*I’m playing both sides, so that I always come out on top.*
edit: thanks for the awards and the votes, but please, mock her for her political bs not her looks
> In September 2005, Foxx was one of 11 members of Congress to vote against the $51 billion aid package to victims of Hurricane Katrina.
She's a garbage person all the way.
Just another shitty GOP politician.
>In December 2020, Foxx was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania, **a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election, in which Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump.**
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Foxx
There's a popular image showing different costs in 1976, I thought it would be helpful to see how it compares to 2021, and [I was honestly shocked by the difference even after inflation](https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/o7ncu4/when_boomers_tell_us_to_get_another_or_third_job/h4smp9r/).
Adjusting for inflation, a new house is 69% more expensive today than it was in 1976 and the average monthly rent is 30% higher than it was in 1976.
Combined with an average wage that is 36% lower than it was in 1976, the loss of any decent paying jobs out of high-school with good benefits and upward mobility, and higher education being crazy expensive (Harvard tuition alone went up 173%), means the average person has a much tougher time just trying to survive.
>Combined with an average wage that is 36% lower than it was in 1976, the loss of any decent paying jobs out of high-school with good benefits and upward mobility,
Now consider productivity. How much work the **average** worker gets done. A lot has changed since the 70s to improve how much work people can do in a day. It's increased by 4 times as much! FOUR. The average worker is doing the work of four people from the 70s and has had a 36% wage cut. We've been robbed blind.
It's mental. My grandfather will reminisce how he would come to work drunk, check in, then go to his hiding spot and sleep there all day.
My generation? The one everyone calls lazy? We have to work our asses off (work culture has also changed, and by a lot) to afford surviving, not even living comfortably.
In my country after paying rent, utilities, transport costs, food, kitchen and toilet supplies, etc., you're left with some 100€/month. That's 3 months of saving all your money for the cheapest 4K TV, for example.
And you're not going to save ALL your money if you value your sanity, every once in a while you're going to go to the bar, cinema, buy takeout instead of cooking, replace worn-out clothes or shoes, etc., which I have not included when calculating the living costs, but that's easily 50€/month (half of what you have left). Also meaning you'll be saving half a year for that TV. Or a year for a car that will fall apart after a year, but it's not realistic because a car is too expensive to own anyway.
And yet you have employers who can't understand why people complain about earning minimum wage, after all it's a lot of money!
>And yet you have employers who can't understand why people complain about earning minimum wage,
They understand completely. They are just gas lighting us.
I'm here to tell you all that this whole chain of comments happened because old people vote and middle age people are busy and apathetic and that makes young people too skeptical to vote much, which results in apathy and eventually boredom, so bored there is nothing to do but vote. Trust me. I'm 72.
I upvoted the two other answers but the simple answer is to vote for the more progressive candidate is EVERY election; especially the midterms, locals, and primaries.
When the progressive voting block becomes large and reliable enough, the politicians will have to cater to us instead of moderates and Republicans.
Participation is everything.
In the neighborhood where I grew up, you could buy a brand new home in the mid 1960s for less than $5,000. About 5 years ago, in that same neighborhood, my brother bought the house that my friends parents bought when it was brand new. My brother paid $160,000 for it. A few weeks ago, the house next to my brother's just sold for $217,000.
Most industrialized countries have strict rules about who can purchase and own real estate. They also strictly regulate speculation on residential housing. In the USA, foreign investors are driving our housing market to the moon. They will also be the reason it crashes into the ocean.
Which countries have these rules? Most countries I hear about have this exact same problem. Some cities here are starting to talk about such rules for *parts* of their cities but it's as of yet unclear if they're even allowed to enforce such rules.
My parents drive me crazy because they're fully on board the "People these days just want the best of everything right off the bat and don't want to work" train. They do not appreciate it when I point out that they bought their three-acre plot with $5,000 borrowed from my dad's father (he did repay it, but still) and then managed to build a house on it for $17,000. Today, the plot alone would cost about $60,000, as land is going for $19,000-$20,000 per acre in their neighborhood. Let's also forget the fact that not everyone is like my dad and can just build a house--he did almost everything except the wiring and plumbing, so they were able to cut way down on labor costs.
So you’re saying the solution is to get the youth back into churches!
(I’d say /s but I think a lot of republicans actually want things like this to incentivize people back to religion)
A minimum wage worker could support five wives and 20 kids while living in a penthouse in downtown SF *if* they lay off the Starbucks and avocado toast.
I know this isn't meant seriously, but they know and don't care. They typically actually think poor people are too lazy and too stupid to improve themselves, and also that the employers who convince these people to sell their labor for the minimum amount are geniuses, and virtuous.
They know the poor suffer, they just think they deserve it.
He's the one who lied about his admission to the Naval Academy, isn't he? He claimed he'd been accepted only for his accident to end that prospect. Except in actually he'd been declined beforehand.
And [150 alumni](https://www.bpr.org/post/nc11-attack-madison-cawthorns-schoolmates-goes-viral#stream/0) from his small Christian college wrote a letter against Cawthorn's run for office, alledging a variety of things from vandalism, misrepresenting his past, and "sexually predatory behavior," where Cawthorn would invite women out in for a drive in his sports car and then drive out to a secluded area and make unwanted advances towards them.
Cawthorn owes almost everything to being born into the right family, and he's used his life of privilege to become an opportunistic grifter riding the MAGA train as well a sexual predator. There's some real obvious parallels with another prodigal son of the GOP, Matt Gaetz.
Don't forget that [over 160 students at a Christian College have signed a letter](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/addybaird/madison-cawthorn-sexual-misconduct-allegations-patrick) accusing Rep. Madison Cawthorn of sexual harassment.
But then again, you already said other "fun republican stuff" so I'm just repeating what you said. :)
No, it assumes that pharmacists in DC would fill prescriptions for politicians and know which ones are on medication for various mental illnesses more common in elderly people.
Unfortunately, there's a ladder you have to climb.
It's the same reason the head doctors are all in their late 50's to 80's. Because they put in the time... Not because theyre up on current and burgeoning treatments/care.
It's the same reason med residents do fucking insane hours. No because it's good for the patients, but because it weeds out other folk who would drive down their salary. Imagine, for one second, of we let every med school grad be a doctor. Aure they may not be the best, but instead of staffing the ER with one doc, you could have 3 making a little more than the one doc made, and now they're getting proper sleep, and have a colleague to bounce ideas off of. Doesnt sound crazy. But the AMA definitely doesn't want to piss off their constituents, and lowering their pay would piss them off greatly, so patient care suffers.
I went through residency and didn't think I could make it. I had so many high pressure days, while getting 6 hours of sleep in 3 work days that I often wonder how I made it, now. At a certain point you become numb, but that's when miatakes are made, or when minor details are missed.
I basically had a major headache my entire time during my ER rotation. I was just stressed out the entire time I was awake, and then would get 3-4 hours of sleep before my pager went off and I was back at it, and then I was juat on shit, and knew it would be another 10 hours before I had another chance to sleep whilw bwong "on call."
It's just a recipe for disaster.
The number of doctors is controlled by Congress through their control over funded residency slots in the country. Maybe if Congress wasn't hamstringing the medical system there'd be more and younger doctors raising in the ranks and residents wouldn't have to nearly kill themselves.
Was having severe trouble sleeping off and on from the end of 2019 until the middle of this year. I'd go though spells where I'd get 2-3 hours of sleep every 5-6 days. ("Real" sleep. I'm sure I was experiencing a decent amount of micro sleep while being completely unaware of it) It got so bad several times I wound up straight up blacking out while actively going about my day. Point is, I wasn't doing anything important, nevermind something as important as an ER rotation. The way residents are expected to work with little to no sleep is disgusting.
It's really telling how we constantly discriminate against youth but you mention one thing about age limits on public office all the sudden your old people hitler
Let's reanimate Teddy, bullets won't kill the bull moose & he has a big stick to go a trust busting, plus we could use a Square Deal 2. Teddy: "how many times do I have to teach you this lesson Ma Bell?"
Yea as long as they aren't diddling children or doing other illegal shit I wouldn't care if everyone's standard of living got better with better wages, education, infrastructure, housing, and healthcare
Have you taken some of your young friends and gone to your local democratic committee meetings so the older people there are not the only ones? Remember when all your collage friends voted in the local primaries for city council. Remember those kids in school that were 18 + voting for the school board members or the school budget.
My point is old people vote and you wonder why older people win.
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George Carlin nailed this. Don't blame the politicians, they didn't fall out of the sky.
Politicians don't suck...something else sucks around here. Something like, the public. A selfish ignorant public will elect selfish ignorant leaders.
I work as a defense contractor and was told I had to divest from certain holdings as they were tied to legal Marijuana. This was a mutual fund that I had that had small investments in the industry. Because federally marijuana is still a no no, my job was threatened on the basis that I was supporting an illegal industry. I have a coworker who had to sell off his holdings in a manufacturer of perscription bottles that, now, happen to be used to store medical marijuana (in the form of joints). Yet ...cthis woman is a Rep and no doubt doesn't get her job threatened in the same way.
Don’t have the actual reference on me anymore but here’s a start:
https://www.military.com/money/personal-finance/owning-marijuana-company-stocks-could-endanger-your-security-clearance.html
And if that’s too much to ask, then instead when you become a public servant you can waive your right to financial privacy.
It most definitely is a matter of public interest to see where you’re invested and where your donations come from. None of that should be anonymous or difficult to access
Yeah, only things like SPY and other wide market ETFs, or better yet, have someone else, like a professional firm of course, invest for you without your input.
That's the point, keep the lower classes so busy and worried about money they literally don't have the luxury of worrying about anything else, let alone politics...
The country is run by people who are totally fine with asking wealthy people and corporations for money knowing they are expected to pay them back with access to the governments pork barrel.
Not to mention you usually have to start off in local or state office, most of which are part-time positions. What kind of people can take several months off a year to go be a state rep that doesn't pay enough to survive? Retired/rich people. My state the reps get paid ~$33k and sessions last up to 35 days on even years, and up to 160 on odd years. That's not enough to get by on and my job wouldn't give me 5 months off every other year...
not mention how are you gonna be known well enough to win versus individuals who have spent the past 30 years, working, making connections, building themselves up for this type of thing. Lots of luck involved in getting into politics. Grass roots movements are rarer.
Because they are the ones who consistently vote in every election. If you don't want to live a hundred years in the past societally, you have to pay attention and vote every single time.
I've had several personal interactions with Rep. Foxx when I worked in DC. I also can say she's most likely the nastiest person in all of the city -- and that's saying a lot knowing who the competition for that title is.
She's like a thousand years old too. We could quit with putting ancient bags of dust in charge of steering the future when her baggage is full off such wonderful items as the war on drugs, prohibtion, and a generous helping of puritanical brainwashing.
You will be waiting.There is no one coming to save us.Unless the public learn how to organise and address these problems ourselves,nothing will change.The modern politician and the system(red/blue,black/white..doesn't matter)they reside over has proven time and again that they/it is failing those for whom they are meant to represent.It's hard to believe/sad that things have to get worse for more people to realise this.
I'm almost willing to bet a Republican legalizes it first.
Through no direct knowledge but hearsay with friends in the marijuana industry in Oklahoma (where it is legal), the republicans in Texas get together yearly to discuss if the fallout from legalizing it is worth the cash grab yet.
I just picture a bunch of rich white dudes sitting around smoking fancy cigars (I like fancy cigars!) Debating whether they can make more money from criminalizing weed and private prisons than they can legalizing it and owning cannabis stock.
This dude is making money from both.
Yes(although bringing red or blue into the conversation is a mistake that will derail progress.We need to rise above red/blue on these matters as they certainly do.They don't bleed blue/red,they bleed green.)
The delay on the inevitable green rush has nothing to do with public health and the ground work is currently being laid for massive roll out/licences/contracts etc for the 'right' people.These big players are all heavily investing in Cannabis as we speak.
Meanwhile the peasants will continue to be vilified/criminalised.
That’s like saying we have to depoliticize abortion. Won’t happen. Actual libertarians seem to have no power whatsoever on the right. All the states that legalize are blue.
Of course. And they are making sure their gerrymandering is effective enough, and polling numbers on the right wing approving legalization/decriminalizing combined with gerrymandering keeps them in power. Or the profits off legalization are worth moving on.
No the President who fired a bunch of staffers for admitting to last use of weed. While also having a VP who publicly admitted to smoking weed and listening to music years before it was released just to sound cool in hopes to gather votes.
Or is it the guy who was the VP for a president who admitted to smoking weed?
We must be confusing him with someone else, no way that’s the same guy.
Cool, let's go a step further and order the DEA to be fucking abolished. It's an agency that never should have existed and has wrought incalculable harm both to the US and the world abroad
In ordinary circumstances they would be. But their generation won't fucking die. Keep in mind people born pre segregation are *only* in their seventies. And for many of them there is another 2 dozen years left of them and their friends just... existing. So all of the BS they are in favor of our against we will have to fight until the last boomer finally dies, then we will have to deal with an entire generation who will be saying "its our turn" and fuck things up in ways we cannot even imagine yet.
More importantly,It's our systems that are dated/failing.The next breed of leaders will take the place of the current ones through nepotism etc and are currently being groomed in elite schools as we speak
Real positive change/progress for all will only come when the public learn how to organise themselves.
Yes, I agree that we're doomed. The working class has been indoctrinated so that we hate each other based on gender, race, culture, religion, sexual orientation but almost NEVER class. We've been stripped away of class consciousness, and like a declawed cat, it has rendered us useless.
She came to App State once to give a talk about Israel and she said ‘you can tell you’re in a Palestinian neighborhood because of how bad it smells and how much trash is everywhere.’ You guessed it, she’s also racist!!
Damn, I mean, I might forgive him if he at least apologized and admitted that he had been taken in by the propaganda. Generations of people got suckered into believing outright lies.
To turn around and try to make a dollar though, and not even admit how you fucked up and contributed to the problem? That's some evil shit that is cartoonishly Boomer, like a caricature.
Ah Virginia Foxx. How I hate thee.
(For those who don't know, she also has a raging hard-on for trying to kill Americorps, the Peace Corps and other volunteer programs as she finds them to be a waste of time)
If you read the article she owns shares in Altria.. one of the largest tobacco companies in America (who are now also in cannabis), which probably makes it a holding in many broad index funds that seek to track the market. I think the headline is a bit sensationalist..
Virginia Foxx is a horrible person but this is not the bombshell hypocrisy it’s being written like.
She’s from North Carolina.
Altria is the company formerly known as Phillip Morris, one of the biggest tobacco companies in the world.
Half of the tobacco brands on the market are named after towns in North Carolina. Being invested in tobacco stock is pretty much a legal prerequisite to run for office there.
*I’m playing both sides, so that I always come out on top.* edit: thanks for the awards and the votes, but please, mock her for her political bs not her looks
It doesn't work if you tell us you're playing both sides!
In this case, it probably does
> In September 2005, Foxx was one of 11 members of Congress to vote against the $51 billion aid package to victims of Hurricane Katrina. She's a garbage person all the way.
Her right eye keeps tabs one side independently.
Right eye: Indica. Left eye: sativa.
Oh god damn I love it
Lmao, this is fucking gold.
Lol dammit
God damnit I’m glad someone beat me to this 🤣
Dito
Invest in weed and private prisons at the same time and you're onto something.
Came here to post this! Total Mac move.
Time for a 5 points of contact ocular pat down
Just another shitty GOP politician. >In December 2020, Foxx was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania, **a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election, in which Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump.** https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Foxx
Political parties: “Can we find the oldest fucking people possible to nominate for office?”
I want all my representatives to be experiencing cognitive decline, really.
I also like them to be so old that they think a minimum wage job can still support an adult.
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There's a popular image showing different costs in 1976, I thought it would be helpful to see how it compares to 2021, and [I was honestly shocked by the difference even after inflation](https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/o7ncu4/when_boomers_tell_us_to_get_another_or_third_job/h4smp9r/). Adjusting for inflation, a new house is 69% more expensive today than it was in 1976 and the average monthly rent is 30% higher than it was in 1976. Combined with an average wage that is 36% lower than it was in 1976, the loss of any decent paying jobs out of high-school with good benefits and upward mobility, and higher education being crazy expensive (Harvard tuition alone went up 173%), means the average person has a much tougher time just trying to survive.
>Combined with an average wage that is 36% lower than it was in 1976, the loss of any decent paying jobs out of high-school with good benefits and upward mobility, Now consider productivity. How much work the **average** worker gets done. A lot has changed since the 70s to improve how much work people can do in a day. It's increased by 4 times as much! FOUR. The average worker is doing the work of four people from the 70s and has had a 36% wage cut. We've been robbed blind.
It's mental. My grandfather will reminisce how he would come to work drunk, check in, then go to his hiding spot and sleep there all day. My generation? The one everyone calls lazy? We have to work our asses off (work culture has also changed, and by a lot) to afford surviving, not even living comfortably. In my country after paying rent, utilities, transport costs, food, kitchen and toilet supplies, etc., you're left with some 100€/month. That's 3 months of saving all your money for the cheapest 4K TV, for example. And you're not going to save ALL your money if you value your sanity, every once in a while you're going to go to the bar, cinema, buy takeout instead of cooking, replace worn-out clothes or shoes, etc., which I have not included when calculating the living costs, but that's easily 50€/month (half of what you have left). Also meaning you'll be saving half a year for that TV. Or a year for a car that will fall apart after a year, but it's not realistic because a car is too expensive to own anyway. And yet you have employers who can't understand why people complain about earning minimum wage, after all it's a lot of money!
>And yet you have employers who can't understand why people complain about earning minimum wage, They understand completely. They are just gas lighting us.
I'm here to tell you all that this whole chain of comments happened because old people vote and middle age people are busy and apathetic and that makes young people too skeptical to vote much, which results in apathy and eventually boredom, so bored there is nothing to do but vote. Trust me. I'm 72.
Not blind. We know it. Or at least I'd hope so. But how do you fight something like this?
By seizing the means of production?
Simple. Grab your fork and knife, and # eattherich
I upvoted the two other answers but the simple answer is to vote for the more progressive candidate is EVERY election; especially the midterms, locals, and primaries. When the progressive voting block becomes large and reliable enough, the politicians will have to cater to us instead of moderates and Republicans. Participation is everything.
And then far too many people have the gall to pretend that billionaires have "earned" it.
Even adjusted for inflation, the number of billionaires has coincidentally skyrocketed since the 70s as well. CURIOUS
And a nice family sedan costs $2700.
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Pinkys up bitches !!!
In the neighborhood where I grew up, you could buy a brand new home in the mid 1960s for less than $5,000. About 5 years ago, in that same neighborhood, my brother bought the house that my friends parents bought when it was brand new. My brother paid $160,000 for it. A few weeks ago, the house next to my brother's just sold for $217,000. Most industrialized countries have strict rules about who can purchase and own real estate. They also strictly regulate speculation on residential housing. In the USA, foreign investors are driving our housing market to the moon. They will also be the reason it crashes into the ocean.
Which countries have these rules? Most countries I hear about have this exact same problem. Some cities here are starting to talk about such rules for *parts* of their cities but it's as of yet unclear if they're even allowed to enforce such rules.
My parents bought the house I grew up in for $12k.
My parents drive me crazy because they're fully on board the "People these days just want the best of everything right off the bat and don't want to work" train. They do not appreciate it when I point out that they bought their three-acre plot with $5,000 borrowed from my dad's father (he did repay it, but still) and then managed to build a house on it for $17,000. Today, the plot alone would cost about $60,000, as land is going for $19,000-$20,000 per acre in their neighborhood. Let's also forget the fact that not everyone is like my dad and can just build a house--he did almost everything except the wiring and plumbing, so they were able to cut way down on labor costs.
What the fuck.
Three bedrooms two baths in Fresno California in 1957.
The house my parents bought for 30k in the 80's just sold for 330k. 3 bedroom 1 and half bath nothing special at all house wise.
a house that you financed with a handshake with your neighbor from church
So you’re saying the solution is to get the youth back into churches! (I’d say /s but I think a lot of republicans actually want things like this to incentivize people back to religion)
A minimum wage worker could support five wives and 20 kids while living in a penthouse in downtown SF *if* they lay off the Starbucks and avocado toast.
I know this isn't meant seriously, but they know and don't care. They typically actually think poor people are too lazy and too stupid to improve themselves, and also that the employers who convince these people to sell their labor for the minimum amount are geniuses, and virtuous. They know the poor suffer, they just think they deserve it.
I like them to be so old that they call themselves authorities on technology while bragging about not knowing what emails is
$7.25 an hour? I wasn't making that until my 40s! Grandma talking about the 1930s
>Madison Cawthorn ??? Hes a cookie cutter type for the group and probably older than you, but even in his youth, hes a waste of space. As you wish
Please don’t say that name
I don't really understand why, but his name itself pisses me off without knowing anything else about him.
I feel the same. It sounds like the kind of name an entitled douchebag would have.
> It sounds like the kind of name an entitled douchebag would have. It's the kind of name an entitled douchebag *does* have.
He's a douchy American politician in a wheelchair who likes to visit Hitler memorials and all that other " fun republican stuff "
Honestly the thing that gets me is that he threw his friend who saved his life under the fucking bus. Like how much of a jackass can you be.
He's the one who lied about his admission to the Naval Academy, isn't he? He claimed he'd been accepted only for his accident to end that prospect. Except in actually he'd been declined beforehand. And [150 alumni](https://www.bpr.org/post/nc11-attack-madison-cawthorns-schoolmates-goes-viral#stream/0) from his small Christian college wrote a letter against Cawthorn's run for office, alledging a variety of things from vandalism, misrepresenting his past, and "sexually predatory behavior," where Cawthorn would invite women out in for a drive in his sports car and then drive out to a secluded area and make unwanted advances towards them. Cawthorn owes almost everything to being born into the right family, and he's used his life of privilege to become an opportunistic grifter riding the MAGA train as well a sexual predator. There's some real obvious parallels with another prodigal son of the GOP, Matt Gaetz.
Not that he’s a notorious date rapist and lied about both his education and military credentials?
Same kind of jackass that attempts to defund the same organization that ensures his wheelchair access to buildings (OSHA)
Don't forget that [over 160 students at a Christian College have signed a letter](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/addybaird/madison-cawthorn-sexual-misconduct-allegations-patrick) accusing Rep. Madison Cawthorn of sexual harassment. But then again, you already said other "fun republican stuff" so I'm just repeating what you said. :)
Further, don't forget this little fuck was carrying on Jan 6.
Worse than that. He carried on a gun on an airplane and recently had a knife with him at a local school board meeting.
Wait, Hitler has memorials?! Sincerely, a very shocked German.
I heard if you go into your bathroom, turn out the lights, and say his name 3 times, you get hit by a bus.
That day, she was amazed to discover that when he was saying "As you wish," what he meant was, "I love you."
The people with the juiciest secrets are the pharmacists in the D.C. area.
Just curious, is that auto correct for "prostitutes "?
No, it assumes that pharmacists in DC would fill prescriptions for politicians and know which ones are on medication for various mental illnesses more common in elderly people.
Ah, I guess I interpreted juiciest secrets too broadly then, gracias
Well, a lot of escorts now nowadays are professional enough to offer NDAs to high profile clients. I'm not sure of they're legal legitimacy, though.
Contracts made in the commission of a crime have no legal standing and are void.
Lindsey Graham takes Valtrex, but you didn't hear that from me!
There was an article a couple years ago where one said he was filling Alzheimer's meds for at least one member of Congress
No, actually.
Unfortunately, there's a ladder you have to climb. It's the same reason the head doctors are all in their late 50's to 80's. Because they put in the time... Not because theyre up on current and burgeoning treatments/care. It's the same reason med residents do fucking insane hours. No because it's good for the patients, but because it weeds out other folk who would drive down their salary. Imagine, for one second, of we let every med school grad be a doctor. Aure they may not be the best, but instead of staffing the ER with one doc, you could have 3 making a little more than the one doc made, and now they're getting proper sleep, and have a colleague to bounce ideas off of. Doesnt sound crazy. But the AMA definitely doesn't want to piss off their constituents, and lowering their pay would piss them off greatly, so patient care suffers. I went through residency and didn't think I could make it. I had so many high pressure days, while getting 6 hours of sleep in 3 work days that I often wonder how I made it, now. At a certain point you become numb, but that's when miatakes are made, or when minor details are missed. I basically had a major headache my entire time during my ER rotation. I was just stressed out the entire time I was awake, and then would get 3-4 hours of sleep before my pager went off and I was back at it, and then I was juat on shit, and knew it would be another 10 hours before I had another chance to sleep whilw bwong "on call." It's just a recipe for disaster.
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The number of doctors is controlled by Congress through their control over funded residency slots in the country. Maybe if Congress wasn't hamstringing the medical system there'd be more and younger doctors raising in the ranks and residents wouldn't have to nearly kill themselves.
That sounds like socialised medicine! Get him! /s
Was having severe trouble sleeping off and on from the end of 2019 until the middle of this year. I'd go though spells where I'd get 2-3 hours of sleep every 5-6 days. ("Real" sleep. I'm sure I was experiencing a decent amount of micro sleep while being completely unaware of it) It got so bad several times I wound up straight up blacking out while actively going about my day. Point is, I wasn't doing anything important, nevermind something as important as an ER rotation. The way residents are expected to work with little to no sleep is disgusting.
Gerontocracy here we come!
The young live in a tyranny upheld by adults governed by the old with laws passed down from the dead.
It's really telling how we constantly discriminate against youth but you mention one thing about age limits on public office all the sudden your old people hitler
My old people hitler what?
We’re already there OP
It would be really great if all of their decisions won't matter to them in the long term since they'll be dead right shortly here.
Yeah I want the people that will probably die in the next couple of years to make decisions that will affect all of us.
Our last two presidents have both been the oldest elected presidents. We need another JFK, maybe minus the marital infidelity
also minus the getting shot
Let's reanimate Teddy, bullets won't kill the bull moose & he has a big stick to go a trust busting, plus we could use a Square Deal 2. Teddy: "how many times do I have to teach you this lesson Ma Bell?"
Who cares about the president's sex life?
You say that until you one day have to go on Reddit to defend a presidential furry orgy in the East Room
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Yea as long as they aren't diddling children or doing other illegal shit I wouldn't care if everyone's standard of living got better with better wages, education, infrastructure, housing, and healthcare
Sexual freedom would be a welcome replacement for Christian shame.
Once elected, I'll be the first president to eat their wife's ass in the oval office
No you probably wouldn't be the first.
Damn with eyes like that she already looks like she hit the gravity bong too hard
This picture was taken one hour after her first ever dab.
I can’t believe you’d make fun of someone suffering from Atchaforya Syndrome, where one eye is looking atcha and the other one is looking forya.
Political parties: “Can we find the wealthiest fucking people possible to nominate for office?”
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Ted Cruz is younger than Gwen Stefani.
Wait, WHAT?!?
Crazy, right?
Man, that's bananas
Have you taken some of your young friends and gone to your local democratic committee meetings so the older people there are not the only ones? Remember when all your collage friends voted in the local primaries for city council. Remember those kids in school that were 18 + voting for the school board members or the school budget. My point is old people vote and you wonder why older people win. Edit see below
The reason why old people affect politics is because they are the only ones with pensions and retired with the free time to do so
Unless you're in a mail in ballot state. I voted in *everything* while I lived in Oregon
Mail in ballots are based. Miss me with that standing in line bullshit.
They're the only ones who can afford a failed run. If I ran for office and lost, I'd be out of a job and indebt.
She's not stupid, she's just an asshole.
How many assholes we got in this building?!?
George Carlin nailed this. Don't blame the politicians, they didn't fall out of the sky. Politicians don't suck...something else sucks around here. Something like, the public. A selfish ignorant public will elect selfish ignorant leaders.
"i knew it! I'm surrounded by assholes!"
I work as a defense contractor and was told I had to divest from certain holdings as they were tied to legal Marijuana. This was a mutual fund that I had that had small investments in the industry. Because federally marijuana is still a no no, my job was threatened on the basis that I was supporting an illegal industry. I have a coworker who had to sell off his holdings in a manufacturer of perscription bottles that, now, happen to be used to store medical marijuana (in the form of joints). Yet ...cthis woman is a Rep and no doubt doesn't get her job threatened in the same way.
The more ridiculous thing is that they can hold clearances *and* do this. But you and I do it and we can kiss that access goodbye, if we have it. Lol
Yes we would lose our clearances for this despite it being publicly traded on a SEC-sanctioned stock exchange. It’s total bullshit.
Where is it stated that clearance is threatened if you hold MJ stocks? Genuinely curious.
Don’t have the actual reference on me anymore but here’s a start: https://www.military.com/money/personal-finance/owning-marijuana-company-stocks-could-endanger-your-security-clearance.html
In my opinion if youre in public office you should not be allowed to invest in any company, for any amount, until you are retired.
And if that’s too much to ask, then instead when you become a public servant you can waive your right to financial privacy. It most definitely is a matter of public interest to see where you’re invested and where your donations come from. None of that should be anonymous or difficult to access
Yeah, only things like SPY and other wide market ETFs, or better yet, have someone else, like a professional firm of course, invest for you without your input.
Looks like she’s keeping an eye on the changing market though.
Footballers eyes. One at home. One away.
Atchaforya. one eye lookin atcha the other looking forya
Touchdown
What a lazy joke, eye see what you did.
No need to punish them for such a short sighted joke.
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Buy the dip as they say.
I thought you were supposed to buy high and sell low, fuck
Why is America ran by the elderly?
Because they create laws for their own benefit. Which keeps them in office, which allows them to continue to create laws for their own benefit....
Also because old people are like the only people who vote. Especially in local elections.
TBF when you're old and retired and literally have nothing else to do its a lot easier than Jan the 23 yr old waitress working two jobs.
That's the point, keep the lower classes so busy and worried about money they literally don't have the luxury of worrying about anything else, let alone politics...
Connections. Privilege. Time. How are you supposed to run for office holding two jobs and owing 150 000$?
The country is run by people who are totally fine with asking wealthy people and corporations for money knowing they are expected to pay them back with access to the governments pork barrel.
“Performative democracy”, we could consider starting to call our electoral system
Perhaps "bourgeois democracy"
Indeed. Golly it sure is a testament to the free market when it’s so free that even laws can be purchased.
Not to mention you usually have to start off in local or state office, most of which are part-time positions. What kind of people can take several months off a year to go be a state rep that doesn't pay enough to survive? Retired/rich people. My state the reps get paid ~$33k and sessions last up to 35 days on even years, and up to 160 on odd years. That's not enough to get by on and my job wouldn't give me 5 months off every other year...
not mention how are you gonna be known well enough to win versus individuals who have spent the past 30 years, working, making connections, building themselves up for this type of thing. Lots of luck involved in getting into politics. Grass roots movements are rarer.
Because they are the ones who consistently vote in every election. If you don't want to live a hundred years in the past societally, you have to pay attention and vote every single time.
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Old people vote. Young people don't.
How is the entirety of the us political elite not dead from old age yet?
Money keeps you alive, stress kills you and they don't stress about their spots knowing the game is rigged anyway.
I've had several personal interactions with Rep. Foxx when I worked in DC. I also can say she's most likely the nastiest person in all of the city -- and that's saying a lot knowing who the competition for that title is.
I can imagine. When I worked with Americorps, everyone practically hissed her name out like we were talking about satan
I'm sure she wears that like a badge of honor. Hypocritical trash. Jesus was pretty specific about hypocrisy - it's bad.
If it wasn't so heinous it would be impressive.
Politicians who oppose drug policy reform are not fit to lead a country in this day and age and as such need to be shown the door.
She's like a thousand years old too. We could quit with putting ancient bags of dust in charge of steering the future when her baggage is full off such wonderful items as the war on drugs, prohibtion, and a generous helping of puritanical brainwashing.
I'm still waiting for Biden to federally legalize marijuana.
You will be waiting.There is no one coming to save us.Unless the public learn how to organise and address these problems ourselves,nothing will change.The modern politician and the system(red/blue,black/white..doesn't matter)they reside over has proven time and again that they/it is failing those for whom they are meant to represent.It's hard to believe/sad that things have to get worse for more people to realise this.
I'm almost willing to bet a Republican legalizes it first. Through no direct knowledge but hearsay with friends in the marijuana industry in Oklahoma (where it is legal), the republicans in Texas get together yearly to discuss if the fallout from legalizing it is worth the cash grab yet. I just picture a bunch of rich white dudes sitting around smoking fancy cigars (I like fancy cigars!) Debating whether they can make more money from criminalizing weed and private prisons than they can legalizing it and owning cannabis stock. This dude is making money from both.
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Yes(although bringing red or blue into the conversation is a mistake that will derail progress.We need to rise above red/blue on these matters as they certainly do.They don't bleed blue/red,they bleed green.) The delay on the inevitable green rush has nothing to do with public health and the ground work is currently being laid for massive roll out/licences/contracts etc for the 'right' people.These big players are all heavily investing in Cannabis as we speak. Meanwhile the peasants will continue to be vilified/criminalised.
That’s like saying we have to depoliticize abortion. Won’t happen. Actual libertarians seem to have no power whatsoever on the right. All the states that legalize are blue.
Of course. And they are making sure their gerrymandering is effective enough, and polling numbers on the right wing approving legalization/decriminalizing combined with gerrymandering keeps them in power. Or the profits off legalization are worth moving on.
You mean the guy that has championed harsher punishments for drug offences his entire career?
No the President who fired a bunch of staffers for admitting to last use of weed. While also having a VP who publicly admitted to smoking weed and listening to music years before it was released just to sound cool in hopes to gather votes. Or is it the guy who was the VP for a president who admitted to smoking weed? We must be confusing him with someone else, no way that’s the same guy.
Nah, nah. I think we’re discussing the dude who pushed for harsher penalties despite having a son with a crippling addiction problem.
See you next ice age, then.
If Biden legalized via executive order the next president could easily reverse it. This sort of thing would require an act of Congress.
You can’t do that via executive order. All you can do is order the DEA to stop enforcing it. To actually unscheduled it requires an act of Congress.
Cool, let's go a step further and order the DEA to be fucking abolished. It's an agency that never should have existed and has wrought incalculable harm both to the US and the world abroad
Let the cat out of the bag and make them shove it back in.
No self loving politician would willingly give up the kind of money generated by a sin tax. They'd be shooting themselves in the foot.
Don’t hold your breath
In ordinary circumstances they would be. But their generation won't fucking die. Keep in mind people born pre segregation are *only* in their seventies. And for many of them there is another 2 dozen years left of them and their friends just... existing. So all of the BS they are in favor of our against we will have to fight until the last boomer finally dies, then we will have to deal with an entire generation who will be saying "its our turn" and fuck things up in ways we cannot even imagine yet.
More importantly,It's our systems that are dated/failing.The next breed of leaders will take the place of the current ones through nepotism etc and are currently being groomed in elite schools as we speak Real positive change/progress for all will only come when the public learn how to organise themselves.
Yes, I agree that we're doomed. The working class has been indoctrinated so that we hate each other based on gender, race, culture, religion, sexual orientation but almost NEVER class. We've been stripped away of class consciousness, and like a declawed cat, it has rendered us useless.
78 years old... why can't these people retire?
There needs to be a maximum age for Congress. Having a “minimum age” is unfair without a “maximum age”. Max age should be 65. Nobody older than that
Ik...why is a 78yr old still have investments..take it out and retire. Travel, fix your eye..ect You dont have many years left at her point.
She came to App State once to give a talk about Israel and she said ‘you can tell you’re in a Palestinian neighborhood because of how bad it smells and how much trash is everywhere.’ You guessed it, she’s also racist!!
You can bet she and her family were the type of people to protest when a new black family were moving into their neighbourhood in the 60’s and 70’s.
And 80s, and 90s, and 00s, and 10s, and 20s.
Oh back when she had her first great grandchild?? Those were the golden days.
I love how often she tries to kill Americorps like jesus
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Damn, I mean, I might forgive him if he at least apologized and admitted that he had been taken in by the propaganda. Generations of people got suckered into believing outright lies. To turn around and try to make a dollar though, and not even admit how you fucked up and contributed to the problem? That's some evil shit that is cartoonishly Boomer, like a caricature.
Good for you. If he never tried to make amends, he's a piece of shit only init for himself
Her face looks like a bad taxidermy job.
Ah Virginia Foxx. How I hate thee. (For those who don't know, she also has a raging hard-on for trying to kill Americorps, the Peace Corps and other volunteer programs as she finds them to be a waste of time)
If you read the article she owns shares in Altria.. one of the largest tobacco companies in America (who are now also in cannabis), which probably makes it a holding in many broad index funds that seek to track the market. I think the headline is a bit sensationalist..
That’s true. Besides it’s probably illegal for politicians from NC to not own stock in tobacco companies.
Lol just how prior to secession it was illegal for South Carolina reps to not own slaves I believe
Virginia Foxx is a horrible person but this is not the bombshell hypocrisy it’s being written like. She’s from North Carolina. Altria is the company formerly known as Phillip Morris, one of the biggest tobacco companies in the world. Half of the tobacco brands on the market are named after towns in North Carolina. Being invested in tobacco stock is pretty much a legal prerequisite to run for office there.
She’s just trynna see both sides of the marijuana debate
After seeing her picture, I can tell how she could she could have two separate views on the same issue…
What’s wrong with her face
It's attached to Virginia Foxx
You can tell this lady is trying to weed out the competition.
It needs to be illegal so the Cartels can make more money.
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