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  • "Taking rights away from citizens? American! Protecting American citizens from predatory business practices through oversight? Might as well be Stalin making out with Trotsky on the Soviet flag while apple pies are thrown at Christian babies in the background."

    Idiots in suits, idiots in suits

  • he is obviously a con.so...

  • Why is a Football game and a video game theme in the suggestions column?

  • Seriously, Graham has slit pupils in this video. It's not the lighting, there is something inhuman about it. Those familiar with David Icke's theories should understand.

  • he remindes me of Louie Anderssons mom..

  • Lindsey come out of the closet, everyone knows your as queer as a football bat.

  • Funny when one considers that lindsey 'the queer' graham is a global stalinist himself.

  • I wish the Consumer Protection Bureau was more Stalinist, then they could take all those crooks who have screwed us and put them in a gulag in Siberia.

  • @MastermindX Forced labour camps. Building economies up from the dirt since 3000bc

  • The USA was founded by the merchants for the merchants, any regulation of the merchants is a hard fight. Republicans & conservatives had convince enough people the impossible is possible, Any group or person, that tries to bring most of us back to reality will be seen as the oppressors.

  • wait a minute, Cenk... Lindsey Graham is a "he?!" crap! I thought this was a woman! Especially after seeing the video clip of him here....

  • Any Bureau under the Federal Reserve might as well be controlled by the bankers.

    It's the fox guarding the henhouse. Consumer's will be protected by a Bureau under the direct control of those who screwed consumers over in the first place.

    Yeah... I'm not that gullible.

  • Elizabeth Warren ftw

  • my grandmothers lived under Stalin. at their age, with arthritis, cancer/diabetes etc, if he said this in front of them, they'd still break him in half for saying this.

  • In Communist Russia, protection bureau consumes you!

  • @Gidwan Nice

  • Fuck this. Stalin was good. Stalinist Russia treated its people better then USA does now.

  • @Nothiean Well until the forced collectivisations. Stalin was a class A kook.

  • Well folks .. for all those disillusioned voters who voted Repub or Tea-Bagger in 2010 or just didn't vote at all ... ARE YOU HAPPY YET? (LAUGHS).

  • Koch's got their start up from Stalin, I don't see GOP complaining.

  • The period that we have before us comprises the most motley mixture of crying contradictions: constitutionalists who conspire openly against the constitution

  • Lindsey Graham is a lying piece of subhuman bacteria. He is the classic example of congressional whore. He would sell himself to a Chinese general for a bowl of gritts and a fifty cent piece. He is one of the most despicable prostitutes in congress. He would spread cheeks for a dime of campaign money.There is no bottom to the pit of republican depravity. He does a dishonor to the profession of prostittution. He's mostly angry because they did away with the congressional page serrvice he's lonely

  • @geezerdombroadcast As are MOST Mid-Western/Southern Repubs. I don't know who's the sadder lot .. the career Repubs or the sad pieces of shit who keep voting for them (laughs). 2010 Elections a case in point. Half the country is in revolt mode over these facist Govenors. This is what you voted for America. A DO NOTHING Racist Congress & Facist Nazi Govenors. SUCK IT UP ..

  • @MichaelPAUSA

    No matter how vile some Democrats may be. Some of them like that bitch dude from Kansas are just republicans in sheeps clothing; screwing the Democratic party from the inside. I hate his blue dog ass. Now matter how screwed up they get. It will never compare to the absolute lunacy,and depravity of the Republican scum. They should all be sterilized so they can't reproduce. I have an idea! We should offer free sterilizations with every pit pass to NASCAR,

  • @geezerdombroadcast I concur mate ..

  • lol mitt romney commercial, what a tool

  • If it actually were that autonomous, which I doubt, it would hardly be Stalinist. He also wants to have more control over it (of course) which, funnily enough, is something fairly characteristic of the extremely authoritarian Stalinist USSR.

  • Even if all their evil shit becomes law it doesn't really matter, because next election they'll be thrown out of congress & all their batshit stuff will be corrected..

  • ZZoMmGzZ MaOiSt StAliNiSt CoMmIeZzzzz!!!! Oh noessss!!!!!!!1111oneeleven

  • Its a typical tactic. Instead of making economic arguments, or arguments in generall, just dismiss anything from the left by calling it stalinism or some other stupid term.

  • Cant believe that Republicans are still trying to scare the voters with the evil red menace ,its like a bad joke , its just the rich trying to fuck you again the way its always been .

  • Marxist-Leninism FTW

  • Graham also brings up the Federal Reserve as "proof" that the Consumer Protection Bureau is "Stalinist". Somehow I don't remember ever reading anything about Stalin being a big supporter of bankers. Banks are, you know. Capitalist.

  • This is all about doing away with anything that might interfere with rich people's drive to plunder the wealth of the Nation so they can keep it for themselves, nothing more, nothing less. That is why Republicans put up obstacles anytime the Democrats try to establish mechanisms to make sure that rich people follow the rules and obey our laws. It has always been that way, and Republicans are the worst thing that ever happened to America.

  • @armyveteran101st Well said my friend.

  • Sen. Lindsey Graham sounds like former Sen. Phil Gramm.

  • Mmmm Hmmm... He's a naughty little neocon. <--- (read that in Grahams voice)

  • this republican senator, hopelessly corrupt, has nonetheless mastered the concept of using key words that make the hamsters in the control group hit the pedal. stalin = financial regulation = evil. to give them credit, they have realized the power of manipulating the masses to vote for them even if they will then do things that directly hurt the electorate's economic interests.

  • If I were in the U.S. military I'd start rounding up these Republicans and jailing them without trial for fucking over the vast majority of U.S. citizens in favour of the banks and the richest 1%. Who needs terrorists to threaten the welfare of the U.S. when the people in power are already doing it?

  • 0:32 "aproperation" ಠ_ಠ

  • Yeah, Stalin is/was an evil bastard.

  • @senortonyful Which of Friedman's books have you read? Do you realize Chile did not follow everything Friedman advocated for? Friedman was not the King of Chile. He simply gave a lecture and they followed some but not all of his advice. Do you realize Chile is now one of the strongest economies and they have an extraordinary amount of freedom according to freedom house? Don't sit around and read Naomi Klein all day, you fool. Why don't you try being open minded and reading the other side.

  • Consumer Protection Bureau? The work of HITLER!!!!

  • Given the obvious projection it's accurate to say Lindsey Graham is a Stalinistic Terrorist.

  • @dangerouslytalented This comment shows me you haven't read any of Friedman's works.... The free market is based on the idea that people are dishonest and greedy. Friedman talked about these things in his classic book Free to Choose. Friedman would clobber Cenk anytime any day. Maybe Cenk will show some courage and invite Sowell on, i doubt it though. In some ways i don't blame Cenk getting owned by a 81 year old man would be embarrassing.

  • @willden15 Laissez Faire is a joke and Friedman's system was proved wrong in his own experiment. Friedman and his stooges tried their Chicago school tactics in Chile under Pinochet and what happened was exactly what one would expect to happen, out of control inflation, the dissolution of the middle class, further impoverishment of the poor, and the creation of a very tiny, very wealthy economic elite. Free markets have been tried and failed miserably for everyone but the wealthy.

  • The Repubicans are just f-ing over America we need to kick all their ass out the door.

  • Stalinist? Do you mean the guy that locked up people with mock trials (if they were lucky), gave f&@k all about workforce rights and accumulated wealth for him and his comrades? Yeah, sounds like Dems' CPB.

  • 0:38 Reptilian slit pupils ;)

  • Easy solution, never use a for profit financial business.

  • I hate my senator.

  • harness capitalism for the benefit of the average person

  • oh god no, no monitoring of the rich and powerful , especially the ones who brought the world to its knees in 2008. if it is stalinism(pure hyperbole---for my stupid conservative friends that means reckless exxagerationLOL) then give us more stalinism over the banks and bankers, including some show trials of the white collar criminals who cause the world economy to implode in 2008. Occupiers go go go ,

  • @contacter wow your a condescending douche...

  • Graham will be one of the many Republicans caught hiring male prostitutes.

  • being under the fed is bad.

  • The Young Turks should be on CNN, people needs to hear this.

  • @rickyt11 The Young Turks are NOW on "Current TV". Right before the Keith Oberman show. 

  • Stalinism, Maoism, Naziism, communism, socialism.

    US politicians have not even the slightest comprehension of the meaning of any of these terms, and should shut the fuck up about things they know nothing about.

  • @crocfme Hahaha, so damn true.

  • @crocfme Well said! (they never talk about fascism though, I wonder why...)

  • Lindsey Graham better keep his mouth shut about Stalin. He's been warned.

  • he is just mad because his name is lindsay

  • I'm surprised Lindsay Graham is a Republican. She dresses like a lesbian.

  • MAH BOI

  • I bet he just uses words without knowing what they really mean. Isn't that normal in politics? Right? ...

  • @legionofcrazies your a communist propoganda nazi taliban jew. and that makes you a bad person! lol they are a joke these american government

  • sounds like Graham here is a traitor to the constitution. He should be the first person abducted by SpecOps, taken to Gitmo, waterboarded and administered other "enhanced interrogations", and given a secret military trial with no legal counsel, no right to testify, and with the verdict already determined.

    Of course he shouldn't, but the point is as such: who are you to call others terrorists and traitors? Who could not say that YOU are one? Fucking hypocrites and tyrants.

  • Going out on a limb here, but I'm taking a course on Soviet Russia and I don't think Stalin ever had a consumer protection bureau.

  • @Redfingers In Soviet Russia, product consumes you!

  • @Redfingers

    He had a consumer enslavement bureau.

  • @Redfingers Well mainly since they had no corporations

  • @eatbeavers ---

    Ofcourse there were corporations in the Soviet Union, just that they had stricter obligations to state agencies than in Western countries and thus acted under a different logic than that of the "free market".

  • @underbjorn If the state makes them then they are not companies, they are just services

  • @eatbeavers ---

    Wrong they are state-owned companies, legal entities offering services owned by the state.

  • @Redfingers Actually he did when he attached committees of union volunteers to the soviets one of their primary goals was to ensure that workers could obtain consumer goods in reasonable quality and quantity.

  • I would hate to be a republican consumer. Talk about having no choice. If you stand up for yourself you are considered a communist, unamerican, traitorous, socialistic, ignorant, ingrate. No wonder their are so many republicans. What?

  • Fuck the GOP, what a bunch of fucking fiends, We should tar and feather their asses.

  • Cenk misconstrued Lindsey Graham's inflammatory remarks.

  • @JuanVoyce how so?

  • @havocman100 Graham was paraphrasing the reason McConnell gave last week for filibustering the appointment: "Yes, here’s the problem: this new agency answers to no one, absolutely no one — another unelected czar. We’ve got a bunch of those in the White House. We don’t need any more of them..." So Graham amps it up to "out of the Stalinist era". Graham's cleverest deceit was in saying: "this agency they want to create" when the CFPB has already been created by an act of Congress.

  • Send Lindsay Graham to Siberian gulag!

  • Lobbying is just another word for bribery. when the corporations are the ones paying the vast majority of the politician's wages, guess who owns the government. Even my dog knows that if she does what she's told, she'll get hand outs. Meaning anyone who doesn't understand the true effects of lobbying works on a lower level of reasoning than my dog.

  • ANTI-INCUMBENCY!!!! VOTE NO ON ALL INCUMBENTS !!!Fire all the bums!!!

  • Lindsey wouldn't know a Satlinist if he was sent to a gulag after his show trial.

  • Obviously Cenk is not paying attention. If its January and you have a "tan" you are obviously a terrorist if you disagree with the government.

  • Wow. That Graham is a phony lil turd. Someone has got to wipe that smug look off his kisser. His head is so far up up his own ass, he can smell his own gerbil.

  • Protecting consumers? STALINIST!!!!

  • @chafenhimer It's called consumer protecting, so it must be that. Just believe what the gov't says.

  • @ShatterNWO oh okay i'll listen to corporations who lose money from regulations instead, i'm sure they're not biased

  • @chafenhimer everyone is biased in some way. But corps. usually write and lobby for the regulations that limit your choice of corps.

  • @ShatterNWO yeah they do write the regulations that's why they're pathetically weak

  • Further evidence of the Republicans' War on Democracy.

  • Graham is a faggot and a fool.

  • Lindsey Graham is so stupid he doesn't understand it's unconstitutional to deny a fair trial to a US citizen.

    Mr. Graham, please die in a car fire.

  • @jschultzVII That's only what he wants you to think. He is probably completely aware of what is unconstitutional.

  • Republicans just love buzz words like terrorists, Stalinists, and Socialist. It scares their feeble minded base who can't understand complex situations.

  • @jschultzVII This guy doesn't have any idea what stalinism even means. And healthcare for example isn't "socialism", it's known as social democracy everywhere except in the US.

  • in soviet russia the notorious consumer financial Bureau killed over 100000 soviet citizens after they traded illegally in the derivatives market, you have to wonder at some point does this guy know he is stupid or does he truly believe what he is say?

  • oh yeah, i want the young turks to be available on my pipboy in the next fallout game

  • If I were a middle eastern muslim who lived in the USA... I would be seeking refuge in Canada right about now doe to risks to my life >.> Risk of execution or murder.

  • Speaking of witches, i wish the laws regarding them were still around...my divorce would've been a lot cheaper!

  • Stalinist, Communist, Marxist, Socialist... When you hear a Republican use the word, just roll your eyes, because I don't care what the circumstance is/was/will be... I PROMISE they've used it incorrectly to denounce someone who disagrees with them. The words/insults are 100% meaningless when coming from one of these people.

  • The Republicans are a bunch of racist fearmongers. The fact that these people have any power whatsoever scares me.

  • The Republican idea of a FREE market is that corporations are FREE to rape the consumer, and consumers are FREE to be raped.

  • @alphacause You are free to do as we tell you! You are free to do as we tell you!

  • cenk, there's more to stalinism than just killing people... that argument was weak sauce

  • Lindsey Graham is just another Baptist GOP closet homosexual who has lost his mind and has no place in our government. He is an enemy to the constitution being many times he has argued against basic rights like free speech and a right of a trial, he also referred to the domestic internment of German and Japanese prisoners of war and US Citizens as a model for domestic detention of Guantanamo detainees. He is a warmongers and his foreign policy ideas are interventionist. He needs to go.

  • @TheUSMetalhead Interesting you should say that! We in South Carolina have known he is gay for quite a while.

  • Wow, what a fucktard. Stalinism = zero capitalism, Consumer Protection Bureau = less shitty capitalism

  • Did not Benedict Arnold, the very name of names of American traitors, get a trial?

  • If big government and big business weren't in bed together, this bureau wouldn't be needed. This bureau won't do any thing about GM-food, for example: it's a charade. The vast majority of Republicans, including Graham, and the vast majority of Democrats are criminals and traitors.

  • "Who protects the consumer?" Milton Friedman. Friedman made a compelling case against the CPA a long time ago. I bet Cenk never read it! I would love to see Friedman debate Cenk; it would be refreshing for Friedman to show Cenk the light!

  • @willden15 Milton Friedman was wrong.He did not factor in the fact that some people are so dishonest that they would do what was bad for the banks they work for, they will boost short term profits at the cost of long term viability in order to get massive bonuses and then flee the company before the whole fucking lot collapsed.

  • no one cares about America every one is out for them selves.

  • So graham and repubs including the teabagger party seem to have a problem with The People and anything that protects them from the banks.They consider that stalinist.Isn't there a certain document written to protect us that starts out with WE THE PEOPLE ?! Tell me graham do you consider that stalinist to ?

  • Republicans tell any lies they want America will still believe them.

  • @tehdouglas1 it's impossible for a socialist society to be under anybody's control. I think you should study up on socialism more as oppression id the antagonist to socialism.

  • Big words conservatives use to fire up the masses and some people bye the crap they say...

  • Lindsey Graham=Domestic Terrorist....

  • Newt says Palestinians are terrorists. Graham says US military should fight traitors on US soil. So if you bump into a Palestinian in NYC or anywhere in the US, please make sure to call the US Marines so we can order in a drone strike immediately! Oh wait but Newt also said that Palestinians don't really exist. Shit this is so confusing.

  • @BlackLabelSlushie You're making it harder than it has to be, let me help you out. All you need to remember is, "If you're brown, you're going down."

  • @BlackLabelSlushie Well, if you speak to a palestinian, you don't exist.

  • as soon as he said graham voted in favour of the DAA i lost it

  • I am mystified why Senator Graham would make such a stupid and needlessly inflammatory statement. He knows better than this. WTF was he thinking?

  • Shit, if only the CPB was Stalinist...the thought of there being purges of large banks, of banksters being sent to gulags in Ihavenofuckingideawhereiamista­n. And the buckets of tears shed by motherfuckers like Graham when they realize that the gravy train is gone for good.

    One can dream...

  • It's unbelievable what's happening in the US today. The dehumanizing of large portions of the American citizens by the government just as they have done with foreign regimes and populations. The situation is fully out of control with fascist politicians openly trampling the constitution without negative backlash. Unregulated free market capitalism leads to fascism and the were finding out the hard way. Up to now US atrocities have been limited to foreign soil but not for much longer.

  • This is a list of common *proof* in witch trials:

    * Relationship with other convicted witches (terrorists)

    * Denouncement by another witch (terrorist). This was common, since the accused could often avoid execution by naming accomplices.

    * Possession of elements necessary for the practice of black magic (nuclear power).

    * To have one or more witches (terrorists) in the family.

    See? We've come long way since the 16th century?

  • @TheLivirus ---

    haha reminds me.

    Key U.S ally in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, beheaded some old lady convicted of sorcery the other day.

    HAH! Sorcery, fucking imagine.

    .

    Isn't it good how Republicans are denouncing the founders of modern-day Islamist fundamentalism and sharia law, the Wahhabi court of Saudi Arabia.

    Oh wait, they don't. :(

  • @underbjorn Gotto keep those puppets in place you know.

  • @TheLivirus Wow I've never seen someone make that correlation.. Brilliant!

  • Notice the GOP haven't said ONE WORD about the government being able to hold people in detention until further notice, yet they scream STALINIST when it comes to actually protecting American's from greedy unethical credit card practices. How do they keep getting away with this contradicting bullshit? BTW the main reason these fucktards always cry "MAO", "HITLER" and "STALIN" is because they then don't have to explain why the policy in question is actually bad, they just need scary buzz words.

  • @TheDalinkwent

    "...hold people in detention until further notice, yet they scream STALINIST when it comes to actually protecting American's from greedy unethical credit card practices"

    what a fucked up dimwit sob you are!!

    any American concerned about "greedy unethical credit card practices" shouldn't use credit cards!!!!! It's as simple as that!!, or if you buy stuff on the card , pay it off when you get the fuckin statement!! you want the government to wipe your ass too??

  • @genie0390, That wasn't my point fucktard. The GOP always cry about the Government having too much power, yet had zero problems with the Patriot Act and this new BS of our government being able to hold Americans without trial, DOESN"T THAT SOUND LIKE BIG GOVERNENT? BTW credit cards are needed in most cases to BUILD CREDIT FOR OTHER PRACTICES, like buying a house, cell phones, cars and so on. You fucking TYT trolls are childish pathetic MORON'S.

  • @TheDalinkwent credit cards arent needed; unless you want to buy a house at a VERY young age or have been late on your bills. A lot more than credit cards are linked to your credit authorization; long as your good on everything credit cards are not needed.

  • @burneden, That's not always true, some lenders won't come anywhere near you unless you've established the history of payment in credit. While yes you don't need a credit card, that still depends on what you're trying to accomplish overall.

  • The homeland bill passed into law last week has long-term intentions. It will be used against protestors/bloggers that are deemed to be "against" the US, even if they have no verifiable terrorist ties, access to terrorist materials or plans of terrorist activities. Goodbye, first amendment...we hardly knew ye.

  • Graham used to be one of the few reasonable Republicans, now he's gone full tea party.

    ...sigh.

  • "Stalinist Consumer Protection Bureau"

    I'm waiting to see billions of bodies piling up...

    *watches Fox News*

    ABORTION! + HOMOSEXUALITY! = SHARIA! = MURDAR!

  • For the Love of God.Legalize cockfighting

  • Cmon Cenq, not agreeing with Graham but when you hear that something is a part of the Federal Reserve it kind of hints that its corrupt, seeing as how the Federal Reserve is owned by the richest bankers in the world and theyre the ones ruining the economy.

  • all this name calling is childish. At some point, I thought the word "Socialist" was the new N-word.

    Thanks to Fox News.

  • The reason republicans dont want to vote for it is that they dont care if you get fked in the ass by the mist powerful

  • Corporations lobby for regulations which profit themselves. This is why regulations arent effective, those writing them have been paid off. Until people realize the level of corruption we are dealing with I feel they will keep throwing pebbles at the left and right instead of recognizing its both sides that are dong this and we must vote for only those who will bring fundamental change to the system, not work inside the system as they do now.

  • You know who the real terrorists are? Republicans. Why not arrest douchebags like Senator Graham and Newt Gingrich who wants to bring misery and war to the American people? People like them are the reason why the U.S.A. are one of the most hated nation in the world, and I think it's sad because there are brilliant, wonderful individuals over there as well

  • @NachtKaiser666 As if Obama is any different, keep wishing.

  • There reason the Republicans use Stalin as an example is because we all know how much Hitler hated Stalin.

  • @jesushatesyoutoo Thats because Stalin killed far more people than Hitler did and most of them were his own people.

  • @tehdouglas1 So you are a Hitler supporter are you?  Stalin was a murder and both were insane. Hitler's attempt at world domination killed over 60 million. Stalin 20 million, that was battling Hitler and trying to stay in power.

  • Senator Graham needs to read more about Stalin.

  • Republican motto: Government doesn't work. Vote for us and we'll prove it.

  • @2Critical4You Democrat motto: Its the Republicans fault, now vote for us and we'll do the same thing for 4-8 years until you get mad again.

  • @tehdouglas1 And that is why I don't consider the US to be a democracy. No matter what you vote. You still get the same bought up politicians and they will still do what the rich want.

  • @Supralobe do you know what a con man is? Do you know what a scam is? Do you know what fraud is? Do you know what a secret is? Do you know how powerful money is? Letting the free market be free is like getting rid of police and firemen. The free market is destroying the world, it's like a highly competitive game, except the only rule is make money, no matter who you screw.

  • @hotverde15 We havent had Free Markets in the past century, Weve had Fascism, largest corporations have merged with government to profit themselves. If we had free markets then many of the big banks wouldnt have recieved the bailouts and theyd be wiped off the map because they hold much of the blame for the mess. Instead we did what the Republicans and Democrats bother agreed on and gave them trillions to keep their evil practices alive. Go Figure, Ron Paul 2012

  • @tehdouglas1 ---

    Nobody has had "free markets". Ever.

    In the 1800s the U.S was an isolated, protectionist rogue state.

  • @underbjorn

    Hmm, I wounder why. You know since Great Britain tried to control Americans every decision with taxes. but then again I'm sure your right.

  • @GodofCrunk ---

    You mean Britain tried to enforce the law in British territory.

  • The US was still the most prosperous and free nation at the time and it would have gone very differently if the people didnt eventually succumb to the financial terrorism done by the banks (largely controlled by Britain). They were the ones who pushed for a central bank while real patriots like Jefferson and Jacksons fought against them. Centralized control over the economy is pretty much the opposite of free markets. America forgot that Britain (the elite) want to destroy America.

  • @tehdouglas1 ---

    Perhaps but it was hardly an economy built on the fantasized ideal of "free markets" as in completely disembedded markets.

    Centralized control doesn't necessarily mean the state, concentration of capital in the hands of private oligarchs mean they can wield equal influence.

  • @tehdouglas1 I wouldn't want the free market utopia your talking about . It has never and will never exist