After the George Floyd incident and the BLM torch fest on Minneapolis, my woke company held mandatory meetings about BLM and we were told that saying “All Lives Matter” would be a code of conduct violation.
Just rode through there a couple of weeks ago on a 3-week Rockies motorcycle tour and Jackson was PACKED - total traffic jam getting through that town. We went over the pass and stayed in Idaho Falls instead.
I grew up along the border in the Rio Grande Valley, so I’m getting a kick out of these replies. Truth is the Valley is the most deep blue of areas in the state - more deep blue even than Austin. It’s been a Democratic bastion for decades. There’s no way Trump will get that land without really extensive litigation.
I do a fair amount of international travel in my job. I can tell you from personal experience that the American whiskey’s in places such as Cape Town, Jakarta, and Istanbul for example are much more expensive and as such you can usually find them untouched at international bars and thus full of good American spirits.
A company I consult with moved their IT group out of the plush, modern corporate offices into WeWork cubes, and moved others into their former space. Subsequent IT group attrition rate was dramatic and the company is still struggling to replace some very good people.
Was very cool to be able to go out there into the Sunda Strait and see the remains of Krakatoa and the new island coming up. Was sad to me that even where the newest of land is coming up virgin from the sea it is immediately smothered in garbage.
Sadly it wasn’t just Anak Krakatoa surrounded by rubbish. Everywhere I went around Jakarta and surroundings the people just pile up rubbish and even burn it in fires along the roadsides.