Russia is what the U.S. will be pretty soon. I mean the rich have built themselves up by stealing from the working class. Once the working class is bled dry, then they'll steal from upper-middle class, than upper class, then people in the 0.1% will steal from the 1% and so on until one person has full control of all resources or can easily gain control of whatever resources he/she doesn't have.

I think the flow of money in the whole system is an interesting subject there, but trying to tie that into particular presidents or even Dems v. Republicans muddies the water.

I don't think top execs think about party alignment when stealing from people. To them it's "They have money. Can I steal it without getting caught?"

The working class used to be Dems and the big shots who were often GOP stole from them. But now the working class party is the GOP so the GOP is now stealing from people who support them.

Wall street grifts (complete with home mortgage collapse bail out) and government fraud (healthcare).
We just call it working the system.

My mom and step-father are Trump voters. When I was young they were constantly broke and in arrears, but nonetheless always on the look for the dumbest possible get-rich quick scam. They would often consult me for financial advice on this stuff despite the fact that I was a 15 year old idiot who didn't even know what a bank was. The most memorable of these was the time that a co-worker tried to get my dad to join him in investing in - and I absolutely swear to you I am not making this up - ostrich eggs. Not shares in an endeavor or farm or anything like that, but the actual eggs themselves. There was a stack of pamphlets that they had me wade through, but the basic pitch was that eggs often turn into ostriches proper which in turn produce low fat meat that is sure to be the Next Big Thing. You can imagine how awkward it was for me to try to explain that putting all your eggs in one basket is the actual metaphor for poor financial planning.

If Trump threatened corporate power we'd see the end of the media's inexplicably positive coverage of his pivots and the gloves would come off on calling him senile

surprised (((kusner))) and (((cohn))) haven't outed Trump as a cuckistani already

these people will be torn apart by their own ideology


I'm so looking forward to the inevitable contortionist posturing of the midterms

using Frog dna to revive dinosaurs yields an uncontrollable monster that will tear down your park at the first instance of a greedy little man's shameless opportunism (at the behest of a shady foreign competitor)


quantum foam makes me roam

Wife of GOP attorney arrested in Virginia after having sex in a car with inmate and giving him goods to smuggle into jail

how on earth is smuggling contraband into prison not a felony

It was vitamins?

Guess they don't want to call out the woman for being a drug dealer. lol smuggling vitamin supplements in jail my ass

Not Trump's America but same sentiment

trudeau's canada

willie_woo537

(nsfw)

Soon to be United States Senator from Alabama Roy Moore has never heard of DACA or the dreamers.

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/201...eading_ca.html

How will the people of Alabama react to this stunning display of ignorance from a man who will very likely represent them on the national stage? Not to worry. The wonks assure us that they are overwhelmingly ill-informed rubes.

http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index....hy_roy_mo.html

So why vote for him at all?

We don't cotton to your fancy big government acronyms round here. All we know is he smashed the gays, and that's reason enough.

It isn't even about acronyms. They ask him what he thinks about dreamers first and he doesn't know about them. That's quiet ridiculous. I remember reading two articles about Trump's decision using the term "dreamers" in German newspapers from last week.
I just googled it and all the major newspapers from left-wing to conservative have written about it. How you can run for the US Senate and not know about this, is beyond my power of understanding.

To be fair, the interview was in July before Trump's order made international headlines. But this has been a massive issue in the United States for years, and one of Roy Moore's main campaign planks is his hardline stance on illegal immigration. He has no excuse for not knowing.

Trump is heading the Know Nothing party, how is this a surprise?

In part, Poe was simply reiterating common advice about the need to clearly mark written sarcasm or parody (e.g. with a smiling or winking emoticon) to avoid confusion. As early as 1983, Jerry Schwarz, in a post on Usenet, wrote:

Avoid sarcasm and facetious remarks.

Without the voice inflection and body language of personal communication these are easily misinterpreted. A sideways smile, :-), has become widely accepted on the net as an indication that "I'm only kidding". If you submit a satiric item without this symbol, no matter how obvious the satire is to you, do not be surprised if people take it seriously.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/uc-berkeley...take-his-money

I thought the cop might get in trouble for that one. But no. I guess a hot dog vendor is like a drug dealer to them and the cops just get their money. Well, better than drug dealers as there's no chance of fighting back. More like ATMs.