Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cryptoengineer Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 16:24:13 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 65 Message-ID: References: <8ehfhj9jphf08ssafje6l45ugf8dd4gjub@4ax.com> <7tjuhj1allinjn37bcb495hss9jmt624qj@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 21:24:14 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e5bbb41e9c97af5d9cbe068ab5f5be90"; logging-data="1799742"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX187s5NP1+3HR8dyhmYMJmfCJyryFkKDR58=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:HYujVFnosYGU4XJWQa8GcGkmULY= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4880 On 10/29/2024 11:10 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote: > Lynn McGuire writes: >> On 10/28/2024 9:59 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote: >>> On 10/28/2024 7:26 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote: >>>> On 10/28/24 01:49, The Horny Goat wrote: >>>>> On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 18:16:03 -0700, Bobbie Sellers >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>     Harris is not trash but an elected Vice President who did >>>>>> everything >>>>>> asked of her by her President. Now she is running at >>>>>> his instigation since her policies will aline more with his than >>>>>> most others. She served as Attorney-General to the State of California >>>>>> which is bigger than Autearoa both in population and surface area. >>>>> >>>>> I dunno - judging by his behalf since July it seems almost certain >>>>> Biden was pushed, he didn't leap off himself. There have been all >>>>> sorts of stories to the effect that Obama and Clinton told him >>>>> contributors wouldn't contribute if he was on the ballot after that >>>>> catastrophic first debate but nobody's saying anything for sure - but >>>>> no question any time Biden has appeared on camera he seemed grumpy >>>>> about not leading the ticket. >>>> >>>>      I sent him a note asking him to stay as a candidate since >>>> he is slightly younger than myself and he has done a great job. He >>>> was pressured into resigning his candidacy by people like Nancy >>>> Pelosi. I don;t think the people putting the pressure on Biden >>>> were the people choosing Harris. She was Biden;s choice out of >>>> all the other prospective candidates in 2020 and the American >>>> people voted them into offie. >>>> >>>>      last night after i finished my note to the fellow in >>>> Anteroa(?) shut down my computer and went to bed I realized >>>> that the slurs on Biden he repeated were certainly Trumpite >>>> but from the Putin wing of the Republican Party. Several of >>>> the people riding on Trump's coat tails like Hauley and >>>> MTG are simply following the Putin line ofstructing aid >>>> to the Ukraine on specious grounds. Obstructing the bill >>>> to enhance border security so that the Border Patrol >>>> does not get the new officers it needs badly to do its >>>> Duty properly. Of course when the undocumented persons >>>> are in the USA it is largely Republicans who exploit their >>>> labor as Trump himself has done in the past. >>>> >>> Anyone who has done a honest study on illegal immigration in the US has >>> concluded that the American economy is DEPENDENT on the labor of >>> illegals.  Our economy would crash without them. >> >> Nice try, nope. Illegal immigrants allow employers to cut the salaries >> of legal USA citizens. I have seen it done many times in the >> engineering industry, especially software engineering. > > As the old saying goes, 'one swallow doesn't make a summer'. > > There are very few, if any, illegal immigrants in the software engineering > field. There are a lot of legal immigrants in the software > engineering field, and federal law requires they be paid > the same as domestic engineers. Just having a larger pool of workers for the same number of jobs depresses market wages. pt