POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “The Top Democrat in the Country is a Neoliberal Disaster” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
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PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Obama Enrages With Lame Response to Trump But Bernie Nails it” / Jimmy Dore ☮
Barack Obama met with Donald Trump and spoke about with weak platitudes and lame sports metaphors.
US POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Reckoning with a Trump Presidency, and the Eite Democrates Who Helped Deliver It” / The Intercept / Betsy Reed, Jeremy Scahill, and Glenn Greenwald ☮
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THE UNITED STATES has been plunged into a state of purgatory following the election of Donald Trump. In all political quarters, people are engaged in their own post-mortem analysis of how this happened and what it means, not only for the future of this country, but for the world. Trump ran on a pledge to engage in mass deportations, deny Muslims entry to the U.S., strip abortion rights, and “bomb the shit” out of ISIS. Although Trump has staked out conflicting positions on a wide range of issues over the past several years, his campaign centered on an overtly nativist agenda. And his running mate, Mike Pence, is one of the key leaders of the radical religious right contingent of the Republican Party.
While many Democrats are pointing fingers outside their own ranks to make sense of the stunning defeat of Hillary Clinton, few are willing to examine how their choice of nominee and the campaign they ran shaped the result. In this podcast, Intercept Editor-in-Chief Betsy Reed and co-founders Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill break down how we got here and what a Trump presidency means for civil liberties, surveillance, war, abortion rights, and other issues. Below is a lightly edited transcript of the conversation.
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PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “It’s Time For A Progressive Revolution!” / The Young Turks / Jimmy Dore, and Steve Oh ☮
On the latest episode of Aggressive Progressives Jimmy Dore and Steve Oh discuss what’s next for Progressives. Steve and Jimmy discuss how Progressives should take over the DNC and bring up the protests at Standing Rock. Watch the full Aggressive Progressives episode here: https://tytnetwork.com/ap
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Revenge of the ‘Deplorables'” / truthdig / Robert Scheer ☮
The people Hillary Clinton derided as a “basket of deplorables” have spoken. They have voted out of the pain of their economic misfortune, which Clinton’s branch of the Democratic Party helped engender.
What you have is a defeat of elitism. Clinton’s arrogance was on full display with the revelation of her speeches cozying up to Goldman Sachs—the bank that caused this misery more than any other—and the irony of this is not lost on the people who are hurting and can’t pay their bills. This is a victory for a neofascist populism—scapegoating immigrants and Muslims—and if Bernie Sanders had been the Democrats’ candidate, I feel confident he would have won. We were denied the opportunity of a confrontation between a progressive populist, represented by Sanders, and a neofascist populist.
It’s a repudiation of the arrogant elitism of the Democratic Party machine as represented by the Clintons, whose radical deregulation of Wall Street created this mess. And instead of recognizing the error of their ways and standing up to the banks, Clinton’s campaign cozied up to them, and that did not give people who are hurting confidence that she would respond to their needs or that she gave a damn about their suffering. She’s terminally tone-deaf.
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Kyle on TYT Before the 2016 Election” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski, Anna Kasperian ☮
Kyle on TYT’s election coverage before the results rolled in.
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “One Nation Under Trump with Michael Smith” / RT America / On Contact with Chris Hedges ☮
On this week’s episode of On Contact, Chris Hedges discusses what to expect under a Donald Trump-led United States with Michael Smith, attorney and co-editor of “Imagine: Living in a Socialist U.S.A”. RT Correspondent Anya Parampil tracks who voted for Trump in the 2016 election.
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POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Rachel Maddow Blames Third-Party Voters for Trump Victory” / The Humanist Report / Mike Figueredo ☮
Rachel Maddow couldn’t understand why the months of pro-Clinton propaganda failed to get her candidate into the White House. Rather than realizing that Americans just simply don’t like the Clintons, she decided to blame democracy itself and shamed third-party voters, implying they’re culpable for Trump’s victory. Shameful.
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Maddow [Incorrectly] Blames Third Party Voters for Hillary’s Loss” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow said that third party voters not only “don’t care who becomes president,” but that they cost Hillary Clinton the White House. But the numbers simply don’t add up, and Maddow is angry at the wrong group of people.
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