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Snake Plissken

(4,103 posts) Wed Aug 5, 2020, 05:46 PM Aug 2020

Trump-esque 3rd world deregulation led to the explosion in Beirut Lebanon yesterday

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/05/beirut-explosion-blast-lebanon-ammonium-nitrate-chernobyl-corruption/

Imagine having a President who is so corrupt that he allows campaign donors to dictate federal safety deregulation ... you don't have to imagine it, you're living it.

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Trump-esque 3rd world deregulation led to the explosion in Beirut Lebanon yesterday (Original Post) Snake Plissken Aug 2020 OP

A horrible event. iemitsu Aug 2020 #1

It's how their style of mindless deregulation for profit always ends. Snake Plissken Aug 2020 #2

Yep. iemitsu Aug 2020 #3

That Randian unregulation policy - NotANeocon Aug 2020 #4

iemitsu

(3,888 posts)

1. A horrible event.

Reply to Snake Plissken (Original post)

Wed Aug 5, 2020, 06:14 PM

Aug 2020

Sounds like what Trump, and republicans, want for America.

Snake Plissken

(4,103 posts)

2. It's how their style of mindless deregulation for profit always ends.

Reply to iemitsu (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 5, 2020, 06:23 PM

Aug 2020

And the profiteers are long gone when the public has to deal with the carnage and cleanup

iemitsu

(3,888 posts)

3. Yep.

Reply to Snake Plissken (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 5, 2020, 06:25 PM

Aug 2020

NotANeocon

(423 posts)

4. That Randian unregulation policy -

Reply to Snake Plissken (Original post)

Wed Aug 5, 2020, 07:41 PM

Aug 2020

- renamed deregulation and/or corporate feudalism started with Raygun, and has been in effect for 45 years. Trump didn't invent Voodoo Economics - way above his pay grade.

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