Displaying 1,561 To 1,590 Of 19,504 Comments Trump Proposes Maximum Wage for Employees Nirek, yes, that is a bit ironic but I too believe that corporate boards should establish a maximum income for their execs. If enough did that, it would be inescapable and save them as a whole, billions in wasted revenue. I don’t think the government should set a maximum wage though, seems a bit out of their authority but what they can and should do is raise the tax rate on income above, maybe, $10 million/yr to 90%. That way, it’s a virtual maximum wage limit but the obscene amount of income that would continue to flow would instead be re-routed to paying for the necessities of society and the 99% (instead of buying more Rolls Royces, mansions on the Riviera and a fleet of yachts). » Posted By AdLib On September 8, 2015 @ 9:59 am They have no idea! » Posted By AdLib On September 8, 2015 @ 9:52 am Thanks slm. Yep, them whiny 99%ers can’t complain they didn’t get a raise! » Posted By AdLib On September 8, 2015 @ 9:51 am Very clever, KT! There’s another Stephen King character Kim Davis reminds me of too… [img]https://media2.giphy.com/media/8jUeyfpMF6gj6/200_s.gif[/img] » Posted By AdLib On September 4, 2015 @ 10:50 am Republicans Explain Why They Support Their Favorite Candidate Thanks Kes! I tried to pepper the funny names with real names, to add a little surprise to them. Well, wasn’t the old GW Bush meme, “Someone you’d want to have a beer with”? Jeb seems like someone you’d have almond milk with. And Trump? Someone you’d like to have hara-kiri with. » Posted By AdLib On September 1, 2015 @ 1:22 pm Nirek, guess that is an argument for making voting more complicated, it could lower the turnout for morons. Republicans are stranger than fiction. » Posted By AdLib On September 1, 2015 @ 1:18 pm It’s part of their master plan, destroying the level of education over decades to manufacture morons that can be easily manipulated. Not all Repubicans are morons but most morons seem to be Republicans. » Posted By AdLib On September 1, 2015 @ 1:17 pm Thanks monicaangela! And yes, the Repubs do work very hard to hold onto their ignorance! Just saw on Maddow in today’s PPP poll that only 14% of Repubs believe Obama is a Christian and only 29% believe he was born in the U.S.. You can’t buy such stupidity, you get it the old fashioned way, you earn it. » Posted By AdLib On August 31, 2015 @ 7:02 pm Cheers slm! My pleasure…especially since such Repubs give me a smile for elevating these sure losers! » Posted By AdLib On August 31, 2015 @ 6:56 pm gyp46, just when you think you’ve found the lowest point of their stupidity, they surprise you! So even when you try to ridicule it in a parody, tomorrow, it’ll just seem like hitting the nail on the head! » Posted By AdLib On August 31, 2015 @ 6:53 pm Hi Parsifals, good to see you! Yep, the fictional dumb ones almost seem smarter than the real ones! » Posted By AdLib On August 31, 2015 @ 6:49 pm Donald Trump’s “Get It Done” Team Thanks Kes! Yes, that would be the most insane pick he could make, bringing Cheney on as Sec. of Defense, like giving a pyromaniac his gas can back. But as ignorant and hard core as Trump is and how he’s attacked Jeb, instead of going with George’s VP, I could imagine Trump going for someone that would excite his base, George Zimmerman for Sec. of Defense! » Posted By AdLib On August 31, 2015 @ 11:49 pm PPO, now that’s a good game, figuring out Trump’s cabinet. He doesn’t really work so I don’t think he’d take all those positions…just Sec. of Treasury maybe. But… Sec. of State: Sarah Palin I would definitely buy short on America’s future if Trump had a chance of winning…but he doesn’t. » Posted By AdLib On August 31, 2015 @ 11:45 pm Kalima, hadn’t made that connection but it really works! Trump and Kim Jung Un, both tell their people complete fabrications and they all gobble it up. The difference is that Trump has no power over the country and never will…but not from the lack of trying. He certainly is a snake oil salesman, maybe his fellow Republican Clint Eastwood could do a little encore of this scene for him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sh0wr7HH8Y BTW, glad you caught the other references but the pink unicorn was just made up, just like everything Trump says. » Posted By AdLib On August 31, 2015 @ 11:40 pm Thanks so much ExFan! BTW, I think you just need to update Java on your computer, the thumbs ups are working. Let me know if I can help! » Posted By AdLib On August 31, 2015 @ 11:13 pm monicaangela, Trump’s campaign slogan should be a WC Fields quote, “You can’t cheat an honest man, never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump.”
» Posted By AdLib On August 31, 2015 @ 11:12 pm Thanks so much, gyp46! Yes, saw that story! Damn untrained wildlife, those Trump supporters are right! Hey, maybe we could send them out into the ocean to train sharks to come out so visitors can see them? Sounds like a new reality show to me! » Posted By AdLib On August 31, 2015 @ 10:49 pm filo, I think that the MSM still views Trump as an entertainer who they are a little afraid of so they won’t ask the questions of him they should. Also, it’s still Fall, what they call Silly Season, so they’re not asking the hard questions. They’ve been waiting for him to fade away for so long, they still don’t seem to take him seriously. My question is how can you take any of these Repubs seriously? And with Latinos, women and young voters all turned off of Trump and the GOP, Trump doesn’t have a chance of getting elected…but if he wins the Repub nom, that would be great! The Repubs would have the biggest defeat, not just for the WH but in Congress. Let the lunatics control their asylum’s leader, works for me! » Posted By AdLib On August 31, 2015 @ 10:47 pm Monicaangela, thanks for the thoughtfulness of your post and the video. What the video brings to mind is the famous poem that appears at the Holocaust Museum: First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. The quality of empathy is so crucial to a healthy society. If we aren’t as offended as Latinos are at the GOP for trying to demonize and de-humanize them, we empower the haters to “come for us” later on when they see that as beneficial to their cause. If we don’t identify with BLM over the ongoing institutionalized racial murders of black Americans, we empower the oppression of all of us by police forces. As long as we recognize that what is being down to a group of our fellow citizens is being done to all of us as an American people, we can prevail. It’s hard to unite people who protest in different causes because that specific cause is what motivates them. However, if folks can understand the power that comes in numbers and momentum from joining together to support each others’ human rights causes, then all become so much stronger. I don’t know how joining together in such a grander movement that is a collection of movements could be organized but I do know of one community organizer who will be completing his current job in a year and a half and could be just the person to bring such a movement together… » Posted By AdLib On August 24, 2015 @ 6:20 pm Jeb Bush Doubles Down on Using the N-Word KT yep, I remember that from 2012! Maybe Perry\’s ranch should be renamed, \”LoserAss\”? » Posted By AdLib On August 21, 2015 @ 3:57 pm Thanks slm!\r\n\r\nI wouldn\’t want to emulate Jeb\’s using of slurs then claiming they weren\’t his words so I\’ll leave the \”K***s\” as is, I think most people will get it!\r\n\r\nUnless they\’re m****s. 🙂 » Posted By AdLib On August 21, 2015 @ 3:54 pm Trump Supporters and Bernie Supporters Are Not Two Sides of the Same Coin Cheers monicaangela!\r\n\r\nIndeed, the intent of the 1st Amendment was to make the press a virtual fourth branch of our democracy, if the other three branches failed the American people, a free press represented a safety net to help empower and protect Americans.\r\n\r\nAs you say, the Founders couldn\’t have imagined the rise of corporations that would gobble up the press and turn it into an unprincipled, profit-generating mutant.\r\n\r\nThe real revelation is that it is only due to the establishment of the internet that our democracy hasn\’t been mostly strangled to death by the corporate propagandist MSM. It\’s the truth, the US gained a new safety net just in time, just as its original one was being shredded up by the wealthy. Where would we be without all that the internet provides for poking holes in the propaganda of the MSM?\r\n\r\nSo even though its original protections of the press are somewhat moot now (not completely but when a free press is used primarily for entertainment, there\’s not much need for preventing political censorship), the 1st Amendment\’s protection of the internet is profound.\r\n\r\nIt is an eternal struggle, pushing back against the propaganda and manipulation of the wealthy and corporations who use the media they own to advance their interests (did you see yesterday how the AP edited a report on the Iran-IAEA agreement to twist it into falsely saying that Iran would be self-inspecting with no oversight…in an attempt by AP to try and kill the nuclear deal? http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/20/us-iran-nuclear-iaea-parchin-idUSKCN0QP0ID20150820)\r\n\r\nToday\’s media just can\’t be trusted because it is owned by corporations that have agendas that conflict with telling the truth. That insight seems pretty well known out there by many but we do need a lot more people (especially viewers of Fox News) to understand that. » Posted By AdLib On August 21, 2015 @ 11:50 am Nirek thanks so much!\r\n\r\nThe only thing that remains conservative in the GOP are the first three letters of the word, \”con\”.\r\n\r\nThe Republican Party is one big con and a pretty obvious one too. It is a party run by people who despise democracy and only want our government to benefit the wealthy and powerful. The GOP\’s whole premise is trying to fool and manipulate the hateful and less educated into supporting their agenda to benefit only the 1%. \r\n\r\nSo they whip up the greedy and poorly educated to support them by validating their racism, greed, religious intolerance, they exploit all the worst traits in human beings to gather support.\r\n\r\nWhere is the positive vision of Republicans? Aside from the ridiculous BS that some like Trump express, that he\’ll make every American rich and force all the countries in the world, China, Russia, Mexico, etc., to bow to the US and do whatever we say?\r\n\r\nRepublicanism is nihilism. Their stated goals for the future of America is for it to be a kind of Thunderdome, where the elderly and poor are left to suffer on their own, the wealthy 1% oppress, dominate and poison the 99% and democracy is buried by plutocracy.\r\n\r\nAnd so many people dependent on support from the federal government, whether it\’s Social Security, Medicare, Welfare, etc, are so easily manipulated by their fears, prejudices and hatreds, they ignorantly support the destruction of these programs by Republicans.\r\n\r\nWhoever is in the General Election, it will be a pretty plain choice between a Republican who is seeking to cripple our government\’s support of the majority and the vulnerable and a Democrat who believes in government helping the Americans it represents. » Posted By AdLib On August 21, 2015 @ 11:23 am KT, thanks for the video, it sure does make the point. His refusal to play the media’s game of attacking Hillary and always trying to pull the focus back to inequity in the nation is a far cry from what we see in the GOP. He says the same thing indeed, that Americans are tired of establishment politicians and the MSM’s conflict-based/non-issue based coverage. He makes sense (so does Hillary for that matter though she doesn’t come off as genuinely). Meanwhile, Trump and the 17 Dwarfs following him make little to no sense and offer “solutions” that are just RW fairy tales. » Posted By AdLib On August 20, 2015 @ 4:09 pm HEADLINE FROM THE FUTURE: Pres. Trump’s Dome Around U.S. Smothers Entire Population Kalima, in the long run, it probably is for the best that Trump stays in the spotlight as the representative of the GOP. As distasteful as it is to see so much of him, he is searing his imprint on the GOP which will make whoever becomes their Presidential nom toxic to women, Latinos, African Americans, moderates, independents, etc. If there was no Trump, then Bush, Walker or Kasich might have been able to make the GOP look reasonable all this time. Instead, they are all becoming infected with his poison. When Nov 2016 comes, Trump’s lasting effects on the GOP will prove to be disastrous. That’s worth enduring that human garbage along the way. » Posted By AdLib On August 20, 2015 @ 3:49 pm monicaangela, it’s probably easier to just list who would vote for Trump. White racist, chauvinist Republican men. Not enough of them to get him elected. » Posted By AdLib On August 20, 2015 @ 3:38 pm VIDEO FOOTAGE FROM THE FUTURE! President Trump’s anti-immigrant task force grabs another of the 11 million undocumented immigrants he’s deporting:
» Posted By AdLib On August 20, 2015 @ 3:34 pm Kalima, Trump is probably obsessed with domes considering his own covered-up dome. I think that the 25% of the GOP that are open racists, simple minded haters and upset that the Tea Party Repubs in Congress haven’t brought America back to the 1950’s when it comes to minorities and women, fawn all over Trump because he patronizes them like the ignorant yokels they are. It’s all about them, they feel neglected and disrespected so wwhen Trump panders to the nasty thoughts in their head, they just flip the switch and commit to supporting him no matter what else he does or says. BTW, thanks so much for the props! Really appreciated! » Posted By AdLib On August 19, 2015 @ 1:32 pm Hi monicaangela, very nice to see you and thanks for the kind words! What gets me is that Trump’s “campaign” is an obvious farce. He clearly doesn’t believe in anything except promoting himself and getting more money and power. He will and has said anything in that pursuit and the most baffling thing is how these Repub voters just blindly believe every word that he shoots out of his mouth. If America went insane and elected him President, we would indeed be sold out to the wealthiest countries and individuals and the position of the Presidency would be desecrated into being nothing more than a bad reality show. But I guarantee that will never happen because Latinos and women just won’t vote for him. I would find it hard to believe that anyone at The Planet would support Trump, as far as I know, no one here was dropped on their head as a child. » Posted By AdLib On August 19, 2015 @ 1:27 pm gyp46, I think most people who support Trump were born that way but if someone wants to be a supporter but is unfortunately cursed with the ability to reason and an IQ in the triple digits, a number of sessions of electroshock therapy and/or a frontal lobotomy could solve that problem. » Posted By AdLib On August 18, 2015 @ 10:06 amComments Posted By AdLib
Sec. of Interior: Miss Universe
Sec. of Defense: Joe Arpaio
Because I was not a Socialist.
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Because I was not a Jew.
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