You just can't make up stuff like this!

Seems Sarah "half term governor of Alaska" Palin is not too happy with Donald Trump and Mike Pence's deal with Carrier to have Indian cough up $7 million in tax cuts to keep 800 of 1400 manufacturing jobs being shipped off to Mexico.

Sarah Palin Slams Donald Trump's Carrier Deal as 'Crony Capitalism' That won't take you to a Sarah Palin site, so you'll only lose a limited number of brain cells by clicking on the link!

She certainly didn't mince words here!

“Republicans oppose this, remember?” Palin wrote in an op-ed Friday on the Young Conservatives website. “Instead, we support competition on a level playing field, remember? Because we know special interest crony capitalism is one big fail.

“A business must have freedom to locate where it wishes,” the piece continued. “In a free market, if a business makes a mistake (including a marketing mistake that perhaps Carrier executives made), threatening to move elsewhere claiming efficiency’s sake, then the market’s invisible hand punishes. Thankfully, that same hand rewards, based on good business decisions.”

She warned that “picking and choosing” which company darlings receive “corporate welfare” is a “hallmark of corruption” and “socialism.”

A “$20 trillion debt-ridden country can’t afford this sinfully stupid practice, so vigilantly guard against its continuance, or we’re doomed,” she urged.

Sarah, Sarah, Sarah!!! This is not how you endear yourself to the Great Orange One. He doesn't take criticism well. And, he certainly isn't going to appreciate it coming from you.

There is one piece of good news that is likely to come from her op-ed. I think that gig she was being considered for at the Veterans Administration is likely to vanish as quickly as the last half of her term as governor of Alaska!

It's going to be a very interesting next four years. You are advised to keep your seat belts fastened and perhaps even give an extra tug on them. We are anticipating strong turbulence ahead!

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Amanda Matthews's picture

Well, welcome to 21st century America. If it isn't a sociopath or a psychopath, it's an idiot. This woman is a prime example of that fact.

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I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

reflectionsv37's picture

I know I have a sick sense of humor, but I find it hilarious that even Sarah Freakin' Palin is attacking Trump. When you're a republican and you lose crazy Palin, it sends a rather ugly message. He is going to be relentlessly attacked from all sides.

I'm really wondering if we should start a pool to pick which day The Donald throws in the towel and decides he'd rather do something other than be president. I don't give him 2 years before he becomes so frustrated he just quits. We are in for one wild ride! I wonder how many people in the US have signed up for the one way mission to Mars?

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“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
George W. Bush

Damnit Janet's picture

I've often wondered this myself, "How long will Trump actually bother with the Presidency?"

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"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison

She's good at one thing, that one. Finding the spotlight and putting herself squarely in it. Easiest way to do that these days is to lamprey off The Donald.

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You keep using that word...

"Fasten your seat belts, it's gonna be a bumpy night."

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Yup, you are so painfully right! Could that be the Third Way I keep hearing about? Although that does seem more to be a combo of the lot, doesn't it?

Those Who Matter fly so high above reality and the law that oxygen starvation sets in. At least, that's my theory, and I'm sticking to it until I hear better.

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

sojourns's picture

governors have been cutting deals like this for decades. Yes, mostly to attract new business, but the end is the same. The State suffers.

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"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage

Heaven forfend that this public money went to support small local business startups instead of bribing big and often polluting corporations to take the money and run in the end anyway...

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

or even just in Indiana, they would be making crazy hay right now pointing out that the remaining jobs are Union jobs. eg "if you really want someone to protect your job, looking out for your interests, don't look to the Republicans. Join a Union."

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You keep using that word...

As many GOPers have discovered it's a lot easier to show disabled than be a sycophant, so by slamming Trump she gets a soupçon of the attention and faux relevance she craves. And if the Donald sends a Twitter storm her way she could be back on the RWNJ gravy train.

Is the enemy of our enemy a friend? No, but perhaps a useful idiot, though in Palin's case only the idiot part is certain.

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kharma's picture

at the VA and this is her retaliation.

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There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties.. This...is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.--John Adams

reflectionsv37's picture

that Sarah was about the worse person in the country to pick to head the VA then that old saying "No good deed goes unpunished" has special meaning here!

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“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
George W. Bush

and I'm reaching there - is that her son was in the Army for a while. The unspoken reason is that the Tea Party true believers love her. Hardly makes her qualified to run one of the most challenged agencies in the bureaucracy.

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You keep using that word...

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@eState4Column5

Twist on what you said, I'm thinking She floated the idea of the VA job, and when the balloon sank like lead, she was angry!

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Big Al's picture

If she had been appointed head of the VA I would have had to do something.

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Lily O Lady's picture

turned on Max Cleland, but he still gets crap from them claiming him as a "lifetime member."

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"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"

...banging away on typewriters with Infinite time to do it, and one produces Shakespeare.

I NEVER thought that Sarah Snowbilly would ever say anything I agreed with. I hope she realizes that she lost any chance at being in Trump's Cabinet now.

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Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.

boriscleto's picture

Even Ann Coultergeist is trying to distance herself. The one who wrote a book called In Trump We Trust...

I don't think Sister Sarah had a chance to be in the cabinet anyway. It's all Wall Street billionaires and Alt-Right...

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" In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally considered to have been a bad move. -- Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy "

hellinahandcart's picture

because for all her infinite stupidity, she's used to the idea of a corporation (in Alaska, it's big oil) giving back as a price of doing business in your state. And most certainly, that corporation doesn't pack up- even in a partial way- and move out after you've cut a deal w/ them.

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