New From Keith Olbermann: Could Donald Trump Pass a Sanity Test?
With all that we’re seeing, the question is worth raising.
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“Have you heard of Susan B. Anthony?” the president asked a group of women today at the White House.
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) March 29, 2017
Translation: @realDonaldTrump just learned about her this morning. https://t.co/AZDbh57q9U
— Franklin (@franklinftw) March 29, 2017
Trump: “Have you heard of Susan B. Anthony?” pic.twitter.com/cIYRNI8nS6
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 29, 2017
“Have you heard of Susan B. Anthony?” the president asked a group of women today at the White House.
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) March 29, 2017
Stay tuned as @realDonaldTrump mansplains the Women’s Suffrage movement to a group at a Women’s Empowerment event. https://t.co/AZDbh57q9U
— Franklin (@franklinftw) March 29, 2017
re: #2 Franklin
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NYT article today:
Nearly 100 newly found letters from Susan B. Anthony and others shed fresh light on the women’s suffrage movement https://t.co/4eAAJIapeu
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 29, 2017
re: #2 Franklin
“Have you heard of Susan B. Anthony?” asks Trump at a women’s empowerment event at the White House.
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) March 29, 2017
This man approaches everything like a fourth grader doing a book report. https://t.co/k1Cjlqy2IQ
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 29, 2017
Here’s the tweet of the day (or yesterday depending on your understanding of the space-time continuum):
A group of male Twitter followers is called an Actually.
— Danforth France (@danforthfrance) March 28, 2017
re: #6 Franklin
Well I’ll be damned.
whenever he comes up with statements like that, there’s always a media source behind it.
Trump is sane by definition because psychopathy is richly rewarded in the US plutocracy.
Judge Derrick Watson has adjourned. The hearing is over. He hopes to issue a decision “within the remainder of the day.”
— Hawaii News Now (@HawaiiNewsNow) March 29, 2017
Court hearing ends with Judge Derrick Watson saying he will try to get out an order in “what remains of the day.” (It’s only 10:40 am here.)
— Michelle B. Van Dyke (@michellebvd) March 29, 2017
Days before dropping to 35% approval rating:
Obama: Never
W Bush: 1,927
Clinton: Never
HW Bush: 1,278
Reagan: Never
Carter: 840
Trump: 68— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) March 29, 2017
So much winning cc @JoyAnnReid @bobcesca_go https://t.co/JNxJHDjF98
— Shoq (@Shoq) March 29, 2017
Ivanka’s White House job is about enriching ivanka https://t.co/SLlJmaIwG3
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) March 29, 2017
re: #2 Franklin
Fake President Donald Trump joined a room full of women at a women’s empowerment event Wednesday in the final days of Women’s History Month. He talked about infrastructure and the Department of Transportation, heralded his cabinet full of women and rattled off some names of a few famous women.
“My cabinet is full of really incredible women leaders,” Trump told the room. It’s unclear what he meant by the word “full,” however. In fact, Trump’s cabinet is more white and more male than any cabinet since Ronald Reagan.From: rawstory.com
This sexual deviant has no business being left in a room full of woman.
re: #17 Dr. Matt
This sexual deviant has no business being left in a room full of woman.
He has one woman cabinet member I believe….
“If I weren’t president, [women’s empowerment] would be a very scary statement. We can’t compete!” Trump says at women’s event. pic.twitter.com/RNzM6HiUQL
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) March 29, 2017
Trump unintentionally reveals his belief that women’s success is a threat to men.
Always zero sum w Trump. Every win is someone else’s loss. https://t.co/qUeMTFlMwo— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) March 29, 2017
re: #17 Dr. Matt
This sexual deviant has no business being left in a room full of woman.
Should he have his wife/daughter with him?
SCOOP - me and Rachel Abrams, Ivanka is formally a government employee, “assistant to the president” https://t.co/k0IVtXiLIt
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 29, 2017
“Unpaid job” doesn’t mean the government doesn’t pay you. It does. You wouldn’t be allowed clearances, etc, if you were just a volunteer. https://t.co/7DOMsXePNF
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) March 29, 2017
Full statement from the White House on Ivanka Trump’s hiring: pic.twitter.com/PcpWSzBDdz
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) March 29, 2017
re: #10 EPR-radar
Trump is sane by definition because psychopathy is richly rewarded in the US plutocracy.
It’s richly rewarded everywhere. That’s because it’s much easier to succeed, that is gain wealth and power, if you don’t give a shit.
Psychopaths are the honey badgers of humanity.
Melania Trump gets a standing O after Trump thanks her “for being here.”
Then Trump brings up Melania’s high poll numbers. pic.twitter.com/d94n7Fx3Qs— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) March 29, 2017
re: #9 Backwoods_Sleuth
whenever he comes up with statements like that, there’s always a media source behind it.
Or a fortune cookie.
from the dead thread:
re: #86 Bubblehead II
Nixon? He was paranoid as fuck, but at least he wasn’t as bat shit crazy as tRump.
I suspect that no one has ever written down just how crazy a president is allowed to be.
re: #26 allegro
+ Devos
That’s who I was thinking of. I had forgotten Chao and that SBA is cabinet level.
re: #27 Decatur Deb
from the dead thread:
I suspect that no one has ever written down just how crazy a president is allowed to be.
It’s time to draw the line, while we can still use chalk and ink, not blood.
re: #27 Decatur Deb
from the dead thread:
Nixon? He was paranoid as fuck, but at least he wasn’t as bat shit crazy as tRump.
I suspect that no one has ever written down just how crazy a president is allowed to be.
As I recall, the formal diagnostic criteria for many psychiatric disorders require the patient to experience distress from the condition, or to be unable to function in society.
Sociopathic narcissists enjoy their condition, and are quite capable of functioning in society as the more reprehensible members of the ruling class.
re: #32 EPR-radar
As I recall, the formal diagnostic criteria for many psychiatric disorders require the patient to experience distress from the condition, or to be unable to function in society.
Sociopathic narcissists enjoy their condition, and are quite capable of functioning in society as the more reprehensible members of the ruling class.
If you can get 60 million people to vote for you, you are probably pretty well able to function in society.
Vox describes how a sausage is unmade:
Hey, maybe some hope for me!
Pat Robertson: Multiple Sclerosis Is ‘Demonic’ And Can Be Healed Once Rebuked
Oh wait…
He told a viewer with MS to “check with an endocrinologist to see if there’s something, some chemical or something that could be done that would build up that immune system that you’ve got or if it’s something that you’re eating that’s causing a problem,”
He…uh…doesn’t actually know what MS is.
re: #33 HappyWarrior
Obama elevated it to a cabinet level position (though he also wanted to eliminate it by merging it into Department of Commerce, which went nowhere). If Trump continues to follow the Obama designation, then that’s 3.
re: #36 lawhawk
Obama elevated it to a cabinet level position (though he also wanted to eliminate it by merging it into Department of Commerce, which went nowhere). If Trump continues to follow the Obama designation, then that’s 3.
Right, thanks.
re: #35 bratwurst
Hey, maybe some hope for me!
Pat Robertson: Multiple Sclerosis Is ‘Demonic’ And Can Be Healed Once Rebuked
Oh wait…
He…uh…doesn’t actually know what MS is.
He really is an idiot and unfortunately a lot of people get their guidance from this idiot.
re: #35 bratwurst
Hey, maybe some hope for me!
Pat Robertson: Multiple Sclerosis Is ‘Demonic’ And Can Be Healed Once Rebuked
Oh wait…
He…uh…doesn’t actually know what MS is.
That should take some of the pressure off health insurance rates.
Wow, @angela_rye absolutely went off on Joe Walsh about the double standard that exists when it comes to Obama vs. Trump. pic.twitter.com/Sruf5ZVKXa
— Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) March 29, 2017
And Donald Trump wants to reduce the Coast Guard’s’ budget
Coast Guard seizes 16 tons of cocaine https://t.co/RKu1XtZtpV pic.twitter.com/M17WZiit5g
— FOX 2 Detroit (@FOX2News) March 29, 2017
re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Two: McMahon and Chao”
Let’s not forget Betsy DeVos who is totally unqualified to be Sec. of Education.
re: #41 Dr. Matt
And Donald Trump wants to reduce the Coast Guard’s’ budget
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DIdn’t Tennessee Ernie Ford have a song about that?
Nikki Haley is in the cabinet. UN Ambassador. Unless Trump demoted the position.
re: #35 bratwurst
Hey, maybe some hope for me!
Pat Robertson: Multiple Sclerosis Is ‘Demonic’ And Can Be Healed Once Rebuked
Oh wait…
He…uh…doesn’t actually know what MS is.
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re: #34 Decatur Deb
If you can get 60 million people to vote for you, you are probably pretty well able to function in society.
Vox describes how a sausage is unmade:
From what I saw of election 2016, Trump could still have won had he spent his time at his rallies playing with his own shit and calling the Democrats names.
re: #46 EPR-radar
From what I saw of election 2016, Trump could still have won had he spent his time at his rallies playing with his own shit and calling the Democrats names.
Perhaps it’s his voters who are unable to function in a society.
re: #43 allegro
DIdn’t Tennessee Ernie Ford have a song about that?
…and what ‘d you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
re: #2 Franklin
Susan B. has been doing some really great work lately. Terrific.
re: #47 Decatur Deb
Perhaps it’s his voters who are unable to function in a society.
They are certainly voting for barbarism and against civilization.
re: #50 EPR-radar
They are certainly voting for barbarism and against civilization.
People who think the Neolithic is a mistake, and want to try the old ways…
re: #51 Decatur Deb
People who think the Neolithic is a mistake, and want to try the old ways…
Paleo! Paleo! Paleo!
I’d ‘wingnut’ tag it, but they don’t know what that is anyway.
re: #27 Decatur Deb
from the dead thread:
I suspect that no one has ever written down just how crazy a president is allowed to be.
True. But tRump is way worse than Nixon was at the start of his second term.
This man is VERY “pro-Israel”:
Alex Jones: “The Jewish mafia, they worked with Hitler. Well, the head … is George Soros, he’s out to get Jews.” https://t.co/OMVXSisad9 pic.twitter.com/U2IEybhM9x
— Media Matters (@mmfa) March 29, 2017
Oh, and look who is back on Fox today!
re: #34 Decatur Deb
If you can get 60 million people to vote for you, you are probably pretty well able to function in society.
Vox describes how a sausage is unmade:
It’s pretty fucking amazing that such articles are even being published (on a site that isn’t Breitbart, Freeperville, or SMOTIville).
re: #54 bratwurst
This man is VERY “pro-Israel”:
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Oh, and look who is back on Fox today!
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Seek help asshole.
re: #54 bratwurst
Oh, and look who is back on Fox today!
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Tommy Devito? Did he bring his fuckin’ shine box?
Back in a while Lizards. Have an antenna to mount and, yes, a yard to mow. Even Idaho is getting a break (until tomorrow) from the shitty weather.
re: #55 Dr. Matt
Check it out—pretty civic-lesson stuff.
A president Pence would basically be the faux religious wingnuttery of a Palin and the faux fiscal conservatism of a Paul Ryan. 2018 can’t get here quick enough.
re: #60 Dr. Matt
A president Pence would basically be the faux religious wingnuttery of a Palin and the faux fiscal conservatism of a Paul Ryan. 2018 can’t get here quick enough.
And he could carve himself in stone with a couple or more Supreme Court nominations.
re: #59 Decatur Deb
Check it out—pretty civic-lesson stuff.
I did. Good article. And:
One vice president and any eight Cabinet officers can, theoretically, decide to knock the president out of power at any time.
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) March 29, 2017
Congratulations, Jeff Sessions, you just joined sides with Black Lives Matter. https://t.co/xjX2ezRhnZ
— Gene Demby (@GeeDee215) March 29, 2017
I’m friends with one of my old senseis on FB. He’s kind of a wingnut, today he posted something about Tia Thompson a trans woman volleyball player in Hawaii who is planning on trying out for the Olympic team in 2020. Of course, many of the comments on the post were of the wingnutty “It’s a man” “that’s not fair having men play against women” etc etc etc variety. I’ve tried, rather rationally, I think, to explain the process and the effects of hormone replacement therapy. But again, responses are “nope, still a man.”
I can understand someone not understanding what transgender people go through. I can understand someone not understanding the science behind it. But I can’t understand, for the life of me, how anyone could be so intellectually incurious that they won’t take the time to do even the most basic reading on a subject (I mean to the point of the “nope still a man” comment was in response to, “do a google search for before and after photos).
re: #63 wrenchwench
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“Chief Justice Jefferson Beauregard Sessions The Third” just has a resonant ring to it.
re: #63 wrenchwench
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“Community policing”, in practice, is nothing more than putting lipstick on a pig and collecting those sweet, sweet federal grants.
re: #65 Decatur Deb
“Chief Justice Jefferson Beauregard Sessions The Third” just has a resonant ring to it.
Kinda like a wet fart has a resonant fragrance.
re: #65 Decatur Deb
“Chief Justice Jefferson Beauregard Sessions The Third” just has a resonant ring to it.
You may be the lizard who has the ability to scare me the most.
re: #64 KGxvi
I’m friends with one of my old senseis on FB. He’s kind of a wingnut, today he posted something about Tia Thompson a trans woman volleyball player in Hawaii who is planning on trying out for the Olympic team in 2020. Of course, many of the comments on the post were of the wingnutty “It’s a man” “that’s not fair having men play against women” etc etc etc variety. I’ve tried, rather rationally, I think, to explain the process and the effects of hormone replacement therapy. But again, responses are “nope, still a man.”
I can understand someone not understanding what transgender people go through. I can understand someone not understanding the science behind it. But I can’t understand, for the life of me, how anyone could be so intellectually incurious that they won’t take the time to do even the most basic reading on a subject (I mean to the point of the “nope still a man” comment was in response to, “do a google search for before and after photos).
I wonder what they would think of this woman: abcnews.go.com.
re: #68 wrenchwench
You may be the lizard who has the ability to scare me the most.
It’s not that pro-cannibalism thing again, is it?
re: #65 Decatur Deb
“Chief Justice Jefferson Beauregard Sessions The Third” just has a resonant ring to it.
Fuck Pennywise, that’s some scary nightmare fuel…
re: #69 Belafon
I wonder what they would think of this woman: abcnews.go.com.
I remember an episode of ER about that condition.
There was also Caster Semenya, who was allegedly intersex:
en.wikipedia.org
re: #62 Dr. Matt
Yes and no. If the president sends a letter to Congress saying he’s fit to serve he goes back to being president, if the objecting VP and cabinet members say no, then Congress has to decide, by 2/3 vote in each House that the president is unfit, and they have three weeks to do so. If they decide he’s unfit (either can’t get 2/3 vote or don’t vote within 3 weeks), the president goes back to presidenting, which likely will include firing any cabinet member who signed the letter.
re: #70 Decatur Deb
It’s not that pro-cannibalism thing again, is it?
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re: #74 wrenchwench
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re: #64 KGxvi
“I can understand someone not understanding what transgender people go through. I can understand someone not understanding the science behind it. But I can’t understand, for the life of me, how anyone could be so intellectually incurious that they won’t take the time to do even the most basic reading on a subject (I mean to the point of the “nope still a man” comment was in response to, “do a google search for before and after photos).”
What I can’t understand is how does another’s sexual orientation/identity impact their lives, and why can’t they mind their own business?
re: #65 Decatur Deb
“Chief Justice Jefferson Beauregard Sessions The Third” just has a resonant ring to it.
The only good thing about that is that he’s 70 years old. He could only do maybe a decade’s worth of damage.
re: #35 bratwurst
One can be reasonably certain that when Pat Robertson opens his mouth he will be opining on something he knows nothing about.
re: #77 stpaulbear
The only good thing about that is that he’s 70 years old. He could only do maybe a decade’s worth of damage.
We can rebuild him. We have the Cheneytronic heart. We can make him better than he was. Better, stronger, faster.
re: #61 Decatur Deb
And he could carve himself in stone with a couple or more Supreme Court nominations.
Ginsberg is 84, Kennedy is 81, Breyer is 79, and Thomas is 69. If any of the first three retire or shuffle off this mortal coil, the balance of the Court could shift drastically. I suspect that Gorsuch’s eventual elevation to the Court (assuming he gets the votes) would basically maintain the status quo ante balance. Had Clinton won, the most likely outcome for shifting the balance of the Court would have been her first nomination (assuming McConnell and the Republicans in the Senate weren’t so petty as to rush through Garland’s confirmation between the election and inauguration).
It is also entirely possible that if Ginsberg, Kennedy, and Breyer leave the Court before 2020, it could be a long while before there’s another vacancy on the Court.
— CenterforReproRights (@ReproRights) March 29, 2017
BREAKING: Arkansas Governor signs first-ever measure forcing doctors who provide abortion care to investigate their patients’ motives.
— CenterforReproRights (@ReproRights) March 29, 2017
CSI: Pregnant, Need To Not Be
the series is one 15-second episode longhttps://t.co/U9QMNVNoKb— andrea grimes (@andreagrimes) March 29, 2017
Chatty cycle tourist headed to the ATM. This one will come back. He’s worked in three bike shops.
re: #79 Decatur Deb
We can rebuild him. We have the Cheneytronic heart. We can make him better than he was. Better, stronger, faster.
Martin Caidin is spinning in his grave fast enough to generate gigawatts at that one, DD.
re: #81 FormerDirtDart
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More conservatve support for small government and individual rights I see.
re: #78 Romantic Heretic
One can be reasonably certain that when Pat Robertson opens his mouth he will be opining on something he knows nothing about.
Pat Robertson’s so old his GP is an Egyptologist.
Conservative NeverTrumpers are close to discovering the truth about their fellow Conservatives…
This epic whataboutism is beneath VDH’s historic quality level.
https://t.co/ALX6UG9VYU— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 29, 2017
re: #46 EPR-radar
From what I saw of election 2016, Trump could still have won had he spent his time at his rallies playing with his own shit and calling the Democrats names.
I thought that was what his rallies were.
re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth
Two: McMahon and Chao
And DeVos and Icky Nikki (not sure if UN Ambassador is a cabinet post, but there she is in the pic.)
re: #90 Jack Burton
That was the character’s name in the movie.
I thought his last name was DeSimone.
Last night, Trump said that fixing the health care law “is such an easy one.”
re: #91 BeachDem
And DeVos and Icky Nikki (not sure if UN Ambassador is a cabinet post, but there she is in the pic.)
Haley and McMahon are not technically cabinet members. They’re “cabinet level officials” but the cabinet made up of the heads of:
State
Treasury
Justice
Defense
Agriculture
Commerce
Labor
HHS
HUD
Transportation
Energy
Education
VA
Homeland Security
re: #92 Ace Rothstein
I thought his last name was DeSimone.
That was the real life person the character was based on. Other than Henry Hill, they all had their last names changed. Tommy DeSimone was Tommy DeVito in the movie. Jimmy Burke was Jimmy Conway in the movie.
I have to sign up for Medicare.
I. Am. Officially. Old.
HOT TAKE INCOMING!
yas pic.twitter.com/xt5QtQe5Yu
— Bae Talese (@elongreen) March 29, 2017
It’s from The Federalist.
re: #97 bratwurst
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It’s from The Federalist.
Two words: Chelsea Clinton.
re: #95 Jack Burton
That was the real life person the character was based on. Other than Henry Hill, they all had their last names changed. Tommy DeSimone was Tommy DeVito in the movie. Jimmy Burke was Jimmy Conway in the movie.
“That’s what the FBI could never understand. That what Paulie and the organization does is offer protection for people who can’t go to the cops. That’s it. That’s all. They’re like the police department for wiseguys.”
A movie I will never, ever get sick of.
re: #99 Ace Rothstein
“That’s what the FBI could never understand. That what Paulie and the organization does is offer protection for people who can’t go to the cops. That’s it. That’s all. They’re like the police department for wiseguys.”
A movie I will never, ever get sick of.
When I got the DVD of it, I think I watched it once or twice a week for a few years.
re: #94 KGxvi
Haley and McMahon are not technically cabinet members. They’re “cabinet level officials” but the cabinet made up of the heads of:
State
Treasury
Justice
Defense
Agriculture
Commerce
Labor
HHS
HUD
Transportation
Energy
Education
VA
Homeland Security
Plus Ivanka and Jared, just because they’re family.
re: #98 Targetpractice
Two words: Chelsea Clinton.
Chelsea was a child when Bill Clinton took the oath of office. You want an example of what the grown children of a US president should do, look at the Reagans and the Bushes from 1981 through 1993. Ivanka’s role is pretty much unheard of in modern American politics
re: #100 Jack Burton
When I got the DVD of it, I think I watched it once or twice a week for a few years.
I saw it the first day it came out in 1990. It was an 11:35 AM matinee, it cost five bucks, and to this day it still holds me in the palm of its hand.
re: #97 bratwurst
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But of course it is.
re: #97 bratwurst
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It’s from The Federalist.
What is it she’s done again? I forgot.
Oh yeah, she was born rich, raised rich and married the billionaire son of a convicted felon. That’s it.
re: #102 KGxvi
Chelsea was a child when Bill Clinton took the oath of office. You want an example of what the grown children of a US president should do, look at the Reagans and the Bushes from 1981 through 1993. Ivanka’s role is pretty much unheard of in modern American politics
The wingnuts are screaming about Chelsea Clinton right now.
Not the least because of her new children’s book.
re: #105 Skip Intro
What is it she’s done again? I forgot.
Oh yeah, she was born rich, raised rich and married the billionaire son of a convicted felon. That’s it.
You forget lending her name - which only has value because of her rich Daddy - to a shitty, foreign-made apparel and shoe line.
When Chelsea Clinton starts selling shitty dresses, let me know.
Florida, of course.
Rock star’s wife charged with threatening rowing team with a rifle
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re: #99 Ace Rothstein
“That’s what the FBI could never understand. That what Paulie and the organization does is offer protection for people who can’t go to the cops. That’s it. That’s all. They’re like the police department for wiseguys.”
A movie I will never, ever get sick of.
Says the Lizard named for the protagonist of GoodFellas’ sequel-in-all-but-name…
re: #106 Backwoods_Sleuth
The wingnuts are screaming about Chelsea Clinton right now.
Not the least because of her new children’s book.
They’re screaming about her because she had the audacity to be born a Clinton. My point was mostly that the grown children of American presidents don’t typically have substantial roles in the administration. I doubt that had Hillary Clinton won, that Chelsea Clinton (or her husband) would have an office in the West Wing.
re: #109 TedStriker
Says the Lizard named for the protagonist of GoodFellas’ sequel-in-all-but-name…
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I like Casino, it’s in my Top 20 but it’s just not Goodfellas level no matter what anyone says.
re: #112 Jack Burton
I like Casino, it’s in my Top 20 but it’s just not Goodfellas level no matter what anyone says.
Both films have just KILLER soundtracks.
re: #110 KGxvi
They’re screaming about her because she had the audacity to be born a Clinton. My point was mostly that the grown children of American presidents don’t typically have substantial roles in the administration. I doubt that had Hillary Clinton won, that Chelsea Clinton (or her husband) would have an office in the West Wing.
I realize that.
The fact remains that those losing their minds over Chelsea don’t have any problem with Ivanka and Jared.
These are the same people who were/would be screaming over Bobby Kennedy being named AG.
According to wingnuts, the key to being a successful woman is not to rise from humble beginnings, seeking out an education and then a career in politics helping the less fortunate. That just makes you a mean, bitter old woman who screeches rather than having warmth and empathy.
No, the key to success is being born rich or marrying a rich guy, then using your inherited wealth to sell a line of foreign-made junk at outrageous prices, before taking a White House job because your daddy decided the law doesn’t apply to him or his offspring.
re: #96 Backwoods_Sleuth
I have to sign up for Medicare.
I. Am. Officially. Old.
You just won life’s lottery. Congrats.
re: #96 Backwoods_Sleuth
I have to sign up for Medicare.
I. Am. Officially. Old.
I’m still unofficial. Yet, old.
No return of the Chatty Cyclist, but I had a good phone call. A guy from way in the boonies needs to cross a stream 7 times to get to the road, and wants to learn how to overhaul certain parts so he doesn’t have to keep replacing them. We think we can pick a day in May that will work for both of us so he can come in and get a private tutorial here in the big city. He’ll call again nearer that time to arrange details. We have a price set.
I had a phone call a few years ago from a sales guy who wanted to make my location ‘the most prominent in your metroplex’. I laughed and asked him where he was calling from (it was a different state). Referring to this area as a ‘metroplex’ is so funny I now say it regularly.
Just think how amazing it is that both of these lines even fit on the same chart with the same axes. https://t.co/FPz6HJdVKK pic.twitter.com/Hr9h1LWCPu
— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) March 29, 2017
re: #114 Backwoods_Sleuth
I realize that.
The fact remains that those losing their minds over Chelsea don’t have any problem with Ivanka and Jared.These are the same people who were/would be screaming over Bobby Kennedy being named AG.
Honestly, I’m not sure how I’d feel about a Bobby Kennedy situation. Qualified or not, there’s something that feels not quite right about a president appointing a family member to a high level job like that.
re: #118 FormerDirtDart
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re: #118 FormerDirtDart
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But remember, folks, the way to get jobs rolling again is to give the 1% even more wealth because it’ll “trickle down.”
re: #114 Backwoods_Sleuth
Hypocrisy will never, ever stick.
The only rule is “the rules are different.”
re: #125 Targetpractice
But remember, folks, the way to get jobs rolling again is to give the 1% even more wealth because it’ll “trickle down.”
As illustrated by the graph.
re: #118 FormerDirtDart
This is what successful class warfare by the rich looks like.
— Wholesome Memes (@WholesomeMeme) March 29, 2017
re: #125 Targetpractice
But remember, folks, the way to get jobs rolling again is to give the 1% even more wealth because it’ll “trickle down.”
I really really want to go back in time and give myself a Red Formanesque foot in the ass for ever believing in that garbage.
re: #131 Jack Burton
I really really want to go back in time and give myself a Red Formanesque foot in the ass for ever believing in that garbage.
Deliver one to me while you’re at it.
The idiots control everything now.
Lamar Smith claims climate scientists not following scientific method
Head of House Science Committee makes accusations he fails to back up.
Not enough Jesus is the problem.
re: #97 bratwurst
HOT TAKE INCOMING!
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— Bae Talese (@elongreen) March 29, 2017
So utterly fucking retarded. If Hillary had appointed Chelsea & her husband to nepotistic WH jobs the GOP would be in literal armed revolt. https://t.co/irbekvMZN0
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 29, 2017
Chelsea can’t even write a children’s book as a civilian w/out incurring a raft of crap. Smell what you’re selling. @EoinHiggins_ @elongreen
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 29, 2017
re: #96 Backwoods_Sleuth
Happens to the best of us.
re: #134 goddamnedfrank
That’s so much dumbassery in 140 characters by those nitwits… that it rises to dumbfuckery.
Yay! Chatty Cyclist came back. Hadn’t gone to the ATM, went to the hotel where he dug deep in his bags to the stash of cash, and changed his clothes while he was at it.
Now I gotta go. Later, lizards, young and old.
re: #134 goddamnedfrank
It does say something though that this is where they have to go to find something to defend and complain about amongst this shit storm.
re: #136 lawhawk
“That’s so much dumbassery in 140 characters by those nitwits… that it rises to dumbfuckery.”
Lying constantly, hypocrisy, and establishing and accepting double standards are only things GOPers are permitted to engage in without shame.
Read the whole thread. He raises interesting points about why “We’re gonna bring back COAL!!!” resonates in Appalachia.
By absolutely toppling the returns to education in Appalachia, the coal industry quite accidentally reinforced an existing anti-skills bias.
— Lyman Stone (@lymanstoneky) March 29, 2017
Take home is that because coal put a LOT of people to work, for a lot of years, paying good wages with no education, it created the expectation that this was how things were SUPPOSED TO BE. And as a result, there’s the expectation that it can be that way again.
It can’t.
Somewhat unspoken is the point that the plentiful, well paying mining jobs for the uneducated devalued education among a population prone to mistrust education in the first place, so nobody put money into it.
@andrewcampbellc
DM: the swamp drains ….
DM: you are now living in a hole full of alligators
GOP: my kind of people#GOPDnD— Paul Campbell (@MoonbaseOtago) March 29, 2017
re: #130 FormerDirtDart
Reminds me of the K911 thread on reddit.
re: #138 Jack Burton
“It does say something though that this is where they have to go to find something to defend and complain about amongst this shit storm.”
They have to find distractions to b*tch about because the fact that the world knows they elected a totally incompetent as POTUS might finally be penetrating the RW bubble in which they reside. They appear to be doing everything they can to ignore Trump’s abysmal job approval rating and his many fkups.
@goddamnedfrank @TheSwampwitch It’s undermining of you people who keep blaming Bernie/Jill supporters- minimal amount of their diehards would not change electoral college
— Campbell Pool (@CampbellDeePool) March 29, 2017
Fuck off. They chose their own egos & self entitled shitfaced utopian nonsense over protecting real minority lives & safety @CampbellDeePool
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 29, 2017
re: #41 Dr. Matt
And Donald Trump wants to reduce the Coast Guard’s’ budget
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Hey, they keep finding the cocaine his buddies make money distributing. Bad for business!
We always need to remember, Trump has many questionable business partnerships, he loves to make money, some of it by sketchy means and he seems to be using the office to free up ways to do all of it.
Time-lapse footage of Earth as seen from the International Space Station pic.twitter.com/SPmXNy9dDn
— Science GIFs⚛️ (@Learn_Things) March 25, 2017
re: #140 Blind Frog Belly White
an uneducated man can make $80k/yr, retire young.
He can “retire” young because his health is so bad he can barely breathe getting from one room to another.
And that alleged $80,000/year vanishes the day he “retires”.
Real life? The range for a laborer at a large underground mine is $13.99 to $30.25.
re: #47 Decatur Deb
Perhaps it’s his voters who are unable to function in a society.
True. But what happens when in reality they make up 30% of your society.
We have trouble, right here in River City…so let’s form a band, I’ve got Trump trombones for sale.
re: #144 goddamnedfrank
Sorry, I just don’t feel like being scolded about how mean I am to racist Busters by any knit-cap wearing beardo hipster motherfuckers today
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 29, 2017
re: #144 goddamnedfrank
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In several states, Trump’s victory margin was equal to or smaller than the number of Stein voters. So yes, if they’d all had a bit maturity, we would not be dealing with a Vulgar Talking Yam in the White House.
Re: Trump’s Susan B Anthony comment. Chill. He was being sarcastic. pic.twitter.com/3aH4t4yln3
— David Mack (@davidmackau) March 29, 2017
not laughing.
re: #140 Blind Frog Belly White
“Somewhat unspoken is the point that the plentiful, well paying mining jobs for the uneducated devalued education among a population prone to mistrust education in the first place, so nobody put money into it.”
I think the somewhat inherent anti-government mindset of some in some coal mining regions, along with a penchant for isolationism [I can pull myself up by my bootstraps, don’t need any help,] and a “fear” of outsiders, along with other factors, might have played role in their resistance to attempts at introducing new ideas and jobs in these regions which would act as an accompaniment to thinking education isn’t as important as it should be.
Four 30-ton whales swimming silently below a paddle boarder pic.twitter.com/KrvTvDYZ6D
— Science GIFs⚛️ (@Learn_Things) March 25, 2017
re: #134 goddamnedfrank
@elongreen I mean if she were a Dem and every single thing about her was the same, no question the Dems would revere her
— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) March 29, 2017
Wait - so he’s saying if she were a Democrat who was the child of a stupid, narcissistic bully who managed to bluff his way into the White House with her help, and then with no Government experience got a position as Special Assistant to that same stupid, narcissistic bully President, we’d all love her?
Uh - why?
re: #154 Blind Frog Belly White
Because the Magical Balance Fairy says so, that’s why.
re: #154 Blind Frog Belly White
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Uh - why?
Because he’s a ****.
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
He can “retire” young because his health is so bad he can barely breathe getting from one room to another.
And that alleged $80,000/year vanishes the day he “retires”.
Real life? The range for a laborer at a large underground mine is $13.99 to $30.25.
I have read that a few decades ago, they could retire on disability which was enough to live on, having paid for a house and sent their kids to college or whatever before black lung got them. This doesn’t happen any more for a variety of reasons.
re: #154 Blind Frog Belly White
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Uh - why?
Republicans are such mindless party-above-country hacks that they are literally incapable of conceiving that Democrats often don’t put party above country. Even the never-Trumpers are in general agreement that nothing Trump has done is worse than what they ‘think’ Obama did.
re: #157 calochortus
I have read that a few decades ago, they could retire on disability which was enough to live on, having paid for a house and sent their kids to college or whatever before black lung got them. This doesn’t happen any more for a variety of reasons.
The ones making that $80,000+ a year aren’t “uneducated”. They are the mine managers, foremen, heavy equipment operators, etc.
In the “old days” disability retirement was enough to live on because it was Appalachia and the cost of living is so much lower.
When I moved back to Kentucky 20+ years ago, one of my neighbors told me that his greatest hope was to qualify for disability.
Less than 10 years later, he was dead at age 47. He never qualified for disability.
Probably the only instance of “Bring your daughter to work day” where the crayons & scratch paper are to keep Daddy occupied. #IvankaTrump
— Andrew Sorcini (@MrBabyMan) March 29, 2017
re: #150 Targetpractice
In several states, Trump’s victory margin was equal to or smaller than the number of Stein voters. So yes, if they’d all had a bit maturity, we would not be dealing with a Vulgar Talking Yam in the White House.
To be fair to the little naifs, the margin was so close that almost any identifiable negative tossed the electoral college. We really had to work at it to blow this one.
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, March 29th - The New Yorker - For those who remember Rocky and Bullwinkle. https://t.co/nbx5BsP99v
— Paula A. Wolf (@lobbyistpaula) March 29, 2017
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
He can “retire” young because his health is so bad he can barely breathe getting from one room to another.
And that alleged $80,000/year vanishes the day he “retires”.
Real life? The range for a laborer at a large underground mine is $13.99 to $30.25.
He’s speaking historically. I’m willing to bet wages have not kept pace with inflation. But, you know, $30/hr = $60K/year not counting overtime.
Here’s something from 2010:
The average starting salary for a coal mine worker is $60,000.
“You can come right out of high school and make $70,000 a year,”
And that was in 2010, after years of falling employment in the mines, and probably years of union busting and downward wage pressures.
NYT: Ivanka is officially a government employee—her title is “Special Assistant to the President”.https://t.co/fmB2Fk5YaB
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 29, 2017
On November 13, Ivanka said she wouldn’t be part of the administration.
IVANKA: “No. I’m going to be a daughter.” https://t.co/Gk1PsDZXDv https://t.co/vYdbptemne— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 29, 2017
re: #166 gocart mozart
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re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth
So now we can sue the government for nepotism.
I feel like Trump has set the public dialogue on mental health back ten or twenty years by being basically a walking caricature of people’s basest fears about crazy people.
re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth
I noticed he spoke “at” women and not to or with them.
re: #171 AaronFromToronto
I feel like Trump has set the public dialogue on mental health back ten or twenty years by being basically a walking caricature of people’s basest fears about crazy people.
Don’t know if he’s crazy. I’m certain he’s a prick. Think of how much he has embarrassed them.
Trumpers support Trump because he is the angst of their id made (orange, aging) flesh.
Such things are not going away simply because we wished they were.
Disheartening as it may be (and as I get older I realize how little I will be able to change these things in the big picture), our society will change when these people die off.
I’m watching this glass blowing video for my art appreciation class, and this old man has zero chill. I’m actually crying. pic.twitter.com/VeokLcNVxk
— billy🥀 (@oraltwjnk) March 29, 2017
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
Several places I’ve looked say that the average work week for miners is 60 hours.
So, that’s 40 x $23 = $920, and 20 x $34 = 680 so $1600/week. Times 50 weeks = $80,000.
re: #177 Blind Frog Belly White
Getting paid well in return for a shortened life span.
Seems like there should be a better way.
re: #175 freetoken
Trumpers support Trump because he is the angst of their id made (orange, aging) flesh.
Such things are not going away simply because we wished they were.
Disheartening as it may be (and as I get older I realize how little I will be able to change these things in the big picture), our society will change when these people die off.
Optimist.
re: #179 Decatur Deb
“These people” have been dying off for fifty years. They keep getting replaced.
re: #179 Decatur Deb
Optimist.
Well, yes I am.
Because I believe the next generation will not carry all the baggage of the previous generation.
However, each generation will have its own problems and its own ugliness.
re: #177 Blind Frog Belly White
Several places I’ve looked say that the average work week for miners is 60 hours.
So, that’s 40 x $23 = $920, and 20 x $34 = 680 so $1600/week. Times 50 weeks = $80,000.
I am optimistic and cynical at the same time. There’s a lot to like about the younger generation but we also have a ways to go.
re: #64 KGxvi
I’m friends with one of my old senseis on FB. He’s kind of a wingnut, today he posted something about Tia Thompson a trans woman volleyball player in Hawaii who is planning on trying out for the Olympic team in 2020. Of course, many of the comments on the post were of the wingnutty “It’s a man” “that’s not fair having men play against women” etc etc etc variety. I’ve tried, rather rationally, I think, to explain the process and the effects of hormone replacement therapy. But again, responses are “nope, still a man.”
I can understand someone not understanding what transgender people go through. I can understand someone not understanding the science behind it. But I can’t understand, for the life of me, how anyone could be so intellectually incurious that they won’t take the time to do even the most basic reading on a subject (I mean to the point of the “nope still a man” comment was in response to, “do a google search for before and after photos).
I’m behind in the thread so this may have been mentioned. Are you familiar with Renee Richards, the transgender pro tennis player from back in the 70s?
She had some success on the pro circuit, but not dominate from what I can remember. Look her up on the ‘net, she might be a good source for your debate.
“That was some weird shit.” — George W. Bush’s reaction to Trump’s inaugural address, 3 sources tell @yashar https://t.co/rVRm6l9ZP6
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) March 29, 2017
re: #178 freetoken
Getting paid well in return for a shortened life span.
Seems like there should be a better way.
Neither the Tweeter nor I are saying that it was a good or a safe job. That’s not the point.
What he’s saying is that it was well-paid work that you could get with no education beyond High School, and because this went on for generations, it created the expectation that somebody with a High School education should be able to get a job that paid well above average, and that it would be steady work that would last a (shortened) lifetime.
This led the people in Coal Country to devalue education as a means of getting ahead, so they didn’t invest in it. And now, with coal declining, they have no fallback, and are searching for ‘The Next Coal’, when there IS NO ‘Next Coal’.
These jobs went away, so people look for somebody to blame. And if there’s somebody to blame, all you have to do is undo what they did, and like magic it will all come back. So, when Clinton says, “These jobs aren’t coming back, but we’ll train you for jobs that WILL exist”, and Trump says, “We’ll bring those jobs back!”, guess who they vote for?
re: #182 Backwoods_Sleuth
Do you have an actual point? Because it seems to me you may have read down the thread till you hit ‘$80,000’ and stopped, missing the entire point of the thread.
re: #144 goddamnedfrank
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re: #171 AaronFromToronto
I feel like Trump has set the public dialogue on mental health back ten or twenty years by being basically a walking caricature of people’s basest fears about crazy people.
I see no reason to believe Trump is mentally ill in any real clinical sense.
He is evil. He is stupid. He is a raging asshole. He is a bigot. He is a male chauvinist pig.
None of this is mental illness.
Speaking of coal country.
BOOM. West Virginia Senate just overwhelmingly approved medical marijuana. Governor’s on board. Now on to the House!#wvpol #wvgov #wvlegis pic.twitter.com/7O5uFnIGZN
— Marijuana Majority (@JoinTheMajority) March 30, 2017
re: #182 Backwoods_Sleuth
Oh, okay. I said $23 an hour, but your source says $24 an hour. That makes it $84,000. I guess you’re right. They DIDN’T make $80,000. They made $84,000.
re: #189 The Vicious Babushka
MATH FACT: Jill Stein received more votes in MI, PA & WI than the margin which tipped those states to Trump.
They’re like the Nader assholes in 2000. They refuse to see how their ideological purity got us Trump. IMO Clinton would have been able to make more long lasting progressive change than Sanders would have. Sanders would have been a weak President since he had nowhere near the understanding of legislative work that Clinton does and he would have been forced to make a lot of EOs that could easily be overturned by teh Congress or judges.
re: #187 Blind Frog Belly White
Similar stories can be told all over Trump-land.
In my hometown there used to be meat-packing plants. They are all gone now…
But it used to be a guy with just a basic education could get a job there, get a wage good enough to have a life.
Now all that location has is Walmart jobs.
So yes, the despair from the down-grading of employment is real.
This is after all what the collective concern is over the top 1% collecting all the wealth and the bottom half of the country continually losing buying power.
re: #192 teleskiguy
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That’s a pleasant surprise. WV still has a long ways to go though.
When Michelle Wie wanted to play on the men’s tour, golf fans went apeshit. They expected her to win on the LPGA Tour first before she could be “worthy” of playing with the men. These people never could explain why she had to win first but rookie male players didn’t.
re: #192 teleskiguy
Speaking of coal country.
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Visions of souped-up Hudsons packed with product, crossing the Big Sandy bridges with their headlights out.
re: #195 freetoken
IMO the big picture here is that globalization + automation is rapidly getting us to the point where we have far more people than jobs in the US.
At that point, all of the old assumptions about how society has to be ordered (i.e., work to live) fail. The least radical proposal that has a chance of addressing this, IMO, is a guaranteed living wage. But that is an exceedingly difficult thing to get enacted in a plutocracy like the US.
The plutocrats’ preferred plan (implicitly from their actions in running the GOP) is for the useless mouths to die.
re: #198 Decatur Deb
Visions of souped-up Hudsons packed with product, crossing the Big Sandy bridges with their headlights out.
I’m not saying that this is because @jbarro has no morals and just irrationally hates the Clinton family but that probably isnt far off
— (((Will Cubbison))) (@wccubbison) March 29, 2017
re: #199 EPR-radar
IMO the big picture here is that globalization + automation is rapidly getting us to the point where we have far more people than jobs in the US.
At that point, all of the old assumptions about how society has to be ordered (i.e., work to live) fail. The least radical proposal that has a chance of addressing this, IMO, is a guaranteed living wage. But that is an exceedingly difficult thing to get enacted in a plutocracy like the US.
The plutocrats’ preferred plan (implicitly from their actions in running the GOP) is for the useless mouths to die.
People are so threatened by the living wage idea. But you’re right, we have to stop viewing this in a 1950’s economic prism where a person could be expected to provide for their family with a 9-5 job.
Patriot Vladimir Kara-Murza on Chris Hayes show, reminds us that Putin regime is looting Russia & Russian taxpayers. Just like the Trumps.
— (((Robert Arthur))) (@jaunte) March 30, 2017
Just like the Trumps want to do to us unless we stop them.
re: #201 goddamnedfrank
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re: #202 HappyWarrior
People are so threatened by the living wage idea. But you’re right, we have to stop viewing this in a 1950’s economic prism where a person could be expected to provide for their family with a 9-5 job.
Living wage or a Mad Max Hellscape. Pick one.
re: #205 EPR-radar
Living wage or a Mad Max Hellscape. Pick one.
Mad Max Hellscape has no regulations though. //
re: #195 freetoken
Similar stories can be told all over Trump-land.
In my hometown there used to be meat-packing plants. They are all gone now…
But it used to be a guy with just a basic education could get a job there, get a wage good enough to have a life.
Now all that location has is Walmart jobs.
So yes, the despair from the down-grading of employment is real.
This is after all what the collective concern is over the top 1% collecting all the wealth and the bottom half of the country continually losing buying power.
True, although the thing about mining is that it’s really pretty much limited to where the coal is, whereas manufacturing is more ‘portable’. So folks in the coalmining areas end up jobless in the middle of nowhere, rather than jobless in a metro area.
One thing struck me from the thread:
Local unemployment can also be thought of as local overpopulation. That is, there are more people living there than there are jobs to support them. But if you believe that the size of your town is The Size God Intended, then you need something to provide jobs enough for those people.
And there’s a lot of racism in this, too. When manufacturing left the cities, leaving urban blacks stranded with no jobs in the cities, the response was “Look at those lazy black people! The depend on welfare, they use drugs, and can’t keep their families together!” Now that the SAME THING is happening to an area that’s largely rural and overwhelmingly white, the response is, “Look at those poor people, who had their way of life STOLEN!!!”
re: #206 HappyWarrior
Mad Max Hellscape has no regulations though. //
And everyone is self-employed.
I think we just need to stop living in the past. Hey, it’s great if you or your parents were able to make it through school and a job but acknowledge that tuition was cheaper in those days and that wages were higher adjusted for inflation too. The problem really is while our productivity is high, wages have stagnated and that’s something I definitely blame on right wing attitudes on economics.
re: #208 jaunte
And everyone is self-employed.
Get your homemade baseball bats here. Get em while they’re cheap!
The Republican game plan to remake American society (with them at the top of the heap):
“Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of Warre, where every man is Enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without other security, than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withall. In such condition, there is no place for Industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain; and consequently no Culture of the Earth; no Navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by Sea; no commodious Building; no Instruments of moving, and removing such things as require much force; no Knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continuall feare, and danger of violent death; And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short.”
re: #207 Blind Frog Belly White
True, although the thing about mining is that it’s really pretty much limited to where the coal is, whereas manufacturing is more ‘portable’. So folks in the coalmining areas end up jobless in the middle of nowhere, rather than jobless in a metro area.
One thing struck me from the thread:
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Local unemployment can also be thought of as local overpopulation. That is, there are more people living there than there are jobs to support them. But if you believe that the size of your town is The Size God Intended, then you need something to provide jobs enough for those people.
And there’s a lot of racism in this, too. When manufacturing left the cities, leaving urban blacks stranded with no jobs in the cities, the response was “Look at those lazy black people! The depend on welfare, they use drugs, and can’t keep their families together!” Now that the SAME THING is happening to an area that’s largely rural and overwhelmingly white, the response is, “Look at those poor people, who had their way of life STOLEN!!!”
So fucking true.
re: #207 Blind Frog Belly White
It’s striking that a lot of the people in Appalachia seem to have forgotten that their ancestors probably didn’t want to come there from Europe, they were forced by economic pressure to change location.
re: #144 goddamnedfrank
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How do you do it?
re: #207 Blind Frog Belly White
Local unemployment can also be thought of as local overpopulation.
But… that is only true when the local population imports the stuff they need for life.
People == jobs.
Jobs == people.
If there are not enough jobs for a certain locale, that means the people there are hiring, indirectly, other people far far away to provide them goods and services.
This is the source of the agitation behind protectionism. While protectionism is mostly mindless, underneath all the ugliness is a simple truth: if you hire someone far away to make something for you, then you’ve not employed someone nearby to make it for you.
re: #206 HappyWarrior
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Oh, Milton Friedman and the Chicago school.
re: #199 EPR-radar
IMO the big picture here is that globalization + automation is rapidly getting us to the point where we have far more people than jobs in the US.
At that point, all of the old assumptions about how society has to be ordered (i.e., work to live) fail. The least radical proposal that has a chance of addressing this, IMO, is a guaranteed living wage. But that is an exceedingly difficult thing to get enacted in a plutocracy like the US.
The plutocrats’ preferred plan (implicitly from their actions in running the GOP) is for the useless mouths to die.
Bingo.
The old Utopian assumption was that we’d just keep shortening the work week, and expanding leisure hours, while keeping wages growing. Instead, wages stayed the same or declined as the workweek actually expanded a bit, and fewer jobs were created.
re: #209 HappyWarrior
I think we just need to stop living in the past. Hey, it’s great if you or your parents were able to make it through school and a job but acknowledge that tuition was cheaper in those days and that wages were higher adjusted for inflation too. The problem really is while our productivity is high, wages have stagnated and that’s something I definitely blame on right wing attitudes on economics.
As I recall, the great disconnect between productivity and wages started around 1980 and wages have been flat since then while productivity has continued to increase.
The level of wealth and income redistribution that this justifies in my mind is astronomical, even though I know full well that anything that would even come close to making up for this would be instantly and successfully branded as ‘communism’.
What I think honestly makes the right wing way of approaching the economy work is as we get further and further away from people who had to fight for things like the 8 hour work day, 40 hour work week, benefits etc, we forget. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people my age flat out take unions for granted.
re: #218 EPR-radar
As I recall, the great disconnect between productivity and wages started around 1980 and wages have been flat since then while productivity has continued to increase.
The level of wealth and income redistribution that this justifies in my mind is astronomical, even though I know full well that anything that would even come close to making up for this would be instantly and successfully branded as ‘communism’.
Yes, the genesis really begins in the Reagan years which I don’t think is a coincidence.
The bottom line is we’re stuck with a lot of 18th century thinking and institutions in a 21st century world that needs to work a different way.
re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth
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not laughing.
He read it.
Right off the teleprompter.
Someone should have said they were not that familiar with Susan B., would he like to tell them about her?
That would have been interesting.
re: #222 freetoken
The bottom line is we’re stuck with a lot of 18th century thinking and institutions in a 21st century world that needs to work a different way.
Right on.
A reminder why passenger aircraft use two pilots
Captain declares n emergency two miles out due to “medical issue”
Paramedics meet aircraft at gate, perform CPR for 35-40 minutes
American Airlines co-pilot dies at gate after landing in Albuquerque, New Mexico. https://t.co/PU77jviWKE
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) March 30, 2017
WTF did I do to deserve a “Ben Shapiro DESTROYS” video recommendation on my YouTube. Just a pet peeve, stop saying “DESTROYS’, it’s discussion of issues not the WW fucking E. Stop making the discussion of ideas out to be like staged fighting.
The internet’s anonymous Nazis are realizing they played themselves now that Trump plans to kill internet privacy https://t.co/oHLaqIFdIE pic.twitter.com/Zd5cjRJFv7
— SPIN (@SPIN) March 29, 2017
Seattle sues over President Trump’s “sanctuary cities” threat, calls executive order unconstitutional https://t.co/qRkKo8kEUh pic.twitter.com/hbaTwK8QeH
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) March 30, 2017
Trump is going to learn that he can’t order jurisdictions to violate the Fourth Amendment and detain people without a warrant. https://t.co/2PLP0bUowr
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 30, 2017
@tcalaquilac Ex parte Merryman. Trump might be stupid enough to try it but SCOTUS won’t allow.
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 30, 2017
I know Merryman has a lot of issues but seriously just come on, does anybody really thing SCOTUS is just going to accept warrantless detention of anybody that the government simply asserts is here illegally?
re: #225 FormerDirtDart
A reminder why passenger aircraft use two pilots
I imagine there’s another onerous regulation about that in danger of being eliminated.
re: #221 HappyWarrior
Yes, the genesis really begins in the Reagan years which I don’t think is a coincidence.
No coincidence at all. The other thing I think is no coincidence is that feral capitalism seems to have gotten markedly worse since the fall of the Soviet Union.
It would appear that the plutocrats are no longer concerned about making all of that old Communist propaganda about capitalism true.
re: #232 EPR-radar
No coincidence at all. The other thing I think is no coincidence is that feral capitalism seems to have gotten markedly worse since the fall of the Soviet Union.
It would appear that the plutocrats are no longer concerned about making all of that old Communist propaganda about capitalism true.
You know, I never thought about that but that’s actually a really good point.
— Theater of SciFi (@theaterofscifi) March 30, 2017
re: #229 goddamnedfrank
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I know Merryman has a lot of issues but seriously just come on, does anybody really thing SCOTUS is just going to accept warrantless detention of anybody that the government simply asserts is here illegally?
The answer to this question depends mainly on how many right wing nut jobs we have on SCOTUS at the time such a case is considered. The rot goes very deep, and Thomas and Alito of the sitting justices would be a ‘yes’ on such warrantless detention IMO.
re: #152 majii
“Somewhat unspoken is the point that the plentiful, well paying mining jobs for the uneducated devalued education among a population prone to mistrust education in the first place, so nobody put money into it.”
I think the somewhat inherent anti-government mindset of some in some coal mining regions, along with a penchant for isolationism [I can pull myself up by my bootstraps, don’t need any help,] and a “fear” of outsiders, along with other factors, might have played role in their resistance to attempts at introducing new ideas and jobs in these regions which would act as an accompaniment to thinking education isn’t as important as it should be.
If Ohio is any trend, those coal mine areas of are dying off with the elder people that had that mindset.
From what I can see, those communities are shrinking as their children go off to school and to find jobs and realize reality and they are moving to the bigger cities like here in Columbus.
It’s only 100 miles at most from almost all of Ohio’s coal country (what is even left…it started to die back in the 80s) and it is continuing to grow and grow. I think a good percentage are from those areas of Ohio, and even from West Virginia and Kentucky.
I drive through the hills of Ohio to check it out and enjoy the twisty roads with my VW. Those old Appalachian type towns are abandoned and falling down. So are the homes around there too.
In 50 years, not many are even going to be living in coal country unless they are retired and like the area for fishing and hunting, etc.
Another thing that might come from it all, those new residents to the big city might not cling to some of the old ways…meaning some will become more liberal in their thinking and hopefully in their politics.
re: #222 freetoken
The bottom line is we’re stuck with a lot of 18th century thinking and institutions in a 21st century world that needs to work a different way.
There’s a story I’ve probably told here before, about a Conservative friend who challenged me to a debate on an internet forum with the topic
“Resolved: That an employer owes his employees no more compensation than is necessary to keep them from going elsewhere.”
My first response was, “Certainly, as long as you agree that the employee owes his employer no more work than is necessary to keep from being fired.”
He was OUTRAGED!!!! You should do your best, no matter what! This was What’s Wrong With This Country, that workers slacked off, etc.
To him, the employer’s responsibility is a business equation, but the worker’s responsibility was a moral imperative. This thinking is common everywhere, but mostly on the Right, and at its heart is the belief that work itself is a moral imperative. Now, working less than 40 hours is viewed as somehow shameful, and we pay based on that. At the same time, technology moves forward, making more goods with fewer workers. We end up with more people than work.
Oh shit!
Texas Chapter of Anti-LGBT Hate Group Mass Resistance Launches, Helmed by Robert Oscar López
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re: #204 HappyWarrior
I wouldn’t complain if Chelsea ran for office. Honestly, I’m sick of the constant whining by the far left about the Clintons. It’s their party too and they’re entitled to their opinions and if enough people want to vote for Chelsea to nominate her for an office, more power to them.
I wouldn’t complain either but it’s smart of her to recognize how (unfairly) unwelcoming the political climate is. Pragmatism, even in the fact of undeserved bullshit, is a trait I will always admire. There’s a time to buck the system and, in this case, a time to realize she is perceived as the system. Yet, in spite of the benefits she would derive through her family connections running for office is still vastly different from having your Daddy just give you one.
re: #188 Blind Frog Belly White
Do you have an actual point? Because it seems to me you may have read down the thread till you hit ‘$80,000’ and stopped, missing the entire point of the thread.
did not miss a thing.
I tried to add some personal experience, which is that $80,000/year is not the norm, at least not in eastern Kentucky.
re: #239 goddamnedfrank
I wouldn’t complain either but it’s smart of her to recognize how (unfairly) unwelcoming the political climate is. Pragmatism, even in the fact of undeserved bullshit, is a trait I will always admire. There’s a time to buck the system and, in this case, a time to realize she is perceived as the system. Yet, in spite of the benefits she would derive through her family connections running for office is still vastly different from having your Daddy just give you one.
Yes, agreed on both counts.
re: #235 EPR-radar
The answer to this question depends mainly on how many right wing nut jobs we have on SCOTUS at the time such a case is considered. The rot goes very deep, and Thomas and Alito of the sitting justices would be a ‘yes’ on such warrantless detention IMO.
Even they would have to be mindful of the kind of power they’d be handing to a Democratic President. I doubt they’re that stupid.
re: #237 Blind Frog Belly White
This vertical view of life:
master-slave
employer-employee
lord-tenant
… is deeply held and reified in our society.
For those of us who want to point this out, we have to be prepared for a lot of backlash.
As usual, I will be a broken record here, and the central nugget of this vertical relationship is enshrined in our religions:
God-creature
The deepest urge in the backlash is that once you start peeling away the layers of obfuscation, what we’re really saying is that the world is not what our society used to teach us.
I mean a good work ethic is a good thing to have but there’s something deeply wrong I think if a person has to work 80 hours to provide for their family and is still struggling. When I saw Perriello speak on Friday night, be brought up such a person and there are a lot of people like that in the economy. The biggest problem I have with the right is they oppose things like welfare but they also oppose wage floors too.
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— MichaelLoBurgio (@MikeLoBurgio) March 29, 2017
re: #240 Backwoods_Sleuth
did not miss a thing.
I tried to add some personal experience, which is that $80,000/year is not the norm, at least not in eastern Kentucky.
That would probably be a formans wage. Working management.
re: #243 freetoken
Bingo. That’s why I think a big part of Trump’s ‘success’ is based on his perceived wealth.
Groveling to the rich is so ingrained in most of society and particularly on the right that even the never-Trumpers often end up going easier on Trump than they really should.
Trump is the nearest thing to God that wingnuts are ever going to see in this life. That just soaks into every fiber of their being and turns them into submissive puddles of goo, particularly when he tells them lies they want to hear and validates their resentment and bigotry.
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re: #244 HappyWarrior
I mean a good work ethic is a good thing to have but there’s something deeply wrong I think if a person has to work 80 hours to provide for their family and is still struggling. When I saw Perriello speak on Friday night, be brought up such a person and there are a lot of people like that in the economy. The biggest problem I have with the right is they oppose things like welfare but they also oppose wage floors too.
$10 million per year is on the low end for US CEO compensation. Assuming (!) a 2000 hour work year, that works out to $5000 an hour.
There is absolutely no way to justify that kind of compensation for anyone who isn’t performing at godlike levels. Most of these folks are nowhere near that level, despite their press releases to that effect.
re: #228 freetoken
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re: #250 FormerDirtDart
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That reminds me of Newt crying about the Catholic orphanages that had to shut down over bans on denying LGBT couples adoption. This shit just needs to stop. Stop using your religious prejudices as an excuse to be a jerk. I may not like Evangelicals and what they believe in but if I ran an orphanage or service designed to help kids, I would never deny someone simply because they were Evangelical.
re: #250 FormerDirtDart
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re: #238 Shiplord Kirel
Oh shit!
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Btw, Lopez has written a self-published book called Wackos Thugs and Perverts: Clintonian Decadence in Academia in which he blames the Clintons for debauchery and general gayness in the academic world.
re: #251 EPR-radar
$10 million per year is on the low end for US CEO compensation. Assuming (!) a 2000 hour work year, that works out to $5000 an hour.
There is absolutely no way to justify that kind of compensation for anyone who isn’t performing at godlike levels. Most of these folks are nowhere near that level, despite their press releases to that effect.
We have so many people in this country and no doubt some of our own friends and family who really believe someone’s self worth as an individual is directly correlated to how much they make.
re: #165 Decatur Deb
To be fair to the little naifs, the margin was so close that almost any identifiable negative tossed the electoral college. We really had to work at it to blow this one.
I understand your point, but there were certainly other things going on in this election that were not in previous elections and they had as much to do with it as what you see as not working.
A few: Russians, fake news, the media following the TV star for ratings, and what I think was a biggie, the first woman coming just after the first Black president that was slimed and resisted and made to look bad, and she was running as a continuation of his policies, the emails, the emails, the emails and the FBI, our citizens (those you talked about upthread) being really really ignorant and evil.
It was a steeper hill in my opinion and looking back on all the dynamics it was maybe like a super cell storm. A lot of bad hot air running into the cold, plenty of moisture hitting a dry atmosphere…and we all got into the vortex and torn up.
Really, who could have prepared for all of that?
re: #256 Shiplord Kirel
Btw, Lopez has written a self-published book called Wackos Thugs and Perverts: Clintonian Decadence in Academia in which he blames the Clintons for debauchery and general gayness in the academic world.
Guy sounds like a real piece of work.
re: #236 ObserverArt
In 1988, Mrs. FBW and I drove across the US on Rt 80. I vividly remember one small town in Iowa where we stopped for dinner (which was awful). It looked like many a small town, with a bank, a cafe, a couple of stores.
Or, a couple of storeFRONTS. One of the buildings had apparently been gutted by fire, years ago, and now there was the brick storefront, complete with the big windows, but with no glass. No store behind it, just overgrown weeds.
There were a handful of cars in the whole town. Only one other party in the cafe. The town was dying, or had died. And that was 29 years ago.
re: #258 ObserverArt
I understand your point, but there were certainly other things going on in this election that were not in previous elections and they had as much to do with it as what you see as not working.
A few: Russians, fake news, the media following the TV star for ratings, and what I think was a biggie, the first woman coming just after the first Black president that was slimed and resisted and made to look bad, and she was running as a continuation of his policies, the emails, the emails, the emails and the FBI, our citizens (those you talked about upthread) being really really ignorant and evil.
It was a steeper hill in my opinion and looking back on all the dynamics it was maybe like a super cell storm. A lot of bad hot air running into the cold, plenty of moisture hitting a dry atmosphere…and we all got into the vortex and torn up.
Really, who could have prepared for all of that?
That’s the point. We didn’t lose because of all of that—just avoiding one or two of the pitfalls would have turned the trick. Still waiting for a credible post-mortem from anyone versed in the election. Perhaps the guys who did The Victory Lab in 2012 will do a sequel.
re: #256 Shiplord Kirel
Btw, Lopez has written a self-published book called Wackos Thugs and Perverts: Clintonian Decadence in Academia in which he blames the Clintons for debauchery and general gayness in the academic world.
I think it fair to assume that Lopez is a self-loathing closet case. You don’t get to this level of anti-gay nonsense just by taking your preacher’s interpretation of the Bible seriously.
re: #261 Decatur Deb
That’s the point. We didn’t lose because of all of that—just avoiding one or two of the pitfalls would have turned the trick. Still waiting for a credible post-mortem from anyone versed in the election. Perhaps the guys who did The Victory Lab in 2012 will do a sequel.
My post mortem: “Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of them are stupider than that.”
@mattwhouse @Interior The wall will be invisible and 37% of Americans will believe that it’s really there
— Paul Rieder (@smoke_grinder) March 29, 2017
re: #140 Blind Frog Belly White
Read the whole thread. He raises interesting points about why “We’re gonna bring back COAL!!!” resonates in Appalachia.
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Take home is that because coal put a LOT of people to work, for a lot of years, paying good wages with no education, it created the expectation that this was how things were SUPPOSED TO BE. And as a result, there’s the expectation that it can be that way again.
It can’t.
Somewhat unspoken is the point that the plentiful, well paying mining jobs for the uneducated devalued education among a population prone to mistrust education in the first place, so nobody put money into it.
Heh, I know Lyman Stone. He was a smart and fairly open-minded student.
Name sounds familiar - has LGF covered her bs?
Who is Julia Hahn? The “ghost” who’s scorched Paul Ryan in print and is now Bannon’s close aide. https://t.co/PPw1UEpuMQ
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) March 30, 2017
re: #214 ObserverArt
Damn Frank…you seem to have hit a vane of far-leftest/libertarian/contrarian Twitter Political Editorialists. It’s the motherlode!!!
How do you do it?
Dammit!!! I get too busy trying to catch up I do stooopid spelling errors.
It should be vein.
I’ll show myself out now…
re: #222 freetoken
The bottom line is we’re stuck with a lot of 18th century thinking and institutions in a 21st century world that needs to work a different way.
This.
re: #251 EPR-radar
$10 million per year is on the low end for US CEO compensation. Assuming (!) a 2000 hour work year, that works out to $5000 an hour.
There is absolutely no way to justify that kind of compensation for anyone who isn’t performing at godlike levels. Most of these folks are nowhere near that level, despite their press releases to that effect.
If your only talking about fortune 500 companies your numbers are right. The majority of CEOs in the US are not fortune 500 CEOs.
While I agree some of their compensation is way out of whack with their actual performance, much like a sports team signing top pro athletes or a producer signing a big star to his next movie, you are always taking a chance signing that contract. Why should a CEO being hired to run a company with billions or 100’s of billions in revenue not be paid as much as Tom Brady or Tom Cruise?
The story of Ivanka & Jared’s rise to fame, fortune, and now power based on nothing but hard work and extremely rich parents is inspiring.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 30, 2017
re: #261 Decatur Deb
That’s the point. We didn’t lose because of all of that—just avoiding one or two of the pitfalls would have turned the trick. Still waiting for a credible post-mortem from anyone versed in the election. Perhaps the guys who did The Victory Lab in 2012 will do a sequel.
How do you avoid all that was coming at the speed and timing it occurred?
You can be the world’s best fireman, all trained and experienced in everything. But then in a fire you’re already fighting someone comes along with a KC-135 Stratotanker and dumps its load of jet fuel on your fire.
Voom! Fireman gone.
It’s easy to look back and say, we probably should have avoided that.
Yeah, we should have. /
re: #271 ObserverArt
How do you avoid all that was coming at the speed and timing it occurred?
You can be the world’s best fireman, all trained and experienced in everything. But then in a fire you already fighting someone comes along with a KC-135 Stratotanker and dumps its load of jet fuel on your fire.
Voom! Fireman gone.
It’s easy to look back and say, we probably should have avoided that.
Yeah, we should have. /
re: #269 danarchy
If your only talking about fortune 500 companies your numbers are right. The majority of CEOs in the US are not fortune 500 CEOs.
While I agree some of their compensation is way out of whack with their actual performance, much like a sports team signing top pro athletes or a producer signing a big star to his next movie, you are always taking a chance signing that contract. Why should a CEO being hired to run a company with billions or 100’s of billions in revenue not be paid as much as Tom Brady or Tom Cruise?
I think the problem many have myself included is that while executive compensation has gone up, the average worker’s compensation has stagnated even though productivity has increased. I don’t mind my boss making more than me. I do mind him giving himself a pay day and leaving me and my coworkers behind.
Night Lizards. Tomorrow is going to interesting.
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What climate change? This is all perfectly normal……………
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re: #269 danarchy
If your only talking about fortune 500 companies your numbers are right. The majority of CEOs in the US are not fortune 500 CEOs.
While I agree some of their compensation is way out of whack with their actual performance, much like a sports team signing top pro athletes or a producer signing a big star to his next movie, you are always taking a chance signing that contract. Why should a CEO being hired to run a company with billions or 100’s of billions in revenue not be paid as much as Tom Brady or Tom Cruise?
To me the conversation assuming pay excess in sports or corporate worlds should come at a proportion. Is that pay sucking the life out of fair pay for the rest of the players, actors, or workers/managers? If not move on. If so have at it. The other thing is perhaps who we are talking about. Elon Musk is not a fair comparison to a Wal-Mart Walton. From time to time actors and managers leave money on the table for others.
I remember that with the best intention, we made a law that penalized big salaries. Then corporate started paying in stock options, a device intended to let small/med capital companies hunt for talent and skilled executives like the bigger fish. Epic backfire.
re: #269 danarchy
If your only talking about fortune 500 companies your numbers are right. The majority of CEOs in the US are not fortune 500 CEOs.
While I agree some of their compensation is way out of whack with their actual performance, much like a sports team signing top pro athletes or a producer signing a big star to his next movie, you are always taking a chance signing that contract. Why should a CEO being hired to run a company with billions or 100’s of billions in revenue not be paid as much as Tom Brady or Tom Cruise?
That is essentially the ‘skimming’ model of CEO compensation that has become the norm at big corporations. As long as what the executives rake off is small compared to total revenue or total profit, very few people see anything wrong with it.
To answer the question, pro athletes have short careers and the marketplace does take their talent (or lack thereof) account, at least imperfectly. Actors can have longer careers, but their performance still matters in a way that CEO performance typically does not.
In contrast, the typical CEO compensation model in a US big corporation is to pay the CEO the big bucks each and every year in ways that are pretty much independent of the performance of the company or of the CEO. For example, executive stock options are routinely repriced when the company stock price goes down making prior executive options worthless.
re: #276 Unshaken Defiance
To me the conversation assuming pay excess in sports or corporate worlds should come at a proportion. Is that pay sucking the life out of fair pay for the rest of the players, actors, or workers/managers? If not move on. If so have at it. The other thing is perhaps who we are talking about. Elon Musk is not a fair comparison to a Wal-Mart Walton. From time to time actors and managers leave money on the table for others.
I remember that with the best intention, we made a law that penalized big salaries. Then corporate started paying in stock options, a device intended to let small/med capital companies hunt for talent and skilled executives like the bigger fish. Epic backfire.
If we had rational governance in the US, that big salary penalty issue is the kind of problem that could be fixed.
I’m okay with successful companies’ owners and executives being rewarded. However, too often these guys are willing to give themselves a nice pay day when they don’t even consider the rank and file that help make their company work. No, not everyone can make six figures but I’d like to see more executives in this country acknowledge that their employees help drive their success too. We never see that labor is human capital. Labor is a single mom working nights so her kids can have a good life, labor is an immigrant working his ass off, labor is a college kid working part time to help make his tuition costs more bearable, etc. We don’t need socialism but we need humanistic capitalism.
re: #279 HappyWarrior
I’m okay with successful companies’ owners and executives being rewarded. However, too often these guys are willing to give themselves a nice pay day when they don’t even consider the rank and file that help make their company work. No, not everyone can make six figures but I’d like to see more executives in this country acknowledge that their employees help drive their success too. We never see that labor is human capital. Labor is a single mom working nights so her kids can have a good life, labor is an immigrant working his ass off, labor is a college kid working part time to help make his tuition costs more bearable, etc. We don’t need socialism but we need humanistic capitalism.
For example, I’m sure the executives at Kodak were paying themselves handsomely for decades as they drove the company into the ditch.
re: #268 Unshaken Defiance
Hey, did you hear about the coin (singular) that got stolen in Berlin? Be on the lookout for someone trying to move 221 lbs of gold…
.@RealDonaldTrump I burned your tweet. pic.twitter.com/X5WL9dMIGK
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I think we’re gonna be okay. https://t.co/Zaa1I5vOYF
— Jeff Tweedy (@JeffTweedy) March 29, 2017
re: #277 EPR-radar
(snip) For example, executive stock options are routinely repriced when the company stock price goes down making prior executive options worthless.
Man, I could sure have used option repricing at my last job. I worked there 8 years. At no point was any option that I held NOT underwater by the time it passed its one year vesting cliff. When I was laid off*, they gave me the list of all my vested options with their option prices. I added them up:
Total exercise price of all options granted: ~$450,000.
Total market value of all options granted: ~$40,000.
*As part of the final downsizing, leaving the once 250-person company with 6 people.
re: #276 Unshaken Defiance
To me the conversation assuming pay excess in sports or corporate worlds should come at a proportion. Is that pay sucking the life out of fair pay for the rest of the players, actors, or workers/managers? If not move on. If so have at it. The other thing is perhaps who we are talking about. Elon Musk is not a fair comparison to a Wal-Mart Walton. From time to time actors and managers leave money on the table for others.
I remember that with the best intention, we made a law that penalized big salaries. Then corporate started paying in stock options, a device intended to let small/med capital companies hunt for talent and skilled executives like the bigger fish. Epic backfire.
CEO salaries have almost nothing to do with worker compensation. Let’s say Rex Tillerson didn’t take a penny of his 25 million dollars from Exxon and instead divided it equally with Exxon’s 85000 or so employees. That would give them all approximately a $300/year raise. The problem is more the obsessive need to increase shareholder value at all costs.
re: #276 Unshaken Defiance
I have two thoughts on the matter. First, I think the tax cuts of the 80s actually made a disincentive to have payrolls keep up with inflation and other factors. Those cuts made an incentive to squeeze every possible penny out of the business.
Second, I think stock options are underappreciated. I remember Disney stockholders rebelling against Michael Eisner even though the stock split two or three times during his tenure (and also forgetting that during that same tenure, what had become a stagnant business after Walt’s passing came back to life. The man left a lot to be desired, but he did some things right.
re: #281 William Lewis
Hey, did you hear about the coin (singular) that got stolen in Berlin? Be on the lookout for someone trying to move 221 lbs of gold…
“Berlin, where the manhole covers are made of GOLD!!!!”
re: #277 EPR-radar
In contrast, the typical CEO compensation model in a US big corporation is to pay the CEO the big bucks each and every year in ways that are pretty much independent of the performance of the company or of the CEO. For example, executive stock options are routinely repriced when the company stock price goes down making prior executive options worthless.
This seems like more of a problem of corporate governance, the incestuous nature of these companies Boards than a compensation problem.
re: #236 ObserverArt
Another thing that might come from it all, those new residents to the big city might not cling to some of the old ways…meaning some will become more liberal in their thinking and hopefully in their politics.
And then there’s JD Vance…
Speaking of Eisner, from investors.com
“Disney’s market cap increased from $2 billion to $53 billion from 1984 to 1996. Eisner could point to 18 new businesses into which he’d led the company since taking the reins, including professional sports teams, live Broadway shows and Disney stores.”
My Donald Trump loving MIL (who now owns nearly $1M worth of DIsney stock thanks to this) still says he robbed the company blind.
re: #289 SteveMcG RN
Speaking of Eisner, from investors.com
“Disney’s market cap increased from $2 billion to $53 billion from 1984 to 1996. Eisner could point to 18 new businesses into which he’d led the company since taking the reins, including professional sports teams, live Broadway shows and Disney stores.”
My Donald Trump loving MIL still says he robbed the company blind.
Well, THERE’S your PROBLEM!!
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re: #271 ObserverArt
How do you avoid all that was coming at the speed and timing it occurred?
You can be the world’s best fireman, all trained and experienced in everything. But then in a fire you’re already fighting someone comes along with a KC-135 Stratotanker and dumps its load of jet fuel on your fire.
Voom! Fireman gone.
It’s easy to look back and say, we probably should have avoided that.
Yeah, we should have. /
Let’s avoid a bit of it next time.
re: #281 William Lewis
Hey, did you hear about the coin (singular) that got stolen in Berlin? Be on the lookout for someone trying to move 221 lbs of gold…
I did. Gold is hard to run off with in terms of a really big heist. 221 pounds in a dense object? Got a hand truck? Then there was that guy in NYC that just grabbed a heavy bucket of scrap gold. Waddled off with it. Ft Knox? You need a convoy of trucks for the weight.
But a jewelry heist classic is take the whole safe. Two, three tons plus contents. Inside job on a holiday weekend. Fun fact and a couple bad movies….
FDR’s Opening Day first pitch, Griffith Stadium, Washington DC, 1936: #AP pic.twitter.com/Lqs9dIsfzN
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) March 30, 2017
The guy couldn’t even stand on his own two legs without much assistance, still threw the ceremonial first pitch.
re: #292 Unshaken Defiance
I did. Gold is hard to run off with in terms of a really big heist. 221 pounds in a dense object? Got a hand truck? Then there was that guy in NYC that just grabbed a heavy bucket of scrap gold. Waddled off with it. Ft Knox? You need a convoy of trucks for the weight.
But a jewelry heist classic is take the whole safe. Two, three tons plus contents. Inside job on a holiday weekend. Fun fact and a couple bad movies….
My favorite gold heist remains “Kelly’s Heroes” ;) Especially the M4A3E4’s but I digress < VBG >
re: #284 danarchy
CEO salaries have almost nothing to do with worker compensation. Let’s say Rex Tillerson didn’t take a penny of his 25 million dollars from Exxon and instead divided it equally with Exxon’s 85000 or so employees. That would give them all approximately a $300/year raise. The problem is more the obsessive need to increase shareholder value at all costs.
In your example, absolutely correct. On the set of a big hit TV show or tent pole film? It can be the opposite way around. A top guy gives up a couple million (say 10%) and the supporting cast does way better at his request.
Corporate, well if you are Boeing it’s way different than The Richline Group. Richline is a Warren Buffet entry into jewelry in a huge way.
Point is generalizations are perilous.
re: #287 danarchy
This seems like more of a problem of corporate governance, the incestuous nature of these companies Boards than a compensation problem.
Corporate governance for US bigcorps is one of the biggest jokes in creation.
re: #284 danarchy
CEO salaries have almost nothing to do with worker compensation. Let’s say Rex Tillerson didn’t take a penny of his 25 million dollars from Exxon and instead divided it equally with Exxon’s 85000 or so employees. That would give them all approximately a $300/year raise. The problem is more the obsessive need to increase shareholder value at all costs.
That’s a piece of math that goes nowhere. The point is not that the CEO’s compensation should be shared out among the workers. The point is that the CEO’s compensation is an obscenity on its face.
re: #297 EPR-radar
Corporate governance for US bigcorps is one of the biggest jokes in creation.
re: #298 EPR-radar
That’s a piece of math that goes nowhere. The point is not that the CEO’s compensation should be shared out among the workers. The point is that the CEO’s compensation is an obscenity on its face.
From where then does the fair compensation number come from?
re: #300 Unshaken Defiance
From where then does the fair compensation number come from?
It needs to come from something other than executives setting their own compensation to a level just barely below what will provoke a shareholder lawsuit.
As usual, the problem is easier to identify than to solve.
The indictment of Daldien was indeed big news-but this little cherry on the top just makes thing even sweeter….
Ars Technica: Secretly recorded Planned Parenthood tapes barred from publication
A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower’s court’s injunction barring anti-abortion activists from distributing video they secretly recorded of Planned Parenthood conferences and of other meetings with women’s healthcare providers.
A San Francisco federal judge initially handed down an injunction on the side of the National Abortion Federation in 2015, after being convinced that the activists had signed agreements that they would not disseminate any information from the meetings with women’s healthcare providers. The case attracted attention from media rights groups like the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, which argued that a prior restraint on publication bears a “heavy presumption against its constitutional validity.”
Some of the footage, meanwhile, was of activists trying to get fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood.
Just following my OT Eisner distraction, I was reading more and he was pushed out by investors who were pissed that Disney didn’t sell off those assets that were bringing in so much money. (especially Capital CIties / ESPN).
re: #301 EPR-radar
It needs to come from something other than executives setting their own compensation to a level just barely below what will provoke a shareholder lawsuit.
As usual, the problem is easier to identify than to solve.
There may be a number that reflects some proportion on the gross as a base and the profitability or goal outcome based bonus. Analogous to stock dividend formula.
re: #304 Unshaken Defiance
There may be a number that reflects some proportion on the gross as a base and the profitability or goal outcome based bonus. Analogous to stock dividend formula.
I prefer something much more direct — force ‘trickle down’ to be real. No more than a factor of X difference between the lowest and highest hourly compensation rates for companies above a certain size, applied equally to employee labor and contract labor.
re: #299 teleskiguy
How does Citizens United relate to corporate governance (i.e., the board of directors acting as a check on senior management)?
re: #305 EPR-radar
I prefer something much more direct — force ‘trickle down’ to be real. No more than a factor of X difference between the lowest and highest hourly compensation rates for companies above a certain size, applied equally to employee labor and contract labor.
So the minimum wage set the maximum CEO / executive salary as an absolute. A salary ceiling/cap. Interesting.
re: #307 Unshaken Defiance
So the minimum wage set the maximum CEO / executive salary as an absolute. A salary ceiling/cap. Interesting.
It is a nice idea. IIRC Ben and Jerry’s tried it unsuccessfully a few years back.
re: #298 EPR-radar
That’s a piece of math that goes nowhere. The point is not that the CEO’s compensation should be shared out among the workers. The point is that the CEO’s compensation is an obscenity on its face.
Two things. First, I was responding to a comment about leaving money on the table for other workers etc. So I think that was exactly the point. Second, that is a matter of opinion. My opinion is a bad CEO making that kind of money is obscene, a good CEO can be worth every penny. Unfortunately it is hard to tell if they are going to be good or bad until you give them the reins for a while
You clearly disagree and that’s fine.
Just watched a movie about a foreign woman who marries a beast w/weird hair who got rich off his dad’s money & lives in a gilded mansion.
— Hend Amry (@LibyaLiberty) March 29, 2017
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re: #309 danarchy
Two things. First, I was responding to a comment about leaving money on the table for other workers etc. So I think that was exactly the point. Second, that is a matter of opinion. My opinion is a bad CEO making that kind of money is obscene, a good CEO can be worth every penny. Unfortunately it is hard to tell if they are going to be good or bad until you give them the reins for a while
You clearly disagree and that’s fine.
NO one person is worth the obscene amounts of money paid to CEOs. In my youth (long time ago) CEOs earned about 10 times the base salary level - now they earn 100-500 times the base. IF they are entrepreneurs and OWN the company - different story - but today’s CEOs do not and never will own the company. They have some shares in the company - usually given to them because - ahhhh - because they are the CEO.
re: #186 teleskiguy
I watched Bush’s appearance on Kimmel’s show earlier this month. Judging from what he said and didn’t say during that interview, I can believe he called Trump’s speech “some weird shit.”
It goes beyond Trump’s insults of Jeb!. The Bushes are a stalwart Republican family, from the corporate, landed-class faction of the party. They probably watched in horror as Trump campaigned, was nominated and was elected to the office both Georges occupied.
Shit, I’d be in tears.
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