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GRhodes

(162 posts)
44. I know the damn economic data
Wed Jun 1, 2016, 05:34 PM
Jun 2016

I know the record of the trade model she supports, I know what the WTO has done and the decisions at the WTO (as well as recent NAFTA Chapter 11 challenges to environmental and economic regulations), I know the decades long economic decline domestically and the data associated with that, I know her actual foreign policy, I know about her decades of corruption, and I know how horrible it is for her to cite Kissinger (because I know what Kissinger freaking did). I don't need lectures from someone like yourself, someone saying stupid things and someone avoiding all of that, on being smart. You're arrogant for no damn reason. You seem to think you're brilliant because you're good at sticking your head in the sand.

"Now go look up the filibuster, the veto, the rules of the Senate of the US, the role of the House of Representatives, check the make-up of the Supreme Court for the past 20 years and their rulings on collective bargaining, guns, voter rights, class action, etc. etc., then get back to me."

So, this argument is what exactly? That Clinton and her husband were closet social democrats but the Republicans got in the way (actual reality be damned), that the Democrats haven't moved to the right in recent decades, that the Democrats aren't horribly corrupt? What does any of that have to do with NAFTA, the WTO, the Telecommunications Act, the gutting of New Deal financial regulations, deregulating derivatives, doing a u turn on the bankruptcy law (which Warren called out), her opposing a financial transactions tax (care to argue how high frequency trading benefits the domestic economy?), her opposing the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall, her opposing breaking up the banks (which even the Treasury and Fed supports), her backing every free trade bill other than CAFTA since she entered politics? Care to address her obvious corruption? Nope, you haven't shown you can do anything but call me names.

Get lost, done with you.

Well Trump is a bad businessman Ash_F Jun 2016 #1
Yeah, he's also a buffoon GRhodes Jun 2016 #3
File this in the no-Duh folder mikeysnot Jun 2016 #2
because she is sane. OKNancy Jun 2016 #4
Perfect response ... only four words needed. NurseJackie Jun 2016 #6
Exactly. nt auntpurl Jun 2016 #12
Her Syria policies are 100% batshit crazy jfern Jun 2016 #49
Gee leftynyc Jun 2016 #5
Yeah GRhodes Jun 2016 #9
They give her money because Darb Jun 2016 #11
Brilliant GRhodes Jun 2016 #15
Perhaps you have been living on a different planet. Darb Jun 2016 #18
Because she is sane. Why would businesspeople want chaos? Why would anybody? DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2016 #7
LOL! GRhodes Jun 2016 #14
Do you really expect Trunp's efforts to demonize and deport Hispanics DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2016 #16
Great election choice you just proposed GRhodes Jun 2016 #19
Oligarchy seems preferable to chaos. pmorlan1 Jun 2016 #59
Ever been in an anarchic situation... DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2016 #60
Another flogger of the neo-liberal canard. Darb Jun 2016 #20
Why type GRhodes Jun 2016 #27
Try to pretend you have some experience with politics. Darb Jun 2016 #31
Is that why they wanted Bush, too? Marr Jun 2016 #23
Indeed, I suspect they would support Sanders over Trump to avoid chaos. pampango Jun 2016 #35
well she say as a Senator Wall Street was her constituency azurnoir Jun 2016 #8
Good. Darb Jun 2016 #10
Great GRhodes Jun 2016 #22
Stop with the Kissinger canard, will ya? Darb Jun 2016 #26
What the hell are you talking about? GRhodes Jun 2016 #30
Stop being obtuse. Kissinger Darb Jun 2016 #34
I will ask one more time GRhodes Jun 2016 #41
Everyone knows Kissinger's act. Darb Jun 2016 #43
If I took away your personal attacks against me GRhodes Jun 2016 #48
A strong and healthy economy works better for them. As it does for all of us. seabeyond Jun 2016 #13
Care to provide data GRhodes Jun 2016 #17
And Hillary Clinton is the God of Everything, and should be Darb Jun 2016 #21
Translate into English please GRhodes Jun 2016 #25
That whole post of yours is complete BS. Darb Jun 2016 #29
More nothing from you GRhodes Jun 2016 #33
My aim is true. Darb Jun 2016 #39
CEOs would rather have Obama 2.0 than Trump X... DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2016 #42
What trend is that again? Darb Jun 2016 #45
? The trend is they don't want to see the world set ablaze. DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2016 #47
Right. Darb Jun 2016 #51
She is the small c conservative in a race versus Trump... DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2016 #54
I know the damn economic data GRhodes Jun 2016 #44
She did it all. Or was that Bill? Or anyone else? Darb Jun 2016 #46
You've said drivel GRhodes Jun 2016 #50
I thought you were done with me. Darn. Darb Jun 2016 #52
Economics 101. Healthy economy behooves all of us. Simple enough, or.... Play like it is a seabeyond Jun 2016 #55
"Clinton gets the corporate" GRhodes Jun 2016 #61
CEOs don't want a fascist state? Dem2 Jun 2016 #24
The One they've Bought and paid for of course. Ferd Berfel Jun 2016 #28
This^^^^ LibDemAlways Jun 2016 #53
it was a trick question Ferd Berfel Jun 2016 #63
whoa, all corporations bad, all banks bad, DNC bad, Jerry Brown bad, any group or individual that still_one Jun 2016 #32
Barbara Boxer, Jerry Brown, John Lewis, (soon to be) Elizabeth Warren auntpurl Jun 2016 #36
Thank you for that purl still_one Jun 2016 #38
Didn't say any of that Mr. or Mrs. Strawman GRhodes Jun 2016 #37
PBS News hour disagrees with your assessment still_one Jun 2016 #40
Please tell me... Lizzie Poppet Jun 2016 #58
Almost like going to NYC and trashing wall street while demanding wall street vote. ALL the people seabeyond Jun 2016 #56
verifies what an awful business man trump is and how he would be a beachbum bob Jun 2016 #57
Yes, Hillary Clinton is less bad GRhodes Jun 2016 #62
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