[Emperor Palpatine]

I dunno.

YOU’RE the one who wants union goons to harass a man’s family and invade the sanctity of his private property.

Not the position of an authentic conservative if you ask me.

Personally, I love Wal-Mart. I could care less what they A.) pay their employees, and B.) where they get their merchandise. See, I’ve read “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead”. I don’t think you have.

[Regulator]

Nah. I thought Ayn was a weirdo back in the '60s. I mean, c'mon man, a woman who walks around with a $ sign around her neck? Please.

Understandable though for someone traumatized by the Soviet Union.

I could care less what they A.) pay their employees, and B.) where they get their merchandise

Gee, really? So you agree that we should end the Cuban embargo and buy ceegars from Fidel's plantation made by his slaves, compelled to work for nothing?

Sorry, not me! I think the ChiComs should be treated to a nice little nuclear holocaust followed by the resumption of mile high tariffs against any nation deemed to be our enemy: it's called the Trading With the Enemy act.

So who's the authentic conservative, spud? All you vaporbrains who think it's cool to end up in thrall to a bunch of Marxofascists or me, just another guy who thinks America should come first?

I'll let history be the judge. Just guessing here, but I think I'll come out pretty well on that.

Screw ChinaMart.

[Regulator]

and invade the sanctity of his private property

And one more thing.

Do you suffer from cognitive dissonance?

You seriously want me to worry about the sanctity of private property of guys whose major business partners are the most ruthless, vicious deniers of the right to own property in all of human history?

What is happening in these less-than-spontaneous events is exactly what happened to the property owners in Russia (1917), the Ukraine (1933-1935), in Red China (1949-now), in Vietnam, Cambodia, Cuba, jeez...the list is endless.

"Live by the sword..."

These companies are playing with fire. In the end, they will be no different from companies that tried to make deals with the likes of Castro, Chavez, Stalin, Hitler and...Mao.

When thug tyrants such as these come for their property and even their lives, who will they appeal to for protection? The very people they spit on? Why would we bother to save them?

Lenin's rope salesmen. Nothing more.