Only if you don’t consider all religion to be a cult

Heh what a shocker, Mason doesn't seem to want to talk about racism anymore

5+ pages in and I still don't know if the Trump economy is good for poker ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Brag: I'm going to pay quite a bit less in taxes. Thanks pass-through deduction!
Beat: there's no good place for me to spend some of that money playing poker.
Variance: creeping threat of white supremacists, transition to banana republic well underway.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/25952...-ryan-saavedra

And the Trump advisors are talking about ten years, not five.

MM

looooooooooooolllll

Your response seems very similar to the “we’re losing a dollar on each sale, but we’ll make it up in volume” cliche

It's close enough I think.

is this where you read about the poll, mason?

because i've got a friend, conservative guy, he comes at me with crazy stuff that i've never heard of, like the weekend before the election he thought hillary was gonna get arrested and he was worried that if she wasn't arrested by election day he might actually have to vote but he was weighing it like it was 60/40 hillary arrested any minute now. and i asked him where he gets his news from, and he kinda hesitated, and he says Reuters. so, ok, maybe he's not lying, maybe if he wants to read about news he goes to Reuters but he doesn't want to read about news because he's got people talking in his ear all this wacky right wing **** and he's just buying it and moving on without examining it too closely because he's got other **** on his mind and he's just not that interested in this minutiae.

i'm worried that maybe mason is just misguided by some people talking in his ear. i think he's a good guy he just needs to objectively examine his own bubble.

but then he comes in high on his horse to write this op-ed because it was dow jones all time high tax cuts passed, trying to stir up rubes to vote republican in 18 under the guise of poker math that he's keeping to himself he's just laying out the summary for the poker community. and people are like, hey you personally are gonna make millions of dollars off these tax cuts and he responds so mike pence, gaslighting nondenials like "lol why would you think that so silly!". but he thinks these tax cuts are great for job creating that he hasn't personally announced (even though he threatened taking away jobs when tax increases were announced), but he claims he didn't even know about the pass-through rule which he also claimed was the way he takes income from the site. so how would he even know what trump is doing if he doesn't know what the tax law did for HIM? it's not a believable line so i'm calling the bluff. show me the bluff, mason! do you read dailywire or do you believe your friends over hundreds of professional journalists, or are you trying to trick low-intelligence readers into voting for your best financial interests under the guise of a discussion about the poker economy?

That is a cringe-worthy rebuttal, MM.

Certainly no one will confuse it with vigorous debate.

Great post.

Welp.

FWIW - I post this all the time, but reading this is when the lightbulb really went on for me to explain the modern Republican voter. Anything good Republicans do, they like. Anything bad - well Democrats do it to.

I grew up with a similar dynamic trying to argue with my friends that, no actually the US is more free than Soviet Russia. The sneering contempt at my naïveté for saying such a thing is the exact same. Both sides are just as bad and you are a simpleton for believing otherwise. It's a very very seductive narrative.

https://hanshowe.org/2017/02/04/trum...se-cargo-cult/

It's all just a game to them. Of course they argue in bad faith. They know which side of the culture war they identify with, and which party claims to be on their side. That is the only thing that matters. The rest is just trying to convince others to join their side. Issues mean nothing. Facts mean nothing. There is no cargo, and probably never was.

Are you sneering at me?

I guess move thread to RGT since it has become clear that this discussion is religious in nature.

No, but I wanted to in the other thread where you were complaining that knowing what "Anglo-American heritage" is in a legal sense required too much book-learnin'.

One lawyer so far has said it's a common term and everyone else has claimed it's not. If all the lawyers (about half the politics forum) said it was common I would think different.

If you will notice in that same thread I went to bat for Pruitt flying business class and restrictions on food stamps. So it's not like I'm towing the liberal line 100%.

Did the Bush tax cuts, which were promised to pay for themselves in this manner, pay for themselves after 10 years?

You spelled "their arguments didn't hold a drop of water so they took their ball and went home" wrong.

Still hoping for a Mason answer to my question of is all of this worth it, EVEN IF the economy goes gangbusters for the next [insert whatever period of time you like here].

Mason still isn't quite sure if Trump has ever said anything that could be considered racially insensitive. He is purely on the GOP train. There is no logic happening here.

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That 10 years “rebuttal” exceeds all my expectations. Mason, if we were to email all those same economists and changed 5 years to 10 years, would you wager on, let’s say, 1/3 of them changing their minds and going from a no to a yes? Not even a majority