Mike Malloy reads an email about Gabrielle Giffords Assassination Attempt

[Brogel]

I would buy an audio book read by Mike Malloy.

[KiloByte69]

Hah you people are nothing but a bunch of neoliberal lunatics. Just move to Canada, they'd love to have you airheads.

[taradacktyl]

@KiloByte69 Actually, "neo-Liberal" is the term that describes so-called "free-market" policies of deregulation and privatization that CONS cling to like they cling to failure. Using that term to describe people who hold the exact opposite of those views reveals that you - like all CON dupes - don't know what the Hell you are talking about... but rather flap your gums, blind to your own stunning ignorance. Go Galt already and move to the Libertarian paradise of Somalia.

[flyoverjoe]

@taradacktyl I urge you to read A book on economics, sir.

[claudelebel55]

Excellent commentary.

[DaHonestAbe]

"Hitler was a liberal."

Only a historically illiterate, brain dead right winger could believe that garbage.

[Texfield91]

@DaHonestAbe The Nazis were socialists:

"Adolf Hitler created National Socialism, and placed the common good above the individual good.......So that this lesson that made the German Worker the supporter of the State is never lost, the National Socialist Work Service is careful to see that every man who before worked for his own profit now must use his creative hands for the profit of the people."

-Robert Ley, head of the German Labour Front, 1936.

or is that historical illiteracy too?

[Texfield91]

@Texfield91 the German Labour Front being a UNION, i might add

[DaHonestAbe]

@Texfield91 I'll take you to school when I'm not drunk. Be prepared until then.

[DaHonestAbe]

@Texfield91 Poor right winger, he heard "common good" and then his brain shut down.

[Texfield91]

@DaHonestAbe And you heard "profit" and immediatly wanted to put it into a welfare check

[DaHonestAbe]

@Texfield91 Failed diversion, little man. You still know nothing about this time period.

[DaHonestAbe]

@Texfield91 Ahh taken from a meaningless propaganda rag meant to gain support from the working class and recognized by historians as false rhetoric.

"Socialistic" slogans and attacks on "capitalism" were necessary to win the masses. He at least regarded them as a means to power, not as a program, whatever the Strasser brothers might believe. On February 18, 1930, the Dresden Gauleiter wrote to the Weimar factory-manager Fritsche :

[Texfield91]

@DaHonestAbe it's hardly meaningless because the nazi government took control of industry in Germany. You're right, they did use slogans to win the masses, but the economy and the means of production were both controlled by the German government.

[DaHonestAbe]

@Texfield91 Nope, private industry went along with the state because expansionism would reap more profits than they had made in the past. The means of production and profits were still controlled by the private sector. The statist agenda meant would translate to private benefit. Trust me son, I've studied more literature on this history than you could imagine. Stick to right wing la la land and leave history to the pros

[Texfield91]

@DaHonestAbe Hahaha, no, my friend, every aspect of labor and industry was controlled by the Nazi state. take the automobile industry for example: the Volkswagen ( the "People's Car) was a state made vehicle. Trust me, there's a difference between literature and an actual HISTORY book. LOL that's cute though, pretending you're an expert on history.

[DaHonestAbe]

@Texfield91 Mass scale privatization had taken place. State industries were "reprivatized" such as: mining, steel, railways, banking, public utilites, etc. The autobahn is an example of a state sector industry, but the economy is largely capitalist. Again, leave history to those of us who can differentiate literature, tract, and text. You're clearly not well versed based on your cursory comments. Its cute how tou pick up tidbits thinking you know something, typical of the right.

[Texfield91]

@DaHonestAbe whatever, man. believe what you want to believe. nothing in Nazi Germany resembled capitalism. it's the left that likes to rewrite history to fit its agenda. sadly, you're just another casualty of the public school system

[DaHonestAbe]

@Texfield91 The rewriting of history is done by the David Barton's of the world. The fascist nations had a capitalist economy and the wealthy industrialist enjoyed the product of slave labor. They don't teach about this history in the public school system by the way. You on the other hand are the product of the top down right wing idiocracy that dominates too many parts of America. I wouldn't even think to blame the PS system on your ignorance. Just wouldn't be fair to them.

[DaHonestAbe]

@Texfield91 You can keep trying the no true scotsman fallacy, but the nations run by der Fuhrer and il Duce were right wing dictatorships and had capitalist, or corporatist, economies where wealth was more concentrated in the hands of the few and labor power was eradicated. Same for their puppet states. You're too much of a neophyte to try and contend on this issue. Jonah Goldberg and John J. Ray get rich off of lemmings like yourself, champ. You really make this way to damn easy for me.

[DaHonestAbe]

@Texfield91 Sorry champ, but for those of us who know this part of history in detail aren't fooled by right wing revisionism.

[Texfield91]

@DaHonestAbe yes, im sure NOTHING gets past you. Except facts, of couse, but other than that, you're as sturdy as the Hoover Dam

[RELATEDXXX]

the pseudo GOP inhales sawdust all day long into their skulls from the wrongwing blow smoke up yoe back door Party. { airheads snort sawdust through their back door }

[ed1552]

Well said; however, what the reader forgot to say is what he read can be applied to the other side too - - when are we going to learned to think for ourselves and deal with facts and not what politicians tell us on both sides which only, in most cases, serve their end - - not ours.

[ChuckyJesus666]

Tara, I posted this on Facebook....excellent piece!

[CBHobart]

All true, but none of it will sink into the skulls that need it, unfortunately.

[p3snooper]

Well said. Thanks.

[hunterswine]

Thank you!

[paragshah2112]

couldnt have said it better myself.