Ron Szekely How is stating a true native American an ad hominem attack? Elizabeth Warren checked the native American box in order to get special favor. She claimed it herself. That 1st reply was just restating what Elizabeth Warren herself claimed. Doesn't it bug you that a true native American didn't get an acceptance letter into a university because of her obvious false claim to be native American? She still refuses to take a DNA swab to prove her claim.
She is a professor and she has spent all her life on this issue. You think these smartass anchors gonna destroy her? She is one female presidential candidate I can support if she ever runs.
Sara Balls Please be aware that I'm not american, so this is all theatre to me. Moreso, it's theatre that I have no personal stake in. Next, I've heard all this 'Sovereign Citizens' stuff before and while it sounds interesting, it's not overly compelling. Hindering its compulsion, I might add, is the cornucopia of common law precedents that have uniformly ran contrary to 'Sovereign Citizens' interests.
If the government quit creating all the moral hazards such as guaranteeing bank accounts with the FDIC as well as insuring mortgages combined with bail outs for the banks when things hit the fan. This would do way more good then bringing back Glass,Steagal. Warren says she wants to fight the Big Banks but she won't even consider taking on their supplier ie The Federal Reserve.
SuperSaltyFries yes I have too agree with u she is the best democrat liar I call her liz pocohantis warren ......?????? imagine fools like u voted her into office knowing that she lied to the government saying she is native American to get financial gain for her self sounds familiar like the banks she hates what hipocrits liberals are its crazy how they voted this crook into office when she robbed taxpayers to fund her college shame on u pocohantis warren and fools like u super salty Obama and Anderson cooper kool aid drinker keep voting for fools and corrupt people like warren gore Obama aka barry soetero google that name pal George bush all fools dumb americans like u vote for
Joey Joe Joe Bullseye. Back when the S&Ls were collapsing, I was a Libertarian, and it was obvious to me that Reagan had "deregulated" them exactly backwards. Rather than removing all regulations while keeping FSLIC guarantees in place as the Republicans did, a Libertarian Congress would have made FSLIC membership voluntary, and simply made sure everyone knew which institutions were Federally insured and which weren't. Of course, even with Reagan's guaranteed-crisis setup, the damage could have been greatly reduced if the FSLIC had simply carried out its legal mandate to repay all lost deposits up to $400k and told the multi-million dollar depositors, "Sorry!" These days, I'm a Warren Democrat, but I'd *still* be willing to make FDIC membership voluntary.
spartan44ga You should buy a book on basic writing grammar. Seriously, not only is the content of what you wrote dumb and pointless drivel, it looks like it was written by a two year old. Aside from the periods and question marks incorrectly used in the first line, you do not use any punctuation again for the whole passage. It sort of defeats any attempt at a point you're trying to make...of which you made none.
Gene Smolko "thats all you got".. You may think making false claims to advance your career is no big deal but not all of us feel the same way. How about her fake support for the working man, pension systems, American families..etc. as stories come out during her Ma Senate race about her representing a mining company trying to stiff it's workers out of their pensions. But no one can hold her feet to the fire because that would be too mean, since she's a woman. You know, that whole "war on woman" thing the Dems created to silence any detractors. How about stories pointing to her partnering with her brother to scoop and flip houses out of the hands of struggling families back in her home state during the worst of the recession. How about her practicing law in states she never took the bar exam in, claiming technicality . You can find these stories searching Ma. newspapers from back during her Senate campaign. Don't get me wrong. She says all the right things for my working man ears. I just think she is standing on her political soap box building an image that ultimately is powerless in the world of big banking and Washington. And did I mention I don't trust her? :)
Been a fan for long time watch Cspan when she's questioning everyone. So intelligent and knowledgeable. Thank you for your convictions we need you more then ever. Everyone should utube her amazing
I friggin hate this defense....Republicans use it all time. Whats the point of proposing laws because either a) it won't pass anyway, or b) criminals will just break the law anyway. Well shit, what the hell is the point of anything then? Why do we even have a government if this is your attitude....it's infuriating and a completely fallacious argument.
shima To the collective brain trust stating that the author cannot vote if he or she is in Sweden. Uh, yes, by absentee ballot if that person is an American Citizen living in Sweden (as I once did).
we love her, but she didn't run for president. unfortunately she is only one.person, most of everyone else is corrupt but she has made a ton of difference. I hope she runs for.president next time
She is only doing this to build her name. She is another fraud though. Warren put the check mark on the "Native American" box to get minority benefits like free college. She was caught red handed. She is bad. Right now she's doing ok but she lied her way to the top.
Get out of the echo chamber TheMatt. Regardless of anything else (her personal advancement), she is doing fine work for the American citizen. She has been doing this across the spectrum before she was ever in politics.
i dont agree with Warren G about everything, but i'd always thought she was a competent and lovely type of woman. She always believes in what she's doing, and she always has good data to support her ideas. She may not have the best ideas, however whenever no one else is making any plans, you can always count on her to think her way through. in the Marine Corps. i was told "A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."
Werdlow Johnson Inc. i think we need alot more real centrist non religious women in power more women more peace tighter more efficient budgets better relationships more compassion and pragmatic compromise
Looks like you are clutching at straws, does she have indian heritage? should she be held accountable for her grandfather's crimes? is it possible for someone who earns good money to care about those that don't? do you hate her for being a democrat?
I really hope she will run in 2020. America should be proud to have a tough legislator like that. She knows her stuff, she articulates cogent arguments and she doesn't even have to raise her voice. Her points are themselves nuclear missiles. Boom!
Bernie Sanders / Elizabeth Warren ticket for President in 2016! ... with Elizabeth as President and Bernie as Vice or vice versa .. either way actually I would vote for!
+eas leeps Wasn't Obama supposed to be "the one" that was going to bring about progressive change and fight the establishment. In 2008, he was touted as the same new fresh face as Elizabeth Warren is now. Look what a dud he turned out to be, what makes you think she will be any different?
If your own history has not taught you anything about deregulation of banks, just look north where banks have always been regulated and not one has failed! (By the way, for the truly uninformed among you, north means Canada!)
Trish Marloe Talk about revisionist history?! Unless you were born in the last 8 years you are completely delusional. Easing of regulation was passed through a Republican controlled senate towards the end of the Clinton administration, When Bush2 took office his appointees and the banking sub-comitees let the bankers create default swaps and cashed in and fucked everybody from home owners to retirees. You've got to be insane to hand this shit over too these assholes again. Canada is not in bed with there banks like America is. Get some facts.
I am so impressed with this woman, her inability to be intimidated, her total knowledge of facts, her poise, etc... I wish she had run for President. I will vote for Clinton, because Trump is a truly scary proposition, but truly wish that Elizabeth Warren were the Democratic nominee for President. She would bury Trump with her knowledge, and go toe to toe with him.
She is a real American; she has not been purchased by the corporations. Too bad most elected officials are not like her. If they made her QUEEN, I would not mind. Most Americans would rather have a Queen that cares about the people than the phony elected officials we currently have in office. I would say make her President but she deserve better than that.
Sorry I am a conservative. :) BTW: Can you prove that she lied her way through life??? Are you sure about your statements? Talk is so cheep... so do you have documents, videos or anything to prove that Elizabeth Warren has lied about anything? Please Post the links to your documents or videos. Proof to us that she is lying. Continue to let your hatred consume you by showing us your evidence. We are looking forward to see your data.
Newton Charles If you haven't followed the story then I can't help you. Seriously, you must use common sense once in a while. Elizabeth Warren did what many unethical people do to get an unfair advantage in life. She lied about her heritage to get preferential treatment over honest people. Simple as that. If you're so naive as to dismiss a MAJOR news story covered by ALL media outlets then you're reasoning is truely defective and nobody can help you. My advice to you is that you find someone to support whose entire identity isn't built on lies.
Elizabeth Warren is two faced lier. Consumer protection my ass. Elizabeth and her brother were buying foreclosed homes in Oklahoma and flipping them for profit off the bad fortunes of poor evicted people. Shameless...! Not to mention her lies about claiming to be of American Indian heritage, working as an attorney for big corporations to welch out of pension obligations...etc.
Tony Byers Tony, I live in Massachusetts and lived through the name calling, debates, Boston Globe and Boston Herald coverage. All of the topics I mentioned were dissected during that whole campaign time period. I can't imagine searching the Boston newspapers wouldn't produce the articles.
She probably does have a dark side just like many of the politicians in office today. I can't help but appreciate the fact that someone is at least saying something about the evil bankers that haven't faced punishment for messing up so many lives. Iceland seems to be the only country that holds their bankers accountable.
TOTALLY agree!!! She's like the world's most brilliant banker but with unimpeachable integrity and honor, the ultimate oxymoron. No way she should even exist. If she were running instead of Hillary, this would be a done deal. No controversy, definitely no Wall Street financing her campaign, and a financial genius at the head of the world's economy. Four years from now, she's running. And when she does, she's definitely got my vote.
While I love her and want to agree with that, IMO her talents would be far more suited as leader of the Senate. I feel like her hands would be tied on too many things if she was in the White House. The woman knows her shit, that is for sure.
@Robin Fellows you sound like a true Trumptard, Warren would be a much better President than Trump. If you were intelligent you'd see she actually cares about Americans and America, even if you don't agree with her platform. Elizabeth Warren 2020!!!
Warren is so pleasant and informative with reporters.They get flustered she does not.It's an attribute that makes her seem more truthful and convincing.I really like her.
+A Pullara I could be wrong, but I thought it started towards the end of Carter's term. Reagan did his fair share, as did Clinton, but I thought it started toward the end of Carter's term. Could be wrong on that though.
+Adam Eraky No. Deregulation of Airlines and communications began during the Carter admin. BTW, Carter was not a big fan of deregulation. That was the brainchild of Congressional republicans, just as it was during the Clinton administration. You can always find some blue dog democrats, like Lieberman and Chris Dodd, or some DLC type Democrats, like Clinton, to go along with republican ideas, but the entire concept that "gov't is the enemy" and that deregulation is an economic panacea is a conservative republican concept, through and through. Deregulation legislation is ALWAYS passed with a near unanimous vote of republicans, along with a small minority of Democrats. That doesn't mean it's a bi-partisan issue.
Dave Fisher I hate that slimy little turd, but to be fair, that's not exactly what he said. He first said that no matter what rules are, you can't prevent some busts. That's not entirely the same as saying regulation never works.
you are an example of why we need simple test for voting,a 10 question test you can take 10 times and only get 3 right,755 of democrats would fail,founding fathers wanted only land holders to vote,cause they wanted intelligent informed people to vote,if you wanted to vote,you could get educated-10 simple questions-how many members are on the supreme court,?who was the 16th president of the us?,how many branches of gov are there?who is the speaker of the house?,who is the senate majority leader?how many senators are there?how many members are in the house?name 2 vice presidents in our history?how many senators come from each state?name the first president of the united states...stop googling liberals,if you can answer 3 you are an idiot-really if you cant get all 10 you are stupid-the only tough one is 16th president which was abe lincoln
George Jetson, how about we charge people who register to vote Democratic $1,000 per elections cycle since they tend to be financial deadweight and people who trade make money ?
Bozo Clown Bozo, your a racist and a bigot! I am so tired of "white man is hurting me" complex that people like you have! I have plenty of black, Hispanic and Indian friends who worked hard, often without government assistance, got their degrees, and are making high 5 and 6 figures. GET YOUR LAZY REAR OFF THE SOFA, AND XBOX AND GET YOUR DEGREE! They give out college loans like water today!
I love this lady, she's got the facts while CNBC has the people by the balls or ovaries. But for real, I'd love to see this women fight in the supreme court. People like her NEED to be in the White House running this fucking government. But there's also the PEOPLE who can change this filthy place, you just gotta want to do it. Fuck, The Constitution of America tells you that if you've got the numbers lets say around 175,000,000 that's roughly half of the U.S. then you can change what's going on here in the U.S. This place was built BY the PEOPLE and FOR the PEOPLE. So I want to say that if you REALLY want to change, try getting a LOT of people to join a group, start it on FaceBook, Twitter, etc. All forms of Social Media is excepted regardless. So DO something other than bitch, because the government won't listen to your cries, they won't help you. This is like France before their Revolution (not really). But you get my point, it's time for something BIG to happen here. If y'all are really scared of loosing your new iPhone 6, or whatever, grow the fuck up and stop being a panzy ass bitch! Your "phone" won't even be here after 20 years. Nothing that we make other than filth and cars will be here in the next 20 years or so.
The people say Elizabeth Warren 2016! The Federal Reserve, JP M.Chase, G.Sachs, Citigroup, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Koch Ind., GE, Wal-Mart, McDonalds, FOX News, and MSNBC say HELL NO.
zl1vette427 You might know more about this but I doubt we really know because the commercial banks were bailed out. Can we really separate their activities so cleanly to delineate your question. Also, they borrowed at subsidized rates from the government albeit guaranteed deposits etc. If they didn't have access to cheap money their failure rate would have been higher.
zl1vette427 Tens of millions of their employees get paid low wages and aren't major stockholders in those companies. And tens of millions that don't donate massive amounts of money to politicians and political action groups because they are just trying to stay afloat.
So? She's the only one I see in Congress trying to go after the fat cats who brought down the economy in 2008. Now Trump gave them all a seat at the Plundering table. Perhaps we stop worrying so much at where folks place on the political spectrum (a spectrum that appears to be changing), and consider what they are saying and actually doing. Trump chatted a lot of sht to get elected. But now we see he only knows his own conning ways. The rip off is his pattern. We just expanded that playground for him. He brought his moving boys with him to help plunder.
Just look at Canada. The Canadian federal government has MUCH stricter regulations on its banks and despite the financial crisis, Canadian banks continued to thrive. Telling big shot executives they can't do wtv they want is EXTREMELY important. These people live in their big estates or on the top of skyscrapers and only hang out among themselves. You really think they won't fuck us over? They will, they have and unless we regulate their activities, they will do it again and again and again.
***** It wasn't that government programs were put in place that allowed lower income people to purchase homes that was the problem. The problems arose from deceitful lenders and realtors who pushed people into buying homes that they couldn't afford. The lenders approved them for mortgages that had deceivingly low interest payments to begin with and had hidden "balloon" payments buried in the mortgage document. The realtors, working in conjunction with the lenders, convinced the buyers that they could afford the more expensive homes...which they couldn't. If the lower income people had purchased homes that they could AFFORD and hadn't been screwed over from every which way, the housing crash wouldn't have occurred.
Well Canada is business friendly and can only loan so much money in the US banks can loan 1000 for every dollar that is deposited but the US government can't do shit about it since the federal reserve is really in charge regulations are nothing until you end the Fed
Osca Carrillo The Fed is an essential, and inessential videogame. They make it seem like everythink is under control, but in reality the world (especially normal america) is so indebted and fucked they cant deny it anymore. ^I wrote this really drunk last night^, forget I said anything lol
Stock Market Guru Pt. 1 -- Yes, that's exactly correct. I'm a real estate agent in Canada (10 years), and before that I was a mortgage broker. In Canada we had some sub-prime mortgage products but for the most part they were heavily regulated. In the States that wasn't the case. There were many documented cases in America where predatory agents and lenders would knowingly defraud people, making them believe they could qualify for mortgages that they should not have been approved for. Oftentimes they were immigrants who weren't very comfortable with English and couldn't understand the paperwork. Have you ever seen and agreement of purchase and sale for a home? They're wordy and full of legalese that, if not familiar with them, can be very difficult to understand. What the predatory lenders did is set the interest rate artificially low, making the initial first few months of payments affordable, but buried in the document was a "balloon rate." After a few months the interest rate would "balloon" up to the actual rate, which would mean that the home buyer now couldn't afford his/her mortgage payments. Thus, they would go into default. These mortgages were insured by the government so it was a WIN WIN for everyone except the person who bought the home.
Stock Market Guru Pt. 2 -- The predatory lending/selling and the balloon rates weren't the worst of it. Wall Street came up with a new "product" that took all of these toxic mortgages, bundled them into a large investment unit, forced the rating agencies to give them a AAA rating (despite that fact that many were anything but), and sold them to investors for AAA prices. Since they were rated AAA by reputable agencies the unsuspecting investors were blissfully unaware that they'd purchased junk. THEN, when the home owners were close to defaulting on their mortgages and approached their banks and lending institutions to renegotiate the terms of the mortgage, the mortgages were MIA. Lost in some giant investment portfolio. AND, since they were insured by the government, there was no impetus for the lender to refinance because if the home owner defaulted, THEY GOT PAID from the insurance. The predatory real estate agents got paid. The predatory lender got paid (for negotiating the mortgage and then paid in full when the buyer defaulted). The Wall Street investment bankers got paid. The rating agencies got paid. Everyone was laughing all the way to the bank except for the home owner who'd been duped into believing he bought a house that he could afford.
Elizabeth Warren does her homework and knows finance. I would like to see Glass Steagall back in play. What could it possibly hurt, except the pockets of wall street.
Honestly speaking, if I ever had the opportunity of being interviewed, I would state right off the bat that if we're going to have a discussion/ debate/ interview, we have to respectfully give each other opportunities to talk without interrupting/cutting/ interjecting, and so on. I find these so called interviews and/or debates are not even based on competing or opposing arguments/view points but rather who can speak the loudest, rudest, and display the most arrogance.
+Jason Sadaka Gemeyal Gafar They should turn off the mic when their time is up, then let them have a 10 minute blast session. We could see who best handles themselves after we've heard the formal part of the debate.
Senator Warren is incredible. I enjoyed her bringing them down and three against one, wow! She is wonderful and kept her cool and was always professional when she responded to the anchors.
The first dude's rationale is like saying why bother having seat belts, people will always die in car accidents. Elizabeth Warren speaks out on issues most politicians dare not address and at least tries to proactively push for legislation.She has more balls than most on capital hill.
lessevdoolbretsim....ahh yes! one of my favorite towns. many drunken Beale st. adventures were had there. and i'm kind of a BBQ jumkie, so in my humble opinion, Memphis cant be beat.
+sk00lb0y It's a ripple effect. Because of the dollar, so basically any crushes in the US economy will be felt on every continent. That's why the world should switch to Euros. No single nation should have that much power and control over world economy. At least for the euros risk is spread among 28 different countries. But am sure the CIA won't have that
sk00lb0y Falling how? Just because a few countries are experiencing hitches doesn't mean the whole continent is failing. Look at what happened in 2008. That would not have happened if risk was spread. But am sure the CIA will be more than happy to eliminate any leader who can think of that idea. And do you know why? Without the dollar the US cannot place sanctions on anyone they do business with directly. Without the dollar the US cannot freeze money and assets of certain individuals as they easily can now. And finally without demand for the US dollar, with your current public debt and spending, you will experience inflation like never seen before. That's why you can't let it happen. It's not an issue of markets deciding. Purely political
Michael Misoi Everything you just said applies to the euro and the EU. Massive public debt, huge spending and the EU got crushed in 08. Northern Rock, and Barclays are just two examples of many. And I didn't say falling, its failing.
***** Were you shrieking about the debt before Obama or Warren were elected? Let me go out on a limb here and take a wild guess... No. You started screeching about it when Faux News gave you and the TBaggers your marching orders, didn't you?
Your Dada Hello Your Dada, So if you can put aside your hatred for a moment and address your own point. Just because Fox News harps on the national debt does that mean you refuse to except it as a very serious situation? Bush did a lot to add to the debt. But so did Obama and many presidents before both of them. So where does that leave us when both sides share blame? People in this country are so blinded by partisanship they are willing to drive right into collapse before they are willing to make hard decisions.
+Bryson Stevens Voting is doing slightly more than throwing a coin in a wishing well. I'll do my wishing with my vote included. Nothing wrong with you wishing for Bernie's success. Republicans have gotten spoiled on low voter turnout in midterm elections like this last one in 2014. You can see it in how fox news commentators pretend democrats don't exist. I hope Warren changes her mind about not running as V.P.
Paul R Your bad seed idea will not grow in the soil of my better world view. I will never agree that any vote made formally (whether counted or not) is a waste of time and I don't want NOT voting to be viewed childishly as cool. I'd rather fail in the middle of voting with my middle finger pointing away from me.
I disagree with most of what you post. However, I couldn't agree more on this subject. Glass Stegal worked!!!! It separated commercial banks from investment banks. CB received subsidized money from the fed government in terms of deposit guarantees. They take that government subsidy and invest in risky assets. Hence the collapse. I say, bring back Glass Stegal..
zl1vette427 Think bank bailouts. The interconnectedness of a banks' commercial vs investment banking activities makes that impossible. They were taking subsidized, cheap money and investing in high risk assets. A mismatch in asset/liability management--complements of the taxpayer.
Franki B The research on this is abundant. Here is a piece that a lay person can probably understand. www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2012/08/27/repeal-of-glass-steagall-caused-the-financial-crisis
Elizabeth warren is a true American fighting for common people very smart,intelligent absolutely right on all Historical facts goes to prove why FDR greatest President she will be a Great president and Bernie sanders can bring her as vice president with his ticket.
+kausik Elizabeth Warren’s Lies Catching Up With Her Elizabeth Warren, Democrat candidate for Senate in Massachusetts, can’t shake free of unflattering revelations from her past. First to be exposed was her unverified claim to be a Cherokee, which upset actual Cherokees and raised ethical questions. Then came accusations from fellow academics that Warren had fudged data for a book, followed by the discovery that the former mortgage fraud czarina had herself made a tidy profit flipping foreclosed homes. Now comes the shocking news that, not only did Warren represent a string of big businesses in cases against workers, she seems to have been practicing law for over a decade without a license. _ Family Lore vs. Hard Evidence The first setback to Warren’s maiden election campaign came in April, when it was revealed that she’d publicly listed herself for years as a “Person of Color”, specifically, a Cherokee. (See earlier post for details.) Despite Warren’s insistence that the Cherokee controversy has been “put to rest” it keeps dogging her, partly because her opponent, Scott Brown, has made it a question of her character, partly because of Warren’s own bizarre compulsion to keep raising the subject. Brown hit Warren on her false Cherokee claim in the first question of their first debate. Warren insisted Harvard’s decision to hire her had nothing to do with her claim to minority status, yet refused to comply with Brown’s request for her to release her Harvard paperwork. Brown and the debate moderator then moved on to other issues, but a few minutes later Warren felt the need to retell the thoroughly-debunked fable of her family’s claims to Cherokee and Delaware ancestry. Not content to leave it be, Warren released a TV ad insisting yet again that the family lore she heard as child makes it OK for her to call herself a Native American. This subject is not a winner for Warren, as: 1) exhaustive research by the Cherokee genealogist, Twila Barnes, has proven conclusively that Warren has zero native american ancestry; 2) even had Warren’s claim to 1/32 Cherokee blood been true, under federal law, that was not sufficient for her to claim minority status as a native american. _ Underdog Champion or Hired Gun? Warren’s claim to fame, which made her the darling of proglodytes, is as a champion of the underdog against avaricious corporations. In the debate, Brown cast doubt on this image when he questioned Warren’s decision to represent Travelers Insurance in its 2009 attempt to avoid paying compensation to thousands of workers with asbestos poisoning. Warren insisted that by representing Travelers (“it was an insurance company versus another insurance company” she later explained), she actually helped the poisoned workers by getting Travelers to set up a trust fund, which was better than nothing. The settlement was later negated by the Supreme Court, leaving the victims with nothing. Less clear is how Warren was aiding the downtrodden when she represented LTV Steel in 1995, when they attempted to renege on health & pension benefits to thousands of retired coal miners. Warren has also served, in an advisory or litigating capacity, the following clients in their attempts to use Chapter 11 legalities to avoid liabilities for asbestos poisoning: Kaiser Aluminum Dow Chemical Johns Manville National Gypsum Fuller Austin Fairchild Aviation Piper Aircraft Babcock & Wilcox Company Pittsburgh Coming Corporation Owens Coming Corporation Armstrong World Industries, Inc. W.R. Grace & Company G-1 Holdings, Inc. United States Gypsum Corporation Federal-Mogul Global, Inc. North American Refractories Company _ Unlicensed Practice of the Law All this scrutiny into Warren’s legal work (conducted primarily by the blog Legal Insurrection) has uncovered a potentially devastating blow to Warren’s Senate aspirations. It now seems certain that Warren has been practicing law for years in Massachusetts without a license. That’s a felony. Warren admits she’s never passed the Mass. bar, but insists it doesn’t matter as: 1) She’s never really practiced law in Mass, just “dabbled” a bit; 2) She maintains no law office in the state; 3) She’s never appeared in a Mass. court regarding Mass. law; 4) She’s a member of the TX and NJ bars. All four statements are lies. Warren has engaged in continuous practice The long list of clients above, most from 2002 and discovered by chance, belie Warren’s claim of “dabbling.” Warren refuses to release a comprehensive list of clients, but her annual tax returns list six-figure earnings from legal work. Warren has maintained a permanent law office Warren insists she has no law office in Massachusetts. Yet in amicus briefs to the Supreme Court, and in numerous other cases over the past decade where she was listed “of counsel”, Warren gave her Harvard address as the location of her law practice. On her Texas bar file, she also lists Cambridge, MA, as the location of her practice.
***** You sir, have the mental power of a three minuet egg. Your displaying your ignorance, and lack of any understanding at all. While It is true that Obama wants to bankrupt the nation, I see no complicity in Warren
***** Y'all shoud be delighted with Democratic ideals. The majority of tax money goes to the military and for keeping the shit hole South from dissolving into a third world cesspool. We should have let ya seceed.
***** When you say "your betters". that makes me think that you are an elitist, so you think you are better than everybody else. Wow what an ego! You use the words Red Neck like your proud of it. As soon as I hear that, I automatically equate it to hate, bigotry, and Ignorance. By the way thanks for the update on your taxes. Maybe You do pay more taxes than I do, considering I'm retired now after pouring concrete for 45 years. But I'm sure that in your eyes that doesn't earn me a voice. Elizabeth Warren is one of the only voices of sense in congress, and you would be well advised to listen to what she is saying. She is trying to tell you that, your taxes don't need to be high if the government would quit stealing from the tax payers. By the way God approves of interracial marriage. Moses married a chushite (Black) woman, and when Miriam and Aaron spoke against that, Numbers Ch 12 Vs 1 they were punished. Of course you would have no way of knowing that since you don't read.
I like Warren also, but banks are not the only entities that she wants to regulate! She is the Queen of wanting OVER REGULATE! I wouldn't want to give her the reins to the country until she calms down just a little, if she can...
Your Dada She is a BIG advocate of raising the minimum wage, increasing the limits of food stamps and welfare and she is totally in favor of letting illegals have the same benefits as citizens of the U.S. without laws that say the same. Really loves long term unemployment insurance. She is NOT an advocate of letting the law of supply and demand dictate who succeeds or fails. Loves BIG government programs and regulations!
Your Dada Hates the coal industry, loves those wind turbines that are killing the eagles, favors subsidies for electric vehicle research,manufacturing and sales. She is just a nut who thinks she is should receive something special because somewhere, six generations ago one of her ancestors was an American Indian.
mouse man well, well, you said a lot, but the bottom line is - She is legislating like a advocate is suppose to - She represent the people and understand the elite and wealthy in this country could give a flying fuck about middle class and poor people.
Banks claim regulation will hurt competition, but they were competitive before when there was regulation. I'm sick of these guys gambling with my money and having taxpayers guaranteeing their losses. Sickening!
ack! The last Clinton nightmare was partially responsible for the economic meltdown we are in now. Kind of a Reagan/Clinton/Duh_bya stew. Doesn't matter anyway. The puppet masters would never allow Elizabeth to be President. One look at who was the biggest contributers to McCain/Romney/Obama campaigns will tell you who they are and they will never contribute to someone like Warren.
James Travers P.S. Smart has nothing to do with it. Bill is very smart and so is Hillary. So is Obama. Now SCRUPLES on the other hand.... EW has way to much of that to be elected President.
I think there is a fear of seeming overly intellectual in American politics. American voters just want to hear their best days are ahead of them and not discuss substantive policy.
+VOREVOX I'm getting back to you late so I apologize. But I read the links and you're right. I would be sad even if Elizabeth Warren were the vice president of Bernie Sanders (of course if he is nominated). Thank you for letting me know about these links. Really. And I told others.
Bernie 2016-2024(if he lives long enough, which is very possible, he'd only be 82 in 2024), Elizabeth Warren 2024-2032(if she lives that long, she'd only be 82 in 2032)!
+Sinbad Saved Us All She has no power as a VP, she is basically a figure head and all she can do is try to influence people. However, in a democratic congress (let's make it happen), she will have a powerful voice that they will be open to listening to and she will have an actual vote.
Cenk, man you rock. I mean seriously, been watching this show for a few years now. I don't know if this comment will ever surface for you, since theres endless comments and new videos uploaded continuously, but your commentaries never fail to sincerely make fuckn laugh attack. Cheers man! Keep up with the honest journalism ~ enjoying
You can always tell who's crazy in these interviews. They always cut off the person making the most sense. Generally, the person who is right (has the facts to back up what they are saying) keeps their composure.
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I remember CNBC making light of Occupy Wallstreet and basically blaming homeowners (now former homeowners), the victims for the 2008 crash, for the crash itself. We know where there allegiances lie.
Chris Stonehouse Look on the plus side though: She is not a colored woman but a white woman with blond hair and blue eyes, so her chances are up significantly.
Chris Stonehouse The thing is that from a European perspective, we are often puzzled as to what passes for progressive politics in the United States, to the point where it almost seems an oxymoron. Hillary Clinton & Elizabeth Warren are candidates who are steeped in white privilege and class privilege combined, yet they are put on offer to the American electorate as advocates of a more fair and equal American society. That is, quite frankly, not unlike putting up an ex-banker who had to let go off his bonus as the candidate to represent the disenfranchised, the underprivileged or the poor.
Chris Stonehouse Surreal. Do you understand you just have told me that a blond-haired and blue-eyed "Aryan" woman, who openly admits to being a "natural conservative", represents a great hope for "progressive" America? I invite you to reflect on this, and reflect on it deeply. There may be several important clues here as to why your country is the most ethnically divided society of the West, features the weakest and most dysfunctional social safety nets of the industrialized world, suffers from the greatest degrees of poverty and a decaying infrastructure, and is the only first world nation that still has to publicly contend with aberations as creationsim.
Chris Stonehouse That closing remark is emblematic of the problem I've been trying to address. Indeed, it's quite telling that people who essentially make a case against discrimination and for more equality are categorically being pushed on the defensive whenever this issue is discussed. People with blond hair & blue eyes are put up by far-right, racist and xenophobic political movements as an "ideal", a mentality which traces back directly to the very real Nazi concept of the "Aryan master race"). To this day, the Western media continues to play into such notions by putting people of those appearances on a pedestal -- at the direct expense of colored & minority people, who are systematically marginalized. Black people in America refer to this phenomonen as "the black tax", but I'll hazard a guess you are not familiar with the term. Suffice it to say that this mentality in the Western media and its politics amounts to discrimination based on ethnicity, outright. The reason why this is relevant here is because we find ourselves looking at two ostensibly progressive presidential candidates for the American presidency of 2016, who not only in no way challenge that paradigm being promoted by the right-wing, but who in fact re-affirm it. Are you genuinely surprised, then, that in response to this actual progressives will start to make mention of the credibility issues that are at play here? This would be a non-issue if American politics acurately reflected the demographic diversity of the electorate. Instead, in the year 2015, white apparently is still right. If you see no social issues or a contradiction there, then I have no words for you. And more importantly, America's left more than likely has a very bleak future to look forward to. The country's most recent mid-term elections certainly already point in that direction.
This woman is AMAZING. A true American, we need her more than ever.
Rightwingers never debate the substance of issues. Only ad hominems. (By the way, what is "Gott Mit Uns” a reference to? People should look it up.)
Ron Szekely How is stating a true native American an ad hominem attack? Elizabeth Warren checked the native American box in order to get special favor. She claimed it herself. That 1st reply was just restating what Elizabeth Warren herself claimed.
Doesn't it bug you that a true native American didn't get an acceptance letter into a university because of her obvious false claim to be native American?
She still refuses to take a DNA swab to prove her claim.
A true libtard you assclown
She is a professor and she has spent all her life on this issue. You think these smartass anchors gonna destroy her? She is one female presidential candidate I can support if she ever runs.
you'll never guess what happened
But she’s Native American wannabe she build her whole career on a lie
@@Ryan-dq9sl just STFU!
@@Ryan-dq9sl Ikr? Pocahontas. 😅🤣 The Left are constantly exploiting race & ethnicity. It's disgusting.
i dont know much about elizabeth warren, but every time I see her she is kicking ass and taking names!!
It turns out that those names she takes are then handed out to _Mobile Arse Kicking Units_ that go out there and kick arse on her behalf.
Sara Balls
Please be aware that I'm not american, so this is all theatre to me. Moreso, it's theatre that I have no personal stake in.
Next, I've heard all this 'Sovereign Citizens' stuff before and while it sounds interesting, it's not overly compelling. Hindering its compulsion, I might add, is the cornucopia of common law precedents that have uniformly ran contrary to 'Sovereign Citizens' interests.
That's why Trump hates her!
Or is she kicking names and taking ass?!
And across the board too.
I consider myself a libertarian, but damn, this lady is the best democrat I think I've ever seen.
If the government quit creating all the moral hazards such as guaranteeing bank accounts with the FDIC as well as insuring mortgages combined with bail outs for the banks when things hit the fan. This would do way more good then bringing back Glass,Steagal.
Warren says she wants to fight the Big Banks but she won't even consider taking on their supplier ie The Federal Reserve.
SuperSaltyFries yes I have too agree with u she is the best democrat liar I call her liz pocohantis warren ......?????? imagine fools like u voted her into office knowing that she lied to the government saying she is native American to get financial gain for her self sounds familiar like the banks she hates what hipocrits liberals are its crazy how they voted this crook into office when she robbed taxpayers to fund her college shame on u pocohantis warren and fools like u super salty Obama and Anderson cooper kool aid drinker keep voting for fools and corrupt people like warren gore Obama aka barry soetero google that name pal George bush all fools dumb americans like u vote for
Joey Joe Joe Bullseye. Back when the S&Ls were collapsing, I was a Libertarian, and it was obvious to me that Reagan had "deregulated" them exactly backwards. Rather than removing all regulations while keeping FSLIC guarantees in place as the Republicans did, a Libertarian Congress would have made FSLIC membership voluntary, and simply made sure everyone knew which institutions were Federally insured and which weren't.
Of course, even with Reagan's guaranteed-crisis setup, the damage could have been greatly reduced if the FSLIC had simply carried out its legal mandate to repay all lost deposits up to $400k and told the multi-million dollar depositors, "Sorry!"
These days, I'm a Warren Democrat, but I'd *still* be willing to make FDIC membership voluntary.
spartan44ga You should buy a book on basic writing grammar. Seriously, not only is the content of what you wrote dumb and pointless drivel, it looks like it was written by a two year old. Aside from the periods and question marks incorrectly used in the first line, you do not use any punctuation again for the whole passage. It sort of defeats any attempt at a point you're trying to make...of which you made none.
SuperSaltyFries Also a libertarian but I would vote for Warren over any republican who has announced.
Aww, no fair, she won the debate by stating facts and knowing her shit!
***** And MSNBC
LIZ for President.
trha2222 That's all you got, lol. Pathetic.
Gene Smolko "thats all you got".. You may think making false claims to advance your career is no big deal but not all of us feel the same way.
How about her fake support for the working man, pension systems, American families..etc. as stories come out during her Ma Senate race about her representing a mining company trying to stiff it's workers out of their pensions. But no one can hold her feet to the fire because that would be too mean, since she's a woman. You know, that whole "war on woman" thing the Dems created to silence any detractors.
How about stories pointing to her partnering with her brother to scoop and flip houses out of the hands of struggling families back in her home state during the worst of the recession. How about her practicing law in states she never took the bar exam in, claiming technicality . You can find these stories searching Ma. newspapers from back during her Senate campaign. Don't get me wrong. She says all the right things for my working man ears. I just think she is standing on her political soap box building an image that ultimately is powerless in the world of big banking and Washington. And did I mention I don't trust her? :)
"Well let me put it this way: if you don't fight for it, the chances are zero" This is why I love Elizabeth Warren
Been a fan for long time watch Cspan when she's questioning everyone. So intelligent and knowledgeable. Thank you for your convictions we need you more then ever. Everyone should utube her amazing
I friggin hate this defense....Republicans use it all time. Whats the point of proposing laws because either a) it won't pass anyway, or b) criminals will just break the law anyway. Well shit, what the hell is the point of anything then? Why do we even have a government if this is your attitude....it's infuriating and a completely fallacious argument.
Elizabeth Warren for President!
/From Sweden
shima Hon bör gå Bernie Sanders. Han har redan fått min röst. Realistiskt är de systemet staplade mot dem ändå.
Leave that to us Americans to decide lol
shima I agree/from Germany
shima To the collective brain trust stating that the author cannot vote if he or she is in Sweden. Uh, yes, by absentee ballot if that person is an American Citizen living in Sweden (as I once did).
yes
I'd never heard of Mrs. Warren before...why aren't you yanks voting in more people like her?
we love her, but she didn't run for president. unfortunately she is only one.person, most of everyone else is corrupt but she has made a ton of difference. I hope she runs for.president next time
Drosta Dorianin ms
Gawd, what a great idea, she is on the ball. Wadda gal! We know it but he doesn't that when you shout, you lose.
She is only doing this to build her name. She is another fraud though. Warren put the check mark on the "Native American" box to get minority benefits like free college. She was caught red handed. She is bad. Right now she's doing ok but she lied her way to the top.
Get out of the echo chamber TheMatt. Regardless of anything else (her personal advancement), she is doing fine work for the American citizen. She has been doing this across the spectrum before she was ever in politics.
Well, she obviously had an impact since they chose to be childish about it after she made her points.
+Jenny Medrano Why do you look like Steve Harvey?
+Hamilton Mays Thats steve harvey.
+dipojones No it's not. It's JOHN CENA
i dont agree with Warren G about everything, but i'd always thought she was a competent and lovely type of woman. She always believes in what she's doing, and she always has good data to support her ideas. She may not have the best ideas, however whenever no one else is making any plans, you can always count on her to think her way through. in the Marine Corps. i was told "A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."
Elizabeth, time to endorse Bernie Sanders!
Then, Sanders / Warren 2016 FTW!
+mysterxyz no. he, and I, mean FTW
+mysterxyz Why does your lot never have any ACTUAL, reasoned criticism?
+Karan Trivedi ...spot on/Denmark for Sanders-Warren
+g suitter I would Run to the poll to vote for a Sanders/Warren ticket!!
+jevicci yes that is true. hardly would have mattered tho
she was going to win the red States anyway.
We need this woman in the white house.
when can I see you again
Werdlow Johnson Inc. i think we need alot more real centrist non religious women in power more women more peace tighter more efficient budgets better relationships more compassion and pragmatic compromise
abdul adam who are you? I don't know you.
This woman is awesome
***** And why is that?
Looks like you are clutching at straws, does she have indian heritage? should she be held accountable for her grandfather's crimes? is it possible for someone who earns good money to care about those that don't? do you hate her for being a democrat?
***** Is there any chance you could answer my questions? or are you just parroting stuff you have heard from someone else?
***** Where are your facts on the statements you just made? So you can't invest in real estate and flip houses your an idiot
Jonathan James FUCKING HYPOCRITE -- SHE BECOME RICH FROM FLIPPING HOUSES
Elizabeth Warren 2020!
I really hope she will run in 2020. America should be proud to have a tough legislator like that. She knows her stuff, she articulates cogent arguments and she doesn't even have to raise her voice. Her points are themselves nuclear missiles. Boom!
Mangosteencountry if trump screws up I would be all for giving her a shot at the presidency
"if"?
BobTheFrog TV she will never win
Barry Guyer You don't know that; you're not omniscient. Millions of people said that Trump would never win. He didn't even believe he'd win himself.
Bernie Sanders / Elizabeth Warren ticket for President in 2016! ... with Elizabeth as President and Bernie as Vice or vice versa .. either way actually I would vote for!
Hands down a winning ticket....
eas leeps The VP should be a ying to the president's yang. Two people with appeal to the same demographic limit their support.
There would be a record election turnaround. It would be a dream!
+eas leeps Wasn't Obama supposed to be "the one" that was going to bring about progressive change and fight the establishment. In 2008, he was touted as the same new fresh face as Elizabeth Warren is now. Look what a dud he turned out to be, what makes you think she will be any different?
monokhem stupid?
or dishonest?
If your own history has not taught you anything about deregulation of banks, just look north where banks have always been regulated and not one has failed! (By the way, for the truly uninformed among you, north means Canada!)
Trish Marloe Talk about revisionist history?! Unless you were born in the last 8 years you are completely delusional. Easing of regulation was passed through a Republican controlled senate towards the end of the Clinton administration, When Bush2 took office his appointees and the banking sub-comitees let the bankers create default swaps and cashed in and fucked everybody from home owners to retirees. You've got to be insane to hand this shit over too these assholes again. Canada is not in bed with there banks like America is. Get some facts.
we wished we had a leader as honorable as Ned Stark
Ha ha ha then they elected a PUSSYGRABBER in USA as PRESIDENT.
I am so impressed with this woman, her inability to be intimidated, her total knowledge of facts, her poise, etc... I wish she had run for President. I will vote for Clinton, because Trump is a truly scary proposition, but truly wish that Elizabeth Warren were the Democratic nominee for President. She would bury Trump with her knowledge, and go toe to toe with him.
Elizabeth Warren ROCKS !!
no she doesn't... she's terrible
She is a real American; she has not been purchased by the corporations. Too bad most elected officials are not like her. If they made her QUEEN, I would not mind. Most Americans would rather have a Queen that cares about the people than the phony elected officials we currently have in office. I would say make her President but she deserve better than that.
Newton Charles
She's a lying piece of shit. She is UN-American and she lied her way through life. Wake the fuck up libtard.
Sorry I am a conservative. :) BTW: Can you prove that she lied her way through life??? Are you sure about your statements?
Talk is so cheep... so do you have documents, videos or anything to prove that Elizabeth Warren has lied about anything? Please Post the links to your documents or videos. Proof to us that she is lying. Continue to let your hatred consume you by showing us your evidence. We are looking forward to see your data.
Newton Charles
If you haven't followed the story then I can't help you. Seriously, you must use common sense once in a while. Elizabeth Warren did what many unethical people do to get an unfair advantage in life. She lied about her heritage to get preferential treatment over honest people. Simple as that. If you're so naive as to dismiss a MAJOR news story covered by ALL media outlets then you're reasoning is truely defective and nobody can help you. My advice to you is that you find someone to support whose entire identity isn't built on lies.
She's awesome. She seems like a change we could actually believe in.
Elizabeth Warren is two faced lier. Consumer protection my ass. Elizabeth and her brother were buying foreclosed homes in Oklahoma and flipping them for profit off the bad fortunes of poor evicted people. Shameless...! Not to mention her lies about claiming to be of American Indian heritage, working as an attorney for big corporations to welch out of pension obligations...etc.
67NewEngland Can you provide evidence for that?
Tony Byers Tony, I live in Massachusetts and lived through the name calling, debates, Boston Globe and Boston Herald coverage. All of the topics I mentioned were dissected during that whole campaign time period. I can't imagine searching the Boston newspapers wouldn't produce the articles.
ok maybe all politicians are corrupt but I'll take her ahead of he others.
She probably does have a dark side just like many of the politicians in office today. I can't help but appreciate the fact that someone is at least saying something about the evil bankers that haven't faced punishment for messing up so many lives. Iceland seems to be the only country that holds their bankers accountable.
This should have been our first female president
yes
+Omega Juicer she is a Harvard professor, lol you look silly (:
Yeah that's what I said!!!
+Omega Juicer but you voted for Sarah Pailen
TOTALLY agree!!! She's like the world's most brilliant banker but with unimpeachable integrity and honor, the ultimate oxymoron. No way she should even exist. If she were running instead of Hillary, this would be a done deal. No controversy, definitely no Wall Street financing her campaign, and a financial genius at the head of the world's economy. Four years from now, she's running. And when she does, she's definitely got my vote.
I have a feeling she will try to run in 2020. 😊
Robin Fellows if u think he will be president for 8 years youre an idiot...just like trump!
Those idiots are "wrong"
While I love her and want to agree with that, IMO her talents would be far more suited as leader of the Senate. I feel like her hands would be tied on too many things if she was in the White House. The woman knows her shit, that is for sure.
@Robin Fellows you sound like a true Trumptard, Warren would be a much better President than Trump. If you were intelligent you'd see she actually cares about Americans and America, even if you don't agree with her platform. Elizabeth Warren 2020!!!
She Is
I like that "Warren G"!!!
She's regulating
+Je Ss 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
holy shit i just got it
lambdasq I don't get it :/
lambdasq is kl
Id vote Warren over Hillary if she runs.
Dan Ski Seems likely those two might team up.
Warren is so pleasant and informative with reporters.They get flustered she does not.It's an attribute that makes her seem more truthful and convincing.I really like her.
I also liked seeing them begin with a young male anchor and after Warren disposed of him they brought in a 'senior' guy. Strike 2.
this woman will be our first woman president in the future. America is holding tight to that hope.
Warren 2020!
If Glass Steagall didn't work then why for 50 years was the banking system stable?
another i'll have to catch tonight!!!
I love her, Massachusetts got it right when they elected her to carry on the Kennedy legacy.
You might want to ask your own mommy and daddy if the banking system was
"stable" for those "50 years". It wasn't.
And it is now?
razzle nipper the banking system was extremely stable with strong reserve requirements
Warren run! /From Scotland :)
+Ellie M. VP, four years, pres, the next eight!!
And who started all this deregulation? Why the wonderful, spiritual, superGod Republican RONALD REAGAN of course!
+A Pullara
Clinton helped allot when he was in office too!
+A Pullara Reagan did a lot of shi too. Don`t make him holy . he is not
NeverNedDead
Your right man, we also cant forget what that prick did either!
+A Pullara I could be wrong, but I thought it started towards the end of Carter's term. Reagan did his fair share, as did Clinton, but I thought it started toward the end of Carter's term. Could be wrong on that though.
+Adam Eraky No. Deregulation of Airlines and communications began during the Carter admin. BTW, Carter was not a big fan of deregulation. That was the brainchild of Congressional republicans, just as it was during the Clinton administration. You can always find some blue dog democrats, like Lieberman and Chris Dodd, or some DLC type Democrats, like Clinton, to go along with republican ideas, but the entire concept that "gov't is the enemy" and that deregulation is an economic panacea is a conservative republican concept, through and through. Deregulation legislation is ALWAYS passed with a near unanimous vote of republicans, along with a small minority of Democrats. That doesn't mean it's a bi-partisan issue.
Sullivan at 2:35: regulation never works...
Sullivan at 3:44: i never said regulation never works...
Dave Fisher I hate that slimy little turd, but to be fair, that's not exactly what he said. He first said that no matter what rules are, you can't prevent some busts. That's not entirely the same as saying regulation never works.
Is that true true or did you hear it on Fox?
Warren for president!
I suspect she would carry Massachusetts and two or three more very liberal states and that is about it.
you are an example of why we need simple test for voting,a 10 question test you can take 10 times and only get 3 right,755 of democrats would fail,founding fathers wanted only land holders to vote,cause they wanted intelligent informed people to vote,if you wanted to vote,you could get educated-10 simple questions-how many members are on the supreme court,?who was the 16th president of the us?,how many branches of gov are there?who is the speaker of the house?,who is the senate majority leader?how many senators are there?how many members are in the house?name 2 vice presidents in our history?how many senators come from each state?name the first president of the united states...stop googling liberals,if you can answer 3 you are an idiot-really if you cant get all 10 you are stupid-the only tough one is 16th president which was abe lincoln
Warren, or Bernie Sanders!
Chrisdougable Add former Congressman Alan Grayson to the list too
whyicare, he's a current Congressman.
She's brilliant. And yes she does maul them.
Bring back Glass/Steagall.
Overturn Citizens United.
Can we increase capital gains while we are here?
... tax... capital gains tax
George Jetson, how about we charge people who register to vote Democratic $1,000 per elections cycle since they tend to be financial deadweight and people who trade make money ?
Bozo Clown Bozo, your a racist and a bigot! I am so tired of "white man is hurting me" complex that people like you have! I have plenty of black, Hispanic and Indian friends who worked hard, often without government assistance, got their degrees, and are making high 5 and 6 figures. GET YOUR LAZY REAR OFF THE SOFA, AND XBOX AND GET YOUR DEGREE! They give out college loans like water today!
George Jetson it's worse... it's like being a member of a company town.
That loudmouth tried to talk over her and she slapped the crap out of him.
I love this lady, she's got the facts while CNBC has the people by the balls or ovaries. But for real, I'd love to see this women fight in the supreme court. People like her NEED to be in the White House running this fucking government. But there's also the PEOPLE who can change this filthy place, you just gotta want to do it. Fuck, The Constitution of America tells you that if you've got the numbers lets say around 175,000,000 that's roughly half of the U.S. then you can change what's going on here in the U.S. This place was built BY the PEOPLE and FOR the PEOPLE. So I want to say that if you REALLY want to change, try getting a LOT of people to join a group, start it on FaceBook, Twitter, etc. All forms of Social Media is excepted regardless. So DO something other than bitch, because the government won't listen to your cries, they won't help you. This is like France before their Revolution (not really). But you get my point, it's time for something BIG to happen here. If y'all are really scared of loosing your new iPhone 6, or whatever, grow the fuck up and stop being a panzy ass bitch! Your "phone" won't even be here after 20 years. Nothing that we make other than filth and cars will be here in the next 20 years or so.
***** Then why don't we change that >:)?!?!?!
+Edward Williams II ...Why are you attempting to be Political Correct, Instead of Understanding what this means...
+Edward Williams II First of all, the Constitution is based off of the Christian faith and the Iroquois Native American laws.
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SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS FOR PRESIDENT
You’ll never guess what happened.
Again.
The people say Elizabeth Warren 2016! The Federal Reserve, JP M.Chase, G.Sachs, Citigroup, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Koch Ind., GE, Wal-Mart, McDonalds, FOX News, and MSNBC say HELL NO.
And the tens of millions of Americans who work for them ??
zl1vette427 You might know more about this but I doubt we really know because the commercial banks were bailed out. Can we really separate their activities so cleanly to delineate your question. Also, they borrowed at subsidized rates from the government albeit guaranteed deposits etc. If they didn't have access to cheap money their failure rate would have been higher.
zl1vette427 Tens of millions of their employees get paid low wages and aren't major stockholders in those companies. And tens of millions that don't donate massive amounts of money to politicians and political action groups because they are just trying to stay afloat.
Tom Landis, the UAW was bailed out, 85 cents on the dollar.
The banks were DILUTED. Or saw their equity wiped out.
Get your facts straight.
You forgot Monsanto.
i like her. i would vote for her over hillary clinton.
Warren would be to the left of Hillary Clinton.
Nah man she's just a sweet talking politician you can feel comfortable voting for she will promise you change but the same shit will continue
Osca Carrillo true, there all sweet talking..lol
So? She's the only one I see in Congress trying to go after the fat cats who brought down the economy in 2008. Now Trump gave them all a seat at the Plundering table. Perhaps we stop worrying so much at where folks place on the political spectrum (a spectrum that appears to be changing), and consider what they are saying and actually doing.
Trump chatted a lot of sht to get elected. But now we see he only knows his own conning ways. The rip off is his pattern. We just expanded that playground for him. He brought his moving boys with him to help plunder.
At least she'd keep everything in check unlike a certain someone in office -_-
I love Elizabeth
And that's why I love Cenk. Only wish I had watched MSNBC back in the days he had a show.
Just look at Canada. The Canadian federal government has MUCH stricter regulations on its banks and despite the financial crisis, Canadian banks continued to thrive. Telling big shot executives they can't do wtv they want is EXTREMELY important. These people live in their big estates or on the top of skyscrapers and only hang out among themselves. You really think they won't fuck us over? They will, they have and unless we regulate their activities, they will do it again and again and again.
***** It wasn't that government programs were put in place that allowed lower income people to purchase homes that was the problem. The problems arose from deceitful lenders and realtors who pushed people into buying homes that they couldn't afford. The lenders approved them for mortgages that had deceivingly low interest payments to begin with and had hidden "balloon" payments buried in the mortgage document. The realtors, working in conjunction with the lenders, convinced the buyers that they could afford the more expensive homes...which they couldn't. If the lower income people had purchased homes that they could AFFORD and hadn't been screwed over from every which way, the housing crash wouldn't have occurred.
Well Canada is business friendly and can only loan so much money in the US banks can loan 1000 for every dollar that is deposited but the US government can't do shit about it since the federal reserve is really in charge regulations are nothing until you end the Fed
Osca Carrillo
The Fed is an essential, and inessential videogame. They make it seem like everythink is under control, but in reality the world (especially normal america) is so indebted and fucked they cant deny it anymore.
^I wrote this really drunk last night^, forget I said anything lol
Stock Market Guru Pt. 1 -- Yes, that's exactly correct. I'm a real estate agent in Canada (10 years), and before that I was a mortgage broker. In Canada we had some sub-prime mortgage products but for the most part they were heavily regulated. In the States that wasn't the case. There were many documented cases in America where predatory agents and lenders would knowingly defraud people, making them believe they could qualify for mortgages that they should not have been approved for. Oftentimes they were immigrants who weren't very comfortable with English and couldn't understand the paperwork. Have you ever seen and agreement of purchase and sale for a home? They're wordy and full of legalese that, if not familiar with them, can be very difficult to understand. What the predatory lenders did is set the interest rate artificially low, making the initial first few months of payments affordable, but buried in the document was a "balloon rate." After a few months the interest rate would "balloon" up to the actual rate, which would mean that the home buyer now couldn't afford his/her mortgage payments. Thus, they would go into default. These mortgages were insured by the government so it was a WIN WIN for everyone except the person who bought the home.
Stock Market Guru Pt. 2 -- The predatory lending/selling and the balloon rates weren't the worst of it. Wall Street came up with a new "product" that took all of these toxic mortgages, bundled them into a large investment unit, forced the rating agencies to give them a AAA rating (despite that fact that many were anything but), and sold them to investors for AAA prices. Since they were rated AAA by reputable agencies the unsuspecting investors were blissfully unaware that they'd purchased junk. THEN, when the home owners were close to defaulting on their mortgages and approached their banks and lending institutions to renegotiate the terms of the mortgage, the mortgages were MIA. Lost in some giant investment portfolio. AND, since they were insured by the government, there was no impetus for the lender to refinance because if the home owner defaulted, THEY GOT PAID from the insurance. The predatory real estate agents got paid. The predatory lender got paid (for negotiating the mortgage and then paid in full when the buyer defaulted). The Wall Street investment bankers got paid. The rating agencies got paid. Everyone was laughing all the way to the bank except for the home owner who'd been duped into believing he bought a house that he could afford.
Elizabeth Warren does her homework and knows finance. I would like to see Glass Steagall back in play. What could it possibly hurt, except the pockets of wall street.
She should be the first woman president, not Clinton.
+TemplarX2 4 years of Bernie followed by 4 years of Elizabeth
+Omair Sheikh 8 years of sanders then 8 years of warren . That would be prefect
Cheyenne Johnson Well yeah that might help wipe the Republican party altogether
I LOVE Elizabeth Warren tearing into that Brian Sullivan/Bank Suck up!!!
did you feel the same way about Warren endorsing Hillary and her Wall Street Pals?
She's a skilled politician. We would rather work with her than any other in Washington except Nina Turner, Jill or Bernie. What's the problem?
***** She's a hypocrite why you ask?
You need to separate money from politics first.
C'mon that will never happen...
code470926 I do know of a way. It's called money, you spend it where you want the power to go.
Karl Slicher But the people with the money, use it to make the politicians act like puppets.
That was more than slightly hilarious. It' slams to say, but even the anchor's facial expressions were hilarious.
Great education here. Thanks and keep it up !
Honestly speaking, if I ever had the opportunity of being interviewed, I would state right off the bat that if we're going to have a discussion/ debate/ interview, we have to respectfully give each other opportunities to talk without interrupting/cutting/ interjecting, and so on. I find these so called interviews and/or debates are not even based on competing or opposing arguments/view points but rather who can speak the loudest, rudest, and display the most arrogance.
+Jason Sadaka Gemeyal Gafar They should turn off the mic when their time is up, then let them have a 10 minute blast session. We could see who best handles themselves after we've heard the formal part of the debate.
Smack down, loved it.
love her!!!
7:58 Jim Cramer stopped being relevant the minute Jon Stewart eviscerated him on the Daily Show.
Stewart fought another Democrat, he wouldn't invite a GOP'er because he'd get smashed.
zl1vette427 Idiot.
Senator Warren is incredible. I enjoyed her bringing them down and three against one, wow! She is wonderful and kept her cool and was always professional when she responded to the anchors.
The first dude's rationale is like saying why bother having seat belts, people will always die in car accidents. Elizabeth Warren speaks out on issues most politicians dare not address and at least tries to proactively push for legislation.She has more balls than most on capital hill.
Vote for her? I'd marry her.
A passionate politician! We need to keep an ear open to her.
Great explanation Cenk.
She reminds me of my grandmother. Awesome.
Greenmachine305 Grandma Liz. She should run on that image in 2020.
once Glass-Steagel went by the wayside I knew the domino effect was ....(in effect)
We got one that can see....
Any chance you live in Southern Oregon and want to go out for a beer? My treat.
IraHayesIraHayes I live in Detroit. we cant afford beer anymore.
callie land
Down here in Memphis, we can't even afford to go out, (but of course we do it anyway).
lessevdoolbretsim....ahh yes! one of my favorite towns. many drunken Beale st. adventures were had there. and i'm kind of a BBQ jumkie, so in my humble opinion, Memphis cant be beat.
Congratulations Americans, stand up and sing your National Anthem
Elizabeth Warren, no matter what topic she challenges, is brilliant, articulate, witty and factual.
She should run for president.
That female anchor sounds exactly like Senator Amidalla from Phantom Menace.
Amidalla sounded Australian?
Why oh why didn't Senator Warren run for president? She would have been unstoppable.
Canada also did not deregulate, and they have had no crash or housing bubble.
+Sandy Bilak But they have.
+sk00lb0y It's a ripple effect. Because of the dollar, so basically any crushes in the US economy will be felt on every continent. That's why the world should switch to Euros. No single nation should have that much power and control over world economy. At least for the euros risk is spread among 28 different countries. But am sure the CIA won't have that
Michael Misoi Switch the whole world to an already totally failing system, Great idea! Why not let the market decide which currency is best?
sk00lb0y Falling how? Just because a few countries are experiencing hitches doesn't mean the whole continent is failing. Look at what happened in 2008. That would not have happened if risk was spread. But am sure the CIA will be more than happy to eliminate any leader who can think of that idea. And do you know why? Without the dollar the US cannot place sanctions on anyone they do business with directly. Without the dollar the US cannot freeze money and assets of certain individuals as they easily can now. And finally without demand for the US dollar, with your current public debt and spending, you will experience inflation like never seen before. That's why you can't let it happen. It's not an issue of markets deciding. Purely political
Michael Misoi Everything you just said applies to the euro and the EU. Massive public debt, huge spending and the EU got crushed in 08. Northern Rock, and Barclays are just two examples of many. And I didn't say falling, its failing.
Senator Warren was concise and calm while the panelists reverted to Trump politics. Which is denial and grade school behavior.
This wasn't a beating, it was a demolition.
From the UK.. get this woman as your President
I think you need to check this woman out before you call her.. she seem ok to me any one fighting the bank is good in my books
Common sense is a Great thing!,That's why I voted for Elizabeth Warren!
First person with a sense of history .
***** Were you shrieking about the debt before Obama or Warren were elected? Let me go out on a limb here and take a wild guess... No. You started screeching about it when Faux News gave you and the TBaggers your marching orders, didn't you?
***** So basically, you don't have an argument.
I'll come down there and eat some Possum with ya!
Your Dada Hello Your Dada, So if you can put aside your hatred for a moment and address your own point. Just because Fox News harps on the national debt does that mean you refuse to except it as a very serious situation? Bush did a lot to add to the debt. But so did Obama and many presidents before both of them. So where does that leave us when both sides share blame? People in this country are so blinded by partisanship they are willing to drive right into collapse before they are willing to make hard decisions.
i really like the idea/line "elizabeth warren g regulates"
Homeboy just got schooled. for free too. he should be glad.
A news anchor arguing with warren? big mistake !!
Why isn't she going to be our first woman president? Sadly maybe she will be... After president drumph
LOL! This was so awesome, thank you!
SANDERS/WARREN.
Sanders Warren 2016!
Wishful thinking.
+Bryson Stevens Voting is doing slightly more than throwing a coin in a wishing well. I'll do my wishing with my vote included. Nothing wrong with you wishing for Bernie's success. Republicans have gotten spoiled on low voter turnout in midterm elections like this last one in 2014. You can see it in how fox news commentators pretend democrats don't exist. I hope Warren changes her mind about not running as V.P.
+Bryson Stevens my wish too. im registered to vote, and i hope you are too. lets take the country back.
Paul R Your bad seed idea will not grow in the soil of my better world view. I will never agree that any vote made formally (whether counted or not) is a waste of time and I don't want NOT voting to be viewed childishly as cool. I'd rather fail in the middle of voting with my middle finger pointing away from me.
Walked into that one CNBC guy...Just because she's not a Harvard business model really pisses off the Wall Street fan base...
Elizabeth Warren I have a lot of respect for since she cares for people and she is highly intelligent and the type of person who should be President.
You Go Senator Warren!!!
She's a badass
I disagree with most of what you post. However, I couldn't agree more on this subject. Glass Stegal worked!!!! It separated commercial banks from investment banks. CB received subsidized money from the fed government in terms of deposit guarantees. They take that government subsidy and invest in risky assets. Hence the collapse. I say, bring back Glass Stegal..
Why don't you tell us how many banks failed in 2008-09 because of investment banking ????
crickets.....
zl1vette427 Think bank bailouts. The interconnectedness of a banks' commercial vs investment banking activities makes that impossible. They were taking subsidized, cheap money and investing in high risk assets. A mismatch in asset/liability management--complements of the taxpayer.
zl1vette427 you probably wouldn't understand.
Franki B , correct....not a single bank failed because of G-S.
Franki B The research on this is abundant. Here is a piece that a lay person can probably understand.
www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2012/08/27/repeal-of-glass-steagall-caused-the-financial-crisis
"Warren G like a gangsta" hahahaha
Elizabeth warren is a true American fighting for common people very smart,intelligent absolutely right on all Historical facts goes to prove why FDR greatest President she will be a Great president and Bernie sanders can bring her as vice president with his ticket.
Yes!!
www.breitbart.com/big-government/2012/09/04/elizabeth-warren-dodges-meeting-with-native-american-delegates-at-the-dnc/
+kausik Elizabeth Warren’s Lies Catching Up With Her
Elizabeth Warren, Democrat candidate for Senate in Massachusetts, can’t shake free of unflattering revelations from her past. First to be exposed was her unverified claim to be a Cherokee, which upset actual Cherokees and raised ethical questions. Then came accusations from fellow academics that Warren had fudged data for a book, followed by the discovery that the former mortgage fraud czarina had herself made a tidy profit flipping foreclosed homes. Now comes the shocking news that, not only did Warren represent a string of big businesses in cases against workers, she seems to have been practicing law for over a decade without a license.
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Family Lore vs. Hard Evidence
The first setback to Warren’s maiden election campaign came in April, when it was revealed that she’d publicly listed herself for years as a “Person of Color”, specifically, a Cherokee. (See earlier post for details.) Despite Warren’s insistence that the Cherokee controversy has been “put to rest” it keeps dogging her, partly because her opponent, Scott Brown, has made it a question of her character, partly because of Warren’s own bizarre compulsion to keep raising the subject.
Brown hit Warren on her false Cherokee claim in the first question of their first debate. Warren insisted Harvard’s decision to hire her had nothing to do with her claim to minority status, yet refused to comply with Brown’s request for her to release her Harvard paperwork. Brown and the debate moderator then moved on to other issues, but a few minutes later Warren felt the need to retell the thoroughly-debunked fable of her family’s claims to Cherokee and Delaware ancestry.
Not content to leave it be, Warren released a TV ad insisting yet again that the family lore she heard as child makes it OK for her to call herself a Native American. This subject is not a winner for Warren, as: 1) exhaustive research by the Cherokee genealogist, Twila Barnes, has proven conclusively that Warren has zero native american ancestry; 2) even had Warren’s claim to 1/32 Cherokee blood been true, under federal law, that was not sufficient for her to claim minority status as a native american.
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Underdog Champion or Hired Gun?
Warren’s claim to fame, which made her the darling of proglodytes, is as a champion of the underdog against avaricious corporations. In the debate, Brown cast doubt on this image when he questioned Warren’s decision to represent Travelers Insurance in its 2009 attempt to avoid paying compensation to thousands of workers with asbestos poisoning. Warren insisted that by representing Travelers (“it was an insurance company versus another insurance company” she later explained), she actually helped the poisoned workers by getting Travelers to set up a trust fund, which was better than nothing. The settlement was later negated by the Supreme Court, leaving the victims with nothing.
Less clear is how Warren was aiding the downtrodden when she represented LTV Steel in 1995, when they attempted to renege on health & pension benefits to thousands of retired coal miners.
Warren has also served, in an advisory or litigating capacity, the following clients in their attempts to use Chapter 11 legalities to avoid liabilities for asbestos poisoning:
Kaiser Aluminum
Dow Chemical
Johns Manville
National Gypsum
Fuller Austin
Fairchild Aviation
Piper Aircraft
Babcock & Wilcox Company
Pittsburgh Coming Corporation
Owens Coming Corporation
Armstrong World Industries, Inc.
W.R. Grace & Company
G-1 Holdings, Inc.
United States Gypsum Corporation
Federal-Mogul Global, Inc.
North American Refractories Company
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Unlicensed Practice of the Law
All this scrutiny into Warren’s legal work (conducted primarily by the blog Legal Insurrection) has uncovered a potentially devastating blow to Warren’s Senate aspirations. It now seems certain that Warren has been practicing law for years in Massachusetts without a license. That’s a felony.
Warren admits she’s never passed the Mass. bar, but insists it doesn’t matter as: 1) She’s never really practiced law in Mass, just “dabbled” a bit; 2) She maintains no law office in the state; 3) She’s never appeared in a Mass. court regarding Mass. law; 4) She’s a member of the TX and NJ bars. All four statements are lies.
Warren has engaged in continuous practice
The long list of clients above, most from 2002 and discovered by chance, belie Warren’s claim of “dabbling.” Warren refuses to release a comprehensive list of clients, but her annual tax returns list six-figure earnings from legal work.
Warren has maintained a permanent law office
Warren insists she has no law office in Massachusetts. Yet in amicus briefs to the Supreme Court, and in numerous other cases over the past decade where she was listed “of counsel”, Warren gave her Harvard address as the location of her law practice. On her Texas bar file, she also lists Cambridge, MA, as the location of her practice.
+iminfoman iminfoman And you choose now to comment on a three year old video? Really? No one cares man..
I care.
I would vote for Elizabeth Warren ten times over.
Yes.
*****
You sir, have the mental power of a three minuet egg. Your displaying your ignorance, and lack of any understanding at all. While It is true that Obama wants to bankrupt the nation, I see no complicity in Warren
***** Y'all shoud be delighted with Democratic ideals. The majority of tax money goes to the military and for keeping the shit hole South from dissolving into a third world cesspool. We should have let ya seceed.
***** When you say "your betters". that makes me think that you are an elitist, so you think you are better than everybody else. Wow what an ego! You use the words Red Neck like your proud of it. As soon as I hear that, I automatically equate it to hate, bigotry, and Ignorance. By the way thanks for the update on your taxes. Maybe You do pay more taxes than I do, considering I'm retired now after pouring concrete for 45 years. But I'm sure that in your eyes that doesn't earn me a voice. Elizabeth Warren is one of the only voices of sense in congress, and you would be well advised to listen to what she is saying. She is trying to tell you that, your taxes don't need to be high if the government would quit stealing from the tax payers. By the way God approves of interracial marriage. Moses married a chushite (Black) woman, and when Miriam and Aaron spoke against that, Numbers Ch 12 Vs 1 they were punished. Of course you would have no way of knowing that since you don't read.
*****
You're an ignorant person. I've lived under Socialism and I've existed under Capitalism, but you can't hope to understand.
She is a very bright lady who knows a great deal about finance. She probably would do a great job as President but Scott Brown was so good looking!
Never make your investment decision based on recommendations from impotent Rating Agencies, incompetent Analysts and shameless CNBC.
I LOVE ELIZABETH WARREN - SHE IS THE TRUTH!
I like Warren also, but banks are not the only entities that she wants to regulate! She is the Queen of wanting OVER REGULATE! I wouldn't want to give her the reins to the country until she calms down just a little, if she can...
mouse man Do you have an example of what she's trying to over regulate?
Your Dada She is a BIG advocate of raising the minimum wage, increasing the limits of food stamps and welfare and she is totally in favor of letting illegals have the same benefits as citizens of the U.S. without laws that say the same. Really loves long term unemployment insurance. She is NOT an advocate of letting the law of supply and demand dictate who succeeds or fails. Loves BIG government programs and regulations!
Your Dada Hates the coal industry, loves those wind turbines that are killing the eagles, favors subsidies for electric vehicle research,manufacturing and sales. She is just a nut who thinks she is should receive something special because somewhere, six generations ago one of her ancestors was an American Indian.
mouse man well, well, you said a lot, but the bottom line is - She is legislating like a advocate is suppose to - She represent the people and understand the elite and wealthy in this country could give a flying fuck about middle class and poor people.
If Warren doesn't run I will write her name on the ballot anyway!
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Warren 2016
You mess with Warren you better come correct.
i love her!
Banks claim regulation will hurt competition, but they were competitive before when there was regulation. I'm sick of these guys gambling with my money and having taxpayers guaranteeing their losses. Sickening!
Probably too smart to be president. Way better than the impending clinton nightmare.
ack! The last Clinton nightmare was partially responsible for the economic meltdown we are in now. Kind of a Reagan/Clinton/Duh_bya stew.
Doesn't matter anyway. The puppet masters would never allow Elizabeth to be President. One look at who was the biggest contributers to McCain/Romney/Obama campaigns will tell you who they are and they will never contribute to someone like Warren.
James Travers P.S. Smart has nothing to do with it. Bill is very smart and so is Hillary. So is Obama. Now SCRUPLES on the other hand.... EW has way to much of that to be elected President.
I think there is a fear of seeming overly intellectual in American politics. American voters just want to hear their best days are ahead of them and not discuss substantive policy.
Hail Victory 100% true, sadly.
I love her and the way she talk. So calm but destructively witty.
Man I wish sooooo much that Warren would run for president. She rocks!
***** Link please.
+VOREVOX I'm getting back to you late so I apologize. But I read the links and you're right. I would be sad even if Elizabeth Warren were the vice president of Bernie Sanders (of course if he is nominated). Thank you for letting me know about these links. Really. And I told others.
Bernie 2016-2024(if he lives long enough, which is very possible, he'd only be 82 in 2024), Elizabeth Warren 2024-2032(if she lives that long, she'd only be 82 in 2032)!
VOTE BERNIE SANDERS 2016...FOR PRESIDENT...LIZ WARREN VICE PRESIDENT..2016.
+Dan Bertucci lol why not
+Sinbad Saved Us All We need her elsewhere.
+Michael Conway looool, what place is better than the white house
the senate
+Sinbad Saved Us All She has no power as a VP, she is basically a figure head and all she can do is try to influence people. However, in a democratic congress (let's make it happen), she will have a powerful voice that they will be open to listening to and she will have an actual vote.
Cenk, man you rock. I mean seriously, been watching this show for a few years now. I don't know if this comment will ever surface for you, since theres endless comments and new videos uploaded continuously, but your commentaries never fail to sincerely make fuckn laugh attack. Cheers man! Keep up with the honest journalism ~ enjoying
You can always tell who's crazy in these interviews. They always cut off the person making the most sense. Generally, the person who is right (has the facts to back up what they are saying) keeps their composure.
I remember CNBC making light of Occupy Wallstreet and basically blaming homeowners (now former homeowners), the victims for the 2008 crash, for the crash itself. We know where there allegiances lie.
She will be the Next President of the United States
Chris Stonehouse this comment killed me omg
Chris Stonehouse Look on the plus side though: She is not a colored woman but a white woman with blond hair and blue eyes, so her chances are up significantly.
Chris Stonehouse
The thing is that from a European perspective, we are often puzzled as to what passes for progressive politics in the United States, to the point where it almost seems an oxymoron. Hillary Clinton & Elizabeth Warren are candidates who are steeped in white privilege and class privilege combined, yet they are put on offer to the American electorate as advocates of a more fair and equal American society. That is, quite frankly, not unlike putting up an ex-banker who had to let go off his bonus as the candidate to represent the disenfranchised, the underprivileged or the poor.
Chris Stonehouse
Surreal. Do you understand you just have told me that a blond-haired and blue-eyed "Aryan" woman, who openly admits to being a "natural conservative", represents a great hope for "progressive" America?
I invite you to reflect on this, and reflect on it deeply. There may be several important clues here as to why your country is the most ethnically divided society of the West, features the weakest and most dysfunctional social safety nets of the industrialized world, suffers from the greatest degrees of poverty and a decaying infrastructure, and is the only first world nation that still has to publicly contend with aberations as creationsim.
Chris Stonehouse That closing remark is emblematic of the problem I've been trying to address. Indeed, it's quite telling that people who essentially make a case against discrimination and for more equality are categorically being pushed on the defensive whenever this issue is discussed.
People with blond hair & blue eyes are put up by far-right, racist and xenophobic political movements as an "ideal", a mentality which traces back directly to the very real Nazi concept of the "Aryan master race"). To this day, the Western media continues to play into such notions by putting people of those appearances on a pedestal -- at the direct expense of colored & minority people, who are systematically marginalized. Black people in America refer to this phenomonen as "the black tax", but I'll hazard a guess you are not familiar with the term. Suffice it to say that this mentality in the Western media and its politics amounts to discrimination based on ethnicity, outright.
The reason why this is relevant here is because we find ourselves looking at two ostensibly progressive presidential candidates for the American presidency of 2016, who not only in no way challenge that paradigm being promoted by the right-wing, but who in fact re-affirm it. Are you genuinely surprised, then, that in response to this actual progressives will start to make mention of the credibility issues that are at play here?
This would be a non-issue if American politics acurately reflected the demographic diversity of the electorate. Instead, in the year 2015, white apparently is still right. If you see no social issues or a contradiction there, then I have no words for you. And more importantly, America's left more than likely has a very bleak future to look forward to. The country's most recent mid-term elections certainly already point in that direction.
"That was awesome". Wow, wonderful, insightful commentary. I am so surprised you weren't kept on broadcast TV.
And then you left out all the commentary that followed after that. I'm so surprised no one takes you seriously.