What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[grumbler]

lol no the factory workers in Germany are not upper middle class.

lol argument by assertion.  How much do you think the average German industrial worker makes per year?  Don't cheat and look it up, just provide your "not upper-middle-class" guess.

And executive salaries are not cause to any failures of the system. They might be symptoms, but not a single worker's situation will get better just because their boss starts earning less.

Not sure if you intended this to be babble, or this was just accidental babble and you thought you were being profound, but, in any case, this is a total strawman argument.

[grumbler]

How about paying the workers more, then? That might make them better off.

Indeed.  Average German auto workers get the equivalent of US$67/hour, compared to the US $33/hr average, and yet Germany makes and sells twice as many cars as the US. https://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickallen/2011/12/21/germany-builds-twice-as-many-cars-as-the-u-s-while-paying-its-auto-workers-twice-as-much/#28dbc1396b78

[CountDeMoney]

The Institute for Policy Studies said the growing gap between rich and poor had created a "moral crisis".

And the moral of the crisis is:  you don't want to be poor?  Make more money.

This is a nice smoke screen to dismiss all societal issues.

This is Trump's America now, sweetheart.  You don't like it, make more money.

[Admiral Yi]

McConnell says Moore should withdraw.  Roy fires back McConnell should resign because he doesn't represent conservative values.

[grumbler]

McConnell says Moore should withdraw.  Roy fires back McConnell should resign because he doesn't represent conservative values.

I vote for meteor strike.

[Oexmelin]

This is Trump's America now, sweetheart.  You don't like it, make more money.

Remarkably similar... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Guizot

[Valmy]

This is Trump's America now, sweetheart.  You don't like it, make more money.

Remarkably similar... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Guizot

Well now that is just unfair. Guys like Blanc and Guizot get a pass for being wrong (for opposite reasons) since there was only a limited amount of evidence available at the time. Though I guess being compared to a guy whose ideas failed over 160 years ago is probably not a great thing

[The Minsky Moment]

This is Trump's America now, sweetheart.  You don't like it, make more money.

Remarkably similar... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Guizot

Guizot was an intelligent man and a scholar, he is miles above an ass like Trump.

[frunk]

This is Trump's America now, sweetheart.  You don't like it, make more money.

Remarkably similar... François_Guizot

Fixed link.

[Razgovory]

Remember, it's always the government's fault.  If the boss is extremely rich and the workers are poor it's because the boss bribed the government.

[Jacob]

So apparently the whole "14 year olds and 30 year old men" is not too uncommon with the hard evangelical set: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-brightbill-roy-moore-evangelical-culture-20171110-story.html

[11B4V]

McConnell says Moore should withdraw.  Roy fires back McConnell should resign because he doesn't represent conservative values.

Wasn't Moore pushed by Bannon?

[Admiral Yi]

Wasn't Moore pushed by Bannon?

Yup.

[The Larch]

So apparently the whole "14 year olds and 30 year old men" is not too uncommon with the hard evangelical set: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-brightbill-roy-moore-evangelical-culture-20171110-story.html

For some reason I started getting lately in my Youtube feed recommendations on news pieces covering the rather significant amount of underage marriages in the US, almost always in very conservative backgrounds. Let's see if I can find any of them...

[Admiral Yi]

I had figured it was mostly a Real(tm) Mormon thing.