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#661 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 354 weeks ago

Rather than reply to one of mitch's posts since they have more or less played out, I want to hear how people that support the minimum wage increase to $15 think it's going to play out.

Will the people making the new minimum wage be able to live comfortably on $15/hr?

What will happen to the people currently making $15/hr doing more skilled jobs?

I have more questions, but lets start with what should be the simple ones.  I am not an economist, but what the common sense take tells me is this will result in people making $15/hr living the same as people currently making minimum wage; people making more will effectively have less as they will not get raises to keep the pay gap where it is based on the skill required for their roles.  Essentially what this will do (in my opinion) is keep the poor poor and bring the middle class closer to the poor. I'd love to be wrong.  I'd love to hear how this will somehow make the poor become middle class with the change, but I have yet to hear one credible person say that.

By credible, I don't mean a politician (just for clarity's sake)...

#662 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 354 weeks ago

mitchejw wrote:
buzzsaw wrote:
mitchejw wrote:

Jesus Christ can Trump just shut the fuck up for one second.

I can’t believe some see him as a victim. At some point, when you pick a fight with anyone and everyone, people will retaliate.

Which came first...the chicken or the egg?

At some point (not today), I will go back and look at your other responses because I remember being surprised that you put some though into them.  This one?  Not so much.

You can probably save your take then.

Trump has been an entitled douche for half a century.

He has.  Most of that time he was a democrat though, so it was okay then.  Everyone knew it during the election cycle, and he won anyway.  Now some people would rather cry that he got elected by a bunch of racist, sexist white guys than admit that their candidate was just as flawed as he was (just in different ways).  They're so busy trying to point the finger at someone else so they can sleep better at night knowing that they did this to themselves and if they aren't careful history is going to repeat itself. The more they vilify the right, the more they rally them to the polls. Sure, they may not talk as loud, but they will show up. The Democrats are so splintered by the squad and their extreme leftist views that will never fly in this country that they are sabotaging their own chances at beating what should be a very beatable candidate. When the crazy people don't get their way (again), they will stay home pouting.

This just in: most rich people are entitled douches.  Most maybe not as publicly as the president, but does that somehow make it better?

#663 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 354 weeks ago

mitchejw wrote:

Jesus Christ can Trump just shut the fuck up for one second.

I can’t believe some see him as a victim. At some point, when you pick a fight with anyone and everyone, people will retaliate.

Which came first...the chicken or the egg?

At some point (not today), I will go back and look at your other responses because I remember being surprised that you put some though into them.  This one?  Not so much.

#664 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 355 weeks ago

Mitch calls people names, then cries about being called names.  Time for you to go snowflake

#665 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 355 weeks ago

mitchejw wrote:

My IRA is down 12 percent this year so yes Flagg...we are objectively better off aren’t we?

There’s a trillion dollar deficit too...did ya hear?

The tax cut objectively didn’t help any average person.

Did ya see Kim is shooting off more weapons? Objectively better.

Maybe you need to make better investment decisions...I'm up 11.86%

#666 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 355 weeks ago

misterID wrote:

Enough. Cut that shit out. Everyone can have a civil conversation/debate until you show up. I don't want to see you banned but I hate seeing the thread get mucked up. Knock it off.

At this point it seems he's trying to get himself banned because he can't stop himself.

#667 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 355 weeks ago

The local news summed up the testimony as nothing we didn't already know and nobody changed their mind on what they believed going into it based on the testimony.  Fair analysis? 

Irish, there's really one person that is involved with that with few exceptions. Sometimes he's spewing it, sometimes it's directed at him, but he's almost always involved. I've been all for removing the bad apple since his racist rant a couple weeks ago.

#668 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 355 weeks ago

The list keeps getting shorter...

#669 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 355 weeks ago

PaSnow wrote:

Mueller did this with an intention. To clear the record & his name. Barr's fucked.

Can we wait until he's done for the doom and gloom prediction?

#670 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 355 weeks ago

mitchejw wrote:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fbi-director … 20630.html

A-buh-buh-Buht whatta about those Muslims and those loud mouth women in Congress....

Only the white men can behave like this....MAGA!!!!

How many domestic terrorist events have there been since then?  Just curious.

If you're going to bitch about people supposedly being disingenuous, you can't follow it up with this.

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