these companies were in risk of bankrupcy after like 1 week. 1 week man. cruises, airlines, etc. 1 week.

theres a LOAD of difference between 1 week and having cash to survive covid unharmed. they dont keep anything, executives take it all and buy yachts and islands. then they threaten to layoff thousands overnight to hold the taxpayer hostage. they should be quite literally whipped in public with a cat o 9 tails.

Not only republicans do this and this is kind of a tangent.

I follow the market daily and I’ve never made anywhere near what you make. The myth that the stock market only benefits the ultra rich so only they care about it needs to die.

Any corporation that is being bailed out by billions of government money should have the screws applied real hard. Board member compensation being cut by 70%, no dividend payouts for X years, stock buybacks forbidden for Y years, etc.
I do not, however, believe that letting them all burn to the ground would leave society better off. It would just mean a permanent loss of good jobs which pop up again in China or Mexico.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Aug 7 2020 01:53pm

Still not a measure of the economy and is largely the rich person's feeling index.

You can make money, but the real money is made by the richest people. By the time news trickles down to the commonfolk the insiders have already staked their positions

If you can't vote in person, you're rejected 100% of the time. Then there's the people who CAN vote put won't due to inconvenience. Waiting in line fucking sucks and can take hours which costs the economy billions in lost economic activity. IMO, people should have a wide array of options that can fit their needs.

1. Debates and campaigning ARE meaningless for a majority of voters. 80%+ of voters already know who they will vote for no matter what. There is NOTHING that could convince them otherwise so why shouldn't they submit early? The last debate is roughly a week before the election so I that's still plenty of time to fill out your ballot and submit it well before election day. Even then, all that does is ensure that your ballot is counted on election night. The electoral college doesn't vote until December so there is plenty of time to get it right. Who says that we absolutely have to know who is president ON election day?

2. How is dropping your ballot off at a location any different than standing in line to cast your vote at the location? That doesn't make much sense. I've missed the postal deadline several times because I was lazy and I just handed my filled out ballot to the polling folks near my work.

yes my statement should read: "if u want billions you're going to have to REALLY work for it. if you dont want billions good luck. and if u ask for billions with your dying breath we'll laugh as you stop breathing".

https://apnews.com/a1d35eb82429c05d44534f98aeec5e9f

So more legal wrangling before the elections, this time in Montana

The GOP paid for a $100,000 operation to gather signatures to get the Green Party on the presidential ballot, and got enough signatures by the March 6th deadline and the Green Party was put on the ballot. But when it publicly emerged the GOP had paid for the drive- unclear if they abided by all the campaign laws and disclosure requirements- hundreds of voters petitioned to have their signatures removed, after the Green Party was already put on the ballot. A liberal district judge James Reynolds has now ruled that the petitions to remove signatures should retroactively remove the Green Party from the ballot, even if they were not filed or notarized before the certification date, and leaving open a precedent by which a party could be struck from a ballot retroactively completely open-ended. He said the certification date isn't binding, so eh, what is? Could they strike a party a day before the election? Could they gather signatures and remove a party from the ballot after the election and overturn the results? At any rate, this judge won't be deciding such questions because just after making this ruling he announced his abrupt retirement.

unscheduled Trump press conference live at Bedminster

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just started and immediately went into several minutes of talking about the economy

He may segue into an announcement about executive action on evictions
/e there he goes, 'if they don't act, I will defer the payroll tax using executive action, and may extend it until end of the year, retroactive until july 1st'
unemployment benefits to the end of the year (full $600? unclear)

This post was edited by Goomshill on Aug 7 2020 05:39pm