Comments by "KGS" (@kgs2280) on "The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder" channel.

  1. This guy is so far ahead of Piers Morgan intellectually that it was like Piers was standing still while Bassem was running rings around him, and Piers didn’t even recognize that.
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  2. There’s no hypocrisy like right-wing Christian hypocrisy.
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  3. That FBI woman did a masterful job of not rising to that idiot’s questions. She just stayed silent and cool. What is with those Congresspeople from Arizona? I’m sure he and Paul Gosar are good buddies.
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  4. I still remember how we (the public) were often told, “We are NOT extending the war into Cambodia. We are NOT involving Cambodia”. And yet I had a friend in the Air Force who was flying into Cambodia regularly in 1971, and even told me he was there. He never said he was bombing, but now I have to wonder.
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  5. Anybody who takes their young son to a camp like this should be reported to CPS and lose custody. We’ve had centuries of raising boys to be like this and it hasn’t turned out well. I’m happy to see the new generations moving toward being more real and kind. But of course these types just can’t handle that, because “that’s not the kind of manhood my daddy beat into me”.
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  6. “We investigated ourselves and determined we did nothing wrong”. Just like the police.
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  7. There’s also the irony that many homeless people, esp. people who live in their cars, are members of Planet Fitness because a) they’re nearly everywhere and you can use any of their facilities with membership, and, b) you can go in and take a shower and get ready for work there (if they’re lucky enough to have a job). Plus, I believe you can safely leave your car or van there overnight to sleep in. So, there’s the confluence of the rich and poor in one place.
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  8. Lindsey Graham should get a special trophy…for having the most flexible spine in the world.
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  9. I always love a question that starts with “would you rather be a man who (blah blah blah) or a woman who (yada yada yada)…” - AS IF WE HAVE A CHOICE, or could have a choice. We don’t, and we’re absolutely stuck with the consequences of how, when, where, what social level and what sex we’re born into.
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  10. He’s so mad she indicted him for “being a lawyer”….wasn’t he disbarred? Didn’t he have his license taken away?
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  11. I think this is also a symptom of the American exceptionalism individual “toughness”, or strength theory where we are taught to NEVER show weakness or inability at any time. It’s the old “work till you drop”, in the face of all odds philosophy. It’s especially strong in the post-WWII and Boomer generation, and it’s just plain damaging to everyone. People have a right and a responsibility to admit to an inability or a need for recuperation, which was why John Fetterman was lauded for admitting that he was having problems with depression, and took the necessary time off for getting himself better so that he could do his job properly and efficiently. It benefits NO ONE to force yourself, or anyone else, to work when you’re just not up to the task. People need to understand that it’s OK to take time off for mental, as much as physical health self-care, just as it’s OK to retire in dignity when you recognize you have reached a point of diminishing capacity, and even just to give yourself time to enjoy retirement to spend your remaining time on Earth with loved ones and just doing things you enjoy doing while you still can. There’s NO shame in doing that; that’s your reward for working all your life. It’s especially a problem when you’re in a position that affects many people in the country, and I hope society starts losing the “I’m so tough” philosophy and developes a more humanistic one.
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  12. I think that today’s “accidental” downing of Prigozhin’s plane would be a hint to trump about what Putin would do to anyone who might consider overthrowing HIS government.
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  13.  @ethorii Yeah, but he’s not delivering vengeance on the rapist, only an innocent little child. Their religion, including their god, never called for that law. Their bible doesn’t command them, or us, to force girls or women to have babies. This is all on their own sick, twisted, perverted minds.
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  14.  @bibianaguadalupeislasherre9880 They especially want to keep women “in their place”. And they’ll go to any lengths, like forcing 10, 12, 14-year old girls to have babies.
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  15. The GOP doesn’t give a damn if they create hardship for The People. In fact, they relish it.
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  16. Emma said it best when she said, “Israel is suffering a terrorist attack and Palestinians are suffering a ‘humanitarian crisis’”, regarding the way America presents its response. Those situations present very different ways of looking at the problem, with two different ways to respond, when the reality is that both are suffering the same initiating situation, while one side suffers a seriously outsized reaction from the other.
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  17. Hoo- rah, Emma! You nailed it! I’m with you.
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  18. Sadly, they pretty much ARE above the law, because they are the final arbiters of the law (hence the name SUPREME Court). Unlike ALL other judicial offices as well as legislative offices, the Supreme Court Justices have NO ethics rules they have to abide by. It’s just “assumed” they will make laws justly and ethically. However, since these recent events have taken place (like lying or misrepresenting themselves during confirmation hearings and overturning Roe v. Wade, etc.), they are coming under much more public scrutiny and anger, that some legal minds are talking about creating ethics rules they will have to abide by now. But it’s been such a “tradition” historically to not have those rules, so it will be interesting to see where this goes, if anywhere. Personally, I’m not holding my breath.
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  19. This is why I really like Jessica Valenti. I subscribe to her newsletter and she gives her readers all the latest, up-to-date information on what’s going on in every state that’s trying to pull these crazy anti-abortion political stunts, every day. She’s a front line in our defense.
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  20. Completely.
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  21. Excellent conversation! Mehdi is a wonderful guest and speaker. And having all three of you get a chance to speak up just made it flow beautifully. I very much enjoyed this. ❤
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  22. The equal pay law only covers federal employees at this time, except for in the states that have Equal Rights Amendments in their laws, like California.
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  23. I remember when my mother passed away shortly after the last big brouhaha about inheritance tax and I was a little concerned, not having heard of it before. When my brother and I went to the estate lawyer to split things up, I asked the lawyer about it. He just gave me a sort of sad/humorous smile and said, “don’t worry about that; it won’t affect you”. That’s when I learned it won’t ever affect about 90% of us. LOL
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  24. Great interview. One of the most interesting yet. I can also see where the Antifa scare fits in with their false flag theories. Emma, your questions on this were spot-on, and very astute. Good job!
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  25. It’s very expensive being poor.
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  26. ⁠​⁠ @Descalabro  Absolutely right, except it depends on which people you’re talking about. If it’s for the very wealthy and corporations (which are “people” according to the Supreme Court, unbelievably) and for the manufacturers that make weapons of war, bombs, fighter jets, and oil-drilling rigs (for wars in Middle Eastern countries that have oil, then, I imagine the soldiers would be told they’re fighting for their country’s “people”). But it’s never, ever for the working-class taxpayers that wars are fought, except, as you say, it’s when their own country is under attack.
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  27. Yes, I'm a little older and I was in college when the Kent State Massacre happened, and it has stuck with me for years, and to have it re-ignited in my mind now is just shocking and heartbreakung.
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  28.  @Corgifan2 And he probably “donated” a new athletic department for him to be graduated. I’m always amazed that so many of these people (ignoramuses) graduated from college, including the Ivy League ones. I’m absolutely blown away that MGT graduated college, although it was “only” U. Of GA (or whichever one it was). She doesn’t seem much more intelligent than Lauren Boebert who failed her GED at least two times, then they finally just gave it to her.
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  29.  @bethanyoneal5789  Skinny dipping is really great, too!
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  30. Yup, sad and exhausted. I can certainly understand why. These people are exhausting.
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  31. Thank you so much, Sam and Melissa, for talking about Project 2025. This needs to get out to everyone in the country. It is absolutely terrifying, and we have to squash it somehow, but that can only happen if people in the right agencies or fields are aware of each detail and can bring their expertise to bear in overcoming it. And when you mentioned the religious, theocratic and patriarchal foundation of the Project, I couldn’t help but think this is the background story for The Handmaid’s Tale (with the Seven Mountains religious theory thrown in). That is exactly what they want. And, as Margaret Atwood (the author of The Handmaid’s Tale) has said, every single thing in the book is based on things that have actually happened in some country or time. It’s not at all just ideas pulled from a fervid wild idea. I’ve always said these guys have viewed the book as their blueprint, and Project 2025 is their detailed plan of implementing that blueprint.
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  32.  @paulisfat8077 I think Tim would be confused by the difference between Mexico and Peru. I don’t think he’d understand that there is a difference.
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  33. That kid was grinning from ear to ear through the whole thing! Since he apparently recognized, and enjoys The Good Liars, I hope their message really sinks in later on.
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  34.  @cycologist7069  Well, that’s a tough one to answer because he ended up betraying me in a really horrible way, so I didn’t have any good feelings about him after that anyway. However, at the time he told me about flying in Cambodia I was very young, non-political and blinded by love, so I didn’t understand, or think about any implications about what he did at the time. But I also understand that our boys in the military have to obey commands, no question asked, so I’d be less like to hold it against him personally. So, my comment was more about the lies our government told us than the men who, sadly, had to carry out the orders.
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  35. Yes! I was just going to say that “We believe…” isn’t facts or evidence.
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  36. Funny, but at the beginning of this video I was thinking of Antifa when you were talking about the folks trying to save the forest being labeled “domestic terrorists”. It almost seems as if “Antifa”, which is NOT at present a single organized group, but just a shortened version of a name for someone who is anti-fascist, was used as a foundation for the police state to label any group of dissenters as “terrorists” in order to get rid of them, including killing them. On the other hand, somehow I doubt that the January 6th insurrectionists would ever be labeled as domestic terrorists, or the people who might do some awful things when trump is arrested, as they’re promising to do. Or people like Marjorie Taylor Green, who are calling for a “civil war”.
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  37.  @marcusgarvey6231  I’d say it’s a toss up between him and Jamie Raskin. They’re both great.
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  38. It’s right up there with saying, “I’m not racist, BUT…”
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  39. This is beyond sickening. And heartbreaking.
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  40. I highly recommend the book The People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn. On one hand, it was shocking how much we have never been taught in school or told about. On the other hand, you realize that so much of what goes on in our government and society today has almost all happened before. We’ve always had a government and society of vile, greedy and murderous villains. Of course, we’ve always had good people, too, who tried to make things better, but that’s always been the struggle. I was a bit surprised to learn how Andrew Jackson never signed a treaty with the Native Americans that he wasn’t happy to break, on one occasion, the very next day. He was absolutely heartless and murderous, and had no concern for the Native Americans. It’s also interesting how the actions of the South, during and after the Civil War, still echoes in our Congress today.
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  41.  @InternetMameluq  Where did you get that idea? Unfortunately, there quite a few women, especially younger women, who have learned to parrot expressions like “I’m not really a feminist because…”, or, “I don’t need feminism because…”, or, “I think feminism has gone too far because…”, when the real problem is that they don’t have any idea of what feminism really means. So many young people, including both men and women, seem to have gotten the idea that feminism means that women want to be “better” or “above” men, I’m guessing for “payback”. When, in reality, feminism just means that women want to be treated as equal citizens, in the laws, at work and in every area of life. As one of my favorite expressions goes: “Feminism: The radical notion that women are people”, and a favorite organization’s name is Equal Means Equal. That’s it. Period.
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  42.  @idontwantahandlethough  I think it’s actually the “Old South”/Confederate mentality, along with the educational systems that cause it.
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  43. Being female, having a HUGE following and being very rich and outspoken and a bit liberal is all it takes to set off most conservative men. Such a threat!
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  44. You can add a lot of other states to that theory as well. Especially Florida at the moment.
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  45. Kind of like how Josh Hawley wrote a book called Manhood extolling the virtues of manhood, right? Yeah, the guy running through the halls of Congress to get away from the rioters on Jan. 6, after giving them a raised fist (power sign) to the crowd outside!
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  46. Sam, I’m so glad you said, “So you’re pro Roe v. Wade”. So many people don’t seem to realize that Roe v. Wade spelled out - clearly - what was allowed trimester by trimester during pregnancy, and left it up to the doctor regarding the health of the mother during the last trimester. People seem to think it said “abortion is fine anytime for any reason, including up to and after birth”, but that’s absolutely not the case. I hope people will decide to look it up, which is easy to do on Google or Wikipedia. Thank you!
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  47.  @basedtruthpiller7140  This Boomer hippie didn’t, so don’t blame me.
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  48.  @True_you_coming_through Why would any man want to do the inner work to turn into a woman-hating rage machine who can only feel like a “real man” when he’s with his buddies, drinking beer and slapping each other on the back (or butt)? Maybe it would be better to do the inner work of being a real human being who can treat others (including women) as real human beings.
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  49.  @reesf743 And having to raise that baby lasts at least 18 years.
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  50. I’d be more than happy to vote for him.
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  51. I watched a video last night of campus protesters (including two female professors) getting arrested, I think it was at Georgetown. One woman professor’s look of shock when being thrown down by police made me flash back to the photo and look on the face of the young woman who was kneeling next to a dead student at Kent State after Nixon’s National Guard opened fire on the students who were protesting the war in Vietnam. I’m old enough to remember that day well because I was in college then, and it is burned into my memory. Dear god, I don’t want to see that happen again. That was when I seriously started questioning my government. If interested , look up “famous photo from Kent State massacre”.
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  52.  @kmick8108 And she’s best known for killing the Equal Rights Amendment just as it was about to be put into the Constitution. BTW, it’s STILL not in the Constitution, so if any of you think (as many do) that “we are now equal”, no, no we are not.
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  53. A legal scholar on another show said the Secret Service isn’t only there to protect him, but they also pledged an oath to uphold U.S. law, so if he tried to jump ship while waiting for his court date(s) they’d have to stop him. There might be one or two defectors, but - hopefully- there would be enough loyal to the country over him to stop him and the defectors. Would make for an interesting movie plot, wouldn’t it?
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  54.  @memento81 Just in Congress, but we’ve still got Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, both Bushes and trump who have done, especially collectively, immeasurable damage to this country. But Mitch is definitely the winner on that score in Congress, with maybe Joe McCarthy in the 50s & 60s in second place.
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  55. I just posted a similar comment about the Kent State massacre. Your mother might be about my age, because I remember that well as I was in college at the time, and never want to see it happen again. It pretty much radicalized me too.
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  56. @Jacob B I absolutely agree with the addition of the religious fundamentalism aspect, at least for the last forty or fifty or so years. It wasn’t really as strong a thing before that. I grew up in Florida, (and, yes, I’m old!) and religion didn’t factor nearly as strongly as the “Old South” mentality at that time. I remember in high school, they played Dixie at our in-school basketball games, and everyone sang along (except me, since I was born much further north. I used to sing Yankee Doodle well under my breath as my personal rebellion, LOL). And I remember some students even put confederate flags in their windows in the college dorms. That mentality, especially the racism (even though I’m white) was one of the big reasons I got the hell out. I never looked back, and I certainly never missed it.
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  57. We have had these in California at Aldi’s, a German grocery store, for at least 5 or 6 years.
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  58. I’m glad you brought up Wisconsin. I’ve learned enough about the state to know that they seem to be a test market to determine how completely Republicans can take over every office in every district in the state, in every way they can think up, fairly or not, and they will then take the lessons learned from the results to the national stage to try to take over as many states as possible. Its actually pretty frightening. It’s funny, because I would have thought it would be a southern state that would do that, although Florida, Georgia and the others are trying to do similar things. Republicans know they can’t win if they don’t cheat, so they’re trying to find out just how much they can get away with. I really hope the people there pass the pro-choice legislation as they have in other states, and to finally get rid of Ron Johnson. It’s time for the Democrats there to step up and speak out and vote. Good luck, Wisconsin!
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  59. Wow! Congratulations Minnesota! You’re setting a fantastic example for the rest of the nation. And if it proves financially profitable for the state (as it appears to be doing, that one thing that might really show other states that progressive policies are grounded in reality.
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  60.  @keksi6844  This was the first thing that came up on Google two minutes ago: Se·mit·ic adjective 1. relating to or denoting a family of languages that includes Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic and certain ancient languages such as Phoenician and Akkadian, constituting the main subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic family. 2. relating to the peoples who speak Semitic languages, especially Hebrew and Arabic.
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  61.  @oxman5571 Yes, I really love an Alfa Romeo, but I don’t want to be one. I’d be happy just to drive one. (And they really are fun to drive).
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  62. I simply do not understand how one group of people who have been persecuted can then turn around and visit that same persecution on another group of people.
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  63.  @moonlightfishin4113 We’ve already been down that road. Look up the Kent State Massacre of 1970. There are still some of us who remember that. It did not help Nixon or the National Guard, you can bet on that.
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  64. Vice President at the least! I would definitely vote for him either way.
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  65.  @sterlingfury  Like the saying goes: “There’s no hate like Christian love”. That’s what got me to leave the church.
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  66. It gave me life, self-respect and understanding.
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  67.  @Revelwoodie LOL
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  68. @MW66VB, I couldn’t agree more. Psychedelics certainly opened and enlarged my mind (and I had a few “religious/spiritual” experiences, as in, I understood that I am God, but so are we all, and that all the energy of the Universe, especially creative energy, and love, along with us, and whatever other beings there might be out there, including all the animals and plants of any planets that might have those things, are what God is, and we’re all connected. That sort of thing…you know, the “simple” stuff, LOL) and certainly made me more open than I even was naturally. That and traveling, as you say. SO helpful! My father was an Air Force Pilot, so he was always off to some other country while I was a little girl, and when he was able to come home for some time, he always brought me a doll dressed in the cultural clothes from whatever country he had been in on that trip. He would also tell me stories about the people and the country, and even show me maps (and I became a huge lover of maps) and pictures of various places in that country (and I became a photographer for a while). My parents and my two older brothers lived for three years in Germany before I was born (I was born just a few months after they came back to the States. It still had a large effect on me as we had children’s and adult’s books for teaching German, and I learned a number of words, and my dad even used some at the dinner table, like “I love my schpargle” (asparagus), so I still call it that. Then, after I left university, I became a “hippie” (thank God!) and hitchhiked around the U.S and Eastern Canada. The next year I got a car and drove it from Orlando, Fl, up to Maryland to pick up my girlfriend then we drove all the way the way across the country to San Francisco, of course, then to San Diego for a few weeks, then to the Mexico City airport to pick up my boyfriend who worked, so he couldn’t take off three months for the stateside part of the trip, then drove all the way to the Yucatán Peninsula because I just HAD to see Chichén Itzá, and we found a number of other great archaeological sites, esp. Teotihuacán near Mexico City, which is one of my favorite places on earth. I definitely want to have some of my ashes sprinkled on the pyramids when I’m gone from this life (I think I lived a former life there). We spent about two weeks in Mexico, and met many people there (I was the translator for our group because I had taken three years of Spanish in High School, so that was fun). I’m in love with Mexico, and have been back there many times. Well, I didn’t intend this to be a dissertation, but I’ll chalk it up to being practice for when I write a book about that period of my life. I learned so much there, and the cultural differences are so hugely different, it’s also mind-expanding. And, as @diphenhydramine6072 said above, (and I also agree very much with him) that education also plays a big role in being open-minded, which often leads to more left-leaning thinking. As for psychedelic “trips” I can definitively say that I wouldn’t ever want to experience what the right-wingers experienced if it cemented the right-wing philosophy in their minds. I would consider that to be a very “bad trip” for me!😅 Again, sorry for for the probably overly long comment, but that was such a special period in my life, and I love sharing it, plus it fits in with the context of the video. Thanks for your patience.
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  69. I also see similarities between this case and Alito’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Of course they’re not similar in that they both aren’t dealing with medication, but I see them first pre-deciding what they wanted to see happen to the laws (to shut them down) and they both brought weird laws from way back in history to use to hold up for comparison (Judge Kacsmaryk’s was discussed here) and Justice Alito brought up some judge from, I believe, from the 😅16th or the 17th centuries, in England, written by a legal-minded man who, ironically also sentenced young women to go through the “proving your innocence period” before condemning these women to die by fire on a stake. One of the most popular “proving your innocence techniques” was to toss the young women (er: witch) in a lake or wherever (most young women were never taught to swim in those days because it was concidered “unseemly for a lady”. The formula they used was that if the young women drowned, they were found innocent of the charges. If they managed not to drown, they were guilty, and so would be killed by being burned at the stake. I scratch my head thinking about why a 21st Century American Justice would choose to use the opinions of an Englishman from the 15th Century who burned women on stakes as witches. Also, similar to Kacksmaryk’s going back in time to decide that he didn’t think mifepristone was approved correctly, Alito decided that Roe v. Wade was “unconstitutional” at the time it was passed, though he didn’t clearly explain how other than to say it should go to the states, which again, I don’t remember him clearly stating WHY it should be returned to the states. And this was a ruling that contributed to the health and happiness of women, and was found to be reasonable for women for almost 40 years! That’s basically two generations of women having the help they needed. But Alito wanted it to go to the states, I’m sure, because that would end up doing exactly what it did, with so many states jumping on it, and lowering the abortion rates in the country which is just what his religious beliefs demanded. Kacksmaryk’s presumably, having to make some adjustments to his decision, but it will also serve his religious beliefs. And Alito doesn’t have to backpedal one tiny bit. Our laws are NOT supposed to be determined on the plaintiff’s or the judge’s religious beliefs, PERIOD!
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  70. Boom! You nailed it!
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  71. Ahh yes, “shaming women” is such a great new concept (*sarcasm*). Like it’s never been done before.
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  72.  @natediaz1863  I don’t think you incel misogynists are in touch with reality, or women, anymore. Nasty, sexist men have shaming women for hundreds, if not thousands of years.
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  73. While, generally, I am against the death penalty, I have to admit to thinking that, in the case of treason against one’s government, perhaps it’s not such a bad idea. For example, I can imagine either a firing squad or group hanging for those in our government who have called for an insurrection on our democracy, and those still active in the government supporting that insurrection. I can imagine it near the entrance to the Capitol, the same place said insurrection “allegedly” took place took place…in my imagination.
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  74. Unfortunately, Nancy Pelosi would never allow that because Katie Porter is “too progressive” for her. It’s a shame. I’d love to see her win that race if Feinstein lasts that long.
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  75.  @capt.bart.roberts4975 And talking smack about women. Yeah, I’m sure Emma would just LOVE that.
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  76. It’s also fairly well known that many business people keep the names and birthdays and health situations of associate’s families in their Rolodex (showing my age…in their contact lists), and they look at those before they meet with those associates or customers. It makes them sound really tuned in, but it’s a well-known trick.
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  77.  @sethmann6397 And power = control.
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  78.  @NitwitsWorld  I didn’t say he did.
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  79. Funny, Matt, I would say that Patriarchy has killed and destroyed millions and millions (if not TRILLIONS) more lives throughout at least the last 7,000-10,000 years. And just who has feminism killed? We could have a real argument about whatever opinion you might have about that.
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  80.  @ChrisRJ  What statistics or facts do you base that on? Even if they do, conservatives definitely do the same thing, if not moreso
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  81.  @letsgobrandon9867  Define man.
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  82.  @xbjrrtc Yes. Was that on Howard Stern? Or maybe a Today Show interview? I remember that. He has always been scum. Just disgusting.
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  83. Why does Rand Paul keep getting re-elected?
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  84.  @soulknife20  Not when they’ve been designated a terrorist organization.
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  85. Thank you for this excellent interview.
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  86. Exactly!
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  87. I would rather see him in prison for his crimes…all of them. He can go to Russia when (if) he gets out.
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  88.  @JimmyNuisance And yet, in a way, you’re correct…except that they’ve been trying to increase the number of LESS than average people for years, because the more ignorant the citizenry is, the easier they are to manipulate and convince to vote the way they want you to (see MAGA). Thanks, Ronald Reagan and the Koch brothers.
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  89. Yeah, just look at how “respectfully” Matt talks about and treats women. SMH
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  90. They simply can’t cope with feminism. Too bad for them.
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  91. Yup. He is a trump knock-off after all.
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  92.  @williamcarter9066  Same here. It was pretty liberating, but, above all, it taught me many valuable lessons about myself and my abilities to survive as well as how to accept help, and kindness, when offered, as well as a keen discernment of someone’s intentions.
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  93.  @poppopdadski7559 Amen brother, amen. And I’m an atheist, too.
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  94. I agree.
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  95. Somehow, I think Clarence Thomas, on some level, thinks he’s white. I can only imagine that he’s in some weird state of denial.
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  96.  @ji8698 At least HE had far too much class and intelligence to tell him that.
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  97. That young woman has taken Ivanka’s look and raised (or dropped?) it a couple of notches. Maybe she wants to look like someone trump would date.
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  98. It’s interesting to me that these “anti-child mutilation” people never bring up the actual Female Genital Mutilation (without any anesthesia) that happens, not only in Egypt and other African nations, but also right here in the United States, where the parents (from certain sects of Islam) will drive their young daughters, usually as young as eight years old, from one state to another where there is no law against it. This practice is not only not wanted by the child, most are not even told in advance what is going to happen. What they do to those girls is so horrific and so damaging that they often have trouble afterward urinating, having periods, having sex and might even die in childbirth. And it’s all, in theory, to make her appear “clean” and virginal to a prospective husband. That is real and extreme mutilation, and it’s happening right here in the U.S., legally in some states, yet nobody is raising a hue and cry over that. Perhaps it’s because these girls aren’t white or Christian.
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  99. As the Fascist State grows.
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  100. It would be interesting to see how he gets away from his security entourage. I hope we get to see the video. Apparently, from what I heard a guest say on another show, they’re not only there to protect him.
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  101.  @richardvernon317  Hallelujah!
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  102. I’m (F) from an older generation, and, when I was a teenager, my father would have immediately run out of the house to go fishing for a couple of days if either I or my mother suggested he have The Talk with me about sex (on ANY level) or what we called “the birds and the bees”, or what I should do if a guy got pushy with me; and, if asked to take my father’s place, my older brother would have completely rejected that commission. No way in he*l would that conversation happen. Back then, we “unsophisticated girls” just had to figure it out for herself. She might get some good ideas from her classmates and friends, but they were pretty unsophisticated as well. I know the current younger generations of women are quite a bit more sophisticated, and they also have instagram and TicTok and such to help them with more modern ideas for safety, but rapes will continue no matter how sophisticated the ladies get UNTIL MEN LEARN THAT ITS WRONG, IT IS A CRIME OF VIOLENCE, AND THEY UST NOT DO IT - AFTER they learn that women are not also their property for the evening, and after they come to understand that women are PEOPLE, with feelings and concerns regarding what happens to them in their future, and with the same rights as men (though still not in the U.S. Constitution) - and THAT needs to be fixed ASAP!
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  103.  @kevinchristensen7510  Good point. If I’m ever in a conversation about reincarnation and I’m asked what kind of person I’d choose to be if I could choose, I always answer: a rich white man (I’m a white woman, and relatively poor) because I know that’s what society (at least in general, and in the U.S.) values the most highly.
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  104. “I am a woman of strong faith”. But my faith was happy to allow me to lie to all those great people who voted for me and stab them in the back.
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  105.  @sharonkaysnowton And we’ve all seen Melania do it. And slap his hand away when he tries to hold hers. I don’t blame her. He’s totally creepy. 🤮
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  106.  @Pintheshadows  Yup. Here’s the full quote. It’s beautiful, and oh, so true: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness” - Mark Twain
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  107.  @Pintheshadows  Thank you for your very kind, and very honest, answer. I think we might be in the same age range, as I am also having some “memory issues”, especially when it comes to names of specific philosophies and such. (As the saying goes: “nouns are the first to go”). Yes, I think I very much lean toward a pantheistic view, and am very much influenced by quantum theory. I read a wonderful book about quantum theory a number of years ago, and it cemented much of my thinking. Of course, with quantum theory, nearly EVERYTHING can fit together and make sense, which can be a positive or a negative (lol). If I remember the name of the book soon, I’ll add it to this comment (see? Memory issues!) But it’s something about quantum theory and spiritualism, or psychic-type happenings, which I’ve also experienced a fair amount, and was probably the main reason I came to my belief system because they made me realize there’s something much “more” going on than we’ve been told by religions). I guess I could also agree with the philosophy of monism, because, as the spiritualists say, “we are all one”. And quantum theory gave me to understand that that “one” is energy. My personal theory of “god” is the sum total, and probably the original source of that energy. Many spiritualalists say that source or origin is love, which I’m not sure I totally agree with, but I think it is intelligent and creative. And when I learned about light being composed of many, many particles, or protons, that was how I came to think of us as individuals, as particles of the light which is the force, or substance of energy…yes, we’re still individuals to a degree, but, all together, we are part and parcel of the light. Yeah, it’s pretty much metaphysical thinking, but quantum theory explains it to a great degree. I hope this makes sense. I also simply can’t think of “God” as some old man with a beard, sitting on a cloud, surrounded by angels playing harps, and watching - and judging - every single thing we do, is such a ridiculous, and small, way of seeing “The Creator”, or “The Divine”. How small that “God” seems to me, not to mention, how self-involved that thinking is, as well as an insult when considering the entirety of the Universe and all life and all energy. Thanks again for your comment. It got me thinking, and figuring out how to put into words my way of thinking. The book I was referring to is The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot.
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  108.  @Pintheshadows  No country in the world has “open borders” including the U.S. We all have LAWS surrounding entry and application for citizenship, as well as amnesty. Not to mention the fact that the vast majority of Americans’ parents, grandparents and further back, came from other countries. That’s pretty much what it means to be American. All you have to do is read American history. And I think that’s one of the things that makes America “great”, this being a great melting pot of people from many countries, bringing their culture with them, and all blending into what we are today.
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  109.  @FreedomFox1 Oh, but we do. Those comments were the same kind as those lobbed at Michelle Obama.
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  110. Sam, I’m glad to hear what you said about how the saying “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” was originally satire. I never heard that before. I’ve always said that all of my bootstraps have been broken so much they can’t be fixed. It’s also good to hear Emma speaking more than usual. She’s very bright, and has a lot of good points. Good show!
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  111. I remember in my senior year of high school in the late 1960s, which was made up, primarily, of wealthy, white kids (wheareas I was very middle class), we were required to take a class entitled “Americanism vs. Communism”. This was during the height of the Vietnam War, when we were beginning to see the boys who graduated just before us go off to war and, frequently not come home, or come home missing limbs or mentally damaged. Somehow, even then, even though I was not at all socially sophisticated in any way, I could see that it was entirely propaganda. And, of course, this was in Florida.
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  112. He might want to rethink his stand on Russia now that Alexei Navalny has been killed. Of course Tucker would be happy to lick Putin’s boots for the rest of his life, unlike Navalny.
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  113.  @davidt1152 And here I’ve always thought, and heard by experts, that pathological lying is a hallmark of malignant narcissists.
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  114.  @Z12K Especially young girls.
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  115. Carlson (and Hannity and all the others who lied about that day)should be charged with treason. And I’m not at all anti-immigrant, but I think Rupert Murdoch should be stripped of his citizenship and deported back to Australia for what he’s done to this country with “Faux News”.
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  116. I’m sorry, but I just can’t listen anymore when there are three - or more - people yelling at each other at the same time, and for almost the entire segment. I can no longer follow what any one person is saying, or trying to say, and it just raises my blood pressure. If you could perhaps give each person a minute or two to say something, then switch to a minute or two for the next person, maybe allowing for another person to press a button when they want to interrupt, maybe that would make it a coherent and cohesive conversation. All I can hear is a bunch of people yelling without being able to discern what anyone in particular is trying to say.
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  117. It’s not surprising, but the right wing has been fed the idea that “libruls” want to take all their guns away. But of course, groups like the NRA, Fox News and the RNC want to stoke division and make everything an us or them situation so they can get your votes or your money. They certainly don’t want us to be friends. I’ve had to tell a couple of conservatives that, no, we don’t want to take all your guns away. That’s why we call what we want “common sense” gun laws. We just really want to stop all the mass shootings. However, I do also think that anyone who has threatened a domestic or intimate partner with gun violence should not be able to have a gun, at least until he has gone through a certain amount of therapy and shows a real change in behavior because far too many men have shot their wives or girlfriends to death (I just checked that number, and the latest numbers show 840 women per year killed, and over 1 million shot or shot at and still alive since the studies were started).
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  118. Whatever happened to Separation of Church and State? I’m so sick and tired of these right wing religious nutjobs trying (and succeeding in some cases) to control and punish women. I almost won’t be surprised if they bring back actual witch hunts. Please, somebody make it stop before we return to the Dark Ages.
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  119. A female who has FGM is usually 7 or more years old, and she remembers all the pain. Plus, FGM causes loss of all pleasure (which is part of the reason it’s done (which is pretty messed up), and as a method to control the woman and keep her from “straying”, plus it can cause problems with menstration, including infection, and it can cause great pain, physical damage and even death in childbirth. So, while I’m still undecided on how I feel about circumcision, I don’t think there’s any doubt whatsoever that FGM is far, far more dangerous and causes problems that male circumcision does not cause. Not to mention the fact that FGM is done SOLEY for the pleasure of her future husband, circumcision is generally done for hygienic reasons and has nothing to do with the pleasure of another person, or the other person’s control over the male.
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  120. Yup, I’ve always said we read the book as a warning (which it is), and the far right see it as a blueprint. They seem to be building their ideas (plans) for this country’s future around all the awfulness in the book. See Project 2025 and a video interview of Josh Weddon on his ideas about women. They’re even talking about taking women’s right to vote away (which, btw, is the ONLY right women have in the Constitution).
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  121. Again?
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  122.  @dickgozinya1615  That’s how it was designed.
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  123.  @sisuguillam5109  And because the majority of shooters used AR-15s.
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  124.  @BSultimate  WTF you talking about? I “intimated” no such thing, as that’s not what I think. I don’t think you read my comment in the spirit in which it was written. Would you like me to write out, in another form, perhaps with bullet points? Otherwise you’re going to have to tell me what language you speak, because it’s certainly not mine, or, maybe it’s just in a different frequency? It appears that a whole lot of other person understood me clearly.
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  125.  @dennishaladyn8205  Thank you!
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  126. Greg Abbot is a murderer.
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  127. I would be willing to bet that the Tradwife “culture” was designed by evangelical men. They probably even buy the women the expensive mixers, tools and clothes to make their videos, as well as write the scripts and do the filming.
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  128. I completely lost faith in him last year when he overturned Roe v. Wade based on theories set forth by a 17th or 18th Century (religious) guy who condemned witches to be burned at the stake. Why is he looking at centuries-old cases for context in modern day cases? If only there were a way to send him back to what he obviously considers “the good old days”. He and Clarence Thomas, as well as Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett must be sent to through Exit door, permanently.
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  129. I would say the same about women who support this Republican Party. One of my favorite feminist authors, Mona Eltahawy, refers to women like this as “footsoldiers of the patriarchy”. I couldn’t agree more. Yay; let’s vote for our oppressors! (Sarcasm)
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  130. ⁠ @mariahewitt9787 And trump even had Netanyahu and his wife for a “visit” at Mar-Lago (his home). Why? How is that allowed? Trump is only a regular citizen at this point, although one who is a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist, so how is that even allowed?
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  131. @mainely8007 💯
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  132. Well lady, I want to protect the Separation of Church and State, because the FIRST Amendment protects every American’s right to choose whichever religion they want to belong to, or no religion, if that’s what they choose, and it says that the government shall make NO laws regarding The People’s right to do so. And I don’t want my taxpayer dollars paying for Christian schools that indoctrinate children, and I don’t want my taxpayer dollars paying for Christian-run phony Pregnancy Centers that try to take a woman’s right to choose what she can do with her own body, and her healthcare choices.
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  133.  @CanadaWaxSolvent Because, LOGIC! LOL
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  134. Why isn’t Lindsey Graham on that list of co-conspirators?
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  135. I’m pretty happy with my Governor. I’d love to see him debate Vivek Ramaswamy. I have a feeling he’ll be running for President next time because he knows the DNC and media won’t push anyone but Biden in this election (remember Marianne Williamson? She’s still running.), but he’s getting his face and ideas out there early.
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  136. I hope Stewart sues Laurie Smith and/or her wedding/website design company. If it were possible, it would be great if he could sue the Supreme Court for using deceptive information about him as a false foundation for a case. Can one sue the Supreme Court? Or would that be the United States? Damnation, this pi*ses me off! End the Supreme Court! They also talk about stare decisis/precedent, but it was SCOTUS that made Roe v. Wade law 50 years ago, and it served women very well for those 50 years. Is that not PRECEDENCE?? Yet they blithely shot it down.
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  137. The Koch brothers did so much to destroy this country.
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  138. I would be willing to see Congresspeople’s salary go up IF they sign a paper agreeing that they will not take ANY corporate lobbying money while they are in Congress. They can’t have it both ways.
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  139. The question I now have, now that it’s been made clear that trump could run for President even if he were in prison, is what would happen if he were to win the election? He couldn’t very well execute the duties of the office from his cell (could he?? Can you imagine the security duty roster for that??), so would they give him some kind of “special dispensation” to move back into the White House? Would he have the liberty to spend time golfing at Mar-a-Lago, or host parties with foreign leaders or other politicians there, or fly off to Russia or Saudi Arabia or North Korea to visit his dictator buddies there? Are there any laws in place at all covering that situation?
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  140. Does no one else have trouble listening to Ben Shapiro’s voice? It’s so nasal and whiney it’s like listening to fingernails on chalkboard. And when he says “also” instead of “but”, it’s the misogynists version of “I’m not racist, but…”.
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  141. His ego got the better of him.
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  142. You could spend a lot less money watching Steven Segal and Bruce Willis movies (although Bruce is cool).
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  143. Re: Sam asking about if there have been other conspiracy movements in history that are similar: Read up on the actual witch hunts that went on in, mostly, Europe, lasting for approximately 300 years. I hadn’t realized until recently that they went on so long. That was probably the largest, most openly practiced, and the longest of conspiracy theories in history, which also probably caused the most deaths. I’m reading a fascinating book about that now called Caliban and the Witch, which traces life in Europe from the feudal days and witch-burning to the rise in Capitalism, Marxism and today’s current upswing in misogyny. Pretty heavy stuff.
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  144. Where’s the “Party of Family Values” in all this? Oh, wait…
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  145. I’ll definitely remember where I was if he is found guilty because I’ll be dancing in the street…as long as he’s also going to prison.
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  146. Why is this not being thrown out as a frivolous lawsuit?
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  147. Exactly!
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  148. It’s all about the money given to these congressmen by the NRA to NOT pass any gun regulations. Unfortunately, that seems to be much more important than the lives of children.
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  149. Who’s Dave Rubin anyway? And who the hell cares?
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  150. It can be televised because it’s in a state court rather than federal.
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  151. It’s so similar to how all the right-wing news outlets, and the right-wing individual supporters in the U.S. still support trump, after being found guilty of sexual assault, still continue to say “he’s innocent”, “she’s lying”and “I support him no matter what”. It just sickens me. And it especially sickens me when women support these rapists.
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  152. I get the impression he’s not on board with having Mighty Women of Valor. I wonder why? Many women understand that there are a lot of Mighty Women of Valor among us, but I guess that’s exclusively a male role in his Patriarchal group. I guess women need to accept their subliminal role to primarily serving men and being the breeders, and be so f-en happy about it, all the time, showing no emotion other than all joy all the time. Happy, happy, joy, joy.
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  153. I loved this! It reminds of how the media presents Mexico to Americans here. “Oh my God, don’t the killings there scare you?”, “You shouldn’t go to Mexico; it’s far to dangerous. You could get shot!” “They’ll kidnap you because your American and try to get a bunch of money for a ransom”. Sure, some things do happen to Americans, but much less frequently than the drug dealer’s shooting war/infighting. Mostly they just shoot someone who tried to shortchange them or ripped them off. Usually nothing to see. I’ve been to Mexico a number of times in all different parts of Mexico, and it’s absolutely beautiful, and the people are generally very nice, open and kind and generous. I’ve even been invited into the home of a poor family I had just met, and they fed me very well. I have no fear walking around the streets of a city, but I do keep my eyes moving around 👀 to check out my surroundings, and don’t go alone into any sketchy neighborhood, esp. at night. You just have to be smart. I’ve never had a bit of trouble and I’ve never been afraid. The Mexican people are mostly really wonderful and curious about Americans and our way of life. In fact, I love Mexico so much I hope to move there one of these days, especially if trump actually manages to win the next Presidential election (God forbid!). I’m certain I’d be much more relaxed and happier there than here. Looking forward to it! And I even have Mexican friends down there. They’re a lovely family I lived with one summer when I was studying immersion Spanish in Cuernavaca, and I would love to see them again.
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  154. I doubt Target pays this woman enough to have to deal with this kind of abuse.
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  155. He’s just imagining if the U.S. never had African slavery, the U.S. would be all-white, and he’d be really happy with that.
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  156. When was it when all of humanity died out? I don’t remember hearing about that. If ALL of humanity died out, how did humans suddenly “reappear”?
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  157. I read comments by these a**holes on YouTube every time there’s the word “Woman” in the title of a video. I think they must have a program to notify them every time the word shows up because there’s an army of them every time, like clockwork.
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  158. And TM.
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  159. Because they are SIMPS.
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  160. I’d love to see Jon Stewart do a similar (really identical) interview with a Republican lawmaker who passed a law banning abortion even when it’s recommended, or determined to be imminently life-saving, by a medical doctor.
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  161.  @drewopal9283  I don’t think his security detail will let him get away. I hope not.
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  162.  @Daria-dp8to  clapping 🤚 👏 👏 to this.
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  163.  @Daria-dp8to  Great comment! 👏 👏 👏
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  164. “Somebody’s gonna get fired for this”. Yup, and it’s going to be Mitch McConnell getting fired by the voters of his state. I’ll be happy to see the old ghoul gone. Even the Crypt Keeper looks cool next to McConnell.
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  165. Regarding that newscaster from OAN, I’m impressed that she can open her eyes at all when they’re hefting the weight of those massive false eyelashes. That must be three or four layers.
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  166. Every time I hear about Giuliani trying to get jiggy with Cassie Hutchinson and groping her, I think of that picture of him. Yeah, what attractive young woman wouldn’t want to fool around with that?! (**SARCASM**). 🤮 Poor girl!
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  167.  @Lenoreheath-h4d  If anything biblical, he’s the frikkin’ Antichrist.
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  168. Maybe he can talk to trump for financing and call it Trump/Jordan Peterson University. What a pair they would make!
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  169. I can’t stop laughing whenever I hear the phrase “the Biden crime family”. When there’s so much evidence of a trump crime family.
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  170. This reminds me of anti-marijuana stuff in the 60s and 70s when they talked about people shooting up marijuana. Yeah, uh, nobody shoots marijuana, that’s not how it’s done. I also have a feeling that this guy doesn’t know if he was with Barack Obama, Michael Jackson or Jesse Jackson because he thinks “they all look alike”. What incredible BS.
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  171. I was also thinking when he said the waiters were all wearing masks “and all that bullsh*t”. Bullsh*t? Maybe the restaurant just didn’t want their waitstaff to be dying of Covid! Maybe they (insanely, I presume) actually cared about their waitstaff! Nah! In L.A.? Who am I kidding? (*sarcasm).
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  172.  @univalent15 Bingo!
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  173. Oh, it’s still a racist (as well as misogynistic) comment as I have a feeling he’s referring to Michelle Obama because things like that were said when she was the First Lady.
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  174.  @warriorwaitress7690 Kind of like Stormy Daniels. I never thought I’d admire the hell out of a porn star, but there you have it.
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  175.  @joeb134 Supposedly.
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  176. They’re just speaking gibberish, it’s not another language that any other person in the entire world could understand. As a hypnotherapist, I can tell you that they are hypnotizing themselves and speaking gibberish and convincing themselves that it’s “another language” (tongue means language, but gibberish is not a tongue).
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  177.  @nerag7459 Which or whose “native” language? It isn’t any language that is currently spoken on earth.
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  178.  @joeb134 Nobody understands them now.
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  179.  @gilbertcanul996 It is!
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  180. The thought of even a “normal” prayer, much less”speaking in tongues”, being said on the floor of the State House it is not just blasphemy, it is technically illegal, Constitutionally.
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  181. Ah, Arkansas, always displaying publicly that you’re in a race for the very bottom in every conceivable way.
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  182. Hmm, looks like nobody needed his help. Who did he think needed his help as an EMT?
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  183. If “the well-being of the ‘child’ is what the pro-life movement has always been about”, then why are doctors not allowed to remove an already dead fetus in order to save the woman’s life or health or future ability to have more children? Do they think that maybe with a little more time it will instantly spring back to life? And a dead fetus, at any stage of gestation, does not feel pain…it’s dead! Make it make sense. Also, they mentioned that other country’s abortion laws have limitations. Well, so did Roe v. Wade, pretty reasonable (but not entirely) limitations on what could take place at each trimester. I highly recommend that everybody Google “text of Roe v. Wade” and read it. It’s very easy to read, not heavily filled with legalese, and very easy to understand. And it stood the country, and women of the country, in good stead for 50 years. It was slightly a little too conservative than some wanted, but we got by pretty darn well with it for 50 years.
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  184. You’ve got a great theory there, Sam. I agree.
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  185. Yeah, tell that to the people who can’t afford chemotherapy. Perhaps it’s a blessing that you’re going to die, right?
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  186. And very inaccurately.
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  187.  @toshir0m1 That’s why trump said “I love the uneducated”. Just like P.T. Barnum said “there’s one (rube/sucker) born every minute”.
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  188. This reminds me that I recently read something about Marla Maples’ (Tiffany’s mother) discussion with trump when she found out she was pregnant, and Trump asked her something to the effect of, “are you going to get an abortion?” Or, “you should get an abortion”. He never wanted her, so he made his own daughter pay for having the gall to be born, all her life.
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  189. But does the Council give a d**n about what the Citizens say? No, of course not because Big Money speaks much louder.
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  190. It’s like men who say “I’m a nice guy”. Nope.
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  191. Have you talked about the Ben Gurion Canal project planned by Israel yet? I think it could explain a lot about what’s going on today. It was an eye-opener for me. Just Google it. Very interesting.
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  192. Well said, sir. Your point is well taken.
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  193.  @marthawhitehouse9838  Definitely.
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  194.  @totoshaebosha7983  What did she have to do with it? Putin was going to have him killed anyway. We were always expecting this.
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  195. What is the deal with the “What is a Woman?” sign on his screen? If he doesn’t know, how’s he going to have children to “pass on his culture”?
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  196. But that’s how it was originally designed. They count on a certain percentage dying before they can collect. That’s why it’s called SS Insurance. That’s exactly part of how how insurance works. But it still helps millions of people.
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  197. Inability to pay medical debt is the #1 reason for homelessness in the U.S. today.
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  198. “I have testicles”…Do you, Ben? Do you really?
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  199. We could also pass universal healthcare, which would also help old people immensely, as well as young people, children, and middle-age people! We could also pass laws governing nursing homes so that they can’t kick the elderly out in the street after the owners have sucked out their last cent.
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  200.  @52flyingbicycles  What a concept! Well, Utah, I believe it was, did a study where they allowed homeless people to live in unrented apartments (I don’t remember for how long), gave them social services like rehab/drug treatment, helped them fill out government papers and helped them find jobs. The result? It actually cost the state LESS money to do that than leave them on the streets, clean up the streets after them, lose tourist dollars, etc., etc., etc. Interesting concept, yes? I guess states would much rather lose money while bitching about the problem than actually doing something about it. Then again, there are groups building tiny houses for homeless people, but I haven’t heard much about how that’s turning out, except that in Las Vegas the city went in and bulldozed them. Go figure. Yup, there are LOTS of things that could be done to help people, but some politicians prefer to tell people to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps”. But, of course, most of those politicians got where they are by having rich daddies, so they wouldn’t have any idea of what a bootstrap really is, and that they can break with overuse. Funny, you said “this game is easy”, but it really COULD be.
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  201. Nancy Pelosi may play the “woman card” when it suits her, but don’t forget that she promoted Henry Cuellar over Jessica Cisneros in Texas a year or so ago because she said that she wouldn’t support a challenger over an incumbent. Funny how it didn’t matter about Cisneros being a woman then. Also, Cisneros is a progressive, something Nancy hates, as well as pro-choice, whereas Cuellar is a neoliberal, “old-school” Democrat and Anti-Abortion. Gee, what happened to your “woman card” on that one, Nancy, especially with Roe v. Wade under fire at the time? I’d love to see Katie Porter get Feinstein’s seat, but Nancy would probably never allow it because Porter is progressive.
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  202. Certainly not, but they’re more than happy to use that as a way to “protect” a “holy” pea-sized embryo, for which a million things can go wrong, in order to control all women, to punish them and “keep them in their place”. They would rather lose a million people to gun-related deaths in their desperation to not lose an ounce of power over, and against, women (who, btw, are now 51% of the population, which makes them the majority).
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  203. ⁠ @godfathaofyo The word “state” can also be used to describe an entire country, or a government, as in “North Korea is a Communist state” or Iran is a Muslim state”, and I see this definition in the concept of “Separation of Church and State”. It in no way delineates the relationship between the Church and the separate states.
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  204. He’s essentially the Antichrist of the judicial system. Which is ironic when you find out he’s deeply “religious”, as in ties with Opus Dei, a deep, dark branch of Catholicism.
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  205.  @anneminnick4786  I’m not so sure the DNC would allow a progressive candidate to win even the primary. Look at what they did to Bernie. They hate progressives! Maybe Vice President would be a great way to get his foot in the door and show them what progressives can get done.
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  206. He must love Ayn Rand.
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  207.  @brandirose3874  Same here!
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  208.  @markhepworth  That’s very true. Many Americans have an outright “worship”, or at least emotional attachment, to celebrity. They think stars are really the roles they play. Hence: Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger and trump as politicians. Just like trump said, “when you’re a star, they let you do it”. And that includes all sorts of bad and vile behavior.
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  209.  @DystopianUtopia8  Yup. And that’s exactly why we won’t get a progressive in office, probably for many years.
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  210. Please, read about the history of Israel. Israel took most of the sovereign nation of Palestine in 1948 because they wanted it for themselves. And they’ve been killing the Palestinians and pushing them back ever since. So, on the flip side of your comment, what we’re the Palestinians supposed to do? Just give up and let them have most of their country?
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  211. Similarly, Joe Biden, on the campaign trail, also said that he would do “everything in my power” to get the Equal Rights Amendment put into the Constitution, yet, after Virginia became the 38th state to ratify it in January, 2020, Biden was fighting it in Congress along with Mitt Romney and other congresspeople. I generally follow the “follow the money” maxim to find answers, so I can only guess that there are some corporate overlords who don’t want to pay women more money in salaries and wages, but what else could I be missing?
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  212. I’m confused…if this guy is upset about Ana’s comment, why doesn’t he call (or email, etc.) Ana and take it up with her? Why is he calling Sam just because Ana is Emma’s friend? What am I missing here?
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  213.  @davo312 It’s all connected. Reagan was indeed horrible, but much of that was because he was the puppet of the infamous Koch brothers, whose father was one of the founding, or at least early, members of the John Birch Society.
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  214. If Richard Nixon had been really held to account, and punished, and certainly not pardoned by Ford, we might not have had these following Presidents thinking they could get away with what they did, especially trump. And that’s exactly why trump must be severely punished for what he did, and NEVER be allowed to run for office again, because if he doesn’t and behest becomes President again, he may very well be our LAST President, because he will immediately install himself as President-for-life, as in a dictator. And he could very well make a law that Don Jr. would become President after 45 dies, then maybe Eric and/or Ivanka would have that position after that.
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  215. Russell Brand: but we love having a monarchy to rule us!
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  216. He’s so impressed with the packaging of the flour…the exact same kind we’ve had in the U.S., and undoubtedly most other countries, for at least the last 60 years. And even Walmart has shopping carts that lock into the escalators.
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  217. It’s the old “they can dish it out, but they can’t take it” syndrome.
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  218. Excellent points, Emma! Also, the first thing I noticed seeing the thumbnail is it’s a photo of a beautiful young woman crying - because they love the idea of making a beautiful young woman cry.
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  219. You folks NAILED it! It’s all about the Patriarchy’s control, especially over women. We need to do much more investigation into, and speaking out about, Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society which hand-picks these justices for confirmation. It is essentially a far-right Catholic organization, with, I’ve heard, connections to Opus Dei, and it is also an enormous donation collecting organization to, essentially bribe the conservative justices to pass certain laws, like overturning Roe v. Wade (hence the incredibly generous “gifting” of lavish vacations like the ones the Thomases get from certain mega-wealthy donors, along with especially upscale dinner parties). In fact, they (The Federalist Society) has a team of legal scholars on board who actually write those laws, hand them to the justices, and say, “here, pass these”. We often talk about Separation of Church and State, and this system completely obliterates that concept. I also read an article about Amy Coney Barrett and her membership in some far-right religious group (I can’t remember if it’s Catholic or not) where the women of the church at her “level” are called “Handmaids”.
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  220. I’m pretty sure the Code of Hammurabi is a lot older than the Ten Commandments. It is even well known as the first set of laws put down in written form. So why not post that one in the schools? Oh, but it’s not “Christian”. But then, the Ten Commandments aren’t technically Christian, either, as they came during Moses’ time, not Jesus’.
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  221. ⁠ @somethingelse4424 Oh, I think “pride” definitely means superiority to some people. Think White Pride.
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  222. Wow, for a political party that says they’re wanting to “protect children” they sure aren’t looking at the #1 reason children are dying in this country today, but, oh boy, let’s ban Tik Tock and drag shows and books that say anything about marginalized groups or “wokeness”, or, or, or absolutely ANYTHING other than guns, which are THE #1 killer of children. But, hey, they’re “Pro-life” and don’t want babies and “children” murdered…in the womb, but in schools? Thoughts and prayers.
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  223. And some in Israel’s government have said their goal is to eliminate every last Palestinian. So, that door swings both ways. But the Palestinians were, literally, in that whole area first. In fact, it was known by the entire world as Palestine. But in 1948, because of the Holocaust in Germany, Israel wanted their own country, and, with the agreement of the U.S. government, they simply declared the largest portion of Palestine as Israel. The Palestinians were not amused, so, ever since then it has been a tit for tat back and forth war, with Israel turning Palestine into what people here are referring to an open-air detention center, which is accurate. Israel has also, ever since, constantly pushed their borders into Palestinian territory, often killing the people there. And the U.S. has decided to support Israel completely and without question.
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  224. Shapiro seems very concerned that the first woman’s 3-year old son would end up traumatized. That kid was probably being nursed from her “tits” (as he, Shapiro, referred to them) up until about two years ago. It’s not like they’re a new surprise to him. I can’t help but wonder what Shapiro’s sexually traumatizing event was, as there’s obviously something very wrong with the way he grew up. The irony is that he thinks he’s a real “sexy guy” and is in the best position to tell other men how to be “real” men and how get girls. How I pity his wife. Just hearing his voice is worse than fingernails on a chalkboard to me.
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  225. His premises remind me of 19th Century male archaeologists who often had no idea yet of the difference between male and female skeletons. They have been known to find the graves of skeletons of people buried with spears and knives and other hunting tools whom they determined, based on those tools, that they were men, when they were actually women. They did the same with even less ancient skeletons of women in Europe around the time Romans were in England, including Viking women. There was a fairly “recent” finding of mummies with tattoos, and while they did recognize by that time that they were female, they decided they must have been sex-workers or cheap women because their idea was that only those classes of women would have tattoos. Turns out they were temple priestesses and very honored, and the tattoos were considered very appropriate and normal for the profession of temple priestess. Men throughout history have always brought their own ideas of what they think is “right” behavior for each of the sexes and tried to apply them to ancient people about whom they had very little knowledge about the customs of those times.
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  226. He looks like he’s coming down. Maybe he decided to lay off the nose candy for a day or two. It’s exhausting.
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  227. I guess he thinks The Inquisition (which began in 1164) and witch burnings (which started a couple hundred years later) were good times. Let’s remind him that a number of men were burned as witches, too. (And yes, the burning of witches lasted 300 years!) Also, shortly after 1220 there was a massive, years-long famine throughout Europe, not to mention regular uprisings of peasants against the rich people/landowners because of what we would today consider “liberal” reasons. Then they had The Black Death to look forward to, not that he’d still be alive by then. And, of course, the average lifespan for a man was about 46 to 50 years. Yeah, good times. I’m reading an excellent book about those times now called Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici.
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  228. But, they literally WANT Armageddon to happen so that Jesus will return and whisk all the “good Christians” back up to their Sky Daddy. They’ll be happy if the rest of the planet and all the of the people on it burn. That’s some sick sh*t right there.
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  229. These are the same kinds of guys who’ll say “But I can’t feel anything when I wear a condom”, but also, “Women should just keep their knees together”.
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  230. I’ve heard that when 75% of the population dies, that is considered a mass extinction. Buckle up, kiddos. Also, “we” didn’t screw up, the richest corporate CEOs and and stock holders and all their buddies in the fossil fuel industry, the big agricultural companies and others, used their wealth to make sure they will always live lives of luxury, and to make sure their children are rich as well, and, because they’re undeniably totally sociopathic, they don’t give a single f**k about anyone else in the world (including possible furture grandchildren or great-grandchildren) and whether or not any of us live or die horrible deaths. Funny thing, though, the last laugh will be on them, because, no matter where on earth you build your fantasy “paradise with your own private militia, it won’t last very long when all the air, soil and water is poisoned (I’m thinking, in part, of the George Bush family who, I’ve heard, have bought quite a large plot of land in Paraguay or Uruguay for when things go bad). Everything is interconnected, air currents (which also carry particulates that poison the soil as well as the air we breathe) and water currents always move as the earth turns. And I really doubt that they’ve already found and built mansions on another, pure earth-like “garden of paradise”.
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  231.  @yogidevendrabiriyani1777 Because they would have to. Why else would a woman want to stay with a “man” like that?
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  232.  @maxsmart9116 Yes. Apparently even in Romania.
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  233.  @InvaderMedia420 If you’re trying to talk about Tim Walz, he was born in Nebraska. So, we don’t know who you mean.
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  234. Ain’t nothin’ EVER gonna make Hawley an Alpha!
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  235. What are”third and fourth rate Israelis” according to Dershowitz? Does that relate to their level of anti-Zionism? What an awful term.
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  236.  @taranullius9221  That would totally be his style. He’s such a (as a very old expression says): “weak sister”. (Apologies for any misogyny in that phrase).
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  237.  @jonathanbethards3689 They think the publicity will help them.
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  238.  @philmichelmore4227  That would be a convoy! A hundred planes - full. And the first one or two would be full with all the Republican congresspeople who helped him in his insurrection by voting not to accept the vote. I would be happy to wave goodbye from the tarmac.
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  239.  @amelliamendel2227  That’s interesting, thanks for the information. I wonder if he might spend his entire time there or be transferred out after a time. Hopefully we’ll all get to watch.
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  240. Sounds like he’s a big proponent of Taliban morality laws for women.
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  241. Perhaps, instead of skateboarding and poker playing, Tim should consider using tennis, soccer, running marathons, swimming, etc. to compare women’s and men’s physiology and abilities. Or, perhaps, ask an actual expert in human physiology.
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  242. Mitt Romney was also one of the first Senators to fight against the Equal Rights Amendment in Congress after Virginia became the 38th state to ratify it, which is the threshold for which an amendment is supposed to automatically be entered into the Constitution. What happened first, immediately after Virginia ratified it, Donald Trump called Bill Barr and told him to call the Chief Archivist, whose job is to enter an amendment into the Constitution as soon as it’s ratified by the 38th state, and tell him NOT to add it to the Constitution. So it got sent back Congress to fight over the deadline, which is something that hasn’t been put into other amendments, nor was that written in the text of the law, so it should not carry legal power. And there was Romney and others saying no, don’t put it in the Constitution. Though he wasn’t in the room, even Joe Biden was able to call in his opinion that the ERA shouldn’t be put into the Constitution, the same man who on his campaign trail said, “ I’ll do everything in my power to get the ERA put into the Constitution and made law”. The ratification by Virginia was in January of 2020, and, IF it had been put in, as it should have been, Roe v. Wade could NOT have been overturned. Of course they knew that was the plan all along, and that was why all these steps were taken to prevent it from happening. And Romney was one of the leading Senators shooting it down. The deadline was put into the amendment as an excuse to not have it work, as they had a pretty good idea that the women wouldn’t get enough states to ratify it within a certain period of time, especially because Phyllis Schlafly was going around the country spreading lies about the ERA which did a whole lot of damage and convinced a number of states not to ratify it. Interesting note: the Constitution explicitly states (I’m not sure where right now - Article 5?) that once the amendment is ratified by the 38th state, it is NOT to go back to Congress, because Congresses job is DONE with it. It is supposed to go directly to the Archivist who is directed to enter it into the Constitution, and the Archivist is then supposed to send a notice to Congress that it has been done. Period. End of story. But, no! Congress and the President (both trump and Biden apparently) - for some reason - (money maybe?, shooting down Roe v. Wade maybe?) DO NOT want women to have Equal Rights. I have been taught that when I have a question about why something in our politics is being done, or not being done, to “Follow The Money” and determine “Who Stands to Profit”. That has anaswered a whole lot of questions for me, and I’m guessing that, besides of the knock-down of Roe v. Wade, there are a whole lot of companies and corporations who give hefty envelopes of money to their favorite congressmen to do their bidding, who don’t want to pay all the extra money it would cost them to pay their women employees the same pay they give their men employees. We must fight this and get this done so that not only will women have equal rights, as they do in every other developed country in the world, women can’t have any more rights taken away like Roe v. Wade was taken away. I know this was long, but I hope SOMEONE read it and it made them think on it.
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  243. I’m pretty sure gun laws would change, at least in Texas, if some crazy guy shot up a large Evangelical church service. I’m certainly not suggesting someone do that, but I can’t think of anything else that might change public opinion.
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  244. She sang it on another show and she was off-key, and she couldn’t get the notes right. It was actually worse than this! If you find it, don’t show it to Emma!
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  245. Funny, though, how the GOP NEVER wants to talk about Jared Kushner getting BILLIONS of dollars from the Saudis.
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  246. Ron Johnson is despicable, and soooo slimy.
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  247.  @scrumtrellecent  It’s because they still think men are better, and are willing to pay for that. Even though women are “cheaper” to pay, they’re just not as good, no matter how intelligent or hard-working the woman is, in their minds.
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  248. It worked for me! Especially since I started around 1969-1970!
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  249. He’s just creepy. Besides his policies, he gives me the heebie jeebies.
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  250. Oh hey, I’m so bummed…Dave Rubin doesn’t think I’m a “legit person” because I don’t have any followers. Oh, will the wound never heal?! At least he didn’t say I’m a “trash human being” like Sam. (Sarcasm)
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  251. He sounds like he’s doing coke or meth, and realizes he’s just had sex with a woman or girl (likely underage) who didn’t really give consent, so he’s trying to figure out his defense, and his defense is explaining to the judge how the “construct” of consent is just so “nebulous”. I’d love to watch how that would play out with the judge. He sounds like he’s panicking about whatever he just did. I’m wondering who he might have in his trunk while he’s talking about consent, and freaking out.
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  252. Interesting how the right-wingers often crop up in comments nowadays that “we’re a Republic, not a Democracy”, and “state’s rights”. How history repeats. While I agree 100% with the fact that these same people (the Birchers, and Bircher-types) were and are part and parcel of the racism problem and antisemitism, I would venture to guess there’s an underlying aspect to the anti-feminist movement today because of the staunch conservative base of the anti-feminists and it’s patriarchal foundation.
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  253. Yup. I am, and always will be a Berniecrat!
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  254. A “Liberal” Mens’s Rights Activist?? Weird start.
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  255. There are also other areas of politics besides reproductive health and anything “sexual” in the laws that they want to change and control. They’re real big on altering future elections as well. They’re planning to challenge every state election results that don’t go for their group and/or trump. They will be doing what they did in Arizona last time, ramped up, in every state that doesn’t go the way they want, plus they’re planning on throwing out votes that don’t go their way, and just appointing their own legislators, and that’s at every level of the ballot, from President of the U.S. to heads of local school boards. It’s a very comprehensive, and well-thought out (in an evil way) plan. And I think January 6, 2020 was just a trial run. If trump loses, we will undoubtedly be seeing even larger, armed insurrections, and not just at the Capitol, but in many locations around the country.
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  256.  @stevendrumm4957 Of course he does! He only pretends to care about them in order to get their vote.
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  257. As a goy, I was happy to do my share with them.
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  258. How are they (the city) going to get around that the fact that The People were promised this land for a park for them? How are they going to get away with that? Will they tell them the truth, i.e. money talks in our capitalist society, and the police have more power (especially in guns), and white cops (with tons of money from donors to build this Cop City) will always win over Black people? I’ll be watching to see how that plays out. And I hope the parents of the murdered man get a multi-million dollar settlement for the tragic loss of their son, and I hope the cops identified as those who murdered him get fired, not just a couple of weeks relaxing at home with full pay. Can’t the cops find a different area of woods to build Cop City?There should be plenty there. And it needs to be well away from the activists woods to avoid any “accidents”.
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  259.  @warlord1051 You mean the old vengeful, mean, nasty God got all loving and mushy after he made himself a baby, made from himself, but had to kill that part of himself to save humankind. Yeah, sounds legit.
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  260. He’s spewing Replacement Theory. And you had to catch the line he said about how the “Indians were here when we got here. But nobody’s talking about them because nobody cares” or something like that. Racist much?
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  261.  @strauchdieb7628  That never occurred to me. That experience was many, many years ago, and long before fitness clubs, so I didn’t have that advantage. But one makes do with what one has.
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  262.  @shadebleu Whi is refusing? I heard they were going to do it.
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  263. I remember those days, too. “Duck and Cover” drills. Funny thing is, I lived in Kansas at the time, and later thought it was for in case of a tornado (MUCH more likely than a nuclear attack, even though we lived near a military base) because my poor little childhood mind couldn’t comprehend a nuclear attack. Sadly, children these days fully understand the dangers of a mass shooting. Dark times, indeed.
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  264. It’s interesting (but not in a good way) how many environmentalists are getting killed all over the world right now, esp. in the Amazonian jungles and other places in South and Central America, and also Mexico (in the Monarch Butterfly Reserve), but in those places it’s usually the “bad guys” who want to destroy the environment for profit, like logging, but in the U.S. it’s the cops themselves. I guess that makes them the “bad guys” here.
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  265.  @ChristIsKing_  Because the men and boys in those countries are used to it, and taught to respect women, and think and act with their brains and not their dicks. Americans are taught very differently because we’re such a prudish society, based on the early repressive religions of the country.
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  266. People with earnings over a million a year shouldn’t even receive SS.
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  267.  @hoodootheclown929 Yeah, he wasn’t such a great guy, was he?
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  268. Exactly!
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  269. Aww, but hey, it’s only “locker room talk”, right? He wants to seem like a “regular guy” to get their vote. He, and all guys like him, are WEAK! And because, if he did stand up for his wife, instead of respecting him for it, they would laugh at him and call him p***y-whipped. I grew up around guys like this, and I’m sick of that troglodyte, knuckle-dragging thinking. I will call them out for it every chance I get.
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  270. BTW, California’s just fine, thank you Dave. And I think the statistic he was trying to quote is that California has the 5th highest economy in the world, compared to all the nations. Suck on that Texas and other red states.
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  271. Emma, you’re absolutely right about saying the pro-natalists want more people who will buy their products, but they also want to create more workers who will do the soul-eating jobs that no one will be available to do if the population drops too low. The Capitalists always yell, “we won’t have enough workers!”
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  272.  @tsubadaikhan6332 Michelle Obama.
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  273. Great news! Please talk about how a vote for the Equal Rights Amendment failed again in Congress yesterday (even though 38 states have ratified it) and how having the ERA would make the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and all these abortion bans impossible, which,of course, is why the ERA always fails to be confirmed in Congress, as well as how religious groups influenced the Dobbs decision and supports the anti-ERA people in Congress, and how that’s against the theory of Separation of Church and State. Thanks.
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  274. I think Tucker will end up on Steve Bannon’s show or OAN or something like that. It’s not like he’s ever going to go hungry, but he’ll just have to keep talking.
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  275. Yes, Mike Lee IS that stupid.
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  276. Oh, but we’re so close! (Republican thinking).
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  277. Piers Morgan is such a pompous ass.
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  278. And don’t forget that the father of the infamous Koch brothers, Charles and David, who advised Reagan in what we now call “the dumbing down of America”, was one of the founding fathers of the John Birch Society.
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  279. @WaterFrodo - Just as long as it involves no input from the ladies, or benefits them in any way because we’re so aggrieved that they’ve received any rights whatsoever, and it inconveniences us so very much that we want to take all those rights away, and be given complete authority over them once again and forevermore, to make sure they’ve learned to shut up and go back to the kitchen to make me a sammich, and not complain when we abuse them.
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  280. I didn’t even know Russell Brand went Christian/Catholic. I quit listening to him about a year ago when he suddenly shifted to right wing talking points.
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  281. Yeah, and Hunter Biden’s father wasn’t even President when he was “doing business”, whatever that “business” was. And then, how about Ivanka’s husband’s gift from Saudi Arabia?😊
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  282.  @Wyrmwood66  Yes, and WHILE trump was in office, which Biden wasn’t when his son Hunter was acting up. Oh, and one of the doofuses in Congress even just admitted that the Hunter Biden “investigation” was to be able to watch if trump’s poll numbers went up because of it, showing it’s entirely political, but criticize the Dems if they say the “Russia, Russia, Russia “ investigation was just politics to make trump look bad. Well, it was political in that Putin was playing financial and political footsie with trump, and they were happily making deals and offering deals to each other, but not allowing our intelligence services to have any recordings or printed memos. Secret deals with America’s greatest foes should not be kept secret, especially from our intelligence agencies. Sure, that’s political in that we’re trying to keep the U.S. as a Democracy.
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  283.  @Joe-xy3vy They were from Moses.
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  284. ⁠ @mercyjokes2d696 Many, many atheists became atheists because they actually read the Bible, and they then understood what a ridiculous mixed bag of rules and violence it contained. It certainly worked that way for me, plus the fact that so many religious people (especially “Christians”) obviously never actually read the thing and incessantly cherry-pick any part of it to defend their beliefs. They can usually only repeat the things that their preachers said to them, and confuse verses from the Old Testament and the New, as if the Old Testament has all these rules that pertain to today’s world, yet they conveniently leave out the ones that they really don’t, personally, like.
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  285. “Offer sex education AFTER abortion”? Isn’t that a little late? How about sex education in middle school and junior high?
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