Empire Comes Home To Roost - Mike Prysner on Democracy Now!

[@raaid85]

ffinally amy goodman bringing old school leftists rather than NGo liberals

[@Teshub]

No kidding!!!

[@pausereflect5911]

You mean the TRUTH that isn't self censored!

[@kakistocracyusa]

Old school leftists my ass. More handwringing shitlib nonsense.

[@PrivateSi]

All you had to do was stop mass immigration and bending to transvestites and The Right wouldn't have taken the centre ground.

[@andromeda939]

Please all, let's never forget, and always have U.S. Service member Aaron Bushnell in our thoughts, and prayers 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@shellih8302]

Amen.

[@SBwj1gr]

Prayers up for Aaron ❤️

[@Kry-le3dq]

🙏❤🙏❤🙏❤🙏❤

[@skywalktriceiam]

💜

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

End American imperialism.

[@XHALE303]

Then stop joining the military?

[@mischevious]

@@XHALE303Conscription is coming soon.

[@pausereflect5911]

Venerates violence so hardly surprising that the brainwashed parrots "thxed them for their service vices" but couldn't say WHY! What a SOCIETY.

[@XHALE303]

@@mischevious And? U think politicians will come to your house if u say NO?

[@bramanko]

​@@XHALE303 Yeah no if you say NO in all caps they're def gonna say, no means no, sorry to have bothered you dear sir... So in other countries they totally send grunts to do that. You think US politicians are somehow incapable of using such methods? If I myself were a top politician and we had a war and not enough troops, I would send MP to drag you into a van and you'd face a choice of going to prison for life or going to war to serve your rulers (me in this case). What world do you think are you living in?

[@spiellyable]

I am so thankful for Mike Prysner and Abby Martin. Two of the most brave and moral leaders of our time!

[@PerceivedREALITY999]

Instead of arming Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan; US tax payer money should be spent on infrastructure, healthcare, education, homelessness etc.

[@hernehill6282]

So much for representative government.

[@staatsfeindlich9939]

Yeah, but where's the profit in that? 🤔🤣🤣

[@imacmill]

Forgive him, Father, he knows not what he says. If you like your way of life, keep your mouth shut and prepare thyself and your family for conscription.

[@karenmurphy9111]

​​@@imacmillThere are other solutions starting with global oligarchs paying their share in taxes around the world and laws being enforced that stop their mob like behaviour. All this senseless violence based mostly on greed and power of a small percentage of plutocrats just makes America and other nations, mostly Western, targets for more violence directed at them in the long run.The American Empire is falling like all empires before and killing more and more people around the world isn't going to change that. It just will likely bring more of the violence home and it will get worse for more Americans many experts have predicted not better. The US is getting more hated on the global stage along with other complicit Nations in the US agendas and this is costing far too many Americans, Canadians, etc. The lifestyle you seem to suggest no longer exists for far too many. Around 40%+ of Americans can't even afford a medical emergency ( last I checked and that number is growing) because they are living paycheck to paycheck. More and more people are close to losing the lifestyle you are suggesting if they haven't already. Jobs are also, by abuse/ bastardization of the H- 1B visa's going to far too many foreigner's and that extends to the working class jobs like truckers and railroad workers etc.. at the expense of Americans so that the ruling class/ plutocrats can pay employees less. Also far too many jobs were and are continually outsourced to China, Mexico etc. due to plutocrat greed. They get richer while more and more Americans suffer. The US Empire is falling and already many countries don't want anything to do with the West. The lifestyle you talk about could be salvaged to a certain degree with detente with countries like China and Russia etc.. not more bullying and stealing resources and more human rights abuses around the world and senseless killing.. I hope God forgives you for not caring enough about your fellow human beings wherever they are in the world..

[@al_adin]

One thing for sure is that US veterans come back from their tours with desensitization of human life value.

[@understructurerepair7132]

Including their own lives. Christ showed how to live apart from the madness. No, you don’t get accolades from others. You’ll be your own hero.

[@pausereflect5911]

Actually the ➗ into two types! Those haunted by it and those that carry it on.

[@abdulghani8269]

Greeting from Germany .Thank you for PEACE work. Free Palestine

[@BarnabyWild13]

American hero! Thanks for having him on!

[@user-cp7gh8zj6b]

Mike and Abby rule 🙌🏼 ❤

[@dansiwek3593]

Um.....parasites

[@OlabisiRaheem-x3g]

I never knew Abby married a young man like herself who is also a fighter for the dignity of human beings . I knew she married one Prysner but never saw him before today. Good luck to two of you. A courageous journalist per excellent Abby.

[@adamgorelick3714]

I believe they have been married for many years, and have two young children. What a great pairing they make.

[@BcroG11]

@@adamgorelick3714 She is, though, like three leagues above him when it comes to looks.

[@pop-4567]

Im heart broken...

[@adamgorelick3714]

BcroG11 Women can be less superficial than we guys.

[@BcroG11]

@@adamgorelick3714 Depends on how you define superficial. They may not focus so much on looks, but the vast majority of them don't actually care for men as individuals, but for the role they (might) play in their lives. We often view women as ''pieces of meat'', while they view us solely as potential providers, fathers of their future children etc. You will mean nothing to them if you can't play the role they consider important. It is equally dehumanizing, just in a different way. I've experienced it many times.

[@alanfarr7845]

What an inspiring young man! America needs more like him.

[@pudbass]

If you want to be of service to your country, stay home and help. Don't be a goon for greedos.

[@larryrobertsemarkphd3677]

Thank you for featuring Mike!!!

[@Usapropaganda-t7h]

Good god thank you !!! This is what Americans need to hear, the unfiltered truth!!

[@adamgorelick3714]

The Empire comes home - and, eventually, always does. Mike Prysner is excellent at laying it out. It's unremitting campaigns of gristly hegemony traumatize and create killers. The bloody cycle of cultural despair and economic desperation { caused by rapacious capitalism } feeding the military with warm bodies. Some of whom bring their internal war home. The skills learned, aiding an already deadly domestic problem of mass murder. The actual values of the military industrial complex - of dominance, dehumanization, and unrelenting violence - permeating popular culture. Disturbingly, tolerance for Christian nationalism and white supremacy in the military has resulted in some of it's proponents climbing high in the ranks. On the positive side, from Gen. Smedley Butler to Vietnam and Iraq/Afghanistan veterans, smart people like Prysner can awaken to the reality of Empire.

[@Qossuth]

WW2 veterans helped spark the Vietnam war protests. Veterans have always presented strong cadres for peace.

[@leonardkellum6984]

They seen how to fight it to the end, not take a hill then leave it.

[@moodist1er]

​@@leonardkellum6984that's a lot of nonsense. The US hasn't won a war in your lifetime.

[@sejnb1]

The Hell's Angels were formed by military vets.

[@adamgorelick3714]

I was thinking the same thing. Trauma, resulting in a civilian counterpart to the military's organized violence.

[@moodist1er]

Most police are vets as well. Idiots with impunity and all 50 states legally require hairdressers to have more training than they legally require police to have.

[@ToddTheJoker]

I watched this already on Democracy Now!! Great stuff Mike!!!

[@Kry-le3dq]

Powerful Interview from a Guy who really knows what he is talking about ty Mike 🙏♥️

[@Mdjagg]

As much as I hate Democracy Now, ill watch Mike or Abby on any platform.

[@abrahamchavis1536]

For real though

[@sarahg2653]

Hear, hear

[@mischevious]

Hating anything is a waste of time unless your goal is to foster your own negativity. Amy does her best but sometimes succumbs to AP propaganda. And or DN donor arguments I suspect. But they’ve course corrected as the truth emerges in all but one case that I can think of. Also the only news outlet that dares to cover protests and movements.

[@syedahnaqvi1517]

😂😂😂😂😂...

[@zombiehampster1397]

Ah the one true scottsman argument...

[@jordrider1917]

Mike is such a G.

[@dc7370]

World record prison population _ it must be better in media land. There are homeless people walking in all directions around here. Beyond strange

[@mrprutten]

Hey Mike. Good to see you again brother. 🙏

[@tomcloud54]

Mike and his wife Abby Martin have been doing dedicated journalism for years now, bringing 'the rest of the story' to the public attention. I'm really glad to see him get national exposure. He did a very revealing expose about Tulsi Gabbard that taught me a lot about her history, political fence-jumping and history with a cult her parents brought her into.

[@paineite]

Mike, SUPERLATIVE piece of work.

[@jxpat]

Proudly served in the Marine Corps. I'm not a right-wing extremist!

[@EmpireFiles]

So, confirming exactly what he says in the interview?

[@jxpat]

@EmpireFiles Mad love for your work Abby. Zero trust in "Democracy Now".

[@conniebryan]

Thx for your servic jxpat...me too USAF during Cold War...see my full comment to Amy above...this guest is way off base w his delib mischaracterization of veterans

[@alinatarasyukrussianrefuge6549]

@@jxpat What is there to be proud of? You served criminals and nothing more, no matter what talking points you have to espouse, you were not invited by your victims.

[@Robert-y7g2g]

Engineered Austerity initiated Bush I US min wage freeze The Spike: Homeless "crisis" Employers statement: "So ya don' wanna work fer starvation wages chump? How 'bout dat Nice Family TENT fer You anna KIDS?"

[@iq-ride9329]

We obviously have issues. Our soldiers are crying out for help in the most unfortunate way, each in their own way. While the New Orleans perpetrator is not linked to the Las Vegas perpetrator, they are linked in their struggle as veterans suffering from PTSD and they each responded in what they perceived as appropriate in the background. Our Service members are tired of being used.

[@myfavoriteplanet3247]

At the same time?

[@iq-ride9329]

@@myfavoriteplanet3247. That is a critical point, but I have not seen anything that says the two coordinated with each others as they have different ideology. They may have the same person/group pulling their strings ( A Janus), but I have not read anything about that anywhere. What would be more dangerous then a coordinated attack is what I mentioned. The Armed Forces are overstressed and are tired of being "used"

[@pottedrodenttube]

Good job reaching out to liberal Goodman's show!

[@NPCONSULTING247-jy3pz]

Oligarchy Empire goes viral

[@LunaSea2025]

Recommended reading - The Liberal Virus, Permanent War and the Americanization of the World by Samir Amin free to download,

[@charles_wipman]

Good interview by Mike.

[@Buf-g6m]

Surprise surprise😮

[@non9886]

you forgot to mention his biggest achievement: to marry abby and support her mission...

[@RevolutionNowPodcast]

Nice work

[@1CrazyDudeYo]

Who benefits financially from the wars? Rhymes with Juice

[@skywalktriceiam]

I watched this the other day, but, Hey! the Algo Rhythm 😉💃🏻 As usual, great work Empire Files, Cheers!🍉✌🏼💜

[@mimosveta]

why would anyone give amy goodman a platform, she's a stooge of the empire and needs to go down with it

[@selu3980]

Having been a dedicated Democracy Now viewer for years, I NEVER watch it now. Thanks for posting. I see she didn't miss the liberal minded opportunity to try and demonize Trump.

[@wahoo222]

Trump is his own Demon. No one can demonize Trump. He is always his own worst enemy, always Israel First!

[@winstonsmith-ministryoftru1609]

DN is such garbage, but justlike a broken clock, it's right sometimes.

[@donHooligan]

Media ignoring #RobertBrooks

[@YonieZukowsky51]

Why make such strong efforts to rationalize and explain away the evil perpetrated by 2 terrorists? We must open our eyes and face the truth.

[@jb44421]

2:10 BASED.

[@1May1312]

More vets like Mike, please!

[@DS91284]

And that's another home run for me. I am the Shohei Ohtani of geopolitical, socioeconomic analysis and predictions. 😎 J/K cant be too arroagnt.

[@DS91284]

What's that? US MH system sucks balls too? What a surprise. Filled with incompetent, toxic, toxic positivity idiots for at least, 50% minimum. USELESS. 🖕😎🖕

[@dropoutnotbombs]

Eyes Left!

[@touchofclassfun6984]

The world is sick of the US Mafia Regime !! Great Prysner comment.

[@danlambert8387]

Donald Trump represents the party of Charles Manson.

[@publicutility]

By any name its capitalism

[@Bahador_R]

What a well spoken person with a clear sense of morality! 🤍🤍🤍Mike&Abby🤍🤍🤍

[@dansiwek3593]

Yeah now send money

[@Nahuatl22]

@@dansiwek3593 You’re against the state but you’re pro military. You’re the joke.

[@hassanal-mosawi4235]

Wellcome Abby!

[@somenothing7914]

2:59 !

[@wild-radio7373]

🥰👍

[@robertkerber919]

I don't watch you're program but I saw that Mike was on so I tuned in. Your program is hardly really left mostly kind of tepid.

[@SBwj1gr]

tepid… gtfo 😂😂😂

[@Sourpusscandy]

What’s going on Amy? Got a new hair cut

[@louissparks2496]

Democracy Now is a self-expressing joke.

[@dimitri1946]

Hopefully old age will end this joke. Never too soon.

[@thenecessarygood]

Now? Always world just felt it more than you guys

[@CalebDiT]

It's too bad you let Amy Goodman corral you into making this an argument of right vs. left, or maybe she didn't. Most people have no coherent, reasonable definitions of such terms, and perhaps that includes you, but you leave off the plain and substantial argument that unjustified national aggression begets murderers, as has been the case since time immemorial, and waste time talking about it as a problem related to a politician or even a group of politicians.

[@somenothing7914]

6:29 ¡

[@RG-lw9uw]

I agree ab

[@zachrivers1078]

I added democracy now to do not recommend trash pile when i watched this crone demand proof of no hidden weapons in hospital 😭

[@sifr-in]

@EmpireFiles please keep your videos short. Request.

[@danthemansmail]

I had forgotten that Democracy Now still existed. Hopefully I will forget again very soon.

[@denaconroy1974]

Yeah You Prefer CNN😴🥱😑🙄👎🖕

[@BarnabyWild13]

Bye bye

[@John-pz6nm]

Your rampant alcohol and drug use will accomplish that for you

[@danthemansmail]

@@BarnabyWild13 I'm not going anywhere, this is The Empire Files not Democracy Now.

[@XHALE303]

@@denaconroy1974 Like Empire files isn't 10 times better then DN or CNN.

[@Amadeus8484]

Unsubbed. Its either we on the Left or the Russiagaters. Sell out.

[@conniebryan]

?What r u doing Amy? Allowing this egregious degree of false propaganda from this guest trying to claim that because of these rare recent Army connections in New Orleans and Vegas, that somehow translates to the UTTERLY ABSURD statement from him that 'military service is the number one predictor of a mass casualty offender'? Where other than one of his personal 'crevices' is he pulling such a disrespectful and unfounded accusation toward all who have and are serving our nation honorably as protectors? I am beyond disappointed in YOU Amy for enabling this kind of radical Left dishonest propaganda pretending to b 'journalism'.

[@alinatarasyukrussianrefuge6549]

You are not serving as a "protector" when you are overseas. Protectors serve in their own country not around Iraqi oil fields or Afghan poppy fields. You espouse some propaganda of your own.

[@shirleyupvall9360]

You speak too generally in blaming also.

[@joshuatoledo8844]

Mr Mike Prysner. Some commentators call you a hero, I am very sure is for running your mouth, not for your "service" (One year in Iraq with your MOS, very distant for a "hero"). First mistake is to make general statements ( "The military" "The Christians" The Women"); when you make statements like that, you are wrong. Second, is good to express yourself, but not by running your mouth but also with "facts" included. Making conclusions in two different incidents, were half of the data still under the table, just to make a "influencer point" SHAME DEMOCRACY NOW.

[@OneBuck808]

What a load of 💩💩💩 I can't believe that i used to watch this junk

[@dansiwek3593]

Word!

[@Nahuatl22]

Nonsense. You people get triggered with simple facts. And y’all talk about woke being snowflakes. Go cry somewhere else.

[@bigPhoenix3]

👎👎👎👎👎