Opinion Dylan Ratigan says America is a third-world country without New Silicon Valley Hollywood Wall Street

[skysolo]

Clinton, and Bush Sr. for that matter, are not near the level of Trump, Reagan, and GWB

Clinton allowed consolidation of media companies and was a de-regulating machine. Reagan could only dream of the de-regulation that Clinton did.

 

[lfd0311]

You missed the point entirely. And clearly didn't watch the video.

Trump is a symptom of the problem.

But sure blame every thing on the dems.

Because that's what I'm doing. I'm simply addressing what you said in your OP.

 

[skysolo]

Because that's what I'm doing. I'm simply addressing what you said in your OP.

"Because that's what you were doing"... you mean missing the point?

He didn't blame Trump. You assumed wrongly.

 

[Corn Pop Hombre]

To be fair, America would be a first-world country without all the leeches...

funny how you can make such an ignorant comment while being completely oblivious to the fact that the nations with the highest standard of living in the world have the strongest social safety nets

so to blame social spending on America being a third world country is literally the exact opposite of the truth

 

[Corn Pop Hombre]

once the dollar’s collapses the US army will be impossible to remain as powerful

right wingers have been spinning this nonsense since Goldwater. The us dollar isn't going to "collapse" and the debt doesn't matter. How many more decades until you finally admit it?

 

[skysolo]

right wingers have been spinning this nonsense since Goldwater. The us dollar isn't going to "collapse" and the debt doesn't matter. How many more decades until you finally admit it?

That's Ratigan's point.

Money is arbitrary. We are literally printing money and giving it to the wealthiest of the wealthy while telling the little people to go collect cans with no masks.

 

[PubliusVentidius]

The question is what will the people of America do? If you really live in a democracy and have have freedom why don't you stop being victims and do something?

A lot of americans don't have any social consciousness, they are just self-seeking consumers. Look the shit they protest, it's emblematic. They almost never protest laws that favor their oligarchic donor class overlords time and time again to the point billionaires now pay less taxes than wagies and are bailed out constantly, the slashing of environmental protections to please corporations, and countless other serious things that should concern actual citizens. But the moment they can't consume as usual for a couple of weeks in the face of a pandemic they are out in the streets larping with tactical vests and ar-15s, they are probably the most pacified and compliant people on Earth as long as you don't touch their consoomer's rights, as long as you don't do that they will not only tolerate any structural and systemic injustice but even reinforce them.
A yellow vests type scenario in the US would probably see counter-protesters (the same ''protesters'' who throw temper tantrums because they can't golf or get a haircut for a few weeks) calling them terrorists while bootlicking authority and defending the system.

 

[xcvbn]

Clinton allowed consolidation of media companies and was a de-regulating machine. Reagan could only dream of the de-regulation that Clinton did.

“The era of big government is over”
-Bill Clinton SOTU 1996

The greatest feat of the Republican Party is having took over the Democratic Party

 

[skysolo]

“The era of big government is over”
-Bill Clinton SOTU 1996

The greatest feat of the Republican Party is having took over the Democratic Party

They were talking about that in another video.

The Dems were able to pass a right-wing agenda that the Republicans could never have done.

 

[xcvbn]

A lot of americans don't have any social consciousness, they are just atomized consumers. Look the shit they protest, it's emblematic. They almost never protest laws that favor their oligarchic donor class overlords time and time again to the point billionaires now pay less taxes than wagies and are bailed out constantly, the slashing of environmental protections to please corporations, and countless other serious things that should concern actual citizens. But the moment they can't consume as usual for a couple of weeks in the face of a pandemic they are out in the streets larping with tactical vests and ar-15s, they are probably the most pacified and compliant people on Earth as long as you don't touch their consoomer's rights, as long as you don't do that they will not only tolerate any structural and systemic injustice but even reinforce them.
A yellow vests type scenario in the US would probably see counter-protestors (the same ''rebels'' who throw temper tantrums because they can't golf or get a haircut for a few weeks) calling them terrorists while bootlicking authority and defending the system.

Really incredible that a temporary mandate to SLOW DOWN A PANDEMIC(which even where I am in CA amounts to a suggestion) has caused people to believe they’re only now living under tyranny- but not when the bipartisan NDAA signed by Obama and subsequently Trump literally gives the state power to indefinitely detain Americans without due process, nor the patriot act, nor mass incarceration, etc.

 

[skysolo]

A yellow vests type scenario in the US would probably see counter-protesters (the same ''protesters'' who throw temper tantrums because they can't golf or get a haircut for a few weeks) calling them terrorists while bootlicking authority and defending the system.

You can see the future.

 

[Headkicktoleg]

US has been one for awhile. They were a first-world country post WW2 and since then have sunk into third-world status as their oligarchs have made a concerted effort to turn it into one.

Also the US military loses to Russia and China in recent war simulations.

Lol what shit hole do you live in? I've yet to see a post that wasn't crying at the US

 

[bobgeese]

 

[hillelslovak87]

To be fair, America would be a first-world country without all the leeches...

I agree. Corporations should not be subsidized without being regulated in any serious way.

You're learning.

 

[hillelslovak87]

A Steinbeck character.

 

[My2Cents]

right wingers have been spinning this nonsense since Goldwater. The us dollar isn't going to "collapse" and the debt doesn't matter. How many more decades until you finally admit it?

lol I am not a fucking right winger and how stupid can you be to say debt doesn’t matter. Once trust goes in a currency it collapses, same goes of course for the euro by the way.
If it collapses during this crisis I am not sure of course but one thing is certain: all this money printing and bailing out big corporations makes your dollar purchasing power diminish each and every day

 

[My2Cents]

right wingers have been spinning this nonsense since Goldwater. The us dollar isn't going to "collapse" and the debt doesn't matter. How many more decades until you finally admit it?

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
And here is a nice website for you to see what happened when Nixon abandoned the gold backed USD in 1971. It also perfectly show where all that wealth went to and I am pretty sure you didn’t benefit with your 2 job living from paycheck to paycheck life.

some people go as far as calling that modern slavery

 

[Crom Cruach]

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
And here is a nice website for you to see what happened when Nixon abandoned the gold backed USD in 1971. It also perfectly show where all that wealth went to and I am pretty sure you didn’t benefit with your 2 job living from paycheck to paycheck life.

some people go as far as calling that modern slavery

Those charts are scary as hell.

I've said it before, foreigners minds boggle when we hear US people unironically talking about "socialists" or "the left" as many Sherdoggers do here.

Neither of those things exist in the US.

The whole US spectrum is Center Right and Conservative Right. A 19th Century British Empire for the modern age.

 

[Nate banged my mom]

US has been one for awhile. They were a first-world country post WW2 and since then have sunk into third-world status as their oligarchs have made a concerted effort to turn it into one.

Also the US military loses to Russia and China in recent war simulations.

So why don’t they come for us?

because they know.

 

[D3thr0n3d K1ng]

So why don’t they come for us?

because they know.

Come for what bruh?

Russia is already in the Arctic and trying to reclaim lost Soviet satellite states. China is building missile sites all over the South China Sea and expanding into Africa and the Pacific. Are you expecting them to try to occupy Indiana or something?