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[Mobius and pet octopus]

no, we should just vote someone with a brain as president

let the scientists do the sciencing

Hmmm, nah, I think we need someone who understands and prioritizes science. Not saying that no one else can do that, but why not a professional. Are you saying scientists can't do the job, that sounds very narrow minded.

 

[Tranqueris]

This is classic Republican strategy. And if you guys think it wouldn't work, you're fooling yourselves.

Yeah, the vast majority of the cuts benefit the ultra rich. But give the lower middle class, rural, right-wing voters a measly tax cut and they'll be singing Trump's praises. Who cares if the rich get their millions, they got their 300 bucks or whatever and they're fucking thrilled. Worked for Bush, will work for Trump if he can cram it through somehow. These people are stupid.

Wouldn't these tax cuts for the rich come at the expense of healthcare?

 

[B-Dubs]

Hmmm, nah, I think we need someone who understands and prioritizes science. Not saying that no one else can do that, but why not a professional. Are you saying scientists can't do the job, that sounds very narrow minded.

The issue is that if we elect a scientist with no prior political experience we'll just wind up with another Trump (in legislative terms, not racist or corrupt ones). They won't know how to navigate Congress or use the bully pulpit properly. If a scientist wants to run for Congress and be a Senator or Rep a district or be a Governor for a couple of terms before running for the big office then sure, let's try it. But as Trump shows: experience does matter.

 

[jmdajr]

Tax cuts for the middle class are a joke. With all these regulation cuts and idiotic trade deals we'll all be paying more for everything, including health care.

 

[Wilsongt]

Tax cuts for the middle class are a joke. With all these regulation cuts and idiotic trade deals we'll all be paying more for everything, including health care.

Wait until the price of avocados go up. White people will really start bitching

 

[jtb]

Tax cuts for the middle class are a joke. With all these regulation cuts and idiotic trade deals we'll all be paying more for everything, including health care.

Whee hidden costs. Why not just abolish the income tax altogether and implement a national sales tax while we're at it.

 

[jmdajr]

Wait until the price of avocados go up. White people will really start bitching

I am crying already. Like someone said.

"Will you be having a burrito with your avacado sir?"

 

[Y2Kev]

I deduct a lot tho

 

[numble]

I wonder how much extra tariff revenue would be collected from withdrawing from NAFTA. Probably not enough to make the tax cuts revenue neutral, right?

 

[B-Dubs]

I am crying already. Like someone said.

"Well you be having a burrito with your avacado sir?"

White people gonna riot (I say this as a white dude, white people love avocados way too much).

 

[Pandora012]

So with all these tax cuts to corporations, does that mean they will increase their wages for workers?

 

[Zolo]

So with all these tax cuts to corporations, does that mean they will increase their wages for workers?

Obviously not.

 

[balladofwindfishes]

So with all these tax cuts to corporations, does that mean they will increase their wages for workers?

We'll be lucky if they don't lower wages

 

[Bonen no Max'd]

I'm not gonna riot because Mexican food sucks.

Now if they came after tomatos or pasta we could have a problem.

 

[Tamanon]

So with all these tax cuts to corporations, does that mean they will increase their wages for workers?

Hah!

And they also won't hire more people.

 

[jmdajr]

So with all these tax cuts to corporations, does that mean they will increase their wages for workers?

More cash piles and money for foreign banks!

 

[tedrotheredro]

I'm not gonna riot because Mexican food sucks.

Now if they came after tomatos or pasta we could have a problem.

 

[Pandora012]

We'll be lucky if they don't lower wages

Hah!

And they also won't hire more people.

Hmmm and to think Republicans believe this will be better for people.

 

[Ogodei]

I love how they vilify the AMT and Death Tax like those are just things everyday people use.

Those are taxes for rich people to avoid loopholes, plain and simple.

The Estate Tax is *huge* for reducing wealth inequality too. It needs to be hiked to above 90% at the $10-million plus level. There comes a point where there's no benefit to having that much money simply handed to you.

 

[Wilsongt]

So with all these tax cuts to corporations, does that mean they will increase their wages for workers?

Lolololololol

 

[whyamihere]

Connecticut now has two Working Families legislators, which is, you know, more than the Green Party has across the entire country.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...est-4-26?t=1493231395850#update-1493231395000

However, another special election over in Connecticut's 7th State House District saw a completely different outcome. The 7th was actually Clinton's best district in the entire state—she won it by an incredible 94-4 spread—and Republicans didn't even bother to field a candidate … but the Democratic candidate still didn't win! Rather, union official Joshua Hall, running under the banner of the Working Families Party, defeated Democrat Rickey Pinckney, who had broad support from the Hartford political establishment, by a 43-34 margin. A third contender, former Democratic state Rep. Kenneth Green, took 24 percent of the vote as an independent.

All three candidates had sought the Democratic nomination, though, which was awarded at a convention last month, and Hall pledged to join the Democratic caucus in the state House. He's now the second person to win a legislative seat in Connecticut on the Working Families line: In 2015, Ed Gomes won a state Senate special election in Bridgeport, but he, too, joined the Democrats and is now the chamber's deputy majority leader.

 

[B-Dubs]

Connecticut now has two Working Families legislators, which is, you know, more than the Green Party has across the entire country.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...est-4-26?t=1493231395850#update-1493231395000

They've got a pretty good presence across the tri-state area. It was a pretty big deal when they waffled on whether or not to endorse Cuomo a few years back.

 

[CrimzonSamurai]

Why would they design NAFTA so that it could be destroyed by a single person? It couldn't
be approved by a single person. wth

 

[Bonen no Max'd]

Connecticut now has two Working Families legislators, which is, you know, more than the Green Party has across the entire country.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...est-4-26?t=1493231395850#update-1493231395000

It's also the same as the Libertarians and those weren't even elected, they were just Republicans who switched parties.

I'm interested to see what happens in Maine next election now that they ditched FPTP.

 

[BoogieWoogie]

Good God, the sheer amount of evil pouring out this week from the GOP is insane:

Healthcare
Taxes
Net Neutrality
VOICE
NAFTA

It's just too fucking much

 

[Box of Kittens]

The GOP is better positioned to deliver the type of populist message that works during a crash. The country is polarized enough for them to be able to avoid blame. They were able to convince people that Hillary Clinton ran a sex ring out of a pizza shop, blaming Dems for a crash is child's play.

They can also disturb California, which is a positive. Things in California can't really get much worse for the GOP, so they have nothing to lose. They can just radically shake things up and try to gain an advantage in the chaos.[/QUOTE]

It is not impossible but very, very difficult to get voters to blame Congress instead of the president when things go wrong. Getting voters to blame the Congressional minority is impossible. This isn't eight dimensional chess, they're morons who have no idea how to govern.

 

[whyamihere]

They've got a pretty good presence across the tri-state area. It was a pretty big deal when they waffled on whether or not to endorse Cuomo a few years back.

Fusion voting in New York is important!

Good God, the sheer amount of evil pouring out this week from the GOP is insane:

Healthcare
Taxes
Net Neutrality
VOICE
NAFTA

It's just too fucking much

Feels like we're back in week 1!

 

[ItWasMeantToBe19]

Bonen's comments on Mexican food confirms my anger towards Socialism tbh.

Only a Socialist could have such a terrible opinion.

 

[Box of Kittens]

Mexican food sucks.

Worst take in the history of PoliGAF.

 

[Bonen no Max'd]

Fusion voting in New York is important!


Feels like we're back in week 1!

Well I think these guys are more notable because they weren't fusion tickets. It's impressive that they can get their own people elected without the Democrats now!

 

[B-Dubs]

Fusion voting in New York is important!

One of deBlasio's aids almost took a seat in Queens either last cycle or the one before under the WFP. So they've got some hustle.

 

[studyguy]

I'm not gonna riot because Mexican food sucks.

Now if they came after tomatos or pasta we could have a problem.

💩

 

[Ogodei]

Good God, the sheer amount of evil pouring out this week from the GOP is insane:

Healthcare
Taxes
Net Neutrality
VOICE
NAFTA

It's just too fucking much

Trump desperate for a win.

Although it's good news from an accelerationist perspective. My fear was that we'd get tame Bush 2.0 Trump who would stop antagonizing voters. Visible awful is good for the Democrats to capitalize on.

 

[whyamihere]

Yeah, the Working Family and Vermont Progressive Party are clearly the good guys who are extremely smart versus Energy Crystal Wifi.

 

[pigeon]

I'm not gonna riot because Mexican food sucks.

Now if they came after tomatos or pasta we could have a problem.

You're a neoliberal.

 

[BoogieWoogie]

Oh right and the North Korea thing is today too! Just put me in a fucking coma for four years.

 

[Fenderputty]

Wait until the price of avocados go up. White people will really start bitching

Every meal offered in California would go up. We put avocado on everything

 

[Plasticine]

Surely with this massive tax cut for corporations, we should have no problem raising the minimum wage to $15 right?

We're trying to create jobs, here. Better lower the minimum wage. Drop it to $3.36 like in the 80s. We could finally compete with China and Mexico!

 

[sphagnum]

Bonen to the gulag

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

Trump desperate for a win.

Although it's good news from an accelerationist perspective. My fear was that we'd get tame Bush 2.0 Trump who would stop antagonizing voters. Visible awful is good for the Democrats to capitalize on.

Yes, but it has to be impotent visible awful. "Throw our asses into recession, make us a joke pariah state with the adult-led world, and break our internet for a decade" visible awful also can be capitalized, but is much more painful.

 

[Veritigo_X]

I'm not gonna riot because Mexican food sucks.

Now if they came after tomatos or pasta we could have a problem.

I thought you were cool.

 

[Bonen no Max'd]

I'm just trying to establish the superiority of my ethnic group's food over inferior people's.

 

[DonShula]

I'm not gonna riot because Mexican food sucks.

Now if they came after tomatos or pasta we could have a problem.

Now I'm hungry for Mexican food.

Also GTFO.

 

[Abinash117]

So with all these tax cuts to corporations, does that mean they will increase their wages for workers?

Lol why would they when they are making more money without actually doing any more work?

Enlightened self-interest barely exists for corporations.

 

[Wilsongt]

Bonen's comments on Mexican food confirms my anger towards Socialism tbh.

Only a Socialist could have such a terrible opinion.

Guac is terrible.

 

[Veritigo_X]

Guac is terrible.

I remember a day when we only had to worry about Adam having terrible food opinions.

 

[whyamihere]

I'm not gonna riot because Mexican food sucks.

Now if they came after tomatos or pasta we could have a problem.

what the fuck is wrong with you

Guac is terrible.

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU

 

[Poodlestrike]

Guacamole is terrible, but not all Mexican food contains guacamole. There is hope.

Also who wants to call Trump's immigration crimes bullshit and tell them you were victimized by illegal aliens from uranus?

 

[Widdle Puppy]

I know the President tends to have the most power over foreign policy out of all three branches since the other two institutions aren't really set up to provide immediate oversight. This isn't really uncommon at all for a US president.

 

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Noisy-ass Gallup tracking has Trump at 39/56 today.

His approval has been relatively steady around 40 since just before he re-paved a Syrian airfield. Small bump recently to 43. Disapproval is a lot noisier but has taken off again since getting down to 50 last week.