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Having one company control so much of the nation's retail business is dangerous in my opinion.

I agree.

Especially since Bezos bought the Wash Post and has his own major media outlet.

Amazon's effect on our economy and whether it's good or bad deserves its own separate thread.

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Originally posted by yanici:
Even if what you say is true, there is talk of redoing the map and eliminating her district. That's an easy way for the NY pols to rid themselves of her.

Oh, hadn't thought about that. Well, she'll get one more term for sure. But her district could be eliminated as soon as the 2020 Census numbers are in, if she doesn't get moving on a big charm offensive with the state folks who are pissed at her now.

As for Amazon, I buy enough stuff there to make Prime membership worth it. But I really don't know how buying that stuff from brick and mortar stores would help anyone. My last purchase was a jug of Motul oil for my bike. You can't buy that stuff in anything but specialty shops, which would require a lot of driving for me to find and cost more money I had to work to earn. AC filters? What mom and pop store sells those, other than maybe the local Ace Hardware store? I buy in bulk once or twice a year. Water filters for my main line, sink and shower? Definitely not available in any brick and mortar store. AFAIK, the only truly mom and pop businesses I go to are restaurants and sometimes music and gun stores. Everything else is big box or chains because that's all that's really around within reasonable driving distance.

Sarcasm, from the Babylon Bee. or is it from the New York Times...?

Ocasio-Cortez Declares Victory Over The Modern-Day Equivalent Of Slavery: Jobs

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is busy celebrating her victory over the tyrannical Jeff Bezos and the horrible burden his company Amazon had planned to inflict on the people of New York City: 25,000 jobs.

“I thought it was a good thing that Amazon was coming to New York and wanted to give us money,” Ocasio-Cortez told the press. “But then I found out they were going to extort people and only give them the money if they worked for it. Forcing people to work if they want to get paid -- how is that any different from slavery?”

A number of people tried to explain to her how that was different from slavery, but she just stared at them with incomprehension. “No one needs to work,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “We just need to tax the rich enough and we’ll have enough money for everyone, and no one will need one of those awful jobs that are just as bad as slavery and almost as bad as transphobia. We could also maybe print some money. I have a printer at home.”

Not everyone was as happy about the loss of 25,000 new jobs. “You fool! What have you done?!” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo shouted at Ocasio-Cortez as he ran into her press conference.

“I made us 3 billion dollars!” Ocasio-Cortez explained. “We were going to give Amazon 3 billion dollars in tax breaks, but now we have that money for other things since I chased them away.”

“That’s not how it works!” Cuomo yelled, now openly weeping.

“No, I’m very good with numbers,” Ocasio-Cortez said. She held up a notebook with a few hastily scrawled numbers on it. She pointed to one. “This one is a four.”

Ocasio-Cortez has vowed to chase out even more companies from her district, freeing her constituents from burdensome work and gaining the treasury more money in tax breaks it doesn’t have to pay. Cuomo has vowed to curl into a ball and cry.

https://babylonbee.com/news/oc...tiNuxdtuxON3NnxtIA5s

Is AOC an 'Outlier'?

LIMBAUGH: AOC Is No Outlier

By David Limbaugh

The main problem in American politics is not the obvious polarization but the underlying reasons for it. Partisanship, angst and divisiveness are all preferable to surrendering the culture and fundamentally transforming the republic.


The Democratic Party has deceived much of the public into believing that its positions aren't extreme, but the truth is coming out now for all to see. Such veritable crackpots as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are not merely fringe fruitcakes; they are just bringing the party out of the closet.

It's as if half this decadeslong leftist conspiracy to turn America into a socialist hellhole has finally been exposed by the unwitting soldiers of the revolution, who have understood everything about it but were told to keep their mouths shut about their ultimate goals.

The party's ostensible centrists are panicking, realizing that unless they can successfully cast AOC et al. as outliers, the party faces an electoral bloodbath in 2020. But there are few remaining Democratic centrists.

How many national Democratic officeholders are pro-life? How many really believe in enforcing the country's borders? How many reject the rampant practice of identity politics and the racialization of virtually every issue? How many object to the coarsening of the culture? How many defend religious liberty for Christians? How many champion the free market? How many oppose lawless judicial activism? How many support equal opportunity rather than equal outcomes?

There will be an interesting tug of war in the Democratic Party over the next few years as its pragmatic elements attempt to muzzle AOC before the reality of the party's extremism is irreversibly planted in the minds of American voters.

Can you imagine the hysteria in the smokeless-filled rooms of the Democratic National Committee, with half the party's bosses desperately conspiring to shut AOC up and the other half warning against anything too overt, knowing that the party's rabid base is every bit as radical as AOC and company?

I am cautiously encouraged by the left's premature self-exposure, because President Trump will handily win re-election if Democrats continue this pattern of defiance. No matter how much they demonize Trump, they'll fail in direct proportion to their openness about their radical agenda.


But my optimism is tempered by the Democrats' survival instinct and warrior spirit. They still have time to stanch the bleeding and stage a transfusion by quickly calling an audible, awkwardly persuading AOC to get back in the closet, pretending to moderate themselves and somehow, in the midst of all this contradictory confusion, mollifying their base and principal benefactors.

The most gratifying development to date is that for once, Republicans are positioned to capitalize on the Democrats' potentially fatal confessional. Indeed, President Trump jumped right on this in his State of the Union speech in starkly contrasting the parties' respective visions for America.

By presenting the Republican Party as bullish on America — the party of optimism, growth, life, opportunity, the rule of law, robust liberty, national sovereignty and peace through strength — and showcasing the Democratic Party as the party of death, malaise, identity politics, lawlessness and open borders, Trump has thrown down the gauntlet and set the stage for the 2020 campaign, which is now fully underway. Contrary to the prevailing narrative, Trump is anything but a policy extremist.

Trump is ideally suited to lead the GOP (and the nation) at this pivotal moment because he is nothing if not a warrior, and we stand to lose this country for generations — and possibly for good — if we don't take this fight to our opposition and engage in it with intensity that is equal to or greater than that of the indefatigable Democrats.

Let the usual leftist suspects and their media comrades lecture us about partisanship and divisiveness, but they are the ones assaulting the principles, traditions and constitutional framework that have made this nation great, and it would be an immoral abandonment of the nation and everything we believe in to surrender just to stave off this bogus criticism and win the accolades of the left.


Some people don't have a taste for the fight and believe that lukewarm overtures across the aisle could result in glorious harmony — as if pretending to get along were better than saving the nation for our children. How many times will we have to be short-sheeted by Democrats before we realize there is no compromising with them? Don't the recent border negotiations show which party demands concessions, gives none and paints the other as the partisan wretch? The vaunted history of bipartisan compromise has consistently resulted in the Democrats marching the football further down the field toward the socialist goal post. Our failure to fight back has resulted in the urgency that now confronts us.

Sure, we must fight fairly, but that includes exposing the left's real agenda and its disastrous consequences for America and every day highlighting the dramatic differences in the parties' visions and emphasizing, in no uncertain terms, that only one of those visions is compatible with the survival of the republic as founded.

https://www.dailywire.com/news...tlier-david-limbaugh

Of Course they don't want job creation......

More people unemployed, more people on the government tit. More people on the government tit, the more government controls them. The more government controls, the more ultimate power they have over a controlled populace. .

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Originally posted by chellim1:
Sure, we must fight fairly...

Says who? We must beat this filth, so its high time to take off the gloves and start street fighting (if necessary).

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Originally posted by feersum dreadnaught:
Sarcasm, from the Babylon Bee. or is it from the New York Times...?

Ocasio-Cortez Declares Victory Over The Modern-Day Equivalent Of Slavery: Jobs

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is busy celebrating her victory over the tyrannical Jeff Bezos and the horrible burden his company Amazon had planned to inflict on the people of New York City: 25,000 jobs.

“I thought it was a good thing that Amazon was coming to New York and wanted to give us money,” Ocasio-Cortez told the press. “But then I found out they were going to extort people and only give them the money if they worked for it. Forcing people to work if they want to get paid -- how is that any different from slavery?”

A number of people tried to explain to her how that was different from slavery, but she just stared at them with incomprehension. “No one needs to work,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “We just need to tax the rich enough and we’ll have enough money for everyone, and no one will need one of those awful jobs that are just as bad as slavery and almost as bad as transphobia. We could also maybe print some money. I have a printer at home.”

Not everyone was as happy about the loss of 25,000 new jobs. “You fool! What have you done?!” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo shouted at Ocasio-Cortez as he ran into her press conference.

“I made us 3 billion dollars!” Ocasio-Cortez explained. “We were going to give Amazon 3 billion dollars in tax breaks, but now we have that money for other things since I chased them away.”

“That’s not how it works!” Cuomo yelled, now openly weeping.

“No, I’m very good with numbers,” Ocasio-Cortez said. She held up a notebook with a few hastily scrawled numbers on it. She pointed to one. “This one is a four.”

Ocasio-Cortez has vowed to chase out even more companies from her district, freeing her constituents from burdensome work and gaining the treasury more money in tax breaks it doesn’t have to pay. Cuomo has vowed to curl into a ball and cry.

https://babylonbee.com/news/oc...tiNuxdtuxON3NnxtIA5s

I know it's satire, but it comes close to truth.

flashguy

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Originally posted by radioman:
Of Course they don't want job creation......

More people unemployed, more people on the government tit. More people on the government tit, the more government controls them. The more government controls, the more ultimate power they have over a controlled populace. .

Hence why people fully supported by said gubment tit should NOT be allowed to vote.

This YouTube video pretty much sums up the whole "what kinda people do we see supporting the socialist/communist mindset of AOC" ...rocket sturgeons each and every one...my favorite comment was "fully automated luxury communism, where robots do all the work and we get all the profit"...idiots!




Link to original video: https://youtu.be/mwSovxQJQqE

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Bisleyblackhawk,

^^^^^^

I love Kat Timpf!

"...fully automated luxury communism" OK, being totally honest; that is the first thing a damn dirty commie hippie has said that actually sounds bad-ass!


I'm going to buy a tropical island, invite some cute hippie babes to it and implement some F.A.L.C.!

To be honest, I think that FALC is more likely to boil down to getting to borrow the communally-owned fleshlight for a quick trip out behind the dumpsters.

MAGA: Make Alexandria Go Away.

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Originally posted by Bisleyblackhawk:
This YouTube video pretty much sums up the whole "what kinda people do we see supporting the socialist/communist mindset of AOC" ...rocket sturgeons each and every one...my favorite comment was "fully automated luxury communism, where robots do all the work and we get all the profit"...idiots!
...

Link to original video: https://youtu.be/mwSovxQJQqE

I'll be in my bunk cleaning my rifle...

In the video BisleyBlackhawk posted, the homo commie being interviewed is wearing a $200 Marmot Jacket, no wonder he wants a $30 minimum wage.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:

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So you don't believe in capitalism? Or market economies?

I believe in both of those things. That doesn't mean that they are always good for us. Sometimes capitalism and market economies hurt us.

Pray tell, what economic system works better?

AMZ doesn’t force you to buy jack shit. You can exercise your freedom of choice and consumer dollar and support another vendor... that’s a free market at work and capitalism for you. So what system works better More/All of the time?

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
In the video BisleyBlackhawk posted, the homo commie being interviewed is wearing a $200 Marmot Jacket, no wonder he wants a $30 minimum wage.

Those people are mentally ill. Every single one of the people she interviewed. Not a one of them understands how an economy works.

The only species that make socialism work are insects like ants, wasps, bees, termites, etc. Creatures that are born into servitude, work incessantly throughout their existence, then die. No pleasure, no vacations, no weed to smoke, no parents basements to hang out in. You don't get to be an artist, pursue your interests, or think for yourself for that matter.

Birth-nonstop laboring-death.

Guess what many "social insect" societies engage in? Rapacious stripping of their environment, war, taking of slaves (ants), etc. Species first behavior, and screw everything else.

Socialists. Mentally ill. The lot of them. Go talk to the people living in socialist regimes and see how they like it.