Trumped

[IEAngelsfan]

The guy she was dating probably read that and slapped his forehead and shouted "wow I averted that disaster, thanks Trump!"

[gotbeer]

1 hour ago, Kevin said:

Probably a 1,200 page law written by women that no one can understand.

Fixed.

 

And Ducks.

[BaseballMom]

Assholes

 

With all due respect of course

[Jay]

only a moron would belive what is printed on some union flyer.

 

[mtangelsfan]

My favorite comment on that woman's article:

"Alternative headline - "Local Man Dodges Bullet - Friends and Family Overjoyed" "

[Adam]

He's probably scratching Obama's back. Taking the spotlight so our government can push through a bunch of gnar shit. 

[Adam]

haha that's awesome

[Adam]

Well it is 2016. The need for blue collar labor is only going to continue to dwindle. Economies evolve. 

[Adam]

2 minutes ago, cezero said:

I actually agree. 

And I'm glad you understand that it's all a political ploy from Donald, Adam.  And when it comes to outsourcing, it's not just a Republican thing. Democrats aren't doing jack shit about it, either, and they got penalized for not lying about it. If you look at the electoral map, Donald's lying about this issue was a pretty giant reason for his becoming POTUS.

I feel badly for the actual workers. Outsourcing is inevitable for the very reason you stated, and not just for blue collar jobs, but also tech jobs.  

 

There isn't anything that can be done or should be done. Saving something that is unnecessary is inefficient at best. Reckless at worst. I understand that not everyone has an ideal home life with culturally and economically aware parental figures to guide them toward a path that gives them the best chance at having a good life, but really that is the best solution out there. 

[Adam]

Trump is terrible on free speech and lacks even mild empathy and compassion. I can't understand why anyone would vote for him aside from the a desire to be relevant in our great democratic process. 

[Catwhoshatinthehat]

11 minutes ago, Adam said:

There isn't anything that can be done or should be done. Saving something that is unnecessary is inefficient at best. Reckless at worst. I understand that not everyone has an ideal home life with culturally and economically aware parental figures to guide them toward a path that gives them the best chance at having a good life, but really that is the best solution out there. 

Agreed.  The rest of the world is going to continue to catch up to the developed countries and nothing is going to change that.  People here (and in the UK, parts of Europe, etc.) want to get paid more for doing less work while people in less developed countries are willing to work 70+ hour weeks to get a better life.  At some point workers in those less developed countries will demand higher wages and maybe we'll be more competitive here but the fact is there will always be some less developed country with lax laws who will do it for cheaper.  

[Vegas Halo Fan]

[Thomas]

Worsest?

Liberal self identified SJW complaining about well...everything from an iPhone or a Trump voter wearing the MAGA hat complaining about the government taking our jobs while shopping at Walmart?

[Jay]

http://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/2016/12/06/trump-announces-50b-investment-from-japans-softbank.html

Trump Announces $50B Investment from Japan's SoftBank

Son, who wore a red tie and red sweater under his suit jacket, told reporters his company would create jobs by investing in start up companies in the United States.

"I just came to celebrate his new job. We were talking about it. Then I said I would like to celebrate his presidential job and commit, because he would do a lot of deregulation. I said this is great. The United States would become great again," Son said.

 

[Ordos]

"Softbank said on Nov. 7, the day before the U.S. election, it planned to make future large-scale investments via the $100 billion tech fund, rather than on its own, to avoid growing already bloated debt."

So they had the money, ready to invest, and it seems the Trump claim is that it would have gone elsewhere, rather than here. Perhaps so.

I am, however, wary of the deregulation idea, without seeing it - and I stand to make money from said deregulations.

Also, why would one care about the tie and sweater...? 

[Amazing Larry]

The only thing I can guess is that red stands for republican maybe? IDK

[Ordos]

Maybe he's just feeling festive.

[AngelsLongBall]

1 hour ago, Ordos said:

Maybe he's just feeling festive.

The Bone Zone 

[Thomas]

Trump's rants have done something I'd never thought I'd see, making many of the left on Twitter defend a multi-billion dollar Boeing contract with Air Force and the right question the cost of such a contract. Utterly bizarre times we live in. 

[red321]

Are they defending the Boeing contract, or are they questioning why the President Elect is making threats to a corporation because he read an article where someone from that company criticized him?

[Catwhoshatinthehat]

I think most on the left are just questioning/complaining/bitching because the president elect is an R.  To be fair if the president elect were a D I'd expect a lot of people on the right to be questioning/complaining/bitching just the same.  

[Thomas]

2 minutes ago, red321 said:

Are they defending the Boeing contract, or are they questioning why the President Elect is making threats to a corporation because he read an article where someone from that company criticized him?

Oh nothing that nuanced. Felt purely a knee jerk reaction to Trump being against something so they had to be for it. They chided ABC News for repeating Trump's "lie" and thus perpetuating fake news that the two planes would cost 4 billion. Amazingly enough though he is in the ballpark. (Honestly they'll be lucky to get them for that total)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielreed/2016/12/07/trumps-tweet-threatening-to-cancel-the-air-force-one-replacement-program-sends-many-messages/#79ad53641694

Not really a surprise since I know the ones they made previously were really expensive and even the one before that is at Reagan library (that my grandfather worked on :-) ) was god awfully expensive.

[red321]

I was traveling the last few days, but what I saw on it was more of a where the hell did this come from and it was noticed his tweet came out shortly after an article quoting a Boeing exec criticizing him.

His staff says it wasn't, though history isn't so kind. Pretty random comment on his part. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/06/did-donald-trump-tank-boeings-stock-because-he-was-mad-about-a-news-article/

[Thomas]

31 minutes ago, red321 said:

Pretty random comment on his part.

Random yet consistent. Another loud noisemaker of a tweet to grab attention and shallowly portray himself as being budget conscious. Even the extra bonus of (well sort of) self sacrifice since these are the Presidential aircraft he my briefly use in a hypothetical second term. And if it fucks over the folks that criticized him, so much the better for him I suppose. I swear if the man was the Angels GM I think he could convince half the board that we should sign Josh Hamilton to another 100 million dollar contract then keep his job by blaming said Josh Hamilton via Twitter.

[red321]

I still not convinced a number of folks wouldn't have suffocated themselves if Obama had declared oxygen was good