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I read Elon Musk's email to Twitter employees.

It did not say something to the effect of: you all are actually going to start working full-time (i.e. 40 hours a week) instead of the loafing that I think you're doing. The words he used were "long hours," which absolutely does not imply anywhere near the same thing.

But sure enough, Fox News pulls the whole spiel of how people are just lazy and entitled and more to that effect in response to the mass resignation of Twitter employees over that. I do the same thing with BOTH parties: I listen to exactly what they say or don't say, not just their opposition's portrayal of them.

There is just no way the party is going to make a real comeback with such a willfully distorted picture.

They slog on the same kind of thing for people with college debts who were only trying to do the same entry into careers that their parents did, but had to pay multiple times the same amount of money for the same thing. Herschel Walker was pressed about what he would do about the tuition costs issue, and he said that he'd cut funding if colleges raise their prices. and that's the first time I can think of that a republican showed the slightest thought of a solution in policy for such an issue that was making victims out of people -- again, many who were only trying to do the SAME thing that their parents could do at a fraction of the cost (even adjusted for inflation).

If Democrats' solutions are bad, we have Republicans to blame for not even acknowledging the problem in the first place. Their general reputation of "blame the victim" is well-deserved, just adding insults to injuries.

Leave it to the Dems to propose an unconstitutional solution  to the tuition thing. Well played by the Dems who knew their solution was unconstitutional but floated it anyway for getting votes.

No the significant evil was to play on people’s troubles with an unconstitutional solution they knew would ‘t fly. My hat is off to the evil Democrats through. The GOP would never get away with such.  A solution is probably all those colleges to quit competing for students in offering amenities. Good grief my alma mater barely had a weight room for intramurals at all, and the handball courts were outdoor with cinder block walls and chicken wire ceilings.  Now they have a domed facility with 10 fancy glass fronted indoor racketball courts and several thousand square feet of weight facilities. I think a water park with a lazy river is planned! Way too much competition in creature comforts rather than trying to keep tuition affordable. You bring up a valid issue. I wonder if the solution is solveable via legislation? Or if the issue is society is way too materialistic? Amenities cost money and must be offset by higher tuition. Maybe more “spartan” accommodations is a good beginning.

There is no political solution in my opinion

And here I thought the Repubs were supposed to be conservatives. 

My dictionary defines a "conservative" as someone who is either trying to maintain the status quo or revert back to an earlier status quo; and a "liberal" as one who is trying to change the status quo.

The former status quo was a truly free market system.  Not trying to control prices or services/ let the market do that. 
Also the former status quo was 8-12 hours of nose to the grindstone work every day, at least 5 days a week if not more. For my first 20 years in the workforce I routinely worked 55-60 hours a week and "time off" for vacations was strictly discouraged. You were given a 2 week paycheck annually for "vacation" but have fun trying to schedule any time off.  There was no paid sick leave.

I see Musk as just another liberal rich guy.

Musk doesn't want to pay for people to sit on their butts like they did at Twitter.  Can't make money that way.  Liberal or not, rich guys don't stay rich by having slacker employees. 

I am encouraging my son to go into trades.  Locally, IBEW is paying kids to learn.

And here I thought the Repubs were supposed to be conservatives. 

My dictionary defines a "conservative" as someone who is either trying to maintain the status quo or revert back to an earlier status quo; and a "liberal" as one who is trying to change the status quo.

The former status quo was a truly free market system.  Not trying to control prices or services/ let the market do that. 
Also the former status quo was 8-12 hours of nose to the grindstone work every day, at least 5 days a week if not more. For my first 20 years in the workforce I routinely worked 55-60 hours a week and "time off" for vacations was strictly discouraged. You were given a 2 week paycheck annually for "vacation" but have fun trying to schedule any time off.  There was no paid sick leave.

I see Musk as just another liberal rich guy.

You have a point Jaime. I apologize. I'm generally meaning to adjust my tone, and as you can see, I blew it this time.

The IBEW is terrific, tbh.

Here in Arizona, Linemen make something like $100-200K a year.  That's a job you can only get through the IBEW.  A lot of hours during storm season, hard work.

Another spectacular rant about absolutely nothing to do with what's said: WHAT did Republicans EVER do as far as campaigning on a solution to multiplying tuition costs within the decades that it happened?

Unions are fascist, not communist. 

The two things are related, in that they both formed at about the same time, in order to address the same problem (the oppression of workers during the Industrial Revolution).  They are not the same.  Two different solutions to the same problem.

Jarrod