If you want to argue that the Boomers had it uniquely good, you need to explain this chart, understanding that, in 1980 the very oldest Boomers were 34. For two decades of the Boomers' peak earning years, real wages were collapsing. They hit their low point in 1995, when Boomers were roughly 30-50 years old.

Yup, and Tliab is our MTG. Of course, Bush and Tliab are less awful than Boebert and MTG, and not just because they're closer to me politically, so as usual, Democrats are better than their Republican counterparts.

https://twitter.com/PNWPragmatist/status/1491283673878245376

Clarifying, as there is some confusion -- I'm talking about their job as legislators. I'd take Bush and Tliab over any Republican not named Kinzinger. (I respect Cheney, but I hate her.)

Two-part answer. The first is that a lot of people have left the workforce in the past few years. Boomers are retiring at a significant rate now - they held a lot of jobs. Add in COVID-19 deaths and you have millions of positions that are suddenly open.

https://twitter.com/sacca/status/1457771103259029510

The second is that employers are struggling to adjust to this world. Plentiful labor has been a basic fact for two generations of management. When supply is high, you don't have to pay as much, and you don't have to worry about burnout, because there's always another body.

Primary candidate in parens; always backed incumbent.
92, 96 - Clinton (Tsongas)
00 - Gore (Bradley)
04 - Kerry (Edwards)
08, 12 - Obama (Obama)
16 - Clinton (Clinton)
20 - Biden (Biden)

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Of these, the only one I think I completely missed was Edwards in the 04 primary, but to be fair, I didn't know he was a sleazeball.

In my ideal world national borders would be treated like state borders in the US -- you could cross them freely, you could move anywhere and get a job anywhere. I am radically pro-immigration. And what Harris said is absolutely right. We *do not* want to encourage people to travel to the US to immigrate illegally. Not only is it, you know, illegal, but it's also dangerous for the people making the journey.

The legend lives on from Egyptians on down
Of the canal called qanāt as-suwēs
The freighters get stuck on the banks, in the muck
When the skies of March get a bit gloomy With a bunch of stuff to use, more than twenty thousand TEUs
Made the Ever Given some dinero
That good ship and crew was not gonna go through
When the banks of the Suez got narrow

We all know that the Senate needs to be reformed, and we all know that reform is going to be difficult. But I have a proposal that might actually be able to get through. The obvious problem with reforming the Senate is that smaller states won't approve any major change, right? So any proposal to radically alter apportionment will fail. We have to look at something small-bore. So here's my proposal: take ten seats from the ten smallest states, and give them to the ten largest states.

You know who isn't surprised that a liberal can turn out to be racist? Liberals. Unlike the far left and right, we know that our group is imperfect and contains jerks and fools. That's our advantage. The far left and right prefer to lie about their own purity. When liberals turn out to be racist, liberals generally say, "Damn it, racist liberal, stop being a racist." What we don't do is say, "They weren't *really* a liberal." Racism is everywhere in America. Only way to get rid of it is to first understand that it's everywhere.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived...

https://twitter.com/rubycramer/status/1237153877306335235

... and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should...

For some reason, I'm thinking about the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and how it is the most ridiculous assassination story in history. As you undoubtedly know, the assassination of Ferdinand led to World War I, the most incomprehensibly foolish war in human history. But it almost didn't happen, and it really shouldn't have happened. It took incredible lapses of judgement to make it work.

One of the think the newbies don't get is that we actually have been screaming our heads off about global warming for the past thirty years. We've seen some movement when Democrats control things. We've moved backward when the GOP does. You aren't the first people to notice this. I remember when the Kyoto Protocol was first negotiated, kiddos. I remember when Bill Clinton tried to get Cap and Trade through the Senate in 1994, and the GOP blocked it -- and then hammered him with it all the way to election day. I remember when Nader kneecapped Gore in 2000.

I don't think people younger than about 30 really understand how far left the country has moved on LGBTQ issues in just their lifetimes. In 2004, George W. Bush barely won re-election. The strategy that pushed him over the top? Anti-Same-Sex-Marriage referenda in critical states, the brainchild of Karl Rove. The right turned out in droves to keep gay people from getting married, and gave Dubya a second term.