Understanding Rush Limbaugh

It’s that whole mentality of getting rich quick. The idiot homebuyers thought they’d borrow 300k while making 50k, then sell the house for 700k and retire at 45. The banks just wanted the mortgages because at the end of the day they can garnish the social security of the homeless who they foreclosed on. The traders wanted the CDOs because they put big numbers on the books, risk be damned, and everyone just thought that the government wouldn’t let a mass exodus of homebuyers flooding the homeless shelters happen.

Serendipper you make a valid point. I’m about to be 40, and have been all over and seen and done all kinds of shit and there’s still a certain class of people who would narrow me down to the simple fact that I went to college when it comes time to decide how they’re going to judge my intelligence. In many cases, the dumber the person is…the more likely they are to resent the educated and rationalize how college is stupid.

Rengel please don’t call me that. I’m sorry I called you a Communist.
I think Capitalism works because rather than a model of proper behavior, it is a psychological license to exist. It only works when it is allowed to be that.

Mr R, I agree government regulation is to blame.

It’s an insult to the principle of trade to call these people home buyers.
Whoever “bought” a home without paying for it should be thankful there are homeless shelters. These don’t exist in the Congo.

I was enjoying Homer and appreciating Xenophon at university until I made a thesis on Minoan Crete wherein based on a study of murals of Knossos I suggested it may have been a matriarchal society and thereby evoked the wrath and contempt of my professor who set out to get me removed. I beat him to it and got a specialized job based on some technical skills I had acquired as a kid. Thanks to that I didn’t get in student debt.

Well I didn’t want to say “homeowner”.

I’m beginning to define conservatism as the proposition that smart people are stupid and stupid people are smart. They will value your intelligence until you disagree with them, then you’ll lack “common sense”. As best I can tell, “book smarts” primarily causes a loss of “common sense” and I’ll concede there may be some truth in that correlation, but what truth resides is only applicable to a single person. But what is it that the vast majority of smart people can’t see? And why is it only uneducated people can see it? Instead of humbly admitting that NOT studying economics didn’t make them experts and that there may be something they haven’t considered, they doubledown with “liberal agenda, indoctrination, brainwashing, omg protect the ego!”

Common sense is what’s readily apparent and obvious to even the dumbest person, and what’s most obvious is that the earth is flat because: look around, don’t it look flat? It’s common sense! Stupid science disagrees. It’s the government’s fault!

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irZelZxvElI[/youtube]

It’s common sense that we could just keep going faster and faster right? It’s common sense! But stupid Einstein says no.

Common sense is essentially a superficial overview of a situation with no depth of exploration.

Like the gold standard seems sensible until I ask what happens when the population expands and people get richer, where will all the new gold come from? “Oh yeah I didn’t think of that.” Some cocky-sounding guy on youtube said money needed to be backed by something and it seemed sensible until we actually think beyond the slogan.

Or “the min wage will drive up prices.” How? Prices are already as high as companies can push them. Are we to think walmart is being charitable by offering lower prices than it could get away with? Hell no! They’re charging the max they can without losing business and revenue and profit. 21 times over 80 years the min wage has been raised and it’s always “the sky is falling” with those people. The reason prices go up is: people have more money! They buy more stuff and increase demand, which increases prices that people gleefully pay. In my min wage study, states with higher min wages had 10% higher gas prices (on ave), but 30% higher median incomes (on ave). Who wouldn’t take a 10% hike for 30% more pay?

It’s dumb idea after dumb idea and it’s stemming from the fact that they haven’t thought it out and are too proud to admit they don’t know something. And there’s the terror that someone somewhere might get something for nothing.

Most people that read Latin and Greek that I know are conservatives.
“Book smarts” is a toddler term. Which books? Rubbish on “Social Sciences”? Dan Brown?

These posts are getting really long and wordy, I can’t promise I read all of them.

But here, some points:

Distribution of wealth. That’s a dandy. That will be Obama’s claim to fame, making that up or bringing it to the fore. Distribution of wealth.

Because, as we all know, wealth is a river that flows and then evil capitalists divert it to their own ranches or whatever. It comes from God in a determined quantity and precedes human activity.

“2008 crash was a result of regulations that forced banks to loan money to subprime borrowers and then those borrower taking more money than they could afford to pay back and spending it on mcmansions.”

A lot of people don’t know this. But it’s true. Fanny May and Freddy Mac is a GOVERNMENT(ok, -ish, governmentish) institution. They were covered by the government to take inmense risks while packaging this risk as not risk at all and had the kind of capital at their disposition that buys and sells regions of the planet. Why? Believe it or not, the original rationale had to do with keeping house prices affordable for the hard working man who evil capitalists just want to roll over and mistreat.

So often, this is the logic of the left:

I feel bad about this thing, make a regulation that fixes it. (doesn’t understand at all the dynamics of the thing causing the bother)

regulation is put in place

The regulation, because it was put in place with no actual understanding of the situation, both doesn’t fix supposed problem and creates a bunch more.

Leftists: there is a problem here. Since no regulation exists to fix that problem, it is evidently a problem of not having regulation.

regulation regulating the previous regulation is put in place

Right wingers: it was your fault to begin with! You had th-

Leftists: EVOOOOOOOOOLL!

Right Wingers: but-

Leftists: RACIST EVOOOOOOLLLLL!

Right Wingers: you-

Leftists: Ok, on to the next subject.

they move on to the next subject

The only people shrewd enough, intelligent and determined and hard boned enough, to actually pose economics as a problem of regulation and actually understand the dynamics of the thing they are regulating, is the Chinese communist party.

I know, in their hearts, that’s what a lot of the more educated, more intelligent, shrewder Western left would like. Thanfully, they don’t have the heritage of a 100 years of starvation and insanity that the communists in China have, so they aren’t hard boned enough to get it done.

In my experience, there are two and only two kinds of leftists.

  1. People that have feelings and haven’t looked into the claims made by left or right. It is forgivable to believe the claims of the left before looking into them, to believe the stance of the left corresponds with the real world before checking, as the real world precedes thought and there is no reason thought should a priori correspond with how things actually are. I used to be this kind until, no thanks to your fancy Universities, I started looking into the claims one by one. Guess what there was a totally unexpected and unfailing 100% rate of?

  2. Actual communists. These are hardcore people that I respect and admire, and are my enemies. Very few of those actually around (enough to make ass puppets of the first kind).

Oh yeah? Most people who can’t read at all are conservatives.

Nice try. Physics, math, literature, medicine, programming… you name it. Anything that requires intelligence.

If you ever return from your safe space shielding you from realizing that you’re allying yourself with the dummies, you can peruse the 27 points correlating cognitive deficiency with conservatism viewtopic.php?f=3&t=194612

Safe space much?

Obama was an economic conservative. The last liberal president was Carter.

If the rich are getting richer, then where is the money coming from? Magic? Obviously it comes from everyone else and the capitalistic periodic downturns happen when the consumers have been bled dry by transferring all their money as profits and interest to the rich.

When loans are created, where does the money come from to pay the interest?

You haven’t ventured past square one in pondering this.

Show me one thing that works better unregulated.

How about NOT managing your garden. Don’t pull weeds, don’t till, don’t select which species inhabit, don’t be authoritarian. Just let the invisible hand of nature take its course.

How about NOT managing your car. Don’t use the steering wheel, but let nature guide it.

How about NOT managing your kids. Just let nature raise them.

Show me something, anything, that works better with zero management.

I thought Trump was the ONLY one :confusion-shrug:

Communists! Communists! Communists! Quick, run in circles while screaming!

Any group of intelligent people will always contain a much larger proportion of “leftists”. There is no exception. Show me an exception.

The important thing is that you’ve found a way to feel superior.

Sorry, those posts are too hysterical for me to answer.

Gonna start posting these here daily. Just to have a reference.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR4VdW08Yj8[/youtube]

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The last video I had posted was incomplete.

The mystery that remains which relates to the thing being not about facts but about psychology, is why soclalists do never migrate to any of the over a hundred socialists countries in the world but insist on living in the USA which has no socialist foundations.

You can argue it’s expensive to migrate but really poor people move from socialist countries to the USA all the time. Then they try to make the USA socialist too. It seems a lot of effort for a result that could be attained just staying at home.

Hence I think the founding fathers were really on to something, deep down in the psyche. The pursuit is the gift. Not the happiness.

It has to do with mortality I’m sure.

Yes, hiding from evidence is how conservatives roll :laughing:

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Go ahead and hide and muzzle yourself from replying… it will just make it look like you conceded.


And Rush is such a greedy prick that he won’t let his podcasts stay on youtube for long, so you’re posting dead links.

He’s not interested in people hearing his message, but only in getting paid for spreading bullshit.

Hahaha, no.
Come on Dipper you’re the one getting all excited.

Take some time and follow the arguments.

Youre a smart guy but Rengel is a genius. And with composure. Pretty unique.

Or is giving credit a capitalist sin? :wink: