Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Glenn Greenwald" channel.

  1. The fact that Brennan, Clapper, and Comey remain free is proof that our republic is broken.
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  2. 99% of experts agree with whoever's paying them 100% of the time.
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  3. You can't turn back into something you never were to begin with.
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  4. It wasn't his family name that got him attention on the so-called "right." It was his policy stances on a number of key wedge issues, like Big Pharma, the War Machine, and Big Food, to name a few. His stance on Israel is still neocon/imperialist, but his stance on Ukraine is pretty solid. Most of the MAGA crowd are NOT big fans of the Kennedy family, including JFK.
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  5. We voted our way into this. We will not vote our way out of this.
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  6. All the young men who could get out of Ukraine got out of Ukraine. Does she realize what she's admitting or has she made the calculation that she can't be touched? Maybe she's smirking because she's been waiting to trot out the "There was an 'annex' buried in the fine print that placed limitations on Ukraine's military." Maybe she's glorying in how clever she is and how Teacher will be well pleased. I don't know. What people in the West don't seem to understand is that Russia won't tolerate regime change and civil war right on its border, fostered by foreign powers. What's more, Russia has the power to use force in its own back yard. Western militaries have a lot of shiny toys, but their economic and political wherewithal at can't cash all the checks members of the government have been writing. Poor leadership. The worst kind of leadership. At home and abroad.
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  7. The lie served its purpose at the time. Now, you're supposed to forget about that lie and believe the next lie. C'mon, Glenn.
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  8.  @shelbzillathrilla  Douglas Murray really disappointed me on this one. So did Kisin if he's in with Murray on this issue. But they're both British and the state of Israel as a Jewish homeland is basically the last gasp of the British Empire. They're DEEPLY embedded into the history and culture of England, and preen about what a civilizing and enlightening force the empire was in the world.
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  9. Not if the Republicans vote against and make them drop him in the convention, as a sitting president.
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  10. Of course. She's a big-government progressive. Of course she likes those powers once SHE's the one exercising them!
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  11. "Far right" means you had a dispute the with the DEI office.
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  12. This is the business model for MANY enterprises. In the private sector, we call it "corporate welfare" and "crony capitalism." It all flows from so-called "liberals" and "progressives," who want the government to solve all our problems, which is what makes it so profitable to lobby the government. A government that didn't intervene in everything for any and every reason would be immune to corruption, because there'd be no profit in trying to manipulate the rule set.
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  13. Imagine being so sure you're wrong, that your best strategy is to silence the opposition.
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  14.  @samsung40_media87  Spoken like a socialist. It's bad law, not capitalism.
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  15.  @imacmill  He's closer to the truth than any corporate legacy network or newspaper.
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  16.  @sowhat184  ... and yet their message resonates with millions of people who know in their hearts that the killing has gone on for far too long and at such great expense.
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  17. I admire you for your various stances. For an economic illiterate, you're not totally useless. One day you will understand that the dysfunction abroad due to government meddling is exactly the same as dysfunction at home due to government intervention. Two sides of the same coin. Socialists don't understand this. They're like the Nazgul, who were kings who knew they could fix the world if only they had the power of the One Ring to harness others to their will. Y'all think it's just a matter of "perfecting socialism," and you spend your whole lives playing wack-a-mole with every corrupt leader, and never stop to ask yourself "Should ANYone have that much power in the first place?" The answer is "No." The (imperfect) solution is limited government. But you don't want limited government. You want saintly geniuses controlling everything instead of LETTING things play out under a simple, consistent rule set that rewards merit.
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  18. I think Tik-Tok is trash, but so are both major parties in the USA.
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  19. Bob Dole was never conservative. He was a RINO. Big spender with enough regressive opinions to be deemed "conservative," but really just a tax-and-spend so-called liberal as a senator. He was sort of the Mitch McConnell/Lindsay Graham of his time.
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  20.  @mexmexican8619  Yup. But there weren't as many people aware of it before social media, where people actually talk to one another, peer-to-peer. That's why social media's being demonized. It's a powerful counter-weight to establishment memes.
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  21.  @frostyjim2633  "Our" side should be careful not to become what we abhor. When you start throwing that kind of rhetoric around, you're becoming them.
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  22.  @skutchBlobaum  Yup. This is actually a hopeful time, because all the bullcrap is coming out and the knowledge is reaching the masses.
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  23. ​ @sowhat184  That's too bad, because what they're saying seems more in line with what God's Plan for humanity would be, assuming there were a God with even the vaguest of plans.
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  24. Thomas Sowell, Rand Paul's daddy (actually better than Rand), Ben Carson, Russell Brand, Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying, ...
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  25. Two ideologies: Those who think government should decide everything and those who think people should decide for themselves.
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  26. He's an economic and social illiterate. Very top-down and authoritarian in the name of "compassion," which is how we get these giant institutions that run amuck. The government that openly pursues regime-change foreign policy abroad is not the government I want running my health, education and welfare at home. The cognitive dissonance in progressives is off the charts. How can be so RIGHT about THIS and not turn that same great brain to the exact same problems on the domestic side. Listening to these people argue amongst themselves, I, as a libertarian, side with the Jimmy Dore camp. I still think their policies are horrible. But at least they want the USA to be JUST in its operations abroad.
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  27.  @pajeetsingh  I think the ideological threat was real and realized. I think the military threat was routinely exaggerated by a factor of 10, which a tour of their ports and their cities in the early 1970s. Back in those days, I was worried about Soviet tanks swarming over the border into western Europe. I think military threat is more real, today, than it was in the 1950s, but I don't see the Russians being seriously expansionist unless provoked.
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  28.  @johnn.2017  History began when Putin launched the SMO. Nothing ever happened before that.
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  29. We all knew it. Things became a lot less "divisive" when we all left FaceBook, but also a lot less profitable for the platform. P.S. We're never going back.
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  30. Your Holy Grail of "Objective Journalism" never existed in the history of media.
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  31. I'm on my last nerve with these guys. Our lives are their playthings.
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  32. Agency capture is inevitable when you insist on legislating on everything under the sun. That, of course, requires "industry expertise" to try to prevent destroying what you purport to regulate. Legislating on everything under the sun gives government officials an enormous amount of power - power that will forever be a target for corruption. Thing is, they "need" the industry expertise, because they're a bunch of lawyers trying to dictate how EVERY industry MUST manage its affairs. We don't need regulators. We need whistleblowers and tort reform. Make it easy for individuals to make small claims against big companies. If word gets out on their doing bad things, deliver a death by 1000 cuts through 10 or 100 million people suing them for $10,000 or less. We've evolved, technologically, beyond the point where bureaucrat regulators would do us as much good as open, 2-way communication provided by the Internet. Get the government OUT of the business of regulating FAR MORE than the Congress has people or expertise to regulate! You know what big corporations fear more than the government? They fear losing their reputation. The government is a bulwark between the people and big corporations. We have a population of over 300 million, and almost everybody's got a smart phone with a video recorder on it! That'll do a lot more to force corporations to be obedient to their customers, rather than obedient to government officials who enforce rules created by the corporations! You keep wanting to perfect top-down governance, i.e., socialism (or more likely its fascist brother, through the regulatory state), when you get BETTER governance through free-market mechanisms. You see American history as a process of passing laws that solved big problems. I see American history as a process of government racing to the front of the parade RIGHT when there's a critical mass of pissed-off Americans who are already rejecting the BS, organically. And from the very beginning, the new agencies become the servants of the industries they're supposed to regulate, and we have one more government agency preventing new competition from ever threatening the big corporations already in existence before the regulations were enacted. Federal regulations is the main reason we don't see new air carriers or auto makers threatening the Big 3. Regulations are why 100s of different carriers and companies were reduced to 3 or 4 in the first place. At some point, when you're bemoaning the fact that media, industry, agriculture are being concentrated in the hands of a few mega-owners, maybe you'll realize that it was your own earlier meddling that created the conditions that drove all the closures and mergers. The EPA is why I drive a mid-sized pickup, rather than a compact pickup. Think about it.
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  33. I was always skeptical of what RFK would do once in office. HHS needs to be dismantled to a degree, but now that it's HIS department, he will try to expand it.
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  34. I think there are clear limitations and dangers in any crypto currency. But this is true of any currency, including and especially government-issue currency, considering the dangers inherent in THAT.
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  35. So you're saying that free speech is always a threat to the government.
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  36.  @dannyboy8474  They always HAVE, since Hurst and Pulitzer manufactured support for the Spanish-American War in 1898. The "Communications Act" of 1934 made sure that any national radio (and later t.v.) network broadcast NOTHING that was hostile to government-insider narratives. You just didn't report on FDR's affairs or J. Edgar Hoover's cross-dressing or the FBI's illegal activities. Gulf of Tonkin, WMDs, RussiaGate... So many hoaxes supported by the so-called "free press." We've had the ILLUSION of free and objective news for over 80 years, and it was never either one. We're only aware of it at ALL because of viral video on an as-yet more-or-less-free Internet. FaceBook, YouTube and Twitter seek to be the next generation of ABC, CBS, and NBC. But too many millions of people can SEE what they're doing; whereas, 50 or 60 years ago, all it took was one phone call from Washington, and they all quietly sanitized their content. We'll see who wins the race between freedom and the continuation of the last 80 years of corporate-government control (i.e. FASCISTIC) control of the Public Square. I'm not very optimistic. But it's been nice, the last 10 or 12 years or so, to run into people on the street who are more or less aware of the lies. It was much more rare in the '70s, '80s and '90s.
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  37. Warp Speed brought in the DOD. The DOD ran the pandemic like a war.
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  38.  @AJohnSmith  He's extremely intelligent. That doesn't mean he's right about everything. My first take on Shapiro when he first got my attention with his "Facts don't care about your feelings" line was that he had some decent arguments for the conservative side, but was more conservative than libertarian and a total neocon about Israel. It took me about a week to figure this out about him, back in 2015 or 2016. All I had to do was look him up and read/listen-to his statements.
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  39. Many democracies have the features you describe. You're totally missing the - yes - exceptional guarantees of liberty enshrined in Law in the u.s. constitution. The constitution requires a 2/3 majority to change in any way. That's not democracy. It's rooted in democracy, but 50% plus one is democracy.
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  40.  @isabeljimenez6067  I lack the faith to be atheist. Belief in and denial of God are equally faith-based, as both are unprovable, with no physical means of being disconfirmed. I'm a superstitious agnostic raised as a Christian. I think Jesus gave us a blueprint for living in this world, and using the brain God gave us to judge right and wrong in real time. I suspect the rest of what's baked into organized Christian doctrine is political in nature, and the main driving force behind the virality of the faith. But to me, that doesn't mean I throw the baby out with the bathwater. Jesus broke the law to help a person in need on the sabbath, when the law forbade any labor. He did what was right, and he faced the ultimate penalty for it. He didn't try to get away with it, because he was right. He did it in the open and didn't deny it. Peaceful civil disobedience in the light of day that harmed no one. While a "good" atheist and a religious person will arrive at similar codes of ethics, I'm not sure that most atheists consciously examine their root assumptions. Two acts of faith I make: 1. Life is good and 2. I didn't create it. (I only partake of it. I'm just along for the ride.). Appreciation and humility work pretty well, and pretty much everything else follows. Religious people are more explicit about their assumptions than most atheists I've known. Debunking dogma is not proof.
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  41. RussiaGate exposed the "Deep State." There's a huge community of permanent civil servants and permanent Congress members who want things to stay the way they are. They will stop at nothing and stoop to anything to maintain their exalted and powerful positions.
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  42. Nothing will come of this. No prosecutions for a blatant coup attempt.
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  43. They're just doing what the American gov't does at home.
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  44. I guess nobody told Gaffigan that the Trump administration offered National Guard to Nancy Pelosi and the Mayor of Washington, DC, to beef up security. Both women refused. They WANTED things to get out of hand, just like all the hundreds of "mostly peaceful" protests that burned down half our cities.
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  45. I'd have to stretch "conservative" pretty thin to include myself under its umbrella. I agree with conservatives on a lot of things, but frequently for quite other than conservative reasons. More of a libertarian who sees some common ground. In my experience, conservatives are right for the wrong reasons, quite a bit, and liberals (as currently conceived) are wrong for the right reasons, fairly frequently. The latter end up supporting really stupid policies because of mis-applied good intentions. "I wanted to help, and all I had was the hammer, so I hit him with it."
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  46. Yes. It's not a "We'll agree to disagree" thing to these people. It's a "You're a bad person for disagreeing thing." I guess I'm not entirely without guilt on this one, because I think people who buy what's being peddled as low-information/smooth brains/ignorant asses.
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  47. Meanwhile, the U.S. government is doing everything possible to destroy the U.S. dollar.
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  48. "I will not give in to the lies," says one of the biggest liars in dying media.
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  49. The amount to which the USA has been subsidizing Europe goes way beyond what you're saying. We've been protecting European powers' colonial holdings for decades, as well. A lot of what we fought for since WW II was the economic interests of the EU and UK, keeping a lid on the cost of natural (and other) resources they import.
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  50. You and I could be friends. We see the world in similar ways.
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  51. Remember, that party gave her everything she wanted, because it was "her turn" and her money.
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  52. That was the weird thing about the Twitter Files. Bari Weiss has this aura of respectability created out of thin air, because she stood up to her bosses at the New York Times. Matt Taibbi is a hopeless big-government progressive. I think it's hilarious that her hackery got exposed on Joe Rogan. She was just parroting the rhetoric of other neocons when she tore down Tulsi. I'd tear down Tulsi for being a big-government progressive. I like her integrity on some things, but she's not going to get us off the wheel. She's one of a long list of people who don't want the power of government to shrink, but just wants her kind of people running that government. That's the whole problem with American politics. No politician wants to reduce the scope and role of the federal government. They just want to be the person who controls it. Only guys like Rand or Ron Paul ever ran for offices that they actually tried to reduce in power once in office. That's my big beef with progressives. They are so right in their criticisms of those in power, but it never occurs to them to reduce the amount of power in the hands of those in office. That's the only real way to manage the harm done by narcissists and psychopaths in government office: Don't give the government office too much power. They want the power to remain, but they just want THEIR guy wielding it, when the only correct answer is NO one should wield that much power.
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  53.  @justgarry5485  THAT is and has been my biggest fear for the last 20 years. If the powers-that-be feel threatened enough, I don't think they'd hesitate to burn it (and us) all down, just so they can rule over the ashes.
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  54. Just like Pirot in '92, RFK, Jr was poised to split the Republican vote and hand the decision to the Democrats. I think he would've won more votes from likely Trump voters than from Democrats, because his hands are clean with regard to COVID-19, where neither Republicans nor Democrats seemed to understand or care about the moral and political stakes of the bum's-rush response that basically got EVERYthing wrong. More Republicans than Democrats got it more right, but the Republican Party was too afraid of the Mass Formation Psychosis to take a firm stand for liberty, actual science (not "scientism"), and morality. RFK also gave lip service to free enterprise and limited government, which is highly attractive to many in the so-called middle, who are disgusted with BOTH parties and what they do to maintain their power.
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  55. Pretty easy to write code that checks for changes to a file and over-writes the file with the preferred text. Doesn't take much of an AI to defeat even the most ardent human individuals contesting what the establishment's riding herd on. CIA et al have undoubtedly had programmers working on this for decades.
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  56. Obama did everything he could to get crony Clinton elected, and, failing that, injected poison into the Trump administration. Obama is a traitor to the U.S. Constitution he swore to uphold.
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  57. Niger wouldn't need money if France paid full market value for uranium, or that's my guess.
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  58. Guys like Greenwald are great at pointing out the abuses, but as a progressive, he will eagerly give institutions MORE power to abuse. Snake biting its tail. But he's right about these stories. Progressives want the right people to have too much power. Americans want NO ONE to have that much power.
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  59. Trump's idea of supporting Israel may not bear much resemblance to what AIPAC and the evangelical vote that helped get him elected thought it would be.
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  60. But Zuck isn't talking to us or trying to win us back. He's only speaking to NPCs.
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  61.  @dbarker7794  But Faustus DOES parrot the "latest CDC guidance" on a daily basis. He is their mouthpiece.
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  62. This is terrible legislation and it should be struck down by the courts. But SCOTUS did nothing about "Communications Decency Act," and they argue all day about Section 230, when there should be ZERO legislation from the federal government regulating communications of any kind. That's up to the states, and even THEY shouldn't fool with it.
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  63. The worst? You could run 'most any t.v. anchor's "lies" reel and get something similar.
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  64. My first thought on 9/11 was there would be bad law coming. I was right. I hate being right.
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  65. Dave is true left: liberty and limited government. Greenwald wants big government that does what he wants it to do, which it never will, because of the nature of Man and the nature of concentrated power. A good socialist/progressive is in a never-ending sisyphean struggle against himself. "Care for me and let me be free." Can't be cared-for and free, simultaneously.
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  66. He uncovers the truth very frequently, but he's also part of the big, progressive, socialist lie. He doesn't mind that government is too big. He just wants guys just like him to run it. This is the case with all so-called "progressives." He'll rail all day long against the abuses of our major institutions, and be 100% correct, but never once does it occur to him that the institutions themselves, are the problem. So many federal departments and agencies that should never have been created in the first place. Glenn doesn't mind the big government. He just thinks that, somehow, we're going to elect and appoint only genius-saints to the top spots, and life will be perfect. Stuck on a wheel of his own making, like so many of us, including me.
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  67.  @michaellong9214  Glenn's a big believer in big government. He's caught on the wheel, insisting on trusting politicians and then criticizing everything they do, when a true libertarian would say "I told you this crap would happen when you put the government in charge!"
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  68. Progressives are very obstinate. No matter how many times the government fails, they insist on empowering the government to intervene in society and economy even more than it already does. "We need rules." No. We need companies whose only means of survival is doing right by their customers. The need for return customers is the foundation of moral behavior in a free marketplace. When the government steps in, people who do things the right way get shoved aside in favor of those who do things the government way.
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  69.  @michaellong9214  You are just like Glenn Greenwald, insisting on the idea that you can have civil liberties and big government living side by side. My POINT is that when you create a government that does everything FOR you, it is INEVITABLE that the government will start doing bad things TO you. You're basically feeding the crocodile that will one day eat you, but you tell yourself you're for "civil liberties." That's why I say he (and Jimmy Dore and a number of other good progressives) are trapped on the wheel. They want a utopia in which government makes sure no one suffers, and all government leaders are genius-saints. As a civil libertarian, I know that when you concentrate that much power into so few hands, the eventual result is corruption, mismanagement, and tyranny. There are things that progressives should know better than to ask for, but ask they do, and then they blame everybody else for mucking it up, when the original project itself was doomed, due to human nature.
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  70. The EU's like that Broccoli-headed kid who goes around harassing people with a giant body guard in tow. Can't remember his name. He's very forgettable as far as personality, but he's been all over YouTube. Anyway, they've had the USA as their body guard since 1917, and suddenly, their body guard is gone, and reality's sinking in. They are at least an order of magnitude smaller than needed to carry out any of their threats, and even the economic sanctions are hurting them more than Russia!
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  71. I'll never vote for a socialist, even if they're good critics of the big government they love so much. Government is always corrupt. The only (imperfect) check on that corruption - and the harm caused - is by severely restricting the government's scope and role. Progressives like Greenwald build government beyond all reason and then act surprised when it doesn't do what it's supposed to do. Progressives are their own worst enemies.
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  72.  @unbreakable7633  Unwavering support of Israel has been a bipartisan sacred cow since I can remember first becoming acquainted with world affairs. I was too young to remember the '67 war, but I was old enough to read by the early '70s.
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  73.  @theseustoo  It still is. But it's so deeply ingrained in the American political class that you dare not call it such.
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  74.  @Gee-xb7rt  I agree. It's crony capitalism. And it's enabled by all the do-gooders who think they can vote for a government that will do all their do-gooding for them. The establishment mouthpieces unironically use the term "public-private partnerships" as if it's this great thing, when it is the literal definition of fascism. I think the relationship between Krupp Steel and the German government (since long before and a model for fascism/Nazism) was the inspiration for all that has happened since. The advantages to both parties to the partnership are obvious.
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  75.  @theaterinafire  Easy rule to fix a lot of it would be outlaw corporate donations, entirely. Let the executives and the workers make whatever private donations they wish, but NEVER allow a corporation to make political donations. The Citizens United v FEC case needs to be overturned. There is some nuance, here. I think people should be able to pool their small donations together, to speak with a louder voice, and about the only way to do that is with some sort of PAC. But as long as PACs are forbidden taking money from anyone but a private citizen, that would keep PACs possible and clean up a lot of the George Soros type of nonsense.
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  76. You're a smart, level-headed guy for an unrepentant socialist. Most of what you decry, today, is the result of looking to the state to solve the human condition, like your other progressive pals do. Then you freak out when things run off the rails, oblivious to your own role in creating the fascism you see, today.
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  77. Too bad they're big-government progressives, for that lies at the root of all our problems: People looking to government and politics to fix everything, when government and politicians' primary function is to NOT MEDDLE. We're NEVER going to have perfect leaders. But even if we do, the NEXT leader(s) will be flawed. The trick is not giving ANYONE too much power, but progressives and even conservatives are happy if officials have too much power, as long as they do what the progressives/conservatives/liberals want. The federal government should govern LIGHTLY. Governs less = governs best. Anything not international trade or national defense needs to be left to the states. Full stop.
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  78. I want to listen. I really do. But after 2 minutes of every sentence ending in a trendy question mark, it's just too annoying to get PAST. You know what I MEAN? I mean it happens all the TIME. It doesn't sound SMART. It sounds juvenile, uncertain, and NEEDY. Sorry pet peeve. But if you want a larger audience, learn to deliver declarative sentences in a declarative tone and intonation.
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  79. It's obvious that the establishment censors, de-platforms, and demotes material that is damaging to its narratives. Anyone who doesn't understand this, yet, is living in an alternate reality.
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  80. Because Biden's ineptitude is getting people killed and squandering the wealth of all nations.
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  81. "That's p- known about her." Weiss wanted to say "proven" but then realized how far out over her skis she was with that opinion, which is just parroting neocons like Bolton.
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  82. Journalism's always been this way. The mask just slipped enough for more people to see it.
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  83. LOL! Before they "downsized," there was a lot more misinformation going unchallenged than there is, now. Why don't they do what Twitter's doing with Community Notes, so that One Narrative doesn't go unchallenged, which is what Big Tech has been pushing for YEARS. Forbidden to speak the truth by FaceBook and YouTube in the name of "Community Guidelines" and to "combat misinformation." Well, we all know who the biggest liars are, and they're the ones who were censoring and "fact-checking" the actual truth into oblivion, and banning the people who told the truth. Everyone knows this. Nobody admits it. It's disgusting.
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  84. Democrats love the security state because it's run by Democrats.
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  85. "That gal is pure pizen." - William Tell Sackett
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  86. I'm mostly angry. I never voted for any of this nonsense. I'm pretty disappointed in my fellow Americans for voting Democrat all these years, and I'm mad at the Republicans for dropping all their principles to try to out-pander the Democrats, while the Democrats are just as bought-off by the military-industrial complex as the Republicans. "Compromise" in Washington, D.C., is when both parties agree to the worst proposals of the other.
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  87. These women all remind me of Elizabeth Holmes (of Theranos fame (infamy)).
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  88. I see George McGovern as half good half bad. Good for confronting the war machine. Bad for wanting to grow the welfare state. I see both as 2 sides of the same coin. People who want to concentrate too much power into the hands of too few people.
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  89. No matter how bad you think it is, the truth is much worse. This is why you guys are so great, but the fact that you still think government should be bigger and do more "for" us, is just insane.
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  90. The Republicans aren't really against wasting money on Ukraine. They just want to use it as leverage to get their border-security money. "Compromise" between Republicans and Democrats means spending money on EVERYTHING.
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  91. Democrats are like 1950s Republicans, from their religious beliefs (only it's a New Religion) to their red-baiting.
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  92.  @memyselfandi593  Israel was created by force of arms in the flush of victory after World War II. The people who already were living there weren't given any choice. They were forced off their lands by outsiders. They didn't like that. The entire Arab world didn't like that. All of the non-Christian world and a big chunk of the Christian world didn't like that. Israel is set up to be a lightning rod and draw violence to it. The land was taken and as soon as it was taken, Israel just wanted to be left alone. Can you see how that might not go over with a lot of people? Imagine a mafia boss who murdered and terrorized his way to power, and now he has a little empire carved out. Now all he wants is to be left alone to run his empire. It's so unfair that he isn't left alone. The violent acts he commits in order to survive - clearly documenting how his empire's under threat from without - are entirely justified. He's fighting for his very existence, so it's OK if he wages war to preserve himself. That war stretches on for decades, with atrocities on each side justified by the atrocities on the other side. People forget that Jewish terrorists of 80 or 100 years ago saw themselves as freedom fighters. People don't even remember the terror campaigns waged by Zionist extremists. War has been waged on every single one of Israel's enemies by the USA. Israel has bombed enemies of the USA. Each is a proxy for the other. I always go back to a Sci-Fi trilogy called "Deathworld." Colonists to a new, dangerous planet have been fighting for generations against a planet that acts like it hates humans. The humans hate right back. New species evolve almost overnight, with adaptations that seem aimed at making life more hostile to humans. It turns out that the planet IS adapting to rid itself of humans, because humans acted like a natural disaster and were perceived as a natural disaster, which meant that all the creatures on the planet declared truce when it came to humans, and joined forces to kill humans. There was no way for humans to win this fight with confrontation. But there WERE humans who broke away from the colonies and learned how to live WITH the creatures of the planet. It being sci-fi, it turned out that all the creatures of the planet were telepathic to some degree. If you didn't hate, THEY didn't hate. But the humans in the colonial compounds couldn't get over their hate, and so it was a never-ending war against the planet. A war that humans could not win. And yet, humans were flourishing AWAY from the "hate centers."
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  93.  @yasminc7827  To an Israeli, the current setup is the obvious consequence of necessary decisions to ensure their survival as a nation of, by, and for Jews. "Extremism is no vice" when confronted by extremists, and they can trot out a long list of extremists who've done bad things to Israel. The region is trapped in a cycle of violence and retaliation, with foreign powers only too happy to inject more weapons and money into the conflict, for their own purposes.
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  94. There's way too much secrecy on matters about which the public has a right to know. In the Bannon and Navarro cases, the Jan 6th Committee was definitely on a witch hunt. I don't know all the ramifications, but it seems to me that if Congress makes a criminal referral to the DOJ, the DOJ should be obliged to follow through with the same vigor, regardless of who's president. Clearly that's not what is happening, today, and as Glenn reminds us, is not how it worked during prior administrations. There are "customs" and "common practices" like this that seem to subvert Constitutional checks and balances.
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  95. The Trump Admin will have to fire a LOT of people before it will be taken seriously by the rest of the world, imho. Trump will do some good things that surprise us, and will miss the mark, badly, that will disappoint us. That's much better than the alternative under Harris.
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  96. Rodgers plays for the Jets, now, not the Packers.
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  97. You have to understand the hostility of left-wing activists who are given carte blanche to disrupt and disrespect. I can see people wearing yarmulkes being targeted by some rude and aggressive people, because that's cancel culture on college campuses. It's somewhat unusual to see these left-wing activists at odds with the political persuasion of college faculty and administrators. What we're seeing is Zionist-vs-leftist, and it's actually somewhat amusing, because the leftists aren't used to being slapped down by college or municipal authorities. They (rightly) saw Israel's response to October 7th as all the excuse they needed to start acting up and acting out. I say "rightly," not because they're necessarily right, but because they're immersed in a culture that tells them the atrocities in Gaza are exactly the sort of thing that will be used to forgive their unruly behavior. What makes it all the sweeter is that the lefties are hitching their wagons to Hamas, which is triggering to half the country. And it's a very odd half, neither right nor left, but the half that is committed to the Zionist project, which cuts across party lines. So strange to see colleges getting authoritarian against leftists activists. Unlike BLM and anti-Trumpers, they are not sanctioned to proceed by the Democrat establishment, which makes most of its money off big donors.
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  98. Uh, Glenn. Big media and the government have been hand-in-glove since before World War II. Manufacture of consent far pre-dates the Internet. But because of the Internet, youngsters like you are more aware of these facts. That's why old farts like me tend to be more libertarian than progressive.
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  99.  @kylewatson5133  Please refrain from such comments. You prevent me from making them, first. They'll make a brilliant speech decrying the technocrats and globalists and conclude their speech with a commercial message for "Med-4-All." They build a beautiful logical structure and they finish it up by demolishing it. "We need the power to change the world." That's why the world doesn't change. It was the concentration of power into the hands of a few that caused the problems in the first place. It's like Tolkien's One Ring. "Give ME the ring and I will create paradise! You obviously don't know how to use it right!" Greenwald and Dore don't really have a firm philosophical grounding or an understanding of actual human progress, which continues in SPITE of what governments do.
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  100. The only reason this is a story, now, is because Democrats want it to be a story, because they know what we all know: Joe Biden is unelectable. It took a lot of censorship and shenanigans for his non-campaign on the worst platform in history to emerge victorious. He's the most notorious liar and plagiarist in Washington, DC, which is why his earlier bids for the presidency failed. So, of course, all you hear is what a big liar Donald Trump is.
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  101. Of course they do! She won't buck them, and the regime-change foreign policy of the last 60 or 70 years can continue a little while longer. It's on its last legs, but its adherents will stop at nothing and stoop to anything to keep the project going, as conceived and implemented by the Dulles brothers. Eisenhower couldn't do anything about it, and he tried.
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  102. Good analysis. Too bad you're an economic socialist.
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  103. Don't end declarative sentences on a rising tone, as if you're asking a question.
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  104. It turned out that the most likely source of leaked e-mails at the DNC were disgruntled Bernie supporters. The DNC were betrayed by their own people, and the same crowd who jailed Julian Assange turned their sights on Trump. Then, when Trump started talking to Zelensky about corruption allegations, the same crowd as before, in bed with Ukrainian Oligarchs after engineering a coup in Ukraine in 2014 found a way to accuse Trump, who didn't have one penny invested in or coming out of Ukraine to him or his family, was accused of improper conversations with Zelensky. Every time anyone gets close to Democrat or Deep State (permanent state) corruption, there's another distraction. This is the same crowd who pushed mandates and censorship during COVID pandemic. Eventually, people are gonna get sick of this crowd. But eventually can be a very long time. I just hope that same crowd don't break the world rather than relinquish their privileges and power.
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  105.  @joelmartin2826  Happened for me in 1980.
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  106. Johnson was never against Ukraine Project. He just wanted more transparency on how the money's being spent and where it all goes. That's one of the most discouraging things I heard in his first week as Speaker. The Republican Party is shot through with big-spending RINO neocons, especially the party leadership. It's sad that I don't have a party to support. It's a shame that Trump is the best of a bad bunch.
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  107. Yup. Dad used to call it "shittin' in your own mess gear."
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  108.  @unbreakable7633  That may be what @kevinschmidt2210 is trying to say. We did flip the switch to full-on fascism during "president for life" FDR's reign. But Wilson teed it up, with a lot of racist, socialist clap-trap they called "progressivism." All about personal power, when the country is based on spreading the power around and keeping government small. It's natural to centralize in wartime. It's not natural to seek forever war and centralize beyond all reason. War feeds centralization and centralization feeds war. We, the people, need to break the back of that centralization. It's not good for the planet or liberty. It keeps a few people rich and fat beyond their utility to society.
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  109. "I'm anti-establishment." "Your donor list says otherwise."
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  110. She can't help but smile talking about color revolutions that she was part of. She's proud of regime-change foreign policy. Does she realize this is rogue-nation behavior? The USA's supposed to be different, not follow the British Imperial model.
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  111. None of these guys who lied to us over the last 10 years are getting directly punished. They're just kind of fading into obscurity. Brennan losing his security clearance is a slap in the face, but traitors in government and their minions in media still are getting a free pass, especially with Biden's ridiculous pardons...
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  112. "Well-informed leftist" is an oxymoron. Lefties don't understand economics and liberty. They just cry when they lose their liberty, without realizing it's what they were begging for the entire time.
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  113. I wish they would revisit defamation. I hate 2-tiered justice of any kind. Public figures should receive no extra benefit or extra punishment. Defamation is defamation, and the bar needs to be the same height for public figures as it is for "commoners." To me, the way they went after Trump had a silver lining, because it lowered the bar to prosecution of presidents for crimes they commit. We've always swept their crimes under the carpet and never go after sitting presidents or former presidents. For the law to mean anything, it must be applied equally to presidents and plumbers. The law means nothing if our leaders sit above it. No special laws or exceptions for anyone in government or corporations. The corporation shouldn't pay the fine. The executives in that corporation should pay the fine. The cop that gets sued shouldn't have the taxpayers paying off the law suit. The cop should be held directly accountable. If I were president and I believed that I would have to break the law to save the country, I would break the law AND I would face the music for my decision. I wouldn't hide behind presidential immunity. That's what a principled man would do in that position. "Yes, I broke the law. Here's why." And I would face a jury of my peers, the same as any other schmuck. If that means the president's hands would be tied and he wouldn't be able to do things like prosecute undeclared wars under War Powers Act for 90 days, then so be it. Our system isn't supposed to run like a well-oiled machine. It's supposed to be hard for ANYone in government to exercise extraordinary powers. This would make it harder for government to change anything, and that's the way it's supposed to be. There's supposed to be friction in government's gears, and strict limits on what it can do.
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  114. The government got ahead and stayed ahead of the Internet expansion, by funding and corrupting all the Big Tech platforms, with seed money and other forms of help that put FB, YT, Twitter at the top. We won't be out of this until there's a REAL competitor for YouTube. That's one of the reasons I support Rumble, even though it's not as polished of a product.
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  115. Not only did Trump go away, but after he left, one narrative after another collapsed soon after. Many are collapsing as we speak.
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  116. Decline? He's been mumbling incoherently since 2020. C'mon, man. You know Joe'll be gone. Democrat media is already against him. DNC and big donors are already against him. It's just a matter of seeing how it actually comes about. This has nothing to do with Joe's dementia and everything to do with his electability.
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  117. Good point about both Jewish and Muslim voters being turned off by parading around with Liz Cheney on her arm. Who was that for? Liz Cheney is a Republican who got primaried in the sparsest-settled state in the union. I always thought that it was an odd marriage between Democrats and Muslims, because of Muslims' traditions and beliefs. My opinion before the video: I don't think it hurt her campaign. I don't think it chased anyone away. It may have cut a few more RINOs from the Republican herd to go vote Democrat. It might have been a "See? SENSIBLE Republicans just can't vote Trump," as if there were a mass exodus or trying to speak a mass exodus into being.
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  118. The Mongols fought Russians from Kiev in the 1200s.
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  119. Yes. What's going on, now, in corporate media, is Democrat operatives telling on themselves.
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  120. The new McCarthyists.
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  121. What they're doing to Trump and his associates might have a silver lining. Executive branch officials have a long history of thumbing their noses at Congress. I know I witnessed a lot of that during the RussiaGate Hoax. The persecution of Trump may set precedents for more transparency in the future. I hope so. I'm sick of government officials who hide behind "national security" and "ongoing investigation" rhetoric. The public has a right to know. If knowing would hurt the USA, then maybe the USA is doing the wrong things.
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  122. YouTube is like alcohol. It makes a good servant, but a poor master. I spend "an unhealthy amount of time" on YouTube, but I at least try to bend it to my will, rather than just accept what Google is pushing on that day (which is almost always vapid and time-wasting). But I'm kind of exceptional in that I'm a virtual shut-in, due to a physical handicap. It's not 100% healthy, I know, but it's kept my mind active and the new ideas coming in. But the closest I've gotten to camping out in the last year or two has been watching a good Swedwoods video or catching Luke on Outdoor Boys. I'm fascinated (always have been, since a kid in the '70s) by permaculture concepts. I think the New Tech in building, heating and cooling homes and small-plot agriculture offers a revolution in eating and living better, and I'm applying it to my own place I make my living teaching math remotely. One thing I will say about Hasan Piker is that when you set your own hours and your own goals, it's easy to make a job for yourself that sucks you dry. "Perfect teaching takes an infinite amount of time." Every decent teacher needs to find that balance between doing a perfect job and doing a very good job. Many teachers, including me, tend to make their jobs take more than 40 hours a week, especially when we're trying to improve what we're doing. For instance, I made about 1,000 videos last semester for one of my classes. I changed to a different textbook and learning management system (From Pearson to WebAssign) and it was time for a new set of videos (hopefully better) providing instruction AND an example of virtually every single exercise my students will encounter. This isn't something in the job description. It's just something that destroys a semester for me, but makes the next several semesters go MUCH more smoothly, because there's on-demand help from me on every single concept, that they can access 24/7. I do that extra work and it saves me hundreds of hours every semester AFTER that. But MAN was it a chore getting everything made and uploaded! Anyway, Hasan just needs to find some balance, but it sounds like his business model requires too much of his time. Men, especially, are prone to this. Most men and almost all women are pretty good at finding a good balance. But Type A people can grind themselves to dust. This is very common in small business, and why most small businesses don't grow into big business. The guy/gal running the thing holds all the threads and doesn't know how to recruit, train, and delegate. That's why most small businesses aren't scalable.
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  123.  @Yerpyerp14  If by "liberal," you mean loving liberty and limited government, I'll take that as a compliment, although I'm pretty sure you intended it as a pejorative. Demonizing others gives you justification to do harm to them. I can disagree with someone without calling them "evil," and when I see "evil," I don't see something IN them that's bad; rather, I see something good that's missing.
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  124. Losing in 2016 was harm of apocalyptic proportions for Hillary.
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  125. Will John Brennan ever answer for his crimes?
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  126. Cable TV caused massive narrative leakage. It had a lot to do with Reagan getting elected. Eventually, the government mastered cable. The Internet caused massive narrative leakage. It had a lot to do with Trump getting elected. We're watching the government's total mastery of the Internet.
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  127. LOL! You knew his staff was running everything from the beginning. That's what the permanent government wants, nay, demands. That's why Trump is such a divisive figure. They're comfortable with the way they're mismanaging our country down the drain with overly intrusive policies at home and abroad. There'd be a whole lot less broken in the world if these zealots would just stop pretending it's their job to fix everything.
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  128. Nah. Greenwald's stuck on the same big wheel ALL the "nanny-government" thinkers are on. His critique of the establishment is legitimate. His solutions are not to limit the size and scope of the federal government. His solutions are to elect "better socialists" to run the big, bloated enterprise and do what Glenn Greenwald wants it to do. As a libertarian, I say that the best - albeit imperfect - solution is to leave the people's problems to the people, and butt the hell out.
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  129.  @SamBoe-bw2ub  They're probably thrilled after being told to stand down during the Summer of Love. Payback time for them.
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  130. It's the new normal. Remember the Covington Kids? Anybody who wanted could see the entire video, disproving all the MSM claims about how terribly those kids supposedly behaved. ABC, CBS and NBC are propaganda arms of the U.S. Gov't. FOX is only slightly less bad.
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  131. What blows me away is that they're admitting their dirty tricks and lies of the past in order to push today's agenda. The fact that John Brennan remains a free man proves that the fix is in.
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  132. RussiaGate was when the mask slipped. Ever since, it's been out in the open, and they're STILL doubling down!
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  133. Encycloreader and Encyclosearch.
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  134. I've been following Nurse Ratchet's career ever since "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest." She put on a lot of weight since frying Jack Nicholson's brain with electro-shock.
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  135. A good progressive calls out abuse and lies. The only lie they swallow, hook, line and sinker, is that socialism is good. They spend their lives trying to perfect it, because they don't understand that nanny government is cancer.
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  136. "Bipartisan" means both sides agree to waste money on what each side wants to waste money on.
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  137. The extraordinary and unconstitutional powers the government has assigned to itself are too alluring to the party in power. The "loyal opposition" will rail against the abuse of powers, the corruption, and the weaponization of federal agencies, but the minute they become the majority party, they LOVE the power. They REVEL in the power. You can't elect someone who's seeking power and expect they will ever voluntarily give those powers up when they have the power to do so. Ronald Reagan was the first bait-and-switch in my lifetime. Obama was the second.
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  138. Too bad his economics are socialist. "Government will save us" is the delusion that has caused 99% of the problems we now have, from medical to poverty to national security.
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  139. Women are more ruthless than men.
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  140. I agree with Senator Warren on one piece of this: "the difficulty of finding reliable information about COVID19 in today's media environment." Most of what I see and hear from the media of which Senator Warren APPROVES is half-truths, bad data, and misinformation. Most of the policy decisions flowing from that misinformation are disastrous. Even the things that are TRUE are not weighed properly against OTHER matters that are just as important to our health and well-being. HER approach - like all Demokkkrats' - is "All else must be subordinated to the one thing we're hyper-focused on, today, even though tomorrow, we'll probably forget all about it, as soon as we get our way on x, y and z." You'd think that nobody ever died of ANYthing until COVID19 interrupted millennia of immortal existence on this Earth. You'd think that a dozen incidents of unjustified shootings of blacks were the ONLY things troubling blacks, when we KNOW of many THOUSANDS of blacks dying at the hands of other blacks. But black-on-black crime isn't an issue for them. A handful of bad cops is sufficient to stop the world in its tracks, just like a cold/flu adjunct from which 99.9% of people emerge unscathed.
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  141. Glenn's not on our side. He's a big-government progressive, who sees all the bad things big government does, but believes the only problem is that the leadership isn't truly "progressive." He wants the government to stick its nose into everything and especially to run health care from top to bottom. And it will all work perfectly if we can just elect people just like Glenn Greenwald to run things. It's not the STRUCTURE of big government that bothers Glenn, but that the "wrong people are in charge." As a libertarian, I reject that argument. The problem is having these too-powerful government agencies that only need one asshole in the bunch to destroy America.
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  142. After RussiaGate, how can anyone support this? These are powers with which federal agencies should not be entrusted. There's a REASON these things were forbidden before 9/11, and they did nothing to help us fight terrorism. Mostly, they helped the federal government target political opposition.
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  143. All out in the open. They just forbid anyone to speak of it on government-controlled/-influenced media. The DOJ and Intel agencies run cover. And the kicker is they use the crises they create to grant themselves more power and secrecy.
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  144. The texts with Zhao show Hunter's a scumbag, trading on his fathers name. That doesn't implicate Papa Joe other than as a man who raised a terrible son. But there are threads of special treatment by a hopelessly corrupt and politicized Department of Justice.
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  145.  @rodolfosoto2960  They needed Biden to ram through their agenda and take the fall for it when it inevitably failed. Now they need to sideline him. It's all unfolding according to plan.
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  146. To me, this just signals that the Deep State is never going away. I had the same "hope" when Obama was elected, and as soon as he was in office, he LOVED abusing those powers. Even if one president or one DNI doesn't abuse those powers, the next one or the next one after that one WILL abuse those powers.
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  147. Your 1st 10 million makes you want your 2nd. People who are content with their 1st 10 million vanish from public life and go live their dream.
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  148. 80 years ago, we were a country in which celebrities and sports heroes were all expected to profess the Christian faith. Protestant and Catholic Clergy all pushed the Zionist ideology as God's Plan, and all good Christians were expected to support the state of Israel, no matter what, and the news and opinion media were (as now) in perfect lock-step with the federal government, that used Israel as a major piece the game of chess they were playing against Communism. Our government is 80 years deep in this kind of thinking. But in the last 40 years, Americans have drifted away from the Church, and in any case, not all Christian churches, let alone all pastors, are signed on to the Israel Project. For the first time in my lifetime, the majority of Americans know of and are appalled by the actions of Israel. Anti-war voices are breaking through for the first time. I really hope we're going through a sea change. People are sick of war and despise those who profit by it.
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  149. I think the entire war is to cover up western corruption: oligarchs feasting on the corpse of the Soviet Union and crippling Ukraine's chances of being an actual, liberal western democracy..
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  150.  @danporath536  Not all conservatives understand liberty. Some conservatives engage in the same bullshit power games as liberals.
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  151. They had Trump's own words to back up this view. I was very pessimistic and I remain somewhat pessimistic, but I also held out hope that the war crimes angle would give Trump real leverage on Israel. It would be just like Trump to tell Bibi: "I'm your staunchest supporter, but you need to stop the killing of women and children, and this apartheid situation, or I won't be able to sell this to the American people. Help me out, here, friend." I'm not sure what the solutions are, because support of one side means death and possible extinction to the other - or possibly both - side(s). I'm not a fan of the Zionist project, but I know that destruction of Israel as a sovereign state would mean great destruction and millions killed. I know that the preservation of Israel, as currently conceived, would mean great destruction and millions killed. There is hope that a middle path, possibly along the lines of the Abraham Accords could be the best, albeit imperfect solution, for at least a while. The Accords were abandoned as soon as Biden took office. Both sides will have to hold their noses to get to a better place. Israel will have to change its ways, which is no small matter. Much of what we don't like about Israel is the result of being a nation under siege for generations. Much of what we don't like about Israel's foes is the result of the ruthless, bloodthirsty force used to (re-)create Israel in the first place. Both sides see the other side as inhumanly ruthless and cruel. There's no direct solution to the atrocities of the past by both sides. How far back do you want to go to find first causes? 40 years? 80 years? 100 years? 1000 years? There's plenty for everybody to be upset about. That doesn't do anything for women and children just trying to survive. Finding a way to STOP the atrocities in the future may be our only hope.
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