That could very well be a prescient, future headline!
Billionaires, like the one that owns the LA times, aren’t going to promote true democracy in any way, shape or form, if it adversely affects their tax rate is.
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Not true. They’ll write a tax bill which raises taxes on 60-70% of the folks who voted for them, fill it full of exemptions for their friends, donors and lobbyists and, then label it as the Progressive Tax Equalization Act of 2020.
This is how they fix things like income inequality; emphasis on the word " fix " goes without saying here, of course.
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I do not look forward to next summer when most here will be urging us all to not waste our vote on anyone other than Status Quo Joe.
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Most major newspapers are now owned by hedge fund billionaires.
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Poor Hil and the third way crowd. They still blame Bernie and the evil russkies for their failures in 2016.
I suppose it’s easier on their conscience than admitting the truth, that the third way and the rest of the Clintonites were either asleep at the switch for the last thirty years or were complicit in their own demise as they sat for the last 15 years with their thumbs up their asses while the GOP gerrymandered every district imaginable and passed voter suppression laws in every “swing” state.
We don’t want Hillary to go away mad, we just want her, and her senile child molesting husband, to go away. Go live on Jeffrey Epstein’s island of misfit juvenile girls. After all, they spent a lot of time there already.
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Bernie Sanders is really the only candidate that grasps the challenges we face and has the plans of action that even come close to what it will take to address them.
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Oh, ow. I hope that your thought is due to superstition, a knocking on wood or ptoi, ptoi, ptoi. I’m afraid that I’m a touch superstitious, so, yeah, I hope this is the negative that never happens.
Although, now that I’ve said, “never happens,” ptoi ptoi ptoi!
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Republican scum as usual.
LA Times is owned by a Billionaire who made his money in HEALTHCARE
Patrick Soon-Shiong (born July 29, 1952) is an American surgeon, billionaire businessman, and philanthropist. He is the inventor of the drug Abraxane, which became known for its efficacy against lung, breast, and pancreatic cancer.[1] Soon-Shiong is the founder of NantWorks, a network of health and technology startups;[
Bernie has thrown down the gauntlet twice on this guy “Billionaires should not exist” and Medicare For All (and the limiting of profit in that realm)
The LA Times will NEVER give Bernie or US a fair shake. Get used to it.
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I am shocked, shocked by this ham-handed headline censorship.
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Bernie is the only one who will call-out Emperor Trump for what he is — an EMPEROR, and even one so insane to think that he is the “Emperor of theWorld”.
Plus, Bernie is the only one who will fire a; loud, public, sustained, ‘in-the-streets’, but totally non-violent “Shout (not shot) heard round the world”.
As I’ve often written in various but consistent forms, things like these:
“Max, glad you mentioned the “imperial frenzy for world domination” since this effin Disguised Global Crony Capitalist EMPIRE is the core cancerous tumor of all our lesser ‘Issues’, our larger “Symptom Problems” like Wars, WS looting, vast economic inequality, racism, domestic spying/tyranny, et al, and our entire “ailing social order” [Zygmunt Bauman].
When we go in the voting booth remember there are only two levers, one labeled “democracy” and the other “Empire” — for the sake of our children, grand children, our entire livable planet, and for God’s sake don’t pull the “Empire” lever.
And regarding our anti-Revolutionary lick spitle ex-president Obama, forget what this ‘middle of the road’ useful idiot said just last Friday about torpedoing Bernie — our only true Revolutionary choice for global democracy over this Global Empire — it’s “Our Revolution”.
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“ Talk about a hot topic — Sanders and Xi Jinping have two seminal things in common:
Xi promises “Socialism with Chinese characteristics”, and Bernie proposes Socialism with American democracy characteristics.
Secondly, they are both more democratic than Emperor Trump!
‘We the American people’ have to cut through all the smoke being blow up our posteriors by the ‘media/propaganda/TV-InternetAd’ sector of this Disguised Global Crony Capitalist Empire, which is only nominally HQed in, and merely ‘posing’ as our formerly “promising” and sometimes progressive country (PKA) America — and seriously understand that anything that looks like an Empire, loots like an Empire, causes wars like an Empire, and quacks like an Emperor — is an Empire!
The centralization and concentration of power is, and for all of history has been, Empire — which is the exact same “disease of Republics” that all our founders in 1776 fully recognized and confronted to create the world’s most “promising” democracy.
Empire is also the basis of centralizing money and corporate power to loot ‘we the people’.
As the late great Jewish intellectual, Hannah Arendt, warned her own German people:
“Empire abroad entails tyranny (and looting) at home”
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“ There’s an eff of a lot of useless talk simply to get around to the reality that Tulsi is not just an anti war candidate — which BTW, “Empress-in-waiting” and certified ‘War Hawk’ Hillary was accurately tagged by Mark Landler in his April ‘18 NYT Magazine ‘cover story’, but that Tulsi is the leading anti-war (and more comprehensively) anti-Empire candidate —- who even Bernie will have to catch-up with or ally with as his VP if he is to get beyond just repeating that old two-word sound-bite ‘16 campaign-slogan of “Political Revolution”.
Hell, Bernie and Tulsi could really pull out the stops and run an unabashed Second American people’s peaceful “Political/economic & social Revolution Against Empire” — this 21st century, post-Westphalian, post-Soviet Evil Empire, and “globalized” [Tom Friedmanesque] world to first ‘expose’ and then take down this damn Disguised Global Crony Capitalist EMPIRE, which is only nominally HQed in, and merely ‘posing’ as, our formerly “promising”, and sometimes progressive country (PKA) America. That they both could easily do by just firing a; loud, public, sustained, ‘in-the-streets’, but non-violent “SHOUT (not shot) heard round the world” to ignite an essential “Revolution Against Empire” [Justin du Rivage’s definitive history of our first one]!
She’s your legacy, Bernie, as Henry Wallace, could have been FDR’s.
Clearly the masters of the ‘Volkischer Beobachter’ are running scared of Bernie. As the man said, you can fool all of the people some of the time, you can fool some of the people all of the time but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. Trumpty Dumpty is finished in the US and internationally he is a laughing stock and he is despised around the world by th vast majority. Except, of course, by bojo the bozo and nigel farrago and their ilk. We must make sure that the fascists are wiped out in the polls !
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And politicscorner —- Bernie is the only anti-Empire candidate, and he’s the only one who even understands that unlike that BS Clinton era phrase:
“It’s the economy, stupid”
Is now truly:
“It’s the EMPIRE, stupids!”
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And politicscorner —- Bernie is the only anti-Empire candidate, and he’s the only one who even understands that unlike that BS Clinton era phrase:
“It’s the economy, stupid”
Is now truly:
“It’s the EMPIRE, stupids!”
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I just sent this comment re. Bernie to Truth Dig which is effin around with censoring it by claiming that the Quotes are not properly attribute to the author.
I sure hope that CD is not so dumb as to try that same stuff:
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The ‘media/propaganda/TVadvertising’ sector of this Disguised Global Crony Capitalist EMPIRE is totally responsible for keeping not just Bernie, but the entire and entirely more dangerous threat to the EMPIRE totally our of public view of the Empire’s “atomized” and “infantilized” America ‘subjects’ of this Empire.
Bernie’s greatest threat to this currently well hidden Disguised Global Crony Capitalist EMPIRE is entirely based on the danger that BERNIE is the only candidate who will; expose, call-out, and confront this damned Empire.
And the Empire’s fear is totally justified — because if Bernie ever changes his May 2015 (and continuing focus) of the initial two-word sound-bite campaign-slogan of only “Political Revolution” into a “Common Sense” and truly Revolutionary “Shout (not shot) heard round the world”, which would immediately ‘ignite’ a full throated and nation-wide Second American people’s peaceful “Political/economic & social Revolution Against Empire” this effin “Disguised Global Crony Capitalist Empire” would collapse in an Emperor Trump’s New York Minute!!
The author of all the quotes is me, you effin idiots at TD.
And I’ll sue your effin arse off if you censor this comment, Bob
Will Americans wake up in time to realize that both their parties are neoliberal now, run by elites for a global system that has to raid the commons, and the country, to continue to create wealth for an international elite…who live no where, and so can create sacrifice zones everywhere (its someone else’s land, who cares?) and pretend it wasn’t their doing? I hope so…because as Eliza Gilkenson says in a song we should all look up: **People get ready cause it won’t be long/ the time to rise will be come and gone. **
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Just this Sunday mourning on ABC’s “This Week”, host George Steponisdic said of Bernie:
“Bernie’s going nowhere”.
Don’t tell me the effin corporate capitalist media of this Disguised Global Crony Capitalist EMPIRE, which is only ‘nominally’ HQed in, and merely ‘posing’ as, our formerly “promising” and sometimes progressive country (PKA) America isn’t scared shitless about Bernie winning — particularly when Bernie comes-out and fires a; loud, public, sustained, ‘in-the-strees’, but TOTALLY NON-violent “SHOUT (not shot) heard round the world” and immediately ignites a vast and massive popular Second American people’s peaceful “Political/economic & social Revolution Against EMPIRE” and kicks the shit out of EMPEROR TRUMP!!
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Mary, good post but remember that the UHNWIs and Ruling Elites are not just running a “global system” as you write — but it’s a “Global Empire” (not just a ‘system’) — and specifically it’s a Disguised Global Crony Capitalist Empire just ‘posing’ as America
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