Comments by "Animal Farm" (@animalfarm7467) on "Thom Hartmann Program" channel.

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  6.  @tomjohn8733  So many questions and only one lifetime. It would take me an hour to explain the nuances of "Identity Politics". A simple example - one small facet of identity politics is when some element of a minority group (e.g. feminism) is politically weaponized. For example - if you don't like Gina Haspel, it isn't because she was a torturer; it's because she is a woman and therefore you must be a misogynist. Or - if you are critical of Obama because he started 7 wars and destroyed Libya and Syria, then you must be a racist. As I said, Identity politics has many nuances; this is but one example. As for whether anthropogenic climate change is real - it is. The "right to life - pro choice" is simple. The Republicans needed a way to stay in the political race, so they targeted those whose religion was against abortions. It was purely political by the Republicans; there was nothing moral in their intent. As for the rite to life itself, that's a complex issue. Like anything else, abortions can be abused. And not everyone makes rational choices. But "as for both parties being similar is like saying we are all human". Now there is an interesting twist. I have found that Darwinian capitalism embraced by both Republicans and Democrats is driven by those in society with psychopathic and sociopathic tendencies. Some estimates show 30% of executives are psychopaths and many others in the high ranks of the corporation show psychopathic tendencies. Psychopaths whose amygdala does not function like others usually exhibit a deficit of empathy; and these anti-human advantages combined with a little Machiavellian cunning allows them to more easily work their way top the top of the heap. These psychopaths have a clear advantage over others, as in a capitalist system emotions can be a hindrance. And it's not just the amygdala (emotion) that is different in psychopaths; the frontal cortex (judgement) is also compromised and physically smaller. In fact, the brain physiology of a psychopath is so different, many psychiatrists consider this physiology to be that of another species of human. So it is definitely possible your statement, "we are all human" is not quite correct. Look it up; it's interesting research.
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  7. ​ @thefrenchareharlequins2743  : Forget about "anti-gun", "social conservatism", and especially "identity politics"; they are just fabrications by the plutocrats’ politicians and mainstream media to trigger a reaction in the population and to exploit primordial emotions. The plutocratic families have spent centuries using compartmentalization to create societal boundaries by molding tribal differences between groups, and then manipulating and exploiting the primordial tribal emotions generated by those differences. The contemporary culture everyone now accepts as "normal" has been slowly engineered over decades by the plutocrats' politicians, their mainstream media, and Hollywood to Divide-and-Conquer to advantage their interests? Adversarial politics is just a stage act and Democrats, Republicans, and others (e.g. Libertarians) all work for the same masters. Today the plutocrats own most leftist groups, the remaining Unions, and even the "Democratic Socialists of America" LMAO. Understand the Austrian-Libertarian plutocrats like Charles Koch are not only the ex-business partners of libertarians (e.g. Ron Paul), the Kochs also funded the Clinton-Gore "Democratic Leadership Council" for the "Third Way" Democratic Party establishment. And now the plutocrats are washing and recycling their Republican stooges into the Democrat fold. Ever notice how many liberals in Ellen's audience cheered when Ellen danced with the war criminal George Bush? Ever notice how many liberals now embrace the FBI after their Cointelpro history of killing leftists and attempting to destroy the left movement? This is all a vast Hollywood production straight out of Edward Bernays' playbook "Propaganda", where the politicians are actors and the mainstream media are the script writers. It's all about manipulating rubes on a vast scale using all their resources. There are those few who know it's all a show and the vast majority that just watches in ignorance and wonder - which one are you? There are even those extremely gullible rubes who still believe in Trump's "Drain the Swamp" or Obama’s "Hope & Change". LMAO Understand it was the "Rockefeller" Foundation that imported Austrian economics into the US in 1940 when they expatriated von Mises from Europe into Rockefeller's University of Chicago. Given the business history of the Rockefellers, they weren't doing that for the people's benefit. And never forget Greenspan was the apprentice of Ayn Rand, the author of the Austrian-Libertarian's favorite book "Atlas Shrugged". Few people ever get to learn of the irony that Ayn Rand was on government social security when she died. But don't take my word; make sure you do your own independent research - and that means stay away from corrupt sources that attempt to rewrite history like the Mises Institute. This scam is vast; you have no idea. As George Carlin famously once said, "It's a Big Club, and you ain't in it".
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  10. TruthSeeker2: The current critical issue in the future of the US is how people wake up to this wrestling scam. As in the wrestling scam, both sides of politics (wrestling teams) are working to fleece the audience (voters) by stimulating their emotions and getting them to go along with their wrestling team (political party). It is in the interests of both sides of politics to fool their audiences for the benefit of their masters (the oligarchs). The primary function of these wrestling matches is to collect the money at the door. The secondary function is to ensure they root for one of the two allowable teams the oligarchs have place in front of them; and the tertiary scam is to have the audience come back next week for another episode. This is not a recent event; even the founding fathers were scamming against the majority, but that is never discussed as it goes against the corporate state's "national" narrative. Consider the requirement in those days to hold property before you could vote in an election. So there is DeVos defunding the only process (education) dedicated to give the population enough reasoning ability to understand the scam, and what happens next, I think you can guess. Remember, this is a trans-generational scam and it has recently (1933) been warming up. In the last few decades (1980s & b1990s - Reagan & Clinton), it has really accelerated. Now the same oligarchs in control of both parties have indebted every American to the tune of $70K in a massive wealth transfer scam. These same oligarchs and are now overtly killing innocents in foreign lands to enrich themselves; where it goes from here is anybody's guess. There is only one constant in all of this; and that is Hartmann will be pushing you to vote for the “lesser of two evils” no matter what.
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  15.  @georgefurman4371  : I've been observing Controlled opposition for some time and Hartmann is an interesting case. Hartmann appears to have the luxury of recruiting the real imbeciles in society to watch his show; those cretins who add 2 and 2 and wind up with a mongoose. I have observed a few of them wake to Hartmann's tactics and the strategy of his narrative; but sadly, usually too few to mention. Hartmann is a deceiver and many genuine progressives (e.g. Chris Hedges) now appear to avoid Hartmann like the plague. Even the usual progressives-lite (e.g. Thomas Frank) haven't frequented the site. His only guests are now the scam merchants (e.g. Mark Pocan) who run the gambit for the plutocrats' Democratic establishment and Imperialism. And as for workers; Hartmann understands exactly what he is doing with his divide-and-conquer strategy. The country is split and this split is intentional. It originated in sources like Maddow on MSNBC where scams such as "Russiagate" originated. And then it was picked up by the "alternative" media like Hartmann who pushed this garbage for months. Hartmann and the establishment understand if they can continue to split the nation, there can be no successful reunification of the "Left". So may I suggest to you, "Think about it more carefully." and don't explain your argument with an incomprehensible "word salad" that doesn't present a consistent and logical argument and never comes to a conclusion. Don't be one of the usual mindless imbeciles that watch this garbage and just nod your head as Hartmann sells the plutocrats' narrative.
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  18. Bacevich continues pushing the US plutocrats' fake narrative of the US as a benign influence in the world. Why don't these ignorant fools ever tell the truth? The US is an Empire, owned by the plutocrats, and it uses the threat of sanctions and its military to covertly extract wealth from, and oppress the planet. The US creates the illusion it's the World's policeman, but this policeman is a corrupt and brutal thief and murderer. It pushes US Exceptionalism just as the Nazis pushed Aryan Superiority. There is a reason the US is the wealthiest nation on the planet, and it’s due to its control of other nations' economies. You might remember how Hartman tacitly supported US sanctions against Venezuela in the US plutocrats' grab for the oil. Where the US plutocrats went wrong was in their overt assault on Iraq. Now, that was the historical event that woke many to the reality of US Empire. Watching the psychopath Hillary cackle "We came, we saw, he died", as the Western backed terrorist mercenaries gave a bayonet enema to Gaddafi in Libya also woke many to the brutality of US Imperialism. Watching Madeline Albright saying "It was worth it" to her responsibility in the deaths of half a million Iraqi children in some pathetic hope of getting the Iraqi people to rise up against their leader was just another war crime. The reality of US Empire is encapsulated in the words of the great Major General Smedley Butler in his book, "War is a Racket" - "War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism." So compare the insight of Butler to this pathetic excuse for an academic, Bacevich. Get rid of this pathetic imperialist scum; there is nothing more dysfunctional and politically and influentially dangerous that an ignorant academic that has been programmed by a corrupt imperialist state. When looking at the military personnel like Bacevich, one should always remember the words of Kissinger, “Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”
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  21.  @TTTzzzz  : There is no such thing as "evil", that just a word out of mythology and superstition; a mindless term usually used by those who can't be bothered or are too fearful to analyze reality. Pointing and calling someone "evil" reminds me of someone out of the Salem Witch Trials. These "people" aren't "evil", they are psychopaths and sociopaths; they don't have the same emotions and the response to stimuli as the majority. If you research the brain physiology of the psychopath, you will find psychopaths are a different species of human being with considerable differences in the shape and function of the amygdala and frontal cortex. They are not "evil" just as a parasite or virus isn't "evil"; the psychopath just functions like a psychopath. But the different physiology gives the psychopaths the ability to convincingly lie, cheat, and manipulate the gullible as their morals and humanity now reflect their species; and that's why you will find many of them high in the corporate and political structure. Look at the executive pool of a large corporation near you; many of those would be psychopaths. And don’t ever consider psychopaths as being fools; they are usually intelligent and strategic; a deadly combination. Consider the politicians for which you vote; many of them would be psychopaths. Consider Obama winning the "Nobel Peace Prize" then setting off to start 7 new wars including the US Naval blockade of Yemen allowing thousands of innocents to starve; or selling military hardware to the Saudis who used it to kill these same innocents. Consider Hillary Clinton when she was asked about the death of Gaddafi, her response was, "We came, we saw, he died" after which she cackled like a witch. So is Hillary evil? No Hillary is a psychopath. Consider Madeline Albright who was responsible for the deaths of half a million Iraqi children under 5 years old by starvation and disease for which her response on 60Minutes was, "It was worth it". Is Madeline Albright evil? No, Albright is just a psychopath. Or when Elon Musk was confronted with his involvement in the CIA Bolivian coup for lithium and responded by, "We will coup whoever we want; deal with it". So please leave the word "evil" where it belongs; in the mystic depths of religion and superstition where few question anything.
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  28. C​onceited Pretentious Farce: “Progressives is the rebranded name for Liberals", what a load of Crap! Wall Street and the ongoing Imperial State has made “Liberal” a meaningless word. It is only ever used in sentences speaking in generalizations and platitudes; it has no real meaning. It is as meaningless as the intent of the Corporate Democrats when they use identity politics to confuse and control the emotions of those poor ignorant fools that take Hartmann seriously. Have a look at US foreign policy for which the Corporate Democrats stand and then read the definition of “Liberal”. It’s as pathetic and as corrupt as the US exporting “Freedom and Democracy”. If you wish to further understand the corrupted meaning of Liberal, read the Memo PPS23 to Truman by George Keenan or read the same statement in Foreign Relations of the United States 1948 Volume 1 Part 2, page 524 and you will see Liberal is a fake as a three dollar note. Hartmann might pretend he is Progressive, but he is pure Corporate Democrat (Wall Street) and will soon be calling for his viewers to ban together and vote yet again for the Plutocrats' Democratic Party. Today he might discuss the attributes of AOC but tomorrow he will be pushing Corporate Democrats like Pelosi owned by Wall Street. There are already two Wall Street political factions; apart from some Wall Street shill, what sort of ignorant cretin wants another one? Maybe it's your definition of Progressive that is wrong; maybe you want all three factions (Progressive, Corporate Democrat, Republican) working for Wall Street? There are some in the population that want a party to actually work for the people but that's not Hartmann. All Hartmann is doing is keeping the "lesser of two evils" crap going and to confuse the remaining few handicapped viewers into backing the Wall Street Democratic Party. Hartman attempts this farce by conflating Progressive and Corporate Democrat in some hope these more challenged Progressives will return to the Corporate Democrat Fold.
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  30. I like trump. He has given the people the opportunity to look at themselves and their nation in some detail if they wish to take the opportunity. Sure, Trump is obviously a puppet for the plutocrats, but because he is so obviously a fool and a petulant child with limited intellect and vocabulary, this shows what the plutocrats think about the morals and intellect of the people. In other words, the Plutocrats are saying, if these morons who vote will accept this stooge, they will accept anyone. One thing should be understood completely, clearly and concisely; the plutocrats want these morons who vote to question and attack the person and NEVER question the system. Don’t you think Hartmann is very good at this psyop? Just think about it! With the idiot Trump in the White House the Plutocrats and their neocons can go to town. Previous presidents had to be more covert, but the neocons under Trump are open in their intent. You have Bolton clearly saying he wants US oil companies in Venezuela to exploit the oil. If this happened under Obama, the Obama administration would have felt the need to obfuscate the intent with a lot of added “exporting” of freedom and democracy. Possibly even a resurgence of the UN “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine. It also appears the Trump administration is front running the mainstream media. Long gone are the days when the media would report on the crimes of the US empire, but now, while the mainstream media are doing their best to run the propaganda to cover up imperial intent, you have Bolton, Pompeo, Abrams, and the rest making the propaganda of the mainstream media redundant with their overt false flags and open intent to attack independent nations. Gone are the days of using the fake “Responsibility to Protect” to convince the domestic morons that military action was required, this new Fourth Reich goes straight for the jugular with none of the usual pretense. Yes, I believe Trump is the healthiest thing that has happened to the US for generations. It is giving the people an unparalleled opportunity to look at themselves, their non-existent democracy, and the criminal acts of the plutocrats’ imperial nation. But sadly there is a deleterious secondary effect; it also gives Hartmann a target with which to sell the plutocrats Two Minutes of Hate to ensure the people only question the puppets and never question the system.
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  32.  @christinev.1018  : Oh boy, have you got it wrong. I support M4A, what I don't support is the plutocracy that has replaced the government. I'm not being critical of M4A, I'm being critical of, what I believe to be puppets like Warren running a scam. What you don't appear to understand is there are plutocratic puppets and minions everywhere, and I don't believe Warren is anything different. My opinion is Warren is a plant, a mole of Wall Street, and mole for the Medical Industrial Complex. Like Obama ("Look forward, don't look back"; "We tortured some folks"), all you hear are words and very little action against the plutocratic criminals. There was a token gesture by Warren to help consumers some time ago, but that's about where it ends. It saddens me to make the prediction; no, the almost certainty, Warren is just another traitor to the people. Even Bernie is of concern. The way he rolled over and accepted being shafted by the DNC is totally disgusting. Some of those who donated to Bernie's campaign are now attempting to sue the DNC for fraud and if Bernie hadn't rolled over to the Podesta scam, they may have won their law suit. As it stands the corrupt judiciary can easily reject the plaintiff's argument on the basis Bernie has just capitulated. So even more corruption goes unchecked. Sorry. but the only legitimate (non plutocratic) candidate to date appears to be Tulsi Gabbard. All others have shown some degree of ownership by Wall Street. And even then, it is difficult to get a comprehensive understanding of where Tulsi stands on many issues. Maybe all three are running this capitulation strategy to avoid being propagandized by the plutocrats mainstream media that tends to mesmerize so many of the morons who continually vote for the lesser of two evils; who knows? What I do know is the plutocrat minions and puppets are everywhere; they are the candidates you see on the plutocrats' mainstream media and alternate media; they are the plutocrats' politicians in office and corporate heads that endorse these plutocratic puppets; they are the plutocratic minions and ex-CIA agents you see on all the mainstream media. They are everywhere. The whole scam is to ensure no matter where you turn, you will be facing an agent of the plutocrats. Keep that in mind as the watch this Dog-and-Pony show by Hartmann and the CIA asset Maddow on MSNBC.
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  33.  @christinev.1018  And think about the plutocracy itself. The plutocracy is an empire that attacks other countries trying to flee the grasp of these war criminals and plutocratic puppets like Bolton, Pompeo, and Pence. The plutocrats control everything; all branches of government, nearly all the mainstream and much of alternate media, the financial sector, the corporations, and almost everything that controls your every thought. They control everyone in the Republican movement and its affiliates, and they control the Democratic movement as well; apart from apparently a few outliers (e.g. AOC), but give them time. Strategy is what the plutocrats do well. So whatever plutocratic administration eventually gets into the White House, do you actually expect them to deliver a functional M4A; you'd have to be joking? You've already been suckered recently ("Hope and Change"), and you're so eager to fall into the same trap again. So what happens when your promising candidate "fails to deliver" because of some "unforeseen" circumstance. Remember, Obama had control of the house and the senate for his first two years until the majority woke to the "Hope and Change" scam, and nothing happened. Even the Clinton plagiarized Romneycare turned out to be a token gesture to appease the morons who voted. So when are these morons going to wake up to the "FACT" this "democratic" system is a scam? Are you going to continue voting for the "Lesser of Two Evils" for eternity? Will we be having this same conversation about the latest "Hope & Change" candidate in fifty years? I have read some very creative dystopian novels in my day, but no one has ever created anything that depressing.
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  34. What the caller doesn’t appear to understand is the role of “President” is mostly a puppet role designed to convince the rubes they have voted an independent candidate into office. Sure, this doesn’t apply for those already in the Deep State and the agencies of the plutocrats (CIA) like Herbert Walker, but most others you find in this office are just actors playing a designated role. Sometimes they select those with professional acting experience (Reagan, Trump) and sometimes those with innate acting ability are chosen (Obama). Have you noticed the recent use of the residuals of the Russiagate scam? Propagandists like Rachael Maddow and Hartmann spent months pumping this propaganda into their audiences and now the plutocrats and their minions (Clinton) are now using the residuals of this propaganda against Bernie. This is what happens when you generate BS like Russiagate to hide the Podesta emails or to keep the Trump Derangement Syndrome going to disable any analytical function within the rube brain. Once you start this BS, the plutocrats will continue to use the same propaganda to attack those who are working for the people (Bernie). You may have recently heard the “Intelligence” Agencies saying Putin is helping Bernie; again without no proof and only hearsay. You may have heard Hillary saying that Bernie is just a “Russian Asset”. Yes, these are the same plutocratic puppet (Hillary) and the same “Intelligence” Agencies that "confirmed" Russiagate are now being applied to Bernie. So now the plutocrats are bringing their Russiagate propaganda out of cold storage to again attack their rivals (Bernie). Can you see how dangerous it is to create this BS in the first place; just to smear your opponents while simultaneously propagandizing the rubes to accept the plutocrats’ foreign policy? So, I’m not really sure what’s going to happen should Bernie make it to inauguration. An honest man in a corrupt system (The Fourth Reich) designed by the psychopathic imperialist plutocrats to manipulate the rubes and to covertly enslave the American people and for that matter, the World. The plutocrats and their minions (Clinton) must be working furiously to ensure Bernie either never gets into office; or if he does, his presidency will be isolated and undermined and made totally ineffective. Maybe that’s where Warren comes in? After all, Bernie is getting old; he has had cardiovascular problems recently; maybe it’s time for a visit from the CIA’s medical staff. During the Church Commission in 1975, it was shown the CIA had a working “Heart Attack Gun”; surely they must have improved the design by now.
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  37. You can’t end the GOP; the Democratic Party needs the GOP to survive. Think of these two parties of the plutocrats and Wall Street as two wrestlers in a wrestling ring pretending to battle to keep the spectators distracted from the reality of being separated from their money in a scam. The two wrestlers (Democrats and Republicans) in this scam are paid by the same plutocrats to create the illusion of conflict. They assume the people are too stupid to understand both parties are recruited to misdirect, while the plutocrats steal the people’s wealth six ways from Sunday. During the pandemic, the plutocrats have redirected trillions into their own bank accounts via Wall Street and the financial sector thanks to the votes of their Democrats, while the controlled opposition of the plutocrats continues to berate the policies of the GOP. Do you see how effective this scam works to deceive those who aren't paying attention and only listening to mainstream propaganda and the controlled opposition of fifth columnists? So without the GOP, how would the plutocrats pull off their scams? That’s like trying to sell tickets to a wrestling match when you only have one wrestler in the ring; it’s impossible. In the scam of a two-party system in a one-party country, the plutocrats need the GOP just as much as they need the Democratic Party. You rarely see Abbott without Costello or Hope without Crosby; and as Martin and Lewis soon found without the drama and conflict to keep the audience amused, they were a lesser act without each other. It really comes down to the reality if the GOP didn’t exist, the plutocrats would have to create something similar to the current GOP to justify the existence of the Democratic Party. Every wrestling match needs a hero and a villain to distract the audience by emotional conflict. If the GOP didn’t exist, all the scrutiny would be focused on the Democratic Party and the plutocrats’ scam would be exposed. Just like the absurdity of a lone wrestler in a wrestling match, the Democratic Party would be exposed and no fabrication designed to distract (Russiagate) would save them.
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  39. With all the historical intent and evidence of complicity between the Clinton (Podesta Emails), Buttigieg and Shadow Inc., I didn’t think there two clowns would be so obtuse as to deny the obvious. It looks like Hartmann and his cohorts (Jefferson Smith) 04:17 “If there really were fraud going on”, yet again are attempting to appease the angry majority for the DNC's obvious electoral scam in Iowa to benefit the Corporate Democrats. Be very suspicious when a “journalist” (John Nichols) says to you, 04:31 “I don’t think there is conspiracies: I’m not a big believer in those”. Thank God this fool wasn’t working for the Washington Post during the Nixon era. If the errors at the Iowa Caucuses were random mistakes, you would expect them to produce random benefits to all. You will never hear any of these establishment clowns ask, ‘Why does every “mistake” the DNC makes favor the establishment?’ It is clear these two clowns are attempting to give "Plausibility Deniability" to the DNC by attempting to sell Hartmann’s audience on “Convenient Incompetence”. Stupidity, incompetence, confusion, poor-planning, mistakes & errors – why is it when the plutocrats and their minions are running a scam, they always run the same protection scenario. You will find this strategy used to explain such diverse topics as the Iraq War down to the Iowa Caucuses. It is clear the plutocrats and their minions sell Incompetence and Mistakes to the people in an attempt to give them “Plausible Deniability”; how well it works depends solely on the gullibility and ignorance of the people and how well they’ve been programmed by the plutocrats' media. Forget these two deceptive clowns and their pathetic attempt at misinformation and spinning reality, I much prefer to quote Charles Pigden, PhD Director of Philosophy Politics and Economics at University of Otago: -  “If You Are Not a Conspiracy Theorist Then You Are an Idiot”
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  40. Dave: The danger in Sauer is many will listen to this Von Mises Austrian spin and the weaker minds will accept its simple message because that's all they can understand. Sadly that's a large part of the population. Take for example the Libertarian Von Mises' spin - government is bad. For the simplistic mind looking at inequality, corruption, wars, and a corrupted democratic process, that appears to be a rational judgement. But these individuals who, by supporting the oligarchs' Libertarian/Austrian movement, will never be able to see it was the oligarchs who have corrupted the government. For example, the Kochs started the Tea Party movement but the individuals within the movement will never see or acknowledge the oligarchical corruption of the government. The majority of these individuals will never understand or accept the same oligarchs who started the Tea Party corrupted the electoral process through "Citizens United" and "Money is Free Speech". They will never be able to join the dots between the oligarchs "Right to Work" strategy and the deregulation of workers' rights and remuneration through the loss of collective bargaining. In a democracy where the majority are feeble minded, having them exposed to any message from the oligarchs intended to deceive is dangerous. For generations the oligarchs have colluded and by using the peoples' apathy against them, have created a nation if imbeciles. Just look at those who take the “left” and “right” media seriously and you will see what I mean.
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  41. Hartmann just figured out how Clickbait works. Mention the nepotistic Jared Kushner and the rubes will come running even if Hartmann has no content relevant to the title of the video. Reading this video title is sort of like voting in a federal election; you listen to the plutocratic owned Democratic and Republican candidates promising the world, you cast your vote with great expectation, and you get tax cuts for the rich, more drone wars or an increase in military spending. Whatever they promised, all you get is more debt for you and your progeny. Hartmann’s usual tactic is to induce Orwell’s “Two Minutes Hate” onto his audience and he used Trump’s caricature and boorish demeanor to achieve his goals. While keeping the “Two Minutes Hate” scene from Orwell’s 1984 in mind, just take a look at a few titles from the last month: Trump Could Win in 2020 Unless Progressives Help American Workers Now! Did Trump Laugh About Exterminating Refugees? Was Donald Trump Trafficking Cocaine? (w/ David Cay Johnston) The Economy Needs to Buckle Up While Trump's Fed is in the Driver’s Seat Could Donald Trump Escape Justice in Time to Win 2020 Election (w/ Paul Ryan) Trump's Taxes Reveal He Lied, But Do Conservatives Care? (w/ Julio Rivera ) Mueller Report Redacted to Protect Trump: Why Won't Media Report? Could Trump Win on Trade in 2020? Can Trump's Populism be Beat by a Conventional Democrat? War in Iran: Trump's Route to Re-election? Trump Turns Back the Block on LGBT Rights (w/ Jason Baumann) Federal Reserve Fed Up with Trump's Politicization (w/ Richard Wolff) Trump's Biggest Step to Destroy Obama's Legacy Has Arrived Will Venezuela Be Trump's Re-Election War? The question you should now be asking is what have I missed while I have been occupied with this garbage. If you wish to learn more about how this deception works and how Hartmann is using the same tactics as MSNBC and Fox to scam his semi-conscious rubes into accepting this propaganda, why not watch someone who has a real interest in truth and justice – Chris Hedges: On Contact - Deep rot in American journalism w/Matt Taibbi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTf4KHe-M8I Now can you see how this video exposes part of Hartmann’s strategy?
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  42. US politics is designed by the plutocrats to be a binary choice. They control one party (Republicans) that openly screws the American people and they control another party (Democrats) that pretends to work for the majority against the influence of Wall Street and offers the people fake “Hope and Change”. When the institutions of a political and media system are so corrupt in whichever direction you look, is it so surprising that people grab at any delusional opportunity to free themselves from this feculent democracy and grab onto any option that may bring about change. Remember, this isn’t the time of Roosevelt where “Socialist” and “Communist” movements existed to work for the interests of the majority and gave the people a voice in the political arena. With the help of the corrupt media and treacherous Hollywood studios, the plutocrats have turned these names into a pejorative in the minds of the people and apart from a failing union movement; the people now have no voice. If you look back into history, it was these “Socialist”, “Communist” and union movements that had the popular political leverage to bring about the New Deal; it wasn’t the good will of Roosevelt and his Hampton buddies. Remember, it was Roosevelt who later wrote, that by introducing the New Deal he had saved capitalism and it was Roosevelt that helped shaft Henry Wallace; a true man of the people. But history is written by the plutocrats and then filtered to the masses, and most are to apathetic to source the facts for themselves. The days of Roosevelt and the multiple voices of the people have long gone, and in this fascist system Wall Street is now in total control. If you look back at the actions of the Democratic Party, they enabled this fascist system and promoted its interests. You will find the treachery of Hillary in her well paid speeches to Wall Street now written out of the lexicon. So don’t be too surprised if you see people looking for alternatives in some very strange places when you have a one party state pretending to be a democracy. But the pundits and facilitators (Hartmann, Pocan, Perez, Pelosi, etc.) of the system will never admit this obvious fact, they continue with the idea of the false choice to keep the status quo. That’s just the way the plutocrats designed it to be in perpetuity.
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  47. You can have the overt racial bigotry that surrounds Trump while being backed by his White Supremacists or you can have the more subtle racism of Joe Biden that’s selectively overlooked by liberals; especially those inflicted with “Trump Derangement Syndrome”. In my opinion, the Trump hate phenomena was created to scare those who were questioning whether they should move away from the war criminal Clinton, back into the camp of the corporate liberals and their Democratic establishment club owned by the plutocrats, but I could be wrong. These liberals I mention will never acknowledge Biden’s criticism of “If you have trouble in figuring out if you are for me or Trump, then you ain’t Black” or his earlier comment of, "Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point. We have got to make some move on this." And Biden did do something about it - the 1994 Crime Bill. Today, Biden’s racism sits well in the company of liberals; they forget about his 1994 Crime bill that expanded the Black prison population more than thrice. They forget about his comments about the ethnic environment in which he wanted his children to be raised. Yes, the bigotry of Biden sits well embedded in, and hidden by, the Democratic establishment’s “Identity Politics” scam used to divide-and-conquer the gullible. Liberals - believe if you will Pelosi’s “Black Lives Matter” performance acting in her Kente-Cloth disguise – but most others don’t.
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  48. Thomas, when you said, 06:44 “Removing human rights and democracy as goals of US foreign policy” as if that was ever the intent of US foreign policy, surely you aren’t going to sell that garbage to your viewers. Thomas, you can’t expect anyone to accept you are so stupid; you want people to actually believe this blatant propaganda. Tillerson may be a treacherous sleaze working for his oligarchs but he is telling the truth for once. The sad part of his statement is he didn’t acknowledge that the farce of human rights and democracy has never been part of US imperial foreign policy; it was only propagandistic deception to sell US imperial wars to the masses. Tillerson has much of the strategy in place to remove this facade from US foreign policy; after all, why pay for a State Department to spread propaganda and deception when you are finally going to tell the truth to the people? As far as I can see, US foreign policy and the State Department is much like the Democratic Party. It pretends to work for the interest of humanity but behind the scene it is just as involved in ripping off the foreign and domestic people as the Republicans. At least when the republicans’ use their rhetoric to sell you their version of what’s best for you is so obviously spin only a moron would accept it; sadly the Democrats, like the State Department, are a little more sophisticated. So Thomas, how can you expect the more informed viewers to accept this garbage? Sure, you may have a few CNN-MSNBC viewers with their IQ lower than their shoe size that may lap up this puke like chardonnay, but I’m talking about that percentage of your viewers that can actually think. You know, those viewers that remember the Clinton-Albright sanctions in Iraq that killed half a million children under 5 years old from malnutrition and disease. Thomas, did you ever see Albright’s response, it shows the real intent of the State Department. Albright said, “It was worth it”. Now, doesn’t that look like an effective US foreign policy based on human rights? And do you remember what Hillary said when the CIA backed mercenaries finally killed Giddafi on camera; her comment was, “We came, we saw, he died”. And now Libya is a failed state run by the CIA mercenary terrorists. In fact, you may be proud to know they have just recently had their first slave auction. Now, doesn’t that look like an effective US foreign policy based on human rights? So when you recall the imperialism for the US oligarchs that appeared to originate around the time of the Spanish-American War, was so eloquently documented by General Smedley Butler in his short book, “War is a Racket”, you must wonder why so many still live in ignorance of US imperialism and the millions around the world the US has killed. Thomas, how does it feel to be a shill for a system that would give Stalin a run for his money?
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  49. It intrigues me when people self describe as “Liberal”. Which “Liberal” do they mean? Do they mean the “Classical Liberal” that is best described as “Dickensian” or contemporary Libertarianism; or do they mean “Embedded Liberalism” that appears to be the origin of Progressivism. So why do these broad political components of conflated Liberalism still exist? When Obama self describes as Liberal and then as “Moderate Republican”, is he being intentionally deceptive? Or is the broad church of contemporary Liberalism designed to encompass a majority so the plutocrats (DNC) can take control of the political narrative? Also in other countries, many use “Liberal” to mean “Libertarian” or “Free-Market” Conservative and they follow the economic principles and politics of Reagan or Thatcher. In a room of people, two individuals can self describe as “Liberal”, but each could be on opposite sides of the political spectrum. So “Liberal” appears to be as broad as “Christian”; Christianity also has a broad definition. It is so broad; many Christians can be on both sides of Imperialism. For example, Hartmann says he’s a Christian and then pushes for US (CIA) intervention and Sanctions in Venezuela that have shown to have killed 40,000 people; and pushes for the prosecution of Assange because he exposed the crimes of a butcherous thieving Empire. That doesn’t sound too “Christian” to me. But then again, priests buggering children to satisfy their urge doesn’t appear too “Christian” either. Is “Christianity” like “Liberalism”; is it so broad that it has lost all meaning? Or are they both just tools of political manipulation?
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