Andrew Carnegie used to give speeches about how every large organization takes on the true heart, mind, and true personality of the key leaders of that organization. In the past 3 weeks, Republican leaders from Kansas to New York have given us a glimpse of their heart, mind, and true personality. One Republican leader told us that physically and mentally disabled Americans are worthless and should be murdered or sent to Siberia to die by freezing to death. Another leader well-respected by his fellow Republicans made the statement that “immigrants should be shot from helicopters like wild hogs.” After this Republican visionary made the statement that we should murder immigrants like we kill wild pigs, he told the media that he was just speaking like any person from Southwest Kansas would speak and that what he said really wasn’t controversial. And you know what – I believe that within the new Teabag Republican Party a statement like that would not be considered controversial at all.
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An EXCELLENT Pap Attack – as they ALL Are!!!
(My only one, small request is that, in the future, please consider having the names of these worthless, demonic republicans underneath their images, in the video).
Well, NO ONE could Possibly argue w/Mike’s analysis, save for those in deep denial – which is just about Every republican & conservative out there, these days.
It’s horrifying, the level of hatred that these loathsome righty leaders feel entitled to openly spew out into the airwaves. It’s truly Nazi stuff. The level of hatred expressed in their words is That Demonic and Dehumanizing toward those they target.
Thank God there’s someone like Mike Papantonio to Tell The TRUTH. The Truth is hurtful only to those who live in fear and ignorance. To the rest of US, it’s not only refreshing and honest, it’s Deeply Necessary.
Our country is heaving in an ever right-ward, fascist direction, and I believe, with all my heart and soul and mind that the hate talk, which Mike describes as coming from the mouths of these men – that hate talk is a big part of this lurch right-ward, or at the very least, a sign of what’s happening, a real signal that the danger levels are getting to high alert, when these kinds of lowlives can talk that way.
Bravo, Mike!!!!
You hit the nail on the head Every Time, and you don’t care who gets upset. That is the mark of a TRUE LEADER.
I can’t wait to listen and comment! I LOVE Mike’s Pap Attacks!!!! Mike Really gets to the Heart of the matter, w/his brilliant analysis of Any topic!
Why The Uber-Rich Should Pay Higher Taxes & Why Society Should Sanction Greed for Self-Preservation… “all men… are (imagined to be)created equal” ……………….. ( Expanded@ greenenvscithr.blogspot.”REMOVE”com/2011/03/why-ultra-rich-should-pay-higher-taxes.html?spref=tw )
The Ultra-Rich:
1. …have far greater access to limited “Commons” resources of the planet >>>
2. …get almost everyone’s services at steep discounts >>>
3. …have access to far better health care >>>
4. …live years longer than Ordinary Americans >>>
5. …are able to avoid incarceration for offenses by “Taking the Blindfold Off of Justice“ >>>
6. …are able to Bankroll FRight Propaganda Media, increasing their personal power and income. >>>
7. …have greater influence over the enforcement of laws governing their Corporations >>>
8. …use their corporations as personal family tax havens and political campaign piggy banks >>>
9. …are able to afford Accounting and Tax Planning Expertise to assist them in avoiding taxation. Appreciation of assets is not taxed. >>>
10. …send Our Kids (NOT THEIRS!) to war through “Manufactured Consent” and Ideology, as well as that shallow “We’re Number One!” mentality >>>
11. …wield and use the power to influence the deregulation of financial markets >>>
12. …use our children and publicly funded military (a shared expense) to protect their access to corporate markets, trade, and profits >>>
13. …cling to the dirtiest non-renewable energy sources (oil, coal, nuclear), giving Americans health problems, shortened lives, and national security risks >>>
14. …are able to offshore investments, jobs, and bank accounts >>>
15. …have a profit motive in keeping the extremely inflated Insurance, Drug, and Medical Corporate Systems in place >>>
16. …control the markets, keeping wages down and increasing profits >>>
17. …privatize (keep) earnings, and socialize (share) losses with the American people when Corps fail >>>
18. …benefit from a society that allows their Corporations and Industries to exist with legal standing.
Reference: (T.H.) Thom Hartmann-Historian, Author, Radio Host and Mike Papantonio-Environmental Lawyer, Radio Host @ Progressive Talk Chicago dot com
A coordinated effort to take Bargaining Rights Away in Swing States has energized voters bitten by Billionaire FOX & NeoCon FRight Talk Hate. It shows Americans the poker hand of the Greedy among Forbes 400 Kings. Tax-Cuts-For-The-Rich caused Billion$ to flow out of State & U.S. Treasuries, flood Wall Street, & gush into a “deregulated” GOP Con. The cause of Manufactured State Budget Crisis’ is 30 yrs of “Trickle Down/Voodoo Economics” & Free Market Slave Labor Competition.” Just weeks after the yearly Koch (Teahad) Palm Springs Billionaire meeting to “Plan the Direction of Prosperity for America”/“Slavery-w/A-Night-Pass,” Tea-GOP Governors simultaneously blame State Budget Crisis’ on Unions. Tax Cuts paired with Winnings from Hedge Fund Foam, Derivative Drool, & Mortgage Glue is the problem, & that money is running GOP-Tea Politicians. >> Koch-PAC-Corp Citizens United vs. F.E.C. 1-21-10 *storyofstuff. ”REMOVE” org/citizensunited/ **4 ages 9-99
The US is a Plutocracy/Kleptocracy/Military Ind Complex run by the Greedy of Forbes 400 Kings via paid FRight Talk Cons, Republican,Tea, & Blue Dog Politicians. News is sponsored by & fashioned for Corp’s. Citizens(Corp’s)United Vs. Fed Election Com decision 1-21-10 gave Corp’s &Foreign Govts “Unlimited Power to Ad Speak” Against Politicians who represent “Ordinary People.” Politicians of Forbes 400 have voted them Tax Cuts, Dropped Tariffs, Weakened Unions, & Created 2 Wars while “The 400” Off Shored Billion$, Broke Industries, & Outsourced Jobs to Slave Dictatorships &Overpopulated Demo’s. U.S. S&P CEO’s make 300-500x ave worker wage vs 30-35x nEurope &Japan. Military &Defense Contractors use U.s for Cannon Fodder; PharmaCo Addiction &Health Rejection Profit Care Mafias give U.s the highest H.C. costs @$17/$100 income Vs. $7-10/$100 Can&EU(Ban4ProfitHC). Take U.s back 7-16-21-11@S-Court Bldg nD.C *truthandpolitics. ”REMOVE” org/top-rates.php
This Repugnant party in not even Republican, it is Corporate Owned and profit driven. The Party of Eisenhower, and FDR has taken the “Judas Walk” on the Ordinary American People. They are not the friends of the country …just an assemblage of double talking Nihilists working the favor of functional Room Temp IQ’s and R-Team Role Players. Neither group responds to self-interest or reason and the EekneeMekneeMyknee MOW Independents are sloshing in the opposite direction come 2012. It’s really no time to use the white gloves on Republicans as they never take off the Bloody Boxing Gloves themselves …do they?
Mike I listened and I think you are wrong. I was active in the Kansas Republican Party and was committee precint woman for my district there. Randy Duncan who was the head of the Saline County Republican party at that time would have stood up to that man and kicked him out of office if he held any leadership position in Saline County, KS.
I remember it was the same time period as Pat Robertson’s people trying to gain control of the Kansas Republican party and they failed because the people in the Kansas Republican party rejected their message.
Just because someone is a Republican doesn’t mean they are a White Nationalist hater. We need to not bail out, but like we did in KS in the early 90′s when Pat Robertson’s people tried to take over our party,we need to FIGHT THEM AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY DO NOT SUCCEED IN DESTROYING OUR PARTY WHICH WAS THE PARTY OF LINCOLN into the American White nationalist party. I believe that there is still time to save the Republican party and that is why I came back. If all the Green Republicans bail along with the moderate Republicans then White Nationalists win. I don’t believe in just giving up without a FIGHT. IF WHITE NATIONALISTS WANT TO GAIN CONTROL OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND GAIN POWER THAT WAY, THEN I SAY AS REPUBLICANS WE MUST STAND UP AND FIGHT. WE MUST TAKE OUR PARTY BACK. NO SURRENDER, FIGHT. GO TO THE MASTRESSES. ONE FIGHTS.
Yes, I have heard the statements that you Mike applies to EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN IN THIS NATION; but it wasn’t from REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP I HEARD IT FROM, BUT FROM WHITE NATIONALISTS. You have to do a better job in reporting about RIGHT WING HATE. Even the groups like the SPLC has data that is not always correct. Sometimes they are so far off that White Nationalists LAUGH, because it is so funny how wrong they can be. You can’t lump all Republicans as White Nationalist HATERS and you can’t lump all White Nationalists together as most of the women are only there because they had the misfortune to fall in love and the man brainwashed them to believe as he does. The men even brag about how easy it is to get their girlfriends/wives to believe as they do, because in the White Nationalist world, women are slaves to me and our purpose on earth is to be their helpmate and bear chidren for the White race. When women love a man they will do anything to make him happy. They will believe as they are told to believe and will happily submit to the headship of their man and obey him without question as she knows her duty as a white woman is to serve him and bring White Children into the world. There is alot of abuse in some of the homes. Jeff would beat me with a wooden paddle until I cried as he thought beating me would break my spirit of rebellion. Yes, he might make me cry after being hit a number of times, but he never broke my spirit, but in fact made me more determine not to cry next time. As women we were taught that a woman has the right to three things. 1. shelter 2. food 3. clothing and if we whined for anything else we would be punished. Maybe it is good, as I don’t whine. I keep silent and take what is thrown at me, but continue all the while to change things. It taught me never to tell Jeff I was planning to leave, just plan my escape in secret.
Sometimes I think you Progressives don’t want to learn and know the truth. You would much rather just continue on in believing lies as truth, half truths, and not take the step to find out the truth for yourselves. Progressives tend to not be able to think outside the box. I think outside the box. I believe thinking outside the box is critical for the survival of this nation.
Do Progressives value and fight for truth and justice? From my real life experience the answer is no. White Nationalists don’t fight for truth or justice either? So tell this Political Daughter of the American Revolution who in this country believes and will fight for truth and justice? I am a true American Patriot and still honor my vow I made as a Daughter which is pretty much the same oath a Congressman or Senator would make. Yet, my experience in life is people claiming to be American Patriots like David Duke, only to find that it is one big lie and the truth is that they seek to destroy the United States so I have to start FIGHTING THEM, because they are an enemy to the nation I love. So tell me are their true American Patrots left?
I used to tell White Nationalist that I would not stop searching for another true American Patriot to fight along side of me to stop them; that even if I was the only true Patriot left I would not submit. I would rather DIE IN BATTLE then to submit and live in slavery under White Nationalist rule.
Randy Duncan was a good man and I don’t believe Kansas Republicans who I worked along side of to do what was best for Saline County Kansas would ever agree with those statements. They would stand up to him and make him resign from any leadership position in the KS Republican Party. Now if you had said an AZ Republican leader said that I might believe you, as there are known White Nationalists here that are Republican and some of them are in the Republican club where I live. One of the meetings the tea-partyleader spoke and I wasn’t the only one who wasn’t clapping. I might be speaking at one of the meetings if they will let me speak about how we as Republicans must cut ties with the crazy nut jobs who don’t believe in climate change and moving forward with renewable energy. That when we say there is no climate change that we look like we are ignorant fools. I want to speak about how nuclear energy is not safe or green. We need to stand up for the issues that made the Republican party great at one time. We were the party of Lincoln. We were the party of Teddy Roosevelt. Now look at us, allowing White Nationalists take over and change the party to the American White Nationalist party. I haven’t put it all together yet, but it will be very different then what the tea party lady said. Of course the test will be if they let me speak on the topic I want to talk on. I think we need to hear all sides in our meetings and not just be a cheer leader for Rush, Sarah, and Newt.
Mike does this make me your enemy because I am trying to change thing within. I come from a long line of Republicans. My family was connected to General Grant who helped win the Civil War. We were the Republicans of Lincoln’s day. I am not a quitter. I don’t give up and I am not going to let David Duke and his White Nationalists take over the Republican party without a fight. You might think David Duke is a joke, but he isn’t. A long time a go I posted on my blog a picture of him talking with the President of Iran. You have white Natioalists in this country who support the radical Muslims because of their common hatred for Jews and America. They believe the enemy of my enemy is my friend. No matter how many times I try to point out that they are believing a lie as truth and why White Nationalist is evil and wrong, they just say I am the stupid one for not seeing things they do, or I am rebellious and refuse to embrace their views, or I am loony tunes as only an insane person would reject their views.
I am working on healing so I won’t be fighting them online but will still fight them in real life. It is a waste of time to continue to fight them on the internet, and I want to move forward and hopefully will start talking to someone and conquer my ptsd.
Mike, do you really want to reach all people including Republicans or do you want to just preach to your choir? I am not making these comments because I want to be mean or nasty, but to help you reach Republicans to where they will listen to you with an open mind because they don’t feel attacked. You could be a great tool in educating the people of this country but you need to tone the the Republican stuff and focus on the issues that affect all of us as Americans. Leave the Democrats and Republicans out of things. Just talk on the issues without bring a political party into the equation. that is why I like the British media better then the American media.
Have a great day.
Chrisy
I will listen later on with an open mind, but I find it hard to believe, as 1. I am a Republican and I used to live in KS and was active with the Republican Party in Saline County and was committee precint person of my district. Not once did I hear statements like are stated in the above video.
Yes, I have heard statements such as people who are diabled and were born with learning problems such I was, should be killed at birth, but those statements came from White Nationalists. While it is true that many White Nationalists are Republican and are working to gain power within the Republican party, not all Republicans are White Nationalists and belive what White Nationalists believe.
One thing I have noticed about Progressives is that like White Nationalists they tend to lump people together and make blanket statments which are not the whole truth. NOT all Republicans are White Nationalists HATERS who want to KILL the disabled, are climate change deniers and support nuclear power, or believe that Obama wasn’t born in Hawaii. etc. When you lump all of Republicans together and paint us with the same paint brush as White Nationalist Republican than you are doing the same thing as White Nationalists who paint all you Progressives with the same paint brush and don’t accept that there are good Democrats that as Americans we can work with toward a common goal of doing what is best for this nation and fighting together the common enemy that all of us who have taken oaths to defend either as those who hold political office and those of us who are Daughters of the American Revolution. We are Americans first and Democrat/Republican 2nd. Yet to many on both parties today, we have lost the will to work together as one nation, for the best of the nation.
If you want to increase the number of listeners, you need to educate people on the issues but not bash Republicans. You loose Republicans listeners because they know that not every single is how you Progressives imply they are, and they don’t take you seriously because they know that there are Republicans in this country who are good, honest, and patriotic Americans; as there are Democrats who are good, honest and Patriotic Americans.
I like to listen to British media and learn from them, as they educate, without bushing Republicans non- stop. What is the difference between you and White Nationalists when you both generalize and lump people together and make it seem like the whole group is evil, when we both know that there are good people who are in the middle. Some things they believe with Progressives on, like Green technology and fighting for the environment. I am against nuclear power and hope that this will wake people up and will fight to stop nuclear power plants being built in the states. Yes, there are a lot of climate change deniers but there are also Green Republicans who are willing to work with the Green Party and any Democrat who is working toward the same goal of Green technology being the direction this nation heads in.
There are also Democrats who believe as many of us do that we must lower our defict and that we need to cut spending and increase taxes like many other nations in Europe to get the defict to zero. We are spending lots of money, but the children and their children will be required to pay it off. We are all going to have to make some sacrifices if we are going to do the right thing and start to balance budget. We need to start living within our means.
I will comment when I listen to your video.
Mike, Before I lost contact with the outside world, you talked about representing people in the South and your frustration that they couldn’t see things the way you see them and were staying Republican. Part of the problem is the way you Progressives deliver your message. Instead of making Republicans who are actually trying to listen to all sides being made to feel welcome; many times we are attacked and made to feel unwelcomed by down right hostile behavior. You will get further with a little honney then vinegar. Educate and talk about the issues without bashing Republicans because Republicans like all people when their group is attacked stand up for the group. They may know that we have problems, but attacking only makes them shut you off. Instead of attacking each other, let’s really listen to the other side and come together and work on the issues we agree on.
Many of us who reject White Nationalism find that we are hated by both sides. White Nationalists hate us because we reject their message and have the moral courage to stand up and tell the truth and try to expose them, which leads to our names being added to some White Nationalist hit list. Progressives hate us because we don’t believe 100% as you do, so the hatered just spews out toward us. Progressives don’t seem to understand that people like my friends and I who are willing because they feel it is a moral imperative to stop White Nationalists from achieving their goals are risking our lives. Yet, to many times Progressives have not been totally honest about what they are going to do with the information they are given and so because of that they add to the danger of the people who are risking everything to come forward. There is a trust issue and those of us who want to come forward wonder if they are going to get burned like the last guy before him, when he had the courage to come forward and tell the truth.
Mike to you want to just speak to the choir? Or do you want to help educate Americans? If you want to just speak to the choir then continue to only bash Republicans and blame Republicans for everything under the sun that is wrong, as White Nationalists blame Liberals for everything under the sun that is wrong.
I am a very open and honest person and I say what I think. Hate is on both sides. Both sides are wrong to hate the other side and lump and generalize about the issues. I have found that many times when I do the research on the issues that have been generalized by both sides that they are both wrong and the truth is somewhere in the middle. Both sides assume things about the other. An old friend who I haven’t seen in over 20 years once told me ” to never assume anything as you are usually wrong.” I followed that advice, to bad the person who taught me that didn’t follow his own advice but made tons of assumptions about me that wasn’t true, without first talking to me and looking in my eyes and given a chance to face my accusers.
I believe in fair treatment of others. It still gets me in trouble as I always end up standing up for those who I feel are being mistreated. If Progressives want to be fair and honestly work together with those Republicans like me who are seeking a way for us to put aside the differences so we can work together and fight White Nationalism and neo nazism in America, then I believe we will be able to make a difference for good. If you progressives can’t be honest and admit that there are good Republicans who really love this nation and are true American Patriots who are trying to do the right thing because they took an oath to defend the Consitution from all enemies foreign and domestic; then the nation is the looser.
We have people in both parties who claim to be true American Patriots but in reality for their greed have sold this nation down the river. Both parties are to blame for this BIG mess we are in. The children deserve for us so called adults to find a way to come together and work together as one team on the issues we agree on for the good of the country. I am willing are you Progressives willing?
Chrisy