If minimum wage is so obviously bad and your arguments so good, then you should lobby the GOP congress to repeal it.

That's exactly what fake news is.

Lol

"The generalizations strike back!"

LOL. No. Words have meaning. Remember this post, dude?

Turns out that's a pretty accurate judgement, just look at this **** here. Pathetic.

Fighting to end MW is bad politics in the same way trying to fix welfare, SS, medicare, teachers pension, etc are. That doesn't mean there isn't a need to try to fix things. It just means politicians are too scared to try to make the change we need because the other side will paint them as trying to take away the old people, sick people, and teachers benefits.

Here's a good class in Fake News from this morning:

AP reported that the Trump admin is considering mobilizing up to 100k National Guard troops for immigration roundups.

The WH categorically denied it:



At this point people like Sushy would dutifully report to internet sites everywhere to crow "Fake news! Fake news!" as loud as their fingers could type, except of course that AP has now published the draft memo.

These dip****s just lie, and lie, and lie and half the country (well, a little less now) believes them.

Trump's own cabinet needs to translate from his off the cuff remarks into things that don't scare the **** out of the rest of the world, because Trump is a baby and might not even know what one-state versus two-state even means:

U.N. Envoy Says U.S. Still Backs Palestinian State

In which Nikki Haley ensures the world we still support a two-state solution.

I think you are too blinded by your anti-Trump fervor to even possibly consider why this bizarre sequence of events occurred.

From one vantage point it looks like an administration trying to incite some internal unrest and rebellion- or at least some acrimony, fear, and confusion.

Oh mercy me, please proceed.

I presume that is because Pence is obviously further to the right than TRUMP on at several things.

We'll have to see but actually arguably relations with Israel are already improved. His meeting with the Japanese and UK Prime Minister's seemed to go well. His meeting with Trudeau seemed to come off pretty well too. You could be right but he doesn't seem to be doing poorly with USA allies.


Obviously not regarding Pence. Pence is clearly to the right of TRUMP on social issues. Pence is also clearly more hawkish on foreign policy. Google is your friend if you don't believe that.

I like how More****ty thinks he's making gotchas great again when actually the reasoning in the image is a scenario the critics are contemplating as possible and preferable.

Lol @ any "liberal" preferring pence over Trump. If you guys are butthurt now you'd go wild if pence became president.

From NYT's report on Harward turning down Flynn's job, this part makes it even more embarrassing for Trump:

Harward didn't feel the same way. Sad!

Notably, that seems to be The Donald's second attempt at that tweet:



SICK!

Enemy?

Are you guys getting tired of all the winning yet?

#SAD!

Seems pretty important to him as he has talked about it literally every single day.

And lol at not caring if the president doesn't take a second to check his facts.

If Trump can't arrange his own meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus, how does he unite the country?

Article is analysis/opinion, but does lay out a particularly weird scene from the press conference yesterday, wherein a black reporter asked about Trump's plans for the inner cities and asked if he intended to consult with the Congressional Black Caucus on those plans. Trump bizarrely asks the reporter if she, I guess because she's black, would like to set up the meeting?

Trump sent a "mainstream media accountability survey" to his supporters filled with questions like "do you believe that the media creates false feuds within our Party in order to make us seem divided?"

Today, the campaign sent a followup email saying Democrats are answering the survey and sabotaging the results. LOL

I got the sense Trump wrote the questions himself:

Do you believe that contrary to what the media says, raising taxes does not create jobs?

Do you believe that the mainstream media does not do their due diligence fact-checking before publishing stories on the Trump administration?

Re: Trump tweet earlier

It's a complicated issue and a lot depends on where and how it's implemented.

The point is that measuring job losses purely in terms of legal, wage driven jobs is disingenuous if your objective is to figure out the impact it has on low income people.

People who talk about the consensus positions of economist on the issue of min wage are completely talking out of their asses. You can also find a quasi consensus in support of wage subsidies to address the same issue, except they can be easily gamed so it's not practical and you have to turn to second best solutions to address poverty.

The point of contention in most cases has nothing to do with the efficiency of the solution though - it's whether the government should be improving the quality of life of people at the bottom or leaving them to rot.