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I urge food companies to embargo shipments of products to Vermont, in protest of the fascist dictate of mandatory GMO labeling there.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 17, 2016
What Vermont is doing is simply unconstitutional. It violates the concept of an open market, because the purpose is anti-competitive.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 17, 2016
Anti-GMO, anti-science cultists have no right to trump the rights of other consumers. It's a special-interest majoritarian abuse of power.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 17, 2016
If Vermont wants to impose this crackpot supertitious nonsense on its food producers putting them at a competitive disadvantage, fine.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 17, 2016
But to demand out-of-state producers to ban or restrict sales based on special-interest crackpots violates the concept of equal protection.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 17, 2016
There is no generally accepted proof of superior nutritional value for non-GMO sources. The consumer should decide about irrelevant labeling— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 17, 2016
@realDonaldTrump @WSJ Donald Trump is a retard. He has rated DEAD LAST on all my scorecards of the dozen debates, one skipped.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 17, 2016
@realDonaldTrump @WSJ Debates are not popularity contests. Uniike dimwitted Trump, Cruz is a collegiate champion debater & won SCOTUS cases— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 17, 2016
@realDonaldTrump @WSJ Trump-friendly Drudge Report convenience polls are what we call in IT GIGO--garbage in, garbage out.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 17, 2016
@realDonaldTrump @WSJ Let's see Donald Trump start to really debate. I've never seen a debate where one of the participants discussed penis— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 17, 2016
@realDonaldTrump @WSJ Donald Trump's idea of a debate is to launch preconceived packaged soundbites, utter bullshit, like "build the wall".— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 17, 2016
@smi44281732 You're seriously delusional if you think Clinton is going to get charged. Second, she still beats Trump's ass with all of this.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 17, 2016
@realDonaldTrump @megynkelly Megyn Kelly never put a business at risk by financing it with high-interest junk bonds. Talk about crazy!— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 17, 2016
@realDonaldTrump @megynkelly Covering the Trump campaign is like the carnival's freakshow. How does anyone vote for a gutter-mouth rich man?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 17, 2016
The level of utter delusion this election season is phenomenal. I can't believe that anyone with a functioning brain would vote Trump or Dem— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 17, 2016
@Trumpbart @JohnKasich Even if Kasich won every available delegate, he doesn't win the nomination. His only hope is to block Trump.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 17, 2016
NR's D. French's uncle-in-law died before getting his chance to vote for Trump, "a man so unworthy of such devotion"https://t.co/RFoJTN5DsR— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 17, 2016
Just listening to Donald Trump makes you worry your IQ is eroding away.He is so batshit crazy.I have never met anyone in management like him— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 17, 2016
The global forecasting service considers the election of Donald Trump a global risk. https://t.co/UNDuMGPhpZ— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 17, 2016
Donald Trump talks to himself about foreign policy because the conversation is intelligent. Life is an SNL skit https://t.co/DrFyAV9ged— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016
I didn't make up the Donald Trump quote on foreign policy. Google it. A Clinton PAC ad features it, followied by Clinton's cackling laugh.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016
Clinton no doubt feels as a former Secretary of State Trump will look like the amateur he is on foreign polcy.Trump's reply is predictable— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016
Trump will indict the chaos and incoherence of Obama Administration policy, her role in the Benghazi scandal, the rejected security pleas:— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016
I have no idea why Trump brags about bribing Hillary Clinton to attend one of his weddings. None of my family or friends had to bribe guests— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016
What Trump doesn't seem to understand that his upside is very limited because all the electorate already knows and loves or hates him.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016
Why fellow conservatives, libertarians and I will kill the Trump candidacy this fall: the Hamilton Rule. https://t.co/6tesN03mOZ — Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016Making Children Free Again
This is Soft Rock America. Trump dedicates this to his opponent this fall: https://t.co/JMJdGISPJI— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016This is Soft Rock America with a follow-up dedication from Trump to Clinton: https://t.co/0rDM4YJrUi— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016This is Soft Rock America with a return dedication from Clinton to Trump: https://t.co/UgPenBxsOb— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016I think the Trump hopes for election fundamentally rest on something we don't see, like how the 2008 economic crisis swept Dems to victory— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016The earlier Trump global risk tweet makes the case. A major economic or say terror-related/foreign crisis could rally support behind Trump— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016There's no doubt that McCain would never have been nominated over Romney if the economic tsunami had occurred early in or before 2008.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016McCain had given Dems the only ammunition they needed when he admitted earlier that he needed to be educated on the economy (true enough).— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016@Campaign_Trump @tedcruz @realDonaldTrump What Cruz meant is that the Trump act makes for entertaining television but not a serious POTUS.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016@tedcruz @realDonaldTrump Because Trump is himself a corrupt businessman who wheel and deals with corrupt politicians to subvert the law.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016I was one of the few to call (in my blog) for McCain to dump Palin and put Romney on the ticket when all hell broke loose in 2008.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016Unlike Trump who has run his businesses 4 times into the ground Romney helped launch or turn around businesses including Bain & Co,Olympics.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016My praise of Romney does not mean that I don't have issues with him. He still believes in economic intervention, Big Govt, neocon policies.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016But Romney is not crazy enough to publicly threaten two of our biggest trading partners, China and Mexico, or to fund a boondoggle wall.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016Trump buys into protectionist bullshit (also raised by similarly economically illiterate Bernie Sanders) re: currency manipulation & dumping— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016There are good reasons for American corporations to invest in global markets; some 95% of the world's population lives outside our borders.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016Businesses, just like investors, diversify to minimize risk. In many countries, infrastructure is poor, the labor force isn't as productive— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016Could you imagine if Trump said to the construction company, build it so high for this price, or I'm going to add 10 stories for the price.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016Let's talk about Donald Trump's boondoggle wall. No, Trump isn't going to be able to steal Mexico's oil to pay for it or scrap NAFTA.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016The Mexican economic growth is higher; the birth rate is declining; the middle class is growing. We've seen little net increase of migrants.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016Donald Trump,in promoting his signature wall, doesn't know much about history. Did the Great Wall of China work? No. https://t.co/aQlYfeRLBI— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016@seanhannity You are playing word games. Where's your Cruz event this weekend? Where's your skepticism of his convenient policy shifts?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 18, 2016
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(continued thread on a WAC piece on Bernie Sander's democratic socilism)
You obviously don't know what libertarianism is about. It's not another word for liberalism. Libertarians are minarchists at best. They would never advocate for anything close to socialism, where the government controls industry. They are champions of the private sector doing things better and more efficiently than the government.
I don't know what motiated your response, but your ideas on libertarianism are at best. sketchy. You aren't aware of classic (propertyless) anarchism, AnCaps vs AnComs, left- vs right-libertarians, thin- vs thick-libertarians, etc. You also seem to be confused about liberalism. Tucker, an AnCap, recently wrote an essay about reclaiming the term 'liberalism'. Most libertarians, myself included, refer to ourselves as classical liberals, who focus on negative rights, freedom from coercive intervention by others.
You seem to be confused about my pithy 'social liberal/democrat'' phase. This presupposes you are familiar with the concept of so-called positive rights, rights that are guaranteed by the government. This is a more egalitarian concept of equality, e.g., you have a right to education, health care, secure retirement, etc., if you will, FDR's call for a second Bill of Rights. There are blurry lines between social liberals and social democrats; I would say the latter have more of a belief in government ownership of key industries, e.g., healthcare, while the former are more capitalist reformers. Bernie Sanders is basically on the boundary. But as for democratic socialism? No, he's too willing to have the State control the economy.
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