn’t be lost to the wastes of the internet.
I have this mentality because of “trump is trump” and nothing more. I’d like to hold politicos to a higher standard, but it sort of is what it is at this point.
Lol, MAGA!
Are you tired of winning yet?
Imagine if people, including the media, just ignored his tweets. It seems like whenever he tweets something ridiculous the media covers not just what he tweeted but the reaction to it. Trump fans then get a warm and fuzzy feeling from the tears of snowflakes. Which brings up a weird phenomenon in that people like Trump not for what his actual agenda and ideology are (he obviously doesn’t have either) but for who he pisses off. They really don’t care what he says as long as it makes someone at CNN upset. And they all keep falling for the bait.
Yup.
Nail on the head here.
This is incredibly common in the hospitality industry, and mostly due to the lack of local labor force that can work seasonally having the skills necessary to maintain the resorts reputation.
I’ve done the audit for Nantucket and other Cape Cod hotels over and over, and the prevailing theme is, anyone in the local talent pool that is available for seasonal work is either too young, or already employed full time. And those that could work these hours are unemployed for a reason, typically heroin in that area.
These are legal immigrants, which no one is complaining about, for a seasonal position, that gives these kids (often former Russian Block) an opportunity so they present much better than a resentful local who can’t get a better more steady gig.
Providing people in America with a part time seasonal job isn’t the goal here guys…
But go ahead and call him a hypocrite and all the other nonsense that lacks critical thought about it.
You bring up salient points. Perhaps an angle you don’t see this from: there are likely no decent Americans willing to take those seasonal jobs at the wages offered. By bringing in foreign labor, you’re just depressing wages.
Legal immigration depresses wages. If there was no foreign visa program those maid/landscaper jobs would go unfilled (by good candidates at least) at the rates offered. So if they wanted higher quality labor, they’d have to pay more.
We could argue for hundreds of posts about whether the American workers are spoiled (or being paid a government dole to stay home and not work) or it’s the big evil companies squeezing the little guy to make profits off the back of foreign labor. The truth is probably both.
“A large body of academic economic research has found that immigration has a relatively small effect on U.S-born American wages and their employment prospects. For wages impact, the estimates are that immigrants either lower the wages of some American workers by about 2 percent or raise them by about 2 percent in a dynamic economy (this, this, and this). The employment effects vary little but, like wages, the effects are small and clustered around zero. Nowhere will you find a tradeoff where one additional immigrants means that one American loses a job in the economy.”
https://www.cato.org/blog/immigrations-real-impact-wages-employment
Edited to say I thought you’d appreciate the source.
Not sure why the massive jump to conclusions from someone who just posted an article and didn’t say anything about it. Of course reasons exist for hiring certain people in any area. Again not sure anyone said they didn’t.
“We currently have 5,136 qualified candidates in Palm Beach County for various hospitality positions listed in the Employ Florida state jobs database,” CareerSource spokesman Tom Veenstra said Friday."
Sounds to me like not being able to find workers isn’t the reason. Or maybe they didn’t try very hard. No idea. Maybe they wouldn’t take the jobs. Maybe someone would do it cheaper (likely answer). One would think America’s first billionaire President might pay a higher wage to hire locally but one would think America’s President would release tax returns like every single person before him.
Trump essentially ran as anti-immigrant and put America to work and he is hiring foreign workers. Trump said we make too much stuff in China while selling ties made in China.
I’m not calling him a hypocrite I just think it’s funny.
This part makes it doubly funny. “The request was originally filed during Trump’s “Made In America” week at the White House.”