Chomsky: By Focusing on Russia, Democrats Handed Trump a “Huge Gift” & Possibly the 2020 Election 

Don't forget gerrymandering and the MSM.

Also voter suppression targeting blacks and Latino

Except that Trump beat Hillary with less money

@@brainphelps1994 Hillary beat Bernie though. She also won the popular vote. Trump just won due to Republican gerrymandering.

@@brainphelps1994 the point still holds as a general rule and is ignored in comparison with Russiagate nonsense.

Andrew M Same, Andrew 🤔

very accurate comment

EE CC The best party!

Elfenignis are you confusing yourself with US establishments and their corporate media psychological manipulation?

@ElfenignisYou don't think anti-Russians are also trying to manipulate us? Everyone is constantly trying to manipulate everyone. Trump made clear that he favored peaceful cooperation with Russia. During the Cold War liberals thought this was a great idea. Now they don't like Russia because Putin is Christian and anti-gay-rights.

The irony of a one party state claiming to spread democracy around the world with drone strikes, are not lost on me

I loathe TYT

I thought she was being bashed for formerly supporting gay conversion therapy.

@Tew massa Is she a serious contender? I haven't followed her since learning that. Seems immediately disqualifying. There's no way in hell she'll win the primaries when she formerly worked for an anti-gay organization. She might as well give up now and clear the field for actual, serious candidates who aren't wasting our time. Not saying she's a bad person, but that type of baggage will sink a ship under scrutiny. She should know better than to run with it. Oh well. Nice to know she has progressive foreign policy. We need more of that brought up in the debates. I hope she makes a splash and uses her past to address LGBTQ issues actively and head-on. I won't be voting for her, and I know many who won't ever consider it. She should really know better. It'd be like Rove running as a progressive. Even if he were sincere, that baggage doesn't go away. Ever.

...if the trend stays true to form... Chomsky's about to be let go by the left...

She supports Hindi fascism. No shit she’s getting flak.

He's old, speaks soft, so you assume he's wise and has no bias. Another of your tribe's generations down the drain.

@The Doge-Emperor of Dogekind how 3 billions of US taxpayer run to israeli to live by socialism work, they have free healthcare, free education and free housing in settlment, for sure works US taxpayer , if that money save american poeple not the foriegn israeli

nah, son, nah. He gone by like last week's tomatoes.

@@peterm1240nah son, i think the wisdom he spits is what will be used by individuals for a long time.

we should put his name in the pledge of allegiance

Hassan Abdul you can’t leave out the neoliberals who are just as bad.

So far we have seen scores of right wing zealots killing innocent worshipers at Black Church, Muslim Mosque or Jewish Sganigague! Yes there’re neoliberals fanatics but FBI and DJ aren’t worried about them as much they worry about Right Wing skin heads.

@mrsme1234 The neoliberals are the ones who weaponise identity politics. Observe them accusing Jeremy Corbyn and ilhan omah of anti semetism and accuse Bernie Sanders supporters of misogyny. They don't believe any of it really, but it's all they got.

Neoliberals are the very definition of bigotry. Everyone walks on eggshells amongst a identitarian hierarchy/caste system.

Hassan Abdul they've been doing this for years with Chomsky, finkelstein and recently greenwald

@Frederic Bastiat Actually... Your opinion reflects on you...

Yes I admit

He may be articulate, but I didn't find much substance in what he's saying aside from "ignoring the real issues" and those he pointed out. That said, all of them were issues Republicans have spent considerable time either undermining for the base, or outright claiming to be a hoax (such as climate change.) We can't push forward on these issues with the current administration in power anyhow. Not sure I stand behind Chomsky's dire views. Seems very zero-sum. Hell a lot of it sounded like right-aligned talking points.

@@OceanFragments What sounded "right-aligned?"

OLD DEMOCRAT TRYING TO PULL SHIT FOR DEMI RAT'S

It’s a fucking tap water! Tastes like a shit water! No joke! Watch the movie Civil Action if you really like tap water and then look up Flint. Not a single official said tap water is bad for you. None!!

R R you ever try a filter bud? Relax a bit.

It was environmentalists that insisted on plastic to reduce the "wasteful energy use of washing glass bottles". They are the reason we don't use carbon free, safe nuclear energy.

He should be following AOC and drinking his own piss 👍

@@rogerdodger8415 I guess they were wrong, if that's what they did. I'm having a hard time believing you. Have any examples I can search for?

What do you mean? Tlhey've taken full advantage of every opportunity to maintain their power.

@@oswarz doing nothing maintains their power.

J Boogie you can “feel” whatever you want, I didn’t say it was a secret. Nonetheless, Chomsky remains a one-of-kind GENIUS.

@The Doge-Emperor of Dogekind Nope. Thanks for asking though! :)

The Republican Party was actually a progressive party before corporate hacks took over. Just look at Eisenhower. He was a republican president who made the tax rate over 90%, but yet the country still prospered.

well, they will own and rule every single lever of power thanks to idiots like the people on this thread. you all think you are so perfect and pure , but all you do is sabotage everyone else's chance of digging out of the hole we are in.

Bernie doesn't have a hope in hell of getting through the primaries if Biden enters the race. Too many obama loyalists still in positions of power in the DNC. They run things. It'll be no different compared to him having to run against Hillary and Biden will be far more popular compared to Hillary in both the primary and general election. If Biden didn't enter, I'd say Bernie has too much support and he has a steady hold on his wedge of the Democratic base and that support is rock solid doesn't really move around a lot. But now that Biden is entering the race, the establishment neo-liberals in the Democratic party have their horse and they're going to shove him across the line as much as they have too because there's not a fucking chance that the corrupt corporatist wing of the Democratic party wants Bernie Sanders as their leader. I like Bernie even though I think most of his ideas are too pie in the sky to actually succeed in our system of government but at least he's true to his beliefs even though I don't share them. That said, you'd have to be very naive to think he won't get screwed in the primaries all over again. To the Democratic establishment, Bernie isn't even a fellow Democrat. He's an independent take-over who refuses to go along with their status quo. It's the same way the Republican party looked at Trump when he joined the race. The problem for the RNC though was Trump was a billionaire who could fund his own damn election regardless if they kept all the fundraising money away from him. They had no leverage over him. It also didn't hurt Trump that his only real competition was Ted Cruz for fuck sake lol. Biden is going to be too strong for Bernie to beat soundly and as long as those two are somewhat close in support, the DNC will be able to put just enough weight on the scales to ensure an Obama Democrat regains control of their party. They won't do it the same way they did it in 2016 but rest assured, they will tip the scales in Biden's favor as they did with Hillary. If they're going to put a white man at the head of the ticket, it's going to be Joe Biden. You'll see when he officially enters the race how much the conversation changes around the Democratic primary. The media will begin fawning over him, down-playing Bernie's chances, it'll be a complete shift from what we have now. The media will pretty much treat him as the presumptive nominee before a single vote is even cast.

speaking as someone that prefers individual liberty, the right without crony capitalism is libertarian.

@@retrocny5625 biden is a clown who loses support every time he opens his mouth. Paper frontrunners can't stand to popular support

The Doge-Emperor of Dogekind No politicians represent them. Why should they vote against their own interests?

Facebook is already working with the Atlantic Council to undermine Indian elections and are prepping to do the same to the 2020 elections.

Its more then jusst his ego, their entire brand now depends on it. I guess it was trump derangement syndrome or someone fooled them saying the amoking gun would come.

@@brianbevilacqua4984 can I have some of what you are smoking? Cenk was crystal clear from the beginning that he didn't think there would be any smoking gun and that instead the reason Trump was flipping out was from stuff before the election, money laundering for the Russians and compromising details they had on him from previous visits.

@@ianyboo Bro, you can believe whatever you want, but if your not careful people will call you their crazy uncle at thanksgiving who is a "truther". Cenk said over and over "come on there has to be a deal come on there has to be a deal".

@@ianyboo I can remember CENK screaming about Trump collusion with Russia, he repeated I know it..

@@ianyboo you're an idiot.

GiantSandles yes but Trump does have ties to Russian mob! see david cay johnston

@@65minimom I am aware that he's a pretty shady, corrupt guy, I just never found it likely that he was a literal Russian operative

War/Regime Change. Assange was the cherry on top.

The Mueller Report details NUMEROUS emails from Donald Jr. to WikiLeaks, begging Wikileaks to publish dirt on Clinton. So why is the TRUMP admin extradicting Assange and keeping him in solitaryconfinement? Why isn't this being discussed at all by the GREEDIA, the Repubs, and the Demrepubs?

There is no longer two parties. Only one.

More honest than Amy Goodman, who still hasn't apologized for falling for Russiagate.

E Walker , u see it happen with Reagan when the GOP made the approval of the religious right the new litmus test

WHAT AGENCIES IF AIPAC ORDER JONATHAN POLLARD ISRAELI SPY WHO STEAL AMERICAN TOP SECRET, AND GIVE ISRAELI TO BE FREE AND ENJOY LIFE BY US TAXPAYER NOW WHO IS WATCHING ,

Well stated!

+Moonshine Same reason trump's not.

More like... Why not all of them? Dems and reps.

For what exactly?

@@normsallitt2753 For the fact they commited treason by excepting donations for their illegal so called slush fund charity from foreign governments while she was in office and being the original link to Russia!

Moonshine & Smith are bots spreading corporate lies block them.

Cynthia McKinney: US Lawmakers FORCED to Support AIPAC ... - RU-vid ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w_VNOk7Wv5A.html Jim Moran & Nick Rahall - Fighting the Israel Lobby in Congress ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nF1pVexReqA.html

Amy Goodman still hasn't apologized to her viewers for wasting their time on Russiagate and believing it herself.

@@lloydblankfeinofgoldmansac8203 Don't take my comment as agreement with most of their conspiracy theories. I appreciate them for the balance. We only steer toward the centre when there are sufficient counter points. Chomsky and Goodman are both conspiracy theorists. Chomsky, for example, is on 24/7 in UAE and other tyrannies because the perspective he presents is great at arguing against democracy. Has he ever apologized? About his position on Cambodia, for example? The guy is incorrigible. Wrong for 40 years and still babbling on about the nuclear clock.

Tareq Al-Kabsh That’s what he has been preaching all along. Or at least the last year.

Huh? Dore has been dead on right on this for two years.

@@jeffreylorien6687 Yeah, I Know. He got it right! Is he a Genius? or maybe just Genuine.

Robert Mueller is a by the book Republican, and would never step outside of his designated parameters and render his opinion. Because if he did say directly that Donald Trump was involved with the Russians. Present AG Merrick Garland would have implicated him as a Russian Spy within days of Joe Biden's Inauguration.. Then Indicted Trump on charges of Treason. Mueller didn't. Garland hasn't . So now we see if Garland will Indict Trump on the Jan.6th failed Fiasco Coup attempt.

@@Dakers11 looked more like a bad tourist attraction than a coup .lol

John Moran - well stated!

Because America is an anomaly among the rest of the developed world. "Gubmint trying to take away my rights by paying for my hospital bills! Preposterous!" "You mean to tell me that the climate change denying Republican party isn't far right?! Preposterous!"

Debbie Bunny Unless some fake investigations get Trump or the CIA liquidates him, JFK style, he will be back. Chomsky is right, the Russia investigations were stupid right from the first day and no sane guy ever believed that it was about anything other than the frustration of Dems. The Dems don't have anything against him, except the fact that they hate his guts ! You want Sanders in 2020 ? He will not clear even the Primaries next time. If he is the best shot that the Dems have, well then, be prepared for some other non sense investigations against Trump in 2020 ! A lot of silent Democrat voters support the Wall and they are tired of this political correctness - yet again. We saw that inspite of all the cresendo, that was built by the feminists, about the inevitability of Hillary being the First Woman President, a whole lot of women ( choosing to remain silent all throughout), voted for Trump. Dems seem to be aligning more and more with the policies of arsonists and for many of us, they need to mend their ways.

Trump's base is more united than ever and will ride the momentum of the Mueller report into 2020 while the Liberals will drag Biden in front of the camera with no real actual policies and he will get steamrolled. The only hope Democrats had was to get the working class vote but Trump already stole that narrative so the Liberals simply shout, "Women and children and the environment YAY!" and lose elections.

I could. Although I'm non-partisan, I'm heavy on the left leaning side. What kind of ideas are you wanting, exactly?

@@twistylox ideas about how to improve the political content I create on youtube.

The Rational Voice I wouldn't recommend anything you write - how dare you post this on this channel - you should be banned from You Tube!

People like you are why censorship is becoming an ever-increasing problem on the internet. As censorship grows, it will affect left-leaning ideas the most.

No.

Snow Owl I don't agree with you, but I think you are moving towards making a real point. Some people in power are actively working to obfuscate the left/right paradigm and keep voters bickering about stupid stuff.

The What!!? what does this have to do with this program

Sandy That is a good question. What do you think?

Why are you using the same kinda pseudo-nihilistic rethoric most commonly heard among right-wing extremists, fascists, nazis and nationalists? Actually, don't answer that question, it was rethorical... I'll give you that it's not about "left" vs "right," but that's because it's about Rich vs Poor, and corporate interests vs the interests of the people.

Disagree, odds are it will probably stay Trump/Netanyahu

Putin isn’t any more a communist than the present day Democrat’s!

Stop watching CNN.

Boo Boo Shut up! stop sharing stupidity

@Marco I didn't mention Fox.

In the context of this brilliant analysis by Chomsky, Trump is cast in the role of a successful Court Jester, not as a successful leader. Jesters were often clever performers whose job was to distract the court by acting the fool while the Monarch and the Elite controlled wealth and power. The fact that you and millions of American citizens are fooled by Trump's antics proves how good he is at what he does.

Notice Trumped fooled you into thinking he was gonna rule for the middle class and as Noam pointed out, that ain't gonna happen.

Do you seriously categorize people as 'good' or 'evil' based on a youtube downvote or upvote?

Maybe not compared to your Uncle Bosephus, but in comparison to their previous position, and in comparison with the rest of the developed world, yes they did.

Mmmm yeah, like defending Pol Pot and Slobodan Milosevic. That was so on point... (sarcasm)