By adamg on Thu., 10/13/2016 - 9:40 pm

Aaron Agulneck got close up to two of the three yutzes holding signs outside the Federal Reserve Bank this afternoon.
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Reagan was a weak, corrupt man
By Sock_Puppet
Sun, 10/16/2016 - 9:09am
-Reagan's administration supplied weapons to America's enemies, supplying Iraq with chemical weapons, which were used against civilian populations, at the same time he was illegally selling arms to Iran. These atrocities were a major factor in later trouble in the region.
-Reagan caved repeatedly to the demands of terrorists, encouraging the enemies of America. He provided weapons to Iran in exchange for hostages, did nothing when the Marine barracks were bombed in Beirut besides run away, and did nothing when an Iraqi fighter jet fired upon the USS Stark.
-Reagan's administration funded terrorism in Afghanistan, destroying a country in process of modernization and leading directly to the creation of Al Qaeda. Osama Bin Laden was on Reagan's payroll.
-The Reagan administration was the most corrupt in US history. 138 Reagan administration officials were investigated, indicted, or convicted of crimes, including his Secretary of the Interior, Attorney General, Secretary of Defense, and Assistant Secretary of State.
-Reagan tripled the national debt in eight years. Fiscally, his was an administration of colossal failure.
-Reagan's incompetence in economic management drove unemployment above 10%
-Reagan's financial deregulation lead to the failure of 747 different financial institutions
-Reagan's administration threw hundreds of thousands of mental patients out of hospitals and onto the street
-Reagans lack of any moral core led him to support Apartheid in South Africa long after it was on the decline and to keep denying funding for AIDS research long after it was clear there was an epidemic underway
-Reagan's administration financed its illegal overthrow of a democratically elected government in Nicaragua through smuggling cocaine into the United States, leading directly to the crack epidemic. Guns went down, and coke came back, in the same planes.
-Reagan was responsible for more than 50,000 murders by the Contras in Nicaragua. He claimed these Contras were the "moral equivalents of our founding fathers," but they raped and murdered nuns.
Reagan deserved to die in jail. He was a weak, corrupt, evil man, and if there is a hell, he is there.
What is
By bulgingbuick
Fri, 10/14/2016 - 11:45am
Johnson?
I, I, I...
By lbb
Fri, 10/14/2016 - 2:26pm
I just don't feel comfortable explaining that to someone whose nick is bulgingbuick.
I heard that guy Al Leppo
By bulgingbuick
Fri, 10/14/2016 - 2:33pm
had a Johnson problem. Tremendous.
Yooge problem
By ElizaLeila
Fri, 10/14/2016 - 2:59pm
Yooge.
Ok, how about...
By lbb
Fri, 10/14/2016 - 11:09am
You don't like "Drumpf", the name of his immigrant ancestors? OK. How about Bumph? Look it up.
I'll call him Drumpf
By Roman
Fri, 10/14/2016 - 8:38pm
if you start referring to the current president exclusively as "Barry" or by his full name, Barack HUSSEIN Obama, with that exact orthography.
Today Trump becomes Drumpf. Tomorrow Jon Stewart becomes (((Jon Stewart))). This shit is playing with fire. It really is.
Ok Romie, we have a deal
By anon
Fri, 10/14/2016 - 9:57pm
Start calling him Drumpf as you promised.
I have no problem calling Obama "Barry". Apparently he called himself Barry at one point in his life. I also have no problem calling him Barack Hussein Obama. I'll even capitalize it as you did. "HUSSEIN". I know the name "Hussein" makes you cower in fear, but it doesn't scare me. It's his name. According to the internet, Hussein is an Arabic word that means good or handsome. I think President Obama is both good and handsome.
I look forward to all your future posts about Drumpf, not Trump.
HUSSEIN!
By anon
Fri, 10/14/2016 - 10:30pm
HUSSEIN IN BIG SCARY CAPITAL LETTERS! (Scary only if you are an Islamaphobe). Shame on you Roman for thinking you are going to scare anyone by using Obama's middle name.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 10/15/2016 - 12:39pm
Remixed: Insane Anglo Warlord
IT MUST BE TRUE!
ugh this is revolting, all of it
By Scumquistador
Sat, 10/15/2016 - 8:44pm
we had a president named after tom hanks friend in castaway? NO THANK U
Only "References" and "Recommended Videos" in their flyer
By busterbrown
Fri, 10/14/2016 - 7:24am
I got one of their flyers. It's just a tri-folded 2-sided letter, but they paid the copy house for the folding.... The flyer moves from an intro to the Fed Reserve to blaming Jews for everything bad in the world (seriously). They don't name themselves or send anyone to a single website (so probably not Larouche, I think), instead they list References and Recommended Videos.
The approach reminds a bit of "creation science", a completely different topic but one where the advocates insist on referencing facts and research (typically their own bunk).
"they list References and Recommended Videos"
By anon
Fri, 10/14/2016 - 9:06am
Care to share any of them with Uhub nation?
bad scan.... "they list References and Recommended Videos"
By busterbrown
Fri, 10/14/2016 - 1:10pm
This scan is marginally good enough to read the URLs. Couldn't find an anon freebie pdf host and didn't want to include actual links....
https://postimg.org/image/f4a1rys4x/
Speaking as a Jew
By BostonDog
Thu, 10/13/2016 - 11:03pm
I'd like to know where can go to claim my economic weath and powers of social control. I've been told i have these things yet my bank account is thin and I can't even control telemarketers from calling me, let alone the media or governments.
Anyway, if these people would be so kind as to let know where i can go to prove I'm Jewish so I could collect my riches and power, I'd be much obliged.
Well, that's what you get
By adamg
Thu, 10/13/2016 - 11:10pm
For always missing the meetings. I'll secret mail you the next time and place.
I knew it.
By MattyC
Thu, 10/13/2016 - 11:22pm
I knew it.
Come on...not even trying
By Roman
Thu, 10/13/2016 - 11:26pm
That's what you get for not wearing your horns. Them things pick up the signals, you know.
Grounding
By blues_lead
Thu, 10/13/2016 - 11:58pm
You also need your bag of gold around your neck to ground the signal, otherwise it just comes in fuzzy.
Horns?
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 10/14/2016 - 11:36pm
Shofar, shogood!
Now this is a first
By Roman
Fri, 10/14/2016 - 11:58pm
A winning comment from Swirly on a Friday night. Kudos.
Ya I know
By cybah
Fri, 10/14/2016 - 1:48am
Similar to your issue, I'm waiting for my copy of the "Gay Agenda" to arrive in the mail. But it's been ~24 years now since I came out soooooo I think it got lost in the mail.
Psssh, that's nothing
By lbb
Fri, 10/14/2016 - 11:12am
You may have the riches and power, but we gay folk have the agenda. You know, the one to destroy America's morals?
One on the left
By Ralph Boston
Thu, 10/13/2016 - 11:09pm
disguised as a panhandler's sign.
I mean, really
By Neal
Fri, 10/14/2016 - 8:28am
They really need to get better at making signs. I mean, who has the time to stop and read all that nonsense? At the very least, it should be a very short message that grabs the passer by and can be read in the blink of an eye.
The bad sign is a "good sign"
By Gary C
Fri, 10/14/2016 - 12:07pm
Totally agree with you Neal. Obviously the fact that they can't get a decent marketing person to help them tells you that they are so nuts that no one will work with them to craft a coherent message.
Better signs, you say?
By Bob Leponge
Sat, 10/15/2016 - 12:18am
I would imagine Doug B is looking for work these days. He paints a fine sign.
Federal Reserve
By anon
Fri, 10/14/2016 - 1:47am
There are legitimate concerns about the central banks, but way too late. I think the US economy might now be dependent on this situation, so I'm not going to call for it to be abolished.
If these demonstrators actually wanted to criticize central banks, they should've left off the anti-Jewish message. That instantly discredits the demonstrators in many or most people's minds. And discredits their central bank message.
Where did they get the Halloween outfits? The one guy is going as a Mormon missionary? The Russian costume is half-hearted.
I disagree and agree
By Arthur
Fri, 10/14/2016 - 8:33am
I totally disagree with this insane idea that the Jews are somehow controlling us for some world domination purposes, but I do agree that the Federal Reserve is a private corporation that is enslaving Americans with debt and there are evil people of all nationalities allowing it to happen.
So teach the controversy?
By TommyJeff
Fri, 10/14/2016 - 8:58am
Step away from the tin foil, Art.
Not how I see it
By Gary C
Fri, 10/14/2016 - 11:05am
It's strange, but everyone I know who has too much debt (aside from student loans) simply buys more crap than they can afford. And that's the Fed's problem how?
What in the world are you talking about?
By anon
Fri, 10/14/2016 - 11:45am
Republican tax cuts for the rich, bringing us to the lowest tax rates in the post WW2 era are the number cause of national debt. The Fed has nothing to do with it.
From basement -
By bulgingbuick
Fri, 10/14/2016 - 11:49am
Mom have you seen my poster board?
Mom - Dad used it last week for his Hillary for Prison poster.
Continued from above.
By MC Slim JB
Sun, 10/16/2016 - 2:30am
Some of the anger that Trump has tapped into is legitimate. Plenty of voters are deservedly angry at how globalization has left them behind -- I have many relatives who fall into this category -- how all the manufacturing jobs went away. There's an argument to be made that tighter border controls are a good idea, but most of the jobs that immigrants are taking are ones that Americans don't want to do or can't: ask a restaurateur how many native-born Americans show up the next day after a washing dishes on a busy Friday night. The real goal there is inciting xenophobia and bigotry, a tried-and-true right-wing trope.
I don't know how you get the toothpaste that is the exodus of low-skilled jobs back into the tube. But Trump's 18th-century mercantilism is an absurd answer: the damage of trade barriers to the American economy would dwarf the value of bringing back a few low-skilled jobs. The difficult answer is that we have to transform our education system to something more like Germany's, where there's a track to train kids for the kind of highly-skilled manufacturing jobs that are harder to outsource. Neither candidate is truly addressing that problem, but Trump's proposed fixes are hopelessly naive and backward.
Add to that his tax plan, trickle-down on steroids. By any educated analysis, it's a recipe for gigantically ballooning the debt and shoving us into recession.
I'm a hardcore liberal, so even if I believed that Hillary were the base criminal that 20 years of right-wing smearing have tried to make her out to be, I'd still vote for her on the Supreme Court nominations she would make. I expect her to face the same kind of obstructionism from Congress that stymied Obama's agenda, but the legacy of those choices will far outlive her administration. Imagine Citizen's United being overturned, crimping the ability of the Kochs, Wall Street, the pharmaceutical industry and the NRA to buy local, state, national candidates. Do you really want to see religious-extremist prejudices against gay rights enshrined into law? How do you feel about the ongoing rollback of voting rights?
So I don't agree with your 75/75 take on who's right here. I expect Trump to get drubbed, but the legacy of Trumpism is going to be with us for a long time. My fear is of the next right-wing candidate in 2020 or 2024, someone who will wrap Trump's cuckoo economic policies, hostility to government institutions that protect the poor and the middle class, aggressive disdain of a free press, suicidal global-warming denial, and hateful white nationalism in a much more palatable package. When that guy gets elected, we will all be well and truly fucked.
Stop squeezing the toothpaste, for one
By Roman
Sun, 10/16/2016 - 2:36am
Signing free trade deals with places that have crazy low prevailing wages while simultaneously raising the legal wage floor here is not a recipe for success no matter how it's sliced. That much is not old time mercantilism.
Bringing in more folks from places without as strong of a sense of rule of law as we have here to open up a black market of off-the-books labor isn't a recipe for success either. And it's more than a little disingenuous to say that Americans won't do that work while keeping the stream of cheap labor flowing. Cut off the source and wages will rise by themselves to the point where Americans will do the work, or else get jobs making and maintaining robots to do that work. I'm simplifying only slightly, but last I checked, supply and demand still worked the way I think they do.
You're not required to agree with my split. You're only required to acknowledge that the leadership of those government institutions you liberals revere so much has had less than stellar results and has produced some abject failures. For some fundamental reasons. That Trump happens to have identified correctly, if crudely, and Hillary is in official denial about.
It is no longer possible to reverse the tide of globalization.
By MC Slim JB
Sun, 10/16/2016 - 12:41pm
You could build 18th-century trade barriers to prevent American-based multi-nationals from outsourcing those jobs, only to see their flight to countries without such restrictions. We spent the last 40 years building the global infrastructure that makes the movement of unskilled labor to the lowest-cost location possible. That cannot be undone. The only solution at this point is to cultivate an economy that includes highly-skilled manufacturing jobs.
Tech-driven automation has eliminated an order of magnitude more jobs than outsourcing, and that trend will only get worse. Imagine several million truck and taxi and limo drivers getting replaced by self-driving vehicles: that's ten years away at most. That's a tough nut to crack, but in the face of that reality, throwing up trade barriers is like trying to piss up a rope.
Republicans like to rail against the damage of immigrant labor while conveniently exploiting it for their own profit, Exhibit A being Trump himself, also an outsourcer of manufacturing jobs. Democrats, despite their cozy ties with Wall Street and big business, somehow seem to fight occasionally for things that help middle-class and poor people, like expanded healthcare and a living wage. I grew up poor but am now a comfortable two-percenter; my status there owes a lot to Democratic programs like work-study jobs and cheap loans to help afford a good education, the mortgage-interest deduction, and the like. I'm not one of those I-got-mine, up-yours types. I still trust the left to do a better job at reversing the hollowing-out of the middle class than the right, and despite being a privileged straight white man, I'm firmly in their camp on social issues.
(Ugh, I just noticed the Johnson is a climate-change idiot, wants to build more coal-fired plants and basically do nothing to reduce carbon levels. Another deal-breaker.)
Quack again
By Roman
Sun, 10/16/2016 - 1:39pm
If you want to sell to a rich country from a poor country, you have to cross the trade barrier between if it exists. If it costs more to do that than manufacture in your market...
What gets lost in the usual dismissive talk about trade wars and protectionism is that free trade is a wonderful builder of overall wealth for all participants [i]only when they're at roughly the same level to start with[/i]. Free trade with Western Europe is a no-brainer. Free trade with Canada, Japan, Australia, is a no-brainer. Free trade with places where there are no labor laws and the prevailing wage is pennies on the dollar to here is nonsense. You're right that that's the road we've gone on. You're wrong in that we can't do anything about it.
Automation is one of these things that gets overblown. When self-driving cars come, they will be a niche market for some very fundamental reasons. It'll be an even smaller niche in the delivery and goods transportation industry for even more of those same reasons which all boil down to the fact that a truck driver doesn't just drive a truck. So it'll be a nice slow transition like these things usually are.
See you and I have a fundamental philosophical difference about the purpose of government programs. You seem to view it as a buttress against the forces of the cruel harsh world that no one alone can face. I view it as temporary support for people who for one reason or other can't stand on their own for the time being.
That's why you can tell me with a straight face that things like the mortgage interest deduction (wherein renters in cities subsidize buyers in suburbs through their taxes) is a good social program to support the middle class. Whereas I will tell you with a straight face that if the deduction goes away, property values and/or interest rates will drop to make up the difference because the number of buyers and sellers will stay the same, to first order at least.
Ugh. You're an alarmist, aren't you? Well...you can pry my winter thermostat setting of 76F from my cold--err warm!--dead hands!
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