This is also what a retard looks and sounds like. I'm all for civility and sitting down to debate issues, but that becomes impossible when one party to the debate is both retarded, un-American, and stands in complete opposition to everything this country stands for. I give you, Ro Khanna the economist ....

bigdeal, what's the point of sitting down and spending twelve and a half minutes being pissed off by a complete non-entity?

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
bigdeal, what's the point of sitting down and spending twelve and a half minutes being pissed off by a complete non-entity?

Just trying to understand the mindset of the enemy. And though you may think this nitwit is a non-entity, his beliefs are 100% in line with the majority of elected idiots in Washington. For Christ sake, Hawley and Romney are actively interacting with the Dem's on what the minimum wage floor should be instead of strictly opposing any such meddling by government.

And for the record, I was far more disgusted in the rampant stupidity of this moron than really pissed off by him. I must say though I LOL when Khanna mentioned that the rare failure of a private market to provide adequate competitive forces should be solved by...government intervention. I wish Ben had asked him to name just one thing the government hasn't totally screwed up by meddling in it (spoiler alert, there isn't one).

At least, I learned a new idea: that increasing the minimum wage is a corporate strategy to keep out new competitors as it disproportionately burdens smaller companies.

I just watched that clip, here in far-off UK and on my 75th birthday, just to see what it was all about.

I can now tell you that I am substantially less well-informed than I was half an hour ago.

I remain in awe that Ben didn't actually hit him over the head with something handy - like a chair or better yet, one of the set cameras.

For some reason, the words 'vacuous' and 'waste of oxygen' keep popping up in my mind. It was like watching somebody talking to fog.

Para, if this has in any way caused offence, I'm sure it won't be here next time I look.

Thats a large part of the strategy of the 'great reset" being touted by people like Bill Gates and Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff....pull up the ladder behind you and change the rules so that small competitors never rise to appreciable size to threaten existing companies, and can be easily crushed using selective enforcement of the new woke ruleset, thus cementing control in the hands of the government partner tech oligarchs.

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
At least, I learned a new idea: that increasing the minimum wage is a corporate strategy to keep out new competitors as it disproportionately burdens smaller companies.

I watched the clip and it merely confirms the current idiocy in California. And what has spread to the rest of the country. Not only did they vote for the guy, the voted for him three times.

The only positive that came out of this was the ability of two opposites to sit-down and discuss their points...albeit with a heavy dose of deflection.

Khanna was an AOC-type before getting his law degree and getting all the 'progressive-professional' boxes checked. Since then, he's basically a bought and paid-for Big Tech stooge.

Ben should have started reading “McElligot's Pool” to him and showed him the illustrations which would have triggered / ignited his spontaneous combustion.

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The only positive that came out of this was the ability of two opposites to sit-down and discuss their points...albeit with a heavy dose of deflection.

Not really. Real, productive, discussion requires both parties have open minds as to topic. Neither of the parties to that conversation are open to any real discussion or debate on that topic. The only value in that segment was to fully grasp how radical, moronic, and un-American Khanna and his corrupt party are.