DL Open Thread August 30 2022
Maybe Biden’s new “eff you guys” vibe is catching?
WASHINGTON — Delaware Senator Chris Coons says he plans to introduce a motion to censure Senator Lindsey Graham over comments he made threatening “riots in the streets” in the event former President Donald Trump is charged with a crime by the DOJ.“Most Republicans including me, believe when it comes to Trump, there is no law. It’s all about getting him,” Graham said. “And I’ll say this, if there is a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information after the Clinton debacle, there will be riots in the streets.”Monday night on Twitter, Coons announced that he would introduce the motion to censure Graham for his comments.
“This is clearly way over the line. I would call on Graham to apologize, but he seems to have lost any sense of shame. So tomorrow I will introduce a motion to censure Graham for his pathetic, anti-American attempt at intimidation.
Anybody Still “Working” From Home?
The shift to WFH is the largest shock to labor markets in decades. Pre-pandemic WFH was trending towards 5% of days by 2022. Now WFH is now stabilizing at 30%, a 6-fold jump. In America alone this is saving about 200 million hours and 6 billion miles of commuting a week.
WFH should be a major component of anti-inflation and carbon reduction efforts. Biden should stop telling people to go back to the office and instead offer incentives and infrastructure for WFH.
30% is more than one day per week but even that is impacting downtown economies. I think the search is on for some kind of soft landing for the office developers. The idea that they simply may lose never gets considered.
“soft landing for the office developers.”
Let them build urban housing. Or schools.
I say seize the unused offices and turn em into affordable housing and community engagement centers.
The biggest thing i worry about wfh is what happens to the small businesses that revolved around morning coffee drinkers, lunch crowds, etc in downtown sectors that have 30%+ not there anymore?
BTW the scare quotes in the headline around “working” is in honor of a great many management types I know (mostly older) who simply don’t think people “work” from home.
The “end of the day work product” doesn’t seem to carry the same weight as being face to face. Or (they would say) working from home turns every job into peice work, and that is not sustainable.
One caution about WFH: Any work that can be done from home, can also be done from India. Or other offshore location. We may be in a temporary lull where employers are still in shock and haven’t figured this out yet and are still willing to pay US workers to WFH
Why have you devolved into right wing talking points?
You wanna “raise the specter of india”? Call centers (NOT wfh) were offshored years ago. If they’re gonna do it, they’re gonna do it. I think you probably don’t quite understand what working from home actually looks like and have decided to accept your facts from The Economist.
LOL.
Offshoring has diminished recently as some countries have built up their middle classes somewhat and increased wages. But soon their economies will be devastated by food and energy shortages, and investors will demand that US employers exploit the poverty wage differential.
Right. Sure. You can predict the future, but nobody else can. C’mon, man.
Once the food and water shortages hit, we aren’t going to have to worry about global economic structure for very long.
The long arc of history bends to work at home, but that’s not what we need right now. All it does is create another point of division, and not necessarily along the typical race/class lines that you would expect.
As people came back into our shop it was evident that two years of isolation caused a social regression. Forcing them to at least be in a common space is a first step.
Here’s a GREAT article: How The Construction Trades Routinely Excluded Blacks. A taste:
“This exclusion occurred just as it had a century before. The trades hired from their own communities. This was a “nearly insurmountable barrier” for Black workers, because of how segregated Philadelphia was, Thomas Sugrue, a historian who teaches at New York University, writes. In 1960, 26% of the city was Black.
The unions also once again levied fees to exclude Black workers. “’I face a $1,000 fine by my union if I teach them to lay one brick,” a Bricklayers union instructor told a member of the Philadelphia AFl-CIO’s Human Rights Committee in 1963, pointing at the only two Black students in his class at Dobbins Technical High School.”
https://www.inquirer.com/news/inq2/more-perfect-union-trade-construction-racism-pennsylvania-20220830.html
Let’s start by helping these communities tackle crime from within.
Let’s start instead by sticking to the topic. You sound like a white union man to me.
Great timing! Lying Larry has a “Volunteer” post from a union Hall with about 20 folks. One Black face and ZERO women!
Thom Hartmann has a conspiracy theory, but it sounds a lot more likely than the ones from the right: What if the Jan. 6 part of the conspiracy was only the tip of the iceberg?
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-seditious-conspiracy-2657964597/
Two misdemeanors stick.
My contention is Carpenter would have dismissed Witness Intimidation too if it were guilty. Just my opinion.
We are recording a Kathy v Kathy update tomorrow plus a primary pregame prediction party FOR PATRONS ONLY.
How about that?
Tye Grier and Kirsten Walther will join Karl and me. Will drop it for patrons only on the Friday before the primary.
if you want the skinny…… pony up!
KMG will be energized tomorrow because that’s whar sociopaths do.
Also… there’s apparently an exceptional Madinah video circulating online. Someone find it.
Found it.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MadinahForDE/status/1564739725524705282
You wanna know how we’re doing it? Madinah’s got more guts than the whole legislature together.
You feel that? That’s something to actually fight for. That’s why it’s not going away.
That. Is. Leadership.
We need more legislators like Madinah.
We can elect more legislators like Madinah, starting with the primary.
Let’s just make sure we reelect Madinah.
Did coons ever introduce a motion to censure?