RAG Perspective: An American Pro-Liberty Conservative: Miscellany: 3/19/16

Saturday, March 19, 2016

Miscellany: 3/19/16

Quote of the Day
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley

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Walter Block has lost his mind, forming Libertarians for Trump. He justifies it based on Trump's points against Iraq intervention, pro-Putin
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

What is wrong with Block and Rockwell? Trump is a fascist, anti-trade, anti-market, pro-eminent domain abuse. Block is for open borders
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

Walter Block has supported Ron and Rand Paul, neither of whom support Trump. Trump in fact has called for a boycott of Apple over privacy.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

Trump in fact blamed Bush 41 for not getting the job done on Saddam Hussein & as the Howard Stern Show reveals, did not oppose Iraq at start
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

How is it Block isn't aware of Trump's vow to destroy ISIS, his constant targeting of the Iran nuclear deal, going after terrorist families?
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

Block says that he is aware that others, like the LP, have closer positions, but Trump has the best shot for non-interventionists to win.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

This fetish of libertarians like Rockwell for going against the urban myth GOP establishment through Trump is a type of Russian roulette.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

Trump is an authoritarian wannabe; he will try to expand the imperial Presidency, not scale it back through a Constitutionalist approach
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

@DineshDSouza Because Sanders and Hillary believe in Big Government. So does "former" Democrat Trump. #NeverTrump #MakeAmericaFreeAgain
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

I don't like the progressive #CrushTrump movement. When I say #NeverTrump, it's based on policy and the man, not political correctness.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

When I use the word fascist to describe Trump, I don't mean its urban legend leftist pejorative meaning. I'm referring to govt intervention.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

The authoritarian strongman part of Trump comes out when he spits out so-and-so is low-energy; I'm going to do X,Y, Z. We don't need a hero.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

This is Soft Rock America. This song goes out to Megyn Kelly's celebrity stalker, Trump: https://t.co/4L8pcjz6cA https://t.co/A073KVsV6y
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

This is Soft Rock America. I'm sending this out to clueless Donnie Trump on behalf of Megyn Kelly: https://t.co/AkXQICOafy
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

@realDonaldTrump @megynkelly I'm so happy that Megyn Kelly gets high ratings without you on the show. You didn't pass the audition. Sad.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

I saw one black Trumpkin talking about how he was having to compete against Mexican immigrants for jobs. Nonsense! Govt gets in the way.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

Govt gets in the way by saying you need a license, permit, variance; your employer must pay you at least this much and offer said benefits.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

Are you smarter than a fifth grader? Trump's grammar ranks at the fifth grade level. https://t.co/pBfBxTcMHn
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

@realDonaldTrump seriously needs to see a psychologist. This obsession Trump has with Megyn Kelly is abnormal. He didn't like a question.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

@realDonaldTrump doesn't have that little voice that tells him to let it go, You have to have a thicker skin to run for office.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

Trump has tried to get Megyn Kelly fired, he's refused to go to a debate where she was a moderator, He constantly sends out insulting tweets
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

Megyn Kelly asked a salient question in light of the so-called GOP "War on Women". I have read things much tougher on Trump than that.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

This is an exaggerated response to the imagined slight on Trump. All of us have to answer tough questions. Secure people shrug it off.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

There is something Nixonian about Trump; this goes over and beyond Hillary's paranoid vast right wing conspiracy. Trump is Nixon on steroids
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

When Marco Rubio resorted to Trump-like schoolboy tactics of suggesting Trump wet himself during the debate,has tiny hands,it cost him votes
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

Trump who has resorted to more personal attacks than any other politician in my lifetime, hypocritically plays the victim card.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

On one hand, I could see Trump wanting to put Rubio on the defensive, because at Rubio's young age, it might raise issues with his maturity.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

But when Trump went on to reference the inference between hand size and one's package and felt the need to protect the honor of his package.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

Some friendly criticism of Cruz: first of all, Big Government on steroids is NOT the answer to immigration issues: fences, e-verify, agents.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 19, 2016

Returning to Cruz, if you return to the 1950's what resolved the immigration crisis was not throwing more Border Patrol but legalizing work
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 20, 2016

Conscripting businesses to do immigration tracking is not a liberty position. Neither is Increasing the federal workforce in immigration.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 20, 2016

There's a decreasing marginal benefit to more federal dollars spent on immigration. Up to 1/3 migrants would leave if not for reentry issues
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 20, 2016

Cruz should know better than to hype a labor protectionist case. Quotas in immigration are as bad as product quotas in mercantilist trade.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 20, 2016

We know from the 1980 Cuban diaspora to Miami that there were modest effects on local markets in the short term. Economic growth lifts all.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 20, 2016

The Scott Adams (Dilbert) Trump "Master Wizard" hyporhesis: is Trump using mental tricks and linguistic kill shots to win?OCKHAM'S RAZOR. NO
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 20, 2016

Sometime a buffon is just a buffoon. Trump is no master anything. People are talking themselves onto the Trump train for different reasons.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 20, 2016

Loser @realDonaldTrump is getting his ass kicked in Utah ahead of Tuesday's caucuses. The latest poll shows Cruz 53% and Trump dead last 11%
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 20, 2016

Let's point out that Trump has the massive advantage of celebrity, he is an outsider in a change election year where Congress is unpopular.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 20, 2016

@Trumpbart @JohnKasich Trump is already B. I think Kasich is playing for a brokered convention, and he could be useful in late April.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 20, 2016

Donald Trump has tapped into economic anxiety with low economic/job growth. This is not distinctive; Bernie Sanders has tapped into the same
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 20, 2016

Don Trump has asserted that he knows better than any politician about job growth. (Forget those 4 bankruptcies.) Trump benefits from govt.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 20, 2016

Trump arguing he understands Chinese trade because his companies buy a lot of TVs is like me saying I am a fast food guru because I buy food
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 20, 2016

Govt is unwilling to compete because it has a gun just like Obama has a phone and a pen. Stores compete on price, selection, service
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 20, 2016

Companies tell you why they don't invest more in America: taxes and regulations, uncertainties in/restrictive government policies.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 20, 2016

I heard Bernie Sanders give his anti-Keystone pipeline pitch. Canadian oil will be sold and transported by other means.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 20, 2016

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