Pete so far seems to be doubling-down on the benefits of parental leave rather than downplaying it and trying to defend how much he was working. May not be a bad strategy for his under-60 demographic.
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You could be right or he could just be a far left politician with a sense of entitlement who is happy to have others pay for his vaca. I have no use for him.
Just work. Go to ****ing work. It is what you are paid to do.
Parental leave has been and is a key plank of the Biden/Democrat/Progressive platform. I think there's some merit to seeing the administration putting its money where its mouth is.
Of course, what you have going on with the righties is them winking and smirking about the gay angle. See @stollcpa if you don't believe me.
Except if they don't get it done, it just looks like another example of the elites playing by different rules.
Where did I smirk? I said he’s off with whatever his person is. We don’t identify the gender correctly we’re in trouble too.
Imo Pete is a pos for drawing a $250k public salary and going on leave during a crisis after 8 months on the job. A total pos. Playing cute with gay inferences is uncool and detracts from that. You should stop stoll
FMLA is fine. Saddling the bill on employers for life choices isn't
This explains how someone as vile as Trump has as much support as he does. Likes attract.
I hear you brother and I'm not arguing against your point.
I do think, from a political standpoint, he can frame it and bring in the conservative core into it about how important family is, raising a child is the most important thing along with some 'there is never a good time to take leave and focus on your family' as a stigma that needs to be done away with....blah blah blah.
It's kind of hard to argue against family and kids in general politically (which it's obvious the first place politicians go to for evoking a response, ie the Qanon phenomenon).
Probably should. Taking pictures holding a baby person on a hospital bed like they gave birth is a little too much. Especially when person should have had person ass on the job in this crisis.
Of course we shouldn’t expect any Biden administration person to be present in a crisis. You know, like our Vice President person on the border.
I'm all for FMLA. I think you should have to be at the job for a certain period of time first and I don't think it should be paid. Use vaca/sick time whatever but your life choice shouldn't be an employer responsibility.
Pete pulled this so fast that without looking I don't think he'd even be eligible for FMLA if he wasn't a Fed ee.
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You persons can poke fun and throw insults. Never see you call out your persons
I sometimes wish this forum could just be a political gamesmanship forum because I find surfing the political ocean facinating.
Less 'how could you vote for that f#$kstick you dumbass' and more 'okay what's the endgame of that stance' and 'how will this person frame this'?
As a Pete guy, my first response was 'aw f#$k me, c'mon man really, this is such a dumb thing to get pulled into the shedder for. You seem to be a much better chess player than that'.
I thought his reaction was going to be 'I have been working, they are typically lying again, I'm a victim' but it's been doubling down on how important it is to be there for your child's first month, etc.
Then my dumbass realized, yeah this plays with suburbia as it pushes back on the whole conservative 'family values, non broken home' conservative value.
That's why he's a politician and I'm a loser on a political message board. Lol
You might be right. I think he just wanted to stay home. I think he got caught
We've already been over this. This isn't FMLA. Cabinet secretaries serve at the pleasure of the President. Any leave granted Pete, and the form that it comes in, is entirely up to Biden's discretion.
I understand that but who gives a shit. It mirrors FEPLA or whatever it's called, which is paid. Same thing. Not once did I say it's FMLA. learn to read. I used fmla for illustrative purposes
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The right play might have been: "You know, I have really good team/staff that have been all over this and this is what they've been doing . . ."
This thing you're doing now, though, it's below you. It's possible to be an ass without being an ass, if you know what I mean.
No, it's not below him. I used to think otherwise, but it can't be ignored. He'll go as low as he wants. He's unconstrained.
That makes sense then, since Joe has been MIA for most of his Presidency.
Hell, I doubt he knows Pete was even gone.
It gets tiresome. You persons get to determine what insults are okay here.
Clearly, we don't, since you keep insulting everyone and their brother, and no one does anything about it, other than calling you an "ass."
I kindof wonder if we should, and if it's even possible to adopt a discord agreement like they have for congress.
No one is allowed to call anyone personal insults when speaking on the floor....helps keep the fiery rhetoric to the discussion.
I've gone full bore asshole several times in the past couple of weeks (where I'm just trying to offend the poster) and I've noticed that some even keeled posters are losing their shit lately (like COH telling TMP to suck his balls, which made me laugh admittingly).
Well we tried for a while but no moderator or even 3 moderators can be on here all the time to delete name calling and we shouldn't have to be if people would act like adults.
Paid parental leave is for those without huge responsibilities. Do you think Stoll could take parental leave during tax season? Do you think an ER doc in a rural area can take parental leave and have the ER short staffed? Boots takes paid leave during a huge transportation bottleneck yet he goes on a junket to Scotland for a climate “summit”. His priorities are messed up. He was mayor of a two-bit declining town and now he is secretary of transportation because he is a climate advocate. He has no clue about his job beyond talking about how complicated it is on TV.
The transportation secretary doesn’t need to be on paid leave in a crisis. I guess he’d take paid leave as President too.
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