Comments by "Michael RCH" (@michaelrch) on "Michael Moore on Trump, Brexit and his new film" video.

  1. Jessica Caruso Sorry, just to add, when considering Trump not taking a salary as President, remember that his company charge the US government (ie US taxpayers) every time he visits one of his own properties. So for example, when he visited Turnberry in Scotland, Trump charged US taxpayers $60,000 for visiting his own property for 2 days. These charges are collected every time he visits Bedminster, Mar-a-Lago etc so the thousands he is losing by not taking a salary, he is more than making up for by charging the US taxpayer millions every year for visiting his own properties. http://time.com/money/5341475/us-government-60000-trump-turnberry-resort/
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  2. distantvoices I think people use the references to the Nazis more because a) it happened in an advanced western country, b) they were our enemy in the biggest war in history , c) the history is therefore quite widely known and d) there are people going around the streets of the US and Europe calling themselves Nazis. I don't think you can say of those things about Chinese communists or Assad's Aliwites. Btw nowhere here does Moore assert that anyone who does not agree with Liberals is a Nazi, at least not hear. Did he say it somewhere else?
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  3. Jessica Caruso Just to correct a couple of facts, the story about Hillary paying her supporters was not actually true. However Trump did hire a casting agency to put 'supporters' at the event where he launched his presidential campaign in 2015. But he then didn't pay the agency the agreed price for four months, so maybe that means it doesn't count? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/20/even-the-firm-that-hired-actors-to-cheer-trumps-campaign-launch-had-to-wait-to-be-paid/?utm_term=.0e318d3a5a7d Also, the Steele Dossier was actually initially commissioned but the Republicans if you remember.
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  4. Roo Thunderbear Yeah, I think that everyone is capable of coming to sensible conclusions if they are aware of and willing to consider all the facts in context. No one actually likes a cheat or a liar. The issue is whether people are ready to recognise the relevant facts as true and consider them fairly. I find it pretty offensive that Trump is really leeching off the government way WAAAAY worse than the poor or sick that he wants to cut welfare and Medicaid/Medicare to. I doubt there are many halfway reasonable people who wouldn't also find that offensive if they we ready to look at it fairly. It just saddens me that Trump sold himself as the guy who would fight the system and fight for the regular guy but he has spent his time in office doing the exact opposite. Corporations love him but I don't really think regular people have much to thank him for so far. He talks a good game but regular people's lives really haven't improved. Meanwhile the rich are taking more and more of the pie, and I don't understand how it's ok for the top 1% to have as much wealth as the bottom 90%. That's money that working people earned but too much of it is getting sucked up to the top.
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  5. distantvoices 'Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.'
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  6. distantvoices I was just responding to your question about why we should still talk about the history of the Third Reich. It really wasn't very long ago at all. I know people who were tossed out of their houses by the Gestapo. To suggest that it's ancient history's and so no longer relevant strikes me as inaccurate, complacent and misguided.
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  7. Hurri Yep, just listened to John Major about this. We are ditching the EU just as the US pivots to the east and abandons historical alliances. We will have no strategic allies of any significance and zero trade deals whatsoever. Awesome timing. /s
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