Post Game August 14, 2018

In Post Game - On Demand by Waldo Peterson17 Comments

Cenk, John & Ben host Tuesday’s Post Game Show!

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  1. Its going to be a huge milestone when a progressive candidate wins a senate seat since its obviously a lot harder than winning a house seat. I’m confident we will get there eventually but for now it may make more sense(and be more productive) to run for local and house seats(like Our Revolution) Of course I support the candidates who are running though!

  2. I love that idea (revoke tax cuts, put it toward forgiving student debt.)

    I think higher learning at public universities ought to be free, just like K-12 public education. As a matter of fact, I’ll add universal preschool to that mix as well; universal free public education, preschool through university or trade school.

    Of course, single-payer health care would ALSO stimulate the economy, freeing up so much money to be spent elsewhere.

    As far as tax cuts go…my tax man told me in March that, until something changes, that’s the last tax return I’ll be getting. As a matter of fact, he recommended that I change my deductions; stay at “0” plus have extra taken out every month.

    Board games? Love ’em. My family gathers every Sunday to play; we’ve got about 50 or so to choose from, and none of them are conventional. Some of the family also play a lot of video games, but Sunday is just for strategy-based board games.

  4. Gen con was dope! Went with the girlfriends for our first time this year and Immediately cemented it as a weekend were making time for every year now. Indi turns that city out for the convention. They even had tables set up in the airport Monday morning for people flying out because of how big this thing is.
    John what games were your highlight?

  5. We get together and play D&D every Sunday night, about 5 of us. Best political conversation I have all week. I will be a dork with you, John ;)

  6. If you further read the Vox article on Ellison’s abuse, there’s been no actual physical evidence put forth. https://www.vox.com/2018/8/13/17684222/keith-ellison-karen-monahan-minnesota-attorney-general-race

    Seems to me a pure smear job because Ellison has decided to leave the DNC and not play the “Progressive” role he was assigned when the chairmanship was stolen by Perez. This way it makes it look like DNC got rid of him rather than Ellison wanting to get away from them! Becoming the AG for Minnesota gets him far away from Washington. Why else does this info comes to light a few days before his election, good for him.

  8. D&D players represent! Cenk would probably actually have a great time playing the game. He’d get very animated and be a great role-player.

    1. D&D is making a huge come back! You never know if you like it unless you try it. I’ve only been playing for a couple years now. Though I do have to say it can be WAY too time consuming, and Cenk would never have time for it in his life. It’s more like a hobby you have to commit to a little every couple weeks or once a month, than just a board game you can sit down and play for a coupe hours. I like to be a bard so I can add comic relief to the group, and Cenk would 100% be a bard. He’s entertaining and charismatic. xD

  11. My wife will probably never be able to pay off her student loans. She has an M.A. in art history, is fluent in three foreign languages, and as she was about to graduate, Jessie Helms got the NEA funding cut. As a consequence, she”s never been able to get a decent job in her field. As a consequence, now when you go to the art museum, donor/country club volunteer amateurs are the docents. I too, have never had a well paying job. After I graduated from an expensive private school (BA in history), imagine my dismay to discover that I’d been fed a myth about the value of a liberal arts education. Our society places no value on and is threatened by those who have critical thinking skills. The only degrees that are valuable are economics, business, hard sciences, and engineering. This is a major cause of people being unable to pay their student loans. A degree in anything else is likely to get a person into the overqualified- under-qualified trap, if not treated with contempt in a job interview. I kid you not, I should’ve gone to community college and learned a trade. I’m 49, and since graduating from college in 1990, its been an inexorable downwardly mobile slide.

    1. I doubt there has ever been a time when a liberal arts degree led to good paying jobs. Certainly not back in the 1970’s when I ignored my parents and pursued a liberal arts degree instead of something practical.

      The odds are that low-paying jobs will be the consequence of that decision. Nothing new about that.

      In my late 30’s I decided I’d had enough of poverty, and I retrained myself with the skills needed to get a boring, well-paid job. Interestingly, I feel far more fulfilled now then I did when I was working in the liberal arts. But… try explaining that to a young person. Nope. They ain’t buyin’ it. “Liberal Arts Degree, here I come.”

      I get it. That was me at age 18, too. Until we pee on the electric fence ourselves, we refuse to believe there’s a shock coming.

    2. “Our society ………….is threatened by those who have critical thinking skills. The only degrees that are valuable are ……………hard sciences, and engineering. ”
      An enormous facepalm is all I can manage.

  12. At a bare minimum, there should be an interest-rate holiday on the loans, especially in a low-rate environment anyways.

  13. Student loan debt would cost a lot less than TraitorTrump’s tax cuts to billionaires, and it would bring a lot more money into the economy! The government would soon recoup the short-term loss!

    So student loan debt is much cheaper than the tax cuts that only get squirrelled away into Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Channel Islands etc etc.

    And tho it’s not that much compared to the money that’s given away to defence contractors every year, it’s big money per debtor.

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