Comments by "Meh Pluribus Unum" (@pluribus_unum) on "Thom Hartmann Program" channel.

  1. Treason is the norm, not the exception, with modern Republican presidential contenders.
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  2. Control. It's got nothing to do with porn, fetuses, children, or public safety -- it's ONLY about CONTROL.
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  3. "There could be no more fitting tribute to the children of Birmingham than to have the Senate for the first time in history bury a civil rights filibuster. The dead children cannot be restored, but living children can be given a life. The assassins who still walk the streets will still be unpunished, but at least they will be defeated." - Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1964
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  4. Nixon and Reagan also leveraged foreign help to get elected. Nixon with S. Vietnam, and Reagan with Iran.
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  5. TLDR; The word that Trump's lawyers' argument hinges upon is "otherwise¹" in the following law text: USC 18 - 1512 (c) Whoever corruptly— (1) alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding; or (2) *otherwise*¹ obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
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  6. Great stuff! Thank you for this reporting.
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  7. 1:05 - Don't forget to mention the Jill Stein and Bernie Sanders voter targeting that both Cambridge Analytica and Putin used in 2016.
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  8. Elon is beside himself. That's a good sign.
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  9. Both can be true.
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  10. Never forget, the NRA was a foreign asset of Russia in 2015 and 2016 for laundering millions of dollars in Russian money for Republican politicians. The Republican party is the single greatest threat to the Republic.
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  11. Corporations are people. Fetuses, zygote, and eggs (but not sperm) are people. For the Republican party, the only thing that isn't people is people.
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  12. Vote Democrat for democracy. Vote Republican for apartheid.
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  13. The amount of time and energy spent on this criminal, even after nearly 8 months since leaving office, is an utter waste of time and energy. The most progressive President in history is in office. Cover that story instead of revisiting the "doom scrolling" era over and over again ad nauseam.
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  14. 5:45 "And between you and me, Thom..." Give or take about 287,000 subscribers and whoever else they share this clip with, of course.
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  15. In all seriousness, my thoughts are with the family members and friends of those lost off the coast of Greece and Canada. Including all who are directly impacted as professionals, and those emotionally and physically exhausted from the search operation and other rescue efforts, and all sufferers of trauma for whom this is a visceral story. That said, in the tradition of dark humor serving as a light for many souls faced with indignity and hardship because of the status quo and stolen generational wealth, or outraged by it as a historical fact and ongoing crime: There's an old "mad-lib" style joke my father used to tell using lawyers. Afaik it's a classic bit from pre-vaudeville days. It has played back in my head a few times as [I learned of] the details of this adventure tourism by some ultra-wealthy and/or privileged people, who were made fully aware of the dangers involved. COMIC: How many narcissistic billionaire thrill-seekers would fit in the Atlantic ocean? STRAIGHT: I don't know. How many? COMIC: I don't know either, but I'm willing to find out.
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  16. Important to point out, while working on the pro-union legislative agenda Senator Sanders and President Biden crafted together with other leaders on the left in Congress and the Cabinet.
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  17. It's complicated, but Saied isn't serving Tunisians, he's serving himself. "Kais Saied has often been part of the very problems that he blames unilaterally on Tunisian political parties. I think it should also be pointed out that parties, including Ennahda, have often been more concerned with preserving elite positions in politics for their own leaders than with really advancing a concrete agenda for the Tunisian public."
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  18. "The demographic changes in this country has acted as a catalyst." is a diplomatic way to say the white nationalist Republican party is prepared to dismantle our Democratic Republic
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  19. Hold whatever view you want, but at least get his name right. It's Jeffries.
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  20. If anyone is thinking about skipping 2024, listen to this.
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  21. To those claiming fIghting Russian autocracy and white nationalism isn't a progressive issue: YOU'RE 100% WRONG. You aren't familiar with U.S. progressivism at all: "...the main objectives of the Progressive movement were addressing problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption." From Franco, to Mussolini, to Hitler, to Trump, to Putin -- anti-fascists and progressives have taken up the fight (including taking up arms) to combat the enemies of the progressive cause. Read up on the Spanish Civil War, the pre-WWII Lincoln battalion, or the progressive veins in the resistance during WWII. Progressivism isn't pacifism, and it never has been.
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  22. No. The old crap Russia is using is not true hypersonic missiles. The disinformation from Russia into Ukraine is more powerful than these missiles.
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  23. Thanks for pointing out that Chris Christie isn't the anti-Trump he purports to be.
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  24.  @truthhurts4771  - "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini He had an angle to push, despite his progenitor status. "Historians, political scientists, and other scholars have long debated the exact nature of fascism. Historian Ian Kershaw once wrote that "trying to define 'fascism' is like trying to nail jelly to the wall."" Without a dictator, corporate influence over politics -- even significant influence -- [doesn't] constitute fascism. fas·cism | \ ˈfa-ˌshi-zəm \ 1. a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition 2. a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
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  25. So, scientists have reverse-engineered the "No CRT" curricula in Florida, Texas, and other Republican-run states. Religion-centric indoctrination in schools is designed to create deep ruts in those faith over critical thinking pathways.
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  26. There's nothing truly Christian about this white nationalist movement.
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  27. The Republican party is a white nationalist autocratic party now. Of course recruitment is rising when it's mainstreamed by one of the two major parties.
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  28.  @Elysian777  - Trump can be a madman who is also the GOP's Messiah.
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  29.  @Lora_Lynn  - Thanks for the reply. After adding my comment, I thought it might have been an autocorrect thing.
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  30. White nationalism is the number one domestic and foreign threat (via Russia) to the United States of America. Friends simply don't let friends vote Republican.
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  31. 3/4ths of Republicans polled by Pew Research in September 2022 want the United States of America turned into a Christian nationalist state, despite knowing that it would be unconstitutional. There is no major conservative political party in the U.S. anymore, it's now a white nationalist insurgency.
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  32. Tulsi Gabbard has always been a Syria and Russia apologist. Her voting record has never been progressive, and Bernie Sanders should have been more careful when he boosted her image. She's now speaking at CPAC and lying on FOXNews regularly. She's not progressive in any way.
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  33. It's not his whole golf course, and the tax breaks are minor. We don't need to exaggerate or lie. "However it is unlikely that the 1.5 acre plot would deliver tax exemptions to the entire Bedminster property – any break only applies so long as the plot is less than 10 acres." -The Guardian, July 31, 2022
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  34. So, The Hartman Diaries un-fanfic then? From the description: Imagine if convicted Felon Donald Trump actually does become a fascist dictator of the United States after rigging the 2024 election. If Trump unleashes the national guard to suppress the population, will you stand up to stop them?
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  35. The separation of Business and State was as foundational as the separation of Church and State for the United States of America, as they suffered from the monopolism and greed of the British East India Company.
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  36. Cheating isn't winning. The Republican party is not a legitimate political party, it's a violent white nationalist insurgency.
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  37. The notion that men hunted while women gathered has been known to be a fallacy in the anthropologist community since the 1960s.
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  38. Yes. That's leadership and civil service in a President.
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  39.  @ApexEater  - And some of the white supremacists in the U.S., Russia, and Ukraine have long established ties to each other. The fight in Ukraine is directly connected to the Trump cult, and some candid Republicans have already admitted the U.S. will pull support from Ukraine and back Putin again if they gain enough power in Congress. Both of the historic impeachments of Donald J Trump are entwined with Ukraine and Putin for one reason, Putin and Trump are illiberal autocratic dictators with common goals to leverage ethno-nationalism and obliterate democratic processes and institutions through the deployment of violent mobs, partisan militias and government stormtroopers.
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  40. You clearly don't know anything about Thom.
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  41. Freedom isn't free, and defenders of freedom need to stop the Republican war on personal liberty and freedom.
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  42. Delusion is part of the stock and trade of the Republican voter today. It's not a legitimate political party anymore, it's an insurgency.
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  43.  @1magnit  - If MBS isn't paying you, he should be.
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  44. The Republican party has no interest in democracy because it seems it was always just a means to an end, not a fundamental precept, and they can no longer win a majority of the votes with their unpopular plans and utter lack of solutions to the nation's problems and challenges.
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  45. Once again, GOP-controlled states being dependent on Democratic-controlled states' taxpayer money and social welfare systems
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  46. Brownshirts with new branding.
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  47. They is nothing Christian about these fascists.
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  48.  @haroldbridges515  - Like your post's unsubstantiated claims. The point is, both arguments have merit. Yours from your view, informed by Tunisian friends, mine from an analyst specializing in Mideast affairs.
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  49. I don't think you realize how many documents the archives has at all. "..swoop in and make sure nothing is removed..." That's a multi-year effort, not a couple hours.
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  50.  @Metonymy1979  - Contrary to false equivalency in the media about Biden and Pence, this isn't a recurring problem. Bottom line is, it's a multi-person, multi-department, as multi-month effort to ascertain there is missing materials. Then it's a multi-year effort to ascertain all that might be missing and who might have it now.
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