If Athing Mu were a CEO, falling in a single qualifying race, despite her being a world champion, would earn her a raise, a hefty bonus, and a renewed, long-term contract.
Why aren't Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders paid well, despite their success in selling the team? Let me think. They're woman? They work for a living rather than clip coupons and check the price of sweet crude every hour? Or, is it just because they're employees?
The American Constitution's explicit aspiration, extraordinary for its time, is that govt should neither favor nor disfavor one religion, all religions, or no religion.
Insurrectionist American fundamentalists, however, whom Trump has drafted as his army, want to reinvent that law and history. They want to impose their religion on all others. They want the state subject to their religion so they can use its physical and legal powers to make that a reality. All else is commentary.
Donald Trump tried to steal the election in 2020 and, by all accounts, he and his MAGA minions are going to try again in 2024. But how likely is it that they'll succeed? The good news is that since 2020 we have some new guardrails in place to make it even harder for them to overturn another Biden win. Learn more over at The Big Picture. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-overturn-biden-election-2024
The resources Trump had to steal the election in 2020 pale in comparison to the orchestrated GOP and billionaire led resources he has to steal it in 2024.
Will the GOP try to steal the 2024 election? After the events of January 6, 2021, it's only natural to question the lengths Trump and his MAGA movement will go to secure a victory, regardless of the vote count. However, there's hope. Today on The Big Picture, writer Jay Kuo discusses the guardrails now in place to protect our democracy. But a threat still looms. Stay informed and prepared. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-overturn-biden-election-2024
The answer to whether the GOP, meaning Trump, will try to steal the 2024 election seems obvious.
They will bury the system with hundreds of lawsuits. They will work hard not to count the vote in districts Trump will lose. They will try not to certify election results.
They will try anything to throw the decision to the House, where they have an arithmetic advantage, because it votes by state and the GOP controls more states, though they represent far fewer voters.
Milton Friedman's lie that "shareholders are the only stakeholders" - a view untethered to law, economics, or reality - has destroyed countless lives around the world. It's a foundation of today's gross inequality.
Friedman has a lot to answer for, as do his patrons. If he's lucky, his long days in hell, described by Toby as "damnation without relief," will be hearing the names of all those people, over and over again, even as the list grows longer every day..
Boeing shareholders approved a $33M pay package for CEO Dave Calhoun, despite the company's major safety problems — which Calhoun is testifying about before the Senate today.
Calhoun is resigning by year's end. Guess what he gets then?
The outgoing Boeing CEO, in charge of a company failing, owing to having put financial performance ahead of passenger and aircraft safety, is getting a combined $78 million to say goodbye this year. And, presumably, to keep shtum.
I can see why he wants it. But WTF would Boeing's board be so happy to give it to him? Unregulated Capitalism, like fish left on the picnic table on a hot July day, rots from the head.
The NYT accuses Joe Biden of "painting" Donny Trump a felon? It's leading every news organization to the position that there is no objective reality, and no facts unless someone calls them that.
I think the NYT's owners really want Trump back in office. They agree with him. And everything he does makes publishing a newspaper a license to print money: from his McDonald's diet to his promised violent retribution against those who've done nothing but oppose him. Democracy? Meh.
