Sorry, corporate media, but we are sick of this shit!

[mhatrw]

Last edited Thu Oct 15, 2015, 08:29 PM - Edit history (2)

We are sick of politics as usual. That's what has gotten us into this mess. In terms of the Democratic Presidential candidates you are trying to shove down our throats, both Clinton and Biden are the very embodiments of business as usual politics.

We are sick to death of business as usual politics because we know business as usual politics will only lead to:

more historically record breaking wealth inequality

more one-way "bipartisanship"

more election spending, rigging, and buying

more government of the top 1%, by the top 1%, and for the top 1%

more trade agreements that benefit only the top 0.1%

more union busting

more Wall Street speculation and Wall Street power

more media, bank, and pharma consolidation

more ridiculously expensive Big Pharma, Big Insurance Frankencare

more student debt for less education

more jails and debtors prisons

more police brutality, profiling, and institutional racism

more fracking, global warming, and environmental destruction

more government and corporate spying on everywhere we go, everything we say, and everything we do

more insanely expensive and counterproductively destabilizing military misadventures

more incredibly wasteful military and "security" state boondoggles

more working harder to make less

more attacks on Social Security, disability, pensions, and other safety nets

more scapegoating of minorities, gays, and poor people

We are sick of all of this shit. And we are sick of corporate media and "Third Way" supporters telling us that we have to keep eating all of this shit for our own good, because being against all of this shit is "too radical."

Sorry, but it is not too radical. A large majority of the US population is already against almost all of this shit, despite your best efforts to force feed it to us. And if you were ever to report world and national events responsibly, the vast majority of the US population would be up in arms about all of this shit!

[upaloopa]

1. Speak for yourself re: Biden and Hillary

You don't speak for "us"
You speak for you!

[Armstead]

2. How do they differ from "business as usual" in any fundamentak way?

[Juicy_Bellows]

4. They don't but they like it that way.

They got theirs, F you and yours!

[wendylaroux]

26. I guess your right,

so happy they are doing okay,but most of us ARE NOT!!!!!!!!

[upaloopa]

5. You don't believe a word Hillary said in the debate

You have a Hillary in your mind that you rail against.
I am not going to at a game where someone throws out their bull shit talking points and I am supposed to defend against them.
There are Hillary biographies out there. She has a record as Senator and as Secretary of State.
Read them

[mhatrw]

8. Yes, she has a record. She has a record of doing business as usual.

She has a SoS record of being a neoliberal warhawk who is quick to rattle her sabre and get our military involved in our countries' affairs.

She has a Senatorial record of, in her own words, "representing Wall Street."

She would have liked to campaign just to the right of Obama. Had it not been for Sanders' insurgency, she would still be campaigning just to the right of Obama. If she wins the Democratic nomination, she will return to campaigning just to the right of Obama. And if she becomes President, the Republican crazies (who will continue to have majorities in both houses because of low voter turnout, especially among the young and disempowered) will continue to treat her and her center-right proposals as if she were the Anti-Christ. How is that scenario anything but business as usual?

[upaloopa]

11. I told you I don't play that game

I posted a short biography

[mhatrw]

12. I don't see how not answering a pointed question is "not playing that game."

I do not get how anyone can argue that espousing 4 years of Clinton after 8 years of Obama is not espousing business as usual. YMMV

[Armstead]

9. I'd believe a word she said if she said the same word tomorrow

[sabrina 1]

10. OP speaks for me and everyone in this house!

[roguevalley]

15. bravo, sabrina 1. go to the young turks and here Cenk lose it over the

bullshit meme that Clinton won the debate. It will warm your heart.

[sabrina 1]

19. Thanks I will. I love the Young Turks. I remember them way back during the Bush years.

Everyone is losing it over this latest BLATANT LIE told to us by the same liars who helped lie us into the Iraq War. They think we FORGET these things.

WRONG!

This is the most blatant suppression of the facts I've seen for a long time.

But it isn't working at all and is only going to harm their Corporate Candidates because we will USE it to demonstrate how thoroughly corrupt and RIGGED the whole system is.

[roguevalley]

21. Don Lemon tonight talked about the face off between the two

eventual candidates: Hillary and Trump.

I am in some kind of parallel universe, right?

[sabrina 1]

22. I think it's decided. We are just going through the motion. Or they thougt we would.

Sinking poll numbers or not, the Oligarchs will 'fix it'. But I don't think they anticipated what is happening with Bernie. And now they are panicking.

Things have gotten out of their control, for now.

Which is why it's vitally important that we have milliions of people fighting them and their smear campaigns and lies, and talking points.

[mhatrw]

23. The news model has changed. Corporate media cannot simply tell us what

saw with our own eyes or heard with our own ears anymore.

They cannot tell us that their shit smells like roses and expect us to buy it anymore.

[Art_from_Ark]

24. OP speaks for me, too

[Cassiopeia]

17. This post speaks for me.

It's time for change.

[SamKnause]

3. K&R

[WillyT]

6. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!

[bigwillq]

7. I am sick of it.

[Uncle Joe]

13. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, mhatrw.

[TrollBuster9090]

14. I agree with most of what you said except

Except of Biden and Hilary being equal examples of corporate Democrats. I think Biden isn't half the corporate Democrat that Hilary is. Other than that...carry on.

[shenmue]

16. Please change the name of GDP to Anti-Hillary rants

[zentrum]

18. Heard an analyst

…..the other day say that Bernie is not really radical——actually "He sounds like Harry Truman".

But that's before the Democratic party was moved so far to the right——pushed right of center from within, by people like the Clintons and the DLC.

[tk2kewl]

20. Enough is enough!

[raouldukelives]

25. K&R We live in the most democracy Wall St allows.

With the determined assistance of millions of shareholders across the globe they warp and twist our reality and thereby our democracy through bribery, deceit and outright propaganda.

Each shareholder normalizes the ideas and ideals of corporatism over capitalism for those around them and with the murders, with the bondage and with the atrocities against all living things taking place far from anywhere their eyes are looking, and even then, through a series of parent corporations and sub-sub-sub contractors they never realize the connection and they will never see the eyes or hear the screams of the people they finance the silencing of in the name of false quarterly profits.

Just as every slave owner normalized the subjugation, humiliation and torture of people, so does every shareholder normalize the exact same atrocities today. Just far from prying eyes and far from anywhere corporate media will show you.

Hell, they are even destroying our very ecosystems. The jet stream and growing seasons we have all evolved and depended on for a hundred thousand years to advance our species to such a brilliant level of denial. What does it matter what small battles we win if we lose the war of staying a viable and stable society? We will lose everything, every species of life we love and admire, every written word, every work of art, every thought and advance in our understanding of ourselves and our universe.

Those of us who seek reality can find it. But you have to look harder each day. Corporate media protects its own and its own are its owners. They all own a little piece of each other and have a fiduciary responsibility to protect themselves. Even from themselves. Even, as we know, at the expense of everything.

[mhatrw]

27. Bump for today's round of self-confirming corporate media bullshit. nt

[historylovr]

28. Logging in just to K & R!

[mhatrw]

29. Another day, another day of corporate media shoving the inevitablity of politics as usual

down all of own throats.