The problem is people don't believe bolded when they vote.

First off, reword this into English.

Secondly, it works better with a nice round number, and a boost, not a debit. "Would they press the button for $10k" or whatever. That's at least a fun thought experiment.

Third, and this is just a little nitpick but it turns into a big one, David, but off the top of your head what do you think the median net worth, excluding home equity, is? Ballpark it.

Can we just stop this nonsense? Governments have been trying to control the economic cycle for decades. They can't do it. Most investors know they can't do it. And Donald mfing Trump certainly can't do it.

^what does that crap have to do with anything

This makes no sense. I said the mob boss or Chiquita executive deserves a competent public defender. You're saying awesome criminal defense should be available only to the wealthy.

And I'm not suggesting that some law stop anyone from being a mob lawyer, but that doesn't make it a noble task. Public defenders can do their work because it's noble to be part of a system that respects the rights of the accused. Chiquita lawyers defending mercenaries are mercenaries themselves.

So it's fine to defend Chiquita so long as you don't get paid a lot to do it?

I think the bigger issue is that you're just picking numbers out of a hat and there's no way anyone can confirm or disprove them. Your point boils down to "some people will vote for a racist clown if they think they'll get a tax cut." Which seems true but unremarkable.

LOL adios. Go crawl under the deplorable rock whence you came.

the banality of awval

DS really is the king of making thought experiments that just have nothing to do with how the average person makes voting decisions. They are just so cute and thematic and so utterly pointless it makes me giggle every time.

This post of yours isn't really worth a response is it?

It's not like dems are gonna instantly roll back middle class tax cuts. They'll campaign on extending the middle class tax cuts but raising them back on the wealthy.

Is any post on 2+2 really worthy of a response?

If it helps, I'm genuinely confused as to what you're saying.

I don't believe you.

But, just in case. Yes, it's ok. It's not that there's some specific dollar amount, but being a public defender is a noble profession because it's based on providing the defense that everyone deserves and it's not mercenary. Motivations matter. And the public defender doesn't need to be working for peanuts, they can do it partly because it's a decent paying job without being fairly called mercenary.

Yeah. And even his specific rating on how he’s handling the economy has gone down since Jan as the market gained 20%. Pretty much any empty claim about the future has as much logic and data behind it as this one.

Ivanka Trump's Old Jewelry Business Is Now Caught Up in an Alleged Fraud Scheme

In late June, the Commercial Bank of Dubai sought—and later received—permission to subpoena Ivanka Trump’s now-defunct fine jewelry line, claiming its diamonds were used in a massive scheme to hide roughly $100 million that was owed to the bank, according to filings at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Racism and stupidity go hand-in-hand. It is the end result of not having the intellect to formulate nuanced, complex thoughts.

The bolded part is important. It has to be kept in mind that Trump supporters are not intelligent enough to see their mistake. If they had the capacity to look back on their mistake and correct it, they probably wouldn't have made it in the first place.

It's nothing more than mental masturbation while he waits out the refractory period that'll let him get back to physical masturbation.

That button should receive an award because keeping Trump's jacket shut is probably the hardest job in the world.

everybody wants to commit treason, but nobody wants to go to jail. who's gonna go to jail? papadoesn'twantno jail, those flynns ain't loyal enough to go to jail, but they all want to play. is mueller just giving out handslaps or what? c'mon

get on with it 2018

Looks like you're beginning to get it now.

I got that it's OK for the public defender. What I don't get is why it's not OK for the private attorney. Just because they are in business for themselves does not mean that they don't believe that all accused deserve a defense. A lot of these guys who get paid a ton will also do quite a bit of pro-bono work for people who can't pay. But that's beside the point. I don't think getting paid a lot means necessarily means you believe any less in the rights of the accused to get a good defense.

For all we know some rando pubic defender, doesn't really believe in the accused getting a good defense, but it just happened to be the best job he could find.

For all we know Eric Holder believed that the fiction called "Chiquita", previously known as United Fruit, was deeply deserving of the best defense for hiring death squads to kill thousands of peasants and indigenous people who threatened corporate profits and his accepting large fees for his expertise and connections with the Justice Department was just a happy coincidence. We should rejoice that nobility was well rewarded.

Jesus ****ing christ man. Stop it. Anyone who is capable of earning big bucks for evil inc could do it everywhere else.

Everyone who works can and should ask themselves the question "if i do my job better than my replacement, do i make the world better or worse".

Marketing for tobacco, funding science that opposes climate change and defending corporate mass murderers... yeah. They are ****ty people.