From the truly inane to the utterly insane, counting down the wildest things the Donald has uttered yet.
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Trump’s 30 Most Mind-Boggling Debate Moments (So Far)” / The Closer with Keith Olbermann / GQ ☮
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POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “George Mallinckrodt: Jailing the Mentally Ill” / RT America / On Contact with Chris Hedges ☮
On this week’s episode of On Contact, Chris Hedges discusses the incarceration of America’s mentally ill with George Mallinckrodt, psychotherapist and author of Getting Away with Murder. They address the cases of mistreatment, isolation, and lack of transparency that Mallinckrodt witnessed while working in a Florida state prison psychiatric ward, and then RT Correspondent Anya Parampil examines the plight of the mentally ill in the United States.
AMERICAN HISTORY: “Support Indigenous Rights by Abolishing [Catholic] Columbus Day” / The Big Picture RT / Thom Hartmann ☮
Deborah Menkart, Teaching For Change/Zinn Education Project & Daniel Ruiz, Capital City Public Charter School, joins Thom. On Monday – millions of Americans will stay home from work and school to celebrate how Christopher Columbus committed genocide against the Taino people and launched the Transatlantic slave trade. Unfortunately – many Americans won’t know that it’s a celebration of genocide – because many Americans still don’t realize what actually happened when Columbus quote “discovered” America. Fortunately there are efforts moving forward across the country to celebrate “Indigenous People’s Day” instead of Columbus Day – with Phoenix, Arizona being the most recent city to recognize Indigenous People’s Day.
PSYCHOLOGY – PSYCHOTHERAPY: “Jacques Lacan” / The School of Life / Alain de Botton ☮
Jacques Lacan was France’s most famous psychoanalyst, who came up with the intriguing concept of the ‘mirror phase.’
UK POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Pie Interviews a Young Conservative” / Jonathan Pie ☮
Pie attempts polite conversation with a Tory teenager.
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “You Knew Who Trump Was When You Endorsed Him, Republican Leaders” / The Huffington Post / Jeffrey Young ☮
You knew. You all knew. You knew the whole time who and what Donald Trump is.
Mike Pence. Paul Ryan. Mitch McConnell. Ted Cruz. Chris Christie. Newt Gingrich. Orrin Hatch. John McCain. Marco Rubio. Virtually all of you.
You heard every terrible thing he said. You watched every inexcusable thing he did. You knew Trump is a race-baiting, xenophobic, misogynistic, authoritarian con man. You knew about his insatiable appetite for power, his bottomless need for affirmation, his dangerous impulsiveness and uncontrollable temper. You knew he was a huckster who ruined businesses and lives. You knew he debased your party, and you personally. You knew.
GREEN PARTY: “Bill Maher and Sarah Silverman Condescendingly Wag Their Fingers at BernieOrBust Voters” / The Humanist Report / Mike Figueredo ☮
In a segment on ‘Real Time with Bill Maher,’ Bill had Sarah Silverman on to belittle #BernieOrBust voters some more by condescendingly wagging their fingers at them for voting third-party and implying that they’re uninformed. It seems like they don’t get why we’re angry with the DNC and Hillary Clinton, so we explain it to them in this segment.
INTELLECTUAL DIALOGUE: “Real Time with Bill Maher: Overtime” / Obamacare, Charter Schools, Politricks / James Carville, Mark Cuban, Johann Hari, and Pitbull / 10.07.2016 ☮
GREEN PARTY: “Definitive Proof Ralph Nader Didn’t Cost Al Gore the Election” / “Al Gore Betrayed Blacks, Progressives and America, Not Ralph Rader” / Jimmy Dore / *MUST WATCH* ☮
The erroneous claim that Ralph Nader cost Al Gore the 2000 election is frequently cited to discredit voting for a 3rd party candidate. It’s nonsense. Here’s why.
Black voters in Florida were purged from voter rolls by the tens of thousands, handing the White House to George Bush. In a sad moment in American History, highlighted in Michael Moore’s Farenheit 911, members of the Congressional Black Caucus rose to voice their opposition but Gore as President of the Senate told them to sit down and shut up, even scoring some cheap laughs.
THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: “Guess Where Most of Our Money Goes” / Jimmy Dore ☮
Politicians like to tell you America is out of money but there is never any shortage of funds for bombs, bullets and wars.
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