The Savior wrote:The guy is a moron. He’s providing cover to the truly dangerous republicans.

Polls not doing trump favors

highest disapproval at 60 from Wapo/ABC

momadance wrote:He's accusing Lester Holt of doctoring the tape of the interview where he admitted to firing Comey because of Russia lol.

You laugh, but this might be my single biggest concern about the election being tampered with by Trump loyalists and foreign governments. The technology is now out there to make pretty good CGI and it's getting harder and harder to tell fake from real. There's actually a task force in the govt trying to stay ahead of this technology and we all know who is controlling the levers right now. The GOP has a long held habit of accusing dems of the things they plan to do themselves. This could be the start of something from Trump. If he starts saying things were doctored or completely fake, I'll be really concerned that they will use that very technology to swing a few key races in the fall. By the time something is proven to be fake, it will be too late. If not, it will definitely be in play in 2020. This is a serious issue and foreign governments WILL try to use the technology to disrupt our elections. If not now, soon enough.

Couldn't have imagined in 2009 when a town hall rando shouted "Keep your government hands off my Medicare!" that our next president would agree.

06hawkalum wrote:If Trump eliminates locality pay he will cut the average federal employee's salary by 25%.

he's trying to drive competent people from the govt. He's doing Putin's work.

thephan wrote:

“I have determined that for 2019, both across‑the‑board pay increases and locality pay increases will be set at zero,” he wrote. “These alternative pay plan decisions will not materially affect our ability to attract and retain a well‑qualified Federal workforce,” Trump added.

That is a bold faced lie. Why would someone select public service if they cannot afford basic necessities? In certain locations being a fed will be a losing position.

I guess there is more than one way to skin a deep state.

Why do people become teachers?

Salena Zito got caught trying to pass off various low-level county GOP officials as 'winnable' swing voters who all soded w the GOP in her articles. This is like saying my wife may vote Trump when she's a local committee person for the Dems. Lol.

Sam Patten (associate of Manafort and Cambridge Analytica worker) indicted for FARA violation

he's entering a plea of guilty

Phred wrote:Why do people become teachers?

While I will say 'point taken', it is also tragic that Teachers are not well compensated given what they are tasked with educating, and equipping our future generation. If I recall, Denmark has a fine model for teacher compensation.

thephan wrote:

Phred wrote:Why do people become teachers?

While I will say 'point taken', it is also tragic that Teachers are not well compensated given what they are tasked with educating, and equipping our future generation. If I recall, Denmark has a fine model for teacher compensation.

I agree with you. I wasn't saying that it is right. I think the teacher situation in this country is tragic and a huge part of the problem.

Teaching, like public service, is more of a calling than a good way to make a living. That should change. It'd be nice if they were both.

Trump spouted off to a reporter that the US/Canada talks were all for show and he's not agreeing to anything, so this is blowing up the negotiations today on his own deadline.

Teachers rock but a lot of (most?) jobs that would be rewarding pay shit

plenty of people say they want to be social workers because it's rewarding, but as an example social workers in Lancaster County were making 22k a year to start and you needed a degree for the privilege (tbf they did get their student debt paid for if they stayed a few years) until the most recent contract. they're also extremely overworked. berks county is going through negotiations for this right now and the county is doing every trick in the book to not pay the workers more money. then, many supposedly liberal people bash CYS non-stop as though the workers *want* to take a child from a family and place them. i had a conversation at the county just yesterday that pissed me off to no end with a woman who was alleging essentially that they were being 'bought and sold'. this was after a meeting where the participants were discussing children being incarcerated at the berks 'residential' center

capitalism ftw

pacino wrote:Trump spouted off to a reporter that the US/Canada talks were all for show and he's not agreeing to anything, so this is blowing up the negotiations today on his own deadline.

It was allegedly off the record but leaked. 100% trump side leaked this. Serves his agenda and no one else.

Trump said he getting the biggest arena in texas to stump for lying ted.

Speaking of teachers, and getting local for a minute, NJ Gov Murphy and Ed Commish Repollet apparently announced a reduction in the weight that PARCC results are given in teacher evaluations from 30% to 5%. Amen!

President Donald Trump said he's planning to spend the weekend studying up on the issue of government compensation a day after alerting lawmakers he was moving to freeze pay for federal employees.

"I'm going to be doing a little work over the weekend," Trump said in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he was touting a new administration initiative on retirement savings. "I'm going to be studying the federal workers in Washington that you have been reading so much about, people don't want to give them the increase, they haven't had one in a long time, I said I'm going to study that over the weekend."

Yes, people including you, you fucking asshole. Or are we to believe that you did not write the letter to Congress saying, "I have determined that for 2019, both across the board pay increases and locality pay increases will be set at zero". His gaslighting is working like a charm because I feel like putting my head through a wall every time he talks.

the race in NEPA is heating up

the Republican goes the racism route:



while the Democrat highlights how his opponent lives in a different state

Meghan McCain during her eulogy:

"The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great".

Got like 30-45 seconds of applause.