Official LRC President Donald J Trump Thread

Fat hurts wrote:

agip wrote:

Bubba is not harvesting grapes, doing piecemeal construction, washing dishes or taking care of senile old women in queens. Bubba refuses to work for those kinds of wages - he gins up a disability claim, goes on SS disability and dies early from a meth overdose or accidental gunshot wound.

That's the problem right there. You think about Bubba the same way Bubba thinks about a black person.

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Spot on!

Bubba representin' wrote:

Where are you going to get the money to pay Bubba a living wage, go after employers hiring undocumented workers, get the undocumented workers out of the country once you've taken away her ability to work, pay Bubba what he believes he is worth, pay for free college tuition, pay for Medicare for all, etc.

First, it's a LOT cheaper to go after employers than to build a wall along the border. Enforcing the labor laws would cost practically nothing. As soon as unscrupulous employers get the word that there is a crackdown, they will stop hiring undocumented workers.

We would mandate a living wage, and yes, prices would go up a little. We would collect more in taxes and pay out less in welfare programs.

I would also prioritize solar and wind energy, which would create hundreds of thousands of new jobs. The investment would pay for itself in just a few years because solar and wind are far cheaper than fossil fuels in the long run. It would be a public/private partnership to remake our energy infrastructure. And once that infrastructure is paid for, the energy it keeps producing is basically free.

Cheap energy is the key to a strong, growing economy.

We would build it and Mexico would LITERALLY pay for it. They would buy our excess energy because we could produce it so cheaply.

We would not need to get the undocumented workers out of the country. We would have comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship. There would be so many good jobs here that we would need them to stay.

Fat hurts wrote:

First, it's a LOT cheaper to go after employers than to build a wall along the border. Enforcing the labor laws would cost practically nothing. As soon as unscrupulous employers get the word that there is a crackdown, they will stop hiring undocumented workers.

Perhaps starting with whatever buildings the Trump Organization is putting up.

agip wrote:

it seems you people don't look at the data - how poor, hs educated or less white men are refusing to work. You can choose to ignore that - hey go ahead - but doesn't mean that it's accurate.

There is no such data. Either the data doesn't exist or you are misinterpreting said data.

Since you know Bubba so well, answer this riddle.

Why does Bubba drive a truck?

Fat hurts wrote:

agip wrote:

it seems you people don't look at the data - how poor, hs educated or less white men are refusing to work. You can choose to ignore that - hey go ahead - but doesn't mean that it's accurate.

There is no such data. Either the data doesn't exist or you are misinterpreting said data.

Since you know Bubba so well, answer this riddle.

Why does Bubba drive a truck?

To get to the other side of town?

Fat hurts wrote:

agip wrote:

it seems you people don't look at the data - how poor, hs educated or less white men are refusing to work. You can choose to ignore that - hey go ahead - but doesn't mean that it's accurate.

There is no such data. Either the data doesn't exist or you are misinterpreting said data.

Since you know Bubba so well, answer this riddle.

Why does Bubba drive a truck?

peer pressure, basically. To be accepted as a man. Men don't drive cars, in bubbaland.

or in America, as it turns out. Car sales are dropping as more and more people buy trucks.

Bob MF Dole.

This is the real thing.

https://twitter.com/axios/status/1070023244504330241

agip wrote:

Fat hurts wrote:

There is no such data. Either the data doesn't exist or you are misinterpreting said data.

Since you know Bubba so well, answer this riddle.

Why does Bubba drive a truck?

peer pressure, basically. To be accepted as a man. Men don't drive cars, in bubbaland.

or in America, as it turns out. Car sales are dropping as more and more people buy trucks.

The peer pressure is incidental. You haven't told use the reason "Men don't drive cars, in bubbaland".

Bubba loves his truck. And it's not just because all his friends have one.

So what is it about the truck? Why does Bubba drive that truck?

It's because Bubba has a tremendous work ethic. In that culture, a man is measured by his ability to get things done. His truck is a symbol of that work ethic. He might even spend more on his truck than he does on his home. He'd rather have extra towing capacity than a nicer place to live.

Bubba will tell you stories about what he accomplished with his truck. He's proud of the work he does.

And he really hates liberals who think he'd be interested in free college.

it's a symbol, sure. exactly. A symbol. but bubba doesn't use it to work - he just wants it to look like he works, and that he's a very large specimen.

and it's a middle finger to Ds who advise having a smaller carbon footprint.

You clearly don't know Bubba. I do. I live in the South. I literally know guys called Bubba.

You and I work in front of a computer. Bubba works outdoors. Bubba works a lot harder than you or me.

Fat hurts wrote:

agip wrote:

it's a symbol, sure. exactly. A symbol. but bubba doesn't use it to work - he just wants it to look like he works, and that he's a very large specimen.

and it's a middle finger to Ds who advise having a smaller carbon footprint.

You clearly don't know Bubba. I do. I live in the South. I literally know guys called Bubba.

You and I work in front of a computer. Bubba works outdoors. Bubba works a lot harder than you or me.

ok man. We'll pretend that there isn't a giant work ethic problem with HS or lower educated white men in the US.

You're on board, I'm on board. We'll go with it.

Fat hurts wrote:

agip wrote:

it's a symbol, sure. exactly. A symbol. but bubba doesn't use it to work - he just wants it to look like he works, and that he's a very large specimen.

and it's a middle finger to Ds who advise having a smaller carbon footprint.

You clearly don't know Bubba. I do. I live in the South. I literally know guys called Bubba.

You and I work in front of a computer. Bubba works outdoors. Bubba works a lot harder than you or me.

Utter drivel. Cities like Dallas and Houston are full of wannabe bubba's who drive impeccably clean pick up and work in cubicles.

TTH wrote:

Co-worker: "I'm voting for Trump because I don't like the gays and I don't like abortion."

A good deal of Trump support comes from those who feel disenfranchised and believe handouts are being given to others of which most are not like them. They are tired of hearing about the rights for women, gays, blacks, other minorities and seeing white men brought down for issues which were tolerated 30-40 years ago but are not in today's society. Depending of the economic standing of these Trump supporters, there could be other factors involved especially from a financial standpoint if they come from money. If they don't then they are supporting him strictly due to the "what about me" factor which Trump isn't going to help one iota with.

You're probably right.

The fact that they feel disenfranchised because others are getting more of the rights that they have always enjoyed is baffling. It's a bit brain dead.

Trump voters mostly believe in the following statement: " White people are more discriminated against than any other group."

I'm a white, straight male and I just don't understand that sense of victim hood. It's very unusual.

Ciro wrote:

I'm a white, straight male and I just don't understand that sense of victim hood. It's very unusual.

honestly, it's the same view held by white south africans before the revolution - they see themselves as a small put-upon group and just want to govern themselves. They don't really want to be in a diverse, polycultural system.

Tariff Man is coming to get all you non-believers!

Racket wrote:

Tariff CLOWN is coming to get all you non-believers!

^ fixed that for you