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De Blasio urges 'nationalization' of key industries, calls coronavirus outbreak a 'war-like situation'
2020-03-17
Posted by:Skidmark

#17  #14 If you mean Hunter and Chelsea, yeah.
Posted by: Matt   2020-03-17 15:11  

#16  Yep Whiskey Mike, that's what all these 2 bit wannabe tyrants are looking forward to.

Just one more lit match in the powder room.
Posted by: AlanC   2020-03-17 14:33  

#15  The "made to work around the clock" made my brain flash to images of the movie Metropolis. Lines of workers, shift changes, utter horror in every step.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2020-03-17 12:08  

#14  are we basically talking about slave labor?

But it's for the children!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-03-17 12:03  

#13  So, he wants Trump to have more control?

He specified the need for companies that make ventilators, surgical masks, and hand sanitizers to be taken over and made to work around the clock.

Made to work round the clock? So, he's saying that companies that make those products have idle capacity even though those products are flying off the shelves? Has he checked the collective bargaining agreements any of those companies may have for "work-round-the-clock" provisions, or are we basically talking about slave labor?
Posted by: Matt   2020-03-17 11:56  

#12  Follow the $$$. This despicable little shit is almost certainly going to try to line his/his family's pockets in the bargain.
Posted by: Lex   2020-03-17 10:54  

#11  Let's nationalize the news media, fire them all and hire new actual humans, then un-nationalize it again.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2020-03-17 10:54  

#10  By the time he gets done with NYC, NYC will be a war zone. 6 month shutdown, and that is just the promise...all these little tyrants who get their own personal martial law, do you seriously think they will just give it up at the drop of a napkin?

And nothing says serious conversation like a cup of coffee with Joy Reid.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-03-17 10:51  

#9  Cuba expropriated American industry in Cuba after the revolution. Castro died a very rich man while others stayed poor. Similar in other communist countries.

Nationalization a synonym for seizing?
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-03-17 10:27  

#8  Fascisti gotta fascist.
Posted by: magpie   2020-03-17 10:11  

#7  Any excuse.
Posted by: gorb   2020-03-17 10:01  

#6  Complete
Utter
Total
SHITSHOW
Posted by: Lex   2020-03-17 08:24  

#5  ...power and control. It's what the far Left lives for.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-03-17 07:18  

#4  And that would serve what purpose?
Posted by: Alistaire Tingle9882   2020-03-17 07:03  

#3  'What an idiot': NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is blasted for squeezing in a final workout at YMCA before it closes tonight after telling millions to stay home and ordering businesses to close amid coronavirus outbreak


Wanted one last public shower
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-03-17 01:20  

#2  It is nice when they finally show their true colors.
Posted by: ruprecht   2020-03-17 01:11  

#1  Of COURSE he does. He is a Freaking Commie. He is just following his script.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2020-03-17 00:57  

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