Thanks, Thom, for your critique of the MSM and their obvious attraction to the "newsy" Trumpster (contraction of "Trump" and "huckster"). They are lavishing in the increased ratings from their ongoing adoration of Trumpisms. However, the fertile ground from which this idiocratic media has arisen, is the utter disinterest of the bulk of "middle Americans" in anything even vaguely resembling education. We have become a trained audience, living vicariously through one "reality" show and "sporting" event after another, with the same unquestioning tranced attention. The average American barely reads one book a year. The History Channel has almost no programming on any historical event. Thank God, for those of us who have somehow preserved our curiosty and love of learning, for RTTV, LinkTV, FSTV, and CCTV. I have always listened to BBC and CBC for an outside perspective on American political and other news, rather than accepting the pablum of American MSM. The fascist American political system has essentially shut down the free flow of honest reportage and most Americans seem to have lost the capacity to discriminate truth from propaganda. Thank you for your heroic efforts to keep the discussion of important topics going, although we'll never see you on the MSM. Education is the core issue and the power elite knows it. Thus, their undermining of public education and substitution of "job training", in order to control the mass mind and "train" the next generation of unquestioning worker bees. But, then, how much training is really necessary to flip hamburgers?

The fbi will go after the banksters slum, when the American people get rid of the obstructive GOP, and the money's they receive from the banks, period.

Uh, so where's the part with the "unhinged" denier?

Thumbs-down for misleading title.

FYI: I've got reliable info that the IRS is not looking into Donny's returns! He's just balking! He's not worth a god damn penny is what is coming thru.

Guess what....that bacteria wouldn't exist in wells if we had a socialist economy, and I'll tell you why. The biggest lie ever told was that if you give the already rich all of the remaining wealth it will trickle down into the pockets of the suckers, the "teabaggers"! The second biggest lie ever told....socialism means nobody will be motivated to work!

That last lie works for a capitalist slackard who wants to make money off the backs of desperate workers who want to eat and raise a family, but it's just an all out fffnnn lie. Democratic Socialism beneifits all in a manner that would eliminate the possibility of comtaminated wells. We the People would own the energy sector and thus guard against self annihilation. This is final proof that capitalism is an archaic form of economic sustainability!!!!!!

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Your guest, Mark W. did not answer your question you asked about "household income" v. "wages." You were talking oranges and he was talking apples. As a matter of fact he directly contradicted your position and you did not challenge him.

Howard - Nuclear power generation is not all bad news

France has been doing this for a very long time quite rationally providing a very high percentage of needs... read - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France

Take your camera and microphone to New York City and spread the Bad News and create a public protest about all nuclear power!!

The Catastrophic Right

{… a rhyme …}

Here’s how historians will prob’ly explain: -

- the Right’s several sectors are the perps who have slain

our nation and world, - our chance to remain

intact.

It’s a fact

that Plutocrats and Nitwits are Nature’s bane.

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The Deplorables are also the Gullibles

{… a limerick and an image …}

They are gullible who

heed the hullabaloo

raised with yuuge noise

by the Right’s girls and boys,

who tend to be full o’ poo.

… Image:

http://arcamax.com/politics/editorialcartoons/claybennett/

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In the 'sixties most moderate to large companies gave 6 weeks maternity leave to employees, and their health insurance through the employer also paid for the pregnancy, the birth and medical visits for the first year... IF the mothers were "married." If the mothers were unfortunate enough to be "unwed," oh, well...

But not a cent for any kind of child care, baby sitter, etc.

But don't hold your breath for this to become a reality, even if Trump does get elected. Most elected Republicans don't respect him. Lots of them don't even really like him. And the one who will vote for him out of Party Loyalty will be pissed as hell. He won't get many easy passes, in any case.