Let’s talk about Biden, a little quote, and big subtext….

Katie Britt finally admits sex-trafficking story isn’t linked to Joe Biden: report

https://www.rawstory.com/katie-britt-admits-trafficking-falsehood

It was a flat out lie she told to inflame the maga voter who will only listen to right wing media hosts who lie and distort the truth.  For a long time her office kept claiming the story was true, long enough that no right wing media will cover the retraction, so the right wing voter will believe it really was during the current presidential term.   Hugs.  Scottie


Katie Britt finally admits sex-trafficking story isn't linked to Joe Biden: report
WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 07: U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) speaks at a press conference on border security at the U.S. Capitol on December 07, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
 

U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) has until now been silent regarding whether she falsely linked Joe Biden to a cartel sex-trafficking story, but that’s over as of Saturday.

 

On Friday, one independent journalist raised questions about Britt’s story, told in response to Biden’s State of the Union address, about a woman who had been sex-trafficked by a Mexican cartel. While her speech seemed to imply this happened in the U.S. under Biden, the report suggested it happened under George W. Bush’s presidency, and in Mexico.

One Alabama columnist tried to get an answer from a Britt spokesman, but ended up getting what conservative attorney George Conway called a “non-denial denial” instead of straight talk.

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Now, however, the Washington Post has reportedly confirmed the truth:

“Sean Ross, Britt’s communications director, confirmed that she was talking about Karla Jacinto Romero — who has testified before Congress about being forced to work in Mexican brothels from 2004 to 2008,” the outlet reported Saturday. “(A viral TikTok by journalist Jonathan Katz first revealed that Britt was speaking about Romero.) In a phone conversation and a statement, Ross disputed that Britt’s language was misleading.”

The Post, however, vehemently disagreed.

“Britt’s account of Romero’s experience was a centerpiece of her rebuttal to Biden’s address. The way Britt sets up the story, there is no indication that she is talking about a woman who was working in brothels in Mexico during the George W. Bush administration,” according to the Post’s fact check. “But Biden has nothing to do with Romero’s story.”

The article continues by suggesting Romero was “never trafficked in the United States.”

“In a high-profile speech like this, a politician should not mislead voters with emotionally charged language,” the article states. “Romero’s story is tragic and may be evocative of other Mexican girls trapped in the sex trade in that country. But she was not trafficked across the border — and her story has nothing to do with Biden. Britt’s failure to make that clear earns her Four Pinocchios.”

Read the full piece here.

This woman is a doctor and takes the republicans to the woodshed on abortion claims

Eagle Pass, TX Residents Sound Off on the Real “Invasion” | The Daily Show

Eagle Pass, Texas has become the epicenter of the national immigration debate, but who are the real “invaders” of this community? Michael Kosta talks to residents of Eagle Pass who have had it with the right-wing media, politicians, and fearmongering Trump supporters taking over their town and jacking up their hotel prices.

Why US elections only give you two choices

America’s two-party system is widely hated. Very few Americans think the two major parties do an adequate job representing us, and most say more parties are needed. But when it comes time to vote, very few of us actually vote for third-party candidates. Often, this is explained as either a failure of will (we’d have third parties if more people would just vote for them), or a conspiracy (the political and media establishments suppress third-party candidates and ideas).

And it’s not that those things aren’t true. But there’s a much simpler explanation, and it’s the very basic rule governing almost every single one of our elections: Only one person can win. If you’re American, that probably sounds utterly reasonable: what the hell other kinds of elections even are there? But the answer is: lots. Winner-take-all elections (also called plurality voting, or “first past the post”) are actually a practice that most advanced democracies left behind long ago — and they’re what keep us from having more political options.

Even if you’re not sold on the need for more parties in the US, though, scratch the surface of “only one person can win” a little and you start to see how it actually produces perverse results within the two-party system as well. It’s a big part of why the political parties have moved farther apart from each other, and it leaves about half of the country without any political representation at all. Watch the video above to see how.

Don’t forget what tRump broke, and Biden had to rebuild.

MTG Rages at U.K. Journo’s Jewish Space Laser Question: ‘F*ck Off’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-rages-at-uk-journos-jewish-space-laser-question-fck-off

This is what passes as a republican statesperson, an elected official we would want our kids to look up to.  She is a backwards low IQ maga racist bigoted thug.  She is a female tRump, only she is not a coward like he is.   She has no sense of decorum, she thinks being an internet troll in real life is a thing to be proud of, an accomplishment.  She thinks civility and being nice are deviant behavior.  She has the idea that freedom is her being able to tell everyone else how to live, dictating to them what they can or can not do.   What a disgusting person.  Momma’s don’t let your babies grow to be Marge Greene.  Hugs.  Scottie


The MAGA congresswoman had just finished saying that Trump supporters like “the truth.”

The people at Joe My God had some great comments about this.  Sadly I am too tired to post them for you.  Please go to this link if you want to read them.   Hugs.  Scottie

MTG To British Reporter: “Why Don’t You Fuck Off?”

Liberal Redneck – Trump Stays on Ballot, Nikki Drops Off, and Mitch Hangs It Up

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.

 

But Republicans keeps saying immigrants take away jobs from Americans who would gladly do them? So weird. It’s almost like the GOP are full of shit on yet another issue they claim to care about.

Americans won’t do the kind of work that immigrants typically do, for ANY level of pay.

Bingo. That’s precisely why when DuhFascist began to kick out all the migrant workers on farms in FL not a single Republican kid took those jobs. NOT ONE.

 

Have you tried paying them

Red States: Nah we’re just going to gut child labor laws instead.

All I hear from my GQP relatives are about how “no one wants to work anymore.” They still cling to this belief that the three stimulus checks that were given away several years ago (the first two from Trump, I remind them), made everyone quit their job and quit the workforce. I keep asking them — you seriously think people can live on $5000 for years without a job?
But they hold fast — between those checks and all the other freeloading gummint programs, no one has to work anymore.

 

This isn’t a labor shortage. This is Americas 300 year old love affair with cheap labor coming back to bite them in the ass… again!

Conservatives love capitalism … except that part where wages need to increase when demand for labor exceeds supply.

 

Or responded to their application? Some of these employers should take a look at their hiring process. They all expect top-tier talent then make the application process so laborious and tedious to then not even bother with responding once all steps are completed.

Yea. It’s damned hard to find skilled minimum wage employees.

It’s been like that for years, but from what I’m reading it looks like it’s gotten even worse. (Not even sure how that’s possible.) The process for applying for jobs is a nightmare. And so is the onboarding process once you’ve been hired but haven’t started. Some companies outsource the background check. You can get flagged as lying if you said you started on 3/11/19 but really started (according to that company’s records) on 3/12/19. I’m not exaggerating. They’ve made everything as difficult as possible which they got away with for 20 years because there were way more job seekers than jobs. Someone would put up with the bullshit to get a job. Now, not so much.

As for skilled labor, we don’t two generations they had to go to college even if school wasn’t their thing. Electricians, plumbers, etc are retiring and there are few replacements. That crisis is already here, especially in rural areas and small towns.

 

Though this was about Scotland an article I just read was about how small areas over there were paying big bucks to get doctors to move there to practice.

In the isolated community I live in, the doctor they found who was willing to work here does not prescribe birth control to teenagers, nor encourage vaccinations. And those are his least offense beliefs and qualities…

Years ago I applied for a job for which I was more than qualified, and after jumping through a few preliminary hoops, the employer ghosted me. Happily, another application had progressed and I decided to accept that offer (which turned out to be a great opportunity after all). Months later, the first company contacted me to invite me for an interview. I declined and told them why I wouldn’t be interested in working for them.

Sending in a resume only to have to fill out a lengthy and unnecessary set of questions that the resume should answer but satisfies the needs of dolts who mainly work in HR. Then if you’re lucky to pass a phone screen, you interview with people who have no idea how to interview potential candidates and then decide that instead of 2-3 interviews, 7-10 over a couple months is appropriate. And then sometime 6 months later, if they don’t outright ghost you, they send a standardized email saying you didn’t get the job, an application most people would’ve long forgotten about.

Oh, you get an email? I never do. I’ve gone through series of interviews at top level jobs, and never heard back. After waiting several months, I sent them an email, and a few weeks later they tell you they gave the offer to someone else, but they just loved me and would like me to assist in their non-profit mission in any way that I can.
Effing idiots.

The Republican Party is a Russian op designed to bury the world’s last chance at a just social democracy.

Altho I upvoted your comment the entire Scandinavian set of nations are completely functional social democracies. I’ve been to every one of them now.

 

The Worst Human Alive Just Won His Gubernatorial Primary Race