juliet314.bsky.social
Retired corporate manager, happy wife, mom and grandma, and fired up Democrat.
If you follow me, I'll probably follow you back, assuming you have posted anything interesting. This does not mean you need to DM me unless we already know each other IRL.
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It seems to me that just being a child of Bill Gates would be a tremendous advantage in life. Aside from inheriting drive and/or intellect from two very accomplished parents, there are the obvious social and business connections they have access to.
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Is this about the Four Seasons Hotel or Four Seasons Landscaping?
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Good luck with that...
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11/2026 feels like a hundred years away though...
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Well, they could do like every other rich country and mandate paid maternity leave, subsidize child care, and make sure mothers and children always get Healthcare. I bet I'd have a couple more grandkids if they did that.
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I hope it is not brown or has any tattoos.
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If I were Garcia and his family, I'd ask to be sent somewhere else entirely. Canada, ir Europe, or even Mexico. I know the
Administration is afraid of what he will say, but I dont see why they couldn't make some kind of deal where he and his family can start over and he agrees to keep quiet.
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Slightly less egregious than the guy who is in the news. Not a very good reason - honestly none of those men should be there. We have prisons here if any of them are actual criminals.
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I've heard more about Sirhan Sirhan just in the past year than I've ever heard about what's his name. No, really, what's his name?
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Or more likely has faced so much harassment that she has internalized it as just how men are.
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Ok, I read the Axios article. One of the variables used should be based on the import price, and instead, they used the retail price. This had caused the tariffs to be nearly 4 times higher than they should be, according to these experts.
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If the specified expression is defined as 1, the result is unchanged so I'm not sure where the error is?
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That doesn't look like him to me. Why would anyone care about what John Stamos has to say anyway?
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He seems unable to understand that a *trade deficit* is not an action one government takes against another. Individual purchasing decisions are made in a competitive free market, and we often do not win those competitions. Handicapping the competition sounds like a typical Trump strategy.
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It will be challenging to get that level of activity in the Southwest because many Hispanic folks did not participate out of fear of being targeted by ICE. I was at a very white rally in a very Hispanic part of town.
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Not to mention the thoughtless cruelty of putting people through that unnecessarily. And the chaos it creates if someone pulls their kids out of daycare or gives up their apartment only to have to try to undo that if they even can.
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Honestly if one of those kids was my son I'd just as soon grieve without also having to look at his stupid face
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I'm sure there is some amount of money El Salvador would accept to release these guys. There don't seem to be any principles involved on their part.
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Honestly any time he spends not doing horrible things in the Oval Office is fine with me.
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I'm on board in principle but what do you feel is the strongest case for high crimes and misdemeanors?
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My guess is he imagines tariffs generating revenue that he and other wealthy people can use to subsidize private business development.
But when stuff costs more, people buy less, reducing tariffs revenue. Doubt he considered that.
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As long as she didn't get more votes than there are voters, I don't see the problem.
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Isn't Fifth Avenue where the rich people shop though?
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Well, that's depressing to read all at once.
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Agreed. But what really frustrates me is that my employees (mostly customer service reps) were held to strict standards like this, and also around any sort of gifts - we had to report every Christmas popcorn tin - but senior govt officials seem to have no rules at all.
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Sort of, but then that's kind of the point. The impact isn't just on a few snooty Ivy League schools. It's thousands of jobs all over the country.
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This is very useful. Another challenge with communication about this is people often think a lot research is on silly sounding stuff. DOGE has exacerbated this. It would be helpful to know about some of the research that will be suspended because of these cuts
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Finally, was this leak before the actual attack on 10/24? Was the outcome of the 10/24 action affected? This wasn't a US action and I don't recall paying much attention to it.
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Also, it seems like this could have been a hack or a leak, not necessarily someone in government or at a high level. Currently, we have ALL our senior intelligence gatekeepers talking about sensitive matters in a vulnerable setting. Shouldn't they set a good example?
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No, I hadn't heard about it before. What stands out to me is that Biden said he was concerned. He didn't downplay it or say his senior officials were "doing their best" as if they were children. He at least had the courtesy to pretend that the safety of America was important.
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One of many extremely obvious differences is that Biden took the matter seriously. Whoever leaked that information, there's no reason to believe it was a Cabinet member who just left it lying around.
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I still don't understand how we can go to Europe and say, "You didn't ask, but we bombed some terrorists for you. Pay up."
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Related question. Did Europe ask us to do this? Why is a discussion of remuneration a day 2 task? It doesn't make sense to call Europe freeloaders when we don't get their buy in up front.
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This wasn't even incompetent, imo, except for adding the journalist. They all knew better. They just don't take their responsibilities seriously. You can tell that from the emojies celebrating the deaths of some 50 people.
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Thanks for making this article available - it's very interesting and shocking. As we all know, classified information is only meant to be kept in bathroom boxes at Mar a Lago
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Honestly, why not both? Can Trump find anyone worse for DoD?
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I'd like to talk some more about Hillary's emails.
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Do something like what though?
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Oh, I think it's an emergency all right. I just don't really know what to do. I can spare a little money for the ACLU. I live in a blue state, what would I tell my congressman if I call him? I can't hold rallies or do protests on my own, nobody would listen to just me.
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This is the opposite of efficiency or good leadership.
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The tv show is available.
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Thanksgiving must be really weird at the Trump compound.