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06-26-2017 , 01:30 PM
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Originally Posted by well named
I'll bet $20 (no escrow) that he doesn't win *completely*. By which I mean if the ban is upheld in its entirety I'll pay you 20 bucks. If any part is struck down you pay me 20 bucks. If the ban order is withdrawn or something else happens such that the S.C. never issues a ruling then it's a push.

I have no real confidence about the outcome so I'm not willing to bet more than a nominal amount for fun.
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Originally Posted by wil318466
Hah. Ok. 20 bucks. No escrow to well named.

Let me know when the final ruling comes down and I'll ship you the beer money.
Just to be clear, I'm betting this for fun. I'm pretty sure I'm going to lose, but it's for the lolz. This doesn't count against my permanent record.
06-26-2017 , 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
I guess you forgot to read the part where Trump already withdrew the first version of his ban?
He revised it to ensure it would get past the courts. The entire thing was a publicity stunt. It has no real purpose. Everyone knows this. That has nothing to do with him being (legally) able to do it.
06-26-2017 , 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted by wil318466
He revised it to get it past the courts.
You don't say!
06-26-2017 , 01:36 PM
He revised it to get it by the courts which he didn't need to do because it was legal and he would of been able to do it.
06-26-2017 , 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by batair
He revised it to get it by the courts which he didn't need to do because it was legal and he would of been able to do it.
I don't think he should have revised it at all. He started playing a game against the courts, who really made a stretch to strike it down in terms of interpretation.

Trump will win, as he always does. Face the facts, he's beating the piss out of you on every level except the media.

Everything you believe in is wrong. Wake up.
06-26-2017 , 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by goofyballer
wil barely sounds as coherent as liberals who say "Citizens United was wrongly decided because obviously corporations aren't people", yet he thinks those people are utter morons at the same time he posts on this subject with total certainty. It's amazing to behold.
Mostly, like CU, upholding the ban would be horrible, immoral and harmful to the country.

On the other side there is some combination of trolls who don't care about America and think this is about correctly predicting court decisions on an internet forum and fascists SOBs who love this ****.
06-26-2017 , 01:46 PM
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Originally Posted by wil318466
I don't think he should have revised it at all. He started playing a game against the courts, who really made a stretch to strike it down in terms of interpretation.

Trump will win, as he always does. Face the facts, he's beating the piss out of you on every level except the media.

Everything you believe in is wrong. Wake up.
Ok...
06-26-2017 , 01:46 PM
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Originally Posted by wil318466
I'm not a legal expert on anything.
And yet you claim to know significantly more about the law than people who are. lol wil
06-26-2017 , 01:49 PM
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Originally Posted by wil318466
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No matter what you think of him, I don't see how any rational person can not acknowledge Trump is painted in a very confusing light in terms of media coverage.

Some people truly believe he's an idiotic psycho who is fumbling around in the dark. While I can completely understand why people would believe that due to the articles written about him, his background does not support that view.
Snipped everything but the bit I was interested in replying to.

I don't think he is being painted in a confusing light by the media. I think the media portrayals of him are indeed confusing, but this is because he is inherently confusing.

I don't know if I think he is a psycho but I definitely believe he is an idiot and is fumbling around in the dark.

I'm not sure why you say his background does not support that view.

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Originally Posted by wil318466
If you made 7.50 an hour and don't really see a way how you could make more than that, I wouldn't be sure you would feel the same way.

After taxes min wage would be, what? 250 a week? What could you do with 250 a week? What kind of housing and clothing and food could you possibly afford on 1000 a month?

The very idea of it is absurd, yet you speculate if someone views welfare as a decent way to live?
You wrote this as a response to my post but it doesn't really respond to my post. I never said anything about whether welfare was a decent way to live or not.

1. Welfare obviously disincentivizes work to some degree, but you have to demonstrate that

a) This matters.
b) The degree is significant.
c) It is not worth it to disincentivize work in order to prevent people from dying on the street

in order to use that as an argument for getting rid of welfare.
06-26-2017 , 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted by goofyballer
And yet you claim to know significantly more about the law than people who are. lol wil
I've never claimed I'm a legal expert. I don't know jack **** about the law. I can, however, read, and I've read about the ban. I can also have an opinion. I can also offer to make a wager.

I know significantly more about the law? Can any reasonable person really agree with your claim?
06-26-2017 , 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by wil318466
Everything you believe in is wrong. Wake up.
I thought of this oft-repeated line of yours as I walked through downtown San Francisco to work this morning. This past weekend was a gay pride celebration, and I walked by an office of a financial company whose windows were covered in rainbow flags. In a lot of places in this country, such a display would be controversial, or offensive, but here it's so commonplace that it's just good business and PR.

lol at thinking you, or anyone, will ever change this place into what you want it to be just because Donald Trump got elected 3,000 miles away.
06-26-2017 , 01:55 PM
Also I have no doubt that if given the choice to pump gas for $15k or receive dat welfare for $15k ~everybody would pick dat welfare but I assume this is not an actual choice that people have?

Like it seems all these arguments are build off an imaginary ******ed welfare system that (probably) doesn't exist but granted I have literally no idea how welfare works so someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
06-26-2017 , 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by 13ball
It's not impossible, but Tennessee has gotten redder and redder recently. A GOP candidate would have to be pretty bad to lose, imo.
Diane black is really bad. As is Mae beavers. Also, the population of the blue cities in tn has expanded, and health care is huge business here. The health care companies are still furious tn took no action to expand Medicaid, so that money will back the democrat candidate.
06-26-2017 , 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by wil318466
Again, you assume situations and incentives for other people. I told you about the parents who want their kids labelled autistic so they can receive more benefits, right? Who would ever think a parent would want their kids diagnosed as special needs? No one would assume that, yet some do. I wouldn't have believed it if my best friends wife didn't tell me personally. The very idea of it sounds absurd.

There's nothing "sweet" about welfare. It's an option and for some it's an acceptable option. For you and me and most others we wouldn't accept that type of lifestyle but I sure as hell don't assume everyone feels that way.
This post literally seems like an argument against the arguments you make for getting rid of welfare (didn't you argue that we shouldn't have it because it disincentivizes people from working because they'd rather have welfare?)
06-26-2017 , 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by adios
I can't let this slide.

BLS Data on Employer costs for Employee Compensation

Basically a measure of total compensation paid by employers.

In 1991 it was about $16 an hour. n 2001 the average was $22.15 an hour. As of March of 2017 it is $35.28 an hour. That's like an increase of 60% since 2001 and over 100% since 1991. The BLS breaks things down pretty well by occupations, types of employment, etc.
Do you think this somehow contradicts OP's graph?
06-26-2017 , 02:03 PM
Opps Spicer not doing a live press conference again. Another loss to the media.
06-26-2017 , 02:04 PM
Also, the economy missed forecast on all major data points this morning. Wil, is this more winning?
06-26-2017 , 02:05 PM
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Originally Posted by goofyballer
I thought of this oft-repeated line of yours as I walked through downtown San Francisco to work this morning. This past weekend was a gay pride celebration, and I walked by an office of a financial company whose windows were covered in rainbow flags. In a lot of places in this country, such a display would be controversial, or offensive, but here it's so commonplace that it's just good business and PR.

lol at thinking you, or anyone, will ever change this place into what you want it to be just because Donald Trump got elected 3,000 miles away.
That's great. I'm glad to hear it. I've always supported gay marriage and I'm completely supportive of it. Gay marriage isn't a form of sex, it's a form of love, and it should be given the respect it deserves.

I've always held that position, since 1996 or so.

What's the issue?

San Fran is a great town. I'm jealous. I "lived" there for 6 months a few years ago, over the Bay bridge in the apartments on top of Bay Street in Emeryville. You ever been there? It was downright magical living there. I loved every second of it.

And they had a Fuddruckers there.
06-26-2017 , 02:11 PM
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Originally Posted by wil318466
What's the issue?
This place is full of people who believe all the things you think are stupid and it's working our great for them/us. California's in a great place because of those beliefs, and we're going to keep winning, no matter how many angry people wag their fingers at us shouting "everything you believe is a lie", lol.
06-26-2017 , 02:15 PM
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Originally Posted by 5ive
mickey mouse
To be fair I think he was talking about the different fictional black friend re: the utility bill.

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Originally Posted by spaceman Bryce
you could try learning how to enjoy talking to people instead of trolling people you think are stupid relentlessly to satisfy your own low self esteem.
Yeah but why though?

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Originally Posted by BitchiBee
the dnc spent 25 mil on the race in Georgia

its vs a fairly weak neo con republican candidate, you have to be blind to think the democrats didn't believe/do everything in their power to win the last special election.

trump makes one tweet supporting Miss Handle and she beats all that money. lol at you thinking trump tweeting does bad things for him.
Yeah but what about Nixon?

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Originally Posted by well named
Re: minimum wage

This article in 538 today about the effect of the increase in Seattle is interesting. Some (as-yet-not-released) research suggests that it may in fact be counter-productive to raise minimums as high as Seattle has, although there are caveats to the results. One way or another, it will be nice to have an actual empirical case study rather than only theoretical arguments. If it turns out to be the case that the theoretical arguments against minimum wages are demonstrated in Seattle, liberals need to process that information and think about other ways of approaching the problems MW laws are trying to solve.
Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if $15 is too high.

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Originally Posted by wil318466
Of course I'm certain, that's why I offered to put money on it. I actually looked it the **** up. The lower courts ruled against Trump and I still predicted he would win the case and his ban would be upheld. Why would I say something I didn't believe?

The ban has always been legal. Let me say that again just to get it through your thick head - the ban has ALWAYS been legal. It's his right as president, it's specifically given to him. Anyone with half a brain knew this from the very beginning.

If anything is troubling about it, it's the fact that the courts ruled against him. They overstepped and caused mistrust in our entire legal system, in my view. That's open to discussion but I bristled when I heard their ruling. Complete joke.
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Originally Posted by wil318466
I'm not a legal expert on anything. I'm not a lawyer. Fly studied law, ask him.
lol
06-26-2017 , 02:21 PM
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Originally Posted by goofyballer
This place is full of people who believe all the things you think are stupid and it's working our great for them/us. California's in a great place because of those beliefs, and we're going to keep winning, no matter how many angry people wag their fingers at us shouting "everything you believe is a lie", lol.
But it is. Leftist thinking is idiocy. It's based on lies. Even in your example you prove my point. If we believed in the rhetoric people like you spew we'd think angry mobs of white men go around killing gays for being gay. It's completely idiocy. That simply doesn't happen.

If we believed in your crap a city like San Francisco couldn't exist. Yet it does. Ask yourself why? Full of minorities and gays all living and working in a peaceful, civil society. My God, do women even make a decent living there and can afford to live there? How could they when they are paid 77 cents on the dollar in one of the most expensive real estate markets in the world?

Yes. Everything you believe in, everything you have been taught, is a big fat ****ing lie. Everything. It's all nonsense. Look it up yourself. Do the research yourself. Don't believe me, don't believe anyone, GO LOOK IT UP, and I guarantee you if you look at it with an open mind you'll realize it's all bull****.
06-26-2017 , 02:30 PM
wil, what do you think of these posts made before the election? Do you generally agree with their sentiments?


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Originally Posted by marksimpson
There are many points where he is absolutely correct. To not be able to see that is a fault of yours, not mine. That being said, I believe we may get a slightly better result with Clinton, as I think Trump shows too many negatives to roll the dice with.

I, as many other Democrats agree with, will hold my nose and vote for Clinton but can understand why someone would vote for Trump. I am not pro-Trump, I am borderline anti-Clinton. My anti-Clinton-ness is not strong enough to pull the trigger for Trump. That's the best way I can explain it.
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Originally Posted by marksimpson
It's pretty simple. Trump has too many question marks. We know what we get with Clinton, and as bad as many of those things are (there is no reason to list them all) we will survive her 4 years. Things may suck a little more after her term(s) but we know the sky won't fall.

With Trump we can't know that. He could very well appoint masterful people and wind up having a decent presidency, but we don't know for sure. The only way I see Clinton truly screwing up is if she ramps up military action and someone takes a shot at us. I also worry that Trump could take a more isolationist approach, as I think that's extremely dangerous for the world. I can't be sure he'll do that but I can't rule it out either.

Tldr : we will survive a Clinton presidency. We don't know what we will get with Trump, and it's not worth the gamble.
06-26-2017 , 02:31 PM
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Originally Posted by wil318466
But it is. Leftist thinking is idiocy. It's based on lies. Even in your example you prove my point. If we believed in the rhetoric people like you spew we'd think angry mobs of white men go around killing gays for being gay. It's completely idiocy. That simply doesn't happen.

If we believed in your crap a city like San Francisco couldn't exist. Yet it does. Ask yourself why? Full of minorities and gays all living and working in a peaceful, civil society. My God, do women even make a decent living there and can afford to live there? How could they when they are paid 77 cents on the dollar in one of the most expensive real estate markets in the world?

Yes. Everything you believe in, everything you have been taught, is a big fat ****ing lie. Everything. It's all nonsense. Look it up yourself. Do the research yourself. Don't believe me, don't believe anyone, GO LOOK IT UP, and I guarantee you if you look at it with an open mind you'll realize it's all bull****.
Anti-gay violence doesn't happen?
06-26-2017 , 02:36 PM
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Originally Posted by wil318466
If we believed in your crap a city like San Francisco couldn't exist. Yet it does. Ask yourself why?
Because it's full of liberals.
06-26-2017 , 02:37 PM
Wil, you personally have said you would assault transgendered people if they use the wrong restroom.

      
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