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"The first time I ever really listened to Kyle Kulinski’s show was in the back of a cab last summer. The driver had his phone hooked up through the stereo and was pumping out an episode through the car speakers - loudly, as if looking to convert a captive audience.
“Do you like Kyle Kulinski?”
The driver, Ahmed, was a recent immigrant and apparently a die-hard fan of Secular Talk, the political talk show that Kulinski broadcasts on RUclips. I told him, yes, in fact. I do like Kulinski, had come across his show several years ago, and, all things considered, he seemed pretty good.
“He understands what we’re up against,” Ahmed said. “Like Bernie.”
But I was surprised to hear Kulinski’s name mentioned in the same breath as Bernie Sanders, particularly with such adoration. Because what I did remember about Kulinski’s show struck me as mostly capital-P “progressive” takes on the news - the left wing of the Netroots crowd more than the democratic socialism Sanders has popularized.
It’s an impression that wasn’t entirely incorrect.
“I have no time for philosophical, airy bullshit,” Kulinski tells me from his home in Westchester, New York. “I don’t want to hear about Lenin. I don’t want to hear about Marx. I just want a super plainspoken, straightforward agenda with a straightforward way of selling it.”
With over 800,000 subscribers and nearly 670 million total views on RUclips, selling a progressive agenda is clearly something Kulinski knows how to do - even Democracy Now, the long-standing flagship of progressive media, cannot match his reach on the platform. Chapo Trap House can certainly boast a wildly devoted fan base (and a not insignificant degree of media influence), but their audience is roughly half the size of Kulinski’s.
While Secular Talk might be more likely to be looped in with the progressive networks around Air America and Pacifica alums like Sam Seder than the more resolutely socialist world, Kulinski’s fiery rhetoric, razor-sharp class instincts, and knack for withering takedowns sets him apart from his peers. Judging by his rhetoric alone, he’s closer to a Eugene Debs than a Chris Hayes.
But unlike Hayes, Amy Goodman, or his friend Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks - who began airing Secular Talk on his web network seven years ago - the thirty-two-year-old Kulinski is virtually invisible in the mainstream media. Despite his enormous fan base, his show has never once been mentioned in the obligatory trend pieces on “the Millennial Left” pumped out by the prestige media. Nor has Kulinski’s name ever popped up at all in the New York Times, Vox, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, or the Washington Post, despite his leading role in cofounding Justice Democrats, the organization widely credited with sweeping Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of “the Squad” to power.
Just last week, his Wikipedia page was deleted. The reason? “There is very simply no [reliable source] coverage of this person,” according to one moderator. In new media, he’s king - the Sean Hannity of the Berniecrat left. In old media, he’s nobody.
I suspect there are a few reasons for that. There is nothing “cool” about Kulinski’s show. (As a friend put it, “‘Welcome to Secular Talk’ sounds like something you’d hear on Egyptian radio.”) His no-nonsense social-democratic politics won’t get him much cred with the Full Communism crowd. He records his show not in Brooklyn or Los Angeles, but in a studio he built himself in his modest Westchester home. His hair is too groomed and his taste in clothes too preppy to qualify as “Dirtbag Left.” Nor has he ever attended an n+1 release party. “Not only have I not attended one,” he says, “I have no idea what that means.”
And yet he’s astonishingly plugged-in for a young man in the suburbs. Wondering how Sanders ended up on the Joe Rogan Experience? Kulinski, a frequent guest on Rogan’s wildly popular show, introduced them. “You make the most sense to me,” Rogan told Kulinski on a recent episode. “You’re a normal person.”
Much like Sanders himself, Kulinski’s show has a massive audience that just doesn’t compute with our media’s understanding of “what the kids want” or even “what the left-wing kids want.”
It’s probably for the best - the very woke and very WASP-ish decorum haunting much of the media world is nowhere to be found in Secular Talk. “Corporate Democrats over-focus on identity as a trick to divert you from the issues that unite us all - class issues,” he said on a recent episode. “That Raytheon decided they don’t hate gays or trans people - frankly, I don’t really give a shit what their take on that is..."
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If the military cannot account for 59% of it's budget, it clearly doesn't need that 59%.
Assets, not budget.
@@ASDeckard Assets are part of a budget, and it's not just the assets that are audited.
We need to separate military and defense when you talk about budgets.
The defense budget is the whole pie that the military budget is a part of, but the bulk of the "defense" budget is going to "defense" contractors.
in other words, the bulk of the defense spending is a slush fund.
But that might be enough to let the peasants get ahead and the GQP can never stand for that.
It kinda does, most of the money goes to buying stuff that the military has no need of and would rather just go without, they're forced by the budget to buy them. The cause of this is that some states are utterly dependent on military contracts and without them, their unemployment would spike and their economy would crash. It's the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower warned about that has fully integrated itself into several states.
In reality, this is just the socialistic, government handout they warn about, only with the trappings of a narrative their voters can accept. This is the government giving the states financial aid with an additional step. The additional step is rewarded for existing and given a subsidy from the federal government that enables its existence. In other words, it's corporate welfare and wealth redistribution where taxpayer money is going to private corporations instead of the taxpayers themselves.
It would be cheaper to just give a UBI instead of enabling this charade of corporate welfare.
My mom votes republican and I always tell her, "Those bastards are gonna cut your ss and Medicare, mom!" She says, "They can't! I paid for that." Oh, but they can, mom, they can. They're the effing government, of course they can. I think I'm getting through to her now though. This shit need to be full page headlines. Only the 1% are in favor of this severely punitive undeserved unjust unfair and evil bs.
Tell her she paid for billionaires to get tax cuts, she voted for it too
How about we take all Congressional and Senatorial health insurance and pensions away from them, and let them experience the same poverty they expect all working people to deal with.
Beautiful.
Go do it then, dont just comment ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING
Would Bernier die?
@@TragickSin You do know that the comment section is for people to comment? Oh and how do you know what they are doing or not doing? Oh and why does George Soros need to be investigated? Can't you people come up with another name once in awhile,? I know it's a lot to ask since you've only been around for 1 month but try! 🤫
It's a lovely idea but I don't think it'll ever happen
I’m in my late thirties and I’m disabled. I rely on my Social Security and Medicare benefits to survive. There’s definitely a LOT of room for improvement in these programs. It’s a big pain to have to jump through all of the hoops I have to jump through to just qualify as someone with life long disabilities. However, without them I would die because of my health conditions. This isn’t hyperbole, it’s just the facts about what I have to live with everyday. I want to remind people that these programs aren’t just for the elderly and that if they are cut, it would affect millions of younger disabled Americans and the elderly alike. It would truly be devastating.
Dear Annie, huge hugs, but I hate to break it to you that everyone that doesn't wear a mask actually wants people like you and me to be dead. THEY DO NOT CARE about us. I wonder how many people on this thread still wear a mask??? HMM?? How many people are going to shit on me for this comment because they can't accept the fact that their decision to not wear one is YELLING IN OUR FACES that they do not care if/when we die?
Even if those benefits _were_ just for the elderly, I love the brainrot on display when the people who are fine with them being cut forget that they too will someday be old. This country has ADHD like crazy and it's all due to greed and fear
My heart goes out to you but sadly I feel that empathy is in short supply. I see a homeless person and I feel bad for them others assume they are drug addicts and would sooner hunt them for sport than donate to a charity or work in a soup kitchen. (Yes I have done those things)
Sorry for you. Wish you were living in Ireland. We take good care of disabled here.
To be honest if you cannot even continue to survive without your existence being subsidized by our tax dollars what reason do I even have to care if you're around or not? If other leftists think this is cruel, keep in mind we could easily trade her for an able bodied and driven capable laborer from the global south. Useless people have no place.
I remember being told as a little kid in the 80s that Social Security would be bankrupt by 2000.
Then it was the 2020's the 2030's now the 2040's.
These people either lie (correct) or just suck at math (also correct).
Choosing to not pay your bills after you have spent the money is the opposite of fiscal responsibility.
Break the contract all Americans' earned benefits . . . before trimming the Pentagon? That's the issue here.
its the only way to stop the overspending the democrats refuse to cut. Dont raise the debt ceiling.
@Tidus The only thing we over spend on is the military. A governments purpose is to provide and improve the lives of its people. We should be spending on improving people's lives instead arming dictatorships, funding genocide and bombing civilians
@@sinfullyironic4755 no its not the governments job. The governments job is to protect our basic rights by MILITARILY stopping other countries from taking those rights away. Thats about the only thing the federal government should do. the rest should be on the states. Your the big government dictator supporters.
@@tidus9942 Full stop, they're talking about cutting social security. That's part of the deal in this country; you work your ass off your whole life and are entitled to some money when it comes time to retire. Cutting social security is nothing but a big "fuck you" to all Americans during a time when doing that could literally start a civil war because they're taking more money from people who are already complaining about how they system robs them of money.
They have to have courage to take away Grandma and Grandpas Social Security that was promised to them.💩🤡
Leftists: Boomers stole our future, destroyed the environment, and sold out our economy!
Also Leftists: Give boomers free monies
That THEY EARNED!
That's what Republicans call an "alpha" move.
This makes me sick...
don't forget disabled people of which veterans can fall under as well so yet again they are attacking veterans who they supposedly love so much
Let's start with lowering the salaries of congress.
I'm pretty sure for most of them that's a minor portion of their income. That would only hurt the more legitimate members that aren't getting a lot of income from stock trading and outside sources.
how about we tax stock market gains from people in copngress? And while we at it, why not tax capital gains like any other gain? Why would they pay half the taxes because they didnt had to work for it? Makes no sense.
@@jfh667 Um...because those gains aren't realized until you sell. You can't tax potential
Or how about we ban members from stock trading completely
I'm always surprised every time an interview with gaetz doesn't start with the question: "How are you NOT in prison for sex trafficing?"
Yeah it makes me sick to see his fellow congresspeople chilling with him in the House chamber, discussing matters and making deals as if he actually deserves to be there. Granted half of them don't deserve to be there but he especially doesn't.
Exactly its a joke that they treat him like a serious person and not a criminal.
He would certainly do that favor for someone else.
Because he was never charged for it.
I thought he was cleared of those charges
Matt Gaetz is like having Quagmire in congress. Shit is ridiculous
Gaetz is having so much fun
More like Herbert.
We could swap in Bill Cosby or Jared Fogle and nobody would notice
Wow that is extremely slanderous towards Quagmire. Quagmire is a saint compared to that vile scumbag
Gigidy Economy
I bet these politicians give themselves a good pension
This is the only channel where I’m hype to see an ad cause it means Kyle didn’t get demonetized
Dude. You are making me feel guilty about my adblock 😆
Of course they’d do this smh
Meanwhile Jimmy Dore is calling Matt Gaetz and MTG rebels fighting the Military Industry Complex
They are tho . They are outflanking the squad on that particular issue. Dems are the new war party .
Jimmy fell so hard it's F**king scary.
Even so social security is not enough to fully retire, I work at a grocery store with a lot of “retirees”, myself included. And yet we seem to be the backbone of the personnel. They are unable to hire and retain anybody younger than us. Teehee I wonder what they’re going to do when we have to quit.
Raise wages
A never ending supply of impoverished people turn 65 each year. But remember, the freeist country in the world.
Authorizing raising the debt ceiling has nothing to do with cutting spending. The budget for this year has already been authorized in the previous year.
If they fail to raise the debt ceiling the USA simply defaults on its obligations and creditors will raise the interest rates we will be charged making the situation much worse. Sloan Sabbath explained thus quite well in “The Newsroom.”
Omg I WAS THINKING OF THAT.
PLUS I LOVE THAT SHOW!
And when that does happen they will blame biden for inflation for not cutting ss. It's a win win if you don't care about American people
It doesn't escape my notice that "fulfilling America's obligations" never seems to be on the option list.
Always just "putting off doing it."
The Newsroom is Aaron Sorkin's arguments with himself filmed for your viewing pleasure.
The Republican Party is literally the type of people that rack up bills on a credit card then say "I'm just not gonna pay it. Problem solved."
When Repubs say cut spending they mean austerity for the populace!
Cope harder
@@jimbob9407 "Fuck the people" -the GOP.
@@patchwurk6652 gaslight harder
And mostly the poor.
To be fair, you should never listen to anything DEMINEM says about economics or just money in general. He has no clue what he's talking about.
There's no such thing as "right-wing populism." It's a contradiction in terms. Being on the right means you side with the elites (the monarchy and the nobility historically).
Good. Makes it easier for them to lose.
Don't underestimate their idiot voters.
Never underestimate the incompetence and corruption of the corporate Democrats.
Oh, how I wish this were the case. The propaganda and spin machine that is the media *will* make it seem like some great thing was achieved or random fear mongering will occur. To which a ton of voters will eat that shit like ice cream on a summer's day
Makes it easier for us to win right?
No. People will be voting against something as opposed to voting for something. The left side of the aisle in Congress this so far has done nothing to warrant voting for them.
Kyle deserves 1M subscribers. The algorithm must be suppressing him. He’s an example of RUclips at its best - his show is the first place I go when I want the facts.
Make permanent capital pay its fair share - eliminate the payroll tax cap and tax Wall Street speculation. There, Social Security all fixed.
A windfall tax would be good too
Cut the military budget. It’s like the black hole it’s taking too much of our money.
*Mil. spending/waste has made the U.S. much weaker* and vulnerable to several threats within and foreign. Like Rome, like all dying empires.
Imagine a federal ballot measure option - if 60% plus of Americans voted against sending our taxes to rust in a New Mexican bunker…
Veteran here, I agree. Maybe we could use some of that money to properly fund departments that would make our country a substantially better place to live.
If that is what the American people want, why don't they vote for representatives who run on cutting the military budget instead of cutting social programs?
"too much" is an understatement.
Sure they COULD raise payroll taxes on the Uber wealthy … but then they’d have *slightly* less money for that second private jet for their idiot children …. and we can’t have THAT can we?
Said children growing up to be Karens.
More importantly they’d have less to donate to that politician’s campaign
His name is John “Boner”. Please don’t mispronounce it, it’s a beautiful family name.
The German pronunciation of "Boehner" sounds closer to "boner" than what most Americans pronounce it as.
"The Wunder Böhner!"
"My wife would like that."
the pbs frontline doc about Pres Obama, Boehner and the debt limit was a great watch, highly recommend that. It provided me some valuable insight having lived through all that and being really into politics and wondering what had happened...
They sound like the Conservative party here in the UK. "We're for the people...but actually no".
They only represent the people who give them the most money
Conservative= Keeping the Status Quo OR going back to the Christian Dark Ages....or both.
I would say not even the Tories are as bad as the GOP.
@@bumblebeeyellowdragon Half of them are. They just dont carry guns around, so their bravery is somewhat reduced.
Sounds like Democrats here in the US.
I would make a Mild cut to military spending. Not some tiny ass cut. A MILD cut. I would Reallocate funds from the military to Education, Medical Science and Hospitals, Social security, Stimulus money.
But cutting the military budget while currently fighting against a fascist regime is considered a right wing pro fascism move.
i think a targeted cut to our nuclear arsenal could be effected without impacting our MAD capacity.
You can’t really compromise on defense cuts. You have to make it a huge cut or else we’ll quickly rebound back into the same problem.
@V L Who are we fighting defensively?
@@vl8584 There are plenty of existing weapons just lying around in DOD warehouses we can send to Ukraine, without ordering new ones. If anything that's exactly what we should be doing more of with our insanely huge stockpiles, and the opposite of what Republicans want.
I quickly googled: "USA military spending graph decade" and "inflation since 2000 usa" and did a little basic maths. USA military spending has outpaced inflation by quite a lot.
They’re entitled because they expect people making less then them to pay for their unemployment (often who just got a job) it should be the well off and the wages should be 800 gross after 40 hours. Low wages and entitlement could explain what happened at Topps. Social security is good but they should lift the cap (make it progressive based like UBI should be) so long as the rich are paying more than they get because that’s the point of not just saving it. You’ll get a little than you paid if you’re low income.
Official US policy is to not negotiate with terrorists.
"terrorists"
They can train them though. Ask the Taliban!
@@wilcee238 Taliban aren't terrorists. They were a militia fighting for their own land back. Al Queda and ISIS are the terrorists. Important distinction.
Exactly. The Freedom Caucus is a bunch of terrorists who have taken over the Republican Party and are planning to shut down the U.S. government. It's an insurrection. Only this time it is legal. Failing to raise the debt ceiling will cause a government shutdown. They will not agree to anything unless the whole country gives in to their demands.
@@wilcee238 They even allied with them as your parents would know. How did Al Qaeda form again?
90 prevent of defense spending is inefficient waste.
Ask Tucker Carlson to do a show on how great Social Security and Medicare cuts would be for Americans. I can guarantee you that senior Republicans will go crazy.
They gon agree until they see their nex SS check roll in.
I love how the Republicans are talking about raising the retirement age. So politicians that all they do is fundraise free health care probably free food in the Senate building try to make the argument that people should work till they're dead. How many terms do politicians in federal government serve before they get a full pension? Well I'll tell you the bare minimum is 5 years over 60 years old that means they can do a couple terms and then get a full pension
RN case manager here - Obama did agree to some cuts to the Medicare budget. As a result of Obamacare, it was projected that acute care hospitals would need less reimbursement for uninsured care. So these payments stopped and the Medicare budget was reduced accordingly.
I can’t even… it’s embarrassing.
I thought they were for America first. So let's cut domestic spending? They're just for rich Americans first.
They talked about a lot of things, but helping normals everyday Americans of lower and middle class is not one of them 🙌🏼 #NeverGOP
And yet, I'm crazy for pushing to vote blue no matter who.
Courage? Yeah I've got a word for that, and it's not courage.
What a shock
Kyle, you need to look up out of date curse words and insults, like "I say you are a KNAVE, sir!" and practice saying them so you can avoid be defunded by yt. LOL Your use of the word Bunk made me think of that: everyone knows that is the same as BS, but...
You shall know them by their deeds.
Fucking preach that shit!!! Amen
Great video
Remember, Matt Gates is the personification of Butthead from Beavis and Butthead.
Your remark is butthead fodder
He’s more like McVicker
-Hates young people
-Would calm down if he saw a child’s behind
Thanks for mentioning that SS will not go "broke." The only way that happens is if the program ends altogether. A payout greater than zero is, by definition, not "broke."
Wouldnt the democratic senate and Biden have to ratify republican legislative initiatives?
Congress is half of the Senate
@@seraseely6570 The senate is 1/2 of congress
@@seraseely6570 Congress is both House and Senate, dude.
Yes for it to actually make something happen. But to stop things from happening, no they can make all kinds of demands.
@@davidradtke160
Spineless democratic neoliberals might go along ng
completely agree with this, all short termed thinking with no thought of the impact of the future. loved the “cliffhanger” documentary referenced here
Theocracy?
Republicans want to establish a Christo-fascist theocracy.
Raising the bar is exactly the answer.
Actual solutions should always be the focus.
Debating the soap opera is always a waste of time.
Keep up the good work!
Most countries have a military, America is a military with a government.
Hilarious how these two parties only talk about the debt when they are not in power
My conservative/Republican friends and family insist that cutting taxes IS populist, because it lifts the tax burden from small-business owners. This, of course, is a strawman argument because no one, except for the most extreme social democrats, wants to tax lower-class people. When I try to explain this, my chums and kin respond with the standard "big government's slippery slope" fallacy. (They also claim that conservatives are the only ones discriminated against on social media, whereas the far left are NEVER persecuted.)
However, what's REALLY driven me to the left in my adult years is my disgust with the right's disingenuous propaganda and overall hypocrisy. I remember the '80s and '90s, when the cultural left took over the U.S. mass media and began introducing countercultural values into the mainstream (whites bad, men bad, Christianity bad, etc.). Now the cultural right has begun doing the same thing, but in reverse (though at least they're smart enough to butter up people of color most of the time). So now our whole culture is controlled by "Animal House"-like bullies who attack both (good) authority figures and middle-class people, whether they're right or left.
No, social democrats don't want to tax lower-class people, no matter how "extreme" they are. In fact it's conservatives who are generally in favor of regressive taxes, flat tax rates, and capped taxes. Conservatives want their big defense contracts and militarized police forces, but they don't want rich people to pay taxes, so that means taxing everybody else.
Some lefty-types support various excise taxes which are regressive in nature (tobacco and gas taxes are good examples). These taxes are less for revenue related reasons and more for social/behavior reasons (decreasing consumption of particular products).
Why wouldn’t we cut military spending? Who are we at war with? Why does the military budget continue to remain at war rates?
Starting?.....lol
They will literally destroy the worth of the dollar to institute their myopic goals.
Fiscal responsibility? Those two words should never be used by any politician.
courage to slash wellfare, frickin ghouls
I've met vets that got discharged without benefits. :/
It's unconstitutional.
These Republicans are not "new" in any way. It's the same script since Reagan.
Abolish the debt ceiling, stop wasting taxpayer's time with this bs every other year to enact your unpopular political will.
We should cut healthcare and pay for politicians.
People I've talked to on the right have no idea that their guys want to the cut the very programs that benefit them.
We take only joy from the eventual dimise and cessation of the existence of these right-wing politicians.
Where is the link the fox piece with Waltz?
The Department of Defense is by far the largest employer in the US. A cut of 50 percent to the military would literally cost millions of high paying jobs!
Only absolute idiots thought the defense budget was going to be cut.
Praise the lard and pass the commutations! Don't worry, be happy!
We’re gonna fucking default on our debt for the first time in history aren’t we.
The markets will take a 50% haircut. Keep your powder dry.
Shortly when S.Arabia goes to the Petro-Yuan (de-facto world currency,) the USdollar will devalue by 60% minimum.
@@richardburnett-_ Can't say it wouldn't be an opportunity to break USD hegemony, but if your biggest customer who imports your stuff has a currency crash, it wouldn't bode well for China. Until there is a sizable middle class to buy Chinese stuff, China is locked in as is everyone else. Mutually assured destruction.
it is truely amazing that reps in the house (the peoples house as they call it) follow agendas that fly in the face of what the majority of the public wants/likes as determined by polling - throw those bums out on their rear end. we should be able to revoke their "entitlements" - pension and health insurance as a result of this crap.
Here's the thing. Most people in my family wants these cuts to health care and social security because they agree that people get lazy with saving money and don't plan for the future. I know my mom is close to retirement and she said that she is happy to pay for healthcare and getting rid of these programs because she saved her money. I'm worried that that money is going to dry up in the future and she will have to go back to work. The majority of older Americans agree with the Republicans on cutting these programs. Really we need to better educate them on that these programs are good and can help them.
some people don't understand that "saving money" is practically a luxury at this point. and that any money saved will have to contend with inflation. too often news programs fail to educate on inflation, simply letting politicians spout their one sided talking points about what causes inflation.
They have to be receptive to new information to educate them and unfortunately older Americans have made it clear that they won’t listen until it affects them personally. Even then they often blame social programs and the poor even more. Conservative minded people will literally have to become homeless before listening.
@@saintsfearful ...and they'll find a way to blame minorities and other homeless people, because confronting their failure is too painful.
ahhh yes.......boomers
@@jingbot1071 nailed it. (pipe in bike spokes meme)
Cannot "cut spending" to avoid raising the debt ceiling.
The money has already been spent.
(And the taxes have not been collected to account for all the spending that WAS done).
Keep in mind most spending is done in 5 year or 7 year programs/plans. So it was not even this administration that committed to that spending.
All just political posturing and flag waiving for the citizens that only have surface understanding of how these things work.
Kyle nailed it 👌 👏
And then it got worse
He doesn’t mean social security or Medicare. He means SNAP, section 8, and EITC
Republicans did their own "force the vote" and got what they wanted. Imagine that strategy actually working.... 🤣🤣🤣
Context matters. The right wing force the vote was for increased corruption and a power grab into committees.
It was just a skit by Gaetz to clean his image and get some positive press for himself. He is/was under investigation over some pretty serious charges right?
????? The Repugs &:never-Kevins agreed on policy .....100%.
So, the never Kevin's....didn't get what they wanted and looked like immature assholes.
That's what they wanted,????? To look like immature assholes????
No they didn't. 🤣🤣
They made the Republicans look weak and divided which helps Dems 🤣🤣
Next thing you'll say is Nancy Mace is a rino and doesn't represent Republicans. 🤣🤣
get your big government paws off my social security!
I don't care who 'they' are or how numerous they are, it's not their money to be demanding from anyone. I don't care if EVERY homeless person - Say the 3rd class instead of the middle class - Made up the bulk of our society. I don't care if all of them were entitled enough to 'demand' that every middle or first class person who passes them up give them 5$ - It's not tgeir money and therefore not their call to make. Why is there this double standard for the middle class paying their fair share to the third? I think the middle class could end the homelessness crisis if the government just 'forced them to be better people and house them if they happen to have a house themselves ', because if the government stealing your money (and taxes fall under the legal definition of theft so don't even give me that bull) to put it towards 'a better cause' in its opinion than whatever you might have wanted to use it on isn't the government forcing you to be a charitable person... I don't know what is.
Their investigation of the intelligence community is a great thing they are doing. Why did he forget to mention that?
The truth is, warfare is less about troops than intelligence and cyber warfare now. We don't need to be spending so much on personnel and hardware.
Wow! Thanks. A really excellent summary.
Medicare and Social security ouch
9:12 that reaction
850 billion is 50% of 1.7 trillion, not 30%.
Imagine living in a country that had zero elderly folks living in poverty. I'm a dreamer, I guess.
Also be nice not to tax the SS the elderly get during retirement, seems like the right thing to do too.
This country will not come back from this, it's over.
We’ll have another Great Depression and out of that amazing progressive policies will be passed. Like FDR on steroids.
Same old tricks. Same old games.
Such bare faced lies - military spending represents only 30% of the total budget? My ass
They've been saying the quiet parts aloud for awhile now, nothing's being done about it so they are just more brazen these days.
Yeah the government shut down I remember that people in government sectors weren't getting their paycheck
Start or continue?
Could you please rebut or clarify the 70/30 spending on social programs stat he quoted in the news video??!
MIC: we can totally account for that money
*flips a coin*
Maury Povich: the test has determined that to be a LIE!
We need to mint the coin, and get rid of the debt
I like that Gaetz person.
Everyone is so quick to forget that the reason international trade exists the way it does now is exclusively the result of the US Navy.
He doesn't know it but Kyles just said "Piracy and Privateering is good."
You can dislike the way the US military is *USED* all you want, and you should judge it for malfeasance, and demand corrective actions.
BUT,
The "I take my neighbors land, I am big stronk" was the default way of the world for THOUSANDS of years. The US military has dragged that down to a crawl, not that it has ended, but the severity, frequency, and duration has plummeted. You aren't paying the contractors, or for the bombs, or even the equipment. You are paying for less war overall. Yeah a ton of sh!t people come in and use the instrument which normalizes global trade and used it to do some messed up things. Tools are not responsible or the actions of those wielding them. Most murders are done with kitchen knives, after all. No one out there "no knives in the kitchen!"ing. Because this is an idea you already understand. The thing the US military is for is creating global stability, which it does. How much am I willing to pay to stop France from invading Spain? England from conquering the rest of Irelands, again. As much as it takes.
Boarder disputes happen all the time. But once they get all worked up the US asks, "Can you settle this, or do I need to get involved?" and they quite down. Doesn't resolve sh!t. But it's better for everyone if there are less wars. THAT is what the US defense budget pays for, mostly maintaining a stupid technology lead so that you don't have a bunch of guys with muskets telling a tank "Do I need to get involved?"
@@costomame3895 ending war is naive. People are going to fight about something.
Basically everything is about preventing WW3 and keeping things smooth.
"Why did they stop promising Unicron that fart rainbows! Guess they're bad now 🤷♂️"
You have really justified the U.S. warmachine in your mind haven't you? 🤨
Can you imagine a scenario where we *DON'T* need an overbloated half rotted carcass of a military? Could things be resolved peacefully without the threat of force? Is it even possible to run a lean militaristic force that is fiscally responsible?
@@thesurvivorssanctuary6561 maybe.
But not in my grandkids lifetime. There's going to be large conflicts over water and food soon.
I'm all for everyone sitting around, flowers in their hair, holding hands and singing. But as long as there's a "I just want to hit people who sing with a machete" guy floating around it all falls apart.
Your dream is a reality pos-religion. Good luck with that.
corruption has become just another day to these people. no consequences for them. just get rich and buy islands is all they care about
So the people who get the bulk of the government budget and can't account for it get to keep their funding while the people who account for the government funding they get will get cut. How do these Republicans get elected when they have no idea how anything works.
We need to cut the military budget, and we also need a full and open audit of where that money is going. Instead of it just being a black hole used to refund defense contractors and lobbyists for campaign contributions.