It's caste. Like Dean said, The system was built by rich white guys for rich white guys to protect rich white guys. Isabel Wilkerson's book Caste is fantastic.
We might have been better off if President Biden left the AG post empty!! It virtually was empty! We have become the shit hole country where only rich white men are immune!
Yet, in keeping with Dean O.'s thesis. Cronyocracy Veteran and 28 year participant and beneficiary of such government malfeasance and regulatory monkey-wrenching was Biden's paper trail long before the DNC Elite elevated him above registered Democratic Party apathy into the Dems' pre-fixed Primaries.
No way anyone with a paper trail of backing active Regulation of Corporate Takeover like Elizabeth Warren or Brother Bernie was going to be allowed to develop a BIG POPPULIST MO from beneath the Elites' Petard.
The Biden Constituency and Cronyocracy Normalized Homelessness and muffled grassroots resistance. Understand and HIGHLIGHT the role of the "Good Cop" in our Imperial Duopoly's "Bad Cop (THEM)\Good Cop (US)" RULING CLASS OUTLINE and GAME PLAN for FUTURE 25 YEAR PLAN OF PERSONAL ENRICHMENT and smothering of grassroots organizational resistance!
Not for nothing that this English-language Swedish PUBLIC INTEREST TV Documentary production has yet to be distributed, screened or become a subject of any journalistic corner or bi-partisan PUSH to slow the human misery if not ADDRESS THE CATASTROPHE ON OUR STREETS nearly 5 CRISIS PLAGUED YEARS into our decades of the NORMALIZATION OF HOMELESSNESS IN WEALTHIEST NATION IN QUANTIFIED HUMAN HIS\HERSTORY....
"Some excerpts from the documentary "PUSH" (2019) (full doc @ "Push | TVO Docs" on YouTube)
"Exploring why people cannot be allowed to live in cities... The high cost of housing and global investment funds that push people to poverty and strip them of a fundamental human right."
Producers: Fredrik Gertten, Margarete Jangard
Director: Fredrik Gertten
From Knowledge Network Aired Feb. 2, 2021
Full documentary can be seen here "Push | TVO Docs" on YouTube:
I sort of knew this was the case, but I did not know that Garland deliberately slow-walked the trump J6 case, apart from knowing that he didn't want to look political. What I want to know is, why is it that the most disgusting people are the ones who are above the law? I also wonder why it is that Martha Stewart went to prison for far less than the crimes either trump or Gaetz committed. I do not like this double standard in justice. It takes all meaning out of the term, especially since killing and imprisoning Black people is considered justice. It's crazy making.
Re Martha - because Jim Comey is part of the system and hates women - and he went after both Martha and Hillary Clinton, one to destroy her career and reputation and look like a tough guy and the other one to get Donald Trump into office. There are a number of players here like Garland and Comey who have had everyone fooled for years but they are the worst of the worst. Each of them put Trump into the White House via stealth operations
Thank you for the information. I think I always had a sense that something was going on that wasn't right, but never knew what it was, with Martha. The stuff with Hillary was pretty obvious. What angers me is that people are now treating Comey as if he were good and honest.
A very significant portion of our excruciatingly unending pilgrimage to the how and why we got to this point is right here - in plain language - thanks to Dean.
What confidence? I stopped consuming Animal products halfway through this year because it was clear Biden wasn’t going to do anything to stop H5N1 from taking over the country. We have a justice system that only goes after poor people. We have a public health department that says vaccines are our savior, but they only work for a month or two, but you can only get one once a year. Good luck!
I don't need luck. What the country needs is people to start believing and voting. We need a strategic alliance among everyone who's not MAGA voting against the Republican party. Vote it out and use that space for something better. BTW, vaccines work very well for the most part and they work long enough to get us through that time of year when we tend to be inside. Florida had lower Covid rates because they were outside in the winter - when summer came around and they went inside things changed.
The fact that Matt Gaetz extorted gratis sessions from his sex workers in the name of “customer appreciation” was, to me, the most depressing aspect of all his illicit activities.
When we have SCOTUS, McConnell and Garland fighting to save the party, it's no surprise that the "public's right to a speedy and public trial" is ignored. The Sixth Ammendment states that it is a fundamental right, to increase public confidence. I guess that one was "written" out along with the Fourteenth Amendment Article 3.
Interesting I’ll have to go read that amendment again because I was always under the impression that the accused is the one with the right to a speedy trial.
When they waive that right so there can be a plea bargain the public doesn’t have to sign off on that.
I’m pretty confident that you are wrong, the public doesn’t have a right to a speedy trial that’s for the defendant.
As an interested and concerned observer from Canada, one who is fine with paying higher taxes so that more people get healthcare and education and “a hand up”, I wonder “How does this end? For how much longer will Americans abide such a system so accurately described by Mr. Obeidallah?” I used to think Bernie Sanders’ politics were too extreme for the USA. I don’t anymore. But how does one break such a corrupt system when the politicians, judges, CEOs exert such control through all those trillions of dollars in wealth? I hope you can find some answers. I pray you do.
One thing I never see people talking about is why Gaetz paid for sex. To me the reason is obvious: he couldn't get anyone to have sex with him for free. Now *that's* embarrassing.
To be honest, a lot of this is the fault of OUR party, not republicans. Take the last election: millions of Democrats were too busy watching Cobra Kai to vote. So they stayed home. Who's fault is it we lost? Ours. Our side is the laziest side when it comes to exercising the right to vote. Like how many of you vote in local elections like for representatives, school officials, etc? I bet most of you do not. I bet most of you don't even vote in the primaries. Republicans do because they want power.
And why didn't Biden fire Garland? He could have, should have, but didn't have the stones to do it. So that' on Biden and by extension us for putting Biden in a spot to NOT do his job. The man will pardon a cop-killer, but he won't fire a bad AG.
This system Dean is talking about it in place because people don't do anything to stop it. Remember the old quote, "All it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing"? Yeah, we're the good people doing nothing to stop it.
Have you considered the people who didn’t vote are dead because Biden killed them with Covid pretending that vaccines were this miracle that was going to stop transmission?
Furthermore the Democrats aren’t entitled to anyone’s vote. If they want people to vote for them maybe they should try doing things the people want.
You haven’t realized yet that they need to lose, they want to lose. Otherwise they would have to betray their donors or their base. They would have to pick one, if they lose they can pretend that they wanted to do all these things the people wanted but they just can’t, which is what their wealthy donors want.
Biden knew his best chance was to run against Trump. He was okay with a slow pace. Biden wanted Trump on trial but not convicted or convicted too late for a substitute to be found in time.
Biden‘s whole campaign was nothing more than “I’m not trump!” And I was so disgusted with them when I saw them literally celebrating women losing reproductive rights because they thought that meant an easy win. They thought that’s all they had to do is sit back and gloat.
If the Democrats really cared about women why won’t Biden give us the ERA before he goes? There’s no reason not to do it except that they hate women and want us to be free labor as much as the Republicans do.
It's not "the system". It's the people running it. We need to believe in the system, we need to show up and vote, we need to be committed. The biggest problem we have is convincing people their vote matters, that "the system" can work and make things better, that truth, justice and the American way can mean something even if it's fallen short in the past.
I don’t understand how you can convince yourself it’s not the system when this is literally America since the beginning. Wealthy white men can do whatever they want and everyone and everything else is to be exploited for profit. This is Amerikkka. Now they have realized most men cannot succeed without slave labor at home, so they are taking women’s rights. And of course you guys are going to pretend nothing is wrong and it’s all just our perception, because men want women to be enslaved in their homes. We have no allies. It’s disgusting
It's caste. Like Dean said, The system was built by rich white guys for rich white guys to protect rich white guys. Isabel Wilkerson's book Caste is fantastic.
Great book indeed!!
One of Biden’s worst mistakes, picking Merrick Garland. This guy wasn’t just bad, he was terrible!
100% correct. What a failure!!!
We might have been better off if President Biden left the AG post empty!! It virtually was empty! We have become the shit hole country where only rich white men are immune!
Garland's biggest mistake was thinking voters would get it right like they did with Nixon.
Biden then compounded the mistake by not replacing Garland, which diminishes Joe Biden’s legacy to a certain degree.
Yet, in keeping with Dean O.'s thesis. Cronyocracy Veteran and 28 year participant and beneficiary of such government malfeasance and regulatory monkey-wrenching was Biden's paper trail long before the DNC Elite elevated him above registered Democratic Party apathy into the Dems' pre-fixed Primaries.
No way anyone with a paper trail of backing active Regulation of Corporate Takeover like Elizabeth Warren or Brother Bernie was going to be allowed to develop a BIG POPPULIST MO from beneath the Elites' Petard.
The Biden Constituency and Cronyocracy Normalized Homelessness and muffled grassroots resistance. Understand and HIGHLIGHT the role of the "Good Cop" in our Imperial Duopoly's "Bad Cop (THEM)\Good Cop (US)" RULING CLASS OUTLINE and GAME PLAN for FUTURE 25 YEAR PLAN OF PERSONAL ENRICHMENT and smothering of grassroots organizational resistance!
Not for nothing that this English-language Swedish PUBLIC INTEREST TV Documentary production has yet to be distributed, screened or become a subject of any journalistic corner or bi-partisan PUSH to slow the human misery if not ADDRESS THE CATASTROPHE ON OUR STREETS nearly 5 CRISIS PLAGUED YEARS into our decades of the NORMALIZATION OF HOMELESSNESS IN WEALTHIEST NATION IN QUANTIFIED HUMAN HIS\HERSTORY....
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"Some excerpts from the documentary "PUSH" (2019) (full doc @ "Push | TVO Docs" on YouTube)
"Exploring why people cannot be allowed to live in cities... The high cost of housing and global investment funds that push people to poverty and strip them of a fundamental human right."
Producers: Fredrik Gertten, Margarete Jangard
Director: Fredrik Gertten
From Knowledge Network Aired Feb. 2, 2021
Full documentary can be seen here "Push | TVO Docs" on YouTube:
• Push | TVO Docs
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Is there anything you think we should do or even want to see done that we couldn't get done faster and easier if the Republican party was gone?
I sort of knew this was the case, but I did not know that Garland deliberately slow-walked the trump J6 case, apart from knowing that he didn't want to look political. What I want to know is, why is it that the most disgusting people are the ones who are above the law? I also wonder why it is that Martha Stewart went to prison for far less than the crimes either trump or Gaetz committed. I do not like this double standard in justice. It takes all meaning out of the term, especially since killing and imprisoning Black people is considered justice. It's crazy making.
Yes! It seems we now have THREE systems of “justice”—one for whites, one for off-whites, and one - in name only - for MAGA.
Very interesting point. I'll have to think about that.
Re Martha - because Jim Comey is part of the system and hates women - and he went after both Martha and Hillary Clinton, one to destroy her career and reputation and look like a tough guy and the other one to get Donald Trump into office. There are a number of players here like Garland and Comey who have had everyone fooled for years but they are the worst of the worst. Each of them put Trump into the White House via stealth operations
Thank you for the information. I think I always had a sense that something was going on that wasn't right, but never knew what it was, with Martha. The stuff with Hillary was pretty obvious. What angers me is that people are now treating Comey as if he were good and honest.
Yes, and unfortunately I'm afraid the same will be done with Garland. "Elder statesmen." It's very depressing
I agree with you. Somehow "elder statesman" and "wimp" don't match up for me…
Heading into the 21st Century … heading into the 19th Century.
19th century is better for rich white mean, because they would never be held accountable. No surprises there.
yes :( It's stunning how quickly we have devolved
Because Martha is a woman.
Of course!!! I should have figured that out!
A very significant portion of our excruciatingly unending pilgrimage to the how and why we got to this point is right here - in plain language - thanks to Dean.
Are you talking about the undermining of people's confidence in the country?
What confidence? I stopped consuming Animal products halfway through this year because it was clear Biden wasn’t going to do anything to stop H5N1 from taking over the country. We have a justice system that only goes after poor people. We have a public health department that says vaccines are our savior, but they only work for a month or two, but you can only get one once a year. Good luck!
I don't need luck. What the country needs is people to start believing and voting. We need a strategic alliance among everyone who's not MAGA voting against the Republican party. Vote it out and use that space for something better. BTW, vaccines work very well for the most part and they work long enough to get us through that time of year when we tend to be inside. Florida had lower Covid rates because they were outside in the winter - when summer came around and they went inside things changed.
The fact that Matt Gaetz extorted gratis sessions from his sex workers in the name of “customer appreciation” was, to me, the most depressing aspect of all his illicit activities.
Eat the rich. I wish the hell the laws did apply to all of this evenly.
Isn’t also coincidentally she is in his district. I surmise knowing he needed a Trump Judge to protect him even before the insurrection.
Too many of us have never read Animal Farm. Wealth, the real inequality.
And the wealthy keep working to widen the gap between them and everyone else, to make sure the inequality is permanent.
Garland didn't want to investigate and coup attempt, "because it looked POLITICAL, to investigate a COUP ATTEMPT."
I have no way of making this make sense, in my brain.
When we have SCOTUS, McConnell and Garland fighting to save the party, it's no surprise that the "public's right to a speedy and public trial" is ignored. The Sixth Ammendment states that it is a fundamental right, to increase public confidence. I guess that one was "written" out along with the Fourteenth Amendment Article 3.
Interesting I’ll have to go read that amendment again because I was always under the impression that the accused is the one with the right to a speedy trial.
When they waive that right so there can be a plea bargain the public doesn’t have to sign off on that.
I’m pretty confident that you are wrong, the public doesn’t have a right to a speedy trial that’s for the defendant.
As an interested and concerned observer from Canada, one who is fine with paying higher taxes so that more people get healthcare and education and “a hand up”, I wonder “How does this end? For how much longer will Americans abide such a system so accurately described by Mr. Obeidallah?” I used to think Bernie Sanders’ politics were too extreme for the USA. I don’t anymore. But how does one break such a corrupt system when the politicians, judges, CEOs exert such control through all those trillions of dollars in wealth? I hope you can find some answers. I pray you do.
One thing I never see people talking about is why Gaetz paid for sex. To me the reason is obvious: he couldn't get anyone to have sex with him for free. Now *that's* embarrassing.
Does anyone know if his wife has left him yet? Maybe this is her kink so she’s fine with it, but I can’t imagine standing by that pathetic man.
Spot on! Great summation.
To be honest, a lot of this is the fault of OUR party, not republicans. Take the last election: millions of Democrats were too busy watching Cobra Kai to vote. So they stayed home. Who's fault is it we lost? Ours. Our side is the laziest side when it comes to exercising the right to vote. Like how many of you vote in local elections like for representatives, school officials, etc? I bet most of you do not. I bet most of you don't even vote in the primaries. Republicans do because they want power.
And why didn't Biden fire Garland? He could have, should have, but didn't have the stones to do it. So that' on Biden and by extension us for putting Biden in a spot to NOT do his job. The man will pardon a cop-killer, but he won't fire a bad AG.
This system Dean is talking about it in place because people don't do anything to stop it. Remember the old quote, "All it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing"? Yeah, we're the good people doing nothing to stop it.
Maybe read the room...
Have you considered the people who didn’t vote are dead because Biden killed them with Covid pretending that vaccines were this miracle that was going to stop transmission?
Furthermore the Democrats aren’t entitled to anyone’s vote. If they want people to vote for them maybe they should try doing things the people want.
You haven’t realized yet that they need to lose, they want to lose. Otherwise they would have to betray their donors or their base. They would have to pick one, if they lose they can pretend that they wanted to do all these things the people wanted but they just can’t, which is what their wealthy donors want.
Biden knew his best chance was to run against Trump. He was okay with a slow pace. Biden wanted Trump on trial but not convicted or convicted too late for a substitute to be found in time.
Ironic.
Biden‘s whole campaign was nothing more than “I’m not trump!” And I was so disgusted with them when I saw them literally celebrating women losing reproductive rights because they thought that meant an easy win. They thought that’s all they had to do is sit back and gloat.
If the Democrats really cared about women why won’t Biden give us the ERA before he goes? There’s no reason not to do it except that they hate women and want us to be free labor as much as the Republicans do.
Well why won’t Biden give us the ERA??
What to do? Lie back, close your eyes and think of Greenland …
🤣🤣
It's not "the system". It's the people running it. We need to believe in the system, we need to show up and vote, we need to be committed. The biggest problem we have is convincing people their vote matters, that "the system" can work and make things better, that truth, justice and the American way can mean something even if it's fallen short in the past.
I don’t understand how you can convince yourself it’s not the system when this is literally America since the beginning. Wealthy white men can do whatever they want and everyone and everything else is to be exploited for profit. This is Amerikkka. Now they have realized most men cannot succeed without slave labor at home, so they are taking women’s rights. And of course you guys are going to pretend nothing is wrong and it’s all just our perception, because men want women to be enslaved in their homes. We have no allies. It’s disgusting