George was The People's treasure. I love him, and wish he was with us today.

Fucking retweet this if you care at all about Reality.

Thus endeth the lesson.

Damn that's good

It sure sounds like him, but I don't know when he would have said this or what context. He frequently made political references in his stand-up routines, even on television. I believe he could have said these things, but I don't recall ever hearing this rant before.

Whoever created the video using the montage of current clips, nice job on this! I'm sure Mr. Carlin would approve.

It’s as spot on today as it was when he introduced it.

...it's the last HBO special he did "Life is worth losing" and the whole thing is worth watching. Classic George and as relevant today as when he stood on that stage.

"Its a big club, and you ain't in it" is also part of that.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve thought about George and what he might have said about the idiot current event of the day

This is from the last show, he looks a little older, chaotic library set, March 2008

He was honestly talking about both parties. I honestly don't think this ad is a good idea.

This is the full length version.

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Actually, Carlin is also giving Democrats the finger as well. Although the video is edited to be Trump-centric, Carlin's words unfairly engage in the "both sides" attack that also smears loyal, true, honest and stalwart Democrats.

I don't like it.

Obama was not allowed to jail any top bankers in 2009. Even if he wanted to.

If so, please name one bankster jailed or punished by the Obama administration.

However, from the article you posted, it seems that only a handful of lower-level bank employees received any jail time. The execs, the Jamie Dimons, did not.

As to the fines, a $10 billion fine sounds like a staggering amount of money to me, but if the bank made hundreds of billions on whatever violation it was fined for, that is hardly a deterrent. And most of those fines were reduced or "settled" for less.

In fact, it really looks more like the government simply retroactively demanded a cut. There may well have been unprecedented prosecution, but there was no real punishment. Banks were called "too big to fail" and "too big to jail", and those same banks are now bigger than ever.

One mentioned in that article, the French bank BNP Paribas, subsequently was allowed to take over Bank of the West.

wind up in convictions. Best to go after the corporations themselves, which is what the Obama DOJ did and was successful in winning.

Why does this shit continue? And why NOW?? What purpose does this serve?

Criminal fines and penalties were virtually non-existent prior to 2009, then shot way up:

One can only wonder why simple fact can be so upsetting to some.

LOL! Oh please, come off it! I wasn't born yesterday you know. Y'all need to cut this shit out.

Which fact? All I see are a series of repeated insinuations. Obviously, this is just a continuation of the accusations that Obama was a "lazy do-nothing Democrat" who is "no better than the Republicans" that he's a "corporatist" who is "in league with banksters" and that Democrats "are the party of the elite" and the "party of the one percent".

My posts address banks, prosecutions , and consequential punishment.

All those other projections , strawmen and statements are just attempts to put words in the mouths of others. I didn't make any of those statements and I'm not gonna argue about them.

I say banksters were not jailed, and the banks were not punished in a way that deters further corruption. That's the fact, and that's what actually should have you upset, not the strawmen

I never said you did. What I said was that you were adding to the chorus and amplifying those messages. You know exactly what you were doing and so do I. You also know exactly what's been going on. None of this is happening in a vacuum. This is just part of a continued and ongoing effort to denigrate and smear Democrats, the Democratic party, our elder statesmen and women, our leaders, and our nominee.

Don't treat me like I'm an idiot. At least I understand what a consensus is.

Still the effort is being made to "blame" Obama. That much is clear. It's already been established that MORE action and prosecutions took place during Obama's terms than ever before. And now we have all this moaning and groaning that he didn't do enough. Boo-hoo.

Better to build on that success than to continually bemoan the man and the party... the man and party that you should be on your knees and THANKING instead. But, I guess this is to be expected from the folks who wanted Obama to be primaried after his first term.

Jesus Christ!

increased the prosecutions, and collected billions more in fines.

But regardless of the reason for not prosecuting responsible individuals, if there is no meaningful punishment, there is no deterrent.

That's why the same corporations DO pay their payroll taxes - the responsible individual will be prosecuted and can be held liable for the company's unpaid tax.

Also, stating these facts is not "bashing". It's just truth.

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/the-rise-of-bank-prosecutions

It really serves no good purpose, and the timing of these new rounds of these types of denigrating smears and attacks on Democrats is suspicious. The "both sides" smears... the lies that Democrats are "do-nothings"... that Democrats are "the party of the one-percent", blah-blah-blah.

I've pointed out on many occasions that this type of thing only serves to create an atmosphere of negativity: Negativity generates apathy. Apathy discourages voter turnout. Low voter turnout gives Republicans a chance to steal the elections.

...this time around.

"Is Donald Trump the President--Yes he is--We elected him President....."

And whoever put that together did a great job.

Billionaires and corporations own everything, we just have the illusion of freedom and real choice to keep us from rising up.

before you got there. Then, instead of a gold watch, you get a pink slip.

After the gross (intentional?) mismanagement of the company and a few thousand families devastated, the schmuck gets a $12 million retirement package after you get kicked in your package.

It's called Capitalism.

They capitalize on you just like when the defense recovers a fumble. The announcer even says, "They really capitalized on that miscue, didn't they? And now a word from EffYu Industries, a family-owned company."

Then you push your shopping cart past the TV store, hoping to find a fresh rat for today's lone meal.

The Land of Opportunity (if you pick the right birth canal to emerge from).

a grown-up share of the ignorant cynicism that passed for wisdom in my circles. It was in the air and so easy to be politically sophisticated. My husband and I even went to see Carlin in West Hollywood for my 21st birthday.

Remember the disaster of 2016, when critical millions of people were persuaded by lying scoundrels foreign and domestic that they had nothing good to vote for? So didn't?

This ad could have been used then and can be used now to suppress votes for Democrats by preying on those so ignorant and weak of principle that a few catchphrases and toxic ads will keep them home. Republicans vote in high numbers. The voting problem is OURS.

Here's some more vintage Carlin. And vintage is the word. But notice the hidden message to these, which listeners can take at face value or completely the opposite. Depending on what is appealed to in them.

Exactly! For the ignorant and weak-of-principle, things like this create an atmosphere of negativity: Negativity generates apathy. Apathy discourages voter turnout. Low voter turnout gives Republicans a chance to steal the elections.

Beautifully worded. Thank you. Apparently it's still a "thing" all these years later. Sigh.

After the development, and refining, of advertising techniques of mass manipulation and communications, each of the last few generations has grown up marinated in in soul-killing political negativity

I remember being horrified when a matinee full of kids cheered as aliens destroyed the White House; but it was 1996, and the Republicans' toxic anti-government propaganda industry had been in full production since their parents were their age.

Those kids and others have been voting or of voting age for a long time now. Many rescued themselves, but many more were among the almost HALF who didn't vote, even in 2016. Apathy. And also complacence. For all their usual complaining excuses, those who did vote enabled them to maintain that. Until 2016.

Our owners.

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not your money or freedom.

But absolutely NO ONE wants to own any of us, and I can't imagine how anyone can think otherwise. They're trying to get rid of us.

Does the word come from a desire, I wonder, as it does with strong conservatives, to be secure and cared for by a ruling order? Or merely an expectation of settling for at least some return for all they take? Whatever, at best they'd "own" all the people who think they have a claim on them like they'd own gum they were trying to scrape off their shoes.

As for voting, they're AFRAID of us. That's why they work so constantly to make you think your vote doesn't matter and to steal the votes of those who know theirs do.

Who has the cash?