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Old 08-14-2018, 05:04 PM
 
Location: deafened by howls of 'racism!!!'
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Your thread title is a crackup. I'm glad I wasn't sipping coffee or a diet soda when I read it.
same here. i chortled.
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Old 08-14-2018, 05:07 PM
 
Location: Denver, CO
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yeah because a free market economy with fewer regulations and lower taxes is really socialism
Yeah because the U.S. has never actually had a free-market economy, and Trump's tariffs and bailouts are an inherently socialist concept.
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Old 08-14-2018, 05:08 PM
 
Location: Stasis
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Originally Posted by rebeldor
This chick only needs to read this one paragraph and her debate is already lost:
Note that this is Bastiat's definition of socialism (in 1850):

"Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole — with their common aim of legal plunder — constitute socialism.

The Law, by Frederic Bastiat
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Old 08-14-2018, 05:13 PM
 
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America is the only country in the industrialized world that does not provide the basics for its population yet has a military budget 4 times the rest of the world combined.

I respect the ideals of this woman.
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Old 08-14-2018, 05:13 PM
 
Location: 500 miles from home
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The Republicans feel genuinely threatened by this woman and want to try and torpedo her early.

They are skeeered....
I mean - they are OBSESSED with this one particular candidate.

Will they try and demonize her like they do other democratic women?


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Debate her to what purpose?

Is Candace Owens running in her district?


Why should Ms Ocasio-Cortez validate this proposed dog-and pony show?
So that this organization can further spout their propaganda?

Ridiculous.
Absolutely. The only people she should be debating is anyone running against her in her district. Period.

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ms cortez is the one bleating about how great socialism is, and if she cant intelligently support her position, then perhaps she needs to get out of the race. the one running scared is ms cortez.
I don't think so.

I mean - ya'll never showed BERNIE this much attention.

What up?
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Old 08-14-2018, 05:21 PM
 
Location: Phoenix
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The Republicans feel genuinely threatened by this woman and want to try and torpedo her early.

They are skeeered....
Yeah 0 for 10 n the last election endorsing candidates really is skeery. Actually, we are loving brainless Barbie's 15 minutes of fame and don't want it to end too soon. In the debate of ideas, liberals always and I mean always lose which is why The Left want to stop free speech.
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Old 08-14-2018, 05:26 PM
 
Location: Denver, CO
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Originally Posted by katzpaw View Post
Note that this is Bastiat's definition of socialism (in 1850):

"Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole — with their common aim of legal plunder — constitute socialism.

The Law, by Frederic Bastiat
Hence my repeated pointing out that Trump is a leftist with socialist ideals.
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Old 08-14-2018, 05:32 PM
 
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yeah because a free market economy with fewer regulations and lower taxes is really socialism
Where do bail outs fit into a free market?

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/07/31...-in-trade-war/

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/01/trum...-security.html
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Old 08-14-2018, 06:57 PM
 
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The difference is that when Obama was wrong and called out, Democrats pulled the race card. When Hillary was running, Democrats pull the gender card. And now Cortez is pulling the sexism card for daring to call her out.

It's constant and consistent tactic of the Democrat party, and people see it for what it is and are fed up with it.
Really? Then why aren't people abandoning the Democratic Party?

https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/p...filiation.aspx
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Old 08-14-2018, 06:59 PM
 
Location: Near Manito
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I was told by a woman I worked with that calling a woman a girl was condescending. I haven't done it since.
Good boy.
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