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Ratigan's Righteous Rant (Original Post) Uncle Joe Apr 2016 OP
Oh, Uncle Joe. THANK YOU FOR THIS!!! Ratigan is spot on. K&R. nt antigop Apr 2016 #1
Not very practical houston16revival Apr 2016 #2
You need a president that will physically climb up on top of the bully pulpit Enthusiast Apr 2016 #6
Rat knew he was done and fed up with the MSM and the political corruption. Dustlawyer Apr 2016 #7
It is also from 2011 Nictuku Apr 2016 #3
Ratigan needs to stop getting his news from M$M 'cause there is ONE CANDIDATE that is about getting Kip Humphrey Apr 2016 #4
I believe this happened a couple of years before the Uncle Joe Apr 2016 #5
He absolutely said what we all know Left Coast2020 Apr 2016 #8
This is the kind of person dreamnightwind Apr 2016 #9
Perhaps Bernie's Press Secretary? Uncle Joe Apr 2016 #10
Ha! That would be cruel dreamnightwind Apr 2016 #11
Lewis Black would be great. Uncle Joe Apr 2016 #12

houston16revival

(953 posts)
2. Not very practical
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 06:00 PM
Apr 2016

A speech and a rant aren't going to fix anything

nor send the lobbyists packing

nor bring jobs and money back home

Lending at 2% to business? Business is already flush with cash
at low rates. Is it helping?

Ending money in politics is not going to allow us to disengage from the
economic and trade systems. We still need and buy a lot from China.

Repatriate stolen money? How? Fine the perpetrators? Make an example
of a few?

Enthusiast

(50,983 posts)
6. You need a president that will physically climb up on top of the bully pulpit
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 06:55 PM
Apr 2016

and raise holy hell just like Ratigan did. It will be necessary for the president to make a spectacle of himself.

We might need to use the military to stop the extraction. Once the American people actually understand the problem no politician would dare say, "We don't need a new Glass Steagal." or "You can't increase taxes on the job creators!"

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)
7. Rat knew he was done and fed up with the MSM and the political corruption.
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 07:02 PM
Apr 2016

I saw this when it went done and knew he was done then, but I was blown completely away!!! It was his "I'm mad and I am not going to take it anymore" moment!!!

I wish more show hosts had the guts to do this. Alas, to many like Tweety, who have no soul to sell to begin with!

Kip Humphrey

(4,753 posts)
4. Ratigan needs to stop getting his news from M$M 'cause there is ONE CANDIDATE that is about getting
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 06:24 PM
Apr 2016

money out of politics and is about a revolution to throw the bought Congress out and that one candidate is Bernie Sanders.

BTW, Ratigan, I get that that Tea Party thing didn't exactly work out for you the way you thought it would.

Left Coast2020

(2,397 posts)
8. He absolutely said what we all know
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 08:58 PM
Apr 2016

And if he was didn't leave MSBS then, eventually they would have canned him with ED and the others.

dreamnightwind

(4,775 posts)
9. This is the kind of person
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 02:28 PM
Apr 2016

I can see being involved in a Sanders administration.

Dylan is no leftist, but he's a great ally in the fight to return government back to serving the people.

dreamnightwind

(4,775 posts)
11. Ha! That would be cruel
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 03:04 PM
Apr 2016

He could head something like the Securities and Exchange Commission, maybe, or work in the Justice Department to expose and prosecute financial fraud. Or he could be an angry White House greeter, but I had Lewis Black in mind for that job.

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