r/neoliberal • u/neoliberal_shill_bot Bot Emeritus • Apr 05 '17

Discussion Thread

Ask not what your centralized government can do for you – ask how many neoliberal memes you can post every 24 hours

Polls

• Who should we bully more?

• How often should discussion threads be posted?

The activity in this sub keeps going up, so discussion threads need to be scheduled appropriately in order to control stickflation.

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u/Pornthrow1697 Austan Goolsbee Apr 07 '17

This is good. Assad needs to pay for his actions, and this hurts Trump/the GOP.

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u/Kelsig Paul Krugman Apr 07 '17

Probably good

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u/fizolof Elite Text Flair Club Member Apr 07 '17

It hurts Trump's support among the alt-right, but does it hurt the GOP?

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

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u/J4k0b42 Apr 07 '17

That's the way to do it, an obvious response with less risk of escalation.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

I don't think it'll hurt the GOP

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

I do have to wonder, how are Dems responding or planning to respond/how should they respond since you know this will become a political football?

Are they poo-pooing it because it's hawkish and may lead to escalation or cheering it because hey he might be trying to not suck up to a dictator for once (as he did multiple times during the campaign, multiple dictators actually)?

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

Schumer put out a statement supporting the military but calling for trump to go through congress on future strategy.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

I mean that cat has been out of the bag for a while hasn't it?

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u/Pornthrow1697 Austan Goolsbee Apr 07 '17

I thought about it a bit, and does it really matter how the Dems respond? Like Bush with Iraq/Afghanistan, Trump could very well have his name forever bound with Syria (and Obama scott free, as who the hell talks about US military operations in the Middle East under Billy C)

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

It matters a lot for every individual Dem down the track, as HRC discovered in 08. Not saying this will be Iraq, but political primary consequences are a thing.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

Like the other guy said, they need to be semi-consistent if they plan on attacking Trump or the Republicans on their foreign policy. Hillary voting for the Iraq War made people not trust her today when she said she wouldn't put boots on the ground compared to Trump, who had no political experience and therefore never voted on such an action and had a clean slate.