This is truly an alarming thing. Please, everybody vote blue this November, give President Biden a Congress he can work with, and let's pass the voting rights act and all the other nice things we could have if not for these grifters and thieves.
Biden and the other corporate democrats are no more bound by the wishes of their voters than the Republicans are. Only the donors matter. Perhaps you should be appealing to the donors.
R u listening to the same podcast? We (D’s) can’t win even with majorities because of gerrymandering! I’m on your side I want a blue tsunami so we can fix this system!
@Jay Bee The Wikipedia article you cite says abortion is available through the second trimester, 26 weeks. This is normal. Abortion is a normal part of women's reproductive health care. To deny women health care is barbarous. Which is in line with most Republican beliefs. The article you cited said abortion is legal up to 34 weeks for medically necessary reasons. Not the 40 weeks of an average pregnancy. And that's when it's MEDICALLY NECESSARY. As in, for medical reasons, for the health of the woman. Why do you want to deny women necessary health care? Why are you lying and trying to distort facts? Please stop lying and stop being barbaric.
Even in CA you can not get a voulentary abortion after 12 weeks. The ONLY time anyone gets one after that is if there are major problems with the fetus or the health of the mother is directly at risk. Even if a woman decides to have a abortion before 12 weeks.... I can promise it was a heartbreaking choice. It's biologically Impossible for us not to care. Our hormones alone won't allow it. NO ONE is killing babies for the sport. That is Ridiculous Please don't prop up disinformation. Have a blessed day
You have been describing Idaho! My daughter is running as a Democrat (I raised her right) against an extremist. We are fighting against the Freedom Fighters here. Ammon Bundy is running for Governor!!!
WOW, a true influencer doing more than their part. Bless you. I'd do more, like used to, but the volunteer no pay status gets old, this may be LAST free and fair Election, so admire you. Hope your getting paid though.
@@jannichi6431 No, but I am retired and so I can volunteer now. And since Al has been telling us to knock on doors and such, I have tried to up my game!!
I voted already, almost a straight Democratic ticket at the state and federal level. But I voted without hope. The Greens have been forced off the ballot in Georgia. I have no hope for democracy here. Don't thank me for my vote. I'm just pressing the "Up" button on an elevator bound for hell.
Thanks for putting this together into a cohesive story. It helps to organize a strategy to fight back when you can see the pieces of the corrupt puzzle.
Al being great in the first 30 seconds. When is the last time you heard someone say, "it's contributed to a change in my thinking"? That's why Al IS the great one for a change!
Thank you for caring. I'm dual American/Canadian & could try to escape to Canada (would be extremely difficult due to having a young son w/ rare brain malformations & losing the luxury of living in nice public housing only a mile away from the best hospital in the world for his condition.) But it doesn't make this situation much less dangerous for all of us if we do leave. If America, the "West's BIG protector" falls to white-nationalist-Christo-Fascists, there won't be a single place on Earth that'll be safe! It could easily become like we fought another world War w/ the Fascists winning this time, but w/o firing that many bullets. Who could stand up against a crazy US, Russian & other autocratic nations, in an axis of grift & evil?
🏴🏴🏴🧡🧡🧡 Fell in love with your country years ago and visited last month. The sane among us are doing our best to self correct. This is a huge country that has been messed with a lot. Keep us in your thoughts these next few months. It’s going to be a bumpy road. As for Scotland, will y’all score for separation?
@Jay Bee that's how government works, taxes fix bridges and roads, housing and trying to keep these egomaniacs in check. Look how many are being put in jail for Jan 6th
It could possibly be too late. Sure hope I’m wrong but how can this be reversed when Dems could possibly not show up to vote and then what power will there be to change the things that desperately need to be changed (if we are to survive)?
I live in SW Ohio and another tactic that has been employed is MOVING the POLLING PLACES! At one point I lived in a very large apartment complex where a large number of the tenants did not have their own transportation. In 2008 our polling place was moved from one within easy walking distance to one that was 2-3 times farther away, still technically within walking distance but inaccessible by foot for many. In 2012 they moved it again to a place that no one was likely to walk to. So, you had to pass TWO polling places THAT WERE STILL IN USE AS POLLING PLACES in order to vote!!! The intent was clear: SUPPRESS THE VOTE!!! (And, yes, this county is controlled by Republicans.)
@Jay Bee, Wow! You clearly missed the point. I have to drive to my polling place where I live now, but it is actually logically placed. What they did in the township I was referencing, was clearly done to suppress the vote of young people and the economically depressed. There is a major difference!
@@paulclissold1525, I did. The answer was they "determined" that the polling place needed to be moved. When pressed for further explanation, the answer was, "It's complicated." When pressed further they admitted they didn't really have an answer. Of course, as you inferred, I probably would not have gotten a better answer from the Dems, if I got one at all.
Fascinating. But bone chilling in reality it's all true, it's too lethal to democracy not to be true we got to do something State houses. Thank you both.
I live in an area of Colorado where the democrats are threatened with their lives by running for office. How do we speak out if our family is threatened? How do we meet in public if the Proud and Pretty Boys will shoot out our windows? How do make change is the local law enforcement turn their back on stopping the bad guys?
A very smart man and a great guest. And what he said is all true too. All of it. Say goodbye to any attempt at fairness, America. Now politics is kill or be killed.
The first one was the Lewis Powell Memo of 1971 to the US Chamber of Commerce as a call to war for corporate America. Two months later Powell was nominated to the Supreme Court. The starting corporate salvo on American democracy was then fired with the 1978 stock crash, followed two years later with the Reagan election. The rest your right on. The corporate war on our democracy is being most successful on the state level.
The Oklahoma Republican State Legislature took a law that had passed the state house, held a closed weekend session with the 83% repub and they gutted the entirety of that law, just used the House Bill number and THEY WROTE A WHOLE NEW BUNCH OF LAWS AND PASSED IT AND GOV STITT SIGNED IT INTO LAW AT 4:45 am on a SUNDAY!!
A great one as always, no insult to my intelligence at all. As always, please run again Al Franken for 2024. You are needed in a few locations that really can use you. Even the ironic politician that needs to be kicked out immediately.
Al Franken knows that the accusations of sexual misconduct brought against him were not just false ...they were also a setup by republican operatives including Roger Stone .... but at the same time he understands very well that if he ran again , the GOP (Republicans ) would run a 24/7 attack operation on him using those false allegations .. which would be the only thing our miserable News Media would want to talk about ... IE. Al Franken knows he wouldn't have much of a chance to win under those conditions ... especially taking into account it was mostly Women democrat Politicians who demanded he resign immediately when this came out ... and Franken is smart enough to know that even though many came out later and said they were wrong and apologized for telling Franken to leave without a congressional investigation ... the ones who did'nt do that would impede his run just as much as the Republicans would ....
What're you talking about? Twitter has always been a safe haven for lies and misinformation. Also rap is just the lazy man music. Ooh, you know how to curse, and be rude...not impressed.
Dunno, you have to tell me. Rap popularity died back before the millennium and never improved. Discos number were still higher and that died before the 80s. You know which genre is compared to in the 2020s? Country!
I had thought it was Utah. We had a referendum and passed an independent commission for drawing voting districts, which our one-party simply ignored. Our legislators are gun slingers who talk about a civil war. I’m sorry to find it goes beyond Utah.
That is how healthcare should work. What is wrong with people? People are dying, and the ones who have more money than they could spend in three lifetimes still want more. What happened to empathy? What happened to doing what helps the tribe, the country? Smh.
@Jay Bee Not my wheel house. But if I could save countless lives, OR get rich, I'd probably die a poor man. I help people all the time for, gasp, free. My motto is, "Only a life lived for others is worth living." What's yours?
@Jay Bee Wow. I take it you only watch RUclips and never go out your door. I hope this is supposed to be sarcasm. Besides which, how are you tying this to the topic?
This is such an important author & book! Education! Education! Education! Every American should have to read this book ... So this is what's going on ... this explains everything about what is happening to get these idiots in office. Wow, how sad! Social Worker/Social Justice marleen m.
Political Mechanics in Ohio with ruffies and rubbing alcohol. Cover your drink in golf course clubhouses and restaurants in Jim Jordan's district. "Get off of me."
Here in Southern California I live a stones throw from Disneyland but because of Gerrymandering we of this small city are in orange co.. we are now in the same congressional district as the LONG BEACH PORT. IN LA COUNTY NOW WHAT IS UP WITH THAT... WE ARE EFFECTIVELY DISINFRANCHISED .
I have a friend who lives in Arizona and does vote by mail. He posted to his Facebook page a photo of his ballot pointing out that for this election cycle, instead of having the candidates in alphabetical order down the ballot, interestingly and oddly, in each category all the Republican candidates running are listed first. He said in all the years he's been voting in AZ, this is the first time the ballot hasn't been in alpha order... hmmm. You can clearly see how this was designed to hood-wink those voters who are not well informed or undecided, as there is a high probability these voters will choose to vote for the first name on the ballot, and this is what the AZ Repugs are banking on.🤨
Historical events do not just begin with one incident: WWII with the invasion of Poland, the French Revolution with the storming of the Bastille, the American Civil War with the shelling of Fort Sumter. There are decades of preceding political, social, and economic conflicts. I worry we are in a similar "preceding phase" to something more calamitous.
Al, Mr Franken, sir. Please go take council with Biden. Convince him to retire. Convince him to endorse you right now. For Pete's sake, the country is dying. You have an opportunity to save us. I don't think there could be a better candidate. You'd have the national stage to show All the people what is happening. Bernie was just too nice. It's not in his character to attack people. You can eviscerate the enemies of the state like no other. My god, man, the country is at stake. Go to Washington and expose the whole damn lot. There is no one else. I beg you. Please upvote this post. Or write a better one that we can upvote. Mr. Franken, literally, the fate of the world is in your hands. I know you're up to the task. Save us.
@Jay Bee You’ve been duped, and I wouldn’t gloat about it. Being a backward thinker with no faith in your fellow man is the saddest state I can imagine. Gloating makes you an evil idiot.
Calm down. Biden is doing so much better a job than the former guy. All he needs is for people to get out and vote in folks who will support him. Vote blue.
I immediately bought the book and will pass it on to every person who needs their eyes opened. Way too much waving of Red Herrings out there attracting attention ON PURPOSE to make people look the other way...like a killdeer doing the ole broken wing act to pull a danger away from its nest (egg).
Sorry if this pains you, Al, but I thought then, andstill believe now that Paul's plane crash was no accident. I thought so very highly of Paul. He was extraordinary.
The other thing SCOTUS is deciding is if native peoples' right to the lands the Fed gov gave them. In Oklahoma, the gov and Repubs are working to make sure they can take lands away from Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, etc.
Sadly, fits in with what I have seen reported of the various US states and Federal politics over the past 40 years, in our Australian non-Murdoch media, as in NPR and British and German media. Fingers crossed for the coming 2 years, that some 20 Republicans in the House and 10 in the Senate reject the dark side of Republican politics.
I wonder why our media is not covering this. This was alarming on many levels. It is local baby! This grandma gets it. Gonna learn about state houses and how they work. Maybe basic civics class and how it is being corrupted like the cartoon we remember on how a bill becomes a law. Most of us do not know basic civics I am embarassed to say.
These reports will be helpful when the next election results are being sifted through. The difficulty is in getting the democrats to understand and accept it. Again thankyou onlookers views are invaluable.
I was able to have me and mine voice to be heard I have followed and was able the write our preferences (in a choice of 8 possible district maps ) we chose the map number that was basically one of the first maps used that looked to as the most fair and balanced I recieved our choice on and letter on official watermarked paper .thanking us for our interest .then when all said and done they went with the worst CHOISE so I guess you guys are right it about to be over ............what the F are we supposed to do the dem leadership in DC are spun or crazy Nothing but lies at the state level so ...what will you do Mr...... Senator.............
PS ... take a look at what Oklahoma state legislature did right after the 2020 election. They did weekend CLOSED sessions to pass laws fast and furious. I won't try to list here. You'd understand better if you go to the source records.
My concern is ..those republicans that lose in the midterms..Will not cede the contest..total chaos will come from this..if Trump was allowed to get away with it..why not them?
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I live in NC. Look at what happened in 2010 and didn’t get somewhat corrected until 2018. Our state is the one that the SC said had been gerrymandered with surgical precision. Our legislature is still squabbling over our maps so that Dems will have better representation.
repubs saw the big picture years ago(strategy) and had a plan (tactics) .. dems may have a strategy but don't ever focus on tactics to our collective downfall ...
I don't think the ACA would be a pro-Democratic talking point where I come from, rural and mostly self-employed folks who saw their health insurance rate explode by 30-35% on their already too high rates. If the Democrats weren't unduly influenced by the health insurance companies we would have Medicare for all.
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an incredibly important issue that needs a wider audience .. however the entire interview kept repeating the same points over & over without providing any realistic and implementable ideas
*HOW DO WE FIX THIS* ? How do Ohioans enforce the state Supreme Court decision that the legislature is.. I assume illegally...ignoring? And Al, we love you, but stop talking over your guest quite so much.
Al, you need to stop saying that the Republicans stole TWO Supreme Court seats as they only stole one.....Neil Gorsuch. It makes you lose the moral high ground in this argument (as if that means anything anymore). As much as you don't like it, you can't have it both ways in complaining that they wouldn't allow Garland to be voted on in an election year and then voted on Barrett in an election year. Despite how close it was to the election day in 2020, they technically had the right to nominate and vote on her no matter how hypocritical it was and it was off the charts in that regard.
They stole two if you look at McConnell's rule for holding up Garland's appointment. The same logic should have been applied to Coney-Barrett. The appointment should have been held til after the election.
@@lhoward9593 You missed my point. You can't have it both ways by saying they stole a seat by not allowing a vote while Obama was in office and stole another seat by allowing a vote while Trump was in office. Gorsuch was stolen but not Coney-Barrett technically speaking.
This is truly an alarming thing. Please, everybody vote blue this November, give President Biden a Congress he can work with, and let's pass the voting rights act and all the other nice things we could have if not for these grifters and thieves.
Biden and the other corporate democrats are no more bound by the wishes of their voters than the Republicans are. Only the donors matter. Perhaps you should be appealing to the donors.
R u listening to the same podcast? We (D’s) can’t win even with majorities because of gerrymandering! I’m on your side I want a blue tsunami so we can fix this system!
@Jay Bee EVERYONE is against that, abortions are only legal up to 24 weeks except for very rare cases for the life of the mother.
@Jay Bee The Wikipedia article you cite says abortion is available through the second trimester, 26 weeks. This is normal. Abortion is a normal part of women's reproductive health care. To deny women health care is barbarous. Which is in line with most Republican beliefs. The article you cited said abortion is legal up to 34 weeks for medically necessary reasons. Not the 40 weeks of an average pregnancy. And that's when it's MEDICALLY NECESSARY. As in, for medical reasons, for the health of the woman.
Why do you want to deny women necessary health care? Why are you lying and trying to distort facts? Please stop lying and stop being barbaric.
Even in CA you can not get a voulentary abortion after 12 weeks. The ONLY time anyone gets one after that is if there are major problems with the fetus or the health of the mother is directly at risk. Even if a woman decides to have a abortion before 12 weeks.... I can promise it was a heartbreaking choice. It's biologically Impossible for us not to care. Our hormones alone won't allow it. NO ONE is killing babies for the sport. That is Ridiculous
Please don't prop up disinformation. Have a blessed day
You have been describing Idaho! My daughter is running as a Democrat (I raised her right) against an extremist. We are fighting against the Freedom Fighters here. Ammon Bundy is running for Governor!!!
My daughter is running for a State House seat. She is a well respected attorney here in Southeastern Idaho.
Good luck to her! I sure hope she wins 🥺
Good luck to her.
This is so depressing. I live in PA. and I see this happening. Sadly I have family that will not listen.
I was texting 10,000 voters here in GA to get them to vote today on the last Sunday voting as I was listening. It's a very scary time in America.
WOW, a true influencer doing more than their part. Bless you. I'd do more, like used to, but the volunteer no pay status gets old, this may be LAST free and fair Election, so admire you. Hope your getting paid though.
Forevermore Stacey and y'all's work.
Good for you!💙
@@jannichi6431 No, but I am retired and so I can volunteer now. And since Al has been telling us to knock on doors and such, I have tried to up my game!!
I voted already, almost a straight Democratic ticket at the state and federal level. But I voted without hope. The Greens have been forced off the ballot in Georgia. I have no hope for democracy here. Don't thank me for my vote. I'm just pressing the "Up" button on an elevator bound for hell.
Thanks for putting this together into a cohesive story. It helps to organize a strategy to fight back when you can see the pieces of the corrupt puzzle.
Al, Extremely informative show. This gives me the how to, to help fix this fricken mess! I'll pass this on to all.
Al being great in the first 30 seconds. When is the last time you heard someone say, "it's contributed to a change in my thinking"? That's why Al IS the great one for a change!
I’m afraid for democracy and I’m Scottish, please vote this hate rhetoric from trump’s GOP out America. 🏴🇺🇸
Thank you for caring. I'm dual American/Canadian & could try to escape to Canada (would be extremely difficult due to having a young son w/ rare brain malformations & losing the luxury of living in nice public housing only a mile away from the best hospital in the world for his condition.) But it doesn't make this situation much less dangerous for all of us if we do leave. If America, the "West's BIG protector" falls to white-nationalist-Christo-Fascists, there won't be a single place on Earth that'll be safe! It could easily become like we fought another world War w/ the Fascists winning this time, but w/o firing that many bullets. Who could stand up against a crazy US, Russian & other autocratic nations, in an axis of grift & evil?
🏴🏴🏴🧡🧡🧡 Fell in love with your country years ago and visited last month. The sane among us are doing our best to self correct. This is a huge country that has been messed with a lot. Keep us in your thoughts these next few months. It’s going to be a bumpy road.
As for Scotland, will y’all score for separation?
@Jay Bee that's how government works, taxes fix bridges and roads, housing and trying to keep these egomaniacs in check. Look how many are being put in jail for Jan 6th
Thank you
As an American I can say, I am worried too. But I have hope. We will not go silently in to this fair night. We outnumber the fascist
💙💙💙💙
Thanks for sharing such important information…
One person one vote.
8:17 remembering Paul Wellstone. 11:17 conversation w/David Pepper. 15:52 gerrymandering gives thuglicans unearned power over Dems.
Please run for office again Al!
FRANKEN/STEWART 2024
We will never have a government of, by and for the people without campaign finance reform.
@Jay Bee The Republicans are far worse with special interest money than are the Democrats. That's why we need campaign finance reform.
@Jay Bee Then are you saying you support campaign finance reform?
@Jay Bee Money equals free speech? LOL You probably haven't a dime loser !!LOL
@Jay Bee You probably got your money from Daddy, and Laws can be changed, remember?
@Jay Bee ! man ! vote, too complex for you ? You are full of crap;
Learned a lot about the local scene. Thanks. Gerrymandering needs to be outlawed.
It could possibly be too late. Sure hope I’m wrong but how can this be reversed when Dems could possibly not show up to vote and then what power will there be to change the things that desperately need to be changed (if we are to survive)?
I live in SW Ohio and another tactic that has been employed is MOVING the POLLING PLACES! At one point I lived in a very large apartment complex where a large number of the tenants did not have their own transportation. In 2008 our polling place was moved from one within easy walking distance to one that was 2-3 times farther away, still technically within walking distance but inaccessible by foot for many. In 2012 they moved it again to a place that no one was likely to walk to. So, you had to pass TWO polling places THAT WERE STILL IN USE AS POLLING PLACES in order to vote!!! The intent was clear: SUPPRESS THE VOTE!!! (And, yes, this county is controlled by Republicans.)
@Jay Bee, Wow! You clearly missed the point. I have to drive to my polling place where I live now, but it is actually logically placed. What they did in the township I was referencing, was clearly done to suppress the vote of young people and the economically depressed. There is a major difference!
Voting is a very important activity ask your local republican representative for further information. Democrats arent able to assist sadly.
@@paulclissold1525, I did. The answer was they "determined" that the polling place needed to be moved. When pressed for further explanation, the answer was, "It's complicated." When pressed further they admitted they didn't really have an answer. Of course, as you inferred, I probably would not have gotten a better answer from the Dems, if I got one at all.
@Jay Bee, Clearly you cannot open a door for the close-minded. (Btw, I notice you deleted your first comment. I wonder why?)
@Jay Bee This isn't Facebook.
Welp, just goes to show you how right Tip O'Neill's famous quote was and is. "All politics is local."
Fascinating. But bone chilling in reality it's all true, it's too lethal to democracy not to be true we got to do something State houses. Thank you both.
Will American voters ever grow out of Republican fascism?
When their chosen leaders fail and are shown to have clay feet, then they might snap out of it. It will take years, I'm afraid.
Al I looked for your pod before my doggie walk. Always great listening glad it’s out
I live in an area of Colorado where the democrats are threatened with their lives by running for office. How do we speak out if our family is threatened? How do we meet in public if the Proud and Pretty Boys will shoot out our windows? How do make change is the local law enforcement turn their back on stopping the bad guys?
A very smart man and a great guest. And what he said is all true too. All of it. Say goodbye to any attempt at fairness, America. Now politics is kill or be killed.
Excellent
Yes! Citizens United did so much damage.
The first one was the Lewis Powell Memo of 1971 to the US Chamber of Commerce as a call to war for corporate America. Two months later Powell was nominated to the Supreme Court. The starting corporate salvo on American democracy was then fired with the 1978 stock crash, followed two years later with the Reagan election. The rest your right on. The corporate war on our democracy is being most successful on the state level.
The Oklahoma Republican State Legislature took a law that had passed the state house, held a closed weekend session with the 83% repub and they gutted the entirety of that law, just used the House Bill number and THEY WROTE A WHOLE NEW BUNCH OF LAWS AND PASSED IT AND GOV STITT SIGNED IT INTO LAW AT 4:45 am on a SUNDAY!!
Wow …. What an eye opener!!!! Share with your family n friends!
PLEASE get back into the senate!
It sounds hopeless, just like avoiding climate change
Great, concise recap at the beginning to show how we've gotten in this mess.
Our legislature in KS is trying to get more power over our supreme court of KS. Please vote no
A great one as always, no insult to my intelligence at all. As always, please run again Al Franken for 2024. You are needed in a few locations that really can use you. Even the ironic politician that needs to be kicked out immediately.
Amen
Al Franken knows that the accusations of sexual misconduct brought against him were not just false ...they were also a setup by republican operatives including Roger Stone .... but at the same time he understands very well that if he ran again , the GOP (Republicans ) would run a 24/7 attack operation on him using those false allegations .. which would be the only thing our miserable News Media would want to talk about ... IE. Al Franken knows he wouldn't have much of a chance to win under those conditions ... especially taking into account it was mostly Women democrat Politicians who demanded he resign immediately when this came out ... and Franken is smart enough to know that even though many came out later and said they were wrong and apologized for telling Franken to leave without a congressional investigation ... the ones who did'nt do that would impede his run just as much as the Republicans would ....
Hey troll. Welcome back. Are you enjoying Twitter more now? Apparently the n-word rose 800% since the buyout. Aren't you glad.
What're you talking about? Twitter has always been a safe haven for lies and misinformation. Also rap is just the lazy man music. Ooh, you know how to curse, and be rude...not impressed.
Dunno, you have to tell me. Rap popularity died back before the millennium and never improved. Discos number were still higher and that died before the 80s. You know which genre is compared to in the 2020s? Country!
I had thought it was Utah. We had a referendum and passed an independent commission for drawing voting districts, which our one-party simply ignored. Our legislators are gun slingers who talk about a civil war. I’m sorry to find it goes beyond Utah.
In Canada where insulin was discovered it was immediately recognized as life saving and donated to the government.
That is how healthcare should work.
What is wrong with people? People are dying, and the ones who have more money than they could spend in three lifetimes still want more. What happened to empathy? What happened to doing what helps the tribe, the country? Smh.
@Jay Bee Not my wheel house. But if I could save countless lives, OR get rich, I'd probably die a poor man. I help people all the time for, gasp, free. My motto is, "Only a life lived for others is worth living." What's yours?
@Jay Bee Wow. I take it you only watch RUclips and never go out your door. I hope this is supposed to be sarcasm. Besides which, how are you tying this to the topic?
This is such an important author & book! Education! Education! Education! Every American should have to read this book ... So this is what's going on ... this explains everything about what is happening to get these idiots in office. Wow, how sad! Social Worker/Social Justice marleen m.
I'm pretty sure American democracy is dead. My priority now is finding a good country for asylum.
Political Mechanics in Ohio with ruffies and rubbing alcohol. Cover your drink in golf course clubhouses and restaurants in Jim Jordan's district. "Get off of me."
Here in Southern California I live a stones throw from Disneyland but because of Gerrymandering we of this small city are in orange co.. we are now in the same congressional district as the LONG BEACH PORT. IN LA COUNTY
NOW WHAT IS UP WITH THAT...
WE ARE EFFECTIVELY DISINFRANCHISED .
Very informative Al, enjoyed listening to David Pepper, Thank you.
I have a friend who lives in Arizona and does vote by mail. He posted to his Facebook page a photo of his ballot pointing out that for this election cycle, instead of having the candidates in alphabetical order down the ballot, interestingly and oddly, in each category all the Republican candidates running are listed first. He said in all the years he's been voting in AZ, this is the first time the ballot hasn't been in alpha order... hmmm. You can clearly see how this was designed to hood-wink those voters who are not well informed or undecided, as there is a high probability these voters will choose to vote for the first name on the ballot, and this is what the AZ Repugs are banking on.🤨
@Jay Bee Okay...lol.🤡💯
@Jay Bee Looks like someone's been *triggered* LMAO.🤪🤪🤪
I noticed that as well. Kinda odd. I don't know why they did it, but I found it peculiar.
@@ilovegoodsax He gets very triggered
good stuff
Historical events do not just begin with one incident: WWII with the invasion of Poland, the French Revolution with the storming of the Bastille, the American Civil War with the shelling of Fort Sumter. There are decades of preceding political, social, and economic conflicts. I worry we are in a similar "preceding phase" to something more calamitous.
we are
Thank you!!!!
Al, Mr Franken, sir. Please go take council with Biden. Convince him to retire. Convince him to endorse you right now.
For Pete's sake, the country is dying. You have an opportunity to save us. I don't think there could be a better candidate.
You'd have the national stage to show All the people what is happening. Bernie was just too nice. It's not in his character to attack people.
You can eviscerate the enemies of the state like no other. My god, man, the country is at stake. Go to Washington and expose the whole damn lot. There is no one else.
I beg you. Please upvote this post. Or write a better one that we can upvote. Mr. Franken, literally, the fate of the world is in your hands. I know you're up to the task. Save us.
@Jay Bee You’ve been duped, and I wouldn’t gloat about it. Being a backward thinker with no faith in your fellow man is the saddest state I can imagine. Gloating makes you an evil idiot.
Calm down. Biden is doing so much better a job than the former guy. All he needs is for people to get out and vote in folks who will support him. Vote blue.
Al, I’m sorry about your friend
Why should people have to lose their homes, when they get ill? Its barbaric.
Im writing in Noneoftheabove.
How can this "gerrymandering" persist?
This is against all laws of mankind.
PASS SOME LAWS THAT ELIMINATE GERRYMANDERING .
Chilling. We have been warned!
Thank You.
No wonder Ohio has gone down hill! The more I learn the more I can't stand the Republican party.
I immediately bought the book and will pass it on to every person who needs their eyes opened. Way too much waving of Red Herrings out there attracting attention ON PURPOSE to make people look the other way...like a killdeer doing the ole broken wing act to pull a danger away from its nest (egg).
Sorry if this pains you, Al, but I thought then, andstill believe now that Paul's plane crash was no accident.
I thought so very highly of Paul. He was extraordinary.
So sad that a great country can crumble from with in
Oklahoma was 83% repub state leg, and state secretary, state atty and gov
On top of rushing Amy C B to appointment, isn't she blatantly lacking in any qualifications for the job.
The other thing SCOTUS is deciding is if native peoples' right to the lands the Fed gov gave them. In Oklahoma, the gov and Repubs are working to make sure they can take lands away from Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, etc.
Bravo …good one!
Sadly, fits in with what I have seen reported of the various US states and Federal politics over the past 40 years, in our Australian non-Murdoch media, as in NPR and British and German media.
Fingers crossed for the coming 2 years, that some 20 Republicans in the House and 10 in the Senate reject the dark side of Republican politics.
I wonder why our media is not covering this. This was alarming on many levels. It is local baby! This grandma gets it. Gonna learn about state houses and how they work. Maybe basic civics class and how it is being corrupted like the cartoon we remember on how a bill becomes a law. Most of us do not know basic civics I am embarassed to say.
These reports will be helpful when the next election results are being sifted through. The difficulty is in getting the democrats to understand and accept it. Again thankyou onlookers views are invaluable.
Too bad we can't get two DEMS to agree on what time if day it is
..let alone work together in a multi state conspiracy......
I was able to have me and mine voice to be heard I have followed and was able the write our preferences (in a choice of 8 possible district maps ) we chose the map number that was basically one of the first maps used that looked to as the most fair and balanced I recieved our choice on and letter on official watermarked paper .thanking us for our interest .then when all said and done they went with the worst CHOISE so I guess you guys are right it about to be over ............what the F are we supposed to do the dem leadership in DC are spun or crazy
Nothing but lies at the state level so ...what will you do Mr......
Senator.............
PS ... take a look at what Oklahoma state legislature did right after the 2020 election. They did weekend CLOSED sessions to pass laws fast and furious. I won't try to list here. You'd understand better if you go to the source records.
My concern is ..those republicans that lose in the midterms..Will not cede the contest..total chaos will come from this..if Trump was allowed to get away with it..why not them?
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scary
Al Franken come back to public service, we need your intelligence now more than ever, get back in the fight.
He's in the fight - speaking out via his podcasts.
I live in NC. Look at what happened in 2010 and didn’t get somewhat corrected until 2018. Our state is the one that the SC said had been gerrymandered with surgical precision. Our legislature is still squabbling over our maps so that Dems will have better representation.
Stop the adds Al, or be sworn to the allegiance of a false profit.
repubs saw the big picture years ago(strategy) and had a plan (tactics) .. dems may have a strategy but don't ever focus on tactics to our collective downfall ...
to bad you dont here this on the news more they should talk about it every hour on the hour but hey they are owned by big monopolies
It would be great if you had video with these. This is RUclips I don't sit through and listen I watch RUclips videos.
We are doomed…
Commercial every five minutes... I didn't realize Al needed money so badly.
I didn’t get a single mid roll ad.
Thanks Al,
Just SYK I search out your videos first every Sunday morning & usually share even B4 I listen to them!
Thanks again~
(Great stuff, btw!)
I don't think the ACA would be a pro-Democratic talking point where I come from, rural and mostly self-employed folks who saw their health insurance rate explode by 30-35% on their already too high rates. If the Democrats weren't unduly influenced by the health insurance companies we would have Medicare for all.
Unduly influenced by all corporate interests. This is a broken system.
@@tracyday6710 The Republicans admit they are influenced by money but the Democrats pretend not to be.
Dude I guess your of t ghb E Klan the says ,"I MAY BE SLOW , BUT I GET THERE".....WELL GOOD "BETTER LATE THAN NEVER" THANK YOU YOU ARE RIGHT BLUE SLIP SHOULD NEVER HAD BEN TAKEN AWAY. AND GETTING RID OF FILIBUSTER IS A VERY GOOD IDEA BUT GIVEN OUR EXISTENTIAL THREAT TAKES RESIDENCE. GOOD LUCK SIR
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an incredibly important issue that needs a wider audience .. however the entire interview kept repeating the same points over & over without providing any realistic and implementable ideas
*HOW DO WE FIX THIS* ?
How do Ohioans enforce the state Supreme Court decision that the legislature is.. I assume illegally...ignoring?
And Al, we love you, but stop talking over your guest quite so much.
Always looking for reasons. Could the reasons be the internet gives us more insight? Love you Al but the TAINT of the democratic party follows you!
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One problem with the democrats is demonstrated with this guy. He related the strategy to soccer?? Come on, who watches soccer?
Billions of people around the world.
@@lhoward9593 are they US voters?
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You have to be alive on election day. Believe me, I worry about this every election year.
Al, you need to stop saying that the Republicans stole TWO Supreme Court seats as they only stole one.....Neil Gorsuch. It makes you lose the moral high ground in this argument (as if that means anything anymore). As much as you don't like it, you can't have it both ways in complaining that they wouldn't allow Garland to be voted on in an election year and then voted on Barrett in an election year. Despite how close it was to the election day in 2020, they technically had the right to nominate and vote on her no matter how hypocritical it was and it was off the charts in that regard.
They stole two if you look at McConnell's rule for holding up Garland's appointment. The same logic should have been applied to Coney-Barrett. The appointment should have been held til after the election.
@@lhoward9593 You missed my point. You can't have it both ways by saying they stole a seat by not allowing a vote while Obama was in office and stole another seat by allowing a vote while Trump was in office. Gorsuch was stolen but not Coney-Barrett technically speaking.
@@Studgunners I see what you're saying but the rationale should be consistent. It was not consistent.
@@lhoward9593 Of course it wasn't. Those were two of the most cynical and hypocritical moments in the history of the Supreme Court process.
Great show! Im so scared!
David Pepper needs to back away from the mic! Your p’s are poppin’!