Ten unpopular thoughts to start the weekend off right

1. Who is more to blame for crony capitalism? The businessman who must pay the graft to the politician in the form of donations so that he can keep his business running and people employed or the politician who forces the graft through his promise of making things either easier or harder depending on if the businessman pays?

2. Saw this tweet:

Progressive ideas: Trump proposes raising taxes on wealthy & capital investment income + levying tariffs on imports: http://t.co/o4wGWyQo6o

— Brad Thor (@BradThor) September 2, 2015

I fail to see how tariffs are a progressive idea. The Tariff Act of 1789 was the first thing the 1st Congress passed in our then newly formed government. Anti-Trump hysteria knows no bounds though.

3. While on the same note a lot of people were going off on Trump for not being a realcon because he is not for free trade. I hate to tell them this, but not all conservatives have bought into the notion of free trade. I have had a business that I worked for go under because of NAFTA. Those people who claim it is a conservative notion ignore the fact that a lot of Democrats have and still support it.

4. Free trade and open borders go hand in hand. They are both logically reached from each other. A politician cannot support one without supporting the other either through action or inaction.

5. The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.-Proverbs 22:7
So apparently on Twitter, GOPe talking heads are saying that Trump is worse than Jeb because Trump gave money to Dems eight yrs ago even though Jeb is taking money from Dems now. See last of proverb above to see how that works, which is sort of opposite of how they are spinning it.

6. So the GOPe select candidate, Jeb Bush is failing. So what makes more sense than to dump him and go with Mitt Romney? What are there sixteen other qualified candidates running? Can they show their hand any clearer? They want someone that everyone else does not.

7. The GOPe shows it's contempt for the voters on a daily basis. All they really care about is the donor class. They think voters are illiterate rednecks who need to be guided. We condemn elitism in liberals and these people should be shown the same mercy, which is to say none.

8. The whole thing with Kim Davis going to jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to homosexuals has exposed stuff like liberals like rule of law when it is laws they like, when it is ones cons like...well not so much.

9. Remember before the SCOTUS decision on SSM and all those clerks that went jail for issuing marriage licenses in defiance of actual state laws. Man, it was good that the rule of law kept those law breakers in check. Oh wait, that didn't happen. My bad.

10. Apparently, the hill to die on is always the one you aren't on at the moment for a lot of people. For Kim Davis, hers is right where she has decided to make her stand.