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The Bitter Pill uses cited facts to debunk misinformed popular criticisms of Tulsi Gabbard by misled progressives like Abby Martin and Michael Brooks. The video also brings up hypocrisies and blind biases some people have against Tulsi by ignoring the same or worse actions committed by Bernie.

For people who suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome and forget about focusing on the real issues that matter to the American people like healthcare, education, and climate change, this impeachment is myopic and counterproductive.

"Theres also a problem with the logic instilled by these impeachment articles because they trotted out all these security state functionaries to say that Truml defied US foreign policy and tried to conduct his own foreign policy. Well, what happens down the line when a President Bernie or a President whoever decides to buck the national security State or foreign policy buerecacy for reasons that had nothing to do with wanting an investigation with Joe Biden and then people say 'oh well we tried to impeach the previous president for doing this exact same thing.' These things always establish a precedent, but most democrats in adjacent media are so blinkered in their monomaniacal obsession with Trump as a person that they have no perspective and have no idea how any of this boomerangs down the line." - Michael Tracy on The Jimmy Dore Show 12/21/19 @ 19:55 https://youtu.be/_3ps2Aq97Oo Primela Jayapal, after being on Democracy Now, was told that promoting this type of impeachment is only increasing Trump's poll numbers and she said she doesn't care. Cenk Ugyr, after being told by Jimmy Dore that Russiagate only props up Trump and gives his campaign ammo said he doesn't care and that he doesn't care, he'll keep promoting Russiagate. Many of these Democrats that hate Trump mean well, but their hatred blinds them, it makes them myopic and dogmatic about how to actually solve the problems of this country, which is not by impeaching Trump for an ambiguous phone call, it can be done by impeaching him for actual war crimes, but more importantly it can be done by actually beating him at the ballot box. How can we beat him at the ballot box? Run a populist platform and call out Trump on his failings with helping the average American financially. Also by offering fresh new ideas that'll actually benefit the American people financially. The only three democratic candidates that can do this are Bernie Sanders, Tulsi Gabbard, and Andrew Yang. Here's an article about how Trump also isn't actually impeached until articles of impeachment are brought to the senate, according to the Democrat's own lawyer: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-12-19/trump-impeachment-delay-could-be-serious-problem-for-democrats

If we take a systemic analysis of all the facts, this impeachment process will end up backfiring for the democratic party and cause Trump's approval ratings to go up. They already went up after Russiagate and The Hill reported today that his approval ratings are at 46%. This patterns the increase in approval ratings of Bill Clinton following his impeachment. Why though? Because this impeachment doesn't affect any average American's lives in any impactful way. People are concerned about healthcare, wealth inequality, and ending corruption. This video lays out Nancy Pelosi's hypocrisy in not impeaching Bush for lying us into an illegal war but impeaching Trump when another elite is challenged. Niko House, the host of "Mi Casa Su Casa", agrees that Trump's actions were an abuse of power, but out of all the things we could impeach Trump on, like his promotion of genocide in Yemen, jailing kids on the boarder, mysogeny, and the emolumence clause, a phone call to Ukraine which took place 2 years before Biden announced his presidential run is so weak. Not to mention that the majority of the senate is Republican, so he'll never get impeached.

@whoareyou Thank you. I apply Leo's teachings of consciousness and spirituality to the politics I keep up with all day long. I think Leo spends more time doing spiritual work outside of politics, which is why he doesn't catch a lot of root problems and falls for a lot of mainstream media and mainstream media-lite (TYT, Sam Sedar and the like) traps.

Are you saying this because Democrats receive less money from the same people that fund Republicans?

@Nak Khid She's actually made a video explaining her decision and further elaborated it on The Rising and The Jimmy Dore Show.

@tenta Neither did Obama, and good thing neither of them did. There's neo nazis in the Ukranian military and not to mention this raises military and nuclear tensions with Russia. Also, there is no part in the transcript in which Trump said he'll withhold military aid if they don't give him information on Biden. As a matter of fact, the Ukrainian president said he didn't feel pressured. Of course, corporate Dems pretty much said "shut up, yes you were pressured!"... I'm not just saying this to you, but anyone reading this forum, confirmation bias is to be avoided in order to have higher consciousness. Ask yourself if you're also participating in hyperpartisanship.

@Nak Khid You forgot to mention Tulsi Gabbard who is also still in the race.

@abundance Not everyone who votes for Trump is a deranged Trump supporter. There are desperate poor people that know the corporate Democrats won't do anything for them. Trump is not the problem, he is a system. Everything hes doing, another Republican would do. And the corporate Democrats just go along and vote for everything he wants like drone strikes on Syria, increasing the monetary budget, strengthening the Patriot act, fracking, etc. Corporate Democrats are pro fracking, so they wouldn't make things better for the planet. Obama increased the war for oil from 2 to 7 and overproduced oil and increased fracking. The only way out of this mess is to realize this and vote for a true progressive.

@abundance I am coconfident that Tulsi's stance will show to be the right stance in history.

@Apparition of Jack When there's a progressive in office, we need to continue to fight, it doesn't stop. We need to keep pushing for strengthening anti-corruption laws and the education system to make it harder for a right-wing backlash. And poor conservatives will be satisfied if their financial needs are met under progressive leadership.

8 years of failure under Obama is what gave us Trump. He didn't give us any of the things he promised even when he had the majority of the house and senate. That's because, like most of our politicians, he's bought off by the same people that buy Republicans (wall street, big pharma, the MIC, the fossil fuel industry, etc.). People were desperate for financial change in their lives so they voted for a guy who said he was anti-establishment over the woman who was promising more of the same neoliberal policies. @tenta We'd have politicians with more integrity if we got money out of politics. @StephenK The majority of people who voted for Trump aren't that cynical. They are poor and desperate for change. Keep in mind that this also has to pass through the senate, which is mostly Republican. There's also a good chance he can turn this on the Democrats as more information is coming out about Biden and the Obama administration's corruption. Both our parties suck lol.

@Annoynymous Elizabeth Warren is not a progressive. She gives Trump ammo by voting for his cabinet picks and increasing the military budget.

@Apparition of Jack Like I said in my last reply, be aware, you don't have to ditch if you don't want to. Weigh out the pros and cons and acknowledge that you may not be aware of everything about who you get your news from.

@Apparition of Jack The Buddha wasn't actively working with people that are systematically creating a problem that's destroying the planet. Working with corporate Dems that are giving Trump and other Republicans the ammo to strengthen the fossil fuel industries as well as when they gave Bush all this military power without question, which set the Middle East on fire. And then Obama and Trump strengthened our military presence and the problems with climate change further. Those are different levels of counterproductiveness. I'm not saying to dismiss all of what TYT does entirely, nor to stop listening to them if you want to keep listening to them, but to be aware of these important issues.

@Leo Gura The democratic party was saying that to Bernie supporters in 2016. That criticizing the party is like shooting ourselves in the foot. If they are voting for policies that empower Republicans and corporations, we can't criticize them. So, what if some of TYT's work is counterproductive?

I guess I need to change the way in which I share information into sounding more observational and less judgemental?

@Leo Gura Yea, I do appreciate them existing, otherwise I wouldn't have realized the life purpose of creating systemic change in politics My intention isn't judgement, but observation. Also, isn't part of going meta realizing Who You Really Are and consciously reducing harm to Self? If this harmful message of "blue no matter who" even if they will capitulate with politicians who represent corporations that are destroying You (specifically the planet) continues to spread, wouldn't you try to minimize that by spreading awareness?

@Leo Gura Will do! I'm excited to read the new set of books I just got from your booklist. My goal here was just to inform people on something they might not have known, to promote weariness about our new sources, and then maybe learn something I wasn't seeing. As you pointed out, this probably all is just survival nonsense.

@Serotoninluv Sorry lol

I acknowledge that they have done some good, but that shouldn't take away from some of the concerns that I have with them. I'm not just looking at it in a black and white perspective. I know there are nuances with corporations and some are more good than others, but let's look at this systemically: what are the agendas of the types of corporations donating to TYT. They have interests in Hillary and other centrist Democrats. They know that Hillary and other centrists get crushed by Bernie Sanders among people 35 and under. This is like an environmental awareness group receiving donations from fossil fuel companies and then you notice their platform change from "all fossil fuel emissions are bad for the environment" to "fracking is ok, we can keep some fossil fuel emissions." You can't claim to be anti-mainstream, but then tout mainstream narratives like saying the DNC lawsuit is silly and that Russiagate is real. So I'm not saying that just because a corporation is donating to them that this is bad, if it was actualized.org or a green energy company, there's no need to be concerned. Actualized.org has interests in promoting more conscious politics, so that can be a good thing! But $20 million from Jeffrey Katzenberg, there has to be some strong attached there. TYT is too hyperfocused on Trump and not critical enough on the corporate Democrats that give him more power. They even prop up several of these establishment Democrats that have given Trump more power. After they received the 20 million from a Hillary Clinton surrogate the first time, their subscriber numbers started to plummet. Other progressive channel's subscriber numbers and patreons went up at the same time, though. People weren't buying TYT's "blue no matter who" narrative after Bernie got screwed over by the DNC. They weren't buying the Russiagate narrative, people knew there was a systematic reason for Trump winning which included people being upset with 8 years of neoliberalism under Obama who pretended to be progressive. I understand that they need money to feed mouths, but again does that money have to come from the TYPES of corporations they're supposed to be fighting against? And then you look at the type of people who they fired or who left, it was people who went against some of the mainstream narratives TYT was reiterating: Noamiki Konst was fired after she successfully fought against superdelegates and sharing views against the Russiagate narrative. Jimmy Dore left after he saw no self reflection within TYT after they got Russiagate wrong. Instead, TYT continued to double down on it. Jordan Chariton got fired for other reasons, but he expressed that when TYT said they needed money for more resources and journalists, when they got the money they didn't spend a single penny on more journalists or resources to help Jordan. They instead used the money to hire people like Emma Vigilante whose parents have ties to corporations that donate to neoliberal politicians. They also hire other people that have ties to neoliberal corporations. The video goes into detail on these hirings. Michael Tracy also left after continuously pushing against TYT's mainstream media narratives. There were other firings that happened, and most of them were people that disagreed on Russiagate. And then TYT hires centrists that have ties to neoliberal corporations. The 20 million from the Hillary surrogates also ended up hurting their subscriber and membership numbers. And instead of self reflection, they double down and continue to have ties with these surrogates and have agencies that represent them that also represent millionaires from MSM, Hollywood actors, and neoliberal politicians. Is it a coincidence that all these people represented by the same agencies demonize Tulsi Gabbard? TYT even goes as far as to exclude Tulsi's name from polls. Tulsi who has adamantly said she is not afraid of the intelligence community, she will tax the rich, end fossil fuel emissions, and end corporate interest regime change wars. https://medium.com/@RobletoFire/tulsi-gabbard-has-enemies-in-high-places-6fa7da05284 These donors expect something. TYT propping up Warren and getting this fake idea that she is just as good as Bernie to their viewers is an investment for them because they know Warren will not go nearly as hard on the 1% as Bernie will. They know Warren is weak on foreign policy and healthcare. These corporations will continue to profit under a Warren presidency as they did under an Obama presidency. They also profit off of TYT's spreading of the "blue no matter who" narrative. This is my systemic view of the problem with TYT. At least Bernie's intentions here were to serve the interest of the people, not rich Hillary surrogates.

I hear you on how people in high positions agree that Russia may have interfered. They probably did. At the same time, it's fishy that they do not want to disclose how they did it and how effective that supposed interference was.

Their agendas need to be considered as nuances too. The intelligence community is interested in power. They also gain from creating manufactured consent for war and increasing the military budget. Corporate Democrats are funded by the military industrial complex, fossil fuel industry, and wall street and they also want to save face from losing to the most beatable guy for President. It just seems like you put the supposed Russian interference ahead of this. The Hill (Krystal and Sagaar) do not have Warren as a distant #2. TYT, sedar, and emma have corporate influence and I recommend watching the video to get more info on that. Warren is harmful to the progressive movement because she will not fight for the economic issues that actually matter to the majority of people like getting M4A, out of these regime change wars, completely ending student debt, and completely ending fossil fuel emissions. Criticizing her is not empowering Trump, her having one foot in the establishment is empowering to Trump. Her faults give him ammo and we must bring it to light before he does. Her voting record on war and recently her vote on giving Trump more military power and increasing the military budget also gives him ammo. That's great, consider them part of the team. I am just saying to be weary of them.

So just take their word for it like we did when they said Iraq had WMDs?