RAG Perspective: An American Pro-Liberty Conservative: Miscellany: 3/23/16

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Miscellany: 3/23/16

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AP has just called Utah for Cruz. With a quarter of the vote in, Cruz has 70% of the vote, an Ohio governor has almost 16%, and Trump 14%
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 23, 2016

On the Dem side, Clinton padded her lead over Sanders by taking Arizona, while losing Utah and Idaho. She needs 1/3 remaining delegates.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 23, 2016

Cruz has taken all of Utah's delegates but fell further behind with AZ loss. We have 2 GOP primaries over next month: WI and NY.WI must win
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 23, 2016

The attached plot, via Nowrasteh and Amroali, makes it clear that as tragic as the Brussels terrorist attack is,.. pic.twitter.com/aKq3PEb43U
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 23, 2016

It seems worse because the Internet age has made communication of tragedies instantaneous and pervasive. This doesn't make the horror less.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 23, 2016

The big news trending today is that Jeb Bush is endorsing Cruz. The Trumpkins are of course going nuts. Jeb Bush is viewed as establishment.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 23, 2016

I know my mom is in a state of denial given the massive exposure of modern media. She insists moral depravity (e.g., child predators) worse.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 23, 2016

I do find it interesting that Sanders seems to be outpolling Clinton against GOP candidates head to head. But Clinton has run a bad campaign
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 23, 2016

Donald Trump's veiled threat about Heidi Cruz probably has to do an incident years back in Austin, TX when she was suffering from depression
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 23, 2016

I think I've finally arrived in the world of Twitter. I just got threatened by a Trump cultist. Hell of a job you're doing, fascist Trump.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 23, 2016

The fact that Donald Trump would be threatening to expose an already known issue involving Heidi Cruz didn't surprise me. Cultists are there
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 23, 2016

Trump was upset yesterday about some discreetly nude shots of wife Melania (years before they married) used by an anti-Trump PAC in Utah.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 23, 2016

It didn't take much to search about Heidi Cruz' depression; the Cruz campaign had addressed it some time back. Many families deal with it.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 23, 2016

Betty Ford had some personal issues to deal with;what's important is if you have an issue, address it; get treatment.Political exploitation?
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 23, 2016

Now personally I don't care about the private lives of politicians and their families. I didn't care whether Jack Ryan liked sex in public.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 23, 2016

For those who don't know Jack Ryan, he was a JFK-like ex-Wall Streeter turned inner-city teacher married to an actress. IL Senate race 2004.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 23, 2016

We probably would never have had a Sen/President Obama except word leaked out about revelations from his ex-wife actress. Ryan withdrew.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 23, 2016

I would have voted for Ryan over Obama in a heartbeat. I still would. My vote was based on policy, not his private life.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 23, 2016

Why I got involved with this pettiness is that Trump and his cultists are a hypocritical whiner bunch who can dish it out but not take it.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 23, 2016

Trumpbart mentioned Trump's threat. I adlibbed about Trump behind his wife's skirt?; cultist replied, at least she's not a danger to others.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 23, 2016

This is Soft Rock America. Cruz is once calling out Duckin' Donnie Trump to a one-on-one debate: https://t.co/fyMofAVBIt
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 23, 2016

@realDonaldTrump Scammin' Donnie Trump is just upset he paid money to someone who cribbed off Cruz' foreign policy ideas.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 23, 2016

@realDonaldTrump Just imagine how Jeb must feel not to endorse you, Snake Oil Donnie.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 23, 2016

@Trumpbart I think Erickson said this morning that Rubio trounced Kasich in Arizona yesterday. I hadn't seen the breakdown of others.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 23, 2016

@AlexNowrasteh @realDonaldTrump So you're saying President Trump could threaten Mexico to allow all workers in if Mexico doesn't build wall?
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 23, 2016

@realDonaldTrump It just provides after facing 16 more qualified candidates, shit floats to the top until Clinton flushes the toilet.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

"Free markets and the private sector make America great "- John Stossel. Government, whether led by a crony capitalist like Trump: NO VALUE.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

Kessler does a good job of debunking Trump's disastrous economic/trade policies: https://t.co/qJwqleFrQk
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

"[Trump] is not just a rent-seeker himself; his whole worldview is based on a rent-seeking vision of the economy," https://t.co/yvj68eX8Ko
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

@FoxNews @IngrahamAngle Economic illiterates/retards. Immigration is win-win for the economy by any objective measure.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

@FoxNews @IngrahamAngle Those who oppose immigration are in a state of denial about an aging, birthrate-declining America.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

@FoxNews @IngrahamAngle Anyone who opposes immigration is a Conservative in Name Only and a traitor to our immigrant nation's heritage.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

I see another person cited the same quote from the same Davidson post on Trump being a rent seeker. Rent seeking is a form of inefficiency.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

Corruption is a form of rent seeking that often takes place under authoritarian governments; say, you slip the border guard a little extra.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

A personal example of rent seeking: in 2009, I worked a subcontract working through 2 parties to a minority-owned government contractor.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

The intermediate agency head was related to the client owner and had exclusive booking rights; this agency did nothing more than paperwork.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

The client liked my work and extended me multiple times. Eventually they ran into budget issues, and the manager showed me their invoice.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

It turned out that the agency fees amounted to half the billing rate, a huge markup. Let's say they split the markup--each half my rate.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

@realDonaldTrump @Kj11100Me Drumpf picks cultist tweets even worse at spelling and grammar than his are. No, corrupt Drumpf is no Reagan: .
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

So the client owner's cousin was like a corrupt government taxing/freeriding my work efforts, only his markup made my service unsustainable.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

@realDonaldTrump @Don_Vito_08 @MELANIATRUMP Where are the pictures of Drumpf's first two wives? At least Cruz didn't need to import his wife
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

The free market doesn't require a crony capitalist wheeler-dealer like Trump. We benefit from more competition, not less, lower prices.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

When Trump talks about slapping an illegal tariff on Chinese good that is a tax on lower-income Americans & lowers money to buy other stuff.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

I wonder what Cherokee Lizzie Warren thinks about seeing a washed-up socialist giving Clinton all she can handle? She lost her chance.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

@bailey_ogrady I have issues with the Federal Reserve and the government monopoly in general, but you also had dysfunctional state govts.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

@bailey_ogrady The American economy is resilient enough to survive fascists like FDR, LBJ, Clinton, Sanders and Trump.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

@bailey_ogrady Read some Hayek on the government monopoly on money.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

@bailey_ogrady Crackpot left-wing bullshit. Did you ever read past Plato's concept of oligarchy?
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

@bailey_ogrady Nope, not when you wander into this class-struggle rhetoric theories of Depression and some sort of social Darwinism nonsense
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

@bailey_ogrady What does this have to do with the point on the government monopoly on money, which is anti-market?
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

@bailey_ogrady Money is not created by the State. The State attempts to control money.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

@Equaljustice111 Trump uses you drone cultists for the purposes of his own power and glory. Trump is the fox applying to guard the henhouse.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

Outstanding, clear explanation of ObamaCare failures: https://t.co/7CBwqCGw9I. Key point: real interstate reforms would have opened st mkts.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

#IfIWerePresident I would repeal the 16th Amendment, end the Fed, free the markets, restore open immigration, declare unilateral free trade
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

#IfIWerePresident I would devolve spending and authority to states, implement non-interventionist foreign policy, pay down the federal debt.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

#IfIWerePresident I would privatize government monopolies on lending,retirement and healthcare,eliminate crony subsidies, sunset regulations
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

#ifIWerePresident I would eliminate government licensing,permits & mandates on hiring,end control over drug approvals,reform business taxes.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

#IfIWerePresident I would repeal laws against victimless crimes, restore the Bill of Rights, implement a territorial tax system, end welfare
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) March 24, 2016

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