Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "Democracy Now!" channel.

  1. National "I smell a frame job". Security.
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  2. Gee it turns out that liberal and conservative billionaires all work together and aren't part of the so called resistance.
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  3.  @believeroflight9888  The Muslim nation expelled the Jews from their land. Gaza had its own Hamas administration and decided it wanted war not peace. Hamas is a NAZI like organization. It steals UN Aid to build rockets to attack Israel.
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  4.  @dawidaleksanderwitkowski7455  Hamas is a NAZI like organization that murdered all political opponents in a civil war after the first and only election in 2006.
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  5. Liberal Democrats like Joe Kennedy Sr. were chummy with Hitler after all Joe "the Wall Street Banker" Kennedy reported back to FDR that Hitler was someone you can do business with.
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  6. This is the Capitalist Democratic Party.
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  7.  @pattyrobin58  So Trump exploits millions. He doesn't employ anyone unless he can make a profit out of their labor.
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  8. @Jebus Hypocristos As if the Democrats are in some way better.
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  9.  @wendylady69  Cortez is the way backwards. Backwards into the Democratic Party. She belongs to DSA. DSA on organization that claims a big membership yet it can't even run a candidate outside of the Democratic Party. DSA an organization whose only principle is to take an oath swearing off Democratic Centralism.
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  10. @Jebus Hypocristos First for the time being neither party openly wants fascist like the KKK. However in the past the KKK was an arm of the Democratic Party. Fascists are a movement which always includes anti labor thugs whose purpose and only principle is to shut down political discussion space by the use of violence. The ruling class only looks to them when the class struggle heats up. Otherwise they just as well send them to jail after they commit terrorist acts. Trump is not a fascist and the Republican party is not a fascist party any more than the Democrats are. If you need Democratic Party Saints to save you then you might as well look to the Pope for guidance since he has many real saints to provide you a path to heaven.
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  11.  @GottaWannaDance  I understand the two party one party shell game. That's why I vote Socialist Workers Party.
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  12.  @tomross350  Russian Revolution? What is it you want to talk about? Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) was a Ukrainian Jew. The leader of the Russian Revolution along with Lenin. He was the People's Commissar of the Red Army and lead the successful victory of the Bolsheviks during the civil war.
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  13.  @kennethmarshall306  Well if you understand that politics and economics drive each other and that the US government's actions are always actions as the executive committee of the ruling American capitalist class then you at least have something to go on assuming you can get the actual facts of what's happening from the corporate media in the first place.
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  14. Plastic Jesus go back on the dashboard.
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  15. Clinton is all washed up as just another corrupt Democrat.
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  16.  @robertstrong6639  Democratic Party liberals are the biggest threat to Constitutional Rights with their "National Security" scare tactics and their "Get Trump" anyway possible movement. They are using the same tactics as Hitler and Stalin. Judge only issued a needless warent as Trump has yet to be charged.
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  17. The cops know that they can not bite the hand that feeds them.
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  18.  @cenecasful  Trump is a traitor to the Democratic Party elitists. They can't stand that he exposed the hypocrisy of Queen Hilary the first.
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  19.  @VewySiwwyWabbit  Free the Hostages of Hamas so they can testify!!!
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  20. We don't go with the albolsh ICE because all that means is changing the name. Instead we want to see an amnesty like the one that Reagan agreed and signed. Chomsky never uses the word capitalist because it might offend his middle class followers. He says that using such a word is unnecessary rhetoric.
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  21. The social democrat is the political expression of the conservative trade union official with his belief in reformation of the capitalist state power into a state power that he can wield in both his privileged interests and those of the capitalists so as not to disturb or frighten the non existent 'progressive capitalist' who has signed a union contract.
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  22. The thing he has no solutions only complaints. I would like read somewhere that other than ending something he actual says he is for something other than a very vague anarchism or in this case he seems to find the bourgeois state quite adequate for surrendering to in face of overwhelming force.
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  23. in fact he seldom even uses the word capitalism or capitalist because for him it is unnecessary rhetoric. Instead he prefers elites. That way he doesn't disturb his middle class followers with such sharp words.
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  24. Karl Marx relied upon words having a meaning. An elite could just as well mean the Roman Senate of Julius Cesar or the court of a European Monarchy. A capitalist is clearly a person who's livelihood relies on their business ownership of companies that manufacture commodities and the financing of those business'. Capitalist own and run business' usually through the ownership of joint stock companies. Their wealth comes in the form of profits made by exploiting wage labor. A slave owners wealth came from owning a slave and requiring him to work at his bidding.
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  25. No doubt the DSA is social democratic. The are much like the Russian Mensheviks. While they talk socialism the reality is they are quite willing to accept a capitalism with a few reforms putting socialism off to a later day. The logical outcome of the class struggle for the working class and small farmers is socialism. What move the class struggle forward is independent political actions by the working class and small farmers not an alliance with Democratic Party liberals and progressive capitalists.
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  26.  @josephjohnson701  You can argue about when the Communist Party of America - Communist Party USA leadership became a lifeless sect of Moscow cheerleaders but not was the party leadership a lifeless body of Moscow Cheerleaders. Was it when they kicked out Jim Cannon and anyone deemed a supporter of Trotsky in 1928, When the Germany Communist Parties (second it size only to the Soviet Party) leaders retreated to Moscow 1934 Instead of fighting Hitler to the death not even so much as throwing a punch at the NAZI's. When the American party hailed the 1936 Moscow trails of the old Bolsheviks. Lenin's closet comrades in the Russian party now framed up, tortured and executed. When Stalin dissolved the Communist International as a favor to his Democratic Imperialist Allies in the middle of World war two. At the end of WW2 when the party announced the permanent victory of the Soviet Union and the end of the class struggle. When in 1945 they though they would be shaking hands of the monopolists because the Stalin regime had won the war. When in a unanimous vote they dissolved the Communist Part of America into the Communist Political Association. Then in another unanimous vote about a year later became the Communist Party USA blaming a single man Earl Broader for everything. There were those in the American Party who sided with Trotsky as early as 1928 and began the task of first trying to convince the Party until 1934 and then began the task of building a new party. That new party is the Socialist Workers Party. The party press can be found at TheMilitant.com and pathfinderpress.com
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  27. Angela Davis was not just a Communist party member but also a leader. She ran with Gus Hall as the Parties Vice Presidential candidate in 1980 and 1984. She can't as an American intellectual claim she didn't know of Stalin's crimes against the working class. That she didn't know what Trotsky had said about Stalin and the communist parties. That she didn't know about the Khrushchev revaluations in 1956 about how Stalin had framed and executed loyal communists. She didn't live in a country where the working class was kept muzzled by the lovers of dacha's. Where Marx and Lenin had their ideas and methods turn into a new religion with a set of priests, bishops, and a Moscow pope who could punish heretics with prison and death. No she lived in a country where the workers had fought against the methods of Stalin and his rotten clique. Where the revolutionary workers had long ago rejected such methods.
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  28.  @josephjohnson701  I read your couple of sentences did my best to explain why the CPUSA was not a revolutionary organization. You can believe whatever you want but you can't erase history. When Hitler set up his concentration camps he could care less if you were a Social Democrat, Communist (Stalinist or Trotskist) or Anarchist anyone speaking against dur fuhrer was headed to the camps. What makes you think the US ruling class is any different? How should you respond to attacks on the movement? Like the Communist Party of America did in 1940 hailing the arrest of the counterrevolution Trotskites under the Smith 'gag' Act law? Or should it be like the early Communist Party of America who defended the anarchists Saco and Vanzetti in 1928 where an injury to one is an injury to all? At that time period those not members of any particular socialist group called ourselves not 'activists' but radicals. Everyone knew she and the Black Panther Party were under attack for being radicals not because of what she thought about the Soviet Union. That's why you would here the slogan "Free Angela Davis and all Political prisoners." at anti war protests.
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  29. It seems to me that you want to change topics. That your new goal is to prove the Soviet Union was not socialist by virtue of a collection of quotes. I don't think the name matters so long as we understand what the Soviet Union was, what it became, its class nature and why it broke up.
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  30.  @josephjohnson701  "I am not here playing a fucking word game." coulda fooled me. Now that you have. "... long sense graduated from Leninist and Trotskyist voluntarist vanguardism of Lenin and even individualist voluntarism of "permanent revolution" of Trotsky..." Hope you've enjoyed your graduation Bye Bye!!
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  31.  @josephjohnson701  Whatever you say Professor Booby hatch. At the end of the day though the CPUSA was always a cheering squad for the Democratic Party nominee.
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  32. As to where the evidence is? The CPUSA doesn't keep records of its Party press because its just to embarrassing. The SWP has our press from 1928 forward.
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  33.  @josephjohnson701  Look you go around implying things and when I argue against your implications you say I am setting up straw man arguments. Now you imply I am a police agent.."""(nor any one of your or your handlers)""" Classical Stalinism on your part. Play dumb than play smart has been you whole approach to my original refusal to recognize Angela Davis as a "revolutionary communist". Sorry but "In Defense of Marxism" wasn't titled "In Defense of Stalinism" for a very good reason.
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  34. The real elephant in the room is exactly what is the Democratic Party but not the other Party of the ruling class.
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  35.  @davemalone4421  A government armed to the teeth with nuclear bombs missiles and air drones is scared of a few thousands unarmed right wingers. If it wasn't so serious it would be laughable.
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  36. Obama and Eric Holder had plenty of time to bring charges.
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  37.  @jadadsr.8351  Trump only does what the rest of the greedy bosses like Warren Buffet and others who are in the big donner class to the two parties.
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  38.  @pattyrobin58  Does he taste good?
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  39.  @WBKimmons  "National Security" Frame Job promoted by "Democracy Now" in the "Get Trump" by the "Never Trumpers" any way you can.
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  40.  @WBKimmons  They ought to change the name to Dictatorship Now!!
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  41.  @dpersonal4187  Overall politics does have a left right yardstick. There are those things and polices that advance the working peoples interests and those that don't. It was a Republican Supreme Court that voted for Abortion rights in Roe v. Wade. It was the Democratic Party that failed to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.
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  42.  @JesusSaysMAGAtrashMAGAfilth  You go eat that plastic Jesus of yours knucklehead. No one is gullible as those who vote Demorat.
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  43. McVeigh was animated by the Actions of the Bill Clinton's Attorney General Janet Reno's and ATF/FBI attack and needless killing of the Branch Dravidian's in WACCO Texas.
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  44.  @gordoncheswick4169  This is why the rich buy lawyers to hide behind.
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  45.  @MorteWulfe  Hamas is a fascist minded organization for billionaires stealing UN Aid..
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  46.  @surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531  If Trump wanted to do a coup he should have first consulted the head of the CIA. The US CIA are experts at Coups.
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  47.  @joshuaDstarks  It is the underlying class based grievances that drives the political divide not ideology or race. Trump's real crime was to betray his liberal elite capitalist class by questioning the results of world liberal economic policy on the American working class. The liberals are just as racist and anti immigrant in their polices as the conservatives. .
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  48. West is just another professor who thinks he's leading the revolution. Now a days they want you to swear allegiance to the "Anti Trump' forces before they can engage in talking with you. In this case West was leading another 'arrest protest'. Where the police arrest him and other 'progressive forces' after which he will denounce the system. In this situation he couldn't get the police to arrest him and now he had to face the fascist forces without any preparation whatsoever. Good job Cornell!! With your kind of leadership where loss is victory we are sure to lose under your leadership.
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  49. In times of little class struggle the police force may seem to be there for preventing crime. However the real role of police is to enforce ruling class policy. Ruling class policy since the end of the radical reconstruction has always been one of attempting to contain class struggle within the boundaries of the two parties through voting. The last election saw both parties breaking apart under the impact of the great recession and do nothing policy of Obama. The Democratic machine was able to hold off the Burniecrats but the Republicans were unable to stop former New York Democrat Trump turned conservative Republican. Trump made appeals to the working class while Clinton assumed she had their votes through union officialdom support. Nevertheless she felt it necessary to attack coal miners and call us irredeemable deplorables just for listening to Trump. The same workers who elected Obama now voted for Trump. Trump has given some voice to those the system despises and this is what has gotten the rest of the ruling class so angry with him. The rulers demand that a president listen only to them and their needs while paying only enough attention to the working class that will keep us in line and out of sight.
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  50. Phil Esh you are doing nothing more than a supporting a new and revitalized version of eugenics. This time a middle class university education makes you the smart one by virtue of genetics. You'll have no problem bring up the next generation of American Hitler Youth and joining one of the new coming versions of American fascism that has yet to appear.
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