Goin back to work. Txt later

For starters ordering justice department to work as personal lawyers in Trumps personal/ criminal cases. For ordering police to fire tear gas at peaceful protest, ordering election officials to investigate the election before voting stopped, ordering sanctions on judges of the international court. I could go on...

He knows it’s the end of the administration, he’s probably hiding something he got upto lol

Idk, that doesn’t seem like a satisfying reason, IMO. If allegations were raised against you that you are implicated in the greatest heist in American history wouldn’t you want to clear your name and prove your innocence. This PR can’t be good for their future business prospects.

Is Lin wood just saying Random things at this point to get more money from donors

There are reports of Dominion representatives still actively helping with the election, so they are still involved. The burden of proof is on those doing the accusations and allowing it to play out could also be interpreted as being confident that they have nothing to be concerned about because they did nothing wrong. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. Protest too loudly that you are innocent can often have the opposite of your intended result. The point is, I wouldn't read too much into it.

If they are involved, they deserve what's coming to them. If they are innocent, I hope I am never in their shoes.

From my perspective, I don’t know what proportion of illegal immigrants come here to work for $2/hr vs live off of welfare. I can reason that removing the welfare safety net, and making it legal to hire illegal immigrants, would raise the wages of those willing to work so they can be self reliant, and filter out those unwilling to work.

I find it super hard to believe China bought out the company and directed the employees to rig the election or laid off the entire workforce or whatever and there was no whistleblowers or anything

but hey if Lin Wood can prove it I am interested 😄

they say money doesn't grow on trees but maybe the wood kraken found a way to make it work?

This could be a form of art

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUKKBN27R30B

Just joining a cult and leaning into its narrative, position yourself as a leader and just wing it , money will flow

If anything has come from this...it’s the election process has to be uniformed and secure.

So, what you are saying is that American's on welfare would otherwise be willing to take those jobs were it not for being on welfare. i think we are more in agreement than not. I see them as different issues, but I see how you can make that claim. I am a big believer that "something given for free has no value". I don't see the benefit of helping people out without giving them the opportunity to contribute. There must be some way to allow those on welfare to earn their money.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Maria16025177/status/1333833884526645249

Another curious thing. Not sure if it’s conclusive.

That's a sticky issue, but I think there is a way to help people out without it being demeaning.

Is there a reasonable explanation?

I’ll try and get a Google docs link for context.

I think it’s extremely important to help those that can’t help themselves. The war on poverty programs however have proven to be detrimental. Whatever we had before the 60s- go back to that.

Would be great if you can. Thank you.

I respect hustle. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Hand outs can quickly become handicaps.

@AdamS Message sent. Now we wait 👌🏼

Prior to the 80's, we used to institutionalize those that could not take care of themselves. That had its own issues, but we just basically put them on the street when Reagan ended that practice in an effort to partially pay for eliminating the top tax bracket. That's an over-simplification, but you get the idea. The top tax bracket also had the net result of getting companies to spread the wealth around (strong middle class) and providing an incentive to invest in R&D. Overpaying employees or carrying huge profits would result in paying a higher percentage to the govt. There's a ton of data to support this, but that is why pre-1980's we didn't rely on the government as much.

@TaLoN132 the Mental Health Act was adopted in 1963 under JFK. I'm not sure how Reagan ended the practice ...

This appears to be another analysis of the media feed data (NEP->NYT)... It only is meaningful in that context. If the source data is not from one of the media feeds, I'd love to know how to get a copy.

> Few anticipated how quickly President Kennedy’s aspiration of reducing the institutional population by half would be realized. By 1980, the inpatient population at public psychiatric hospitals had declined by 75%.

So what you claim happened in the 80s actually happened before the 80s

I am relying on memory on this one. I remember at the time there being concern about Reagan emptying the institutions. I have an aunt that has severe schizophrenia and our family was concerned what we would do if she took a turn for the worst. I was relatively young then, so my memory may be hampered by not fully understanding the family dynamic.

@TaLoN132 I have a brother with severe schizophrenia. The situation we currently have for taking care of people with severe mental illness is dire at best and in my opinion inhumane. I do think it was an unintended consequence of something that had good intentions. But I just want to make sure that people are not incorrectly blamed for something they didn't do. Although I doubt Reagan's policies made the situation better, in fact I'm almost sure they probably made it worse ...

I am conflating a couple of things... There was legislation enacted under Carter - the MHSA - that attempted to provide funds to help with community health care. That was repealed a year later by Reagan. Had to Google it.

Rosalynn Carter is a big advocate for people with mental illness.

@TaLoN132 sup

All the world's problems have been solved? We can all go back to sleep???

Among other things, getting the Christmas (as promised, I did not abbrev.) decorations down and getting them ready. How about you?

I don't know... Am I in charge yet? 😉

Just hanging out aka. work

@Maw gotta say CA was a little nitpicky in the document. It was mountains away from spiderdudes testimony. Not particularly suprising CA is practically its own country when it comes to this stuff and they are just awful at it. Also those are the older models than the Georgia ones. Texas seemed to feel the machines had some merit allowing a back and forth to correct the flaws found in the machines. It is reasonable for states to have different standards by which they feel voting machines are within a tolerable level of risk. I don't see anything rising to the level of this machine is useless we should never use them ever.

@Dedkraken, you just advanced to level 14!

I am between projects right now, so taking advantage of the time. Contract work is feast or famine.