Comments by "wvu05" (@wvu05) on "The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder" channel.

  1. If you've had people talking about what a genius and person of character you are for years, even when the things that you did that were right tended to be right for the wrong reasons, you have difficulty thinking ahead about possible criticism.
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  2.  Cousin Jimmy Farha  As bad as he is, he is no fascist trying to be President for Life. He is not praising white supremacists and Nazis. If you think they're even close, you are either lying to us to try to help Trump, or you are lying to yourself.
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  3.  @whyamimrpink78  You work backwards. You have no true beliefs. If Dear Leader says it, you are all for it, and you will contort yourself into whatever pretzel necessary to do so. You miss the point. He was saying that you care more about who said it than what is being said. Go look at the polio vaccine campaign. There was no "take it if you want to" nonsense.
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  4.  @nafaidni  So true. On another thread, one of these dummies was mad at Pelosi for not stopping the confirmation of Barrett to the Supreme Court. When I pointed out that she is in the House, which has nothing to do with confirmation, he insisted that she could have impeached Trump, as though Evil Turtle couldn't just get a motion to dismiss and lose all of one day. I swear, a prerequisite to being a Jimmy Dore fan is not understanding how anything works.
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  5. "There is no such thing as a moderate Republican in Congress. They say they vote with the President 70% of the time, but they vote with him 100% of the time when he needs their votes." Barney Frank, 2005
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  6. At this point, you are either fascist, or you are against the fascists. There is no middle ground.
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  7. Multimillion dollar houses don't pay for themselves.
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  8.  @garysmokesmeat  "Free areas are always more prosperous than well regulated areas." Tell that to Scandinavia.
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  9.  @robinsss  What is the basis for its immorality? Just because you think so doesn't make it so. Funny how libertarians have to go back to that well every single time someone points out that their ideology doesn't actually work for people.
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  10. If you notice, it seems like he is admitting that there is a lot more that can be found. And this is his damage control? Just when I think he can't get any dumber.
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  11. People who love to hear people dumping on lefties.
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  12. ​ @danieltobin4498  Kmowing this court, they'll suddenly find a newfound respect for Presidential restraint under a Harris Administration.
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  13. It's just a matter of time. For now, he has figured that his angle of appealing to 1) right wingers who love to hear "the lefties eating their own" and 2) left wing idiots who would rather complain than get results is something he can make last longer than "why I left the left."
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  14. So right about the need to keep fighting. Barry Goldwater led a movement that ultimately culminated in the disaster that was Reagan 16 years later. When you keep fighting, you organize and win, especially when your ideas help people.
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  15.  @uncletom356  Yes, finally another veteran of the site calling out Kulinski fornthe gateway drug grifter he is.
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  16. Indeed. I remember a few years ago, someone gave me the Republican corollary to Jefferson's small government quote and said that the government that taxes least governs best. When I pointed out that we were already the lowest among industrialized nations (which he still complained was too high), I then noted that the lowest taxes (excluding Somalia) were Pakistan and Myanmar, so that is what he was advocating for. The backpedal was beautiful.
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  17.  @badsocks756  Tulcels think that anything critical of Tulsi is a "smear." It's their "fake news."
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  18. Indeed. You have to have someone who knows how to play the game just enough to get things done and keep your integrity. Unfortunately, some people are too stupid to try to learn tactics and would just rather complain.
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  19. It reminds me of a few years ago when someone defended the poll tax, I mean voter ID laws, by saying that people need an ID in order to get on a plane. My household income is roughly the national average, and I haven't been on a plane in years.
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  20. ​ @jwbjpb1338  I think that the person you're replying to agrees with you but is being sarcastic in order to show how awful these people are.
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  21.  @Not_that_Brian_Jones  Definitely. That is the paradox.
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  22.  @Kyarrix  Well, judging by the back and forth at the end of the video, this wasn't humanity's last hope's first call to the show. I don't know what the prior call was like, but I'm guessing that probably exhausted his patience with this guy.
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  23.  @andrewfrank8272  Oh, look, the Both Siderism Express right on schedule.
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  24. ​ @soulknife20  He did, but a lot of his comeback is based on a redemption arc, but how can he be redeemed if he still insists that there was nothing to be redeemed for with Desiree Washington? Bill Cosby had his conviction vacated because of a deal he previously made in a civil trial, and nobody's giving him a new show.
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  25. I was in the military during the Dont Ask Don't Tell era, and it seems like some of the people most opposed to Say and Serve (including one who never got over the idea of the military going co-ed despite doing so before he was born) wanted to show off.
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  26.  @whispersmith  Indeed. This whole thing was his husband's idea.
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  27. @Gamacide Biggs Barrett was only a Circuit Judge for three years before getting appointed. Roberts was a Federal Appellate Judge for two years. Bart O'Kavanaugh was on the long end, and he was an appellate judge for 12 years. Thank you for playing. Vanna, show the lovely parting gifts.
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  28. He's not wrong.
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  29.  @2727rogers  Did you do any actual work to get healthcare in your country, or are you like the guy who I debated last week who rested on the hard work of Clement Attlee and thinks that he is an expert on how to get it? I don't know how I can make it any clearer: there are 118 supporters in the House. This is exactly 100 votes shy of what we need to pass it in the House. There are 13 supporters in the Senate, which is 38 shy if it can go through budget reconciliation and 47 if you can't. How does forcing a vote that will fail miserably which will make it that much harder to pass change anything? The ask is to have a vote, not to pass. Maybe if you stopped acting in such bad faith, you might understand my argument, but you don't want to, because you would rather have your high horse.
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  30.  @ashesmandalay1762  What else does it say that she managed to alienate the nicest and most forgiving person in national politics? Now, we can see more of the why in action.
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  31.  @barbiquearea  There is class in there, but there's race in there, too.
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  32. What things were Jimmy Dore right about? Certainly not the Supreme Court, or that Tulsi Gabbard is the One True Lefty.
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  33.  @ballz4kidz  So, you think that we should just look the other way when a nuclear-armed country threatens to annihilate another? Thank you for giving an example of the adage that an isolationist is not someone who wants peace, but is content with watching the world burn as long as it doesn't directly affect you.
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  34. I am a union worker. Please take away my Aetna and force me to take Medicare for All! Health insurance is, without fail, the biggest fight when there is a contract, and not only would Medicare for All make that go away so we could fight for other things, but Workplace Democracy will require employer savings be passed to the worker. In my case, that would be $359 every other week.
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  35. This is what happens when someone is trying to do the kabuki but deep down knows that he isn't very good at it, and he needs to sound "fiscally responsible" in order to placate voters back home.
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  36. Indeed. This is why as soon as I heard that he might be Labor Secretary, I heard that opera singer from Scrubs singing "Mistaaaaaaaake."
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  37.  @R_A_3000  You missed the one where his doctor wife spared his feelings by telling him that WAP is a medical condition?
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  38. I remember being in a church in 2004 and hearing someone complain about gay marriage, and with no sense of irony at all, insisting "What about the pursuit of my happiness?"
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  39. The market of i-DEE-uhs.
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  40. So true. I grew up in a state that had a lot of natural resources, but they were controlled by out of state companies. And result? One of the poorest states in America. Amplify this, and you get our relationship with most of the Southern Hemisphere.
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  41. And he was so distracted that he smirked at passersby while choking George Floyd.
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  42. This is sadly what happens when one party absolutely refuses to play ball. You're not working with 435 and 100. Realistically speaking, you're working with 220 and 50, meaning you have zero margin for error in the Senate and you need 98.6% in the House.
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  43. Indeed. If you have to say you're not, that's never a good sign.
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  44.  @timreed402  Except I'm saying that she wasn't nearly as exposed as he claims she was. I don't care if she was going commando and he could see her other haircut, he had no business responding the way he did. He clearly gets his jollies off power games with younger women, and he knew he needed to cover his tracks, which is why he sent the apology... which was obviously hollow given the way he's bragged about it for years.
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  45.  @aarondickson9573  I know who Sam Seder is, but I don't know who Sam Cedar is, so that is why I'm asking. You spend an awful lot of time on these videos for someone who doesn't care what Sam Seder has to say.
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  46.  @barbiquearea  Except Son of Ron had to create his own board to get "certified."
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  47. That is so unfair! The Wizard actually had a heart to give the Tinman.
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  48. Andrew Yang got kicked off the Ohio ballot because he didn't bother to submit a sheet with his petition drive saying that what office he wanted to run for. Campaigning 101 will tell you that you must follow the rules to the letter to qualify. I ran for office. West Virginia did not have a petition drive for major parties, but you had to pay a filing fee and fill out a form that included the phonetic spelling of your name so audio files could be created. I filed on the first day the window opened, and there was a bit of confusion about whether I filed at the Secretary of State's office because it was a state office (House of Delegates) or the County Clerk's office (because my district was entirely contained in part of one county). I filed with the Secretary of State, and a week and a half later, I found out that it needed to go to the County Clerk. So, I drove the 40 miles to the Capitol to get my refund and then drove to the County Clerk the next day to fix it. If you are prompt, make a good faith effort, and follow the rules, you will get on the ballot. They didn't follow the rules, and they know that the consequences of failing to do so was not getting on the ballot, so they did not earn their place on the ballot.
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  49.  Scott  If you think the one kidnapping children, practicing forced sterilization of women, using stormtroopers to kidnap protesters, and says that he doesn't ever want to leave (with a party behind him that will do pretty much whatever he wants), then either you are not paying attention or you know exactly what is going on and are aiding and abetting. So, which is it?
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  50.  @stephlynn1982  20 years ago, when I was a freshman in college (man, I feel old saying that), I developed stomach troubles. Because insurance didn't want to pay for the more costly test, I had to go through four or five inconclusive tests... until they finally used the endoscope. How much money would they have saved by just giving me the endoscope in the first place? Yet another example of how inefficient private insurance can be.
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