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Forty-Seven Seconds of Hillary
Astonishing. To paraphrase Talleyrand on the Bourbons, elle n’a rien appris, ni rien oublié.
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#47 Retail Lawyer
But for the practiced expertise of two of her handlers, actually Hillary would have taken a tumble — a pretty nasty one in fact.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5493679/Hillary-Clinton-slips-twice-stairs-trip-India.html
The combination of her remarks as illustrated in the OP, plus incidents such as this, signify that Hillary keeps on trying to out-bitch Karma, with predictable results.
I guess retail is better than wholesale.
Well spotted!
I prefer to think of the future as colonial holdings I have not yet exploited.
Ummm…
I like the way you think.
Measuring GDP and inflation are ultimately scams for our statist overlords to control us and steal from us.
This is excellent.
There is nothing good about the power we have given government over the market.
I’ll even sing “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead” it will be better than that time we sang a Christmas Carol on the Audio Meetup.
Really.
I read the Tweet. The legal protections of which he speaks would lead to the very civil war Schlicter mentions. Lefties get favor in the legal system, until they don’t.
She did – twice. Her handlers propped her up though. Viva “Weekend at Hillary’s”!
I wish the whole world could see all these comments. Excellent analysis.
This is a killer line.
It was pretty rich that Hillary complained that flyover country is pessimistic and looking backwards. The people she hates are the ones having big families (more than one child to her) who have hope in the future. As for looking backwards – isn’t that what Democrats do with all of their failed policies. When have they ever had a new idea other than ‘we haven’t “invested” enough money in it yet to make it work’. They are bankrupt, financially and morally. Go away Hillary, just go away. Kevin Williamson’s description of you as the penicillin-resistant syphilis of American politics rings true more each day.
All of them believe that statism is good and it works. They never even reflect on it. Then throw in the social issues and the fact that so many of them won’t get into the weeds on policy issues and economics. Bad economics causes social problems, i.e. “deplorables.” (So, so many anti-Trumpers don’t give a damn about that.)
My brother-in-law is really smart and well adjusted but not on this stuff. I asked him to define “assault weapon”. Total Cognitive Dissonance Meltdown.
Having worked for General Dynamics, I can assure them both that this is not the case. Maybe plop down BLS statistics for them, in case they care to learn facts.
This is a bit old, but gives the detail. If you’re spending 5-10-15% of GDP on Defense, half of Americans are not working in the defense industry.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1998/07/art2full.pdf
This is must reading if you like this thread. I got that from King Banaian.
The People’s Romance
Why People Love Government (as Much as They Do)
By Daniel B. Klein
Read the article. Wasn’t impressed. It is almost as funny as the tweet.
I write about this stuff. The article you referenced is Lefty wish fulfillment fanfic. Schlichter’s got a pretty solid handle on what would happen.
So:
The formula to calculate the components of GDP is Y = C + I + G + X. That stands for: GDP = Consumption + Investment + Government + X (net exports, or imports minus exports.) (We can probably ignore net X here).
When calculating GDP, government spending is a component. Since you’re also including investment, places like NY have something called a “stock exchange” (and so does Chicago), where a lot of investing occurs.
Theoretically, your state could be doing very well in terms of GDP if it was flooded with federal spending. In other words, if you’re dependent on the federal govt for your income, in any form, then by Hillary’s droolcup standard, yer doing great!
Her GDP comments are idiotic. This basically means the people with the most money should decide who’s president. A slavering, cowardly, and selfish person should be as far from the levers of power as we can possibly place her. Potentially Peru. Perhaps Polynesia.
It is a terrible, terrible thing that’s so much government force and graft and redistribution etc. is dependent on government supposedly “measuring” inflation and GDP. People have no idea.
She IS the first losing candidate I can recall, even among democrats, that continues to fan contempt for whoever didn’t vote for her. Even Carter, Kerry, etc. appeared at least to grasp that they were or would have been President of all Americans, not just a part with the rest be damned. She’s a new low and a continuing source of political poison.
Oh, and by the way Hillary…this may be hard so think awhile about it…even those “blue” areas are not solid, but in fact do have conservative voters and thinkers as well.
That’s a nice distillation of her position, and an interesting position for her to take. We have known for many years that it is her personal belief (hence the graft and corruption that culminated in the Clinton Foundation), but at least in theory the Democratic Party is supposed to be horrified at the idea.
Who … I’m speculating …produce the lion’s share of the GDP Hillary is bragging about.
Understanding all of the dynamics of what creates a Gated Community Liberal is important. They have big bucks, very stupid ideas, and, on net, bad intent. Victor Davis Hanson is really good at it.
She is, quite literally, either as dumb as a box of rocks or so blindingly arrogant as to be a danger to herself. 2008 she won the popular vote in the Dem primaries but lost the delegate count to Obama. Now a normal person … that experience would be seared into your brain forever. You would never, ever in a million years make that mistake again. Ever. Not her. Nope. She did exactly the same thing.
There may be as many pigs as Trump voters in that vast red middle of the country. You’d expect her to honor her kinship with at least one of those groups.
Regarding the states that flipped. When they were the blue wall, they were great. When flipped, it became 80-100k or so voters who magically turned the rest of their respective states into dirt balls who deserve mocking in India.
I happen to believe that Biden would have won had he run. I think deep down she does too. And she just can’t make peace with it.
I would love to know what that documentary that was.
We have some relatives in Norway who are extremely conservative, but they also seem to be getting their views of America from CNN.
She is the very definition of a fool. And she leads the Democrat Party – the Party of Fools.
Ans people wig out about Trump’s narcissistic personality disorder. The whole Democrat party is personality disordered.