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Excellent point. Same for abortion. About controlling women, not "saving babies". At its most crude, it's a "pump and dump" scheme. No interest whatsoever in the victims of its own behavior.

More like they DON'T have the money period

Good point. They have gotten to the point where they think that bald faced lies are adequate talking points

Some of them think that less money spent abroad will mean more at home to make people’s lives better. The ones who are really pulling the strings just want to keep the wealth pump from the working class to the privileged class going.

@@vinista256 That’s a nice idea, but I haven’t seen any action from these “domestic spending republicans”. Where are the bills? Are they being negotiated in committees and subcommittees? Where are the Republican policy debates on how to improve the lives of ordinary Americans? If evidence of an actual set of policies is in evidence, I’ve missed seeing it. I think if Mike Johnson is bold, he could solve a lot of problems in vocational education and worker training. He could draw on support from both the conference and the caucus. He could get the president on board by throwing him some loan forgiveness dough. Thats just an example.

Yes. She’s really a formidable journalist. Always worth listening to.

I did, and it was spectacular. It's definitely a must listen to, if you want to speak intelligently on the subject. 😊

Oh surely they have listened!!

Same. I left in February of 2000, but whether people left over Nixon, Trump, or anywhere between the two, we're the coalition of liberal democracy now.

Welcome to the compassion of liberalism. 😊

There hasn't been a "Left" in America, but especially in the Democrat Party, in over 100 yrs.

Clinton didn't cause the insanity of George Dubya Republicanism which relied on "truthiness" and climate change denialism. Nor was Obama at fault for the racist backlash, yet it was a trigger. There were vile far right racist people pushing their politics in the south when Reagan was still in office. Listening I think they were talking almost always about the extreme left as in Stalinist communists, the college campus reporting sensationalises, but Israel's longstanding apartheid policies and illegal settlements means the left in the US see a different, more sympathetic perspective, so it's being tarred with the same brush. If you haven't seen them Timothy Snyder Speaks has great videos on Oligarchy and Sadopopulism, moderate right wing voices don't really have a credible agenda, more corporate power and concentration of wealth with more Reaganite trickle up economics makes about as much sense as the Trump First platform.

Beautifully said!

Obama had the temerity to be black, and Trump is their retribution for that.

lol, I thought you were going to say “no excuse to inflict a cruel abusive man like Netanyahu on the Palestinians”. 😂 In either case you have no argument from me. I’ll spare you all my thought about Israel’s right to exist and defend itself (yes and yes). But I have been seeing a lot of antisemitism from the educated (supposedly) progressives in their political arguments against Israel. It’s quite sad to see them try to wield Marxist analytical frameworks to analyze recent history and current events WITHOUT studying any of the history or having any in-depth knowledge of current events. Which is a long winded way to say anyone who equates Zionism with colonialism is engaging in antisemitic ideas. They’re doing so either as useful idiots hindered by too little knowledge (and too much enthusiasm) or they are bad actors spreading disinformation intentionally. Other than that, I’m all for the student protests demanding a cease fire AND release of the hostages.

Not sure that’s true across the board. Protesting Netanyahu’s right wing policies, especially Gaza, is one thing. But some of the protestors are attacking Jewish students and many are using antisemitic hate speech, which is not just against the current Israeli government. There are several different factions at play here. Some are Muslim extremists. Some are just anarchists.

Let me lay something on you. Making the argument that Zionism is European colonialism is an anti-Semitic idea. The argument that Israel is a European colony is anti-Semitic. Both arguments are ahistorical. They are false arguments supported by a facile and false understanding of history. I protest the Netanyahu government. I protest the IDF going to far whine not doing enough to expedite humanitarian aid. I protest Hamas choosing urban Gaza as the battlefield. I demand both a release of hostages and a ceasefire. But in not going to listen to idiotic arguments about Israel not having the right to exist because it’s “settler colonialism”. If anyone wants to make those arguments, they better have a firm grasp on 2000 years of Jewish history.

@@ELL289 I think there are (100% legal) pro Hamas groups spreading disinformation, and there are lightweight academics applying their “historical analysis” without knowing jack squat about the history. If you’re going to do Marx stuff, do it right.

Some pretty large protests are chanting things like "from the river to the sea" (a reference to exterminating Israel) and "burn Tel Aviv to the ground." Instead of being like those who found themselves demonstrating alongside nazis in Charlottesville, the earnestly concerned protesters over Gaza need to denounce and expel such factions from their ranks.

@@ELL289I haven’t heard of students attacking Jewish people, and I’ve been following the protests pretty closely. Methinks you’re inventing stuff to ‘prove’ a point.

The entire word is a fallacy

Forgive yourself, they look amusingly absurd a making fun of power and common assumptions. After all Churchill said, "democracy is the worst form of government except for all the other forms that have been tried from time to time" but didn't really say "the best argument against Democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter", both witty and admitting imperfection.

Those are easily interpreted in whatever way you agree with

Some of his political analysis is cutting and devastatingly funny. I used to excuse his racism as being something of the times in which he wrote, but eventually the evidence against him was too much. He’s someone I might still enjoy reading, but I find it harder to cite or quote him without feeling queasy. Still, it’s hard not love, “Democracy is the idea that the common people should get what they want, good and hard.”

Now you know how the Haley voters feel. 😊

​@@Ryan-FkrepublicnzThat is the way to spot a manipulator who wants people to agree with them, but doesn't want to say the quiet part out loud. Fascists, racists, sexists, narcisissts, abusers of all types - every one is so good at phrasing things like that. Just look at the last focus group podcast from Sarah - two women were die-hard Haley voters because of Haley's stance on abortion, yet one was extremely pro-choice and the other was vehemently anti. Yeah.

Some people change for the better, so e change for the worst. His early political reporting was scathing and it was top notch. But the evidence that he was or became a toxic pos becomes insurmountable. I’ve got a collected volume of his writing on the shelf. Maybe someday I’ll pick up up to enjoy his wit, but the idea of it makes me queasy.

Sort of. You’re describing Burkean conservatism. Burke saw the radical excesses of the French Revolution (which led to a belligerent authoritarian dictatorship). He wasn’t against reform, he was troubled by radical reform. Taking a step back isn’t by itself reactionary or radical. Sometimes a seemingly good idea doesn’t work in practice, so you return to a more traditional way of doing things. Or you find a new way to use a good tradition. But I think you were pointing out that Burkean conservatism is a good counterbalance to exuberant liberals. I couldn’t agree with you more. Viva Burke!

@@MarcosElMalo2 Yep, we need a healthy Burkean conservatism to moderate the tendency of well-meaning progressives to get carried away. It's unfortunate that the moderating (not necessarily moderate) faction has given way to paleoconservatives/reactionaries.

Isn't "radical right" an oxymoron? The backward right is reactionary.

And cultish tRump delusion that at best can only result in cognitive dissonance

So he supported the aristocratic society that was built on the institution of slavery? And somehow he felt that put him at a remove from the institution itself? Apparently then he was self delusional.

This jew despises Netanyahu and the genocide being committed by Israel.

@@malcolmbliss777 Some on the left are arguing that Israel doesn’t have a right to exist, that it’s a European colony imposed in the “indigenous” Palestinians. It’s based on pure ignorance of Jewish history. Maybe the anti-semites are noisier so I notice them more. Israel has a right to exist. The Palestinians have a right to their own state, regardless of indigeneity or lack of it. (I realize the two state solution is a total fantasy at this point.) If you are a Jew, why do you misuse the word genocide?

​@@MarcosElMalo2"It's based on pure ignorance of Jewish history". Not sure if you have an alternate facts view of history or are willfully twisting it. Zionists were offered uninhabited land in Uganda by the British in the early 1900's for the creation of a Jewish state, but the leaders of the Zionists rejected the offer. Accepting that offer would have resulted in zero people being displaced from lands they had inhabited for generations. Instead the Zionists had their eye on the populated area of Palestine, which also holds highly important holy sites of the 3 Abrahamic religions. What could possibly go wrong with that choice? Now I know you will return serve saying that Palestine historically is a Jewish homeland, which is exactly the same argument every human on the planet can use to lay claim to Africa as our historical homeland. There were many different tribes of man living in the area known as Palestine thousands of years ago, and the idea that there was a Jewish state at that time is Zionist fiction. Jews are followers of a religion, not a racial grouping of mankind. If you did DNA tests of those who identify as Jewish, their profiles would be as varied as those who identify as Christian or Muslim. As for your comment on genocide, perhaps you need to do some historical homework there as well & read the 1948 Genocide Convention & how it defines the word. It's important reading as the Convention was instituted in the hopes that the world would never again allow the horrors that the Nazis committed. True Antisemitism is as vile as any bigoted or racist vilification, but criticism of the actions of the Israeli state going back decades now is NOT Antisemitism. Sadly that word is losing its meaning due to being thrown around as a catch-all shield to deflect criticism.

It is intellectually lazy to call it a "current wave of anti nettanyahu protests," is it not? When rallies are chanting things like "from the river to the sea" and "burn Tel Aviv to the ground," they're not talking about the dictator; they're talking about actual ethnic cleansing.

@@burntorangehorn So it's ok for the likes of Netanyahu, Ben Gvir & other despots in the Israeli government to use language like that about Palestinians, but when used in return it's Antisemitism? Sure, that seems fair & balanced. How about both sides cut out the inhumane language, or is your view that Israeli leadership has the right idea about Palestinians? Never seems to be Israel supporters who call out what their leaders say, or decry the videos the IDF soldiers put online.

He did mention father Coughlin .. who was the antagonist of that story

@@Ryan-Fkrepublicnz - more emphasis on “that story” was warranted given the criminals involved got off scot-free.

@@kaitykaityI guess you should read the book! 😅

@@MarcosElMalo2 - it’s on my hold list. In the meantime these supposed experts should stop with the false advertising.

It is NOT conservative.

@MarcosElMalo2 It is indeed conservative-paleoconservative, to be more specific. It embraces social stratification, militancy, religious monoculturalism, traditionalism, and other non-egalitarian ideals. The semantic issue is with the confusion, intermingling, or even conflating of conservatism with classical liberalism.

I agree. Do you agree that the Party of Trump isn't the party of Lincoln nor the party of Reagan?

@@martinsweeney7633 The Party of Trump is the Party of John Wilkes Booth.

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