Comments by "m w" (@mw-pl5rg) on "The Rubin Report" channel.

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  10. I have a coworker who believes that I am a supporter of Donald Trump because I think the impeachment is a partisan attack job. He keeps saying garbage like your boy Trump. First off he's not my boy. I disagree with how Trump behaves on Twitter. I think he should take the high road when his critics get nasty with him. He shouldn't apologize for his belief in the USA but he shouldn't get snide and nasty in return when they call him a bigot. He should have more decorum than that. I don't like his willingness to put tariffs down immediately when negotiating trade deals but I did approve of his threatening tariffs on France in response to France attempting to put a E commerce tax on US companies software sales. That was clearly a tariff on American goods. I didn't like his intervention in Syria but I did approve of his killing Soleimani. For me I clearly have mixed feelings about Trumps tenure in office. I told this coworker many times my honest thoughts. I even told them once on a scale of 1 to 10 and that 10 being the most approving I would give him a 5. He still thinks that I am a card carrying always Trumper because I disapprove of the move to impeach. Clearly Trump has not did anything impeachable. He is a outspoken braggart and asshole but he has not abused his power. The transcripts of phone calls he has had with Ukraine have discredited the claims of most of the witnesses the democrats provided. So my coworker still is convinced that I am a always Trump fan boy. So I can relate to your exasperation with the friend you had dinner with Dave. I finally told him one day Dammit I really hate the fact I may have no one at all to vote for in the next coming election. The democrats seem to only be able to put out boomer candidates that are out of touch or socialists and I just can't support Trump because I really don't like his rude obnoxious behavior. He looked at me with a blank look on his face at a loss for words. Like I finally collected myself enough to apologize for the out burst and told him listen man the way forward for all of America is to adopt a libertarian stance when it comes to both our social stances and politics. You can't police other people that isn't freedom. You just can't police speech and then call it free speech. You can't regulate people to penury. You can't bully people to have the thoughts you want. That won't win anyone to your cause. It only succeeds in making people resent you and distrust you.
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  16. Many of these young people that where disrupting this event will one day cringe when they realize that in fact they were not even close to being right. The girl at the end spoke of a lynching of a anecdotal black person. I would have asked who was the person who was lynched and where? I guarantee she wouldn't know who or where. The young black man who spoke that Rubin was contradicting himself. Saying that the supreme court had ruled in favor of slavery. That is true the supreme court did indeed rule for slavery. Yet as times changed and attitudes this same supreme court ruled that Jim Crow laws where unconstitutional. This same court ruled that Segregated schools were unconstitutional as well. The same supreme court made abortion the law of the land. I oppose abortion and feel it is wrong but my point is that is it fair to say sometimes the system isn't perfect as we see it but it does get it right from time to time. Free speech must be upheld no matter what and the reason being if one can make laws to ban certain speech because it offends subjective sensibilities then before long the power to criticize those in power will also be taken away. Here is a thought what if a Black gay man became a senator. Then let's say that same black gay man accepts bribes and someone wrote a article condemning the bribes he has taken and the corruption he has suborned. If hate laws are enacted declaring it illegal to write articles that offend blacks, gays, etc. Would not a reporter be jailed for condemning the black gay mans actions? It wasn't his color or his sexual orientation that was in question but his corrupt acceptance of bribes for his vote. Yet the law wouldn't consider this they would only point to his color and sexual orientation. That is the danger of hate speech laws. It makes people immune to criticism and makes political discourse almost impossible.
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