Mexico elects a retard socialist as President
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Obrador’s platform:
Nationalist. Populist. Protectionist.
He’s got a huge fan base on football club Chivas’ Taberna del Remolcador bored. -
That's basically what I was sayingcreepycoug said:
Of course I can't know this for certain, but I strongly suspect (1) Trump is pandering (I don't think he's a religious guy at his core) and (2) Cruz is not pandering (I think is fundamentally a religious guy).dnc said:
Exactly why a lot of Bernie bros voted for Trump over Hillary.creepycoug said:
What is chintresting, and I kid you not, is that many of your fellow Trump supporters who we know and are connected to my wife on social media have expressed support for, or at the very least interest in, this guy as a new-era populist.oregonblitzkrieg said:https://newstatesman.com/world/north-america/2018/07/who-lopez-obrador-mexico-s-new-socialist-firebrand-president
Beset by corruption, poverty and endemic violence, Mexican voters sent a message of desperation on Sunday by voting overwhelmingly to make socialist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador their next president. This is bad for the U.S., but even worse for Mexico.
President Trump did the neighborly thing in congratulating Obrador on his victory and pledged to work with him. But in fact Obrador's win bodes ill for future relations. His talking points for the policies he'll pursue once in office sound much more like Venezuela's late socialist dictator Hugo Chavez than, say, Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher.
For starters, Obrador vows to renationalize the oil industry, halt all cooperation with U.S. immigration laws, give amnesty to the drug cartels, boost farm subsidies and remove "multinational" investment in agriculture, encourage mass migration by Mexicans to the U.S., while using remittances from workers in the U.S. to fuel Mexican growth.
I think you'll find that your nuvo American conservatism isn't as far removed politically from the socialists. You don't want less government. You just want to get more of your guysm in there to get their reads down.
Trump has more in common with Bernie than he does, say, Ted Cruz. The only real similarity between Trump and Cruz is their willingness to play/pander to evangelicals (Trump) and be an evangelical (Cruz).
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Ummm. The old guy didn’t do Shit about cartels Or de suasion of illegal immigration. This won’t make the Dems bat an eye. Not when the morning news still leads with ICE protests and 4 year old pics and videos of kids in foil blankets.oregonblitzkrieg said:
Helps Trump, hurts open borders democrats. With a Hugo Chavez style socialist in power south of the border promising not to do shit about cartels or illegal immigration, throw out the script, they're toast.Sledog said:Build that wall! Oh and put guns on it.
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Why do you hate FC America???CirrhosisDawg said:Obrador’s platform:
Nationalist. Populist. Protectionist.
He’s got a huge fan base on football club Chivas’ Taberna del Remolcador bored.
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Does trump do a religious thing?
I haven't really watched him at all besides meme videos.
If so, that's preposterous. -
They used to be competitive, creative and efficient. Now they flop, blame referees and “unfair” competition for their failures.salemcoog said:
Why do you hate FC America???CirrhosisDawg said:Obrador’s platform:
Nationalist. Populist. Protectionist.
He’s got a huge fan base on football club Chivas’ Taberna del Remolcador bored. -
And they can't make a World Cup final. Can't omit that.MikeDamone said:Mexico needs to get their shit together. There is no reason people should need to flee form there. They has a fucked up culture and should be embarrassed as a people.
