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Trump pretends to, um, service a mic holder

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by sflagator, Nov 2, 2024.

  1. Tjgators

    Tjgators Premium Member

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    No. My two businesses had to fight for great employees. Trumps economy had small businesses fighting over employees. This organically brought the low wage earners per hour wage to a 50-year all-time high. Maybe not all time, but it was organic and it was very competitive. You'd have to be a business owner to understand.
     
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  2. sflagator

    sflagator VIP Member Trusted GC Insider

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    I am, of more than one. I typically pay my employees well, so this wasn't an issue I encountered
     
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  3. Tjgators

    Tjgators Premium Member

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    Aren't you an attorney?
     
  4. sflagator

    sflagator VIP Member Trusted GC Insider

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    yes, with a law firm and two other businesses (a resort membership services company and an import/export co)
     
  5. G8trGr8t

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    we have to fight for employees now. more so than during the djt years
     
  6. gator_jo

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    Wait, what?

    Do I understand this correctly?
    - You are a business owner
    - You sometimes have difficulty meeting hiring goals
    - A significant amount of your hires are lower wage earners
    - You've seen wages climb to, or near, relative all-time highs

    ....and..........

    ....you are enthusiastic to vote for a guy who promises to deport all illegal immigrants, including the approximately 9 million who are employed?

    I can't pretend to know the details of your business, but that is precisely the type of thing that would cause massive upward wage pressure and employee shortages, certainly putting numerous small businesses out of business. Possibly including yours?

    Do you not see the disconnect?
     
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  7. VAg8r1

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    Funny although virtually everyone who has ever ridden a bike has fallen on occasion. The obese presidential candidate with a penchant for orange makeup probably isn't even physically capable of riding a bike. By the way this former president also had a bike accident and he was quite a bit younger at the time than Biden was in that clip.
    President Bush recovers from bicycle accident, May 23, 2004
     
  8. GatorWon

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    With his recent comment on Arnie’s driver, this now makes sense.
     
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  9. slocala

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    There is no bottom.
     
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  10. orangeblue_coop

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    You ain’t lying
     
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  11. enviroGator

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    I might have believed this if he was at LSU.


    [​IMG]
     
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  12. SotaGator

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    Moral of the story: Don't do WEIRD stuff in public if you don't want to be misconstrued.
     
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  13. Tjgators

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    “Kamala did what Kamala always does. She put her head down and went to work.” - Doug Emhoff

    One of the greatest unintentional admissions of all time.

     
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  14. swampbabe

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    Misogyny is the language of mediocre men.
     
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  15. orangeblue_coop

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    I could see why the notion of someone putting their head down and working hard to become successful in life would be confusing to Trumpers. They like their heroes to be born with a silver spoon in their mouth, pampered and spoiled since birth.
     
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  16. gator_jo

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    1) You're on here shilling for a serial adulterer and rapist, so your hypocritical misogyny will receive the complete and total lack of respect that it deserves.

    2) Did my post about how Trump's labor/immigration proposals would affect small business owners befuddle you, to the point that you couldn't address the issue as your confused brain went into attack mode and scrambled for something pro-Trump to counter with?
     
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  17. Orange_and_Bluke

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    You hate men so much lol.
    It’s interesting how easily we can see how inferior you feel towards the world through your posting.
    I feel bad for some of the students you likely influenced in this way.
     
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  18. cron78

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    Still funny considering the circumstances. Nothing more, nothing less to me.
     
  19. cron78

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    “Shoulder to the wheel” or “getting back to the grindstone” are much better descriptors to me. “Head down” implies ducking and dodging to me; well, along with her alleged route to early success. Perhaps Emhoff has been privy to the silver spoon and hasn’t been exposed to any laborious tasks to make ends meet in his life rendering him unexposed to a better way to say what he thought he was saying.
     
  20. GatorJMDZ

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    Likely an issue with ownership totally alienating perspective employees. Even low wage owners have pride.