Posted on 05/14/2026 11:05:02 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
It was a classic Morning Joe setup on Thursday: tee up far-left Democrat Ro Khanna to blast China’s unfair trade practices--then watch him pivot straight into a sweeping central-planning agenda for America.
His plan:
• Create an “industrial investment bank” to fund government-selected factories in “the industries of the future” — batteries, new steel, new cars, new ships — specifically targeted at “places that were deindustrialized,” paired with investment and production tax credits.
• Open a thousand new trade schools.
• Open new tech institutes to prepare workers for AI and future technology jobs — again directing investment to “places that were hollowed out.”
• Pour government money into the “care economy” while redistributing venture capital away from wealth centers like his own Silicon Valley district.
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Ro Khanna’s Great March Forward ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
Government workers are smart enough to plan their own vacations. That’s about it.
Go back to India, you demonic dumbass...
What’s funny is the Foreigner thinks what he’s saying is all new and different.
Teeny bopper socialism via managed trade is um…old news.
Bout the only thing interesting is the comment about venture capital being less insular. That actually is a problem for the Sand Hill road crowd.
Jeffrey Epstein Goes To China?
Ro is not American despite where he was born.
But, but: it’s not that socialism doesn’t work. It’s just that it hasn’t been done right before!
Ugh!!!!
Communists cannot resist the siren call of power and slavery...
However, at no time in history has central planning/control ever resulted in anything other than economic disaster...
The economic successes in places like China and Vietnam have been through allowing the tendrils of capitalism to operate in the shadows...
In the Communist Manifesto Marx lays out ten things that will happen during the transition to communism. Here are the actual quotes from that section:
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“5) Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6) Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
7) Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of wastelands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.”
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It’s seems to me that Ro isn’t even trying to mask their intentions now.
a collectivist promoting collectivism
“Open a thousand new trade schools”
Pedro and Jose learn to roof single family houses on the job in a few days.
The shingle packages come with instructions in English, Spanish (and French).
We’re in a planned economy. Our government has been spending billions on “picking the winners,” e.g., Intel.
Yeah, that’s right!!
True Communism has never been tried before!
Lead us down the Shining Path, Tovarich Khanna!
“Tovarich” — my fave commie-era term.
Right on, Comrade!
We must liquidate the Kulaks!
Sadly, I think more and more are going to reach this conclusion. We even have Freepers here who praise China’s system.
Let me centrally control his life. He would regret it for the short rest of his life. He will see that turnabout, while fair, is no fun at all.
And he can’t even run his own life, I’ll be damned if he’ll run mine.
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