Wolff Responds: The irony of this Independence Day (July 4, 2024) 

The US and Israel should be reminded of Arnold Toynbee, who said, that Empires die through suicide, not murder!

It's looking like we the people need to break away from our corrupt government.

Thanks for the work you do

The whole world needs a 4th.July to get the US off our backs.

One Frenchman who was looking at an exhibit extolling the American Revolution commented: "There is a fault: insufficient guillotines."

Thomas Jefferson (in the Federalist Papers) stated, "Judges do not have power; Judges have judgement." What happened overnight that now Judges (at every level) have power?

It’s back. The Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules

Should put the whole supreme clowns in jail as official act

what you need to do is to break away from ignoring who is the root of the problem. Blaming the government is a deflection from the real enemy .

As my neighborhood turned into a battlefield for the last week, by drunken idiots blowing stuff up, who've never served a day in their life, and fought for nothing, the hypocrisy was apparent and the air was thick with irony.

All empires end.

The American king is AIPAC

Thank you. Best wishes.

Richard, the US Empire has been around for a lot more than 75 years!

I have never could have thought one day the great USA could be like this. Never

This is what happens when people don't understand how government works and vote out of hatred and spite.

"Face the fact that maybe we need another 4Th of July to set things right". That's scary to hear. That suggest alot of "revolutionary" kind of behavior on all kinds of levels.

What this does, is to exempt the entire executive branch, with its mass array of agencies, and goons, at its disposal, from any culpability under the law.

Thank you! I appreciate your genius opinions on the economy and politics and labor.

Thank you professor Wolff

Casual Thursday!

Empires need a Emperor.

I’m right with ya dude. A+ ✌🏾❤️

Just then, mushroom clouds everywhere in America.

How could the US constitution have such a loophole which the Supreme Court could exploit?

I look forward to your book. It's high time for me to start supporting your program again. I shall do that today.

In Australia we had an immensely popular twice elected left wing government dismissed by the Governor General using these sorts of powers because the ruling classes did not like them.

Yes, indeed a sad 4th July 😔

The disunited states of America.

It cracks me up that "conservatives" invoke "the founding fathers", ignoring that they were trying to be radically progressive rationalists. George Washington, "In the last place, though first in importance I shall ask-is there any thing doing, or that can be done to restore the credit of our currency? The depreciation of it is got to so alarming a point-that a waggon load of money will scarcely purchase a waggon load of provision."

Yet again, thank you Prof. Wolfe -- I really needed a moment to catch my breath.

HOW ABOUT WE CUT TO THE CHASE AND HEARTILY SUPPORT THE ONLY CANDIDATE NOT OWNED BY THE "DONOR" CLASS, JILL STEIN. All anyone has to do is find out where a candidates funding is coming from to know who they actually represent.

Thank you for your service, sir! So grateful for you.

Where even medicine is a business.

Looking forward to the book, Professor. These responses are a great way to hear your input. I always enjoy watching them, asm much as one can enjoy these topics.

Bit by bit... the slippery slope.

Even the date is a sham 4th of July 1776, officially should be 3rd September 1783 !

Thank you !

He's right. This is monarchy now.

Rocking that snapback Prof. Wolff

I simply don't understand how to penetrate the mind of a populace that is willfully ignorant. Most people are clueless as to what is happening to them. We are trained rats on the treadmill of consumerism and even though life is mostly painful as a result we have no real vision as a populace. I feel we are doomed to a crash of epic proportion that will produce unimaginable pain and who knows what will emerge or how long it will take to get there. We are under the influence of mass psychosis and we are not in touch with that fact. I am sixty eight years old and feel that I am fortunate not to have any children or grandchildren to suffer where we are and where we are going. What has anyone below the age of thirty ever known in this country but tolerable upheaval. We, I fear, are entering the land of intolerable upheaval. We are in deep doo doo!

Not “maybe” but “when” 🔥🤝🔥🤝🔥

Tks. much

Supreme Court members should be selected by themselves within a pool of 200 members elected by the people. Power from the roots that is the people not from the appointment from executive or Congress

Yes , thank you so very much !!! This country is in deep … trouble . Love how you compared King George of Britian to George Washington . The United States in not UNITED !!!!!!! Lets us look forward to the fireworks ahead . BALANCE !!!!!!

Amazing start

Thanks!

Have to disagree with Professor Wolff regarding an oncoming empire from the east as China always advocates building a world based on mutual respect & shared communities. This shows propaganda is a powerful tool that even a highly educated intellectual couldn’t escape the effects completely.

All the best from nothingwest !

Professor Richard wolff, I have been listening to your lectures and economic commentaries. Yiu have been teaching me the basic knowledge of economy. I am a Syrian refugee. I have been in Russia practically from 1991, after worsening of the peaceful life in my country Syria thanks to the American imperialist policy. I'm a Syrian Kurd and want ti tell you about the leftist and the real communist and philosopher Abdalla Ocalan who has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Turkey and has been in jail so far for 25 years. I think yiu have heard about that legendary genius who predicted the fall of the Soviet Union in his book * the built socialism * and recommended some reforms which he thought had been necessary to save the first socialist country ever found on our planet bur nobody paid attention to him Ocalan has written dozens of books and delivered to the judge who sentenced him book which he wrote numbering one thousand pages which covered the history of the middle east six thousand years of history of our region. When tge judge red that book he broke his pen saying i can not judge this man because the history will spit on me. Now in the moth part if Syria where teachings of ocalan have been implemented the region flourishes very quickly where real democracy prevails regardless of fauth, nationality abd gender. Women protect their rights and firm 50 ooer cent in all positions including the hjgher posts. Communes have been formed everywhere. Please talk about ocalan, s movement in one of your commentaries if possible.

Much ado about nothing. They've merely made de jure what was and has always been de facto.

I thought the hat was the Killdozer.

Happy Independence Day. Probably the last one.

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Guys how to ask Wolf questions?

Yeah, cause why hasn't it happened before?

Prof Wolfe speaking truth as always - fyi Geopolitics in conflict is trying to set up an interview with you - I hope to see you on that channel as David is doing a great job reporting on much of the same stuff

to make laws, you have to be above the law. elephant in the room nobody sees...

I don't know what all this fuss is about. Laws don't matter in the US, anyway.

Presidential immunity is no different from any other office. Police have immunity, lawyers do, judges do, diplomats, etc.

🇫🇮❤prof. Wollf & his peaked cap.

Keep up the good work, Prof Wolff...

The people who have the power to fix this situation(the current president) aren’t willing to use it

Dear Prof.Wolff, I keep on making comments on all respected blogs regarding your profound mind, quoting that all followers and guests should be affraid of bad evil Wolff.

We the people this country. We don’t have to accept the ruling of the Supreme Court. It’s our country.

Nonsense, sovereign immunity is long standing common law in the Western Europe Empire. A highly ignorant view and understanding of the law from this academic. It has always existed and what we cannot have is it being applied for some and not for others. SCOTUS has resolved that rightly.

Founding fathers turning in their graves

I am speechless, It is 😥. I really think it all started to go down with Citizen United. I can't wait to buy the book .

I am British,so I am not celebrating.

This is the worst 4th of July in history!

While I appreciate your standpoint, I feel that strident complaining does jack diddly for winning people over. We need hopeful, positive revolutionary optimism with actual direction towards building something as opposed to kvetching endlessly about what we already know. I can't stand to listen to your eternal whinging, personally.

The colonies broke away in order to maintain slavery and settler colonialism (which England was reining in for tactical reasons). Anti-monarchism explanation is anti-materialist.

Expand the Supreme Court

What part of the job, of being President, requires you to break United Stares law? Please give me some examples.

Today is the first time I disagree with you

So could Biden put Trump in jail for 100 years and not be held liable? I wish he could.

How nice to know that I am not the only one mourning the loss of the late great government of the United States on this tragic anniversary of its birth. Trump tipped the scales on the previously self-policing SCROTUS (spelling intended). People say he isn't the cause, but rather the symptom of American decline. Fifty years ago, my high school teachers were predicting this would happen and I saw no reason to disagree, but I had the hope that it wouldn't happen until I was gone from the place. Trump changed all that and if God won't, then I DAMN HIS SOUL on my own!

Lol, no 'we,' my ancestors were enslaved.

You speak with forked tongue!

why he so drippy tho

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*1 of 2. This is how you always need to vote:* We must fully resist and _always vote_ against (& less authoritarian than) both the Republican *and* Democratic Parties- including AOC, all of the squad, Bernie Sanders, Edward Markey, Mark Pocan, the justice democrats, Biden & all other democrats. Vote in every single election- at all levels. And also _endorse or anti-endorse,_ in all elections you can, for outside your voting jurisdiction. For _all_ public positions. And this same strategy applies against the same one or more party-monopolies in _all_ countries worldwide. Real progressives will never be Democratic Members or Democratic loyalists. Never vote for _any_ Republican member or loyalist either. If no candidates for a position fit that bill: -Where _write-ins_ are permissible, always write-in an anti-authoritarian person; -Where write-ins aren’t permissible, always vote uncommitted or leave the ballot blank. This will continuously reduce the power of _all_ authoritarian parties in the party monopolies. Until our task is complete. Repeat strategy for all new authoritarian parties that emerge.

Usual historical nonsense.

Trump 2024 🇺🇲