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

  1. 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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  2. "Never again should a financial institution be able to demand a federal bailout." Damn straight Sen Senders! Damn straight!
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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Blasted corporatist Democrats!!... this vile spectre haunting us now is YOUR FAULT!!
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  6. ***** 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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  7. Amen to that!! 🏳‍🌈✊
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  8. 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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  9. Neoliberalism must die and soon.. If not, we will be heading for some very dark times by the mid century.
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  10.    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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  11. 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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  12. Reagan is long dead.. It's long past due to his rotten plutocratic legacy to die as well....
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  13. Don't just close the revolving door... smash it!!!  Bernine Sander 2016
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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. #2 Is the key!!
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  18. 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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  19. "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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  20. The unfettered, unregulated model is.
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  21. Bernie Sanders - ANTI-Neoliberal! Hillary Clinton - Pro Neoliberal
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  22. +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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  23. Trump is a pompous windbag... enough said... (Still... at least he's enjoyable to watch.)
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  24. 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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  25. "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half." (Attributed to robber baron Jay Gould?)
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  26. 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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  27. And long over due!!
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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32. The insurance companiers are gonna fight this tooth and nail!!
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  33. Living the TN, this doesn't surprise me.
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  34. 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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  35. Eddie Munster again?... Oh yuck!
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  36. Sadly it's true...
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  37. 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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  38. 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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  39. This crap goes right back to that disgusting speech that Paul Weyrich made in the early 80's.
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  40. 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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  41. 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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  42. The American people should have weeded out this perverse ideal... decades back!
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  43. 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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  44.  @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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. +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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  48. 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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  49. +barbtube01 BHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! LOL!!! Best laugh I've gotten in weeks! XD
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  50. 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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