Governor Nimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley of South Carolina has announced that she is endorsing Rent Boy Marco Rubio. In fact she said she would support anyone except Donald Trump.
Governor Haley is of course famous for surrendering to political correctness by banning the Confederate Flag and using the State of the Union response to attack the leading Republican candidate for President instead of concentrating on opposing President Obama's agenda. Because the Confederate Flag and statues of Civil war generals are the real problem. Governor Haley hates Trump because she is in favor of uninhibited immigration and the transfer of jobs of Americans to immigrants who are either illegal or under bogus visas. She knows that the Rent Boy will open the floodgates even more than Obama as he was the principal Republican stooge in the Gang of Eight.
On the other hand Donald Trump was asked about the "Dreamers" who have come here illegally and given sanctuary and full benefits by the Obama administration. The Donald simply stated that he was more worried about Americans having dreams. He said:
"I want the people in the United States that have children, I want them to have dreams also. We’re always talking about ‘DREAMers’ for other people. I want the children that are growing up in the United States to be dreamers also. They’re not dreaming right now."
You see Trump is concerned with Americans first. Not people in every other country in the world. Native born Americans are seeing their dreams dashed. While immigrants are imported by Disney and software companies and corporate vipers with visas that would allow them to pay half of what they would pay Americans.
But by all means stick with the Rent Boy. He might come in third again. Third is the new first. I think.
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hilarious. Troop, u have your finger on the pulse man.
tits.
HaleyPop: You are a veryveryveryvery bad girl, Nimnik. You will go to your room now and write one thousand times, "I will subvert the stupid Americans and make this alien land safe for the dot."
NikkiTricky: Yes, Babu.
The competitiveness of US industries in the current model is predicated on employer's access to ever-increasing and ever-cheaper unit labor costs. This is as true for highly skilled as it is for low-skilled workers. A practical downside to Trump's plan is how to cope with stabilized or even increasing compensation for employees. This could spark renewed inflation. The retired are particularly vulnerable to inflation and once they get a whiff of Jiff, there might be a backlash and calls from AARP to tear down the wall and "make our life affordable again." The reverse happened in Germany when West German saw their incomes measurably lessened after the wall came down and some clamored to "put the damn wall back up.
According to this conservative intellectual America has a moral responsibility to move those jobs to China and thus lift them out of poverty.
If me and Mr. Pethokoukis were alone in the woods I think I might stab him in the eye with a sharp stick, gut him and hang him with his own entrails. I would feel bad later.
Rabel said...According to this conservative intellectual America has a moral responsibility to move those jobs to China and thus lift them out of poverty.
I've seen that argued by a Twitter follower of mine. But not just that, we have a "moral responsibility" to transfer western wealth to the third world. The mechanism for doing so is carbon-based taxes.
Hell, I think our own Ritmo is still on board with the carbon wealth transfer scheme. Andrew Sullivan is another big proponent. It's no coincidence that these people have no kids of their own.
Rabel said...According to this conservative intellectual America has a moral responsibility to move those jobs to China and thus lift them out of poverty.
These days I have a hard time seeing even bags opposed to that ethic.
Bags will be back later. He stepped out to buy more pins for his Trump doll.
It's no coincidence that these people have no kids of their own.
The kids are smarter than short-bus riders like you because they realize that at 7 billion and counting sustainability is not an option, but a necessity.
Yes, not everyone with kids wants to leave them with the environmental train-wreck that you easily distracted Mammonites want to leave behind, like toxic turds at the campsite.
Im sure I've got more genes in my nieces and nephews worth preserving than your kids do. So until you make a rational case for your irrational position, I'll continue to promote sustainability, and write off your anti-sustainability position as just another symptom of your neurological shortcomings relating to others.
What is this masochistic strain you harbor that keeps making you want to pull this crap with me? You lose every time and, still, never seem to get enough. Strange. I hadn't even entered the thread and would have preferred to add to the completely astute and timely point that Rabel raised regarding China. But no, I guess I have to instead defend myself once again against your endless, insulting straw men.
chick hurt Schmendrik....chick hurt Schmendrick.....chick hurt Schmendrik.....nah nah nah nah nah.....
I realize you don't know the difference between hurt and annoyed, pin-prick, but that's because of how impotent you are in your own life.
"I hadn't even entered the thread and would have preferred to add to the completely astute and timely point that Rabel raised regarding China."
This refers, I assume, to the entrails hanging.
Whenever I comment to Needledick pin-prick, I always get the sense that it's like vocalizing or visually signaling something to Helen Keller.
It's important for him to use Yiddish, to help himself forget that all the other Jews he knows thinks he's a complete schmuck.
But they probably think that of all WASP-wanna be's. Get pin-prick a dress and he'll wear it like a Stepford wife and seek a country club member to knock him up. He'll be a shicker loser like no other, but at least ricprick can live out that fantasy like a bitch, regardless. ricprick will look up to the guy like he was Brad Pitt or Cary Grant, even though he'll probably just get pummeled in his mug face repeatedly by a drunk who just happened to look and feel the role.
This refers, I assume, to the entrails hanging.
Maybe. But I'll have to read it for myself. I keep forgetting how much certain people look to China for inspiration not only in how we should run our environment and economy, but nearly every other little detail.
I'm truly fed up with these people telling the working man how wonderful globalization is going to be for everyone from the top of the ladder to the bottom rung. It's a lie.
And yet 70's porn stache won't support Trump.
Unbelievable. total rino porn stache is.
tits
Just to be sure, I read it again. He starts: "America first, perhaps" and goes downhill from there. And even if he is a little slick in saying that Americans must suffer to raise the standard of living in the third world, it IS what he's saying.
I withdraw my earlier remark about feeling bad. "Perhaps" my ass, motherfucker.
(....)
I'm truly fed up with these people telling the working man how wonderful globalization is going to be for everyone from the top of the ladder to the bottom rung. It's a lie.
No doubt. And here's an issue where right and left can totally agree and get something done. There was no real point to designating ourselves the gatekeepers to China's development and modernization, other than this vague and stupid idea I faintly remember that they would supposedly go to war with us if we didn't trade with and help modernize them. In the meantime, we've sold out our own standards for theirs, and look at how otherwise well-intentioned capitalists and even naive occasional twerps like Chickie eat it all up. We are paying to modernize their country! It's obnoxious. Why can't they do it on their own? You guys are getting so worked up about an illegal migration from Mexico that isn't even happening any longer while in the meantime our own wages (and environmental concerns) suffer because we are told that we must conform to their standards. The right might think that's ok, but do they think it's ok for us to be the ones to pay for their development? I say fuck no. It's outrageous but try telling that to a guy like Chickie who thinks that whichever CEO or stock that benefits is somehow going to accrue that benefit to the average American or the country as a whole. This is where our country's living standards are declining, in a pervasive and subtle but very real way.
"The competitiveness of US industries in the current model is predicated on employer's access to ever-increasing and ever-cheaper unit labor costs"
What model would you develop to compete in a world where everyone else is following that model?
We can go protectionist, but the inevitable result will be that more competitive societies will clean our clock in the world market. We will become less part of the dynamic, and less employed. It will be jolting how fast it happens. It's funny how most people are really just as big-government as any leftist whenever the world does not follow their plan. I don't make the rules of economics, and I don't fancy myself able to vote for someone who can.
Rabel said..."According to this conservative intellectual America has a moral responsibility to move those jobs to China and thus lift them out of poverty."
Chickelit: "These days I have a hard time seeing even bags opposed to that ethic."
I think the Chinese are doing just fine. I've designed many successful products for them to steal along with the customers who liked those designs but wanted them cheaper. I wasn't interested in helping them then, and I'm certainly not now. All they need now is protectionist policies to put us to bed once and for all. Then we can vote for a dictator when he promises he can make us immune to the laws of economics, like they do. I can hear his catch phrase now: .... ....... ..... .....!
"I'm truly fed up with these people telling the working man how wonderful globalization is going to be for everyone from the top of the ladder to the bottom rung. It's a lie."
I don't know who says this. I never hear that. The truth is that like all of life, competition is always there and you can't escape it anymore than death or taxes. Globalization is the inevitable condition of a connected world. It's not easy. There are no guarantees, no favorites, and crying is not a strategy of the winners. We are still winning so far in this game, and it's sad that when the competition finally gets tough we want to call foul.
"Troop, u have your finger on the pulse man.".
Truly something nobody wants to hear from Titus. You can't wash that finger enough, Troop. Just hack it off.
Put that thing away: I said "hack".
The truth is that like all of life, competition is always there and you can't escape it anymore than death or taxes. Globalization is the inevitable condition of a connected world. It's not easy. There are no guarantees, no favorites, and crying is not a strategy of the winners. We are still winning so far in this game, and it's sad that when the competition finally gets tough we want to call foul.
The competition isn't "getting tough" you commie. The competition plays by no rules whatsoever. When you decide to compete with people who abide by no rules you are induced to jettison any rule abiding behavior of your own. You are outright admitting that you are ok with us becoming more like China economically, which would mean emulating their atrociously abysmal labor and environmental standards. Melamine in the milk. Lead in toys (Chickens is probably ok with this; he looked at a corporate think tank piece on how lead's toxicity is vastly over-rated. It made the Romans stronger and more quick-witted in their decline).
In the meantime, TOP just posted on how they kicked out 9,000 villagers from their homes to build a 1,640 foot wide telescope to search for E.T. with. You know, a lot of fans of eminent domain in the worst cases like to argue about how it will also "help" economic development. So you have cast your lot in with the capitalist anti-property people, too. Hell, why not? China has no human rights, individual liberties or anything close to our own Bill of Rights, so maybe that's the right kind of capitalism in your book. This is the pretzel into which you've tied your twisted limbs and knotted self.
Opposing property is the essence of Bag's capitalism. And he wonders why his politics is the least popular in 2016 and the most ready for mutiny against it - from the both right and the motherfucking left. I keep telling you you live in a goddamn bubble. Now might be the time to get out of it. You're a bright guy and a decent man and a talented executive, so why aren't you learning that there's an actual reality out there that matters more? Even Bernie Sanders wins with Republicans in his own state... You know why? Because the big business owner's concerns are often times at odds with the small business owner's concerns - and Bernie wins in the most Republican districts in his state because they realize that he knows this.
You tell us constantly about the mixed groups of friends and liberal girlfriends you hang out with in sunny Southern California. Are they that inarticulate? Can they not make anything resembling a coherent argument for you to understand why there is so much discontent in America? Do you actually think it's not for real, or can be avoided...? Or papered-over?
Well, suppressing popular criticism isn't easy in America, we're finally finding out. But if you need hints on how to hide what you don't want to see and look the other way, I'm sure there's a Chinese communist bureaucrat out there somewhere who can give you advice on how he sweeps all those things under the rug. Maybe try talking to him this year, instead of to us.
We should aim to better compete with China because they are the most talented thieves. Everyone knows that no respect for property rights or any other rights is what makes for a wonderful economy to compete with. Especially when there's barely any openness or transparency. Do you think a great economy actually benefits from, let alone requires free speech? Hell NO! That's why the Chinese stockmarket is so spot-on and accurate. It's a true reflection of its companies' valuation so let's all hear it for and shout out three cheers for the strongest economic policies in the UNIVERSE! No free-speech/honest criticism, No individual rights and even spotty property rights, and the government CONTROLS everything! This is Bags' capitalism - Big Fascist Corporatist Government Capitalism! And you peons have the nerve to wonder why he's so pro-establishment? Well, if degrading our rights and intermingling strong government with big corporations works so well for China, then of course we should entrench it over here.
Bags, have you ever considered moving to China? And I don't ask this condescendingly (although who knows? Maybe you admire it enough to not feel offended). It really seems that you think they run a better show over there.
The ultimate result of unfettered globalization will be wage equalization. You can do the math. Fortunately we still live in a democratic country. The corrupted party system is struggling to hold back the will of the people. We shall overcome.
Solidarity, Comrade.
Don't be mean to bags.
He has some cake for you.
Heh.
I tried to say it as nicely as I could. ;-)
R&B, I'd suggest you read my comments before doing a half-assed, misdirected dissertation on them, because you missed every single point presented and somehow read something completely different. And dude, that crack pipe is so 1990's.
There is nobody in this forum as invested in American employees, American capitalism, free markets, American industry, America first, buy American, and the American economy than I am. Put up your evidence, or kiss my ass you disingenuous words-over-actions poseur.
How many American jobs have you created, trained, invested in, protected, and fought for, and how many Chinese products have you bought this month alone? Everybody whines and talks about protecting American jobs, but everyone has a home full of "Made in China". Stop complaining about what you created, facilitated, and reward on a daily basis, while you call for some imaginary savor politician to fix for it all for you. Tell an American inventors, producers and employers like me how much you really care. That all helps exactly squat.
I mean seriously. Did we ever pull this shit with the USSR? Complain about how our failings were a result of failing to compete with them? What kind of shit is this?
People don't say that about India, but that's because India is doing the decent thing and democratizing and moving to protect rights in a way that betters it as a society.
But China is a shithole, and moving to remain one in perpetuity. Doesn't it have prison labor? Did Bags lecture his buddies in the 1970s about how we needed to do a better job competing with Siberian gulag labor?
Of course not. This was a self-created problem and it remains one because the only people "benefiting" from it are the people who don't care.
I wish Bags would see the bigger picture. He's open-minded and like many people in his position suspects what the decent thing would be to do. But he's been coddled way too long by a GOP that can no longer keep its ranks happy.
He's not happy with the revolt, but can he bring himself to understanding why this revolt was unavoidable?
I just watched the BBC three-part series on the Romanov dynasty. You know, these things are not so different - political or social revolutions. Conservatives like to complain about the bad road that the French Revolution took. It makes me wonder if they thought it was avoidable at that point or could have taken a different course.
The only "different" course is when progress is slow, but steady and sure - as we were lucky to have as the course taken in England - our political/cultural ancestral home. But even there they had their upstarts and stops and starts. They beheaded a king, Charles, brought in a republic. But the only reason it didn't lead to outright tyranny for even a short interlude was because they had either the luck or the foresight to get their changes out of the way early, when they counted. A century and a half before France. 250 years before Russia. Or China.
Dragging our heels only makes the expurgation worse later. These things must be gotten over with and out of the way. The sooner the better.
As I've said before, nearly all my serious business competition is from Chinese knock-offs of products I and my people worked long and hard to design, perfect and tool up for, only to have them offered to our customers at half the price from China. At first we whined and said it was unfair. To which our American customers said: "We're sorry, but this is business, and we have to compete with people who will do it if we don't." After a couple years of that, we stopped whining and started working harder, abandoning assumptions and old ideas, and we figured out a niche, a way to make us better and cheaper, to make us the uncompromising best value. We had American competitors who just kept waiting for it to go away. It didn't - they did. Choose your strategy, but don't blame someone else for you surrender.
"Did we ever pull this shit with the USSR? Complain about how our failings were a result of failing to compete with them? What kind of shit is this?'
No. We beat them because they were drunk and lazy. We out-competed them. Was that because the Soviets "played fair?", or because we simply out-classed them? You wait for the world to play fair - I got work to do.
You're not getting it, Bags - and still pulling out a (dare I say, "Trumpian") "me-vs.-you attitude with this. It's not about either one of us. My work has created capital as well and there are business owners who get it and get at least a part of what's going wrong. But if you want to still play top dog of the "Class Warfare" model, you can do it. It might even keep working. But not for much longer.
You blame this on the American consumer buying Chinese goods as if the American consumer had even the slightest hand in merging our markets. Consumer choice, you might say? Right. Legislatures are so bought out that industries war against them if they even want to label whether your foods were grown by a decent hard-working farmer or made in a lab by Monsanto with fish genes. They're anti-knowledge and consumer transparency at this point. Who the fuck do you think made things that way?
You complain about politicians as "imaginary saviors"? What a pompous ass you are being. They're not mine or yours or anyone else's "saviors". They're my fucking EMPLOYEES! And get this, the salary they get is the only one that's supposed to matter, not the "job-hunting" donation/campaign graft. That's under the table, as far as I'm concerned.
It's not going to stand any more.
But don't worry. There are still powerful people who agree with you.
And they are:
1. The faceless, invisible string-pullers of a dying GOP,
and,
2. Hillary Clinton.
These are your new allies, Bags. I'm glad to have arranged the introduction.
Be sure to let me know how great a job they are doing of giving voice to the concerns of your workers.
Because they now have unlimited money to do so.
And how well's that working for them?
Lo and behold. Apparently in the post-Citizens United era we're finding that there ARE some things that money can't buy.
You intend to provide those things too, though, I take it?
As I've said before, nearly all my serious business competition is from Chinese knock-offs of products I and my people worked long and hard to design, perfect and tool up for, only to have them offered to our customers at half the price from China. At first we whined and said it was unfair. To which our American customers said: "We're sorry, but this is business, and we have to compete with people who will do it if we don't."
The whole system's corrupt, top to bottom. Now is no longer the time to see what the consumer can do about it. The consumer is worked to death for declining wages. Again, all part of the same "play nice and competitively with thieves" philosophy.
The Chinese are thieves. You think Trump blusters?
Maybe he does. But he's telling the truth.
So you found a way to out-complete a thief. Bravo. Good for you.
This is not a sustainable model.
I don't care who finds a way of beating a bunch of commies over the head in order to do something about it. Your way out of the prison camp may have worked for you.
But in the meantime, other approaches need to be tried. And they can't be meek or half-hearted.
Allowing the Chinese model of doing business to become the global standard is a pussy ass response and a total capitulation of leadership - no matter how unhinged you think Trump is.
Honestly, R&B, you are making absolutely no sense. I don't even know what or who you are addressing. It sure isn't me. I'm not complaining about not competing - I am competing, and very successfully. I don't need politicians to save me. I need them to leave me alone, because they are fools and incompetents. You depend on them if you want. I'll do it the old fashon way: I'll earn it. Maybe a discussion of long dead English Kings will help you sort it out.
"This is not a sustainable model. "
Three decades now, and stronger every year. I'll ask again: what is your superior model? Does it depend on the next election every four years? Now that's sustainable, and not at all pussified, but I think Trump would call you a loser.
Honestly, R&B, you are making absolutely no sense.
You can tell that to the nation when the vote goes 180 degrees opposite from what you want in November.
I don't even know what or who you are addressing.
You are not paying attention.
It sure isn't me.
It sure is.
I'm not complaining about not competing - I am competing, and very successfully.
With thieves. Let's see how well that's working for the country. More competition with thieves! You are not competing well with the thieves! It's your fault, everybody!
I don't need politicians to save me.
You don't even care to hold them accountable or to an honest standard, apparently.
But then, you are in business with thieves and like it that way.
I need them to leave me alone, because they are fools and incompetents.
The ones you vote for are, apparently. But you need to speak for yourself.
You depend on them if you want.
Lol. Like I said, they're MY employees and I intend to hold them to account.
You can go on and foster dishonest employees all you want. Or trumpet the "independence" your wealth grants you from government. Well, isn't that special. Rich pricks generally don't "need" government anyway - if anything they choose to go about controlling them, though - like the Kochs. Like I said, this isn't really just about you or even me.
I'll do it the old fashon way: I'll earn it. Maybe a discussion of long dead English Kings will help you sort it out.
Repeating history by not learning it? I will laugh when they bring out the guillotines or tax you at 90%.
Three decades now, and stronger every year.
Again. More of the "l'etat, c'est moi," bullshit. Wouldn't it be wonderful if Bagsie's delusion that his is the the only company and he as its head were the only parties that mattered in America?
Every other company and employee needs to kill themselves because Bags IS America. In its entirety. Your problems don't matter. He doesn't see them. He doesn't care.
I'll ask again: what is your superior model?
Not yours, I'll tell you that.
Does it depend on the next election every four years?
American democracy does. But what do you care? You can get everything you want if you were living in China, apparently. So why not answer the question. Have you ever been to China and WOULD you live there? Because they are defining your politics for you. You can't even think for yourself.
Now that's sustainable, and not at all pussified, but I think Trump would call you a loser.
Trump can say what he wants. But he's got a shot at winning the presidency and would run your ass into the ground if you competed against him. So in the meantime you just whine about how people can bring themselves to supporting him.
You know why they do? Because he says he'll act in America's interest, and you just get your pansy butt up there and squeak, "What ever the Chinese politburo decides I'll find a way to work with, everybody!"
Ha hahahahahaha.
You clearly don't realize it, but you are wrong on nearly everything here, as you have been all these years lauding the job-killing leftist big government bullshit you have championed at every opportunity. Now, you want to suddenly join the revolution against it all. What a fraud! Are you some kind of super villain double agent progressive, or simply totally confused by all this, and now just looking to end up with the popular kids when the dust clears?
So that was your cogent rebuttal? And you say Trump is full of blustering bullshit. Every word you wrote was old-time demagogue partisan bullshit that doesn't fly any more. The old left-right pretend divide of the past doesn't matter any more, you Nazi enabler. Come to think of it, you're almost just like Trump, minus the directness. Even if he'd never admit it, at least Trump knows when he's losing something. But you, you deny like his rug.
Here's the whole point, since Bags tap-dances around it like Sammy Davis Jr.: Bags doesn't care about America, unless you're an employee of his. He can't see beyond his business. Everyone else might as well not exist, in his book.
There are too many people out there hurting to be divided up against each other like this any more, though. They don't care about "going along for the sake of getting along" with the kind of corruption he's so comfortable with. (Competing against thieves! It's all good).
So they're going outside of the phony marketing system of politics that he thinks stands a chance in hell of continuing.
He just doesn't get it.
But he sure does fear it.
Good for you, Bags. Keep fearing what you choose to remain ignorant of. Or just deny.
Deny deny deny.
"I'll ask again: what is your superior model?"
"Not yours, I'll tell you that."
Good answer, when you have none. No answers, no plan, no model, no help at all to anyone. Just keep bitchin' till you pass out.
Or, think about what you could do to actually help people like me who have a plan that's working. Here's a clue: I have far less trouble competing with those "thieving" Chinese than I do my own government - the one you have been telling me for years now is so helpful and good for me. Now you're telling me that again, only it's a new shiny guy who gonna run it, but much better this time.
I'm starting to notice that whenever I corner Bags on a point, instead of doing the honorable thing and admitting it, he deflects and denies. Do you ever notice that?
Hillary Clinton is pretty much the same way. No one's allowed to call her out because SHE! gets to be the boss.
But notice how that keeps keeping her locked out of the top position.
Bags will never be a large multinational corp CEO. He's happy being a medium sized fish in a large pond.
But he sure knows the game of the narcissists and Hillaries out there. Deny deny deny.
Being honorable and conceding that you've supported the wrong thing is bad strategy, in his book.
Much better to be dishonest and deny things.
Don't embrace criticism. It's more important to pretend that you're invincible.
" Bags doesn't care about America..."
Nobody in here believes that, including you, which means you will say anything, which makes continuing this a waste of time. Good night, brave prince.
Good answer, when you have none. No answers, no plan, no model, no help at all to anyone. Just keep bitchin' till you pass out.
Coming up with the models is what I pay my employees for. I'll leave the pretension to running the world to you and your fellow Trumps.
Or, think about what you could do to actually help people like me who have a plan that's working.
Oh. Here comes the narcissist. I'm supposed to help you and you have nothing to offer for me. I guess you're used to doing business with idiots.
Here's a clue: I have far less trouble competing with those "thieving" Chinese than I do my own government...
You "compete" with your own government? Really. Ok....
- the one you have been telling me for years now is so helpful and good for me.
Not the ones you voted to employ.
Now you're telling me that again, only it's a new shiny guy who gonna run it, but much better this time.
You're so damn incoherent it's hilarious.
Just admit that you hate democracy and prefer living under a dictatorship that poisons and works its people to death, like in China. As long as the company head gets to be king of his shitty little corner of the realm.
"Bags will never be a large multinational corp CEO. He's happy being a medium sized fish in a large pond. "
Finally, you got something right, except I'd say a small fish, and in a pond that half-full, not half-empty.
Nobody in here believes that, including you, which means you will say anything, which makes continuing this a waste of time. Good night, brave prince.
Name one metric by which you can measure America's well-being that you look at or care about, other than your own company's books.
You know you can't do it. For you, America is a good viewing of Top Gun or Wall Street.
"Bags will never be a large multinational corp CEO. He's happy being a medium sized fish in a large pond. "
Finally, you got something right, except I'd say a small fish, and in a pond that half-full, not half-empty.
Yeah. Because to do that you'd actually have to educate yourself about America and how it's doing, not just what your corner office looks like you silly Chinese thief enabler.
America can apparently burn to the ground, as far as some people are concerned. As long as Bags's business is doing ok, then America's ok.
It's like putting up a mansion in the ghetto and talking about how wonderful the neighborhood is.
Bags can't see beyond his own windshield.
..half-full, not half-empty.
Half-full is the same thing as "half-empty," you dildo.
Bags gets the half of the cup that's full, everyone else takes the half that's empty. All is good, by his account.
America: Be happy being the empty half. HE's got the full half.
Nikki Haley endorses Rubio? Is that Chicken Vindaloo I'm smelling or is she just aroused?
Rhythm and Balls said...
Here's the whole point, since Bags tap-dances around it like Sammy Davis Jr.: Bags doesn't care about America, unless you're an employee of his. He can't see beyond his business. Everyone else might as well not exist, in his book.
There are too many people out there hurting to be divided up against each other like this any more, though. They don't care about "going along for the sake of getting along" with the kind of corruption he's so comfortable with. (Competing against thieves! It's all good).
So they're going outside of the phony marketing system of politics that he thinks stands a chance in hell of continuing.
He just doesn't get it.
But he sure does fear it.
Good for you, Bags. Keep fearing what you choose to remain ignorant of. Or just deny.
Deny deny deny.
Dude, are you feeling the Bern or was it too much curry? Pepto is your friend.
I think Ritmo gets "umpolung."
Balls - you're just jealous. Bags is successful and he does it with honestly and integrity. He plays by the rules. Rules that are increasingly corrupt, as the left would love to put him out of business. What do you care? Balls - you don't care about livelihoods, or honest work. You care about what the left tells you to care about - free stuff at someone elses expense and global warming transfer payments to Al Gore.
Balls wants to kill the honest business model that provides jobs, and a tax base.
Got vote for HIllary and STFU.
Thanks to R&B for getting Bagoh to share some more of his knowledge of how things work in the world of business.
bago:
"I have far less trouble competing with those "thieving" Chinese than I do my own government - the one you have been telling me for years now is so helpful and good for me."
The Chinese and American financial arrangement and the behavior of crony capitalists, The Fed, and the neoliberal Congress are two sides of the same coin.
Nikki Haley is gross. If she had any class, she'd have stayed silent out of a sense of fair play.
Stuck the knife in Jeb!, that's for sure.
R&B comments are a complete waste of time and space. No true engagement, ever. Just excerpts from someone else's comment repurposed and reimagined to fit R&B's assumptions, to the point where they bear no resemblance to the intent of the original comment, followed by a bunch of gassy inapposite insults. It's the same thing e v e r y t i m e.
"The Chinese and American financial arrangement and the behavior of crony capitalists, The Fed, and the neoliberal Congress are two sides of the same coin."
True enough, but I was referring to taxation and regulation which takes far more from me and my employees than the Chinese do. Worse yet, the government theft of our resources is not able to be mitigated by anything we do. We can't design it away, market better, or get more efficient to fight back. In fact, the better we get, the smarter and harder we work - the the more they take. In this way, it's is more theft than competition, unlike the Chinese which is more competition with some theft thrown in. Over the years, we've beat back the Chinese, but our own government takes more than ever. I spend more effort today dodging the government and jumping through their endless hoops than I ever did fighting Chinese imports. It's not even close, and after all the work is done, the government takes 1/2 of everything we produce.
The main driver behind jobs being exported is not foreign workers, or corporate CEO's, it's our own government that we want to do everything for us including protecting us from our own choices, and the risks of doing what it takes to succeed.
Well said, bago, As Usual.
Balls - you're just jealous.
Of a bullshit artist? Hell no.
Bags is successful and he does it with honestly and integrity. He plays by the rules. Rules that are increasingly corrupt,
You just contradicted yourself right there. He's got integrity and he's corrupt. What a source of admiration.
Granted, not all corruption is under our control. But that's his problem. He flat-out admits that he doesn't want anything done about that corruption, and thinks it's to his credit that he does well in a corrupt system. It's to his discredit.
...as the left would love to put him out of business. What do you care? Balls - you don't care about livelihoods, or honest work.
Actually, that's what HE said. He practically admits that he doesn't care about anyone but himself and whomever works for him.
You disagree? Try asking him about people who aren't doing well under this corrupt system. He will blame it on them and say it's all their own fault.
You care about what the left tells you to care about - free stuff at someone elses expense and global warming transfer payments to Al Gore.
Lol. Whatever you say. Too distracted to focus on the issue?
Don't go for Trump. Go for Ted Cruz - or one of the other nobodies. He will do great things. He will whisper all the sweet nothings about American nationalism into your ear that make you feel good at night while he goes along with everyone else that's selling out the country.
The main driver behind jobs being exported is not foreign workers, or corporate CEO's, it's our own government that we want to do everything for us including protecting us from our own choices, and the risks of doing what it takes to succeed.
A full third of that being YOUR want for them to "defend" against a Syrian 3rd-world militia by spending more than the next 8 countries on it combined. Don't pretend that your chunk of bloated government isn't a choice that others are on board with.
Good answer, when you have none. No answers, no plan, no model, no help at all to anyone.
Your precious conservatives have been steering the ship of state since Reagan. That's at least 30 years. You haven't named one regulation you think it would help you if it went away. And it's only gotten worse, you say? But no, you can't blame them. No, you have to keep voting for them. As a pro-establishment Republican, you've said that's what you intend to do. The same people who have not only not gotten rid of whatever this "excessive" regulation or taxation is that you mention, but grown it, and you fight the good fight in pretending that THIS TIME THEY'RE SERIOUS
Well, it might feel the wishful thinkers here - but why isn't it fooling the rest of the country? Maybe you need to get your message out. Talk to America about how the "small business" you run is being walloped. Don't mention a single law, statute, regulation or tax. Just go all broad and sloppy with the message so that we can get more pretend anti-government zealots in there without anything specific to do.
That should work. It's been working wonders so far, hasn't it?
Well just go on and keep doing it, man. It obviously must float your boat.
And just to make something clear, I don't buy a lot of cheap shit from China. Price is not my sole interest when it comes to most things at all, but quality or at least value. For the most part, my food purchases are local. That's the bulk of what I buy. Consumer electronics are hard to prevent any Chinese-made components from being supplied, but I'm hardly one of those douchebags who spends a substantial component of what he makes (but can hardly afford) on the newest super-duper electronic gizmo anyway. My car was made in Japan, with some U.S. assembly - but cars are made of thousands of components from all over anyway. An impossible product to make into a single-country source. Beyond that, I'd say the majority of my purchases are books and entertainment, and I don't notice a lot of those things made in China.
A lot of what I wear is made in Britain. Ha. Ok, I guess some Chinese might make a pair of boxer shorts here or there. I also use a lot of outdoor cold-weather wear that's specialized by those companies that pride themselves on corporate responsibility (which Bags may or may not know anything about), meaning fabrication in North America as well as Southeast Asia - not the same as CHINA. As for household goods, you may have me there but again we'd have to break it down on an item-by-item purchase and the interest I have in quality and sustainability and corporate responsibility. Three things that the Chinese SUCK at.
Might they manufacture a greater proportion of some of the teensy tiny little doo-dads and knicknacks in some of what I buy? I suppose. They're like viruses - you can't keep out every one. But you can make decisions that minimize that.
But what does any of this matter? The whole point is that I'm not the cheap bastard you stupidly presume me to be and that I make consumer decisions based on things that if anything tend to go 180 degrees opposite from what China excels at.
It's a good philosophy. It would help you to understand the people of this country for whom you care so little, and yet who vote and organize so loudly.
Maybe you care about your employees - it sounds like you do - and understand that sacrifices are best made here or there where you can on their behalf. But the same needs to be done for the country and the same-old-same-old of every establishment Republican ensures that what needs to be done won't happen.
The days when Republicans could just spout their anti-government rhetoric and get away with it are over. Progressives aren't "pro-government". We're for what works. And it doesn't work to refuse to name the policies or taxes you want to do away with.
Show your cards. Name your regulatory enemies. But continuing to blunder about with a broad brush just ensures that Republican politics will continue to decline. Progressives are naming what they want to do. Your own lazy bums can no longer name what it is that they want to NOT do, let alone why it's good.
We're not standing for political philosophy welfare for the party that keeps talking about how it's going to do nothing. It was to say WHERE it's going to do nothing and WHY it's good.
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