Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The Rubin Report" channel.

  1. Just understand that the ESTABLISHMENT IS AGAINST YOU. Democrats and libtards have given up on POLICY,. Their POLICY is always aimed at controlling PROCESS and the unbelievably lame Jacqueline Hart's references to invisible "payment processors" (Note the root word "process.") and invisible reasons therefrom in the Matt Christiansen phone call show the tip of that iceberg. It sounds like Patreon's basically just complying with "processors" for their own survival. These people are too drunk on their own power to check themselves. Yes. This shit will boomerang on the leftists, but they're SO tribal and SO bent on winning every battle that they're setting themselves up to lose the war. But there's still a helluva struggle ahead for those who believe in Free Speech. This is basically Free Speech versus Free Stuff.
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  2. The only reason whoopi doesn't see white people being beaten or killed by police is because the news doesn't report on it. But if cops beat or kill a black man, it's national news. This is the first black-on-black crime that has been widely reported on. Black-on-black violence is a damn holocaust taking place in our streets, but the only mass shootings they report on are mostly some white beta male shooting up a school after years of bullying. There are mass shootings every weekend in Chicago. So, Whoopi, knowing all that, let's talk shit all day about police brutality. You make mountains out of molehills and molehills out of mountains.
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  3. A populist feature I hadn't noticed:s The content creators who rise up out of the oyster grass to become major YouTube presences have more than their share of patrons, but ALSO more than their share of the $1, $2 or $5 contributions from us "small folk." To stamp out the voice of the "small folk," it's easy to see who's getting all the 2s and fews, and I imagine those small donations are more cost and less profit from the payment processors. They don't like us small folk. We say mean things about bankers and our petty transactions cost more to process for what they pay. And there are so damn many of us. Anyway, just by tracking the pain-in-the-ass channels that have many SMALL contributions, they can zero in on most of the subversive voices after they start getting traction. The trouble from the banker's side is that as soon as they use this tactic, there are 2 more to take the last guy's place. They're in their own self-made version of Zombie Apocalypse, with all us small folk representing the zombies! It's like we are H.Y.D.R.A. Chop off one head, and 2 more appear. But they're doing everything they can to plug all the holes in their dam against free expression. And their contrrol of "process" is very tight, and we haven't heard the last of them, nor shall we. The best we can do is marginalize/minimize their effect. I think the FreeThinkers are only just beginning to realize how deeply embedded this perniciousness is and what it will take to keep the power in the people's hands. As we peel away the layers of the Patreon onion, we see that there will also be every obstruction possible set in the way of free speech, now by banking laws, regulations and so-called "best practices." Best practices are more about the culture of banking and culture tends to trump the formal rule sets (or quickly be codified in rule sets).
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  4.  @mustang607  MARXIST RE-EDUCATION IS IN!
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  5. John Belushi and Carrie Fisher, under a bridge at midnight. "Baby it wasn't my fault." All that money and never built any flood controls or attempted any water sequestration, to save some of the excess for the dry years that are more common. No planning on the most basic things. What upset your plans during the drought of the last few years? It rained. We weren't ready. It's never ever rained before in the history of man and certainly we didn't expect it would ever rain again, because muh global warming.
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  6. Yes. But not really profound or prophetic. Wars and rumors of wars have been around since before Abraham.
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  7. Ben Shapiro was good for about a month. After that, I pretty much figured out what he had to say, what I agreed and disagreed with him about, and I moved on to Jordan Peterson, who has a lot more to say and has had more years to let things percolate than Shapiro. Maybe younger people would like Shapiro more. I dunno. He's very bright for his age, but he's still pretty young.
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  8. Almost since our nation's birth, there have been robber barons eager to influence the government to tilt the playing field in their favor. It's called crony capitalism and it seeped into our system very early, with such things as land grants to robber barons and thieves to build the transcontinental railroad. The pesky natives obstructed this "noble goal," and so the robber barons got the U.S. Cavalry to back their play. This and other corrupt/fascist plays by our government throughout its history are what fuel the Howard-Zinn characterization of American history. We didn't CURE our ills by asking government to solve them. We made them worse, or just created OTHER problems, also 'requiring' government intervention (i.e. force) to "fix." Zinn gets some things right, but totally mischaracterizes things to fit HIS state-centric world view. Free-market capitalism is good. Crony capitalism is bad. Progressives claim that the latter is the former "run amuck,' when the only problem with free-market capitalism is it creates so much wealth that even idiot socialists can survive long enough to destroy it. Where America went wrong was NOT with free markets. Where it went wrong was when it DEPARTED from free markets, in the name of whatever latest lie they were feeding the public. Not a HUGE Ayn Rand fan, but her book, "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal" gives chapter and verse on regulatory capture and crony capitalism dating back to the 19th Century. This isn't about Reagan and Thatcher, although they both did little to slow the march towards a peculiar, fascist-flavored form of socialism. If we just stuck to our limited-government principles in the first place, we wouldn't be ruled by multinational corporations, today. Government isn't the scourge of the robber barons. It's their partner in crime, and the most powerful partner the corporations could have hoped for.
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  9. I think I part ways with some of Peter's points around the 34:00 mark. I think he should give thought to DE-CENTRALIZING the educational project. One of the reasons this CRT is so all-pervasive is because our education institutions are centrally funded and centrally administered. One bad eye can infect the entire nation. Obama could push what amounted to CRT mandates through executive order (decree), by threatening all federal support to institutions that do not toe the line. While we do the bulk of our education funding, locally and by state, the federal contribution is big enough to be irresistibly persuasive in the few instances in which school administrators and school boards might be inclined to resist what they already half believe, in the first place. The power and perks attendant to embracing this bankrupt ideology are 100% persuasive to risk-averse leftists who are already inclined to go along with the ideology because they're almost all socialist or socialist-adjacent. This is "soft control." They can't directly punish an institution for resisting their mandates, but they CAN deny student financial aid to those institutions. Most schools depend on federal financial aid to keep the lights on. It's very difficult to break free, when your institution dies if the feds cut it off. Here's another irony in this ideological war we're in. We wouldn't even know we were in a fight if it weren't for the use of coercive tactics to push the ideology so hard. When the end justifies the means, the means can often defeat the ends. The Nazis HAD to invade their neighbors, steal their gold reserves, and export their inflation to the conquered lands with worthless printed money that they forced conquered peoples to accept as payment for what they took. Their socialist spending had buried them in debt, and World War II kept the bankers at bay, for a time. They were on a trajectory to economic collapse that was postponed only by pillaging their neighbors. That paragraph didn't go so well. My point was supposed to be that it's the coercive nature of the imposition of this ideology, top-down, that exposes it for what it is. If they'd been satisfied with "creeping socialism" for another decade or so, there would be no turning back. But they're so close to their ultimate goals that they've over-reached, in my humble opinion. They've peeled off the mask prematurely. One GOOD thing about COVID-19 is the ZOOM learning exposed the empty-headed ideologues at the tip of the indoctrination spear. A student debating their teacher on tenets of CRT looks like the adult and the teacher looks like the petulant, bullying child in the dialogue. First off, the teachers have no business pushing a faith-based ideology. But more importantly, they're actually pretty bad at pushing it, effectively. Their fall-back position is appeal to authority. Students see right through that, and while we see the successfully-indoctrinated students marching and agitating, a growing majority of students reject the teachings, in much the same way students rejected the establishment's phony arguments for the Vietnam War. The reason we HAVE those institutions was because it was the best and only knowledge production-and-dissemination mechanism available at the time. Now we have the Internet. You don't NEED big, brick-and-mortar institutions for 90% of what is taught in our colleges and universities. You only need the big institutions for things like super-colliders and other science-related apparatus. Electron microscopes, NMR and IR spectroscopy, ... Stuff like that takes some brick-and-mortar infrastructure. But little else.
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  10. COVID KAREN'S UNITE!
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  11. Keeping Kamala out of the loop doesn't mean Joe's calling the shots. It's been clear since the primaries that Joe's his handlers' puppet. And let's be honest. The government is such an enormous octopus that ANY president is pretty much the pawn of his/her top advisors, who tell him what (their version of) the facts are (is) and what he can/should do based on those facts. You could argue that the president sets the overall strategy/direction, but even in that, the president is entirely hostage to what the "experts" in the administration tell him. It's like the whole thing with the "red button" and the "nuclear codes." I don't think any of that is the president's call, when it comes right down to it. It's the entrenched civil/defense/foreign-policy wonks surrounding the president that make those decisions, whatever the figurehead says or does. And under Trump, we come to find out that his own people were regularly lying to him and disobeying him. He thought our troops were out of Syria. They weren't. Dana Perino gives way too much benefit of the doubt. She's way "establishment."
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  12. Trump's the presumptive Republican nominee. DeSantis won't run if Trump runs. Bad news for the opposition to Democrats is that Trump is damaged goods. Even people who liked Trump's overall policy positions are skeptical about Trump's ability to drain the swamp. Some of us are skeptical about Trump even being serious about draining the swamp, when we see some of his appointments, and times he bowed to the establishment.
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  13.  @di-.-ib  That's me! I drop my bombs and move on! LOL! Every once in a while, maybe once month, I'll take a day and just go through all the notifications and read what few replies there are to my comments.
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  14. Win or lose, this will be good for YouTubers, if for no other reason than that people start ditching YouTube.
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  15. Lots of "smart people" vote Democrat. They're just ignorant of history, and have never been exposed to ANYthing hostile to big-government, top-down governance.
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  16. "You're not a lesbian. You're a man trapped in a woman's body. But I can fix you up. Give me a second, I'll clean off my scalpel." That's the approach a small number of inordinately loud and powerful people treat lesbians these days.
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  17. Layin' it down, like always, Paul.
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  18. "Let's level-set, here." "What's 'level-set' mean?" "Thats where we start off by contextualizing the conversation with a litany of how awful Ron DeSantis is in every way."
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  19. CRT is bad, but the war is against offices of D.I.E. embedded in large organizations everywhere. The grievance culture's power in our major institutions continues, essentially unaffected.
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  20. I hated Whitlock's guts when I was still trying to believe in Scott Pioli and Todd Haley, the new general manager and coach (respectively) of the Kansas City Chiefs. In hindsight, Whitlock was closer to the truth than the public relations put out by the Chiefs. But at the time, I thought he was just a rabble rouser. But on race matters, Whitlock did inform himself and came out with some real good points from a very unique perspective. He's been pretty reasonable on these topics since his days as Chiefs beat reporter for the Kansas City Star.
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  21. A year or more ago, the "This is a Trump voter and MAGA is a threat to America!" screed would've lasted well past November 8th. The turnaround time on lies and disinformation is much less, now, than it was. The plandemic might be seen as the high water mark of the Democrat-dominated smear machine. They used that club one too many times, and maybe they're running out of clubs. My main worry, now, is that they're going to go to war as a last-ditch effort to shore up support, but I think the reservoir of blind patriotism is just about dry. But let's not get too happy about apparent trends. The political class will stop at nothing and stoop to anything to achieve its goals.
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  22.  @gertexan  That was an infuriating story. That's part of why nobody cares if Hollywood goes broke.
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  23. The more they run things, the worse everything gets.
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  24. Good convo.
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  25. If these MSDNC clowns knew their history, they'd be ashamed of themselves for their behavior. The ones accusing everyone of being fascists are the biggest fascists of all.
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  26. Rubin's full-on neocon when it comes to Israel. He was a big lefty all his life until very recently. Now he's a half-informed "conservative." Mainly, he's about making money.
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  27. "The reason we act like Nazis is because Trump is a Nazi." - Every Democrat Spin-Meister
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  28. Republicans bought into big government a long time ago. Now, they're just arguing with Democrats about minor differences within a larger delusion.
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  29. Trump didn't put a dent in the foreign-policy BORG. He spent his whole term running scared from false accusations.
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  30. Who cares what WaPo says? They're stupid liars.
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  31. Nah. I don't think AOC has enough depth to hold her own in one of these open-ended discussions. Even keeping it civil, I can see Rubin saying "But given the facts, what you just said was incredibly stupid."
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  32. A LOT of that money's being taken up by a rash of mortgage lending.
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  33.  @murph3001  He's not perfect, but he's a giant amongst midgets in Washington.
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  34. Sadly, people who think they need somebody telling them what to do have not shortage of people eager to fill that need.
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  35. Joe's a dispensable scapegoat for DNC policy. "It wasn't us! It was Joe!" Saw this coming in 2020, when they handed the potato the nomination, in a field of under-achievers. DNC will nominate a "savior" in 2024 and Joe will bow out for "health reasons."
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  36. Bernie was a failure at everything except politics. He's a classic example of someone who can't do anything but promise to spend other people's money.
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  37. Lots of places STILL pushing masks. They're all saying "I'm stupid and brainwashed."
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  38. Both major parties are all about keeping a small club in power. Republicans let Trump win the nomination, because they're not quite as corrupt as the Democrats, who only care about winning, and the rules be damned.
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  39. KJP isn't targeting people with discernment. She's targeting Democrats and other low-information voters.
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  40. He's the most racist president since Woodrow Wilson.
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  41. I like Dreyfuss a lot more than I did 30 or 40 years ago, when he was a knee-jerk, big-government liberal (which isn't at all liberal, by the way). Now he's educated himself, and is a true liberal, which society now says is "MAGA Republican."
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  42. Underrated quote!
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  43. "Woke" is the natural consequence of "moderate liberalism." Bill Maher doesn't see his own hand in creating this mess, but he led the charge on so many "The government needs to save us!" issues in the past, and the madness he can finally see is the result. This is what happens when you sign your life over to bureaucrats. It's not the bureaucrats' fault. It's the nature of bureaucracy and enormous and powerful hierarchies answerable to no one, with growth and expansion imperatives common to ALL life, but which have nothing to do with the original mandate or purpose of the institution. I just want to tell all the half-smart people like Bill Maher that the "slippery slope" crowd, who warned about this, should be taken seriously. and that the false premise leading to the absurdities they can finally see is their faith and trust in massively expanded government. "Who put guys like Fauci in charge?" YOU did. You gave 'em an inch and they took a mile. But liberals never see the intrinsic flaws in concentrating power. For them, it's always "We just need the right guy to have all the power." No. It's the concentration of power that means it only takes one or two bad eggs to screw things up for EVERYbody.
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  44. So come, make Israel by force, expel the people who lived there, and brutalize them for decades is responsible? WW II was supposed to teach us that the end doesn't justify the means. Then we turned right around at the end of the war and committed a genocide in Palestine for "good reasons." We're not the good guys in this. Israel's not the good guys. What they do is understandable, given the circumstances in which they've found themselves since 1948. But it's not righteous. The end does NOT justify the means. Imagine if they tried kicking everybody out of New York City, to give it back to the Iroquois. It would be at war with the people around New York City from Day 1. Maybe the U.S. Government backs the idea of giving NYC back. Then the people who were displaced would be enemies of the state if they lashed out in reaction to being summarily kicked off the land they paid for. You guys have a HUGE blind spot with respect to the State of Israel. It's a construct, an artifact of British Colonialism which was grafted onto the USA seamlessly after the war. We're a little less obvious about it (or we were), but it's the same old "Great Game" played for the narrow purposes of a handful of powerful people, in opposition to what's best for the people around the world. You're cherry-picking history, Robert. I'm no historian, but I know enough to know how Europeans, especially the British, re-drew the map of the Middle East at their whim, depending on what their interests were. Got a leader who's not playing ball? Start an insurrection. Create chaos. Bring down the government. Re-draw the map, so the oil keeps flowing, with puppets in power or just a ruined nation that cannot defend itself from the predations of Euro/American commercial syndicates. You're usually not Neocon, but on Israel, you're blinded by your cultural baggage and don't see things objectively, in my opinion. I signed on to Daily Wire when Jordan Peterson joined the group, but I'm going to cancel. The top guy, Shapiro, and most of the people under him, are neocon. I don't think Peterson is, but he changed when he went to Daily Wire.
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  45. Drug addicts nodding off on the sidewalks is a metaphor for Democrats addicted to voting 'D.' You can see it's killing them, but they won't listen. Listening threatens their carefully crafted world view.
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  46. Well, duh.
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  47. "But... But... If our kids ever hear of Thomas Sowell, our lies will be exposed! No black conservatives allowed!"
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  48. Nancy's lied like this for years. Why is this a thing?
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  49. "Trust in government" is for children and fools. There's a reason the U.S. Constitution strictly limits the size and scope of the federal government, and for that same reason, the U.S. Government chafes at the Constitution, and seeks to expand the U.S. Government into every aspect of all of our lives. Our Constitution lies in tatters, and we do nothing.
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  50. Most atheists don't even realize the many leaps of faith they make every day.
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