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Mike Rube's avatar

I agree Trump is a dangerous idiot. Also Biden was a murderous president. Who set the stage for Trump 2. This is the acting out of an oligarchic state. Corporations are truly bad governors. The drive for profit is the opposite of Public Service. This is the deeper and more dangerous dynamic that I wish, Mr Nader, you could focus on.

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Seitzinator's avatar

Ralph Nader HAS addressed this in various ways over the years. Many times. And yes, it still warrants focus. I still wish he had become POTUS years ago when he ran.

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Mike Rube's avatar

I have great respect for Ralph! The challenge is his belief that congressional pressure and elections can fix the situation. I’m not so sure.

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Seitzinator's avatar

I’m in solid agreement with you that congressional pressure and elections can/will fix the situation, Mike Rube.

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Mike Rube's avatar

As I said, I’m not so sure. FDR delivered a progressive agenda because of increasing anger regarding the economic collapse in 1929. There were riots against the banks, farmers losing their farms, factory closings. Large violent demonstrations. Armed farmers organized to stop bank auctions. The capitalists got scared. FDR and WWII saved the day. Currently Congress is entirely corrupt and useless. Change won’t happen until the People rise up, like they’ve done before, and scare the shit out of the goddamn parasitic capitalists. I’ve sent messages, called. I get back word salads. Genocide was the final straw. Elections have value. But oligarchy truly sucks. In the 1600s communities would burn down the banker’s houses and drive them out of town.

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TCL's avatar

“It is time for the American Psychiatric Association to designate extreme racism as a mental health problem by recognizing it as a delusional psychotic symptom. Persons afflicted with such psychopathology represent an immediate danger to themselves and others. Clinicians need guidelines for recognizing delusional racism in all its forms so that they can provide appropriate treatment. Otherwise, extreme delusional racists will continue to fall through the cracks of the mental health system, and we can expect more of them to explode and act out their deadly delusions.”

Alvin Poussaint MD all but predicted our current predicament in 2002

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1071634/

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Bob OBrien's avatar

Listened to your great podcast just now. I went on my Hoopla Public Library App and just borrowed former FBI agent Mike German new book , Policing White Supremacy: The Enemy Within. Thank you for that Ralph Nader for having him as your guest. And always wonderful to hear from Dr. Bandy Lee, I have been following her, her website, etc. since the first nightmare of Dangerous Donald.

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Joseph Jenkins's avatar

Ralph Nader will slip more swiftly and deeply into the dustbin of irrelevance by highlighting people afflicted with the Trump Derangement Syndrome, such as Dr. Bandy Lee. You can do better than that, Ralph.

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Ryan Featherston's avatar

Trump Derangement Syndrome isn't real.

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Joseph Jenkins's avatar

This cam into my inbox immediately after your comment did: https://open.substack.com/pub/petermcculloughmd/p/on-emotional-dysregulation

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Ryan Featherston's avatar

Peter McCullough is not a reliable source for anything.

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TomL's avatar

Objective, non-emotional, unbiased analysis of McCullough actually shows his scientific evidence and credentials are a lot better than the "fact-checkers" who are largely paid propagandists of pharmaceutical companies, that also use companies such as McKinsey that Biden pardoned for covering up with Purdue Pharma. https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/reuters-fake-fact-check-fails-again?utm_source=cross-post&publication_id=264299&post_id=158834624&utm_campaign=1119676&isFreemail=true&r=1rkcli&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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Ryan Featherston's avatar

I don't recall asking you anything.

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TomL's avatar

You claimed that McCullough was "unreliable"; I defended him because you are just wrong.

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Richard Curtis PhD's avatar

Hi all, great show but one critical note. "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel" is often called the "Nobel Prize in Economics" but it is not that. The so-called Economics prize is entirely an ideological thing created to elevate neo-classical capitalist economic ideas. It is not one of the prizes created by Alfred Nobel and the family of Nobel has never accepted this usurping Nobel's name to try to legitimize what amounts to mere capitalist propaganda. The name gives it away but people often don't pay enough attention to notice its real name. It is not a real Nobel Prize, but something else entirely -- something entirely ideological. It would be best if you all did not fall for and repeat this deception.

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Barbara Stanley's avatar

Excellent show, especially conversation with Dr. Bandy Lee re: current psychopath contagion. Friends and I have wondered how this disease, or group think spreads.

Also, on the topic of militarization of local law enforcement, I wanted to make sure you knew that local police and sheriff's departments are sent to Israel for training. Of course there appears to be a link between police brutality here, with the special techniques employed across the country, and the assessment that they are being trained to do these things is exactly right IMHO. It was reported in The Brunswick Beacon, here in Brunswick County, NC, that our sheriff's department was sent there for training, and I also read that Durham, NC refused to send theirs, in addition to many more reports that this was occurring, Considering that it was allegedly Israel who trained US forces at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo in torture techniques, I would like to see discussion about why this is happening.

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TCL's avatar

In simpler terms, isn’t MAGA a cult much like the People’s Temple followers in Jonestown , ie mass folie a deux?

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TomL's avatar

There's a large and growing number of journalists coming out against the hypocrisy of liberalism. Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi who were attacked as "so-called journalists"; Chris Hedges who has been dismissed by the left for not going along with the continual litmus testing of every source as well as vicious attacks on those who would question the US funneling endless money to military theatres and "humanitarian" aid used to soften up populations and buy influence before political control is exerted by our CIA. Chris Hedges has also been quite critical of the left's embrace of sexual perversity, porn and kink which by sane minds could be properly characterized as highly exploitative and as torture in many cases. Many of the Dems. feel like they have to pander to their basest supporters hence the connections to Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/americans-can-no-longer-tolerate-european-entitlement

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TomL's avatar
Mar 9Edited

Within a couple weeks of Trump's second inauguration (if only greats of a generation or two could witness this) I contacted my CT senators and congressman calling for impeachment. It's clear the man is not temperamentally or morally suited for the presidency. Any and all legal remedies should continue to be sought to oppose his unconstitutional actions. Slash the federal government greater than ever while dropping taxes on the rich? Mind Boggling! The $35 Trillion federal deficit with galloping interest is an existential threat to the US. Why have the Dems. not considered that a big issue? People like David Stockman have been writing about this for years including how Trump was worse economically than Biden, however Biden mushroomed the budget deficits too. There is nothing as expensive as war economically and socially and Biden did so little to seek to resolve Russian claims or Palestinian needs during his term, and it appears he was mentally disabled for much of his presidency.

Why do we get these morally depraved people in high political office? Has the campaign season and the pageantry become so disqualifying of competent, morally fit and tough minded people with the need to align with wealthy corrupt interests? Sy Hersh exposed JFK in "The Dark Side of Camelot" and the left was upset. The Clintons have been exposed by Peter Schweitzer and others for their corruption. It wasn't just the 1994 Newt Gingrich "revolution" that explains Clinton's sell-outs. When the Bush years arrived it was like a pall settled over the country, I wouldn't be surprised if Cheney engineered 911, but they were at least culpable in failing to prevent it. Then 8 years of Obama where more sell-outs occurred, none of the Wall Street crooks went to jail. You could have said that Obama was "qualified", morally fit when he took office, but few real reforms occurred. He, like the Clintons was richly rewarded with hundreds of millions of dollars after leaving the presidency in lucrative book deals and speaking engagements. As Chris Hedges has pointed out, the current political landscape was predictable.

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William Frenger's avatar

Thank you Ralph. This Duopoly has been profoundly corrupt for generations. Perhaps they were created to hijack Democracy and deliver what we see before us today. They act with impunity because they know they can always get the people to elect one or the other of them and, One is all it takes. There can be no change from within this Hydra and as long as people keep voting for it there will be no change, Period.

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Larry Inn's avatar

Author, M.F. Ashley Montagu:

MAN’S MOST DANGEROUS MYTH: The Fallacy of Race. 2nd edition, copyright 1945.

Foreword by Aldous Huxley. Columbia University Press, New York.

ISBN: 9781406733235

NOT IN OUR GENES: Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature.

Richard C. Lewonton, Steven Rose, & Leon J. Kamin. HayMarket Books 2nd Edition.

www.haymarketbooks.org

ISBN: 978-1-60846-727-3.

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Theresa Barzee's avatar

Wow! This show just keeps getting better. Bless you-all for your work!

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don dunne's avatar

There are less whites in America then ever before,, but you would never know it if you watch TV news programs and study those advertisements trying to sell you stuff .

When did all the big shot money people holding all the strings decided us white folks don't count ?

Let's take sports,, NBA ,, or even college ball ,, who's doing all the dunking ? How about all those tv reruns ?

Don't get me wrong,,a lot of my buddies in Nam were black ,, not a lot ,,but quite a few , most are dead now because they got the orange later .

If you got yourself one of those elite Eastern college degrees or I should say given to you ,,,you don't need to read any further, because most of you guys and some gals don't worry about the color of your skin ,or coming new to America.. ,because most of the time your real concern is how much you need to get extra from your trust fund next year.

There is know problem if some immigrant, black or white , Hispanic or LGBT gets the job I ain't qualified for ,, they deserve it , but it sure would be nice to turn on my TV and see a like in kind sometime ,, at least once in a while .

Come on you wealthy, rich , educationed elite , intellectuals , controllers of the universe give us some white folks our just do ,, and I don't mean mountain do. .

Good luck America have a great day my friends

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Tom Winter's avatar

Need to police Zionist Supremacy.

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Kali Das's avatar

So much toxic lying and establishment manipulation coming from this idiotic satanic toxic podcast. No wonder we have a problem with this country.

May everyone associated with this podcast, and putting it up here, go to hell. That’s the only place fit for you.

No seriously.

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Ryan Featherston's avatar

Okay, but they won't wait up for you.

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