Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Does stopgap funding bill have enough votes to pass the Senate?" video.

  1. Just popped in to see what Democrats want to hear.
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  2.  @robertallred4515  As expected. They say that MAGA are much better at predicting what "liberals" will think or will do than conversely. I think it's because truly independent thinkers make a point of checking in on what the so-called "left" is doing and what the so-called "right" is doing. While I do believe in a left-right dichotomy, I don't believe anybody embroiled in the current "left-vs-right" battle are using meaningful definitions of "left" or "right." I feel like I'm traditional left, but I see many features of the old right on the new right and many features of the REALLY old right on the new left. I agree with Jimmy Dore and Glenn Greenwald on sane and moral foreign policy, but they're committed to re-branding aristocratic patronage and feudal serfdom as "sharing," "compassion," and "muh socialism." Very regressive. Re-branded as "progress." A government that does everything for you is a government that can - and eventually will - do anything it wants TO you. Principles laid down in the Bill of Rights are absolutely liberal concepts. The so-called "right" is the side that cares about THOSE things, or gives them lip service, while being totally wrong about foreign policy. "Yes, we meddle, entangle ourselves with foreign governments, and pursue regime-change operations when we don't get our (Lockheed-Martin's and BlackRock's) way, and that's a GOOD thing!" Why can't we have limited government at home and abroad? Isn't that the whole point of the American Experiment? Everything we've gotten wrong since 1789 was a departure from our first principles, not a repudiation of them.
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  3. Rand Paul is voting against it because he thinks the Republican bill spends too much. He would also vote against anything the Democrats put forward. It'll never happen, but it would be nice if all the Republicans were more like Rand Paul. That would drive the Democrats insane, because it would fundamentally change the way our government does business. If Rand Paul had his way, the federal government would be less than half its current size.
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