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- robotron3k6
- Domestic politics not cutting it at the moment?Fax_Benson
- Posting Russian propaganda? Expect a knock on the door 5 am. https://i.imgur.com/…zaq
- Comrade Robotrollutopian
- ? sometimes I wonder if he's a genius troll or just a moron...nbq
- Life is about perspective faxrobotron3k
- I guess soFax_Benson
- teh5
- robotron3k15
What do you think mono? President Starbucks
- https://media.tenor.…Gnash
- He'd have a good shot. Actually made a fortune, generous to veterans and refugees. A solid candidate with actions that mean something.formed
- Plus, if he was President, we could walk into our local Starbucks, daily, and voice our opinions about his policies. This could be good...robotron3k
- robo, why don't you walk into Trump tower and voice your opinion now?zaq
- oh hi robotroll. who is this?monospaced
- how about a young middle-class normal human being running for power? that'd be interesting. no fun in it for robo tho.inteliboy
- At least this guy is self-made and made his fortune legitimately. Plus, I can't find any incoherent Twitter rants or retarded animated gifs of him of the web.utopian
- I mean there's an argument to be made for someone like him or Bloomberg. They have managed large organizations successfully (unlike Trump who was more of ayuekit
- celebrity). The problem is that they don't seem to be forward looking or radical enough in their thinking. Bloomberg's comments on weed this week were terrible.yuekit
- As far as I know, Starbucks has never filed for bankruptcy four or five times like the corrupt Dumpty organization.utopian
- no doubt he would be better at the job than Trump, simply because he's a successful business man and well, frankly, anyone is smarter than Trumpmonospaced
- Yup, just B or S showing up would make all those morons that rambled "but he's a great businessman, he'll run the country...". These are actual leaders.formed
- Who dis guys?pango
- I do like this direction > I will run as a centrist independent outside of the two-party system.dbloc
- robotron3k8
Ooh yeah, tan, rested and ready. She's back...
- robotron3k6
Dems already threatening Starbucks boycott now because of Schultz.... Lovely. The homeless will have plenty of seating space this winter.
- Shitty coffee anywaysnbq
- good americano... that's about itPonyBoy
- dailymail?inteliboy
- best soy hot chocolate out there dgafjaylarson
- pfft... not just daily mail, Shultz got heckled 30 seconds into his announcement at Barnes & Noble in NYC this afternoon...robotron3k
- starbucks getting woke to go broke!robotron3k
- robo, your line is as stupid as trumps Build a wall, Crime will fall. You are like second graders learning the alphabet.capn_ron
- I bet robo drinks there everyday.... :)Salarrue
- he is going against The Communist err sorry Democratic Party as an independent and they can’t have that!Boz
- Perhaps if the dems weren't so shit, they wouldn't have to worry about an independent "stealing" their votes. Threatening candidates can't be legal,, can it?monNom
- what's with right-wing loyalists trying to use the word communist like they have any clue what it is? do they realize how fucking retarded they sound? ughmonospaced
- Make America great again. Cold war era. nukes. Check. Communism. Check. Walls check. It's like they want to relive it.pango
- #SchultzophobiaGnash
- fooler2
National Security Adviser John Bolton may have inadvertently revealed a potential next move by the Trump administration in the Venezuela crisis Monday when photographers captured a note on a legal pad that read: "5,000 troops to Colombia."- 5000 troops to Colorado. They are rewarding them with weed.capn_ron
- Dumbest administration ever.mathinc
- i think this was intentional.
no dot on the i, old lazy ass fucker.sted - That pic would make a great photoshop battlenbq
- Trump is anti war, but this dude... He needs to fire him soon.robotron3k
- #MVGAutopian
- intentional. he said "all options are on the table".hotroddy
- he spelled colombia correctly. i see so many spell it columbiahotroddy
- Maybe he didn't. Maybe he's sending troops to South Carolina. There can't be many places he wouldn't send troops.Fax_Benson
- ********1
- Boz-33
- How much did Trump increase the debt? This shit isn't even vaguely funny and the response is like shooting fish in a barrel...yuekit
- The truly funny part is, she is like 20 years old, Trump is 72 and she probably knows more than he does on policy.yuekit
- who's going to teller the answer?Fax_Benson
- Of course she knows more.monospaced
- Trump gas increased debt about 2 trillion, still away to go to beat Obama's 9 trillion dollars doublingrobotron3k
- Hey Robo, most of Obama's increase was because of the 08' crash. What's Trump's excuse?mathinc
- < congrats on the russian meme farm post.inteliboy
- So jealous Boz for your downvotes... there are some AOC fanboys among usrobotron3k
- socialism is strong on QBNBoz
- because this board is populated by good people, that's a good thingmonospaced
- at least the people downvoting know they're on the right side of historymonospaced
- that’s what commies said before they killed millions of people. and you have no idea about history or have lived it so you can see what the outcome really is.Boz
- The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Sadly i think a large majority of people supporting taxing people who have more money than them or are moreBoz
- successful are not really good people. They need moral high ground so they can justify being selfish, lazy, bitter, envious, jelaous and find every excuse butBoz
- look inward. AOC is actual epitome of this. She is really objectively not really smart either.Boz
- i am not saying that there aren’t good people on here, i know there are, i have been on here since forever, but rise of socialist and communist rhetoric isBoz
- masquaraded under the “i am really a good person” but is really very personally driven. A good person is selfless.Boz
- and a reason why i am friends and like some people here is because they are capable of intraspection and personal responsibility that inspires them to improveBoz
- and in the process have also helped others without expecting anything in return. And in life usually those end up being people who you call awful human beingsBoz
- There is no hell, and nobody is being killed in the name of institution. What you label as socialist and communist isn't that. It's just progressive.monospaced
- We're talking about policies that help all Americans here, not going away from capitalism, ffs.monospaced
- "rise of socialist and communist rhetoric" lol, christ.fadein11
- can you even imagine people like him if they were around during the civil rights movements? holy fuckballsmonospaced
- ********2
Fucking LOL!
No they don't want to silence you, they want you to sing like a bird!
- robotron3k15
- As you can see, the Dems really don't want to win.robotron3k
- https://i.ytimg.com/…Gnash
- trump drowning in laughable lies and facepalm embarrassing moments every day... yet you never post them. only when dems do it. blinders on?inteliboy
- Black Panther sucked ballzseverian
- Black Panther showed that walls work, perpetuated nationalism and prevent “illegals” into Wakanda and don’t interfere into other countries. The bad guy wantedBoz
- to open Wakanda, help others with military and weapons and take down the wall. On top of it black folks were potrayed as tribal and in some scenes grunting asBoz
- apes. But you know, Hollywood. Clearly deserves and Oscar.Boz
- and this bitch is an awful human being who got where she is on her back with zero real merit. The guy who banged her says so (30 years older), but she preachesBoz
- morality and calling government agencies KKK and nazis. What a great candidate.Boz
- You must be a fucking awful human in real life.monospaced
- you always go one step further and say the worst thing in the conversation, mono. Why is that?Fax_Benson
- I don't agree with Boz at all but what's he supposed to do with that comment? Ridiculous.Fax_Benson
- Sorry. I take it back. That was mean.monospaced
- I guess we’ll just ignore his comments entirely and focus on me then? Grow up.monospaced
- Mono has spoken.robotron3k
- wait, she's black?Gnash
- What comments specificially triggered you or are untrue that make me an awful human being?Boz
- You implied she is only where she is because she is a whore or something, implying she has zero merit. This simply isn't true, and it's quite misogynistic.monospaced
- and then to imply that Black Panther was racist, but was praised for it by Hollywood ... well that's just weirdmonospaced
- well the main dem guy in cali said that not me. The guy she was banging so she could climb the ladder and he was making it happen.Boz
- and yeah, Black Panther is ridiculous and some scenes were so cringy and racists especially the one where the inner tribe guys go grunting and dressing as apesBoz
- when black panther’s mother go to ask help. Not to mention whole tribal and primitive undertones of the movie despite the technology portrayed.Boz
- and funny enough yeah the movie’s premise is as i described it if you actually look at it. Dome/Wall/Nationaali... guys intentions.Boz
- It’s like Trump wrote the script lolBoz
- well, yeah, BP was a fucking weird ass portrayal of a fake, technologically advanced African tribal culture, but I wouldn't say it was racistmonospaced
- you somehow missed the point of the movie where they realized the "bad guy" was right and that community outreach was priority going forwardmonospaced
- you might label it as socialist or communist or communist, but wakanda was all about serving all minorities all over the planetmonospaced
- i thought it was very demeaning to black folks while peddling independence personally. Watch the movie again but imagine the director was a white dude. ;)Boz
- I'm not disagreeing with you, but considering the people behind it, it's quite a stretch to say it's racist.monospaced
- It definitely shouldn't be up for an oscar for best picture? Really? Fucking christ. There is only one reason for that.severian
- reanimate6
- TYT is shit. Don't waste your time.nb
- TYT is for queers
FOX is for closet homosexualsLMFAO - lol @ the guy heckling himyuekit
- TYT is as relevant as Paul WatsonGnash
- What's so bad about them exactly? Seems like lots of right wingers hate them for no particular reason.yuekit
- Granted it's not the deepest analysis you'll find anywhere, but at least they are bringing an anti-establishment viewpoint to the masses.yuekit
- In no way should they be compared to fucking Infowars lol.yuekit
- they're about as anti-establishment as a fig newton, and their analysis is just a shallow as watsons. one goes to neither for insight.Gnash
- I dunno...watch the video. I thought their commentary was pretty reasonable. Paul Watson is on a show that talks about mass shootings being staged and sellsyuekit
- boner pills. Not really the same thing.yuekit
- I certainly can't defend watson.Gnash
- anyone seems reasonable when you are in agreement with them. both have zero nuance and filter the world through a very fine ideological screenGnash
- I mean of course everyone has a point of view. I don't think they are close to being extreme though, or even all that ideological. It's more like a vanillayuekit
- anti-establishment leftism, not even going into real socialism or whatever. What I think is good is that they are willing to criticize not just Trump but theyuekit
- Democratic party and entire political system as being corrupt. Which is not something you would ever hear on the corporate liberal networks.yuekit
- I used to listen to TYT years ago (i've never watched an info wars vid) but I've scanned through the occasional PW vd...Gnash
- TYT that I see now is as click-baity, skewed as PW is. Granted, the stew that TYT serves is certainly more palatable, but they are as one-dimensional.Gnash
- I get what you're saying about the clickbaity aspect. About a year ago they had a lot of annoying hosts talking about pop culture stuff but it seems like theyyuekit
- fired most of them and shifted back to focusing on more substantive issues. Overall I see the rise of these alternative news channels as a positive thing whenyuekit
- you consider how terrible mainstream American TV news is.yuekit
- true that. but each time I've tried watching them again (of late) I can't get 2 minutes in without being offered an outrageously hyperbolic opinion as fact.Gnash
- and yes, alternative news channels are a positive, but so hit-and-miss. I try and stick with AP for news and long-format talk for opinionGnash
- Gnash4
- fucking racistGnash
- are you being sarcastic, Gnash?monospaced
- schuktz's musical choices does the goose-stepping for him.Gnash
- haha, okay, I knew you were being sarcastic, thanks for clarifying :)monospaced
- And to think there are people out there who think the president of the corporation chooses the music. LOL, idiots.monospaced
- I don't know exactly who Sam Stein is, though I do exactly know that he is a cunt.********
- the smearing has begun of this guy as racist and bigot cause he wants to run as independent. And I am glad you see idiocy in that tweet.Boz
- @monoBoz
- smhmonospaced
- oh no our dear billionaire Schultz is being smeared! Not fair. meanwhile boz rides the AOC smearing train with glee.inteliboy
- Conservatives can’t deal with women in leadership roles. Goes against their values or some shit.monospaced
- conservatives can't deal with democrats in a leadership role.Gnash
- Yet the music playing in all Jimmy Jazz/Finish Line/Finish Line type stores is unbelievably painfully blackrattail
- omfg, Starbucks almost always has music playing by black artists ... this guy simply ignored all the compilations (hundreds) and focused only on single -artistmonospaced
- Actually, I really liked their compilations. The design was always interesting, tooGnash
- BonSeff36
Ponyboy,
I few posts back you had high praise for Trump's economic policies and how they are affecting jobs, unemployment etc..
I wanted to share this article with you and see what your take on it is, since you seem to be a supporter.
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https://www.marketwatch.com/stor…
Opinion: It’s official: The Trump tax cuts were a bust
Lower taxes helped goose profits and stocks, but did little for jobs or the economy
- With some of my Trump supporting family I've sent them graphs of unemployment, and GDP with the dates cut off. None of them know where it is that Trump came in.mathinc
- If you actually look at the data it's basically a continuous path. The trends from the past 6 years weren't altered by Trump. But all his supporters want tomathinc
- crow about his success. He basically ran the last mile of a marathon and they want to give him a gold medal. Tribalism.mathinc
- They don't notice that all the indicators flatten out and lose momentum? =)zarkonite
- GDP is where Obama had it, Trump just added trillions of debt and handouts to the wealthiest and corporations (good article)formed
- The dumb ignorant imbred Trump supporters still love him.utopian
- Also how the unemployment number was a "bullshit statistic" to them until Trump was elected. Now it's the golden truth. Or how black unemployment is somehowmathinc
- attributable to Trump. Okay, then what policy was it that made that happen? No, fucksticks, ALL unemployment is low, that's why.mathinc
- allthethings9
- Right.
Never mind that Mueller is a life-long Republican, eh?Continuity - I was under the impression that Mueller has Che Guevara tattoozaq
- Right.
- allthethings2
- From Jason O. Gilbertallthethings
- lines at every SB seems to suggest people like their fancy coffees. He actually earned his fortune, gave back to his employees, veterans and refugees.formed
- Yup. I'd say he earned it. What does his success have to do with public schools?aslip
- I have no idea. This image makes no sense on any level.formed
- We all "earn it." The question is whether, morally, people should be amassing more money than they can spend in 300 lifetimes, while teachers and othersallthethings
- live paycheck to paycheck.allthethings
- How is that relevant to Schultz? He at least built a business and gives back. If you want to look at abuse of wealth, we've got the orange cheeto.formed
- and no, not everyone "earns it", some inherit it (again, orange cheeto).formed
- https://www.youtube.…allthethings
- I guess I don't understand the attack on visionaries. Big thinkers have big follow through. Who's to say he couldn't create a plan to improve public school pay?aslip
- @aslip it's the idea as to whether a moral society would have multi-billionaires at all. that a tax should be so heavy to prevent wealth like his.colin_s
- he has not earned for his labor in ages, most of his revenue comes from those working for far, far less - he can still be wealthy in a just worldcolin_s
- I'd agree that he's stupid rich. Such is capitalism. I'm in favor of more taxes for bajillionaires. Shitting all over him for being rich and running for POTUSaslip
- seems childish. He may not be the best choice, but I'd much rather go center than far left or far right.aslip
- I'm on the left but I can see the argument for someone who has managed a big enterprise, and bringing that experience to government.yuekit
- What's disappointing is that Schulz hasn't articulated a single idea about how to change things. Just bland rhetoric about how both sides are extreme.yuekit
- And how we can't afford health care or to raise taxes on people like him. If people wanted more "centrism" and were happy with the status quo, they wouldn'tyuekit
- be electing populists all over the world.yuekit
- Unfortunately this guy will be eaten up like SB stock price plummet...robotron3k
- Is English your 2nd language Robo? Not being an asshole, genuinely interested and probably wouldn't find you so irritating if so.fadein11
- lolmonospaced
- ^hahaformed
- I like Schultz, but so far he's not helping his chances. He better show some vision soon or he'll be lost in the sea of others.formed
- allthethings5
https://twitter.com/NathanHRubin…
Do you know how rich a billionaire is?
Let’s say you earn $50k/year & save every. single. penny.
After 20 years, you’d have saved $1 million.
After 200 years, you’d be dead, but would have saved $10 million.
Only after 20,000 years(!!!), would you have saved $1 billion.
Please note, this calculation is true by making the following assumptions:
— You never pay any taxes
— You make no investments
— You literally never purchase any goods or services
“Clever” trolls are pointing out compounding interest, investments, & other financial mechanisms to reach $1 billion. But that wasn’t the point.
The point was to demonstrate the order of magnitude difference between a million and a billion, often overlooked or ignored by people.
- nobody seemed to have an issue with Oprah's billions when her name was tossed around for 2020. Seems a bit disingenuous to make his $$ a mark of evilGnash
- uhhh ... I remember a lot of people saying she was not qualified, including myself, and that her $ wasn't importantmonospaced
- that was back in 2016monospaced
- I didn't gather that this post was about saying money was evil... but I will say that the money is a sign of being out of touch, perhaps. Oprah too.monospaced
- I said people didn't mention her billions, not that she was, or wasn't, qualified. That's a separate issue.Gnash
- shultz's billions are being used as a signifier in a way that doesn't seem to apply to others, is all.Gnash
- I suppose we heard different things since we come from different places. I heard tons of talk about her wealth and how trump didn’t even compare.monospaced
- Can you believe in some places all they discussed about her was racist, or hateful, or misogynist and nothing else.monospaced
