Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The Rubin Report" channel.

  1. No surprise that the system is rigged against conscience. Paul Rossi is just another Lindsey Shepherd, who ALSO recorded one of these closed-door meetings between a teacher and yet another latterday fascist masquerading as a school administrator.
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  2.  @andrewcorso6848  If he wants to make battery-powered cars, it ain't gonna happen in an increasingly hostile USA.
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  3. The Ivy League isn't where you get the best education available. It's where spoiled, empty-headed offspring of the rich and powerful learn to network together, so they can maintain the dynasty, without any real talent or training,
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  4. Free speech IS a left/liberal value. Would-be aristocrats hijacked the left a long time ago. Everything about the left, today, is aimed towards a creepy paternalism on the part of the state, supposedly on our behalf, but it just looks like old-fashioned serfdom with new slogans and dogmas justifying itself. "We will make you safe from everything, and all we ask is everything you own and your unquestioning, undying obedience."
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  5. The college game is more pure, but the players are getting rippped off by the NCAA which is about as crooked an organization as there is. As a college prof, I see the pressures on the athletes and how they're steered away from academic achievement so the school can have a great team.
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  6. Nothing new, here. Just more people are seeing what they should've seen in 2020.
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  7. The protests in Australia will have zero impact on government policy. They will re-elect the same dipshits, because the majority still support them.
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  8. I don't want to see media regulated. I want to see slander and libel laws apply to all citizens, equally. I want to see defamation suits that impose BIG cash penalties on shit-stirring liars. Rachel MadCow shouldn't be able to duck defamation lawsuits by saying "Oh, I'm just giving my opinion. I'm an entertainer, not a journalist." Then she's right back at work, telling the most damaging lies possible, the most dishonest slanting of the news, the more out-of-left-field conspiracy theories that cause real people real harm.
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  9. I agree with Kat on just about everything except open borders. Now, if the USA and the rest of the world were run on libertarian principles, then national borders would be just an after-thought, but the world is authoritarian, here and elsewhere. I also disagree with de-criminalization. That still makes it illegal to sell the stuff. We need a legal way for idiots to buy the drugs they want. I just don't see how we can get there when the government has made the sins of others a tax burden on the rest of us. Do away with the welfare state and the War on Drugs. Hold people strictly accountable for their actions. "We don't care that you're an addict, but you just stole or assaulted someone or killed someone while intoxicated.
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  10. Double-speak from a corrupt and incompetent political hack.
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  11. The Chinese need the oil. The last thing they want is a disruption in supply.
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  12. True liberals are against all the big-government bullshit that so-called "liberals" all support. Bill Maher was never a true liberal.
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  13. Sounds scary, Steven Hanson.
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  14. Freedom to be full of shit is part of freedom. In such a setting, it behooves one to spend some time finding truth and exposing liars and flawed reasoning. And it's happening, in dribs and drabs. What you're totally missing in this "outlawing lies" is you then put all the power of the state behind suppressing "lies." Once that's on the books, all you have to do is control the handful of people who decide what a "lie" is. A respecter of self and others would be against such a law. You're promoting a fallacy.
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  15. Actually, it's a pretty good system, except for the fact that politicians get re-elected by expanding the role of central gov't into areas it was specifically proscribed from doing ANYthing. Charity is not in the Constitution. Social Security is not in the Constitution. Unchecked growth of gov't is not a conspiracy, so much as it's a lazy slide into corruption, the MINUTE gov't exceeds its mandate. All our famous presidents grabbed power. Decades of congresses peopled by professional politicians, who secure re-election by bribing the electorate and stealing from future generations by running up debt by simultaneously spending on everything and not taxing beyond the point of revolt. It's a death-spiral of democracy, marked by bloated bureaucracy.
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  16. Enlightenment was breaking us out of the whole Divine Right of Kings bullshit. Hobbes is a big name in the movement, and he pushed the science of government, although he was still traditionalist in the "submit to the (anointed) sovereign" cant. But Locke was really good for pushing us in the direction of the science of gov't. BTW, if we were serious about science of gov't (as opposed to "political science"), I think the science would show that maximizing individual authority and autonomy and severely restricting gov't to an absolute minimum number of responsibilities is optimal for economic, ecologic and political progress. We need to break out of "progress = more gov't programs."
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  17. Another issue of success is lifestyle. Charlie Daniels made living on that bus a way of life. Slim Pickens took his RV to the outdoor set and lived the same as he would live off-set. Ron White talks about life on the road. It takes intention to live a good life with lots of live performances. It's hard to stay grounded in your real life.
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  18. He's either really stupid or the worst kind of malicious.
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  19. Difference is that the progressives DEMANDED this overgrown state apparatus that is running amuck. HE wanted these agencies to police everything from environment to food and medicine. Now we know our food sucks, public health are authoritarian idiots, and the biggest polluters lecture US and take our freedoms and our prosperity for no real reason other than some made-up nonsense that on any given day Bernie's saying "That's not enough. Gov't must do MORE!" Damn socialists whining about the power grabs and corruption that infest every big institution because they wield so much power and attract pathological people (like Bernie, who never did an honest day's work in his life, but is a multimillionaire.).
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  20. Yes. Freedom versus tyranny. Red versus blue.
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  21.  residue junkie  : I respect your religion. I don't base my life on your prophecies.
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  22. The press has ALWAYS had an axe to grind. Until the 20th Century and especially WW II, muck-raking from every outlet was a given, and people knew the politics of every paper. Then during the war, the government got its hooks into the press, behind the scenes, and from then on, the new media (radio and t.v.) spoke with one voice, and the people were conditioned to BELIEVE the one voice. Alternative voices were drowned out and/or subverted, in the name of "fighting communism." We'll see how well alternative media do in the future, but Big Tech dominates and has joined the government-insider chorus. You're not getting Dave or any other alternative voices unless you LOOK for them, and know what you're looking for. I hope against hope that these Big Tech platforms will wither and die, just like cable/broadcast media. In the "old days," you had lefty, moderate, and righty to choose from, and could get a fairly good grasp by reading from 2 or 3 opposing sources.
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  23. Kristi Noem: What Tulsi Gabbard can only wish she was.
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  24. The inordinate fear of death by The Latest Threat prevents liberals from assessing threats and risks, rationally. COVID isn't the only thing out there that can kill you, and perfect protection against any one thing just raises the danger of all the OTHER real threats that they ignore because all they can think about is the Latest Thing. "You're gonna starve, but at least you're save from COVID! You're gonna die of cancer, but we 'saved' you from COVID. You're gonna die of vaccine side-effects, but you're safe from COVID!" They all think in terms of one variable.
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  25. Who'd've ever thought that bankers wouldn't like Free Speech?
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  26. As long as you avoid Israel, you're not too bad, Dave. But you kind of lost me on Israel.
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  27. All political/economic systems are capitalist. What matters is whether or not the markets are free of government intervention. We don't have free markets. Our markets are hopelessly distorted by intellectuals in and out of government, who never made anything or had a real job.
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  28. Yup. And I'm all in favor of "Intentional Family" and all that jazz, if that's what if people of like minds want to do. A good family IS Marxist. And if you COULD extend that notion from coast to coast, we'd be a perfect Marxist utopia. Trouble is, the only libertarian way to do that would be from the ground up. The minute it's handed down from on high, it's at the point of a gun, and the NAP is violated, which few, if any, of the liberals I know, can wrap their minds around. I'm 90% Libertarian, with a tithe for national defense. I used to go 15%, figuring the King's at least handy for building roads, but I'm 5% more purist, nowadays, looking at our history and how we'd've been WAY more respectful of the natives if we'd been libertarian about roads. If the locals wanna pool their money for a better road, let 'em. If a guy wants to build a toll road and he can make it happen thru free exchanges with others, let 'em. Otherwise, let nature take its course.
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  29. A group of individuals could decide to live as an Intentional Family, and, in effect, live communally. You see it all the time in families of all types, here and there. So he's quite correct. Thing about the guy who didn't want to give up his property is he wouldn't be a member of that family. As long as it's not imposed from above, it's not counter to NAP. The irony, to me, is that those who want to live that way and see the whole world join hands and live that way, are going about it in exactly the wrong way. To get where they want, they need to SHRINK government, and the planet-killing excesses too MUCH participation by government invariably lead to.
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  30. Interesting take. The oligarchy never goes away.
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  31. Depends on what you mean by "Christianity." Are you talking the subversive followers of Jesus fed to the lions at the Coliseum, or the government-integrated Roman Catholic Church (or Lutherans or Church-of-Englanders)? By the time Rome got ahold of Christianity, it was pretty much not Christian, any more, imho. Still, a sincere Christian, coming up in almost ANY sect, with a good heart and a good mind, is going to be very OK with Enlightenment ideals. Of course, that kind of Christian ends up rejecting much of what any organized Christian church is pushing, settling towards a semi-agnostic view that Jesus was a great dude and the lesson is Reason + Love = Heaven on Earth.
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  32. Liberalism has its roots in common sense and the notion that maybe a flogging for a minor infraction is a bit excessive. It's evolved over time from small rejections of aspects of monarchy, but still clove to monarchy for quite a while...
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  33. Good grasp of some of the larger questions. Might argue left-vs-right with him on the margins, but yeah, absolutely. I hate the PC mobs going after non-conformist views/ideas in violent ways. But I hate even MORE the government stepping in and saying you can't form a mob. OK. As he defines "left," in its historical context, when it got its big start in rejecting the whole absolute authority vested in a divinely ordained King. Yes. The left left you. I can see myself that way, only the left was so much pro-government and identity politicized by the time I came up that I NEVER saw myself on "that side."
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  34. "Corporate media?" You mean like the Daily Wire you work for? You make your money off advertising. You're part of corporate media, Dave. And there are topics you avoid, just like the rest of your Daily Wire pals. Not one of you guys is talking about how the USA provoked and is prolonging the war, there. Your puppets in Kiev have been making war on Eastern Ukraine since the US-backed coup in 2014. Not a WORD about any of that. And Heaven forbid you should criticize Israel in any way, shape or form, because the USA needs proxies in the region.
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  35.  @scania1982  : Nah. Then he would have to answer the question "Well, if you're so smart, then why do your leftist-inspired government programs always fail?" I think he's good for free speech, but not much else.
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  36. A danger to the Constitution? The only danger to the Constitution and our hard-won and UNIQUE freedoms is politicians like Nancy Pelosi.
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  37.  @original_poster  Not quite. But just return us to the pre-3-letter-agency form of government and we'll all be much better off. Everything done to protect us from robber barons has made them more powerful. They write the laws and regulations that supposedly protect us from them. Then we could focus on the military-industrial complex, which is the one thing that'll always be with us as long as we defend our nation from outside aggression.
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  38. Still a lot of good to be said for a college education. But it's not that hard to obtain college catalogs and see what the curriculum is for different programs of study. And you can find 'most all those courses and texts, online, for very cheap. Brick-and-mortar colleges and traditional lectures are woefully obsolete ways of conveying a good education. Want to learn about Western Civilization? Watch Tom Ritchie! Want to learn math? Go to Khan Academy! You can find just about anything you're looking for. And if you've got $100, you can get full access to fully automated online course management systems (CMSs) and Learning Management Systems (LMSs). Check out Cengage! Check out Pearson Learning! I use their products, but I'm not sure they're the best. I just know how to integrate what THEY do with what I do as an instructor..
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  39. They went along with us and we went along with WEF, WHO, CDC, FDA and NIH. I say "we," but most of my friends told them to shove their mandates up their a$$.
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  40. Trump doesn't have to demolish anybody. But he doesn't have to trade with assholes, either.
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  41. Meh. Talk to your man-in-the-street about Ukraine, and you quickly realize that the tail wags the dog as strongly as ever.
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  42. DeNiro should stick to acting.
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  43. It's always been this bad. What's different is that there's significant push-back. They can't just control 3 (or 5) tv networks and what the AP/UPI/Reuters say. What makes it seem worse - and admittedly may BE worse - is the lengths to which they BLATANTLY go to maintain hegemony over the public square. I hope and pray we're seeing the storm before the calm, but my gut tells me that the elites would rather see it all burn down and rule over the ashes, than be ordinary in an ordinary word where common folk and common sense prevail.
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  44. I don't consult NBA players on issues of the day or matters of history, but it's refreshing to hear some of them asking the same questions I'm asking.
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  45.  barack obama  : So you're basically a liberal with a brain, which means you can't call yourself a liberal, any more. The statist left appropriated the term.
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  46.  @DerekWilliamsMusic  : if you use paragraphs, I might read what you wrote.
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  47. They gas-lit us then. They're gas-lighting us now. We all went through it. We know what went on. But these are Democrats and government bureaucrats. They get away with whatever they want.
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  48. People learned NOTHING from the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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  49. Progressivism is rooted in racism. Check out Woodrow Wilson.
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  50. That's not the exact quote as I remember it, but it's what comes up when I google it. Still a great quote. "To save the world, I first need the power to do so."
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