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The Upside-Down World Of Robert Reich

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One group leaves its demonstration sites cleaner than they found them, and wants to clean up an overgrown corrupt federal government. The other poops on police cars and has rape tents. Guess which ones he calls “wreckers” and which he calls “rebuilders”?

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This seems related, somehow: Hillary’s big donors are giving to Jeb, too. It’s almost like it’s all just one big-government party.

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This seems related, somehow, too: Chelsea Clinton is the closest thing America has to a princess. Just what we’ve always needed.

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Thoughts on Princess Chelsea, from Jonah Goldberg:

As for the bit about her being the closest thing America has to a princess, well, when you think about it for a second, I think that’s right. The problem is that the closest thing to a princess in America is very, very, very far from an actual, you know, princess. We don’t do royalty here very well. The thing that makes her most princess-like is that she really doesn’t seem to know what to do with herself except get caught up in the lie of her family business. What I mean is that she may actually believe that the Clintons are a kind of secular royalty and a dynasty. No doubt she’s been told that a lot. No doubt her parents don’t loop her in on the seamier side of how the Tudors of the Ozarks operate. She probably thinks the primary purpose of the Clinton Foundation is philanthropy rather than extending the Clinton brand and empire, in much the same way descendants of the original medieval robber barons believe their family has always been about public service. Bless her heart.

And Jim Geraghty:

The comparison to a princess is a pretty accurate one, and you’re right, the profile piece in the Post doesn’t quite gush. But throwing jobs, awards, opportunities, speaking fees, and other honors at Chelsea seems to have been a pretty easy way to build goodwill with an ex-president and a future president, and I feel like we’ve all been asked to avert our eyes from this.

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Heh.

7 thoughts on “The Upside-Down World Of Robert Reich”

  1. Those Tea Party types are trying to deprive government sanitation workers of jobs! The Occupants are applying broken-window economics!

  2. Reich is usually in a dead heat with Thomas Frank and Cass Sunstein for the annual Linda Lovelace Award for State-fellating.

  3. “On the right are the wreckers.”

    Gotta love the use of the Socialist dictionary but don’t dare call the Democrats socialists, even if Sanders is literally a socialist.

    “The Tea Party, which emerged soon after the Wall Street bailout, has been intent on stopping government in its tracks and overthrowing a ruling class it sees as rotten to the core.’

    Not exactly but whuteva.

    ” Donald Trump is their human wrecking ball.”

    Whhhhaaaat? Trump is the same as an establishment candidate. I don’t think he has much Tea Party support other than they might like that he is sticking it to other establishment Republicans. Walker is where I bet the Tea Party support is.

    “On the left are the rebuilders. The Occupy movement”

    OMG. They wanted a socialist revolution. But first they wanted to tear down the USA and put collaborators and wreckers up against the wall. They didn’t want to re-build anything. They did want to build a new Socialist States of America though. SS of America seems fitting.

    “Bernie Sanders personifies them.”

    I agree there.

    2. Bug-eyed Leftist fanatics are always describing anyone to their right as “counterrevolutionary wreckers” so that’s not too surprising.

    1. Maybe he doesn’t want Hillary to win? Dude has a big ego and it would interfere with his extracurricular activities.

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