We're in the home stretch people. A few more weeks and this election season will be over and done. The third and final presidential debate will be on your favorite alphabet channels. Watch it. Or don't. I'm not your mother.
HAS ANYBODY ELSE NOTICED THAT IN THE THREE DEBATES HILLARY HAS WORN: ONE RED SUIT ONE WHITE SUIT ONE BLUE SUIT AMERICA AMERICA
As long as it streams ok at the lab, I'll be watching. This is a dumpster fire of historic proportions. Glad that Obama's half-brother was invited by the Trump camp. That makes perfect sense. Hopefully they'll bring out stacks of hotdogs, and see which candidate can eat the most in two minutes.
I am sitting next to the only pro-Trump woman I know, and we will be in this room together mixing television while the debate is on. I intend to nope the fuck out of this one and watch it tomorrow morning, over coffee and brandy. Ooh. And I got me some arugala and goat cheese flatbread. Yes. I am now looking forward to this.
Armenian brandy and a bathrobe makes this far and away the best debate. It's interesting reading the analysis and then watching the debate - the thing that is obvious to me is that Clinton is taking any opportunity she can to shove her platform and all its facts and figures in front of the camera while Trump basically vomits forth a platitudinal word salad.
I'll be let down if he remembers his allergy meds and nobody gets to cut together a sniff track afterwards.
Honestly? I think it's a function of how they're running the compression on the broadcast board and the fact that the mics have no windscreen. In person it would be a lot less pronounced. At least, if that were my mix I'd try and do something about it. Unless I really didn't care for Trump. Like every broadcaster I know.
I don't understand why they leave the mics naked like that. Donald's sniffing was pretty obnoxious, but I also started to notice Hillary smacking her lips before every sentence and it was infuriating.
More of the same. Hillary coolly baited Trump, and he took it again. He seems to have a maximum 30 minutes of discipline. Interesting that Trump is going to keep us in suspense as to whether or not he will accept defeat. I wonder what him not accepting defeat would look like. I imagine it will involve some serious tweeting. Maybe Trump should buy Twitter.
I timed it actually! He had a 21 minute threshold for the first 2 debates. He started to crack after 21 minutes tonight but basically managed to hold it together for 29. The guy is such a shitty debater. HRC did not answer the question about Bill's "woman problem" and he did not bring it up in rebuttal but went back to defending himself. I think (and the public seems to think) that is irrelevant but he apparently does not and missed an obvious opportunity there.
To get me in the patriotic spirit, I've been binge watching My Drunk History all afternoon while cutting up squares for my first quilt. I guarantee you, fifty years from now they'll reboot this television series and this election will be talked about.
"She's such a nasty woman." -Says the man that's called her a liar on stage no less than 5 times.
I've completely lost track of what they're talking about and what the questions being asked are.
Now there's a Kurt Russell movie I would watch the fuck out of.
Sooooo uhhhhhhhhh I'm pretty sure those manufacturing jobs aren't coming back, no matter what. And cutting corporate taxes sure as hell isn't going to change that.
Hmm. I think even if manufacturing in America ramped up, I think a lot of those jobs would be for higher skilled workers, but less of them. Don't hold that as gospel though. I think tax cuts for businesses might be slightly naive, if only because we're not really assured that these companies are going to reinvest in their workers. That said, I don't know if continuing to push higher education is necessarily going to fix things either. Just because there are more skilled workers out there, that doesn't necessarily mean there will be jobs for them.
Completely agree with this. From my completely anecdotal evidence it seems like manufacturing is making a push for productivity and efficiency, which means automating as much as you can if you are in a high volume environment. With minimal interaction there is less risk for tampering, and one less variable to account for (the human operator) when it comes to making process improvements. The less people you have touching the pie, in general, the better. Why hire three people when you hire one? Also a problem. I'm going to use Chemical Engineering as an example. 100,000 technician, maintenance, engineer, and other support and indirect layoffs have occurred in oil/gas in the United States since prices collapsed. This results in a situation where you have very experienced, or at least not fresh out of college, engineers applying for positions that would normally go to entry level (as in, straight of college) employees. The incentive to hire and train somebody fresh is completely gone, and the market becomes more saturated.I think a lot of those jobs would be for higher skilled workers, but less of them.
Just because there are more skilled workers out there, that doesn't necessarily mean there will be jobs for them.
I could see that as something that would drive down wages and benefits as well. If you're desperate for a job, you're probably willing to make $15/hr work for you when under normal circumstances, you wouldn't sign up for less than $20.The incentive to hire and train somebody fresh is completely gone, and the market becomes more saturated.
I'm no longer as pessimistic about this as I used to be. Japan has basically decided that the US is the cheapest, most cost-effective place to build cars. The American labor pool is generally considered skilled and efficient; Toyota bolted from Mississippi to Toronto(I think?) because the externalities of Mississippi's economy cost them too much (childcare, healthcare, education etc. would have to be delivered by Toyota rather than the state). The idea would be that shoring up the social needs of skilled workers via civic subsidy increases our competitiveness on the world market. I mean, we'll never be able to compete on cost with a 3rd world sweat shop, nor should we. But as manufacturing becomes a more-skilled profession, it requires employees who are accustomed to a higher standard of living. If you have a country with a higher baseline standard of living, you have to expend less on your manufacturing plant to compete. The greater question is "manufacturing WHAT?" We can't all build Playstations for each other because we don't need to buy those every six months. The productivity curve tends to indicate that costs are simply going to go up because our actual need for stuff can't increase beyond a certain point.
I plan on watching. My wife thinks I'm crazy for caring. But, basically I don't want to miss a historic moment. I feel like something enormous will occur. He is like a cornered tiger. There's no way he doesn't do something yoooge. Plus, it's a highly entertaining car wreck. So far the pre-show on CBS is asking their panel if normal American voters the important questions like, "which on would you most like to be stuck in an elevator with?" #mediafail
THANK YOU JESUS! Not even gonna watch. Just happy this dumpster, trumpster fire of an election is almost over.