Lukey
Senator
http://www.jpost.com/International/...stone-transgender-women-in-German-city-441695
When leftist constituencies clash...
When leftist constituencies clash...
This one's gonna explode some progressive heads...
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Bugsy McGurk
President
That makes progressives' heads explode?
Do they tell you in GOP la-la land that progressives favor such things?
Lukey
Senator
It's your job to propagandize that incidents such as this are make believe. Nothing to see here folks, move along...
This is what I don't get. This insistence that any event in the world be tied back to "progressives"...or commies...or Marxists. It's as if a massive swath of conservatives and capitalists are simply so very competent that not one problem in the world is due to "capitalists"...
Constitutional Sheepdog
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Liberal ideology is a contradiction within itself.
Defend Moslems when Moslems want to stone gays transgenders and treat women worse than slaves God forbid that a woman is raped.
Bugsy McGurk
President
This is what I don't get. This insistence that any event in the world be tied back to "progressives"...or commies...or Marxists. It's as if a massive swath of conservatives and capitalists are simply so very competent that not one problem in the world is due to "capitalists"...
The irrational hate just oozes out of their pores.
62 in a few weeks...means I've seen assassinations, riots, wars...and the nation survived.
I learned about a time when the nation was severed due to ideological concerns, but the nation survived.
Today...it seems that some folks are afraid the nation will not survive...because of an event in Germany.
Bugsy McGurk
President
They giddily search the world news, especially within their right wing echo chamber sites, hoping they can find bad news, completely ignoring all good news, and then trying to figure out some way to blame all bad news on Obama and "the progressives."
They truly live a wretched, unpatriotic existence.
In addition, they ignore any news that reflects poorly on their characters, or shows that the person they support is likely lying to them.
Current example: New York Values...
....That was rich considering how much he and his wife Heidi -- a Goldman Sachs investment manager for several years -- love that New York money, and thus support the very values to which he's pointing. Not only are some of his biggest campaign contributors Wall Street financiers, like the hedge fund operator Robert Mercer, who backed Cruz with $11 million (and who lives on Long Island) but as the New York Times reported yesterday, Cruz and his wife took an undisclosed loan from her employer, Goldman Sachs, to fund his first Senate campaign, in addition to one from New York-based Citibank.
But it gets richer: Just a few months before Cruz took that Goldman Sachs money, Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and CEO of the New York-headquartered investment banking firm, had been given an award by the Human Rights Campaign, because Blankfein and his firm had become leaders on marriage equality. Goldman Sachs wasn't just another "pro-gay" company -- it was one that had been a driving force on influential Wall Street for LGBT equality. Goldman had long provided full benefits for domestic partners, and since 2002 had even paid for gender confirmation surgery for transgender employees. Blankfein used all of his clout to pressure the New York legislature in 2011 to pass a marriage equality bill, which it did with four critical Republican votes. He signed a letter urging legislators to vote "yes" and urged other chief executives to put the pressure on as well.
Ted Cruz claimed his failure to disclose the loan to the Federal Election Commission was a "paperwork" mistake, but it's obvious that disclosing that he took a loan against his assets rather than actually liquidating those assets -- as he and his wife claimed -- would have messed with the narrative that he and his wife sacrificed all that they had. Their money actually made more money for them, staying invested during the time the loan had been drawn.
As commentators have discussed, disclosing the loan also would have sent the wrong message to the tea party at the time when Cruz was running as a tea party darling. Banks were being bailed out, angering tea party activists, and Goldman had been at the forefront of the firms whose reckless actions led to the mortgage crisis...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/ted-cruz-new-york-values_b_8991552.html
Bugsy McGurk
President
In addition, they ignore any news that reflects poorly on their characters, or shows that the person they support is likely lying to them.
Current example: New York Values...
....That was rich considering how much he and his wife Heidi -- a Goldman Sachs investment manager for several years -- love that New York money, and thus support the very values to which he's pointing. Not only are some of his biggest campaign contributors Wall Street financiers, like the hedge fund operator Robert Mercer, who backed Cruz with $11 million (and who lives on Long Island) but as the New York Times reported yesterday, Cruz and his wife took an undisclosed loan from her employer, Goldman Sachs, to fund his first Senate campaign, in addition to one from New York-based Citibank.
But it gets richer: Just a few months before Cruz took that Goldman Sachs money, Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and CEO of the New York-headquartered investment banking firm, had been given an award by the Human Rights Campaign, because Blankfein and his firm had become leaders on marriage equality. Goldman Sachs wasn't just another "pro-gay" company -- it was one that had been a driving force on influential Wall Street for LGBT equality. Goldman had long provided full benefits for domestic partners, and since 2002 had even paid for gender confirmation surgery for transgender employees. Blankfein used all of his clout to pressure the New York legislature in 2011 to pass a marriage equality bill, which it did with four critical Republican votes. He signed a letter urging legislators to vote "yes" and urged other chief executives to put the pressure on as well.
Ted Cruz claimed his failure to disclose the loan to the Federal Election Commission was a "paperwork" mistake, but it's obvious that disclosing that he took a loan against his assets rather than actually liquidating those assets -- as he and his wife claimed -- would have messed with the narrative that he and his wife sacrificed all that they had. Their money actually made more money for them, staying invested during the time the loan had been drawn.
As commentators have discussed, disclosing the loan also would have sent the wrong message to the tea party at the time when Cruz was running as a tea party darling. Banks were being bailed out, angering tea party activists, and Goldman had been at the forefront of the firms whose reckless actions led to the mortgage crisis...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/ted-cruz-new-york-values_b_8991552.html
Looks like Cruz is toast. Everybody hates him. Trump threw a couple of slimeballs at him and that's all it took. The GOP rabble is hopping off the Cruz bandwagon.
The infighting is glorious.
Bugsy McGurk
President
Lukey
Senator
This is what I don't get. This insistence that any event in the world be tied back to "progressives"...or commies...or Marxists. It's as if a massive swath of conservatives and capitalists are simply so very competent that not one problem in the world is due to "capitalists"...
When capitalism "fails" it is never because markets are too free and transparent.
No, capitalism is perfect.
Lukey
Senator
Capitalism is merely the least worst economic system. The more free and open trade and markets are, the better it works.
Uh huh...And when was this free and open trade market that worked so well that you're basing this belief upon?
Bugsy McGurk
President
My other thread notes that 20 Americans now hold more wealth than the 152 million poorest Americans.
Are you ready to admit that the wealth gap is a huge problem?
Lukey
Senator
The same place where Marxism actually results in everyone being perfectly equal....
by gawd Germany is wondering if it can survive progs refugees and ya boy Θ is bringing 100's of 1000's of those same refugees to America........gays not going to enjoy them as much as you think........they will be stoning them here..................'what difference does it make' right?
Lukey
Senator
Of course it's a problem. The question, however is this:
What is the bigger problem, that 20 Americans now hold more wealth than the 152 million poorest Americans, or that the US economy isn't creating enough professional level jobs:
While you are obsessing over your crypto-Marxist class warfarism, the path to economic success for the working class has been blocked by Obama's anti-capitalism, which you support by playing these kinds of wealth bashing word games.
