Obama: Little Difference Between Capitalism and Communism; Largely Just an "Intellectual Argument;" People Shouldn't Worry If Something "Fits Into Socialist Theory," Should Just Choose "What Works"

I usually don't link InfoWars but they have the video and Obama says what they say he says.

"Those are interesting intellectual arguments, but I think for your generation, you should be practical and just choose from what works. You don't have to worry about whether it really fits into socialist theory or capitalist theory. You should just decide what works," he added.
Obama went on to praise Cuba’s socialist system under dictator Raúl Castro, touting the country’s free access to basic education and health care, although he acknowledged that Havana itself "looks like it did in the 1950s" because the economy is "not working".

It's at Real Clear Politics, too, if you prefer.

Posted by: Ace at 03:06 PM

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1 What a asshat

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2016 03:07 PM (fizMZ)

2 Standing in line for 8 hours to get toilet paper.

That's socialism.

Posted by: Kasich the Barbarian, Son of Mailman at March 25, 2016 03:07 PM (uyrlv)

3 I read it too.
We need help & I want Hillaey defeated.

Posted by: Carol at March 25, 2016 03:07 PM (sj3Ax)

4 What about the millions communism has killed?What a piece of shit.

Posted by: steevy at March 25, 2016 03:08 PM (B48dK)

5 Saw Bozo spewing his wisdom at the Gateway Pundit

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2016 03:09 PM (fizMZ)

6 Remember. This guy COULD be The Smartest President of All Time!

Posted by: tu3031 at March 25, 2016 03:09 PM (YFFpo)

7 This guy is an eff'n retard.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 25, 2016 03:09 PM (YRJhU)

8 We haven't even cracked 50% for the list in the previous thread... too early Ace.

Jadzia Dax

Posted by: Draki at March 25, 2016 03:09 PM (0eidE)

9 Un-freakin-believable...

Just choose what works.. if you can convince the working class to finance your lazy ass, then why not?? Eh?

Posted by: Chitown-Jerry at March 25, 2016 03:09 PM (UpGcq)

10 Yeah because history isn't sufficient to tell that communism and socialism are non-functional.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 25, 2016 03:10 PM (i0ykY)

11 Clearly JEF knows very little about capitalism and apparently even less about communism. The first of those is no surprise at all but the second is rather shocking.

JEF has the intellectual maturity of a junior-college freshman liberal arts major.

Ladies and Gentlemen, your President of the United States!

Posted by: DocJ at March 25, 2016 03:10 PM (5Nr9V)

12 Yeah, of course he would say that as he's been working overtime to destroy US capitalism and make it socialist. Don't want to scare the LIVs!

Yeah, socialism is totes AWESOME, it just hasn't been implemented correctly....isn't that what they always say?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 25, 2016 03:10 PM (NOIQH)

13 Did you hear about all the Florida residents who drowned in a raft trying to get to Cuba for the health care and education?

Oh wait, that didn't happen.

Posted by: Furious George at March 25, 2016 03:10 PM (3GAnN)

14 And it is Shit like THIS that one should vote for the Republican Nominee.

Clear as the nose on my face

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2016 03:10 PM (DUoqb)

15 Other than the fact that under Communism your property and even your own life don't belong to you, yeah, really no difference at all.

Posted by: navybrat at March 25, 2016 03:10 PM (8QGte)

16 this is all Trump's fault!

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 25, 2016 03:11 PM (NMZnO)

17 Look up Democide, gives the history of mostly leftist goverments and the their populations they have killed off.

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2016 03:11 PM (fizMZ)

18 Christ, I thought he was a relentless ideologue, pursuing his goals of worldwide communism because that is what he believes in.

Turns out he just an ignoramus who doesn't even understand what really does work, and what doesn't, and the underlying reasons why.

Posted by: West at March 25, 2016 03:11 PM (1Rgee)

19 TFG's more retarded than I am...!!!...Yayyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!

Posted by: Corky the Retard at March 25, 2016 03:11 PM (v+/ty)

20 After years of carp lips they must start to dangle, then comes the lip tuck. That's gotta smart.

Posted by: Ralph at March 25, 2016 03:11 PM (EZkQC)

21 You'd kind of think the socialists wouldn't like this either.

Pick what works. Cuba's economy isn't working.

Posted by: iforgot at March 25, 2016 03:11 PM (pC96u)

22 I must have seen it at RCP.

Posted by: Carol at March 25, 2016 03:11 PM (sj3Ax)

23 Oh, credit to Drudge for a link to townhall

http://preview.tinyurl.com/8yyztky

Sowell nails it.

Posted by: Wolford Dimley at March 25, 2016 03:11 PM (a7RSp)

24 Christ, I thought he was a relentless ideologue, pursuing his goals of worldwide communism because that is what he believes in.

Turns out he just an ignoramus who doesn't even understand what really does work, and what doesn't, and the underlying reasons why.

Posted by: West at March 25, 2016 03:11 PM (1Rgee)

Those 2 are not mutually exclusive.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2016 03:12 PM (DUoqb)

25 Well, you know Capitalism and Socialism are both just theories. Like Gravity and Evolution and Relativity.

Nobody really knows, man.

*bong hit*

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2016 03:12 PM (1xUj/)

26 "What Works"

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Cuba
Soviet Union
North Korea
Nort Viet Nam
Cambodia
East Germany
Nicaragua
China

Yeah.... lets go with "What Works."

Posted by: fixerupper at March 25, 2016 03:12 PM (8XRCm)

27 Mariska Hartigay. Boom!

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 25, 2016 03:12 PM (btH0m)

28 Did he throw in a reference to us being "our brother's keeper?"

Because his little socialist twist on a Bible excerpt never gets old, every dang time he uses it to justify Obamacare, food stamps, open borders, whatever.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 25, 2016 03:12 PM (NOIQH)

29 Yep... We're totally boned.

Posted by: IP at March 25, 2016 03:12 PM (aQQbl)

30 Castrada endorses Castro.

Shocker, that.

Posted by: Joe Mama at March 25, 2016 03:13 PM (Tpm5R)

31 Constitutional Scholar my ass.

Posted by: garrett at March 25, 2016 03:13 PM (MvFEq)

32 Well, you know Capitalism and Socialism are both just theories. Like Gravity and Evolution and Relativity.

But But But Global Warming is proven right? Right? Right?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2016 03:13 PM (DUoqb)

33 Benevolent Despotism has a lot going for it too.
Just sayin..

Posted by: Roland THTG at March 25, 2016 03:13 PM (QM5S2)

34 It may be time for another round of electroshock therapy for our Low Information President.

Posted by: Furious George at March 25, 2016 03:13 PM (3GAnN)

35 You want to see the difference between communism and capitalism, go to Hong Kong. Mainland Chinese flock to Hong Kong daily to get basic things like baby formula and diapers.

Same Chinese cultural background, one had free market (to a point) capitalism injected into it and the other wallowed in communism. The differences are striking and literally right next door to each other.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 25, 2016 03:13 PM (/tuJf)

36 I mean, I can understand that JEF doesn't seem to understand that "Capitalism" is not a political structure but a purely economic one ("Libertarian" would be, more or less, a political structure built on Capitalism) whereas Communism is a political/social/economic structure that governs everything.

Lots of people don't understand the difference.

But "just pick what works"? Where, dear leader, has Communism ever "worked", unless you define "worked" as "created multi-generational misery wherever its been tried"?

Posted by: DocJ at March 25, 2016 03:14 PM (5Nr9V)

37 The word "Work" and "Communism" are not usually mentioned in the same sentence, EXCEPT, as in "he worked at the communist Gulag".

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2016 03:14 PM (DUoqb)

38 So...1950's lifestyle in Commie Cuba is good, but 1950's values are bad, have I got that right?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 25, 2016 03:14 PM (NOIQH)

39 if this guy is the smartest president ever, the rest of them must have been barely functioning tards.licking windows and shit. damn, this country is full of fucking idiots.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 25, 2016 03:14 PM (ucDmr)

40 20 years ago this was back room talk.
40 years ago this was Congressional Hearing kinda talk.

Today, it gets passed over on a Friday afternoon like a weather forcast for Bismark ND.

Posted by: IP at March 25, 2016 03:14 PM (aQQbl)

41 Barak leftists told us 8 years ago was going to be the smartest man ever to hold the office. He turned out to be just a empty vessel Marxist theology was pored into his skull only to be spewed back out.

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2016 03:14 PM (fizMZ)

42 Yep... We're totally boned.
Posted by: IP at March 25, 2016 03:12 PM (aQQbl)

Only if he talk, react, and vote like juveniles.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2016 03:15 PM (DUoqb)

43 Christ, I thought he was a relentless ideologue, pursuing his goals of worldwide communism because that is what he believes in.

Turns out he just an ignoramus who doesn't even understand what really does work, and what doesn't, and the underlying reasons why.

Posted by: West at March 25, 2016 03:11 PM (1Rgee)

He's lying just to troll us. Just ignore barky.

Posted by: Draki at March 25, 2016 03:15 PM (0eidE)

44 Once more, with quotation marks:

"Pick what works . . . Cuba's economy isn't working."

You'd think the socialists wouldn't like this either.

Posted by: iforgot at March 25, 2016 03:15 PM (pC96u)

45 Castrado = Castrato

Posted by: Joe Mama at March 25, 2016 03:15 PM (Tpm5R)

46 Harvard should be suing this guy for defamation.

Posted by: garrett at March 25, 2016 03:15 PM (MvFEq)

47 That's not how it works. That's not how any of this works!!!

Posted by: zombie Milton Friedman, putting his coffee cup onto computer cd tray at March 25, 2016 03:15 PM (H9MG5)

48 This just proves my theory that Ted Cruz's wife is a crazy, dirty whore.

TRUMP 2016

Posted by: DONALD TRUMP at March 25, 2016 03:15 PM (TJCSB)

49 You know, other than having food shortages, imprisoning political opponents, stifling free speech and thought and being responsible for the murder of millions, they're damn near the same thing as capitalism. You right wingnut backwater hicks are just too dumb to understand the nuances of it!

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 25, 2016 03:15 PM (btH0m)

50 So what commie/socialist country did as much good as the USA has?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2016 03:15 PM (voOPb)

51 Umm, under communism, one doesn't get to pick what works.
One is told where one is working, what one is doing, what one will get paid. If it doesn't work, so what. If you die, the state has a lot more workers to take your place.

Posted by: Jen the original at March 25, 2016 03:16 PM (ph1j2)

52 So what commie/socialist country did as much good as the USA has?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2016 03:15 PM (voOPb)

the one in fantasy land

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2016 03:16 PM (DUoqb)

53 Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2016 03:15 PM (DUoqb)

My point is there SHOULD be a popular uprising across the country against talk like this. There won't be of course, but there should be.

Posted by: IP at March 25, 2016 03:17 PM (aQQbl)

54 Chocolate Jesus Rationales are UP!

Posted by: garrett at March 25, 2016 03:17 PM (MvFEq)

55 about all the Florida residents who drowned in a raft trying to get to Cuba for the health care and education?
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No it was Hawaii Furious George

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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2016 03:17 PM (voOPb)

56 But... FREE HEALTH CARE!!!!!! (bong hit)

- average Feel The BERN voter

Posted by: DocJ at March 25, 2016 03:17 PM (5Nr9V)

57 Hillary believes the same thing. Remember that when you pull the lever for her Ace.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at March 25, 2016 03:18 PM (0LHZx)

58 You should just decide what works...
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Yup, that's what we did.

Posted by: Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, etc., etc. at March 25, 2016 03:18 PM (9mTYi)

59 Feds Spend $6,000 Studying History of French Lesbian Activism

FreeBeacon

well to be honest, this one I agree with. There are pictures I presume.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2016 03:18 PM (DUoqb)

60 If you ever talked to a Marxist today I guarantee they will gloss over gulags, mass killings, starvation, vendetta agaist old rivals.

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2016 03:18 PM (fizMZ)

61 Well, it's of little difference to me. When I'm a former President I'm going to get my 20% cost of living increase. What happens to you or America after that-not my concern. I'm just not that into you, America.,

Posted by: Mega Hope and Change at March 25, 2016 03:18 PM (w4NZ8)

62 There's little difference between Obama and my butt.

Posted by: Mister Ed at March 25, 2016 03:18 PM (FkBIv)

63 Oy.

Posted by: Adriane the Historical Critic ... at March 25, 2016 03:18 PM (AoK0a)

64 In the '50s Cuba was a dictatorship/sorta Batista.
But they had food, doctors, clothes, jobs, good times; a life.

Under Castro, no so much.

Posted by: Ralph at March 25, 2016 03:18 PM (EZkQC)

65 Well this is the kind of shit they're shoveling in scools right now.

That's why Bernie has traction with the youngsters.

America is already mostly a soft socialist country anyways.

We don't really practice true free market capitalism anyway and our social welfare programs are gargantuan and growing by the day.

Bottom line, America will go from its current soft socialism to hard socialism within the next 15 years once we've been sufficiently swamped by 3rd world immigrants, which we are importing by the millions both legally and illegally.

Posted by: Kreplach at March 25, 2016 03:18 PM (teW7t)

66 This is one of the big lies that the left always sells, the notion that they are not ideologues but only interested in what works. Except that when their ideas fail, the answer is never, "Socialism doesn't work," the answer is, "There wasn't enough socialism, so we need more."

Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at March 25, 2016 03:18 PM (JxMoP)

67 if its just straight pragmatism, obviously Capitalism is your choice, no matter what evidence you provide. The big knock on capitalism is that its heartless, soulless, and cruel. Which it is, often. But it works as an economic system, which Communism does not. All Communism does is offer good feels and tries to solve human misery through economics and politics, and fails. Its a disaster as an economic system.

But all this is, is an attempt to normalize communism/socialism so it just sounds like another option rather than the mass murdering catastrophic failure that it historically has proven to be

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 25, 2016 03:18 PM (39g3+)

68 Empty shelves. Inferior products. Subsistence living, generation after generation. That's socialism. Assuming you don't wind up with purges, mass graves, and deaths of millions upon millions of people who were in the way.

The big happy-face of socialism, they say, is 'democratic socialism.' This is merely socialism that leeches wealth off the back of capitalism to have enough money to fund its schemes. Rather than a plunge straight to the bottom, it is a gradual deflation of spirit, innovation, culture, and vitality as people become dumbed by central planning and bread and circuses and the welfare state. See western Europe.

Posted by: Kasich the Barbarian, Son of Mailman at March 25, 2016 03:18 PM (uyrlv)

69 On one side you have relative abundance and freedom. On the other you have scarcity and may be shot for no reason. Yeah, just pick what works for you.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 25, 2016 03:19 PM (kTF2Z)

70 You should just decide what works,
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Well, as of today, my plan is coming along nicely.

Posted by: Fidel at March 25, 2016 03:19 PM (9mTYi)

71 There healthcare sucks. Cuban doctors who were sent to Venezuela to help but refused to return to Cuba, could not pass qualifying exams to be doctors in Brazil and Central America. The pass rate was really really low.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at March 25, 2016 03:19 PM (iQIUe)

72 Of course he has the freedom to SAY it.
Our freedom is to say he's an idiot.

Posted by: IP at March 25, 2016 03:19 PM (aQQbl)

73 Typical Obama speech. Set up some strawmen, set them on fire. Set David Brook's wee wee off with creased pants. Collect check.

I'd be happier that we'd be getting rid of him soon if the replacements didn't seem equally bad...

Posted by: Gaff at March 25, 2016 03:19 PM (0YV0o)

74 My point is there SHOULD be a popular uprising across the country against talk like this. There won't be of course, but there should be.
Posted by: IP at March 25, 2016 03:17 PM (aQQbl)

That wasn't directed toward you. It was directed against the people who are willing to walk and let hillary into the White House.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2016 03:19 PM (DUoqb)

75 Douchebag gonna douche.
It's all he knows.

Posted by: AMartel at March 25, 2016 03:19 PM (WWgnZ)

76 4 What about the millions communism has killed?What a piece of shit.
Posted by: steevy at March 25, 2016 03:08 PM (B48dK)

Steevy, I don't think he thinks that's a problem. It's okay if the ones eliminated aren't with the program. That's why communism hasn't really worked before, because you still have those idiots who won't go along with it. Get rid of them, and it will be PERFECT!!!111!!!

My friends in Poland would have to disagree with his assessment vehemently, but he thinks they are crappy too.

Posted by: Moki at March 25, 2016 03:19 PM (7q2ch)

77 Retard babbles about things he knows only through idiot mythology. Film at 11.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 25, 2016 03:19 PM (8ZskC)

78 SCOAMF

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at March 25, 2016 03:20 PM (AaZLR)

79 Everything Barry knows about socialism he learned at a cocktail party in 1982.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie! at March 25, 2016 03:20 PM (evdj2)

80 Most shocking part: he says the market economy creates wealth for the people.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at March 25, 2016 03:20 PM (0LHZx)

81 ever talked to a Marxist today I guarantee they will gloss over gulags, mass killings, starvation, vendetta agaist old rivals.
Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2016 03:18 PM (fizMZ)

Sort of the LGF of the political,world

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2016 03:20 PM (voOPb)

82 How the fuck did this assclown ever get to be President of the United States? What an embarrassment.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 25, 2016 03:21 PM (/tuJf)

83 Over rated "beauty"?

Mooch.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 25, 2016 03:21 PM (Nwg0u)

84 Obama went on to praise Cuba's socialist system under dictator Raul Castro, touting the country's free access to basic education and health care, although he acknowledged that Havana itself "looks like it did in the 1950s" because the economy is "not working".

F'in cognitive dissonance, how does it work!!!!!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 25, 2016 03:21 PM (8ZskC)

85 And we lost to this twerp. Twice.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 25, 2016 03:21 PM (kTF2Z)

86 There's so much stupid packed into one jug eared head.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 25, 2016 03:21 PM (btH0m)

87 "You don't have to worry about whether it really fits into socialist theory or capitalist theory."

Forget theory, let's look at how they work in practice.
Socialism doesn't work in practice without stealing money from the capitalists anywhere it's been tried and is not self-sustaining.
Capitalism works excellently in practice the purer it's form is and the less socialist regulation that exists in the economic environment .

Theory, it's all Obama's whole world is made up of.

Posted by: Speller at March 25, 2016 03:21 PM (hHs1b)

88 If they cant produce qualified doctors, I have to wonder if they can produce qualified engineers.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at March 25, 2016 03:21 PM (iQIUe)

89 Back before she became a pariah, Peggy Noonan wrote a book about her time as a speech writer for Ronald Reagan.

She recalled a conversation where she asked Reagan why he was so vehemently opposed to leftists and their policies. Reagan replied, "that stuff just doesn't work. "

Posted by: obnoxious ahole at March 25, 2016 03:21 PM (MpvuV)

90 Ten years, fifteen years? Hell, I figure we have about seven months until the October Surprise shakes the world and alters the outcome of the US Presidential election.

All downhill after that. Events, ya know? Events! My good fellow.

Posted by: Wolford Dimley at March 25, 2016 03:21 PM (a7RSp)

91 Hillary agrees with Obama, and you will vote for her?

Posted by: Duncan MacLeod, The Highlander at March 25, 2016 03:22 PM (/Owtt)

92 I don't listen to Michael Savage, but he'll withdraw all support of trump if he doesn't disavow Enquirer story, says he has sources that prove its false.

http://tinyurl.com/hg8xqes

Posted by: Carol at March 25, 2016 03:22 PM (sj3Ax)

93 Most shocking part: he says the market economy creates wealth for the people.
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Well his buddies in the 1% have been making their money in the stock market

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2016 03:22 PM (voOPb)

94 Next year will mark the 150th anniversary of the publishing of Das Kapital, Vol 1.

It's the wave of the past.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie! at March 25, 2016 03:22 PM (evdj2)

95 What about the millions communism has killed?What a piece of shit.
Posted by: steevy at March 25, 2016 03:08 PM (B48dK)

Steevy, I don't think he thinks that's a problem.

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They're just bitter clingers anyway.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 25, 2016 03:23 PM (Nwg0u)

96 Sorry, ace.
I can't click this link - I'm too paranoid to get anywhere near Alex Jones.

And TFG is a joke. He's making us a global laughingstock.

Posted by: Chi at March 25, 2016 03:23 PM (2SERm)

97 My point is there SHOULD be a popular uprising across the country against talk like this. There won't be of course, but there should be.
Posted by: IP
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Yeah, well, I tried to tell you.

Posted by: Joe McCarthy at March 25, 2016 03:23 PM (9mTYi)

98 85 And we lost to this twerp. Twice.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 25, 2016 03:21 PM (kTF2Z)

"You're welcome!"

Posted by: Capt. John McCain, Ret., Willard "Mitt" Romney, and their RNC Superfriends at March 25, 2016 03:23 PM (pQgsb)

99 Communism and mohammedism, the two biggest plagues to beset mankind ever.

Posted by: navybrat at March 25, 2016 03:23 PM (8QGte)

100 If we had a Media interested in truly informing the American people, idiot Obama would probably be a drug casualty, and everyone here would know the horrors of Socialism.

But we don't, so he wasn't, and they don't.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 25, 2016 03:23 PM (AroJD)

101 "... because the economy is 'not working'"

"Not working" is the central tenet of Obama and his ilk; I'm pretty sure "not working" is a basic plank in the Democrat platform.

Posted by: Qoheleth at March 25, 2016 03:24 PM (iIzG7)

102 Gateway Pundit has a link to the JEF's ramblings if you don't want the crazy to rub off on you over @ infodorks.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 25, 2016 03:24 PM (btH0m)

103 He plays for the other tem.

Posted by: torabora at March 25, 2016 03:24 PM (NKsPr)

104 Choose what works? ....so is he saying the people of Cuba have a choice ? ... what a dick!!!!

Posted by: E.T. at March 25, 2016 03:24 PM (yq4gk)

105 "You should just decide what works,"

...."and for me, I've decided what works is that I'll be cancelling the 2016 elections and serving as president until I've had the chance to fix all the problems that need to be fixed.!"

Posted by: Lizzy at March 25, 2016 03:24 PM (NOIQH)

106 Obviously Obama loves what just works.

Which is why he's constantly talking about all the wonderful things he's accomplished instead of blaming Bush and alwasy pretending like he hasn't been in charge for 7+ years.

Posted by: gwelf at March 25, 2016 03:24 PM (nyxv/)

107 Communism and mohammedism, the two biggest plagues to beset mankind ever.
Posted by: navybrat at March 25, 2016 03:23 PM (8QGte)

Dozens Of Swedish Woman Wear Hijabs To SHow Their Support For Islam After Brussels Terror Attack

Demented.

Weasel Zippers

Sigh

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2016 03:24 PM (DUoqb)

108 103 You saying he is a fag or a communist?

Posted by: steevy at March 25, 2016 03:25 PM (B48dK)

109
You know why obama can get away with this?
Because there is no organized political opposition.

It's a joke to worry about "losing" the Congress this November.

Posted by: cucumbah watah for customah only! at March 25, 2016 03:25 PM (+YvQf)

110 Obama was doing the wave in Cuba with Raul Castro.

There are photos of Raul blindfolding his enemies before he executes them.

But let's stampede the Republican electorate with hatred towards the illogical.

Cruz chose his own path he doesn't need an emotional rescue. He is responsible for himself.

Posted by: Super Tramp at March 25, 2016 03:25 PM (mcm0N)

111 Well his buddies in the 1% have been making their money in the stock market

Yeah for being mister equality and fight the man, damn the 1% he's made the super rich insanely even more super rich with his stupid policies. Its like he was just shoveling money at them like an old steam train coal tender.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 25, 2016 03:25 PM (39g3+)

112 My grandfather spent 17 years in the Cuban gulag before he finally died. My great-uncle was luckier (some would say) and was lined up against a wall and shot.

Doesn't that "work" better than allowing free speech, petitioning for grievances, and elections? I think it's much more efficient.

Hey, whatever works!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 25, 2016 03:25 PM (T/5A0)

113 Next year will mark the 150th anniversary of the publishing of Das Kapital, Vol 1.

Hmmm. Looked it up. You're right.

I would have said 1848, I always associated it with the revolutions of that year.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2016 03:25 PM (1xUj/)

114 I think at this point the left has dropped the pretense of not being Communist.

Posted by: CrustyB at March 25, 2016 03:25 PM (Hnglq)

115 107 Hey,they figure that way they wont be raped.

Posted by: steevy at March 25, 2016 03:26 PM (B48dK)

116 Remember when you're health insurance premiums went to $2,500?

Because ObamaCare just works.

Posted by: gwelf at March 25, 2016 03:26 PM (nyxv/)

117 Nobody including half the tards who voted for him don't listen to his shit anymore.

Posted by: wth at March 25, 2016 03:26 PM (HgMAr)

118 Obama went on to praise Cuba's socialist system under dictator Raul Castro, touting the country's free access to basic education and health care,

IT'S NOT FREE, dammit. It's PRE-PAID because the state steals the fruit of your labor and trickles some back to you. And it's shit besides.

Posted by: Kasich the Barbarian, Son of Mailman at March 25, 2016 03:26 PM (uyrlv)

119 Obama and his ilk probably believe it's only real socialism/communism when it works. Just give them God's lifetime and they'll get it right.

Posted by: Satan of Blutwurst Vt at March 25, 2016 03:26 PM (qSIlh)

120 Obama's self-flattering "pragmatism" brings out my more aggressive impulses.

"Choose what works", eh? Capitalism and freedom works. Socialism is not. He fashions himself a "pragmatist" because it sounds nice when all he is is a rigidly dogmatic ideologue whose policy preferences are stuck on stupid.

Posted by: Sam in VA at March 25, 2016 03:26 PM (bNi5D)

121 Please! Let's not bicker and argue over who killed who.

Posted by: Pol Pot at March 25, 2016 03:26 PM (8ZskC)

122
obama said: You can call my totalitarianism whatever you please.

Posted by: cucumbah watah for customah only! at March 25, 2016 03:26 PM (+YvQf)

123 "Dozens Of Swedish Woman Wear Hijabs To SHow Their Support For Islam After Brussels Terror Attack"

And that's why they call it "Stockholm syndrome." Supporting their captors.

Posted by: Qoheleth at March 25, 2016 03:27 PM (iIzG7)

124 Y'all get it that Obama is trolling us and attempting to justify communism at the same time right? He's not sincere.

Posted by: Draki at March 25, 2016 03:27 PM (0eidE)

125 Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 25, 2016 03:25 PM

That's horrid. Sorry to hear that. Oh look, a base hit! Fucker.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 25, 2016 03:27 PM (btH0m)

126 Looking forward to the day when he is just a minor footnote in history.

Posted by: ALH at March 25, 2016 03:27 PM (Z56vq)

127 Next year will mark the 150th anniversary of the publishing of Das Kapital, Vol 1.

This year is the Centennial of the Irish Rising of 1916.
Just sayin...

Posted by: IP at March 25, 2016 03:27 PM (aQQbl)

128 There's so much stupid packed into one jug eared head.
Posted by: Minnfidel
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It is lifelong existence in a bubble, or bubbles. The guy is not a moron, he's just a cosmic intersection of naivety, ignorance, and malevolent philosophy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 25, 2016 03:27 PM (9mTYi)

129 Chicken fried dog works for Barky too

Posted by: KIllerdog at March 25, 2016 03:28 PM (G0b25)

130 Ok, if there's no real difference then why don't we start massive deregulation, shut down 80% of the government and let free people go about their business?

Posted by: gwelf at March 25, 2016 03:28 PM (nyxv/)

131 Obama still has many things to learn before he reaches Bernie Sanders' level of understanding economics.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 25, 2016 03:28 PM (8ZskC)

132 Well millions starved to death but the healthcare was free!

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 25, 2016 03:28 PM (btH0m)

133 it's free because there's no bill for having the doctor tell you, yeah, you're malnourished... NEXT.

Posted by: Satan of Blutwurst Vt at March 25, 2016 03:28 PM (qSIlh)

134 I miss George Bush. No really.

Posted by: Lurking lurker. at March 25, 2016 03:28 PM (O108X)

135 If we 'choose what works' why hasn't he repealed ObamaCare?

Posted by: Kasich the Barbarian, Son of Mailman at March 25, 2016 03:28 PM (uyrlv)

136 So if there is no great difference between the two, it should cause him no great pain nor suffering to support capitalism, right?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 25, 2016 03:28 PM (ptqRm)

137 "Dozens Of Swedish Woman Wear Hijabs To SHow Their Support For Islam After Brussels Terror Attack "

Yeah, I know several women who date guys that are in prison, some of those are in for life for killing their wives.
The mind reels.

Posted by: navybrat at March 25, 2016 03:28 PM (8QGte)

138 What differencnce does it make at this point?

Posted by: ALH at March 25, 2016 03:29 PM (Z56vq)

139
Conservatism died in the USA because Republicans weren't out there every single day praising and advancing it.

Posted by: cucumbah watah for customah only! at March 25, 2016 03:29 PM (+YvQf)

140 The problem with his statement isn't the logical outcome (has to be capitalism, as explained above) its that he's trying to draw a moral equivalence between the two systems. For all its sins in the past, capitalism has brought about peace, prosperity, health, literacy, equality, and ended oppression worldwide. Communism has only brought death, poverty, war, misery, oppression, and lack.

Ever.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 25, 2016 03:29 PM (39g3+)

141 So if there is no great difference between the two, it should cause him no great pain nor suffering to support capitalism, right?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 25, 2016 03:28 PM (ptqRm)

OMG - THIS! x 1,000. threadwinnah in my opinion

Posted by: Lurking lurker. at March 25, 2016 03:29 PM (O108X)

142 Looking forward to the day when he is just a minor footnote in history.

Yeah. Good luck with that, wingnut.

Posted by: Nero at March 25, 2016 03:29 PM (8ZskC)

143 Some day those college transcripts will come out. And hilarity will ensue...

Posted by: tu3031 at March 25, 2016 03:29 PM (YFFpo)

144 "Dozens of Swedish women Start Smoking Twelve Packs A Day after Beloved Person Succumbs to Lung Cancer."

Makes as much sense.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 25, 2016 03:30 PM (AroJD)

145 The attraction of socialism is that it provides ways for people of mediocre abilities to rise far higher in society than they can in a merit based system where they are judged on results.

Posted by: obnoxious ahole at March 25, 2016 03:30 PM (MpvuV)

146 So we either get a continuation of this horse hockey with Hil or we get...well, I don't know what we'd get with Trump, but he won't sing the praises of commies. 350 million people in this country and this is our choice. Swell.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 25, 2016 03:30 PM (kTF2Z)

147 109
You know why obama can get away with this?
Because there is no organized political opposition.

It's a joke to worry about "losing" the Congress this November.

Posted by: cucumbah watah for customah only! at March 25, 2016 03:25 PM (+YvQf)
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No, he mainly gets away with this because he has the MSM in his pocket. And because the schools have not taught Americans anything about Communism.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 25, 2016 03:30 PM (T/5A0)

148 MMMM My favorite, Bark soup!

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 25, 2016 03:30 PM (btH0m)

149 Yeah, I know several women who date guys that are in prison, some of those are in for life for killing their wives.

There's no monster so horrific that women aren't writing them in prison wanting marriage. Some people just want to be victims.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 25, 2016 03:30 PM (39g3+)

150 Yo!

Posted by: Yo! at March 25, 2016 03:30 PM (GwIKd)

151 And this is why, no matter how much of a buffoon Donald Trump is, we must vote for him over the Commiecrat candidate in November, if it comes to that.

The once numerous "Boll Weevils" and "Blue Dogs" are just about extinct in the now Demunist Party.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at March 25, 2016 03:31 PM (ujg0T)

152 Just remember, one day all y'all will look back and realize that these are the good ol days.

Posted by: Wolford Dimley at March 25, 2016 03:31 PM (a7RSp)

153 Oy!

Posted by: Oy! at March 25, 2016 03:31 PM (evdj2)

154 "Dozens Of Swedish Woman Wear Hijabs To Show Their Support For Islam After Brussels Terror Attack "

Wow. ACTUAL Stockholm Syndrome.

Posted by: tu3031 at March 25, 2016 03:31 PM (YFFpo)

155 Venezuela is swirling around the shitter. Because awesome socialisms. But at least the JEF got his autographed Hugo Chavez book. So stick it.

Posted by: jsg at March 25, 2016 03:31 PM (eNNj8)

156 although he acknowledged that Havana itself "looks like it did in the 1950s"

Havana was much more prosperous and vibrant in the 1950s than it is, now.

Posted by: ThePrimoridalOrderedPair at March 25, 2016 03:31 PM (zc3Db)

157 re 140: "For all its sins in the past, capitalism has brought about peace, prosperity, health, literacy, equality, and ended oppression worldwide."

you really think people like Obama believe that? You and I read about people coming here and eventually writing their relatives in the old world "come here, it's much better here", and Obama sees sweatshops and child labor.

Posted by: Satan of Blutwurst Vt at March 25, 2016 03:31 PM (qSIlh)

158 There's a really good North Korean restaurant near my house. It's a long wait to get in but the bark buffet is fucking fabulous! I highly recommend birch.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 25, 2016 03:32 PM (btH0m)

159 Speaking of not working, Mizzou caves to #BLM, will require intensive diversity classes.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 25, 2016 03:32 PM (Nwg0u)

160 Conservatism died in the USA because Republicans weren't out there every single day praising and advancing it.

Posted by: cucumbah
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Post-Reagan complacency. We thought that the Truth had finally been made manifest, even to Democrats.

But, like rust, the Left never sleeps.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 25, 2016 03:32 PM (9mTYi)

161
although he acknowledged that Havana itself "looks like it did in the 1950s"

Havana was much more prosperous and vibrant in the 1950s than it is, now.

Posted by: ThePrimoridalOrderedPair at March 25, 2016 03:31 PM (zc3Db)

I think he's referring to the way it looked in late 1959......when it was a war zone.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 25, 2016 03:33 PM (/wVDI)

162 Needs to start building his Library in Havana...and fill it with Grade 1 History books..................put him in Guantanamo where he would be a happy camper...............

Posted by: saf at March 25, 2016 03:33 PM (qKiBT)

163 >>No, he mainly gets away with this because he has the MSM in his pocket. And because the schools have not taught Americans anything about Communism.

Yep. Talk to some recent graduates of our citadels of higher learning. They think socialism is just great.

Bernie Sanders is running as an out and proud Socialist and he is giving Hillary a waddle for her money. Never would have seen that 20 years ago and it is all about prepping the battlefield.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 25, 2016 03:33 PM (/tuJf)

164 62 There's little difference between Obama and my butt.
Posted by: Mister Ed at March 25, 2016 03:18 PM (FkBIv)

Not so, your butt definitely produces something other than flatulence.

Posted by: Wilbur at March 25, 2016 03:33 PM (6EpWX)

165 Capitalism works excellently in practice the purer it's form is and the less socialist regulation that exists in the economic environment .
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You can't get rich off Uncle Sugar though in a real capitalist system, so to Obama it doesn't "work"

Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2016 03:33 PM (pibXr)

166 Speaking of not working, Mizzou caves to #BLM, will require intensive diversity classes.
Posted by: Anonosaurus
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Oh, that's going to work out well.

Posted by: Exodus of Alumni support at March 25, 2016 03:33 PM (9mTYi)

167 >>> And it is Shit like THIS that one should vote for the Republican Nominee.
****

Whenever they get around to nominating one that doesn't agree with Obama on shit like this, maybe I will.

Posted by: Damiano at March 25, 2016 03:34 PM (XItbt)

168 The attraction of ~~socialism~~ a Government job is that it provides ways for people of mediocre abilities to rise far higher in society than they can in a merit based system where they are judged on results.

Fixed.
(IMHO)

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 25, 2016 03:34 PM (ptqRm)

169 158 There's a really good North Korean restaurant near my house. It's a long wait to get in but the bark buffet is fucking fabulous! I highly recommend birch.
----
You capitalist dawg, you get birch?

We get scrap box elder bark

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2016 03:34 PM (voOPb)

170 "Havana was much more prosperous and vibrant in the 1950s than it is, now."

In the Fifties, Havana was a happening place, a nearby paradise, and a major tourism destination. Havana today doesn't look a bit like the Havana of the Fifties. Havana today looks kind of like Detroit today, but warmer.

Posted by: Qoheleth at March 25, 2016 03:34 PM (iIzG7)

171 But, like rust, the Left never sleeps.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 25, 2016 03:32 PM (9mTYi)

And never remembers. You would be hard-pressed to find 10 people on the street who know anything about what the Soviet Union was and did, not least of which how backward it was while the West was surging ahead.

Posted by: ThePrimoridalOrderedPair at March 25, 2016 03:34 PM (zc3Db)

172 You capitalist dawg, you get birch?

We get scrap box elder bark

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2016 03:34 PM
.....Suck it commoner!

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 25, 2016 03:34 PM (btH0m)

173 124 Y'all get it that Obama is trolling us and attempting to justify communism at the same time right? He's not sincere.

Posted by: Draki at March 25, 2016 03:27 PM (0eidE)

And that doesn't horrify you? His base eats this up. I find that terrifying.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at March 25, 2016 03:35 PM (ujg0T)

174 Speaking of not working, Mizzou caves to #BLM, will require intensive diversity classes.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 25, 2016 03:32 PM (Nwg0u)

The beatings for millenials will continue until wisdom improves.

Posted by: Draki at March 25, 2016 03:35 PM (0eidE)

175 They think socialism is just great.
***
Tell them you want to bring them socialism...take their money, give them half of it back in Chipotle gift cards and taze them if they complain.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2016 03:35 PM (pibXr)

176 Interesting that he puts Communism and Socialism on the same side of the scale in the same breath.

Posted by: Great Reagan's Ghost at March 25, 2016 03:35 PM (kfoLf)

177 At this poit even the left is pretty well fed up with President Obama but when he's out of office the idea of Obama the historical first, the unReagan, the visionary unappreciated in his time will explode. He'll be bigger than Lincoln, Washington, and Roosevelt all at once. They'll want to blow the white slave owner faces on Mt Rushmore and put a full body nude of Obama up there instead.

Its only going to get more obnoxious out there about this guy. Wait for every city in America to rename another slum road after him. Wait for the biopics that have him the super genius nobody got.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 25, 2016 03:36 PM (39g3+)

178 Obama is quite incurious

Posted by: Yo! at March 25, 2016 03:36 PM (GwIKd)

179 Hey look, the new 1958 Chevy's are in!

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 25, 2016 03:36 PM (btH0m)

180 The beauty of socialism is that everyone works for the DMV.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at March 25, 2016 03:36 PM (evdj2)

181 The U.S. military deserve a better leader, the American people deserve better than Trump, Cruz or Hillary.

The Founding Fathers institutionalized safety measures like the electoral college--and I know your liberal college professors have poisoned most about this idea but they are wrong again.

Hillary brokered the democrat convention before it even got out of the chute. She killed direct democracy in its crib on her side--even the Reddit kids get this.

Republicans have every right to give a better option than Cruz or Trump.

Ace you did not come to either of those choices via your better angels.

The media --all of it --pushes people to the extreme polarities, but this country needs the middle to hold even if that idea has been demonized.

Posted by: Super Tramp at March 25, 2016 03:36 PM (mcm0N)

182 >>154. Wow. ACTUAL Stockholm Syndrome.

Toxic Shock Syndrome

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2016 03:36 PM (voOPb)

183 And that doesn't horrify you? His base eats this up. I find that terrifying.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at March 25, 2016 03:35 PM (ujg0T)

A little bit, I see occasional likes for something called winning democrats in facebook. They're idiots. As a Lutheran I already see the world as broken. So I'm used to man being sinful and dumb.

Posted by: Draki at March 25, 2016 03:36 PM (0eidE)

184 Also from WZ, a restaurant with a British colonial theme has been forced to close because of anti-colonial sabotage. Or because they featured British cuisine.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 25, 2016 03:36 PM (Nwg0u)

185 Post-Reagan complacency.

After every victory we presume the contest is over, game over man! We won, man!

It's never over until the left gives up. It's never over until the left says it's over. We don't get to decide when it's over.

Like with Islam, 'time out', 'cease fire', 'truce', does not mean peace, it means resupply, recruit, rebuild, rearm, reposition and try again.

Posted by: Wolford Dimley at March 25, 2016 03:36 PM (a7RSp)

186 "Tell them you want to bring them socialism...take their money, give them
half of it back in Chipotle gift cards and taze them if they complain."

I volunteer to operate the taser. I'll pay serious money if I can operate the cluebat.

Posted by: Qoheleth at March 25, 2016 03:36 PM (iIzG7)

187 Obama is quite incurious

Posted by: Yo! at March 25, 2016 03:36 PM (GwIKd)

An IQ of 84 will do that to you ...

Posted by: ThePrimoridalOrderedPair at March 25, 2016 03:37 PM (zc3Db)

188 The lines are getting pretty goddam blurred... look, we got Ace repeating about pulling a lever for Hillary for fucks sake. I really don't get all that. Seriously.

Posted by: Jackinapes at March 25, 2016 03:37 PM (Z/diL)

189 Speaking of not working, Mizzou caves to #BLM, will require intensive diversity classes.

So they've chosen the way of pain, then. I wonder if they'll start firing at the top or cutting back on student services first?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 25, 2016 03:37 PM (39g3+)

190 "Obama is quite incurious "

I heard that he was considering becoming Bi-Curious.

But he felt really out of place spooning with women.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 25, 2016 03:38 PM (ptqRm)

191 Eight years ago, I sort of signed when JugEars won the election, figured ok, surely the American voter will learn from his mistakes. Four years ago, I said I had confidence in the American voter, surely they won't get hoo-dooed again.
Sadly, I'm afraid all bets are off. This guy is a world class idiot, and people don't seem to care. So the candidate who talks the most crap and offers the most pretty, shiny things is always gonna win.
I weep for my country.

Posted by: antisocialist at March 25, 2016 03:38 PM (9n14Y)

192 @2: "Standing in line for 8 hours to get toilet paper.

That's socialism."

Hey, you leave standing in long lines alone!

Posted by: iStuff fanbois at March 25, 2016 03:38 PM (rznWS)

193 169 158 There's a really good North Korean restaurant near my house. It's a long wait to get in but the bark buffet is fucking fabulous! I highly recommend birch.
----
You capitalist dawg, you get birch?

We get scrap box elder bark
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2016 03:34 PM (voOPb)

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You get bark? Well, look at the 1%ers. We get a handful of rusty carpet tacks. And we like it that way!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 25, 2016 03:38 PM (kTF2Z)

194
They think socialism is just great.
***
Tell them you want to bring them socialism...take their money, give them half of it back in Chipotle gift cards and taze them if they complain.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2016 03:35 PM (pibXr)

Getting half back would be a cornucopia of riches in a socialist society. The reality is that you stand in line for 5 hours every Sunday to get your weekly half-loaf ration of sawdust bread.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 25, 2016 03:38 PM (/wVDI)

195 Posted by: Minnfidel at March 25, 2016 03:34 PM (btH0m)

May you have snow banks unti the 4th of July

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2016 03:39 PM (voOPb)

196 The U.S. military deserve a better leader, the American people deserve better than Trump, Cruz or Hillary.

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Say what you will, if nominated I will not campaign, if ected I will not serve.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 25, 2016 03:39 PM (Nwg0u)

197 The other thing about Obama that bugs is how much he thinks he knows so much, when he really knows nothing and things that are not so.

Posted by: Yo! at March 25, 2016 03:40 PM (GwIKd)

198 Obama was just citing Alexander Pope:

For forms of gov't let fools contest,
what's best administered is best.

Posted by: bjk at March 25, 2016 03:40 PM (4ENxY)

199 >>>132 Well millions starved to death but the healthcare was free!

If only they had some medicine.

Posted by: Javems at March 25, 2016 03:40 PM (yOqwj)

200 Getting half back would be a cornucopia of riches in a socialist society. The reality is that you stand in line for 5 hours every Sunday to get your weekly half-loaf ration of sawdust bread.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 25, 2016 03:38 PM (/wVDI)

I remember jokes about how people in the USSR would be standing in line not even knowing what they were waiting to get ... but they figured it was a line and they were happy that they might be getting anything.

Posted by: ThePrimoridalOrderedPair at March 25, 2016 03:40 PM (zc3Db)

201 167 >>> And it is Shit like THIS that one should vote for the Republican Nominee.
****

Whenever they get around to nominating one that doesn't agree with Obama on shit like this, maybe I will.

Posted by: Damiano at March 25, 2016 03:34 PM (XItbt)

Sorry, no. The Donald would tell Castro to stick it. For all his many faults, you have to grant The Donald *that*.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at March 25, 2016 03:40 PM (ujg0T)

202 What's the difference between Ted Cruz and Barack Obama?

Barack Obama waited for the inauguration before blaming the other guy for everything wrong in his life.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian at March 25, 2016 03:40 PM (QvJot)

203 I volunteer to operate the taser. I'll pay serious money if I can operate the cluebat.

Ah, capitalism.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at March 25, 2016 03:41 PM (evdj2)

204 Intellectual argument? Tell that to people wiping their ass with their hand!

Posted by: Hadoop at March 25, 2016 03:41 PM (2X7pN)

205 And this guy taught constitutional law? He is the biggest con artist ever.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 25, 2016 03:41 PM (4AVeu)

206 "Obama was just citing Alexander Pope... "

I'm sure he remembers that from one of his required college textbooks that he never cracked.

Posted by: Qoheleth at March 25, 2016 03:42 PM (iIzG7)

207 An American President praising Communism.

What.

The.

Fuck.

Posted by: Button Gwinnett at March 25, 2016 03:42 PM (YpQpo)

208
"...touting the country's free access to basic education and health care,"
..........................

And you get them both in the same shack behind the llantera!

Posted by: wth at March 25, 2016 03:42 PM (HgMAr)

209 Posted by: Margarita DeVille

That is heartbreaking and I am so sorry for your family. How you can stand to listen or read anything from this Che loving freak is beyond me.

It is a sick mindset and I am sure that we will hear from the Obama daughters in the future on how the racism and hate that they suffered in this awful country was so horrendous.

Posted by: Cheri at March 25, 2016 03:42 PM (oiNtH)

210 Recommended read, so long as you supplement it with giant bottles of Tums and whiskey., 'Listen Yankee', by C. Wright Mills. Written in 1960, it explains the Great Leap Forward that Fidel and his communists have in mind for Cuba. The factories, the foundries, the workers housing, etc. Why, it's going to be a veritable worker's paradise. It will all be put in place by Soviet bloc benefactors.

Didn't work out... but the arrogance and presumption of the Cuban commies is astounding.

Posted by: Exodus of Alumni support at March 25, 2016 03:42 PM (9mTYi)

211 "ntellectual argument? Tell that to people wiping their ass with their hand!"

Huh?

Posted by: Dude what wipes barehanded at March 25, 2016 03:42 PM (ptqRm)

212 it's free because there's no bill for having the doctor tell you, yeah, you're malnourished... NEXT.
Posted by: Satan of Blutwurst Vt at March 25, 2016 03:28 PM (qSIlh)

In a perfect world we'd be able to ask patients how they voted.

If you voted for this current mess - the bureaucracy, the endless rules and the electronic medical records mess, then when you call and ask for an urgent visit we tell you (the truth) our next available appointment is in 8-12 weeks. So go to the ER and incur a $2,000 bill walking in the door if you can't wait that long.

And most of the time the ER doc just makes sure you're not knocking at death's door but does nothing to fix your current problem. I don't know why, but they won't even titrate heart failure or BP medications a little bit to buy you some relief until you get into your primary team.

However, if you did not vote for this mess - then I'll still add you on in my lunch hour or before clinic begins or at the end of the day in my clinic. I'll do my damnedest to get you an answer and some improvement in your symptoms just like I've always done.

It's absolutely fair - you get what you voted for. You voted for bureaucracy, for the destruction of entire private practices, for Obamacare and the nonsense that implies, then you get exactly what (you weren't probably smart enough to know) you asked for. You didn't, then we'll try to still care for you the way that we used to.

Of course, if I did that , I would be publicly destroyed, sued and shot, and probably not in that order.

Posted by: Lurking lurker. at March 25, 2016 03:42 PM (O108X)

213 Obama is quite incurious

Posted by: Yo! at March 25, 2016 03:36 PM (GwIKd)

An IQ of 84 will do that to you ...

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Affirmative action modifier makes that a perfect 360.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 25, 2016 03:42 PM (Nwg0u)

214 re 205: so he claims. I claim to be more handsome than Cary Grant put together.

Posted by: Satan of Blutwurst Vt at March 25, 2016 03:42 PM (qSIlh)

215 If I said what I was thinking I'd get banned from here and receive a visit from TFG's Schutzstaffel.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 25, 2016 03:43 PM (0mRoj)

216 "Sorry, no. The Donald would tell Castro to stick it."

Unless he could get a twenty-year lease on part of downtown Havana for a new casino, with an option to buy.

Posted by: Qoheleth at March 25, 2016 03:43 PM (iIzG7)

217 The people in charge never suffer.

Posted by: Kasich the Barbarian, Son of Mailman at March 25, 2016 03:43 PM (uyrlv)

218 look, we got Ace repeating about pulling a lever for Hillary for fucks sake

He says he's as likely to vote for Hillary as to vote for Trump.

I'm pretty close to that myself. I'm not likely to vote for either.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at March 25, 2016 03:44 PM (evdj2)

219 217: I beg to differ.

Posted by: Satan of Blutwurst Vt at March 25, 2016 03:44 PM (qSIlh)

220
I'd like to once again thank the brainless douchebags and leftists for electing this anti-American communist POS. And by thank I mean toss them off the nearest cliff

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 25, 2016 03:44 PM (45oDG)

221 And this guy taught constitutional law? He is the biggest con artist ever.
Posted by: Adirondack
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Actually, he 'taught' what he thinks is the shortcoming of The Constitution, i.e., that it constrains the government. One has only to observe his actions to find confirmation of that.

Obama regards the Bill of Rights as a time-consuming bottleneck.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 25, 2016 03:45 PM (9mTYi)

222 The other thing about Obama that bugs is how much he thinks he knows so much, when he really knows nothing and things that are not so.
Posted by: Yo!

because his whole life he's been pandered to because of his skin color.

can you imagine if Obama had been white? He would have been in community college.

So here's this prince of the Ivy League and it's all for purposes of white guilt that we make these people think they're geniuses.

Posted by: Swingline at March 25, 2016 03:45 PM (F6Ili)

223 Well its been said before, but half the world is dumber than average intelligence. That's not exactly accurate, statistically speaking but it makes the point: there are a lot of idiots out there.

And what President Obama did is give these people the idea that they not only should have a voice, but that they should exercise it. Before they expressed their stupidity by staying home and doing nothing while whining about how lousy everything was. Now they go out and vote and whine about how lousy everything is.

Will Hillary be able to corral this block of stupid selfish wastes of space to vote for her, too? I dunno. Maybe Obama woke them up and they're here to stay, maybe it takes his gift of rabble rousing and reaching out to them to get them to show up, and maybe the Democrats have learned the secret and will keep using it for the time being.

All I know is, even 10 years ago this kind of thing was electoral suicide.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 25, 2016 03:45 PM (39g3+)

224 For weeks, rumors have circulated the web that individuals were being paid to protest at rallies held by Presidential hopeful, Donald Trump. Today a man from Trumps rally on Saturday in Fountain Hills, Arizona has come forward to say that he was paid to protest the event.

I was given $3,500 to protest Donald Trumps rally in Fountain Hills, said 37-year-old Paul Horner. I answered a Craigslist ad a little over a week ago about a group needing actors for a political event. I interviewed with them and got the part.

Fuck, $3,500????
Where do i sign up?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2016 03:46 PM (DUoqb)

225 Sounds good to us.

Posted by: Emory Butthurt Squad at March 25, 2016 03:46 PM (HgMAr)

226 Let us examine what works then. Marxism/Socialism/Communism has been tried in several countries since 1917.
Russia and surrounding countries(Soviet Union). Result-millions dead, much human suffering.
China. Result-millions dead, much human suffering.
Cambodia. Result- millions dead, much human suffering.
Cuba. Result-tens of thousands dead, much human suffering.
Etc etc.
What kind of heartless, soulless, narcissistic, person would embrace a system that causes so much death and human suffering?
Oh yeah, any jug eared loser whose mommy and daddy were both Commies.

Posted by: Trumplethinskin at March 25, 2016 03:46 PM (VDovR)

227 >>Barack Obama waited for the inauguration before blaming the other guy for everything wrong in his life.
-----
He can't blame Mooch & her blood sucking mom on Bush

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2016 03:46 PM (voOPb)

228 @53: "My point is there SHOULD be a popular uprising across the country
against talk like this. There won't be of course, but there should be."

Everyone claims to be a patriot until it comes time to do patriot stuff.

Posted by: FaCubeItches at March 25, 2016 03:46 PM (rznWS)

229 It's been so long since the Soviet Union collapsed that young people today don't really have a good example of the wonders of communism.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 25, 2016 03:46 PM (kTF2Z)

230 I lived sixty miles south of Rome for over seven years.

Been to Rome dozens of times.

NOW....I understand how the average Roman citizen felt near the end.

And I don't like it.

Posted by: Dude what wipes barehanded at March 25, 2016 03:46 PM (ptqRm)

231 Unless he could get a twenty-year lease on part of downtown Havana for a new casino, with an option to buy.
***
Interestingly, if not for Castro, Havana would likely be Vegas - and the living standards of Cubans pretty close to that of Americans.

It was well on its way to becoming the vacation/gambling/tourism spot for the western hemisphere when the Cubans threw it all away.

Fulgencio Batista was a corrupt SOB...but nothing compared to Castro...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2016 03:46 PM (pibXr)

232 Obama is a dunce. A real, live dunce.

Posted by: Seems legit at March 25, 2016 03:46 PM (U+nHb)

233 What the hell does this even mean.
They're competing systems. you can't just make a "hodgepodge" system out of it.

Well unless you can piggyback on American defense and R&D like Europe. But even then it fails, see Greece.

Posted by: tsrlbke PhD(c), rogue bioethicist at March 25, 2016 03:46 PM (tM4uk)

234 Yeah, no difference other than a police state, civil liberties made optional, disappearing of political rivals, state owned media, price controls, rigid educational orthodoxy, no technological achievement, no medical advances, reliance on the stability of capitalist countries for food, trade, and open seas...

Other than that, yeah, no difference.

- yes, of course, it's not just that Obama and Co are willful assholes. The problem here is that at least 52% of the US doesn't give a shit.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 25, 2016 03:47 PM (A/3fN)

235 Unreal. The "free medical care" isn't free and it makes the Flintstone's medical care look sophisticated.

Posted by: Tilikum KAW SPI at March 25, 2016 03:47 PM (u0kqM)

236 He says he's as likely to vote for Hillary as to vote for Trump.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at March 25, 2016 03:44 PM (evdj2)

No. He said "will". Twice.

Posted by: ThePrimoridalOrderedPair at March 25, 2016 03:47 PM (zc3Db)

237 6th mistress found.

https://pbs.tw___.com/media/CeXzTR-XIAAkLBq.jpg

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian at March 25, 2016 03:47 PM (QvJot)

238 216 "Sorry, no. The Donald would tell Castro to stick it."

Unless he could get a twenty-year lease on part of downtown Havana for a new casino, with an option to buy.

Posted by: Qoheleth at March 25, 2016 03:43 PM (iIzG7)

And you don't think that would be a Trojan Horse? Perestroika and all that.

Even a Bloviating Buffoon of Business is better than this Pinko Popinjay President.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at March 25, 2016 03:47 PM (ujg0T)

239 This is just the president's way of saying that he's so stupid that he couldn't even tell you the difference between the two political theories.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 25, 2016 03:47 PM (Se2s/)

240 A coworker who lived under communism said that toilet paper was pretty much never available. He said people just routinely used newspapers. My current theory is that explains why the newspapers, who understand that their information function has been replaced by the internet, are pushing so hard for America to go communist.

Posted by: obnoxious ahole at March 25, 2016 03:47 PM (MpvuV)

241
Getting half back would be a cornucopia of riches in a socialist society. The reality is that you stand in line for 5 hours every Sunday to get your weekly half-loaf ration of sawdust bread.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 25, 2016 03:38 PM (/wVDI)

I remember jokes about how people in the USSR would be standing in line not even knowing what they were waiting to get ... but they figured it was a line and they were happy that they might be getting anything.

Posted by: ThePrimoridalOrderedPair at March 25, 2016 03:40 PM (zc3Db)

I vaguely remember a story about an American just walking up to a store entry and standing there to start a line, and when enough Russians lined up, he'd walk away. The kicker was that the store was empty.....just an empty commercial space. Can't remember if it was a sociological experiment or if it was some CIA wag trolling the commies.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 25, 2016 03:47 PM (/wVDI)

242 You don't have to worry about whether it really fits into socialist theory or capitalist theory. You should just decide what works," he added.

And the snowflake generation has been totally brainwashed into believing that socialism is the bestest evil hence their devotion to Comrade Bernie

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 25, 2016 03:48 PM (45oDG)

243 202
What's the difference between Ted Cruz and Barack Obama?

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian at March 25, 2016 03:40 PM (QvJot)

Better question....Whats the difference between Barack Obama and Fidel Castro?

Posted by: Mimzey at March 25, 2016 03:48 PM (aRUb8)

244 224 For weeks, rumors have circulated the web that individuals were being paid to protest at rallies held by Presidential hopeful, Donald Trump. Today a man from Trumps rally on Saturday in Fountain Hills, Arizona has come forward to say that he was paid to protest the event.

I was given $3,500 to protest Donald Trumps rally in Fountain Hills, said 37-year-old Paul Horner. I answered a Craigslist ad a little over a week ago about a group needing actors for a political event. I interviewed with them and got the part.

Fuck, $3,500????
Where do i sign up?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2016 03:46 PM (DUoqb)

I'm all up for work share.
Problem is I'm middle aged & white

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2016 03:48 PM (voOPb)

245 He says he's as likely to vote for Hillary as to vote for Trump.

Well he said outright exactly "I will vote for Hillary instead of Trump" but I don't believe that to be the case in the end. A lot of frustrated, horrified people are saying that kind of thing but when it comes to November, I doubt that any of them are going to do that.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 25, 2016 03:48 PM (39g3+)

246 Just remember, one day all y'all will look back and realize that these are the good ol days.

-
Before the storm.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 25, 2016 03:48 PM (Nwg0u)

247 TP has always been overrated.

Posted by: Sheryl "Dingleberries" Crow at March 25, 2016 03:48 PM (HgMAr)

248 Socialism -- where only the rich and powerful have toilet paper.

Posted by: Emmie at March 25, 2016 03:48 PM (rRHdN)

249 Wait, is this what the Pope said, or Obama?

Posted by: OregonMuse at March 25, 2016 03:49 PM (1+7D3)

250 Asked and answered years ago.

Posted by: Joe the Plumber at March 25, 2016 03:49 PM (eNNj8)

251 Let us examine what works then.
----------------

The wrong people were in charge. This time we will have the right people in charge.

Posted by: Left/Libs/Progs at March 25, 2016 03:49 PM (9mTYi)

252 Someone here wrote Conservative Treehouse had series on how GOPe wanted Jeb, didn't care if he lost to Hillary, etc.

I read it & think the part about Uniparty is true, Chamber of Commerce etc.

But when I read them smear everyone except Trump, I deleted it from my favorites, etc.
RCP has link to Cruz denying rumors & all tweets are from people that believe Trump is the savior & a lot are from Treehouse people.

Posted by: Carol at March 25, 2016 03:50 PM (sj3Ax)

253 I really need to spend more time focused on changing socks.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 25, 2016 03:50 PM (ptqRm)

254 OK, this is easy.

Capitalism works, Communism fails.

The End.

Obama is full of the usual liberal relativist crap. There is no good or evil, no best culture, everything is just...something.

Except global warming, freedom and racism, which are bad.

Posted by: Meremortal, at March 25, 2016 03:50 PM (3myMJ)

255 TP has always been overrated.
Posted by: Sheryl "Dingleberries" Crow
----------------

Caskets... and food too.

Posted by: Venezuelan Oligarchy at March 25, 2016 03:50 PM (9mTYi)

256 we talk about this mental midget every day. he will never go away. looking forward to 8 years of skankles. workers fucking paradise my frienshs. this country has turned into a giant fucking turd. flush twice.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 25, 2016 03:51 PM (ucDmr)

257 Well he said outright exactly "I will vote for Hillary instead of Trump" but I don't believe that to be the case in the end. A lot of frustrated, horrified people are saying that kind of thing but when it comes to November, I doubt that any of them are going to do that.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 25, 2016 03:48 PM (39g3+)

From your mouth...er fingers tips....to G-D's ears.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2016 03:51 PM (DUoqb)

258 247 TP has always been overrated.

Posted by: Sheryl "Dingleberries" Crow at March 25, 2016 03:48 PM (HgMAr)

Don't have to use it, myself.

Posted by: a bear in the woods with rabbits nearby at March 25, 2016 03:51 PM (1+7D3)

259 I had a former employee who was Yugoslavian. Immigrated at age 17.

The horror stories he told me about spies, secret police, the paranoia, the hopelessness. Alcoholism was the state Relgion

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2016 03:51 PM (voOPb)

260 What kind of heartless, soulless, narcissistic, person would embrace a system that causes so much death and human suffering?
***
The people embracing it are pretty sure they've get to cause the death and suffering, not experience it personally.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2016 03:51 PM (pibXr)

261 Asked and answered years ago.

Posted by: Joe the Plumber at March 25, 2016 03:49 PM (eNNj

Bingo!

Joe the Plumber was one of the most important figures of the 2008 campaign and he did that right off the top of his head as Barky was trespassing on his lawn one day. I was also very impressed with the interviews Joe gave after that. He was a very thoughtful guy.

Posted by: ThePrimoridalOrderedPair at March 25, 2016 03:51 PM (zc3Db)

262 "...And may be shot for no reason."
ahem
Sammy Weaver
Vicky Weaver
The Branch Davidians
A recent little kerfuffle in Oregon
There's a vid from the truck and autopsy report floating around "out there" from that last one that are, um, interesting.

Posted by: teej at March 25, 2016 03:51 PM (Jvty4)

263 My theory on Ted's mistresses, there is a guy who sort of looks like him banging all these women.

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2016 03:52 PM (fizMZ)

264 But Ace hates me. What's up with that????

Posted by: Donald Trump at March 25, 2016 03:52 PM (/haNQ)

265 Rush Limbaugh was right when he wrote
"I hope he fails" about The JEF.

Posted by: Carol at March 25, 2016 03:52 PM (sj3Ax)

266 "Better question....Whats the difference between Barack Obama and Fidel Castro?"

Castro understands Baseball?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 25, 2016 03:52 PM (ptqRm)

267 Alcoholism was the state Relgion

Amen

Posted by: IP at March 25, 2016 03:52 PM (aQQbl)

268 Bernie Sanders Takes Los Angeles: 12 Hours in the Maelstrom

The commie love in this country is beyond dangerous.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 25, 2016 03:52 PM (45oDG)

269
What's the difference between Ted Cruz and Barack Obama?

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian at March 25, 2016 03:40 PM (QvJot)

Better question....Whats the difference between Barack Obama and Fidel Castro?

Posted by: Mimzey at March 25, 2016 03:48 PM (aRUb

One of them has a beard.

The other smokes cigars.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 25, 2016 03:52 PM (/wVDI)

270 A coworker who lived under communism said that toilet paper was pretty much never available. He said people just routinely used newspapers.

Newspaper would be pretty good. I had to use magazine pages in Minsk ca. '91.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2016 03:53 PM (1xUj/)

271 @60: "If you ever talked to a Marxist today I guarantee they will gloss over
gulags, mass killings, starvation, vendetta agaist old rivals."

Simple reason why that's the case, as illustrated by cinema:

Private Ryan: Tell me about your wife and those rosebushes?

Captain Miller: No; no, that one I save just for me.

Posted by: FaCubeItches at March 25, 2016 03:53 PM (rznWS)

272 He tried to fundamentally change America to a socialist or communist state, but those pesky voters took the House and the Senate away from him. Even his executive powers couldn't get our country to conform to his ideology.
Although more due diligence from the different-in-name-only party would be a big help in the future to stop what the MFM and the schools want.

Posted by: Hank at March 25, 2016 03:53 PM (HrP/+)

273 It was well on its way to becoming the vacation/gambling/tourism spot for the western hemisphere when the Cubans threw it all away.

Fulgencio Batista was a corrupt SOB...but nothing compared to Castro...---------18-1

Are you not familiar with Cuban history? They did not throw it away.
Castro did not openly announce he was going to be a tyrant. He pretended to be a democracy minded liberator from a corrupt and brutal leader.
Once Castro grabbed power, he gradually instituted his police state and refused elections.

Posted by: Tilikum KAW SPI at March 25, 2016 03:53 PM (u0kqM)

274 I lived sixty miles south of Rome for over seven years.

Posted by: Dude what wipes barehanded

So what was the middle of the Tyrrhenian Sea like?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 25, 2016 03:54 PM (A/3fN)

275 Fuck, $3,500????

Where do i sign up?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2016 03:46 PM (DUoqb

Sounds like bullshit to me. $3,500.? First, why would anyone pay that kind of money when you can get "protestors" for 15/hr.? Second, if he got that kind of money, why would he blow any future gigs for that much money?

Posted by: Mimzey at March 25, 2016 03:54 PM (aRUb8)

276 So Castro throws like a girl too

??

Posted by: Yo! at March 25, 2016 03:54 PM (GwIKd)

277 Haven't been to the Treemphouse website since primaries have started.

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2016 03:54 PM (fizMZ)

278 Sorry to go off topic, but the sidebar story of the Muslim killed in Glasgow enrages me.

Even more maddening is the predictable Daffodil Defense and the GoFundMe campaign.

WTF people?

Posted by: PJ at March 25, 2016 03:54 PM (cHuNI)

279 He says he's as likely to vote for Hillary as to vote for Trump.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at March 25, 2016 03:44 PM

Sorry, his exact quote.

"I will vote for Hillary before I support this dangerous, venomous scumbag."

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 25, 2016 03:55 PM (btH0m)

280 Capitalism works, Communism fails.
***
It capitalism a few people get very rich, most people get rich, and a few people get poor.

In communism a few people get very rich, most people get poor, and many people get shot.

But the key difference is who gets very rich.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2016 03:55 PM (pibXr)

281 I'm hardly one to defend Obama, but if you watch the whole video, it's not as damming as the Alex Jones headline implies.

He is making the case that market economies simply work better than communist countries.

"I think that what you'll find is that the most successful societies, the most successful economies, are ones that are rooted in a market based system."

Posted by: Asquared at March 25, 2016 03:55 PM (o7oxN)

282 270 A coworker who lived under communism said that toilet paper was pretty much never available. He said people just routinely used newspapers.

Newspaper would be pretty good. I had to use magazine pages in Minsk ca. '91.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2016 03:53 PM (1xUj/)

So shiny is not so good?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2016 03:55 PM (voOPb)

283 And it is Shit like THIS that one should vote for the Republican Nominee.

Clear as the nose on my face
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2016 03:10 PM (DUoqb)

Yep, even if it's the Donald, I admit.

Posted by: Blano at March 25, 2016 03:55 PM (heN73)

284
My theory on Ted's mistresses, there is a guy who sort of looks like him banging all these women.
Posted by: Skip
.........................

I always knew Grandpa was a stud.

Posted by: Eddie Munster at March 25, 2016 03:56 PM (HgMAr)

285 A conservative voting for Hillary is like Samson pulling down the columns that hold up the roof.

It's like that Russian guy calling in an air strike on his own position.

It's like those Brits in Iraq, out of ammo, surrounded and fixing bayonets and charging the enemy.

The French Foreign Legion did that in Mexico, 62 men against 3,000. The last six men, out of ammo, fixed bayonets and charged the Mexican army.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/glrg9wk

Butch and Sundance.

Thelma and Louise floor it when they reach the rim of the canyon.

Some nameless guy long forgotten, pulls the pins on his hand grenades and charges the enemy.

Rorke's Drift

Custer's Last Stand

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Siege of Masada

Rage, Rage against the light. Do not go quietly into the night.

Posted by: Wolford Dimley at March 25, 2016 03:56 PM (a7RSp)

286
A coworker who lived under communism said that toilet paper was pretty much never available. He said people just routinely used newspapers.

Newspaper would be pretty good. I had to use magazine pages in Minsk ca. '91.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2016 03:53 PM (1xUj/)

That's why I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for The Nation. A magazine that knows it's place, and is considerate enough to use paper that's strong, soft and thoroughly absorbent.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 25, 2016 03:56 PM (/wVDI)

287 I had a former employee who was Yugoslavian. Immigrated at age 17.

The horror stories he told me about spies, secret police, the paranoia, the hopelessness. Alcoholism was the state Relgion

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2016 03:51 PM (voOPb)

Years ago I worked with this woman from Czechoslovakia. (She was beautiful) But she told these lefty dipshits at the office the horrors of communism. They were dumbfounded. Wasn't that just red baiting propaganda? No dummies it was all true and because she was so beautiful they wouldn't disagree with her. I rubbed their naive stupidity in their faces.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 25, 2016 03:56 PM (45oDG)

288 Donald Trump,
I disliked you, but now I can say I don't hate many people.
You're the second of people I hate.

Posted by: Carol at March 25, 2016 03:56 PM (sj3Ax)

289 Sorry to go off topic, but the sidebar story of the Muslim killed in Glasgow enrages me.
***
Good thing the Brits spent their police resources on arresting that guy that said something rude about Muslims instead of stopping the knife wielder before he killed this guy....right?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2016 03:56 PM (pibXr)

290 My theory on Ted's mistresses, there is a guy who sort of looks like him banging all these women.

Ah. The "Evil Twin".

Posted by: tu3031 at March 25, 2016 03:56 PM (YFFpo)

291 But Ace hates me. What's up with that????

Posted by: Donald Trump at March 25, 2016 03:52 PM (/haNQ)

Just claim he can't get laid. You'll be golden.

Posted by: Meremortal, at March 25, 2016 03:56 PM (3myMJ)

292 One of them has a beard.

The other smokes cigars.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 25, 2016 03:52 PM
.............Oh I thought you were talking about FLOTUS.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 25, 2016 03:56 PM (btH0m)

293 Yeah Bautista was a scumbag corrupt dictator but he was on his way out anyway. If it hadn't gone communist, Cuba would have been the gem of the Caribbean now. Instead of just slightly less bad than Haiti.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 25, 2016 03:56 PM (39g3+)

294 So shiny is not so good?

Yeah. Pulp absorbs a little. Shiny smears stuff around.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2016 03:57 PM (1xUj/)

295 Hillary feels the same way, let's vote for her, amirite?

Posted by: chunkieturdeye at March 25, 2016 03:57 PM (SOVQ8)

296 Just a break from all the politics for those that are thinking of Good Friday today

"Via Dolorosa-The way of suffering music-By Sandi Patti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7asEdmZsSPo

There are other videos with scenes from "The Passion" with that song but I couldn't bear to put them up. They're very powerful, though if you care to look them up.

See you on Sunday-for those that might pop in early.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 25, 2016 03:58 PM (w4NZ8)

297

The other smokes cigars.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 25, 2016 03:52 PM (/wVDI)

You spelled "poles" wrong.

Posted by: Mimzey at March 25, 2016 03:58 PM (aRUb8)

298 One of them has a beard.

The other smokes cigars.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
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Possible Thread Winner

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 25, 2016 03:58 PM (9mTYi)

299 I get into arguments online about the oh-so-significant distinctions between socialism and communism. My reply is that the arguments are like houseflies arguing the distinctions between horse dung and cow dung and dog droppings: It's all shit.

Posted by: wisenheimer at March 25, 2016 03:58 PM (qnhj2)

300 I wish I could I express how much I'd love to see this:

http://www.weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/CeCfxoSUkAAxcm3.jpg

Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at March 25, 2016 03:59 PM (rlfds)

301 Just with this in mind, we're planning a whole exciting new series of mandatory re-educational seminars for our guests.

The first week includes Detection and Denouncement of Kulaks and Wreckers.

It's going to be *such* fun!!! And yes, of course there will be skits.

Posted by: Happy Fun Camp Activities Director at March 25, 2016 03:59 PM (noWW6)

302 One of them has a beard.

The other smokes cigars.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur

The one with the beard also smokes White/Black/Brown Owls.

Posted by: Joe Mama at March 25, 2016 03:59 PM (Tpm5R)

303 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 25, 2016 03:58 PM (w4NZ

Hi and Happy Easter, FenelonSoke.

Posted by: Meremortal, at March 25, 2016 03:59 PM (3myMJ)

304 >>I had a former employee who was Yugoslavian. Immigrated at age 17.

>>The horror stories he told me about spies, secret police, the paranoia, the hopelessness. Alcoholism was the state Religion

My ex's family escaped Tito's Yugoslavia. They were given 48 hours and allowed two suitcases each and had to forfeit their family land.

Her mother and her mother's sisters were not big fans of socialism oddly enough.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 25, 2016 03:59 PM (/tuJf)

305 Has Obama ever heard of "freedom"?

Posted by: Caliban at March 25, 2016 03:59 PM (3GFMN)

306 "So what was the middle of the Tyrrhenian Sea like?"

OK, so maybe more like South East.

SS7 down to SR213.
Went right behind the back of our house.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 25, 2016 04:00 PM (ptqRm)

307 A conservative voting for Hillary is like Samson pulling down the columns that hold up the roof.

Nope its a brain dead loser helping the most corrupt, awful human being to walk the US soil since Kruschev visited gain victory. Its rewarding an evil bitch that has abused power, been transparently, gleefully, and openly corrupt for her entire life, and has been the direct cause of the death of US citizens. It is helping a monster succeed.

There's "let it burn" and there's "lets help promote and reward evil."

Know the difference.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 25, 2016 04:00 PM (39g3+)

308 >>>"Sorry, no. The Donald would tell Castro to stick it."
*****
"Insurance companies are getting rich on Obamacare. We're going to end that.... health savings plans. We're going to take care of the people dying on the street. We'll have a fund for people"
~Donald Trump

"President Castro has pointed out that in his view, making sure everybody's getting decent education or healthcare, has basic security in old age, those things are human rights as well. I would personally not disagree with that."
- Barack Obama

Yeah, these guys are totally different on healthcare and entitlements.

Posted by: Damiano at March 25, 2016 04:00 PM (XItbt)

309 Years ago I worked with this woman from Czechoslovakia. (She was beautiful)

-
Beautiful? Check.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 25, 2016 04:00 PM (Nwg0u)

310 That's "Spoke" sorry.

Posted by: Meremortal, at March 25, 2016 04:00 PM (3myMJ)

311 @ 260
The truth is Marxism/Socialism/Communism does work for some people. Those people are the 10% at the top (the people that run the system like Stalin, Hitler, Hugo Chavez,the Castro's and their henchman) and the 10% at the bottom. It is the 80% in the middle that get screwed.
The top 10% never suffer from lack of food, toilet paper etc They live lives of luxury on the backs of the masses. And all it costs them is their immortal souls.

Posted by: Trumplethinskin at March 25, 2016 04:00 PM (VDovR)

312 @139: "Conservatism died in the USA because Republicans weren't out there every single day praising and advancing it."

Or even actually believing in it.

Posted by: FaCubeItches at March 25, 2016 04:01 PM (rznWS)

313 305 Has Obama ever heard of "freedom"?
-----

That word has not been uttered by a democrat since the 60s I believe

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2016 04:02 PM (voOPb)

314 Didn't our friends at the New York Times have a reporter follow Castro around during his guerrilla warfare against Batista? The glowing reports back to the U.S. made Castro sound like the second coming of George Washington.

Am I remembering this correctly, or was it some other dictator (other than Stalin) who got a tongue bath on the balls from the New York Times?

Posted by: Furious George at March 25, 2016 04:02 PM (3GAnN)

315 288
Donald Trump,

I disliked you, but now I can say I don't hate many people.

You're the second of people I hate.

Posted by: Carol at March 25, 2016 03:56 PM (sj3Ax)

You just hate me because I'm black.

Posted by: Donald Drumdf at March 25, 2016 04:02 PM (aRUb8)

316 and the 10% at the bottom.

The 10% at the bottom are no worse off, because they didn't have shoes or toilet paper to begin with, but now they can at least rat out and eliminate people who they had a grudge against.

That's pretty much the extent of their benefit.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 25, 2016 04:03 PM (39g3+)

317 My reply is that the arguments are like houseflies arguing the distinctions between horse dung and cow dung and dog droppings: It's all shit.

Posted by: wisenheimer

Not even remotely close even under the greatest of accommodation of snark.

As others have mentioned above, the two are not equivalents.

They are two entirely different things.

Capitalism is not a political framework. It's the result of economic freedom.

Socialism is the political framework of an all-encompassing state. The state owns all institutions either de jure, communism, or de facto, fascism.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 25, 2016 04:03 PM (A/3fN)

318 But I thought only the evil Trump danced to Alex Jones' tune?

Now he's gotten to Ace too.

Posted by: andycanuck at March 25, 2016 04:03 PM (ioqGj)

319 This date in history:

Operation Priboi ("Coastal Surf") was the code name for the
Soviet mass deportations, from the Baltic states, on March 25-28, 1949, called March deportation by Baltic historians. Some 90,000 Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians labeled as enemies of the people were deported to inhospitable areas of the Soviet Union.

Communism capitalism it's all the same. Just pick which works for you.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 25, 2016 04:03 PM (45oDG)

320 Communism: Everybody is working but the shelves are empty.

Socialism: Nobody is working so the shelves are empty.

Capitalism: The shelves are full and everybody is bitching about the prices as they buy more stuff than will fit in their house.

Posted by: Meremortal, at March 25, 2016 04:04 PM (3myMJ)

321 Jackstraw, my Yuog employee worked for me when when Tito was thrown out & killed and the war over there. He certainly had his opinion as to what was going on. Needless to say he differed then Cnn& fox

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2016 04:04 PM (voOPb)

322 Daily Beast story on Ted Cruz affair rumors. Apparently there is video of Cruz and a woman other than his wife exiting the Capital Grille hotel/restaurant on Tuesdays & Thursdays.

The story was shopped to Breitbart by a source allied with the Rubio campaign, but Breitbart refused to publish it.

This story isn't over yet, not by a long shot.

Posted by: Stay out da bushes at March 25, 2016 04:04 PM (cR/4a)

323 Has Obama ever heard of "freedom"?
Posted by: Caliban at March 25, 2016 03:59 PM (3GFMN)

Sure! That means everything is free, right? Free birth control, free healthcare, free internet...

Or did you mean in the sense of young girls should be free to pursue their dreams and not be punished with a baby?

He's totes about freedom!

Posted by: Damiano at March 25, 2016 04:05 PM (XItbt)

324 @160:"Post-Reagan complacency. We thought that the Truth had finally been made manifest, even to Democrats."

Nah, Reagan was the Bulge Offensive - the last throw of the dice.

Posted by: FaCubeItches at March 25, 2016 04:05 PM (rznWS)

325 Weft

Weisenheimer was talking about socialism and communism.

Not Capitalism.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 25, 2016 04:05 PM (ptqRm)

326 Man, the anti-Cruz drive bys are trying their most desperate to keep the adultery non story alive. Its almost cute seeing their energy and determination.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 25, 2016 04:06 PM (39g3+)

327 Kerry announces his musical guest star for his Brussels visit.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BGLR25EJtfE

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 25, 2016 04:06 PM (Nwg0u)

328 @176: "
Interesting that he puts Communism and Socialism on the same side of the scale in the same breath."

A Communist is just a socialist who has killed someone with his AK. A socialist just lacks the stones to become a Communist.

Posted by: FaCubeItches at March 25, 2016 04:07 PM (rznWS)

329 @ 316
You left out their ration of alcohol and chocolate (which they can then sell illegally on the black market to get more alcohol). In another system they would have to hustle (read work, trade or steal) to obtain that portion in the first place.

Posted by: Trumplethinskin at March 25, 2016 04:07 PM (VDovR)

330 Weft

Weisenheimer was talking about socialism and communism.

Not Capitalism.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Ah, yes, my mistake.

Apologies, Wisenheimer.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 25, 2016 04:08 PM (A/3fN)

331 318
But I thought only the evil Trump danced to Alex Jones' tune?

Now he's gotten to Ace too.

Posted by: andycanuck at March 25, 2016 04:03 PM (ioqGj)

Move along. Nothing to see there.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian at March 25, 2016 04:08 PM (QvJot)

332 Thanks for popping in, FenelonSpoke. It's good to have the AOSHQ Chaplain around.

The Karl Jenkins adaptation of the Stabat Mater is great listening, especially today.

Posted by: Furious George at March 25, 2016 04:08 PM (3GAnN)

333 Le NOOD.
It has arrived.

Track 2.

Stand clear

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 25, 2016 04:08 PM (ptqRm)

334 Posted by: Furious George at March 25, 2016 04:08 PM (3GAnN)

I'll have to look for that; Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 25, 2016 04:09 PM (w4NZ8)

335 Post-Reagan complacency. We thought that the Truth had finally been made manifest, even to Democrats."

-
Yes, I couldn't believe it in 2008. And again in 2014. I'm still looking around for Rod Serling.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 25, 2016 04:09 PM (Nwg0u)

336 @ 329
It was Lenin that said:
The goal of all Socialists is Communism.

Posted by: Trumplethinskin at March 25, 2016 04:09 PM (VDovR)

337 @207: "An American President praising Communism.

What.

The.

Fuck."

Why is this at all surprising? Frank the Cripple fought a war, in part, to save Communism. And most of the guys who came after him were all about co-existing with them.

Posted by: FaCubeItches at March 25, 2016 04:11 PM (rznWS)

338 >>> Apparently there is video of Cruz and a woman other than his wife exiting the Capital Grille hotel/restaurant on Tuesdays & Thursdays.
*****

I can think of lots of Tuesdays and Thursdays that I have gone to restaurants with women who were not my wife. Men too. Am I having bisexual affairs or meals with friends, colleagues, and business acquaintances?

Your other point still stands. This won't go away because dumbasses will repeat whatever dumb shit they read on Twitter all over the internet like they personally camped out with binoculars and found an irrefutable smoking gun.

Posted by: Damiano at March 25, 2016 04:11 PM (XItbt)

339 The students all look pretty underwhelmed. "Another leftist dope."

Posted by: PJ at March 25, 2016 04:13 PM (cHuNI)

340 "Post-Reagan complacency."

The establishment GOP certainly weren't complacent during the Reagan years. They forced Reagan in 1980 to accept one of the establishment's born-and-bred regulars as vice president. They weaseled a few establishment GOP figures into Reagan's cabinet. And then they just waited the old man out. As soon as he left for good, they struck.

I mentioned the other day a note from Dr. Jerry Pournelle about what things felt like in late January of 1989. He had previously had extensive conservative contacts all through the Reagan White House, with whom he had been working on matters including ballistic missile defense.

As soon as Poppy Bush was sworn in? The mass purge of conservatives began within hours. Essentially everyone Pournelle knew was sacked, replaced by members of what he referred to as "the country club set".

Posted by: torquewrench at March 25, 2016 04:14 PM (noWW6)

341 "Obama was just citing Alexander Pope... "

He reads whatever someone upload to his teleprompter. He's really no different than that Microsoft teen girl AI Twitter account, with the exception that no one has uploaded "Hitler was right. Do you want to fuck me Daddy?" to his teleprompter... yet.

Posted by: Damiano at March 25, 2016 04:14 PM (XItbt)

342 Now he's gotten to Ace too.

Posted by: andycanuck at March 25, 2016 04:03 PM (ioqGj)

Now you're just being silly.

Posted by: Donald Drumdf at March 25, 2016 04:16 PM (aRUb8)

343 "Apparently there is video of Cruz and a woman other than his wife exiting the Capital Grille hotel/restaurant on Tuesdays & Thursdays."

Screwing around in eateries?

For shame!

Posted by: Meremortal, at March 25, 2016 04:16 PM (3myMJ)

344 @ 336
Should have been @ 328
Lenin did say that. The whole argument of Communism vs Socialism vs Marxism is stupid anyway. As someone said above it is all shit. In fact, it is all Statism.
It brings to mind the Progressive, no we are now Liberal, no we are now Progressives game the Dems play now. They love to use different words/labels to try and fool people as to what they really are (and what they really believe in).

Posted by: Trumplethinskin at March 25, 2016 04:18 PM (VDovR)

345 "Apparently there is video of Cruz and a woman other than his wife exiting the Capital Grille hotel/restaurant on Tuesdays & Thursdays."

OMG!!! Apparently there are also numerous reports about Cruz meeting with his communications director, campaign staff! There are even photos of him talking to people with Trump's comms chick right behind him when she used to work for him! Holy cow! Did you see all the women that show up at rallies and cheer for him while his wife isn't there!

Cruz must be banging EVERYONE!!!!!

Posted by: Damiano at March 25, 2016 04:19 PM (XItbt)

346 If it accomplishes what you set out to do, then it works.

So sure, socialism works for the world's Castros and Obamas. It's "practical" for them.

Just not for the rest of us.

Posted by: rico at March 25, 2016 04:19 PM (V+gHj)

347 336
@ 329

It was Lenin that said:

The goal of all Socialists is Communism.

Posted by: Trumplethinskin at March 25, 2016 04:09 PM (VDovR)

Roger Baldwin, the founder of the ACLU said the same thing.

Posted by: Mimzey at March 25, 2016 04:20 PM (aRUb8)

348 342
Now he's gotten to Ace too.

Posted by: andycanuck at March 25, 2016 04:03 PM (ioqGj)

Now you're just being silly.

Posted by: Donald Drumdf at March 25, 2016 04:16 PM (aRUb

Thats what I was going to say.

Posted by: Mimzey at March 25, 2016 04:20 PM (aRUb8)

349 @ 340
Spoken for truth.
Some of us are old enough to remember. The establishment never wanted Reagan and many of them never accepted the Conservative agenda. And now we are reaping what the R Establishment has sowed.

Posted by: Trumplethinskin at March 25, 2016 04:22 PM (VDovR)

350 Fuck, $3,500????

Where do i sign up?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2016 03:46 PM (DUoqb)

**

Facebook has groups where out-of-work actors share info on these demos. It might be fun to go and do some spy work or disruption!

Posted by: PJ at March 25, 2016 04:25 PM (cHuNI)

351 @246: "Just remember, one day all y'all will look back and realize that these are the good ol days.

-

Before the storm."

Enjoy the war; the peace will be terrible.

Posted by: FaCubeItches at March 25, 2016 04:28 PM (rznWS)

352 He plays for the other team.

Posted by: torabora at March 25, 2016 04:29 PM (dxr4g)

353 I tired of this all being complicated. Here's my platform.

1. The Constitution is the law.
2. Any government anything without explicit authorization in the Constitution is hereby closed. Appropriate all you want Congress. The Executive gets to fire people without asking your permission. Let the money sit there and then go explain it to your constituents why you appropriated a bunch of cash from them for nothing.
3. If you don't like what the Constitution says, there are ways to alter it. Go for it. Any alteration that does not follow what is defined in the Constitution is hereby declared invalid by Executive Order. Go ahead. Round up the votes to reinstate it all and overcome my veto.
4. If you don't want to live under Constitutional law, I respect your decision. Pick somewhere else to live that better suits you or go to jail for breaking the law.

Vote for Damiano.

Posted by: Damiano at March 25, 2016 04:29 PM (XItbt)

354 Julie Roginsky on Outnumbered this morning was saying that socialism as practiced in Western Europe was working for them. I wanted to point out to her that the unemployment rate for young people there was 25%. So I guess it's working for some values of working.

Posted by: Old Blue at March 25, 2016 04:32 PM (9iR5/)

355 Communism, capitalism, meh. What is 100 million dead between friends?

Posted by: Thatch at March 25, 2016 04:33 PM (pBZp4)

356 i'd vote for
Damiano

Posted by: Lurking lurker. at March 25, 2016 04:37 PM (O108X)

357 Hey, Barack, STFD, STFU, FU.
Where you stand, numnuts.
Watch this chip shot... as people die.
FU.

Posted by: micky at March 25, 2016 04:40 PM (o5vMc)

358 @280: "It capitalism a few people get very rich, most people get rich, and a few people get poor.

In communism a few people get very rich, most people get poor, and many people get shot.

But the key difference is who gets very rich."

Don't discount the allure of killing. After the first one, you've crossed the moral threshold and the rest are free. Thus, you can enjoy it.

Posted by: FaCubeItches at March 25, 2016 04:43 PM (rznWS)

359 @353: "1. The Constitution is the law."

Problem right there - the Constitution is pretty well lacking in any sort of effective "or else" clauses for governmental misconduct.

Posted by: FaCubeItches at March 25, 2016 04:50 PM (rznWS)

360 What a fatuous turd.

Moron, clown, asswipe, dunce, fool, jackhole, twatnose, dipshit, embarrassment to humanity.

And he dances like a giraffe having a seizure.

Goddam fuckstick.

Posted by: Cap City Daydrunk at March 25, 2016 04:52 PM (24c3y)

361 I am a legal immigrant here in the U.S. - a Canadian actually, and this year I am proud to say I will be a citizen. I did not move here to be part of 'Canada-lite', or bask in the echoes of a transformed society. I moved here because I truly believe in the American Dream and American exceptionalism. Sadly, these terms now seem terribly old fashioned and almost crude among the Muck-a-Mucks which incredibly includes this president. To consider that misery and tyranny have the same nutritional value as the bill of rights is horrifying; if no candidate calls Obama out on this then its time to wonder if the republic can be saved.

Posted by: Bonedaddi at March 25, 2016 04:59 PM (dE9Jm)

362 352
He plays for the other team.

Posted by: torabora at March 25, 2016 04:29 PM (dxr4g)

Obama being gay doesn't bother me so much as him being a Communist.

Posted by: Mimzey at March 25, 2016 05:29 PM (aRUb8)

363 >>>359
@353: "1. The Constitution is the law."

Problem right there - the
Constitution is pretty well lacking in any sort of effective "or else"
clauses for governmental misconduct.<<<

I think they intended that we should be responsible for that.

Posted by: US at March 25, 2016 06:45 PM (yOqwj)

364 If I had one wish that I could wish this holiday season, it would
be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in
the spirit of harmony and peace.

Posted by: Dr s at March 25, 2016 06:55 PM (hzdiH)

365 Free access is all well and good. But it's just free access to BASIC (aka, mediocre at best) health care and BASIC education. The way the Left and socialists talk (and the way Michael Moore weakly tried to portray it) is that the Cuban medical system is every bit the equal of the Mayo Clinic. Let me clue you in on something. Those mammograms and "life-saving services" the Democrats always try and claim Planned Parenthood provides isn't part of "basic health care" in Cuba.

Posted by: jangles at March 25, 2016 07:31 PM (w/p7Z)

366 I'm right handed My left arm is stronger as in I can lift more,with my left hand my right hand is more refined, as in I can place a knife precisely on your throat and kill you.

Welcome to the revolution, aim for either arm you will fail, you have to kill the boddy.,

Posted by: wickedpinto at March 26, 2016 04:22 AM (wdvFT)

367 Finally... Recognition by Ace!

Posted by: Alex Jones!! at March 27, 2016 11:41 AM (7YnaR)

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