Comments by "Travis Cutler" (@traviscutler9912) on "The Rational National" channel.

  1.  @theJAFOreport  I didn't confuse them, the Liberals are federal, the BC Liberals are provincial, but they probably share more than you'd think. They both pay lip service to environmental concerns while siding with industry, they both have propped up the real estate industry with foreign money and both serve the wealthy while blathering on about the middle class.
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  2. FPTP is the only way that conservatives and liberals can keep their strangle hold on Canada. Trudeau doesn't give a s*** if the conservative win, he wants them to win so that Pierre could be exposed as the snake oil salesman that he is. Then, the Liberals will be able to come back and keep all the other parties out. The system works.
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  3. Corporate Joe: don't worry, he's really a Republican;)
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  4. And nobody ever let Abby ask a question again.........
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  5. PIERRE'S HOLLOW TALKING POINTS federally I think Mad Max is actually what Polllievere talks about but doesn't vote for. As for policies I don't think "stop the gatekeepers" is a policy as I'm sure he's not going to allow mixed social housing to be built next to his house or any of his wealthy donors either. Same with firing bank of Canada, sounds good but the corporations that back him won't accept anything that hurts their bottom line. He'll cut taxes, probably save the middle class about $800-$1000 in taxes but will cut carbon tax rebates so more like a $500 savings while giving corporations millions in tax breaks. Now when you cut revenue it drives up the deficit and destroying the CBC won't save billions in lost tax revenue so he'll have to go after government services and add "service fees" for other government services (exactly what Harper did and PP voted for). As for the Oil industry, he can't force multinational corporations to use Canadian oil as that amounts to nationalization and that's commie talk. But let's pretend that he did, Saudi oil is almost 5 times cheaper to produce a barrel of sweet crude than Canadian oil not to mention we don't have refining capacity so imagine how paying quadruple the price of "Canadian gas" would go over. Pretending he's going to build a pipeline to the east coast (that the multinational companies said wasn't financially viable) may sound good but won't actually happen either. The only thing he's said that appeals to me is how he's going to force the medical profession to accredit immigrants BUT that industry is incredibly powerful and is unlikely to give away their monopoly not to mention most Albertans won't want to see a Bangladeshi Dr. His platform is buzz words and slogans without numbers or anything that is measurable because he knows that people would actually crunch those numbers and tear him to shreds. It's easier to make promises to the base, reassure the wealthy that nothing will change and ride a wave of dissatisfaction with the Liberals to office. Sounds familiar, that's what Trudeau did with Harper.
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  6. The system works.
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  7. But keep on telling people to vote for Kamala, and her support for this murderous rampage David, you completely suck.
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  8. Come on. Let's be honest these guys put on Oscar grade performances! It's not easy to pretend you're a journalist
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  9. Keep in mind that if you drive an hour out of any major city in Canada, you have pretty much Fox News, rebel media rednecks who are extremely low information voters. They certainly aren't going to vote for an NDP visible religious minority. They're going to vote for the person who's got the loudest dog whistle which is Pierre. Never underestimate the stupidity of your humanity. Canadians like to thank themselves better than Americans, however, we watch a lot of American television.....
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  10. Trudeau is as deep as water spilled on a glass table
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  11. So David let me get this straight, we need to keep voting blue no matter who until the Establishment votes for ranked choice voting to destroy their strangle hold on power and their only way to keep people voting for them despite their corruption?
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  12. VOTE 3RD PARTY!!!! The reality is that the duopoly is going to win regardless BUT if a massive voter turnout for 3rd parties occurs it could possibly get 5% for official federal government support and more importantly start to break the back of corporate domination of both parties. Besides, I'm starting to think a second Trump presidency might be in everyone's best interest. If Biden is re-elected everyone gets to go back to brunch and pretend that democracy is ok. A Biden presidency would reward the DNC for being corrupt, breaking all its promises to the Left, kids still in cages, refugees dying at the border, failure on climate, failure on healthcare and continuing to promote the proxy war against Russia. However, if Trump is re-elected everyone will remember that children are still dying in detention, democracy is under direct threat, the world is burning and at least Trump says he would try to end the war in Ukraine (obviously Trump would nuke Ukraine for a nickel but the fact he even suggested peace is better than the DNC's current pro WW3 stance). The reality is that we can boil the climate frog slow or fast but it's going to fry either way. If the fire is stoked it would re-unite the real Left and remind the Corporate Democrats that breaking every promise has consequences or if we are really lucky, public awareness that the duopoly won't save us and force regular people to understand that they're also in the same boiling pot........ The system works. Let's stop supporting it. Dr Cornell West for President (or any 3rd party, just so long as you're not supporting the duopoly). By
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  13. Ok, So my question is this? Does it make more sense for People to vote NDP and let the normies vote for Carney and Pierre so that Pierre gets a minority government rather than strategic voting that slightly pushes Carney over the line. This would require PP to actually bring his proposed negotiation with Trump back to parliament and force PP to get backing from Parliament at least another party which would make him liable for ACTUAL POLICIES and have to explain himself which he's never actually had to do to the Canadian public. However, if the left strategically votes Liberal, it would sink jagmeet which is a good thing so we can move on to a new leader but unfortunately Carney would then own whatever outcome happens from the Trump negotiation which under the best circumstances will still be terrible and he will own it which will sooner than later lead to a PP super majority? Hence, I personally believe that it makes more sense to vote for your conscience and the NDP even though I don't like Jagmeet and I think that the Canadian public NEEDS to see PP for who he really is (while showing Carney what these neoliberal choices will produce in terms of backlash) and that only happens when PP doesn't just get to complain about government but actually HAS TO GOVERN but I'm very interested in your opinion on this Mr Boots as this is a foundational concern right now? Thanks
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  14. The system works!
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  15. We're eventually getting Poillevere because Trudeau lied about ending FPTP elections. Had he just did what he campaigned on the conservatives would never have a majority again. ugh. The system works.
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  16. VOTE 3RD PARTY!!!! The reality is that the duopoly is going to win regardless BUT if a massive voter turnout for 3rd parties occurs it could possibly get 5% for official federal government support and more importantly start to break the back of corporate domination of both parties. Besides, I'm starting to think a second Trump presidency might be in everyone's best interest. If Biden is re-elected everyone gets to go back to brunch and pretend that democracy is ok. A Biden presidency would reward the DNC for being corrupt, breaking all its promises to the Left, kids still in cages, refugees dying at the border, failure on climate, failure on healthcare and continuing to promote the proxy war against Russia. However, if Trump is re-elected everyone will remember that children are still dying in detention, democracy is under direct threat, the world is burning and at least Trump says he would try to end the war in Ukraine (obviously Trump would nuke Ukraine for a nickel but the fact he even suggested peace is better than the DNC's current pro WW3 stance). The reality is that we can boil the climate frog slow or fast but it's going to fry either way. If the fire is stoked it would re-unite the real Left and remind the Corporate Democrats that breaking every promise has consequences or if we are really lucky, public awareness that the duopoly won't save us and force regular people to understand that they're also in the same boiling pot........ The system works. Let's stop supporting it. Dr Cornell West for President (or any 3rd party, just so long as you're not supporting the duopoly). By
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  17. Sadly, I don't think Jagmeet is serious about anything other than his fancy suits or Rolex watches, or maybe his mild deference to Israel but from what I can tell so far, his main concern is self-preservation and keeping in the media spotlight (*AND his very important first steps towards Canadian dental and pharmaceutical which I don't want to diminish. I would be doing his legacy a disservice if I didn't acknowledge his important contributions during this extremely difficult political time to accomplish anything) However, I also understand the political realities of the NDP being extremely underfunded and becoming exponentially less popular under Jagmeet's leadership. I hope I'm wrong but there's been some pretty heinous examples of him putting political expedience over genuine democratic social issues (If he's not socialist and or wants the NDP to be a pragmatic pro capitalist party, then I really want that to be specifically laid out?!? Maybe that's already been said, I don't follow it the way I used to, especially after how he threw a couple of his MPs under the bus over support of the UK'S Jeremy Corbyn.) For the record, Corbyn is the best thing we could possibly hope for in this country as an unapologetic pro labour politician. Sadly, he would be a perfect example of what would also happen if we elected a real democratic socialist who refused to back Israel's genocidal slaughter of innocent children or privatization of Canada's resources. They would make sure he was called an anti-semite (& pretty much every single other smear possible) and then slowly but surely destroy his government using people from within his own party who would undermine his mandate & agenda, especially with the help of our corporate media who are more ravenously pro-genocide than even the most brutal xenophobic anti-muslim groups in Canada sadly. Still, Jagmeet would then hopefully be forced out of government and a new leader elected?!?! The sad fact is anyone who's not Jewish (or even if they are Jewish) is going to be falsely accused of anti-Semitism for anything other than slavish devotion to the execution of every last man, woman and child in Palestine. The sad reality is that any visible minority, especially any religious visual minority in Canadian federal politics will be merciously persecuted in our insanely concentrated billionaire owned media regardless of the facts but even more so if they look different than your average Canadian hoser. It's totally unfair but is a very obvious reality and needs to be addressed by any leader of the NDP who wants to lead, not just follow. Not addressing this isn't an option as avoiding it or placating this group, like Jagmeet's done is just a recipe for things getting worse. Jagmeet's obviously an extremely intelligent, sympathetic and amazing addition to the NDP team but cannot be the face of the party moving forward as the majority of Canadians whether we like to admit it or not are racist, xenophobic, a combination of either and or both, or at the very, very, very, very least, are an unconsciously biased against a group of visible minorities who are very recently in the media for having an open war with the government of India (Who are an extremely important trading partner, especially given the USA trade situation as well as massive Canadian community after the Chinese). Reality is that the overwhelming majority of politics is fought on "vibes." How the f*** else would Trudeau have ever been elected PM lol!?!?! Sad but true. This all comes back to some very important realities, do the NDP want to slowly but surely become irrelevant or worse help PP destroy Canadian industries?!? Or does the only labour representative political party in Canada want to take this opportunity not to become the UK's "Tony Blair" of Canadian politics, w/ a watered down socialist agenda that makes the NDP a "liberal light option," as the party drifts into political irrelevance?!?!? Or, much more importantly?!?! Is this the first opportunity in probably a couple of generations to inspire the youth vote & contrast an extremely huge division between a working class vision of Canada's future with all of our resources and our working people's efforts against the duopoly of the Conservatives and Liberals pro USA corporate agenda, who are literally taking corporate money from the exact same mega Canadian corporations (subsidiaries of foreign conglomerates) while rolling over for the Trump administration so that they can continue to make money from the billionaires?!?!? F**** seriously! This may be the last chance we get and I can't help but think drawing these STARK POLITICAL CONTRASTS is THE ONLY WAY to unequivocally champion the real goals of an NDP that honestly believes what can be done for Canadians?!?! All while Singh drives around in his Maserati, picking up his Armani suit, while making sure that it all matches his Rolexes........ I'm actually very sure this is a super unfair characterization of Singh BUT even though this may come as a shock, politics isn't fair. We need a Bernie Sanders, unfortunately Charlie is leaving which is too bad as he's more or less our Bernie Sanders but perhaps if we begged him, he may be convinced to stay?!? Regardless, that's what we need an old school socialist who is going to make sure people understand that voting NDP is an actual choice against the Liberals/Cons, and the over 150 years of corruption they represent. The system works, let's stop supporting it for once!
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  18. Canada's border accounts for considerably less than 1% of drugs or refugees than Mexico does, so this obviously has nothing to do with that whatsoever. However, Trump is ONLY allowed to start a trade war without Congressional approval, IF it is "security" related, hence the nonsense about drugs coming from Canada. He intends to extort Canadians to enrich certain corporations and himself at the expense of average Americans. Oil will be exempted because he understands that most Canadian Conservative politicians will gladly sell out the rest of Canadians to ensure that their donors in the oil industry are still profitable as that's who they actually serve (* you can't get a cushy corporate board seat after politics if you didn't deliver the goods). The system works p.s. Liberals aren't much better unfortunately.......
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  19. THE CASE FOR A TRUMP PRESIDENCY: The Democrat's sole purpose is to take energy and resources from the Left. Period. They made that clear with what they did to Bernie Sanders, they would rather Trump than real progress because ultimately the goal is to consolidate money and power into the elites. With that as a guide (let's stop pretending that the DNC hasn't been failing on purpose for 40ish years), the logical conclusion to our future is eventual climate catastrophe that will be the pretext to fascism. When that happens and we don't have a movement (greens) that has been well funded with trained people, they'll round up the political opposition and the new world order will be impossible to fight against (think of the French underground leading up to the Nazi take over but now they have an algorithm that flags the people who are capable of fighting back). Therefore, I'm starting to think a second Trump presidency might be in everyone's best interest. If Biden is re-elected everyone gets to go back to brunch and pretend that democracy is ok. A Biden presidency would reward the DNC for being corrupt, breaking all its promises to the Left, kids still in cages, refugees dying at the border, failure on climate, failure on healthcare and continuing to promote the proxy war against Russia. However, if Trump is re-elected everyone will remember that children are still dying in detention, democracy is under direct threat, the world is burning and at least Trump says he would try to end the war in Ukraine (obviously Trump would nuke Ukraine for a nickel but the fact he even suggested peace is better than the DNC's current pro WW3 stance). Also, let's say we drag Biden across the line and now he doesn't have to face re-election do people honestly believe he'll go against the donors!?!? Another thing is the fact that if Biden serves a full 8 years it will almost certainly ensure a GOP sweep of all 3 levels of government and this time it won't be a moronic gameshow host but a capable authoritarian who will have unlimited power. I'd rather Trump win and let him grift for another term with divided government than face the prospect of a GOP 2028 sweep after 4 more years of Neoliberal policies under Biden. The reality is that we can boil the climate frog slow or fast but it's going to fry either way. If the fire is stoked it would re-unite the real Left and remind the Corporate Democrats that breaking every promise has consequences or if we are really lucky, public awareness that the duopoly won't save us and force regular people to understand that they're also in the same boiling pot........ The system works. Let's stop supporting it, vote 3rd party.
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  20. Arguments with fools......what a patient man. Deductive reasoning isn't for conservatives
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  21. Democrats lose on purpose so they can blame Republicans for what donors to both parties want. The system works.
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  22. Lol. Yeah, Jimmy Dore said the same thing 18 months ago. Jimmy is a little disingenuous but TYT are either corrupt or incompetent.
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  23. Racism in the British Royalty!?!?! Shocking, the next thing theyll say there's such a thing as Class division.
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  24.  @JHasselroth  actually, he does. Even if he goes into a coma the day before the election he would guarantee that Biden would lose. It would also make it 110% clear that the DNC would rather Trump win than do what they promised in their election platform (public option for health insurance, pharmaceuticals relief, student debt, actual climate change policy, stop drilling in public land and on and on). This would finally lay rest to the ridiculous pretense that the DNC represents anyone other than the donors.
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  25. "This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism." Martin Luther King Jr. You say it will take too long for the greens to become relevant, fair enough, but do you actually think the Democrats will change in any reasonable amount of time before the planet burns? Every year they go further to the right, a labor win does not justify the complete and total abject failure of Biden to complete anything. He promised the left. But please tell us again to vote blue no matter who because it's going to totally be different this time.
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  26. Good ol'Americans know how.
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  27. Those are RFK numbers........
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  28. I guess Pete is entitled to the time off that he denied to rail workers.
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  29. ​ @jeanetteeastman1638 exactly, if we let the DNC believe that putting identity politics ahead of the lives of innocent Palestinian children works. It sends a very clear message that the electorate is not only easily manipulated, but that no matter how many crimes against humanity they commit, they will be supported so long as they check a box. The system works
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  30. They also believe in angels so......
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  31.  @MrCuriousk  ok, so as a bot I have a question. Does it make more sense to show Pierre as incompetent leader now with a minority government or allow Carney to squeak in and then take the blame for the inevitable failures against a much larger adversary in Donald Trump or hope that the exposure of PP as an incompetent leader who actually has to explain his inability to govern or solve literally anything?! As a bot, these are my concerns!?!
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  32. Ok, so then ask David why he doesn't support Cornell West? Clearly it doesn't matter which of the duopoly is in place, but at least if enough people start voting third party, it's best start. Vote blue no matter who's is how he got here.
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  33. Affluentza?
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  34. The real question is how long do we pretend that Biden is doing this by accident or ignorance? After decades of the Democrats seemingly to lose for no reason other than extreme incompetence or just simply not wanting to win do we realize that they are working for the same people the Republicans are, the ultra wealthy.
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  35. Lol, conservatives don't read
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  36. Bernie represents real change, only a ground swell of grassroots support will push him to be the candidate. Corporate media will try and destroy him but he has the only record of standing up for average people.
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  37. The system works.
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  38. ProFa is out of hand.
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  39. VOTE 3RD PARTY!!!! The reality is that the duopoly is going to win regardless BUT if a massive voter turnout for 3rd parties occurs it could possibly get 5% for official federal government support and more importantly start to break the back of corporate domination of both parties. Besides, I'm starting to think a second Trump presidency might be in everyone's best interest. If Biden is re-elected everyone gets to go back to brunch and pretend that democracy is ok. A Biden presidency would reward the DNC for being corrupt, breaking all its promises to the Left, kids still in cages, refugees dying at the border, failure on climate, failure on healthcare and continuing to promote the proxy war against Russia. However, if Trump is re-elected everyone will remember that children are still dying in detention, democracy is under direct threat, the world is burning and at least Trump says he would try to end the war in Ukraine (obviously Trump would nuke Ukraine for a nickel but the fact he even suggested peace is better than the DNC's current pro WW3 stance). The reality is that we can boil the climate frog slow or fast but it's going to fry either way. If the fire is stoked it would re-unite the real Left and remind the Corporate Democrats that breaking every promise has consequences or if we are really lucky, public awareness that the duopoly won't save us and force regular people to understand that they're also in the same boiling pot........ The system works. Let's stop supporting it. Dr Cornell West for President (or any 3rd party, just so long as you're not supporting the duopoly). By
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  40. My only problem with this David is how you don't go after the completely and totally disingenuous nature of Kamala and the DNC. I get that everyone hates Trump, blah blah blah blah blah blah. Still, both Trump and Kamala have every intention to fully support a genocide which I find problematic because of genocide. Vote third party, it doesn't matter which one because both parties are f**** evil
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  41. Bernie has a choice; fight the military industrial complex, the pharmaceutical industry, the oil industry, the deep state and the world's most powerful industries that can have you (or a loved one) assassinated by a "lone wolf" if you challenge them OR you can be famous, have healthcare, make money, have a secure retirement, go on the talk show circuit and get a book deal. That's a pretty stark choice and I'm starting to think that the only people who would choose the former have to believe in heaven (or more importantly hell) because there's no reward in this life to do the right thing. The system works Panther Party
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  42. "This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism." Martin Luther King Jr. You say it will take too long for the greens to become relevant, fair enough, but do you actually think the Democrats will change in any reasonable amount of time before the planet burns? Every year they go further to the right, a labor win does not justify the complete and total abject failure of Biden to complete anything he promised the left. But please tell us again to vote blue no matter who because it's going to totally be different this time. Millionaires arguing on behalf of billionaires is less convincing than they think.
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  43. Ok, So my question is this? Does it make more sense for People to vote NDP and let the normies vote for Carney and Pierre so that Pierre gets a minority government rather than strategic voting that slightly pushes Carney over the line. This would require PP to actually bring his proposed negotiations with Trump back to parliament and force PP to get backing from Parliament at least another party which would make him liable for ACTUAL POLICIES and have to explain himself which he's never actually had to do to the Canadian public. However, if the left strategically votes Liberal, it would sink jagmeet which is a good thing so we can move on to a new leader but unfortunately Carney would then own whatever outcome happens from the Trump negotiation which under the best circumstances will still be terrible and he will own it which will sooner than later lead to a PP super majority? Hence, I personally believe that it makes more sense to vote for your conscience and the NDP even though I don't like Jagmeet and I think that the Canadian public NEEDS to see PP for who he really is (while showing Carney what these neoliberal choices will produce in terms of backlash) and that only happens when PP doesn't just get to complain about government but actually HAS TO GOVERN but I'm very interested in your opinion on this Mr Boots as this is a foundational concern right now? Thanks
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  44. David You're a vote blue No matter who as well. You're not left, you're a centrist and you want your comfortable position maintained. Bri didn't say that she wanted to teach democrats a lesson, quite the opposite. She believes there incapable of learning any lessons and that the only chance that America has is electing a third party and if that means electing Trump so that the green party can get 5% so be it. Slightly improving labor conditions while throwing the flood gates of oil development under Biden really is just a matter of managed decline. The Democrat's sole purpose is to take energy and resources from the Left. Period. They made that clear with what they did to Bernie Sanders, they would rather Trump than real progress because ultimately the goal is to consolidate money and power into the elites. With that as a guide (let's stop pretending that the DNC hasn't been failing on purpose for 40ish years), the logical conclusion to our future is eventual climate catastrophe that will be the pretext to fascism. When that happens and we don't have a movement that has been well funded with trained people, they'll round up the political opposition and the new world order will be impossible to fight against (think of the French underground leading up to the Nazi take over but now they have an algorithm that flags the people who are capable of fighting back).
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  45. We need the PPC to split the tiki torch vote.
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  46. Cynicism, DNC cowardness and the usual predictable nature of money in politics suggests that Kamala will be anointed the candidate so that they can avoid democracy and any discussion of issues such as the Israeli genocide, the needless slaughter of ukrainians and the obvious oversized power that the donors have in picking the next presidential candidate in order to block Bernie Sanders or anyone who actually represents working people. The system works.
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  47. Trudeau is a Corporate Democrat in Canadian clothes.
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  48. Actually, criminalizing the poor IS the answer and solves many problems. First, it sends a clear message to the working poor what's going to happen to them if they don't work multiple jobs with a smile. Second, it keeps a police state that has a constant prison population that works for free and keeps people who may have dangerous leftist views demoralized as well as legally untouchable. Third, people losing their homes or rentals allow hedge funds to buy up housing cheaply while squeezing the rest of the rental class. This also helps keep the serf class compliant. Homelessness is not an accident, it's a plan that's doing exactly what it was designed to. The system works. Panther Party
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  49. Nothing like that twang to confirm legitimacy.
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  50. Why am I not surprised David is a leafs fan, They are the DNC of the NHL
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