H-how dare you speak ill of the uwu smol bean that is Jimmy Carter?! Something something peanut farm something something.
Seriously though, yeah. Carter's historic unpopularity and unwillingness to step aside are a big part of why the loss to Reagan was so overwhelming and why Reagan was able to do so much lasting harm to the country.
Yep, they were so traumatized by losing to Reagan that they abandoned everything they ever stood for and started racing right trying to find the "center" and to this day think it's the only way to win.
Not only is it real, I saw a video that his team cut together of the moment like it was a damn Play of the Game highlight of him "owning" the Republicans. Words cannot express the depths of my hatred for Democratic leadership at this moment. This bill is going to be one of if not the most catastrophic pieces of legislation ever passed and THIS is all their so-called "resistance" amounts to?
I hate them and their strategy of "Do nothing, give the Republicans enough rope to hang themselves, then make it the responsibility of the voters to get rid of them so they don't have to promise anything or stand for anything." They gave 'em though rope alright, except they're not hanging themselves, they're diving off a cliff and the rope is tied around our waists too.
Yeah, in the case of stuff like this the usual failing of the Democrats is limiting these programs too much. Usually born of their pathological need to seem "fiscally responsible" to so-called "moderate" voters. Things like allowing the child tax credit expansion to end with no fight, or means-testing programs to the point of absurdity. They'd rather deny assistance to 10 people who need it than let a single person benefit from assistance they think doesn't "deserve" it enough.
Generally speaking, for Republicans the cruelty is the point. Whereas for Democrats the cruelty is a byproduct that they lack the imagination to realize doesn't need to exist.
B-but, if we stop rewarding seniority and nothing else even if we run terrible losing campaigns... Multiple times in a row... Th-then it'll never be MY turn...
At a minimum this guy won't have the same level of intuitional clout Pelosi used many many times to hinder progressive policies and engage in political horse trading. So even if this guy is literally a 1-for-1 Pelosi clone he'll be a much weaker hurdle to overcome than she was.
Huh TIL... That's actually kinda funny to me since the tail end of my time working retail happens to be when I first started developing gynecomastia. I'm nonbinary so it never bothered me but I found out shortly after when my doctor was trying to figure out another issue that I've got really low T levels so it's funny to me that there's technically a remote possibility that working retail caused that whole thing.
Like, get enough people signing up or youre fired push.
I used to work at a place that was like this with their loyalty card subscription. The worst part was that only US residents were eligible for it but the last location I worked at was right next to the Canadian border so we got a ton of Canadian customers. Management however would still count all of those as missed sales even though we literally couldn't sign them up for it. Too high a ratio of missed sales and you started losing hours up to them letting you go.
Not only that but if you started recognizing Canadian bank cards and didn't still try to sell them on the membership that they couldn't sign up for you'd get in trouble for that too. So we were forced to be super aggressive with it on those we could sell to if we didn't want to get in trouble for poor performance. Was totally not worth minimum wage with no commission. I was so glad to finally quit that job.
Yes, but keep in mind you have to balance this against not tolerating bad actors who will prey upon your understanding. I've met plenty of "slow and dumb" people who really just have no intention of ever getting it right and make no effort to do so while claiming that they're trying their best. It takes wisdom to recognize the difference.
Some people take baby steps to come to your side, others need to be dragged kicking and screaming to the correct side.
It's not even like you're enjoying whatever thing you're procrastinating with either because you're sitting there the entire time agonizing over it. Just internally screaming at yourself to get up and do something,anything. Like you're in the cockpit of a giant robot and the controls just quit on you.
My understanding from the reporting I've seen about that is that was being prompted by payment processors like Visa and MasterCard threatening to stop processing payments to them if they didn't remove sexual content. A little less stupid than Tumblr not understanding how much smut is on their site and trying to court advertisers.
H-how dare you speak ill of the uwu smol bean that is Jimmy Carter?! Something something peanut farm something something.
Seriously though, yeah. Carter's historic unpopularity and unwillingness to step aside are a big part of why the loss to Reagan was so overwhelming and why Reagan was able to do so much lasting harm to the country.