MTF
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I hate how short response times are. You can't thoroughly explain anything in a minute.
It’s a testament to Donald Trump’s force in the Republican primary that we’re even having a discussion about whether free trade is anything other than always good. In 2012, the moderators would have asked each candidate about trade in a debate in, say, Ohio or Pennsylvania, not somewhere like Miami, and then it would have been forgotten. Now, the idea of protectionist tariffs is such a winner with working class white people flocking to Trump that all of these guys have to utter some kind of performative nonsense.
KASICH: My family was once blue collar, so we should have free trade but also fair trade. This makes no sense.
CRUZ: I will create taxes to keep industry here. This is certainly a lie and almost certainly impossible.
RUBIO: Flowers from Colombia are good because it created millio – er, hundreds of jobs. We shouldn’t have free trade, because it’s bad, because other countries have tariffs. We need to negotiate away those tariffs, so we can have free trade.
TRUMP: [cheshire grin]
what kind of cnut attends a debate and cheers like it's a rock concert?
Christ, Cruz going all pro-Israel there.
Christ, Cruz going all pro-Israel there.
Rubio's attitude to climate change is daft. Other countries may continue to pollute, but that doesn't mean that one of the world's largest countries such as the USA shouldn't be doing all they can themselves to set a positive example. I'm guessing they're all very sceptical as to climate change?
Oh, you were serious...
Cruz sure loves to criticise Obama for whatever point he's about to make, even if said point bears no relevance whatsoever to Obama.
Rubio's attitude to climate change is daft. Other countries may continue to pollute, but that doesn't mean that one of the world's largest countries such as the USA shouldn't be doing all they can themselves to set a positive example. I'm guessing they're all very sceptical as to climate change?
The Churchill bust story is a complete lie.
The Churchill bust story is a complete lie.