Post-Trump, Conservatives not shy about showing their contempt for the poor

[OtherMichael]

Or you could just admit that Discourse’s new “print what people really think” feature rubs you the wrong way.

[Mal_Tosevite]

@anon50609448

People talk about there being two Americas, but what they don’t talk about is that rich America writes the laws for poor America.

We live in a country where many of the laws are made by people on the coasts, too. I saw a thread on Facebook, and I’m sorry that I don’t remember what publication it was atttached to, where several people were arguing that an income of around $250k was middle class. Maybe in an affluent area, sure. but median household income is around $50k.

Someone who’s making $250k isn’t going to care if a person living on $35k can afford to keep their grass cut to a maximum height, or get charged with paying the highest bidder to cut it.

[anon50609448]

@Mal_Tosevite

Someone who’s making $250k isn’t going to care if a person living on $35k can afford to keep their grass cut to a maximum height, or get charged with paying the highest bidder to cut it.

A person who doesn’t recognize that $250k a year makes them wealthy surely isn’t going to care about people making $35k since they clearly don’t realize those people exist. It’s amazing how hard it to for people to realize that people live quite differently from one another. It’s like that recent boingboing post that said that more public engagement worsens segregation by wealth. The better off you are, the more time you have to advocate for yourself, which is a self-enforcing system.

[nimelennar]

sigh
I saw “Post-Trump” and thought that a miracle had occurred, that he had seen the light of reason, and dropped out of the race.

Alas, I read the post, and we still appear to be in the Trump era, not the post-Trump era.

Rats.*

######*Note: I am not equating Donald Trump with a rat. One is a disease-spreading, bloated, parasitic little creature, which, given the opportunity, will try to worm its way into every home, and, through its short-sighted struggle to survive another day, will destroy whatever it sets its beady little eyes on. The other, I hear, can be a fine pet.######

[anon29631895]

@nimelennar

One is a disease-spreading, bloated, parasitic little creature, which, given the opportunity, will try to worm its way into every home, and, through its short-sighted struggle to survive another day, will destroy whatever it sets its beady little eyes on.

Watch out! It also contains venomous spines that cause extremely painful reactions in human skin upon contact…

[IronEdithKidd]

@Mal_Tosevite

or get charged with paying the highest bidder to cut it.

That’s not how municipal contracts are bid. It’s low bid unless there’s extremely good, and well documented, reason to reject the low bid. Like a racketeering charge, or other easily found-out felony.

[Mal_Tosevite]

@IronEdithKidd

That’s not how municipal contracts are bid. It’s low bid unless there’s extremely good, and well documented, reason to reject the low bid. Like a racketeering charge, or other easily found-out felony.

Er…

I worked in a media outlet in a town that did not take lowest bids. There was always a reason to reject the lowest bids.

[anon73430903]

@nimelennar

*Note: I am not equating Donald Trump with a rat. One is a disease-spreading, bloated, parasitic little creature, which, given the opportunity, will try to worm its way into every home, and, through its short-sighted struggle to survive another day, will destroy whatever it sets its beady little eyes on. The other, I hear, can be a fine pet.

There is the famous quote from NHS creator Nye Bevan

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Following that logic, I would say that Donald Trump is lower than the Tory Party.

[IronEdithKidd]

Around here, you get sued if you don’t have a pretty rock-solid reason to reject a bid.