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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.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2016 03:07 PM (fizMZ)
Posted by: Kasich the Barbarian, Son of Mailman at March 25, 2016 03:07 PM (uyrlv)
Posted by: Carol at March 25, 2016 03:07 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: steevy at March 25, 2016 03:08 PM (B48dK)
Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2016 03:09 PM (fizMZ)
Posted by: tu3031 at March 25, 2016 03:09 PM (YFFpo)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 25, 2016 03:09 PM (YRJhU)
Posted by: Draki at March 25, 2016 03:09 PM (0eidE)
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)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 25, 2016 03:10 PM (i0ykY)
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)
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)
Oh wait, that didn't happen.
Posted by: Furious George at March 25, 2016 03:10 PM (3GAnN)
Clear as the nose on my face
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2016 03:10 PM (DUoqb)
Posted by: navybrat at March 25, 2016 03:10 PM (8QGte)
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 25, 2016 03:11 PM (NMZnO)
Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2016 03:11 PM (fizMZ)
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)
Posted by: Corky the Retard at March 25, 2016 03:11 PM (v+/ty)
Posted by: Ralph at March 25, 2016 03:11 PM (EZkQC)
Pick what works. Cuba's economy isn't working.
Posted by: iforgot at March 25, 2016 03:11 PM (pC96u)
Posted by: Carol at March 25, 2016 03:11 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: Wolford Dimley at March 25, 2016 03:11 PM (a7RSp)
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)
Nobody really knows, man.
*bong hit*
Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2016 03:12 PM (1xUj/)
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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)
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 25, 2016 03:12 PM (btH0m)
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)
Posted by: IP at March 25, 2016 03:12 PM (aQQbl)
Posted by: Joe Mama at March 25, 2016 03:13 PM (Tpm5R)
Posted by: garrett at March 25, 2016 03:13 PM (MvFEq)
But But But Global Warming is proven right? Right? Right?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2016 03:13 PM (DUoqb)
Posted by: Roland THTG at March 25, 2016 03:13 PM (QM5S2)
Posted by: Furious George at March 25, 2016 03:13 PM (3GAnN)
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)
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)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2016 03:14 PM (DUoqb)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 25, 2016 03:14 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 25, 2016 03:14 PM (ucDmr)
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)
Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2016 03:14 PM (fizMZ)
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)
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)
"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)
Posted by: Joe Mama at March 25, 2016 03:15 PM (Tpm5R)
Posted by: garrett at March 25, 2016 03:15 PM (MvFEq)
Posted by: zombie Milton Friedman, putting his coffee cup onto computer cd tray at March 25, 2016 03:15 PM (H9MG5)
Posted by: DONALD TRUMP at March 25, 2016 03:15 PM (TJCSB)
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 25, 2016 03:15 PM (btH0m)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2016 03:15 PM (voOPb)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: garrett at March 25, 2016 03:17 PM (MvFEq)
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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)
Posted by: DocJ at March 25, 2016 03:17 PM (5Nr9V)
Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at March 25, 2016 03:18 PM (0LHZx)
Posted by: Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, etc., etc. at March 25, 2016 03:18 PM (9mTYi)
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)
Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2016 03:18 PM (fizMZ)
Posted by: Mega Hope and Change at March 25, 2016 03:18 PM (w4NZ8)
Posted by: Mister Ed at March 25, 2016 03:18 PM (FkBIv)
Posted by: Adriane the Historical Critic ... at March 25, 2016 03:18 PM (AoK0a)
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)
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)
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at March 25, 2016 03:18 PM (JxMoP)
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+)
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)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 25, 2016 03:19 PM (kTF2Z)
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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)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at March 25, 2016 03:19 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: IP at March 25, 2016 03:19 PM (aQQbl)
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)
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)
It's all he knows.
Posted by: AMartel at March 25, 2016 03:19 PM (WWgnZ)
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)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 25, 2016 03:19 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at March 25, 2016 03:20 PM (AaZLR)
Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie! at March 25, 2016 03:20 PM (evdj2)
Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at March 25, 2016 03:20 PM (0LHZx)
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)
Posted by: JackStraw at March 25, 2016 03:21 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 25, 2016 03:21 PM (Nwg0u)
F'in cognitive dissonance, how does it work!!!!!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 25, 2016 03:21 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 25, 2016 03:21 PM (kTF2Z)
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 25, 2016 03:21 PM (btH0m)
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)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at March 25, 2016 03:21 PM (iQIUe)
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)
All downhill after that. Events, ya know? Events! My good fellow.
Posted by: Wolford Dimley at March 25, 2016 03:21 PM (a7RSp)
Posted by: Duncan MacLeod, The Highlander at March 25, 2016 03:22 PM (/Owtt)
http://tinyurl.com/hg8xqes
Posted by: Carol at March 25, 2016 03:22 PM (sj3Ax)
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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)
It's the wave of the past.
Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie! at March 25, 2016 03:22 PM (evdj2)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: navybrat at March 25, 2016 03:23 PM (8QGte)
But we don't, so he wasn't, and they don't.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 25, 2016 03:23 PM (AroJD)
"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)
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 25, 2016 03:24 PM (btH0m)
Posted by: torabora at March 25, 2016 03:24 PM (NKsPr)
Posted by: E.T. at March 25, 2016 03:24 PM (yq4gk)
...."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)
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/)
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)
Posted by: steevy at March 25, 2016 03:25 PM (B48dK)
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)
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)
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+)
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)
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/)
Posted by: CrustyB at March 25, 2016 03:25 PM (Hnglq)
Posted by: steevy at March 25, 2016 03:26 PM (B48dK)
Posted by: gwelf at March 25, 2016 03:26 PM (nyxv/)
Posted by: wth at March 25, 2016 03:26 PM (HgMAr)
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)
Posted by: Satan of Blutwurst Vt at March 25, 2016 03:26 PM (qSIlh)
"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)
Posted by: Pol Pot at March 25, 2016 03:26 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: cucumbah watah for customah only! at March 25, 2016 03:26 PM (+YvQf)
And that's why they call it "Stockholm syndrome." Supporting their captors.
Posted by: Qoheleth at March 25, 2016 03:27 PM (iIzG7)
Posted by: Draki at March 25, 2016 03:27 PM (0eidE)
That's horrid. Sorry to hear that. Oh look, a base hit! Fucker.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 25, 2016 03:27 PM (btH0m)
Posted by: ALH at March 25, 2016 03:27 PM (Z56vq)
This year is the Centennial of the Irish Rising of 1916.
Just sayin...
Posted by: IP at March 25, 2016 03:27 PM (aQQbl)
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)
Posted by: KIllerdog at March 25, 2016 03:28 PM (G0b25)
Posted by: gwelf at March 25, 2016 03:28 PM (nyxv/)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 25, 2016 03:28 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 25, 2016 03:28 PM (btH0m)
Posted by: Satan of Blutwurst Vt at March 25, 2016 03:28 PM (qSIlh)
Posted by: Lurking lurker. at March 25, 2016 03:28 PM (O108X)
Posted by: Kasich the Barbarian, Son of Mailman at March 25, 2016 03:28 PM (uyrlv)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 25, 2016 03:28 PM (ptqRm)
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)
Posted by: ALH at March 25, 2016 03:29 PM (Z56vq)
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)
Ever.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 25, 2016 03:29 PM (39g3+)
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)
Yeah. Good luck with that, wingnut.
Posted by: Nero at March 25, 2016 03:29 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: tu3031 at March 25, 2016 03:29 PM (YFFpo)
Makes as much sense.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 25, 2016 03:30 PM (AroJD)
Posted by: obnoxious ahole at March 25, 2016 03:30 PM (MpvuV)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 25, 2016 03:30 PM (kTF2Z)
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)
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 25, 2016 03:30 PM (btH0m)
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+)
Posted by: Yo! at March 25, 2016 03:30 PM (GwIKd)
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)
Posted by: Wolford Dimley at March 25, 2016 03:31 PM (a7RSp)
Posted by: Oy! at March 25, 2016 03:31 PM (evdj2)
Wow. ACTUAL Stockholm Syndrome.
Posted by: tu3031 at March 25, 2016 03:31 PM (YFFpo)
Posted by: jsg at March 25, 2016 03:31 PM (eNNj8)
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)
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)
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 25, 2016 03:32 PM (btH0m)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 25, 2016 03:32 PM (Nwg0u)
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)
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)
Posted by: saf at March 25, 2016 03:33 PM (qKiBT)
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)
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)
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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)
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)
****
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)
Fixed.
(IMHO)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 25, 2016 03:34 PM (ptqRm)
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You capitalist dawg, you get birch?
We get scrap box elder bark
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2016 03:34 PM (voOPb)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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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)
Posted by: Great Reagan's Ghost at March 25, 2016 03:35 PM (kfoLf)
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+)
Posted by: Yo! at March 25, 2016 03:36 PM (GwIKd)
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 25, 2016 03:36 PM (btH0m)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at March 25, 2016 03:36 PM (evdj2)
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)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2016 03:36 PM (voOPb)
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)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 25, 2016 03:36 PM (Nwg0u)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Jackinapes at March 25, 2016 03:37 PM (Z/diL)
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+)
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)
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)
That's socialism."
Hey, you leave standing in long lines alone!
Posted by: iStuff fanbois at March 25, 2016 03:38 PM (rznWS)
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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)
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)
May you have snow banks unti the 4th of July
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2016 03:39 PM (voOPb)
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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)
Posted by: Yo! at March 25, 2016 03:40 PM (GwIKd)
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)
If only they had some medicine.
Posted by: Javems at March 25, 2016 03:40 PM (yOqwj)
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)
****
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)
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)
Ah, capitalism.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at March 25, 2016 03:41 PM (evdj2)
Posted by: Hadoop at March 25, 2016 03:41 PM (2X7pN)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 25, 2016 03:41 PM (4AVeu)
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)
Posted by: Button Gwinnett at March 25, 2016 03:42 PM (YpQpo)
"...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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Dude what wipes barehanded at March 25, 2016 03:42 PM (ptqRm)
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)
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)
Posted by: Satan of Blutwurst Vt at March 25, 2016 03:42 PM (qSIlh)
Posted by: Insomniac at March 25, 2016 03:43 PM (0mRoj)
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)
Posted by: Kasich the Barbarian, Son of Mailman at March 25, 2016 03:43 PM (uyrlv)
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)
Posted by: Satan of Blutwurst Vt at March 25, 2016 03:44 PM (qSIlh)
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)
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)
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)
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+)
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)
Posted by: Emory Butthurt Squad at March 25, 2016 03:46 PM (HgMAr)
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)
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He can't blame Mooch & her blood sucking mom on Bush
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2016 03:46 PM (voOPb)
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)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 25, 2016 03:46 PM (kTF2Z)
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)
***
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)
Posted by: Seems legit at March 25, 2016 03:46 PM (U+nHb)
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)
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)
Posted by: Tilikum KAW SPI at March 25, 2016 03:47 PM (u0kqM)
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)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian at March 25, 2016 03:47 PM (QvJot)
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)
Posted by: Sharkman at March 25, 2016 03:47 PM (Se2s/)
Posted by: obnoxious ahole at March 25, 2016 03:47 PM (MpvuV)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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+)
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Before the storm.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 25, 2016 03:48 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: Sheryl "Dingleberries" Crow at March 25, 2016 03:48 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: Emmie at March 25, 2016 03:48 PM (rRHdN)
Posted by: OregonMuse at March 25, 2016 03:49 PM (1+7D3)
Posted by: Joe the Plumber at March 25, 2016 03:49 PM (eNNj8)
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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)
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)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 25, 2016 03:50 PM (ptqRm)
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)
Posted by: Sheryl "Dingleberries" Crow
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Caskets... and food too.
Posted by: Venezuelan Oligarchy at March 25, 2016 03:50 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 25, 2016 03:51 PM (ucDmr)
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)
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)
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)
***
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2016 03:52 PM (fizMZ)
Posted by: Donald Trump at March 25, 2016 03:52 PM (/haNQ)
"I hope he fails" about The JEF.
Posted by: Carol at March 25, 2016 03:52 PM (sj3Ax)
Castro understands Baseball?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 25, 2016 03:52 PM (ptqRm)
Posted by: IP at March 25, 2016 03:52 PM (aQQbl)
The commie love in this country is beyond dangerous.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 25, 2016 03:52 PM (45oDG)
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)
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/)
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)
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/+)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Yo! at March 25, 2016 03:54 PM (GwIKd)
Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2016 03:54 PM (fizMZ)
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)
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)
***
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
***
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)
Ah. The "Evil Twin".
Posted by: tu3031 at March 25, 2016 03:56 PM (YFFpo)
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)
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)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 25, 2016 03:56 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2016 03:57 PM (1xUj/)
Posted by: chunkieturdeye at March 25, 2016 03:57 PM (SOVQ8)
"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)
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)
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)
Posted by: wisenheimer at March 25, 2016 03:58 PM (qnhj2)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Meremortal, at March 25, 2016 03:59 PM (3myMJ)
>>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)
Posted by: Caliban at March 25, 2016 03:59 PM (3GFMN)
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)
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+)
*****
"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)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 25, 2016 04:00 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: Meremortal, at March 25, 2016 04:00 PM (3myMJ)
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)
Or even actually believing in it.
Posted by: FaCubeItches at March 25, 2016 04:01 PM (rznWS)
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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)
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)
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)
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+)
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)
Posted by: andycanuck at March 25, 2016 04:03 PM (ioqGj)
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)
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)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2016 04:04 PM (voOPb)
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)
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)
Nah, Reagan was the Bulge Offensive - the last throw of the dice.
Posted by: FaCubeItches at March 25, 2016 04:05 PM (rznWS)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 25, 2016 04:05 PM (ptqRm)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 25, 2016 04:06 PM (39g3+)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BGLR25EJtfE
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 25, 2016 04:06 PM (Nwg0u)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 25, 2016 04:08 PM (ptqRm)
I'll have to look for that; Thanks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 25, 2016 04:09 PM (w4NZ8)
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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)
Posted by: Trumplethinskin at March 25, 2016 04:09 PM (VDovR)
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)
*****
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)
Posted by: PJ at March 25, 2016 04:13 PM (cHuNI)
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)
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)
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)
Screwing around in eateries?
For shame!
Posted by: Meremortal, at March 25, 2016 04:16 PM (3myMJ)
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)
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)
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)
@ 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)
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)
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)
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)
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Before the storm."
Enjoy the war; the peace will be terrible.
Posted by: FaCubeItches at March 25, 2016 04:28 PM (rznWS)
Posted by: torabora at March 25, 2016 04:29 PM (dxr4g)
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)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 25, 2016 04:32 PM (9iR5/)
Posted by: Thatch at March 25, 2016 04:33 PM (pBZp4)
Damiano
Posted by: Lurking lurker. at March 25, 2016 04:37 PM (O108X)
Where you stand, numnuts.
Watch this chip shot... as people die.
FU.
Posted by: micky at March 25, 2016 04:40 PM (o5vMc)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Bonedaddi at March 25, 2016 04:59 PM (dE9Jm)
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)
@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)
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)
Posted by: jangles at March 25, 2016 07:31 PM (w/p7Z)
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)
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