Comments by "Xyz Same" (@xyzsame4081) on "Washington Post" channel.

  1. They might - and tear this hit piece apart. WaPo and the interests behind them must get desperate. This is not only the for-profit industry, it is also WALLSTREET. They too love for-profit healthcare and the dysfunction means unearned profits for them.
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  2. The capital gains the billionaires make in the 10 years are also impressive. Their fortunes will be somewhat smaller but certainly not halved ! and they will be forced to sell some of the hoarded real estate, hoarded patents or sell some of the companies - breaking up the empires and monopolies. Anti-trust effect.
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  3. How did that piece make it through the filter - after all the Medicare for All misinformation (the clip of spring was not too bad, bad the next one amounted to lies).
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  4. No, people are not legally required to register to vote in the U.S. (you are correct about the draft). People need to register if they WANT to vote - and good luck with that in many states. The Republicans do their best to kick people off the voter rolls (from certain areas = poor, minorities) and/or to make it really hard to register for the first time or again. Then there are easily hackable machines, old hardware that malfunctions and causes large waiting lines. Bloomberg panel New York spring 2019 Stacy Abrams Georgia and Andrew Gillum Florida. But there was limited time (less than 1 hour) they could not discuss ALL the ways to hinder people to vote. I know of states where it is not possible to audit the vote (John Olliver did a segment on voting machines recently that complements the information I can give you her). In parts of Texas, or in all of Ohio you have to believe that the machines process ! your vote according to the selection that you make and which you see on the screen. (no problem at all with an electronic device to show something on the screen and the data that is SENT for tabulation is different). There is no way to verify what data is sent to the center for tabulation. (Other states at least have a paper trail so at least in theory you can audit). In 2016 a citiizen group tried to force the state of Ohio to ACTIVATE the safety feature on their machines for the first time - but the judge dismissed the case. Come back if you have PROOF that there has been rigging. - Duh ! Deafening silence on that by the Democratic Party or the Corporate media. Greg Palast investigative reporter: Republicans steal general elections and Democrats rig primaries - he did not even refer to 2016. - Both parties have the same donors, who do not want the sheeple to question the integrity of the vote count. And the ability to rig the machines might be a godsend in case there is a progressive emergency. Normally they will use other measures (gerrymandering, voter suppression, closing down polling stations. voter roll purgers under one pretext or another. But if the would be challenged they might resort to more drastic measures). The Big Donors finance the Corporate Democrats, too - their role is to WIN PRIMARIES (and to keep progressives out). so the voters will have the "choice" on the ballot between a sellout spineless Democrat and a fierce Republican. - The big donors always win. Anyway: the Democratic leadership also did not bother to oppose or even mention Operation Crosscheck in 2016. In Republican states they purged millions of "ethnic" names from the voter rolls. (Greg Palast got the data base and did his best to alert the public - he was on RT and on independent media on the internet but NOT on one of the large Corporate networks. If someone with the name Robert Brown had voted in one state and also in another in the same election (before 2016), it cleary must have been a case of one person voting twice (or several times). Never mind the constraints of distance and time, or that some names are common. Weirdly enough that "suspected crime" (one person voting in several states in the SAME election - that would mean up to 5 years in prison) did not lead to any INVESTIGATIONS of any of the Robert Browns, they just were kicked off the voter rolls. They did it in states where the Republicans run the show and they did it secretly. (but Greg Palast got the data set from a whistle blower). That works really well for Koreans, too. There is one last name that is really common with them (I think it is Kim). That is unheard of in other countries. Automatic voter registration is very common, the names and adress is entered at birth, at age 18 they get the invitation to vote. (In the U.K. they have to register if they want to vote, or change it if they move - but that is really easy and most do it online. In the snap election in 2017 1 million people registered or changed the registration. in a country with 60 million people). Apart from that it is good SAFE old-fashioned paper ballot and hand count before witnesses (the Brits bring the sealed ballots to a sports hall and pairs of volunteers count them on long tables under the eyes of the audience). In the U.K. they also do elections on work days - but the polling stations are open till 10 pm. The idea that you walk into your polling station in any developed country other than the U.S. and they say you are not on the list is unheard of. Paper ballot, hand count - usually in the respective polling station (the committee consists of a civil servant and volunteers from all parties on the ballot). The count can be verified. It is almost impossible to rig the count and if so it would not make a dent (only one polling station). Elections are on a Sunday or holiday (and in many countries, shops are closed on these days so people do have time). enough polling stations, 5 - 10 minutes waiting time at most.
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  5. She presents it as only 2 or 3 cents (= 2 or 3 %) etc. Most households do not have a billion in assets and will nod that this is not too much to ask. I agree. WaPo: Yes but that is a LOT over time (50 % = half over 10 years). - What WaPo did not mention. Over 10 years the wealth tax adds up - but the investments and assets also bring lots of capital gains year after year. A wealth tax would stop the INCREASE of the fortunes or somewhat reduce them. The 50 % "loss" in form of wealth taxes is counteracted (to a degree) by ongoing capital gains. It shows that WaPo is owned by Jeff Bezoes, Amazon.
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  6. Sanders in Jan 2017 tried to pass a bill: Let's import drugs from Canada. It would have been the first step (so no imports right away if it would have passed * see below). Even some Republican Senators were on board incl. Ted Cruz ! - but 13 Democratic defectors incl. Cory Booker. if Sanders had the votes - that law would be passed like yesteday. Cory Booker was mentioned by name by Sanders when he expressed his regret about the missed chance to lower drug prices. (I do not think it is a good idea to order them over the internet, quality etc. - but the drugs should be affordable in the pharmacies ! and the hospitals. Booker did not like being called out by Sanders (it was widely assumed he would run for 2020). Sanders stayed polite - well twitter users had not restraints to play nice with the party establishment, they slammed him. Cory Booker came up with a lame excuse how he had concerns * but of course he also wanted to lower drug prices, next time ... yada, yada .... - it was not like they would have imported the drugs next day AND he could have discussed those concerns before, could he ?? And what about the other 12 defectors.
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  7. 2:06 - are you kidding me - Stacy Abrams lost by a few ten thousand votes only. Stacy Abrams and Andrew Gillum appeared on a Bloomberg panel in New York in March 2019. She lists many of the sophisticated ways the vote is suppressed. It is not ONE measure it is a widespread sophistacted system. Federal court forbade them to use exact match. (If your registration or the address on your mail ballot does not 100 % match either SS or DMC data they can throw your registration or your vote away. As little as an additional blank or Str. instead of Street can make a difference. These 2 data bases are not coordinated in how the data is entered, so there is plenty of opportunity to sort out the registrations and votes of certain voters. What did they do ? They created a state law for "exact" match. Longest waiting times for African Americans in the U.S. (Gillum mentioned 30 minutes to 1 hour. Stacy Abrams: that is nothing we have up to 4 hours. - the rest of first world nations: 5 - 10 minutes, and not being on the voter roll is unheard of). Florida took the prize they stole the 2000 election - but Georgia is strong competition.   Georgia purged 1,5 million people off the lists since 2012 (total population 10 millions, not all of them eligible to vote of course). And they have sophisticated processes in place to hinder people from registering again. Stacy Abams: Actually we have generous early voting provisions (by mail). They just got mad when the citizens (poor, black) started using them.   [Mail vote also makes the elections cheaper for the state and the elderly and disabled or those w/o a vehicle are not hindered].
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