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

  1.  @dala7862  Actually, 1978 was the point where wages started to stagnate. Reagan cemented it.
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  2. Maybe it wasn't so hypothetical after all. For all we know, this winner is one of these goofy tax protestors who just hasn't been busted yet.
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  3.  @xiam5941  Pre-industrial society where might made right, and it didn't work, so it was abandoned, because surprise, surprise, if you have no restrictions on greedy people doing whatever they want to screw people, they will continue to do so. And you can say that that there is no slavery under your system, but others have said that if both sides agree (for example: to pay a debt), then it should be allowed.
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  4.  @robinsss  Note that I said poison that is being sold as medicine. There are poison labels, but the poisonous effect on humans is when it is not used in its intended fashion. Poison masquerading as medicine is being used as directed.
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  5.  @robinsss  Are you going the semantic route to try to ignore the question? I'll put as clear as I can. The underlying question was about companies hiding the harm that their products do by making the assumption that it would be cheaper to pay a lawsuit than to fix the glitch. Sam mentioned several products that caused immense harm to people because of corporate indifference to such harm, including death. If you can't think of any medical product that will kill patients when used as directed, that is because the FDA is doing its job. However, you seem to be advocating a world where it is legal to sell such products as long as someone puts a warning label on them, because freedom. Why is that preferable to banning its sale?
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  6.  Alabama Man 2.0  "while y'all can't even pass a simple reconciliation bill when you hold the WH, the House and the Senate" I guess you forgot all about the American Health Care Act to try to repeal the ACA in 2017. Then again, being a right winger involves a memory like a goldfish, so I'm not surprised.
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  7. Lewis Black was right when he said that when people get too much money, it leads you to bad places because you feel the need to one-up the other rich people. Apparently, some of these rich people decided that hookers weren't enough of a thrill and just decided to go evil.
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  8.  @danielmikula1375  It was intentional. A lot of Begich supporters hated Palin, and every H2H poll showed Begich winning if he made the top two and Palin losing. The mere fact that Peltola got over 30% of Begich voters should say it all.
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  9. And imagine all of the money he was leaving on the table when he healed all of those people. Why Lazarus alone would have meant that he could have bribed Pilate and not gotten crucified!
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  10. You are aware that Ukraine borders other countries that are NATO members, right? 84 years ago, you would have been saying that Czechoslovakia isn't our problem.
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  11.  @paulzoom489  Dore isn't left, and Maher identifies as a libertarian. Funny that you look for converts, but the examples you cite aren't even left.
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  12. His cousin, Mara Wilson, is secular and by all accounts seems to be on the left politically. Does he think Matilda is a "bad Jew"? I would call him a POS, but manure is useful.
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  13.  @ellenstonehill678  *Tulsi, who not only opposed Medicare for All, but did so in a way that spread misinformation about what it actually was, calling one of the key elements of it "un-American," and is now partnering with PragerU. At least Michael Bloomberg was honest about his awfulness.
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  14.  @FelisImpurrator  That's the best one I've been able come up with. Either that, or "anything we don't like."
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  15.  @antonyhanson4479  Yes, because pointing out Jimmy's ability to pick 'em means that he is the one who caused this heel turn that anyone with the slightest political understanding could have seen coming a mile away.
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  16.  @jackeagleeye3453  Indeed. I do not understand the reflexive anti-government take at all.
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  17.  @RojirigoD  Indeed. And as a veteran who actually treated prisoners of war properly and made sure everyone else did when I was sergeant of the guard, I find her defense of torture and going all Walter Sobchak when someone calls her out on it especially angering. It is an insult to me and every other person who did the right thing.
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  18.  @-suphur  Not if you change the filibuster rules. They are the only two Democrats opposed to it.
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  19. Indeed. I liked him so much better as a preppie. Maybe because this is who he really is. Still, it says something when a preppie is your best (or, more accurately, least bad) self.
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  20.  @mattw7057  But she lets open violations of the Constitution and threatening an ally in order to get dirt on an opponent go unchallenged? Nixon was forced out for much less.
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  21. Oh, Jamie. How are you so easily missing the point? As far as "this limited point" goes, he is arguing that the private sector can get the word out about nutrition without realizing that the only ones who have the resources to pay for nutrition studies, if the government is taken out of the picture, are companies whose vested interests are that the food that they make is nutritious whether or not that is true.
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  22.  Peder Hansen  A lot of people who come to these boards swear up and down that they don't like Ben Shapiro, but they sure do spend a lot of time defending him.
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  23. More harm, I think, because he steers people to misinformation and away from anything constructive. At least the MSM is honest about its intent.
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  24.  @fatbachelors3922  Conspiracy theories such as 9/11 Truth and "the Syrian rebels used gas on themselves," for starters.
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  25.  @boofmcgoof1534  I would ask Hillary for campaign advice. Of course, I would do so in order to know what not to do...
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  26. If they want to complain about the bill being so big, maybe they should get rid of the silent filibuster and supermajority requirement so we don't just get one bite at the apple every year.
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  27. @Slava Ukraine And as someone else pointed out, NATO expanded because those other countries asked to join. Maybe if Putin would stop invading his neighbors, NATO wouldn't be such an attractive option.
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  28. This guy: Marjorie Taylor Greene wasn't comparing this to the Holocaust, so let me go ahead and point out how this is heading down the road to the Holocaust.
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  29.  @DOGbackwardz  The stuff in 2015 that you mention was the grift. At the same time she was calling out the DNC, she was voting with Republicans to make it harder for refugees to enter the country. She only supported Bernie to fend off a primary opponent to her left. The fact that she angled to be Trump's secretary of state should tell you all need to know about the reward she really wanted.
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  30. I get the suspicion that the books around him would be like the books in the Beauty and the Beast room in BoJack Horseman.
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  31. He has slightly more self-awareness than Rod Blagojevich. Hooray!
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  32.  @alabamaman9476  Oh, look. A triggered right winger. What a shock. I didn't think it snowed that much in Alabama, because the snowflakes are coming out.
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  33.  @DavidWest2  Redemption requires true repentance. The amount of atonement necessary to show repentance depends on how much damage they did with their support.
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  34. Thank you to everyone who lived in a swing state in 2000 and 2016 who voted third party because Al Gore and Hillary Clinton weren't pure enough for you. They wouldn't have had the members of the Supreme Court to pull his off without you.
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  35. I keep hearing that Biden came to the Senate to "fight for civil rights." If so, he didn't seem to last very long before lining up with segregationists against busing.
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  36. That's already happened to the point where the 11th Circuit sent out a oress release saying they will no longer take them.
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  37. Less roads, bridges, hospitals, and schools getting funded, Red Brown Troll.
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  38. I don't even think they'll give him immunity. The real goal is delay, and they have already succeeded. After all, why give immunity so someone they don't like can use it?
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  39.  @numinous123  These notjobs think that demanding a vote when you know it will fail miserably and burning bridges is "fighting."
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  40.  @garysmokesmeat  Deregulation started in 1978, so another swing and a miss.
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  41.  @garysmokesmeat  "any same person knows it was extremely unregulated compared to today" Tell that to the trucking, airline, and telecommunications industries. The Dunning-Kruger is strong.
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  42.  @garysmokesmeat  Or, and trying to give you a lifeline here, are you trying to say that there was less regulation in the 1950s because there was no OSHA, MSHA, or EPA? If so, for someone who claims to take the "moral" position, it sure is ironic that you are defending the right of the employer to force workers into unsafe conditions, not pay for the equipment to lessen the chance of workers getting black lung, and to pollute the water and air with impunity. For someone who loves to talk about "violence," what about the violence of damaging the air that we breathe and the water that we drink?
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  43.  @maskedcritic  There are rules. Those rules for ballot access apply to everyone, and they are strictly followed to the letter. If they don't, then it makes certification of candidates next to impossible because there will always be fights about who it is "fair" to let on the ballot. The Wisconsin Green Party knew those rules, and they didn't follow them. The elections board was still willing to give them another chance by letting them fill out an affidavit to explain the discrepancy. Not only did they not bother, but they waited two weeks after the deadline and used Republican lawyers to sue. They were never on the ballot on the first place, and if they had succeeded, the absentee ballots would have gone out too late for tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of Wisconsinites to vote. That's the real assault on democracy.
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  44. He was the logical conclusion of 40 years of awful.
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  45. Some are worse.
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  46.  @stankyfx6001  That must be why she spent the primary literally living in New Hampshire trying to appeal Republicans and managed to earn a whopping one delegate.
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  47. Do actual organizing to get members on board. When you get the magic number, demand that they sign the discharge petition. What have you actually done to build support for Medicare for All?
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  48. The people who insist that there is no difference or people like Krystal Ball insisting that things haven't changed under Trump are people who are enjoying their privilege and don't care about the millions who have been hurt. If someone is going to brag about being too cool for school and voting third party, that person almost certainly just doesn't care about other people and deserves all of the scorn he/she gets. P.S. I know people in safe states who have said that they are not voting for Biden out of protest. They are not on public forums trying to dissuade people from voting for Biden. That's not who I am talking about.
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  49.  @generalmartok3990  I remember it vaguely when seeing his special, which was anything but. It was the level of a bad Borscht Belt comedian.
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  50.  Owen  It's mockery of something a Libertarian candidate said at one of their conventions.
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