The day free-market Republicans became Soviet economic planners

[onthedarkside]

 

Can you remember when Republicans still believed in the free market?

It was sometime before Donald Trump started routine attacks on the “globalists” of Goldman Sachs and the leaders of large U.S. corporations; before Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis used tax policy to attack the Walt Disney Co. because it dared to disagree with his “don’t say gay” legislation; before congressional Republicans harassed social media companies and book publishers over alleged “censorship” of their views; before they threatened Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and Major League Baseball over their support for voting rights; before they vowed to use federal resources to retaliate against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for backing a few Democrats; before Republican governors enacted laws overriding private employers’ coronavirus vaccination policies; and before GOP-led states moved to disrupt interstate commerce to block abortion access and morning-after pills.

 

This week brought the latest evidence that the former party of laissez-faire capitalism has reimagined itself in the image of a Soviet State Planning Committee. 

 

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/12/esg-house-republicans-james-comer-capitalism/

 

 

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[candide]

Rather than Soviet, I would consider a characterisation starting with F.

[Bkk Brian]

8 minutes ago, candide said:

Rather than Soviet, I would consider a characterisation starting with F.

Perhaps they can all immigrate and carry out their plans in Russia itself?  LOL

 

Plans are underway in Russia to build a settlement for conservative American and Canadian immigrants seeking to leave the West “for ideological reasons,” at least according to a Moscow-based immigration lawyer.

Timur Beslangurov, a partner in the law firm VISTA Immigration, claimed that construction would begin next year on a village in the Moscow region for about 200 families from North America, financed by the immigrants themselves.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgwdew/russia-maga-colony

[stevenl]

3 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Perhaps they can all immigrate and carry out their plans in Russia itself? LOL

 

Plans are underway in Russia to build a settlement for conservative American and Canadian immigrants seeking to leave the West “for ideological reasons,” at least according to a Moscow-based immigration lawyer.

Timur Beslangurov, a partner in the law firm VISTA Immigration, claimed that construction would begin next year on a village in the Moscow region for about 200 families from North America, financed by the immigrants themselves.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgwdew/russia-maga-colony

Wouldn't that be a violation of the boycott?

[Tug]

Trumpisum is indeed a malignant force on free trade free thinking creativity truth and democracy he’s absolutely ruined the Republican Party (with their help)yup it ain’t your father’s Republican Party anymore 

[Tug]

5 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Perhaps they can all immigrate and carry out their plans in Russia itself?  LOL

 

Plans are underway in Russia to build a settlement for conservative American and Canadian immigrants seeking to leave the West “for ideological reasons,” at least according to a Moscow-based immigration lawyer.

Timur Beslangurov, a partner in the law firm VISTA Immigration, claimed that construction would begin next year on a village in the Moscow region for about 200 families from North America, financed by the immigrants themselves.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgwdew/russia-maga-colony

Yeiks perhaps offer them free airfare as long as they can’t come back!sorry they don’t have an appropriate imoji for your post but hey thanks!!

[bendejo]

CPAC has taken to having their conferences in Hungary.  Orban is the dog, MAGA is the tail.  The USA is facing ideological defeat.

The remnants of the Soviet era have pulled together and it looks they are headed for triumph.

 

4 hours ago, Tug said:

Yeiks perhaps offer them free airfare as long as they can’t come back!sorry they don’t have an appropriate imoji for your post but hey thanks!!

Give them the third degree when they try to come back.

"What were doing in Hungary?" 

"What's that?  You were trying to undermine the gov't of the USA?  Perhaps it would have been better for all of us if you stayed there."

Haven't heard the patriotic trope love it or leave it in a long time. 

 

 

[Yankeesvsredsox]

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Edited May 14, 2023 by Yankeesvsredsox