Comments by "DXR" (@MrDXRamirez) on "The Hill" channel.

  1. Tulsi is great, Bernie is great, a Bernie-Tulsi ticket would be dynamite....BUT! The American people have to identify their political enemies by class not as individuals.
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  2. Lets see if the students acquired from the education the will to fight back. The same ones who voted to relieve the tax burden of the rich are the same ones who voted to not relieve the debt burden of the students.
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  3. It wasn't trustworthy when Hoover ran it. That tells me where you are at.
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  4. raising the wage would also allow people to afford children and not have to consider an abortion as a way of lowering the cost of a family. Pathetic how they use a low wage to perpetuate a choice between a child and food on the table in this society.
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  5. Brilliant young lady. The argument that debt cancelation is unfair to those who paid their loans can be easily put to rest with “ they got the jobs that cleared them as debtors”.
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  6. The economic conditions of our time includes the fact that women make up the bulk of the workforce. It is not the workforce it was coming out of the second world war. And it is not the fault of women for entering the workforce. Employers found in them a cheaper source of labor that at the same time offered a way out of the unpaid domestic work as mother and housewife. There is the element of a class struggle which was aimed at education on the one hand, and de-skilling the workforce with automation on the other hand. Capital decimated the American family household and dehumanized education with politics, which also affected girls. The old divisions between skilled and unskilled labor, union and non-union, became a new generation of industrially unskilled future workers to meet the needs of monopoly corporations owned by around 500 dynastic families. A steady stream of profitability requires a compliant workforce. Today, nobody is skilled in the labor force. All this came about through NAFTA and Reaganomics which brings us to austerity in the present. It proves that capitalism cannot function without unemployment and economic crisis and the social conditioning of obedience of individuals through tyranny.
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  7. Much of that defense spending and renovation freed up durable equipment to the police is a mistake they care not to address.
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  8. I am not going to criticize him taking a stand on this issue... its time.
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  9. Who is this Porter woman another progressive social democrat? The best analogy I can give that nails a social democrat as actually more anti-working class than the conservative right wing are the labor unions. Trades Unions work well as centers of resistance against the encroachments of Big Business. Progressives work well as a pocket of resistance against political republican encroachments. But both of them, unions and social democrats, fail in the injudicious use of their power, they limit themselves to the effects of the existing corruption on he working population, instead of using their forces as levers to free working people from the corruption, that is to say the ultimate aboliton of corruption
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  10.  @tinasmith1391  :)
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  11.  @zombieninjatedsmith1301  You are one of " Them".
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  12.  @done9921  Taxes used on irrelevant things to you or I but not to the oligarchy extracting taxes.
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  13. Come on, man. Anything that comes out of the Defense Department is BS.
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  14.  @johnsuder7671  Well, the nation is not an oligarchy but it has an oligarcy in the nation the multinational corporations most other nation's oligarchy's do business with...notice throughout this entire social explosion the oligargical private sector is quiet. The law I will state is an economic law not a political one. In human history the division of labor alters earlier forms of labor exploitation. Plato called it the "curse of mankind" in his Republic Bk I. Applied to now the earlier form of exploiting labor during the height of America's economic successes is gone, vanished by the deskilling of labor and more automation making the objective conditions so organized that more subjective freedom is lost in the process of reporducing individuals and families in society. I will state that the progressives have completely embraced the democratic party's approval of these new objective restrictions taking all our freedom away and subjecting us to a modern division of labor Plato would call not the curse of mankind but the death of mankind. If you cannot see that it is the oligarchical political establishment the far right is reacting with anarchism and violence, fearless, has scared the bejheezus out of the entire political establishment that all of them on the left and the right have united as one social class against the people who they cannot distinguish if one is an anarchists or neo fascist militia except now given the technology, they have a profile and made arrests. This constitutes my point about objective restriction resulting in arrests of anyone for any reason. None of the apprehended earn a living by a minimum wage but it is the whole class of minimum wage earners who are subjected to no freedom at all.
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  15. Oh, brother where are their heads? Don't they understand that competition affects the price of any infrastructure project in three different ways? The Defense Production Act would cost less when five, ten, twenty big corporations cooperate to produce a new infrastructure project. If they love it so much they should pay for it. Competition among sellers forces commodity prices down when they want to sell. But there is a competition among buyers that they don't tell us about that is the spoiler. Here among buyers the price of the commodities they want to buy goes up. Lastly, competition does another thing. All buyers and sellers compete to buy cheaper to sell as high as possible. All of this sets the stage for a battle where only one of the three kinds of competitions going on at the same time wins. The chaos of competition will generate sheer social anarchy in society. Sellers and buyers and sellers competing for the greater share of the Emergency Rescue Package Part II the American people will be made to pay for generations to come.
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  16. The small business owner turned politician uses language rooted in social chauvinism and opportunism.  His opinions of the failures of social democracies in Europe and Latin America have to do with human history and social progress whatever their form not because a given party had policies unleashed this potential. Nations do have minds of their own and see the diminishing role of a super power over their lives as a relief to grow the way they want to grow.
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  17. What is true but falsely reported in the west as the Russians did it was the apartment buildings blown out in eastern Ukraine. You are not getting the full story from here or anywhere else in the US.
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  18. Why isn't Biden dead already? What brought him back to life, how was he resuscitated? When Bernie said Biden could beat Trump on national TV was the moment Biden was rescuscitated from the dead. Proves progressives can attack the republicans all they want but if they attack the people in their own party their dead and the American people lose every f'n time!
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  19. What is done to Katie Porter is done to millions of people everyday in America.
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  20. The more others see the hypocrisy of policy-makers to champion women's rights in general and not make a declaration and a political stand on rights of women trampled on everyday in the US in particular, the better.
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  21. The objects defying all modern laws of physics may not be an Alien Being at all. But the other side of the question has to do with what does the human race have it can offer an alien civilization?
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  22. Very nice report...covering the problem of criminals climbing up the social structure of the police, law enforcement, and entering government cabinet positions determining our lives is telling us these people do have a place in government and, that is the problem with government.
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  23. Sounds like this discussion leads to a discovery of a process of building up a pretext to continue an American occupation in Afghanistan.
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  24. Indeed, the presidency is a commodity. Its value is its power its form is money and its job is to make capital. The presidency starts with money and ends with more money. Once someone leaves the presidency they are no longer the equal of everyone else they are richer than everyone else. This is why the presidency leads so many into a search for the excess surplus-value and where it comes from?
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  25. Justices buried their heads in the sand.
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  26. Not only is Biden, and this is by his own admission, a ‘capitalist’, but he is also a believer in less government. Society pays a big price to have a government; its tragic that one person can deny 332 million people a thing they pay for. My hunch for his receding the federal government from social responsibility thus, avoiding a national policy on COVID, he would have to socialize the private hospital care system first and the opposition to that has greater pull in government than the American people do.
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  27. Most people who want to lower their cost do it by hiring less people. After all..once you spent the money on a tractor you can't return it. Nobody wants to deprive life. Abortion as a choice can only be done away with by a higher wage.   If this man can't see that he is blind as a bat flies sonar.  Imagine the positive effects if the family in society were not a thing you can buy  where only the rich have thrived and the poor deprived. If we got to solving this dilemma, a Roe V Wade would not even be a necessary law. In fact, the resolution of this reluctance to increase wages is Roe v. Wade.
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  28. I don't know about you but I want the democratic party under new leadership. Frankly, four more years of this BS is a losing proposition. Some of the billionaires might have their hearts and minds in the right place but they are billionaires! And a few of the others are opportunists leaving Sanders as the only genuine article the middle class and working class would best be represented. So that's it, 2020 is going to be Trump and the Billionaires versus Bernie and the People.
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  29. Crazy...the Trump defense build up took place when the big four enemies of the US, China, NK, Russia and Iran, have been totally non-threatening to the US and the rest of the world of nations ravaged and damaged by a pandemic and climate change catastrophe. There is not even a threat out there to justify this build up.
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  30. Argentina has another neoliberal who comes off as different than the establishment and grabs votes but is more aligned to the Establishment than his predecessor. He hasn’t gone after the private sector for money has he? There you have it.
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  31. “Something I cannot state publicly”, the man is sworn to secrecy. What can a Senate hearing accomplish when government is sworn to secrecy? Nothing. There is a power that enforces secrecy and this undermines function of an open society. Why the US is the only nation on earth that has this issue?
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  32. A race to the bottom...what broke in the business community that made the labor movement come back to life was the business community's decision to export their product and production to China over the last 30 years, beginning in the 1990's under the Clinton administration. Thirteen years before hand, downsizing, bankruptcies, is how the export of production took place side by side with a concentration of capital in the business community. We can trace every social problem the US has to the 1990's the start of the Neo liberal era when Democrats traded domestic issues to capitalize on the diminishing role of the government as a political program to sell to Big Industry in certain sectors of the economy, -- led to a new labor movement.
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  33. With a law in force granting immunity to executives and they still want to suppress the data of casualties in nursing homes presupposes the law is not written in stone. Sometime in the future they could be tried for 15,000 deaths when the winds of politics change. Vanishing the lives of 15,000 people is a crime to the living who belong to those fatalities. Erase the dead and you erase the living in the personal genealogy of those families, there will be a blank about what happened to that man or woman as a relation. This is an abomination of an act to bestow upon a public by a public official. Not one person in the future will answer the question a child will ask when they want to learn where and who their grandparent was except their parents but as far as society is concerned that grandparent is that child's figment of their imagination. Sorry, there is no record of this person. What happens if the deceased left a fortune and heirs are to be determined? What happens when the personal data of the deceased are stolen and sold s new identities for other living people? What happens to the person trying to prove they are not a relation? Cuomo is man of low integrity, a shameless creature to have done this...were the social security funds of the deceased 15,000 souls absconded by Cuomo and the executives before those too expired via 15,000 forged death certificates?
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  34. Touchy subject, a soreness on the psyche of America.
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  35. Truth is, Olberman and Moore are the right and left versions of appropriation of a product that is not their's.
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  36. Who is this Porter woman another progressive social democrat? The best analogy I can give that nails a social democrat as actually more anti-working class than the conservative right wing are the labor unions. Trades Unions work well as centers of resistance against the encroachments of Big Business. Progressives work well as a pocket of resistance against political republican encroachments. But both of them, unions and social democrats, fail in the injudicious use of their power, they limit themselves to the effects of the existing corruption on he working population, instead of using their forces as levers to free working people from the corruption, that is to say the ultimate aboliton of corruption.
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  37. I don't think the petty interest of hedge fund managers is even capable of becoming the common national interest of a class, these days, and the way things are going. Now after the first bailouts working Americans expect to go first in line. Wall Street gets from the Senate whatever it wants. But their petty rural narrowmindedness and city-like swolenheadedness has born an arrogant and odios privileged character to Wall Street. An aura that if they were not bailed out the entire capitalist world would collapse overnight.
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  38. Horrid, awful man is the governor...a political animal. Say nothing of the significance of leaving the remains of a 110 deceased under the debris is callous. He could not say the building has to come down the rescue effort ends. Would you like your mother and grandmother left in the ground that could loosen with water saturation and debris moved by natural forces could, likely will, bring skeletal remains to the surface or be found even if there is a memorial park over the spot the building fell? This job could take years to recover all the deceased and if the recovery stops,---residents are okay with that? What a colossal failure.
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  39. Well, ---if we got at the root of all the rage and fixed that life would get better.
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  40. Bill Gates does what a monopolist does, stifles progress. The under capacity of machine products made by the machine industries cuts their production down. Employment and income levels fall in several industries. An example people can understand what Bill Gates does in the field of public health and the vaccine world is what McDonalds does to every franchise owner in the burger world with their Ice Cream Machine that are forever broken. It is written into the contract that the machines are to be repaired only by the maker of the machine or else! Taylor the Ice Cream Machine manufacturer can then corner the market and keep employed the small machine Taylor authorized machine repair men as independent business owners. Stifling new machine makers from entering the market and then Taylor goes on to own the other machine makers in the event you do go to another maker its still Taylor your doing business with. How these monopolists move to get larger shares of the market is by making more industries dependent on them for the instruction manual, the How To's Fix a Problem is kept secret. Of course the other side of the problem of the constant broken ice cream machines is a work crew poorly paid and not well secure do not care about a machine that does not belong to them or the manager is unorganized to time the cleaning of the machine just right so that it can be used by lunch. The work crew hired by Bill Gates are not as indifferent to the machines they work on for Bill Gates, his machines, they are better paid, secure, more respected by their peers and society. But when it comes down to it,--- both work crews in McDonalds and in the Gates Empire have renounced their right or claim to the product they make and to its use value derived from that product the second they signed on to work for McDonald's or the Bill Gates Foundation.
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  41. A significant component of white nationalist ideology is to never admit your failed or did wrong. On the hard end of the ideology, when defeat is imminent suicide is the way out. On the soft end, in the realm of social propaganda, corrections chip away at the foundation of lies, raise doubt, impede the swift indoctrination process on which a news organization becomes the voice of nationalism spreading its deceptions.
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  42.  @devilzadvocate7735  Time only exists on earth. There is no such thing as time in the Universe or sound. These are two earthly dimensions that owe their existence to gravity. Mankind uses Time is used to measure labor, i.e., duration of labor time. There is nothing natural about time, it is purely a social concept. Therefore the beginning of time is the beginning of mankind’s transition from a consumer of nature to a producer of nature making nature a product of mankind, hence, climate change.
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  43. Trump is a capitalist landowner anti-communist. What a inhuman thing to be!
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  44. The New Housing Crisis is really the process of creating a permanent social class of renter-workers who will have to live in the periphery of the properties bought by the super rich. What will follow is what is a 'clearing' of the old buildings of the adjoining properties purchased as one large tract of land. A young couple will never afford a home as long as monopoly price leveraging is de-regulated.
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  45. Democrats in office come off as fake, insincere, a lifeless people, boring and uninspiring, a plasticity that is devoid of emotion, that it is no wonder the pulse of society slips right past them. A new breed is desperately needed.
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  46. No wife or children with him when he fled Texas? Callous bastard.
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  47. It shows that the financial crash of 2007 had a double purpose. A pivotal point when the productiveness of labor moved offshore and it is no longer a part of the American working class. And it shows the horrendous mistake of bailing out the banks in 2002 and 2008, a blow to the American people, the crash, bankruptcies, foreclosures, loss of jobs and industry, and two bail outs and two Tax Breaks, and to add salt to the wounds a deadbeat Congress avoiding legislation to keep that productivity home. The Financial Crash of 2007 was the turning point of the end of American prosperity.  The most outright serious case of abandonment by a political elite to ever be recorded in human history.
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  48. In many respects we can thank the conquest of China by capitalism as the impetus for the overthrow of capitalism in Europe and America.
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  49. Biden's current problem related to the economy is still too many people out of a job but relative to the American rescue package the estimates seem to point to a 6% economic growth. US Employers are not hiring, they seem to be so diversified high yields come from other sources. How do you get them to invest capital in America? Trump tried and failed.
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  50. I could never vote for Bloomberg bad enough i have to listen to Trump's monotone.  Eight years of Bloomberg's voice would drive me crazy. Never mind his policies. Republicans are the preservationists of the power elite and the democratic party are the conspirators of the power elite. The republican party are owned by two super billionaires (now one deceased) through which the agenda of one corporation and industry gets its way and the democrats are purchase-able or auction-able by different elites bidding the most money.
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  51. The country is getting smaller in terms of space because everyone is driving something bigger and more of these larger objects take up the space that by not using small cars with very high gas mileage is what I call a blind working average for driver, car and road, that it will all crash.
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  52. Bernie is the only one who can redeem the baby boomer generation from going down in history as the most spoiled and selfish. He'd have to redeem everyone if he is going to redeem his own by a total paradigm change.  If he does not American society slides into barbarism.
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  53. This is BS. Propaganda
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  54. Industries that once supported people have become industries that produce for other industries. Problems come with this arrangement when the product or commodity all these industries working for each other help to produce is no longer useful effectively killing the demand for that commodity and a whole lot of people thrown out of work. A crisis. A double crisis of uemployment and a public health crisis. We know products are tested for their utility but it is not the aim of business that a useful thing is made. Boeing embodied a huge number of working hours for a total renovation of its planes but it was Boeing business practices and management that their planes were made to extract a profit from them that rules production and this practice led to the crash of its planes.  The normal course of business led to a disaster. The process of creating a working plane as a use-value to society that we see the particular level of skill, knowledge and creativity of all the particular kinds of people doing a great job renovating the 747 model is not made the rule in our society. Although it should be, the society we live in does not permit it. Normal is a return to the same business practice that led to the disaster gaurantees the disaster will happen again and more intensified.
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  55. There is still in the Universe that we do not know is what he is saying and that is perfectly fine.  We know less the more we learn about the Universe and this does not mean there are alien Beings behind the objects seen in the skies.
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  56. What this shows is that there is enough material wealth and productive power for all to be rich. People do not have to worry about starvation by revolution. Without a job that is the thief of all social time humanity can pursue the goal of transforming the brain and society from poor thoughts to rich thoughts from poor people to rich people as long as shelter and susbsistence is not threatened. Every forebearing social movement who sought to change society had the problem of material deprivation. Russia and China overcame material deprivation and proved a nation can. But their's are not yet a full affluent and democratized society, therefore, partial democratic and socialized societies in whatever variant is all we will see on this earth and in our lifetime as long as the world gets smaller because we number more and there is little room for two systems to exist and one of them depends on expansion for survival. For all to be rich there cannot be any major class differences among people and nations. It cost societies and the planet to maintain and sustain social class imbalances in the consumption of productive power. This cost in the form of human labor consumed more by one and not the other is a key a generator of social inequality. Social classes take up more productive power and economic development depriving others of an affluent life. Everything will have to be completely and 100% democratized for a true affluent society to arise and for a new species of man and woman to develop.
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  57. Americans believe sweat equity should be rewarded. There is nobody out there who put in the sweat, Bernie deserve the equity of the presidency. Besides the republicans and democrats have miserably failed the US economy.  Its chugging along like a staggering alcoholic when it could be taking big strides toward even keeled growth everyone can enjoy.
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  58. This story illustrates the barbarism of the State and humanity a barrier to capitalism.
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  59. Well, the Senator is not right about how we arrived at the $2K per month for working families. That amount is the average compensation of Canadian and European working classes receive in COVID relief since the pademic began. American working families are not given the same treatment by this oligarchy, in fact, a lower standard of living compare to their counterparts in other rich nations is what Americans got and now probably nothing as COVID rages through the population at alarming rates of infection forcing shut downs. What Trump did do is simply reflect the average amount of compensation of our west capitalist counterparts and for the first time we are seeing how this Congress positions the party relation over the compensation and the subsequent low standard of living of Americans. Yet, again, another sheltered Ivy League privileged young radical republican is marking out his ambitions. That social sector of society has the patent in producing opportunists. Object to the election results you win Trump supporter over and if you support $2K you get the essential workers suffering a higher infection rate from COVID over and then spend the rest of your life using one against the other for self-gain.
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  60. We are seeing the type of training that American law enforcement provides training death squads in Latin America. Chickens come home to roost.
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  61. GOP are thugs, a Cartel.
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  62. Can you say that again? Sentence makes no sense to me.
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  63. The fail is Warren allowed the elites coalesce over Biden and Sanders failed to build a coalition of all people of color using race against racism. Using race against racism is the way to beat the republicans.  But this country is so uptight talking about race that the republicans that progressive social democrats loose everytime. Number 2: Sanders reacts like a loon when attacked and does not look or come off as presidential. Number 3: Racism is the essence of the republican party that is destroying the economy and all lives of color.
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  64.  @ShowMeWhatINeedToKnow  And who's fault is that?
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  65.  @ShowMeWhatINeedToKnow  Your earlier comment about "We help our nation by totally..." How is that help rendered in what form?
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  66.  @ShowMeWhatINeedToKnow  It is not a mode of production I would consider a wonder of the world.
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  67. There are 40.3 million people working in modern slavery in the west, of that number 24.9 million people in forced labor, 15.4 million are in forced marriages and out of every four children one child is a victim of family and insitutional violence. These numbers are a culmnation of western advanced capitalist nations. US leads the way in the highest mortality rate among all the rich nations. Overwork is hghest in the US. People think that is a good thng when in reality it means employers are enriched by the added value provided in overwork to the employer's bottom line. In the US alone there are 132 million working class Amercans, only 18.5% work as higher skilled and higher paid trades workers. Not college educated but self-educated and trained in a specific trade. Like a welder. Machine mechanics. Fabricators and builders. The rest of the workforce are unskilled and not unionized, finding jobs in retail now devastated by the coranavirus lock downs that now too many previously earning under the $30 K per capita income will earn whatever benfits unemployment provides. Ther are no buyers looking to buy what these people are selling. Poverty is the inevitable outcome along with the decline in Public Health and environment. Half a million dead from the coronavirus and 717 million people are lifted out of poverty in China as I write. This is a remarkable contrast of what happens when the productive forces of a given society are not in the hands of a particular class-interest.
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  68. 0:10 After 15 weeks or 4.5 months of pregnancy abortions are to be banned. You'd like to live in a society where abortion has not become a necessity for women that you need a Supreme Court to decide if you can afford to bring a child into this world and your life. At the same time, someone feels like they belong to society when they have enough money. For a moneyless person a child is a bond, a belonging. Still the wrong reasons to enter parenthood but there is nothing else in society outside of gangs that girls are not rejected. But I guess that is why republican states have the poorest populations. The lower the standard of living with low wages comes the less choices women and the struggle for more freedom becomes a struggle for survival.
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  69. Trump's following are turds. People who ought never be involved in politics because they are all about themselves. Trump's weakness is his narcissism as a billionaire that the world at the present time needs like it needs a hole in the head.
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  70. She did not announce who she will endorse did she? Sitting on the fence, whether to give her endorsement to Sanders or Biden. Medicare for all is essential with a virus going around that can kill people. If someone is going to stay home from work there has to be a compnesation that goes with it. A society that allows a person to die form starvation and eviction before a virus gets them is a callous society, yet, the administration turning their backs on people who cannot afford to not go to work. Airport, transport, retail, the mechanics in Monro muffler, the health care workers themselves in hospitals, everyone, firefighters who have to fight the fires in California, if they are not in a union they cannot afford to take off from work, increasing the liklihood of the spread of the disease. This is serious, because will Biden make it an executive order that all these workers get paid while they re sick and who replaces them doing the essential jobs they cannot do if they are sick? No contingency plans, its anarchy how Trump's government is managing this crisis.
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  71. Everyone will be trying to save their own skins if there is no street left.
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  72. Well, ---if we confine our own economic diagnosis on high sounding dramas of presidents and states we'll miss the essence of the moment in our time for action!
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  73. It is punishment for non-compliance but for the reasons Iverson exclaims. Second, airlines would no longer land and take off in Miami if the State of Florida strikes down a mandate. They are not going to stop flying because DeSantis is anti-mandate. If that happens DeSantis could stand to lose Disney and host of other attractions. Corporations can move the States cannot.
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  74. That is what I call arrogance tearing up his speech. What a mess, you have an arrogant christian Speaker of the House and an arrogant white nationalist president? Hopeless.
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  75. Many people like the Minnesota guy are going to vote against the next anti-establshment guy or gal for the reason the Minnesota guy just explained.
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  76.  @audimaster5000  What Trust Me does not know is that the Jan 6th insurrection the Oath Keepers carried out for Trump positioned the GOP dead against 132 million working people in the US, and half the world's working population, ---a social class whose time has come will sink their ship forever.
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  77. Happening since 2019 and this is the first time Americans are hearing about it? And not until the end of the video are the real reasons for the farmer’s actions talked about and only briefly at 12:35. This news outlet enables the process the farmer’s are protesting as a disservice to its viewers. The true culprit here is large scale industrial agriculture that the land is needed for its production of goods and to accommodate the workforce agribusiness employs. Cargill, a monopoly agribusiness conglomerate must own the Rising.
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  78. Incredible how a wealthy political and social class in Washington lives off the wealth of the nation free! A congressman is against statehood because if Washington becomes a state the wealthy in it can be taxed.
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  79. Can one claim America is not a racist society? Exactly, you cannot make that claim. Therefore, all institutions are institutions that lives with a racist society. FBI director, Wray, does admit the Chinese communist party is too big for the FBI to handle alone. He cites a weakness that is a threat to national security goes over the head of the senator interrogating him. Dumb senator.
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  80. What is occurring and how the misinformation is treated by media is the same with every crisis generated in other industries. The industries continue to do the same thing as before because the objective of the prevailing philosophy of less government, in practice is to ensure there is no government interference in private industry gets acted out in journalism n the public realm.
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  81. The smoke from the fires and the Ozone smoke humans produce combined is DANGEROUS! It also spreads and covers a wide area in a matter of a few hours four or five cities can be engulfed in very poor quality air with high levels of particulates. People should not make it worse!
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  82. And what or whom do you propose replace the democrats and republican legislatures?
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  83. Excellent critique against the prize-fighters for capitalism. Free-market fundamentalism is radical in the same way caging children as a way of dealing with immigration is extreme. This is a particular virulent right wing ideology to whom human beings are a barrier to the development of capital.
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  84. I'd like to see Cenk, Crystal and Saagar, raise the question of what kind of society Americans want because it has been 163 years that the question of the will of the people in America has been deferred and distracted by all the periods of American history, by every president, and by every counter movement that came up to repress the will of the people when this question was on their minds, or when risen to a higher level than just swallowing the bitter pill democrats and republicans dished out. Whether that was the aftermath of the Civil War, to the Great Depression, the Vietnam War, to the present day with how we treat South America, always deferred and the capitalists remained in power for a little under two centuries, from the Civil War to now. What kind of society do you want America? Mexico has this same problem? Two centuries of two parties really one dominant class and one party with two faces. Do you want a society that meets your needs or the needs of the capitalists, because if you look at American history every single far left liberal and democrat managed to corrupt the People's will. Whenever the will of the people came to the foreground the capitalists still held power, even during FDR, we still had corporationsn and big banks, industrialists and robber barons, and capitalists controlling Washington DC., during the New Deal. It just baffles me that people want to get money out of politics but never tackle the classes of money and most likely still stay in power with Bernie as president. Older Americans like myself can see this but I do not see younger Americans deviating from the same patterns of the 20th century, they are probably just so fearful to be associated with communism that Bernie, Ocasio-Cortez, and others like them do not take a stand on eliminating money from politics...how do you expect to ever get money out of politics if you do not remove an economy that is built around money? Eventually, the power of money will undo whatever Bernie will do just like what FDR had accomplished was undone as soon as money came back into power in 1980 with Reagan. This is crazy cycle of insanity that Americans do over an over again and expect a different result each time they do find a progressive candidate, this will only demoralize the generation that comes after yourselves, your children in the near future. They will become despondent and demoralized, depressed people when they grow thinking things will never change and we may as well all be slaves is all you passing on to your children.
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  85.  @painkillerjones6232  It was meant to maintain a wage system that has a maximum before it dips profits and a minimum before someone dies.
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  86.  @dustinsmith8854  How about you keep buying and selling relationships out of family relationships, period. Wrong with the country is you and your ilk personalizing cultural issues to deflect away from employers using the free market system to drive wages downward.
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  87.  TheMightyZim26  Flipping burgers even if it pays $30 an hour is not going to increase the industrial potential of the US or return production from overseas. Its not going to stop bondholders and Wall Street private equity firms selling out industries to foreign investors, or strangulating cities and property owners of taxes rising to pay off bondholders. Its not going to end the corrupt practices of real estate appraisals that serve to raise taxes in relation to banks. Your eyes are way off the ball. Its not going to forestall another housing crisis greater than 2007. Its not going to restore US influence on the planet. It will accelerate US decline especially in relation to China. We need a new economic system, period.
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  88.  @ThisisKyle  Raise the wage and its gone.
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  89. US manufacturing sector brings in $2 trillion, 10% of the US economy so what is the cost and benefits of going one way or the other? Bernie has a good chance building on this manufacturing sector and position the US as a green climate change producer. This manufacturing is largely in Texas is half the size of German GDP! Not to be snuffed at. So how will we choose our value units? Trump has a impoverishment of ideas, no alternative and the internal deficit gets worse. Left populism is big but corporate new media focuses on the right populism as more news worthy becausee it is uglier than the left populism. Europe in the next ten years will be a tragedy. Supply side metrics, everybody cannot be an exporter. For the system to work you need buyers and sellers. If Trump wins, his tariff war with China will be extended to Europe. Not good news for Europe, which is why Pompeo speech in the Munich conference did not go over well at all saying the West is winning. Winning what, and this implies somebody is losing...namely, Europe. Europe is caught in the middle with bad and weak governments no ideas, no solutions, embarrassed by a little girl so they ignore the problems. Between China and the US, Europe is trying to run a surplus against the world of two major supply chains is ridiculous. But since people do not feel they have any skin in the game there is more going on then a spread sheet. Austerity is the response to all the ingredients of the cake there for a long time the economic system should have been reset ten years ago and ten years out the politics has changed. Conditions were right for the left, instead the putative left were all in charge when it all went down and what did they do, they bailed the banks and this invited the right with "this is not capitalism". It wasn't capitalism. So there is a loss of credibility of the left. This will take time to rebuild but Corbyn did it brining in more members to the labor party. The supply side does everything, doesn't add up. Europe cannot agree on anything at this time and will be playing in the margins for the next ten years. No wonder Salvini in Italy is popular and Germany's right wing rears its ugly head. Governments just pull a magic cap over the heads and pretend the monsters are not there. Bernie can do more than just America First, he can level the supply chain imbalances between China, Russia and the US, raise rates, and ease Europe's push toward austerity, but they have to get rid of their current leaders. Nobody can work with Trump, and Europe's leaders are incompetent, a bad mix, as he is impossible to work with and the west needs pragmatists such as Putin and Xi are.
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  90. Yes and no. The presidency became a more autocratic institution because society became more autocratic. Work in society developed replicating forms of hierarchies that the bottom of society mirrors the top. It began with Kennedy that America emulated the British monarchy placed the Kennedy family as America's "Camelot". But this apparent evolution of the presidency as a royalty corresponds with the rise of the power of the transnational corporations over government and the general corruptiing influence of money. Previous to Kennedy, Ike was an old fart as was FDR and Woodrow Wilson. Obama was a young man and he did more damage to the country that we care to admit, after all, his chose Biden and he left the country vulnerable to a guy like Trump. If you look at Prince of Saudi Arabia, a young man, is a butcher. The right age is a middle age but more than that it is a social system that has matured and aged that its leaders are old. Carter might be saying to us indirectly that the presidency needs to be scaled down to a public office and without the trappings of a monarchy.
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  91. The success of this censorship depends on how easily people can be set against each other.
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