Paul Krugman officially sells his soul for Hillary. Yuck.
Link: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/01/feel-the-math/
Paul Krugman is at his overbearing "best" in an article called "Feel the Math", in which he seems to channel our favorite overbearing, clueless website owner. See if this whole line of thinking sounds familiar to you...
Krugman begins with laying out Bernie's chances, from the DNC lens:
The first thing to say is that it’s still very unlikely that Sanders can win the nomination. Don’t tell me about national polls (and cherry-pick the polls that show your guy getting close); at this point it’s all about delegate counts, where Clinton has a substantial lead with the voting more than half over.
That sounds awfully familiar. Maybe talking points have been exchanged? Krugman continues blathering about how Bernie barely has any chance at all of winning.
Then comes the grand lesson, where Paul lectures Bernie on how he should be campaigning, concern-trolling with the best of them:
First, the Sanders campaign needs to stop feeding the right-wing disinformation machine. Engaging in innuendo suggesting, without evidence, that Clinton is corrupt is, at this point, basically campaigning on behalf of the RNC. If Sanders really believes, as he says, that it’s all-important to keep the White House out of Republican hands, he should stop all that – and tell his staff to stop it too.
Second, it’s time for Sanders to engage in some citizenship. The presidency isn’t the only office on the line; down-ballot races for the Senate and even the House are going to be crucial. Clinton has been raising money for other races; Sanders hasn’t, and is still being evasive on whether he will ever do so. Not acceptable.
Hahahahahaha! Clownish TOP talking points. As if on cue, he ends this pathetic piece of sell-out pandering by complaining about Bernie's superdelegate talk. If you compare this to his writing of ten years ago, it's a sad, ungraceful fall he's taken. But there's no doubt about it: Hillary has sent the memo.
I have a feeling Paul has been promised something by Hillary, as he has been a VERY loyal lapdog thus far in this election. Pathetic to see a once-respected Nobel winner throw all credibility away for Hillary Clinton, of all people.
The list of those "liberals" we can trust is getting very short, indeed. Hey, it's better we learned late than never, right?
GO BERNIE! WIN WISCONSIN!
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Yep, the orders have been given
Funny how as soon as you go Hillary, you start saying the same things as every other Hillary Supporter...
Oh crap, they're like boring vampires!
I mean, REALLY boring vampires. Ones who will steal into your house, and threaten to AUDIT you.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
It's invasion of the Body Politic snatchers ....
It really does seem like there is coordination among talking point perveyours ... I noticed that it was more then Just a feeling on the day Top announced it's ides of march edict and so did most of the other online blog-people...as well as the cable talking idiots and most of the msm papers. From nowhere to its all over on 3/15. One interesting thing was a comment Kos said in his response to the MASSIVE pushback from the progressive monster that lived in TOS basement... He would NOT let TOS become a tool against the presumptive nominee. And I thought was TOS being told to get his progressives back on the bus or else?
The idea That there is coordination among thieves was solidified a week or so ago when a FP diary by dov seemed to be almost the exact same as a opinion piece in the guardian. I was surprised by this... And then a bit pissed off. And then I realized just how much the status quo is trying to get back control of the village... And the one thing stopping them is BERNIE and his willingness to lead a revolution and our willingness to fund it ... And the funding thing is really really really really important to the equation because it really really really means "they" have absolutely NO say or sway over Bernie... Or US.
Since then I now just read stuff and chuckle... In a dispassionate way... The. Go about my business of advocacy for joining the revolution to take reins of our republic back.
And we seem to be doing quite well at that reins taking because some people are seriously starting to freak out that Bernie ISNT going to be chased out of the race and he WONT be able to just hand over his supporters votes OR OUR $$. and the more of us who scoff at being asked (bullied) into taking the HRC pledge the more "they" freak out. Me, I am not a Bernie or bust bro. But I DO take umbrage at constantly being told Bernie already lost will you vote for her. If you don't there is a longgggg list of horrid things that YOU will be personally responsible for letting happen ... I like to be as polite as possible when I respond IF you are that worried about Bernie supporters not voting for HRC perhaps you should vote to nominate Bernie... Problem solved.
Oh and it seems there is a new concerted narrative push... Bernie supporters are throwing the best liberal minds under the Bus, people like Paul Krugman and I nod and say to myself... Paul threw himself under the wheels of our bus and dared us to keep driving... Oh well. Sorry Paul and I hope it didnt hurt your ego and your pocketbook that we didn't and won't stop this bus just because you voluntarily tried to be a wheel stop on our road to the White House.
Orwell was an optimist
We're closing the box on these guys.
A while back a guy named Bill opened the box, and with it the gateway to the Neocons. Time to close it and clean up the mess they left behind.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
"Paul threw himself under the wheels of our bus ..."
"Bernie supporters are throwing the best liberal minds under the Bus..."
The only ones being thrown under the bus by Bernie supporters are the NEOliberals who back corporatist governance of the entire world, not just the USA. This could be the last chance for the ultra-wealthy to have their Scrooge moments and repent their greedy sins before retribution visits them. I don't want to see such ugly violence break out, but as JFK once uttered, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.
Well...
..tweezers.. one hair at a time...
start in critical junctures.
::sigh::
Declowns the worst clowns.
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Muerte al fascismo. Muerte a la tiranía. colapso total de los que promueven tampoco. A la pared con el unico porciento%
Thanks for reading that
...so I didn't have to. Ugh.
I would HIGHLY recommend not reading it.
To think I used to think he was a pretty good mind. Embarrassing.
The kids don't like Hillary Mr. K, give up already
Ahh to be young again.
With their hearts they turned to each others heart for refuge
In troubled years that came before the deluge
*Jackson Browne, 1974, Before the Deluge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SX-HFcSIoU
What's that saying? Oh yeah
Gag me with a spoon.
Paul my dear man, they aren't RW talking points about how corrupt Hillary Clinton is. It's the truth.
Maybe you should pay more attention in to what her foundation did in regards to the reconstruction of Haiti and asking why after over 6 years so many people are still living in tents?
Or why any person or company that wanted in on the reconstruction had to go through the Clinton foundation first.
Or how they messed with the election process of Haiti.
Then there's the stink of corruption in regards to the weapons sales in foreign countries.
First Bill would be paid to give a speech, then Hillary and her state department would swoop in and sell the country weapons. After that, the government of those countries would donate $10 million to the Clinton foundation.
Hillary promised Obama that she would separate the foundation from anything she did during her time as SOS.
Or you can look in to their history in Honduras going back to 2001 and how the coup helped their friends who then gave millions to the foundation.
Or Ukraine when the current president lived just outside DC and in 06 told Hillary that if she helped him become president then he would open up Ukraine to foreign companies that the current president refused to allow.
I could go on all night about how corrupt the Clintons are but if anyone is interested, here's two articles about their relationships with the banks.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/16/the-clintons-93-million-romance-w...
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/26/the-clintons-and-wall-street-24-y...
Until recently
I've found his voice on all things economic to be spot on. He was one of the very few who spoke up about the growing housing bubble and obvious fraud in derivatives. He beat on Obama's unwillingness to even try for a robust stimulus and criticized his meekness on the ACA. He was one of only a few I saw as a go to guy for straight talk on economics.
I thought his softening on Obama during the past couple of years was him being gracious about getting some things not so not right. Now it looks like he has completely bought into incrementalism and the power of nope. Maybe he sees a threat to his personal circumstance from a political remake in this country. It wouldn't be the first time a liberal chose personal comfort over what's best for everyone else. I don't know and the why doesn't really matter to me. This kind of shit from him is as pathetic as it is transparent.
Oh, silly too. Does he really think we're all stupid enough to think that somehow Bernie supporters will give tRump something to use against Hillary that they didn't think about already? Has he ever listened to tRump? Has he ever seen Hillary willing to put down a shovel when she's in a deep hole? Give me a break.
"Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now..."
Another One Bites the Dust
Go spend more time with your family, Paul. You're a hack, a sellout hack at that.
Robert Reich is much more politically savvy than you'll ever be.
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Most definitely
Robert Reich has been heroic during Bernie's campaign.
Nobel in Economics...
was not set out in Nobel's will. Many people, even some of his descendents, want it discontinued. Winners are almost always Chicago school, neo-classicist, neo-liberal. I used to think Krugman was an outlier, but now he fits right in.
Here's a good article from Bill Mitchell about the 2010 winners: Nobel prize - hardly noble
While I was looking that link up, I found this article on Frederick Mishkin. You may remember him from "Inside Job." He's made big bucks being wrong, which is a common career path for economists.
(Bill Mitchell lives in the Southern Hemisphere)
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If you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind. -R. Hunter/J. Garcia
Krugman and Clintons
When reading his column, I was reminded of a passage in one of his books:
That's from The Conscience of a Liberal.
He talks about the failures of Clinton's trade policies and HRC's health care proposals and identifies their lack of a progressive movement to support them. And that the lack of their understanding of the need for a progressive movement was a failure on their part. Guess it's been a long time since 2007.
cinnamon68
Get a load of this!
Not as much distance as you would think between reactionaries like Scott Walker and neoliberals like the Clintons. No wonder people are so disgusted with establishment politics. Also note that Ted Cruz, who Walker endorsed, takes money from the same corporations and lobbyists that Hillary does.
I think the picture tells a real story here.
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