Comments by "Meh Pluribus Unum" (@pluribus_unum) on "Democracy Now!" channel.

56% of Republicans want the United States of America turned into a Christian nationalist state, despite the fact that 71% of Republicans know a Christian nationalist state is wholly unconstitutional.
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State-sponsored massacre. AMLO is wrong if he thinks this arrest will distract the world from his own administration's corruption and dictatorial ways.
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@rwksasc - Cash out your Rubles before the currency collapses. The Kremlin won't be able to pay its troll army forever.
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@Bauhausist - Yes, they do. In 2014, after Putin invaded Ukraine, the Obama/Biden administration created the European Deterrence Initiative and made sure that disaster for Ukraine wasn't repeated when (not if) Russia expanded the war.
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You cannot support democracy and the filibuster with this Republican party. Full stop.
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The Republican party is in the "legal phase of fascism"¹. Period. ______________________________________________ ¹ Jason Stanley, America is now in fascism’s legal phase The Guardian - December 22nd, 2021 "Let us be reminded that before there is a final solution, there must be a first solution, a second one, even a third. The move toward a final solution is not a jump. It takes one step, then another, then another.” "So began Toni Morrison’s 1995 address to Howard University, entitled Racism and Fascism, which delineated 10 step-by-step procedures to carry a society from first to last." ...
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@silentmagelvx2925 - Thank you for the shade. It brightened my day.
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@damongulick3497 - Okay. No citation for the national population of incarcerated adult males. Understood.
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@damongulick3497 - Different subject group entirely. It's not 10%, but a wholly different study altogether.
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Scott Ritter has been on, but it's important to point out he is employed by Russian government owned television channel RT.
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@noirekuroraigami2270 - In your estimation. Regardless, I think it's important for people to know about the potential for bias, and the record of bias at RT is long, in my estimation. People should decide for themselves, my point is simply to reiterate, "caveat emptor".
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@dipthongthathongthongthong9691 - On the contrary, millions of people applied the same "buyer beware" healthy skepticism and personal judgement.
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 @Captain_Nobody_TMR - If psychological projection were film projection, you'd be a 25 theater multiplex. Xi. Trump. Un. Putin. Orban. Etc. Same cloth, different print pattern.
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@l1ght286 - I specifically didn't express my personal opinion on my comment. I merely pointed to another not-for-profit news source interview with Omali Yeshitela speaking for himself about the indictment and the claim he's a Russian agent. He doesn't need me reiterating him, or giving my interpretation of his remarks.
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@Imbalanxd Go peddle your false equivalency and distraction to someone who buys your shtick.
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@casteretpollux - Different, not better. Russia's offers so far still amount to unreasonable subjugation to Russia. Russia is attempting to pull the wool over people's eyes and make them think it can negotiate a harsh deal from a position of unmatched strength. We, outside of Russia's domestic bubble of lies, know Russia's position is far weaker than it was in December, and weaker still in May than it was in April.
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@casteretpollux - Peddle more Kremlin false equivalency. BBN.
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@casteretpollux - Welcome to the party on calling Bush a war criminal. Almost twenty years late.
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This isn't a bipartisan problem, it's Republican obstruction to solutions because white fear is the only thing they have to offer voters anymore.
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@arlandolittle7625 - Read up on the issue. In just one example, we made MS-13 in the U.S. and exported it back. "A final push factor—with a very important transnational history—is gang violence. MS-13 is now one of the largest gangs in the world, and has contributed to violent crime across the region. What many Americans don’t know is that MS-13 was founded in poor neighborhoods in Los Angeles in the 1980s, within communities of Central American refugees who had fled civil wars." "Today, the countries sending the most migrants to the U.S.-Mexico border–especially the Central American countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador–are experiencing a combination of push factors that include poverty and inequality, political instability, and violence. And while the current situation may be unique, it is also deeply rooted in history." "Conservative political elites often responded to these movements by inviting the military to take power, and the resulting conflict would eventually develop into civil wars in Guatemala (1960-1996), El Salvador (1980-1992) and Nicaragua (1979-1990). The United States played a central role in many of these conflicts, propping up military dictatorships and supporting them with logistical aid, money, training and weapons, even as many of them committed human rights atrocities. These conflicts generated huge surges in emigration from Central America, establishing the migration patterns that persist today."
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The cost of the progressive left's fight against Cold-War propaganda engendering a pro-Russia stance because often it was the only way to wedge open the door to any kind of reasonable debate at all. We killed the Cold War hawks but created a blindspot to Russian autocracy. This apologia of the American left for Soviet and then Russian kakistocracy has long been an issue for progressives and liberals. It reignited with greater resonance after the ghastly spectacle that was the western capitalist hyenas picking of the Soviet Union's fresh cadaver clean. Ironically, Putin and Russian oligarchs are nothing without their Wall Street access -- despite the Occupy Movement infiltrators' disinformation lies to the contrary.
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P.S., I know your love for Russian disinformation will be unaffected by my views expressed here. But, my reply isn't really for you.
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Concerning the Democrats election victories last night and the latest BS presidential race poll from CNN; the press will continue to underestimate and misrepresent President Joseph Robinette Biden. The press can go ahead and continue to do so at their own expense, not the country's. We'll go ahead and prosper, despite the lies. All this despite his political acumen, Main Street charm, legislative and policy victories, and his historic and truly representational administration
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The study cited: Novel Estimates of Mortality Associated With Poverty in the US - David Brady, PhD; Ulrich Kohler, PhD; Hui Zheng, PhD Add'l. Coverage: Poverty is the fourth greatest cause of U.S. deaths, analysis published in JAMA finds: Only heart disease, cancer and smoking kill more Americans from the UnIversity of California Riverside - April 17th, 2023 at EurekAlert.
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It's a tragicomic horror that Never Again is ringing hollow because of the ethnic-cleansing and potential genocidal violence of state terrorists waving the symbol and colors of Judaism.
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@dennykeaton9701 - No, he didn't, as a matter of fact. "Joe Biden told immigrants making the difficult journey to the US-Mexico border “don’t come over” Kamala Harris also said, “I want to be clear to folks in this region who are thinking about making that dangerous trek to the United States-Mexico border: Do not come. Do not come,” she said. “And I believe if you come to our border, you will be turned back." You are not being served well at all by your news sources.
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@billpardew2375 - I like results. Immigrant and refugee Americans deliver results. If you like American manufacturing, agriculture, fishing, the rebuilding and new construction of our infrastructure, new housing, myriad licensed tradeworkers, and social security and want it to be funded for your retirement*, you like immigrant Americans and the U.S. refugee policy. Immigrant and refugee Americans are a vital and necessary part of our national strength and shared vibrant heritage, and have been since day one of the colonies and the country. ____________________________ * Because Republicans spent the Clinton/Gore surplus instead of implementing a "lockbox" to ensure social security solvency for generations).
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@skypie1 - Your recitation of the right-wing echosphere of disinformation and hyperbole is 5-star. However, your xenophobia, lies, and distortions don't make an immigration policy, as four years of the Trump administration dismantling our immigration and asylum system proved definitively. Stop buying the hype.
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@skypie1 - No, you just haven't read the facts about the problems, nor the actual comments by the U.S. President and Vice President regarding the problems you ostensibly care so much about. "The strategy groups the root causes of migration into five pillars, offering several approaches for each:" 1 - "Addressing economic insecurity and inequality;" 2 - "Combating corruption, strengthening democratic governance, and advancing the rule of law;" 3 - Promoting respect for human rights, labor rights, and a free press;" 4 - "Countering and preventing violence, extortion, and other crimes perpetrated by criminal gangs, trafficking networks, and other organized criminal organizations;" 5 - "Combating sexual, gender-based, and domestic violence." "Taken together, the five pillars can be seen as the administration’s effort to address the structural fragility that is so often at the root of why people leave the Northern Triangle." "The newly released U.S Strategy for Addressing the Root Causes of Migration in Central America (heretofore referred to as the “root causes strategy” or simply “the strategy”) is the Biden-Harris administration’s blueprint for addressing irregular migration from the region. With an introduction from Vice President Kamala Harris (who was asked to lead the administration’s efforts in the region in March 2021), the strategy focuses on the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. The strategy “lays out a framework to use the policy, resources, and diplomacy of the United States, and to leverage the expertise and resources of a broad group of public and private stakeholders, to build hope for citizens in the region that the life they desire can be found at home.” It aims to build a broad coalition that will include Congress, the governments in the region, the private and public sector, and civil society organizations, with the aim of creating tailored and coordinated solutions to both short-term and long-term causes of migration."
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@godschild3640 - You have been misinformed. You also appear to cherish your Christian faith. Immigration always had made America stronger, and it always will.
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@godschild3640 - If you aren't a troll, you should drop the ALL CAPS. It makes you look like a troll.
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@godschild3640 - Take a breath. Listen to Jesus: "When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. (Leviticus 19:33-34)"
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@@nicolasl2868 - There's nothing distracting about calling out all crimes against humanity. Whether it's the U.S. and imperial and racist wars and exploitation in the Americas, China and the Uighurs, Russia and ethnonationalist violence in Ukraine, Iran and repression of its citizens, most of all women and the Kurdish minority.
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@godschild3640 - ALL CAPS DOESN'T MAKE YOU LOOK STRIDENT. It just makes you look hysterical.
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@godschild3640 - So, God's Child in your handle is merely a statement that you are flesh and blood, not someone living by the edicts of the New Testament. Now I know what I had wrong in my estimation of your moral compass' efficacy and orientation. Your lies about who*, why^, and how¤ people come to the U.S. don't justify your smears, fear, and hatred. ______________________________________________ * mostly U.S. citizen's family members and welcome workers ^ mainly to reunite with family or work ¤ mostly by plane, or at legal crossings¹ ¹ at least until Republicans shut them down, even before the Title 42 enactment
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@@nicolasl2868 - I understand now. Thanks for elaborating. I agree, and I don't want to be a "moral beacon", in no small part due to all the history behind that phrase. And, not to say it's enough by any means, but we did just do the most by any country ever on climate change, despite Republican servitude to unfettered fossil fuel greed. I feel we shouldn't shy away from leading by example where and when we can because -- for example -- we are still heavily laden with all our national and international crimes against humanity, and must continue like Sisyphus rolling the "rock of reconstruction". I hold out all the hope -- but admittedly little confidence -- that this recent white nationalist surge becomes a final homicidal and grotesque reflection of ourselves that will get my demographic, white Americans, to start a massive truth and reconciliation process for the genocide of the civilizations we "discovered", five centuries of slavery and the consequences that demand real reparations. I'm glad that 18-25 year old white voters, for the first time in over 10 years, turned out to vote for country over complexion; as coming into the 2022 midterms, a majority from all age groups of white voters had chosen Trump over Clinton in 2016, and then Trump over Biden in even larger numbers in 2020.
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RE: Corporate hypocrisy over donations to treasonous, coup-plotting Republicans. Corporations won't protect democracy, even though autocracy would destroy many of them entirely.
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If they don't know the motivation, why is it not terrorism? Is this an instance of saying it's not terrorism because the shooters were white and assumed to be lone wolves ? If you don't call white nationalist terrorism terrorism , you aid and abet white nationalist terrorism.
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The Kremlin's main power is a derivate of a widespread, but thin layer of "passive loyalty" across Russian society, according to experts like Masha Lipman. Frighteningly, the Republican party is leveraging a similar "passive loyalty" to derive it's minority rule over the majority (Democratic members of Congress represent 42 million more Americans than do Republican ones). This loyalty is present even among the few remaining patriots they have in elected office, like Liz Cheney who, still to this day, avows that she cannot ever vote for a Democrat under any circumstances.
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The Republican party is an insurgent force openly assaulting the rule-of-law. Full stop.
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@HadleyLn - Biden is the most pro-labor and pro-union President since FDR. My point being, no union worker should ever vote Republican. That is undeniable.
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Congressional term limits worsen corruption, and are undemocratic and unconstitutional. Vote and take three others when you do.
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Not voting, despite the duopoly, is to abandon those who are most vulnerable to the tyrannical Christian nationalist and anti-government Republican candidates for President, Senate, House, and state-level office.
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