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| Aesquire |
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/04/why-democra ts-are-becoming-the-party-of-the-1-percent | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2016 /04/protest-lodged-over-secrecy-in-clinton-email-c ase-222207 | ||
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| Aesquire |
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/04/_sex_l ies_and_bathrooms_uncovering_the_truth_behind_nort h_carolinas_law.html Btw I identify as King. So I will be ruling you peasants as soon as my lawyers finish the lawsuit and get another injunction against Obama, who has usurped my Cthulu given power. | ||
| Sifo |
Someone has nailed Hillary's biggest accomplishment!  | ||
| Elsinore74 |
Prepare for the onslaught of correcttherecord.org, with its paid trolls. Tense up or relax; it's a personal preference. I can't see any way the big H machine can be stopped. Not saying I like it. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://pjmedia.com/video/hillary-clinton-has-acce pted-how-much-from-illicit-donor-sources/ | ||
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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434455/donal d-trump-white-working-class-what-trumps-defenders- get-wrong?target=author&tid=897 ....But there is one factor worth considering: Bernie Sanders is tapping into a cultural, even somewhat ethnic, preference and pretending that it is an empirical argument. Socialists, and particularly Marxists, love to masquerade their essentially irrational or romantic aspirations in social-science-y gobbledygook. (Remember “scientific socialism”?) The problem is no economic doctrine has been more thoroughly debunked, disproved, and delegitimized than socialism — at least among people who can see the light beyond their anal cavities. That’s because it’s not really an economic doctrine. For understandable reasons, lots of people think socialism is a real branch of economics. It’s not, and if it ever was, it’s because it took time for the guys with the calculators to prove what should have been obvious. IT’S RELIGION, NOT MATH Indeed, “socialism” was an answer to what 19th-century intellectuals and religious leaders called “the social question.” As traditional societies succumbed to the creative destruction of the market, people started asking, “How shall we live now?” Socialism was one such answer (National Socialism, another, very similar answer), but it was only partly and not even mostly, an economic answer. It was a cultural one. The Romantics wanted to recreate the civic structures of some imagined past — Rousseau’s two favorites were the tribal life of the noble savage and the totalitarian life of Ancient Sparta. (Oh the General Will, is there anything it can’t do?) Gracchus Babeuf, arguably the first “socialist” to earn the label, wanted a “conspiracy of equals,” which would “remove from every individual the hope of ever becoming richer, or more powerful, or more distinguished by his intelligence.” In his Manifesto of the Equals, he called for the “disappearance of boundary-marks, hedges, walls, door locks, disputes, trials, thefts, murders, all crimes . . . courts, prisons, gallows, penalties . . . envy, jealousy, insatiability, pride, deception, duplicity, in short, all vices.” To fill that void, “the great principle of equality, or universal fraternity, would become the sole religion of the peoples.” I know some very smart economists, but I doubt any of them could run that crap-storm word-cloud through some regression analysis and arrive at a recognizable economic theory. The simple fact is that socialism was always intended to be a new religion that mixed nostalgia for a past that never existed with a utopian future that never could. To borrow a phrase from the Marxists (since it’s Lenin’s birthday today), it is no coincidence that Bernie Sanders sees as his lodestar a bunch of Scandinavian countries. The fact that they are not the socialist utopias he imagines them to be is irrelevant. To the extent they ever were real, live, socialist societies, it was back when they were ethnically homogeneous (and poor). Socialism can “work” for a while in small, ethnic mono-cultures, because the economic inefficiencies can be papered over by nationalistic or tribal sentiments. That’s why the kibbutzim lasted as long as they did. Diversity, individualism, technology, domestic and international competition — i.e., the market, or freedom — eventually make social-ism (Tony Blair’s phrase) untenable. Sanders isn’t motivated by racism or anything like it. He’s motivated by nostalgia and bad metaphors. And so are his mostly lily-white, affluent, fans. “We’ll always have Sweden” is no less a fantasy than Rousseau’s “We’ll always have Sparta.” More than a hundred years ago a new religion was created for the purpose of taking down the old order. To displace the Kings and Czars that ruled over the peasants. Lacking any real connection with human reality, but with a clear understanding of human emotion, every such displacement depended on getting the "low information peasants" to hate the Old Order and put in the New. Even though the promise was of a society of equals, each has quickly meant a New King, with a different name, and a more oppressive secret police to keep power. Since, after all, the New Leaders have just proven that revolution is possible, and have created a large number of trained revolutionaries that are now a threat to the New Order. Usually college students, who have much passion, but little information and are easily convinced to lead the charge.... and are the first killed en mass after the revolution. In all cases the pattern is simple. Promise free stuff. Blame the Rich for hoarding the wealth, and whip up hatred for them. This is the Bernie Sanders campaign. Often, the ones who want to be the New Order are themselves rich and powerful, just not as rich and powerful as they want to be. They use the same techniques, the same lies, but are better equipped to crush their enemies. They are more cynical than the poorer revolutionaries, since they know full well that they speak lies. This is the Hillary Clinton Campaign. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434245/minim um-wage-increase-democratic-candidate-harmful-poli cy?target=author&tid=897 | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/04/th e_siren_songs_of_the_progressives_.html | ||
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| Hootowl |
Cruz is the only one of the bunch that's worth a crap, IMHO. | ||
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| Court |
I think someone needs to reword that ..... Unless of course, 800 were committed by NRA members which seems unlikely. | ||
| Sifo |
I think the 800 number is roughly the number of murders in Chicago for the year. The point here is that choice B is the correct choice. Zero murders were committed by NRA members in Chicago. Of course, it's possible that this isn't absolutely correct, but I'm sure it's much closer than the 800 number. | ||
| Reindog |
Cartoon fails to effectively communicate although one has to think about what it is attempting to say. | ||
| Sifo |
I suppose it makes more sense to those closer to Chicago. | ||
| Pellis |
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/2016-chicago-murde rs So far this year: 186 http://crime.chicagotribune.com/chicago/shootings/ Shooting victims: 1135 | ||
| Blake |
I read the bottom portion as shorthand for "Answer: 800 – Barack Obama" It very confusing. | ||
| Hootowl |
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/05/03/clinton -confronted-by-laid-off-coal-worker-at-west-virgin ia-campaign-stop.html Amazing. You heard what I said to a different group of people. I meant something else when people outside the room hear it. The world she's created in her head must be a convoluted and confusing place, what with having to keep track of what lie to tell to which group, as well as the ones she's already told. That she thinks she's pulling it off is the really interesting part. | ||
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| Torquehd |
I'll have to see this when it comes out. | ||
| Court |
If nothing else… We can thank Hillary and Bill Clinton for redefining the rules we live by. Who would've thought that I could establish a 501 nonprofit charitable corporation and make my three and five-year-old grandchildren officers? Obviously their $7000 per month private school tuition is a reasonable training expense and the Tesla, to get them to and from school, "plant & equipment". It's looking like they are going to be doing a field trip to New York for the Macy's day parade the study social behavior of crowd. Five years ago something like this would've seen shady. Thanks to the Clintons and the current administration, it's just all part of the "new normal". But, I will confess that the disparate excesss of business deduction expenses, over revenues was nice .... Loved the $12,000 refund! But… I didn't make the rules… I just followed the model of the Clinton foundation. These people, even I confess, are sharper that I gave them credit for. (Message edited by Court on May 06, 2016) | ||
| Pwnzor |
Court... Your speech-to-text has failed you. |
