90DayFinancier

This forum is not "upper" to anything. It is pretty much in the alt-right gutter.

This forum really is just an annex of The_Donald.

This forum is not "upper" to anything. It is pretty much in the alt-right gutter.

Liked only for this.  Sadly the little Scottish flag that showed up on my phone did not show up on the webpage which I can see now I'm home.  But imagine it was like a tiny version of this:

 
Sadly Alex only sounds even a bit Scottish when he's a bit trollied. Maybe that's why I always keep booze in the house.  
 
Also, when I went looking for "tiny Scottish flag" I found something that is called a "battle kilt" and oh my goodness. I need to take a quite cold shower now.  

You can make up for that here in the echo chamber. Post something bad about lefties, even if it's nonsense, and get a bunch of up votes. 

Well, you got the first part right.

Have you ever seen a Trump Rally?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/2020/01/15/0475d51a-36f1-11ea-9541-9107303481a4_story.html?outputType=amp
 
RICHMOND — Both chambers of Virginia’s General Assembly passed the Equal Rights Amendment Wednesday, fulfilling a promise that helped Democrats seize control of the legislature and marking a watershed moment in the nearly century-long effort to add protections for women to the U.S. Constitution.
The lopsided votes capped an emotional week in which Democrats — particularly female lawmakers, who now hold unprecedented positions of power in Richmond — celebrated history in the making.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/2020/01/15/0475d51a-36f1-11ea-9541-9107303481a4_story.html?outputType=amp
 
RICHMOND — Both chambers of Virginia’s General Assembly passed the Equal Rights Amendment Wednesday, fulfilling a promise that helped Democrats seize control of the legislature and marking a watershed moment in the nearly century-long effort to add protections for women to the U.S. Constitution.
The lopsided votes capped an emotional week in which Democrats — particularly female lawmakers, who now hold unprecedented positions of power in Richmond — celebrated history in the making.

I think in these situations, the idea is to convince the judge you are not the crazy one. Not looking too good for this guy.

If you want to talk turkey about EU Trade, The real beef is not French wine and a tax on Facebook. 
 
The real beef is with Airbus and how they subsidized operations.  Trump's pronouncements are simply playing to his base.
 
Yes and when people earn a living wage they send more instead of using services.

Okay you are way off in left field but let's help you sort this.  
 
Minimum wage con: expenses increase so consumer will pay more. Some marginal businesses will suffer or not start.( However recent Seattle area minimum wage laws impacted employment negatively in the 12 month term but had a net positive affect in the long run.)
 
Minimum wage pro:
Increases in mandatory wages have a demonstrative increase in the health and mental health if the worker and her family.
Studies were done on the effects of a one dollar raise:
Alcohol and substance abuse dropped, long term career and education prospects increased, job satisfaction increased, divorce and family issues decreased, homelessness dropped, use of public benefits dropped.
 
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Tariffs pro: revenue goes to Washington DC , domestic workers increase employment and wages (short term),domestic producers who are struggling due to comparative disadvantage have a brief (and I mean brief) window to upgrade and modernize to shorten the gap (no real advantage on the growers front for wine I am afraid, but the winemakers get a bump). Note US steel is struggling more after the recent Tariffs while their competition did quite well, so tariffs are no panacea. Tariffs can be used to negotiate opening new markets and agreements, but folks in this forum are not fans of global agreements so, why put that in the pro.
 
Tariffs con:
The taxes....,
Increases cost to consumer twofold
1. The taxes
2. Decrease in competition
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Will trigger retaliation on the same or different sector creating lower export revenue and opportunity. Loss if jobs and wages. Lower domestic profits and rents.
 
So if you can demonstrate that the clerk or server who is bringing me my French or American wine will benefit with a better life with these Tariffs, show us. Because that is the reason most people support living wages. Otherwise, we can put this argument in the dust bin.
 

No, too busy "researching"

Let it go, let it go.....
 

My recollection was that this is new, I do remember her in the Obama era, and my impression of her then was she did stand out from the swamp and I liked what she was trying to do, now it seems she may have been consumed by it.

Sorry, I don't find Trump funny at all. Frankly I find some of his speech patterns upsetting, like someone who doesn't know he's rambling. I like Warren, and I like a lot (but not all) of what she has to say and that she makes it fairly clear what she's talking about. We can disagree, I still like you plenty.  

let me see if i can channel the anti large capacity magazine/number of firearms owned crowd saying here, with a minor change....

no one needs that much wine!

Yeah, my friends and I are propping up the wine economy pretty well.

No, we need to send Layla out as a brand ambassador.

I am not suggesting Nadler or Schiff did anything nefarious to get in their positions if that is what you thought.

I think we're both thinking the same thing. I'd like to be wrong.

That was excellent but I think she gave up a bit when correcting Bernie "that was 30 years ago" I feel she is only a step away from another wine cave moment.
 
We are playing "beat Trump" the drinking game here. A bit rich for a weeknight.

Let it go, let it go.....
 

Paraphrasing the logic from the tariff thread, we could just fix all this by levying taxes and tariffs on all other sources of energy. Once coal is the cheapest energy source again, coal mining jobs will return, and we can party like it's 1920. Problem solved!   

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/protest-by-unpaid-kentucky-miners-another-face-of-coals-steep-decline/