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Trump is right, Newsweek. Socialism doesn't work
Fox News.com ^ | September 24, 2017 | Larry Alex Taunton

Posted on 09/24/2017 1:06:56 PM PDT by Kaslin

On Tuesday, President Trump addressed the United Nations and, shocking to no one savelLeft-of-center news agencies, he expressed his strong belief in his own economic policies; in America—its people, way of life, and the Constitution which governs it; and in business enterprise as a path to freedom and prosperity. Trump’s speech, optimistic and pro-American as it was, falls in the mainstream of American presidential tradition. Indeed, it is the stuff of a Truman or a Reagan.

But you’d never know it from how it was reported.

The Guardian called it “a blunt, fearful rant.”

That is a more apt description for The Guardian itself. (Trust me, I know. I’ve been trashed by them no less than twice for a claim I never made and they never bothered to verify.)

Salon said Trump “careened wildly from some warped form of principled realism to threats of mass annihilation and back again.”

Perhaps Salon, careening wildly from one Trump attack-piece to another, is unaware of the fact that America has been threatened with “mass annihilation” by a declared enemy with an increasing capability to do it. Someone should tell them.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: drivebymedia; newsweak; socialism; trumpsocialism; venezuela

1 posted on 09/24/2017 1:06:56 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Socialism is just National Communism.


2 posted on 09/24/2017 1:09:50 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Kaslin
Perhaps Salon, careening wildly from one Trump attack-piece to another, is unaware of the fact that America has been threatened with “mass annihilation” by a declared enemy with an increasing capability to do it.

And not only that, but that enemy received both technology and funding with which to develop its very powerful weapons of mass destruction from the husband of a recent presidential candidate. Perhaps Salon, with its wild careening around, wants to divert attention from the numerous violations of national security committed by that candidate and her husband ever since they entered the national scene.

3 posted on 09/24/2017 1:12:34 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Kaslin

Socialism does work.

The whole goal of Socialism is to destroy the middle class.

Socialism does this very well.

The irony is that the most ardent Socialists ARE middle class.


4 posted on 09/24/2017 1:12:40 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: Kaslin
Socialism doesn't work???? Good God...look at North Korea...look at Venezuela....paradise on earth!
5 posted on 09/24/2017 1:13:40 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: Kaslin

The more I read about Harry, the more I like him. He’d never get nominated by his party today.


6 posted on 09/24/2017 1:16:19 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Damn, the tag line disappeared again? Coursors!)
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To: Tzimisce
The irony is that the most ardent Socialists ARE middle class.

If you think about it *this* country's socialists are Trust Fund Class.

There's a difference.

7 posted on 09/24/2017 1:16:28 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: Kaslin

The media is riddled with True Believers in socialism/communism.

President Trump’s blunt description of the utter failure of Socialism/Communism was a slap in the face to them so, of course, they try to cover their embarrassment with nonsensical ‘reporting’ based on the false premise that Trump was not sophisticated enough to appreciate statism.

Just like Socialism/Communism, they failed.


8 posted on 09/24/2017 1:20:50 PM PDT by Jim Scott
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To: Paladin2

It’s been said socialism is communism without the guns.


9 posted on 09/24/2017 1:33:02 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: Gay State Conservative
And Cuba. Don't forget Cuba! Cuba is a model of the socialist Utopia the others aspire to be. It's true. Michael Moore said so.
10 posted on 09/24/2017 1:34:26 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: Kaslin

Socialism works great if you
are in the ruling class.


11 posted on 09/24/2017 1:38:51 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Tzimisce

Well our middle class is destroyed.


12 posted on 09/24/2017 1:49:24 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: jmacusa
Cuba? No,not really...not now at least.Since all those photos of the houses literally falling apart,the photos of the streets lined with '57 Chevys and the revelation that Castro went to Spain for surgery the "progressives" have reluctantantly acknowledged that Cuba's a basket case.

Of course that acknowledgment only came *very* recently and *very* reluctantly.

13 posted on 09/24/2017 1:58:27 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I should have put up the sarcasm tag. :-)


14 posted on 09/24/2017 2:12:07 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: Kaslin

Socialism is just Communism without a cool flag


15 posted on 09/24/2017 2:13:21 PM PDT by frogjerk (We are conservatives. Not libertarians, not "fiscal conservatives", not moderates)
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To: Kaslin
As for the myth that Iceland and Scandinavia are socialist utopias, it is interesting to note that these countries rank highest in the use of antidepressants

Depression relates pretty well with lack of vitamin D i.e. sunshine. Those countries don't get much of that. What they do get is at an ineffective angle but for a week or two at midsummer. Scandinavians have "winter blues" all year.

16 posted on 09/24/2017 5:15:23 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: exDemMom

People who write for and read Salon pretty much think that destroying America would be a good thing. Liberals are quite capable of thinking they would live in a better world if the cities they live in were to be vaporized.


17 posted on 09/24/2017 5:17:11 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: Paladin2

And the proponents of both should be shot on sight!


18 posted on 09/24/2017 8:45:19 PM PDT by snuffy smiff (Blessed be the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle...)
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