I feel like we will be getting news like this for a while. Nothing they said was even close to true.
I don't have articles or anything, but when the wall project was announced, I remember contractors and steel fabricators, etc weighing in on the actual cost of the wall and the time it would actually take to complete, and both were way off what 45 said at the time.
I also wonder how much will have to be paid out for contracts that are broken.
Good point. I still want people to get paid money they are owed!
Will this happen? How confident do you feel this will happen?!!
Hmm. He has stated that he is in favor of statehood. Last August the house passed a bill approving statehood for DC and DC itself has been on a HUGE statehood campaign for a number of years. I think now that we have the Senate there is no reason to see it not happening. I believe the mayor said she was hoping to see it w/in the first 100 days. So I am cautiously optimistic.
Post by BlondeSpiders on Jan 21, 2021 12:46:27 GMT -5
During major election years, I tend to think about the genesis of this board and its beginnings. Because November was fraught with what-ifs, these thoughts didn't occur to me until the inauguration this time.
I joined the Knot in 2003, when planning for my 2004 wedding. One day, among a bunch of new message boards was a board called Brides Decide. ( ) I believe the name was changed to Election 2004 later on. I remember keeping up with the board posts the night George W. Bush was reelected, and most of us were despondent. There was a larger percentage of conservative types on the board at that time.
After the Knot decided they couldn't market overpriced wedding crap to newlyweds, they created The Nest and subsequently, The Bump. Not many of us wanted to make the move, but it soon became very difficult to even visit The Knot with your regular profile, and if you tried, you'd be redirected to The Nest. There was already a board made for us, Election '08. The eventual exodus brought us here to GBCN (Goodbye, Cruel Nest, in case anyone didn't know.)
I haven't always been a frequent poster. A variety of jobs and school schedules kept me away for up to a year at a time. I got divorced and changed my handle several times. But this group of whip-smart, politically savvy, and amazingly generous individuals has been a consistently steady presence in my life. Whenever a major event happens in the world, I rush to this board to confirm if it's true. More often that not, I'll find breaking news here before any major news website. This board has shown me some of the best bits of humanity; how we've come together to support our members through tragedy and triumph, and how we are able to see the human behind the words on a screen.
Congrats to all of us for making it through another election cycle, and may we all live to see many, many more.
I also wonder how much will have to be paid out for contracts that are broken.
Good point. I still want people to get paid money they are owed!
If work has been done then people should be paid. I'm more curious about clauses for work that hasn't been done, contracts terminated and then they get paid out anyways.
Nobody should be surprised about the lack of a vaccine plan.
I've read a decent number of reports from multiple federal agencies and the WH and noticed a couple of recurring themes: They claim to be something that they are not and they leave most of the actual work to industry/the private sector without any practical guidance or actions to take. You could argue that this is somewhat normal for policy documents, but I assure you that a LOT of stuff coming out of the Trump admin was practically insubstantial beyond posturing. Much like the former president.
They will call something a "plan," but when you read it, it has no framework or direction or details for people to do actual work in the real world that accomplishes concrete goals, or direction on how to figure out those details -- it says it's a plan, but it isn't something that is executable in the way that most people would think of a real plan. They'll call something a policy, but you read it and it's basically words that SAY it is a policy without actually being one.
IMO it's a sign of having policy written/developed by people who disdain and/or straight-up don't understand policy, but are facing demands that they produce SOMETHING. They copy-and-paste a bunch of background information for filler and make a few general statements and call it a policy, and there is no "how" to actually do the thing. There's not even guidance on how to develop a "how."
My bet is that what the Trump admin would call a "plan" would, if analyzed, essentially say "Buy vaccine. Distribute it." with a whole lot of padding about how this is the fastest-developed vaccine ever and all credit goes to the president and getting out of industry's way, with a few references to the "China virus" thrown in for good measure.
Post by mrsukyankee on Jan 21, 2021 13:35:22 GMT -5
I'm jealous at the calm. While I'm happy I don't have to obsessively worry about my friends and family there, I'm still stuck with 45-lite and his cronies over here. Sigh. (Sorry, you're going to hear me complaining a lot about England because every day is a worse and worse shitshow)
Nobody should be surprised about the lack of a vaccine plan. ...
IMO it's a sign of having policy written/developed by people who disdain and/or straight-up don't understand policy, but are facing demands that they produce SOMETHING. They copy-and-paste a bunch of background information for filler and make a few general statements and call it a policy, and there is no "how" to actually do the thing. There's not even guidance on how to develop a "how." ...
I wish I could like this a thousand times.
As someone with a background in writing policies who now spends a lot of my work time reviewing ones written by others, thank you for reiterating why properly written, evidence-based, achievable policies are so key!! A vague idea is not a plan - it is merely a political statement.
It's not super close to the White House, is on the Naval Observatory complex, and is in a fairly residential area, at the end of Embassy Row. It also has the master clock for the US.
I feel unmoored, not feeling compelled to check the news constantly...
I’m finding it quite freeing! I’m thinking about all of the ways I can use the mental energy I used to spend on keeping up with the dumpster fires.
I am taking my first break of the day and realized how focused I am on work today. I had been seriously starting to wonder if I should talk to my doctor about my inability to focus. Now I think it may have just been that I was in a constant state of anxiety about what the news would bring the next time I looked at my phone.
I've been very fortunate to not have my work or income affected by the pandemic, but I am so glad this is happening. By some weird fluke, even though I graduated in June 2019, I have yet to start making my SL payments. I took a summer class (that I paid for out of pocket) but it somehow deferred my loans to December 2020. Then that got pushed to January, and here we are. Now that I have a house payment, my budget is much tighter
It's not super close to the White House, is on the Naval Observatory complex, and is in a fairly residential area, at the end of Embassy Row. It also has the master clock for the US.
I should probably be more ashamed about the fact that I only remember this is because of Veep and John Oliver's Marlon Bundo book, shouldn't I? (I mean, I'm sure I learned it at some point, but it sticks in my brain for those two reasons.)
Good point. I still want people to get paid money they are owed!
If work has been done then people should be paid. I'm more curious about clauses for work that hasn't been done, contracts terminated and then they get paid out anyways.
It's not super close to the White House, is on the Naval Observatory complex, and is in a fairly residential area, at the end of Embassy Row. It also has the master clock for the US.
This is an annoying headline. It makes it seem like it’s her choice and she doesn’t want to move there or dragging her feet.
Good point. I still want people to get paid money they are owed!
If work has been done then people should be paid. I'm more curious about clauses for work that hasn't been done, contracts terminated and then they get paid out anyways.
I am embarrassed to admit that I hadn't even thought of this aspect. I live within 100 miles of the border, and have just been sickened by the devastation of sacred tribal lands, animal habitats and migration routes, and pristine, beautiful, desert. I just want it to stop, but the destruction has already been so, so savage. I also feel badly for the residents in that area, as it used to function more like one large city, with regular commerce and traffic across the border in both directions. That obviously changed in the last 4 years and has been devastating for local commerce and residents alike.
If work has been done then people should be paid. I'm more curious about clauses for work that hasn't been done, contracts terminated and then they get paid out anyways.
I am embarrassed to admit that I hadn't even thought of this aspect. I live within 100 miles of the border, and have just been sickened by the devastation of sacred tribal lands, animal habitats and migration routes, and pristine, beautiful, desert. I just want it to stop, but the destruction has already been so, so savage. I also feel badly for the residents in that area, as it used to function more like one large city, with regular commerce and traffic across the border in both directions. That obviously changed in the last 4 years and has been devastating for local commerce and residents alike.
I agree with all the points you made liftskatemeditate and feel like the economic, cultural and environmental devastation will be immense when we have the ability to look back at at all.