Trump: ‘A Lot of People Are Saying Maybe We’d Like a Dictator’

[Peacenik]

Trump: 'A Lot of People Are Saying Maybe We'd Like a Dictator'

Donald Trump said "a lot" of Americans want a dictator while taking question in the Oval Office on Monday, but claimed he doesn't want to rule as one.

www.rollingstone.com

He's saying it out loud.

Get rid of him.

 

[Peacenik]

His mesmerized followers chant "USA! USA!" but they don't have the faintest concept of what this nation is supposed to be all about. Clearly they have never read the Constitution.

 

[Michael Cole]

So, a living wage then, right?

Depends where you live.

The difference between median home prices can be fourfold and more. $90k is nothing in San Jose. It's enough to afford two houses in St. Louis.

Cost of living varies, with housing being the greatest variable. Fuel costs vary as well. I have cheap electricity, but pump price is 30%-40% higher than national average.

$90k isn't affluent, but as one component of a two-income household, it does lift household income many percentiles.

The median household income in Reno has been reported between $80k and $90k, so yes, $90k should be a living wage here, but median home price is $566,164. This is a phenomenon seen in many parts of the country. Median income is insufficient to afford an average home.

The city keeps growing, and new homes are selling as fast as they are built, so most are likely two-income households with earnings well above $90k.

NBC interviewed a local woman who together with her husband, earn $200k. She says they can't afford a home. I don't totally buy her story, but the problem is real.

A six-figure income and a struggle to afford a house in a Nevada battleground county

In Washoe County — a swing county in a swing state — financial pressure from the housing market could have wider implications for how voters feel about the economy and what that means for their votes in November.

www.nbcnews.com

You'd be cheering if it were some other arm of the government over-paying people ...

I'd cheer if Congress passed Jacky Rosen's land bill. This area is unique in that virtually all the private land has been developed.

Young people can't afford homes.

Reno among worst in the nation for its share of young adults buying homes

In addition to buying fewer homes, Reno adults under 25 have a higher median mortgage loan than the rest of U.S.

www.usatoday.com

Reno’s homebuying rate among young adults placed the city 75th among 100 mid-size metros in the United States. Reno was also ranked at 292 overall among all 382 cities included in the study, placing it among the bottom fourth of the list.

Reno’s low placement reflects its worsening housing affordability woes since the region bounced back from the Great Recession.

 

[Chomsky]

Here's what's worse. The starting salary for a no talent, no qualifications ICE agent is 90k a year with a 50k sign on bonus. As Trump continues savaging the economy, when will people stop fighting themselves over the moral quandary, and just start taking the blood money because the rent is due and groceries are $400 a week?

A lot sooner, I think, than is comfortable for a lot of people.

Fair point.

I wasn't aware starting salary for ICE was 90K. My experience was Fed starting salaries were often low relative to private industry.

Yea, 140K first year remuneration (+O.T.), is going to look pretty good to some of the lower income Red State MAGA H.S. grads. You better believe it.

 

[Visbek]

Here's what's worse. The starting salary for a no talent, no qualifications ICE agent is 90k a year with a 50k sign on bonus. As Trump continues savaging the economy, when will people stop fighting themselves over the moral quandary, and just start taking the blood money because the rent is due and groceries are $400 a week?

We haven't heard them bragging about recruiting numbers, and we know they're lowering standards. They may get their numbers eventually, but I don't think applicants are knocking down the doors.

 

[Roadvirus]

Remember: Rolling Stone Magazine ran a full cover drawing of an insane looking Trump back when he declared...

And SAID "he's insane!"

"nobody knows more about recycling than me!"

"nobody can run a country better than me"

"I am a stable genius"

"Nobody wins elections like I can,"


These are not statements of a stable mind

Didn't he recently say something about being an expert at grass as well?

 

[Roadvirus]

Trump: 'A Lot of People Are Saying Maybe We'd Like a Dictator'

Donald Trump said "a lot" of Americans want a dictator while taking question in the Oval Office on Monday, but claimed he doesn't want to rule as one.

www.rollingstone.com

He's saying it out loud.

MAGAs will just say "He's joking".

But we know he's not.

 

[Cope]

A six-figure income and a struggle to afford a house in a Nevada battleground county

In Washoe County — a swing county in a swing state — financial pressure from the housing market could have wider implications for how voters feel about the economy and what that means for their votes in November.

www.nbcnews.com

I'd cheer if Congress passed Jacky Rosen's land bill. This area is unique in that virtually all the private land has been developed.

Young people can't afford homes.

You've said that before, but I am having a hard time envisioning it.

Is it Res land, government owned land or what that stops people from building suburban attachments to Reno (the city)?

 

[Chomsky]

So, a living wage then, right? You'd be cheering if it were some other arm of the government over-paying people ...

You don't think $140K (+O.T.) first year remuneration is going to be enticing to H.S. grads in some of the MAGA prevalent states? Particularly, the Southern ones?

 

[Plasmaball]

Have we reached the breaking point?
Because I feel we did awhile ago..and this just cements it. This man should be removed from office.

If you support this you are un-American

 

[Cope]

You don't think $140K (+O.T.) first year remuneration is going to be enticing to H.S. grads in some of the MAGA prevalent states? Particularly, the Southern ones?

of course it is. It's enticing anywhere as a starting out job from a payscale standpoint.
The problem is that it is paid with other people's money.

 

[SkyChief]

Get rid of him.

Exactly. Enough with the jibber-jabber.

It's time to actually get rid of Trump. The best way to (legally) unseat a president is with impeachment, and Senate conviction.

It would be tough today to get 2/3 majority in the Senate to convict. Maybe wait for November. Dems will almost certainly pick up many seats in the Senate. Dems need to win 15 seats to have a 2/3 majority.

 

[SCrider]

HARRIS WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING

So was Hillary. The people who support this man are deplorable.

 

[Plasmaball]

Exactly. Enough with the jibber-jabber.

It's time to actually get rid of Trump. The best way to (legally) unseat a president is with impeachment, and Senate conviction.

It would be tough today to get 2/3 majority in the Senate to convict. Maybe wait for November. Dems will almost certainly pick up many seats in the Senate. Dems need to win 15 seats to have a 2/3 majority.

Its plausible. The odds probably aren't in their favor but it could happen.

He does need to be removed

 

[Chomsky]

Depends where you live.

The difference between median home prices can be fourfold and more. $90k is nothing in San Jose. It's enough to afford two houses in St. Louis.

Cost of living varies, with housing being the greatest variable. Fuel costs vary as well. I have cheap electricity, but pump price is 30%-40% higher than national average.

$90k isn't affluent, but as one component of a two-income household, it does lift household income many percentiles.

The median household income in Reno has been reported between $80k and $90k, so yes, $90k should be a living wage here, but median home price is $566,164. This is a phenomenon seen in many parts of the country. Median income is insufficient to afford an average home.

The city keeps growing, and new homes are selling as fast as they are built, so most are likely two-income households with earnings well above $90k.

NBC interviewed a local woman who together with her husband, earn $200k. She says they can't afford a home. I don't totally buy her story, but the problem is real.

A six-figure income and a struggle to afford a house in a Nevada battleground county

In Washoe County — a swing county in a swing state — financial pressure from the housing market could have wider implications for how voters feel about the economy and what that means for their votes in November.

www.nbcnews.com

I'd cheer if Congress passed Jacky Rosen's land bill. This area is unique in that virtually all the private land has been developed.

Young people can't afford homes.

Reno among worst in the nation for its share of young adults buying homes

In addition to buying fewer homes, Reno adults under 25 have a higher median mortgage loan than the rest of U.S.

www.usatoday.com

Reno’s homebuying rate among young adults placed the city 75th among 100 mid-size metros in the United States. Reno was also ranked at 292 overall among all 382 cities included in the study, placing it among the bottom fourth of the list.

Reno’s low placement reflects its worsening housing affordability woes since the region bounced back from the Great Recession.

The point that I believe was being made, is that 90K + 50K +O.T. might indeed be enticing to MAGA H.S. grads in MAGA prevalent areas.

I suspect that's a pretty solid "no-experience-needed" H.S. grad starting rate in a lot of Southern & rural Red MAGA states.

Even by me, in one of the more expensive (but not ridiculously so) metro regions in the nation, there's very few High School grads that can walk into guaranteed 150K first year with no experience.

Now several years in a blue-collar trade might do it. Ditto for some other things like sales or financial trading. But not just sign-up, get accepted, guaranteed 140K + O.T. - no experience needed.

 

[exoplanet]

Name the people (not you, the wanna-be king).

I mean, everyone who supports his policies, which are in fact, as dictatorial as he can get away with. If you support the military takeover of DC, then you support authoritarianism. People just don't like the label. When push comes to shove, it's more popular than many of us would like to think.

I used to think most Americans liked freedom, and that was a shared value across the political spectrum but that doesn't look like the case anymore.

 

[multivita-man]

Scary stuff. He doesn't feel the need any more to conceal his authoritarian tendencies.

It's not like he ever was. Cue the usual LOL, he just says that because he knows it'll make the libs mad!

 

[Chomsky]

Exactly. Enough with the jibber-jabber.

It's time to actually get rid of Trump. The best way to (legally) unseat a president is with impeachment, and Senate conviction.

It would be tough today to get 2/3 majority in the Senate to convict. Maybe wait for November. Dems will almost certainly pick up many seats in the Senate. Dems need to win 15 seats to have a 2/3 majority.

Pft.

With all respect, do you know how hard it is to net flip 15 Senate Seats?

 

[Peter]

There will be MAGA providing support and rationale for Trump's statement, I guarantee.

He's just trolling.
They will claim nothing he says can be taken seriously and then in the next breath get angry that people aren't taking what he says seriously when he says something they agree with.

They're depressingly predictable.

 

[Chomsky]

He's just trolling.
They will claim nothing he says can be taken seriously and then in the next breath get angry that people aren't taking what he says seriously when he says something they agree with.

They're depressingly predictable.

I believe by doing these things Trump tests the waters; and it appears often-enough the waters are or become quite comfortable!

 

[Gordy327]

From last year...

Kamala called it.

 

[SkyChief]

Pft.

With all respect, do you know how hard it is to net flip 15 Senate Seats?

It's hard to flip 15 Senate seats, but flipping all of those seats might not be necessary to get an impeachment conviction.

Many GOP senators are VERY unhappy with Trump, and might vote to convict when given the opportunity. So maybe Dems picking up 8 or 9 seats might be enough.

 

[ColdHardTruth]

His mesmerized followers chant "USA! USA!" but they don't have the faintest concept of what this nation is supposed to be all about. Clearly they have never read the Constitution.

Do you really think MAGA members can read?

 

[ColdHardTruth]

It's hard to flip 15 Senate seats, but flipping all of those seats might not be necessary to get a conviction.

Many GOP senators are unhappy with Trump, and might vote to convict when given the opportunity.

I agree with this.

Once Dump is convicted, he loses all security. EVERYBODY he appointed in removed from office. That includes three shitbags from the SCOTUS.

 

[Peter]

I believe by doing these things Trump tests the waters; and it appears often-enough the waters are or become quite comfortable!

Yep, we all see people on here who are willing to give Trump whatever he wants and screw freedom or the constitution.
As long as their side wins and they can claim they "Owned the libs" they honestly don't care about anything else even if it harms them.