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brentspeak

(18,290 posts)
8. You seem to enjoy piling on bull$hit
Thu Jun 4, 2015, 10:23 AM
Jun 2015

It fits you like a glove.

In your never-ending attempts at appealing to forum members here by linking today's corporate pro-"free trade" deals with Democratic icons such as FDR, you've polluted this site for years with tales of FDR's presumed approval for corporate-written free trade such as NAFTA and now TPP -- as if today's "free trade in name only" deals are in any way comparable to the free trade legislation and economic circumstances of FDR's time.

Apparently, you're under the impression that if you keep repeating the same lies concerning FDR and Truman, those lies will somehow stick, and the innocent reader here who might stumble upon your posts will actually believe your propaganda that NAFTA, TPP, CAFTA, etc. and the whole corrupt slew of job-killing and corporation-empowering would have been things that FDR and Truman approved of. You also curiously keep failing to note that US unions are overwhelmingly opposed to today's free trade deals. Further, European unions are opposed to the new "free trade" deals. Why do you continue with the bull$hit that you're some sort of comrade-in-arms with union members?

For the benefit of the unsuspecting reader who might stumble upon pampango's propaganda here on DU;

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=659610

Primers on FDR and the old-school Democrats views actual views of free trade (in short, FDR and the others would have been repelled and horrified by today's NAFTA, CAFTA, KORUS, and TPP):

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6669455

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4433420

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4437688

(And, yes, I did locate the statistic about the difference in opinion concerning polled Democrats and Republicans on fast-track. The same poll also demonstrated Democratic disapproval of free trade deals, and more importantly, how little about TPP they and the rest of the public even know about the legislation, let alone have seen it discussed on the news. Your repeated attempts at appealing to forum members here by also highlighting and exaggerating supposed differences in "trade" between Democrats and Republicans continue to fall flat.)

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