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@3RU7AL
The Republican Party included support of the ERA in its platform beginning in 1940, renewing the plank every four years until 1980. The ERA was strongly opposed by the American Federation of Labor and other labor unions, which feared the amendment would invalidate protective labor legislation for women. Eleanor Roosevelt and most New Dealers also opposed the ERA. They felt that ERA was designed for middle-class women, but that working-class women needed government protection. They also feared that the ERA would undercut the male-dominated labor unions that were a core component of the New Deal coalition. Most northern Democrats, who aligned themselves with the anti-ERA labor unions, opposed the amendment. The ERA was supported by southern Democrats and almost all Republicans.
At the 1944 Democratic National Convention, the Democrats made the divisive step of including the ERA in their platform, but the Democratic Party did not become united in favor of the amendment until congressional passage in 1972. The main support base for the ERA until the late 1960s was among middle-class Republican women. The League of Women Voters, formerly the National American Woman Suffrage Association, opposed the Equal Rights Amendment until 1972, fearing the loss of protective labor legislation.
Today Title IX protections for Women will be abolished under an ERA type bill.
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@3RU7AL
It's my understanding that "conservatives" generally supported the Americans With Disabilities Act.
Is it a disability to be born with a high Estrogen or Testosterone count?
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@3RU7AL
If there are infinite genders, then there are no finite singular genders, and there won't be any functional reason to have one policy for men or one for women, since it's not certain anymore how to identify a man or a woman.
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@3RU7AL
Or, we could just make laws apply to the police exactly the same way they apply to everyone else.
The "we" that makes the laws are government union lobbies. how about we eliminate that and change the "we" to the little people they collectively bargain against?
Same for schools. It's time to stop the school employees from collectively bargaining against the children.
Government workers shouldn't be allowed to lobby against the people.
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He unironically recommended people to take malariaedicone and later on, bleach, injected into their bloodstream to cure covid-19. I guarantee you, had the media not fought hard against it, people who are diehard trumpites would potentially have died from bleach injection. Even if they weren't, that's their leader, the President, advising to do it. Stop making a joke out of it.
Lol, that whole "inject bleach" thing was only fabricated and seen on MSM state panicporn media. I guarantee no Trumpites were actually at risk of watching MSM and then taking bleach. Thanks for your concern tho lol!
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@3RU7AL
The only thing that needs to be defunded are the police unions collectively bargaining against the welfare of the public.
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@TheUnderdog
Republican minorities care alot more about losing jobs than getting killed.
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@bmdrocks21
3rd party Teddy Roo!
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Pretty much 100% agree.
McConnel's speech made it pretty clear GOP won't allow him to run again.
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@Double_R
That’s why you cannot threaten someone
The government threatens people all the time and it's not criminal.
why you can be sued for libel.
Proof speech is a civil matter, not a criminal one.
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@ILikePie5
Joe and Kamala both took the vaccine that the Trump Administration made lol
It was Bleach.
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@Bringerofrain
Elizabeth warren would be good though
Liz Warren might have more Testosterone than most of the feckless men on the left.
Tulsi for sure is the Alpha Queen.
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@Bringerofrain
Most Democrat men are beta males and risk-averse anyway so they are equal to women in most regards.
Lockdown won't go anywhere anytime soon regardless of the science with the leadership emasculated from taking action.
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@bmdrocks21
It's like the only people to be afraid of on the alt-right are the less than 1000 KKK members in America!
I had no idea the violent alt-right wing was so small!
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@bmdrocks21
Ok, I see. Speech that supports ideas that will lead to the starvation of millions is fine to you. It is all about an arbitrary "directed towards a certain group." Indiscriminate starvation FTW!
Nazism blah blah blah.....
Lol, Godwin's Law is strong in that one.
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@Death23
The vast majority of us are going to die from that.
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@zedvictor4
mmm fish and chips
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@sadolite
I don't believe there will ever be another election. I think the country will go full on retard communist.
Depends if a 3rd party can challenge the current Oligarchy of the singular Dem/GOP party. Chances are slim though.
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@bmdrocks21
The government and their supporting powerful lobbies have an interest in preserving their status quo power to label any speech or idea that challenges their power as hateful and criminal, which is the entire reason why we have a 1st amendment.
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@Bringerofrain
I really don't have a beef with Trump's kids because they built their own businesses without government assistance, and you know Daddy Trump hates leeches.
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@Bringerofrain
They treat that guy like fine China.
Freudian slip perhaps?
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@bmdrocks21
Right, so then you can't justify all hate speech to be "bad" because it incites violence since some forms of violence are "good."
In order to protect things, you need to be willing to use violence to hurt the aggressor. Stand your ground laws are based on this kind of beneficial violence.
It's entirely possible an aggressor labels anything stopping him as "hate speech" simply as a means of removing barriers against his aggression.
The prime incentive of censorship is to have a monopoly on aggression.
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@ILikePie5
I'd like Trump to do something close to what Teddy did here. It would be interesting to see a Trump unshackled to the GOP and the RINOS.
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It's no secret that American workers are getting older. Even as millennials become the biggest cohort in the labor force, the median age of all U.S. employees has crept up from 30 to 42 over the past 30 years. But when it comes to getting older, a POLITICO analysis finds, the private sector has nothing on the U.S. government.
The U.S. just elected the oldest new president in history, and Congress, too, has been getting consistently older, with its average age now up around 60.
But the vast majority of the government consists of the 2 million-strong federal civilian workforce. And thanks to slow-moving hiring practices and a huge cohort of baby boomers who haven’t retired at the predicted rates, it has grown significantly older than the American workforce overall. Today, just 17 percent of federal workers are under 35 years old. (In the private sector, almost 40 percent are.) And more than a quarter of federal employees are now older than 55.
In some agencies, the upward age shift is even starker. Sixty nine percent of NASA's workforce is over 45 years old. At the Department of Housing and Urban Development, it's 70 percent. At the tiny Government Publishing Office, it's even more extreme—80 percent.
In principle, there’s nothing wrong with older workers: They have more experience than younger ones and employers often report that they are more attentive at work. Age discrimination is not just illegal, but strips companies of experience and judgment; it's fair to say that plenty of Silicon Valley companies might benefit from the perspective of a more experienced cohort of employees. But workplaces that shift too far in any direction can suffer. There is evidence that offices with more older workers are less productive and, due to their workers' age, more expensive; health care costs are especially high, and a wave of retirements would leave the government on the hook for a major increase in pension spending. And broadly speaking, if the government is supposed to reflect America accurately—making small and large policy decisions that affect every aspect of the country—it’s only reasonable to expect that the federal workforce should reflect the generational makeup of the country.
Given the stereotypes about government employees, it's easy to assume that the major problem is that federal worker protections have led to a vast army of aging-in-place bureaucrats who simply can't be removed. But organizational experts and former federal human resource managers say the problem is also more complicated than that, and more troubling for good governance. They see an ineffective hiring system that is decades out of date. They have spent years warning policymakers that rules and laws were inhibiting their ability to hire and train new employees. These rules were specifically put in place to eliminate competition from younger workers for those jobs, helping to maintain the status quo for the existing workforce. The aging of the federal workforce, they say, is a symptom of Washington’s inability or unwillingness to keep up with modern-day management practices and to plan for the future—as well as a system hamstrung by rigid federal employment directives, some of which, ironically, were aimed at freshening up the workforce.
“It’s not so much a matter that old people are stupid and young people are smart,” said Don Kettl, a professor at the University of Maryland who has written extensively on government management. “It’s that smart agencies develop a plan for a pipeline. The federal government’s biggest problem is it’s not very good at pipeline planning.”
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@Double_R
Government is not a person.Please explain what you think a government is.
You are right. Government has a systemic incentive to maintain power at the expense of the public; the larger the Government, the greater the expense is. In Biden's case, Millions of American children are harmed, not just the thousand at the border.
This has been known for decades. It's not a new concept. Government has zero incentive to unemploy itself. The same is true of the administrative branch of the public school unions.
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@n8nrgmi
If he does run it won't be as a Republican.
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@bmdrocks21
Do you agree that Government using force to ban things is a form of violence?
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@bmdrocks21
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@bmdrocks21
Are stupid ideas that lead to mass starvation 100% of the time also banned? Or is that fine?
HOW DARE YOU!
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@ILikePie5
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@Intelligence_06
I'm guessing Biden isn't banned in China for apologizing for the dead Muslims.
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@Double_R
take note of the phrase “without question”.
Questioning authority today makes you a traitor and a pariah. Most people are just going to give up and let the government do whatever.
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@Double_R
Biden doesn’t have the power to suppress ideas, and taking a side on a contentious issue while doing whatever is in his power to effect the outcome is what political leaders are elected to do.
Sure he does. He has already suppressed the CDC's science on schools by claiming CDC doesn't know anything about what they are talking about regarding schools.
Government is a monopoly because they have Authority to destroy their competition like the CDC and other political threats.
all it does is feed into people’s opposition to government solutions while providing no solutions of their own.
CDC provided a solution. Government cares about preserving political power over doing the right thing.
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@Double_R
If our representatives enact laws allowing anyone to wield violence without question they need to be voted out immediately.
So you are okay with voting out the entire government for using the military and police to wield violence?
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@Double_R
all it does is feed into people’s opposition to government solutions while providing no solutions of their own.
The government as an uncontested monopoly actively suppresses any ideas that could challenge their monopoly on power. A case in point is Biden's loyalty to the teacher's unions when the CDC has a solution.
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@ILikePie5
“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
-Noam Chomsky
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@ILikePie5
Violence can only develop where no compromise can be reached. Banning any speech, hateful or not, offensive or not, ensures that the non-violent path to negotiation, compromise, debate, and rehabilitation through non-violent dialogue can never exist.
In fact, banning any speech with the force of the government is an act of violence itself.
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@Double_R
it’s whether the content of your speech taken to its logical end would incite or serve as justification for violence towards another group.
Does that include speech supporting government violence against the public?
Or should the government be trusted to wield violence unrestricted and without question?
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@Double_R
Any reason you are avoiding giving us your opinion?
My opinion is irrelevant since questioning the outcome of the election isn't an option. It's considered hate speech.
A rational person in a free society would probably believe the election was legit. Not in this society.
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@Bringerofrain
It's not a big deal anyway being born rich. There are 18.6 million millionaires in the USA right now according to google all competing with each other. There are no guarantees for any of them to increase their wealth to become one of the 614 billionaires just for being able to breathe air.
Being surrounded by the right people and having superior cultural values and an insane pathological over-ambitious work ethic are much more important to the development of a Billionaire than a bank account.
Incidentally, billionaire Kanye West was once 50 million dollars in debt at a point in his life. Now he is worth over 3 Billion.
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@Bringerofrain
Can you provide a citation that his father actually handed him 413 million dollars. I heard it was just 1 million.
He probably had many loans and paid back the loans.
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@Death23
Being born into an inferior culture is far worse than being born poor.
Most kids raised in hollywood celebrity culture have miserable lives.
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@Double_R
Do you believe Biden was chosen by the electorate?
I believe the Washington DC Oligarchy believes he was elected legitimately without question.
If not, then what is your view of the Capitol attack?
It was about as violent of an uprising against the government as Tank Man was getting rolled under the treads of a Chinese tank in Tiananmen Square.
The outcomes of both events are the same. A cowed populace afraid to question the government and total authoritative dominance.
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Questioning the government is now labeled vigorously by the elite oligarchs as misinformation. We are already in a tyrannical state.
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If one didn't want to create an army of paranoid misinformed people, maybe Americans shouldn't have supported without question the Alinskyesque mockingbird deep state media gaslighting with the Russia crap for 4 years just to place people they like to listen to in positions of tyrannical power.
The misinformation war has just begun now that it is acceptable to equate fact with opinions.
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@3RU7AL
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@Vader
Proof Trump haters never really gave a fuck about Muslims.
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