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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