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apogee

climber

Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy

Feb 25, 2019 - 06:30pm PT

I'd support the wage increase 100% if it resulted in paradigm shift around the role of tipping compensating for a server's pathetic hourly wage.

Unfortunately, it will only result in $15/hour with the same expectation of 15-20% tip for shitty service. Meh.

Yury

Mountain climber

T.O.

Feb 26, 2019 - 04:26am PT

By the way, should I tip a policeman, a firefighter, a paramedic, my member of parliament and other government officials?

What would be a proper percent in these cases?

seano

Mountain climber

none

Feb 26, 2019 - 05:24am PT

For Congress-critters, the standard tip is 5% on the first $20 million of service, 2.5% after that: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=1667009&page=1

Bad Climber

Trad climber

The Lawless Border Regions

Feb 26, 2019 - 06:40am PT

Wow, Seano. Just wow. I hadn't heard this story. I know most politicians are bribed in one way or another, but this is some next level stuff.

BAd

dirtbag

climber

Feb 26, 2019 - 07:20am PT

Trump arrives in Vietnam, and Michael Cohen arrives in D.C.

10b4me

Social climber

Lida Junction

Feb 26, 2019 - 07:36am PT

The minimum wage argument is becoming a moot point. Automation will replace minimum wage jobs, and some not so minimum wage jobs. It's starting to happen at the Ports of Long Beach, and Los Angeles.

seano

Mountain climber

none

Feb 26, 2019 - 08:40am PT

Bad Climber: Duke Cunningham was in a league of his own, and absolutely unforgettable.

10b4me: I don't think it will be that simple. Plenty of low-paying, crappy jobs will stick around as long as humans are cheaper than robots. I'll bet we Americans will still be paying Guatemalans to clean our offices in 50 years.

apogee

climber

Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy

Feb 26, 2019 - 08:55am PT

Trump on brink of defeat on border emergency
Just one more Senate Republican is needed to block Trump’s emergency declaration, though even critics are reluctant to buck the president.

By BURGESS EVERETT and MARIANNE LEVINE 02/25/2019 08:25 PM EST Updated 02/25/2019 09:03 PM EST
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/25/trump-national-emergency-congress-1185589

President Donald Trump is on the verge of a bipartisan rejection of his emergency declaration at the border in what would be an embarrassing rebuke by a Congress opposed to his immigration agenda.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Monday night said he would join Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, along with 47 Senate Democrats to block Trump’s attempts to secure billions for his border wall after lawmakers effectively stiffed him. Now just one more GOP senator’s support for a resolution to block Trump's bid would send the measure to Trump’s desk and force a veto.

“Conservatives rightfully cried foul when President Barack Obama used executive action to completely bypass Congress,” Tillis said in a Washington Post op-ed on Monday night. “There is no intellectual honesty in now turning around and arguing that there’s an imaginary asterisk attached to executive overreach — that it’s acceptable for my party but not thy party.”

Just one more. Sounds like the rest of the GOP Senate are being cagey about their votes, but I would think Romney would join Collins, Murkowski and Tillis. Romney has great dislike for Trump and all that he stands for, and he's rebuilding his political identity around that opposition.

Of course, such a vote would be vetoed by Individual 1, and wouldn't likely be overridden, but it's an important line to be drawn.

Splater

climber

Grey Matter

Feb 26, 2019 - 10:31am PT

Robert Mercer is the definition of Deep State anti-democracy.
Plutocrats buying billions of dollars of influence by buying politicians, and funding massive campaigns of misinformation.

Some of their top evil causes are: Citizens United, Breitfart, loopholes for hedge funds, Enormous climate denialism, Cambridge Analytica, pretend populism, alt-right conspiracies and witchhunts, nuclear bombs, illegal donations to the Brexit campaign, and destroying accuracy in media.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/the-reclusive-hedge-fund-tycoon-behind-the-trump-presidency

John Duffield

Mountain climber

New York

Feb 26, 2019 - 03:33pm PT

It is kind of strange that both the POTUS and his Vice are out of the country at the same time

I can't recall precedent. And neither of the countries they are in is really safe IMO and I've been in both. But they have two big things brewing simultaneously. It won't be for long.

I've been watching AOC since early Summmer since she is in the district next door. Two months has changed her.
The "We're not coming from the Right or Left we're coming from the bottom" appears to be over.
Now it appears they are goading her into a fight with Ivanka which is pointless. They would look better as BFFs.

WBraun

climber

Feb 26, 2019 - 05:02pm PT

Trump and his azzhole st00pid criminal friends Bibi Nutcaseyahoo along with Kushner dipsh!t Pompeo, dipsh!t Bolton are busy overseas drumming up a way to start another war.

This time with Iran.

March - April.

Could be fatal with mini nukes involved along with false flags to blame on Iran to start the war.

All while the st00pid politards here are looking at the usual brainwashed horseh!t coming out of the mainstream medias st00pid talking heads ....

apogee

climber

Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy

Feb 26, 2019 - 06:21pm PT

Tough day for Trump’s NE declaration...Repubs in the Senate met with Pence today wringing their hands about the political and legal implications of Trump’s action, and House Repubs are seeking a way to limit POTUS ability to declare a NE in the first place. (And House Dems moved a vote forward to disapprove of the NE declaration)

Hubbard

climber

San Diego

Feb 26, 2019 - 06:50pm PT

Very nice WBraun. Now we are getting somewhere. Putting some cards on the table face up. A prediction no less. March or April war with Iran. Maybe. It wouldn't surprise me. More likely some sort of limited strike led by Israeli jets. As far as a real committed war I would picture that closer to the election cycle of 2020. Nobody knows. Only those big-wigs melting in their chairs.

rottingjohnny

Sport climber

Sands Motel , Las Vegas

Feb 26, 2019 - 07:34pm PT

Nutcaseyahoo. He he.

apogee

climber

Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy

Feb 26, 2019 - 07:59pm PT

I suppose some level of Duck’s scenario is plausible...Individual 1 has gotta be grasping at anything to keep him in the media.

Norton

climber

The Wastelands

Feb 26, 2019 - 08:04pm PT

but it is only ignorant forum politards posting so insanely when it isn't your own self...

constant hypocrisy fed by narcism

Ricky D

Trad climber

Sierra Westside

Feb 26, 2019 - 08:57pm PT

Cohen sings tomorrow and Mueller's report gets released next week.

And Trump is holed up in a country with no extradition treaty with the U.S., and he has control of Air Force One - I say he runs for Saudi Arabia.