Politics Thread

[Muskie in dayton]

To me a Trump presidency is like when Mufasa dies and Scar takes over. He introduces the hyenas as they slowly come out of the darkness and all the animals are like "whoa wait wtf is this about!?"
The hyenas are excited that's for sure.

If you replace "Trump" with "Obama" the other half of this board will agree.

And as an aside, picturing the animals in the Lion King movie saying "wtf" is pretty funny.

[Caf]

This is very, very false unless you intended to include the word "minimum" at the start of this statement.

And minimum wages should be $10 or $10.25 and then tied to inflation forever so that we don't have to talk about this should-be non-issue ever again.

Agreed 1000%. I'm sure there are other ways to make the math work too i.e. food prices, property values etc. There's no need for these wars over arbitrary wage numbers every so often.

[ArizonaXUGrad]

So a woman who was raped, incest, and those where the woman's own health is severely at risk don't matter either......check. Your regard for humanity and human life is interesting to me.

All abortions are awful.

[bobbiemcgee]

$7 is a good wage for the skill required to do that work. You don't want to make $7 obtain a skill that is marketable. If i can train a 16 year old to
Do that job in a matter of hours it is not a job that necessitates pay in excess of $30k per year.

How about 14k a yr.? Standing on your feet for 7 a hr. is not even a good wage. Where do you live....Bolivia? Babysitters make more with no tax.

[GoMuskies]

So a woman who was raped, incest, and those where the woman's own health is severely at risk don't matter either......check. Your regard for humanity and human life is interesting to me.

Abortion in those situations are still awful. Someone is dying. But they're much more understandable.

Your lack of regard for human life is interesting to me.

[Lloyd Braun]

The lion king analogy was ridiculous. I agree that it goes both ways.

Umm the lion king analogy was a joke... is that not very obvious!? Lion king, people!

If I'm going to make a serious comment it would be what a farce of a campaign Trump ran that every platform was either fake or baseless. Today's interest rate announcement is the cherry on top. The economy is in such terrible shape we are raising the federal rate!

[94GRAD]

Umm the lion king analogy was a joke... is that not very obvious!? Lion king, people!

If I'm going to make a serious comment it would be what a farce of a campaign Trump ran that every platform was either fake or baseless. Today's interest rate announcement is the cherry on top. The economy is in such terrible shape we are raising the federal rate!

A lot of folks are going to miss the sarcasm in that sentence.

[SemajParlor]

Umm the lion king analogy was a joke... is that not very obvious!? Lion king, people!

Oh so like when Scar appealed to the masses through empty and unrealistic promises, unified his core base through perpetual threats of violence to the opposition, ran a campaign built off fear mongering and hatred of others... He he, funny joke!

[GoMuskies]

Oh so like when Scar appealed to the masses through empty and unrealistic promises, unified his core base through perpetual threats of violence to the opposition, ran a campaign built off fear mongering and hatred of others... He he, funny joke!

Little known fact: Scar was actually the hero of The Liion King, and the movie was actually a tragedy. True story.

[SemajParlor]

Little known fact: Scar was actually the hero of The Liion King, and the movie was actually a tragedy. True story.

In all fairness to Scar, it was a little unfair that he had to deal with such horrific climate conditions. I thought the drought really put a damper on his legacy. One of Animal Kingdom's biggest "what ifs" in my opinion.