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Re: Trump Fills Stadiums; Bush Fills Banquet Halls
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godlyitems
on 22/08/2015, 10:56:06 UTC
I don't think anyone who actually makes a living studying presidential politics counts on Trump being the next president of the United States. He's a novelty and attracts the Sheeple like a nasty wreck on the highway attracts rubberneckers
Wouldn't the sheeple be more attracted to a traditional candidate like Jeb bush?
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Re: Trump Fills Stadiums; Bush Fills Banquet Halls
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godlyitems
on 22/08/2015, 10:55:30 UTC
That's it? That's all you have? So much for locking horns and debating the facts right? Like I said, Trump wouldn't know the truth if it ran over him. The mans a joke and he proved it by promising something he can't deliver. He's just a mouth piece for the useless idiots who need to here from one.
Obama proved the constitution doesn't mean much anymore.

But to be honest, Id bet most Americans would be in favor of changing birthright citizenship.

And what you hate is that trump is saying what millions upon millions of us want to hear, and it's the exact opposite of the left.
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Re: Trump Fills Stadiums; Bush Fills Banquet Halls
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godlyitems
on 22/08/2015, 10:40:10 UTC
Sorry, but he is not speaking the truth when he says he is going to end birth right citizenship, because he can't. The Constitution will not allow it; http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lessons-for-trump-from-a-14-yr-old-girl-509101635878 So, when it comes to bs, you won't find one that'll feed you more of it than Trump.
LoL the irony of a liberal saying "the constitution doesn't allow that"
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Re: BiPolarBob's Tell-A-Joke Round #1 (Prize: 0.12345 btc)
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godlyitems
on 22/08/2015, 10:06:37 UTC
There is an overweight guy who is watching TV. A commercial comes on for a guaranteed weight loss of 10 pounds in a week. So the guy, thinking what the hell, signs up for it. Next morning an incredibly beautiful woman is standing at his door in nothing but a pair of running shoes and a sign about her neck that reads, "If you can catch me, you can have me." As soon as he sees her, she takes off running. He tries to catch her, but is unable. This continues for a week, at the end of which, the man has lost 10 pounds. After this he tries the next weight loss plan, 15 pounds in a week. The next morning an even more beautiful woman is standing at the door, in similar conditions. The same happens with her as the first woman, except he almost catches her. This continues for a week, at the end of which he, as suspected, weighs 15 pounds less. Excited about this success, he decides to do the master program. Before he signs up, he is required to sign a waiver and is warned about the intensity of this plan. Still he signs up. The next morning, waiting at the door, is a hulking 300 pound muscle man with nothing but a pair of running shoes, a raging erection, and a sign around his neck that says, "If I catch you, you're mine!" The man was supposed to lose 25 pounds in the week; he lost 34.
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Re: Minimum wage.
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godlyitems
on 21/08/2015, 17:37:09 UTC
Failing to solve a person's problem for them is not the same as ignoring it. What society can (and should) do is be honest with people. Tell folks if what they're doing now is not very valuable or will likely have no value at all (become obsolete) in the near future.

The reality is if many people do not become more like Edison, if they do not start finding ways to contribute other than running errands and turning wheels, then (according to your prediction) their contributions will become obsolete. Their current contributions will no longer be valued by society. You have not established as a fact that half the population has nothing to offer more valuable than zero.

It is my sincere hope people will listen. If they choose to ignore the problem and hope it goes away... the future will be difficult for them.
Complete nonsense. When a large segment of society has been priced out of the job market, it is society's problem. Because if society's only solution is to tell them to be more like Edison, they are going to tear society down.

And "more valuable than zero" is not enough to live on.
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Re: Minimum wage.
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godlyitems
on 21/08/2015, 17:33:57 UTC
ahh, the challenge of parenting. Not everyone can afford to send their child to college but they can instill a work ethic. It is an excuse to say that some people are incapable of more than stuffing boxes at a fulfillment center. I do not believe that. Sure, there are some folks who are mentally challenged, yet still in the workplace, and that is understandable but to those who are more interested in beer and cigarette money than paying rent, that is laziness.
Yeah... all of those blue collar workers that are being undercut by automation and technology are just lazy. They could be just like Edison if they worked at it.


You are ignoring reality.
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Re: Minimum wage.
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godlyitems
on 21/08/2015, 17:21:57 UTC
I doubt there are that many people who are incapable of being more like Edison. Whether I am right or wrong doesn't change the truth of your prediction -- the contributions many are offering now will have a value of zero in the near future.

I would say those people really have only two choices: find another way to contribute or fail to contribute. We will need less physical labor. We will need more people solving problems. I believe more of us can and will step up to the challenge of developing new solutions and advancing America's productivity.

You can't ignore the problem and hope it goes away. It is a fact that half the population has below average IQ, and their labor is the most valuable thing they can offer. As that labor becomes obsolete, what do we do? Telling people to be more like Edison is not a realistic approach to this looming problem.
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Re: Minimum wage.
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godlyitems
on 21/08/2015, 17:20:05 UTC
*shrug* For a society to advance, it's people must advance. During Edison's time it may have been absurd to suggest many people should be like Edison (able to read). Today we have that expectation. Tomorrow we will expect more.

There will always be some who can't keep up. Society will carry a limited number of those folks despite their lack of contribution. But there is a limit to how many any society can or will carry. If people want more of society, society will ask more of people.
So what is your proposal for the millions of people who do not have the intellectual capacity to "be like Edison" and whose physical labor is being rendered obsolete by technological advances?
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Re: Minimum wage.
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godlyitems
on 21/08/2015, 17:18:19 UTC
The answer is to tell them to get out of the business of selling their labor and to get into the business of solving problems. John Henry demonstrated that competing with a machine at simple labor isn't a good way to make a living. But Edison showed that same perspiration applied to coming up with new mechanisms to serve man can change the world.

As long as we have problems, we'll have jobs. Future jobs will require less labor and more ambition.
The idea that everyone should just be like Edison is absurd.
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Re: Minimum wage.
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godlyitems
on 21/08/2015, 17:16:01 UTC
I think raising the minimum wage to what it would be if it had kept pace with inflation would have little, if any, negative impact on jobs and the economy in the short term. But I also think it would do little to solve the question of how to deal with a large segment of society that simply does not have the ability to compete with technology for livable wages.
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Re: Elderly White women punched in head by Black thug.
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godlyitems
on 21/08/2015, 11:21:23 UTC
yes, we saw such codes in "The Godfather". Drugs were only to be sold around black people.

Hollywood...the left's "history source"

yeah, but this discussion is about people in the USA and our multi-cultural society.

I was responding to another poster, and my response addressed his/her post.
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Re: Elderly White women punched in head by Black thug.
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godlyitems
on 21/08/2015, 11:18:57 UTC
that is pretty sad, what is also sad is Churches now feel they need security camera's..... no one used to commit crimes in churches

now we have thugs robbing them, pro-lifers and mass murdering Christians killing in them... sad state of affairs
Oh...you have video of "pro-lifers" and/or "mass murdering Christians" punching out a old woman in church? Let's see it...or are you just talking our your ARSE again?

so they brought millions of black people to the USA from Africa.

Who were sold to the slave traders by other black people in Africa.
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Re: TRUMPS rallys are geting so big they have to held in Stadiums now
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godlyitems
on 21/08/2015, 10:39:18 UTC
I believe that people are attracted to him on such a visceral level that they excuse or applaud his insane comments with out wondering what the consequences would be if put into action.
Consequences of what? Less illegals? A better deal with Iran? More respect worldwide? Maybe he should promise hundreds of thousands of green jobs without any hint of where they will come from.
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Re: TRUMPS rallys are geting so big they have to held in Stadiums now
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godlyitems
on 21/08/2015, 10:35:44 UTC
That man hasn't a clue about anything. For references, look at what an idiot he made of himself with the birther nonsense.
Are you kidding me? The guy with the most expensive and vast intelligence network ever made has stated numerous times that he first leard of something while watching the news. And there are his lies, his never ending lies. Figure out who I'm talking about yet? First - he's an idiot. Second - he thinks his followers are idiots.
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Re: TRUMPS rallys are geting so big they have to held in Stadiums now
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godlyitems
on 21/08/2015, 10:23:29 UTC
Sanders has drawn crowds as big as 29,000, has Trump drawn that large a crowd?
Did Trump ever speak at a place that could hold that many? Face it, Trump is saying the right things and he's not apologizing for it.
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Re: VIDEO: Pack Of Black Thugs Surround White 13-Year-Old… It Does Not End Well
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godlyitems
on 20/08/2015, 18:40:36 UTC
Crime is a byproduct of freedom. There was less freedom for them 50 years ago than there is now.
Thanks for making it clear that to stop them they'd have to have their freedom taken away.
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Re: VIDEO: Pack Of Black Thugs Surround White 13-Year-Old… It Does Not End Well
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godlyitems
on 20/08/2015, 18:38:14 UTC
Blacks have been killing other blacks for centuries. Tribes genocide by other tribes. Blacks on black crime isn't real? Please.
I'm done wasting my time with him. He can't be taken serious. He's too busy talking about the only people responding to this being the white racists, and blacks not starting wars, etc etc blah blah blah. I've got much better things to do than to sit here and pretend that he's making any sense.

Here we have an example of the "noble savage theory" that white progressives subscribe to. Non-whites are too righteous and pure to engage in warfare, only whites are capable of that kind of thing. Nevermind the fact that genocides have been waged in Africa for thousands of yearsp as art of their tribal warfare history, which continues to this very day.
Yes. They even sold their own kind into slavery.
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Re: VIDEO: Pack Of Black Thugs Surround White 13-Year-Old… It Does Not End Well
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godlyitems
on 20/08/2015, 18:32:13 UTC
Because it is only white racists that are talking about this right now. Non-white racists exist, but they not the ones in this thread.
Obviously you can't be serious. Maybe we should just come back to this at a later time.
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Re: VIDEO: Pack Of Black Thugs Surround White 13-Year-Old… It Does Not End Well
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godlyitems
on 20/08/2015, 18:29:26 UTC
I am saying it is a socio-economic cause, not a racial cause.

If you are saying black people are violent, I would point out that most wars in human history have not been waged by black people. Especially in the last few centuries. Black people, as a race, tend to be on the receiving end of violence.

Welp, that explains it. WHEW.



Glad we weren't discussing current events.
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Re: VIDEO: Pack Of Black Thugs Surround White 13-Year-Old… It Does Not End Well
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godlyitems
on 20/08/2015, 18:08:05 UTC
I'm confused as to why the other white kids sat around and watched. Perhaps afraid that they may have been shot by these thugs. I admit that I laughed at how hard the black boy in the wife beater punched the white guy in the chest. The black boy actually pushed himself backwards a little. Freaking wimpy ass cowards.