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2024-01-18 -Great Cultural Revolution

'Squad' member Jamaal Bowman claims the US has a 'moral and legal obligation' to pay $14 TRILLION in reparations - as he bizarrely argues government can invest in them like COVID response and not raise taxes

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-18 00:49|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top
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#1 I would love to see one of those biblical episodes where any politician who mouths the word "investment" has their tongue turn black and fall out.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-18 07:46|| 2024-01-18 07:46|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ Or simply transformed into a pillars of salt.

* Unlike Pols, salt is a useful substance. It's used effectively on icy highways up North.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-18 07:54|| 2024-01-18 07:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Knowledge of basic economics is not a requirement in schools anymore, so his audience would have no clue anyway.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2024-01-18 08:38|| 2024-01-18 08:38|| Front Page Top

#4 It's all about the graft.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-01-18 08:44|| 2024-01-18 08:44|| Front Page Top

#5 is their take prorated ...

Prob need family tree of Birth and Death records to prove level of 'blackness'. Unknown fathers, a likely impediment to distribution.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-18 09:13|| 2024-01-18 09:13|| Front Page Top

#6 The last American slaves were white servicemembers captured by the Japanese in the fall of the Philippines in 1942 and shipped throughout the empire to labor.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-01-18 09:19|| 2024-01-18 09:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Ref #5: No problem for Soetoro was it ?

Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-18 09:21|| 2024-01-18 09:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Jamal Bowman a new way to spell stupid.

Posted by irish rage boy 2024-01-18 10:58|| www.weemfg.com 2024-01-18 10:58|| Front Page Top

#9 If they just dumped 14 trillion $'s into the economy wouldn't that pretty much make the dollar worthless?

Posted by Chris 2024-01-18 11:11|| 2024-01-18 11:11|| Front Page Top

#10 Money for the drug cartels?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-01-18 11:28|| 2024-01-18 11:28|| Front Page Top

#11 Any reparations would end up in the hands of the cartels, Mercedes Benz, BMW, Lexus, Cadillac, Lincoln, bling sellers and McMansion sellers. All of which would then be re-possessed when the windfall dried up.

In effect, a wealth transfer, just not in the expected direction.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-18 11:52|| 2024-01-18 11:52|| Front Page Top

#12 ^Chapelle did it

Posted by Beavis 2024-01-18 12:06|| 2024-01-18 12:06|| Front Page Top

#13

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-01-18 14:07|| 2024-01-18 14:07|| Front Page Top

#14 They had reparations! Ever hear of '40 acres and a mule'? That was a program setup by Lincoln after the war to pay... reparations. It also included food and clothing to get them started.

The programs was ended by... wait for it... wait for it... (but you probably already guessed)... Democrats.

Posted by CrazyFool in Texas 2024-01-18 14:31|| 2024-01-18 14:31|| Front Page Top

#15 The problem with reparations is that they are basically a payoff. And once you start paying, it's never enough. There's always more.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-01-18 15:10|| 2024-01-18 15:10|| Front Page Top

#16 *cough* Great Society *cough*

Posted by Frank G 2024-01-18 17:24|| 2024-01-18 17:24|| Front Page Top

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