Cenk Uygur, Jason Carter, Francesca Fiorentini & Brett Erlich. Roseanne Barr interview with Sean Hannity. Officers fired after calling man “fake American” and beating him up. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez interview with Trevor Noah.
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Maybe it’s one of those relative things with Roseanne. In her past her family helped house Holocaust refugees who witnessed murder, torture and general barbarism by the Nazis. She’s not one of those racists, -> she’s ‘not a racist.’ It’s sad that she can’t see beyond her own identity to empathize with other victims.
Can’t believe Czenk did not use #ShowMeTheButtocks or #Merica buttons… Frannie, I love you! #TYTBringBackNEWSBROKE!
“You know, you always see people coming in with economic arguments, and they say, look, these numbers don’t really add up,” he continued. “You know, in order to get health care for everybody, this is what it would cost. That’s going to be troubling. Even if you reverse the Republican tax deal, that’s only going to make up 5 percent of what we need to pay for Medicare for all. How do you pay for education for all ― how do you pay for all of these ideas?”
Ocasio-Cortez called that an “excellent, excellent question.” She told Noah she recently sat down with a “Nobel Prize economist” to talk policy ― “I can’t believe I can say that, it’s really weird” ― and noted that the extremely wealthy, like Warren Buffett, could be paying a 15 percent tax rate. With that and a corporate tax rate of 28 percent, plus some closed loopholes, she said, there would be “$2 trillion in 10 years” to put toward transitioning the U.S. to a fully renewable-energy economy. “One of the wide estimates is that it’s going to take $3 to $4 trillion” to do that, she said.
If the super rich were not endlessly greedy and destroying the country it would be easy to fund the progressive platform
Not a big fan of Francesca Fiorentini. Her political views are good, but as a host/commentator she is a little annoying.
The below story was a predictable rendering of A Fascistic trumpian state of mind. These officers should be debarred from serving as police. They are dangerous, should be made an example of and are uncivilized. Civilization vs barbarism is the underlying issue here. Many nuances in defining who is civilized, I maintain. Note 19th century Geo Wharton James:
Can I respect any civilization that for the 125 years of its existence has refused to pass laws for the preservation of the purity of the food of its poor? The rich can buy what and where they choose, but for the whole period of our existence we have been so bound, hand and foot, by the money-makers who have vitiated our food supply that they might add a few more millions to their dirty hoard of ungodly dollars that we have closed our eyes to the physical and spiritual demoralization that has come to the poor by the poisoned concoctions handed out to them—under protection of United States laws—as foods.
Can I respect an educational institution that educates the minds of its children at the expense of their bodies? That has so little common sense and good judgment as to be putting its children through fierce competitive examinations when they should be strengthening their bodies at the critical age of adolescence?
This is one aspect of being civilized and transcends the shallow epithet “American”.
Officers fired, charged after allegedly beating man and calling him “fake American”
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NEW ORLEANS — Two rookie New Orleans police officers were fired and charged with battery in the beating of a man they allegedly called a “fake American” following a confrontation at a bar. Spencer Sutton and John Galman were booked on one count each of simple battery in connection with the beating of Jorge Alberto “George” Gomez early Tuesday, reports CBS affiliate WWL-TV.
Gomez said the two off-duty officers, who are white, began harassing him inside Mid-City Yacht Club, saying they didn’t like his camouflage clothing and asking him whether he had served in the military, reports the New Orleans Advocate. Gomez said he told the men he was born in the U.S. but was raised in Honduras before he returned to live in New Orleans and served in the National Guard, but the men wouldn’t accept his answer.
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George Gomez WWLTV
WWL-TV confirmed that Gomez, who is Hispanic, served with the Louisiana National Guard.
Gomez told The New Orleans Advocate that officers asked him whether he was an American.
“They kept telling me I wasn’t an American citizen, that I was a fake American,” Gomez told the Advocate.
Shortly after the confrontation at South Murat and Baudin streets, Gomez was beaten a few blocks away from the bar. Court records obtained by the Advocate said Galman struck Gomez with “an opened hand and fist,” and Sutton also struck Gomez.
He was reportedly treated at a hospital, where he required stitches and was later released. During an interview with WWL-TV, Gomez’s face was swollen, scratched and bruised.
Sources told WWL-TV that the officers initially claimed that Gomez was the aggressor and that they were defending themselves, but witness accounts and surveillance video “clearly” showed their version of events was false, police said.
“We took very decisive and strong action against them with the evidence that was brought to us,” Police Superintendent Michael Harrison told WWL-TV. “What we learned and what I was briefed on and what we saw supported they were the aggressors, not only inside but outside and it continued to escalate.”
Harrison said in a statement obtained by the paper that New Orleans officers “are expected to comply with the law and adhere to the highest standards of professional conduct, whether on- or off-duty.”
Gomez said he wanted an apology from the two now-former officers, who appeared in court on Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor counts. They had no apparent injuries.
According to the Advocate, the two had graduated from the police training academy in December and had not yet completed a required probationary period.
In announcing that 24-year-old Sutton and 26-year-old Galman had been fired, police said they and the FBI are investigating whether they violated Gomez’ civil rights, and a district attorney is reportedly weighing whether to enhance the charges.
Sutton also told investigators he had no memory of the fight, according to court documents. The two officers were initially released on their own recognizance, but their bails were raised to $1,500 following a hearing Wednesday, reports the Advocate.
Oh, yay. Another whole hour with Francesca’s super annoying showboating. Skipping tonight, I’m afraid. I tried…I just can’t do it for another hour.
I think she’s honestly just having a normal conversation and isn’t really used to the way the show works. Everyone that works for TYT, especially Cenk will talk for too long and not let others speak. Ana does that to Friday panels when she’s the main host and John does the same thing. Francesca was basically the main host for the first hour so she did what all other hosts do at TYT. And I think she’s actually funny. But to each his own.
I’m not a bright fellow and I’m ignorant of many many things. I must say Valerie looks white or Hispanic to me. I had to look her up on Wikipedia, as I didn’t know who she was.
I have a half-black nephew and the way his genes were expressed he looks only black. I don’t think anyone seeing him would say he had a white mother.
That was excellent casting! Both hours.
Can’t wear camo??? Ridiculous. Living rurally, I am surrounded by people in camo. My students wear camo to school.
its not loading gets to the part of “totally spoon fed” and then just dies.
The rich do not fund the federal government. Congress instructs the treasury to create the dollars. When you demand the rich “pay their fair share”, corporate media turns on you. It’s an unnecessary battle. We need to start demanding that all the social programs progressives want, be funded directly through congress. Help the people first, Focus on congress. Go after the rich some other time.
You mean the rich that own Congress through legalized bribery?
Yes, that rich. I do agree with the Justice Democrat’s platform of getting corruption out of congress by getting money out of politics, but congress holds the power of the purse. People tend to lose sight of that. Congress could fully fund the programs progressives want NOW.
Of course. But they’ve been legally bribed to do the opposite. By the rich.
In other words, Congress sold the power of the purse, and now just does the paperwork.
We’re on the same team and I agree with you. We need to stop pretending as though once we accomplish X then, and only then, can Y happen. We’re the richest country in the world, that is, of course, until it’s time to pay for our social programs. Hogwash.
Congress succumbs to corruption. What makes you think of that eventuality not happening to justice democrats merely because they do not accept PAC money, if they are elected?
I don’t think that. I think it’s time for the people to take control. I have no delusions that it’s going to be difficult, if not impossible, to change the system we have without starting a new, progressive party.
When people complain about the debt and the deficit and how we need to “tax the rich” to fund programs, you play right into the republicans hands. If the people (progressives) would demand that these programs be funded outright, through congress, you will have effectively disarmed the republicans of one of their favorite talking points which is “they want to raise your taxes!”. Or, how bout this oldie but a goodie “They want to punish success!”. Then round and round it goes again. Nonsense.
The counterargument made is “These people just want to print money! Remember hyperinflation in … Venezuela, Russia, etc.” I think taxing corporations makes more sense from a political standpoint, but there too you get the same counterpunches. It’s become easier to complain about tax cuts for people who have yachts inside of yachts.
You’ve got to counter the trickle down mentality by pointing out when middle class people have more money to spend, all walks of life succeed, businesses, corporations, employees, and that money circulates.
I agree totally. We have to first, concentrate on universal healthcare. Then, education funding and then, the grand finale, a federal jobs program. All those things would tremendously boost regular American’s livelihoods. The fight is not with the rich, but with congress and getting those fools to stop playing games fund these programs.
Awww I wish this part was longer. :-) I love when Jason is on the main show.
When is it ok to be ‘ merican’? Is it when you show your ass to who you pretend to hate? Is it when you bow to a longstanding adversary of the USA?
Ojala, interesting name. You ask important questions. The problem here is defining the whole based on some of its parts. There is an exception: when the Sycophant-in-Chief bows to a longstanding adversary. He kinda speaks for the whole nation when he gets out about his peers.
We might not be here now with Russia as “longstanding adversary” if we had treated them different almost 30 years ago. When the Soviet Union collapsed, we had the opportunity to help them out of their financial meltdown. Instead, some right-wingers decided to get a little bit of Cold War revenge and not help. This fostered the rise of the oligarchs.
There are abundant examples like this throughout U. S. history. Actions have consequences regardless of what group or person commits them. As my farmer uncle said to me once, “You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.”
As Obama learned, it still depends on who’s handing out the honey.
“We might not be here now with Russia as “longstanding adversary” if we had treated them different almost 30 years ago. When the Soviet Union collapsed, we had the opportunity to help them out of their financial meltdown. Instead, some right-wingers decided to get a little bit of Cold War revenge and not help. This fostered the rise of the oligarchs.”
The rise of the Russian oligarchs stemmed from the same corruptibility to wealth and power seeping over inevitably into the American sphere . and that corruptibility factor looms ever present in all ages.
Oh so lamentable! America the illiterate.