Wisconsin

[ajaxlepinski]

2 words for you Rubato, Trump Foundation

Let's put it this way fretless -

If the Dems take the house you'll have Maxine Waters in charge of finance.

Just look at the retail earnings reports -
The CEO of Target has never in his career seen an environment like this.
Walmart posted a number that no one thought they could post again.
This morning The Children's Place had their highest same store comp in history and it's all being driven by the people hitting the streets, leaving their houses.
Trump's 5-10 billion dollars in regulatory offset.

Sales are up at Target and Walmart? That only means, less and less people can afford to shop elsewhere.
Not so sure that's a good thing.
That's like saying, "Good news! Bullet sales are up! Unfortunately, it's because more people are committing suicide but hey, sales ARE up! Wooo hoooo!".
Growth may be higher than expected but, it doesn't look like the profits are trickling down... especially, with Target and Walmart sales going up.

Why would the Dems put Maxine Waters in charge of Finance?
What does that mean anyway... "to be "put in charge of Fiance"?
Do you mean that she would take over Steven Mnuchin's job as head of the Treasury? That's highly unlikely.
She once served on the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities and Investment but, I don't think that would qualify her to be "put in charge of Fiance".
She only has a bachelors degree in Sociology; the whole concept sounds like hot air, meant to scare the Trump voter base.


Not for nothing but, Americans need to get our collective heads out of our asses. We need to be more like Europeans. Even the Australians are doing better than the USA.
I mean, we're #18 on the corruption scale FFS!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruptio ... ions_Index
God help us if Trump gets elected to a second term. The second term is when all the REAL thieving takes place and the lobby money flows like the mighty Mississippi.

[lester]

Are you familiar with Jeb Hensarling?

[ajaxlepinski]

Are you trying to say that, Maxine Waters will take over Jeb Hensarling's postion as Chair of The House Committee on Financial Services?
That would only be a teeny weeny bit better than making Ben Carson the Secretary of Housing & Urban Development or, making Betsy DeVos Secretary of Education.
At least, Maxine has served in government.
Still, I can't see her being offered any Secretarial positions. If that's what you're alluding to, what makes you think she would get the job?

Oh, and by the way, Sears and K Mart have been closing stores all over the country... another reason for Target and Walmart sales going up.

[lester]

gatdamn

He's a wise ol' owl.

'Cept bring back Dave I need some help round here.

[ajaxlepinski]

Nah, it's all good, Lester.

Both sides of the aisle bullshit way too much; they purposefully make it tough for the public to figure out what's really going on.
They fudge statistics in their favor, they lie to pass legislation to get corporate "donations" and they spend way too much time out of the office.
For example, and hear me out...
Al Gore had some valid proof that Global Warming was real but, he also fudged his statistics to make it look worse than it was.
Whether or not you believe Global Warming exists or if it is man-made or not, fudging the statistics was totally unnecessary and in the end, it cost Al any credibility that he had.
Politicians are all dishonest creeps. But, some are more dishonest and creepier than others.
It's the job of investigative journalism to help keep politicians honest. So, anyone who claims that press is 'the enemy of the state' is definitely trying to get away with something.

[Noah]

Fucking Al Gore. I really hate that guy. Total hypocrite, preaching to us about poverty lifestyles while he lives in giant mansions leaving brontosaurus-sized carbon footprints all over the place. I hope someone stabs him in the chest with a plastic straw or he chokes on a helium balloon.

And about all this Trump stuff, it's still just as much nonsense as it ever was. All you sad cucks missing out on one of the greatest economic booms ever need to quit griping and figure out how to cash in. Even total fucking morons like Gore are rich and happy right now. Don't be like the losers in the media, full of bitterness and schadenfreude. It's never too late to change paths, choose to be positive and win.

[sleewell]

note the source before spouting fake news. pretty funny. sad.

ObamaCare is more popular than GOP tax cuts: Fox News poll

https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/5826045 ... show-clips

[Noah]

note the source before spouting fake news. pretty funny. sad.

ObamaCare is more popular than GOP tax cuts: Fox News poll

haha yes it's so wonderful that Obama care foisted higher insurance costs on 20-somethings to subsidize old fuckers who never had to do the same thing when they were younger. How we didn't fuck up GenX enough with this feed the oldsters nonsense so we have to double down and hit Y and Millenials twice as hard. Better yet, we figured out if we keep them in school until they are thirty years old we can brainwash the shit out of them.

hey dummies, pay hire taxes because you need a huge bloated bureaucracy running your lives. That's just how modern countries are supposed to run. Now pay up, little morons. Baby boomers need it to maintain their vacation houses.

[Ry Manchu]

Write this moment down. Wayne is talking sense.

[Sasquatch]

haha yes it's so wonderful that Obama care foisted higher insurance costs on 20-somethings to subsidize old fuckers who never had to do the same thing when they were younger. How we didn't fuck up GenX enough with this feed the oldsters nonsense so we have to double down and hit Y and Millenials twice as hard. Better yet, we figured out if we keep them in school until they are thirty years old we can brainwash the shit out of them.

hey dummies, pay hire taxes because you need a huge bloated bureaucracy running your lives. That's just how modern countries are supposed to run. Now pay up, little morons. Baby boomers need it to maintain their vacation houses.

[ajaxlepinski]

"schadenfreude"??? Had to look that one up. Wayne, you're expanding my vocabulary!

[Noah]

Lisa Simpson taught me that word.

[exafro]

note the source before spouting fake news. pretty funny. sad.

ObamaCare is more popular than GOP tax cuts: Fox News poll

haha yes it's so wonderful that Obama care foisted higher insurance costs on 20-somethings to subsidize old fuckers who never had to do the same thing when they were younger. How we didn't fuck up GenX enough with this feed the oldsters nonsense so we have to double down and hit Y and Millenials twice as hard. Better yet, we figured out if we keep them in school until they are thirty years old we can brainwash the shit out of them.

hey dummies, pay hire taxes because you need a huge bloated bureaucracy running your lives. That's just how modern countries are supposed to run. Now pay up, little morons. Baby boomers need it to maintain their vacation houses.

Obamacare didn't magically do away with Medicare so we are going to have to pay for all the old people anyway. If you ask most people my age I think we'd rather pay for the ACA than a physical border wall, endless wars, wunderwaffes or tax cuts that are only going to exacerbate income inequality.

[ajaxlepinski]

Lisa Simpson taught me that word.

Fucking brilliant!!!

If only everyone were more like Lisa Simpson...

[ajaxlepinski]

Online test: Who said it... John Gotti or Donald Trump? I got 15 out of 17 wooo hoooo!
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/201 ... -quiz.html

[Noah]

note the source before spouting fake news. pretty funny. sad.

ObamaCare is more popular than GOP tax cuts: Fox News poll

haha yes it's so wonderful that Obama care foisted higher insurance costs on 20-somethings to subsidize old fuckers who never had to do the same thing when they were younger. How we didn't fuck up GenX enough with this feed the oldsters nonsense so we have to double down and hit Y and Millenials twice as hard. Better yet, we figured out if we keep them in school until they are thirty years old we can brainwash the shit out of them.

hey dummies, pay hire taxes because you need a huge bloated bureaucracy running your lives. That's just how modern countries are supposed to run. Now pay up, little morons. Baby boomers need it to maintain their vacation houses.

Obamacare didn't magically do away with Medicare so we are going to have to pay for all the old people anyway. If you ask most people my age I think we'd rather pay for the ACA than a physical border wall, endless wars, wunderwaffes or tax cuts that are only going to exacerbate income inequality.

Don't be dumb. Preexisting condition rules favor irresponsible procrastinator fucks, ie the baby boomer generation.

[exafro]

What's with your baby boomer hard on?

[ajaxlepinski]

Gen X'ers like to blame the Boomers for everything that's wrong in the world.

Funny thing is, Gen X'ers will have to rely on Millennials for their old age care.

[Noah]

Boomers continually use govt for massive wealth redistribution yet claim to be independent and more industrious. Eg changing health laws to raise premiums on most while lowering them on the old and sick. Requiring cable providers to carry dumb channels no one wants. Building roads to their mcmansions while letting urban infrastructure crumble. Giving themselves property tax relief to stay in those huge homes while young families shoulder the burden. Greedy af. I have more respect for the laziest millenial living in moms basement than i do some pensioned boomer fuck who worked 9 to 5 until he was 63 and now thinks he is owed everything. They still control politics hence the ridiculous discourse as we are forced to cater to their dated and paranoid wordviews. They control the capital too, taking advantage of a system that makes it so that barely functional dotards earn orders of magnitude more than young hustlers.

[Ry Manchu]

Wayne, it looks like we've finally found something on which we completely agree.

[ajaxlepinski]

Unfortunately, I also agree with Wayne's points... with one exception,; the boomers weren't responsible for creating the Health Care debacle...
Nixon, Erlichman and Edgar Kaiser (none of whom were boomers) planted that turd back in the early 70's. The Boomer politicians simply allowed the turd to grow and reaped millions in quid pro quo kickbacks.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Transcri ... hman_(1971)_that_led_to_the_HMO_act_of_1973:

The YUPPIE movement can be blamed for everything else. I single out, Michael J. Fox for promoting the Yuppie zeitgeist. Fox's character on the TV show, Family Ties was the role model for hundreds-of-thousands of evil, money grubbing wannabes. Die Yuppie scum!!!

In addition.... while the Boomers didn't invent the computer, they made computers less expensive with disastrous results:
Cheap computers put millions on the unemployment line, taking jobs away in just about every industry including (but, not limited to) printing, banking, accounting services, communications, messenger services and manufacturing. Boomer bastards!!!

[Sasquatch]

Boomers continually use govt for massive wealth redistribution yet claim to be independent and more industrious. Eg changing health laws to raise premiums on most while lowering them on the old and sick. Requiring cable providers to carry dumb channels no one wants. Building roads to their mcmansions while letting urban infrastructure crumble. Giving themselves property tax relief to stay in those huge homes while young families shoulder the burden. Greedy af. I have more respect for the laziest millenial living in moms basement than i do some pensioned boomer fuck who worked 9 to 5 until he was 63 and now thinks he is owed everything. They still control politics hence the ridiculous discourse as we are forced to cater to their dated and paranoid wordviews. They control the capital too, taking advantage of a system that makes it so that barely functional dotards earn orders of magnitude more than young hustlers.

Nail. Meet. Hammer.

[clipless bumper]

........I have more respect for the laziest millenial living in moms basement than i do some pensioned boomer fuck who worked 9 to 5 until he was 63 and now thinks he is owed everything.......

More respect for the laziest! millennial than some who worked there entire life, and retired as was their goal all along??!?!?

I can't agree with that at all.

Not sure where you are getting the 'entitled to everything' aspect of it either.

[ajaxlepinski]

We need a war to thin the heard and sober people up. Then, we give the Millennials a shot at running things.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJAlIHsXcLY[/video] We can start in New Jersey.

[Noah]

Wayne, it looks like we've finally found something on which we completely agree.

Awesome.

Nail. Meet. Hammer.

Mark it down. First time two people completely agreed with me.

Unfortunately, I also agree with Wayne's points... with one exception,; the boomers weren't responsible for creating the Health Care debacle... Nixon, Erlichman and Edgar Kaiser (none of whom were boomers) planted that turd back in the early 70's. The Boomer politicians simply allowed the turd to grow and reaped millions in quid pro quo kickbacks.

History 1945-1980 is so boring. Nobody cares. It's lame like 1865-1898.

The YUPPIE movement can be blamed for everything else. I single out, Michael J. Fox for promoting the Yuppie zeitgeist. Fox's character on the TV show, Family Ties was the role model for hundreds-of-thousands of evil, money grubbing wannabes. Die Yuppie scum!!!In addition.... while the Boomers didn't invent the computer, they made computers less expensive with disastrous results:Cheap computers put millions on the unemployment line, taking jobs away in just about every industry including (but, not limited to) printing, banking, accounting services, communications, messenger services and manufacturing. Boomer bastards!!!

Alex P. Keaton was awesome. Annoying kid in a swivel chair learning how to make gzillions of dollars jacking around on a home computer. YES PLEASE!

I share some of your reservations about computers. It kind of sucks for humans to be reduced to meaty appendages whose only purpose is to feed and maintain the machines. OTOH, with low birthrates there are not enough kids willing to do the kind of repetitive work like answering phones, interacting with the public, and turning lights on and off. They'd rather do the kind of repetitive work we pay well for, which is answering emails, writing up tedious crap that nobody wants to read, and sitting in pointless meetings with the same small groups of coworkers.