You helped put my book on the New York Times bestseller list. If you liked mine, you'll love my fellow independent creator's new book, too and you'll want to reserve your copy now.
🤔 Never heard him attack allies. Are you talking about his stance on Netanyahu's administration? Because with Netanyahu there is no 2 State solution. His solution is to immorally ethnically cleanse the region and to take control of the U.S. military with his authored Section 219 of the 2027 U.S. NDAA. That's not an ally.
I don't see the problem. I'm an Independent that leans Social Democrat with some conservative views. A lot of his perspectives make sense to me, but not all of them. If you alienate anyone that doesn't endorse 100% of your own views, you lose. There's always going to be a Fetterman here and there. I don't want a party of full of Schumer's so I get it.
Brian, don't pump Pakman's book... when "liberals" and democrats start dismantling progressives (like @hasanabi) based on what they wear (the "Mao suit"... maybe it's a "Hillary suit"?) instead of their policy positions, then we have a big problem, and those who do that, don't deserve to have their books promoted by more thoughtful advocates such as yourself. Let's stick to the issues and not the labels, because as you know, the substance of a book, is not the cover.
I'm not aware of Mr Pakman attacking any allies. I find him to be a logical, systematic analyst. David, i know about... But you, who criticize him, i don't know. So shush.
I’ve started reading my previously pre ordered book by Brian and of course I already preordered David’s! Two great guys fighting for democracy and well, what’s right and good.
No, no, no. Do you actually want to implement fundamental changes that will genuinely benefit people? If you do, leave Pakman behind. He's more of the same, bland liberal crap that has gotten us nowhere. Pakman, Cohen and the Pod Johns from Pod Save America are garbage that will ultimately uphold the status quo. How do we know? Because that's what they've always done. A loser like Pakman pretending he doesn't know how to pronouce the word "AIPAC" and then buying into the bigotry and saying Piker was "dressed like Mao." Give me a break. He's buying into the right wing, red scare propaganda.
You should be critical of Pakman. He is not a stupid person. He’s just promulgating more of the useless, McKinsey DNC talking points that have accomplished nothing and failed to prevent the endless amounts of harm happening all over the world at this exact moment.
And for all of the above, and the fact that you’re supporting this person, people should be critical of you, BTC.
Same 🤮 you people fucking don’t get it. Division instead of fighting the one true problem presented right fucking now by the right. At this rate we won’t deserve to keep our democracy and fight for a change that can include all our voices. FRO
The personal issues I have with David is that he really goes into some crazy conspiracies. I watched him for a while and was disappointed so I stopped. I just feel we have enough maga conspiracies to deal with, I don't want to have to sort out democratic conspiracies. I believe I stopped watching him when he told us that he needed to leave the US because...*insert conspiracy
THE PLATFORM FOR THE NEW “AMERICAN CITIZENS PARTY” (ACP)
Unlike the two existing parties, this one will address the enormous changes in our government and our way of life. I listened to the Democratic Party's discussion; is AOC too liberal? What about Bernie? Is he off the charts? Who should they run for president? They must create a platform that appeals to independent voters. Both existing parties are beholden to billionaire donors. ACP is a people's party formed, funded, and controlled by citizens. This will not be a Republican or Democratic party, but a party for those who want this party's platform.
This will not be a micro-change party; it will address mistakes made by our founding fathers and the necessary changes we have observed in our present history. It will be based on securing the defining statement in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that their Creator endows them with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." This party will be a new, never-tried party in which the platform is developed by the voting public, independent of politicians and money people. This party will be called many things: communist, liberal, progressive, socialist, or any name the wealthy can think of that would hurt this party. I think the No King Walkers will like this new party.
This party has two objectives:
1.) protect the citizens of our country from foreign and internal adversaries
2.) care for the welfare of our citizens by providing public services and a robust social safety net for its citizens.
PLATFORM
• Establish protection against the wealthy from being able to infect this party. The maximum donation would be ten thousand dollars. I think Bernie did that in his presidential bid. No more from anyone or any organization.
• Establish a National Health Plan. More than Bernie's Medicare for all, this plan will provide comprehensive coverage of all medical services for everyone in our country, plus long-term care and nutrition programs for older adults and preschool children. This program would also evaluate medical services throughout the country and build and finance small hospitals in areas with smaller populations. This program will cover all medical needs of our citizens, including mental health, substance abuse, and services for glasses and hearing aids, as well as the cost of assisted living for seniors.
• Promote unions and support unions as a necessary part of our society.
• Increase voters' rights by increasing ways to vote.
• Have paid college for all and establish necessary guidelines for applying to college.
• Support free news stations
• Change the payment schedule in Social Security to an amount that will provide citizens with a reasonable retirement package and allow them to keep all their Social Security.
• Immediately defund and eliminate ICE, making any abuses by its agents illegal and subject to arrest, seizure, and prosecution.
• Remove the Electoral College and elect the president by popular vote.
• Establish a reasonable path to citizenship for all that will allow immigrants to work toward becoming an American citizen.
• Change the function of the Supreme Court, making its responsibility only to review the legality of the states' Supreme Court rulings. Remake the court to have nine judges and an age limit of 75.
• Establish a new way to select Supreme Court judges where we, the citizens, will have input and decision-making powers.
• Allow the House of Representatives to have the power to impeach the president with a majority vote.
• Stop all wars and insist that any aggression has to be approved by Congress by a majority vote.
• Reestablish a woman's right to control her body and have an abortion.
• Reestablish all citizens' protections removed by Trump.
• Protect and improve all our national parks.
• Eliminate all fossil fuel usage.
• Encourage the development of alternative sources of energy
• Increase income from new tax rates
a. Increase the tax rate to that of FDR in 1945 and President Eisenhower, which was 94% and 91% on taxable income of the wealthy
b. Raise the tax on corporations to 52% or higher.
c. Raise the estate tax to 70%
• Eliminate the Senate: The Senate was a bad bargain made by the Northern states to get the Southern states to sign the Constitution. The Senate is a ridiculous arrangement and has been a clog in our progress.
• Guarantee equal rights to all citizens independent of race, religion, or social background.
• Rethink the rules about our president. Trump has shown us the weakness in the definition and powers of the presidency. We should consider a way for the states to control or impeach the president directly.
• Secure freedom of religion.
• Acknowledge climate change and the warning of the world and encourage promoting changes to stop this warming.
• Take care of our natural resources, protecting them from being abused by money people.
• Establish guidelines for creating tariffs.
• Reestablish the national education department.
• Reconnect with our European partners and reaffirm our commitment to NATO.
• Reconnect with Canada and Mexico
• Stop all subsidies to Israel and support Ukraine in its war with Russia.
• Investigate all government employees for receiving financial profit while in office.
This is the first outline of this platform for this party and will not be the last. I think that this party should appeal to all citizens regardless of state or party affiliation. I think that with our new technology, cell phones and emails, we can devise a way for members of this party to vote on major revisions to this platform.
How to organize this party's development is above my pay grade. Still, I hope others with experience in developing this party will step forward to share their knowledge. If 200,000 citizens decide to contribute five dollars to this party, that would give us an operating budget of one billion dollars; that is the power of the citizens.
I've read his first book and I look forward to reading his second one too
Sounds good
Fuck David packman. He needs to stop attacking allies.
🤔 Never heard him attack allies. Are you talking about his stance on Netanyahu's administration? Because with Netanyahu there is no 2 State solution. His solution is to immorally ethnically cleanse the region and to take control of the U.S. military with his authored Section 219 of the 2027 U.S. NDAA. That's not an ally.
We’re talking about his CONSTANT adoption of rightwing framing to punch left. Do we want a whole party of Fettermans? Keep it up.
I don't see the problem. I'm an Independent that leans Social Democrat with some conservative views. A lot of his perspectives make sense to me, but not all of them. If you alienate anyone that doesn't endorse 100% of your own views, you lose. There's always going to be a Fetterman here and there. I don't want a party of full of Schumer's so I get it.
Nice language! There are thousands of his readers and admirers. What have you done to be admired other than with your vulgarity?
Grow up.
Lol😄
And fuck you for your comment. 🤔
Congratulations on making the NYT bestseller list.
i just preordered!
You're such a class act. No selfishness or gate keeping in your blood.
Brian, don't pump Pakman's book... when "liberals" and democrats start dismantling progressives (like @hasanabi) based on what they wear (the "Mao suit"... maybe it's a "Hillary suit"?) instead of their policy positions, then we have a big problem, and those who do that, don't deserve to have their books promoted by more thoughtful advocates such as yourself. Let's stick to the issues and not the labels, because as you know, the substance of a book, is not the cover.
🤮 what a spew of divisiveness.
I'm not aware of Mr Pakman attacking any allies. I find him to be a logical, systematic analyst. David, i know about... But you, who criticize him, i don't know. So shush.
✨∆√∆✨ ⚡ L'Indépendant ⚡
He’s constantly punching left. We ALL need to punch right at the moment.
I’ve started reading my previously pre ordered book by Brian and of course I already preordered David’s! Two great guys fighting for democracy and well, what’s right and good.
No, no, no. Do you actually want to implement fundamental changes that will genuinely benefit people? If you do, leave Pakman behind. He's more of the same, bland liberal crap that has gotten us nowhere. Pakman, Cohen and the Pod Johns from Pod Save America are garbage that will ultimately uphold the status quo. How do we know? Because that's what they've always done. A loser like Pakman pretending he doesn't know how to pronouce the word "AIPAC" and then buying into the bigotry and saying Piker was "dressed like Mao." Give me a break. He's buying into the right wing, red scare propaganda.
You should be critical of Pakman. He is not a stupid person. He’s just promulgating more of the useless, McKinsey DNC talking points that have accomplished nothing and failed to prevent the endless amounts of harm happening all over the world at this exact moment.
And for all of the above, and the fact that you’re supporting this person, people should be critical of you, BTC.
Same 🤮 you people fucking don’t get it. Division instead of fighting the one true problem presented right fucking now by the right. At this rate we won’t deserve to keep our democracy and fight for a change that can include all our voices. FRO
The Indie bookstore that I ordered mine from, ordered some for her stock!
The good people of this country will defeat the evil of trumpworld.
🙄🙄🙄
The personal issues I have with David is that he really goes into some crazy conspiracies. I watched him for a while and was disappointed so I stopped. I just feel we have enough maga conspiracies to deal with, I don't want to have to sort out democratic conspiracies. I believe I stopped watching him when he told us that he needed to leave the US because...*insert conspiracy
Preordered! Thanks for the heads up, Brian.
THE PLATFORM FOR THE NEW “AMERICAN CITIZENS PARTY” (ACP)
Unlike the two existing parties, this one will address the enormous changes in our government and our way of life. I listened to the Democratic Party's discussion; is AOC too liberal? What about Bernie? Is he off the charts? Who should they run for president? They must create a platform that appeals to independent voters. Both existing parties are beholden to billionaire donors. ACP is a people's party formed, funded, and controlled by citizens. This will not be a Republican or Democratic party, but a party for those who want this party's platform.
This will not be a micro-change party; it will address mistakes made by our founding fathers and the necessary changes we have observed in our present history. It will be based on securing the defining statement in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that their Creator endows them with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." This party will be a new, never-tried party in which the platform is developed by the voting public, independent of politicians and money people. This party will be called many things: communist, liberal, progressive, socialist, or any name the wealthy can think of that would hurt this party. I think the No King Walkers will like this new party.
This party has two objectives:
1.) protect the citizens of our country from foreign and internal adversaries
2.) care for the welfare of our citizens by providing public services and a robust social safety net for its citizens.
PLATFORM
• Establish protection against the wealthy from being able to infect this party. The maximum donation would be ten thousand dollars. I think Bernie did that in his presidential bid. No more from anyone or any organization.
• Establish a National Health Plan. More than Bernie's Medicare for all, this plan will provide comprehensive coverage of all medical services for everyone in our country, plus long-term care and nutrition programs for older adults and preschool children. This program would also evaluate medical services throughout the country and build and finance small hospitals in areas with smaller populations. This program will cover all medical needs of our citizens, including mental health, substance abuse, and services for glasses and hearing aids, as well as the cost of assisted living for seniors.
• Promote unions and support unions as a necessary part of our society.
• Increase voters' rights by increasing ways to vote.
• Have paid college for all and establish necessary guidelines for applying to college.
• Support free news stations
• Change the payment schedule in Social Security to an amount that will provide citizens with a reasonable retirement package and allow them to keep all their Social Security.
• Immediately defund and eliminate ICE, making any abuses by its agents illegal and subject to arrest, seizure, and prosecution.
• Remove the Electoral College and elect the president by popular vote.
• Establish a reasonable path to citizenship for all that will allow immigrants to work toward becoming an American citizen.
• Change the function of the Supreme Court, making its responsibility only to review the legality of the states' Supreme Court rulings. Remake the court to have nine judges and an age limit of 75.
• Establish a new way to select Supreme Court judges where we, the citizens, will have input and decision-making powers.
• Allow the House of Representatives to have the power to impeach the president with a majority vote.
• Stop all wars and insist that any aggression has to be approved by Congress by a majority vote.
• Reestablish a woman's right to control her body and have an abortion.
• Reestablish all citizens' protections removed by Trump.
• Protect and improve all our national parks.
• Eliminate all fossil fuel usage.
• Encourage the development of alternative sources of energy
• Increase income from new tax rates
a. Increase the tax rate to that of FDR in 1945 and President Eisenhower, which was 94% and 91% on taxable income of the wealthy
b. Raise the tax on corporations to 52% or higher.
c. Raise the estate tax to 70%
• Eliminate the Senate: The Senate was a bad bargain made by the Northern states to get the Southern states to sign the Constitution. The Senate is a ridiculous arrangement and has been a clog in our progress.
• Guarantee equal rights to all citizens independent of race, religion, or social background.
• Rethink the rules about our president. Trump has shown us the weakness in the definition and powers of the presidency. We should consider a way for the states to control or impeach the president directly.
• Secure freedom of religion.
• Acknowledge climate change and the warning of the world and encourage promoting changes to stop this warming.
• Take care of our natural resources, protecting them from being abused by money people.
• Establish guidelines for creating tariffs.
• Reestablish the national education department.
• Reconnect with our European partners and reaffirm our commitment to NATO.
• Reconnect with Canada and Mexico
• Stop all subsidies to Israel and support Ukraine in its war with Russia.
• Investigate all government employees for receiving financial profit while in office.
This is the first outline of this platform for this party and will not be the last. I think that this party should appeal to all citizens regardless of state or party affiliation. I think that with our new technology, cell phones and emails, we can devise a way for members of this party to vote on major revisions to this platform.
How to organize this party's development is above my pay grade. Still, I hope others with experience in developing this party will step forward to share their knowledge. If 200,000 citizens decide to contribute five dollars to this party, that would give us an operating budget of one billion dollars; that is the power of the citizens.