Cenk & Ana. Poll: Most of US does not support cutting aid for low-income families. Russia calls for web activities of some firms to be regulated. PD officers getting fired but get rehired by nearby departments. Dr. Phil guest given alcohol and xanax. Trump calls out Vanity Fair for apologizing to Clinton.
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Of* I apologize still on holiday trips, on my phone. I always have issues with typos it’s even worse on my phone with autocorrect
Thanks for the link to the petition however I do not agree with the piggy back one. We can’t say “it was wrong to make someone resign for a bad choice” then turn around and ask for resgination if others for a bad choice. They got scared and that’s wrong but they are new and can learn from this (hopefully). Forcing Cenk out was wrong but unless we know they acted with malice so is forcing out others…
Btw screw the JD staff; Cenk is and always will be JD founder along with Kyle Kulinski. These SJW douchenozzles with their infinitesimal and inaccurate viewpoints aren’t and never ought to be responsible for any staffing decisions, in other words those dudes are replaceable, even though Cenk the classy guy tweets that they’ve done a gr8 job, horse BS, they’ve essentially shot themselves in the foot and both the people who had the PR response did such a gr8 smear job they ought to essentially be fired or forced to resign, but at the very least give a formal and super descriptive apology to Cenk which should be 8 times longer than their smear job …. and I know Cenk reads these comments, he’s said so himself, literally ppl like Sargon of Akkad, one of his biggest premier haters are unanimously defending him, which should tell you something when your own supposed ‘enemies’ are aligning with your integrity, it shows Cenk has a lot more supporters than these idiot JD staffers do. So support the candidates, sure, fund the JD org, fuqk no, not until their leadership is purged and everyone who’s been forced to resign is precisely put back in their leadership positions….. this really pissed me off as I know it pissed off 90% of TYT audience, without which JD is as good as the Lite version of Green Party Lite, no hyperbole here. 100% leadership power play I wonder how many books of amoral Power these fruit flies have read. Also, just search the petition which asks for formal apologies to be issued to Cenk and sign it as I and thousands of other TYT fans have so JD knows everyone is watching their BS and they’ll be held accountable for all their actions.
Btw here’s the official petition signed by over a thousand people:
https://www.change.org/p/justice-democrats-reinstate-cenk-uyger-in-his-position-with-the-justice-democrats/w?source_location=psf_petitions
Correction to Cenk’s claim that Medicaid is for the poor and therefore does not apply to “most of us” — sorry, Cenk, but you seem to be buying into the mainstream propaganda that describes US economy in terms of averages., and averages are skewed because the amount of wealth harbored by the 1% is so obscenely huge. (When Bill Gates walks into a bar, the “average wealth” of everyone in that bar rises by a factor of several hundred million.)
The sad fact is, most WORKING Americans (over 50%) don’t make enough to rise above the poverty level. When you add in those Americans who are not working…? Time for us to acknowledge that America is a majority-poor nation. Most Americans are poor.
Many thanks to Jimmy Dore for putting Mark Blyth on my radar — here is a talk Blyth gave a couple weeks ago which is an excellent history of America’s majority-descent into poverty over the past 40 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsqGITb0W4A
Under an hour. For those who don’t have time to read Blyth’s book AUSTERITY, THE HISTORY OF A DANGEROUS IDEA, this is a good crash-course.
Dr Phil could surely have a nurse on staff to medically detox the people they have on the show…there is no excuse for any of it to happen. His show should be forced off the air.
I’m not surprised about the Dr. Phil story. Back in ’07, my then-teenage daughter and I appeared on the Tyra Banks show, which was engineered to inflate, embellish, and sensationalize a statement my daughter said. The impact on her was devastating – she was bullied and shamed by students as well as teachers afterwards. When we were invited to participate on the show, I was naive enough to believe their schpiel that the purpose was to educate other parents of teens. What I saw instead was manipulation and exploitation (in this case, of children) for ratings.
Just a reminder: there is no welfare in the U.S.
Welfare is where the government pays the unemployed because a flaw in capitalism requires a certain level of unemployment. Welfare is paid to those who the capitialist economy systematically makes unemployed.
What we have in the U.S. are earned benefits. These are benefits you have because you are a U.S. citizen and pay into the system. For example, you are entitled to the earned benefit of Social Security because you work 40 quarters paying into the system. You are entitled to Medicare because you pay the Medical Insurance tax (a payroll tax) and personal income tax.
As for the unemployed, we have a system of unemployment income that comes from you and the company you work for paying into a fund. It is broken because it was designed for an industrial economy to get people through the normal downturns of a manufacturing economy, which typically had recessions that lasted 6 to 18 months. It was inadequate for that, but it is completely dysfunctional for a post-industrial society.
And what Republicans usually call “welfare” is money paid to keep children out of abject poverty. This used to be AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children), but even that thin charity was too much for the Republicans, and they demanded a stop to it. Gov. John Kasich and President Bill Clinton got together and put limits on it, which is why it is now TANF (the key word in its title being “Temporary”), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. (Because we also have to shame them for being “needy”.)
So, when Republicans talk about “welfare” we need to remember that (A) they don’t know what they are talking about and (B) the ones that do are lying to you.
Welfare is not defined as the universal patch over the hole in capitalism. Any economy from capitalism to command economy can exist alongside welfare.
SSI is welfare. So is Medicaid.
To claim these are not welfare because only citizens qualify, or because other restrictions apply e.g. those citizens must be incapable of supporting themselves, is disingenuous.
Welfare is not defined as being universal. Welfare is merely defined as an entitlement, literally, and only particular classes of individuals qualify. I don’t know where you got this idea that welfare must be universal to be worthy of the name.
Paul Ryan knows first hand that able-bodied people get help from Social Security because he did.
I’ve felt like Ana and Johnny-Pie feel about Trump for many years before he even ran for POTUS and now especially so. He and all the swamp slugs he’s brought out with him make me sick to my stomach. I don’t know what’s happening in other countries, but here in misogynists’ paradise Japan a whole lot of men think Trump getting in and staying in this long is not only funny but something to identify with and even aspire to. Creeps get away with so much over here in so many areas that getting that American ‘pick-up artist’ Julien Blanc deported and banned from Japan actually took a number of years to accomplish (he was finally banned in 2014 from Japan, Korea and several other countries for giving seminars on how to abuse women).
I’m really glad the Me Too Movement has made Turk of The Year, but you’d be shocked at how effective Japan mainstream media has shut down nearly all the Me Too stories but the ones they can’t touch — Weinstein and Spacey. Men with positions and power moan and whinge on about the low birth rate while blaming women for working and furthering their education.
Ideas and attitudes about women in Japan haven’t changed much since demon midwife Miyuki Ishikawa got caught killing over a hundred babies back in the 1940s. You can see how easily she got off on Grace’s recent Murder With Friends. By 1952, when the American GHQ returned all but Okinawa to Japanese sovereignty, the Japanese government decided the way to stop a case like Ishikawa’s from ever reoccurring was to make abortion as light a matter and nearly as cheap as getting a haircut all over the country. That knee-jerk reaction is having repercussions right to this day.
The Japanese people tend to look up to and respect the people of the United States. Of course that WW2 victory has a hell of a lot to do with it, but note they also factor in the marches like the huge pussyhat resistance Women’s March the day after Trump got in and the anti-muslim ban protests at the airports. They see that and get encouraged and psyched towards progressive change in their own country, which is a great thing. There were even a couple of marches here inspired by the Stateside marches against the murder of Eric Garner and so many others; I participated in one of them in Tokyo and was impressed with how much the Japanese participants knew about the seriousness of police brutality in the US AND in Japan. I don’t want people over here getting the slightest idea from me at least that decent Americans have normalized to ANY degree the shit Trump, the GOP and their Corporate Democrat ass-lickers have been pulling since that jackass campaign period and this horrendous year with a dotard POTUS.
We need more of these marches in even BIGGER numbers. Let’s embarrass the maga-nazi supporters for a change. Support TYT, Justice Democrats and Wolf-Pac, but also Karen Fonseca of Texas and get your bumper sticker from her store today. I did.
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/government-programs-and-taxpayers-financed-paul-ryan-he-didn-t-make-it-on-his-own
I thought there were not any problems like this…why is he now choosing to say there is, and he is saying it as if his election(domestic personal life)might be under attack?! Is he going to accuse himself of being the culprit – then deny it too? It is the truth…Pathological liars will lie when they do not need to…he and Trump said it was all just fake news. Wait, is Trump going to change his mind too?
I’ve been waiting 5 years for my name to be called and it finally happened! I’m so pumped! Cold Hard Cash.
Congratulations coosiepuff! What a nice year end surprise for you!
I wonder why we don’t have a licensing body for police like we do lawyers and doctors. Doing that could prevent rehires of people who shouldn’t be in law enforcement.
Because we need a lot more law enforcement than we do those other professions. There is not enough stake in stopping bad cops vs holding up keeping the departments staffed. In every action, in every department visible, they are willing to overlook lmost anything and push anyone out that wont. Just to keep the status quo.
Yes but to what extent has policing – the job – become unacceptable to so many people? Is it because the job is always depicted as a violent confrontation? If cops were actually portrayed as public servants rather than bullies and assassins, would more people be interested in the job? More importantly, if the role of cops in society returned to what it used to be (before the militarisation) would it not be a more attractive career option?
Euroyankee, according to ABC News, 10 July 2017, the solution to the police shortage is much more complicated than the role of cops in society returning to what it used to be before militarization: “Record-low unemployment has made it harder for most industries to fill vacancies, but police recruiters have extra hurdles to overcome. Candidates must pass demanding physical and psychological tests, and they must have a drug-free history and pass a rigorous background check. Many departments administer polygraph tests.” (See, http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=96570&page=1.)
Perhaps the shortage of police cadets has more to do with out-dated drug laws than militarization. The article also reports the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s claim that $39,000 is the median starting salary. If salary is a major issue, then perhaps tax cuts for the rich should be directed towards police salaries, since the rich have the most to lose when society finally crumbles. Then you have the whole unconstitutional policing thing and the resulting bad publicity.
The military had a similar problem, but they had overcame it by making military service voluntary, hiding the mutilated, bloody corpses of our sons and daughters, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers from prying public eyes, and fudging civilian death totals towards the low end. Even if one demilitarized the police, there would still be unarmed civilian deaths, but with today’s technology it would be impossible to completely hide them from prying public eyes.
The more one looks at the issue, the more one realizes the shortage is due to multifarious problems, not a single problem: reform taxation so societal services are adequately funded; reform drug laws to treat drug use as a medical problem, not a criminal one; reform gun laws; outlaw corporate prisons, and reform police procedures.
There is also a remote chance that what we are witnessing is the decline of the American Empire and its agonizing slide into fascism and there is not a damn thing we can do about it. Let’s hope not.
I think being a police officer is a calling as well as a profession. We used to admire police because they gave up a lot of to serve their community. As a child (I am 71) I admired our small town police chief who came to each class room every year to talk to us about safety. Those who feel that calling in this day and age are discouraged from following it by the action they see from others and are expected to perform themselves. I know a young man who wants to be a police officer, he would make a great officer because he is big and strong but has great empathy for people. I don’t think he will make it in today’s police force. Very sad.
MrsAngelD, excellent observation. States license teachers and beauticians, also, so it would be easy to license police. While reading and thinking about your post, I, too, wondered why police were not licensed. My first thought was conspiracy. My second thought was the honorable profession of policing existed before the concept of licensing. My third and final thought was conspiracy. Every person in power needs armed enforcers to stay in power.
Walter Cronkite in his autobiography, A Reporter’s Life, helps to make the “conspiracy case” for maintaining power when he related how political boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City, MO, ran a corrupt political machine and how two uniformed police visited him at work, insisting he had not voted and needed to come with them to the polling place to remedy his alleged oversight. Cronkite voted twice that day: once as Anthony Lombardo and once as another unidentified person. It seems Kansas City “was the sort of town that practiced the old political-machine custom of voting right and voting often” (52).
Fun Fact: Cronkite was ineligible to vote because he had not lived long enough in the city to fulfill the residency requirement, besides he was not old enough to vote.
The Cronkite incident occurred in the mid-1930s. Another example of a political machine that used the police to maintain their power could be Tammany Hall during the 19th century, which ran New York City to their advantage. These are not isolated incidents, either. Many more could be identified throughout our brief history as a country if we took the time to conduct the research. Although graft and voter fraud are not as heinous as rape or murder, it would seem that any of the crimes mentioned here would be cause for revoking police-licenses if they existed.
Fun Fact: Originally, lawyers were not respected. The founding of the American Bar Associate (est. 1878) and its establishment of academic standards and model ethical codes for the legal profession helped to imbue lawyers with respectability. During the Salem Witch Trails (1692 – 3), a lawyer asked the presiding judge if he could represent one of the accused. The judge said that he could join the trial only if he promised not to mislead the court!