tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post2285106092781569044..comments2024-01-02T22:01:12.976+00:00Comments on Avedon's Sideshow: Did you see her crying?Avedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-76555827235355902812018-08-19T20:27:15.304+01:002018-08-19T20:27:15.304+01:00After 30 years pretending to do something about tr...After 30 years pretending to do something about trade, but really just stringing free-trade's 'losers' along like a second-choice prom date, the left flat-out doesn't get to criticize Trump's trade policies. You all had your chance. I voted for your party for most of my adult life, and what did we get for it? Bill selling the working class out for entry into the elite, Obama's lies about wanting to renegotiate NAFTA, and Hillary lying to our faces about opposing the TPPA while telling all of her campaign donors <br /><br />I flat-out don't trust your 'economists'. They are not scientists. They are conmen and women performing the same general role that the old oracles did for the ancient rulers of the city-states = they put a scientific (previously, divine) sheen on whatever rich people want to hear. Rich people love free trade. The media loves free trade. Therefore, no economist can be trusted on it. Same with immigration. They lie to appease their masters, plan and simple. They have no honor, decency or dedication to the scientific method, and listening to them has gutted this country and given us the President Trump to all claim to hate (but somehow never want to do anything about the root causes of, because that means paying attention to the icky white rural types who serve as the trolls, ogres and goblins of your Lord and the Rings political fantasies).<br /><br />Your entire ideology is, at this point, a proven joke; a lie whispered to the lower classes to prevent them from ever actually rising up against those who claim to stand against.Tim Reynoldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17819923691724717512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-76205395981958152622018-08-14T03:02:13.242+01:002018-08-14T03:02:13.242+01:00"Now, if only we can explain why the so-calle..."Now, if only we can explain why the so-called liberal champion of health care, Edward Kennedy, proposed this piece of crap."<br /><br />The reason for that was that Kennedy was one of the most corrupt politicians in the country, and spent his whole career carrying water for the health insurance industry, while pretending to fight them. Most of the insurance companies are headquartered in Kennedy's Massachusetts, and he took massive amounts of money from them over the decades. He talked a lot, but behind the scenes he worked assiduously to block significant health care reform. He chaired the relevant Senate committee for years, but never once held hearings on single payer care. <br /><br />But of course, all problems are caused by the Repubs so this never gets mentioned. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00705741248756891564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-8643780628753881102018-08-13T19:19:08.234+01:002018-08-13T19:19:08.234+01:00Thanks, AC, and Mark G.
You rock hard in a rockle...Thanks, AC, and Mark G.<br /><br />You rock hard in a rockless world.Cirzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-50590554234222072142018-08-10T22:19:17.688+01:002018-08-10T22:19:17.688+01:00Every time I go into the basement I smell the mold...Every time I go into the basement I smell the mold from my Nixon collection. Five years after he resigned I was on TV in Des Moines for owning about 100 books on Nixon and Watergate. Yeah, I wallowed in it.<br /><br />But since then, if you give Nixon the LBJ Exception (don't count Vietnam), he looks a lot different. Like maybe even the best POTUS we've had since LBJ (or Ike if, understandably, you can't overlook Vietnam). <br /><br />Russ Baker's book on the Bush Dynasty made me rethink a lot of stuff. If, as Baker believes, Bush pére spearheaded a CIA Constitutional coup of Nixon, it helps show Nixon as kind of a thinking man's Trump. <br /><br />The worst thing you can say about Nixon isn't about Nixon. He listened to Henry Kissinger, one of history's greatest monsters. Just like Hillary Clinton still does. <br /><br />Not cheering for Nixon. Just mostly depressed at how things that were once clear to me are now not quite so cut and dried.Mark Gislesonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05264508885194574116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-86006182598913633912018-08-10T14:45:11.080+01:002018-08-10T14:45:11.080+01:00This is just an incredible website. I've bookm...This is just an incredible website. I've bookmarked you and read everything you post for years. Please live forever and keep doing such great work. After you post I spend a couple of days following the links, bookmarking sites you feature that I hadn't found yet or reveling in work you highlight from writers I already admire. If you are still in London, I hope things are going well. I would love to hear your experience of all the changes roiling the UK if you ever feel like posting such a thing. Thanks again for your wonderful work. Rock on!lightly49https://www.blogger.com/profile/13873610033044440382noreply@blogger.com