Category: Businesses / Corporations / Industry
‘Democracy Dies Below The Fold’ *
It amazes me, but maybe it shouldn’t, that our community all reads the same blogs. Thank you Tengrian for posting this, It is such important information on who news media works for. The wealthy people in this story are arrested, yet all the blame From the media is placed on the poor people stealing the stuff for 7 to 10 cents on the dollar of what the wealthy people sold it for. Yes think on it. For at least four or more years, maybe for others the right has blamed the poor homeless people for shoplifting, but like a lot of stories on car thefts, the real money is not to the thieves doing the stealing, it is the resale of the items by wealthy people that were making the real profit. The poor people were as always being used as the villains when the wealthy people behind the entire operation but normally they don’t get mentioned or ever blamed. Right wing media has been going on for years about poor black neighborhoods and claiming that Target moved out of those areas due to theft even Target told their stockholders it was because the stores were underperforming on profit compared to the cost of the rent and they only moved a couple miles down the road. So that is what the right wing news is spewing and what garbage we have to debunk and correct.
That is like the republican State of the Union rebuttal. It was all a lie, but the right wing media will never tell their cult like followers of that. Not only did it happen when George Bush was president, it also did not happen in the US but in Mexico. So what is important is that the woman who is trafficked is now 32 years old, yet Katie Britt also claimed she went to the US southern border and talked to a 12 year old who suffered trafficking. What the fuck. But again their cult viewers won’t ever see the truth and will believe that is happening right now. Hugs. Scottie
Don’t forget what tRump broke, and Biden had to rebuild.
Employers Beg For Help: We Need 9 Million Workers
republicans are racist and culture warriors, white supremacist, so they don’t see that the nation needs immigrant workers, skilled and non-skilled. They don’t seem to understand just how large this country is. They think the entire country is just the town or city they live in. We do not have enough workers to fill all the jobs, and some jobs their superior white people just won’t do. The other side of the coin is they have made higher education so expensive we do not have the highly skilled workers needed for some high-tech specialty jobs. We need to bring them in from other countries that subsidize their education systems. Think of that. The republicans have attacked the US education system so much they have dumbed down the US education to the point we need to bring in people educated from other countries, or foreigners educated here paid for by their country. Hugs. Scottie
Bloomberg News reports:
“I can’t have a conversation with any business owner that doesn’t revolve around the fact that they simply cannot find the skilled workforce they need,” says Jay Timmons, chief executive officer of the National Association of Manufacturers.
Some 9 million positions are open across the economy, equal to 1.4 vacancies for every unemployed worker. The worst-affected industries are trying to figure out the best way to make themselves heard.
A trade group for companies in the construction industry is buying digital ads to push for immigration reform. An association that represents makers of heavy equipment is flying members to Washington from such places as North Dakota to beg lawmakers for help.
Read the full article.
America’s Homelessness Crisis Is Worse Than Ever
FL Republican Intros New Social Media Ban For Minors
Why do the republicans hate young people on social media? Because it exposes them to ideas that are now banned in Florida schools. It is about information control, it is about indoctrination to a conservative mindset / ideology. Think of it, even though the republicans managed to remove all reading material from schools about LGBTQIA people so LGBTQIA kids won’t see themselves represented and other students won’t see that the LGBTQIA kids are as normal as they are, young people can still see it on social media where the stars they love tell them that it is OK to be different. Plus social media clearly shows how wrong and backwards the Republican Party is, and how out of touch a minority the fundamentalist Christians are. Then you have the times that social media influences older teens to vote progressive / democrat, not regressive conservative like the state wants them to do. Social media also makes republicans and maga look as stupid as they are, mocking them, and showing young people out of touch with the modern times the fundamentalist Christian republicans are. Hugs. Scottie
Florida Politics reports:
Language for a new social media bill with provisions for parental consent has been filed in the Senate. The move came after Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed an all-out ban on those under 16 using most social media platforms.
Sen. Erin Grall, a Fort Pierce Republican, filed an amendment with new language negotiated with the House, Senate and Governor’s Office. The legislation includes exemptions for 14- and 15-year-olds to open accounts on any platform so long as they have a parent’s permission.
“A social media platform shall prohibit a minor who is 14 or 15 years of age from entering into a contract with a social media platform to become an account holder, unless the minor’s parent or guardian provides consent for the minor to become an account holder,” the amendment states.
Read the full article. The bill vetoed yesterday by DeSantis would have banned all minors under age 16 from having a social media account.
The FL legislature somehow thinks kids 16 and under are mature enough to have children when raped or molested but somehow not mature enough to use social media.
That’s how stupid all of this is
FL ledge DESPERATLY needs to find a way to keep queer kids from seeing positive messaging about themselves. They have seen the stats that 25% of Gen Z identify as something other than straight/cis. They are freaking out that Gen Alpha (yeah I had to look that one up but don’t you dare OK Boomer me) is going to follow the same curve. I for one welcome the rest of our rainbow plenty of bisexuals out there and now they are not afraid to be counted.
Not sure that is the crux of why they are pushing for this
This is 100% the reason they want to stop young people from using the internet. I don’t remember seeing my first rainbow flag until I was 18. Up until that point, I thought there was something wrong with me. And as a result, I was politically neutral, and not fiercely anti-conservative at the time.
They seem to think 11 year olds know nothing about the internet. Facebook has long had an age requirement, and I’ve known children as young as 11 who have had accounts. The kids figure it out quickly.
I guarantee you they’re also on Instachat and Snapgram and Trick Tock and whatever else folks use. And this bill won’t change that.
Perhaps it’s just another way to quickly create a whole new juvenile criminal class. I wonder what the consequences are, and if the parents will be held responsible for their little criminals.
Sentenced to work 2 years at a fast food joint, or a slaughterhouse?
“Are you 16 or older? – Yes/No”
yep, ban social media but don’t you dare say a word about gun laws and gun control…
Oh, they’re looking to repeal the law they passed after the Parkland massacre.
Without guns, what the hell is going to shoot our kids? geez…
The party of small government certainly likes big government controls.
and who will police the social media police?
The same platoon of inbred hicks that Rhonda assembled to protect the peninsula from the existential threat that is The Bahamas.
Just think of the new 18-year-old voters who now won’t vote for you in November.
I was just thinking about that. Is the 16-year-old cutoff meant to protect them from teenagers’ wrath? There won’t be any current 16-year-olds voting in 2024.
Children have long memories when it comes to blocking them from interaction with their peers whose parents have given permission to have social media accounts. Denied an account, they would be relegated to a lower social order in their school and school community.
So all the talk about small govt was just a ruse to get the Freedumb morons to vote for them////
Isn’t this a decision best left between parent and child? Does it really need legislation? Perhaps a law mandating making one’s bed before school should happen?
Translation – “We’re raising our kids just fine… it’s the way you’re raising your kids that we need to regulate”
The Great American Postal System
Michael has written a great post on the new postal system under the destroyer himself, Louis DeJoy. We must never forget that tRump put the man in the job to destroy the postal system even though the constitution requires it, so it could be taken over by private business for profit. In the US profit is king, and all must serve the king. Hugs. Scottie
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Made Charlie Kirk Sin…
Good People Doing Good Things Meets Black History Month – Mr. Dabney Montgomery
This is a post on Jill’s blog. She has one of the most outstanding blog I have ever had the privilege to read in my life. But as grand as this story is and it is grand no questions asked, I wonder if the feelings directed to those different might be able to be used for another group of people, desperately struggling for their own rights. Hugs. Scottie
Scottie's Playtime 