Newt Gingrich: Child Labor Laws Are 'Stupid'

[RedZero]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/21/newt-gingrich-child-labor-lobbyist_n_1105178.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=1261361,b=facebook

Wow. Unbelievable. How stupid are these people? Watch the video, you don't even have to read the article. Words fail me...

[ВАЛТЕР]

So, work is more important than education?

The poor kids should be working rather than getting an education! Education is for the rich!

Arbeit macht frei!

[workersadvocate]

Gingrich looks like he is repeatly doing the Nazi salute while saying he is going to offer "radical proposals" (don't tell me he didn't know what he was doing with that gesture)...and today, the media is hyping him up as the likely top contender for the GOP prez nomination.

[RedZero]

Not to mention that he probably also supports cutting funding to schools and education in general.

[Seth]

He dropped the ball, he admitted poverty was in some way systemic.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Sleep. Go to work. Don't ever have enough money to buy a new jeep. Sleep. Go to work. Sleep. Go to work. Repeat after me: I am free.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Education is for the rich!Yup, the ruling class doesn't really need the population to have public education anymore.

[socialistjustin]

At this point he's just trolling his way to the Republican nomination. It's like that episode of Family Guy where Lois just throws out one liners to win the Mayoral race. This kind of shit is red meat to the Republican base.

[MustCrushCapitalism]

Is this man a nutjob or what?

[Misanthrope]

Mr. Gingrich is missing one thing...wage slavery doesn't liberate the poor.

[Princess Luna]

Is this man a nutjob or what?
He is not a nutjob, just a asshole. He introduced a law to give the death penalty for drug possession and divorced his wife when she got cancer.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Is this man a nutjob or what?

No, he's one of the "moderate" Republican POTUS hopefuls.

[Misanthrope]

He is not a nutjob, just a asshole. He introduced a law to give the death penalty for drug possession and divorced his wife when she got cancer.

Are you fucking serious?:thumbdown:

[socialistjustin]

No, he's one of the "moderate" Republican POTUS hopefuls.

Which shows you how far right the Republican party is. Huntsman, Gingrich and Romney are considered moderate when in reality they are farther to the right than Reagan even. The Democrats have also tracked rightward so it's no wonder people constantly switch parties when voting. They get the same shit after every election.

[Belleraphone]

http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/7756/freemarket.jpg

[RedZero]

I posted the link to this story on a forum named "Topix," and this is what someone replied with:

(I'm the first post, then the idiotic second poster, third is my reply)

http://oi41.tinypic.com/dr8hat.jpg

Seriously, what the fuck? Granted, that's all this individual posts...they label everyone a "Socialist Liberal" (they're sure to capitalize it each time) and call people "welfare dogs." They're not trolling sadly. This person is serious. Sometimes, I just want to give up on humanity. :\

[Krano]

they label everyone a "Socialist Liberal"
So thats what Mao ment with Combat Liberalism as in Love Liberalism.

[Revy]

Well, he certainly tweets like a child. Oh wait sorry I don't mean to offend children, there are many children who are more articulate than this:

http://wonkette.com/414631/newt-gingrich-having-twittergasms-over-his-easter-candies

http://wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/newt-chocolate-1.jpg
http://wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/newt-chocolate-2.jpg

:laugh::lol:
Tweets have since been deleted, but the record of their existence remains.

[ВАЛТЕР]

Well, he certainly tweets like a child. Oh wait sorry I don't mean to offend children, there are many children who are more articulate than this.

http://wonkette.com/414631/newt-gingrich-having-twittergasms-over-his-easter-candies

http://wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/newt-chocolate-1.jpg
http://wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/newt-chocolate-2.jpg

:laugh::lol:
Tweets have since been deleted, but the record of their existence remains.

Bahahaha!:laugh::laugh:


"Herp Derp! I like chocolate!"

This guy is campaigning for the presidency? Fuck it all to hell, this world is done for.

[RedZero]

So thats what Mao ment with Combat Liberalism as in Love Liberalism.

Could you elaborate? I'm curious. :p I searched "Combat Liberalism" and this is what came up: http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_03.htm

[Os Cangaceiros]

He's a flash in the pan, in my amateur estimation. He was a paid shill for Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac...he says he was paid over a million dollars for his consultation as a "historian", but any reasonable observer would conclude that he was brought into the fold so the GOP would have a harder time bringing out the long knives on those financial institutions. :rolleyes:

If there's one thing conservatives and liberals mostly agree on, it's the corrupt scumbag nature of financial institutions (although their solutions are different, of course.) Conservatives practically have conniption fits when Fanny and Freddie are brought up. Newt is a classic politico hack, but he's willing to suck up to the populist conservative right if it'll give him some political capital.

BTW, if we were to create threads everytime some GOP candidate said something outrageous, this subforum would be at least half filled with those threads.

[Sinister Cultural Marxist]

Newt in all his glory:


The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding. Washington cannot tolerate threats from outsiders who might disrupt their comfortable world. The firefight started when the cowardly sensed weakness. They fired timidly at first, then the sheep not wanting to be dropped from the establishment's cocktail party invite list unloaded their entire clip, firing without taking aim their distortions and falsehoods. Now they are left exposed by their bylines and handles. But surely they had killed him off. This is the way it always worked. A lesser person could not have survived the first few minutes of the onslaught. But out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged Gingrich, once again ready to lead those who won't be intimated by the political elite and are ready to take on the challenges America faces.http://gawker.com/5803213/newt-gingrichs-spokesman-releases-greatest-statement-ever

John Lithgow giving a dramatic reading of the press release:
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/387033/may-19-2011/john-lithgow-performs-gingrich-press-release

Well, he is leading in the polls now, so I suppose he did "rise again." I hope even the Republicans will think twice after these comments ...

[pastradamus]

Mr. Gingrich is missing one thing...wage slavery doesn't liberate the poor.

Mr.Gingrich is missing many things but an ego certainly isn't one of them.

[RebelDog]

All these candidates are falling over themselves to be the biggest monster. Talk like this gives the corporations and the financial kings hard-ons. Thats who they are speaking to.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Seriously, what the fuck? Granted, that's all this individual posts...they label everyone a "Socialist Liberal" (they're sure to capitalize it each time) and call people "welfare dogs." They're not trolling sadly. This person is serious. Sometimes, I just want to give up on humanity. :\

Are you kidding, the Republicans are pretty well hated among huge numbers of people in this country. Let them call anyone fighting against wage-cuts, austerity, for immigrant rights, public education, union and workplace rights "Socialists" - it's like free advertising for us because there are more people suffering and looking for a way to fight back than there are dupes who fall for scapegoating.

Steinbeck had a quote along the lines: "Anybody that wants a living wage is a radical". It's getting down to that.

Just think, last year all the rhetoric was "teachers are mooches" and now people are talking about the 1% and 99% due to just one ongoing movement. Look at how quickly people rallied in favor of unions and began talking about themselves as "working class" when the Wisconsin protests happen. So despite no support from the establishment, union bureaucrats who have no desire to fight, and overwhelming counter-arguments by astroturf right-wing groups both parties and the media... the conversation changed really quickly once people fought back - it shows how despite being wide-spread (the ruling class have all the media and infrastructure to spread their ideologies) these right-wing ideas are paper thin.

[RedZero]

Are you kidding, the Republicans are pretty well hated among huge numbers of people in this country. Let them call anyone fighting against wage-cuts, austerity, for immigrant rights, public education, union and workplace rights "Socialists" - it's like free advertising for us because there are more people suffering and looking for a way to fight back than there are dupes who fall for scapegoating.

Steinbeck had a quote along the lines: "Anybody that wants a living wage is a radical". It's getting down to that.

Just think, last year all the rhetoric was "teachers are mooches" and now people are talking about the 1% and 99% due to just one ongoing movement. Look at how quickly people rallied in favor of unions and began talking about themselves as "working class" when the Wisconsin protests happen. So despite no support from the establishment, union bureaucrats who have no desire to fight, and overwhelming counter-arguments by astroturf right-wing groups both parties and the media... the conversation changed really quickly once people fought back - it shows how despite being wide-spread (the ruling class have all the media and infrastructure to spread their ideologies) these right-wing ideas are paper thin.

Excellent points. Sometimes I just become a bit weary because of how some people respond to others, I guess. :p

[DeBon]

Jesus just imagine what hell will break loose if this man ran for office.

[Magón]

If he actually made it as the Republican Candidate, I'd be shocked. I doubt he'd make it that far, but who can say, it's such a cluster fuck of idiots and whining little children that anyone the Republican Party chooses to represent them, will just come off more and more and have a longer stretch of being able to make themselves look like an idiot.

[Krano]

Could you elaborate? I'm curious. :p I searched "Combat Liberalism" and this is what came up:
Exactly what i was pointing to, the fact that republicans keep putting liberals and communists in the same corner is absolutely absurd, since these ideologies have nothing incommon with.

[RedZero]

Instead of creating a new thread, here's good old Newt expounding on the original post of this thread...enjoy (ha!)....
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[CommieTroll]

So it's back to Feudalism then? But seriously, I don't even follow American politics (if they can even be called that) and I can tell straight away that Newt Gingrich is a fucking moron. To help the economically disadvantaged you should take what little educational advantages they are given from the state and sell them into wage slavery? I call shenanigans

[piet11111]

At this point i just have to say that i now fully believe that the republicans are campaigning for Obama's reelection.

This just has to be their attempt at making lesser-evilism the only legitimate political choice (instead of an anti-capitalist movement)