Politics And Current Events

[Freddy Rumsen]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 7168071680

[count2infinity]

He really is a man-child. Wow.

[Freddy Rumsen]

Just think, he tweeted that at 8:21am. It is well known he gets up at 4:00am.

He was awake, ate breakfast, did Donald stuff, read the papers.

Then tweeted that.

My word.

[Freddy Rumsen]

Also, this made me chuckle "Downtown Arkansas".

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/881252346512257024

[columbia]

[MWB]

https://twitter.com/cillizzacnn/status/ ... 6877970434

[Freddy Rumsen]

https://twitter.com/SecTreHargett/statu ... 3894973440

[Trip McNeely]

I know it's said half heartedly, but are people concerned that Trump has literally gone insane? This stuff is nuts even for him

[count2infinity]

We're not supposed to be concerned, nor focus on his tweets. Are they official statements from the president? Apparently yes. But saying that he's insane is apparently not kosher.

meowshrug.txt™

[shafnutz05]

https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/stat ... 1015751680

[columbia]

Everyone in the family is 12.

[count2infinity]

I still think it's funny that Trump (the Trumps?) calls anything "Fake News"... stack up the lies of CNN vs the lies of the Trump administration. I don't know for certain, but if I were a betting man, I'd put my money on the Trump admin having roughly 3-5x more lies that they've put out there over CNN.

Edit: not to mention the fact that I believe CNN let those reports go after it was found that their story was wrong/fake. Can we do the same with the Trump admin?

[Freddy Rumsen]

https://twitter.com/FiveThirtyEight/sta ... 3528815617

[MWB]

In Trump's mind, his popularity is rising. So there is no reason for him to pull back. He'll just keep pushing the limits.

[grunthy]

https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/stat ... 1015751680

Apparently he didn't get the reason for using the wrestling gif... lol

[shafnutz05]

https://twitter.com/FiveThirtyEight/sta ... 3528815617

New research released Monday by a team of economists at the University of Washington suggests the wage hike may have come at a significant cost: The increase led to steep declines in employment for low-wage workers, and a drop in hours for those who kept their jobs. Crucially, the negative impact of lost jobs and hours more than offset the benefits of higher wages — on average, low-wage workers earned $125 per month less because of the higher wage, a small but significant decline.

“The goal of this policy was to deliver higher incomes to people who were struggling to make ends meet in the city,” said Jacob Vigdor, a University of Washington economist who was one of the study’s authors. “You’ve got to watch out because at some point you run the risk of harming the people you set out to help.”

Gee, who didn't see this coming?

[mikey]

Anyone with even an insignificant amount of intelligence could have easily predicted that...federal wage fixing hurts unskilled workers...

[mikey]

Re: Trump. As someone who went through the election season unconcerned (and therefore branded, hilariously, as a suporter), I will say, his conduct has been worse than I imagined...I figured his victory speech was the turning point, but it ended up - to date - being his elocutionary peak...

I'm not sure what has actually happened in terms "omg, this effects everyone negatively forever or for X amount of time", but yeah, it's been more of a **** show than I anticipated, to be honest...

[count2infinity]

Re: Trump. As someone who went through the election season unconcerned (and therefore branded, hilariously, as a suporter), I will say, his conduct has been worse than I imagined...I figured his victory speech was the turning point, but it ended up - to date - being his elocutionary peak...

I'm not sure what has actually happened in terms "omg, this effects everyone negatively forever or for X amount of time", but yeah, it's been more of a **** show than I anticipated, to be honest...

Congrats. You have been promoted to "Not a Trump supporter". You can contact VLB, Eddysnake, or myself for your membership details including special offers from Whole Foods Market!

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

https://twitter.com/adamgendreau/status ... 6075532288

[Gaucho]

What is the 25th amendment?

[tifosi77]

I still think it's funny that Trump (the Trumps?) calls anything "Fake News"... stack up the lies of CNN vs the lies of the Trump administration. I don't know for certain, but if I were a betting man, I'd put my money on the Trump admin having roughly 3-5x more lies that they've put out there over CNN.

Edit: not to mention the fact that I believe CNN let those reports go after it was found that their story was wrong/fake. Can we do the same with the Trump admin?

NYT compiled all of Trump's lies since taking office into a visual aid. For some reason, all the graphics don't copy, dark orange boxes are days he told at least one public lie, light orange boxes are days he stated a public falsehood. The highlight box in March is the first day of his administration that he did not utter a public untruth.

All the President’s Lies

Public lie.....................Public untruth.................Neither


As you can see from the graph, he has yet to compile 30 days of not spewing fake sht at the world.

[tifosi77]

NP in the ten days leading up to yesterday evening: One post in this thread.

NP the two hours after black people get mass shooty: Three posts ITT regarding shooting.

[tifosi77]

https://twitter.com/FiveThirtyEight/sta ... 3528815617

New research released Monday by a team of economists at the University of Washington suggests the wage hike may have come at a significant cost: The increase led to steep declines in employment for low-wage workers, and a drop in hours for those who kept their jobs. Crucially, the negative impact of lost jobs and hours more than offset the benefits of higher wages — on average, low-wage workers earned $125 per month less because of the higher wage, a small but significant decline.

“The goal of this policy was to deliver higher incomes to people who were struggling to make ends meet in the city,” said Jacob Vigdor, a University of Washington economist who was one of the study’s authors. “You’ve got to watch out because at some point you run the risk of harming the people you set out to help.”

Gee, who didn't see this coming?

The study omitted employers with multiple locations. So minimum wage workers at places like Target or Walgreens, and certainly employees of fast food chains, were not captured in this data. All told, that means 40% of Seattle's minimum wage labor force was not analyzed in this research.

[tifosi77]

What is the 25th amendment?

It's complicated, but it's a feature of our Constitution that empowers the Vice President (with the support of a majority of Cabinet secretaries) to basically stage a legal coup if they feel the president is "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office". In a way, I think this would be a far worse outcome than impeachment or even resignation.