Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "OxfordUnion" channel.

  1. Oxford Union may more frightening than Hamas, as these students will one day hold power in the UK.
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  2. nothing intrinsically wrong with capitalism. in the US we have separation of church and state, we need to do the same with capital, mitigate its power in politics.
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  3. Fareed is talking about managed decline, but in a disingenuous way.
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  4. That question has been answered, as there are now porn stars in their 70s who are proud of their work, and indeed passed the profession on to their children. There is a huge number of women in their 70s performing in porn today, it is part of "the new porn". Your impression of reality is passé.
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  5.  thematic  El Cid, worked for both Christians and Muslims, 11th Century Spain.
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  6. I despair the future, is what I've learned from watching these debates. A 70-year longitudinal human experiment gone terribly wrong.
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  7. He stated "18 months to election", so 2 months after Mueller Report released, this is late May or June 2019.
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  8. Idrissi references Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends & Influence People as life changing, a book most often used in training SALESPEOPLE to use insincerity as a method to win others to your side. Charles Manson also praised this book as a guide he used for grooming his followers. Very telling.
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  9. I despair the future, is what I've learned from watching these debates. A 70-year longitudinal human experiment gone terribly wrong.
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  10. When words fail, and bad faith prevails with no opposition from sources like Oxford, the result is often open conflict. Both extremes have lost the moral ground to use words, since they have become so disconnected from reality and coherent action. We've been here before, history does not repeat itself, but DNA apparently does.
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  11. I'm often cancelled as an "Ok Boomer" with "White Privilege", funny, I am from the same time and place as Bryan, West San Fernando Valley, California, he went to high school with many of my friends, guess he gets a "special" dispensation from the inquisitors of our contemporary version of the Inquisition. LOL
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  12. "Discussion", more like a polemic, thumbs down.
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  13. I can only hope your mind also questions what he says and you look for opposing data to balance some of his extreme views out.
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  14. Fareed, there are plenty of college educated farmers who use software to manage farms, and are now programming drones to collect real-time data on crops who voted for Trump, you are a fly-over intellectual who is blind to the new set of dogmas, catechisms, and tribal affiliations of the progressive left. There are those of us in the middle who still hold to the Westphalia Peace and empiricism of the Enlightenment, we are NOT uneducated populists.
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  15. 1st Native American Vice-President of the United States, Charles Curtis, was a conservative Republican. A record number of GOP women were just elected to Congress in 2020, increasing the number from 13 to 35. Jeffries is spinning, but it is a spin spiraling down, leading to failure in 2022 with GOP regaining House, and most likely the Senate. I'm a California Democrat, watching as my party continues to double-down on a false consciousness about what it means to be human in the world.
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  16.  @priapulida  Not completely captured, but agree, the "fascistic" like collusion between corporate media, tribal/ideological identity politics and educational bureaucracies is problematic, but not just coming from the left. It's based in a common human characteristic which requires mitigation and moderation, sometimes defined as "civilization". The Stoics and Epicureans had it right, but that wisdom has been lost to our new Dark Age.
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  17. 3,000 years ago she would have been out front of a TEMPLE offering sex as a religious right of passage, fully empowered and in control. Do you think that's been lost, or deleted in the culture for perhaps a positive reason?
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  18. "own party", he is a registered independent, only converted to run for president.
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  19. Seatbelt requirements and Cigarette bans are not Paternalistic, they are Maternalistic. Mommies now rule.
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  20. Oliver, I believe JBP's use of the word "Post-Modern" specifically relates to how it is used by Social Justice Warriors (SJW) as a thin veil for Neo-Marxism, and that it represents Nihilism. JBP believes we still live in the Modern Age of rationalism and logic, which we do, but is concern that at the university level, and now through both provincial and federal legislation in Canada, the Nihilistic forces are hell bent on Chaos, which they are, As the Neo-Marxist take over the educational system in Canada, which they show every evidence of doing, there is real danger, and he is stepping into the breach.... risking both his life and career.
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  21. And he should not change his opinion there is still no "clear and compelling" evidence that all sides of good will would agree are reasons for removal of office. https://youtu.be/6oGJMp1Rf6I?t=236 I was all in for Nixon, still am, think Trump is a narcissistic opportunist that should be voted out of office, but not removed by an opposition afraid they will loose in 2020.
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  22.  @atulkumar2465  I'm an empiricist and skeptic, but the impeachment articles in the American constitution are not a scientific method or framework, it is all about opinion and conjecture, but ultimately, about a consensus of "feelings" and "belief" by a majority in the Senate. Ken Starr, in his response to a question from the audience, referred to the articles of impeachment as being "lacunate " meaning deficient or inadequate, which is true. As a tool, it is imperfect, and should rarely, if ever, be used. i agree.
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  23.  @mjc42701  Sure, don't attack facts, attack the person. Impeachment is unfair and ambiguous, and should be rarely used. In this case, it is being used to overturn an election by a partisan majority in the house worried they will lose in 2020. If they had a strong candidate for 2020, impeachment would be moot. The Dems need to take responsibility for their loss in 2016 and self-correct, not blame Trump.
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  24. The Way: JBP made that clear, and even used the American system as an example of a government hierarchy specifically designed for human incompetence, which it was. That's why it can survive both Obama and Trump.
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  25. JBP is hated by the "snow Flakes" because he is asking them to do the work of high resolution thinking, which they are too lazy and afraid to do, and instead, hand over their free will to others. In fact, some say hi rez thinking is racist.
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  26. Trump's plan would have provided a larger stimulus package and created a life annuity for not only your family, but your family's family. The Biden / Demo plan will make DEBT slaves of your descendants. Be happy with your short-term result.
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  27. 14:50 Norbert Wiener helped develop the theories of cybernetics, robotics, computer control, and automation. 1940s/50s.
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  28. Trump, "a life of ease", LOL LOL, he revels in the chaos, and is one of the most hard-working, energetic politicians in American history. He is also a narcissistic opportunist, but he did not need to be president to be rich and famous, he already was, which the Clinton's or Obama's can't say. I dislike him, did not vote for him, but he was elected, not by fools, not be the brainwashed, but by people who wanted to disrupt the two party system in the US. If the Dems had a decent candidate for 2020, impeachment would be moot. Our 2 party system is breaking down amid a culture war, evident in the UK, too, and in other democracies around the word. Trump is not unique, not a mass hypnotist, and the more the Dems misunderstand the 2016 election, the more they will loose.
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  29. Nixon? It was bi-partisan, Republican Senators went to Nixon and told him it was over, time to go, so Fareed is again wrong about the stereotype of "Republicans Get In Line". Goldwater and Baker followed the law, and so did Nixon, eventually.
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  30. Majority of the people are being lied to by Lynch and others. Here is an empirical study done by an African American Harvard professor : https://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/publications/empirical-analysis-racial-differences-police-use-force
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  31. Not funny, cruel and mean spirited, evidence of hypocrisy.
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  32. Yes, one of JBP's 12 Rules, go "Clean Your Room". Do that before you attempt to clean someone else's. The act of "Talking" produced the very act which brings us here, and created the tool for doing so. Talking, then doing, then assessing the doing through talk, gives us the greatest good for the greatest number. Both talking and doing require moderation and some framework for assessment. That's what I got out of JBP.
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  33.  Red894336643  Just ticked up, thanks to the deceitful and hypocritical Dems. They only have themselves to blame.
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  34. Turns out you were right, didn't change is opinion, LOL.
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  35. I've got the D610 which Nikon sent me for free after my D600 sensor was constantly drenched in oil spots. I'm still here.
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  36.  @evanboettger1834  I don't think so, his talk is still prescient, valid, and tells us impeach is an unfair, ambiguous tool that should not be used. The select Senate Committee that took out Nixon, with GOP Senator Goldwater carrying the water to Nixon, is our best cast scenario. At this time, it is still electioneering by the Dems afraid of loosing 2020. There is no bipartisan support of "people of good will" to remove Trump. I am a registered Democrat in California. Let the people vote, it is little more than a 1 year away. You suffer from an emotional distortion if you think Trump is, as Hillary said during her campaign, and again a few days ago, a clear and present danger to America. Trump is certainly a narcissistic opportunist with a personality disorder, but his social non-conformance is not reason to remove him from office, and overturn an election.
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  37.  @evanboettger1834  Future history, turns out, LOL
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  38.  @mjc42701  The corruption and hypocrisy is now owned by the Dems, who are enslaved by their own rhetoric. Trump has put 4X as many federal judges into place as Obama, will win in 2020, and have 1 or 2 more supreme court appointments. That's the "clear and present danger" for the Dems, it's a danger to their vision of the future... but they are failing miserably to protect that vision. Ask yourself why. No conspiracy theories allowed. I am 47 years a Dem in California, about to register with the GOP.
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  39. The Way: JBP makes it clear that order and chaos are in 'tension', and that there is more suffering and failure in the world than contentment and success. I don't see him as optimistic, but realistic, and something of a Taoist. It is our personal responsibility to at least attempt balance, and to sometimes resist the gravitons of entropy and chaos, but also to occasionally promote them. The dynamic balance of yin and yang, JBP often evokes the Tao. I watched as my compatriots were sure Obama was the Manchurian candidate and would order marshal law and not leave office at the end of his term. Now another set of compatriots are saying the same of Trump. I lived through JFK, LBJ, Nixon, and Ronald Reagan. I'm suffering, but not so much.
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  40. The Way: I don't claim to speak for JBP, his TV resolution is at 4K, and mine is only around 1080P. But if you want stats that are dismal, and a far fetched hope for a future I would not like to contemplate, then check out the JBP interview with a brain scientist formerly with the National Institute of Mental Health. Unless you think this is all going to end in the Valley of Armageddon? https://youtu.be/PY4sShDt9to
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  41. The Way: Could end with an asteroid, solar flares, or an Ice Age, guess you never know. Carpe Diem!
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  42. I found an actual "Occam's Razor" on Ebay, but don't really want a leopard skin one xD https://www.ebay.com/itm/Ama-Occams-Razor-Leopard-Skin-Best-Price/192448950786?epid=2146866027&hash=item2cced9f202:g:3TIAAOSwLUpaedMn
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  43.  @trignal  You claim Trump is a serial liar, which he is, but believe his anti-science views. He plays the MSM like a violin, and you are gullible enough to listen.
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  44. Richard, not "alleged", Clinton acknowledged guilt, paid a fine, and lost his license to practice law, at least for awhile. I don't care about Ken Starr delivering this factual information. He is correct, the impeachment process is an ambiguous tool that should only be used when it is a "people of good will" decision made by a bipartisan majority, as it was with Nixon. We are far from that with Trump.
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  45.  @richardhutchings1980  The most egregious example is former President Barack Obama’s quid pro quo with Moscow during his 2012 campaign for re-election. On March 26th, at the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, Obama pledged to outgoing Russian president and Putin-proxy Dmitri Medvedev that if Moscow gave him “space” (i.e., forestalled antagonizing its neighbors) he would have greater “flexibility” after the election regarding concessions on missile defense shields in Europe. Mitt Romney’s campaign had emphasized the dangers posed by Russia’s escalating bellicosity, and Obama’s softness toward Russia (even after its invasion of Georgia) was an electoral liability. This quid pro quo produced devastating consequences. It further signaled Obama’s unwillingness to check Russian aggression, delayed the installation of missile-defense shields in Europe, and arguably encouraged Russia’s annexation of Crimea two years later.
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  46. I voted for Trump, and feel none of those things. I believe the hypocrisy of the Democrats, a party I belong to, did not deserve the win. And in fact, Trump earned more votes in 2020 then he did in 2016, and narrowed the popular vote gap in 2020, doing better against Biden than Hillary. That cannot all be explained by your definition of "Trumpsim".
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  47.  @antomin1709  I am 66yo, and getting my 2nd vax on March 26th. Trump announced today everyone should get the vaccine, it was Dems who were against the vax when it was the Trump vax. I am a radical moderate Democrat in California. My city government, all Dems, failed to get me vaccinated, but the marketplace worked, and I was able to get an appointment at CVS. Your rhetoric is far from "moderate".
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  48.  @antomin1709  Do the math, the gap in popular vote narrowed in favor of Trump in 2020. More Blacks and Latinx voted for Trump in 2020, too. I only wish the moderates would stand-up, but to BOTH EXTREMES.
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  49. Michael VK: "Buddhists are immoral"? One of the foundations of his belief system is Taoism, Yin and Yang, he talks about that over and over again, too... I think his choice of Christian archetypes is just pragmatic, since he mostly communicates to people saturated with stories from the bible. JBP is complex because he holds an ethical value to be as thoughtful and precise as possible, to be "high resolution", but I get what you are saying.
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  50. Yes, the almost 1 billion YouTube views and a best selling book is proof you are correct.
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  51.  @martinwoollett8468  I'm in California and live in its "woke theocracy" where you have to write a DEI statement to teach or get a job, confess the sin of false consciousness, and if you don't, you are cancelled by the woke inquisition and excommunicated. I've been a California Democrat since 1973 and pushing back against our one party system which demands fidelity or else, I'm even in fear of my own Condo HOA because it is so "woke" and authoritarian. Woke, CRT in K-12, ESG and DEI colluded to write a bible here in California, so very real.
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  52.  @mjc42701  If it was "criminal", why is a "criminal" act not part of the impeachment indictment? I guess you have been away from the news, FOREVER!
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  53.  @mjc42701  Candidate Trump is President Trump. Clearly, no one was fooled, or gaslighted. He's guileless and transparent in a way you will never allow yourself to understand. You see a criminal and morally corrupt human being who was worthy of impeachment on his first day in office. I, like Pogo and Shakespeare would, see US ALL in Trump. He is the perfect existential man of our times, a creation of our times, and just what we deserve, both Dem and GOP. That's why he will win in 2020, and when he leaves office, the Southern District court will not touch him. Trump's a winner in perfect touch with the moment, and Steve Bannon is a genius: https://youtu.be/pm5xxlajTW0
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  54.  @mjc42701  I'd hire him in a NY minute, every attorney should be the perfect advocate for their client, guilty or innocent... don't you think? I believe in the rule of law, and take the advice of the Supreme Court, "never talk to the police", they are professionals, you are not, hire an attorney. For the same reason, President Trump should not speak to the House, or allow his people to speak, let the courts decide, that's the rule of law. This is just what Starr says it is, a war of power, and it is clear the new left does not want to have a president at all, they'd much prefer something like a religious tribunal, or mob rule.. The Westphalian Peace remains intact, if we can keep it.
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  55. "Off the Wall Trump expert?" Explicit or implicit bias on your part? Trump spoke at a press conference about UV Light being used internally to fight Covid. Media laughed, talking heads laughed. Well, Trump was correct, although as a messenger for facts he is suspect. Here is the fact Trump was speaking to: UV light, respiratory catheter for COVID-19 from Cedars-Sinai seeking emergency use. https://www.bioworld.com/articles/434719-uv-light-respiratory-catheter-for-covid-19-from-cedars-sinai-seeking-emergency-use?v=preview
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  56. Have to laugh at Bernie when I think of Karl Marx bemoaning the discovery of gold in California, something that changed the economic reality of the West in such a way it made his predictions in Das Kapital dead before he wrote them.
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  57. Lucas, yes, he could also look at the gang rape and murder behavior of adolescent bottlenose and spotted dolphins, who defend territory and execute revenge on rival gangs, and to think we once thought they were smarter and better than humans! http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2009/05/13/dolphins_are_violent_predators_that_kill_their_own_babies.html
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  58. Abenusugi: John C. Lilly PhD. I wrote my thesis based on much of his work. Not a hippie, but yes, LSD, Ketamine, and sensory deprivation research, He's like the Buckminster Fuller of the brain science world. His work is again being cited, and there is finally new research being done on work he pioneered in the 1960's. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9amw88/what-weve-learned-from-giving-dolphins-lsd https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/13/magic-mushrooms-reboot-brain-in-depressed-people-study I do not believe we are descendants of Adam and Eve. Do you?
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  59. Aberusugi; Again, as others have noted, you need to do your research before commenting, especially about "POO". JBP loves to quote Freud, and Freud was very interested in how passive aggressive infants 'handle' their POO. Poo has a long history of use for humans, and contemporary humans, as well. Quite a fetish, for some. https://samirchopra.com/2013/07/16/the-perils-and-pleasures-of-the-scatological/
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  60. "Respect"? "Tolerance"? - Humility before Pride.
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  61. Yeah, he also said, as are many others, don't be too quick to radically change something when the law of unintended consequences is at work. If something is performing relatively well, conserve it, and only make moderate changes. Then assess the consequences of those moderate changes. The US rebelled against the reassertion of the British Monarchy and State controlled Church after the civil wars of the 17th Century in which Puritans and Catholics lost any hope of power. I'm writing an alternative history entitled: "Cromwell in America, 1640".
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  62. Hey, man, like you're forgot the Canadian, "eh", eh.
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  63. And JBP pointed out the Yin/Yang of that position, it's dance between the two, and will be for the near future. That's why were are seeing backlash from Comics, and soon, hopefully, from the Press.
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  64.  @christeuma  I don't have to say a word, just show up. In the 1960's I got cancelled for having long hair, now I get cancelled for having no hair. Proves bigotry knows no bounds, and we have not "progressed" at all.
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  65.  @Paraselene_Tao  In the 1950's there was a magazine in the U.S. called "Red Channels", being listed in it effectively ended your career in entertainment. That was "cancel culture" and not myth. The same human characteristics are at work today, just moved into the other political spectrum. I live in it, and can assure you, it is not myth. Ironically, Bryan Cranston did a movie about it, did you see it?
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  66.  @Paraselene_Tao  Kathleen Stock - Hounded Out for Trans Views
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  67. Walter, your Oxford learned moral philosophical tools are past their date code and irrelevant. Go fishing.
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  68. 21:00 Reference: Marshall McLuhan https://youtu.be/0l_ugK386QY?t=126 "Abstract World Inconceivable Without the Phonetic Alphabet" - McLuhan
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  69. It's not regressive to support the building of infrastructure to free people from logistical nightmares in the areas of instability he mapped out, and where your progressive NGOs are crippling local economies with hand-outs, and the Chinese are building roads and economic infrastructure. Your Marxist ideology has failed everywhere in the world, and is now the regressive orthodoxy chaining us to a failed past.
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  70.  @adgworld  No, he meant the jazz pianist, Jon Mayer : https://www.jonmayer.com/
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  71. I understood clearly how JBP defines "value", as did Shakespeare when he wrote, "To Be, Or Not to Be", or Sartre when he wrote, "Being and Nothingness". You may think you have chosen a different path than an "endless pursuit of an undefined value", but for you, as with all of us, the pursuit will most assuredly end. Make Hay while the sun shines my organic cell based friend, who cannot help to grow, change and pursue value by choosing life over death.
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  72. "Candy Is dandy But liquor Is quicker.” - Ogden Nash
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  73.  @garfieldfarkle  The most egregious example is former President Barack Obama’s quid pro quo with Moscow during his 2012 campaign for re-election. On March 26th, at the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, Obama pledged to outgoing Russian president and Putin-proxy Dmitri Medvedev that if Moscow gave him “space” (i.e., forestalled antagonizing its neighbors) he would have greater “flexibility” after the election regarding concessions on missile defense shields in Europe. Mitt Romney’s campaign had emphasized the dangers posed by Russia’s escalating bellicosity, and Obama’s softness toward Russia (even after its invasion of Georgia) was an electoral liability. This quid pro quo produced devastating consequences. It further signaled Obama’s unwillingness to check Russian aggression, delayed the installation of missile-defense shields in Europe, and arguably encouraged Russia’s annexation of Crimea two years later.
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  74.  @danedds1068  To paraphrase the "Oxford Man", - "To Mean, or not to Mean, that's the question" Start with the question, the answer will make itself known.
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  75. I understood JBP to mean the US followed the English Common Law system started with the Magna Carta, a proto-constitution, which separated the Kings Court and Church Court from the "Common Man", establishing in essence the beginning of individual sovereignty in England, which is still the best framework for producing the greatest good for the greatest number. Which even today stands as a brute fact. 3/4's of the world live under some form of the "Common Law" system brought into full flower by Henry II. “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” ― Benjamin Franklin
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  76. Some of the time, he's talking about you! I only wish you were courageous enough to learn "WTF" he's saying about you.
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  77. Rosy: OMG, haven't heard the name Marcuse in decades, it was almost as prevalent a name on campus from the 30's to the 50's as Che, is today. Your are correct. I think he places too much emphasis on Marxist theory, because most of the SJW I run into don't look that deeply into the fuller context of cultural development, they just don't care. I think their views are much more degenerative than that, and go back before the Enlightenment, and to what we had in Medieval times, pure dominance of one peoples over another. I live in a Condo in the US, and in 2016, a new HUD housing law came into effect that requires HOA boards to set up an "Inquisition" to police the rights of the "9 protected" classes of people. If you look at who is protected, well, everyone.... you can be fined by this law, which could lead to jail time. This is bad, very bad, and needs to stop.
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  78. Vir, you think Rosy is Jew bating, did cross my mind, since many in the Frankfurt school were Jews... good question. oh, i am sorry,, some people may not know that "khazrarian" is code, used by antisemities, for eastern Europeans, who they claim to be "fake" Jews, but are not, something that's been totally debunked. Go ahead, try the 13th tribe, it's a no go..
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  79. wacko alert.
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  80. 3 months later and your comments are substantiated, as the Dems become even more enslaved by their rhetoric. You can see the flop sweat on the brows of both Pelosi and Schiff, with Nadler being kicked to the curb.
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  81. Minneapolis reversed action to defund the police : https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2020/09/27/how_a_pledge_to_dismantle_minneapolis_police_collapsed_524588.html
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  82.  @garfieldfarkle  Oops, poll moving in other direction, as does 2020, get ready to lose, again LOL
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  83. No, check out 7:30 and the invasion of the Power Seekers.
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  84. Thank you for confirming his assertions about "revolution" and the law of unintended consequences, something you have no intention to consider before you act.
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  85. How do you evaluate "The Best" if you cancel them apriori? That's what JBP is saying.
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  86.  @michaelsorensen7567  I've heard JBP speak on "Free Speech" many times, he is not an absolutist 53:20. I fear your model because it is the tyranny of the majority, and pure democracy does not give us the greatest good for the greatest number.
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  87.  @michaelsorensen7567  I believe the "questioner" was in favor of "safe places" where free speech is regulated by the group, and that there should be a limit on "privileged speech". He asked Jordan to agree with him, and he did, but went on to qualify his answer, which was brilliant. In 1987 I began research on a subject that was not well published, and I would wait weeks for a book to arrive on inter-library loan, which I then had to return in 2-weeks. That drove me in 1994 to become one of the first WWW publishers, and to promote services like Wiki and search algorithms. Hypertext was a revolution in publishing. Unfortunately, there have been many unintended consequences from that revolution yet to be rectified and corrected. In 1994, Al Gore officially commercialized the WWW, and in doing so, pushed an economic model of EYEBALLS for sale. This was not the only choice at the time, but one forced on us by both government officials and economic predators, neither would consider the consequences of their actions. We tried, there was a "White Paper" suggesting a "public utility" version for bandwidth delivery, and a model of commerce less driven by "the mob", but it was ignored. EYEBALLS, 30 years later, are the product, more's the pity.
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  88. Camden, NJ was rapidly depopulating and is not a good example, it's not at scale, and using models that are decades old. Lynch is out of touch, and out of time.
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  89. This talk is 3 years old, perhaps JBP would have a higher resolution response today.
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  90. 5 5: "Might be a qualified psychologist", that speaks to you bias. Noam Chomsky also speaks outside his specialty. Any issue with him?
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  91. Josef K: Noam Chomsky speaks outside his discipline, any issue with him?
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  92. Boris B: Yes, I sometimes find JBP's answers on God to be disingenuous. It's not that he cannot answer, he is choosing NOT to answer. My impression from many hours of listening to JBP is his foundation for God is based on Jungian concept Archetypes, and that Christianity just happens to currently be the best "receiver" of those Archetypes. So, in the God hierarchy, Jesus currently holds the power position. But I don't think JBP believes that it is a permanent position, and he's certainly not waiting for the return of Jesus. He may also believe these archetypes are passed along genetically, and why he told Sam Harris he is Judeo-Christian, whether he believed it or not.
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  93. A Trump rally is full of "honey", is very optimistic, full of positive emotion, no whip at all. If the Democrats could match that, they would win. Trump may be a political novice, but a professional persuader and media maven.
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  94.  @TranquiloTrev  His approval ratings match Obama's almost exactly, and according to the aggregate polls on Real Clear Politics, his approval ratings are just a few points below Obama's at the same time, even with the constant onslaught of negative press over the last 3 + years https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_vs_president_obama_job_approval.html
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  95.  @TranquiloTrev  Most? While Hillary won popular vote, Trump still got 63 million, and the way things are going, will win the popular vote in 2020. Why did the Dems lose 2016, and why are they losing in 2020?
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  96.  @trignal  As someone born to the "progressive" , I've heard your "one day wake up", or, "if they only had the information" myth of self-delusion before. If you believe the "woke" myth, or the "revolution is near", or the "messiah is soon to return" refrain, you are the sleep walker, just residing in a different room. Human character has been consistent for the last 120,000 years, or so, and no amount of wishing and hoping will make it different. BTW, Trump has never been convicted of anything, and the 2020 election will be proof of a full acquittal.
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  97.  @trignal  I did not vote for Trump in 2016, I wrote in a vote, my recently deceased brother's name. I previously voted for Obama, twice. I am a registered Dem in California, even if I vote for Trump, that vote would be wash-out. I may vote for him in protest against my parties 3 year long delusional rampage, though. The focus should be on why Trump keeps winning, and gaining support, and why the progressive Dem agenda is loosing. Demographic changes are not having the predicted impact, why? You have failed to look inward for that answer, and instead look for demons and devils to blame, the definition of a witch-hunt.
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  98.  @trignal  Your comments are patronizing, and characterizing Trump's rallies, or his recent prayer breakfast as a form of pure "Hatriotism", is itself hateful and fear-mongering. Did you watch it in it's entirety? I did, it was full of warmth and humor. When Steve Bannon told Trump he was a populist, Trump replied, "Yeah, I'm a POPULARIST", when Steve tried to correct him, Trump ignored that and continued with the misconstrued word, POPULARIST. Trump is the most transparent, guileless liar ever in the White House. It's Pelosi who cloaks her vindictive and hateful character behind a veil of patriotism and religion, not Trump. With him, what you see is what you get. He landed in DC in a what amounts to a UFO, with career politicians and MSM yet to figure it out. I believe Trump has a personality disorder, is something like an idiot savant. I ignore his external personality characteristics as I would someone with Tourette syndrome. He is incapable of being a Hatriot, because he is a true believer in his cause, not a deceiver. A serial liar, yes, but it's not a lie when you believe it yourself. You are clueless as to Trump's true nature. He is a Clear and Present Danger, but only to the progressive, social democrats, not the nation. All of this is churlish, and totally partisan.
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  99.  @trignal  u would have red penciled e.e. cummings, james joyce, jack kerouac, and thomas pynchon right out of the literature business, LOL.
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  100. Well, said, and speaks more about you, than him.
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  101. JBP is from a rural Provence in Canada, not unlike the mythic "Wild West" of the US, in northern Alberta. The John Wayne walk is natural to that area.
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  102. bernie is a joke senator from a small state, never authored or passed any substantial legislation and does little but collect a government paycheck.
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