and if everything is free, who's paying for it? 😂

@@edward9862 Your reply is silly and historically uninformed. We have free education now, up to university. And university was also free here in the past, and is still free elsewhere. Ditto healthcare. The key is: free at the point of use. Yes, we have to pay for it. But we pay for it FAIRLY at the point of taxing, then distribute these social goods likewise fairly. I lived in England for 10 years. I saw with every paycheck how much they took out for the healthcare system, based on my income level. After that, my use and everyone's use of the system was "free." So please educate yourself before pronouncing on these vital matters.

@@lvincents Thank you, saved me the trouble of explaining the obvious

@@edward9862 whose $40 billion just went to the war in Ukraine? THOSE WERE OUR TAX DOLLARS, Genius. A young man once said, THEY HAVE MONEY FOR WAR, BUT NOT FOR THE POOR. He was beloved because he spoke as a king among men. You are parroting pawns

@@edward9862 I'm hoping you are joking because your comment reflects an ignorant lack of understanding of how things could work.

wow, just research on her a bit more before wonderfulling someone

@@iancho9587 - What’s your point?

@@iancho9587 I’ll definitely research myself but yeah, have to say, not very convincing if your goal was to sway people a certain way 😅

I heard about her as far back as Occupy. Before she was a big name. One of the many great things about Occupy. If you paid attention to it, as much as I did. And even supported them in the way I did. You learned a ton about a lot of things you never heard about. It was where I first heard of Bernie Sanders. Occupy! Bernie, Occupy? One and the Same!

Occupy was where I first heard of, then watched Bernie's "No I will NOT Yield the Floor" Speech from 1992! - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jMeSmNKkkqyce58.html

Common Law vs civil (roman)law no peep

Agreed! She reminds me of a movement leader out of the 60's.

She's so beautiful

This is what ppl would get if they “wasted” their vote on leftist 3rd party candidates.

Common Law vs civil (roman)law no peep

She got b that men doesn't have

She's got an uterus of steel

@DontWorryDiaperJoeGotYouCovered I hope you're being ironic. Sawant lives on 30% of her income and gives the rest to charity. What other politician does that? What Christian??

J Shrimp - Don’t drag one woman to complement another! Contrary to the idea of solidarity… Btw - Even though Seattle is vulnerable to the Climate Crisis (Acidifying Oceans & Global Heating), Kshama hasn’t made it a central part of her program (politics is the art of the possible, good she doesn’t spread herself too thin). But AOC has climate & other different progressive issues on her agenda. If the climate liars aren’t stripped out of our politics soon, we’re gonna be SOL.

AOC did what she needed to do to get into power than bowed down!! She turned out quite pathetic actually! Lol

Joe, u gotta be smoking really good stuff

@@iancho9587 actually I am. But Kshama is virtually alone, there might be one or two others, Fetterman in PA comes to mind. But you can easily count all the decent politicians in this country, federal,state and city on one hand.

Ian Cho is the South Vietnamese.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is the best politician in the country right now.

@@suzanneharris8339 Sheldon Whitehouse? what are you smoking

Kshama is very sensible. Bernie Sanders and her would be good. Or Katie Porter.

No minimum wage increases. Cut the cost of living and taxes. By cutting all rent, mortgages, businesses rent. By two thirds. Afterwards only two percent increases. Also at the same time. Cut federal and states wages by one fifth. Afterwards only the same increases that SSI retirement recieves. This is fair to everyone, but the rich. That has caused this economic disparities. They don't have to worry. How they are going to feed their families, daily.

You can even chose, if you prefer to wage a class war or a race war. You know, if you like more hammer and sicle or swastika.

YES!!!

Class is about race.

As it’s always been…that includes women’s rights and wages, and obviously the bottom line of racism.

@@bonchidude race is about class

The code is the hero.

Common Law vs civil (roman)law no peep

She’s chauffeured into her gated community with a husband making big bucks for Microsoft. Her proven track record? view before & after pics of Seattle.

​@@vallee7966 Well, workers now have 15 Dollar minimum wage in Seattle.

morality and ethics are normalized but are subject and defined by class biases.

@ Laura, please do yourself a favor and try to find where she resides, annual family income etc... or be lazy and full belly gullible as they want you to B

Exactly - they put their own financial interests over the general benefit of their constituents, who vote them into power based on their campaign rhetoric - which, as stated in this video - once they win and sit in the seat they abandon those promises mad on the campaign - we need to get Money out of campaigning and politics!

ABSOLUTELY! VOTE OUT THE CAREERIST POLITICIANS.

The system is utterly corrupted, you cannot affect change from within. To think you can is naive in the extreme. This truth is beyond obvious to anyone with eyes to see. Mass peaceful civil disobedience is your only viable option. You may not like that because it requires actual effort and risk, but that is what is required to attain anything in life of actual worth.

the topic is boring but she is kind of a babe

@@voidremoved you were abandoned as a child', right?

agree

I think that when God made Kshama, he threw alway the mold when he was done. She is one of a kind, and no chance you can get many leaders like her. She is on point, dedicated, resilient - and untouchable. She should run for higher positions. Great leader.

She is probably the only one in America today. So far the few others that have tried have been 'Kennedy-ed' or 'MLK-ed'. We need more people of integrity like her in this world.

Common Law vs civil (roman)law no peep

@@tadflinder831 Why are you spamming this non sequitur?

@@tadflinder831 - Pls explain… add one sentence each time you re-post. Pretty soon, we’ll get it.

Interview with leader of SA. Hmm... Die Fahne hoch! Die Reihen fest geschlossen! SA marschiert mit ruhig festem Schritt...

@@jakublulek3261 Idiot. She is a simple progressive, who is trying to get a fair break for her constituents. You have no idea what the difference is between Democratic Socialist and a National Socialist. The right denies the 'democratic' part of our democratic republic, and embraces all things nationalist.

😆😂🤣🤪😝

Love you so much. Keep going.Strong woman you are awesome. Your messageis critically important.

If you like this, follow “Beau of the Fifth Column” on KZfaq…

Vote her in for President of USA Would be better than your last 10 Presidents

Thanks for your post. Good on you all for your organizing efforts. How great that you won your objectives! This is best repeated thousands of times all over the country, and world!

@@bertanelson8062 This was a corporate landlord who, together with other big landlords contribute heavily to the election campaign of the local legislator for the area. We endangered our tenancy for sure when we fought and won our lease fight. But it had to be done because the landlord was so unfair and lied to us all the time. He hiked our rent, over charged us for services and did everything to make money he wasn't entitled to under the agreements he signed. The county officials didn't want to help either but we made such a racket they finally intervened. Fear is the worst thing we faced. It made me physically ill some times because I knew that without this apartment there was absolutely no other place to live that I could afford. But on the other hand, I was suffering from repeated allergy attacks, asthma, hives and generally ill health from the filthy uncleanable wall-to-wall carpeting. It had been saturated with dirt, actual soil from a huge construction project accross the street. Since I only had two windows in the apartment, one in the bedroom and one in the living room, and I had to keep the windows open for cool air during the construction for two years, everything blew into my apartment when piles of earth from digging out basements stood uncovered for months accross the street. Demolition blew stuff in too and who knows what was in that mess. The old apartments were rat infested and they took refuge in our building too. What a terrible two years, not to mention the noise and constant trucks, even at midnight. We fought the midnight deliveries of construction materials too. So one way or another we had to fight because we couldn't live in the apartment with those dirty wall-to-wall carpets we couldn't clean and the rats too. All this with no lease? It was too much. We wore the officials and the landlord out. We showed we would fight even if we were threatened and bullied. It was finally easier to give in than to have constant hassles with us and all of the other tenants too, even the ones who wouldn't join us. We kept organizing among all of the tenants. We promised we would take this to court and we had proof of all the lies and overcharges. We saved every one of our leases for 16 years with every one of the incorrect and unfair clauses. We had every notice and failure to notify date and instance for 16 years. We had correspondences and records of conversations and written notes for 16 years. We built a case against this landlord so strong that their own corporate lawyers were afraid to go to court to face a judge. Detail. That's how we won. Detail and determination!

@@helengarrett6378 Was the landlord associated with Jared Kushner's Westminster Management company? He's supposed to be a prime "slumlord".

@@mcsmith732 No. This corporate landlord has some apartments in other complexes that are section 8. This one that is in a very desirable area where he is required to keep properties up to a certain standard has one section 8 tenant and 9 which also are low income inclusionary apartments at 10% affordable. The section 8 is a special case. His older buildings in this area are rent controlled but my building isn't. It is on a special program negotiated 16 years ago to include 10% affordable units at low income rates for 30 years.

Even though I don't support abortion on demand, Sawant's passion is viral. I'm ready to go on strike, but I since I'm self-employed, I'll continue to use condoms and refrain from using Amazon.

She’s an arrogant elitist who can’t be bothered with her constituents

To uproot racism, patriarchy, oligarchy, empire, feudalism, fascism, capitalism, inequality of all kinds then challenge the WEF.

"Some people deserve more than others", and "no one deserves any help". Capitalist hyper-individualism in a nutshell.

@@bushman1492 Oh man. You scratch the surface!! Power and wealth flow towards those that already have it by the design and effort of those that have it. Only through collective action do the many have any hope of keeping their share. So those in power need to keep the many divided. I too have said not one banker went to jail. I also say not one military person responsible for dropping Agent Orange on Vietnam killing over a million non-combatants was tried for war crimes.

Reminds me of "Some Animals are more equal than other." from G. O's Animal Farm. And then there's the paraphrase of the Pledge of Allegiance with "Liberty and Justice for some". Might have been Elie Mystal who talked about how universal Civil Rights = political, social and economic justice, and that they are not "Rights" if they can be taken away.

The presence of money will always bring inequality.

Winning by sending an angry mob to the mayor’s personal house. She’s a fascist.

It's no coincidence that they both read a lot and talk to a lot of people and teach a lot of students who teach them a lot. As much as Hedges reads he says West reads even more and they do the heavy lifting kind of reading. Most people don't read books it's been said and best sellers are books that people buy but don't read. So we have a nation of children being led by the nose somewhere between people who won't believe anything and people who will believe everything. As a great doctor once said the problem with people today is that they just don't think. Homo sin sapiens

Word salad

More SA in your country, how charming.

If Savant dislikes the Democrats so much imagine her hatred of Republicans. She needs to go to Cuba or North Korea.

Ms Shawant, I find you lack of Roman saluting disturbing. This is not how the member of SA conducts himself/herself!

I wonder if she is relayed to Datta Sawant. A union leader of Bombay.

I am sympathetic to what you are saying. But, even if a viable third party emerged and got power, they would not have infiltrators? Essentially, the Dem. turnaround could happen to the other party or at least bribes for voting a particular way would not disappear. Crucially, unlimited money in politics would still wreak havoc on another prominent (new) party.

@@rogerrabbit7778 - I agree with what you are saying about infiltrators. What is needed is way to root them out, destroy their camouflage. I think the unlimited money is part of the solution. Unlimited money equals unlimited "free speech", drowning the Free speech" of those without money. That is hardly the path to "liberty and the pursuit of happiness". The problem is, all of that "unlimited money" was procured through a fraud pulled on the American people, and it shows up in government records. Starting in 1947, financial assets (or as I refer to it, "wealth") started out with a larger pool of value than the economy in size, a 2.88 to 1 ratio. Since then, wealth has grown faster than the economy by an average of 0.645% per year. Does not sound like much, but it pulls all the annual economic gains into this "pool" of wealth, and then extract even more from us citizens and the rest of the world. This system is rigged to keep the ruling class on top, has been from before WW2 started. We need to understand this simple fact, the wealthy steal everything from us. Wealth cannot be generated from outside of the economy, yet it has, by borrowing massively from the future. $13 trillion was how much wealth gained last year, that is 66% of our entire GDP. Real wealth cannot grow faster than the economy, and the total sum of wealth cannot exceed the GDP. Anything else is a fraud economy, anything else will create the suffering we now see around us. Every problem we have as a society is a result of this fraudulent wealth grab. To understand this, people must understand some basic math. You cannot have a gargantuan pool of money that does nothing but grow. That is useless and leads to despotism. We've seen it. We are living it. Get people to understand that, and infiltrators will be easy to identify.

For reference, you mentioned the Bad Faith podcast interview by Briahnna Joy Gray.

Yes!!!

@@rogerrabbit7778 If a party is sufficiently grass roots, rank + file democratic, people can spot corruption.

We should have tons of parties! The Republicans and Democrats are the same party to me they all work for the same companies.

Nothing is so eloquent as a simple declarative sentences spoken from the heart. So retire your first sentence permanently; speak plainly; and finish dressing your sentences before letting them out of the house - “…champions! Thank … you, Chris Hedges!”

100%!!

You’re not by yourself but I felt that way growing up also. Just very few and far between. Not for long though hopefully. Stay you 🖤

@@veronikalynn5084 Merci beacoup ❤

Ya I heard that too

Apparently, it worked on Obama as well. He was a real fan of Dimond and the rest of the Wall Street racketeers. And a manic "bipartisanship" fan as well.

Reference?

@@badgrampagramps8445 /?

Sure. What are they gonna do? Shoot him during a motorcade? Ok, bad example.

100%

The deciders have no shame. They are doing exactly what they want to do - extract profit from Americans through taxes and business interests while screaming about freedom and how bad regulation/government is for everyone (really their business profits). Mitch McConnell is not ashamed of his actions. They are all preconceived, planned and very deliberate. People who cannot penetrate their lies are caught like fish with their bait in their mouth and their pockets are drained. Foreign policy is another means to destroy while special interests profit.

The Cancel Culture and the propaganda machine has been very good at drugging the minds of people who should know better and feeling the brunt. Divide and rule can be very effective.

Thanks for your analysis, Vladimir Ilyich. Maybe because they don't find theyr position unbearable, they are not for revolution. Most people just want to be left alone, and not to be prodded by busybody leftists.

They do actually. See the Capital riots. How many leftist capital riots? The rights problem is they just don't have the education or mental facility to see through to a real solution. They keep spouting the dogma the uber class has trained them to spout since kindergarten. They are dupes, pure and simple and the uber class is happy to turn them loose on progressives with their masochistic authoritarianism.

I find the following more appropriate for the topic at hand: "I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person- oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."

M. Gandhi the greatest man that ever lived 🙏🙏

Pretty sure Wal Mart is owned by the DofD, they've built facilities underground alot of them across the states. And Amazon have just signed an NSA contract.

@@laurentivoli1183 Some closed Wal Marts have been used by the government, but the multi-billionaire Walton family owns the company.

@@michaelbartlett6864 That does not prevent unionization. Perhaps you're thinking of nationalization?

@@chezmoi42 I know, that's why I suggested it.

Ok, but ALL U/CASE is YELLING !!

@@mikemccarthy1638 NO, IT'S TYPING, GET A LIFE

Yes!!!

Yes, the root problem is consciousness--I am separate from you, therefore I will get what I need, regardless of you--. Until we have a fundamental shift in that view, we will continue to repeat this situation.

@@bertanelson8062 indeed. If we address the problem from an ethical or moral perspective, things will be completely different, because social injustice is a moral mandate and seldom you find someone to disagree, but when it comes to greed and private property and wealth amassing, somehow all that becomes functional and good to have because according to some economists like Melton Friedman greed and social injustice drive the “free market.” In other words, it allows for slave labor out of desperation to make a living and the difference would be net profit pocketed by the owners!

A caucus, so to speak, of people with her policies and commitment won't be tolerated by the establishment group.

Yes!!!

That's not an interest of Democrats.