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

  1.  @bjrneileras2534  Gain-of-function research farmed out to 2nd-raters in China, and changing the very definition of the term in order to circumvent the law. Using his position to push lockdowns, masks and most of all The Jab, when he either didn't know what he was talking about or deliberately prescribed the most harmful response to COVID possible.
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  2. Parallels between U.S. and Iran: Antifa/anti-trump rallies are starting to draw more trumpsters than protesters. In ultra-liberal Oregon, police are routinely arresting roadblock protests. College presidents, who've been playing the game ONE way to protect their institutions from litigation-happy students and government mandates, are suddenly faced with dropping enrollments and smaller contributions from alumni. I think if you talked to an Iranian about what's going on in Iran, they'd say some of it was probably upset over prices, but more people in the street in SUPPORT of the theocracy. I'm still learning about how the Assembly of Experts are elected, but it sounds like when Khamenei passes, the people's voice can be heard for the next Ayatollah (is that the right term?), and it SOUNDS like this is the point in time where Iranian people get their periodic say on the direction the government will take, based on the choices of the "Experts." For a country their size, it's an interesting model of government. I definitely prefer my Madison and Jefferson, don't get me wrong. But one of the things to which "liberal democracy" is prone is a moral decay and general unhappiness. RELIGION gives a lot of people a sense of belonging to something bigger, more lasting. And they can live happier, more productive lives. Well, some of 'em, anyway. I think it's AN answer to the ceiling that Western society keeps bumping its head against. Once we've secured the dream, for the most part, we abandon it. We breed up the uneducated and the educated stop breeding! We are guaranteed an education, and then we make damn sure it's the worst fuckin' education possible. My knowledge of the classics was ABYSMAL from the public schools. I never HEARD of the contest of ideas between Euripedes and Aristotle, although I was educated enough to understand the significance and meaning, when I just picked it up on my own MANY years later (Yay Internet! Yay Tom Richey!). Heh. I was deeply influenced by Ayn Rand's "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal," which I stole off my Dad in my college days. Recommended for everyone. John Galt was too boring. But the straight, to-the-point stuff was more up my line, in a brief paperback!
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  3. Exactly. #resistcapitalism shows absolute misunderstanding of history. Everything "bad" that Progressive history points to in our past was the OPPOSITE of free-market capitalism and limited government. EVERY time free markets get a chance to work, they DO. Only government intervention by power-grabbers has messed things up. There's now a deep schism in society between those who are still watching and forming their opinions from mainstream media, and those who are not. But the Internet may have tipped the scales in favor of freedom at just the right time.
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  4. Oddly enough, "Harming none, do as you will" was the benediction at the end of every Wiccan gathering I ever attended (as a hippie in grad school).
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  5. No. Not "seeped into the university space;" rather, is seeping OUT from the university space. Academe is what's been hijacked, and academe is seeking to hijack the rest of us. But it's running out of steam, now. Good stuff, Dave. Isn't it cool that once you figure out the principle of non-violence/non-force, that it becomes EASY to make rational judgements on political matters with little trouble. Any other system of logic is so fraught with epicycles, you have to be a genius to really understand everything. "No, lad. The Earth is a spinning globe revolving around the Sun, and that's why the planets and stars move in the sky as they do." Libertarians are actually stupid people, just trying to sort the world out.
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  6. Layin' it down, like always, Paul.
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  7. The regressive left is the personification of the most basic form of proof in math: reductio absurdum arguments. They're to math proofs what puns are to humor: the lowest form. All beginning math students, first trying to learn how to prove or disprove a proposition are taught this "indirect method" of proof. To prove it's correct, you assume it is not, and follow the logic to a false statement. "Reduce to absurdity." Progressive ideology is based on faulty premises, so it inevitably leads to absurdities like vagina hats and masked vandals smashing windows, shouting ridiculous slogans.
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  8. I agree with him more than I disagree with him. I think you'll find, if you research the why's and wherefore's on the regressive left, you'll become another hopeless libertarian/classical liberal like Dave and I.
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  9. You should listen to everybody, do some research, decide who's level-headed. Yeah, Paul's one. For me, the big put-off is when someone agrees with me right down the line, and then goes on to say something about how only being saved through Jesus Christ (or submitting to Allah) is why they agree with me. LOL! I am kind of a Jesus freak, though. Reason and Love is what I take away from that cat. I don't need the immortality hook (which I disbelieve) to try to keep my head where Jesus would have his. I don't have to believe in a savior to put a literally perfect archetype to good use!
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  10. An executive order is not federal law. OSHA is a regulatory agency. It makes no law. The federal government has been running amuck for decades.
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  11. He's a Democrat. Media will protect him.
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  12. Liberal Democrats have always voted for government to do MORE. Will they wake up and realize that the more the government does FOR you, the worse things get, and the more the government will eventually do TO you.
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  13.  @FleurPillager  So you're a recovering Democrat?
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  14. Democrats only sound reasonable when they're running for election. Then as soon as they have the power of office, they show their lust for power and authority over others.
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  15. Atheists are in denial about their faith. They believe just as fervently as any Christian, with no more proof than a Christian.
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  16. Leftist ideologues form "support teams" and "fact-checker teams" on all Big Tech platforms, with a hot-line to Democrat politicians to censor anything they don't like.
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  17. Who cares what WaPo says? They're stupid liars.
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  18.  @alistaircooke7000  Yup. And he screwed the pooch in the '80s, too. But so it goes in government. The more you suck, the more you prosper.
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  19. Even saying deaths were prevented is inaccurate. People just died of OTHER things, like cancer, mental illness, heart disease, etc., because EVERYthing was subordinated to Dr. Fauci and his pet disease.
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  20. Quit harping on Biden's mental fitness. We all know he's a potato. Focus on actual issues, like the malign policies his handlers are implementing.
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  21.  @pigjubby1  Speaking of Mengele, there are people going after the VAX pushers under Nuremberg protocols. I've always pooh-poohed the Qtard "military tribunals are underway!" narrative, but experimenting on humans definitely qualifies for international military tribunals along the lines of Nuremberg.
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  22.  @cherylkruisheer3365  Common sense is fairly simple and straightforward. The devil is in the details.
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  23. Fauci is CLEARLY obfuscating. Fauci clearly lied.
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  24. Well put! Right up there with "It depends on what 'is' is."
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  25. "Cultural appropriation" used to be considered a GOOD thing. Good for human advancement and good for racial and cultural relations. The "melting pot" was blending us into one people LONG before the "diversity" crowd came along and set about balkanizing us in the name of equity.
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  26. "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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  27. National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance are some made-up shit having NOTHING to do with the U.S. Constitution. Think about when they came about. Just a bunch of people decided we should have an anthem and a pledge. I don't want my kids pledging to the Rainbow Flag, but I don't think they should be pledging allegiance to ANY flag every freaking morning, nor do I feel like we need to sing the National Anthem before every stinking sporting event. Whose idea was that? That's what you do when you're trying to manufacture consent for yet another (undeclared) war!
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  28. You appartly weren't listening very closely to Jordan Peterson. He's not against helping the poor. He's just against federal anti-poverty programs imposed nation-wide in one-size-fits-all fashion by a HUGE, out-of-touch and arrogant bureaucracy. Charity starts at home and filters out from there. If you want a kinder nation, you act locally and pray that the feds never get involved, because they will pervert it or they will be perverted by the most powerful special interests. It's not about not being compassionate towards the weak and underprivileged. It's about saying "No" to huge, centralized institutions "corporatizing" the act of human generosity. If all the liberals who VOTE for big spending would just open up their wallets and help as many people as they CAN, and be SATISFIED with that, and maybe influence others to be similarly kind and generous, the world would be a much better place. Instead, they vote to MAKE everyone pay for whatever charity some stuffed-shirts in Washington, in collaboration with the Bill Gateses of the world decide should take over. Even that wouldn't be so bad if not for the fact that those institutions encroach more and more into everyone's lives and make less and less sensible decisions, with the only end-game in sight being the kind of authoritarianism that even assholes like Bill Maher can see. He's an asshole because he doesn't see his own hand in the creation of these authoritarian structures, ripe for the takeover by a very small number of people, affecting policies across the nation and across the world. We need to be more DECENTRALIZED so that the corruption and incompetence only reach so far and last so long before they're stopped. But at the national level, where they even control the money supply, they can make promises they can't really keep and muddle on for GENERATIONS. You try that shit at the state or local level and you run out of money in a couple years and people throw out the idiots and can recover in a couple years. When it goes on for decades, the hole is just too deep. The feds argue not over whether we should go DEEPER into debt, but by how much more. Every year.
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  29. Tyson's not seeking truth. Tyson's taken sides and is trying to win an argument.
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  30. They turn the language to mush.
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  31.  @kewpified  Yup.
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  32. THIS IS WHAT MAKES THE ESTABLISHMENT RESPONSE TO COVID SO OBVIOUSLY AN ATROCITY AND A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.
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  33. They steal the child's future. It's only fair to lock them up for doing so. Kentucky just passed the death penalty for child sexual abuse.
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  34. Anything they disagree with is "extreme" and "controversial," by definition. Anything a crazy so-called leftist spews forth is considered "wise" and "compassionate." You just have to understand that all of MSM - including FOX - is government-approved propaganda.
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  35. Mitt Romney's niece is the worst possible (Manchurian) chair of the RNC. This - and Mitch McConnell, et al - is why most who vote Republican despise the party leadership.
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  36. It's obvious to anyone who's paying attention. Yes.
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  37. Scapegoating Biden is their long game. When voters revolt in 2024, the DNC will have all its networks proclaiming "It was Joe's fault! We weren't for any of that stuff (that we rammed down your throat)."
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  38. People learned NOTHING from the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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  39. It's easier to get elected with promises of government largesse than it is to be a true statesman. That's why Republicans are big spenders just like Democrats. If they hadn't gone "kinder and gentler" they would've been a permanent minority.
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  40. 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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  41. There are those who speak truth to power and those who do harm because they think the power is on their side. She is one of the latter.
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  42. So the creation (and mis-use) of "hate speech" statutes is actually a double-edged sword for the character assassins, who fling hate-speech allegations at all who disagree with them. Interesting. Love this guy.
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  43. 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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  44. Yes, Bernie, and it's because of socialists like you in the government.
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  45. Joe's a dispensable scapegoat for DNC policy. "It wasn't us! It was Joe!" Saw this coming in 2020, when they handed the potato the nomination, in a field of under-achievers. DNC will nominate a "savior" in 2024 and Joe will bow out for "health reasons."
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  46. Fascism was modeled in part on company towns. If you haven't read "The Arms of Krupp," then you're historically illiterate, in my opinion.
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  47. What Shapiro's saying about how authoritarianism wins is spot on.
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  48. "Moderate" liberals are what brought us to this point, where institutions of government wield far too much power. The predictable occupation of top spots by ideologues, power-trippers and corrupt/corruptible people is why we're being oppressed by government institutions at darn near every turn. The proper attitude toward government is "They fix nothing and break everything." It's bad enough when it's restricted to its constitutionally delineated role. But at least then, there's less for the people to keep track of, Congress to oversee, and much harder to hide the pay-to-play schemes that crop up in EVERY arena in which the federal government weighs in. I hope Bill's right about "big-corporate" failing. When a nation slides into socialism/fascism, things have usually gone too far for recovery by the time the "private-public partnerships" reveal the full measure of their toxicity and turn the corporations into powerless pawns of the state. So far, it's been of mutual benefit. Money to politicians --> rules that favor big over small. But due partly to the Internet and partly to traditional values that STILL permeate the vast majority of a hard-working populace, the USA has a good chance of righting the ship. But I'm not sure there's any hope for "social democracies" of Europe.
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  49. "Woke" is the natural consequence of "moderate liberalism." Bill Maher doesn't see his own hand in creating this mess, but he led the charge on so many "The government needs to save us!" issues in the past, and the madness he can finally see is the result. This is what happens when you sign your life over to bureaucrats. It's not the bureaucrats' fault. It's the nature of bureaucracy and enormous and powerful hierarchies answerable to no one, with growth and expansion imperatives common to ALL life, but which have nothing to do with the original mandate or purpose of the institution. I just want to tell all the half-smart people like Bill Maher that the "slippery slope" crowd, who warned about this, should be taken seriously. and that the false premise leading to the absurdities they can finally see is their faith and trust in massively expanded government. "Who put guys like Fauci in charge?" YOU did. You gave 'em an inch and they took a mile. But liberals never see the intrinsic flaws in concentrating power. For them, it's always "We just need the right guy to have all the power." No. It's the concentration of power that means it only takes one or two bad eggs to screw things up for EVERYbody.
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  50. 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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