The problem is that it keeps circling back to the Russian thing. The stories dig just a little bit deeper every time it distracts from trumpcare, the immigration ban, perjury, or whatever
Still, his testimony suggests that as labor secretary his primary goal would not be to look out for workers by promoting fair pay and workplace safety. Instead, he seems more interested in shielding employers from having to address those concerns.
For example, when asked whether he would appeal a recent court ruling that blocked an Obama administration regulation to expand eligibility for overtime pay, Mr. Acosta declined to answer, saying he would need to consult with Labor Department lawyers. But then he went on about what he saw as the regulation’s drawbacks for employers. He also echoed the court’s contorted argument, saying that the Labor Department may not have the authority to update the overtime rules, as it did during the Obama administration.
The disturbing takeaway was that Mr. Acosta would not defend the new overtime standards, which are desperately needed. By government estimates, 4.2 million workers earning salaries between $455 and $913 a week would become newly eligible for overtime if the regulation took effect. By more liberal estimates, another roughly eight million workers who are currently denied overtime on the basis of their job duties would have a stronger claim to it under the new rule’s clear and updated standards, including millions who live in states that went for Mr. Trump.
Mr. Acosta’s answers to questions about other worker protections were also troubling. He would not commit to upholding a Labor Department rule, set to take effect in April, that would require financial advisers to put clients’ interests first when giving advice or selling investments for 401(k) rollovers or other retirement-related transactions. Nor would he commit to enforcing a rule to protect construction workers from carcinogenic dust.
Mr. Acosta tried to justify his evasions by citing directives from Mr. Trump to review and possibly roll back pending rules before moving forward with them. But that dodges the issue. It is important to know what he thinks, because it would be his job to educate and influence the president on labor-policy matters. His reticence at the hearing suggests he will — or already does — embrace the Trump administration’s demolition approach to sensible regulation.
Mr. Acosta is likely to be confirmed. He is a better nominee than Mr. Puzder. But it’s hard to see how his tenure will be good for American workers.
The Republican Party: pro-carcinogenic dust. That about sums it up.
They've been on the record for this since most of them balked at supporting the Zadroga Act since it's essentially what's made so many first responders/ground zero workers ill over the last two decades.
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Apparently Trump is creating a new "Office of American Innovation" which is "aimed at reforming the federal government through private-sector solutions."
And Trump is putting his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in charge of it.
This is right out flagrant of anti-nepotism laws, right? No rules lawyer it away or anything.
Apparently Trump is creating a new "Office of American Innovation" which is "aimed at reforming the federal government through private-sector solutions."
And Trump is putting his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in charge of it.
This is right out flagrant of anti-nepotism laws, right? No rules lawyer it away or anything.
Despite the 1967 law being a result of Republicans pissed that JFK appointed his brother AG there have been multiple rulings that the law doesn't apply to presidential appointments. Unfortunately it appeara he and Ivanka are clear for whatever the fuck Trump wants.
Part of me loves the irony in creating a new government office whose sole remit is to streamline government efficiency.
How about, don't create the office? I just saved you many dollars of government waste!
Step 1: Creates unnecessary position
Step 2: 6* months later after the genpop has forgotten about it, announce you've found a way to save some taxpayer money by eliminating an unnecessary position.
Step 3: Claim step 2 as evidence of a successful administration.
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It's being framed very similarly to the "SWAT" team Obama had and Hillary Clinton proposed. The appointment of his son-in-law is more disturbing than the concept of the position.
Mr. Acosta is likely to be confirmed. He is a better nominee than Mr. Puzder. But it’s hard to see how his tenure will be good for American workers.
He is not better. Acosta is less bad. Saying something is better implies that it is good or, at the least, neutral. Given a choice for lunch between two slices of stale, dry bread and a fresh sandwich of decent quality and ingredients, the sandwich is clearly better. Acosta vs. Puzder is like the choice between getting punched hard in the stomach vs. getting stabbed two dozen times by someone on LSD who thinks they're freeing you from ghosts haunting your body. Getting punched in the stomach is not good; it's simply less bad than the alternative here.
It might seem a pointless rhetorical flourish, but this way helps make a barrier to keep us from normalizing bad behavior and actions because something else is even worse.
I'll tell you what I'm sick of right now: government officials saying they are going to run government like a business by focusing on their customers, the dear citizens. No fuck you. The citizens are your boss and you better damn well treat them as such. My governor, the mini Trump, Pete Ricketts pulls this line out all the time. It drives me crazy.
Fake edit: this sentiment was mentioned in that Kushner getting paid by taxpayers through wife's dad's privilege singularity event horizon.
I'll tell you what I'm sick of right now: government officials saying they are going to run government like a business by focusing on their customers, the dear citizens. No fuck you. The citizens are your boss and you better damn well treat them as such. My governor, the mini Trump, Pete Ricketts pulls this line out all the time. It drives me crazy.
What makes it worse than that is the customer is not always right.
I love her incredulous smile that starts right as the video cuts. "This fucking guy"
Additionally, Is this the thread to talk about Jeff Sessions' and the horrible no good very bad plan to take away hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for cities if they don't get rid of their police chief approved sanctuary city policy? I know it's mostly just a way to punish liberal enclaves for being liberal enclaves, but I wonder about the legality? Does the executive branch have enough leeway in their spending to just tell 12 of the largest cities in america to stuff it?
That's for immigration thread since it has to do with immigration policy
I love her incredulous smile that starts right as the video cuts. "This fucking guy"
Additionally, Is this the thread to talk about Jeff Sessions' and the horrible no good very bad plan to take away hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for cities if they don't get rid of their police chief approved sanctuary city policy? I know it's mostly just a way to punish liberal enclaves for being liberal enclaves, but I wonder about the legality? Does the executive branch have enough leeway in their spending to just tell 12 of the largest cities in america to stuff it?
I think @so it goes said that goes in the muslim ban thread?
I love her incredulous smile that starts right as the video cuts. "This fucking guy"
Additionally, Is this the thread to talk about Jeff Sessions' and the horrible no good very bad plan to take away hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for cities if they don't get rid of their police chief approved sanctuary city policy? I know it's mostly just a way to punish liberal enclaves for being liberal enclaves, but I wonder about the legality? Does the executive branch have enough leeway in their spending to just tell 12 of the largest cities in america to stuff it?
That's for immigration thread since it has to do with immigration policy
Up to this point, Ryan had epitomized to Bannon everything that was wrong with the Republican Party. Discussing the two parties’ shortcomings, Bannon later told me, “What’s that Dostoyevsky line: Happy families are all the same, but unhappy families are unhappy in their own unique ways?” (He meant Tolstoy.) “I think the Democrats are fundamentally afflicted with the inability to discuss and have an adult conversation about economics and jobs, because they’re too consumed by identity politics. And then the Republicans, it’s all this theoretical Cato Institute, Austrian economics, limited government — which just doesn’t have any depth to it. They’re not living in the real world.”
Up to this point, Ryan had epitomized to Bannon everything that was wrong with the Republican Party. Discussing the two parties’ shortcomings, Bannon later told me, “What’s that Dostoyevsky line: Happy families are all the same, but unhappy families are unhappy in their own unique ways?” (He meant Tolstoy.) “I think the Democrats are fundamentally afflicted with the inability to discuss and have an adult conversation about economics and jobs, because they’re too consumed by identity politics. And then the Republicans, it’s all this theoretical Cato Institute, Austrian economics, limited government — which just doesn’t have any depth to it. They’re not living in the real world.”
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Well, I guess I was kinda wrong about Chris Christie never being given a position ever, because he's now the head of some likely pointless at best opioid crisis commission, like a fake drug czar, where they will talk about what to do as if the Obama administration hadn't already discussed it and written out plans and the planned budget wasn't already cutting everything that would actually help, like grants for drug treatment.
It's very likely of course that Trump has no idea that of course people have been trying to figure this out and did something pointless to try to look like he's doing something, but considering him and his lackeys and how they work, I'm wondering if there's some plan to profit off this somehow, rake in the nepotism bucks, and what awful, terrible schemes they could come up with. Something like banning Naloxone, shipping off addicts to private prisons, and/or invading Mexico (one of Trump's advisors is said to be a fan of "supply side drug control.")
Chris Christie is apparently sympathetic to addicts and did genuine good work in NJ to improve treatment options and so forth, so maybe it won't be an exploding dumpster fire like everything else, but also there's no guarantee that even if they do come up with good plans that anything will come of it.
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I don't want to say anything nice about Christie but he does come from a real genuine place when he talks about addiction, and is a strong believer in treatment over punishment. He has lost friends to it and he doesn't speak of them as criminals.
If he manages to move our country in that direction, good on him.
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Oh hell, I completely forgot about that.
Trump's cabinet needs to slow the fuck down. They've crammed like an entire presidency of absolute garbage into two months.
That's been the strategy. They're Gish Gallopping their way through so much terrible that it's impossible to keep up.
They've been on the record for this since most of them balked at supporting the Zadroga Act since it's essentially what's made so many first responders/ground zero workers ill over the last two decades.
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Hoggish Greedly did care about the future of his child.
And Trump is putting his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in charge of it.
This is right out flagrant of anti-nepotism laws, right? No rules lawyer it away or anything.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/26/politics/kushner-american-innovation-white-house/index.html
How about, don't create the office? I just saved you many dollars of government waste!
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You're reading that wrong. It's graft. The purpose is graft.
Despite the 1967 law being a result of Republicans pissed that JFK appointed his brother AG there have been multiple rulings that the law doesn't apply to presidential appointments. Unfortunately it appeara he and Ivanka are clear for whatever the fuck Trump wants.
Step 1: Creates unnecessary position
Step 2: 6* months later after the genpop has forgotten about it, announce you've found a way to save some taxpayer money by eliminating an unnecessary position.
Step 3: Claim step 2 as evidence of a successful administration.
*Probably too high
He is not better. Acosta is less bad. Saying something is better implies that it is good or, at the least, neutral. Given a choice for lunch between two slices of stale, dry bread and a fresh sandwich of decent quality and ingredients, the sandwich is clearly better. Acosta vs. Puzder is like the choice between getting punched hard in the stomach vs. getting stabbed two dozen times by someone on LSD who thinks they're freeing you from ghosts haunting your body. Getting punched in the stomach is not good; it's simply less bad than the alternative here.
It might seem a pointless rhetorical flourish, but this way helps make a barrier to keep us from normalizing bad behavior and actions because something else is even worse.
Fake edit: this sentiment was mentioned in that Kushner getting paid by taxpayers through wife's dad's privilege singularity event horizon.
What makes it worse than that is the customer is not always right.
As is clearly obvious, he has no control over the press corps. Why they're not rioting each and every day remains a mystery to me.
And mysteriously a large chunk of government clerical work or whatever will end up run by Trump-owned companies.
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Oh man he's losing it. I hope we see a breakdown on live TV soon.
Additionally, I was in the wrong thread with the rest of this!
That's for immigration thread since it has to do with immigration policy
I think @so it goes said that goes in the muslim ban thread?
Got it. Sorry I missed that one. Thanks.
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Except for relatives and friends of the family of course.
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It's very likely of course that Trump has no idea that of course people have been trying to figure this out and did something pointless to try to look like he's doing something, but considering him and his lackeys and how they work, I'm wondering if there's some plan to profit off this somehow, rake in the nepotism bucks, and what awful, terrible schemes they could come up with. Something like banning Naloxone, shipping off addicts to private prisons, and/or invading Mexico (one of Trump's advisors is said to be a fan of "supply side drug control.")
Chris Christie is apparently sympathetic to addicts and did genuine good work in NJ to improve treatment options and so forth, so maybe it won't be an exploding dumpster fire like everything else, but also there's no guarantee that even if they do come up with good plans that anything will come of it.
If he manages to move our country in that direction, good on him.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Gonna need an electron microscope to play the violin for him.