President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

No matter what anyone has ever done, I would have done it better. No, I would have done it the best.
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Pathetic.

I didn't think well of W., but I never would have used that word to describe him. But that's what Trump is. He's made the president of the United States look pathetic.

 

Now THIS is truly funny.

Nikki Haley: United Nations Laughter Not A Diss But A Sign Of Respect For Trump’s ‘Honesty’ | HuffPost

 

Oh, he is absolutely not 230 or whatever his doctor claimed. Whether that figure is legitimate is not even part of the debate.

 

Mike Pence becomes first ever vice president to speak at anti-LGBT group's summit

Pathetic.

 

Shock!

 

My father is 6’2”, 230. Trump is wayyyy heavier than my father.

 

Avenatti!!!

 

This sort of world view does not account for a significant variable: the labor market is not a perfectly efficient market. As you note, an efficient market requires there to be a perfect freedom of choice on both sides. A buyer has a price he is willing to pay for an asset. A seller has a price at which he values an asset. Both can choose to meet the other's price, or walk away from the deal. But in the labor market, the seller does not have the freedom to choose to walk away, because if he does not sell his asset (his labor), he cannot support himself, and he dies. This gives the buyer an inherent competitive advantage. The buyer does not need to make a deal in order not to die. The seller does. If a worker values his labor more than anyone with capital is willing to pay, only one side has a choice to walk away from the deal. It's why the iron law of wages exists.

The reality is that, at some level, owners of capital have the power of a cartel. Their property is protected by laws and protected by government institutions that they have created as a collective. Because they are protected, they do not risk death by refusing to part with their property (capital) below a certain price. The best way for labor to counterbalance that power is to unite as collective to prevent themselves from having to part their own property (their labor) below a certain price.

 

I find the "train" thing—God, I need to shower just after reading that—a little unclear. She says that she was gang raped "where Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh were present." As in, they were among the rapists? Or they were at the same party? There's a big distinction, to my mind.

But either way, Brett is such a fucking Brett. If he gets confirmed, I would pay a significant amount of money to see the look that RBG gives him when he first walks into the room.