Every person with a productive job increases all of our wealth.  DNC/RNC are both so corrupt that nothing short of a full-on voter revolt is going to really change things, Trump isn't the sickness - he is merely a symptom.

Baywolfe wrote:

That was true before technology became the main component in our modern life.  Now, it is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.

I'm going to stick with what I learned from Wall-E and the Matrix, lazy folks are worthless and a harm to themselves.  I'd also argue that if everyone isn't striving there won't be any 1 in 10,000 breakthroughs.  People need to work not wanks for fulfillment.

Our economy is built around some pretty arbitrary assumptions that have nothing to do with what is best for you and your neighbor. Why accept them as blind truth? Woe be it to the masses that do, the boffins behind the big desks may just decide you are better off not getting better.

Goldman Sachs analysts attempted to address a touchy subject for biotech companies, especially those involved in the pioneering "gene therapy" treatment: cures could be bad for business in the long run.

"Is curing patients a sustainable business model?" analysts ask in an April 10 report entitled "The Genome Revolution."

GooberMcNutly wrote:

As long as they can keep media bombing you to convince you that you smell, your car isn't as nice as the neighbor's, your beer is for losers and your house is too small, they can make you jump through whatever hoops they want.

Only if you listen.  Teach your children not to listen.

Forecast:  Tomorrow mornings "Shitter time/Press conference" Tweet Storm. 

There was no Manafort BACKCHANNEL and NO COLLUSION (except by the Dems)!

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Baywolfe wrote:

I know one thing that really has to frustrate his orange highness is that he can't use a bigger font for "NO COLLUSION" so he can really make it true.  Just saying it over and over doesn't seem to work anymore.

Well his counter accusation pretty much destroys any of his claims for anyone who has ever raised children.

Emmeran wrote:

Forecast:  Tomorrow mornings "Shitter time/Press conference" Tweet Storm. 

There was no Manafort BACKCHANNEL and NO COLLUSION (except by the Dems)!

Auto-edited on 2020-08-02 to update URLs

Baywolfe wrote:

“There is still a lot of thinking on the right that if big corporations are happy, they’re going to take the money they’re saving and reinvest it in American workers,” Rubio said in a recent interview with the Economist. “In fact they bought back shares, a few gave out bonuses; there’s no evidence whatsoever that money’s been massively poured back into the American worker.”

Well, DUH!

Kind of a reversal on the "You're not in Kansas anymore" meme, in fact they just recreated Kansas' financial meltdown on a national scale.

So Baywolfe, "you're not outside of Kansas anymore" good buddy...

Baywolfe wrote:

Oh goodie!  I've never been to Kansas. :-)

Pull out a cookie sheet in the kitchen, put a matchbox car on it, imagine yourself in that car.

There you have now officially been to Kansas.

Jeez could you imagine that nuclear wind and how far it would destroy things?  And the fucking tornadoes & wild fires it would spawn?

(for those who have never seen a wild fire on the plains they bogie along at about 90mph in normal conditions, I can't begin to imagine after they have been heat blasted)

Chuck Schick wrote:

https://thumb.ibb.co/hXGFUS/Tyler_Marrone.jpg

Should have let it happen. Birds of a feather and all...

Former Hulk Lou Ferrigno, the CEO of Slim-Fast and Dr. Oz headline Trump fitness council

Probably only because he couldn't nominate himself.

choad wrote:

Calvin Trillin gold...

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-s … raffic-jam

That's fucking hysterical. I laughed out loud all the way through.

choad wrote:

Calvin Trillin gold...

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-s … raffic-jam

Most excellent!  "Never underestimate the power of large groups of stupid people."

Iran moves back to the "Sanctioned Zone" and begins to trade exclusively with sanctioned Russia - Trump is such a sock puppet and we are losing this geopolitik gambit because he sold his soul to Putin.

Oh and once again:  the noose gets tighter.

Baywolfe wrote:

Nah, Michael Cohen is completely American bought.

That's pretty standard stuff these days.  Trump played for much larger stakes and got played - every single move he makes ends up favoring Putin, we are rebuilding the cold war brick by brick.

AT&T fesses up fully  (paywall - go incognito).

Mueller get's pay to play confirmation.

Emmeran wrote:

Trump plays checkers, while the rest of the world plays Chess (or even more frighteningly: Go).

This guy just cannot operate in a strategic long-game environment.

I actually sat down and read The Art of the Deal just to see what the mind of The Donald looked like.  You can get a copy at a used bookstore for less than a dollar and he doesn't get any of the money.  Essentially, it breaks down to this, he can fleece the rubes.  Lying through your teeth is called "truthful hyperbole" (alternative facts anybody?).  He has done nothing that any of us here couldn't do if our Daddy gave us several million and we completely disabled our moral compass.  It also comes as no surprise that a journalist, Tony Schwartz, actually wrote the book and DJT just was interviewed a few times.  Schwartz is so disgusted with the book these days he says he would have titled it "The Sociopath".

He is going to make the type of blunders that Wilson made at the Treaty of Versailles which concluded WWI and an ailing Roosevelt made at Yalta near the end of WWII.  Add to the fact that the man would sell us all into slavery if he could get a Nobel Peace Prize out of it, and we are totally fucked.  Even if he did listen to advisers (besides the crazy ones) who in the West Wing is capable of actually dealing with any of these countries?

Trump's record pay-to-play: He saves ZTE telecom, China rewards Trump Organization with $500 million

Trump's masters speak with many different voices, and currency.

The Chinese government is directing $500 million to the Trump Organization, and even the White House press office has been unable to say why this massive payoff is not simply an enormous bribe.  Jimmy Carter may have been forced to sell his peanut farm, but Donald Trump did not rid himself of the Trump Organization. It’s not in a blind trust. It’s not in any sort of trust. It is still setting there, under the direction of the same staff selected by Trump, and nominally under the charge of Donald Trump’s children. It is still owned—100 percent—by Donald J. Trump. And, despite promises made at Trump’s inauguration, it has not ceased forming new business partnerships abroad.

Emmeran wrote:

Wow

If I'm as rich as Gates, I've got a massive dossier on every presidential candidate, every election.  Fuck him for sticking his head in the sand until it's too late.

Emmeran wrote:

Baywolfe wrote:

Emmeran wrote:

Wow

If I'm as rich as Gates, I've got a massive dossier on every presidential candidate, every election.  Fuck him for sticking his head in the sand until it's too late.

If I'm as rich as Gates, I don't give a fuck.  I could buy my own country if I so desired so who cares about nit wits like Trump.  I'd bet Bezos' snickers every time he cuts his hair at home when he thinks of the wannabe Trump.

I'd rather own this one.