Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times"
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Agree. Don't let them argue that they were the victims of Russian disinformation. I notice Trey Gowdy obligingly giving the bastards that "out," while pretending to be outraged at their behavior. It's like what was done wasn't actually criminal, but just an administrative glitch, where people made a sequence of improbable "honest mistakes" that can only be compared to rolling a '6' 100 times in a row on a fair, 6-sided die. They've GOT the misfeasance, but Republicans who over-sell the "Russian Disinformation" angle are giving bad actors a way to skate on clear malfeasance. They KNEW what they were doing, and the "mistakes" all broke the one, anti-Trump direction.
Watching Gowdy's committee when he was still chair, it became obvious that even a GOOD committee chair lacked any real oversight capabilities over agencies that could - and did - hide all their malfeasance behind a veil of secrecy, in the name of national security. I thought Gowdy was very weak. He'd talk tough, but he'd always defer to the stonewallers. He should've been suing DOJ and FBI for the relevant documents. But the closest we got to that was Judicial Watch, nibbling around the edges with FOIA filings on tangential matters that ended up exposing more in civil court than our so-called watchdogs could manage in the highest places.
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16:30 - I'm way more worried about the legacy media and the same systems of control extending to the Internet than I am of the Internet, itself. Without the Internet, there would have been no voices speaking against what was being done during COVID. As it was, legacy media and government control of Big Tech platforms achieved effective control over the main Internet messages that were selectively boosted or selectively de-boosted. As it turned out, the voices against what was going on got bigger than the legacy media at a certain point.
There are still legacy controls in operation across broad swaths of the media landscape. They have their own momentum and they are automatically boosted on the Internet. But even though they get boosted, legacy network channels are doing less business than the aggregation of all their independent competition.
For those of us who are "in the know" about what Dr. Malone's talking about, the change is agonizingly slow. We see the propaganda victories continuing in the legacy media. Neocons still exercise way more power in government and legacy media than they do in the hearts and minds of most Americans, and so government policy and public sentiment are more at odds than I've ever seen them.
You won't see NBC, ABC, CBS, or FOX ever questioning the Israel Project, where what is best in our hearts is used to do a great amount of harm. But you WILL see independents, whose combined viewership is many times that of legacy media's, calling out the Regime-Change Imperialism, and the fact that European colonization never went away. It just went underground.
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Viral video makes it much harder for a false narrative to overwhelm the facts. As sophisticated as Antifa have been with their tactics, and fine-tuned their violence to set up the victims as the aggressors, I think they misunderstand the times and overestimate their actual reach. Just because everybody THEY know is part of the program doesn't mean that program has much reach beyond their shrinking echo chamber, as free citizens just #walkaway.
I think, too, that when you think everybody you disagree with is something they're not, you're not going to be able to predict their behavior as well as you thought. It's a general's arrogance, and goes to the blind spots in the money and the leaders behind these orchestrated campaigns. They WANT Joey Gibson to go away or take up arms, either one, but he just keeps coming back, standing there with open hands and open heart. He's not - and conservatives generally are not - allowing himself to be provoked to violence.
They've gotten one guy convicted for pulling a weapon when he was surrounded by a threatening mob. I've seen those 5-on-1 and 10-on-1 situations turn into a brutal beat-down. The person in the middle KNOWS their life is in danger, and everybody in the circle around them knows it's wrong but tells themselves it's harmless and nobody's going to be seriously hurt. Di'n' mean nothin'. Di'n' do nuffin'. I was just walkin' behind him and he fell...
But even if it's only threatening and demeaning words, with some physical displays, like fake punches or the biggest guy in the group bouncin' on his toes, it's just about the cruelest, most ungodly things you can do to a person, whose hat you don't like. I don't see how those people can sleep at night, or how they must torment others in their daily lives. You know the type. Look for something negative and UNLEASH on people in faux-righteous fury and indignation. No grace.
Meh. Maybe by acting very badly in these situations, they vent all their destructiveness, and they're really nice people. I dunno. I just know the way they're behaving is intolerable, and the crowds they infiltrate need to put the kibosh on such nonsense. Failing that, the police. Failing that, the Guard. If you want to make a point, be like a Hong Konger and show some class. Not sayin' ya need to sing the Anthem or wave Old Glory, but respect your fellow human beings.
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Sorry, somewhat off-topic (per usual).
This behavior is a lot of the driving force behind orgs like BLM, when you look at how they've been using NSA intercepts to "beat" drug dealers who are ALWAYS going to be one step ahead of law enforcement if law enforcement plays by the rules. This is the nature of smuggling and unenforceable laws of prohibition. All you can do against drugs (or alcohol) is empower the very worst people and subsidize the building of immensely powerful and violent cartels that are smart enough and big enough to penetrate ANY law-enforcement net against contraband that millions are willing to pay good money for!
It's only natural for law enforcement and prosecutors to LOVE this "new theory" of using these means of attacking otherwise unassailable drug cartels. I think the rot starts at the top, but the way it plays out on the street is the kind of thing that has people ready to believe the BLM. And they don't care if the one instance was blown out of proportion, because they know 20 people who WERE "jammed up" or "tuned up" by crooked cops.
Who are the crookedest cops? Vice and narcotics cops. They don't start out that way. But they're going up against an entire culture that's risen up precisely because of these unenforceable laws. They make low-middle wages, take big risks, and are surrounded by wealth and corruption. All it takes is one weak person, and it can infect entire departments. It's not the fault of cops, per sé. It's just human nature's toxic side, in a toxic landscape created by wrong-headed (possibly well-intentioned) policies and policy makers, without taking account of consequences of the (ab)use of power.
I want cops investigating murder, assault, theft and fraud. That's pretty much it. Think of how many kids in the USA smoke that first joint, and from then on, they never see police in the same way, ever again! I'm not saying legalize the stuff for under-age kids. But legalize weed (and even the hard drugs) for adults. Regulate the stuff. Tax the stuff. Focus law enforcement on crimes against persons and property.
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Hanson can be pretty great. Sometimes I disagree with him. He's a little too quick to see the need for military confrontations. I need to go back and see what he was saying in the run-up to Iraq. He'd be the type to start talking about the parallels between Hussein's Iraq and Hitler's Germany. They very much built up the Iraq War(s) as stopping a Hitler BEFORE he's done his damage. People from the generation before mine (I'm an early-'60s baby) who studied the run-up to WW II have always 2nd-guessed how to stop Hitler in the 1930s, and scornfully ask "Why were they appeasing him? You need to stop these guys before millions die!"
I was a relatively precocious kid who spent a lot of time on restriction, so I ended up slurping up books detailing the diplomatic surrender of the entire country of Czechoslovakia by the Allies, leaving Benes high and dry. Hitler rolled into Czechoslovakia without firing a shot. Just his. Then the Phony War, where diplomatic arrangements BEFORE the war just didn't square with the security situation on the ground. Then there's the natural reluctance of a liberal society to want to pay for national defense during peacetime. Euros and Americans were not building-up a war machine like the socialists, communists and the Emperor of Japan. Liberal societies don't like war.
Well, liberal PEOPLE don't like war. I think when you look at how big our military is, and what we've done with it over the years, it's hard to make the case that our government is at all reflective of classical liberal values. Since World War II, we've had an endless list of excuses to stay on a World War II footing. We let FDR do a lot of stuff because of the existential crisis, and much of that is still in place.
We never learn our lesson. We meddle and then we have to meddle, more, because of our previous meddling.
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Growing grain for foreign consumption isn't necessarily a smart idea for the USA. I'd rather see our farmers growing food and raising livestock for OUR consumption. That's not how it works, any more. Big corporate farming has taken over almost everywhere and they run soil-robbing mono-crop farms that create less and less nutritious foods. Agriculture is pretty messed up in the USA.
I despise subsidies of ANY kind. If it's not sustainable, it shouldn't exist.
I think we're going to see a revolution in agriculture, with more and more small-plot farms growing vegetables for local kitchen tables. And not just these huge grain farms operating unsustainably with mined water, pesticides, and petrochemical fertilizers. And that's not even talking about genetically modified foods, where they build the pesticides INTO the food, and then we eat it! LOL! We're growing food that even the INSECTS are too smart to eat. Actually, some of the modifications used merely sterilize the pests that eat it, and so we get the effect of a pesticide, by preventing future generations that will eat more. No concern for the effect of those built-in pesticides on people who eat the stuff. And our own government happily labels these products as "organic," because they didn't use any spray! The spray is already inside the crop! AND WE EAT IT! And we wonder why our sons are growing tits, and our daughters want to play football.
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We all talk about the sins of the Church, but the Church quietly helps people. Organized religion clearly has its dangers, but it's an organic social safety net that existed long before government. We always focus on the bad actors, but we all know, for a fact, that a LOT of the people who volunteer their time and give gifts do it out of the goodness of their hearts. Powerful force for good. There's good and bad comes with organizing anything. And I think kids learning about Jesus and his teachings is a good thing. For me, personally, growing up in a Methodist family, Jesus was an antidote to existential angst that hit me really hard, really early, after some traumas.
But I kind of out-grew Christianity, while at the same time appreciating the archetype of what I imagine to be a benevolent, omniscient being, who sees when I mess up, or misbehave myself. Basically a super-ego that acts as my conscience. I can seek to make the future better without having to believe in a castle in the sky where I'll go and hang out with my buddies for eternity. But I do know I can try to make the next generation's lot in life better than mine. Take one more step towards longer life and greater happiness.
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My institution went full-on Google to 'save money,' and it's a giant pain in the butt. It reminds me of the Windows NT was a thing, and all the 'experts' were telling us x, y, and z, because they were so smart and we were so dumb. They told us how Windows NT was the only "secure" server on the market, and waste our time and crash every other week, and get praised for how hard the IT were working. To me, a good IT person spends most of their time drinking coffee, because everything's running. Same deal with Google. They're so paranoid of all their holes that it's a giant pain in the ass, and an intrusion into your privacy. Just like the late '90s early '00s, bean counters congratulate each other while everybody using their junk has their efficiency destroyed.
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China is such a sad story. Such fine people. Such ruthless and greedy overlords. When Chinese immigrate to America, and enjoy American freedom, Americans have to discriminate against Asians just to keep the Ivy League from turning yellow! These are some of our finest citizens. They've gotten a raw deal from us from Day 1, kept their heads down, and just out-worked ALL of us. We hated them because they could come in after we were done mining out all the gold, and build good lives for themselves just working the mine tailings we threw out and moved on from. Oh, that chapped a lot of white hides, let me tell you!
I say "they" and "we," but really, it's US! I'm really proud of the Chinese-American heritage we share, and regret how their leaders treated them over the centuries, how Europeans treated them in China, and how European-descended Americans treated them out West. I think Chinese tend to love America, because they see a system in which their hard work is rewarded commensurate with their effort. They don't need or want any special favors. They're doin' FINE if folks will just let 'em be, like any other citizen.
I don't much care what we homogenize to or if we homogenize, as long as everybody's on the same page about each others' rights, and embrace principles of limited government and balance of powers between the 3 branches. We've got a great system that protects the individual against the whole (largely) and the whole against the few (generally). We don't need to add a whole lot to it, and could probably do with quite a bit less. I'm more of a localist than a globalist.
Global trade? Sure. Whatever makes the most people the happiest, trading freely, without restriction or unfair advantage. But you don't need a lot of oversight on that, between consenting traders. What complicates things is when nation-states manipulate things to disadvantage trading partners. Then, maybe you need a strong president, with good economic advisors, acting in YOUR nation's best interests. But generally, less is better on both sides, and closer ties between producers and end-consumers is generally better.
I despise the CCP, but I could see making a deal with a Chinese citizen for something they make that I want or vice versa. I think the more of that goes on, the more irrelevant the CCP and US Government become, which is kind of where I'd like us to get. It's really hard to make people hate each other when they're Skype-ing back and forth. It's really hard to keep them from comparing notes on the goings-on in the world.
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I'd feel a lot better if they removed all the judges who presided over the issuance of the FISA warrants on Trump. They have not done their due diligence, and are part of a cover-up, as far as I'm concerned. They could call ALL those guys out on the carpet, if they desired. Clearly, they do not desire. What do you do when the courts and the executive branch are in it, together? Who enforces and adjudicates on the enforcers and adjudicators? We have the same problem in Congress. How do you stop corruption by the men who write the laws governing corruption? In their special circumstances, they have advantages of opportunity and information that they monetize on a daily basis for their own personal benefit. They write the rules so THEIR way of taking advantage is OK, but nobody else could possibly profit from THEIR way, because they're not in those positions of power and access.
You can't KEEP that campaign money after you drop out, but you CAN put it into an NGO owned by you or one of your buddies. That right there can be 3 or 4 high-paid jobs working in "charity" that you can throw to people whose support you want, or who will just do you favors in the future, because you got their worthless nephew a paying job.
I'd go over the financial records of all relatives, friends and associates of finance and banking committees before the 2008 crash. I think there was a lot of shorting stocks that were about to take a hit. The Congress knew before the rest of it, and their cronies all got an early heads-up.
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