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Welcome folks, to the Biden administration!

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Kepler said:
Unless that study adjusted for what they did with their degree it's worthless. Rich people who go to top ranked schools often go for liberal arts in order to go into academia, teaching, or non-profit work. The project isn't to make money because they already have more than they'll ever spend.

Remember: at the top end of the spectrum (wealth and intelligence) people are still using universities for what they did a hundred years ago: to become educated, not animal training to learn a trade or make a killing. It's a completely different mindset when money is no longer an object. It colors their whole life.

The average income of my friends who grew up in rich families is a fraction of my friends who grew up in poor families. They don't view money as bad, or good, but just as there, like air. They never have had to worry about it, so income never mattered. Money isn't normative for them -- it's not a sign of effort or moral good or worth.

They are the only people I've ever met who have a healthy attitude towards money. Unlike the rest of us, they use it, it doesn't use them.
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I have a friend that's trust fund rich and went to Cornell. They did build a waterfront home that was featured in an architecture magazine, but it's not ridiculously over the top. Anyway, aside from that if you ran into them outside their home you'd think they're an average middle class / middle aged person with an outdoor chic style. They drive a subaru outback and definitely didn't pick a career focused on accumulating wealth, but rather based on personal interest and an opportunity for interesting experiences.
 
Not an administration position but another great Biden pick: Jaime Harrison will run the DNC.

Tells me (1) they're serious about black outreach, (2) Clyburn is going to be a very strong voice of guidance for Biden, and (3) a metric shirt ton of old white cold porridge is being quietly shown the door. Tim Kaine, Mark Warner, Michael Bennet, Jeanne Shaheen, god I'm falling asleep just typing their names.
 
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RaceBoarder said:
Nah... It's that he's opening up internment camps for people who refuse to wear masks and throw temper tantrums about not being able to go to a bar 0=)
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It's a start.

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Kepler said:
Not an administration position but another great Biden pick: Jaime Harrison will run the DNC.

Tells me (1) they're serious about black outreach, (2) Clyburn is going to be a very strong voice of guidance for Biden, and (3) a metric shirt ton of old white cold porridge is being quietly shown the door. Tim Kaine, Mark Warner, Michael Bennet, Jeanne Shaheen, god I'm falling asleep just typing their names.
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So he knows how to lose by 10 points to one of the five least popular Senators in America with a massive money advantage. At least Beto kept it close. He's mainly been a lobbyist. He'll fit right in.
 
Kepler said:
Not an administration position but another great Biden pick: Jaime Harrison will run the DNC.

Tells me (1) they're serious about black outreach, (2) Clyburn is going to be a very strong voice of guidance for Biden, and (3) a metric shirt ton of old white cold porridge is being quietly shown the door. Tim Kaine, Mark Warner, Michael Bennet, Jeanne Shaheen, god I'm falling asleep just typing their names.
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Agreed
 
bronconick said:
So he knows how to lose by 10 points to one of the five least popular Senators in America with a massive money advantage. At least Beto kept it close. He's mainly been a lobbyist. He'll fit right in.
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I think this is completely short sighted...
 
Lest we forget, we are now about 35 hours from the end of 90% of the hell we have endured since November 2016.

Obviously, the damage is incalculable and there are still 74 million idiots among us, some non-trivial percentage of whom are well-armed terrorists. But the fact is in 2 days the amount of Constitutional power the Nazis have will have dropped to almost nothing.

That is reason to be happy. And to end them while we have the chance, because if we don't they will be back.
 
Kepler said:
Lest we forget, we are now about 35 hours from the end of 90% of the hell we have endured since November 2016.

Obviously, the damage is incalculable and there are still 74 million idiots among us, some non-trivial percentage of whom are well-armed terrorists. But the fact is in 2 days the amount of Constitutional power the Nazis have will have dropped to almost nothing.

That is reason to be happy. And to end them while we have the chance, because if we don't they will be back.
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I agree. And I hope Biden has Executive Orders ready to reverse ALL of Dump's Executive Orders on Day One.

Was very disappointed in Maher on Friday.
 
I know for a fact there is no Lego block on my stairs. No Legos in my home.

Better get out the Windex.
 
Swansong said:
https://morningconsult.com/senator-rankings/

Further, I don't think calling Graham "one of the five least popular senators in America" is accurate.

It was fantasy to think the Democrats would flip his seat (or McConnell). Money spent in either race would have been much better allocated elsewhere.
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Since I live here, I agree it was unlikely McConnell was going to lose his seat. I listed off the reasons months ago. Won’t speak for Graham’s seat since I don’t live in South Carolina. That said, I don’t think it mattered where the money went. Plenty of suburban moms or whoever were/are perfectly okay with anyone in the GOP not named Trump, and I don’t think another dime was going to make them vote D down ballot. Most of us hoped that was the case, but it wasn’t. That the GOP maintained and/or gained in state houses across the country just means their gerrymandering will become even more clever in places like Texas, which doesn’t bode well for the 2022 midterms. That’s without mentioning for the 1,000th time that the President’s Party stinks it up in the midterms. Maybe Biden can get antifa to pretend to storm the Capitol a week or so before the midterms so that Dems can gain seats ala Bush’s GOP after 9/11.
 
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