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On a bicycling tour in the Alps and I’ve caught an awful cold. Struggling, feeling isolated from my friends who don’t want to catch what I’ve got. And here you are, indeed on the other side of my screen, encouraging the heck out of everyone for waaayyy bigger issues. Thanks. I needed to hear those good words from you. 😊
Sinclair Lewis also wrote the prescient novel <b>It Can't Happen Here.</b>
Thanks a million, to you❤
Thank you 1 million!
you are the best… Coming from Unionville Pennsylvania. Chester County.
I’m with you for the most part, HCR. But we need tighter regulations on vaccine production. <br><br>You’re a historian and an excellent one. Have you not tracked what’s happened with vaccine regulations? Do you think the sudden sharp increase in vaccine dosages per capita by age 18, from 3 or 4 now up to 72, occurring immediately after the loosening of regulations and protection from legal liability for the industry, is mere coincidence?<br><br>And do you think children and adults have become healthier with that increase? Take a closer look. <br><br>Yes, germ theory has tremendous evidence behind it. But all these additional vaccinations? Do we have adequate evidence for the way we’re current using them? Did the two top FDA vaccine product officials, Drs Marion Gruber and Phillip Krause, resign in late 2021 for no reason? <br><br>Have you read “The Truth About The Drug Companies,” by Marcia Angell, M.D., 20 year veteran and editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine? There’s plenty of profit-driven, anti-scientific corruption in evidence. <br><br>But where’s the risk/benefit calculation? We all know medicines and treatments can be beneficial when they’re well researched and used judiciously. But there’s way too much money being made to fool ourselves that there are no ulterior motivations for these industries.<br><br>The drug industry is getting away with murder and the medical industry is even worse. I’m reticent to bring this up with you because you are a national treasure. And I don’t want you to become a target. <br><br>But please don’t let an excellent environmental lawyer, like Kennedy, who’s been miscast in a role he’s unequipped to play, throw you off the trail to truth.<br><br>Please, do your own research on the vaccine, drug, and medical industries. It’s a bloody business.
As the GOP donors go, most sent money to Trump's MAGA PAC. Individual Republican campaigns are struggling to raise any money since they already gave to MAGA PAC. Trump's sitting on $400 million and not doling it out at all.🤣
"We simply must address climate change" We must. And this is the "head in the sand" administration. The administration that tells people things can just keep going the way they've been going for far too long. And reality is breaking through
Is this the one where you ask what we should rename Mar-a-Lago?<br><br>Mar-a-Pedo is the NSFW one<br><br>Marmalade is the safe for work one
Will it be the same type of alignment when the Democratic Party abandoned Jim Crow for Civil Rights?
shellacked is an awesome word that I hope is revived by the blue ~ ty
I find it so bizarre that the poorest people of the USA vote for people who take away their healthcare, reduce tax for the filthy rich and destroy the public education system to keep the poor, stupid and poor. No wonder they don’t live as long as people where there is universal healthcare. But the rich in the USA live as long or longer than other countries because they have the money to pay for even the most expensive healthcare.
Hi from Sussex, NB
How does one turn wealthy people from money hoarders into decent, sharing human beings, instead of psychopaths???
Greetings from Norway! <br>Thank you for sharing your insight ahead of the midterm election. - An election that undoubtably will seal your fate as a nation. If the distribution of Republicans & Democrats pretty much remains the same, and your chances of getting Trump impeached will be slim to non, I'll go as far as to say it will be the end of the US as we know it..
Not enough people are talking about Citizens United and specifically finding a way to reform campaign finance such that wealth is no longer able to buy power & elections once and for all. We have to put more pressure on our legislators at all levels to ban super PACs and cap political donations.
Much love and deepest gratitude and respect from Corvallis, Oregon (albeit a week later)
Why do I keep waking up to these politics videos?? I don't even watch these in my free time.
Educating the general population about the mechanisms of the national debt and how it's just another siphon by which private wealth extracts money from the tax payers of the USA while avoiding tax responsibility for their own wealth streams is so important to do. so many people don't understand that the USA's debt isn't some abstract figure in an accounting book. it has very real value, and knowing who benefits from that debt, and who pays for that debt is important for people to understand.
The only way you could possibly believe the basis for this discussion is if you'd only been on the planet for less than 5 minutes. The Dem party hasn't changed?! That is beyond laughable. Anything you said after that could not be taken seriously.
Thanks again for sharing your insights and analyses. I always feel so much calmer after listening to you. Think you meant to say Clinton for NAFTA rather than Obama?
And to think. The first Black Democrat Senator was elected in 1993, 123 years after the first Black Republican Senator.
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Minster of propaganda
Hi from Vermont... you said the current thugs running our country will be held accountable... please explain why all their crimes are not going to just be pardoned by Vance after the dumpster dies?
Thank you for all your knowledge! You are my hero! Janet from Tacoma, Wa
Between 1861 and 1961 it was easy to spot a Democrat - they were the ones flying a Confederate flag on their lawn.
The relevant ratio is not debt to growth but debt to GDP. Growth (nominal i.e. including inflation) is best compared to deficit, because, if it is greater than the deficit, the debt to GDP ratio becomes smaller because the economy is growing faster than the debt.
Thanks Heather, your voice is always welcomed in these troubling times.
No apologies necessary. One benefit of a well-rounded education is that we know what you meant. Thank you for always keeping us informed.
Also, $500,000 may be cut from Medicare due to Sequestration, an automatic budget cut across the board when the debt is high. (Pay-as-You-Go)
When Heather says "freakin" this many times in one video, you know sugar's gettin' all fudged up...
Longmont CO
People want the government to help everyone no matter their tax bracket. Health care, safe food, housing, education for our children, etc. And regulation so the companies done take advantage of us, pollute our water/air/soil, etc.
One of the key issues I keep seeing is the misinformation from news outlets like Fox News and Newsmax. These hardcore republicans are not being given the truth, and they’re not going to willingly listen to anyone else.
Hillsdale NY
Now is a good time to talk about the “Mother” of political realignment, when the party that supported and defended slavery and Jim Crow for 130+ years magically “realigned” to become the savior of blacks!
Paying off debt. This is why a liberal Democrat in SW Iowa (me) has always said he is a fiscal conservative!<br>Solve problems and PAY for it by collecting taxes, best on people most able to pay, the wealthy.<br>End of story. Raise the money - fix the damn problem. Fiscally conservative.
You are an amazing person.❗️🇺🇲👊
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xi_O1EXPOc&t=1312">21:52</a> - Didn't Ayn Rand call Milton Friedman a communist at one point? The right is really loose with that term ...
Upton Sinclair is one of my favorite authors. Not only his book, The Jungle but also King Coal really awaken my thoughts regarding labor rights. All of his books were flavored with socialism. Not surprising as he was a socialist. <br>Thank you for your insight
Alexander Vindman lost for several reasons, he's pro-Israel, and does not understand the progressive influences.
Richland Wa
Tax the damn rich! In the 1950’s when our economy & industrial base was booming,as well as living wage jobs, the top tax rate for the rich was 91%! The rich were still rich just not obscenely so.I have a toaster that was made in the USA in the 1950’s,I bought it used & it still works! We can do it again. Tax the rich!
RFKJr. Has no Medical training & is seriously mentally impaired.When I was young,very healthy & strong in my 20’s,I had a food borne illness & was very very sick! Health has Nothing to do with it. Anyone can sicken and often die from food borne illness! Small children,senior’s & immunocompromised are even more vulnerable.We all have beloved family members who are in those categories . RFKJr. has a brain worm,Mercury poisoning (affects the brain permanently)& eats roadkill animals. He’s Nuts!
I disagree a bit about the Dems.The neoliberal Dems have moved the party rightward just not as completely into fascism like the GOP. HOWEVER, the Corp Dems pro-corporate Wall St. policies have paved the way for DT regime! Ignorant & desperate Working Class Americans who have been left out & screwed over by neoliberal Dems voted for DT out of desperation. They were wrong but they were fooled by DT’s lies & their own desperation. We must Always check a candidates Record before voting. Make sure they have a record of fighting for the non-rich! We can Overcome!
Today I opened a new bag of cole slaw and immediately felt unsafe. That emotional feeling was something I really didn't have until fairly recently. I knew e-coli and salmonella was circulating, but now it feels unsafe throughout the entire food chain. It has always seemed to me the bedrock of American everyday life that everyone has taken for granted in my lifetime has been a generous amount of food at reasonable prices compared to the rest of the world.
Heather - FYI (and as you probably know) NPR reported a couple weeks ago that over the past few years funding for on-site agricultural inspections have been reduced dramatically so fields don't get inspected even every year, hence worse sanitation and more food-borne illness.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xi_O1EXPOc&t=245">4:05</a> Heather, you don't think Dems have shifted right with the Republicans?
Why did Gov Josh Shapiro grab onto the Data Center construction trend in PA? They say the Trump opinion that states need to promote embracing building new AI hyperscale data centers has Gov Shapiro by the pocketbook.
Eugene Vindman is the member of Congress for Virginia's 7th district. That's the one Eric Cantor used to hold, until he was defeated by someone further right. Then Abigail Spanberger, the current Virginia governor, flipped it Blue. Vindman got it when Spanberger left to run for governor.
Regarding the VIndeman who lost, it would be nice to acknowledge that he gave a very gracious concession speech with very best wishes to the winner. Worth acknowledging. And if that doesn't prove you can win an election without tons of money, I don't know what does. Hopefully fewer people are watching TV and/or responding to scary ads.
You are so good - in more ways than one. I love listening to you. Thanks, again, for all you do.
That's a lot of words to say that Democrats are now becoming socialists.
She lost me when she revealed she believes in the climate change hoax.
ngl politics not for me
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xi_O1EXPOc&t=1675">27:55</a> heck yeah!
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xi_O1EXPOc&t=887">14:47</a> victims of the black plague or the Spanish flu would like a work with Mr. Kennedy.
The cost of having no water to drink is higher. What cost do they put on bees and forests?
Heather has great historical knowledge and really poor political analysis. The idea that the democrats have become more left over time is ridiculous.
Saying the democrats haven’t moved right since 2016 is wild. Saying they’ve moved “slightly left” is insane. Today’s institutional democrats would get along great with most Reagan republicans. Third Way is basically “Reagan but we’re cool with gay marriage”.
"We DON'T. CARE." -- Pam Bondi<br><br>They have made this plain as day for over a decade. Both parties make excuses for their failures rather than accept accountability for them. Don't hold powerful criminals as accountable and let the extremes take over politics, this is what you get. That's in History too. Repeatedly. So, nobody really has any excuses at all.
Why can’t we elect a responsible, mature, grown woman for President? Christ Almighty it’s time.
The idea that there would be more closures of hospitals at a time when we can expect huge layoffs due to implementation of AI.
I would like to see almost all money come out of elections. I would also like to see many, many more debates. I would like those debates moderated and more tightly moderated.
Trump says he will control the Bond Market with the military - what does this mean?
I do the Upton Sinclair Lewis switcheroo all the time! Well, whenever it comes up.
MAGA is not a movement. It’s a product. A result. Very important distinction. It’s a Trojan Horse and it has worked perfectly for Putin.
No usual pep talk from you today, but usual deep gratitude from me.
Grazie THANK YOU FROM ITALY TOO
Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can’t Happen Here” (1935; repose to Huey Long’s popularity/populism before he was assassinated in Louisiana) should be required reading, along with Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” (food safety). Both are terrifyingly relevant today.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xi_O1EXPOc&t=265">4:25</a> - You say that as if implying that's a point in the Democrats' favor. They need to move left. I'm tired of the options being fiscal conservatives and fascists.
Thank you for being my bellweather and helping me cope in these chaotic times!
TAX the Rich.
Manchester Tenn
Thanks for sharing this video
In re not addressing climate change: my late father, an economist, asserted that there would always be a solution for unintended consequences and negative impacts because there would be money to be made in it. In other words, most people's "more expensive" is someone else's payday.
Lightworker. Id spend a lot more time looking at the fringe topics. Its not an understatement that everything is connected. However, politics is nowhere near the heart of the source of any of these issues issues especially when its two sides of the same coin. YES we KNOW whats really going on, all of it. Thats the game.
But Bill Gates is suddenly a vaccine expert 😮 make it make sense to me cause my people are under attack with food water and mentally 💯 unless you saying that is not the case I would love to see what my immune system can do in a natural environment off grid or on it
It wasn’t the 1980s that turned Republicans towards the rich. It happened decades earlier. My grandfather, an average Joe, blue collar worker, voiced it way back in the 1960s..
Yes we have to tax The Rich because Reagan trickle down caused The mess we are in.
Hello pretty🌷Thank you for keeping us talking and together.
Tuning in from Scotland hoping for positive new.
Thank you for being here as well...<br>I wonder if you can sense how much people of the USA need you right now...😊
Republicans are committing suicide...their cuts apply to their quality of life...<br>More insane depravity...
Listening and being informed from the west of Ireland.
All the mouth sucking sounds. Couldn’t watch for long
No, Republicans are not starting to oppose data centers. That's just one Republican running against the ONE centrist Democratic candidate who vehemently supports data centers. So that one Republican decided to run to the left of his opponent on this ONE issue. Because it's obviously the more popular policy to support and the dumb-ass centrist dem left it wide open. That's the same centrist Dem who BARELY beat Francesca Hong, FYI. Great choice, Wisconsin Democratic party morons.<br><br>The Democratic party would rather run establishment, special interest-owned centrists everywhere, so they waste their chance to take back power and save the country... than change their campaign funding-strategy, policies, or platform in any way. <b>It's just easier</b> to let superpacs spend millions on nasty attack ads, as Haley Stevens did, than to do over 470 speaking events, like Abdul El-sayed had to. It's greed and laziness, pure and simple. And because of it, their industry elites get to dictate their positions on some of our most important issues, and we make no progress toward equality or changing the status quo.
My sister bought land and built a house, about an hour away from Boseman. They love it and my sister, being employed as a phlebotomist and normally aligning as a centrist, is today considered a "socialist" in today's Overton window. As well as being compared to virtually all of her friends in the area. Even her husband, who's disgusted with a TON of what Trump's done, will still never even consider that the Democratic voters were right, while he and his MAGA colleagues, made a mistake electing Trump. Nor will he vote for a Democratic candidate, regardless of how obviously aligned his purported ideaologies, values, and interests, appear to be. He just refuses to even speak about politics, now. He even gets angry and will walk away, saying nothing. One time, he even tried to blame the Democrats for, I guess, not preventing Trump from winning? Oh, and for not prosecuting him under Biden... even though they were crying about "weaponising the justice system" against them. Which was the entire reason the Biden administration was so hesitant. <br><br>You can't have a logical debate with some of these MAGA guys, I guess. But my sister's political journey has been pretty typical for anyone who's doesn't pay much attention to politics normally, but has been forced to and become ANGRY during Trump's second term because of the things he's done, especially to our healthcare system and women's rights under the Republicans. And after seeing what we've seen of the Epstein files and from their estate, she too thinks he's a pedophile. And like "Katy Johnson's" testimony states, he sold eastern European girls to Epstein and the Saudis, IIRC.
The Left has stayed in the same place since FDR, unlike it's major representative party, the Democrats. The party's been dragged to the right ever since raegan, as well. Clinton was the first Democrat to run funding his campaign the same way Republicans had for decades; with corporate special interest group donations. Ever since, both parties have just been shades of the same right. The differences are only between WHICH corporate special interest groups donate to them, which also dictates their policies and what promises they can actually keep once elected. Aside from the newer, younger, 'social democrats,' who've been winning their primaries and special elections overwhelmingly. Both establishments of each party don't actually have <b>ideologies</b> or values they consistently support; they have <b>sponsors.</b> <br><br>They might as well put big corporate logos all over their suit jackets, so their constituents have a better idea of what they will ACTUALLY do.
More Taxes! More regulation! Tax assets! This wealth inequality is why your kids will never own a home. Get gary stevenson as a guest, you'll enjoy it
My name is Ibrahim M Elyas and i am from Saudi Arabia. I am a scientist (chemist) and I am a victim of heinous attacks orchestrated by the zionest Saudi crown prince MBS and his colluders including MBZ and Sisi. I was attacked with unknown energy devices and assassinated while staying in hotel called ibis cikini in Jakarta. In god's well, i recovered miraculously and even the medical team were shocked how I came back to life. My passport was stolen by a Palestinian who is registered in the UN as a refugee and I believe he is colluding with MBS.
Yes, money downward!!!
Dr. Richardson lost my support from the get-go when she said that the left has stayed pretty much in the same place over recent years while the right has gone way, way right. She's in an alternate universe. In the real universe, most people on the right are wanting a return to normalcy; whereas, the left has been supporting defunding the police, open borders, some form of communism, shoplifting up to a certain dollar amount, sex-change operations on children, abortion up to and possibly after birth, releasing allegedly violent felons onto the street without bail, political indoctrination of school children, protecting criminal illegal aliens from arrest or deportation, driving the rich out of their jurisdictions by taxing them excessively, and on and on. How can she make such a preposterous statement with a straight face and have all the people posting here lapping it up like manna from heaven? There are serious problems in this country (threats of AI, climate change, forever wars, homelessness, affordability, declining birth rates, broken health-care system, money and donor influence corrupting politics, etc.), but we can't address them by talking BS.
Food borne illness or Dengue fever? Both pretty nasty. 🤔 I’ve had both. Not sure if I can pick a worst of the two.
Women Laughing sounds great! Will try to catch it!
This women is delusional the Left hasn’t moved much but the Right has moved hard right???? What??? Even Democrats have acknowledged that the Left has moved massively Left. Bill Maher says I haven’t changed the party has moved hard radical. <br>Then later she admits Democrats have changed by saying they changed with the people.
Here in Iowa, the contractors for a big data center just got caught illegally dumping their recyclables (cardboard and metals) into the county landfill. Another negative for data centers.
I’m less than five minutes in and, for the first time, I have to disagree with you. Specifically, about the Democratic Party’s response to the Overton Window. You claim it’s gone a little to the left, but I’m afraid it has been to the right, and not in a small way. The Clintons pushed the party away from blue collar and to the creative and consultancy classes. Granted, it’s not all their fault, but he chose to say, “The era of big government is over.” And he said it with arrogance. Deregulation started with Carter, but Clinton and Obama wrapped themselves around the idea that markets produce justice. Nothing, however, nothing says it better than Bernie Sanders. People act like he’s The Weather Underground. I’m 55 and was 9 when Reagan came to power, but I was already interested in politics. I may not have strong memories, but I do remember America before Reagan, and what I remember is that Bernie would have been just an everyday, run-of-the-mill FDR New Deal Democrat. Not the socialist/communist radical the right and, frankly, the centrist Dems
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