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Nov 2, 2017 12:38
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VitalSigns posted:The headline makes them sound like dumby dumb dumbs, but if you actually read the article there aren't any jobs in the area hiring for what the federal government wants to train these ex-miners to do, so from their standpoint they are acting rationally because it actually is a waste of time. If you want to give these miners shiny new non-polluting jobs then you have to actually give them shiny new non-polluting jobs, not just put them in training while they starve waiting for someone else to eventually decide that there are enough economic incentives to open a tech company in Buttfuck County WV someday, maybe. its almost like these retraining classes are bullshit and everyone knows it 
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Nov 2, 2017 13:23
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Business Gorillas posted:its almost like these retraining classes are bullshit and everyone knows it if a retraining class is offered and no one even looks at the enrollment portal, does it make a sound
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Nov 2, 2017 14:04
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etalian posted:“I can’t even get them to show up for free food I set up in the office,” said Dave Serock, an ex-miner who recruits in Fayette County for Southwest Training Services. they should give free dental care with every job retraining enrollment. two birds with one stone
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Nov 2, 2017 14:11
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Nov 2, 2017 14:31
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cmerepaul posted:They've got a new self-driving-car facility there now... but that's probably a net negative for jobs in the long run. lol, “you know what’s perfect for a warehousing and distribution center? tiny winding mountain roads where nobody lives”
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Nov 2, 2017 17:41
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Literally promised to break healthcare during his campaign and then made pie in the sky promises about making it awesome somehow and people just voted for it without checking. lol
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Nov 2, 2017 17:45
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Zeroisanumber posted:Literally promised to break healthcare during his campaign and then made pie in the sky promises about making it awesome somehow and people just voted for it without checking. lol but...he knows the art of the deal!!
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Nov 2, 2017 18:24
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:but...he knows the art of the deal!! The number of people who just assumed that Trump was a great dealmaker and negotiator and knew everything about making money because they watched The Apprentice was loving mind-boggling. I get that I'm a know-it-all nerd, but doing basic research on the guy who's running for president seems like something that a normal human does.
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Nov 2, 2017 18:34
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Zeroisanumber posted:The number of people who just assumed that Trump was a great dealmaker and negotiator and knew everything about making money because they watched The Apprentice was loving mind-boggling. Really, you would think the whole "bankrupt four times, once while owning a casino" would be a large enough red flag that he might not be a good businessman.
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Nov 2, 2017 18:57
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Randalor posted:Really, you would think the whole "bankrupt four times, once while owning a casino" would be a large enough red flag that he might not be a good businessman. Well he said he's never gone bankrupt so there ya go
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Nov 2, 2017 19:20
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Randalor posted:Really, you would think the whole "bankrupt four times, once while owning a casino" would be a large enough red flag that he might not be a good businessman. IMO one of the big early mistakes the clinton campaign made (among others) was not explicitly questioning trump's business acumen beyond a few wink-wink references to him being a "millionaire" apparently they did a focus group and most of the ppl they polled wouldn't believe that trump wasn't a good businessman. so the clinton campaign embraced trump's preferred image as a greedy, but savvy businessman. which of course fits a conventional attack strategy for appealing to dem base voters. but with zero record in government service, his business "success" was his entire resume for the job, and his ego is so tied up in that image that it would have driven him crazy to keep having it challenged. just bc voters didn't do a 180 from a single survey doesn't mean they couldn't have demolished his image over the course of a full campaign
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Nov 2, 2017 20:01
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Zeroisanumber posted:Literally promised to break healthcare during his campaign and then made pie in the sky promises about making it awesome somehow and people just voted for it without checking. lol He did yammer on about universal healthcare and single payer for his first presidential campaign. Not that anyone remembered that during his second campaign. Especially the people who had no idea he had made a run at the office previously. Hell, even I had forgotten about it at first.
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Nov 3, 2017 09:42
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kupachek posted:He did yammer on about universal healthcare and single payer for his first presidential campaign. Not that anyone remembered that during his second campaign. he did it at the start of his second campaign
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Nov 3, 2017 10:56
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{Large picture of highly conservative client whose employees are just seeing how much their 2018 healthcare--and by extension their vote--will cost them} Fry, fuckers.
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Nov 3, 2017 11:17
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Jose posted:he did it at the start of his second campaign Missed that. Although, I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention to him at the start. He was just another blowhard for the first while.
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Nov 3, 2017 12:34
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VitalSigns posted:The headline makes them sound like dumby dumb dumbs, but if you actually read the article there aren't any jobs in the area hiring for what the federal government wants to train these ex-miners to do, so from their standpoint they are acting rationally because it actually is a waste of time. If you want to give these miners shiny new non-polluting jobs then you have to actually give them shiny new non-polluting jobs, not just put them in training while they starve waiting for someone else to eventually decide that there are enough economic incentives to open a tech company in Buttfuck County WV someday, maybe. they would be the first ones to reject that same plan from fdr saying it’s socialism even though it’s exactly what they need gently caress em, they voted for this poo poo for years, so now they get to reap the benefits
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Nov 3, 2017 14:39
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Zeroisanumber posted:Literally promised to break healthcare during his campaign and then made pie in the sky promises about making it awesome somehow and people just voted for it without checking. lol A new better plan which was actually ending the subsidies which will lead to massive increase in Obamacare premiums.
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Nov 3, 2017 22:06
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trump gets to cripple obamacare and brag about how terrible obamacare is. what's better, his diehard supporters will absolutely buy it while dying, hard.
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Nov 3, 2017 22:10
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Zeroisanumber posted:Literally promised to break healthcare during his campaign and then made pie in the sky promises about making it awesome somehow and people just voted for it without checking. lol trump would speak for 2 minutes, advocating for every contradictory position on the political compass at once, and people would walk away sure that the only part of it he meant was the part they agreed with. it was surreal.
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Nov 4, 2017 02:48
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SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:trump would speak for 2 minutes, advocating for every contradictory position on the political compass at once, and people would walk away sure that the only part of it he meant was the part they agreed with. it was surreal. Well, it worked. At least in comparison to Hillary.
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Nov 4, 2017 03:15
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:trump gets to cripple obamacare and brag about how terrible obamacare is. what's better, his diehard supporters will absolutely buy it while dying, hard. See I agree, but there is a v large contingent, aka my da, which is on Medicare. Which seems untouched? The 70 plus crowd that votes loves trump!
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Nov 4, 2017 03:26
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wrong goddamned thread goddamnit you assholoes
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Nov 4, 2017 03:39
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yeah but there hasnt been anything funny in a while
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Nov 4, 2017 04:33
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Nov 4, 2017 04:34
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Inescapable Duck posted:Well, it worked. At least in comparison to Hillary. she wouldnt take a firm position on anything
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Nov 4, 2017 04:38
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lol http://www.npr.org/2017/11/04/561900880/despite-worries-about-health-care-trump-voters-dont-regret-their-choice quote:Ruppert says she knows young people who refused to sign up for Affordable Care Act — also known as Obamacare — policies because they found them too expensive. Instead, she says, they chose to pay a penalty of at least $695 at tax time.
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Nov 4, 2017 20:13
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etalian posted:lol There's a nice FYGM line somewhere in there where she says she doesn't care if the ACA collapses as long as it does so after she turns 65.
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Nov 5, 2017 01:18
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cmerepaul posted:Hahahaha why should I accept free training and go find a better job somewhere hahahaha I should just sit here and wait for more coal jobs that will never come because it is literally impossible to start a new life more than 15 miles from home haha nobody has ever done it What money would they spend to move Also why would anyone prefer to stay close to their social network
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Nov 5, 2017 04:54
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My Linux Rig posted:they would be the first ones to reject that same plan from fdr saying it’s socialism even though it’s exactly what they need gently caress you, moron The solution is not writing people off for buying into a lie they've been sold for years, it's to actually loving help them
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Nov 5, 2017 04:56
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Like Jesus Christ did you idiots not learn that writing people off as lost causes is how you lose an election
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Nov 5, 2017 05:55
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etalian posted:lol quote:"I enrolled in the Affordable Care Act in January 2016, and in March, I had developed a basal cell carcinoma," she says. jfc
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Nov 5, 2017 06:05
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Like Jesus Christ did you idiots not learn that writing people off as lost causes is how you lose an election What rereg are you?
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Nov 5, 2017 06:15
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Like Jesus Christ did you idiots not learn that writing people off as lost causes is how you lose an election lol tell me more about how to lose an election.
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Nov 5, 2017 06:52
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Burt Sexual posted:What rereg are you? I'm my own man
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Nov 5, 2017 06:55
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CharlestheHammer posted:lol tell me more about how to lose an election. "We can write off blue collar workers and still win" were some famous last words
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Nov 5, 2017 06:56
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Why would we try to explain to people that it's actually not the fault of black people and Mexicans that they're poor and offer them solutions that they understand when we could just pick up moderate Republican votes, worked real well last November
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Nov 5, 2017 06:59
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Why would we try to explain to people that it's actually not the fault of black people and Mexicans that they're poor and offer them solutions that they understand when we could just pick up moderate Republican votes, worked real well last November Sure, we could try to end racism, but would that end racism?
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Why would we try to explain to people that it's actually not the fault of black people and Mexicans that they're poor and offer them solutions that they understand when we could just pick up moderate Republican votes, worked real well last November why did you repeat yourself.
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