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Nassim Nicholas Talib is spot on. The US attitude to Israel is going to be very different - at the latest - in 20 years, when people who are young now start to have some power. But Israel is doubling down on its greedy, vicious policy as if nothing will ever change, and the younger generation in Israel is even sicker than the one currently in power.

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WASTE OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS & VOTES ~ The Congressional Black Caucus website’s MOST RECENT Policy Update is SIX YEARS OLD. Do these “Public Servants” WORK AT ALL❓ At anything other than Insider-Trading❓

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Thank you so much. No matter the topic, I find you have well formed and more than reasonable offerings. Much more than an opinion. When you offer an opinion it is highly informed and educated. Too bad that such an aberration in this society.

I have a question that I am not absolutely sure of concerning policy. What all needs to happen to remove the barriers to accessing the ballot. Obviously some tweaking of the state regulatory mandates which I'm not well-versed in, I do feel that EC electors were awarded on a ratio of popular vote in each STATE, unlike the interstate compact is essential. I don't think ranked choice voting is good policy until you have at least three if not four or five parties. I would love to hear your thoughts on the subject. Thank you so much

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How about this nickname for the 47th president: "The Criminal in Chief"

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As much as I appreciate the analysis and information about what is constitutional and what is not, what Trump and his posse can get away with and what they cannot, I also think it is pointless to expect that the dems and any other institution will do anything. How many years have people given the recipe to get more people voting for a party that is supposed to be "for the working people" just to see said party ignore everyone and show that they are for the corporations? Besides, the republicans have changed rules and broken laws - with little to no indignation from the democrats, let alone any action - as they pleased. They will do it over and over, Trump will simply ignore any law he wants and things will just be absorbed into the "normal".

The only thing other than a new party - which I still don't know what takes to build one - is a general strike, which is a hard thing to organize.

The new normal is hard to swallow and very hopeless

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A general strike is part of how a new party (or making the old parties into something new) is done.

The recipe for organizing a general strike against the big money interests that control our political process in the 2026 primaries and general elections has been spelled out in the comments here for years.

Ralph and his network of activists encourages citizens to sign up now on a website that they will only vote for small donor candidates in 2026 and will cast a write in vote if there are no small donor candidates on the ballot to register a vote against the big money candidates on the ballot and to create and demonstrate demand for small donor candidates in the next election.

This will weaken the hold the big money interests have on the current major parties and make it possible to change those parties so they are not controlled by the big money interests or replace them with different parties that are not controlled by the big money interests.

The hard part seems to be getting Ralph to even discuss this strategy.

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Thank You,Mr.Nater, for weighing in on the latest Cabinet Picks and a way Forward. Will reStack ASAP

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This guy, making money on pain, dudes, derivatives. He knows nothing about Trump, really. ANother book, another yakking yak.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent twenty-one years as a derivatives trader before changing careers to become a scholar, mathematical researcher and philosophical essayist.

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Cold voice, laughter, may he end up gone. These people are soulless, no matter you might defend the giggling book writer and "expert" in risk analysis.

Again, amazing how many people miss the Trump Fascism. He does want war, dude, since war is money, and those tech tools, then you have money making, and he's never done shit militarily, so like some child, he thinks war is a game.

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I think he just likes, for foreign affairs, that trump killed a lot less people and started less conflict than all the other presidents since Jimmy Carter. Current administration is providing Israel with weapons/cass and more or less having Blinken take the hit for supporting the war. It's kinda hard to argue with those point. Besides that, Taleb called Trump a fascist and denounced him on Jan 6.

Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush and Reagan sure didn't have any issues killing people and starting wars. Part of being objective is accurately weighing pros and cons no matter how easy it is to frame a simple narrative. Doing the latter is precisely how Trump got elected :).

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To Mr. Taleb's point on Israel losing support across the globe, I'd just like to share anecdotally that Wellington, New Zealand is covered in Palestinian flags, painted throughout the city, on the sides of buildings, on bridges, everywhere. There continue to be regular demonstrations to protest the genocide, as well.

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Adam's Alien and Sedition Acts, Monroe's Manifest Destiny, Jackson's Indian wars, and Polk's Mexican-American War, and the expansion of slavery in the Kansas Nebraska Act are just a few 19th c. examples proving the United States' TRUE character.

Its character is not democracy but Empire, conquest and hegemony.

In the 20th C. the US Empire extended with over 800 hundred military bases abroad under cover of hostile cold war claims fronted by Truman, Eisenhower, JFK [shot when he tried to pull back], Reagan, Bush, and with NATO extension by Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden, and now Trump.

Kamala and Trump promised there ill be no deviations, no reforming the Empire.

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Trump and water don't mix!!! Stamp Creek White Ga. 2025!!!!

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Thanks for putting my favorite independent journalist on the show, Ryan Grimm.

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Why are you having Ryan Grim on this show? Ask Kshama Sawant about Ryan Grim. On the Bad Faith Podcast he was making excuses for the Squad. Kshama said that politicians couldn’t sell out workers without the Aryan Grims of the world

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…without the Ryan Grims of the world.

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10 million more stay at home "voters", 80 million regular stay at home voters and no alternative to the Democrats.

That's 90 million potential participants in an alternative.

That's 90 million people that Ralph could have encouraged to cast a write in vote to register a vote against the big money candidates on the ballot in 2024 and to create and demonstrate demand for small donor candidates in 2026.

Just 10 million participants in 2024 could have changed the answer to the question about an alternative.

As there is no alternative the logical solution is to make an alternative.

You can change your answer to the alternative question for November of 2026 by encouraging citizens to create one starting now.

Then we could even have a small donor presidential candidate in 2028 that could inspire many of the 90 million stay at home voters to not stay at home.

It is time to reap what the Democrats have sown.

Please don't blow another opportunity to save our democracy as you did in 2024 and several previous elections.

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I’m going to pick a handful of commentators/reporters and track their predictions on Trump. Then compare what happens with time. Phoenix TV commentators are on the list, Nader, NNT, Greenwald, Mate, Blumenthal, Kshama Sawant, Chris Hedges. Whoever comes out with the most accuracy is who I am going to listen to and promote going forward. People can’t be experts so they need to listen to experts. But we need to choose who we listen to carefully.

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Accurate depiction of the creation of tRump's administration of the Fourth Reich;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-SYSt8VsDs&lc=Ugw0l-UujHL3dtdS5Rh4AaABAg.AAs9v7Ey-lIAAsfucDNsQK

It may also depict an an assembly line, with the new appointees exiting, and climbing down the ladder then walking backward not knowing, or caring, where they will be installed.

Two days ago, in a longstanding tradition, genocide Joe hosted the next Imperial Wizard/führer at the Oval Office.

The photo taken of the handshake brought to mind a balloon over genocide Joe's head reading, "Hello, are you the man with my ice cream cone?"

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The problom of totalitarism, of which so more has been written, is more complex than in ordinarily thought. Totalitarism in a religious tragedy: in it is revealed man's religious instinct, his need for an integral relation to life. But the autonomy of various spheres of human activity, the loss of a spiritual centre, have led to a situation where the partial, the divided, claim totalitarity, integrality. Science and politics long ago began to present such claims. In our day, economics, technics, war have become totalitarian. The astouding devolpment of technics as an autonomous sphere has led to the most basic phenomenon of our epoch: to transition from organic life to organized life. "The Realm of Spirit and The Realm of Caesar" by Nicolas Berdyaev

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