Comments by "Kristoff Bjorgman 87" (@kristoffbjorgman8721) on "Thom Hartmann Program" channel.

  1. History is gearing up to repeat itself... (Shudder) The question is, can the sane and rational stop it in time?...
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  2. From reading the four gospels, I personally think Christ's ideology is most in line with left libertarianism and some models of anarcho-communism.  I think it's no coincidence that after this death the first Christian communities were communalist communes. Also what he did to the moneychangers in the temple pretty much sums up what he thought of the corrupt/predatory model of mercantilism/capitalism.
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  3. Especially one stinking up the bench for 30+ years!
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  4. I gotta say FDR likely surpasses Lincoln as our greatest president! I now 'fully' understand why my grandma (RIP) loved FDR, and also why she hated Reagan. (Sighs) I hope I live to see the day, when this nation elects another FDR. And the Reagan Revolution of greed is good and the kleptocratic corporatocracy that was unleashed upon us, is vanquished and thrown in the dustbin of history! "Where it belongs!!..."
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  5. The neoliberal Reagan revolution should have died after the crash in 2008. Unfortunately, Obama along with the corporate dems didn't allow this to happen, they revived it! And it's been lumbering along like a undead zombie ever since. It's time for this sleazy scam to finally die...
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  6. The most telling element of RW Libertarian ideology is their disdain for democracy. This exposes the totalitarian monster underneath all the freedom and liberty (tm) talking points and rhetoric.
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  7. We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both. - Louis D. Brandeis
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  8. I'm not surprised that turd would pull something this extremist. Steal a calculator - Get the full book thrown at you! Wreck the economy and steal billions from the working and middle classes - Get bailed out with tax payer money!! Fuck this vile, hypocritical system that rewards, malicious greed, callousness, and sociopathy!!! No wonder people want to feel the Bern!...
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  9. Soul? What soul? These plutocrats and their cronies sold their souls to the demon of unfettered greed years ago.
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  10. Eisenhower was a good president. If the Rethugs went back to being like-Ike Republicans, I'd vote for them again. Of course I don't see that happening for 'quite' a while... if ever... Ronnie the stupid and the cretins of the neoliberal movement (aka: M Friedman) led them on the path to becoming the insane nutjobs they are today!! DX Also, they turned the Dems into useless corporate sellouts!! DX A plutocratic coup de tat!!....
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  11. I love FDR's speeches. So empowering... He had the moxie to call out plutocrats for what they are... a bunch of crooks! Reagan on the other hand was a 'yes man'. who made his moves whenever the plutocrats told him too. One had balls... The other was a sellout!
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  12. It can't happen here?... YES!! It can!!...
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  13. Good on these protestors. Tracked the cancer in this country to its source!! To hell with Heritage! Rotten lying con-artists! They go on all the time about how much they are worried about the debt then, what to continuing funnel billions to our over-bloated military. Flaming hypocrites! (But then they are a neo-con think tank, so what do we expect?) All I can say is... so much for Trump's promise/lie about ending the useless wars... (Scoff) Like I ever believed it...
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  14. I always love me some FDR :)
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  15. And I thought the John Birch Society was bad!? Jesus!
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  16. MLK was a Republican. - That is a fact. MLK's polices were the exact opposite of today's hyper-neoliberal teabagger GOP - That is also a fact.
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  17. The neoliberal pundits, can put a sock in it!! There's literally dozens of reasons why we want Bernie over Hillary.
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  18. I hope your right Thom... I 'really' hope your right!
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  19. This is the main problem with American economic Libertarianianism. It's not as much the system of hyper laizze-faire, in its purist structures, that is dangerous, but the strong embracement social darwinism that goes along with it. 'That's' what sends up the warning flags!
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  20. One is a standard corrupt neoliberal... but with cankles XD! The other channels two of our best presidents, Teddy Roosevelt and FDR!
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  21. Finally Ike would be horrified and disgusted, at what the GOP has turned into today. :( The revenge of those stupid Texas millionaires, he insulted in that letter to his brother. DX
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  22. Becuase they're flaming hypocrites when it comes to this issue. And have been since the lying, senile crook in the 80's!
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  23. When they say 'small government' what they really mean is small government for us and a massive bloated big government for themselves.
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  24. Ike was a great President... And hated by the Corporate Fascist Birchers, which makes him even more on the right side of history.
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  25. The GOP is a lost cause... Reaganism killed it's soul! However, I'd vote for this guy in a heartbeat!
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  26. The Raygun Revolution was selfish, arrogance and short sided stupidity! As a millennial born in 87, it pisses me off to no end that so many people fell for and went along with this me-only crap, not caring about it's long term consequences. My mom says it was because so many thought the nukes we're gonna fly any day back then. And thus people thus lived for the moment. Still, that excuse just doesn't absolve it for me.
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  27. The GOP establishment is gonna shred this guy! I can already see the nasty ads. Sad, cause we need guys like this, bring back "sane" Eisenhower conservatives. Enough! Of the Neoliberal, Reagan-worshiping, Koch-sucking, Libertard, Teabagger, Corporatist, An-cap crooks and fools that make up the modern day US Right. DX
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  28. Capitalism and Democracy 'only' get along when a social democratic government combined with an informed, proactive populace keeps it's worst vices and desires in check. Unfettered laissez-faire Capitalism hates "Anything!!" that gets in the way of it' mindless quest for higher profits. Which includes the social contract and yes democracy itself.
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  29. Also, the biggest piece of evidence that disproves supply-side fundamentalist ideology is this... They never shut up about how evil government is. However, if government is supposedly such a evil force that needs to say small. Why do they always give corporate forces a free pass to influence it, yet it's wrong and immoral for anyone else to do so?.... (Ha! I saw this RW bunk was a massive scam as far back as elementary school.)
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  30. I've been a content, loner of a guy my entire life. Thus, I can't even comprehend groveling and degrading myself to get in the favor of some supposed "alpha"?!
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  31. Ugh!! What a C word... And as a Native American I can say I'd let this teabagger 'have it!' If I had to listen to this garbage!
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  32. The Liberals/Progressives are terrible at marketing their ideas... The Corporate Fascists don't have this problem, they're the kings of marketing. And in turn, succeeded in brainwashing so many working/middle-class Americans into supporting their crooked, plutocratic agenda!
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  33. My grandmother absolutely loved FDR and hated Reagan with a passion!! She passed away in 1997... And now, as a millennial who went through the embarrassing, crooked Bush years, the false hope of 'bought-off' Pres Obama, The 8 years of assholery of the GOP and Teabaggers and the unleashing of that vile 'Citizens United' SCOTUS decision!!.... I finally understand why my grandmother thought the way she did....
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  34. The return of Jim Crow... disgusting!
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  35. Wow! Bernie that was an amazing speech!...
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  36. We need a constitutional amendment to get money OUT of Washington and deny money as free speech! NOT THIS GARBAGE!!!
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  37. 05:50 - 06:19 Imagine being the protege of a high ranking teacher and philosopher. Then to have the awful epiphany that the ideology that they espoused had malicious intent and was downright evil!
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  38. Millennials are utterly disgusted with Neoliberalism!! Why do you think we wanted Bernie so badly?!
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  39. We need a new Teddy Roosevelt, cause we have a ton of rotten, corrupt, good-for-nothing corporate monopolies that need to be smashed up and dismantled already!!...
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  40. Yay! For Bernie :) One the few US politicians I actually respect. I don't worship the guy though.
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  41. Moloch?... Yep, that's exactly what I thought of when I heard this insanity. That creepy scene from "Metropolis".
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  42. Ha, I'd absolutely fit right in there, as it sounds like Finnish philosophy on society and government is exactly the same as mine.
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  43. Ah yes Atlas Shrugged. The only book I've ever read where by the time I got to the midpoint, I wished the so-called protagonists would just get hit by a mack truck already! I just could not empahsise with her souless characters.
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  44. And the mudslinging by the plutocrat media offically begins...
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  45. "They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution" - George Wallace Strict constitutionalists my foot!!!
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  46. What a class act, I wonder If he's the only American senator who doesn't fly 1st class. I never use 1st class. I can handle the few hours of discomfort and also in a case of a crash, your greatest chance of surviving is sitting in the economy seats at the tail of the plane.
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  47. Lincoln, Teddy, Ike - The 'good' Republicans. Poppy bush was the last semi 'decent' one.
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  48. Also, this story was talked about on the media. The RW media!! I googled the story and found most pages were about left wing protesters attacking the Heritage Foundation, and then defending the think tank. The notorious Neo-conservative 'Heritage' Foundation... as the victim?... YUCK!!!! Excuse me but I gotta go throw up now, what a vile, twisted and perverse thought! DX
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  49. Dwight D Eisenhower, one of the best Republican presidents. Unlike that corrupt conman Reagan who "sold the whole damn country" to the interests of the MIC.
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  50. Ain't that a no brainer... Progressives got conned in 08. Obama's loyalties have 'always' to the crooks on Wall Street. And yet "morons" in this country still think he's a marxist, socialist, communist.. eh whatever!! (Bangs head against the wall.)
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  51. BramSLI1 No wonder there were 13000+ people in Madison wanting to hear Bernie. The people of Wisconsin are stuck right now under the iron curtain of the plutocrat's republic of Kochistan.
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  52. The Kochs are scum of the earth!!! Vulgar Libertarian, Faux Free Market 'Frauds!'' There Plutocratic Corporatists to the bone!!
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  53. Thank God my mom never fell into the RW sewer. She did flirt with RW evangelical beliefs during the Bush years. But the hated her peers had for Obama, especially after the teabags came to town ultimately ended that. Now, she's gone back to the New Age hippie stuff she was into in her teens. 🤣 And I am soo thankful for this..
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  54. Market fundamentalism/ Neoliberalism must die!... Sanity has to be restored to capitalism, or in the end it will destroy human civilization! Greed is NOT!!! good!
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  55. Smart caller, Even though I am a progressive I have some libertarian leanings. And he explained 'exactly' why, even for libertarians, Bernie is a good choice. We'll, NEVER! be able to set up a genuine free market, until the nest of corruption and corporatist hypocrisy in Washington is finally dealt with and cleaned up... PERIOD!
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  56. Doesn't surprise me... It pretty safe to say that the Kochs are a duo of corporate fascists.
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  57. Ruth J Of course, I think MLK would be horrified to see what a plutocrat coddling bigoted racist clown car the GOP has become. I was just showing how the Republicans take an actual fact and twist them support their current extremist ideology. Another example: The Democrats were the party against the Civil Rights Movement in the 60's - In the South this was true. But after the passing of the Civil Rights Acts the bigots all fled the Dems feeling betrayed and moved to the GOP, and are quite frankly one of the reasons for the cesspit the GOP is today. The teabaggers are notorious for using the half-truths against the Dems.
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  58. Yes, there numbers are small, but they are NOT stupid!! They're sadistic masterminds, who succeeded in brainwashing millions of Americans into voting for perverse, plutocratic/ kleptocratic policies that are destroying their livelihoods and standards of living! Also the Powell Memo... which was the call to arms for these evil, sociopathic bastards!
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  59. What an absolute scumbag! And I'm pretty sure a great deal of the GOP base doesn't know any of this. Voting likely on stupid wedge issues like abortion and anti-LBGT rights.
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  60. I can only imagine to sheer, utter horror, Teddy would show... If he were to see to vile, monster his party has morphed into. DX
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  61. I doubt it, he started his campaign in Philadelphia, MI where 3 civil rights activists were murdered by the Klan in 64. And this was before he became senile. He knew the filth he was pandering to!
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  62.  @progressforward  Absolutely! However, Faux and RW hate radio would have never come to existence without RW money flooding the system and electing crooks that would gut the safe guards against such crap. (Aka: Rancid Ronnie and the elimination of the fairness doctrine.) Ultimately, it all goes back to the elitist agenda of the Powell Memo of 1971.
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  63. Dump inauguration speech reminded me so much of the scene from The Lion King where Scar takes the throne with the hyenas taking over in the background.
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  64. If there is a hell Reagan-Thatcher, Friedman-Hayek are there as we speak!
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  65. This far right crook is so obsessed with abortion saying it's murder, but I guarantee you, he has you qualms whatsoever taking money from the MIC to promote more military carnage and war profiteering overseas? And his BS denial of climate change shows he gets a good bit of money from the fossil fuel industry as well....
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  66. Cause he's a moderate right wing Democrat. Yet still, his donors would rather have fascism than social democracy.
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  67. I guess it's comes from being a Native American. (Registered member of a Oneida nation of WI)👍 But rank jingoistic propaganda, especially about the founding fathers has always rubbed me the wrong way! Most of the founding fathers disliked or even hated natives and they only did for one reason.. they wanted our land! I know it's controversal to say, but quite frankly I don't care. But this country was founded by a bunch of opportunistic hustlers who loved to wax poetic about freedom for themselves and their culture group and quite frankly, hardly anyone else!
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  68. Economic empowerment zones?!.. LOL!! The Repugs sure love to use Orwelian rhetoric to talk about their toxic BS policies..
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  69. Just thought of those evil, sociopathic, plutocrats getting a chance to rewrite the Constitution to fit their vile, corporatist agenda is the stuff nightmares are made of!!!
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  70. I've always hated the undeserved flak Carter gets all the time, I'd rather have an honest man than a smooth talking saleman for prez. (Cough cough, the crook who came after him...)
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  71. Reagan was a senile bought-off corporate shill! Had I been alive in 1980, I know I NEVER!! would have fallen for his used car salesman spiel!... And to hell with the modern day cult surrounding him today!!
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  72. I don't know which is more revolting... The limousine liberal Clintons trying to make us sympathize with the damn banksters. Or the corporate whore Republicans wanting to deregulate these psychopathic bastards even more?...
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  73. This story proves, without a doubt, that some of these 1%ers, are infact, heartless souless sociopaths. How DARE they go off calling themselves Christian!
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  74. That's pretty much it...
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  75. I'd take Ike any day over 'der Trumpler' and 'Cankles'! With Bernie not going to make it. We have to choose between pretty much a bluntly, racist-pandering Reagan, and a sneaky, covert Thatcher. YUCK!!
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  76. On the world political spectrum he's not really a socialist, just a slightly left of center social Democrat a little to the right of Ike and not even left as FDR was. The only reason Bernie is considered by some to be a Marxian socialist or even more stupidly a Communist, is because since the late 70s early 80s, the American political spectrum has been pulled to the far economic right! And the once centrist policies of Truman, Ike etc: became equated with the extreme left while the once radical right wing policies of laissez faire worshiping right became the new mainstream center. As for the far right, I can't really say except Anarcho- Capitalist utopianism or the physical reality of corporate Fascism that we put up with today!
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  77. Now only if DC can deal with that Teabagger/ Kochroach infestation in the House and Senate!
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  78. Nice... About time students start telling these two pro-plutocray bastards to go shove their 'faux'-free market propaganda BS where the sun don't shine!...
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  79. The turd, his old man, and all these insane, batshit fundies can go fuck themselves!! Words cannot describe my boiling hatred of the faux-christian religious right!!
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  80. Around the world, the history books are not going to be kind to these seditious assholes!!
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  81. I hope so... However, right now things look very dire!
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  82. One party's establishment is a 'proud' corporate whore! The other party's establishment is a 'sneaky' corporate whore! Either way, the US political system sucks balls!!
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  83. Thanks for the insights mate, I like the Green Party (and somewhat) Die Linke more anyway. Still you get the choice to vote left or right in Germany. Here in the US you get to choose from Neoliberal (AKA: The Dems) and Theocratic Fascist (AKA: The GOP) They is no left wing party here with any clout strong enough to change things. The only other party is with any clout is the Libertarians and I'd NEVER vote for those Austrotard, Ayn Rand worshiping, Paulbot apologists for plutocracy!!
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  84. More like RIH!
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  85. Whoa Thom! faux-swore out Reagan at the end! Good! That cult around him is such a nasty farce! A conman who taught the boomer generation to loyally boot-lick the plutocrats, while destroying their own government self-protections from the plutocrats, insatiable, unending greed!! Wrecking their lives and the lives of future generations in the process. Future world history books are not gonna be kind to him...
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  86. Trickle down was a scam from day one. It was NEVER about small or so-called limited government... I was all about transferring political and economic power from the lower and middle and even the lower-upper classes to the high upper classes and the top 1%... 30 years of this rubbish has wrecked us! However, it was hugely successful for the plutocratic classes. Which is why they continue to ram it down our throat with impunity, even as the country decays from within. It's going to take a 'massive' populist movement it re-vanquish this wretched BS ideology from the gilded age! Cause these bastards are going to fight to protect it with every tool they got to keep this scam going.
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  87. BramSLI1 If America votes for Walker, then they deserve ALL the pain and ass rape there gonna most certainly receive. Walker would make Bush and Reagan look like FDR. (Shudder)
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  88. Good! Let's hope this is the beginning of the end of this awful experiment/ scam that the Kochroaches and their ilk and cronies inflicted upon Kansas!! However, I'm gonna stay skeptical...
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  89. No Way The American public has always been suckers for simplistic buzzword advertising schemes.
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  90. Keep this crooked Koch-sucking bastard out of the White House at all costs!
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  91. The poor are poor only because of themselves meme is just old Calivist philosophy.  Aka: Since the poor are poor they must be cursed by God and since the rich are rich then they must be blessed by God etc: It was bull in the 15th century and is still bull in the 21st.
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  92. BramSLI1 These crooked corps brainwash millions into this small government BS. While at the same time, these same corps think buying politicians is a fricking bill of rights issue. (Small government my ass, this scam in American politics needs to die already!)
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  93. 5:44 Donald Rump's Trump!... LMAO... Nice goof there Thom XD You're such a straight man Thom, I don't think I've ever seen you laugh on air. (Unlike that goofball Sam Seder) XD
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  94. dipojones The wingnut right is going to have a real heyday with the third one.
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  95. +Another Agnostic Absolutely!! I love Bernie!!
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  96. It's also anti-Christian too... (Cough, cough) The so-called christian right in this country.) (Vomits.)
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  97. Eero Haapala 'Social democracy' for the win! - We just call it socialism here in the states cause the spectrum is so skewed over to the right.
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  98. So much for the Teabag Conservatives and RW Libertarians thinking Jefferson was one of their own. Don't sound like he was sympathetic to greed worship and plutocrat ass kissing.
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  99. Trickle down is debunked BS!! But we still can't figure out how to 'finally'.... GET RID OF IT!!! And throw it in the dustbin of history, WHERE IT BELONGS!!!
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  100. So much for always following the constitution to the letter. As the Teabags demand we do, (Where's their outrage at this attack on the US constitution?) So much damn hypocrisy!
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  101. Pres Obama is not one of our greatest presidents, however He hasn't been the worst. (That title goes to W or St. Ronnie the lying crook!) However, mark my words, internationally, the Republicans in this era are NOT!!! going to be looked on kindly by the history books!!
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  102. "Never again should a financial institution be able to demand a federal bailout." Damn straight Sen Senders! Damn straight!
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  103. Yes, they should be allowed to opt out of union dues, but they shouldn't be able receive 'any' of the union benefits.
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  104. The entire world Thom? I doubt other nations would want to waste their time watching this deranged gaggle of lying crooks!
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  105. Blasted corporatist Democrats!!... this vile spectre haunting us now is YOUR FAULT!!
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  106. ***** American RW Libertarian ideology is so appealing due to its simplistic answer for all the nations issues. (blame gov for everything, private sector can do no wrong.) Then it gets its followers hooked into a web of conspiracy theories and tons of Mccarthyist rhetoric, They stay focused on this crap while, ignoring the sea of corporate lobbying and favoritism in DC that, in turn, expands the power and scope of the government. Some RW Libertartians I've talked to are smarter than this and don't fall for this ruse, (unlike the braindead teabags!). However, they then, as always, blame the gov for this corruption and not the corporate lobbyists and the oligarchs who fund them. Of course as always they're answer is more deregulation and more push for a true free market. However, this leads to a conundrum, They admit that corporations constantly use the government to get favorable perks and benffits, (The anti-thesis of free market ideology) but at the same time these same corps are the ones funding the spreading of free market ideology. But... If a free market destroy's the lobbying and revolving door system in DC, Mega-corps would ultimately be destroying their own cushy system and thus their own power in the government? Conclusion, the dogma of the free market fundementalism and the interests of transnational corporations contradict each other... Thus the only logical conclusion is that mega-corps 'never' intended to follow the market fundementalist dogma in the first place. Of course, many RW Libertarians can not see this contradiction due to being blinded by Austrian school bunk or Ayn Rand's nietzschean worship of perfect, moral CEO's and Bankers. Cause then they'd have to admit that they're heroes are, in fact, hypocritical, opportunist crooks, which, in turn their whole ideology and worldview crumbles like a house of cards.
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  107. Amen to that!! 🏳‍🌈✊
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  108. He is exhibit A for the nasty consequences of letting big money get it's dirty hooks into our governmental system. All starting in the 70s with the Buckley decision.
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  109. Neoliberalism must die and soon.. If not, we will be heading for some very dark times by the mid century.
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  110.    I'm from East TN, and that's no surprise to me. So many people around here never shut up with the rethug talking points about government. And yet are on a slew of anti-poverty programs, including food stamps. It's a good thing that I love the beauty of this area as well as my job, cause I despise the politics around here.
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  111. lol!! XD No, Kris B from Frozen is just my username and avatar But I am a Native American, from the Oneida Indian Nation of Wisconsin.
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  112. Reagan is long dead.. It's long past due to his rotten plutocratic legacy to die as well....
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  113. Don't just close the revolving door... smash it!!!  Bernine Sander 2016
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  114. In the long term, the history books (Especially international) are not gonna be nice to St. Ronnie the lying, senile, corporate-lackey crook!!
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  115. I think it was a scam from day one. The government has never gotten smaller hell, 30+ years later after the Raygun revolution its now bigger than ever. However this oversized government doesn't work for us no it's rigged fully in favor of the plutocrat class. Why?... I've come to only one possible conclusion, The goal was never to shrink government only to transfer its powers from the common masses to the plutocrats. Plutocrats that get billions in taxpayer subsides, rig markets using the power of the government (what irony..) then have to nerve do go on how we common people all have to give up our voices in the government and the workplace to appease the allmighty free market.. I'm absolutely certain it was a scam.. A scam with a massive media machine behind it to keep it running.
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  116. Pretty much everyone who works for these constantly Orwellian named 'conservative?' think tanks. Are nothing but bought off corporate shills and whores! Nothing more... nothing less...
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  117. #2 Is the key!!
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  118. RW Libertarians remind me of the Bolsheviks. Utopian ideologues, who think their extremist economic ideas will work. But can't see from a mile away how they would dissolve into utter tyranny!!
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  119. "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - John Kenneth Galbraith
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  120. The unfettered, unregulated model is.
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  121. Bernie Sanders - ANTI-Neoliberal! Hillary Clinton - Pro Neoliberal
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  122. +MiserableOldFart Yep, there's no doubt about it, if we want to rebuild our nation and it's dying middle class, then the greed is good/ trickle down scam has to die!!...
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  123. Trump is a pompous windbag... enough said... (Still... at least he's enjoyable to watch.)
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  124. And these bastards call this freedom (gags!) I call it corruption on a scale I thought I'd never see in my lifetime... sickening and disgusting!
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  125. "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half." (Attributed to robber baron Jay Gould?)
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  126. You and me both Thom... Words can not describe how fed up and tired I am of the antics of the American faux-christian right!!
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  127. And long over due!!
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  128. So much for the free market and entrepreneurship. What a bunch of crooked frauds! "They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection." From - 'The Danger of American Fascism ' by Henry A. Wallace
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  129. Every year the Progressive Caucus comes up with this budget. And every year it hardly gets any media attention. While the sociopathic bile made by that Orwellian named Freedumb Caucus lay out another sociopathic, poor hurting, plutocrat coddling, POS garbage so-called budget. And it's on the damn MSM!
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  130. These two progressive business men have always been on the right side of history. They prove that capitalism doesn't have to be sociopathic, it can be a moral system. First occupy... now this... Rock on!!! you two...
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  131. That's the scary thing about 2018 and 2020... We're just a few states away from a Pinochet-style corporate coup de tat being possible!! DX
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  132. The insurance companiers are gonna fight this tooth and nail!!
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  133. Living the TN, this doesn't surprise me.
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  134. Destroying the nations manufacturing sector and letting the 'the city' and it's unstable and volatile speculative product BS take over the reigns of supporting UK's economy. I am no fan of Maggie Thatcher.
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  135. Eddie Munster again?... Oh yuck!
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  136. Sadly it's true...
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  137. Very interesting! Especially since she thinks it is possible to do FDR style policies without large tax increases anywhere. I'm sceptical here, but intrigued.
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  138. Please let Trump get the nominee... Fuck lyin Ryan and the Kochroaches!! I am gonna buy a bottle a champagne when they finally die!! One bottle for each Kochroach!! I only wish I still believed in hell, cause BOY!! Do they fully deserve to go there!!!
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  139. This crap goes right back to that disgusting speech that Paul Weyrich made in the early 80's.
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  140. The Kochs are ultra-corporatist crooks, who use free market dogma as a cover to buy off the US government. While they work to rig markets by flooding DC with their corporatist cronies to make sure they and they plutocratic buddies get to play by different rules than the average American. Free market advocates by F%&king ass!!
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  141. I went to a fundie Christian school back in my middle school years. HA!! Jeffererson was no fundie and my teachers made that specifically clear, (also noted that was a bad thing).. 🙄
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  142. The American people should have weeded out this perverse ideal... decades back!
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  143. However, if you trace this Powell Memo corruption to before Reagan. Then it really is the right wing Greatest Gen, Slients and early Boomers that voted for Nixon who really started this process of deconstruction and decay. As by voting for him, the far economic right got it's dirty hooks into the supreme court and legalized such bribery. (Aka: The Buckley decision.)
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  144.  @thesoundsmith  Not Kristallnacht.. not yet.. But we a have absolutely had our version of the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923. At that point Weimar Germany had 10 more years before democracy fully collapsed as Hitler was elected Chancellor in 1933.
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  145. How close are we to the American version of "Kristallnacht"? And second, will the police and especially the military properly defend us if such a nightmare happens?
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  146. This is hilarious!! Trolling the gun nuts like this. However, this protest is right on the money. I've always found it perverse how wingnut conservatives in this country think it's OK to take a fricking deadly weapon 'Everywhere!' parading it around for the whole world to see. And then are so restrictive on the ticks of human sexuality. And are rapid at others to follow their puritanical views on sex?
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  147. +barbtube01 However, with Bernie have finally have a chance to KILL!! this rotten con/scam of a economic system!  Bring back social democracy!! death to neoliberalism!!
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  148. Yeah, I love how right wingers use that stupid talking point about 'Liberalism being a mental disorder.' HA! Liberals are pretty nuanced when it comes to economics. It's the right wingers that like to turn the 'so-called' free market into a strict absolutist religion!
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  149. +barbtube01 BHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! LOL!!! Best laugh I've gotten in weeks! XD
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  150. Reagan was a bought-off crook, but Friedman was a slimy little rat bastard who wrecked us with his evil 'greed is good' garbage!!
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  151. ***** Especially since their evill shitty pro-plutocracy polices stand against everything the Jesus of the New Testament talked about.
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  152. +barbtube01 And they did... the teabagger jerks we put up with today are the descendants of those scumbag proto-fascist assholes from the 50's the John Birch Society! Who spewed that 'Exact' crap about Eisenhower!
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  153. Yuck! And I guarantee that they'd call it some horrid Orwellien name like 'Constitution for freedom' XD DX or some other rubbish like that!
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  154. On the economic front, Libertarianism nothing but ultra-selfish, narcissistic crankery!
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  155. ***** I would like to give the Libertarians a shot, However I will not and for one prime reason:  They support "Citizens United" (gag!) I will never support legalized bribery!!
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  156. Banksters? Oh boy... hopefully Faux News doesn't get a scent of this... I can just see the dumbass headlines. "Leftist children's book teaches kid to hate capitalism and freedumb."
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  157. If other countries can do it... why can't we? Oh, that's right the 'free market über alles' cult in this country.... especially in DC.... Ironically.
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  158. No charity should 'never' have administration overhead costs over 5% or so. 40% overhead!! Wounded Warrior is a disgusting scam! Taking advantage of peoples alturism for a buck! Sickening!!....
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  159. It's hard to get it through the Republican/ Libertarians thick skulls. But there are some services that are more efficient and cheaper when they are "publically" owned... Reagan was wrong!!
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  160. "We need to be taking that money to run the government, not to buy the government" In order words: Kill Citizens United and Buckley vs Valeo!!
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  161. BramSLI1 Liberal media... HA! There all a bunch of neoliberal kiss-ups, including MSNBC.
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  162. Mongo Local780 It's asshole quotes like this that makes one understand why socialist and communist ideologies rose to prominence in the late 19th early 20th century.
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  163. He's wasn't the devil. But the sociopathic cretins that his administration and his 'so-called' 'revolution' unleashed upon us, definitely were...
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  164. Labor would not have had this victory if had nominated a pro-Neoliberal center-leftist like the Labor party establishmment originally wanted to do. What could have been, if we had been able to nominate Bernie for the Dems. This radical-RW nightmare were dealing with now... 'wouldn't be happening...' DX
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  165. Santeli rant was one of the most A-hole things I've ever seen in my life! People get fucked my these crooked banksters then this disgusting corporate-bootlicker has the 'gall' to tell middle-working class people that they need to be punished for causing the crash? And many Americans nod their head and agree with this sociopathic ass?!... I mean talk about being disempowered and whipped. America grow some fucking balls and realize when you're getting abused and raped! And I hope Thom is right about the Tea partiers in that they're finally waking up. I know I get extremely mad at them at times, but when it comes to the followers and not the crooked hierarchy. I do feel sorry for them, cause there getting constantly raped by these rotten bastards. (ex: Kansas, Wisconsin)
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  166. Sharon S Pretty much a blueprint for a American corporatist fascist state.
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  167. Sharon S It the inevitable result to the GOP's swing to the radical right. It has become a fascist party. The biggest lie in American politics is that the capitalists and the corporations hate the government. Nothing could be further from the truth, of the matter is they love a big corporate state to protect their plutocratic interests. That they hate is when the government works others besides them... However, millions still fall for their evil big government crapola! The rise of fascism in the US brought on by decades of faux-free market propaganda!
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  168. +SharkAcademy Cotton is a Neocon crook of the worst stripes!! An asshole literally pushing for war with Iran... Get this bastard OUT of our congress!!!
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  169. That mother shouldn't pay those Wall St. bastards one... more... penny!!
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  170. Every time I hear that insane platform I wanna vomit! These Koch-sucking sociopaths would turn us into a RW version of the Soviet Union!! As this platform is just 'screaming' that it would quickly turn into despotism!!
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  171. Good on this guy. I can never understand how one can concile true Christian belief with an extreme laissez faire / hyper-selfish ethos?
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  172. Free market dogma doesn't work with everything, and healthcare in the US is a glaring example of this. Does this mean we scrap the free market it's entirely? Of course not! I just mean's that market forces have limitations, and, some things, like healthcare, just don't work well with them in delivering a good and decent final product. But this means (gasp) that the government can do something's well... And that discredits all of the Neoliberal market-fundie '"Government is evil and can't do no right" Lying BS!!!
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  173. Alonso Valera There Christian in name... only!... There real God is $$$ and 'nothing' will come between them and this idol. They use the Christian religion in a very corrupt and opportunistic way.
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  174. I Hope Bernie does well in TN, but I doubt it.. His name recognition is rather low here.. I just hope on the GOP side, Trump wins TN and not that dominionist A-hole Turd Cruz!!
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  175. +Skeet Fletcher $700,000 Would likely be considered upper middle class.
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  176. Nice to see somebody read their Bible, the prosperity gospel really is an abomination. These people are not Christians they're pharisees! Demonizing the poor and downtroden and worshiping at the altar of unfettered greed and avarice!
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  177. Carter wouldn't play the game and got shit on my his own party. He stood up to cronyism and paid the price. Unlike the bough-off crook who preceeded him that was the poster boy for being a elitiest cronyist bootlicker.
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  178. Also, that West Virginia legislator is awesome! Talk about a serious case of karma bite back! I love it when someone has the balls to rip these scumbag, radical right hypocrites a new one!
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  179. Also, I do not respect Obama's temperment. He acted like a little bitch taking all this BS bullying for 7+ years now!! I would have broken some cretin's jaws if I had to put with the amount of disrespect and utter petty shit like the President has had to deal with!
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  180. Hmm... Did pawn shops come up due to Reagan or did they exist before his Presidency?
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  181. I easily noticed, due to this crisis, that Greeks were added to the list of groups that radical RW jerks in the US love to ridicule and spit their venom at. Using the same bile they have directed at poor ethnic groups: black, latino etc: for decades. Even though I guarantee for many to these teabagger idiots, they don't even know where Greece is!
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  182. Feras Al Hati True, that is a black mark on his legacy, but it was mostly rooted in the mainstream bigotry of the time. (Cause we only pulled this crap on the Japanese. The Germans and Italians were treated a LOT better in the internment camps.)
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  183. I strongly oppose this, even though I don't care about the 2nd amendment or guns that much personally. I do find it wrong to take guns away from sane, law abiding citizens. (Punishing the majority for the deranged assholery of a small crazy minority?... No... I don't support this.)
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  184. Nice bit off truth there Krispy Creme.. Still... Talk about the pot calling the Kettle Black!
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  185. The 'free stuff' argument is utterly asinine. If you pay taxes, you deserve gov services... End of story!!!.... When you pay taxes and get nothing in return, that's when taxes actually become theft!!
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  186. Christine Jones I wouldn't compare Snott Wanker to Hitler. Sure he's a Koch-sucking crook, but I'd put him more in the Mussolini category than with the Nazis. ( However, he is one of the most fascist politicians I have ever seen in my lifetime!)
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  187. divinuminfernum I've always said American right-wing Libertarianism is kinda like a reverse version of Marxian-Leninism.
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  188. This years gonna be a powder keg...
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  189. Sleazy sneaky bastards! There planning to blow up the debt... again... Then in 4-8 years the Dems will get back in power with a mess to clean up, and mark my words... The GOP bastards will be bitching away about the national debt... Again!!.... It's such a disgusting cycle... And will likely keep going till the nation implodes upon itself... smh
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  190. As a millennial growing up in East TN in the 90s. I can attest to the fact that my grade school textbooks 'Never' talked about the history of labor at all! Hell, I didn't actually learn what a union actually was and what it was used for till my first years at university.
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  191. ABC's "The Middle" Is very working class.
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  192. Scotty the war-mongering rat just like that other cretin Tom Cotton.
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  193. Like Ike, another good Republican from a long.. by-gone.. time in the history of the GOP. Before they were the psychopathic abomination they are today...
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  194. The last one 'that vulgar quip' about MLK was repulsive. However, I've never heard this shitty element of the senile crook before, I need to check the facts on this one, to make sure it's not hot air.
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  195. brogs60 Reagan and Thatcher were the bought-off salesman of trickle-down/ neoliberalism. Friedman was the corporate shill who designed the system.
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  196. ***** Anarcho-capitalism makes the same crankish/utopian argument that the anarchists and commies made in the late 19th century, "Get rid of all government and everyone will somehow live rationally and voluntarily with each other."  pphh.. Please... If such a massive power vacuum is created the whole idea that the powerful are not going to exploit that vacuum for their own gain is beyond naive. Especially when pertaining to a group that puts unlimited greed and selfishness as prime virtues. (Yeah, like they're actually going to stay pure and ethical due to some strict economic fundementalism, that ultimately no one would be even watching them to make sure they follow properly. The whole ideal is absolutely ridiculous and built on nothing but blind faith. The Paul-bot club is kinda faded out now, (Rand doesn't have the same flare as Ron did.) The thing with Ron Paul was that he hit the nail on the head, when it came to the evils of the MIC and our never-ending warmongering, the out of control NSA surveilance machine, plus his whole legalize pot thing was very popular among millenials. However, under all that was a plan to 'shock doctrine' the crap out of us with a massive dose Austrian school crankery. Plus they're was his lovely economic policies permitting Jim Crow policies to be allowed once again. (Probably the reason why I've very rarely ever run into a black RW Libertarian.) Still, He never had a chance in hell of winning, even with that Wall St. wank Peter Thiel funding him. But many of his crankish austro-tard economic policies are now spewed daily from our Teabag infested congress. 
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  197. rvlqcitizen Thanks for the compliment I'm flattered, yet a little embarrased as I don't consider very well spoken. I think my comments come off as jumbled messes at times, but I guess that's just me being a raging perfectionist. Due the sea of RW Libertarian propagnada here on YT, I like to speak my mind on it, as I find it to be such a despicable Orwelian-worded scam of an ideology! It revolts and at the same time saddens me to see 'so' many young people falling hook line and sinker for this snotty, mean-spirited, dogma of elitist-privilege.
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  198. Could be? I lived in Germany for a year, and my assumption is probably rather distorted due to the extremism I've had to listen to here in my home state of TN. (Especially since the rise of the Teabag morons in 09.) It's gotten so bad here that our senators are wasting our revenues to spread crazy RW consipracy theories. Thus German politics felt like a breath of fresh air to me. I know this may sound very strange to a local.
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  199. How will neoliberalism die? With a whimper or a bang?
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  200.  Thomas Paine  He basically did what Dave Dubin formerly of TYT did. He fully sold out to the forces of the far right for a bigger pay check.
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  201. Yes! Before decades of RW hate radio and Faux News turned so many of our fellow citizens brains to brainwashed mush.
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  202. I love how Thom strips the founding fathers away from the theocrats and economic royalists (as FDR called them.) and place them in their proper place with the ideals of social and economic activism. The founders were children of the European enlightenment, they would be in no way on the side of the US radical right. The teabagger theocrats actual ancestors are the puritans. (witch burnings) And the plutocrats ancestors are the kings of old Europe, (let'em eat cake) NOT the founding fathers!
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  203. Enough with the BS for more trickle down/ scam Reaganomics Dr. Ruhr. 32+ years is enough!! I'm ready for some demand side for a change.
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  204. They know demographically the numbers are not on their side and that those numbers are gonna get worse as their old Faux-News watching, RWNJ base continues to go into the ground. So there gonna fight ruthlessly to stay in power.. Democracy be damned!
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  205. So understandably, the anger at the rich today in general is understandable. Especially as many corrupt and destroy representative democracy by buying off governments, kill off good paying jobs and replacing them with crappy Mcjobs, Wreck the environment with not a hint of regret and all at the same time insist we worship them like some sort of Randian hero... and give them even more power and to tell those suffering due to their savagery to just shut up and just deal with it!
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  206. Hmm, No surprise to me.. That's Berliner's for ya. 😏 It's a very progressively minded city.
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  207. Market forces are good for many things especially commoditable goods, but there are some elements of society that they're not only poor at delivering but downright evil in their incentives! DX
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  208. They'res a reason I call Reagan the senile crook. He fed the boomers a bunch of über-selfish claptrap. Exploded our debt and gutted our manufacturing economy, let the speculative financial sector sector take over and most importantly destroyed our ethics for saving and replaced it with wasteful, short term consumerism all built on credit and debt. Germany rejected all this crap and thus is why they prosper today Screw Reagan,Thatcher and Friedmanite Anglo-Saxon model capitalism!!!
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  209.  @carycunningham9510  Well informed response. 👍🏼 I don't trust the police in this situation either. However, do you think the military would actually openly put down these Fascist paramilitary groups if mass violence erupts? Could the military spilt into two factions?
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  210. Back when Citizen United passed I remember ABC World News had a small minute or so segment on it. Before going right back to the incessant 'fluff stories' they now waste over half of the program with.
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  211. TN is an annoying far right state, yet amazingly we have a sane moderate Republican governor. (Yes, they do exist.) However, the state house in Nashville is loaded with Teabagger cretins who embarrass us on a regular basis. As for AFP in TN and what they pulled against expanding Tenncare... Just two words... Fuck... You...
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  212. JD00720 I put 'FULL!!' responsibility on him and his ilk for wrecking the American dream for the middle class, causing the 08 crash and finally making it that the millennials are the 'first' modern American generation to have a 'lesser' standard of living than their parents!! It was foolish and asinine to think that the greed, selfishness orgy of the 80's-90's wouldn't have consequences!!... A warning to the dangers of mindless short-term thinking and the immature belief in instant gratification...
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  213. +TheSpiritOfTheTimes Well said... The religious right are the brainwashed footsoldiers of the American plutocracy! Their crap dogmas have "Nothing" to do with Jesus or the Bible and everything to do with protecting the parasitic, sociopathic, corporatist elites that have taken over the US and our government!
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  214. +barbtube01 Yep, I'm absolutely certain Fred Koch was a fascist symapathizer if not a full blown supporter of it. (Mussolini and Franco)
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  215. Cause these crooked plutocrats never instended to creating the utopian free market society that their drones never shut up about. It was 'always' about creating a comfortable crony capitalist system from day one, Unfortunately those who've had their brains fried by the utopian, market fundementalist bunk propogated by Hakek, Rothbard and Mises will 'never see this.
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  216. +SingleCrystal Agreed Ike belongs on that list! He supported social democracy and called out the corrupt plutocrats who wanted to destroy it. Also, I'll add the economic system he supported in the 50's, was light years ahead of the Soviet bloc countries. Hence, the Cold War, in terms of the war of ideas, was won from the very beginning...
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  217. Cause the GOP is still strongly tied to the old, bigoted scum of the christian right and the Dominionist movement in general. When enough of those stupid, old buzzards go in the ground and they are no longer a strong voting block for the GOP. The Republicans will finally jettison those assholes. I look forward to that day! And it is destined to happen as millennials are leaving the church in droves today and want nothing to do with these cretins or their shitty ideology!!
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  218. Which shows hideously far the American spectrum has been pulled to the right.
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  219. Gatlinburg TN? Oh god - (puts bag over my head)
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  220. euroclyde Yep, marching boldy into a 2nd gilded age. (yuck!)
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  221. +James Travers It's a nightmarish end-game scenario and I pray to God it "Never!" happens... But at the same time, let look at the best case scenario... If Bernie were to win and we get two to three strong progressive SCOTUS judges and they rule against Citizens United or even better; we get an amendment added to the Constitution that fully destroys the concept of corporate personhood and corporate free speech rights, Then we'll have the oligarchs finally restrained and under control and most importantly, their influence would be severely diminished in Washington... I just wish there was a way afterwards to deliver a final death blow to their entire ideology and evil, sociopathic agenda!
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  222. Uhh... I can't believe I used to believe in is fundie bunk!
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  223. Iceland did the correct thing years ago... While the rest of the world let the banksters inflict never ending austerity on them.
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  224. joe jarden I would mind seeing that list, and yes Gould was a serious A-hole! However, I think Henry Frick, Carnegie's thuggish 2nd hand man was even worse.
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  225. But, Trump is against TTP and NAFTA.. So he's a bit better than the senile crook..
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  226. Yeah blame 'him' and all these Libertardian so-called think tanks for pushing that hyper-selfish nonsense!
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  227. Which is why over the decades, The Kochs and their similar ilk have spent billions and set up dozens of RW 'non'-think tanks to reverse this... To get us to think that their lying, hypocritical, sociopathic, plutocrat worshiping BS is pure blooded americanism. And that the New Deal consensus was an unamerican socialist/ communsist anomaly that needs to be wiped out.
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  228. True, but Reagan was 'far' worse. 
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  229. They bitch all the time about moochers, then go and mooch themselves. Then, RTW for (less laws) allow these people to mooch off union benefits and not have to pay a single cent to the union for providing those benefits. I mean talk about something for nothing.. Republicans and especially teabaggers are such flaming hypocrites to their own 'no free lunch' ideology!
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  230. BramSLI1 This kid lost me, when he mentioned that crank Mises... The most elitist and wingnutty of all RW libertarian/ propertarians. Mises worked for fascists for petes sake, and the only reason he denounced fascism was when Dolfy and his anti-semitic cavalcade rose to power in Europe. (He 'never' had a problem with the corporatist Dollfuss regime.)
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  231. Pope Francis is seriously making me wonder if I should become a member of the Catholic church? However, I love how he making the millions of hypocritical, greed worshiping evangelicals and RW catholics squirm  About time someone called out the (in name only) so-called christians.
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  232. +john carlisle That bill in NC was beyond vile!! And hopefully, it'll get repealed. However, I smell ALEC's evil fingerprints all over this debacle!! But this is the consequences when Dems constantly skip out on the midterms. You get the teabagging scam-bag infesting your statehouse who constantly will pull shit like this!!
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  233. Yep it's a scam! But a scam that benefits the plutocrats at the top immensely!! Which is the reason they 'refuse' to let it die... DX
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  234. sgf129 The history of the organized Christian religion in a nutshell.
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  235. Gordon Bradley Combining Christianity with Ayn Randian selfishness is a has nasty results!
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  236. sevven1 Exactly, We want to destroy this rotten plutocratic system... and get disgusting assholes like the Kochs and their cronies OUT of our government!
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  237. +Raven W I'll go with heavy regulations. And fuck all the RW morons who still propagate in this crooked, self-regulating, horse shit!!
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  238. Talk about some serious trolling. However, I definitely understand that a foster child is a lot safer physically and mentally in loving LBGT household than with a bunch of hateful Tali-baggers!
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  239. Art Pope.. another thug plutocrat that needs a dirt nap!!!
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  240. ***** Nothing repulses me more than how sociopathic, greed, worshiping social darwinists have become the mainstream image of American Christianity.
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  241. Don't ya hate how every single one of these crooked little pro-corporate clubs and think tanks, 'always' have to have the words 'freedom' or 'liberty' in them? George Orwell would have a hayday with these greed worshiping cretins!!
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  242. rollofnickles "Sen. Sanders is the antidote to Neoliberalism."  Yes! Yes and Yes!
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  243. Fascinating! Just a few months after the Titanic, the first writings about the processes of climate change were made. I thought that science in the Titanic era, was nowhere near making such hypothesis?... Nope, Uh.. I was wrong.
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  244. Rand Paul would 'never' get the votes of the theocratic Christian right base, thus he could never attain the GOP nominee.
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  245. A good chunk of this nation has some serious mental issues. Even when all the evidence, points to the fact that private interests are the culprits for corrupting the government. American right-wingers will still blame the government for corrupting itself? (Oh sure the government forced these noble bank(st)ers to take the bailout money.) No matter, what the issue they'll blame the 'government' for everything. It so juvenile. I sure as hell do not blame the private sector for every woe known to mankind.
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  246. Yuck, more like a corporate totalitarian state. It amazes how these vile plutocratic cranks completely pervert/ destroy the words, freedom and liberty.
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  247. This is the same story that was on 'The Real New's' channel, except without all the nasty teabagger trolls.
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  248. I love Disney... but I don't like their neoliberal labor practices.
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  249. Originally a Keynesian model Brenton Woods organization; it along with the World Bank and IMF have been turned into the cops of Neoliberalism and Corporatism. Working to make sure nations and their citizens do not succeed in implementing consumerist regulations and protections that go against Neoliberal, Neoclassical economic dogmas... The WTO can fuck off!!
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  250. ***** oh Lovely... I swear whenever I see or hear RW wingnuts fawning over this crook I want to reach for a barfbag. Destroyed our economy and society in the name of bratty instant gratification.
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  251. Excellent idea!
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  252. And quite frankly, this kind of sabotaging tactics need to be made illegal and prosecuted! "Kill starve the beast!'
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  253. Shame on you Gov. Haslam...
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  254. And Pres Obama is pushing this crappy trade deal?... (Shakes head) I love RBG, It just amazes me how she puts up with the crap from other bought off pro-corporate slimebags that make up SCOTUS; especially the Fascist three!
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  255. ***** Unions in the United States need 'serious' restructuring and reform.
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  256. Third way needs to go extinct! They've caused so much damage to the Dems and the nation in general...
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  257. Private prisons are a hideous obscenity in this country, not because the concept of making a prisoner a commodity is particularly vulgar. But because the industry can lobby for tighter, more draconian laws to put even more people into prison to boost their profits. This vile industry shouldn't exist!!
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  258. Yeah Thom, there is this possibility... But it is a 'Huge' gamble!!
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  259. J.P. Carr This crook makes me so sick to my stomach it's not even funny.
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  260. However, TPP loving Obama going on about this is hypocritical and thus bittersweet.
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  261. Back in the 50's though the John Birch Society 'absolutely hated; him. And labeled him a communist they also did this to JFK. However back then the mainstream Republicans told them to sit down and shut the hell up, kicking them to the far fringes of the American politics. (In the 1980's that all changed.)
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  262. pyro 494 Best comment I've seen in a long time...
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  263. Starve the beast isn't just a scam, I consider it political arsonry. That these 'rotten plutocratic bastards' deliberately sabotage government institutions then have the gall to come over and say 'oh see I guess it doesn't work we find to privatize it' makes by blood boil!!!
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  264. ***** Good propaganda... and decades of it!
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  265. They got a decent spending bill done. I'm impressed, as this is such a nightmare of pulling teeth with this teatard infested Congress!
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  266. Hooray! for Adblocker Superblockpro!! I've seen my last 'unwelcome' PragerU teabag propaganda ad! DX Good Riddance!!!
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  267. The only thing, all the things (Except for the Fed?) Dr. Kelton mentioned are in the crosshairs of the Rethug tea-bags. If the Rethugs get their act together and successfully ruin these protections? Then we could be in real danger of a repeat of 1929 !
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  268. I don't know how the president puts up with this asinine, petty shit!?.. I would have absolutely exploded at these two petty, hyperpartisian bastards!!
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  269. It may look bad, but in the long run these dominionist assholes are gonna lose this fight. Why?... Cause the younger generations are 'strongly' against them! Millennials are the least religious generation in American history. So we can expect a "major!" backlash if these freaks try to seriously push their bigoted, faux-christian bullshit on us!!
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  270. True freedom is a balance between positive and negative rights. And it about damn time we restore that balance
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  271. Because the unions got corrupt and didn't deal with the corruption in their ranks. This made the boomers open for the 'unions are evil' BS propaganda spewed by corporate think tanks and their puppet Ronnie the senile!
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  272. +joseph jacovino Exactly, and this dumb ass has the nerve to go on about work ethic!!! I've worked numerous jobs and have never taken a single piece of government assistance in my life!!... As I said... a stupid moron who's taken every single piece of the neoliberal corporate line... hook, line and sucker... It so sad and sickening to watch someone fall for this disgusting corporate/neoliberal crap so badly... I hate seeing somebody degrade themselves like this, being an elite bootlicker is NOT cool... it's absolutely pathetic!!... If one pays taxes in this country... then you deserve to get social services from the government... PERIOD!!! It's theft to pay taxes and get 'nothing' in return...
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  273. Actually I got a sizeable savings account and zero debt! I'm doing fine.
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  274. A sane moderate conservative, what a refreshing find.
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  275. It's such an absolutely disgusting system... These hypocritical, blood sucking, sociopathic, plutocrats get everything handed to them on a silver f-king platter, thanks to how hideously bought off our government now is. While the American people get pretty much shafted when it comes to their desires. and to add insult to injury... are drowned in a sea of taxes but hardly get any services from them. Thom was right, This is the "cancer" stage of Reaganomics!!!
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  276. +BramSLI1 Something definitely has to change, I worry greatly about the next crash. Their is so much anger, tension and hated seething in the nation right now and rightly so.. Such a disastrous event could trigger the nation into the mindset that would lead to the rise of a Fascist dictator. (Just as it did in Europe when the effects of the Great Depression hit them.) The US was very lucky as we got a social democrat (FDR) that halted such mindsets by alleviating the effects of the Depression for the middle and working classes and kept both Fascist and Communist movements at bay. (Mainland Europe was not so lucky..)
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  277. +Mark A. Foster, Ph.D. If only...
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  278. True, the problem is that our political elites are still infatuated with Maggie 'the witch' Thatcher's infamous TINA principle, regarding predatory neoliberal economic policy. There are alternatives, but they don't want the masses to know about them... Cause, 30+ years of predatory neoliberalism has made the rich and powerful beyond belief! And they want to protect this crooked gravy train at all costs!!
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  279. If other nations can do it, so can we. When it comes to primary healthcare, the insurance companies are nothing but parasitic middle men, that are UNNECESSARY!!
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  280. Cause Bernie threatened the DNC neoliberal establishment that runs the DNC. They've been drunk on corporate money since the 90's and 'Citizens United in 2010 made this a whole lot worse! They would have done anything to keep Bernie from getting the nomination.
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  281. I don't consider this 'tiny' tie a loss.
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  282. This psychotic, fundie BS needs to be purged from our government and especially our judicial system!
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  283. Yep, Red Vienna 🤣 But no joke, It's a beautiful city, super clean (Almost sterile in my opinion) and very cheap.
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  284. I agree if America had experienced the total destruction of their continent that happened to Europe in WWII. Americans wouldn't have such a ridiculous views of über-narcissistic self grandeur, like they have today.
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  285. Drain the swamp my!!! 😠☠
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  286.  @ronaldruneric4804  Oh, yes I know.. Reagan was just the PR man for Neoliberalism and millions of Americans fell for his sleazy talking points. As for the ideology itself, RW economist shills like Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek are the main masterminds of this economic scam.
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  287. Get rid of sociopathic bastards!!
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  288. Why did America become such an incubator for such religo-fascistic, grifting BS!?
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  289. BS! The moment the video starts you're ranting away trying to spew every RW Libertarian talking point you know in the shortest times possible. I doubt you've ever schooled Thom he's heard every Libertarian, Randoid, Austrian econ. talking point in the book. And I highly doubt you've got some amazing new insights to add.
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  290. When one acts like a immature brat, Yes I think the keys should be taken away from the teenager. And the US is in fact a teenager in it's actual age, actions and mentality compared to most of the worlds 1st world nations.
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  291. Republicans have standards? LMFAO! HA! HA! HA! HA! - epic FAIL!
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  292. Now I might be a millennial, but I gotta say my favorite's gotta be "Sanford and Son" a classic, but boy does it make me laugh. That war between Fred and Aunt Esther! 😂
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  293. No more chances.. we blew it!
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  294. Man Thom, I can't believe you subject yourself to that crap. But good on you for looking at the other sides pandering and propaganda.
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  295. Thom's had numerous loudmouth Liberrtarians on his show, they get to sprew their nonsense. And it's always them that turns the debate into a noisy-cesspit that resembles ABC's The View.
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  296. Cause it's his radio show, and thus his property. Limbaugh does the same thing to liberal callers. You're just butt hurt Thom won't let you turn his radio show into another RW Libertarian soapbox. (Who's using force now?)
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  297. One of my most shameful elements of my life is that I viciously bullied a kid in elementary. 25+ years later, I can not figure out for the life of me why I did so?? All I know is that the karma from it clobbered me, as I later got bullied myself relentlessly in middle and high.
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  298. I'll go with the German model, a nation that actually makes things, even with a horrible big government. and if that's socialism your eyes I don't give a flying fuck!
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  299. The four horsemen of America's downfall: Unrestrained Greed Racism & Bigotry Stupidity & Ignorance Pride & Arrogance Empires have come and gone for thousands of years, it's the way of things.  We were absolute fools to think such dynamics would not affect us. "Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." (Proverbs 16:18)
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  300. If such a nightmare we're to happen... It's not just the end of the US Constitution, but the end of the Republic as well...
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  301. "how they lack the ability to accept opposing points of view" Look in the damn mirror Mr. drag back the entire nation against their will back to the 17th century. Progressive War Machine - (LMAO!) talk about a major oxymoron, so anti-war protestors are actually pro war, (seesh) What the hell have you been smoking.
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  302. Well that not how things work now does it, the damn courts say corps are people, which I strongly oppose but its law now anyway.
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  303. Smart lady... 0 dislikes that means the crazy defenders of the oligarchs the Liber/Propertarians haven't found this vid yet. I can already hear their insults... The S word, The C word and of course the M word. as she blasted, without mercy their heroes.
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  304. Thus to conclude my discussion: perfect liberty and total economic freedom are 100% incompatible! In order to have one the other one 'must' give way some. And from looking at the core value in the dogma of far right conservative and libertarian dogma, It is very easy to see which variable will be the one to give way...
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  305. I have that feeling as well, and mainly due to the extreme corruption and ossification of our entire political system.
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  306. I really have no beef with the these two words being added, however I have 'no' respect for Mccarthyist/ J-Bircher crap that was the reason for adding them.
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  307. These parents need to shut off Faux News period!!
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  308. I haven't watched MSNBC or listened to NPR in years. (Scoff) Progressive my left foot!!
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  309. "They value money more than human life!" HAHAHAHAHA!! That's rich, coming from these Ayn Rand greed worshipers!!
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  310. Unfortunately, it is just a short term fix. However what we need is a movement that goes after the debt in a less controversal way, aka: cutting pork and corruption, rather than demonizing poor and minorities. That i'd support.
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  311. I sure hope you're right...
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  312. "Gott mit uns" - God is with us. All they need now are the caps with the skull and crossbones in the middle of them.
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  313. I figured out this rotten scam out by the time I was a teen... The Rethugs never shut up about how awful government is, then when they get in power they wreck everything, and then have the absolute nerve to then tell you. "See, government doesn't work." In my book that is direct sabotage and nearly a form of terrorism! The dems suck, but I gotta give them one thing, they still give the rhetoric and or veneer that they believe in good/ working government. The Rethugs? Hell, that's been long gone ever since that slimy, backstabbing B actor coroprate conman!!
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  314. Creepy... But at least the terminator want to sell us junk here, and not kill us.
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  315. Still our Right Wing Libertarians/Propertarians, (while small in number) are without a doubt the most annoying and disgraceful appoligists for Neoliberal dogma. AKA :(Austrian Schoolers)
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  316. I remember when I first learned of RW Libertarianism, I thought it was a sick joke. Then was horrified and disgusted that people actually believed in this psychopathic crap!
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  317. Both suck! but the GOP's got a far worse track record.
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  318. Hate to break to to you but all human societies are a blend of these two ideologies. The USSR showed what happens when you totally ignore the first one. Your RW Libertarian, teabag nonsense ultimately envisions a identical dystopia due to totally ignoring the latter. A fool is the one to goes to one extreme and think it will deliver utopia, no matter which side. Which is why state communism or RW libertarian strict dogmas has been rejected by practically very 1st world nation.
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  319. Not to mention a labor shortage from the nations founding to the 1970's that lured so many immigrants here with the promise of continuously rising wages.
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  320. Exactly Thom! When those with money and power commit treason, this country has a piss poor record of administering proper justice. In the end, this flaw of cowardice could be the death knell for this nation as a democratic republic.
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  321. It's the old mantra, "United we stand, divided we fall." And boy! are we divided now!!...
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  322. Amazing! RW humor that actually is funny. I thought it didn't exist.
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  323. Reagan was such a crook!! I get SO sick of the media PR campaign put on by these rotten corporatist think tanks and spew the incessant propagandistic crap that he was our greatest president... HA! greatest president my ASS!!!  The only reason they spew this crap is because he handed the keys to the government to the corporations and Wall Street on a silver fucking platter, and they love him for that!... And thus, they've worked to brainwash the middle and lowers classes to worship at the altar of this backstabbing conman!!!
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  324. Thom nailed it!!! The so-called 'small government (tm)' talking points in this country are such a massive load of utter and absolute CRAP!!! As these plutocratic scumbags NEVER! follow these strict principles that they ram down the middle working classes throats! It's always been with these jerks. "Big government for me and not for thee!"
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  325. This story is so horrible!! I mean even the thought of anyone having sex with that thing is vomit inducing!!
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  326. RW Libertarianism is such a twisted joke of an ideology! DX
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  327. Very interesting argument. I didn't know they're was so much differentiation between the words capitalism and capitalist.
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  328. Ginger Lad Agreed, I think liberals who propose this have good intentions, it's just a really drastic, bad idea.
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  329. The Buckley case gave birth to this anti-democratic, Neoliberal cancer!! Hopefully, the millennials will the be the generation that kills it!!
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  330. Sound like Illinois is safe from the rabid teabaggers... for now... (As for corruption and debt... this is Illinois and Chicago were talking about... When have they 'not' had this stereotype, there's a reason they call it 'Chicago politics')
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  331. Cause they don't even believe in it!! They' sabotage' it then have the absolute nerve to then go on how the government doesn't work!? The Repugs are no better than the mafia with these utter thug tactics!! As for the Dems, they 'self' sabotage!
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  332. Same here... It feels like dealing with a nation of alcoholoics.
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  333. The nation's infrastructure is literally falling apart, yet the cons won't lets us do anything about it. Instead, they want even more austerity combined with massive tax cuts for the top earners so that they'll supposedly create jobs?  yeah right...
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  334. I remember Family Guy made a joke about this in an ep. India insults Pakistan, then the nukes fly and all of Asia and Middle East turns into a game of Defcon! 'They did not need much' Stewie flatly remarked.
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  335. Keith Kevelson Very informative comment. Thanks for the info.
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  336. I only have soda maybe two times a week or so.
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  337. John.F Kennedy Anything's better than Snott Wanker... I'll vote for Hillary just to keep that disgusting crook OUT of the WH!
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  338. Nicholas DiMoro I understand why you don't want to vote for Hillary, but if Bernie doesn't make it I'll vote for her for one primary reason. To keep SCOTUS from going batshit right wing. I mean... look at all the damage they've done with vile decisions like Citizens United and Mccutcheon. If some teabagging crook like Snott Wanker were to get in the WH. We could see a more Thomas's and Scalia's on the bench and we'd be stuck with these teabagging plutocratic bastards till the day they croak. They could inflict massive damage of the American people for decades!... At least with Hillary I'd know she'd appoint more Kennedys and Roberts, still neoliberal crooks but not teabaggers. However, I don't want to do doomsday talk, I'm am really REALLY rooting for Bernie to win the Dem nominee... It's time to take a sledgehammer to this plutocracy, started under (the senile crook) Reagan then successively built up with every coming President... And quite frankly for me... 'Citizens United' was the last straw!
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  339. That whole platform reeks of inevitable totalitarianism, it's absolutely asinine to think that such reforms could be passed without massive social upheaval; in which the plutocrats would inevitably use massive force to defend their sick dystopia. So much for that NAP nonsense.
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  340. Naomi Klein was right... The quagmire in Iraq was the resultant outcome of the crooked neoliberal polices of disaster capitalism rammed down their throats after the 2003 invasion.
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  341. Thom joins the dark side XD
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  342. Hear! Hear!
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  343. +rationalmartian I think these corporate sociopaths are insane and foolish to push for these policies. Cause in the long term their pushing for their own destruction!
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  344. Nah! If Trump gets in it would be so bad, Trump isn't as horrible as many progressives think he is. Hell, I loved how in the last debate he insulted all the lobbyist scum fucks in the audience, proudly proclaiming that he doesn't need their dirty money!! Now if Turd Cruz gets in... YUCK!!!... I'm then moving to Germany ASAP!!
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  345. +ThatBoy Marcus What? Why are you calling me racist? I detest his racist rhetoric and all the bile spewed against Mexican and Muslims. But he is the only candidate on the GOP side that has attacked the corruption in the system. The others are just peachy with it. But it doesn't matter... I'm supporting Bernie and really don't think the GOP has a chance this year.
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  346. +ThatBoy Marcus Which one do you think is worse? Trump or Turd Cruz? Cruz scares me 10X worse than Trump!
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  347. Hotel Villa Bahia Hey, I say that as a compliment... Seder is always cracking jokes while is staff laughs in the background. It's one of my favorite parts of his show ;)
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  348. +Mylinda Grim Yeah I know, and I support Bernie 100%. But Trump is the only GOP candidate in decades who's had the moxie to crap on these elements of Neoliberal orthodoxy! However, can you trust him to actually do something about these issues?.. Not so much..
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  349. small HandFF And American right-wingers still have the unparalleled stupidity to keep calling him a fricking communist!?
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  350. Rail is one of those variables in which that I really don't care if its privatized or not, I see nothing wrong with it.
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  351. The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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  352. Just give all "official US citizens" a free voter ID or even better, let us use our social security cards. I'm so sick of this crooked BS!!
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  353. Not sure how to do that? And no I'm not a fan of utopian anarcho ideas...
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  354. Political radio is crap in this country! If you live live in a red state it's even worse!...
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  355. BramSLI1 And what does the right have? 'oh, we just have to give the nation another shot of trickle down... it'll work this time.' (It's time to bury that scam already!)
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  356. BramSLI1 I haven't heard this term before, but I'll keep an eye on for it. And no I don't think the scam is dead... yet... But it's getting there, Kansas and Wisconsin were all the final proof I needed. (Especially since Minnesota, which did exactly to the opposite of what Walker and Teabaggers wanted.) and is now stable and thriving, while Wisconsin is literally being scrapped and sold on the dollar. (And all to protect the precious, useless tax breaks of the state's plutocrat class.)
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  357. Jeremy Einbinder You're right... You can't have 'absolute' property rights and human rights at the same time. It doesn't mean you can't have property rights, but it does mean that property rights 'have' to be limited some in order to protect human rights. Me personally, I care far more about human rights than property rights and economic security over economic freedom.
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  358. Jeremy Einbinder You're right, However, I was using the word freedom in the context of the neoliberal definition, (Freedom from regulation and accountability) Not the FDR-esque 'freedom from want' definition.
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  359. I look forward to these two sociopathic freaks joining Scalia in the future!
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  360. Well said...
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  361. In the future, if we fully lose a major city to rising sea levels (New Orleans, Miami etc:). I have a feeling these fools will finally wake up and see they were duped.
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  362. Personally I'd rather have an atheist president for a change, even though a "non-radical/anti-Islamist" Muslim would be tolerable. Now a Buddhist President would be awesome!! However, NO MORE fake ass, war-mongering, greed-worshiping faux christians!!! (Aka: Reagan, Bush etc.)
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  363. Now if only we can get the things named after the senile crook from the 80's changed back to their original names. Ex: 'National Aiport' in DC.
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  364. Sadly, true...
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  365. Trump's racist pandering is disgusting. However, I got to give him props for not kissing up to the dominionist scum of the American christian right. The sooner these assholes vanish into history the better... And fuck Reagan and the so-called moral majority for bringing them into the political mainstream in the first place!!!
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  366. The can understand that 12% The 'I've got mine F you!' mentality part of the country is around 25-30% of the county. It's understandable that around 10-15% of that number would be some of the most vicious of those hyper-callous sociopaths! Hence that 12% support for the bill. DXX And quite literally when it comes to the his bill. The only people I've seen on the comment sections that support it are these sort of awful people!
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  367. Sadly I agree.
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  368. I 'like' what Hillary is saying. I 'know' that she'd never implement it.
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  369. However, I'm not a fan of Corbyn's negative attitude toward NATO. Russia is fiesty again for land and power. (as this whole civil war in the Ukraine has shown.) I'd be foolish not to prep and defend against that.
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  370. Yep, the Republicans have become a nest of vile sociopaths! Amazing to think this was once the party that gave us Dwight D. Eisenhower. However, their evil government crapola, started up by that senile crook in the 80's, has rotted their brains and their souls turning them into callous, power hungry monsters!
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  371. So people don't have a right to a union, because it's money could be used to influence politics. Yet lobbyists, PAC's, think tanks, dark money groups should be allowed to spend with no restrictions whatsoever. What a disgusting double standard. (The US is destined to turn into a fascist plutocracy!)
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  372. After feeling ideologically betrayed by the moderateness of Carter. In the late 1970's these christian dominionists and totalitarian theocrats made a coalition with economically far right republicans in order to oust Carter from office. This came to be known as the 'moral  majority'. (aka: Pat Robertson/ Jerry Falwell etc:) The deal was this, You allow us to push christian dominionist polices on the nation and we well say silent in your desire to bring back late 18th century 'laissez faire' capitalism back and the inequalities and corruption it will bring. (The GOP hasn't deviated from this since Reagan.)
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  373. Carol McKee Private prisons are RW Libertarian ideas at their most hideous! This is crap right out of Orwell's 1984.
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  374. Lewis Powell was a disgusting little, corporate boot licking POS!!
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  375. I remember a few years back PBS had a disgusting show praising the Citizens United decision. I haven't watched them since.... The PBS I loved growing up with in the in the 90s - early 2000s... is dead...
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  376. Comcast can go to hell!! When it comes to this...
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  377. Exactly! Great quote from FDR...
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  378. Right to work 'for less' laws are poison pill laws! With these, Corporate America proudly violates its own free market dogmas for nothing more than, what can amounted to as, vitriolic, anti -democratic,hyper-partisan and emotional hatred of labor! Same thing could be said for the poison pill they shoved down the US post office. Thx for using my call Thom...
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  379. +Another Agnostic Haha nice!! I love it!!
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  380. Is this A-hole generation 4th generationers, or are they being influenced by the 4th generationers.
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  381. airthrow I agree 100%!!!
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  382. ***** Hildabeast... LOL! However I have to disagree Turd Cruz or Snotty Walker are far more nightmare-inducing than Hillary.
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  383. Yep, from that elitist scumbag Milton Friedman.
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  384. "What drives me nuts is seeing a right winger behaving like a monster and not only does the democrat compromise with the monster but he has damned near zero emotion" I hate to say it but the American RW Libertarians may be right about this as this whole war between Repubs and Dems could all be just smoke and mirrors. The fact is since Reagan/ Friedman both sides have supported and rammed through the same disgusting neoliberal policies. (The Dems may be slightly worse economically since they run of being FDR liberals then in power they become avid Friedmanites. aka: Clinton, Obama.) Socially however they're 1000% better than f$%king christian dominionist theocrats of the GOP. (Only reason to vote Dem in my opinion.) However, even though they may be right on this issue. They're policy solutions are sociopathic, elitist trash!! (aka: Austrian crankanomics and 'so-called' anarcho-capitalism.)  Screw that shit!!
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  385. StunnedByStupidity "Neoliberalism is a libertarian philosophy." Absolutely! neoliberalism is the desired goal of modern-corporations, not some idiotic utopian fantasy about government free voluntarianism. What I was implying is that RW Libertarians are able to see that the system is rotten, however what they can't see due to their market religion is that it was 'their' market fundementalist polices that led us to this bitter, crumbling mess of an economy Because corporations have always 'only' given lip service to the policies of laissez faire yet in reality want total control of the gov, Market fundementalist polices weaken government so that big business and corporations can buy off the government and rig it to do their bidding. That's what happened during the Gilded Age and it now repeating itself in the 2010's. Yet these fools, their brains rotted by Rand's deluded dribble and Friedman's silmy BS, still believe that these corps are noble and virtuous and are being crushed by an evil soviet-esque government that hinders their peaceful and righteous desire for a actual free market. LMAO!!! (How anyone can fall for such bunk is beyond me, especially after 2008.)
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  386. StunnedByStupidity I'm having a very hard time understanding the term HSP. It is far too generic for me to understand and discuss. I highly recommend taking the Biggs Meyers Personality Assessment. It can explain your personality traits with much more detailed variables. I would very much like to see exactly what personality type you are scored as being. http://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test For example: I am a INTJ, Introverted, Intuitive. Thinking, Judgmental, It is one of the rarest personality types. No wonder I've never felt like I fitted in growing up, being a deep, critical thinking person in a tiny Bible-thumping southern town.
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  387. +brogs60 Friedman was a rat bastard crook!!!
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  388. ***** I grew up in the South, and can definitely say that an element of this is that conservative Southerners view everything through a black and white lens, there are no grey areas. Everything is viewed with absolutism.Add evangelical christianity to this mix and this attitude is multiplied ten-fold. (There's a reason the Texas board of education said it wanted to not teach critical thinking skills.)
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  389. ***** Beyond embarrassing, and the crazy thing is I went to a private Christian school back in the very early 2000's for my middle school years. And they 'never' spewed such nonsense! From living down here, I think it was the election of Obama that sent wingnuttery into the stratosphere. I shudder to think what my old school is teaching now.
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  390. ***** Beyond desperate, having to resort voter suppression, and poison pill legislation just to get their way? It's pathetic and sickening... However, nothing makes me angrier than the system they use directly sabotaging working social programs, then having the nerve to say 'oh see government doesn't work, look like we need to privatize this.' It's downright mafioso in my opinion... and the main reason I will NEVER! vote for a anti/small government politician!...
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  391. This is a major reason, why I support green energy 100%... Destroy these fascist pigs! As for the Koch crooks... There's no two people I want to see "dead!" and in the ground than these two rotten, sociopathic, corporate fascist bastards!!
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  392. I always figured this would be end result of the supply-side scam! Taxes would be cut so low that states would have a hard time providing basic services... Now well have to see if the scam finally implodes in upon itself, and we go back to economic sanity. Aka: Cutting and raising taxes in akin to economic signals and not this perverse, asinine economic cult of tax cuts only!.. cause it's wrecked us and ruined the economies of many states!
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  393. We are entering some likely ugly times. All we need is another massive crash like the Great Depression... then Wham!! Say hello to a Fascist surge deja du to the 1930's!
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  394. Lewis Powell, The mother of all asshole SCOTUS judges (modern day), who empowered, corporations to pursue their sick dream of a corporate-controlled state. Milton Friedman - The corporate whore economist who designed the system, specifically designed to achieve this goal. (neoliberalism) Ronald Regan - The slimy used-car salesman who successfully sold this economic poison to the American people.
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  395. The title is kind of misleading. Capitalism doesn't directly correlate to Fascism. However, corporatism/ corporate fascism is what 'laissez faire' morphs into when allowed free reign. (Which is the model that both Thom and this lady are criticizing, and I can't blame them.) And, she is right about the ramming of competition down our throats. It really is sickening how Neoliberal ideology rams competition into 'every' aspect of human society. not everything in life has to be looked at in terms of F-king dog eat dog!! But that's the way the plutocrats want it... Make the masses anti-human sociopaths like they are and they'll be able to reign unchallenged.
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  396. Dude, leave... Get out of 'Kochistan' and find a better life for yourself. (Now if you have family there and don't want to leave them, then that's understandable.) But if you have no obligations back home... Let the teabagger corporate boot-licker dumbasses go down with their Titanic.
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  397. You just explained why I am a socialist, or a more nuanced term, social democrat. And why I reject Communism and American model Libertarianism.
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  398. I always wondered this... Hmm.. figures... Anything coming out of that slimebag, corporate-thug think tank ALEC.. is evil, lying, corporatist bullshit and rotten to the core!!
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  399. You got it!... No! the extremes from both sides of the political spectrum.
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  400. Personally I think the European Union is a good thing and needs to survive, but the Euro is a failure and likely needs to go
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  401. Jim the Hermit Teabaggers...
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  402. +joseph jacovino Pretty much... fucking assholes who think one shouldn't get any services from our taxes. And callofdouchebag here is a prime example of this... Another brain dead corporate bootlicker...
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  403. Bernie Sanders is a Western European style social democrat not any where close to being a Marxian-Leninist.
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  404. The same exact process occured in the UK with Margaret Thatcher. However she doesn't have the absurdist cult of personality that the senile one has over here in the states.
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  405. Exactly, which is why all these damn laissez faire free market think tanks are so sleazy and disingenuous. I've 'never' head these slmeballs call the sea of corporate lobbyists in DC or there flood of big money a corruption of the free market. No to them that's freedom of speech aka: Citizens United. What a bunch of hypocritical crooks!!!
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  406. I don't know if this will help or not? I'm just glad the Sandy Hook denier cretins got some well deserved karmaic justice!!
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  407. However, this is also a case of serious karma for these fundie jerks! Strip a group of their rights, have yours taken away in the process. Sadly there are so many sane, non-bigoted North Carolinians that will be hurt by this evil bill!! And ALEC needs to be wiped off the face of the earth!! Hopefully, when the Kochs finally die, good chunk of their evil think tanks will go with them!!
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  408. What's the difference between a welfare bum and a hedgefund speculator? The speculator does FAR! more damage to an economy!
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  409. +BramSLI1 Are you talking about North European/ Scandinavian style Social Democracy?
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  410. Thom, is a bit wrong here, while Reagan is noted for selling us neoliberalism. It was during the Carter administration that Milton Friedman's crooked economic medicine was first starting to be utilized, here in the states. Also, Reagan was the first to pander to the assholes of the authoritarian religious right and give them a major voice in US politics. (Gags!)... Thom is right, Reagan was a senile crooked used car salesman...  Fuck him and his worshipers!!
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  411. John Maddin I have to wonder... do any of the right wing parties in the UK (Tories, Liberal Dems) fawn over our plutocratic friendly election system? Also I'm rather surprised that the UK didn't adopt our system especially after the neoliberal reforms of Maggie the harpie.
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  412. I basically it's a cult. Just like Scientology or the Jim Jones thing?
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  413. It seems America's pivotal turning point here was when Americans voted for Reagan in a landslide in 1980 and declared to the world that they wanted to go down the road of hyper materialism and consumerism.
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  414. Capitalism has to have shackles applied to it keep it in line to ensure it functions for the many instead of the few... END OF STORY!!! Milton Friedman was full of shit!
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  415. It's hard... very hard. Republicans are soooo irritating and infuriating cause they are so black and white in their thinking! It drives me nuts!! There is no such thing a nuance to them, especially the religious ones. DX (But even in my anger, I still manage to feel sorry for them. I hate seeing people getting constantly conned and ripped off.) But Gahh!! It's always the same reprocessed talking points I been hearing since I was little; no changes at all. The same gov is bad/evil garbage they've been told to spout since that rotten, lying crook St. Ronnie the stupid! However, when I 'do' manage to get through to them on some things, they just short circuit. Mainly cause I hit them with deep topics and ideas that are 'never' discussed on Faux News, and hence have no programmed rebuttals. And I'm not talking Bernie buzzword talking points, (which actually get on my nerves!) Even though I still highly respect the guy. No, I'm talking deep systematic processes, that I've been thinking about for the past nine years since the crash of 08. Very hard to explain or even put into a political box, but all I can really say it that my ideals are libertarian left? with some tolerated nuance to the economic right, 'if' certain variables are allowed, or if needed checks and balances are put into place. I detest rigid economic dogmas from either the right or left!!
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  416. Behold, the up and coming superpower of the 21st century...
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  417. Oh yeah! Like the poor, the ones with practically no level of political clout in Washington, can bribe politicians? I swear these callous RW freaks live in an alternate universe of something?...
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  418. Trickle down is a 'Dead!' ideology!.... But it's a 'Zombie' ideology!! A lying, rotten scam that has been long disproven that refuses to die!! Cause it continues to be propped up by hundreds lying plutocratic bastards and the scumbag, corporate-whore think tanks who keep preaching this slimy BS to the masses!!
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  419. I gotta say... seeing this Koch sucking POS! endorsing this dominionist POS! enough to get me root for Trump. I sure hope he takes Wisconsin on the GOP side!
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  420. And yet they say were the moochers. HA!!! The total hypocrisy of these assholes amazes me. "It's OK for "me" to use gov services but everyone else is a moocher and a parasite. Un-fucking beleivable!
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  421. Not according to the supreme court, you lost that battle.
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  422. You mean your cult/religion.
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  423. Yeah, but those rights aren't for the minority to trample all over us as is happening right now.
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  424. Wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross, that's all I can say...
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  425. "The Mouse" (disney) just lost a few evil points in my book.
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  426. No I have limits, a fluctuation (depending on the state of the economy) between 30 to 50 %, however "never" above 50% which I believe then becomes theft. Which is why I want the big money out of DC! Cause if being a politican wasn't such a lucrative venture you wouldn't get nearly as many of these lying backhanded-faux "for the people" crooks.in DC. And I thought having less corrupting big money would be a principle of small govt.
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  427. Get me look here in the ol websters Sedition - the crime of saying, writing, or doing something that encourages people to disobey their government. Hmm sound more like you teabags than us progressives.
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  428. A pathetic, tacky relic from the 80s. Who won in a fuke in 2016. And proceeded to empower America's Pandora's Box of it's greatest internal villians. (White supreamacists, The X-tain Right) After Jan 6th, a flat out traitor! Far worse than Benedict Arnold! And finally a painful testament to the epic failure of the US electoral college system.
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  429. If the founders wanted super small gov, They would have never created a congress. As they are the ones that create, debate and deliver laws to the president and since pretty much all laws violate the panacea of total indivivdual rights. Then guess what... the founders were not on your side, They would have thought of you as nuts and cultists, which is what you are.
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  430. I don't like big unions either, I support the gutting of their power as well. I support total reform of the union system that is more localized and merit based. The whole idea of unions protecting workers that are unproductive is absolutely ridiculous! I also would support a "workers insurance/ barginning" model (private or public but I lean toward private) Hell, one has to pay union dues, its not a free service. So I see no problem with it being made a market commodity.
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  431. The world's most infamous Randoid in his darkest hour...
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  432. A repugnant, sick joke! 🤢🤮
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  433. Qinby 1 Not to mention on a finite planet with limited resources...
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  434. I respect the constitution but I don't worship it like the damn Bible, I thought that was idolatry. And yes you're proving it right now by threatening the default the nation and blow up the economy along with the rest of the world's economy.
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  435. You're right, American RW libertarianism is a crooked, sleazy bastardization of the original term and what it originally represents.
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  436. Thom, I agree with you the senile crook wrecked us, but quite frankly I don't think we'll see the death of Reaganomics until it totally blows up the economy in a way far worse than 08. Since Wall Street learned absolutely NOTHING! from the 2008 crash and in fact learned the government will give them a giant handout for their recklessness, that coming crash is pretty much inevitable...
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  437. Well that what you're arguing, you bitch about new laws and amendments and crap all over democracy. And now you say you're OK with adding amendments. Hell dude you're contradicting your own beliefs.
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  438. Finally Thom all your recommendations are for a return to the Keynesian economics model, which wouldn't bother me one bit, however in this age of globalization. This really isn't feasible anymore. It could still be used somewhat but many attributes would have to be majorly modified enhanced and even discarded in order for it to work in the 21st century. Also, They're are other capitalist models out here to try as well besides Keynesianism, and I'm definitely not talking about austrianism...
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  439. Austrian school is discredited, due to its cult like religiousity to a utopian free market. Plus is great icons like von Hayek's "Road to Selfdom" have been totally discredited Ex: the post WWII boom in western Europe which he had predicted would evolve in the a western USSR, I didn't happen... Mainstream economists reject austrianism for empirical reasons and not due to some diabolical conspiracy theory, Also the whole anti-democracy thing is a massive red flag, alluding corrupt motives!
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  440. Thom!! That thumbnail!! 🤢🤮
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  441. Quite the pardox we have here. In order for a proper free market/ consumer democracy to work consumers need to know all of the items and ingredients and practices used in making consumer product in order to properly weed out unethical products and their companies. What Chomsky called "perfect liberty" However if the companies do not want to do this due to economicly rational or even imoralictic reasons. Then w/o any institution of enforcement the consumer is pretty much in the dark on this info.
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  442. No...
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  443. Advancement of socialism? Dude get over the cold war nonsense, Marxian-Leninism died in 1989, and the only two nations that keep it are holding on just by a thread. They are not a threat by any means. What Thom and Bernie praise is social democracy a (capitalist!!!) economic model that very stinkin 1st world nation uses now after the end of the cold war.
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  444. Amen to that! He wasn't a saint... He was a lying snake!!
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  445. Can't say you love your country, if you don't want to spend anything to take care of it!...
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  446. After the debt ceilings (games of chicken) and now possible default. We've been having ever since you nutjobs got in DC You teabaggers belong in that box as well. If you assholes cause a default you're gonna have not just us progressives to deal with but the entire 1st/ 2nd world economy to deal with! You guy are fucking nuts and need to be permanently kicked out of DC!!!
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  447. Corporation, by their very nature, are amoral psychopaths! They put no value to ANYTHING!.. except their bottom line.
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  448.  @edpiv2233  And you just proved by point with your standard market fundamentalist talking points that I've heard dozens of times over the years. The only way your RW Libertarian ideas would have a chance work would be to have all corporate influence banned from government, permanently preventing crony capitalism and forcing corporations to work under only free market principles. But I never hear that from your side... in fact I see them supporting quite the opposite. (cough cough Citizens United).
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  449. He was more than just friends he was a member of her little club objectivist in NYC and one of her very first followers.
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  450. Yep a seditious conservative rebelling against the constitutional laws of the government.
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  451. So you want to have the nation dragged back into the 17th century. Constitution worship is pathetic and retarded, and is just as stupid and ignorant as fundementalist reading of the Bible.
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  452. I agree, I want to join the 21th century not be pulled back to the 17th because of some crazy hyper-fundementalist politcal cult.
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  453. Wendy Davis rock but I doubt she can win yet in state full of Christan dominionist scumbags. And Mitch Mcconnell can go to hell with his desire for more dirty money in our politics. Free speech my ass!!! (movetoamend)
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  454. If you're a monied psychopath and want to destroy social democracy and replace it with oligarchy? Exploit racial and cultural tensions. Get the middle and working class people to fight against each other. Distract the masses so that pluralistic democracy can be quietly dismantled in the background. The Culture War is, and always has been a incredibly, malicious scam!!! "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half." - Jay Gould
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  455. I do, I currently pretty much all our politicans including President windbag in major contempt. I would be willing to give you guys your free market, under two conditions. 1. That you purge DC of all the lobbyists, and I mean ALL of them both left and right. One should have the right to have a physical voice in DC but it should be free of big money. 2. Leave voluntarily established unions alone. (When you go after voluntary unions you're being hypocrits to your own ideology.)
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  456. Which is why I'm not a fan of Keynesianism, I support the ordoliberal model of Germany used since the end of WWII.
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  457. What is absolutely amazing and saddening is how conservative and libertarian demigogues have been able to so brainwash and manipulate their followers into thinking that the super-eitist austrian/ Chicago school ideologies are somehow anti-NWO?! (Even though their whole dogma is about giving one group 'the oligarchs and bankers' all of a nations political and thus also economic power. (A true triumph of well orchestrated brainwashing through quality Orwelian newspeak... That is all I can say.)
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  458. My pride in this country slowly died in the years after 9/11, mostly due to this never-ending war quagmire that erupted in the middle east afterwards. My time at uni and reading primary sources that directly exposed our ugly foreign policy history abroad really did a number on it as well... Obama's election revived it slightly, but only slightly... Mostly cause I considered, with our toxic history with race, that electing a black man was a sign of societal progress. However, I knew Obama has a false messiah from day one! He was heavily funded by the corps and Wall St. I knew he wasn't gonna change the system or fight the corruption in DC. And boy was I right! His failures to fix our decaying American societal system are the #1 reason for this Trump embarrassment we got now. And worse is that the system can still get worse, a lot worse. We haven't hit rock bottom yet?....
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  459. Good point, except though for those millenials that have fallen for the dogma of RW Libertarian-propertarianism
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  460. No, the loony bin is RW conspiracy theory land, NWO, Illuminati, 9/11 Inside Job, Agenda 21, and my favorite (Teabagger Obama doomsday BS!) This shit makes us a laughing stock and no other 1st world nation would touch it with a 10 ft. pole.
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  461. The whole reason for taxes in that range is to keep the richest members of the private sector in check when it come to their power. At the same time the market should use its power to keep the government in check. Balancing each other out. Any dogma that constantly demonizes one sector while blindly praising the other is dangerous. A power vacuum "never" stays open for long. Which the ultimate result being autocracy... This lack of power balance is my primary beef with RW Libertarians.
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  462. Free trade can only work with nations that are somewhat similar in collective wealth or it's distribution. US/Canada, Canada/ EU, EU/Japan. However if one of the nations is far below one or both of these variables. Then its leads to the economic bleeding of the wealth of the richer nation and slow long term suicide for the economic mobility and prosperity of it's working and middle classes. US/China!!!, US/Bangladesh, US,Honduras etc:
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  463. Personally I'm not sure if were ready yet to dispose of market based economics. What I do know is that the extremist model (neoliberalism) is destined to collapse. Primarilly, due to its lack of respect for sustainable polices toward the production of goods. And its downright-religious obsession with short term profits and ignorance to long term planning and investing. Milton Friedman's brilliant (scarcasm) brainchild.
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  464. The massive amount of money they keep from large tax breaks and gov subsides hardly goes to jobs: The last 30's years have shown it goes to lobbying, hoarding, job outsourcing and their favorite past time gambling on Wall Street. I'm really tried of the "they'll create jobs" talking point.
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  465. Well what do you call wanting to go back to the original constitution? I mean what is it... after this last added amendment in 1992 should the gov be banned from ever creating another amendment? (Talk about the use of force!)
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  466. cohesive and precise Yeah right, I listened to this vid... No, the only thing you got is a big fat ass mouth! I've heard better debating in elementary school.
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  467. Pretty much, as well as show the politcal debating skills of a 3rd grader.
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  468. I always saw him as a bombastic, almost likeable douchebag. (Ex: His stupid, years long feud with Rosie O Donnell was hilarious to me.) But the I never noticed his blatant racism till the birther movement started? Then, that slight like ability vanished for me.
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  469. No, it a simple cause and effect scenario. Aka: who made the first move. The Dems no they, were just trying to fund the gov a normal action that suddenly became controversial after you teatards came about. You guys started this mess and we all knew it cause you brought the whole 40x fail anti-obamacare bandwagon and the clowns in it. The ones actiing seditious are you and the teatards NOT the dems.
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  470. But that still deals with the same power vacuum falacy. If I knew that they weren't going to use their tax break money on corrupting and buying off the government, then I'd possibly support lowering their taxes. But the last 30+ years have proven this not to be the case. Thus I'll stick the the traditional ideas of a moderately progressive tax code.
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  471. LOL!! At that thumbnail XD!!
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  472. Also, pertaining to Neoliberal influence in Germany, are you referring to Chancellor Schröder's 2003 Hartz IV reforms?
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  473. Then get rid of the damn money, both sides!
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  474. For once I 100% agree with you.
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  475. Wealth of nations is a great book, I've read it and have no objections on the economic processes.
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  476. Which is Chicago school Friedmanism...
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  477. No what you can't fanthom is that the US constitution is a dynamic document and that amendments have been added since the nations founding. And that this idea of stripping the Constitution back to it's 1791 original skeleton is cultism and batshit insanity!
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  478. The main lesson of 9/11, "imperialist warmongering has it's consequences."
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  479. That only works in small localized groups, not a nation of 300 mil+ And if it did work... other large nations would have emulated by now. I think it died after the charity only policies, caused the disasterous Irish Potato Famine of 1845. Why you people want to revive disproven dogma from the 19th century is beyond me. No wait it isn't it. It's just an excuse to justify the your borderline extremist selfishness
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  480. Even though other nations have the same thing and don't bitch like you are right now. But fine drag the US back into the 17th century. China will easily take the throne as the next superpower. Not so sure how I feel about that, though.
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  481. I sincerely believe though that were coming to the end of this rotten era. I say this cause Millennials and Zoomers are NOT becoming more conservative as we age and that trend continues show no sign of changing. Thank God! Neoliberalism's final nail in the coffin will likely be when our generations finally have mass power in government. (Also, WE!!!! stopped the red wave..🤣😎 )
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  482. Yeah but then were under the tyranny of the minority, no thanks.
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  483. RW libertarians can 'whine and bitch' about redistribution all they want, but the fact is redistribution is needed now to reduce the extreme amount of wealth that goes into lobbying and buying off the government, not to mention revive the middle class. You don't want redistribution, then go after the vile K- street lobbying complex instead of demonizing people just barely making ends meet. As they're a far bigger impediment to the your total free-market dream than anything a few welfare bums do.
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  484. Give Dug a some cheese to go with that whine.
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  485. Yeah right, I've heard nothing but every single fucking teabag line in the book. Your no outside the box thinker just an annoying troll.
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  486. I'd love to see idiots like you banned, and if you want to do the same to liberal trolls on a conservative sites and YT vids, fine - fair is fair, I don't give a shit.
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  487. seditious conservative dumbass!!!
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  488. PWNED! Probably got his degree from Youtube university or mises.org.
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  489. 3:30 Give'em the ol razzle dazzle...
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  490. Bigot, Fuck off!!!!
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  491. My mom is German and my father is/was Native American. I'm a US citizen but I've got a lot of family over back in Deutschland.
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  492. but who started the shutdown? you crazy nuts. And all because you're blocked from screwing with Obamacare. and like any sitting president is going to trash his most noted legislation R or L It ain't gonna happen.
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  493. Agreed, That stuff is crap, but why are to signaling out Microsoft? Why do you put it in the same catagory as Faux News and the Karskankians?
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  494. All this BS and stagnation since 9/11 has done nothing but show me how inefficient our system really is. Americans care more about short term gains, than long term gains and don't give a fucking fuck about the risk associated with high risk speculating. If the shit were to stay in the states, I wouldn't give shit. But as 2008 shows when the US fucks up the shit hits everyone else like a damn tsunami. The sooner we lose our status as the world's reserve currency the better.
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  495. You're but pissed cause more people want to vote for dem than repups. Well imagine that... when to demonize and treat like absolute shit large groups of the American population blacks, mexicans, gays, women. Suprise, suprise they don't want to vote for you! Your party has a very bad PR image and that's why you lost! not some bullshit voter fraud.
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  496. I knew that back in 2010... Even at only 23. I knew that rotten decision was going to ruin the country!!
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  497. Oh WAH, Europe had autocracies for hundreds of years and when it finally blew up it caused two world wars plus numerous revolutions. Peace only came when the nations finally acccepted democracy and guess what.. they're republics as well. This meme that a republic means that the common people should not have a voice in their government or even be allowed to vote for concessions yet the rich are allowed both of these powers without limit show what a plutocratic farce your ideology really is!
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  498. No seditious conservatives are holding the nation hostage over a law that's gone through every single loop you twats could throw at it and it still survives. So you have to stoop down to terrorist tactics to get what you want. Hell you're not even using the word seditious right, check a damn dictionary.
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  499. They hide behind a hippy-esque bohemian facade, and co-pt ideals from the non-authoritarian left (drug reform, social freedoms etc:) to make themselves more appealing to young people. However, It is just a tactic to hide their primary reason for their existence... to evangelize and convert people to their barbaric, discredited economic beliefs (aka: austrian economics) Which are the primary goal of the whole movement. All the other issues they supposedly support are just window dressing.
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  500. Traitors!!!!.. no other words..
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  501. For many millennials now like myself, the talk is about with country we want to immigrate to? Me, I've chosen Germany. One, cause I love their culture and loved living there when I studied overseas. And two, with their ugly past I am gonna gamble and say that their systems of anti-fascist/ anti--Nazi education are still gonna hold a fascist zeitgeist at bay. Even if the US falls to the MAGgot brownshirts!
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  502. I wish they'd would look at markets in a proper/balanced way, as markets like government are a human constructed entity/ tool that due to human imperfection have their faults. 'Not' as some divine law that we must all bow down to and never critique.
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  503. Dodd-Frank is cause Wall Street fucked up, you fuck up you pay the consequences. (It's called personal responsibility!) Yes SOPA and PIPA were total BS! The others sound like standardly made laws (some BS some not) You just wish you could make it so DC told never make another law in the US again. and keep us frozen in that socioeconomic state. The founders would have though you were out of your G-damn mind!
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  504. Ha, you can't think of any, besides the flogged horse Obamacare. I take my opinion of what the "rest of the world" thinks of Obama which is a center/right career politican alligned with Wall Street interests. (aka: the same old crap were known for.) The opinion of 3+ billion vs 30 million far RW wing zealots, It's no f-ing contest here who's closer to the truth!
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  505. 'No child left behind' was a disaster!
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  506. Nice rant. I agree 100%...
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  507. or Psychopath.
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  508. The big question was "replace with what?" (crickets chirping)
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  509. OK I bite, besides the EVIL!!! Obamacare what has Obama done that is SO horrible and SO badly violates the US Constitution?
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  510. I'm not sure about 2016, but I am 99.9% certain that the we will have another 2008 fiasco in the coming years. Ultimately FDR was right when all the wealth flows to the top Capitalism dies, as the money do longer flows through the economy. (Try telling that to the Teabags or RW libert/propertarians though...)
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  511. Simple, for these kind of people their cultural and racial resentments are more important to them than their own economic well beings. LBJ was right on the money back in the 60s. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
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  512. No mercy for seditious traitors!!
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  513. Still I ,in my opinion, would say that she maybe slammed them too hard. Just because someones is rich doesn't mean one should hate their guts. It's how they made their fortune and how they use it that determines how ones views a rich person, and whether to label them as a "ethical entrepreneur"or a "vicious sociopath".
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  514. Faith? treating capitalism like a religion is idolatry you idiot! and I do believe in both of those things but they're has to be limits just like any other human institution.
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  515. You're right the utopian free market pushed on us is pure propaganda that I don't believe it's main proponents even truely believe in. However the market based economy has proven its efficiency in many cases. But it does have it's failures and that's why it needs check and balances (regulations) just like any human institution in order to prevent monopolies on power.
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  516. Yes I have nothing wrong with market economics, I believe strongly in the ordoliberal model (German model) of economics. Even I think the scandinavian welfare states are too big. I'm not one of those liberals who want a bazillion social programs, I think they're has to be strict limits on how much the people can get from the government by democratic functions.
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  517. "you and ALL Americans from themselves" That a really big statement dude. What roles do you mean specifically that the gov should involve itself in? I know it's a lot bigger than just police, courts and military. Can't libertards see how dangerous that is due to the massive power vacuum it would produce. I guess not cause ol Milton Friedman, Hayek and von Feces gave it approval so it but be okay?
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  518. Hmm. like the UK was under old Labor before the Maggie-bitch came to power.
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  519. What is the opposite of democracy? hirarchical autocracy! The anti-democracy meme is disgusting and ultimately shows the true side of RW Libert/propertarians.
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  520. I've never seen a more evil entity in my lifetime than the US Rethuglican Party... I mean, it's like they find sadist pleasure in their cruel policies?!
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  521. No, what's even crazier is wanting to strip a 1st world power of its democratic principles and the social progress its made since the time of the founders. And send it back to a ridiculous fundementalist 18th century interpretation of the Constitution while rebuilding society on the principles of a full blown sociopath (Ayn Rand) And believing it won't devolve into a real world version of "Lord of the Flies."
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  522. Progressives believe in social democracy (the Rhine model of capitalism). I have yet to meet a progressive that had wet dreams about bring back the USSR and Marxian-Leninism. And that you people think we do makes absolutely no sense whatsoever!
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  523. This video explained pretty much why I hate Ronnie the senile, and Milton 'Fraud'man with a passion!!
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  524. And this vile crap is happening when the Fascists are out of the WH.. God, imagine how empowered they are gonna be if orange Mussolini gets back in there!?
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  525. Cold war BS! even the damn founding fathers supported it.
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  526. (Groan) Mom's for Liberty. (Gag) more like Dumb Broads for Ignorance!
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  527. Bork was a sell out bastard!
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  528. Keep dreaming, even if people wanted your extremist economic poices you got that big albatros known as the Christian religious right on your shoulder, which most millenials reject and only cranky old farts support.
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  529. Which why no one trusts the GOP anymore, they're image is wrecked after the Iraq fiasco.
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  530. And you from Cato, Freedomwork, AFP I can go on and on...
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  531. Why is why American progressives need to work and fight to contain this vile economic model and keep it contained to the wingnut states.
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  532. Take away their tax exempt stats. These theocrats have severely abused this privilege and thus now, need to have it taken away.
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  533. US conservatives since Reagan have become total sociopaths, and US liberals are like conservatives were back from 1946 to 1980.
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  534. Yeah, like CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS is liberal HA! It could be argued socially it is but definitely not economically.
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  535. And most importantly they don't even believe in their own RW libertarian dogma. They're pawns in DC are lobbying all the damn time to give them tons of tax payer paid corporate welfare. So much for the utopian free market their dozens of think tanks never shut up about... They're hypocritical crooks of the highest caliber!
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  536. I've been more critical thing in progressive group can in any gaggle of teabaggers. And oh yeah you guys are the ones that are seditious in wanting to turn the nation into a RW libertarian dystopia and gut all the rules and progress we've made since since the great depression. Progressive are fighting to protect those rules.
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  537. My WWII/ New Deal grandmother RIP, would be in utter disbelief to see all this traitorous, Nazi filth trickling back into the mainstream. "When the last person who remembers the horrors of the last great war dies, the next great war becomes inevitable." (British historian Arnold Toynbee)
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  538. Two A-holes that poisoned the psychology of the country.
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  539. The founding fathers were children of the enlightenment. they hated king plutocrats, theocrats etc: They would NOT be on the side of you anti-democacy elitist teabaggers!
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  540. "but to the full definition of what the word 'Sedition' means in relationship to the Constitution and our republican form of government." Jesus H fucking Christ, talk about totally pulling shit out of your ass. eh whatever you crazy "seditious" conservative.
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  541. Yeah right, That what's happening right now genius, You're trolling on a progressive TY page. And progressives are coming out and denouncing you. This crap is a both sides deal.
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  542. Definitely Burlusconi or possibly even worse Mussolini.
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  543. LOL!!!
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  544. Exactly! they hate democracy except when when it rules on their side.
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  545. A very informative and well thought out response, thank you for the information.
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  546. "German people don't believe in personal liberty and the free market" pphh!!! what a load of fucking crap, Germany is kicking our ass when it comes to running capitalism, making actual products not financial sector. . After 2008 Chancellor Merkel said our shitty system blew up the market and need to be replaced with the more stable German model of economics, and I couldn't agree more with her. And guess what genius Merkel is a conservative.
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  547. LOL! Harsh, I don't hate conservatives, but the ones here in the states have gone off the deep end! Ex: You'd never hear Chancellor Merkel spouting off this market fundementalist garbage.
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  548. If he is he should be following them.
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  549. "Obama wants to abandon Reaganomics?" (scoff) Yeah right... like the mainstream dems would actually allow this. (Yawn) The republicans are just pushing their same extremist oligarch ass kissing BS they've been spewing since the 08 crash. Nothing new here Thom.
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  550. You people pulled the majority rule dogma back when Bush won reelection so don't give me that lying BS!
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  551. I remember when I first heard of RW Libertarianism in college. I thought it was a joke ideology, kinda like how Satanism parodies organized religion. And disgusted to find out it was a ideology that was taken seriously. Still I did my research into it. EX: I read Atlas Shrugged. I remember by the time it got to the end of it, I realized it was the first book ever where I had absolutely HATED the so-called protagonists! 100s of pages of rich, souless, smug psychopaths whining and monologing! Ugh, someone would have to flog me to read that shit again!
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  552. I'm not talking about Bush's actions during his presidency I'm talking about the after the election when to people around hollering that Bush got a mandate from the people after the 2004 election. So don't give me that RW Libertarian bullshit! "Admit it," You like it when democracy goes go your way and you whine and scream and curse it when it doesn't"
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  553. "Nothing is wrong with the lone wolf that doesn't value the lives of others -- until he starts hurting others because he doesn't value their lives." Excellent rebuttal...
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  554. Yeah and you don't spout of talking points.
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  555. He's a zealotous idiot, with the debating skills of a 3rd grader.
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  556. And you've shown yourself you be a RW fucknut, a anti-muslim bigot and a supporter of the traitors who want to default our economy. And I've haven't been talking to a simpleton I've been talking with a terrorist supporter! I've listened to your teatard shit since 2010 and I'm sick of it, this is war! (oh and... Try trolling again and I'll be back and screw with you.)
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  557. Yeah, ranting and insulting anything left of the RW libertarians (which is pretty much the entire political spectrum) a socialism. Right... objective and fair-minded people research all sides of the political spectrum, You plant yourself down in your quadrant ignore input from all the others and act like a religious Bible thumper. That's not being intellectual that's being a politcial zealot!
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  558. And neither do you!
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  559. Is that the condition that Christians fall victim to when the only read the parts of the bible and parts of the Constitution that they agree with, then ignore the rest? OWNED!!!
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  560. Agreed, we don't agree on everything (clearly) but they're are definitely major things we do agree on. (aka: market economics) I say we drop topics were we fight like assholes aka: (Obama) and focus on topics were we have common ground. (market economics).
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  561. James Michael Campbell Of course! However, heavily taxing RW plutocrats is not some magical fix. They're always gonna try to to use every tool at their disposal to weasel out of paying their taxes.
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  562. Paul Interics HA! In your dreams! I got my dream job and got around 40K in savings from having good savings and budgeting skills. Calling me a quitter is downright idiotic! XD
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  563. You didn't school me, by any means. I got you in a corner over the adding of amendments and you contradicted your own beliefs. I'm satisfied...
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  564. I wouldn't label you a US model progressive then. You'd be a democratic socialist or a Leninist however if you admire Khruschev then you're not a Stalinist.
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  565. It's info like this that justifies my belief that RW Libertarianism is a sick, sociopathic joke of an ideology!
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  566. The christian right in the US is utter trash!! And I say that having grow up in a evangelical church. Both me and my mom left after the teabaggers came to town. And Jesus H. Christ, have they shown their true colors with this lotahsome Dump cult!?
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  567. We rebuke you!! Fascist traitor!
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  568. Crap author, garbage book, shit philosophy!!
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  569. My IQ is far above yours dumbass, as your brain has been fried by so much RW Libertarin BS.
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  570. Cause it's not the truth dumbass, this is your shutdown!!!
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  571. Are you deluded, so you're saying all the conspiracy theories I mentioned don't exist, HA! boy do you live in a bubble.
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  572. What hell are you talking about objective, screaming away that the government can never do anything right is zealotry plain and simple, it's old, stupid and quite frankly was dispoven after the 2008 crash. But no we can never blame the banks We must blame the homeowners even though it was the banks/mortgage firms that convinced/ wooed the Americans into falling for those house flipping scams. The idea that we can't prosecute conmen, cause it's our fault for falling for their scam is repulsive!
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  573.  @ChrisDouglass2141  Ok, that's a bit of overkill.. However, if he turns out to be a true modern day Hitler, (Aka: millions dead and murdered.) then yes..
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  574. Walker is turning my home state into a corporate dictatorship!
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  575. Yeah and yet the founding father allowed it to be amended as they knew thing would change as the nation grew up. To go back to the original 1789 means constitution and to have still legal slavery, women not being allowed to vote etc: The constitution is a dynamic document!! Hell, the most recent new amendment was made in 1992. And with the mess were in right now it's gonna need 2x or more to balance to the powers in DC.
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  576. LMAO!! Someone should make a vid of protesting Teabaggers and then add the Peanuts adult sounds.
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  577. Thanks for the info mate.
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  578. "It is not the Republican Party or the Tea Party"... uh hello fox news! the whole RW radio/ internet machine, damn are you stupid. "Health care is not a Constitutional right" So what if every other 1st world nation on the planet has it (and has NO plans of getting rid of it.) Were America and being a callous asshole of a God given right, am i right!? Christ do I miss Germany.
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  579. That Raygun quote always makes me want to vomit in my mouth. 🤮 What a sleazy, totally-obvious, corporate shill!! But a sleazy corporate shill, that before I was even born, was pushed into the WH in a landslide. 😡
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  580. Ramming theocratic BS down our throats. All the while the religious affiliation continues to rapidly decline across the country, especially among young Americans. (Mainly due to fundie BS like this I might add!) Uh Yeah, I see a "Major" backlash coming against this Religious Right scumbag court!
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  581. Adam Smith was a great economist, who viewed economics and capitalism from all sides and saw its strengths as well as it's weaknesses. Milton Friedman was a zealotous hack who praised capitalism at an almost religious level while, deliberately whitewashing and downright ignoring all it's provenly, obvious downsides. We need to go back to Adam Smith and dump Friedman's sociopathic Chicago school garbage. Also Smith is far superior to Keynes.
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  582. I would disagree, a free-market is a component of a free society. It depends on how the word free-market is interpreted though, in the moderately regulated northern European model. (ordoliberalism) Or the extremist unregulated Anglo-saxon, casino model (Chicago-school, Friedmanism) The Austrian school (American RW Libertarianism) is hyper-dogmatic-quackery not even worth mentioning...
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  583. Yes to did, I've heard you crap all over democracy, then say you're for adding new amendments. It doesn't make any sense, but whatever... I like constitutional parliamentary systems far better than our stagnant crappy system. All this extremist crap didn't exist in 2013 German elections.
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  584. The way both of them have been acting over the past few two decades neither of them are.
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  585. Which he didn't do did he. But yet you still voted for him in 04 even after his 1st term showed he had no respect for it either. Still the actions of both of these two parties over the past few decades shows that they don't give a rat ass about the holy constitution.
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  586. Probably some teatard (or more likely) RW Liberatrian assclown, who's loving the gov shutdown cause it's supposedly making the gov smaller.
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  587. Yeah right, like the Teabags know the divine truth about how to run America all I've heard is calousness, cult-like zealotry and now a full blown desire to blow up the whole damn world economy just to make a political point. You're not fucking patriots you're closer to dirtbags who did 9/11! A patriot does not hurt their country!!!
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  588. I could care less if were the world's police, I want no part of it! And I'd love the foreign aid to quit and the EU nations have a military again.
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  589. The only industry I like/tolerate subsidies for is green energy and technology. However if they're are other ideas to encourage these industries without the use of government subsides I'm open to them.
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  590. The right side of our political spectrum has gone off the deep end! This is due to them being fed doomsday, conspiracy laden propaganda for over 20+ years now. They actually think the healthcare reform law is some kind of Stalinist sleeper law that will turn the USA into the old USSR. When in fact the ideas that the law consists of were created by a highly conservative think tank (The Heritage Foundation) back in the early 90's as a alternative to a single payer healthcare system.
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  591. Oh Please, I don't worship socialism, I research all sides of the politcal spectrum and take what I think works and what doesn't. I don't just sit in my own ideological box and that has lead to healthy fluctuations in my ideology as I learn new things. And thus I don't Bible thump like you do on every comment and spout/troll mises.org talking points. .
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  592. They should also include Milton Friedman and Henry Kissenger.
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  593. Agreed, even if we demolished all our dirty industry and scraped all our cars, right now. I think its far to prolonged to be stopped now and thus wouldn't do us any good.
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  594. After this shit, It ain't gonna happen.
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  595. I'm 35 and have been watching this rise of this RW authoritarianism since I was a teenager. I'm angry and disgusted with the Dems for being so feckless for so many years and helping to open the door to this mess. However, I will vote religiously for them against the GQP no matter what!... I sincerely HATE!! that vicious, cruel, psychopathic excuse for political party with every fiber of my being!!
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  596. I know he was just reading the quote, but I still find it hilarious to hear Thom swear.
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