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

  1. In fairness, I was predisposed to dislike the smug bastard, from the minute they shut down work "to flatten the curve." I KNEW it was an overreaction, THEN. And nothing I've seen since suggests they're as serious about COVID as they are about the Great Re-set.
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  2.  @odinata  I think we all understood what was meant. Don't be a snob.
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  3. It's because he's telling the lies that they want told.
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  4. No, Dr. Drew. If they'd been totally up-front, more people would've chosen to not get these hasty jabs. The lengths to which they went to keep us in the dark on everything, from the unknown long-term risks to all the treatments that are available, they would've had more trust, but probably less compliance! They did everything possible to maximize the number of people taking the experimental jab, even when it's becoming more and more obvious to everyone that its value is very slight, and it comes with risks that are right up there with the risk of COVID itself, when you factor in the total absence of information/data on long-term side-effects and the unwonted "rush to Jab!" I see a lot of people taking the "It's just a problem with the marketing" tack, and it's TOTALLY DISINGENUOUS, and yet ANOTHER dishonest attempt to build trust where none is warranted.
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  5. This guy is a shill for the medical establishment, which is corrupt as hell.
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  6. Meanwhile, Apple's slaves in China are refusing to work in their sweatshop. Anything Apple virtue-signals for is not virtue. It's a mask. If I'm in Elon's shoes, I couldn't care less about Apple's faux moral outrage. Apple removing Twitter app from their app store is a good reason to never use their apps or app store, ever again. They want to play power games. It will cost them all their power. This is similar to the USA and EU trying to sanction half the planet. The 'other' half of the planet is being forced to build its own financial system, if it wants to stand up to the fascists in the West. The West is wielding SWIFT and the petro-dollar to coerce nations. Those nations are busy creating and expanding BRICS, so they can stand on their own withOUT the petro-dollar (U.S. dollar as world reserve currency). I live in the USA. I'm a citizen. I despise what our leaders are doing at home and abroad.
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  7. Been saying the same kinds of things for years.
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  8. "Nobody told me" is a euphemism for "I didn't do any research."
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  9. 9:30 : The 'backlash from the planners (elites)' against the people getting too independent dates back (at least) to Bismarck, although you see its seeds in Machiavelli's "The Prince." In the 19th Century, the ruling class of Junkers in Germany was being pushed aside (ignored) by common people as a result of free markets and the industrial revolution. Bismarck's brilliant idea was to institute socialized medicine, to keep the ruling class 'relevant.' And Germany fell for it. Very small step from there to "planned economy," and government picking winners (big, centralized) and losers (small and de-centralized). Very small step from that to Hitler, who portrayed the geopolitical situation as an existential threat (much as the ruling class in Japan at the time), and therefore it was everyone's "duty" to support the war effort for "the Fatherland." It's a sad, sordid cascade of errors that leads us back to poverty and serfdom. Check out sexy China for more.
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  10. American exceptionalism is about our truly exceptional and good traits: a government restrained from meddling at home and abroad. We USE our exceptionalism as an EXCUSE to behave like any OTHER oppressive empire. No more war without a declaration by Congress. If a country wants our support, let them petition for statehood. If the federal government weren't so meddlesome, I think statehood under our constitution would look pretty good, and if we stuck to our constitution, states would have more autonomy to govern their own affairs, with a handful of rules everyone can agree on. Dave needs to re-imagine "American Exceptionalism." Anyway, I think Senator Lee gets it.
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  11. It just goes to show how long they've had it their own way and had total domination of the public square, that they could be so blatant and clumsy about it. I think they miscalculated after unqualified success in mobilizing the population in the Iraq War, to where George W. Bush was even temporarily quite popular as Commander-in-Chief, for the simple reason that nobody wanted to cross the president when our boys were in harm's way, overseas. It's what the insiders wanted, so it was what all the establishment media pushed, and it was an unqualified success. Just drum up enough hysteria about Weapons of Mass Destruction, paint Hussein as the Devil incarnate, and then all the rest of the violence, bloodshed and wasted resources were justified. You see it in case after case. War. Character assassination. "Crises" justifying infringements on liberty and confiscations they could never justify under ordinary circumstances. But the people are forming an immunity, thanks to the "fool me once" phenomenon and independent media insisting on putting forward a dissenting point of view. Thank goodness there are people like Robert Barnes around to cry bullshit on this, and have a big enough stick to back it up. Guys like Barnes (and Rubin) are our best hope.
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  12. 21:05 Man can lay it down. "They believe you should have 'right thought,' not free thought. They believe you should have the right expression, not free expression. They've combined ... the Inquisitional Catholic Church with ... 1920s Communists."
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  13. They'll admit they were wrong, 5 or 10 years from now, and laugh it off, just like George W. Bush laughed off WMDs after killing half a million Iraqis and displacing/beggaring millions more, with many more deaths and much more hardship that will never EVER be fully reported, because none of these people care about the common man, here or abroad.
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  14. That's where I'm at, andy.
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  15. Yes. Government is the One Ring. Great metaphor from Tolkien.
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  16. Back when everybody believed the Earth was the center of the universe, smart people like Bill Maher constructed no end of complicated theories for the observed motions of the stars and planets, because a simple explanation based on their theory didn't exist. Rather than questioning the original assumptions, they just came up with more and more fanciful explanations. This is where Bill Maher is at. He has all these deep-seated beliefs about the proper role and scope of central government that are simply wrong. So when government intervention proves toxic - as it always does, eventually - people like Maher scramble to find explanations that align with their world view, and they just end up giving more power to the same clowns who messed things up to begin with.
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  17. If Jimmy Dore applied the same disdain for government intervention, domestically, that he feels for our foreign policy, he'd be a libertarian. He KNOWS they're screwing things up around the world, based on lies and misinformation, but he can't see that the same exact people are screwing things up at home in the same way and for pretty much the same reasons. Jimmy's half-smart. He sees through the military- and media-industrial complexes, but what he doesn't see is the reason things are screwed up is because of too MUCH intervening by the state. He wants MORE intervention. Totally wrong-headed, there. Is there some diverse Space Jesus who knows all, sees all, and will run everything by diktat? No. But when you believe there is (like a religion), you're just setting yourself up for tyranny and social and economic ruin.
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  18. Got a new fan by word of mouth. Saw one of your gigs and clicked on this Rubin interview. Good stuff, Owen.
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  19. Young people are HUNGRY for meaning and responsibility. One little nudge and their ideals and reality start aligning.
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  20.  @eriknielsen1849  : I think you overestimate the need for a conspiracy to see things unfold as they have. But I agree that the lack of any accountability, and the continuing obstruction by Deep State actors within Trump's own administration, like Christopher Wray, and others, who CONTINUE to stonewall the release of information. Those guys who stalled and slow-walked everything Trey Gowdy was asking for as chair of intel committee. Those guys all worked for Trump. But I see other theories having just as credible as your "They're ALL in on it!" theory. If you look at the political climate and the absolute control of legacy-media narratives from the Democrat side, PLUS the large fraction of civil service that were actively working to sabotage Trump since before he even took office, maybe there's something ELSE taking place. For one, I do NOT believe for one SECOND that Rachel Maddow, Don Lemonade, or Chris Matthews are secretly in cahoots with Trump. I don't for one second believe that they WANT their narratives falling on deaf ears. No. They're all shocked and really kind of in a state of disbelief that the same forms of propaganda that manufactured the public's consent so successfully, so many times in the past, are not getting traction. I, too, was initially very concerned when I learned that Barr used to work for George Bush, Senior. I still have some reservations. But IF he's on the up-and-up, this is exactly how Barr should be playing it. And before I totally jump into the same ocean of cynical despair in which YOU are wallowing, I'm going to wait and see just how this all plays out. If Trump were truly a neocon, I think things would've played out much differently in Syria, especially Northern Syria, where the Kurds have been trying to carve out an ethnic homeland for decades. John Bolton would still be working for Trump, if that were the case. As for wanting eggheads like Kissinger around, I think this is pretty much Trump's way. He has brought in a diverse set of experiences and beliefs into his cabinet, and the "chaos" reported by WaPo and other legacy snake-in-the-grass media is exactly what I would expect, if he didn't just hire people who just agree with him on everything. Reagan was similar in this regard, allowing his staffers and cabinet to have free-ranging debates amongst themselves, before he made his decisions. If Trump were a neocon, he'd've wrapped himself in the flag and been at war with Iran by 2018. I think that was probably the neocon plan, all along. Iraq, Syria, Libya, then knock off Iran... There've been some bumps along the way. The missile strike after the false-flag chemical attack was not a good look. But as I read between the lines, I found out that the death toll from his missile attack in Syria was virtually nil. They KNEW the attack was coming, they knew WHERE the attack was coming, and people cleared out of the way. Russian shipping cleared the hell out with plenty of time before the attack, which I'm starting to think was mostly show, and maybe even to keep the neocons around him at bay a little while longer. But we'll see. I think we're seeing Trump do as he pretty much always has. I think if he had acted as aggressively as you or I might have wished, in the early going, he would've been savaged in the media, sabotaged by the never-Trumpers lingering in his administration, and removed from office by any means necessary. Instead, he kind of sits on you. He can't track down all the leakers, directly. But he CAN slowly appoint his own people, and ratchet up the pressure on the leakers, who don't know if the new guy is one of their own, or somebody quietly looking over their shoulder on Trump's behalf. Instead of Trump looking over his shoulder out of fear of the never-Trumpers, it's the never-Trumpers who are hearing footsteps. The proof will be in the indictments that Durham brings. Is he working for us, or is he just working for the insiders? As for Trump, himself, he's been saying the same things for DECADES. "We're getting ripped off in our foreign trade. The Chinese are thieves and liars. Uncontrolled immigration is bad and must be stopped. We have too many ridiculous regulations." Very simple ideas that were not and are not mainstream, unless you talk to the average working man in the street, who's sick of being bled dry so that rich, champagne liberals can fly around in their private jets and lecture us about global warming. I actually wish Trump were a bit MORE ideological, but he's basically an FDR Democrat, like Reagan was, although Reagan made more ideological arguments about limited government, in general, and opposing Soviet Russia's "evil empire." I don't think Trump sees things that way. But as a practical man, whatever programs we have in place, he wants them to work and be run more efficiently. Not a philosophical break from big government. More of a "Well, this ain't working" kind of blue-collar appraisal of government.
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  21.  @eriknielsen1849  : I disagree.
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  22. The people who are asleep aren't watching Dave Rubin or anything outside of legacy media. Beware of being caught in the echo chamber outside the echo chamber. The people in the larger echo chamber aren't getting the word. So you FEEL like people are waking up, but are they really, or are the already-awake people just talking to each other?
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  23. There's a rare form of intelligence that comes across humble.
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  24. I don't think it needs to be a shrink. But yes. If it were legalized, there wouldn't be much or any money in selling it in the street. Legal or illegal, every human needs to take that journey, either staying away or weaning away. It's not something that can be done "for them, for their own good." Drugs are like a virus. Do you become an authoritarian to achieve herd immunity, or do you use more traditional, time-tested means? Think about what alcohol did to Native Americans. Then think farther back to what it did to Europeans for centuries BEFORE that. We kind of adjusted. Some still fell prey to drink, and still do, but most of us don't. We try to restrict minors getting it, with VERY limited success, but the culture just kind of handles it. Treatment's there for anybody who wants it, but we know from history that taking it on directly, through prohibition, just led to machine-gun fire in the streets. So before you get too into the idea of legalization being stupid. Think about what illegalization has brought us. Life isn't perfect. Life is trade-offs.
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  25. CRT requires a huge leap of faith, shrouded in peer-reviewed authority from the broken humanities departments in colleges and universities across the country. It's especially bad, because the "research" (which is just opinion) gives the green light to humanities departments to politicize entire colleges and universities. They THINK they're smart and moral, but they're really adopting a non-theistic religion that justifies all their innermost desires to tell everyone around them "You're a sinner and must repent!" Classic Puritanism, and with about as much real justification.
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  26. She was representing her largely female, very largely obese union members, who were a major at-risk group, due to multiple obesity-related comorbidities. This wasn't about keeping kids safe. It was about a bunch of fat people scared of catching cooties from their snot-nosed charges. If the unions cared about the kids, they would fight against the unrelenting expansion of the school bureaucracy at the expense of everything else. Sweden didn't mask or close the schools. No one died.
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  27. Yes. The original liberals fought for personal agency against the absolute powers of the state, as represented by the monarch and the aristocracy. Now, the term "liberal" means voluntarily giving up your personal agency to the new aristocracy, consisting of bureaucrats, career politicians, and so-called "experts," whom you can hire to support any position you want, which reminds me of corrupt priests in the middle ages.
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  28. @Oners82 Name one good thing the Dems are doing. One thing I will agree with about Dems AND Repubs is the LESS they do, the better things are for the rest of us. We need to pull the teeth of the federal government, and reduce it to its original role and scope. Everything they do "for" us ends up being worse than it was, before, and costing us double or triple. Plus, the bigger it gets, the easier it is for crooks to hide behind the law and use government as their shield.
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  29.  @LittleOrla  You could lie to them about whose DNA they're testing...
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  30.  @sumthingwickedly  I agree no good will come of it. Well, SOME good. Not for us. But for those who come after. They will be inoculated against the same mistake for a couple generations.
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  31.  @sumthingwickedly  The free stuff comes first. The dictats follow.
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  32.  @sumthingwickedly  Well, socialism is essentially dictatorship. You give up your individual rights for the "greater good," as defined by the leaders, whom we may as well call "dictators." It's all the same.
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  33. On the bright side, not many people watch CNN.
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  34.  @HotRefuse  Of course she supported the Iraq War.
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  35.  @CaliforniatoWestAfrica  He let all his iconic roles go to his head. Plus he's surrounded by ignorant sycophants who praise his perspicacity. He thinks he's a lot smarter than he is. That's the thing. Explaining to people like that why their thinking is flawed is like explaining to a horse why it can't read. Unfortunately, the world is filled with people like that. Unfortunately, I'm one of them.
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  36. "The reason we act like Nazis is because Trump is a Nazi." - Every Democrat Spin-Meister
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  37. Dr. Drew was part of the problem, at first. With his training, he should have known better, but he went along with the insanity until Fall, 2021, when the damage was already done. Don't lecture us about social contagion, you incompetent and malicious fool.
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  38. The Boomers were given more and we take even more than that. Now we're old and we're worried about our health, so the rest of society's expected to take care of us in style. No procedure is too expensive. Not for us. And we want to taxpayers to foot the bill for all of it, meaning our children and grandchildren, because our self-indulgence demands it.
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  39. John Belushi and Carrie Fisher, under a bridge at midnight. "Baby it wasn't my fault." All that money and never built any flood controls or attempted any water sequestration, to save some of the excess for the dry years that are more common. No planning on the most basic things. What upset your plans during the drought of the last few years? It rained. We weren't ready. It's never ever rained before in the history of man and certainly we didn't expect it would ever rain again, because muh global warming.
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  40. Don't be a war pig, Dave.
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  41.  @eristicfreethinker2098  Hamas was originally sponsored by Israel. The Taliban were originally sponsored by the USA to fight the USSR. There are terror/insurgent groups all over the world who are sponsored by the USA. The USA takes it to a whole new level by subverting national governments to use as our proxies: Ukraine and Israel are just two such. But Iran is the biggest sponsor of terror in the world. Right.
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  42. "Because of our illegal and immoral experiments, you must obey us in all things." No. You need to be prosecuted and jailed.
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  43. "Trust in government" is for children and fools. There's a reason the U.S. Constitution strictly limits the size and scope of the federal government, and for that same reason, the U.S. Government chafes at the Constitution, and seeks to expand the U.S. Government into every aspect of all of our lives. Our Constitution lies in tatters, and we do nothing.
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  44. Keeping Kamala out of the loop doesn't mean Joe's calling the shots. It's been clear since the primaries that Joe's his handlers' puppet. And let's be honest. The government is such an enormous octopus that ANY president is pretty much the pawn of his/her top advisors, who tell him what (their version of) the facts are (is) and what he can/should do based on those facts. You could argue that the president sets the overall strategy/direction, but even in that, the president is entirely hostage to what the "experts" in the administration tell him. It's like the whole thing with the "red button" and the "nuclear codes." I don't think any of that is the president's call, when it comes right down to it. It's the entrenched civil/defense/foreign-policy wonks surrounding the president that make those decisions, whatever the figurehead says or does. And under Trump, we come to find out that his own people were regularly lying to him and disobeying him. He thought our troops were out of Syria. They weren't. Dana Perino gives way too much benefit of the doubt. She's way "establishment."
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  45. Hey Dave! We sorta lost touch when you went full-on Zionist.
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  46. He's the most racist president since Woodrow Wilson.
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  47. The one candidate who's not a neocon and he can't get out of his own way.
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  48. Section 230 is bad. But so is the entirety of the Communications Decency Act. Defining "decency" is none of the federal government's business. It needs to remain SILENT on matters of free speech. I say let these tech publishers should be allowed to die by their decisions. I think they're going to lose their relevance by abusing the inordinate powers they have. Yes. Fascism and Communism are just different brand names for the same top-down organization of society under a handful of unelected elites.
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  49. Yes. School choice would solve a LOT of our problems. Now, the fake history and blatant government-centric indoctrination that we fear is not as dangerous as it seems. The kids see right through them, for the most part. There are a few who buy in, just like there were kids in crewcuts in the '60s supporting the Vietnam War. Things have flipped. The "establishment conservatives" are now rabid, so-called liberals, whose demented support of postmodernist ideology is no different from the Christian fundamentalists freaking out in the '50s and '60s about The Pill and homosexuality.
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  50. I don't hate Israel or Palestinians. Before the Jewish state was created, Menachem Begin was known as a terrorist, and he fit the definition. You have to go back to British empire and Balfour Declaration, at least. Palestinians and other ethnic groups were used as proxies to fight the Ottoman Empire during WW I. Promises were made. Promises were broken.
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