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I tuned into MSNBC for a few years when I was transitioning from my former understanding of the world through Republican eyes. It was like Liberal 101. My favorite show was Ratigan's short run and also Cenk Uygur who was summarily dismissed. Eventually, I lost interest in the shows. Especially after a redundant crusade against Chris Christie that became a waste of time.
Maybe Bernie would have been a bit more intelligible by calling himself a "social Democrat." There is confusion in America about what a "socialism" and "fascism" mean. I remember being appalled when Glenn Beck was saying that liberals are fascist. That was some form of Orwellian doublespeak from a very confused and flaky man.
Chris Matthews is from the last century, with a pundit's love of politics in the weeds. He prides himself on his "gotcha" ability. But he isn't really leading the nation toward a better day; he's simply resurrecting the past. He certainly isn't helping by rejecting the socialist word because there he comes into agreement with Foxaganda.
If passed, President Obama's dishonestly promoted TPP, TTIP, and TiSA rigged "trade agreements" will make the US Supreme Court irrelevant (virtually powerless for most practical purposes), because any ruling it makes (or any lower-level judge makes) will be easily nullified by TPP/TTIP/TiSA-authorized billion-dollar corporate lawsuits adjudicated in corporately run international arbitration tribunals which will bypass and overrule our nation's entire executive, legislative, and judicial systems. Those so-called "trade agreements" will COMPLETE the corporate takeover of the United States Government, and corporate CEOs will no longer need to "bribe" US judges, legislators, or executive branch officials in order to nullify any law, regulation, or judicial decision made in the US which detracts from the "future expected profits" of any multinational corporation or investor.
And, by the way, US taxpayers will be "on the hook" for paying the billions of US Dollars in judgments rendered by those international corporate tribunals. The TPP/TTIP/TiSA will expose ALL states and municipalities to potentially being BANKRUPTED by TPP/TTIP/TiSA-authorized lawsuits in those international tribunals! This will adversely affect EVERYONE in the Untied States, even the wealthiest 1% of US income earners.
I share the previous-commenter’s views on both points:
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#ONE:
About your panelists I have this complaint:
The Rightists are sophomoric. Helpful they ain’t.
Could you please hold them under constraint?
Perhaps you could try a straitjacket’s restraint.
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#TWO:
Trump’s Oral Sphincter
{a limerick}
Not much is more distincter
than The Donald’s oral sphincter
as he rouses the rabble
with shameful babble.
Such talk should be more extincter.
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https://youtu.be/k-oqgIZGhbU
Uggghhhh.... Another "Political Panel".... as bad as "The Rumble" in my mind. You did a great job making your point Thom but... again, debates are a Republican "win" tactic... Forget the "point/counterpoint" "debates.... Too much time wasted....
Donald Trump???? What a friggin waste of time.... Talk about distractions...
Both right answers actually, but maybe the ehalth insurancw companies can change to selling gun liability insurance, and make it a law to have to have proof of insurance on your person if the gun is outside the home, and in the home if the gun is there.
Great show Thom.... I'm so much happier now that I don't have to try to go to sleep after watching "The Rumble" or any other pointless political spin-doctors on your show.
"British voters saw through all of the media hype" Let's hope voters here in the United States see through the same media bull regarding Donny Trumpet. Wasn't he on some goofy TV show called You're Fired....or something? I don't really know much about it, I don't watch TV, but I do know that part of his media hype probably comes from that connection with the TV watching public, same distorted, heads up their butts, view of reality as the FOXmerized viewers.
Thom, when both answers are yes or both no, there is no poll.
Roland
What Dane said. Again. Thom, do prefer ice cream on pie or pie a la mode?
Roland
Progresssives, Liberals, and Democratic Socialists have ben shut out. Either voting for 3rd party candidates with little chance of gaining power or voting for a mainstream candidate in order to keep a hardline right winger out of office. In the US why vote for a someone who's only part Reaganite when you can vote for the real thing. With Bernie us commoners will have real representation instead of pragmatism and populist rhetoric meant to keep us in line.
Yup it has been DEBUNKED which a simple search would have told you,
except once again you couldn't be bothered.....so you are what? Making
a point or raising a point which has no point? And you do it in multiple
segments.......here's a thought, go with "meme" it applies to the phenomena
you are alluding to, regardless of size or the multiplicity of variation that happens to
comprise its identifying characteristics......or even simpler monkey see, monkey do
or human see, human do.....which the search would have made you aware of,
even though you might not have been astute enough to use the simplification.
"WE OUTRANK YOU..........DO YOUR JOB!!!!!!"
Reaganomania is an obvious failure, and he was merely a spokesman for Chicago Boys economics. As obvious as the failure is, the GOP is still pushing the formula. It's surreal what is happening in our red states as they follow the Friedman curricula. People don't know what is happening to them as governors and legislatures lead them over a cliff.
Since the days of Occupy Wall Street and before, I've been looking for a populist uprising like in the late 19th century. Maybe it's finally starting to gel.
You should really post this show's Daily Take on YouTube as a separate video.
Although, I would have liked this segment to address whether or not a policy was in place which required her to use a government account -- as I've heard reported -- and if so, whether she had permission to instead use her own, private server.
Very well said and totally true. Neoliberalism needs to join neoconservatism in the dustbin of history. And I would add Corbyn is a big advocate for monetary reform, something Bernie has avoided getting into (that could be suicide for Bernie, as the Banksters would resort to any means necessary to terminate his campaign).
Best documentary on the failed British neoliberal economic policy:
97% owned - Economic Truth Documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcGh1Dex4Yo
Watch the Money As Debt Youtube videos by monetary theorist PAUL GRIGNON:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DhgpoHKtzk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3CmSBY3J8o
http://www.publicbankinginstitute.org/intro_to_public_banking
http://positivemoney.org/our-proposals/sovereign-money-creation/
The sad thing is, and Repugs never want to talk about it, is that automation has greatly increased the productivity of the American worker. That should result in shorter working hours, higher pay, earlier retirement. In fact the exact opposite is happening.
The physical economy, the productive economy has only improved due technology, so why has that not benefited the 99%? The answer is all the gains of increased productivity and more have been absconded by the new class of super-rich, the financial parasite class, that produces nothing, is good for nothing and gets extraordinary wealth from playing games with money, speculation, buying assets and political favor to create bubbles taylor made to increase their wealth. All financed by the most incredible welfare in all of human history, our corrupt politicians allowing private banks to create our money supply out of thin air. Legalized counterfeiting.
The best video on the subject:
97% owned - Economic Truth Documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcGh1Dex4Yo
The cat lying next to the door had probably been through so many of those absences that it was able to guess. The fact that the caller didn't know doesn't mean it wasn't regularly timed, and if animals are so aware, why wasn't this guy?
The dog that went to school had probably developed a sensitivity to time of day when school let out. The caller did say that when it rained, the dog just stayed at the school all day.
BTW, I don't know where people get the idea Big Oil is opposed to Solar & Wind. They are the biggest promoters of solar & wind, they know very well wind & solar = burn more oil, gas and coal. It even has a name, Solar and Wind cause "Fossil Fuel Lock-In". And BP used to call itself Beyond Petroleum and advertised itself as shifting to renewable energy (until the laughter became to intense and they had to drop the charade from their advertising & disinformation budget). With two subdivisions BP Wind & BP Solar - no mention of Nuclear, no BP nuclear. Nuclear is their REAL COMPETITION. And the eight big Banking families, including Rockefellers/Citigroup, control BP, Exxon, Shell & Chevron.
And to answer your question, I don't get one dime from the Nuclear industry, and have never worked in Nuclear. In fact I ain't pro-Nuclear, I'm pro Rational Energy Policy. Anything better than nuclear comes along, I would drop my support for nuclear energy in one second.
Now that Rick Perry has dropped out, the Republicans have 16 nominees. Can we just put them into a single-elimination bracket?
Hate as a long term operational strategy in politics is no more productive than it is within a family.
Bottom line: We can't let millions starve.
Check out the TED Talk by David Rothkopf. He is a good Great Minds prospect.
Like in America ,the Electorate in Britain of which i am one, are sick and tired of the same old bullshit trotted out by the Tories and the Ersatz Tories that used to run the Labour Party ,and took the Party away from the Principles on which it was founded. Thats the main reason that the Labour Party was wiped out in Scotland, the SNP Policy Position was exactly the same Policy Position that was "old" Labours Platform, Now I believe its the Dawn of a New Age for Progressives , Jeremy Corbyn was Elected via the Transferable Vote System, where ,after the first Ballot the Candidate who came last drops out and his share of the Vote is allotted to his 2nd and 3rd Preferences and so on until a Candidate gets 51% (I think ) of the Vote and is declared the Winner. Well, Jeremy Corbyn was Elected with 69% of the Vote on the First Ballot and that was it! needless to say the Right Wing Press in this Country are aghast at the outcome and will leave no stone unturned in their quest to denigrate him and whatever he does, well they tried that before the Election and look what happened.! I honestly believe the People on both sides of the Atlantic are awaking from their long sleep and realising just what these Politicians are up to and have said "in our case" enough is enough. and I hope that the same thing wiil "as I believe it will ", happen in America and Bernie Sanders will win the Presidency. Love your Show by the way.!
They are both right answers actually.
Glad I missed the hundredth-monkey BS. The real explanation would be something like this: When presented with a new situation, at least one monkey was capable of figuring out a way to deal with it. Other monkeys learned from the first one. Monkeys of the same species (with therefore the same capabilities) on other islands that were presented with the same situation also had at least one tribe member capable of figuring out the same simple way of dealing with it.
The real hundredth-monkey effect is that given a large enough population, the right idea is likely to occur to someone, and it only takes one to start its spread to the whole populace. Whereas the new-age myth is based on an unreasonable expectation that an idea can occur by logic only once (perhaps patent law has set a bad example), so they make up crap to get past their own limited understanding of the law of large numbers.
@ chuckle8 that BP data is easily verified at IEA or EIA or even Wikipedia, BP just packages it in a more easy to view format. There are often slight discrepancies between BP or Exxon or CIA energy data or Wikipedia sources, but they are not significant enough to change the argument. I Most Definitely am NOT relying on BP for any sort of Energy Opinion or their plan for the World Energy Future.