US Politics Mega-thread - Page 6281

On November 22 2016 07:12 Noidberg wrote:
Christmas came early this year, the wall is for sure being built.

https://i.sli.mg/YfplQ8.jpg

On November 22 2016 08:21 TanGeng wrote:


It seems like we're going back to the deportation policies of Obama'08. Deportation of any undocumented alien following any arrest. Can Trump become the deporter-in-chief?

Edit: These high resolution photos are pretty good.

On November 22 2016 06:30 Biff The Understudy wrote:

Well, calling people nazis is always a bit dumb but Bannon and the alt-right really earned it. In fact it look like they kind of agree themselves :


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Those people seem brighter and brighter every time I read about them. Gonna be loooong four years, and I wish good luck to America and its people. You guys are gonna need it.

On November 22 2016 09:19 Logo wrote:


Please don't pay attention to the wall portion of that.

You should be terrified about whatever is written on the bottom of that document. It's at least 3 bullet points about Voter Rolls, Amendments to the Nation Voting ? and Directing the Deparment of Justice to do something presumably related to voting (it's between two points on voting).

This election was already influenced pretty heavily by voter suppression, it seems likely that trend is going to continue.

On November 22 2016 09:21 Nevuk wrote:

I feel like fascist would be a much better word choice than nazi for Bannon. Nazi applies to a very specific ideology that Bannon himself has never endorsed. Fascism is a bit different. Plus calling someone a nazi has never worked out well for the person doing it. It just makes Dean look hysterical. People keep trying to attach the various members of the alt right to Bannon and that doesn't really work

President Barack Obama likes to say he’ll use the power of the pen to do whatever he can for American workers. But now that Donald Trump has won the White House, the real estate mogul can use the same pen to undo one of Obama’s most far-reaching reforms: bringing overtime protections to millions of workers.

Most hourly workers in the U.S. are automatically entitled to time-and-a-half pay when they work more than 40 hours in a week. But because of the way the rules have been written, millions of salaried employees ― like retail store managers and white-collar professionals ― haven’t enjoyed the same rights. That’s given employers an incentive to work those employees longer hours at the same base salary.

Earlier this year, the Obama administration overhauled those rules for the first time in years. Under the changes, far more employees who work on salary will be guaranteed overtime when they work extra hours.

The administration achieved that by raising what’s known as the “salary threshold.” All workers paid salaries below the threshold are entitled to time-and-a-half pay when they top 40 hours. The previous threshold was just $23,660. The new one is $47,476, or roughly double. That means just about any salaried worker earning less than that is ripe for overtime pay, regardless of their job duties, as of Dec. 1.

But all of that is now in limbo after the election. Republicans or the Trump administration could undo the changes ― though it wouldn’t be easy.

Faced with higher labor costs, business groups have fought the overtime reforms ever since the White House first floated them. The changes leave businesses with a difficult choice: Either limit eligible workers’ hours to 40, or be ready to start paying a premium on their labor. The Obama administration hopes that dilemma will leave workers with either bigger paychecks or shorter workweeks and a better work-life balance. Employers simply see higher labor costs.

By the White House’s estimate, the changes are bringing overtime protections to an additional 4.2 million workers, though some economists anticipate the real number will be even greater. Under the new rules, the Labor Department will update the salary threshold every three years to make sure it keeps pace with inflation and that the share of salaried workers getting overtime pay doesn’t fall.

On November 22 2016 10:12 BallinWitStalin wrote:


I'm just going to point out that there's huge amount of irony in you calling someone a "fear mongerer" and then endorsing attempts to curb voter fraud, which objectively is not a major issue or problem at all.

Just saying'

On November 22 2016 10:12 Chewbacca. wrote:
Has Trump even proposed eliminating that overtime change?

On November 22 2016 10:23 Noidberg wrote:


So enforcing the law is equated to fear mongering now. Trump almost lost this election to the swath of illegal voters which will be ousted once his immigration reform is put into place. Something around 2-3m convicted illegals will be deported and non-criminal illegals are still up in the air.

On November 22 2016 09:47 Noidberg wrote:

We can play this game you say voter suppression was taking place i say their was an attempt to curb voter fraud. Stop fear mongering, we will just have to wait and see what these policies entail before flying off the rails.

On November 22 2016 10:29 zlefin wrote:
could you clarify/source what you're talking about?
It sounds like you're claiming that illegals were voting in significant numbers or something, contrary to the investigations as have been done.

On November 22 2016 10:33 Logo wrote:


"I bring up voter fraud that has been proven not to exist but you are the one fear mongering"

On November 22 2016 10:10 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Lower wages is heartbreaking. So many Trump supporters apparently don't mind losing extra pay, losing health insurance, or enabling bigotry and restrictions on rights... I wonder what their most important reason was for voting him into office. Guns? White supremacism? "Because he's not Hillary"?

On November 22 2016 10:10 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Lower wages is heartbreaking. So many Drumpf supporters apparently don't mind losing extra pay, losing health insurance, or enabling bigotry and restrictions on rights... I wonder what their most important reason was for voting him into office. Guns? White supremacism? "Because he's not Hillary"?