Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "The Ezra Klein Show" channel.

  1. Tim Walz is the perfect man for this VP slot in this short Presidential election. He is a guy with a clear honest story that is instantly likeable and trustworthy. I love this guy!
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  2. I love Tim Walz, It would be a total shame if he was not the candidate for VP. The reason is that in this very short abbreviated "primary" season, if you can call it that, he is a guy you can feel like you know and trust in mere minutes. He is dedicated, smart, quick-witted, out-spoken, funny, ... in short he is one of the only likeable people in the entire race across the parties and across the board. Another important factor is that he is a proven getter of swing-votes in Minnesota's Red districts. Since I found out about him and have listened to him - he is the perfect choice, and will in fact balance the ticket in ways far past the normal old-young, liberal-progressive, military-civilian, selecting someone hoping that they can carry their swing state. All the others are great, but they all have some drawback, and I see no drawback or problem with Tim Walz ... this is a guy you can love like an uncle and trust him to have Americans' best interests at heart, and within minutes. My fingers are crossed, I really hope Kamala can see this, and unlike Joe Biden who ( I think ) chose Kamala so as to not outshine him, I think these two, the same age, 60, can complement each other and work together for the benefit of the entire country. This could be a case of bringing back the Democratic party, because it has not done very much for Americans since the 60's. The billionaires and conservative think-tanks must be stopped in their tracks.
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  3.  @dickbokinsky6797  That's a good point. I made it myself. I don't like it, and I think most other Democrats don't like it either. You're a Trump supporter so you are grabbing on to any side of an argument that can be twisted to support Trump. The problem is that Biden-Harris is completely different than Jan 6th as you well know, they are not comparable.
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  4. Thank you again for finding the point, getting to the point, and exploring the point from an objective point of view.
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  5. VR just totally disgusts me.
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  6. In other words he is full of some very loose diarreaha. (sp?)
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  7.  @BobCassidy  What difference does that make? By voting for Biden/Harris implicitly that puts voter support behind Kamala. You are just trying to inject far right disruption into a Democratic conversation ... trying to be a chaos agent.
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  8.  @brutusthecat6044  The only ones I think would be a bad pick, is not because they would be bad VPs, is Kelly because though he is a hero I think he is not photogenic, and the sad situation with Gabby Giffords would be front and center, and also Pete Buttigieg who is a very smart guy, gay and not enough real executive experience. That said - all of them could easily be a better President than we have had for a long time. There is just something really special about Tim Walz because everyone who sees and listens to him likes him almost immediately - and that is really important in this "weird" election cycle. Not to be a smart alec or anything, but I think Kamala is the week part in the voters' minds, and she will get challenged in the coming weeks brutally from Trump, Republicans and the Right-wing News Media. I think she is up for it. Just, please America, no more Trump!
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  9. He is a salesman and he sold enough stupid people on his fantasy narrative.
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  10.  @phil.2345  > They didn’t get into ANY presidential politics You did not listen very well then.
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  11. But you have to listen carefully for about an hour and a half to get that - and how many people actually do that, or are even capable of doing that?
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  12. I think you watch too much TV and are used to make-up and special effects. Walz, to me, appears young and vital - especially in his mind and outlook.
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  13. I think the blood & soil thing is racial.
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  14. I don't know. My girlfriend used to be a Nanny, and she was brilliant with children and solved many problems .... maybe Americans need a nanny state, and maybe a nanny state is not such a bad idea. ;-)
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  15.  @nicebklyngirl  A lot of plusses with Tim Walz and no negatives that I can think of.
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  16. Rahm Emmanuel is awful! I'm sure he is a very nice guy when talking to his global multi-millionaire/billionaire buddies but all I heard him say was ... We "DO" ( present-tense ) all these different things wrong, and not a single thing about how to change it or what to do instead. Democrats have had decades to represent the people and they are done little tiny token issues and blamed Republicans. The two parties work together to break the government so that the special interests can run Washington. Now he wants to run for Nancy Pelosi's job and become another sleazy do-nothing Democratic leader. Stop trying to "convince folks" to get elected and then doing nothing! That's why people are enraged! We've had enough of you people's lies.
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  17.  @Lerian_V  No, just like you.
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  18. I consider myself a Bay Area Liberal/Progressive ... or I always did, or used to. Lately when I see the behavior of what now are called Liberals/Progressives/Demcrats it is revolting. I am fine with gays and gay marriage - it's a good thing, but the excesses and absuses of it turn me off. Same with the pro-Palestinians. It used to be that Liberal meant you were more educated and familiar with the facts of issues - now it just means you are a raucous rebel against everything, but naive and even ignorant about the facts. And there are now countless organizations that validate every lunatic idea that exists. It seems Liberals used to be about standing up to intolerance and abuse/exploitation, and especially against big business and corporations - and now the anti-big business and corporation arm has withered to be replaced with a lot of very weird and kind of repulsive behaviors and beliefs by some people.
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  19.  @archigoel  Nope, I meant just what I said. I don't subscribe to your Trump conspiracy theories.
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  20. So, Weiner's been in SF since 1997, and knows about the housing crisis - and what has he really done. This is the first I've heard of it, and I live pretty close to SF.
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  21. Trump's actions and rhetoric looks more like Hitler than Marshall or Keynes.
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  22.  @lector247  Who else do you think should pay them? And by the way, if Republicans would quit trying to take over everything and stomp everyone else to the ground, the actual function of capitalism would work - for instance the benefit of having a true universal health care system would put everyone's data in the same place, and allow AI to find out causes and cures of diseases, and best practices would save the vast majority of the costs. And, if we were all paying for the health care system we'd all be looking to reduce our costs, and we might get sick and tired of the garbage food our system produces that makes people sick and makes our health care costs skyrocket. This country is run like a monopoly game so that one guy like Elon Musk can own everything at the end - it is run to ruin most people's lives and families. If we would do it right, we would not have to spread our system by force, it would really work for people and countries would naturally want to be a part of a system that worked so well and efficiently.
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  23. Learn how to write and communicate. But I think I get your point which is about her/Kamala Harris. Don't use a pronoun when you have no referal to what you talking about. I was against Biden from the beginning because the entire purpose of the Biden campaign was to lock Bernie Sanders out of the Democratic party forever. Bernie could not fight this so he rolled over and played dead to try to have a voice in the upcoming Biden administration in 2020. Biden shined Bernie on and gave some lip service ... did the minimum to keep people thinking there was a Progressive streak still in the Democratic party, but it was all for nothing. Bernie got shafted, same as in 2016. Biden also chose a horrible candidate, Kamala Harris, with a progressive background who could be eviscerated if she got too uppity or tried to have a say or expose Biden's duplicity. The economy recovered, because that is what the American economy does only because no one screwed it over during Biden's term, but Biden basically did nothing in his Presidency but play bigshot. He tore at Trump but never went to the people to rally support for any of his supposed Progressive ideals. That's because there were none. So Biden just wanted to play President and being senile he just let things roll forward as they may, and was surprised at how much credit he got for doing that, and made the deliberately fatal mistake of running for a second term. I think any political analyst on the inside of the Democratic party could have seen what he was doing - and it was all about discrediting and disempowering the Left. When he got so bad that he could not even continue that farce, he had to quit, leaving an undeserving, incompetent Kamala Harris as the standard bearer of liberalism. Kamala Harris who no one liked and no one voted for or wanted as the only possible inheritor of his power by sheer mechanics. Biden, Pelosi, Newsom, and others in the top Democratic leadership have been working to destroy the Democratic party and secure everlasting rule for the super-rich. Barren Kamala Harris did not even get anything out of the deal except being a good soldier and doing her job. She even got used and screwed by her own husband in this line of thinking.
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  24. May be true, but this is the kind of thing Democratic criticism of Trump looks like - so minor and forgettable. Nothing about what Democrats will do to fix a system they have allowed to get broken since Ronald Reagan.
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  25. I think I'm the only person in the world that hates George W. Bush as a President, but thinks that Iraq was a good move, and that while we were there we should have taken care of Iran. The Middle East would have evolved towards peace and we would not have the mess in Israel we have today - it would have shut off the spigot to the terrorist groups. And Ukraine I am on the edge about. I think the US needed the Ukraine was to keep Europe in our economic hegemony and keep Russia out, but it is a waste, and it shows American is a cold blooded SOB country willing to destroy Ukraine to get at Russia for money. But it would be a mistake to try to fix it at the last moment, we need now to go through with it despite all the destruction and carnage and wasted political cooperation. I think our species is really on the cusp of not making it.
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  26. It's a sad commentary on America that it is 50 years later and Nixon just looks better and better compared to what we have now.
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  27. Quoting Elon Musk on anything political ... so pointless and stupid. I think people make reproductive decisions based on how their environment and lives are going. Can they take care of children?
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  28.  @sheristewart2770  Thx
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  29. There is no universal rule for anything - Americans need to learn nuance, and how to differentiate.
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  30.  @TheMattTrakker  I did not lose anything. Thankfully I am in the class that loses a little sleep, but I'll be fine. Quit trying to tell yourself you won. You'll see what I mean maybe in a few months.
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  31.  @jacobzindel987  Was that supposed to make sense?
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  32. Anyone who does not want a ceasefire in Gaza has something wrong with them. But anyone who has not taken the time to study, listen and understand the situation as to why there cannot be a ceasefire, or a two -state solution is not worthy to express and opinion. There is no way to give the equivalent of ISIS a state. A whole band of countries from Morocco to Malaysia with billions of Muslims exists and cannot make room for a few million refugees from Palestine. Go read some stuff and find out why.
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  33. This is brillant, I can't stand Trump, he should never be President or anything, but this was a brilliant tribal bonding ritual. That's why alll the name-calling ads and videos about Trump insulting him and saying how terrible he is, while he is going off on these personal moments with his fans - they love him, and it riles people up to gossiping bad stuff about their friends. He's also like a media leader, a father to them, and authority figure, so of course he is going to emphasize what people see in his. I just bet somewhere there is a big lab somewhere that can analyze and manipulate his audiences while giving the smallest cross-sectional area for him to be attacked on.
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  34. Did you graduate from 2nd grade?
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  35. I think his questioning of WHAT AMERICANS ARE ASKING FOR THIS ... WHAT AMERICANS WANT BOOKS TO BE BANNED, OR THE ARMY TO BE USED INSIDE THE COUNTRY, OR THE PRESIDENT TO BE ABLE TO TO LAWLESS, OR CUTS IN SOCIAL SECURITY, OR THE EDUCATIONAL BUDGET ... who is demanding the government to do that. Only billionaires, and their lackeys. We have to take back this country, this government. We've been saying it for along time but no one has had to position, power or guts to actually pick up the torch and run - Walz is the first I know, aside from Bernie in 2016 who sadly bungled it and now is captive to the Pro-Palestinian Squad faction that supports him. ( that hurts Bernie ) Walz is an exceptional individual, and I think one day, VP or not, he should be President after Kamala's two terms.
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  36. Sounds like BS to me.
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  37.  @be1593  Plenty of time to be President in his own right at some point.
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  38. Smart Lady, good interview.
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  39.  @Hannibal082  If there is anything left in 4 years. What are all the people on SS and Medicare to do?
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  40. From a Californian's persepective, Kamala Harris has never been in a job long enough to learn it and be outstanding in it. Many believe she was promoted by insiders for a particular reason? I don't know who or what for myself. She is not a good debator, and she was the first to drop out in 2020 because she did not make a positive impression on the electorate. Joe Biden seems to have picke\d her because she was weak, and he played with her sending her to the border - and impossible job, which of course she made no headway with. Now some are talking her up for President? I guess I don't see it.
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  41.  @TheSeargentStriker  Funny. Starting out calling someone stupid just shows how stupid you are. I guess you worry about mountains militarily if you are Alexander tring to move your armies over mountains. Try actually learning something instead of playing video games or watching movies.
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  42. Democrats need to invent their own platform, which they only do around the edges. $30 insulin ... big deal I'm not diabetic. Cheaper childcare ... I don't have kids. Student loan forgiveness .... I paid for all my own schooling. If Democrats want to really get people's attention go back to FDR's vision of a 2nd Bill of Rights. And then start pushing these values overseas instead of turning the world into dictatorships.
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  43.  @swiftflight7927  This was one of the best most insightful - and useful podcasts I've ever listened to.
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  44.  @GotClever  Go back and listen to the last 5-10 minutes of this debate - you might want to reconsider.
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  45.  @sarahhammond7185  Totally agree, as I said 2 days ago. ;-)
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  46. NO EZRA! People are mad about immigration because they are being lied to from all sides. I believe this indicates that politicians are paid/supported to NOT solve this issue, and to now even talk about it, or bring facts to bear to the public. The issue is not about the low wage workers - yes, apparently America needs a virtual slave class to exist - that is another subject - but it is not the first generation workers that is a problem. The problem is many of these new immigrants from new places do not join or believe in American society or values. Finally, those people who come here are first generation. When they get educated and have children those children are lower wage workes at a higher level and bring down wages for tech workers and others in an already toxic economy and society. That is the issue - talk about it.
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  47. Why are they laughing and giggling .... this is potentially a national disaster.
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  48.  @npgibson69  You want logical consistency? From Republicans? From MAGA? How interesting.
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  49. I just read here in California the median rent in $2,800 a month. That is not affordable. Businesses are colluding to inch prices up to the point just below where it breaks people - nothing is affordable and there is no Republican plan to ever make it so - just magic of the market BS.
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  50. I think the thing about having a family and buying a house is that it makes the populace more dependent. It keeps people from asking for more money, or switching jobs, or complaining too much, because most American families are slaves to their family finances - and they should not be.
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