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Post by Gene on Aug 4, 2016 12:59:39 GMT -5
I'm just going to leave this here.
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Post by the4thpip on Aug 7, 2016 10:24:45 GMT -5
Trump is far to narcissistic to ever contemplate he could lose, much less admit it. He won't quit the ticket because he can't believe he can lose. What he is doing, is already prepping the "stolen election" mantra. Didn't he fire the last lackey who suggested that he is not winning this election?
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 7, 2016 11:10:38 GMT -5
Trump is far to narcissistic to ever contemplate he could lose, much less admit it. He won't quit the ticket because he can't believe he can lose. What he is doing, is already prepping the "stolen election" mantra. Didn't he fire the last lackey who suggested that he is not winning this election? We all look forward to the day Trump is shown the door himself and every newspaper in America has "YOU'RE FIRED" on page one.
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 7, 2016 15:42:30 GMT -5
I kind of want to see the shrieking man-baby elected so I can call him The Hallucinator-in-Chief. But I will probably be beaten to death by the Trump Cult or hauled away to the Trump Re-Education Center in Provo.
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 8, 2016 12:35:10 GMT -5
^^^^^^ made me LOL
I still think Trump is more running to get Hillary elected, and if he accidently gets elected, then that's alright too.
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 8, 2016 14:23:30 GMT -5
I've been making fun of Trump (and his supporters) a lot on my Facebook page lately. For a few days, I had a few fans of the delusional man-baby leaving comments. Mostly tone-trolling ... because we know how much Trump supporters like to keep things civil. But there was also a guy I know from high school trying to blame the media for the public's dismal perception of the screaming narcissistic man-baby. I think I made my point about how obviously delusional that is because there has been no pushback. And they've stopped commenting. I think their enthusiasm is waning. Trump has gotten so bad that even the dingdongs that have followed him this far are starting to have second thoughts.
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Post by Gene on Aug 9, 2016 8:58:33 GMT -5
Trump's tax plan puts everyone into one of three brackets based on income. The lowest earners will see an increase from 10% to 12% and the middle class will see an increase from 20% to 25%. I don't think I need to tell you how this affects the top bracket.
Edit: These rate increases are up from his previous proposal, not the current rates. My mistake.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2016 9:00:22 GMT -5
I've been making fun of Trump (and his supporters) a lot on my Facebook page lately. For a few days, I had a few fans of the delusional man-baby leaving comments. Mostly tone-trolling ... because we know how much Trump supporters like to keep things civil. But there was also a guy I know from high school trying to blame the media for the public's dismal perception of the screaming narcissistic man-baby. I think I made my point about how obviously delusional that is because there has been no pushback. And they've stopped commenting. I think their enthusiasm is waning. Trump has gotten so bad that even the dingdongs that have followed him this far are starting to have second thoughts.Yep. Most of the political discourse I see & occasionally participate in occurs on the "Off-Topic: Politics" thread at Baseball Think Factory. Over the last couple of weeks the pro-Trump commenters (some of whom are far more anti-Clinton than pro-Trump, but still) have been peeling away, one by one. Three or four are left, but more than that have given up & left.
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 9, 2016 9:24:16 GMT -5
Trump's tax plan puts everyone into one of three brackets based on income. The lowest earners will see an increase from 10% to 12% and the middle class will see an increase from 20% to 25%. I don't think I need to tell you how this affects the top bracket. Isn't that the same plan that put Paul Ryan into the vice president's chair?
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Post by The Captain on Aug 9, 2016 9:58:29 GMT -5
Trump's tax plan puts everyone into one of three brackets based on income. The lowest earners will see an increase from 10% to 12% and the middle class will see an increase from 20% to 25%. I don't think I need to tell you how this affects the top bracket. But the top earners need that money, because they're the ones that put it back into the companies they own by hiring folks and increasing orders from other companies. There's no way they would just take that money and hoard it or put it offshore somewhere, because that's not how trickle-down economics work.
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 9, 2016 10:03:16 GMT -5
Trump's tax plan puts everyone into one of three brackets based on income. The lowest earners will see an increase from 10% to 12% and the middle class will see an increase from 20% to 25%. I don't think I need to tell you how this affects the top bracket. But the top earners need that money, because they're the ones that put it back into the companies they own by hiring folks and increasing orders from other companies. There's no way they would just take that money and hoard it or put it offshore somewhere, because that's not how trickle-down economics work. As anyone would realize if they had been paying attention during the Reagan years. Plus, trickling is good for building character among the working class.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Aug 9, 2016 15:38:28 GMT -5
But the top earners need that money, because they're the ones that put it back into the companies they own by hiring folks and increasing orders from other companies. There's no way they would just take that money and hoard it or put it offshore somewhere, because that's not how trickle-down economics work. As anyone would realize if they had been paying attention during the Reagan years. Plus, trickling is good for building character among the working class. It was sadly amusing how this entire theory of "trickle down economics" so completely ignored all the facts of human nature. Much like "communism".
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2016 15:59:10 GMT -5
As anyone would realize if they had been paying attention during the Reagan years. Plus, trickling is good for building character among the working class. It was sadly amusing how this entire theory of "trickle down economics" so completely ignored all the facts of human nature. Much like "communism". And ... uh ... "Christianity." Which of course when applied per the New Testament includes elements of communism. Or rather is supposed to.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Aug 9, 2016 16:32:21 GMT -5
It was sadly amusing how this entire theory of "trickle down economics" so completely ignored all the facts of human nature. Much like "communism". And ... uh ... "Christianity." Which of course when applied per the New Testament includes elements of communism. Or rather is supposed to. There is some truth to that. However, ideally the focus of Christianity (and other religions) is on admitting the deficits of human nature and to try to improve on them. The other examples just ignore that those deficits exist and pretend that the plans will still work anyways.
In the case of "trickle down", they assume the rich won't be greedy and just keep the money, but will selflessly reinvest to improve the lot of the common man. Which obviously didn't happen.
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 9, 2016 16:43:06 GMT -5
Liberalism understands that left to their own devices, and given the slightest opportunity, people will act in their own self-interest, and thus restictions are needed to keep such behavior in check.
Conservatism pretends that left to their own devices, and given the slightest opportunity, people will act in the interest of others, and thus no restrictions are needed.
Liberalism may be more Christian than conservatives think it is.
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