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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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There's no economic future for people without a college degree (and soon enough there'll be no economic future for anyone without a graduate degree), and the general trends of the modern economy are gradually pushing more and more people out of the middle class.
edited 22nd Nov '16 7:24:17 PM by CaptainCapsase
Dear American Press.
Please stop comparing Trump's "golden loft" with Versailles.
Having similar colors isn't sufficient ground to compare stuff.
You don't compare a beef stew cooked by one of the greatest chefs on the planet with a turd.
Sincerely,
France in its entirety.
edited 22nd Nov '16 7:25:58 PM by Julep
Perhaps I'm the only one who sees the issue that in the last century or so we're demanding further potential delays of workers because "Not enough specialized training".
Seems like something rife for imploding in on itself.
Also, 'Help us, Mitt Romney. You're our only hope,' is something I never thought I would find myself saying.
edited 22nd Nov '16 7:32:56 PM by Pseudopartition
Seriously, American public education is bad enough as it is. We do not need some zealous moron who couldn't even handle managing the school his daddy founded put in charge of it.
Mitt Romney is still wondering to himself about how ludicrous it is that his campaign was sunk by that 47% remark while Trump won despite...well, everything.
edited 22nd Nov '16 7:36:00 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised...this is going to end up being a massive problem in the long term isn't it?
Yes. They typically end in societal revolts and governments being overthrown.
Ditto the massive growing inequality gap.
Bad things typically happen when the economy becomes too lopsided for too long, and the Working/Middle Class feels they've been hosed for too long.
Such as electing a complete goofball like Trump to the Presidency.
edited 22nd Nov '16 7:35:54 PM by PotatoesRock
Cabinet appointments come from one of four categories: Agency careerists, experts, and two kinds of political appointments. The first kind is the "pipeline," where you give somebody's career a boost with a cabinet appointment, like Clinton with Sec State or like Castro with HUD, people who need to boost their resume for a future jump. The other kind is, well, charitably it could be the "lifetime achievement award," something you give to people who are never going to get elected to a higher office in their lives and are at the end of their careers.
That admission was contained in the Donald J. Trump Foundation’s IRS tax filings for 2015, which were recently posted online at the nonprofit-tracking site Guide Star. A Guide Star spokesman said the forms were uploaded by the Trump Foundation’s law firm, Morgan, Lewis and Bockius.
The Post could not immediately confirm if the same forms had actually been sent to the IRS.
In one section of the form, the IRS asked if the Trump Foundation had transferred “income or assets to a disqualified person.” A disqualified person, in this context, might be Trump — the foundation’s president — or a member of his family, or a Trump-owned business.
The foundation checked “yes.”
Another line on the form asked if the Trump Foundation had engaged in any acts of self-dealing in prior years. The Trump Foundation checked “yes” again. Philip Hackney, who formerly worked in the IRS chief counsel’s office and now teaches at Louisiana State University, said he wanted to know why the Trump Foundation was now admitting to self-dealing in prior years — when, in all prior years, it had told the IRS it had done nothing of the kind.
“What transactions led to the self-dealing that they’re admitting to? Why weren’t they able to recognize them in prior years,” Hackney said. He said that, since the prior years’ returns were signed by Trump, that opened the president-elect to questions about what he had missed and how.
The Trump Foundation admitted to corruption.
Well I leave for three minutes and the world's already ending. See this is why I don't follow 24 hour news, it just gets you into a constant state of fear and panic.
These are conversations that the Democratic Party (and liberals, yes even the independents, in general) NEEDS to be having right now. Whether the future lies in the center, further to the left, more like Obama, less like Obama, whatever the hell it may be it needs to happen, and fast. Unity was important when Hilary was literally the only viable option left, now not so much. We can afford to have these conversations now, while the Dems still have time to refocus a new strategy for 2017, 2018, and so on.
Anywho, the Republicans are all being forced to take some risky bets. Some folks already jumped ship with Trump when a Hilary victory seemed almost certain, to their own political suicides. So you either side with Trump and bask in the GOP golden age, or you stay in the backgrounds, hoping and praying that it all goes to hell so that you can swoop in for the 2024 nomination with a big serving of "I told you so".
As for the Falwell nom.... eh. Meh. He's shit, what else is new, but I can't quite see what exactly this means for the Dept. of Education. I highly, highly doubt that this would mean that middle schoolers in Massachusetts next year are going to open up their textbooks and read about how God created the universe in 6 days and that the dirty muslims are the reason for 90% of the problems throughout history. It's more likely a continuation of the whole "voucher" push from the religious base to save the struggling religious schools, an assurance that the states actually fucking up education (looking at you Texas) will get no reprimands for doing so, and just a general assurance that jackshit will be done in the department over the next 4 years, in keeping in line with the classic Republican policy of letting businesses run the government.
edited 22nd Nov '16 8:54:27 PM by MonsieurThenardier
"It is very easy to be kind; the difficulty lies in being just."![]()
The Trump campaign's strategy in a nutshell. The biggest lie of course being "Trump is more qualified to be POTUS than HRC." Sadly, it seems to have worked.
@ 157941 Draghinazzo
Stiffing contract workers counts as theft in my book too. Which I guess leaves murder...
edited 22nd Nov '16 8:13:33 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised

This election cycle seems like something that would look like the joint project between the writers of House of Cards and Veep. While on a bender.
Disgusted, but not surprised