Hillary appoints Pol Pot as chief economic advisor!

[DanTex]

Pol effing Pot, people! Is she pure evil, or what?

[Agschmid]

1. Yup.

She is really an oligarch and is the enemy!

[CK_John]

2. Stick with photos, funny your not.

[DanTex]

4. You're.

[Cha]

15. Sorry, I got a

little lol outta that.

I know exactly what you're saying.. the other thread on "Hillary Clinton Hires Former Monsanto Lobbyist to Run Her Campaign" is total bullshite but that's their MO. They just can't run on honest critiques.. they have to whip up the masses. And, they always fall for it hook line and stinker.

[MaggieD]

43. I think it's hilarious!

[Agnosticsherbet]

3. She appointed a dead communist as her economic adviser! It's a scandal!

I suppose she is also calling for all intellectuals to be stripped of our possessions so we can be worked to death in the fields.

[KMOD]

5. lmao

eee-eee-vil woman!

[rhett o rick]

6. That's it, stay away from actual issues. nm

[Wilms]

9. Fox News does the same thing.

Benghazi, yes. Using the State Dept as an extension of the Chamber of Commerce, no.

[NYC_SKP]

19. "Using the State Dept as an extension of the Chamber of Commerce" BINGO!

And raking in millions for speeches afterwards.

Bingo.

[hrmjustin]

10. Humor.

[Cha]

16. Whoosh!

[hrmjustin]

18. Lol.

[rhett o rick]

29. A sad attempt at humor at best. But again, anything but discussing actual issues. nm

[hrmjustin]

30. With all due respect we discuss economic and social issues on this site.

You don't like the humor that is fine but don't take the humor to mean we don't discuss issues.

[rhett o rick]

31. Yes some do discuss issues and some avoid issues like GMO's, fracking, Free Trade. nm

[hrmjustin]

32. Some avoid social issues as well.

Ymmv

[rhett o rick]

33. That's not true. Progressives support social issues and are progressive on the economy, foreign

policy, etc. Unlike the Third Way that supports social issues and the Oligarchy.

Curious why one would side with the billionaires that are going to give HRC $2 Billion dollars instead of the people's candidate.

Dare to fight the Oligarchy.

[hrmjustin]

34. Did you read what I said?

[rhett o rick]

35. Did you say that you are willing to let Wall Street run the government as long

as there was marriage equality? Unlike the Third Way, progressives want both marriage equality AND an end to the financial rape of the lower classes by the Oligarchs.

Dare to stand up for those living in poverty. Poverty is on the increase, not that Goldman-Sachs and the Wall Street gang care.

Democrats should all care and support the people and not the billionaires.

I can see how tempting it must be to choose the side with all the money and power, but how can a Democrat turn their backs on the millions of our children that live in poverty. Poverty that won't be solved as long as our politicians keep cutting taxes for the wealthy.

There are two sides in this class war. Don't side with the billionaires.

[hrmjustin]

36. No try again.

Post 32.

[rhett o rick]

37. You are ok with Citizens United as long as it works in HRC's favor? The $2 billion that Wall Street

is going to give her won't influence her decision not to tax the wealthy? You are ok with fracking because the poor don't need drinking water when there are profits to be made? How can GMO's be bad when Monsanto and their puppets are getting rich.

"The Oligarchs don't wish for us to die, they just don't care if we do."

Choose the 99% and not Goldman-Sachs.

[hrmjustin]

39. Did I say I like citizens united? NO I DID NOT.

Since you refuse to answer my question this conversation is over.

[rhett o rick]

40. What? You choose a candidate that is expected to take Citizens United to new heights.

$2,000,000,000 from the Wall Street Oligarchs to insure her win. Sorry but I favor the People's candidate.

[hrmjustin]

41. When you speak with me instead at me we can continue talking.

Until then good bye Rhett.

[MaggieD]

44. Puretopians lack a sense of humor

.... Sometimes.

[madinmaryland]

7. Nice post, Hitler!

[lovemydog]

20. Stalin says 'Das is DUZY!'

[madinmaryland]

21. Paul Pot is jealous!!

[lovemydog]

24. Yeah, Paul was always in the shadows.

His older brother Pol got all the attention. He was like 'Pol, Pol, Pol! Why are they always talking about Pol?!'

[hrmjustin]

8. She is the great Third Way Boogeywoman!

She has come to take your progressive souls away and make you obedient to your corporate masters.

[MohRokTah]

11. At least the extremists won't complain because they didn't get their ponies.

[hrmjustin]

13. Disgusting!

[MohRokTah]

17. Showing your true colors, I see.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. The weirdest thing I read about Pol Pot is he banned wearing glass because...

The weirdest thing I read about Pol Pot is he banned wearing glass because that was the sign of an intellectual.

[lovemydog]

22. That's true.

They did ban glasses and they killed anyone with too much education. The Khmer Rouge were Maoists mixed with some really weird other stuff too. When they took over in Cambodia they banned all previous history and started the calendar at the year zero. Hence this incredible documentary titled Year Zero.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

27. My memory is hazy...

Didn't we put Prince Sianhook (sp) in charge to restore order.

[lovemydog]

28. The Vietnamese came in after the Khmer Rouge

were making border raids into Vietnam.

In November 1978, Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia in response to border raids by the Khmer Rouge.[57] The People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK), a pro-Soviet state led by the Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party, a party created by the Vietnamese in 1951, and led by a group of Khmer Rouge who had fled Cambodia to avoid being purged by Pol Pot and Ta Mok, was established.[clarification needed][58] It was fully beholden to the occupying Vietnamese army and under direction of the Vietnamese ambassador to Phnom Penh. Its arms came from Vietnam and the Soviet Union. In opposition to the newly created state, a government-in-exile referred to as the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (CGDK) was formed in 1981 from three factions. This consisted of the Khmer Rouge, a royalist faction led by Sihanouk, and the Khmer People's National Liberation Front. Its credentials were recognized by the United Nations. The Khmer Rouge representative to the UN, Thiounn Prasith, was retained, but he had to work in consultation with representatives of the noncommunist Cambodian parties.[59][60] The refusal of Vietnam to withdraw from Cambodia led to economic sanctions[61] by the U.S. and its allies.[specify]


King-Father Norodom Sihanouk's funeral procession
Peace efforts began in Paris in 1989 under the State of Cambodia, culminating two years later in October 1991 in a Paris Comprehensive Peace Settlement. The UN was given a mandate to enforce a ceasefire and deal with refugees and disarmament known as the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC).[62]

Restoration of the monarchy[edit]
In 1993, Norodom Sihanouk was restored as King of Cambodia, but all power was in the hands of the government established after the UNTAC sponsored elections. The stability established following the conflict was shaken in 1997 by a coup d'état led by the co-Prime Minister Hun Sen against the noncommunist parties in the government.[63] In recent years, reconstruction efforts have progressed and led to some political stability through a multiparty democracy under a constitutional monarchy.[1]

In July 2010 Kang Kek Iew was the first Khmer Rouge member found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity in his role as the former commandant of the S21 extermination camp and he was sentenced to life in prison.[64][65] However, Hun Sen has opposed extensive trials of former Khmer Rouge mass murderers.[66] He says that this is because he wishes to avoid political instability.[citation needed]

In August 2014, a U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (also known as the Khmer Rouge Tribunal), sentenced Khieu Samphan, the regime's 83-year-old former head of state, and Nuon Chea, its 88-year-old chief ideologue to life in prison on war crimes charges for their role in the country's terror period in the 1970s. The trial began in November 2011. Former Foreign Minister Ieng Sary died in 2013, while his wife, Social Affairs Minister Ieng Thirith, was deemed unfit to stand trial due to dementia in 2012. The group's top leader, Pol Pot, died in 1998.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodia#Vietnamese_occupation_and_transition

[whatchamacallit]

23. Nah, Kissinger is her guy n/t

[lovemydog]

25. Yeah. They shook hands!

There's a photo!

OMG!

They are best friends!

[MaggieD]

45. Wait, wut?

I thought her evil cabal had those destroyed decades ago!?

[leftofcool]

26. Evil woman! Evil I say!

[pinboy3niner]

38. When you appoint Pa Kettle, you have to expect your opponents will distort it

What was she THINKING?

[MaggieD]

42. I hear Putin is up for Sec of Labor

He'll be a shoo in for confirmation with that rethug congress!

[NBachers]

46. LINK, PLEASE?

[Hekate]

47. Haven't you heard? We don't need no stinkin' links any more! If we sez it is true, it must be true.