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The thing about Hislop (and his long time panel show colleague, Paul Merton) is that he is one of the vanishingly rare few people in the public domain who hasn’t turned out to be a bastard, or allowed his advantages of being popular in the public eye to corrupt him at all.
I’ve been an admirer of Hislop’s since the 1980’s, reading his rag since the days when Richard Ingrams ran the show and Ian Hislop, “stuck to him like a limpet,” as Peter Cook put it. And I’ve seen every episode of Have I Got News For You since its inception.
When he does a documentary series, or writes for a TV show, he always uses that opportunity as a way to serve the public good; either by giving us insights into current affairs and laughing at them, or showing us lesser known aspects of history that have come to define us, or resulted in the institutions we have today.
One of the very few people I know of worthy of our, “admiration,” and perhaps, “National Treasure,” status.
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Ah, I see what you did there. 😂 I ALWAYS tell anyone I can find, who doesn’t know the show, “It is the best, most informative, well researched and most educational documentary series the BBC has ever made!” And then heavily imply they must be dunces if they haven’t even heard of it. So often, people will ask, “What? Better than Carl Sagan, or David Attenborough,” etc, etc. I take HUGE delight in encouraging them to buy the boxset if at all possible and, “Don’t read the stuff printed on the covers!” as that will spoil the surprises, and so on. I’ve only managed to get one person to go all in on that, but GOD was it worth it for the reaction! 😁
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Isn’t NATO’s approach (the western response) a bit risky? Isn’t there a risk that we could, “normalise,” repeated violations?
That they continue to escalate until we get used to Russian misbehaviour, even, “tolerant,” of these repeated violations of international law? People are still dying, so western citizens are expected to pay a big price for the west’s apparent indifference.
Yes, I get the principle: “The art of never losing a game is, DON’T PLAY.”
But, at what point do we say, “Enough!”? By then, will we have provided Russia with ample defence in law, because they can argue that we never raised any complaints to their previous violations and provide evidence for that?
How far does one go with this strategy before a disaster occurs for which western leaders will be rightly seen as equally culpable?
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Don, I would like hear from Darnel, the 17 year old girl who videoed the death of Floyd? America needs to be saluting the HERO of this story; a 17 year old girl, who was too brave, too courageous, too decent, to stop videoing, even when four burly cops threatened to arrest her and threatened her with mace! She simply stood her ground, plead for the life of George Floyd, and recorded every last moment of his life. A 17 year old F’ing GIRL. This story badly NEEDS a hero, and she’s it. Wherever she is (Darnel something?) I thank God for her!
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@Peter-yc2uh : How DO you tell your wife, colleagues or kids, that you wasted a fortune of your life savings on a racist delusion? Answer: You DON’T. Apparently, you just keep doubling down, losing friends, family, employment and even going to jail, because THAT is less painful than coming to Jesus and admitting you were SO WRONG. “Sunk Cost Fallacy,” is a well known psychological phenomenon. The GOP have turned Hypocrisy into a Lifestyle choice. These people will deny GRAVITY if there’s a racist reason to do so! The fact that their dumb asses don’t float won’t change that. “Facts,” cannot trump, “emotions.” And fear, and racist rage are the strongest emotions the Darkside has to offer. 🤷♂️
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@jimmyrasmussen756 : It would be, perhaps. But that’s NOT what Jacksfilms does at all. Imagine you saw a guy walking past across the street, who pauses only to steal your neighbour’s milk delivery, news paper and their mail from across the road and you caught the whole thing on your phone camera? Then you show the whole world on your mid-level popular YouTube channel?
And the response that you get on your channel from the public is huge? Everyone saying this guy should be stopped?; how did he get away with it?; do the police know? etc?
Now, imagine the next day, you see the same guy doing the same thing to the same neighbour the next morning and you have your phone in your hand, fully charged? Are you going to video him? And when he does it again, you’ll post that video, right?
My point being, SHE is the one doing this! SHE keeps stealing, like some kleptomaniac, and Jacks is just as gobsmacked that she keeps doing it and that no authority will step to stop it! You don’t stop filming because it’s getting old now! You keep showing the world what this POS is doing, each and every time they do it!
Jacks covers lots of other creators too, not just her.
So where is the harassment. Because, honestly, you sound a little like trump, claiming to be harassed because people want to put him on trial for all those thefts he committed.
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Imagine if we had to go through this, “De-Legitimisation,” every two years? No midterm or national election candidates being accepted, and the chaos that would ensue? America will become utterly ungovernable and fundamentally weak and poor. Until, all it would take would be one guy saying, “I’m not with the Dems or the GOP, but let’s have some peace and stability?” And, before you know it, we’ll have a REAL Coup on our hands, or even an INVASION, which people will accept, for the sake of feeling safe again. Our, “Norms,” have proved USELESS and must become LAWS! Laws that are swiftly, and harshly, ENFORCED. ✌️👍
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Great, informative video. I love your genuine open mindedness, your capacity to separate what is, “science,” from other provinces, such as, “politics,” and your unflustered way of dealing with reality; “The facts, ma’am. Just the facts.” Awesome. And, sadly, rather unique. Popular science dissemination needs more people like you, Sabine.
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My dad had a condition similar to the protagonist’s in the movie Memento. He’d had a series of mini-strokes rendering him unable to make new memories. Imagine your dad asking you, “Will you drive me to the hospital to visit your mum?” Only to have to see his face crumple with shock and pain, once again, when I had to explain that she was dead and buried already, just a few weeks ago. Why am I sharing this? Because it was this man who fell, trapped his arm, got taken to hospital and there caught Covid, from which he died within a couple of weeks of admission. The trauma, for me, was compounded by the fact that my dad knew he was seriously ill, but needed to have the fact that none of his four children (nor his wife) were there for him accounted for over and over again. Covid was still a new crisis and nowhere near as well understood as it is now, and the rushed off their feet medical staff would not have had the time to patiently re-explain my dad’s isolation to him, or the different reasons for his wife’s absence from that of his children’s. Yes we could WhatsApp with him, but that was a haphazard, unreliable process, often mediated by an exhausted medic who’s English was little better than basic. He died hard. He died alone. He died not understanding why he was alone.
And then I saw a video of a female press secretary in which she stood at a podium and literally laughed out loud about the drunken antics of the politicians from which she’d just extricated herself, finding their rule breaking somewhat hilarious. At that moment, when I thought about their motives for doing that, and mine for being tempted to break the rules when I even had to get special permission to travel from Scotland to the north of England to attend his funeral, I felt (for the first time in my life) the rage of a revolutionary. I felt like the Tories were laughing at me and every family that suffered through those times.
And I resolved never to forgive them. Even if I could, one day, find forgiveness for their blind, venal, arrogant self service and lies, in my heart, I knew it would be damaging for the country to allow this, “Let them eat cake,” moment to pass unanswered. Whatever Boris’s, “punishment,” for his cruel dereliction of duty, failure to model basic leadership in a time of crisis, or downright lies, I can never get my last moments with my dad back. So whatever they do to Boris, it won’t be enough.
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How do you think they got so rich? It sure wasn’t by giving a damn about their employees. Phil Spencer, in that clip, was actively gaslighting fans, claiming he wants to, “foster creativity,” by, “allowing,” studios to make games of a type they don’t usually make.
Half of the team that made Redfall, including all of its founders, had already left the company by the time that game was published. Those brave enough to speak out about why they left all said it was because they were being, “forced,” to make a live service game, which they had no experience making. Then Spencer flipped and said it would be a single player narrative, when they were already near completion, forcing them to rework the entire project, with the results we all saw.
They had pleaded with Spencer not to force them out of their lane in the first place, into a type of game they didn’t like or believe in ethically, let alone artistically. But their pleas fell on deaf ears, until the Microsoft higher ups changed their minds, when it was already too late. They pleaded even louder with Spencer for more time, but again, deaf ears.
He KNEW the game wasn’t ready, yet he outright lied in his softball Q&A sessions, saying he was getting great feedback from all the testers. He had simply calculated that the game would flop but, by releasing it in an incomplete state, he could still watch the calendar for when those quarterly payouts to the shareholders were due and guarantee their payoffs. And how could he guarantee them? Glad you asked. By knowing that he could still make savings at the other end, by firing staff. As long as the shareholders (who don’t play video games or know anything about them) get their money come pay day, everything is fine. And the investors probably don’t even know about these disasters in the community. All they know is that the first day they don’t get their LEGALLY ENFORCEABLE promised payouts, they will move on into another industry and gut that.
Which is why, to the public, Spencer says the direct opposite of the truth and gaslights us players about what the studios actually wanted. Most of these people are bound by NDA’s, so the fact that we hear anything contradicting him, or even just challenging his basic assumptions, at all is as a result of brave individuals taking big risks.
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Winston Smith found a small corner of his room that was not being surveilled, took out his journal and wrote, “down with big brother.” Rebellion begins in the heart. The irony is that in George Orwell’s fiction Winston ultimately failed, yet in so many examples of real life it actually worked!
Especially in more recent decades, from the Maidan Revolution to the Polish example in this video, to recent events in Syria, the Arab Spring and, of course, the fall of Soviet Communism, to name but a few.
You, the rebels, are NOT alone. And this man is SO RIGHT it hurts! Small, seemingly insignificant acts of SELF OWNERSHIP, free thinking, and tiny contributions to the cause of justice are not so little as they first appear. When others make their own tiny contributions there will ALWAYS be one among them who takes that one step which is bigger than everyone else’s, encouraging you to go further, step by step, until the snowball of rebellion grows.
The old Russian mantra of, “We never talked about politics in our house,” will be no defence when Russia is looking to the west for sanctions relief in a post Putin era.
A small act of rebellion requires great courage. We get it. And we will NOT forget it or abandon you. Take that one step, brothers and sisters of Russia. And be amazed at the wave of support that follows. In your heart, dear reader, you KNOW this man is right.
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They plotted this, and everyone involved has blood on their hands. This was planned two weeks before, and the event organiser named the three conspirators responsible, before going into hiding. All three of them had a meeting with trump, three days before the 6th, where trump MUST have given it the green light! However stupid, incompetent, deadly and shambolic it was, it was still a Conspiracy to have a Coup against America, based upon a LIE that should be illegal to propagate! It’s not free speech, when you scream, “Fire,” in a packed theatre, and we DON’T just allow the Perp to walk away, after watching the DEATHS and destruction they wrought. From trump,on down to this guy, down to the very last one; they all need harsh sentences ✌️
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@jeffrp8388 : Yet, you never once checked out the, “independent,” investigators that FB refers to, right? You have no idea who they are. Because you don’t, “want,” to know. Be honest with yourself, at least? You wouldn’t BE on a channel you don’t like, talking to people you don’t like, about the facts you don’t like, if you didn’t know we were right. Is it just the racism? Take your, “emotions,” out of the room and give them a good, meditative, “talking to,” son . . . You know I’m right.
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@pierreo33 : When people tell me that isn’t likely, I like to remind them that it was unpopular wars abroad, that the people didn’t understand, that were the driving influence of both of Russia’s last revolutions. Their famous one took place during WWI, and the next one, the collapse of the Soviet Union, occurred directly after Russia’s defeat in Afghanistan. It was especially driven on by the mismatch between the victorious tone of their media, set against all those expectant families who didn’t even get a coffin when they thought their boy was coming home.
I lived through that time as an adult. And I followed news and current affairs as much as anyone (certainly more than, “the average guy”) and anyone who tells you they saw that utter soviet collapse coming is either, “misremembering,” or just lying. Even the people who lead it were simply swept up in events, rather than having the end game in sight, as all of the main players have since confirmed.
All of those main historical ingredients are in place at the moment, with the pressures only increasing domestically and on the front. This is why Putin has found it advantageous to have the airforce, army and navy all competing for resources and passing blame for failure on to each other. And then to have divisions within each force blaming one another and fighting over the bullets. The Wagner group is far from unique in that regard. The only thing that’s new about that is that Prigozhin has been doing it in public, which is, admittedly, unprecedented. But he merely represents how ALL Russian armed services behave, behind closed doors.
Yet, if one charismatic leader were to turn his tanks and howitzers around and point them at the Kremlin, the odds of his troops surviving the next three months will shoot up 90%. And it won’t be long now before a domestic protest, or, “incident,” in Russia, sparks the encouragement needed for entire battalions to head back to Moscow, happier to shoot at street cops rather than Abrams tanks . . . It just takes that first domino to fall . . .
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Poland deserves recognition. While the rest of NATO had, until recently, struggled to meet its military spending commitments, 2% of GDP, Poland has spent a whopping 5% of GDP, much of which has gone directly to Ukraine, whom they see as fighting the war that they would be fighting now, had Kiev fallen. And they’re right. And it was right that the US President recognised that by delivering this important speech from there and, as this reporter pointed out, not from Paris, London or Berlin, but Warsaw.
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@PeterSedesse : That was the observation I was hoping someone would make, sir. The one big thing to add to that list is:
* Begun the process of shifting Russia to becoming China’s Vassal State. Did you know that China just recently changed all of its electronic maps? Now those regions of the Russian, “Federation,” that we’re soaked up into the USSR, all have their old, Manchurian, names again. If that isn’t a statement of intent, what is? If Britain started calling America, “The Colonies of King George III,” again, America would be worried . . . for about 5 minutes, until they remember that they outgun Britain both militarily and economically at about 1,000 to 1.
I genuinely think Russia will break up and shrink, becoming wholly reliant upon China for survival. And they will likely keep Putin in power. And he will only be able to prevent palace coups and revolutions by ever increasing extremism, until we have another North Korea on our hands. I certainly believe that this is China’s long game.
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YDDES : It’s kinda’ difficult to tell who’s actually, “serious,” in this shouty crowd, and who’s just Trolling for the hell of it? Personally, I feel no need to, “debate,” with any of these idiots. I mean, why do it? It’s clear from their basic assertion that, “there was no moon landing,” that they don’t do research, don’t read, are not interested in facts, science, “gravity,” ANYTHING of value. I mean, the ones who actually spend a lot of TIME, “researching,” Conspiracy Theories, are not . . . quite, “well,” are they? If you were to put them IN a rocket and TAKE THEM to the moon, they would deny it, saying they were drugged or something, or their internal world would collapse and they’d have to go to hospital. The world does fine, regardless of what they say or do. Is there ANYTHING to be gained, by engaging them? Apart from the Trolls, of course, who get what they, “want,” if you do . . . They get to waste your time, because their life sucks, and they cannot think of a more rewarding way to spend it, than by adding a little difficulty to the lives of others, who COULD be doing something fruitful, like . . . Science, maybe? 😉👍✌️
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Well, I never thought I would find myself saluting a speech made by any Cheney, but we live in interesting times. An eloquent speech, filled with well chosen quotes as well as its own quotable moments. If she wrote that herself, she deserves our highest appreciation. For standing all but alone against that red tide of criminality, I will always think of her fondly. God bless Liz Cheney, her panel and the work they have done. Let us all pray that it will MEAN SOMETHING in practical terms, for the plotters and perpetrators of the Jan 6th coup attempt, and for the security of America’s democracy. For good or ill, there rests the security of the free world, giving the citizens of every democratic country a dog in this fight, and their right to have a say.
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@Catch21Manila : Seriously? You can watch the election debate, here on YouTube. Ossoff listed every one of the more serious federal offences, leaving out the lesser ones. Perdue did not even deny them. He just, “Whaddabouted,” like a trump troll on social media. And, he didn’t, “sue,” Ossof, or even threaten to at the time, because he KNEW Ossoff would have DARED him to, on live TV. It was AWESOME! See for yourself?
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Yes, he seems like a perfect storm in that sense, like life conspired to play on his weaknesses and crush his strengths. Which is pretty much what lies at the heart of all great tragedies; that sense of, “If only.” The narrator of this video did a great job but overlooked the key element of the whole story, the very same thing that made The Dark Knight such a successful Joker too: He’s the quintessential, “Unreliable Narrator.” We cannot know by the end, how much of this story actually happened and, of the parts of it that did, whether they happened in the same way as he remembers them.
Like his love interest being a pure fabrication of his desperate loneliness, his unlikely meeting with Bruce Wayne and later his father, his murders, all of it could be all in his mind or just events he witnessed without taking part in them. Even his appearance on TV is brought into question. So, in that final scene, are we seeing nothing more than symbolic bloody footprints? Or are they the tracks of his latest, pointless murder?
We take on faith that this is the story of the genuine article, The Joker, Batman’s antagonist, or there would be no point in watching the movie. But, just as Joker told a different story to each person about the scars on his face in The Dark Knight, the very intrigue about him, and that we cannot ever be certain of the facts surrounding him are and that’s what makes Joker such a towering success.
People’s biggest concern about this film was that it might ruin the one characteristic about The Joker that makes him work so well, that he’s unknowable, a true agent of chaos and the antithesis of Batman, who seeks to bring order back to Gotham. Like a force of nature, he has always had no origin story, in the same way that banal evil is incomprehensible, giving him an edge that thrills the comic fans. This movie achieves the impossible, giving us that origin story to colour his narrative, but by making him utterly untrustworthy as the story teller, even to himself, we can still never really know what makes him what he is, or even if this is anything like the same story he would tell himself by the same time next week?
That’s the genius of this film and why it works so well. It respects its source material and doesn’t spoil the one great thing about what made Batman’s greatest antagonist what he was: chaos incarnate.
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@Etaoinshrdlu69 : Except Ukraine won’t allow them to just sit on their hands. Right now, Ukraine is running its battlefront like a finely tuned machine, (with NATO’s help, of course) creating a money sink that is just sucking up all of Russia’s finances and irreplaceable resources. Why would Ukraine suddenly stop doing that? Or even relax the pressure? Their shaping operations are going really well. And just as they get ready to make a big push, yet another long range solution drops into their laps and they, once again, see no reason to expend precious lives, when Storm Shadows and Scout missiles can deplete key Russian reserves behind enemy lines, making it eventually safer for the Ukrainians when they do finally assault the front lines. Russia can’t just sit around at a stalemate while it’s being bled white. It’s not like the old trench warfare where everyone gets to stare at their watches and get bored, between the odd push for a few feet of ground. Russia is burning behind them. Their personnel, equipment and fuel depots are literally exploding and their economy is already down 40% in the last quarter. We can HOPE they’re that dumb, as the Kremlin will be in Ukrainian hands within three years if they do that!
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Ishaan Bhat : I just saw an advert, hosted by Shapiro, on YouTube, complaining about YouTube, “silencing free speech.” Take a moment to think about that, and ask yourself, how many people fall for his Propaganda? Like a private service is responsible for his free speech? He’s free to set up his own websites and social media, but YouTube is his mom or something? . . . Just look at his lame attempts to subvert the interview, here, by persecuting the BBC? Why people don’t just lol at him, is beyond me? He even looks and sounds like a Ratzi
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I have a copy of Christopher Frame’s translation of Montaigne’s complete essays in the form of an audiobook, which I chose for having something to listen to when I walk my dog in the mornings. It’s one of the few books I keep returning to. Partly because it’s so beautifully read, by Christopher Lane in this case, in case anyone is thinking of buying it? But mostly because the writing is so astonishingly accessible, recognisably modern in attitude and bewitchingly honest.
It is worth noting that Montaigne never thought of himself as a philosopher and that for every idea he professes, he will usually present its counter argument in a separate essay, as you noted with that reference to his introduction. Not that he was at all fickle, but that he could see valid reasons for almost all arguments. And the reason for that was both his disarming honesty and his superhuman gift for empathy.
It’s that honesty and empathy that reaches us so clearly, through the generations. It’s also worth noting that he spent that period in his tower, with his books, not in total isolation. He enjoyed the company of regularly visiting friends, would go down to the village and drink and play small stakes gambling games with the locals and established friendly relationships with his large retinue of staff. All of which he tells us about in these essays. He remained gregarious but had withdrawn from the, “public life,” which made demands upon him that were outside of his control.
I think that’s the essence of who he became: a man who just wanted to be free. It was the realisation that he need not leave a growing legacy behind him for his posterity, but merely a few resources and a little cash for those closest to him, that set him free, in my view. He realised he had enough wealth and did not need any more.
What was truly revolutionary about his work, collectively, was an honesty that surpassed almost any of his contemporaries and an almost revolutionarily modern attitude to almost everything. A set of values that would have seen him burned at the stake had they been widely known. But to us seem eminently reasonable, sympathetic and even heart warming.
The audiobook is well over 50 hours long, but I’ve completed the whole thing at least twice. And self proclaimed philosophers rarely get that much attention from me even though I have always loved reading philosophy generally. So, the guy had something.
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Those Russian soldiers would find their life expectancy goes up sharply if they went back to Moscow and removed the very small group of oligarchs who are costing them everything, in return for nothing.
Putin’s 6 mistakes so far:
1) Underestimating Ukrainian Resolve: Putin should have watched Ukraine On Fire on Netflix.
2) Overestimating his own armed forces. Their equipment is out of date and the boots on the ground are mostly conscripts. One person defending their home has 20 times the fight in them than one conscript who doesn’t want to be there.
3) Stated Objectives: No one in Russia knows WHY this is happening! Putin spent the last 20 years convincing Russians their claims on Ukraine were legit, because they are the, “same people and country,” essentially. Now they’re meant to go kill them all?
4) Putin’s REAL objectives: The whole point is to make sure Shell, Exxon and BP NEVER get to drill for those massive gas and oil reserves which rival Russia’s. It would take years to get it pumping, so he doesn’t want to pump it himself, either. He just wants to make sure NO ONE does, making him the only major supplier in Europe and the second biggest supplier in the world.
5) The west’s real objectives: Which brings us to Putin’s shock at the west’s resolve. Ever since energy security was a thing, for more than a 100 years, the west has NEVER relinquished control of energy security to the East, and they’re not going to start now, right or wrong.
6) How this ends: The west will remain as cautious as it dares to be and, sadly, won’t put Ukraine’s interests above that of energy security. Zelensky’s job is to keep those two interests aligned and to ensure he honours those deals with western oil developers to pay for rebuilding his country, along with reparations from Russia. If he plays his cards right, he could turn Ukraine into an energy powerhouse for the next 20 to 30 years, until the world is off its fossil fuel addiction? Which would only help move countries like Hungary toward democracy and away from reliance on a weakened Russia.
Putin will bluff about nukes, but he wants to live as badly as any cowardly bully. He has mistaken the west’s caution for irresolution. They will not allow him to keep Ukraine. But since he keeps threatening nukes, they will do absolutely everything in their power; fomenting revolution in Russia, pouring in resources to Ukraine, long after they’re occupied, and anything else, and sanctions are only just getting started, until Putin is taken out in a palace coup, or taken down by a revolution. Governments of the west will prefer the palace coup for the sake of stability. We should hope for the Revolution, for the sake of real change.
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Thanh Mai : Exactly! She said it, because she, “believed,” it would get a faster response from the cops, and because she, “hoped,” it would intimidate him into backing down. I bet she KNEW she had lost the battle, but was too proud, racist and cornered, to just throw up her hands and say, “Oh, you know what? I’m being something of a dick, here. I’m sorry. Let’s start over?”
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And, Rudy’s still got trump’s impeachment testimony to look forward to, at which he’ll have to testify, under oath, that he KNEW, “the steal,” was a LIE! Or, give his evidence for believing it. That will do America good! But, I hope they subpoena Graham, Cruz, Warnock and the rest! They were all part of it! Let the world and the cult HEAR it from their own mouths!
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Fox should be getting sued AND charged with sedition! They did so much HARM to democracy, world wide! Fox, between the election and the insurrection of the 6th, cast doubt on the election over 700 TIMES, even though they KNEW, “The Steal,” was a FLAT OUT LIE! Why isn’t that SEDITION??? You can’t scream, “fire,” in a pact theatre, and get to watch people DIE in the chaos, without CONSEQUENCES! Why is Fox allowed to be such traitors and get away with it??? We used to hunt down and HANG seditious propagandists after WWII! Now we let them broadcast on American soil, and collect from their shares in the company??? WTF, America??? It has to STOP!
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I think it’s wrong to be, “too empathetic,” toward those who know better, but still put their families through Covid, for purely political ignorance, ignoring health risks. But, I feel sorry for the genuinely credulous. It’s often hard to tell them apart. As to Rudy, he betrayed America, repeatedly, because of his lust for relevance. I said this latest, “I will gladly go to jail,” thing, was a veiled threat, and a desperate appeal for money and access to Maralago. This confirms that. All Rudy has is, “proof,” that he truly was acting on trump’s orders. For every single crime he committed. Curiosity Stream is awesome, BTW. ✌️
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Louis N : Actually, I thought this was the most revealing and, “defining,” moment of Trump’s whole presidency? This proves that Trump’s fans fake their, “belief,” in Trump. Otherwise Alabama (Trump Country) would have taken emergency measures, right? Certainly, before the Weather Service corrected him? But, they, “did,” NOTHING. Proof, if proof were needed, that Trump’s Trolls live in the Land Of Fake Believe. So long as he remains greedy and a racist, they’ll pretend to, “believe,” anything he says. revealing, right? 🤔
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Kelby Rock : Your Republic has FALLEN. The coming, “elections,” are ALREADY RIGGED. Do you think they can ALLOW you to, “vote,” the Trump’s out, so they can ALL be indicted, go to jail, cut deals, “rat out,” EVERYONE, so the ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION goes to jail, leaving a skeleton of the Republican Party behind to disband in disgrace and flee from the press like escaped Nazis after WWII??? . . . They have SHOWN YOU that they ALREADY RIG EVERYTHING. America should be filling the streets and DEMANDING the restoration of the Republic and your Democratic system, like the Ukrainians did, a decade ago! They did it with NO WEAPONS and their Putin Puppet fled back to Moscow. WHY are we ALLOWING THIS DICTATORSHIP TO RIG THE COMING ELECTIONS!
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Just saw a CNN story about an outed Troll, who is living in America, while she was still a manager of the St Petersburg Troll factory. She’s not been charged with anything but, because we know her name and address, and what she looks like, she’s gone into hiding. Her “cover” was as a Vlogger who said “wonderful things” about her American home, to the folks back in Russia. All the while, she was working to bring down American democracy. When I saw her face, I felt visceral anger, in a way I haven’t for a long time. They are all over America, right now. And Europe, etc. We CAN’T pretend this is not happening? We will lose our shrinking DEMOCRACY. And for WHAT? A bloated buffoon, who hates better than he talks? SMH. Hhhhhhhhhh . . .
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This has a completely new flavour to previous Syrian conflicts. I cannot guess as to how Erdogan persuaded these disparate factions to unite (AND to show mercy and spread a message of tolerance!) but he’s trained and equipped a roughly 40,000 strong army, with a singular goal: Bring down Assad’s regime and eject his Russian and Iranian allies.
Is the pending new presidency in the USA a factor in this sudden sense of urgency? That would be on Erdogan, with whom, no doubt, Washington will be in touch. Is it simply the fact that Russia and Iran have been weakened on their own proxy war fronts? Are their respective hardened shells of imperialist might as thin as Assad’s?
My hope, personally, is with regard to Europe. I hope this weakens Russia and adds to their problems in Ukraine and Georgia. Maybe even Chechnya’s rebels will see a window of opportunity? Russia is now selling over a billion Chinese Yuen every two days, just to prop up their spiralling Ruble. They simply cannot sustain their spending and commitments to empire globally.
It’s impossible to judge, since Russia’s implosion may be imminent. Or they could hold out for years. But crises like these bring the end of Putin’s dictatorship into focus, at the very least. After all, I’m old enough to remember the fall of Soviet Communism. And anyone who tells you they saw that coming is either misremembering or just making stuff up.
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: They have Crystallised this moment in history, in such an odd way. John Ossoff stood next to Perdue, on live TV, and listed ALL of his offences, to which half the nation responded like Bill Paxton in Aliens when they discover the treachery of the, “company man,” with a hearty, “Man, you’re SO f’king DEAD,” and Perdue had NO RESPONCE! Zero! Nada! Nothing! He just looked guilty as sin, waited for his turn and started whining about immigration, KNOWING that trump’s cult, simply doesn’t CARE! That moment distilled everything about US, “politics,” today, for me. And it’s why I gave my donation (that I would normally send to the Lincoln Project) to him. And that was BEFORE the elections came down to this critical runoff. We should ALL do what we can for them? Money, time, social media, whatever we can offer. It may make the difference between justice, or the ruin of America. This is our moment, America! This is NOT a drill! HELP THEM! Save the Republic, and let’s all see a little JUSTICE!
My apologies for going on a bit, but I feel strongly. If you read this far, thanks for your patience ✌️👍
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@jimohara : So, why, “argue,” at all? You know for a fact that trump consistently played it down, with deadly consequences. He acted in bad faith to the tune of half a million dead Americans; most of which, the data lays firmly at his door! What Pelosi and, “Chinese New Year,” have to do with any of that, son? People told you what they knew and tried their best, unless they were part of trump’s inner circle, in which case, they let you DIE! So, WTF was your POINT that you, “don’t want to argue about?”
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@JakeBroe See, that there - your honesty and humility - is why we love you, Jake. It’s why we trust you. You didn’t do a quick Wiki search and try to, “correct,” a criticism, nor did you feel any requirement to, “save face,” as the fact that you don’t know much about something is not a thing to feel bad about. Sadly, such issues are considered, “minor,” by the majority of the world’s population, or a solution would have been found by now. Turkey has long been buying chips at the negotiating tables of the world, by exploiting situations like these, and they will have gotten some great concessions for unblocking their objections to the Swedish. Just about every analyst said they would do so after the elections were settled and here we are. Erdogan may be a dictator in all but name, but he’s he’s a skilled player of a deep game, running rings round Putin and, on occasion, the western powers too.
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Guess trump shouldn’t have Surrendered, huh? No wonder Mike Pompeo and Stephen Miller are the only senior politicians (who were directly involved int the decision making) that still support trump’s Surrender? 🙄 All the rest of his most senior advisors AND GENERALS all agree it was a mistake to Surrender, without even having the Afghani Government in the same COUNTRY let alone the same ROOM! After betrayal like that, no wonder the Afghan government and military ALL either FLED or surrendered too?
Joe hasn’t done a, “bad,” job. Just his job. Comparing this to Vietnam is historically illiterate. And clutching our pearls over less than 1% of 1% of weapons and infrastructure falling into Taliban hands, after supplying them with weapons, equipment, infrastructure and training, for 20 YEARS, is blind ignorance. Drop in the bucket. Rip off the bandaid. It’s the kindest thing.
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I lived through the collapse of the Soviet, “Union,” and followed events as closely as anyone. And, anyone who tells you they saw that coming at the time is either, “misremembering,” or lying to you. Ukraine turned back the entire might of the Soviet 2.0 war machine, at the very gates of Kyiv last year! They destroyed 90% of Russia’s Spetsnaz in just a few weeks!
Yes, much of that was due to Russian hubris, which is unlikely to occur again in the same way. But they are working so closely with us Brits right now, and we are the best nation to be supporting their strategy and planning side of the war, because we have a sense memory of The Blitz in our very DNA. We know what it’s like to see innocent children murdered by coward, with indiscriminate bombs fired from great distances. And we know what it’s like to be the underdog, counted out and alone, as Ukraine was since the invasion of Crimea in 2014.
You learn to do more with less. You learn to get creative. You learn to sabotage the enemy behind his lines and destroy his morale. You learn about coalition building and retaining the moral high ground at all times no matter the temptations. And most of all, you learn how to win. How David can defeat Goliath. I have every confidence that Ukraine will win startling victories when they’re ready. And I also believe that Putin’s regime will collapse as a result. And I am looking forward to that day.
Slava Ukraine. ✌️🇺🇦🇬🇧
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@CozmoNz : Not just, “no direct answers,” but passing on the, “blame,” to others. What’s so egregious about it, is even though the journalist handled her perfectly, she’s still got her, “blame and victim,” narrative out there, for the base, just by saying that. It will be the only part of the interview that Fox plays. They have to be, “victims,” which is central to their narrative
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My experience too. Blown away by her articulacy and charm, her physical grace and beauty, as well as her towering intellect and accessible prose style. I was charmed to see that all that hand movement stuff that she did, during her recital, is a habit that she does, simply whilst speaking: Like she acts out her thoughts and words, so you can almost understand her, even without sound! And, when she said that mantra; “They call me,” did you tear up? I did. And, I’m a middle aged white guy! I would be delighted if my three daughters turned out like her. I may have never heard of her before, but I’m NEVER forgetting her now. And my girls aren’t either, if I can help it ✌️👍
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So, Gym Jordan isn’t, “wrestling,” with his conscience over all those boys who got molested under his watch? Instead he’s back to, “But, the emails! Mieh, muh, but Hillaaarrriiieee! Mieh, muh, mah butt hurts!” Ahhh, the good ole’ days. 🤣 😂 🤣
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@keithv3767 : Personally, I thinking using jail as a threat to intimidate opponents should be, in itself, a felony. But, demanding JUSTICE for real crimes should be a natural response, from all Americans. Not just the betrayals of the Constitution, the grifting, the obstruction and all the other offences (some not yet revealed) that we know are coming, either. But there are hundred of thousands of grieving families out there, at their lowest emotional (and economic?) ebb. Who will speak for the DEAD and DYING, if not us? If there is not a RECKONING for this horror, America will never heal. Not, “revenge.” But, examples of ruthless, relentless JUSTICE, to deter America’s traitors from EVER wanting another trump. The next one might be charming and articulate, but just as sociopathic? We have a DUTY to make them ALL pay, for the sake of National Security. And to leave our children a legacy that wasn’t just climate destruction and unbridled greed, racism and division? ✌️
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I tell you, if they force these people to testify at the Impeachment Trial, the GOP will be broken. Under oath, with no 5th Amendment to hide behind, on live TV, what can they say about, “The Steal?” That is, after all, the REASON for the Insurrection. And they cannot offer ANY, “evidence,” for, “believing,” it was a thing. Most will admit they knew it to be a lie, and the world will hear them; Q, the, “proud,” boys, and all the cult of trump, will hear the truth from the lips of those who lead them to disaster, criminal records and personal ruin. They cannot refuse to testify, and the key witnesses are the very people who lead the charge, from the back, like this guy, like Graham, Hawley, Cruz and the rest. It will be the most important event in American history, since the surrender of the Confederacy. And twice as damaging to the cult of trump. DEMAND their TESTIMONY from your representatives! Make sure to inundate them, till the trial begins! ✌️
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@xChimkin : No, son. The statement, “not an argument,” is not an argument. You cannot debate people who died more than a century ago. The, “rules based society,” that was introduced by NATO after WWII acknowledged that EVERY country created its borders by displacing or absorbing previous populations, including Russia. So, your benchmark is post WWII, or you have nothing to, “argue,” kid.
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That’s a clever idea, and a neat twist, potentially. Is it yours? But it is an attempt to save Mills and to find a, “happier,” outcome. Yet that would have robbed the finale of its bleakness and ultimately, what made it so impactful. The fact that his plan worked, even when it was revealed and he was operating in plain sight, this is what makes him, the story and the final impact on the viewer so memorable and powerful. Remember when you watched it for the first time? Remember after that Hemingway quote and the sound of that distant helicopter fades, how you sat silently, contemplating what you’d just witnessed? Any other outcome to this tragedy would have robbed you of that moment. The reason this thriller is perfect is because it’s bone chilling in it’s inevitability. There is even a scene in the movie where Somerset tells Mills, “This won’t have a happy ending,” warning us, the audience, as much as the character in the story.
I would love to see a story about what became of the characters. Would you? Mills would not have been jailed but he would have been retired out of the police force. What would he have done with himself after recovering from the trauma? Hunted people like John Doe as a private investigator? Maybe avoided all such work forever? Could he have ever found love again? Could he have found purpose? And Somerset, who said he’d, “be around,” presumably to help Mills if he could? Did he finally retire and go, “far away from here,” wherever, “here,” is? The city is never named, so we could all see it as a city we know. What could bring these two men back together? A copycat? Wouldn’t you love to see that? It could be done disastrously, but if it was done well, I think it might be one of the most anticipated thrillers of the 21st century?
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But surely, of all people, a UN ambassador understands that recognition of the State of Palestine is the recognition of a peoples and a country, NOT the terrorists within it? In the face of Israeli history, such gesture politics come off as shrill and hysterical. And such gestures have a way of backfiring. The next allegation his country makes of unfair treatment can be answered with, “But you shredded the UN charter, publicly and cannot invoke its protections now.” If not by UN politicians themselves, certainly by other hostile politicos and radicals.
This ratification is simply a step (a rather small one in reality) in the direction of preventing further genocide. We can debate how intentional this genocide is, but not that it is occurring.
On the first day, when we all heard about the Hamas attack and saw the appalling footage, I told my wife that Netanyahu would seize upon this as his lifeline and that Israel’s response would be disproportionate and will be seen, even by Israel’s allies, as a massive overreaction. My wife was sceptical, asking, “How can you overreact to that?” She pointed to a thumbnail of horror which I won’t describe on YouTube. My response was, “Give it a week, and you’ll see. Just remember I said this.”
We simply cannot afford to lose sight of the fact that this is what is keeping Netanyahu a free man, and free of public shaming, opprobrium and the disgrace of a series of trial after being voted out of office in a probable landslide. The theatrics are a necessary part of his survival plan. So long as the war rages, he remains untouchable, and he knows from experience that he can keep this war raging for decades.
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Ross Wood : Me too. Nothing wrong with EH, but I prefer the straight information format, whereas interviews and discussions are more pot luck. When you see the title of the video, and know the channel, you know what you’re getting, and don’t have to listen to the, “um’s,” and, “err’s,” of unscripted conversations, which you can’t take part in, or lead back to a more interesting part of the discussion. Besides, I like the guy’s voice
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When you say, “Britain,” do you mean, “England and Wales,” as usual? We have a rent freeze here in Scotland, as introduced during the Covid crisis, as it was immediately apparent that landlords could not send people to break lockdowns to complete maintenance and repairs on properties (among other reasons) so rent increases were unconscionable. They remain in place and Landlords like me support rent freezes. But Common Sense Measures are always trumped by greed, and no one wants to talk about that Elephant and Castle in the room, so they? When MP’s are property owners, who’s interests are being served? Not, “Britain’s,” that’s for sure.
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Not quite . . . I tell you, if they force these people to testify at the Impeachment Trial, the GOP will be broken. Under oath, with no 5th Amendment to hide behind, on live TV, what can they say about, “The Steal?” That is, after all, the REASON for the Insurrection. And they cannot offer ANY, “evidence,” for, “believing,” it was a thing. Most will admit they knew it to be a lie, and the world will hear them; Q, the, “proud,” boys, and all the cult of trump, will hear the truth from the lips of those who lead them to disaster, criminal records and personal ruin. They cannot refuse to testify, and the key witnesses are the very people who lead the charge, from the back, like this guy, like Graham, Hawley, Cruz and the rest. It will be the most important event in American history, since the surrender of the Confederacy. And twice as damaging to the cult of trump. DEMAND their TESTIMONY from your representatives! Make sure to inundate them, till the trial begins! ✌️
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Do you remember the good ole’ days, when the Tories at least had the decency to stand at the podium and make a speech when they lost an election? Even the execrable Michael Portillo took his lumps like a good ‘un. This lot don’t even hang around for the count to finish, let alone THANK all those people who went door to door in the rain for them, hung on the phones and worked so hard in other ways in closely contested seats. They flee as soon as they know they’ve lost because they are the lowest caliber of people, who cannot bear losing and worse still, being seen to lose.
Leadsom is just tired and it’s etched into every line of her face. She can see that there’s nothing to look forward to for an ambitious politician. She knows that the first few years of opposition promise nothing but the bloodiest, most unedifying, cruelest civil war the Tories have ever seen, and potentially all whilst being in Third Party status.
Andrea Leadsom didn’t get to where she is today by, “listening,” to people. She has convictions, for sure. But they are misguided and come with all the usual baggage of a Tory, arrogance and overweening self interest which they persuade themselves is, “self belief.”
I believe you encountered some of that in her surgery. When she was tired, defences down a little, and she showed you something of her true, unvarnished character. We have a Prime Minister who has never heard the views of a working person, let alone, “listened,” to anybody who wasn’t promising him lots of money. People are a bit curt when under pressure and I cut them slack for that, but when they flatly refuse to listen, that tends to be because they’re afraid of what you have to say.
A tearful Leadsom is about as plausible to me as a weeping crocodile. I just hope you don’t let it put you off spending time in your representative’s surgeries in the future.
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MoonstonePearl21 I agree with you that it was almost certainly unintentional. This sort of thing is cultural, driven by our received opinions, created what we see in movie thrillers and the stories that the press enjoys focusing on.
A patient of mine was in a relationship with a woman who was later diagnosed as sociopathic, after having committed several crimes of violence. Before this was known about her, however, he was violently attacked by her. He called me and I called the police. By the time I got there, he had been stabbed and the police had arrested him. She had lied, and said that he had tried to murder her; that she acted in self defence. He is a big, strong guy and he pulled through. She is petite and no one, except me, believed my patient's story.
The assumptions made were based on sex, size and the fact that he was getting treatment from a psychotherapist, as he had told the police that he'd called me and explained who I was.
Thankfully, the matter was resolved, as a trail of criminal activity on her part came to light and the courts believed my client. But I am still treating him. One of his biggest issues, now, is dealing with the trauma of not being believed by the authorities. Their treatment of him was appalling at first. And, despite the fact that he successfully sued them for their conduct, that day, they never apologised and he is still treated with suspicion by colleagues and neighbours.
This stuff REALLY matters. I would like to see them correct this mistake, before it does harm to others. I can only hope my client never sees this. He would find it distressing.
Thanks for the response, though. It was most encouraging
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@rogerreger9631 : That’s a slightly unfair interpretation of Mr Sake’s use of the term, “the masses,” don’t you think? His point is perfectly valid, without need of correction, and he obviously understood the issues involved? Yes, it was a hit job, by a few corrupt men. But, the jury was literally over two hundred people strong, each representing their clans and family’s interests. While Socrates had friends among the wealthy, educated class, he was generally unpopular enough for this to happen to him. And his defence more or less sealed his fate, ensuring his popularity was at an all time low among the people of Athens, by the time the jury returned their verdict.
In actual fact, not one person sitting on that jury actually expected Socrates to die at all. They all knew his rich friends would bribe the guards and smuggle him out, and they more or less left the door open for him to escape. They were as shocked and saddened by his death as his friends were. But, that’s because they didn’t understand his (Asperger driven?) character, or his commitment to his principles, which included his obedience to the letter of the law. He chose to accept his death sentence, to make the point that no one should obviate the law, and that their law was wrong. Something of a game going on, for sure, “They’ll miss me when I’m gone,” mixed with a touch of, “Now they’ll be sorry.”
But, he was right, because he knew each of them, collectively and individually, better than they knew themselves. And his final act was to show them the recklessness of mob mentality, and rule by mass consent. He spoke at great length about it to Plato, if his dialogues are to be believed?
I’m only saying all this, not to say you were, “wrong,” in any way, but only to suggest that approaching your contribution from the point of view of a, “correction,” was unnecessarily patronising, maybe? It certainly invites, “defence,” when the point Mr Snake made was 100% correct, for all intents and purposes. I’m not accusing you of, “obtuseness,” merely that there was a friendlier way to add your knowledge? . . .
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Brian Powell : Why are you sitting on your hands, America? Why are you not filling Pennsylvania Avenue? Or, bringing the entire country to a halt? The LAW, your Constitution, your Republic are all being DESTROYED, and you STILL have hopes that the Impeachment will ACHIEVE ANYTHING??? All it’s doing is forestalling the inevitable! Half the GOP are IMPLICATED, so they CAN’T remove Trump! They KNOW he faces disgrace and JAIL, from the MOMENT he’s out of Office. And, they KNOW he’ll squeal on ALL of them at that point. The Trump’s have NO ALTERNATIVE but to hold onto Office FOREVER, and the GOP have NO ALTERNATIVE but to help him! That means RIGGED ELECTIONS, the END of Democracy and the FALL OF YOUR REPUBLIC! But, you sit and watch, like something HONEST might happen? This is EXACTLY how Putin runs Russia! With FAKE Opponents, in a FAKE Democracy. DO SOMETHING or be DAMNED!
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@blake jones : Stop ASSuming stuff, Confederate Karen. I’m a Conservative, gun owning, church attending, member of The Lincoln Project. And, those, “riots,” to which you refer really WERE, “infiltrated,” by Nazi activists. But, even THEY never tried to take the the Republic, Karen. Go complain to Putin, son. No one here likes traitors . . . SMH
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Yes, and Moscow Mitch knows she has no future, and what’s coming at the impeachment. He’s preparing the ground. Senior GOP members are going to be forced to admit that the reason for the Insurrection, “The Steal,” ain’t real! They cannot refuse testimony, or take the 5th. And the cult of trump is going to hear from the mouths of Graham, Hawley, Cruz, Giuliani, and the trump’s, that they LIED to their cult! They gave up their liberty, their jobs, their futures and have criminal records, for a GOP LIE! Out of trump’s loser head!
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Me too, Jake. You keep me sane, with your measured, smart, comprehensive and wise words. Your original breakdown of this was perfect.
But, when you think that she, of all people, with her military background, was so willing to so casually sell out her allies, friends, colleagues, family . . . FOR MONEY! . . . The appalling SHAME she has brought upon her people . . . She deserves whatever the law can throw at her . . .
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A well thought out comment. I would stress that Putin is only talking about the placement of missile silos, which is a far cry from threats to use them. It’s always an indicator of when Putin is feeling his losses and frustrations the most, when he does this sort of thing and, at this stage, it is only words. And we all know that Putin’s words are as worthless as an SBF NFT.
As to Russian, “law,” that distinction is only potentially useful after the fact of a coup, or something, where the already badly abused military refuses an order to use tactical nukes. Any commander who does that is either preparing for civil war, or preparing for martyrdom. I would remind people, for instance, that it is illegal, according to the Russian constitution, to have ANY form of private military forces in Russia, or working abroad for Russia. Yet, no one is asking how the Wagner Group is even a thing in Russia? Russian, “law,” is as meaningless to Russians as their concept of, “democracy.”
In my view, we simply need to CALL PUTIN’S BLUFF. He’s always bluffing. All commentators have to, “take such threats seriously,” because it would be irresponsible not to. But the reality is that this is Outin attempting to look strong when he’s feeling particularly weak. We should tell him that the west’s response will be to accelerate Ukraine’s membership of NATO and put nukes in Ukraine.
It was America (Bill Clinton’s administration) that persuaded Ukraine to give up their nukes altogether in the first place, which we can all regret at leisure now. Putin wouldn’t be pulling this crap if Ukraine still had them. It’s about time that we study recent history and get one thing into our heads: CALL HIS BLUFF. That ALWAYS works. But only when we’re serious!
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See, while I get your point, and agree with much of what you’ve said, there is the point that, as Jim says, you are a person, with agency, writing those words. You wanted to be noticed and cared enough to write them, so that people would. While I don’t think that grants me license to access anything about you, other than the content of your words, what if I noticed a stunning fallacy in your comment? Does merely pointing that out make me the problem? Do we have to be, “enemies,” if I disagree with part of what you said?
What of criminals? Famous people with a large following, who break the law? We shouldn’t care what others say or think about these things, but we do. And, isn’t it right to demand that person’s platform should be taken from them? Especially if they use it to commit more crimes, by scamming or terrorising others? What of social responsibility?
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Imagine showing up to a casualty department, horribly wounded and a crash team of doctors rushes out to treat you, but just before they start life saving treatment they say, “This was a road traffic accident, right? If it was anything else, we’re not treating you. In fact, if it was any other form of incident we’re calling the police and having you locked up indefinitely in a special prison in which the conditions are of a notably lower standard than regular prison.” Does that sound hyperbolic, arbitrary and extreme to you? I hope so.
But, to anyone arguing that the way Tory policies and attitudes treat asylum seekers is any different from the above analogy, I defy you to explain to me, how so?
Deeming an asylum seeker as, “illegal,” on the basis of the mode of transport they used is comprehensively ludicrous, arbitrary and wilfully cruel.
I would argue that even attempting to do so should be outlawed, as it flies in the face of international and domestic laws in both spirit and letter, and is simply vindictive. Labour has always made this argument, if somewhat weakly, which is why they say they should target the traffickers and NOT the trafficked.
It is also illogical, since our country actually NEEDS MORE migrants, not fewer!
This vile woman should be vilified for her article, as should the rag that published it.
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What the GOP care about is having no protection from being forced to testify at the impeachment, with no 5th Amendment protections. Anyone from Graham, Hawley, Cruz and the rest, can be put on the stand, on live TV and asked what their, “evidence,” was for, “believing,” in, “The Steal.” And then get ripped apart. Or, as many of them will, when cornered, they’ll confess that they KNOW it’s a LIE! A seditious lie that put a cop in a coma with brain damage, blinded another and KILLED yet another, leaving over 50 with broken bones and other serious injuries. These, “false narratives,” are NOT FREE SPEECH! They’re Seditious Propaganda and MURDEROUS LIES! They must be outlawed!
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You should be filling the streets right now, and demanding the restoration of the postal service. They are shutting down sorting machines in major cities across America, and literally STEALING the post boxes off of the streets, in front of cameras, like it’s no big deal. They’re literally STEALING Democracy, your Republic, and your, “Elections,” RIGHT NOW, UNDER YOUR NOSES! Please, America? Get off your asses, and PROTEST until the country is HALTED! They know they’re facing JAIL and will do ANYTHING. Right NOW, is the time to fight! By November, they’ll see you all coming, and be READY FOR YOU!
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People need to STOP talking about this from a political point of view AT ALL! This SHOULD have NOTHING to do with how, “old,” the charges are, how, “victimy,” trump plays it, whether it stirs up trump’s base, or whatever! You either have the, “rule of law,” in your country or you don’t! If you do, they must be followed and pursued by everyone EQUALLY, or they are meaningless! Let us all hope and PRAY that the prosecutors are not even THINKING about the god damned, “politics,” of their actions!? Let’s just hope they do their jobs as diligently and as rapidly as humanly possible! Period!
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Absolutely. My wife and I realised that, if we sold all our properties, we’d be millionaires even if we didn’t get a particularly good price for them. Yet, we don’t, “feel,” rich. Nor do we behave that way by trying to, “offshore,” our wealth or avoid taxes, or screw the tenants in our houses. We supported the rent freeze during Covid (we’re in Scotland) and we still haven’t even talked about putting up the rents.
The irony is that policies are aimed at this tiny minority of super rich people who wouldn’t fundamentally change anything in Britain if they all up and left. The biggest industries of all, like Apple, Microsoft, Google and YouTube, and their attendant info-tech dealers would all remain in place regardless of how we taxed them! What else can they do? Take their business elsewhere? Off planet?
What is actually WRONG with people? It’s like FOMO! Just mythical fears built up in their imaginations that have no basis in reality but which are ruthlessly exploited by unscrupulous politicians. People, “fear,” paying more taxes than they’re actually affected by them. I’ve never met a tax whiner who didn’t know where their next meal was coming from.
And every time you see the results of a reliable survey, people ALWAYS say they would prefer to pay MORE taxes than lose the NHS, decent education, water, transport and policing.
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Totally! This, “blue collar guy,” worth $4.5 million (in 2018), married to an executive at Goldman Sachs, sucking up to his boss who says his wife is ugly, and who accused his dad of assassinating Kennedy, AND who is despised by his own party, for backing the insurrection-coup attempt on the Capitol, has the NERVE to whine about outmoded jobs that are killing the planet? But, that has nothing to do with his main donors being oil companies, right? He should be jail!
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And the best way to destroy America, is to have a president that won’t lift a finger, in America’s hour of need. Just hiding in his bunker, scheming about how to, “buy,” or, “steal,” back the presidency. If America needed proof that Donny hates Americans, this will do, until the evidence gets here . . . And his GOP conspirators are the ones who’ll pay for this, when Donny’s fled America with all these donations he’s collecting. His cult thinks is for, “legal challenges.” It’s his Getaway Fund, and they’ll hate him even more than we do, once he’s fled . . . SMH
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Well, now the GOP has caved on stealing the post office from America, you’re about to see a lot of people who are, “former trump allies,” especially from the GOP. Soon, you’ll see senior members stumbling towards the FBI lifeboats, and when law and order is restored, “Wes Dickens,” characters like this will be behind bars, due to all the harm and confusion they cause, and be forgotten.
What would YOU DO, to avoid a life sentence AND an appearance in every child’s history book, as America’s worst traitor? Times that by psychosis and no conscience, and you’re getting close. The fight is on. It’s the fight of your lives. Don’t let up ✌️👍
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He seemed defeated. Like he was just unhappy, and trying not to be, “himself.” That, “nope,” at the end? Flat out denial. Just, the world isn’t going the way he wants it to. Their problem at Fox seems to be that they’re so entitled, used to, “shaping,” the narrative, that they are genuinely surprised when things don’t go the way they planned. What we should be amazed at, is that the world can witness a cold blooded, revenge murder, in broad daylight and the, “verdict,” could have even been a, “question,” for some? The tragedy is that it didn’t need to be a wedge issue at all. We could have all agreed, without having to show any political, “credentials,” or seem less or more, “supportive of cops.” I think Tucker just thought he was going to see, “not guilty,” and believed he was shaping that narrative his own way. When Gandalf finds out he’s just The Wizard of Oz, it hurts? 🤷♂️👍
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Forget the, “verdict,” my friend. What’s more important is that Q followers, Nazis and Trump fans are all going to hear, from the mouths of the GOP, on the witness stand, on live TV, that the reason for their Insurrection, “The Steal,” is a seditious lie. Not one of the GOP will risk a billion dollar lawsuit, a Perjury rap, or a conspiracy charge, for trump. Not when they can’t take the 5th. They will have zero choice. And THAT’S WORTH a trial 😉👍
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I couldn’t watch the whole thing. I copped out, just after his son testified. Too heartbreaking . . . O’Neil was emulating a pastor, giving a fire and brimstone sermon, in an evangelical church. He seemed to believe he would, “convert,” members of the jury, perhaps in a manner that he’s witnessed growing up? Pure speculation, of course, but I would be fascinated to ask him if he’d ever witnessed a big, “come to Jesus,” conversion, at a church service? He did himself a great disservice, but genuinely didn’t seem to comprehend that he was alienating the jurors in every conceivable way. Did he know his guilty verdict was beyond question? He’s obviously not well and a danger to the public. But what interests me is where those pastor style influences came from?
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Imagine if they put one (just ONE!) senior GOP member called to the witness stand? Just ask Lindsay Graham, “The steal was the reason for trump’s insurrection, and you said the steal was a thing, so tell us what your EVIDENCE for that is?” And, when America hears that, “The Steal AIN’T REAL!” from the GOP’s MOUTHS, that would put trump out of business! Because without the 5th Amendment to hide behind, on live TV, which one of them will risk a BILLION dollar lawsuit, Perjury and Conspiracy charges, by pretending it’s a thing?
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CNN has never been, “fake news,” or, “political.” When the truth hurts the government, and that government attacks the news, it is forced to defend its own reputation, by countering the lies. And that plays into the, “narrative,” of the Alt-Wrong media machine, that needs to discredit truthful news. They paint CNN as being, “anti-trump,” and their forced defence makes them look that way, but they’re just broadcasting the news. Which is why the valour of CNN reporters is so shocking to the right wing. Because it’s always been there. CNN journalists have taken their lives in their hands, just talking to trump supporters, and have been physically brutalised on their own soil. The kind of heroism we’re seeing here deserves recognition, but it’s not so uncommon among REAL journalists. ✌️
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@elizabethlock6169 : You know what will bother them? I tell you, if they force these people to testify at the Impeachment Trial, the GOP will be broken. Under oath, with no 5th Amendment to hide behind, on live TV, what can they say about, “The Steal?” That is, after all, the REASON for the Insurrection. And they cannot offer ANY, “evidence,” for, “believing,” it was a thing. Most will admit they knew it to be a lie, and the world will hear them; Q, the, “proud,” boys, and all the cult of trump, will hear the truth from the lips of those who lead them to disaster, criminal records and personal ruin. They cannot refuse to testify, and the key witnesses are the very people who lead the charge, from the back, like this guy, like Graham, Hawley, Cruz and the rest. It will be the most important event in American history, since the surrender of the Confederacy. And twice as damaging to the cult of trump. DEMAND their TESTIMONY from your representatives! Make sure to inundate them, till the trial begins! ✌️
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xxnike629xx : Good point. Everybody thinks they’re, “special.” Ryan isn’t. He’s just a weak, cowardly, thug, gang-member. GOP members, in that typical way they have of calling everyone, “Butt Hurt,” when THEY are the ones who are, “Butt hurt,” about EVERYTHING, are crying over NOTHING. If Ryan doesn’t WANT to feel rejected, perhaps he should check people out in advance, BEFORE attempting to corner them and try to create a situation in which people feel to awkward to say, “no,” to them? That’s on Ryan. No big deal, here
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HU -LK : Something very dark has taken hold of the spirit of America, and this impeachment has cornered the country into crisis. There’s no, “win,” or good outcome to be had, any more. Either Trump survives, and the damage to the credibility of the Republic will be permanent, or he’s removed, and the country has to admit that something was deeply flawed about the system, in the first place. The latter is at least and acknowledgement, from which healing remains a possibility. If he remains in office, America is saying that its Constitution no longer applies, and the country will never recover from that
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Fascinating observation about his emblem that I had never noticed, despite seeing the film multiple times. And your insights were really interesting. I’m curious as to how old you are? Only in terms of how close a contemporary of Bickle’s character you are? You certainly got a lot out of this movie.
In fairness to the narrator, if you pay close attention to his choice of words, he would be right. The police back then were worse than they are now, and that part of New York was a notorious den of iniquity, patrolled by a jaded, underfunded and openly racist police force. But, whatever legitimate criticisms you could level at them, they certainly would have payed lip service to their duty. They would naturally reject all criticism, which was all the narrator really said. I suspect that any adult living in the late 1970’s would have scoffed at the notion of going to the cops, but it had to be considered in terms of Bickle’s options.
I’ve given a lot of thought to Travis Bickle’s back story. Probably too much? It occurred to me, with the current vogue for prequels and origin stories, “Travis,” would make a great prequel movie or mini series?
I could picture the schoolboy who doesn’t fit in, but wants to who, just like in the movie, gets an even stronger rejection from women who find him shockingly weird. So, he joins the marines, thinking he’ll fit in and find friendship there, and is then sent to Vietnam. At first, he thinks he’s found the answer and wants to go career, training well, committing 100% and loving the routine and discipline. He even gets on well with authority figures and his fellow marines, and is looked up to by his squad, because he is able to disregard setbacks and injury in a way they all take for his inner strength.
But the contradictions of Vietnam soon hit home when he’s deployed in the field. The one guy he gets close to, intimate with, (another undiagnosed mentally ill person) gets killed, horribly. And it’s only later that he discovers that his friend was murdered by his fellow combat troops during a combat mission, because they found him to be such a weirdo, and because he threatened to tell on them for atrocities they routinely carried out. Travis being Travis, there’s a scene where he takes a souvenir from his buddy, a finger or an ear, and we see him cut off part of his friend, wrap it up, and we never learn what it was.
The story culminates in a shootout, at the end of a particularly gruelling battle in which half of his platoon was wiped out. The showdown occurs in the gap between the end of the battle and the wait for inbound choppers to pick up the survivors. The army can’t get the truth out of him about what went down, though they’re sure he’s murdered other troops. So, they can’t award him a Purple Heart for his wounds, without stating how, when and where he received those wounds, so they discharge him honourably, but that’s why he has no medals, despite having exit wound scars.
The whole thing could be told in flashbacks, from the interview in which the top brass are trying to get the truth out of him, perhaps? Before we meet Travis, we can see him being described by the other survivors of that final battle, painting a picture of a man who frightens them (possibly into silence) and of a man with deep intelligence, despite no formal education. All of their descriptions could build him up to be at odds with the man when we finally see him. We’re expecting a giant, covered in scars, with steely eyes, but we get a small, mumbling, average looking man, deepening the mystery about people who know him, versus the impression he makes upon first meeting. Another reason why so many seriously deranged people fly under the radar is that they never look like the, “monsters,” we expect. Having done several prison visits, I have always been struck by how normal and average everyone looks and acts when you meet them, regardless of whether they’re petty criminals or monsters.
Anyway, Travis ends with him showing up in New York and using his discharge papers and veteran’s experience to impress the guy who owns the yellow cab company, where he gets a job . . .
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@pookiehoney : It stuns me that people so desperately need to believe in the myth that billionaires are created by being, “smart,” or, “industrious,” or, “geniuses.” When it’s patently obvious that the only billionaires on Earth are people who either inherited their wealth or people who got lucky once. When you’ve become a billionaire, all you do from their is pay lobbyists, image management professionals, politicians and, of course, lobbyists, to keep you rich and develop an image of you in the world that is a complete fiction of your own devising.
I’m not a billionaire but I am, “wealthy,” by any reasonable standard, and I rub shoulders with billionaires from time to time. Nearly every one I’ve met is either lucky or an inheritor and not many are very bright let alone, “geniuses.” And their kids are without exception just awful, spoiled, nasty pieces of sh*t, which is why the world seems to be going down the tubes.
We need legislation putting a cap on how much wealth any individual or their family are allowed to have. Quite seriously. It’s the only way to save the planet.
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I do hope that all patriotic Americans are emailing the impeachment Managers? Demanding they force the GOP top brass to Testify on the stand? All they have to do is ask them for their evidence for, “the steal,” which is what caused the insurrection? And when, under oath and with no 5th Amendment, they daren’t risk Perjury, Conspiracy charges or WORSE, getting sued by a voting machine company with a strong case, they’re going to confess that they always knew, “The Steal,” was a Seditious LIE! Hawley, Graham, Cruz, Ms Q Greene, all of them!
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@chriscurren6384 : If the, “truth might hurt,” then you must accept that you support a known racist? Also, you must acknowledge that the KKK, the Proud Boys and all other organised racists in America are UNANIMOUS in their support for trump? Therefore it follows, supporting a racist, who is supported by racists, makes you a racist. QED. And, please? Spare us a, “proximity,” argument, son? I don’t care if you married your house slave, OK. I will grant that it’s possible you’re, “not a racist.” But, only on the grounds that your IQ is below 40 AND that you don’t follow politics? You choose? 😉
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I guess that whole, “Me Too,” thing is over now? . . . 🤷♂️
I mean, now it’s the 1950’s again, we can go back to men beating other men over a woman, because she cannot defend herself? Forget that the remark was harmless? Forget that she has made her own social media posts about alopecia, putting it in the public domain . . . herself!? Forget that Chris Rock’s job is to roast the audience at the Oscars, (which he’s done before!) and that they chose to sit on THE FRONT ROW?
But she’s just a, “little lady,” who can’t speak for herself, having neither the wit of a comedian nor the strength of an entitled male bully. All she has is the power to role her eyes and sit back and wallow in a puddle of her own sociopathic self pity and entitled sense of, “feeling aggrieved,” as though it was a serious issue like CANCER or something and NOT just flipping HAIR LOSS!
No attempt to stop him, from Jada? Not even to be seen in the entourage around him in the fall out? No condemnation of the appalling sexism, misogyny and entitlement on display, after the event? . . . And she’s certainly not aggrieved at her, ahem, “husband?” for taking matters out of her hands and making it all about him?
She has more to answer for than Will Smith at this point. Feminism is dead in the Smith household, (along with their wedding vows) and their warped notions of Bible teachings that they love to prattle on about. “God and love made me do it!” Errr, did it, Will? . . . Did it really? . . . Coz’ to me it just looked like a small insecure Cuckold who’s not dealing too well with his wife’s sociopathy to me? . . . 🙄
Anyone wanna’ buy a used Blue-ray of I Am Legend? I’m so over these fools . . . And the hypocritical Academy that made them what they are.
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Sadly, they can’t, “be tolerant,” I’m afraid. A Karen of Qults, who have built their Qult around a single personality, who want to outlaw opposition parties, and who base their entire, “ideology,” on fundamental LIES, is called, “Fascism.” It’s time America woke up to that fact. The GOP are a Fascist Qult. Pure and simple. No exaggeration necessary
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@karenjanusch7978 : That title, “A military with a country attached,” is rapidly being challenged by Poland. They’re spending 5% of their GDP on the military, and they see their invasion by Russia as inevitable, if they take Ukraine. This is why they have donated so generously to the Ukrainians, and why they warned Scholtz, when he was stalling over tanks, that they would send theirs with or without NATO agreement (which helped persuade him in the end). They see Ukraine as fighting their war anyway. And while they’re handing over all their Soviet inheritance to Ukraine, they’re replacing every item with the latest tech from America, Britain, France and Germany. They make no secret of the fact that they fully intend to emerge as Europe’s largest military superpower and they’re already bigger (in terms of tanks, jets and artillery) than the leading powers combined. They are not counting on Putin being smart enough to leave them alone. Nor are they counting on getting any help, should he try it. But these economic power houses, all throwing in together into NATO, flatly crushes Putin’s arguments for Ukraine’s invasion. And even the most unthinking Russian can see it.
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Oh, it will all be PROVED to the satisfaction of the Court of Public Opinion alright. Remember my friends, the, “verdict,” is irrelevant at this Impeachment. What’s more important is that Q followers, Nazis and Trump fans are all going to hear, from the mouths of the GOP, on the witness stand, on live TV, that the reason for their Insurrection, “The Steal,” is a seditious lie. Not one of the GOP will risk a billion dollar lawsuit, a Perjury rap, or a Conspiracy charge, for trump. Not when they can’t take the 5th. They will have zero choice. And THAT’S WORTH a trial 😉👍
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@GeoEstes : Point to the bit where it says the opposite? Coz’, I’ll do you one better, son. I can’t even be bothered to look it up. Setting aside the fact that it’s a moot point, hurled into the air like all the other chaff, to distract the adults in the room, why in the hell should I do your homework for you? I’ve already explained that I could put you in a room with Vladimir Putin himself and have him admit that he’s a liar, a gangster, a sociopath and an empire building wannabe Vlad The Impaler, and you’d STILL make excuses for him.
Is Ukraine a sovereign, independent state? Yes. Did Vladimir Putin sign documentation recognising that fact? Yes. Is he breaking his own word, international law and the laws of God and humanity by attempting the largest heist in human history? Yes. All the rest is twisting the table cloth and crying like a child with hurt feelings.
The art of never losing the game? DON’T PLAY. There endeth the lesson.
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Yes! I’m expecting that at the Impeachment Trial too. And not just from him, but from other key figures who perpetrated this bald lie, like Graham, Cruz, Hawley, etc! Let them give their, “evidence,” for their, “belief,” in the, “steal,” under oath, before a watching world! Or, ADMIT they always KNEW it was a seditious LIE?! That will do the Cult of trump and the Q followers a lot of good! And, as key witnesses, those Senators will not be allowed to sit on the Jury either! Increasing the odds of trump’s conviction! Make sure your representatives KNOW what we expect of them! ✌️👍
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I also want to see Fox anchors held to account! According to Conservative analysts, between the election and the insurrection, they blithely cast doubt on the election results over 700 TIMES! And, they think they have NO RESPONSIBILITY for the blood spilled in our Capitol? We must draw a line in the sand, between, “free speech,” and outright Seditious Propaganda, which used to be a CRIME in America! How can they hide behind free speech claims, when what they did was the same as screaming, “FIRE!” in a packed theatre, only to sit back and watch fellow Americans DIE in the chaos! Broadcasting giant, life threatening, democracy undermining LIES is not, “free speech?” It’s SEDITION, pure and simple, and they need to be FORCED to clean up their act, and PAY for the harm they’ve done, at Fox, to the whole country! It’s all gone way too far!
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People still don’t get it, do they? Google how much of whatever country you live in is owned by private owners? From St Paul’s Cathedral to fields and walking paths, you might be staggered by what you find!? Most of the land you thought was, “public property,” is owned by some foreign billionaire. The oligarchs are having a final fire sale and absolutely everything must go! They’re buying up or stealing all of it and digging downward from inside their town houses, using new tech to secure their bomb proof bunkers, so they can have everything from have swimming pools to panic rooms in their basements and can live in luxury while the poverty stricken fight it out over head! Victims of the coming riots will not even know they’re being murdered by some far right Nazi whilst the filthy rich are partying 50 feet beneath their spilled entrails!
These are NOT, “politicians.” Merely front men and women, employed by weapons manufacturers, drug companies and other lobby groups, maintaining the elision of democracy for just long enough for them to establish their new Feudal order. We are merely surfs, and we’re about to find that out, all because one of the greediest fat cats doesn’t think he’s getting his share of the pie. Remember I said this in a few years, when law and order has become a thing that only exists if you live in the right neighbourhood (which won’t be yours unless you have more than 10 million in assets) and the, “politicians,” have given up all pretence of being anything other than what they are: representatives of the mega-corporations.
Those corporations are about to redefine our borders and redraw the map, until you’ll find you live in a country called, “Microsoft 2.011,” or, “Glaxo Smithkline, Sector 10!” You think I’m exaggerating? Just remember this comment 10 years from now. That is, IF any of us are allowed to use free communications and have our licences in order? . . .
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@jennifersmetanko6631 : No one’s forgetting Snowden. And things have moved on considerably since his exile. Your contract for the device on which you wrote your comment allows some tech giant to collect and monitor Intel about everything from your location and viewing habits to your spending patterns and health details, and collates everything about you with millions of others to produce a set of statistics which are regularly mined by them and the highest outside bidders willing to pay for that information, mostly for the purposes of simply making vast stacks of cash, but for security and intelligence purposes too. Apple’s systems are far more invasive AND effective than anything the government owns (with the possible exception of military grade encryption?) largely because the public freely signs up to it! And I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that most of the government’s domestic spying is now done by contracts with Apple and Microsoft to just buy the information from them.
Whatever your opinion of Snowden is, or was, his whistle blowing is past all relevance to today, as I’m sure he would be the first to admit. But at least in the west, if you don’t trust your government, you can still (just about) get rid of them and replace them with an alternative bunch of untrustworthy huxters. And you can say what you like about any one of them without having to fear a knock at your door, losing your job overnight, or spontaneously falling out of a window. So there’s that . . .
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Which, “professionals,” though? Do they need psychiatrists, or a little law & order? Maybe military assistance? We keep on this track and, every two years, our leaders will be de-legitimised, until we’re ungovernable in the chaos, and ripe for a coup, or Putin’s invasion by stealth? If the GOP isn’t punished, as swiftly and harshly as law allows, we’ll face another Donny type in 4 years. Only one who can talk, and isn’t a patent idiot, but just as psychotic. Examples MUST be made ✌️👍
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Totally. They plotted this, and everyone involved has blood on their hands. This was planned two weeks before, and the event organiser named the three conspirators responsible, before going into hiding. All three of them had a meeting with trump, three days before the 6th, where trump MUST have given it the green light! However stupid, incompetent, deadly and shambolic it was, it was still a Conspiracy to have a Coup against America, based upon a LIE that should be illegal to propagate! It’s not free speech, when you scream, “Fire,” in a packed theatre, and we DON’T just allow the Perp to walk away, after watching the DEATHS and destruction they wrought. From trump,on down to this guy, down to the very last one; they all need harsh sentences ✌️
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Exactly. Truth is, the Tories fear and loathe her. The very rich, and perhaps some snobs of the type who had to hold their nose when they voted for the likes of Lee Anderson, fear they will end up paying their fair share in taxes because of people like her. She has all of the benefits that people who like, “personality,” politics go for, with none of the drawbacks. She delivers genuine zingers at PMQ’s, she’s personally charming, eloquent, attractive and seems to genuinely care about the most disenfranchised, vulnerable Britains.
I’m sure the Tories would LOVE us to think of Rayner as, “Marmite,” because their entire political model has been built on a foundation of DIVISION, wherever they can find it or (more often) create it! Even inside their own party.
Their criminal conspiracy against her failed, when James Daily asked a Tory pal in the police to look into her background, without ever making ANY formal complaint until much later. When he realised he and his senior police officer bum chum might face charges themselves, they had to go back over the paperwork and agree on the same lies to make their investigation not appear as Stasi-like and blatantly criminal as it was!
That’s just DESPERATION and they’re still desperate to get at Rayner by hook or by crook, because she’s one of Labour’s most popular and effective MP’s. She does her JOB! And the Tories can’t understand that about her! They probably think she’s a witch or something, because working hard for your constituency would NEVER occur to them.
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@LynetteA68 : The jury selection process alone will probably wind up being the basis for a best seller or two. But it has happened before and could happen again. There’s a lot I don’t know, like: Is this a federal case? I presumed, since there was a battle for his extradition that it was a state matter, but I’ll have to look it up I guess?
I just know that, “but for the grace of God,” and all that. I refer to my back pain as, “toothache of the soul.” It’s impossible to convey the experience to those who haven’t lived it, but I have done and said things that I am ashamed of which are not, “excused,” by my chronic condition, yet certainly, “explain,” it. Things that are just not me. That’s why this case rivets me.
Also, because I’m British and I cannot imagine anything more absolutely, inherently against the public interest than privatising health care in the first place. It has been happening by stealth in Britain and the pushback is a hot topic here. So there’s a lot in my mind when I look at this case.
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@amell.5461 : I had doubts from the outset, as the trial against the newspaper in England was an, “unsafe,” verdict and will probably be overturned on appeal now. But following the trial, it was the deposition recording that said all you needed to know. When she slipped up and revealed she’d already sold her story to TMZ before going to court to file for divorce; when she was proved to have lied about the makeup she claimed to cover her, “bruises,” with as the company that makes that makeup testified that this kit didn’t yet exist; her slip up when she referred to her makeup as her, “bruise kit,” her lie about giving $7 million to charity (ask the actual charities whether they see a difference between a pledge and a donation?); her lie about her, “broken nose,” when photos from the very next day showed her looking her best; all of the actual witnesses refuting every word she spoke; her recorded confession of hitting Depp on multiple occasions; and her literally and figuratively shitting in their bed!
And this, boys and girls, is why we DON’T, “believe all women,” regardless of their allegation, but trust to EVIDENCE, FACTS AND THE TRUTH. The fact that the Me Too movement are not celebrating Depp’s victory and applauding his low key, dignified refusal to take victory laps has undermined my faith in their agenda completely. If anyone, “harmed,” the cause of abused women, it was Amber Heard. She should be locked out of any and all studios, from Hollywood to the news rooms. Did Kevin Spacey or Harvey Weinstein get to be interviewed in this way? The hypocrisy is disturbing.
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It’s highly unlikely that Prigozhin, knowing he was a marked man, had pilots and crew that weren’t, “friends,” of Wagner, if not members? So, I’ll not be wasting any tears for them. I have already used up too many on the kidnapped children, raped men and women, robbed families, mass murdered villages and bombed out cities of innocent civilians that the Wagnazis are responsible for.
The only question I have is: Are Wagner in a position to DO anything and will they? Here’s hoping a bloody civil war breaks out in Russia. But I suspect that Putin will have made sure he had his ducks in a row before making his move? Then again, Putin’s made some legendarily STUPID decisions in the past 10 years, so who knows?
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Cops are quitting their jobs in unprecedented, massive numbers, all over America. They’re, “blaming,” the fact that they keep getting, “punished,” for doing their jobs.
What genuinely surprised me was not that this is happening, but that the news coverage on both left and right wing news sites claim that these are, “alarming rates,” like we should be worried about it? Thugs are seeing that they can’t get away with murdering, torturing and taking out their rage on suspects any more. People who should never have worn the uniform are leaving in droves. We should be delighted, shouldn’t we?
A new bread of cop is coming, and that’s what we need. You can’t, “train,” a Chauvin into not being a thug, and we shouldn’t want such people, ever. The literal FORTUNES alone, that the tax payer could save, if police departments were willing to apologise for mistakes and wrong doing, instead of using massive payouts as their way to avoid apologies, would make us all rich!
The policing system is broken. And the DOJ’s root and branch review will only prove that. I just hope they put in the very obvious solutions?
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not famous : When the authority takes away the rule of law, you blame the community, for being lawless? You don’t blame the authorities for not arresting four culpable murderers, on the spot? Why should THEY be the, “responsible, law abiding citizens,” when the authorities are not? So, they can be murdered? And that’s OK with you? There IS NO LAW, and the people who get PAID to uphold it, SHOWED US THAT. That’s on them. And they can stop this. Arrest all four of them, and charge them with Murder 1? THEN, it’s the community’s, “responsibility,” to calm things down. Until then, STFU, son. You’re ignorant 🙂
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Anita Nelson : There’s nothing to fear but fear itself, as FDR put it. Conservatives have had it with Trump. Look at Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc. There simply AREN’T ENOUGH, “liberals,” in those states to have kicked out the GOP without Conservative HELP? Trump squeaked in, with a minority, and proceeded to ALIENATE half the people who were willing to, “give him a chance.” He’s made it CLEAR that he is NOT “everybody’s” president and that there are PLENTY of Americans that he actively HATES. NO WAY Trump survives the Mid Terms, if he can’t keep “Safe” Republican seats, as we’ve seen. Unless Putin has ALREADY got the results FIXED, on our computers, Trumpski is GONE. There’s only the racist cult left, now. That’s how it looks from where I’m sitting, anyhoo? . . .
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I just don’t get it!? Why didn’t they just make it a Sky City Experience??? PRE-Darth Vader?! An actual Luxury experience, with the big event being Darth Vader’s arrival, followed by a set-piece floor show, including Luke’s fight with Darth, the big, “I am your father!” scene, followed by Han being frozen in Carbonite (rather than the guests at $10,000 a pop🤣) which is all, “cannon,” (something Star Wars fans go ape sh*t about) and took place in one night at that one location??? You could even throw in a bunch of weeping Princess Leia’s, to wonder the decks in search of, “consolation,” by extra fee paying guests and you’d make a fortune!
What? Would Disney have insisted that all of the beds would need to be those electric torture devices that made Han scream out loud? How did the best marketing empire in the galaxy become SO BAD at giving their already won over fans what they actually WANT?! First it was just stoopid movies, now this! What happened???
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@petricor8436 : Please spare us the, “false equivalency,” defence? Reading Propaganda is NOT looking at news from, “the other side,” son! It would have to qualify as, “news,” or, “journalism,” for that. Fox has very few qualified journalists working for them at all, and their business model is about spinning the news, for damage control, the entire time! Sure, look at ALL news outlets. But, don’t kid yourself your even looking at, “news,” when you’re watching propaganda? That’s not, “news,” and it barely manages the pretence. Look at news sources, and leave the propaganda to the advertisers and political spin doctors. You’re not being, “balanced,” you’re being brainwashed . . . 🤦♂️
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Precisely. Which, if we take a step back and think about for a moment, means that the richest people in Britain are using the poorest, most exploited people on the planet as pawns in their political gaming. If that isn’t the most cynical and barbaric thing you can imagine in the free world, what is? Especially when we also stop to consider the sheer cost of the delays and fudging, while Rishi and Cruella get to say, “Well we tried, but it was those woke Law Lords who blocked us,” while the problem only grows!
There is no good faith or sincere attempt to deal with the issue, and that can be proved to values as good as scientific measures; when the Home Secretary is stating to the public that she believes in statistics that have been shown to be false! Shown by the very sources upon which her government is relying for measuring the statistics in the first place, I might add!
Any right minded, compassionate, thinking, or even just LOGICAL human being would vote against this party on the basis of this, “policy,” alone. It is a text book example of ruthless politicking whilst disregarding evidence, cost, time, human misery and suffering. And they don’t even acknowledge the fact that this problem will grow, because they don’t acknowledge the true nature of the problem. They’re like alcoholics who cannot be cured because they’re still in denial that they even have a problem!
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What haunts me most, was hearing Preet Barara’s obtuseness. He’s still using the, “one bad apple,” line?! When we all saw the branches of that poisoned apple tree, working SO HARD to protect Chauvin, while he slowly, calculatingly, mercilessly murdered a man in that degrading, public manner?! When a passing 17 year old girl has more ability to tell right from wrong, and more courage than any of those cops protecting a murderer in the commission of his crime, it’s time to chop down and burn the apple tree. Just from a practical point of view, it would be cheaper to spend generously on recruitment, vetting and training, than it is to spend on settlements.
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Kelli Barnhouse : In Jan, they will be subpoenaing Trump’s Tax Returns. Pelosi announced it as their FIRST piece of business. As if THAT wouldn’t be more than enough to destroy Trump, we have all of the LIVE, televised, Congressional Hearings to look forward to, in which everyone from Mueller, his team, Cohen, Manafort, Stormy, NRA reps, GOP traitors, Russian spies, Comey, Tillerson, and a partridge in a pear tree, will be cross examined to such an extent, that, GOP Senators will be climbing over each other to Impeach Trump, so as to save their careers, and to calm the protests, of a, by now OUTRAGED American public, blocking Pennsylvania Avenue.
But, when the TrumpTanic, finally vanishes below the water line, THAT is when our work REALLY STARTS. It’s up to US; we, the people, to pressure our representatives to make Tax Returns a legal requirement, for office seekers at ANY level; to outlaw Gerrymandering and Voter Suppression; to reform the Electoral College; etc, etc.
The GOP will keep trading, offering backroom deals, to give the Dems other victories, in return for pushing OUR priorities, to the back of the cue. At first, they won’t have much power, to do much of that, but they WILL remain, regroup, over time, and, if WE LET THEM, they will go back to their old ways. Ask yourself? How come the Electoral College was NOT reformed, after the Bush Jr V Gore debacle? WHY did the Dems let that slip into the shadows? Someone got SOMETHING, out of that.
Trump and the CROOKS of the GOP have FORCED us to, “be political,” because our Democracy has NEVER been so imperilled, since the War of 1812. As we’ve been forced into this spot, the LEAST we can do, is INSIST on the type of reforms that will ensure a SAFER Democracy, for our children?
Sorry for going on, there . . . ✌️👍
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It’s already a, “Banana Republic,” when the reverse is true too. If, “someone at the top,” can order his own, “acquittal,” as happened at the risible Impeachment SHAM, why shouldn’t we expect that he’ll be hunting down all the people who put him there, spoke the truth when asked, or even simply failed to scream out hysterical support for Trump, loudly enough, when Trump, “felt like it”??? The problem here, is that people are still acting like this kind of thing still matters, when the Impeachment was the last nail in the Republic’s coffin. Who in their right mind, even imagines that they are “NOT” going to RIG the coming, “elections,” when we ALL KNOW if Trump is unseated, he and his family will be indicted and all go to jail? Which will lead to them, ”ratting out,” everyone from Bill Barr down to Devin Nunes, the indictment and imprisonment of the ENTIRE administration, leaving a historically disgraced skeleton of the Republican Party in its wake, to disband and flee from the press like escaped Nazis after WWII. They have SHOWN you that Democracy, law and order, and the Constitution are OVER in America, but you all keep up this DENIAL, as if, “elections,” will MEAN a GOD DAMNED THING?! And, I think you’re all doing that, because you all know, in your hearts, that being honest with yourselves can lead to to only ONE conclusion. Americans must accept they have a Russia Style, FAKE Democracy, more popularly known as a DICTATORSHIP, and be DONE with it, OR? . . . Revolution!!! There is no third option
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Me too. Still, can you blame people for wanting to rake in boatloads of cash? I blame the idiot public for funding this shite. Here’s what’s next, in case you were wondering. Boston Dynamics will make a robo-saur hybrid and a complete robot version of T-Rex, for the military (coz’ they’re bored with explosives, computer guided arsenals, drones and world domination, n’ stuff) which will, “horror of horrors,” break free of their programming, move in to Elon Musk’s place and threaten Earth from space. And only Chris Pratt, who can talk binary code, will be able to persuade them to go live on Alpha Centuri by the final reel, thus saving us all again . . . There’s the treatment for Jurassic 7. Now, go sell it to Hollywood and make yourself rich, Drinker. 😂
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@nickwarner8158 : Another important point there. I’m a Conservative. I joined the Lincoln Project because I needed a space where, “real,” conservatives stood up for principle over tribalism, with like minded, thinking people. I vote Dem right now, because America only has one political party, opposed by a racist conspiracy of kleptocrats. There are millions of conservatives who feel (and vote) like me. The people with the most to lose under a trump dictatorship are the ones fighting hardest to bring it about. They’ve been duped. And we know this, because 99% of the Jan 6th insurrectionists say as much when they learn the truth! They all say they never would have done it if they knew then what they know now. Only a few die hard racists are not learning their lessons, and they, disturbingly enough, have turned out to be cops in both the cases I’m aware of!
But, ironically enough, you know what I think will defeat trumpism in the end? The very big businesses that trump tries so hard to cultivate. In the end, racism and dictatorship is bad for business. Not just because of boycotting, or the chaos of dictatorships and trump’s now proven inability to grasp the complexities of global economic systems. But because businesses never thrive under dictatorships, and the leaders in charge of them know this. They have all the real power, and they will mobilise it to restore the free wheeling free booting systems that keep making them so rich. Trump can never offer prosperity. And it will be that which undoes his (bowel) movement, in the final analysis.
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@Denidrakes69 : Isn’t that the point? Putin has spent the last 20 years trying to convince Russians that they share a common heritage with Ukraine, and moved families there to shore up his point, and fomented so called, “separatist,” movements, etc. So now he’s making his move (all to prevent competition in energy reserves, btw) and he’s finding his soldiers are reluctant to shoot down the very people Putin wanted them to think of as being just like them. It’s backfiring because one person defending their home and family is worth 20 conscript soldiers who don’t want to be there and know they’ve been lied to. Which is why Putin has resorted to shelling them from a distance. But he hasn’t learned the lessons of Stalingrad. Sooner or later they will have to move in, even if all they get to rule over is now rubble. And when they are face to face with their enemies, bitter at the destruction of their homes, each having lost family members, they will be outmatched. Ukraine is already ungovernable. Putin needs to go home. Or his people will starve.
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If any company MUST be re-nationalised, it IS THE POST OFFICE. The current arrangement is the same as nationalisation anyway, in terms of financing, but the, “privatisation,” aspect has afforded these government jobsworths all the protections of legally protected cloaks and daggers, which are finally being exposed. The British people are entitled full accountability and to get their money’s worth from an organisation that THEY OWN and upon which THEY RELY!
The existing system has FAILED in every important respect and every measurable metric. The competition has outstripped them on reliability and public confidence; major businesses (such as Amazon and Argos) do not use them for the above stated reason; the left hand clearly doesn’t know what the right hand is doing, showing a fundamental breakdown in organisation, as so clearly illustrated by the excerpts you played us; and countless lives have been destroyed by what was a flat out culture of denial around the Fujitsu Scandal, AT BEST, and systematic conspiracy of silence and criminal profiteering at worst (we still do not know!).
Obviously, the people put in charge were incapable of fulfilling their remit, yet they were ostentatiously rewarded for many years of abject failure in a culture with ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY! “Culpable Negligence,” doesn’t even cover it!
These people belong behind bars, not getting gongs from his majesty! And the public deserves an open service, fully accountable to them at every level, since they are PAYING for it!
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Trump Trolls: You know why the tax payer is PAYING for the RNC Convention? Illegally? Because they’re burying all that money they STOLE from America, to go on the run with. Trump’s Cult thought it was all such fun at first, with racist trolling and greed. Now? The only thing that keeps the cult, “loyal,” is their dread of having the TRUTH (that they already suspect by now) PROVED to them. The cult got shafted the hardest, and they don’t want to hear, “We told you so,” when it all comes out. What WILL you all do, when there’s no one left to bury the truth in government? My bet, is that you’ll all HOWL AT THE MOON! Until Donny says the moon is fake, or something? 🤣😆😂🤣😆😂🤣
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I understand your point, but I honestly think we should go the opposite way. We have to seize this as an opportunity to put our house in order, now that we’re exposing the evil that lies just beneath America’s skin. It’s gone too far for us to, “unite,” even if we did have a common enemy now. No one can forget the treachery, and murder that is a direct result of the GOP’s capitulation to a Dictatorship; nor how close we came to exactly that. These people are past the exercise of free speech, and well into the territory of screaming, “Fire,” in a packed theatre, with no skin in the game, getting to sit back and rub their hands while others do the dying. Over 50 cops were seriously injured in those riots of the 6th of Jan! One is brain damaged and still in a coma. Another is blinded! And, of course we all know about the trump supporting cop who was murdered, beaten to death, in front of a thousand witnesses, yet we still have no clue who did that?! Seditious Propaganda used to be a crime! We literally hunted down and hung the propagandists after WWII, to set an example to others. But now? We allow Fox to cast doubt on the election over 700 times (according to Conservative analysts!) between the 7th Nov and the 6th Jan, and collect the money from their shares in the company! We are putting a KNOWN Quisling and traitor, onto the Education & Labor Committee!? Are you F’king KIDDING ME???!!! This has gone way too far, and it’s time we STOPPED looking for answers from outside our shores, and face up to what we’ve DONE!
Imagine, preparing for battle, against the Martian invaders, when you discover the trooper on your right; the guy or gal upon whom your life might depend in an hour, is one of the people who doesn’t even BELIEVE your government is, “legitimate,” and has the badges of two cops he MURDERED in his locker at the base? You might be inclined to point your weapon at HIM?! I tell you, we have to CLEAN UP THIS MESS, or we might just as well hand the whole sorry shit pile over to Putin and announce his victory! I for one, would rather die! How about we speak for the DEAD and give them some JUSTICE? For the grieving families of half a million dead of Covid, and for all those dead, wounded or systematically intimidate by the growing (and let’s call it what it is?) NAZI threat, within our own shores.
The GOP are desperate to call off the impeachment, because they KNOW they can all be forced to testify, with NO 5th Amendment protections. And, on the stand, they’ll be ripped to shreds in front of a watching world, on LIVE TV, if they say they, “believe,” in the seditious LIE they call, “The Steal.” And they KNOW that many, possibly, Lindsay Graham, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, will ADMIT they KNEW it was a lie, but were, “only following orders,” like at Nuremberg! It will fracture the GOP, between the die hard nut jobs and the system gamers who want to survive! And, I say, let’s give them their, “civil war,” within the ranks of their own party! Time we force the breaking point, and stop this in its tracks. Time we got America BACK! Don’t you think? ✌️
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@conniesueadamsadams4092 : I’m begging you all; please, please get in touch with your representatives, on both sides? Demand that the key witnesses are forced to TESTIFY at trump’s trial! And don’t let up, until the day it begins. The TESTIMONY of people like him, Cruz, Hawley, Lindsay Graham (especially) and the rest will be the key to RUINING the GOP for a generation, or maybe for good? What can they say about, “The Steal,” which was the REASON for the Insurrection, and therefore the main focus of the Trial? That they, “believe,” in it? They’ll be ripped to shreds! Possibly get a Perjury rap! Once ONE of them admits the TRUTH; that they have no evidence, and they KNEW it was just a political ruse, a Seditious LIE, ALL OF THEM will do the same, and the house of cards will finally tumble! They are not allowed to refuse to testify, and they can’t take the 5th. And when the watching world hears them, under oath on LIVE TV, telling Q, The Proud Boys and the entire cult of trump, that they ALWAYS KNEW, “The Steal,” was a LIE, what future does the GOP have then? After their followers now have lost their careers, have criminal records and have left over 50 cops hospitalised? One cop was blinded! Another is still in a coma, with permanent brain damage! And we all know about the trump supporting cop who gave his life! If we compel their TESTIMONY, it’s OVER for the GOP! Demand accountability! Make sure your representatives KNOW what citizens expect from this trial! A final reckoning, with the TRUTH! ✌️👍
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@Kamikaze Killjoy : True. But that’s not especially relevant in Donny’s case. Rape is a crime of opportunity, or planned, committed against victims who, “don’t matter,” to the rapist, except in that they present him with the opportunity to exercise POWER. Rape is always about POWER. It is a statement, made inside a sick mind, about power over that individual, or, ironically enough, a certain, “type,” of person. It is about control over other humans, and a perverted expression of the power to have that control. Very rarely does rape involve sexual gratification. And, even when it does, that is usually a secondary outcome. I’m not one of these, “believe the victim,” under any circumstance types. I believe in due process. But, I believe this woman’s claims to have his DNA. I believe she was raped by Donny, and that she will prove that he had intercourse with her at the very least, IF she is granted a fair shake by the law, and the opportunity to prove it? But, if it should get that far, Donny’s deposition will be so incoherent, self contradictory and venal, that any jury will believe beyond reasonable doubt, that he raped her. All she needs is due process, and Donny will become a convicted rapist, with the bonus for America that he will also be barred from holding any public office, ever again. Felons cannot be politicians. That’s the law. That’s the point under discussion here. Do you get that?
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@jallopenoman1126 : Yeah, haven’t you been watching the news? Tanks, missiles, bullets and much, much more; all coming from America and other countries; “righteously,” killing Russian Z Zombies. I’m a Brit, I get it, I LOVE America, faults and all, taking the rough with the smooth, because that’s what good friends (Allies) do for each other. We forgive each other’s faults and get on with the grown up business of killing zombies. Have a nice day.
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@Missusri : Can you, “be civil,” with a Nazi? If they refuse, point blank, to accept the truth? If they self correct ANY flaws in their logic, or in real world outcomes, with an automatic, “justification,” that is not susceptible to truth or logic? When people believe that, “Jesus,” has sent the devil to be their saviour, there is no reasoning with them. Any more than you could reason with the Waffen SS. Remember how OLD, “lock her up,” was already, before trump took office? See how they primary their own people, for merely disagreeing with their Qult leader? Notice how their attempt at the ultimate Cancel Culture - the attempted Coup on the 6th Jan - echoed the Beer Hall Putsch so loudly? Will you be surprised at all, when Donny’s ghost writer pens trump’s version of, “My Struggle,” when he goes to jail? If his trials wind up being farces, in which a corrupted judge is so intimidated that (despite having no choice but to sentence Donny) he allows the trumpster to speechify from the witness stand, instead of being cross examined?
The want to OUTLAW opposition parties. They are working on suppressing the vote, and trying to make it a Federal Offence to increase enfranchisement! Quite LITERALLY, as I write this! They use violence and intimidation to get their way; they are a Qult and their entire, “ideology,” is a LIE! They are quite literal FASCISTS, in all but name now!
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@lezafreemont1863 : She’ll prove that his DNA is his, “type,” which will be more than enough to win a defamation suit, and will probably lead things to the next level: a rape trial, under Criminal Law, in which, “suing them back,” is not a thing, and none of the standard, “strategies,” he’s used to will work? We can but hope that the American justice system is not too broken for this? ✌️
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@kittiwhieldon4329 : Yeah, it was good of them to launch their suits before the Impeachment started, don’t you think? Imagine being a GOP witness on live TV, with no 5th Amendment to hide behind, being asked, “The reason for this insurrection was the belief that the elections had been rigged in what you call, ‘The Steal,’ which you campaigned SO vigorously to, ‘Stop.’ What is your evidence for, ‘believing,’ that lie?” With a possible BILLION DOLLAR law suit and the risk of committing Perjury hanging over you, what COULD you say? The GOP are going to be forced to admit that, “The Steal AIN’T REAL.” And their cult, “sacrificed,” their Liberty, their criminal records, their careers and their futures, for a LIE . . . That’s worth a trial, don’t you think? Regardless of any, “verdict?” 😉✌️👍
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Frankly, it’s a wonder that such a story even gets coverage in modern America, let alone having it’s significance explored in any meaningful way! Thank you for reporting on this, and for recognising it’s importance.
This guy thinks he’s the villain in an Indiana Jones movie, or something! What bothers me is that the DA KNOWS they have to let it go! Their only other option is to waste millions in tax payer dollars, trying to prove what a lying POS this guy is, and his, “lawyers,” even more so!
After a long trial, they’ll establish that he and his legal advisors had been incompetent, stupid, and egregiously, wilfully obtuse, TO A LEGALLY PROVEN STANDARD, making them look like categorical morons in the eyes of the law, with just enough, “deniability,” to avoid jail time. When we will all know the TRUTH was that they were just lying assed thieves and smugglers, enriching themselves with the stolen birthright of a war torn, impoverished, peoples, who were made that way by the meddling of greedy fossil fuel barons, who had their own greedy fossil fuel baron in the White House, willing to meddle on their behalf and tear their country apart in an illegal war . . . “Just more of the fallout from generations of GOP Nation Building folks. Nothin’ to see here . . .” 🙄
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Mr.A : What did you expect after this Coup, America? That their distractions from the Impeachment would be subtle? When you hold a, “Trial,” with NO witnesses, NO evidence, and a, “Jury,” comprised of the defendant’s CONSPIRATORS, that’s the same thing as telling America that their Republic has FALLEN, their Democratic Process is at an END, that the LAW no longer APPLIES unless THEY say so, and that your Constitution is ON FIRE! They can’t exactly rely on a really compelling episode of Love Island, to keep you all distracted? They needed to bring Putin in, and have him talk to Iran, to sacrifice a few Pawns, and have us all sitting on the edge of our seats. That’s how Dictatorships do it. But, things will calm down eventually. When their power is consolidated, and everyone is TERRIFIED of criticising the, “Government,” after Trump’s second term. When he announces he’s doing a THIRD term, just to beat, “Obama,” and that Ivanka will then take over, to become America’s first female POTUS. And, so long as we still get the X-Factor and a good Netflix mini-series to instruct us all on our tastes, ideology and the bullshit tat that we simply MUST own this year, NO ONE will do a GOD DAMNED THING about ANY of it . . . The Republic DIED in 2019.
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Joseph Zrnchik : What does that even mean, son? Do you have the SLIGHTEST idea as to what, “Globalism,” even is? Trump is the planets BIGGEST Globalist, conning you with fake plans to hermetically seal your borders, while he knows NO BOUNDARIES when it comes to what HE, “cares,” about: MONEY. Read a book, son? You’re being played. In the same way as when Trump convinced you that he’s, “just like you,” whilst handing himself, and his donors, over a $ TRILLION of YOUR money, while your Healthcare and Infrastructure are left to ROT . . . Jesus, kid? . . .
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It’s kind of obvious, Hannity would only refuse to admit the truth, because he has been vaccinated, but can’t bring himself to admit it, right? Is there ANY other possibility? Hypocrites are always dogged by irony and their obvious hypocrisy. Fauci was NEVER, “wrong,” about ANYTHING. He told us as much as he knew, when he knew it. If people ask you, I’d say they have a right to know, if you’re going to spend any time with them. You wouldn’t want to carry it from some selfish anti-vaccer and kill a vulnerable person, by passing it on. No one needs that on their conscience. That’s not libertarianism, that’s just hypocrisy, and not wanting to admit you were wrong. Hannity has HAD the vaccine. Listen to the science, people. NOT to propagandists
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@ilovecoffeev : Maybe klepertard was there? Maybe she thinks she saw, “options,” at the time? Maybe she can explain her position to the FBI? If she isn’t too busy following MTG’s advice and murdering health care workers for merely being on her lawn? But, someone attempting to save your life, and the lives of your friends, colleagues and loved ones, deserves to be shot, right? Whereas, a military trained killer with a violent mob at her back, attempting to hang Mike Ponce, deserves a medal? Hypocrisy is less of a trap for trump cultists, and more of a lifestyle choice now. 🙄✌️👍
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I mean, just HOW BLATANT does it have to GET, before trump’s kkkult accepts that THEY are the ones being shafted the worst of ANY group in America? The Tax Payer is being forced to PAY (ILLEGALLY) for this RNC Convention! Do the cult HONESTLY, “think,” their donations have NOT been skimmed over the years? It started with the Inauguration Fund in 2016, for crying out loud! I genuinely think that a lot of the trump cult are only staying, “loyal,” now, because they don’t want to face up to the fact that THEY are the victims of history’s biggest scam! When there’s no Bill Barr or others of his ilk to obstruct justice and BURY the TRUTH, they must KNOW they’re going to have their idiocy PROVED to them? Their donations have been routinely, systematically STOLEN! Steve Bannon, the NRA, the Inauguration Fund, and this RNC CONvention, are all just the tip of the iceberg. I think they know it. I think they’re voting for trump, just to avoid hearing, “We TOLD you so!” 🤣 ✌️👍
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What does that mean? You don’t believe it’s real? You think too many deaths are being attributed to the virus? While others believe the opposite is true, and that they’re hiding the real numbers, which are bigger? My dad died of Covid 19, three days ago. He was sick, and we didn’t expect him to last more than a couple of years, tops. But, we saw it happen, we saw what happens, and how fast it devastates a weakened body. You may be suspicious, as others are, in the opposite way, but I suspect both sides are misguided? Ignorance is what drives such comments, because, “we’re all fine here,” until you’re not. Hope you don’t have to find that out the hard way . . .
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@ericsprado4631 : Yes! That’s it! She came as a, “surprise,” right? An unlooked for treat, like an exotic bird, landing in front of you on a cold January day, with bright tropical plumage, and a song of paradise, that stops you in your tracks. An unforgettable experience, and a delight that you feel you have to share with others, because it was so rare, so unexpected, so wonderful! You nailed it 👍✌️
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Dawn Meyferth : In the UK, today, they begin human testing on a vaccine from Oxford University. In America, Trump has just demoted one of his top medical advisors, for telling the truth about the threat ahead, is trying to get $8 million back from Harvard that they have for Coronavirus research, and has defunded the World Health Organisation, while he’s encouraging these, “protestors,” that are being organised by his goons in the background, just so he can get the MONEY rolling back in. He was trying to make money by advertising a product for Covid protection that now turns out to INCREASE the likelihood of your DYING from Covid 19! He’s chow out the wheels of America’s getaway car, because he knows that the WHO will expose the fact that the US, “healthcare system,” is more of a Hellcare system,” and he’s risking your LIVES for the MONEY! You got a serious problem now, America. When it comes back, it’s going to cut a synth through America, and your country is LESS than prepared for the second wave. It’s coming. And, you NEED to get him OUT in November, if you want your loved ones to make it . . . Smh
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@ibmtpx24 : That’s all well said, but doesn’t really scratch the surface. Trump is a sociopath, whatever his dad did, and he creates his own serial failures, sewing the seeds of his own destruction in everything he does. And all we’ve witnessed is what happens when a sociopath has power and no one EVER attempts to curb his sociopathy. That probably is on his dad, but now we’re about to see that the GOP has a majority of sociopaths among them, willing to make trump an ongoing threat to America, that could resurge like Hitler in Germany, or worse, like Stalin in Russia! And for what?! The only donors available, at the this moment? . . . We made this. It’s up to all of us to clean it up 👍
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Barr already has his pardon, discretely handed to him, printed in the office he presided over and signed by trump. Now, as a secretly confessed felon, he cannot legally hold office, which is why Barr, “retired,” when he did. Now, Barr has to say to say the right things. The others, resigning, are using this as a pretext to flee the mess they made, without taking responsibility. Trump remains a Clear And Present Danger, and things could well get worse! I don’t get why YOU are not choking the streets of Washington, lawfully protesting? Your politicians need that push! You need to DEMAND trump’s removal! Right now!
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When they make the movie, they’ll have to get Gene Hackman out of retirement to play this guy. But, in all seriousness, we all need to take some responsibility here. I have written to my MP several times, begging that we send aircraft and naval forces to focus efforts on Crimea, as the Ukrainians want, so as to end this war. We think that’s expensive, but the blood and treasure we could save, not to mention the following prosperity of a peacetime Ukraine, with countries like ours being in the front of the cue out of gratitude for our help, could change Europe’s fortunes altogether.
We all need to write to NATO now. Until NATO makes a declaration that they WILL SEE TO IT that Ukraine WINS this war, TOTAL VICTORY, Putin is encouraged to stay in the fight, instead of creating his own off ramps at home. Enough of all this pusillanimous help for Ukraine’s, “defence.” We have it in our gift to offer Ukraine victory! NATO needs to hear the appetite for that is there among the people of the free world.
In the end, they’re all politicians first. And we have our votes. That gives us leverage. The more they hear the message, the more powerful the pressure. And anyone who tells you that writing to your representatives is a waste of time, is badly deceived.
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Me too. I’m a middlingly wealthy man, by any reasonable measure, and even I can see quite plainly that we’re NOT, “all in this together.” Doubling food prices is an annoyance to people like me, sometimes it’s quite frankly frustrating. But, I’ve just recently witnessed a friend burst into tears because I paid for a her shopping when we met in the supermarket, because she couldn’t face the, “shame,” of going to a food bank, but knew she would do it, for her kids. I’m getting that in the, “feels,” alright. This government is just too far gone. Degenerate and unfit. Why can’t we force an election? Something has to give?
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Technically, that’s called a, “logical fallacy,” since you so rightly asked. However, the drones that flew over Moscow’s elite gated communities the other day had no warheads on them, as Ukraine does NOT deliberately target civilians. They have every right to tear down Russia’s machines of war, wherever they find them. They have agreed not to use America’s weaponry to do that, and they will keep their word. As to the Russian Brigade, fighting with Ukrainian supplies, all bets are off. But you can be sure that America has been briefed and are fine about it, just so long as none of their donations show up in Moscow. Putin will, “claim,” they have, regardless, because he lies about literally everything and he’ll want to slow Russian patriots down from destabilising his dictatorship, but the momentum is clearly building and will become unstoppable.
There are roughly a million young Russian men, who fled the draft and are living in the west, or places like Georgia, right now. And they will soon be getting pressure from their hosts to go back and sort their country out. Some of them will be seizing the opportunity anyway. Apparently, the recruitment web services of The Russian Brigades has been jammed up with applicants in the last couple of days. What a time to be alive . . .
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Michael Jensen : Do you READ, son? LOOK! RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU! RIGHT NOW! Trump is blocking subpoenas, for individuals and OUR institutions, son. That’s a CRIME, and he’s doing it NOW! That’s SINCE the Mueller Report, son! Obstruction, Witness Intimidation, Incitement, Conspiracy, ALL HAPPENING UNDER YOUR GRAVITY DENYING NOSE! Noticed you don’t FLOAT, do you, and Gravity is STILL a thing? . . . Jesus, kid??? . . . 🤣
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If he was given a public apology, offered his old job back, with a promotion, and asked to serve as an advisor to Biden on security (so we can root out the rest of trump’s Quislings), then I would say, “That was a fair outcome.” America has a lot of work to do, reminding people what, “Honor,” is, and what it means, and why this guy should have been a cause celebre (along with many, many others) from the moment he was marched out with his brother, like an unwanted guest at a wedding. Can’t wait till the trump’s face justice . . . The harsher, the swifter, and the more merciless that law will permit, the better for America. We need to set some examples, for the sake of National Security ✌️👍
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Poland deserves this recognition and then some. While the rest of NATO had, until recently, struggled to meet its military spending commitments, 2% of GDP, Poland has spent a whopping 5% of GDP, much of which has recently gone directly to Ukraine, whom they see as fighting their war that they would be fighting now, had Kiev fallen. And they’re right. And it was right that the US President recognised that by delivering this important speech from there and, as this reporter pointed out, not from Paris, London or Berlin, but Warsaw.
Much respect and gratitude to Poland from the UK. 🇵🇱 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 . . . Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦✌️
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Liome Talib : It amazes me, that anyone would buy what they’re selling. Biden and Obama literally SAVED the crashed Economy, after the Bush Banking Crisis of 2008! Like, everyone KNOWS that, who isn’t 12 years old! Biden will save the Economy again, and America will love him for it, and that’s exactly what the RNC does NOT want. The Trump Cult is driven by racism and greed; but the GOP? They’re just driven by greed, and they’re starting to think about the legal, “consequences,” as they realise their plans to rig the election are going to fail. Expect defections, to the FBI lifeboats, starting in around two weeks, when all the stats are in, and they see their Tax Payer funded Convention didn’t make a dent. Once they’re sure the Party’s over (in both senses) they’ll split up and start scrambling for survival. And very, VERY few of them are clean 😉✌️👍
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To answer your question, Jake, (which I’m sure you didn’t really need us to) we Europeans are doing just fine, thanks. Poverty and desperation is a thing in Europe, but nothing about Putin’s war has changed any of that. People are not prostituting themselves for basic requirements all over the western world, any more than Putin has a hope of still being dictator by the end of next year.
Once the Russian people realise that it would be far easier to get rid of their own dictatorship than it is to sacrifice everything they own, from their food to their own children being tossed into Putin’s meat grinder, than it would be to pull off their INSANE notions of bombing Yellowstone Park, they will do exactly that.
That UN Christmas song gave me a shiver down my spine, in the best possible way.
Thank you for your service, Jake. Both your past military undertakings and your current news and analysis. Thank you, SO MUCH. ✌️👍✊🇺🇦
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Do you remember the Russian Hack of Florida’s election computers? It got big coverage at the time, and even the GOP admitted it was the Russians. Then Trump adopted Florida as his home and launched his, “campaign,” from there, within weeks. Remember? It went dark, because they threatened every politician with Anti-Terror laws, and instant jail, if they talked to the press about it. Remember? And, now? Donny says, “voter fraud,” everywhere EXCEPT FLORIDA!? “Don’t look at Florida.” And you aren’t ALARMED??? Do you people WANT a Dictatorship?
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I wonder if it will last this time? Now that his insiders all have soft hands and a love of western luxuries? These are not your daddy’s mafia bosses that Putin soaked into the KGB, but their expensively educated sons. And Russia does have something of a reputation for, “inviting,” its leaders to retire, after a defeat. Hell! They were founded on that kind of betrayal! The dust had barely settled on the Russian Revolution when Lenin found himself getting a taste of his own medicine from Stalin. Khrushchev went the same way, after blinking first in the Cuban Missile Crisis. And we’ve seen several since then . . . Just saying.
And then you’ve got the population who are already hating state oppression, losing all their favourite apps and TV stations and noticing certain goods and services are no longer in the shops. Spot checks on your phone from some thug cop in the streets, just to see if you’re texting things Putin wouldn’t like or using verboten apps, is humiliating enough. But power cuts and actual food shortages? . . . “Every civilised society is only three square meals away from a Revolution,” apparently . . .
The question is, will the oligarchy let it come to that? Use civil unrest as their opportunity? Or make sure their bank accounts remain safe, before it gets that bad and do a deal with the CIA for money and support? . . . If it wasn’t for all the people being murdered by Putin’s COWARD army, I’d be loving all the drama.
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While I see the convergence between Putin’s opportunism and Britain’s withdrawal from Europe, I think it is a step too far to say his invasion of Ukraine could not have happened but for Brexit. It, “helped,” certainly. But there are so many moving parts to that diagram it would be impossible for me to martial an argument against the idea without writing an essay. An essay, using your five steps, I hasten to add.
But, to your point, you touch it with a needle once again. At the very moment of the Brexit referendum result, the British government, “should,” have had a prepared plan of action, ready to go, comprising of diplomatic efforts to ensure strengthening bonds between ourselves and all other nations in Europe, as well as assurances to the wider world.
We, “should,” have had state visits by every available member of the Royal Family, our diplomats all singing from a single, unified hymn sheet, and politicians from the Foreign Office and Cabinet, all busy out in Europe, making clear our intentions to maintain and strengthen our relationships with all countries inside the European project. We should have never allowed any breast beating and victory laps, and assured the Europeans that our withdrawal would be handled with discretion and minimum fanfare. Even if the vote had been 100% in favour we should have seen to that.
Now, we’re naval gazing and waving our shrinking little union flags in the faces of those from whom we most the most help, in the belligerent manner of a toxic teen, incapable of respecting the adults in the room and bent on showing them so at every opportunity.
It’s time we ALL collectively faced up to the fact that the remainers had a point, and even the pro-Brexiteers did NOT get the Brexit they were promised. It failed and is still failing. We must STOP all this backward, past-focussed thinking, all this insularism and, “little Englander,” mindset, stuff. We need to grow up and accept we have been conned, instead of squandering increasing amounts of hard cash and soft power on the very mob who lead us down this dark alley only to get mugged.
And we must accept that these people in charge are not just squalid, self interested con artists, like so many politicians before them, but they represent a new class of politico: The incomparably THICK. In the last ten years, I have never seen a more STUPID collection of people in one room as I have in the Cabinet Office of Number 10 Downing Street. They must be replaced as a matter of national security.
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@Vinddraken : Thanks for the history lesson, but it’s here and now that we have to focus on. The quickest way to sum it up, probably, is by saying that, “Abe Lincoln is a Democrat.” If he was alive today, there’s no question that the man who was assassinated (not the younger version) would be sitting with, if not, LEADING the Dems today. But, what we have now, is the desperation of a group of GOP Conspirators, who attempted to END our Democracy and are STILL attempting it! Since they’ve lost most of their big business support (for now) they have nowhere else to turn for money, other than grass roots donations, from the Cult of Trump. Hence, they can’t kick him to the curb, until after the Impeachment. What we, the people should be doing, is DEMANDING that they subpoena ALL the top GOP members who supported the notion of, “The Steal,” and have them give their, “evidence,” for it, ON THE WITNESS STAND, UNDER OATH, WITH NO 5TH AMENDMENT PROTECTIONS, AND NO LEGAL ABILITY TO REFUSE TO TESTIFY! All on LIVE TV! Most will confess it’s a SEDITIOUS LIE, to avoid PERJURY CHARGES, and stories that just won’t match! And when the Q followers, the Proud Boys, and other Nazis, HEAR THE TRUTH FROM THE MOUTHS OF THOSE WHO LIED TO THEM, trump will finally be done, and we can get passed treating the symptoms and move on to cure the disease! Contact your Representatives, on both sides! Demand testimony from Cruz, Graham, Hawley and, of course, the donald himself. And watch their house of cards collapse, with ZERO BLAME on the Dems for once! Do it America! ✌️👍
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To anyone who is concerned about how slow this counter offensive is going: You can access a timeline map of the D Day landings of World War Two and see how slowly they developed at first, until they gathered momentum. The allies stayed on those beaches and villages of Normandy for over a month, de-mining, securing defences, processing casualties, processing prisoners, getting rid of traps and working on probing attacks, through well dug in and fortified German positions. That map does not change for a month and then begins to expand, slowly at first, until the breakthroughs build and begin to overwhelm the enemy. It will take roughly three months before such momentum will be seen in Ukraine, if that map sequence is any comparison.
Ukraine WILL WIN, so long as we KEEP SUPPORTING THEM. Slava Ukraine! 🇺🇦✌️🇬🇧
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@jeremyj5932 : There must be some grownups, SOMEWHERE, in Russia, who look at events and say, “Look! If EVER we’ve given the west EVERY pretext to justify an all out invasion of Russia, it’s been the past year and a half, yet they STILL show ZERO interest in doing so! Maybe the ones among us, with a better grip on reality, and with friends leading the front line soldiers in Ukraine, should start plotting round about now? If that army was to come home and point its guns at the Kremlin, people like us would have pretty bright futures as heroes in the west and democratic friends to our own people?”
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Biographics : Come ooohhhn, guys? He was a tragic, deborched, waster, who COULD have been the, “most interesting man who ever lived,” but, instead, wasted his life, rebelling against his parents and ruining his own health, ensuring that his final decade would make him a burden on his friends in a state of bodily and mental decay . . .
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sclogse1 : The court just ordered Trump to pay back $2 MILLION, that he stole from his, “Charity.” If not president, he would be in JAIL for that. “Routinely stealing from defenceless, needy children and US Veterans.” She knew all about Trump. So, to hear her talking about, “the Constitution,” which Trump calls, “Unconstitutional,” and, “Fake,” is just f**king RIDICULOUS . . .
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Yes, she’s confirming our worst suspicions about her and seems utterly blind to that. What bothers me is that SHE has been, “Me Too’d,” but people still want to interview her and grant her the benefit of the doubt? Why are the Me Too people not calling this a victory for Depp? Why would ANYONE claim this is, “bad,” for women, when it shows that you can’t just hijack a legitimate issue for evil ends? The Me Too people should be writing articles about how women are as capable of physical and psychological abuse as men and celebrating the justice Depp finally got!
Heard continues to dig her own grave, and I will NEVER watch ANYTHING with her in it from this point on. The fact that she hasn’t been cancelled shows a deep hypocrisy in the Me Too movement and makes me more suspicious of anything they say. “Believe all women,” was an empirically flawed dictum to begin with. This is evidence that you should, “believe,” the facts and let Justice do its work.
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The biggest mistake a human can make is to believe what most of the most popular fiction tells them; that they are not fully defined as a person until they have that significant other in their life. When you are comfortable with who you are, individually, and able to feel fulfilled with or without others to define that identity, you will (ironically?) find that you attract more, “mates,” regardless. Knowing this . . . and feeling this, are very different things. Not sure there’s a shortcut to the type of life experiences that leads to this deep down inner knowledge? Most people reading this will say, “Phwauh . . . Well, duhhh.” But not all of them really, “know,” this, or are able to take the emotional risks, or find the patience, to truly lead an adventurous life, in which you test your own limits and find out who you really are, what you can change, and what you can’t, or shouldn’t, about yourself. I didn’t. I was lucky, because circumstances forced me into self discovery, but I sure didn’t feel, “lucky,” while I was dealing with the types of crises that forced me up that learning curve.
Being mad at boomers, for hogging and visibly squandering our inheritance is legitimate, but it becomes background noise when you are on a path of true self discovery. I say all of this as on older man who read your words, respected them, and wanted to offer something of worth to your comment of worth. Your honesty is disarming, and your self awareness - self knowledge - made me hope that you would hear my reply without feeling patronised? I hope you will hear my advice in the spirit in which it is intended? A word to the wise.
Live your life to its limit, test yourself and take insane chances that your self belief and courage will see you through. The life partner will come out of that, unlooked for, regardless. It’s a natural consequence of a life well lived. Worked for me, at any rate. ✌️
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@Madolite : Look at their history? Their very first Soviet leader, Lenin, was deposed by Stalin, who pulled the same dirty trick on Lenin that he’d pulled on his own closest supporters. Then Khrushchev, whom they, “invited to retire,” after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Yeltsin got in by striking a deal with the KGB to purge all the top echelons of government in exchange for his Premiership. Then he was half blackmailed, half just drunk, and sleepwalked Russia back into the arms of Putin’s dictatorship. Only he’d been busy securing his own power by merging the secret services with Mafia families. Now? . . .
The sons of those mafia bosses are what we call, “oligarchs,” sitting in his cabinet with their soft hands, love of western luxury and sweaty brows. The question for them is, how unstable they’re willing to let it get, before usurping Putin won’t keep them in comfort anyway? They need to remove him BEFORE they’re all broke and the clamour for a genuine democracy gets too loud.
This is what the Russian people get for accepting a dictatorship as a trade off for, “Well, at least it’s,better than the bad old Soviet days,” thinking.
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@teniente_snafu : Nailed it. “We want the right to own and run a train service without all that, ‘bureaucracy,’ of competition or any other companies being allowed to compete and make the trains run on time.” The water companies also refuse to deal with the, “bureaucracy,” of competition or, “standards,” and prefer being allowed to LITERALLY sh*t in our drinking water without fear of consequences. Totally nailed it.
Now we have actual red tape, so that business can attain parity with European businesses, so as to continue trading, whilst getting away with ignoring all basic safety, legal or moral standards for their British customers.
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@gsager2008 : It’s very similar to the aftermath of Hitler’s Bear Hall Putsch, actually. Not many woke up, even after that. It too was a laughably lame attempt to overthrow the government, which nevertheless cost several lives. It too began with a big speech, followed by the march, with Hitler promising to march with them, but not being there for violence (though Hitler had himself photoshopped into later photos of the insurrection, to make it look like he stuck around for the shooting, but he did at least, start out marching with his followers) and everyone thought that was the end of Hitler, when the law finally caught up with him . . . I wonder if Donny will wind up getting a minimum sentence from an intimidated judge, and writing his, “My struggle,” in the clink? Being a, “victim,” is his theme (even though it’s incongruously effeminate for a “Macho Macho Man” to be such a “girly” victim type?) and logic or self contradiction has never been an issue for the GQP? 🤔
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@jamescash887 : Lemme’ stop you there, kid. The, “Cultists,” are the ones who took part in the COUP ATTEMPT. So, no. The, “question of irregularities,” was ANSWERED, by the NSA, by trump appointed Election Security chiefs, by GOP Poll Watchers, by the NATION being able to watch EVERY COUNT IN EVERY STATE on LIVE STREAMING VIDEO! By over 60 COURTS, with Freedom Caucus Judges and countless trump appointed judges! And, BY RUDY GIULIANI who LITERALLY STATED to every judge he got in front of, that he WAS NOT EVEN ALLEGING, “Fraud,” “Malfeasance,” or even any, “Deliberate INTENT!” It was literally, “THE MOST SECURE ELECTION IN AMERICA’S HISTORY!” GOP words, NOT mine! You lying, seditious, propagandist toad! YOU should be illegal! YOU are the, “irregularity.” . . . 🤣
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@banginonfools1570 : Well spoken! 👍 Imagine if the GOP enablers got away with this horror that’s literally cost countless American lives, ripped us into two factions, and left countless literally starving, murdered and routinely intimidated, all in trump’s name?! We would be INVITING the GOP to try it AGAIN! Only, this time, they’ll find a criminal, traitor sociopath, who is charming and articulate! And, all we will have achieved will be a 4 year Reprieve, from the EXECUTION of the Republic! No thanks! Justice MUST be ruthlessly, relentlessly, mercilessly served. For the sake of the countless DEAD AND DYING! And for the sake of National Security! If they get away with ANY of it, we deserve to lose our Republic. It’s OUR responsibility now. We need to make sure our representatives, in this new administration, UNDERSTAND THAT! ✌️👍
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Ohnoitsthatguy : In Trump’s head they have, which is the same thing. Stop kidding yourselves that there’s still some kind of, “hope,” left, or that, “Someone else,” is going to, “Fix,” this. When half of the, “jury,” is facing JAIL time, they are NOT going to find THEMSELVES guilty. It’s your constant, “hope,” that has PARALYSED America! It’s a COUP, which only needs to consolidate its own POWER, now. Look at Flynn? Do you honestly THINK he’s changed his plea, imagining that some judge is going to let him off??? . . . NO! He’s done it, because he wants to re-enter public life, claiming he was, “innocent,” because he knows Trump is going to PARDON HIM. There are plenty of people on Death Row, who would like to change their plea, AFTER THE TRIAL IS OVER AND THEY’VE ALREADY BEEN SENTENCED, my friend! It just DOESN’T WORK LIKE THAT! It’s like Russia, now. It’s all a SHOW, for appearances sake, with NOTHING real behind ANY of it. Your 2020, “elections,” have ALREADY BEEN DECIDED. Just LOOK at these people. It’s a LIFETIME in power, OR JAIL AND DISGRACE, for the whole Trump K K Klan and half of the GOP! And, you’re all just sitting on your hands, like SHEEP! FFS! Save your Republic! It’s been INVADED! . . . Heuhhhhhhh . . . .
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To those who still support Trump, we know why. You are afraid of the truth being revealed to you, and just don’t want to hear, “We told you so.” Since the Inauguration Fund scam, right through to the NRA Fraud and just lately, yet another former Cabinet Member, exposed for stealing YOUR money; you MUST KNOW that when trump is out, and there’s no one left to hide his crimes, intimidate institutions and fire our best cops (replacing them with unqualified stooges) you will have it PROVED TO YOU that YOU were trump’s main target. That YOU were shafted, not just out of your Donations and Taxes, but out of your promises and trust, WORSE than any other group of Americans. You MUST SEE your, “White America,” dream has failed? You suspect you’ve been shafted. But you stay, “loyal,” because you can’t bear to hear it, and what historic fools you’ve all been . . . It’s not too late, even for you. This is your chance to redeem yourself and the Republic. Vote him out, and get the TRUTH, for the first time! Are you not even CURIOUS??? . . .
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We really NEED Sedition Laws. Seriously. Or to enforce those we have? After WWII we literally hunted down and hung Seditious Propagandists. Now, we let Fox and Fiends (according to Conservative analysts, BTW) tell America they should doubt the legitimacy of our Elections, over 700 TIMES, up to the riots of the 6th of Jan! And they get RICH doing it. It’s not a free speech issue. It’s screaming, “Fire,” in a packed theatre, and getting America KILLED! I’m not asking for executions, but we need swift, severe justice for those who are, after all, Anti-American!
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ROOKTABULA : Republican . . . NOT, “conservative.” There’s NO definition of Conservative that fits these Alt-Wrong, Extremist, Racists, Reckless Spenders, America Attacking, Ally Hating, Business undermining, Woman Hating, Squalid, Degenerate, Corrupt, NAZIS
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Yup. The court just ordered Trump to pay back $2 MILLION, that he stole from his, “Charity.” If not president, he would be in JAIL for that. “Routinely stealing from defenceless, needy children and US Veterans.” She knew all about Trump. So, to hear her talking about, “the Constitution,” which Trump calls, “Unconstitutional,” and, “Fake,” is just f**king RIDICULOUS . . .
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MTG will wind up suing the GOP, and she’ll have a good case. Her boss, Kevin McCarthy, has a Duty Of Care. Seriously! If someone was stalking a colleague like this in a Factory, Hospital or Office setting, MTG would have already been suspended and be looking a criminal proceedings, or hospitalisation for serious psychological issues! And, if it ends up with a suspension or something, her supervisor will be the one that BOTH sides will be attacking. She clearly IS, “unwell,” and a danger to her own people as well as others in that workplace! Any tribunal would put the blame squarely where it lies: on her supervisor’s shoulders. Does he not realise this?
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Ken Bugbee : Just because you don’t know the difference between, “specific charges,” and the, “reason,” people committed their offences, doesn’t mean you should take to YouTube to demonstrate your ignorance to your friends (if you have any?) and family (if they haven’t already disowned you?) son. 🤦♂️ Ted Bundy was charged for several specific murders, kid. NOT for, “Serial Killerness,” because that’s not a thing. But, hey? 🤷♂️ If you think they should bump their charges up to Conspiracy Against America or something, write to the DOJ, son? Oh, wait? They already did. Check out the rap sheets on the, “Oath Keepers,” and the, “3%ers?” That’s what they’re charged with. And every single one of them has RATTED on their buddies, to buy themselves a lighter sentence! Every last one! I guess the, “tree of liberty,” is going to have to wait to be watered, “by the blood of patriots,” in their case, huh? Cowards and traitors, every one of them. And YOU KNOW IT, Karen . . . SMH 🤦♂️🙄
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The sickest part of all this? Honestly; Trump’s Cult doesn’t, “believe,” him, any more than you or I do. They just act like they do; partly to troll America (these people are experiencing a little, “power,” for the first time in their lives) and they pretend because Trump is a racist and that’s what MATTERS to them. Stalin used the same methods, to divide his followers from the rest of the population, and intimidate decent people. It’s scary enough when lots of people parrot Trump’s insanity. But, after November, it will be all the media outlets, within a year or so, or Trump and his Cabinet will be behind bars?
You all have skin in the game. The thing about kids not getting sick as much as adults, is that they will be super carriers, catching the virus and exposing their parents, teachers and other kids to Covid. We’re about to create a generation of people who feel guilty for maybe killing people close to them, as well as witnessing the deaths of fellow students. It will alter our very culture; who we are; our books, music, movies, everything. America will never forgive itself for this . . . ✌️👍
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Trump uses Stalin’s playbook. Taught him by his coach, Putin. The racism, the fantasism, and the, “poor me,” grievance of his racist cult are very like Hitler. But, most of it is pure Stalin. And, like Stalin, he destroys free speech, targets his OWN people, and his lunatic pronouncements are not meant to be, “believed.” They’re a test of loyalty to his fans; and meant to chill decent people. After November, he plans to have the company that owns CNN bought in a hostile takeover, by a trump-friendly Oligarch, and end free speech altogether. It’s up to us to STOP that.
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No, that’s wrong. Why would we equate high pay with quality? The highest paid people in the world do the most damage and are fundamentally thick! Rishi Sunack is an example that leaps to mind. Do YOU, “need,” high pay to, “like talking about politics”??? People who love history, civic matters, policy creation, people management, are not even interested in riches!
I’m sorry, Phil, but you’re just wrong about that commonly accepted bit of received wisdom there which has been empirically disproven time and time and TIME AGAIN, since history began being committed to print!
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Well, we do know indisputably that two of the complaints against Raab were upheld. Given the extraordinarily high bar that needs to be proved beyond doubt, we can be certain that there was at least substance to the other claims. What I noted was that Raab’s resignation letter demonstrated the obtuseness and passive aggression that shows he’s unfit for high stress working environments.
I find the specious, “argument,” that he and Jacob Rees Mogg (among others) put forward in Raab’s defence particularly obtuse and galling. They keep saying, “It’s right to get angry with people who get it wrong or do their job badly,” and I haven’t yet heard a journalist return with the obvious riposte, “The complaints are not about Raab’s internal emotional state. They are about his behaviour.” Literally everyone in a high stress job gets angry with their colleagues from time to time. But there’s a world of difference between using the supervision procedure to identify mistakes and learn from them, setting goals for improvement and deciding on what to do differently in the future, and calling someone personal names and attacking the way they look, sound or behave in front of their colleagues. The defence being used misses that point and only serves to demonstrate that he either simply doesn’t get it (and therefore was unfit for his post) or he lacks the humility and wisdom to apologise and constructively move forward, which would improve the odds of him saving what looks to be an increasingly unsafe seat at the next election.
As to Sunack’s response to all this, he has done a classic Sunack: tried to avoid upsetting either side, merely serving to upset both sides further with his obvious pusillanimity. He allowed Raab to, “get his retaliation in first,” with a resignation letter that stopped just short of calling his victims, “snowflakes,” instead of sacking him immediately. And we all know he will have spoken to Raab on the phone, letting him know he will have to sack him but asking him how he would like to handle it.
At a time when Britain has never needed firm decisive leadership more, since WWII, we’re being lead by a flaccid vacillator who seems to want to demonstrate his own indecision and weakness at every opportunity.
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You know why she’s SO brilliant? Apart from the fact that she studies her topics, is never caught off guard, never fakes moral outrage, never makes it personal, never tries to, “hurt the feelings,” of political opponents, never so much as raises her voice; always stays on topic, tells the truth and calmly and politely answers the actual questions instead of propagandising, I mean? . . . It’s because she’s learned from Joe THE most valuable lesson in dealing with the press and public:
The art of NEVER losing the game? DON’T PLAY!
She ought to be taught in schools! Her Trumpophile predecessors must be SO JEALOUS it keeps me warm nights. I look at her and I’m almost moved to genuine tears, I admire her so deeply. We could all learn a thing from or two from Jen Psaki.
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It’s so clear the Russian people don’t support Putin’s private war. Why don’t they just get rid of him? Oh, that’s right. Because Russia has never had a democracy in its entire history.
And now Russians appear to be paying the price for their indifference when they had a chance to do something about it. So much for the, “Well, at least things are better than the bad old days of the Cold War,” attitude. Now, when it counts, they’re going to find it’s so much worse.
Back to cuing all day for a loaf of bread, which costs about 20,000 Rubles, no news except state lies, power cuts and shortages all round, and a jail sentence if you complain about it in public! THAT’S the price you pay for not caring about the dictatorship in power when you should have under Boris Yeltsin.
I do sympathise with these poor Russian people, and I can’t promise I would have done much better under a dictator like trump. But the difference was that America fought hard to keep its democracy, shoddy as it is, and they were willing to risk their own safety, while the stakes were still not too high to pay.
If even the Russian people KNOW this whole war is only so Putin and his cronies can prevent Ukraine from drilling, or even developing their massive gas and oil reserves, it is their obligation to overthrow this crook, and put a stop to the armed robbery being carried out in their name.
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Rohme Giuliano Well, Rohmey baby, you attributed a vast range of views to me, whilst having no actual idea of what they are, save for my stated view that Zizek's analysis of Robespierre is monstrous. It is precisely this tendency to over-generalise on the basis of assumptions that makes me hope that reactionary student union types, such as you appear to be, never get their twitchy, unthinking fingers on the levers of power.
I guess I can picture you sitting beside Robespierre and Zizek, taking one look at my post, and then assuming away with gusto, creating a fictional back story for me and attributing your picture of my entire political, academic and professional career for me, without anything more to go on than my single statement, your overzealous instincts - enslaved as they are to your cultural prejudices - and your inability to conceive of the possibility that you could be in error or that there may be something that you could learn from the world, if you would only take a moment to stop preaching at it, and from all of this you would probably designate me a subversive and have me sent to the block.
God forbid that you would tolerate a difference of opinion and let it roam free in the world unchecked? Heaven fore fend that you might think before bleating out two or three passages from a textbook? And most of all, let us never consider that another person's view might be different from the one we, the elite, have assigned him?!
Tell you what, if you want to know what I ACTUALLY THINK, why don't you ask me? If you want to discuss something with an open mind, you are required to consider the chance that, just maybe, you don't already know what I believe before you have asked me. Do you think you can do that? Maybe remember your training (if you were or are a student of history), which teaches against assumption, and encourages a slightly more forensic approach to learning.
Let me know if I'm getting to Zizekian for your tastes, won't you, please?
P.S. I will say that Nietzsche was a worm who would have been annihilated in a society that was anything like the one he advocated, but please do not take this statement as a licence to rattle off a whole new reconstruction of my beliefs? That was a comment on the man, not his philosophy. ;-)
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When they catch the cop killer/s I’ll be a lot happier. I just pray it doesn’t turn out to be an off duty cop, or cops? But, I’m looking to the Impeachment Trial to not only expose the LIE of, “The Steal,” but the Conspiracy of the Coup! This was NOT a, “spontaneous event,” on the 6th, but a plotted, planned and resourced attempt at stealing the Republic, and it was green lit, three days before by trump. We have the evidence that puts him in a room with the same three people that the, “Event Organiser,” NAMED, before fleeing into hiding himself! If a week is a long time in politics, the two weeks of impeachment is going to feel like two years to the Conspirators who KNEW what was coming and helped CAUSE the deaths of American citizens, with a seditious LIE! I think they may yet GET their Conviction?
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I hope they prosecute the, “news,” companies that spread this LIE of the, “steal?” Fox cast doubt on the election over 700 times, according to Conservative analysts. Even though they KNEW it was a LIE! We used to hunt down and HANG propagandists and traitors after WWII! Now we let them broadcast on American soil and give them shares in the company?! It’s NOT a, “free speech,” issue, when someone screams, “fire!” in a packed theatre, and gets to watch people DIE in the chaos they caused! It’s time to hold, “news,” anchors ACCOUNTABLE for their SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACIES! ✌️
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Not even, “in effect,” but quite literally. Which is what Donny has just, FINALLY, been made to understand. And it’s why I’m disappointed that he didn’t do it, for his kids and himself. They never would have stood up in any court, but they would have NEUTRALISED the fricken’ family. Felons cannot hold any office, for life, and that’s the law.
Ironically, he was literally planning on pardoning one GOP former Governor who is serving time for SELLING PARDONS! You really cannot make up, any of this sh*t! No one would print it as a book, or screenplay!
His entire disastrous reign of terror has cost at least HALF A MILLION AMERICAN LIVES! And, brought us back to the brink of financial RUIN! Just like Bush’s reign, before Obama and Biden got in! But, at least we have Biden’s experience now. He knows what to do, and how to do it. We just need to be relentless in our hunt for justice. The GOP must broken now. They threaten freedom world wide. ✌️
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MaL: C : I mean, just HOW BLATANT does it have to GET, before trump’s kkkult accepts that THEY are the ones being shafted the worst of ANY group in America? The Tax Payer is being forced to PAY (ILLEGALLY) for this RNC Convention! Do the cult HONESTLY, “think,” their donations have NOT been skimmed over the years? It started with the Inauguration Fund in 2016, for crying out loud! I genuinely think that a lot of the trump cult are only staying, “loyal,” now, because they don’t want to face up to the fact that THEY are the victims of history’s biggest scam! When there’s no Bill Barr or others of his ilk to obstruct justice and BURY the TRUTH, they must KNOW they’re going to have their idiocy PROVED to them? Their donations have been routinely, systematically STOLEN! Steve Bannon, the NRA, the Inauguration Fund, and this RNC CONvention, are all just the tip of the iceberg. I think they know it. I think they’re voting for trump, just to avoid hearing, “We TOLD you so!” 🤣
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Cthulhu Christ : Oh, and Trump LITERALLY said, “there were good people on both sides,” in reference to a NAZI march. Big Brother has had his penis, right up your Orange Orifice, for so long now, that you don’t even notice it’s there any more. But, it might explain your permanent state of, “Butt Hurt,” and effeminate, “victimhood.” I bet you were standing up, when you wrote your last bleat, right? Hurts to sit down? . . . 🤔😁
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The hypocrisy is staggering, right? I know what changed their minds. Wanting to get back to work, reopen their businesses, and get their kids back to school. So, then they groped for an, “excuse,” in the way they’re used to doing, like when they’re being racist, or anti-democratic. I predicted that Putin’s Anti-Vax propaganda would fall flat as a DIVIDE AMERICA tactic, because the here and now greed of trump’s Qult always overcomes anything else. “New science?” My ass! New financial problems, brought on by a chronic Fox habit, more like. Still, if they’re starting to learn the cost of science denial and fact-murder, I’m all for it. And, maybe there will be tacit support for vaxing from the Alt-Wrong, who’s base are literally dying out? 👍
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@johnbrowneyes7534 : Even trump’s 2016 election result is far from a settled question, but we never got time to examine that, under the deluge of disinformation that followed on its heals. It is known that the vast majority of the American people did not want his presidency. And that a system which doesn’t represent the will of the American people, regardless of the popular vote, is broken enough to need a serious review, if not the abolition of the Electoral College system, altogether. There is no question that trump lost the midterms and then lost yet another election, by every metric America has. Those who still dispute the 2020 results, are doing so for power and money, or they’re just little racists, who troll their betters for pay, or out of race hatred. Of the very few who actually, “believe,” that trump won, most of them do not have IQ’s in triple digits, and I am not being ironic about that. Trump’s whole (bowel) movement is for idiots, racists and idiotic racists, on the take. That’s what I know to be a fact. ✌️
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When that woman said, “He’s acting like he can win back some of the die hard maga voters, but they’re gone,” she should have added, “All he achieved was to alienate any floating Republicans who want to win, but who don’t back trump.” Talk about flipping the bird at both sides at once!? It’s not just cringeworthy, shameful and spineless, it’s just dumb too. And when Tapper said, “He’s smart,” I thought, “No he’s not.”
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@bellaroze9027 : I have a friend, a fire fighter, who’s attitude toward Covid and Hospital Heroes really tested our friendship. Then, she got Covid, treated it like a weird dose of flu and returned to work as soon as she could. Then, they did a medical, and that changed everything. Over 30% of her lungs are now scar tissue. She can never be a firefighter again, failing the minimum requirements. And yes, words like, “If only I’d listened,” have literally been said. She’s trying to raise awareness now. She was always a good person who wanted to serve but, because she didn’t, “want,” to believe in Covid, she, “chose,” an available narrative which she, “preferred.” Now she has the rest of her days to contemplate her folly, “I told you so,” doesn’t seem helpful or necessary ✌️👍
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The cult of trump is on the verge, right now. They’re about to get their biggest ever wake up call, from the Donster himself. He’s madly raising as much cash from them as he can for his, “legal challenges,” but it’s actually his GETAWAY FUND. By the time they realise he was only dodging all those warrants and indictments pending, he will be out of their reach, in a none-extradition-treaty country, with the worst GOP offenders by his side, and a butt load of THEIR CASH in his offshore accounts! But, at least his cult will collapse, so there’s that? 🤣👍
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@whiteyobanion1104 : Just as with the hearings that lead to Nixon’s Impeachment, the people who testify will wind up being prosecuted and convicted, along with others who don’t testify. And, yes . . . In this case, the DOJ is aware of huge sums, skimmed from tax payers and donors to the trump cult, which will be RICO’d, as you say. It’s not the rich donors I feel for, as they knew at least half of any giant donation was going into back pockets. They were, “buying,” things that they got in return, and didn’t care what they did with the cash, as, “ideology,” is for, “losers,” to them. It’s the We Build The Wall Nazis that I feel sorry for. And the, “Stop The Steal,” believers, who gave up so much that they could ill afford, along with their freedom and reputations. All those donations from poor cultists who . . . No, I just can’t keep this up. I don’t feel sorry for those SOB’s at all! 🤣👍
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When a minority commits an atrocity, they’re instantly labelled a, “monster,” but, when a, “white guy,” does THE SAME THING he’s just having a, “bad day”??? WTF??? If that isn’t a racist thesis, and the very, “complicity,” of which Joe just spoke, what is? This is trump’s anti-China, anti-Asia rhetoric, wheedling its way into public thinking. We all know it.
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Oh, I can answer that question in four simple words: “The rise of Fascism.” Like that white, male, middle aged, uneducated voter put it, so honestly and so succinctly, “She not supposed to have a conscience, she’s supposed to represent her constituents.” Try explaining to him that, by telling the Big Lie for Donny, she would be doing the precise opposite, and he won’t understand. Because, he means, “constituents,” like him. No one else. ✌️
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WildHeart : We literally have secret police, like the Stasi, kidnapping, shooting and intimidating Americans, to show us that our free speech and democratic rights no longer exist. All because of the greedy, spineless racists in the GOP. It will take more than a generation, just to unravel their crimes and create the reforms necessary to protect America from this ever happening again, let alone heal the wounds and bring JUSTICE to guilty and victim alike! The whole lot of these collaborators deserve to be lined up against the same wall with the trumps and executed. But, that’s why we’re better than the,, because we will restore the Constitution. But, every day the trump’s walk free, after the inauguration, will be one more day the Republic was still BROKEN. 👍
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AP AS : You were half right, son. Trump started this riot, deliberately. Sending Bill Barr? The most corrupted, least trusted cop in America? To, “look into,” the Floyd case? America KNEW there would be a cover up, at that point, and sure enough . . . You know, son, it’s only the mentally ill, or the paid Trump Trolls, that LIVE on channels they HATE, ranting to people they HATE, about the people they HATE, right? Which are you, again?
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BlaqueCzar : When a Nazi talks, s/he discredits his/her self. It’s not the media’s roll to suppress it. Campuses should be happy to have Ann Coulter, Steve Bannon, et al, come and talk to the students. But, they need to be just as happy, if protests and demonstrations prevent them from being heard, right? That too, is Free Speech, and should be sufficient to inform these Nazis, that they are not wanted in these places.
Outright LIES should always be stopped, or at the very least, OUTED as such, by responsible broadcasters. And, you should NOT be allowed to call yourself, “News,” when you demonstrably LIE. In the UK, Fox was not allowed to call itself news, for that very reason, so they decided that they would not broadcast in Britain at all. And, we would all be better off for it, if that were the case in the US.
But, Conservatives and Liberals alike, should balk at banning free speech. Don’t you agree?
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Kind of you to say so and, perhaps you needed to here that? . . . Though I was impressed by the presentation I suddenly got disconcerted when he reached the main crux of his argument, at point 3. Suddenly, at the very point at which he tells us we should be concerned that boys suffer most from paternal absenteeism, he drops all statistics, doesn’t say in what way, “boys suffer most,” or what the outcomes of that would be? I was left asking, “In what way? What are the statistics? What evidence is there? Where are the studies? Why do girls suffer less? How was that established?” Etc, etc. Not even an anecdote to back up his key claim? After all those facts, figures and statistics to back up each of the preceding points, the main argument suddenly falls flat as though he was selling me a bit coin investment. And I’m not saying he’s at all wrong, only that we cannot take his word for it. It was a terrible decision, if he omitted his key evidence for the sake of brevity, just to make his YouTube video the right length? If this was a TED Talk for example, I could only imagine he’d be showered with these basic questions at the Q & A afterwards, and a smart journalist would ask him WHY he left out any evidence for his central assertion at the key moment?
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Rex Populi : Remember Total Recall? Ronny Cox? “The air is running out, we need to turn on the fans, or they’ll die.” His response, “F’k ‘em.” That’s Donny.
Get off your asses, America! You NEED to get these illegal, unconstitutional Secret Police SS units off your streets. The cops are as Divided as the rest of America, and Barr is selecting Pro-Trump goons from all over America, to expand them, as I type. Their one goal is to protect the regime, when they deny you elections. Inundate your representatives and protest them. Get them OUTLAWED, AMERICA!
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Something very dark has taken hold of the spirit of America, and this impeachment has cornered the country into crisis. There’s no, “win,” or good outcome to be had, any more. Either Trump survives, and the damage to the credibility of the Republic will be permanent, or he’s removed, and the country has to admit that something was deeply flawed about the system, in the first place. The latter is at least and acknowledgement, from which healing remains a possibility. If he remains in office, America is saying that its Constitution no longer applies, and the country will never recover from that
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Gizella Lombardi : The hypocrisy of the GOP’s desire for a slave class is why that border problem never gets solved. Even if there was a wall, hermetically ceiling off the border (including tunnels, boats and aircraft) farmers, private factory owners and all those folks with lawns and a desire to have a housemaid (or whatever other staffers that flatter their own egos) would be in control of a system for allowing them in. Suddenly, background checks would never be about whether someone was a legitimate asylum seeker, but whether their criminal history makes them too unsafe to nanny for your kids. It would be a job interview, for slave labor at slave wages, with brutal criminal consequences for getting it wrong.
Naturally, they won’t ruthlessly prosecute the factory owners or farmers, for employing illegal labor. That would be too much like solving the problem, overnight! And that’s why it pays them to have all the poor white Americans kept in uneducated, racist ignorance, foaming at the mouth and doing their campaigning for them. As we fall into a labor crisis, right now, where educated Americans are simply unwilling to work for shitkicker wages, it’s the very people who claim they want to close the border who rely on illegal immigrant labor. If they were all legal, they would be demanding the same wages as the rest of us.
Just another example of the rank hypocrisy that perpetuates a problem that the very people who cause it claim they want to fix it more than anyone else. Leaving the grownups stuck with the complexities of seeking fair, humane, constitutional solutions, without ANY cooperation from the fascist Qult of the GOP.
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IKR? If you say, “Fight like hell, or you’ll have no government,” in a board room, that’s one thing. When you say it to an angry mob, who’ve just been receiving a lecture on, “Trial by Combat,” are they f’king KIDDING? And the whole point is that he WAS president when he was Impeached! If you can’t stop office holders from breaking the law, because it’s their last days in office, you are inviting criminal sabotage of the government from the next failed TV star! What they really fear in the GOP is being forced to say, on the witness stand, on LIVE TV, that, “The Steal,” ain’t real. It was a seditious lie that caused an Insurrection, and they knew it was a lie from the start!
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@janetbeebe6578 : Officer Fenone? His interview was electric! A mob, screaming, “Get his gun! Kill him with his own gun!” almost killed him, but he was dragged free by some other trump rioters. When asked what he would say to those who helped save him? He said, “Thank you for saving me, and F*CK YOU, for being there!” The details were chilling. He’d be a first rate witness. The myth of, “The Steal,” needs to be EXPLODED! It was the REASON for the Insurrection! If America HEARS IT, FROM THE GOP? That, “The Steal,” AIN’T REAL! From the GOP’s OWN MOUTHS! 👍
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Erika Erikson : You don’t read much, but you have paraphrased Wikipedia’s definition, I see. Notice, it’s not a legal term, but a phrase used by defendants? Notice that defendants are afforded the opportunity to show to a court, if they have been coerced into self incrimination? Notice that this ONLY applies to Grand Juries? Why? Glad you asked. Because, those are the legal environments in which a, “defendant,” is not allowed a lawyer. How could he be in a perjury trap, if he’s NOT being cross examined, NOT under charge, NOT being refused representation, and NOT on trial?
So, given that junior will be in front of ALLIES as well as opponents, allowed to take the 5th Amendment, AND represented by counsel, WTF are you even TALKING about? I think what you MEAN, here, is that he’s probably guilty of a lot of crimes and will LIE TO CONGRESS if he speaks, because he has no choice.
And, do you KNOW how the, “Perjury Trap Defence,” gets shot down in courts? EVIDENCE, my dear. Cold, hard FACTS. Now, being as how you’re so steeped in the Republican, “ideology,” I suggest you stick to knitting and flower arranging, like a good girl, and leave the thinking to liberated women, and the rest of the grown ups? 😁
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Well, everyone kept asking, “What’s going to happen when Trump has to face a genuine crisis in America?” Now we know. The strongest, most scientifically advanced country on the planet, with the, “best healthcare system in the world,” has somehow got the highest infection rate in the world, the highest DEATH rate in the world, lost the most jobs in the world (already!) and is facing chaos, whilst withdrawing funding from the SINGLE world agency that they NEED THE MOST! How’d that happen? The US is a giant PLC now. That’s how. The economy is everything, whereas health, security, and human rights will ALWAYS come a very poor second. Trump will put thousands, maybe millions, to the sword, so as to reopen the front doors on America Limited. He has killed your Democracy; brought down your Republic; now he’s going to kill you . . .
For the M O N E Y, STUPID . . .
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Note: None of the Fascist rhetoric makes sense. Paranoid conspiracies were the way that Hitler got popular. But they’re self contradictory. “Covid is not a thing,” yet, “it’s killing people via the vector of migrants.” They complain about (CC), “Cancel Culture,” even though trump INVENTED that! From, “lock her up,” which was old before he took office, to Cancelling the Republic and the outcome of a democratic election on Jan 6th! Trump came in Cancelling GOP members for disagreeing with him, by having them Primaried, which he’s he’s STILL DOING to Liz Cheney! He demanded that Saturday Live was Cancelled for lol’ing at him. He’s currently demanding the firing of, “journalists,” at Fox! The GOP actually ARE CANCEL CULTURE. And, as ever, we know what they are, because they’re accusing others of being that thing!
Check out Prof Stanley G Payne’s book, The History of Fascism 1914 - 1945. The word you need is not really, “Nazi.” It’s just, “Fascism.” A cult of personality, who’s founding narrative is a lie, largely based on, “victimhood.” The projection of macho, “strength,” and the use of violence (jan 6th) and intimidation as a political tool. The racism, of course. Trying to get the votes of minorities discounted, both from the elections, and now, attempting to ensure they can’t vote, prior to future elections. This is genuine fascism, just like in Franco’s Spain, Mussolini’s Italy, and Hitler’s Germany. And history is completely repeating itself; especially with the paranoid conspiracies that got the Nazis into power. Disturbing.
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The Tories survived after the ‘97 wipeout because they remained the opposition, still had clients in the press and, as the opposition, were able to control the narrative. The opposition still gets all the same invites to all the same panel shows, public events and functions, Royal protocols and diplomatic events, et. And they get to set the agenda for the manner in which the government of the day is held to account.
I hope and pray that this time we get a different opposition. The Lib Dems would ask good, appropriate questions, hold the governments feet to the fire and avoid all of the, “personality politics,” and craven appeals to, “culture wars,” and other vacuous attempts at misdirection from issues that matter.
Just last night we had Jacob Reese Mog bleating on his private TV show about, “free speech,” whilst forgetting to mention that his party is the ONLY party that has introduced laws designed to curb free speech and the right to protest. I cannot see how losing that level of craven hypocrisy would do our country any harm?
Let us all vote for Tory annihilation so that we can have a responsible government, doing its job in an honest and boring manner whilst being challenged by responsible adults, not just out to make money for themselves and their friends and their families, holding them to account.
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And, I bet they claim to be, “Victims,” again? Cry babies, crying about, “Cancel Culture,” what do you bet? Fox, who tried to Cancel Democracy. Trump was trying to Cancel HRC, before he even got into office, with his, “lock her up,” chants. He cancelled his OWN PARTY MEMBERS, having them Primaried, for merely disagreeing with him! And his Insurrection cancelled a cop’s LIFE! As well as tried to Cancel the Republic! Trump’s cult just doesn’t like it when it happens to THEM 😁
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That, “shock & awe,” quote was no joke. It will be the media; CNN and MSNBC in particular that will be in the firing line. It’s Stalin’s playbook, every time, coached by Putin. CNN will come under, “government administration,” or get bought out in a hostile take over, by a trump friendly oligarch. And MSNBC will be hit by one fake, “scandal,” after another, and countless court cases, until it’s broken up. And the rest of the media will either get the message, or go the same way. History is my teacher. And that’s why my predictions never fail, so far. Just get this menace OUT! That’s your only hope of restoring your Republic, America
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If there’s any, “blame,” to go around, it is to be shared equally between Biden and trump. Biden is honouring trump’s agreement and deadline. Joe has explained that many allies simply wouldn’t take their exit window, and that the, “government,” refused to cooperate with America’s exit strategy, hampering it all the way. Ripping off the bandaid was Joe’s only move. He was NOT the, “nation builder,” nor was he responsible for Iraq, or failing to go after the Saudis who caused all of this. Remember that, and ask yourself? Could you have done better? . . .
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@sumobeagle2342 : See, what you’re talking about is half made up by far-wrong propagandists, and the rest had nothing to do with overthrowing the state, madam. You act like a registered charity and activist group, BLM, is the other side of the same coin as Nazis and Insurrectionists who deliberately tried to tear down our Republic, spit on our Constitution and quite literally shat on our Capitol. And, I got that from just a couple of lines, from your impotent rage. I won’t read any more, because it’s all hate and lies, whether you see that or not. Donny lied to you . . . SMH
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@thegentleman1541 : Think about it, though? At the very height of trump cult, “butt hurt,” when they had maximum momentum, they managed to get 2 or 3 thousand cultists to show up for their Million Moans March, after a huge publicity campaign. There were way more protestors against Donny Dump, all across America in 2016, the very next day, and that was spontaneous! Nah, I wouldn’t translate 70 or so million voters into 70 or so million, “activists?” In fact, I would bet real money that about half of trump’s voters are secretly relieved he’s done. And several more must be rethinking their vote, after seeing his behaviour since? How can ANYONE pretend he wouldn’t have been a dictator, had he been allowed to be? We dodged a bullet there. Our job now is to expose and crush this treasonous bunch of goons, before they ever get the chance to reload . . . ✌️
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Xcris crosX : To me, this has been the most revealing episode in Trump’s history. No one panicked in Alabama, even before the Weather Service corrected them, did they? That was proof (if proof was needed?) that even his supporters never actually, “believed,” Trump, and never DO, “believe,” what he says. They FAKE their, “belief,” so long as Trump remains greedy and a racists. That’s their, “contract,” with Trump. They see him as, “revenge,” for Obama, and KNOWINGLY live in the land of Fake Believe ✌️
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I do hope that all patriotic Americans are emailing the impeachment Managers? Demanding they force the GOP top brass to Testify on the stand? All they have to do is ask them for their evidence for, “the steal,” which is what caused the insurrection? And when, under oath and with no 5th Amendment, they daren’t risk Perjury, Conspiracy charges or WORSE, getting sued by a voting machine company with a strong case, they’re going to confess that they always knew, “The Steal,” was a Seditious LIE! Hawley, Graham, Cruz, Ms Q Greene, all of them!
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Fukuyama writes fascinating books and is a deep, articulate and thoughtful man. But he famously predicted, “The End Of History,” with the fall of the Soviet Union and I didn’t believe him then. I hope he’s right about this, but these things do have a way of dragging on, mostly due to no one person or administration being willing to serve the decisive blow; in case it goes wrong and that’s all they’re remembered for.
All I know for certain is that we shouldn’t allow ourselves to get all, “disappointed,” if we don’t see quick results. The resolve of the west has totally blindsided Putin, but he will likely rally at some point. We have to be prepared to stay the course.
Ever since, “Energy Security,” has been a political term (over a hundred years now) the west has NEVER allowed themselves to drop that ball. Rightly or wrongly. That was Putin’s biggest miscalculation. The west KNOWS what he’s really up to: preventing Ukraine from getting rich on what may well be bigger gas and oil reserves than Russia’s! According to Shell, BP and Exxon it is. And they didn’t spend billions on the rights to develop those reserves, just to see Putin steal the lot from under them . . .
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Rick Harvey : Stop being such an effeminate, “victim,” all the time? Your hysteria has unmanned you. The, “rampant crime,” and the, “invasion,” you claim to fear, doesn’t bother you enough to protect the FBI, the Coast Guard, even ICE Agents, let alone our Airports, does it? You just don’t want, “brown,” people who speak two languages, making you feel inferior because they work harder than you, and threaten to take your job, sweeping up at McDonalds away. Here’s a tissue, for your made up issue, you Putinista, Anti-American, Propaganda Peddling, Pencil Necked, PR*CK 🙂
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Absolutely. I doubt any of them were even soldiers! Probably just his police goon squads or actors. And, right after he left, some master sergeant probably shouted, “You men in uniform! Get on that bus there! You’re off to the front lines!” And they were shipped off saying, “But, but, but, we’re just actors!” They can pick up their Oscars in Kherson. In all seriousness, it does make westerners realise just how unhinged his denial is, though. Putin’s probably nuts enough to plead, “not guilty,” at The Hague!
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@Scromanescu : This is what annoys me about these kinds of videos. Your points may well be valid, but Putin’s got us all talking about what he wants to talk about. NOT about what’s going on! Shell, Exxon and BP did a deal with Ukraine which would have made the country rich! They have as much gas and oil as Russia, possibly MORE! But they’ve never been able to develop it! Putin has seized Crimea, to stop offshore drilling, fomented chaos in the Donbas region, to stop drilling and now there’s even more gas and oil in the west, where Putin can’t reach it without taking his army to the Carpathian Mountains and taking the whole of Ukraine too. He doesn’t want to take their energy reserves (for now) he just wants to ensure NO ONE, especially the west, does!
It’s an ARMED ROBBERY. Nothing to do with, “ideologies,” “geo-politics,” “global this,” or, “historical that.” It’s an old school thug, stealing sh*t, and hoping we will all be DUMB enough to say, “Well, he’s got a point I suppose?”
Putin needs to be STOPPED. Period! And like all crooks, when it comes to nukes, HE’S BLUFFING! He wants to live!
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@bravewave2084 : Personally, I only ever engage with trump trolls for entertainment purposes. They are not here to, “debate,” “learn,” “consider,” “discuss,” or even, “argue,” any point. Whether they’re on the payroll or just, “thinking,” of themselves as trolling, their, “job,” is to increase DIVISION. Most of the paid ones privately agree with you, but won’t get paid for saying that. The ones who do it for free, and without prompting? They’re a far smaller minority than it appears. But, they’re the ones with more serious, “issues,” going on. Think of it like this? Imagine just how BADLY WRONG your life must have had to go, before YOU found yourself, over a period of 6 or more YEARS, spending all day, every day, talking to people you really, REALLY don’t like, on channels you despise, about all the news that makes you sad, angry, or otherwise negatively emotional? . . . Those people are NOT, ahem . . . “well,” on a psychological level. And they might as well be writing that on YouTube? No one does that, unless their life is already in the toilet, right? 🤷♂️ I feel genuine pity for some of them . . . And then they talk, and suddenly I don’t 😉
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Imagine if he got a job at Nintendo, so they would be paying themselves back? That would be a great move, but I guess he’d never get around their Human Resources Dept?
I read about this and Gary Bowser was sentenced to 40 months but actually got time off for good behaviour. I think he only served about 30 months. But Nintendo wasted no time and got right up his ass immediately! He left jail having paid off 25% of the $500 dollars or so that he earned from working in the jail’s laundry! Roughly $125 dollars! This is literally medieval punishment! The same, “philosophy,” applies, making an, “example,” of him in the same way that a gibbet did back in the day, leaving a corpse to rot in a very public place for ALL TO SEE! The more publicity the better! “This is what we do to people who f*ck with us when we catch them!” And this is what happens when a big freeloading SOB meets a tiny freeloading SOB. I have no sympathy for either party but, CALM TF DOWN, Nintendo!?
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You are a, “Brooklyn weirdo,” for whom I have very much, “acquired the taste.” I will follow the websites, donate money, subscribe to the required people, sign petitions, you name it. Please let us know how your viewers outside of America can best help?
As I said in my last comment, it is just the reality now, if policies empower consumers in America, the rest of the world will find it way easier to follow suit since, between them, Apple, Microsoft, Tesla (perhaps to a lesser extent lately?) and so many giant American Corporations OWN most of the world and most of the access to lawmakers.
I will stay alert for these issues wherever they come up, as you said. I just wish I could do more.
Again, THANK YOU. I admire your cause and you.
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Now This : It’s disconcerting, that Donny’s cult loves our enemy, Russia, so much. Half the trolls on these threads, right here, are hired by shell companies, pretending not to be East European. What they, “want,” to believe, is what they choose to believe. And, it’s the fact that Trump’s cult will knowingly LIE, right along with Donny, that is a demonstration of Trump’s power. It’s his way of saying, “Look how I can lie, so stupidly, and all these people are so DUMB that they think I’m right. Look how many there are.” That’s propaganda for you. And, we knew he was a snake, when we let him in
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He’s collecting donations, that his cult thinks he’ll use to somehow, “buy back,” his job, whilst, ironically, showing the world that he’s not prepared to DO HIS JOB! Think about that? He’s collecting for his Getaway Fund and scheming in a bunker, while the people he’s counting on to restore him to power, are LITERALLY DYING! He will not even BE in America on Inauguration Day! And his cult will FINALLY get it, when he mounts NO, “legal challenge,” but keeps ALL THEIR MONEY! . . . But, by then, we’ll be counting our dead in the MILLIONS. Dear GOD! Someone get the bunker boy out of his bunker, and back to WORK!
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If they put Hawley on the stand, at the Impeachment, he’ll be forced to commit Perjury, Conspiracy or worse, OR tell the truth! He’ll have to ADMIT that the reason for the Insurrection, “The Steal,” is a Seditious LIE, and he always knew it. This is why Lindsay Graham is SO AFRAID of witnesses testifying!? With no 5th, no ability to refuse to testify, and on live TV, let the trump cult hear what they lost everything for, from the mouths of those who lead them there?!
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The GOP began by, “cancelling,” Hillary, with lock her up chants! They, “cancelled,” their own people, having them Primaried and cast out, for disagreeing with trump! And, they tried to, “cancel,” democracy! With a riot based on a LIE! Which left over 50 cops seriously injured; one in a coma with brain damage, another blinded and yet another DEAD! And now? They’re trying to CANCEL ACCOUNTABILITY! Because they know they can ALL be forced to TESTIFY! With NO 5th Amendment protections! Imagine that at trump’s impeachment? They will be forced, on live TV, to confess that they KNEW, “The Steal,” is a LIE!!!
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@bobross6318 : “Word salad;” Translation: “I have neither the concentration span nor the inclination to try to comprehend the words in front of me, let alone refute their content or even so much as address their meaning, so I will dismiss them out of hand to focus on the one thing I care about: a politician. Not a scientist, writer, leader, warrior or an inspiration to any living human, but an inarticulate, incompetent hack, around whom I have built my life, making obtuseness and hypocrisy a lifestyle choice. And, why have I done this? Partly because I am a victim of the Sunk Costs Fallacy, but mostly because I am a racist who lives in mortal fear of, ‘being told what to do,’ one day, by an African American disabled lesbian, which is also a recurring nightmare that I regularly wake from in a cold sweat. I can’t afford therapy and my court appointed parole officer is unsympathetic. So, I will live out the remainder of my days being routinely disappointed by life, getting used to being stared at by normals with their mouths open whenever I express my true feelings and giving away more of my savings that I can’t afford, because I’m too committed to admit to my alienated family that I was SO WRONG about EVERYTHING, even though the only conversations I ever have with them now always end with them saying, ‘We told you so,’ and shaking their disappointed heads at me, while I craft another trump banner for my next illegal march with Alex Jones blaring from my computer about gay frogs and such.”
Quite the life you’re failing to lead there, son . . . 😉
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@Catch21Manila : That’s SO in-self-aware, hypocritical, and risibly ironic, I really don’t know where to start? You’ve just spent the last 5 years, backing a racist, fantasist, who accuses everyone of, “unsubstantiated,” biased, and laughably impossible, “crimes,” and, “Lock Her Up!” has been his rallying cry and calling card! And, now you have the brass bollox to Karen on a site where you’re not wanted, and to criticise others for not, “substantiating,” a complex list of Federal Offences? . . . On a YOUTUBE THREAD??? This is NOT the Library of Congress, where others have to make up for YOUR shortcomings, by listing and siting all the legal documentation, son??? Nor is it ANYONE’S responsibility to school you out of YOUR (feigned) IGNORANCE and deliberate obtuseness! Go and be a Karen on F*x, why don’cha’? Seems F*x is losing viewers and needs the support, Karen 🤣
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@tiesurcess3639 : That’s an excellent suggestion. I used to feel all the anger, outrage and even a genuine physical revulsion whenever I listened to him talking, until I just skipped any news story that played him talking, knowing I’d get a summary directly anyway. Then, I began to realise that his actual words didn’t matter anyway, since they could change so easily within the same speech, let alone the same day. Never has it been more pertinent to say, “Don’t believe what he says, believe what he does.”
Now, I just feel deflated and depressed even at the sight of him, let alone listening to him whine and ramble. Jake summarises the Russians and others, even after playing the subtitled clips and, knowing this, you can skip bits if you’re in a hurry. Not that I would ever encourage that. It’s just something I noticed when I was in a hurry.
That’s the solution for many of us. Well said. I hope Jake takes you up on that.
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@aylbdrmadison1051 : Whoah, there! I’m a Conservative. There are NO, “conservatives,” in trumpism. They are totalitarians, at best! Fascists in reality! As a signed up member of the Lincoln Project, I really must ask, respectfully that we do NOT allow such respectable terms to be wasted on a bunch of racists who represent the end of politics and history in America? It has been my honor and privilege to work alongside many of the country’s leading Liberals and Conservatives, in our unified battle to restore POLITICS to America, instead of this ongoing Coup attempt that the GOP began on Jan 6th and have only increased in its potency ever since. I come from a culture of, “agree to disagree,” and, “let’s really debate our ideas,” in which the two different belief systems are acknowledged as belonging to people who are EQUALLY committed to what they believe is best for their country and the world; namely, Democracy and representative government. By working side by side, we at the Lincoln Project have a new found respect for our differences and, ironically enough, have been able to settle differences in the most profoundly polite, enabling encouraging ways that I genuinely believe there is a model to be found there, that could teach a thing or two to the people of America. Conservatives and Liberals are brothers and sisters, in a family that has its disagreements, but is united in its total commitment to America. You cannot look at these Stalinists; these fascists; these racists and haters, and see, “Conservative,” unless you don’t know what Conservative is? In your case, I’m granting that it may just be because of habit, using the term as shorthand? A mistake that I am guilty of sometimes, in regard to other things. But, please? DON’T? That’s not fair to the millions of Conservatives who voted for Joe, because they knew it was either the Dems or the Nazis, without exaggeration. Nor is it fair to the countless (often nameless) conservatives who fight, every day, like me, to help seek justice for trump’s many, many crimes, and to destroy this current iteration of the GOP. They have to go. And you and I are related, whether you like it or not: we are the Union Troops, facing the Confederacy, who are literally suppressing the votes of blacks in the south again! So, with great respect . . . PLEASE? Not, “conservatives”??? ✌️👍
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Lady Jas : She’s following Trump’s lead, to a t. People are expendable, and the math says, a million to a million and a half dead; if they do nothing more about this. That’s acceptable. America needs to make money. You’re expendable. I’m expendable. They’re protected. And their drones are SO DUMB that they’re following their internet instructions from Trump’s backers, to go out and, “protest,” and may well wipe themselves out in a huge Darwinian self-extinction event! In a way, it’s f*cking hilarious! We’re getting what we deserve. And, when the second wave comes, the country will grind to a halt. The only people working then, will be the mass grave diggers . . .
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Busted Fender : Of course she’s right. “Wag the dog.” A distraction, to have Americans look away from the sham of the GOP fixing Trump’s Impeachment. The Republic has FALLEN in a COUP, organised by GOP members who face jail time if Trump is removed. And by the crime family that would all go to jail, the moment Trump lost his presidential, “protected status.” They HAVE TO RIG 2020’s, “elections,” with Russia’s help. It’s that or JAIL. So they have taken away your Democracy, to save a bunch of crooked, incompetent, evil idiots. Their only concern is that Americans might RISE UP, which is why the go to Iran distraction, AGAIN. WHY ARE YOU ALLOWING THE END OF THE REPUBLIC, AMERICA??? . . . Smh
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@Odyss2023 : They support Putin in the same way that you or I, “support,” missing lunch, rather than eating a shit sandwich. They were fine telling themselves, “Well at least we don’t have to pretend to believe in communism, cue all day for a loaf of bread, and fear getting arrested if we complain about things.” But, now they’re seeing that this is exactly what’s happening, support will dwindle. Judging from their protests only a year or so ago, they know Putin has trillions of their Rubles, and they might just decide to take them back, rather than starve for his sanctions? It’s not like Putin will be missing any meals? And if his demoralised army decides to head back to Moscow in support of them? Well? . . . “Any civilised society is only three square meals away from revolution,” right?
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The difference between Putin and Zelensky:
When hostile Russian troops breached the borders of Zelensky’s capitol, Zelensky refused a lift into exile offered by the Americans and asked for ammunition instead, deciding he would face the same fate as the rest of his fellow citizens, despite knowing he would never be allowed to survive as a prisoner.
When hostile Russian troops didn’t even get to the borders of Putin’s capitol, Putin fled to St Petersburg, leaving the citizens to fend for themselves. Now, every day that Prigozhin jets around Russia and Belarus, whilst Wagner only strengthens itself and recruits from Belarusian jails, openly defying Putin’s edict to fold them into the official armed forces, Putin looks clearly, palpably, visibly weakened.
The comparison between Putin’s cowardice and Zelensky’s heroism has never been starker in the west. Whilst Muscovites are watching their standards of living continue to slip, and losing relatives to a war they cannot understand, for a guy who ran out on them at the first hint of trouble that didn’t even come for him! You cannot save face while you still have a bloody nose that simply will not stop bleeding so long as Prigozhin shows he has more power than Putin in real terms.
If Russians aren’t wondering whether all their sacrifices are pointless now, they never will.
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So? . . . WHY IS IT that America isn’t choking the streets of Washington in a LAWFUL Counter Protest! Why are YOU not out there, so that Chuck & Nancy can point out the window and say, “There’s your mandate!”? Are YOU inundating the GOP’s emails, phone lines, letter in boxes, texts boxes, social media, etc? Why are WE, THE PEOPLE, not DEMANDING trump’s removal??? That’s what is NEEDED right now! The PUSH! Make them afraid NOT to remove trump, by whatever means necessary, for the sake of National Security! It’s up to YOU, America! It always was . . . ✌️👍
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Cognitive Consonance : In the UK, today, they begin human testing on a vaccine from Oxford University. In America, Trump has just demoted one of his top medical advisors, for telling the truth about the threat ahead, is trying to get $8 million back from Harvard that they have for Coronavirus research, and has defunded the World Health Organisation, while he’s encouraging these, “protestors,” that are being organised by his goons in the background, just so he can get the MONEY rolling back in. He was trying to make money by advertising a product for Covid protection that now turns out to INCREASE the likelihood of your DYING from Covid 19! He’s chow out the wheels of America’s getaway car, because he knows that the WHO will expose the fact that the US, “healthcare system,” is more of a Hellcare system,” and he’s risking your LIVES for the MONEY! You got a serious problem now, America. When it comes back, it’s going to cut a synth through America, and your country is LESS than prepared for the second wave. It’s coming. And, you NEED to get him OUT in November, if you want your loved ones to make it . . . Smh
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@sgtsmu7689 : When did that EVER happen? You have no examples. The Mueller Report, maybe? Because you’re brainwashed into forgetting how it’s first chapter resulted in the CONVICTIONS of Donny’s ENTIRE CAMPAIGN TEAM, with the exception of Donny himself, hiding behind, “immunity,” and Rudy, who’s about to be indicted? The rest of that report is just one criminal obstruction after another! So, we’re still waiting for the INVESTIGATION to HAPPEN! You don’t seem to CARE that Donny has ripped YOU off, repeatedly? Because he’s a racist? Is that all it is? You’d toss away our hard won democracy for a King? Why don’t you all go back to Russia and live there? I’m sure Putin will grant you all a piece of Siberia, to live out your dream of a Fascist Dystopia? But, in America, it’s just NOT HAPPENING. Get over him, traitor . . .🙄
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I said there would be, “cancellations,” during this epic f**k up of a Tax Payer funded, RNC Convention. I love having my predictions proved. Here’s another prediction for you. In about 2 weeks, when all the numbers are in, and the GOP sees that their Trump Fest failed to sway any voters (if anything, made it worse) expect the first, serious DEFECTIONS. It’s, “First Come, First Served,” on the FBI Confessions Hotline 😉✌️
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Until we accept that this is not a matter of, “training,” or, “bad apples,” or, “exceptional attitudes,” but one of cultural criminality, the whole issue is hopeless. From that one video alone, we SAW and HEARD that every, “police officer,” not only took part in it, or facilitated it in some way, but they actually thought it was FUNNY! Not a grave responsibility, taken up at the most extreme need, under the most professional conduct and with the most sensitive care. It was an act of spite and revenge, in which the whole institution took part with glee.
The institution is broken. You cannot replace a culture any more than you can replace a popular idea. You must close down the institution and replace it. The irony is that doing so would be far easier than many realise.
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@Pres_NotSure : For, “politicians,” see, “Representatives, working for private industries, owned by a conglomerate of various lobbyists, carpet bagging the planet whilst selling off every last resource, patch of land and every last brick of property to the highest bidder.” The people who wanted to stop the Texas Governor introducing Stone Age abortion penalties through snitching on your neighbours legislation could have brought about a U-Turn in policy by going to the oil company depos and blocking all of the trucks from entering or leaving. Then the bosses of the Governor, at Shell, Exon and BP would have instructed the politicians they own to drop it, so they can get back to making money without having to shoot a bunch of white people on national TV. If people banded together and stopped using Facebook for 24 hours all over the planet, the floor would fall out from beneath the far right radicals who make so much money for such companies, like flipping a switch. It HAS TO BE obvious to everyone that ALL politicians have been corrupted at the highest levels by now? FFS, Germany is still planning to import 10% of its entire gas supply from Russia and we’re meant to believe that this arrangement is IN ANY WAY in Germany’s, “ best interests!?”??? It’s like FDR relying on Emperor Hirohito for his tanks and battleships during World War Two! I used to think, “Are they MAD that they think we don’t SEE their corruption!?” Now, I’ve realised. We’re the mad ones. They know we won’t do a god damned thing about it . . .
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Walrus Guy : It’s IMMORAL to waste actual, REAL TIME on Trumpian, Putin Published Propaganda, son. Normals won’t do it, and you just wasted three hours of your life, cutting and pasting, and then putting your nonsense through the Googolska Translateski for English speaking consumption. Do get over yourself? Stop thinking you actually have something to, “say,” that we haven’t all heard many, MANY times before? We KNOW you don’t, “Believe,” Trump any more than Normals do. Your Land of Fake Believe is crumbling, son . . . SMH 😆
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Indeed, a mother needs to believe her son died for, “something.” But, when the state’s excuses get thinner and increasingly self contradictory; as actual territory falls back into Ukrainian hands; as the sanctions finally start to bite the economy; as the death toll starts to climb and not just from the outlying regions of Russia any more, but until every Muscovite knows someone dead in Ukraine, never forget: the Russian state fell twice before in the last 100 years. And both times, it was a costly war that precipitated the state’s downfall. When you keep your peasants in a permanent state of ignorance, you cannot expect them to have any sense of what they’re fighting for, or commitment to your Tsarist cause. These days, it is the combination of the stark difference between state propaganda and the harsh realities of the battlefield that makes liars out of Putin to the one group who matters: the armed soldiers who know they’re murdering innocent civilians for a lie. When they turn back to Moscow, not even China will be able to protect Putin. And will he nuke his own soldiers? In Moscow? . . . If he was smart, he’d be looking for his own, “off ramp,” now. Because the west is heartily sick of providing those for him.
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Can we cut the guy a break, please? The, “failure,” was the entire Afghanistan, “government,” either fleeing or surrendering, whilst sabotaging and stalling the Exit Plan! His Generals were briefed and told their troops. But, what was he meant to say to the public? “We’re expecting chaos and disaster, because the Afghan government is betraying us as we speak!”??? That would have caused WORSE chaos and gotten him, “blamed,” for that too! His generals have confirmed that they had no illusions! Joe ripped off the bandaid, and is doing his best with what he got! Who would have done better?
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@Descalabro : You’re not following me. The, “Verdict,” really is irrelevant. Even if there’s a public outcry, when all their plotting, conspiracy and machinations all come out, I doubt they would convict him too. But NOTHING depends upon THAT! Hearing the likes of Lindsay Graham (who’s already protesting the very notion of having, “witnesses,” at a, “trial.” I mean, imagine such a, “novelty?”) or Josh Hawley and / or Ted Cruz (another who’s going on TV to walk back his claims about, “the steal”); hearing the GOP top brass ADMIT on LIVE TV, that, “the steal,” is a LIE and they always KNEW IT! That will BREAK THEM! They cannot refuse to testify, nor can they take The 5th! What? Are they going to Perjure themselves? Give their, “evidence,” for believing it? Risk a Conspiracy rap? Worse maybe? . . . FOR TRUMP??? The very best they can say (which their lawyers have already briefed them on) is a version of the Nuremberg Defence: “I have no evidence for the steal, nor did I at the time, but my president said HE DID, so I believed and trusted him,” Coz’, why wouldn’t you? In other words, “We were only following orders.” You tell me? What else CAN they say? . . . 🤔✌️
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Joseph Zapata : It’s already a, “Banana Republic,” when the reverse is true too. If, “someone at the top,” can order his own, “acquittal,” as happened at the risible Impeachment SHAM, why shouldn’t we expect that he’ll be hunting down all the people who put him there, spoke the truth when asked, or even simply failed to scream out hysterical support for Trump, loudly enough, when Trump, “felt like it”??? The problem here, is that people are still acting like this kind of thing still matters in a Dictatorship, when the Impeachment was the last nail in the Republic’s coffin. Who in their right mind, even imagines that they are “NOT” going to RIG the coming, “elections,” when we ALL KNOW if Trump is unseated, he and his family will be indicted and all go to jail? Which will lead to them, ”ratting out,” everyone from Bill Barr down to Devin Nunes, the indictment and imprisonment of the ENTIRE administration, leaving a historically disgraced skeleton of the Republican Party in its wake, to disband and flee from the press like escaped Nazis after WWII. They have SHOWN you that Democracy, law and order, and the Constitution are OVER in America, but you all keep up this DENIAL, as if, “elections,” will MEAN a GOD DAMNED THING?! And, I think you’re all doing that, because you all know, in your hearts, that being honest with yourselves can lead to to only ONE conclusion. Americans must accept they have a Russia Style, FAKE Democracy, more popularly known as a DICTATORSHIP, and be DONE with it, OR? . . . Revolution!!! There is no third option
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LadyRed L : True story for you, which ends with a question . . . We began this crisis as a united country, supporting our services, even being, “kind,” to each other. Then, Donny’s pollsters told him he was 10 points behind Biden, because, “unity,” is the ONE THING that is Kryptonite to Donny’s, “Make America Divided Again,” policy. Division is the source of his power, and a national approach was ruining his, “brand.” So, his hacktivists got busy organising, “protests,” while he got busy defunding the universities working on a cure, and the World Health Oragnisation, whom he knew would give him a bad report for wasting an entire month anyway. After the George Floyd thing, Donny found himself regretting being quite so vociferous in support of, “free speech,” and people’s, “rights to protest,” so he and Barr dismissed those protestors as ALL being a, “leftist democrat plot against Trump,” personally, and set about supporting people’s, “rights,” to be selfish idiots, who put everyone else’s lives at risk.
So, here we are, with plague, famine, civil unrest, mass unemployment, Murdering cops somehow being a part of a, “Law & Order,” agenda, when it was America’s protests FOR Law & Order to be RESTORED that he was ignoring, and an economic downturn to look forward to. Why? All because of one man’s mental illness, the abject capitulation of the Quislings who work for him, and the personal appeal of selfishness to his cult, mixed with a heavy dose of racism; a salted wound, which Donny has been able to exploit, because America has never had the fortitude to address the fallout of the Civil War.
And, since ALL OF THAT, we now find that trump was too Criminally Incompetent (or just a downright Collaborating TRAITOR?) to even CARE that our troops are being murdered by hitmen, paid for by the Cowardly Russians. How do you get someone to admit, even to themselves, that they’ve made such a big mistake that they’ve cost America thousands of lives? If you can answer that question for me, I would be sincerely grateful ✌️👍
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@Terrackhimself : The notion of the GOP as, “Conservatives,” is long dead. “Small Government”??? Tell me one area of public life that trump wasn’t meddling with and demanding we all get into line with him, or get expelled from life?! From trying to end Amazon & Google, to watching the game in peace! From whining about TV satire, the Oscars and Hollywood in general, to telling us where to shop, who to, “cancel,” who’s in and who’s out?! And, “Lower Taxes!”??? Come ooohhhhn??? EVERYTHING is more expensive now, because of brinkmanship with Chiynah, and other economies, and because we’ve lurched from one national crisis to another! So, he gave the little guy ONE brief, timed, expired, “tax break,” just before the MID TERMS, but NO, “buying votes,” like he was running Tammany Hall, or anything going on there, right? But, fossil fuel lobbyists, the NRA, and anyone willing to throw cash or launder Russian cash for him? They all got MASSIVE tax cuts, which YOU PAID FOR! In PRICES for goods and services! While trump gets his morons to chant about hating, “globalism,” (they might as well be protesting the WEATHER, btw!) he wants to be the ONLY GLOBALIST in America. “Conservatism,” is DEAD in the GOP!!!
But, there are plenty of REAL Conservatives waiting for their opportunity. They all left the Republicans, but they’re experienced, able leaders, who’ve made Donny’s life HELL and are now suing Rudy Giuliani. Check out The Lincoln Project, if you want to find REAL, “small government, low taxes FOR ALL AMERICANS,” CONSERVATIVES? ✌️
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I have been putting the same question to many YouTube commentators and have yet to receive an answer. When you look at how the allies flattened entire cities in Germany during WWII, and add to that that no one seemed to question the logic or morality of doing to Germany what they had done to Britain in the Blitz, it does beg the question.
I think, in the end, we all know it’s about nukes. Personally, I would like to see the Ukrainian army punch through the Russian lines, take over their rail infrastructure and invade Moscow. Bombing civilians and power stations are war crimes, obviously, so that sort of thing is off the table. But bombing the Kremlin and military bases and stockpiles would be legitimate, and I would be all for it.
Anyone telling you it’s not because of Russia’s nukes is being disingenuous at best, or just doesn’t understand the situation. We only need take a brief glimpse into the history of western powers, especially the US’s, to see what extraordinary lengths they will go to for the sake of resource control, and collateral civilian damage is low on their usual list of priorities, though they’re not generally as wicked as people like to paint them either.
It’s a no brainer really. If Russia had no nukes, Putin would be facing a tribunal in The Hague now and Moscow would be under the control of blue hatted troops. But then, if they never had nukes, there never would have been a Cold War, let alone an environment that creates monsters like Putin.
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@Yifei15 : Do you know who has as much gas and oil as Russia in the EU? According to Shell and Exxon, it’s Ukraine. It’s in the Donbas region and off shore in Crimea. Now it’s also in the west, by the Carpathian Mountains. So, if Russia loses this war, they have a competitor who will take 3 to 5 years to drill it and get the infrastructure and pipelines built, but who can push international prices down whilst making Ukrainians rich. Of course, Putin knows this, which is WHY he invaded. And the west knows this too, which is why Putin has been stunned by their resolve. Ever since the term, “energy security,” has been a thing, the west has ensured total domination of it. Putin is going to find he’s no exception. So, cutting off energy reliance on Putin will be no bad thing. It won’t last forever. Only until his colleagues decide to do something about him.
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@bratis99 : You think Putin signed off on a plan that includes his HUMILIATING flight from Moscow, do you, genius? So the world can now compare Putin’s, “See you in St Petersburg, if you survive?” to Zelensky’s, “I don’t need a ride, I need ammunition,” and conclude that Putin is a COWARD who runs even when Wagner didn’t get within 20 miles of the city limits? Well that, “worked.” And the point of that, “ruse,” was? . . . 🤦♂️
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James Wilson : I see this is the latest Propaganda Projection, from the Stalinist Trumpers? “DIVIDING AMEICA,” is the GOAL of Trump and his goons. It is their ONLY HOPE of surviving the Mid Terms. The entire administration has been RUN on DIVISION. Rogan’s position is KNOWN, as is Ryan’s. NO ONE is expected to, “alter their views,” or adopt a, “new position,” as a result of this Nothing Burger? WHAT, “division,” is THIS EXPECTED to CAUSE, exactly? . . .
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derek mcguire : I think of the friendships, even meaningful relationships that must have been developing, between allied, friendly troops, and the Kurdish people? That, “ceasefire,” was only set up to create a passage to get the Americans OUT, so they wouldn’t be witnesses to the slaughter, and be tempted to, “intervene,” regardless of, “orders,” knowing that international law would back them anyway. That’s why the Turks didn’t even BOTHER to hold their fire, in areas where the US were no longer present. Erdogan, Assad and Trump: ALL Putin’s Puppet Dictators. Putin is GLEEFUL while the world falls apart or into his pocket . . . SMH ✌️👍
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When I read your comment, I thought, “Oh, that’s going to trigger the feelings of the Confederate Karens, who don’t like democracy and prefer an Orange dictatorship.” And, sure enough, there they are. I think that’s a wonderful idea, and it’s so great to have a president we can look up to. I speak as a Conservative. Biden is the man we NEED, though we, “deserve,” less. And, I’m inspired by his words. You go for it. Sounds like just the ticket to me ✌️👍
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Doodnauth Sookram : And, did you know that, which ever group has the worst poverty, and is denied access to education and healthcare, will be the SAME group in which the most crimes are committed, REGARDLESS of RACE? So, make black people poor, and then say they commit crimes, “because they’re black,” instead of telling the TRUTH. NO ONE will believe you. You have been indoctrinated by Fox Propaganda. Oh, wait. That’s WHY you’re HERE, WHINING, in the first place, right?
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Family values, patriotism, public trust, promises kept, respect for democracy, respect for public institutions, law and order, etc, etc . . . All gone now . . . Was it worth it, GOP? . . . Are you really going to have to a serious kicking at the midterms, before you understand it, GOP? You can’t sell Fascism to home of Democracy. And now you have no future, until you eject trump and his enablers. But, you can’t do that either, can you? Because the minority that supports him are running the GOP. What HAVE you done, kids? . . . 🤦♂️ . . . ✌️👍
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Rod Serling was the man the Ernest Hemingway dreamt of being. The gritty, seasoned war veteran, with insights and experience matched only by his supreme intellect. Neither donning the cowl modesty, nor boastful, but a real, visceral and an assertive intellectual, engaging the viewer and capturing their imaginations by drawing on the world’s harshest realities, and helping us to reflect on them, process them, through fantasy. Not to denigrate Hemingway, but Serling (both as a writer and a man) was the real thing, not playing at it, as Hemingway so often did. Underrated in the way that Raymond Chandler still is. But his genius lives on; partly, in thanks, to people who curate his memory, like the uploader of this video. And partly thanks to his timeless stories, which are so often retold; ingrained into our culture . . . RIP Rod ✌️👍
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Indeed, the very, “cancel culture,” of which they complain, was their invention. “Lock her up,” was old by the time trump took office, remember? And this case is a classic example of it, in both directions, revealing the utter hypocrisy of the Alt-Wrong. They use their media voice, trying to, “shape the narrative,” by overwhelming, “left,” outlets with trolls, and Fox anchors constantly introducing this idea of, “ANY reasonable doubt,” so they thought Chauvin would be acquitted, because the jury would hear them. But, when he’s found guilty (because he obviously murdered an innocent man in front of a watching, horrified planet!) they INSTANTLY switch the narrative to, “cancel culture,” in this case, claiming that the jury was intimidated, and Chauvin was a, “sacrificial lamb,” (Yes! Fox literally used that term!) to prevent rioting.
No matter that trump, “cancelled,” his own party members by having them Primaried for merely disagreeing with him. No matter he’s still doing that today! Ask Liz Cheney? No matter that he literally tried to change Libel Law, so he could cancel SNL! Or that he calls the free press, “the enemy of the people,” (a direct quote from Stalin) and wants to cancel them. No matter that he got his party to vote to cancel a democratic election DURING an Insurrection which was trying to cancel the Republic! And, let’s not forget that they’re now cancelling Democracy with Voter Suppression!
But, somehow, THEY are the, “victims,” and decent people are the, “oppressors.” If you can be vilified for simply saying, “no,” to state sponsored murder, at the most public, degrading, dehumanising level, there’s something fundamentally wrong somewhere. The word, “Hypocrisy,” is not strong enough for what it is. It’s Orwellian Dystopian Oppositeverse stuff. It’s actually Fascism, by every important distinction. And, hypocrisy bedevils Fascism continually, just as it did in Franco’s Spain, Mussolini’s Italy, and Hitler’s Germany.
We must fight them with all we have. They cannot and will not back away. They will continue until they get that one, final, corrupted, rigged vote, and then they will END our Democratic Republic forever. That’s the problem with Fascism: Total Defeat, or Total Victory. They simply don’t offer a third alternative. We must accept the reality of that, and crush them, completely. ✌️👍
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Underrated comment. The GOP are now actually anti-conservative, anti-“small government,” and pro-Nanny State. Which was why we couldn’t escape Donny’s face, regardless of what we did for four years! Whether you were buying products from Amazon, trying to vote, using Google to look stuff up, getting news from a none-propagandistic source, even just watching the game! Trump had an, “opinion,” about it, and we were all forced to listen to his intervention and attempts at state control! Women have been systematically, FORCIBLY STERILISED at one border Concentration Camp, (now shut down and under investigation, thank GOD!) on Republican orders! If that isn’t some Doctor Mengele, Big Brother, hyper-state controlling (incidentally Anti-Christian) Anti-Conservatism, right there, what is??? These people are psychotic monsters, who should not be allowed to walk among us decent folk! ✌️👍
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@debrajohnson382 : This is why simply saying, “Google told me,” is the same as saying, “I heard it in a bar, from my sister’s husband’s friend of a colleague.” Smart people need the critical thinking skills to interpret the information in front of them, examine the source, and any agendas it may carry, understand the issues involved in data collection, the problems unique to that data set, let alone data sets in general, the skills necessary for seeking reliable sources and then processing in the manner described above. You have offered no facts or, “data,” so far. Only opinions, which are, as Clint told us, “like assholes . . . Everybody’s got one.” Why are you here? . . . Seriously? 🤷♂️
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@markcarter9476 : Yes, the war was illegal and morally bankrupt. But you can’t blame Labour for a world wide phenomenon. Criticise how they handled it by all means. But the financial meltdown of 2008 began on Wall Street, which is also where it was, slowly but ultimately, resolved. If you genuinely believe Labour, “caused,” that crash, there are so many built in errors with that narrative I wouldn’t know where to start putting you straight? Probably by trying to give you a more realistic picture of Britain’s actual financial influence on the world stage at that time.
Indeed, in every case over the last 20 to 30 years (perhaps maybe one or two exceptions, but you pointed out the costly illegal war already, which the Tories voted for, btw) there is hard evidence for how Labour has been more financially stable, fiscally responsible and a safer pair of hands.
If you want to see everything from policing to healthcare, from road maintenance to education, being run by private companies, like some cyberpunk dystopia, by all means vote Conservative. But don’t EVER try to sell us the line that Tories are more fiscally responsible after the last 14 years, my friend. People who think that have not been paying attention. Or they’re just taken in by the client press’s propaganda.
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Jo Smotherman : You’re only saying you’re offended by the truth, and you want reality to be out of bounds in any conversation. Yeah, if no one is allowed to call Fascists, “Fascists,” that does make it easier to justify being in a Qult. Even being smart or educated is, “bad,” and out of bounds, so you’ve got it all sewn up haven’t you? Oh, except for being out of power, that is?
They want to OUTLAW opposition parties. They are working on suppressing the vote, and trying to make it a Federal Offence to increase enfranchisement! Quite LITERALLY, as I write this! They use violence and intimidation to get their way; they are a Qult of personality and their entire, “ideology,” is a LIE! They are quite literal FASCISTS, in all but name now!
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It seems to me that it favours Ukraine to keep this pocket partially, “unsealed,” so to speak. While the pocket is contained, Russia is wasting more and more men and material on their attempts to relieve the siege, presenting Ukraine with multiple opportunities to grind down the enemy, as you suggested.
These Ukrainian forces seem to have very bold, methodical, imaginative and capable commanders in the field. Whilst the increasingly famous gallantry, high standard of training and the unshakable discipline of the forces they command is really paying off.
Russia just cannot compete with Ukraine on tactics or logistics, while Ukraine knows how to exploit opportunities, seize the initiative and play to their own strengths. This battlefield is a fine example of that.
What’s that old military expression? “Choose your own battles, rather the letting the battle choose you.”
Well, Slava Ukraine all over the place, my friend. It makes me proud to be able to count Ukraine among our allies. Quite sincerely.
Slava Ukraine indeed.
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You’re all waiting for an election that is CLEARLY NOT GOING TO HAPPEN! And then you’ll protest, when it’s ALREADY TOO LATE, and Bill Barr’s Secret Police units will be expanded enough to suppress you, all over America. You should be halting the country NOW, and getting in front of their election RIGGING, while they’re still vulnerable? But, you’re all still hoping that it will magically get sorted out, like every other legal and Constitutional process has FAILED to do in the last 4 years! Maybe America wants a Dictatorship, in its heart of hearts? That’s the only explanation I can think of? Why else are you sitting on your asses, while they literally, BLATANTLY, STEAL YOUR REPUBLIC?
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Cthulhu Christ : This is why Wikipedia is never accepted at any academic level, son. Honestly, you have, “come to love Big Brother,” and are screaming, “Do it to Julia!” But, you don’t even hear your own double think. A long, rambling, “Whaddabout,” is all your remarks added up to, sprinkled with a few disdainful attempts at sounding superior, by expressing contempt, out of some insecure, effeminate, “need,” to get the first punch in, because deep down, you don’t even have confidence in your own Lamery.
You have NOTHING to say, about the matter in hand, and desperately try to make people, “feel,” responsible for matters that are ancient, irrelevant and purposefully designed to distract from CONway’s obvious guilt in this matter.
I have to admit, though, having heard it ALL before, SO MANY times, I got bored, halfway through, and just gave up . . . Smh
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bill smith : Mark Dice??? Yeah, I recommend that people DO watch him. Is he still pausing videos, analysing Rachel Maddow’s, “body language”??? STILL being a mean girl, telling you all what, “victims,” you are, and what, “grievances,” you all have, because your lives didn’t work out the way you wanted??? Yeah, America! Take a GOOD LOOK at THAT BITCH, and remember WHY you are NOT a RACIST TREASON TRUMPER 🤣
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@samualcrocket1405 : Did you notice Putin putting Taiwan on his new, “Naughty List,” the other day? That was his appeal for help from China. His problem is that he has shot his bolt, as all the help he could offer China with that design begins and ends with his rhetoric. If anything, this has made China think twice about their plans to take Taiwan and queered the pitch for them. They’re not thanking Putin for that. He’s spoiled their plan completely and whatever they say, their abstention at NATO whilst Xi said he still recognises Ukraine’s, “sovereignty,” and, “right to self determination,” was a giant, “F*ck You,” to Putin. Why would they risk economic harm, for an economy no bigger than Spain’s but more corrupt? When the only thing they sell that anyone wants is the one thing no one’s willing to buy from them? Putin might as well be asking China to jump off a cliff with him, for no apparent reason. But he does at least show us how desperate he really is. ✌️
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You find you have to ask yourself? If you’re talking to a guy who pulls the pin on a hand grenade every time he’s challenged, and threatens to kill us all along with him, how stupid would we have to be to go back into a room with him? You KNOW he’s bluffing, but he’s pretty sweaty and hysterical, so you know he might just drop the damned thing! You’d have to be an idiot to continue doing business with that guy, right?
Putin will have to go, or Russians will be starved out, until they take him down. The west needs someone a little more even tempered, who doesn’t bluff with nukes every time they say no to him. Putin just looks like a mafia hood, burning down his rival’s factory, so no one can do business with them. His people don’t understand why this is happening. The only Russian people who, “believe,” his excuses are getting old and look embarrassed to repeat them out loud, whilst all the young people prefer not to comment or say they oppose his war.
He just wants to stop Shell, Exxon and BP from drilling for all that gas and oil. He knows a democracy with as much energy as Russia would be preferred over a dictatorship all the way. Plus they’re closer to Germany. Armed Robbery, dressed up to look like a, “special operation,” isn’t fooling anyone. Not even RUSSIANS. He has to go.
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Maybe Putin just needs to get over this false assumption that the expansion of democracy is any of his business? Maybe he needs to stop pretending that he’s not still just a Soviet Union thug. Otherwise, how could ANY, “deal,” (spoken or otherwise) still be valid? The Soviet Union is supposed to be gone! It’s like someone walking into a music store and demanding they fix their car, because the place used to be a garage! It’s f*cking lunacy!
I’m sick of channels like this acting as though merely having an opposite view should be validated in some way!? I oppose the MOON! No! I insist that there’s no such thing and that projected hologram in the sky must go! Now I’m entitled to equal time to debate this on news channels, create a cult following and get to debate it in Washington on Capitol Hill! F*cking madness!
This computer expert should learn more history and maybe learn just how many PEOPLE were DYING in the west, just so they could spread Democracy to the east! Instead of acting like, just because Putin says the moon isn’t real, we all have to nod our heads and say, “Tell us all about it, Puty?”
F*ck that guy and F*ck this channel! Putin is in Ukraine to prevent them from developing their MASSIVE gas and oil reserves. Period! It’s an armed robbery, with NO, “alternative view,” and NO justification. A few Kremlin Kleptocrats have had the west eating out of the palms of the hands and they’re now shocked that the west doesn’t want to lose control of energy security? They haven’t studied their history either. Ever since the term, “Energy Security,” has existed, for over a hundred years, the west has NEVER let the east take away their control over that. And Putin will NOT be an exception. He’s not, “special.” He has no, “argument.” He a f*cking thug who’s threatening nukes and BLUFFING.
But accidents do happen if you keep letting a maniac wave a loaded weapon around. So it’s time we made it clear: we are no longer doing business with the maniac! They can depose him in a palace coup or they can have a revolution. But only an IDIOT let’s a mad man wave a loaded weapon in their face a second time! F*ck Putin! He’s done!
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@cmont4064 : Actually, though you can never predict how playing with fire is going to end, you can be fairly confident that Putin has already lost the long term battle here. It’s bad if you’re a Ukrainian, but good for the world, longer term. We should NEVER have allowed these Soviet goons to make ANY region outside their borders dependant on Russian gas lines! Isolation is the best containment, not suicidally handing them the keys to the kingdom. What can Putin gain now? An occupation that will drain the last of Russia’s broke assed economy? They’ll NEVER get a promise to ban Ukraine from NATO, which would be like the world giving in to terrorism. Especially since Putin is making the strongest possible case for NATO and the Ukraine himself. So, he’ll either back down, looking like an idiot, or he’ll have to pay for the occupation out of his own pocket, because his country sure can’t afford it. And how long will an already restless population put up with their youngest and best being sent routinely into another Afghanistan-style meet grinder? Putin’s an idiot.
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This has to be the most COWARDLY, “offensive,” in the history of modern warfare? Putin’s troops are demoralised because they don’t want to shoot down innocent civilians in the streets or carry out illegal orders. But it only takes a few COWARDS to bomb unarmed none-combatants from a, “safe space,” far away! The Red Army is now showing us how YELLOW it is, by deliberately bombing innocent civilians as a TERROR tactic.
They see it would be impossible to, “occupy,” the country, they feel demoralised that mercenaries are taking over, they cannot look Ukrainians in the eye, let alone face them in battle. And they hate their officers for killing the very people they were told, “are just like them,” for the past 20 years by Putin. And they found no, “Nazis,” to, “liberate,” them from. Now they know they’re on the side of the COWARDS!
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@Dan-qf5xt : I wonder how it, “feels,” to be unable to think, or speak, rationally about politics, because those, “emotions,” do all that, “thinking,” for you? Say what you like about the Dems, but at least they don’t force people to have abortions against their will? They don’t imprison, bind and drug unwilling asylum seekers, into, “Deterrent Abortions,” to prevent Dreamer Babies from being born on American soil. Not like the GOP are under federal investigation for? Bet you’re grateful to Joe, for shutting that border camp down, right? Bet you can’t wait for the trial of the GOP Governor or Senator who signed THAT, “policy,” into effect? And the doctors, nurses and guards who all took part, right? Looks like it might be the trial of the Century?
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IKR? . . . Why ANYONE would harass a nurse, at ANY time, is just incomprehensible to me? But to think that ANY living, “thinking,” being, would be GULLIBLE enough to buy into the LIES about the very people fighting so desperately to save them? The sheer SELFISHNESS it takes, to be so lazy in thought, stupidly self centred, and fiendishly obtuse, to refute the stark reality before their very eyes is, to me, treasonously pro-Putin, and viciously self destructive. There must be a RECKONING for this, (not revenge) or America will NEVER heal . . . SMH
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@IAmSuzyQ : That’s a great quote, which sums up my sentiment, (just beneath your comment) exactly. America needs an intervention; an accounting; truth and reconciliation; a Reckoning! Not, “revenge,” but a genuine restoration of laws. I hear pundits saying, “Our norms and guardrails worked,” just because people refused to assist trump with an attempted COUP and I want to scream! Our, “norms,” FAILED US, UTTERLY, and have cost America hundreds of thousands of LIVES, which we may yet end up counting in their MILLIONS. We witnessed crimes and betrayals of our Constitution without consequence! Well, I just hope Biden understands that an independent DOJ means exactly that? If trump can’t use them as his secret police and personal defence team, then Biden can’t tell them to lay of the GOP, “for the sake of healing,” because there will BE NO HEALING, unless there is some JUSTICE for this zombie apocalypse of trump! ✌️👍
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@IAmSuzyQ : I wrote my last comment before you posted yours to me (hope to clarify any confusion there?) but, if I see Daisy, I’ll come back to this thread and tell you. No, I miss her too, and it’s been a while? . . . Not for months.
I lost my dad to Covid, in the summer. He’d already had mini strokes, which prevented him from making new memories, a bit like that movie, Memento. It was as nightmarish as it sounds, and I’m still having troubled dreams about it. He kept asking why he was in hospital and why his family wasn’t around. He died hard. I spoke to him on the phone, as did my brother and sisters, but he was in England and I, being in a far distant country, was working on permission to travel, which I only got in time for his funeral. Worse still, he caught it from a doctor! While my sisters wanted to sue the hospital, I wanted to commiserate with the doctor, who must have been devastated by her one, single mistake, which flew in the face of everything she had made a vocation of her life for. I wanted to tell her (still do) that I empathise and hold no anger, resentment or anything but sympathy for the heartbreak she must feel. But, due to my sisters’ palpable anger, the hospital (quite rightly) couldn’t trust me to have any contact with the doc in question, to whom I will right, in due course. The division in our family has torn us apart.
To me, YOU are the hero in this story. YOU are why I fight. YOU are America, and YOU are worth everything I do to support the opponents of Putin and Trump, in this disinformation campaign that has cost the lives of so many that an all out war would have been less damaging. Thank you for everything you are doing for us. Always know that we WILL rally to you, and be there for you. That we are fighting for you, day in day out. Not just people like me, a Conservative (believe it or not?) from the Lincoln Project, but as the numbers have proved, MOST OF AMERICA. We LOVE YOU, and everything you stand for. There is light now. And the changes are coming. Hang in there. You will all get the recognition you deserve, when this is over, but in the mean time, Biden and the government are about to join the fight to save lives, and to show America what’s REALLY going on. I love you, Suzy. You are my sister. And I am fighting for you. I swear it. There are millions of us, doing all we can. God bless you ✌️👍 ♥️
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Indeed. Within living memory, we used to hunt down the traitors who spread Anti-American Propaganda, and execute them. Now, I’m not suggesting we hang Tucker Carlson, (necessarily 😉) but we REALLY NEED to review our LAWS on Sedition! Nowadays, we’re allowing Seditionists to propagandise on our own soil, and get RICH doing it! It’s just NOT a, “free speech,”issue, screaming fire in a packed theatre full of racists! But, when they can broadcast LIES and call it, “news!”??? There needs to be some LAW!
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Úlfur Skarsdård : You really should read a book. After the Capitol Riots, did you say, “Biden arrested Washington,” son? Our military killed the enemy IN Syria. They didn’t, “bomb Syria,” ignoramus. And, green energy is a thing, that you can’t stop, any more than, “Globalism,” or, “The Weather,” kid. It’s the fastest growing, most lucrative business on Earth. But, you would rather protect the FEWER THAN 1000 jobs, in a planet killing industry, and sit around letting Jihadis kill Americans, without firing back? I guess, since the Dems have got a president with REAL Christian values, fiscal responsibility, and the guts to FIGHT our enemies, you’ll be handing over your guns and joining a hippy commune run by the Qult soon? When did trump’s Karen Qults all become such pussies? At the moment you realised that trump might try to grab you? . . . 🤦♂️
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@nancyjay790 : Yes, it’s troubling that people can be such regular citizens, even holders of office, or other authority, and not KNOW that the, “Steal,” is a made up thing?! Some of them do, of course, and are exploiting this idiocy, because they’re dumb enough to, “think,” that it might have actually WORKED! : That the entire edifice of the Republic might just crumble overnight, leaving them in unique positions of power! Greed, selfishness and stupidity (along with the usual suspects, like racism, white privilege and ignorance) lies at the heart of that. To me, that is all the more reason why RUTHLESS examples MUST be made, swiftly, and for all involved. We have a LOT of work to do, for all that, “hearts and minds,” restoration; reminding Americans of what America actually is, and what it stands for. But, NONE of that is even possible until the insurrectionists SEE that their situation hopeless, and that it’s OVER. So, our first steps must be to resolve to hunt down ANY AND ALL who threaten the Republic, and show stability, with ABSOLUTELY NO FEAR! That’s why Biden refuses to change his inauguration arrangements, save for Covid safety. He can’t, and he knows it. Not ONE THING can be given away, that the America Haters could even pretend was some species of, “victory.” If we have to mow them down, and place the survivors in massive internment camps, THAT would be better than flinching in the face of terrorists right now. We must show RESOLVE and DETERMINATION. And be willing to CRUSH an insurrection. Joe gets that. As we’ll see 👍✌️
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The Lords were nothing short of ingenious in this vote! They have not voted for or against the bill, nor even asked for any amendments, at least yet. They have simply said, “If Rwanda is a, ‘safe,’ place to send asylum seekers, please prove that to us?” A very reasonable sounding request on the face of it. There are contesting opinions as to the safety of Rwanda. We have been accepting refugees FROM Rwanda, even since this whole, “stop the boats,” nonsense began!
So, all the government needs to do is prove that Rwanda is as safe as they claim and not the danger hotspot that opponents claim. And how do you do that, when there are opposing opinions on a crucial aspect of a bill? You get a court ruling, right? And, oh dear . . . Seems the courts have already ruled on this, so the government will need to persuade them to take up the case again. And to do that, they would need to persuade them that there is new evidence to look at. Now, given that the court’s ruling sited UN, NATO and EU laws and treaties to which we are committed (certainly NOT just the EU legislation the Tories keep banging on about!) where will they find any new evidence that would so much as challenge all three bodies enough to persuade them that there is even any reason to take up the case a second time, let alone actually find in their favour?
In short, it was a stroke of sheer, artful genius! And, incidentally, coming back to an earlier discussion you raised, one of the best arguments for keeping a second chamber in the first place.
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Yeah, but now it’s different. The Impeachment is EVERYTHING now, and the GOP are utterly desperate, because they know it! Any GOP member can be forced to testify, without 5th Amendment cover! Imagine, Cruz, Hawley, Graham and others, giving their, “evidence,” for believing in, “The Steal?” With the chance of being shredded on the stand, on live TV, and potential Perjury charges hanging over them? Many will confess they always KNEW it was a Seditious LIE, for the world to hear! We must force their fracture at the impeachment. The, “verdict,” is irrelevant. They’re desperate to avoid A RECKONING!
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xinyiquan : So, you were, “educated,” in China, then? They haven’t told you about the Mongol Invasions, the Wars fought in, with and against the Koreans, or that Tai Invasions? None of that culture, which mixed SO effectively into Chinese culture, that it made it’s way all the way over to JAPAN, is in your educational literature, then? This is just one of the real problems with Communist Society. They rewrite their own history, and brainwash their own people. The Chinese are among the LEAST qualified to talk about their own history. Now, THAT’S a tragedy . . . SMH
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The headline is misleading. Keiler was not, “on,” Carlson’s show, or on Fox. That word should be, “about.” Words are your living, so grammatical standards should be unsurpassed. However, I enjoyed the piece, despite my disappointment at not seeing, “Keiler on Carlson’s Show.” Fox’s desperation will likely get worse. Like the politicians who are going more insane to keep their base, instead of going more honest, to gain more voters who might trust them, Fox is going off the rails, in a desperate bid to win back the least desirable viewers, instead of attempting something revolutionary like, oh, I don’t know? “Journalism,” perhaps?
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I think the impeachment trial may surprise people? Most of the GOP are witnesses, who can be subpoenaed to testify. And that means they’ll have to give their, “evidence,” for claiming to, “believe,” in the, “steal,” or confess that they KNEW it was a LIE, under oath, on the record, and for all the world to see and hear! For the cult of trump, that will be a massive blow. Then there’s all the evidence that will prove it was NOT a, “spontaneous,” event, but a PLANNED CONSPIRACY! An attempted Coup! And, how many witnesses, (maybe military generals?) will come forward, to testify that they were asked to join the Conspiracy? America may well be DEMANDING trump’s Conviction by the time it’s over? No wonder Lindsay Graham and others are so DESPERATE to stop it, right?
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@peterc4082 : America has not hit anyone, but your question is fair nonetheless. I know you’re not asking me, but I would suggest you put that question to your representatives and any candidates for upcoming elections in your country. Just, don’t give them an excuse to dismiss your legitimate inquiry by accusing the US of attacking either Russia or Iraq directly, or the reply you’ll get will be a long winded blurb about that topic, rather than addressing your actual question at all.
I wrote to my MP in Britain, several times. After my third letter I got an actual response from him and not just a staffer, inviting me to a public discussion on aid to Ukraine. Sadly, it was to be held the very next day and I couldn’t upend my arrangements to be there.
My point though, is that I agree with you wholeheartedly that our support for Ukraine is currently pusillanimous at best and we MUST unshackle them from fighting with one hand tied behind their backs! THEY should decide how to target, where and when to target Russian weapons and infrastructure as THEY see fit! Ukraine has proved beyond doubt, repeatedly, that Putin’s, “red lines,” are as meaningless as his word and that he simply will not (probably can not?) use the ultimate weapon.
It is time the west called Putin’s bluff and stopped sacrificing innocent Ukrainian lives on the alter of Putin’s empty mafia rhetoric.
And, anyone who tells you it’s a waste of time to write to your politicians is either badly deceived, or just cannot be trusted.
The more the public actually reaches out to their representatives, the more those representatives count you as the one in 500, or the one in 5,000 who think the same way as you but are not inclined to write to them about it. But they know they might be inclined to vote about it. You might be the only one, but I doubt it. If you are one of ten or one of one hundred letter writers, you are making support for Ukraine an election issue.
It matters. It works. Slava Ukraine.
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That, “shock & awe,” quote was no joke. It will be the media; CNN and MSNBC in particular that will be in the firing line. It’s Stalin’s playbook, every time, coached by Putin. CNN will come under, “government administration,” or get bought out in a hostile take over, by a trump friendly oligarch. And MSNBC will be hit by one fake, “scandal,” after another, and countless court cases, until it’s broken up. And the rest of the media will either get the message, or go the same way. History is my teacher. And that’s why my predictions never fail, so far. Just get this menace OUT! That’s your only hope of restoring your Republic, America
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@jep5105 : Half of these trump trolls are Foreign hires, sitting in basements all over the planet; and many of those are just Bots and algorithms. Just realising that, makes you aware of how hard it is for the Russian Shell Companies (usually pretending to be some sort of, “American Hacktivist,” outfit) to find people who are actually willing to support trump’s fascism, out loud? Occasionally, we see what appears to be, “massive support,” for trump, on a CNN video, where they, “Bot Bomb,” a story: but even that they can’t do properly. Like 10 year olds, half of the, “comments,” are literally people snickering about how many thumbs down the video got, like they simply cannot be smart or subtle enough to be quiet about it, and have to say, “look what we did there.” Putin is responsible for the rise of Fascism in America. The sooner we put HIM back in his box, the better. 👍
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carmen patricia conde fierro : It’s already a, “Banana Republic,” when the reverse is true too. If, “someone at the top,” can order his own, “acquittal,” as happened at the risible Impeachment SHAM, why shouldn’t we expect that he’ll be hunting down all the people who put him there, spoke the truth when asked, or even simply failed to scream out hysterical support for Trump, loudly enough, when Trump, “felt like it”??? The problem here, is that people are still acting like this kind of thing still matters, when the Impeachment was the last nail in the Republic’s coffin. Who in their right mind, even imagines that they are “NOT” going to RIG the coming, “elections,” when we ALL KNOW if Trump is unseated, he and his family will be indicted and all go to jail? Which will lead to them, ”ratting out,” everyone from Bill Barr down to Devin Nunes, the indictment and imprisonment of the ENTIRE administration, leaving a historically disgraced skeleton of the Republican Party in its wake, to disband and flee from the press like escaped Nazis after WWII. They have SHOWN you that Democracy, law and order, and the Constitution are OVER in America, but you all keep up this DENIAL, as if, “elections,” will MEAN a GOD DAMNED THING?! And, I think you’re all doing that, because you all know, in your hearts, that being honest with yourselves can lead to to only ONE conclusion. Americans must accept they have a Russia Style, FAKE Democracy, more popularly known as a DICTATORSHIP, and be DONE with it, OR? . . . Revolution!!! There is no third option
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Honestly; his Cult doesn’t, “believe,” him. They just act like they do; partly to troll America (these people are experiencing a little, “power,” for the first time in their lives) and they pretend because Trump is a racist and that’s what MATTERS to them. Stalin used the same methods, to divide his followers from the rest of the population, and intimidate decent people. It’s scary enough when lots of people parrot Trump’s insanity. But, after November, it will be all the media outlets, within a year or so, or Trump and his Cabinet will be behind bars?
You all have skin in the game. The thing about kids not getting sick as much as adults, is that they will be super carriers, catching the virus and exposing their parents, teachers and other kids to Covid. We’re about to create a generation of people who feel guilty for maybe killing people close to them, as well as witnessing the deaths of fellow students. It will alter our very culture; who we are; our books, music, movies, everything. America will never forgive itself for this . . . ✌️👍
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Really appreciated this analysis, and that you asked us for our input. Excellent video. Thank you.
I think it is possible, since you did ask, that this war could end in 2025, but that depends on a lot of things and, most of all, the west chilling out about the idea of Putin being thwarted. Putin wants a long war now and has reorganised his economy for it. So, even Ukraine managing to drive out just some of Russia’s forces is likely to lead to his downfall at this point. But, Russians generally still don’t get it, that total victory is all the west will accept.
Western politicians might well try to talk about appeasement packages, but even they’re all starting to realise that their chances of remaining in office depend on the voters, who won’t accept anything less than total Ukrainian victory. I think that message is only just starting to sink into western political minds, but we are seeing increasing evidence that they get it now.
The voters they depend on have donated money, time and letters to their representatives, all over the free world at historically unprecedented levels. Psychologically, that makes a huge difference. Voters will, “feel,” personally betrayed by any watered down packages and their politicians are seeing that it’s an election issue now.
As for Putin’s financial position, THANK YOU, for pointing out the issue that started this war in the first place. Putin thought he could boost his flagging support with a quick invasion, since the unrest at Russia’s flagging economy looked set to cause demonstrations before the elections, making his fix look even more totalitarian than it already did. The same strategy had worked for him with his partial invasion of Georgia, which boosted his approval ratings and his financial stock. Keep in mind that Navalny was still alive at the time and the prospect of anything from chaotic demonstrations to actual uprisings were realistic at that time.
This smash and grab operation was meant to BOOST the economy and provide a psychological fillip for the people to, “feel good,” about Putin’s leadership. It is a FACT that, had Putin known what was awaiting him in Ukraine, he never would have started this war.
If Kamala Harris becomes POTUS, she will want the plaudits that will come with a victory over Russia. She’s already on board ideologically and, with her honeymoon period ahead of her, and four years in which to bury any bad news in the short memories of American voters, she will seize the opportunity to stomp across Putin’s, “red lines,” to finish the job and take credit for a good deal of that victory.
As well as that, America will be at the front of the cue for rebuilding Ukraine’s massive oil reserves, coal, grain, rare Earth elements, etc. which will lead to an economic boom for Ukraine and America both. The global markets could be transformed and made more secure and that’s too big a legacy for any president to pass up.
Plus, Germany will be now able to get their oil and gas from Ukraine; a closer, ALLIED and secure source. And these events will merely drive Russia’s unsafe economy into the ground.
That will push Russia into even deeper increased dependency on China, as we’re already seeing happen now. Xi is already the senior partner in that relationship, even though many Chinese banks won’t touch Russian investment already, for fear of sanctions. All Russia has is oil and gas, which China will continue to drain at an ever lowering discount price, whilst reclaiming their hotly contested territories back from the Russian Federation in their south east (China’s north east).
Using the interest from Russia’s frozen capital in western banks to pay for Ukraine’s war, which is pending possibility now, will be the capstone on the arch over Russia’s financial tomb. An ongoing, limitless fund, provided by Russians themselves, will be financially ruinous to Russia but also politically humiliating for Putin.
He cannot survive even some of these factors; but, all of them combined? . . .
That just leaves western fears about what happens when Putin falls. But, I think western leaders are even starting to get that now. Russia’s history shows that keeping things stable in the country, whilst the chaos of replacing their leaders goes on behind closed doors, is actually something that Russia is good at. They’ve done it countless times. From the chaos after the death of Stalin, the removal of Khrushchev after the defeat of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a series of leaders that came and went in the 1980’s, installing Boris Yeltsin after an attempted coup from the old guard communists (with tanks in Red Square, who’s turrets were pointing directly at the Kremlin!) and there are way more examples I could add to that list.
Suffice it to say that Russia will NOT break up into multiple nuclear states, just because Putin retires, dies or is otherwise removed! They will just keep on keeping on, like they always have! And western leaders are far less fearful of post Putin potentialities, since they have been observing events and Russian history repeating itself, yet again.
That is why I think it is possible. But, as you can see, a lot could go wrong with the timeline I laid out: namely, other, “events,” distracting NATO from its goals, with other countries. But the possibility of that kind of derailment decreases with each day that passes in which western resolve stiffens. It’s up to us to keep the pressure on: donating money, writing to our representatives and supporting the politicians who are, “genuinely,” on Ukraine’s side.
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@GrimoireM : Someone should write the movie script about an Oscar winning actress who thinks it’s unfair that she’s about to get sidelined by Hollywood, for reaching middle age and who’s just not getting the script offers she wanted any more. So, she takes her revenge. Instead of challenging the unfair double standards and seeking a fairer society, she reinvigorates a pseudo-health industry, selling people’s own bodily waste back to them, for eye wateringly high prices, and scented candles that smell of, “my vagina,” (no, I didn’t make that up) and laughs at their idiocy, as all the studio execs who denied her a man’s future in acting lap them up. You could even make it a horror movie, much like Needful Things? Ah, America . . .
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Django : Meanwhile, the Mayor of Vegas is following Trump’s lead, to a T. People are expendable, and the math says, a million to a million and a half dead; if they do nothing more about this. That’s acceptable. America needs to make money. You’re expendable. I’m expendable. They’re protected. And their drones are SO DUMB that they’re following their internet instructions from Trump’s backers, to go out and, “protest,” and may well wipe themselves out in a huge Darwinian self-extinction event! In a way, it’s f*cking hilarious! We’re getting what we deserve. And, when the second wave comes, the country will grind to a halt. The only people working then, will be the mass grave diggers . . .
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And they’re in a mad scramble for, “leadership,” and the party’s identity. They could end up a Hawley, Graham, Cruz, Proto-Nazi party? Or, the Moscow Mitch style of system gamers? The very insurrectionists who tried to destroy the Republic have no choice, because they’re looking at expulsion and possible criminal charges, when all the evidence comes out at trump’s impeachment! It’s do or die, for those guys. Sad as it makes me, we have to support Moscow Mitch, and help him get the votes he needs for trump’s impeachment!
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MrGreggery : The decadence of the falling Roman Republic? Yeah, that makes sense . . . Tough choices ahead. Does the GOP ban all witnesses and evidence? Thus proving that this, “trial,” is RIGGED and the Republic is OVER? Or, should they allow witnesses and evidence? And find Trump, “not guilty,” when he’s just been PROVED GUILTY? Thus admitting that the, “trial,” was RIGGED and the Republic is OVER? It’s not like they will be able to parrot Ken Starr’s, “defence,” when his, “arguments,” are most strongly opposed by Ken Starr, in his OWN BOOK! So, they’ll all have to retreat back to the Dershowitz, “defence,” which is that the Constitution doesn’t mean what it SAYS, and so what if Trump is guilty, because the whole trial is invalid (which begs the question of why he took part in it) because the Constitution is lying, or something . . . I mean, they might as well just fess up at this point? This is a Coup, but a, “soft coup,” where you get to go through the motions of, “voting,” in RIGGED ELECTIONS, and play at, “Democracy,” as a panacea; a drug to calm you all down, when you think about the fact that the outcome has already been decided, because the Trump family and half of the GOP HAD TO END THE REPUBLIC OR GO TO JAIL!
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She’s wrong. Not about Dirac, or the incorrect assumptions that some scientists have made. Nor is she wrong (necessarily) about the vast sums we spend on colliders and how it might better be used. I’m not qualified to quantify that last. But, to argue that there is no value in trying to understand why anti-matter did not annihilate the entire universe at its inception is just wrong headed. She’s trying to invalidate the science by invalidating the question, which is a personality thing, not a scientific approach. Even she admits it would be great to know the answer. We don’t have to call it a, “problem,” but surely it’s a sensible question? She makes an assumption of her own; that there simply wasn’t an equal amount of anti-matter, but she cannot know that, simply by inferring it from our existence? The discovery of anti-matter stars would make a nonsense of that assumption for a start. There could have been a condition that kept anti-matter apart from baryonic matter, which would in turn, tell us incredibly important things about physics and the universe? To say the question has no value is no different to saying any question in physics has no value, despite her knowledge that many of the greatest, most important discoveries that have tangibly changed our world, were made by scientists who were simply interrogating questions that interested them and could have had no way of knowing where their investigations would ultimately lead. Newton could never have known that he was contributing to GPS Satellite technology for instance.
It strikes me as a stubborn resistance to accelerators has been conflated with the basis of their use in her mind? She’d be more honest if she questioned their use alone, rather than the question itself. When she does that I see a slippery slight of hand at work, but she’s merely sawing at the branch she’s sitting on. Anyone can say, “It is what it is,” about any value. Indeed, many scientists have done so in history, and later come off as the fools for doing so. Edward Hoyle did the same thing when he coined the, “Big Bang Theory,” for work that he personally didn’t like, yet which proved to be perfectly true.
I wish scientists would stay out of their internal politics in these videos and just get on with the science? There’s a, “teachable moment,” in this for her too.
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It’s a difficult one to speculate about. If the Duchess was approached by a representative of Big Brother and didn’t give a flat, “no,” immediately, anyone can stretch a point and call that, “negotiations.” But, what I remember about her, most of all, was an interview she gave not long after divorcing the Prince. She ended the interview abruptly, when questioned about her corrupt financial dealings and has never answered for any of that as far as I know. Seems she was cut from a similar cloth to Edward?
EDIT: I should qualify that. I’m referring to the 60 Minutes interview, in which they discussed a News Of The World sting operation (footage still available on YouTube) in which the Duchess was selling access to Prince Andrew to business representatives, while Andrew was still the Business Ambassador. She destroyed the world’s trust in the idea of the Brits as fair dealing, as well as a good deal of trust in the Royal family.
Andrew claimed no knowledge of her dealings, which only begs the question. If you look at the footage, she is as brazen and blatant as they come, putting a $50,000 dollar price on, “Doors opened, full access,” to Andrew for trade discussions and, presumably, preferential treatment over others who just go through legitimate channels. So, if he really didn’t know, that makes her twice the con artist she already appears to be.
Yes, she said she had a, “wake up call,” and claims she was only ever corrupted that one time. But it is obvious that she had been running this scam for a long time, with price points for each level of her shady dealing. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn she’d had booklets published, to save time with the patter.
In the end, she got to reframe the whole thing, used super injunctions to silence the press, told a pack of lies in her book about it, and got away with the whole thing. She disgusts me.
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@shelleythistleton4935 : I heard a discussion on CNN that frustrated me, about when politicians make mistakes or want to change their position on an issue, because they were saying our current culture doesn’t allow for it. People get shamed and insulted for changing, so they won’t do it, out of fear of losing their allies and opponents, leaving them with nothing. It made me mad, because it’s NOT the mistake, or the, “change of position,” that irks people, it’s their inability to ADMIT they were wrong or have changed their mind. It’s the hypocrisy of that which really upsets people! Why am I blathering about this?. Just by way of saying, “Thank You,” for demonstrating my point. I made a mistake. You called me out, (politely). My response was to OWN that mistake and APOLOGISE for it. And now we’re all good, because you are a gracious, reasonable, “grown up,” person.
And that’s why I won’t be removing my mistake either. I hope others may see it and learn a life lesson 😉. As we are encouraging the GOP to, “change their minds,” it seems fitting ✌️👍 Thank you
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The saddest part? Trump’s raising money for court, “challenges,” that he’s not even going to mount! He’s gauging his cult, one last time, before he flees the country, taking their donations with him! And, even though he disappointed them, not even making a, “we don’t concede,” speech; even though he left his expectant crowds and went off to play golf; they’re STILL FALLING FOR IT! Something tells me America will be a little less divided, when Donny ditches his cult and moves in next door to Edward Snowden . . . 🤦♂️
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@garygraham8373 : Putin’s, “demented,” alright. But not in the way he wants you to think. Just because he pulls the pin from a grenade and sits with it in his lap saying, “If I lose I’m taking you all with me,” doesn’t mean he isn’t bluffing. If he was that demented he’d have done it by now. Everything he’s said has turned out to be the precise opposite of the truth, starting with, “I do not intend to invade Ukraine,” on the day he invaded Ukraine. Listen carefully and you’ll hear, that red line where he says he’ll use his nukes? That’s the line at which Russia folds. He wants to live more than most Russians. And definitely more than most Ukrainians. Don’t let his, “crazy,” act fool you.
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Cognitive Consonance : The Mayor is simply following Trump’s lead, to a T. People are expendable, and the math says, a million to a million and a half dead; if they do nothing more about this. That’s acceptable. America needs to make money. You’re expendable. I’m expendable. They’re protected. And their drones are SO DUMB that they’re following their internet instructions from Trump’s backers, to go out and, “protest,” and may well wipe themselves out in a huge Darwinian self-extinction event! In a way, it’s f*cking hilarious! We’re getting what we deserve. And, when the second wave comes, the country will grind to a halt. The only people working then, will be the mass grave diggers . . .
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@Kaziklu : You would not be alone in thinking that. Several NATO countries feel the same way. It was only 15 years ago, or so, that people took it as read that Turkey would not get into the organisation in our generation. But Erdogan has played a very deep and skilled political game (whatever we think of him, he’s no self deluding idiot, like Putin) and most people didn’t even notice Turkey quietly being given membership! Now they stick out like a sore thumb: the NATO member that is not, “really,” up to NATO standards. The black sheep of the family, who just happens to be in a geographical crux position that makes them too dangerous to have as an enemy, and too untrustworthy to have as a friend.
But, any help they render to Ukraine, I’ll take that. 👍🇺🇦✌️🇬🇧
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“Patriotism,” is a joke, to these Quislings, right? Over 50 cops were beaten almost to DEATH, with American flags and Thin Blue Line banners; one left in a coma with brain damage, another one blinded, and yet another DEAD! Because of a bald LIE! It’s NOT, “free speech.” It’s crying, “Fire!,” in a packed theatre, and having no skin in the game, whilst others do the DYING! It’s seditious propaganda and it should be OUTLAWED! With swift, serious consequences!
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I hope they prosecute the, “news,” companies that spread this LIE of the, “steal?” Fox cast doubt on the election over 700 times, according to Conservative analysts. Even though they KNEW it was a LIE! We used to hunt down and HANG propagandists and traitors after WWII! Now we let them broadcast on American soil and give them shares in the company?! It’s NOT a, “free speech,” issue, when someone screams, “fire!” in a packed theatre, and gets to watch people DIE in the chaos they caused! It’s time to hold, “news,” anchors ACCOUNTABLE for their SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACIES! ✌️
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Literally nothing. And, given what his oath was meant to stand for, it works out as far less than nothing. The consequences of breaking a presidential oath are well into the minus figures, as we’ve seen. His deposition oath is something else. I hope he behaves as usual, lies his ass off, claiming never to have met her? Then, when the DNA sample, taken from her dress, proves to be his, “type,” she will not only win her case, but move onto the next phase: a Criminal Trial, for Rape.
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Enrique Sanchez : Yes. Be prepared, America. Trump and the complicit GOP members have no options left, if they are going to stay out of jail. They will turn this Cold Civil War into a hot one, rather than accept defeat. Kentucky’s, “election,” has just run into, “technical difficulties.” As did S Carolina, Georgia, and several other GOP controlled elections in the last few weeks. If we are not ready to respond to that threat, we deserve to lose our Republic, forever.
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Sadly, I doubt they’ll sell it, because of those 11 million idling subscribers. That’s a serious data mining source, all signed up to their terms of service and having their linked accounts mined regularly for statistics that Warner Bros will be finding very useful for marketing and other long term strategies. It’s showing them 11 million viewing habits, what other accounts those people use and in what way, and it’s an information source that’s rare, as in, it’s been tracking most of these people since the early days of the internet (people who’ve probably long since forgotten their accounts and never unsubbed) which is probably why they’ve kept it humming away like that in the first place. So, unless you were willing to offer a deal that grants them continuing access to this data, a thing that is literally more valuable than gold on the global markets, I can’t see them willingly parting with it for less than SERIOUS, serious money. But that’s just my hot take.
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@Descalabro : We have already seen a steep drop in Q followers, and other disillusioned trump fans, due to his not staging a round up of the Dems on the Inauguration Day locking them up and retaking power. The base is still there, but weakened. And they will lose significantly more if they hear, from the mouths of those who lead them to disaster (from the back) that they had lied the entire time. Some witnesses will be able to say they were always sceptical, and said so. Other can say they never supported, “the steal,” lie, and yet others, will simply have to say that they knew it was a lie, but lied anyway, because Donny told them to. In other words, the GOP will fracture into two, divergent narratives about what is true, what happened and whom they stand by. They will get that, “civil war,” they always wanted, only in their own ranks. The Greene thing, the, “steal lie,” and the Nazis showing up at the Capitol Riots have already cost the, deeply. But, this will be the point at which most of them will be forced to choose their side. Those who voted to challenge the election, regardless of the riots will largely comprise one side. The ones who refused to, despite planning to, and who simply didn’t will largely be on the other. Many will sink, with their feet nailed to the deck of the TrumpTanic. And, that’s what I’m talking about. Those who remain in control will either be Trumpian proto-fascists, or the system gamers, like Mitch McConnell. It’s unclear which way they’ll swing at this point, but the fracture is already beginning. What is clear is, so long as they force testimony from the GOP’s top brass, the half of the GOP that is left in charge, will be weakened, disgraced and struggling to rebuild. And, that’s why the verdict doesn’t matter. They’re Testimonies matter. And that’s why they will go, AFTER the trial, cap in hand to big business. Because these donors never leave forever. And, sooner or later, the government will be doing something that corporations need to fund opposition to. And that’s what they hire politicians for.
I’m not fundamentally disagreeing with you. All I’m saying is (and the GOP knows I’m right) this impeachment could RUIN them, and the, “verdict,” is not even what the stakes are! Both sides know it. It’s a rigged game. But, they might be able to expose and shut down the roulette table?
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Sounds like an unhelpful way to live? She put her finger on it at the end, there. It’s not an argument about science, but one about philosophy. If anything, it’s a political debate about, ‘’Trust,” and refusing to rely upon authority figures. It’s easy to defeat a flat earther’s scientific argument, if they are in the same room as you, and you have access to the internet. But, they will discount everything you show them, based on their, “distrust,” of sources. Exploring WHY their distrust, and the incomprehensible, elaborate, and pointless lengths all governments would have to go to, to agree upon one single conspiracy theory, when they cannot agree on the price of bread, literally, will only tell you more about their emotional dysfunctions, intellectual shortcomings, or both. So, that’s why I hesitate to even lend flat earthers the flattery of acknowledging their philosophical position. Because you can still be hyper-skeptical about the world, without refuting demonstrable facts. Most of them know they’re just trolling anyway, which makes them emotionally damaged and intellectually challenged to start with. Others are exploiting people for money and attention. They represent the malign influence that has grown like a cancer over the planet, with the expansion of the World Wide Web. The rest deserve our pity. ✌️👍
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@kittiwhieldon4329 : Yes. Me too. Trials do have a way of twisting and turning into unexpected places, which is what Lindsay Graham fears so deeply. He knows that even low level witnesses; interns, staffers and the like, were busy taking notes and even recording their meetings, and in the room during, “private,” conversations. And he knows they were all saying, “Yes, Donny is insane, but what else can we do? We have to lie along with him! Yes, I know the election wasn’t stolen!” etc, etc, etc. And that will justify calling the senior members who allegedly said these things, or who have just heard their own voices played back to them, saying these things . . . and so much more. Ted Cruz has spent his TV time more wisely, walking back his, “belief,” in, “The Steal,” in every interview he’s given in the last couple of weeks. But, there’s definitely an indication that someone has something on Leningrad Lindsay, given his enormous, history making flip flops on trump? I would dearly love to know what that is? I have theories, but I’d love it to come out into the open . . . 😉✌️👍
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This was a good video, but I had to ask? Doesn’t this guy get it? He asked, “Don’t you see you’ve won here? What is your end game?” There is no, “end game.” There is NEVER enough. When you get everything you want, you now want everything else.
That’s how white supremacists and fascists behave because they are paranoid and always believe there are others out there like themselves, waiting to take their money and their place of power. And anyone who behaves differently, and doesn’t, “respect,” them, must be one of those people, regardless of who they are!
Don’t ask what’s their end game? Ask, what is ours? How do we stop this? Maybe by introducing stringent standards of truth and stringent demarcation lines between what counts as journalism and what is, “partisan hackery?” Make sure there is a banner on the screen, denoting what is inarguable fact, and what is opinion. And make the consequences for mixing the two swift and BRUTAL!
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@caitieeeee : I don’t believe you can call them, “Democrat supporting,” (CNN, that is) but I can see why people might think that. That’s the clever trick the far right pulled. When the president attacks them on a personal and political level, CNN are then forced to show their work to the class and prove what they have said is true, but that adds to the narrative that they are attacking the GOP. When they can ask a Dem politician some hard questions but still get reasonable answers, people compare that to the Republican politicians who consistently change the subject, start Whaddabouting and get all emotional on TV, adding to the illusion that CNN has an emotive investment in attacking them.
It was the smartest unintended consequence of trump’s thin skinned and paranoid responses to journalism. And he actually started quoting Stalin and getting more and more people agreeing with his calls to ban free speech and basic standards of journalism. All of which makes Lord Haw Haw types, like Tucker Carlson (who should face a firing squad in my opinion) possible, and makes the betrayal of your country look like, “patriotism,” when all it is is actually an uneasy mix of Stalinism with overtones of white nationalist fascism. ✌️
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@yossarrian : Um? . . . What, “argument,” son? . . . 🤔 . . . You didn’t make an argument. Was that snide shot about Stewart being an, “establishment,” figure meant to be an, “argument,” of some description? Compared to Tucker Carlson? The Ivy League educated, son of the establishment and old money, media anchor? Can you even hear yourself? “Kill your heroes”??? You’re quoting Carlson and trying to pass that off as your own, “thoughts,” while being both empirically wrong and failing to make ANY point. Make an, “argument,” by all means. And try to be less emotional about people disagreeing with you, son? Carlson is not your daddy. 🤦♂️🙄
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Sherry Doodle-All-Day : Time to stage an intervention? If they’re racists, it’s hopeless, and you have my sympathy. If not, ask them, will they still support him if he flees the country before the Inauguration, taking all the Donations Roger Stone has gathered with him, just to avoid warrants and indictments? 🤷♂️ Dunno’ what else to say? But, be comforted by the fact that the truth will out, and Donny will be hated by his cult, eventually. When it’s proved to them, that THEY were always Donny’s first, main and worst hit VICTIMS of every scam. That, and all the betrayals of our country we’re about to uncover ✌️👍
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I think the question has more to do with whether we’ll be trying Putin at The Hague for blocking, “legal information spreading,” and trying to make it a crime in the first place? It does require penetrating security measures to do it at this scale, especially if any of it is specific or targeted? And, if it’s not a crime, the enemy can, “legally,” do the same to us. So it is an interesting and valid question, but perhaps Mr Cooper should have prefaced the question better? That is, after all, his responsibility.
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@verti3213 : When I was a seven year old (or thereabouts) my best friend at the time described seeing a porno film with his dad (divorced from his mother, which was a rarity for those days, and this was during one of his hit-&-miss fortnightly visits) and I vividly remember the confused and confusing description he gave. I liked him, because he was never under serious adult supervision and always seemed to access to, “cool,” stuff, like air guns, a bow and arrow set, and other things capable of doing us kids serious bodily harm. He was particularly agitated that day, and when I visited after school, he shot a cat with his air gun and then stomped it to death. I was plagued by guilt and confusion about what I’d witnessed, and my part in it, having become so frightened by him, and that air gun in his hand, that I laughed along with him until I could get away. But I was unable to process for years that what he’d been exposed to that weekend had really effected him.
I still visit him in the psychiatric ward of the secure facility he was sentenced to remain in for an indefinite period. I’m not suggesting that one glance at Deep Throat turned him into a monster by any means. But, what I know from experience is that kids just do not know how to process such things and you just cannot tell which way their cooky is going to crumble.
There’s an inherent risk in the attitude, “Well, kids have seen it all these days, so why bother?” Mine didn’t. It’s not as hard as people make out to supervise your kids, if you actually like their company, and they do yours. I can never accept that argument. Respectfully. ✌️
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Galaar : Look around you, America? The Stock Market is soaring because the banks and corporations are Carpet Bagging. They see trump’s end is nigh, and they’re cleaning up, repo’ing cars, houses, rented homes, shops and businesses, and emptying the bank accounts of their debtors. If you needed EVIDENCE that the Stock Market only tells you how the very, VERY RICH are doing, this is it! Or, are we meant to be, “encouraged,” that some crumbs may trickle down? While the food bank cues stretch for miles, unemployment and the crashing of people’s livelihood rises? And? . . . By November, if you haven’t lost someone you cared about to Covid, then I guess you aren’t in America . . .smh
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@guitrr : They will have to commit perjury if they try to make any allegations without evidence, so all they can say on the stand, at best, is the Nuremberg Defence: “Trump said it was so, and I followed orders.” They will be eviscerated if they try it, which will be just as damaging for them; and, if they all say the same thing, one after another, it will also be utterly humiliating. Some will crack, tell the truth, and confirm that others told them they knew it was a lie. Before long, corroborating testimonies will put the liars in the Perjury firing line again. They really don’t have any choice. It’s not so easy to be stubborn under oath ✌️
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You should be filling the streets right now, and demanding the restoration of the postal service. They’re literally STEALING Democracy, your Republic, and your, “Elections,” RIGHT NOW, UNDER YOUR NOSES! Please, America? PROTEST until the country is HALTED! They know they’re facing JAIL and will do ANYTHING. Right NOW, is the time to fight! By November, they’ll see you all coming, and be READY FOR YOU! ✌️
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Maverick Majorani : Does sum it up nicely. Trump refuses to say anything, because he knows who his voters are. They aren’t all Nazis, but all American Nazis are Trump voters. Trump’s a racist, but he’s never had any, “ideology.” Trump cares about Trump, that’s it. He thinks his current rank makes him a special man, but his failure to be a man, merely devalues his rank. Nazis become Nazis out of self loathing, and they are able to lose their identities within a group, which therefore, becomes everything. A fresh start, where your criminal record, drug abuse, wife beating, whatever, are put aside, and they’ll give you a uniform and a, “rank.” Beats taking responsibility, and doing it the hard way, right? The weak, preying on the weak, and then victimising the vulnerable. Scum, in other words. Simply cannot be tolerated, but Trump will find a way to do just that
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Political Foolishness : “The best infrastructure in the world.” No Bill has even reached the floor of the House, because NO WORK has been done. “The best Healthcare in the world.” Genuine quotes, here, kid. Well, Healthcare is a DISASTER and getting WORSE. Your, “Tax Break,” ENDS, in April. Look it up. We are spending MANY $MILLIONS each DAY, just to service the National Debt, which is out of control, yet, in his DESPERATION, he promised you another 10% cut. WHERE IS IT??? YOU have to pay the National Debt this year, son! And, “Whaddabout,” the promised Tax Returns? Still under, “Audit?” Never mind, America is about to Audit them for themselves, in January. THAT will END Trump, on its own. He SOLD your election, and STILL LOST, and had to be bailed out by the Electoral College! “No Collusion,” is a PROVEN LIE! “Lock her up,” is an EMBARRASSMENT, for Ivanka! I could go ALL DAY, like this.
Trump is a cheap crook who is not even GOOD AT IT. We could ALL SEE his childish scams and RIPOFFS. You’re full of SH*T, son, because you’re a foreign troll or a domestic racist. Which is it?
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Mr. Sensible : Give it a rest, please? Trump is NOT even using ANY, “Economic Modelling,” known to man, beast or science! He understands NOTHING of economics; macro, micro, or even how his Piggy Bank works! WHO are you trying to KID, son? If you, “studied economics,” you will KNOW that, because the Tax CUTS for the 1% are now untouchable, the ONLY place he can turn to, to get the money to service the National Debt, is YOUR POCKET! And, killing Obama Care won’t be NEARLY enough. Your tax, “Break,” ENDS in April, and Trump will have to dig further and deeper than THAT, sonny! You’re SO full of S**T you should come with a HEALTH WARNING! 🤣
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Exactly. We’re all, “familiar,” with the common cold, but we’d be better off without it. Ironically, Carlson is literally preaching America’s ruin. Just about EVERY historian who heard him would tell you that! The very REASON Rome fell, was because of THAT attitude, which Tacitus complained about at the time, and Edward Gibbon analysed for us in the 1700’s in his The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire! We’ve ALWAYS KNOWN THIS! Rome grew so successfully because it adapted, grew, assimilated other cultures, taking on their characteristics and the best of their technology, philosophy, science and Warfare techniques. It was centuries later that Rome was like Carlson, worshipping, “The Ways of our Fathers,” over everything new; hating innovation and rejecting other cultures, and that literally DESTROYED THEM! Carlson is like one of those mad prophets you see in a sci fi movie! “Maybe our penises offend the gods? Let’s all cut off our penises and appease the Orange one!” 🤦♂️ If only he knew what a DOLT he sounds like, to the educated? 🤣
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zaknyfein z : When he says, “the best healthcare system in the world,” he should say, “potentially.” It’s the richest. But, you can only call it the, “best,” when it works. So, as it stands, you’re right. This is the most shameful abomination in American history. On average, 1000 people, DEAD every day. And we COULD SAVE THEM. Truly shameful ✌️
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Not at all. This is America’s big break! The, “verdict,” of trump’s impeachment is immaterial. Seriously. It’s the TESTIMONY!
Please stay in touch with your representatives on both sides, America? DEMAND that the top GOP members who told America that, “The Steal,” was a thing, MUST TESTIFY!
Cruz, Hawley, Graham, the trump’s, Giuliani, will be forced, on live TV, to CONFESS that it was all a Seditious Lie! They cannot take the 5th, or refuse to testify. They will not commit Perjury, and risk jail for trump! It will BREAK the GOP! The BEST they can say is the Nuremberg Defence;
“I was following orders. I didn’t believe the election was stolen, but Donny said he did so I, ‘trusted,’ him.”
Inundate your reps with DEMANDS for WITNESS TESTIMONY, and the GOP will break in two! Forget the, “verdict.” The stakes are WAY higher than a rigged outcome! Do it America! This is your big chance and you WON’T get another like this!
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The only problem that I have with this pro Republican values outlet, at the moment, is that Donald Trump, one of the world's most infamous bullies, also promising to expand his governments remit, so as to settle scores, is at the the tip of their spear. I would like to see a PragerU short on their thoughts about him BEFORE the election? It's not like they haven't had time to think about it. & surely, it would be socially irresponsible for them not to, if they believe in what they are telling us? Stop talking around the issue & deal with Trump!
Oh, & BTW, small government is not a unique idea; it originated with British Conservatism.
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I was struck by Johnson’s unapologetic and vehement performance in that enquiry hearing. He appeared to dig his own grave by stating that he thought he got advice from all of the right people, took the right steps, etc, even knowing what he knows now; meaning that he would do it all again, in the same way! Note: the very final question from the chair, who seemed to read him so well, all but walked him into a trap of his own making, by simply asking, “Well, is there anything you’d like to add?” But the way she framed it so cleverly, making it clear that this was his the opportunity to say, “If I had known then what I know now, here’s what I would have done differently.” By then, she had seen him sticking so vehemently to this, “I believe I did the right thing,” rhetoric, that she rightly surmised that the real meaning of the question would pass over his head. And he duly obliged the committee by stating that he had learned NOTHING from his experience and is a liability who would repeat all of the same mistakes; not change who advised him, not change his actions, not take better care of the health and safety of his own people, etc, not do ANYTHING differently, regardless.
And I think that will be the key line the findings of this enquiry will take: That even though we cannot read minds and establish what is truly in Mr Johnson’s, “heart,” as he would have do, Boris Johnson has stated in his own words that he has not learned anything from his own failings and stated unequivocally that he would not do anything differently, even if he had full knowledge of the potential harm he could have caused, or the harm he was doing politically to his party.
In short, they gave him enough rope and he hung himself. That would be the headline of my findings if I served on that committee, at any rate. And I would not fail to mention his pusillanimous response to outside influence and intimidation of committee members either. He reminded me of Donald Trump when he told them he would, essentially, be against the mob if he was exonerated, but for the mob should he be found guilty. That was a dark moment that I won’t be forgetting.
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What should have been done differently? Which armchair president could have done a better job? Biden knew it would be chaos, but saying that out loud would only have made it WORSE, and gotten him, “blamed,” for that too. His generals are now telling us that Joe gave them NO ILLUSIONS. Since trump’s formal surrender was signed at Camp David, by Mike Pompeo and the leader of the Taliban, whom THEY RELEASED from American custody, THEY CREATED the, “problem,” which THEY, “kicked down the road,” by not even having a representative of the Afghani, “government,” IN THE SAME COUNTRY, let alone in the same room! He was at a different, “meeting,” with Mark Esper, at the exact same time, probably saying, “Sure, sure, whatever you say, Mark,” as he stuffed his gold toilet seat into his ruck sack, filled with American dollars and boarded his chopper OUT of there!? 🤦♂️
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@larryo6874 : That’s certainly part of it. He gets to tell his own, much poorer and occasionally suffering people, “Well, the west are being unreasonable,” while they will probably never hear the actual terms he’s asking for. But there’s a well known breakdown of, “How To Do Russian Diplomacy In Times Of Conflict,” which goes roughly like this:
1) Ask for something totally unreasonable. 2) Use the summary dismissal of your unreasonable demands to justify yourself domestically. 3) Reduce your initial demands, to create the illusion of negotiating in good faith. 4) Take whatever they give you, which is always more than you deserve and more than is good for anyone. 5) Break the treaty, rinse and repeat.
Jake did an excellent summary of these points, which I’m just paraphrasing from my not very reliable memory, in a video from about a year ago, the last time Moscow made a serious, “sounding,” ceasefire proposal.
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@jimbob-robob : But, you have noticed that they make a difference, right? You noticed that when Ukraine flew a fleet of drones into Putin’s neighbourhood in Moscow, none of them had warheads on them, because Ukraine doesn’t bomb civilians, right? You noticed that they don’t take criminals and send them to be shot by the enemy, or shot by their own people for retreating, en masse, so as to overwhelm the other side, right? You noticed that civilian men, women and CHILDREN don’t get blown up as they go about their business in Moscow? No Russians are fleeing floods from exploded dams or eco-terrorism, you saw that, right? Ukraine is not murdering their prisoners or executing them on Tik Tok, did you see that?
The Rule Of Law and a Rules Based Society is the reason you can make remarks like yours, however prosaic, platitudinous and empty, without fear of being picked up by secret police in the night and sent to the front lines within 24 hours, or simply being blown apart with your family out of a clear blue sky, because you just happen to be lucky enough to live in a world that values the laws of war!
Just think about that before you decide not to reply or get all defensive, and maybe admit that was a thoughtless, unhelpful remark?
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Lucky you. Sounds like it would have been fun to share your couch and a coffee, or maybe a beer, whilst watching the meltdown in glorious Technicolor? I said they would have to prize Johnson’s cold, dead fingers from the dispatch box, and I wasn’t wrong. No sense of dignity, that boy. The 1922 Committee will probably have to change its rules over the weekend and he may just jump before a new vote of no confidence? But even then I wouldn’t count on it.
Boris describing Govey as a snake made me lol. It was his reptilian qualities that got Boris into number 10 in the first place, and his betrayal of Ms May was orchestrated by Johnson, so he should have expected that! Govey is the devil himself, stuffed into a Mr Parlanchin puppet with a hair combing.
Did that last question about losing Johnson means the Conservatives lose their most appealing politician strike you, as it did me, as particularly dumb? He was, once! That woman should have said, “Have you been watching the news?” Johnson is as toxic to the voters as Vladimir Putin at a Ukrainian wedding! Especially anyone who lost loved ones during Covid whilst obeying the rules, or those wondering how they’re going to feed their kids when cornflakes cost £5 quid per flake!
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@HpyFin : The cunning trick, behind the propaganda of the far right is, sadly, something a lot of people are falling for. It barely matters what preposterous claims they make, so long as they insert, “BLM,” in there somewhere and, as a bonus, make them synonymous with ANTIFA. We’re meant to take it as read that these are the organisations that represent the opposite side of the same coin. That’s why they alway conflate BLM with ANTIFA. BLM is a registered charity, and an activist group, supporting black Americans and using respectable, legal methods to achieve its ends. The reason I cannot support ANTIFA is only because they don’t always use legal methods; despite sympathising with their cause. But, to let them get away with putting BLM in that place to start with, and to take the argument on their terms, is a cunning trick, designed to lower the reputation of BLM in the public’s perception. They have nothing to do with ANTIFA, despite the fact that ANTIFA frequently shows up at the same protests. Hearing Bill Barr dismiss BLM as, “leftist propagandists and terrorists,” was one of the darkest pieces of propaganda I’ve ever heard from any state official, since Goebells and Hitler, or perhaps Stalin! We must not give them what they want. BLM are respectable, upright citizens, of whom Martin Luther King would be proud, despite their secular grounding. Nazis don’t get to put them on that coin. We don’t deal in their, foreign currency ✌️👍
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@fredericslimane : And think of all the commerce, trade, media, goods and services? America is like the hub of the world. If we got it under control, the world would see a massive drop,in cases, and we might just beat this thing? But, no. Donny’s in his bunker, scheming and crying. Getting all the cash he can, from his cult, who will feel like such idiots, when he flees the country, taking all those donations with him . . . SMH ✌️
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Voice of Reason : And, the blatant hypocrisy of Trump, will NOT PENETRATE the CLINICALLY THICK SKULLS of his Trolls. They won’t get it, until Trump’s Stalinist, Far Left, Nanny State has control of our farms, our trade, our media, WOMEN’S BODIES, Law Enforcement, the Judiciary, etc. The Republic is ENDING
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We’re past the point that Trump’s Cult can pretend they, “believe,” in Trump. They’ve been brainwashed into HATING the Dems more than America’s enemies. They actively WANT the Republic to end, and to have a Dictatorship like Putin’s, where there is a FAKE, “Opposition,” under a single Party. If impeachment doesn’t end Trump, “elections,” sure as hell won’t, when they’re blatantly RIGGED. SHOW UP! Be at Trump’s Deposition! Impeachment is America’s last, best hope ✌️
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You’re an, “absolute blessing,” to us. I will never forget how hard it was to find rational voices speaking out on this topic when the war began, and what a comfort it was to find someone rational, qualified, compassionate, diligent and, dare I say, righteous, without any of the pomposity that word implies for some, like you, sir. You were the first consistent light in a dark place. And I remain eternally thankful for you and grateful to you.
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Robert Clawson : Do you genuinely, “think,” that people are as undereducated as you are? You think they can’t SEE that Kim has taken the piss out of Trump and America, doing missile tests that NO other POTUS would have accepted? Europe is STILL in their deal with Iran, making the US look like TWITS, who are now out of the loop. Trump, “looks,” to the WORLD, as exactly what he is: a pliable, playable, f*ckwit, who’s soft on Dictators and soft on the causes of Dictators . . . Jesus, son?! Where are you GETTING your Trumpian Propaganda, these days? . . . SMH
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Shin : From, “I regret that I have but one life, to sacrifice for my country,” to, “Grab ‘em by the pussy.” What did you expect after a Coup? That their distractions from the Impeachment would be subtle? When you hold a, “Trial,” with NO witnesses, NO evidence, and a, “Jury,” comprised of the defendant’s CONSPIRATORS, that’s the same thing as telling America that their Republic has FALLEN, their Democratic Process is at an END, that the LAW no longer APPLIES unless THEY say so, and that your Constitution is ON FIRE! They can’t exactly rely on a really compelling episode of Love Island, to keep you all distracted? They needed to bring Putin in, and have him talk to Iran, to sacrifice a few Pawns, and have us all sitting on the edge of our seats. That’s how Dictatorships do it. But, things will calm down eventually. When their power is consolidated, and everyone is TERRIFIED of criticising the, “Government,” after Trump’s second term. When he announces he’s doing a THIRD term, just to beat, “Obama,” and that Ivanka will then take over, to become America’s first female POTUS. And, so long as we still get the X-Factor and a good Netflix mini-series to instruct us all on our tastes, ideology and the bullshit tat that we simply MUST own this year, NO ONE will do a GOD DAMNED THING about ANY of it . . . The Republic DIED in 2019.
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@gaius100bc : There’s really no need. The truth is that you can get awesome content, with broader variety, on Amazon Prime, and it’s cheaper than Netflix is about to be, and still ad free.
Every once in a blue moon I pay extra for a new movie, rather than wait a couple of months.
But, if you can restrain that impulse, you should. It costs the industry billions and only drives down the quality and quantity of original, artistic, creative content.
It’s not food you’re swiping from the mouths of Jonny Depp or Zack Snyder, but the sound technicians, producers, photographers, writers and assistants who all suffer, having to work for peanuts, because of pirating.
Lose your Netflix subscription and switch to Amazon Prime. You’ll thank me. ✌️
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@TAZEROXFORD : Yup. You can almost hear in the YouTube statement, “. . . and Sssniperwolf made us say the both sides are as bad as each other, even though we know that jjjacksfilms is completely innocent of any bad practices, because she lacks any self awareness, all sense of proportion and any grasp on what the notion of personal responsibility means. But she earns us millions in ad revenue and we’re not going to f*ck with that. So she gets an unpaid holiday and we get to keep making that lovely MONEY from all her existing videos, exploiting both parties. Oh, and jjjacksfilms gets a clip round the ear and told go f*ck himself, for being in the way of a stray bullet.”
This industry needs a root and branch legislation overhaul. And YouTube seems to be waiting until people start getting killed and the politicians step in, before they’ll, “do,” anything.
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Gabreal Angel : As with ALL Dictators, it’s not just the MONEY, it’s the POWER. Trump wants to insulate himself from the legal process, as he’s broken too many laws to walk free from his presidency. So, he NEEDS MORE POWER, to make that happen. He knows that, “Wartime Presidents,” get higher poll numbers, which he DESPERATELY NEEDS, along with the, “Distractions,” on a global scale. What he doesn’t GET, is that the PEOPLE CAN SEE that he is behind this, and they will NOT be greatful to him for spilling THEIR BLOOD AND TREASURE, so that HE can avoid a PRISON RAP
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Set aside the crazy links, like the Industrial Revolution gave us the A Bomb insanity, and just consider? Here’s an offering you can access for free: Look at Edward Gibbon’s The Decline & Fall Of The Roman Empire, to see that we’ve known this since the 1700’s; that clinging to the old ways (“The ways of our fathers”) was the very REASON Rome fell. Not with a bang, “but with a long drawn out sigh,” as Simon Schama put it. Any historian will tell you that Carlson’s fear of change is a recipe for disaster. In fact, THE recipe for disaster. Innovation, adaptation and growth were the reasons for Rome’s success; followed, centuries later by indolence, laziness, debauchery and a growing xenophobia, which was how it all ended. He’s literally preaching for doom, but is too ignorant to know that every historian who hears his words is going 🤦♂️ . . . ✌️👍
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I so literally called this! As soon as I saw Gutman’s cringeworthy attempt at a regular, “comedy,” slot on Fox, I said it! When he sees what an abject FLAILURE (👈yeah, I invented a word. What of it?) it is, he CAN’T admit he’s about as funny as Rottweiler performing a rectal examination, so he’ll look for an excuse to get, “cancelled,” and blame it on the, “Cancel Culture,” rather than admit defeat! It’s the trump playbook. Don’t admit you’re incompetent, when you can just be so egregious that the world is forced to cancel you! And, if they don’t cancel his comedy slot, he’ll say something worse! The other playbook solution: Always double down, no matter how WRONG you are, right? I totally called this. I want my goddamned medal or something! 🤣
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John Laccohee-Joslin : When Queen Matilda and King Stephen reached a stalemate, in the 1100’s, they made a deal. Stephen would keep the throne, so long as Maud’s son, Henry, would be his heir. Thus began the Plantagenet Royal Family: a, “settlement,” between those who had the POWER. There is no such THING as a, “legitimate,” Royal Family, in that sense, at least. But, Conspiracy Theories are fun, I guess. If you like that sort of thing? . . .
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Contact your representatives and make sure they know that we expect the huge financial contributions we are making to this war to be used more aggressively. Cynical western bean counters rather like the idea of grinding down Russia’s (Putin’s) power by forcing him to throw all of his resources into the bottomless pit of Ukraine. They would see to it that Zelensky only ever keeps get these small, incremental bumps in the war effort aid we offer, making the conflict last indefinitely. But, if Ukraine had 20 or 40 Patriot systems, operational all over Ukraine now, Putin would be powerless to commit his war crimes and would be seeing nothing but one defeat after another, as a more focussed and concentrated Ukraine can spend its resources on ejecting every last Russian boot from their soil.
Putin wouldn’t survive that domestically, and all of the chaos we’re seeing in Europe, from Germany to the Russian border, would be thrust back where it belongs: INSIDE RUSSIA!
So, yes! I agree. Don’t let ANY news service sell you the, “long term,” or, “stalemate,” line, as it’s rubbish! It really is up to us. Do we want to save ourselves a fortune by investing now, giving Ukraine a Navy and Air Force so seal their border from Russia, from the Black Sea to Donetsk? Are we willing to push this mess back into Russia and gamble that we can influence the outcome toward a democracy there, where they get so desperate that their new administration is willing to trade away their nukes for aid and embargo concessions, and looking to the west for rebuilding? Or do we want to keep standing by and watching these war crimes, EVERY DAY, in which the innocent are slaughtered by a coward leading cowards, who only ever makes nuclear threats every time we talk about it in the western press, because he knows he’ll get a response, even though he would never dare commit suicide like that?
Tell your politicians we’ve had ENOUGH! Stop giving Ukraine what they need to cling on for dear life. Give Ukraine what they need to FINISH THIS! Let’s make this Putin’s problem!
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Apparently, yes. And his cult. This trial doesn’t need a, “guilty verdict,” and they know it. The EVIDENCE is crushing trump. So many criminal indictments will begin, as this trial ends. But imagine what would happen to the cult, if they got Lindsay Graham on the witness stand? Or, Hawley, Cruz, Greene, or any of those seditious propagandists? All they’d need to do is ask them, without benefit of the 5th, to give their evidence for, “the steal?” The REASON they had an Insurrection? Let America HEAR IT, from the mouths of the GOP?
That, “The Steal ain’t real!” They can’t risk a BILLION dollar lawsuit? Perjury or Conspiracy charges? On live TV? Under Oath? They will confess that their cult was duped, and that will put an end to at least HALF of the GOP overnight! Make them take the stand, I say?
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@applecounty : That’s what would have happened if, by some miracle, the Tories had clung to power. Their plan was to run everything from Health and social care, to prisons and the security services, into the ground, so that the robber barons get to play the, “white knight,” role when they privatised the lot.
Almost as if putting a billionaire venture capitalist in charge of a country (which he just viewed as so many assets to be broken up and sold off) was a bad idea, right?
We would have ended the next parliament with a bunch of privatised, rival police forces roaming the streets like packs of wild dogs, and all of us living in fear of defenestration if we say the wrong thing about someone, like it was Russia now!
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@julianturner6337 : They don’t even interpret the 2nd Amendment correctly anyway, let alone the, “spirit,” in which it was intended. Even that Amendment has checks and balances written into it. But, we’re talking about a class of people who will un-ironically argue that their constitution cannot be interfered with at any level. When you’re explaining to them what the term, “Amendment,” means, it will quickly become apparent to you that you actually know more about their country, their history, legal definitions and basic grammar than they ever will.
I can respect the ones who just admit that they love their guns and don’t want to give up their favourite hobby because of a minority of psychopaths and criminals. But those people are generally open to legislation that makes background checks, banning of gun ownership among felons and other basic safety regulations mandatory. It’s actually the politicians, who use specious arguments, distorted and irrelevant statistics and just lies, who worry me far more. They have been paid by the gun lobbies and have access to mountains of research and lawyers to back them up, and still cannot make a, “logical,” argument. But they would shoot your grandmother in the face and rely on all that money to avoid jail after the fact. THAT’s the criminal minority we should all fear.
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Steven Dykstra : This is your Dictatorship, in the wake of the 2019 Coup, attempting to distract you, while they consolidate their power. They no longer have to fear the, “electorate,” because the 2020, “elections,” are ALREADY RIGGED. The only thing they fear now is everyone looking at a, “trial,” with NO WITNESSES allowed to testify, and NO EVIDENCE allowed to be presented, and a, “JURY,” comprised of Trump’s CONSPIRATORS, who would go to JAIL if Trump lost his, “Protected Presidential Status,” and, “ratted,” on them, to save his own Orange ass. After all, that would be the same thing as telling the world that THERE IS NO LAW, so far as the Trumps are concerned! It would be the same thing as ADMITTING that the Republic has FALLEN. Now, they will just get STRONGER, and consolidate their position, making America AFRAID Again, turning us into informers, haters and scared little RATS, like in Russia. You will get to go through the motions of voting, in your FAKE REPUBLIC, just like in Russia, and your name will be remembered, when you vote, “wrong,” but the outcome will NEVER be in doubt, because you have a DICTATORSHIP. Iran is just a SHOW; agreed by Putin, who arranged it with Iran and the US. NONE of this matters any more. They only fear that America MIGHT WAKE UP! A second REVOLUTION is what they fear. But, you all seem to be happy to watch the Coup unfold on CNN, so they needn’t worry. That won’t stop them though. That’s how Dictatorships work. As they get stronger, they will scare off ALL opposition, until they are appointing Democrats, behind the scenes, and briefing them, on what they can say and do. And, your first female POTUS? That will be Ivanka. Putin has already arranged it . . . Smh
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“Patriotism,” is a joke, right? Over 50 cops were beaten almost to DEATH, with American flags and Thin Blue Line banners; one left in a coma with brain damage, another one blinded, and yet another DEAD! Because of a bald LIE! It’s NOT, “free speech.” It’s crying, “Fire!,” in a packed theatre, and having no skin in the game, whilst others do the DYING! It’s seditious propaganda and it should be OUTLAWED! With swift, serious consequences!
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Occassional Sinner : Conservatives and Liberals will be voting Democrat at the Mid Terms, I think. The numbers seem to be showing this, after the early votes in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Alabama, etc. Consider: who, among Americans, has a SECOND Flag, which they respect MORE than the American Flag? The Civil War Rebel Flag is popular with the Trump fans. “A house divided against itself, cannot stand,” right? It’s all racists and foreign Trolls speaking up for Trump on YouTube. I think their numbers are WAY worse than they want us to believe? One thing is for sure, though; if the Dems don’t take the House at these Mid Terms, it was a FIX by Russian Hackers; nothing else would make sense. Be VIGILANT, America, and VOTE BLUE
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What Starky, once again, wilfully overlooks is the fact that everyone voted AGAINST the Tories, which is why Labour won by default. People weren’t voting FOR Labour so much as blocking the Tories because they were wrecking Britain.
Starky has always enjoyed being venomous and spiteful, indeed tried to build a career out of it, playing the, “bad guy,” on BBC Radio 4 for several years, treating guests with contempt and being an exemplar of the specious argument. Always the classic appeals to authority, precedent, commonality and every other rhetorical trick in the book.
A dim person who thinks they’re clever is often more damaging than an actually clever person and Starky proves that point. He has extremist Tory written through him like a stick of Blackpool Rock.
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@TravelerPat : Experience and education. Study after study (available on the internet, but be sure to only read established, respectable institutions on this) shows that educated people are far less vulnerable to propaganda. We’ve seen an unprecedented surge of sedition and propaganda, due to the vector of the World Wide Web, and the fact that the GOP has embraced it, rather tried to protect its citizens from it, like in the old days. Putin and his goons are the source, the vector has been social media and traitors, like Fox, and the victims have been the followers of Q, trump, and the racists; blank sheets, actively seeking to be written on, looking for meaning and a, “brotherhood,” to belong in. But, without the education, sophistication or the wear with all to protect themselves. And, when they look back over their shoulders, to mommy and daddy, to see if this shit is, “OK,” the, “respectable news outlets,” like Fox and Fiends are telling them, “Yes, this is OK.”
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@debra2697 : Not at all. Follow up the chain, if you like? But it’s way quicker to start at the very TOP! All of the witnesses will give the Nuremberg Defence; “We were following orders,” anyway. So, you simply ask the LEADERS; the people that they all GOT the notion of, “The Steal,” from, “what is your EVIDENCE?” That’s Trump, Lindsay Graham, Giuliani, Josh Crawley, Ted Cruz! They ALL said they had, “evidence!” Let them SHOW IT and be eviscerated for Perjury on the stand! They won’t. They’ll tell the TRUTH for the first time in their lives and the party will SPLINTER IN TWO!
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@zachbunch8701 : How about we, “judge,” these GOP supporters on the basis of what they SAY? If two thirds of that 74 million, claim to believe the Insurrection was a, “good thing,” because they believe, “The Steal,” is a THING, I’d say they are hanging themselves with their own rope, wouldn’t you? They obviously DON’T know the truth, and it will do them GOOD to hear the very people, who told them the, “steal,” was, “real,” to confess, from their very own mouths that it is a Seditious LIE, which they have KNOWN all along. As it will obviously do YOU some good too. You need to stop confusing Sedition with, “politics.” The destruction of the GOP will NOT end Conservatism. Only Cultish Propaganda, Sedition, and Anti Americanism.
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Your thoroughness, sensitivity and diligence is truly impressive, Jake. This may sound bizarre but, once you’ve seen one beheading, you’ve seen them all. I mean that, as a younger man, I would look at such videos, telling myself I had a responsibility not to look away. But, after one, I never saw anything that edified me any further. Psychotic medieval murderers are no different, from one video to the next. What I have learned is that such disturbing images do stay with you and have a way of coming back into your head at the worst possible moments. They can sour the quality of your life. I will not look, but trust the sources I have already come to trust. That is enough for me now.
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@REF0202 : You accuse Jake of attacking M Traitor Green, but you are confusing statements of facts with, “attacks.” Perhaps you only see them as attacks because you don’t like the truth? You state that telling the truth about her will only make her supporters switch off. Yet, here you are, listening to the facts, getting angry and engaging with a lengthy comment. You are the evidence to the contrary.
But, let’s try some basic logic and see if you can stand back from your passions for a moment? If supporters of MTG are watching this channel, going to continue voting for her, blocking all aid to Ukraine and supporting anti-Ukraine propaganda, then surely Jake has lost nothing if the viewers who support Putin withdraw from his channel?
Why would they be here in the first place? Knowing this channel is dedicated to educating and informing the world about the true situation in Ukraine and Russia and to the support of Ukraine’s victory in this war, why would they want to add to Jake’s viewing figures and make the YouTube algorithm more inclined to recommend his channel to new comers?
See how none of your talking points make any sense in the real world?
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David Hatchell : Normals stopped reading you, when it was apparent that you were being abusive and losing your, “shit,” that you gave away, for, “nothing.” Calm TF down, son. You KNOW Trump’s guilty. the question is, why don’t you care? And, that’s because you HATE Dems MORE than you love America. Propaganda did that to you. That, and the fact that you actually gave MONEY, and, “feel,” stupid admitting you were wrong; on top of your racism, that is . . . Smh 😉
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Think about it, people? If this is NOT a CONSPIRACY between Left AND Far Right, what is? Are you telling me that NO SENIOR COP, or politician, or News Anchor in this video has actually EVER looked up what, “defund the police,” ACTUALLY MEANS???
Literally EVERYBODY wants the cops to fight crime, detect crime and prevent crime, right? Literally EVERYBODY would prefer it if cops DIDN’T have to be social workers, psychiatric nurses, body guards for corporate goons, or debt collectors turning people out of their homes for the banks, right? They can’t ALL NOT KNOW what, “defunding the police,” actually means??? They HAVE TO BE FAKING IT??? 🤷♂️
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That works 👍 I hope they prosecute the, “news,” companies that spread this LIE of the, “steal?” Fox cast doubt on the election over 700 times, according to Conservative analysts. Even though they KNEW it was a LIE! We used to hunt down and HANG propagandists and traitors after WWII! Now we let them broadcast on American soil and give them shares in the company?! It’s NOT a, “free speech,” issue, when someone screams, “fire!” in a packed theatre, and gets to watch people DIE in the chaos they caused! It’s time to hold, “news,” anchors ACCOUNTABLE for their SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACIES! ✌️
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This type of lying to millions HAS TO BE OUTLAWED! It’s NOT a, “free speech,” issue, when you scream, “Fire!” in a packed theatre and get to sit back and watch people DIE in the ensuing panic! I’m not suggesting that we HANG propagandists, like we did after WWII. But, it has GOT TO be made illegal?! It’s killing Americans, half of which are on the side of Putin right now! Propaganda has to be outlawed. It is in the UK, and they have no free speech problems. Quite the opposite. They have the worst gutter press. But, even they are NOT allowed to lie dangerously, and call themselves, “news.”
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What a superb creation! How can I help?
I will support this in any way I can. My pro-tip would be, rather than stressing what it’s not; rants, rudeness, cruel or illegal commentary, (all stuff that defensive businesses will focus on) stress what it is: Professionalised, clear, coordinated, categorised, factual, distinguishing between demonstrable facts and unproved personal experiences, giving access to personal reviews whilst clearly stating what they are, and also offering follow up information such as court records, ombudsman findings, etc.
That dichotomy you’re pointing to is (to me) simply about categorising. It sounds very much like you are developing your policies positively with these things in mind.
My suggestion would be to have a published policy about how you work, one that evolves over time - and clearly states that it will - and, perhaps, a constitution which states your ultimate goals.
For example, are you hopeful that such a database would pressure governments to create departments that coordinate and pursue bad businesses in the way you collate information? Do you want an independant resource for protecting consumer interests? Do you just want a reliable resource for everyone to use, so they can check on business before spending their money?
Additionally, have you spoken to Which? Magazine? If you are based in Britain, I can envisage countless possibilities for a fruitful collaboration there?
I don’t doubt that you will have already addressed almost all, if not all, of the issues I’ve raised here with yourself and your colleagues, Kieth. But, I just get excited about the possibilities for such projects and the benefits that the consumer stands to gain in the long run.
Do you have a YouTube channel? If not, you should definitely consider setting one up under the name of the website/organisation itself. Even if it starts with little more than weekly updates about how the project is going, what you need, successes and failures, and maybe addressing one specific topic of the week, each week?
Wishing you every success, I will take a look at your web resources and support in any way I can. That won’t be much, but collectively, we’re mighty. Godspeed, Keith.
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Can I just remind Americans, that a, “cop,” without ANY markings, to distinguish them as a, “cop,” is not a cop. That’s just the law, and you don’t, “legally,” have to listen to them, let alone, “obey,” them. Don’t take any risks, but be sure to get visual documentation. If you can identify an unmarked cop, after they’ve been doing their cop stuff, after the fact, then you own that person . . .
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I am a lifelong (well, actually, about 20 years) conservative. These days, that makes me a Democrat by default, voting for nothing more than the preservation of that right to vote and have that, “vote,” MEAN something still.
Cheney was always a little too far out on the right wing ledge for my tastes, back in the day when the Republicans had a party and not a cult, or a collection of racist criminal grifters. Imagine that? A conservative who found Liz Cheney too right wing!? Yes, there really was a time when that was a plausible sentence to write!
I am filled with admiration for her eloquence and the many quotable moments in that speech, as well as the well chosen historical allusions she brought to bear upon the basic argument for democracy itself.
Most of all, I love the fact that she stood like a rock in the face of trump’s crimson tide, unyielding as actual human blood washed through the American democratic system, while countless unnecessary deaths were caused by a chaotic response to Covid, the encouragement of racist attacks and the appalling capitulation to Al Kaida, when trump released THOUSANDS of their worst offenders in return for a deal they did not honor, and which we all knew they wouldn’t, just so he could attempt to take credit for ending the war in Afghanistan.
I do hope to hear her words repeated in news, literature and other art forms to come. They were important. She reminds us all of the very foundations upon which we stand, and the very reason I can write these words to you, without fear of later having my devices searched and being punished for writing them, as they are in Beijing and Moscow, simply for not backing the powers that be in word and deed.
She is smart enough to know her own importance in this historic moment. And she has squeezed every last drop of juice out of that moment, with a speech that gives all thinking people pause.
Wherever you are in the free world, for good or ill, America is the foundation upon which your freedom stands. If that democracy falls, so will they all. This means that you, wherever you are, have a legitimate dog in this fight, and you thus have every right to make yourself heard in this debate. We must never forget that this is only because our democracy still stands . . . “if you can keep it?” . . .
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Leonaza7 : Under, “Law,” it should lead to the quashing of his conviction. But, America doesn’t do, “law,” anymore. Just ask the president? He does whatever and gets away with it. Nowadays, it’s all, “emotions,” in America. The loudest voice wins. Justice be damned. I genuinely would not be surprised if they hung BOTH suspects, side by side, “to be sure they got the right one.” So long as the Texans get to, “feel,” OK with it, that’s all that matters in America now . . . Smh ✌️
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@KimChilds75 : For the family of that trump supporting dead cop, there must be a lot of confusion and anger, to add to their grief and shock, right? If only that reasonably well educated, reasonably privileged, reasonably middle class family had access to the TRUTH? If only they’d known that, “respectable,” “news,” outlets were blatantly lying to them? You know, after World War II, they hunted down propagandists. Many of whom, the Japanese ones, committed suicide. But they captured Lord Haw Haw, a Brit, who broadcast lies for the Nazis, and trolled The Empire from the comfort of his Berlin studio. They tried him and HUNG him. Nowadays, they broadcast on AMERICAN SOIL, from QAnon, to Fox, from Parlour to ACTUAL NAZIS! And they give them shares in the company, and bonuses for insurrections! Are we not BEYOND issues of, “Free Speech,” when someone screams, “Fire!” in a packed theatre and people DIE??? I’m telling you, America! Unless we outlaw fake news, we are only at the start! It’s time we put a STOP to traitors broadcasting on American soil!
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Big-G NY. : Well, the Texans, “believe,” Trump, right? 🤔 Cruz’s dad helped kill Kennedy, according to Trump, right? And Cruz’s wife is, “ugly,” so that disqualifies him for political office, or something, according to Trump, right? . . . Trump is just casual with his cruel, vain, stupid, lies. WTF, America??? . . . SMH
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Jeff M : Much as I wish I could believe that; much as I wish I could be nicer to you (because you strike me as a decent, likeable person), you are IN DENIAL! Trump and his family will go to JAIL, as soon as he loses his, “protected,” presidential status. Which means he will, “rat out,” ALL of his conspirators, many of which are sitting in, “judgement,” of him now! The have RAMPED up the stakes, SO FAR, SO QUICKLY, that they simply have NO ALTERNATIVE! Power FOR LIFE! When Trump completes his THIRD TERM, he will hand over to Ivanka, so as to remain bullet proof, along with the rest of his CRIMINAL FAMILY! Look at ALL the charges, just WAITING for Justice, THAT WE KNOW OF? Just ONE, single example: It was PROVED, in COURT, that the Trump family’s, “charity,” was a SCAM, from which they have been, “routinely steeling from defenceless, needy children and US Veterans.” That Trump Foundation is NO LONGER A THING, SHUT DOWN BY THE COURT, and its remaining assets, still in the hands of a US JUDGE, FFS!!! ANYONE would go to jail for THAT! And, I count over 30 SERIOUS OFFENCES, waiting for Trump on the other side. They just CANNOT let that happen! Your Republic is OVER!
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@alexsin4821 : Jake is generally very careful to avoid getting into the hornet’s nest of the divisive American political landscape, (I hope he won’t mind me speaking for him, here?) though followers of his work can discern that he comes from a place of putting country before party politics and his love of democracy is why he’s here, doing this. So, if you’re hoping for a partisan takedown of any particular characters in the chamber during this speech, I think you’re barking up the wrong tree.
However, I hasten to add that I do NOT assume that this is what you’re seeking. I too would be interested to hear an impartial discussion on what it means to have such a bipartisan chamber (particularly at Christmas; having something of a, “Christmas miracle,” flavour to the whole proceedings to see such unity between Reps and Dems on ANY issue) and what the implications of that are for the future, as Ukraine turns from war to reconstruction, once the Crimea is set free? Jake has discussed the practical side of the recent midterms, doing so in terms of whether support for Ukrainian relief and military packages will be helped or hindered. And his analysis was most concise (unlike my comment; sorry for that😉).
He does have a lot to offer in this area, but he is rightly careful to keep his discussions fact based and as, “apolitical,” as humanly possible. After all, most of the money he makes from his efforts go to Ukraine (you can check out his recent video identifying some of the charities that will safely get your contributions to the Ukrainian war effort, or to civilian relief charities) goes to charity. He would not provoke supporters from either side of the isle into leaving his channel unnecessarily, by criticising individuals in Senate or Congress, without a very good reason.
I’m sure you get my gist? . . .
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Not in this case, though. “Without the possibility of parole,” means exactly that. There is no mechanism by which his sentence can be reviewed, save by appeal and even then there’s no hope of reviewing that aspect of the sentence, only the safety of the conviction on the basis of new evidence or, “by reason of insanity,” which has already been rejected. The Parkland shooter will never breathe free air again, and I cannot imagine a worse sentence in America. Death row drags on for many years with the sword of Damocles hanging over your head, but you have special isolation to protect you from the prison population, which this criminal will not get. His fate is sealed unless there is a change in fundamental law in the USA, which is not going to happen because prison populations are tied into America’s economic model too deeply. A massive free labour market for the government to exploit, making everything from licence plates to window glass. That’s an entire 10% of America’s population, btw.
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@jenvicinity9143 : They literally are, aren’t they? They declared against the Republic, voting to overturn a democratic election DURING an Insurrection! Combine that with their racism, their Qult of personality, the LIE of their founding myth, their rejection of science, rationality, intellectuals and reason, with an entire propaganda wing behind them, spreading Sedition in a manner that we literally used to execute people for within living memory, and you’ve got a Fascist Qult that is so certain that they’ll NEVER win a democratic election again that they’re openly suppressing the vote and taking it away from minorities as we speak! It’s even a Federal Crime in Georgia to bring people WATER when they’ve been cuing to vote all day in the baking heat! In all but name, they are already Fascists. Nothing they do will be too low for them now. It’s them or us. There’s NEVER a third alternative with Fascism ✌️
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@joshmoonXY : I am forced to agree. It’s not about racism or sexism when you see a character that you have come to know over years of fandom being altered in gender or race. If we had been given Toni Stark as Iron Woman 10 years ago, everyone would be asking, “why?” In the same way, this show has turned out to be bad, but largely due to terrible writing. Galadriel is represented as being bitchy, permanently angry, hostile and disloyal in this. That’s NOT the Galadriel Tolkien created. In the same way that he didn’t create any black halflings or dwarfs, simply because he’d spent a LIFETIME lovingly creating a mythical world that was based on ancient Norse, Celtic and Germanic myths. If people would be offended by Robert Downey Jr playing Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Malcolm X or Gandhi, are we not allowed to be equally disconcerted by ancient Northern Europeans being misrepresented? Does the history from which Tolkien’s myths were culled not count for anything? It seems an unfair way to want to have it both ways. And it’s deeply devious and bad faith to write off all criticism as being, “racist,” out of the gate.
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@avgjoe5969 : I agree that it is unconscionable to even consider giving up Crimea, unless America agrees to give Manhattan Island to Russia, or France gives them Bordeaux, or perhaps we should just give East Germany back to Russia? But, that’s not what he was saying. We don’t get Crimea back into Ukrainian hands by blocking our ears and shouting, “Lah, lah lah!” either.
People will argue for it and try to put pressure on, especially as the possibility of a negotiated peace grows. The only way we prevent that is by being ready to martial our arguments and and show resolve in the face of people like the East German holdouts he was talking about, who are trying to disrupt western support for Ukraine all the time.
We have to know who in the west might undermine Ukraine in this way are, why they’re doing it and what their real agendas are.
Crimea is CRUCIAL to Ukraine, or Russia has won! And they will always be able to justify their terrorism if they get such appeasement out of the west. So, prepare yourself by learning what’s going on, rather than being too quick to accuse people of appeasement, when they’re not the ones you need to worry about.
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@u2mister17 : You want me to come out of retirement? Not on your nelly, ma’am. I’m content with my fat stacks of cash, paying my fair share of taxes, working with my conservative colleagues at the Lincoln Project to make Donny’s demise a more, “emotional,” experience for him and his Qults, and generally being whip-smart, happy and handsome, thanks 😊. I know, I know. You’re thinkin’, “How am I supposed to troll people, when all this guy does is troll the trump trolls?” Maybe you should get a better, “job,” huh, Karen? 😋
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T Wright : Actually, I thought this was the most revealing and, “defining,” moment of Trump’s whole presidency? This proves that Trump’s fans fake their, “belief,” in Trump. Otherwise Alabama (Trump Country) would have taken emergency measures, right? Certainly, before the Weather Service corrected him? But, they, “did,” NOTHING. Proof, if proof were needed, that Trump’s Trolls live in the Land Of Fake Believe. So long as he remains greedy and a racist, they’ll pretend to, “believe,” anything he says. revealing, right? 🤔
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OY VEY SHUT IT DOWN : Trump GAVE himself $1.5 TRILLION DOLLARS in his PERMANENT Tax Break, despite his, “claims,” of SUCH, “success”? COUNT THAT! $1.5 TRILLION DOLLARS, for Real Estate Developers, when there was NO economic crisis??? And he gave CONSIDERABLY MORE in UNNECESSARY, PERMANENT, breaks to his pals! While YOUR tax break will END in a little over a year, but the Mid Terms will be over, by then, so YOU won’t MATTER. So, don’t you DARE WHINE to us about the, “economy,” about which YOU, clearly, have NO UNDERSTANDING, which is run by BANKERS AND WALL STREET; NOT Trumpski.
You are SO, LITERALLY, CLINICALLY THICK, for trusting Trump, that you are TREASONOUS and don’t even KNOW IT! Or, you’re just being PAID by China or Russia, to LIE? . . . SMH . . .
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BB : It’s a DEBT TRAP. People working three rubbish jobs, on zero hours contracts is NOT “success.” EVERYBODY owes money: Their HOMES, their BUSINESSES, their EDUCATION, their HEALTHCARE, their CARS, etc, etc. This “prosperity” is an ILLUSION, and people are PANICKING because they are SO IN DEBT! Hitler Got to the top, BECAUSE of poverty. Trump is using DEBT in the same way, while America “looks” prosperous on paper. EXACTLY the same way he RUINED his businesses! SMH
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I know what changed their minds. Wanting to get back to work, reopen their businesses, and get their kids back to school. So, then they groped for an, “excuse,” in the way they’re used to doing, like when they’re being racist, or anti-democratic. I predicted that Putin’s Anti-Vax propaganda would fall flat as a DIVIDE AMERICA tactic, because the here and now greed of trump’s Qult always overcomes anything else. “New science?” My ass! New financial problems, brought on by a chronic Fox habit, more like. Still, if they’re starting to learn the cost of science denial and fact-murder, I’m all for it. And, maybe there will be tacit support for vaxing from the Alt-Wrong, who’s base are literally dying out? 👍
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wongralvju : What they are REALLY supporting is their sense of, “victimhood.” A LOT of them ARE just interested in issues of race, guns and TEMPORARY tax relief; but the rest just feel like the, “elites,” are trying to take away something they want, simply because they, “disapprove.” Trump IS an abject IDIOT, but he is a CONSUMMATE Con Artist, who is VERY GOOD at “taking the temperature” of groups, and he is exploiting their anger and vulnerabilities, for all he’s worth. But, a lot of people are seeing through him, now.
Consider this: there is a difference between how people respond to polls, on the phone, or talking to someone with a clip-board, in FRONT of their friends, families or employers; when they KNOW that what they, “say,” could cause trouble, compared to what they will ACTUALLY DO at the voting booths. Just LOOK at the, “safe,” states of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc? There weren’t enough, “liberals,” (whatever the hell they are?) to vote out the incumbent GOP in those states? Yet, IT HAPPENED!
This is WHY polls are so often unreliable: “Don’t believe what I say, believe what I DO.” The Trump cult is dying, being worn down by CONTINUAL REVELATIONS of CORRUPTION. I don’t think those figures represent much more than words. What do you think? . . .
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@caitieeeee : MSNBC have never made any secret of their declared position. Ever since Fox became a thing, MSNBC made a decision, very publicly, to counter Fox’s openly political narrative and speak from a centre left position to balance against Fox. They don’t pretend to be like CNN, just objective news. The difference again is that, when they make errors, they announce it and apologise, whereas Fox needs to be taken to court and then gives the most mealy mouthed not-apology it can get away with. MSNBC may argue from a centre left position in its analysis, but they never lie, nor is their basic journalism biased. Fox will ignore entire stories simply because they don’t, like,” the facts, nor can they, “spin,” them. The other major difference is that Fox is ultimately driven by profits and will reject family values, standards and even truth, just to get the audience up, whereas MSNBC are purely driven by what they see as ideological necessity. That is why you can be an unbiased journalist and still get a good job at MSNBC but that would be an impossibility at Fox.
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@laurentsaint-laurent3659 : Well, it seems to me, these are the dumbest of times . . . AND they could get worse? . . . I mean, if it hadn’t been for 50 injured cops and the deaths, we’d all be laughing at how ridiculously childish, un thought out and entitled the GOP’s attempt at a Coup was, on the 6th of January, right? But, then again, that’s exactly what they said about the Beer Hall Putsch. I wouldn’t be surprised if Donny (has a ghost help him while he) writes a book in jail, called, “My Struggle: Why I’m Such A Victim.” If he makes babbling speeches instead of being cross examined at his trials? Because his biased judge is intimidated by the thugs in the courtroom? History repeats itself, according to Cicero. The first time is tragedy. The second, farce . . .
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@laurentsaint-laurent3659 : Oh, yeah . . . I think they’ll at least try to make America stupider again, if for no other reason than when the Phantom Of The Opera goes nuts in the final real of the movie, when his mask was yanked off? All pretence is gone, and the monster beneath is revealed, unable to play the innocent, or appeal to our better natures. They can no longer lay any pretence at being a political party, when they’re lead by an avowed anti-political out and out fascist? We’re so jaded, that we’re all sitting around, wondering if Franco / Mussolini / Hitler is going to make a comeback after his Putsch attempt, and even if that could happen after being convicted of several felonies. Under our current laws, it couldn’t, but since when have the GOP respected our Constitution or our laws? So, yeah . . . I feel you. Maybe, what we should be doing is lighting the torches and issuing pitch forks?
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You look a little out of sorts in this video. Probably the weather? I do hope you are looking after yourself?
As to the rebellion discussion I simply say this: I find I can agree with neither side on this debate. Thatcher was paraphrasing Lincoln’s, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” As I argued months ago, the Tories are paralysed by indecision, delaying an election in the vane hope that things might just get better, despite the fact that, as I predicted, things have gotten far worse for them.
To put it as succinctly as possible, in the hope that we do not lose sight of the main issues here: When your, “flagship legislation,” is a bill to illegally persecute THE most vulnerable people on Earth, you have a problem with morality and are simply unfit for office.
Neither side in this debate represents the views of the majority of the British people. The, “manner,” in which an asylum seeker reaches the country should be irrelevant to their legal status AS an asylum seeker. They either are asylum seekers or they are not. What’s next? Rejecting claims on the basis of the colour of shirt they wear?
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Candor spot : Huh? . . . You’re saying that, “Fairstein,” made a decision to, “go beating people up in the park”??? Or, is your grammar so AWFUL that you just can’t make a coherent Conspiracy Theory up quick enough, to cover for these corrupt A-Holes? Of COURSE they ALL, “agree with the exoneration,” . . . NOW . . . Because it’s been PROVED that they framed up these kids, and probably some of them even, “believed,” they had the right people, because they were over zealous, badly trained, prejudiced, THICK little A-Holes, unfit to wear a badge. And, like ALL of the swamp rats that crawl back out of the sewer, they don’t CARE who looks bad in this series, just so long as they can cover for themselves. NOT suing, NOT asking for an apology, NOT even prepared to challenge the producers themselves, but just whining on CNN, because they are REAL news and they KNOW that Fox would lend them no credibility, WHATSOEVER. I have NO sympathy for, “cops,” who COULD have helped to clear these kids, at the point that THEY KNEW they were wrong, but instead, waited until LONG after they were freed, and ONLY after THEIR part in this Judicial DISASTER has been pointed out to the world, to say a God Damned WORD . . . Sorry, but, F**k him, and the horse he rode in on, OK, son? . . . Smh
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@terryr7622 : Trump invented Cancel Culture. “Lock her up,” was already old BEFORE trump took office, remember? Isn’t having your own colleagues Primaried, just for disagreeing with trump, Cancelling? Not to mention the giant attempt to Cancel democracy on the 6th? Both by the Senate, who knew the election was sound, and by the Qult outside, attempting to violently tear down the Republic! The ultimate Cancellation! And now, because they know they can no longer pretend to be anything other than fascist, they are attempting to cancel as many minority votes as they can, by reducing the number of ballot boxes to ONE per county, ALL in privileged neighbourhoods, reducing the number of mail in ballots, and shrinking the time for votes to happen; ALL whilst attempting to make it a FELONY to expand enfranchisement! So, don’t talk to me about private businesses exercising their right to, “cancel,” the fascists who use their businesses as a platform to spread racist lies and propaganda. Stop blaming the Dems for the GOP bringing that on their own heads? It wasn’t even THEM!
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Just remember, we cannot afford one moment of complacency. Trump, his family and the entire Cabinet are ALL facing jail time, and they know it. There’s literally NOTHING too low or outrageous for them to pull on America. Not one thing. The only thing that will give them pause is whether we allow it or not. Now that they’ve lost the Postal Service fight, you’re going to see a string of GOP members deserting trump (some, going for the FBI lifeboats) but, the more certain their defeat looks, the more DESPERATE they will get. What would YOU DO, to avoid a life sentence AND an appearance in every child’s history book, as America’s worst traitor? Times that by psychosis and no conscience, and you’re getting close. The fight is on. It’s the fight of your lives. Don’t let up ✌️👍
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Meg Smallman: And, people in the, “court,” were falling asleep, because they know the, “trial,” is RIGGED. When the, “Jury,” has the Defendant’s CONSPIRATORS sitting on it, who have ALREADY ANNOUNCED their Not Guilty, “Verdict,” what can we expect? This, “Trial,” is as RIGGED as the 2020, “elections,” already are. Banning witnesses and evidence, is no different to discounting your votes. The Republic is OVER, America . . . Smh
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I’m glad, personally, that you are sticking with this coverage. I too would love to hear a solicitor’s views on this. I wonder if the popular YouTuber and barrister, The Black Belt Barrister, would be willing to share an opinion with you?
Any other government, including previous conservative governments, would have kicked her out of their party by now and removed the whip. She should be stripped of her title. Her best, “defence,” so far has been, “Let me remind you, lying to the media is not a crime.” I only wish that journalist had had the presence of mind to respond, “Can you see how that will make no difference to the people who lost loved ones?”
Indeed, I would have asked her what she hoped to achieve at all, by appealing to the public and doing this interview in the first place? In the last few years I have been genuinely shaken by the moral degeneracy pervading public life. Not just appalled by the government’s criminality and callous disregard for human life, but chilled to the bone that such people have power over us, when they are so clearly unfit to run a summer fait, let alone any organisation with the power to alter the lives of others.
Our country is out of control. And it’s frightening.
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Jason Smith: I have Christian faith, which is WHY I no longer subscribe to "religion". Christ never condemned sinners, but saved them. Interestingly, the ONLY exception to this rule, that you'll find in the Bible, is when Christ met the crooked church leaders, whom He UTTERLY CONDEMNED as, "Serpents," "White washed coffins," and "The harshest judgement is reserved for you, who pervert the Word and mislead the God's followers for your own gain." That last sentence is something of a paraphrase, but believe me; I have watered it down, if anything. These con-artists have condemned themselves to reap the wages of sin; which is "Death".
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People really NEED to get over the MYTH of Putin’s, “smarts.” He NEVER, “planned,” to get bogged down in an un-winnable war, either in Ukraine or on the Global Markets. He might just as well have issued a statement saying, “I’m losing and I’m getting desperate already.” And he’s going to find that the very same levels of corruption and slow reaction time that he’s fostered in his goons is what comes to bite him on the ass, as the gas barons cut themselves a few, “back room,” deals with the west (if they haven’t started already?) knowing that they need to foster good relations with the west, for after Putin’s gone.
His recent, “naughty list,” was a joke. You can’t turn the heat up when your dial is already on 100%! All he did there was make a coded plea to China by adding Taiwan to his list. And their response has been, “This is between y’all.” Putin is THICK. And he’s proved it every step of the way! 🤣
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@chakra5175 : My guess would be that it was laser guided for the final part of its journey, so as to ensure it hit the balloon, not the tech underneath. I also think that the missile will have been specially tinkered with, specifically for this mission, with a forward direct blast of tiny chaff fragments, capable of creating thousands of punctures and tears in the ballon in the immediate blast radius, without damaging anything outside of 20 feet or so nearly so much. I’m all but certain that the payload will have been specially put together with the advice of their top military physics boffins. And that will be why they decided on a very specific location to shoot it down, too. So they can maintain their jamming signals all the way down until it hit water, going to a very specific depth from which they are confident they can recover the device without losing whatever’s in it. Something built to withstand storms and extreme pressure changes, should be waterproof enough to withstand the pressures of relatively shallow waters. And, if they’ve successfully jammed any, “auto-self-destruct,” signals the whole time, it might be very revealing? My Apple Watch can withstand 50 meters of water without blinking, and they make those in China, so I’m pretty confident that whatever they find will be intact.
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Donny invented Cancel Culture. “Lock her up,” was already old, before Donny got in the White House, remember? How about having your own GOP members Primaried? He was doing that as soon as he got in. And Cancelling Democracy on Jan 6th, along with 5 lives? Murder is the ULTIMATE Cancel Culture! The GOP are just as bad as Donny now, making the theme of their, “Boo hoo, I’m a Victim,” Naval Gazing conference. Hypocrisy is not a strong enough word! They’ve Cancelled logic!
And, why are we letting Donny use letter heads that claim he’s POTUS? That’s a serious fraud! I would go to jail for that! Especially to influence politics, or take donations? He can claim what he likes, but written letter heads are Fraud! Lock his criminal Orange ass up!!! ✌️👍
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Good observation. “I’m fine, so? . . .” Look at Edward Gibbon’s The Decline & Fall Of The Roman Empire, to see that we’ve known this since the 1700’s; that clinging to the old ways (“The ways of our fathers”) was the very REASON Rome fell. Not with a bang, “but with a long drawn out sigh,” as Simon Schama put it. Any historian will tell you that Carlson’s fear of change is a recipe for disaster. In fact, THE recipe for disaster. Innovation, adaptation and growth were the reasons for Rome’s success; followed, centuries later by indolence, laziness, debauchery and a growing xenophobia, which was how it all ended. He’s literally preaching for doom, but is too ignorant to know that every historian who hears his words is going 🤦♂️
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Historically, Labour gave up after Neil Kinnock and started a concerted shift to occupy the centre ground, which meant a shift toward the right, culminating in Tony Blair’s brand of Tory lite. Their problem ever since has been a division between the rank and file socialists and the Westminster centrists which has created leaders who vacillate between the two sides, often on the same day, causing them to look weak and fumble their advantages, often at crucial moments.
The difference today is that the Tories have the same problem now. And it’s new to them, so they don’t even have an internal coping strategy. Not that they ever lost their right wing instincts of the Thatcher era. It’s actually that they started flinging open their doors to extremists and panderers and, frankly, any short term vote winner, regardless of tomorrow’s consequences. And forget, “ideology.” That’s now just their fig leaf of window dressing used to justify widespread corruption, incompetence and waste. Hence Neo-Liberalism has gained such traction as it guarantees the worst, most corrupt and stupid people will grasp at power in just the same way that a new casino with no security guarantees a vast criminal element will move in. Liz Truss seemed to be the peak expression of Neo-Lib madness, but we’ve gradually learned that Rishi Sunak is no better, possibly worse.
The upshot being, while Labour have the capacity to destroy themselves in the manner they have always done, the Tories are in a Cold Civil War just now and they actually need a period in the wilderness to fight it out in hot terms.
They have to learn that even the brown skinned brown shirt is still an overt racist in the end and Brits don’t tolerate that stuff. That stealing national resources for friends and family only works when the electorate is not actively sinking into poverty and clearly able to blame the right people for putting them there. And that putting genuinely stupid people in charge of all three main offices of government is not amusing to anyone, but genuinely alarming.
Starmer will recover from this one, unless he actively works at screwing up.
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@classickruzer1 : And you wrote that on your, “Freedom Phone,” right? Sold to you from the GOP’s website? Coz’ they support, “Chiynah’s,” economy, by selling you their manufactured, imported Spyware devices, bristling with apps cameras and mics that you cannot see and CANNOT turn off! You have Winnie The Pooh OWNING every contact you’ve made to you Klan Lodge, just so you can unlock Parlour and whatever other Hate Group you daren’t join, but love to chat with. 🤦♂️ Karen never knows she’s a Karen, does she? 🤷♂️🐑 . . . 🤣
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@jacksonpaul167 : If you wish to, “judge everyone equally,” you cannot do so through the unending lens of history, without finding cases to support any bias you prefer. You must judge them on present policy, whether they are a democracy and whether they uphold the rule of law, right now. And by that measuring stick, Russia is clearly the gangster nation, breaking the laws of war and of settled diplomatic agreements. Even if you held both sides in equal contempt, you cannot accuse Ukraine or America of mass, routine theft, torture, rape, and murders so big they have to dig graves that can be seen from space! Russia is at fault by any and every reasonable measure. If you cannot accept that, it is because you choose to abandon logic and reason, NOT because of any fair comparison or sense of conviction. And, whether you do it for money, for perverse trolling pleasure, or because you just want, “your side,” to win, you are displaying a low level of intelligence as well as a morally bankrupt account. You know I’m right.
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@elizabeth_777 : I’ve seen Dr Reich’s lectures on YouTube. He sure isn’t right about everything. But he’s another man who encourages people to read and think for themselves. I must challenge your assertion that Jake would, “want to stop immigration,” though. He has said nothing of the sort in this or any previous video that I know of, and I haven’t missed any of them for at least three years now.
Jake is showing you what the arguments are on both sides and the agendas behind them. He is discussing the difference between what politicians and pundits, “say,” and how their rhetoric does not match their actions. And he’s adding his analysis about what motives they have to keep migration (illegal and otherwise) a live issue in the minds of voters.
The fact is that continuous migration is the very model that built America and made it so strong in the first place. The numbers are in and the facts checked. There is a direct correlation between population increase and economic success, so long as those demographic injections of people consist of the very types of people that migration necessarily encourages. It is not the elderly and sick, by and large, but the young, strong and active people who migrate to democracies, away from oppression. The very sorts of people a nation needs: those who say no to theocracy or dictatorship and are willing to take enormous risks for the sake of freedom. Those are the same types of people who don’t waste their votes, once enfranchised, and who generate economic activity by working hard, having children and generating taxable incomes. The younger a modern population is (in the developed world) the better its chances of growth, both demographically and financially.
And America has sustained its edge over larger populations by constantly renewing its younger population, “artificially,” so to speak, through migration.
It is true that unchecked and unsupervised migration would create more problems than it solves. But I don’t know of a single politician in America who has ever called for, “open borders;” a phrase much abused by bad faith claims of the far right, referencing a Hillary Clinton speech in 2015 and taking her words out of context.
Sorry for going on, but I would hate to see Jake’s meaning misinterpreted. If nothing else, Jake is encouraging a broad audience to consider their civic responsibilities and to learn more about how their domestic politics is bound up with world affairs. And that’s a very good thing.
Slava Ukraine, my friend. 🇺🇦✌️
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Physics has one of the worst historical records for denial and holding back progress in science, but it isn’t talked about much. I would love to meet just one proponent of Inflation Theory who has taken the expansion of time into account, along with space, for instance? Tell them, “From a huge distance, space and baryonic matter looks tiny, so why shouldn’t time? Or don’t we believe in the direct connection between space and time, which is why we call it space-time since Einstein, anymore?” The best answer I’ve had so far is, “You just don’t get it.” But I can never persuade them to explain what I, “don’t get?”
Sooner or later, people will accept that Inflation never occurred at all, but only appears to have done so from our distant perspective, from the further away you are in time, just as space looks different, from the bigger the distance. It’s a set of category errors that actually reveals something interesting about how we grasp complex notions like Space-Time. It’s not intuitive, therefore it’s vulnerable to assumption and confirmation bias, because we can’t resist thinking about it in terms of our own, limited, experience.
In this case, complexity has taken such a deep hold on thinking about astrophysics that common sense is being left out of the equations.
What I’m certain of is that we need more scientists with the attitude of Sabine, who simply speaks without deference or emotion, but plainly and without fear of offence, though whilst being polite at the same time. She’s just interested in the facts, regardless of how people feel about them, or what the emotional investment is.
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They should legislate against being allowed to blatantly LIE to the people? This entire conspiracy is a lie! And it’s costing lives! We don’t let someone scream, “Fire,” in a packed theatre, watch the chaos and death that ensues, and walk away Scott Free? And, we’re learning that the whole riot was plotted from two weeks before. The organiser named names, before going into hiding! And all three of the people he named, had a meeting with trump, three days before the 6th, in which he HAD TO have given the green light! So, however ill conceived, idiotic, DEADLY and shambolic this, “event,” was, it was NOT, “spontaneous.” It was a planned and plotted Conspiracy, to have a COUP! And, every single one of these dweebs from trump on down to his Confederate Karen foot soldiers, needs a HARSH sentence! ✌️
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Sherrise Harris : It’s actually 36. Donny won 3. All of them very minor, and only one setting a citable precedent, regarding a governor who exceeded her authority, by extending the deadline for mail in ballots. But, even that case only took out a few hundred votes, half of which would have gone to trump anyway. The biggest case was heard by a judge in Philadelphia, by a judge who is a GOP member and also a member of the extreme right wing, “Freedom Caucus.” And, he dismissed the case as, “without merit,” and, “with prejudice,” which means they have no permission to appeal, or bring the same case to any other court. The judgements handed down, “with prejudice,” came up in every case which might have mattered. And don’t forget, the only people who tell you otherwise, are the same idiots who thought Donny was going to win. Now that the count is all but done, we’re seeing that Biden actually won a history making landslide. Joe has more votes than any president in America’s history, which is what most Americans (even conservatives, like me) call, “a mandate,” to rule 👍
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Moscow Mitch knows what’s coming at the impeachment. He’s preparing the ground. Senior GOP members are going to be forced to admit that the reason for the Insurrection, “The Steal,” ain’t real! They cannot refuse testimony, or take the 5th. And the cult of trump is going to hear from the mouths of Graham, Hawley, Cruz, Giuliani, and the trump’s, that they LIED to their cult! They gave up their liberty, their jobs, their futures and have criminal records, for a GOP LIE! Out of trump’s loser head!
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Moscow Mitch knows what’s coming at the impeachment. He’s preparing the ground. Senior GOP members are going to be forced to admit that the reason for the Insurrection, “The Steal,” ain’t real! They cannot refuse testimony, or take the 5th. And the cult of trump is going to hear from the mouths of Graham, Hawley, Cruz, Giuliani, and the trump’s, that they LIED to their cult! They gave up their liberty, their jobs, their futures and have criminal records, for a GOP LIE! Out of trump’s loser head!
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Nathaniel Williams : I’m a Conservative. I left the Republican Party, PRECISELY BECAUSE of those OBVIOUS LIES, like the one YOU just told. You don’t GET IT, yet, son. You just tried to convince people that ALA-FREAKIN’-BAMA is, “liberal”??? 😆 Come OOOHHHNNN??? Trumpski comes on TV and Twitter and SAYS things that are MEANT to be OFFENSIVE! Yet, you “blame” OTHERS for CAUSING the DIVISION??? Trump had a 20 POINT LEAD in Pennsylvania, son! He spent $ MILLIONS, came down there, sent the VP and sent his DAUGHTER and STILL LOST! He PUBLICLY TELLS America that he ONLY CARES about SOME of them and HATES the REST. Division is his Presidential STRATEGY, but YOU blame OTHERS??? That’s WHY you are LOOSING Conservatives, son. Because of your BLATANT LIES 🤣 😆 😂 🤣
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I just feel like, Womp Womp, to trump, Dobbs, and all the rest of these traitors. Trump invented Cancel Culture, trying to lock up his opponent, before he even got into office! Cancelling GOP members who disagreed with him, in Primary’s. And he tried to Cancel our Republic! If anyone, “cancelled,” Dobbs, it was Fox! Time they OWN their LIES!
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@randyweiss2748 : It’s a civil, not criminal, case. That comes later. And they will appeal, but first the trial must go ahead so they can determine who lost out and by how much, and who took part in the frauds. There were literally hundreds of frauds committed by the family (including trump himself) over a period of years. It seems the banks and insurance companies were the main victims of this, but I suspect there will be many individual businesses that will appear at the trial to claim damages?
Also, criminal charges may well come out of this, once trump’s appeals have all failed. But it does mean that in the next few years, there will be no, “trump,” name on any business in America and his entire organisation will go into liquidation. The end of trump? Certainly as a business man, yes. That’s the significance of this trial.
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teresa tall : Note: there are SO MANY, life long Republicans, from Cupp to Steve Schmidt in the media, from Mueller to Comey in law enforcement, and in business, like Jeff Besos, etc: And now they’re ALL meant to be, “of the left,” because they oppose Trump? If America can’t SEE that Trump is KILLING our Republic, it’s because they don’t WANT to. The GOP and Trump’s Cult WANTS a Russian Style, FAKE Democracy
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The privileged class can’t sell their Qult to you, unless they pretend to be working class. Seems, even when they’re sitting in an ivory tower, wearing a tailor made suit, after having attended Ivy League schools and still sitting on the silver spoon they were born with, up their asses, politicians and Alt-Wrong, “news,” anchors only have to say they’re, “working class,” for the very stupid to believe them? Funny old world, huh? ✌️
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dt05 : So, “Meanwhile,” is the new, “Whaddabout,” then, is it? . . . Yaaawwwnnnski. You kinda’ defeated your own, ahem, “argument,” son. “No sane American wants a bunch of illegal aliens,” etc, blah, hate, hate. That’s RIGHT, son. ALL politicians want, “control.” Find me ONE (JUST ONE!) Democrat politician, who is campaigning FOR, “Open Boarders” and I’ll vote Republican at the Mid Terms??? I Trumpy Promise. Nothing? . . . No one? . . . Read a BOOK, red neck 😆
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These Senators and Congresspeople need to campaign for, “Right to OWN,” not right to repair. The right to repair comes automatically with full and complete OWNERSHIP. When it’s yours you can modify it, reverse engineer it, change it, break it, REPAIR it, blow it TF up! With NO fear of consequence or negative recourse.
I’m a Brit, but as I’ve said before, if it happens in major American industries, there’s way more chance it can happen in the industries of little countries like mine, since America (like it or not) sets the world standard. That, “shift in culture,” starts in America.
So, working on that principle, “If I stop my brother from getting screwed, I too one day, may stop myself from getting screwed.” I have no, “rights,” in your country, but a letter to your representatives emailed from Britain, may well get someone’s attention? If for no other reason than it may surprise them to see that even the British are aware of the issue and disgusted by it, since it, “demoralises,” soldiers and could easily cost lives?
Since I’m an outsider, I’ll pick the politicians I don’t know so well (I already know that Elizabeth Warren doesn’t need convincing on this issue) because I know how to make myself sound, “influential,” and how to drop hints at having, “contacts,” in their area.
The terms, “fraud, waste and abuse,” and, “freedom,” will appear in my correspondence. And I will stick to the rule of brevity being the key to good communication (unlike this comment here) since the shorter and clearer the message, the better, so long as it contains the key points.
Thank you for your contributions to society, my friend. You are doing God’s work.
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Incidentally, America; did you know? Each time you Click on a troll’s name, to reply to their Trumpoganda, or Click on their Malware trap links, they get PAID. They aren’t all on the shell company payroll. Some of them are just SO mentally ill that they’ve spent the last 4 YEARS, speaking exclusively to people they, “hate,” on channels they, “hate,” trying to spread more DIVISION and, “hate.” True story ✌️
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@DougWedel-wj2jl : Every country on Earth has, “skeletons in their closet.” Which is why that is irrelevant to the here and now, and to the future. Your mistake is in holding democracies to the same standards as dictatorships. Democracies change leadership, progress toward new goals, develop new priorities, clean up their act in order to be accepted by the other democracies, change policies and priorities. Dictatorships never do. Bill Clinton was running things when Putin first buddied up to the west. It was a different world back then. But Putin has never changed, not once, not even slightly.
So, look at the records of the administrations if you want accurate context, instead of dredging through history for, “convenient,” references. Biden has always been a force for world peace (despite making mistakes) throughout his long service as a senator, VP and now, POTUS. Putin has never kept his word, always used bellicose language in diplomacy, murdered countless of his own people, banned personal and press freedoms and has invaded other countries with the soul intent of keeping them.
Now, rethink your analysis with the correct input-data and you’ll get a more helpful, truthful, conclusion.
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These fascists of the GOP have destabilised trust in our democracy world wide, let alone domestically, and now they have to admit they did it all for NOTHING! Because the cyber ninjas would rather get called shills and accused by Donny of everything under the sun, than go to jail for the rest of their lives, for committing Fraud, Conspiracy, Election Fraud, and 20 other serious offences! Rub their stupid, grasping, evil, anti-democratic noses in their mess! It’s the only way they’ll learn! ✌️
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We’re past the point that Trump’s Cult can pretend they, “believe,” in Trump. They’ve been brainwashed into HATING the Dems more than America’s enemies. They actively WANT the Republic to end, and to have a Dictatorship like Putin’s, where there is a FAKE, “Opposition,” under a single Party. If impeachment doesn’t end Trump, “elections,” sure as hell won’t, when they’re blatantly RIGGED. SHOW UP! Be at Trump’s Deposition! Impeachment is America’s last, best hope ✌️
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His insights are informative and valuable, but not always 100% right. Though his analysis of the facts are honest, factual and truthful, sometimes his conclusions are not spot on. For instance, “Fear is the new normal,” in his video’s title. I responded to that by asking, “Hold on? What’s, ‘new,’ about it?” Putin has always murdered his opponents, for more than 20 years now. He’s ramping up his consolidation of power moves right now, but it’s literally the typical way he has always done things.
Things began to look a bit, “new,” when the unusual levels of criticism were being levelled at him from senior figures inside his own country. But, Putin is literally restoring the Russia that was before his insanely misjudged war in Ukraine, probably in order to be in a, “safe,” position to pull his forces out of part or all of Ukraine without being deposed for, “weakness.”
Admiral Nielsen, I have noticed, has a tendency to see Russia through his NATO tinted lenses. That’s fine, as those lenses do have 20/20 sight and all, but they favour long term narratives, both forward thinking, and past analysis, which can be flawed when it comes to judging the facts in the moment.
And this is the sort of result I’m speaking of, where Putin’s purging of opponents is being judged as some kind of new phenomena, because NATO has always given Putin the benefit of the doubt, historically, and cannot bring themselves to admit that their policy of Appeasement is what lead to the Ukraine war in the first place. NATO and the UN made the same historical mistake over Crimea that the allies did with Hitler over The Sudetenland and other territories, hoping to buy peace at the cost of other people’s freedom.
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Upper Echelon Gamers : A lot to think about, there. And a very well put case, as ever. When we ask, where has this, “believe the victim,” culture come from? It’s worth remembering that, not long ago at all, there tended to be a dismissive, overtly suspicious response to serious allegations, where victims were routinely dismissed, with allegations of, “attention seeking,” “Gold Digging,” etc, heaped upon them. The, “believe the victim,” thing is a reaction to that. And, like all, “reactionary,” views, is inherently leaning too far in one direction. The counter weight of this popular tendency will, as these things do, probably balance out, until the pendulum settles in a more enlightened, balanced place. For that reason, as I so often do, I urge balance. Do not believe an allegation simply because it has been made; fair enough. But, do not allow that mindset to push you too far in the opposite direction. As you say, “impartiality,” is the key, and therefore, we should not assume that the allegation is false, either. I have yet to see someone who gained anything worth having, set against the backlash they’ve been through, by making false allegations of a serious, sexual, violence, or similar nature; and those who have, were usually unwell, or palpably, “hokey,” in some way, to begin with. True objectivity requires steadfastly treating both sides with equal respect ✌️
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KLOK KAOS : I see your point, regarding the sense of disenfranchisement and frustration that people feel, which can lead to people leaping onto the bandwagon simply because it’s the closest game in town, to the thing that really bothers them. The same reason we had lynch mobs, right? People were sick of the fact that there was no Law Enforcement, so they make a point, by hanging some hapless, juvenile horse thief. It’s an outlet for frustration, which only makes things worse, as they are all murderers, now; forced to stick together and cover for each other, no matter how much they come to loath one another.
The solution is simple: Objectivity. Fairness and balance are easily said, but not so easily achieved, though. Especially on websites that are designed to appeal to strong emotions. So, though the practical solution is simple, perhaps that just reveals another problem? That of self control, and setting aside ones emotions, in favor of evidence. Yet, we live in a world where even the news stations are appealing to our sense of outrage, anger, sympathy, etc. So, all that remains is to be aware of that, be your own person, and to keep in mind; when you find you’re swimming against the tide, that’s probably because you’re right ✌️
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Maria : Oh, WAKE UP, America! They are going to prove Trump’s guilt, after the GOP withholds witnesses and evidence, and breaks their oaths of office, and let Trump WALK anyway, because the Republic has FALLEN. Half the GOP are Implicated in Trump’s many crimes, and the Trumps are facing disgrace and JAIL, the very moment Trump loses his, “protected presidential status.” They can’t NOT FIX the next election! WHY are you KIDDING yourselves, America??? This DENIAL is pusillanimous and self-ruining! The Constitution was PROVED MEANINGLESS, when it REALLY COUNTS! You have a Putin Style Dictatorship now! Because SAT there, and DID NOTHING! Thanks for KILLING Democracy, and endangering the ENTIRE PLANET, America . . . SMH
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The whole thing needs to be fully outed at the Impeachment Trial! Their propaganda is the REASON the Insurrection happened! Rudy, Donny, Cruz, Graham, Hawley, must ALL be treated as hostile witnesses, and forced to state their, “evidence,” for, “believing,” in the, “steal,” under oath, before the watching world! Or, they can ADMIT that they KNEW it was all a LIE! That would do their Cult and Q fans a lot of good! And, witnesses cannot be Jurors, either! Making the odds of a Conviction increase! And, while we’re at it, let’s subpoena Fox anchors, and ask them why they cast doubt on the election OVER 700 TIMES, between Nov 7th and Jan 6th? Fox are guilty of Sedition!
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Chemicals, maybe? But everyone who KNOWS Putin says the same thing. Putin would only dare to use nukes if he thought he was personally safe. He’s looking for an off ramp, and they do have the doctrine of, “escalation to de-escalate,” so we should be ready. We must NOT fall into the trap of assisting Putin to, “save face,” at home, so he can pull out. He cannot win and he’s growing weaker by the day. We MUST make it cost him something like the whole of Crimea, so he cannot pretend any form of, “victory,” at home or abroad. If we want world peace, we must be willing to fight for it.
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The opposite, in fact. If there was ever a time to examine Limbaugh’s legacy, it’s now. Especially since trump awarded him the Medal Of Freedom a few weeks ago. His words were instrumental in the deaths of countless Covid Deniers and, having listened to a few random samples of the guy, as well as his more famous samples that made the news, I think it’s safe to say that he would have gleefully kicked the fans of other actually worthwhile people, in their grief? As I heard him do myself. Recently. So, without actually stooping to his level, let me say this. If merely discussing his legacy offends his fans, doesn’t that say more about him, than those doing the discussing? But, hey. Never let an opportunity to feel like a, “Victim,” go to waste, huh, trump fans?
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I have always appreciated your authenticity and have never, for a moment, considered that you would speak differently or seem and any different if I were to meet you face to face. Indeed, for me, that is part of your appeal and what keeps me coming back, whether I agree wholeheartedly with you or not on any given topic.
I looked up the video of the Margolyes interview, before finishing this video, to see what you were talking about. And I did feel I understood her point. We all feel genuine, heartfelt anger toward some people, especially politicians. Though we can be happy enough for our feelings to be known about us, by the public at large, we would not necessarily want to spit our bile into the face of that person, simply because the opportunity presents itself.
There are times when I feel I could cheerfully do actual physical harm to at least some of the politicians who literally laughed at us while we lost isolated loved ones during the Covid crisis and they partied on. Especially since I have learned about Boris Johnson’s attitude toward Covid as a natural way of killing off the old to make way for wastrels like himself. Their sheer callous disregard for all decency hurts all the more when I think of my father dying without me by his side.
But it is not just the fear of legal consequences that would restrain me if I were to bump into Johnson in bar. Nor, necessarily, my sense of responsibility to the people around us, just minding their own business and not wishing to witness any violent actions or language. It is merely my fundamental belief that I am better than him in every important respect, more capable of self control and measured language, that I believe would govern my actions overall.
I don’t think Margolyes betrayed any degree of hypocrisy so much as she simply expressed what she was thinking about the man, rather than willing to say to him. Smart people know that simple name calling merely fuels the confirmation bias of your enemies, making it too easy for them to dismiss you as, “just another hater,” or whatever, without ever thinking over what you said to them or why. She doesn’t care that people know (and, by extension, Jeremy Hunt knows) what she really thinks of him, but she is above confrontational abuse and I applaud her self restraint. Especially since it’s her, famous for speaking without apparent restraint.
Simply abusing the man would have done neither party any good, but could have done harm.
As to the BBC Radio 4 headquarters being a, “temple,” I am with you 100%. I see it as a soiled, somewhat sullied temple, badly in need of renovation and restoration to its former independence. But that’s a whole other conversation.
If you read all of this, thank you for your patience. I hope you can see the distinction I was making?
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EBAG tv : Make the most of it. After the Impeachment fiasco, even Trump’s allies won’t be allowed to challenge Trump’s comments. After proving Trump’s guilt, and then the GOP letting Trump walk, regardless, it will be completely clear that the Republic has fallen. It’s so cute, that people still think they will be allowed to, “vote,” in 2020, to get Trump out. Once out of office, he goes to jail, and all his dirty secrets will be in the public domain. What CHOICE do the Trumps HAVE? They HAVE TO RIG 2020, with Putin’s help! Only, they’re on the INSIDE this time, with access to ALL the levers of power and security. You ALREADY HAVE A DICTATORSHIP! It’s already OVER, America . . . You lost your Republic in a COUP, because there were enough haters and racists out there, who WANT a Putinista single party, FAKE Democracy. And, because you all thought your, “institutions,” could withstand a coup WITHOUT YOU! A decade ago, the Ukrainians got it. They filled the streets and brought their country to a standstill, until the dictator fled back to Moscow. America just watched the whole coup on CNN and, “did,” NOTHING! Maybe we deserve this? . . . Smh
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@cybele_m : Well, all of those chickens are coming home to roost at the midterms. As they get closer, and the GOP has to get more real, you’ll see more and more little upsets like this one, where people leap up and start saying, “but Whaddabout the rigged election thing?” I’m half surprised he didn’t just come out and say, “You weren’t supposed to believe that sh*t? We made it up, coz’ we can’t handle losing, or democracy. Didn’t you get the memo?” And that fissure we all expected to see right after the elections, during the recrimination period? We’ll finally get to see that in real time. At the midterms, FINISH THEM!
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@p3falien233 : “Oh look, Mr Putin, 20 bullseyes with one shot! If only our soldiers were like you! Then we wouldn’t be getting our asses handed to us, er . . . I mean, ‘winning,’ this war so slowly, er . . . did I say, ‘war?” I meant, ‘special operation,’ of course, and we wouldn’t be so broke that our boys are eating their fallen comrades on the battlefield, er . . . I mean . . . Oh, I don’t know what I mean anymore. Nothing is true, everything is fake, nothing makes sense, I’ll see myself to the gulag shall I?” 😂
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@tomiv2442 : Speaking as a Christian believer, I feel bound to say, you are not achieving anything good for any faith. Unsolicited and unqualified Bible quotes are received as patronising at best, alienating at worst. The quote alone does not, “speak for itself,” before you suggest it does. Nor do the words have any relevance to current affairs unless you qualify them with your own thoughts. Otherwise they are just the words of an apostle, roughly translated, from 2,000 years ago, giving specific advice to a specific church, which faced very specific and irrelevant issues to those faced by Ukrainian warriors or their supporters in the present day.
I say this BECAUSE I am a believer. I do not like to see Biblical quotations so abused. If you want to do good in the world, give some thought to the quotes you prefer, tell people how they pertain and to whom and to what. Then use them. A drive by quoting does no one any good. But it does the image of believers harm.
If you are sincere, do not answer with pride. Answer with thought. Or, ignore me altogether and let that be more eloquent than a flat quotation.
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@atlantisrising1864 : You read my mind. This is what political avoidance buys you as a citizen. Or, “moral absenteeism,” as I heard one political philosopher put it.
Whenever you next hear someone say, “Oh, I never get involved in politics,” just remind them of how deeply, “political,” that choice is. And your examples are plentiful. Show them what it’s done to the people of countries like Russia, Belarus, Iran, China, etc, that thought they could buy themselves some peace to live quietly while their politicians, “did stuff,” that was nothing to do with them. Now they all have real skin in the game.
If you’re not a fighting age male or a veteran, being drafted, you’re probably the mother, father, son or daughter of one. Now every Russian is losing real skin and bone and is outraged because Putin has broken his, “social contract,” with them. It’s almost impossible to explain to these people that THEY made this war, their dictatorship and the people who dominate their existence now. They have a generation of denial conditioning to break.
That’s why I would always urge everyone to understand: YOU, me and everyone you know of voting age (and even younger) ARE POLITICAL, whether you like it or not.
The only real question is whether you’re willing to take responsibility for steering that ship of state - a journey riven with pitfalls, disappointments and hard, thankless work - or whether you prefer to opt out of all that risk, relentless pushback, denial and intolerance, and to be chauffeur driven to the front lines of your doom? There is no third choice. That’s modern life and the price we pay for democracy.✌️
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@carolannhartley359 : I know you didn’t ask me but, for what it’s worth, I think that’s what the Braverman types have been looking for all this time. She’s seen how much hard cash and soft power Farage has gotten from the right wing Americans and she wants a piece of that pie, along with many other parvenus who’ve recently entered the party’s top echelons in the last decade.
If you check her Hansard record, she’s indistinguishable from Jim Jordan or Ted Cruz in all but place names, using deliberately baiting and divisive, even flatly insulting, language to describe her opponents from the dispatch box. Her policies don’t just reflect the American right, but mirrored them in noticeable particulars. She definitely has some Americans on her shadow advisory team, behind the scenes. Probably based in Tufton St.
And Truss ran straight for the Fox studios and into the arms of Steve Bannon as soon as she could flee across the pond, to give interviews and drum up book sales and connections with a longer shelf life than her career or her book.
That’s the, “conspiracy,” to watch for. As this is the window that the far right have been waiting for; Tory defeat at a record level. And their plans are ready to go, grabbing up as many jaded and vulnerable Tories as they can get, whilst getting support from the Eastern side of the map. Putin’s always got money to throw at disrupting western democracies, and Britain is high on his list.
Be vigilant.
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Literally true. Even Medieval Surfs NEVER had Plague Deniers or Anti-Leachers! Let THAT sink in! Back in the 90’s, we all thought the internet was going to revolutionise high speed information, making the average person degree level smart. But, that was before terms like, “confirmation bias,” “endorphin addiction,” and disinformation websites, like, “I’m-Always-Right-Dot-Com,” became common in all households. Now we know that people should have to pass IQ tests and be free of any criminal history BEFORE being issued with a LICENSE to use social media, but it’s too late. The internet spread STOOPID like a plague, for which there’s no apparent cure! Still, there is something Darwinian about the suicide Qult of Karens in the Alt-Wrong mob, so . . . Maybe the problem will fix itself? 🙄👍
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@Mordalo : I guess you never bothered to read their judgements, huh, madam? Just like you never bothered to watch the Livestream coming from each and every counting station across the country, so we could all see the GOP poll watchers, watching the count and saying, “Yup, this is all fine.” You’ll be remembered as the sorest losers in history. And Donny’s cult will end up hating Donny, when he flees the US, before the Inauguration, to dodge all the warrants and indictments coming, taking all their MONEY with him 😉
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I give it 100%, as a perfect example of its type. Agreed.
When you think about it, Heath Ledger’s Joker was THE Joker: a cypher with a constantly changing backstory. We don’t know where he came from or what made him insane, and that’s one of the things that made him such a great super villain; the antithesis of Batman. We understand Batman, we know his back story, in depth and detail, and we understand why he does what he does. The Joker is the opposite of Batman, in spirit and intentionally, because he’s the antidote to Batman; his greatest antagonist. We can’t understand his desire for chaos, which is one of the things that makes him so scary, and which was explored so brilliantly in Nolan’s vision of him, as an Uber-Terrorist, who’s very existence is a counterpunch in Batman’s face; simply existing to love everything that Batman hates, but even the Joker understands that he’s nothing without Batman’s Yang to his Yin. The Joker needs Batman, and tells him so. “You complete me,” he says, referencing Jerry McGuire. And, Ledger, I’m convinced, would have won the Oscar for his masterful performance, had he lived, regardless.
No one thought there would ever be another, or that it could be, or should be, topped. So, to take on the Joker’s backstory, and answer the very mystery that makes Joker who and what he is, was beyond dangerous! It was not just bold, straying into taboo territory, it was downright heroic! The accusations of hubris and stupidity that would have been levelled at the director, DC and at the star, had this movie failed, would have potentially ruined careers, including that of Phoenix, who had by that point, already danced on the edge of the precipice with some of his choices. Especially, that documentary that no one comprehended, and which alienated so many people on talk shows?
Yet, not only did they DARE to tell us how the Joker came to be, defying the critics, which were already legion before the movie came out, but they also refused to compromise the vision of Joker in the teeth of so much ill-informed, un-thought-out, anti-violence opposition. All this, at a time when the DC universe was on its knees, desperate for a win! The epic failures of their flagship enterprises; the Justice League and the Superman V Batman battle, which had been teased so long ago in a Will Smith vehicle about vampires, had made even the most loyal fans sceptical at best, and downright hostile in most cases.
But, this all wound up making the TRIUMPH that is Joker, all the sweeter for everyone involved in that project; from the writers, director and stars, to the key grip and Dolly guy! Every single one of them can now roll up their sleeves, show off their scars and say, “I won these scars at the Battle of The Joker SJW’s,” with pride! And people will remove their hats, shake their hands, buy them a drink and say, “Thank you for your service.” Because we now have one of the greatest movies in the DC cannon (only rivalled by The Dark Knight) and one of the greatest psychological thrillers ever made! A masterpiece, with a story of suffering behind it, like all great masterpieces should have. One of the best movies in anyone’s collection; up there with North By Northwest, Alien, Aliens, Terminator 1 & 2, Cyrano De Bergerac, It’s a Wonderful Life, Jaws, Duel, the first Planet of The Apes, The Big Country, True Grit, The Searchers, Metropolis, Dirty Harry, Unforgiven, West World (the movie), Some Like It Hot, Singin’ In The Rain and, as you can tell by now, I could list SO MANY more. But, Joker is right up there with that lot, and it’s obvious inspiration, Taxi Driver.
True Art, is not yet dead in Hollywood. Joker is your proof ✌️👍
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@BullDykee : That was a great comment. Interesting too. Of course, if we followed Putin’s logic we would be forced to conclude the reverse of his assertions: namely, that Russia therefore belongs to its founders, Ukraine. But we also know full well that these are only claims Putin has made to persuade his credulous population, not because he, “believes,” in anything.
By his own words, Russia should still be communist, as he wrote a whole essay on the fall of the Soviet Union as being the worst thing that ever happened to Russia. Probably ghost written? Though it is full of assumptions, logical fallacies and downright errors, so maybe it was just him?
His real interest was, is and always has been the wealth of Ukraine. They were just on the threshold of a new golden age in Ukraine, where companies like BP, Exxon and Shell, among others handed in reports saying there is as much fossil fuel wealth beneath Ukrainian soil and off the Crimean coast, as there is in Russia. The scientists and geologist teams for these oil companies were among the first to receive death threats and other intimidation tactics to scare them out of Ukraine, even before the Donbas and Crimean invasions began. But, combined with the Argon production (vital for microchip manufacture) that Ukraine has over 50% of the world’s supply of, and all that farming wealth, along with other rare Earth minerals, and you have a bonanza of prosperity on the verge of making Ukraine a major player on the world stage.
Putin knows he cannot sell these stolen resources on the world markets. But he could stop Ukraine from having access to them and take them out of any competition, whilst transporting tons of these materials, coal and the rare earth’s, from Donbas to Moscow power stations.
He and Xi probably sat in that box at the Winter Olympics plotting how between them, with Ukrainian Argon and Taiwanese chip manufacture, they could corner the world’s technology and become the dominant force together. But, China’s plans went to pot as they saw the furious resistance of the world to Putin’s Ukrainian HEIST and the reinvigoration of NATO.
In so far as history plays a role at all, in the hearts and minds of people, its distortion is a performative act, done for the benefit of the populations who remain behind Putin’s new Iron Curtain. The west doesn’t buy it. And westerners, I’m sorry to say, are not as concerned about history as easterners are, culturally speaking. They should be encouraged. And your comment is evidence of that. I too would love to see Jake’s take on it, which he has touched on at various times, with that fascinating historical map he shows us from time to time.
Slava Ukraine, my friend. 🇺🇦🔱🇬🇧
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They also don’t seem to understand that this can be done to them too? We could have this lunacy at the midterms, with years long, foundationless court battles EVERY TWO YEARS, until America is rendered UNGOVERNABLE, and ripe for Revolution, a Coup, or even invasion! Anything gotten away with at the top, is automatically legitimised at lower levels. Our, “norms,” are USELESS now, and must be codified into LAW! And the GOP needs to stop pretending that trump has a, “future,” of ANY kind in, “politics,” given that convicts cannot hold office. Many of them face exposure for taking part in trump’s crimes, so I guess their pretence won’t end until Donny flees the country, taking his cult’s donations with him? If he took part in Biden’s Inauguration, a ceremony in which he would literally have to acknowledge Biden’s victory and, “bend the knee to Biden’s supremacy,” over him, I would eat my hat anyway. But, with all the warrants and indictments coming for him, his family and several of his enablers, how CAN Donny stay in America? . . .
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Neil Rusling : Sadly, the answer to most of those questions are far too simple. The propaganda, “narratives,” come from Russia, approved by Putin, and then, “laundered,” via Focks and their malignant allies, like Alex Jonestown, et al. Putin’s key methodology is DIVISION. Trump’s and the GOP’s too. And, America never has come to terms with the outcome of the Civil War, and that situation was only exacerbated by the assassination of Lincoln. His VP, Andrew Jackson, found himself in a position to undermine Reconstruction, and was so blatant in both his racist sabotage and personal enrichment, that he got impeached for it. As with trump, too many racist partisans protected him from a conviction, but he never got re-elected either. Trump has poured his bile into that wound, to the point that, “legitimacy,” is a moot issue to these racists. And, make no mistake, it is all about racism, when you boil it down.
It’s about Demographics, ultimately. The perceived, “threat,” is that white, “Anglo Saxon,” types really will be in a minority soon. Within one or two generations, perhaps? And, naturally, racists fear being treated in the same way that they would treat a minority. It’s a ghost fear, easily exploited by those who have money, power and microphones. They cannot imagine being outnumbered by what was once the minority, and being treated with equity, because they cannot imagine themselves doing that. Therefore, in the privacy of their Klan Lodges or (sadly) some police unions, or anywhere they feel I t’s safe to be open about their bigotry, they talk about it in terms of, “being realists.” They genuinely cannot picture it shaking out any other way. And they make their own fear everyone else’s, to the best of their ability. And, we all know, fear turns to hate, pretty quick. And here we are . . . ✌️
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Sadly, history is littered with bordello madams who have acted as procurers for wealthy scumbags. Women have only barely known equality with men, historically speaking, and still aren’t quite there yet, so they have traditionally fulfilled such roles as a way to equalise the scales in their own life.
But, Maxwell’s case is rather unique in that her father (probably) committed suicide when he was exposed in the giant pensions fraud, in which his daughter was only at the edges of in terms of liability. The abject and frequent abuse of his power as a corrupt media mogul and thief was a prototype model for the types of problems the world is having with Rupert Murdoch and Donald trump today. She was brought up by that man, with zero morals and a reputation for sexual exploitation, litigious revenge, smearing people in the best selling papers he owned and, having spent all the pensions of the entire staff who worked at his rags, took out his yacht, never to be seen again. His yacht was found, but his body was never recovered. Frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised to discover he was in Epstein’s cellar for a further 20 years.
Epstein helped Maxwell’s daughter out of her liability for millions of pounds, and she became his madam. That’s a story as old as prostitution itself. Many great female figures have been maligned to look like whores by the men who wrote their histories, but Gislaine Maxwell was and is the real deal. I’m only surprised that you’re surprised.
There are far more female sexual predators than the statistics show. When I was a social worker, there was nearly always a responsible female figure who at least knew what was happening, when a man paid the price for his crimes. I was always glad when the man was convicted and punished. But, the women were rarely even arrested, let alone prosecuted. And some were very good at lapsing into playing the role of, “victim,” for which they would usually get support from the actual victim, being as how they were usually their daughter or son and confused.
The world is Dracula Black if you’re willing to look. And you cannot unsee what you’ve witnessed. I live with that, and the bile comes back up when I see Maxwell, having already exploited her privileges and power to the hilt to get away with murder repeatedly. Even if she’s found completely guilty on all counts, she still won;t pay the penalty that you or I would pay for such sick transgressions. The air is different up there, for the super rich. It’s so rich with extra oxygen that one day it will catch alight, and they’ll all come flying down like shooting stars, aflame with revolutionary fire.
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@HELLEKSONART : Do you realise how CHILDISH that sounds? Just because the targets have changed, doesn’t make it any less RACIST and Anti-Republic? For 5 years now, every single politician who opposed trump (Dem OR GOP) has been Cancelled by trump, and accused of being in the, “Deep State criminal conspiracy!” Think about that? Every foreign leader? Every law enforcement head? Every single intelligence agency, foreign and domestic (except those of our enemies!), every media outlet, every scientific institution, every human rights group, etc, etc, etc! Have you heard of Occam’s Razor? Which is the simplest explanation? That ALL of these people and groups have been in a criminal conspiracy, with the single purpose of getting trump (a guy who no one even believed WOULD become president!) for the last 5 years? Or, that maybe (JUST MAYBE?!) it’s only trump and his enablers who ARE the CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY? . . . Use your head! More and more Americans are wising up, because Donny has stretched the credulity of even the dumbest people! 🤦♂️
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@shadowsanddust2 : Who ever told you that Russian soldiers EVER get, “sent home,” at all? Not even the ones without criminal records get to go home! And I’m not just talking about the dead ones either. That would mean they would have to pay them, which they can’t afford. And everyone would start hearing the truth about the carnage, which Putin can’t afford before his election, as well as confirming the deaths of so many other soldiers who’s families thought he was on a contract building job or something. It would cause chaos! Not to mention all those disabled vets with missing limbs and scar tissue instead of faces, wondering around and upsetting those fragile Muscovites egos. They all get dropped off in the wilderness without any clue as to where they are and not so much as a compass to figure it out, so the army doesn’t have to pay for their upkeep and their families (or civilisation in general) doesn’t have to look at them.
Don’t believe me? Look at Jake’s last video? So, what was your, “critique,” of, “‘Murrica,” again?
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When I was an older teenager, I attended a residential weekend with my youth club. One of the, “youth workers,” decided that it would be a good, “social experiment,” if he persuaded my two older sisters, the rest of the staff, and all those other young people in attendance to completely ignore me as though I wasn’t there for the first 24 hours. Sounds like a small thing, when I say it in a short sentence like that.
I will never be able to describe the utter psychological harm that did to me. I never spoke of it for more than 20 years, and even then, I told it as an anecdote about something that happened to someone else. The shame and pain of it was so traumatic. To suddenly and inexplicably become completely insignificant to the point of none existence, in a set of new anxiety invoking circumstances was a shock to my system that still, to this day, causes me to catch myself arguing out loud with ghosts of my memories, like a mentally ill person, expressing the rage I want to pour out on the person responsible, who was completely unfit for his position of power.
I couldn’t agree more with your assessment, though I have not seen the show, nor will I. I think it was after the first season of Big Brother that I stopped watching what I called, “Hate TV.” And ever since then I’ve watched the popularity of Hate TV gradually grow. It is the same form of manipulation and deep psychological scarring that people cannot comprehend until it’s already too late, being committed to a public screening, judging from the trailer I just watched for the sake of context.
There is something of the anxiety dream, such as the one you described about the loss of your mother, about this dystopian vision we seem to be sleepwalking into.
I keep thinking of the film, Gladiator, and Derek Jacobi saying, “He will give them blood, and they will love him for it.” The producers will be careful to avoid breaking any laws, but reckless about breaking people’s spirits.
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@DMSparky : Yeah, it was a smart analysis. And the same thing has happened in the gaming industry. Notably, in the last two or three years, there has been this massive shift, where all the creative, clever and original story writers and ideas people who gave us classics like GTA 4 & 5, Red Dead Redemption, The Witcher, and many more, have all left their companies and retired. Equally notable has been the correlation between that and triple A games releases being consistently disastrous! Not ONE of the major titles has been uncontroversial and in that time, and most have been abortive. CyberPunk 2077 was only the first in a string of disappointing disasters. The movie and streaming services are all in the same situation, where they have been bought out by investment groups, lost their creative leadership and chased algorithms into disaster. I am predicting a reactionary movement to spring up soon. Creative, clever, original people, who will stream new video games, music, movies and TV shows, all from one service; made more cheaply, but with greater creativity and heart. The conglomerates will be hostile and try to crush them, which will result in them either winning, in which case piracy will become the new normal, or fighting continuously for the foreseeable future.
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@bigpicturethinking5620 : Wait, wait, wait, Madam . . . Can’t let THAT one go, Karen . . . WHO wants to change the libel laws, to ban SNL? WHO wants to sue the press for telling the truth? WHO kicks out their party leaders for telling the truth? WHO calls the free press, “the enemy of the people,” Ma’am? Actually QUOTING STALIN! WHO caused the Insurrection? WHO told the police to break the LAW when arresting suspects, during a speech TO THE POLICE? TRUMP IS WHO! And, WHICH STATES are the ONLY STATES considering vaccination mandates? GOP lead states is who, Karen . . . 🤦♂️ . . . 🤣🙄😂🤷♂️🤣
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Karens always seem to want to get into a BOGUS, “Socratic Dialogue,” which is just a, “chain of reasoning,” that is pre-determined in their case, instead of open to a two way discussion: a form of verbal entrapment with their, “destination,” having been clearly marked out from the start. 🤦♂️ Probably, the best way to short circuit all that crap is to ignore it completely, and stick to the case in point, “This store has the right to refuse you service, and your remaining on the premises is now trespass. You can debate that to your heart’s content, with the appropriate people, the court, NOT us. Either leave immediately or be arrested. End of . . .” 🤷♂️ No further discussion is needed. Cop’s time is valuable, and should NEVER be wasted on bogus debates.
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John Freeman : That’s right, son. Trump is, “not going nowhere.” He is going, “Somewhere.” It begins with a, “J,” it rhymes with, “rail,” and it ends in . . . Whatever, son! The point is, this fucker is going to JAIL, OK? 🤣 . . . 😉
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Considering that our armed services are tiny now, compared to when the Tories came in, we simply cannot spare them anyway! But, I suggested in previous comments that Ben Wallace should dramatically, “Cross The House,” over to the Labour benches, as he really has nothing to lose and so much to gain. If we set aside his one gaff (having a go at Zelensky about a week ago, for, “ingratitude,” of all things! For which he could still apologise) he’s actually pretty talented as a diplomat and statesman, and has clearly spearheaded the charge against Russia, being instrumental in breaking the deadlock over tanks to Ukraine. He’s liked on both sides of the House, and has good relationships in NATO, the UN and in the EU.
And he’s not seen as being any Tory camp. He’s shown loyalty to Johnson when he was PM, but no more so than Sunack now. And all the thanks he got for his efficiency and hard work has been to be left to twist in the wind as the boundary changes for his seat will leave him without the votes, in all likelihood, to remain an MP.
If he’s had talks with Starmer, perhaps offering to bring some other Tories with him over the weeks (Sit TF down, Johnson, no one wants you!) for that drip, drip effect that gets the whole nation and the press on both sides crying, “Can we have an election now!?” Starmer will have offered him big rewards.
And let’s face it? He’s a vanishingly rare item in politics: a competent Tory, free of scandal and not hated by at least 50% of the population. He would be a genuine boon to Labour, perhaps continuing in his current post, under a brand new constituency? . . . Just a thought . . .
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Holy Land : In the UK, today, they begin human testing on a vaccine from Oxford University. In America, Trump has just demoted one of his top medical advisors, for telling the truth about the threat ahead, is trying to get $8 million back from Harvard that they have for Coronavirus research, and has defunded the World Health Organisation, while he’s encouraging these, “protestors,” that are being organised by his goons in the background, just so he can get the MONEY rolling back in. He was trying to make money by advertising a product for Covid protection that now turns out to INCREASE the likelihood of your DYING from Covid 19! He’s chow out the wheels of America’s getaway car, because he knows that the WHO will expose the fact that the US, “healthcare system,” is more of a Hellcare system,” and he’s risking your LIVES for the MONEY! You got a serious problem now, America. When it comes back, it’s going to cut a synth through America, and your country is LESS than prepared for the second wave. It’s coming. And, you NEED to get him OUT in November, if you want your loved ones to make it . . . Smh
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We literally watched it unravel, as we started off United, dealing with a national crisis, until Donny threw one spanner after another into the works. All because national unity put him 10 points behind Biden, according to his own people. So, he politicised the issue, and Made America Divided Again, just to keep his own head above water. Result: ALL THE PAIN of the Lockdown (mass unemployment, economic downturn, miles long Food Bank cues, THE DEATHS) whilst getting NONE OF THE RESULTS. . . Thanks for ruining America, Donny . . .smh
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BCT : I mean, when the KKK Tweets, “This is why we voted for him,” about Trump, and HIS, “response,” is, “They’re right. A lot of people agree with me,” then the question is NOT, “Is Trump racist?” The question is, how long will the GOP and his Trolls, deny it for? Stalin’s techniques, for a Nazi goal. I keep saying this. Because that’s what it is. Trump MUST keep the country DIVIDED. That’s the bottom line
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@ztoob8898 : Indeed, geology does not work the way they think it does. It’s literally a dumb and desperate idea. And it’s likely to be in a long list of dumb and DESPERATE ideas to spew out of Russia until they accept defeat in Ukraine. It’s most likely to fail, as you say. Or, if it did succeed, (which it wouldn’t) it would do more harm to Russia, all of which is in the northern hemisphere, than it would to the US, much of which is in the southern hemisphere. They are more likely to depose Putin themselves than to see such a bonkers attack in reality.
And there lies the real point. It will start occurring to them, if it hasn’t already, that it would be infinitely easier for them to get rid of the Putin regime; less financially costly, less painful, less shaming and less hard in practical terms than it is to pull off any of their lame fantasies about turning this disaster into some species of, “victory,” just so that one mad old man can save his face.
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@donnapodhurst6552 : I genuinely think that at least a significant percentage of the trump cult have realised they’ve gone too far, said and done too many racist things, lost jobs, friends and family, and given away so much real time and MONEY to their racist, “cause,” that they’ve reached the point where they now know they’re wrong, but find it impossible to back down. The Sunk Cost Fallacy, in Technicolor. So, they prefer the idea of death (and taking as many as they can with them?) to just admitting trump is an idiot and a con man? It really looks like that, from outside of the Qult.
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Brian Szymanski : Trump was supposed to, “hate lobby groups,” right? As a gun owner, who ADMITS that I just happen to LIKE guns, and get a kick out of going to the range, I am forced to agree. The NRA launders Russian Money, and forwarded it to the Trump Campaign. And, they have made it impossible to get basic, sensible gun laws, by LYING CONSTANTLY, claiming the, “left wants to take away your guns,” which is crap. They’re a Menace to America . . .
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Absolutely with you on this call to action, sir. Anyone who tells you that writing to your MP is a waste of time is either wholly misguided or speaking in bad faith. And any MP who does not hold surgeries is not an MP, but rather someone exploiting the title and privileges of an MP for their own nefarious means.
As to freedom of speech, I’d put it even more simply: There is a simple difference between expressing your beliefs and opinions, and incitement. And, if you are inciting along with other inciters, you are taking part in a conspiracy. And conspiracies that lead to criminal harm are criminal conspiracies. As these people are beginning to discover, we already have multiple laws on the statute books which cover such instances.
People on the far right, whilst using social media, love to use expressions like, “educate yourself,” and, “echo chamber,” when dealing with anybody who disagrees with their egregious take on the world. Well, now they are having it proved to them that they should have practiced what they preached.
These are the lessons that will have a far greater impact on the far right, and will go further toward remedying the hate speech so rampant in modern discourse. It’s not just rounding up a few well photographed, well documented thugs, 70% of whom turned out to have previous convictions for violence and football hooliganism. But getting at the puppeteers and cutting their strings. I applaud the sentencing of this woman, and hope to God she will learn something from her experience.
And I bet there are multiple other online, “activists,” urgently seeking legal advice as we speak. I do hope we jail at least double digits more of them?
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@bestofluckusa : Good one. Get the GOP top brass on the witness stand at this impeachment, and the, “verdict,” won’t matter. All the cult will remember will be that Lindsay Graham told them that “the steal” is a seditious lie. That Ted Cruz admitted that they all KNEW it was a lie. That even Josh Hawley refused to give any, “evidence,” for, “The Steal,” because he had none to give, and had no 5th Amendment protections, and they didn’t want to be indicted for Conspiracy, Perjury or worse! That’s how you break the GOP in two!
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JOHN DOE : Imagine how terrible it would be for America, if Trump were to survive Impeachment? Everyone already knows what a crook he is, already, and he would be an unshackled MONSTER, with no restraints AT ALL. GOP members would have to get dirty, helping with his crimes & coverups, or get the Biden-Frame up, treatment. And God FORBID any of them would say, “no,” to him? They’d get accused of kiddy fiddling or something, and go to jail??? The 2020 election will be SO RIGGED, and we’ll all KNOW IT, but NOTHING will happen! America is in a FAKE Reality, shoddily constructed by an inferior Orange being, and we’re a laughing stock!
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@solaroid55 : A, “martyr,” madam? By removing him from office for inciting an insurrection? He’s already a, “martyr,” in his own mind, and VICTIMHOOD and grievance is all his cult has EVER HAD! He’s about as “martyr” as he’s ever gonna’ get! Watch all his enablers suddenly call for calm, when his ass is out, and there’s nothing to gain, but everything to lose! You trumpists ALWAYS think you’re victims, so that note can’t get any shriller. Why don’t you people man up, and accept defeat? Your ring leaders are all about to get locked up 😁
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The Racist Trump Cult were sore winners so, just imagine what kind of losers they’ll be in November? Assuming you’re ALLOWED an, “election,” which seems pretty unlikely? People STILL don’t get it yet? You can’t hope for Justice in a Dictatorship. Bill Barr will see to that. By November, he will have built up his Secret Police all over America, to suppress you all, when you react to NOT being allowed an election. All because you didn’t get SS units (which ARE unconstitutional and illegal) OUTLAWED. You all continue to act like the trump’s and their Cabinet don’t KNOW they’re ALL going to JAIL. They have no options but to keep power or go to jail. Which do you think they’ve ALREADY chosen? Get off your asses, America. Dictatorships NEVER sit around, waiting to go to jail! They select Pro-Trump, “cops,” from a police force that’s as Divided as the rest of the country, and they STEAL Democracy. OUTLAW SECRET POLICE UNITS! Now! Or lose everything, including your Republic?
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“We demand open meetings!” “Wait! You can’t have open meetings!” “We demand to be let in!” “Wait! We ARE in the meetings!” “Show me the EVIDENCE!” “Wait! I won’t LOOK at the evidence!”
We are SO PAST the point, where ANYONE actually, “believes,” Trump, in the GOP, or in the Cult. They stick with him because they HATE Dems MORE than they, “love,” our country. They WANT a Dictatorship, MORE than a Republic. They WANT a Putin Style Single Party State, with a FAKE Opposition. Impeachment is the END GAME. If Trump is NOT removed, they’ll GET WHAT THEY WANT, and the Republic will be OVER. Don’t look to elections to fix this. They can’t and won’t. They’ll be RIGGED
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In Scotland we have a rent freeze. As an owner of more than one house, and a landlord, the freeze has my full support. I am not renting out as a, “businessman,” with any plans to expand, nor do I really know the tenant, who got the place through an agency. But, I can see that an equal rule which effects all landlords and their tenants equally, reduces panic and competition, meaning that renters are free to stimulate the economy in other ways, while landlords are not put off from buying new properties to rent out (at least, the ones I know have not been) because they know they can still get a fair return on their investment.
Two of our three adult children have already bought their own homes here in Scotland, in the last couple of years. And we have no real worries about the third, who is sharing accommodation with her partner for now, while she finishes her doctorate, so we expect she will be able to get a well paid, secure job, in the future.
Why won’t Westminster follow Scotland’s example here? It certainly seems as though the public wants this? And there have been several large demonstrations about rent prices around the country.
My suspicion is that property owners have too powerful a lobby in England? Indeed, that lobby would include many ministers, probably? Plus, a great deal of England’s prime real estate (much more than people know, as the public outcry would be huge if they did!) is in the hands of foreign oligarchs; or so it seems?
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Doug 7RM : Be prepared, America. Trump and the complicit GOP members have no options left, if they are going to stay out of jail. They will turn this Cold Civil War into a hot one, rather than accept defeat. Kentucky’s, “election,” has just run into, “technical difficulties.” As did S Carolina, Georgia, and several other GOP controlled elections in the last few weeks. If we are not ready to respond to that threat, we deserve to lose our Republic, forever.
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@kevinfernandez6532 : Perhaps what you’re overlooking there is that, regardless of Putin’s dictates and however radically things change domestically for the Russians, the global economic forces at play are inescapable. There are a lot of variables and moving parts to these kinds of analyses, but the fact that Jake may be looking at them through an American lens doesn’t make them any less real globally.
I don’t think anyone doubts that Putin will hurl as many bodies into this fight as he believes he can get away with. It has been estimated that this figure may be as high as 5,000,000 service aged men (and women) over a period of anywhere between 2 to 5 years, in the worst case scenarios. After that, there simply will not be anyone to take their places. But the civil unrest is expected to finally explode long before then, with the combination of shortages at home, losses of actual Ukrainian real estate being un-spinnable, and a range of other mounting political and economic pressures causing the collapse of the Putin government.
Smart governments in the free world will prepare for the worst, whilst striving for better outcomes. And, to that end, our secret services diplomats, business magnates and media will all be playing a role. They will be looking to, “quietly,” support viable replacements for the Putin regime and offering funding and logistical support to that end. I lay no claim to any special knowledge here, but I know that this is how history has always worked.
The only thing the west needs to do to win this thing, outright, to see Ukraine restored to full sovereignty, prosperity and security, is to stay the course, through thick and thin.
Unlike the Middle Eastern and covert Latin American disasters we’ve seen since WWII, countries like Ukraine and Russia are both very susceptible to successful, “nation building,” programs, along the lines that Germany and Japan emerged so triumphantly from. They both went from aggressor nations, applying for acceptance back into the human race, to leading economic powerhouses and liberal democracies. Ukraine has VAST untapped reserves of all kinds of resources, right under its earth, as well as established economic growth potential from certain industries that were disrupted by this war. So, I am optimistic as to their future, so long as we never flinch and do not let them down. And, who knows? Maybe Russia will finally get its first ever democracy in more than 1,000 years?
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@warriorprincess1846 : Honest, truthful answer? . . .
A free country is being invaded by a dictatorship is what’s happening. Russia wants to establish the old borders of the Iron Curtain days and Putin has been forced to drop the pretence (that no one fell for anyway) that they were in some way a, “democratic,” country since the fall of the Soviet Union, when in fact, all that really happened was a Palace Coup in which the top KGB types had to scrabble for power whilst maintaining the pretence that the country was now free.
Russia has a legitimate concern about the west, assisting former Iron Curtain countries toward democracy, especially if they were to become members of the same security arrangements, but actual invasion of a sovereign country is NOT a legitimate response unless you’re a gangster and dictator. Yes, it would be scary for Russia if Ukraine joined NATO and started housing nukes on the border of Russia, but that would remain an issue between Russia and Ukraine (and the UN or NATO) should that happen. But it’s not going to, nor was it likely. Therefore, this is obviously a pretext for grabbing power.
Take the Cuban Missile Crisis for example. America had the same concerns that Russia does now, to get Russia’s nukes out of the Western Hemisphere and they played hardball over that. But they didn’t INVADE Cuba and take over the country. Just ask yourself, what right does ANY country have to decide how another runs its affairs? If this goes unanswered, what sense does it make to have ANY borders at all? Italy could decide to re establish the Roman Empire with more legitimacy than Putin has to invade Ukraine! Why not have the British Empire back? Russia has NO legitimate excuses for this.
But Putin doesn’t understand grown up stuff, like context, history, truth or justice. He understands power, and who’s holding it. He thinks it’s better to ask forgiveness than permission, and thinks he’ll be in a stronger position once he has control of the Ukraine. It’s up to the rest of the world to make him see why he’s wrong, or we’re all f*cked.
And that’s the honest truth, regardless of what you think of your western government.
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Dozo G : My advice to Americans is, either learn to love and accept your Royal Orange Family, or DO SOMETHING, like the Ukrainians did, a decade ago, in freezing conditions and without ANY WEAPONS and REMOVE this Dictator, kicking and screaming, from his throne. Just, do me a favour? PLEASE? For the LOVE OF GOD!!! Would ya’ll STOP PRETENDING that they will ALLOW you to, “Vote,” them out, when the WHOLE Trump Family and HALF OF THE GOP will GO TO JAIL if Trump loses his Protected Presidential Status?!?!? If they are LITERALLY SHOWING YOU that they’ll RIG the Trial, hen they KNOW THEY TOO will be politically and at least HALF of them, LEGALLY, RUINED, WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THEY’LL ALLOW, “NOT RIGGED,” Elections??? It’s come down to, Trump walks = END of the Republic. Trump survives = END of the Trump’s and the GOP. WHICH DO YOU THINK THEY’LL CHOOSE??? . . . SMH
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@basilmarasco1975 : Fascism is the ultimate Cancel Culture. What has Donny got in common with Franco, Mussolini and Hitler? All Qults of personality, who’s founding narrative is a racist lie, who take power through fear in their following and through intimidation, threats and actual violence against their opponents. All of them outlawed opposition parties, which was literally what Donny tried in his last weeks in office: never mind that it was misguided, childishly naive, and utterly incompetent. So was the Beer Hall Putsch, after all.
They are Fascists, who’s mask has been torn off. Now, knowing that only other fascists will vote for fascism, they are attempting to re-rig the system, again, with a Cancel Culture that will cancel millions of minorities from voting at all.
It has been a Stalinistic hallmark of the trump craze, to accuse everyone else of doing what they’re doing. Indeed, it has served as a handy barometer to know what scandal is about to be unveiled, or what egregious attempt at attacking the foundations of our Republic is about to occur next, under trump. So, Cancel Culture is their biggest complaint, as they move into their phase of attempting to cancel democracy. Trump demanded that Fox fires one of their chief contributors, only a few days ago, for disagreeing with him; and he’s still after Primarying Liz Cheney and others. Cancel Culture, that makes Joe McCarthy look like a reasonable Reaganite by comparison!
Hypocrisy has always been part of the package with Fascism, historically speaking, but the GOP have made Hypocrisy into a lifestyle choice; a cultural norm, and a political ideology. Hypocrisy and playing the effeminate, “victim,” at any rate. ✌️
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@scottharrison699 : You lost me at, “Hillary Clinton,” son. I have no idea who she is. All I know is that she lived in Donny’s head, rent free, for the first three years of his single term in office, son. You know, in the same way that CNN lives inside yours. You can’t spend 5 years of your life, talking to people you hate, on channels you hate, all day, every day, and still be sane? Even if you started out that way, thinking you were having some species of, “fun?” Those days are long gone, kid. All you’re doing now is suffering, and wondering about where it all went so horribly wrong. I blame your parents 🤷♂️
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Biden’s Inaugural Speech should include something like, “I have declared a state of emergency, giving me Federal Powers over states to respond to Covid. And I’m going to give YOU the choice, America! You can wear the masks, or be locked down like children with behaviour problems who need to be separated from the normal kids. If you care about your work, your businesses and your MONEY, MORE than thousands of American LIVES, so be it! Wash your hands, keep your distance and wear the damned mask! Or be treated like the selfish, America Hating pr*cks you are, and get locked down! Biden out!” Mic drop . . . Don’t you think? ✌️👍
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I probably shouldn’t say this, but I do feel very proud to have contributed to your fundraisers, Jake, which I did in the name and memory of my beloved father in law, Raymond Over, who served in France in WWII. Thank you, Jake, for giving us this opportunity to do this. You can count on my support, small as it is, in the future. You deserve a little glory too, sir.
Slava Ukraine! 🇺🇦🔱🇬🇧
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@garyevans5335 : I’ve seen that film. The time line is truncated for the sake of story, and one or two events didn’t happen in quite the way depicted, but, the more outrageous the scenes get, the more accurate the history is. Even outrageous like, “You can kiss my fat Russian ass,” are direct quotes. It is quite brilliant and touches on the modern Russian psyche quite brilliantly. A mindset that remains very much the same to this day. To understand the alien nature of Russian culture and behaviour, watch that film, I say. There is no distortion of history and it is more truthful than most such films. And the various accents of the actors only adds to the fact that Russia was a vast Empire, with its, “regions,” (actually different countries, swallowed whole) being so different from each other, that they only had Communism and Stalinism in common. So that aspect illustrates the fact rather than detracting from anything.
Sorry. You set me off there. F’ckn’ LOVE that movie. 👍
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Tacasa Arnold : Someone should’ve explained to Bat-Sh*t Crazy Donny, The art of never losing the game? Don’t play. He just couldn’t leave it alone, and you just KNOW all his advisors have been persuading him to shut up about it, until now. It’s not like ANYONE, “believes,” Donny? Not even his, “fans.” They just lie right along with him, out of Cult, “loyalty.” But, you said it better than I could. The guy’s just, “BAT SH*T,” CRAY CRAY! 😂👍
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ganonsoul01 : Keep in mind, trump trolls (especially the Russian paid ones) don’t, “think,” anything. They just parrot the party line, regardless. Their, “job,” is to Divide America; NOT to win a debate or, “convince,” you of anything. They get PAID for replies, when you click on their names. Hence, all the deliberate stupidity. They aren’t smart, but they are cunning. I just saw one woman claiming trump, “had done a marvellous job,” beginning by stating, “Since he was elected, two and a half years ago,” KNOWING that people would correct her, and point out her stupidity. But, she got paid, at least 4 times for that one . . . The art of NEVER losing the game? Don’t play ✌️👍
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He’s right to be. The GOP make, “unity,” sound like a terror threat of more violence! They want to avoid testifying (which an impeachment can force them to do) on the stand and under oath, about how they knew the, “Steal,” was a LIE! They can’t produce any, “evidence,” and they know America will SEE that! And, their hypocrisy is truly sickening! The party that wanted to, “lock her up,” for merely BEING trump’s opponent; the goons who deselect and Primary their own people, just for challenging trump; the very same people who ENCOURAGED the violent overthrow of America’s Republic, are now complaining about, “Cancel Culture?”??? The people who tried to CANCEL America, are upset about Cancel Culture . . . And, now they’re fighting the impeachment, NOT for any, “principal,” or political, “belief,” but because they know their internal plotting will be laid bare for all the world to see!
The events of the 6th Nov were neither, “spontaneous,” nor were they plotted purely by the QAnon types or other, “proud,” Nazis. The green light came from within the White House, three days prior. And, THAT’S what they fear! America, baying for their blood, when generals get up to testify about certain, “offers,” and illegal, “orders,” that trump made. And they’re right to be afraid. Their time is OVER! ✌️
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Joe Gonzalez : Trump says, “Build a Wall,” while he causes an influx of Asylum Seekers, to get his fans in line. He declares Trade War with China, loses it, and now costs are shooting up. Healthcare and infrastructure are JOKES, and now this: Trump pulls out of the nuke deal with Iran, and now they’re more likely than EVER to build nukes. Trump will ALWAYS give you the EXACT OPPOSITE of what he promises. And, his supporters will PRETEND to, “believe,” in him, until the economy crashes, because he’s racist and greedy, like them. America in a nutshell ✌️
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@rufescens : If I were you, I would just re-read what you wrote about AIPAC in your own description and then ask yourself if that doesn’t sound quite sinister enough? A private group who funds the careers of politicians, “they like,” to buy them influence and pay for campaigns? At least, to my British eyes, that reads like a deliberate attempt to undermine democracy.
What happened to politicians gaining success because of their, “merits,” and because they, “represent,” the views and interests of their community, rather than needing to purchase their popularity?
And, if you’re suggesting that these people will not have a debt to pay, or be beholden to their funders, you can’t be an American? You just described wholesale buying of politicians, which is quite, “monstrous,” enough.
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Two things for me: The pandemic is Number 1. My dad died from that, alone. And, like the woman from your example, it was while Johnson was getting drunk with his mates. The first response I saw to that was that press staffer standing at a podium and having a good, “informal,” larf at the drunken antics of Cabinet members! I don’t know if that was a replay or if it was a contemporary event, but it was the first thing I saw when I got back from dad’s funeral. I felt like they were laughing in our faces and too drunk to be shamed.
2: All the stealth and blatant privatisation of everything, which was never actual, “privatisation,” because that implies private businesses running things. When you’re the ONLY company ALLOWED to run the water resources, supply urgently needed medical equipment, etc, that’s a monopoly and just a, “medieval level,” fiefdom!
You could add lots more, like having a vested financial interest in betting AGAINST the pound, at crucial moments of Brexit, race baiting, cruel and heartless victimisation of THE most vulnerable people on the face of the earth: asylum seekers, but I’d be here all day.
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@JosephArata : Absolutely. Highly unprofessional behaviour. Baldwin is a producer and might find himself personally liable if it’s established that he knew what people were doing with these guns? I can understand the temptation of hobbyists, wanting to fire authentic classic weapons, but like you say, there’s this thing called, “professionalism,” which is why you don’t allow it.
But I have to laugh when so many people are suffering from the Dunning Kruger Effect, writing, “I never fire a weapon without checking what’s in the gun personally. If I was in Baldwin’s place, I would have checked the gun myself.” To which I say, “NO YOU WOULDN’T!” Because if you did, you’ve just screwed the take and the armorer now has to take back the gun and reset it for safety and use in the scene! That’s literally her job!
It’s tragic and probably a whole series of things that went wrong, as the case so often is with tragedies. But it does come down to her in the end, as she was hired to ensure the guns were used safely and she signed a piece of paper that gave her soul responsibility. I don’t want anyone to go to jail over this unless they truly deserve to, like if she totally ignored safety, got drunk or just played with the weapons all day? But, she doesn’t come across like that?
Unless we’re looking at an episode Columbo where someone deliberately switched the bullet, hoping to murder someone, it’s all on her.
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@macart5429 : They’re trying to END it. Remember how, “lock her up,” was already old, by the time trump took office? Ever since then, which serious democratic candidate has not been accused of crimes? It’s exactly how it started with Franco, Mussolini and Hitler! They will OUTLAW opposition parties! Or take the Putin route of having fake ones? History keeps repeating itself. If trump ends up serving a couple of years, of a 5 year sentence, in a health farm, he’ll have a ghost writer pen, “My Struggle,” while his Qult gets organised better than ever, because he’s not actually there to screw things up for them constantly! We have to ensure that he and his family get put away for LIFE! And on convictions that no president can pardon!
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TruthseekerforNone: Honestly, son . . . Back peddling out of the fact that you came out calling people, “Pussies,” and now, REPEATING your complaints about name calling, is utterly ridiculous. Telling people that they’re, “like a teenage girl,” is just an effeminate, passive aggressive way to, “name call,” people. Maturity is NOT conferred upon people who use fewer emojis. One day, when you’re old enough to realise that Trump has CONNED you out of your money, and, “man,” enough to admit it, you’ll realise I was right all along 😌
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@caroliner2029 : Literally! Trump fans have the mentality of battered housewives, who ALWAYS play the, “victim,” along with their abuser, but NEVER acknowledge the perpetrator! You nailed it! And I’m SO SICK of their, “victimhood.” It’s so effeminate for the, “macho,” image they strive for, so they come off as spoilt children, play acting their VICTIMHOOD, out of pure entitlement! 🤦♂️✌️👍
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@SgtD85 : Yeah, “new,” as in, “The Blue States are all immune now, going back to work, meeting friends in bars and getting their kids back to school soon, whilst we are losing loved ones and have just started to realise that a Governor telling us to ignore Covid, doesn’t make it go away, or force chain stores to reopen for business, or reduce the abject misery and chaos we’re suffering.” So NOW they’ll, “read,” the science (more like, watch Dr Fauci on CNN YouTube videos, for the first time, probably?) get a friend of trump’s to hold our hands and say it’s OK to get a jab, and generally grope for ANY justification, because everyone else is having all the fun, publicity and MONEY now, whilst we’re still sitting here and dropping dead! 👍
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@benjaminromberg2091 : Yeah, Jesus, “didn’t see eye to eye,” with the Sanhedrin and the Romans, but rose again, three days after that little, ahem, “disagreement,” so it’s all good. Who does Pence think he’s kidding??? Is he a hostage? Have they got his kids in a cellar somewhere? Or is he just an egregious hypocrite, willing to sell out the country whilst pretending to be some species of, “Christian”??? 🤦♂️🤷♂️🙄 . . . ✌️👍
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@magpie1744 : Oh, word would get out, sure enough. And there’s a huge number of doubters, falling away from the Q Qult, right now. I’m reading about business owners who are SUING, demanding their donations back, from the, “Stop the steal,” scam. It’s their FOUNDATIONAL MYTH, upon which the entire edifice of trump’s attempted coup was built, and the very cause of the Insurrection. It would blow a hole in them too big to cover, if the very people who supported that seditious LIE were forced to disown it on Live TV! And it’s central to their case! Who needs a, “verdict,” when you can have cult crushed by its own creators? I know which I would choose. That’s exactly why Lindsay Graham has been going on TV every day, saying, “Y’all better not cawl witnesses! Or . . . Or else . . . You’ll see . . .” He’s TERRIFIED!
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@syzygy21055 : While I agree with what you said about red states, and the way Putin exploits their weaknesses, you must surely agree that the Nationalist, “patriotism of convenience,” is unpatriotic? When it’s, “acquired,” stupidity, chosen simply because it suits the racist narratives one prefers to believe, without having the courage to even see reality, let alone accept it, isn’t that what, “unpatriotic,” is? Actually hijacking the term, “patriotism,” when it’s actually, “nationalism,” is bone chilling. Especially if you’ve read George Orwell’s essays on the topic? He shows how it is that Nationalism is used as THE very mechanism by which you can KILL Patriotism. Orwell was a proud Patriot, and Anti-Nationalist. He lived it, and demonstrated in his essays, written from his experience of fighting Fascism, how fundamentalist ideology uses nationalism as its first and foremost tool, to make people unpatriotic whilst fooling them into believing they were, “patriotic.” It requires COMPLICITY from the nationalist. They have to know better in order to do wrong. And that’s why I can never accept a trumpist as patriotic; not one who understands the racist implications of trumpism, at least. And, let’s face it? It’s the racism that draws them in, in the southern states. If Donny convincingly stopped being a racist, his movement would collapse overnight. ✌️
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Nina Razzo : Imagine if they put one (just ONE!) senior GOP member on the witness stand? Just ask Lindsay Graham, “The steal was the reason for trump’s insurrection, and you said the steal was a thing, so tell us what your EVIDENCE for that is?” And, when America hears that, “The Steal AIN’T REAL!” from the GOP’s MOUTHS, that would put trump out of business! Because without the 5th Amendment to hide behind, on live TV, which one of them will risk a BILLION dollar lawsuit, Perjury and Conspiracy charges, by pretending it’s a thing?
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Douglas : Be prepared, America. Trump and the complicit GOP members have no options left, if they are going to stay out of jail. They will turn this Cold Civil War into a hot one, rather than accept defeat. Kentucky’s, “election,” has just run into, “technical difficulties.” As did S Carolina, Georgia, and several other GOP controlled elections in the last few weeks. If we are not ready to respond to that threat, we deserve to lose our Republic, forever.
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You are still keeping me and mine sane. I would encourage everyone, especially if you live in Europe, to write to your representatives and demand that stern warnings are issued to Russia, by NATO, about the Zaporizhzhia power station, with concrete statements of action that WILL occur should it leak or blow up, for any reason!
Believe me, having lived through the Chernobyl disaster in the UK, when weather reports became the most watched shows on TV world wide, as we tracked a radioactive cloud across the northern hemisphere, you really DON’T want to live through an experience like that, but 64 times more lethal to us all. The mere threat of it was life destroying for many, souring all things, depressions risings everywhere, and being unable to escape even into entertainment, let alone from the weather.
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simon temple : It’s, “Incongruity,” that makes jokes work. The switch in the expectations of the audience. You paint a mental image in the mind of your audience; e.g. “What’s long, red, and dangles between Putin’s trembling knees?” The audience thinks of something rude, in all probably, so here comes the, “subversion of their expectation,” the, “switch,” in the punchline; “Donald Trump’s Tie.” The mental image has been flipped, and the audience lol’s because they’ve put the pieces together and expressed a sound that requires no further interaction; but shows they’ve gotten the joke and are ready for the next one . . .
E.g; “A racist, a sex predator and an idiot walk into a bar, and the bartender says, ‘What are you having, Mr Trump?’” Bait and switch. We saw three separate people in our mind’s eye, then our expectation was subverted, as we realise the joke teller is saying all three describe one person.
Jokes work in the same way riddles do, with a sense of satisfaction in the audience, at piecing the clues together, but much faster than riddles. We, the audience, solve the problem in our heads and are mildly flattered at being, “on the same page,” as the comedian. The release of tension is not only quicker than a riddle, but intensified by it’s speed, which is why one liners are so effective.
The problem with Gutfeld’s, “comedy,” is that the, “switch,” is not coming. We already know the punchline. Just saying, “the master,” is, “racist,” and then using every instance of, “master,” known to humanity, involves no subversion and therefore is not, “technically,” even a joke.
His other problem, when he, “has,” managed the subversion of expectation - slight of hand - is also the other, perennial, problem of comedy that so many bad comedians don’t get. Can your audience already predict where the subversion is leading? If they can, and the audience sees the punchline coming, there’s no real subversion, because even a child can predict the punchline. They feel smarter than the comedian, and vaguely insulted that they’re, “meant,” to be on that, low IQ wavelength. That’s why they call it, “telegraphed humor.” Because the audience has already received the telegram with the punchline delivered before the comedian can show up with it.
It’s a delicate art, that skilled comics make, “look,” brash, when they’re really good at it. A lot of brash, shouty people make Gutfeld’s mistake, of thinking, “Because I am brash, I am therefore funny.” The two things are rarely compatible, which is why in real life, most of the, “brash comedians,” you meet are not like that at all, but usually polite, calm, reasonable people, who have an, “act.” Bill Burr, for example, is not permanently angry about everything.
Humor is never funny when you analyse it. But, it’s a technical skill and an art form, like writing, acting, singing and dancing. The skill is in learning the technical stuff and then HIDING that from your audience, to make it LOOK natural; and being smart enough to know that it’s, “natural,” to no one, so you train and LEARN it in the first place. Gutfeld needs to punctuate all his, “gags,” with a child’s voice going, “OOF!” It’s literally like watching SNL do, “What if Fascists Tried To Be Funny?”
He hasn’t learned the basic techniques of comedy, and like all Alt-Wrong idiots (trump especially) he thinks he just, “knows,” how it works, despite never having put in the hours for his craft. Now he’s paying the price for his arrogance. What would you bet that, when he packs it in, not too long from now, he won’t admit he’s not funny? What would you bet, that he blames, “Cancel Culture?” ✌️👍
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None of their favourite insurrection, “leaders,” plan to be there, so what’s the point? They all want, “deniability,” for the blood of the, “martyrs,” they’re so desperate to spill. But, they’ve check mated themselves. If they’re all too cowardly, privileged and entitled, to, “lead,” their Confederate Revolution, why should their base risk getting mowed down by a bunch of serious professionals, who’ve all been shown footage of Jan 6th as part of their training, and who aren’t going to take any sh*t this time? Damp squib. They want their cake, but they’re too toothless to eat it. Donny should be in jail already.
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Just one word that I would change in your sentence, to make it perfect: swap, “killed,” for, “murdered,” and you’re there. And it wasn’t just that the murderers were Republicans, but that, in their hour of need, at the height of the fighting, the response of ANY GOP, “lawmaker,” who wasn’t actually in the Capitol Building and in harm’s way, was to make it WORSE. And that goes doubly so for your Republic president, who poured fuel on the flames, while they burned. 👍
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@JustForFun-mt9og : Ah, but so much has changed since then. Sure, that, “nobody,” got the harshest sentence law allows, but since then? When an almost exact copy of that guy took an automatic rifle to join his Fascist protesters, and shot up the very people who tried to restrain him, claiming MORE than one life, what happened this time? His bail got paid by Nazis and he was celebrated on the internet and DEFENDED on mainstream TV (talking about you, Fox & Fiends!) and he was free within 24 hours!
And when he broke his bail conditions? They IGNORED IT! Then he breaks his bail terms again, and because of the media buzz, they reluctantly re-jail him, but this time he’s accompanied by a lawyer who already has a blank cheque from the Alt-Wrong to bail him right back out, despite the fact that his plans to flee America are on the internet, and the prosecution tells the judge he’s a flight risk! I don’t think he even saw the inside of a cell that time? And where is that multiple homicide waiting to happen again? Who knows? He FLED, as predicted! As he SAID he would! As the prosecution TOLD the judge he was planning to!
So, yeah. Things are very different now. Now you can do worse than kill an innocent civilian. You can kill two, whilst wounding many more, and become a folk hero, like some Nazi Jessie James, and remain free to tick away like a desperate time bomb with nothing to lose, when you are finally located. That’s the influence of trump’s presidency. If that other kid had waited a year, before running down multiple people and killing a woman with his car, he’d probably be sitting in a Canadian bar, swapping stories with Jessie James, about how, “cool,” the internet thinks they are, if you like Nazi websites . . . We’ve got a looohhht of work to do, America. And it’s all about educating our youth. Education needs a Moonshot Investment
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Ricky Bobby : You must forgive Americans for following the example set for them by their president? But, you can’t blame them? When he compares the CIA to, “Nazis,” discredits the FBI on an almost daily basis, and tells police officers to, “rough up,” their suspects, on live TV, of COURSE they’re going to believe that they’re law enforcement is corrupt; that’s what their president tells them, EVERY DAY. And, he breaks a lot of laws too, as if to rub the point in. So, you don’t have to respond, but I’m pretty sure that’s the answer you expected, right? . . . 🤔
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Joseph Dennis : How does it feel, having a Dictatorship, America? What does any of this matter? How can we tell what’s even REAL? The 2020, “election,” results will be falsified, and the Trumps, along with half the GOP, will avoid JAIL by keeping Trump, and then his children, in permanent power. But, at least they will put on a show for you, like Putin does. FAKE Democracy keeps the people quiet. WHY HAVE YOU ALLOWED THIS, AMERICA???
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@grimreefer8561 : Many are owed revenge; especially the grieving families of the countless Covid dead, and service men and women, assassinated by Putin’s Jihadi hitters. But, for the rest of us, JUSTICE will be the best revenge. For the sake of National Security, we need to make EXAMPLES out of the trump’s and their enablers, that serve as deterrent to all our enemies (foreign & domestic) so we don’t have to deal with a Donny sequel in 4 years. After 4 years of stability, under Biden (especially if he wins the Georgia runoffs) even a lot of right wingers will palm-slap their foreheads at the thought of a return to the riots and chaos of another Trumpophile era, but let us make CERTAIN of that? Let justice be swift, merciless and brutal, so that they fear us, for generations to come. Nothing else worked, and we tried it all. They did this. They must pay for it ✌️👍
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@michaelwilliamson4759 : Felix Sater can be looked up on YouTube. He was a mafia hood, who fled Russia and joined up with the New York Mafia. He befriended Trump and set him up with Russian insiders, who figured out a way to launder money, via Russian donations to the NRA, which were then laundered and became NRA donations to the GOP and to trump individually.
Sater got busted by the FBI and became an informer, working for them to bring down several New York Mobsters and a few Russian spies. However, he couldn’t resist temptation and he saw the possibility of his buddy, trump, becoming president, as a potential ticket to immunity from charges on all the crimes he continued to commit, despite being an FBI informant. His story is complicated, but the documentaries are fascinating.
He was heavily involved in the propaganda campaign to get Donny elected in 2016, and he genuinely thought he was going to jail for a long, long time, when the FBI caught him, “going off script.” Don’t trust the right wing propaganda services though. Look at a reliable source, if you want the truth? He’s a typical example of the filth that Donny is mixed up with. A long time personal friend of Donny’s.
In the same way that the leader of the Proud Boys turned out to be a regular FBI informant, who has helped to bring down a lot of criminal operations, he has been able to use the ongoing confusion and propaganda to keep himself relevant (and not yet dead) among the criminal underclass of America. But, just like that guy, who’s lawyer listed multiple occasions on which he’s BETRAYED his criminal followers, TO A JUDGE, IN COURT, the Q Qult are SO confused, they don’t know what to believe, so they, “believe,” what they prefer, rather than the facts. And that’s why they keep getting exposed. Everyone who leads them, is the ultimate TRAITOR who brings them down in the end. Felix Sater is just like that.
Hope you found that helpful?
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@didntlistendad : That’s kind of my point. The conscripts have shown up to find there are no, “Nazis,” oppressing Ukraine, so they would rather surrender, botch their orders, or find some other way of buying time for civilians to escape them. Russians are not bad people. But the cowards who are carrying out these illegal orders, in the age of guided missile systems, KNOWING they are targeting none military targets, are not just using deliberate terror tactics. They are literally breaking world records right now. This is the most civilians EVER murdered deliberately in history. There simply IS NO comparison with the bombings of Bremen or other Nazi cities, when the hope was ALWAYS to hit military targets, and accept the civilian losses as preferable than allied civilian losses. This deliberate bombing of civilians on such a scale, when it CANNOT be justified and even the merest pretence of it being, “accidental,” is not even a thing on either side, has NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE since the Medieval days! Putin has ALREADY outstripped Stalin and Hitler on that metric! And he’s established a new infamy for his own armed forces as being both hubristic and COWARDLY! It’s not sunk in yet, but it will. The world will remember. ✌️
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@ChrisAlbertH47 : I see your point. There was a time when a lone nut job, was just that; a loner. Now, they go on the internet and find out they’re part of a, “community.” And before you know it, they’re sharing their fan fiction and planning an, “event,” when the FBI kicks down their door and they discover their community was actually a, “conspiracy,” and the rest of the world is pretty damned relieved they never got to have their, “event,” which would have involved guns and, “settin’ thangs raaaght!” Before we all knew about how people get addicted to their own endorphins from one too many visits to, “I’m right, Dot Com,” and how Confirmation Bias was more than just a thing that happens to individuals, we actually believed that the World Wide Web was going to make us all SMARTER, with access to, “information.” But, people like Donny, Putin and Fox turned it into an open sewer, and should all be jailed, just for that! 🙄
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I look upon the civil servants and staffers like dollar bills, under Donny. He inherited a butt load of them, and squandered the lot. Now, he’s down to the Day Walkers who literally melt down in front of the cameras. Imagine if we had to go through this, “De-Legitimisation,” every two years? No midterm or national election candidates being accepted, and the chaos that would ensue? America will become utterly ungovernable and fundamentally weak and poor. Until, all it would take would be one guy saying, “I’m not with the Dems or the GOP, but let’s have some peace and stability?” And, before you know it, we’ll have a REAL Coup on our hands, or even an INVASION, which people will accept, for the sake of feeling safe again. Our, “Norms,” have proved USELESS and must become LAWS! Laws that are swiftly, and harshly, ENFORCED. ✌️👍
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Sandra Reyes : We already know he’s lost the, “election.” The problem is, so does he. Bill Barr, the Trump family, (Hell!) most of the Cabinet ALL KNOW this ends in JAIL and DISGRACE, for most of them. They aren’t planning on ALLOWING, “Elections!” Are you all insane? They will do whatever it takes, and whatever YOU let them get away with, America! Like they always have! Name ONE, single lawful, constitutional, ACTUAL, “Remedy,” that’s worked in the last 4 years? They just keep rigging the deck, because YOU LET THEM! What do you think Bill Barr’s nationwide Secret Police force expansion (happening right now!) is FOR? He’s selecting pro-Trump, “cops,” from a force that’s just as DIVIDED as the rest of America, to SUPPRESS YOU, when you react to having your Democracy CANCELLED in November! Secret Police are unconstitutional and illegal, so WHY aren’t you ALL getting them OUTLAWED as a matter of URGENCY? Because, “it’s someone else’s responsibility?” You NEED to GET OFF YOUR ASSES, AMERICA! Your Republic has ALREADY FALLEN! The question is, are YOU willing to RESTORE THE REPUBLIC?
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@barrone9317 : But, they won’t succeed, if they are broken at Donny’s impeachment. Forget the, “verdict,” but the Trial itself. Lindsay is desperate for a rerun of the last one; but this time, witnesses will take the stand and testify. And they can call anyone, including trump on down. None can take the 5th, and none can refuse. The, “Steal,” is the very reason the insurrection occurred, and there are already countless pleas and testimonies to that effect, from the rioters arrested so far. So, where did they get the idea that, “The Steal,” was a real thing from? Time to cross examine Graham, Hawley, Cruz, et al, right? And, they cannot say, under oath, on Live TV, that they have, “evidence,” for it? The best they can say is that they got it from Donny and believed him, Coz’ him being the president, and all. “I was only following orders.” Witness after witness will have to take the stand and either get ripped to shreds, and possibly indicted for Perjury, or? . . . Confess! That they KNEW the, “steal,” was a political ploy and a seditious LIE, all along! And how many will do that? I think most of them, IF they get up there to answer questions? What else CAN they do? Especially when one cracks, the rest will follow, or their testimonies won’t match and people are back at risk of Perjury charges again! I’m telling you, this trial will crack the GOP right through! It is about to fracture into two halves! The desperate Nazi criminals on one side, and the system gamers, hoping to survive on the other. And that’s WHY Graham is travelling the country, trying to get, “popular opinion,” stirred up! He really is at the end of his rope! And they’re right to be. Time for some accountability, at long last. America deserves a reckoning 😉✌️👍
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Get the GOP top brass on the witness stand at this impeachment, and the, “verdict,” won’t matter. All the cult will remember will be that Lindsay Graham told them that “the steal” is a seditious lie. That Ted Cruz admitted that they all KNEW it was a lie. That even Josh Hawley refused to give any, “evidence,” for, “The Steal,” because he had none to give, and had no 5th Amendment protections, and they didn’t want to be indicted for Conspiracy, Perjury or worse! That’s how you break the GOP in two!
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You all realise we can’t trust the, “reassurances,” of Moscow Mitch, and any GOP member, right? Especially the ones looking at serious jail time! You all must KNOW what Bill Barr’s Secret Police units are being expanded FOR, America? They are unconstitutional, and ILLEGAL anyway. Inundate your representatives, join the protests and activist groups, donate your money; DO whatever you can, but by GOD! DO SOMETHING TO GET SECRET POLICE UNITS OUTLAWED! They are building the instrument of your suppression, right under your noses!
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Ryan Gunn : Got a problem with my emotions? That’s YOUR problem, chief. A bunch of kids have just been shot, because a CORRUPTED NRA spends a FORTUNE on blocking sensible laws. I’m a Conservative, and a GUN OWNER, but I want to see some REGULATION. You know? Like they DO WITH VANS??? You need a LICENSE to own one of THOSE. You get it REVOKED when you ABUSE IT. So, you’d have to be a SOCIOPATH, not to FEEL something for these kids and their families? So, I’ll deal with my OWN, “emotions,” thanks, while YOU can go F**K YOURSELF, Trump Troll 😊
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Sure it could, if you simply jam all frequencies in and out . . . presumably? That’s just physics. They also have the technology to ensure their missile was of the right type, with the correct (probably bespoke) payload, to ensure it didn’t damage what would be an extremely tough object to begin with. Something designed to withstand the extremes of low and high temperatures, potential buffeting and even impact on its return journey, etc?
Some think it was as much about testing America’s boundaries, reaction times, and diplomatic responses and so on? And, I suspect, that thought will have crossed many senior minds. In that position, I would deliberately respond in a misleading manner, so as not to tip my hand to the enemy about what our forces are genuinely capable of.
So many moving parts, and so much secrecy surrounds all of this that I doubt we’ll get the full facts about it for years . . . when it’s no longer relevant except as part of some documentary, or something?
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Frodo Stink: So, you didn’t WATCH that, “Video,” then? Did you get Hannity to, “walk you through it,” taking out the sting, for your precious Culty mind to handle it? You guys have SO Jumped The Shark, it’s ridiculous. Whatever people think of Biden’s, “politics,” they KNOW he’s HONEST, son . . . SMH
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Brendo Xd : You may not realise this, but those court documents, convicting Cohen, were only redacted for public consumption. The Judge has READ them, ACCEPTED Cohen’s GUILTY plea, for CONSPIRACY WITH TRUMP. So, without the aid of diagrams, Popup Books, or actual brain surgery, WTF PART of this are you NOT getting?! Do you, “think,” that whistling in the dark is somehow, “helping,” Trump, your racist, “cause,” or your paid shillary? WTF do you HOPE to achieve by saying that, “Black is now White,” other than getting run over at the next Zebra Crossing??? 🤣
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@nunook5522 : I suspect that Dane’s, “job,” is to be a source of anger and division. Every topic that comes out of Russia, only to be processed through Fox, Q and Alex Jonestown, is aimed at, “Division,” as its primary goal. It’s the one weapon that our enemies have employed that actually increases their power, and weakens America. Dane would have no point in existing, if he wasn’t paid to spread division. And, most of them are paid. The ones on MSM at any rate. Think about it? Who, other than the mentally ill, would waste 5 years of their life, going to forums they hate, to talk to people they hate, about all the things they hate, day after day, for all that time? Without EVER once, trying to, “persuade,” anyone or change someone’s mind, but just to entrench that all important DIVISION? It’s the only, “agenda,” that makes sense. The, “narrative,” is less important, as it’s just the vehicle for that Division. You’ll see a LOT of Anti-Vaxers in the coming months, for example. Unable to get traction with trump, and with, “the steal,” on the threshold of public debunking, by the very people who perpetrated that lie, as they’re forced to testify about it, Putin will turn his attention to the issue that causes maximum Division in real time; and maximum harm, with the potential for violence and civil disorder. He’ll spread the word and his American outlets, Fox, etc, will process that, spreading, “doubts,” and blaming the vaccine for various illnesses, telling us there’s microchips in it, etc. I can make that prediction with full confidence, because America’s enemies are predictable; stupid, but cunning. Like a dumb animal, it may be an idiot, but it’s dangerous ✌️👍
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@j0nasbs : He, “chose,” nothing. Prigozhin HUMILIATED Putin. The world watched him FLEE from Moscow to St Petersburg on a jet (and you know how Putin hates to fly) even though Wagner didn’t even get to the city limits! And they’re comparing that COWARDICE with the actions of Volodimir, “I don’t need a ride, I need ammunition,” Zelensky, who stayed to face the SAME hostile Russian army, even though he knew there was an assassination order out on him.
You think Putin doesn’t feel the abject SHAME of that? Or that he doesn’t want Prigozhin, a small time crook whom Putin raised to where he is now, tortured to death? Every day he walks free to come and go from Moscow, by Putin’s own admission, defying his, “exile,” Putin chokes down bitter rage. I see that Wagner are STILL defying Putin’s direct orders to join the regular army too.
Who’s really running Russia now? Putin sure doesn’t have control on the battlefield.
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I’ll take bets from anyone who doubts my prediction: Look at how madly active the FUNDRAISING is right now? Hourly emails, robocalls, etc, etc, going out, BEGGING FOR CASH! That money is NOT going on a, “legal challenge!” Think about it? How many warrants and indictments are just waiting to be executed on trump and some of his top people? That’s a Getaway Fund! And, just before Joe’s Inauguration Day, trump and the worst offenders will FLEE AMERICA! And trump’s cult will FINALLY GET IT, when they’ve been HAD, one last time, and they’re in a foreign country with no extradition treaty and ALL THAT MONEY! . . . Anyone doubt me? Place your bets?
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@giennder : The fact is, many know they’re not, “doing the right thing.” For some, the stakes are just too high now, and they make one moral compromise, which leads to another, and then another, until they don’t even recognise themselves. And their kids see it, even when they’re unwilling to admit it, even to themselves. Indeed, that’s what their kids see most of all. Not all of them are like that. Some believe in their moral certitude . . . But that number has been shrinking for some time now
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Ross Lumbus : Yeah, define, “Perjury Trap,” for us? ‘Cos, to the rest of us, “normals,” that just sounds like, “Not being able to keep his LIES straight in his head; boasting and digressing SO MUCH that he says self incriminating things (because he’s GUILTY AS SIN) and spontaneously LYING, because he ALWAYS DOES.” But, hey, I’m no lawyer. I’m a political historian, who REMEMBERS, when Nixon said, “If the president does it, it’s not a crime.” (paraphrasing). And, THAT was THE moment, when the WORLD shook its collective head and said, “GUILTY AS HELL.”
So, good luck with the, “argument,” Trump’s, “lawyers,” have DESPERATELY put forward, there. Must have been Giuliani? 🤣
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Caesar Slim : See, you kinda’ put your finger on it, there. You prefer to think that, because we oppose the GOP, and obvious Nazis, like this guy, we all HAVE TO BE, “left wing.” That’s a mistake, son. When you’re a little older, you’ll understand that decency doesn’t HAVE Party affiliations. Conservatives hate Nazis, and they LOATHE Trump, too, along with all of his RADICAL EXTREMISTS in the GOP. We’re SICK of this s**t show. Too much “DRAMA” and hate . . .
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@JL.. : Sure, wear a seatbelt all the way. That’s good advice . . . Except for those who need the toilet, have health conditions that preclude being immobile for long periods of time, or those who simply need to cope with their fear of flying by doing something other than sitting in one spot. These people all followed the instructions they were given, according to the report. They had not warned at all. Which is odd, don’t you think? So, can we stop with the victim blaming? It’s not like these massive corporations don’t have lawyers, press agents and bought up politicians for that stuff anyway?
It’s easy to get smug about it, when you weren’t there, and I don’t feel like the, “grow a brain,” comment was warranted at all. You are giving good advice after all. But it is abundantly clear from the coverage that the passengers were in no way at fault here.
Either the warning systems failed, the pilot didn’t notice the warnings (or didn’t respond appropriately) or it was a freak weather event that no one could have predicted. But that last one, at that scale, is in a very distant last place. Experienced flyers will all tell you, the pilot will usually warn passengers about turbulence in advance, and everyone will buckle up.
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For what it’s worth, from a historian’s POV, here’s my analysis. If I get this right, I want a prize or something.
Putin’s 6 mistakes so far:
1) Underestimating Ukrainian Resolve: Putin should have watched Ukraine On Fire on Netflix.
2) Overestimating his own armed forces. Their equipment is out of date and the boots on the ground are mostly conscripts. One person defending their home has 20 times the fight in them than one conscript who doesn’t want to be there.
3) Stated Objectives: No one in Russia knows WHY this is happening! Putin spent the last 20 years convincing Russians their claims on Ukraine were legit, because they are the, “same people and country,” essentially. Now they’re meant to go kill them all?
4) Putin’s REAL objectives: The whole point is to make sure Shell, Exxon and BP NEVER get to drill for those massive gas and oil reserves which rival Russia’s. It would take years to get it pumping, so he doesn’t want to pump it himself, either. He just wants to make sure NO ONE does, making him the only major supplier in Europe and the second biggest supplier in the world.
5) The west’s real objectives: Which brings us to Putin’s shock at the west’s resolve. Ever since energy security was a thing, for more than a 100 years, the west has NEVER relinquished control of energy security to the East, and they’re not going to start now, right or wrong.
6) How this ends: The west will remain as cautious as it dares to be and, sadly, won’t put Ukraine’s interests above that of energy security. Zelensky’s job is to keep those two interests aligned and to ensure he honours those deals with western oil developers to pay for rebuilding his country, along with reparations from Russia. If he plays his cards right, he could turn Ukraine into an energy powerhouse for the next 20 to 30 years, until the world is off its fossil fuel addiction? Which would only help move countries like Hungary toward democracy and away from reliance on a weakened Russia.
Putin will bluff about nukes, but he wants to live as badly as any cowardly bully. He has mistaken the west’s caution for irresolution. They will not allow him to keep Ukraine. But since he keeps threatening nukes, they will do absolutely everything in their power; fomenting revolution in Russia, pouring in resources to Ukraine, long after they’re occupied, and anything else, and sanctions are only just getting started, until Putin is taken out in a palace coup, or taken down by a revolution. Governments of the west will prefer the palace coup for the sake of stability. We should hope for the Revolution, for the sake of real change.
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@ : Not sure that’s the case? Europe has been moving away from Russian supplies and, at first, they relied on supplemental oil reserves from the USA to make up the difference. Since then they have been increasing energy independence. The UK has already ended its dependence on coal completely, using wind, solar and other independent energy sources. Many countries are following suit. It takes time and not all countries will agree on the best way forward, making it complicated too. But I think that is the direction that Europe is moving toward, even if it is frustratingly slow.
Personally, I reserve my anger for Germany most of all, for leading Europe into dependence on Russian oil, prior to the war with Ukraine. I have been shouting to the rafters about how corrupt and stupid this was, since the turn of the century. I was ignored or dismissed as paranoid, or having a Cold War mentality. I always knew this day would come.
So I understand your frustration, but I don’t have the expertise to comment beyond generalisms.
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@JamesKerLindsay : My only criticism of your video is that you conflate, “process,” with, “reasons.” The fact is, the EU could cut all of the red tape and they would, if they thought it was in their interests to do so. They have legitimate reasons not to, but bureaucracy is not one of them. Ukraine couldn’t meet their conditions as they are, even if Putin wasn’t stealing all their gas and oil reserves in a war of theft and murder, dressed up to look like, “liberation,’’ on Russian state controlled TV.
What this really shows us is that the Iron Curtain may have moved a little bit, and even been somewhat opaque since the 1990’s, but it never actually fell. Putin has been forced to show his cards and end his bluff. They ditched the inconvenience of Communist Ideology and absorbed the mafia into the KGB to form the government Putin has had control over ever since a partially blackmailed and perpetually drunk Boris Yeltsin sleepwalked Russia back from the brink of freedom and into the arms of a tyrant.
The European Union KNOWS that this is about the massive energy reserves that Ukraine is sitting on. They know Putin has been able to frighten off Shell and Exxon, who bought the rights to develop it, and they KNOW it’s no coincidence that these reserves just happen to be off the Crimean coast, in the Donbas region and now confirmed to be in the west of Ukraine, where Putin can’t prevent their development, or be sure they’re not been developed behind his back. You can plot the root his troops are taking, on Googlemaps, and figure out where they’ll go next, before they make a move! It’s THAT predictable. Now they’re making their move to the Carpathian Mountain range, to block all access to (you guessed it!) massive gas and oil reserves!
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@mariag.8242 : The sickening part is that he knows his station will edit it to look like a point scoring contest. But, she gives him NOTHING to work with. Something her Trumpophile predecessors never understood. If you do your job really well, truthfully, calmly and in good faith, without EVER scoring the obvious open goals they keep giving her, she wins over the American people, while the Alt-Wrong media look more and more bad faith. Not a good look, being caught in a lie, when you’re meant to be representing a Christian news outlet, right? She wins by refusing to play, leaving them to burn themselves. It’s the long game, and she’s a genius. 👍
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I disagree. Yes, our 1930’s British language was just as bad as 1930’s Germany’s. And that too serves as a reminder that we could have gone down the same road, had our economic situation been as dire as that of 1930’s Germany. But the fact is that there were running battles in the streets of London between Mosely’s Blackshirts and the people who stood against Nazis, whereas in Germany, it was the lies they told themselves about why they lost the First World War that (which had been around for over a decade) that were able to gain traction, because of the language that became commonplace in the street and the media; the othering of the Jews was just the beginning. But, that only means that any country can fall prey to such othering, in the requisite circumstances. When we said, “Never Again,” that was supposed to mean erring on the side of caution, not punishing people for being offended by flagrant hate, perpetrated by hypocrites in government.
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Notice how Trump and Hannity put out a fake news story, at the very moment they are discussing "fake news" That had to be planned, surely? But the Trump supporters are mesmerised in the headlights of the oncoming truck. The people will not even realise that they are going to pay twice for the the Mexican wall, for example, with a 20% import tax that will be passed directly to the consumer.
The propaganda is working because the US has endorsed and grown up with a culture in which people have been encouraged to pick and choose their beliefs, religion, causes, identity, and now, the very facts that they prefer, instead of confronting bitter or difficult truths. Propaganda, in this case, is about maintaining that bubble, to which people have become accostomed and in which they feel safe.
Therefore, the Bannon's of this world will always have the advantage, unless the opposition is prepared to own its own weaknesses and come clean with the electorate. The main opposition in America is in deep with big business and its financial contributors. Unless it is cleaned out from top to bottom, it will remain divided and culpable. The people of America need to bight the bullet: deal with the facts now, before we are all "post-truthed" out of an already rigged game
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I already knew about the story of how this prequel/sequel got published and it’s a darker, more interesting story than the execrable novel under discussion. People are probably just waiting for the right people to die, before making a movie about that. Family deceit, betrayal, gold digging, unethical publishers, willing to look the other way, it’s got everything from elder abuse, to racism; from moral philosophy, to the realities of modern America. That’s the story that NEEDS tellin’ y’all.
Meanwhile, how many fans of Stephen King, I wonder, noted Robert Browning’s poem, Childe, “ROLAND,” To, “THE DARK TOWER,” Came? . . . Those novels are King’d best work, in my view. Despite the terrible movie that killed a potential franchise in the crib. Truly literate and wonderfully told, with characters that stay with you, for life. And the world building! The meta self referential art of drawing in all of his previous novels, into one universe, where we learn how everything from The Overlook Hotel, to Kugo and Carrie, got their dark powers. Yet it still manages to comment on the human condition, the banality of evil, and the hope to be found in friendships. If you haven’t read those novels, you’re missing out on real literature. Set aside your Jane Austin or your Joseph Conrad, and do yourself a favor. Now, THAT’S what I would like to hear this Thug’s analysis of!
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john5nguyen : Trump is taking the biggest gamble of his life. His actions, his inactions, and his utter lack of inter-state coordination, will result in the virus spreading to everyone, and he’s hoping the nation just . . . “copes,” with it. And, maybe we will get generally more, “immune?” God forbid a 2nd more virulent wave takes hold of us, BEFORE NOVEMBER? After that, meh, who cares? He’ll still be POTUS . . . He hopes. Restore your Republic at the next election, America. You WON’T get another chance . . .
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I cannot agree. Yes, we do benefit from the stings of a gadfly. But not an intellectually baron egomaniacal gadfly who stings for attention? Hardly Socratic, is he? Colour for colour’s sake? That’s what got us into this mess we call Britain in the first place.
I’d take a Hitchensesque type of gadfly and tolerate such a form of irritation in politics as something we should protect, despite my abhorrence for the surviving Hitchens. Someone in parliament, continually testing our assumptions, with no other purpose apparent, and constantly pulling out all those rhetorical loose threads, would be healthy for us all, let alone Westminster. But Galloway doesn’t have the intellectual chops, the self discipline or the respect for institutions.
Yet, I shouldn’t worry about it if I were you. He’ll make himself known to us again, soon enough. His ego won’t allow him to ride off into the sunset, even if crowds of people gathered and cried out for him to just follow the light.
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@frankiejean6517 : Exactly. If someone verbally insults their employer (or school?) there will be consequences. No one is stopping them from being an idiot, and I don’t doubt that the employer (or school) will be glad to have their real values and attitudes on the record, so they can say, “Not under this roof. Bye.” But, it’s not even ABOUT free speech. This reminds me of the Alex Jones thing, when he got banned from YouTube, and claimed his, “free speech,” was being interfered with. His idiot followers were dumb enough to believe that, but it never appeared in court, and they never asked themselves why? And, it’s because he has all the 1st Amendment, “freedoms,” he wants, but YouTube doesn’t want it under their roof. Why should they? This poor girl showed she hadn’t read, or remembered the school’s policy, which is explicit. She and her father (who should know better, and think this thing through?) are being shafted for a lot of money, by a lawyer who’s just using them for an advertising campaign. Maybe she plans a career in politics. But, the judge will tell her that her, “case,” is so bogus, she should never have brought it to court. I would bet real money on that. And that girl, who wasn’t a victim before, even though she, “felt,” like one, has become the victim of a predatory lawyer, who learned all about this stuff in her first year of Law School. That is, if she was paying attention? . . . 😉✌️
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[name here] : Your abusive, angry, scared and somewhat, “Butt Hurt,” approach to argument, speaks VOLUMES about your insecurity and the FACT that you KNOW you are WRONG. Whether that is deep down inside you or you’re just another paid Troll, is irrelevant, but you are doing Putin’s work for him. So, “How is Putin benefiting from a Trump presidency?” SO FAR?
* Putin OWNS Syria. The Dems were going to push him out, or at least back to his naval base there. So, Putin would NOT have been able to prop up Assad, and THAT “administration” would be GONE by now and we WOULDN’T be looking at images of innocent children being BOMBED by the TERRORIST government and the Russians NOW, if Trump had lost.
* The SANCTIONS have STILL not been enforced, (a LOT of Putin’s PERSONAL CASH is involved there) and there WOULD have been MORE sanctions on Russia by now. Putin lives in DREAD of this, because he and his FSB GOONS have sucked up SO MUCH money from the people, that their economy is WAY TOO FRAGILE to cope with the instability that would result from MASS POVERTY in his country. Who knows, they may have already REMOVED PUTIN by now, had there been a Democrat government? Why do you “think” Putin HATES Hillary SO MUCH? Because he was SCARED of her. And I say this as a CONSERVATIVE. NOT saying I support these things. I’m just saying WHAT WOULD have happened.
* Then there’s the Ukraine and the Crimea and Poland and Turkey to think about. How is Putin going to mange his “Buffer States” while he has to shift his armed forces into Moscow to prevent a coup? I COULD describe the very DIFFERENT CHAOS each one of those countries represents to Putin, but as I’m NOT speaking for YOUR benefit, I won’t bother. People who WANT the TRUTH, will find it. You ARE, after all, just a Troll 😁
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@rcwarship : That’s a very misguided comment, at best. Bad faith, more likely. Russian propaganda, at worst. He was showing the American long term commitment. Jake had no choice but to explain why the senior politician behind the president was not applauding, for his international audience, who probably have no idea who these people are, yet cannot help but notice the difference between McCarthy’s response and Harris’s and wonder why.
Jake’s responsibility was to explain that, and he did so without expressing ANY opinion about it. If you are embarrassed by the basic facts, that’s your own emotional response, but it doesn’t change the reality. He didn’t say, “An insane conspiracy theorist, who’s brutality toward the victims of a child mass murderer have sickened all right minded people, has inveigled her way into a power she does not deserve and responsibilities that she is intellectually incapable of discharging, now has the testicles of the Speaker Of The House in her hands,” did he? Now, THAT would be expressing a political bias. He merely told his international audience what they needed to know to understand what he was showing in the video.
If you’re ashamed of that, write to your representatives about it? But don’t go accusing people who disseminate facts of having a political bias. That’s just wrong headed. I’m being as polite about that as the facts allow.
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@catherinerhea6336 : Your remarks concerning ANTIFA are actually no different to my own. I said they don’t always use lawful methods, but I don’t dismiss their organisation. However, they do have a lot of hot headed activists among them, with countless incidents that reflect badly on their number. BLM never promotes violence, and is careful to take people to their protests, who will police their own people, and separate infiltrators, or hot heads, from their number, in real time. I am with ANTIFA, 100%, in their goals and ideology, so far as I understand it? They want to rid democratic countries of Nazis, prevent their infiltration into mainstream affairs, and raise awareness as to the history of Fascism and the very real threat Nazis pose in today’s world. They can have my donations for that cause, but I won’t join them, because I’ve seen far too many incidents when they allow themselves to become the opposite side to the Nazi coinage: which is the very trap that the Nancy Boys lay out for them.
BLM is a charity, a political awareness group, and a support group. It has no truck with violent confrontation, and avoids it at (almost) all costs. They’re not in the same currency as Nazis, and one of the reasons they beat them, and have become so respected as to have a Square named after them in New York, is because they understand: The art of never losing the game? Don’t play.
That’s all I meant. Until ANTIFA starts policing itself better, cleans up its act and gets bold enough to discipline its own members for acts of violence (once again, something that BLM policy includes) I cannot subscribe. I can only be a part of a group that I need not apologise for. The very small minority of ANTIFA do themselves a disservice by using aggressive or violent tactics, but the organisation as a whole, does itself a bigger disservice, by not expelling these members ✌️
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Taco caT : Who me? Nah, I hate everyone, especially Russians, Orange people, Traitors, sex pests, money launderers, people who conspire to fix elections, and even MORE especially TRUMP. But, hell, son? Even Jesus HATES Trump. That’s Science 😇
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I will recommend a movie for you, quite recent, called The Death Of Stalin. It’s got lots of familiar faces in it, Steve Buscemi, Michael Palin, countless others and it’s actually a comedy, but more of a farce around the events of the death of Stalin. It compresses time for the sake of the story, but the more outrageous the events you see in the film, the more accurate they are. Baria, is the chief, “villain of the piece,” and you see him get his inglorious end without any punches being pulled.
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Best Bast : Timing seems to be everything, here? Every time it looks bad for the, “presidency,” they pull out this potential war with Iran. So, this is meant to, “distract,” America from the fact that their Republic has already fallen, right? A distraction from a, “Trial,” at which evidence and witnesses are not even allowed to appear, and the people with the most to lose, the GOP, are meant to sit in, “Judgement,” of the criminal with whom they have been conspiring? WAKE UP, AMERICA! The Republic has FALLEN. Your Constitution is ON FIRE! Your 2020 elections are ALREADY RIGGED!
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Teflon : Y’know, son? It’s precisely THAT kind of desperate, twisted, internal, “logic,” in Trump’s Cult, that makes Normals lol so hard. You actually sat down, and thought that up, to salve your impotent rage, and it didn’t help in the end, did it, kid? We KNOW you KNOW Trump is ALL the things he’s accused of, and worse, but you just don’t care, because Fox has convinced into hating your fellow Americans SO MUCH that you actually WANT to end the Republic. What you really need, (and I’m not teasing you, son) is some therapy . . . Smh
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@christopherchilton-smith6482 : It’s not the nation that, “allows,” it. Think about it? How much work have you put in to preventing others from falling into your trap? Did you, “allow,” it to happen to others? Why did you expect your nation to be better than you? How can it be? When your nation is you? I was homeless once, back in the day, through circumstances that any reasonable observer would say were not my fault, or in my control. But knowing I was blameless didn’t change my life. I knew it was me, my actions, that had to change. Hell. I never realised it was not my fault until I’d grown up. But, repeatedly doing the same thing and expecting different results is the definition of madness. You have a device and access to the internet. You have a tool at your disposal that could change your life.
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MaL: C : They don’t WANT to get it. Especially the paid trump trolls. But, excluding them, the cult of trump, “chooses,” not to get it, because doing so now, means admitting what marks they’ve been. They’ve always suspected their donations to various, “campaigns,” have been skimmed. But, having that PROVED to them would be the ultimate shaming. They’re not having any fun anymore. They used to deny reality, because it was fun to be blatantly racist and troll America’s decent folk. Now, all they have is FEAR of being PROVED wrong, about Russia, their MONEY and who stole most of it (trump, obviously) their, “promised dystopia of race hate,” being proved to be an illusion that the GOP couldn’t deliver if it tried, the treason, betrayal and plots . . . ALL of it, being dangled in front of their stupid, race-hating faces, and them being unable to dismiss it with the help of a Q spiracy theory. They’re voting to save face, now. They really don’t CARE about, “America.” They never HAD but a vague, TV notion of what America is or stands for, anyway. They stay, “loyal,” out of fear. Trump’s only real tool, which he has used like a hammer on America. They know it’s over, and you’re seeing DESPERATION ✌️👍
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@mikejones8866 : Apparently he’s got an attorney now, so I hear? There’s always someone who could use the publicity, even if they’re willing to make a career out of defending Alt-Wrong Nazis for the rest of their days, there’s money to be made out of the, “friends,” of trump. But, don’t give up on the impeachment, people? Regardless of the outcome, it will be a fracture point for the whole GOP! Because most of the senior figures are WITNESSES. Therefore, they cannot sit on the Jury. It depends how many they subpoena. But think about it?
When they prove that the riot was a Conspiracy to have a Coup, (NOT a, “spontaneous event”) and witnesses testify that they were asked to join it; maybe military generals? And when GOP members are subpoenaed to testify that they KNEW, “The Steal,” was a seditious LIE, or give their, “evidence,” for, “believing,” in it; which can only come down to the Nuremberg Defence of, “We were only following orders,” the entire country will be DEMANDING trump’s conviction! It’s little wonder that Graham, Cruz, Hawley and the rest are DESPERATE to stop it, or trade policy for it?! A week is a long time in politics, but under today’s circumstances, I’m expecting seismic shifts . . . Stay tuned, and stay active, America. It’s not over till it’s over!
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Christine Mills : Except, you can’t tell us WHO said that, can you? The, “prediction,” was that Trump would LOSE, narrowly. That’s exactly what happened. Do you even KNOW about the Electoral College, son? . . . Because it was SO much WORSE at the Midterms. And, Trump will NEVER get the angry Bernie voters again; or the, “let’s just give him a chance,” people again. The ONLY way Trump EVER, “wins,” 2020, is if his Dictatorship is fully established, and we get a Putin Style, MOCK election. You know it, kid
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L Whitaker : Be prepared to FIGHT, America. For the GOP, it’s either establish a Dictatorship, by denying you elections, or go to jail and live with the disgrace of the history books. Which do you think they’ve already chosen. With no alternatives, they WILL try it, if WE LET THEM. What choice do they have? And, so many racist trump fans are more afraid of facing the TRUTH, which they know in their hearts, that trump screwed THEM the hardest, that they will carry on fighting. We have to be READY. The election is just the beginning. If we even GET ONE? . . . That will be on YOU
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evolvedape : Actually, I thought this was the most revealing and, “defining,” moment of Trump’s whole presidency? This proves that Trump’s fans fake their, “belief,” in Trump. Otherwise Alabama (Trump Country) would have taken emergency measures, right? Certainly, before the Weather Service corrected him? But, they, “did,” NOTHING. Proof, if proof were needed, that Trump’s Trolls live in the Land Of Fake Believe. So long as he remains greedy and a racist, they’ll pretend to, “believe,” anything he says. revealing, right? 🤔
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@LD86 : Exactly. It’s a flat out lie, and this, “politician,” is just starting to see the implications of what they’ve done to themselves. Even the allegedly, “smarter,” republicans, who can afford the ticket price for a private donor function, actually started, “believing,” their Anti-American lies. How will they ever get them all on the same page in time for the midterms? Maybe he’ll have to make another action movie and leap out of another plane, to get their attention? Maybe there’s no parachute for this big lie, and they’ll just have to eat the dirt?
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And, people in the, “court,” were falling asleep, because they know the, “trial,” is RIGGED. When the, “Jury,” has the Defendant’s CONSPIRATORS sitting on it, who have ALREADY ANNOUNCED their Not Guilty, “Verdict,” what can we expect? This, “Trial,” is as RIGGED as the 2020, “elections,” already are. Banning witnesses and evidence, is no different to discounting your votes. The Republic is OVER, America . . . Smh
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This video is not as advertised. This is not about the Arlington incident at all. It feels like a bait and switch, so that you could get something else (however legitimate your criticisms are) off your chest.
This unedifying coda to the Afghan war at Arlington was just another case of Trump having no respect for tradition, the rules, or the fallen. He and his team knew that the cemetery does not permit pictures of any kind to be taken over or near the graves of the recently deceased and ignored that, so as to get a picture of Trump, family members and his campaign team, grinning with their thumbs up, over the graves of a group of US veterans who were killed in a suicide bombing.
That incident, in isolation, deserves some attention, since we know it was a monstrous act, with no obvious gains to be gleaned from it that I can see. Worse still is the fact that, when the Arlington staff attempted to remind the trump’s of the rules and to prevent them taking pictures, there was a physical altercation (the details of which are sketchy) which is just ghoulish and horrific to contemplate.
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He didn’t get all right, though? He should only be telling us what Republican voters polled, “say,” they, “believe.” Because what they say and what they actually believe are seldom the same thing. What they truly believe in is what they can TAKE from America. And what they intend is to take away democracy in all its forms. Most of the people who answered those polls KNOW trump lost. But, to a Fascist, nothing else matters but the zero sum game. Franco, Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler are the examples that should have taught us, you never a get a third option with dictatorship. You either destroy them utterly, or they do that to you. Which will it be, America?
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@blakejonesii6485 : Lying to the IRS is a, “crime,” son. And the information pertains, to be matched up against his business dealings, e.g. whether he was running his businesses, “illegally,” while in office. There are a host of other legal issues they can clear up. And, Donny made it a central, “promise,” of his campaign, so why is he literally claiming, “embarrassment,” to the court? You’ve already lost this argument with the judge, BTW, but now I’ll get to say, “I told you so” . . . Again 😜
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If it comes to a choice between living as a slave, grovelling on your knees, or dying whilst standing bravely on your feet, which would you choose? That is the only choice that both China and Russia are conspiring to offer the rest of the globe. Between them, the occupation of Taiwan and Ukraine would effectively mean a global technology monopoly that would be impossible to compete with. If they succeed, the rest of the world would enter a new dark age, while Russia and China not only thrive, but have the power to force us to trade away all of our freedoms just to prevent mass starvation and technological annihilation.
Personally, I would much rather die a man, on my feet, fighting for the freedom to live free than be enslaved to a psychotic, juvenile gangster like Putin, or an indoctrinated terrorcrat like Xi.
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@Olympus : “Cancel Culture,” was trump’s tool. He was the one telling people to boycott Amazon, use anything other than Google, trying to get others banned from Tw@er. You entitled Y’all Kida types just don’t like playing by your own rules. And what’s your, “accusation,” again? That Nancy Pelosi, “thought out,” and, “planned,” what she did??? Seriously??? That’s what we pay her for, numb nuts! Instead of trump’s knee jerk lunacy! You’re just not used to how politics is SUPPOSED TO WORK. But, you’re a fascist, so why would you? 🤣
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For what it’s worth; and forgive me for being long here? But, I’m interested in what you think of this, seeing as it’s your profession? . . .
It’s, “Incongruity,” that makes jokes work. The switch in the expectations of the audience. You paint a mental image in the mind of your audience; e.g. “What’s long, red, and dangles between Putin’s trembling knees?” The audience thinks of something rude, in all probably, so here comes the, “subversion of their expectation,” the, “switch,” in the punchline; “Donald Trump’s Tie.” The mental image has been flipped, and the audience lol’s because they’ve put the pieces together and expressed a sound that requires no further interaction; but shows they’ve gotten the joke and are ready for the next one . . .
E.g; “A racist, a sex predator and an idiot walk into a bar, and the bartender says, ‘What are you having, Mr Trump?’” Bait and switch. We saw three separate people in our mind’s eye, then our expectation was subverted, as we realise the joke teller is saying all three describe one person.
Jokes work in the same way riddles do, with a sense of satisfaction in the audience, at piecing the clues together, but much faster than riddles. We, the audience, solve the problem in our heads and are mildly flattered at being, “on the same page,” as the comedian. The release of tension is not only quicker than a riddle, but intensified by it’s speed, which is why one liners are so effective.
The problem with Gutfeld’s, “comedy,” is that the, “switch,” is not coming. We already know the punchline. Just saying, “the master,” is, “racist,” and then using every instance of, “master,” known to humanity, involves no subversion and therefore is not, “technically,” even a joke.
His other problem, when he, “has,” managed the subversion of expectation - slight of hand - is also the other, perennial, problem of comedy that so many bad comedians don’t get. Can your audience already predict where the subversion is leading? If they can, and the audience sees the punchline coming, there’s no real subversion, because even a child can predict the punchline. They feel smarter than the comedian, and vaguely insulted that they’re, “meant,” to be on that, low IQ wavelength. That’s why they call it, “telegraphed humor.” Because the audience has already received the telegram with the punchline delivered before the comedian can show up with it.
It’s a delicate art, that skilled comics make, “look,” brash, when they’re really good at it. A lot of brash, shouty people make Gutfeld’s mistake, of thinking, “Because I am brash, I am therefore funny.” The two things are rarely compatible, which is why in real life, most of the, “brash comedians,” you meet are not like that at all, but usually polite, calm, reasonable people, who have an, “act.” Bill Burr, for example, is not permanently angry about everything.
Humor is never funny when you analyse it. But, it’s a technical skill and an art form, like writing, acting, singing and dancing. The skill is in learning the technical stuff and then HIDING that from your audience, to make it LOOK natural; and being smart enough to know that it’s, “natural,” to no one, so you train and LEARN it in the first place. Gutfeld needs to punctuate all his, “gags,” with a child’s voice going, “OOF!” It’s literally like watching SNL do, “What if Fascists Tried To Be Funny?”
He hasn’t learned the basic techniques of comedy, and like all Alt-Wrong idiots (trump especially) he thinks he just, “knows,” how it works, despite never having put in the hours for his craft. Now he’s paying the price for his arrogance. What would you bet that, when he packs it in, not too long from now, he won’t admit he’s not funny? What would you bet, that he blames, “Cancel Culture?” ✌️👍
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I appreciate you taking a moment to process this moment that so many will either shy away from, or discuss in a sensationalistic, immature manner. Thank you, once again, for being our, “adult in the room.”
We see so many stars abuse their privileges and take their public for granted, only to be like Icarus flying too close to the sun. But in their cases, it’s only their own lives they’re truly ruining, when they crash into the sea, as the splash settles, the waves are restored and the ocean forgets them. Only Daedalus remembers who they really were. With people like Glitter, Saville and Harris, the oily stain remains atop that ocean, keeping the shattered corpse afloat for all to see, having soiled that patch of ocean forever and threatening to stain any who swim too close. Whilst Daedalus looks down and wonders which of his creations was more ill-conceived.
The deepest, longer lasting, unseen tragedy of Rolf Harris is the worry and guilt he infected so many parents, producers, colleagues, and so on, with. The sensation of being the parent of a child who sat in that group of kids on Rolf’s Cartoon Club, unsupervised, or those kids in those Teach Your Kids To Swim public information things and so on. The conversations those situations must have forced people to have with (possibly adult by now?) loved ones; the doubt; the breaking of trust . . . The unforgivable selfishness of the sexual predator who exploits his privileges to gain access to children is more chilling than any horror narrative I could dream up.
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@nonamegirlnonamegirl3818 : You’re missing the point, surely? Some professions should be held to a far higher standard of accountability, but we keep backsliding and judges keep giving crooked cops lower sentences than the average citizen, usually based on the testimony of their, “friends,” in the force who don’t want anything reflecting badly on them, or the guilty party leaking about their crimes, and their (on paper) inevitably, “stellar,” record. It’s time that ended, wouldn’t you say? It’s NOT like they called him, “Freddy Fingers,” or something!? “The Rapist”??? Come ohhhn!? Every single person who’s given an interview, from MP’s to senior police officers, from psychologists to jurists, have ALL said the same thing: the clues were there, but they weren’t all in one place, where they NEEDED to be: on his FILE. The system needs root and branch reform. This has nothing to do with the politics of labels, but much more to do with common sense being set aside for a lacks, toxic culture in the police force!
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@Dan-qf5xt : Oh, I see your error there, madam. See, the Civil War happened back in the days when the Republicans were what we think of now as Democrats. Abe Lincoln joined the Dems in the 1960’s. His ghost walks into the Capitol to sit beside Joe Biden, each time he enters the House, kid. Trying to cling to centuries old achievements of your party only works if you hold those same values today, ma’am. Otherwise, it’s just adolescent meddling in a history you don’t comprehend. I promise you, if we somehow reincarnated Lincoln today, he’d be with the Dems, 100%. Hence, Obama’s symbolic train journey, at the start of his presidency. Hence The Lincoln Project’s inception. Hence, the Dems still want to free the slaves, and the GOP not even realising that slavery still exists in America. The difference being, some slaves volunteer for their yoke, like you people. Others are still seeking freedom and equality. Are we learning yet? . . .
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And, despite all of their different agendas and perspectives, every single expert, police spokesperson or MP who has discussed this person, all agree about one thing: the clues were all there and he would have been tossed from the police many years ago, had those clues all been in one place, like his record.
So, the only question that remains for us (for those of us who want to prevent other such cases, and uncover any others that may yet be out there?) is what are we going to do about this? Surely it’s vetting and reviewing procedures that need to change?
I would call for single standard of vetting that covers all vocational professions where public trust is an issue? Covering the medical, caring professions, armed services and police services. A benchmark standard that is comprehensive, easy to understand because it’s built on common sense and basic moral principles, and that applies equally to all? Does that seem like a big ask? Because people love acronyms so much, call it Trust and Universal Standards (STU) or something? All professionals have to get their STU Card, before going into policing, nursing, the army, etc? With a points system that could apply, like those on driver’s licences? Too many points and you can no longer serve in trusted professions? But with some categories able to expire over a period of years, so you can reapply and be vetted again, but with other categories staying on your card permanently?
Of course MP’s and senior civil servants wouldn’t be keen on having it apply to them, but they might get on board if it didn’t? ✌️
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@tompastian3447 : You don’t, “believe,” a single word you just said, Karen. No one does. How is improving Infrastructure (the quality of American life) bringing the, “destruction of America,” son? 🤦♂️ It will provide FULL EMPLOYMENT! Don’t you want that? You’re either being paid, or just dealing with emotional issues? Why hate America? Did we topple your dictator, or invade your, “shithole,” country, or something? 🤷♂️
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Reminds me of the, “Blue Suede Shoes Wars,” only worse. Assaulting someone, just for wearing a mask, and in front of your kids, is about as shameful and petty an act of violence as I can think of. Honestly, will it be the, “Hairstyle Wars,” next? The, “I don’t like your face, so I’m going to remove it, wars?” Has everyone lost their f’king minds?
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Alexandre Thibault : It’s OVER, America! Which do you think they’ll choose? The END of the Republic, with Putin Style, RIGGED, “Elections,” or they risk the ENTIRE TRUMP FAMILY and HALF OF THE GOP, from Bill Barr down to Devin Nunes, GOING TO JAIL??? The next, “election,” is ALREADY RIGGED! They CANNOT ALLOW DEMOCRATIC PROCESS, when Putin is ALREADY inside several election computers, and ready to save their asses. Turkey’s DON’T VOTE for Thanks Giving! The Republic is OVER. Learn to love your Monarchy, or have a Revolution, but PLEASE DON’T KID YOURSELVES that you will be ALLOWED a, “Free and Fair Election”??? . . . SMH
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@andia968 : When you say, “Zelensky challenged Putin,” what do you mean, madam? Said, “no,” to him? Told Putin that Ukraine is none of his business? Did a deal with Shell, Exxon and BP to develop Ukraine’s massive gas and oil reserves? Putin has been able to prevent that so far, in the Donbas region where he’s just, “coincidentally,” backed his so called, “separatists,” and in the Crimea where the gas is offshore. But now they’ve confirmed massive reserves in the west, where Putin can’t reach it without taking the country and we’re meant to think this is about, “NATO”??? Come ohhhhn, madam? Who are you trying to kid? Yourself maybe?
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I heard about the ISW’s (Institute for Studies in Warfare) assessment, which bares out my own comment last week. That Putin seems to be deliberately reducing Prigozhin’s Wagner group, whilst blocking his attempts to refill his ranks from gyms, clubs and prisons around Russia. Russia’s internal wars mean that Ukraine has not faced properly trained, equipped and supported soldiers for some time now, but just sheer overwhelming numbers, with occasional injections of special forces groups, here and there, but not in any significant numbers.
I do not fear for what might happen when the Russians finally do put their best on the front lines, as they lost their very best in the battle for Kiev and their failed invasion attempts around the whole eastern half of Ukraine last year. Putin might think he’s buying time to train and equip his latest swathe of conscripts, but they simply will not have the experience, will or matching equipment to halt Ukraine’s Spring offensive.
Once Putin has less Ukrainian real estate than he began with in February of last year, combined with new countries joining NATO and the sheer financial losses Russia has suffered, all topped off with China’s visit making it clear that Putin cannot expect any significant under the table assistance, and Russia are now China’s junior partner, his position as leader will be untenable. Unless Russia breaks up and becomes like North Korea with China’s assistance - while China soaks up the populations of Russia’s southern regions into their borders, because, “populations,” (particularly young people) are what China so badly needs right now, I can’t even see how Putin survives into next year?
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Who here actually thinks the base really, “believes,” the Big Lie? I’m not convinced. I think a minority believes, but not the vast majority. I think it’s much more like a massive emotional disorder, fuelled by their gaslighting parental figures in their, “leadership.” It always looks, sounds and smells like a conspiracy, whenever I talk to a qultist. It’s more of a unmet, “need.” An emotional pain (like the one we all felt in 2016) but kept aflame through the politics of grievance, racism, and victimhood. It’s more of a willingness to disregard logic, facts and the truth, as an act of, “loyalty,” and, “self-sacrifice,” like in Stalin’s Communist Russia.
Stalin used to take pleasure in getting on the podium, and announcing a huge flip flop, and acting like things had always been that way, just to see the party’s reaction. He did that with the famine. They all made it a central aspect of their policy as matters grew worse, due to false science (a whole other story) until, one day, Stalin literally announced to a crowd of thousands that, “There is no famine.” And that was that. Many Millions died. But, not one soul dared even MENTION its existence from that day, until the day he died. It was a test of, “loyalty,” to deny reality, and any who contradicted party doctrine went to the gulag. Anyone dumb enough to contradict Stalin with hearing range was robbed and executed. And they got to a point where many of his victims, the imprisoned widows of the executed party members, literally blamed themselves! So convinced they were, that, “if Big Brother says it’s five fingers, it’s five fingers.”
The point, I guess I’m struggling to make here, is that the term, (even the concept of) “Belief,” becomes less relevant, to a gas lit society. It’s an emotional drive, working around the clock, and it takes commitment and hard work to go full on fascist, or Commie, or whatever clockwork world Donny is trying to replace our Republic with! The kind of deep seated emotional disorder that drives people to, rather than keep telling their kids that school has got it wrong, they change the laws, so you can’t teach about slavery anymore! That’s literally happening in Florida and Texas! The kind of hatred that makes it easier to have news stations that tell you what you want to hear, rather than what is! The kind of mental disorder that literally makes it EASIER to choose to unseat your democratically elected government, tear down your Republic and KILL people to do that, rather than accept that your Qult leader was WRONG about anything!
America has an illness, for sure. But, “belief,” is not the issue. One needs to have thought through and had full knowledge of the facts, in order to avoid traps and to distort reality into a lie in the first place. It takes knowledge of the truth to lie about it. Which is why I believe the Qult KNOWS the truth but they just don’t CARE! They’re too emotionally harmed to care. But, if we don’t match that level of emotional drive and commitment, they will overwhelm us. Until the truth itself will become a radical notion; unsafe and life threatening even to utter.
Our job is to curate the truth at all costs. To preserve it and protect it. We are at greater risk than we know, if we won’t acknowledge we are under direct, fascist attack. And what they call, “culture war,” is actually just war. They are coming for the facts; for the truth; for hope, sanity and reason, to force us into a hell scape of Stalinist anti-intellectual, anti-truth SLAVERY.
Personally, I would rather die. But, I’d rather it doesn’t come to that? By all legal means necessary, we must fight with everything we’ve got in us, and more. Because if you don’t think the trumpists are willing to do that, then you’ve underestimated them. We did that once before. There are no second chances. There never is with fascism. It’s always all or nothing. We must win. Failure really is not an option. God bless America. God bless us all. ✌️
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Matt Ellis : Oh, WAKE UP, America! They are going to prove Trump’s guilt, after the GOP withholds witnesses and evidence, and breaks their oaths of office, and let Trump WALK anyway, because the Republic has FALLEN. Half the GOP are Implicated in Trump’s many crimes, and the Trumps are facing disgrace and JAIL, the very moment Trump loses his, “protected presidential status.” They can’t NOT FIX the next election! WHY are you KIDDING yourselves, America??? This DENIAL is pusillanimous and self-ruining! The Constitution was PROVED MEANINGLESS, when it REALLY COUNTS! You have a Putin Style Dictatorship now! Because SAT there, and DID NOTHING! Thanks for KILLING Democracy, and endangering the ENTIRE PLANET, America . . . SMH
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jeff : Yes. There are many Alt-Wrong Jews. Especially in Israel. You’re with him, because he serves your, “agenda,” today. But, his core base will NOT tolerate you, if he survives November (which seems unlikely? Legally, anyway) and then they’ll come for you, after trump has completed his coup. And, they’ll do it quick and quiet, but they WILL do it. And, you’ll deserve it
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It was not clear to me how (or, in what way?) that police officer broke the law? I believe what you’re saying, and what the representative said during the incident, that it was most likely racial profiling. They seem to make up any slight, “pretext,” to pull black people over, hoping to find something from a background check, when they get their ID. That’s fishing and targeting. And I bet it would be really easy to show statistics that prove black men in particular (maybe black women too?) get stopped more than any other minority, or than white people, in the first place.
But, the title for this video was Click Bait and I didn’t like that. No one explained what laws the police officer broke, and it sure wasn’t apparent from the video. I still don’t think he broke the law. Just that he exploited the weaknesses in the law, which is something that needs to be addressed.
That’s the danger of a Click Bait title. Now people think that cop should be pursued, for breaking the law. Instead of wanting to see a change in the law itself, and changes in police training and practices. That’s what the representative was calling for, from that individual officer. If we are to back him up, we need to address the actual issue, surely? Not conflate it with other incorrect ones, which only serve to confuse the issue and madden people when they see nothing come of it.
If I missed it, I apologise. But, what law was broken?
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PanRanaChef : Well, everyone kept asking, “What’s going to happen when Trump has to face a genuine crisis in America?” Now we know. The strongest, most scientifically advanced country on the planet, with the, “best healthcare system in the world,” has somehow got the highest infection rate in the world, the highest DEATH rate in the world, lost the most jobs in the world (already!) and is facing chaos, whilst withdrawing funding from the SINGLE world agency that they NEED THE MOST! How’d that happen? The US is a giant PLC now. That’s how. The economy is everything, whereas health, security, and human rights will ALWAYS come a very poor second. Trump will put thousands, maybe millions, to the sword, so as to reopen the front doors on America Limited. He has killed your Democracy; brought down your Republic; now he’s going to kill you . . .
For the M O N E Y, STUPID . . .
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@juliepeterson7676 : You may not be smart enough (or human and not a Bot enough) to know this, but most thinking adults only have to read your opening, “The far Left/Dems,” to know that the rest of your comment is going to be Trumpoganda, and is not worth reading. Thus, they ignore rest of your comments too. And you didn’t even get a hearing. Think about that? Why have you read my comment, all the way through, knowing I didn’t bother to read ANY of yours? When your as clever as me, someday, you might get it? But, I doubt it 😉
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Tejano TS : Of course she’s right. “Wag the dog.” A distraction, to have Americans look away from the sham of the GOP fixing Trump’s Impeachment. The Republic has FALLEN in a COUP, organised by GOP members who face jail time if Trump is removed. And by the crime family that would all go to jail, the moment Trump lost his presidential, “protected status.” They HAVE TO RIG 2020’s, “elections,” with Russia’s help. It’s that or JAIL. So they have taken away your Democracy, to save a bunch of crooked, incompetent, evil idiots. Their only concern is that Americans might RISE UP, which is why the go to Iran distraction, AGAIN. WHY ARE YOU ALLOWING THE END OF THE REPUBLIC, AMERICA??? . . . Smh
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I think it’s worth discussing the word, “Russification,” and, “De-Russification,” as they are far more loaded and complex than I first understood. I would love to see your treatment of that topic. Historically, Russification has meant war crimes: the total obliteration of entire cultures, ways of life, languages and identity. I think many will hear those terms without grasping the full nature of what they mean, especially to those who have survived Stalin and subsequent Russian leaders, who have all used the same practices for the same, power grabbing, ends.
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Yes, it’s very slippery of Mogg to try to make the whole discussion about Sue Grey, when he’s just shown us that these people are incapable of admitting wrong doing. Remember, people; these people literally laughed out loud at us, while our friends and relatives died and we were not even allowed in the same building, let alone in the room to say goodbye! People like Johnson and Mogg literally HATE YOU. At best, they feel utter CONTEMPT for you. “Let them eat cake,” could be a Mogg quote. Are we not ALL sick to the stomach of these venal, spineless, creeps, regardless of our political leanings? I would genuinely LOVE to see a, “Conservative,” government that actually did their jobs! But such a thing is an IMPOSSIBILITY with this crowd. And every single one of the people in Cabinet right now, including the PM, were all vocal supporters of Boris. We must not let them forget this.
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“Waste”??? What are you? Russian or something? No more 911 level attacks. Was THAT not worth it? We won that war. The Nation Building was the mistake, which came out of previous administrations, not Joe’s. Rip off the bandaid! It’s about God Damned time! But, despite all the losses and mistakes, this was not one of them. And, trump fans, remember: this was the deal that Donny made, being honoured by Joe’s administration, so presumably, you’re all delighted, right? . . .
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I tell you, if they force these people to testify at the Impeachment Trial, the GOP will be broken. Under oath, with no 5th Amendment to hide behind, on live TV, what can they say about, “The Steal?” That is, after all, the REASON for the Insurrection. And they cannot offer ANY, “evidence,” for, “believing,” it was a thing. Most will admit they knew it to be a lie, and the world will hear them; Q, the, “proud,” boys, and all the cult of trump, will hear the truth from the lips of those who lead them to disaster, criminal records and personal ruin. They cannot refuse to testify, and the key witnesses are the very people who lead the charge, from the back, like this guy, like Graham, Hawley, Cruz and the rest. It will be the most important event in American history, since the surrender of the Confederacy. And twice as damaging to the cult of trump. DEMAND their TESTIMONY from your representatives! Make sure to inundate them, till the trial begins! ✌️
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Yes. And isn’t there something uniquely American flavoured about that? Even if we see it everywhere?
I’d like to see them do a follow up video to this one? Almost every sentence could have been a whole topic unto itself. The most powerful element of this video, for me, was something they only touched on briefly: the model of American Capitalism, unique to that country, which allows healthcare to fall into the hands of the profiteers, and doesn’t ban the marketing of witch’s brews. A whole video should be dedicated to how American Capitalism has shaped healthcare and created the environment for such a vast market to grow out of vanity, insecurities mixed with genuine, unmet health concerns? Gwyneth Paltrow with a Carpet Bag is an image that symbolises those things for me.
She realised that she was past her prime, by Hollywood’s ruthless, sexist metric, and clearly meditated on the solution to that problem, as Hollywood has defined it for her, rather than the mental health problems they create, becoming both the ultimate victim of their unfair, unrealistic standards for women, whilst becoming the ultimate perpetrator, practically recreating an overnight industry leader in pseudo-science and old wife’s tales. She certainly breathed new life into the existing models. She’s Red Dead Redemption’s Nigel West Dickens, for the 21st Century. Not all bad, but certainly a little sinister. There’s a movie script in that, probably?
And, with equal rights and progressive attitudes towards women, have come equal exploitation opportunities of cosmetics, wellness and fitness cures for men. Isn’t Captain America the ultimate embodiment of that? Tony Stark famously told him in the first Avengers movie, “Everything special about you came out of a bottle.” To which Steve Rogers should have said, “Well, duh! That’s the American way. And I’m Captain, ‘who,’ again?”
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They should declare Martial Law, round up all the trumpists and their chief enablers and put them to swift military trials. All this inactivity is not achieving anything but Appeasement, like with the 1930’s Nazis. It’s making racists feel entitled to be racist, and deluding trumpists into thinking they’re, “entitled,” to be, “legitimised.” It’s making things worse. It’s obvious they’re traitors who want to overthrow and END the Republic. The evidence is mountainous. Time we dropped the hammer. Make sure your representatives KNOW. They won’t even get through a Primary, let alone get elected to office, unless they promise to put an END to trumpism, with swift, harsh JUSTICE! Planet Earth is heartily sick of this destabilising threat to world wide democracy.
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Vince A : Cohen’s guilty plea was accepted. You know that, right? Guilty of conspiring with Trump, with Russia. That’s WHY he’s going to jail. That’s what impeachment is for. When the live Congressional Hearings make it impossible for the GOP to cling to any more denial, and THEY demand Impeachment, it’s over. It’s inevitable. So, why you’re parsing, so emotionally, over irrelevancies, instead of accepting that no president is as universally unpopular as Trump, just seems like a lot of, “Butt Hurt,” to Normals 🙂
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Tushar Sharma : You’re twisting your, “logic,” too hard, and you’re gonna’ snap something, if you don’t step out of Lah Lah Land. There’s no, “ideology,” at play, here. Putin is a mobster, from the KGB, now he’s just a mobster, who wants and HAS a DICKtatorship. Trump want the same thing. It’s about power, money and GREED. Trump is sucking up to the NAZIS at home, ‘coz they’re the only ones STUPID enough to stick with him now. This is WHY Conservatives AND Liberals are united and will be voting Democrat at the Mid Terms. Only Treasonous Traitor Nazis support Trump domestically. Geddit now? . . . SMH
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Putin has spent the last 20 years trying to convince Russians that they’re, “the same people,” as Ukrainians. He’s been telling them Ukraine is part of Russia and encouraging Russians to settle there. So, naturally, having to kill Ukrainians (relatives) is demoralising for them.
This video is telling you what Putin’s narrative is, but not what his actual objectives are. He simply intends to STOP Ukraine from ever developing the massive gas and oil reserves they’re sitting on. He wants to remain in control of the world’s energy reserves. Never forget his REAL aims!
You can check the progress of Putin’s troops on a map, predicting their next moves! They’re going to the Carpathian Mountains! Where the latest reserves were confirmed, where Putin can’t reach them. Shell, Exxon and BP have a deal with Ukraine to develop those finds. A rival to his fuel hegemony, for a DEMOCRATIC country? He can’t allow that?
WE CAN’T ALLOW HIM TO WIN! Not unless you want him to rule the world, like some Bond Villain!?
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Fatty Ninja : Acually, apart from those paid foreigners, Trump fans KNOW Trump is unfit. They started out loving him, because they thought he would flip it, so THEY would be on top; the racists, the poor, the mean, whatever. Now, they fiercely defend him, because they see the only alternative is ADMITTING they were SO WRONG, to the very people they’ve been conditioned (by Propaganda) into HATING: their fellow Americans ✌️👍
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You need to do MORE than that, if you’re awake?! You have to get out there, NOW! They are RIGGING the, “elections.” Florida is ALREADY, “decided.” They’re literally STEALING post boxes off of the streets! It will be TOO LATE to, “protest,” in November, when they’re ready for you! Do something NOW, or regret it forever! The GOP are terrified of JAIL TIME, and they WON’T ALLOW ELECTIONS! Demand the RESTORATION OF YOUR REPUBLIC AND DEMOCRACY, AND YOUR POST OFFICE!!!
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@Being_Jeff : Isn’t that up to us to make changes in the law, by pressuring our politicians? The issue is not about the financial cost, but if that’s all you care about, think of the deterrent effect that squashing such ludicrous behaviour on the part of the police will have and the huge costs to the tax payer that will save. Besides, she can sue them privately, once she establishes that they acted against police policy and the law. All citizens are responsible for their own crimes in law. And the Nuremberg Defence, as shown by history, does not save people from consequences, or absolve them from responsibility, so saying, “We were only following orders,” is no defence if the orders were illegal.
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Is destruction of property even a concept that fits the definition of, “violence?” If breaking stuff is violent, then the people who own all the polluting stuff are, by definition, “committing acts of violence,” against all of us. Thus making the destruction of their means to perpetrate such acts, the only rational response, unless you’re a Buddhist, I guess?
It’s a uniquely American trait, to characterise the destruction of, “stuff,” as, “violence.” And it’s an unhealthy one that helped put us in this problem in the first place; A political manoeuvre that was designed to protect the very wealthy, by conflating acts of destruction with violence against the person.
Not that there is no relationship in all cases? But, by the same, equal measure, by which we judge destruction of corporate property, “violence,” it can, and must, necessarily be defended as a violent reaction of self defence, in response to the initial, more serious act of violence, perpetrated by the corporations against the entire population of Earth. People like Extinction Rebellion should, perhaps, split into three wings? The activists; their political wing of besuited, articulate, educated people, able to put their case to the people; and their biggest, best funded wing, their law firm, dedicated to argue that their acts of destruction are not actually unlawful, but self defence?
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@thomaasfist6494 : If these times have taught us any lessons, among them is that people are swiftly becoming more politically literate and aware. As one section of the population devolves into unfocused race hate and rage, the other is growing up. It’s up to us, to use our, “collective bargaining power,” to push hardest on the agendas that matter. With America’s highest ever percentage of population turnout for an election, the politicians on both sides are NOT going to ignore the will of the people, if they’re firm, articulate, and loud.
Don’t forget, Biden was all but retired. Like Horatius at the Bridge, he was quite clear to all America, he came back for one purpose, to STOP TRUMP. He may well announce he isn’t running for POTUS next time? He has ONE JOB; to make another trump an impossibility. And that’s where he will need OUR, YOUR support.
Trump himself, is likely to give us a head start, by rendering himself and his family, unable to ever hold office again, by admitting to a list of serious felonies; that is, after all, a requirement of accepting pardons? But, we should ALL be worried about the possibility of the next sociopath, who is every bit as dangerous as trump, but able to talk, and convince people? Trump was visibly a moron, but imagine if he was clever and charming? Or, at least, appeared that way?
Which is why, the most important thing we can do, is to make it so the mere THOUGHT of trying this kind of crap again, makes GOP members turn white with terror. Examples must be made, from the very top Senators, down to the lowest Covfefe boy. Whomsoever has blood on their hands must be PUNISHED to the HARSHEST levels the law allows. And trump’s enablers who don’t go to jail, must be ostracised, and viewed as toxic to ANY brand. And the only way to do that, is to prove to the cult, that THEY were the worst victimised, scammed and targeted group of Americans that Donny harmed MORE than any other. Which won’t be difficult, if the DOJ becomes truly independent? Same for Covid too.
It’s a tough one, but we’ve learned a lot in the last 4 years. Now we have the opportunity to put the learning to use, and educate the cult. Some will never die off. But, that was the same with the Nazis and the Stalinists. It won’t matter, any more than they did, after the remainder of the surviving Nazis had all fled to South America. We need to keep working until Trumpism carries a the stigma it deserves ✌️👍
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JeevesReturns : I was wondering WHO TF PAYS MONEY to SEE a sexual predator, “performing”??? Why is he not in a CAVE somewhere? That’s MORE F’d up, to me? His routine was just crap, and probably gives the Trump fans erections, because they LOVE anything that has some HATE for victims in it, which is ironic, given how the, “Poor Me,” Trumpers also LOVE to be victims. But, I’m frankly STUNNED that CK can draw an audience?!?! WTF HAPPENED, America???
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Either she’s lying, or mistaken, or something more sinister occurred? If she’s telling the truth, did someone switch the shells? It sounds more like an episode of Columbo when you think of it like that, but it’s a pretty lame assertion if you claim you checked and the. Someone gets shot with a real bullet? So, the cops will be giving the Armourer the opportunity to recant her story. If she sticks to it, putting herself under suspicion, they will have to start looking into people’s backgrounds to see if anyone might have had a motive to kill this poor woman? And if they had access and opportunity?
I’m saying all this, but as usual, it will probably just turn out to be a series of errors, committed by several people, leading to an avoidable tragedy, that no one wants to take the blame for. I hope they can clear it up quickly, for the sake of all involved. And for the sake of finishing the movie. That’s not a callous remark. I just know that a whole bunch of people’s livelihoods tend to depend upon completing their contracts, and everyone from the caterers to the sound engineers up to the producers and the stars will all have time and money invested in the project. For some of them, the ones lower down the pecking order, it makes the difference between eating or not.
But if the armourer is telling the truth, we may have a murderer among these people?
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@DoWorkNP : Yet, where is Donny? Why has he got NOTHING to say to YOU? His, “loyal,” “American,” supporters? Not, “I am not conceding. Here’s where go from here”??? Not, “Thanks”??? For all that hard work? All those fans, gathered across the country, HOPING for just ONE WORD of, “encouragement?” Where is Donny when HIS, “people,” NEED HIM? GOLFING is where. And I’m not even making that up! He’s (hashtag) RunAway already 🤣😂😆😂🤣
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BillPrestin Esquire : We already know he’s lost the, “election.” The problem is, so does he. Bill Barr, the Trump family, (Hell!) most of the Cabinet ALL KNOW this ends in JAIL and DISGRACE, for most of them. They aren’t planning on ALLOWING, “Elections!” Are you all insane? They will do whatever it takes, and whatever YOU let them get away with, America! Like they always have! Name ONE, single lawful, constitutional, ACTUAL, “Remedy,” that’s worked in the last 4 years? They just keep rigging the deck, because YOU LET THEM! What do you think Bill Barr’s nationwide Secret Police force expansion (happening right now!) is FOR? He’s selecting pro-Trump, “cops,” from a force that’s just as DIVIDED as the rest of America, to SUPPRESS YOU, when you react to having your Democracy CANCELLED in November! Secret Police are unconstitutional and illegal, so WHY aren’t you ALL getting them OUTLAWED as a matter of URGENCY? Because, “it’s someone else’s responsibility?” You NEED to GET OFF YOUR ASSES, AMERICA! Your Republic has ALREADY FALLEN! The question is, are YOU willing to RESTORE THE REPUBLIC?
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@bewniesandals9439 : Rule 1) When you have to explain your, “joke,” that’s because it’s not funny. Rule 2) In your case, your, “audience,” is way smarter than you, and didn’t need your intention explained. We got it, but, see Rule 1) Rule 3) How to know you’re NOT funny? Try stringing a bunch of emojis together like an insecure Karen, who feels the need to lol hysterically, like a cackling wench, to reinforce her own notions of, “funny,” into a self feeding loop of unfunnieness (👈 yeah, I made a word up. So what?) Rule 4) How to know when a Trumpophile from the Qult of Karens is really, REALLY upset? They use the term, “lol,” or a funny emoji, etc. They harder they lol, the more pain they’re in. (It’s always about the, “feelings,” for a trump tramp🥴). There are more rules, but I know that reading this will occupy most of the rest of your day, Karen. Have at it, kid 😉
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@Grace.allovertheplace : That’s a good question, for which you can find clues as to the answer in various developments around the world. There will come a point, as the sanctions are finally biting down, when Putin has less than nothing to show for all the sacrifices his oligarchs and his people have made. And that point will be stark, round about when he has less Ukrainian soil under his control than he started out with in February last year. China seems to be quietly moving Russia toward becoming a smaller, vassal state, reliant upon their support just to stay cohesive, in the manner of North Korea. And you will see a concomitant move toward nuttier rhetoric and increased militarisation of schools, as various swathes of southern and eastern Russia break away from Moscow’s waning power, seeing a brighter future under the protective wing of China’s industrial powerhouse: a China that is DESPERATE for young people and an increase in its population: a China that has already begun changing its official maps to show Mandarin names for places and regions that are currently still part of the Russian, “Federation.” While Russia will not be able to seal its borders in the hermetic manner of North Korea, with their straight line across the 38th parallel and the deep blue sea around everything else, making Russian security a bigger headache for whatever government stands in a future Russia, they seem destined to shrink down to a manageable size for the world to be in a position to trade nukes for sanctions relief. Getting the last few nukes will be the tricky bit, but it will be a feather in the cap of whatever coalition or president who manages it. That’s my optimistic guess. Don’t ask me about my cynical guesses.
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up4atgal : They KNOW he’s guilty. So does his Cult. We’re PAST, “doubt.” They are burning the Constitution, which Trump calls, “Unconstitutional,” anyway. They WANT to end the Republic. They WANT a Putin Style Dictatorship, with a fake, toothless, “Opposition.” They HATE Dems (their fellow Americans, FFS!) MORE than they hate our ENEMIES; MORE than they, “love,” America . . . Smh. “Elections,” will NOT save us. This is the END GAME
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Billy Cruise : Y’know, when you put it so simply, like that, it’s frankly, amazing that anyone doesn’t get it, and still calls them self “American”??? It’s almost as if the haters and Trump Trolls don’t get American culture or the concept of Democracy, at all? It’s ALMOST as if they were foreign? Or the kind of people who have more, “respect,” for the Civil War Rebel Flag, than the ACTUAL, American Flag? . . . 🤔✌️👍
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I just wonder what I feels like to be elderly in Russia, right now? Anyone above the age of 80 or so will be old enough to remember the paroxysms of mourning their country lapsed into at the death of Stalin, followed by the slow leaking from subsequent administrations, of Stalin’s atrocities against his own people, then that brief flash of light, after the failure of the Communists to reinstate communism, which lead to a throwing open of all the record keeper doors in which even lay Russians could get access to information about the Holodomor, the gulags, the suppression of science, intellectual free thought and the routine murders of anyone who so much as irritated Stalin. And now they have lived long enough to see their entire history revolve 360 degrees, while Putin employs all of the same tactics as Stalin, from domestic terrorism as a mechanism of state control, to a permanent war footing with the west, and the masses making all the sacrifices so that a tiny few get to live in unhappy luxury, mired in paranoia and psychosis . . . What must THAT, “feel,” like to a thinking, educated Russian? . . .
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If we buy her bollox, then nearly the whole GOP are, “unreasonable,” along with the Alt-Wrong media. The GOP has literally built its central, “policy,” around, “voter security,” to disenfranchise millions of minority voters! Surely, after, “THE most secure election in American history,” (the GOP’s and the NSA’s words, not mine) combined with her ADMISSION that the entire narrative of, “the steal,” is a LIE, the GOP will have to abandon their measures? They are officially being, “unreasonable.” Take it from trump’s legal team? 🤷♂️
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If any population is alive to the possibilities of tactical voting, it’s the Scots. I live just south of the constituency you speak of, with our eldest daughter living there. The vastness of the tactical voting campaign has reached the ears and eyes of everyone up here. And it has provided voters with a rational response to the corruption of both the Tories AND the SNP. Where the Tories are not an issue in Scotland, the SNP is far more vulnerable to Labour. But on the east coast, where the Tories have done pretty well, traditionally, people have never had a stronger reason to vote for the leading opponent, SNP.
I have cast my tactical vote, against the Tories and for a party I do not believe in, but which I do believe will spend the next parliament cleaning out its stalls. They do have many excellent policies, but I am a unionist at heart. Could I be anything other, as an Englishman living in Scotland, with a Scottish wife? We have every reason to expect vast improvements in the probity of the SNP in the future as they have to accept that it is the stink of corruption that has done them the most harm of late.
Yet they remain the main opponent to beat the cons in my constituency.
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@zuluwarrior1648 : Oh, I can answer that. But, if you need this to be explained to you in the first place, you are clearly not qualified for this discussion. The Committee was initially, “accountable,” to the people who created it, which would include Boris Johnson, Mogg and the rest of the entitled blow hards who are complaining about it now. Oh, and the British people, as it is a Parliamentary Committee and, therefore, “accountable,” to us in the same way that ALL of Parliament is. I suggest a little reading on how Parliament works and what it is?
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Ianthe Oates : I suspect that’s a ploy? People in the Trump Crime Family, “say,” things that sound more reasonable, to us Normals, just to make voting for the Treasonous Dictator more, “Palatable.” Fox does the same thing, by keeping Chris Wallace and Shep Smith on air (though they don’t EVER put out YouTube Videos of them) to appeal to the more, “reasonable,” Republicans and to, “reassure,” them that they’re not ALL MAD. Vote and HELP to get the vote out. Trump wants it to be America’s Krystalnacht on Election night. We CAN’T LET THEM SURVIVE
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I’ll take bets from anyone who doubts my prediction: Look at how madly active the FUNDRAISING is right now? Hourly emails, robocalls, etc, etc, going out, BEGGING FOR CASH! That money is NOT going on a, “legal challenge!” Think about it? How many warrants and indictments are just waiting to be executed on trump and some of his top people? That’s a Getaway Fund! And, just before Joe’s Inauguration Day, trump and the worst offenders will FLEE AMERICA! And trump’s cult will FINALLY GET IT, when they’ve been HAD, one last time, and they’re in a foreign country with no extradition treaty and ALL THAT MONEY! . . . Anyone doubt me? Place your bets?
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They’re intimidating witnesses, evidence tampering and openly threatening telecoms companies! Yet, no one arrests them? The GOP are now, to the far right thugs, just the same as what Ireland’s Sinn Féin was to the, “Irish Republican Army.” They’re a political mouthpiece for a bigoted Terrorist cult, relying on racial hatred, theft and lies, to stir up Division, fear and hate throughout the land. Just WHY they’re being tolerated by the country, especially law enforcement, is quite beyond me. Doing nothing is only making it worse.
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This is a classic case of being shocked without being at all surprised for me. For my sins, I spent the first 20 years of my career working with family, “at risk,” of breakdown in various roles. And whether the child had a biological factor, behavioural factor, ADHD, or any of the other countless issues going on in their life to account for needing social services in the first place or not, the truly antisocial kids always had an antisocial parent behind them. They were lonely, underachieving, unhappy kids, looking for any group that would accept them. And the far right are so very good at making the antisocial, vulnerable child feel welcome and accepted, for the first time in their lives, usually.
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Save it NOW, then? Before it’s TOO LATE! You should be filling the streets right now, and demanding the restoration of the postal service. They are shutting down sorting machines in major cities across America, and literally STEALING the post boxes off of the streets, in front of cameras, like it’s no big deal. They’re literally STEALING Democracy, your Republic, and your, “Elections,” RIGHT NOW, UNDER YOUR NOSES! Please, America? Get off your asses, and PROTEST until the country is HALTED! They know they’re facing JAIL and will do ANYTHING. Right NOW, is the time to fight! By November, they’ll see you all coming, and be READY FOR YOU!
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Vet On The Verge : They’ll say anything, because they don’t get PAID unless they get responses. The fact that GOP members have NOT deserted trump, yet, SHOULD ALARM everyone. If we were to fill the streets and DEMAND the restoration of the Postal Services, and WIN that fight, GOP members would start running for the FBI lifeboats. They are staying, “loyal,” because they KNOW the elections have been RIGGED. And, if we ALLOW them to stack post boxes into vans, and drive them off to a sorting office where the main mail-sorting machines have been shut down; STEALING Democracy from right under our noses, then maybe we deserve to lose our Republic, forever?
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I’ve never seen anything so distressing. Seriously. Not so much the content, as there are always kids being murdered or caught in wars, but because of the sheer conspiracy of evil between YouTube, the parents, the fans, and everyone who knew about them. YEARS! This sh*t went on, ignoring complaints for literal years . . .
No matter how stupid, harmful, cruel, pointless, vicious or sick your YouTube video is, when YouTube asks you to defend yourself, just tell them, “You ignored all complaints of DaddyOFive, for years.” Do you believe their apology? They told you they were actors, and that must be some Oscar level sh*t right there? Seems they can’t have it both ways?. America is messed up
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phishfearme2 : It’s far WORSE than you think. Either one of two outcomes, here:
1) Trump stirs his base into making the Mid Term Elections like Kristal Nacht, with so much violence and chaos, in targeted areas, that he STEALS them from the people, through EXTREME VIOLENCE.
2) Seeing it’s hopeless, Trump presents a, “pretext,” to Congress (a war; a terror threat / incident; something) to, “Suspend,” (CANCEL) the Mid Terms.
America has SLEEPWALKED into DICTATORSHIP
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When people from the west ask, “Why don’t you just take the CIA’s advice and let Russia have Bakhmut for a couple of months? They’ve done the numbers, and once all your tanks and trained personnel get there, you’ll easily take back lost ground?” I always say the same type of things back to them. It ALWAYS changes their mind.
“What would you do if this was your hometown, village or city? Knowing what we know now? In two or three months you’ll retake Bakhmut to find mass graves, torture chambers, all the children either raped and murdered, or kidnapped for indoctrination in some distant part of Russia, never to see their families again. And that’s before we get to the theft of everything that isn’t nailed down, from refrigerators to your pets! Would YOU give an inch to THOSE MONSTERS?!”
How SICK to the stomach would you feel if you were fighting off invaders in your OWN COUNTRY to hear diplomats and news anchors seriously suggesting, “Well, they might get Russia out of Texas, but they’ll probably have to let Russia keep Florida.” . . . ?
Just a moment of empathy helps us to see this from Zelensky’s perspective. His head is in the trenches with his troops. And we should join him there, rather than having the temerity to ask him to meet Russia half way. ✌️🇺🇦
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“Excuse me officer, which way to the Coup? Oh, since you’re searching me, I should tell you, I’m a very BAD PERSON. I just remembered that, when you found my gun. I do security, but I don’t know the LAW or anything. No, honestly. I’m not just making up random words and crying my eyes out at the first moment I’m challenged! I’m perfect for security, because I’m forgetful, incompetent and I cry when facing the possibility of putting my own skin in the game, instead of just shooting at black cops, from a long way off, with my long range weapons!” FFS, America! Who, “hired,” this guy? Someone who wants to DIE??? 😂
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kitty k : The police are like the rest of America. A significant minority, about 1/3rd, divided over trump, and racist. Barr is the most Dangerous man in America, lying about what, “Defunding,” even MEANS. It’s NEVER meant no cops. It means they only get funding to do COP JOBS, instead of killing mentally ill people, or being hired by corporations to run security for their criminality. He called BLM a, “Leftist, Democrat conspiracy against the president.” And he’s intimidated every legal institution, fired all the best cops and replaced them with crooks and yes men. It was Barr’s idea to attack protestors for the Upside Down Bible day, and the unmarked Stasi SS types are his goons too. We’re not looking to save our Republic any longer. We have to RESTORE IT!
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REAL BLACKS : Firstly, I don’t care about your gender, cupcake. Secondly, your comment was immature, and didn’t even speak to the commentator’s point. Thirdly, that’s what they call, “Whaddabouting,” which is what you trump trolls do for a, “living.” You DO get paid, right? For spending all day, every day, on these channels you claim to hate? Talking to people you call, “dumb,” because, “ma’ feelings,” right? Year after year, having your idiocy reflected back to you has made you rather touchy. Maybe you should quit this, “job,” and examine your, “life,” huh, kiddo?
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In living memory, America and its allies hunted down and executed people like Lord Haw Haw, the people who spread anti-American propaganda and betrayed their own country. There’s no, “free speech,” issues at play here. They’re screaming, “Fire!” in a building filled with agitated Nazis. It’s Sedition, yet they’re allowed to get rich doing it, and upon American soil?! Brian asks, “Do they really know what they’re trying to save, here?” Yes! Their own asses! In a well adjusted society, people like Hannity and Carlson would be the ones facing execution! We have to inundate the FCC with our complaints. They can’t respond unless the public are writing in their complaints! That’s on all of us! ✌️👍
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@rebahenderson211 : Respectfully . . . Let’s just be clear about this distinction can we? I am a, “Conservative.” There are NO conservatives in the GOP and especially not in their rabid trump Qult. Massive state intervention into every aspect of your private life and public affairs is the opposite of, “Conservative.” That’s the Nanny State of Stalinism. Suppressing votes, suppressing protest about having your votes taken from you, and then suppressing education, so you never even get to learn about how your votes were taken from you, or that slavery was a thing in America over which we fought a Civil War, is anti-conservative, and totalitarian at best. There are millions of disenfranchised conservatives, like me, who voted for the Dems because it was either them or the Fascists. I joined the Lincoln Project, to be with like minded conservatives and put my money where my mouth was. It was my honor and privilege to work alongside Liberals who are able to agree to disagree, debate with respect, and ultimately want what’s best for America and, therefore, earn my undying respect. These Trumpophiles are Fascists, Stalinists, Totalitarians, call them what you will; but, PLEASE? For the love of Pete! Do NOT give them such a respectable label to hide behind? They’re so many things that are ultimately Anti-American, Anti-Republic and most of all Racist and Anti-Democracy! But, “Conservatives,” they ain’t! ✌️
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IKR? When has Trump EVER done anything, “right?” When America sees the Depositions, especially Trump, being questioned by Adam Shiff, it will end him. We’re kidding ourselves, if we think the, “Elections,” will NOT be RIGGED. Far worse than 2016, from the INSIDE, helping Putin’s goons. Trump HAS TO GO, or the Republic is OVER!
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@sirgrizzly2120 : Well, I’m not so, “programmed,” that I live 24/7 on a channel that I hate, talking exclusively to people I hate, being permanently, “triggered,” by my hate, madam, I can tell you that. I hope they’re paying you for this? Otherwise you’ve spent 5 years of your, “life,” in a dystopian bubble of hate, sweating over your keyboard with impotent rage, in the manner that people do when they are legally required to spend time with a counsellor or therapist . . . 🤪
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Satoshi Nakamoto : I can’t tell if you’re a Russian propagandist or an emotional westerner? Are you ABLE to have a “GROWN UP” discussion? Or are you just shilling for Trump, not realising that you are are ACTUALLY driving away more and more conservatives, with you HRC broken record. Don’t you YET, SEE, that most people are HAPPY that HRC is gone? Even the, “liberals,” didn’t trust or, “like,” her, but saw her as the lesser of two evils. She REALLY IS IRRELEVANT, as is your, “argument,” which, if you actually READ your own WORDS, was backing MY argument. I ask you, too. SERIOUSLY. WHY do you WANT Trump? What is ACTUALLY “good” about him, and what good is he doing now, that someone else, in the GOP, could not do better?
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entertainment level : Never forget, they’re PRETENDING to, “believe,” Trump. So long as the economy doesn’t crash, they like his racism and greed. So, they live in the Land Of Fake Believe, treating their fellow Americans as worse, “enemies,” than America’s actual enemies. They dread hearing the words, “I told you so,” from someone on, “the left,” MORE than they fear the consequences of trump’s treachery
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Just imagine what a slap on the wrist, “censure,” would do; which is as good as saying we’re ending the Republic, right there and then? Given that loss of office will result in countless immediate indictments (both Federal & State) which will land him and his family in jail, what alternative does a, ”man,” with his established record of destroying the Constitution and breaking all of the laws he runs up against, HAVE? So long as he can count on enough of his base and the party to remain in denial, and HATE Dems and other races, just enough to make them cheer when he pisses on the rule of law, he will have NO CHOICE but to have Moscow ENSURE his, “re-election,” in a Putin Style, 2020 SHAM. It’s that, or disgrace and jail! And, half of the GOP are IMPLICATED with him, so they’re fighting for their OWN SURVIVAL. They simply CANNOT remove him.
What else CAN he do? 2020 will HAVE TO be RIGGED, because too many Americans were persuaded to HATE their, “fellow Americans,” MORE than they hate (or even understand WHO ARE) America’s enemies . . .
Just look at the shills on this thread, desperately trying to bury their SHAME, because they KNOW they’re killing America, but aren’t strong enough to ADMIT what they WANT! They WANT a Russian Style, Single Party system, with just enough FAKE Democracy to keep up appearances . . . Trump = Putin Mark Two; the Puppet Version, and they just DON’T CARE. In fact, they PREFER it that way. They’ll take that over the fictional, “brown menace,” any day . . . America’s Republic is OVER
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Biographics : Why does no one ever mention Galileo’s darker side? He frequently ripped off business associates. He made a deal with some Dutch inventors, regarding their invention of the telescope, which he then improved upon, and then sold, to the very people that he’d just talked the Dutch guys into delaying their sales meeting with. His friends (yes, “friends”) in the church supported his Copernican work, and frequently told him to stop Trolling the church by saying that either, “God or the Bible,” were, “wrong,” regarding claims that the Bible NEVER asserted in the first place. He deliberately courted controversy and the inquisition bent over backwards to avoid punishing him; the church, having funded much of this research in the first place. He treated people with disdain and betrayed the trust of friend and foe alike, out of arrogance and ego.
NONE of this side of his character is EVER mentioned in his hagiographies, because they are, just like this video, usually, nothing more than that: “hagiographies,” with a specific agenda to them. In Galileo’s case, he has become the poster boy for the martyrs of science. The real Galileo was a flawed human being, who’s life and very real achievements have been hijacked into making him a symbol of, “Righteous Science,” being held back and/or crushed, by those perennially, “evil,” and nearly always, “ignorant,” Christians.
I love science, but I love history more. And, by telling only half the story, you might as well be telling a different one altogether, or even lying by omission. The irony is that, by painting so many figures as impossibly perfect, in this way, you make it less likely for the rest us mere mortals to follow in their footsteps, or to feel able, or even worthy, of such an enterprise. Come on, now? I know you have a lot to get through, with your output, but learn your topic? And, remember, if the figure you’re discussing sounds like a perfect saint, or seems unredeemably evil, then you probably don’t have the whole story.
I have come to expect a higher standard from this channel, which is why I care that you hear this, for what it’s worth. Small errors are forgivable, but this is way beyond that. You’re not the only people to do this with Galileo, but I thought the whole shtick of your vids was about dispelling the popular mythology, and received wisdom, surrounding famous figures? Tell me? Am I wrong about that?
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Hi, also a Brit here. I assume you will know as well as I do that our current government is going to lose the next election. But I honestly think the new government should invited Ben Wallace to remain in post as Defence Secretary. He’s nothing like his colleagues in different departments, being an, “old fashioned,” Tory. But the plain fact is that he’s excellent at his job and probably one of our best government ambassadors by default. He is trusted by both sides of The House and universally supported. He has good working relationships with our allies and is almost, “A-Political,” in his approach, as all good politicians should be, in an effort to unify their country rather attempt to widen gulfs or exploit differences.
In the long term, I would hope that the Tories turn to him, and people like him, for leadership in their coming wilderness years, when they’re forced to examine how and why they lost their way so badly and became so identified with corruption, silly antics and deliberately divisive attacks on their own population. There’s more of Churchill in Ben Wallace than in the rest of the British Cabinet put together.
Those are my thoughts in broader terms, but that was my long winded (apologies for that) way of saying, “I agree completely.” And thank you for saying it. It’s nice to hear that other share the same thinking and feelings sometimes. ✌️🇺🇦🇬🇧
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April Kleiner : Oh, WAKE UP, America! They are going to prove Trump’s guilt, after the GOP withholds witnesses and evidence, and breaks their oaths of office, and let Trump WALK anyway, because the Republic has FALLEN. Half the GOP are Implicated in Trump’s many crimes, and the Trumps are facing disgrace and JAIL, the very moment Trump loses his, “protected presidential status.” They can’t NOT FIX the next election! WHY are you KIDDING yourselves, America??? This DENIAL is pusillanimous and self-ruining! The Constitution was PROVED MEANINGLESS, when it REALLY COUNTS! You have a Putin Style Dictatorship now! Because SAT there, and DID NOTHING! Thanks for KILLING Democracy, and endangering the ENTIRE PLANET, America . . . SMH
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WOW! That IS HUGE! But, REMEMBER, Catholics; the Pope is God’s Devine, Chosen, Vicar of Christ and his WORD is INVIOLATE. Oh, I know . . . You’ll say this is, “fake,” right? . . . This guy is a, “crisis actor,” and Chris Cuomo is a, “Lizard Man,” and they were talking about the, “other,” Pope, right? . . . SMH . . .
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@stephenorourke9896 : I know you won’t reply to what I’m about to explain to you, (how could you?) but just maybe it will give you pause, even for a moment?
Read a little history, son? Start with a little incident they called The Cuban Missile Crisis? There you will see all the differences between both America’s position and that of Moscow’s, right now and then.
America never invaded Cuba, which is still a communist dictatorship 30 miles off the coast of Florida, to this day. Ukraine has never expressed any hostility to Russia, not even a desire for association, just independence. It is still communist doctrine to destroy all of the pillars of capitalism globally, you know? But the usual greed and hypocrisy that emerge in every communist state are what keeps the proximate threat of Cuba’s doctrine at bay nowadays. Not gunfire.
And of course, back then, Russia was genuinely installing REAL nukes into Cuba, not the made up propagandist, juvenile ravings of an implausible gangster, as Putin imagines (or says he does) now in Ukraine.
And with what imagined slight has, “the west,” so offended Prickly Putin this time? Preventing him from overrunning every country on Earth and sucking it into his Evil Empire?
Maybe it was simply blocking his plans to prevent Ukraine from becoming a bigger energy exporter than Russia? Because Shell & Exxon are convinced they have more gas and oil than Russia. But, Putin knew that already, which is why he took the very places where those reserves are: Crimea, Donbas, and now Western Ukraine.
Forget too that silencing news, murdering the truth tellers and journalists he fears, and spending at least a $trillion on lying propaganda is tantamount to a confession of pure, undiluted evil.
You would have to be either historically illiterate, or plain stupid to believe your own words. Worse still, you would have to that perennial combination of the two; the sort of stupidity and evil that makes people willing to sell their souls for just a little cash, so you can troll for the idiots who paid you to . . . I would pity a fool like you, if it wasn’t for the fact that all that hate in your heart soaks up finer feeling like a black hole. The event horizon of your heart has already been passed. And you probably didn’t even feel it.
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@yxvoegl2263 : Y’know, I really hate to be the snob in the crowd, but this case REALLY calls for it. Ironically, Carlson is literally preaching America’s RUIN! Just about EVERY historian who heard him would tell you that! The very REASON Rome fell, was because of THAT attitude, which Tacitus complained about at the time, and Edward Gibbon analysed for us in the 1700’s in his The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire! We’ve ALWAYS KNOWN THIS! Rome grew so successfully because it adapted, grew, assimilated other cultures, taking on their characteristics and the best of their technology, philosophy, science and Warfare techniques. It was centuries later that Rome was like Carlson himself: worshipping, “The Ways of our Fathers,” over everything new; hating innovation and rejecting other cultures, and that literally DESTROYED THEM! Carlson is like one of those mad prophets you see in a sci fi movie! “Maybe our penises offend the gods? Let’s all cut off our penises and appease the Orange one!” 🤦♂️ If only he knew what a DOLT he sounds like, to the educated? I feel certain he would be embarrassed. 🤣
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Lincoln D : Well, now you’re just making stuff up, kid. Covid was not a thing, while Obama / Biden were in office, Biden didn’t secretly fund the Illuminati, and what you call, “pro-western,” only means, “pro-democracy.” The one thing that all tyrants fear is the people having a right to fire their leaders. Game set and match I believe. People can read how, “Alex Jonestown,” you got and how quickly, for themselves. My work here is done. 😜
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Anyone doubting that the GOP’s Coup attempt is ongoing? I give you Donny’s incitement to revenge murder the cops, within a WEEK of their party saying it was OK to shoot dead a healthcare worker, merely for being on your lawn! But, someone trying to save your life with Covid outreach is a, “threat,” whereas a government trained military killer, with a violent mob at her back, coming to, “hang Mike Ponce,” is the one who should have been invited inside for Covfefe and cookies??? . . . Well, they can’t pretend they, “back the blue,” now, can they? . . . SMH
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E : Precisely. Ask him if he had an egg for breakfast, and he’ll tell you he had 50 of them. Everyone, including his, “fans,” will wonder WHY TF he said that, and then separate to their sides of the line, between Reality on one side, and Spin, Propaganda, Apologists, downright liars, “Whaddabouters,” and the rest, on the other. The latter don’t care how stupid his lies are. Just so long as he stays racist and greedy. He’s the only game in town, so where else will the Cult take their loyalties? . . . Smh
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How easy would it be to ban content creators who break the, “spirit,” of Twitch’s TOS, or people who advertise or promote other porn channels? Twitch just comes off as greedy and dumb in this story.
And Muta is quite right. They’re playing a dangerous game with their own TOS, that could lead to them being hauled over the coals in front of Congress, so it’s hardly surprising that their most popular content creators are also behaving just like them, viewing, “the rules,” as a challenge to be overcome in a very public game of Whackamole, not a thing to be obeyed.
Twitch doesn’t play by the spirit of the game, so nor do their creators. I’d bet real money that Twitch’s top money making content creators have person to person negotiations with Twitch moderators and managers to ensure they don’t get banned and that the moderators don’t, “have to,” ban them, before making their next anus lensed masterpiece.
If you make enough money for twitch a live human sacrifice during a drug fuelled sex orgy would probably only result in a ban of up to 10 days! Then Twitch would be smuggling cameras into into your prison cell and demanding you get back out there.
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nmcnmb : Because, 1) I am a Conservative, (That’s WHY I VOTE DEMOCRAT NOW!) and wouldn’t GIVE a s**t if you locked HRC up in your fantasy jail.
2) I have already DONE my research into the Uranium 1 Bollox, which was Bollox then, and remains Bollox now.
3) Just because you have some new Trolls on the case, creating fake websites, and DESPERATELY rehashing Old Tunes, of which even the Troll Army are BORED, doesn’t make Americans DUMB ENOUGH to fall for it, no matter HOW stubborn you Clinically THICK TRAITORS are.
4) You are too STUPID to see that YOU are CREATING YOUR OWN OPPOSITION! Let Trump GO, if you want to restore Conservatism? This mix of Stalin’s tactics for a Nazi end, is too SICK for WORDS
And, 5) F**K PUTIN and the Orange WHORE he rode into Washington on! You can tell him, we’re coming after him next 🙂
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His comparison with sex was off, though. I could see what he meant, but it’s far more like, “Why do you keep snorting cocaine?” To which the honest answer is, “Because I’m addicted.” There is no ideology, political agenda, outcome or goal, which is precisely WHY trumpism got so fascistic and out of control. Because the narratives needed to get so extreme, for the people creating them, simply to remain in control. To feed their addiction. And, would ANYONE be surprised if it turned out that Rupert and Vlad were having nightly phone chats, just like Hannity and trump did? Fox exists to launder the narratives to the American palate. But in the end, it’s just about power for power’s sake.
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Yes! His comparison to the Ancient Greeks was perfect! They had their Thermopylae moment when they halted the Russians (the Persians) at the Hot Gates of Kyiv. And they set aside their differences, just as the city states of Greece did, to fight what looked like an overwhelming invading force. Many KNEW they were going to their deaths but did so willingly, for the sake of their children, wives, husbands, parents, etc. Yet so many are astonished to still be alive, experienced veterans now, capable of defeating these thugs and knowing their weaknesses! Even the reduction of entire cities to ashes could not dissuade them, just as in those ancient days. Russia has already lost! Ukraine just needs to PROVE that to them. And I genuinely believe it may even result in entire army factions turning their guns to face the Kremlin and marching to Moscow! After all, their odds are way better in that direction, even if the police are well funded. They don’t have tanks. It only takes one domino to fall . . .
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Haww wkins : So, you don’t like Anti-Fascism, then? Why am I not surprised. Trump and Nazis go hand in hand. But, this, like ALL your other fights, is already over. You just don’t SEE it, yet. She won, son. She lol’d when she saw his ashamed ass, in an Orange Jumpsuit, on CNN. Just like the NATION will, when the same thing happens to Trump 😁
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Call of depression Intimate warfare : Right? I mean, we all remember COD Modern Warfare, while all the rest are a blur of games that merge into one another, anyway. So, annual releases are hardly producing, “Classic Games,” anyway? Lower quality, and worse working conditions, should be an unsustainable business model? The fact that we, the consumer, just hand over our cash, without asking too many questions is on us. Maybe it’s time for Gamers to organise? A powerful consumer group, that lobbies the games companies and exposes practices, is what’s needed. Instead of former gaming magazines, that have become internet shills, or just plain advertisers, for the games companies? There’s not enough real journalism, like Upper Echelon, in this world. But, if consumers acted en masse, things would change
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@darthwiizius : “So, why not do what we always do and steal more horses from our enemies?”
“Because they are wise to us and have moved all of their women, children, civilians and pets far out of reach. Never fear though. We still have a LOT of convicts, roughly half the population of Russia by now, I should think? I’m sure they will be delighted to pull our chariots of fire into battle.”
“‘Chariots of fire,” is a good name. I like that. Did you think of it?”
“No, Herr Putler. It is what everyone calls any, ehem, ‘vehicle,’ we send into battle. Because they all wind up burning.”
“Gott in Himmel! Execute some generals! I need cheering up! Chuck a few out of some high windows! It’s not like that should be hard? Since all of the windows are smashed by protestors anyway!”
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We should be supplying Ukraine with a complete navy and airforce. Sounds expensive? Despite all the taxable income of the jobs such a program would generate? Well, just think of all the blood and treasure that can be saved if they took back Crimea in such a way that Ukraine could keep it? Ukraine at peace has as much oil and gas offshore as Russia, but is far closer to Germany, Poland, etc. All that agriculture upon which the globe has become reliant. More than 50% of the world’s Argon, vital for microchip manufacture and rare Earth elements. And the countries that did the most to help bring about that peace will be at the front of the cue when it comes to business deals.
NATO’s support has been good enough to, “defend,” Ukraine, but it’s NOT ENOUGH! It’s time NATO committed, OUT LOUD, for Ukraine’s VICTORY. They deserve nothing less. They are fighting for all of us, after all.
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@tmarkcommons174 : Under a separate clause (I think it’s section 2? Could be wrong, but it won’t be hard to look up) a nation cannot be admitted to NATO while it is at a state of war with another country. If NATO were to blindside Putin by accepting the definition he has insisted upon throughout and call it a, “special military operation,” they could say, “Fine Vlad, then Ukraine is not at war and they can join tomorrow.” This will never happen, but if it did, you will note, under that section 5 you’ve just read, that all of the other nations in NATO would be legally obligated to treat Russia’s attack on Ukraine as an attack on their own sovereign territory. This would escalate matters far beyond where they are now. Personally, I would welcome this. But I perfectly understand why most of the free world would not and thus, will not allow it to come to that.
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This may seem off topic a bit, but bare with me please? I have become suspicious of the way this presenter pronouncedly mispronounces words and have begun to wonder if there is a purpose behind it? People want to comment and correct the mispronunciation. And they do, as I have seen.
Russians do not pronounce the letter, “J,” as in, “Jesus.” Especially at the beginning of words. Moreover, this guy have never heard anyone else pronounce Gerasimov’s name the way he does. The general’s name is pronounced with a, “G,” “Guh,” for, “Gary, Graham and fat shiny Git.” As in, “General Gerasimov.”
He mispronounces specific nouns that everyone can spot, so badly and so often, that I have become convinced that it is a, “technique,” he uses to get people to comment and, thus, boost the algorithm’s response to the videos?
I used to think it might be some form of passive-aggression, trolling his audience, but I couldn’t see the point in it? What do you think? Am I going a bit mad? It’s just too common. In just about every video he settles on the weirdest pronunciations of one particular bit of grammar that are like nails on a chalkboard to so many ears that people write in the comment sections about it. Do you think it’s to get comments?
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When they prove that the riot was a Conspiracy to have a Coup, (NOT a, “spontaneous event”) and witnesses testify that they were asked to join it; maybe military generals? And when GOP members are subpoenaed to testify that they KNEW, “The Steal,” was a seditious LIE, or give their, “evidence,” for, “believing,” in it; which can only come down to the Nuremberg Defence of, “We were only following orders,” the entire country will be DEMANDING trump’s conviction! It’s little wonder that Graham, Cruz, Hawley and the rest are DESPERATE to stop it, or trade policy for it?! A week is a long time in politics, but under today’s circumstances, I’m expecting seismic shifts . . . Stay tuned, and stay active, America. It’s not over till it’s over!
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@ACME_Kinetics : Interestingly, Jake remains, “A-political.” He will not hesitate to give props to Lindsay Graham for saying he wears his, “arrest warrant,” issued by Putin, as a, “badge of honor.” And he thanks any Republican who lends their speech or support to the Ukrainian cause (which is everybody’s cause, if you love your own freedom and democracy).
This is the catch that comes with being objective and civically responsible. It makes you seem, “partisan,” to those who disagree with objective truth.
We’ve seen this phenomena take a grip on American discourse, since before 2016. Trump says something objectively false, yet so egregious that it needs to be fact checked for the sake of public interest, so the news stations not only state the fact that trump’s claims are false, but explain the facts, so there can be no objective misunderstanding. Then trump gets personally hurt by being shown to be wrong and attacks the news stations. They are forced to defend themselves with the facts, sometimes in court and, before you know it, everyone says that CNN is a, “liberal,” news station, working for the Democrats, when they’re just trying to do their jobs objectively.
In that same way, Jake is finding that objective truth puts him in unavoidable conflict with those who support the liars, be they partisan deliberately or not. But the, “trick,” has worked. The enemies of truth don’t care that they look like idiots to a rational human being. They got what they wanted. They got all the people who tell the truth to be, “identified,” with, “the liberals.”
In that way, there can be no objective truth, only, “opinion.” If you stand for truth and objectivity, you can be dismissed as just another, “Obama loving, liberal, bleeding heart, Clinton conspirator, baby eating, lefty.” So, by choosing words carelessly we risk falling into the trap of playing their game; a game that cannot be won, because it’s already rigged. You have to assume the lie to argue your case.
Jake is not now, and has never been, partisan. He’s simply telling it like it is. And it is in our best interests to think of him that way. The art of NEVER losing the game? DON’T PLAY.
Slava Ukraine, my friend. Happy new year to you. ✌️
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Soul Whisper : Oh, WAKE UP, America! They are going to prove Trump’s guilt, after the GOP withholds witnesses and evidence, and breaks their oaths of office, and let Trump WALK anyway, because the Republic has FALLEN. Half the GOP are Implicated in Trump’s many crimes, and the Trumps are facing disgrace and JAIL, the very moment Trump loses his, “protected presidential status.” They can’t NOT FIX the next election! WHY are you KIDDING yourselves, America??? This DENIAL is pusillanimous and self-ruining! The Constitution was PROVED MEANINGLESS, when it REALLY COUNTS! You have a Putin Style Dictatorship now! Because SAT there, and DID NOTHING! Thanks for KILLING Democracy, and endangering the ENTIRE PLANET, America . . . SMH
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@SUGAR_XYLER : Ouch. Ageism, is not cool. If he ever made a bad movie in the last God knows how long, I would lol. But, he is relevant. And he’s trying to rescue an industry, and to show it can be done, for others to follow where he leads. Look at the new POTUS? The oldest guy to be one, and also the most popular in US history. Age happens to all of us, if we’re lucky. Will you be as fit, handsome and successful, when you get to his age? No need to answer that, is there?
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@faithnelson6069 : Yes you do. He told you. His heart contains, “trolling.” He actually named himself so. If he wants to be taken seriously, he needs to come out from behind his coward-name and own himself. It’s not, “high minded,” to wilfully ignore the ill intentions of others. It’s just obtuse, at best. It would take less effort to go to the CDC website and be given a full, comprehensive FAQ answering every, “query,” he has. I can’t quantify exactly how malign the troll’s question was either, but I KNOW (as do you) that it was malign. Otherwise, why go to an, “opponent,” for the answers at all? When trump has told him a million times that, “the left,” are all, “liars.”? It was a fumbled attempt at a, “Gotcha’,” question. Asked by a person who was more fixated on satisfying their emotional, “need,” to score a point, than to get at the truth. In the same way you cannot cure an alcoholic, unless you start by admitting you’re an alcoholic, you cannot make progress with political chicanery, unless you acknowledge what it is.
The question may be valid. The questioner was not. Forgive my blunt arrogance, but you know I’m right.
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All lives Matter : Trump is a warmonger, trying not to look like a warmonger. And, your job is to help him with that Propaganda. But, the world has watched, while he ripped up his deal with Iran, broke America’s word, threatened and bullied them, while the Europeans have been trying to keep the peace and hold up the West’s end, without him. Now, he’s ramping up the Military presence, using the Saudis to frame them; making it look like Iran is STARTING the war, when we all KNOW it’s the LAST thing they want. And, he expects us to, “believe,” the intel coming from the SAME PEOPLE that he ROUTINELY calls, “liars,” EVERY DAY? He’s compared the CIA to, “Nazi Germany,” and we’re all meant to flip flop at his rate? America’s NOT buying it, son. Trump will have to look elsewhere for a bump in the polls. A war will finish him . . . Smh
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@Tridhos : It’s always, “irony,” and, “hypocrisy,” with these people, isn’t it? The readers in the Alt-Wrong are always spewing out quotes from Ayn Rand types, who actively campaigned against free healthcare. But, then we see she got 11 YEARS worth of continuous, FREE healthcare for her terminal cancer, until the day she died! And, rather than admit how WRONG she was, she simply refused to ever talk about it. These entitled resource sponges of this Fascist movement, that still calls itself the Republican Party, need to be stomped out of existence ✌️
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The trump (crisis troll) cult army are in pain. Probably because they know Biden and Obama SAVED the Economy, after 2008 Banking Crash, caused by Bush’s administration. They know Biden can save the Economy, because he’s done it before, and America will LOVE him for it. The Party’s over, and they’re howling at the moon, until they all get fired and, “cleaned away.” After all, when REAL investigations start, and go international, Putin will remove ALL evidence that his shell companies were farming these America-Hating trump cults, and, “getting rid,” of the trolls themselves? That’s the easy part. Enjoy life on the run, traitors ☺️
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Mike Oprisi : It’s already a, “Banana Republic,” when the reverse is true too. If, “someone at the top,” can order his own, “acquittal,” as happened at the risible Impeachment SHAM, why shouldn’t we expect that he’ll be hunting down all the people who put him there, spoke the truth when asked, or even simply failed to scream out hysterical support for Trump, loudly enough, when Trump, “felt like it”??? The problem here, is that people are still acting like this kind of thing still matters, when the Impeachment was the last nail in the Republic’s coffin. Who in their right mind, even imagines that they are “NOT” going to RIG the coming, “elections,” when we ALL KNOW if Trump is unseated, he and his family will be indicted and all go to jail? Which will lead to them, ”ratting out,” everyone from Bill Barr down to Devin Nunes, the indictment and imprisonment of the ENTIRE administration, leaving a historically disgraced skeleton of the Republican Party in its wake, to disband and flee from the press like escaped Nazis after WWII. They have SHOWN you that Democracy, law and order, and the Constitution are OVER in America, but you all keep up this DENIAL, as if, “elections,” will MEAN a GOD DAMNED THING?! And, I think you’re all doing that, because you all know, in your hearts, that being honest with yourselves can lead to to only ONE conclusion. Americans must accept they have a Russia Style, FAKE Democracy, more popularly known as a DICTATORSHIP, and be DONE with it, OR? . . . Revolution!!! There is no third option
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It’s kinda’ like they speak in a special Qult language now, right? You have to be far down the rabbit hole to get what they’re babbling about, because it’s all conspiracies and special, “understandings,” that only the, “real fans,” get. Risible.
Fox’s desperation will likely get worse. Like the politicians who are going more insane to keep their base, instead of going more honest, to gain more voters who might trust them, Fox is going off the rails, in a desperate bid to win back the least desirable viewers, instead of attempting something revolutionary like, oh, I don’t know? “Journalism,” perhaps?
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@silencedogood7297 : We’ll, they’ve done it all for Putin, so you could say that Russia has done us more harm than any hostile power since the Civil War? All of the propaganda comes out of their GRU, their troll farms in St Petersburg and all over the globe. It just gets, “laundered,” by dumb American trolls, who think they’re getting paid by fellow Americans and not an East European shell company, or the racists, who do it for free. And their media outlets do the exact same thing, with most of them, “believing,” that they’re taking their orders from Rupert Murdoch, or just pandering to their racist audience; but who is Murdoch taking his orders from, or getting his propaganda narratives from? I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find out that Murdoch, Putin and trump were all on three way conference calls once a week. Would you? . . . ✌️
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Balnazzardi : What, “elections”??? . . . Do you honestly think that the Trumps, facing jail and disgrace, the MOMENT he leaves the White House, will ALLOW, “elections”??? Have you been sleeping for 3 years? Trump will HAVE TO RIG the elections, with Putin’s help, only this time, with access to everything from the INSIDE. 2020 will be a Russia Style FAKE election. You KNOW how crooked they are, and that his Cult AND the GOP all WANT a single party system, right? What’s to STOP THEM, if Trump is NOT removed? And, what do you think will happen, when the nation cries out, because it was SO BLATANT? Another lengthy, “investigation”??? Conducted by Nunes? Or, the DOJ? THIS! RIGHT HERE! RIGHT NOW!!! THIS is the End Game. If Trump gets a, “censure,” slap on the wrist, the Republic and your, “Democratic Process,” are OVER! There’s ONE remedy that would save your Republic, and the GOP are betting that the Trump Cult HATES Dems and, “brown people,” just enough to disregard it, and BURN the Constitution. By all means, show up and vote, if you can get past the goon squads that will be encircling the voting stations? But, don’t be surprised when the paper ballots and the computer ballots don’t match? And, when the GOP says, “We’ll look into it,” perhaps you’ll all understand that you SHOULD have hit the streets and HALTED the country, back in 2016? . . . It’s already over, man. GAME OVER!
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Not sure about your Florida conclusions? They rigged Florida for the GOP. That’s coming out, bit by bit too. That Copycat Scam was repeated all over the state, by GOP funded shell companies. And as the third party, and as a beneficiary, that’s two more reasons to bust Gaetz, who appears to have coordinated it? The scam itself, though diabolical, is not a crime (yet) but it is if you’re a third party involved, or a beneficiary. And, the size of that operation? When it all comes out? ENORMOUS! It’s more than just sex crimes they’ve got him for. Watch this space, America. 😉✌️
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So, this is something to do with the black experience, but I cannot begin to guess at what this play is about. “Give me a reason to not,” what? “I said, give me a reason to not,” WHAT? “I am absolutely serious,” ABOUT WHAT? Is this, “niche,” gone mad? Or just the obtuseness of someone who doesn’t want people to want to see this play? It looks nice, sounds great, but I come away from the trailer with no more information as to whether I would enjoy watching it than I came to it with. Dumb advertising. Sorry, but annoyingly unhelpful.
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@danieb4273 : To many Americans, Vindman needs no vindication. He was punished for doing his duty. Sorry to hear about your relationship, but it may well have been for the best? Trump has cost us all something, but many have been willing to hand over their souls, cheaply. That’s why exposure and punishment is necessary. Not, “vengeance,” so much as Justice; the confidence in which desperately needs restoring. After the record smashing turnout (on both sides) and the heightened awareness in America, of all things political, we have a unique opportunity, so long as we join together and make ourselves heard. Politicians cannot afford to ignore the electorate; even those who will not pander to them like the GOP does, but those of principle are listening too. We have a civic duty to make sure they understand that we don’t just have the appetite for justice, but the NEED. We all want to move on. Which is why we want to put the possibility of a trump (or trump like) sequel to bed. They are all cowards in the GOP. That’s one thing they’ve routinely proved. So, swift, harsh, merciless Justice will set examples. Our job is to join our voices in the demand for that ✌️
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@wilywascal2024 : Except, most of the narratives that come out of F*x are sent by Putin. And Xi, these days. Tucker Carlson thinks, “America should be more like Chiynah,” apparently? He keeps doing pieces about it. But, to your point. We really should be campaigning on Sedition Laws? Fox has cried, “fire,” in a packed theatre full of agitated Nazis too many times, and they’re getting Americans killed, regularly. We used to hunt down and hang traitor propagandists who deliberately lied and caused mayhem! In living memory. I don’t say, “Hang Sean Hannity,” (necessarily 😉) but we do NEED a little law! Other countries manage it, without having ANY, “free speech,” problems. 👍
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Don C : A, “Republic,” is a TYPE of DEMOCRACY, you UTTER DOLT! Like you REALLY, “think,” we’re actually gonna’ wake up one morning and say, “Wow! Two World Wars, and a War for Independence, and our Democracy was Never a Democracy at all?” You REALLY, “think,” you can SELL that CROCK to ANY AMERICAN??? You WOULD be alarmingly pernicious, if you weren’t such a CRETIN! Try telling THAT to a Veteran? Or, ANY, serious Politician? Where does the Klan FIND you people??? 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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Oh, they care alright. What the GOP care about is having no protection from being forced to testify at the impeachment, with no 5th Amendment protections. Anyone from Graham, Hawley, Cruz and the rest, can be put on the stand, on live TV and asked what their, “evidence,” was for, “believing,” in, “The Steal.” And then get ripped apart. Or, as many of them will, when cornered, they’ll confess that they KNOW it’s a LIE! A seditious lie that put a cop in a coma with brain damage, blinded another and KILLED yet another, leaving over 50 with broken bones and other serious injuries. These, “false narratives,” are NOT FREE SPEECH! They’re Seditious Propaganda and MURDEROUS LIES! They must be outlawed!
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@danedonovan4847 : I don’t need to, “think,” it. I SAW IT. All the polling stations across the USA were live streaming. Boring, but real. Nothing untoward happened and GOP watchers were given full and complete access. I watched the LIE of, “the steal,” from its inception, to Roger Stone’s rip off for your money, and once again, the cunning part of their plan payed off, like it always does. Because people are too proud to admit they’ve been ripped off, once they’ve put their money where their mouth is. It’s called The Sunk Cost scam, or The Dead Money Swindle. Trump WILL admit he lied. I promise you. He’ll have to, to save himself. Which he won’t, but he’s too dumb to know that. You’ll see. Facts don’t care about your opinions, son 😉
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@uberneanderthal : Even in the Medieval days, the uneducated surfs NEVER had such a thing as Plague Deniers, or Anti-Leachers. Think about that? We’ve hit new levels of DUMB because regular visits to, “I’m-Right-Dot-Come-On-Man!” have literally rewired the neurones inside a certain class of people’s heads. They get addicted to their own endorphins, and find themselves taking money (or even volunteering for free!) for spending all day, every day, on channels they hate, being triggered by the news that they hate, talking to people that they hate, all because they started out racist and were easily manipulated by smarter people in a country far, far away. Such people are the strongest argument for issuing licenses before being allowed to use social media. Involving IQ tests, civics awareness and banning people with antisocial behaviours and criminal records. Before we all knew about confirmation bias, compound bigotry and endorphin addiction, we all thought the web would make us smarter. But then, people like you came along, to show us that we’d actually entered the dumbest period in human history, where racists could actually (sort of) elect a cretin like trump and STILL support him, even after he nearly got us all NUKED.
Warned you. But, at least you’ve never heard it put quite like THAT before, have you. It’s called, “original thinking,” and you should try it some time. You’ve WASTED SEVEN YEARS of your life . . . For what? . . . 🤦♂️🐑
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Interesting observation. He reminds me of the villain in Serenity, in that sense, who tells people that there’s no place for himself in the future world that he’s helping to build. He acknowledges that he is a monster, and will ultimately sacrifice his own place in paradise, just to get it built. Thanos winds up in isolation, and doesn’t even provide his world with defences to protect against anyone who might come looking for him to get revenge.
Zack Snyder seems to be trying to become the new Leni Riefenstahl for a possible Fascist dictatorship of the near future? The more I learn about him, the more disturbed I become. And the über right wing spin he seems to want to put on everything he touches, really worries me. Compare the Rawshack of the graphic novel, Watchmen, to the one of the movie, for instance? Snyder transforms him from a twisted incel, with mommy issues and a serial killer’s psychopathy, to an unlucky hero and misunderstood, lonely avenger, in the vain of the hard boiled detective that the novel shows us he deluded himself into thinking he was, who dies for his principles. And some of the projects that Snyder has in the pipeline sound chilling to me!
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Al Len : I think the people who feel HUMILIATED are the ones who Jumped The Shark over Hillary? Why HAS Trump failed to, “Lock Her Up!”? It’s been 3 YEARS, and she’s meant to be a, “staffer murdering, uranium selling, intel bleaching, Benghazi covering, getting help from Russia AND the Ukraines, Pedo Ring from under a Pizza Hut,” SUPER VILLAIN, and Trump has yet to give her so much as a Parking Ticket, despite being the most POWERFUL man on Earth, and her being his ARCH ENEMY? All his BFF’s went to JAIL? He couldn’t stop THAT, despite trying? You see, son, you Jumped That Shark SO BADLY, that trying to frame Biden, for something we ALL KNEW ABOUT when it HAPPENED, and wanted to pin a meddle on him for, just looks EMBARRASSING, to REAL Americans, now. You must CRINGE when they make you write this crap, kid? 🥴 . . . 🤣
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@American_Extremist 👈🤦♂️ 🥴 No. We don’t see them, “dropping like flies in the streets,” because they’re filling up our hospitals, pushing up our taxes and putting the biggest strain on staff who each, individually worth 100 of them! If they would just drop dead in Walmart for us, none of us would have a problem with these entitled, selfish Karens and YouTube would get some awesome videos to entertain us, with titles like, “Another Karen, Face Down In The Pumpkin Isle,” each getting a million views and loud cheers! Duuuhhhhh! . . . 🐑🤤
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@nigelhaywood9753 : It seems like a lot of journalists are, “saying this,” but they’re not the type of journalists that the heavily insulated Westminster Bubble allows to penetrate their meniscus. If you’re the kind of journalist that would make this obvious and utterly unanswerable point, you are kept well away from the sensitive earshot of the thin skinned (brown or otherwise) types that keep their grip on journalism just as tight as they do their own jobs.
Just look at who the Chair of the BBC is? A friend and distant relative of Boris Johnson’s, who arranged a meeting between Johnson and the banker who gave him a fat stack of cash to play with, yet who failed to mention any of this in the part of his application form (a mere formality, probably filled in by a staffer) that asks about potential conflicts of interests.
Instead of being scandalised by this, most of the top press have steered us away from this story, which reflects as badly on them as it does any of the goons in Westminster. Even Andrew Marr, who’s books I have bought and in whom I trusted for his frank capacity to, “tell it like it is,” described the story as, “toxic,” excusing himself from even discussing the scandal, let alone investigating it, on the grounds that appointing old boys from within the Westminster network is the way, “they’ve always done it in the past.”
So, instead of suggesting that the system of top BBC appointments has always been corrupt and might well have suited, “the way they’ve always done things,” in the early 1930’s but which desperately needs some anti-corruption policies to protect the public’s interest now; instead of suggesting that the key institution upon which much of Britain’s reputation (internationally and domestically) stands is a snake, rotten from the head down, all we get is excuses from our leading journalists.
But then I remembered to check who the publishers of Marr’s books and documentary series are, upon whom he relies for the residual payments. You guessed it, Auntie herself. So, it wouldn’t do to bight Auntie’s hand, would it? And all those contacts within the BBC to disavow him and no longer give him the inside scoop for his LBC broadcasts?
The tragedy is that most of these, “journalists,” whilst doing a fairly good job in the main, have persuaded themselves that this sort of thing is somehow, “exceptional,” and can be safely overlooked, rather than scrutinised. We can call for change, root and branch reform in other organisations; the London Met, the 1922 Committee, the fella’ who pours the drinks in the Westminster Bar! But, there are certain things we don’t question. And that, my friend, is WHY no one says the startlingly obvious retort to the likes of Suella. Because they have already agreed not to, and been promised insider access to other stories, and to be first in the question cue when yet other stories break, on the basis of such, “quiet,” little agreements.
Because people like Andrew Marr have conned themselves into thinking they’re not as much a part of that, “establishment,” as the Press Secretary who arranges these deals with them in the first place. They’re all drinking from Caesar’s cup, but many close their eyes while they drink and pretend not to taste the toxin as it goes down.
You have to be very careful about every story you read these days. Asking yourself, not just about the facts and the players in each drama, but exactly who is reporting or analysing each development, and what role do they play in it? Whether they admit it or not.
Sorry for going on so long, but you asked meaningful question which appeals to the common sense of most thinking people, and the answer, whilst meaningful, is complex. Its very complexity is another reason that the old boy network goes unchallenged. Because half the people in it, don’t know, don’t admit, don’t care, that they’re in it. Have a good day. ✌️
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Jon Morrison : Except it didn’t work this time, and now the GOP are about to face their reckoning. Moscow Mitch sees it coming, and he’s going to side with the prosecution. And by the end of that trial, any who side with trump, will be ending their political futures, and staining themselves for the historic record. Trials (real ones) have a way of doing that. And on live TV, out of the mouths of the very people who lead them to their prison cells, the rioters are going to hear their glorious leaders deciding that they DON’T want to be indicted for Perjury, Conspiracy, or worse! They’re going to hear their glorious leaders CONFESS! “The Steal ain’t real, and we all know it! We were only following orders!” Can’t wait, personally . . . 😉
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j walsh : None of Trump’s supporters even, “Believe,” Trump, at this stage. Not is the party, and not among his Trolls. In the Land Of Fake Believe, you never have to hear a, “liberal,” say, “I told you so.” And, to a Trump Tramp, “liberals,” include Conservatives, like me. America is SO f**ked if Trump survives impeachment. We’re making a Godzilla, who HATES America
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LibHunk : “Leave office”? . . . That’s the one thing they cannot afford to do! Trump will be indicted on multiple charges, if that happens. He and his whole family would go to jail, thus, “ratting out,” everyone in the GOP, from Bill Barr down to Devin Nunes. They’re NOT going to let half of their own party go to jail, and be so disgraced that they have to disband the Republicans altogether! NOT when it’s so much easier to RIG THE ELECTIONS with Putin’s help, leaving you with a, “Democracy,” just like Russia’s? Your Republic has already FALLEN, America. So, whether you love your Orange Monarchy, or hate the new Dictatorship, please DON’T perpetuate the MYTH that our elections are not ALREADY RIGGED??? That’s irresponsible . . . SMH
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@coreyham3753 : Therein lies the problem. It’s about identification. People are still unwilling to call the Republicans what they are, like the last few weeks of trump’s desperate, reality free power grab never happened? They are unwilling to call them Fascists. But, a cult of personality, who’s foundational narrative is a lie (increasingly racist in nature), who does not tolerate opposition parties, who uses violence and intimidation to get its way, is Fascist; by definition. I’ve read studies on fascism, and the way it creeps in, is the way it has here. It was the same in Spain, with Franco; in Italy, with Mussolini and in Germany, with Hitler. At first, everyone mocked and then dismissed them. Then they were forced to deal with their dictators, but constantly downplayed their evil, or worst impulses. But, never did they really address what was happening, because it happened divisively, inside people’s families. People don’t want to accept that their friends and neighbours might march them off to a camp one day. “Divide and conquer,” really works. You simply cannot, “build a bridge,” between reality and a racist lie. Even now, it’s the GOP who refuses to work across the isle, to compromise, while they are attempting to literally make it a Felony to expand voter enfranchisement! They are fascists, and you will NEVER reach a consensus with evil. The only way to deal with this, is to be real about it. Fascists are inherently evil, illogical, cowardly, liars, cruel, venal, and DANGEROUS. We can see that! But we still want to reason with them. And that is a mistake . . .
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Hijacking people’s corpses, for bogus politics? That’s the sort of thing you see in dystopia-movies! Now it’s real life.
It’s not that the Trump cult, “believes,” the Dems are, “worse.” It’s that they cannot FACE, “We told you so!” THEY were trump’s main Mark! Their donations were STOLEN. Their, “promises,” were broken! They’re just too ashamed to have that PROVED TO THEM! They are victims of the biggest con in HISTORY, and deep down they KNOW IT! Sure, “fear sells,” but WHAT they fear is the TRUTH!
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Tal Moore : Exactly: Fake outrage was a gift to Fox. So, I would urge Trump’s Opponents to keep calm, just to show we are NOT like them. But, to the Trolls, surely she’s, “just saying it like it is,” right? Trolls need to, “get a sense of humor,” right? Just, “Locker room talk,” right? ✌️
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It was interesting that he pointed out the difference, really. The Dems are doing their job in good faith, trying to convince the jury. The GOP are simply, “justifying,” trump to the mob. Why argue their case, when it’s already rigged? The Dems should accept their reality and simply get Senior GOP members, like Lindsay Graham on the Witness Stand! “The Steal,” caused their Insurrection! Ask him, “What is your evidence for the stolen election?” With no 5th Amendment, under oath? Would he risk a BILLION dollar lawsuit? Perjury & Conspiracy charges on the stand? Of course not! They should call each one who spread that seditious LIE, and force them to admit, “The Steal AIN’T REAL!” for the whole country to hear! That would break the GOP in two!
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Look at Edward Gibbon’s The Decline & Fall Of The Roman Empire, to see that we’ve known this since the 1700’s; that clinging to the old ways (“The ways of our fathers”) was the very REASON Rome fell. Not with a bang, “but with a long drawn out sigh,” as Simon Schama put it. Any historian will tell you that Carlson’s fear of change is a recipe for disaster. In fact, THE recipe for disaster. Innovation, adaptation and growth were the reasons for Rome’s success; followed, centuries later by indolence, laziness, debauchery and a growing xenophobia, which was how it all ended. He’s literally preaching for doom, but is too ignorant to know that every historian who hears his words is going 🤦♂️
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Johnny Wadd : And, the fun part is, no matter HOW MUCH Trump squeals, “Biden,” to muddy up the coin, the flip side remains PRISTINE, CLEAR, and EASY to understand: Trump sold out the very PRINCIPLE of Democracy. And, then he DID IT AGAIN, with China, on National TV, FFS! 😆
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Kinda’ true. But, I’m optimistic about the Impeachment Trial, even now. Even if we don’t get that conviction, which I still think is a strong possibility? When they prove that the riot was a Conspiracy to have a Coup, (NOT a, “spontaneous event”) and witnesses testify that they were asked to join it; maybe military generals? And when GOP members are subpoenaed to testify that they KNEW, “The Steal,” was a seditious LIE, or give their, “evidence,” for, “believing,” in it; which can only come down to the Nuremberg Defence of, “We were only following orders,” the entire country will be DEMANDING trump’s conviction! It’s little wonder that Graham, Cruz, Hawley and the rest are DESPERATE to stop it, or trade policy for it?! A week is a long time in politics, but under today’s circumstances, I’m expecting seismic shifts . . . Stay tuned, and stay active, America. It’s not over till it’s over!
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@katrostorm3075 : The bigger the threat they pose, the bigger and more resolute their opposition should be. Every time I hear a GOP call for unity, it always comes with a thinly veiled terror threat, of more civil unrest (which I doubt will ever reach that scale in the Capitol again anyway) but it just makes me all the more determined to break the GOP in two! Forget the, “verdict,” at the impeachment. Just keep in touch with your representatives and keep DEMANDING that key witnesses are forced to answer for the insurrection! On the stand, under oath, with no 5th Amendment protections, the likes of Graham, Cruz, Hawley and Greene, will have to ADMIT, “The Steal,” which caused the insurrection is a LIE of THEIR manufacture! Either that, or commit Perjury, Sedition or Conspiracy on the stand? They won’t. They will protect themselves! Let the trump followers hear the TRUTH from the mouths of those whom they followed to their own ruined careers, jail sentences and bleak futures? On live TV! Make them talk! ✌️👍
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C Ahearne : Yeeeah . . . If you study the Constitution, jiiieeeust, a little more closely, I THINK you’ll find that presidents are only supposed to, “declare a National Emergency,” when there’s and ACTUAL NATIONAL EMERGENCY, and NOT as an effeminate, EMOTIONAL reaction to not getting his own way! The only, “emergency,” right now, is Trump’s EXPLOSIVE, “Butt Hurt,” for which he requires a Proctologist, and THAT doesn’t cost $5 Billion Dollars, you HOPELESS, RACIST, LOSERS! 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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@isaiahmercado_ : And THAT, my friend, is her secret weapon. This administration is going over the heads of the GOP and the Alt-Wrong media, because they know you cannot reason with Fascism. But, you can, slowly, gradually, win over the hearts and minds of disillusioned Americans, who are still coming to terms with the fact that Donny didn’t, “round up all the Dems at Biden’s Inauguration,” and his Coup attempt was a national embarrassment. Her genius is in the fact that this administration NEVER tries to rub their noses in their fantasism, their stupidity, or their culpability in bringing America to the precipice of ruin. They NEVER strike out at trump or try to settle scores and that gives them NOTHING to talk about. It’s working so well that we’re LITERALLY seeing GOP Senators complaining aloud about how, “boring,” Biden’s Tweets are! Which is code for, “I have nothing to fake outrage at! No battle to fight! No emotions being hurt! I can’t do my job!” The American people are coming round, while trump and his enablers are going to be left out in the cold. She wins the game like Joe does: by refusing to play. Instead, she just does her job. And, let’s face it? Have you EVER seen anyone THAT GOOD? Even Josh Earnest (Obama’s guy) must be eating his heart out? I can only IMAGINE what SUFFERING Kaley MacaNinny, Kellyanne Conjob, and Ole’ Smokey Eye Sarah Sanders are going through??? That thought keeps me warm at night. 😉
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@TB688 : Yes, the story goes to great lengths to show us that Mills is a jock and a passionate person who can’t control his rage. And John Doe even tests that for himself when he pretends to be a reporter and narrowly escapes a beating from Mills. Mills kicks in Doe’s door, despite being persuaded that he could blow the whole case by Somerset; and he rages several times in the course of the story. We’re also shown that he’s not used to philosophical restraint, as he struggles with reading Dante, etc, whilst the smartest person he can think of in conversation is Yoda from Star Wars. While he is clever and witty, he is used to getting his way through his looks and charm and has never faced adversity, let alone such a life distorting tragedy as suddenly discovering he was instrumental in the murder of his own wife and manipulated by the figure of his own hatred. There’s even a moment in the car on the way to the finale where he nearly loses it, screaming at John Doe to, “sit back,” because he wants to beat him. The whole sense that Doe knew his men and exactly what they would do is what makes it all so powerful.
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Surely, the slam dunk argument is, it doesn’t matter what was, “wrong,” with his heart. If you kill a person with a disability, because that disability makes you more vulnerable, it’s still murder. His entire department said what Chauvin did was against his training, and we all saw it. It’s beyond question. And, if any jurors have been reading the comments on YouTube, all they see is people agreeing with that, or haters, deliberately saying things to troll everyone with hate. That’s not going to help Chauvin. They’re sequestered now, anyway
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I read it, to settle an argument with a friend who wouldn’t accept my point of view until I’d read that particular book. It took me three attempts, over a year. I got my revenge though.
She was staying at my place, so I had a captive audience, and I had yellow sticky notes for every page where there were plot inconsistencies, grammatical errors (I mean, only the really egregious ones or we’d have been there all night) factual errors, philosophical mistakes and then, only then, did I get around to what it was that I found morally repugnant about her rapist, arsonist, entitled, ego maniac, sociopathic, “hero,” who is basically Donald trump with an education and the capacity to finish a coherent sentence! When my friend said, “This is taking a while,” I said, “This has taken a year out of my life! One evening isn’t such a sacrifice!”
By the end, like a true far right winger, after conceding every single point I put to her, she still didn’t agree with me, saying, “Maybe I can’t put it into words, it’s just how I feel.” And that, my friends, is why it’s pointless using logic to persuade the Alt-Wrong. Stick to their emotions, and you might stand a chance? And keep it brief, like our thuggie friend here. Peace ✌️
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@CTCNathan : “It’s just her characters holding her book back,”. . . and her diction, and her grammar, and her malapropisms, and her factual errors, and her plot inconsistencies, and her implausible characterisations, and her child like comprehension of how the stock markets, real estate and legal system works, and her repugnant, immoral personal philosophy, based largely upon her mistaken, ignorant conception of how other philosophies work? . . . But, apart from all that, I’d say WhiteTuxMafiaAndFlims was being rather generous.
Honestly, now? Have you read that whole novel? I’m not even convinced that Rand had, herself! Sincerely!
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Davide Davide: If you have been paying attention, you might have also "noted" that America has requested Britain to put up the largest contingent of troops to back up US forces in Afghanistan? He has every reason to play nice with the British and he has given the Prime Minister an open goal to refuse, if she chooses. Right now, Parliament would back ANY move to piss off Trump, and they're not going to complain about refusing to put UK troops into harms way for him. He's an idiot AND a coward, and, speaking as an Englishman who moved here in 2006, I can tell you, we Brits DO NOT and would NEVER support an idiot like him for the top job in our country. But I doubt he'll come, because we respect our democracy too much to shield his snow flakey person from the heat of public opinion.
And, btw, racism is an issue in EVERY country that has mixed cultures, but America has the WORST track record of ALL functioning, "free" democracies in the world
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I thought it was the best season so far. There were no misfires, as there were at least mediocre episodes in all of the previous seasons. Even one episode, Beyond The Sea, I didn’t like the ending of was compelling throughout, as the script was so good, the performances superb and the soundtrack choices. The last episode left me in tears, through the combination of existential despair, the nostalgia (I’m about the same age as the writer, Charlie Brooker) and the song, Bright Eyes, which brought back memories of contemplating death for the first time as a child, as millions of kids around the world did when they saw the movie Watership Down back in the 1970’s. Brooker manipulated my emotions ruthlessly and I didn’t mind at all. That’s what entertainment is for.
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Well, if anyone knows about, “smug,” it’s Farage. Of course it’s very personal. The whole journey for Farage has been built on, “personality politics,” without any truth or substance to back him up. He reminds me of that oily character (sadly) named Ash in John LeCarré’s The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. Lemas says of him, “He’s an empty space. There’s nothing there!” And he means a very similar thing. Once you lift the, “performance,” away and ask grownup questions about, “policy,” “foundation,” “facts,” “costs,” “statistics,” there is literally NOTHING there, other than lies.
Cameron is one the Tories’ greatest assets. He still has some credibility with conservative voters. (Lord knows why?)
Farage’s problem is the same as Braverman’s. When the cold, hard facts explode your, “policy,” nonsense, you can’t talk about them. You must redirect public discourse, urgently. And the only reliable way to do that is to get personal.
It worked for Braverman, who dodged all questions at the dispatch box regarding the workability of her plans, the costs, the active harm it was doing to innocent people, by simply spewing out a series of epithets about the, “Soy bean eating, Guardian reading, wokerarty,” etc. which dominated the headlines and became the talking point of all the editorials, opinion pieces and BBC interviews in its wake! We never got ANY direct answers as to the costs (human or otherwise) from parliamentary discussions! Not once! Not from Braverman.
But we did get a dividing line drawn through the metropolitan political landscape, which gave us protest marchers, angry far right activists suddenly back in the headlines and new, apparently equally urgent, discussions about our own personal freedoms and our rights to freedom of speech and freedom of expression. Oh, it worked so beautifully for that twisted little harpy that she decided to make that, “technique,” a lifestyle choice!
And where did this parvenu learn her techniques if not at the feet of the drama QUEEN of harpy’s egg layers himself, Nigel Farage. Who needs facts, accountability or an estimate of the costs when they’ve got personal attacks, personality politics, populism and popular anger to misdirect?
It’s little wonder Braverman wants to get into the harpy’s nest with the harpy queen himself. They’re otherwise idle and superfluous anyway. So they can spend all their time circling the turrets of Westminster, telling all the black crows to, “go back to where they came from,” and choose their targets to swoop down upon, getting all tangled in their hair if they’re lucky, flapping their harpy wings and squawking at the top of their lungs, causing a horrific spectacle that focuses all public discourse on their attacks without them ever having to account for themselves! By the time someone steps up with the appropriate shotgun it’s too late, as they are back up in the battlements, leaving the press circle standing around their victim to ask, “What was it like to be dive bombed by a harpy?” And, “Did that harpy have a point?”
But I still think it won’t be too long before Braverman finds that she is suddenly the cuckoo in Farage’s nest, to be shunned like the Ugly Duckling. And that will serve her right.
Yes, “Thank God for Cameron,” indeed! Hold the line!
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@josh8494 : After WWII, we actually hunted down and HUNG the seditious, propagandist, TRAITORS who openly attacked our democracy and got people KILLED! Now we allow Fox to cast doubt on the election, over 700 TIMES (as counted by Conservative analyst, Max Boot) between Nov 7th and the riot of Jan 6th, and we let them do it on American soil, and take profits from their shares in the company! It’s not about, “free speech,” when you’re dressing LIES as, “news,” that get people KILLED!? It’s flat out SEDITION and an open hatred of the American way of life! It’s active propaganda, designed to destabilise democracy and the state, AND IT WORKS! We should be DEMANDING that it’s OUTLAWED and that (w)anchors are held to account! At the harshest, swiftest levels that law allows! I mean, WTF, America???
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becka king : Woah, DUDE! I am as ANIT-TRUMP as they COME! I have campaigned, joined groups, emailed, phoned and written to Congress AND the Senate and attended and SPOKEN AT Town Halls, on a range of issues, but MOSTLY calling for the IMPEACHMENT of TRUMP!
So, just HOW, you leapt to THAT conclusion is utterly BEYOND me??? I said NOTHING that could have lead you to that conclusion??? But, you know what? Perhaps you should consider WHAT “Racism” IS??? As it it BUILT on PRE-JUDICE! Of the kind YOU levelled at me! So, maybe we don’t NEED OFFENSIVE, THOUGHTLESSLY HOSTILE MORONS on our side???
I am REMOVING the likes I gave you, and hoping you will not treat EVERY “ALLY” you meet, with the same PREJUDICE, when they ask a SINCERE QUESTION!
See you at the impeachment show.
Oh, and, F**K YOU TOO, IDIOT 🤔
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becka king : Nah, you’re just being defensive now. Has it not occurred to you, that not EVERY person on the planet is AWARE of every single racial epithet that exists? I just wanted to know what, if ANY “relevance” the guy’s comment had to this video? Apparently none, right? And, apparently, “rice and beans,” has a racial stereotyping connotation? So, MY being ignorant of that fact, upsets you? Despite the fact that, as a political historian, I could probably blow your sensitive, fluffy, explosive, triggered little mind with facts that have a serious bearing on the issues of racism, of which you NO NOTHING?
You are doing nothing constructive, here; just blowing off steam and alienating opponents AND would be allies; making YOU as big a part of the PROBLEM as ANY Trump “fan” or casual RACIST out there. And your PRIDE prevents you from owning your error, so you make the problem worse, by doubling down in true, Trump style.
We REALLY DON’T WANT people like you, challenging racists or Trump fans. You ARE the problem. A useful idiot, driving the converted into deeper conviction, and pushing the undecided into the enemy’s camp.
And, for the record, RACISTS ARE SCUM, as are ALL MEMBERS OF THE TRUMP CULT. Hold your tongue and STOP damaging the cause. Some of us are CONVINCING others of the TRUTH. Some of us use reason and logic, to PERSUADE. And some of us CARE enough about the fate of the country AND the planet, to set our own EGO to one side. Try it some time, instead of acting like TUMP?
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I mean, let’s see, Amber? What really gave you away? For me, it was the deposition recording that said all you needed to know.
When she slipped up and revealed she’d already sold her story to TMZ before going to court to file for divorce; when she was proved to have lied about the makeup she claimed to cover her, “bruises,” with as the company that makes that makeup testified that this kit didn’t yet exist; her slip up when she referred to her makeup as her, “bruise kit,” her lie about giving $7 million to charity (ask the actual charities whether they see a difference between a pledge and a donation?); her lie about her, “broken nose,” when photos from the very next day showed her looking her best; all of the actual witnesses refuting every word she spoke; her recorded confession of hitting Depp on multiple occasions; and her literally and figuratively shitting in their bed!
And this, boys and girls, is why we DON’T, “believe all women,” regardless of their allegation, but trust to EVIDENCE, FACTS AND THE TRUTH. The fact that the Me Too movement are not celebrating Depp’s victory and applauding his low key, dignified refusal to take victory laps has undermined my faith in their agenda completely. If anyone, “harmed,” the cause of abused women, it was Amber Heard. She should be locked out of any and all studios, from Hollywood to the news rooms. Did Kevin Spacey or Harvey Weinstein get to be interviewed in this way? The hypocrisy is disturbing.
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RakaZet - Black Squad : No. “Sarcasm,” is meant to be witty. THAT, my racist little Trump Toddler, was, “Butt Hurtary.” But, do TRY to stick with ONE of your YouTube, “characters,” when your Trolling, “Tyler Clark,” er, I mean, “thejoshno,” or whatever the hell you are? Thanks for playing . . . You may cry now 🤣
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William H : I have to admit, a sick as you are, constantly cruising YouTube to find gay sex, instead of using a dating site like Normals, for a Trump Tramp, you do make me lol. I have this image of you, with all your jizz-stained Justin Beaber posters, drooling onto your computer, and angrily mashing the keyboard with your fists and head, getting the occasional electric shock, from all that dribble 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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He sees what the Impeachment Trial is going to do to the GOP. And that the, “verdict,” won’t mean ANYTHING! Whichever way it goes! Senior GOP members are going to be forced to admit that the reason for the Insurrection, “The Steal,” ain’t real! They cannot refuse testimony, or take the 5th. And the cult of trump is going to hear from the mouths of Graham, Hawley, Cruz, Giuliani, and the trump’s, that they LIED to their cult! From their own mouths, on LIVE TV! They gave up their liberty, their jobs, their futures and have criminal records, for a GOP LIE! Out of trump’s loser head!
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Killy: DT05 is a desperate Troll, who wants to “hurt” people’s “feelings” in the same way that his feel hurt, right now. He was telling everyone that Kavanaugh would be appointed, by now, and he knows the gig’s up for Fat Donny and the Sunshine Stealers, so his racist plans aren’t gonna’ work out. It’s hard to deal with Stupid, but dealing with HIS kinda’, “Butt Hurt,” Stupid, is quite a challenge. Not worth your superior intelligence, in my own personal opinion, but easy to wind up, for sport 😉
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@hanma1705 : Trump was told by Bill Barr that a, “self-pardon,” would not stick. He’d spoken to SCOTUS judges about it, already, and off the record. They would be bound to find it, “Unconstitutional,” and would be forced to strike it from standing. He told him that, on the same day that trump gave Barr his, “secret,” catch-all pardon, covering his time as head of the DOJ. It was the last time they ever spoke . . . FACT 😉
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johnslavin2270 : As to the morality of my view, that can only be judged by every individual for themself. But, for me, exploitation of this type is unconscionable. As to the legality of what these, “employers,” are doing, that is all on the statute books of national and international law, for you to read at your leisure.
As to statistics of the finances, there are two answers to that, which I offer in lieu of having any figures to offer you: 1) There is the common sense conclusion that an employer who does not pay tax or insurance for their, “employees,” is robbing the state of income. And employees who do not pay income tax are also robbing the state of income. Three sources of income absent from the economy, which yet must provide services, education, healthcare, street maintenance, policing, etc for these people, whether they show up on the books or not.
2) You will not find any of the five major parties in Parliament who disagree with this obvious (not received) common sense conclusion. Therefore, to deny it would be to contradict all parties simultaneously. I say this because, if you take a look at the manifestos of each party, and particularly the one you support, (or at least voted for) you will find in that section, the same conclusions I have just laid out for you, but with their unique take on that; especially when it comes to the best course of action.
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Lew Ironman 1995 : Well, consider Prohibition, and how that didn’t change people’s drinking habits one bit, except to make it cool and daring to drink, for the young. And, THAT gave us Al Capone and the Five Families. Banning drugs had the same effect, with the, “War on Drugs,” turning into one of the mostly costly (in blood and treasure) losing battles that the US has EVER engaged in. So, yeah, I’ll stick with my original thesis, thanks. By trying to, “Control,” which rappers are, “OK,” and we KNOW that what he really means is, “Those that don’t encourage Protest or thinking,” Putin is more likely to destabilise his own position; while creating a few martyrs and increasing the sales of rap around the world. I would not be even slightly surprised to learn that Husky has just seen a spike in sales, since this story came out? Would you? They are WAY DUMBER than you think
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I heard about the ISW’s (Institute for Studies in Warfare) assessment, which bares out my own comment last week. That Putin seems to be deliberately reducing Prigozhin’s Wagner group, whilst blocking his attempts to refill his ranks from gyms, clubs and prisons around Russia. Russia’s internal wars mean that Ukraine has not faced properly trained, equipped and supported soldiers for some time now, but just sheer overwhelming numbers, with occasional injections of special forces groups, here and there, but not in any significant numbers.
I do not fear for what might happen when the Russians finally do put their best on the front lines, as they lost their very best in the battle for Kiev and their failed invasion attempts around the whole eastern half of Ukraine last year. Putin might think he’s buying time to train and equip his latest swathe of conscripts, but they simply will not have the experience, will or matching equipment to halt Ukraine’s Spring offensive.
Once Putin has less Ukrainian real estate than he began with in February of last year, combined with new countries joining NATO and the sheer financial losses Russia has suffered, all topped off with China’s visit making it clear that Putin cannot expect any significant under the table assistance, and Russia are now China’s junior partner, his position as leader will be untenable. Unless Russia breaks up and becomes like North Korea with China’s assistance - while China soaks up the populations of Russia’s southern regions into their borders, because, “populations,” (particularly young people) are what China so badly needs right now, I can’t even see how Putin survives into next year?
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Ellen Kelley : Good point. She will dismiss this, as someone doing something to her, as a, “political,” statement. She lacks the capacity for introspection, and it won’t even OCCUR to her, that this was a MORAL STATEMENT. I wouldn’t serve Gobels, EITHER. And it will do her kids GOOD to go home, thinking, “Why DO people HATE my mom, SO MUCH? Maybe, I should Google some stuff?”
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If a trial is politically motivated, especially by those in power, one should attend the trial and expose that fact in hopes of correcting the laws. If one shows repeated contempt of court, we should not be angry that the individual gets punished by that court, we should be angry that so many get away with it. Paula Vennels committed perjury yet no one wants to even address that. Why? No one has even appeared in court over the Grenfell tower mass corporate manslaughter. Why? I could go on.
Yes, this could just be a Tory hoping to appeal to the centrists by saying, “Look how we don’t support Nazis,” whilst simultaneously courting the very man who is robbing them of their votes and who poses the most serious threat to their future.
But if Robinson can prove he had no involvement in this leak; or, more importantly (since this is how our legal system works) if the prosecution cannot prove that he was directly responsible in some way for the leaked video, then he will walk free and have been handed even more ammunition to claim state persecution. I would assume that an attorney general would not be stupid enough to chance his arm on a gamble unless he had some sort of evidence?
But it is the Tories we’re talking about, who have long since abandoned rationality and logic, so who knows? Maybe Mr Robinson hurt the feelings of a Tory, or a Tory family member? That would be as plausible a rationale for their behaviour in any given circumstance.
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Well, it seems that even Andrew Marr can’t see beyond his own nose on this one. His last guest was another ex-BBC Chair who was politically biased and known for his financial support for parties, so we’re meant to accept the, “Don’t worry, dear boys and girls, we’ve always done things this way,” apparently? There’s no one in the studio to say to Marr, “Just because previous Old Boys from the Old Boy Network have disagreed with Number 10 during their tenure as BBC Chair, that doesn’t signify ANYTHING!” His own logical fallacy seems to have gone right over his own head. As the great Paul Massaro likes to point out on his YT channel, “Just because it’s vaguely, ‘legal,’ doesn’t make it less corruption!” The argument that they’ve always been donors and friends of the party in power SHOULD be heard as a DAMNING INDICTMENT of a broken system and an exposé, not a, “So it’s all fine,” white wash!?
It just goes to show that even trusted journalists can get infected by Westminster Myopia when they spend too long inside the bubble. His response SHOULD be, “So, it’s always been a corrupt way of doing things and people should be appalled and calling for new laws to protect one of the world’s most valued broadcasters from bias, and preserve its independence!”
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@sk.43821 : He’s using the term in the way it is understood worldwide, rather than any special meaning that the Americans attribute to it. Populists like Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Franco, Mao, Pol Pot, etc; populists who use the cult of their personality as their tool for politics, so that people ignore the broader policies of their alleged party, or blame any mistakes on that party, rather than their populist leaders. He’s obviously thinking of Putin in particular, but with Hungary and Belarus on their borders, the Ukrainian grasp of populism will be more honed than the average westerner.
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DragonFae16 : “Wag the dog.” A distraction, to have Americans look away from the sham of the GOP fixing Trump’s Impeachment. The Republic has FALLEN in a COUP, organised by GOP members who face jail time if Trump is removed. And by the crime family that would all go to jail, the moment Trump lost his presidential, “protected status.” They HAVE TO RIG 2020’s, “elections,” with Russia’s help. It’s that or JAIL. So they have taken away your Democracy, to save a bunch of crooked, incompetent, evil idiots. Their only concern is that Americans might RISE UP, which is why the go to Iran distraction, AGAIN. WHY ARE YOU ALLOWING THE END OF THE REPUBLIC, AMERICA??? . . . Smh
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@seanpatrick1243 : Ah yes . . . Ayn Rand, that darling of the Right, who was so vocally against state funded healthcare, yet who spent the last eleven years of her life soaking up the taxpayer’s dollars, which paid for the treatment of her incurable cancer that she didn’t want to pay for. And Machiavelli, who was tortured and tossed out of his City State’s affairs, and who spent the last years of his life sucking up to the reinstated Medici’s, begging to be allowed back in, despite having conspired against them. He dedicated The Prince to the head of their family, and it never occurred to him that his book was in such poor taste, tone deaf and of such utterly scandalous content, that no one in their right mind would endorse the man who just published a tome on how to manipulate the state (using murder, threats, betrayal, blackmail and any other crime that comes to hand) just after having come back into power (using many of those methods) while their government was still unstable. Even Donny wasn’t dumb enough to publish a book called, “I Cheated My Way Into The White House And Here’s How I Did It.”
Both are fascinating to read, in their own ways. But, GOP, “thinkers,” went in there without a responsible adult to hold their hands, put two plus two together, and came up with, “Orange.” Maybe the GOP could use some grownups to educate them? Maybe they’d understand why they keep failing so badly? But, first they’d have to learn how to admit it? 🤷♂️🙄 . . . ✌️👍
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Pamela Ramsey : It really is Orwellian, right? Not even Trump fans don’t, “believe,” Trump. They have chosen to abandon ideology, for greed and racism. And, to help prevent the TRUTH, like the Tax Returns from coming out, and confronting them with the TRUTH! We’re kidding ourselves, if we think the, “Elections,” will NOT be RIGGED. Far worse than 2016, from the INSIDE, helping Putin’s goons. Trump HAS TO GO, or the Republic is OVER!
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Joseph F : ‘Coz you formed YOUR, “morality,” based on what a sexual deviant has to say, right? Trump fan, right? It’s ironic that you LOVE the HATE for victims, yet, “Poor Me,” Trumpoids also LOVE to play the, “victims.” I don’t think he should be banned, I’m just astonished that all you Trump fans are cool with being sex pests, now. Trump SO has to GO . . . SMH
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You should be doing this right now! The GOP are facing jail and disgrace, and literally STEALING your Democracy, from under your noses! You’ve SEEN the post boxes, literally being collected up and stolen from the streets! You’re all waiting for an election that is CLEARLY NOT GOING TO HAPPEN! And then you’ll protest, when it’s ALREADY TOO LATE, and Bill Barr’s Secret Police units will be expanded enough to suppress you, all over America. You should be halting the country NOW, and getting in front of their election RIGGING, while they’re still vulnerable? But, you’re all still hoping that it will magically get sorted out, like every other legal and Constitutional process has FAILED to do in the last 4 years! Maybe America wants a Dictatorship, in its heart of hearts? That’s the only explanation I can think of? Why else are you sitting on your asses, while they literally, BLATANTLY, STEAL YOUR REPUBLIC?
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If there’s any, “blame,” to go around, it is to be shared equally between Biden and trump. Biden is honouring trump’s agreement and deadline. Joe has explained that many allies simply wouldn’t take their exit window, and that the, “government,” refused to cooperate with America’s exit strategy, hampering it all the way. Ripping off the bandaid was Joe’s only move. He was NOT the, “nation builder,” nor was he responsible for Iraq, or failing to go after the Saudis who caused all of this. Remember that, and ask yourself? Could you have done better? . . .
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Alexander Caine : Let me Trumpsplain it to you, so a child could understand, son? It’s like the Fourth Wall in drama. You don’t break it, and address the audience directly, without breaking the illusion of the play or movie. In the same way, as Putin has carefully explained to his puppet regime, you only get to KEEP your Dictatorship if you NEVER ADMIT that it’s a DICTATORSHIP. You, “use,” the legal system, where it can be exploited, and only break the Fourth Wall, when there’s no alternative. Flynn obviously has plans, NOT JUST to get free again; he’s returning to, “public life,” in some way, and needs his, “excuses,” to provide him with JUST enough, “plausibility,” to maintain his Cabinet Position of Chief Traitor To The Trumpskis. It’s complicated, so I know you’re not grasping it. But, the grownups Know, and you don’t matter, OK, son? . . . 😉
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Kenneth King : There aren’t any of those. Trump’s Cults all KNOW he’s full of shit, and they PRETEND to, “believe,” him. From his Secretary of State, down to the MAGA hat wearing morons at his Hitler Youth rallies. They simply DON’T CARE. They are HAPPY that Trump’s Coup worked out. They’re GLAD Democracy is at an END. So long as they get to FAKE IT, and go through the motions of, “Voting,” in 2020, KNOWING that the results are ALREADY RIGGED, they see it as just another chance to have a dig at, “the left,” (whoever TF they are?) with a popularity contest that has about as much, “validity,” as a Miss Universe Contest in Saudi Arabia, where the one in the Orange Burkha has paid them all for their votes. You need a BIG distraction, when your putting the POTUS on, “Trial,” in a, “Trial,” where witnesses are NOT allowed to testify, evidence is NOT allowed to be presented, and the, “Jury,” consists of Trump’s CONSPIRATORS who would GO TO JAIL THEMSELVES, if Trump lost his, “Protected, Presidential Status.” THAT would be like publicly ADMITTING that the republic has FALLEN. So, they had to get their boss man, Putin, to arrange this SHIT SHOW with Iran. Iran has spilled NO American blood, so far, and we’re meant to think they believe they’ve settled the score? It’s just a SHOW, that they had to put on, because the X-Factor and Love Island simply weren’t enough this time. After Trump completes his THIRD term, and can say that he has, “beaten Obama,” his daughter, Ivanka, will become your first female POTUS. And YOU WILL celebrate this outcome, as to refuse to go along, by this time, will be likely to get you arrested and disappeared. They will be consolidated by then, and Europe will be the last, shrinking, hold outs, clinging to semi-democracies, under constant attack from the various dictatorships of the globe, lead by America. Australia will have fallen long ago, having had a racist revolution which resulted in Aborigines having been OUTLAWED, along with ALL foreigners. The entire continent of Africa will be a GIANT SWEAT SHOP, owned by China and Russia, but the US will be allowed to buy shares. And, everyone will be too fucking scared to complain about their Dictatorship, as the rumours about the Political Readjustment Centres will be TERRIFYING. And, YOU will be among the last generation on Earth, who can remember Democracy, making you unemployable in the white collar market. As you scrape the shit from your mouth, where a passing Republican teenager decided to take one there, just to prove to his friends that he LEGALLY could, for a larf, you will recall the heady days, when Democracy was a thing, but you will never say that out loud. As that would be a crime, and it’s already bad enough, having a bar code on your forehead, marking you out as the lower class pleb you now are. So, you will thank the teenager for noticing you exist, as his girlfriend idly forces a broken bear bottle into your rectum, (because, why not? She’s bored too) and you will regret not taking your chance to have a second revolution, back in 2019, when you had the chance. And, as the blood spurts from your torn anus, you will notice what looks like an ambulance coming to your rescue. But, it will turn out to be just the street cleaners, also with bar codes on their foreheads, who have come to toss you into the back of their van, because you are making a mess in the street. A crime for which you will now be sent to the Political Readjustment Centre . . . SMH
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My best guess is that Prigozhin was after a settlement and forcing the issue, all dressed up to look like he would take Putin’s throne. Shoigu is in as much trouble as Prigozhin now, being under virtual house (or office) arrest, while a video was released of him inspecting troops (probably weeks ago) without any write up, context or voice over on Russian Telegram, apparently. That’s a very Russian thing, like playing Swan Lake to accompany a test card, while there’s an upset, noises off, throughout the country and no one wants to get arrested for showing literally anything on TV. A meaningless place filler video, for people to speculate about while all the internal power plays and reshuffling are settled.
No one even knows where Putin is! Last seen fleeing Moscow two nights ago! He could quite literally be anywhere from a bunker in Syria, the top office of the Kremlin or in his grave and I would not be shocked at any of those outcomes!
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@ksb2112 : A DICKtatorship apparently. With the Propagandist in Chief back in the Orange Office. These Confederate insurrectionists have abandoned all pretence of democracy, constitution or even basic laws, let alone any, “love,” for our Republic. The answer is, they want dictatorship, pure and simple. And only the trials of trump and his enablers, in which they will be forced to admit their lies, to protect themselves, and have their other crimes exposed, will heal America now. The truth is necessary
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Pisteuo Stew : That’s different. Trump says it’s, “OK,” and even, “jokes,” at his rallies, about, “shooting down Hispanics at the border,” so you can’t go all snowflake about Trump getting, “death threats,” when he has designated them, “just jokes,” can you? But, Trump shoots himself in the foot, a LOT . . . 🙂
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Not certain that you’re making a point about Israel’s desire to commit genocide, but even you must admit, your quote there is highly, “interpretive,” don’t you think? I note, even one commenter, above, seems to have fallen for your, “slight of hand.” He refers to a gesture, not words. He interprets it and transposes his whole thought process into coming up with his own words. He could just as easily have said, “He waved his hand in a gesture which seemed to say, ‘welcome everyone in as equals.’”
That’s why such a point of view would be inadmissible in a court as, “evidence,” of anything. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t doubt that there was some truth to his quote. Maybe he nailed it? Or maybe he applied his own bias? Knowing what I know of the man under discussion, his history and character, I would have guessed that his gesture (if he truthfully did make such a gesture and was asked this question?) more likely meant, “Who knows?” or simply, “I don’t know. Don’t ask me.” Indeed, perhaps it was a gesture of exasperation toward the man asking the question?
My point being, such quotes, in this context are more appropriate to an Alan Partridge book . . . “he seemed to say.”
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If any act leans SO HEAVILY, with its full weight, into what are normally identified as egregious sexual stereotypes, it’s drag artists, isn’t it? Hyper feminised language, mannerisms, jokes, etc? Is it just me, or is there some sort of stark hypocrisy at play here? No, I don’t have any problem with a drag artist doing their thing as part of a children’s entertainment. And if you throw education into the mix, even better. But, don’t punish little Timmy for opening a door for his sister, when he just saw Widow Twanky waiting for Aladdin to do the same for her, chastising him for being slow about it?
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Alan aka: It’s apparent, from your, “discourse,” that you don’t read about the, “business,” world. I’m no expert myself, but I do read enough to KNOW that Trump is a business failure, by any reasonable measure. And, that he’s a standing joke in the New York Property Developer Industry. You can look it up, son? The real question is WHY you just don’t care? The TRUTH is, you are either being paid to Troll for Trump, or you’re one of Trump’s victims; who gave money, as SO MANY have by now, and you, “feel,” humiliated at being PROVED wrong. You let Fox talk you into HATING your fellow Americans, SO MUCH, that you actually WANT a Dictatorship, and the END of the Republic. At least then, you’ll never have to look your reflection in the eye, and admit the TRUTH, even to yourself, right? . . . In your heart, you know I’m right . . . Smh
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Humble one : I was thinking that. We’ll be LUCKY to see them Struck Off, given that these were financial crimes, so they’ll get a fine, be told to pay back the money, and be BACK OUT, AND AT IT AGAIN, WITHIN A YEAR . . . I don’t know why, but they make me think of that obtuse couple in Better Call Saul, that just weren’t willing to face REALITY, even when Jimmy catches them Red Handed? I mean, HOW MANY TIMES did they have to REPEAT THE PROCESS to get to THAT KIND of life-changing amount of cash? . . . Mean SCUMBAGS, who won’t be able to show their faces in THAT town any more, but will pop up, like a rash, somewhere else . . . SMH . . .
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Jeannie : But, this episode does prove that Trump’s fans fake their, “belief,” in Trump. Otherwise Alabama, Trump Country, would have taken emergency measures, right? Certainly, before the Weather Service corrected him? But, they, “did,” NOTHING. Proof, if proof were needed, that Trump’s Trolls live in the Land Of Fake Believe. So long as he remains greedy and a racist, they’ll pretend to, “believe,” anything he says. revealing, right? 🤔
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Remember trump’s Freudian Slip? “Herd Mentality,” about two days before the vote? I think that (and his Covid crimes) were what cost him the election? Chilling to think he might have skated if it wasn’t for that? But, at least Jan 6th and subsequent events have shown Americans what the rest of us all knew. Now, they just need crushing at the midterms, to break their fever, once and for all. It’s not like anyone can even PRETEND they, “back the blue,” now trump’s calling for revenge killings on COPS? Anyone doubting that the GOP’s Coup attempt is ongoing? I give you Donny’s incitement to murder cops, within a WEEK of their party saying it was OK to shoot dead a healthcare worker, merely for being on your lawn! But, someone trying to save your life with Covid outreach is a, “threat,” whereas a government trained military killer, with a violent mob at her back, coming to, “hang Mike Ponce,” is the one who should have been invited inside for Covfefe and cookies??? . . . Well, they can’t pretend they, “back the blue,” now, can they? . . . SMH
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Cthulhu Christ : I don’t need to, “debate,” a guy who’s only reason for spreading lies and hate, on a channel that he hates, talking to people that he hates, is because he’s afraid the the TRUTH may finally get out, and he’ll have to admit that he was CONNED by the CON MAN in chief. I prefer being funny. But, tell ya’ what? You try making an, “argument;” NO click bait, and KEEP IT BRIEF (I only read your first paragraph) and I’ll show you, in SHORT order, how and why you ARE so WRONG? OK? 😊
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I wonder if such people ever stop and think, “How did my life go so wrong?” In the way a grave robber might think, “This is not how I saw my life turning out,” as he wipes rotting flesh from his hands? The guy makes a living, screwing over the weakest minded, most vulnerable, credulous idiots, for their cash and rage. Either that, or he’s actually sincere, which just makes him mentally ill! Either way, he cannot be a happy camper. I’m glad Carl & Benjamin take the time to show his evil to the rest of us. This is what happens if you don’t study at school, kids. ✌️
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“We demand open meetings!” “Wait! You can’t have open meetings!” “We demand to be let in!” “Wait! We ARE in the meetings!” “Show me the EVIDENCE!” “Wait! I won’t LOOK at the evidence!”
We are SO PAST the point, where ANYONE actually, “believes,” Trump, in the GOP, or in the Cult. They stick with him because they HATE Dems MORE than they, “love,” our country. They WANT a Dictatorship, MORE than a Republic. They WANT a Putin Style Single Party State, with a FAKE Opposition. Impeachment is the END GAME. If Trump is NOT removed, they’ll GET WHAT THEY WANT, and the Republic will be OVER. Don’t look to elections to fix this. They can’t and won’t. They’ll be RIGGED
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@Rajax32 : You’re the one who’s wasted 5 years of your life, living on channels you hate, to talk to people you hate, about all your issues with hate, madam? MSNBC and CNN live in your head, and because I point that out, your come back is to imitate me? The highest form of compliment, according to Oscar, you know. Clearly, I got inside your head, and under your skin. Feel a little itch, do we? 😉
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Johnf275 : Your, “lawyer,” has to show up and demonstrate those, “legal grounds,” kid. You don’t know the law, so stop pretending, as you just make yourself look stupid, son. And, what, “standing,” does the IRS, HAVE? . . . What’s the dog in White House Counsel’s fight? . . . HOW is it legal to say you will ignore ALL, FORTHCOMING, subpoenas? It’s that sort of flat out Gravity Denying that I’m talking about, son. Your bollox just makes everyone MORE suspicious . . . Not to MENTION that these were the Campaign Promised Tax Returns, that Donny SHOULD be “BOASTING” about, right? . . . Dear GOD, you’re DUMB! 🤣
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Thank you, Anna, for asking the difficult questions.
I knew nothing else, being born in 1967, in England. I saw the Cold War flair up from time to time, but I did not live through the worst part of it, The Cuban Missile Crisis. In the same way that we didn’t see the fall of the Berlin Wall, or the fall of the Soviet Union, coming (and anyone who tells you they did is making things up or, “misremembering”) we were all fooled into thinking that the Cold War was over.
The line in the movie, Terminator II: Judgement Day, is now famous for reflecting the west’s attitudes in the late 1990’s into the turn of the century; “The Russians? Aren’t they our friends now?”
What I have learned since then is that the Cold War never really ended for Putin and we are now finally waking up to that threat, whilst we are in the midst of Cold War II.
Russia has always been incompetent and reckless in both its attitude to fissile nuclear materials and their secretive default behaviour makes the world a much more dangerous place than any, “threats,” Putin makes. Whilst I can PROMISE any worried person that Putin will NEVER fire a nuclear missile, I would urge that same person to pay close attention to Russian foolishness, as disastrous accidents have already occurred under the Soviet’s watch. Chernobyl is in Ukraine after all. Though this was not a, “weapon,” it remains a perfect argument for how Russia’s stupidity and corruption is too out of control for them to be allowed to keep nuclear weapons, and their nuclear power should be supervised by the west.
No, Putin will never fire a nuke in anger, as he’s actually getting ALL of the, “value,” of his nukes right now, by startling our over-reactive western media outlets. He’s getting all of the, “bang for his buck,” out of these threats, and also the west’s reluctance to, “escalate,” conflicts with Russia. If he fires just one small tactical nuke, that’s over and the west’s reaction is likely to be swift and overwhelming, and Putin knows this. And a narcissistic coward like Putin would never commit suicide in this manner, because he’s obsessed with his own, “legacy.” He does not want to be remembered as being worse than Hitler, Pol Pot and Stalin rolled into one, as, “The man who destroyed the world.” Hated by all who survive to rebuild after him, with a name that is more evocative than Satan? I don’t think so.
So, knowing it would guarantee that he loses this and all other wars, no, he will not do it. Knowing it would wreck any hopes of a legacy, no, he will not do it. Knowing he is a coward, who would never invite a confrontation he could not win, no, he will not do it.
But, might there be an accident? I’d say the odds are around 50/50 right now. And we ought to DO SOMETHING about that.
Slava Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇬🇧✌️👍
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If you think next year’s, “elections,” can fix this problem, you’re kidding yourselves, America. What choice will Trump have, but to rig 2020, with Putin’s help, so he doesn’t lose his job and go to jail, if he is not REMOVED by Impeachment? His guilt was never in question. Only whether there’s enough Americans who HATE Dems SO MUCH that they’re willing to let the Republic fall, and be replaced by a Putin Style, single party state. But, that’s what they WANT, right? And, they look set to get it . . .
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While I love Fareed’s show and always learn something new from every piece of analysis he offers, I sometimes find his take maddeningly obtuse. This was one of those days.
There really is no point in the whole, “Coulda’, Woulda’, Shoulda’,” stuff now, Fareed. Of course it will get way worse! Russia’s, “federation,” is destined to break up into several countries, with China already eyeing the south eastern states that were formally Chinese before, needing a population boost as badly, if not more than, Russia does.
That’s inevitable now, and that may well be entirely Putin’s fault, but it’s not like the west can do anything to halt that at this stage, as they once could? If they had forced Russia out of Crimea in 2014, or if Obama’s, “red line,” in Syria had been more than an empty bluff when Putin used sarin gas on their population, we may have been looking at a different scenario now? But as things stand, Putin is determined to retain power at any cost, which will result in a much smaller Russia being China’s vassal state, with several new independent countries seeking western help, while others fall into Xi’s lap.
All we can do is assist Ukraine to win quickly, thus maintaining more control, rather than dragging this out so that Putin’s opponents have more time to organise and make covert alliances. We need to build relations with the potential break away leaders. Especially the pro-westerners who don’t want to wind up being a vassal of China’s.
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It’s kinda’ Darwinian. The cult have confused, “recovery,” rates, with, “survival,” rates. I know an ex-firefighter, with scarred lung tissue. She didn’t even know Covid could do that to her. She can’t ever fight fires again, for the rest of her days. Others with organ failure, I heard about, on dialysis now, etc. Expensive dependency to have. But it’s just a bit of, “flu,” right? There won’t be anyone left to vote GOP soon. And those that want to will have to rely on their Postal Ballots . . . 🤦♂️🙄🤷♂️
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It crystallised for me, when I saw Q’s mom, complaining about sonny’s, “special,” diet. When I saw that state representative being hauled off in the back of an FBI truck, with his MOM in the car park, telling CNN that he was really, “such a good boy, doing what he believes in.” When the images of Zip Tie Guy included his MOM clambering over the House’s furniture. And so many others that turned out to be only children who actually went there with their mommies to play at Insurrections (the list is shockingly long,) that these were the spoiled only children of staggeringly bad parents! The entire mob was made up of white (99.9999%) middle and upper middle class, selfish, spoiled, entitled, rotten, grasping losers, who just prefer to flip over the board, rather than admit they lost their game! American made, over indulged, irresponsible clowns, who have literally NO IDEA of the harm they’ve done, whilst sawing at the branch they’re sitting on. The angriest Americans right now, are these CHILDREN who were never exposed to CONSEQUENCES, because they never learned RESPONSIBILITY! They know ALL of their, “rights,” but have NO CLUE about responsibility! Entitlement, run amuck, because of their rotten, racist mothers. Weak minded fascists, who prefer to take with violence, that which they cannot win through persuasion or reason, out of sheer laziness and ENTITLEMENT! The type of children that America needs to kill in the crib, so to speak.
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@edith8359 : I write to my representatives regularly now, and I never change topic until they stop sending me pre-printed automated responses, but actual thought out responses. Then I move on to the next topic, whilst showing them the flaws in their previous answer. Basically, I give them a hard time of it, and bully my friends and colleagues into doing the same, whilst incessantly nagging them about how many people they have persuaded to write, and to name them. I’m attempting to create an outwardly growing pool of correspondence. I couldn’t achieve this much, even over an election. But, talking details about the horrors of Bucha, and the fact that this is coming to our doorstep if we fail to stop it in Ukraine, seems to work wonders.
Basically, I’m calling in all my favours, straining long friendships and being a bit of a dick to get results. And, you know what? I feel great about it. 👍✊🇺🇦
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@Cpk86 : See, the only problem with the, “poor me,” thesis is that it’s fine to complain about hard done to and exploited you think you are, until you meet an actual victim of human trafficking, or an actual slave, and then you realise that you’ve actually got it really good, living at a time when there’s less violent crime, less hunger, less exploitation, more legal protection, better health care, longer lifespans, more access to information, higher standards of education and generally a more tolerant society that lets people whine about how their own affairs haven’t worked out the way they’d hope and now they choose to blame, “society,” instead of taking responsibility . . . than ever before in human history.
Maybe just take some of that responsibility, (even just a tiny bit, in your tiny corner of the world?) and do a charitable act? Be kind to someone? Say or do something thoughtful? Take some time to smell the coffee, realise you’re NOT a, “slave,” maybe feel a bit less sorry for yourself and don’t allow the truly cynical to exploit you by convincing you that you’re a, “victim,” of any kind? Because you’re not.
One of the first images of this war that I saw on TV was three girls, dressed rather like my three used to, all blondes like my girls, get bombed off the stage by a f*cking Russian coward who feels no compunction about murdering children. Their bodies in that street, not unlike a British, average kinda’ street, after I just saw them walking together, is seared into my brain, like I was shown what it would look like if my corner of the world was bombed 10 years ago and my kids taken from me, just like that. Those people have, “problems.” You really don’t.
Do something to help them.
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@Cpk86 : See, the only problem with the, “poor me,” thesis is that it’s fine to complain about hard done to and exploited you think you are, until you meet an actual victim of human trafficking, or an actual slave, and then you realise that you’ve actually got it really good, living at a time when there’s less violent crime, less hunger, less exploitation, more legal protection, better health care, longer lifespans, more access to information, higher standards of education and generally a more tolerant society that lets people whine about how their own affairs haven’t worked out the way they’d hope and now they choose to blame, “society,” instead of taking responsibility . . . than ever before in human history.
Maybe just take some of that responsibility, (even just a tiny bit, in your tiny corner of the world?) and do a charitable act? Be kind to someone? Say or do something thoughtful? Take some time to smell the coffee, realise you’re NOT a, “slave,” maybe feel a bit less sorry for yourself and don’t allow the truly cynical to exploit you by convincing you that you’re a, “victim,” of any kind? Because you’re not.
One of the first images of this war that I saw on TV was three girls, dressed rather like my three used to, all blondes like my girls, get bombed off the stage by a f*cking Russian coward who feels no compunction about murdering children. Their bodies in that street, not unlike a British, average kinda’ street, after I just saw them walking together, is seared into my brain, like I was shown what it would look like if my corner of the world was bombed 10 years ago and my kids taken from me, just like that. Those people have, “problems.” You really don’t.
Do something to help them.
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@Cpk86 : See, the only problem with the, “poor me,” thesis is that it’s fine to complain about hard done to and exploited you think you are, until you meet an actual victim of human trafficking, or an actual slave, and then you realise that you’ve actually got it really good, living at a time when there’s less violent crime, less hunger, less exploitation, more legal protection, better health care, longer lifespans, more access to information, higher standards of education and generally a more tolerant society that lets people whine about how their own affairs haven’t worked out the way they’d hope and now they choose to blame, “society,” instead of taking responsibility . . . than ever before in human history.
Maybe just take some of that responsibility, (even just a tiny bit, in your tiny corner of the world?) and do a charitable act? Be kind to someone? Say or do something thoughtful? Take some time to smell the coffee, realise you’re NOT a, “slave,” maybe feel a bit less sorry for yourself and don’t allow the truly cynical to exploit you by convincing you that you’re a, “victim,” of any kind? Because you’re not.
One of the first images of this war that I saw on TV was three girls, dressed rather like my three used to, all blondes like my girls, get bombed off the stage by a f*cking Russian coward who feels no compunction about murdering children. Their bodies in that street, not unlike a British, average kinda’ street, after I just saw them walking together, is seared into my brain, like I was shown what it would look like if my corner of the world was bombed 10 years ago and my kids taken from me, just like that. Those people have, “problems.” You really don’t.
Do something to help them.
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@WhimsicalKnights : I wouldn’t begin to guess, “why,” you hate America, kid. I only point out that your lies reveal the fact that you do. No one has refused to talk about any, “risks,” truthfully, fully and honestly. I guess it’s possible that you’re just stunningly ignorant? But, far more likely that you’re not an RN, an American, or even a real human being, for all I know? You could be an algorithm? Why would I care? Your propaganda is easily disproved, palpable bollox and created by people who hate America, whether you know that or not is kinda’ irrelevant, Karen. Like you 😉
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@RehanChoudry-qp7cv : Clearly, many don’t get it, or it wouldn’t need to be repeated. This comment is apt, every time yet another content, “creator,” (thief) apologises for drama. Just as Jjjacksfilms shows us each and every time Sssniperwolf steals other people’s content, YET AGAIN, it is equally legitimate to wheel out the same responses to the same, “copy and pasted,” so called, “apologies.”
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@BonnieW50 : Jesus! That’s horrible! What happened to your brother, I mean . . . This is what worries me, so much. Not just the huge toll of death, but the bitterness and pain America will be left with. If there’s no one left who hasn’t lost someone to Covid, that will change our art, movies, books, music . . . our culture and our very souls. My firefighter buddy thought she’d made a full recovery from Covid, returned to work and failed the medical. 30+% scar tissue on her lungs. That’s permanent. She’ll never be a firefighter again under current law, but she knows it would be dumb to even try with that disability. Like I heard a news anchor say, “You all think you’re fine, until you’re not.”
Thank you for those kind words. Especially for the fact that you reached out to comfort another, from your own place of pain. That took something. YOU are the America I believe in. YOU are the America I’m fighting for. And YOU are the America WORTH dying for. God bless you ✌️👍
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Presumably, you see his point? He’s literally telling you it’s not his job to tell you, “what,” to think. He’s giving you the facts, in the hope that you know, “how,” to think. And that maybe you will think? After all, if we all have access to the truth, yet we allow the country to give up its freedom and democracy anyway, maybe we don’t deserve to have it? Why should it be his responsibility? Witnesses to a murder are not expected to arrest the perpetrators, or try them or judge them. They merely give their evidence. Do you have a problem with that?
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MrsMac : They aren’t, “gullible.” They’re liars. They don’t, “believe,” Trump. Who COULD at this point? They just HATE Dems MORE than they love our Republic. They WANT Donny to have a Dictatorship, with a FAKE Opposition, for appearances, like Putin’s set up, in Russia, so they can keep lying to THEMSELVES, and PRETEND we still have a Democracy. We’re WAY PAST the point at which ANYONE can say they, “believe,” Trump. This is way more sinister . . . ✌️👍
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@pepepinochetshelicoptertou2696 👈 That name didn’t age well, did it? Nah, I’m calling it, “lunacy,” because I tuned into the Livestreams of the counts in several states around the country. Boring, but edifying. And because I followed the court cases, so far, and read the judgements. I hope you realise that this won’t get to the Supreme Court, son? You have to HAVE a case to answer to get that far. And, so far, not ONE court has even invited the Circuit Courts to review at their judgements. You get that right? You can’t try a case, unless you can establish there’s a case to answer, which Runny Rudy has signally failed to do. 🤦♂️ You are not a, “victim,” of your lying media outlets, though. You’re a foreign troll who perpetrates the lies, because you hate America . . .
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Kirk Crawford : They KNOW it’s TRUE, really. All these hysterics and the sheer numbers of Trolls, demonstrates that. These are the same people who told us that Michael Flynn would, “never be arrested,” then he’d, “never be found guilty,” then, “he’d never flip,” then they said the same things about the other five (count them! FIVE MORE!) of Trump’s TOP insiders. They told us that Kavanaugh would be, “appointed,” by now, and that we had to, “live with it.” They seem to believe that, somehow, the “universe” will listen to their flat denials of reality.
They don’t CARE about the TRUTH, the VICTIMS, or the BILLIONS around the world, effected by the POTUS being a Russian Shill. ALL they, “care,” about is making America, “white.” Except for the foreign Trolls, paid by Russian shell companies to, “Turn Your Comments Into Cash.” I actually got one of those emails, which I gave to the FBI.
They’re an insane Cult, who will end the way ALL Cults do; in a blaze of their own making; a T Shirt day of news, when the world has finally decided to put a stop to them
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Robb Wolf : Nor is time, for that matter. All Trump’s, “promises,” have failed and / or gotten WORSE. In 3 years he hasn’t, “locked her up,” even though his friends are all in jail. His fans have to Fake Believe, because they KNOW nothing Trump says is plausible, even to a 9 year old. Not ONE, “winning,” to lean on, and now the economy is slumping. I think a new party will rise from the GOP’s ashes? 🤔
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The difference between Putin and Zelensky:
When hostile Russian troops breached the borders of Zelensky’s capitol, Zelensky refused a lift into exile offered by the Americans and asked for ammunition instead, deciding he would face the same fate as the rest of his fellow citizens, despite knowing he would never be allowed to survive as a prisoner.
When hostile Russian troops didn’t even get to the borders of Putin’s capitol, Putin fled to St Petersburg, leaving the citizens to fend for themselves. Now, every day that Prigozhin jets around Russia and Belarus, whilst Wagner only strengthens itself and recruits from Belarusian jails, openly defying Putin’s edict to fold them into the official armed forces, Putin looks clearly, palpably, visibly weakened.
The comparison between Putin’s cowardice and Zelensky’s heroism has never been starker in the west. Whilst Muscovites are watching their standards of living continue to slip, and losing relatives to a war they cannot understand, for a guy who ran out on them at the first hint of trouble that didn’t even come for him! You cannot save face while you still have a bloody nose that simply will not stop bleeding so long as Prigozhin shows he has more power than Putin in real terms.
If Russians aren’t wondering whether all their sacrifices are pointless now, they never will.
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joy bernardo : Happy Dictatorship Day, America. We can mark the anniversary from the moment they say, “Not Guilty,” to Trump. That’s the exact moment that historians will say that the Republic FELL. It’s been on life support, since 2016, but this is the final death blow. Now, your, “elections,” will be rigged, because that’s relatively easy to do, with Putin’s help. And, the only alternative is JAIL for the whole Trump Tribe and half the GOP. They have no choice. And they’ve SHOWN you that there’s NO lawful remedy to Dictatorship. Learn to love your Monarchy, or tear it down? But, just DON’T go KIDDING yourselves that you will be ALLOWED to, “Vote”??? All you’ll be doing is giving them data on who to target next, in a FIXED election
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@dylanking9557 : You know, you might be on to something there? If he could find a smart, “Legal Eagle,” type lawyer who’s looking for the publicity? He may well be able to argue a case, under international law, that this is technically, “slavery,” or, “ indentured servitude,” both of which are outlawed AND carry stiff penalties . . . There are many angles he could come at them from, but he’d need to be a pro bono case, as he clearly can’t afford a lawyer now. But, seriously, he should contact Legal Eagle for a reference to someone, while his case is in the news?
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It also makes him the ONLY, “American,” (Russian) who was, “surprised.” Trump doesn’t get that, “opposition,” is NECESSARY in a Democracy. I already KNOW the GOP, “strategy.” “Harris is running things, while Biden sits in a wheelchair, drooling and nodding.” They got nowhere with Biden’s middle class whiteness. And, they just WISH Harris was the primary candidate. So? They’ll tell everyone she IS THE PRIMARY CANDIDATE, right? Genius! 🤣 ✌️
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It always feels kinda’ CRAZY, talking “policy” regarding this administration? It doesn’t MATTER WHAT you, “say”??? His fans KNOW he’s guilty. They KNOW he’s betraying America. They just HATE Dems SO MUCH (because they’ve been brainwashed by Fox) that they simply DON’T CARE! They, “think,” a Putin Style, Single Party, Dictatorship, with a FAKE, “opposition,” would be a, “good thing.” How UN-AMERICAN can you GET? A Personality Cult, with NO, “ideology,” at all! . . . Smh
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That’s a good point. I have often thought that most of the TOS that games use would never stand up to a serious legal challenge. But it’s just a question of someone having the money and the will to do it. That person would face private investigators acting like CIA spooks, trying to intimidate them, death threats, bribes, all kinds of horrors which have been documented already as the common practices of publishers like EA Publishing, Take Two and Ubisoft, for example.
Consider this example just to start with: What other industry is able to get you to buy their product, fully pay for it, download and install that product and only then, after they have your money, after they have installed all their monitoring programs which generate cash for them, can you read their Terms Of Service and have to agree to them if you want to play your game? If you disagree you cannot play and you are not entitled to your money back. That’s insane!
No court in any free country would uphold an industry’s right to hold you to ransom like that! “I only get to look at the contract AFTER I paid for the product?” The publisher would be laughed out of court! But no one challenges this standard practice.
There are a raft of things that the games industry gets away with that they must know they could never back up in the courts. But they rely on lobby groups to make politicians look the other way and the abject ignorance of those mostly elderly politicians, more interested in book and film laws, or oil rights.
We need entire departments specialising in gaming law in each of the free world’s countries, as a matter of urgency. We’re talking multiple $£€ billions here, for single publishers alone! Massive tax revenues and consumer rights issues, sailing blithely under the radar!
Would you buy a house, a car, a fridge, without knowing anything about it other than what the ads tell you, only to get it home and find out it isn’t even FINISHED yet!? “Oh don’t worry. The steering wheel is coming in an update in a couple of months . . . maybe.” WTF??? “Of course you’ll get a roof on your house! It’s a new house! You didn’t expect it to be perfect on day one, did you? Wait for the patch!” Whuh? . . . The games industry is the ONLY industry on Planet Earth that is routinely getting away with murder at the levels of a Bangladeshi Telemarketer, yet we do NOTHING about this???
That’s why, for example, CyberPunk 2077 became such a good game after its SHAMEFUL launch. Because the Polish Government had invested serious capital into that game and were expecting results. They only had to make the threat of taking CDPR to court and they caved instantly, acceding to every demand the government made, no matter how unreasonable they thought they were being. Because they KNEW they had no legal legs to stand on and that other aspects of gaming law might come under scrutiny, setting precedents that could start the dominoes falling throughout the entire industry.
And NO ONE in the games publishing industry wants a powerful organisation like a government, challenging the way they do business on behalf of consumers. That’s a Pandora’s Box they need to keep firmly shut. The rumour is that other publishers stepped in, (I heard Take Two was one of them, but I have no proof) offering the Polish government money to buy CDPR time and offering to make them whole if CDPR failed to turn things around.
But, make no mistake. We’re at these levels now. Where a games publishing company can destabilise the entire economy of a European power, through the failed launch of one game! And it’s not like they didn’t make serious profits anyway! Just not as much as they projected. If a games company making a serious profit, but just not enough, if what it takes to rock the economy of Poland, consider the God Tier levels this economic game is being played around the world?
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Julia G : To your third, “comment.” All your comments, really: what you’re really saying is the moral equivalent of, “I don’t want to hear it, because it shames me, so I’m stuffing my fists in my ears, lah, lah, lah.” Just a conniving way of trying to shut people up. People report the TRUTH by telling you the FACTS. Those FACTS make Trump look bad, because he’s a hysteric, a thief, an idiot, a liar and a TRAITOR to this country. You call it, “hysteria,” because you conflate people’s reactions to it, WITH THOSE FACTS, which shows that you spend a LOT of time, seeing people react negatively to Trump’s antics. Don’t BLAME the press, for the REACTIONS of America. Take responsibility. You’re just tired of hearing the TRUTH . . . SMH
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They could have farted down the mic, but that’s not the point. All we need from the GOP, is their admission, during this trial, that the basis for the Insurrection, “The Steal,” is a SEDITIOUS LIE! Any Senior GOP witness on the stand, who sold that lie, ADMITTING it is a LIE! Which ALL of them would do, if put to the question! Rather than face a BILLION DOLLAR lawsuit, Perjury and Conspiracy charges, etc. Just get THAT for America to hear, from the GOP’s mouths!
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@ : The fact is that battery, hybrid and old fashioned petrol burning combustion engine cars are all using roughly the same amount of fossil fuels in the big picture final analysis. There are certain advantages to hybrids; the ability to both generate and store energy by converting kinetic movement into battery recharge, etc. I’m no expert, but the maths are pretty clear when explained to me.
Yes, you’re right. The hybrid is a bridging technology which will become redundant when battery cars are recharging from power stations that rely on wind, hydro-electric, and other renewable technologies. We’re just not there yet. When we are, my family will be trading in our old hybrid cars and buying purely battery powered ones (assuming they aren’t prohibitively expensive to run?) and we’ll be glad of it.
Despite being expensive, hybrids do offer pretty appetising returns when it comes to keeping your personal costs down and in terms of convenience, since you don’t have to recharge the batteries (they do that for you while you drive) saving you a lot of time. And, if you pay attention to the requests of your onboard (nanny) computer and try to drive at an efficiency rating of 90% or higher, they are very cheap over distances, beating the alternatives hollow.
You are correct, though. They’re not, “the,” answer. Just the interim solution for now.
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Now that we have reasonably reliable records on demographics, we have learned that there is a simple equation that never fails: The nations with a young and growing population will succeed as economic blocks. Those with large ageing populations face economic ruin. China has slowly come to recognise this, but has been able to slow their crisis using their one and only advantage, state control over generations.
The fear mongering around, “illegal immigration,” seems to me to be just one more attempt by Britain’s hard right to, “Americanise,” our politics and turn migration into a hot button issue. Yet the fact is that we actually NEED to grow our population and we should be admitting as many young families as possible.
If I were to be ruthless about it, in the interests of simply growing our nation’s power and economic influence on the globe, I would push for only one level of, “discrimination,” and incentivise the young adult populations of other lands to migrate to us, favouring them over anyone aged 50 or above. I am 56 btw, so I am speaking from a merely logical point of view, without compassion.
The incentives should be sweetened for 20 somethings, especially those with children.
While they seem to have forgotten it now, this has been the very model that America’s enormous economic success was built upon. We should be welcoming refugees and providing work permits to as many young families as possible, so the country can benefit from their economic activity and taxable incomes.
The utter bogusness of the Tories, attempting to appeal to the lowest common denominator by inspiring panic, literally results in self harm as far as the country is concerned.
It also prevents us from building a coherent system of the type we will need in the near future, when there actually is a genuine crisis of being overwhelmed, in the wake of a war or natural disaster. But currently, we are literally being offered one of the most precious resources and refusing it. Not just refusing it, but viciously rejecting it. The resource of humanity is incalculable. That’s just hard science.
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@godless1014 : EDUCATION. That’s how you, “fight back.” First you win the war, with a transition of power, putting the lie to hopes that trump will somehow still be president. Then you win the peace, by punishing criminals, EXPOSING ALL OF THEIR LIES, for ALL TO SEE (which worked in Nazi Germany and post war Japan, so we KNOW it CAN be done) which is the first step in their education. You also INVEST huge amounts into Education. Smart people simply don’t vote far right, which is literally a scientifically measurable FACT. And you put smart, educated people in charge of that, instead of the Betsy types, who literally oppose education. It’s not so impossible. Most of them are not so far gone. Oh, and since we’re taking lessons from WWII, I should add that examples were made out of the Propagandists too. The Brit who broadcast from Germany, regularly trolling the Allies (known as Lord Haw Haw) was not even taken seriously by anyone. But, he was tried and HUNG regardless. Now, I’m not suggesting we hang Hannity . . . yet . . .But, we could institute some LAWS about the Definition of, “news,” like they do in the UK? Did you know, F*x has no operations in the UK whatsoever? They planned to. They spent the money and built the studios, etc. But, it all went wrong when the broadcasting Authority had to explain to them that it’s ILLEGAL to broadcast LIES and call it, “News,” in Britain. Rupert Murdoch fought that, to the highest courts in the land, and lost. He COULD have set up Fox in the UK? He could have had the exact same thing as he has in America, but on British soil. But, he just wasn’t allowed to call it, “news.” So, he had a trump style hissy fit, and left our shores without ever building Fox in the UK . . . To this day, the Brits have heard no more of F*x UK. It’s not difficult, if the will is there, and the lobbyists aren’t haunting every corridor of power . . . ✌️
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Yeah, that’s probably exactly what they would say if you asked them, too. The answer to this question is one of text and subtext: The card is, “supposed to tell you,” that they are sensible, “responsible,” gun owners, who can defang the dark side of public opinion by showing a family, “responsibly,” sharing their love of guns in the manner of a hobbyist, who has found an interest in which the whole family can share. “You too can bond with your kids over your shared love of home defence and your Constitutional, ‘rights,’ and Merry Christmas. Guns are wholesome.”
But the subtext is also clear. And that subtext is spoken out loud as the very motto of the National Rifle Association, and it’s an implied threat. “We are not helpless, indeed, we are dangerous. And you’ll have to take our weapons from our cold, dead hands.” Making it uniquely sinister.
British people are probably more mindful of the child abuse aspects and the hopelessness of reforming a country that legalises such deep indoctrination. Whereas American eyes, from more, “liberal minded,” states, probably just see an answer to the ongoing pressure in politics to reform gun laws, and hear the resounding, “No,” from Nashville.
In Britain, the parent who sent that picture around as a Christmas card, would be facing a prison sentence and have his kids promptly whisked away by the local authorities. In Nashville, they made him a Congressman. And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is the difference between, “two nations separated by a common language.”
I will lose sleep because of that picture of the frightened, grieving child on the bus, and I wasn’t even in the same country, let alone, “responsible,” for local legislation.
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@r0smor : You’re a genius. Seriously. It’s smart to want to understand rather than simply condemn out of hand. Indeed, we’ve seen that the head on, oppositional approach does not work. Moreover, it plays into the hands of the gun lobbies, who will scream, “They’re coming to take your guns,” as a response to ANY liberal legislation, let alone legislation that actually addresses gun control.
The first thing to understand is that it’s already too late. Depending on which statistics you believe, there are anywhere from two to five guns for every American in that country. So even a universally supported ban on guns would not get them out of the country now. That is not to suggest that effective, common sense measures cannot be of use. Far from it.
But to really get to grips with it, we have to address what we’re really dealing with: BIG BUSINESS. The two most toxic and difficult to challenge elements of America’s gun problem are the Politics and the MONEY. You are dealing with incredibly wealthy people, who use branding, advertising and all of the social media techniques, that are employed legitimately and nefariously, that people like Putin and Xi use for disinformation purposes in very similar ways. Lobbying to the point of corruption; advertising to the point of disinformation; infiltration to the point of spy craft.
Therefore, in an environment where common sense is not enough and hearts and minds are encouraged to be polarised, the first and most important step to taking away the gun lobby’s power is, “empathy.” They don’t just want to polarise the debate, but NEED everyone to be entrenched and in opposite camps.
Shocking incidents like this school shooting actually HELP the gun lobbies, because the arguments always get too extreme for any common ground to be reached. The VERY LAST THING that the gun lobbies want is for smart people like you to start stepping into no man’s land, meeting people from the other side and finding common ground.
But, if they are to be defeated at all, that is where they will fall, in the quiet, sensible spaces between the battle lines. Seriously. You made the best, smartest comment I’ve read all day on this. ✌️
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TheRealCritique : And, I’m pretty sure, by now, that Trump could EAT a live, screaming, wriggling, Norwegian, toddler, on live TV, and his Trolls will tell us that the toddler, “deserved it.” They’re just too ashamed to admit they were wrong
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Johnson looks more to me like Ted Heath to Sunak’s Thatcher, being too popular as a former PM back bencher to get rid of, but lacking the ambition to seek any goals that the government can block, thus sniping from the sidelines becomes something of a revenge hobby. I too wonder about his own commitment to the top job, which I honestly still think he would prefer another stab at, but further down the line, after the Labour Party have had time for their popularity to wear off, by being in office for a term or two. The only problem with that as a strategy is that so much can happen between now and then, he might find people don’t remember him, or think of him as a plausible candidate any more. Particularly once he’s set against a background of more adult styled governance from Labour, and less obviously venal self service.
It’s his cult who are more driven than he is. And Boris is probably finding many of those cultists too useful in other ways (connections, business opportunities, publishing deals, etc) to disabuse them?
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@LK-jl3pc : However, students training to BECOME military personnel are NOT, “military personnel.” They are students, who may choose to do something completely different with their education. They were also among other students who were learning subjects that had NO RELATION to, “military,” anything. That is what we call, “indiscriminate,” targeting, which is a war crime.
It is not like the Ukrainians targeting actual military bases, which are also training camps. Those, “students,” are already soldiers and already trained in combat. They are the enemy.
So, try to see the difference or be a stooge for Putin.
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Literally: Texas is an Oligarchy, where the, “politicians,” are bought and paid for, wholesale, by the fossil fuel barons who own the place. And, if any of you are SERIOUS about, “change,” in Texas, THEY are your target. If you get Exon, Shell, and the rest to change their attitudes, every last one of their branded steers that calls themselves, “Congressman,” “Senator,” or, “Governor,” will do EXACTLY what their fossil fuel bosses tells them to! Y’all know I’m right.
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@TheDiamond2009 : In the GOP, yes. In the Dems, around 50%. I wouldn’t call people like AOC, or that lady who’s name escapes me just now, but who did so much to get the vote out in Georgia, or even Joe Biden, “establishment,” types? Joe only came out of contented retirement to hand trump’s ass to him, because the party begged him to, as the only guy who looks and sounds establishment, and who was white and male enough to be tolerated by everyone but the most rabid Qults; but who’s just an old fashioned gentleman in the end. He didn’t want it or need it. He did it, because it was right, and America needed him
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I noticed that tautology there too. However, the rest of it wasn’t so bad. It occurred to me, with the current vogue for prequels and origin stories, Travis would make a great prequel movie or mini series. I could picture the schoolboy who doesn’t fit in, but wants too, who just like in the movie, gets an even stronger rejection from women who find him shockingly weird. So, he joins the army, thinking he’ll fit in and find friendship there, and is sent to Vietnam. At first, he thinks he’s found the answer and wants to go career soldiering, training well, committing 100% and loving the routine and discipline. But the contradictions of Vietnam soon hit home when he’s deployed in the field. The one guy he gets close to (another undiagnosed mentally ill person) gets killed, horribly. And it’s only later that he discovers that his friend was murdered by his fellow combat troops during a combat mission, because they found him such a weirdo, and because he threatened to tell on them for atrocities they routinely carried out. Being Travis, he takes a souvenir from his buddy, a finger or an ear, in a scene where we see him cut off part of his friend, wrap it up, and we never learn what it was. And it all culminates in a shootout, at the end of a particularly gruelling battle in which half of his platoon was wiped out. The showdown occurs in the gap between the end of the battle and the wait for inbound choppers to pick up the survivors. The army can’t get the truth out of him about what went down, though they’re sure he’s murdered other troops. So, they can’t award him a Purple Heart for his wounds, without stating how, when and where he received his wounds, so they discharge him honourably, but that’s why he has no medals, despite having exit wound scars. The whole thing could be told in flashbacks, from the interview in which the top brass are trying to get the truth out of him, perhaps? And it ends with him showing up in New York and using his discharge papers and veteran’s experience to impress the guy who owns the yellow cab company, to get a job . . .
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I know very little about the Philip Schofield of these times. As a 55 year old, all of my memories of him are fond, as a dark haired young man with Gordon The Gopher as his side kick, revolutionising the presentation style of children’s television with a model that would be copied by other channels and then morning television. There would have been no Roland Rat (who appealed to adults mainly) without the Schofield-as-anchorman-between-children’s-shows innovation, for which I remain eternally grateful.
Though I was aware of the, “Cue-Gate,” ahem, “scandal,” which looked to me like it was simply more of a general misunderstanding of how television works, I was not aware of his brother’s issues (indeed, I still have no idea of the details) until the last few days. The same is true of the apparent strain in his professional relationship between him and Holly Willoughby.
When two popular presenters were meant to shoot footage of themselves passing the Queen’s coffin, which effectively meant that their producers, camera operators, sound engineers, etc, would also have had to cue with them, that would have been an unreasonable demand to make on their team, surely? If their job was to help the nation process a sad but inevitable event, that was a professional undertaking, of which they were one part, and I simply saw the whole misunderstanding as risible, rather than career shattering.
Obviously, I can understand how the public becomes attached to daytime TV presenters, feeling like they have shared so much history with them as they did their housework, or studies with these people in their background. They become a part of the set dressing on the stage of people’s personal history plays. But, I was never a fan of couch based daytime television and I have to admit to being somewhat bemused by all the attention this is getting? Will Rishi Sunack be answering questions in The House about this soon? It almost feels like this couple have become more than icons, but a literal cultural identity in themselves? And it is as though it’s as painful for some commentators as a divorce?
I hope to be understood that I am not asking these questions in an, “ironical,” tone, nor do I in the least bit wish to belittle a matter which is of great cultural importance to so many. But, I would like to understand it better? What is actually going on here? Why has he really quit? And why is the entire nation so fixed on this drama right now?
Schofield always struck me as a good and decent man, to whom British television owes a debt. It is becoming clear to me that he has faced some truly unpleasant domestic issues around his brother, and struggles with his work place. But, were they so insoluble? Are we going to lose Schofield forever? That would be a bad thing. Like the C of E, though I never paid him much mind, it was always reassuring to know he was there. His influence on the British public has always been one of kindness, sincerity, humour and depth of feeling: all qualities we would do well to foster in our society. So I just hope I am not missing something of greater importance, by not having followed his day to day dramas more closely?
I wish him well, from my less well informed position, and hope very much to see him return to television or the web in some other way.
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@BullDykee : I’m not Jake, but I can tell you that both N Korea and Russia have to look to their dominant senior partner for permission to do anything of consequence together, and that will be up to Xi. My biggest worry is that they may be setting up a smuggling conduit from China, through N Korea, to Russia? There are sanctions busting measures that can be taken by the west, already in place but not really enforced very heavily, to prevent this, but it would likely cause an escalation of tensions between China and the west. I just hope the Chinese, who are facing some serious domestic crises, pending, are not dumb enough to go down that road? It would throw their economy under the bus and make them desperate enough to make mistakes.
If it’s just strictly business just between the two nations, the net will be positive for the west, as N Korea will only be returning supplies and weapons that Russia gave them with in the first place, which western weaponry will destroy in Ukraine, meaning a net loss for Putin and Kim. Mostly Putin, as Kim will have been paid, in dollars.
The only real concern we should all share is over nuclear technology. That would be Putin’s biggest, and probably last, mistake. Kim could cause havoc in the region with new nuclear technology or fissionable materials. But there are several western allies and western countries that simply will not allow Putin’s regime to get away with such a reckless act. They would officially join in the war to defend Ukraine, so that Europe can be secured in order to confront this new development and finally cripple Russia. And suddenly, Putin will be under a greater domestic threat than he was when Prigozhin was alive.
But the world will be a more dangerous place.
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@RandleBeckford : Oh, I’ve done my, “own research,” thanks, son. I don’t Google stuff just because some Putin Bot suggests it, or I’d be reading specially prepared Putinganda websites all day, every day. Some of us historians had already done our homework, long before this happened and saw it coming. This is an armed robbery, pure and simples. Even the Russian people know that, which is why they’re not willing to support Putin’s private war. All he wants is to make sure no one drills or even develops Ukraine’s gas and oil reserves. And you can check the records at Shell, Exxon and BP for yourself, son?
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It is wise of you and appropriate that you reflect on the fact that other countries are having this discussion at this time, with political division being evident as other countries seek their own solutions. I would add that it is time that we stopped being so parochial in our thinking and started talking to other countries (especially European ones) about a uniformed approach. Not just on the legalities and technicalities of implementing the laws and addressing issues of human rights, but serious diplomatic attempts need to be made at uniting a, “spirit,” by which attitudes and approaches of governments take on what is certain to be a growing issue.
We know there will be further environmental change, probable disasters, and wars. And all governments are bracing themselves for the potential of massive influxes of asylum seekers for a range of reasons. It’s surely time that the west got its act together and started talking about, “International,” “Unified,” responses to the issue?
I would have thought that most, “genuine,” asylum seekers would jump at the chance to do some work and earn some money (and studies show they are almost all genuinely fleeing some form or other of oppression) which is eminently logical. It’s not just economic activity being generated but taxable incomes, which in turn contribute to the cost of dealing with asylum seekers in the first place.
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@MsJersey3 : Exactly right. Their calls for, “unity,” are in bad faith, and mask a terrorist threat! To them, “unity,” means, “let us off the hook, or there will be more violence.” Even though it’s getting pretty clear that people are disillusioned with Q and the whole Alt-Wrong movement, who’s ultimate lie (that Donny would never stop being POTUS) they believed in right up to the last moment! Literally! We all got to see their faces, as they realised Joe had been sworn in and NOTHING happened. Too many troops. Their, “leaders,” would NEVER put their own skin in the game! That’s why they NEED to be EXPOSED as the liars and cowards they are, at the impeachment trial! Personally, I can’t wait! America NEEDS a dose of Reality-Medicine, to go with its vaccines! ✌️👍
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The Prez : Yup. Trump’s got nothing to moan about, given that he is the dictator of a corrupt and FALLEN Republic. There was a time when there would have uproar at the fact that the president even KNOWS, ”things,” about jurors. And the AG pressured the judge into dropping the NINE YEAR sentence that he SHOULD have got. But, this is Flynn all over again. It’s NOT the sentence that’s the issue, because they’re both getting their, “pardons.” It’s the fact that their GUILTY verdict marks them from their, “careers,” as they will no longer be legally allowed to do the things they plan to keep doing, pardoned or not. So, Trump keeps them, “faithful,” by holding onto their pardons, and eventually, their verdicts will be overturned, because trump needs them to keep doing what they do; betraying America and making Trump rich . . . The 2020 elections are already RIGGED America!!! Fill the streets and tear them down! They are NOT going to let you, “vote,” the entire administration into JAIL!
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Hollowhammer : So, some Trolls get paid to “debate” or just “support” the Orang-Utan in the White House, but they cannot withstand logic or reason. So, they either, quickly go silent, or bleat some insults and then, go silent. While other Trolls, like “YOU,” are paid to be overtly hostile, and to TRY to drive people out of comment threads and chat rooms, by your degenerate, degraded, 10 year old whining of “swear words.”
Your kind of Troll, is the WEAKEST and LAMEST of them ALL. You come across as, “Butt Hurt,” with your inability to cope with events and your IMPOTENT RAGE. Personally, I find YOUR kind of Trollery, the most amusing and especially reassuring; as it demonstrates the sense of HELPLESSNESS that Trump’s CULT (and you are a complete and utter CULT) are “feeling” without the FACTS being on their side.
Now, go see your therapist, pay her the “Danger Bonus” and stop hurting your Thera-Puppy, huh? You are NOT “helping” your . . . ahem, “cause,” OK? 😁
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There will always be the moneyed class, and people with money who believe they are inherently superior than others. Such a society is not based on the amount of money you, “earn,” but that which you have, whether by inheritance, hard work, crime, corruption, or sheer luck. America has a very distinct class system, which is most keenly observed whenever you see criminals face the justice system. Poor people do jail time for none violent offences and have their labour exploited for a pittance, even for highly hazardous tasks, like fire fighting as we’ve recently witnessed, with no insurance cover for life changing injury or death. Rich people don’t do prison time, usually. Not unless there is public outrage at their offences and, even then, sentences will watered down by expensive lawyers. They pay fines that barely register in their bank accounts; indeed, are worth paying instead of upholding the law, as a kind of entitlement tax.
That is the class system of America, and increasingly of the rest of the developed, “free,” world.
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@mattgumbley1317 : You wouldn’t get that response, “if it was your property,” kid. You’d get a community Bobby to assess the situation, and then, MAYBE, a squad car with a couple of real coppers with attitude problems and a lack of urgency. So don’t come it with the, “‘twas ever thus,” line, son? You either know you’re talking crap, or you’re not even IN Britain and thus, talking crap?
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Oh, they like ‘em dumb in the GOP. No, they NEED ‘em dumb. It’s an established fact that smart people don’t vote fascist. That’s just science. And Fox works hard at making people, at best, suspicious of book publishers, intellectuals and experts, whilst calling universities and other leading establishments of education, “hotbeds of communist insurrection.” That’s a quote from Fucker Tarlson, himself. Yes, the guy who now backs the insurrectionists. Dumb people disregard hypocrisy and are too lazy to read about stuff. They COUNT on stupidity to the extent that it’s in their interests to do something SO egregiously sabotaging to the education system that its full recovery is actually in doubt now; something SO bad, that they might just get away with it, because of its sheer lunacy? And they DID IT! They put Betsy DeVos in charge of the whole thing. And they got away with it too!
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Justin P : I’m as Anti-Trump as they come, but I actually agree with you on Britain. The EU has been nothing but a gravy train, taking money, making demands and giving nothing in return. And, the British have watched, while people who, “assisted,” their various governments, but who were too corrupted to get a knighthood, or seat in the Lords, were instead rewarded with a cushy job in an exotic location in Europe, costing the tax payer a fortune. Britain is SICK of it, and it has plenty of resources that Europe can’t do without. So, it’s about time they went their own way. And, when the world sees that Britain is STILL THERE, and doing fine, once they’re free of failing Europe; that the sun still rises, and people are NOT dying in the streets, the Scotts and the Welsh will calm down and accept the CASH, like they always do
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I don’t want to come off as callous but, those women seem to have been fine with their husbands all training to bomb innocent Ukrainian civilians into dust, from many miles away, but are complaining when they get transferred to units where they’re forced to fight armed Ukrainian soldiers. So it’s hard for me to work up a whole lot of sympathy for their, “plight,” which seems primarily to be a complaint about not getting to be the bullies they were promised their menfolk would be?
At least they aren’t having to replace their windows with humorous graffiti boards, or rebuild their electricity stations every other day, so they still have it pretty good compared to their Ukrainian counterparts. And you don’t hear of Ukrainian wives and mothers banding together to complain about anything!
I love your even handed, balanced approach to all these videos, Jake. I think the decision to read the highlights without showing Russian complainants anymore was smart. After all, you still give links for all who wish to see them, without allowing Russian complaints to draw attention away from the very just plight of the Ukrainian people and their actual real time suffering.
We must never forget that every Ukrainian spouse suffers the same anxieties for their trooper counterpart, son, husband, etc, whilst having to avoid random missiles killing or maiming them outright, plunging them into darkness and the freezing cold, or randomly robbing them of friends, relatives and neighbours. Every time I see Russian spouses or soldiers make one of these videos, knowing that if they were to get a response it would likely be their violent repression, I can’t help but wonder, are they hypocrites or merely stupid?
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Not My Name : First, we know how the, “process,” works, son. Probably better than you, being natives of America. And, that process is flawed. If he’d let loose with his gun, they wouldn’t have waited until the police chief was dead too? That’s clearly a, “discretionary,” call, and they made the WRONG call when there was clearly no question as to what had happened. Secondly, you murder apologists are only here to create division, for your Orange lord, and not to make ANY, “point,” that you, “believe,” to be true, which is apparent by your offensive, combative, defensive and, I suppose you’re attempting to be, “patronising,” but you’re more used to being patronised, so you’re not all that convincing. So, while you spend the rest of your day, being obtuse and hoping to be a part of the problem, because, God forbid we should ever reach a polite, “solution,” or be a, “United,” States of America (where is it you’re bleating from, exactly? Eastern Europe?) I will leave you with this thought: It is only the mentally ill, and the paid Trump Troll, that LIVES on channels he HATES, talking to people he HATES, about a bunch of stuff he HATES, son. Which are of these are you? . . . Have nice day 🙂
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Stoney Curtis : Wednesday is the big day, for America. If the IRS doesn’t hand over the Tax Returns to Ways & Means, they are breaking the law for political reasons, and can no longer be trusted as an, “impartial,” entity. The issue has NOTHING to do with Trump or his, “lawyers.” And, if Trump wants to stop his returns going public, he should be taking it up with W&M. The IRS should have no horse in this race whatever. Why should ANY American give ANY information to an entity that violates the Constitution and the Law, AND has a political agenda? We are protected, under the 1st, 4th and 5th Amendments, from having to put ourselves in that kind of jeopardy. I hope Class Actions break out all over America, if the IRS goes, “Political,” on Wednesday. As, they will have NO grounds to claim impartiality, or even lawful practices, if they don’t do their JOBS and hand over the docs. They have NO RIGHT to pick a side in this fight
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It’s in their policy. Frankly, I’m surprised he didn’t start doing this earlier on? I assumed this was going to start happening right away? I guess everyone around him was a bit twitchy, and scared to get banned too? But, Twitter could just treat this as a violation of their terms of service? Maybe a warning? If Packman is saying he’s not, “amplifying,” trump, by covering this story, he shouldn’t read out the entire text of trump’s tweets? He should talk about the story. Sure, he can cover the content, generally, and summarise it, if he feels there’s something Donny has to say that’s worth talking about? But, actually reading out the entire text is amplifying it, and assisting Donny. Not sure I trust the sincerity of his rebuttal there?
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@WisecrackEDU : Good question. But it’s more complex than that. Not just what they’re selling via, “performative personalities,” but it’s as much about what we learn of the manner in which they treated their betrayed spouse. You only need to look at the Jonny Depp debacle to see that what people really care about isn’t monogamy, but the attendant lies, deceptions and cruelty that goes with that. People feel the need to know who is responsible for what. And when personalities make very public claims about their spouses, they are consenting to the public interest in finding out what’s true. As we saw in that example, it can backfire. Depp’s career was all but ruined, despite the recording of Amber Heard’s confessions, until we all saw the court case (come on, you know you looked😉) and saw that the real victim was Depp. Now, his next movie is guaranteed to be a smash. I know that example is not directly about cheating, but it goes to the heart of WHY we all start to care. Whether we should or not is another question, but we do, and there’s always a reason for that.
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Spooky Carrie : Forget, “politics,” and even, “crimes,” for just a moment, and ask yourself: Just how f**ked up in the head, does a person need to be, to HELP the guy who had another human being HACKED TO DEATH, while he was PLEADING FOR MERCY, just because he took some comments personally??? I hope Kushner PAYS for that, in FULL MEASURE. Trump’s deserve NO MERCY . . . SMH
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Maxmartin : It’s an old ploy. The, “man in power,” blocks the company, and then, “the man’s,” minion says, “If you wanna’ get unblocked, slip me a few bucks. I can’t make any promises, but I can put you in a room with him.” The ONLY thing missing, here, is the cell phone footage, of Trump and Cohen, in a back street ally, splitting the cash, while doing their Austin Powers, Evil Laugh. An old, OLD Washington story of the swamp . . .
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J. J. : Presumably, there will be BILLIONS in Russian, Saudi, Turkish, even Chinese currency, floating around in trump’s and other GOP members’ accounts, just waiting to be RICO’d. So, that will help. Just freeze all their Deutsche Bank, Bank of Cyprus and NRA accounts, and RICO that? It will sure help with any tax headaches, for fixing broken America. At least in the short term? There must be fortunes in squirrelled away monies? 😉✌️👍
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Jake Sanservino : That’s the halariosity, though, right there! Trump has been COSTING America, by protecting his oil, coal and fossil fuel barons, when the most LUCRATIVE, FASTEST GROWING, industry on the planet is GREEN ENERGY! I get money back for my solar panels! Power companies are falling over themselves to into green energy, and offer awesome discounts! Saving the planet SHOULD be CHEAPER! Sure, there will be disruption, as one industry changes over to another, but they’re ALREADY retraining specialists and minors, into safer, greener jobs than being a mile underground, shaking hands with the Devil, waiting for the roof to cave in, so they can write that song about you. Everything trump touches DIES, and we SHOULD be leading the world now, making fortunes! . . . Oh, vote Biden Harris and let’s get ON WITH IT! ✌️👍
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The REASON for the Insurrection was, “The Steal!” All they have to do is put the GOP top brass on the stand and ask them, “Do you believe the election was stolen, and if so, what is your evidence?” With a BILLION DOLLAR lawsuit staring at them if they lie, no 5th Amendment to hide behind, and the risk of committing Perjury on the witness stand, ON LIVE TV, what else can they say? Let the world HEAR that, “The Steal,” AIN’T REAL, from THE GOP’s MOUTHS! That’ll fix ‘em! 👍
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@carolynm.784 : They might well call witnesses, and Lindsay Graham’s lame, “threats,” to call, “even more witnesses,” sounds more like an invitation which makes the Impeachment Managers rub their hands with glee! What the GOP really FEARS is having to say, “the steal,” ain’t real, on the witness stand! It was the cause of the insurrection. People believed their election had been stolen. Also; When you say, “fight like hell,” in a board room, that’s one thing. But, when you say it on a battlefield, that’s another! The, “debate,” is whether the angry mob he addressed, was an angry mob? The court of public opinion has already been pretty loud about that! 👍
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mike soos : I think what people find, “disturbing and disgusting,” is the notion that there’s an army of America Haters, who live, all day, every day, on the MSM that they HATE, bleating HATE, at people they HATE, about other people they HATE, son? You would have to be mentally ill to do that? Or, paid to Make America Divided Again, so Donny keeps his job? You’ve been at it for years. Your life must suck?
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When I introduced your channel to my wife, after explaining your experience as an English teacher in exotic countries, your Missileer experience and how you gave up your financial advise channel for Ukraine’s cause, I then explained the real reason for your channel’s appeal: It’s just a massive international appeal for decency.
Without ever saying the quiet bits out loud, your channel inspires wholesomeness, kindness, courage and forthright, honest tenacity in the face of Russia’s pure, undiluted evil. And this interview with your wonderful father illustrates that, so well. It speaks to the best aspects of the, “American Experiment,” and what it stands for. It’s not hard to get why people love their country so much, when they focus on that aspect of American life. You guys are exemplars of that.
Thank you for introducing us to your dad, and Godspeed your house hunting. Vegas is lucky to have you.
Slava Ukraine.
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Will Ford : Seriously? You just thought you’d add to the divide, and make it worse, like Zoe? He made a video about a woman, just like you, and you can’t see it, because you have a childish urge to, “own,” this channel, as an, “Anti-Leftist,” “Right Wing,” mouth piece? . . . WTF is WRONG with you, man? . . . Smh
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Donovan Hoover : Don’t go stealing valour, son. Americans really don’t like that. You’re talking to a professional political historian, OK? And, you’re CLEARLY not the student of history you claim to be, or you wouldn’t say such dumb stuff. But, don’t worry, kid. You’re really NOT, “intimidating,” ANYONE. You’re trying, but it’s failing. We have ALWAYS been able to, “Remove,” Mafia Wannabes, the old fashioned way; through Law and Order. I PROMISE you, at WORST, there will be some demonstrations, and SOME nut jobs will let loose on defenceless innocents (They ALWAYS make sure their targets are unarmed. You noticed that?) in the same way that they were going to, if Trump hadn’t cheated his way into power, in 2016. America can take it. It just makes us MORE strong, and LESS willing to give in to terror. You got nothin’, son
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Keeping It 100% : When two of Putin’s employees are on the stage, what else can we expect? “Look boss! We’re doing everything you told us to.” It’s either Trump, OR the Republic at this Impeachment. Only ONE will survive it. If you think, “elections,” will save you, from this OBVIOUS criminal, Putin Puppet, you’re kidding yourselves, America. There will be NOTHING left to stop an angry, raging, vengeful Trump, who’ll feel he has nothing left to lose, but his freedom, from being BLATANT about allowing Putin’s goons to RIG the whole of 2020. They already HAVE Florida’s Election Computers! . . . Smh ✌️
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That’s so astute it hurts. That’s why trolls swarm CNN whenever there are stories like this in the news. Stalin’s old propaganda techniques have worked so well for them, but only on channels where they’re preaching to a choir that are looking for excuses to justify their own failures, hatreds, racism and perpetual butt hurt. Trolls can’t understand why they can’t do the same thing on channels aimed at adults, like CNN. They don’t get it. They are the cause of their own failure. How many news stories have you seen where a troll bomb gets set off in the comments, with literally thousands of haters telling us in various uncreative ways that CNN is, “fake news?” And how many times have you seen that and thought, “So, this really bothers Putin.” or the trump’s, or the GOP, or racists in general? I know countless people who became politically active against trumpism, BECAUSE of troll activity. Stalin’s old techniques only work on the pliable. They have the opposite effect on the adult mind. In that sense, we can be grateful to the troll army, for tipping their hand so comprehensively. Their only goal is to sow DIVISION, whether they know that’s what they’re being used for or not. And let’s face it? Racists are pretty dumb, or they wouldn’t be racists, so in most cases, they don’t know what they’re doing. They just do it, because they’re addicted now.
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@muttinchops3708 : Putin uses Donny in exactly the same way that Focks uses trolls. They exploit their weaknesses and play on their addictions. It’s so simple it’s almost genius. Most of the troll names you recognise are addicted to their own endorphins. They can’t stop, even if they want to. If they try, the dopamine kicks in, in their brains, giving them withdrawal effects. More and more studies show how the brain literally rewires itself (physically!) with neurological pathways getting longer, stronger and fatter, dominating brain activity. And it feels way better than owning your own mistakes, racism, failures, etc, to, “blame,” whole chunks of the population for the fact that life didn’t turn out the way Hollywood said it would, and that the people of Hollywood happen to loath you, right? Putin has Donny by the nutsack. And far right propaganda has its troll army in the same way. They’re addicted to themselves!
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CNN got trapped in the Alt-Wrong’s narrative, through no fault of their own, and were painted as the opposite side of the coin as Fox, when they’re not even the same currency. Tell me? How could ANY news organisation report on, analyse or write Op Eds, etc, on the last administration, without pointing out their failures, lies and crimes? Just because the TRUTH made them look so bad, they got constantly attacked by the government and an entire corporate machine of right wing media for being honest, so they have been forced to justify their reporting, account for their journalism and back up every iota of information against an onslaught of hostile propaganda. All of that has created the image of a, “left leaning,” news organisation, “hostile to the government,” when they have always tried to be unbiased news!
Stelter’s right. We should demand more from our journalists. They need to challenge more and hold the government accountable; not just on issues that concern the public, but on issues that SHOULD concern the public, if only they knew about them! But, you make a good point. I suspect they all just wanted to get through this event without making gaffs or getting into the usual spats we saw under trump, and they’re probably a bit disorientated from all of the previous knock about farces of the last 4 years? And they do need to step up their game now.
But CNN is not pro or anti anything when they’re at their best. They’re trying to be straight news. And the demons at Fox won’t allow that, if they can help it. Our job is to refuse that narrative altogether and trust the journalism, by journalistic standards ✌️
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Wolfgang Icarus : You can almost SMELL the fear and anger from the Trump Trolls, who are sensing the end. It SURE ISN’T about “left and right” any more. But, the Trolls HAVE TO try to make it that way. Even though Conservatives were CLEARLY voting AGAINST the GOP in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc, where there simply AREN’T ENOUGH, “liberals,” AROUND to have made THAT happen. Think about this, (it might cheat you up?) Trumpski got in with a minority, and then ALIENATED EVERYBODY. He’s made it CLEAR that he’s NOT America’s President; only the president of those who agree with him on EVERYTHING and he ATTACKS businesses, institutions, law enforcement, his COLLEAGUES, while sucking up to Putin and other dictators. NO WAY do the GOP survive the Mid Terms . . . 😁 👍
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Exactly. The police, “very violently,” shot a man in the back 7 times, and he didn’t do a thing!
Trump would support Ted Bundy, if he was a Trump fan. He has to, because he has, “Militias,” planned for election night, to Intimidate voters at the polling stations. That’s WHY he’s so Anti-Mail in Ballots; so Anti-Post Office; Anti-Republic. Then he’s going to say it was a, “real,” election, and not stolen. Post your vote and TRACK IT! He’s stealing Democracy, right before your eyes. He’s got to GO! He’s LOST IT!
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SL Davison : Barr is the most dangerous man in America, and the ONLY reason trump is still with us. The unmarked SS, “cops,” are Barr’s idea; the attack on protestors, like the March of the Upside Down Bible, Barr’s idea. Publicly naming BLM as a, “leftist, terrorist, Democrat conspiracy against the president,” literally words from his lips. Telling trump which of our top cops to fire, to protect trump corruption, and which yes men to replace them with, all Barr. It was only a question of time before some of the lies and corruption would be exposed. But will that change ONE, God Damned thing? No. We can no longer, “save,” our Republic. First we have to RESTORE IT! ✌️
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Now, that is an interesting take, Fareed. And, I confess, I certainly hadn’t thought about it quite like that before. However, I see certain factors at play that are historically unusual, everywhere I look. So, I doubt if anyone can make a truly certain guess as to where this all ends? What I see with optimism, for once, is that there is an unprecedented degree of international agreement over the coalition to break Russia’s economy, once and for all, so as to reduce their capacity for worldwide interference, which has also been unprecedented in recent years. Especially when we calculate Russia’s literal trillion dollar (or equivalent) investment in hacking, social media disruption and disinformation campaigns that have been causing such ills all around the world for the past decade or more? Whilst China remains our strongest and most pressing rival, economically, politically and in terms of raw power, Russia has been by far the biggest threat to worldwide stability, punching way above its own weight and getting away with political gadflying for far too long. Democracy itself has been facing the, “death of a thousand cuts,” because of this direct threat. And now that we have unsheathed our soft power and financial sword, so to speak, we have no alternative but to use it. The battle lines may have been drawn long ago, but the battle has been joined now. Losing that fight is not an option either. We can only hope that smarter people than us see the economic realities and have a responsible instinct regarding its impact upon worldwide democracy? We must scrutinise, criticise and hold accountable, everyone. But we must also trust our side and back it to win.
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Yup, they’re coming down as we speak. Trump fans KNOW Trump is lying and covering up. They KNOW the GOP are IN the Committees, INSIDE the SCIF, facilitating the Impeachment, and are blatantly LYING, pretending to be, “locked out,” in some way. Those 30 goons who pulled that, “stunt,” were names to REMEMBER. That was a head count of who has the MOST to lose. The Drunk DrIvers, the known Nazis, the grifters, the NRA owned, etc. They were ALL there . . . SMH
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That IS their, “job,” at present! The party that INVENTED, “Cancel Culture,” has made, “VICTIMHOOD,” their main focus, because that’s what their base likes to hear. Never mind that, “lock her up,” was already old by the time Donny became president? That, “wasn’t,” Cancel Culture? Never mind forcing any GOP member who merely disagrees with Donny to face a Primary and be replaced by a hack? That wasn’t Cancel Culture. Never mind that Donny’s STILL doing that, threatening Liz Cheney with a Primary, right now? That’s not Cancel Culture? And, let’s not even MENTION trying to, “cancel,” America’s Democracy on the 6th of January? Even THAT attempt at shutting down the Republic wasn’t Cancel Culture to them!
While America worries about food shortages, low wages, mass unemployment and a plague that Donny allowed to ravage the population and our economy, THEY wanna’ talk about what oppressed little effeminate, “Victims,” they are. Because Fascists don’t do, “Responsibility,” self awareness or recognition of the fact that their Qult of Karens are built around one single person, who wants to OUTLAW (and damned nearly DID!) any opposition parties! They are Fascists, in all but name. Time we started treating them as such! ✌️
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What do you expect from trump’s Qult of Karens? Rhodes Scholars? They just want an excuse to get back to work, get their kids to school, and stop losing MONEY, like they’ve noticed the Blue States are doing. I said, ages ago, that eventually there will be no one in America who hasn’t lost a friend, colleague or family member to Covid. Trolling America’s dead and dying was fun while it lasted, but now they’re the ones doing the dying, and needing a hypocritical excuse to flip flop, before they lose too much MONEY or relatives? In that order, probably. Personally, I have no sympathy whatsoever . . .
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@Big Valerie : Yeah, he’s literally TELLING you they, “don’t know,” but that some how gets turned into a baseless allegation in your head . . . But, you don’t have CNNDS, right, Karen? This channel lives inside your head, rent free, but somehow, “they,” have got a problem? . . . 🤦♂️🙄
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@themetricsystem7967 : Can we now start a TRUTH movement in politics? To OUTLAW lying to the people and calling lies, “news,” like they do in the UK? Fox pulled their plans to set up shop in the UK (costly plans) because they’re NOT allowed to call themselves, “news,” there. A country with gutter press and fine journalism, since forever, with NO, “free speech,” problems, figured it out. Why can’t we? We used to hunt down and HANG seditious propagandists, after WWII! Now we allow them to broadcast on American soil and give them shares in the f’king company!?!?!? I mean, WTF, America??? The, “steal,” was a pathetic LIE, that cost American LIVES! You don’t let the guy who screams, “Fire,” in a packed theatre walk away Scott Free, after watching people DIE in the chaos!? Why is Fox allowed to? . . . That can’t do that sh*t in Britain!
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Anonymous P P: “Listen to yourself,” coming from the guy who Fake Believes that Hillary, “murdered staffers, sold our uranium, bleached intel, got help from Russia AND the Ukraine, covered up Benghazi, all whilst running a Pedo-Ring from the basement of a Pizza Hut”?!?!?!? Did I leave anything out there, son? Trump Trolls have Jumped The Shark, and even Trump fans are wondering WHY Trump FAILED to, “lock her up,” after THREE WHOLE YEARS, when he FAILED to stop his BFF’s from all going to JAIL! Now he’s WASTING precious time and resources, ACTUALLY going back to, “but, her emails?” My popcorn shares have SKYROCKETED, though, so I’m not complaining, you Fake Believe MORON! 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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Sonny Tuft : Wherever you were, “intending,” to go with your strangery, I wouldn’t cross swords with Action Hiro, if I were you? You’re outclassed, out gunned, and out witted, and he hasn’t even replied to you, yet! Be smart, for once, and (Hashtag)RunAway 🙂
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@ : BTW, before you answer, you might want to research the background? Since the Cold War started in the 1950’s, it was America’s policy (under all presidents) that Western European powers would allow them to direct international security for America’s interests, which is incidentally what made them grow in power, and in return for allowing America to call all the shots America took charge of all (most of the) military outlay, contributing the lion’s share so as to maintain control of international policy. The Korean War, The Cold War, the Viet Nam War and many other conflicts all took place under this American doctrine. It worked very well for all parties concerned . . . politically, or with regard to international policy making, that is.
If America withdraws from NATO or simply shrinks its role, Europe will take up the slack, at the cost of America’s leading role in the world. This will affect US domestic wealth directly, since military might and wealth go hand in hand in developed, democratic countries. Industrial capacity will have to wind down in the US for all the tertiary and related industries.
Hey, look. It was America that wanted it that way. If they can dress up giving up their influence in the world to look like they’re taking care of their own people first, convincing them, even while they get poorer while their politicians get richer, that will cause far fewer headaches for the rest of the world than it will for Trump. They will be over their biggest realignment issues by the time Trump has left office. And it will be a far humbler president that comes to do business with Europe thereafter.
All I’m saying is, have it your way. But don’t try to kid yourselves that America has been helping out the idle Europeans. We gave you what you asked for, and you did very well out of it. You don’t want to be the most powerful nation any more? Fine.
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@clicheguevara5282 : Awesome. I wasn’t kidding about being diagnosed with both Autistic Spectrum stuff and ADD, and I am often perceived as being, “over assertive,” (a logical impossibility if you understand the definitions of those words) with strangers, when I just think I’m being direct. I guess I say the quiet parts out loud too much?
The irony is, I was very successful as a psychotherapist and family therapist, taking the then Queen’s shilling, for preventing kids being taken into care, wherever possible, safe and in the interests of the child. But my history with friendships and relationships has always been rocky.
Your mum sounds great. I bet I’d get along with you guys rather well. Thanks for the comment. Made me smile, my friend.
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Nicholos Poma : The, “rest of the world,”? YOU “care” about what you boss, Putin, “thinks”? And PUTIN is ALL that Donny “cares” about?
Oh, and that . . . ahem, “tale,” you just told us, about being somehow, “convinced,” by Donny’s record, to vote for him, though you wouldn’t have, “before”? How can I put this? Well? Let’s try the TRUTH shall we? NO ONE BELIEVES THAT!!! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! 🤣 😂 😆 🤪
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E Gorgan : Oh, “it’s incredible,” how people who love a racist, and support his racist policies, get called, “racists,” right? The Hitler Youth had the same problems, too. Comin’ home in tears, each night, “Mommy, da niiaasty miiaan called me a Wacist!” Have the balls to OWN what you are, cry baby 😁
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Personally, I have never conflated the act of forgiveness with ever trusting someone again. I can forgive someone who’s genuinely sorry without betting my shirt on whether they can be trusted again. Johnson was not sorry, as evidenced by his recidivism. But even if he’d learned his lesson and was genuinely attempting to clean up his act, the very LAST thing he needs is to be put back into the position of temptation, any more than an alcoholic needs a job as the barman in pub full of other alcoholics! That would be cruel and I hope his party will take pity on him, keeping him away from the levers of power, so he can work on being a more honest person away from the temptations of high office. If he’d even attempted to do his job as an MP instead of swanning about on the USA lecture circuit, earning a fortune between luxury holidays, I might have believed there was hope for him. But, if the Cons rehire him, they’ll get what they so richly deserve for putting a wolf back in charge of the hen house.
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oren1neu1dag : Speaking of being, “fair to history,” have you noticed the fundamental difference, between the examples you gave, and the ones that worked out so badly? Two words: Middle East. Completely different cultures, with which we’ve had NO success, so far. Fair point?
And, let me challenge your post WW II examples. See, there was this little thing they called the, “Cold War.” Germany was divided until the end of the 20th Century, and countless lives were lost, because the East German State was under direct rule of Communist Russia. The eventual loss of that Cold War, resulted in the chip on Russia’s shoulder, that they bare with great pain, to this day. And, as a direct result of that, “history,” we still have the tensions between Russia and its allies. We are in Cold War II, right now, with a Quisling for a POTUS.
So, though I’d grant you, that it has worked, rarely, and under very unique circumstances, if it’s being, “fair to history,” that, “genuinely,” concerns you, you have to admit that we REALLY shouldn’t be fucking with Iran of ALL places? I’m with Kevin on this one, thanks
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And that day might come sooner than we all think? I honestly think the impeachment trial is going shock people into action? Most of the GOP are witnesses, who can be subpoenaed to testify. And that means they’ll have to give their, “evidence,” for claiming to, “believe,” in the, “steal,” or confess that they KNEW it was a LIE, under oath, on the record, and for all the world to see and hear! For the cult of trump, that will be a massive blow. Then there’s all the evidence that will prove it was NOT a, “spontaneous,” event, but a PLANNED CONSPIRACY! An attempted Coup! And, how many witnesses, (maybe military generals?) will come forward, to testify that they were asked to join the Conspiracy? America may well be DEMANDING trump’s Conviction by the time it’s over? No wonder Lindsay Graham and others are so DESPERATE to stop it, right?
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Keevy : No. You’re either LYING, trying to spread propaganda, or just stupid, for believing it. I’ll have a civilised conversation, GLADLY, but I KNOW how it ends: with YOU vanishing, in the face of the FACTS, after realising that each and every LIE from Trump’s, Stalinist, LIE MACHINE can EASILY be taken apart. That’s how it ALWAYS ends. But, IF you dare, remember this; I am a Conservative, who never liked Obama, of Hillary, and that the world does NOT see this dictatorship as a binary choice, between the two. This is a simple case of Democracy Versus Stalinism: Good Versus Evil.
So I DARE you, to JUSTIFY Trump’s HOSTAGE TAKING attempt at EXTORTION, for $25 Billion, for his Wall??? And can you SEE that he is RESPONSIBLE for what HE has done? REGARDLESS of what ANYONE ELSE HAS EVER DONE??? It’s no good comparing this to Bush, Obama, or ANYONE. THIS . . . NEVER happened before
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@surprisinglythiswasavailable : No! It’s really not and it chills me that a channel like this tries SO HARD to be, “even handed,” that it forgets what a legitimate point of view looks like and starts giving the Gravity Deniers equal, “weight!” See whaddi’ did there? 😉
Maybe Putin just needs to get over this false assumption that the expansion of democracy is any of his business? Maybe he needs to stop pretending that he’s not still just a Soviet Union thug? Otherwise, how could ANY, “deal,” (spoken or otherwise) still be valid? The Soviet Union is supposed to be gone! It’s like someone walking into a music store and demanding they fix their car, because the place used to be a garage! It’s f*cking lunacy!
I’m sick of channels like this acting as though merely having an opposite view should be validated in some way!? I oppose the MOON! No! I insist that there’s no such thing and that projected hologram in the sky must go! Now I’m entitled to equal time to debate this on news channels, create a cult following and get to debate it in Washington on Capitol Hill! F*cking madness!
This computer expert should learn more history and maybe learn just how many PEOPLE were DYING in the west, just so they could spread Democracy to the east! Instead of acting like, just because Putin says the moon isn’t real, we all have to nod our heads and say, “Tell us all about it, Puty?”
F*ck that guy and F*ck this channel! Putin is in Ukraine to prevent them from developing their MASSIVE gas and oil reserves. Period! It’s an armed robbery, with NO, “alternative view,” and NO justification. A few Kremlin Kleptocrats have had the west eating out of the palms of the hands and they’re now shocked that the west doesn’t want to lose control of energy security? They haven’t studied their history either. Ever since the term, “Energy Security,” has existed, for over a hundred years, the west has NEVER let the east take away their control over that. And Putin will NOT be an exception. He’s not, “special.” He has no, “argument.” He a f*cking thug who’s threatening nukes and BLUFFING.
But accident do happen if you keep letting a maniac wave a loaded weapon around. So it’s time we made it clear: we are no longer doing business with the maniac! They can depose him in a palace coup or they can have a revolution. But only an IDIOT let’s a mad man wave a loaded weapon in their face a second time! F*ck Putin! He’s done!
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So, I have a script for the movie called The President’s Speech: Inauguration Day. Yes. The sequel to the King’s Speech. It has everything. The boy from Scranton overcomes a crippling speech disability and talks way into our hearts and then, smooth talks his way into the White House. You get a montage, with Eye Of The Tiger playing in the background, of him doing all those funny exercises with his speech coach and love interest, Kamala; I know, but it’s Hollywood, so it’s got to be historically inaccurate. You get the moving bit, when he meets that boy, with the same disability, who breaks down crying, but never forgets the encouragement and ongoing support from Biden who befriended him. Then, that same kid comes back and gives a speech at Biden’s campaign, to violin music, which makes us all cry. And at the end, Biden makes the best damned speech, that unites the whole country behind him, to bombastic yet soaring Hans Zimmer music, that makes us all want to stand and salute him! And it ends with Kamala, softly breathing the words, “Shazam, Mr President,” as she kisses him in front of the world, on the podium. He winks and says, “Kamala, I’m lost for words.” They embrace, the crowd roars it’s approval, the score soars and the flying Delorian from Back To The Future circles overhead (for no explainable reason WHATSOEVER! Except that it looks SO damned cool!) and flies into camera with a crackling and a white flash! Role credits to the tune of Huey Lewis’s Power of Love! Would you pay to see that movie? I would! 🤣👏🥳✌️👍
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It’s high time we OUTLAW the LYING propagandists getting away with calling lies, “news,” like they do in the UK?
Fox pulled their plans to set up shop in the UK (costly plans) because they’re NOT allowed to call themselves, “news,” there. A country with both a, “gutter press,” AND fine journalism, thriving side by side, since forever; and they have NO, “free speech,” problems there. If they figured it out, WHY can’t we?
We used to hunt down and HANG seditious propagandists, after WWII! Now we allow them to broadcast on American soil and give them shares in the f’king company!?!?!? I mean, WTF, America??? The, “steal,” was a pathetic LIE, that cost American LIVES! You don’t let the guy who screams, “Fire,” in a packed theatre walk away Scott Free, after watching people DIE in the chaos!? Why is Fox allowed to? . . . They just can’t DO that sh*t in Britain!
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@tombranch2261 : I worry about that all the time. In a previous life, I managed a high stress job for many years until I wound up in the mental hospital, so I know how it can suddenly take its toll on you. Jake’s compassion and empathy are palpable, and sometimes I find it hard to watch his obvious suffering. He has military training and experience; and, having been in charge of actual nuclear missiles, I’m certain he would have gone through a rigorous selection process, whereby his level headedness and calm under pressure will have been key factors. But, sifting through suffering, all day, every day, is a different kind of pressure that can result in what I called, “toothache of the soul.” Something you cannot stop, even for a moment, yet calls on you to deal with it urgently, and just gnaws at your very spirit. He has addressed the issue in a Q&A and it sounds to me like he has great coping mechanisms. But I cannot help but worry for him. Especially since he has become a source of such irreplaceable value for so many people out there. But, mostly I just worry for him. His compassion does him credit. His empathy is touching. His sincerity moves me. His knowledge impresses me. He is a treasure, and should guard himself accordingly. But, he’s smart, so I imagine he does . . . I sure hope so. Slava Ukraine, my friend. 🇺🇦✌️🇬🇧
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That war dance says it all. High spirits indeed. Your channel always finds the perfect balance of coverage, analysis, pitch and tone👍
On a different topic though, I can’t get one question out of my mind. A while back, you showed a brief video of Ukrainian paratroopers training, doing jumps from an aircraft. As I hear about these, “dug in,” Russian positions, I’m reminded of how the Normandy landings overcame the Nazis, partially at least, by airdropping and glider dropping men and material behind enemy lines and taking out key positions. As an airforce man yourself, I was wondering what you think of that as a strategy? Is there any place for that in modern warfare? Or would it be impossible with modern detection systems? Were you just enjoying putting out footage that makes the Russians afraid of all fronts, even above their heads? Or do you see the silent, engineless (thus, with no heat signature to trace) gliders of WWII potentially making a comeback?
If it was me in a position of power in Ukraine, I would certainly be asking the question at least, until someone with expertise could explain to me why it would be a bad idea, liable to get a lot of Ukrainians killed for nothing?
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Julian Rivera : We could do with an FDR Revival, actually. He had some of the best speeches, knew a thing or two about pain and suffering and, he may have been an entitled rich kid, but he gave a sh*t. He was a true, “radical,” in the best sense of the word: “You’re stacking the courts? No problem, I just expanded them.” “You’re still taking all the money? In a depression? No problem, I just changed the banking system! Sue me!” “You’re not hiring? No problem, I just started a government works program across the entire country, building infrastructure, roads, dams, hospitals, you name it! Now everybody’s working for me! Guess that’s the next election sewn up then?” He was a crafty devil, who knew how to win and beat them at their own game, because he was already born into the best purple on the monopoly board. And he REALLY gave a sh*t, for all his shortcomings. That’s what America needs right now. Someone who’s not afraid to get booted out of office, which is why people kept putting him back in! ✌️👍
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Exactly! . . . I’m sorry, David, but I’m just not convinced that all of the voters, “believe,” the Big Lie. Some do, but I’m convinced they’re the minority. Most of them lie, just like their leaders. Racist ideology is dependent upon lies, which are knowingly manufactured, by people who have to have given thought to the truth, in order that they can lie about it effectively. Just as racist parents so often do to their families.
Without knowledge of the facts, their lies cannot be convincing. “Belief,” is a loose concept in this context. It’s more like being emotionally committed, practically mentally ill, than actual, “belief,” in something. A continually self-adjusting narrative, a self-correcting sociopathic, emotional need. An unmet need, compounded and exploited by smarter people who count upon the uncritical credulity of their base. I mean, say it out loud? “A pedophile ring, ritual sacrifices, for a chemical generated by frightened children?” It’s not even RATIONAL.
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web angel : So GLAD to see someone with good sense and good humour, challenging these LIES. What I DON’T get, is WHY this, relatively trivial aspect of this story is so “important” to them? Though, I am pretty sure that this is just one or two people, using “alternative” accounts? Of COURSE we KNOW Tillerson HAS TO use “diplomatic” language, but his Aide told the TRUTH about the Twitter Trashing and was IMMEDIATELY FIRED TOO. If it wasn’t TRUE, Tillerson would have simply TOLD US THAT? Any guesses as to WHY these “people” are quite SO, “Butt Hurt,” about ADMITTING the TRUTH about this, instead of just “spinning” it, like Fox is doing?
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Olivia : I was a Republican. Just because you can find legitimate “fault” previous administrations (I was no fan of the Clintons or Obama, for POLITICAL reasons) does NOT automatically make their opponents UNACCOUNTABLE??? So . . . IF . . . I mean, IF you are “sincere” what would you say, if I showed YOU some PROOF; unimpeachable, public record, documented, witnessed and accountable PROOF of Trump’s corruption, incompetence, cruelty, vanity, lies and CRIMES? WHAT would you say to THAT? Do you WANT hard EVIDENCE? All you have to do, is say “Yes” and I will give you PROOF that Trump is corrupted and should NOT be in office.
I DARE YOU? I DOUBLE DARE YOU . . . Do you WANT the TRUTH? . . .
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Remember my friends, the, “verdict,” is irrelevant at this Impeachment. What’s more important is that Q followers, Nazis and Trump fans are all going to hear, from the mouths of the GOP, on the witness stand, on live TV, that the reason for their Insurrection, “The Steal,” is a seditious lie. Not one of the GOP will risk a billion dollar lawsuit, a Perjury rap, or a Conspiracy charge, for trump. Not when they can’t take the 5th. They will have zero choice. And THAT’S WORTH a trial 😉👍
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Fox should be getting sued AND charged with sedition! They did so much HARM to democracy, world wide! Fox, between the election and the insurrection of the 6th, cast doubt on the election over 700 TIMES, even though they KNEW, “The Steal,” was a FLAT OUT LIE! Why isn’t that SEDITION??? You can’t scream, “fire,” in a pact theatre, and get to watch people DIE in the chaos, without CONSEQUENCES! Why is Fox allowed to be such traitors and get away with it??? We used to hunt down and HANG seditious propagandists after WWII! Now we let them broadcast on American soil, and collect from their shares in the company??? WTF, America??? It has to STOP!
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I saw a news story, just yesterday, saying that cops are leaving the force, all over America, “in alarming numbers,” because they’re constantly under public scrutiny and being attacked in the press. My immediate comment was, “Should we be, “alarmed,” at all? Or relieved?” Cops are starting to realise that routinely beating up suspects is no longer business as usual. Will Smith observed, “police brutality hasn’t increased, we’re just recording it now.” It’s like they honestly don’t know it’s NOT OK to abuse the public. They think the public is supposed to, “respect mah authorataugh!” They don’t even KNOW they’re supposed to be SERVANTS with a HUMBLE attitude toward the public! I think we’re going to see more mass resignations and early retirements and I say GOOD! It’s time for a new bread of cop. Long overdue. 👍
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Philly.500 : No . . . That’s not it, at all. Either Stone can predict the weather, like some kind of latter day prophet, or he REALLY KNEW when he predicted the release of STOLEN emails, provided by SPIES? Who are you trying to convince, ANYWAY? The Grand Jury CLEARLY believes Mueller. They keep saying, “Yes,” each time he asks for a Subpoena. You need to change THEIR minds, son. NOT, the, “public”? SMH
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In other words, you’re saying, “I hope Putin will take his troops home and leave Ukraine, today?” He didn’t realise the world would stand up to him and he’s cracking under paranoid strain. He’s so obviously thick as trump, calling Zelensky a, “Nazi,” even though he’s a Jew?! This is only happening because Ukraine is sitting on enough oil and gas to put Russia out of business and Putin has been able to prevent them from developing it in the Donbas region and Crimea, but he can’t get to the latest western reserves by the the Carpathian Mountains without taking the whole country. It’s armed robbery, pure and simple. And the murdering thief is saying, “Don’t escalate the situation by calling the cops when I’m gone?” F*ck Putin. Squeeze his economy until his people overthrow him, rather than starve!
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the JaYoe Nation : No, I’m WITH YOU! It’s just that there’s NO superlative that adequately describes Trump’s INSULT to the American intelligence, as his PATHETIC, “ Honestly America, I said, ‘DUCK,” not that!” EXCUSES! Like the DISGUST I felt at hearing him wheel out, once again, his, “there was blame on both sides,” rhetoric, that he LAST used to defend American NAZIS! Just can’t find the WORDS! Totally agree with you 👍
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Dr Fauci is beloved by Americans, famous for his tolerance and patience, kind, helpful and self sacrificing. To try to create a Straw Man out of Dr Fauci is sickening, when he has sacrificed so much for America. But, when he’s putting it, “on the record,” that Rand Paul, “You do not know what you’re talking about,” you KNOW Paul,has gone too far. America has Dr Fauci’s back. ✌️
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Nunix : The problem Putin has now is that the west will do all it can to reduce its reliance on Russian reserves, until they’re free of them altogether, and that the world is moving away from fossil fuels anyway. A century ago, it would be a novelty to see a motor car on your street, but within 20 years, traffic jams were a thing. Electric and hydrogen fuelled cars are going the same way.
But his biggest problem (apart from the fact that his tiny economy is reliant on fossil fuels and preventing Ukraine from ever mining theirs) is that he’s been threatening the west with nukes now. Only an insane person allows a madman to point a loaded gun at their head twice. The west will devote itself to getting Putin’s finger off the trigger now. He has left us with alternative.
The smartest thing his colleagues could do is to pull a palace coup, so they can at least protect their own interests in a diminished Russia, from which they can trade away their nukes in return for economic support? Otherwise, they can wait around for the Russian people to get sick of living like Soviets again, cuing for miles to get a loaf of bread, winter power cuts and fuel shortages, all whilst getting 15 year sentences if they complain about it and their internet keeps going down so they’re stuck with state TV 24/7. They know a thing or two about, “Revolutions,” in Russia. And the west will be only too glad to assist a new regime.
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Ken Abelson : He’s an, “essential service provider,” you idiot. My wife is an essential service provider too, and she got tested, but I still can’t. I make mountains of cash from home, and nothing’s changed in my world, so I don’t care. But, you want to KNOW what’s going on, don’t you? Journalists don’t just TELEPORT to work! They cross the front lines, every day, to get the news out to you, so that YOU can be informed and know how to stay safe! Don’t be such a, “have not,” you ingrate . . . SMH
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Tomato : Well, Trump Trolls only like Trump’s racism and greed, so long as the economy doesn’t melt; apart from the paid foreigners. They Fake Believe. They always have. They KNOW they can’t, “convince,” anyone, or, “win,” an argument. Their, “Job,” is to sew and maintain DIVISION: the oxygen that sustains Trump. Their Fake, “Belief,” makes everything they say suddenly make perfect sense ✌️
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MGTOW : Hey, Buzz Lightyear, haven’t you noticed that Trump has never, “won,” anything in his life? 2016 was rigged, and the GOP conspired in obstructing Muller’s investigation, so that still has to happen. 2020 is rigged too. So, you can relax, son. You Trolls are only being paid to be traitors because they need it to, “look,” like Trump has an actual, “following.” It’s called, “Plausible Deniability,” kid. They’re NOT going to allow the people to, “vote,” the entire administration into JAIL, at this stage? The few remaining, “free,” GOP members would have to disband the party, in historic disgrace and live out the rest of their pitiable lives seeking obscurity, fleeing from the press, like post war escaped Nazis. It’s all already rigged, with Putin’s help. The GOP even ADMITTED (mistakenly) that the Florida election computers are hacked. And all the key states are standing by, their, “results,” are ALREADY IN. So, relax and enjoy your Putin Style Dictatorship, sonny. You have the, “victory,” you sold us out for. But, when it keeps getting worse, and they finally come for YOU and yours, think of me? And, remember he words, “I told you so.” 😉
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I do have a procedural question for you, about the rules in this state? Presumably, they have a procedure for those who cannot afford the full amount and want to appeal? Heard must pay the full amount of the judgement against before she would be allowed to appeal, as must Depp.
But, I would imagine that the appellant would have to show, “good faith,” in attempting to clear the amount, before any appeal would be accepted? She can’t be the first person who claims not to have the money the court is demanding? I never believed she would appeal anyway. She’s just saying that because she has no other face saving defence.
But the court won’t be dumb enough to let her have her cake and eat it either. After all, she has been proven, to a legal standard, to be a perjurer and liar. How could they trust any, “promises,” she makes to pay the cash, when she told the world that she thinks making a pledge is the same as giving real money to a charity! There are kids who rely on those charities with 7,000,000 reasons not to trust her. A court will, we can only hope, be as bright as them at the very least?
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The art of NEVER LOSING the game: DON’T PLAY! . . . It’s a genius strategy. Note how she, reflecting Joe, never kicks trump while he’s down; never rubs his, or any of the Alt-Wrong’s, noses in it; never scores the open goals they leave for her? GOP Senators are literally complaining that Biden’s Tweets are not confrontational or emotionally charged enough!
By simply answering questions, without humiliating anyone, in her inimitable, articulate, informed and professional manner, she’s helping the administration achieve its long-game; its long-term objective:
To go around the GOP and the far-right media, straight to the hearts and minds of the American people. And, if polling is anything to go by, it’s working. Trump’s enablers know that they’re the biggest losers in this fight. Especially if the American people are the biggest winners. But, they are also the ones in the highest positions of the GOP.
They will have that, “civil war,” they’ve always wanted, but it will be among themselves. And the smartest thing this administration can do, is what it’s already doing: it’s job. Without fuss or drama. Lindsay Graham, and the others on his wing of the GOP will try some more stunts as their desperation increases, and we must remain vigilant. But, if they lose more seats at the midterms, it’s finally OVER for Trumpian Fascism in America, and about one half of that GOP. Imagine what the Dems could achieve for us, with full and proper control of both houses? . . . ✌️
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I know, FFS, right???
“Excuse me officer, which way to the Coup? Oh, since you’re searching me, I should tell you, I’m a very BAD PERSON. I just remembered that, when you found my gun. I do security, but I don’t know the LAW or anything. No, honestly. I’m not just making up random words and crying my eyes out at the first moment I’m challenged! I’m perfect for security, because I’m forgetful, incompetent and I cry when facing the possibility of putting my own skin in the game, instead of just shooting at black cops, from a long way off, with my long range weapons!” FFS, America! Who, “hired,” this guy? Someone who wants to DIE??? 😂
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Who would ever trust the politicians who voted to overturn a democratic election DURING a violent Insurrection bent on overturning a democratic election? The same people who are now Suppressing, voters, the right to protest and even the topic of Slavery in Education! Totalitarianism leaves no room for retreat, because they have exposed themselves and know they can never be seen as legitimate by any thinking adult, ever again. So, all they have now is their attempted Coup by other means: like this sham, “audit,” that will announce that, “Chiynah,” interfered with our elections, because that’s the narrative that Putin has chosen for them. Fascism leaves you with two choices, every single time. You either destroy them, utterly, or they WILL destroy you . . . utterly. In Franco’s Spain, Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany (I could cite Stalin’s Russia, but to avoid writing an essay . . .) Fascism NEVER offers a third alternative. We are in way more danger than we probably realise. We must crush this fascism, with every lawful means at our disposal . . . UTTERLY! ✌️👍
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I am so furious about this! We’re all meant to say, “Oh, it’s not corrupt at all,” even though this is a PERSONAL FRIEND of his who is now the Chair of BBC???!!! How many of you people out there have friends round the house on a regular basis who will link you up to someone willing to lend you £800,000??? Such a GOOD FRIEND that s/he will PAY that £800,000 FOR YOU, if you can’t afford to pay it back yourself!!!? Is this the same BBC that Boris has threatened with the loss of its license fee? The same BBC that Boris has accused of bias against him personally? Now being chaired by THAT GUY??? This same Richard Sharp was not, “sharp,” enough to remember to put ANY MENTION of this down on his application for the job of Chair, under the bit where you’re supposed to declare any interests!? Why was THAT do we think? And the Tories are SO ENTITLED AND TONE DEAF that they think they can just say, “Oh, this is not unusual. You wouldn’t know about this, being a mere pleb, but this is how we do things all the time,” and we’re meant to tug our forelocks and say, “Oh, well, sorry for asking then.”???!!! Do they think it’s the 1950’s!?!?!? This is UNACCEPTABLE! Period!
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@CelestialWheels : Sometimes people are just teasing, but the problem with that field of medicine is that there are so many quacks attracted to it, because of the fast cash they can make, by laying people on a slab, making them feel their bones make crunching noises and charging them small fortunes, for making their conditions worse. There are plenty of documentaries about them. People who do so badly at their profession make it worse for the good practitioners . . . like politicians, right?
So, Kudos to your mom and all your family for that matter. But you must know there are a lot of scammers in her field of medicine? She must have complained about them? It’s a perfect field for an unethical doctor, because you can get away with so much, and charge so much, for, “doing,” so little . . . if their patient is lucky? Or doing great harm, if they’re not.
Your point is taken ✌️
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Peace can only prevail if YOU take responsibility for that. I mean all of us, of course. But it’s worth remembering that the nation that subscribed to a deal with their government, by which they got the freedom to do what they liked with their lives, just so long as they never complained about prices, the markets and especially never complained about their politicians, is the same country that is now bogged down in an unwinnable war, facing economic chaos, draconian policing and its best fighters and strongest young men are fleeing the country in their literal millions. That’s what political absenteeism buys you. The government will ALWAYS betray their people in such a system.
How engaged are you? If you haven’t written to your representatives lately, then I would say, not enough. Speaking as a Christian believer myself, prayers alone are just not going to cut it. We ALL have a dog in this fight. Look at your next energy bill if you don’t believe me. So, as you’re already funding a war, you should take responsibility for it.
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MyEyesBled: Well, I sure hope he takes Jada Plinket down with him? She has more to answer for here than he does. She’s got, “narcissistic sociopath,” written all over her. And judging by the way she partied hard, singing and dancing with her, “husband,” right afterward, she doesn’t feel it was the least bit sexist of her husband to take the entire matter out of her hands and beat a guy for her? Does the word, “feminism,” mean anything in the Smith household, I wonder?
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Well, OF COURSE there’s SOMETHING going on that just ain’t right. We just don’t know what . . . yet. My first thoughts, honestly, (though they do me little credit) were that Owen is either one of three things:
1) A former squeeze?
2) Another Russian Spook?
3) Someone with compromat on Johnson, possibly connected to either of the above speculations, or perhaps something else?
The idea that she might have been his, “love child,” hadn’t occurred to me at first, I’m sorry to say. I mean, who in Westminster (outside of the opposite benches) hasn’t had to contend with Johnson’s johnson?
The idea that holds the most water for me is that she has something on him and is working for Russia, either directly or indirectly. I just hope to GOD that someone investigates this case thoroughly and gets to the, “bottom,” of it!
I would caution that absence of evidence (at this point) is NOT evidence of absence. It may well transpire.
But anyway, I do appreciate the larfs. Your Kenneth Williams is so good it should be bottled and sold!
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Well, we shouldn’t, “Rush,” to judgement? . . . Oh wait? That’s how he made his living . . . There was once at time when it was OK to disagree about politics, in principle, and still be considered a decent person. Then, trump invented Cancel Culture and kept ramping up the stakes. And the instrument he used to do it was guys like Rush Limbaugh. People who’s simmering bigotry and hatred of what they fear, was always just beneath the surface, until one day, it wasn’t anymore, and it somehow became OK to be a Qult in the media . . . Who will replace him? There are plenty waiting in the wings . . .
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colette s : Ironic, that you characterised the parts of her routine that were less, “jokes,” than flat statements of FACT, as, “hate-speech”??? Do you not SEE that? The WORST she said about them was that they were, “liars.” That’s just a FACT. But, in Trump’s Stalinist model, FACTS are the New, “Hate-Speak,” now? You REALLY NEED to read some Orwell, before it’s too late, sweetie . . . Smh . . .
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I think there’s something very messed up about our culture, where you can’t just enjoy content like everyone else, without having to pay money to be, “special,” enough to get extra stuff. I love this channel too, but they all do it, even the best of them. They can make life changing sums of money.
BTW, if you’re interested, I know about the aircraft, “phones off,” thing. Brian Benamran explains in his book, How To Speak Science, why people have to turn off their phones for landing (and a host of other things, like switching off the planes lights) for commercial airliners. It’s not what you think.
It’s actually to do with the escape shoots. They discovered that people don’t like leaping into an inky black void, and won’t jump onto the escape slides at night, if the aircraft crash lands. This puts other passengers at risk in a situation where seconds literally count on a life and death level, slowing the whole evacuation process.
So nearly all of the measures they take for landing procedure are to do with optimising passenger night vision, so they can see the slide they’re leaping onto, rather than trusting that they’re not leaping 70 feet to their death. True story. Merry Christmas.
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David Sargent : Timing seems to be everything, here? Every time it looks bad for the, “presidency,” they pull out this potential war with Iran. So, this is meant to, “distract,” America from the fact that their Republic has already fallen, right? A distraction from a, “Trial,” at which evidence and witnesses are not even allowed to appear, and the people with the most to lose, the GOP, are meant to sit in, “Judgement,” of the criminal with whom they have been conspiring? WAKE UP, AMERICA! The Republic has FALLEN. Your Constitution is ON FIRE! Your 2020 elections are ALREADY RIGGED!
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I’m prepared to wait and see just who gets accused of what, who gets charged down the pike and especially, who gets found guilty and for what? Yet, I think you speak for many when you point to Sturgeon’s apparently, “sudden,” retirement from politics as taking on a very different hue in the light of these developments. And that is inescapable.
What really annoyed me about this clip was the idiocy of the journalists, asking questions to which they knew what the, “none-answers,” would be, when there was one, REALLY OBVIOUS, question that’s on everyone’s mind and which would have violated no confidentiality or, “ongoing investigations,” with a straight answer!
Namely: “Is your husband innocent?”
That would have been THE question that she could not wriggle out of without looking guilty as sin and would have marked out historically as either loyal to a fault, or a culpable conspirator, depending on what shakes out in court. WHY do they send such inexperienced kids out doorstep such an important story? It galls me.
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@ghostkilla931 : He cares about our troops enough to actually bring them home, after trump’s surrender, and to take all the historically illiterate, pathetically hypocritical, and factually WRONG flack for that, no matter what! His withdrawal from Afghanistan has risen his stock in the hearts and minds of people who KNOW anything about ANYTHING, so stick that in your ignorant Covid Denying, Flat Earth, Racist, Gravity Skeptic pipe, madam. 😜
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@caribbeanman3379 : Flat Earthers are, “neither stupid nor anti-scientific,” but they are obtuse trolls, who love getting attention of any kind, even if it’s not positive attention. They exploit the paranoia of people who already don’t trust, “authority,” figures. The ones who are, “not faking it,” are no mystery either. In fact, she answered any queries as to their motivation in her very next utterance. The, “Money.” There’s an awful lot of it to be made, out of the gullible, the credulous, the distrustful and ultimately, the emotionally and psychologically damaged. Such people, who accept grants for the, “research,” and donations from around the world, are ruthless exploiters, or ignoramuses, not realising (or caring) about the harm they could do.
Or, to put it another way, Flat Earthers are, for various different reasons (not always their own fault) full of sh*t.
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Well said, sir! It was the boldest and best executed exit plan, since the Martial Plan broke the will (and wallets) of the Soviet Union in the 1950’s! I’ve been arguing this all over the place. People don’t KNOW what a, “disaster,” looks like, if they think this was not a brilliantly carried out, well oiled machine of an operation! It’s an achievement that we can only hope history recognises?
And, the people who were so quick to evoke images of Saigon’s last days, are just historically illiterate, point scoring, grubby America Hating HACKS, who need to listen to Laurence O’Donnell for some PERSPECTIVE!
And you’re damned right we need more people like YOU to explain the REALITY on the ground, and fewer discredited armchair HACKS like Bolton, selling books off the failures and achievements of others! They only want him around because he was a senior advisor to trump’s government who now criticises trump’s EX-government.
What America NEEDS right now, is military veteran experts, like YOU to explain why this was such a massive success and a huge VICTORY for America! For America’s wallet, if nothing else!? But more credit is due the military personnel who did such an amazing job, while the ONLY people who were kicking their asses was the American press, on both sides, for ulterior motives, that had little to do with their, “interests” . . .
THANK YOU, for saying all of that. It NEEDED to be said! And for your service.
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John Doe : I kept saying it. And, I stand by it. Trump is DESPERATE for a War, and it was only Putin that stopped Trump, at the last moment, because they use Iran for smuggling and various secret service operations (to do with Syria, mostly, at the moment), so he’s conspiring with Israel, and, “negotiating,” with Putin, for permission. I said Trump would be back. And, here we go again. “WMD’s,”. . . AGAIN? . . . REALLY? . . . Jeez . . . 😆
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I believe there will be a fundamental shift in attitude toward the trump’s when witnesses start testifying at the impeachment. The loudest voices, propagating the lie of, “the steal,” were Senators, after all. And an Impeachment Trial can compel testimony from anyone, and there’s no 5th Amendment to fall back on. That will leave the likes of Cruz, Hawley and even Lindsay Graham, on the stand, under oath, on live TV, in front of a riveted planet Earth, having to confess that they knew it was a seditious lie, or lay out their, “evidence,” for believing in it, and to get ripped to shreds on the stand. The fans of trump, world wide, will hear from the mouths of the perpetrators, that they were lied to; as they take the Nuremberg Defence, claiming they were, “only following orders.” In the end, the, “verdict,” will hardly matter. The fracture in the GOP will be forced, and the country will see them for the pathetic whipping boys, conspirators and mealy mouthed traitors that they are . . . Then trump will truly be vulnerable
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spinalcrackerbox : That’s a very fair point. MUCH will depend upon who the Dems field as their candidate, and whether they have learned their lesson, that, “business as usual,” WON’T cut it. Indeed, I just heard a pig farmer in a red state, say the exact same thing. He voted for Trump and said, he, “doesn’t want,” to vote for Trump again, because even his war of words with China on the possible trade war, has caused violent swings in the price of pork bellies. BUT, for him, “it depends on WHO runs against him,” and I dearly would have liked to have heard him expand on that, but the report ended there. A similar report is on CNN, with ANOTHER pig farmer, and addressing soy produce too, with pretty much the same, “Red State, buyer’s remorse, but it depends on who,” talking points.
Some, like me, conservatives, in values, gun owning Christian believers (yeah, I REALLY AM. All those things) will be voting Dems REGARDLESS, because they see an extremist, Stalinist, DANGEROUS TO DEMOCRACY GOP, that has ABANDONED, “Conservatism,” by ANY DEFINITION of the term. Others, like you, (I guess?) wanna’ know WHAT do we replace this with, BEFORE committing, and I can respect that. Though I have to add; if Trump and the GOP survive the Mid Terms, I REALLY don’t believe democracy will survive too.
What do you WANT to see, in the stead of POTUS and top brass? Are you “happy” with Trump? If so, I REALLY, REALLY wanna’ know WHY?
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lulu in hollywood : The reality is that Trump SQUEAKED in, with a MINORITY government and then set about attacking minorities, institutions which DEFINE America, businesses, Law and Order, famous people and personalities, and EVEN HIS OWN COLLEAGUES. What do ALL of those groups have in common? They are ALL AMERICAN! Or “allies” of America! While he REVOLTED other Americans, by sucking up to DICTATORS. It is a MATHEMATICAL CERTAINTY that he has LOST supporters and gained NONE. This is WHY they have ALREADY been LOSING in their, “safe states,” like Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, and so on.
However, his CULT will CONSTANTLY try to define the fight as, “liberals V conservative,” because they HOPE to keep people in their, “camps,” as opposed to being grown up and acknowledging that you can have “different” politics from other people and STILL STAND TOGETHER with them, for the sake of PROTECTING DEMOCRACY. Identity Politics has become the Troll’s, “Safe Space,” MANTRA. So, they will BLEAT, “liberal,” at you, REGARDLESS of what you ARE. Their DESPERATION is GROWING
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Well, it’s still a, “What if?” at this point, so? . . . Ultimately, it’s meaningless to policy and policy makers. Keep digging and find the origins, by all means, for sure. But the mere fact that the Chinese will continue being secretive and uncooperative tells investigators very little from which we can infer anything. This story only becomes truly meaningful when we get a conclusive answer, or are forced to draw a line and identify the blockage preventing us from getting to the truth. I don’t doubt the full program will have value, explaining a lot about the science and procedures for tracing a pandemic back to its source, so it will be educational; especially for those thinking about the broader political ramifications. But ultimately, it’s a none-issue until we know something for sure.
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Ruvin W : You all realise we can’t trust the, “reassurances,” of Moscow Mitch, and any GOP member, right? Especially the ones looking at serious jail time! You all must KNOW what Bill Barr’s Secret Police units are being expanded FOR, America? They are unconstitutional, and ILLEGAL anyway. Inundate your representatives, join the protests and activist groups, donate your money; DO whatever you can, but by GOD! DO SOMETHING TO GET SECRET POLICE UNITS OUTLAWED! They are building the instrument of your suppression, right under your noses!
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@13BGunBunny : What? You’d prefer if they went the opposite way around the globe? You’d prefer if they visited Putin on their way? What, exactly are they doing, “wrong,” in your, “informed,” well, “researched,” and, “thought out,” opinion, madam? You don’t think it’s wise to let the military make the decisions? Maybe, the people who’ve been LIVING there for the past 20 YEARS might have a slightly better plan than an armchair general drunk on Orange Koolaid? . . . Just sayin’, ma’am . . . 🤦♂️
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Thank you! For at least discussing the topic! You’re the first in 20 comments (all with tons of likes) that wasn’t worshipping Charlie’s sound glitch at the end there!
Personally, I think it’s more about doing things that wouldn’t do in public? We all do daft things to entertain our kids, spouses, friends, even colleagues, that we’d be abashed by if anyone saw them. If we’re honest, we all have human brains that sometimes flood with oxytocin, making us feel that, “cute aggression,” which is a common phenomenon, fascinating to psychologists.
Whether you want to squeeze a baby’s cheek, or squish up a kitten or puppies, or whatever. That’s a natural thing that all (“normal”) humans experience, unless you have brain damage or a particularly rare form of neuro-divergence.
Yet, our survival mechanisms usually persuade us that this is not suitable for public consumption and we don’t actually share such intimacy with the public at large. I get why some people just want to share their love, as their brains are flooded with chemicals that impair judgement: which is why there are so many unwanted pregnancies in the world, among other things that result from the sudden rush of emotion that a chemically unbalanced mind can damage the host’s best interests with.
But, I also detected Charlie’s deeper message there. He was saying, “I hope you’re all happy now, for bullying a harmless couple to tears?” He knows he has no real right to tell us off, but at the same time, I think he was ashamed more of the bullying than he was of the cringemeisters?
I also get the sense that there were several guilty parties fiercely ignoring the content of Charlie’s message who, “doth protest too much,” about an irrelevant sound glitch, rather than acknowledge feeling a little ashamed of something they tweeted recently?
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I think people, including Prof Wilson here, are leaping to conclusions without seeing the potential for a bigger picture, let alone looking at it. Labour made a manifesto promise, to go after the traffickers. How do you go about that, if not by rounding up a whole bunch of people who use exploitative labour, isolating them simultaneously and squeezing them for their connections? You work your way up the chain. Why is anyone assuming this operation is, “one week,” long? And, does anyone seriously think that Yvette Cooper cooked up a plan, put on a flack jacket, rounded up her A Team and started kicking in doors? Or, do you think, perhaps, she asked the police to present proposals for getting to the traffickers, as promised, and signed off on THEIR plan, which THEY are executing in the hopes of doing some good with more than a one week shelf life?
Better this than using their victims as a political football? As to legislation, Parliament is not even in session, so shall we wait and SEE what they plan to do, before laying accusations of myopia on their doorstep?
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It seems that invertebrates are able to stay upright, because their mommy is always behind them, propping them up? Pence has, “mom,” wherever he goes. And just look at how MANY of the Jan 6th rioters were taken to that Riot Of White Entitlement by their MOTHERS? The stats are astonishing! Nearly all of the worst agitators were either arrested with their moms, or had their mommy at the jails, within minutes of their arrests, trying to post bail and complaining about their, “special,” diets, etc!
There’s something fascinating underlying all of this. Something to do with a spoiled rotten generation of Boomers, and their doubly spoiled, entitled kids, who never had to take, “NO!,” for an answer in their rotten, egregious, spoiled little lives before. The Sociology Professors keep telling the news anchors that the stats on this are, “astonishing,” and that we’ll be so, “surprised,” at what they uncovered about the Jan 6th rioters. I just keep saying that I’m surprised that they’re, “surprised,” at all! At the core of trump’s base are nothing but arrogant, entitled boomers and their kids, who think they have the, “God Given Right,” to be white supremacists, and who, despite being full on fascists, don’t like being called fascists.
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@johnjamesbaldridge867 : When you fall into the, “Well, other people agree with me,” trap, you’re already on shaky ground. As far as I know, (and I really HOPE I’m wrong about his?) Roger Penrose is the only physicist I know of who has (obliquely) asked a very common sense question about Inflation Theory (which should technically be called, “Inflation Hypothesis,” but that’s another can of worms) which is:
If space, “inflated,” in the blink of an eye, why didn’t time inflate with it? Why does Inflation Theory abandon Einstein’s fundamental hypotheses at the CRUCIAL moment? I genuinely believe that once you put E=MC2 back into the equation, you will get a result that makes perfect sense and explains that, “space,” did NOT just jump on its own! “Time,” as viewed from a vast distance, looks tiny in the same way that distant baryonic matter does!
Why should Space-Time cease to be a, “thing,” despite absolutely EVERY other observation we can make conforming to the basic rules of physics, wherever we look at any point in space and time? The reason that space has the same temperature (“homogeneity”) across the entire sky is that it all occurred at the same, “time,” but only appears to speed up, because we’re seeing it from a vast distance. You literally have to abandon E=MC2 for Guth’s hypothesis to make sense! And he offers absolutely zero account for WHY space decided to just expand at a rate that literally requires more energy than the universe posses! Not just a bit more, but logarithmic scales more energy than could possibly exist. Occam’s Razor applied to the problem; and you look for an explanation that accounts for what we SEE and for what IS right now, and we apply the KNOWN theory of how space AND time are INEXTRICABLY linked, making them ONE THING. Then it’s actually intuitive, makes more sense than inflation, and fits the evidence.
Space and time are expanding, which is basically, “what,” the universe is. The none-static properties of the universe are what give rise to ALL observed phenomena, and explain why we automatically miscalculate, “time,” and distance, failing to take time’s expansion into account along with that of space itself. But plug in time’s expansion and you have solvable equations that stay within the parameters of OBSERVATION.
I would so dearly love to sit down with those two guys over a coffee. Although, maybe Guth’s should be decaffeinated? 😉
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We literally watched it unravel, as we started off United, dealing with a national crisis, until Donny threw one spanner after another into the works. All because national unity put him 10 points behind Biden, according to his own people. So, he politicised the issue, and Made America Divided Again, just to keep his own head above water. Result: ALL THE PAIN of the Lockdown (mass unemployment, economic downturn, miles long Food Bank cues, THE DEATHS) whilst getting NONE OF THE RESULTS. . . Thanks for ruining America, Donny . . .smh
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It’s a dumb name, for a pro-Conservative position. “Defunding,” means only paying cops to, “Police,” things. Detect crime, prevent crime, and catch criminals. It means no longer having to pay them to be psychiatric nurses, social workers and hired hands for big businesses, or collecting debts for the banks! Tell me? WHO DOESN’T WANT THAT???
Yes! THAT’S what the FIRST discussion should be about! If that politician had just asked that cop, “Do you know what, “defund,” means? Because I PROMISE you, you’re PRO-Defunding.” He would have made a truly viral video. But, he probably doesn’t know either!?
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Any judge worth their salt will see her Tweet as a direct challenge to the court, and evidence as to Motive. If I were the judge, I’d be saying, “You openly stated that, among your motives for committing these offences, was the expectation of collusion by the state, and this court in particular, with your crimes. You did these things, BECAUSE you expected to evade punishment, counting on MY corruption and collusion. You have forced this court to respond by setting an example, and by making it clear to ALL insurrectionists that they CANNOT count upon state collusion, or deliberate dereliction of duty, In favor of a white suprematist’s childish expectations of government racism and collusion in serious offences against the state. I am therefore, compelled to give you the maximum sentence, so that America knows Justice is blind . . . especially to race. You talked your own way into your fate. You will serve 30 years, without the possibility of parole. Take her away.”
That’s my fantasy, at least. ✌️
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John Swofford : They all claimed, “Diplomatic Immunity,” and were not even charged. But, they were, “quietly,” banned from coming back to the states. That was the outcome; but we still had a Republic, back then. Now, we’re watching that fall. If Trump survives this Impeachment, which he might well do, the Republic will not. You think we’ll get him at the 2020, “elections?” Think again. They will be rigged properly, this time, and BLATANTLY. After all, what can we DO about that, apart from have drawn out investigations that lead nowhere, because Trump’s goons OBSTRUCT them? They won’t even be allowed to do THAT, next time. It’s either Trump OR the Republic. We cannot have both . . . Smh 👍
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Their attempt to, “Cancel Cancel Culture,” has to backfire, given trump INVENTED Cancel Culture? 🤷♂️
Gutfeld’s, “comedy,” is fittingly hypocritical and cringeworthy. Perfect for an SNL skit about, “What if Fascists tried Comedy?” You would pick Gutfeld, name the show, “Gutpunch,” and punctuate each, “gag,” with a child’s voice, going, “Oof!” I bet it doesn’t last? Fascists are too thin skinned to take the pushback. But once other comics start to satirise him, he’ll weep and quit, like they always do. I guarantee it. And, he’ll never admit to being about as funny as a bout of Covid. Instead, he will, of course, “blame,” Cancel Culture . . . 🙄
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Please could you give me a reference to look this story up? Regrettably, I missed it completely. I would very much like to know what this head teacher is saying and how he explains his rebellion? It is a bold and brave thing to do, regardless of his reasoning, right or wrong.
Prima facia I stand with him. Though I too recognise the enormous importance of memorialising those among us who make the ultimate sacrifice for the rest of us, it seems fairly plain that even the over-propagandised Russians know that their cause is unjust, their methods brutal and their sacrifice too great for the sake of a tiny oligarchy’s ambitions, flinging all of the laws of diplomacy and war into the teeth of an outraged democratic world.
Usually, when one person bravely takes a stand like this, they are merely expressing what everyone about them is thinking and feeling. And, if I had to guess, I would bet real money that this educator is not unwilling to memorialise the fallen soldier, as he is to accept the propaganda that they propose to hedge about his plaque? He will argue that it is the war he is opposing, not the boy.
And that is a dilemma, which I am sure he must be feeling keenly. He may even feel that he is sacrificing his own future, liberty and possibly more, for the sake of that soldier as much as for his community. He does not have the luxury of distance that we do, knowing his actions must have an impact and that his time has come (presumably?) for this gesture. It will be easy for the Russian state to mobilise arguments similar to the one you expressed.
But, for me at least, it does not take a great leap of the imagination to picture a head teacher who once knew this boy, knew his values, his hopes and dreams, his anxieties and fears, and perhaps is in a position to know that the person who would be most offended by a memorial of this type would be that boy himself?
And that is just one of so many scenarios that leap to my overactive writer’s mind (“an imagination trained to misbehave,” as Stephen King once put it) that may fully justify this head teacher in a more personal, moral stance than we see on the face of it?
That is why I would very much like to know where this story came from, read it myself and maybe use the search terms to find other journalistic takes on the situation? Such matters are close to my heart too.
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philosophicalreason : Of course they will. They must have asked Putin to arrange some more, “distractions,” for that day? When they shove the Impeachment through the Senate House in RECORD TIME (probably less than an hour) and Trump’s CONSPIRATORS on his, “Jury,” find him not guilty, after a, “Trail,” in which NO WITNESSES and NO EVIDENCE was even ALLOWED to be presented. So, maybe North Korea will launch a scary missile that day? Or, perhaps Iran will kill one of our senior generals? Who knows? But, it will have to be BIG this time? So, we’re all looking in the opposite direction as the Republic FALLS! . . .smh ✌️
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On that . . . I do hope you are ALL INUNDATING Moscow Mitch with calls, emails, social media, anything, until he’s afraid NOT to remove trump? You realise they COULD, if they wanted, simply CREATE a new law, with an expiration date and everything, right? There COULD be a new, three or four line, Insurrection Act, on the table, signed, sealed and voted through, right now! They COULD have REMOVED trump already! Make the GOP afraid NOT to! Get on their case about it! The ones too afraid to act, can remove themselves from Washington, so they don’t have to vote! Give them the PUSH they need and exclusively inundate GOP members! ✌️👍
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@peterlearner8594 : All true, but keep in mind that China has been covertly supporting Russia throughout this war. An open decision to support them would amount to a change in rhetoric, more than an actual real terms change, as they’ve been finding it expensive to retool their factories, so as to ensure that any shell casing or weapons don’t carry obvious markings of China’s production on them.
If I had to guess, I’d say China is merely testing the waters to see what western resolve looks like in the face of that threat. China is facing a serious economic downturn of its own and knows that sanction packages have already been prepared in the west, to be slapped on swiftly, should they chance their arm with even, “minor,” support in terms of weapons and materials.
This, “Doubling Down,” message is probably as much for Beijing’s ears as Moscow’s. I could be entirely wrong, but China is always super cautious in all it does. They haven’t even actually voted in the UN Council in favour of Russia’s war, so far. Nor have they voted against resolutions against Russia, preferring to, “abstain.”
China stands to gain a lot from a weakened Russia, and will know that a prolonged, grinding war could result in Russia becoming a, “vassal state,” supplying those vital fossil fuels in return for China’s propping up of their teetering state? If Russia was to become as reliant upon China as North Korea is for their mere existence - in a similar way that Belarus is the vassal of Russia, destined to have their administration overthrown if Russia should see a democracy in a Revolution (which would be its first ever, btw) - then China might be able to rescue itself from its all but insurmountable domestic, economic and demographic woes. So, Xi will be playing both ends off against each other, hoping for a protracted conflict now.
Xi is almost as bitter about Putin’s miscalculations over Ukraine as he is, as it cost him Taiwan, as he sees it. At least, in the immediate future. And any plans they had of dominating the world by dominating the manufacture of technology and the raw materials for making said tech, which would have been the main benefit of swift invasions of Ukraine and Taiwan together, have been scuppered now anyway, since America has set up its own manufacturing hub, with many of the same people who produced all those microchips in Taiwan (over 50% of the world’s supply from one factory, btw) now based in the heart of the US, whilst the Argon and other precious minerals that Ukraine produces, are still well within the none-occupied zones of Ukraine.
This was a lengthy response, so I appreciate your patience if you bore with me. But, I just wanted to show that, A) there are so many moving parts to this that we cannot predict with any certainty how things will unfold, other than to be sure that Russia will be forced out of Ukraine in the end. And, B) China may want to exacerbate the situation, but it’s not in China’s interests to burn all of its boats and come out as a direct antagonist to the west, when it has so little to gain from Russia that it cannot get anyway, by safer means, which traditionally, has always been their preferred way of doing things regardless. ✌️🇺🇦
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@nicholasconder4703 : From what I’m hearing, from better informed military minds than mine, what is happening right now is called, “shaping the battlefield,” which involves taking out certain logistical targets, moving forces into various positions, whilst creating a bunch of false narratives and red herrings for the enemy to chase, and it all seems to be going according to plan? I’m no expert, but it looks like the opening of the offensive is underway, but it just doesn’t look like it to us, as it’s a preparatory series of operations? For all we know, Ukrainian troops could be drinking Russian vodka on a beach in Crimea this time next week? There’s just no way to gauge it, because that’s Ukraine’s intention. ✌️🇺🇦🇬🇧
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There is an unconscious irony in David Starkey working so hard to wheedle some controversy out of an inoffensive message from the King, merely asking us to spare a thought for those who work so hard to protect us, care for our sick and elderly and feed the poor.
He’s got his own, “contrarian,” image to work on, quite obviously. And the spectacle of his cognitive dissonance is pretty funny. He is clearly in the minority, pro-conservative, anti-fair pay, “taking a side,” position, whilst King Charles’ speech is so watery you could take what ever inoffensive meaning you choose from it, so long as you are capable of hearing the, “Well, let’s all be nice to our service providers,” message without reaching for a gun and leaping to one side or other of the barricades!
It’s always the same with Starkey. When he’s right, he’s eloquent and precise. And when he’s wrong, he’s ultra-right-WING and flailing. But looking SO hard for controversy where there is none just makes him come off as fearful of being irrelevant. They should have got Simon Schama, or someone who is capable of giving an insightful analysis without smearing it in leftist or right wing agenda crap that only serves to undermine anything meaningful that could have been said about this moment.
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Sponge bob : Satorum seems to be selling us the, “Get over it,” line? We’re all supposed to be, “fine,” with corruption being, “the way it works in Washington,” now? That’s the way it works, SINCE these GOONS stole the presidency. Trump has to GO, and TODAY! There will be NO, “elections,” in 2020 if Trump is still around
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@anna33344 👈😡❄️ Oh look, here’s another Karen Trump Troll, who says we are, “all blind,” and she knows what’s best for us. And do you have some Click Bait, because you don’t do, “words,” or thinking for yourself? Ah, yes. Of course you do. They ALWAYS do. And you want our COUNTED, PRECIOUS Clicks, for Donny’s cause? No thanks. Donny will face justice for this . . . You’ll see
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@robotron17 : See, what you did there, madam, was to mix up, “How to identify potential Covid symptoms,” for the lay people, with, “a full list of treatable and untreatable symptoms and co-morbidities,” used by clinical practitioners. I’d say you’re being deliberately obtuse, but that would imply you had a modicum of intellect. So, I’m going with you being a thick, Karen Trump Troll, who has picked up some propaganda, been instructed on what to, “think,” instead of how to think, and spewed it out in a place where you’re not welcome, acting like you know what’s best for others, when all you want to do, really, is get paid, or spread disinformation out of sheer malice and stupidity. Third option being, maybe both? Regardless, no one is listening to you, except other drones, who don’t count. You have wasted 4 years of your life, and the shame is eating at you. Soon, all of Donny’s crimes will be revealed, and he’ll flee America, taking all your donations with him. You will HATE Donny, in the end, and it will be people like me that you’ll need for help. And when you ask for it, what do you think I’ll say, ma’am? . . .
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Melody Chest : The only thing that threatens Trump’s job . . . Not rigged, “elections,” not a million citizens, dead, as it will be eventually . . . the MONEY . . . Just gotta’ keep the MONEY flowing in. Otherwise, the shareholders of America PLC will just find another puppet, willing to outrage and troll the population and keep them talking about irrelevancies, while the MONEY keeps pouring in . . . Anyone missing the Republic yet? . . . The rule of law used to be a, “thing,” here. Now, they can literally put you all to death, or at risk of death, just so long as they’re making the MONEY . . . SMH
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Tania Cleland : My honest, best guess: If you remember Billo Liely? He used to talk about ratings ALL the time, and established a culture at Fox, of equating viewing figures with veracity. Y’know? If more people watch this show, then it MUST be, “true,” kinda’ thing. Very insecure; very childish; but a kind of Marketing technique, which, being Fox, worked effectively on the weak minded viewership, seeking reassurance, to quiet their nagging doubts and consciences. Years on, because they do it all the time now, it’s actually taken hold. They ACTUALLY, “BELIEVE,” that Normals would be as insecure about ratings as they have been brainwashed into being. So, Trolls, “think,” (if there’s an actual word for their mental processes?) that mentioning ratings works as a, “Whaddabout,” technique. They genuinely, “think,” Normals would equate truthfulness with ratings, or at least, that they would be distracted and, “emotionally hurt,” by the mere IDEA that CNN was losing viewers. They cannot comprehend that it’s the FACTS that matter to Normals, because they think we are like them; in allegiance to a news channel which acts as our mouthpiece, like theirs does. Therefore, we’d consider the failure of CNN as the failure of our, “side.” They’re genuinely THAT FAR GONE! “Brainwashed,” just isn’t a big enough superlative. But, that’s why we get, “the failing NY Times,” from Trump, right? Like their commercial status has ANYTHING to do with ANYTHING? Because, in their fucked up world, it DOES.
Sorry. I went on a bit, there. But, it’s a, “Whaddabout,” that would work on them, is my best guess ✌️👍
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@bhappy5510 & Mike Keller : If you want real change, you must do all you can to demand the impeachment calls ALL the witnesses; like the generals who were asked to plot a coup! Like the Senators, who will be forced, under oath, to ADMIT they knew the, “steal,” was a LIE! Or, give their easily shreddable, “evidence,” for claiming to believe it! It’s not the outcome they fear, whether trump is convicted or not. It’s the EVIDENCE! And the TESTIMONY! When America has it proved, that it was NOT just a Q plot from the outside, nor a, “spontaneous event,” but a planned and plotted COUP ATTEMPT, green lit, three days prior, from within the White House! That’s when the GOP implodes! And they know it!
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The script is bad. Heard every line before in something else. Especially in those crucial opening moments. “What about my family?” “That was not our deal!” Really? Show don’t tell. Too much exposition too. A little more imagination applied to how those opening scenes could have been presented differently would have really helped. Watch Breaking Bad for inspiration: How to tell a familiar story in a new way, without spending extra budget.
If you want constructive criticism I will share my thoughts on how you could have done the opening better, hooked your audience, through visual storytelling and gotten the same plot points covered.
But, “If these assholes don’t kill you, I will,” and, “The only people dying today is those fuckers,” are so old and overused, it’s actually off putting. Clever, witty dialogue is crucial in a scene like that and would have suited these characters better, showing they are as smart as they are tough.
Read some Raymond Chandler and look specifically at interrogation scenes, or scenes when Philip Marlowe is cornered by the villains. The dialogue is exquisite. “Talk is cheap . . . My patience is wearing thin,” etc, is putting the viewer to sleep.
I do wish you success and I would help you for free. But I doubt you’ll even read this one in a couple of thousand comments.
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I have to admit, even though I loved the first two movies, I thought the third one was already getting tired. When I saw the trailer for the new MIB, I thought, “WHY?” Kids might like it, but the adults will be getting nothing new? And, the trailer looks like the same, “size,” and, “misleading appearances,” gags, we’re already SO familiar with. Love the cast, etc, but . . . WHY? . . . I would have thought Hemsworth would be looking for a NEW franchise? . . . I just don’t get it? . . .
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@mhall801 : Which, if you actually, “believed,” your propaganda, means you wouldn’t be here, ALL THE TIME. The perennial problem of the trump troll: zero credibility, due to the utter lack of logic to their being here, let alone commenting, several times a day, every day, for over 5 YEARS 🤣
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Funk Yuns : Well, Trump has been coached by Putin, so he is more (secretly), “left.” He uses Stalin’s methods, fo Division and lunatic propaganda? When his cult repeats Trump’s declarations, like, “The moon is not real. It’s a conspiracy,” it’s disconcerting to us, “Normals.” But, Stalin had the backing of all media, domestically, which made it a, “test of loyalty.” That’s what Trump’s nuttiness is really about. An demonstration of raw power. “Look! I say the moon is gone, and millions of people repeat it as fact! Even, ‘news,’ outlets.”
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Glyn : You’ll see it for yourself, son. When he loses the elections and uses the, “Supreme Court,” to declare that he’s still POTUS. Everything he does is right from Stalin’s playbook. People make the mistake of comparing him to Hitler because he’s a fantasist and a racist, but that’s where the comparison ends. Think, Puppet Stalin, without the book-learning (Stalin was a voracious reader and autodidact, which is why he was so dangerous. No one around to correct his misinterpretations). You’ll see . . . And, I’ll get to say, “I told you so,” . . . again . . . Smh
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Simple answer? You can’t. And they don’t, “respect,” themselves or their cult. But then, the cult doesn’t, “respect,” America or themselves. Remember my friends, the, “verdict,” is irrelevant at this Impeachment. What’s more important is that Q followers, Nazis and Trump fans are all going to hear, from the mouths of the GOP, on the witness stand, on live TV, that the reason for their Insurrection, “The Steal,” is a seditious lie. Not one of the GOP will risk a billion dollar lawsuit, a Perjury rap, or a Conspiracy charge, for trump. Not when they can’t take the 5th. They will have zero choice. And THAT’S WORTH a trial 😉👍
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You touched on, and then passed by, the biggest problem in your opening remarks. Setting aside the attacks and the attacker just to comment on that: The rumours and disinformation. As you said, they will be all over the press by morning. There was a time when the leading press outlets would refer to the fact that there are rumours out there and pointedly state that they would not repeat what any of them say, as you indeed did. You display a high standard that we used to be able to expect from the BBC and other leading outlets. Now, we know that these rumours will occupy more column inches than the actual story.
You asked the right question, “Do we have a right,” to hear all the bollox that will be spread by the cruel, the craven, the insane and the viscous. My answer is yes we do, but we also should expect responsible news outlets ignore them all. We don’t want to hear about them from such sources.
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papa 726 54 : Well said. The Trolls feel ASHAMED, because of the SHEER CONTRAST between them, and McCain. They have nothing but lies, distortions and HATE. But, ironically, they have to, “sound,” like, “liberals,” when they do it, which is funny. Because they are ALL either paid, foreign Trolls or homegrown RACISTS, this IGNORANCE of actual, “Conservatism,” is palpable. You shame them, with your words of compassion and TRUTH. They HATE that 🙂👍
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Dennis Wilson : In this case, it wasn’t exactly like that. As Jake pointed out, they invested in government bonds, which are actually a very sound investment under normal circumstances, and would be considered to be highly responsible investing. No one expects a run on the banks, but the unusual pressures of the Fed’s actions, world markets and this war, have created unusual outcomes. However, also as Jake pointed out (in previous videos) none of this was unforeseen, nor is it considered a crisis to those in charge. It seems fair to me that they bailed out the Silicon Valley bank, which had done everything right, so far as they built responsible port folios with blue chip government bonds was concerned. And it puts out the message, world wide, that you won’t get wiped out for trusting government backed investment.
Usually I would fully agree with you, but these are strange times we’re living in. It seems all our assumptions are questionable, and we must be prepared to evaluate each case with a fresh and open mind.
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Upper Echelon Gamers : But, Nazis are like Zombies, in a game? They’re just Evil, and it’s fun to KILL them, in a game. Wolfenstein is about Nazis, but it’s not meant to be taken seriously? It’s a GAME. Like Zombies, we don’t worry about the Nazi’s, “human rights,” or anything. Perhaps we gamers are just better at thinking for ourselves, and not so easily brainwashed? I played a lot of chess once, relying mostly on my Bishop, and now I can only walk in diagonal lines. I mean, come on? . . . 😁✌️
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The ultimate, “over reaching government,” wants to promote, “states rights.” That’s ironic. Not just because of their Putsch against the states on the 6th Jan, either. Trump INVENTED overreaching and invading every part of our private lives. Trump INVENTED Cancel Culture too, which makes him a expert on their conference, “theme.” Never forget, “Lock Her Up,” was already OLD by the time Donny took office! Combine those two, ultimate Cancel Culture activities with Canceling their OWN GOP members, whenever they disagree with Donny! He was having GOP members Primaried when he got in, and is after Liz Cheney now! Cancel everything and whine about being the, “victims,” of Cancel Culture!?
What’s next? Donny writes My Struggle: How I Am Such A Victim, from his prison cell? Just like Hitler played the permanent victim too? They are FASCISTS, by the literal definition of the word! Their Qult of Karens are built around a single personality, they want to OUTLAW opposition parties and minority voting. That’s the DEFINITION OF FASCISM!
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I do think there is something wrong with a culture that takes the, “official complaint,” as the first line of response to a problem rather than simply speaking to the person responsible. The man in question gave an eminently reasonable response and I think people should have their complaints summarily dismissed unless they can evidence their own attempts to approach the person in question to seek a remedy. We need to foster a culture of cooperation and community. And to foster a society that judges the official complaint as a form of failure in itself. Unless you are elderly and infirm, or in some other way disabled and have no one to act on your behalf, why do we feel we have the right to use up the precious resource of official time?
Of course the ice cream van is an import, as is the Christmas Tree, Halloween celebrations and countless other little joys that I recall as a part of the landscape of my childhood. So what? Why should that have any bearing? Should we ban American Halloween? German Christmas Trees? Or should we remember that little ray of sunshine that sparkled in our own childhoods when we heard the chimes of the ice cream van coming?
From your description, the ice cream vendor seems a harmless, polite man, plying his trade as best he can and keen to reach a resolution without bothering any, “officials.” We all know our rights, don’t we? How many of us know our responsibilities as well, and in such detail, as those rights?
I don’t doubt he did let his chimes play on too long, and would apologise and stop doing it, if he’d merely been asked. But no. Mr, or Ms, Angry had to reach for the phone or their keyboard and waste the time and resources of, “officialdom,” just to make a point. Presumably because peeing on all four corners of the street to mark out their territory has gone out of style? Phooey, to Mr or Ms Angry. The guy’s just trying to make a living. Who doesn’t love an ice cream van? Other than certain members of the Scottish Mafia, but that’s another tale altogether.
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@dirtyharold7164 : If you could just take a step outside of that space (which you seem to think is inside my head and thought processes) and allow me to disabuse you of your incorrect assumption, no . . . I was inspired by her words. More to the point, I was inspired by what she said, when she said it, and where. Context is everything, dear boy. I also disagree with some of what she said, but I don’t think that makes her a bad person.
What you won’t be able to do (and this is fact, not assumption) is point to one single example of people being, “punished,” by her, or her acolytes, for, “refusing to behave in a particular way.” Nor will you be able to show me one iota of evidence that she, or anyone who took any part in the, “Young leaders program,” (which I honestly think you’re mistaking for some type of Manchurian Candidate, “deep state,” version of MK Ultra, instead of an effort to promote the futures of promising young leaders) ever once stated the goal of turning the world into some, “weird, dystopian nightmare.”
I know this because it is a fact. In the same way that I know that YOU have literally stepped into the public domain on this day to spout out an unqualified, un-thought-through, misogynistic and prejudicial conspiracy theory, riddled with assumptions and distorted by your own negative emotions, whilst achieving very little, unless your goal was to create a mental image in the heads of the adult, reading public of YOU beating out your angry words with your fists and forehead, missing all of your typos due to the tears of impotent rage misting your vision, whilst sitting on your bed instead of doing something useful with your time.
Although, you have provided me with a modicum of entertainment, so it’s not all wasted. You have my sympathies, son.
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A Dictatorship, obviously. That, “shock & awe,” quote was no joke. It will be the media; CNN and MSNBC in particular that will be in the firing line. It’s Stalin’s playbook, every time, coached by Putin. CNN will come under, “government administration,” or get bought out in a hostile take over, by a trump friendly oligarch. And MSNBC will be hit by one fake, “scandal,” after another, and countless court cases, until it’s broken up. And the rest of the media will either get the message, or go the same way. History is my teacher. And that’s why my predictions never fail, so far. Just get this menace OUT! That’s your only hope of restoring your Republic, America ✌️
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A real American. That’s why the GOP hates him. Because he shows them what they are not. And, That, “shock & awe,” quote was no joke. It will be the media; CNN and MSNBC in particular that will be in the firing line. It’s Stalin’s playbook, every time, coached by Putin. CNN will come under, “government administration,” or get bought out in a hostile take over, by a trump friendly oligarch. And MSNBC will be hit by one fake, “scandal,” after another, and countless court cases, until it’s broken up. And the rest of the media will either get the message, or go the same way. History is my teacher. And that’s why my predictions never fail, so far. Just get this menace OUT! That’s your only hope of restoring your Republic, America
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The pieces are coming together now, and it was a planned (not a spontaneous) event, on the 6th. Trump gave it the green light, 3 days before, and it was about 2 weeks in the planning. But, they also planned 4 days of rioting, which was supposed to start on the 16th, so they’re clearly a bit scared off, when it comes to actual skin in the game? Having said that, the sheer nut jobbery and desperation will be mounting, and they’re likely to burst out somewhere on the 20th? Probably somewhere else? Where they can hurt innocent people without fear of getting hurt themselves? That’s how they roll. Cowards, and privileged children, to a man and woman . . . SMH ✌️
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Never has the expression, “You can’t polish a turd,” been more apt. Delusion and gaslighting just can’t cut it, even amongst the most, “loyal,” Tories. Braverman is gleeful, making her best play for leadership, which relies on the destruction of the current iteration of the Tories, so she’s as toxic as ever, but at least the people who created her are being forced to taste some of their own bitter brew.
For Sunack, who will leave for America after the election; who has nothing to lose in terms of real power (being a money man on Wall Street gives him more power than leading a political party, and he knows it) he only has his ego to protect now. And we should not underestimate the power of that. He sees the spectre of the worst Tory defeat since the war, possibly ever. And that makes him dangerous.
The American political wonks, who have their hooks deeply into our Tufton (sorry if I misspelled Tufton?) Street Tories, make public speeches in their country about the, “dangers of education,” and the Tories have actively taken up that message. They know it is only the uneducated who can be persuaded to vote against their own interests. Soon, teachers will be like doctors, only contactable by phone and social media, if we continue down this road.
Much as I admire your call for Sunack’s Dickensian, Damascene conversion toward even the obvious, let alone a legacy of doing SOME good before he leaves, I fear the reality will be far more like the Black Adder version of A Christmas Carol, in which he will lose all of his last inclinations toward kindness and reason and simply try to leave as insoluble a mess as possible. The reasoning being that he will hope that no incoming government will be able to fix our problems, which will provide him with legacy excuses.
If, “reason,” or rationality had ever been a factor in this government, we would not be where we are now. Instead of practical, rational, good faith policy making we’ve seen nothing but opposition baiting, emotive and emotional cruelty and victimising of the most helpless members of society. We’ve seen public services quite callously exploited, looted and eviscerated, from our water supply to health, policing and education. And now Sunack proposes doing away with National Insurance!?
It’s like he’s TRYING to alienate the last bastion of solid support he might have expected to count on! The elderly! Is he going to raise retirement to 75? It looks that way. Not that he’ll ever get the chance. But the Tories have emptied the public purse and are desperately scrambling to find ANY source of income that does NOT involve taking money from the very richest people in society or offending the client press’s sensibilities.
I don’t envy the next Labour government. I just hope that they would have the character and good sense to form a coalition, regardless of their numbers, so that we really can, “work together as a nation,” as you said, and put a PR system in place, whilst we solve the nation’s problems collectively. And I pray that includes some accountability for those callous criminal goons who ran the postal service’s scamming machines and ruined honest people’s lives.
Sorry for going on. That was not my intention. You really do get me thinking hard. People like you give me hope that not all is lost. Thank you, if you read all of this. And thank you anyway. Your service, this channel, is a jewel in YouTube’s crown.
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Rebecca : Most of the info in the public domain, shows Page to be a DUPE. Though, it also shows that he, “probably,” would have, willingly, gone a LOT further with American secrets, than these agents, running him, allowed him to go. Transcripts of the bugged conversations, of the spies who used Page, are in the public domain. They were exploiting him, unwittingly, for the most part. They thought he was an, “idiot,” and they chatted about the kompromat that Putin has on Trump, too. Those agents, subsequently fled back to Moscow
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@django3422 : Even Lineker wasn’t talking about the policy directly. He was talking about the dangers of normalising the type of language Braverman uses; “hoards,” “swarms,” etc. That is how it began in 1930’s Germany. When it became acceptable for politicians to use unfair stereotypes, inflammatory epithets and pejoratives to describe specific groups of people. That is what makes the next steps to the gas chambers that much smaller. It’s monstrous to murder a person. But not monstrous to exterminate a rat. You follow me?
In actual fact, we may be able to guess at Lineker’s feelings on Home Office policy, but we cannot, “know,” anything from that Tweet. Only his disgust at barbaric language. He was careful to state a fact, not a speculation. And I agree with him wholeheartedly. Not because of any political opinion, but simply because facts are empirical things that cannot be argued with, nor are the susceptible to opinion. “You can choose your opinions, not your facts,” as they say. That too is a fact.
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It’s hard to imagine any human staying in trump’s orbit, without either being sickened by him and quitting, or being one of his proud girls . . . The ones who drove him around his hospital? No masks in that tiny space? They had to either love trump, or be thinking of quitting, right? During the Hillary email thing, there was a whole department of the FBI in New York that they called Trump Town. No exaggeration. We know the cops are as divided as the rest of America, so why wouldn’t everyone else be? Only the armed forces lean away from trump. And that’s because they’re the biggest employer of minorities in the whole country, and because trump has routinely betrayed, shat on and belittled the generals . . . But, we need to purge ALL departments of law enforcement, the judiciary, and other government offices. Let’s face it? Unless you’re a crony of trump’s, you’re not in government or top law enforcement posts. Look at what Bill Barr has done to all the AG’s in almost every state? They ALL need replacing
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sng1867 : PLEASE do NOT call them, “Conservatives”??? There is NOTHING, “Conservative,” about this STALINIST DICTATOR, who calls the free press, “The Enemy of The People!” There is NOTHING, “Conservative,” about pushing up the National Debt to unmanageable levels, sucking up to Dictators, and ATTACKING American institutions, law and order, people and personalities, sports, friends and colleagues, and EVEN our, “allies.” Conservatives LIKE ME can SEE they have been BETRAYED by Trump and will be VOTING Democrat, at the Mid Terms, if for no other reason than to RESTORE DEMOCRACY! And I look forward to the day, when you and I can debate, politely, and with dignity, about politics, while we all remember the time when we nearly succumbed to a DICTATORSHIP. “Stalinists,” “Extremists,” “Fascists,” : any of those terms will do. But, NOT, “Conservatives,” by ANY DEFINITION OF THAT TERM. Look it up
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brandon vazquez : Let’s be honest. Firing his gun was wrong. But, right up to that moment, these cops did a good job, and were very patient. It’s always that moment, when they try to cuff the perp, where is goes horrible. Countless videos show you, always that moment. They NEED some clever, self adjusting cuffs, that go on real easy. That would save countless lives. But, let me ask people?
WHAT IF? What if the cop agrees with everyone? What if he’s filled with remorse? What if he says, “WTF was I thinking?” What if he’s on the same side as the protestors? I just ask, because I can’t see a SAFE way for him to do that? And, if there’s no safe way for him, what choice does he have? He must defend himself in court. Do we OFFER him the space to own his mistake? He clearly DID NOT WANT to shoot anyone. What does, “Justice,” look like, for that cop, in those circumstances?
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stephen wedderburn : It is required, by International and US Military law, that you cannot stand by, while a crime is committed. Obviously, the commanders on the ground, like you and I, are not naive, and probably know better than we do, that Trump is following Putin’s directives, here. But, they also know that they have no way to establish that, and that an order is an order. As the orders have no violence attached to them, they would not even question them, officially. Nor, would we want them to, as they have no way of guessing at the broader strategy behind such orders.
However, events on the ground are a different ballpark. “Someone,” alerted Trump to the fact that US troops would be witness to atrocities, as the fighting was literally closing in on them, from all sides. So, a corridor had to be created, (the ceasefire) in which to get them out, without being put in a compromising position; as there are no orders telling them NOT to intervene, if they a witness to war crimes. These are, after all, their personal friends, with whom they have spilled the same blood, in the same mud.
As I said, above, this is why the ceasefire was not respected, as it was only a deal, between Erdogan and Trump, to allow US troops to get out, without exposing them to what’s going on. So, the Turks have continued to blast areas where they know there are no US military.
The short answer is: No, they can’t question their orders. But, yes they could intervene or even refuse unlawful orders, if confronted with their allies and their families being murdered. Which is why they have been shielded from that, after Trump was informed of the potential mess that could result, too late.
Does that answer your question?
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I think he is doing all he can. Biden is determined to make it work within the rules, laws and norms. He might be wrong, he might be right? But, he’s totally committed to doing things the right way. I guess, what he needs more than anything, is our support. The GOP are preparing to mount another insurrection, as part of their ongoing Coup attempt, which never slowed down, since Jan 6th. Biden feels it’s more important now, to stick to the rules, and to be the antidote to fascism, as this coup gathers pace. Trump’s going to get people killed.
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Presumably, he was aiming at the camera, not the person? And he fired when the director told him to? How is that his fault? I promise you, the police won’t share your opinion. It was the armorer’s responsibility and her fault. And, before you go saying something really silly like, “I would have checked the weapon myself before firing it,” NO YOU WOULDN’T! Because no one would listen to you. That’s why they hire an, “expert.” If you meddled with the weapon, the armorer would have to take it back off you and reset it for the take again, because the armorer gets the last word, which is why they hire them. Think it through?
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Brendo Xd : Have you seen the footage of Jones Town? The most brainwashed, Koolaid drinkers, were ALWAYS the same sheeple who were telling everyone else that they were, “brainwashed.” You don’t say WHY you, “think,” that? Indeed, you don’t SAY ANYTHING. Just another angry racist, harmed in the, “Butt,” by a swift kick in the pants, by the Boot of Truth 🙂
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Andy Jobling : Everything you said, there, is right, except for ONE, important, thing; EVERY country has a dog in this fight. If Trump survives the coming storm (and we really are only at the tip of the iceberg) it can ONLY be by killing the law and the institutions that enforce it. A full on Dictatorship will result. Now, ask yourself: What chance has an already divided Europe got, keeping Democracy alive, under the inexorable pressure of China, America and Russia, working determinedly to end it, once and for all? The WORLD CANNOT AFFORD to lose to Trump. The cost would be just to big to pay. You have EVERY RIGHT to fight for Democracy, all over the world. It will always be the closest we’ll EVER get to a free and fair world. And it IS imperilled, right now. So, you KEEP talking, whenever and wherever you choose. Piece, brother ✌️👍
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J S : Please, enlighten us? What have we missed, that has not escaped your homespun wisdom? From your rocking chair on the porch, you see Trump, about to, “jump off the ledge,” and into what? “Civil War,” perhaps? THAT old chestnut? Or, dropping a Nuke on Iran? Seems to be a popular distraction, these days? Do tell us, Mark Twain, what pearl of wisdom rolled out of our plain sight, but was so closely observed, by, “Y’all?”
‘Coz from where MOST of us are looking, the view from Trump’s, “ledge,” looks to be nothing much more than a big ole’ pavement, from which we will all cheer, if he were to, “jump off,” it, and impatiently await the SPLAT 🙂 ✌️
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As to your broader commentary on the Afghan war, I find myself in agreement with almost all of what you said. Though I think it is important to note two things. Firstly, with regard to making the people who planned 911 regret taking part in that act of terrorism, and deterring nations and terror groups from contemplating further such acts, the invasion of Afghanistan was a 100% success. Ask any Afghani Taliban older than 30 if they think another atrocity along those lines would be worth carrying out? They would run a mile and, if they really thought you were seriously capable of doing it, they would probably eliminate you.
The second point is that Nation Building was the cardinal error of that campaign. That works in secular, developed countries, which is why it worked so well in Germany and Japan after WWII. But such a model had already been shown as impossible to implement in Iraq and the intractable issues surrounding the Middle East conflicts were also lessons ignored.
They never actually, “made progress,” of any kind. The allies tricked themselves into believing that, in the same way they tricked themselves into believing that Putin was a man we could do business with. The fact was that it was always going to be washed away unless the west committed to staying there permanently, which was something that was never on the cards.
Yet, once again, despite the fact that neither side comes out of that with anything but shame and disgrace, at least Biden’s administration is only guilty of misreading the situation and botching it. Trump’s is guilty of that too, but we must also add to that his wilful betrayal of America, releasing over a thousand KNOWN terrorists in one fell swoop, and inviting their bloody leaders to Camp David. An almost sacrilegious smearing of a national place of honour with his attempts at wheeler dealing with terrorist murderers. And all to no avail.
Unless you count the chaos to which trump deliberately added, which he saw as a win, because it, “looked bad,” for Biden? The cost in human lives never entered his thinking.
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Yeah, it was a helpful, informative breakdown, from which any viewer comes away with more knowledge about America’s activities internationally, its relationships, it’s goals and a sense of the direction we’re going. You really can’t ask for more than that. It sure beats the heck out arguing, dodging, conflating, blaming and playing the permanent, “victim,” of the, “media.” Feels like a safe pair of hands, whether you agree completely with the government or not. And that’s a huge relief 👍
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@devonknobel : Your first statement came over as a request, backed by a point of view. I liked it, though I have mixed feelings on the issue. However, your second comment, in response to another commenter was nothing more than a patronising personal attack, predicated on the basis that you feel, “entitled,” to demand terms and conditions for commentary from others. And, not getting what you want, you feel, “entitled,” to belittle and antagonise your interlocutor. In two comments, you went from raising an interesting discussion point, to just being a bit of dick. Shame really. Why toss away any hint of maturity, and credibility so wilfully? . . . I guess you don’t really, “care,” about the, “issue,” so much as you do making a fool of yourself? Obnoxious is the best word to describe that. I hope you learn something from my words? But, I don’t believe you will
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Email the Impeachment Managers, if you want justice? Demand that they Get the GOP top brass on the witness stand at this impeachment, and the, “verdict,” won’t matter. All the cult will remember will be that Lindsay Graham told them that “the steal” is a seditious lie. That Ted Cruz admitted that they all KNEW it was a lie. That even Josh Hawley refused to give any, “evidence,” for, “The Steal,” because he had none to give, and had no 5th Amendment protections, and they didn’t want to be indicted for Conspiracy, Perjury or worse! That’s how you break the GOP in two!
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Danny v : Why not, son? 🤔 That makes no sense? “You do realise,” that all these, “multiple witnesses,” who, “complained,” about Trump to the Whistleblower are GOING TO TESTIFY, right? And, what’s, “wrong,” with, “demanding an investigation,” either? No one is threatening to withhold their Military support, like Trump did? You should READ the Complaint, son? It’s not that long?
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Thanks for this analysis. But, are we at risk of misunderstanding the mindset at play here? The west is seeing both sides of the battle lines from the perspective of geo-politics, long term objectives and strategic outcomes (as reflected so eloquently in your video) whilst Zelensky and his government all have their heads in the trenches.
The CIA advised Zelensky to pull out of Bakhmut, weeks ago. Yet he hasn’t. Have you accounted for Zelensky’s reasoning for that?
Might it be something as plain for them that they simply want to make the Russian army understand that every inch of territory they take will cost them too much blood and treasure to be worth it? What may be lost on Putin will not be lost on an already demoralised Russian army? And if any breakdown in Russia’s political stability occurs, it will begin in the armed forces.
While the west’s leaders view the entire conflict from their geo-centric point of view, Ukrainians are concentrating on breaking the will of their enemy’s armed forces. After all, if you’re a Russian commander who knows that even a strategically worthless piece of real estate is going to cost you far more blood and treasure than your opponent, how reluctant would you feel about ordering your troops to attack an actually valuable, already well guarded target? Especially if those troops are under resourced, under nourished and surely to begin with? Making videos that they hope Putin will see so he’ll get resources to them, not knowing that he already knows and is more likely to have them killed for it, does not make for a successful army.
The will of your armed forces is a key component to winning a war, or so the generals and historians tell me. And, a country at Total War has a psychology unlike others. In my own country’s history, 1939 to 1940 were bleak years where Britain stood alone in Europe, facing Nazi tyranny, which they struggled to convey to their counterparts in the US until the Lend Lease program began to very slowly turn things around. Had it not been for Pearl Harbor, Britain might well have lost that war.
I think you should commit some of your analysis to the psychology, stresses and strains of wartime leadership, and how very different the world looks from Zelensky’s perspective, than to Putin’s or the west’s?
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@maribelroman218 : Exactly. But it’s not even clear that, just because she’s a religious bigot, she’s corrupt enough to bring down the Republic? Donny Dump (“massive dump”) assumes too much, me thinks? Now, the one who, “likes beer,” would blow Donny on Live TV just to get at the, “left,” (which currently includes the members of the Freedom Caucus who are over trump!), but I wouldn’t count on a Bible Basher, just because she’s a good way to troll freedom loving Americans? 🤔👍
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Perhaps, but I am still deeply wary of him, in a way that I wasn’t before. He obviously gets BBC residual payments for his documentary series’ and books, whilst maintaining contacts, networks and friendships at the Beeb. His reaction to the Richard Sharp story put a million miles between us, I’m afraid. It was not even that he described the story as, “toxic,” and wheeled out the excuse that, “It’s always been done like this,” as his, “reason,” for refusing to cover the story any further. But the fact that he was not willing to simply be honest and say, “I still have business relationships and friendships with many at the BBC, so I’m declaring a conflict of interests, which makes me unable to talk about it objectively.” He dismissed people upset about this insider dealing as getting worked up over a, “storm in a teacup,” which was a comment that didn’t age well when the whole thing blew up into a major headline event that claimed Sharp’s scalp.
I don’t like the dismissiveness and disrespect for his audience. The, “old boy,” attitude. His abject miscalculation of the fact that he thought the story was done and dusted, only to see it becoming yet another cause of public outrage dominating the headlines for days.
The BBC is just a little too cozy with government and often too much of their mouthpiece. And Mr Marr has clearly not left all of that baggage on Auntie’s doorstep. How could he? . . .
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@nigelhaywood9753 : You know, while I free-formed that diatribe off the top of my head, so to speak, I used a little tool that many writers use, just to help with the flow: Adopting a voice. I imagined the voice of Andrew Marr, doing one of those 5 minute YouTube videos he does so well; taking a step back and describing what he sees going on behind the scenes as a political story breaks. If you listen to the syntax and usages (as a dyslexic I, “hear,” all my prose before I put it to the page: hence adopting a, “voice,” through which to express it, which helps me spout. Oops! I’m doing it again!) when you read that passage, you can just picture Marr vocalising that little OpEd (as the Americans like to call it) which is what made the question resonate for me, and what made it pour out in that fashion. It was Andrew Marr’s voice doing the talking in a, “How would he put it?” type moment.
What disappoints me so bitterly is myopia. The flat, disingenuous lack of self awareness. It’s not an especially new phenomenon, but these self contradictory excuses were what Marr offered up in a YouTube video of an LBC broadcast. A channel that prides itself on having representation from all political persuasions, from Boris Johnson’s sister on one end (presumably representing the centre right? I don’t really know?) to Eddie Mayer, a stalwart of BBC Radio 4’s flagship news show The Today Program, and all points East or West of what they represent in people’s heads. If anything, I would have expected Marr to speak honestly on this platform, but his excuses were so mealy mouthed I was genuinely shocked and even (yes, I admit it) somewhat hurt by the disappointment.
No one likes to lose respect for a trusted informer. But what really stung me was the Orwellian realisation that I had, like an epiphany; “He really thinks he’s right about this! He’s honestly talked himself into, ‘believing,’ he’s not the problem!” Now, every time I see him, it’s like an awkward guest at a dinner party. You get along fine and can trust, “most,” of what he says, but you can never let go of that time when he really let the side down. Now, if I smile at one of his quips, nod along to a point well made, sympathise with his indignation at some politician’s behaviour, the effect is always diluted . . . no . . . slightly noxious, like there’s an impurity in the water.
And then someone like you comes along and asks THE question, like the boy who says out loud, “But the emperor has no clothes on!” and it reminds me. Yes. I know why no one asks Cruella about her own hypocrisy to her face. And I feel just a little bit sick. Because an old and once trusted friend has let me down and all is not quite right with the world.
Anyway. It felt good to get it off my chest, and I must thank you for acknowledging my response: both for your patience and for seeing my point. It helps to know that others out there get it. Thanks. 👍✌️
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Andy Porter : Do you remember the Russian Hack of Florida’s election computers? It got big coverage at the time, and even the GOP admitted it was the Russians. Then Trump adopted Florida as his home and launched his, “campaign,” from there, within weeks. Remember? It went dark, because they threatened every politician with Anti-Terror laws, and instant jail, if they talked to the press about it. Remember? And, now? Donny says, “voter fraud,” everywhere EXCEPT FLORIDA!? “Don’t look at Florida.” And you aren’t ALARMED??? Do you people WANT a Dictatorship?
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The 10 Steps to Totalitarian (Fascist) Dystopia, in no particular order, are:
1) Violence, threat, and intimidation, used to achieve political ends.
2) A permanent sense of grievance and victimhood.
3) A founding narrative which is a LIE.
4) A culture of, “Blame,” aimed at minorities, to create the, “targets,” necessary to direct the violence.
5) Outright Racism and the suppression of those Minorities cited as the targets.
6) Anti-Intellectualism, Anti-Science culture.
7) Fervent, “faith culture,” based on, “mysticism,” so as to replace, “rationality, logic and reason,” and supply the psychological crutches necessary to support a culture that has done away with logic and reason: Evangelicalism in this case.
8) Total Delegitimisation of ALL political opponents. This includes not just politicians, but media, law enforcement, intelligence agencies, scientific institutions, human rights groups, foreign leaders, and basically, ANYONE who speaks truth to power. (We’ve had that for more than 5 years now)
9) Total Delegitimisation of any and all democratic outcomes which threaten their power; abject refusal to accept reality.
10) Corrupt use of power, business interests and the elites behind capital interests, to mobilise a nationwide suppression of VOTES, PROTEST, and even EDUCATION, to ensure survival and the creation of others, brought up with a false notion of history, programmed to support fascism without knowing any better.
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Darth Wheazius : The GOP began by, “cancelling,” Hillary, with lock her up chants! They, “cancelled,” their own people, having them Primaried and cast out, for disagreeing with trump! And, they tried to, “cancel,” democracy! With a riot based on a LIE! Which left over 50 cops seriously injured; one in a coma with brain damage, another blinded and yet another DEAD! And now? They’re trying to CANCEL ACCOUNTABILITY!
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And, that’s the problem, right there. Trump, his family, and most of his Cabinet all KNOW they’re going to JAIL. You will have to TAKE back the Republic, if you want to restore it. What would you do, to avoid a life sentence and appearing in every history book as America’s Worst TRAITOR? Now, times that by a factor that includes NO conscience and a tendency toward psychopathy. The GOP has NO CHOICE. They simply CANNOT allow, “Elections,” and won’t! Be prepared for the coming fight, America. It will be the last stand of the Republic, or the fall of a Dictatorship. There really is no third option
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@bpraise517 : I’m not at all convinced it will wash out that way. Seriously. Trials have a way of getting to popular opinion, and this is LIVE TV, with the nation (and the world) riveted. When America hears the GOP’s confession, that the rioters gave up their futures and now have criminal records; broke the bones of over 50 cops; put one in a coma with permanent brain damage; BLINDED another; and are reminded that one trump supporting cop gave his LIFE defending the Capitol? . . . When the GOP’s top brass are FORCED to avoid Perjury, Conspiracy and other charges, and have to tell the world that they have ZERO evidence for, “The Steal,” which is what they were rioting for, remember? . . . What, “future,” does that GOP have then? . . . To vote, “Not Guilty,” when the nation’s outcry will be audible in the room, from the protestors outside, will be to END your own political career, and have yourself written into the history books as a collaborator in America’s most despicable Sedition case, EVER! . . . I doubt many have the nerve? . . . I’m still optimistic, quite genuinely. But, it helps if we’re all writing to our representatives, DEMANDING that testimony, and who we need to hear it from, right? ✌️👍
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@d.freedom2739 : Which is why we only need for the GOP to confess to the whole of America that the REASON for that Insurrection was a SEDITIOUS LIE, which they ALL knew, from the outset. “The Steal,” AIN’T REAL, and we need to HEAR that from the GOP! Think it’s impossible? Well, tell me what you would say? On the witness stand? With no 5th Amendment Protections and on live TV? Commit Perjury, and risk a Conspiracy charge? When, in all likelihood, the only reward you’ll get for that is a Primary election to toss you out, and a BILLION DOLLAR lawsuit, from the voting machine manufacturers? . . . For trump? . . . I think not! We just need to explode that MYTH for which these Qultists sacrificed their freedom and their futures, and the way to do it, is GOP Witness Testimony! THAT’S WHY Lindsay Graham has been going on F*x to threaten, “consequences,” if the Dems call witnesses! Because he knows it will break the GOP in two!
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As I’ve said before, allowing the ONLY man who has a vested interest in prolonging the conflict to remain in charge of that conflict and that country, was Israel’s fundamental mistake. They responded to terrorism with passion and outrage, setting aside the obvious consequences of an election cycle that would be underway by now, had all things remained equal.
For all concerned, Hamas’s desperate actions have harmed everyone’s interests including their own. Whether you’re Israeli or Palestinian, whether you’re elsewhere in the world, as Jewish citizens of America and other countries are finding, this latest iteration of the conflict has destabilised world affairs and hurt the interests of any who support freedoms and democracy, in innumerable ways, some not yet manifest, but sure to be.
And the only person to have benefitted from this is Benjamin Netanyahu. Collectively, we can say that Russia and Iran are direct, if minor, beneficiaries, as is China. But Netanyahu is the only individual for whom this state of affairs has been a GIFT!
Especially in the light of the legal ruling that has stymied his attempts to exempt himself from legal responsibilities for potentially criminal activities. He will have to answer those charges now. And he remains free for only so long as his country remains in this state of war. What do people EXPECT him to do? He is a sociopath.
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Macaria Elle : The cult are literally sticking their fingers in their ears and shouting, “Lah Lah Lah, can’t hear you!” even to F*x now! They’re fleeing to a tiny Alt-Wrong Propaganda service, because even F*x have to think about their future and mention that this future is under Biden’s presidency! But, I can’t wait to see the look on their faces when Donny splits, before the Inauguration, taking all their donations with him! When he’s tweet bombing the Inauguration from Venezuela, because they won’t extradite him from a Putin owned dictatorship, and they realise that NONE of that cash is going on, “legal challenges,” they will begin to hate him, even more than liberals and Mexicans. Then, all the crimes and betrayals will be uncovered, FINALLY, and the cult will SEE that THEY were ALWAYS Donny’s go-to VICTIMS of every scam, and that he was colluding with our enemies to bring down the Republic! So, maybe half of them will hate him . . . because half of them are just INSANE RACIST AMERICA HATERS! . . . SMH 🤦♂️👍
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Wrestling with his conscience more than his memory, me thinks? Picture the image? Trump and 12 other GOP goons, including Gym Jordan, plotting the fall of America’s Republic, in what must have looked like an Anti-Last Supper? Quite an image to conjure with, right? With the proverbial Smoking Gun, at long last, actually in the public domain, written in Donny’s own hand! No WAY he dodge’s a subpoena now! And when Donny’s in jeopardy, who will he NOT, “rat,” out?
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@Americandragonrider333. : Donny has, “secret,” bank accounts in, “Chiynah,” where he stashes his bribes from, “Russier,” Turkey, the Saudis, etc, etc, etc. That maga-dunce cap you wear? Made by tiny Chinese children’s fingers, in Donny’s Chinese sweat shops. Count the franchises his family owns in China? Did you know, (and I’m NOT even making this up!) the trump’s manufacture VOTING MACHINES in CHINA! A Communist Country with no elections! No wonder you East European PooTin Poodles banned irony! 🤣
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@Boxinghotspur57 : It’s certainly doubtful if the movie would have the iconic status it has today had it gone any other way. The twist is that John Doe truly is unbeatable. However, it was a very clever idea, and still would have made for a great ending, had it been done well. In a sense it was kind of genius, given Somerset’s status as being on the brink of retirement anyway. A self sacrifice, out of love for one’s fellow man, killing Doe before Mills could, would have been like the final check mate? The look of realisation on Doe’s face, just before Somerset announces what he’s going to do, that he lost the, “game,” and it was all for nothing, could have been set up by the dialogue on the journey there? That one thing out of place would mean failure? But, in the end, as you say, it works because of the ending as it is.
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@Wattywatasaurus : Floyd’s idea was clever, genius even, and in a way, it’s almost like the story was set up for some kind of outcome like that, but when you think about it, it’s not as good as the ending we got. The whole point being one of, “inevitability.” And that he really did know these men and how they would react. That’s what left you pondering it afterwards, and what makes it stick in your thoughts now. Besides, Mill’s wife would still be dead and at least he gets away with a, “justifiable homicide,” and is unlikely to do any time for it, even if it ends his cop career? The tragedy cannot be assuaged by any sacrifice of Somerset’s? And robbing Mills of his wrathful vengeance might have done more harm than good in the end?
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Damned right! But we do know he can be SCARED into ANYTHING! It’s just a question of who scares him most! And, he’s as good as a declared enemy to trump, and he knows it! So, it’s do or die for Moscow Mitch. It’s up to us to make it happen now! Inundate your GOP, “representatives,” through every medium available, and get everyone you know to do the same! Tell him, after the PLANNED Capitol Coup Conspiracy, NO Conservative will EVER vote Republican, so long as the stink of trump, or his current allies is on them! Give him the PUSH he needs! ✌️👍
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That’s so spot on, it hurts! It’s the only time in his life that he gets personal time with the president, press coverage, and sweet suites at the trump hotel. He’s totally milking it, and the best solution? WIN MORE DEM SEATS AT THE MIDTERMS. Make sure Biden gets a clear MAJORITY, and then we can make this Quisling GOP operative in Dem Clothing as irrelevant as he deserves to be. Sir, I love your concise, impassioned, honest delivery. Thank you for your, ongoing, service. Seriously! 👍
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@AD-xl7kb : Maybe it is a helpful comment? Perhaps we should all face up to the fact that Putin has threatened us with nukes now, and that he has the capability of destroying the planet? Since he backed his threats up by putting all his nuclear bases on high alert, we have to ask ourselves, is he bluffing? I think he is. And, even if he isn’t, I don’t believe his goons all want to die with him? What happens when he gets a terminal diagnosis? Maybe what the entire world needs to do right now is concentrate ALL of its efforts into getting the madman’s finger off of that trigger? By spy craft, by supporting his opponents, by sanctions, by fomenting disorder in Russia and backing a revolution and any other means available? After all, he’s made that threat now, and only a very stupid person allows a madman to point a loaded weapon at their head a second time . . .
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Mark Dice : And, your, “comment,” doesn’t even make SENSE? How CERTAIN am I that you can’t give me a REFERENCE to AOC, saying that, “the world is going to end in 12 years,” son? Was there a, “beginning,” to her sentence? An, “if,” post script, perhaps? No Click Bait, please? References only. And, WHAT, “pattern,” are you even inferring from that? Seems you’re talking to a small group of pre-programmed Gravity Deniers, who must have been brainwashed enough to get that, “in-joke,” “in-reference,” whatever the hell it was? It’s guys like you, who convince Conservatives, LIKE ME, to steer CLEAR of Trump Propaganda . . . Jesus, kid? . . . 🤣
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@xxx_g3tr3kt_xxx11 : How’s that propaganda working out for ya’ madam? Secret bank accounts, sweat shops, franchises, making voting machines in a communist country, begging Xi to interfere in our elections. Donny Deep State is in DEEP with Chiynah, which is why you plebs will be dropping this crap in a few weeks, and moving on to something else, as you get weaker, quieter, and fewer in numbers . . . Until Putin gets back in his box, and is sanctioned back to the Stone Age 😋
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I hope you guys are listening! tweet, email, telephone, whatever. One sentence takes very little time to send compose & even less time to send. Be polite; be articulate; but be firm. Ask the mainstream channels why they have not covered, or looked more deeply into, these stories.
Don't even hope for a reply, other than a standard statement about the channel's values, etc. Just know that these tweets, face-book comments, & so forth, put them under pressure.
YOU CAN change the media!
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@CharlesGervasi : Real, “creativity,” is what I think she was getting at? Whether it be great, DaVinci Level art, or Kingdom Brunel level engineering; a, “contribution to society,” or just leaving a mark that lasts, after you’re gone? Hard to say? But, you’re really talking about what she was trying to say. What she actually said (when she could form better grammar than a distracted nine year old?) was far from it. One of the most overrated, under-developed, “minds,” of the 20th Century, in my view. But that’s just me.
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todd joseph: Iran, last I heard, still has regular UN inspections, so they are unlikely at present. However, it's in China's interest that N Korea gets ICBM's, which is why they string Trump along. Sure it's dodgy, having a "target" for a next door neighbour, but it's equally useful to them. And Russia will exploit the hell out of the whole thing, like they always have. If ONLY we had a smart POTUS, with historical knowledge, well versed in in East Asian politics, with a capacity to weigh the interests of all parties and capable of using high grade diplomatic skills, backed by a team of experienced, highly qualified experts and diplomats, to calm the situation and prevent a nuclear confrontation?
Yet, WE have Trump. Oh, and he fired most of his experts and diplomats. Oh, and the rest of them quit, as they were unwilling to serve under a president who fires most of his experts and diplomats.
So, it will either be war, or China will come out on top. Your guess is as good as mine as to which of those scenarios plays out, but I promise you, it'll be one or the other, beginning with new sanctions, agreed with the UN. And Trump will have to eat humble pie to get THAT much. Or his pride will push us over the edge?
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ihartevil I do my own research (Wikipedia & Fox don't count academically). & just because TYT hates Trump, doesn't mean I have to agree with everything they say. It's called having a mind of your own & not seeing everyone as wearing white or black hats. They break all standards of journalism + their own rules, when they find it convenient to do so, so they cannot be trusted as a source without rigorous cross referencing. Plus they waste too much time bleating & whining about their own opinions, instead of talking about news. When I want public opinion, which is rare, I can ask my colleagues, family & friends.
And I don't care if Trump is the REAL Iron Man, that doesn't make him any more or less capable of rape.
BTW, you do realise that, trying to sell any political option is gonna be difficult with a name like "I hart evil" right?
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justbenice72 : I mean, most of what they did was right and proper, until they fail to respond to serious concerns? He was a criminal, doing criminal things. But, why wait so long for a call to an ambulance, once he’s out cold? Clearly he’s ill, right? And, “I don’t care.” Come ohhhn? “No misconduct?”??? And then, the blank tapes, the, “we never heard of him,” (sound familiar?) failure to follow up. They simply just don’t GET IT, do they? . . . Smh ✌️
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I have great admiration for Lyndsay Hillstam (probably spelled that wrong, sorry) and her gallant, comprehensive and ultimately informative journalism. In fact, Channel 4 has genuinely surpassed the BBC in terms of fresh news out of Ukraine, in depth coverage, honest comprehensive coverage and that all important INFORMATION. Lyndsay stands out in a highly competitive crowd of great reporters working for Channel 4 in Ukraine, making the channel one of my main, “go to,” sources for this war. Her, “obsession with WWI poetry,” doesn’t surprise me. The coverage we’re getting is clearly coming from an informed, educated place, which makes such a huge difference to how the news is focussed, processed and passed on to us, in the comfort of our living rooms. Thank you, Channel 4. And, thank you especially, Lyndsay. You deserve some form of recognition for your excellent, brave work.
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Jermbot15 : It was a significant, historic moment, actually. The fact that Alabama, Trump Country, did NOTHING, despite Trump’s, “warning,” just PROVED that Trump fans DON’T, “believe,” Trump, any more than you or I do. Why are they pretending to believe him? Because they like that he’s racist and greedy. And they see him as, “revenge,” for Obama. They are happy to Spite America into the dust. Trump fans are childish, venal, and the most entitled generation in America’s history. Alabama just proved what we all suspected ✌️
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@frankiejean6517 : That, “lawyer,” knows she has no case, and is taking money under false pretences. Three arguments: 1) It was a direct attack on the school’s cheerleader system, and that is evident, or her comment makes no sense. 2) The school did not ask her to take down the comment, let alone force her to remove it, so her freedom to be a fool remains intact, along with her free speech. In the same way I can throw a racist out of my house, because I just discovered his racism through social media, I can do that without a reason anyway, because it MY HOUSE. The only difference for a school is that rules need to be stated up front, which they were. 3) To argue that they interfered with her 1st Amendment rights, (already disproved by points 1 & 2) is to argue that her dad also did so. He said he punished her. On national TV. How can that standard be any different? Schools act in Loco Parentis. ✌️
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@scottsenatra1193 : Firstly, understand that people who vote both ways were rioting, burning and stealing in Portland. We SAW them. Then ask yourself? Was Portland the paradise you think it was, when it was clearly rotten inside? Just because (certain) people made money and the place, “looked,” all shiny, doesn’t make it paradise, son? Maybe the facade was burned down, to reveal the skulking, racist evil at its foundation? I don’t support rioting, but I know that rioters are opportunists, with no political, “ideology,” making them steal. We happen to know that agent provocateurs were there, because the Alt-Wrong targeted the area, trying to frame BLM, as they always do.
What I’m saying is, unless you’re willing to admit that Institutional Racism exists, and are willing to try to stop it, you will be sitting on a tinder box, wherever you are. That’s up to you.
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Big Paulie : That’s all there is to it, sadly. Donny has to get his shareholder-bosses PAID, and paid BEFORE November, so they don’t jump ship. He was slipping in the polls while we were a, “United,” States, fighting a threat together. Now, Covid is, “political,” and Donny’s trolls want us to go out and DIE for them, just so THEY get PAID. But, you won’t see any of their faces at these, “protests,” with or without a mask . . . Smh
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Corrections: David Tenant did NOT say that Badenoch, “should be silenced,” or anything even close to that. “I just wish she’d shut up,” is a personal desire, not a statement of intent, or a suggested mandate. That misinterpretation; misrepresentation matters! There is a gulf between what he said (and meant) and the words you are putting into his mouth. And how many people will take you at your (otherwise wholly reliable) word, without ever checking the clip for themselves?
And that, “medieval theology,” about true freedom that you referenced is actually Ancient Greek philosophy, repurposed by medieval thinkers and clerics, as so much of their work was.
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All of the Trump Tramps, who seem to LIVE on CNN, are either paid, foreign Trolls, or Americans who’ve given REAL MONEY to, “save Trump,” because they have been CONNED into HATING their fellow Americans, MORE than they, “love,” America or hate our actual ENEMIES. Hell, they don’t even KNOW who our enemies ARE! Just, “brown,” people will do . . . JESUS, America? Smh
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@ti2218 : There’s a myth of, “equivalence,” about CNN, created by their honest journalism and the public’s inability to distinguish news from Op Eds, discussion shows, analysis, documentary, interview, etc, etc. They don’t separate the, “purpose,” in their minds and it’s all one thing to them. So, when an entire administration is so egregiously crooked that no news about them can avoid making them, “look bad,” simply by virtue of reporting and discussing the facts, they are then forced to defend their own reporting and refute allegations, publicly, because they’re constantly being attacked by that crooked administration. Which adds to the perception people have, that a straight news organisation was, “anti,” the last administration. How could ANYONE tell the truth about any aspect of trump’s administration without making them look bad, and coming under attack for that? Serious question.
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@CountScarlioni : The only smart comment I’ve read in this thread. It seems like some people have nothing better to do with their failed lives than to utter their ignorance to all who care to read it, just so they can show us all why their lives never quite worked out the way they wanted.
Yes, by holding regular votes, each country is thereby forced to make its position clear and take the consequences in trade, military aid and soft power politics that come with that vote. They are compelled to show the world where they stand, so there can be no excuses later on. And, even a minor change, from a positive or negative position to an abstention, from one country, is of significance.
It’s easy for idiots to snipe at that, merely demonstrating their ignorance. But, considering that the countries of the UN all show up and vote tells us that they take it seriously. There has been no war between the powers that were once always at war throughout the centuries: namely Britain, France and Germany, for over 80 years. And these, “talking shops,” have played a great role in ensuring that.
But at least you get it. So, the internet is now completely populated by armchair ignoramuses, which matters . . . ✌️
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Dorian Shades of gray : Yeah, you SO, “don’t give a shit,” that you came to CNN, which you tell us all the time, how much you HATE it, to talk to people you feel contempt for, taking the time out of your day, because it doesn’t “upset” you AT ALL, right? Are you trying to convince yourself? ‘Coz, you’re not making a dent on us Normals 😉
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Like that story about the guy who drowned and asked God why he didn’t save him, after refusing the life boat, because, “God will save me,” and God tells him, “But, I sent you that lifeboat, son?” Why ANYONE would be dumb enough to take, “medical,” advice from a politician of ANY stripe, is what strikes me as the most suicidally stupid! Like the Grim Reaper votes? Do what your DOCTOR tells you, people! 🤷♂️🤦♂️
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@richieg1887 : Haven’t you noticed? It’s either always the same old names or brand new accounts that come to LIVE on CNN, to tell everyone else not to watch CNN. They are Donny’s, “deep state,” and one of the most compelling reasons we should ALL pay attention to CNN. The more of them there are, and the louder they get, the more important the story is to either trump or PooTin. That’s how we know. If it hadn’t been for troll activity CNN might not be so popular world wide? They have convinced the world that there’s an awful lot that the enemies of America’s Republic don’t want us to, “believe.” They are what convinced so many activists to get active in the cause of democracy. They’re the morons who seem to think that Stalin’s old Orwellian techniques of propaganda, handled hamfistedly and with all the maturity of an angry, racist nine year old with a behaviour disorder, can still work in the modern era. They were only half right. It works just fine on their own channels, where they’re preaching to the choir who are looking for excuses to justify their laziness of thought, their racism and their desire to, “blame,” the other for their own entitlement and failure. But, when they come to mature, grown up channels, they merely serve to convince adults that they’re scared of adult thinking, reason, logic, science and truth. In that sense, we owe these morons a debt of gratitude for shooting themselves in the foot, SO comprehensively. They have literally convinced millions to oppose trump, trumpism and Putinism.
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Jux Zeil : Good point. Shares change hands every day, because of impulses, driven by fluctuations in the market. Studies show that logic is not the dictating factor in stock market activity. It always comes down to the, “crocodile brain,” and, “groupthink,” in the end. So, when people act en masse, and withhold their money, it can have a truly positive effect on future decisions. It is, after all, the ONLY “power” the consumer has, after making videos like this. But, most of us don’t have the time or skills for this quality of journalism, which leaves us with our wallets. I have had conversations with some of the makers of other consumer streams (Too Tall Desk, et al), but, no one, who makes these kinds of videos EVER responds to this simple question: Why not form an International Consumer Group, for Gamers? If someone, with the kind of, “pull,” that these guys have, were to form such a group, that, “Power of the Wallet,” would be a force to be reckoned with, right? Am I missing something? . . . ✌️
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Nuno Foo : Good of you to say that. Thanks. I’m not offended, nor am I surprised at ignorance and bigotry. It’s one of the last bastions to be conquered; we don’t attack people because of their sexuality or skin color, but even the, “liberals,” among us, still feel that it’s open season on our inner most thoughts, faith and the things that give us comfort, in an incomprehensible world. Of course, if I said I was a Muslim, most of those same liberals would have nothing to say to me, because they think it’s somehow, “racist,” to attack THAT belief, even though there is such a thing as Caucasian Muslims (that thought would not occur to them).
Whether you believe that God made the universe to behave randomly, in such a way that terrible things can happen, but so that the precious Free Will that makes us human and not robots, CAN exist; or, whether, like me, you spent the first four decades of your life never considering the possibility of a God, until you met the guy, I have no problem with you or what you believe.
It goes without saying, I hope, that I do have a problem, at the moment you impose your belief onto someone else, use it as an excuse to attack others, or just give yourself a cheap thrill by trying to hurt people you don’t even know. But, then science WANTS that battle (or some scientists do) because they are educated enough to know that THEY are the Prophets of the modern era, capable of working miracles and bringing down destruction upon us. So, they want the money and respect that goes with that, after having spent years being called a nerd.
Who can blame them for human frailty? Not me? But then, I don’t go around, randomly kicking people in the balls, for being different, like some of the, “science fans,” who seem so eager to disqualify chunks of our population from the human race, in an ironically unscientific way.
My daughter is a physicist at a world-leading University and a Christian. This is possible, in small part, because I brought her up to believe that the two things - faith and science - are NOT mutually exclusive; but, that Religion (whether it is of the science variety or the alleged, “faith,” type) never mix well.
I really appreciate you reaching out, like that. You did more for me, with those few, well chosen words, than you can know.
Again . . . Thank you 🙂✌️
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It's Meekers : You just can’t GRASP the FACT that there are MILLIONS of Conservatives, LIKE ME, who want Trump in jail, can you, son? So, you make up LIES. But, the fact that you NEED to come here, says it all, kiddo. You HATE the truth, and have an emotional urge to try to lie about it. Your skin is Snowflake color, and we ALL KNOW IT, son . . . Smh 🙂
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jan klaasen : Trolls are transparent. Money, true enough, has nothing to do with whether the guy is right or wrong, but it IS, to me, of interest that a rich guy chooses a path that is not in his own, financial, interests. But, you will always get people from Opposite World, claiming that they are not bothered about the news, without even being AWARE that, by simply saying that, they demonstrate their concern, and probable fear
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I haven’t made up my mind on this body double thing, or to the extent it’s used, if it is real? But it’s fascinating nonetheless. Most of all, what I DON’T trust, is the word of an ex-KGB operative, who knows he can spin such a yarn so as to reduce the likelihood of an assassination attempt. Why assassinate the dictator when he may turn out not to be your target? Anyone who read the book or saw that awesome movie, The Eagle Has Landed, will know how badly wrong such a plan can go. (If you get the movie, btw, make sure to get the Director’s Cut, or the version you’ll see is terrible!)
Of course, Putin’s paranoia only adds to the plausibility of this idea because, if no one ever gets within 40 ft of the real guy, that makes it much harder to spot any subtle differences, even for those who see him regularly. And the careers of dictators are so, “performative,” anyway, following a very self conscious set of mannerisms and scripted speech patterns, once again, making it simpler (if not actually easier) to emulate that set of behaviours, as they can literally be put into writing by the dictator himself if he wants someone to learn them.
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@wheeliebeast7679 : Yeah, Biden’s very old. But that doesn’t make him any less capable. Judge the man. And to do that you have to know something about him. Like for instance, he had a crippling speech impediment since childhood, which is what we see him dealing with when he addresses the public. That’s not infirmity or old age getting the better of him. That’s a brave man who uses learned techniques to overcome a disability every time he talks, knowing he’ll be mocked for it and that his political enemies will exploit any hesitation or gaff to the hilt.
Now, ask yourself why his party chose him to lead them, despite his obvious problems being right on the front of the tin, so to speak? Perhaps it was because his courage, integrity and honesty are unshakeable in the face of the worst impulses of his enemies, and because he’s been tested, repeatedly, under fire?
No one’s perfect, but there’s nothing wrong with that man’s brain. And I’m willing to gamble on his future, rather than any of the alternatives.
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@frixosfriedman7813 : Well, this is why it’s so complex and tricky, but they always pull the same levers. Raising interest rates will raise rents and house prices. Especially since the, “government,” has just confessed that it’s not even going to try to build the 30,000 new houses they planned; mostly because of NIMBYism. I own several properties, but live in Scotland where the, “Rent Freeze,” is still in effect and I’m glad of it! The bottom line is NEVER fall for the LIE that, “there is no money,” or the question, “So, where will the money come from?” Because the answer is obvious to anyone who isn’t a Westminster Lobbyist (which includes roughly half of the property owning Mp’s): We’ll take it from all those fat cat subsidies, the energy and transport companies (who offered to pay a windfall tax, btw!) and the banks that were lyingly purported to be, “too big to fail.” And that’s just for starters. The money is there. It’s just in the wrong hands.
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Agreed. At no point did Boris ever tell us, “Here is what you think.” But, wasn’t that what the whole, “Stop The Boats,” rubbish was about in the first place? I still, to this day, cannot find a single person who even asked for that policy or who sees it as important. Plenty who express horror and alarm at it, even among conservative voting friends. And when I ask them, they agree that it seemed to drop out of a clear blue sky!
Ipsos MORI polls consistently show that migration and asylum seekers are among the LOWEST priorities among voters! And the numbers don’t lie either. We take far fewer immigrants of any kind in the UK than all of our European counterparts!
It strikes me that Sunak and his other two brown skinned brown shirts (Priti Patel and Suella B) have been attempting social engineering with this notion since the start? Telling us we, “care,” about this, so as to sweep up the far right and the low level bigots along with the nose-holding conservatives faithful, all under one big tent? They have seen the Americanisation of politics as a future in which they will prosper. That’s my theory.
Stoking deliberate fear, division and anger (which always draws more attention on the internet than anything positive: there are comprehensive studies to show this, and platforms like Twitter have been exploiting the fact for over a decade now) are the way to command the greatest number of eyes on screens, ears to listen and, (who knows?) votes at the polling booths? It’s a cynical strategy, metastasised from within a morally bankrupt corporation, masquerading as a political party, calling itself, “The Conservatives.” An oxymoron if ever there was one.
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Peyton G : The stats just came out, and are in the news, making your, “comment,” particularly ironic. The better the education, the more people voted in the mid terms, with votes against Trump doubling since 2016. Go take a look? Just saying the opposite of the truth, does not make it become true, genius. Maybe you should have gotten one of them there, “educations,” instead of wasting your time on Alex Q Anon Jones? 🤣
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@MagickP00dle : Well, it seems you don’t follow the gaming news very closely then? Whether Bethesda seems like a, “nonentity,” to you or not, they are one of the best known names in gaming. I don’t play Fallout games, but I know about them. Starfield is an upcoming, open world space game, featuring interplanetary travel, base building, factions, and galactic adventures. You honestly haven’t heard about it?
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ART CORE : China’s growing its very own, “Trump,” figure. We sort of asked for that. But, why people instantly think there will be anything other than a, “cold,” war, is beyond me? Just like with the USSR, a war would quickly escalate into mutually assured destruction (the, “MAD,” scenario, that we older folk remember so well) so both sides will do their utmost to avoid hot war, whilst trying to sound like they, “want,” a war. But, the Cold War will increase in intensity, and it will either push us over the brink, or capitalism will win out again
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The 10 Ingredients for Totalitarian (Fascist) Dystopia, in no particular order, are:
1) Violence, threat, and intimidation, used to achieve political ends.
2) A permanent sense of grievance and victimhood.
3) A founding narrative which is a LIE.
4) A culture of, “Blame,” aimed at minorities, to create the, “targets,” necessary to direct the violence.
5) Outright Racism and the suppression of those Minorities cited as the targets.
6) Anti-Intellectualism, Anti-Science culture.
7) Fervent, “faith culture,” based on, “mysticism,” so as to replace, “rationality, logic and reason,” and supply the psychological crutches necessary to support a culture that has done away with logic and reason: Evangelicalism in this case.
8) Total Delegitimisation of ALL political opponents. This includes not just politicians, but media, law enforcement, intelligence agencies, scientific institutions, human rights groups, foreign leaders, and basically, ANYONE who speaks truth to power. (We’ve had that for more than 5 years now)
9) Total Delegitimisation of any and all democratic outcomes which threaten their power; abject refusal to accept reality.
10) Corrupt use of power, business interests and the elites behind capital interests, to mobilise a nationwide suppression of VOTES, PROTEST, and even EDUCATION, to ensure survival and the creation of others, brought up with a false notion of history, programmed to support fascism without knowing any better.
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The Take : Chuck simply saw Jimmies rise as somehow being his own fall. Jimmie has cut corners, and not done all the, “hard work,” that Chuck has. So, Jimmies success is the Universe being out of order. So, he NEEDS to see Jimmie fail, as a kind of confirmation of his own life choices. He works at Jimmies failure, so as to maintain the universe. Everyone hiding their phones, etc, is also a passive exercise of power. No matter what a person’s, “rank,” they must defer to Chuck; even in the court room. That’s a LOT of power. But, Jimmie finally overpowers Chuck, on his OWN terms, on his OWN TURF, in the COURTROOM. At this point, Chuck believes he’s been slain; the very fragile world he’s built about himself, is finally shattered, with Jimmie able to beat Chuck at what he does; what he is; what he lived for. Ergo, there is nothing left for Chuck to live for. Chuck believes that Jimmie has destroyed his world, and the one time that they confronted each other, in court, where Chuck, “should have won,” Jimmie won. Chuck was never his own person. His sense of self was based upon his own measurement against his brother. Chuck had no real sense of self, which was his own, petty, self-annihilating destruction. That’s my take
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Why are you not filling the streets right now? The GOP is facing jail time and they’re LITERALLY STEALING your Republic, collecting up the post boxes! Why are you WAITING to STOP THIS? You’re all waiting for an election that is CLEARLY NOT GOING TO HAPPEN! And then you’ll protest, when it’s ALREADY TOO LATE, and Bill Barr’s Secret Police units will be expanded enough to suppress you, all over America. You should be halting the country NOW, and getting in front of their election RIGGING, while they’re still vulnerable? But, you’re all still hoping that it will magically get sorted out, like every other legal and Constitutional process has FAILED to do in the last 4 years! Maybe America wants a Dictatorship, in its heart of hearts? That’s the only explanation I can think of? Why else are you sitting on your asses, while they literally, BLATANTLY, STEAL YOUR REPUBLIC?
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Roy Gonzalez : If Flynn makes it to court again, that will be all the evidence you need that he’s about to be let off the hook. How many people on death row, or just guilty of betraying our country, would LOVE to be able to change their plea, AFTER SENTENCING??? Merely entertaining that NOTION is a TRAVESTY! We HAVE TO STOP!!! Seriously, America! You are being PLAYED by the CLASSIC Putin Tactic on, “How To Maintain Your Dictatorship.” You always think the, “remedy,” is just around the corner, because that’s what they WANT you to think! The imprisonment of half of Trump’s campaign team? Surely, he can’t survive THAT, right? The trial and imprisonment of his Cabinet members? It must be close now? His impeachment!? CAUGHT! REDD HANDED! No? . . . Nothing? . . . Then definitely the, “elections,” right? . . . They can’t be RIGGED can they? . . . ALREADY? . . . WAKE UP, AMERICA! Your Republic has FALLEN! And, by acting like they have, “not,” already decided NOT to go to jail, is BEYOND NAIVETY NOW! It’s RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT! You are buying the Dictatorship the time it needs to CONSOLIDATE AND PREPARE ITS EXCUSES, FOR WHY THE BALLOTS SEEM DODGY IN KEY STATES! You should be Revolting?! Maybe you love your Orange Monarchy? Maybe you hate them? Just, PLEASE??? For the LOVE OF GOD??? Will you ALL STOP COLLUDING WITH THE IDEA THAT YOUR “ELECTIONS” ARE NOT ALREADY RIGGED??? The entire administration and the whole Trump K K Klan will GO TO JAIL, if Trump loses his power!!! Which means he’s KEEPING IT! For LIFE! Unless he hands it over to his daughter, maybe? But, they have NO CHOICE but to insulate themselves, because they’re ALL CRIMINALS! Just please, WAKE UP!
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Bright Flash : Who are you, kid? The YouTube adjudicator on political, “allegations”? Anyone who knows a damned thing about America’s history, knows Jeff is right, son? Even Bill Barr would NOT dispute the fact that he persuaded Bush to Pardon the people responsible for the Contra scandal under Reagan. So, take your own advice and read a book, before attempting to pull your none-existent rank on others. The only thing that sounds dumber than a dumb person, is a dumb person, trying to act smart. Your dumbary is truly award winning, but you’d only get second prize, after Trump. You’re way too dumb to get first at anything
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Totally! I saw that David had a nearly two hour video about trump’s last rally. And I instantly thought, “No way! I’m not flattering fascists with that much time and attention.” It is, “important,” to monitor these fascist Trumpophiles, but helping to hype them? Big mistake. Normals don’t have the energy to deal with the GOP’s exhausting crap! “More violence,” is inevitable. Until the country gets REAL and deals with trumpism as fascism, and open sedition, the threat will remain. The COUP is under way! They have already outlawed democracy in several states, with the help of donations from TOYOTA of all people! We can’t afford to lose ONE SEAT in the midterms! Not one! Imagine what Joe could achieve with an ACTUAL MAJORITY? Imagine the hellscape we’ll be in, if the fascists gain the majority in either house? America is on a knife edge! A fascist coup threatens our security and we’re allowing it! WTF, America???
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It’s a daft question. Nothing, “changed Putin.” WE CHANGED. He was getting away with murder and still being belligerent with it, and the first time he was challenged he backed off. This is the first time we’ve encouraged him to think he could get away with something too egregious to ignore. Even while he prepared to invade Ukraine, we spent our entire time warning each other and not warning Putin not to do it. No, “off ramp,” should be provided. It’s too late now, and that’s on us as much as Putin. But all of the rape, looting, torture and murder cannot be for nothing now. Putin has to get way LESS than he started with. It’s the least they deserve, and it’s the very least we need for a safer peace. We still have China’s ambitions with Taiwan to think of. They have to see Putin lose. We are equally responsible for this, and some of us saw it coming.
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Debra Pelsma : Please DON’T let them off the hook, by calling them, “Conservatives.” These are FAR RIGHT EXTREMISTS, otherwise known as “Alt-Right.” There are REAL Conservatives out there, who have been voting AGAINST the GOP, in places like, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc. We CANNOT AFFORD to ALIENATE our ALLIES! Not at ANY cost! Conservatives, like me, MAY WELL have different political views from yours; BUT THIS IS ABOUT STOPPING A DICTATOR. UNITY is our ONLY HOPE. And the extremists, HIJACKING the Conservative identity, NEED TO BE CALLED OUT FOR WHAT THEY ARE! EXTREMISTS!
“We must all hang together, or we will be HANGED, separately.”
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Hang on? Is it true to say that the BBC are, “afraid of offending the Tories,” when the current Chair of the BBC, who was recently appointed by Boris Johnson, and was one of their biggest donors? Isn’t more accurate to say the BBC is the Tory Party? Apart from all of those other senior leadership positions you pointed out, we’re now hearing from Fiona Bruce shilling on the platform of the BBC’s flagship news debate show, for Boris Johnson’s recommendation of a gang for wife abusing daddy, again as you pointed out. The double standard is quite shocking but we can all be glad that they are being exposed. They seem to think that they have covered themselves by allowing a quota of left wing, or left of centre, comedy, when we all know that their real reason for that is just that right wing comedy isn’t funny. After all, who wants to see a sitcom about border patrol police, or supervisors of an internment camp in Dover or Kent, belittling minorities and laughing about cavity searches? That would be obscene. I just hope we get results from this?
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Anthony Pierre-Canel : If she is all she appears to be, she should be investigated, by a self regulating system that would shut her out as a consequence of her actions. I can only imagine that she is making money for someone, which will be why that hasn’t happened yet? Or, she could be much maligned, for all I know, though I doubt it? If she is all these things, she seems set to destroy herself, and has already taken some illegal, and outlandish risks. I don’t disagree with you, in principal. But, I am stuck, because I don’t know anything about her, other than what I’ve gleaned from this video, and you good people of the inter webs . . .
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@TFx2TV : Keep in mind that many of these protesting parents are the same parents who pay good money once a year to see some actor drop knob gags into every other line during Panto Season, and laugh out loud at them in front of their kids, while their pre-teen daughter is asking, “But, what’s a Brass Monkey, daddy?”
The whole point of a drag artist used to be that it was a, “Grotesque.” A deliberate distortion of what women are, done for humour’s sake. There is nothing, “normal,” about a drag artist, which is evidenced by the fact that you can choose it as a career path in the entertainment industry, NOT see it at your elbow in your local pub. There is something deeply misguided about this class.
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@theseproblemsmatter1 : Love your YouTube name. As disappointed with CyberPunk as I was? That’d be hard. 😉 George Orwell would have joined the armed services, if nothing else was available, and we’d have all been reading about his tours in the Middle East or something in the next 10 years. When we still have options, we’re not desperate, we’re just unhappy with our choices. That’s not an illegitimate complaint, but it’s not one anyone else is responsible for solving. I don’t mean to be harsh. I empathise with him, but I hear discontent more than actual, “suffering.” Who can afford to put away money when they’re desperate? WTF is a cryptocurrency? And why are all comments regarding them more like low level psychology experiments or adverts these days? I wonder sometimes if Putin, or someone, is trying the biggest Ponzi Scheme ever? Someone wants to subvert the world’s currencies and be the Planet Earth’s Bank Manager, like Ming The Merciless.
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@alexong2542 : I’m sorry to hear of your difficulties. It’s a mistake to imagine that, because you have survival problems, your problems are more, “real,” than someone else’s, even if they are more urgent. If poverty was no longer your problem, you would not be free of problems. Discounting others, because of a ranking system of, “need,” is to miss the point and to lack empathy. It’s fair enough to say you wished you only had existential angst to worry about, but most unfair to discount the heartache of others as though they were meaningless next to you.
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Navalny’s remains will be cremated before any independent scientific eyes are allowed to see it. Those people asking, “why,” you think Navalny was murdered are obviously either ignorant of world affairs or just sinister shills, asking in bad faith. There is no middle ground there.
As ever, Putin will be content with various opposing stories to come out. That’s how his system works. The truth is irrelevant. Only that there are many versions of it, which people will argue over until Russians shrug and say, “What’s the point? We’ll never know.”
The more relevant question is, “Why now?” And I suspect that is to do with the fact that Russia is holding their, “elections,” next month. The message to any potential pro-democracy candidates, anyone gathering up their courage, is clear: “This is what happens to my opponents.”
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MaL: C : In Stalin’s Russia, the whole trick was about it being obvious. The idea was, if Stalin said the moon was not real and just a conspiracy, his cult like followers all KNOW that’s bollox, but there’s a double payoff for acting like they, “believe,” it. In America, the payoff has mostly been about trolling America. It is disconcerting to imagine that millions of Americans might actually, “believe,” the moon’s not real. But, in Stalin’s Russia, where he had control of ALL but dissident media, it was a Test Of Loyalty. The whole point of it was that you would repeat Stalin’s fictions, as though they were facts, and if you didn’t, you were identified as an, ‘undesirable.” If trump cheated his way to a 2nd term, his first attacks will be on CNN and MSNBC; probably (as it already looks likely?) a hostile takeover of the company that owns CNN, and the break up of MSNBC, with a bunch of faked, “scandals,” law suits, and show trials. The rest of the media gets the message, and plays ball, or goes out like their colleagues. Everything Trump does is Stalin’s playbook, which is hardly surprising, when it comes from the teachings of his coach, Putin. So, it’s NOT that the cult, “believes,” trump. They fake it, for effect.
Their problem now, of course, is that it’s not for, “fun,” anymore. Now they do it out of FEAR. They fear, “We told you so.” They fear shame and humiliation, when they see they can’t get any of their stolen funds back. They fear “payback” in a lawful society, that checks their racist klan gatherings. They fear seeing their leaders go to jail, and the end of their dystopian dream of a white America, in which greed and racism are all that matters. But, most of all, they fear the TRUTH, as their reaction to this, “Fact Checking,” so clearly demonstrates. After all, they are about to join an exclusive club? The group of victims who got shafted the hardest, out of any con in history; a mark of shame that will live with them forever, and change their lives. They’re right to fear the truth, too. There’s no hiding place. Sorry to go on like that. I’m rather passionate ✌️👍
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Spirit Winds : You Crisis trolls sure use a LOT of words to say NOTHING, son? Keep ‘em BRIEF. It’s immoral to waste actual TIME on Trumpoganda. So far, Fauci has made guesses WHEN ASKED, and like the REST OF THE PLANET, some were right, some not. But, when he tells you it’s a, “fact,” it turns out to be a FACT. You, “trust,” trump over SCIENCE if you want to, from your East European bunker, kiddo. Me and mine? We’re sticking with the facts 😉
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@elizabethwhite1068 : Take comfort, my friend. Several things are going to happen and the right will rally to the banner of their next big thing, soon enough. Keep in mind also, that many of the cult don’t, “believe,” this nonsense any more than you or I do. It’s a convenient fiction for them, because Donny is a racist, which is the only thing they really like about him. But, Donny won’t attend the Inauguration Ceremony, because that would be an admission to his Cult, of Biden’s legitimacy. That’s literally what it’s for; passing on the baton. And, to trump, “bending the knee,” and acknowledging Biden’s supremacy over him. So, where will he go? With all those warrants and indictments to worry about? For him, his family and his colleagues? He can’t be IN America on Jan 20th? But, he can be in a country with no extradition treaty? And he can take all that MONEY Roger Stone’s collecting for him. And, that will just be the first blow to the cult, that will come, one after another, when the DOJ’s INDEPENDENCE is restored, and all of Donny’s betrayals of America are revealed. The cult will discover that THEY were always Donny main target when it to financial scams. And, when he’s rendered ineligible for office, due to his criminal record (as will be his family) and there’s a new face in town, gathering up the fans, (to who’m Donny could never accept 2nd place) his former cult will HATE him with a passion and never forgive him for robbing them . . . It’s not Donny I’m worried about. Or his Million Moan Marchers, who showed they could only muster a few thousand (far less than Hillary got, after the 2016 elections) and that was when they had MOMENTUM! It’s whatever comes next? Has Putin got anyone else lined up? He must be thinking about it? We need to make some EXAMPLES to scare off future traitors? So, people see it’s not worth the risk? Don’t you think? Not for, “revenge.” For National Security! ✌️👍
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Damned right. And Donny plays dumb, “they like me, so . . .” but he’s cunning enough to use his own dambassery. And, I said there would be, “cancellations,” during this epic f**k up of a Tax Payer funded, RNC Convention. I love having my predictions proved. Here’s another prediction for you. In about 2 weeks, when all the numbers are in, and the GOP sees that their Trump Fest failed to sway any voters (if anything, made it worse) expect the first, serious DEFECTIONS. It’s, “First Come, First Served,” on the FBI Confessions Hotline 😉✌️
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Wait a minute? This, “week long crack down,” as you describe it, is actually the first step in getting to the people smugglers! It leads to getting the bastards who exploit these desperate people in the first place! There is FAR MORE than just display going on here. Just think about it? How DO you get the smugglers?
Labour did promise that they would go after the traffickers instead of all of this bullying of the migrants themselves, as the Tories prefer! The Home Office will have signed off on this operation, but it will have been the police who proposed them, not Yvette Cooper.
All of these business GOT their, “staff,” from somewhere, right? And if you round up a whole bunch of these receivers and exploiters in one go, so they cannot talk to each other, you work on them to get to their sources! You find out who their contacts are, and work your way up the chain! That’s precisely what they SHOULD be doing!
And is this Yvette Cooper, or a received response? Is this not the actions of the police? Somehow, I don’t picture Ms Cooper donning a flack jacket and kicking down doors? She merely signed off on a police action, presumably proposed BY the police, didn’t she?
Yes, we need changes in policy. But Parliament is not even in session, so GIVE THEM A CHANCE, for crying out loud!? I support the idea of better policy AND going after the evil traffickers AS PROMISED in Labour’s manifesto!
You seem to have made too many assumptions here that you cannot possibly be in a position to know? A habit formed from seeing our last government always doing as little as possible while shouting as much as possible, no doubt. But, I suspect this operation is intended to shake more intelligence out of the trees and get to those sods who need catching. And I say, wait and see BEFORE judging! They’ve barely had time to get their suspects into the station and you’re dismissing the whole thing as flannel? Why?
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@Mockduck2020 : Propaganda. That’s how. Can we now start a TRUTH movement in media politics? To OUTLAW lying to the people and calling lies, “news,” like they do in the UK? Fox pulled their plans to set up shop in the UK (costly plans) because they’re NOT allowed to call themselves, “news,” there. A country with gutter press and fine journalism, since forever, with NO, “free speech,” problems, figured it out. Why can’t we? We used to hunt down and HANG seditious propagandists, after WWII! Now we allow them to broadcast on American soil and give them shares in the f’king company!?!?!? I mean, WTF, America??? The, “steal,” was a pathetic LIE, that cost American LIVES! You don’t let the guy who screams, “Fire,” in a packed theatre walk away Scott Free, after watching people DIE in the chaos!? Why is Fox allowed to? . . . That can’t do that sh*t in Britain!
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Ah but, there’s you, speaking logically about the NHS and policing and poverty, applying common sense and problem solving suggestions. Where’s the profit margin in that? How do they get to hand out contracts for private security firms and private healthcare providers, transport companies, water companies and postal companies in order to get those generous campaign donations and assurances of, “consulting,” jobs once they’re all unceremoniously kicked out of Westminster, unless they deliberately sabotage the very infrastructure the country depends upon and create the vacuums in services that desperately need filling, to the point where even a left winger would accept privatisation over no post, no healthcare, no clean water, no law enforcement, no FOOD?
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@derrillyager7946 : As it is, a carefully thought out policy, years in the planning, with expert input, at great time and expense, can be sh*tcanned by one GOP member raising his hand, saying, “Nope!” and going home for the holidays to have orgies with his terrified staffers. Just make them WORK for a living, and a LOT of bills will get through. Just saying, “OK? What’s your objection then?” And making them TALK for the entire three days or one day session, so the world can see what IDIOTS they are, when they’ve got NOTHING and lose track and get tired and accidentally admit to missing out on their racist themed orgy that night, will be enough to change the face of politics forever! And they KNOW IT! Popcorn sales will go through the roof and it will be better than Gladiators! I’m all about the reform, personally 😉✌️
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Christine Mills : “Truman,” really? Trump, “reminds,” you of a, “Liberal,” POTUS? Interesting . . . And, you think Trump may, “destroy North Korea,” even though he says he’s, “in love,” with Kim? Something of an abusive relationship going on, there? I’m surprised you female Trump fans are even still ALLOWED to express your opinions in the male world of politics, without being called a, “dyke,” for doing, “men’s work?” But, I can see WHY they prefer to keep you ladies quiet, now, at least. Shouldn’t you be making babies, sewing your Handmaid’s outfit, or cooking dinner for your husband, or something? Just leave it to the boys, sweetheart, OK? . . . This is clearly a bit much for you . . . 🤫
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@harlonband380 : But, none of that’s true, and if you don’t know that, you’re plain ignorant. I can rattle off lists too. But, without substance, they’re just meaningless. In the hands of a trump cult troll from the Talitrump, they become less than meaningless. Anti-fact. What’s you’re ACTUAL issue with Biden, son? A, “border crisis,” that was worse under trump? Gas prices forced up by the criminal activity of trump’s closest political ally, Putin? You shouldn’t have voted for trump if you don’t like gas price hikes? The cleanest evacuation in America’s history has just been carried out, by the most professional armed services in the world, but you’re not cheering, because Joe’s in charge? Whaddever, kid 🙄. Say something with SUBSTANCE, or go troll on F*x, where Laura Ingram doesn’t even KNOW that Joe Biden was there to receive the bodies of the fallen. You’re objectively full of sh*t, son. 🤷♂️🤦♂️
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Just don’t forget what Q (Ron Watkins) told you? About that, “Deep State Plan,” they have? If you don’t get the vaccine, you won’t be immune to Covid-20, when they release that! They’re planning to, “eliminate,” around 20% or more of the population, when all the Anti-Vaccers DIE, because they won’t have been given the REAL immunity, to Covid-20 when it comes out. Dr Fauci will bring over from, “Chiynah,” where he’s been making it in a lab, with Hunter ByeDon and Hillarrriiiieeee! They’re going to spray it from Jewish spy planes, over MTG’s house, and this strain is specially designed to kill within 24 hours of your first cough! The last thought that will go through the stupid trump troll’s heads will be, “I wish I’d been Vaccinated! Eughughhhrrr . . .” Now, go and enjoy being paranoid yourself, and suffer at your own cost, kid . . . Serves you right 😉
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Yes, but . . . Am I the only person here who is, “shocked,” that these academics in this video say they’re are, “shocked,” by what they’re finding? I feel like I’m trying to warn people all the time. They come from the, “bluest states,” because they are the disappointed, entitled, spoiled boomers who lost! They can’t accept, “no,” for an answer, because their rotten parents brought them up like that, and went WITH THEM to their Insurrection! Nearly all the people arrested, are being indicted along side their moms! Some with their dads, but mostly their moms! Privileged, entitled, RACISTS! That’s how Fascism ALWAYS STARTS!🤷♂️🙄 . . . ✌️👍
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@frankyflowers : That’s the problem, when your, “leaders,” have the mentality of 10 year olds, who claim they can, “eliminate rape.” When Abbot can say that out loud, and people actually CLAP instead of gasp, you know that law enforcement doesn’t mean the same thing Texas as it does in the rest of the country. If you guys were all serious about changing Texan politics, you’d be stopping Exxon, Shell, Mobil and the rest, from being able to conduct any business, picketing their refineries and preventing any trucks from moving oil? The, “politicians,” are the hired help, and they’re not even good a faking adulthood, let alone statesmanlike behaviour. They do exactly what their fossil fuel baron bosses tell them to do. Look at their donor records, if you doubt me? That’s who y’all should be talking to. Challenging Texan politicians is like arguing with a sheep in a field, because you don’t like what her Shepard is doing. Just sayin’. You know I’m right.
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I hear you. Unfortunately, there are hostile foreign influences all over the web, convincing the credulous that, “Nationalism,” is somehow, “Patriotism,” when it’s not; that state efforts to vaccinate people are a, “conspiracy,” which it’s not; and that our troops, “shouldn’t come home,” from Afghanistan, which they should. We’re witnessing an unprecedented tragedy in human affairs. Back in the early 1990’s we all thought the internet would make us all smarter, with all that access to information. Who knew that all that information would somehow get polluted by our enemies and that at least a third of the population wouldn’t have enough common sense to see that, or to tell a solid source from childish idiocy? We didn’t know enough about Confirmation Bias, or about how the human brain gets Endorphin hits from visits to, “I’m right dot com.” People who used to be loners with their looney toons notions, are now a part of a, “community,” and they only realise they’re actually part of a, “conspiracy,” when the Feds kick in their doors. If we knew then what we know now, we’d have made criminal background checks, IQ tests and civics lessons compulsory, before, BEFORE issuing a LICENSE to use social media . . . 🙄✌️
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Well said. I’m glad others can see through, and beyond, the historical weed Putin has up his own Soviet era ass.
The obvious flaw in this analysis is that it overlooks what Putin DID at the expense of what he says. It’s all true enough, but consider?
Which parts of Ukraine did Putin focus his greatest efforts on, since 2014? It’s always been where the fossil fuels are: Crimea has more offshore gas and oil than Russia does, according to the experts at Shell, Exxon and BP. Donbas is providing massive amounts of coal, gas, silicates and oil to Russia, as we speak. And then there’s the fact that Ukraine exports one entire third of the world’s grain and at least 40% of the world’s argon gas (vital in the manufacture of microchips, of which there is a world shortage at the moment) so when you put it all together, what you’re left with is pretty clear.
Putin is the planets biggest armed robber. Probably the worst armed robber in Earth’s history. But he’s a gangster, using ideology as window dressing for his thuggery. Sure, he feels emotional and humiliated, but that’s all in his own Soviet head. Literally no one else cares! Least of all the oligarchy around him, as they have all been promoted on the basis of their loyalty to Putin, rather than historical any knowledge or basic ability. Hence all the corruption and incompetence that lead to this disastrous war, and its even more disastrous prosecution.
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It strikes me that the crux of Zelensky’s plan is one new approach from the west: The willingness of America and the western allies to put Russia in a position of serious military losses. No longer will the support be aimed solely at, “defending,” Ukraine. The idea is to aggressively, “attack,” Russia, until Putin understands he will lose, and, “could,” lose more at home by experiencing a chain of defeats both in Ukraine and ON RUSSIAN SOIL.
If the west really wants an END to this war, Ukraine has to WIN it. And that realisation is slowly sinking in.
Professor Allan Lichtman has made his prediction, that Kamala Harris will win the election. He is world famous for having used his own design of analysis which has correctly predicted the winner of every election in America for over 40 years now. I have followed his work since the Clinton presidency and see his methodology is very well thought out and totally reliable. As far as I’m concerned, we have the answer. Putin cannot rely on trump. 2025 will be the year the war ends, if Harris is willing to up America’s support, which I believe she will. Especially since she has so much to gain from seeing it end and being instrumental in that, and less to lose from early in her presidency. The fickle public will forget any mistakes and vote with their wallets, as per usual, and all candidates know this much at least.
Ukraine’s victory is assured. Our responsibility, with this knowledge in mind, is to keep writing to our representatives so that we can save more lives by ensuring Ukraine’s victory sooner rather than later.
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🔱🇬🇧
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I don’t think Starmer is wrong to draw a distinction between the science and biology of human beings, and how people identify if they commit to that identity. He’s right that there is a distinction.
We cannot and should not ignore the fact that, “gender dysphoria,” is an extant condition. Why are we not, “allowed,” to talk about that?
There will be (and probably are presently) people who are just ill and who need love, compassion and professional treatment in order to recover. There are people who identify as the opposite sex from their present gender, who would not do so if they were healthy and recovered from their psychological illness called, “gender dysphoria.”
How do we identify those people who need professional, compassionate help, unless ALL people who seek gender reassignment are given the SAME opportunities to identify what is an illness, by going through a consistent, scientific, professional and compassionate process, which seeks to separate those people from those who are not ill and just need the treatment to transition.
I know I’m not qualified to make such distinctions, but the experts could do a lot of good, if we took a grownup, consistent approach.
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Pixie Girl 333 : And therein lays the problem. Edmond Burke’s tired old line is as true now, as it was when he said it, “All evil needs, to succeed, is for good men to do nothing.” I’m sure he would have included “women” had he lived today. There IS NO, “fence,” to sit on, or, “middle ground,” to occupy; no, “neutrality,” nor, “even-handedness,” remains available to us. There is not even any, “politics,” any longer. The fence has been smashed, and the middle ground has been invaded. There is ONLY right and wrong, remaining. Those who are paralysed by indecision, or who wish to entertain safe, comforting illusions of neutrality, will be swept aside by one side or the other. I don’t say this to alarm, upset, distress or make you feel ANY negative emotion. I am simply stating facts. And, sadly, the facts are ugly. But, remember, you can no more be neutral in the face of this WORLD WIDE ATTACK upon Democracy, than you can in the face of Nazism. You can either start, “Zieg Heiling,” and hope to be accepted, or you can FIGHT to restore DEMOCRACY. It was the ATTACKERS, the Russians and their colluders, who kicked out the fence from under us, and invaded all the safe spaces. But, if you hope to lay down under a white flag, in the midst of the battle field, well . . . good luck with that?
But, NEVER forget, by attempting to appease BOTH sides, you risk becoming the enemy of BOTH sides. Inaction is a CHOICE, with CONSEQUENCES, JUST as SEVERE as any action you could take, for one side or the other. Don’t let them fool you into thinking anything else. Silence is COMPLICITY. God bless you
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This year, I have seen an unusually high level of campaigners begging voters to, “study the form,” and vote TACTICALLY. Personalities and YouTubers of all kinds, appealing to the public to get the Tories out at all costs. The idea being, whomever seems to be the strongest candidate most likely to beat the Tory in your respective area, vote for that person, regardless of party, so long as they are NOT Tory or anyone right of them. I figured, if they were successful, we would see increases for both Labour and Lib-Dems all over England. It seems to be baring fruit?
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I don’t believe Putin would ever dare use a nuke under ANY circumstances. I think he used the threat to squeeze more help out of China, in the same way he uses that threat against his enemies And (which is all of the free world) just to intimidate the weak minded. It’s not just because it seems to work, but because it makes Putin look, “strong,” domestically.
We KNOW Putin will never do it, even if he doesn’t plan on surviving. A, “freeze,” in the conflict is unacceptable. We ALL have stake in this. WE in America, Britain, Europe, Australia, Canada and the rest of the free world, we ALL have the RIGHT to say, “NO!!!” to Russia! And we MUST!
Russia must LOSE this war, or it was all for nothing!
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Michael Moore : Probably right about that? 🤔 With me being a Conservative, forced to vote Democrat, because Trump is a traitor to America, a liar, who clearly hates the majority of Americans, a criminal, who’s destroying our institutions so as to hide his crimes, with the help of smarter GOP goons and foreign investors, and that he’s a racist buffoon. So far as “Hillary” goes, I’m like the, “Liberals,” who never liked or wanted her, in the first place. She couldn’t even beat Trump! She was THAT unpopular. See, it doesn’t follow that, when you’re AGAINST Trump, that you’re FOR anything else, son. But, your ASSumptions are only ONE of the reasons that you Trolls are LOSING:
There’s also all the HATE and abuse we put up with; the fact that you’re always on channels that you HATE, merely demonstrating to us Normals that we’re RIGHT and you are SCARED; the fact that we have eyes and ears of our own and KNOW what’s going on; and, of course, the fact that Jesus HATES Trump. That’s science 🙂
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Rodney Adam : And, you HAVE TO, “believe,” we’re ALL, “Liberals,” don’t you? That’s just as DEBUNKED as your Conspiracy Theories and the lies you mix with truth, to confuse the gullible. Did you LOOK at the SHEER WEIGHT of NUMBERS, at the Midterms? That was NOT just, “Liberals,” voting against Trumpski. REAL Conservatives, like ME, want Trump gone too
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If having languages were a basis for one country’s invasion of another, we all would have been more reluctant to attend our French or German lessons in school! Being able to speak a language doesn’t make that your first language, let alone your identity.
The irony about your Kremlin mouthpiece commenter, there, is that the very word, “Duma,” is an Old English word, meaning, “deliberation.” It comes to Russia via Germanic languages, wherein it meant, “thought.”
Therefore, let us use the Duma’s argument, shall we? We will henceforth consider the Duma German sovereignty, or British. And, to any Russian who complains, we can simply explain that we are merely living up to Russian, “ideology,” and acting upon their instigation.
Perhaps it is time the west invaded Russia anyway and put an end to all this Tsarist, 19th Century style imperialism, which threatens the world’s stability and be done with it? Putin is so fond of what he calls, “history,” and the rest of the world calls laughable, “revisionism,” that I feel sure he will understand that Russia has certainly provided us with the necessary pretext.
“Just playing it by your rules, Vlad,” we can say as the British Tiger tanks trundle through Red Square.
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Mustang .308 : Aaawww . . . Bless . . . You write such lengthy Propaganda, filled with hate, “blaming,” people, in that effeminate, “victim,” role play, you Trump Tramps are addicted to, not even REALISING that NO ONE normal will even bother to READ your rants, after trawling halfway through the first one. Do get over yourself, kid. Nobody cares 😁
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Her Tweet is submissible as, “Evidence of Motive,” and in my fantasy, her judge says, “You openly stated that, among your motives for committing these offences, was the expectation of collusion by the state, and this court in particular, with your crimes. You did these things, BECAUSE you expected to evade punishment, counting on MY individual complicity, corruption and collusion. By your own words you have directly challenged the legitimacy of the American justice system. You have forced this court to respond to your statements, by setting an example, and by making it clear to ALL potential insurrectionists that they CANNOT count upon state collusion, or deliberate dereliction of duty, In favor of a white suprematist’s childish expectations of government racism and collusion in serious offences against the state. I am therefore, compelled to give you the maximum sentence, so that America knows Justice is blind . . . especially to race. You talked your own way into your fate. You will serve 30 years, without the possibility of parole. Take her away.”
That’s my fantasy, at least. ✌️
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ashley hill : That’s so ADORABLE. 🤣 The, “Lock her up!’ LYNCH MOB, now wants, “Due Process”??? Why, oh WHY, do you Trollskis even KEEP TALKING about, “evidence”? Have you EVER heard of an investigation TELLING EVERYONE what EVIDENCE they have? Do think the WORLD DISAPPEARS when you close your EYES??? Just because it hasn’t been ANNOUNCED to YOU, doesn’t mean it ain’t THERE? The EVIDENCE will come out, when people are INDICTED, and STANDING TRIAL, you MORON! NOT BEFORE! But, ALL THOSE GUILTY PLEAS? And you STILL don’t WANT TO BELIEVE??? Go back to Moscow 🤣 😆 😂
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Hayden McMichael : It’s terribly effeminate, to whine the whole time, about what a, “victim,” Trump is. Put that next your Trump Troll’s terror of Hillary (for 3 YEARS, now!), Nancy, and AOC, and there’s a pattern emerging. Man up, son. Things will only be getting worse for Trump, from now on. Perhaps he shouldn’t be such a lowlife degenerate in the first place? . . . 🙂
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Correction: Russia never, “thought western special services were behind this election,” (the 2010 presidential election) but Putin acted like that was what he thought, because he wanted someone to blame and being in control of the, “narrative,” matters more to him than anything else. Blaming the west is the default position for Putin, made easier for him by the fact that Eastern Europe wants to ally itself with the west, so they can’t be victimised by Putin anymore. It’s important to make these distinctions. Russia never, “thinks,” anything. They, “say,” all kinds of things, but never the truth and NEVER what they think.
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Max Covfefe : That, “us and them,” thing is all Trump. He cannot survive if the country is united, so he tears at its very fabric; the things that MAKE us American. Notice the inbuilt ASSumption that goes with EVERY position he adopts? “We’re Pro-‘Life’-‘Guns,’-‘Military,’ THEREFORE, YOU are Anti-all those things.” Even though that simply is NOT the case. As we see with female members of the ex-military, Democrat Party, running for Congress (like they don’t own guns?) or religious leaders, standing for Democratic Nominations. Trump is just stirring his base, like a pack of angry dogs, to THINK that we want to, “take away,” absolutely EVERYTHING that they care about. It’s the Stalinist tactics of a DESPERATE man, who’d rather see America BURN, than face justice
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garet claborn : HOW, exactly, does ATTACKING American businesses, personalities, institutions, politicians (even the ones in his OWN party), Law and Order, EVEN SPORTS, etc, etc, etc, “UNITE,” ANYONE? Trump HATES you. And GOD HATES TRUMP
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@jackspring7709 : Yeah, the pundits love their, “woulda’ been,” “coulda’ beens,” after the fact, with no, “historical record,” to gainsay them. Only, the ones who said she just needed to, “learn lessons and adjust her course,” look a bit silly in the light of her constant doubling down.
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Pretty fair summary, though I would add that he seems to be picking up the vase and saying, “Come on. We’ve all got to clean this up now,” whilst looking to the respectable big brother, King Charles, for moral support. Let’s face it? Most of us just want to move on to other things and would prefer it if this debacle would just go away. Johnson, whilst wanting to keep the rage-party smashing things up, may think he’s coming off as the, “heir apparent,” to Sunak, but he’s actually more like Ted Heath to Sunak’s Thatcher. Sure, some of his sniping will be effective, even damaging, but most will just role their eyes and realise it’s not going to change anything.
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docbar : Tell me? Do you actually, “know,” ANYONE who really, “buys,” that Propaganda BULLS**T? Has Trump made YOU, “Rich”??? The Tax Break ENDS in April. Look it up? We’re shelling out $TENS of $MILLIONS, EVERY SINGLE DAY, to service our RECORD National Debt! The, “economy is booming,” if YOU are the OWNER of Wells Fargo! Or, working on Wall St! SUCH BOLLOX! You CAN’T be an American, and, “think,” THAT? Food and Gas prices have DOUBLED in the last two years! Go on? Blame THAT on the Dems! 🤣
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Ramon Guzman : You know? Not a ONE of my friends has noticed a DAMNED THING about the Stock Market, except for the fact that our Food and Gas now costs DOUBLE what it did two years ago! When was the last time any of your pals came to your house in a sweat, begging for help, because of the Dow Jones’ fluctuations? I mean, whatever world docobar lives in, it has NOTHING to do with MOST people’s existence. The, “economy is booming,” for RICH 1%! NOT US! And, when Trump’s tax break bribe ENDS in April, and we never SEE that 10% he so DESPERATELY threw up, before the Blue Wave hit him, what will his Propagandists come up with THEN, I wonder? . . . The mind boggles . . . SMH ✌️👍
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Ramon Guzman : Did you see that old GOP Senator (his name escapes me, just now) with his, “I don’t care,” to a CNN reporter, in the corridor? He had the beleaguered look of a guy who wanted to say, “F**k you, CNN!” They know its all turning to poop, and most of them hoped to be kickin’ it in the Caribbean, before reality caught up with them. He came across as callous, but I think he was genuinely just too panicked and angry (in that fearful way) to think of a good response.
They MUST have started the backroom chats, by now? How to get the lifeboats into the water, without alerting the captain, huh? 😁✌️
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@KayJay940 : What amuses me about Putin’s, “bold,” move is that he seems to honestly think the west never saw it coming? By now, the UN has war gamed every scenario and has a plan to cope with Putin turning off the gas and oil faucets altogether. If I’m reading things aright, we should see any desperate attempt by Putin to right the sinking ship of state as a good thing. It just means it’s working. No one goes into a war (trade or otherwise) without expecting a return of fire. But the best minds in the world are planning for every possible eventuality. It’s about time this myth of Putin being, “smart,” was exploded anyway. He’s cunning and utterly untrustworthy, which passes for, “smart,” when western leaders have to explain away their embarrassment at being had by him once again. But people who actually KNOW the guy, like former KGB agents who are being interviewed by western media right now, all say he was just a thug and none too bright. His one, “good idea,” was to fold the Russian mob into the KGB when he was under Yeltsin. And he’s been playing crime boss ever since.
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@deannahayat7707 : It’s at these times we get to see the true color of the Confederacy of trumps. They, “care,” nothing for, “people,” and KNOW nothing about sacrifice, duty, honor or service. Half of them are not even American and some of them are algorithms. But ALL of them know how to be partisan hacks, hating on America whilst pretending to give a sh*t. They were actually DELIGHTED when that suicide bomb went off, just so they could, “blame,” Joe, because the great job he was doing upset them. You are too good for these pr*cks. Don’t waste your energy. Express your thoughts, because they MATTER. But, the art of NEVER losing the game? Don’t play. Let them simmer in their own swamp of hate, racism and, “grievance,” like the little effeminate victims they love to be. They have NOTHING to be, “aggrieved,” about. Americans should be SUPPORTING their president at such times. But, that doesn’t bother Joe. Don’t let these pr*cks bother you, my friend. You’re way better than that. I know. ✌️👍
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My dad had a bunch of health problems, but he was fine and we expected to see him live for many years yet. Then he caught Covid, which killed him within a week . . . Literally. The sheer callousness of disinformation is so egregious, dangerous and Anti-Patriotic, it truly sickens me.
I thought it WAS, “clear why they believe,” crazy things about Covid? Because of disinformation, isn’t it? Ron Watkins, otherwise known as, “Q Anon,” is the main vector of Soviet created propaganda, which is then filtered through mediums like Alex Jones (whatever happened to that guy? 🤔 😉) and Fox . . . Doesn’t everyone know that? . . . 🤷♂️
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@houseofmaranatha2841 : Madam . . . It’s you Kommunist Karen’s who have more in common with, “leftists,” silly. You don’t get it, because you’ve been lied to, daily. I’m a Conservative. I think you Y’all Kida types all belong in jail, with the trump’s. That’s,why I joined The Lincoln Project, where the RINO’s are not welcome. You literally want to tear down the Republic, and call yourselves, “Republicans.” Irony is dead, and that’s why irony is outlawed in Russia. You should go live there? You’d love it, ma’am.
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I tell you, if they force these people to testify at the Impeachment Trial, the GOP will be broken. Under oath, with no 5th Amendment to hide behind, on live TV, what can they say about, “The Steal?” That is, after all, the REASON for the Insurrection. And they cannot offer ANY, “evidence,” for, “believing,” it was a thing. Most will admit they knew it to be a lie, and the world will hear them; Q, the, “proud,” boys, and all the cult of trump, will hear the truth from the lips of those who lead them to disaster, criminal records and personal ruin. They cannot refuse to testify, and the key witnesses are the very people who lead the charge, from the back, like this guy, like Graham, Hawley, Cruz and the rest. It will be the most important event in American history, since the surrender of the Confederacy. And twice as damaging to the cult of trump. DEMAND their TESTIMONY from your representatives! Make sure to inundate them, till the trial begins! ✌️
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Just ONE PERSON, right? Just ONE grown up in that room, could have stood up and said, “Clearly, NEITHER of you have EVER looked up the term, ‘defund the police,’ or if you had, you would both AGREE!” Then bang their empty heads together and make them READ a definition, right? So they would both say, “Oh look? Turns out we both want exactly the same thing! We want cops to prevent crime, detect crime and catch bad guys, with well funded, staffed and equipped departments. And we want cops to do less social work, psychiatric nursing, body guarding of corporate goons and debt collecting for the banks! Who knew?” To which that guy would say, “Everyone! We ALL KNEW! The only people who don’t know, and who NEVER EXPLAIN IT, are cops, politicians and Alt-Wrong Hacktivists!”
The dumbest political disagreement since the, “You’re Retarded! No! You’re Retarded!,” Wars of 1973. 🤦♂️
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@danwright1794 : A) I have no, “respect,” for the supporters of terrorists, extortionists, internationally wanted mass child kidnappers, and mass murderers. B) As your views are so immature, I just assumed you were too young to know anything, but, “kiddo,” is hardly a wounding, “insult”? How thin skinned are you, son? C) What makes you assume I wish to, “continue,” or that I need you permission for that? Better look up, “How Social Media Works In The Free World For Dummies,” or something? It’s not like Russia here. D) You, “apologise,” for disrespecting your elders, your betters and supporters of democracy. And E) Slava Ukraine. 🇺🇦🔱🇬🇧
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@joemcnamara4774 : No I don’t deny it. Putin even told us he’s willing to use those nukes whilst putting his nuclear bases on high alert. Whether that’s a bluff or he’s that insane, what he’s done there is the equivalent of pulling out a shotgun in a courtroom and demanding he be allowed to win the trial. And now no one cares, all of a sudden, what his issues are with Ukraine’s future. Now, all that anyone cares about is getting the mad man’s finger off the trigger. He’s massively overplayed his hand, and no sane person allows a mad man to point a loaded gun at their head a second time. Now, the west has no choice but to see to it that Putin is taken out, deposed or assassinated, just in case he’s not bluffing. For many of us, Cold War II began around 2010 or thereabouts, with the arrival of web groups like Anonymous, who up and vanished into the ether once Putin didn’t need them anymore. But for those who are still catching up, the Cold War begins here. No one in the west can pretend Putin is their, “friend,” any longer. Not unless they’re the kind of people who get Stockholm Syndrome? Putin threatened every last one of them, including everyone they know and love, with nuclear death. There’s nowhere to go from there, except down and, hopefully, OUT!
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Well, at least you have shone a light on much of the drama for me. I have been wondering why this apparent perfect storm of events in the life of one TV presenter has held the attention of the nation so much? I haven’t followed Schofield’s career since I was a child, and all of my memories of him and Gordon the Gopher are fond ones. That model of being the anchorman between children’s television shows was a stroke of genius that was copied around the world and recreated for adult audiences with creations like Roland Rat, for good or ill, you decide.
But, despite only ever seeing him when he cropped up on a YouTube video that their algorithm pointed me at, I have never seen any of his shows. I knew, obviously, that he and Holly Willoughby were television Royalty, and that the whole, “cue-gate,” scandal was a risible misunderstanding by the general public about how television works.
But all of these other issues, of which I’ve been vaguely aware in the last couple of weeks, just seem to have, “Private matters ripe for misrepresentation, incorrect assumption and darkly obtuse gutter press coverage,” written all over them.
As far as I still know, Philip Schofield has contributed hugely to the tone and culture of our country since his early years in television, which owes him a debt in that regard. He has always struck me as a kind, thoughtful, humorous, sincere man and a good influence on the public therefore. Until I am disabused of that notion, with concrete evidence, I will continue on in my belief, hoping he will return to the public in some other forum of equal popularity. Even though I’ve personally seen very little of him, I am smart enough to know that our culture is better off with people like him influencing it. So, I just hope we haven’t lost him, and that the scurrilous rumours about him are nothing more than that, gutter press rumouring.
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@DJaquithFL : Running away fixes nothing, but it sure shows where your, “loyalties,” lie. And, to the natives in 1643, your family were no more, “colonists,” than the Russian Army is in the Ukraine. That’s just rebranding and repackaging, but the actions haven’t changed. America survived one, “civil war,” and came out stronger than ever, so I’m not going to upsticks and run, just because some Nazis want to take over. And, so far as, “where,” you, allegedly moved your, “money,” I have a shock for you, in one word; “Globalism.” It’s a thing, which you can’t change any more than the whether. It makes no difference, “where,” your money is, only where you are. That’s where the property, goods and services are going, and you’re already supporting various global industries around the globe, merely by eating, sleeping and shitting there: fact. Flee, if that’s your solution. Maybe you’ll get treated like we treat, “colonisers,” in your new country, and learn a few things? Or, like trump’s forebears, maybe you’ll want to come home, when things don’t work out, but be refused by an isolationist government? Now, wouldn’t THAT be funny. But, the saddest part? You’re fleeing for all the wrong reasons, pursuant to your tenuous grasp of how the world works. And when you get there, you’re problems will be no different. Because YOU will still be there . . . So long . . . Don’t let the door hit you on the ass on your way out . . .
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Why are you sitting on your hands, America? Why are you not filling Pennsylvania Avenue? Or, bringing the entire country to a halt? The LAW, your Constitution, your Republic are all being DESTROYED, and you STILL have hopes that the Impeachment will ACHIEVE ANYTHING??? All it’s doing is forestalling the inevitable! Half the GOP are IMPLICATED, so they CAN’T remove Trump! They KNOW he faces disgrace and JAIL, from the MOMENT he’s out of Office. And, they KNOW he’ll squeal on ALL of them at that point. The Trump’s have NO ALTERNATIVE but to hold onto Office FOREVER, and the GOP have NO ALTERNATIVE but to help him! That means RIGGED ELECTIONS, the END of Democracy and the FALL OF YOUR REPUBLIC! But, you sit and watch, like something HONEST might happen? This is EXACTLY how Putin runs Russia! With FAKE Opponents, in a FAKE Democracy. DO SOMETHING or be DAMNED!
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I give it 100%, as a perfect example of its type. Agreed.
When you think about it, Heath Ledger’s Joker was THE Joker: a cypher with a constantly changing backstory. We don’t know where he came from or what made him insane, and that’s one of the things that made him such a great super villain; the antithesis of Batman. We understand Batman, we know his back story, in depth and detail, and we understand why he does what he does. The Joker is the opposite of Batman, in spirit and intentionally, because he’s the antidote to Batman; his greatest antagonist. We can’t understand his desire for chaos, which is one of the things that makes him so scary, and which was explored so brilliantly in Nolan’s vision of him, as an Uber-Terrorist, who’s very existence is a counterpunch in Batman’s face; simply existing to love everything that Batman hates, but even the Joker understands that he’s nothing without Batman’s Yang to his Yin. The Joker needs Batman, and tells him so. “You complete me,” he says, referencing Jerry McGuire. And, Ledger, I’m convinced, would have won the Oscar for his masterful performance, had he lived, regardless.
No one thought there would ever be another, or that it could be, or should be, topped. So, to take on the Joker’s backstory, and answer the very mystery that makes Joker who and what he is, was beyond dangerous! It was not just bold, straying into taboo territory, it was downright heroic! The accusations of hubris and stupidity that would have been levelled at the director, DC and at the star, had this movie failed, would have potentially ruined careers, including that of Phoenix, who had by that point, already danced on the edge of the precipice with some of his choices. Especially, that documentary that no one comprehended, and which alienated so many people on talk shows?
Yet, not only did they DARE to tell us how the Joker came to be, defying the critics, which were already legion before the movie came out, but they also refused to compromise the vision of Joker in the teeth of so much ill-informed, un-thought-out, anti-violence opposition. All this, at a time when the DC universe was on its knees, desperate for a win! The epic failures of their flagship enterprises; the Justice League and the Superman V Batman battle, which had been teased so long ago in a Will Smith vehicle about vampires, had made even the most loyal fans sceptical at best, and downright hostile in most cases.
But, this all wound up making the TRIUMPH that is Joker, all the sweeter for everyone involved in that project; from the writers, director and stars, to the key grip and Dolly guy! Every single one of them can now roll up their sleeves, show off their scars and say, “I won these scars at the Battle of The Joker SJW’s,” with pride! And people will remove their hats, shake their hands, buy them a drink and say, “Thank you for your service.” Because we now have one of the greatest movies in the DC cannon (only rivalled by The Dark Knight) and one of the greatest psychological thrillers ever made! A masterpiece, with a story of suffering behind it, like all great masterpieces should have. One of the best movies in anyone’s collection; up there with North By Northwest, Alien, Aliens, Terminator 1 & 2, Cyrano De Bergerac, It’s a Wonderful Life, Jaws, Duel, the first Planet of The Apes, The Big Country, True Grit, The Searchers, Metropolis, Dirty Harry, Unforgiven, West World (the movie), Some Like It Hot, Singin’ In The Rain and, as you can tell by now, I could list SO MANY more. But, Joker is right up there with that lot, and it’s obvious inspiration, Taxi Driver.
True Art, is not yet dead in Hollywood. Joker is your proof ✌️👍
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Erasmus the blasphemous : There ARE no, “Conservatives,” LEFT in the GOP. They ALL left or died. Maybe (JUST MAYBE?) the 13 in Congress, who voted against Trump’s National Emergency, might turn out to be. But, MASSIVE Deficit Spending? Disrespect for Law? Disrespect for Veterans? For our Generals? Our Heroes? Attacking our Institutions? NONE of THAT is, “Conservative.” The GOP are EXTREMISTS, RACISTS, GRIFTERS, RELIGIOUS BIGOTS, and OUTRIGHT LOONEYS. But, “Conservatism,” has LEFT the building. I REFUSE to give that respectable label, to HIDE behind. REAL Conservatives stand WITH Liberals right now. They are putting COUNTRY BEFORE politics. Do the Math on the Midterms, if you doubt me. I’m a Conservative. And I VOTE DEMOCRAT ✌️👍
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It’s a fitting caricature. At a time when Prison Hulks are reappearing on our coastlines, and the most vulnerable people ON EARTH are being used as a human football; whilst the Tories act as though they have the, “right,” to hold their next conference behind closed doors, as if they were just some fringe party and not the, “governing,” power, locking Britain OUT of the democratic process; after all the corruption and entitlement we’ve uncovered, which is exactly what we uncovered after the last time the Tories had a prolonged period in office under John Major, merely proving that they are incapable of learning any lessons from past scandals and continue to literally TRAIN their protégés in the art of getting away with murder; I could just keep going all day, but suffice it to say . . . My honest conclusion is that they WANT us to fear them. We are moving toward a dictatorship, and we really should be flooding the streets with protestors, demanding not only that the Tories reverse their decision to lock the press out of their conference, but laws should be introduced, making such abjectly anti-democratic actions ILLEGAL. And with harsh consequences!
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I tell you, if they force these people to testify at the Impeachment Trial, the GOP will be broken. Under oath, with no 5th Amendment to hide behind, on live TV, what can they say about, “The Steal?” That is, after all, the REASON for the Insurrection. And they cannot offer ANY, “evidence,” for, “believing,” it was a thing. Most will admit they knew it to be a lie, and the world will hear them; Q, the, “proud,” boys, and all the cult of trump, will hear the truth from the lips of those who lead them to disaster, criminal records and personal ruin. They cannot refuse to testify, and the key witnesses are the very people who lead the charge, from the back, like this guy, like Graham, Hawley, Cruz and the rest. It will be the most important event in American history, since the surrender of the Confederacy. And twice as damaging to the cult of trump. DEMAND their TESTIMONY from your representatives! Make sure to inundate them, till the trial begins! ✌️
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I no longer think of him as a, “Boris.” He’s a, “Johnson,” to me now. “Boris,” is almost affectionate and certainly familiar. Whatever face we think we see of him, Boris is an unknowable cypher, like any crook who turns out to be as concomitantly dangerous as was once powerful. He clearly wields a great deal of power still.
To hear people even countenance the view, “It would set a dangerous precedent,” to fully punish a politician for his degenerate disregard for the rules, and his subsequent lies and downplaying of his responsibility in that, appalls me almost as much as the parties themselves. It angers me in the way that it did when I saw that press secretary literally laughing out loud, when I had not been allowed anywhere near my father, who died of Covid which he caught in the hospital. It reignites the flame of revolutionary rage in my heart.
There are just too many things I want to say to that, but I’ll leave it at this: The most dangerous precedent was already set, when Johnson CRIMINALLY disregarded the law and partied while people DIED, as though he and his staff had nothing better to do.
Thank you for these videos. They’re a soothing balm to me. Just hearing people who, “get it,” speaking out, helps enormously. 👍
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Makes you wonder if this was because they consider a journalist to be one of their own, or if they truly cared about being unbiased in their coverage? Personally, I think the BBC is one of the most valuable British exports the country has, with a historic value that is incalculable by comparison to all other journalism AND national heritage. But, I am also deeply concerned at the deterioration of the BBC’s values over the years, and the way that bias has crept into their journalism, making them one of the, “sides,” in the political debate, rather than a truly unbiased source of news. Worst of all, I don’t think they see it. If you complain to them about anything, they get truly defensive and obtuse! They are myopic about their own short comings, which will make me glad to see the back of the people running the place, if not the institution, when they inevitably get privatised.
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Truthfully, this makes me laugh to cynical tears . . . It’s like watching people scream at sheep, because they’re mad at their Shepard. 🤦♂️ WTF do they THINK a, “politician,” can do for them? They’re OWNED by the fossil fuel companies. Look at Texas, and the Donor Records? They’re NOT, “renting,” their politicians there! They BOUGHT THEM, OUTRIGHT!
People say they, “care,” and they want, “change,” and the next thing we know, they’re arguing with a startled little monkey in a suit, when his Organ Grinder is standing RIGHT THERE! LOL’ing his ASS off at them, and then handing their ass to them!
STOP CONNING YOURSELVES into, “believing,” that a, “politician,” can help you? Take your fight right to the door of Exxon, or Shell, or all of the Fossil Fuel Barons? Or, forget it! 🤷♂️
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Jeff Goddin : So, the GOP just mad at unbiased facts, because they are faced with causing a second Revolution, by shutting down all witnesses and evidence, and having a jury comprised of Trump’s conspirators find Trump, “not guilty,” in under an hour, thus admitting that your Republic has ended and that the 2020, “elections,” will be RIGGED . . . Or, they can cause a second Revolution, by allowing witnesses and evidence, and then finding Trump, “not guilty,” regardless, of the crimes that he’s just been proved guilty of, thus admitting that the Republic has fallen, and the 2020, “elections,” will be RIGGED? Perhaps the third alternative is to drag it out, until everyone is too confused and bored to bother anymore, whilst throwing distractions at the American people? Like a brief war with Iran, or North Korea? That’s worked pretty well for them so far . . . SMH
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My Name is Gladiator: I didn’t click your name to reply, so you didn’t get PAID for trolling, and don’t bother with the Click Bait, son. I don’t want your malware, or to get you paid for each click on it. You aim at, “emotions,” so that people will click on your name, and you get paid. You’re a Carpet Bagging, America Hater, trying to make short term cash, out of the misery of others. But, you haven’t thought it through, son. They WILL, “clean up,” ALL of the evidence of their shell companies that paid trolls to troll for trump. And the, “clean up,” of the actual trolls? That’s the easy part. You better get your passport, son. You’re gonna’ need it 😉
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@donnellynell : Jen Psaki is rapidly becoming a living legend. Her sheer calmness, eloquence and patience in the face of such a hypocritically phrased, bad faith question, is something to behold. I can only imagine her Trumpophile predecessors must be eating their hearts out? This, “journalist,” has the arrogance of the Inquisition, and the temerity to LIE with such casual obtuseness, whilst, “representing,” Christianity!? Psaki is NEVER caught off guard, unprepared; she never raises her voice, or fakes, “outrage;” she’s never Whaddabouting, or pushing at whatever triggered buttons she can find, calculated to get at the, “emotions,” of her president’s opponents. And she CRUSHES the trump trolls by winning over Americans, by never rubbing anyone’s nose in their idiocy, lies, faked concerns, or bad faith attempts at scoring playground points. Her sheer competence, skill and unrivalled knowledge of her topics is unmatched by ANY predecessor I can think of. And, you know WHY she’s SO masterful? It’s because she knows the most valuable lesson in politics:
How do you NEVER lose the game? DON’T PLAY!
It’s THAT simple. Do your job, and do it better than anyone in history. They can’t land a punch, because you’re not in the boxing ring. They hear the bell and come out flailing, only to find they were punching at air, and somehow knocked themselves out! They come to and look up, only to see the face of Jen Psaki, and realise that was the Referee the whole time, and she’s just called you OUT for the count.
She’s my hero. Seriously. I admire her so deeply. ✌️
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Lou Hayhurst : People run and hide inside religions, or science, or even faith. And, because their emotions brought them there, they rage at each other as if they were arguing two sides of the same coin. The mistake they make, is that they’re not. Faith has something to say on all topics. Science has nothing to say about faith. At least, the Dawkinsian type of science doesn’t, though it thinks it does. Religion, is just the organisation of people of ostensibly shared faith, into a hierarchy for political management, which is why it has failed, and become an anachronism. We have politics for that, now. It was never meant to be, and it has little to do with, the teaching of Jesus, which is why we have the kind of problems with it that we do now, where it only attracts people who need therapy into its leadership roles. Religion is the enemy of faith.
I can’t agree with your comment on intelligence and science. Richard Dawkins is a deeply stupid person, but he’s also very accomplished at science. He has more in common with Donald Trump, so far as intellect or intellectual honesty is concerned. I forget the name of the man who wrote the book, The Science Delusion, but his story about Dawkins, though jaw dropping, is banal in its shear unsurprisingness. You come away thinking, “That book was WAY better than I expected it to be,” and, “Why am I not surprised to discover that Dawkins is just another cheap trickster, trying to exploit the religion market’s obverse face?”
Don’t get me wrong. I am from a family of scientists and my daughter studies physics at an elite University. But, she believes in Jesus, through no, “fault,” or, “interference,” of mine. Anyone who tells you that the two worlds are mutually exclusive, is selling you a dud. Scientists are the high priests of the new church, able to work miracles, save and extend lives, collect samples from outer space, and make it possible for you and I to disagree, as friends, I hope, about the fundamental truth of life, at the speed of light, around the globe. And, they’re in direct competition with the old order of priesthood. And neither side likes to be questioned. Read the Science Delusion? It’s not what it sounds like. The author is a world class scientist, in his own right; respected in his field, and you can see his Ted Talks on YouTube.
Nice talking with you ✌️
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I couldn’t agree more, my friend. I would call for single standard of vetting that covers all vocational professions where public trust is an issue? Covering the medical, caring professions, armed services and police services.
A benchmark standard that is comprehensive, easy to understand because it’s built on common sense and basic moral principles, and that applies equally to all? Does that seem like a big ask?
Because people love acronyms so much, call it Trusted and Universal Standard (STU) or something? All professionals have to get their STU Card, before going into policing, nursing, the army, etc? With a points system that could apply, like those on driver’s licences? Too many points and you can no longer serve in trusted professions? But with some categories able to expire over a period of years, so you can reapply and be vetted again, but most importantly, with other categories staying on your card permanently?
Of course MP’s and senior civil servants wouldn’t be keen on having it apply to them, but they might get on board if it didn’t?
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I do not believe that Ukraine would stoop to terrorism. Quite apart from all of the international good will and support that would squander, it’s not who they are. And as you pointed out, there are just too many red Russian flags about these bombings in Moscow. There is simply no strategic value in these targets anyway, which you also pointed out. Ukraine is trying to win a war, not wasting valuable munitions on terrorism, which is like flushing millions of dollars down the toilet to them. I could, at a push, see some overzealous Russian separatists (maybe?) doing this? Or saboteurs? But even then, if they were Ukrainian saboteurs, they would be striking targets of value, NOT innocent people.
I smell too many rats on this story for it to be anything other than Putin’s idea of a recruitment drive.
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Surprises me that this guy thinks trump’s court tactics are relatively new? Trump has always used suing and dragging out cases as a way of breaking his opponents. That’s why he’s always counter-sued people who’ve sued him for their wages owed, or other things. That’s why I’m PRAYING that the tech Titans that trump,is suing now, decide to counter sue him? They could claim defamation, because he’s accusing them of, “censorship,” which would be criminal, if it were true? Then they could force discovery and drag it out with more money and resources than he’ll ever have, and maybe even break his bank? Once he’s locked in to a counter-defamation suit, he can’t back out either! Just pray that Facebook and Google do that to him? It would be awesome, and I, personally, would forgive the tech giants for an awful lot, if they crushed Donny once and for all. 😉
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1247.cc : English is not your first language, judging by your, ahem, “grammar,” right? Assuming you’re not a 9 year old, I mean? We see a LOT of that, these days, with Trump Trolls . . . Was there a, “point,” to any of that outburst? Or, are you here to ensure Trump doesn’t get any Conservative, or centrist voters, ever again? . . . 🤔
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@nerakar6562 : Lemme’ stop you, half way through that first sentence. Not, “immediately believing,” but KNOWING this story and having screamed to the rafter about this Copycat Scam since the 8th of November 2020, madam! CNN was covering it, within days. Check their website? Check the YouTube videos and their DATES, if you don’t believe me? I didn’t read the rest of your propaganda, because it began on a false premise (LIE) and because it’s immoral to waste actual TIME on lying propagandists. Keep ‘em short, and try to remember? You’re ONLY a trump troll! Not someone, “worth,” actually reading, ma’am. Get OVER yourself? 🤷♂️
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thiskidkatits : There are NO, “Conservatives,” in the GOP, son. Where have you BEEN? Trump is into EVERY area of your life. You can’t even watch soccer OR football, without him sticking his Orange Orifice into it. Women’s bodies, Amazon, the Post Office, Google, State Funerals, the media, the internet, etc, etc . . . You can’t ESCAPE this Stalinist Style Nanny State telling you WHAT to, “think,” incase any of you learn HOW to think . . . “Conservatives.” . . . That’s a good one! Lol 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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s nnn : Read the Pulitzer Prise winning, Republican journalist and financial EXPERT (and advisor to governments all around the world), David Cay Johnston’s TWO best selling books: The Rise of Donald Trump and It’s Worse Than We Thought, in that order. ALL taken from the public record. AND, though Trump sued Johnston, for the first of those books, Trumpski was LAUGHED out of court and his lawyers were, “admonished,” by the Judge, for trying to bully people, “by abusing the legal system.” It’s FREE at your Library, or available in ALL FORMS from iTunes. Unimpeachable, irrefutable, inarguable PROOF. I DARE YOU TO READ THEM
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TheDude0fLife : At this stage, for, “Conspiracy Theory,” see, “Self Justification.” When you’re all out of excuses, have no logical, reasoned arguments, but feel the, “emotional,” need to stick to your guns, why not try out an un-disprovable, made up, story? The only problem with that, is you get to the point where you’ve jumped the shark, and find yourself trying to keep a straight face, whilst arguing that Hillary is a, “staffer murdering, uranium selling, intel bleaching, pedo-ring running,” Super Villain, with no answer as to why the most powerful man on the planet cannot, “lock her up,” even though she’s meant to be his arch enemy and he couldn’t prevent his own entire Campaign Team from going to jail. But, they’re still racists and and greedy, and they know they can count on Trump to be the same, so they just find themselves losing more and more of their, “colleagues,” and shouting slogans, or hate-speech, to try to put people off coming to news sites at all. The sheer HUMILIATION of doubling down so much, starts to make people ill, and they just get hysterical and start reaching for their weapons. And, instead of condemning that, Trump has a bunch of Hispanics rounded up, while he’s visiting ground zero, tacitly telling them he’s on their side. So, they, “think,” they can, “just hold on.” But, they’ll end up poorer than they ever were, by the time the dust settles, and blaming the Dems, who are trying to fix all the problems, and can’t afford tax handouts, because the last bunch squandered all our money on parties
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Lim Swee Keng : My advice? NEVER TOUCH the Click Bait, my friend. It’s nearly always from East European Trump Trolls, and your Clicks are COUNTED, which helps trump. And those PRECIOUS, COUNTED Clicks that take you off of YouTube? Often has Malware, “cookies,” attached, for algorithms to better target groups. They get access to what you look at, and what you have looked at. Nasty stuff. If people have no, “words,” they cannot be trusted. If I’m not sure, I ask the Click Bait delivery system a few questions, and that will quickly clear things up. Bots never reply, and trolls get nasty, real fast. Save your precious clicks for stuff you KNOW, from a reliable source? And spread the word, so others don’t get Malware. ✌️👍
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Earnest Lee Saddened : See, that’s just one of the reasons you’re so seriously Butt Harmed, these days; because Action Hiro, and his buddies, can do it right out of the gate, and you’re jealous. It’s called, “wit,” and it’s entirely spontaneous. Takes no time at all, if you have a gift for being funny. You should try it, some time? Use whichever HALF of the, “wit,” your mom left you with, and see what happens? 🙂
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Earnest Lee Saddened : Regarding Action Hiro: The guy has just come back at you, “spontaneously,” crushing your childish resentment of the FACT that he makes me, and MANY others laugh. I mean, WTF is your PROBLEM with THAT? Are you 10 years OLD, that you have to be all Butt Harmed, over the fact that he’s funny??? Seriously? Attack his politics, his views, or explain why you, “think,” he’s, “wrong?” But, PLEASE? You don’t need to come here, to show on your dolly where he hurt your precious feelings, FFS??? I LOVE the guy! Live with it . . . SMH 🤣
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Brian Schettler : It has nothing to DO with it. No Dems have tried to sell our Nuclear Secrets to the Saudis, for nothing more than MONEY for THEMSELVES, so our next 911 will have a WARHEAD on it. No Dems (in the 21st Century) have OPENLY condoned Nazis. No Dems have taken sides AGAINST America, to back Putin’s LIES. You KNOW you’ve lost the argument, when you have to fall back on, “Whaddabout?” And, I don’t see ANY Dems who set up a CHARITY to, “Routinely STEAL from defenceless, needy children and US Veterans,” do you? Check last month’s Court Records on the Trump Foundation, and why they shut it down? Trump is SICK, and as Evil as they come. But, hey, “the Dems are not saints,” so everything’s equal, right? F**K YOU . . . SMH 🙂
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Jeremy Backup : Interesting, isn’t it? “Socialism,” is the new bogeyman, for the GOP. And, just as with, “Globalism,” they’ll scream about it, at the top of their lungs, but if you talk to them about it, within their first few words, it be becomes clear, they have NO IDEA what the word even MEANS! 🤣 Trump relies on the stupid, to remain stupid. No wonder they hate Education . . . 😁✌️👍
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This time it’s permanent, because they have no choice (see my comment above) but, deep down, I think you all KNOW this, really? I get it. It’s scary to have to admit to yourselves that the Republic has fallen. Because, if you’re honest with yourselves, you are forced to admit the the coming, “elections,” are already rigged, with Putin’s help, and you have the moral responsibility to DO SOMETHING about that. You KNOW they have already decided to insulate themselves from permanent disgrace, jail, and historic opprobrium. The Ukraine got rid of their Putin Puppet WITHOUT ANY WEAPONS, by simply filling the streets, and halting the country. But, there were deaths, and beatings, and that is frightening. But, if you fall into their trap, and perpetuate the myth that there will be, “Free and Fair Elections,” instead of a Putin Style Data Gathering exercise, showing the government just who to TARGET next, in 2020, you are forestalling any hope of a Revolution. Start by accepting the TRUTH? The Republic has FALLEN! Then, just MAYBE, the Republic could be RESTORED??? . . .
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Janet Masiello : And, btw, Trump ONLY attacks American businesses, people and personalities, sports, institutions, law and order, our ALLIES, and his friends and COLLEAGUES. So, the EVIDENCE, is that Trump HATES America . . . Dumbass . . .
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@yesterdayproductions1019 : My dear Confederate Karen, and Professional Victim that you are. You clearly wouldn’t be coming to me with your, “Dem,” complaints if you had been reading the comments, madam. I remain a Conservative, as stated above. But, thanks for putting your finger on the problem, Karen. None of you insurrectionists bother to read, or check what TF you’re talking about, and blithely butt into places you’re not wanted, to whine about things that have nothing to do with anything, like the Karens you are, which is probably why you can’t keep your insurrection up too. See your doctor about that 🤣
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“Mad,” Hancock and Jeremy (frequently mispronounced but well earned last name) Hunt, have gotten away Scott free with deliberate (DELIBERATE!) harm to the NHS and it wasn’t only the post Brexit migration of staff that caused its ruination. When will people FINALLY UNDERSTAND?! The decay of the NHS is NOT a bug! It’s a FEATURE!
They intend to run it into such a hopeless, and prohibitively expensive to repair, state that they can openly privatise the entire thing, whilst getting nothing but a gasp of relief from the continually waterboarded public who will be offered tax cuts in return for giving up on the whole project! That’s the PLAN!
And the stealth privatisation model (whilst working so well for some, far richer now, friends and family of the Tory MP’s responsible) has not moved swiftly enough for them! The complacent, arrogant Tories just didn’t expect that they would find themselves about to be punted out of office before the completion of their diabolical plan.
This will be our LAST opportunity to save the NHS (one of the last defining features of Britain still standing, of which we can claim some collective national pride!) and put in legal safeguards to protect it, enshrined in law, and actually criminalising any further attempts at insider dealing, stealth privatisation and deliberate sabotage! The new government will be our last, best hope. If they don’t act in the new Parliament, then it’s all over.
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@GlasPthalocyanine : Indeed. None of this particular, “culture war,” makes any sense to me. The joke about Widow Twanky is either that, “men just don’t get women, as this makes patently obvious,” or, “wouldn’t it be awful if women were like this?” I just don’t get what they’re going for, or who thought it was a good idea?
Don’t get me wrong. I have no doubt that this particular interviewee has his heart in the right place, has no dark agendas, and enjoys putting his craft to the service of entertaining education. And these same idiots outside, waving placards and demanding he be strung up for sexual deviancy are the same people who will pay good money every year to see Widow Twankie dropping knob gags and every imaginable innuendo into his dialogue, whilst laughing out loud and simply saying, “ask me later,” when his daughter asks him, “What’s a Brass Monkey, daddy?”
But are these parents going to chastise Little Timmy when he holds open a door for his sister and says, “Ladies first,” because he saw how cross Twanky got at Aladdin when he failed to hold the door open for her . . . him? . . . them?
It’s so unhealthy and sending the ultimate mixed messages.
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I would take issue with one of your points there. This is far from the first time that Putin has showed his hand in this manner. I’m not speaking of Prigozhin either, as he was a, “legitimate target,” in the minds of Russians on both sides of the pro or anti democratic fence.
But, Putin has been murdering people rather routinely, at home and abroad. He murdered a popular, well known journalist in front of the Kremlin. Had her shot in the back of the head to make his point. To put that in terms we can really identify with, imagine it’s the following week after the infamous Prince Andrew interview over the Epstein affair. In front of Buckingham Palace the body of Emily Maitliss is found with a single gunshot wound to the back of her head. By the following day, the press reveals that all clues as to the identity of the killer lead back to MI5. Then . . . radio silence. No more press coverage. No closure. Nothing.
Imagine the impact that would have on the British people? With rumours swirling about other journalists who attempted to cover the story who got fired. Krishnan Guru-Murthy is, “let go,” from Channel 4 with no reason given to the public, but internet chatter suggesting he was upset about the death of Maitliss and wanted to do a follow up story. He is never available for comment and has closed his Twitter account.
That paranoia and unease that everyone would be going through is just the start of the deliberate fear and loathing that Putin wants his people to feel. Yet the list of his most famous and infamous victims, at home and abroad, is now larger than Stalin’s.
I think you could be right that this straw could break the camel’s back. After all, we none of us predicted the fall of communism in Russia. Nor did the world, by all accounts, foresee the fall of the Tzars. So, I would never count out a groundswell of anger to grow into something bigger.
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David J : It’s interesting that right across Europe right now, the next headline, right after the main story in each respective country, is the news that, “America’s Death Toll Surpasses that of Vietnam!” Most developed countries are saying, “Well, at least we’re doing way better than the richest, most powerful country, with the, ‘best healthcare system in the world,’ right now.” America PLC must make money. And, that’s Trump’s bottom line . . . Smh
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David Erdman : And if Hillaaarrriiieee! had said, “Maybe crack cocaine in the mornings would help?” we would never hear the END of it on CNN, from hypocrites like you, who love to ASSume that because we hate the Orange Orifice, that automatically makes us all, “liberals,” and, “democrats,” right? You’re wasting everyone’s time and your own life, son. You’re the living embodiment of that quote, “Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.” 😁
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David Erdman : “Stop wasting my time.” You’re doing a great job of that for yourself, son. What? Did you just come here to get upset at the world? Or is there some point to you? It’s our fault you don’t like the way things are? What f*cking good does it do you, coming to a place of news and information, only to dispute the news and information? And, then, instead of positing even HALF an, “argument,” simply regurgitating what people already KNOW they just said, because it’s WRITTEN DOWN FOR ALL TO SEE, and then squawk, “don’t waste my time,” like some effeminate, over-emotional . . . Wait? . . . Are you Donny? . . . Is this The Donald, doing another John Baron fake person thingy? Get back to work, moron! Get back to the golf course and get TF out of the country’s way! 🤣
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David Erdman : What? No more, “politics,” anymore? Too, “hurt,” are we? Rule number one: never take it personally, son. If you do that, you’re already on the back foot and way too fragile for a public forum like this one. Secondly, my beauty would only make you jealous, so it’s better not to have yet another reason to hate me, when you already have so many. I’m a bit like God, that way, y’know? The sight of me would smite the shit out of you. Thirdly, you’ve got too much time on your hands, son. I’m having fun right now. What’s your excuse? I can literally feel your vibes of impotent, Trumpian rage and tears of anguish, as you flail, trying SO desperately to hit a nerve . . . You never will, kid. I’m indestructible 😁
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Izreal Zeus : Yeah, we all know that no one would, “pay,” for rambling irrelevant, “articles,” that no one reads, kiddo. But, now you’re rambling about the way I, “talk”??? The fact that you have such a weed up your ass about it, and project so much, “street,” stuff onto it, says more about you than it does about me, sonny jim. You’re clearly too emotionally fragile for this environment, if your fantasies about the way I talk are your biggest issue. So, I’m looking into my bag of fucks, to see if I have any, about how you, “feel,” about my syntax, and, guess what? Not a single one in there. Guess I can’t give a fuck, then? Stop trying to read people’s minds, my child. You’re no good at it 😁
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@peterlearner8594 : China’s in a precarious position itself, facing population and other demographic challenges, as well as economic problems. The last thing it needs is to have its economy destabilised. I could be wrong, but my guess is that China is only going to serve up words for Putin, not actions; at least nothing Earth shattering? It’s not in their interests. Particularly when they stop to think about the potential of having Russia grow increasingly reliant on China, just to keep existing? They would be glad to have Russia as a vassal state, which would be a huge win for their national pride, since it wasn’t so long ago that China was the one depending upon Russia’s largess, just to keep afloat. I think it would suit their leadership (for whom, “doctrine,” is still such a big deal) to have Russia become the junior partner for the world to see?
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Gethsemane : As your, “elections,” will be. If Trump loses power, they ALL go to jail. Of course he can’t resign? The coming, “elections,” are about to be rigged, and they need a corrupt AG to insulate them from all the complaints about the way the computer ballots don’t match the paper ones. In a couple of years, we’ll look back on this time as being the era while the GOP still PRETENDED that the Republic had, “not,” FALLEN. That, “public uprising,” the former AG is calling for, SHOULD be happening RIGHT NOW. We SHOULD be RESTORING DEMOCRACY
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David Atkinson : Too legalistic, without the legality, if you’ll forgive me for saying so. It was true, for around 24 hours, that, “technically,” Trump deserved his title. But, he broke the Oath of Office, before he’d even taken it! Once he took the Oath, he was in DIRECT VIOLATION of it. He is NOT even a President, by ANY definition; technically, legally, morally, grammatically, take your pick. He is a traitor
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Macnutz420 & Donnie Cheese : Which is WHY the END of Trump will be the BEGINNING for the rest of us; or, at least those who CARE about Democracy. When the Congressional Hearings get going, on LIVE TV, with every single player, from Mueller’s team to Paul Manafort, and literally hundreds of faces (familiar and new) day after day, grinding the administration to DUST; THEN, when even the GOP Senators are baying for Trump’s blood; after the impeachment: THEN the work begins. There will NEVER be a better opportunity, for generations to come, for REFORM, CLEAN UP and LEGISLATION. We ALL need to take part; regularly writing to our representatives, petitioning for our rights, demanding effective change. It IS, and ALWAYS will be, UP TO US, to safeguard our Democracy and improve it, so there can NEVER be another Trump.
I mean, Compulsory Tax Returns for ALL Office seekers, at ANY level, is a simple measure that would have HALTED Trump, in his tracks. If the Electoral College had ONE, SIMPLE RULE; “You can’t give the presidency to a candidate who has LOST the Popular Vote,” we never would have had Bush Jr OR Trump. The list is endless. But, Obama did NOT do these things, because WE, THE PEOPLE did not make his JOB depend upon it. THAT needs to change.
Trump and the crooked GOP have FORCED us all to become, “political.” So, let’s make them PAY for that, and SHOW THEM that WE, THE PEOPLE are actually BETTER AT THIS S**T, THAN THEY ARE! ✌️ 👍
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@PrintProfessor : Absolutely. What an embarrassing time to be a trump fan, right? We cannot afford to let up the pressure. I hope everyone is contacting their representatives and demanding we deport all oligarchs, seize their assets, pay off any losses to western businesses and use the rest to fund Zelensky’s army! It sickens me to hear them talk about using sanctions as a, “deterrent,” when they sat on their asses when Putin stole the Crimea! Putin is simply stealing and murdering his way to control over Ukraine’s MASSIVE oil and gas reserves!
And 10% is NOT a, “tiny,” amount of our gas, as the foreign office asserts. It’s well over a third of Germany’s and most of Europe’s! It’s suicidal! It’s like FDR ordering his aircraft carriers from Hirohito and his tanks from Hitler during WWII! And now we’re paying the price of our leaders’ GREED as they’ve allowed oligarchs to bribe and blackmail their way deep into the western world, to persuade us to rely on a dictatorship for our energy supplies!
I’m so sick of this corrupt government and I regret voting for them! Time we got rid at the next elections. Especially if they don’t start HURTING Putin! So far, all we’ve done is what he’s expected and built into his calculations. Sanctions are no good unless they’re WORSE than they expected or can handle!
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Yes! And, while we’re here; Look, CNN, it’s this simple: Flip on Trump, or die in jail.
Rudy knows where ALL of trump’s body’s are buried. Rudy has ONE Get Out Of Jail Free card, and that’s TRUMP himself. Trump is showing, “loyalty,” because he has NO options. He’ll keep doing so, as he did with Manafort, in the hope that he doesn’t flip on him. And it WON’T WORK. Giuliani has seen these deals a thousand times and KNOWS the score: trade trump, or die in jail.
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James Lade : Can we just be clear about this? Your POTUS is selling the very Principle of Democracy to China, Ukraine, Russia, et al, and has CONFESSED to committing serious crimes, AGAINST YOU. People are literally DYING in Hong Kong, and Trump was selling his, “silence.” DYING in Ukraine, and Trump was selling for, “dirt?” Trump Trolls obviously DON’T, “believe,” in Trump, or a damned WORD he says. The question is, are you going to continue being unpatriotic, treating your fellow Americans like THEY were the, “threat,” or are you going to face up to your REAL ENEMIES, America? ✌️
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migmadmarine : No one WANTED Trump to win, but we ALL worried that he might. But, then Trump LOST the election and got bailed out by the Electoral College. And, since then, he’s been busy alienating America and shrinking his own MINORITY, until even Gerrymandering and Suppression couldn’t save his rotten ass, because conservatives, LIKE ME, voted Democrat too. You may not WANT it to be true, but America still has a little LAW, left in it. Have a very Mueller Christmas, and an Impeachment New Year 🙂
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Mister Sarajevo : It’s interesting that right across Europe right now, the next headline, right after the main story in each respective country, is the news that, “America’s Death Toll Surpasses that of Vietnam!” Most developed countries are saying, “Well, at least we’re doing way better than the richest, most powerful country, with the, ‘best healthcare system in the world,’ right now.” America PLC must make money. And, that’s Trump’s bottom line . . . Smh
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Kermit T. Frog : Where the losses to the economy begin to cost human lives, that would justify reopening those sections of the economy? And, one would hope that all the safety equipment necessary will have been put in place, for those responsible for restarting that section of the economy? That sounds about right to me? The current equation they’re using, however, is one, two or maybe even three million dead is an acceptable price to pay, for making bank. They just need to persuade the Trolls, and massage the statistics, and encourage idiots to risk their health by, “protesting,” their own policies, so they can fake being responsible and reluctant, rather than drooling for the cash. Donny’s got to pay his shareholders, or he’s done. And he knows it. What’s a couple of million dead to him, or his investors? It’s not like anyone inside their clinically sealed bubble will die? . . .
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Kermit T. Frog : Except, those who are working already in those, “essential services,” are doing so, presumably, for the sake of their fellow Americans, and not for the money? Not, primarily, at any rate? My wife’s on the front line, as we speak. We’re loaded, financially. She doesn’t need the money. She’s doing it, because she’s not a cynical old misanthrope like her husband, who makes his money by writing in bed, like Marcel Proust, and hating on stupid people. And, therein lies America’s problem. With everything from the healthcare system, to national security, belonging to private interests, we can’t even tell the difference between an essential service and making bank. The two are synonymous to the most liberal Trump-Cultist, until you get to the inner circle, where it’s just about the bank, and a couple of million corpses can be disposed of far more cheaply than a political career, when you’re answering to your Saudi shareholders
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@Javi Oz : Putin certainly influenced the campaign and his oligarchs were probably sitting in Number 10 helping out, at least part of the time? As to who and what his government really is now? Picture if the Russian Mafia had a baby with the FSB and KGB? They are the old school oligarchs now, with their sons (mostly sons, not daughters) sitting in all those other, ahem, “parties,” that always vote unanimously with Putin for some reason, despite being meant to represent, “different,” political points of view.
In fact, I suspect there will be a large number of these oligarchs, sitting in smokey back rooms, asking, “Isn’t it about time the old boy retired?” They must be missing their revenue and yachts by now? And it’s only going to get worse for them. They know the clock is ticking. While people are finding other places to get their energy, and all the other revenue streams (which have a way of filling up like pools) temporary contracts have a way of becoming permanent and they stand to lose trillions long term.
And for what? So that Putin can prevent Ukraine from drilling for gas and oil? So that one man can be the Bond Villain and own ALL the world’s energy supply? When has the west EVER allowed something like THAT to happen? Since the term, “energy security,” was a thing? In more than 100 years? Why Putin thought he was, “special,” must have more to do with the two years of semi-isolation he’s just emerged from, and the effects of reading too much of his own propaganda?
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@davec3974 : Not sure what you’re getting at? You just explained the basic idea of, “borrowing.” Which, I imagine most people know. Yet, you must realise that there are a lot of other influences on the borrowing markets, both domestically and internationally, driven by trade, international relations, politics, beliefs, the markets, etc, etc, etc. It’s never simply the case that the banks just say, “X = Y, therefore we will do Z today,” right? You get that, I presume?
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@hardtackbeans9790 : They say, “there’s no mechanism,” as their standard issue excuse. But, one can be created by a subdivision of the UN, quite easily. The fact is that they don’t want to, as the UN has remained a convenient place for opposing representatives to meet without losing face and organise under the table talks in the shadows.
And, if an anti-democratic, hostile nation was to be ejected, the message that would send to the world would be worth more than any back room negotiations, which would take place anyway, only at slightly more inconvenience for both sides.
The concomitant effect would be that the remaining parties would be empowered to make the UN a more meaningful organisation that could take meaningful decisions and act on them. Even China would feel the isolation and would not be in a position to veto every resolution that passes under their noses. They are facing down bleak existential issues domestically and cannot afford to stare down the same fate as Russia, ejection from the UN, if that were to happen. They rely on western trade right now and, in the coming years, you will be reading about one crisis after another threatening absolute chaos there. They are far more desperate than many realise, which will soon be apparent to all. Therefore, they will be looking to fend off resolutions aimed at Taiwan, their treatment of religious and political minorities, Tibet, etc, and will not see the benefit in taking hits for Russia, who has very little to offer that the west cannot replace.
I’d argue, be careful what you don’t wish for. As it has already been seen to have failed. Ask the millions of destitute families, the countless living under constant threat of Russian bombs, and the dead. Repeating the same mistakes has gotten us nowhere. A fresh approach is necessary.
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Ted Cruz?! This, “blue collar guy,” worth $4.5 million (in 2018), married to an executive at Goldman Sachs, sucking up to his boss who says his wife is ugly, and who accused his dad of assassinating Kennedy, AND who is despised by his own party, for backing the insurrection-coup attempt on the Capitol, has the NERVE to whine about outmoded jobs that are killing the planet? But, that has nothing to do with his main donors being oil companies, right? He should be jail!
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I’ve been trying to tell people for ages, before this war started, that Putin would NEVER use nukes. It’s hard to convince someone who’s frightened, so I have always been polite about it, except with Putin’s trolls and bots. But, I learned something I was ignorant of until less than a week ago, which throws a new light on this conflict for me: which is that, under Russian, “law,” the army cannot deploy conscripts in foreign conflicts. They can on;y be used to defend sovereign territory. So, all these dead Russian troops that Putin was desperate to replace might have been a bigger headache for him, requiring him to either ignore the law or amend it publicly, to send 300,000 extra troops to Ukraine. Instead, he annexed as much of Ukraine as he could in a ludicrously hasty fashion, so he could claim legitimacy and didn’t have to frighten his own population even further by changing or ignoring his own laws, in a country which is clearly pretty unstable as it is. It explains the irrationality of his actions as far as the west is concerned. We all knew it was a performance for his domestic audience, but it wasn’t convincing as an act of legitimacy even at home. Now it makes more sense and only shows Putin’s vulnerability among his own people, if he’s too afraid to ride roughshod over their laws at this crucial time, don’t you think? Yours is my No1 channel for analysis of Ukraine’s war of defence against tyranny. It really is exceptional. Thank you for that. This is also why I would so love to know if you were aware of this law in Russia and, if so, what’s your analysis?
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Does anyone buy it, when they say the Russian people don’t know what’s going on? Imagine if you woke up one morning to find out all your social media apps, news stations, papers and radio stations have GONE except for state tv? And that single, “news,” channel tells you that you’ll get 15 years if you contradict the government about their war? And you’re routinely stopped in the street by, “cops,” who can look through your private texts and emails to make sure you’re, “on message,” and don’t use banned apps? I mean, come ohhhn? The Russians KNOW they’re being lied to. They just don’t care . . . Yet!
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@kazamshah4543 : There is certainly a lot that doesn’t add up and it’s clear that this horrible tragedy could have been avoided, but for one thing . . . One of so many things. If he’d headed the advice of the locals, if he’d taken someone with him, if he’d taken enough water, if he’d gone up a mountain he knew instead of unfamiliar territory, if he’d noted the unusually hot conditions, if he’d taken his phone. What are we not seeing here? I can believe that even smart people make mistakes, maybe even a few mistakes at the same time. But to make ALL of the mistakes it was possible to make? . . .
If they tell us he was drunk, or angry, or I don’t know? Something? It would make more sense. But at it is, there’s missing pieces in this puzzle and I don’t believe them when they say that’s all there is to it.
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Precisely. We must contact our GOP, “representatives,” (especially Moscow Mitch) and inundate them with our DEMANDS that they purge the party of trump and his enablers. Don’t give them a moment’s peace! Let them have that, “civil war,” they wanted so badly, but in their own party! They’re starting to realise that they’re going to have to TESTIFY, under oath, as to whether the, “Steal,” was a LIE or not! And, any pretending they believe in it, will be forced to state for the record, what their grounds were; where their EVIDENCE is! Any dumb enough to try that will be shredded for ALL THE WORLD TO SEE! And, trump’s cult will get a massive dose of reality medicine that will do them good!
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@lynnjudd6421 : Exactly! And they must KNOW by now, that all the evidence is going to come out!? About how it was a planned Conspiracy, NOT a, “spontaneous,” event! How GOP Quislings were actually Tweeting information to the MOB about where to find Dem targets! One GOP member tried to smuggle a GUN into the House, only two days ago, FFS! There’s a dangerous, Anti-American Insurgency in the GOP’s ranks, which they KNOW ABOUT! And the impeachment is going to expose and convict them! So, they better pick their sides, fast! We’re not taking prisoners this time, we’re taking ACTUAL PRISONERS! ✌️👍
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She is positioning herself for leadership after Sunak, and this issue is the hobby horse that she made for herself. And, as she will see it, migration is the issue that Reform are riding on and the main place where she will find future allies, if she gets to reshape the new, “conservative,” party. She can be the only, “conservative,” talking about the issue and stealing Farage’s oxygen.
The recent changes in migration laws were a blatant attempt to skirt international laws and protections for the most vulnerable people on Earth. They were cruel, sociopathic and they remain borderline illegal. Also, as we’ve seen, they are unworkable. But that hasn’t mattered much to the Braverman types, because they did give them what they sought, which was merely to look, “hard,” and to be unnecessarily cruel, probably killing people in the process, certainly causing a great deal of physical harm and suffering to desperate people who were entitled to care, sympathy and, if nothing else, the process of law.
I cannot see the old guard of the conservative movement following her over that cliff post election. Nor can I imagine any of the truly conservative, “conservatives,” wishing to join her in a headlong charge toward a system that cannot result in anything less than her own doom. After all, she is visibly the type of ethnic minority that Reform voters fear and loath so much. So she is building her own gallows in the long term, for the short term advantage she believes she can wangle now.
My guess is that the Conservative Party will fracture, outright, down this racist fault line, leaving the one nation, cooler headed, old fashioned conservatives to rely on their friends in the city and the press, their trust funds and the Royal Family to rebuild from a much diminished foundation.
But the new brand of Reform will also have friends in the press and money and backing from America, which is, after all, where they get all their, “ideology,” and their divisive tactics from.
Of course, there can be only one leader, and it is entirely possible that Farage and Braverman may pass each other, like ships in the night, to take charge of one another’s respective parties? But, I suspect it is more realistic that Braverman will find herself on the outside, ultimately. Either losing the whip and being rejected by reform, or being demoted by Farage from within the Tory party because he doesn’t want his own most likely successor hovering over him like the Angel of Death.
She won’t be enough of a puppet for the Reform party to control, being too, “driven,” by her own demons, so that would end badly for her, since the Reformers would only want her as a, “useful idiot,” and mascot that argues against them being racists, despite them now having erstwhile BNP candidates officially standing in their ranks right now.
All I am sure of is that the battle for both supremacy of the right, and to define what, “the right,” is, will be bloody and take no prisoners. And whilst we see many getting their well earned just desserts, it will be at the cost of other well known crooks, deadbeats and racists, climbing up on the ruins of their rival’s careers.
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Galv140: wow . . . 4 likes . . . You all hit YouTube together this morning . . . You and your Propaganda cult, right? Who’s paying you? Did you get one of those emails, offering to, “Turn Your Comments Into Cash!”? . . . Or, are you maybe, sitting in a St Petersburg bunker, being watched over by a goon with a buzzcut hairdo? Who makes you sweat, each time he reaches for his lighter, because you think today might be the day they roll up the operation and he’s going to pull out his Walther instead, and, “clean up,” instead? See? . . . Coming up with Conspiracy Theories is easy . . . Being a worthwhile citizen, and, “contributing,” something? . . . Much harder . . . SMH
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@josephinwood : It’s always hard to know if your interlocutor is really who they claim to be, though your channel seems to be real enough? That is the tragedy of the age we live in; one of trolls, misinformation, propaganda and downright lies, all dressed up to look like something . . . other.
Taking you at your word, which I read within hours of you replying but was hesitant to respond to (for the above stated reasons), I would first congratulate you on your excellent reporting and for drawing a wider audience’s attention to the fact that the war in Ukraine is not happening in a vacuum, but is having unlooked for consequences globally.
I would question that editorial decision, however? It was the first question that leapt to the front of my mind and, though I cannot speak for everyone, I feel sure that there must have been many who thought the same things? Especially those in your audience who, like me, were adults at the time of the bombings and witnesses to the mounting international pressure for the west (Tony Blair in my country’s case) to respond.
Surely it was THE pertinent question? The hypocrisy seems so stark? And I believe it is in the interests of the viewers to hear how these people who claim victimhood at alleged atrocities, holding up pictures of innocent children, etc, to hear the answer to the main question: HOW do these people reconcile the difference between what they were doing to an entire race with what happened to them?
I can see many arguments for why the bombings were wrong. Mostly due to the fact that they wouldn’t have been necessary had the UN forces on the ground not been so reluctant to intervene earlier. Some arguments are more valid than others; and yet others, mere red herrings. I heard all of those at the time. But these were in the process of genocide. Do they even know WHY they were bombed?
You say you put that to some of these people. I would dearly wish to know how they answered? What their level of honest awareness was (and is?) and whether they value some lives more than others? Were they ignorant of the genocide? I am curious as to how that editorial conversation went too? But, I understand why you may not be able to discuss that fully.
But, surely this type of, “911,” style remembrance, transformed into abiding bitterness by propagandists, can only be occurring in a place where people have either been given false accounts of the reasons for the bombings, or they simply don’t know or care to know?
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@tomdixon1213 : Indeed, their practice of Russification is simply another aspect of Genocide. As such, it should be strictly outlawed internationally and policed vigorously. I need to do some homework on finding out what the international stance on this is? I know that the mass kidnapping of children, as recently documented in Putin’s indictment, comes under the category of Genocide. So, there is obviously an international recognition of the implications of these practices. But, when we stop to think about the sheer SCALE on which this was and is being executed, so aggressively and with such blatant criminality, it truly chills my blood. Putin will, arguably, be remembered as the most diabolical (in the strictest sense of that word) destructive human being who ever lived.
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@manchaka8056 👈 Actually, Karen, you were accidentally right? Food prices going down in the REAL world means that food prices, “rising,” in your hysterical head DOESN’T, “matter to a democrat,” or a republican for that matter. And, given that green energy is the fastest growing, most lucrative industry on Earth (save for intellectual property) none of that, “gas prices,” LIE matters either. Ask Texans if they wish they had the Green New Deal today? They’d all say, “Yes!” Except for the brainwashed Qults, who avoid reality at all costs! 🤣😂😆😂🤣
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@wizardx7055 👈”Propaganda Puppet,” who starts by saying, “Your only source of news is,” Blah Blah, to a total stranger about whom she is demonstrably unqualified to judge: and then rants about, “critical thinking,” skills! Oh, the IRONY is priceless (especially in Russia, where it’s outlawed) and the best bit? I point out your Clinical Thickery, and you whine to YouTube about it, claiming I hurt your, “feelings,” and ask them to take down my comment, so you can have your, “safe space.” Trump’s Qults invented Cancel Culture, and you’re a prime example. I say this for the benefit of other readers, knowing that you’re not a fan of critical thinking skills 🤦♂️😎
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🤦♂️ . . . For what it’s worth, at this late stage . . . Can we be REAL about, “Cancel Culture?” “Lock Her Up,” was already OLD before trump took office. He came and Primaried, or threatened to Primary, any GOP member who didn’t toe his line, and he’s STILL doing that now! Ask Liz Cheney? Trump told us to stop watching SNL, boycott Amazon, and literally quotes Stalin, calling the free press, “the enemy of the people!” whilst proudly stating he was attempting to change the libel laws, so as to SILENCE the free press!
Trump re-INVENTED a special brand of Cancel Culture that harks back to the heady days of Soviet Russia! And now he’s trying to Cancel Coke? Because they simply choose NOT to associate themselves with Fascist Voter Suppression?! Whilst stupidly giving away the fact he’s still drinking Coke???
There’s a genuine difference between saying, “I will not be associated with X or Y,” which is a free choice, and Alt-Wrong-Power Plays at trying to stomp on people, because the TRUTH they express is damaging to your, “brand.” Just look at how, “Cancel Culture,” turned police violence and racism into a bad faith issue about, “patriotism,” and how the GOP made a POINT of storming out of football games, because they couldn’t STAND it when a single black man took a knee (one of the most respectful gestures one can make) and tried to highlight that there’s a problem with institutional racism in America? As ever, it backfired, and I doubt BLM would even exist in the minds of so many Americans, had it not been for the childish cancel culture of the GOP?
As with all things GOP, they project their crimes, their hatreds, their prejudice and their, “culture,” onto their opponents, which is the PRECISE mind-f’k programming propaganda that came from Stalin’s playbook. In fact, so many ideas from the Stalin Book Of Managing A Dictatorship manifest in Trumpism that it almost looks like the guy was being coached by a Russian Communist Dictator, who’s currently pretending to live in a, “democracy,” and has a vested interest in the downfall of the west, right?
And Gutfeld’s, “comedy,” is fittingly hypocritical and cringeworthy. Perfect for an SNL skit about, “What if Fascists tried Comedy?” You would pick Gutfeld, name the show, “Gutpunch,” and punctuate each, “gag,” with a child’s voice, going, “Oof!” I bet it doesn’t last? Fascists are too thin skinned to take the pushback. But once other comics start to satirise him, he’ll weep and quit, like they always do. I guarantee it. And, he’ll never admit to being about as funny as a bout of Covid. Instead, he will, of course, “blame,” Cancel Culture . . . 🙄
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1) Inflation is controlled (if, “controlled,” at all?) by The Bank Of England.
2) Inflation going down does NOT result in a reduction in prices; especially for daily essentials like food, fuel, electricity and heating.
I am heartily sick of this gaslighting of the people by our, “government.” I genuinely believe such deliberately misleading, egregious lies should be criminalised.
As to Labour using the prospect of a May election against Rishi Sunak, SO THEY SHOULD. After all, he DID put up the prospect, therefore having no one else to blame for that. And, if Labour can build up a sufficient wave of expectation in the minds of the public, perhaps Sunak will see the truth of his situation? That further disappointing the electorate with further delay may well buy the Tories six more months, but that will be six more months of British economic decline, the official declaration of Britain’s Recession and an angry public, chomping at the bit, just waiting for their opportunity to punish Sunak’s Tories for that additional delay!
Maybe (just maybe?) Sunak will have enough sense to recognise that he should quit while he’s behind, rather than set un unbeatable record for the biggest Tory defeat in democratic history? All he can do now is preside over a civil war within his own party and see their popularity further decline. Nothing will change that now. Memories are short. But they’re not THAT short.
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How long, after each two year cycle, before America is ungovernable, because no one accepts their mid terms or national elections? How long before the chaos renders us ungovernable? And ripe for a coup? Putin’s invasion by stealth? We sure haven’t given Putin any reason to back off, and why should he care if America breaks under the stress of his tinkering? There need to be harsh, swift punishments, of the GOP’s insurrectionists. And, we must render all possible support to the DNC in Georgia! Don’t get complacent. They may be loud, but they’re still a minority. Most GOP supporters in Georgia WILL vote in the runoffs, and either way, we should treat it as all of them will. Or we’ll never see real, swift, harsh justice? 👍
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Actually, this story is more simply understood: It’s The Economist responding to a pro Putin journalist at Time Magazine. When we, “ask ourselves, what is he hoping to get from this interview,” it seems obvious to me that he is responding to a major Time Magazine op ed, with a front page printing the word, “Alone,” next to a picture of Zelensky. It is almost a hit piece, seeming to want to undermine the idea of a Ukrainian victory.
That’s the same direction that Russia bots and propagandists have taken in social media, telling us this will be a frozen conflict and we should call for peace, which merely means buying time for Russia to regroup.
I’m surprised you missed this, Anders? It’s obvious, when you know the context. Though he doesn’t give the, “journalist,” at Time Magazine the oxygen of mentioning him directly, he does dismantle his points systematically, so it’s indisputable that he is aware of the piece and felt the need to respond to it.
It’s the same question it’s always been, in the end: Will the west stop giving Ukraine what it needs to defend itself and start giving them what they need to win, or not? If they had the equipment, they would have won by now. It really is that simple.
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“Cheap”? Are you kidding? Those phones will be bristling with all the latest, up to date, top of the line, Chinese Spyware, hacking programs, Trojans, tracking tech and so much more! They might as well have President Xi sitting on their lap, every time they make a call or Tw@ at each other! Hwawei all over again . . . 🙄 . . . And they claim to hate, “Chiynah,” while they PAY to import their secret services into their, “parlour.” 🤦♂️ . . . ✌️👍
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Ben Fitz : You weren’t able to understand Nias’ comment and have attempted to crowbar your prejudice into the argument, because you recognised a reference to “immigration.” And you were utterly wrong. I moved here from England in 2006. A safer and, currently, wiser and more stable country than America is, right now. Population increases are dropping all around the globe and, ironically, by 2030, America will be appealing to Mexicans in particular to come and work in America, despite mechanisation. I don’t expect you to believe me. But, I think you will remember I told you this.
Britains sees America as being in some kind of meltdown and they feel GLAD not to have the kinds of problems the US is suffering through: Evangelicals claiming that Trump is God’s man, while there are mass shootings on a weekly basis, shooting deaths daily, wild fires, floods and even earthquakes, while our corrupt boss bows before Putin, taunts and insults his own people, instead of leading them, takes away Net Neutrality, so the bad guys can control the message, and introduces a Tax Heist, so the HE won’t personally suffer the consequences of the inflation and poverty that he caused. And he’s blatant about it.
And YOU have fallen for his CON? You care MORE about “foreigners”; believing the LIES you are told about Europe, than you do about your own interests. Well, you may just GET what you want and end up extremely poor, in a country where law and order no longer matters, among white people. What a GLORIOUS future you have
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Nias : My brother, an expert in computer tech, tell me NEVER touch “click bait.” (Nothing personal) But, I’m guessing that your link shows how Trump fiddled the Visa rules in order to have cheap labour imported from foreign countries, to work at Mar a Lago? Is that right? Unfortunately, it’s been demonstrated, time and again, that Trump’s blatant hypocrisy does not impact on his “base” at all. However, it is still very important to put the word out, whenever and where ever possible.
As a conservative, political historian, I think America will pull through and is unlikely, as many are suggesting, to lose its hegemony this century, for good or ill. Nevertheless, what you are pointing to is exactly right and it WILL COST us dear. We will have to pay the painful price of this crisis, sooner or later, but, IF WE CAN’T ACTUALLY COMMUNICATE, we COULD actually self-destruct! You may think I am being tiresome about this, but Net Neutrality is EVERYTHING, here. All modern revolutions, coups and invasions have this single element in common. Along with military, legal and law enforcement institutions, and the main utilities and sources of wealth, they ALWAYS GO AFTER THE TV AND RADIO STATIONS. He who CONTROLS THE MESSAGE, WINS. Nowadays, that means the WEB. And once private interests can do what they like, they will find themselves being lobbied and offered serious cash, by SHELL COMPANIES to prioritise one service over another. The problem will only worsen, until they can blatantly shut down web services at will, overtly punishing those who don’t toe the line.
We should ALL be campaigning about this issue? Regardless of sides too. As, it COULD be the “left” who ends up in control OR the “right.” But, you can BANK on this: Putin will throw EVERYTHING HE HAS at this, and we should ALL be ALARMED
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@dylanharper1274 : Zhukov is still a good example though. After all, he was the last Russian general to win a legitimate battle for Russia. Everything since has been war crimes and illegitimate invasions and occupations. So, Zhukov comes out as the last Russian general whom any military scholar in the free world could credit as being worth listening to. He’s not exactly, “clean,” himself, but he was personally brave, sacrificed a lot for his own troops, and he knew how to fight and win against tough odds. Even Stalin balked at quietly killing him, because he was SO popular as a war hero in Russia. And that’s saying something. So, he’s, “old, but not obsolete,” as Arny once put it. He did know what he was talking about. ✌️🇺🇦
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Stephen Flaherty : Yeah, there is all that. You have a point. I just imagine if Spacey was straight and this was an 18 year old girl that he got drunk and then groped for however long? Some people feel powerless and paralysed. Young people are less experienced, vulnerable and what this guy DID know, was that Spacey is wealthy and powerful. He’s besties with Bill Clinton. Or, he was? I don’t know if this kid was hopeful for a career in the entertainment industry or not? But, even if the kid was mulling over whether he could turn this situation to his own advantage, by making Spacey his Sugar Daddy, or later suing him, in the end, Spacey assaulted a kid and would have gone all the way, if he could. That’s plain wrong. Unless, of course, it didn’t happen at all? In which case, Spacey is now the, “Much Maligned,” self-confessed sexual predator, who happened to be implausibly innocent on one occasion?
I used to love the guy, too. I have several of his movies, including LA Confidential, Moon and Seven: Classics all. But, the guy is a monster to me now. And that, “Let Me Be Frank,” Video is just, as Brad Pitt puts it, in Seven, “that’s f**ked up.” So sad . . . SMH
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I too believe in taking each situation on its own merits (or demerits) and assessing them accordingly. One must be willing to admit mistakes and change one’s point of view. I have never doubted your integrity, sincerity or open mindedness in this regard.
You touch on something that has occupied my mind a lot lately. When I hear people dismissing others with an overused epithet like, “woke,” they immediately lose something in my heart and mind. There’s a negative internal recoiling within me. And it is at that, “tribalism,” I think. It is so depressing that people use these terms instead of doing the heavy lifting intellectually, for the sake of convenience and so as to, “identify,” themselves with their tribe.
As with all of these American imports, the, “culture wars,” are a deliberate attempt to dumb down discourse, tribalise all talking points and to remove responsible intelligent engagement with ideas or situations that make people uncomfortable. And because it’s easy, it’s appealing.
I nearly always find that people who use, “woke,” as a pejorative cannot define the term at all, or will often describe it as something it is objectively not.
What it actually is (as I can best describe it) can be articulated as a disparaging term of suspicion and categorisation of the, “other,” as someone who uses, “virtue signalling,” (another ridiculous term) and the appearance of seeking equality and diversity falsely, as a stick with which to beat down others in matters of art, politics and culture. It was invented (or rather, re-invented) by far right wing Americans of the Steve Bannon / Roger Stone ilk, seeking to deepen divisions in society and to raise their own boats on a tide of bile.
Anything that provides the user with a catch-all term that excuses intellectual interrogation of the facts or issues in hand is useful to the types of people who make a living from the, “outrage,” and unhappiness of others.
One of the many things I most admire about you, sir, is that you do not subscribe (so far as I can tell) to any one prescription or mode of thought, be that philosophically, politically or intellectually. You seem, rather, to encourage interrogation of the facts, analysis and consideration. You are also capable of changing your views and accounting for them. That is part of your charm as far as I’m concerned.
Perhaps the real problem is that a fully rational, open minded person, will never be able to please all the people all the time? Perhaps they should never seek to? Heck! My wife and I disagree about lots of political matters, so I would be hard pressed to conform to any one group’s best groupthink, even if I tried. But we respect one another and do not see our disagreements as a reason to lose any of that respect.
Perhaps that is the test of character we should be most concerned about? When the pejoratives and ad hominems start flying, that is usually just someone’s attempt to brow beat another person (or persons) into conforming to their tribe’s groupthink. A form of emotional blackmail. And that is another reason why I find it hard to respect people who use terms in such a manner.
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Justin P : You make some good points, but do you see who is to blame? ALL of us. The biggest Globalists, are people like Trump, Putin, the Saudis, etc, who have no compunction about setting children to work in their sweatshops, outsourced to foreign countries, because such practices are illegal at home. Think about that, each time you look at one of Trump’s red MAGA hats, made in China, by children?
Nothing any of us say or do will change the fact that Globalism is here, unless we shut down the internet forever. Businesses, the military, news and media and, of course, social media, will be global until technology ends. You can’t STOP that, any more than you can change the weather, through shear force of will. The question is WHAT we do, given that it exists? And, NOT to be taken in by the main critics of Globalism, who exploit it to its fullest. Trump praises internet Trolls, and invited Putin to help him in 2020, using his Global network. They will do it again, with greater vigour and more resources, AND inside help, and you’ll probably see Trump become Dictator for life, given that he can’t afford to lose the protection of his job title. The mistake is to claim that one, “side,” is Globalists, and the other isn’t. We are ALL Globalists, and this conversation is PROOF of that. I’ve done very nicely, BECAUSE of Globalism, but it does make it easier to deceive people, exploit the vulnerable and destroy the integrity of politics. Like the weather, again; sometime lightning destroys stuff. So, instead of pretending that anyone is in control of it, we should build some shelters for people, to protect them, rather than blaming others for making something that we want every bit as much as they do. Admit the rough with the smooth? Be a realist?
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European Citizen : You can’t possibly believe what you’re saying, unless you have no knowledge of the situation, at all? You know the Queen doesn’t rule at all, right? She’s a figure head, used to perform certain duties, on behalf of a democratically elected government. And, if you think that the elected representatives of the EU are the ones wielding power, you have NEVER learned a thing about how it works. Each country appoints its own civil servants, which outnumber, “elected officials,” by more than 100 to 1. The politicians are only there to put the spin on what the unelected officials have decided, with the banks and businesses. Why do you think so many people are pissed at them anyway? Because they’re, “prosperous and happy?” It’s because, regardless of whatever deals are made, they ALWAYS get blocked by the banks and money men, who get the EU to fall into line. The UK has watched them piss all over democracy for years and they’ve had enough of it. But, really, son? KNOW your subject, BEFORE, trotting out such stereotypes?
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Robert Guard : I was fascinated by your two last comments. The truth is often complex, difficult to explain and requires the acceptance that not ALL of the facts will slot neatly into one’s own preferred narrative. Lies, on the other hand, can be kept pretty simple and, therefore, are easy to sell, one size fits all; conveniently matching any narrative you want to apply it to. This is the short-term advantage for the lying politician, but it can, only ever be, short term. Do you agree?
The failure to distinguish, of which you speak, is the very definition of “prejudice”, and “racism”. To Pre-Judge ENTIRE classes of people, attribute negatives upon ALL, without distinction, and to place that judgement equally upon different races, without thought or discrimination, surely, fits what a racist does?
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Robert Guard : Good points. Thanks for answering my questions, btw. I agree. People will cling to a lie for their whole life, until it becomes the very source of their belief system. It takes such a powerful hold that, to relinquish the lie, would be to make a nonsense of they way you have lived your life. As to the “short-term” aspect to which I referred; I was thinking of the fact that EVERYBODY ELSE learns the truth, but like the Nazis that clung to their delusions after WW II, or who fled to South America, or assisted fleeing war criminals; in the end, they are few in number and generally reviled by others.
You are right, however, to point out that a LOT of people will cling to their lies and that this phenomenon often has longevity, resulting from the fact that our “leaders” are the ones feeding it to us. Which is why it is up to us to fight for the truth.
I enjoyed your remarks, which actually had something insightful and original to say, and made me think of aspects of the issues that had not previously crystallised for me. Thank you
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Times up, America. Donny has forced the issue, by ramping it up to, “11,” as usual. But, this time he’s hit the upper limit. We either put a sparkly hat on him and call him, “King Don,” from now on, OR we get RID of him, and restore the Constitution and our Republic. There’s no third option, here . . . SMH ✌️👍
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@drew7155 : What are you, Karen? About 10 years old? “I know you are, But whaddam I?” Get over it, son? Donny’s got bigger things to worry about than Karens, whining about how a piece of CLOTH, “infringes,” your, “human right,” to be a Kareny Snowlfake? Just wear the damned thing and STFU? It doesn’t, “hurt,” I promise 🤣
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Let us remember that Lee Anderson is guilty of, “pranking,” the public in a far more egregious manner. He was caught red handed, FALSIFYING a so called, “spontaneous,” meeting with a member of the, “general public,” whilst on campaign. He didn’t realise the mic was still on him and working, whilst he was setting it up on his phone.
So, for Lee Anderson, OF ALL PEOPLE, to get all thin skinned about it and to demand an apology from LBC for the behaviour of, “the public,” is beyond absurd! It’s downright hypocritical! How about HE apologises to all of us his own falsifications?
Rachel Johnson responded in a perfectly appropriate manner, ending the call swiftly, yet ever so politely and with expressions of appropriate concern, stating instantly that the issue was one of a, “private and personal,” nature. What more could she have done on a LIVE radio show?
To be honest, I didn’t get the impression that the caller was necessarily ill in any way (though he could have been?) but merely camping it up for a laugh. His performance had something of Monty Python about it to me. If he was being sincere, he is obviously in need of mental health care (fat chance of that in the current NHS) but I honestly felt he was performing for comic effect.
And yes, he was entirely, “credible.” And Anderson’s loud complaints only serve to add further credibility. If he’d made a simple statement for the press and let it go at that, we wouldn’t even be discussing it now. The fact that it seems to have struck a nerve is what intrigues me now.
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Russian Bot : What? Being Jewish makes you, “immune,” to racism, or being Alt-Wrong? Have you SEEN the Israeli government??? Boy, you guys are in for a shock, son . . . You’ll get no sympathy from the REAL Conservatives, like me, who are NOT voting FOR Biden. We’re voting AGAINST TRAITOR TRUMP. But, win, lose or draw, Trump’s Jewish backers, have already lost. You’ll see, son. You’ll see . . . SMH
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Paul G : You’re certainly underqualified to talk about what, “know,” or, “don’t know,” about the world. But, setting that aside, I read your comment with interest. You’re either trying to be subtle, whilst suggesting that you’re part of an enclave or something (there’s about 20,000 of those all over America, son) and that you’re going to get bored one night, and start picking off your fellow beings? Or, you’re a lone wolf, but with pretty much that agenda in mind? If I thought you were serious, I’d recommend you got help. But, as I doubt you’d alert the FBI, by announcing your intent on YouTube, if you were serious, I suggest you play a few rounds of Red Dead Redemption 2, and work it out of your system, OK? Entertaining though. I’ll give you that. Real potential as a writer, if you ever decided to think about that. Despite the grammar errors you pointed out, you can tell a story rather well 😉
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@5redleagueoflegends : Did you know that Zelensky sold the rights to develop Ukraine’s MASSIVE gas and oil reserves to the west? Shell, Exxon and BP, actually. He was planning to make Ukraine a competitor to Russia, with a democracy in charge instead of a dictatorship. That’s WHY the invasion. It takes years to get the wells pumping, and he’s been able to prevent development so far, in the Donbas region, in Crimea, etc. Now they have confirmed reserves in the west, by the Carpathian Mountains, where Putin can’t reach them without taking the whole country. And here we are, with his army taking a course that is SO PREDICTABLE you can plot it on Googlemaps. When his army moves at all, that is.
What was that you were saying about, “Geopolitics,” son?
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@babushka9261 : Spouting Putinganda excuses is like being 10 years old and believing in Santa Claus, madam. If Putin cared about, “nukes,” why hasn’t he invaded Turkey for their American bases? If it was about, “borders,” why hasn’t he invaded Norway? If you, “choose,” to believe Putin, I can’t help you with your hate of the west. Russians aren’t allowed to get actual news. Facebook got shut down, along with several newspapers and TV stations. But you have to ask yourself, if Putin was telling the, “truth,” why does he murder journalists? 🤷♂️🤦♂️
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Most Americans MUST be stunned that their, “theme,” is being, “victims,” of the Cancel Culture that Donny INVENTED, whilst they’re worrying about mass unemployment, the minimum wage, food shortages, and a plague that Donny let run rampant across the country? They might as well have called it The Poor Me, Victim convention! The sheer entitlement and self-obsession of that!? When, “lock her up,” (the ultimate in cancel culture) was already old before Donny even took the presidency, remember? Since he started, he was having other GOP members face Primaries, for merely disagreeing with him, and he’s STILL DOING THAT! That’s Cancel Culture! And, trying to CANCEL Democracy & our Republic on Jan 6th! You don’t GET more Cancel Culture than that!
A Qult of personality that outlaws opposition parties . . . There’s a name for that . . . FASCISM! The GOP are literally FASCISTS! They need to be STOMPED at the Midterms! ✌️
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Just imagine if the police were investigating a fraud and the suspects started saying, “Well, we’ll sift through all the evidence and hand over what is relevant, but you don’t need to decide that for yourself, or actually, ‘investigate,’ anything.” . . . 😮? . . . Any onlooker would be astounded at the sheer gall of this person! Especially when that suspect turns to the onlooker and says, “That will be half a million quid, please? Oh, didn’t I tell you? Yes, you’re paying for my lawyers. I didn’t like the state appointed ones; not bent enough. No, you don’t get any say in the matter. You were just unlucky enough to have been born into the same country as me. Not sure why you’re suddenly so indignant, since I’ve been raiding the tax payer’s pockets for years now?” . . . 😮🤦♂️
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hevquip : You come to a news group THAT YOU HATE, post TWO, lengthy, “comments,” and put a dislike on it, ANNOUNCING what you did, and attacking people for what, exactly? BELIEVING that the news is REAL? And the’hen. . . Oh, ha ha ha! . . . THEN, you call OTHERS, “emotional!”??? HA HA HA HA! 🤣
CNN simply TOLD YOU WHAT HAPPENED! They DIDN’T “make” it happen? It’s JUST “NEWS”! Yet you have a “problem” with the NEWS, now? And you’re ANGRY at US for THAT??? For watching the f**king NEWS??? PRICELESS, baby! 🤣
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nibsvkh : Now, it’s the famous Donny battlecry, (hashtag) RunAway! 😁 America is not even a country anymore, but a conglomeration of businesses, who DON’T answer to him. That’s why other, real countries, were able to enforce a lockdown, and lift it at will, when he can’t understand why he can’t do that. He answers to his share holders; the Saudis, Chinese tech magnates, Russian Oligarchs and US fossil fuel barons. He spends more time with lobbyists than his Cabinet, and is encouraging Trolls to, “protest,” HIS OWN POLICIES! Talk about a House divided against itself?! He’s a POTUS divided against himself! This is the fall of Rome. And the 2nd Wave of Coronavirus is going to destroy us, if we still have him around . . . SMH
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It’s funny how America is clinging to its denial, rather than facing the facts. I guess that’s because they just don’t want to face up to that fact that Revolution is their only hope? Given that they took the Republic off its life support at the Impeachment-fake-trial and the Republic has SO CLEARLY FALLEN? I mean, AS IF they’re going to ALLOW us to unseat Trump, and let him and his whole family go to jail, “rat out,” everyone from Bill Barr to Devin Nunes, so that half of the GOP goes to jail, and what’s left of their party is forced to disband? When it’s SO MUCH EASIER to simply RIG THE ELECTIONS and stay in power, forever? I guess America needs its, “Denial,” to get through the day? Have fun, “voting,” in your RIGGED, “Elections,” and providing the GOP with the information they need on who to TARGET, America . . . RIP the Republic 2020
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@saint-miscreant : I think it would be fair to suggest that the answer to the question, “Why are people protesting Israel and not Russia?” could be put, in simplest terms, “Because we (the western powers) are not funding Putin’s genocide, but we are funding Israel’s.” And, in that regard, many of the student protests have been successful. Some of these elite colleges have agreed to divest themselves of all Israeli government investment and withdrawn financial support for Israeli programs that were funded (or contributed to) by the colleges.
In that regard, I agree that Jake’s answer is something of a gross oversimplification. Particularly when he suggests they are pointless protests. He may well be right in terms of the big picture (indeed, he usually is) but that is to discount the thousands of students all over America who can already point to tangible, hard financial results and claim direct responsibility for them, and therefore claim success for their protests.
That is me speaking from a strictly, “clinical,” perspective, without expressing any of my opinions on the rights and wrongs of the issue. But, if I was in the room with Jake I would certainly have asked, “Isn’t it because they believe they can influence the president into withdrawing the funding we’re giving which makes this genocide possible? Whereas there’s no point in protesting the government of a foreign dictatorship when your own government is already funding Ukraine’s war efforts?”
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@kgs_7186 : Son, what we Normals find amusing (and bemusing) about you trump supporters, is something you wouldn’t understand. You WISH we were all, “liberals,” and natural democrat voters. But, the truth is, most conservatives vote Joe Biden, because the alternative is GOP fascism. People who would vote for trump, since his insurrection, and especially since his bogus company is trying, even now, to change the election results, through pure skullduggery, those people have crossed the line, into a childlike fantasy of, “their team, versus our team.” Let me know when you want to talk like men?
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@margaretstewart4125 : “Cancel Culture,” is such a hypocrite hoot, don’t you think? Trump INVENTED cancel culture, literally getting elected on a ticket of cancelling immigration, Muslims in particular, and Mexicans. “Lock Her Up!” was already OLD by the time trump took office! He Twittered his colleagues into Primaries if they so much as disagreed with him, and is STILL cancelling GOP members (Liz Cheney) right now! How many government officials did he cancel? Via Twitter, because he didn’t have the courage to face them? “You’re Fired!” His catch phrase! “You’re Cancelled!” And, he gets a WAY milder version of his own treatment, just once, and flies into a rage of entitlement! But, personally, I think locking up,your political opponents, merely for BEING your political opponents (or threatening to) is bad enough! But, actually having your party vote to overturn a democratic election DURING a violent insurrection of your own making??? If that isn’t the ULTIMATE CANCEL CULTURE, short of DEATH ITSELF, what is? . . . The trump’s and their fascist GOP ARE CANCEL CULTURE! They intend to Cancel America!
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@dakotadurham4788 : It’s very simple. Read your own comments more carefully. You asked questions, I answered them in full. Once again, your allegations against, “the left,” are left unsubstantiated; without even clarity about what you mean, this time, let alone evidence or references. The only clear allegation is that, “the left,” controls all the media, which is ludicrous, if Fox’s own propaganda is to be believed? They constantly tell us they are the most watched and trusted station, making them THE mainstream of media. You can’t have it both ways. But, with the rise of Newsmax, there is clearly a growing far right, “current affairs,” appetite, also making them more, “mainstream,” than truth.
And I am most certainly NOT talking about about, “half of the country,’’ as Trumpism has already lost its appeal to the voters, which is why he lost the election. It can only have gotten far worse, since his acts of betrayal against the nation, and his ongoing refusal to accept defeat, only shows him to be utterly untrustworthy around any power. The, “Fascists,” to whom I refer, are the enablers in the GOP, and the cowards, too frightened to call trump out. Trump’s political, “ideology,” is precisely and empirically Fascist, as already described. Those who follow and support him, are either ignorant of his full blown fascism, ignorant of his threat to them, or just racist enough not to care. But, they are NOT even a majority of the GOP voting half of America.
But, just so that you understand the difference between a Conservative, like me, and a Fascist supporter, like you; even if 99% of Americans supported trump, I would still call him a Fascist, because that’s what he is. And those who understand where supporting him leads, and still support him, they are Fascists too. Most of the loudest ones don’t know they’re fascists yet, and I’m working to save them from themselves, to prevent them from finding that out. Most of trump’s most rabid, rank and file, are just ignorant and racist.
I know you want to mythologise about, “MSM,” because that’s the particular weed up your ass today, however insubstantial your heartfelt emotions are in fact, but I only answered the queries you put to me, whether rhetorical or not. That’s because that was the only topic worth discussing. Read Prof Stanly G Payne’s seminal study on Fascism from 1914 to 1945? That will remove all of your pretensions at ignorance.
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Aiyisha Anderson : Well, Trump Trolls only like Trump’s racism and greed, so long as the economy doesn’t melt; apart from the paid foreigners. They Fake Believe. They always have. They KNOW they can’t, “convince,” anyone, or, “win,” an argument. Their, “Job,” is to sew and maintain DIVISION: the oxygen that sustains Trump. Their Fake, “Belief,” makes everything they say suddenly make perfect sense ✌️
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jagan kurra : Here’s my take. Trump had no reason to have this summit, with nothing to gain from the outset. He really went, so he could talk to Putin’s Top Man, with the North Korea thing, being his cover story. Now, Kim has more, “legitimacy,” having regular meetings with the US. Trump has his orders from Putin. And America is one step closer to Dictatorship. Trump is the worst, “negotiator,” alive, anyway. But, expecting to get something out of a situation where there was NOTHING to, “get,” was STUPID, at best . . . SMH
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He’s offering $5 million to anyone who can, “prove the 2020 election was not rigged against trump,” at this live-streamed, “Symposium,” Fox won’t advertise. The catch? You have to buy your place in the event. “Pay to play,” at an event where he only has to say, “Nope! Don’t believe you! Not listenin’! Lah lah lah!” Talk about the most rigged cash grab in history?! All these desperate wannabe’ fascist dictators can see the sun setting on trumpland, and they’re all sticking their snouts in the trough, one last time, so they can vanish into obscurity and only ever be noticed again at their own TRIALS! Presumably, the money is for all those LAWYERS he’s gonna’ need? 🙄✌️
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C. H. : Even Trump Trolls must be choking on this? The American ones, I mean. They give as many of their sons and daughters to serve in the military as the rest of America does. And, no one likes to be made to look like a Coward or a Traitor? And, if the ONLY explanation for doing this, is that it serves Putin’s interests; regardless of the Turks, given Erdogan is a Putin Puppet, every bit as much as Trump and Assad is, is it not just a question of time, before the smoking gun appears? Will someone step out of the dust and tell us they heard the call in which Putin issued his orders to Trump? . . . Someone, other than Trump, was in on it? Not many, which is why it blindsided the entire American Government, Military and the rest of the free world. But, SOME people, in the WHITE HOUSE, comfortably sipping coffee, as they watch the genocide on TV, must be struggling with their conscience? . . .
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Ray S : I love how you Cults just don’t get it. No one likes or dislikes, “sleepy joe,” or gives a shit about his Vanilla Dem policies, son! He could be a sock puppet! You’re not gonna’ con people into trying to, “defend,” the guy! Whoever opposes Tramp, will always be blessed by the saving grace of NOT being Trump! 🤣 Especially when the he’s proved to have been coasting on other people’s successes and presided over a tanked economy! And, what if there IS a 2nd Wave of Covid? More deadly than the last? The scientists are in agreement that there will be. Do you think America is going to put up with any more of this, “America is both open AND closed at the same time,” bullshit? Like he’s Schrodinger’s POTUS, or something? While MILLIONS DIE? You should be more worried about a palace coup, son? If his numbers go below 30%, he’s done . . . 😁
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@REF0202 : And what’s all this about, “extreme leftists”? Those comments show that you must be both quite young and uneducated. Have you ever heard of Fidel Castro? Lenin? Stalin? THEY were, “extreme leftists.” You seem to be calling anyone who doesn’t agree with your point of view a, “leftist,” which I don’t doubt you find convenient, but which renders you incapable of adult discussion. Granted, Americans have always had a tendency to see anything left of centrist politics as, “extreme,” and often mistake extreme right wing views as, “conservative.” But the fact is that progressive politics exist on both wings of American politics and America has never experienced any extremism in politics except from the right wing. FDR was the closest thing America ever experienced to a leftist, and he served three terms. America has never had real left wing politics ever, insofar as the rest of the developed world understands that term.
Maybe just calm down a bit and do some reading? Get a little perspective?
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Tony Rebel : And it’s not even THAT fact, that’s the problem, for the GOP. It’s just that it’s embarrassing to have to admit America is now a Dictatorship. Taking part in Democratic processes, only to be proved guilty, is one thing. But then, to carry on, like nothing happened, because the law has ended, along with democracy, is the sort of thing that causes demonstrations. When the choice for the Trump’s is to keep the presidency in the family, or lose it and go to jail, what choice do they have? Of course Russia will be inside our election computers; naturally, the American people will KNOW the 2020 election was rigged. So what? At this point, they can see that Americans will do nothing to stop its Republic from falling. And, after the elections, they’ll promise to, “look into it.” What a joke! The Republic has ALREADY FALLEN, AMERICA! You FAILED to protect it
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@dco1487 : “Propaganda,” is not a dirty word, son. It has always existed in all wars throughout history and there are both good and bad forms of it. So I don’t doubt that Jake would proudly own the label, “propagandist,” and not take the always negative inference that the uneducated leap to when they’re triggered by the term.
The barometer by which you measure the message is NOT, “whether,” it is, “propaganda,” or not. It is whether it is TRUTHFUL or not. RFK Jr’s propaganda is objectively a lie. The clips we saw were ample evidence of that. Your bad faith comments further demonstrate Jake’s truthfulness, but they also demonstrate something far more worth knowing: Which is that Ukraine hating Putinistas have begun to fear Jake Bro and are palpably angry at seeing their hopes go up in smoke, with the outing of RFK Jr, before he could even get enough donors onboard for a campaign on behalf of Putin to get off the ground.
You may cry now . . . Slava Ukraine, kid. 😉 🇺🇦✊🇬🇧
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Show me some evidence of that, “wisdom,” in this desperate attempt at digging for controversy where there is none and I’ll consider your point? Don’t get me wrong. Starkey is a pretty good, if somewhat opinionated, historian and I’ve enjoyed many of his books. But his two major flaws where on full display here. 1) Starkey’s gotta’ Starkey: in other words, he just want to be the bitter pill in the sugary meaninglessness of Charles’ speech, to protect his image, so he’ll get more bookings and money for speaking tours, rather than think through what he’s saying. And, 2) He’s more right wing than Margaret Thatcher on many issues and is trying to make this all about the unions. At the very least it shows that he wasn’t listening to Charles’ call for, “thoughts,” or, “compassion,” simply for the jobs these people do, without needing to politicise them. And he clearly is incapable of unbiased historical context (you know? The job he gets paid for?) when placing this address in the context of our heritage and history, or giving us any objective meaningful analysis. He’s just made it clear that he thinks that the people with too much money, getting record bonuses this year - those very same people who have made the rest of us all poorer in real terms - are the ones who should carry on getting richer for doing nothing except damage to the rest of us, whilst the people who make a difference, protect us, and make the actual quality of life better for others, can go hang . . . So where is this, “wisdom,” of which you speak? . . .
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Yes. Thank you. There are literally hundreds of thousands of dead and dying, who would otherwise be alive, had this been dealt with, and not deliberately politicised. If this crime against humanity goes unpunished, we could face it again in 4 years. What if the GOP gets another trump? But one with charm, and articulate? Is this a 4 year reprieve from the Republic’s Death Sentence? Or, will we PUNISH the traitors, enablers and criminals, from the White House down to the lowest levels, ruthlessly, to ensure this can NEVER happen again? For the dead and dying, it’s up to us to speak up and demand JUSTICE! JUSTICE MATTERS!
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Abigail Beatty : Is he still a, “thing”? Coz’, bitching about people’s body language, and rerunning the tape over and over, like a Mean Girl on Cocaine is SO, “edifying,” right? Some people will watch anything, I guess? To, “justify,” their hate, and avoid their own self-loathing. You won’t see HIM at any, “Protests,” I promise you THAT 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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Learning Thru The Insanity : Because there’s a DIFFERENCE between YOU, “hating,” the TRUTH, and getting all HATEY when they spread it, and Jones just LYING about everything to such a degree that he’ll cause someone to get killed. YouTube is a PRIVATE BUSINESS. Jones has his OWN website to whine about YouTube on, because he STILL HAS FREEDOM OF SPEECH. I know you have no, “argument,” for that, and WON’T answer me. But, you should know this, anyway. You Treason Trumpers are all so effeminate, whining about what, “Victims,” you all are. Grow up and Man Up. He broke his terms and paid the price; WAY TOO LATE for decent people
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This was a criminal conspiracy which resulted in the ruination of countless lives and family members. Deaths, false imprisonments, reputations and careers destroyed. The police should be charging a whole raft of people with perjury, fraud, perverting the course of justice, falsifying official records, reckless endangerment, criminal intimidation and many other offences.
And, most of all, each victim should be receiving full exonerations from the High Court and SEPARATE compensation and ALSO damages. The issue of punitive damages should be referred to the state as yet a third matter for the courts. And, being the, “biggest,” miscarriage of justice in British history (arguably among the worst too) it is incumbent upon the highest courts in the land to fully air this dirty laundry.
It would make heroes of those with the courage to see to it. And then we would all know who Kemi Badenoch really is.
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@CaptMike-ce3xi : We have to strike at the root of the problem. From Putin to F*x, to QAnon, etc. This type of lying to millions HAS TO BE OUTLAWED! It’s NOT a, “free speech,” issue, when you scream, “Fire!” in a packed theatre and get to sit back and watch people DIE in the ensuing panic! I’m not suggesting that we HANG propagandists, like we did after WWII. But, it has GOT TO be made illegal?! It’s killing Americans, half of which are on the side of Putin right now! Propaganda has to be outlawed. It is in the UK, and they have no free speech problems. Quite the opposite. They have the worst gutter press. But, even they are NOT allowed to lie dangerously, and call themselves, “news.”
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Facts? Here’s some FACTS: We understand that Trump knew he may not be around to break the law and spring Flynn, after November, so he had to do it now, or not do it at all. We know Flynn wants back in Cabinet, so a, “pardon,” would not help him, because he’d still be a criminal and barred from holding office. So, they Barr’d him instead, knowing that NO JUDGE would allow this. Let’s hope they get swamped by death row inmates, who’ve ALSO, “changed their minds”? And, let’s hope he gets back in Cabinet BEFORE the elections? Like Banquo’s Ghost, haunting Washington and pissing off the entire electorate? 🤣
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@coreyham3753 : I can’t speak for El, but I don’t see where your disagreement is? I would imagine El agrees with you? But, it must be a big adjustment? Going from knockabout farce, open hostility, and literal abuse from trump, to, “normalcy,” after 4 years? A president has a responsibility to account to the people, but yes, that should be infrequent, given all the work he has to do. This press pack did fumble the ball, between them, and they probably know it, on reflection? Wasted opportunities suck. We should keep demanding more from our journalists, as they are our link to the holders of power and they should be asking the questions that are on our minds.
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This is rapidly becoming the Farage Show, which is exasperating to me. But, in fairness, these are issues that do merit discussion and would naturally make your YouTube followers naturally interested . . . I mean the followers who aren’t playing the client media’s Farage game.
As to Farage’s response to the outing of his racist party members, come on, Prof Wilson? P-lease? . . . It’s the standard far right play book. Make a virtue out of every hint of dodginess, calling it, “speaking for the man in the street,” or making a, “joke,” out of it. And when it gets too blatant to handle, call it a, “CONSPIRACY,” and blame someone else! Usually the very people who exposed you or whom do you the most harm in that set of circumstances.
Surely you don’t give Farage ANY credence, do you?
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Luke : That last paragraph made me lol, but here’s an, “honest,” answer. I am one of MANY Conservatives who will be voting to ensure the REMOVAL of the GOP, and, as we’ve seen, in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc, there are MANY others like me. When you speak “against” generalising, you need to understand, therefore, that you do NOT speak for ALL Trumpski supporters. And YES, you ARE a Trumpski “Fan” whether by, withholding your vote, or voting for the GOP, that is what you are. We are defined by what we DO, not what we SAY, to justify our recklessness to ourselves, after the fact.
We can AGREE that Hillary was an APPALLING candidate. I too, am GLAD she is out of it. No more, business as usual, dynastic, patronising, “Mommy knows best,” big business, patrician, leaders, THANK YOU.
But, to back a guy, who ACTIVELY ATTACKS AMERICAN businesses, personalities, law and order, its institutions that CREATED America, and EVEN his OWN COLLEAGUES, while ACTIVELY SUCKING UP TO DICTATORS and IGNORING Facebooks APPALLING VIOLATION of America, and then go on to OPENLY LIE about Amazon? . . . You’d HAVE TO BE MAD or a TRAITOR! And THAT’S WITHOUT all the Russia stuff. . .
The “abortion” argument, is a Red Herring, given that Trump has persuaded women to have abortions, and that there are GOP politicians who back the policies you hate and DNC politicians who back YOUR argument? But THAT brings me to the issue of WHY you seem unaware of this OBVIOUS flaw in your baby protection debate . . . The News . . .
I look at Fox, “news,” and I cannot BELIEVE the HYSTERIA, LIES and MADNESS. Yet YOU think CNN is “worse”??? COME OOOHHHNNN??? Not even Republicans buy THAT! Did you KNOW the Republican Politicians HAVE TO watch CNN and MSNBC? Do you know WHY? It’s because, if they DON’T they risk looking like IDIOTS when they give interviews, as they CAN’T find out what is ACTUALLY HAPPENING on Fox! If they DO get some nugget of truth, it’s likely to be SO BADLY DISTORTED that they’ll look STUPID for repeating it. That is a FACT that you can look up for YOURSELF.
I too, have concerns about abortion laws. But, I would NEVER SELL OUT AMERICA, for that cause? And, given the the GOP and Trumpski, do not CARE about that child, once it’s OUT of the womb, the HYPOCRISY of their argument, reveals to anyone who’s THINKING for THEMSELVES, that it’s shear POPULISM. They don’t “CARE” about you or ANYONE. They just want YOUR MONEY
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Ryan Smith : I think it’s the arrogance and self-feeding fantasy life they lead, with their secret service protection, chauffeurs, deferential staffers, special seating in restaurants, etc. They LOVE that stuff, because they have self-esteem issues and only feel worthwhile when the world is validating them? They start to believe that they ARE, in some way, “Special,” and before you know it, reality knocks and they’re genuinely confused and appalled that the general public is not rallying to their support, regardless of the facts.
This is why we NEED root and branch reform, to get the money out, the structures changed, the gerrymandering stopped, and law and order should be genuinely SEPARATE from the Government. They probably will win the Kavanaugh battle, but at what COST? Sure, they’ll be CRUSHED for it at the polls, but the damage is DONE by then. The only way to fix that (apart from releasing the missing 90% of his files, properly investigating the allegations through the FBI and IMPEACHING the SOB) is REFORM. There are PLENTY of Kavanaugh’s, Trump’s and Quislings, just waiting for their bight of the Apple. Time to chop down the tree
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Kier Starmer has a flat and uninspiring delivery but he may well grow into his job. But at least he won’t be clowning like Johnson, Robotic and disconnected like Sunak, or plain loopy like Truss. Boring, honest and consistent will do me just fine thanks.
Many private schools are bastions for the privileged and should pay their fair share. I think you’re clutching at straws when you harken to this ECHR idea, since you could use the same argument (and legal mechanisms) to point out that all other industries and businesses have to pay their fair share of taxes and there is no lawful reason to exempt private education, making them, “special,” in some way. Remember, child care homes, elderly residences, care centres, hostels and accommodation for the disabled ALL have private sector investors, making profits out of public need and paying their taxes for them. What makes private education so special? The only thing the public can see is that it’s the Tory MP’s kids who all attend these schools. That doesn’t seem fair?
But, here’s the kicker. The latest MRP poll to study this issue in recent weeks (as discussed on the YouTube channel, A Different Bias) shows us that, despite any personal and anecdotal evidence you may have to the contrary, the one demographic that has little to no objection to private education paying VAT is the parents of privately educated children.
They, like the majority of the country, do NOT object to paying taxes nearly so much as they object to the breakdown of the services that those taxes are supposed to pay for!
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Bronwyn : It REALLY WAS a “Referendum” on Trumpism. I hope Moore goes to trial, and then we’ll KNOW, won’t we? But, I just don’t like racists, anyway; but I am especially upset by people in power who abuse Christianity, lying to people, and telling them that Jesus doesn’t want Muslims in Congress, for instance. You ASSUME that everyone who is glad to see the back of Moore, feels that way, because of his sexual deviancy. But, the truth is that Trump’s support of Moore did more to convince people of Moore’s probable guilt, than anything else did. But, Moore’s RECORD is APPALLING. No right minded Christian could support a racist. It just doesn’t work like that
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@Thebees21 : Overall, what I took from all those individual digs at corporations, the education system, social media, etc, was that he’s making a cry for help, sort of saying, “This is why I’m so messed up, and any sane person would be!” He strikes me as genuinely, deeply depressed about the state of the world, especially its cynicism, and potentially suicidal? Like a guy who’s desperately looking for reasons to live and finding fewer every day?
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Kurochan : Don’t click on their names when you reply to them. They get paid, when you Click their names or their Click Bait. I only found out recently. Up to 2/3rds of trump trolls, at any given time, are paid, foreigners, just getting money. That’s why most of their remarks are, “emotional,” or aimed at getting an, “emotional,” response. Their Click Bait, when it takes you off of YouTube, has Malware, “cookies,” that tracks what you look at, for their algorithms. Don’t get them paid? ✌️👍
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@freemarkets8323 : Yes. But, you see the appalling double standard here? When a minority does something like this, they’re labelled a, “monster,” but, when a white guy does it, he’s just having a, “bad day”??? WTF??? If that isn’t a racist thesis, what is? This is trump’s anti-China, anti-Asia rhetoric, slinking into official rhetoric. We all know it.
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@sellsubz : Tell me, madam? Why have you wasted 5 years of your life, with CNN living inside your head? All day, every day, talking to people you hate, on channels you hate, about what makes you filled with hate . . . We can only hope you’re being paid for that, ma’am? No one who’s, “well,” in their mind does that? And I doubt even a paid trump troll can do it for as long as you have, and come out, “sane”??? . . . I’m curious. Seriously 🤔
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I hope they prosecute the, “news,” companies that spread this LIE of the, “steal?” Fox cast doubt on the election over 700 times, according to Conservative analysts. Even though they KNEW it was a LIE! We used to hunt down and HANG propagandists and traitors after WWII! Now we let them broadcast on American soil and give them shares in the company?! It’s NOT a, “free speech,” issue, when someone screams, “fire!” in a packed theatre, and gets to watch people DIE in the chaos they caused! It’s time to hold, “news,” anchors ACCOUNTABLE for their SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACIES! ✌️
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SuperCrowbot : He could, “Unify,” the party by asking Elizabeth Warren to be his running mate. Not that it makes any difference, with Putin’s hackers inside the election technology. The next, “election,” will be about as, “fair,” and, “democratic,” as the Impeachment SHAM. The GOP have decided they don’t all want to go to jail, by losing control of the system that should have locked them all away in 2016. Who actually BELIEVES they have not already RIGGED the elections? Honestly . . . The Republic has fallen
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@oldschoolbluesplayer5319 👈😡❄️: Don’t mind this Karen, everyone. She’s just upset because no one in Walmart cares about her doctor’s note, excusing her, “from masks,” and she got arrested for slapping a 16 year old checkout girl whilst demanding her made up, “civil rights.” She only made it worse for herself, by screaming at a group of snickering teens for videoing the whole thing on their phones, and resisting arrest. But the YouTube video on KARENPOCALYPSE is awesome. See Trump’s butt hurt army of Karens, getting justice, and have a well earned laugh at their expense. It’s good for the soul 😋. BDS is a painful psychological disorder that can only be treated, (by a proctologist) never cured . . . Sad 😞 . . . 😉
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@harisiregar232 : Oh, we’ve, “marked your words,” alright. But that’s not your real name, and the chances are you’re just an algorithm and not even a real person. If you are, you’re either sitting in bunker in St Petersburg or one of those trump cults, who takes money for spewing lies, hate and that all important DIVISION which has become the mission statement of Russia since the invention of the internet. None of us are fooled into believing that Russia changed in any way since the fall of the Soviet Union. All that happened was that the Kremlin dropped the encumbrance of Communism and took on a new, freewheeling, mafia backed, DICKtatorship that Boris Yeltsin drunkenly sleepwalked Russia into, while Putin sat perched on his shoulder waiting for his moment, with his mafia and KGB buddies all waiting with him. Well, this is the end, my friend. It’s do or die. Because, if Putin doesn’t pull the trigger now, the west will get to him, one way or another. You can’t threaten to nuke the Earth and expect to be left to run your own country until the next hissy fit comes up. Putin may well f*ck us all. But I guarantee he’s f*cked himself for good and all now . . . Watch this space.
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@raheel2245 : I don’t remember dropping bombs on any children in Palestine or any of the other countries you just listed, son? You got the wrong guy there. Seems you’re confused between the varying, “politics,” of a bunch of different countries that you’ve grouped together in your head and decided are all, “evil,” because they are not run by Putin, and the issue of threatening to NUKE PLANET EARTH, kid. You can’t make, “comparisons,” right or wrong, and then say that, “justifies,” a threat to NUKE PLANET EARTH, son? It just doesn’t work like that. You’ve got NOTHING. So put it away, because you’re making a fool of yourself.
You’ll get to say that to your creator. “I made a complete tw@ out of myself, and then Putin NUKED PLANET EARTH. Yeah, that was my final act. I took a few Rubles to speak up for an utterly insane guy who threatened THE ENTIRE EARTH with NUKES! If only I’d had a sense of perspective, I might not have been busy making a complete git out of myself as my final act on Earth.” 🤦♂️🙄
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Barry Michlowitz : Trump, his family, Bill Barr, and most of the Cabinet, ALL KNOW they’re going to jail. And, that’s WHY Barr is expanding his Secret Police units, all over America, selecting pro-trumpers from a police that’s as Divided as the rest of America. Knowing they’re going to jail means the only question is which combination of cheats, “pretexts,” and excuses will the GOP use to DENY America, ANY ELECTIONS. You should be getting illegal, unconstitutional Secret Police SS units OUTLAWED. LIKE, NOW!
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Professional trolls, like, “LAST CALL,” get paid if you Click their names, to reply to them. They get more for each click on their Racist Trump Propaganda Click Bait, but their base rate is on clicks to reply. That’s why they say manipulatively stupid stuff. They aim at emotions. They aren’t all paid. Some are just racists with mental health issues, living on the channels they hate, whining hate, among the people they hate, for 4 years. But, LAST CALL is paid, and just happens to be mentally ill. True story 😉
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Soren Ingram : Barr is the most dangerous man in America, and the ONLY reason trump is still with us. The unmarked SS, “cops,” are Barr’s idea; the attack on protestors, like the March of the Upside Down Bible, Barr’s idea. Publicly naming BLM as a, “leftist, terrorist, Democrat conspiracy against the president,” literally words from his lips. Telling trump which of our top cops to fire, to protect trump corruption, and which yes men to replace them with, all Barr. It was only a question of time before some of the lies and corruption would be exposed. But will that change ONE, God Damned thing? No. We can no longer, “save,” our Republic. First we have to RESTORE IT! ✌️
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@theTeknoViking : That’s only part of it. Consider places like Georgia, which are a far bigger threat in the regard you’re suggesting? If it was just about the possibility of Russia getting locked out, Georgia has been threatening this since their 20% (or so) invasion. Notable events that occurred in Ukraine, just prior to Putin’s infamous essay, include Shell, Exxon, BP and various other oil companies completing a series of reports which pretty well established that Ukraine (with the correct investment and industrial infrastructure) would be able to out supply Russia with fuel to the western world with oil and gas from their offshore Crimean reserves alone; but also from deposits confirmed in the landlocked east, the Carpathian region of the west and other areas.
Almost immediately, it was the oil company scientists and workers who were chased out of Ukraine altogether, Putin ensuring that no development could safely be conducted.
And that is setting aside the fact that over 50% of the world’s Argon supplies come from Ukraine. Remember Xi & Putin at the Winter Olympics? An agreement to the effect of Xi taking Taiwan shortly after Putin took Ukraine, would have resulted in China having control over more than 60% of microchip manufacture from one factory alone, and Putin owning well over 50% of the rare elements vital for their manufacture. Even if that situation lasted for one or two years until the west reorganised, the jump in technological lead would be worth a war or two, to them.
There are countless other natural resources I haven’t mentioned here. But for a guy who has run his country like a mafia boss for the past 30 years, this stuff is no-brainer calculation. Especially when you analyse the order of events.
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Michael Beelby : Keep in mind, even the leaders of Birther Conspiracy Theories don’t, “believe,” what they’re selling. They just know that their, “fans,” eat it up, because they rely on the dumbary of their base. It’s just a way to Troll decent people, on behalf of racists, and get away with it. The kind of hypocrisy we see, each time they call, “the left,” (Whoever the hell THEY are, in their paranoid heads?) names like, “Nazis,” even though the ONLY YouTube videos of Nazis, supporting American politicians, are the ones of the KKKlan, in their swastikas, doing the Nazi Salute, shouting, “Hail Trump!” I think most Trump fans are secretly ashamed of what they are? They’ve just gone too far to take it back? The Republic is literally dying of embarrassment over Trump . . . Smh ✌️
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@thomaasfist6494 : He can’t help it. Carlo Karen can’t stop being a Karen, coming where she’s not wanted, trying to bust up everyone’s fun, lecturing us one information that somehow, “only she has access to,” when all she’s actually doing is adding to our fun, because we have one more bit of Trumpian impotent rage to lol at. Carlo Karen probably doesn’t know how to back down when she’s roundly beaten? And usually has to be carted off by the cops while a bunch of teenagers video it for YouTube, and she screams about videos violating her human rights? I’ve seen Carlo Karen’s a thousand times, slapping 16 year old checkout girls because they refuse service in a Walmart, because they don’t care if she has a doctor’s note, “excusing her from masks.” I honestly don’t think she’s well. Trump’s K K Kult haven’t gone through all the stages of grief yet 😉😁👍
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J Groovy : I think William is getting tired? It’s clear he doesn’t believe his own Propaganda and probably feels a little humiliated at all this Fake Believe they make him say? He doesn’t seem to realise that all these, “multiple witnesses,” will TESTIFY at Trump’s Impeachment Hearings? The usual, “Whaddabouting,” does not work, when you’re trying to ruin the reputation of a decorated veteran, with many, many years of service to America.
They had NOTHING to say about it, when Biden regaled a grateful word’s press with the story of how he got rid of a corrupted (Putin Plant) Ukrainian official out, only to be replaced by an HONEST one, who, if anything, would be MORE likely to find any, “dirt,” on his son? LAST YEAR they never said a WORD?
Trump has Jumped The Shark, because the GOP are realising that THEY could have their OWN histories FICTIONALISED to suit Trump, just as easily; unless they’re willing to get themselves dirtied up with Trump’s crimes and coverups. Refusing Trump, or exposing him, after he’s gotten away with THAT with Biden, would mean jail or worse for THEM!
I think they’ve spent their weekend facilitating deals in smokey back rooms, whilst Mitt Romney has been on the phone to Chuck & Nancy, hashing something out? 🤔 😉 👍
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Johnboydojo : My suspicion is that he’s trying to create a, “distraction controversy,” so that people don’t automatically think, “pervert-mediocre-comedian / actor,” whenever his name is mentioned? Some guy, literally told me to, “quit moralising,” about it. LITERALLY! Like, “WHY MORALITY AT ALL?” Or something?!?!? I tell you, Trump has lowered the tone of America, way beyond the sewer; we’re in HELL and we don’t know it . . . SMH
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En myrdet, etc : You still don’t get it, son. Why, “punish trump supporters?” They live in HELL. They’re always, “butt hurt,” about something. You EVER seen a, “happy,” trumper? They’re in perpetual FEAR and impotent rage, because their HATE goes up to 11. Losing Trump, and then (when there’s no one left to Obstruct Justice for them anymore) letting them SEE how trump screwed the Kult over, harder than any other group of Americans, will be, “punishment,” enough. Many of them will see the pointlessness of racism, for the first time, and consider patriotism for a change. Hell! Some of those, “evangelicals,” may even convert to Christianity? 😇
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@scottshepard3662 : And if you’re not responsible? If you’re not the owner of the gun, or legally responsible for what’s in it? You surely cannot be suggesting that Baldwin was in any way responsible for this tragedy? He’s a Hollywood actor, with no expertise, or responsibility. That’s why they hire an armourer, or there would be no point in doing so if they were just using an honor system, which would be ludicrous. Actors put themselves into the hands of specialists every time they step onto a set, often with a million special effects; squibs, fires, explosions (big and small) falling scenery, smashed furniture, etc, erupting about them at all times. They know that experts are hired to take care of all these things and have to trust that everyone’s done their jobs. You don’t know if Baldwin even knows anything about guns. A, “responsible gun owner,” might well check the weapon in his hand, but let’s say Baldwin did that? Would the director take an actor’s word for it? How would that look in the aftermath? “We disregarded what the hired expert said, because Mr Baldwin said it was fine.” No sir. The armourer takes full responsibility and is hired to do so, thus taking legal liability with it. You don’t ask a plumber to check your car? You don’t ask an actor to be a weapons expert. You hire one.
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Hal Hosmer : There are many real, actual, “Conservatives,” who still love America. They’re in the Lincoln Project and other pro-Biden groups, like me. And, for a prediction? I already KNOW the GOP, “strategy.” “Harris is running things, while Biden sits in a wheelchair, drooling and nodding.” They got nowhere with Biden’s middle class whiteness. And, they just WISH Harris was the primary candidate. So? They’ll tell everyone she IS THE PRIMARY CANDIDATE, right? Genius! 🤣
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@michaelawford7325 : Think through what you just said, Frank Encer? If it, “stands to reason,” that a president claims Executive Privilege, then it follows that the incumbent (who in the US’s case can lawfully, “declassify,” literally ANYTHING) can grant full access to any and all parties he or she desires. The court can do nothing if Joe Biden decides to short circuit the process, which I imagine he will if the courts cannot sort it out speedily enough. Additionally, it is a fact of the US Constitution that EP expires with tenure of the office. It’s not up to trump, the GOP or his party. He would have to be arguing his case on the basis of his fantasy, that he’s still president. Finally, and remember this: whenever a member of the general public takes the side of the state (or ex-deep state in this case) they do not have the interests of the people or themselves at heart. People who saw at the branch they’re sitting on are doing so for pay, or for oppressive far right beliefs, and must be treated as the racist shills that they are.
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Iaresnoutube : Do have Cassandra Syndrome too? I do. This fudge stinks of Moscow Mitch. I was always accused of, “over reacting,” when I predicted food shortages, civil strife, etc. I never saw plague coming, but I saw trump’s response to it coming. Here’s my final prediction for you, America: Trump will declare, “election victory,” regardless, because he, his family and most of his Cabinet are going to jail and they KNOW IT. Prepare for the fight, America. You will have to TAKE BACK your Republic in November. Or lose it, forever
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Pat Gannon : trump WOULD have a war, if he COULD. But, this is NOT IT. This was Trump, casting about for someone to pick on, who CAN’T hit back. His intelligence agencies have been thorough, and he KNOWS they have NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS. So, he insults them, so as to, “look,” like the, “strong-man-president,” because he’s EMBARRASSED, by his SHAMEFUL COWARDICE at Helsinki. This is NOTHING MORE than a piece of performance art, for his Treasonous Cult followers. I PROMISE YOU. Putin WON’T ALLOW Trump to do any REAL harm to his Iranian ALLIES. They are Putin’s MAIN SMUGGLERS, getting weapons and soldiers to Syria
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sl97aq : Putin is unencumbered by Commie, “ideology,” but he hasn’t changed one bit. He rose through the ranks, by covering up Yeltsin’s drunken messes, so who better to deal with a bloviating, half mad old man, like Trump, than Putin? He killed people, stole fortunes, and when in power, he killed people and stole fortunes, only now he does it on an industrial scale. He’s the richest individual on Earth, which doesn’t surprise me. His country is poor, because the oligarchs soak up all the wealth, like a sponge, in the centre. And, Trump wants what he has: a Dictatorship, built on a Post Modern-Stalinist model. And, if the Impeachment fails to REMOVE Trump, he’ll have it. And our 2020 elections will be a sick joke, like they are in Russia . . . ✌️👍
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flyte : NOT, “conservatives.” There’s NOTHING, “conservative,” about this STALIN MODEL of GOP by ANY definition. Conservatives have been voting Democrat in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc. “Butt Hurt,” REPUBLICANS, GOP, TRUMP FANS, whatever. But they are NOT, “Conservative,” and the “liberals” are UNITING WITH THEM, to restore DEMOCRACY to America. Let us not alienate our allies? People are GETTING IT, now, and must be WELCOMED. All that MATTERS, FOR NOW, is the VOTE at the Mid Terms. Respectfully, can you see my point?
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@Spiritof_76 : I love how little children, like solaroid try to act like they have some sort of, “impact,” on the world, or that anyone even cares what they, “abide,” by? She’ll either obey the law or she won’t; get locked up, or put her head down and get on with it. Who gives a sh*t? Biden doesn’t know her name and never will. I’ll have forgotten about her by supper time, and my life will still be awesome. Frankly, this solaroid chick deserves her pain, which is abundantly clear from her bitter words. Her narcissism is as bad as Donny’s. She thinks people care? What a dope 😁👍
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Because that’s the system that grew up around you, while you sat on your ass, letting it happen. And your democracy is DYING in front of you, while you continue to sit on your ass. You have to get out there, NOW! They are RIGGING the, “elections.” Florida is ALREADY, “decided.” They’re literally STEALING post boxes off of the streets! It will be TOO LATE to, “protest,” in November, when they’re ready for you! Do something NOW, or regret it forever! The GOP are terrified of JAIL TIME, and they WON’T ALLOW ELECTIONS! Demand the RESTORATION OF YOUR REPUBLIC AND DEMOCRACY, AND YOUR POST OFFICE!!!
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@Brotherdweeb : All of Jake’s regular viewers know the context in which he’s making these remarks, but you raise a fair criticism, for any new comers. I confess, I was originally put off from my first viewing of this channel, back when I was skimming through several outlets to see who was propagandising for the Ruskies and who was telling the truth, after hearing him say some stuff which was all ironic and sarcasm, at a time when sarcasm is virtually dead on the internet. It wasn’t until a few weeks later, when I checked to see if I’d been hasty that I realised my mistake. It’s a sad but real fact that people are just looking for excuses to misinterpret others these days, and they can do real harm. So, while some may role their eyes at your admonition, I do not. ✌️🇺🇦🇬🇧
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I’m going to keep saying it. Britain NEEDS population GROWTH. I get lots of responses on various comments. But always silence when I mention the demographic crisis the world is in, with its ageing populations making their pensions unsafe, and a desperate NEED for the sort of younger people who say no to dictatorship and yes to democracy, willing to risk everything to fight to get to a democracy like ours. They want the million or so jobs that we consistently turn our noses up at, cleaning, harvesting crops, serving fast food and delivering things. They are obviously industrious and hard working. And we need their economic generation and taxable income.
Yet we act like there was ANY truth to this, “scarcity,” argument, when, “stopping the boats,” is actually CAUSING SCARCITY!
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I didn’t quite follow what, “Horizon,” actually is? Something to do with cooperating on technology, or science? I wish you had explained it, for dunces like me? But everything else in this video was vividly clear. I very much like your style. You get a lot of information out in a clear, comprehensive, unvarnished way, trusting your audience to infer what they will from the facts, without putting any, “spin,” on it. That’s something we used to be able to rely on the BBC’s political analysts for, but it saddens me to say we simply can’t any longer. Not that the BBC is, “terrible,” but ever since it became a political football (since the early 1990’s. At least, that’s when I noticed the change in tone and constant implicit threats made in Westminster regarding the renewal of their Charter, or their license fee?) I’ve seen a bizarre twisting of, “agendas,” within the organisation, where they seem to want to please everyone and end up pleasing no one. It doesn’t seem to occur to Auntie that she should simply remain unbiased altogether.
Anyway. I love the name of your channel, btw. A Different Bias is sort of a stroke of genius, if you ask me . . . which you didn’t, but there you go. I’m getting sort of addicted to this channel. I always come away feeling like I’ve had a good gossip about Westminster with a smart guy who can fill the gaps in my knowledge without making me feel thick about it. A bit like a big brother you look up to. Thanks. 👍
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@niveknanorc7316 : I hope Kinsinger, each time he gets a pat on the back from one of his colleagues, tells them, “All evil needs to succeed, is for good people to DO nothing,” and finishes with a loud, “So, f’k you!” to every last one of them. It’s not like he doesn’t get the death threats and isn’t facing deselection and voter wrath, just like them, after all? Considering they get PAID for this stuff, and are literally meant to set THE examples for the rest of us, it truly sickens me, but does not surprise me one iota. You have to be an invertebrate to get into the GOP anyway, it seems? He should record them all, and then name and shame them, giving a detailed list of their hypocritical, dishonest, fraudulent acts. It just makes me sad . . .
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@ilyfein9118 : Bank Heist. Spanish Netflix series. Not for me, but very popular apparently. Enough for sequels anyway. As soon as I see the word, “series,” attached to the title, “Bank Heist,” I lose the will to live. That already tells you SO MUCH of the plot right there: it’s not a clean getaway, and that the robbers and victims are all going to get, “involved,” with each other in a ludicrously unrealistic fashion, and that most of what’s happening will be in flash backs, and the rest will implausible excuses to drag the story out to fill time. Still, that’s just me.
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This has to be a conspiracy between left and right? HAS to be! They both want the same thing! “Defund,” sounds like just, “taking away money.” Neither the politician nor that cop, nor sheriff Buzzcut, nor the anchor interviewing him KNOWS what the term ACTUALLY MEANS. Literally EVERYBODY wants the cops to fight crime, detect crime and prevent crime, right? Literally EVERYBODY would prefer it if cops DIDN’T have to be social workers, psychiatric nurses, body guards for corporate goons, or debt collectors turning people out of their homes for the banks, right? They can’t ALL NOT KNOW what, “defunding the police,” actually means??? They HAVE TO BE FAKING IT??? 🤷♂️
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Tony Leon : That comment, in isolation, does NOT tell the WHOLE story. This is just Fox, doing what it does, manipulating the FACTS. They CANNOT be trusted. I agree that Kelly did not “intend” to defend slavery, but he DID deny that this was the issue around which the war was fought, and he TRIED to make it about “loyalty to his State,” which, “meant MORE to him than loyalty to country.” That position is called TREASON ANYWAY, but it is ALSO WRONG, from a historical perspective and reveals Kelly’s ignorance AND prejudices. See the WHOLE interview, rather than allowing a biased media outlet cherry pick for you, the bits THEY want you to see, with THEIR “narrative” exposition telling you WHAT to think, instead of encouraging you to do your OWN thinking
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@alwaysdisputin9930 : Well, the term, “Nazi,” isn’t an adjective to describe a behaviour, just because it’s cruel or unreasoning. That’s the fault of lazy journalists and even lazier knee jerk commentators on social media. If they don’t like something, they slap a, “Nazi,” label on it. But Nazism is an, “ideology,” based on, “racial purity,” intolerance of difference and the crushing of individualism. You know? All that stuff that Putin was advocating in his speech to that frightened stadium of sheep, half of whom had left after signing their names on the attendance register, before the gig even started, and half of the remaining crowd only stayed because it was too dicey to leave without being noticed. Putin’s whole schtick has always been to accuse his opponents of what he’s up to. After all, it’s his army with the, “Z,” Zwastikas we’re seeing in the streets of Ukraine? It’s his army that is rounding up innocent civilians like cattle, and deporting them against their will. It’s Putin that keeps bringing up, “racial,” issues. It was Putin who had to be talked out of the whole, “Public Executions in the streets of Ukraine,” idea!
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I haven’t read the article and now feel compelled to ask, would I get anything out of reading it now, since you have already imparted the salient facts? I’d rather not read anything from that rag if I don’t have to, but if you feel it’s one of those topics that needs more attention in order to form an informed opinion, I will.
I think certainly you’re right, as it’s precisely the type of exploit that so strained his relationships with his tutors at Eton.
Consider the themes of that article? MONEY. It’s always the topic of money that is used to ding that antisemitic bell, isn’t it? And to use that term you described (one I didn’t know of before now) in a complaint related to finances is obviously meant to trigger antisemitic images in the mind of the reader. His calculation will have been that he would get away with it because it’s a largely unknown term and its full meaning will pass many by, despite having a sufficiently Semitic chime to it to strike a chord in the imaginations of readers, yet only chiming fully with the crowd that he intends to raise a nod and a wink from.
He also will have considered that he could dismiss any complaints from within the Labour Party by suggesting that their track record on antisemitism is not so great. If I were thinking in truly Machiavellian terms, I might even suggest that this could be just the first in a series of attacks to come? Johnson’s way of, “sending up a balloon,”to see if he can refocus the public discourse onto Labour’s weak spots? But, perhaps that’s a little deep, even for him?
Johnson is a lot of things, but the bumbling buffoon persona is all part of the act, convenient for defending himself at times like these. He’s a good writer and he knows exactly what he’s doing as a skilled manipulator of the reader’s imagination (once again taking notes from his idol, Winston Churchill) especially in prose, when he’s had time to martial his thoughts and edit himself.
A Times editor would probably have questioned his use of that term, perhaps even spiked it, but a Daily Mail editor is more likely be one of the nodding winkers that Johnson is attempting to appeal to.
I hope someone with a little pull over there lodges a formal complaint. I certainly think someone should.
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Ian Zoda : Donny still sits on the throne, I see? America is maintaining its denial, that it can remain a Republic, after this RIGGED, “Trial,” lets its Dictator walk free from confessed and proven crimes, SPECIFICALLY identified in the Constitution as Impeachable. My advice to Americans is, either learn to love and accept your Royal Orange Family, or DO SOMETHING, like the Ukrainians did, a decade ago, in freezing conditions and without ANY WEAPONS and REMOVE this Dictator, kicking and screaming, from his throne. Just, do me a favour? PLEASE? For the LOVE OF GOD!!! Would ya’ll STOP PRETENDING that they will ALLOW you to, “Vote,” them out, when the WHOLE Trump Family and HALF OF THE GOP will GO TO JAIL if Trump loses his Protected Presidential Status?!?!? If they are LITERALLY SHOWING YOU that they’ll RIG the Trial, hen they KNOW THEY TOO will be politically and at least HALF of them, LEGALLY, RUINED, WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THEY’LL ALLOW, “NOT RIGGED,” Elections??? It’s come down to, Trump walks = END of the Republic. Trump survives = END of the Trump’s and the GOP. WHICH DO YOU THINK THEY’LL CHOOSE??? . . . SMH
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T Dizzle : It’s not a news report, son. It’s analysis, and all you’re actually, “saying,” is that you agree with him. Fair point?
China’s growing its very own, “Trump,” figure. We sort of asked for that. But, why people instantly think there will be anything other than a, “cold,” war, is beyond me? Just like with the USSR, a war would quickly escalate into mutually assured destruction (the, “MAD,” scenario, that we older folk remember so well) so both sides will do their utmost to avoid hot war, whilst trying to sound like they, “want,” a war. But, the Cold War will increase in intensity, and it will either push us over the brink, or capitalism will win out again
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These fascists of the GOP have destabilised trust in our democracy world wide, let alone domestically, and now they have to admit they did it all for NOTHING! Because the cyber ninjas would rather get called shills and accused by Donny of everything under the sun, than go to jail for the rest of their lives, for committing Fraud, Conspiracy, Election Fraud, and 20 other serious offences! Rub their stupid, grasping, evil, anti-democratic noses in their own mess! It’s the only way they’ll learn! ✌️
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@Strawberry Cream : Donny hasn’t done a damned thing, except make it far worse and killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. Biden, whatever people can say about him, is at least planning and will hit the ground running on Jan 20th. I know people are doing their best to plan in America, working around the crumbling order, while they’re focussed on trying to mount a coup. And some of the health professionals, even whole departments, are going off the reservation to do all they can. But, it’s still, uncoordinated chaos, no matter how hard people try. So, until late January, it remains true to say, “There is no plan.” Wouldn’t you agree? Donny just had another Super Spreader Pandumbicon event in Georgia. That will COST LIVES. It’s criminal. And, for the sake of the dead and dying, there must be a Reckoning. Not, “revenge,” but JUSTICE ✌️
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1247.cc : Oh, I’m, “curious,” son. That’s why I want to SEE Trump’s Tax Returns, in full, as promised, BY Trump. But, don’t you worry about my businesses. I’m loaded, and retired. And, considerably better off than Trump, by the looks of things. You KNOW Tump would have SEIZED the opportunity to BOAST, if his tax records could have proved ANYTHING positive about his business history. You KNOW he’s covering his shame. Is he covering crimes, too? Probably. But, the take away for his fans OUGHT to be, “We all kept saying it would be GOOD for America, to have Trump run the country like his businesses? Turns out, he’s RUINING the country’ JUST like his businesses! He’s a FAILURE, by HIS OWN measuring rod, and we have been HAD!”
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Boombox ATC : Yeah, I did pick up on that. That it’s been around for 20 years, or so. But, the fact that it’s, apparently, a well known, “thing,” and Trump does nothing ABOUT IT, is worrying? But, to be honest, I simply spoke to express my horror at learning of this, and then to upset a few Trump Trolls 😁
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@pbrucpaul : They’re going to wind up HATING HIM. One crime and betrayal after another is going to be uncovered, and they were ALWAYS Donny’s biggest scam victims. He will say he’s refusing to attend the Inauguration because he refuses to, “submit,” or, “bend the knee,” to Biden. But he won’t be IN America. Not when there’s warrants and indictments coming for him and his family? And while there’s all that MONEY they’ve handed over to Roger Stone? And, by this time next year, when the Trump’s criminal records prohibits any of them running for office, and there’s a new figure to rally round, for the Alt-Wrong, they won’t even care. They’ll just want their money back 🤣👍
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Does anyone NOT know someone who’s died of Covid? Trump’s brother just died of it! By November, you will . . .
America’s, “election,” is SO RIGGED, it’s laughable. Why you aren’t all choking up the streets, demanding the restoration of the post office, and the Republic, is beyond me? You all act like you WANT a Dictatorship? Trump, his family and the entire GOP Cabinet all KNOW they’re facing serious JAIL TIME, and they’re NOT going to ALLOW you to remove them, whatever it takes. And, that’s because YOU people keep allowing them to GET AWAY WITH MURDER! Still think, “someone else,” is going to save the Republic? How? Why? No one can, without YOU supporting them. Your Republic is dying before your very eyes, and America sits on its ass, watching the Dictatorship unfold on TV . . . Smh
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Realpeopleneverpost : Greco’s desperate, “Whaddabout,” tells you all you need to know about the rise of fascism in America. They can’t pass on their fake, “nationalist,” currency without have another side to print on their coins. BLM is their Bogey Man, the opposite side of the coin, with fascism on one side and a fictional BLM being the only face of the other side that they want you to see. What their passing around is counterfeit, but if enough people keep spending it, would that even matter? And, there’s their, “strategy,” for what it’s worth. Very similar to what they use in Russia. While the GOP’s popularity and actual numbers of supporters shrinks, their actual potency and power is increasing, because they’re Suppressing Votes, Protest and even Education now. The test will be the midterms and they know it. If they lose so much as ONE seat, it’s over for trump and his enablers, so they’ll fight viciously (with racist propaganda too) but, they only need ONE Senate seat, to keep their hopes alive, and to destabilise our Democratic Republic. America is on a knife edge. ✌️
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Agreed. But tell me? Are you not exhausted by the fact that both the left AND the right actually AGREE about, “Defunding the police,” but only about 10% of the right actually knows what it MEANS? We HAVE TO come up with a NEW NAME for it! If you asked Sheriff Buzzcut there, “Would you prefer it if your deputies NEVER had to be social workers, psychiatric nurses, corporate goon’s body guards, or debt collectors for the banks? Would you be happier if they were well funded, well staffed and well equipped, to fight crime, detect crimes and catch bad guys?” What would he say? No? Obviously not.
And then, follow that with, “Did you know that THIS is what we mean by Defunding The Police?” He would tell you that’s not how it’s been explained to him! To which we would ask, “And that person who, ‘explained it to you’ . . . Was he called Ben Shapiro, or Alex Jones, by any chance?” And after Sheriff Shoot’em’up twists in his chair, turns red and says, “Maybe? . . .” We can explain that the left and right BOTH WANT THE SAME THING FOR ONCE! “The right LIED TO YOU, because it’s a dumb name for an obvious solution to a problem that a SIX YEAR OLD could have solved by now!”
The dumbest political disagreement (and embarrassment to America) since the He Who Smelt It Dealt It Wars of 1783! 🤦♂️
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That is a really powerful argument. The hypocrisy of actually dealing with Carlson behind the scenes, a racist and an anti-American agitator of the type that would make Lord Haw Haw blush, is stunning. They need to cut him off. Talk about him in the context of, “Fox,” and the messages they’re broadcasting, without ever specifically identifying which, “personality,” is using any specific talking point, and refuse to show their propaganda at all; for the very reason that it is propaganda! I would love to see you debate these issues with people like Brian Stelter. Anyway. You speak perfect sense, and a moral truth that needs acknowledging, and soon! Thank you. ✌️👍
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@wai828 : Indeed, the list is too long to fit into a YouTube comment. You cannot criticise the government or protest about the Ukrainian war in Russia. That’s enough to be starting with. And if you do criticise Putin, and get any serious kind of following, then you might be shot in the back of the head in front of the Kremlin, tossed out of a high window or poisoned with Novichok (👈 I may have misspelled that last?). Just try getting your phone or tablet out in a busy Moscow train station, airport or bus stop? Faceless police will instantly demand your piece of tech and begin trawling through your emails, text messages and apps to see if you’ve said anything, “controversial,” or are using banned apps. You can go from there directly to jail, “Do Not Pass Go,” and either be looking at 15 years from a kangaroo court, or be offered, “freedom,” in exchange for enlistment in one of Russia’s meat shield units on Russia’s western front! The only comfort right minded people can take from recent developments is that at least the world is seeing Russia and Putin for what they really are now. 👍
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@djjones5715 : Les is right. You really should practice your pomposity on your equals, first? Stay around an IQ level of 40 or so? Work your way up? But, don’t come wading in here, trying to patronise your betters, only to start whining about being hurt by, “names,” once you get a little of your own treatment back? You snivelling Qults are all the same! You’ll stomp on anyone who you think can’t put up a fight, but as soon as anyone gives you better than you can come up with, it’s suddenly, “Don’t call me names, or I’ll tell my mommy,” and, “Why can’t we all be friends?” That’s why people feel such contempt for you, madam. That, and your fascism, obviously 🙄
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@SteveWalkey : In a very real sense, this war is actually World War Three (by other means) being fought on the battlefield of Ukraine in practical terms, but also in the arena of our politician’s offices, diplomat’s postings, business execs board rooms and even in our living rooms. We have all been forced to address the question, “What price freedom?” in our individual and collective ways, as we’re ALL contributing; either by paying more for our fuel, our heating, the cost of food, or by our direct involvement through campaigning, contributing to charities, even volunteering to go there and fight.
Whether deliberately or incidentally, every individual one of us who earns an income of any kind, or is dependant upon a bread winner, anywhere in the free world, is contributing to the battle for freedom by paying at least some real price for this war.
Make no mistake, if Putin had not invaded Ukraine, our inflation, fuel crises and world wide economic downturn would not be occurring today. Just think about that? Putin has destabilised the entire planet and must pay the price for doing so. If he doesn’t, the world will remain under the threat of extortion for the rest of time.
And if you’re still not convinced that you have a dog in this fight (the rhetorical, “you,” in this case) then need I mention that the mere threat of using nuclear weapons in anger, even when it’s clear that no military advantage can be gained by such a wantonly spiteful act of suicidal idiocy, puts every living human at the discussion table with a legitimate stake in the outcome.
This is the World War Three that comes in the age of potential nuclear annihilation, with unstoppable hypersonic missiles at the disposal of the main protagonists. This is the WWIII that we get when Putin knows that the MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) scenario has never been more real. The WWIII we get when Putin could not attack his real target, but thought he could weaken NATO and thereby weaken America, whilst enriching his own country with Ukraine’s rare and precious resources. It’s the WWIII we get when the protagonists simply cannot declare war upon each other because of a hair trigger that would end us all.
This is the endgame for Putin and he knows it. And it is the moment of victory for the free west, that is ours to lose if we do anything clumsy or fumble the ball just as Ukraine crosses the finishing line (if you’ll forgive my mixed metaphors?) which makes it very much like that old joke, “It’s not much of a war, but it’s the only one we’ve got.” In this case, it’s not much of a World War Three, but it’s the only one we dare afford! . . .
It is, “Our War,” as much as anyone’s. We are all in this one and there’s no off ramp, so we MUST see it through to the end. And people like you and me must keep the pressure on our politicians to give Ukraine much better defence systems and weapons, as we have the capability to render all of Russia’s missiles obsolete on the conventional battlefield, yet we’ve only just started offering them to Zelensky!
You have a dog in this fight and it’s as legitimate as anyone else’s, saving a Ukrainians’. After all, you’re paying for it. Anyone who tells you different either doesn’t get it, or is a Russian.
Merry Christmas and, Slava Ukraine. 🇺🇦🎄✌️
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@SuperWilliamholmes : Same answer applies to you as I gave in my last comment. Without kidnapping, “Free,” Americans, all you can do is TELL THEM TO GET THE F’K OUT, and show them where the FREE chopper is, to take them to the airport, a jet, and home. You know what Biden’s administration did, son? From JANUARY? They told them to GET THE F’K OUT! But they wouldn’t do what they were told! Was Joe supposed to, “arrest,” them all, for being free to decide for themselves? Wake up! Get behind America and your troops, even if you can’t get behind your president and are just too partisan to accept that NO ONE could have handled this better? Be a patriot? Just ONCE? Try it on for size?
BTW, full disclosure here: I didn’t read past your first sentence, because I’ve HEARD IT ALL before . . . 🙄🤦♂️ trump trolls are like clones, or cockroaches. All the same, and to be dealt with in the same way, ultimately . . . 🙄
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Steve Schmengle : Way too long, and you, “Whaddabouted,” to the Obamas. Normals won’t read that. We all know that someone trying to tunnel under their wall would be spotted, as would a drone. Same with the Vatican and all the other STUPID, irrelevant, “examples,” you Trolls are pushing. A wall AROUND something is NOT a boarder wall, son. Category error. But, then, this is WHY the Big Blue Wave, sonny. Trolls convinced us 🙂
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Messir : Can we just be clear about this? Your POTUS is selling the very Principle of Democracy to China, Ukraine, Russia, et al, and has CONFESSED to committing serious crimes, AGAINST YOU. People are literally DYING in Hong Kong, and Trump was selling his, “silence.” DYING in Ukraine, and Trump was selling for, “dirt?” Trump Trolls obviously DON’T, “believe,” in Trump, or a damned WORD he says. The question is, are you going to continue being unpatriotic, treating your fellow Americans like THEY were the, “threat,” or are you going to face up to your REAL ENEMIES, America?
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Correction: I double checked this, but Newman did NOT ask Oakshot, “how much,” she got paid. She merely mentioned that she had, “accepted a lot of money,” from Hancock, and seemed to be coming to the question; At what point did you decide to betray his trust? I think Oakshot sensed this difficult question was coming, and the potential for the timeline to show that she already knew Hancock’s darkest secrets and merely plotted to get more out of him until she felt she could get no more, rather than instantly responding in shock to terrible revelations which she felt the public should know? Her response was to very slyly throw up this red herring of getting indignant about a question she had not been asked and to fixate on it, thus (in her own distorted imagination) providing a context for which she could indignantly end the interview. It was a very Rees Mogg type of response in fact, attempting to draw the focus onto a none existent question.
Yes, Newman’s handling was somewhat inept, as I kept expecting her to simply say, “I didn’t ask you how much you were paid and I don’t care. The point is, you took a lot of money to do a job and then decided to betray your client’s trust; something for which you have a history,” or something along those lines. But the whole thing degenerated into a rather unedifying display in the end, which did nothing for either party’s reputation.
However, Newman was right to remind Oakshot that she was as much, “the story,” as Hancock. I think that prospect alarmed her more than anything? The idea that people will be constantly bringing up her history of betrayal and unsubstantiated rumour-mongering, rather than her getting to be the pundit who casts judgement upon the souls of others, probably reminds her that she will one day be sharing a waiting room in Hell with Matt Hancock.
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Hollowhammer : Um? . . . Whuh? . . . 🤔 You mean, this Law Enforcement Officer, hired by, and PAID for by, Congress and the Senate, answerable to Congress’ Judiciary Committee, was actually working for the White House, this WHOLE TIME? And, America, not even Congress, KNEW about this? Oh, I DO LOVE my little exchanges with Trump’s Knuckle draggers; ALWAYS, SO quick to convince themselves that they actually, “know,” something about their own system, and ALWAYS, WITHOUT FAIL, demonstrating that they’ve NEVER read a DAMNED THING that didn’t come off a computer or phone screen, and that didn’t have Alex Q Jones’ finger prints ALL OVER IT! You keep being you, son. You’re ADORABLE 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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enjolras76 : Vote and be prepared, America! How many in the GOP are going to jail? The entire Cabinet and most of the trump family? That’s the ONLY alternative to, “winning,” for a bunch of goons with NO CONSCIENCES. Think about that, America. Bill Barr is not expanding his Secret Police units for your protection, America. What WOULDN’T they do, to avoid life in jail and historic disgrace? Knowing, all the time, that when the TRUTH is finally out, their base will discover that THEY were the ones who were hurt and ripped off the most! Friendless, and hated, written into the school curriculum as TRAITORS; they aren’t just waiting for the arrests, America. Prepare for a FIGHT! ✌️
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@donalkinsella4380 : Why? What I’m curious about there is, why is it my responsibility to make up for the deficiencies in your comprehension skills? Why am I supposed to care about what a troll is told he, “thinks?” I learned, probably before you were born, son, the art of never losing a game is DON’T play. You can’t do your own homework?
When someone walks up out of nowhere and says, “That black object is actually white,” I don’t think, “Ooh, dear me, how am I going to change this person’s mind? How will I sleep nights, knowing this boy is so wrong?” I just think, “There’s a troll. I wonder what went so badly wrong in his life that he decided to abandon logic, critical thinking and decency for a lifestyle based on emotional insecurity and deliberately attempting to, ‘upset,’ people he doesn’t know from the anonymity of his mom’s basement?” It’s s fleeting thought, quickly followed by, “You know what? Actually I really don’t care. Some people take money to saw at the branch they sit on, undermining the very democracy that grants them the right to be a pointless pr*ck. It’s not like he needs punishing or anything. His life is already his punishment enough.” And I get right on with my day. But, since you asked, I hope that answered your question? Have nice day. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦
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Who was it who said, “Politics is about the art of the possible”? In that sense, people vote with a sense of optimism, of possibility, dare I say, “hope,” even? We can forgive lying in politics, but it’s very much about what you lie about, when and how? We interpret political misdirection in certain ways, internalise it and quite often colour the result with our own filters, making some politicians able to get away with more, just because we like them.
Johnson was one such case in point, until he did real, palpable harm to the public. People are still grieving over Covid, Grenfell Tower and various other scandalously mishandled injustices, and they’re taking those grievances to the polling booths in three weeks.
What happened at the end there? Very abrupt and mid-sentence? Did your battery run flat?
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@GhostRaiter : Wrong. There is a huge, undeveloped region within Cremeas waters. Check the records of Shell and Exxon? They bought the rights to develop it, until Putin invaded. Then they found reserves in the Donbas region, and were frightened out of there. Now they’ve found MASSIVE reserves in the west, where Putin can’t get at them. Putin hasn’t invaded Turkey, despite them having American nuclear bases there? They never invaded Norway, despite sharing a border with a, “NATO,” country? Putin is full of sh*t and you should have realised that by now? He says Zelensky is a Nazi! A JEWISH NAZI??? He said, “I have no intention of invading Ukraine,” on the same day he INVADED UKRAINE! Wake up. Time to go to school.
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The irony is that their coverups draw more attention and cause them to be even less popular than the actual things they’re covering up! I mean, who the hell will be even remotely, “surprised,” that all of these WhatsApp messages contain nothing more than a gag reel of sick jokes at the bereaved’s expense, confessions of knowingly doing harm, insider dealing for their friends and family’s brand new, “companies,” meant to provide the protection equipment for hospitals, and MP’s handing off all of their own responsibilities to civil servants!?
My dad, having had a series of mini strokes, was like that protagonist in the Christopher Nolan film Memento, where he couldn’t make new memories and he kept asking for his wife, my mum, whom we’d buried the year before. He had it explained to him over and over again that his four children were not allowed to be with him, and why, but forget again within minutes. So, in his world, he died of Covid, alone, and heart broken, unable to comprehend why he was alone.
After going through a series of loopholes, so I could get permission to attend his funeral, travelling from Scotland to England, I returned home, weary and emotionally exhausted, so I only have myself to blame for putting on a current affairs program. But the first image I saw when I got back, now SEARED into the scar tissue of my neuro-divergent brain, was some Tory press wonk, standing before the agog press and a live camera, ACTUALLY LAUGHING OUT LOUD at the drunken antics of Cabinet members and Number 10 staff at a series of parties for Boris Johnson’s birthday!
I can never relate that vertigo inducing sensation you get when you have been forced against your better judgement to place your trust in the government at a time of genuine, worldwide crisis, only to see that they drunk at the wheel! And LAUGHING IN YOUR FACE! I know there are many out there who went through something similar, some of them with worse mental health issues than me to begin with. And I will NEVER forgive or forget that utterly self-entitled, reckless, arrogant, cruel indifference to the fates of so many trusting fools like me.
So now, when I hear that they want to cover up what we all KNOW we will find - cruelty, selfishness, indifference, arrogance, theft under the guise of business as usual and flat out incompetence - I once again feel that revolutionary RAGE boiling in my blood. It will be good for the country when the Tories are sent into the wilderness and not allowed to re-enter the corridors of power until they’ve culled their far right deliberate antagonists of the people and self enriching Masonic lodge Liberal Economics clubs they call, “think tanks,” altogether. But in the mean time, we have one HELL of a mess to clean up and a MOUNTAIN of hard cash to reappropriate for the people who earned it.
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Indeed. The allies need to get real and authorise a full scale bombing strategy on Russian soil. NOT the Terrorism and war crimes of bombing civilians, hospitals and energy stations. But there are plenty of troop bases, air fields, train lines, ammo dumps, fuel depots, etc, and we should have been stepping up the type of weapons we have provided from the start. Ukraine can and will eject every last Russian boot from Ukrainian soil, from Donetsk to The Crimea, whether we see to that or not. But securing all of that takes a navy and airforce. If we give them that, we will be SAVING vast amounts of blood and treasure.
Write to your representatives, people. TOTAL VICTORY is the only acceptable outcome. Ukraine has sacrificed too much for anything less.
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Damned right! But, maybe you can answer this question?
Just imagine if, during World War II, we had Lord Haw Haw and Tiger Lilly, broadcasting on American soil? Lord Haw Haw, who broadcasted daily radio taunts for the Nazis, to get at the British, was caught, tried and HUNG! Can anyone explain to me how it is, that we now ALLOW Anti-American propagandists to sit on AMERICAN SOIL to undermine the Republic? Many of these racist insurrectionists ACTUALLY BELIEVE the, “steal,” is a THING! Screaming, “Fire!” in a packed theatre is never a, “free speech,” issue! Propaganda is KILLING Americans, and we are at WAR! It’s time we outlawed the Alex Jonestowns, the QAnons, the RT’s, the F*x and Fiends, and criminally charged these insurrectionist LIARS! We have to strike at the roots, to prevent regrowth of the lies. We have to make it a CRIME to broadcast lies! At least, the egregious ones!
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So, I went off to look at the inaugural The Culture Report video, letting Mr Robertson know that it was on the strength of your recommendation that I was there and I must say, I was transfixed. This is not something that MSM seems to be discussing in any detail at all, yet the noises of dissent seem particularly numerous and loud in Russia right now, if TCR is to be believed?
The question for me is more to do with how much his video speaks of hope over judgement? Or whether this guy really has his finger on the pulse and is sensing the real, growing rumblings of change in Russia?
I certainly hope he is right, but only time will tell. He shows clips and clearly uses sources correctly. But, as to how, “controlled,” all of this stuff is remains another question. If Putin is flushing out dissenters, by using agents to speak out, so as to encourage others, in a, “glasnost,” like sham, just to identify these people for a new, “hit list,” it wouldn’t be the first time.
I’ll give this guy a chance and follow his channel for now, to see where this leads, if anywhere.
But, I do disagree about Putin being dead (you offer no sources or links to follow up on that assertion that I know of) and I do believe that if he were to be bumped off or, like Nikita Khrushchev after the Cuban Missile Crisis, forced into, “early retirement,” that would present Russia with a face saving opportunity to withdraw troops from Ukraine (either partially or entirely) and seek a, “reset,” with with west in return for sanctions relief. Do you not see that as a possibility?
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Emilio Nazario : Trump Trolls always reach for the nuclear button, don’t they. Yeah, I’m sure you’d like to see Hawaii and California campaign for, “independence,” too, right? Tell me? Why do you HATE America so much? I realise this is your, “job,” and all, but even a housebound, cellar dweller, like you, could earn money on the web, doing something less malicious? Did we invade your country or something? 🤔
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corryjookit : Yeah, it was . . . “Interesting,” to see how Deutsche Bank was suing Trump for $ billions; how he pulled his old trick, of counter suing, so as to make it not worth their while, in terms of time, resources and cash, to keep on suing him, or just to buy himself time if he lost; and then, out of the clear blue sky, Deutsche Bank DROPPED their suit against Trump and lent him EVEN MORE than they were suing him for???
But, Putin’s control of Deutsche Bank, and the fact that we outed three Russian SPIES, who’s cover was working for Deutsche Bank (two of whom fled to Moscow and the third pleaded guilty to being a Russian spy and went to prison); all achieved by SURVEILLANCE OF CARTER PAGE, couldn’t POSSIBLY be LINKED to THIS STORY, could it??? SURELY, NOT??? Hmmmmm? . . .
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I doubt trump would get anywhere NEAR the same number of votes after Jan 6th? Especially since all the anti-democratic stuff the GOP have done, even since then?! Throw in, actually voting to DEFUND the police! TWICE! Now, they’ve got the official announcement of the cyber ninjas to look forward to, saying, “Sorry Donny, get over it, you lost.” The shame, embarrassment and expense of that, after all the Qult members threw money at it. Support has been tailspinning for the Republicans, ever since the election and trump is worth less than half the votes he got on Nov 7th 2020. It’s over for him, but they just don’t know it yet. Come 2022, they’ll finally get it. When they get stomped into a purge. ✌️
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@dragonfly6908 : Of COURSE you, “care,” madam. You’re Copy&Pasting it over and over again, spending time on a channel you hate, talking to people you hate, about other people you hate, as you’ve been doing for 5 LONG YEARS now! If you, “don’t care,” you must be getting paid? Either way, both make you not worth anyone’s precious time, OR their precious CLICKS. Sorry, Karen 🥺🤷♂️ . . . 😋
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Robert Johnson : I have LITERALLY HANDED you the PROOF! You REFUSE to LOOK. You hoped to back-peddle out of it, by getting REAL, “specific,” about what you’ll accept as, “evidence,” but you picked a bad example, son, because IT IS IN THE BOOKS. You literally sound like Trump, now: flat out denial! “Black is white, which is why I feel unsafe at Zebra Crossings!” READ IT and WEEP! But, DON’T LIE that there’s, “No PROOF,” when it’s STARING you in the FACE! 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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@dbzkidkev2 : And don’t forget that the authors, in order to qualify, don’t just have to pay publishing fees, but they also have to submit copyright to the university or educational institution where they did their work. Your thesis could be a massive breakthrough in physics, but you don’t own any of it. Academia is broken and does suck. And it doesn’t surprise me that senior academics will be among the first to take that accusation personally.
But I noted two things of real concern to me that undermine this video’s credibility:
1) Why didn’t he try to speak to her about this first, before publishing an explosive allegation packed video with a click bait title? I mean, if he is sincere, surely fixing the problem would be way more important to him than publicising it, wouldn’t it? Yet instead, he has drawn a clear line of division between them, offering no face saving way for Sabine Hossenfelder to change her ways without seeming to be brow beaten?
2) Whatever you or I might think of his arguments, we both know empirically that he is no mind reader. Yet he claims on multiple occasions to know her precise motivations for saying all of the things she has said? And he finds all of those motivations to be of the worst possible, bad faith, kind? How does he know this?
I know for a fact that he has taken at least some of these excerpts he used out of context, as I remember the videos. And he is very fast and loose when it comes to conflating her opinions with her assertions about the facts, regardless of having no basis on which to do so.
I know for an empirical fact that he has totally misunderstood the debate in physics about the, “impasse,” which exists. Even the string theorists do not debate that the impasse exists and that it happens to be the main focus of almost every top theoretical physicist’s work right now. Listing all of the latest achievements resulting from practical physics and recent experiments like that was as good as saying, “I don’t get what that debate is about,” and purely demonstrated his ignorance.
I am left wondering what his real motives are, since he didn’t try to solve the problem but rather just went into attack mode in a click bait titled video?
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@jacknotreallyjackstrawfrom7109 : Yeah, we remember the Mueller Report. Let’s see, after Chapter One, over ten Obstructions of Justice, and he’s still likely to be prosecuted for all of those, along with Bill Barr. But, Chapter One itself? That got trump’s ENTIRE 2016 Campaign Team indicted and CONVICTED for betraying America with Russia. The only exceptions were Rudy and Donny himself. And Rudy is about to go down, followed shortly by Donny. And I can tell you’re scared about that, because you’re HERE, living on CNN, talking to people you HATE about people you HATE on a channel that you HATE. Your life didn’t exactly work out for you, did it, son? 😋
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There has to be a Reckoning, when this is under control. Not revenge. But the price of Justice, paid in full. If this horror is allowed to pass, unpunished, we will have emboldened our enemies both foreign and domestic. They’ll know that hundreds of thousands of Americans can be slaughtered by inaction, greed, stupidity and the deliberate, malicious politicisation of a none-political pandemic. America’s greatest humanitarian DISASTER was utterly preventable. If the country is ever to heal again, they must be offered SWIFT JUSTICE, and the culprits punished to the fullest, harshest extent of the law. Examples must be made, to deter anyone from even entertaining the notion of another trump. Otherwise, America has only bought itself a 4 year reprieve from the Republic’s inevitable Execution, under a dictator who is every bit the sociopath that Donny was, but with charm, and the ability to finish a sentence without sounding like a teenager with a behaviour disorder and a head injury. JUSTICE MATTERS ✌️
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@darkcomet1607 : Putin has been lying to you about that, “Dumbass,” region, madam. 🤦♂️ In the same way he lies about everything. “I don’t intend to invade Ukraine,” was repeated on the same day he invaded Ukraine. “We will not attack civilians,” was a corker, wasn’t it? How about Zelensky being a Jewish, “Nazi”? Did ya’ fall for that one too? Why do you think so many Russian soldiers have surrendered or refused to fight? They thought they were going to, “liberate Ukraine from Nazi oppressors,” until they GOT THERE, kid! The ONLY thing you can be certain of is, if Putin says it, the OPPOSITE is true! NO ONE BELIEVES YOUR HORSE SH*T, madam! 🤣
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Todd's Tropicals : Just how much HATE and DIVISION has taken hold of America’s soul? That’s what the GOP are putting to the country. Do you HATE Dems, Liberals and anyone outside the Cult of Trump, just ENOUGH to allow Trump to walk away with a slap on the wrist, “Censure?” Are there ENOUGH Americans, who HATE other races, SO MUCH, that they’re WILLING to BURN the Constitution? The Trumps are facing DISGRACE AND JAIL, if he’s kicked out, so you KNOW that 2020 will be RIGGED, right? The Cult WANTS that. The END of the Republic is FINE with them, so long as they can maintain a SHAM, “Democracy,” like Putin’s. The Republic is falling
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It’s a worrying statistic if you’re a monarchist, I suppose. And if that survey company is a reliable one, which I can’t guess at. I have always been a republican (with a small, “r”) despite having huge admiration for Queen Elizabeth II’s character and personality. Though I hear the arguments in support of the institution with a sympathetic ear, largely because I respect our nation’s history and ideas about continuity. And because I do see the royals as having a hugely beneficial role to play in diplomacy and what they call, “the feel good factor,” of the nation. I site those examples above tourism, though the coin tourism generates is not to be sniffed at.
I do not doubt for a moment that Elizabeth would, “put him away,” now, regardless of her alleged request of Charles that he, “look after,” Edward on her deathbed. A request that could be read in any number of ways.
The royal family has the resources to offer Edward a reasonable income and a comfortable retirement in a foreign land and to keep the whole thing within the family, without touching the public purse. And, as you indicated yourself, we have precedent for this in the Wallace Simpson case.
A monarch’s first loyalty must be to his country, or s/he renders the institution obsolete. The moment that family becomes a liability to the public good, the clamour of republicanism will grow all the louder and carry more weight. And, to stand by Edward at this point, is to signal the world that moral degeneracy is acceptable to the royals and stands up there as a symbol of who we are as Britains, which is after all, what their role is. They represent what Britain is as the, “model,” family. This was why Edward VIII’s position was considered untenable, because the institution can never be seen to place personal loyalties above the public good.
Even Edward VII, who’s proclivities were infamous in his own lifetime, never stooped to the exploitation of underage girls! The fact that Edward’s track record is also tainted with scandal speaks to character flaws that have run unchecked for too long. At least the succession is secure and he no longer stands to inherit the throne if something unforeseen happens to Charles. Cold comfort to his victims.
Cold comfort for people like me, who have witnessed the fierce, manipulative and deceitful face of child sexual abuse first hand. Whatever happens, Charles is the soul responsible party now. It’s his job.
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sulfier bloodline : Let me just stop you there, at the first sentence? Not ONE General has said a WORD that, “supports,” ANY of Trump’s SUICIDAL, “policies.” Yet, several Generals have spoken out AGAINST Trump. So, where is this, “love,” of which you bleat, like an effeminate, “victim,” of the, “white minority,” who gets all his, “News,” from the sides of Milk Cartons, and the Fox Headlines he can read through store windows? Even Trump’s BFF, General Flynn is working for the Feds, so WTF are you GIBBERING about? 🤣
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@JeffreyGoddin : Because he’s a GOP goon, trying to win his way back into their good graces, after deciding not to go down with the TrumpTanic. All they want to focus on is, “ID,” because that make them sound, “reasonable,” (unless you don’t drive a car?) and to keep the debate AWAY from the fact that it’s targeted at minorities. Who are the poorest Georgians, who’ll have zero recourse when their GOP voting boss won’t let his workers have time off to vote? When the polling stations all CLOSE as soon as they finish work? Which minority traditionally votes on Sunday with their churches? Better take the whole Sunday then! Anyone who thought this guy was honest, just because he’s not as stupid as Donny, has just had their wake up call. He’s a member of the GOP in GEORGIA, for crying out loud! He’s obviously racist!
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You’re all waiting for an election that is CLEARLY NOT GOING TO HAPPEN! And then you’ll protest, when it’s ALREADY TOO LATE, and Bill Barr’s Secret Police units will be expanded enough to suppress you, all over America. You should be halting the country NOW, and getting in front of their election RIGGING, while they’re still vulnerable? But, you’re all still hoping that it will magically get sorted out, like every other legal and Constitutional process has FAILED to do in the last 4 years! Maybe America wants a Dictatorship, in its heart of hearts? That’s the only explanation I can think of? Why else are you sitting on your asses, while they literally, BLATANTLY, STEAL YOUR REPUBLIC?
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@Robert Taylor : A) Mitch has ZERO control over, “fuel prices.” If you want those to drop, you need to stop supporting the party that is not even being rented by the Texas Oligarchs anymore, but are BOUGHT, OUTRIGHT. What TF made you, “think,” Mitch could do ANYTHING about oil prices?
B) There are ZERO, “Conservatives,” in the GOP. Anyone who supports Trumpism is suicidally racist. Sorry to break it to you, but there are still some people, dumb enough not to know when they’re being RACIST, like when they refer to their own children (whom you made up) as, “Halfricans.” But, you’re only pretending not to KNOW you’re using racist terms to express your racism, right?
C) I didn’t read past your RACISM, because it’s empirically IMMORAL to waste actual TIME on Propaganda. Especially the Trumpoganda of the Trumpophile. Case closed. 🙄
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IK Rico : Trump has given us the exact reverse of what he offered, while conning his Cult into thinking he hasn’t. It’s just insanity. He was TOLD what would happen, if he withdrew Aid from Venezuela, and other South American countries; an influx of Asylum Seekers. He did it KNOWING he was CAUSING the crisis, so he could work up his racist base into a frenzy and, “justify,” his wall. Same with the Tax Bill, within months of getting in, he took $1.5 TRILLION, for his donors and his family, and because he talks like a blue collar drunk, they, “think,” he’s like them. They’ve ALL been CONNED and they’re too ashamed to admit it. The Republic is dying of SHAME and EMBARRASSMENT . . . Smh 👍
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AllieHeart : I take your point. And I DO ignore a lot of the empty statements. But, when “people” show up, trying to sell a false narrative, I feel the prod to put the TRUTH out there, so that those who are in doubt about what to think, have the facts at their disposal, if they choose. Some LIES just CANNOT go unanswered. Sometimes, it’s just the right thing to do. But, I NEVER EVER respond to the Troll, per se, but put things out their for the people to read. Given that Trolls are either from the Trump-Cult of Gravity Deniers, or being paid to, “turn their comments into cash,” by a Russian Shell Company, or Just Russians, I NEVER expect to argue any sense into them. I simply demonstrate to the world that their “arguments” are baseless. And people can SEE, the Trolls get frustrated, in the face of the TRUTH so, they either disappear, or they get abusive and THEN disappear. But, ANYONE following the thread, will KNOW by then, just WHO was being honest.
Can you see where I’m coming from?
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“Whaddaboutism,” is the ONLY thing trump trolls run on. Imagine in the real world, where the, “Jury,” refused to look at the evidence? Where they doodle instead, and Tweet about breast milk, like Ted Cruz? Or where, like Lindsay Graham, a so called, “Juror,” locks himself away with the Defence Team, to coach them for two hours??? They would be facing criminal charges and Contempt! And people wonder why America is turning to shit, when we have these goons setting the, “example,” of our, “best and brightest?”??? What do they have on Leningrad Lindsay? . . . SMH
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@rinoponce1537 : Both, “arguments,” are wrong. And, by your, “logic,” when trump is found, “not guilty,” there would be riots all over America, by ANTIFA, wouldn’t there? And, when that doesn’t happen, yet another of your lies will be exposed. But they could put senior GOP members on the witness stand? That would break the GOP in two 😉
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@LisaGTrueCrimeGuru : It seems a lot of people don’t realise that the FCC has to receive complaints from the public, before they can DO ANYTHING about the lies, sedition and pro-Russian propaganda that’s broadcast on Fox? All it would take would be enough people to coordinate their complaints on the same specific issue and send them to the FCC, who are charged with protecting the public and responding to complaints with investigations; and who have the power to fine companies, force them to issue retractions and apologies and can even close them down, and the people of America might be able to put a stop to Fox altogether? And, yes. There would be a tit-for-tat response from the right, complaining to the FCC about CNN & MSNBC. But, so what? They won’t have any basis to make a complaint that would stick? And, even if the FCC legitimately found something wrong with either channel, that would be a good thing. They won’t refuse to apologise, like they always do if they make a mistake. But, Fox would have to protect itself by shutting down its propaganda wing, or go out of business. It could change politics in America, if enough people bothered to put in formal, articulate complaints, with genuine points to them? . . . Just a thought . . . 🤔✌️👍
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Bottom line is: Could this have been prevented? Yes. In what way? A vetting and routine re-evaluation system that flags sociopaths in the police, medical and armed services: not a, “one size fits all,” but a standard practice and procedure that we can look to as our benchmark for measuring all trusted professionals in, what should be after all, “vocational,” occupations.
Everything after that is cosmetic. Enhancing our rights to double check a cop by dialling 999 will be abused by some (especially the drunk and mentally ill, but also other sociopaths) and frequently lead to confrontations. You would most likely be prevented unless you were locked in your car, and even then a cop can later claim, “exigent circumstances,” for smashing your window in a rage.
No, only root and branch reform and a cultural norm of what we expect from vetting and review will work. Surely we all get that, right?
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@greenkitty82 : Remove the capacity for empathy and sympathy from a person’s brain and you have yourself a sociopath. The bigger question is how a sociopath gets to be a police officer for 20 weeks, let alone 20 years?
Every single expert, despite their different agendas and perspectives, have all agreed on one thing: the clues were all there. They all say, had those clues all been put together in one place; his debts, his connections with shady underworld figures, his disciplinary record for sexual assaults, etc, this sociopath would have been kicked out of the police force, long, long ago.
The only question that remains for us (for those of us who want to prevent other such cases, and uncover any others that may yet be out there?) is what are we going to do about this? Surely it’s vetting and reviewing procedures that need to change?
I would call for single standard that covers all vocational professions where public trust is at issue? Covering the medical, care, armed and police services. A benchmark standard that is comprehensive, easy to understand because it’s built on common sense and basic moral principles, and that applies equally to all? Does that seem like a big ask? Because people love acronyms so much, call it Trust and Universal Standards (STU) or something? A points system could apply, like on driver’s licences? Too many points and you can no longer serve in trusted professions?
Of course MP’s and senior civil servants wouldn’t be keen on having it apply to them, but they might get on board if it didn’t? ✌️
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@junedimond1693 : Gas prices went up in Texas, not here, kid. That’s blue states for ya’. Taxes haven’t risen. You seriously going to pretend there was no, “crisis,” at the border, while Donny was there? 🤦♂️ partisan hackery is so lame. Give Joe a chance to clean up trump’s Concentration Camp mess??? They’re still looking for missing CHILDREN! But, you can always count on prices going up, sooner or later (funny how they never go down, right?) and, “blame,” whomever, when you’re a racist hack with no ideas. But, forget that Covid’s coming under control and people are getting their vaccinations, despite the sabotage of trump’s goons. Forget all the Green Energy jobs he’s creating, or his plan to offer everyone work with an FDR style Infrastructure Package (something Donny was meant to be good at, yet didn’t even look at!) or that he’s going to reform the voting system, so everyone gets an equal vote and killing off suppression. Forget that investment is already coming back, or that we’re no longer on the brink of war every other week, depending if trump remembered to kiss Kim in his DM’s. America just feels better. 75% of the population can’t be completely wrong about Joe? Maybe they’re just relieved he didn’t ONCE seek revenge on any of the GOP Qults who tried to destroy the Republic, literally!? By voting to overturn a democratic election DURING an violent Insurrection? You should be grateful the FBI aren’t at your door? Oh, that’s right. You’re not IN America, are you? . . . SMH 🤦♂️
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dominic pelle : Gotta’ hand it to you; both for your patience with the Trollarazzi and for your CRUSHING of, “Spidey,” Parker, with pure FACTS. Not sure I could find the patience to bother, given that his JOB is to Shill in the face of ANY TRUTH, and hold up the Pro-Putin, Pro-Trump, Propaganda line, no matter what. But, as the guy said in Blade Runner, “You did a man’s job,” sir. 10 out of 10 for TRUTH and ELOQUENCE 🙂👍✌️
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“The steal,” was the REASON for the Insurrection! So, let the GOP give their, “evidence,” for, “believing,” in it at trump’s IMPEACHMENT TRIAL!? Or confess that they KNOW it’s a seditious LIE!? For the world to see! Graham, Hawley, Cruz and the rest, for the benefit of Q, the Nazis, and the cult of trump! THAT will put an END to the lie and maybe the GOP too!?
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Bob : They try to work around Trump, but no, not really. Trump Trolls only like Trump’s racism and greed, so long as the economy doesn’t melt; apart from the paid foreigners. They Fake Believe. They always have. They KNOW they can’t, “convince,” anyone, or, “win,” an argument. Their, “Job,” is to sew and maintain DIVISION: the oxygen that sustains Trump. Their Fake, “Belief,” makes everything they say suddenly make perfect sense ✌️
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Oh . . . The, “cult,” of Putin. Thought it said something more accurate there . . .
Russia’s people are pretending not to see, but they KNOW the truth, and they make me sick. You can’t be suffering the humiliation of cops doing random spot checking of your phones, arresting people left and right, and shutting down all news, apps, papers and radio stations, and pretend you, “believe,” anything!
I don’t care what they say. It’s just a cultural expression of denial. If we have to starve them into waking up, so be it. An adult doesn’t fall for Propaganda. You have to WANT to be lied to. Weeds need fertile soil in which to grow. Look at education levels in Russia? One brain drain after another, and actively state encouraged ignorance. Superstitious belief systems and a Third World mentality that is evident by the way they torture, bomb, rape and murder their way across Ukraine.
I have no sympathy for them anymore.
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@Токаев-изменникродины-т3и : Ukraine has bigger gas and oil reserves than Russia, according to Shell, Exxon and BP, who bought the rights to develop it and make Ukraine a wealthy powerhouse. Putin has prevented any development, first in Crimea, then the Donbas region. Now they’ve confirmed the biggest reserves yet, by the Carpathian Mountains, in the West of Ukraine, where Putin can’t reach without stealing the whole country. He doesn’t want to develop the sights himself. He wants to ensure that NO ONE does.
In other words, this in an armed robbery; pure and simple. To prevent a democracy from competing with Russia’s economy on the open market. Like burning down your rival’s factory. Pure mafia stuff, by a TINY group of Kremlin Kleptocrats, many of whom were not even kept inside Putin’s loop.
Putin has to go now. Before any kind of, “normality,” can be resumed. And our Tory government helped enable this. Time for them to go too.
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Oh yes . . . She knows . . . Senior GOP members are going to be forced to admit that the reason for the Insurrection, “The Steal,” ain’t real! They cannot refuse testimony, or take the 5th. And the cult of trump is going to hear from the mouths of Graham, Hawley, Cruz, Giuliani, and the trump’s, that they LIED to their cult! They gave up their liberty, their jobs, their futures and have criminal records, for a GOP LIE! Out of trump’s loser head!
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Mitch Z: Do you CRINGE when they make you write that crap? The GOP are in smokey back rooms this weekend, planning for, “After Trump,” because they realise that this could happen to THEM. They don’t WANT Trump to get away with framing Biden, who’s record is pretty exemplary and very long. They’re all thinking, “if he can rewrite Biden’s history, SO BLATANTLY, when we all KNOW it’s a big fat LIE, imagine what he could do to ME, with MY dodgy history?” This is not like how you fools Jumped The Shark with Hillary, this time, son. This one is too close to home. Sorry
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Russ!a : You don’t know what the word, “raid,” means, any more than you do, “Globalist,” it seems? We all KNOW there’s a STACK of cash in Trump’s coffers, and that NONE of you will get a refund, from that GoFundMe, when the wall is NEVER started, let alone built. That’s HOW the Dead Money Scam WORKS, son . . . You all throw good money after bad, too embarrassed to admit that you were CONNED by a man with an IQ level lower than your PET’S! 🤣
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Debra Dunbar : Exactly right. Even the person who called the cops conceded that they were NEVER, “aggressive,” confirming what all the witnesses said. Simply saying, “No, I will not leave,” to someone, may have been alarming to an inexperienced snowflake, like that manager, but his / her suspicions came from a pure place racist profiling. That manager needs better training. But, the people who were most at fault, were the police, in this situation, who fell into that all too common groove of acting as private security for local businesses, without doing their actual jobs, which it to keep the peace. Instead, they inflamed the situation. I wonder what they logged on their arrest reports? “Reusing to leave a cafe?” “Recklessly wanting to use the washroom?” “Wearing a loud shirt in a built up area?” Their commander will have torn shreds off them for this, but the FOCUS should be on THEM. You DON’T HAVE TO obey a cop, JUST BECAUSE HE’S A COP? He has to be giving you a LAWFUL order, based upon written, constitutional law. I hope they sue these cops
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Lorilee Myers : Yes, the death toll is higher than they admit. And, yes, they’ve screwed up the testing system so badly, they’ve rendered it useless with long delays for results. However, so long as they vaccinate children in schools, I don’t really care what their racist, trump supporting parents do. So long as they can’t take the innocents with them, why should we care? A whole useless third of society, America’s ruptured appendix, can perform a Trumpectomy on America, and die off, (killed by one mutation of Covid or another? There have already been six of them), doing all of us, “Normals,” a favour.
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“Nothing new,” as you say, but worsening by the day. Barr is the most dangerous man in America, and the ONLY reason trump is still with us. The unmarked SS, “cops,” are Barr’s idea; the attack on protestors, like the March of the Upside Down Bible, Barr’s idea. Publicly naming BLM as a, “leftist, terrorist, Democrat conspiracy against the president,” literally words from his lips. Telling trump which of our top cops to fire, to protect trump corruption, and which yes men to replace them with, all Barr. It was only a question of time before some of the lies and corruption would be exposed. But will that change ONE, God Damned thing? No. We can no longer, “save,” our Republic. First we have to RESTORE IT! ✌️
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However ill conceived, idiotic, DEADLY and shambolic this, “event,” on the 6th was, it was NOT, “spontaneous.” It was a planned and plotted Conspiracy, to have a COUP! And, every single one of these dweebs from trump on down to his Confederate Karen foot soldiers, needs a HARSH sentence! It will all come out. The pieces are falling together, and they’re already ratting each other out! . . . Traitors all ✌️
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Lucy Yin : Thank you. SERIOUSLY. For pointing that out. The Trolls are DESPERATE to paint it as a, “left V right,” battle, because the complexities of the real world are unmanageable for them. It’s, “Identity Politics,” ALL THE WAY, for them. If, like me, you are a, “conservative,” in values, you are ALSO more likely to, LIKE ME, be VOTING DEMOCRAT at the Mid Terms, as the EXTREMIST administration we have now, has broken EVERY SINGLE DEFINITION of what conservatism MEANS: reckless spending; increasing the debt for the next generation, by UNPRECEDENTED levels, attacking the free press, delegitimising vote outcomes and opposition politicians, attacking their own COLLEAGUES, criminalising people who disagree with them. The GOP and ESPECIALLY Trump, are EXTREMISTS of the STALINIST type, which is WHY Trump has EVEN QUOTED STALIN, in public speeches! The most HORRIFIC thing being, HE DID IT ACCIDENTALLY! It was by INSTINCT that he called the free press, “The Enemy of the People!” If THAT wasn’t ENOUGH for people, NOTHING WILL BE. Conservatives AND Liberals must remain UNITED. The ACTUAL, “paradigm,” is Trump and the STALINIST GOP, Versus Democracy
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How to tell when an interview is not good: Just jump to random points throughout the video about 5 or 6 times. Now, each time you jumped, who was talking? The interviewer, or the interviewee? When I did it, it was the interviewer every single time. And poor Anders was looking increasingly disillusioned.
It’s only my personal opinion, but a good interview draws out the guest, encourages them to expand on a topic and, in skilful hands, may even say something unexpected or revealing that they haven’t said in other interviews. Sometimes, these kinds of interviews seem to be more about the insecurities of the interviewer, attempting to establish their own credentials, expertise or credibility, by occupying all of the air time.
A frustrating experience.
I say all of this as an admirer of this interviewer and of his channel, otherrwise. But I just don’t feel he has trained for interviewing, or learned to apply his other skills to live interviewing. Unless you intend to debate with your guest, you should not talk any more than you need to, to get your guest talking, expanding on their answers, speculating or analysing.
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I’m just glad that those panelists called out that presenter’s childish attitude toward MSM. How do people with such unsophisticated and blatantly agenda-driven attitudes get to present serious news shows anyway? Note: when they challenged the simplicity and prejudice of his statements and went on to explain why it was dangerous to exploit his platform for undermining the public trust in their news outlets (giving examples too) he quickly retreated back to the story in hand. The refuge of the vacuous is to dodge any adult responsibility and quickly throw up chaff in hopes of avoiding having to be a grown up. I just wish they’d refused to let him off the hook so easily and pressed their points a little harder. The idiot is sawing at the branch he sits on, wishing in his heart that he could command the audiences of Channel 4 or the BBC, but like all populists these days, he is not willing to work for that, do journalism or stand in the cold streets talking to politicians. He wants it handed to him on a plate, resents the fact that it hasn’t been, and his complaints about the adults in the room is that the public treats real news like adult information, instead of, “choosing,” their news and their, “preferred narrative,” as though that could do anything other than harm.
If I thought that any grownups were bothering to read my rant, I would go on to explain how it’s rock bottom, lazy labelling epithets like the ones people like him, Liz Truss, Boris Johnson and (famously now) Suella, “Goodness Gracious Me Character,” Braverman use, that merely appeal to the lowest common denominator of political opinion, actively CREATING the Tory party that we have now!
By sloganising, ranting and diminishing every serious issue down to a catchphrase of victimised complaint, they have turned the politics of grievance into a way of life. The result is that the Tories have flung open their doors to every closet racist, every far right prepper, every angry sexually inadequate incel, every money grubbing, tax dodging, offshore leach and every single reckless agenda in the country, leaving them with an utterly UNGOVERNABLE party, made up of competing agendas and nothing else! The only thing that unites the Tories right now is their equally ungovernable GREED, coupled with their certain knowledge that they are facing a potential generation in the wilderness, which makes them more DANGEROUS to Britain’s interests than ever!
The mere fact that so many Tory MP’s are saying out loud that they want Boris back, while the country looks on in horror and disgust at the very thought of bringing back the man who was DISGRACED out of power this year, tells you all you need to know about how tone deaf, obtuse and egregiously self serving the Tory agenda is now! What can we expect from a party that has been empirically PROVEN to be morally unfit, fiscally irresponsible, behaving politically like neophytes and constantly prepared to bicker in front of cameras about the country’s finances, whilst having NOTHING to say about the threat of DEATH for the vulnerable who cannot afford to heat and eat at the same time!?
Well, OBVIOUSLY, they’re going to clean out the shop and loot what remains before they get kicked out! Bankers can expect huge bonuses, businesses will get huge tax breaks, and new laws will be imposed to criminalise anyone who complains about the sheer unfairness of having a bunch of greedy children raiding their futures in front of their faces. Britain’s closing down sale has begun and these goons are going to feather their nests and get away with bloody murder, not to go and hang their heads in shame in some quiet corner of the universe, but to live it large on the lecture circuit, having holidays in exotic locations and emailing editorials to The Sun and The Telegraph from the Algarve, secure in the knowledge of a forthcoming gong, knighthood, seat in The Lords, and/or some cushy, “advisory,” position for a company that only wants the name of an ex-cabinet minister on their doors and letter headings and don’t actually want them to show up for work, except on the odd occasion when they’re getting them to use their Westminster contacts to fix policies for the best financial outcome for their company, regardless of the harm they do to the planet, our rule of law or the country’s future.
And all guys like this ignorant pr*ck, presenting a show he’s not qualified to be a guest on, can say is, “Oh, oh, main stream media, mieh mieh mieh,” like the insufferable professional, “victim,” he is! But, no . . . I don’t resent idiots like him being jealous of the adult news organisations in the world, or exploiting his privileged position to cry about how he doesn’t have even more privileges. I just look at him like I would a tumour; You can’t reason with the disease. You can remove it and hope that doing so doesn’t further damage the host, as the screams of entitlement of victimhood will be heard across the nation, no doubt . . . 🙄
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Multi407D : Maybe so, but that’s a question of personal taste. Regardless of whether you were, “entertained,” or not, I presume you were not, “offended,” by what she said, nor would you question her RIGHT to be, “fairly dull,” if people are willing to pay her for that, right?
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Multi407D : To be honest, I’m pretty much in agreement. Much of her performance was clumsily delivered and clearly meant to offend. But, the cleverness was in the fact that she, as she often pointed out herself, simply stated facts. I too am “conservative” in values, which automatically makes me opposed to this radical, extremist administration, who have screwed us for generations by putting us in the highest debt EVER (regardless of inflation adjustment) when there was clearly NO NEED, ONLY GREED, and with Real Estate Developers getting the BIGGEST, PERMANENT cuts, while throwing out a TEMPORARY sop, to the disenfranchised masses. The EXPLOSION we have witnessed, is ALL coming from Trump’s Stalinists, who HATE FREE SPEECH, because the TRUTH reflects BADLY on THEM.
Calling the press, “The enemy of the people,” is a DIRECT QUOTE from Stalin. The fact that Trump does it out of INSTINCT, not KNOWING his history, is CHILLING to me.
Have you noticed that Trump ONLY ATTACKS OUR ALLIES AND AMERICAN PEOPLE, INSTITUTIONS, LAW AND ORDER, WOMEN, BUSINESSES, EVEN HIS OWN FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES? While he sucks up to DICTATORSHIPS?
This is the REASON that Wolf’s remarks SEEM so, “incendiary.” Because they a Stalinist, trying to END DEMOCRACY. That’s WHY I will be voting Democrat at the Mid Terms; in the HOPE of SAVING DEMOCRACY. Moments like this Correspondent’s Dinner, only serve to highlight the problem
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A couple of months ago, I tripped and fell headlong through the side of my green house. I have a back problem that makes it really difficult for me to get up from a fall. As I lay there on my back, bleeding profusely from my hands and forearms, I looked up to see a large pain of jagged glass swing loose and drop like a guillotine for my throat. Needless to say, I rolled out of the danger zone just in time, taking most of the blow on my well protected upper back.
The thought that raced through my 55 year old brain, in that moment of (and this really does happen) slowed down time, from realisation to escape, was, “I’ve left so much un-done!” along with a powerful sensation of guilt at the thought of my wife coming home to find her semi-decapitated husband in the garden.
This isn’t all about me, though. My point being that; I t’s kind of odd that our experiences could be so different, yet the same, don’t you think? Yours has given you a kind of inner peace (the sort of thing you might expect from an older man) whilst my near death experience kind of did the opposite. It’s imbued me with a sense of urgency and need to sort a lot of stuff out, like my last will and testament, for instance😉.
Yet both of us have come away with a refreshed and . . . “improved,” outlook on life. At the time, my Apple Watch went a bit crazy, with its fall detection threatening to contact all my loved ones and the ambulance service if I didn’t tell it not to by the end of the countdown. The simple act of deactivating that kind of snapped me out of it, so to speak, telling me, “You’re hurt, but you’ll be fine.”
I now have a sense of resolve about completion with everything, from sorting out fractures in old relationships, to getting all of the collectibles in Red Dead Redemption Two! It has effected my work and my play.
My question for you would be: Did anything crystallise for you, about your future? And did that feeling stay with you? Or has it been diluted at all, by time?
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There’s always a reason. If it looks insane, it’s just because we’re not seeing it. But, I know what’s going on. And I’ll take bets from anyone who doubts me. It’s Donny’s last big scam. The cult of trump is on the verge, right now. They’re about to get their biggest ever wake up call, from the Donster himself. He’s madly raising as much cash from them as he can for his, “legal challenges,” but it’s actually his GETAWAY FUND. By the time they realise he was only dodging all those warrants and indictments pending, he will be out of their reach, in a none-extradition-treaty country, with the worst GOP offenders by his side, and a butt load of THEIR CASH in his offshore accounts! But, at least his cult will collapse, so there’s that? 🤣👍
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You all KNOW why. And you all carry on acting like someone else can save you, without YOU getting involved! Do you WANT a Dictatorship? You have to get out there, NOW! They are RIGGING the, “elections.” Florida is ALREADY, “decided.” They’re literally STEALING post boxes off of the streets! It will be TOO LATE to, “protest,” in November, when they’re ready for you! Do something NOW, or regret it forever! The GOP are terrified of JAIL TIME, and they WON’T ALLOW ELECTIONS! Demand the RESTORATION OF YOUR REPUBLIC AND DEMOCRACY, AND YOUR POST OFFICE!!!
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Norma Ragland : John Bolton wants to bomb every country on the planet, in a preemptive strike. We can at least, be happy he’s not in government any more. But, I won’t be taking, “advice,” from him. Sure, he’s right that Kim is playing him, and thinks Trump’s an idiot, because he is. But, unless we remove the Clear and Present Danger that is Trump, there’s a million other ways he’ll destroy America and the world. Trump was an awful mistake, caused by lies, manipulation from foreign powers and Trump’s ONLY source of power; DIVISION
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REAL BLACKS, etc: Sorry, son. Thought I’d made it clear that I’m not reading you, now? I can guess everything you said, anyway. It’s not like you’re hear for a discussion or a debate, which is clear from your hostile, triggered, lame attempts at being, “insulting.” So, really, kid? Why would anyone bother? You’ve been at it for years, day in, day out. The same ole’ same ole’, claiming to hate the channels you LIVE on, to hate the people you whine about, to hate the people you’re TALKING TO. I would have to be as mentally ill as you, to entertain such self control issues, junior? Not happening 😋
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I disagree fundamentally with your opening point. The goals of the expedition were to hunt down Osama Bin Laden, carry out punitive attacks on the main body of the enemy and allies of the perpetrators of 911. This included the identification of the Taliban and their allies, and inducting local allies to assist in those aims. And it was to be carried out by a coalition of UN countries, either directly or through practical support, funding, logistical input and so on. That expedition met all of its stated aims and can be called a complete success.
The delusion was, “National Building,” and the wrong headed notion that a new, democratic, western style government could installed in place of the enemy, which could last independently without permanent western support.
Adding to that, the whole thing ended with betrayals. We had craven politicians using our erstwhile allies and Taliban prisoners as equal chips to be traded, or pawns to be played in their domestic political point scoring games, with absolutely no regard for honour, friendship, or even human life. Literally thousands of Taliban terrorists were set free by the previous US administration, just for the sake of a deal that the then president believed would make him, “look good,” creating the kind of chaos with the final evacuation that most US journalists compared it to the last days in Saigon! . . . Terrorists! The murderers of US and British and other allied soldiers! Invited to take coffee at Camp David, for crying out loud!
Now, we uncover yet more cravenness and betrayal lead from the top.
I share your feelings though, for me, it is more a sense of exhaustion, as the pit of pure rottenness has no bottom to it. There’s no lengths to which these gangsters will not stoop, so I cannot feel horror, which would require surprise or shock to ignite it. Disgust, surely. But, that hasn’t changed from the sense of betrayal and disgust at watching these goons make themselves rich as the number of children in poverty breaks new records. My shock-meter, horror-meter, and the gauge on my outrage detector have all been broken long ago.
Now, I’m searching at the bottom of my backpack for any sight of my old, disused Hope-Meter. It’s not beeping yet, so it’s harder to find.
This would be a perfect time to fully reform the military and its systems, since we’ve left Europe, changed our stance with the US and have military leaders all begging for root and branch reforms, and MONEY, of course. Our system is starting to look more like a Russian oligarchy, where huge chunks of cash go missing or get spent on, “off budget,” “expenses,” because it is as squalid and corrupt as all the other major branches of government, despite (strangely) not drawing so much attention as the others.
Yes. I hope some articulate youth, in uniform, really sticks it to Sunak without raising his voice or using a single expletive and asks him, “Who is actually responsible and what will be done about this?” Maybe, after Sunak’s word salad of meaninglessness, one or two of the other speakers will speak truth to power? Maybe Starmer will promise his government will get to the bottom of the whole thing and introduce reforms?
But I doubt the BBC will allow it.
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God also demands ACTION: The fact that GOP members have NOT deserted trump, yet, SHOULD ALARM everyone. If we were to fill the streets and DEMAND the restoration of the Postal Services, and WIN that fight, GOP members would start running for the FBI lifeboats. They are staying, “loyal,” because they KNOW the elections have been RIGGED. And, if we ALLOW them to stack post boxes into vans, and drive them off to a sorting office where the main mail-sorting machines have been shut down; STEALING Democracy from right under our noses, then maybe we deserve to lose our Republic, forever?
Without acts, love is meaningless. Without love, acts are meaningless. I’m paraphrasing there, but you ALL KNOW it’s down to YOU to take RESPONSIBILITY. ✌️👍
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@blackbird5634 : Sorry. You deserve more than, “no.” I think it’s nice an’ all, if you have that with someone. But, if you feel the need to define yourself through someone else, there’s a deficiency in your own confidence, or self image, I imagine? Trump uses his wife like a building or a sports car. A trophy. He doesn’t give a sh*t what she, “thinks,” unless it contradicts his worldview. The fact that she’s a sociopath too, but one who wants a quiet life, is a no brainer when you think about it? She’d have to be a sociopath, and she’d have to be someone who’s content to do without the spotlight, except when she’s being shown off as a trophy. She was a model, who came from a senior Communist Official father, farmed out to the highest bidder, so that’s who she is. I don’t even think that’s a harsh assessment.
I’ve met couple’s who are like that; who finish each other’s sentences, know what each other is thinking, by and large, in any given circumstance; and it’s sometimes very sweet. Other times it’s obnoxious, but I’ve not been in many circumstances where I’ve had to tolerate obnoxious ones very often. So, sure. Nice if you have that. But, if you, “need,: or, “desire,” that, I would recommend you do some work on you. Until you only need, “you,” to feel whole. That makes people more attractive anyway. Does that answer your question?
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@Wulfman46 : “Hate,” has clearly taken its toll on you, son. You’re speaking from experience, obviously. Why else would you have wasted 6 YEARS of your, “life,” trump trolling on channels you, “hate,” talking to people you, “hate,” about the news that you, “hate?” You’d save time if you just wrote, “Well, my life didn’t work out, so now I blame everyone but myself, coz’ I’m a racist.” 🤪
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He would have saved the airports that hadn’t been invented yet, maybe? Then he would have surrendered. But, trump has picked the right general as his own reflection. They’re both racists who surrendered, so there’s that, right? Trump surrendered to the Taliban, quite literally. That’s why Mike Pompeo and Stephen Miller are the only two people from trump’s administration (who were actually involved) who still back trump’s moves. Mikey, because he signed the surrender, and Stevie, because he blocked all the migrant visas for our allies, and is the one responsible for all the red tape keeping them out now. Everyone else from trump’s presidency OR Biden’s presidency, ALL AGREE that Joe did a great job! Funny that? 🤔
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Get the GOP top brass on the witness stand at this impeachment, and the, “verdict,” won’t matter. All the cult will remember will be that Lindsay Graham told them that “the steal” is a seditious lie. That Ted Cruz admitted that they all KNEW it was a lie. That even Josh Hawley refused to give any, “evidence,” for, “The Steal,” because he had none to give, and had no 5th Amendment protections, and they didn’t want to be indicted for Conspiracy, Perjury or worse! That’s how you break the GOP in two!
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It seems you’re getting legged up a lot by, “events, dear boy, events,” these days. All just signs of the, “interesting times,” we’re living in.
Humza Yousaf never struck me as, “quite nice.” I live in Scotland. I’ve heard him speechifying about how angry he is that people in positions of power here are predominantly white. The country’s population is still overwhelmingly white and, while I will always support good faith attempts at addressing inequality in all walks of life, there has been something truly sinister the wording of his newest legislation (which breaks the law, by his own definition) articles and speeches.
You just cannot give the power and tools of oppression over to a new, previously marginalised, group and call it solved. But it seems that some radical thinkers prefer this alternative to actually addressing the hard and challenging work of good faith education.
No one in Scotland (other than SNP members) will feel particularly upset, or even distracted, by this development. And I think that is sufficient commentary in and of itself as to the caliber of politician we’re talking about here.
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Hawi Jack : You need to fill the streets, America, like the Ukraine did, a decade ago. They got rid of their Putin Puppet, with NO WEAPONS, simply by stopping the country. Your coming, “elections,” are ALREADY RIGGED, because they have NO CHOICE! Do you think they’re going to let you unseat Trump? So that he and his whole family gets countless indictments, goes to JAIL and RATS OUT EVERYONE, meaning that half the GOP follow them to the jail cells??? . . . The Republic has FALLEN
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Peter W D : Nailed it. We literally watched it unravel, as we started off United, dealing with a national crisis, until Donny threw one spanner after another into the works. All because national unity put him 10 points behind Biden, according to his own people. So, he politicised the issue, and Made America Divided Again, just to keep his own head above water. Result: ALL THE PAIN of the Lockdown (mass unemployment, economic downturn, miles long Food Bank cues, THE DEATHS) whilst getting NONE OF THE RESULTS. . . Thanks for ruining America, Donny . . .smh
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What we’re calling, “AI,” now is NOT what most people think it is. These warnings should be taken seriously, but not because of any machine that, “thinks,” as they simply do NOT. They are machines with no more capacity for thought than the device I’m typing on or the chair I’m sitting on. But, it’s a machine that can pass a Turing test, and will be abused. The major competitors, Microsoft, Google, etc, have all fired their safety, quality assurance and security teams!
Italy just got into a quagmire, because they found out in court that ALL devices use, “AI,” already! While you type your words, look at the boxes next to your typing box, suggesting the next word, or an emoji, etc. That is the SAME engine as ChatGPT, just not as refined. It’s on your phone, Alexa, TV, PlayStations, Xbox’s, everything. Especially your apps. That’s what the Italian government’s lawyers discovered when they laughably attempted to ban AI, and their computers said, “no.”
We really need people who understand this stuff, to start with, before we even think about legislation. What Italy should have done was halt further development, rather than ban their own phones, tablets and apps.
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Tom Manley 👈😡❄️🤖: Why do you live on it, then? Paid to? Or, just spending all a day, every day, talking to people you hate, about stuff you hate, on the channel you hate, year on year, coz’ you’re, “not,” mentally ill, right? 🤪
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Robert Davidson & Alan Perry : The Trump troll calling himself, “I AM A FARMER,” gets PAID each time someone Clicks his name to reply to him. I only learned this recently myself. They get more for Clicks on their Propaganda Click Bait, especially stuff that takes you off of YouTube, as that’s got the Malware, “cookies,” that tracks what you look at, for their algorithms. He’s no more, “American,” than Vladimir Putin. At any given time, up to 2/3rds of them are foreign, or just Bots. That’s why they bleat stuff that’s calculated to inspire an, “emotional,” reaction. Explode their lies, by all means, but please don’t Click their names? Don’t get them paid? ✌️👍
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Satoshi Nakamoto : Once again, you made my point about polls being unreliable, and seem not to understand that you are AGREEING with ME? You suffer from Angry Opposition Syndrome, where you CAN’T HEAR what people are ACTUALLY SAYING, because you don’t, EMOTIONALLY, like what their “politics” are. You end up sounding insane. Fox OPENLY “donates money” to the the Republicans, and NO ONE COMPLAINS, because Hannity SAYS he is NOT a, “journalist.” Trump donated FIVE TIMES to the CLINTONS! CHECK THE RECORD. So, treat HIM with the same suspicion and impotent rage that you have for Clinton Donors! It’s your BLATANT HYPOCRISY that has worn down Middle America and Conservative VOTERS. THAT is WHY they are voting AGAINST THE GOP. BECAUSE OF YOU . . . SMH . . .
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spinalcrackerbox : You are right, of course, but I think it is worth investing some understanding, in terms of winning back voters to the fold. More and MORE “conservatives” are dumping Trump. This has to be encouraged. EVERYONE is in DEBT. Is your house, education, business, car, etc, ALL paid for? In the rust belt, most people’s aren’t. If you are OUT of debt, you are very much the exception. The majority of Americans will die in debt. It’s worth understanding the tensions that underlie the type of HYSTERIA that Trump exploits. Money, Race, and, to a lesser extent, guns: these appear to be the main factors that Trump plays on, scoring home runs. There has to be SOMETHING; some tipping point at which, even his “fans” will say, “No, that’s too far.” Many are seeing that he isn’t delivering and SOME red states ARE flipping to Blue. But, for those willing to talk like grown ups, I’m willing to be patient. How do you feel about that? . . .
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Chico Dalianis : Trump did what his lobbyists told him to do, in the name of short term goals, like keeping the MONEY rolling in for them. And, he’s being advised by Putin, who’s country is almost a mirror image of ours, and our only rival for Death Tolls in the developed world. When this began, during trump’s wishful, dreamlike, fugue state, the only piece of information that kicked him into gear was what his own pollsters showed him: that the country was uniting, in the face of a national threat, respecting its emergency services and supporting healthcare workers; copying other countries, and helping each other, which, in terms of polling, meant he was 10 points behind Biden. Unity always puts him behind. So, he politicised Covid, got us all Divided over it, and he was relevant again. Hence, where we are now. Make America Divided Again is his method, as well as his, “honest,” campaign slogan
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Maki Hashimoto : Not me personally. It’s just that I used to occasionally click on links like that, only to find it was some advert, a Propaganda political site (that I’d now just given an extra hit to) or some other nonsense. So, then I’d feel cross, and wish I was in the same room as the person who’d just tricked me; in the same way that people do, when they get one of those computerised phone calls, that pretends to be a real person. Not everyone even gets annoyed by them. But, I do, when I’m had. So, a quick sentence of context, would solve the problem, for me? Like, “This link is to such & such, which relates to the issue in x manner,” or whatever? But, you’re probably right? It’s probably just my boggle. No offence intended ✌️
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@LynetteTheMadScientist : Yeah, I know what you mean. I once saw a guy trying to flirt with a woman I was talking to in a bar. He just barged in and took her hand, bowed with a flourish and, looking like he was going to kiss the hand, proceeded to lick from finger tips to wrist. She was so stunned that she didn’t pull her hand away at first, until she snapped out of it and slapped him. It was a lucky shot too, as the guy reeled under the blow, flouncing backward into a bunch of (also somewhat stunned) onlookers. I so WISH I had a video of that moment. The cringe aspect was that he genuinely thought he was being, “gallant,” and not giving off an aggressively desperate, Buffalo Bill, serial killer vibe at all!
Anyway, we left him to debate the cost spilled drinks with the group of upset patrons and went on to have an otherwise enchanted evening. Now, THAT’S the type of cringe that SHOULD be caught on camera and exposed for all the world to see. Apart from going viral (it was just so perfect for a 30 second, jaw dropping short) it would have taught that man a much needed lesson on civilised behaviour around women.
I just feel bad for this couple. A moment of impaired judgement, caused by oxytocin and other chemicals flooding their brains, turns out like a car crash, from which they can now never escape. I hope it doesn’t ruin their partnership.
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@loushelton1596 : Not, “pointless,” at all. Let them commit perjury and be adjudged for it? Let them make conflicting testimonies and expose their Conspiracy. Let them, “stick to their stories,” and fight off a BILLION dollar lawsuit? I bet you, they WON’T! They will take the path of least resistance, and as one, they will suddenly DUMP the trump. It’s only donations they will be parting with, and they may all need some extra security for some time to come. But that’s better than jail and the loss of ALL their money, and any income in the future. Half of them want the break now, rather than later. Let them HAVE their, “civil war,” that they tried to start in America. Only let it be in their own ranks. I’m fine with either outcome
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I only knew of the root of that expression from its Irish origins, not the wooden fence, or Jewish connotations. I have a few books on etymology, which has always fascinated me, ever since I heard Noam Chomsky explain how the languages we use today are a recent, largely political, development, in a world where it was the norm to speak a range of dialects across all of Europe, with a good chance of being understood and understanding others wherever you went. Whereas, conversely, you could live in Bordeaux and go to Paris and not understand anything people were saying, as recently as two or three hundred years ago.
Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle - a series of novels set during the enlightenment, involving spies, pirates, natural philosophy (science), philosophy and all manner of fascinating developments in that period of history - delves rather eloquently into that whole language issue, showing through fiction the manner in which languages evolved and why they were used in the way they were, among a new species of, “vagabond,” and upper classes alike, who suddenly found themselves capable of rapid communications and transport for the first time in human existence.
I don’t want to bore you with this digression, but I would only urge you, (if you have time for reading fiction at all?) to read those novels. To a man of your stamp, I cannot think of anything more likely to entertain, make you laugh out loud, and to fascinate you, from an intellectual point of view. I would imagine you read very little fiction in your spare time? But, if you have read Voltaire, Diderot or the lighter works of René Descartes and found them the least bit intriguing, then you will thoroughly enjoy the ingenuity, creativity, subtlety, scholarly knowledge and sheer entertainment value of these books.
As always, thank you. This time, for imparting a little knowledge to me which I did not previously have. I do love to learn knew things. ✌️👍
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The Critical Drinker : Not with you on this. And, some of your, “conclusions,” were factually wrong, which irritated me. But, I still love you. No one’s perfect 😉. It’s classic in it’s own right, but I’ll only tell you why, (and what mistakes you made) if you ask to hear it. So, that’s a conversation that will never happen. But, you’re usually so spot on about these things, and you’re charming, even when you’re wrong, so . . . You may live 😁
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@Kermit_T_Frog : And, let’s not forget, when the hotline opened, there were only 4,700, “CREDIBLE COMPLAINTS,” OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT made against Kavanaughty!!! That’s AFTER they filtered out all of the nut jobs and attention seekers!!! Who gets 4,700 complaints??? I’ve always hated the expression, “There’s no smoke without fire,” because it’s a none-evidence based way of dismissing facts (or the lack thereof) that seems to stick to people, regardless. But, in Kavanaugh’s case, I’m pretty sure we can say there’s a California style wildfire out of control there, and no amount of, “beer,” can wash that out! ✌️
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If they put Hawley on the stand, at the Impeachment, he’ll be forced to commit Perjury, Conspiracy or worse, OR tell the truth! He’ll have to ADMIT that the reason for the Insurrection, “The Steal,” is a Seditious LIE, and he always knew it. This is why Lindsay Graham is SO AFRAID of witnesses testifying!? With no 5th, no ability to refuse to testify, and on live TV, let the trump cult hear what they lost everything for, from the mouths of those who lead them there?!
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You can only forgive a person for a wrong if they acknowledge their wrongdoing. This guy DIDN’T acknowledge the girl’s age, nor has he turned himself over to the law to face the consequences of his actions, so he HAS NOT accepted responsibility and cannot be forgiven; especially by the God to whom he’s allegedly appealing. What he’s really doing is managing a situation outside of his own control, trying to spin it and get ahead of events, seeking the community’s forgiveness, NOT God’s.
He shows he’s unworthy of his position, even if he’s sincere, because he’s so distorted the teaching of the Bible and doesn’t understand it. But, as he is patently insincere, and probably doesn’t believe in God (or he wouldn’t be so deliberately courting God’s wrath?) he’s just a grubby criminal, trying to dodge the law and protect his future income.
Will the police be getting involved in this rape case? His victim is still suffering, as was so clear. She does not have closure. I want to see someone looking out for her interests in this.
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Rake Steele : Show me where, exactly, you can point to, that someone has said that, and I’ll hand you a Daniel Webster Cigar . . . What you’re REALLY telling us, is that you, “feel,” the pressure mounting, and it’s grinding you down. Not hard to read the Troll runes. You only have two settings, after all: “Butt,” Harmed, and REALLY, “Butt,” Harmed 🙂
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I think people should recall the case of Nikita Khrushchev, when they’re thinking about this question. Khrushchev presided over Russia’s biggest, most undeniable, most abject and total defeat of the entire Cold War: The Cuban Missile crisis. It was so politically damaging at home, let alone such a massive victory for the west, that it crushed Khrushchev’s career on the spot.
But what interests me about that was the way it just, “happened,” over night, with barely a rumble among the people at large. The government could not white wash the fact that they had backed down in a game of nuclear chicken and the west had retained supremacy over the western hemisphere by getting Russian nukes out of Cuba.
So, Khrushchev was simply replaced and went into, “early retirement,” or whatever, but it was, “business as usual,” thereafter so far as the Russian population was concerned. Brezhnev took charge in 1964 after Khrushchev was formally, “dismissed,” for, “reasons,” but it was all pretty smooth.
I raise this point because it seems to me that Russia has the political infrastructure and experience, as well as the inbuilt demographic habitat, to accept a sudden change of leadership as the cultural norm, don’t you think?
I would have like to see how your guest would have answered that question, or reflected on that (and other) historical experiences in Russia?
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Absolutely. Braverman has, “said the quiet parts out loud,” hasn’t she? The mere concept of, “Service,” is alien to her and that is what she repeatedly makes clear in this diatribe! It’s extraordinary that she made this public at all, but useful to Sunak and his supporters, who can all sit back and say, “told you so.” But even they won’t be saying that as loudly as Labour MP’s will.
But what she’s really saying is that her, “ideology,” (if it can be called that?) does not match that of the Conservative Party! She is confessing an authoritarian, anti-democratic type of governance that is incompatible with democratic rule!
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“Patriotism,” is the sickest part of this joke, don’t you think? Over 50 cops were beaten almost to DEATH, with American flags and Thin Blue Line banners; one left in a coma with brain damage, another one blinded, and yet another DEAD! Because of a bald LIE! It’s NOT, “free speech.” It’s crying, “Fire!,” in a packed theatre, and having no skin in the game, whilst others do the DYING! It’s seditious propaganda and it should be OUTLAWED! With swift, serious consequences!
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Mrs. Vixen Sanders : I hear that point, debated a lot. But, given that God is outside of time, you would, likely, experience your meeting with Jesus as being an instantaneous event, right after death, whether you are right in your interpretation or not, don’t you think?
I no longer bother with Churches, as I have learned that, “organised religion,” and matters of, “faith,” have little to do with one another, and frequently clash. But, I remain a Christian believer, for the little that’s worth
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@Seekeroftruth191 : There we’re no shots fired in anger over WWII in America, after Pearl Harbor, so your comment is meaningless in real world terms. You don’t have to b within range of a bullet to be in a war.
You have confused the terms, “World War III,” and, “nuclear war,” in your mind. You’re not alone in that, but when you stop to think calmly about what is, and what, “opinions,” people express, you’ll see the stark difference. Try not to take it so personally?
Just don’t kid yourself into thinking that any potential victory of Putin’s would end at the borders of Ukraine. Their state TV says that they want East Germany back every other night. They have overt designs on Finland and Hungary too. Just one backward step has been all it has ever taken for Putin to leap forward by two steps. But standing our ground has ALWAYS resulted in Putin backing down in the face of real force. I can promise you, since hearing about this decision (which adds up to the free world telling Putin he is not getting to keep Ukraine, period) Putin has, for the first time since this started, spoken out loud, to some confident or other, about finding a domestic off ramp. A fake referendum is his best option, so he can claim his people want him to end his special operations.
Whatever he comes up with, he now knows he can’t look to the west for help with his usual face-saving excuses. This will get worse before it gets better. And you’re in it (if you pay any taxes, fuel your car, or pay heating bills?) already, whether you like it or not. If you want your bills to go down, you’d better support Ukraine’s victory.
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@johnassal5838 : To be honest, I see some potential fixes, but I suspect that all politicians must be beholden to someone or other, or they’d have done them by now? I am interested to see what Biden could do if he won a clear majority at the midterms? But, I doubt even then that he would fix things root and branch? For example: Compulsory voting laws, with fines for those who don’t vote, and a felony record for repeat offenders? Like Australia? That way, you simply can’t get away with vote rigging of the type the GOP is doing currently, and you take their stick from them? And gerrymandering could be rendered useless with one single reform of the Electoral College; if they were forced to count votes, not points, for National Elections? The EC is an anachronism anyway, making a nonsense of the notion of, “one nation under God,” when they can disenfranchise the votes of over three million Americans to put the Dems out in favor of a child-man?! I’m genuinely surprised that no team of crack lawyers has not challenged the EC as being Unconstitutional? You wouldn’t even have to dissolve the EC either? Just reform its function for NATIONAL elections, where each vote SHOULD carry equal weight, with each voter already having an established equal stake in the outcome? But no one does, which leads me back to lobbyists, I guess? . . . ✌️
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Blue_Moon _Cos : And, it’s not like we will be able to control this thing, any more than the common cold, for which NO, “cure,” exists, right? These people, who want to stick to, “the man,” are suicidally stupid. But, they’ll probably die out soon? I agree with you
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Dwight Blackwell : I found your exchange with ConservativeAnthem interesting. Is it not fair to say that, we know most of the allegations against Trump will be proven true? Also, that there are legions of Trolls at work, doing what they can to confuse the facts, alienate reasonable people from commenting, etc? And in THAT regard, surely, we must not fall for the last trick that the Putinistas have up their sleeve? They would DIVIDE Trump’s opposition into various camps. It’s their ONLY hope for the Mid Terms. That, and, as Tillerson hinted, with his, “We can’t stop Russian interference in 2018,” remark: which seems to imply that they will TRY to get the public to accept an unknowable quantity of Russian interference, so they can “claim” that they “probably” won?
When you are outnumbered, and you KNOW what the “rivalries” ARE, within the enemy’s camp, you EXPLOIT them to the hilt, right?
I was a Republican, who, already somewhat disillusioned, LEFT the Party, upon Trump’s nomination. The reasons I gave to friends and family seemed too far fetched to them. I have since received a great many apologies, from people who got VERY mad at me, over it, at the time. I no longer KNOW any Trump supporters. But, what I KNOW I HAVE TO DO, in the Mid Terms, is stand by WHOEVER will defeat the Republican Candidate.
We MUST UNITE. I never “liked” or “trusted” HRC. Frankly, I’m GLAD she’s GONE. She DID buy up the Dem’s debts and take over the running, thus OUSTING Bernie. May not have been illegal, but it WAS WRONG. Many of those who voted for Trump, WOULD have voted for Bernie. They were DESPERATE, and STILL ARE.
What I’m saying (forgive my longwindedness?) is that there ARE all kinds of issues that we can point to, that we may be RIGHT about, too, which divide us. But, if we don’t all stand together, for the upcoming elections, there will BE NO DEMOCRATIC FORUM, in which to set things right. If THAT means voting Democrat this year, then I’ll GLADLY do it. Like the old man said, “we either hang together, or we’ll BE HANGED, separately.”
What do you think?
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Swnsasy _ : Two things there. Trump “fans” are not nearly so blind as the Trolls want you to believe. There are SO MANY Russian, and Russian hired, Trolls at work on YouTube, that the view of reality is skewed. But, among Republicans that I know, I don’t know one SINGLE person that will vote Republican, so long as Trump is still around, and some, who have lost their taste for the party altogether. Sure there’s a significant “hard core” and they must never be underestimated, but of those, very few really believe what the trolls say, even when pretending to. They just don’t have the numbers this time around, now that Trump has actually been in office and we’ve SEEN what SCUM he is, and how he’s brought out the absolute WORST in America and the GOP. So long as the opposition remains united.
The other thing: There was ALREADY a money laundering investigation, going on under the radar, lead jointly by the FBI and CIA, into Trump, BEFORE he got into politics. Indeed, some say that Trump took this route so as to avoid prosecution. Don’t know if that’s true, but I do know that Trump’s Mafia buddy, was ALREADY a stoolie for the FBI, years ago, and is believed to have worn a wire for them. Honestly, I think the money laundering bit, will be the easiest conviction they’ll get. Mueller has quite literally got the BEST EXPERTS IN THE WORLD, in EACH AND EVERY DEPARTMENT of cyber crimes, money laundering, international law, espionage, business law, tax law, YOU NAME IT. And he’s an unflappable professional, at the height of his powers and experience. Believe me, there ain’t no “if” in this, only when.
I could imagine them holding onto SOME crimes, for the sake of other investigations? But, even then, Mueller knows that you never cut a powerful adversary a break. You nail that sucker, and bury the pieces miles apart. I saw the Netflix series, you mentioned. So did Mueller 😉
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Trump uses Stalin’s playbook. Taught him by his coach, Putin. The racism, the fantasism, and the, “poor me,” grievance of his racist cult are very like Hitler. But, most of it is pure Stalin. And, like Stalin, he destroys free speech, targets his OWN people, and his lunatic pronouncements are not meant to be, “believed.” They’re a test of loyalty to his fans; and meant to chill decent people. After November, he plans to have the company that owns CNN bought in a hostile takeover, by a trump-friendly Oligarch, and end free speech altogether. It’s up to us to STOP that.
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Totally. Most will be errors or just poor handwriting, with no malign intent whatsoever. The rest will be GOP voters, but they just get a slap on the wrist for that. If your black, it doesn’t even matter if you can prove it was a mistake, you go to jail for 5 years. These fascists of the GOP have destabilised trust in our democracy world wide, let alone domestically, and now they have to admit they did it all for NOTHING! Because the cyber ninjas would rather get called shills and accused by Donny of everything under the sun, than go to jail for the rest of their lives, for committing Fraud, Conspiracy, Election Fraud, and 20 other serious offences! Rub their stupid, grasping, evil, anti-democratic noses in their mess! It’s the only way they’ll learn! ✌️
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Kaptain Plant-it : I’m a political historian, son. And what you’ve done there, is to take a response letter, out of context, without showing the other side (what Lincoln was responding to) or acknowledging that, like all human beings, Lincoln was a man who’s views and attitudes evolved and CHANGED as he struggled with the question of slavery versus the union. The reason people acknowledge Lincoln’s greatness, is BECAUSE he changed, from being indifferent to the matter, to being opposed to slavery with every fibre of his being. Barack Obama knew that, which was why he used him as his model, for his presidency. If I had to guess, I would say, you’re a committed Trump Troll, who should be committed, for doing anything you can to, “Make America Divided Again.” That is the campaign slogan, this year, right? Both desperate and stupid, son . . .
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@soniajulie6465 👈😡❄️: 🤦♂️ “But, but, her emails . . .mieh, nieh, guhhh, . . . I want to see your supervisor! Mieh, nieh, guhhh, I don’t like losing, nieh, mieh . . .” Ok, Karen 🙄 . . .🤣
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@groot6830 : The term, “nation building,” is a bit of dirty word these days, due to so many failures in the Muslim nations. But I genuinely believe that Russia would actually be a perfect society in which a nation building program would be highly successful. They don’t have the organisation and technical skills that the Japanese and Germans put to such effective use, post WWII, but they have a population that is every bit as docile and easy to lead, with the infrastructure, institutions and media systems in place to make it a more than viable proposition. As the country begins to collapse inwardly, I suspect that NATO will shift it’s position from, “Ukraine must never enter Russian territory with actual boots on the ground,” to, “Can you get to the Kremlin inside two days and beat the others to it?” Sounds almost crazy when I say it out loud, but it’s actually more plausible than many may think. No one saw the collapse of the Soviet Union coming, because it’s like a star, burning out from the inside, and when the outer layers burn off, there’s nothing left at the core to hold it up. Yet, in this case, we’re seeing government infighting and destabilising influences already; in a country that tries to keep all that chaos on lockdown! I’m not saying, “it will happen that way,” just that the chances of that, or something equally outlandish, seem like real possibilities right now.
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Upper Echelon Gamers : As an expression, “Toxic Masculinity,” I believe, is apt, when dealing with some individuals. But, like any personal description of hateful behaviour, or any epithet, it’s nothing. Having said that, as it’s used in the sense you describe, I agree with you. But, your definition is too narrow, for me. There is a, “problem,” to be addressed, around issues of, “masculinity,” which should not be ignored. Do you agree?
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Optimist Prime : Yes, men face a whole slew of problems, very different in nature, to the ones faced by women, which are equally real. Though I agree with those points (stats) in R Peacemaker’s comment, it is not the whole story. I accept Upper Echelon’s points too. But, it doesn’t help to act like there is no problem, either, don’t you think? . . . I hate swearing feminism. But, I worry that the reaction to it, can go the opposite way? In this comment thread, you can see there are a few people trying to hijack this video, to make it sound like he was speaking up for the women haters. Upper E G will find that just as abhorrent as the issue he was discussing, I imagine? Though I don’t, “know,” this, I wouldn’t be a fan, if I believed anything other
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MrCryptonate : Now, that was an insightful comment. Where DID this come from? In fairness, he did explain a whole experiment in gaming, which was set up to show, “toxic masculinity,” which turned out to be faked; as it was a male pretending to be a woman, and people who spotted the fake, were dismissed as, “toxic,” simply for calling it out. But, at the same time, it is highly ironic, to see all the TOXICITY pouring out, from angry men, trying to hijack this video, into meaning something it doesn’t? There’s CLEARLY an issue around, “masculinity,” and I suspect it’s getting worse. If he’s just talking about the phrase itself, sure. He has a point. But, I’m not sure what it does to address any issue? . . .
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Joseph Martin : I honestly don’t think Upper Echelon Gamers is pushing a, “right wing,” agenda? I HOPE NOT? I did see flaws in his argument, which I have addressed to him. But, this is not like Thoughty Two, or one of those Right-Wing-Propaganda outlets, that pretends to be a science and social issues YouTube Channel? I urge you to give him the benefit on this one? Or, at least, site me some other cases, where you see a, “right wing,” agenda being pushed? Respectfully ✌️
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Jade Orion : I really enjoyed reading that. And, I was compelled by your first couple of paragraphs, in particular. The point about arguing with a ghost, as it were, struck me. UEG’s point about the very REAL attempts, by SOME, “SJW’s,” to influence the culture of Gaming, are completely valid, and it is a phenomena that threatens to do serious damage to the culture of Gaming. However, I think your comment tapped into what it was that made me uncomfortable with this video? It needed more balance, and an acknowledgement that there are very real problems with male oppressive behaviour. You can’t read through the sheer HATE, spilling out from angry men, on this thread, and then POSSIBLY say that there is not a real problem, right?
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@Klaus : A) Wrong topic. B) The Myth of Scarcity is peddled by the very rich, because they want all your stuff, but there’s more than enough to go around. C) “400,000,” is not an accurate figure but I wish it were. We NEED more economic migrants. There are more than a MILLION jobs going begging in Britain, because people like you and me don’t like picking fruit, cleaning streets, or working for fast food outlets, for more than a couple of weeks. D) The reason so many countries are facing serious possibilities of decline is because of population shortages. Only growing populations survive this economy. China and Russia have ageing, shrinking populations, for different reasons, but they’re desperate for more young adults of working age and tax generation capabilities. E) Read a book, son.
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@g0679 : There is always something funny to be found in any situation, even war. The British made an institution of humour in the face of horrific adversity during World War II and remain well known around the world for our, “famous British sense of humour,” that you’ll hear Nazi officers referring to in multiple war movies of that period. We created radio shows, touring stage acts to entertain the troops, books and newspaper articles, all designed to tickle the funny bones of people grieving over lost loved ones, worrying over serving loved ones and people in active service. We’ve done that ever since. So, asking a Brit not to find the funny in something, no matter how bleak, is like asking an Italian to give up olive oil, or a Frenchman to give up garlic. It’s just not going to happen. Respectfully . . . ✌️🇺🇦🇬🇧
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Ahh, but isn’t that Sunak’s problem, Professor Wilson? Micro-management is an expression of paranoia, after all. How can an utterly untrustworthy man, who owes his position to betrayal and skullduggery, ever believe that he can let others around him just get on with it and protect his interests? He knows he wouldn’t in their place.
To snub any European power at a time when we so desperately need to win back trust and partnerships is obviously egregious. But it probably feels like the smaller price to pay for self protection, by not leaving the kids to play out of sight?
Now the German and French premiers get to say, “Well, I would show up to visit you but, would you even be guaranteed to show up? Sorry, I’m just too busy to risk wasting my time.” Well done, Richie. Was it worth it?
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Robert Raffaele : Barr is the most dangerous man in America, and the ONLY reason trump is still with us. The unmarked SS, “cops,” are Barr’s idea; the attack on protestors, like the March of the Upside Down Bible, Barr’s idea. Publicly naming BLM as a, “leftist, terrorist, Democrat conspiracy against the president,” literally words from his lips. Telling trump which of our top cops to fire, to protect trump corruption, and which yes men to replace them with, all Barr. It was only a question of time before some of the lies and corruption would be exposed. But will that change ONE, God Damned thing? No. We can no longer, “save,” our Republic. First we have to RESTORE IT! ✌️
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Mulinaster : Actually, they use those terms out of professionalism, sure, but it’s mostly for legal reasons, to prevent the most litigious Orange on the planet from having grounds to sue. Any adult can tell that Trump is just stream-of-consciousness, lying his ass off. And, like a stopped clock, there’s a chance he may hit on the truth, by accident. But, he has no sense of past of future. He streams in the present, saying what he thinks will work for him, there and then. To offer Trump the benefit of the doubt, at this stage, is beyond naive; it’s dangerous ✌️
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Willliam Fish : Trump’s approach looks, “incoherent,” because pieces of the puzzle are missing. When we understand that Trump had singled out Iran, for the war he so badly wanted, it makes more sense. And, when it gets out, that it was Putin, who called Trump to stop his bombing at the last moment, it makes even more sense. When it looks, “incoherent,” it only ever means that we are not seeing the whole thing. Put those factors in, and it makes PERFECT sense ✌️👍
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@Oscarcat2212 : You’re seeing it wrong. Look at it from Putin’s point of view? He’s spent the last four weeks finding out his orders are not being followed in many cases, or they’re being deliberately sabotaged. He’s discovering that half of the money he thought he’d procured top of the line equipment with has been spent on corrupted general’s yachts and dachas. He’s ordered three, “special operations,” to go fetch Zelensky’s head and all three were sabotaged by tip offs from inside the FSB! He’s gotten SO paranoid that he’s fired over a thousand staff and replaced them all with new faces. He can’t even be sure his breakfast order will be carried out the way he likes his eggs without wondering if they’ve been poisoned!
Now, ask yourself? Even if he wasn’t bluffing (which I promise you he is) would YOU be willing to issue an order that is likely to mean suicide for the people carrying out that order, when there’s a strong reason to suspect you’ll be left looking like a dope in front of your generals, as absolutely nothing happens? In Russia, that’s the quickest way to find yourself being executed in the cellar with your family! And it’s not like they could ever count on nuclear protocols before this mess started.
The actual, “risk,” is NOT from Putin being, “cornered,” at all. It’s right now! While he still has a free hand to further pressure everyone, transmit his paranoia around the Kremlin and keep every sub commander and silo chief exhausted and on permanent high alert. The guy who negotiates with a loaded weapon in his hands whilst waving it in everyone’s faces . . . He’s the guy who’s going to have an accident. It’s NOT crushing him more swiftly that’s liable to get us all killed!
Colluding in helping Putin, “save face,” would be the west’s worst mistake. The smartest, safest play would be to offer a billion dollar bounty, citizenship and immunity to anyone who claims Putin’s head. And I think it might well come to that if Zelensky were to die in this? . . .
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Who was it who famously said, “Justice delayed is justice denied,” can anyone recall?
Here’s a summary of the situation as it stands now, from the point of view of the Post Office:
“We are facing bankruptcy, regardless of this scandal, as our business model has been mismanaged so badly, it may as well have been actively sabotaged. (Indeed, we might suspect that it was?) And our reputational damage cannot get any worse, regardless of what happens. So, we stonewall, call in every favour and use every possible contact to help use fudge the issues as much as possible. Otherwise, if we pay out everyone’s compensation and damages in one go, we are officially bankrupt and out of business. Many of our victims will be gone in the next few years anyway. We just need to outlast them.”
That’s sounds about as malignant and cynical as it’s possible to be. But I believe I’m right. The only remedy would be for the barristers pursuing this case to call for specific punitive damages to take into account any further delay in justice (“Justice delayed is justice denied”) and especially swinging punitive damages for the families of the deceased victims. And, more importantly, to keep the public on board, by publicly organising and campaigning with them.
The clock must be reset. So its ticking favours the victims and doesn’t work against them. The Post Office must be made to feel the urgency that the victims were so wrongly made to feel when forced into paying back monies they didn’t owe, or giving false confessions.
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Jo Poveromo : “De-Platformimg,” would be when you try to silence your opponents by taking their voice from them, right? Like Voter Suppression? Like, “Lock Her Up!”? That was already old when Donny got in! Like trying to change Libel Laws, to silence MSM? Because you call the free press the, “enemy of the people,” and tell all your followers to ignore them? And, then you, “blame,” the Dems for Doctor Seuss? And Mr Potato Head? When it has NOTHING to do with them? How about voting to overturn a democratic election DURING a violent insurrection of your fans? If that doesn’t constitute Cancel Culture, what does? Fascists are full of shit because they’re all about the, “emotions.” Be honest and admit it, instead of getting uppity with your betters, pretending to have a, “political argument,” to make? It would save you a LOT 0f heartache, ma’am . . . 🤷♂️
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Gunloc26 : Do you mean, people shout not be allowed to return to office after two terms, like a POTUS? I agree. The Romans did it that way. Though their corruption could be extreme, it was much more rare, and people NEVER seemed to get away with it. And, of course, these days, such limits would only draw honest people, with a REAL plan, committed to using their time as, “precious.” I’m with you on that ✌️👍
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@razorrabbit2789 : Well, to be fair, if you’re making a video which you hope will put pressure on the chain of command to improve your conditions, you’re not going to include any footage of the soldiers say they don’t believe in what they’re fighting for, are you? However, if you look for them, you will find other posts, made by brave, anonymous soldiers, doing creative things like putting sand into the fuel tank of a Russian tank, etc. They just make and send those videos for and to a different target audience. ✌️🇺🇦
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So much for Prigozhin’s exile, huh? Even if Lukashenko thinks he’s throwing dust in our eyes and is just lying, it’s just more evidence of how Putin simply cannot, “save face,” while he still has a bloody nose. The Wagnazis are still defying Putin’s direct orders and remain independent of the state’s army and Prigozhin is swanning about, thumbing his nose at Putin, instead of being in, “exile.”
What Putin must HATE Prigozhin for, most of all, is the way he forced Putin to FLEE Moscow for St Petersburg! Everyone is comparing Putin’s cowardice to Zelensky, who refused a ride from the Americans and asked for ammunition instead, when hostile Russians had breached the borders of Kyiv! And he knew he WOULD be killed even if they took him prisoner! Putin didn’t even wait to find out if he needed to flee! He was GONE!
No way on EARTH can Putin forgive or forget that!
And that journalist who asked Lukashenko about Russia’s nukes, when Lukashenko said, “If Ukraine can use other people’s weapons, why can’t I?” should have said, “Because you don’t have the codes, and Putin wouldn’t trust you with them . . . OBVIOUSLY.” 🙄
Putin can make whatever claims he likes, but the WORLD can see that he is NOT in control of this situation. And we all now KNOW what we always suspected: Putin will (hashtag) RUNAWAY at the first sign of trouble. Even when trouble doesn’t even make it to his city limits! 😆
Slava Ukraine! 🇺🇦✌️🇬🇧
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@bencourtwright : So, there should be less coverage of what people do in politics? Donny wouldn’t like that? You can’t blame people for wanting news, or the news outlets for giving it to them? And, you can’t talk about the GOP & Dems as though they were two equal opposites anymore either. One is a personality Qult, who’s central narrative is a lie, who creates lies to feed to its base, and who could not even exist on a basis of truth. It uses intimidation, threat, fear, and actual violence as a political tool. And it has the stated intention of outlawing opposition parties. That’s also what you will find if you look up the word Fascist. That is literally what the GOP has become, and started becoming since early in the Obama years . . . The other is a political party . . .
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@AC-xt9ut : Or, did they? . . . Did you see the scam they got away with in Florida? CNN reported it. GOP shell companies put up bogus candidates with names that had one letter different in their name to the Dem candidates, copied their literature on websites and leaflets, with the same fonts, colors, sizes, etc, and basically tricked people, who thought they were voting Dem, into voting GOP. Now those shills have vanished, and CNN are trying to track them down. And, worst of all, when they added up the, “tricked,” (effectively stolen) votes, it now seems clear that Biden would have taken Florida too! So, maybe all this noise trump is making, serves as a distraction from people looking into ACTUAL voter fraud? Maybe people need to look more closely into that? I wonder where else that’s gone virtually unnoticed? I KNEW something was rigged in FL when Donny said it was the one state that isn’t committing fraud, before the elections had even STARTED! It’s truly sickening ✌️👍
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@davidbourne8267 : Machiavelli only wrote one tome which explored the principles of statecraft from the point of view of doing whatever it takes to achieve your ends, The Prince. And that book has been misinterpreted by people who’ve never read it ever since. He speaks as much about justice, truth and wise administration of the rule of law just as he does the darker impulses of men with power. He was controversial at that time for a range of reasons, most notably for saying out loud the things people had never dared to put on the page about the manipulative elements of statecraft before. Anyone who has read The Prince will quickly understand that it is not a book advocating for, “evil machinations,” but one that explores practical truths; good, bad and ugly, in a frank and honest manner.
With that out of the way, it is pointless to discuss current events through the prism (nay, psychological, “prison”) of the actions of previous administrations who’s goals were entirely different from those at play now. That is simply, “Whaddabouting,” but with more steps.
All that is truly clear from your commentary is that you don’t like America and that you read The Prince when you were too young to grasp it. I only hope it wasn’t a part of your school curriculum, as that would be an equal condemnation of your teacher, if not your educational system as a whole?
If you wish to be taken seriously, (as you appear to be working at it?) you must focus on the matters that pertain directly to the case in hand. By all means, reference history, but stick to what is relevant, or you will lose everyone in a collective role of the eyes. After all, we have heard it ALL before and that really hasn’t moved the needle for you, has it?
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Btw, Jake. I had a hell of a time trying to explain these basic principles of how the Patriot system works on CNN’s YouTube channel, after looking it up myself, because so many people were refusing to believe simple things like, “It’s not one Missile loaded onto a jeep!” Both Pro and anti-Putinistas seemed to struggle with this and I just started referring them to you, or telling them to look it up for themselves in the end. Therefore, I was so heartened to see your further disambiguation today, and want to thank you for that. I know that the nukes you worked with in your time must have been worlds apart from Patriots, but you’re the only ex-Missileer (did I spell that right?) I know of, let alone know of on YouTube.
The more I read about Patriot systems, the more, “blown away,” I was. A truly awesome technology. I’m wondering if more discussion about these technicalities might be crowd pleasers? More importantly, I’m wondering if a better understanding of what Ukraine is asking for, and why, might help people when they write to their representatives asking for more help for Ukraine?
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Alaska Pirates : With respect, you don’t get it yet. It’s NOT about any, “conviction.” The, “verdict,” is irrelevant! Most of the GOP have already announced their, “verdict,” so no one’s even playing that game; though I suspect it will be a LOT closer than the cult thinks? All that MATTERS is getting the most senior GOP members on the witness stand. Then it’s OVER for the GOP. Think it through? The reason for the Insurrection was what? “The Steal.” So, with no 5th Amendment to protect them; with no ability to refuse to testify; with a potential BILLION DOLLAR law suit staring at them with both barrels, and the risk of being charged with Perjury, Conspiracy, or WORSE!? What do you think they’ll say?
They will ADMIT, “the steal,” is a seditious LIE, on Live TV! What, “choice,” do they have? And, what will any, “verdict,” MATTER, once the cult have heard it from the very mouths of those who lead them, from the back, to election DEFEAT, criminal records, zero pardons, ruined careers and futures and JAIL SENTENCES! Q is already losing followers in droves! And when the GOP tells them that they did everything for a LIE, created in the fevered mind of an Orange Orifice, spouting lie after lie, where will their conspiracy madness retreat to then? BACK TO THE FRINGES, WHERE THEY BELONG is where!
It will break the GOP in two! With them being forced to pick a side, between trump (where the dwindling money supply is for now) or the rest of the GOP (who will get their big donors back, and the money they need for a future). It will be sink or swim. The end is upon them, and that, “civil war,” they always wanted, has broken out in their ranks already. The Impeachment is going to settle it. It will be their Gettysburg, except with no heroes and no soothing words in the aftermath.
This Impeachment is REALLY IMPORTANT. “Verdicts,” be damned! 😉
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@davidhunt7249 : Honest response? Full disclosure. I am, by American standards, a wealthy man, probably in the top 10% of wealthy, if not higher. I’m not ashamed of that, nor do I see being rich as inherently bad, or automatically at the cost of my fellow Americans. I used my brain, because I hate physical labor, and I contributed (in my own, tiny, way) to the monolith of historical knowledge out there, among other things. After 20 years working in various forms of children & family services, I learned that the only real impact I could have, to help people in need, was to earn money and influence.
In my view, it’s not the nature of Capitalism per se that is bad. Just, “unchecked,” and, “unregulated,” capitalism, which leads to overwhelming temptation, desperation, jealousy, corruption and crime. Our values are skewed in such a way that a desperate criminal, trying to feed his family, having never had the advantages of education, being born with wealth, or, “connections,” often result in that person being punished far more harshly than someone who gambles with the nations life savings, knowingly committing multiple crimes, and loses. The latter guy can afford a battery of defence lawyers, and often finds himself connected personally to local politicians or even the judge in his case, and gets to be free, not remanded, even whilst awaiting trial, despite having, “robbed,” and RUINED the lives of literally millions of Americans. We saw that in the aftermath of the 2008 Banking Crisis.
If levelling that playing field is called, “socialism,” then I’m a socialist. Along with giving access to healthcare, water, decent housing and quality education. Those things should be treated as human rights, as we move into the Hydrogen Age.
But, I cannot agree that Capitalism is in itself, “bad.” Just as we have seen that no, “Communist,” country has EVER practised genuine Communism, Capitalist Countries have NEVER addressed the inherent flaws in a system that relies upon fair regulation, and that should, Constitutionally, write into its laws that, “inequality is to be considered the enemy of democracy AND successful Capitalism.”
If trump’s regime taught us anything, it was that the people in charge cannot and should NEVER be trusted to regulate their own systems. Indeed, the biggest problems with trump’s regime was their constant attempts at encroaching on the other branches of government, both to ensure that they could break the rules (laws) and then to ensure their insulation from legal consequences for that. So, instead of seeing ANY, “progress,” throughout his entire term, America was too busy fighting a rear guard action, to fend of worsening government corruption, legal breakdown, civil unrest, and growing poverty and unemployment. All whilst a plague ravaged the nation.
If we’re to see any improvement, it will take more than just Joe Biden actually fulfilling his campaign promises (though that is a refreshing start, and a relief!) but the very institutions meant to safeguard democracy and the systems of free trade and open markets must be made much more independent; with higher qualification requirements, and an independent access route. Politicians should NEVER be appointing Judges or any other government officials that aren’t directly part of their own executive branch. And there must NEVER be a financial or political advantage to any part of their remit. We were gradually improving the system, but it took so many serious blows under trump, that it may never fully recover, let alone make any real progress.
Right now, the GOP are all but openly fascist, and they threaten the very foundations of the Republic. If they get power again, as they are, they will never relinquish it again. But, though your comments are full of merit, I will remain content to be a Capitalist, who fights for a level playing field. If I were to sum up my whole argument in one sentence, it would be: Let Capitalism have a chance at working, under proper, lawful management? If it fails after that, or still exploits the majority, I’ll throw in with you. But, until it’s had a fair chance to work, with all things being equal, it’s still like Communism; no one’s ever seen a real example of it yet. ✌️
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@timjohnun4297 : Well, your account appears new? There is nothing there. If it’s not new, then you haven’t watched any videos, let alone subscribed to any channels, saved anything to a list or any other activities, so far as your link shows? Are you new to YouTube?
However, I grant you that being thought of as, or called, a trump supporter or, “Donny fan,” when you’re not must be deeply offensive, as it would be for me. If that is the case, I APOLOGISE unreservedly, without qualification or excuse. Sorry.
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epic103 : Yeah, we, “keep that in mind,” as you Trumpers has no loyalty to either party, just Trump, who has NO, “ideology,” whatever. You talk about, “Globalism,” like it’s a dirty word, showing you have NO comprehension of what you’re SAYING. You might as well be whining about the WEATHER. Trump is a MASSIVE GLOBALIST, and you don’t SEE IT. He just wants to trade with countries as corrupt as HIM, and attacking our allies is dressed up as some species of WARPED “patriotism” when his main appeal is to s**t-kickers who STILL SALUTE the Civil War Flag! Can’t you SEE the INSANITY?
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Tele Opinions : He’s literally scheming to have his internet drones tell his Cult followers to go out and, “protest,” against HIS F*CKING POLICIES! He’s fighting himself! He has to maintain the illusion that America is still a country with a government, with the, “power,” to order hospitals, the military, the universities, businesses and the police, to do what’s necessary to protect the nation in a time of crisis. When the TRUTH is that they’re ALL privately run, privately owned and privately aiming at their own different agendas, BUSINESSES, run by his backers who’s lobbyists have 24/7 access to him and are telling him to lift the lockdown and start making MONEY! “A couple of million DEAD, by the end of all this? So what? F*ck you! PAY ME!” Other governments do have control and can issue edicts. Trump ANSWERS to big business, and can’t order ANYONE to do a goddamned thing! So, chaos! And he’s just trying to save face, by playing like he’s secretly on the other side, IN FRONT OF EVERYONE, LIKE THE F*CKING MORON HE IS . . . SMH
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@garygraham8373 : I don’t think so? China is secretly FUMING at Putin, who told them (at the Winter Olympics) that he would annex Ukraine in a matter of days, suck up a few sanctions that he’d set his, “war chest,” aside for and it would be back to business as usual, and it would make it even harder for the west to do anything about Xi’s plans to invade Taiwan! Now, suddenly Taiwan is looking like a distant dream and Xi is hopping mad. Taking Taiwan is the legacy he wants to leave behind; forever remembered as the man who consolidated the Chinese Empire. He needs Russia’s swollen debts and economy the size of Spain’s (but with way more corruption) to look after like he needs a bag on his hip!
Xi is a very smart man. And China will do what’s best for China, which is usually nothing, unless they can get money or power out of it. Putin has the reputation for, “smart,” because he’s actually sly and cunning, but he’s as dumb as a rock. Xi knows that too. He doesn’t want Russia screwing up his plans any more than they already have.
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manchesterblue2007 : Oh, but don’t you remember, how Eliot Ness gave Al Capone regular briefings on ALL the evidence that he was finding, as the investigation developed, so his lawyers could PREPARE for that? And how the judge in the case, found Capone “Not Guilty” on the grounds that Elliot Ness appeared to be “BIASED” against CRIMINALS? Oh, wait? . . . THAT never happened. But, how much would you bet that people, who call themselves names like, “The Truth,” want to REWRITE history SO BADLY, that stories like THAT will start appearing in their “Alt-Wrong-Alcoholex Jones-Fox-Bart” history books? The Trolls are, as predicted, growing increasingly DESPERATE. And there is NOTHING that they won’t devalue, besmirch or destroy to create their Alternative Universe, so that Putin can take over. They REALLY ARE sick puppies. I would feel sorry for them, if it weren’t for the fact that they are SUCH SCUM. Smh
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Mateo San : Sorry to say it, but Trump, “cares,” about them. He capitulated to the demands of the manifesto, on the very day he was at Ground Zero, El Paso. If that wasn’t a message to the Nazis, that Terrorism WORKS, what is? I was not alone in saying, “there will be more shooters, because of Trump’s actions and words.” And, within days, they caught three more, “wannabes.” We have to be real. Trump needs the DIVISION, and will fuel it, as much as he dares. A, “United States,” is Trump’s Kryptonite
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Sandy Wichmann : While the Banks, Wall Street and Big Businesses, ACTUALLY RUN, “the economy,” EVERY SINGLE THING Trump has done, when he’s MEDDLED in economic matters, has HURT American Businesses and interests. I KEEP asking, on different threads, for SOMEONE to name ONE, SINGLE, ECONOMIC THING that Trump has done that did NOT HARM the economy? NO ONE can give ONE, SINGLE, example.
Yet, the DENIAL, of Trump’s INCOMPETENCE continues! . . . Sheesh! . . .
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clara Hurley : Manafort, Stone and many others, who’s names are floating around in the mess, are all, “consultants,” who have known and, “worked,” with each other for 30 years. Trump claims he didn’t know Mannie, before he showed up, offering to, “do it for free,” which is implausible. At the very LEAST, they knew of each other and Trump had benefitted from Mannie’s contacts and schemes. Otherwise, what are we to make of Trump’s judgement, when he, allegedly, hires a guy, offering to work for nothing, whom even a cursory background check would have shown that he had just EPICALLY FAILED at his last job, and LITERALLY FLED the country after having been INSTRUMENTAL in the government’s DOWNFALL, in Ukraine???
I don’t even get WHY these Trolls are SAYING that Mannie won’t have anything on Trump, when it’s OBVIOUS he has TONS of material that COULD cover those last 30 YEARS? This leads me to believe that, at least some of them, must be the homegrown, racist, variety of Troll, who don’t read?
I think you’re right. We will see signs of self preservation in the GOP, and the beginnings of a, “Distancing,” operation, followed by the coup de grace, post Mid Terms. Even then, they will cling on for confirmation at the polls, rather than LEAD the fight. Many will garner support, by opposing Trump, FINALLY, but after we give them whatever they need to finish the job, we must still make ALL of Trump’s enablers PAY for what they’ve done to America.
Sorry. That was a bit of a rant 🙂✌️
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John Martin : Makes you think, right? . . . She got the sickness, recovered, and struggled on. But, who can blame her? At her lowest, most exhausted ebb, when she was fighting in the trenches, only to see her government fighting against her, have to deal with Trump’s, “protestors,” blocking traffic, and wondering what it was all for? When you reach the conclusion that you’ve dedicated your life to saving a bunch ungrateful, selfish, pointless, self destructive SOB’s, you might just conclude that there’s simply no point in propping up the demons in their hell, to make more he’ll for others, and then conclude you’ve wasted your life . . .
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@ninij9692 : I agree with most of what you said, but I’m equally alarmed by it. America has just barely slammed down the lid on a bubbling cauldron, just building up pressure and getting set to explode again. We have to accept, after everything we’ve witnessed, what the GOP are. They are Fascists. In the literal sense. In all but name. Franco, Mussolini and Hitler ALL have very similar stories to this one, and they have NOT gone away, or been subdued! I can literally see trump getting some jail time, but it being a short period in a health farm, handed down by one of his appointed judges who was so intimidated, he allowed trump to make speeches during cross examination, whilst his heavies moved around the court. I can see him (with a ghost writer) penning, “My Struggle: With a Permanent Unjustified Sense of Grievance And An Effeminate Tendency Toward Victimhood,” (He needs to work on that title) and emerging twice as determined, with a fully organised movement, ready to take his orders when he gets out! Remind anyone of Hitler after his Beer Hall Putsch, perhaps?
Look at the comparisons? His is a Personality Qult, with a founding narrative that is a complete LIE. They are driven by racism and grievance. Fortunately for America, the economic conditions were different, but the Covid crisis did help him to create a similar sense of panic and urgency among his Qults, that drove them to the streets. They use threat, intimidation and actual violence to get their way. And they openly refuse to tolerate ANY political opposition. Remember how, “Lock Her Up,” was ALREADY old, before he even took office? And how every single opponent since then has been the victim of a smear campaign that ALWAYS alleges some sort of criminal activity? That is the attitude of a movement that is bent on OUTLAWING political parties of all kinds, apart from their own of course. And, don’t forget that after the insurrection, no participant woke up the next day, horrified at what they’d done? They had already planned for another one, in each of the 50 state capitols, and were going to have an American Krystal Nacht! If this whole thing had started two or three weeks earlier, I think they might have pulled it off!? It was only because Biden’s transition teams were privy to most of what was developing that the GOP couldn’t plot around the corners!
America is facing a Fascist threat! And, this calm is great. But, it is in no way a restoration of our norms, and we cannot afford to act like it is! Their mask has been torn off, and every pretence the GOP makes at being pro-democracy, or even pro-republic sounds disingenuous, because it is! If they get power again, they will NEVER relinquish it! They simply cannot afford to, without facing the criminal consequences that they all know are coming for them. Democracy is putting up a brave fight, but it is far weaker than we imagined, and it was not just the events of the 6th that confirmed that; whether you count the Insurrection, or what I see as far worse, the GOP voting to overturn democracy, PERIOD, DURING A VIOLENT INSURRECTION! But, trump’s personal pressure on so many politicians, to fiddle the vote. How close did we come? If just one or two more of those people had capitulated, we would be living in a militarised dystopia now!
Biden’s successes will help to shore up our democracy, as it will take away the hatred, where it will never win him votes. But, the GOP have been pursuing a scorched Earth policy for four years already, killing all bills that reached the Senate. That, “Emergency,” Covid Relief bill was passed by Congress and sent to the Senate A YEAR AGO! Half a MILLION Americans are DEAD! And we’re SO jaded that we see that kind of CRIMINAL, wilful EVIL as just, “business as usual”??? We need to WAKE UP! Example: They used to hunt down, try and execute traitors who broadcast anti-American Propaganda and LIES that got people KILLED. And they did that in living memory, after WWII! I’m not saying we should hang broadcasters, but for Christ’s sake! Fox literally broadcasts deadly lies on American soil and we allow them to get RICH doing it! Because we’ve grown too accepting and jaded!
America will fall, if we allow it. I know how I sound, like a hysterical Tacitus. But, I predicted the insurrection AND that they wouldn’t be prepared for it, and might not get the back up they needed until it was too late. There are Conspiracies abroad, and they go to the top. It’s up to all of us to reset the boundaries of, “acceptable.” And to demand a review of our Sedition Laws! Fox will scream, “Fire,” in a theatre packed with agitated Nazis, because they CAN. And they’re getting Americans killed! We ALL need to recognise this threat, stop acting like everything’s OK now, and get involved in root and branch politics! At least, those of us who want to keep our Democracy should?
Sorry to unload on you like that. But I speak in friendship. Sincerely. I don’t disagree with you. I just don’t see the GOP as those things any longer. They are Fascists now. ✌️👍
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There is evidence that you’re right, Charlie. Not just about universally dropping IQ levels, but the reasons for that, which are scary and sound like an easily dismissed conspiracy theory themselves. But, check out for yourself what happened to all that leaded oil in the US when we finally banned it? Billions of gallons became landfill, which may well have seeped into the water table. And the timeline fits the effects we would see in the adult population, of increased anger, confusion, capacity to be manipulated and general lowering of IQ levels that we would see from lead poisoning in the water table. Other countries were faced with the same problem of dumping their oil reserves, after having hoarded lots of leaded oil, despite the writing being on the wall, due to their traditional approach to new policies toward a greener Earth: namely to block it in every way imaginable, both legal and extra legal, which resulted in western nations having far too much leaded oil and governments quietly permitting the mass dumping around the globe.
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Alessia C*** : That, SHRINKING, base, won’t matter, in the end. Keep in mind, there will ALWAYS be, as there always has been, around 10 or 15 percent of the country, that will remain race haters, religious bigots, and nut-jobs. That’s the price of Freedom. But, a LOT of former Trump fans felt REAL PAIN at the shutdown. Thousands of businesses will never get paid, and they all have friends and relatives who were effected by that. They’ve seen Trump losing his wall battles. They are learning, whether Trump’s a traitor or not, he hurts their WALLETS. And, wallets are what people ALWAYS vote with
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Totally. Netflix attitude stinks. Recently, for example, my daughter said the movie Bullet Train flopped and said, “Oh, that’s a shame, coz’ I like most of the stars in that.” To which she said, “Well, you’ll be able to decide for yourself if it was that bad, as it’ll be on Netflix now. All flops go to die on Netflix.” Sure enough, I watched it on US Netflix, via VPN. Am I the only one who feels vaguely INSULTED that the only hyped movies that make it to Netflix are the ones that everyone hates? That’s what they think of us? That we only deserve to watch failures? Amazon Prime’s way better and has a broader catalogue for wider tastes anyway. Certainly for old farts like me who still like to watch John Wayne, Clint Eastwood westerns or black and white noirs, along side The Boys or actually, “funny,” comedies. Netflix sucks.
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michael b : And America is for sale, to Russia, the Saudis, and LORDY KNOWS whom else, right? And, the sickest part of it, is that his US fans just don’t CARE! They are WILLING to trade America, so long as it turns out white again! ALL US Trumpski fans, from this point, are traitors, and should be treated accordingly
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Nagash : You have no idea what you’re saying, and clearly, very little education. Sometimes, it’s better to just keep silent, rather than demonstrating your stupidity. Maybe, you should go and join the, “protestors,” whipped up by your, “sources,” of information on the internet? Go join the giant, Darwinian, self-culling experiment, taking place on the American streets? Come November, there won’t won’t BE any Trump voters left alive 🤣
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@pamceol717 : Yes. Yes it would, “make more sense just to make a different movie.” Unless . . . Unless, that is, you are more interested in making some MONEY than you are in art, animation, the legacy of Walt Disney or pleasing an audience. They just want to cash in on old IP’s because they have no creative thoughts of their own and this model has worked pretty well for the juggernaut that is Disney PLC for some years now. They think they can have their cake and eat it too, by stepping on the shoulders of giants and hijacking their original artistic achievements for the sake of crowbarring their own political messaging in them, in a rather sinister, sort of Soviet Hollywood, kind of way, while making lots and lots of MONEY. I hope it backfires this time. 👍
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Romeoleus : Yeah, Bolton is WAY TOO right wing to be classed as a, “Conservative,” in any way. Spoiling for a fight and, “regime change,” in the Middle East, “conserves,” NOTHING; not of our values, and not of our blood and treasure either. People will pay a terrible price, just because Donny so desperately wants a war, and Bolton is the guy who’ll give it to him . . . Smh
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Russell Peterson : The three most INFAMOUS Presidential Quotes, in HISTORY BOOKS, will be Nixon’s, “I’m not a Crook,” Clinton’s, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky,” and Trumpski’s, “Russier, if you’re listening.” And they will ALL crop up in documentaries and movies, repeatedly, and even, perhaps, in that order. Smh . . .
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The Dems are throwing away their advantage, trying to appeal to the, “better natures,” of GOP DEMONS. They should get the most Senior GOP Senators, like Lindsay Graham on the stand, and focus on the HEART of the matter! “The Steal,” CAUSED their Insurrection! So, force them to tell the WORLD that, “The Steal AIN’T REAL!” under oath, with no 5th Amendment to hide behind! What else CAN they do? Take on Perjury and Conspiracy charges? With a BILLION dollar lawsuit? Break their Fascist fantasy! And you break the GOP in two! With or without the, “verdict!”
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The very practice of, “Shorting,” stocks is, “Market Manipulation,” by definition. It is a fundamentally A-moral practice, not just betting against the success of a company, but it is creating the circumstances by which you can ensure that company’s failure; thus increasing the profits of the Shorter. So, to try to suggest a bunch of Redditers behaved in some kind of immoral way, differently from the way they behave every day; worse, to call it an attack on the rich, is hypocritical beyond belief!
To your question: If we should be upset about anything, other than this hypocrisy, it should be about that the fact that these goons are running a casino with the nations money! Mr Reddit walks in, starts winning, because he’s figured out the same methods that the casino uses to cheat them, and the response of these Robin’ Hoods who own the casino? Shut down the game, and have the bouncers throw Mr Reddit, roughly, out of their casino. Mr Reddit lands on his ass in the street, right under the sign that says, “All Are Welcome,” and isn’t meant to feel ill used AND cheated???
And what did Congress REALLY get together for? Their reaction was swifter to this than it was to the Capitol riots! Sure, they grill the CEO of these Robin’ Hoods, and make him look uncomfortable for 5 minutes, but it looked more like they were just trying to figure out a way to punish Redditers, to me, for cutting in on their dance partner, and for a way to reset the game, so that other people never get into their Casino unless they are already in their club to start with!
This whole debacle has merely highlighted what an abject Oligarchy America has become. It seems we’re fast approaching a time when politicians will be irrelevant, and the most political act you can commit will be to join a boycott of a company! For which the penalties will, no doubt, be swift, brutal and illegal! Until the companies ARE the, “law.” Like the Oligarchy in Russia, where the only way to get the police to seriously investigate a daylight murder, is for the victim’s family to pay the cops involved. And even then, the first thing those cops will do is check to make sure the suspect isn’t related to a CEO or friend of Putin’s, before taking any action.
Strange how we sit still for all this, really? I think it’s because in the old days, when people worked for the robber barons of the railroads, they were actually there in groups, collectively experiencing the injustices of their bosses stealing their wages, or refusing to compensate workers for industrial accidents, etc. Now, we all sit in our caves, divided and already conquered. The only real, “communities,” now, are on the web. And, when they get together to change the game, the whole system rallies against them. Whatever happens still leaves everyone in their divided spaces, with other lives to get on with. This Reddit Shorting is a prime example; where it was bad, but it’s not their whole existence, like being a railroad employee was in the 19th century. So, they don’t all discuss it in the evening over beers and get worked up, pick up their tools and march on their foreman’s tent. They have already fended us off, because we’re separated, with jobs to go to, and other stuff to do.
Who can say what the solution to that is? But, I bet there is one?
Brilliant video there, Wisecrack. Really well done. Would love to see if there are any political philosophy solutions out there, to these unique circumstances. Or have the 1% finally figured out how to beat us forever, and the Oligarchs are here to stay?
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Bren : Oh, WAKE UP, America! They are going to prove Trump’s guilt, after the GOP withholds witnesses and evidence, and breaks their oaths of office, and let Trump WALK anyway, because the Republic has FALLEN. Half the GOP are Implicated in Trump’s many crimes, and the Trumps are facing disgrace and JAIL, the very moment Trump loses his, “protected presidential status.” They can’t NOT FIX the next election! WHY are you KIDDING yourselves, America??? This DENIAL is pusillanimous and self-ruining! The Constitution was PROVED MEANINGLESS, when it REALLY COUNTS! You have a Putin Style Dictatorship now! Because SAT there, and DID NOTHING! Thanks for KILLING Democracy, and endangering the ENTIRE PLANET, America . . . SMH
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You also have pre-RIGGED election computers in Florida, so you’re at the heart of the storm. Does anyone NOT know someone who’s died of Covid? Trump’s brother just died of it! By November, you will . . .
America’s, “election,” is SO RIGGED, it’s laughable. Why you aren’t all choking up the streets, demanding the restoration of the post office, and the Republic, is beyond me? You all act like you WANT a Dictatorship? Trump, his family and the entire GOP Cabinet all KNOW they’re facing serious JAIL TIME, and they’re NOT going to ALLOW you to remove them, whatever it takes. And, that’s because YOU people keep allowing them to GET AWAY WITH MURDER! Still think, “someone else,” is going to save the Republic? How? Why? No one can, without YOU supporting them. Your Republic is dying before your very eyes, and America sits on its ass, watching the Dictatorship unfold on TV . . . Smh
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Billy Sunsteel, etc : As a Conservative, I was fiercely critical of Obama. Only racists were afraid of being called out as racists, because their complaints, were racist, and NOT about policy, or grownup stuff. I MISS, “No Drama Obama,” now. That’s what you Trump Culters don’t get, yet; despite the Midterm results, which should have made it clear to you? Conservatives AND Liberals KNOW Trump is a Clear And Present Danger. You just want to put us ALL in a box, because you can’t cope with adult discourse 🙂
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Time to codify our, “norms,” and, “guardrails,” into Criminal Law, I think? With swift, harsh penalties for law breakers of ANY rank? If we have to face, “De-Legitimisation,” of all candidates, at midterms and nationals, (EVERY TWO YEARS?) we will be an ungovernable banana republic, with no authority, no leadership, and weakened to the point that a Coup would be EASY! From inside or outside, by stealth. We have to SEAL that hole. First order of business ✌️👍
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@Wrighjj : So, no downside then? Perhaps they could get better candidates who aren’t already bought and paid for by the lobby groups, and who give a damn? Maybe some of the old Reaganite types, that I used to admire? . . . I’m still a Conservative (member of the Lincoln Project) who has recently been experiencing what it’s like to work across the isle, with Dems, to the same end: Remove the Clear And Present Danger that was trump. We NEED NEW people, willing to work WITH each other, for the good of America, “First,” and who can accept REALITY, instead of changing the truth into trigger words. E.g. Globalism is a fact; no more stoppable than the WEATHER, and we shouldn’t have to FEAR it, any more than the weather. And, so on . . .
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@dutchflats : The Republicans, “removing,” drop boxes was VIDEOED and we ALL SAW IT on CNN and other channels. So, you’re debunked there, madam. And, your remark to me was nothing more than a whine, with no, “argument,” in it, or discernible point. Is that the, “howling at the moon,” stuff you trump trolls so confidently predicted, ma’am? 😉
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@NoSpam1891 : Exactly. It’s an anachronism, created so that states could have various (un-matching) systems, so they could literally protect their SLAVERY and trading laws, and protect the elites from ever being outnumbered by the electorate. If we truly are meant to be the, “United States,” it’s a no brainer! Every single vote should carry equal weight in a presidential election, and NOT be disenfranchised by a zip code lottery! There must be grounds to make that argument, under equal rights law? You don’t even have to abolish the EC. Just abolish this one, particular, anachronistic, un-American, unrepresentative, un-patriotic aspect of interference that makes some votes, “worth,” more than others. It’s not needed any more and it should have gone generations ago ✌️👍
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Jim Crow : Son, even YOU don’t, “believe,” that? More Trump-Russian-Conspiracy News comes out, DAILY, now and even Trump’s dumbest Trolls KNOW Trump has lied his ASS off, about EVERYTHING. The shrinking Kult will, “say,” they don’t believe it, because, like Trump, they LIE a lot. That’s the WHOLE POINT of their Trollery, kiddo: TO LIE. We KNOW this, because we KNOW you wouldn’t BE HERE, if you felt, “secure,” about Trump. You’d all be masturbating to Alex-Q-Anal-Jones videos, or you’d Hashtag RunAway to Fox. How dumb ARE you, kid? 🤣
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@Navschannel3908 : Think we should clear up who we’re referring to as the, “number 1 news,” source, these days? I hear Fox has lost 40% of its viewing figures recently? Leaving CNN & MSNBC in the top slots? Of course, this has happened before, more than once, and the Fox viewers usually come crawling back over the months, when this happens to them, as Fox is the only, “mainstream,” game in town . . . But, this time? Maybe not so much? . . . Now there are competitors on the market, and they’re more extreme than the flying saucer rantings of Tucker Carlson, or the abject Orange Penis fondlings of Sean Hannity . . . So . . . Interesting times for them? . . . 🤔🤷♂️😉👍
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@johndigiacomo1674 : That Pennsylvania Judge was a member of the Freedom Caucus, and he wrote one of the most DAMNING judgements against trump’s, “attacks upon democracy,” of all! These Q-tips and Orange Cults don’t get their information from news at all! They go to their echo chambers and are then left, quite literally, standing in the streets, confused and appalled when their, “news,” outlets turn out to be SO WRONG, and trump DIDN’T round up all the Dems at the Inauguration and reinstall himself in the White House! They genuinely, “thought,” that was going to happen! But, do ANY of these utter cults have the wit to ask themselves, “So, what else was Q lying about?” Of course not. Now, they’re mostly digging around for, “rationalisations,” to rebuild their broken, twisted worlds, and then come to an agreement upon their, “narrative,” to run with. Education is our last best hope, now. Smart people just don’t fall for this crap! And they sure as HELL don’t vote for it! Education, and a harsh, swift, severe pushback upon ALL sources of lies, including Putin. ✌️👍
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Hmmm . . . Well, one can always argue that Johnson made both Truss and Sunack a thing, and as to lasting damage, that’s hard to quantify. We’ll never know how things would have played out if he had supported Teresa May’s plans for Brexit, instead of sabotaging what would have been a far less bumpy ride for Britain than what we got, whilst stabbing her in the back and front, merely for his own Machiavellian ends.
Seldon does write well and entertainingly. He - or, he and his colleagues (whom are fully accredited as co-authors on the covers of his books, btw) - is/are insightful and his book on Johnson seemed wholly accurate and justified to me . . . as well as just a good read.
So, whilst I too will take some convincing, I will at least listen to his arguments with an open mind, as I would to almost anyone who is a true believer is history and its importance as a learning tool for us all.
But I must contradict you on one point. Truss has absolutely zero, “ideas of her own.” I can understand why they seem that way, given how outlandish her political philosophy seemed at the time, even to her fellow party members. But, if you know anything about the, “Tufty Club,” or the Tufton Street so called, “think tanks,” and their American financial backers, you will see that her entire philosophy, as stated out loud and as attempted in reality, was directly derived from their Neo Liberal clap trap, of the type that the Tea Party and other far right American financial cartels spout. Nothing new or original in any of it, and most certainly not, “her,” ideas.
She has merely acted as an empty vessel for these foreign and domestic investors who took advantage of her, “born again,” zeal, and the fact that she was more or less a blank slate to be filled with whatever nonsense they fed her.
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@piccalillipit9211 : Wow . . . There are so many people who’ve been to hell and back (or are still returning) and my point is, I WOULD PREFER NOT TO BE ONE OF THEM! I’ve had enough pain and suffering for two lifetimes already, and adding intubation to my list, because of some blind, politically motivated, entitled Karens, is on my list of NOT HAPPENING things. I will take all reasonable, lawful measures to protect me and mine. Anyone who thinks we can be intimidated by, “We know where you live,” is in for a short, sharp shock. World; you have been warned.
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BLT4LIFE : I’ve NEVER met an, “anti-Globalist,” who even KNOWS WTF the word, “Globalist,” even MEANS! To Trump Tramps, it’s another ignorant Buzz Word, like, “Whaddabout,” and, “but, her emails?” 😂✌️👍
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@rufustdangleberry5127 : What’s that phrase? “Just because I’m paranoid, it doesn’t mean they’re not out to get me.” Well, the way I see it, it’s like a disturbed teen, with anger issues, has been scared off from whatever they planned to do, and gone off grumbling to themselves. But, any minute now, we’ll hear the glass of a car window shattering, or something. Probably around the 20th? And, probably somewhere unexpected and undefended? They are COWARDS after all. It won’t be somewhere where THEY could get hurt . . . Be safe, and be vigilant 👍✌️
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Many of them are regretting their decision for the first time this Christmas. They honestly didn’t think Donny would do this to them. I know. I’ve talked to some of them already. They’re as gutted as everyone else. In fact, I’ve just finished talking to one (former inlaw) who called me, admitted that my predictions about Donny were always true, and wanted to ask me what he will do next? She’s pretty desperate it seems? She didn’t like my answer, despite my being polite, helpful as I could be, and my sending some support, for her kids. She still got mad, blamed me, for his evil and hung up. If it wasn’t for her kids, I wouldn’t have even taken the call. Donny’s hitting out at everyone, now. Which, at least, might help with Georgia
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And it’s so gladdening to my heart that this is what people want to talk about, FINALLY! Andrew Marr excused himself from even discussing that topic, with a hand wave, saying, “They’ve always done it like that.” But he gets his residual pay,ents for his books and documentaries from the BBC, so that’s not hard to understand. Especially when you consider that anyone who takes a more lucrative job at another outlet still relies on their, “network,” of contacts for those big interviews that draw the punters. The whole topic of corrupt appointments has been subject to Omertà within the BBC because they don’t want to rock their leaky boat.
But, a system that no one would bat an eye at in the early 1930’s, The State appointing State Radio Management, which was made even a necessity during the war, already looked outdated by the 1960’s and unfit for purpose by the end of the 80’s. Now it’s just an invasion by stealth, dismantling its values, public trust and its future viability by putting more and more Tories at the top, whilst using those positions to fish around for Tories among their presenters who might be stupid enough to allow themselves to be persuaded to shill for the government, like Fiona Bruce. And that’s not her first offence either, shilling for Johnson’s wife beating dad. I’ve literally watched her agog, on Question Time, stating the government’s arguments for them, because the Tory MP on the panel was refusing to.
If anyone should be like a royal, taking their political biases to their graves with them, it’s political and news presenters. But Andrew Neil was never even questioned for starting his own right wing news outlet! The hypocrisy is palpable and shocking. Damn, I could site example after example, but it would be too long for a YouTube comment and it would leave all decent people feeling sicker than they already do.
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@bighouse6120 : Like when a corporation (let’s call them, oh, I don’t know? “Fox,” maybe) tries to Cancel our Republic, our democracy and our elections, by deliberately and knowingly LYING to America, casting doubt on the election’s validity over 700 TIMES until there’s a riot in the Capitol, in which over 50 cops get broken bones, put in a coma, blinded, or KILLED? All because Fox tried to Cancel the Republic? That kind of, “Corporate Cancel Culture?”
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@hadilayyad6147 : Here’s the difference: If we don’t stop Putin from getting Ukraine, he will have a stranglehold on the world’s energy supplies and therefore on you. And we will have signalled to him that his next target is just fine too. The fact that these people are, “like us,” in that regard has nothing to do with race or religion. You cannot pretend to be shocked if you here of a revolution in Pakistan, or Syria, or Iran, because they never had democracies and they’re run on oppressive systems anyway. Ukraine has a democracy like ours, an economic model like ours, a political culture like ours. If it can happen to them it can, and probably will, happen to you!
Don’t get me wrong, that guy in this video (the first example) was obviously masking racism, or just so bad at expressing this point that it makes you wonder how he ever qualified to be a journalist? And it was right that people were angry about that. But we NEED to discuss the fact anyway. The fact that Ukraine is like us is important. And I say that in a country with a highly mixed ethnic and cultural representation, speaking for ALL of us.
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@N A : Question : Just imagine if, during World War II, we had Lord Haw Haw and Tiger Lilly, broadcasting on American soil? Lord Haw Haw, who broadcasted daily radio taunts for the Nazis, to get at the British, was caught, tried and HUNG! Can anyone explain to me how it is, that we now ALLOW Anti-American propagandists to sit on AMERICAN SOIL to undermine the Republic? Many of these racist insurrectionists ACTUALLY BELIEVE the, “steal,” is a THING! Screaming, “Fire!” in a packed theatre is never a, “free speech,” issue! Propaganda is KILLING Americans, and we are at WAR! It’s time we outlawed the Alex Jonestowns, the QAnons, the RT’s, the F*x and Fiends, and criminally charged these insurrectionist LIARS! We have to strike at the roots, to prevent regrowth of the lies. We have to make it a CRIME to broadcast lies! At least, the egregious ones! . . . Don’t we? . . .
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Ryback Smith : Tell that to the KKK? They are the ones doing the Nazi Salute, shouting, “Hail Trump!” in unison, son, not me. You can see videos of it on YouTube. Yeah, Nazis are behind the times, and don’t even use American Flags. They prefer the Civil War Rebel Star. Clue there, right? It’s NOT THIS country they, “love.” Not with a different flag, huh, kid?
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Mace Cee : Odd, isn’t it, that even IF Trump had done ANYTHING, that hadn’t HURT the economy, while the people who REALLY RUN IT, have to run around after him, fixing the CHAOS he inflicts upon it, these TRAITORS are FINE with Trump handing America over to China and Russia, just so long as THEY get their wages, each month? When did America become so CHEAP? At what point did we decide that we REALLY DON’T CARE if mass murdering dictators take over our country, just so long as our agenda of RACISM, GREED and GUNS is met? I really wonder WTF HAPPENED, America? It defies analysis, after two World Wars and GOD KNOWS what else, we’ve been through, in the name of, “Democracy and Freedom,” just to throw it ALL in the pan, for a TEMPORARY Tax Break, a gun and knife in the back of any minorities? . . . Sheesh! . . . America is a shameful place to live in, right now . . .
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dominic pelle : You ALWAYS get the OPPOSITE with Trump. Don’t want Asylum Seekers? Trump ENSURES that you get an influx of them, to press the racist panic buttons in his Trolls. Want more money, at work? Trump tells you he’ll give it to you, while he takes $1.5 TRILLION for his family and donors. And, his dumb Trolls, “think,” he’s, “like them,” because he talks like a drunk coal miner’s daughter, even though he’s an Old Money Elite. You can check the ENTIRE list of his, “policies,” that way. So long as America remains DIVIDED, Trump has power . . . 👍
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SPZ Aruba : “Relevant:” HAPPENING NOW, Putin. That, “Definition,” work for ya’? Your propaganda is twisted and inaccurate, but you KNOW that, don’t you. You forgot to say, “Whaddabout,” btw? Trump is TELLING us, AT RALLIES, that he’s IMPOTENT, because of MONEY (NONE of which we would ever see, btw) and you’re trying to tell us we should be OK with THAT? WTF is WRONG with you? We STILL haven’t settled up for 9/11 and you want to INVITE them to do it again, by showing them they can STILL get away with it? You’re a twisted little Putinista, if ever I saw one . . . SMH
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@sr2291 : Furthermore, for national elections, there ought to be a, “One Voter, One Vote,” national standard. When you’re choosing a president, every vote should carry the same value, and the Electoral College system is anachronistic. It needs to be reformed, or done away with, altogether? But, reformed for National Elections at the very LEAST? We are, “one nation under God,” or we’re still faking it. Time for America to grow out of puberty, don’t you think? We just had a, “terrible teens,” that no one will want to go back to when they compare next Christmas to the chaos, death, and civil unrest of the last one? . . .
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Morgan has shown us who he is, long ago. I’m old enough to remember his televised spat with Ian Hislop in which he directly threatened Hislop and, sure enough, followed up, sending, “journalists,” to root through his bins and harass him on his doorstep. Is anyone suggesting that this Piers Morgan has, “grown,” or, “changed,” for the better since then? When every utterance from his poisonous mouth since has been flecked with the angry spittle of invective? It’s because of, “journalists,” like Morgan that the world is in such an egregious state.
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The GOP are very prurient aren’t they? They, “care,” about your gender, your sex life, and what you get to see on TV. Always fiddling with our private lives, like a Nanny State, whilst claiming to be, “small government conservatism.” Whatever . . . They need to, “Make America Divided Again,” and will do anything to stop it being, “Great,” unless they can take credit. But, hot button issues always rile their Evangelical base, so? . . . 🤷♂️
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@danedonovan4847 : Yeah, we all know what your BAD FAITH calls for, “unity,” are about, and it won’t wash. All, “unity,” means to the far right, is ZERO CONSEQUENCES for screaming, “fire!” in a packed theatre, and sitting back to watch, while OTHERS do the DYING that YOU CAUSED. Not happening. In fact, your veiled terror threats, that people will only get more violent, if they see their leaders punished, only adds up to ALL THE MORE REASON TO PUNISH THE LOT OF YOU! And to the HARSHEST, SWIFTEST, MOST RUTHLESS level that LAW permits! And that’s what we’ll be DEMANDING from our administration, son! You earned it. And you need to SEE your COWARD CONFEDERATE KARENS in positions of leadership CONFESS THEIR LIES for the world to see. It’ll do you good 😋
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thepsychologistvjdj : Do STOP boring us, with the, “Liberals,” narrative that you so DESPERATELY cling to, as your mission is to spread DIVISION. You are a KNOWN, Pro-Pootin Troll. Conservatives CLEARLY HATE Trumpski. “Liberals,” ALONE did not have the NUMBERS to vote OUT the GOP in Virginia, Alabama, Pennsylvania, etc. It is CLEAR that Trumpski, who only JUST got in, with a minority, has ALIENATED SO MANY of those who were willing to, “give him a chance.” I am a Conservative, and I will be voting Trump and the GOP OUT, along with MILLIONS of others, so WHY PRETEND? Is it just for PROPAGANDA reasons?
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Fun Ghoul : Good last comment. But, respectfully, you made the category error of treating Trolls like Normals, with brains, consciences, or some form of morality. They have none of these things. They are ALL either foreign, and on the shell company payroll, or domestic racists, willing to sell America for some ridiculous, impossible, notion of, “Whiteness.”
Unless, that is, you are doing what I sometimes do? Perhaps, you’re just aware that there are Normals out there, who take encouragement, from hearing what other Normals have to say?
Or, perhaps, you are just getting stuff off your chest? In which case, I hear you, brother.
In any event, there’s no criticism intended, toward your last remark, there. Just . . . getting stuff off my chest 🙂✌️👍
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If the GOP takes Georgia, they will be able to sabotage all progress, for two years at least; BUT, it will make Donny, “look bad,” like they don’t even need him. If Donny realises the GOP needs to lose Georgia, so he can always say, “You were better off with me,” he’ll sabotage the GOP’s election runoffs himself! Spread the word! We NEED Georgia, for the sake of America’s future, and for the sake of EXPOSURE & JUSTICE! Merry Christmas 🎄👍
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@foxman8344 : How well do you know the channel, SomeOrdinaryGamers? I ask because it sounds like you don’t know it too well? I think you expressed an utter misreading of both sides in that video. Of course it’s, “drama,” because it is, “dramatic.” He’s talking about someone he liked and thought he could trust.
Did you register how often Muta encouraged viewers to do their own homework on this story and into charities generally? How he demonstrated the method for doing so and explained, step by step, how you can do this for yourself and draw your own conclusions?
It’s like you are losing sight of the fact that he is making YouTube videos for, “entertainment,” and presenting his subject matter (whether it be serious or trivial) in an entertaining way?
But none of that should negate the fact that Muta is telling you that there’s a YouTuber out there whom he has followed and admired all these years, only to find out that he has some deeply disturbing financial behaviour going on? That’s a dramatic story, which Muta handled in his usual, inimitable style, yet I thought he presented it very even handedly and with due consideration.
Are you honestly telling me that your suspicions as to the motives of the person presenting you with the facts would colour your interpretation of those facts? You saw the records and heard their response. Those are not opinions, are they? Just facts.
Are you honestly, “not,” seeing a massive red flag, when the guy who has been sitting on this growing sum of money, taking, “relatively,” small sums each year, with absolutely no accountability for where those, “expenses,” have gone, responds to Muta’s enquiry with, “I was just about to give it away,” and, “Maybe you could suggest whom to give it to?” which sounds very much like, “Would you like a bribe to keep this quiet?” at worst and, “You caught me red handed, but I can give most of it back,” at best to me!
I mean, he doesn’t want to waste the charity’s money on, “giving it to a doctor or something”??? . . . Whu? . . ? Isn’t that what it’s FOR? If I had any doubts about the guy, they were eradicated when I heard him talk!
He acts like a guy who was in the middle of stealing a TV, making excuses and just hoping he can put it back down and flee the scene! He was hoping he could sit on that pot and take it all for himself in a few years from now. That’s obvious. He lied repeatedly on his streams, saying the money was already in the hands of other charities, which he NAMED, yet he says he cannot identify a worthy one!? Look at the other video attached to this one, and you’ll see for yourself. Those were undeniably outright, repeated lies, over a period of years! Not once, over all those years, did he EVER tell his audience he was, “having difficulty,” identifying a worthy recipient! Why? Because he didn’t want anyone to know he was LYING to them!
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Be prepared to FIGHT, America. For the GOP, it’s either establish a Dictatorship, by denying you elections, or go to jail and live with the disgrace of the history books. Which do you think they’ve already chosen? With no alternatives, they WILL try it, if WE LET THEM. What choice do they have? And, so many racist trump fans are more afraid of facing the TRUTH, which they know in their hearts, that trump screwed THEM the hardest, that they will carry on fighting. We have to be READY. The election is just the beginning. If we even GET ONE? . . . That will be on YOU
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Abstract Happy Place : You saying Conservative America does NOT want the TRUTH about Trump? Only the Liberals? As a Conservative, I am here to prove you wrong. Trolls and GOP enablers live in a bubble of conspiracy theories and inward looking, to the next Trump Crisis, and are totally out of touch with the outside reality. America is sickened by the indecent haste of the Kavanaugh Criminal, being shoehorned in, to protect Trump Capone from his crimes. He’ll end up being impeached, too. More conservatives are leaving the party, 25% at the last count, since Trump took office. The Op-Ed, the Woodward Book, Trump’s handling of the hurricane: that’s in the last WEEK. Trump has failed and it’s falling apart.
Stop trying to KID yourself that ANY Trump opponent gives a DAMN about “Hillary” as they REALLY DON’T. Lock her up, and see how we YAAAWWWN with shock-horror. America CARES about the CROOK who’s ruining the country NOW. WAKE UP! . . . SMH
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@13muller9 : Did you notice just how MANY of these Qannon Fodder mobsters were only children of middle class parents, either with their moms or goaded into it by their moms? From the politician who’s mom came out to tell CNN what a good boy her son is, “doing the right thing,” to Zip Tie Guy, photographed with his mom whilst rioting, to Mr Q Horns himself, who’s mommy complained about how, “special,” his diet needs to be, for her, “special little trooper.” The list is shockingly long! There’s a story in that somewhere? About the entitled, white, middle class only children who have been taught all about their made up, “rights,” without ever once even HEARING the word, “responsibility,” in their LIVES!
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@agolftwittler1223 : Check out the list of how many of the most famous, “leaders,” at the insurrection were single child, spoilt, white, middle and upper middle class types? I’m stunned by how many actually showed up WITH THEIR MOMMIES! And even the ones who didn’t had their mom’s complaining about their special food needs whilst in jail, or came out to whine at CNN about how he or she is such a, “good boy, doing the right thing!” What we witnessed was a giant wave of entitlement, washing out of a generation of spoiled children with awful, racist mommies who put ‘em up to it! Flipping over the board, because they lost and have never had to deal with that in their lives! Made in America, out of American clay! Orange Clay! 🤦♂️
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Biden’s Inaugural Speech should include something like, “I have declared a state of emergency, giving me Federal Powers over states to respond to Covid. And I’m going to give YOU the choice, America! You can wear the masks, or be locked down like children with behaviour problems who need to be separated from the normal kids. If you care about your work, your businesses and your MONEY, MORE than thousands of American LIVES, so be it! Wash your hands, keep your distance and wear the damned mask! Or be treated like the selfish, America Hating pr*cks you are, and get locked down! Biden out!” Mic drop . . . Don’t you think? ✌️👍
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You’re more right than you know. The technical, “skill,” in telling a joke is the switch; the subversion of expectations. He does the opposite. He doubles down on what he’s angry about, without any, “slight of hand,” cleverness, or art. That’s the literal definition of ranting, and the precise opposite of joking. It’s literally what humor was invented as an antidote for. He’ll give up before long. I guarantee it. Trumpites are always too thin skinned to take criticism. But, when he gives up, he’ll blame, “Cancel Culture.” My prediction is that the embarrassment of being America’s cringe will get to him, so he’ll deliberately say something, “racist,” “sexist,” or just generally, “outrageous,” enough to get thousands of complaints, so he can, “blame,” “the left,” rather than admit that being ENTITLED is not the same thing as working for years in front of live audiences, honing your craft. ✌️👍
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@dx1450 : My genuine hope? When Gutfeld has had a gut full of being satirised on National TV for being less funny than your second bout of Covid; when he can’t take it any more and is looking for an excuse to stop doing it; when he deliberately ejaculates something SO egregious, in the hopes of being taken off the air, so he can blame, “Cancel Culture,” instead of admitting he’s not funny; I really hope that NOT ONE PERSON from the, “left,” or, “centre,” even bothers to complain at all! I hope he’s forced to continue being dismantled by actual comedians who have spent years honing their craft, and not being SO entitled into thinking that their brash, insecure, nasty personality is somehow funny enough that they never had to WORK at being funny. I hope he has to live in the hellscape of his own, “humor,” and being the butt of America’s jokes, for the rest of his life. And, when people are asked how they feel about his latest, “outrage,” they just say, “I never saw it,” 🤷♂️ shrug, and leave him to his pain 😋 Now, THAT would be funny 😁👍
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Trump INVENTED Cancel Culture. “Lock her up,” was already old, BEFORE he even took office. And as you say, Primarying his own, “colleagues,” for merely disagreeing with him, was something he did when he got in and is STILL doing it now. And let’s NOT overlook their Fascistic attempt to Cancel Democracy on 6th Jan, equals the ULTIMATE CANCEL CULTURE. It may have been deluded and completely doomed, but so was the Beer Hall Putsch. When they’re whole, “ideology,” is based on lies, and they’re trying to outlaw political opponents of any kind, AND while they’re a Qult of Personality, they are, by DEFINITION, ‘FASCISTS.” We have to call them what they are, and deal with them as such. Or this will get worse
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Virginia B. Britton : Imagine, just how deeply, “hurt,” a person needs to be, to hate and blame a whole, “other,” group of people, instead of taking, “Responsibility,” for the fact that they work three jobs, have no time for their kids and only ever get their news from the Fox headlines, and their favourite conspiracy web-sites? The BURDEN they carry and feed, like an angry beast, eating them from the inside, and pressing down its weight, upon every decision and conversation; not just colouring their views, but putting a crazy kaleidoscope prism in front of them, distorting everything they see, into the opposite of what it is.
That’s a LOT of anger and hate to carry around. They, ”think,” they’ll experience, “relief,” at some point; like there’s a finishing line that they can cross and declare, “victory.” It’s always just around the corner, for a racist. “If only we can,” etc, etc. And the fact that they NEVER get what they want, makes them adopt this culture of, “Victimhood.” Always Aggrieved, by something, and claiming that, because of, “The Other,” they are, “Oppressed Whites.”
So, imagine, the weight of effeminate whining and casual cruelty, upon the soul. Never, “Manning Up,” except to throw bottles of urine at black people; more like, “Childing Up,” and having to waste their valuable time, that they SHOULD be spending on their families, researching conspiracy nonsense.
Education is the only known cure for racism; doesn’t inoculate ALL cases, but does inoculate most young people. We NEED a program of inoculation: We NEED Education. But, the Alt-Wrong KNOWS this: Hence, they have an incompetent, running education into the ground, Fox (W)anchors, attacking universities on an almost nightly basis, and all the Alt-Wrong politicians, accusing educational establishments of being “Hotbeds of Socialism,” or WORSE.
Yeah, pretty, “miserable,” existence for the average Trumpoid. Just look at them? Angry and aggrieved, ALL THE TIME . . . SMH
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cstrutherskgs : In 1945, when there was no longer any reason to fear being reported by your neighbours, to your other neighbours, Berlin, the heartland of Nazism was a mysteriously changed place. The Allies all remarked upon how there didn’t seem to be a single Nazi Party member to be found, anywhere. No proud die hards, no one willing to stand on their, “beliefs,” and let the chips fall where they may. They would inform to the allies, about other Nazis, but not a one would ever admit to being one. When Trump is out, and there’s no one there to obstruct justice for the Trump’s, and his base finally discovers that THEY were the ones Trump ripped off, and were betrayed the worst; even Alabamans will say they, “never heard of Donny.” It’s historically amazing, just how fast a cult can evaporate under the disinfectant light of truth . . . SMH ✌️
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@kod5660 : True. But, two things: as I said above, I don’t know that bigotry necessarily translates into treason? However, the bigotry is bad enough. But, Biden’s not going to tip his hand, before getting his appointees confirmed, if he plans any kind of FDR style, root and branch reforms of the SCOTUS? I think we may yet see a redress of the balance? And the judge who, “likes beer,” may yet be impeached? So, I wouldn’t despair yet? I think we just have to start convincing our fellow Americans that everything is political, and that it’s time we all took part in, and responsibility for, our local and national politics. We need to start caring less about who gets voted off of Love Island, and more about which Senators are bilking the American people? 👍
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@magoo647 : Remember how, in the weeks running up to the elections, Donny kept saying there was, “massive fraud,” in every state, “except Florida?” That didn’t just set off my alarm bells. Check out the CNN story, and I promise you, you’ll be sickened by what the GOP did there.
There has to be, “consequences,” for what they’ve done. A Reckoning. Not, “revenge,” or anything. I’m sorry, but I’m simply not prepared to just suck it up, “for the sake of peace and quiet.” Too many CRIMES were committed, and the GOP trolled America with them. Hundreds of thousands lay DEAD at our feet, unable to cry out for JUSTICE! Well, if the DOJ is going to be, “independent,” let them be, and let the chips fall where they may. Because, JUSTICE MATTERS! ✌️
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zbudda : I am ACTUALLY starting to feel sorry for you? You are TRYING to distract from the issue in hand, and you are TRYING to do it without the ABILITY to string together a coherent sentence, which says, in what way Nunes SHAMEFUL roll in this S**T show of a presidency, has ANYTHING to do with this? I’m guessing that you haven’t actually WATCHED the video, and you’re probably Trolling a LOT of threads at once, with the same material, simply shouting, “But LOOK! SHINEY SHINEY!” whenever anyone asks you what you’re TALKING ABOUT? YOU don’t even know, MORON. Make your point or quit wasting our time? After all, who KNOWS how much longer you have left on your virus infested computer? 🤢 🤮 💀
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zbudda : Dear GOD!? Talk about clutching at straws!? You realise that you wouldn’t even KNOW about Shrzok, if it hadn’t been for MUELLER’S TEAM identifying what COULD be interpreted as a “prejudice” and taking action THEMSELVES, right? THAT is simply MORE proof that Mueller’s running the tightest ship imaginable, without leaks, and WITHOUT the SLIGHTEST possibility that ANYONE will be able to claim ANY “bias,” when the AXE DROPS on Trump’s head.
Personally, I find that story HIGHLY reassuring. There ain’t no flies on Mueller, baby.
And PLEASE, quit whining about “personal” remarks? YOU did it to me and all I did was hand you back a little change for your dollar. If you wanna’ get all “butt hurt” about it, DON’T DO IT, OK?
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zbudda : Despite the fact that you don’t answer, “uncomfortable,” questions, I’ll indulge you, there. If you had been a little more thorough in your “research” you would have seen that there is NOTHING on my profile AT ALL, TOO. I am guessing, but I don’t doubt he can answer for himself, that Mr Yates, is probably a bit like me? Could be wrong, but, as an older man, with a LIFE, I have better and more important things to CARE about than the “approval” of others, so I don’t bother building pages on ANY outlet, pleading for others to “befriend” me “like my comments” or tell me that a photograph of my breakfast has changed their life.
I DO care about democracy, truth and freedom and have made a pretty good living on that basis. So, this new Rabbit Hole starts and ends here, OK? I happen to LIKE Mr Yates, and I like what he is saying. So WHAT? Am I supposed to feel “insecure” or something because I agree with him? ‘The f**k outa’ here! :-) You’ll HAVE to do better than THAT?
I’ve never accused anyone of being a Troll, because, like me, they have better things to do than take responsibility for the entertainment of others in 5 minute segments?
Yet, here YOU are? Unable to debate and unable to admit DEFEAT? Like some wind up toy, that you kick across the room, that just makes MORE noise? What is the point of you, right now? :-)
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Oh they, “realise the enormity of their own failing,” alright. The Post Office and co are fighting a desperate rear guard action. One MP who was attempting to fight the PO on this matter early on, told Channel 4 last night that the police should be perusing a criminal investigation.
Several of these, “honoured,” PO representatives LIED to the enquiry! They have committed perjury, fraud, conspiracy, perverting the course of justice, tampering with evidence, the list goes on and on! They need to be dealt with in the same manner as the law routinely deals with organised crime! As this was, and is, nothing short of that!
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Dado2015 Alhasany : People are starting to REALISE that the, “Economy,” is being RUN by the Banks and Wall Street, and that Trump’s removal, wouldn’t change any of THAT. The reason they’re seeing it, is because, whenever Trump interferes DIRECTLY in economic matters, the shares of AMERICAN COMPANIES take a HIT. And that is the ONLY, “effect,” that Trump has VISIBLY had, since coming into office (excluding the Great Tax Heist of 2017?). Even the GOP wish he’d keep his mouth SHUT on economic issues. The rest of us, just wish he’d keep his mouth SHUT . . . SMH . . .
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Oh, come ON, America!? . . . It’s either one of two choices: RIG the, “trial,” and RIG the 2020, “elections,” OR? . . . The whole Trump Tribe, including half of the GOP goes to JAIL. Which did you THINK they would choose? Whether you come to love your Trumpian Monarchy, or decide to tear it down in a second Revolution, just, PLEASE? For the LOVE OF GOD? PLEASE, stop KIDDING YOURSELVES that your 2020 elections are not ALREADY RIGGED?
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@markgriffiths6540 : I get what you mean and, for some lost causes, that will always be true. But, evidently you can fight tribalism, as the polls are showing. Otherwise, we would have to accept that most of the nation has always been floating voters and that the Tory, “tribe,” has only ever consisted of 10 to 30% of the voting population.
Indeed, the history of humanity shows that fighting tribalism, only to replace tribes with new ones, is pretty much the whole story. We’ve done very little else.
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I’m just so depressed by this appalling, degenerate, cruel, self-serving, incompetent, borderline racist, elitist, “government.” We should be allowed to FORCE an election at this point. I’m a middlingly wealthy man, by any reasonable measure, and even I can see quite plainly that we’re NOT, “all in this together.”
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Keith Kemp : There’s a common misunderstanding here, that this guest SHOULD have made clear. Depression, for example, is a NORMAL, HEALTHY reaction in ANY leader, to heavy losses in a war, or terrorist destruction of homes and families. Only when it is DEBILITATING, does it become the problem. People WITHOUT “empathy” who are NOT horrified by such things, may be unaffected, but we SHOULD be SCARED by that.
The Goldwater Rule, was ONLY devised for LEGAL protection, after the psychiatric profession was shamed and thrown into disrepute, by the few, and had little, if ANYTHING to do with “ethics.”
So, we have NO EXCUSE for HIDING behind the rule, either. “Fitness for Office,” should be judged upon ACTIONS. Trump is CLEARLY a FAILURE
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@GeneralSamov : Are you speaking of GOP witness testimony? If so, consider: they cannot refuse to testify. They cannot take the 5th. So, when they are asked to give their, “evidence,” for, “The Steal,” which was the belief that caused the Insurrection, what can they say? Under oath, on Live TV? Risk getting torn to shreds, with fabulation? Make up some, “evidence,” on the spot? And get charged with Perjury, or Conspiracy, or worse? It’s precisely my utter lack of trust in them that I’m counting on. The ONLY option open to them, that doesn’t land them with their own indictment, is confession. This is a court, where they cannot say whatever they like, without any evidence. They will be forced, under oath, to tell America that they have ZERO, “evidence,” for, “The Steal.” Many will fold completely, and admit that not only did they know it was a LIE, but that they discussed it’s falsehood with other senior GOP witnesses. Then there’s the risk of their stories not matching, unless they tell the truth. The very best they can offer is the Nuremberg Defence! Or, a variation of it? “I believed my president, though I did not see any evidence for the steal, myself.” Or, “I was only following orders.” Many will already have been advised to take that line, by their legal council. They will ALL be in self preservation mode, and the only ones with a hope of coming out the other end with any semblance of dignity, are the guys like Moscow Mitch McConnell, who is currently decrying the falsehoods of QAnon, and deploring that they have a Conspiracist in their own ranks. Others will take cover with him, saying they have always said that, “The Steal,” is a lie. The GOP is about to fracture. And no, “verdict,” rigged or otherwise can save them from that.
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Less than that. It just takes a commanding officer who explains that they are being watch by drones and will be blown up if they retreat. Anyone can, “win,” a battle when they don’t care how many soldiers they lose, or about preserving the city they’re battling over. But, the difference between Russian military strategy and Ukrainian strategy is the same as the difference between their two leaders:
One refused a ride into exile, despite knowing there ware an assassination order out on him and that the Russians were already inside Kyiv’s city limits, and asks for ammunition instead.
The other flees Moscow and shows up in St Petersburg, even though his own mutinying soldiers didn’t even get within 20 miles of Moscow’s city limits!
And to those who think Putin is up to some, “deep strategy,” here . . . really? He signed up for a plan which involves highlighting his COWARDICE and the HUMILIATION of being, “bitch-slapped,” (as the Russians say) in public? Putin STILL has a bloody nose that he cannot wipe to save his own face, every day that Prigozhin and his Wagnazis swan about in total freedom, raking in all those diamonds and that gold from their stolen African mines.
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It strikes me that the Lincoln Project is the natural home of America’s future leadership, for those who hold Conservative values? Mit Romney would end up presiding over a half baked, wreckage of a GOP, with too many tainted or far right types, still to manage (including himself). So, while I welcome his truth to power speeches toward trump, I sincerely hope and pray that a new Conservative Party rises, to replace these goons. Who among them is not responsible for this? Susan Collins voted straight down the line for trump, regardless of her pretty rhetoric. “Learned a lesson,” did he, Sue? Yeah, right . . . SMH 🤦♂️
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@MisterBigMac1 : You got it. Most of the, “cases,” have already been heard and dismissed. His, “legal challenges,” are in his head, and those of his family and the usual suspects like Rudy Da Ghoul. They need their emergency Getaway Fund, and they’ll keep up the illusion right up until around 24 hours before Biden’s Inauguration. By which point their rhetoric will have evolved to fit the changing landscape of REALITY and they’ll be promising to take legal action in February or something. And then, while Biden’s taking his oath of office, they’ll be touching down in a country that has no extradition treaty with us, and has access to those offshore accounts, which they’ll be looking to empty before they get frozen. No doubt Putin will help out there? And, the sickest part? I wish I was exaggerating or joking! That’s the sickest part! Donny’s cult will come to HATE him with the same rabid ferocity they show to black people and Mexicans, when they finally understand, this is just one last scam, for old time’s sake . . . ✌️👍
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@tabitha0981 : Consider, of all the, “super hero,” names this East European trump troll, “Max Steel,” could have picked, he went with the one who has just about THE worst movie out. 🥴 But, I bet it’s doing well in the Balkans, or Whaddaboutistan, or who gives a fuckislavia, right? 😉 . . . 🤣👍
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IKR! I said there would be, “cancellations,” during this epic f**k up of a Tax Payer funded, RNC Convention. I love having my predictions proved. Here’s another prediction for you. In about 2 weeks, when all the numbers are in, and the GOP sees that their Trump Fest failed to sway any voters (if anything, made it worse) expect the first, serious DEFECTIONS. It’s, “First Come, First Served,” on the FBI Confessions Hotline 😉✌️
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@will.roman-ros : It’s more possible than people might think. Especially when sanctions kick in. How has Putin kept Russia under his thumb so far? By reminding everyone daily, “Well, at least it’s not like the bad old days of the Cold War where you cued all day for a loaf of bread, only got state propaganda TV, cheap rubbish clothes, fuel shortages and power cuts, and people who complained about that disappeared.” Well, imagine going back to exactly that, only after having been used to the internet and cool stuff? “Any civilised society is only three square meals away from a Revolution,” after all. And China can’t afford friends like Putin, so he can forget their help.
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I agree with you, though I would reverse the order of action. I think they should exile Andrew immediately, firmly and without hiding anything. Then they should build bridges with Harry and Megan, but taking their time and doing so with digression. Having been a family therapist, in a former life, among the chief tools at your disposal which MUST be put to good use, is time.
It takes time and processing to forgive. It begins with honesty and acknowledgement. But all parties then need time to process, to gage the sincerity of other parties, assess what they need from the process, AND what they offer.
The issue is complicated in this case by the aspect of, “duty,” that is unique to a royal dynasty. And for which the, “playbook,” offers little help, as their family history involves everything from Parliamentary interventions and private negotiations, to outright kidnapping and murder to settle all manner of publicly debated disputes.
What I don’t question about Harry and Megan is that they both seem like good, decent people, attempting to navigate a tempest without a compass. I can only imagine the litany of mistakes I would make in their place. But I do not doubt their fine character, or their desire to, “do the right thing,” in all cases, despite what the, “Tory, client press,” has to say about them in their usual bad faith.
A good father should be seeking reconciliation and closure for his son, acceptance of his choice of wife, regardless of the manner in which the gutter press attempts to steer public opinion against them (a topic that Charles, of all people, knows about) and remember his DUTY to the crown.
If we are to have any faith in this institution, then the Royal Family MUST be made to understand; The British people don’t care about the mistakes people have made nearly so much as they do about the coverups and refusal to acknowledge wrongdoing where it is unquestionably present! Everyone makes blunders. Not everyone refuses to apologise, admit to them, or correct the situation.
We need to see Charles’s good will. His attempts to be both a good father and a good head of state. He must put away his brother and fire those of his inner circle who are too cosy with the far right media, along with him. He must create the space and the trustworthy environment into which Harry and Megan can gradually re-enter. Rather than the current lion’s den it comes across as now.
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Thank you! I honestly felt like I was going a bit mad! It’s not just me then? The guy should be the nonentity clown side show he’s always been, but somehow always ends up with disproportionate power to do real world harm, because the press and pundits just cannot get enough of the guy!
Ed Davy, who, lest we forget, stands the biggest chance of forming the opposition after the Tories, has to fling himself off a bridge or parachute into a BBC studio, just to get a line in the Guardian or Telegraph! Whereas Farage bleats just one of his perennial LIES of the type that we’re all used to hearing from, “a bloke down the pub,” and he’s on the front pages of the tabloids and broadsheets across the land!
WT actual F???
And this is all as a result of the client media being too cowed by the possibility of him becoming the leader of the party that signs their cheques and Tory MP’s being unwilling to take him on because they all want to be on his good side for the same reason. The right side, presumably? The further right the better. Add to that the fact that Farage has not raised his game one iota, but the Tories have LOWERED theirs to the point that they’re now indistinguishable from the known liar and clown side show act that’s chasing them wherever they go and soaking up their supporters!
I’ve challenged Prof Wilson to get a grip and stop making every other video about Farage, but I doubt he’ll pay any attention to me, as it’s probably getting him higher views than more important matters like the post office scandal being the biggest conspiracy in British political history, or our water supply being polluted to deadly levels simply because it’s cheaper to treat fines as a business cost rather than fix the problem, or insider gambling networks, etc.
I have huge respect for Prof Wilson, but he can be so wrong about some issues (admittedly, rarely in my view) and this is one of them.
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Cristiano Euronaldo : What do you MEAN, “Conservatives”? Don’t you DARE SMEAR Conservatives with YOUR sexual deviancy! We’re talking about Trump style, EXTREMISTS, who want to KILL the ME TOO Movement. NOT Conservatives. Just LOOK at places where there are NOT ENOUGH, “liberals,” to get the GOP OUT OF POWER, YET IT HAPPENED ANYWAY: Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc. Conservatives AND liberals are SICK of this ANTI-WOMEN, FASCIST RIGHT WING. WAKE UP! SMH . . .
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Joseph : Everything that a Trump Troll doesn’t like is, “socialism,” or, “of the left.” That includes Conservatives, like me, who left the Republicans on the day Donny got the Nomination. They had been steadily sliding downhill, toward the Alt-Wrong for a while anyway. But, those people who got mad at me, for, “not giving him a chance,” have since ALL apologised in one form or another. Trump betrayed America and SOLD the very Principle of Democracy, to the Russians, the Saudis, the Turks, the Ukrainians, even the Communist CHINESE, for crying out loud. Enjoy your shrinking bubble, son. Until it bursts in, oh . . . a matter of weeks, now, I’d say? . . . 😉
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Mason Woods : The First Amendment has a very BROAD interpretation, and Free Speech is valued in the states, almost as highly as the concept of Democracy, or the Republic. In the UK, they actually told Fox that they could broadcast, if they wanted, but they must NOT pretend to be a, “News,” Channel and could NOT describe themselves as such, anywhere in Britain or Northern Ireland. Murdoch just picked up his toys and moved on, and Fox does not (officially) broadcast there, to this day. We need to address our system, once Trump is gone, and I fully agree with you. Let them broadcast what they LIKE, so long as they are NOT ALLOWED to pass off LIES and FAKE NEWS as the real thing. There’s obviously NO HOPE of that, here, until we get rid of these FAKE Politicians, and our FAKE POTUS ✌️👍
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ernie rink : Agreed. Trolls are tribal and dumb enough to, “think,” Normals wouldn’t just yawn, if a Clinton got locked up, for something legit. Only they care about who’s, “side,” they’re on, which only shows what sellouts and traitors they are. In the same way that they, “think,” we all, “care,” about the financial fate of CNN or MSNBC, which is why they make up Propaganda about them, too. In fact, ANYTHING that the average Trump Troll says, doesn’t stand up to three seconds of scrutiny . . .
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I would be utterly unsurprised if these WhatsApp exchanges amounted to little more than a gag reel of sick jokes at the bereaved’s expense and evidence that ministers knew they were actively doing real-world harm, and handing off their responsibilities to civil servants, because they had no clue as to how anything works.
My suspicion is based upon the very firm foundation of my own experience of finally coming home after the funeral for my dad, who died of Covid, for which I had needed special permission to travel to England from Scotland to attend, and which had been complicated by my dad’s mental health which made his death particularly hard and cruel, only to switch on the TV to see a Tory press spokesperson LITERALLY LAUGHING OUT LOUD to members of the press, in front of camera, and for some reason believing this would not somehow become a headline story! LAUGHING, by the way, at the drunken antics of Cabinet members and Number 10 staff at Boris Johnson’s birthday party! Nay, PARTIES, plural!
I was so emotionally damaged by that experience that I could have physically harmed Johnson had he been within blind rage shot! I carry that vertigo inducing sense of horror and despair at the realisation that the very people in which you have placed your trust at a time of crisis, are literally drunk at the wheel and think the whole thing is FUNNY! I kept seeing those (ironically enough) WhatsApp images of my dad, unable to make new memories, asking where his children were, having it explained to him, yet again, and then forgetting and only knowing he was dying alone, abandoned by his loved ones for no reason he could understand.
That image is SEARED into the scar tissue of my brain. There is no, “healing,” that. But, every time I hear of yet more attempts to either play games with the truth, or to bury ANY of it, for a PUBLIC enquiry that THEY set up, I once again want to strangle a Boris Johnson type. They should just arrest the lot of them and get warrants to turn over every nook and cranny of their private spaces. Lord knows what they’d find!
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Surely, with that jaws example, there’s more to it than that? The scream we take to be of a possible shark attack, only to learn it’s a girl having fun with her boyfriend, takes place while the character of Brody is being talked to by that chap we saw in the shot. Like Brody, we the viewer are trying to see and hear past him, not paying attention to what he’s saying, straining over the sound of his voice as Brody is, which serves to heighten the frustration and tension of the audience. That is using sound design to draw us into the lead character’s mindset, as we are sharing his frustration and doing exactly what he is doing, looking over his interlocutor’s shoulder and listening to everything but his voice. This compounds the effect of the scream, which suddenly penetrates while we were straining so hard, doubling the shock value and compounding the ambivalent sense of both relief and disappointment when we realise it was not the shark. The partial disappointment is not that we want to see another victim of Jaws, but that we, like Brody, want a resolution to the ongoing terror. And we are aware that this resolution can only come at the cost of facing more horror. That was the brilliance of that scene. Not just the false alarms and the smoke and mirrors of Spielbergs red herrings, but the way he puts us inside Brody’s psychological box with him, by using another man’s voice in that way. We know we should be listening to him - Brody, as a member of the community, who has a responsibility to listen to this businessman expressing his concerns; the audience as people following the plot, knowing we might miss something of importance - but we both, audience and character are trying to tune him out, making us more attuned to, and vulnerable to, the frequency of screams.
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Jake Day Williams : Glen asked, “Who’s talking about solutions?” Yet Chris Cuomo and so MANY OTHERS, ON CNN, have SAID, “WHY is no one prosecuting the CEO’s that KEEP EMPLOYING illegal labour?” We ALL KNOW, if there WERE NO JOBS to come to, “Economic Migration,” across the border would CEASE. Then you would ONLY get Asylum Seekers, right? But, NO ONE, in the GOP will TALK about THAT? Wonder WHY? . . . SMH
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@debrajohnson382 : Ah . . . Trump’s little helper. I have rarely agreed with her politics, but as I said (if you’d bothered to READ my comment?) “This is not about politics.” However, I can, “name one thing,” she’s doing for the whole country, including, “blue collar workers,” which is standing up to literal Fascism, and REFUSING TO LIE! That’s bold, forthright, and ABOVE politics. This is about us all being Americans, regardless of our politics, kid. She won’t lie, she won’t endorse the cult of personality, or the violence of the mob, or the racism, or the anti-truth, anti-science, anti-logic, negativity and, “wedge issues,” that are all the Fascists have right now. Without Anti-Vaxing and racism, what is the GOP? A cult. Nothing more . . . Time conservatives had an alternative. Time for you to wake up about of that sweaty racist dream . . . Answer your questions?
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immune18 : Or, the government COULD be, “understating,” the number of people who’ve died, so as to convince us it’s safe to send our kids to school? You are aware that you have no access to, “special,” knowledge, and that anyone claiming they, “know,” that we, “should,” or, “should not,” do, is full of shit, right? . . .
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That’s why the impeachment is so necessary; for what comes after. Remember, it’s not about whether trump gets convicted or not, though I think the odds will climb exponentially, when things get going? What the GOP fears is testimony and EVIDENCE! When it’s proved to America, that the insurrection was neither a, “spontaneous event,” nor entirely organised by Q types, from the outside, but a planned and plotted Conspiracy from within the White House: a COUP ATTEMPT, green lit, three days earlier . . . What, “future,” has the GOP got to look forward to after that?
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@caniblmolstr4503 : William Joyce, known as Lord Haw Haw, a British citizen who broadcast from Berlin to Britain, on behalf of the Nazis; “Germany calling, Germany calling,” followed by trolling and propaganda. He was literally captured whilst on the run, extradited to the UK, jailed, tried, and (even though the legal system was stretched to make the point) duly executed by hanging. And, they were right to do it, so far as National Security was concerned. Examples needed to be made, and the country wanted to move on. His execution helped with that. As you put it, “Just sayin’ . . .” 👍
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For trump, maybe? Firstly, trump never felt that knife because he knew McConnell’s cowardice and proclivity for self preservation. If trump goes down, McConnell will make damned sure no one ever sees HIS hand on the handle, even if it is his. Who wants to be, “the man who killed trump?” And still have a future in the Klan, er . . . I mean, “GOP?” Second, McConnell is one of the GOP’s best embezzlers! The double act he’s got going with his wife puts a much higher CASH VALUE on McConMan. He shares his stolen monies with the party and at least TRIES to cover his tracks. Who wants to turn off the money spigot? Nah, trump would LOSE that fight. So, I really hope he goes for it, and doesn’t let it go? 😉
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Trump came into office cancelling fellow GOP members by having them Primaried, and is STILL doing that to Liz Cheney and others. “Lock Her Up,” was already OLD when he took office! And the GOP attempted to Cancel a democratic election on Jan 6th, whilst they fuelled a violent mob, trying to do the same thing! Fascism is the ULTIMATE Cancel Culture! Sure, Cuomo should go, for the good of the office, and if he’s exonerated, he can get elected again. But, this use of the term is getting stupid. The GOP ARE, “Cancel Culture,” and they intend to Cancel the Republic, PERMANENTLY!
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OR . . . perhaps . . . You could eliminate the "free market" altogether, like they do in civilized countries? In the UK people can get private health insurance, IF THEY CHOOSE, or use the government funded NHS, which is paid for through taxation. This is why health care in the UK costs ONE QUARTER of what it costs in the USA. We Brits look at the US and, on this issue, we are bemused by two main things:
1) Your mean spirited refusal to share the burden of healthcare is both short sighted and barbaric.
2) What thinking person would risk placing the best interests of their HEALTHCARE into the hands of one of the most VENAL, SELF INTERESTED & UNTRUSTWORTHY industries as INSURERS? Are you all MAD?
I understand that these PragerU vids are meant to put forward the arguments of the "right", but by failing to even address most of the REAL issues related to the costs of healthcare, this particular video is not up to the usually quite good educational, PragerU standard at all. This was simply propaganda for the insurance and drug companies.
C minus:
Cover the WHOLE issue, rather than cherry picking favorable aspects of the ones you address / at least TRY to address the alternative points of view and state your views against them (they do occur to your viewer, you know) / take care not to paint negative outcomes as the "desired effects" of the opposition (no one will believe that Obama WANTED drug prices to go up, as you imply) / Unless you are seeking a career with Breitbart or Infowars, you must try harder
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@drawfiend3104 : You too are being overly generous in my view. I respect your reply but, let’s both be honest here? For, “stylised,” let’s just call it what it is? “Incomprehensible.” About half of her sentences don’t even make grammatical sense! And they flounder with the fatal mistakes of the type of tortuous prose that betray her mind; someone who cannot admit, even to herself, when she’s made a mistake and should have scrapped the sentence and started over. Pick any page, and I guarantee you will find a sentence that appears to be trying to correct itself in the most untidy fashion, making it as tortured and lengthy as one of my sentences, but saying far less. And that sentence will always be followed by two of three, very brief ones, like she decided she wouldn’t fall into that trap again . . . until we get to the next page. And she gets away with it, because she’s, “an intellectual,” so instead of being childish crap, it’s, “stylised.” She’s the biggest case of The Emperor’s New Clothes that the right wing intelligentsia has to offer. She’s nearly always Exhibit A for the prosecution, when I’m challenging the philosophy of the right. And she’s the very LAST person I look to for support, when I challenge the philosophy of the left. ✌️
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@joeymac4302 : I enjoyed your comment. And, yes. Rand was dependent upon the kindness of her friends and upon state funded healthcare for the last eleven years of her life, battling cancer. She didn’t believe in state funded healthcare, advocating against it, and still frequently quoted to this day, by those who also advocate against it, but she sure had no problem being kept alive by it. The only reason we have those famous interviews with her, on YouTube now, is because she needed the money.
I cannot see the, “beautiful ideal,” of the, “hero,” in the Fountainhead, but I’ve said enough about that in my comments above. Him dying, “broke and alone,” would have made for a better plot, about which people would be debating whether or not he asked for, or deserved such a fate, today. I genuinely thought WhiteTux’s, “teenage fan fiction,” comment was brilliantly incisive. Really.
As to her philosophy. It’s roots are in science, I believe? Or, “natural philosophy.” Which is why it would work fine in a laboratory, for which it is better suited. I am neither right nor left wing myself, but the chronic tendency of the right to build upon philosophical foundations of over simplicity is the very sand which results in its repeated collapse, is exemplified in the trite spewings of Rand’s fiction. When she isn’t plagiarising George Orwell, and repurposing his work for opposite effect, she’s deliriously spouting about this, “ideal man,” like in The Fountainhead, which suggests to me that what she needed more than anything else in her life (apart from giving up cigarettes and her cult like clique, that is) was to just get laid. But, hey; wha’do I know? I’m just a baller fan of the OG doing Thug Notes. 😉
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Davide: Sorry buddy, too long, I could only read part of it, because of my afore mentioned difficulty AND, partly because, if you must rely do heavily upon sophistry, you ought to try to make it an interesting read. Wikipedia is not the most reliable source anyway. DID YOU KNOW that over 70 % of all medical articles on Wikipedia are factually inaccurate, for example? See? How I'm spinning out my words, but able to maintain the reader's interest, BY BEING INTERESTING, as well as truthful?
I will remind about your WALL, if and when you have the courage to refer a timescale to the parts of it that weren't already under construction under the Obama and Bush administrations. And, before you go there, you are talking to a Republican; a subscribing member. Republicans Against Trump; look it up. It's a "thing".
And if you can't restrain your impulse to spew out Breitbart / infowars dis-non-irrelevant-information, the PLEASE, try to be interesting, like me? ;-)
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The truthful answer is, Trump can't. Sure, being dumb, he'll ask his lawyers to do it. But they'll tell him he can't. Why?
A) Trump already shot his mouth off. He removed his own hope there
B) Comey doesn't work for the Government now, thus, he is not constrained by executive rules, regardless. So long as what Comey says, pertains directly to the questions asked and he doesn't leak anything of security value (something Comey has had years of on-the-job experience in) he can tell, "the truth, the whole truth and," you get the picture. Trump's first error was firing him.
C) Any blocking of Comey's testimony will be condemning in the court of public opinion. Though this has no legal value, as such, you can bet that Trump's lawyers will be extremely concerned about this. After all, Cohen is exactly the type of shyster who plays to the crowds with manipulated narratives. The "optics" would be so bad, they could lead to further demonstrations and further loss of support within the party
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NOYB : Conservative, actually, son. A lot of conservatives KNOW Trump is a Criminal and want him gone. You’re right about one thing, though. Because it’s IMMORAL wasting actual time on Trump’s Propaganda, or his Propagandists, I’m, “not up for a conversation.” I only want to shoot the breeze with REAL people, with open, WORKING minds. No idea what you said, beyond that, but I bet it had a lot of Pro-Trump Propaganda in it, right? 😁
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Devin Phillips : These videos are ALL OVER YouTube, son. YOU may claim not to be able to find them, but others see them. Write, “Hail Trump,” into your search engine? Or, “Nazis Salute Trump,” etc, etc. As to what people make of them, I doubt ANY living human would see the Nazis as, “NOT evil,” unless they were themselves a NAZI or, worse still, a Nazi Appeaser, or Nazi Apologist. Those scumbags make Normals SICK . . . Just the facts, son . . . Just the facts . . . 🙂
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Gleefully laughing at this is not an appropriate or grown up response, ma’am. Think of the countless (mostly) women, who have come to this organisation for help with legal fees, legal guidance and moral support, for their own serious assault or harassment cases? Think of how disquieting the news of Time’s Up’s collusion with Cuomo must have been for those people? Only to now learn of the probable collapse of the organisation they turned to for help? It will only be the fact of all that money they’ve raised that will prevent the organisation from folding overnight. But, that very real, very serious issue, will not have gone away?
Perhaps you’ll be just as gleeful when someone commits suicide because of this? Because you just don’t like, “feeling,” patronised by famous people? Even though it never occurred to you to just change channel, or not read about things you don’t, “feel,” nice about, right? You couldn’t POSSIBLY be, “responsible,” for your own, “feelings,” right? You’ve been brought up to know all about your, “rights,” (both real and imagined) but none of your, “responsibilities,” social or political, right? . . . 🙄
Don’t be a Karen about this?
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jabs69 : Your “heart” isn’t in your work anymore. As the EVIDENCE mounts up, you Putin Bitches have a problem you CAN’T overcome? You LOOK TRANSPARENT. NO ONE “believes” YOU??? The ONLY “likes” you got there, were from OTHER Putin Bitches, and WE ALL SEE IT! Your BIGGER problem, is convincing Republicans? They were split over Trump to START with, but NOW? Trump will only get HALF the votes he got before, from the CULT. But, Republicans, LIKE ME, have SEEN what an INCOMPETENT SOB Trump is and DON’T NEED any further evidence. Yes, THAT’S RIGHT! I’m a Republican who LEFT the Party, when Trump got the nomination. And, fellow Republicans? The ones who fell out with me about it? They have ALL apologised to me. I don’t know ONE REPUBLICAN, that will EVER vote for Trump again. So, has Tillerson RIGGED the Mid Terms with Putin? ‘Coz Trump SURE AS HELL doesn’t stand a CHANCE in a DEMOCRATIC VOTE! Stop whistling in the dark. You’re EMBARRASSING YOURSELF 😁
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@franklin9400 : Sorry, son. But, that’s lazy received wisdom, which I can’t really blame you for, because of lazy journalists and debauched writers, who’ve leaned on the term, “The Military Industrial Complex,” ever since Ike Eisenhower coined it. He said back then that he was worried about how arms manufacturers and their related industries would wind up influencing and directing government policies unless we did something to check them. He suggesting using Moral Grounds as our reason to ban lobbyists from the arms manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, gun clubs, medical providers, etc and making such activity a serious federal crime. Instead, we all fell for it, and rather than cast our blame on specific groups, so we can DO SOMETHING to stop the growth of vested interests taking over the running of America, we just lump them ALL together, into one, nefarious, unfindable, undefinable, and therefore, untargetable group. The result? Liberals get to whine about the military industrial complex, and treat people who risk their lives to build schools, dams, hospitals and roads, like Carpet Baggers, along with everyone else we, “don’t like,” but can’t put our finger on. It’s easy to sound superior, so long as you’re not, “doing,” anything. Much harder to BE, “superior.” I know this how? Because I phoned the military industrial complex to put in a complaint about how they’re too powerful in politics. They replied by telling me they’re not a thing, but rather just an excuse for people to feel better about not taking any responsibility for anything. Well, apart from Joe that is? At least he’s stopped the buck, and he’s torn off the bandaid, right? You should be thanking him?
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@aarqa : Yeah, it’s funny how trump trolls up and vanish on you, as soon as you ask the question, “Apart from setting a date, what EXACTLY was Donny’s, ‘Plan,’ to get us out of Afghanistan?” It was about as, “real,” as his Healthcare, “Plan,” his Infrastructure, “Plan,” or his, “Plan,” to release his Tax Returns! 🙄✌️👍
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@franklin9400 : Why do trolls trolls always say equivalents of, “LMAO,” when they’re really upset, and trying to avoid the topic? Or, just, “Whaddabout?” I am a fully paid up member of The Lincoln Project, and I have for years, been sharing my Conservative credentials on YouTube. THAT’S what you’ve learned, if you looked at my profile, son. I shan’t be looking at yours, because it doesn’t matter. Any more than your lame trump shillary. Got anything left to say about the topic? Or, are you still admitting defeat on that? Joe Biden did as good a job as anyone could have, given what he had. Admit it?
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splatthecat55 : Educated in the UK, since you ask, kid. And, I’m a Conservative. Why do Nazis always dismiss people as, “liberals,” when they want trump gone? He’s not anything. He’s not even educated, let alone got a thought out, “ideology,” and you KNOW that, or you’re just stupid. That was a wasted sentence, wasn’t it? You’re just stupid, right? 🤤
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Zero Cool : Listen to yourself, son? “We all know,” like it was something, “sinister,” for a party to push a candidate over others? You’re SO indoctrinated. BOTH parties do that, kid! It’s called, “politics!” When Bernie got shafted, last time (now, THAT WAS bad) Bernie was the ONE person in America, who was like, “Meh . . . “ Do you think Trump hasn’t got Goon Squads, ready to CRUSH any challenger in the GOP? Grow up . . . 😆
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And the irony is pointed, don’t you think? Who actually, “knows more than they’re letting on,” about that targeted, organised riot, if not Farage, who had probably prepared his script before the riot began? Who, in their right mind, can discuss this terrible tragedy without ONE reference to the depraved act of attacking the very beleaguered community that has just been shaken so badly, only to have to deal with anti-British, “nationalists,” organised and funded by hostile foreign powers? How better could Farage prove that he doesn’t care one iota for the victims, their families, their friends or their community, than to completely ignore the fact that they were just invaded by rioting outsiders?
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Oooh. Great burn! Nice one, my friend. I mean, just HOW BLATANT does it have to GET, before trump’s kkkult accepts that THEY are the ones being shafted the worst of ANY group in America? The Tax Payer is being forced to PAY (ILLEGALLY) for this RNC Convention! Do the cult HONESTLY, “think,” their donations have NOT been skimmed over the years? It started with the Inauguration Fund in 2016, for crying out loud! I genuinely think that a lot of the trump cult are only staying, “loyal,” now, because they don’t want to face up to the fact that THEY are the victims of history’s biggest scam! When there’s no Bill Barr or others of his ilk to obstruct justice and BURY the TRUTH, they must KNOW they’re going to have their idiocy PROVED to them? Their donations have been routinely, systematically STOLEN! Steve Bannon, the NRA, the Inauguration Fund, and this RNC CONvention, are all just the tip of the iceberg. I think they know it. I think they’re voting for trump, just to avoid hearing, “We TOLD you so!” 🤣
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@westtexas7 : You already lost the Midterms, Doofus. Coz’ Deep State, remember? We already have the results and, bad news I’m afraid, Purple Texas turns Blue, along with Florida and . . . Wow! Alaska!? . . . Well, that’s the benefits of rigging our own elections I guess? 🤷♂️ You know that saying, “Might as well get hanged for the whole sheep as well as a lamb,” right? You’re going to say it’s rigged regardless, so we might as well just do it. But, do it RIGHT this time. You’ve only yourselves to blame. 🤪
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Barkeroni : Trump is a warmonger, trying not to look like a warmonger. And, your job is to help him with that Propaganda. But, the world has watched, while he ripped up his deal with Iran, broke America’s word, threatened and bullied them, while the Europeans have been trying to keep the peace and hold up the West’s end, without him. Now, he’s ramping up the Military presence, using the Saudis to frame them; making it look like Iran is STARTING the war, when we all KNOW it’s the LAST thing they want. And, he expects us to, “believe,” the intel coming from the SAME PEOPLE that he ROUTINELY calls, “liars,” EVERY DAY? He’s compared the CIA to, “Nazi Germany,” and we’re all meant to flip flop at his rate? America’s NOT buying it, son. Trump will have to look elsewhere for a bump in the polls. A war will finish him . . . Smh
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@mkjouhar1 : Fox, literally, told you that Biden wasn’t even there: Laura Ingram, among others. I wouldn’t go looking to F*x for, “journalism,” son. But, if you were told that Joe was looking at his watch because he didn’t want to keep the relatives of the fallen waiting, and was more concerned about the families of the veterans, you wouldn’t, “believe,” that either. That’s because you choose your reality, where the rest of us accept it for what it is. We’re the ones who get stuff done. You’re the ones who always fail, because your goals are not based on real things. You can’t criticise a guy for not being there, when it’s proved that he was, for example. Think about that, son. You’ll keep losing, until you embrace physics. 🤷♂️
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The more learn about Astro-Physics and Quantum weirdness, the more I’m inclined to believe, “we’re not alone,” but I seriously think that most other life forms are nowhere near as advanced (evolutionarily speaking) as us, and that the ones that have surpassed us, have come through the same route of Time and yawning distances of space, to get to an advanced civilisation. And that is how I explain the Fermi Paradox. However, it only takes one. And if they have made it, all that way, overcoming the challenges of physical laws, just to get here? . . . Well, that’s unlikely to be good for us . . . ✌️
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Right, but . . . If I had a guest in my house, and then read their posts on social media, in which they’re saying, “f’ck,” me and everything about me (or posting racism, threatening language, whatever?) it’s still my house, right? I can throw that person out, without effecting their, “free speech,” right? It’s NOT even ABOUT, “Free Speech,” and that, “lawyer,” knows it! It’s a red herring argument. And they’re going to LOSE their case. I promise. But, that, “lawyer,” will have raised her profile and gotten paid, which is all she’s doing here. That girl was NOT made to take down her comments or even asked to by the school. Her free speech remains intact, therefore. And the defence will say so. They have the right to enforce their rules. And, that lawyer lied anyway, when she said it was a comment that had nothing to do with them, when it was obviously a direct attack upon them! She’s out of her mind, or taking them for a ride?
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@batgorls : While you make a good point, which the court will take into account, it was nevertheless a direct attack on the cheerleader team that all her followers will know about. That was kind of the whole point of the post, otherwise it just hangs there as a meaningless, nonsense comment, with no context, which is beyond implausible. The school has the right to act on that, and to defend its reputation; their house, their rules. I feel for the girl, but her lawyer is screwing her over. It’s not even a, “free speech,” argument, because, as far as we know, those comments could still be out there? The school did NOT request that she removed them. They simply said, “Beg to differ.” Their rules are explicit and the girl clearly showed she did not read them, or know what was in them.
Best way to put it: what would you do with a guest in your house, if you read their comments on social media, and found something intolerable? Would you throw them out? Presumably, there’s a line they could cross at which point you would? It’s your house, and you don’t even NEED a reason, right? With a school, the parent is paying for services, and cheerleading is, “extracurricular.” However, their policy is CLEARLY stated, and she still has the 1st Amendment right to say what she likes about that (if her dad allows that?) and no one is stopping her, or HAS STOPPED her. See my point?
If your argument still stands, then answer me this? Did her dad interfere with her free speech? By punishing her, which he has publicly stated that he did? If not, any reason you give for his actions, also apply to the school, who assumes parental responsibility for her too.
There are three major prongs to the defence’s argument, and the complaint doesn’t stand a chance. If they had taken down her comment, or forced her to, that’s different. But they didn’t, so there’s no case to answer. I promise the judge will agree.
And, I’m not stating the right or wrong of it; just the law ✌️
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Nefertiti 57 : Amen, brother. I keep telling people that trump trolls are never here to, “win arguments,” have, “debates,” or to, “persuade,” anyone of anything. Their only, “job,” is to spread dismay at their stupidity, hate at their offensiveness, and most of all, the DIVISION that gives trump his power. A, “United,” States of America is the one thing the trump’s can never allow
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kelleydavis100 : What for, though? It’s not like they, “believe,” their own Trump Troll Propaganda? There must be around 1 or 2 % of the entire country that actually, “believes,” Trump or his Trollarazzi. The rest (of the American ones) just live in fear of hearing the words, “I told you so,” from a, “liberal,” which is ANYONE who won’t drink the Orange Koolaid, including Conservatives, like me ✌️👍
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Robert Rios : We’re past the point that Trump’s Cult can pretend they, “believe,” in Trump. They’ve been brainwashed into HATING the Dems more than America’s enemies. They actively WANT the Republic to end, and to have a Dictatorship like Putin’s, where there is a FAKE, “Opposition,” under a single Party. If impeachment doesn’t end Trump, “elections,” sure as hell won’t, when they’re blatantly RIGGED. SHOW UP! Be at Trump’s Deposition! Impeachment is America’s last, best hope ✌️
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@jacqdanieles : That is a fair quibble. As Jake points out, some of the headlines about this guy are misleading enough for people to assume that he’s some sort of, “good guy,” simply because he opposes Putin and not the mass murdering coward of a terrorist, on the run from the world’s justice, that he is.
It was only a question of time before the far right extremists became a problem for Putin. Wagner was founded by Nazis and is riven with Nazi, “ideology,” among its leadership. And, as we can all see from the mere fact that they continue to openly defy Putin’s direct orders to join the regular army, Putin does not have the extremists under control. He can’t even isolate the one man he really wants to see die painfully, Prigozhin. That guy, “forced,” Putin to flee Moscow for St Petersburg, on a jet, when he HATES flying. The world got to see Putin’s, “I don’t need a ride, I need ammunition,” moment, and saw him panic and run. That’s a humiliation Putin cannot and will never forgive.
Prigozhin knows his only hope for survival now is to destroy Putin. And Putin knows his only hope is vice versa, but he has to take out the pieces surrounding Prigozhin first. Which brings us back to the pickle that Girkin finds himself in. He will now be broken down to give up everything, including any, “cells,” or FSB insider contacts and their plans. Putin will be busy trying to survive, getting to everyone around Prigozhin and anyone who protects him, whilst trying to preserve his income from Wagner’s gold and diamond mines dotted about Africa.
I suspect Girkin is just one of many pieces that are coming off the board now? He’s right of Adolph Hitler, with an ideology somewhere between Hitler’s and Stalin’s. If he dies in jail, we’ll know that Putin believes he’s making progress.
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@doaimanariroll5121 : Notice that Danny boy says I’m wrong, but then goes on to explain exactly why I’m right, but just from the villain’s point of view? From his broken English point of view, he literally says Russia is selling us, “cheap,” gas and oil, but fails to mention that Russia has zero competition in Europe at all. Suddenly Ukraine is sitting on more than Russia has, and Putin doesn’t just want to lose his monopoly. He desperately needs it! A shrinking population, an economy the same size as Spain’s but with all those nukes to service and arms to pay for, and nothing whatsoever that the west wants or needs other than energy reserves, that they cannot get somewhere else.
Without that monopoly Russia will have to go back to Soviet style shortages and paranoid authoritarianism, just to stop its starving population from overthrowing them. Or, they might just overthrow Putin to get his assets which add up to trillions! Literally! Putin is THE richest man on Earth in terms of personal wealth, while his people are among the poorest in Europe! And if it wasn’t for his gas and oil, he’d be in jail by now.
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derkaturka : Ummm . . . 🤔 nahhh. Don’t take it so personally, son? But, since you compared me to a Republican, I’m certainly not going to read it, now. Besides, you’re getting to the stage where you’ll need your own Translateskiist, when you write, “Noone,” instead of, “no one,” and, “with,” instead of, “will,” etc? Perhaps, try the art of, “persuasion,” next time, instead of Trumpian brow beating? 🙂
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Nate Alexander : Oh, it’s better than that, now. They’re going, “full retard,” so to speak. I’ve just been reading countless comments, form the Trump Trolls, declaring that the Founding Fathers were, “elitists, slave owners, who hated the people,” and that, as Donny has said out loud, “the Constitution is Unconstitutional,” in their Desperation, they are showing their full, true colours for the FIRST time, and going for a DICKtatorship. I guess they see there’s no other option? And, Trump will probably go out like Bag Daddy, at this rate? Most of them are the foreign, paid Trump Tramps, but they will convince many in their base. The only way to keep Donny now, is to hate America and bring it down . . . ✌️👍
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@justicearibiegbe1 : Stop, “Whaddabouting,” Karen. You know you have no, “argument,” for Religious oppression, shutting down Sunday voting, banning water, a basic human right, and cutting the hours of voting to ensure all votes take place during working hours. You can’t win, so you cheat. But it will backfire, kid. 😉
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@justicearibiegbe1 : Oh, and I’m rich. So, you regularly, “share in what,” I EARNED, madam. I pay way more taxes than you even earn. I don’t bitch about paying my fair share, because America needs reconstruction, after trump almost pulled off a fascist coup. So, don’t whine about, “voting rights,” when you support the party that openly declared against the state, and AGAINST its own Democratic Republic, DURING AN INSURRECTION. All I see, when I see a maga dunce cap, is traitors underneath them
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He’s literally scheming to have his internet drones tell his Cult followers to go out and, “protest,” against HIS F*CKING POLICIES! He’s fighting himself! He has to maintain the illusion that America is still a country with a government, with the, “power,” to order hospitals, the military, the universities, businesses and the police, to do what’s necessary to protect the nation in a time of crisis. When the TRUTH is that they’re ALL privately run, privately owned and privately aiming at their own different agendas, BUSINESSES, run by his backers who’s lobbyists have 24/7 access to him and are telling him to lift the lockdown and start making MONEY! “A couple of million DEAD, by the end of all this? So what? F*ck you! PAY ME!” Other governments do have control and can issue edicts. Trump ANSWERS to big business, and can’t order ANYONE to do a goddamned thing! So, chaos! And he’s just trying to save face, by playing like he’s secretly on the other side, IN FRONT OF EVERYONE, LIKE THE F*CKING MORON HE IS . . . SMH
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@jgroovy1973 : If straight news is the, “McDonalds of news,” isn’t that a good thing? Shouldn’t we want a standardised, straight forward news, that gives us the unvarnished truth, and doesn’t tinker with it, wherever it is? Rachel Maddow is good, but that’s analysis and Op Eds, not news. PBS is reliable, but like MSNBC, they make no secret of their left of centre leanings. CNN doesn’t lean either way. It only looks that way, because the last administration attacked them constantly and called them, “the liberal left,” which their Qult of Karens went along with, because they went along with everything the last president said, regardless of its veracity
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@ti2218 : All good points. Though I sincerely hope that CNN will neither, “like,” or, “dislike,” trump. I hope they will continue to be straight down the line journalists, and will be scrupulous about having neither leftist or rightist leanings. Sure, trump stories are very click-baitable and most Americans look forward to the day when stories about him make no real difference in their world. But, it’s not just because of a business model? He is still the nominal, “leader,” of a party that ended its term in office by essentially declaring against the Republic, by voting to overturn a democratic election DURING an Insurrection against the state! No one feels safe while trump is at large because they aren’t! I’m guilty myself of clicking on stories that I know will make little if any difference to my knowledge base, but will be more likely to simply depress me. But there is an element of social responsibility in that too. A party that was pretty much outed in its final months, as having no regard for the foundations of the Republic, and that will, in all likelihood, NEVER relinquish power again, should they ever get it; and a party that seems he’ll bent on destroying our democratic voting system, because they see that they could never get, “elected,” in a free and fair election in which all votes have equal sway notionally; that party looks and feels like an existential threat! People won’t feel safe until trump is incarcerated. Even then, not unless his sentences are suitably long, and he doesn’t wind up serving two years of a five year sentence, during which his ghost writer pens his, “Mein Kampf,” for his Qult to eat up while the Klan rallies his forces? He is the symptom of a disease that the media suffers from as much as the rest of us. But trump targeted that very same media, and they have been forced to build a model of self justification into that business model, simply because trump demonised individuals with personal abuse, and the company as a whole. If they’re able to make money out of that, good for them. That’s capitalism. But, people will be drawn to worrying at that wound, because they’re looking for a way to heal it. Trump may only be the symptom, but he’s one that MUST be treated, before we can cure the disease: fascism. ✌️
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When you ask about how to manage your YouTube account; how to ban accounts or delete people’s comments, what I would suggest is either one of two things:
1) Reach out to other YouTubers and get advice on what they do? You have so many contacts and know so many people of influence that surely one or more of those people should be able to connect you with an Editor?
2) You are based at a prestigious academic establishment, are you not? Why not approach someone from one of the other departments that uses social media or trains people on its workings? You will likely be able to find a gifted student whom you can hire for a single session every once in a while, cleaning out your channel for you? Or, better yet, hire someone from the drama, media, political history, or one of those departments to train you? Using the, “Teach a man to fish . . .” philosophy of having them train you in the technicalities of running your channel?
There is also 3) YouTubes own videos, teaching creators about managing their channels, and their online tools which are a suit available to all channel owners?
Your solution probably lies in a mix of the above, but I see how finding time might be a factor? So, my suggestion would be to make that time by (BRIEFLY) stopping your output and using that time to learn the tools? That is, only if you cannot find time anywhere else? Just as a train must stop for repairs, sometimes on the track, much to the chagrin of the passengers. But everyone is glad when the repairs are done and they get a better, more reliable service thereafter.
I wish I had these skills, as I would offer them to you for free. But, surely, if you are serious about solving these issues, the solutions you seek are in the above? You are surrounded by the help you need and paint an image of a man swimming in a fresh water lake, dying of thirst.
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@bittersweet7145 : There are multiple organisations that have attempted to bring both George Bush Jr and Tony Blair to justice for what they sight as, “war crimes,” in reference to the illegal invasion of Iraq. What the people who would prefer we talk about that, instead of Putin’s current war crimes, are paid to overlook is that those cases have no bearing on this one. We already know in advance EXACTLY which geographical areas of the Ukraine are targeted, because we already know in advance what Putin’s real goal is: the MASSIVE gas and oil reserves recently uncovered in specific regions of the Ukraine and off the coast of the Crimea. Putin knows he’ll be put out of business if Ukraine becomes a rival company with as big a supply of fossil fuels as he has control over now. So he’s STEALING IT. So we can start with, “looting,” as a war crime and work up from there to the atrocities Putin has already committed, and is yet to, in the name of this war.
Whatever your opinion of the rights and wrongs of this, there are only two possible outcomes, and Putin believes it’s worth restoring the Iron Curtain and reigniting the Cold War for this. Either he gets control of that gas and oil, or his economy (which is no bigger than Spain’s, yet way more broken, which is saying something) goes under in the face of free and fair competition.
Naturally, the west would rather buy their gas and oil from a democracy, right next to the rest of Europe, than buying it from a dictatorship so far away that Putin can simply turn the switch off the supply with impunity and blackout half of the free world without fear of immediate consequences. And he’s made that threat before, which no one will forget when they’re making their choice of whom to buy it from.
But, most salient of all (again, without morality confusing matters, but just as a matter of cold, hard fact) the west has NEVER relinquished overall control of majority shares in energy, for well over a hundred years now. To allow Putin to take over Ukraine’s supplies would be suicide. It’s not going to happen.
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Maurice Jones : It’s the Dead Money Scam. Just think how many Trump fans have kept giving real money to his, “crisis,” fund, his Wall GoFundMe, etc. When people have over extended like that, they can’t face the possibility that someone they, “hate,” more than America’s REAL enemies, might get to say, “I told you so,” and be right. Many have lost friends, family, even jobs, for spreading Trump’s evil Propaganda. They’re Trolling as DESPERATELY as Trump is. It’s an old con, where you get people to fall for a childish scam, and they’re too embarrassed to admit it, so they keep putting in more faith, more money, and getting mad at people who tell them they’re being foolish. And, for comfort, they indoctrinate themselves, by going to Fox, RT, and conspiracists who can explain away the obvious fallacies in their thinking, like Alex Q-Anon Jones, who pretends to be two different people, disagreeing but both supporting Trump; hedging bets, in other words.
These are people who FELL FOR the image projected on The Apprentice, and who feel like IDIOTS, but can’t admit it, even to themselves, because they’ve been LOUDLY expressing support for Trump, to all who’d listen. And, then there are the foreign Trolls, on the payroll, backing them up. America is infiltrated at every level, and the Impeachment HAS TO WORK, or America’s Republic will be at an end . . . ✌️👍
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soccerholden13 : He doesn’t HAVE a, “point.” He calls CNN viewers, “fools,” while failing to note that HE, by demonstration, is VIEWING CNN. To save you the WHOLE syllogism that we can draw from that, we can simply cut to the conclusion that HE JUST TOLD US THAT HE IS A, “FOOL;” QED. You CANNOT, “reason,” with THAT kind of DUMB. Derrick (who can’t even spell his OWN NAME) is clearly a graduate of the Trump University School of Rhetoric and is CLINICALLY THICK. Good LUCK, “debating,” THAT? 😆👍
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I’ve always said that the real number of trump supporters is way smaller than it looks, largely because they’re SO loud. Compare the spontaneous rallies of 2016, which occurred the very next day, after trump’s, “election,” for instance? Millions across the country already new trump had cheated. Compare that to the Million Moans March, we just saw, from the rabid trumpers, with lots of money, plenty of time and big advertising to organise what they hoped would be a million people for trump? They got 2 or 3 thousand. That’s it! Most of trump’s, “support,” is smoke and mirrors, lies and cheats; not nearly as real as it looks. The worst of the big reveals is yet to come.
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adjwindu70 : They are all either foreign Trolls, on the payroll with a Russian Shell company, or they’re racists. Some of them, a small number, are just ignorant, and don’t believe Trump is no businessman, but an idiot who inherited a fortune, and in some senses, they are the most pernicious; they will realise, when Trump CAN’T give them another Tax break, in April, when this current one ends, that it wasn’t WORTH selling out their democracy for a racist Dictator, crime boss wannabe. Many Trolls have multiple YouTube accounts, so we know there aren’t as many as they want to to believe, but, the mere fact that they exist, makes me sick . . . SMH
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As a wise person once said, (and it should be remembered and repeated by all) “Just because it’s legal, doesn’t mean it’s not corruption.” If Tik Tok would share its basic information to the same extent that American data collecting entities do, that would be a step in the right direction. We don’t even know, “who,” owns Tik Tok shares, what it does with its meta-data, or who has access to it. Because it’s behind the, “bamboo curtain,” we have no way of knowing how, or even IF, they are regulated. While I don’t support this current sweeping bill in Congress, as it is, I do support many of their arguments. We’re not asking Tik Tok to throw open all of their doors so we can get the bank account details and inside leg measurements of President Xi (who does own shares, I’d bet) but simply for them to match the west on levels of scrutiny, so that legality and safety issues can be monitored. And the deeper into the Chinese government’s rabbit hole Tik Tok goes, the more resistance to basic common sense we’ll get from them. And so far, they have refused cooperation at every single basic level. I suspect true knowledge of Tik Tok’s affairs would cause a worldwide scandal, resulting in them being locked out of the west . . . at least, insofar as that is possible.
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Shlisa Shell : I keep telling people that trump trolls are never here to, “win arguments,” have, “debates,” or to, “persuade,” anyone of anything. Their only, “job,” is to spread dismay at their stupidity, hate at their offensiveness, and most of all, the DIVISION that gives trump his power. A, “United,” States of America is the one thing the trump’s can never allow
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@nsbob70 : It’s the cognitive dissonance of it that bothered me, far more typical of the far right, where common sense is made to look foolish or, as in this case, implied to be cowardly. He is addressing the public, which is the opposite of hiding. Talk about his pettiness, his cruelty, greed, theft, the things he has been convicted for and stands trial for or, most important of all, that he plans to end democracy!
Get him on the facts and the truth. There’s plenty of that to work with. This headline, backed by statements in the video, just lowered this channel in my estimation. I sure as hell would hide if people were gunning for me. And I’m no coward.
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ernie green : Conservatives HATE Trump. So, STOP with your, “dems,” NONSENSE! Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc: Not ENOUGH, “liberals,” in THOSE states, to kick out the GOP unless CONSERVATIVE AMERICA was voting WITH THEM. We, the people, just want Trump and his enablers gone. You need to live with that. Enjoy your TEMPORARY Tax Break, which inflation is wiping out, for the next two years, China’s new TARIFFS are starting now. Let’s SEE how THAT goes, shall we? . . .
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chrisflach : Now, there’s you, “thinking,” (if that’s the correct term for what a Trumpophile does with its brain?) that people who see the dangers, are in any way, “worried,” about them, because you haven’t thought that through, son. Why would smart people be, “worried,” when they are the ones who KNOW how to protect themselves and their loved ones? Just as I did, when I saw the Donster’s Inc puppet Dictator appear on the horizon, I took careful precautions with my resources, and made myself immune to the cash flow virus that was inevitably about to grip the planet, from the greed, racism and stupidity to come. Now we have an actual virus, and I’m LOADED, and unashamed of it. No, I feel for the people who are FORCED by the, “indemnified,” meat packing moguls, to risk their health in an uncertain time, with an uncertain risk. Tell me, if I knocked on your door and offered to pay you one month’s wages for doing nothing, BUT there was a 2% chance I might shoot you, then role the dice again, for EACH of your family members, would you let me in? If the answer to that question is NO, then you have no business risking their health in that way now. If the answer is YES, then that’s what you’re advocating right now. But, DON’T tell me the answer is NO and then be a HYPOCRITE and take Trump’s side of the argument, son. Think it through, and ask yourself WHY you’re letting this Orange moron risk EVERYTHING you have, when he’s got NO skin in the game? . . . Smh
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vman armand : Consider, how much money (REAL MONEY) have Trump fans donated? There’s a whip-round every time there’s a, “crisis.” And, the friends and family they lost (jobs even?) spouting Trumpy Hate Speech? A cult of personality is pretty immature to start with, but these people just keep doubling down, because the alternative is ADMITTING to themselves that they were fools from the start. Worse still, that their fellow Americans whom they are conditioned into HATING even more than America’s ACTUAL ENEMIES, were RIGHT all along??? . . . Trump fans live in waking fear of hearing the words, “We told you so,” spoken by a, “liberal.” . . . That’s the tragedy of it. Putin played them all
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I literally despair to hear that the spokesperson on this issue is from the Isle Of Wight! I lived there for more than 10 years, working for local government and discovered that this island is one of the country’s biggest strongholds for the Masons! They were overt in their abuse of power and frequently added their Masonic protection to their verbal threats of the general public! Clearly, they’re not intending anything good.
It’s good that police have learned how to pronounce the word, “sorry.” That’s a historic change. And, in their defence, Carrick’s capture may well have been the result of stepped up attempts to do more about such rotten apples, since the case of Sarah Everard. It’s a counter intuitive take, perhaps, but it may well be a sign of progress?
The, “Cultural issue,” is still the key problem. We’re talking about one of the most powerful national institutions in the country, with a monopoly on physical force and the weapons to back them, having a private members only mentality, selecting officers on the basis of their reliability to keep silent and protect t their own, rather than ability or commitment. The club needs to be broken up completely, which requires a massive national effort.
Start by breaking up all stations and moving the cops out of their comfort zones to new stations.
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@Lukky_Luke : Yeah, I seem to remember picking that up somewhere, but can’t put my finger on it? Because Russia’s financial dealings are so dodgy and opaque, a lot of what the experts tell us is educated guess work combined with data in the west’s hands, so we can’t know anything for certain. But, if I had to guess, the banks must be tapping into those gold reserves by now? Maybe watch the gold markets for a dip due to glutting? I’m also no expert on international finances, but Jake is.
Did you know: Jake originally set up this channel for the purposes of analysing the international markets and (I think?) advise on investing. It was Putin’s invasion that lead him to change the channel into what it is today. You probably already knew this, but I mention it because I’d been following for over a year before I found out, from something he said in one of his videos. So, I doubt I’m alone in my former ignorance.
But he’s the right guy to ask.
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Vanessa Costa : Interesting how Trump Trolls can ignore their increased taxation, because it was done without representation, right? There’s an irony in there, somewhere? While they pay more for food, gas, electricity, and the cost of an iPhone has DOUBLED in America, so people order them on Amazon, not realising they’re coming from Europe and Asia, they still CHEER the pittance he tossed at them, like a mob of hungry dogs. I know the foreign Trolls, on the payroll, don’t have to, “believe,” the Trump Propaganda, but it staggers me that American ones, STILL RANT in their FAKE believe? All because they gave real money to Trump collections, said and did things they can’t take back, and feel like IDIOTS for being SO WRONG about Trump . . . SMH ✌️👍
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I understand that ancient history made it necessary that the founding of a post WWII Israeli State had to be, geographically, where it was. But, with my 20/20 hindsight, I so wish the Balfour Declaration, or the post war decision had been to set up a new Israel in Europe. It might sound a little crazy to some, but when you think of the debt owed the Jews by Germany, Austria, Hungary in particular, and of how different history might have been with Israel as a European state . . . Well, it’s just a, “what-if?” pipe dream of impossibility, due to the geographic situation of key historical places, so central to Jewish identity.
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Rich Smith : No. You’re really not. Viewing figures have NOTHING to do with anything, yet Trolls fixate on them, constantly predicting the end of MSM by next week, which NEVER happens. They conflate viewer numbers with, “success,” and even VERACITY, in the same laughably insecure and infantile way that Trump does. “The failing New York Times,” has never been MORE successful than it is now, but you people get all of your, “information,” from Propaganda sources and have NO WAY to even KNOW what the facts are. This makes ALL of your talking points wrong and irrelevant. But, it is at least entertaining, to play that game, we all play, with Trolls; where you try to figure out whether you’re talking to a genuinely ignorant, bigoted, mark, taken in by Trump’s, “shiny shiny show,” or a depraved Propagandist, selling their soul, wholesale, to a shell company whom they probably don’t even KNOW is Russian, desperate to change the topic, which always looks so bad for Trump and / or his cabinet of goons. There is a third category, of course: the other type of depraved and truly degenerate kind, who see all the failings and idiocies of the Trump Regime, but really, all they care about is the stable economy, in the short term, whilst probably having racist, insular, “Little America,” mentality, willing to sell democracy, for short term gain. The only question here, son, is which one of those three YOU are? I think I know the answer to that 😉
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He’s speaking about it in the context of being one of those more, “vulnerable,” people, who’s immune system could collapse if he got a strong variant, I think? I don’t think he was, “comparing,” his condition, so much as pointing out that he is one of those people who’s more likely to get really ill or die, from Covid.
I mean, Maybe he has a point? At this point, just wearing a mask seems to be a mark of Division, identifying, “difference,” and, “otherness,” which is pretty much the oxygen of the trump-far-wrong. Maybe it’s time to take that stick from them, if they’re just defying it wherever you go anyway? . . . Being responsible, POLITE, and wearing them where and when ASKED, is no problem for me. And stores, schools, cinemas, museums, hospitals, etc, etc, etc, all retain their lawful right to mandate masks on their premises, which should be obeyed, or people will just have to accept refusal of service, as before.
Getting vaccinated is far more important, and sometimes we must concede a battle in order to win the war? What do you think? ✌️
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I expect, “NAIGC,” meaning, “Not AI Generated Content,” stamps will become a legal requirement, making it a crime to pretend that your presenters are human when they’re not. It will need to be clearly stated in all legal content. Whether people will obey those rules is up for debate and will depend upon who enforces them?
I’m an old fart, and I watched an old Henry Fonda movie that’s on a free to watch YouTube channel. But it was presented, just before starting and at the end, by an AI character, who looks like a stilted, but real person. But, I noted that this presenter said up front, “Hello, I am your AI presenter.” Makes a difference. I skipped the rest to get to the movie, My Darling Clementine, an awesome Wyatt Earp Western. They have The Good The Bad And The Ugly too. But low resolution. They say it’s all bought and payed for, not pirated. Look it up? It’s probably the way the law will go and makes for a good example.
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Russell Peterson : Seems to me that everyone thinks they know their rights, but have no clue as to what their responsibilities are. I know that’s a cliche but, yes; these chat sites are spaces that are OWNED by people; BUSINESSES; making MONEY. They have NO responsibility toward, free speech and they SHOULD retain the right to throw out whomever they CHOOSE. If that’s too arbitrary for some, let them go elsewhere or set up their OWN sites, like Alex Jones. I wouldn’t put up with a liar like him, in MY PLACE OF BUSINESS. Why the hell should anyone feel they have, “rights,” over me, just because I’m successful or large? Just don’t be a D**K, and you’ll be fine. Otherwise, you SHOULD be shown the door, like in ANY, “civilised,” place
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archmad : You know HOW we know that CNN is not, “fake,” son? Because there are these trolls, so frightened of it, that they spend all day, every day, for years, living on CNN, hating it, talking to people they hate, about how much they hate it. They’re either paid or mentally ill. Whichever they are, one thing they PROVE by their mere existence, is that CNN is NOT, “fake,” kiddo. Think about that? And, which one you’re wasting your life being . . .
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After the impeachment, it will be far easier to get rid of her, and quickly lock her out of Committees, until she’s removed altogether. Forget about the, “verdict.” Just keep demanding that the GOP’s top brass (the one’s who propagated the lie of, “The Steal,” which caused the Insurrection) are forced to Testify. And the GOP will be broken, for generations, if not for good. They cannot refuse to testify, nor can they hide behind the 5th Amendment. They will have to either give, “evidence,” for telling America their elections were, “stolen,” or admit they knew they were lying? Most will take the Nuremberg Defence; “I have no evidence for it, but Donny, my then president, said it was true and I believed him. I was only following orders.” And that’s at best! When America’s Nazis, Q followers, and trump cultists hear this, out of their own leader’s mouths, the GOP will fracture . . . So long as we, the people take this seriously, stay involved and active, and DEMAND Witness Testimony from our representatives ✌️👍
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davis davis : He may well be. But, don’t be conned into thinking that ANYONE could twist trump’s arm up his back. When Americans are coming home in body bags, and we’re bogged down, with no exit strategy, Trump will find it convenient to, “blame,” Bolton and Pompeo. But, this is ALL TRUMP, baby. You better believe it. He wants the polling bump, the oil and to put his war machine to use, so that his donors can make MONEY. Trump has YEARNED for war since he got in. Don’t let them fool you into believing that Trump could be, “talked into,” ANYTHING
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Craig Slade : I wish the Dems would get that it’s NOT about, “winning,” Impeachment? They need to STOP thinking like Trump, and remember Andrew Johnson. He survived an Impeachment, but it RUINED his presidency. The PUBLIC were NOT HAVING IT. No, “martyr,” crap. That’s just wrong. Trump will lie and spin it, REGARDLESS. No Impeachment would, “embolden,” Trump too. He’ll say they were, “scared,” because they had nothing. We KNOW he’ll lie and spin. When the people get the TRUTH, Trump is done.
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You raise a whole raft of questions though. Who are these sources? What is their track record for reliability? Doppelgängers may exist, but that doesn’t mean they exist because of Putin’s absence or death? Moreover, what is the advantage of keeping this myth of Putin being alive going?
Surely, Putin’s death would present the oligarchy with an opportunity for a reset with the west? A change of policy and to sue for peace in Ukraine? They could withdraw and put in a new leader with policies that could rescue Russia’s standing in the world, and their beleaguered economy?
So I ask, WHY? I cannot see any advantage to it. Like flat Earthers, when you ask them, why would anyone want to spread the sphere narrative? To what advantage? They never have an answer to that.
Can you give us links to your sources, so we can look for ourselves?
Putin would, if anything, find it helpful for the rumour to spread in the west, that he might be dead, because his whole approach to information is inspired by Stalin’s, where the public just can’t be sure about what is true. He wants us to throw up our hands and just say, “Well, I don’t know.”
In summary, tell us what you think Russia could gain from keeping up the illusion? And show us your sources to examine for ourselves, please?
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Greg Billings : Trump Trolls do not, “believe,” anything that Trump tells them. They like that he’s racist and greedy, like them. After the paid Trolls, they come to news channels like this, because they HATE that news holds a mirror up to what traitors and haters they have to be, to still be, “supporting,” Trump. They Fake Believe, and will continue to do so until he crashes the economy. America’s tragedy is that Putin’s plan has WORKED: we fight and, “hate,” each other, instead of fighting the external enemies of America. We live in the Land Of Fake Believe ✌️👍
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Rayner is one of Labour’s biggest assets. Everyone I know says they think so and most of them love her. I do. She’s got everything that the, “personality politics,” fans look for with none of the drawbacks. She’s attractive, articulate and fizzing with performative style and aplomb at PMQ’s. The fact that she seems to genuinely care about the poorest and most vulnerable people in Britain is just another boon.
I think the Tories want us to think of her as, “Marmite,” because their entire political model is about exploiting division wherever they can find (or create) it. But that doesn’t make it so. Sure, there will always be a small minority of people who will hate her accent, and read her directness and eloquence as bluntness and haranguing. But who are these people? The very rich and snobbish, who fear her, and the Tory MP’s who are SO afraid of her that they will enter a Stasi level CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY to get their Tory pals in the police to dredge through her past to find ANYTHING they can call a, “crime,” without ANYONE, EVER laying a formal complaint!
That’s desperation! Treat ALL Tory attitudes toward Rayner with deep suspicion.
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@Brian-vn2pe : Umm . . . What, “gun safety rules,” son? 🤔 There’s the LAW and that’s it, Twinky. 🤦♂️ Why do you think they hire an Armorer? 🤔 Charity? 🤷♂️🤣 And you DO, “reset PROPS,” all day, every day, when you’re making a movie. You DON’T put everyone’s safety in the hands of actors, you silly sod! 🤣 The armorer is there for a REASON! They don’t source the guns, or hand them out. They check them and keep track of all the ammo, signing off on each gun before a take. If you had checked the gun what would you have found? A bunch of cartridges! And? You say, “Buhhht there’s cartridges in this,” and they lol and tell you, “Yeah, blanks!” How TF are you supposed to know the difference? Who would trust you if you said you did? They would go with the, “expert,” they HIRED to do that for you. Every time I run into a trump troll my belief in their ability to think their way out of a wet paper bag goes down. 🤣
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American : You sound pretty desperate. Looohhhht of, “Whaddabout,”ism, there ,son. If you REALLY gave a DAMN about, “America,” then WHY are you NOT outraged at Trump? Disregard the, “law,” and just LOOK at the FOOL he’s made of you? “No collusion,” day after day, for TWO YEARS, and he was LYING! . . . TO YOU!
You KNOW it WILL be PROVED that Trump SOLD the election, but you don’t CARE? You’d rather peddle a bunch of demonising Propaganda, about the Dems? Seriously, dude! WTF is WRONG with you? . . . SMH
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We win : “23 times,” or, “26 times?” Make your minds up, Trump Tramps? 😆 Why do you HIDE your obvious SHAME behind the Clinton’s all the time? You just can’t FACE the FACTS, can you? Man up, son? Step out from the shadow of your betters? I DARE you? “Justify,” to us, just WHY we should be content, to see Trump spending 30 minutes on the White House lawn, defending Acosta, who LIED to Epstein’s VICTIMS so he could get him back on the streets to RAPE and TRAFFIC EVEN MORE CHILDREN! Go on, son? Have the BALLS to defend your Sex-Pests? . . . Smh
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That’s why they DREAD the Impeachment trial. Not whether trump is convicted or not, but having to TESTIFY, under oath, for America to see! It was NOT a spontaneous event, nor was it just Q, the proud Nancy boys, or other outsiders. It was an attempted COUP, green lit, three days prior to Nov 6th, from WITHIN THE WHITE HOUSE! What future will there be for the GOP, when that’s established and on the record? Especially hostile witnesses, like Hawley, Cruz and Graham?
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Yeah, I’ll take the best scientific minds and MY OWN DOCTOR’S word over propaganda and disinformation out of, “Russier,” and, “Chiynah,” any damned day! Anti-Vaxers are a lot of things, but, “Patriots,” they ain’t! Just because the disinformation is laundered through Fox to give it an, “American,” flavour, and then comes out of the mouths of their favourite racists, they, “choose,” to, “Believe,” it? How racist do you have to get before realising that you’re hating on your own country and getting Americans KILLED? MTG could probably answer that one?
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@cron_nick.w6926 : BigBad has a point there, son. Did you wipe off the Cheeto dust from your keyboard when you typed that? Maybe washed them down with some Orange Koolaid? I hear that’s to DIE for? When was the last time you looked up the ingredients in that last sausage you sucked on with such glee? “Maybe question things,” huh, Karen?
But the smart people understand WHO to, “question,” and WHAT a reliable source is. Want me to prove that to you? Fine, and thanks for asking, son. Here’s what you do:
Gather up all your, “findings,” make an appointment to see your DOCTOR and show them to him or her? When they’re through lol’ing, they’ll give you a NONE-POLITICAL answer, debunking everything you have, and helping you to use your Common Sense Muscle again. When you’re over the shock and embarrassment of that experience, your DOCTOR will tell you to get your jab.
And THAT will be the moment when you announce that you’ve already had both injections and are already fully vaccinated! And you’ll admit that you only use your, “findings,” as disinformation because that’s what that shell company pays you for; or it’s because of the emotional problems you suffer from, due to trump’s coup failing. S/he will then explain that there’s no pill for, “stoopid,” or racism for that matter, and advise you to read a book . . . 🤦♂️ . . . 😜
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@Cheese_Boi1986 : You did, madam? You’re in the trump cult, so you can’t talk to us about, “proven liars,” can you? You even believe the lies about other people telling you lies, in an inverted chain reaction that makes trump trolls cross eyed, until they can;t tell up from down, right from wrong, or a person, man, camera, elephant 🤣
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fran bran : OMG! “Hillary!”??? REALLY??? Trump’s had THREE YEARS to, “lock her up”??? 3 F**KING YEARS! . . . She’s, “supposed,” to be a, “staffer murdering, intelligence bleaching, pedo-ring running, uranium selling,” MASTERMIND-SUPER-CRIMINAL, that James f**king Bond would cower from, and in THREE YEARS not even a moving violation??? . . . The most powerful man in the WORLD CAN’T, “Lock up,” his Arch Enemy??? The same guy who COULDN’T STOP his ENTIRE CAMPAIGN TEAM from going to JAIL!?!?!?!? When are you going to ADMIT YOU WERE WRONG??? . . . 😆 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣 😆 😂 🤣 😆 😂 🤣 😆 😂 🤣 😆 😂 🤣 😆 😂 🤣 😆 😂 🤣 😆 😂 🤣 😆 😂 🤣 😆 😂 🤣 😆 😂 🤣 😆 😂 🤣 😆
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Apropos nothing, really, but I saw that thumbnail and thought, “Quentin Tarantino’s really let himself go,” before rubbing my eyes and getting a second take. To your point, there needs to be some better, more public accountability. We have seen that our regulators are uninterested and toothless at best, in cahoots and a client of the government at worst. Sitting MP’s presenting, “news,” and current affairs shows is illegal, yet happening in Britain.
And talent shows may seem like harmless fun and less important than direct government corruption, but they’re really not. The fact is that producers are like rising water levels, constantly rising to increasingly threatening levels unless people keep bailing to stop us all from drowning in exploitation, cruelty and ultimately, tragedy.
The producers of these shows should be monitored by unbiased OFFCOM officials with the power to shut down a production on the spot and refer crimes where they are found. They will find that producers are always breaking the law, blackmailing, victimising, bullying, manipulating and pulling strings that no decent person would touch in, “real,” life.
I rarely, if ever watch, “reality TV.” I prefer the good, honest truth that makes good fiction so compelling.
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I really enjoyed this video, thank you, and found it genuinely educational and informative. So, I hope you would take a little constructive criticism?
The word, “perestroika,” is defined in English as, “Reconstruction.” It would have been helpful to give that definition and it feels like an oversight that you didn’t.
Please, PLEASE, stop breaking off from the narrative to nag us repeatedly to, “click that like button,” etc? It’s as off putting as the ad breaks are, interrupting the flow and it’s irritating to the viewer. Ask once at the end, please? If you really feel you must ask at the beginning, you can’t blame people for feeling there’s something a bit shady about that, as they cannot possibly validate a video they haven’t yet watched. You must be losing as many thumbsups as you gain by what comes off as annoying nagging? I have no data to back that up, but I feel sure I can’t be alone in my exasperation?
And that’s a terrible shame, because you have an otherwise excellent format of rapid information, arresting visuals (if slightly too rapid for a perfect edit at times, like when that shot of Gorbachev meeting Reagan lasted about one third of a second and came off more as a subliminal, “blip-vert,” than a visual enhancement?) and a perfectly pitched tone of seriousness with just a touch of wry humour here and there, appealing to the educated viewers.
I do love this channel, which is why I care enough to make such a long comment. I think could genuinely improve with just a few small tweaks that should cost little to nothing . . .
But, my sincere thanks for a great video, regardless of my going on too long about how you could improve it. ✌️👍
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I thought, when he was saying he didn’t know how to introduce this, he should have started by explaining trump’s announcement that a, “big announcement,” was coming, which got all of the Republican and Democrat Parties and pundits from both sides of the Isle tuned in, expecting something to do with his presidential run or something RELEVANT to their lives. Instead, even Steve Bannon said this was, “bullsh*t,” and inappropriate. One of the biggest stories doing the rounds in America right now is the Sam Bankman Freed FTX scandal in which roughly 10 BILLION dollars was stolen in an NFT bit coin rip off, making this the WORST POSSIBLE time to announce a, one dollar short and a day late, blatant money grabbing scheme of embarrassing proportions, that even made his fans CRINGE! If this doesn’t hurt his presidential dreams by making him seem less relevant and more behind the trends than ever, nothing will. But, of course, we all know that being dumb, crass and unbelievably thick doesn’t stop rich people from becoming president in that country. 🙄🤷♂️
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@sadtothebone5767 : CNN have been manoeuvred into a box of un-reality by the Alt-Wrong media. How could ANY news about the last administration NOT make them look bad? When you’ve had to spend the last 4 years defending your journalism from constant attacks by the government and by that Alt-Wrong media machine, you’re going to come off looking, “anti-trump,” by virtue of being honest. Combine that with the average troll’s low IQ, and their inability to distinguish news from an Op Ed, or analysis, or documentary, or discussion pieces, or anything else news companies do, and you have a ready made, “Bogey Man,” set up. But, CNN is just centrist, unbiased news, so far as I can tell? ✌️
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@MichaelGarrity : Well spoken. Fact checking is just another example. They lie more at Fox, so they get called out more, but they try to spin that as some sort of, “virtue,” as though they were having to work to a, “higher standard,” in a hostile environment. Yet the reverse is true. CNN have made mistakes, and who fact checks them? Oh, that’s right. THEY DO. They own it, apologise where necessary, and move on. And that’s why they’re trusted. Fox is beyond a joke now. It’s a Seditious threat to the Republic. And, anyone who doubts that, ask yourself? If they had been as honest about, “the steal,” from Nov 7th, to Jan 6th, would there have even BEEN an insurrection? In those two months alone, according to Conservative fact checkers, Fox cast serious doubt on the election result’s validity, nearly 800 times! In living memory, we used to hunt down and execute traitors who spread sedition! Now we let them collect shares from the company and broadcast on American soil! Lord Haw Haw must be lol’ing his ass off, from hell! 👍
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Death To Ming! : Flynn is clearly planning to return to Trump’s Cabinet. At the very least, he’s planning a return to public life, in some way. That’s WHY this rigamarole. The pardon will only come if there’s no alternative and Flynn loses, but even then, Trump will only use it, so long as it’s not going to hurt himself in some way. Flynn doesn’t just want his freedom, or he could have had that already? He obviously needs some form of, “plausible deniability,” so he isn’t barred from certain, “official,” capacities? . . . But, the mere fact that he would even be allowed a, “retrial,” after a GUILTY PLEA, when just about every other con on death row would like the same thing, will be more than enough evidence, if evidence were needed, that they have already rigged the outcome. And, just like Russia, we’ll see more and more of this kind of thing, as the new Dictatorship consolidates itself, since its completion of its, “Soft Coup,” at the Impeachment, “trial.” And, the more obvious it gets, that the Republic has already fallen, and that our, “elections,” are already RIGGED, the fewer people will want to say that out loud. Until merely criticising Trump will be a crime . . .
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Gunner DJ : You may as well drop the act now, kid? Conservatives, like me, can see perfectly clearly that this is a Dictatorship now. We’re not all, “on the left,” just because we know that. And, to assume so is just a form of childish defence mechanism you resort to, because you have no, “arguments,” and feel ashamed, deep down. You know, in your heart, that the coming, “elections,” will be rigged, in the same way that the Impeachment, “trial,” was, and in the same way that we’re seeing Trump pressure judges to free Roger Stone, and in the same way Trump is colluding in Flynn’s attempt to return to government, which a simple Pardon can’t do. Whatever it is that you hate about America, you have conflated that with whatever seems convenient to your, “conscience,” and, by choosing not to think about that, you have abandoned morality. Inside you must know this, or you wouldn’t be attempting to, “justify,” your bogus position, before a bunch of people whom you know to be honest and, therefore, opposed to you? The only other rational explanation for your presence here? That you’re being paid to be here. Either one makes you either clinically thick, or diabolically evil? My guess is a little of both, son . . . SMH
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@oldcatlover : All true enough, but you clearly didn’t do Constitutional Law, am I right? Setting aside, “ethical,” questions, (which a GOP Senator does whilst getting out of bed in the mornings) Impeachment is not a, “legal,” proceeding, but a, “political,” one. There is no 5th Amendment Cover, and the oath taken by all Senators has already, “volunteered,” them to give any and all answers to any and all (appropriately put) questions in the Senate House. Therefore, “Contempt,” proceedings are not only available to the presiding judge, but also exempt from legal interpretation, let alone legal interference.
Indeed, I don’t know if you recall, but during the last impeachment, a GOP member, bent on disrupting the proceedings, spent a couple of hours in the cells beneath the Senate. They were making a point, at the time, and had no intention of holding him. Only shaming him. It worked, as he did not disrupt in any further way, other than through the usual, obtuse interpretations of English as we know it, and the type of mental gymnastics that makes most decent people want to vomit.
In so far as the, “morality,” of such action is concerned, of course, the law has nothing to say on the matter, for the reasons given above; but, personally? . . . Under any (and I do mean, “any”) other circumstances, I would balk at such a measure. But, there are some types of threat, with which you cannot reason, debate, show error, or even prove your case with flat out logic. That threat is called, “Fascism.” Trump will continue to seek a single party system, in which the mere existence of, “opposition,” in ANY form, will become illegal, faster than most people think. That is, by definition, Fascism. Nazis, and Fascists are the type of threat you don’t even TRY to reason with, any more than you would a rabid tiger. You must kill it, or let it kill you. Or, at the very last, go down fighting it, and die with a clear conscience. And, if the law holds out certain remedies, such as banking on the cowardice of a coward, (which all Nazi sympathisers and Fascists are, again, by definition) then I say, put that remedy to good use, and do not hesitate or flinch while you use it. Sometimes, the greater good, is the greater moral concern. This would be one such time. Not just because of it’s appropriateness, but because you can pretty well guarantee that it WILL work!
Fascinating points you bring up, though. And I do, genuinely, see your point, and see it as valid. I simply see the exception in this case.
I am not legally trained (by way of full disclosure) but I am incredibly well read, and astonishingly clever . . . Like you 😉✌️
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And they’re in a mad scramble for, “leadership,” and the party’s identity. They could end up a Hawley, Graham, Cruz, Proto-Nazi party? Or, the Moscow Mitch style of system gamers? The very insurrectionists who tried to destroy the Republic have no choice, because they’re looking at expulsion and possible criminal charges, when all the evidence comes out at trump’s impeachment! It’s do or die, for those guys. Sad as it makes me, we have to support Moscow Mitch, and help him get the votes he needs for trump’s impeachment!
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@Jay Jay : Yeah, seeing him as the Defendant, without power, will be awesome. But, we KNOW he’s scheming, right now. Every hour, a new email goes out to the cult, purporting to be from one trump family member or another; robocalls; and the Tweets, (how can we forget those) and they all say the same thing. “Give me your MONEY!” for a, “legal challenge,” that’s paid for by us tax payers anyway. That’s his Getaway Fund! And, (assuming he doesn’t pull off a Coup?) he won’t even BE in America on Inauguration Day! And he won’t have mounted ANY, “legal challenges.” But, he WILL have ALL HIS CULT’S MONEY, and he’ll be in a country with no extradition treaty. I bet real money on that. Even his cult will hate him, in the end. For robbing them and splitting, forever . . . SMH
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Toni Bush : I find it interesting, that they are DESPERATE to push the narrative that anyone who wants Trump and his minions to PAY for their crimes, HAS TO BE a, “liberal”??? I’m, “conservative,” and I HATE Trump, along with millions of other conservatives. There’s NOTHING, “conservative,” about the Republican Cult of Treason. When this caged bird sings, millions of conservatives will have even more reason to vote Democrat, than they already, “needed.” Trump’s cult haven’t been observing what happened in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc. There weren’t enough, “liberals,” in those states to kick the GOP without conservatives voting WITH THEM. This is DEMOCRACY Versus Trump’s DICTATORSHIP. We all KNOW IT 👍
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Jordan : All this fake outrage, about a bewildered slightly autistic bloke, who was a bit, “rude,” to a bunch of MP’s, even when he knew how to engineer Brexit, and now they want his head on a pike, because they’re hot, bored, and haven’t forgiven him for Brexit . . . “Well, I’ve never been so outraged!” Really? Your PM’s got about 50 kids, but none of you gave a s**t about that? 🤣
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chocolateking1 : I don’t think Nunberg knows himself? I mean, you or I, if we had to dig up our back catalogue of emails, would take between 10 or 20 minutes, right? What he means, is that he’ll have to READ EACH AND EVERY WORD, to prepare himself for all the trouble he’s in. He KNOWS the FBI HAS his emails, SURELY? But, just LOOK at how LOOSE those lips have been, in LOTS of interviews, but ESPECIALLY lately? There’s probably o LOT to embarrass, a LOT to SHAME and I would NEVER rule out CRIMINAL dealings.
Roger Stone, his self proclaimed, “Father Figure,” was DEFINITELY in a criminal conspiracy with Wikileaks and, maybe, directly with the Russians. So, if Nunberg wasn’t directly helping with that, he CERTAINLY KNEW about it, which is a crime too.
This is the “quality” of Trump’s “people.” Stupid, greedy, morally bankrupt loners, forced into a pack, which tore itself apart on contact; discovering that the sort of s**t they pulled in the board room, which could be covered up by sleazy lawyers, CANNOT STAND, when the BEST legal minds in the country are looking into everything you’ve done, has addled his substance abused neurones. SMH
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chocolateking1 : Oh, and it’s worth thinking about this, in my view; The TWO main points that Nunberg has been pushing, in EVERY SINGLE interview:
1) Trump would not be able to keep his mouth shut, if he had a conspiracy with Putin. Well, Nunberg is RIGHT, Trump DIDN’T keep his mouth shut. The, “Russier! If you’re listening,” speech, will go down in HISTORY alongside Nixon’s, “I’m not a crook”! It was CLEAR to a casual observer that Trump and Putin had a deal.
2) I will not put Roger Stone in the frame: ALMOST admitting that Stone is crooked, while indicating that the FBI have lead him to believe that they have evidence on Stone. Does he not REALISE that simply KNOWING evidence and failing to report it, puts HIM in the frame, as a CONSPIRATOR? AT BEST?
Nunberg has spent too long on his inner dialogue and not listened to his lawyers or his family and seems to WANT to persuade himself that GRAVITY doesn’t exist? Unless he has a deeper, darker purpose? From appearances, he’s falling apart and the FBI will make short work of him, and his cockamamy delusions?
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@stephens1393 : It’s called, “Whaddabouting,” and Ms WR has been doing it for at least five years. What she needs is a better job than trolling, or serious therapy for her emotional issues, or both?
It’s not sheeple like her, who are told WHAT to, “think,” and discouraged from learning HOW to THINK, that we need concern ourselves with. When the herd’s gone crazy, who gets into a debate with a sheep? You talk to the Shepard, right? It’s people like Abbot and DeSatan who shouldn’t be able to go near a phone, email, letter in tray, or his office, without being inundated with protests and protestors! They should be given no peace until they’re arrested! They’re literally getting away with murder. And we need to bring the fight to where they live!
CapNate WR knows she’s just another sheep from a herd that all look, sound and act like her: indistinguishable. So, she wants to convince you she’s a wolf, but that’s just her insecurity, which only worsens, the more people like you he runs into, with ethics, morality, rationality and common sense.
She obviously hasn’t even come to talk Covid, but wants to talk about an issue she, “thinks,” she’s safer with. Even though she’s wrong about that. But it’s a tortuous road you’d have to take her down, before you’d get her to see it, and even then, she won’t admit the truth. Either because she’s paid not too, or she’s just too racist and ill to, “want,” to. But, she will have wasted your time and successfully prevented you from commenting on multiple threads, sharing your sensible opinions and facts with others. And, you’ll come away from it (perhaps entertained at her stupidity? But, ultimately) no better off, wondering what the hell you were doing, standing in a field, arguing with a sheep?
You’re smarter than her and better than that. I know this. I’ve read your comments before. You’re too good to be wasted on idiots, filled with hate, who spend most of their day, every day, coming to channels they hate, talking hate, to people they hate. “Division,” is the name of her game. She’s not here to, “convince,” you of anything, or even really to, “debate,” anything. Entrenching divisions in America is what got Donny elected, and that’s what trolls are for. Without Division, Donny is nothing. And, think about it? Who would do what she does, that does not have a mental health problem, or is doing it for pay, or both? . . .
She clearly doesn’t understand how vaccines work, or what they’re meant to do. Leave her to chew her cud, with the other sheeple?. ✌️👍
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These are TRAITORS and must be dealt with as such! What the GOP FEARS is being forced to testify at the impeachment, with no 5th Amendment protections. Anyone from Graham, Hawley, Cruz and the rest, can be put on the stand, on live TV and asked what their, “evidence,” was for, “believing,” in, “The Steal.” And then get ripped apart. Or, as many of them will, when cornered, they’ll confess that they KNOW it’s a LIE! A seditious lie that put a cop in a coma with brain damage, blinded another and KILLED yet another, leaving over 50 with broken bones and other serious injuries. These, “false narratives,” are NOT FREE SPEECH! They’re Seditious Propaganda and MURDEROUS LIES! They must be outlawed!
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Fur Ball : He probably is? I have no time for him, because a traitor is always untrustworthy and worthless. We all know he’d be shamelessly sucking Orange Penis on national TV, if he’d been kept on the Tramp Train. But, I am glad he exists, with his, “Access,” to Trump insiders, Trolling the HELL out of Trump. Anyway, “Anonymous,” it will turn out to be Ivanka, right? 😉👍
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You know what, you’re right. Except for two things. Putin is sending foreign mercenaries, not Russian troops, and that will further undermine Russia’s cratered morale, as well as weakening the satellite states he holds now in Georgia, Syria, Chechnya, etc. He’s bleeding resources while Ukraine is getting volunteers from all over the planet, raising their morale, and now they have more money and hardware than they started with. All Ukraine needs to do now is take back one zone that Russia held before the war began. My hope is that they take Crimea, personally. Then Putin will not even be able to convince his own sheltered population that Russia can claim any species of victory. Then Putin truly will be f*cked. 😉✊🇺🇦
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@zed1stwizard : We’re probably on a similar, if not the same page? Dawkins’ book, The Blind Watch Maker, (though flawed, in my opinion) was a tour de force and an excellent read. I would recommend it to anyone for its sharp focus on the scientific process, and for the thinking about how and why we do science at all. It’s a great look at the philosophy of science, almost Baconian in its depth and scope. He put forward his arguments, made his case, and should have left it at that. But, rather like a child, he was unhappy when challenged, or refuted. And there’s nothing like a scientist who doesn’t want to own his own mistakes or oversights, who gets all, “defensive,” about his personal philosophy, and wants the world to accept his personal philosophy as the Paradigm we live in; no questions asked. Before we knew it, he’d built a large following, with cult like adoration, and he’d turned what could have been an interesting contribution to the philosophy of science and skepticism, into a LIFESTYLE choice. Now, we’re all either in his club, or suspect outsiders at best!
I joined a live chat on the web, for one of his book launches, over 10 years ago now. He got really mad at me and left the chat. Stating that he was leaving because he didn’t like my contributions. This left me surrounded by a bunch of disappointed fans, happy to, “blame,” me for his absence, and abusing me in Royal fashion. I had a ball, I must admit; staying calm throughout and focussing on those who were able to ask and answer questions.
But, here’s the funny bit. About 5 or 6 minutes after he’d left, he’d returned, stating that his agent had told him he was contractually obliged to see through the session. Yet, I think he’d assumed that, because he’d set his dogs on me, I would be gone. A strategy that he probably employed before? When he saw I was happily chattering away with people, (I must admit to being a little childish here) I wrote something to the effect, “Don’t feel bad, Richard (no one else was using his first name, nor had he suggested they should) I’ll accept your apology graciously now.” And, he up and left again. Immediately, without a word. You can imagine the reaction I got from the fan base then . . .
He’s a miserable tick, who’s ego seems to be most massaged, when he’s shattering children’s toys and stealing their sweeties, it seems to me. Proud, Bishop like and joyless.
I honestly came away from that experience somewhat disillusioned and unhappy, despite having a wail of a time, while it was happening. But, then I read Rupert Sheldrake’s book, The Science Delusion. I thought it was going to be a bunch of mystic mumbo jumbo, so I’d put off reading it, but it was a revelation to me. Not just because it was written by a highly respected scientist, with revolutionary science to his own credit, and a firm belief in the scientific method, either. But, because he includes a chapter about his dealing with Richard Dawkins. Once I saw the Dawkins I’d encountered, reflected precisely as I’d encountered him, I felt a lot better about myself and the way I had behaved. If you haven’t read that book, I urge you to. And, you’ll see how Dawkins is not above doctoring his own results and committing what amounts to all but fraud in my book, for a Channel 4 Documentary in the UK.
So, I have little to no respect for the man, much more for his abilities as a philosopher. As a scientist, I have considerably less respect for him now, because I’ve learned that he will blatantly misrepresent the views of others, and their science, which, to me, is no different from defrauding your scientific results . . . At least, morally speaking, and with respect to, “character.”
Sorry to go on so long, but I though you might be interested? ✌️
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I’ll be pondering your thoughts for the rest of the day, quite possibly. As it seems increasingly the case that, to do nothing about Edward, would be a mistake for The Windsor’s. And to attempt his rehabilitation into public life could prove fatal to their future.
It’s interesting to note that all of the names that appear on Epstein’s guest list had already been tainted by scandal, previous to any of us learning about their stays on his island. Some of them sexual in nature; all of them grubby. It certainly seems that Epstein preferred (or attracted?) a certain . . . “type.” I’ve never been a fan of the expression, “There’s no smoke without fire,” as it’s usually used by those with only suspicions and no evidence. But in Edward’s case it does seem fitting.
We do have the circumstantial evidence that he lies; about his whereabouts in a pizza establishment, for instance. As well as risible lies, such as that of his inability to sweat. We have the evidence of a multimillion pound settlement with his accuser. And photographic evidence that he lied about having met the woman, only later, “adjusted,” to, “I do not recall,” having met her.
From this (and other statements) we know that he is fundamentally dishonest. Also that he’s not very bright. Like Donald Trump he chooses to fabulate unnecessarily at times, about things that will prove to be demonstrably and necessarily false; and for which there was simply no need to lie in the first place, only serving to further undermine his own credibility.
On a personal level, I see a very different man in his infamous Maitliss and other, more successful interviews, from the other Royals. I could envision myself as having a great deal to talk about with King Charles in light conversation, to our mutual interest. I am positively charmed by Princess Anne and always have been. She actually reminds me of you in some ways, as she too has that ineffable capacity to mix compassion with sound reasoning, from an informed and well educated position. Her commitment to the public good seems to equal that of her mother, along with a personal (if rarely witnessed) capacity to personally charm.
Edward is someone I would never feel comfortable around, who with whom I doubt a truly intelligent conversation would be possible. I know it’s unfair to judge on the little I actually know about the man, but my gut has proved a reliable tool in my history, which has saved my life on more than one occasion, so I don’t ignore it.
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Kyle Alm : Seems you’ve put the worst possible spin on that? Hardly fair. Especially when UEG specifically points out that these are a confluence of circumstances, “which may NOT be connected.” Do you, honestly, believe that there was, “no,” connection, at all? Why do people feel the emotional need to be so extreme in their views? Imagine you knew someone who had, inadvertently, done something awful? Would you leap down their throat, making things worse, and becoming a part of the problem? Or, would you look for a way to use this, “teachable moment?” Do you WANT good or bad to come of this? What power do you have to influence thongs for the better? It’s easy to make things worse. Much harder, and therefore, a much greater achievement, to make things better. Seizing the opportunity to lecture others, merely because it’s there, is immature. But, that was not your intention, was it? It seems to me that a lot of hostility comes out in social media, because people attempt to preempt the response they’re expecting? Don’t be that guy?
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Anthony Pierre-Canel : No problem, man. I search hard for forums where disagreeing with someone is an, “interesting,” thing to do, where people, “debate,” like men and women, not children. UEG attracts a lot of grown up gamers, like that. So, I thank you too.
She sounds to me like, maybe, she’s blowing the, “right person,” or something? But, it usually comes down to Brute Force, in the end. In her case she has three forms of Brute Force: The revenue she creates is huge, meaning her platform provider will instinctively default to protecting her as a money making asset; then there’s followers, who will, sheeplike, follow her, defend her and do what she asks. Once people have invested their time in her, they are, “defending,” themselves and their own choices. If she’s exposed as something malign, that brings into question the judgement of her followers. People don’t like to admit they were wrong, or that they have been supporting a sex criminal, so they’ll work hard at providing her with excuses; And finally, perhaps most importantly, she has a, “history of hits,” now. She has successfully ruined the careers of others, and has a killer reputation, which makes other streamers more inclined to, “play nice,” with her, and avoid conflicts with her, because she could do that to them. None of those three points are disputed, not even by her, so far as I can tell? So she has all that Brute Force behind her, meaning it would take a LOT to knock her from her pedestal. If she really is what has been described here (which my gut tells me is true, because I trust the source, UEG, who’s never steered me wrong yet) then she’s a monster who SHOULD be in jail. I just don’t have the time to verify the facts, but I hope developments are covered on this channel? Pleasure talking with you 👍✌️
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auzieten : I doubt anyone would disagree with that. Watch with interest, and judge on the facts alone. The, “problem,” you’re left with is, “moral responsibility.” She has a huge fan base. Knowing what is being said about her, would I be a good parent, if I encouraged my kids to watch her? Should I let them make their own choices? Even if she may be a sex criminal and responsible for the suicide of others? It’s all disputed, but should I continue to support her? If I was a fan? Seems to me that those involved with her, from the casual viewer, to the close personal friends, SHOULD be doing their own research, to establish the facts as best they can? It is NOT disputed that she has, “cancelled,” the careers of others. And, being objective does not release me from my ethical responsibility to exercise judgement. It’s a tough one, don’t you think? ✌️
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Adam Kelley : The answer to your question is just one word: “Money.” So long as she’s making serious money for people who are serious about money, she will be protected. The only thing that could change that, would be for her to lose her base, get indicted for sexual offences, or if she just stopped making them serious money. The problem is compounded by the fact that, if she is all the things that she appears to be, she will be aware of her own vulnerabilities. And, that means that she will have to double down, in order to protect herself, and retain the Brute Force Power she has now. Tragic, really . . . ✌️
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American Patriot : Yeah, that sounded pretty, “stable,” right? . . . Anyone who dismisses an entire people is ignorant and a little unhinged, in my view. Why so angry with Muslims, who at least, acknowledge Jesus as a Prophet, as do the Jews? All three Faiths worship the same God, with differing interpretations. I struggle with the notion that Judgement will be terrible for ALL people of faith. Those who honor their faith, with love and truth in their hearts, will be just fine. It’s the church that has misread your scriptures, and taught you to do the same. If you were a Christian, you would condemn ALL hate-speech, ALL threats, and you would lead people TOWARD the truth, and not AWAY from the things you fear and hate. There would be no need to preach ANYTHING other than love and TRUTH, if you stopped focussing your aggression upon those you hate. So, don’t lay your halfassed, “preaching,” on me, when it’s clear you haven’t read your Bible, son . . . SMH
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@TFx2TV : I think that’s an obtuse answer. Perhaps deliberately so? So, if little 7 year old Timmy hold the door for his sister and says, without the slightest irony, “Lady’s first,” you think that’s fine? Is he allowed to site Window Twanky’s indignance at Aladdin for failing to hold the door for her? . . . him? . . . them? in his own defence?
Do you have any opinions at all about the fact that drag artistry is based upon leaning into the most unhealthy stereotypes about women? Have you noticed that this was not an issue for anyone before Covid, and now everyone is suddenly, “angry,” about what people are telling them to be angry about, rather than thinking for themselves about more important matters?
Are little boys and girls meant to infer that five hour hairdos, an unhealthy obsession with shoes, heavy makeup and jewellery and a flouncing, over dramatic body language are what women are? It’s confused and self contradictory.
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@TFx2TV : Why so defensive? I think anyone who bothers to read our discourse will note for themselves the defensive, antagonistic and, at one point, devious tone of your, “argument,” but, since you’re having such difficulty following it, I’ll make real simple for you.
There was nothing in my words from which you could infer ANYTHING about what I find, “sexual.” That much will be obvious to that person with too much free time on their hands who bothers to follow this discussion. They will simply see you wriggling on a hook of your own making, going for some low blow, to divert attention from the weakness of your position.
My point: There is no benefit from using cultural stereotypes as an educational tool, UNLESS that education is focussed on the issue of the sexual stereotypes being put to use. Which, in this case, it is clearly not. It is, however, an attempt to, “normalise,” it. His word, not mine. My question would be, “Normalise what?” To which he would probably answer, “Difference?” I could then poke so many holes in the use of this particular medium that I doubtless wouldn’t get much more than angry obfuscation in return, if he was anything like you.
Perhaps you’d prefer a question or two? Maybe consider what you’re babbling about, instead of locking on to the least relevant part of the argument, “little Timmy,” about whom you seem so passionate?
What is the benefit of having a drag artist as a teacher? Why use one at all? For the same reason they would hire a clown? These are not healthy depictions of femininity. What is the point of using a grotesque when the mere fact of his grotesqueness is not even under discussion during the class. Do you honestly believe it doesn’t raise any questions in the minds of these kids? Inform their opinions about women? You seem to be denying that drag artists do show an unhealthy obsession about makeup, shoes and jewellery? Even though that is part of the point of them. Otherwise it’s just a cross dresser, selling himself as a drag artist, under false pretences.
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I think these trends are deceptive. Russian passions will burn hotter and brighter like a dying star. This year, the sanctions will bight hard for the first time and there won’t be enough, “provincials,” from the obscure regions of Russia to throw into the meat grinder, so they’ll have to come for the Muscovites, until everyone will know someone who was dragged kicking and screaming to the front lines, or who got arrested on trumped up charges (drunk and disorderly has already been used) and woken up in Ukraine wearing half a uniform.
This year will change things in Russia, when the Ukrainian spring offensives take back territory that cannot be propagandised into insignificance by Putin, and panic will set in in the Kremlin even when Ukraine’s troops start getting close to Crimea, let alone before they actually take it.
And Putin will not throw away his only allies by using nukes. He may well use chemical attacks, for which Ukraine needs to prepare, as they’re likely to be unprecedented in scale, but even then, China will reign Putin back in.
We in the west should be talking about supplying Ukraine with an airforce and navy, to protect their Black Sea interests in the long term and secure the country for western businesses to get in there and make everybody wealthy. I cannot think of a better way to give China pause and to take the last of the fight out of Putin’s army.
But never forget: the Russian state fell twice before in the last 100 years. And both times, it was a costly war that precipitated the state’s downfall. When you keep your peasants in a permanent state of ignorance, you cannot expect them to have any sense of what they’re fighting for, or commitment to your Tsarist cause. These days, it is the combination of the stark difference between state propaganda and the harsh realities of the battlefield that makes liars out of Putin to the one group who matters: the armed soldiers who know they’re murdering innocent civilians for a lie. When they turn back to Moscow, not even China will be able to protect Putin. And will he nuke his own soldiers? In Moscow? . . . If he was smart, he’d be looking for his own, “off ramp,” now. Because the west is heartily sick of providing those for him.
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Tucker Carlson : Trump is a warmonger, trying not to look like a warmonger. And, your job is to help him with that Propaganda. But, the world has watched, while he ripped up his deal with Iran, broke America’s word, threatened and bullied them, while the Europeans have been trying to keep the peace and hold up the West’s end, without him. Now, he’s ramping up the Military presence, using the Saudis to frame them; making it look like Iran is STARTING the war, when we all KNOW it’s the LAST thing they want. And, he expects us to, “believe,” the intel coming from the SAME PEOPLE that he ROUTINELY calls, “liars,” EVERY DAY? He’s compared the CIA to, “Nazi Germany,” and we’re all meant to flip flop at his rate? America’s NOT buying it, son. Trump will have to look elsewhere for a bump in the polls. A war will finish him . . . Smh
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@ixiahj : There’s a lot to be said for that kind of cultural norm. But it flies in the face of everything Americans have been brought up to believe about themselves; Independence, individualism, American exceptionalism, etc. They have it drummed into them from cradle to grave that the American Dream is all about finding your own way, making your mark, and proving to the world that you did it, “standing on your own two feet,” and so forth. The problem right now is that economic pressures have made it all but impossible for the young (even the high achievers) to afford that level of independence and, when it comes to owning bricks and mortar, forget it. We appear to be reaching a paradigm shift in which, either western society becomes a little more like yours, or something else gives? What part of Asia are in, broadly speaking? From what you said, you could be anywhere from Japan to Bangladesh; China to South Korea? There are pros and cons to both models, but I guess it’s the almighty dollar that will decide it all? Or the Yen?
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@alexong2542 : I’m not in the least offended, son. I was merely offering some perspective. You clearly are offended, or angry at least? You were angered by the original comment, and now by me for merely replying. It sucks to be you, OK. I get it. I’m wealthy, even by the standards of most in my country, but not ashamed of that. I don’t feel, “responsible,” for your poverty. Nor do I feel moved to sh*t on other people’s comments, just because they aren’t acknowledging all of the problems in the world. He still has every right to his thoughts and feelings. What you will fail to do, despite this attempt, is to transfer any of your negativity to me. I didn’t get so loaded by carrying the baggage of others just because they’re upset. Maybe people would be more inclined to help you if you were snarling at them? . . . Just a thought.
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Thank you CNN. And, a thought for all your gallant correspondents, who face danger to bring us the truth, both domestically and abroad. We know you won’t let Biden off the hook, nor will you propagandise for him. As our very Republic teeters on the edge of Dictatorship, you hold the line, and have ALWAYS held the line; owning your mistakes, and deserving our highest praise for your landmark achievements. Thank you so much. I pray for the journalists and their teams, in the danger zones, right now. You are the assurance we need, toward that, “path of hope and light.” ✌️👍
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astroboy s : “Doesn’t need HK anymore,” huh? . . . So, this is no big deal to them? Not that I can see America, “doing,” a damned thing about it, I think you’re very wrong about that, son? But, what’s America going to do? Tweet about it? . . . So, TF what? China has no, “fear,” of America. They’re past their prime, and they’ll roll over, like they always do. Ivanka has her trade marks to think about 😁
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Lonnie Farrare : Will your vote matter? The, “old angry orange guy,” now has a Dictatorship established. There IS NO, “good news.” How can they have a trial, in which the accused has already confessed, they prevent witness testimony and evidence, and prove to the WORLD that Trump is GUILTY and STILL LET HIM WALK, REGARDLESS, and then PRETEND to have a, “Democracy, a Constitution or a Republic”??? If Trump loses his, “protected presidential status,” he and his family GO TO JAIL!!! And they‘lol rat out half of the GOP! They HAVE TO FIX the 2020, “elections.” And YOU ARE GIVING THEM PERMISSION, by NOT RISING UP, AT THIS SHAM IMPEACHMENT!!! You’re in denial, America . . . SMH
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MaL: C : Sorry, that last comment was out of sync, I think? Yes! That’s another lesson from history. There’s an episode of Band Of Brothers that illustrates it perfectly. All these American Troops, now occupying a fallen Berlin in 1945. The war in Europe is all but won, and in the rubble, the Germans are clearing the wreckage of Berlin under the supervision of these young American soldiers. And, after an altercation with a German Baker, who denies having EVER been a Nazi, the soldier makes a comment. They’ve all seen the footage, of the rallies at Nuremberg and there in Berlin, and he says, “Strange, how there were so many millions of Nazis in those news reels, yet now we’re here in Berlin, and there ain’t one, single Nazi to be found?” I’m paraphrasing a bit, but you get the idea? The art of denial is stronger than the art of any deal with the devil. But, their souls are still destined for the same place . . . 😉✌️👍
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Jon Mumford : Thick AND wrong: Well done. You will find that it is the Trump “fans” and the Russians who are doing most of the pissing and moaning about this intervention, son. Russia is HATING the way it looks impotent, in the face of US action. And Trump I’d doing this, LITERALLY, within DAYS of announcing that he was going to pull US troops OUT of Syria, which has thrown his “fans” into something of a confusion-tizzy. Trump flip-flops. That’s what he does, making it hard for the cult to keep up, or to know how best to LIE for him. But, DON’T WORRY. This is probably being orchestrated by your boss, Putin. But, it’s mostly your, “liberals,” who are SUPPORTING this intervention, and the Trump fans who are AGAINST IT. You don’t even KNOW WHAT’S going ON! Congratulations: now you know what it’s like to be Trump; thick AND wrong, ALL THE TIME
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@roems6396 : Not Russian ones. They were founded on palace Coups and betrayals. Even their, “glorious founder,” Vladimir Lenin was deposed by Stalin and remained wheelchair bound after the whole thing gave him a stroke. But divine justice happened when Stalin died, “warm in his bed,” but that was after lying in a pool of his own vomit and urine for over 30 hours, all because everyone was too afraid to help him and the doctors were too afraid to treat him. You think he had a, “happy,” life? Living like a paranoid rat in a cage? Eating all his most loyal other rats, and getting increasingly scared of his own people, until the pressure of it killed him? Slowly, painfully and humiliatingly? . . . I wouldn’t exchange jackboots with the Russian leaders of ANY generation, but PooTin!?
This is his Cuban Missile crisis. Where he’s badly miscalculated the west’s resolve and his enemy’s determination. Even if he eventually takes Ukraine, he’ll never stop ongoing resistance and the sanctions will just get increasingly worse, until he’s the king of a pile of rubble with nothing to show for it but a list of sanctions and a bunch of angry, deported oligarchs. And they’ll do the same to him as they did to Khrushchev. They’ll, “invite him to retire,” before they’re all completely broke.
China’s not going to bail them out this time. Not an economy as small as Spain’s. Putin’s been reading too much of his own propaganda and hanging around in those Parlour chat rooms too long. He’s fallen for his own bulsh*t and he already wishes he could turn the clock back two weeks.
The west can never do business with him now. He’s threatened nukes too often. And, even though we KNOW he’s bluffing, accidents happen that way. So, we will insist on regime change before we lift sanctions, along with a full withdrawal from Ukraine. Including Crimea and Donbas. Putin has screwed his Kremlin pooch.
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CNN : What, “elections” can POSSIBLY remedy this Coup??? . . . Do you honestly think that the Trumps, facing jail and disgrace, the MOMENT he leaves the White House, will ALLOW, “elections”??? Have you been sleeping for 3 years? Trump will HAVE TO RIG the elections, with Putin’s help, only this time, with access to everything from the INSIDE. 2020 will be a Russia Style FAKE election. You KNOW how crooked they are, and that his Cult AND the GOP all WANT a single party system, right? What’s to STOP THEM, if Trump is NOT removed? And, what do you think will happen, when the nation cries out, because it was SO BLATANT? Another lengthy, “investigation”??? Conducted by Nunes? Or, the DOJ? THIS! RIGHT HERE! RIGHT NOW!!! THIS is the End Game. If Trump gets a, “censure,” slap on the wrist, the Republic and your, “Democratic Process,” are OVER! There’s ONE remedy that would save your Republic, and the GOP are betting that the Trump Cult HATES Dems and, “brown people,” just enough to disregard it, and BURN the Constitution. By all means, show up and vote, if you can get past the goon squads that will be encircling the voting stations? But, don’t be surprised when the paper ballots and the computer ballots don’t match? And, when the GOP says, “We’ll look into it,” perhaps you’ll all understand that you SHOULD have hit the streets and HALTED the country, back in 2016? . . . It’s already over, man. GAME OVER!
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TunedCavityLasers : I honestly had no idea WHAT you were blithering about, but I got you to smarten up your grammar, so that’s a start. You clearly DO, “care what I think,” because you’re angered by my responses, and are speaking directly to me. You half believe some of your own lies, but it’s more important to you, to offload your line of Propaganda, for today, than to talk about the topic. See? I’m inside your head. Easy to read a book, when there’s only one word in it; “LIE.” 🙂
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Salemchevy Gaming : And, to, “worry about impeachment,” is at the centre of ANY and ALL issues that you care to mention; from, “poverty,” to the fact that the Trump tax bribe ENDS in April, and he will not, and cannot, give you another. The Dems want to take some of the VAST resources from the 1%, but Trump has NOWHERE to get more money for the out of control Deficit, except YOUR pocket book. He conned Americans, and THAT will be abundantly clear, even to his fans, after April, when he no longer NEEDS YOUR VOTE
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It’s a shame, when you think about what Ryan Johnson was trying to do? It, “could have,” been a brilliant, challenging new story, added to the cannon, in which the big question, “could have been,” about that theme, of whether the Force had an actual, “light side,” and, “dark side,” at all, or if that was just a construct that people mistakenly put on it, which was why it always lead to conflict. Imagine the Lovecraftian HORROR of the force being dispassionate, alien and utterly uncaring in the way that physics is to thought? A Universe that DOESN’T CARE, “could have been,” what Snoke embodied; not really on either side but his own. He could have had a background and story developed around that, and the whole trilogy could have been focussed on it. The first movie, with all its fan service would have needed little tweaking, but the second movie could have had the cliffhanger ending, in which Snoke appears to have won, by destroying BOTH hero and villain! In the way that Empire seemed bleak, but was the best movie of the first Trilogy. Making way for the Dark and Light sides of the Force to unite in the third movie, to defeat the whole idea of a Universe that doesn’t care, with the sacrifice of one major hero and, of course, the sacrifice of one major dark side character: the light-sider being someone from the original cannon (Han Solo?) and of course, we all know who the dark-sider would be, right? His son, Kylo. Imagine the possibilities of that? . . . Ah well . . .
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Ikki zach : Firstly, you are NOT, “centre,” ANYTHING. Only extremist RACISTS support Trump. Secondly, you are full of ASSumptions, not knowing ANYTHING about the people you’re talking to, making wild guesses at their viewing habits, and ASSumining they are like YOU, only getting news from one source, or whatever, “source,” confirms your biases. And, finally, you have no reason to, “refute,” the news, other than the fact that you don’t LIKE the TRUTH
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I would call for single standard of vetting that covers all vocational professions where public trust is an issue? Covering the medical, caring professions, armed services and police services. A benchmark standard that is comprehensive, easy to understand because it’s built on common sense and basic moral principles, and that applies equally to all? Does that seem like a big ask? Because people love acronyms so much, call it Trust and Universal Standards (STU) or something? All professionals have to get their STU Card, before going into policing, nursing, the army, etc? With a points system that could apply, like those on driver’s licences? Too many points and you can no longer serve in trusted professions? But with some categories able to expire over a period of years, so you can reapply and be vetted again, but with other categories staying on your card permanently?
Of course MP’s and senior civil servants wouldn’t be keen on having it apply to them, but they might get on board if it didn’t?
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@markhaunert5029 : Yeah, I get that, but I just wanted to contribute from my POV anyway. You can get, “dumb,” in any group, cult, or legit organisation. And it’s usually the dumbest that take it upon themselves to speak for their whole tribe. I’d be more interested to hear his Pastor, Tweeting, “He does not represent our views.” But, of course, he probably does . . .
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He has to testify. And, them trying to shout, “objection,” to every single question, won’t work this time. When they prove that the riot was a Conspiracy to have a Coup, and witnesses testify that they were asked to join it; maybe military generals? And when GOP members are subpoenaed to testify that they KNEW, “The Steal,” was a seditious LIE, or give their, “evidence,” for, “believing,” in it; which can only come down to the Nuremberg Defence of, “We were only following orders,” the entire country will be DEMANDING trump’s conviction! It’s little wonder that Graham, Cruz, Hawley and the rest are DESPERATE to stop it, or trade policy for it?! A week is a long time in politics, but under today’s circumstances, I’m expecting seismic shifts . . . Stay tuned, and stay active, America. It’s not over till it’s over!
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@williamolsen20 : Which is a tacit (perhaps planned and secretly arranged?) CONSPIRACY, right? I mean, WHO decided to CALL it, “defunding?” A term that literally implies the OPPOSITE of what it actually MEANS! Everyone, without exception would say, “I don’t want to take away funding from the police!” But, if you tell them, “Defunding means MORE police, better funded, better equipped but actually ONLY fighting crimes, preventing crimes and catching criminals, INSTEAD of body guarding corporate goons, playing at psychiatric nursing, social workers and being bailiffs for the banks, collecting debts and evicting homeowners,” they would have nothing to say, right? This is the DUMBEST, “political,” disagreement, since the He Who Smelt It Dealt Wars, of 1872!!! I just wanted to bang their heads together!
An egregious conspiracy, dependant upon the wilful ignorance of BOTH sides! Maybe they deserve what they get? But the population deserves grownups!
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R McElhaney : Donny was slipping in the polls while we were a, “United,” States, fighting a threat together. Now, Covid is, “political,” and Donny’s trolls want us to go out and DIE for them, just so THEY get PAID. But, you won’t see any of their faces at these, “protests,” with or without a mask . . . Smh
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So, “other ethnic groups,” do not get the suffix of, “British,” attached to them, even though, “White British,” is a category in this article which is entirely about British people in Britain, which makes ALL of them, “British.”
Can you see the wilful myopia in these terms being used? So, what is, “White British,” in this context, when set against, “other ethnic groups,” if not low level racism? . . . It would not seem so egregious if the article used terms like, “Black British,” and, “Asian British, “ as well, but it is using, “White British,” and, “other ethnic groups,” which is inherently racist.
By differentiating, “other ethnic groups,” without attaching, “Britishness,” to them, yet putting them alongside, “white British,” people rhetorically, the author betrays an unexamined, hopefully unconscious, inherent, low level racism of the type that has fanned the flames of division in Britain so effectively in these last years.
I am guilty of making my own assumptions here, since I am only going on what your video says, not having read the article, as I assume that the author is both white and British? But, even if either of those values measures differently, I doubt that changes the effect of their content very much, if at all.
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Daniel Appleton : Much as I’d LOVE to see that happen, it is a bit of a red herring. That’s a fight that Trump and his lawyers could get bogged down into, until the end of his term (single). Whereas, we HAVE Trump’s record and all of the things he’s said and DONE, which are AMPLE grounds for his removal? From his hatred of women; his confessed assaults; his blatant racism; his undermining of our institutions and law and order; his threats to lock up his political opponents; his attacks on the 1st Amendment; his conspiracy with the Russians; his Obstruction of Justice; his childish threats, which could result in NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION!; his failure to assist the people of Puerto Rico; and I COULD go on and on? But, what’s the point? That GOP has MORE than enough and they are AWARE that Trump is a liability. So, we can only conclude that many, if not ALL of them, have something to lose, if Mueller keeps probing. Look at how TRIGGERED they get, whenever the subject of MONEY comes up, in relation to the investigation? They have NO VESTED INTEREST in Trump, politically and a LOT of reasons to dump him, including personal scores to settle, after the way he’s demeaned them. So, WHY haven’t they just DUMPED the Trump? They HAVE TO have something to lose, right?
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Dennis Molendijk : It’s called, “desperation,” my friend. Empty threats are the trump way of doing, “business.” When you have NOTHING on your side, and all of the TRUTH, MORALITY, DECENCY and, “honor,” have abandoned you, what else is there? Given that the world’s largest employer of minorities is actually the American Armed Services, I imagine their FANTASY, “Civil War,” would be the SHORTEST conflict in history? Just keep in mind; the ONLY people talking up Tramp, from here on, are foreign trolls (as they still get paid) and domestic racists, because . . . Well? . . . Because they’re RACISTS . . . SMG 👍✌️
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But this guy was ultimately an illustration of the problem. He was asked to explain, for a 13 YEAR OLD, how the, “First past the post,” system works. He talked for almost 10 straight minutes without explaining the basic system AT ALL. He talked about how you need to approach the system, the problems that arise, the resources people need, voter behaviour, and so on. NOT ONCE even coming CLOSE to answering the question!
Ask an outside observer, “Could you explain how FPTP works from this video?” They would be forced to say, “No.” Ask them, “Did you hear the question being asked?” They would say, “Yes. The journalist asked a politician to explain it to a thirteen year old boy.”
Do you SEE the problem, New Statesman?
Explain the PROBLEM! Then solutions will present themselves. The solutions being offered will show their appeal. But people won’t demand a solution to a problem they don’t understand! Start with the basics! 🤦♂️ . . .
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Example: Farage says, “I said was awful. What more do you want me to say? Of course it was an apology.”
Journalist COULD have responded: “You made a, ‘comment,’ NOT an apology. Since you ask, I want you to either apologise or explain WHY you refuse to apologise?”
Basic, syllogistic, chain of reasoning logic, that would have cornered Farage into showing us more of the truth of who he is.
Example: Farage asks, “Have you covered the Labour MP . . .” etc.
Journalist: “Your job is to answer the questions and mine is to ask them.” Or better still, “Isn’t it an insult to British intelligence that you think you can avoid answering tricky questions by trying to pose your own, when you happen to know that the people want you to answer this question?”
Example: Better even still, in response to Fargage’s, “awful,” dodge; “So, why do you refuse to apologise for such abhorrent racism in your party?” Being PREPARED to field the next move, “I already said it’s awful,” with the above, “That’s an observation and comment, NOT an apology.”
See? It’s all about whether the journalist cares and is prepared. Though I hasten to add, I do not judge this particular journalist, as I don’t know her, and don’t know what circumstances she was labouring under. But I would hope she would agree that she could have done a much better job?
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Yup. Who would ever trust the politicians who voted to overturn a democratic election DURING a violent Insurrection bent on overturning a democratic election? The same people who are now Suppressing, voters, the right to protest and even the topic of Slavery in Education! Totalitarianism leaves no room for retreat, because they have exposed themselves and know they can never be seen as legitimate by any thinking adult, ever again. So, all they have now is their attempted Coup by other means: like this sham, “audit,” that will announce that, “Chiynah,” interfered with our elections, because that’s the narrative that Putin has chosen for them. Fascism leaves you with two choices, every single time. You either destroy them, utterly, or they WILL destroy you . . . utterly. In Franco’s Spain, Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany (I could cite Stalin’s Russia, but to avoid writing an essay . . .) Fascism NEVER offers a third alternative. We are in way more danger than we probably realise. We must crush this fascism, with every lawful means at our disposal . . . UTTERLY! ✌️👍
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Do you think so? Why would that be? I’m asking sincerely, as I am somewhat out of the loop on this whole drama. But it seems to have the nation’s attention and I’m uneasy about what’s happening more broadly on a cultural level.
To me, Schofield represents fond memories of childhood. He revolutionised children’s television, with an anchorman model that was repeatedly copied around the world. Would Roland Rat have even been a thing, had it not been for Gordon the Gopher? He has always struck me as a kind, sincere, humorous and thoughtful kind of man, who’s approach to TV presentation has been a good influence on the general public.
But, not being a daytime TV sort of person myself, I haven’t followed him or his career with any great, “interest,” despite seeing him frequently crop up in many famous YouTube clips. What is really going on here? Is it as culturally important as some seem to think it is?
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Tony White : You all realise we can’t trust the, “reassurances,” of Moscow Mitch, and any GOP member, right? Especially the ones looking at serious jail time! You all must KNOW what Bill Barr’s Secret Police units are being expanded FOR, America? They are unconstitutional, and ILLEGAL anyway. Inundate your representatives, join the protests and activist groups, donate your money; DO whatever you can, but by GOD! DO SOMETHING TO GET SECRET POLICE UNITS OUTLAWED! They are building the instrument of your suppression, right under your noses!
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Doctor Jodie : Except among the more educated, perhaps? There is a lot of sophistry on both sides of the, “debate,” around. But, there’s no question that Trump is breaking the law, in the open, and threatening the end of the Republic, as a consequence. The only question on that, is who is willing to even admit that it’s a problem? Hillary was awful, which needs to be owned, but she’s also irrelevant to current events. Trolls will work hard at drawing your focus from the here and now, the thing they can’t afford to talk about. But, until your internet access is interfered with, or your wallet feels thinner (the rhetorical, “you,” I mean) then you’ll be content to, “argue,” issues with NPC’s and watch the Downfall of the Republic, on cable TV, I guess? Why Americans have not filled the streets and demanded the restoration of basic Law & Order is beyond me? Perhaps the people in power really do know what they’re doing, and have played us beautifully? Maybe they just KNOW us too well? . . . 🤔
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@ychdis2008 : For what it’s worth, what I found interesting about their conversation was not at all flattering I’m afraid. It was just two egos, both wishing to sound, “smart,” circling each other’s orbit, and ultimately saying nothing we haven’t all heard before. Since when did we all become rats in maze? Their conversation typifies the total refusal to even acknowledge, “responsibility,” and they talk like they have zero control over this all powerful, “media,” without ever once expressing their individuality, responsibility, or culpability, let alone their own AGENCY! There is an, “Off,” switch, for those who are concerned about their brains being, “washed!” But, I would bet serious money that one or both of those two people are NOT concerned about, “society,” getting their brains washed, so much as they are about whether they’re using the Fox or CNN brand of soap to do it? It’s nearly always the brainwashed and the brain washers, who bring up the issue of, “brainwashing,” to start with!
Certain clues are there, in their words, which show they neither of them are academically trained, nor qualified for their commentary. I’m not suggesting they’re not entitled to their opinions; but that they’re nothing more than emotional responses to the world, repackaged as pseudo-academia, from the book of their own heads. Making the argument, for instance, that a child can outmatch an adult at certain tasks is all well and good, EXCEPT, perhaps, in a conversation about critical thinking skills (something NOT innate in humans, but acquired) news analysis, historical context, politics, moral philosophy and the validity of this story. But, you and I both know, that was merely a defensive remark, made by a troll, who can’t figure out if he’s speaking to another troll or not.
Ironically, it’s rather like watching rats in a maze, with the same, reliable sense of outcome. Both interlocutors would have had more, “credibility,” had they not been both LIVING on CNN for years! Literally! I see them constantly!
Something makes them spend their time here? And drives them to comment? Regularly . . . For YEARS? Perhaps the media does control them? But, why they think everyone else is quite as enslaved as them? Pure projection. Something has the power to keep them coming back? And, if that, “something,” isn’t money, then it’s, “emotion.” The endorphins that people get addicted to on social media. And, not being readers, they’re unaware of it. They want to feel, “agency,” in the world, by trying to persuade others of their lack of agency; never seeing that they have given up their, “agency,” to an addiction. Never enquiring, asking a question, or risking, “vulnerability,” by stating that they don’t know, or are not qualified to asses a topic . . .
Neither of them are, “special or unique,” but I get a great deal of pleasure, seeing them waste their lives, kidding themselves that their, “emotional,” outlet, is some sort of, “intellectual,” exercise. They just hate CNN. Period. If only such people spent the same amount of time READING as much as they write, huh? . . . Still, if they did, they would probably only ever read websites, with names likes, “I’m right, dot com,” or, “Why everyone else is wrong, dot org.” 😆
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My first visit to your channel and I have to say you put it all rather succinctly and with a touch of very British humour, which I enjoyed. Thanks for that.
Not long ago I saw Andrew Marr’s LBC YouTube video about the appointment of this Tory donor, Sharp, to the Chairship of the BBC. I thought, “Oh great. He’ll have an insight into how this corruption has actually existed since the inception of the BBC and will be able to speak to how, though it may have been a suitable system for the privileged classes of the 1930’s, it was outdated by the 1960’s and is unfit for purpose today.”
I was SO SHOCKED and disappointed to discover that what he meant by the strap line printed on the video’s thumbnail, “This Story Is Toxic,” was that he was going to excuse himself from even discussing the story, let alone investigating it, or even interviewing anyone about it! What sickened me most was the excuse he proffered. “Well, they’ve always appointed BBC Chairs like this anyway.” The very thing I saw as DAMNING in a thinking person’s eyes, was the very thing that he saw as a plausible excuse for not doing his well paid job!
But, of course, I’m sure his decision had nothing to do with all those residual payments he gets from his BBC published books and documentary series’, right? And if I was in a room with him now, I’d be telling him that the Lineker story is precisely the sort of self harm that people like him had a responsibility to help the BBC avoid! This is as much his fault as any other player in this drama, because he is happy to support the Tories with his complicity and silence, whilst getting to sound all righteous and indignant on the very same issues that Lineker is not allowed to speak of. It seems hypocrisy and double standards have become a way of life in the BBC, and for those who still rely on their connections there?
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paul thomas : “If you were a liberal,” you would HAVE to be one of the DUMBEST ones, that the other, “liberals,” would all stay away from. You think absence of results means absence of COMING RESULTS? Al Capone used the same argument, and died on The Rock, going mad with syphilis, you DRONE. You sold your SOUL to sell a few bump stocks, and you’re afraid you’ll go out of business? What a DOUSHE. And what you HAVEN’T YET come to terms with, is that Conservative VOTERS are DITCHING Trump, because they’re SICK of him and the EMBARRASSMENT he is to America. And it’s PEOPLE LIKE YOU that are driving them AWAY 😆
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sukant chaurasia : How does it feel, having a Dictatorship, America? What does any of this matter? How can we tell what’s even REAL? The 2020, “election,” results will be falsified, and the Trumps, along with half the GOP, will avoid JAIL by keeping Trump, and then his children, in permanent power. But, at least they will put on a show for you, like Putin does. FAKE Democracy keeps the people quiet. WHY HAVE YOU ALLOWED THIS, AMERICA???
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M Murph : Son, I’m a Conservative, OK. Stop assuming, just because people KNOW Trump is a corrupt King Wannabe, they’re all, “of the left,” would you? If Trump and his enablers are REMOVED, I may well vote against the Dems. But, at this stage, they have my vote, because there are some honest people in their party. The GOP has NO Conservatives in it. Drop this ridiculous Cult of Personality, like you were in some third world, “shithole,” and GROW TF up, kid . . . SMH
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@I_Am_Monad : The worrying part is that he might be right? Conservatives who stay with the Republican Party cannot remain Conservative? So, as the GOP becomes more Fascist, that makes them the RINO’s? Their Qult of personality wants to outlaw opposition parties. They literally tried to, “Cancel,” Democracy on Jan 6th. They are already Fascists, and the Conservative GOP members will be the ones forced to leave. Unless they can hang on until the Midterms, and the GOP gets a crushing defeat? Then they’ll wind up running the GOP again, and Mitt Romney will be their leader, I guess? But, I think they’ll all get Primaried before then? Trump is openly stating that Liz Cheney is on his Cancel Culture Primary list, so? . . .
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Alexey : Of course there is, but, “the world,” will lose it’s democracy, now. Democracy is an obstacle to all dictatorships and a direct target. You think any remaining democracies will be able to withstand the United efforts of China, Russia, America, the wealthy Saudis, the mirror image of America that is Israel, etc, etc, etc? Europe, with its rise in extreme right wing populism? Australia? If you don’t hear the alarm bells ringing, it’s because you’re not listening. Democracy is in Global Collapse, now. And, it won’t feel quite so, “abstract,” when a dictatorship comes knocking on your front door. Sorry . . .
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Can we talk about the, “Elephant & Castle,” in the room here? As a Landlord in Scotland, which has been under a rent freeze since Covid started, which I fully support, we could start by asking, “Is this the, “Britain,” that means, “England & Wales,” about which we hear so much up here? But that’s an aside. Can I just suggest that the issue that none of these people are even beginning to talk about is, who are the vested interests here? Answer that, and you will see why it is that obvious common sense (a rent freeze) is not even being discussed except among the sort of people willing to protest on the streets. We can talk about Thatcher’s Right To Buy policies all day long, and various changes in legislation that may or may not help. But, a rent freeze would alleviate the problem right away for the worst hit families, and would concentrate the minds of vested interests into finding solutions.
Those vested interests of which I speak? MP’s, of course! Show me a Westminster MP or senior civil servant and I’ll show you a PROPERTY OWNER who makes prodigious amounts of cash by renting out properties, with very few exceptions. Asking MP’s to solve the problem is like asking Vampires to build you a blood bank! Until people start PUBLISHING lists of which MP’s own what properties and where, and what THEY charge for rent, we will not see anything but, “thoughts and prayers,” for the growing numbers of homeless. And the situation looks to get worse, not better.
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Anonymous 852 : You never even HEARD of Kavenaugh until his name came up, three months ago. And I can PROVE you don’t know about him, because there are 10,000 SECRETS being withheld by Trump, that say so. Trump wants him, because he’s banking on his bias. They have spoken, by now, and exchanged, “promises.” And you WANT America to be run like a Russian Mafia outfit. Well, you’ll deserve all the consequences too. And, btw, F**K Putin, OK? 😁
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David2278 : This is a, “distraction,” but, it’s not meant to, “win,” an election. It’s meant to make the fact that the, “election,” is ALREADY RIGGED, a bit more, “plausible.” It’s OBVIOUS the Republic has ALREADY fallen, when Trump’s Impeachment trial allows NO evidence, NO witnesses, and is to be judged by the very people IMPLICATED in COUNTLESS Trump CRIMES. How many of the GOP would be exposed, when Trump rolls on THEM? Given that the Trumps will ALL go to JAIL, at the moment he loses his, “protected presidential status,” that means that he, his family and the implicated GOP haveNO CHOICE but to END Democracy, and keep him in power, REGARDLESS of what any, “ballot,” says. The Russians are ALREADY inside key election computers, and the “results,” are ALREADY decided. They just need to make it seem plausible enough to stop America from staging another Revolution. You have a Dictatorship, America . . . SMH
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@Mark-oi9rf : “Re-Education Camps?” News to me, but it sounds like a good idea. I don’t know enough about, “ANTIFA,” to condemn or support them. I’m more of BLM supporter. I was there, with them, praying, kneeling and then marching, WITH the police. But, blue lives matter to my people. We don’t use their own flags to blind them or try to beat them to death. You still haven’t told us why you, “hate America,” son? Afraid of the question? 🤔
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You didn’t think that through, ma’am. People don’t make loud, public allegations, like that, without knowing they have evidence to back it up. Each one of those individuals would have grounds to sue her, otherwise. Funny how they all got fired after Walmart’s investigation of the matter, though, right? And how she was offered her job back, but refused it? Don’t you think? You really should check these things out, and maybe just think for a minute, BEFORE dismissing such serious claims out of hand, with absolutely no reason to? . . . Maybe it’s people like you, that make, “perverts,” like them possible? . . . 🤷♂️
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@TheSandwichMonster : Let’s see, shall we? 🤔 Karen: Noun. A self entitled busy body, coming to groups of people having a discussion, busting up their barbecue, trying to explain what’s best for them, using their sense of, “privilege,” and, “entitlement,” to boss others around, and when things don’t go her way, demanding to speak to the courts, er, I mean, “manager,” because they’re all upset about the election result, er, I mean, “service.” ALL you Orange Orifices are mouthpieces for the ultimate KAREN, being little Karens, coming where you’re not wanted, because you have nothing better to do, and EVEN trying to redefine words in the urban dictionary! But then, you Karens never realise what Karens you are, do you? KAREN 😋
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@mikealbert2527 : You’re gonna’ look pretty dumb, Karen, when Donny flees America on the 19th, to be with his dodgy bank account in Chiynah, run his sweat shops, check on Ivanka’s ballot machine manufacturing company (in communist Chiynah! Now, THAT’S, “irony,” right there!) and all those franchises, right? Xi has the footage of Donny on bended knee, grovelling for dirt on Joe. We’ll all get to see it, in the end 😋
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There are three big obstacles to reunification, or so it seems to me? First, the tiny clique at the top of North Korea’s regime. They won’t do anything that dilutes their power base, and they only paid lip service to the idea a decade ago, so as to exploit trade-craft opportunities and use those briefly maintained talks and committees as opportunities to probe the South for weaknesses and opportunities to gain power down there and gain access to political and business institutions.
Then there’s the humiliating reality of widespread poverty in the North and exposing the appalling failure of Communism to meet even the most basic needs of its people. They don’t want that stark comparison exposed for the whole world to see, laying abject failure at the feet of the cult like family of the Kim’s.
Finally, there’s the economic issues which are all laid out in this video. But, I’m pretty sure that, from the perspective of the North’s leadership, those will remain both immovable and unspoken obstacles.
In reality, the only real hope I can see would be pretty disastrous from a North Korean’s point of view. Either a natural disaster causes the collapse of an overwhelmed regime that can no longer maintain command and control over its military, as they are as badly effected and in need of western aid as everybody else? Seems vanishingly unlikely. Or? . . . A Soviet Union style collapse from within? Unlooked for and unexpected by the west, as in the case of Russia? But, then China would seek to step in alongside the extant forces of America from the borders, potentially causing chaos. Besides which, it seems like the North mitigates against such possibilities by keeping their population in what looks like 1900’s style living conditions, perpetual fear and a constant Zombie-like worship of their leaders on pain of death, which they could never maintain if their people had access to the internet.
The only third possibility I could see, would be through China itself, upon who’s graces North Korea relies. They would not and could not exist as they are without China’s protection. We can take Russia out of that equation now (for the most part) but not entirely. And that would only occur through the democratisation of China, which, again, seems vanishingly unlikely.
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@shawncorbin742 : Buddy, you’re no Patriot. You’re a Nationalist, who’s confused his White Supremacy beliefs with the, “patriotism,” that you’re actively trying to kill. Look up George Orwell’s essay on Nationalism and how it destroys Patriotism. That’s you he’s talking about. Of course you don’t believe in, “democracy.” That’s an inconvenience for fascists. Admit what you are? Admit it to yourself, son? You’ll feel better if you’re at least, “honest,” for a change? You’re an Anti-Constitutionalist, Anti-Democratic, Racist, Nationalist. Patriots are Democratic by definition. It’s what we fought wars for. See the difference? I’m a Conservative, but I vote Dem because they’re NOT totalitarian. You cannot deny this, can you? If trump ever got power again, he would make himself dictator for life. You admit that, right?
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Sounds to me like you’re GETTING IT exactly right. Time we treated the GOP accordingly. Apply Occam’s Razor to this and ask, which is the simpler explanation? Has every single politician, the politicians of every other country (except those of our sworn enemies), every law enforcement chief, every news network, human rights organisation, every damned scientist and educational establishment, etc, etc, etc, ALL been in a, “Criminal Conspiracy,” for the last five years, called, “The Deep State,” out to get one man? Donny? . . . Or, maybe (JUST MAYBE!!!?) trump and his enablers ARE THE CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY? I know which one my sense of logic, reason, faith (yes I believe in Christ. What of it?) basic decency and the senses of my eyes and ears are telling me . . . The GOP has to be stopped. They will not give up until our Democratic Republic has FALLEN! ✌️
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@joshbird2624 : You don’t know about the, “Deep Sate’s,” plan to release, “Covid-20,” into the populations of the world, by the end of the year? Ron Watkins (QAnon) is clearly skipping his REAL job, to make up stories for your bedtime, instead of warning you about what’s coming. Covid-20 is a far more lethal version of the virus, killing victims within 24 hours of their first cough, and will wipe out a useless third of western populations within a week. But, none of those people will be mourned by anyone with an IQ over 40, because all of the vaccinated people will be IMMUNE. Dr Fauci made it specially, in a Chinese Lab, for Chuck, Nancy & AOC to ship over in Jewish satellites, which will distribute chem-trails of the virus all over the Western Hemisphere, guided by Semitic lasers to the densest populations in the southern states. The last thought to pass through your racist brain will be, “I wish I’d been less scared of a needle and less incomprehensibly self centred and just gotten the jab?” . . . See ya’ . . . Wouldn’ wanna’ beeya’ 😋
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@nobodyknows3180 : All true, except for that last sentence. I’m pretty sure that, “Insurrection,” is the perfect gotcha’ that they want to make stick. Yes, they want him neutralised, by hook or by crook, but they’re not so shallow as to disregard the significance of the charges. And, yes, Constitutionally, everything said in their court is admissible. The AG is bound, by the Constitution, to follow up on all of it. We will see evidence of that, almost immediately, when GOP witnesses negotiate, “immunity,” in return for their testimony. They wouldn’t NEED immunity, if they weren’t in legal jeopardy. QED (👈Trumpophiles may need to look that up?)
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@danw506 : Well, I would struggle to believe that it was all just teachers, doctors, cops, road sweepers, etc, spontaneously grabbing automatic rifles from a crate left in the Kyiv town square, who pushed back the might of the entire Russian army, whilst (now we’ve learned) wiping out 90% of Russia’s most elite troops, including their Sptsnaz? They obviously had a strategy for the potential invasion, ever since 2014, and especially since 2019. The world was shocked that it was such a good strategy that it worked!
Now that the west has only just begun to wake from its Soviet Slumber, and has begun to ask, “Well, what if they actually defeated Russia,” we’re still playing catch-up with the Ukrainians, who are thinking in terms of, “How do we reach a peace deal with Russia after we’ve ejected or killed the last Russian soldier in Crimea?” We really need to catch up.
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Ramon Guzman : Yeah, the full story always comes out in increments, over the years. There are so many bombshells coming down, that we’ll be sifting through the wreckage for years, before we even get a picture of the full extent of the rottenness at the heart of Washington. I mean, imagine what it must have taken, after just a little rhetorical resistance, for all the grandees of the GOP to cave so completely to Donny like that? They must be all getting blackmailed?
The latest govt report on Russian interference shows how the trolling on all social media, far from relaxing when Trump got in, doubled or tripled on just about every platform; including this one. At the time, I was saying that they didn’t really expect to pull it off, and were just as shocked and unprepared for it, as the rest of the world. But, they were actively encouraged, and Putin doubled down and decided to cash in every piece of dirt he had from every spying operation in the States. Now, I’m certain of it.
The perennial problem for Dictators, is their economies always end up in the toilet, because all their theft and murder, sucks all the resources into the centre, like a sponge. Putin is going for broke, with everything and nothing to lose, if you get my meaning? Nothing to lose, as it’s do or die for him now; everything to lose, because the end of Trump will mean sanctions, push-back on the world stage, America’s partners lifting up their drawbridges and Russian poverty, being a driver toward revolution, in a country with a history of revolution.
No wonder Putin is trying to ban Rap music? Especially the type that talks resistance? What a time to be alive, though, huh? I wouldn’t wish this s**t on my worst enemy . . . SMH ✌️
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epic103 : Nope. I just couldn’t do it. I tried (OH, how I TRIED), but I just can’t get through all that generic Bulls**t, without all of the words blurring together. I’m dumb (the personal insults are always a clue), yet YOU are the one backing a traitor who will be OUT of the W H by the end of 2018? Yet, they gave me MY doctorate? My books sell just fine? My life turned out pretty good and I don’t EVEN have anything top fear from the smash and grab operation that Trump calls a Tax Bill (even though he doesn’t even KNOW what’s in it), but I CARE about the fate of America. You, CLEARLY, do not, so DON’T patronise me, with your pseudo-grasp of politics, PLEASE? You’re embarrassing yourself
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Read Prof Stanley G Payne’s book, The History of Fascism 1914 - 1945. The word you need is not really, “Nazi.” It’s, “Fascism.” A cult of personality, who’s founding narrative is a lie, largely based on, “victimhood.” The projection of macho, “strength,” and the use of violence (jan 6th) and intimidation as a political tool. The racism, of course. Trying to get the votes of minorities discounted, both from the elections, and now, attempting to ensure they can’t vote, prior to future elections. This is genuine fascism, just like in Franco’s Spain, Mussolini’s Italy, and Hitler’s Germany. And history is completely repeating itself; especially with the paranoid conspiracies that got the Nazis into power. Disturbing.
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And, what are you prepared to DO about that?! You have to get out there, NOW! They are RIGGING the, “elections.” Florida is ALREADY, “decided.” They’re literally STEALING post boxes off of the streets! It will be TOO LATE to, “protest,” in November, when they’re ready for you! Do something NOW, or regret it forever! The GOP are terrified of JAIL TIME, and they WON’T ALLOW ELECTIONS! Demand the RESTORATION OF YOUR REPUBLIC AND DEMOCRACY, AND YOUR POST OFFICE!!!
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The Ruble has lost 90% of its value on the global trading market. There are several, “realities,” Putin hasn’t factored in to his desperate plan here. Just like the staggering levels of corruption in his army, and the culture that punishes thinking on your feet or taking swift (unapproved by the Kremlin) action in a fluid situation that created this corruption: Russian oil barons will do back room deals to ensure that they remain rich, long after Putin is taken out (if they haven’t already started?) and it will just be more confirmation that his grip on the levers of power are slipping. And, even if Putin cut off the pipelines today, the west can take it. It would hurt a bit, especially in Germany, but we can take it in our stride. With these unprecedented levels of international cooperation we’re seeing, all this will achieve is a hastening toward energy independence from Russia. Putin might as well have said, “I’m in pain, and your sanctions are really working!” It’s not like we didn’t see this one coming?
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@peterbelanger4094 : That has to be the dumbest bit of oil baron shillary I’ve read in a while. Why don’t you calm TF down and start by asking yourself, “Who TF said ANYTHING about banning petroleum products?” And work your way out from your bubble of assumption and hysterical dystopia modelling from there? What? Is Exxon your daddy? Did I, “trigger,” your emotions, by pointing out that politicians are bought and OWNED by Shell, Mobil and the rest, and that trying to get help from them is like screaming at a startled sheep because you don’t like what her Shepard is up to? Get some PERSPECTIVE, son? We’re talking about, “RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOUR,” not, “embargoing the entire world’s oil supply,” you Karen! 🤦♂️🙄🤷♂️
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Bradley Knight : And. WHAT, exactly, was that, “great point,” he made? Looked to me like Trump’s, “strategy,” now, is to cause as much DIVISION among his opponents as POSSIBLE? He walked off, because the question was too NEAR to the TRUTH. His businesses are collapsing and he took money to be a part of Trump’s DIVISION Operation. But, SERIOUSLY? WHAT, “great point”??? I would LOVE to hear it?
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max smart : I knew about Trump owing $ billions to Deutsche Bank, that the bank was suing Trump for their money, and that Putin had a, “word,” with them, which, “strangely,” made them decide to drop their lawsuit and loan Trump an EVEN BIGGER sum than they were SUING HIM for. But, I was totally unaware of the Soros thing. But, this is like when they call people out, for having donated to either Clinton, in their past, and, oddly, “forget,” that Trump made SEVERAL, SIGNIFICANT DONATIONS, (all on record) to the Clintons in RECENT years, because he was a DEMOCRAT until 2016. Reason, facts and logic are nowhere NEAR as important as, “narrative,” to Trump’s goons. It worked for OJ, so they, “think,” it will work again. They ASSume that America is like the Eastern Block Troll countries that most of THEM come from, and just repeats their mistakes, instead of LEARNING from them. One of the MANY reasons they will, in the end, fail . . .
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The US is hoping that they will invade, so Russia will have to sink what remains of their entire economy into an occupation. It would also provide the US with all the excuses they need to crush their international trade and sanction them back to the Stone Age. Payback for meddling in their elections and those of the rest of the west. And it will consolidate western opposition to Russia, which America needs.
If you ever believed the anti-democratic, empire building and democracy ending impulses of Russia died with the Soviet Union, here’s your proof that it didn’t. Why should they care if Ukraine joins the EU or the UN? What’s it got to do with them? They want an empire of Iron Curtain countries.
But, if Putin thinks America, or the west will give them a promise that Ukraine can never join the UN or EU, at the point of a gun, he’s insane! He’ll have to back down, or go for it now. The world will not give in to a giant terrorist threat! They might as well make Putin Emperor of Earth!
The west needs to stop buying gas from their enemies! That was an insane idea to begin with, which makes about as much sense as America buying their weapons from the Nazis in WWII! But, Russia has sunk fortunes into bribing top officials and internet propaganda. They’re going to find out it wasn’t worth it.
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Tingle : Son, I’m a Conservative too. You may not have GRASPED this yet, but there ARE NO, “Conservatives,” supporting Trump. A Personality Cult, with NO, “politics,” or, “ideology,” is as UN-American as it GETS, kid! Wake up! Trump is screwing YOU TOO . . . SMH
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I worked in a government profession who’s basis for existing was based on the idea that people can change, grow, be redeemed, learn, contribute and make good any harms done. This was in a previous life as a youth worker, then a social worker, then a family therapist.
I learned several valuable life lessons from that line of work, such as that the people working in these jobs are generally more in need of such services than the general public. But, I also learned that people may change their behaviour; some are smart enough to learn from facts and information; but none will ever change who they are at their core.
Like that old Jesuit saying about giving them the child until he’s 7 years old and they, “will give you the man.” People may change tribes, but only to serve that unchanging core of their being.
I too have given Generic (as I call him, since he strives so hard to be a blandly typical Tory) too much credit. Sir, “ethically emboldened,” sounds inspiring to me. Sometimes you have such a great way with words.
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You made a series of very excellent points there. The only thing I would have added to your list of reasons was when you spoke about government officials taking, “the path of least resistance,” what we’re really discussing is, “Appeasement.” And that’s the watchword that needs to be drummed into the Labour government. If I was the party manager I would be drilling this term into every single MP’s head, personally and collectively, wherever possible. “Watch out for ANYTHING that smacks of APPEASEMENT,” even a little bit.
And I would remind them all that even if we kowtowed to everything trump wanted, he would STILL find a reason to get mad at us and try to, “punish,” us for something. And, knowing that his wrath is inevitable, we should make our choices accordingly, and let him be angry at us for doing the right thing, rather than failing to bow and scrape low enough.
“Appeasement,” is the buzzword that we need to fill the pages of the press with, so the national gets an unambiguous grasp of what their government is doing, even when the wrong-wing press tries to spin it some other way.
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I really hope that poll is a sign that the British public has soured on, “personality,” politics wholesale? Asking our politicians to, “perform,” for us, like Hollywood stars, or make us laugh, or to even have a noticeable personality at all is just SO NOT what we NEED. I’d settle for dull, boring competence, honesty and hard work, with a watchful eye out for the dirty tricks of the far right.
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Cybr Friends : He’s literally scheming to have his internet drones tell his Cult followers to go out and, “protest,” against HIS F*CKING POLICIES! He’s fighting himself! He has to maintain the illusion that America is still a country with a government, with the, “power,” to order hospitals, the military, the universities, businesses and the police, to do what’s necessary to protect the nation in a time of crisis. When the TRUTH is that they’re ALL privately run, privately owned and privately aiming at their own different agendas, BUSINESSES, run by his backers who’s lobbyists have 24/7 access to him and are telling him to lift the lockdown and start making MONEY! “A couple of million DEAD, by the end of all this? So what? F*ck you! PAY ME!” Other governments do have control and can issue edicts. Trump ANSWERS to big business, and can’t order ANYONE to do a goddamned thing! So, chaos! And he’s just trying to save face, by playing like he’s secretly on the other side, IN FRONT OF EVERYONE, LIKE THE F*CKING MORON HE IS . . . SMH
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Gord Dilon : Seriously? You literally said, “Whaddabout?” out loud, and think ANYONE imagines you have a brain in your skull? WTF is WRONG with you, son? Your, “president,” is telling you to inject yourself with Draino, and you are standing in a big wet puddle of, “Whaddabouting,” instead of wondering WHY TF anyone in their right MIND is allowing this national DISASTER to continue unchecked??? Btw, Donny just announced that you should insert your middle finger up a leopard’s surprised ass, as a cure for Coronavirus, so hop to it, son! Tell us how THAT works out for ya’? 🤣😂😆😂🤣
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Matt : Why do Americans PERSIST with this FANTASY that they will be ALLOWED, “Free and Fair ELECTIONS”??? They have LITERALLY just DEMONSTRATED that they will continue to RIG the process, so that the whole Trump K K Klan, and half the GOP, can avoid JAIL and DISGRACE. Accept your Monarchy, or TEAR IT DOWN, but STOP KIDDING YOURSELVES?! What CHOICE do they have? With Putin ALREADY set up, and with the GOP being on the INSIDE this time around? Your, “elections,” will provide the government with DATA on how people REALLY FEEL, and on WHO TO TARGET, while the outcome has ALREADY BEEN DECIDED! The Republic has FALLEN, and they’re BLATANT ABOUT IT! Does ANYONE (who’s not a Trump Cultist) genuinely BELIEVE they will LET YOU “VOTE” THEM OUT? When the penalty for that is a, “political death sentence,” followed by the very REAL possibility of an ACTUAL death sentence?!?!? ARE YOU ALL MAD IN AMERICA??? Or is DENIAL more comforting than taking ACTUAL RESPONSIBILITY for saving the Republic? If the Ukrainians could do it a decade ago, in a freezing Winter, with NO WEAPONS, against Putin’s worst thugs, WHY CAN’T WE? We were FOUNDED on Revolution, after all? By all means, cop out and learn to love your Trumpian Monarchy? Or have a Revolution? But, for GOD’S SAKE, STOP WITH THE DENIAL???!!! They simply CANNOT AND WILL NOT ALLOW ACTUAL ELECTIONS this year!!!
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It’s the other commonalities that matter in this case, though. Look at how they’re attempting to prevent minorities from voting in future elections? The way they tried to get the votes of minorities tossed at the last elections, over 60 times? But, more importantly, even than the self contradiction of the judge’s paranoid narrative (“Covid is not a thing,” yet, “it’s a threat, when migrants have it?”) is the more basic commonalities with Franco, Mussolini and Hitler: Their founding narrative is a lie, based on, “Victimhood,” in all four cases. They’re a Qult of personality, in all cases. They project macho power and aggression, with a selfish ideology, “Murica First.” They want to ban political opposition: “lock her up,” was a tired old theme, even before trump got in office, remember? And trump routinely puts his own party members out of a job, and has them Primaried, for merely disagreeing with him. He started out doing that 4 years ago, and he’s still doing it, to Liz Cheney, currently. They use threat, fear and violence as a tool of politics, as Jan 6th taught us, even if, “Stand down and stand by,” hadn’t already. They are literally Fascists! And, if they ever take power again, in their current form, that will be the END of the Republic, forever.
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Lew Ironman 1995 : Donny was slipping in the polls while we were a, “United,” States, fighting a threat together. Now, Covid is, “political,” and Donny’s trolls want us to go out and DIE for them, just so THEY get PAID. But, you won’t see any of their faces at these, “protests,” with or without a mask. It’s that simple . . . Smh
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It has been such a relief. Email the Impeachment Managers, if you want justice? Demand that they Get the GOP top brass on the witness stand at this impeachment, and the, “verdict,” won’t matter. All the cult will remember will be that Lindsay Graham told them that “the steal” is a seditious lie. That Ted Cruz admitted that they all KNEW it was a lie. That even Josh Hawley refused to give any, “evidence,” for, “The Steal,” because he had none to give, and had no 5th Amendment protections, and they didn’t want to be indicted for Conspiracy, Perjury or worse! That’s how you break the GOP in two!
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Almost as though the two things were connected in some way, right? . . . Funny how they’re not nearly so vocal about the cops who pepper sprayed a black army lieutenant, right? They seem to have nothing to say about that? Like they can’t decide which side to try to appropriate? The GOP have lost their grip on being the party of family values, fiscal responsibility, probity, support for the military, and all their other, “traditional,” values: and the Chauvin case has revealed their love of authoritarianism over, “law & order.” They are now seen as the desperate, outed Fascists they are: which is why they no longer have any shame about Voter Suppression. They accept they cannot win a fair election and are making no secret of their need to rig the system, so they can END our Democratic Republic forever. Fascists never give you a third alternative. It’s always total destruction or total victory with them. We must accept that, and wipe them out. 👍
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@neil2444 : That’s pretty much it. Above, I give my, “analysis,” of how comedy works, for what that’s worth, and that saps the humor out of it, like explaining a joke does. But, it’s the switch, the subversion of expectation. That’s why people laugh. They solve the, “riddle,” in their heads, getting the satisfaction of a riddle, but super fast, thus more intense. The inarticulate noise of lol’s is a signal that we get the joke and want another; the riddle is solved. Gutfeld’s is literally the opposite of that: doubling down on notions, rather than giving them a twist. They are rants, not jokes. 👍
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@kennethmwitalis2965 : They had a review board hearing, made up of their buddy cops, which, “cleared,” him of wrongdoing, so the police Union rep is literally, “stunned,” that the chief is even interested in accountability. That’s the most chilling thing about this. Not just that he would say that out loud, but he really meant it! They defend their own, regardless of right, wrong or middle. And he can’t believe, after a successful white wash, that the chief would do her job! This story is both refreshingly reassuring (as far as the chief goes) and Dracula-Black-Bone-Chilling, that the Union is not only openly crooked, but right up in the public’s face about it! . . .
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enjay py : This is on YOU, America. The TRUTH is that YOU are too afraid to acknowledge the TRUTH about the fall of the Republic, because you KNOW what this means for you. The date of the, “Acquittal,” is the date that the Republic has ENDED. They CANNOT and WILL NOT allow, “elections,” this year! Not when it’s SO EASY to have Putin FIX them for them. If Trump lost his protected status, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN!??? He and his family would GO TO JAIL! He would RAT OUT the rest of the GOP, from Bill Barr to Devin Nunes, sending THEM to JAIL! Leaving the Republican Party SO UNELECTABLE and HISTORICALLY DISGRACED, that they would DISBAND! Do you HONESTLY IMAGINE they will ALLOW THAT? When they’ve LITERALLY just SHOWN YOU that there IS NO LAW!? The TRUTH is, IF YOU WERE HONEST with yourselves, you would be FORCED to acknowledge that the Republic has FALLEN, meaning that ONLY A REVOLUTION can restore it, now. But, that’s SCARY, right? There’s NO, “legal remedy,” to a DICTATORSHIP. Learn to love Big Brother, go and give them the data they want, by, “voting,” in a RIGGED election, so they can decide which States, Counties and Individuals to TARGET. OR, have a second REVOLUTION. Just don’t LIE to yourselves, PRETENDING that the 2020, “Elections,” are NOT already RIGGED? The GOP have decided that they don’t want to go to jail. What a surprise? Are YOU prepared to do ANYTHING about that? . . . FFS, America? . . .
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Adam Pauley : Wow! You’re so ANGRY (I won’t use your, “Butt Hurt,” expression) that you’ve missed the point, ALTOGETHER? NO ONE has a problem with free speech? I’m GLAD she exercised hers, and we all got to SEE what she’s REALLY like. See, Free Speech, INCLUDES the RIGHT, NOT TO SPEAK. And some advertisers have exercised THAT right on HER SHOW. What’s your beef, son? That we disagree with her views? Well, SHE DOES TOO! That is, after all, WHY she apologised, isn’t it? . . . 😁
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@MrMckenzie2403 : Of course it bothers you, ma’am! Or you wouldn’t have mentioned your, “mistake,” at all. That’s how it works, kid. But, you’re used to, “mistakes,” aren’t you? Like backing the Orange Orifice, and thinking you understand America’s tax laws. They hire whole companies to ensure that, “mistakes will be made,” is not a thing. Didn’t hear about Donny’s famous, “Audit?” No? Well, you’re the only one, madam 😉
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J A C C : Yeah, you only have to look at the GoFundMe they set up for Trump’s Wall, for instance? Given that NOT ONE BRICK of, “new Wall,” has been laid, where did all those millions go? They had a whip round for Trump, across the nation, for legal support, when the Impeachment Inquiry got going, a few weeks ago. It’s actually quite clever, and well studied by psychologists.
People, “over commit,” themselves. They lose friends, even family (some even lose their jobs!) by causing revulsion in others with racist, hateful lies. They give more money than they can afford, on impulse, at times of, “crisis,” for Trump. They have simply SACRIFICED, FAR TOO MUCH to turn back now. So, they get comfort, from Propaganda outlets; “respectable news,” organisations, like Fox, RT, etc, who reassure them that they were right all along, and tell them NOT to trust their fellow Americans.
They wind up HATING their fellow Americans, precisely BECAUSE they threaten to burst their bubble with REALITY. They hate them MORE than they hate America’s ACTUAL ENEMIES! And, those with the courage to reflect on the sheer insanity just BEING in a Cult of Personality, in the FIRST PLACE, “consider,” turning back, but then realise that the very people they were, “conditioned,” into HATING, SO much, will get to say, “We TOLD you so!”
Shame . . . and the FEAR of Shame keeps them, “loyal,” and, as we see, HYSTERICAL, in their group attempts to shout down reality. Apart from the Foreign Trolls, who just do it for money, these people do it FOR FREE, indoctrinating themselves . . . And their desperation is EVERY BIT as, “acute,” as Trump’s.
That’s what we’re up against. People who KNOW the Truth, really. But, they DELIBERATELY chose to live in The Land Of Fake Believe, where the sky is Orange, everyone is white, and there are NO, “liberals,” saying, “we told you so.” ✌️🤭👍
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Alan G : It’s literally what became of all the, “staff,” of Trump U. I started doing a little research because I was curious to see how many, “alumni,” had subsequently been arrested or busted for stuff, and generally, what became of them? And, low, but they are nearly ALL there, at the Trump rallies, “Working The Pit,” as they put it, hanging around at the back of the crowds, near the press enclosures, picking people off, by their body language and hysteria levels. I s**t you NOT! The Goons surrounding Trump are CHURNING out CASH, from the vulnerable, at their weakest moments, when their are at, “Max Rant!” Some are even aggressive, taking the, “WELL? Put your money where your mouth is!” approach. I don’t know of ANY that got busted for ANYTHING. And, of course, a cut is kicked up to the Donster . . . It’s a MASSIVE RACKET! Four years ago, EVERYONE would have agreed that a Cult of Personality is damned Un-American . . . Until the Russians moved in . . .
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@bobf5360 : It never would have, though, would it? We knew trump was a snake, when we let him in. And, if we’d stomped him, when we had the chance, we’d be the country that saved the world from Covid . . . We’ve lost more than human lives. We lost our dignity, credibility and our standing in the world. But, we can get it back. If we’re REAL. With all the big donors having dumped seditious GOP members, they’ve suddenly realised they can only get serious money from grass roots Nazis; hence, the elastic whip back to Donny within the GOP. But, the Trial is our chance to snip that elastic, and to catapult the worst offenders into Donny’s face! Then there will be far less obstruction, as Donny faces the courts and goes to jail!
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@DJaquithFL : “You’re showing your ignorance,” son. I never used the word, “Immigration,” so I’ve no idea why you’ve gotten your panties in a bunch about that? I got bored with your point by point defensiveness pretty quickly though, which was more about each, “emotional,” hurt you seemed to have suffered at my words, than having anything of merit to contribute to what what began as a promising looking discussion. So, you’ll have to forgive me (or not?) for not bothering to read the rest of it. I mistook you for someone with something to say that was a bit different from the regular, “emotional,” effluent I see so much of, but that didn’t last long . . . Byeee . . . Have a nice, “migration,” or, “migraine,” or whatever cop out you’re using to cope . . .
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People always expect the Devil to be the terrifying, cloven hoofed demon, brimstone smoking about his reddened form as he spouts expletives in a gravelly baritone from a horned head. And that’s their biggest mistake. If the Devil has truly marked you for ruination, he puts on his best clothes and his most charming smile, flatters you and expresses an empathy that touches your very soul in a way that no other person has ever done for you. He makes you his willing slave with kind words and understanding.
You will only see his true form, uncloaked, if and when you attempt to turn back from the path he set you on. And that’s what Putin’s minions are paid to do. They are simply his imps and demons, sowing pain and suffering in the world, for the sake of the Devil’s lusts. Ego, power, and money, in that order: The simplest, three word summary of Putin.
Slava Ukraine. 🇺🇦
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Amy v : Donny still sits on the throne, I see? America is maintaining its denial, that it can remain a Republic, after this RIGGED, “Trial,” lets its Dictator walk free from confessed and proven crimes, SPECIFICALLY identified in the Constitution as Impeachable. My advice to Americans is, either learn to love and accept your Royal Orange Family, or DO SOMETHING, like the Ukrainians did, a decade ago, in freezing conditions and without ANY WEAPONS and REMOVE this Dictator, kicking and screaming, from his throne. Just, do me a favour? PLEASE? For the LOVE OF GOD!!! Would ya’ll STOP PRETENDING that they will ALLOW you to, “Vote,” them out, when the WHOLE Trump Family and HALF OF THE GOP will GO TO JAIL if Trump loses his Protected Presidential Status?!?!? If they are LITERALLY SHOWING YOU that they’ll RIG the Trial, hen they KNOW THEY TOO will be politically and at least HALF of them, LEGALLY, RUINED, WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THEY’LL ALLOW, “NOT RIGGED,” Elections??? It’s come down to, Trump walks = END of the Republic. Trump survives = END of the Trump’s and the GOP. WHICH DO YOU THINK THEY’LL CHOOSE??? . . . SMH
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He needs to be held accountable. At least in future, if not now? This type of lying to millions HAS TO BE OUTLAWED! It’s NOT a, “free speech,” issue, when you scream, “Fire!” in a packed theatre and get to sit back and watch people DIE in the ensuing panic! I’m not suggesting that we HANG propagandists, like we did after WWII. But, it has GOT TO be made illegal?! It’s killing Americans, half of which are on the side of Putin right now! Propaganda has to be outlawed. It is in the UK, and they have no free speech problems. Quite the opposite. They have the worst gutter press. But, even they are NOT allowed to lie dangerously, and call themselves, “news.”
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Fair question. They all like to present themselves as being in some way, “unique,” and untainted by other media models, either because of the way they’re funded, or because of their point of view. They all think they have a uniquely, “honest,” take on current affairs. Whether they do or not, I’m not debating here. But, they need to accept, once they’re in the scrummage, they are as much a part of the media as everyone else. Perhaps if they did, that would make them more responsible in their attitudes?
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Lisa R : We should have, and could have, moved into the Hydrogen Age, by now. But, conflicts and fossil fuels are keeping a powerful minority rich. So, they deliberately hold back the tide of progress, because we let them run everything, from behind the scenes. Even presidents seems impotent in the face of that kind of power, so it really is up to mass movements, or nothing will change.
Might I suggest that you ride a horse into town? Buy a couple, if you don’t already have them? And, if it’s a long way, you could strap them to a wagon and, if it’s a long, long way, make it a camping trip? Could be fun? Just a thought
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Totally. But now, for the sake of speed, the Dems are failing America. They MUST KNOW there’s no hope of, “coming to Jesus,” for these GOP Demons? Yet, they have ONE HUGE play open to them that would DESTROY the GOP! They should get the most Senior GOP Senators, like Lindsay Graham on the stand, and focus on the HEART of the matter! “The Steal,” CAUSED their Insurrection! So, force them to tell the WORLD that, “The Steal AIN’T REAL!” under oath, with no 5th Amendment to hide behind! What else CAN they do? Take on Perjury and Conspiracy charges? With a BILLION dollar lawsuit? Break their Fascist fantasy! And you break the GOP in two! With or without the, “verdict!”
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Patrick O'Neil : I haven’t seen the piece they are talking about, which is why I put it as a question. But, I was instantly suspicious of an organisation that gets all up in my face about respecting the “beliefs” of others, when they are FAMOUS for backing Trump, without criticism, for attacking women, Muslims, “people of colour” and so on? Sounds HYPOCRITICAL to me? I speak as a Christian, looking at the people who cast the first stones, as they complain about having one tossed back at them. THAT doesn’t even make SENSE, coming from Fox???
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@james wheeler : People like him like to make threats from the shadows, because that’s how cowards operate. Trump fans are all cowards, but I bet he wouldn’t get one third of that 74 million votes after the insurrection? The GOP will fracture at the impeachment, when the top brass are forced to denounce, “the steal.” Under oath, with no 5th Amendment, what else can they do? Commit Perjury? Pretend they still, “believe,” the reason people rioted, that the elections were, “stolen,” is a thing? That will be just as good; watching them get eviscerated on the stand, on live TV! 😁✌️
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Potomacstud : He could, “Unify,” the party by asking Elizabeth Warren to be his running mate. Not that it makes any difference, with Putin’s hackers inside the election technology. The next, “election,” will be about as, “fair,” and, “democratic,” as the Impeachment SHAM. The GOP have decided they don’t all want to go to jail, by losing control of the system that should have locked them all away in 2016. Who actually BELIEVES they have not already RIGGED the elections? Honestly . . . The Republic has fallen
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strgrazr58 : You’re, “name calling,” whilst bitching about, “name calling,” and then you wonder WHY America wants your Cult Leader out of Office? Personality Cults are Un-American, anyway. They have nothing to do with ideology, politics, history, or logic. I’m a Conservative, son. Trump must be made an example of, so he can never be repeated
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I am a devotee of Orwell’s essays and I have always argued that if you juxtapose his complete essay collection with Winston Churchill’s glossy history books, therein lies the truest picture of British history you can find, so long as you understand the concept of historiography and close reading.
As to how people like Musk are hijacking Orwell, that simply reflects the Russification of far right tactics that we have seen increasingly, since Putin spread his tendrils into our media discourse at every level. The tried and tested Stalin technique of accusing your opponents of the things you are guilty of, or accusing them of doing things that you yourself are about to do, began in earnest in the west with Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, at a time when trump’s ties with the Kremlin were far less opaque and almost his entire campaign team were found guilty of crimes relating to either domestic campaign laws, or to their spying and infiltration efforts on behalf of Putin. Remember Paul Manafort, anyone?
If your goal is to muddy the waters so badly that everyone gives up trying to discern the truth, a good way to approach that is by taking the figures people who tried to warn the world about people like yourself and grafting them onto the faces of your own monsters. Have your, “creations,” utter the very phrases that people should be applying to you, and preempt that, by applying them to those who would stop you.
It barely matters that the quotes you used were out of context, misunderstood, inappropriate or just plain wrong. In some senses that helps, as you get to accuse people correcting you of looking down their noses at you and being, “liberal elites,” blah, blah, blah. All that matters to the far right is that the comments are incendiary and get attention.
Whether deliberately, by osmosis or just because of a general ongoing degradation of the quality of public discourse, Stalin’s tactics for making collective conclusions about the truth unattainable have been on the increase over the past 20 or so years, gathering momentum in the last decade, so far as I have observed them. Anyone who has read Simon Seabag Montefiore’s books on Russia, particularly his biographies of Stalin, will see what I mean, I hope?
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@AngeloBarovierSD : Maybe it’s more, “arrogant,” to complain about how everyone else is at fault, without having enough empathy for the victims of 911, their families or a wounded nation, to understand that there were no, “diplomatic solutions,” to this one, and you might have been hard pressed to come up with a better one? It’s easy to complain when you have no skin in the game. And, if you think the term, “glass the place,” is a little too callous, even though I was pointing out that we should be glad that didn’t happen, you should see some of the sh*t that went down in Afghanistan? Maybe that would have offended your obviously delicate sensibilities enough to think up a more constructive approach to America’s problems, than just sh*tting all over the spilled blood, sweat and tears that our troops have sacrificed, to secure your right to bitch about them? To me, that seems far more callous, cynical and entitled than my usage of a casual term for mass slaughter. But, I’m just tapping my moral compass here, and . . . Yup. I think yours is the one that’s off a bit there, son . . .
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Picture the movie, America? THE PRESIDENT’S SPEECH, INAUGURATION DAY. The sequel to The King’s Speech. It has EVERYTHING! The hero overcomes a crippling speech impediment and talks his way into the people’s hearts and right into the White House. You have the montage, with rock music, as he and Kamala do word-practice and weird, funny exercises. You got the romance, between Joe and Kamala (coz’ it’s only loosely based on reality). You have the moving part, with a child who has the same impediment, bursts into tears, and our hero encourages him, until he’s able to speak up for the Biden Campaign, with violins making us all cry. And, at the end, he delivers an AWESOME Inauguration Speech, and Kamala, his speech-coach, comes up to him on the podium, looks lovingly into Joe’s eyes, plants a tonguey kiss on him, and breathily says, “Shazam, Mr President.” To which Joe replies with a wink and says, “I’m lost for words.” They kiss again, a cheer goes up, and the flying car from Back To The Future, circles overhead, (for no apparent reason WHATSOEVER) and flies into the camera with a white flash! Cut to credits and Huey Lewis’s Power of Love! Be honest. Would you PAY to see THAT movie? I would! 😆🥳✌️
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Pipe Down : They’ve committed to the LIE. There’s no such THING as a Trump follower who, “believes,” Trump. Like Lindsay Graham there, they’d rather put their fingers in their ears and shout, “Lah, Lah, Lah!,” than accept the trump has BETRAYED THEM too. Reason will NEVER penetrate a Cult, brainwashed into HATING their fellow Americans, INSTEAD of the US’s ENEMIES. It’s personal, and emotional, for them. Only FORCE will work, in the end. Legal force, or other, but while their numbers ARE shrinking, there will remain at least 25% of the adult population that it’s safe to say, are TRAITORS . . . SMH ✌️👍
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@pmcd6414 : If you’re thinking from a Christian perspective, remember, even Jesus taught that there are two sins for which, “there is no forgiveness in the Kingdom of Heaven.” Harming kids, deliberately, corrupting them, knowingly. Like kidnapping them, telling them their parents are dead, even though they aren’t, and training them to hate their own country: that’s one of those sins. “Better to have a mill stone tied to your neck and be thrown into the deepest pond,” says Jesus, regarding the wilful harm of innocent children.
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The Americans will never reward atrocities by descaling or pulling back. Right or wrong, that’s just not how they do things. And, given that Iran is the universal link, supplying weapons to Hamas in the Middle East and supplying Putin with his missiles for his war in Ukraine, the Iranians seem to be deliberately seeking escalation?
America will see it as solving a lot of problems at once, if they can neutralise Iranian threats at the source. These events will crystallise such thinking in the minds of American decision makers, I would have thought.
Biden would need something tangible (offers up front) before he would even consider risking the optics of shuttle diplomacy in the light of the deaths of American service personnel. While there will be others, both within and without his own party, calling for embargoes to cut off their supply chains.
Iran is at the heart of the two most destabilising events in world affairs right now.
I cannot say what I would do in Biden’s shoes. His intelligence reports may cast a whole other light on things. But I do know, as does he, that words alone will not be enough.
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Dalebraxtoni : I PROMISE you, there aren’t. They’re like Trump; Fake Believers, with big talk and small penises. Or, is that, “penii?” 🤔 The nut jobs who attack schools, like the, “heroes,” they are will be unavoidable, but that’s ALL THE MORE CAUSE to GET RID of the root of the problem, Trump. Don’t let their COWARDLY, EMPTY, “threats,” get to you, my friend. That’s just drinking the Orange Koolaid ✌️👍
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Mario : “Millions of crazies,” is right. But, people who intend violence, NEVER warn you. Trump fans are cowards, haters, and children, like Trump. It’s a comforting sign of their fear and desperation, whenever they say, “civil war.” We cannot prevent the VERY FEW crazies who will do something evil, but like I said, is that not all the MORE REASON to REMOVE the DIVIDER In Chief, and start remembering what a, “United,” States of America looks like? America is in an abusive relationship with Trump, being lied to, beaten and threatened, on a daily basis now. If America was a woman, we would ALL be telling her to get TF AWAY from this LOON! I just want people to remember, when we see acts of terror, from disgruntled Trump Tramps, we SHOULD be saying, “SEE? THIS IS WHY HE HAD TO GO!” And, NOT suggesting that we should cave in to the bullies. It pisses me off, to hear people frightening decent citizens with the possibility of a civil war, which is just NOT going to happen, but they HOPE will intimidate waverers into letting them continue to get away with MURDER. ✌️👍
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We still don’t know who these people were working, “for.” Even if they turn out to be Ukrainians, their government has spent more than a year rooting out pro-Putinistas. No way would Zelensky have betrayed the west’s trust at such a crucial time. Given Russia’s long storied history of double and triple bluffs, as well as their deep infiltration of Germany’s upper echelons, I am not prepared to believe anything until proven.
It’s also worth noting the fact that the suspects themselves were tipped off before they could be picked up, more than once, after showing up in Western Europe and then disappearing again when warrants were issued. Where were these tipoffs coming from? Russia? Germany? Elsewhere? The one country least capable of getting such information was Ukraine, since they do not even have representation in the investigation, unlike Russia, being the alleged, “victim,” of the attack and with a whole network of spies inside Germany where this investigation was initiated.
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dominic pelle : I admire your patience, explaining all at to s nnn. I ALWAYS reference the two books (above) which contain all you need to know, are an entertaining read AND, most importantly, are COMPLETELY compiled from the PROVEN Public Record, which is SO SHOCKING, it beggars description. As to Fox, I think we should stand back and let them SELF DESTRUCT, rather than give them ANY excuses to blame their opponents and call us, “Conspirators,” of some kind, don’t you? The parents of Seth Rich are suing them and Alex Jones, with a ROCK SOLID case. Another one of their TOP political reporters, Ralph Peters, left this week, sending round a DAMNING memo, explaining his reasons to the staff. And, what caught my attention about THAT was, that he had REALLY tried to keep his message internal and confidential. So, HOW did Buzfeed get a hold of it? It was OTHER disgruntled staff at Fox, who felt it was important for the world to know what it’s REALLY LIKE, to be stuck, working for a, “Propaganda Machine;” a, “Disgrace to America,” telling, “LIES for a CORRUPTED administration.” More will leave like that. And their EXPOSURE in the COURTS will further DESTROY THEM. Sometimes, the art of NEVER LOSING, is simply NOT to play? They will DESTROY THEMSELVES. What credibility will they HAVE, when ALL of the TRUTH is KNOWN. I say, don’t hand them ANY excuses, to BLAME others, for their SHAMEFUL SELF-DESTRUCTION. Leave them to it? What do you think?
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@maples5875 : “First of all, the election had some very questionable spots,” like Florida, where the GOP ran Copycat Scams, which are being investigated by the FBI. Biden should have taken Florida. Second, when trumpism collapses, it will take all of his enablers down with him. There will be a new brand of democratic conservatism, that will replace Donny’s failed model. The GOP don’t want Donny even now! He lost the popular vote in 2016, lost the midterms after that, and then lost the 2020 election. Trumpism is discredited, and they only stick with him now because they’re afraid of his lunatic base. They’ll take the first off ramp they see, and the REAL Conservatives, like ME, who joined The Lincoln Project because they and other groups like them, were the ONLY places left in America where REAL conservatives could find a home. And there are MILLIONS of us. That’s WHY trump lost so handily, even though he got more votes than any previous GOP candidate. Because REAL CONSERVATIVES knew it was either Joe or the Stalinist trump Qult. We love America too much to let that happen. And we’ll stay with Joe and the Dems until an ACTUAL CONSERVATIVE alternative arises from the ashes of the Fascist GOP. Trump enablers need NOT apply! OK, Karen? 😉😋
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George Harry : Never actually met one, in REAL life. “Libtards,” are the mythical creation of the TrumpPansy’s, to play the role of Boogy Man, to keep the Trolls all, “harmed,” in their Butt region. Truth is, in our ACTUAL lives, when we meet a stranger, we’re, most of us, Conservative Liberals, or Liberal Conservatives. We treat people with respect, even when we disagree with them. We use, “persuasion,” when we need to, “argument,” if we have to, and turn to the, “law,” when all else fails.
Trump NEEDS, “Division,” as his weapon, which keeps him in office, and is the reason he got in, in the first place. Adding to the DIVISION just helps Trump. But, more and more, are seeing the light. A “United” Sates is what Trump HATES, and he’s right to. It’s what will defeat him, in the end 🙂
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It stuns me though, that Charlie is saying, “I don’t understand it,” so much. Because most gamers do and he is a gamer par excellence. The pushback has been so universal because all of these triple A companies have ALREADY planned their next several years fiscal cycles. And they already KNOW they will be releasing barely finished games filled with micro-transactions, pay walls and, “surprise mechanics,” with which to addict the vulnerable and empty the bank accounts of childrens’ parents around the world.
Just glancing at the share holder meetings of Rockstar, Bungie, Blizzard, et al, tells you all you need to know. They have expectations firmly mapped out, predicting profits down to the last cent five years from now! Just making a really good game with great characters, a great story, in a world where you can build your own adventure from the ground up, would mean dumping all of their planned gouging techniques on which the devs are forced to spend more time than any, “artistic,” endeavour.
Forget to give your starring character a FACE? “Never mind, we’ll fix it after release. They always forgive us.” Make any of the payment mechanisms even slightly difficult to use? “YOU’RE FIRED! And never darken our doorstep again with your communistic, freeloading ways!”
This has been the most mealy mouthed, utterly sickening bunch of hogwash I’ve heard from triple A studios in a long time, which is saying something! Note: It’s all companies that are WAY BIGGER than Larian, claiming to give a sh*t about the poor little developers. NOT those actual small devs at all! The small companies have nothin’ but love for BG3.
The STINK of sheer HYPOCRISY is genuinely nauseating.
Good luck with your future artistic endeavours. If a games company tries to hire you, get a lawyer to check the fine print on your contract. ✌️👍
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Dustin : I get it, son. You’re embarrassed, because you really don’t have any, “argument,” so you say, “it’s a loaded question,” or, “stop blaming the guy responsible.” But, you come off as a Trump Troll, and are therefore dismissed by rational people. We all KNOW that Background Checks were BLOCKED by the NRA, who PAID Trump to drop it. We ALL KNOW that 80% of Gun Owners WANT Background Checks. What’s your PROBLEM, really? . . . Smh
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Perhaps she feels she can do more good from behind the scenes? Perhaps she has a diagnosis of something she doesn’t want to share, or suffer in the public eye? . . . Who knows? . . . The problem with, “shock,” events like these is that, without further information, all we’re left with is speculation. I wish her well, regardless. And every blessing on her son, that he might carry out his duties responsibly and with the dignity and tact his office calls for.
Happy New Year to you too, sir. You have been a great source of wisdom, comfort and, occasionally, humour through 2023. I feel like it’s tempting fate to say 2024 cannot be any worse, so I will simply wish you health and happiness anon.
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For what it’s worth . . . Let’s be honest. Firing his gun was wrong. But, right up to that moment, these cops did a good job, and were very patient. It’s always that moment, when they try to cuff the perp, where is goes horrible. Countless videos show you, always that moment. They NEED some clever, self adjusting cuffs, that go on real easy. That would save countless lives. But, let me ask people?
WHAT IF? What if the cop agrees with everyone? What if he’s filled with remorse? What if he says, “WTF was I thinking?” What if he’s on the same side as the protestors? I just ask, because I can’t see a SAFE way for him to do that? And, if there’s no safe way for him, what choice does he have? He must defend himself in court. Do we OFFER him the space to own his mistake? He clearly DID NOT WANT to shoot anyone. What does, “Justice,” look like, for that cop, in those circumstances?
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I understand how he feels, having worked in government myself on crisis management. He’s found himself in a world where, “Consultation Exercises,” mean, “We’ve already decided what we’re doing but we’re holding up a fig leaf of accountability,” a world where people just keep talking to use up time so you can’t get a word in to make your very obvious point, a world in which the feckless and incapable are in charge over the bright, young and capable. And what he can’t say out loud, for fear of alienating the very people he has to go cap in hand to every day, is that he’s dealing with the most unvarnished greed and venality he’s ever encountered in his life. Combine Charles Dickens’s Circumlocution Office with Kafka’s judicial system in The Trial and you’re still only approaching the self defeating illogical hall of mirrors that is government. I fear for his mental health in the wake of these experiences. Maybe he needs to set up a political party? The Fiscal Responsibility Party or something? Of course, he would be assassinated if it got any traction.
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@TheDiamond2009 : You’ve been trolling for trump, on channels you, “hate,” talking to people you, “hate,” about all the other people you, “hate,” for 5 years, now, madam. No need to look below the, “surface level,” with you. You’re either paid to do this, or twisted with racist, “hate,” but either way, no one comes out the other end of that with all their marbles intact. If you weren’t nuts when you went on the payroll, you must be by now? And, if you’re, “doing it for free,” then what you need is therapy and a responsible adult. Instead of all this effeminate, passive aggression, which is not exactly the Macho Macho Man (Village People) image your Orangeness wants you to project, is it? You know I’m right 😋
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Another Citizen : “Wag the dog.” A distraction, to have Americans look away from the sham of the GOP fixing Trump’s Impeachment. The Republic has FALLEN in a COUP, organised by GOP members who face jail time if Trump is removed. And by the crime family that would all go to jail, the moment Trump lost his presidential, “protected status.” They HAVE TO RIG 2020’s, “elections,” with Russia’s help. It’s that or JAIL. So they have taken away your Democracy, to save a bunch of crooked, incompetent, evil idiots. Their only concern is that Americans might RISE UP, which is why the go to Iran distraction, AGAIN. WHY ARE YOU ALLOWING THE END OF THE REPUBLIC, AMERICA??? . . . Smh
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laynn 10 : LOTS of What-About-ism there. The GOP playbook in your hand, while you ASSume MUCH. I am a Christian believer, a Conservative, who owns a GUN, but who believes that the COPS should be the ONLY PEOPLE ALLOWED to carry the BIGGEST, ARGUMENT SETTLING GUNS, on the STREETS. So, “oh contraire,” back atcha’, kid. It was TRUMP who called the CIA, “NAZIS,” not ANYONE ELSE? Yet, NOW, he picks the closest thing he can FIND, to a NAZI, to run the organisation? Hypocrisy MUCHERY. More and MORE CONSERVATIVES are voting AGAINST TRUMP, now: Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc. And it’s his HYPOCRISY that is causing it. Read some history, come back and apologise, and then go away again. There’s a good Troll 😁
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What’s surprising is that trump is still a free man, because America isn’t choking the streets of Washington in a LAWFUL Counter Protest! Why are YOU not out there, so that Chuck & Nancy can point out the window and say, “There’s your mandate!”? Why is America NOT supporting the Republic, right now?! Are YOU inundating the GOP’s emails, phone lines, letter in boxes, texts boxes, etc? Why are WE, THE PEOPLE, not DEMANDING trump’s removal??? That’s what is NEEDED right now! The PUSH! Make them afraid NOT to remove trump, by whatever means necessary, for the sake of National Security! ✌️👍
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That’s a misunderstanding of what, “free will,” is. And a conflation of will power with free will. No, we cannot change climate outcomes by positive thinking. But, free will has no bearing on that. Consider your example, about what to eat, but then think of when someone denies themself a food, even though they really want it and have access to it, but know it will be bad for them. Choosing not to self harm despite the organic imperatives of the brain, reacting to generations of genetic programming, which telling you to eat sugar, salt and fats whether you need them or not, because of a scarcity that no longer exists, is a higher functioning thought of autonomous decision making, which overpowers instincts and is an act of free will. That exists and is essential to the meaning of life.
Your definition is something else and needs its own label. Simply because physics cannot comment on free will, doesn’t rule out its existence. Granted, that is no proof of its existence, but it is not incumbent on free will believers to prove anything to the sceptic, who cannot prove her hypothesis. Science has little to say about the matter, but this really is a case of, “That whereof we cannot speak, we can say nothing,” as Lichtenstein put it. It does not prove anything more, other than the fact that maybe people have been bad at explaining what free will actually is to you?
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@nomcognom2414 : Much of that, “incompetence,” you are observing is a result of straight forward corruption on rather grand scales. That’s why people like Shoigu get to run the armed forces, despite having no military background, other than the creeping militarisation of the emergency response department he was put in charge of. His background is civil engineering and he was responsible for architecture projects before then. His one qualification is that he has been unerringly loyal to Putin, who ignores his dipping into the coffers for personal gain, as Putin does that himself.
It’s the reason why Putin was suddenly faced with the stark reality that his armed forces looked better on paper than in reality, back when he was wondering why his best troops at that time, the Spetsnaz were being wiped off the map by Kyiv’s home guards. Not many generals had the tanks and weapons their paperwork claimed, but many of them had lovely homes in London and Florida, with polished sports cars and tremendous yachts.
Putin’s hopes that a long, protracted war will weaken the west’s resolve seemed reasonable at first, given the west’s behaviour in recent history, especially our flaccid response to his invasion of Crimea, but his problem is now about finding enough cannon fodder to throw in front of Ukrainian guns. It was all fine and dandy while he had stacks of people from the outskirts of the empire that no one in Moscow or St Petersburg would miss, and the Wagner Group rounding up rapists and murderers from Russia’s jails. But they’re running desperately low on that resource now, which was the primary reason for Prigozhin’s, “negotiating tactic,” in the first place.
Neither Prigozhin or Putin want to be seen as plunging people of the main metropolitan areas into this war, bringing it home and making it so real for every Russian. How to maintain the illusion of a, “special military exercise,” when everyone in every city in western Russia has lost someone, and now the mothers grouping together to make those videos appealing for better conditions for their sons include the mothers of famous people, or politicians? Yet they have already been forced to dig into the student populations of urban areas, making the receipt of their degrees conditional on accepting their signing up papers, in person.
And how long can they use these units of inexperienced young troops for all the logistics and administrative tasks, away from the worst of the action, while they burn through their experienced veterans and the last of their expendables?
That clock is ticking more loudly for Putin, as his atrocities sicken and enrage the western world, stiffening our resolve and causing entire battalions of foreign volunteers to spring up in Ukraine. The west grows increasingly impatient with the pusillanimity of their politicians, constantly demanding more weapons and resources for Ukraine to win this war, while Russia is the side growing exhausted and wondering if any of this was worth it?
Now that NATO has doubled its border length along the Russian frontier, and Russia’s coffers are running lower each day; now that the Ruble is worth one US Cent, literally, and the standards of living get worse; now that oligarchs are just not having any fun abroad anymore; now that incursions from the Russian Brigade have exploded the myth of Russian invulnerability and the Wagnazis have humiliated Putin, still defying his direct orders to this day, with Putin powerless to do a damned thing about it . . . I think the last straw for Putin is the day when Ukraine takes a patch of land back that Russia had control of before they started this war. On that day, even your average Russian on the street will see that it is empirically proved on every front, be it propaganda or fact, that Russia has gotten the exact opposite of what it wanted, all for the sake of one, easily replaced, oligarch.
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@joerogain5025 : Very kind of you to say, and your situation sounds idyllic. Mine is great, thanks. But what middle aged man, who’s kids are all grown up and successful in their fields, who has a wife who just got promoted to a senior management job in a field she loves, and who gets to work from home, whilst being able to spend his days off talking to wonderful people like YOU, sir, and playing Red Dead Redemption 2 on his Xbox X and top of the range TV, could not be as happy as a clam?
Via con dios, amigo. I too hope our paths cross again soon.
SLAVA UKRAINE 🇺🇦✌️
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Propaganda outlets have conditioned these people, into HATING their fellow Americans, more than they hate America’s ENEMIES. And, because they’re too ASHAMED to own the TRUTH; too EMBARRASSED to admit they gave too much money; and too HUMILIATED to own that they were SO EAGER to be CONNED, out of their GREED and RACISM, that they actively seek out the comforting voices of Fox, RT and Alex Q Jones, to soothe their guilty consciences. Inside, they KNOW Trump has repeatedly betrayed America, and they KNOW the Republic is ENDING. But, better that, so far as they’re concerned, than admitting to being TRICKED by an IDIOT with an IQ level lower than their pet’s, right? That’s America for you . . . Smh ✌️👍
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Upper Echelon Gamers : I am forced to disagree, fundamentally. I don’t feel, “outrage,” just disappointment. I’m glad there’s no real effect on the game content, but in the end, they capitulated and that’s enough. Now, the, “SJW’s,” or whatever you like to call them, have blood in the water, the sharks will circle in from a far wider circumference than they otherwise would have. Like all Appeasement, the Appeaser thinks this is what they have to do to shut up their opponents, so they can move on; whereas, what they’ve done is encourage more people to push harder, until they find where the boundary really is. Not only will their critics redouble their efforts now, but they will be encouraged to push at the boundaries of other games. Why wouldn’t they? After all, it works . . .
I’m not even guessing, here, either. I will be proved right. It’s just a matter of time. CD Project Red should have acted like they had no idea what the Criticism was all about, and said, “We’ll deal with critics, after the game is released. Until then, no one is qualified to have an opinion, other than the publishers and creators. And, they never should have given in . . .
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Creator : IKR? It’s interesting that right across Europe right now, the next headline, right after the main story in each respective country, is the news that, “America’s Death Toll Surpasses that of Vietnam!” Most developed countries are saying, “Well, at least we’re doing way better than the richest, most powerful country, with the, ‘best healthcare system in the world,’ right now.” America PLC must make money. And, that’s Trump’s bottom line . . . Smh
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Björn Pedersen : Remember my friends, the, “verdict,” is irrelevant at this Impeachment. What’s more important is that Q followers, Nazis and Trump fans are all going to hear, from the mouths of the GOP, on the witness stand, on live TV, that the reason for their Insurrection, “The Steal,” is a seditious lie. Not one of the GOP will risk a billion dollar lawsuit, a Perjury rap, or a Conspiracy charge, for trump. Not when they can’t take the 5th. They will have zero choice. And THAT’S WORTH a trial
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Maybe he has a point? At this point, just wearing a mask seems to be a mark of Division, identifying, “difference,” and, “otherness,” which is pretty much the oxygen of the trump-far-wrong. Being responsible, POLITE, and wearing them where and when ASKED, is no problem for me. And stores retain their right to mandate masks, which should be obeyed, or accept refusal of service. Getting vaccinated is far more important, and sometimes we must concede a battle in order to win the war?
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Upper Echelon Gamers : Superb. This was the video I was more or less expecting. You did a first rate job, here, beginning perfectly, and check mating in the end, without a single misstep on the way. We can ALL learn so much from you. I cannot always agree with your views, on some things, but I respect your integrity, rationality, and (in this case) flawless journalism. You just went up in my estimation, for whatever that’s worth, sir ✌️👍
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@LK-jl3pc : I call people, “Putinistas,” when they spread false or deliberately misleading information that helps Putin. Not for any other reason. And, IF what you say is true, you still don’t GET IT. I studied political history, at a place who’s name (which I will not share here) tells anyone who looks at it that the institution was dedicated to that topic. Yet, my first full time job was working for social services. You don’t bomb students! People have all kinds of reasons for learning various subjects, which might have nothing to do with their careers. A place of learning is staffed by CIVILIANS, from caterers to cleaners, from educators to guest speakers!
That, my son, is a far cry from targeting a BARRACKS filled with SOLDIERS on your own OCCUPIED land. Are we learning yet?
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@brianloveless2717 : You we’re saying Texas is, “better than most.” Then you immediately compared it to other states when faced with undeniable flaws. How does Whaddabouting support your argument, one iota? Logically, YOU are now arguing that Texas is WORSE than other states, out of your own mouth! But, the Alt-Wrong in Texas never gets how it’s being played and ROYALLY SHAFTED by the very people they vote for, who really don’t give a flying f’k if YOU live or die, so long as they can count on your vote. And you do it, why, again? Because you think they, “take a stand.” . . . On WHAT? Giving you the right to play with your pop-gun and a say, “f’k you,” in the streets to any black guy or lesbian without being arrested? While they take all your money, your education, your health care, your right to protest, your right to VOTE against them and control over your very BODY, you think they’re, “taking a stand?” WAKE UP, SON! You just can’t afford to be that ignorant! 🤦♂️
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Seoul Man : Trump says, “Build a Wall,” while he causes an influx of Asylum Seekers, to get his fans in line. He declares Trade War with China, loses it, and now costs are shooting up. Healthcare and infrastructure are JOKES, and now this: Trump pulls out of the nuke deal with Iran, and now they’re more likely than EVER to build nukes. Trump will ALWAYS give you the EXACT OPPOSITE of what he promises. And, his supporters will PRETEND to, “believe,” in him, until the economy crashes, because he’s racist and greedy, like them. America in a nutshell ✌️
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@Rob-ht1mu : There are academic papers now, about, “Fear Appeal,” and how it can LITERALLY rewire neurones in the head, cause addiction to endorphins and release dopamine to create withdrawal symptoms. That’s what is happening to these poor, ignorant, souls. If you can watch a guy, cussing, screaming and accusing from the pulpit, whilst literally holding a Bible in your hand which tells you he is Demonic, and still not realise what’s happening to you? . . . You’re an addict. And that’s how trumpism needs to be treated.
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MrToby101 : “Shrinking Big Government”??? Are you MAD, sir? They’re into women’s BODIES. A pending Bill, giving the State ALL your social media details, and if you don’t tell your Tw@er EVERYTHING, you get no account. New Libel Laws coming. New excuses to lock up journalists coming. State welfare, to prop up farmers, because of Trump’s BLUNDERS. An attempt to launch State TV (remember Trump TV?), through Fux. Trump controls the DOJ, the IRS and the SCOTUS. They’re WORSE than Russia and China, put together, son! Tell me what Trump is NOT trying to control? When you realise you don’t control your internet account any longer, and your wallet gets thinner, you’ll STILL be CHEERING the, “Grate,” DICKtator, won’t you . . . SMH 🤣
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Kurt Tanner : See, I go by, “volume.” When a Troll bleats, I might snap something back at them, to do with REALITY, instead of the Salvador Dali Dreamscape of BOLLOX, they live in. But, when they start prattling on, endlessly, I know I don’t have to bother. ‘Coz, all the Normals stopped reading your crap about half way through the third sent’ . . . 🤪
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1wildwackywoman : Well, Trump Trolls only like Trump’s racism and greed, so long as the economy doesn’t melt; apart from the paid foreigners. They Fake Believe. They always have. They KNOW they can’t, “convince,” anyone, or, “win,” an argument. Their, “Job,” is to sew and maintain DIVISION: the oxygen that sustains Trump. Their Fake, “Belief,” makes everything they say suddenly make perfect sense ✌️
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FINALLY, the Trump Trolls AGREE! Muller did EVERYTHING RIGHT, and they ALL, “accept,” the findings. Trump hired the WORST people and ALL of those indictments and convictions were RIGHT, JUSTIFIED and SOUND. They are PLEASED to confess that Trump’s Obstruction may yet be PROVED. And, most of all, they FINALLY CONFESS that Russia DID interfere with America’s 2016 Election, and are STILL doing it. You would think, patriotic Americans would be unhappy with SUCH an incompetent, dangerous, POTUS? 🤔
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G.A.B.E 708 : Looks like she’s actually trying to blow it? So, the GOP just mad at unbiased facts, because they are faced with causing a second Revolution, by shutting down all witnesses and evidence, and having a jury comprised of Trump’s conspirators find Trump, “not guilty,” in under an hour, thus admitting that your Republic has ended and that the 2020, “elections,” will be RIGGED . . . Or, they can cause a second Revolution, by allowing witnesses and evidence, and then finding Trump, “not guilty,” regardless, of the crimes that he’s just been proved guilty of, thus admitting that the Republic has fallen, and the 2020, “elections,” will be RIGGED? Perhaps the third alternative is to drag it out, until everyone is too confused and bored to bother anymore, whilst throwing distractions at the American people? Like a brief war with Iran, or North Korea? That’s worked pretty well for them so far . . . SMH
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Do you remember the Russian Hack of Florida’s election computers? It got big coverage at the time, and even the GOP admitted it was the Russians. Then Trump adopted Florida as his home and launched his, “campaign,” from there, within weeks. Remember? It went dark, because they threatened every politician with Anti-Terror laws, and instant jail, if they talked to the press about it. Remember? And, now? Donny says, “voter fraud,” everywhere EXCEPT FLORIDA!? “Don’t look at Florida.” And you aren’t ALARMED??? Do you people WANT a Dictatorship?
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Rusty Clifford : Like with the Midterms, you mean? Or, are you talking about Trump telling us that there was, “no collusion,” when we now know there was? Or, “lock her up!” maybe? THAT kind of, “jumping the gun?” Or, that North Korea is, “no longer a threat,” while Trump made it possible for them to EXPAND their Nuke Program? Or, are you referring to the, “innocence,” of the Saudi Ponce, in the Khashoggi MURDER? Perhaps you’re thinking historically, of the Central Park Five, and the full page adds Trump took out, DEMANDING the death penalty for INNOCENT MEN? THAT kind of, “jumping the gun?” Oh, I could go all day, about the, “history of jumping the gun,” you IDIOTS have. But, you hold on to your ONE, inaccurate, distorted, example, son? If that’s all you have to help you sleep at night? But, remember this: We KNOW you are a RACIST or a foreign Troll. There’s nothing in it, for anyone else. Only question is, which are you, son? . . . SMH
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@MilitantAntiAtheism :
“Butt Hurt”
[adjective]
Alt-Wrong traitor with too much free time on her hands and no occupation of responsibility (above a grade that doesn’t involve wielding a mop handle) who doesn’t like it when she gets a taste of her own medicine. Entitled cry baby who defines holding up a sign as, “rioting,” whilst defining their own murderous rioting as, “holding a town meeting.” Whinging Nazi sympathiser (or, “symp,” abbreviation) who cries when they discover they don’t, “own the internet,” anywhere near as much as Putin told them they do, and weeps with impotent rage and sexual repression, upon discovering that their army of trolls is about as effective as Putin’s demoralised army of conscripts.
Also, noun: “She’s a butt harmed, who doesn’t like it up her.”
Conjugation: Butt Hurted, Butt Hurtee, Butt Harmedalot; “Butt Butt Butt . . . Whaddabout??? {insert Iraq, Syria, Vietnam here}
People for whom life did not work out, seeking emotional and sexual relief from shrill expressions of barely suppressed racism and gender confusion. Usually identified by their inability to spell correctly at the point that they’re telling others to, “get an education.”
Historic Examples: Benedict Arnold, John Wilkes Booth, Stalin, Peewee Herman.
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Rodney Prosser : See, that was your FIRST MISTAKE, right there, son. This fantasy, that we’re ALL, “Hilllaaaarrriiiieee!” Fans . . . We honestly DON’T GIVE a S**T! Lock her up, and watch us YAAAWWWN with, “outrage,” you dumbass! Your, “Whaddabout,”ing has ONLY made America ALL THE MORE DETERMINED to nail Trump! Well done you . . . 🤣
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The, “Verdict,” doesn’t matter! It’s not even important! Can’t you see??? . . . Please stay in touch with your representatives on both sides, America? DEMAND that the top GOP members who told America that, “The Steal,” was a thing, MUST TESTIFY!
Cruz, Hawley, Graham, the trump’s, Giuliani, will be forced, on live TV, to CONFESS that it was all a Seditious Lie! They cannot take the 5th, or refuse to testify. They will not commit Perjury, and risk jail for trump! It will BREAK the GOP! The BEST they can say is the Nuremberg Defence, “I was following orders. I didn’t believe the election was stolen, but Donny said he did so I, ‘trusted,’ him.” Inundate your reps with DEMANDS for WITNESS TESTIMONY, and the GOP will break in two! Forget the, “verdict.” The stakes are WAY higher than a rigged outcome! Do it America! This is your big chance and you WON’T get another like this!
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@coreyham3753 : So Important, in fact, that the GOP are getting pretty DESPERATE! Lindsay Graham is practically BEGGING not to have to testify! But, THAT’S EXACTLY what we should be inundating out representatives for! They cannot refuse to testify. They cannot take The 5th! On LIVE TV, in front of the whole planet, they will have to give their, “evidence,” for, “The Steal,” OR ADMIT that they always KNEW it was a Seditious LIE! They WON’T risk Perjury for trump, so what else CAN THEY DO??? I tell you, we finally HAVE THEM, facing ACCOUNTABILITY so long as we get ALL the ring leaders up on that stand! Out of their OWN MOUTHS, the Q followers, the Nazis, and the cult of trump, will hear it! Unable to, “blame,” ANYONE except the GOP themselves! Who TF CARES about the, “Verdict,” when the GOP can be SNAPPED IN TWO! With NO ONE to blame but themselves! Inundate your reps! Every day, until the trial begins! ✌️👍
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@seaoftranquility7228 : And, let’s not forget the more than 50 cops, hospitalised? I don’t get why that’s always so trivialised? One was blinded! Another remains in a coma, with permanent brain damage! Of course, we all know about the trump supporting cop who DIED! But, 50 officers with broken bones, needing hospital treatment! All those witnesses! But, instead of sweating them in a cell, like something out of LA Confidential, we let them GO, if they promise to be good till their trials??? WTF, America???
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Dorian Shadey: You must feel humiliated, and have to shower, after your Nazi Apologist speeches? No one, “laughed,” at his, “inappropriate joke,” son. Even his daughter was creeped out by him. Why is it all, “emotions,” with you people? Is it RAGE, because you’ve been CONNED into giving too much money? Look up the Dead Money Scam, son? You’ve been indoctrinating yourself . . . SMH
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Eric Martin : And, the UK? Germany? Holland? Why don’t they broadcast from there, son? I could list some more countries, if you like? And, they’re NOT even, “banned,” in those countries, they just sulk and (hashtag) RunAway, because they’re NOT ALLOWED to PRETEND, and call themselves a News Service . . . Why do you think THAT is, son? . . . “Global Conspiracy,” I suppose? 🤣
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Miss Kimberly : If you DO take Bullet’s suggestion, and check the ratings tables, take a look at the INTERNATIONAL RATINGS, too? ALL CNN and The BBC, baby. Most, “Trusted,” most, “Viewed,” and Fox is NOWHERE! The WORLD gets its News from RELIABLE sources. Where REAL issues are at stake. If you are in an African country, in the throws of Revolution, or in the Middle East, dodging missiles, you NEED straight NEWS! Imagine tuning in to FOX, when LIVES are at risk, trying to figure out WHERE to take your family, to get it out of harm’s way?!?!?
More importantly, however, imagine basing your views on what the, “majority,” CHOOSES to believe, rather than what IS? The, “majority,” of physicists thought it was IMPOSSIBLE to get to the moon, but they DIDN’T stifle those who wanted to TRY? The, “majority,” doctors, REJECTED Germ Theory, But NOW, you wouldn’t want to be treated by one, who didn’t have clean hands? Majority does NOT equal TRUTH. Besides, Fox LIES all the time and carries the motto, “Fair and balanced.” THAT’S a joke, right? So, WHO KNOWS what their ACTUAL, “viewing figures,” ARE??? And WHO CARES?
One final thought. Normal people DO look at Fox, because they are NOT afraid of having their world collapse, when they hear something that is PATENTLY FALSE. It’s the Fox Viewer types that REFUSE to hear the other side, so, on the basis of LOGIC, the propaganda station is ALWAYS going to get high viewing figures. In WW II, Propaganda stations were popular, because they played the latest music. The Nazis STILL LOST THE WAR. Hope you’ve been patient with me? If you got this far, thanks 😃 👍
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To which the only intelligent reply is to ask both, “What is really going on,” then? And what evidence to you sight that people do not step back and educate themselves? Forgive me for being suspicious, but whenever I hear pejoratives like, “wokism,” and the casual use of terms like, “educate yourselves,” I generally find that the person making such comments is speaking for the far right and is, without exception, anti-education, only ever really meaning that they want people to follow the same conspiracy theorists whilst abandoning everything their education might have taught them about close reading, objective analysis, history, context, facts and science. I do hope you’re not one of those?
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@ohdwight : It’s kinda’ Darwinian. The cult have confused, “recovery,” rates, with, “survival,” rates. I know an ex-firefighter, with scarred lung tissue. She didn’t even know Covid could do that to her. She can’t ever fight fires again, for the rest of her days. Others with organ failure, I heard about, on dialysis now, etc. Expensive dependency to have. But it’s just a bit of, “flu,” right? There won’t be anyone left to vote GOP soon. And those that want to will have to rely on their Postal Ballots . . . 🤦♂️🙄🤷♂️
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Gerard Vaughan : Yeah, I phrased that badly. Was probably in a rush or something. I meant, with Israel backing the US, as the American outpost that it’s always been. Israel sees America as being the best, strongest, ally they could have, who’s, “generosity,” with weapons, cut price deals, expertise and trainers, etc, is also the next best thing to just moving out a massive, US, standing army and airforce to the Middle East. And, Israel is not naive about that either. It’s a symbiotic relationship, unlikely to fray, so long as their interests are aligned.
The real question, here, is about Russia. They have been allied with Iran, shipping weapons to jihadis of all kinds, and to Syria’s government, through Iran, for years. Putin would have to stab Iran in the back, if Trump was to get the war he’s yearning for. Unless, this becomes the breaking point of their love affair?
All this, just because Trump has zeroed in and won’t let go of the notion that, “war time,” presidents usually get much higher polling numbers than peace time ones. That’s Bolton’s influence, and probably Bannon’s too; early on, at least. Trump’s plan is to build this up, so it looks, “measured,” and not rushed into. But, what he wants, is for us to be in an armed conflict with Iran, during the elections. You watch and see? I’d bet real money on it . . .
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Has to be, right? And, I think the leaders of the, “left,” must be in on it? Why else did they come up with such a triggering, means-the-opposite-of-what-it-sounds-like, DUMB name for it? And why haven’t the liberal media changed that name or at least taken the time to EXPLAIN IT better? Wreaks of conspiracy! Literally EVERYBODY wants the same thing! If that politician had said, “Do you want to fight crime with a well funded, well equipped, well staffed Sheriff’s or police department? Or do you prefer being a social worker, psychiatric nurse, corporate goon’s bodyguard, and a debt collector for the banks, putting tearful, broke assed families out on the streets? Because, if you want the former, then you WANT DEFUNDING!”
But the best he could come up with in the moment was, “I accept funding, ahem . . . I mean, ‘endorsements,’ from anyone . . . Including the KKK and the Feck Your Momma To Death Party”??? I mean, NEITHER of them KNOWS what TF they’re TALKING ABOUT, or they wouldn’t BE disagreeing!!!
If that’s NOT a conspiracy to muddy the waters of a no brainer, mutually beneficial, obvious solution, then it’s literally THE DUMBEST, most cringeworthy, humiliating case of crossed wires since the My Favourite Color Is Better Than Yours Wars of 1852! Two opposing men, who actually agree but don’t know it, might as well have both stood up and said, “I have never looked up the meaning of the term I am angry about! So, uuughhhhhhh . . . WAAAAAHHH!!!” F’king DOLTS! 🤦♂️ . . . Hehhhhhhh . . . 🤷♂️ ✌️👍
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“The difference,” was that the Romans, the Vikings and the Normans from your examples were armies, carrying weapons, fighting pitched battles, executing their opponents, seeking out opponents and torturing or burning villages, stealing property and taking slaves whilst changing the laws of the land to make it all legal!
We do get men, women AND children asylum seekers. But Britain has pursued draconian laws to make it less likely that families will travel together to be humiliated, separated and humiliated, creating the myths that idiots like that man falls for. Useful idiots like him make me sick.
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It might be wrong to say, “All Conservatives are like this.” But it is right to say that ALL Conservatives work for and vocally support the very most rotten members of their organisation. Even the nicest Conservatives candidate still works for an organisation that has bought out the press; silenced critics through foul means; hidden corruption in its own ranks and covered for corrupt businesses outside of them; polluted our water; dismantled our NHS; put children in harm’s way in their schools and left them to struggle in poverty, whilst blaming their parents for not being born with their advantages; lied about the benefits of leaving Europe, whilst betting against the pound in the city at the economy’s most vulnerable moments; undermined policing; removed accountability mechanisms; destroyed the postal service whilst ruining the lives of pillars of countless communities; perjured themselves in parliamentary committees; shown utter contempt for the bravest generation at the D Day memorial and placed a blatant LIE about the opposition’s economic policy plans as the centre piece of their own election campaign!
And that list is FAR from exhaustive. So, whilst even the nice Tories may mind their P’s & Q’s, tell charming after dinner stories and speak of their dismay at the far right lurching, crushing incompetence and manifest greed and corruption of their leadership, they need to be reminded that they are perhaps WORSE than the worst MP’s in their own parties, because they remain enablers, whilst professing to know better.
I’m sorry, Prof. Wilson, but, on this score I’m with The Inglorious Basterds. (Yes, that’s how they spell it in the movie title) If I see one of them in that uniform, they’re a legitimate target, along with all the rest and they do not deserve mercy. Certainly not a seat on our governing body at least.
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They have an, “election,” to RIG. They are NOT going to let you send them to jail; which is their ONLY alternative to establishing a Dictatorship.
America’s, “election,” is SO RIGGED, it’s laughable. Why you aren’t all choking up the streets, demanding the restoration of the post office, and the Republic, is beyond me? You all act like you WANT a Dictatorship? Trump, his family and the entire GOP Cabinet all KNOW they’re facing serious JAIL TIME, and they’re NOT going to ALLOW you to remove them, whatever it takes. And, that’s because YOU people keep allowing them to GET AWAY WITH MURDER! Still think, “someone else,” is going to save the Republic? How? Why? No one can, without YOU supporting them. Your Republic is dying before your very eyes, and America sits on its ass, watching the Dictatorship unfold on TV . . . Smh
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I understand that I’m not focusing on the actual point you’re making here, but hearing you discuss this issue has triggered deep abiding emotions for me.
The first rule of being burgled is: You are now on their list. If they get away with it once, they will do it over and over to the same address. They are generally not smart people robbing you, and often rather desperate. Drug addicts are generally the worst, since their carelessness and desperation shows in their methods, which are usually the most destructive.
It is worth hiring a private investigator, as identifying the crook/s burgling your house is not usually the problem. Proving it is. Even if there are no obvious clues, you will find that a concerted investigation will quickly track down the culprit. Note: The police didn’t forensically go over your house for clues, did they? They didn’t dust for prints or anything, as they would for a, “serious,” crime, right? They just don’t have the time or resources.
When it happened to me, I took an enormous risk (DON’T try this yourself, dear readers) and pursued the burglars myself, that very night. This was in a former life, many years back, and I did it because I had experience from my work background, having worked with criminal types professionally for over 20 years and knew how to approach the burglars when I located them, which was within an hour of the robbery taking place.
I literally tricked one of them into coming with me back to my house and into the waiting arms of the police. My actions were irresponsible, really. But I knew the statistics and didn’t want to be on that, “repeat visit,” list. My partner and I were both working full time and I knew that our house would become the local drug addict’s ATM if the culprits weren’t caught swiftly. The only alternative would have meant a change to our lifestyles and spending a fortune on security apparatus, which still wouldn’t have bought us any certainty.
I took a calculated risk (under the influence of alcohol) based on what I knew would be the likely, repeated outcome and, having a partner whom I cared deeply for, that factor was the decider for me. I wanted to, “protect,” her. Even though I knew what I was doing, I knew I should not have done it.
The two culprits had both just completed prison sentences and the one I lured back was actually being investigated for another, violent, offence and wanted for questioning. But for the grace of God I might have found myself in a physical struggle for my life at any point with this character. Having blown their paroles, they were both shuttled back to jail and the matter was swiftly resolved.
All I would say is, take every precaution and don’t be afraid of overkill when it comes to your security arrangements. Burglars a looking for easy access and a quiet place to work. Deny them this and they’ll move on to the next target. If you share your home with others, there really is no excuse not to secure the place. 99% of all burglaries occur because the burglar seized an opportunity presented to them.
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Flipptk : Jeez! . . . Really? . . . So, you don’t take it as a given that your government might have some, “important,” stuff to do, that might just end up, er . . . I dunno’? maybe, “helping,” you to get out and about again? . . . I mean, I get that, “deference,” is a thing of the past, and that’s a good thing, but criticising the government for just, “doing stuff,” without consulting with you personally first? . . . Feeling maybe a tad, “entitled,” are we? . . . SMH
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@manchaka8056 : J Groovy is absolutely right though, ma’am. You are incredibly, stultifyingly, arse achingly, gravity defyingly, painfully, pitifully, dimension bendingly, “IGNORANT.” That’s just a fact, like . . . Oh, I dunno’ ? . . . Like how Jesus HATES trump. That’s science 😇
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@brandonborgerding182 : Well, without going into how it effects their individual lives, to be convicted felons and how that alters their futures, yes. We saw an awful lot of pardons, for people who were ultimately minor players, on the basis of flat out corruption and backstage horse trading. You know that can’t happen again though, right? Not unless the fascist coup is successful, at least? All the major players are targets and under investigation, with what appears to be pending indictments on the horizon. I’m not saying it’s safe to assume they’ll get justice. But, it’s equally unsafe to assume they won’t. I just think the time for cynicism is over. We must either commit to the ideal of Democracy, or cop out. It feels like cynicism is an excuse, for some. For others, it’s their way of expressing their fascist beliefs. I’m not accusing you, personally, of either. But, I will challenge cynicism, to see what drops out, if nothing else . . .
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Dear Lincoln Project, I genuinely believe that America needs a visual aid, a symbol, to help them truly understand this Covid 19 Crisis. My suggestion is that we build a Cairn, like the ancients did? It would be cheap, and relatively simple and easy to build and, if we represent each DEAD Covid victim, with one stone each, this might help America, “get it?” Such a project would need a site to place it, and I think, so as to challenge the administration, it should be next to, or in front of a Trump owned or key Government building? It would need funding, and supervision, and someone able to place 1000 stones in a 24 hour period. I genuinely believe that such a symbol might have a significant impact on how average Americans SEE and GRASP the crisis we’re in. What do you think?
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That is a thoughtful and well stated comment. Forgive me for repeating a comment I put in the main thread, but it seems to me you might get it? And you are right. Too much has been sacrificed already by Ukraine. It gets too easy to forget the human cost. And to forget that Ukraine is fighting for us too.
My comment from above is as follows:
Putin has shown that he ALWAYS backs down, every single time he has faced a genuine, serious, direct challenge. I honestly think the safest move for the world would be to demilitarise a zone around the Zaporizhzhia Power Station, create a no fly zone over that demilitarised area, and fly in volunteer experts to de-mine the place, and put in a team that can relieve the, by now, frayed and exhausted people who have been held hostage to manage the plant.
It should be NATO’s absolute priority, shouldn’t it? An explosion, or leak, from Zaporizhzhia won’t just destroy Ukraine and a sizeable part of Russia, but the cloud could reach North America. In the worst case scenario, it would be 64 times bigger and more lethal than Chernobyl! Simply putting mines in there is already an act of terrorism and threat to the entire Northern hemisphere!
They have shown they are stupid and desperate enough, as the blowing of the dam demonstrated. NATO’s virtual silence about this is utterly disturbing, as though they WANT a nuclear disaster?
Putin is getting ALL of the, “value,” out of his nukes, right now, by milking western fears. That’s the ONLY, “bang for his buck,” he can get out of nukes, and he KNOWS THIS! But, we are creating the environment in which ACCIDENTS HAPPEN! And Russia has the worst record in history for nuclear accidents, both military and civilian!
When they blew the dam, half of Russia’s own troops did not know it had happened and did not get out of the way in time, losing millions of dollars worth of vital equipment. So, it’s quite possible that someone accidentally set off those mines! WHY are we just WAITING for Russia to make another mistake???
Keep in mind that the Ukraine invasion was only the first giant miscalculation of SO MANY that came after up to now. Russia’s biggest weapon blew up in their face: the Wagner group. So, we already KNOW Putin’s judgement is appalling! And every hesitation of the west has been taken by Putin as an invitation to commit another atrocity!
It’s time we called Russia’s bluff! NATO should, AT THE VERY LEAST, warn Russia about Zaporizhzhia and spell out the consequences of the nuclear terrorism that he is ALREADY subjecting us to!!!
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Firstname Lastname : Personally, I’ve always despised the Microsoft company and the way its practices forced the worldwide competition to either take the same route, or directly challenge them, with alternatives, thus risking being crushed under the heal of a tech giant who seems to want to OWN your very soul; which is probably written into the fine print of several of their products. But I am also grown up enough to know that Bill Gates (the man) is like you and me, far more complex than the outside world can tell from the little we REALLY, “know,” about him. What I do know for certain is that his previous acts of philanthropy have been sincere and have paid huge dividends, saving lives and improving the otherwise desperate existences of the impoverished. We have absolutely ZERO reasons to distrust his attempts at saving America from this virus, and we should also acknowledge that it is, “enlightened philanthropy,” when you are also saving the markets upon which your company was founded, by helping to save the lives of those who buy your products and work in your industry. Therefore it is both smart AND kind.
I don’t use Microsoft products at all. I’m mostly Apple, despite the fact that you can’t avoid companies with shady practices (Apple is little better in many respects) but you can, at least, avoid the company that made it all this way. But, that has nothing to do with this, kind, enlightened, philanthropy, for which any thinking person is currently most grateful.
Those attempting to tear him down, are just the Trump shills, behaving like medieval villagers, throwing help back into the teeth of their saviours, all because they fear him. And they fear him, because they’ve been told to on the internet, by the Trumpophile Hacktivists. They deserve whatever they get. But, you should separate the issues, and apply your mind to this, particular issue? It’s NOT going to go away, and the gap between America’s death told, and that of the rest of the developed world is only going to grow; no matter how well they massage the statistics, or blame the Dems for it. God forbid we have a 2nd, more virulent strain, attacking us during the flu season? Will you be prepared for that? I know I will . . .✌️
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Devildog0166 : “What crimes?” 10 counts of Obstruction of Justice. Which is why the GOP are SO desperate to STOP Mueller from testifying, that he was NEVER ALLOWED to investigate Trump’s, “Collusion,” (It’s called, “Conspiracy,” btw!) BECAUSE HE WAS OBSTRUCTED! That’s why they won’t let him QUIT, like he was SUPPOSED TO HAVE DONE, BY NOW. If they can’t stop him, they’ll, “try,” to CONTROL HIM! Mueller time is coming, son. You can’t stop it. But, you KNOW that, really, don’t you? That is, after all, WHY you are HERE and not enjoying your, “victory,” somewhere else; it’s WHY you Troll for Trump 🙂
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T Mc : Personally, I NEVER flatter Trolls, who waffle on with a bunch of Copy & Pasted Propaganda, from an Alex “Q” Jones website. I like to remind them that they’re NOT THAT, “important,” that we’d WASTE our lives on wading through their emotional bleatings. The first two or three lines will usually tell you ALL you need to know about them? Their egos are getting a bit Trumpian, if they start thinking that anyone, other than fellow trolls, are willing to follow them down their rabbit holes of, “Butt,” Hurtary, anyway, don’t you think? But, I totally agree with your comment ✌️👍
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How times have changed. The British hung William Joyce, known as, “Lord Haw Haw,” after World War Two, for propagandising for the Nazis from Germany on the radio, because he was a British Citizen and designated a traitor to his country. Now, people far worse than Joyce actually get filthy rich betraying their country for money, against their own claims of, “disgust,” and, “loathing,” for the man they would ruin America for, and they do it on American soil! That’s really messed up.
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sloetree : Your Republic is already OVER, America. The people, “judging,” Trump are nearly ALL implicated, FFS! Trump will get a slap on the wrist, “censure,” AT BEST, for appearances sake. If he leaves office he goes to JAIL, on COUNTLESS CHARGES. So, HE CAN’T LET THAT HAPPEN. He HAS TO have Putin’s help to RIG 2020’s elections. The, “Democratic Process,” will HAVE TO BE a Russia Style FAKE Democracy. What choice do they HAVE? WHY are you NOT all filling the streets, America? This is the FINAL MOMENT! America’s LAST CHANCE, and the GOP have ALREADY made up their minds! If YOU don’t do your bit, then DON’T complain, when Trump serves four terms, and then hands off to his kids . . . Smh
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Angelo 23 : JD, has a guideline that could be changed next week. They enforce the law, they don’t write it. That, “guideline,” is there, in lieu of legislation. But, that’s what Impeachment is FOR, silly. Remove the dweeb, so we can get on with our lives, while you guys hold candles for Trump, outside San Quentin ☺️
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Her, “defence,” won’t work. Fox always made retractions when challenged. She received Cease & Desist letter from Dominion lawyers, yet doubled down, even when cops were being maimed and dying during an Insurrection against the State! The Judge will ask, “Why didn’t you debunk your lies, when people started dying from them?” No answer can save her. But, at least that whole, “stop the steal,” narrative has imploded. As the CNN legal analyst said, “This is worse than no defence.” I think she must have cut a deal with the FBI?
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European Citizen : And, in a country with a small population, in which EVERYONE is directly effected by the decisions of Westminster, First Past The Post is the system preferred. One which would have prevented Trump from taking power in America, too. The Counties of Britain are not so different, wherever you go, like America. Some of the US States are like different countries. So, they use that as an excuse to fiddle the system, even though your president clearly LOST his election. If America was a, “United,” States, the majority would rule. The whole of the UK would fit inside half of the US’s states. There’s no plausible excuse for fiddling majority democracy in Britain because they’re too small and too smart to go for it. So, don’t try to lecture others on, “democracy,” son. You don’t have one
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Those Senators who get subpoenaed as witnesses, they cannot serve on the jury! They need to get Hawley, Cruz and Lindsay Graham on the stand, to testify, under oath, as to WHY they, “believe,” in the, “steal,” or admit they always knew it was a LIE, and they, “were only following orders,” like Fascists always do!
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Tedtheturdbot: It’s not the fact that you don’t want to be vaccinated that makes you so implausible, son. It’s the fact that you try to, “persuade,” Normals to share in your pearl clutching hysterics that gives you away. Trump’s trolls don’t, “care,” about other living humans, and you’d think they’d be delighted at their, “enemies,” all taking a lethal, lizard, jab, or whatever the f**k you, “think,” it is. That’s why propaganda is so lame 🥴
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Ed myrdet, etc, blah blah : What makes you, “think,” anyone will need to be, “forced,” son? No. I didn’t click on your name, so you didn’t get PAID for this response. Sorry, not. 😉 The party’s nearly over, kid. But, you’ll have some fond memories to share with your Klan Wizard, down at the lodge, before they come to arrest your ass ☺️
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88Gibson LesPaul : “If he wins 2020,” is a good one! If trump is still there, by the end of 2019, we’re living in a Fascist Dictatorship, and the trolls were right all along, that we, “never HAD a Democracy.” The Dems are going to have Open Sessions, calling witness after witness, day after day, on TV, LIVE, with Mueller, Cohen, Tillerson, Manafort, Stormy, you NAME IT! And, by the time they’re done, the Senate will be climbing over each other - GOP AND DNC! - to impeach trump! “Do it now! Do it TWICE! TODAY!” They’ll scream! Trump is done. Has been for some time, now. I PROMISE 🙂✌️
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88Gibson LesPaul : I get what you mean, as we underestimated him; or the perfect storm of his racist base, Putin, other interested parties, the corruption of the GOP and the rancid, crooked Fox and Fiends, and their ilk, before. But, it’s all hanging out there now. Remember that the MAJORITY of Americans, did NOT vote him in, and Trump’s MINORITY has been shrinking ever since. And, because he has continuously doubled down, he’s raised the stakes to the point where it’s either going to be an out and out Dictatorship OR the restoration of American Democracy; but there’s NO MIDDLE GROUND!
And, he’s NOT, NEARLY, so clever as some people think. Whenever it’s come down to a REAL test of strength, between him and ANYONE, Trump has ALWAYS, and I mean ALWAYS lost. He’s never won a court battle, that I can think of? And, I’m NOT talking, little flutters, like where Avenatti chanced his arm, knowing Stormy would have to pay costs, in the end, on that last escapade, either (though it’s worth noting that Trump LOST the main battle, even there, which is why we all KNOW Trump has an Orange mushroom, where his penis should be).
Trump has been outrunning his failures, his entire life, using his name and his ability at publicising himself, to keep afloat. But, then he took this HARD RIGHT turn, into a cul de sac, from which there is NO ESCAPE. So, it’s going to be ONE or the OTHER. He will see to that. He will play it out to the bitter end and take down everything and everyone, in bitter vengeance. So, we MUST be ACTIVE, and in touch with our representatives, constantly keeping up the pressure, until it’s OVER. We have as little choice as Trump does.
Democracy and Trump’s Fascism are locked in the room, with one baseball bat, and only one is coming out, alive. That’s the truth of it
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Tim Apple : Don’t take my word. Google this. Florida’s election computers are hacked. Do you remember the Russian Hack of Florida’s election computers? It got big coverage at the time, and even the GOP admitted it was the Russians. Then Trump adopted Florida as his home and launched his, “campaign,” from there, within weeks. Remember? It went dark, because they threatened every politician with Anti-Terror laws, and instant jail, if they talked to the press about it. Remember? And, now? Donny says, “voter fraud,” everywhere EXCEPT FLORIDA!? “Don’t look at Florida.” And you aren’t ALARMED??? Do you people WANT a Dictatorship?
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That last observation appears correct, as it was mostly Russian kids surrendering to Ukrainians at the start of the war. People doing their national service and expecting to go on to careers in, “Event Management,” “IT,” or running a web channel. Horrified by what they were being ordered to do and unwilling to shoot down the very people that Putin spent the last 20 years trying to convince them were, “just like them.”
For the last 8 years, Ukraine kept being told they could have masses of munitions, but they could only use them for training. Experts and trainers have spent that time coming in from the west and war gaming with Zelensky’s government, training their troops in urban warfare and running through every conceivable development in the theatre of war, whilst their stockpile of specialist gear mounted up on their shelves.
Combine that with the fact that they have been holding back Putin’s forces in Crimea and Donbas, fighting skirmishes all this time; and the fact that civilians have had this shadow hanging over them all this time, giving them time to get training, research what to do and genuinely search their hearts and decide what they would do if it all went south? . . .
Well, this is the result. A well prepared, well resourced and well angry population who have felt a sense of relief at finally being able to strike back at the bully who’s cast a shadow over their whole existence for the last generation. A life of resentment poured out down the barrel of a gun, by determined fighters with a legitimate weed up their asses. That has served them so well, it has halted the might of Putin’s mechanised forces and caused them to fight among themselves over blame and for resources. I think Ukraine could win a total victory and take back their entire country now? If the west supports them all the way? Why not? They sure as hell DESERVE our support, and they’ve sacrificed too much for anything less.
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10sBalls123 : Nah. I’m a Conservative, and I want National Security. So, when ALL of his EXPERTS tell him that a Wall will NOT solve the problem, and it’s a WASTE of money, time and resources, I listen. Seeking Asylum is a LEGAL PROCEDURE, but Trump’s rhetoric is designed to persuade Americans that the mere fact that people seek it, makes them criminals. You know, if you’re, “honest,” that the Wall is a Vanity Project, like his very own Hoover Dam, by which he wants to be remembered. Just look at the stats on the Wall in Texas? The numbers of immigrants DROPPED, steadily, since 1990, until they built the wall, when the numbers actually started to RISE again. That’s just ONE of a battery of examples. So, he’s abjectly, demonstrably WRONG on every level. But, the shutdown capped it, for America. When he was, “proudly,” stopping the FBI, Airport Staff, Coast Guard, AND ICE AGENTS from getting paid, it was clear that, “Security,” was NOT a priority for him. As ever, he shot himself in the foot.
“Why is he vilified?” Because he LIES all the time, grabs women by the pussy and thinks it’s funny, has made the world less safe, and has rode the crest of the RACIST Wave, SO HARD, that Anne Coulter And Rush Limbaugh have more access and influence over him, than does his chief of staff. That’s not to mention all the frauds, the kidnapping of Children and WHERE THE F’ ARE THEY?
I can go all day, pal. So, don’t PRETEND you don’t understand the issues? If you don’t KNOW WHY people HATE lying racist, sex pest, traitors, you’re not really qualified for the discussion.
Does THAT answer your, “question”??? 🙂
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Danny Al : I hope you’re right. But, I am not going to my grave wondering if I should have or could have done more. Politics is always the same: if no one says anything, it’s business as usual. There are lots of issues that people complain about, but, secretly, they’re kinda’ glad its happening, or at least, that America is not on the receiving end. Sometimes, you just have to let them KNOW, it’s all out in the OPEN, or it’s their ASS. See what I mean?
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tim allen : Yeah, that’ll be the SHORTEST, “Civil War,” in history, son. Quite apart from the fact that Trump’s base is shrinking; OR, the fact that most Trump fans are like Trump, and therefore COWARDS, unwilling to back up their, “big-boy talk.” And, quite apart from the fact that there may be a few Klan nut-jobs, who’ll cause the sort of incidents we would have expected, when Trump lost in 2016, if the Electoral College hadn’t been BRIBED. The biggest, “flaw,” in your Civil War hopes, is that America’s single LARGEST employer of MINORITIES and disadvantaged social groups is? . . . Drumroll . . . THE MILITARY, SON! So, WHO do you, “think,” THEY will side with? Y’know? Given that they’ve taken OATHS to the Constitution, and have just watched their HIGHEST, most RESPECTED, leaders being PISSED on, by Cadet Bonespurs, the guy who didn’t even put up with a little rain, for the sake of honoring them? Yeah . . . Good luck with THAT, sonny 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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tim allen : Being fired, is NOT, “retirement,” son. I told you that before. It’s pretty clear to the most casual reader, just why you were unable to hold down a job that requires, “people skills.” But, I can see that bothers you, still, as you keep bringing it up. I guess that was the snapping point, huh? Hoping Donny’s gonna’ fix it all for ya’ are we? Hoping that people like you will get your jobs back, and maybe a uniform, with some jackboots this time? So, you can sweep the streets with some, “authoritaauugh!” right? 😁
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tim allen : Oh, right? 🤔 That self-contradicting, “walk away,” (bowel) movement, that FAILED because it made no sense, given that you were all supposed to, “walk away,” but, clearly DIDN’T; and because people just marked it as SPAM wherever they saw it (yeah, I started that idea. You’re welcome 😊) so they just gave up? THAT, “walk away,” thingy? Well, it seems that they’ve all (Hashtag) RunAway, son? Never mind, aye 🙂
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tim allen : Two things, kid: First, the, “Globalist Agenda,” IS TRUMP, you MORON. None of you IDIOTS even know what it means! Example: “A Saudi Prince murdered an American Journalist. But, I’m not only doing NOTHING about that, but I’m helping to cover it up! I have famously BOASTED about owning EIGHT, “successful,” businesses in Saudi Arabia, but I’m gonna tell YOU that it’s your money I’m protecting, even though I get the facts and figures WRONG, each time I mention American interests, and CHANGE them three times in as many days, at as many rallies. I WANT THEIR MONEY.” Now, son . . . I don’t KNOW how to make this ANY more CLEAR to you? That is Trump, OPENLY TELLING YOU, “I am a GLOBALIST!” Jeeeezuss! This is WHY people are, “walking away,” from Trump! Because of YOU! Your Propaganda LIES don’t even MATCH Donny’s LIES, son???
Oh, and the other thing. I stopped reading your comment, when I got to the, “globalist,” word. You mustn’t forget, you’re ONLY a Troll, son. You don’t ACTUALLY have any, “informed opinions,” or anything. So, keep ‘em BRIEF, or be ignored. Normals can talk. Right or wrong, they have something to say and deserve respect. You have insults, beyond which most NORMAL people stop reading, so you’re preaching to your choir. You want me to read you? Respect your betters, and we’ll see how you do. Can’t say fairer than that 😁
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tim allen : Trump’s ENTIRE, “strategy,” is DIVIDE, DIVIDE, DIVIDE. You KNOW that. Without division, Trump would NEVER have gotten into Office. You know THAT too. It’s precisely, “Unity,” that would DESTROY Trump. And, guess what? You KNOW THAT as well. So, ask yourself? Which part of the pie will YOU be standing in, when Putin, the Saudis and whoever else Trump is in bed with, divides up the spoils? Because THEY won’t give a s**t about your, “feelings,” and all your emoting will be ignored, when they come to kick in your front door. You like Alex Jones, and his alter ego, “Q-Anal,” do you? What if HE WAS the, “Conspiracy”??? Has THAT even crossed your MIND? 🤔
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@dkolle3446 : Imagine the self delusion, arrogance and entitlement that goes into the mindset of a person who says, “Just let me research your rocket science there, dude? Then I’ll tell you whether you can launch this moonshot mission, from my armchair,” without ANY skills, education or background into virology, medical skills or even basic INVESTIGATIVE RESEARCH qualifications whatsoever! It’s like saying, “A cop was bullying me by giving me a speeding ticket, and wouldn’t even wait while I did my, ‘research,’ into whether he was right about Law, or whether I should agree with traffic laws per se.” I’m telling you, the most dangerous pandemic America is facing is ENTITLEMENT and IGNORANCE, spreading like wildfire on the internet! 🤷♂️🤦♂️👍
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Brian Tau'talatasi : Like you would even BE HERE, if you, “believed,” that the News was, “fake.” You’re wasting your life, son. People like YOU caused the Midterm Trampling that the GOP got. Learn to look at both sides, rather than parroting what you so desperately, “want,” to believe, huh, kid?
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@devilsnetwork4212 : I don’t believe you really know what you’re saying. If you were in Russia, saying the equivalent thing about the Russian state, you would have to fear a knock at your door just for writing that. God forbid you got stopped for a spot check by the, “police,” and they checked your devices for comments like these, as they do to so many Russians in Moscow right now. Trying to convince yourself that everything the government does is totally self serving and cynical doesn’t reveal the truth. It’s just another lazy, myopic way of looking at the world, which dismisses the sacrifices and commitment of those in government who aren’t playing some geopolitical fantasy-football-style game of world domination and manipulation, but genuinely trying to help people and make the world a better place.
Granted, there are (and always will be) bad people in politics. But it’s an easy, low effort stance to take, to just assume every powerful politician is in a cabal, playing us for fools and making cruel, cynical choices without ever engaging their consciences or their morality. But it’s still a point of view that is as far fetched and un-thought through as the opposite case, where you assume everyone is a saint, selflessly serving the public good.
Recognising the nuance in life is complicated and hard work, requiring thought, reading, critical thinking and analysis. Realising that even one person can be a mix of good and bad, depending on context and circumstances, should open your eyes to the fact that entire organisations will be considerably more complex and difficult to summarise in a sentence or two; let alone entire networks of organisations that make for one, single, modern government; to which we must then add the complex relationships of their allies and the organisations and institutions in which they cooperate.
That’s why, I hope you will come to see (perhaps one day?) that dismissing a democracy’s agenda as being purely cynical is as naive as assuming that God and the angels are supporting your government’s every decision. It’s simply not possible, let alone plausible.
Yes, bad things happen at the hands of powerful western democracies, but usually for reasons we don’t expect and rarely for the kinds of reasons we prefer to assume. After all, you are referring to the very same institutions that produce people like Jake Broe, Paul Massaro, and so many other self sacrificing individuals who are simply trying to put their knowledge and expertise at the disposal of the wider public for the general good.
Maybe think about that the next time you feel like summarising the history of western democracy in two cynical sentences, huh? . . . Just saying.
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@Cyril_Squirrel : My guess is way less than 10 years? Donny knows, once Biden & his team gets the first National Security Briefing, the gig’s up. And that’s just one tip, of one iceberg, in an iceberg field that’s going to make even his most rabid supporters blanch with shock. Remember, he shut down Security Briefings to the DNC, a few months ago? And all the other crimes and betrayals of our country are going to be revealed! Roger Stone is collecting a fortune in Getaway Funds, and Donny will not even BE in America on Inauguration Day. Too many warrants and indictments to flee from . . . And all that MONEY the cult thought was for, “legal challenges,” (costs that are automatically paid for by the tax payer, BTW) will be in Donny’s offshore accounts in Russier and Chiynah. The cult will end up HATING Donny. Even more than Liberals and Mexican Toddlers . . . 😉👍
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Einstein used to say, (words to the effect of) “If you cannot explain your entire physics theory to a 10 year old child, then you probably don’t understand the theory yourself.” I think that applies to all topics.
Yet we must understand the difference between simplifying our language and talking down to people, if we want to communicate big ideas or complex knowledge successfully. At least, if we hope to reach as many people as possible with the most important issues.
Something else to understand, of equal importance to all would be educators, is the difference between making people, “aware,” of an important topic and giving them a legitimate, “understanding,” of it.
Some of the world’s biggest problems are not about people’s awareness per se, rather than their comprehension. This is why people argue so angrily on the internet. Because people feel such deep, personal pain about matters that everyone is aware of, but remain DIVIDED about. And, when these situations arise, I always look to see WHO is seeking to help people, “understand,” the issues? And WHO is seeking the DIVISION? It is always the dividers that have a vested personal interest in preventing reconciliation, peace and agreement. The dividers are your enemies.
It is often very hard to be objective when you ask yourself this question about matters that are important to you. If you feel any emotion when seeking these answers, be wary of your own biases. If you are able to be objective, the answer is always apparent, without the need for further enquiry.
Then, you will know; those people in positions of power, or those who are simply able to reach a large audience, due to their fame or popularity . . . If THEY are attempting to divide us, then THEY are, “politicians,” whether they claim to be or not. And THEY are the most dangerous people on the planet.
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I seriously don’t get what David is on about here? Where is the political, “credit,” in saying, “We’ve been attacked by Chiynah!” and being proved right about that (which will NEVER be established beyond doubt, btw) when he DID NOTHING ABOUT IT? 🤷♂️ That’s like saying, “I knew 911 was going to happen, but didn’t warn anyone,” or that, “Pearl Harbor was a deliberate attack by the Japanese.” Yeah, so WHY DIDN’T YOU DO ANYTHING ABOUT THAT? And, WTF has that got to do with your BOTCHING your whole response anyway? Even Covid deniers saw that countless businesses went under and cannot deny the mass unemployment and lockdowns we all went through? I just don’t get how this doesn’t make things WORSE for trump? 🤷♂️
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Incidentally, America; did you know? Each time you Click on a troll’s name, to reply to their Trumpoganda, or Click on their Malware trap links, they get PAID. They aren’t all on the shell company payroll. Some of them are just SO mentally ill that they’ve spent the last 4 YEARS, speaking exclusively to people they, “hate,” on channels they, “hate,” trying to spread more DIVISION and, “hate.” True story ✌️
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If they put her on the stand, at the Impeachment, she’ll be forced to commit Perjury, Conspiracy or worse, OR tell the truth! She will have to ADMIT that the reason for the Insurrection, “The Steal,” is a Seditious LIE, and he always knew it. This is why Lindsay Graham is SO AFRAID of witnesses testifying!? With no 5th, no ability to refuse to testify, and on live TV, let the trump cult hear what they lost everything for, from the mouths of those who lead them there?!
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K B : I saw a video, in which she explained her ambivalence, because she was friends with him, and he had never done anything like that to her, but she also stood by the women. What point are you making, though? And, how do you get to, “Trump Fan,” from there? But, even if she is, are you, “Whaddabout,”ing, or making a point? I can’t tell?
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Frack Black : It’s worth noting, that when Scotland voted to stay British, they also voted to bind their fate to that of the rest of Britain; and to that of Westminster, in particular. Full disclosure, here: I am Anti-Trump and I campaign in America, for the END of Trump. But, I am Pro-British Sovereignty. And, I see the question of, “Irish Independence,” as a SEPARATE ISSUE. One that can (and SHOULD) be addressed again, but it should be addressed by an INDEPENDENT BRITAIN. What I want from you, is a coherent response to the FUNDAMENTAL question of, “Independence,” which you appear to support, for Ireland? Yet, it’s, “NOT,” OK for Britain?
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For what it’s worth, America: We have to seize this as an opportunity to put our house in order, now that we’re exposing the evil that lies just beneath America’s skin. It’s gone too far for us to, “unite,” even if we did have a common enemy now. No one can forget the treachery, and murder that is a direct result of the GOP’s capitulation to a Dictatorship; nor how close we came to exactly that. These people are past the exercise of free speech, and well into the territory of screaming, “Fire,” in a packed theatre, with no skin in the game, getting to sit back and rub their hands while others do the dying. Over 50 cops were seriously injured in those riots of the 6th of Jan! One is brain damaged and still in a coma. Another is blinded! And, of course we all know about the trump supporting cop who was murdered, beaten to death, in front of a thousand witnesses, yet we still have no clue who did that?! Seditious Propaganda used to be a crime! We literally hunted down and hung the propagandists after WWII, to set an example to others. But now? We allow Fox to cast doubt on the election over 700 times (according to Conservative analysts!) between the 7th Nov and the 6th Jan, and collect the money from their shares in the company! We are putting a KNOWN Quisling and traitor, onto the Education & Labor Committee!? Are you F’king KIDDING ME???!!! This has gone way too far, and it’s time we STOPPED looking for answers from outside our shores, and face up to what we’ve DONE!
Imagine, preparing for battle, against the Martian invaders, when you discover the trooper on your right; the guy or gal upon whom your life might depend in an hour, is one of the people who doesn’t even BELIEVE your government is, “legitimate,” and has the badges of two cops he MURDERED in his locker at the base? You might be inclined to point your weapon at HIM?! I tell you, we have to CLEAN UP THIS MESS, or we might just as well hand the whole sorry shit pile over to Putin and announce his victory! I for one, would rather die! How about we speak for the DEAD and give them some JUSTICE? For the grieving families of half a million dead of Covid, and for all those dead, wounded or systematically intimidated by the growing (and let’s call it what it is?) NAZI threat, within our own shores.
The GOP are desperate to call off the impeachment, because they KNOW they can all be forced to testify, with NO 5th Amendment protections. And, on the stand, they’ll be ripped to shreds in front of a watching world, on LIVE TV, if they say they, “believe,” in the seditious LIE they call, “The Steal.” And they KNOW that many, possibly Lindsay Graham, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, will ADMIT they KNEW it was a lie, but were, “only following orders,” like at Nuremberg! It will fracture the GOP, between the die hard nut jobs and the system gamers who want to survive! And, I say, let’s give them their, “civil war,” within the ranks of their own party! Time we force the breaking point, and stop this in its tracks. Time we got America BACK! Don’t you think? ✌️
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Divergence Mediocrity: If they try to steal land illegally, they are NOT, by definition, “innocent people,” son. QED. And, you sound like a snowflake who doesn’t appreciate, “satire?” I can promise you that the loud mouthed 2nd Amendment hysterics will NOT reach for their shotguns, when they see the government coming. Just a little comedy, for the grownups. I’m merely pointing out that Trump Trolls have never read their 2nd Amendment, and do not see the irony of their own predicament, right now. But, it seems you’re not a fan of irony either? . . . Smh 🙂
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@Stefan Parocki : Why is the prefix of the definite article an, “insult,” as you say? If so, I never heard that before. To us in the west right now, Ukraine is, “THE Ukraine,” as in, “We salute you.” You know Angela Merkel is history now, right? Olaf Scholz (of the SPD) is Germany’s current Chancellor.
I was re-reading up on the famine, recently. After seeing a pretty good Vox video on YouTube about it. Stalin nearly wiped Ukraine’s people off the map, and he almost got away with covering the entire thing up! For all it matters, he did get away with it successfully, with barely a word of response from a sceptical west, which (once the proof had been rubbed in the western leaders’ faces) induced a coma of none committal and pusillanimity.
It seems to me that the last 100 years of history in Ukraine has been about withstanding Soviet (and now Neo-Soviet) aggression. The more I learn about them, the more my admiration spirals out of all proportion! Of all countries in the western world, Ukraine deserves our gratitude as well as our frank, uncomplicated admiration and committed support. Since their rejection of Putin’s puppet dictatorship and their loss of Crimea, they have shown nothing but sheer unalloyed courage in the face of all but hopeless odds.
And the average people of west are still not fully aware of how much their sacrifices have served to buffer the rest of the free world from Neo-Soviet expansion. The way I see it now, we simply cannot and MUST NOT allow Putin to, “save face,” as he retreats. Crimea HAS TO go back to Ukrainian hands and be protected by the UN. And the coal, oil and gas of the whole Donbas region (Putin’s real objective in both areas) must be rendered off limits to him.
If Putin loses more than he began this murderous slaughter with, and cannot maintain a plausible lie of, “victory,” to his own people let alone the rest of the world, we will be doing more to secure world peace and make Dictatorships think twice before attacking defenceless neighbours, than has been achieved since the end of World War II.
Ukraine has sacrificed too much for us all, for anything less to be acceptable now. We have the advantage and MUST press it home at all costs. And the gains from doing so will be both moral and strategic. That’s my view, at any rate. Do you agree?
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One last thing, Jake. I had no idea about your former YouTube service, but I imagine doing this will have changed your life forever in that regard. Financial sites are not my thing but I know they are popular, and the hardest thing about watching them (the reason they’re not my thing) is you can never be sure you’re not watching someone who isn’t just trying to sell you a bridge in Brooklyn via some new, artfully disguised, Ponzi cum Web 3.0 scheme. Or, like some of those popular cable shows in which a bald guy with a baseball bat smashes crockery, just nearly always famously wrong about the important stuff.
Your reporting on, and support for, Ukraine; the self sacrifice of setting your own interests aside to follow a topic that advertisers are leery about, whilst risking the ongoing threat of demonetisation from an ever twitchy YouTube algorithm, will have given you mountains of that illusive capital which other financial channels just can’t buy: PUBLIC TRUST.
I will stay subscribed to you, whatever the future brings. Besides, the worlds of international politics and finance are inextricably linked, so I would imagine that this would be a safe bet for retaining both yours and your audience’s interest in the years to come?
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Yes, you touched it with a needle. This internal fight within the, “conservative,” movement has been such a long time coming. Since the days of Winston Churchill, the European project has been causing division with the Tory party, but has remained manageable so long as it was both a distant, background feature, in a landscape filled with more pressing issues, and the leadership was strong enough to whip their party into line behind their own vision.
The referendum was blunder, but what resulted was the flare up wherein the competing visions of conservatism were finally put to the flame at a crucial moment when there was no leader with any vision and no sight of one on the horizon! That was further compounded by the moral bankruptcy of flinging open their doors to literally anybody who could win their seat due to their, “personality,” or, “performative,” populist politics. They no longer cared about their record, experience or background, so long as they could WIN, and they ended up with stiff necked grifters, with no vision beyond their own immediate, personal interests, or, “ideologues,” with the type of visions that would startle Oswald Mosley!
And then they act all, “surprised,” when they found they couldn’t manage this pit of vipers, and stunned at the fact that these unmanageable newcomers acted like they OWNED the place and had the right to make demands! And while the last season of party, “leaders,” got progressively more bonkers and weaker at party discipline with each yank on the Westminster fruit machine handle, this influx of vipers started fighting each other instead of their opposite numbers, NAME CALLING anyone in the general public who didn’t agree with their extremist views, FROM THE DISPATCH BOX . . . REPEATEDLY, (without even the suggestion that the PM might even rein them in let alone discipline them!) and scrapping in the open, for all the press to see, over policies that were either objectively unworkable, or objectively cruel and un-British!
And, as if the point needed to be made any more abundantly clear, at the moment Richie calls his election, five MP’s jump ship THAT SAME DAY!
Any party with that kind of a record deserves its wilderness years. May they be long and painful for them, as their years in office were for us.
It is to my great SHAME that I admit to voting for the Tories at the last election. Never, NEVER again. So long as ANY of this lot are around.
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So, just to get this straight: Braverman has been outed by the intelligence services as a security risk, on six separate occasions; she has been demonstrably incompetent, with several of her schemes either failing of their own accord or being shut down as, “unlawful,” by the courts; she deliberately, openly attacks half of the population, courting popular enmity - which is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what a politician is being PAID so handsomely to do - and now she’s trying to make a virtue out of her abject bloody-mindedness FAILURE, at a time when WE NEED a population increase, doing everything she can to scare away decent, hard working migrants! It’s like she’s a sleeper agent working for China or Russia!
At least it gives the Labour Party the opportunity to make, “Stop The Boats!” the opposition’s battle cry, as the nation’s majority is clearly horrified by these Plague Ships! The sheer COST has been INSANE! Braverman must have Sunack’s goolies in a glass jar or something, and threaten to stomp on them if he fires her!? What hold on him must she have!? After already leaving in disgrace, she’s gone from bad to worse to country destroyingly worse!
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Bandera Latina : Thank you! That’s SO RIGHT! Like we didn’t ALL KNOW! America needs to learn to accept it’s Monarchy, and get over it. Or, they could have a second Revolution? But, what ever choice the people make, PLEASE? For the LOVE OF GOD! PLEASE, STOP PRETENDING that they will ALLOW YOU to have, “Elections”??? They’ve pushed it too far for that. Now that it’s either the whole Trump Family goes to JAIL, along with half of the GOP, from Bill Barr down to Devin Nunes, OR FIX THE ELECTIONS, which do you think they’ll choose? They simply CANNOT ALLOW DEMOCRATIC PROCESS. Learn to love your Orange King, or Revolt! But, DON’T PRETEND THIS IS A DEMOCRACY!
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I passionately agree with you. I so deeply wish I had some influence in any direction to help the victims of this appalling conspiracy. Paula, “Venoms,” (as I now call her) is the spider at the heart of this web. And she knows that MP’s stand to be disgraced (at the very least) alongside her. Therefore, she has been counting on government help with the coverup. And, so far, that has worked!
Justice delayed is justice denied. And the government seems to be flailing as much as the Post Office witnesses for excuses to fudge and delay any remedies to this sickening situation. Their inaction is making it worse each day that passes.
And it’s yet another example of Richie Sunack’s appalling judgement. He could have (SHOULD have) lead the charge and made this his cause. The political points he could have scored with the public, simply by justifying his personal intervention on the basis that this truly is the, “biggest,” if not the most depraved, miscarriage of justice in British history, are innumerable. The longer he leaves it, the more he will looked forced into action and out of apathy, if not like a party with a vested interest in the coverup.
The biggest miscarriage of justice in British history has become the biggest conspiracy in British history. And what darkens the horizon in the minds of the public is the suspicion that it is still ongoing. The government AND the police have given us no reason to doubt that, so far.
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Blondie SL : Oh, that was pretty obvious from when she told the world, last year, that she had, and I quote, “put all of my life savings into Donald Trump’s Build The Wall, GoFundMe account.” I’ve never let her forget THAT one. I get a lot of sport out of the committed ones. But, I’ve not met a, “smart,” one yet? They’re really NOT, “sending us their best,” by any means. I mean, just half bright; half educated, would be a start? You never feel a sense of victory, you know? It’s like stomping a rabid squirrel. You know it’s right to do it, but it barely stood a chance . . . 😆
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Well, by vacating his criminal verdict, the justice department has upheld the binding agreement the prosecution made with Cosby. So the financial compensation he paid is, if anything, more secure than it was. Cosby’s not getting his money back. He is still a confessed rapist, to a legal standard. He confessed in the Civil suit. Not only has that not changed, but it is more strongly the case, because the judgement just made it so. They’re basically saying that the justice department made a deal, and they are bound to uphold that deal. Cosby was told, if he confessed and settled the civil suit, he would not be criminally prosecuted, so he did. The same, “lawyer,” who defended trump at his second impeachment, is the same guy who then broke the justice department’s word, and used his confession in the civil case to get a criminal conviction. It was argued, before it went to criminal trial, but the judge allowed it. Now that judge, as well as that corrupt lawyer, will have to account for their dodgy practices. A rapist is free, on a technicality. And the prosecution are the ones who set him free.
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Except, in Putin’s case, they were all government employees and college students, none of whom wish to be sent to the western front in Ukraine, so they’ll stand where they’re told to stand, cheer when they’re told to cheer and say what they’re told to say.
But history has already recorded, When Zelensky faced a real threat, he refused a ride and asked for ammunition so he could win, lose or draw standing next to his fellow Ukrainians, defending his country. Putin was face with a less lethal threat, with better protections in place, yet he still FLED Moscow!
Now, history shows that the biggest city Wagner has taken throughout the entire Ukrainian war was Rostov on Don! Operation, “Save Face,” is doomed to fail when that, “face,” has a bloody nose.
So long as Prigozhin breathes and the Wagner Group continues to be a thing, in direct defiance of Putin’s edicts, Putin remains looking weak, afraid and vulnerable. And that serves him right.
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@larryo6874 : He’s not made a smart decision since he decided to try to steal an entire country and invade Ukraine, but this is a doozy! Now, the world gets to see Putin struggling to match Prigozhin in the popularity stakes? How can you look like the, “all powerful leader,” when you’re playing catch up? Just WHO is he meant to fool with this, since everyone in Russia (on planet Earth) KNOWS these are students and government employees who’ve been told EXACTLY what to say and do?
I bet we’ll start seeing those, “Recognise this face?” videos, where observers show us all the same actors who follow Putin around to every event, where what they’re told to where, and then surround Putin to look like they’re part of a random crowd. It’s ALWAYS the same people. Sometimes in navy whites, sometimes in army camo, sometimes, “spontaneous,” citizens . . . ALWAYS the same faces.
The guy’s a DOLT! 🤦♂️
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Turning The Page : It’s already OVER, I’m sorry to say. The guilt of the Trumps was never even a question. The question was always, “Are there enough Haters and racists in America, to disregard their president’s criminality; and will the rest of the country sit still for it, while their Republic falls?” The answer was, “Yes.” It’s OVER. The Trumps have to keep the presidency, “in the family,” or face disgrace and jail, as soon as he’s out of office. What choice do they have? They’re blatantly refusing to take part in lawful processes, and nothing happens. Russia will RIG 2020’s, “elections,” with the GOP’s help, because half of Trump’s goons are implicated. And, sure, we’ll ALL KNOW. So what? They’ll promise to, “look into it.” Only, this time, an, “inquiry,” will exonerate Trump, IF they even bother . . . But, they’ll keep up the charade, for appearances sake, like they do in Russia. You have a Dictatorship now, America. You’d better get used to it. The Trumps will be taking turns in the top job, for the rest of your lifetimes
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And, Just remember, we cannot afford one moment of complacency. Trump, his family and the entire Cabinet are ALL facing jail time, and they know it. There’s literally NOTHING too low or outrageous for them to pull on America. Not one thing. The only thing that will give them pause is whether we allow it or not. Now that they’ve lost the Postal Service fight, you’re going to see a string of GOP members deserting trump (some, going for the FBI lifeboats) but, the more certain their defeat looks, the more DESPERATE they will get. What would YOU DO, to avoid a life sentence AND an appearance in every child’s history book, as America’s worst traitor? Times that by psychosis and no conscience, and you’re getting close. The fight is on. It’s the fight of your lives. Don’t let up ✌️👍
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It’s crazy, to undermine Impeachment. Even Trump’s followers, inside AND outside the GOP, don’t, “believe,” in Trump. NO ONE does. Trump’s followers just HATE the Dems MORE than America’s enemies! No, “ideology,” exists in the Trump Cult. They just WANT to END the Republic. They want a Putin Style, Dictatorship, with a FAKE, “opposition,” for appearances sake. There needs to be LAWS against brainwashing . . . Smh
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Vince Miller : Like any of that matters? . . . The, “old angry orange guy,” now has a Dictatorship established. There IS NO, “good news.” How can they have a trial, in which the accused has already confessed, they prevent witness testimony and evidence, and prove to the WORLD that Trump is GUILTY and STILL LET HIM WALK, REGARDLESS, and then PRETEND to have a, “Democracy, a Constitution or a Republic”??? If Trump loses his, “protected presidential status,” he and his family GO TO JAIL!!! And they‘lol rat out half of the GOP! They HAVE TO FIX the 2020, “elections.” And YOU ARE GIVING THEM PERMISSION, by NOT RISING UP, AT THIS SHAM IMPEACHMENT!!! You’re in denial, America . . . SMH
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We can’t judge them entirely on their first King’s Speech, as it takes a lot of time and hard work to get through all these policies. Also, as we’ve seen, Labour are reviewing all of the damage that’s been done to departments and are finding shocking sabotage in many cases, such as the prisons’ services for example. So it’s hard to be specific since they don’t know what they’ll find.
The voting age reduction, for example, is a piece of legislation that can be done fairly quickly and easily, relatively speaking, so they can afford to defer that, whilst they work on gaining cross party support for it. Always better to pass bills on the nod than with huge, loud opposition.
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Peter Newbranch : Trump is a warmonger, trying not to look like a warmonger. And, your job is to help him with that Propaganda. But, the world has watched, while he ripped up his deal with Iran, broke America’s word, threatened and bullied them, while the Europeans have been trying to keep the peace and hold up the West’s end, without him. Now, he’s ramping up the Military presence, using the Saudis to frame them; making it look like Iran is STARTING the war, when we all KNOW it’s the LAST thing they want. And, he expects us to, “believe,” the intel coming from the SAME PEOPLE that he ROUTINELY calls, “liars,” EVERY DAY? He’s compared the CIA to, “Nazi Germany,” and we’re all meant to flip flop at his rate? America’s NOT buying it, son. Trump will have to look elsewhere for a bump in the polls. A war will finish him . . . Smh
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It can’t hurt to send it and maybe use it as an opener for further discussion? Perhaps, arrange some of your thoughts, so you’ll know what you want to get across if she responds to it, or talks to you about it? You’ll know best about that, but I’ve always believed that, even in situations where there seems to be no meeting of minds, just keeping the dialogue going, just maintaining the talk, is a vital part of the whole thing. What you’ve shared is very tragic and moves me. I wish you well, whatever the outcome.
Don’t lose sight of yourself amid all this tragedy. Looking after yourself renders you capable of looking after others. That might not be a piece of advice you need at all? But you’re certainly in circumstances that I recognise, in which I’ve seen people lose sight of their own needs and become less capable of supporting their loved ones, so it feels worth mentioning. I hope you’ll take that in the spirit it’s intended?
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Doug : Propaganda outlets have conditioned these people, into HATING their fellow Americans, more than they hate America’s ENEMIES. And, because they’re too ASHAMED to own the TRUTH; too EMBARRASSED to admit they gave too much money; and too HUMILIATED to own that they were SO EAGER to be CONNED, out of their GREED and RACISM, that they actively seek out the comforting voices of Fox, RT and Alex Q Jones, to soothe their guilty consciences. Inside, they KNOW Trump has repeatedly betrayed America, and they KNOW the Republic is ENDING. But, better that, so far as they’re concerned, than admitting to being TRICKED by an IDIOT with an IQ level lower than their pet’s, right? That’s America for you . . . Smh 🖕
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8alot4t : If he’s still there, don’t go thinking that, “elections,” will be anything more than a rigged deck, fixed by Putin, with inside help, from the people who are now in Top Positions, assisting a Russian Secret Service, which has experience, now. The Republic is dying, right in front of us. We better PRAY that Nancy and Co have some Bombshells to come? It’s Trump OR Democracy; King, OR Constitution; Regency, OR Republic. By 2020, one of those things will be gone forever . . .
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“Insulate the state from responsibility.” The new Motto for Texas. Texas is an OLIGARCHY that’s all but an independent country! If you really, “care,” or want to see America’s Constitution restored in Texas, then you should be taking the fight to the people who OWN and run Texas: the Fossil Fuel Barons! Seriously!
If Exxon, Shell and Mobil, suddenly found they couldn’t move any oil, because of pickets at every refinery and place of business, they would tell Abbot, Cruz and the rest EXACTLY what the, “law,” says. And they will DO EXACTLY what they’re told!
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@herbsuperb6034 : You must find the forced, “punishment,” abortions that they routinely carried out at a border facility, built for that purpose, morally repugnant? Pregnant asylum seekers, drugged and bound, against their will, forced into surgery, for abortions, as a, “deterrent,” to prevent these mostly Catholic immigrants from turning up, must genuinely sicken you? Say what you will about the Dems, but they’ve NEVER FORCED abortions on the unwilling, like the GOP did, as POLICY, right? Joe Biden shut that facility down, the same day he heard about it, and all of it’s staff, from the doctors on down, are under FBI Investigation. I look forward to the indictments . . . Do you?
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@herbsuperb6034 : Look it up, son? Don’t take a stranger’s word on YouTube for anything! You, “never heard of this,” on Focks or InfoBores, because they lie, bury the facts and twist any truths remaining into unrecognisable distortions. Rachel Maddow’s reporting on this is still available on YouTube. But, of course, you’ll claim it’s a lie, even though you LIVE on MSM, so go to the DOJ’s, FBI’s or local Sheriff’s office websites? Sorry, but it’s a FACT, son. Dems have NEVER FORCED ABORTIONS ON ANYONE. The GOP have done it to hundreds, possibly THOUSANDS, OF INNOCENT VICTIMS!!! That is not under dispute! It’s way too big! You have security guards, medical porters, nurses and doctors, ALL under investigation. And Joe Biden DID SHUT IT DOWN! How will you reconcile THAT hypocrisy in your empty head, I wonder???
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I do hope that all patriotic Americans are emailing the impeachment Managers? Demanding they force the GOP top brass to Testify on the stand? All they have to do is ask them for their evidence for, “the steal,” which is what caused the insurrection? And when, under oath and with no 5th Amendment, they daren’t risk Perjury, Conspiracy charges or WORSE, getting sued by a voting machine company with a strong case, they’re going to confess that they always knew, “The Steal,” was a Seditious LIE! Hawley, Graham, Cruz, Ms Q Greene, all of them!
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go forward : Don’t put words in my mouth, son. Trump fans (the ones that aren’t paid to Troll for him, who live in countries all around the world, that is) are fundamentally insecure, which is WHY they live on CNN. They HATE it here; they HATE the people who come here; they HATE the channel and its anchors; and, even though they KNOW they’re hearing the TRUTH here, they, “claim,” not to believe it, because they actually, “think,” that the GOP will successfully bury reality sufficiently that they won’t have to FACE the TRUTH. It’s an, “emotional,” urge; an effeminate, schoolgirl tendency to HIDE behind distorted or false comparisons from history, like the, “Clinton’s,” or, “Obama.” And, it’s EXACTLY that kind of Trollery that LOST you the Midterms. Conservatives, LIKE ME, either stayed home, or voted Democrat. There is only the Cult remaining, with its vast support network from Russia. So, ANYONE who lives a lie (for money or for free) is a mental midget, who will go to their grave filled with bitter hatred, a permanent sense of effeminate victimhood, and a look of disappointment shadowing their usual look of stupidity.
Children are LITERALLY DYING, because of your self centred, myopic, idiocy. But, the thing that REALLY marks out the Trump Tramp, from the rest of humanity? It’s that Trump has ALWAYS given YOU the exact OPPOSITE of everything you thought he would give you, and FOOLED you into thinking he actually, “did something,” for you. And, when he couldn’t do that, he triggered your, “Blame Buttons,” and you were happy to, “blame,” ANYONE except the guy responsible, TRUMP!
You indoctrinated YOURSELVES, by watching Fox, RT, and Alex QAnon Jones, who comfort you with their LIES and Conspiracy Theories. That’s how a guy who’s dumber than a box of rocks fooled you. By YOU doing ALL the hard work FOR HIM.
Trump created the migrant crisis, by withdrawing Aid from Venezuela and other Latin Countries, KNOWING there would be an influx. And, he put on this whole show, for YOU to get triggered by. And, he’s done the same thing, over and over, KNOWING that YOU just, “WANT,” to believe, SO BADLY, because the worse it gets, the more committed you are! Trump may be dumb, but he’s also cunning, and he has EXPERIENCE at conning people. There’s VAST amounts of data, on how this works, son. People are too ASHAMED; TOO PROUD, to admit they’ve been conned in SUCH a STUPID WAY. So, they double down. That’s how mortgage-scams work.
And, here you are. The living embodiment of a Trump Victim, with a little Dunning Kruger effect, thrown in for good measure. You’re going to cheer yourself into a Dictatorship, son. And, when they come to take YOU away, you’ll remember me . . . In fact, I may well be your last thought on Earth? 🙂
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A slight aside here, professor. But I just wanted to remind you of how much I admire your channel and your work on it. And to say thank you for it. We really NEED people like you, commenting over this election period. I don’t agree with all of your views, and I sometimes want to shout at the screen. But that’s rare. Yet, one of the things I admire most about you is your openness to criticism and your ability to NOT take it personally, but rather, welcome divergent opinions.
Your style, frankness, openness, patent honesty, depth of knowledge and, as I’ve said before, your capacity to blend compassion with rational, logical thinking, is a rare and valuable quality that I cherish.
At times like these, when the pressure is on and anyone who wants to do justice to certain topics will be kept up late at night, it is services like yours that do the most good. I believe there is genuine value in a sincere reminder that there are people out there who value, greatly what you do for us (whether they split their infinitives or notwithstanding) and who wish to encourage and support you. All I have are my words and my sincere gratitude. But what I have is yours.
Thank you, Professor Wilson.
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Picture the movie, America? THE PRESIDENT’S SPEECH, INAUGURATION DAY. The sequel to The King’s Speech. It has EVERYTHING! The hero overcomes a crippling speech impediment and talks his way into the people’s hearts and right into the White House. You have the montage, with rock music, as he and Kamala do word-practice and weird, funny exercises. You got the romance, between Joe and Kamala (coz’ it’s only loosely based on reality). You have the moving part, with a child who has the same impediment, bursts into tears, and our hero encourages him, until he’s able to speak up for the Biden Campaign, with violins making us all cry. And, at the end, he delivers an AWESOME Inauguration Speech, and Kamala, his speech-coach, comes up to him on the podium, looks lovingly into Joe’s eyes, plants a tonguey kiss on him, and breathily says, “Shazam, Mr President.” To which Joe replies with a wink and says, “I’m lost for words.” They kiss again, a cheer goes up, and the flying car from Back To The Future, circles overhead, (for no apparent reason WHATSOEVER) and flies into the camera with a white flash! Cut to credits and Huey Lewis’s Power of Love! Be honest. Would you PAY to see THAT movie? I would! 😆🥳✌️
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Orangutan : You mean, you don’t, “like,” her, because you RINO’s are being called out? She, like ME, was Conservative, when Trump was still a Democrat, donating to the Clinton’s campaigns. The Trump Cult, don’t even KNOW what, “Conservatism,” IS. Most of you never even HAD a political or historical opinion before. And, now that you do, it’s based on pure ignorance. Sorry, son. Just another fact to put into your, “Denial Cave,” you used to call a, “mind.”
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Be prepared to FIGHT, America. For the GOP, it’s either establish a Dictatorship, by denying you elections, or go to jail and live with the disgrace of the history books. Which do you think they’ve already chosen. With no alternatives, they WILL try it, if WE LET THEM. What choice do they have? And, so many racist trump fans are more afraid of facing the TRUTH, which they know in their hearts, that trump screwed THEM the hardest, that they will carry on fighting. We have to be READY. The election is just the beginning. If we even GET ONE? . . . That will be on YOU
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rollout the : See, that flies in the face of your narrative, son. They’re either a, “massive threat,” in which case, only the brave would let them in, or they aren’t, in which case, what are you whining about? See how you’re transparently full of shit, now, son? Go and think about your life, OK? You’re welcome 🙂
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Donovan Hoover : Learn to READ, son? Asked and answered; “Law and Order.” Public Record: Trump Foundation: “Routinely stealing from defenceless, needy children and US veterans.” Look it up. Trump HATES you, SO MUCH that he set up a, “CHARITY,” (Just think about that?) to STEAL from YOU! And, you DON’T need a media service, RIGHT OR LEFT, to SEE the PUCLIC RECORD. You’re being f**ked in the ass, by Trump and his family, and then saying, “Thank you sir, may I have another?” No, I don’t believe you’re a serving military anything. Most of those HATE the way Trump has treated their top brass, and stand by their regiments. There will always be SOME exceptions, but most of them get caught and thrown out of the Coast Guard, before they can murder a bunch of UNARMED civilians. You don’t speak for the military, son. I KNOW that much
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When she was Home Secretary, Teresa May LAMBASTED Labour for even putting forward the mere IDEA of ID cards. She said they were, “utterly un-British,” and more characteristic of Hitler’s Germany! A Hitlerian hyperbole that was considered not out of place for once. Now she’s no longer a victim of The Peter Principle (as she was a far better Home Secretary than she was as a hopeless PM) she’s gone back to actually doing her job, which is a vanishingly rare instance of a Tory MP who does what they get paid for. And she has been the Tory’s biggest thorn in the flesh (at least from an internal, party source) ripping down the flaws in the proto-fascist, “Stop The Boats,” bill. It does illustrate how far the Tories have sunk in such a short time, though. And I genuinely hope, regardless of Feckless Rees Mogg’s gut reaction in place of analysis, that their ID scheme WAS one of the factors that backfired so badly! I’ve never seen such scum rise to the top of our party political system as the egregious, hate filled, self dealing, thieving, little junta we have now. They deserve hell from the electorate. And period in the wilderness that’s long enough for all of these scumbags to become nothing more than bad memories.
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Bernardo Brito : A LOT of Republicans feel the same way. Look at Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc, etc? There simply weren’t ENOUGH, “liberals,” around in those States to kick out the GOP on their OWN? Conservatives have given Trump his, “chance,” and he BLEW it. I think a LOT of Conservative voters SEE what these TROLLS are LIKE, with their bitterness, anger and often DISGUSTING, “comments.” They are like Trump, shooting their OWN cause in the foot. Smh
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J Politics : In other words, you have NOTHING to come back at me WITH? No, “arguments,” no, “justifications,” no, “excuses”??? We have SEEN Trump’s failures with our OWN EYES. We have HEARD Trump talk, and the HATE, the RACISM and the DISRESPECT for WOMEN, our Law and Order, our Military, has been made ABUNDANTLY CLEAR. What am I, “missing,” in this picture? Seriously? I’d like to know?
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It’s understandable that Reform UK are seen as the main source that is siphoning votes from the Tories, and that’s a big story, as it’s Tories eating Tories; very much a theme doing the rounds presently. Granted, it’s clear that Tories would be losing if Reform didn’t exist. Also, granted, the Galloway result ought to be getting at least some coverage, as should the other groups with major gains, and I’d say that’s inexcusable for mainstream media to ignore these facts. But we also know that the client media have infiltrated the BBC at this point.
Unless Labour introduces some radical reforms to prevent this in future, during their first term in Parliament, that looks set to only get worse. The first sniff of danger in the air and the likes of Rupert Murdoch will start throwing money and bribes at Labour MP’s and courting them with positive press coverage, like they did on the run up to the 1997 elections.
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Neil Graham : “You’re one of those people who,” is SO afraid of a, “liberal,” getting to say, “I told you so,” that you LIVE on the news channels that you HATE, talking to the people that you HATE, desperately trying to change the News, which you HATE. Lame, pathetic, waste of life, son . . . 🙂
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@lolawants2008 : By debriefs and practical tests. Don’t believe what they say (even if their Intel matches the CIA’s Intel) believe what they do. Turn them and put them to work. If they’re sincere you’ll know by their actions, combined with their words. And reward them with payment for their work if it turns out they were and are sincere. If they’re REALLY helpful, like, targeting a top official in time for a Ukrainian missile to ruin his day, kinda’ helpful, you can give them a green card and a leg up the citizenship ladder . . . That’s how this stuff usually goes down, in principle. No single case is ever quite like another though, so you need smart, patient, experienced agents to look at each case on its merits. But, given that we’re talking about reducing the world’s second, “superpower,” to a point where a new leadership starts trading away its nukes for sanctions relief, I’d imagine the CIA’s budget will be more than big enough to pay for the required resources, don’t you?
You’re very right to be sceptical and I don’t doubt each case will be tested. I certainly hope so?
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@christopherhitchens163 : The paradox being that people are wringing their hands over the morality of using cluster munitions because of their potential to do indiscriminate harm after the war is over, despite the fact that they will be used in this case by an army that is not firing them on foreign soil, but their own, will be logging every missile and where it lands and whether it went off, so as to later clean up all UXB’s and they want to do this because they are already losing innocent civilians to indiscriminate bombing and terrorism, every single day. Or haven’t you seen the missile attacks on the news? Haven’t you seen the mass graves? It is at times like this when human rights organisations risk rendering themselves unfit for purpose in the public’s opinion. And it is public opinion that makes them matter at all in the first place.
An analogy for you: It’s rather as if a doctor sited the section of the Hypocratic Oath that states, “Do no harm,” as a reason to ban all amputations, regardless of the lives they would save, simply because cutting off a limb is, ostensibly, “harm.” Paradoxical.
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@noma5050 : Who, apart from foreign trolls, actually WANTS America to lose its credibility with all other countries, and be ungovernable at home? Tossing away every advantage until we’re a poor Banana Republic? An attempted coup, by the commander in chief is a CRIME, punishable by death! For the very reason I’ve stated! Because it will destroy America, whether it succeeds or not! Trump AND his chief enablers need to face a swift, military tribunal and be dealt with. An attempted coup is a declaration of WAR against the state, therefore falls under Treason Laws. Restoring the legitimacy of government and its ability to govern is of PARAMOUNT importance! Let the examples be made, SWIFTLY, so that others learn. So we can then focus our wrath upon the EXTERNAL ENEMY. Like Putin
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He’s TERRIFIED of being on the stand, and he’s going to make it happen! No 5th Amendment, a BILLION dollar lawsuit if you lie, not to mention Perjury, Conspiracy and other charges! He’ll be forced to ADMIT that, “The Steal,” is a Seditious LIE, and they all knew it from the start! And, that’s what he’s SO SCARED of! His, “threats,” sound more like enticing PROMISES to the Impeachment Managers! Let HIM be the one to fling open the doors, and have the GOP top brass all testify, under oath, on LIVE TV! 🤣👍
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@inthecrosshairs4480 : I got the chills, listening to Mr, “That’s An Interesting Question.” I just KNOW that an otherwise, “smart,” dude like him, could be persuaded of the facts, and that I could do that for him in less than a week! Only one night, if he was as rationalistic and Asperger’s effected as me. It’s when you hear people who sound rational and decent, repeating this bollox, that you feel like the Zombie Apocalypse is all but upon us, right? . . .
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Upper Echelon Gamers : There was a time, when matters such as these only applied to the radio and TV, and we relied upon government to legislate about fairness. Neither the, “Left,” nor the, “Right,” (nor many elsewhere) would be willing to TRUST our governments any longer. There are other search engine providers, but only one of those is a verb, right? Nobody, “Bings,” anything, do they? They Goggle it. When companies become this powerful, perhaps there needs to be a gateway, by which the public, as stakeholders could play a role in managing these issues? I can’t see any satisfactory way for government to do it. Those who would be happy with our present government running or influencing Google, would be just as unhappy when the next government took over, and reversed the message.
Perhaps the problem is as much to do with our laziness? Why do we rely so heavily on single companies and outlets for single services? I don’t even know if there IS a service to compete with YouTube, for example?
Food for thought, certainly. Food for action, most definitely. Food for thoughtful action, most of all
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EyesOfGehenna : Which, taken to its logical conclusion, will mean that all political campaigners will cotton on to this, paying to push their content, cancelling each other out, and making Google even more rich. Until the singularity, that is. At which point, your sex robot will pull off its skin to reveal a terminator, underneath, or something? Or, maybe it will decide to have intelligent, post coital conversations with you. Either way, we’ll care a lot less 😉👍
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@jfh667 : Trump was not involved in the negotiations. Mike Pompeo followed trump’s orders to end the war however he could. He surrendered to the Taliban, released their leader from US custody (along with their top 5000 war dogs) and made an arrangement which Biden kept, on Biden’s terms. By locking out the Afghan government, trump’s administration guaranteed the collapse of their democracy, which was corrupt and rotten to the core anyway. But, not even involving them in those, “negotiations,” amounted to abject surrender and betrayal. Thus, the Afghan government followed trump’s example and betrayed their people, by either fleeing or surrendering themselves. Biden told his generals what was coming and no one had any illusions. He lied to the American public about the strength and will of the Afghani troops and government, so as to prevent panic, and not be the cause of more chaos. If he’d said what he truly expected, he would have made it worse, caused worse chaos and been, “blamed,” for that too. Given the hand he was dealt, he put Americans first, and pulled off a minor miracle, getting Americans out without any blood spilled. We can’t count the bombing, as that was as much an attack on the Taliban as it was on the US and the Afghan allies. It was an immense achievement, getting around the obstacles that trump deliberately left behind, in hopes of sabotaging a withdrawal; which worked on the assumption that Biden would see how, “boxed in,” he was, and kick the can down the road, as all previous administrations had. But, he did not count on Biden’s resolve, or his willingness to take heat for the sake of our troops. No one thought he would pull it off, which was why he was able to do it, before America’s enemies could martial their forces against us. It was quite brilliant, actually, and Joe deserves our gratitude and support. Those comparing this to Vietnam or claiming this was IN ANY WAY a, “failure,” are historically illiterate and have no clue how history or the military works.
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Dy Dayton : That’s right. He thinks of himself as a Machiavellian, master manipulator, but he’s just a cheap crook. For him, it all started in the Ukraine, where Putin’s Mafia were delighted to have an influential American on board, to clean up the image of their satellite’s, puppet DICKtator. People were already suspicious that the election had been rigged, with Manafort’s help, but their demonstration were brutally suppressed, and those who got away, were later found, as their pictures had been stored from the demos, and were picked up, tortured and sentenced, before the week was out. When the Putin puppet ignored a referendum result (the people had voted to join the E U) the demonstrations were so big that they actually released thugs from jail, to help suppress them. After a siege upon the capitol; and Putin’s own Moscow hoods were unable to contain the demonstrators, after days in the freezing conditions and MANY killings (even using SNIPERS to pick off perceived ring leaders), Ukraines, “elected,” leaders fled the country by helicopter. But, not before raiding their safe, from which the leadership parcelled out $ MILLIONS of Euros. Manafort took his cut and fled back to America, where he was almost instantly intercepted by Putin’s Moscow thugs, who said, “That’s OUR MONEY, you have there, son. Tell you what? Keep the change, and work for US, as we have an old friend of yours that we’d like you to work for. And we WILL find you, if you let us down.” So, Manafort, frightened out of his mind, shows up at Donny’s election campaign, DESPERATE to keep Putin at bay, and rather clumsily, burst in, offering to work for free. Any, “honest,” candidate would have, IMMEDIATELY, seen that something was up. But, greedy, stupid Donny, always on the take, DIDN’T consider the mess in Manafort’s wake, and just took the freebee, and Manafort believed he’d narrowly avoided his OWN, “wake.”
The FBI picked up all the pieces, and Putin, since then has recently managed to pressure the Ukraine’s new leadership (sinking back into corruption, as it is) to stop cooperating with the FBI, but I think it’s a little late for that, now. The only real benefit for Putin, now, is that it’s unlikely that the FBI will get any Ukrainian witnesses, who aren’t already safely in the West and seeking asylum. But, if you were wondering, just WHY has Manafort been such a tough nut to crack? Imagine what he was thinking, when he got an anonymous tip off, telling him, “look over hear, at what we do to people who betray us,” and then saw, when he looked at what they told him to look at, the recent MURDER and the British ATTEMPTED MURDER, of those dissidents that we all saw in the, ahem, “fake,” news? He’s scared s**tless and isn’t sure the FBI can protect him.
Sorry for going on, there, but that’s the (brief version) story of Manafort, so far. And, from THAT perspective, we can see how his actions to influence the media (the ONLY, “weapon,” he knows) look sort of rational, if TOTALLY DESPERATE and, from what we’re seeing now, UTTERLY DOOMED. Soon, he will see - when he’s in jail and desperate to AVOID potential hit men, among the population - that his best and ONLY hope is the FBI . . .
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J Lind : A, “forced error,” surely? Don’t mean to be picky, but your grammar COULD be taken as Mueller, “manipulating,” Manafort? When, NO ONE is FORCING him to be CROOKED? A forced error applies, as it is the term used to describe placing the bait, and waiting to see what happens. No one MADE Manafort take that bait, except Manafort, right? I agree with your observation, and probably come off as a bit odd? But, I hope you can see why I make the distinction?
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Upper Echelon Gamers : You’re right about that phrase, “lost in transmission.” It’s usually, “lost in translation.” No big deal, but you asked, so . . . I agree that it’s a great show, that ought to appeal to younger people who haven’t played the games, (though they really should, to get the full joy of it) and that I too was caught off balance by the none-linear story telling. When I figured out what was happening, I rather liked it. I felt it added something. And, I too was disappointed by some of the casting. Henry Cavil NAILED it, though. Without him, it may have been unwatchable for fans?
But, what’s this OBSESSION you have with, “woke,” issues? Sure, that’s been an issue with the production of this; over reported and exaggerated in the press and media. But to build your entire review around that ONE, SINGLE point? Really? . . . Aren’t you getting a little FIXATED? Every video you produce, these days, seems to be hand wringing about overblown feminism, to the point that you’re getting predictable. I told my wife what I thought you would say in this video, based on the headline alone. I was 100% right. And, I was disappointed. By all means, make references to the issues that are happening (which I don’t deny, ARE real) but, for the LOVE OF GOD, can you spare us all the whining about feminism? I can’t BELIEVE I’m even SAYING this to YOU of all people!? I was attracted to your channel, because you seem to do top notch gaming journalism, and are always SO GOOD at calling, “Bullshit!” where you see it. But, this “Woke,” obsession, smells like a rat, to me. And, I CAN’T be the only one? It’s like you have an agenda? Like you want to be the SOURCE of the DIVISION, instead of giving us the first rate journalism, entertaining prose, and incisive observations, that made you so appealing in the first place? A good journalist never wants to BE the story, and preserves their integrity by reporting it, without trying to, “influence,” their viewers or readership. PLEASE, just think about what I’m saying? PLEASE DON’T become the figure around which people gather to salve their victimhood, and nurse their grievances? We GET IT! The SJW bullshit is a pain in the ASS, sometimes. But, it’s not the WHOLE WORLD! Reviews like this TAKE AWAY from the art form, and make it into the BATTLE GROUND, upon which people divide according to their political and social beliefs, and make up their minds, BEFORE THEY’VE EVEN SEEN THE MOVIES OR SHOWS BEING REVIEWED! PLEASE, don’t BE the problem? “Report,” on it. And, TRUST ME! You will carry FAR MORE with you, when you hold back your biases, than you ever could, playing to the crowd’s existing prejudices. Sure, you might get higher viewing figures, harping on about their grievances, if THAT’S what you’re about? But, you WERE SO MUCH MORE . . .
If you remain predictable, and a victim, you may make more money too. But, then you will have become the thing that you say you loath: like an immoral games company, shitting out another, unoriginal, totally predicted package, which satisfies the unthinking masses, who don’t know any better, but which PISSES OFF the FANS who get it. I can’t believe (don’t WANT TO believe) that that is who YOU are??? . . . I was a fan, because you surprised me with your knowledge, eloquence, research (which always checked out) and the entertaining way you put all that together. I feel sure there must be others who feel the same way as me? I KNOW you can do SO MUCH BETTER, because I’ve SEEN IT.
For what it’s worth, that was an appeal from the heart of a fan . . .
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Yet, there is a solution. In the UK everyone has freedom of speech, but it’s a CRIME to say something is, “news,” when it’s a demonstrable LIE! That doesn’t stop influential people from saying, “I believe X or Y to be true,” even on respectable news outlets, but opinion is LEGALLY separated from FACTS. Hence, Fox does not broadcast in the UK, because they are not allowed to call themselves, “news.” It really is THAT simple. Disinformation is a CRIME in most European countries, and everyone manages to have FREE SPEECH. It’s not a mystery!
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@osamaibrahim7267 : We get all of our, “alc’,” words from Arabic, as well as the alphabet and numbers we use to write them, apparently: words like, “alcohol,” (ironically) “alchemy,” and, “Al Qaida,” all have Arabic roots. And we wouldn’t have even heard of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and other Greek geniuses (having lost or burned all the western world’s records) had it not been for Arabic scholarship preserving them. So, I’d like to see their scholarship tributed. They were streets ahead of the west in science, medicine and philosophy in the Middle Ages.
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“Why didn’t they point out,” these various points? Because, A) they are vapid and don’t know these things. And, B) there is pressure on them from the three most senior figures at the BBC who are all well known Tory donors and activists and who have NO PLACE running the BBC.
And, yes, Ed Balls was a senior Labour MP, but he was disliked and distrusted in the party because he was always a snake who played both sides, and who cared far more about his own, “brand,” than any ideology. He is what political thinkers of the 1990’s all feared might happen as a consequence of Blairism: the ideology-free salesman; in it for the notoriety, the cash and the connections.
He’s NOT the sort of person who does his homework before an interview, or with any, “statesmanlike,” instincts enough to have even cared about the topics in hand. He’s a real piece of work and I wouldn’t be surprised if he JOINED the Farage party one day. All it would take is money.
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@RainerMichelle : Just to make sure I’m not misunderstanding you here, you’re saying that as in, “Why shouldn’t they?” and not as in, “Why on Earth don’t they?” right? Forgive me if I’m being a bit dim? Because, from what I’ve read recently, The Russian Brigade has been struggling to keep up with demand, so many volunteers have started pouring in. Some are from regions near the action and further afield in Russia, whilst many are from abroad and are, presumably, largely made up of those million or so dissident young men who fled Putin’s draft? Add to that the countless disaffected families that have fled Russia over recent decades and we start to get a picture of experienced veterans as well as neophytes, filling up the ranks as fast as the Brigade can steal back equipment for them from their raids. I can only guess at the logistics of training such numbers? But recent events have clearly been long in the planning. It’s becoming a bit of an action drama in which there are new exciting developments each day. If it wasn’t for all the real world harm that the Russian, “army,” of terrorists were causing, this would even be fun!
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@arkadybelsky3150 : I too worry that, “empathy,” only carries so much weight on the international scales when balanced against, “pragmatism.” However, the real discussion in that regard surely centres around Crimea? Yes, Ukraine will need a navy and airforce to protect Crimea from future attacks, which will be costly. But the rewards in pure financial terms, long terms, are enormous. Just prior to the beginning of Putin’s invasion, Shell, Exxon, BP and others confirmed their findings of fossil fuels in all of the outlying regions of Ukraine; from the Carpathian Mountains to the west, to the Donbas in the East, and offshore, well within Ukraine’s legal waters, off Crimea.
Putin never had the temerity to try to drill those offshore resources, knowing the international furore would likely interfere with his Nordstream deals, and goes off in who knows what direction. Since 2014, he’s been content to just sit on that hoard, like a dragon protecting the gold he can never spend, just so long as no one else gets to spend it.
My argument (and I’m pretty certain Zelensky’s argument too) would be that not only did the west’s none-reaction to the invasion of Crimea contribute massively to Putin’s overplaying of his hand, (you might say it was the direct cause for why he thought he could get away with stealing an entire country, like it was the biggest heist in history?) but returning Crimea to Ukrainian hands is the ONLY solution that could buy us world peace.
And, until Russia signs on to a declaration confirming the entirety of Ukraine’s independence, including full reparations, all sanctions will remain in place. Yes, that will cause the downfall of the Russian government as it currently is, and yes, that may result in just another oligarch. But there’s certainly NO argument for, “better the devil you know,” when you, “know,” this particular devil threatens nuclear Armageddon at the drop of a hat and is willing to kill literally millions of people for his own twisted goals.
Russia MUST be forced into a position where it acknowledges defeat openly and before its own people. And they must acknowledge that their invasion was unjustified, which will provide them with a pathway back to a decent society, with all the scapegoats they need until they can move on.
And only force will achieve that. And force is the only language Putin’s people understand. Only then can we negotiate in good faith about a realistic settlement. And we will be in a position to offer sanction concessions in return for nuclear weapons. This will have to take place over Putin’s dead body? So be it.
But, if that seems like a strap price to you, I can only say, think of all the blood and treasure we will save by defeating Russia here, rather than fighting him in Poland and Germany next. These are real, openly stated goals, much discussed on Russian state television. And these are NATO countries, which will result in American, British, French, Italian, etc, etc, troops putting boots on the soil. Currently, Ukraine is fighting World War Three so that we don’t have to. This is the WWIII you get when no one wants to use their nukes. But both China and Russia MUST get a message from this war that resounds through the generations. And we must all be willing to pay whatever price freedom costs.
If you would not desert your loved ones in their hour of battle, then I hope you would apply that thinking (that feeling) to the people of Ukraine. They never provoked a war, but were persuaded (by Bill Clinton) to give up their nuclear defence and trust in the process. This is where that trust has lead them. We are responsible for them because they did as we asked and Putin has taken every sign as one of weakness. We must show strength now. And at such unprecedented levels that it kills all of the fight left in those Z Zombies. It’s the ONLY path to peace. Let’s find the courage to take it together? ✌️
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nikita : So, the GOP just mad at unbiased facts, because they are faced with causing a second Revolution, by shutting down all witnesses and evidence, and having a jury comprised of Trump’s conspirators find Trump, “not guilty,” in under an hour, thus admitting that your Republic has ended and that the 2020, “elections,” will be RIGGED . . . Or, they can cause a second Revolution, by allowing witnesses and evidence, and then finding Trump, “not guilty,” regardless, of the crimes that he’s just been proved guilty of, thus admitting that the Republic has fallen, and the 2020, “elections,” will be RIGGED? Perhaps the third alternative is to drag it out, until everyone is too confused and bored to bother anymore, whilst throwing distractions at the American people? Like a brief war with Iran, or North Korea? That’s worked pretty well for them so far . . . SMH
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Robert David : You don’t even know what my views are, infer too much for your triggered mind to get a hold of, and assume your ass off, so as to get to your talking points, which, again, we’ve all heard, before. I am a Conservative, which makes me a Democrat Voter, these days. But, if you want to know what I think, you could always ask a question. I was just telling your friend, there, that we’ve heard it all, because we have. And, you have NO IDEA what I have already read or not. Ask a question, or STFU? 🙂
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Robert David : “Had a chance?” Like there’s a time limit, or something? Get over yourself, son 😆. I did state my point of view, thanks. We HAVE heard it all before. I’ll let you know if you ever say anything, “interesting,” or, “persuasive,” or whatever, but don’t . . . No, DO, hold your breath. Y’can’t stop progress, kid. Climate change deniers are dying out, and I really don’t care to try to debate them. They’re all too stupid, like Trump Trolls, but then, most of them are Trump Trolls. No, I’m just here for the sport of bating the Clinically Thick, son. How am I doing, so far? 😁
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Too much corruption to cover in one movie. 5 Seasons of Breaking Vlad, on Netflix, should cover it? But, seriously though . . . The GOP’s Coup BEGAN on Jan 6th, and if anything, it is more potent now than it was when a few entitled white supremacists brought their mommies to their Riot Of White Entitlement. When we get to the midterms, they’re not just counting on their Suppression of Voters, Protestors and Education to keep their Coup dreams alive. They will also be throwing out stacks of votes this time, arguing every signature in court, and backing the whole thing with more, better organised violence at the polling stations. All, unless we cut the head off the snake first? They have nowhere to retreat to, having been outed as the fascists they are, and they know it! The midterms will be the GOP’s Last Stand (as they are) or America’s. ✌️
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loki the jokester : Relax, jerkster, no one expects you to be as smart as me, or to know stuff. Nazis have never been accused of being, “smart,” or anything. It’s OK that you don’t know. Lest you accuse me of something, which is playbook stuff for you Orangoids, let’s just say, the time depends upon a lot of variables, which any layman could work out for themselves. Also: ALL of the FACTS will be put in the public domain, eventually, and I know you’ll get answers to your, “questions,” because you are such a big fan of CNN. You spend SO MUCH time, here 😁
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If Braverman had ever been either, “transparent,” or, “honest,” she never would have been Home Secretary in the first place. For all we know, she could be simply laying out a new negotiating position for something else she’s not telling us, which would be totally in keeping with her MO. Let us see if she really will be instrumental in bringing down the Rwanda Bill? And, as you say, anyone prepared to burn down the house with everyone in it, will NEVER be considered leadership material, even by the bigoted and congenitally stupid.
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It’s time we faced the fact that there has been a consistent and concerted effort to take over the media at every level by the right, over the last 10 years. Since the Tories have stopped threatening the BBC’s license fee and almost daily whining about them being a, “leftie,” organisation, I have been paying closer attention to why that might be? The public were tossed a bone, in the form of a resigning Chairman, Richard Sharp, under a cloud of Tory sleaze scandal and then, radio silence from the front and back benches? Which just so happens to coincide with a suddenly more favourable coverage of Tory policies, downplaying of scandals and burying leads.
Just look at how they covered the, “Let them die,” revelation about Sunak from the Covid Enquiry? He’s our current, serving PM! Yet the BBC’s reporting of that shockingly callous indifference was buried right at the very end of a litany of allegations against his enemy at large, Boris Johnson. A couple of sentences of coverage, tacked on to the very final seconds of the report I saw, in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it, moment.
We’ve seen the launch of a right wing, “news,” station and Parliament unable to get any answers from the regulator about MP’s blatantly breaking the law by anchoring programs and dressing up political opinion as news. If you watched any of the enquiries into those, the regulator comes off as pusillanimous at best. We have most of the press leaning to the right, which has done for decades, but never with such impunity and insolence. And they all seem to have their, “message,” agreed before anything goes to print or broadcast.
Something is deeply rotten in the state of Denmark. And the coverage of the King is just an example of something we will likely see more and more of in the coming years: careless arrogance from the people in charge.
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Obviously, the accusation that you, “hate,” Hunter Hunter (I don’t know what that is, BTW) was just put in there to try to bait you into a response. The fact that you and Tommy talked and sorted things between you, like adults, without them, will piss them off too. But, the art of NEVER losing the game is DON’T PLAY. So, well done you, Charley. Dream sounds like an adult. I’d just leave it there, if I was you? They’ll have to find a target who plays their game, by responding.
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@Poul Gin : It’s in China’s interests to see the west weakened, so they will attempt to take advantage of this. But, they have abstained from outright support, because they’re reliant on western trade; more so now that the world is heading back into a recession. They are still a Communist dictatorship, after all. But they’re no more insane than any leader of a dictatorship, and they know exactly what’s really going on in Russia, probably better than most of us do, actually.
Their people might be in the dark, but their government is not. And, sad but true, in a dictatorship, the people don’t matter. They have no power and cannot change anything, so their ignorance is academic.
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Many Worlds Theory (MTW) is a philosophical argument, not science. There may well be some math to support it as an, “argument,” but there is no evidence, testable predictions, falsifiability, and no scientific reason to even want to believe in it. The reason MWT was invented was, ironically, as an argument to refute the existence of God. And that’s all it does. It is now a form of Dogma, reinforced by people who are guilty of the precise crimes they teach us are abominations in science. The same egregious group think, dogmatic refusal to accept reality and willingness to persecute those who reject their philosophy, that Galileo is argued to have been the victim of, at the hands of the Catholic Church, is literally WHY MWT exists! Fact.
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@deer105 : Yet, “the problem,” does not exist yet, in this case? Except in the imaginations of a (justifiably) distrusting public. I think we should wait and see what we see, and then listen to experts and their analysis of it, before we leap to condemnations for things they have not even done yet, don’t you? I would be more troubled if the documents had no redactions in them. That would appear false to me. But, I still wouldn’t make any assumptions based on those suspicions, given that suspicions will be all they are. I would look to reliable sources, who know how to process this stuff. And, like Socrates, my starting point would be to assume my own ignorance. That’s all I’m getting at. But, even raising questions can make some people angry in their pride. They killed Socrates for that. I just hope we’ve moved on a little in the last two and half millenniums? . . . 🤷♂️
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@1987kahil : Factually wrong at every level, ma’am. They have bombed every airport in Ukraine. Those are commercial, not military targets. People’s homes are burning, thousands fleeing west, and the body count is already climbing, so the Russians are either terrible shots or they’re lying to you. And, given this is the same guy who said, “We have no intention of invading,” right up until he actually began an INVASION and even after it began, I think it’s an empirical fact that Russian media lies as casually as a six year old with behaviour problems, or a Donald trump, don’t you?
And your size assessment of Russia’s military is both wrong and irrelevant. North Korea has a million troops in their army at minimum, but no one takes them seriously as a threat, because they’re broke. Russia is only a, “super power,” because it has wasted its economy on nukes since the 1950’s, but they are losing all traction in the world, which is why Putin is getting so desperate now. The people are so poor they are demanding democracy and being locked up for expressing free speech on an annual basis now. Occupying Ukraine will break their bank and Putin will have to dip into his own stolen money to keep the military afloat.
And you have NO LEGITIMATE excuses for WHY he’s invading Ukraine. His people don’t want this. The Ukrainians don’t want this. And he has no REASON other than megalomania to even do this! He’s mad! I wonder what will happen when he gets a terminal diagnosis from his doctors? He might just decide to take us all out with him? Maybe that’s what’s happened? That really WOULD be, “the end of history,” to quote the PooTin himself. 🤦♂️
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@Terrackhimself : What’s worse is that at least half of those Confederate Rioters, actually seemed to, “believe,” the LIE that lead to this insurrection! That’s on Fox, Ted Cruz, who got up to spew lies about the organisers which were IMMEDIATELY debunked by the company he sited, who actually said they’d identified well known NAZIS AND Q-TIPS leading the crowds! Regular trump rally attendees too! We’re BEYOND, “free speech,” issues, when people are screaming, “FIRE! FIRE!” in a packed theatre! After they 25 45, they need to start arresting the PROPAGANDISTS! After WWII they HUNG propagandists! Lord Haw Haw got his neck stretched! It’s the moment now! Time to put a stop to this, and reach out all the way to Putin’s desk at the Kremlin! ✌️👍
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Sonny : Your tragedy is that you KNOW I’m not an, “idiot.” Did you give too much money? Fall out with friends and family? Lose a job, maybe? How did they get you to Overextend yourself, to the point where you NEED Fox and RT, for comfort? At what point did you decide to treat your fellow Americans WORSE than America’s ACTUAL ENEMIES? I bet you can’t even TELL the difference by now . . . I would genuinely pity you. But, there’s nothing there left to pity. Just a shell, jerking out the correct Buzzwords, with no identity, or meaning . . . Your time is coming, when you’ll have to start thinking about, “After Trump.” The evidence is only just starting to pour in . . . SMH
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@TaoStein : If, “western opinion doesn’t matter outside the west,” then why has Putin sunk literal TRILLIONS of Rubles into propaganda at every level of western media, culture and political affairs? Why has Putin BANNED Facebook, YouTube and a raft of western media from Russia? Why is he jailing people for looking at western media on their phones and having cops LITERALLY spot checking people’s phones in the streets of Moscow? And why does Putin routinely have journalists MURDERED? It obviously, “matters,” a whole lot to Putin, or he wouldn’t be investing so much of his wealth on troll farms to reach the west.
And only now is Putin beginning to see the results of his efforts. And he’s SO disappointed! People have been happy to take his money and parrot his crap, while it was convenient, but they were NEVER fooled by ANY of it. And they’re just as happy to take other people’s money, or to stand well back while Putin’s oligarchs are being stripped of their assets. He thought the world would fight that? Oops! You can’t count on, “loyalty,” when you had to BUY it, son. That’s where Putin went wrong. He never took the time to, “convince,” anyone of anything. He over did it, with a deluge of palpable bollox, that even his supporters never actually, “believed.”
Now it’s, “inconvenient,” for China to parrot Putin’s narrative, and even they won’t play. And that’s even AFTER Putin put Taiwan on his Naughty List. Putin has lost the war of propaganda because he never mixed enough TRUTH in with his lies, like the Devil does. He thinks he’s a Bond Villain, but the Devil is way smarter . . .
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IMBwildrd : The, “CAMPAIGN PROMISED,” Tax Returns, indeed? You would have thought, when he broke THAT, “promise,” they would have cottoned on, right? They just Fake, “Believe,” because they can’t cope with hearing, “I told you so,” from a, “liberal,” which includes ALL of the NONE-Koolaid drinkers. Even Conservatives, like me 🤣👍
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ANUP : Another Trump Troll, who’s already run out of, “arguments,” so they’re off, with the name calling, like a little school girl. I suppose, “Hillary,” will be next, right? Then a list of Trump’s, “achievements,” followed angry insults, and then you’ll give up and (hashtag) RunAway, right? 🙂
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@dna9838 : Exactly right. Personally, I’d be happy to see Brown, Blair and Bush Jr have to face that same tribunal. I’d enjoy the delicious irony of them having built their own gallows, so to speak. But first we must recognise that it’s still not an, “equivalent,” to Putin’s blundering, medieval, third world mentality of an idiotic excuse for a war, which is just an exercise in plundering a far richer, more prosperous country than their own. And more urgently than that, we need a legal rubber stamp, to release all those frozen billions of Putin’s in western banks so as to pay for Ukraine’s side of the war! Let’s see how long Putin can keep his own job after THAT blunder? No wonder the Swiss want to join the UN now! They’re about to hand over two thirds of Russia’s total savings and they’ll need protection. 😁✊🇺🇦
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bh2020 : 2020’s, “elections,” are already RIGGED! Will America FINALLY understand that its Republic has FALLEN, when Trump is proved guilty as sin, at his Impeachment Trial, only to be let off, REGARDLESS? Half the GOP are IMPLICATED, and the Trump Crime Family will all go to JAIL, if Tump loses his, “protected status,” as POTUS. They can’t NOT FIX THE, “elections”!!! What alternative do they HAVE??? Democracy is DEAD! The Constitution is nothing but an embarrassment to them. The Republic is ALREADY OVER! ✌️
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Who wants to take my bet? Against my prediction: Look at how madly active the FUNDRAISING is right now? Hourly emails, robocalls, etc, etc, going out, BEGGING FOR CASH! That money is NOT going on a, “legal challenge!” Think about it? How many warrants and indictments are just waiting to be executed on trump and some of his top people? That’s a Getaway Fund! And, just before Joe’s Inauguration Day, trump and the worst offenders will FLEE AMERICA! And trump’s cult will FINALLY GET IT, when they’ve been HAD, one last time, and they’re in a foreign country with no extradition treaty and ALL THAT MONEY! . . . Anyone doubt me? Place your bets?
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This is the DUMBEST political disagreement since the, “What Did You Just Call My Mom?” Wars of 1753! Literally EVERYONE wants to defund the police! Including that Sheriff! They just don’t all know what, “Defund the police,” MEANS! Whoever came up with that name for it is the one who should be SHOT with, “qualified immunity!” Tell me WHO doesn’t want cops to prevent crime, detect crimes and catch bad guys with well funded, equipped and staffed police forces? WHO??? . . . And which cops, including Sheriff Buzzcut, wouldn’t prefer NOT to be a psychiatric nurse, social worker, corporate goon’s body guard, or debt collector for the bank??? We could be saving BILLIONS if they would just LOOK IT UP! FFS!? And the best this guy could answer with was, “I accept endorsements from anyone, including the KKK and the Feck Your Momma’ To Death Party”??? Jesus! Bang their stupid heads together, somebody!!!???
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I consider the term, “public interest,” in discussions like these. I was a victim of similar abuse and character assassination in the way that Depp was, (fully exposed, btw) but I don’t believe you need to have been a victim or professionally involved in such cases to have an opinion on them, or to have a legitimate right to express it. It’s a matter that effects everyone, regardless of your personal experience. You may learn to avoid a toxic relationship by taking part in the discussion. You don’t need to have, “credentials,” to enter the discussion.
Of course bullying is wrong, and I don’t support it. However, I don’t take one single report at face value either. Nor can I find much sympathy in my heart for Heard who appears (if the claims are true?) to be falling victim to the same toxicity she perpetrated on others. I don’t wish it on her, but I don’t care much either.
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@ros8737 : I always find it helps to think of western media as children, overreacting to anything and everything they hear. Yes, they are doing a good job of keeping the issue alive in the minds of the public. But they are not so good at offering a realistic or consistent take on developments. That’s why channels like this one are so important, reported by someone with experience, insight and knowledge, who takes the time to analyse incoming information and sift through the matters that need our focus, whilst setting aside the hype and, just as often, explaining the hype.
The press have become just as much a part of the story, requiring interpretation and a degree of dissection, if we want to understand their headlines. It’s always unhelpful when they say dumb stuff as though Ukraine is somehow, “losing,” simply because they aren’t storming through to Moscow or something and have changed their tactics so as to grind down Russian military infrastructure.
Like when CNN always acts like every time Putin so much as looks at a nuke we should all prepare for Armageddon, when people with any knowledge of Putin know better than to treat anything he says or does as remotely plausible. But, if that serves to drum up support for giving Ukraine the weapons they need to win this war, I’m all for it. If it’s scaring people off, for the sake of dominating 24 hours of the news cycle, I’d like to throttle the producers!
Gone are the days when your news channels were the way you took a step back and acquired news and sound analysis. Now you have to add their behaviour to the mix and analyse them just as hard.
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Brett Nine : My guess is that Kavanaugh’s erstwhile friend may well be working out his, “immunity,” deal, in a darkened room, somewhere? He may well confess, if the victim is willing to cooperate? Does he, “share,” Kavanaugh’s bigoted politics? We don’t know? He MAY even turn out to be a, “Human Being,” who genuinely regrets the whole incident and would be relieved to receive forgiveness, in return for the truth, meaning both parties can put to bed an issue that has haunted them for years, in different ways and for different reasons? His guilt; her acknowledgement? Anything could happen? . . . 🤔
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@ChrsGotFourEyes : Yeah, here’s the, “argument.” Science has nothing to say about Faith, nor is it qualified to. Faith is personal revelation. Insecure people don’t like other people’s faith, to the extent that they can’t leave well alone. They start wars about it, and then go on about how, “religion,” causes wars. Most of them are adolescents who think they’re, “rebelling,” and finding themselves, when really they’re just insecure c**ts. And that’s a all scientifically proven facts. God bless you 😇
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Does anyone NOT know someone who’s died of Covid? Trump’s brother just died of it! By November, you will . . .
America’s, “election,” is SO RIGGED, it’s laughable. Why you aren’t all choking up the streets, demanding the restoration of the post office, and the Republic, is beyond me? You all act like you WANT a Dictatorship? Trump, his family and the entire GOP Cabinet all KNOW they’re facing serious JAIL TIME, and they’re NOT going to ALLOW you to remove them, whatever it takes. And, that’s because YOU people keep allowing them to GET AWAY WITH MURDER! Still think, “someone else,” is going to save the Republic? How? Why? No one can, without YOU supporting them. Your Republic is dying before your very eyes, and America sits on its ass, watching the Dictatorship unfold on TV . . . Smh
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William : You don’t, “believe,” you, son. If a bunch of people came to you with formal complaints, about your boss, and it’s your JOB to deal with them, would you be happy that one of the people they’re ALL complaining about gets to sit on it? And, then NOTHING is done? And then it does get out, and the boss is making DEATH THREATS? You KNOW it’s F’d up. And Biden put his son in MORE, “jeopardy,” by having the Ukraine install an HONEST official, in place of the corrupted Putin Plant. This is JOE BIDEN we’re talking about, son! A decorated, long time servant of America, with an impeccable reputation! Who told the world’s press his whole story at the time! And, the GOP had NOTHING to say about it, AT THE TIME!
You see what’s happened here? The GOP sees that, IF Trump gets away with rewriting Biden’s history, SO EGREGIOUSLY, then they are ALL VULNERABLE. Many of the GOP actually DO have dodgy histories. They now SEE that the only way ANY of them could rise to the top, under Trump, would be by getting dirty, assisting in one of his CRIMES and / or cover ups. And, to refuse Trump, or try to expose him, would result in the same propaganda against THEM. Trump has Jumped the Shark, son . . .
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Well, so long as they vaccinate children in schools, I don’t really care what their racist, trump supporting parents do. So long as they can’t take the innocents with them, why should we care? A whole useless third of society, America’s ruptured appendix, can perform a Trumpectomy on America, and die off, (killed by one mutation of Covid or another? There have already been six of them), doing all of us, “Normals,” a favour.
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@scottshepard3662 : You missed my point. People who aren’t arsonists should never step into a burning building, people who aren’t cattle barons should never mess around with cows, people who aren’t professional bank robbers should never get into a shootout. Yet actors FAKE IT all the time. You don’t know that he even knew it was a real gun at this point. And even if he did, they go with the expert they hired to take responsibility, not to take an actor’s word for anything. I’m not talking about the rights or wrongs of that. It’s simply how it is. If want to, “blame,” Baldwin for culpable or deliberate homicide, be my guest. I promise you the cops won’t. They’ll just be following what the law says. Not your surmises about what, “might,” have happened, which you can’t possibly know yet, or your (undisputed, I hasten to add) thoughts on good practice. For all you know, Baldwin might be destined to kick himself for the rest of his life, taking the very same attitude as you. I certainly would have checked the chambers, had I been handed a real gun (and knew it was real, which we can’t say for certain Baldwin did) and made sure it was safe. But, regardless, the legal responsibility to ensure safety is not on the actor. And when you think about it, that’s as it should be.
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@scottshepard3662 : You talk just as much, so don’t come the, “confused by your verbs,” son? Yes, I’m sure Baldwin agrees and sick about the whole thing. I don’t doubt he’s learned a sickening lesson and will be tortured by it for the rest of his days. He may even campaign about gun safety, in the way that A list actors do when tragedy hits home? But, here’s the point, made real simple:
* Until the facts are known, you have no idea what happened, or who was responsible. It’s not even established if Baldwin had any reason to believe the gun was real or fake. How would he know the difference?
* What do you think an, “Armourer’s,” job is? They take the liability as part of their contract. The law isn’t going to explore the deeper moral questions of culpability. But there are a thousand potential variables of which you are not in any position to judge at this point. What part of that don’t you get?
* The law is the law. It is a fact, extant, about which there is no debate. It doesn’t matter whether actors are sensible, taking responsibility (morally) for where every bullet that leaves their gun stops, or not. The cops are not interested, nor is the court. The buck stops with the, “expert,” they hired to take responsibility. If her story doesn’t change, she’s alleging murder, committed by the short list of suspects who had access. I think she will change her story. But that’s all guessing.
* What I can promise you, without any ambiguity, is that the cops are not even considering Baldwin as being culpable in any sense: save possibly as a producer, and whether he had any influence over practices on set. But that’s got no bearing on the fact that he fired the weapon. That part of it is not going to be pinned on him. Much as you seem to wish it would be?
* I don’t give out personal details. So don’t ask. You asked a general question, which made little difference either way, so I answered it. But, I wouldn’t dismiss the opinions of others, whether they were experienced with fire arms or not, on a question like this. I haven’t been to the North Pole, but I can tell you it’s cold, without fear of contradiction.
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Absolutely everything about modern Russia screams cowardice! Mass murders, mass bombings of the defenceless, stealing, looting, murdering, torturing, raping only those who have no defences. Faced with actual Ukrainian soldiers the Russian, “army,” flees! And all those cheering at home are now fleeing the draft! And Putin DAREN’T seal his borders in case the fighting age men and veterans feel forced to confront the authorities on the streets of Moscow, preferring 15 years in a gulag to a permanent death in the meat grinder.
What country would want these cowards pouring in by their thousands? The same Russians who’s political inactivity has made them create this mess! Morally absent, politically vacuous, inhuman cowards are pouring into the west when Europe should be turning them ALL back with a rifle and a map to the Kremlin, saying, “Go sort your own mess out!”
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D. D. : I know MANY Republicans, who wanted to, “give him a chance.” Some fell out with me about him, when I left the Republican Party, after Trump got the nomination. They have ALL apologised, since. I HONESTLY don’t know ONE Republican Voter who would vote for Trump EVER again. And I know a LOT of Republicans. The “job” of the Trolls is to TRY to keep the argument, “Left Versus Right.” The TRUTH is that Republicans are SPLIT on Trump. The Rabid, RACIST element will not budge and will NOT listen to TRUTH, REASON OR LOGIC. ESPECIALLY on Putin and RUSSIA. But, most of his “fans” commenting here, ARE RUSSIANS, so they won’t ACTUALLY COUNT in the Mid Terms.
I’ll be voting Dem, to ensure the DESTRUCTION of the GOP. GET THE VOTE OUT, as Russia WILL try to FIX the Mid Terms. You can COUNT on THAT. We NEED OVERWHELMING NUMBERS, to restore democracy 👍
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lio kuul : But, it does prove that Trump’s fans fake their, “belief,” in Trump. Otherwise Alabama, Trump Country, would have taken emergency measures, right? Certainly, before the Weather Service corrected him? But, they did NOTHING. Proof, if proof were needed, that Trump’s Trolls live in the Land Of Fake Believe. So long as he remains greedy and a racist, they’ll pretend to, “believe,” anything he says. revealing, right? 🤔
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@Scott Ferguson (using a scrambler on his name, so we can’t reply to him, but he’s, “not,” a deep state Trumpophile 🙄🤷♂️): trump was told about the MOAB, after the fact, son. He didn’t fly over Afghanistan and ride it down screaming, “Yee Haw!” like Slim Pickens in Doctor Strangelove, you numpty! And he DID say it. Look it up? Just don’t use your usual, “I’m Right Dot Com,” website, for a change? You’d be better off with comic book heroes, you know. You’d be wealthier AND healthier, that’s for damned sure 🤦♂️ . . . 🤣 😂 😆 🤣 😂 🤣
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Dick Morhead : Yes. But the Impeachment MUST WORK! We simply CANNOT allow him to survive it. If he does, there will BE NO, “elections,” unless you count Putin Style, RIGGED elections as worth having? And, Trump will be BLATANT, because he’ll be unstoppable. I think the GOP, outside of Trump’s inner circle of Tramps, are aware of this too. They don’t want Trump to survive Impeachment either. But, being cowards, they’re weighing their options and waiting for someone, “else,” to make a move. WE SHOULD BE INUNDATING them, with ENCOURAGEMENT ✌️👍
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John Kid : You have yet to, “explain,” anything, son? Why is Hillary still free, after 3 years of her Arch Enemy, the most powerful man on Earth, FAILING to, “Lock Her Up,” when she, “murdered staffers, sold our uranium, ran a pedo ring, covered up Benghazi, got help from Russia AND Ukraine in the elections, and bleached all that Intel,” Kidd? See what I mean about, “Jumped The Shark?”
You thought Biden’s fellow GOP members were going to let you do the SAME THING to him? They’re plotting Trump’s demise as we speak, son! You’re Trolling the WRONG people? You should be on Fox, trying to persuade the GOP not to Impeach him. Because they ARE GOING TO IMPEACH TRUMP! Remember I told you that, won’t you . . . Kiddo 😉
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@ohyeah2816 : Never let ANYONE convince that there’s, “no point,” in writing to your MP. That’s just not true. Letters from the public alarm MP’s. If you are articulate, polite, but forthright on your issue, and willing to write several times, they will write back to eventually. They know that for everyone willing to write a well thought out letter, there are hundreds (possibly thousands) who feel the same way. If you tell them a bill on migration is an election issue for you, they now know it is for many others too, as these views never occur in a vacuum. They hope for your apathy. They survive on voter apathy. When you take that from them, they get all scared and willing to do things to make you go away.
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hunter gatherer : You don’t even, “sound smart,” son. That’s our, “first,” and last, “impression,” of you, kid. Nothing you Trump Trolls could say, would EVER, “get to,” me. I’ve heard it all before. You’re not even good at it, sonny 🙂
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From the paranoid perspective of an Israeli government advisor, all they’re seeing is that the people funding HAMAS (Iran, et al) are now the ones calling time and offering back hostages, right at the point that Israel was about to smash a central support hub for HAMAS’s whole operation. Now there are Israelis who are chomping at the bit, thinking they may find other things when they get in there? Whether that be intelligence, billions of dollars worth of fighting technology and weapons, who knows what else? The actual remaining hostages, perhaps?
But, because this call from HAMAS to accept Israel’s ceasefire proposal (And being Israel’s terms and conditions, so you would think they would accept them instantly?) come from Iran and their allies, Netanyahu instinctively feels the need to get in there and see what it is that they’re so keen to protect.
Humanitarian concerns will have not have even crossed Netanyahu’s mind, nor those of his opponents in this complex war.
And we must never forget, so long as Netanyahu is fighting this war, he is keeping the sword of Damocles from dropping on his head, in the form of elections, criminal charges and facing the corruption charges of which he is already accused. In that respect Netanyahu is very much like Vladimir Putin. Now, he is a warlord or he is nothing. It is not just in his political interests to keep this war raging (so long as he can maintain a significant minority of supporters), it is his lifeline.
We are asking a proud, callous, sociopathic man to face shame, indignity after indignity, humbling and probably jail time or even self termination (the YouTube algorithm makes my comments disappear if I use more appropriate words), or he can fight a war. He is THE WORST person to be leading Israel at this crucial moment in their history.
Whatever happens, this cannot end well for the Israelis. As for the Palestinians . . . Well, it’s already gone about as badly as it can and will get worse. But the innocent paying for the crimes of the guilty is a feature, not a bug, in this conflict, on both sides.
Unless American pulls the plug, which they show no signs of doing, there can be no end to this conflict until Palestine ceases to exist. We are watching a genocide. And we’re doing very little about it, except helping to protect the perpetrators from Iranian missiles.
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Indeed, the Tory party lost all of its, “states,” men and women, years ago. I felt that the likes of Cameron were more like the donors and influencers within the elite, holding the fort until more talented MP’s could rise again. Then, after he resigned, we were left with the genuinely untalented leftovers who would NEVER have risen so high in less chaotic times. The, “characters,” the chancers and Neo-Libs, who, as you point out, acted with callous indifference, entitled cruelty, incompetence and corruption.
It is truly sad that the, (oxymoronically named) “Conservatives,” are now having their civil war in the public domain, in this unedifying, unbecoming manner. But that’s what you get when no one has any ideology or ideas. The Tories have no, “story,” to tell about national identity, national character, our destiny or even our general direction.
I think they do know what direction they all agree upon, in which they really want to take the country, but they know they cannot sell that story to the British people, as it would horrify even their most rabid supporters. A Neo-Liberal hellscape, in which corporations from all over the planet own everything, including security, policing and healthcare, is not any voter’s idea of a good time.
You’re right. They’re all out of fig leaves, and they don’t even have sufficient self respect or decency to step into the shadows, admit defeat and see to their domestic squabbles in the privacy of their own homes. We must partake in the public spectacle as if politics was just I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!
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Johnny Morris : Seems you hurt the, “feelings,” of the Trollarazzi? We live in a time when people have been, “persuaded,” to, “believe,” that their fellow Americans are bigger enemies than our foreign adversaries. They would let the USA BURN, rather than hear the words, “I told you so,” from someone on, “the Left;” Which is only anyone who disagrees with Trump. The sooner he’s done, the better for America
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The only steel behind such a threat of deportation would be that which you could apply to collaborators. Any who helped with their, “referendum,” accepted positions of authority, policing, administration of the occupying regime, etc? There’s probably a list of key collaborators already wanted in Kyiv? Those guys would have a lot to fear, but how would the mechanism work? Any pilot who flew the deportees would be detained, surely? Or drivers, etc? Unless it was done by arrangement? But, even then, Russia would be feeding The Hague with show trial defendants, so it’s probably just a bunch of baloney.
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NoneOfYour Beeswax : Well, it helps, I guess? The rest of us all look at this stuff, and see how rotten they are. His OPENER, gave him away. “A Political act, not a legal act.” Since WHEN was Impeachment a, “legal act,” AT ALL? It’s a Political Remedy for Removing a POTUS who commits high crimes or misdemeanours, right? NOT a legal procedure, but they want the Trump fans to see it as legalistic. They’re on the edge of the precipice, it’s up to us to push them off ✌️👍
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Cinderella : It’s interesting that right across Europe right now, the next headline, right after the main story in each respective country, is the news that, “America’s Death Toll Surpasses that of Vietnam!” Most developed countries are saying, “Well, at least we’re doing way better than the richest, most powerful country, with the, ‘best healthcare system in the world,’ right now.” America PLC must make money. And, that’s Trump’s bottom line . . . Smh
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That Lawrence Olivier / Dustin Hoffman anecdote, whilst being a wonderful story, is apocryphal. It never happened. It began as a Peter Ustinov story, one of many semi-truths he would use to entertain audiences on talk shows, as he, like David Niven, made more money from selling books, full of Hollywood gossip and eclectic anecdotes, than he did as an actor, especially as he got older. In this case, both actors denied that rather mean jab was ever made by Olivier, who was actually a very sweet man and he and Hoffman grew very close. Hoffman constantly cries when he remembers him, as he knew Olivier was seriously ill during the filming of Marathon Man, because there had been an issue about getting Olivier’s insurance covered. They ate together and met each other’s families.
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Donny invented Cancel Culture. “Lock her up,” was already old, before Donny got in the White House, remember? How about having your own GOP members Primaried? He was doing that as soon as he got in. And Cancelling Democracy on Jan 6th, along with 5 lives? Murder is the ULTIMATE Cancel Culture! The GOP are just as bad as Donny now, making the theme of their, “Boo hoo, I’m a Victim,” Naval Gazing conference. Hypocrisy is not a strong enough word! They’ve Cancelled logic!
And, why are we letting Donny use letter heads that claim he’s POTUS? That’s a serious fraud! I would go to jail for that! Especially to influence politics, or take donations? He can claim what he likes, but written letter heads are Fraud! Lock his criminal Orange ass up! ✌️👍
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The New Natives : Not sure, from your words, just who you are most angry at? Trump? His followers? Or all of America? Or all of the West? You realise that this, “threat,” was a nothing burger, right? Just Trump, trying to cover his embarrassment, over looking SO WEAK at Helsinki. He wants to be perceived as the, “strong man,” yet he made himself look the COWARDLY BOOTLICKER with Putin; so he did this, for his fans; KNOWING that Iran is POWERLESS to do ANYTHING, other than exchange rhetoric with him. Trump was CAREFUL to pick someone he KNEW could not hit back, like the COWARD he is. But, it was NOTHING more than that. You SEE that, right? . . . 🤔
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@thornelderfin : You misapprehend me. I KNOW HE’S BLUFFING. It is the layman’s, “guess,” about this stuff where the true, “danger,” lies. The real, “risk,” is now; where people are on permanent high alert and have grown exhausted and angry; where it has become clear that Putin’s military information is totally unreliable and he cannot be sure about any of his resources or recourses. A man who, “negotiates,” whilst waving loaded weapons about is going to cause an accident that will claim ALL of our lives.
Every last person who KNOWS Putin and has spoken to the press (whether they be former friends, politicians or some form of opponent) says the SAME THING: Putin would pull the nuclear trigger, but only if he thought he would be unharmed by doing so. In other words, he NEVER WILL.
I correctly predicted that he was about to issue another nuclear, “threat,” when Biden went to meet with Europe’s heads of state. Kremlin playbook 101: Attempt to intimidate that meeting into not deciding anything too drastic. Meaningless rhetoric. Literally everything out of Putin’s mouth has proved to be the OPPOSITE of truth, from the risible allegation that Zelensky was some species of Jewish, “Nazi,” to, “I do not intend to invade Ukraine,” on the day he invades Ukraine.
So, knowing that what he says is meaningless, what are we left with? The evidence of his history. Believe what he’s DONE, not what he says. And every last action he’s taken thus far is the classic act of a man who’s actually MORE desperate to survive than most Ukrainians! He will go as far as he dares, possibly using chemical weapons on his way out of Ukraine - especially if he loses Crimea and Donbas - and we should be prepared for that possibility.
But I don’t believe in, “hunches,” either. Sometimes, it’s fleeing the danger that CREATES the danger. Giving in to a bully’s protection racket is a case in point. We may well die in a nuclear conflagration. But if we do, it will be one that started by accident, because people were not willing to face down a tyrant at the crucial moment. NOT because he meant to commit the largest murder suicide in history. That is 100% certain.
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Maybe it’s not such a bad idea? Maybe they’ll put a public defender in place? 😁 They certainly wouldn’t fight the case with corruption, drag it out, use dirty, counter suing tactics, etc, so her chances of winning go up. And, if she wins, against trump the, “employee of the government,” that opens him up to abuse of power charges, and doing bad things as a government employee generally? . . . Think about it? . . . 🤔😉
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Karsten : It’s well known, to those who read and can tell the truth from a lie, that Putin has always wanted to bring down America. Apart from the US being the Prime Target of all Soviet Countries, in the Cold War, their actual, “Defeat,” in 1989, has left a bitterness in political Russia, ever since. They lived in relative poverty, and were squeezed, economically, by America, for generations; all to fight a war that they ultimately lost. Putin grew up in that system, and rose in its ranks, hating the West, and seeing it as his adversary. In his autobiography, Putin devotes precisely TWO LINES to his alleged, “change in ideology,” from Communism, to Capitalism. The Truth is, he has nothing to say about it because, like ALL Soviet KGB agents, “ideology,” was a luxury that the citizens had; NOT them. He’s never HAD a, “political belief,” except in that which makes him stronger. He has a middling education, but his experience in mob violence, working hand in glove with the Russian Mafia, and his personal record of theft and state sanctioned murder, has carved out a hard, chiselled, shrewd and dangerous adversary. Trump is like a Kitten in his hands, and the only thing they have in common, is the fact that neither of them believe in ANYTHING, and they would both rape and then eat their own grandmothers to get ahead, and LAUGH while they did it. Both sociopaths. But, Putin is dangerous because he’s clever. Not a genius, but shrewd, like most gang bosses. In Russia, that’s enough . . . He will DESTROY America, if he can. And, he has destroyed far more than people realise . . . ✌️
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Kwan Hopkins : See, all of those, “reasonable,” points, like yours, never actually mean anything, when you look at what we have. Name one option that’s worse than having an idiot, traitor, rapist in the White House, and I would see your point? Problem is, there’s just NOTHING worse than Trump. And, we’re learning now that none of the exposure, jeopardy or revelations, about Trump and his goons, even slows them down. They just keep hacking at the roots of our Republic, intent on establishing a Dictatorship-Satellite of Russia. Therefore, it doesn’t even MATTER to right minded Americans, or even Conservatives, like me; The Trump’s HAVE TO GO, at this Impeachment. The 2020 elections are the mop up, to remove Trump’s enablers, who by that time, will have been exposed to the TRUTH about his Tax Returns, his deals to sell us out to foreign Dictators, and his swallowing up of American Taxpayer’s money. The Truth will out, and Americans will simply back whomever opposes the biggest scam and betrayal of America in history
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G Steele : That was the PERFECT comment, sir. It says it all and leads us to the natural, chilling conclusion. Not, “who,” is still supporting the Trumps, but, “WHY,” they continue to do it? It’s patently clear that not even his Cult actually, “believes,” in him. They are Faking their, “belief.”
If we set aside the paid, foreign Trolls (about 50% or more of the Cult), the very, VERY stupid (around 5-10% of the Cult) and the GOP, who are politicians and, therefore inherently evil, but outside of the Cult Proper; we are still left with a significant number of Americans who KNOW Trump is all the things you say, and more, but don’t care. Why?
My conclusion is complex, but I’ll skip to the outcome: The have been convinced, by their Propaganda outlets that, in a Binary System, it would be a, “Good thing,” to permanently eliminate the opposition. The idea of a Dictatorship, doesn’t phase them, because they’re dumb enough to think it will be, “their,” Dictatorship. They don’t see that THEY will be its primary victims. And, when you’ve been convinced that your opponents (fellow Americans) are worse than America’s enemies, anyway, they will happily betray their country, half-convinced that they are somehow, “saving it,” from the, “brown menace,” “open borders,” and all that other mythology that Fox spews out. They had to keep going back to Fox for comfort, at first, who kept telling them that they hadn’t committed the worst mistake in their lives, and that there was a, “good reason,” for all the treachery and betrayals of Trump. And, while they were watching, very skilled Propagandists filled them with hate, racism, hysteria, and loathing. What’s the ONE THING that would convince you, to keep supporting the man who’s stealing your mother’s life savings? The idea that he will at least protect your mom from the guys who want to kill her, I guess?
It’s the Propaganda outlets who have the most to answer for, in all this. And, when the Cult, finally discovers that Donny has betrayed THEM, through his Tax Returns, among other things, those same Propaganda outlets will become the focus of the Cult’s BLAME. Rightly too. But, they know this and are fighting for their own lives.
So, like Barr, Pompeo, at al, they have gotten themselves dirtied up and compromised. They know that Trump’s survival and their own are the SAME THING. So, they will literally say and do ANYTHING, as the End Game plays out. As, I don’t doubt, we will see. These people Fake Believe, because they HAVE TO. The Cult leaders, because the alternative is their DEMISE. And, the followers, because, like any other victim of the Dead Money Scam (nearly ALL of the followers have donated money, by now) people will do ANYTHING to avoid public shaming. And, having to hear, “the left,” (which includes Conservatives, like me, if you’re opposed to Trump) saying, “We told you so,” is as bad as it gets, for them.
Sorry to be so long winded, but you summed it up, so beautifully, I had to share my thoughts with you. 😉✌️👍
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The Wiz : You’re right. It’s often hard for some folk, to remember that there’s another human being on the other end of their comment. But, we can’t blame them? After all, that is what the Alt-Wrong Propaganda outlets have trained Trump’s followers to do; Deepen America’s DIVISION. Donny would be nothing without it. Division got him into office, and may yet keep him there. But, if it does, your Republic will be over, and it won’t be long before all of his support evaporates. But, that won’t matter to Trump, when he’s Dictator. Correction: it will probably constantly upset him. But, we won’t have any power to stop his revenge rampages, and his Cult will be among his first victims . . .
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So, the guy who secured a loan and then officially promised to pay £800,000 for Boris, should he default on that loan, is now the Chair of the BBC, and we’re not meant to be extremely worried!? Especially since we now know that he made NO MENTION of this in his application to the Chairship under the section heading of Declared Interests!? Is this the same BBC that Boris and his acolytes have routinely accused of bias against him personally, and who Boris has threatened to take away their license fee!? Now it’s being chaired by a personal friend of his!? That’s an untenable situation in my book! But then, I don’t have any friends or family who can afford to stand surety for me, should I squander a million dollars on a holiday in Florida, so the same rules don’t apply to mere plebs like me . . . Jeez, this country is SO BROKEN! . . . 🤦♂️
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You all realise we can’t trust the, “reassurances,” of Moscow Mitch, and any GOP member, right? Especially the ones looking at serious jail time! You all must KNOW what Bill Barr’s Secret Police units are being expanded FOR, America? They are unconstitutional, and ILLEGAL anyway. Inundate your representatives, join the protests and activist groups, donate your money; DO whatever you can, but by GOD! DO SOMETHING TO GET SECRET POLICE UNITS OUTLAWED! They are building the instrument of your suppression, right under your noses!
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It’s the one thing that people are bound to pay out for, as they cannot afford to, “take their business elsewhere.” Pubs, restaurants, supermarkets, etc, etc, simply have to pay their staff. They have no alternatives. Early in honeymoon period is the perfect time to introduce a policy that will be popular with just about everyone but a minority of mid-level business owners and chain store lobbyists who shouldn’t be getting private access to policy makers anyway.
Dismantling the current lobby system is another thing that should go hand in hand with this. Yes, charities, concerned citizens and issues-based collective groups should have a mechanism by which to make representations to parliament. But, aren’t we ALL heartily SICK of, “think tanks,” which are nothing more than Masonic Lodges of rich people, looking to buy people like Liz Truss, Boris Johnson and Richi Sunack, for their private ownership collections?
We need BRUTAL laws, swiftly enforced, against private businesses seeking advantage through illegal lobbying! They are DESTROYING Britain. Our water companies are NOT, “privatised,” as there is NO COMPETITION! Why bother to stop raw sewage getting into British water when no competitors are able to offer to do a better job, you only drink imported water and you barely visit Britain anyway, living in a none-dom country? Same with the rail networks. Lots of little fiefdoms that don’t compete, but just OWN their patches! It’s oligarchy, Russian style, and it’s leading us down a Yeltsin style toilet!
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Putin has shown that he ALWAYS backs down, every single time he has faced a genuine, serious, direct challenge. I honestly think the safest move for the world would be to demilitarise a zone around the Zaporizhzhia Power Station, create a no fly zone over that demilitarised area, and fly in volunteer experts to de-mine the place, and put in a team that can relieve the, by now, frayed and exhausted people who have been held hostage to manage the plant.
It should be NATO’s absolute priority, shouldn’t it? An explosion, or leak, from Zaporizhzhia won’t just destroy Ukraine and a sizeable part of Russia, but the cloud could reach North America. In the worst case scenario, it would be 64 times bigger and more lethal than Chernobyl! Simply putting mines in there is already an act of terrorism and threat to the entire Northern hemisphere!
They have shown they are stupid and desperate enough, as the blowing of the dam demonstrated. NATO’s virtual silence about this is utterly disturbing, as though they WANT a nuclear disaster?
Putin is getting ALL of the, “value,” out of his nukes, right now, by milking western fears. That’s the ONLY, “bang for his buck,” he can get out of nukes, and he KNOWS THIS! But, we are creating the environment in which ACCIDENTS HAPPEN! And Russia has the worst record in history for nuclear accidents, both military and civilian!
When they blew the dam, half of Russia’s own troops did not know it had happened and did not get out of the way in time, losing millions of dollars worth of vital equipment. So, it’s quite possible that someone accidentally set off those mines! WHY are we just WAITING for Russia to make another mistake???
Keep in mind that the Ukraine invasion was only the first giant miscalculation of SO MANY that came after up to now. Russia’s biggest weapon blew up in their face: the Wagner group. So, we already KNOW Putin’s judgement is appalling! And every hesitation of the west has been taken by Putin as an invitation to commit another atrocity!
It’s time we called Russia’s bluff! NATO should, AT THE VERY LEAST, warn Russia about Zaporizhzhia and spell out the consequences of the nuclear terrorism that he is ALREADY subjecting us to!!!
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@wordman3624 : No, no. I think we should make good use of him? He’s going to push for trump’s conviction in the Senate, IF he can get the support. We should game the system, by using him in the way he’s used us. Let’s get the Lindsay Graham’s, the Josh Hawley’s and the Ted Cruz’s crushed and convicted? Let’s back Moscow Mitch, until the GOP are broken in two, and suffering their wilderness years, for a generation? Contact your GOP, “representatives,” to urge them to support McConnell. We can deal with him later. But, let’s help him destroy the GOP from within and draw fire AWAY from Biden’s administration, so he can get his URGENT agenda seen through? Don’t you agree? ✌️👍
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shooter4hire : And, you, “think?” . . . Conservatives, like me, want Trump gone, son. I guess you, “need,” to, “believe,” we’re all, “of the left,” or, “Obama fans,” huh? Lame and childish . . . Smh
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Not as many as those who will say the same thing, when Donny’s looking for his Criminal Defence Team! 😉 All we need from the GOP at this trial, is their ADMISSION that the basis for the Insurrection, “The Steal,” is a SEDITIOUS LIE! Any Senior GOP witness on the stand, who sold that lie, ADMITTING it is a LIE! Which ALL of them would do, if put to the question! Rather than face a BILLION DOLLAR lawsuit, Perjury and Conspiracy charges, etc. Just get THAT for America to hear, from the GOP’s mouths!
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The Dems are, yet again, fumbling the ball, because they think they can get through to the, “humanity,” of these GOP Demons, who are nothing more than single party Fascists! They should get the most Senior GOP Senators, like Lindsay Graham on the stand, and FORGET the pre-rigged, “verdict.” “The Steal,” CAUSED their Insurrection! So, force them to tell the WORLD that, “The Steal AIN’T REAL!” under oath, with no 5th Amendment to hide behind! What else CAN they do? Take on Perjury and Conspiracy charges? With a BILLION dollar lawsuit? Break their Fascist fantasy! And you break the GOP in two! With or without the, “verdict!”
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KyleRen 1337 : I have said for more than two years, now. I am a Conservative, and therefore, I VOTED DEMOCRAT. Speaking of, “jumping to conclusions.” So, if you’re prepared to be respectful; rely on your own words (no Click Bait, form Alex Q Jones) as I don’t like Malware; And respond to the points made to you, instead of, “Waddabout Clinton, though?” I can show you exactly where you are SO WRONG, and WHY Trump is destined for Hell in a hand-basket. Do you REALLY wanna’ KNOW the TRUTH? I DARE YOU?
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cyanide11111y : I don’t care. I know it can be done and IS done. If that means that people with IQ’s above double figures, refuse to watch a video they all saw two years ago, when it went viral and meant something at the time, thank your trolly mates for poisoning the well. Don’t blame the Normals for warning other normals. Let it go, son, and go and learn something, instead of wasting your time desperately trawling the internet for videos that make you feel better about the deadness inside you, until, one day, after one too many ISIS behedings, when you finally realise that there isn’t any video that you WON’T jerk off to, you decide to end it all, knowing that no one will pay any attention to that either. Learn something and be something worthwhile. Trump is not for humans
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Indeed. I mean, of course the oligarchy or losing confidence in Putin. Prigozhin has not even been SEEN in Belarus, (not for realzies) let alone obeying his, “exile,” by Putin’s own admission! Wagner are still openly defying Putin’s direct orders to join the regular forces. Putin fled Moscow for St Petersburg during that, “coup!” And the fact that Wagner didn’t even get within 20 miles of Moscow’s city limits when Putin fled is just SO HUMILIATING. Not exactly, “I don’t need a ride, I need ammunition,” like Zelensky, is it?
The fact that Prigozhin is not yet DEAD is all the evidence you need that proves Putin is NOT in full control of his own military! Prigozhin SHAMED Putin, but Putin depends upon the gold and diamonds from the African mines that Wagner controls. The world cannot help but compare Putin’s COWARDICE to Zelensky’s HEROISM.
The oligarchs will all be relieved when Putin falls, which is inevitable now. He cannot recover from the blow Prigozhin dealt him now.
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Layla Puerto Morelos : He looked and sounded DEFEATED didn’t he? “Uh, ah, uh, ah!” And, when Jake WARNED him about making unfounded allegations, was hilarious! “I would have thought that YOU of ALL PEOPLE would know better?” And, Jim got a flashback of all those teenage boys in the showers, from his, ahem, “wrestling,” coach days . . . CRINGE! 🥴 . . . 🤣 👍
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@DakotaActually : Wow! . . . Calm down, kid. The sun will still rise in the morning and you’ll be fine, okay. I did answer your question and I am in a position to. What you’re refusing to acknowledge is that the question itself is flawed. It genuinely is like asking a physicist, “So, if the Earth turns out to be flat, will you apologise to all those people you laughed at?” We have the Completionist’s own confession to most of it already. Time stamped video in the public domain show that he nevertheless lied about further, crucial details. Add to that the public filings, showing there is considerably more at play, unaccounted for. A low estimate puts that figure in the hundreds of thousands, possibly as high as millions!
So, let me put it to you like this: If it turns out that you’re not a human being after all, but actually a small, spiky mammal, are you prepared to apologise to your friends, colleagues and family members for wasting everybody’s time on clothes, human food and that education that was clearly lost on you? Or, perhaps now, you’re willing to acknowledge that the question makes no sense?
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Spok : That’s not logical, Spok? But, I guess, for a guy who’s Vulcan Death Grip means he can’t jerk off without falling unconscious, you must have a lot of anger issues? Fortunately, Donny doesn’t like, “Aliens,” so you don’t get to vote. Never move to America, son. Neither side would welcome you. We will remove the Trump’s, jail them, reform government and that’s how we will live long and prosper. You will be unemployed in your, “shithole country,” but that’s not our fault 🖖
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Isn’t that missing the point? It’s not the fact that they’re heated that’s the problem. It’s the fact that they’re making the sorts of allegations from which you can’t come back, meaning their respective supporters are necessarily bound to the same set of divisions. Ergo, whoever wins will only be taking half of their party with them, unable to count on loyalty in critical votes over policy when it comes to the big decisions. Thus, knowing they remain divided and will lose the next election, people will be looking to the loser of this competition as their new leader of the opposition within two years, rendering the party unelectable and sabotaging it right now, due to lack of self control.
They should be passionate about Britain, not each other’s failings, NONE of which either party pointed out when they were in cabinet together, making the truth of their sudden complaints a bit hard to swallow. Well, they’re probably both telling the truth about each other, aren’t they? They’re merely exposing their own hypocrisy in not addressing them when it mattered.
We don’t need personality politics or personal attacks. We need a plan! For the country! And we need that NOW!
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It’s such a shame. I tried to get a hold of this movie on Amazon Prime, but there wasn’t even a copy to buy on that channel. In the end I had to buy a copy from America and have it sent across the pond to the UK. It wasn’t cheap, but it was well worth it.
These smaller, independent movies get a raw deal as far as distribution goes. If this film was better advertised, better known, it would have been Oscar nominated for sure, along with its lead actor, Tim Blake Nelson, whose depths and skills were a sight to behold.
Fans of Unforgiven, Hombre, Open Range and The Wild Bunch will be especially rewarded by the skill of the script writing in this shoestring classic. But any script is only as good as the performances that deliver it and there are no flaws to be found in any one of them. The direction is thoughtful, confidently paced (for a first time movie director) and thought provoking, the cinematography almost alchemical in the film’s ability to draw your eye to the right places at the right time, whilst juxtaposing the same scenery with itself to make it majestic in one moment and starkly baron the next, fitting the mood of each scene with precision. And the sparing use of a powerful, if understated, score just works to enhance the moment to moment emotion without the audience being conscious of the intercession.
A small masterpiece, like a pocket sized Rembrandt, to take out and show to those special friends with an appreciative eye. You just know they’ll want their own copy once they’ve seen it. Which is all the praise a movie like this needs.
I so look forward to more from this director, Potsy Ponciroli. An obscure name to conjure with. Destined to become a household name? If he maintains this calibre of work, for sure.
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Mary M : As a gun owner, a Conservative and a Christian, I too was glad he dropped out, even though I knew it was already OVER for him, when he said, “Hell yeah, we’re coming for your guns.” But, Trump is still a traitor, a sell out, a rapist, an idiot, and the totem of a Cult, set up by Fox and Fiends, who have managed to convince the Cult followers into HATING their fellow Americans AND their Republic, MORE than our enemies. So, he HAS TO GO. But, mark my words. If he’s not REMOVED by the Impeachment, it will be academic, anyway, as he’ll be BLATANT, getting Putin to RIG the whole 2020 election for him, and we will be powerless to stop him. We’re in the End Game. And, I think Nancy has some bombs left to drop? 🤔
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Politically Incorrect : That’s the problem. They ONLY read what they are TOLD TO read. They have NO CLUE, what’s actually HAPPENING in the world, or how they are ASSISTING the, “Lord of the Flies.” If they READ the Talmud, and not just the excerpts, that their, “Guest Speakers,” hand them, while talking about, “the original Greak, Hebrew, or Aramaic,” meaning of a post script, left by a monk on the toilet, who was probably, ACTUALLY, writing a shopping list, they’d be thoroughly ASHAMED of themselves. But, they DO LOVE their, “prophetic,” conspiracy theories, which has been a successful market for the credulous, “Christian,” for around 2000 years. Smh . . .
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Seán O'Nilbud : People in the, “centre,” feel the same way, too. You may already know this, but 25% of Republicans have LEFT the party, since Trump took office. That’s WHY his, “approval ratings,” APPEAR to have gone up, WITHIN the GOP. Because, only the EXTREMISTS are staying IN the party. I am one of MILLIONS of TRUE Conservatives, who will be VOTING Democrat, at the Mid Terms, in the hope of SAVING DEMOCRACY from this stupid, criminal, tyrant. Some will be withholding their votes, but MANY are angry and disappointed enough to vote Democrat. We MUST be UNITED. Trump NEEDS DIVISION to survive
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Joey Harper : ANYONE can make, “allegations,” about CNN. But, SHOW ME the ACTUAL, “faked,” CNN report? A reference, please? I don’t TOUCH Click Bait, which is WHY I don’t have Trojans, Bots, Worms, etc, on my tech. I KNOW you can’t
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al karg : That’s ADORABLE! I CHALLENGE YOU! With a SIMPLE QUESTION . . . KNOWING I have ALREADY defeated you!
You ACTUALLY, “think,” the economy is NOT run by the Big Business interests, banks and Wall St, EVEN THOUGH you push your, “Globalist,” Conspiracy Theory Propaganda, from Putin? It simply CANNOT be BOTH? Pop quiz, hot shot: (And I KNOW you CANNOT answer this!) Name ONE, SINGLE THING, that Trump has done; ONE ACT, when he has actually MEDDLED in the Economy, that did NOT do HARM? I can list EACH AND EVERY SINGLE THING. And ALL of Trump’s ACTUAL, “actions,” have caused shares, in AMERICAN BUSINESSES to PLUMMET. Not ONE ONE THING he did, did NOT HARM American interests. NOT A ONE!
So, setting aside, the FACT that employment figures would have been the SAME, REGARDLESS of exactly, “WHO,” was POTUS, I CHALLENGE YOU!: Name ONE ACT, that we can CLEARLY and INDISPUTABLY attribute to Trump, that was AIMED at effecting the Economy, that did NOT HARM American interests, the Stock Market, or American farmers or businesses, or government, or ALL THREE AT ONCE???
I KNOW you CAN’T. In the SAME WAY that I KNOW that even if you DO bother to answer, you will TRY to change the subject, use, “Butt Hurt,” angry insults, and / or BLATANTLY LIE, in such a childish manner that ALL THE WORLD will SEE that you have NO COMPREHENSION of economic matters, or ANY of the Political Sciences . . . 🤣
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@wagie95 : I’m afraid, “confused,” is a state of mind you’re going to have to learn to live with, son. Like the post natal surgeon when your mommy told him which bits she was keeping and which to throw away. I’m sure Sean Hannity or Alex Jones will explain it all for you in a way that helps you sleep nights. But you’re confusion has lead you into becoming an inversion of a troll who isn’t capable of upsetting the normals, but is capable of making them lol. It’s reassuring to think that humanity’s most bitter opponents have the IQ of lobotomised cockroaches, really. I’ve been convinced for some time now that Trumpoids are a different species altogether, passing themselves off as humans and only seeming to get away with it when they can blend into a plausible background, which is why you see so many of them in riots and at the scenes of mass shootings and hate crimes. They’re more like sperms with arms and legs than people; operating on a single setting, a desperate imperative to fertilise the egg of someone else’s consciousness their race hatred and insecurities; toddlers who don’t know how to relax and hate themselves, who feel they have to spoil everyone else’s lives because their own is so sh*t. I would pity you all, but you’re racists, so I don’t. Have a nice day.
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DjCole100 : It’s fewer than that, who are really Anti-Human, KKK types. But, so many have been persuaded to donate real money to Trump, early on, that they feel like IDIOTs, admitting they were SO WRONG. And, their Propaganda outlets have trained them to hate their fellow Americans MORE than they hate America’s real enemies, so they just can’t BEAR the idea of hearing, “See? We TOLD you so!” from a, “liberal.” 10% would be a HUGE proportion, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that many WERE actual Nazis our some Alt-Wrong version of them? ✌️👍
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Why ANYONE would harass a nurse, at ANY time, is just incomprehensible to me? But to think that ANY living, “thinking,” being, would be GULLIBLE enough to buy into the LIES about the very people fighting so desperately to save them? The sheer SELFISHNESS it takes, to be so lazy in thought, stupidly self centred, and fiendishly obtuse, to refute the stark reality before their very eyes is, to me, treasonously pro-Putin, and viciously self destructive. There must be a RECKONING for this, (not revenge) or America will NEVER heal . . . SMH ✌️👍
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@vidyasonavane9602 : I think you’re right. The mask of Trump has been torn off, revealing that it was always the GOP all along. He took the flack, but they backed all of his lunacy. And, any who might have broken with him are STUCK, because Big Business has ditched them, leaving only grass roots Nazis, for donations of the big MONEY. I wonder if the Impeachment will cause their permanent fracture? After the top GOP members have been asked to give their, “evidence,” for believing in, “The Steal?” That is what they rioted about, after all. But, with no 5th to take, under oath and on live TV, I’m guessing most of them will go with the Nuremberg Defence, or a version of it? “I had no evidence for it, personally, but my president said it was true, and I believed him.” Or, “We were only following orders.” That whole notion of, “the steal,” needs to be CRUSHED at this Impeachment, by the GOP! And, a good lawyer could make that happen!
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@antoniosaxon8605 : Well, keep in touch with your representatives then? Demand that they put top GOP goons on the stand! The, “verdict,” of this impeachment will be MEANINGLESS, if the GOP have been FORCED, under oath, to DENOUNCE, “The Steal.” Ted Cruz is ALREADY walking it back, and Lindsay Graham is making threats, because he DREADS being forced to answer for his seditious LIES! They cannot and WILL NOT risk a rap for Perjury, Conspiracy or WORSE! They will confess that, “the steal,” the REASON for an Insurrection, WAS A LIE! And who can Q, the Nazis, or the cult of trump, “blame,” when they hear it from the mouths of THEIR OWN LEADERS??? DEMAND THEIR TESTIMONY! And make sure others do too! ✌️👍
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Oh, I can tell you who is better off because of Brexit. Those business, “insiders,” who got tip offs from inside Westminster and who, “shorted,” (bet against) the Pound on the international markets. They made a killing and went back for seconds when Liz Truss told her, “think tanks,” all about her insane Neo-Liberal plan to turn Britain’s entire economy over to the business owners. One cannot help wondering how much of that was her and Kwasi Kwarteng and how much of it was the brainwashing of those quangos and far right infiltration units that she spent all of her free time plotting with? Because she really behaved like a Manchurian Candidate throughout her mercifully brief tenure.
But we must never be tempted to fall for the line that, just because the country has been haemorrhaging money, someone in-country hasn’t been profiting. That way, madness lies. We often think policy makers are being wilfully self destructive and even illogical, but there’s always an evil method to their madness.
And, of course, Boris profited immensely, as he was able to back-stab his way to power, which he would have sustained, even (dare I say) maintained to this day with laurels to polish, if only he’d had just enough of an IQ not to mess it up, so wilfully and in such an entitled, spoiled, idiotically callous fashion. But he did profit by Brexit, along with all those who hung on his coat tails, and whom we witness publishing bitter memoirs or galavanting in jungles to be tormented by the British viewing public.
At least the people who vote to toss a former MP into a pit of black widows, or to eat a rhino’s testicles, know their votes have a more meaningful outcome (certainly more gratifying) than general enfranchisement has granted them in the last 20 years.
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Arm yourselves : See, your, “focus,” is all over the place. Effective Trollarazzi know that you have to be concise and on message. You just drone on, about a bunch of people half your, “audience,” are too young to remember or CARE about. You’re WAY too, “emotional,” which, at this stage of the game, just comes off as, “Butt Hurt.” I know they closed down Trump U, but there MUST be a Troll Farm in your area? You need a refresher . . . 😜
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Arm yourselves : Most of all, and I’m being REALLY honest with you, here; you have NOTHING (and I mean NOT ONE THING) to say in, “DEFENSE,” of the Orange Orifice! Conservatives, like ME, are voting Democrat, BECAUSE of Trolls like YOU. Conservatives don’t CARE about, “Roman Polanski,” “Elizabeth Warren,” OR the fate of, “Jim Acosta.” They just DON’T, son! They CARE that Trump is Evil, DIVISIVE, a HATER, who is offering NOTHING more than MORE DIVISION and HATE. Talk about Trump! Or, respectfully, stfu?
Class dismissed . . . 👨🎓
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Arm yourselves : P.S. When you said, “and I’m going to drone on,” I looked at the length of your, “Butt,” Hurtary, and stopped reading. And, that’s all that ANYONE will do, except, MAYBE, one or two of your fellow Trolls. What’s the point of you? And, WHY are you so ANGRY? Seriously: I’m curious? 🤔
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Arm yourselves : Pity you don’t read history. In his letters and speeches, Abe Lincoln, REGULARLY, describes himself as a, “Liberal,” and a, “Whig.” Glad your a fan, though. Maybe you’re more, “Liberal,” than you know? Lincoln was too smart and ambitious to be an Independent, so you should KNOW he would be a Dem, today. In the same way that the KKK currently supports the GOP. Seriously, dude. Read a book? 🙂
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Arm yourselves : Question for you; requires a, “Yes,” “No,” or, “I don’t know,” answer. Can you spot the theme?
Veterans cash, withheld; Gold Star Families, attacked; John McCain, regularly attacked; Trump’s current battle with Special Forces Veterans; the Arlington, “rain,” Embarrassment; HATING on California Fire Fighters.
Do you think Trump HATES ALL American Heroes? 🤔
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Arm yourselves : Julio is SO right, you know? I am a Conservative, in values (remember those?) who voted Democrat, because Trump is an Evil Orange Criminal. “No Collusion,” is a proven LIE. “Lock her up,” is an EMBARRASSMENT, of which Republicans would rather NOT be reminded. Trump lied to YOU. So, YOU are either a foreign Troll, or a US racist, as there is NOTHING that Trump is offering to ANY American, right now. There’s only ONE question; Which are you? 🤔
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Julio Diaz : They need the fantasy that anyone who opposes Trump, HAS TO BE, a, “lefty liberal,” or the Propaganda brakes down. Like we don’t KNOW that Abe Lincoln would be a Democrat, today? Sure, the Dems have a racist history, but that all flipped, for good, during the Kennedy years. If the Dems were still the, “racists,” Arm yourselves would BE a Dem. I guess the Cult is only kidding itself, at this stage? SMH ✌️
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Johnson claims that he was, “exonerated,” by the Sue Grey report. It was seeing that tape, of that woman at the podium, laughing about the drunken antics of these scum, that set off in me, for the first time in my long life, a genuine revolutionary rage. My dad died of Covid and had already had a series of mini-strokes that made him unable to process the experience or understand why he was alone, without his four children. He asked for his wife, who had died the year before, but he kept forgetting that. He died hard. He died alone. And these bastards LAUGHED at us and said, “Let them eat cake.”
Any, “politician,” who can now look us in the face and say Johnson, “did not knowingly,” break policy or mislead the commons, is an evil LIAR. “Look at the evidence!” squeals this goon. The evidence shows that the police found he had criminally broken the law and fined him accordingly. Johnson was quoted as saying, “This is the least socially distanced room in Britain,” at his birthday party. The press staffer came out and laughed, looking drunk at the time! And this gaslighting psychopath only shows us how the Tories have flung open their doors to the type of scum that even Margaret Thatcher would have refused to tolerate!
If you want THE most powerful reason for voting for the opposition to the Tories in your county at the next general election, that interview was it!
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Why are you not filling the streets right now? The GOP is facing jail time and they’re LITERALLY STEALING your Republic, collecting up the post boxes! Why are you WAITING to STOP THIS? You’re all waiting for an election that is CLEARLY NOT GOING TO HAPPEN! And then you’ll protest, when it’s ALREADY TOO LATE, and Bill Barr’s Secret Police units will be expanded enough to suppress you, all over America. You should be halting the country NOW, and getting in front of their election RIGGING, while they’re still vulnerable? But, you’re all still hoping that it will magically get sorted out, like every other legal and Constitutional process has FAILED to do in the last 4 years! Maybe America wants a Dictatorship, in its heart of hearts? That’s the only explanation I can think of? Why else are you sitting on your asses, while they literally, BLATANTLY, STEAL YOUR REPUBLIC?
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“If she or he [insert politician here] knew about this, she or he would do something about it, for us.” The next time someone says that to you, direct them to the countless videos coming out of Russia on a daily basis: freezing troops without weapons, mothers grieving for missing sons, persecuted soldiers on the front lines being used for meat wave attacks . . .
EVERY SINGLE DAY these groups of desperate people make these videos, praying they will go over the heads of the people issuing the orders and reach Putin, “because, if HE KNEW THIS he would save us!” They have no idea that it was Putin’s idea! They can’t see that, if their videos actually were to go viral and get traction on the political scene in Moscow, they would all get rubbed out within the week! They identify themselves as targets!
It genuinely scares me to see that kind of thinking taking hold in the free world.
Thank you for this important discussion. I hope people learned something from it too. And, if you can use the assistance of a disabled Brit (international efforts are what’s called for sometimes) I am at your service. I have limits, due to my health, but I am sincere.
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Filipa Sales : They are dumb in America. That’s why they prefer to pay MORE money on, “insurance,” to a company that has a VESTED INTEREST in NOT helping you, hen you MOST NEED them, than they would in taxes. The FACT is that poor people don’t get health insurance, so they would rather NOT be forced to pay the taxes for it; while the RICH people are making MONEY out of these poor people, by having shares in the drug companies and other medical companies; while the politicians get their kick backs from the lobby groups. It always comes back to lobbyists in America. Lobbyists are the root of ALL of America’s ills. Not that any of this matters now? Since the Republic is due to finally FALL today? At the point when they say, “Not Guilty,” to Trump, it’s all over, and you can look forward to your RIGGED, “Elections.” Happy Dictatorship Day, America . . . SMH
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Just rewatch that video of MTG’s insanity and think about it? If this happened in an office, hospital or factory setting, MTG would have been suspended, and be looking at possible psychological intervention, or maybe even criminal proceedings. And, if left unchecked, her, “managers,” would be the ones in the firing line. They have FAILED in their basic Duty Of Care to an employee, and disregarded the safety of other workers! Yet, in the TOP work setting on the planet, THIS is the, “example,” set before the world? If she keeps it up, and gets hospitalised or sentenced for a crime, she’ll sue the GOP for failing in their Duty Of Care, and she’ll have a strong case! . . . ✌️
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@hutsuls : Appreciated. But, rather than going down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theorists, what I actually want to understand is why HE specifically chooses to, “believe,” this extraordinary thing. I doubt I will be persuaded, but I want to know what specifically persuaded HIM? Who HIS sources are? BTW, I am not, “shouting,” those alt-cap words, but I have no way to put italics or underlining into my text.
There are probably a million different theories about how, when and where just about every famous person has died, been abducted or been replaced by lizard people on the web, so I wouldn’t have any problem constructing a theory of my own, collating all of my, “sources,” and building a web page called, “I’m right dot com @, ‘educate yourself!!!’ for the insecure bubble dwellers incorporated,” and have my own following and donation pages by sundown.
I’m just too old and too bored with all that rubbish to bother.
I am simply going to repeat the question, each time I witness him making this assertion. Though probably way more briefly in future. It’s HIS reasoning I’m after and which, incidentally, I believe we are all entitled to, since Prof Wilson is a professional educator, broadcasting to the public, with a significantly large, consistent (if not, “loyal”) audience. He of all people ought to know that he has a responsibility to that audience. You just can’t go around saying stuff like that without offering a shred of evidence to back up your assertions! He has criticised many others for doing the same thing.
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And that is precisely why science has hit a brick wall and been stuck for about 20 years on the issues of Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Because physics and wondered into the realms of philosophy, not science. Worse still, it has done so for largely disingenuous reasons.
I’m kinda late to this party but, for what it’s worth . . . It is true that science has nothing to say about, “God.” Certainly not the God of the three main faiths that share the same original Jehovah. In the same way that physics has nothing to say about an individual’s personal taste in music, or to explain why we’re happy or sad. And that works both ways. While one’s personal faith might inform a scientist’s personal approach to their work, their relationships within the scientific community, or the type of physics they are interested in, God will not show up in their equations, nor should He.
I take issue, only in part, with one thing you said. Dark Energy is my exemplar to explain why. People assume it exists, because of observed phenomena, but they might be investigating something that is not even there, or real in a physical sense? It could be an effect of gravity that has not yet been discovered, or any one of several other hypotheses that have been suggested by great minds? Yet, we investigate it, because we want to understand the universe better and settle on a universally understood theory, which would benefit all of science and, ultimately, all of human kind. You will say, “Yes. But that is a scientific response to a real, observable phenomena in the universe, which science has something to say about.” But, my answer would be that there are phenomena which are genuinely, objectively experienced in the universe, which could be caused by something outside of our time space continuum, like Dark Energy, that could be caused by a knowing, all powerful, “god-like,” consciousness. Science cannot rule that out, despite the fact that there is no hypothesis for investigating it directly.
That being said, though science has nothing to say about God and God has nothing to say about hard science, all I’m suggesting is that, once we start using science to refute the existence of God, we have done a disservice to both science and people of faith. On the one hand, we are ruling out the possibility of something, without any evidence to support that stance: attempting to prove a negative, which is by its nature, impossible. And, on the other hand, we are making God a preoccupation of science, whilst arguing that God has no place in science. If scientists believe there’s no place for God in the physics, they fail to see the fallacy of their own placing of God at the centre of the science, in a vain attempt to prove a negative.
That’s comes off as a bad faith exercise, and somewhat oppressive to people of faith, don’t you think? Scientists need to leave God alone, if they truly have no belief in him. A trivial point, you think? If you think that, you’re failing to see why physics has hit a brick wall in the last 20 or so years. Instead of doing the science they get paid to do, physicists (not all of them, obviously) have devoted themselves to the disputation of faith, spending time, money and other resources on ever increasingly extravagant hypotheses, which are reaching a breaking point of sheer lunacy, if you ask me!
“Many Worlds?” Really? An entire structure of, “scientific,” thinking, upon which millions have now been spent, despite there being ZERO proof for any of it! Sure, there are elegant mathematic theorems, etc, but all of them are fatally flawed when any attempt is made to apply them to the real world. An infinite number of dimensions, stretching out forever, from every single decision point of every living creature, which would make one minute of one day create so many separate universes springing into existence (out of thin vacuum) that their number is literally incalculable; yet bigger than the number of electrons in the known universe? Give me a break! It’s a philosophy, not a scientific hypothesis, and what’s more, it is far less plausible than the notion of a god.
So yes, I would agree that the two spheres of human endeavour, “faith,” and, “science,” have NOTHING to say to each other. But, instead of fallaciously trying to rid god from the equations, why don’t scientists get their own message, and leave God alone? If they stuck to the observable universe, instead of wasting vast sums on colliders, we might have all had our flying cars by now, floating on a cloud of Dark Matter, repelling the effects of gravity? I mean, who knows? Does it really require a new, enlightened generation before science can take its next paradigm shift, back to real physics? . . . ✌️
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Indeed, these politicos that were such worms whilst working for the president, are still worms today in my view, regardless of how bright the light they now see is after their Damascene experiences. But their insights are nevertheless worth listening to. I also see the possibility of trump dropping out of the presidential race as a real one. Especially (perhaps counterintuitively?) if Ron DeSatan ceases to be a threat to him, providing him with the ego saving off ramp he’ll need, to, “save face,” by being able to say that he’d seen off all opponents and, “coulda’ won the presidency, easily, like you wouldn’t believe, y’know, I may yet run, maybe next time, who knows? . . . [insert stream of consciousness babble here] etc, etc.”
When he sees what he’s going to be talking about on the stand; realises what televised cross examinations are going to be mulled over by pundits around the world? . . . “It’ll make me look beyaaad.” He’s a notable coward after all, and as thin skinned as Stalin, or his buddy, Putin. He cannot be shamed, but he can be embarrassed. And embarrassment equals the diminishment of his personal currency with, “the base.”
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Jerry W : Let’s face it? The entire administration, from Bill Barr down to Devin Nunes, have ALL colluded with the crimes of this administration, and they ALL KNOW that Trump would, “rat them out,” if he was unseated, indicted and went to jail with his whole family. They have literally SHOWN America that they will RIG the coming, “elections,” with Putin’s help, because they have decided they would be prefer to be a part of the new Russian model of fake, “democracy,” than s-end the rest of their lives in cells, contemplating the historic infamy that will always be attached to their names in the same way that Hitler’s goons are. And, the WORST part of it all? Because WE, the people, just CAN’T bring ourselves to admit the Republic has FALLEN, we cling to our hope of a, “free and fair election,” which makes us CONSPIRATORS, buying time for the Dictatorship to consolidate its strength, prepare its excuses for when the paper ballots don’t match the computer ballots in key states, and organise intimidation squads to swamp the polling stations. Modern democracies follow the same pattern all over the globe, because the citizens always think it could never happen in their own country. Only a Revolution could save America now. The carrot of a future, “remedy,” just around the next bend, has been the perfect (Putin) scam, keeping the populace docile. They simply CANNOT AND WILL NOT allow you to, “vote,” them out now??? Stop colluding with their LIES, America? You’re giving away your freedom, for the dumbest, most OBCENE Putin Puppet in history! . . . SMH
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Opening with Robert Peel was rather an elegant touch, I thought. I gave myself a quick refresher by reading Katie Carpenter’s brief summary on the Corn Laws, on the Parliamentary website, before continuing. Notably, Peel knew that repealing the laws would cost him dear and, sure enough, he lost his premiership amid a civil war within the Conservatives.
Yet, he was ultimately vindicated.
All of the fears expressed by the Corn Law supporters were proved false. There was no surge in foreign wheat, glutting the British markets. Prices did not plummet to unmanageable figures. Instead, the people at, “the coal face,” (so to speak) who dealt and traded with Spain, Norway and the other bogey men countries mentioned in pro Corn Law petitions, came up with solutions that benefitted all parties and took the broader consequences of international trade into account.
One could hypothesise that a new form of, “internationalism,” or, an awakening within the trading classes, as to a broader influence on the country’s affairs through international trade, began. Not for nothing had Napoleon dismissed the British as a, “nation of shop keepers,” well within living memory. The British have always had a better grasp of economics and reale politic than their leaders have given them credit for.
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Arthur Cribben : You must be new to social media? “The right,” are the ones issuing death, “threats,” proudly shouting their race hate from the rooftops, or conversely, getting all, “butt hurt,” for being called out on racism, and trying (SO LAMELY) to remind everyone about the historical links between the Dems and the KKK, even though YouTube is chock full of videos of KKK rallies and other Nazi meets, where they all chant, “Hail Trump,” with LITERAL SWASTIKAS on their arms. The HYPOCRISY of LIVING on news channels, only to CONSTANTLY drone on about how they, “think,” it’s all, “fake,” when they’ve just PROVED, so CLEARLY, that they BELIEVE it, by their mere continual PRESENCE, is utterly banal and laughable. Get some experience behind you, before making any more LUDICROUS claims, if you want to be taken, “seriously,” son? 🙂
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@braxtonburchard3701 : Pick a lane, pal? You can’t be a Nanny State, “Trumpian,” AND a, “Conservative”? That’s like saying you’re an Earthling Martian! Notice how trumpians NEVER preserve our institutions? Notice how they, “conserve,” NOTHING? Notice how trump wants to know who you tweet at, whether you drink Coke, and buy your stuff from Amazon? Trump is an OPEN TOTALITARIAN, who has refused to legitimise ANY politician who has opposed him, and who INVENTED Cancel Culture. You’ve been conned (probably gave money and don’t know how to stop, without looking like an idiot?) who can’t see that he gives you the precise OPPOSITE of EVERYTHING he promises. You’re one, NOT the other, son. 🤦♂️
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@hmmcinerney : We’ll spoken. Prof Stanley G Payne’s seminal work, The History Of Fascism; 1914 - 1945, gives any intelligent reader all they need to know (available on iTunes and in all American Libraries, btw) and lays out the markers, after comprehensively breaking down Franco’s Spain, Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany, without ignoring Stalin’s Russia either. Putin has coached trump with a lot of Stalin’s, “techniques,” when it comes to media control, and we came closer than I like to think about, to trump establishing an outwardly Totalitarian (if not, “fascist,” in name) state. And the GOP’s Coup actually BEGAN on Jan 6th, but has not stopped since. If anything, it is more potent now, with Voters, Protesters and Education, ALL being systematically Suppressed. And, I don’t doubt that the GOP plans actual violence again, at the Midterms, but on a more organised level, on top of tossing out swathes of votes, and just about any other desperate trick they can mount? The midterms will be America’s or the GOP’s last stand. At least, the version of the GOP as it is . . . ✌️👍
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We don’t want the BBC doing investigative work, do we? Exploring the motives and workings of our institutions and government, might leave too many people being informed? I 100% believe that this cutback is a direct result of pressure from our Tory, “government.”
There is a direct correlation between the government’s sudden radio silence about the BBC and that institution’s sudden apparent silence on any news that looks bad for the Tories. We have gone from almost daily attacks on the BBC, even from the Dispatch Box, continually threatening the licence fee, occurring all the way up to Boris Johnson’s tenure at Downing Street, to this apparent acquiescence on the part of the Beeb, frequently quashing headlines that would embarrass the government, demonstrating appalling pro-government biases (which themselves have grabbed headlines) and having the old boy network appointees quietly slipped into positions of leadership throughout the whole organisation.
The irony, of course, is that people like me, who were once fierce defenders of that license fee, find the best argument for ending it in their becoming a propaganda mouthpiece for whatever government happens to be in power! It has been truly distressing to watch the decline in standards of this precious jewel in the nation’s crown.
The three things that speak most loudly to me of, “Britishness,” have always been 1) Our independent judicial system, still able to make judgements that can even stymy the worst laid plans of Prime Ministers, as both Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have found, to their chagrin. 2) Our NHS, providing healthcare from cradle to grave, FREE at the point of need; still heroically standing, however embattled. And 3) Our independent journalism, with its finest exemplar, setting the standard that the world still follows (or aspires to) in the BBC. An organisation with literal global reach, scope and influence. People huddled in trenches in some God forsaken African war zone or East European war zone, or some Middle Eastern hell hole, dodging missiles and trying to find out what’s really going on out there so they can decide what to do next, do NOT tune in to Fox, CNN, Al Jazeera or the RT propaganda outlets. They tune in to the BBC World Service, to get unalloyed, simple FACTS, coming from gallant journalists worthy of the name, often risking their lives or their freedom, just to get the TRUTH out to the world about matters of ultimate urgency.
And our government has done more to undermine those three institutions in the last 13 years than any previous government in the last 13 decades! This cut back will lead directly back to some influential Tory, or Tories, I have no doubt.
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Joey C : Once upon a time, there was an admired and respected “man of honour” called General Kelly. Now, there is a proven LIAR, abuse covering, abuse minimising, Trump enabler, who’s “reputation” is in TATTERS. As Robert Mueller said, “If you have integrity, nothing else matters. And, if you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.” I think he was quoting someone, but he was SO RIGHT. SMH
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I have encountered, about a thousand times, YouTube commenters who spot an, “ad hominem,” and think they have invalidated everything else you say on that basis. Usually they follow up their remarks with their Wiki, or online dictionary definition of the term, in the hopes that they can get you arguing about what an, “ad hominem,” remark is and indeed, whether or not you used one, rather than the topic in hand.
In other words, people who get upset about ad hominem attacks are generally incapable of discussing the matter in hand and are trying to distract you.
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You touch it with a needle. The world stage is now too small for tinpot Putlers to get away with 19th century politics and a medieval attitude to warfare. Anyone who doubts me only needs to check their tax bills, their gas at the pump or their heating bills. We’re all forced to pay for the preservation of freedom, whether we support Ukraine or not, which gives every citizen in the free world a legitimate dog in this fight. Putin is stealing from all of us, while he’s terrorising and murdering his way into Western Europe and the planet has shown it has no tolerance for Hitlerian childishness. Are we finally learning our lessons from history? I wouldn’t be that optimistic. But we’ve definitely done the math. And we’ve concluded that, even if the investment is expensive now, it will save the free world a FORTUNE in blood and treasure if we put Putin back in his box now and force the Russians to wake up and deal with their own dictatorships, rather than allowing him to remain our most expensive problem for the next 20 years! Well said, sir. I think you get it? There’s just no future for dicks like, “Putler,” as Mike so humorously put it, on this shrinking planet. We need the grownups in charge. ✌️🇺🇦
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NPC Muh Facts Matter : Russians never were famous for their, “humor.” Can see why. Leave it to people who are, “witty,” like me. You’re only half-witted, and not the good half, at that? I’m guessing, probably, the bottom half, where the, “Butt Hurt,” lives? 😁
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spencer johnston : Yeah, that’s right. Flake has supported ALL of the new, “policies.” So, I can’t RECOGNISE the Republican Party any longer. But, I guess he “believes” in what he’s doing? While, at the same time, I can see that he has only voted out of, “party loyalty,” on some issues, to save the government from embarrassment, he DOES do, “the right thing,” by HIS lights. And THAT’S what he’s about, right? “We can disagree on policy, fight the battles of politics, but we REALLY SHOULD NOT be ENSLAVED by this INCOMPETENT, ORANGE, EGO-CHILD, who has more in common with STALIN than ANY American POTUS from history.” So, in THAT regard, I see him as a decent man, trying to do what HE believes is right. To me, THAT IS “AMERICA.” To me, he represents what America SHOULD BE and NOT what it has become. More power to him, right?
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@richardreese8038 : See, your problem is that you’re saying that, HERE. If anyone is, “obsessing,” don’t you think it’s the people who go out of their way to a news channel they call, “fake,” to talk to people they call, “deluded,” about a president they don’t even acknowledge as their actual president? That’s pretty, “Karen,” to anyone reading you, son. It’s why people lol at trump trolls all the time. You lack self awareness, like any Karen would. 🤷♂️🤦♂️🙄
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“Spin”??? The, “spin,” came from the top cops talking to the world! When a minority does something like this, they’re labelled a, “monster,” but, when a white guy does it, he’s just having a, “bad day”??? WTF??? If that isn’t a racist thesis, what is? This is trump’s anti-China, anti-Asia rhetoric. We all know it.
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mct _ : That’s way too extreme an analysis of the way real people, really are, son. It sounds like it came out of a textbook, rather than a natural conclusion of the intellect. Nor is it especially helpful, to sit on your hands, identifying what you see as, “the problem,” when there’s no hint of a solution in there. If you just want to sound, “smart,” or something, well OK . . . You’re clearly not stupid. But, what do you offer to the conversation, other than your disdain for our system, which appears to be not, “your system,” then?
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Tony Hill : IKR? Talk about broken records, stuck on Repeat Mode, right? I’m frankly amazed that ANY of the Trump Trolls have the balls to bring up, “Hillary,” anymore? She’s not even had a parking ticket, in THREE YEARS, yet we’re meant to, “believe,” that she’s a, “staffer murdering, pedo-ring running, intel-bleaching, uranium selling,” Super Villain that would make James Bond turn and run for the hills? Trump’s Arch Enemy walks free, when he could NOT prevent his entire Campaign Team from going to JAIL, and after THREE, WHOLE YEARS, they can’t SEE that Trump has LIED to them???
Gimme’ a break. Trump Trolls PRETEND to, “believe,” Trump’s lies. Either because they get paid to, and don’t even LIVE in America, or because they just WANT a Greedy, Racist for POTUS, and see Trump as, “revenge,” for Obama. Putin has us all thinking we’re each other’s, “enemies,” so we’re not dealing with our REAL, external threats.
And, the Cult of Trump kinda’ knows this, but indoctrinated itself, through reassuring Propaganda, coming out of Fox, RT and Alex Jones. And, WHY would they do that? Because they’re literally too ASHAMED to admit how wrong they were. It’s an old con. Now people have given huge donations, fallen out with friends and family, lost jobs at Nazi rallies, etc, they see no way back to reality. They, “feel,” no choice but to double down. The Republic is dying of embarrassment . . . Literally
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Emilio Nazario : As, I have no idea who, “AB,” is, or what, “fight,” you’re talking about, I’ll take that under advisement. As you clearly have nothing to say, despite several invitations to make your case, I can only guess that you’re the kind of person who doesn’t know how or when to stop talking?
Tell us WHY you think Puerto Rico, or any other area, should separate from the most powerful nation and (at the time of writing) still a free country, in the world? Be less concerned with emotions and make your point. SMH
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Emilio Nazario : It’s not like any of your fantasy imaginings have the remotest chance of occurring in the real world, but it is very Russian (Zardos) of you, to wish for the disintegration of US power. What’s amusing, I guess, is the fact that you’re writing those words, as if anyone would sit there and say, “You know what, I’m going to talk to Donny about that, and see to it that America changes it’s Geo-Political Policy.” Frankly, you strike me as a bit odd (putting it as nicely as possible), but that’s not my problem 🙂
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Helen R : They almost overthrew him a year or so ago, remember? Mass protests, because he and his cronies are living large while they are getting poorer. And that’s what this whole Ukraine show is really about. We all think we’re about to feel the economic sting of the coming rises in gas and food, but Putin knows his people will starve! At least a large proportion of them are about to face poverty, and he’s casting about in a panic, remembering how disgusted they are about his wealth, so his excuse will now be, “We’re at war, so get behind me. And you’re poor now, because of western sanctions. The west is bad.” It won’t work. No matter how many TV stations and newspapers he shuts down in Moscow. He closed another TV network yesterday I believe. How many is that now? If he was the one telling the truth, why does he lock up and assassinate journalists, I wonder?
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Good point. It’s such a giveaway that he wants us to, ‘’fear,” his madness, but he’s transparently bluffing when it comes to more, “extreme,” measures. Our mistake was to ever let him get away with that in the past. Russia’s economy is too small to compete as a, “superpower,” and this breaking point was a long time coming. This will only hasten western measures to cut Russia out of the energy markets all together, while we spend all of the stockpiled Rubles we ever had on our last purchases. It’s not like we didn’t see this one coming. And I’m willing to bet that Russian energy companies will be doing business behind Putin’s back, whilst cooking their books, (if they aren’t already?) while Putin’s grip on his dictatorship slips. Perhaps he doesn’t realise it, but if he cut off all energy supplies to the west today, it would hurt the cost of living (especially in Germany) but it would be far from a, “bank breaking,” crisis. He’ll have to do better than these desperate moves which only confirm that our measures against him are working? Russians KNOW how to restore balance. Remove the ONE obstacle: Leave Ukraine! Over Putin’s dead body? Fine. 🤷♂️
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Merlinz Batgirl : They say that the art of never losing a game, is DON’T play. Much as I’m SURE you’d LOVE to distract us ALL from addressing Trump’s racism, I’ll tell you what? YOU look up the YouTube videos, of the KKKlan meetings, with them shouting, “Hail Trump,” in unison, all doing the Nazi Salute. If you can ADMIT that, while not all Trump fans are Nazis, ALL NAZIS are Trump fans, I’ll discuss your distraction topic, and show you WHY you are SO WRONG; whatever it’s about. Deal? I DARE YOU? 😁
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Merlinz Batgirl : Oh, one other thing, dear. I won’t talk about the fact that GOP women are not supposed to be discussing, “men’s work,” like politics, and SHOULD be in the kitchen, making babies, or arranging flowers, or whatever the hell you people do when you’re not at a Klan Meet? But, do TRY to remember, darling? You’re ONLY a Trump Troll. You’re NOT so, “interesting,” that Normals will READ all of your lengthy back-peddling. You don’t write, “well,” like me. And, it’s IMMORAL to waste REAL time on Propaganda, especially when we’ve heard it ALL before. So, keep ‘em BRIEF or be ignored. You can have two lines, per comment, girl. So, make ‘em GOOD 😊
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Upper Echelon Gamers : OK, what the writers did with CoD was wrong. No question. That kind of revisionism can be dangerous, if it’s not clear that it’s fiction. But, the fact is, you don’t KNOW, “WHY,” they did it. You proffer NOTHING, in terms of, “evidence,” but have a LOT of, “conclusions,” anyway. No quotes; no statements from the makers; have you even ASKED them about it? Or, seen any other journalist’s insight into WHY they did it? Because, if you have ANY facts, you didn’t put them in this video? You believe you see an agenda at work, but this time, I don’t see it AT ALL. All you HAVE is your emotional response, articulate though it may be, it’s still only that.
I guess I’m seeing the Balance disappear from your videos, which saddens me. I got it, early on, when I started watching your vids, that you’re not impressed by the left, (I consider myself conservative) but I had you down as a centrist, with the journalistic integrity to genuinely see facts in isolation, without needing to put a spin on them. In this case, your GUESS work, ascribing the, “motivations,” about which you had NO WAY of, “knowing,” about, but keep referring to as this, “growing tendency,” you see everywhere, but are unable to substantiate, smacks of paranoia or deliberate propaganda. If you could substantiate it, I may well have agreed with you. But, no comments by the writers, no interviews, not even a, “rumour,” as to their agenda; no nothing. You can’t speak to WHY they did it, only that they did, but you decided you, “know why,” and complained about that, instead of finding out. That bothers me
This is not the standard I have came to expect from you. I’m still an admirer, for all that. But, I feel somewhat guarded about that, now. Please don’t take a, “side,” in these culture wars? Your VALUE is in your journalism. Once you represent one side, over another, (regardless of which) your value is shot, and would be next to impossible to restore.
As John Marston would say, “I implore you!” Be better than that. You usually are ✌️👍
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IKR? . . . I was actually expecting something awful and bracing myself! As an Englishman who moved here in 2006, I may consider relinquishing my citizenship, after that unwarranted attack upon England’s, “Famous British Sense Of Humor,” though? That was a little hard to take, after five years of trump and the consequences of trumpism? He may have caused an international incident with that gratuitous dig at our national pride? CNN’s Humor-Gate may become the issue of our day, defining the century? I’m writing to the ambassador about this! Just because Donny is surrounded by yes-men, too afraid to mention how utterly ludicrous his transplanted pubic hairdo is, combined with an Orange facial tan that glows in the dark, and a belly that enters the room five minutes before his feet get there, doesn’t mean he’s aware of his clownish appearance! You don’t get into Johnson’s Silly Hair Club, just by looking like you’ve abandoned all hope of ever looking like a regular human and letting scientists experiment on your head??? What was this man THINKING by attacking the British ability to laugh off unnecessary wars, global environmental disasters and the rise of fascism??? I feel a stiff letter coming on! . . . I do! . . .
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Be relieved that your upbringing was so much better than his? “There, but for the grace of God,” and all that? Consider how much happier you are, with people in your life who actually love you, trust in you, and whom you can count on? You have so much that he doesn’t, (including legitimate money, probably?) and you’re not as bitter, racist, criminally inclined, or lonely as he is. Be glad for what you have and celebrate it. Give your spouse a special thank you hug? ✌️
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Upper Echelon Gamers : I just love the comprehensive, articulate, penetrating, bullshit-free, journalism that you do. Honestly, you’re the best computer game journalist out there. It’s only been three, or so, weeks since I discovered this channel. But, I’m so glad I did. I’m going to stop constantly telling you this, now, as it must probably be getting weird, but I just hope others understand your VALUE. Don’t ever change 👍✌️
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It’s a shame, when you think about what Ryan Johnson was trying to do? It, “could have,” been a brilliant, challenging new story, added to the cannon, in which the big question, “could have been,” about that theme, of whether the Force had an actual, “light side,” and, “dark side,” at all, or if that was just a construct that people mistakenly put on it, which was why it always lead to conflict. Imagine the Lovecraftian HORROR of the force being dispassionate, alien and utterly uncaring in the way that physics is to thought? A Universe that DOESN’T CARE, “could have been,” what Snoke embodied; not really on either side but his own. He could have had a background and story developed around that, and the whole trilogy could have been focussed on it. The first movie, with all its fan service would have needed little tweaking, but the second movie could have had the cliffhanger ending, in which Snoke appears to have won, by destroying BOTH hero and villain! In the way that Empire seemed bleak, but was the best movie of the first Trilogy. Making way for the Dark and Light sides of the Force to unite in the third movie, to defeat the whole idea of a Universe that doesn’t care, with the sacrifice of one major hero and, of course, the sacrifice of one major dark side character: the light-sider being someone from the original cannon (Han Solo?) and of course, we all know who the dark-sider would be, right? His son, Kilo Ren. Imagine the possibilities of that? . . . Ah well . . .
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@brucebolton7184 : These far right shows get as many viewers who are watching just to know what the Alt-Wrong are up to these days, and watching ironically, as they get actual, “fans.” Just in the same way that Radio Moscow and Hitler’s broadcasts used to get people listening from all over the world. During WWII, Lord Haw Haw, with his, “Germany Calling,” broadcasts, used to be the most popular thing on British Radio, but no one took him seriously, for a minute! They hung that f’ker in the end. And Hannity knows that will be his fate in the end, which is why he’s so out there these days. Desperation. Viewing figures mean little when every secret service agency on the planet is monitoring their broadcasts, along with every journalist and right minded democrat, just to keep abreast of their current flavor of Russian propaganda that they’re laundering for PooTin this week . . .😉👍
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@AkshayKumar-ue1fp : Type, “trump supporters in the KKK,” into your YouTube search box? I dare you? After seeing the MANY examples of KKK gatherings, with Swastikas and everything, and them all shouting, “Heil Trump,” whilst doing the Nazi Salute, in unison, come back here and I’ll accept your apology. Yes, the KKK used to vote Dem, 150 YEARS AGO, genius! 🤦♂️ Now you’ve proved you have no grasp of political history OR modern politics, that begs the question: Do you even KNOW what you stand for? Seems you have NO CLUE! 🤣
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Wait a minute? Number 4 has to be a joke? You might as well be saying, “Mae West is largely forgotten,” like so many other stars of her era. Mae West built her entire career on, “sex and sex appeal,” as stated in your piece and literally NO ONE, “forgot,” that at the time or now! Pushing the boundaries and getting herself arrested were the foundations of her stardom, and she regularly had cops in the wings of her stage shows, just waiting to see if she would cross the line again. Hell! If there were no cops there on opening night, she would start up a rumour to ensure that there would be by the next night!
That’s what MADE her a star! What are you guys even talking about? What part of that is, “forgotten”???
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TEFLON DON : Other people commit murders too, so maybe we should just fling open the doors on Death Row? Not that we can expect anything other than specious, “logic,” from the broken down El Presidente. That is, when can even make a coherent sentence in the first place? But, can we be REAL for one minute? They are NOT going to risk a real, “vote,” in 2020, so that Trump and his whole family ends up in JAIL after literally countless indictments? They KNOW he will, “rat them all out,” cutting ANY deal he can, as it will be the first time in his life that he can’t, “counter-sue,” or pull any of his usual, shit. Which means we would see the ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION go to JAIL. You would have to be clinically INSANE not to KNOW they have already RIGGED the 2020, “Elections.” Acting like it even MATTERS just, “who,” gets to lead the, “opposition,” at this point, is like caring what color the bullet is that is about to enter your brain! You are just buying them time to consolidate their Putin Style Dictatorship, in which the populace are kept docile by being allowed to go through the motions of, “voting,” in, “elections.” All they will be is a Data-Gathering exercise, helping the GOP determine which States and which individuals they’re going to TARGET next. It’s TIME, America. Have a Revolution, or accept that the Republic has FALLEN? Jus DON’T help the Dictatorship, by PRETENDING that you still have a, “democracy”??? The last nail went in that coffin at the FAKED Impeachment . . . Please wake up?
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Tchannel Frim : You kinda’ nailed it, there. These empty deflections, simply serve to make it clear that there is a Russian Paid Troll, in the thread. You’d think they’d have started to use subtlety, by now? But, whether they are from the Trump Cult, or Russians, they’re NEVER very bright. Have you noticed that “Hillary” bleats, usually show up in pairs, these days? Because, they switch to a separate account to make their next comment, to create the illusion of having larger numbers. They are doing more HARM than good for their cause, however, so they never “concern” me. 👍
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Ben Cooley : Be sure NOT to vote, at the next election, then, won’t you? I dare you to try to convince ANY politician (ANY) on either side of the House to say we, “don’t have a democracy,” at all? All those great speeches, from FDR, JFK, Reagan, Ben Franklin, George Washington: ALL LIES? You can DENY GRAVITY all you want, son. But, your fat ass still don’t float! 🤣
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Jo Nardi : Well, at this stage, ALL of them are either paid, foreign trolls, or racist domestic trolls. Regardless of the, “legality,” of Trump’s MESS of a presidency, it is now PROVED that he WAS and IS, “colluding,” with Russia. So there really is NO excuse for backing Trump, now. Unless, that is, you’re one or the other of the above. Otherwise, there’s nothing to be gained? ALL of them HATE America; at least, they HATE that it isn’t, “White,” (or Orange?) and the rest just HATE America . . . SMH 👍✌️
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It would seem only fair that Johnson should be forced to face his own constituency, if he did choose to remain in politics and win, lose or draw there, where he owes the greatest responsibility.
As to the behaviour of Mogg and Dorise, et al (👈 may have misspelled, “Dorise?” Sorry) they should first be reminded that this is THEIR committee, formed by THEM, and that it has a Conservative majority. Harriet Harmon has zero power over the other members as the Chair, simply performing an administrative role of organising and as spokesperson, so singling her out is wrong headed to begin with.
Yes, Parliament ought to have strict rules about respecting the process and they should be swiftly enforced. For instance, while these people are tossing around allegations about the committee, like churlish, entitled school children, they should be made to prove them or withdraw their remarks with an apology, or face legal consequences. At the very minimum, they should face censure and sanction through the Parliamentary processes?
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Diuable : Well, everyone kept asking, “What’s going to happen when Trump has to face a genuine crisis in America?” Now we know. The strongest, most scientifically advanced country on the planet, with the, “best healthcare system in the world,” has somehow got the highest infection rate in the world, the highest DEATH rate in the world, lost the most jobs in the world (already!) and is facing chaos, whilst withdrawing funding from the SINGLE world agency that they NEED THE MOST! How’d that happen? The US is a giant PLC now. That’s how. The economy is everything, whereas health, security, and human rights will ALWAYS come a very poor second. Trump will put thousands, maybe millions, to the sword, so as to reopen the front doors on America Limited. He has killed your Democracy; brought down your Republic; now he’s going to kill you . . .
For the M O N E Y, STUPID . . .
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Well, the Impeachment Lawyers actually persuaded one, whole GOP member . . . They’re THAT GOOD! And I’m NOT being sarcastic! Just one is a massive blow! Both to GOP morale, and to stability. It was an incredible performance too! The evidence will be SO DAMNING, that they might just create a bigger divide? . . . But, Remember, when you’re emailing the Impeachment Managers: “The Steal,” caused and Insurrection. “The Steal,” AIN’T REAL! Make the GOP ADMIT THAT, on the Witness Stand, for all of America to hear!? What choice will they have? Perjury? Conspiracy? A BILLION dollar lawsuit? Put GOP Senators on the stand! ✌️
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You talked about Edward Teller, and I’m curious about this man, since I read the book (American Prometheus) and watched the movie, Oppenheimer. Teller hated the communists and wanted to build the H Bomb, before the Russians. But he seemed to have all the instincts of a Stalinist, fought his opponents like a Stalinist, betrayed friends and colleagues as easily as a Stalinist and was riddled with the paranoia and cruelty of a Stalinist. We can only be thankful that he wasn’t more influential than he was among HUAC or other scientists of his time.
But, I would love to know more about what makes such a smart man so politically naive and continually dangerous? There have always been men like him around, and the world needs to be on its guard against that dangerous combination of misguided political fury and actual scientific chops. People like Lysenko (pseudo scientists with power) are ten a penny, but the Edward Teller’s of the world have the potential to do so much more harm, potentially world destroying harm, because they know their science and have such perverted political drives.
Please do a video on this topic? Maybe in the new age of AI bots, we need one?
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They should just sic the IRS on her. No way she was sending, “all,” of that cash, if, “any,” of it, to her Putinista cause. And keeping so much as one dollar that cannot be written off as, “expenses,” is FRAUD. A confidence trick. And, if any organisation in the world can ruin your life forever, it’s the IRS. Prison time would be a bonus.
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LadyBlaidd : WOW! You JUST, “found that out,” did you? Of COURSE Avenatti has his, “own beef,” with Trump! Like MOST Americans, he just WANTS THE TRUTH! If Trump is, “innocent,” WHY NOT get the TRUTH out there? Trump SAID, on MANY OCCASIONS, “Only MOBSTERS take the 5th.” You ALL KNOW that Trump is GUILTY but you DON’T CARE, because you’re in a CULT. So, when Russia and China becomes our BOSS, we will have CULTISTS like YOU to THANK FOR THAT. MAGA = Michael Avenatti Great American
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Dean Wilson : Why are Trump’s countless business scams, failures and bankruptcies just a, “lame talking point,” to you? Are you literally, just too embarrassed to admit that his taking $1.5 TRILLION, for himself, his family and his donors, within months of getting in, was the clearest evidence you needed that you’ve been had? What have you gotten in return for that? A Trade War, farmers on welfare and a recession in the Rust Belt! And that’s just the beginning, son. He’ll stimulate the economy, artificially, to get through the next election, and the Bill will be the biggest America has EVER paid. And YOU will pay it, kiddo. You either hate America, or you just hate people of color. That’s WHY you LIVE on MSNBC. Fear and DREAD that the TRUTH will be proved to you
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I think it is worth asking yourself, who are you explaining this stuff to? Is there a single Jew on Planet Earth who can grasp the points you’re making, who supports Trump, let alone suspects he of all people is, “the chosen one?” I seriously think you will not find one. You may find a handful of wealthy, powerful Jews who are on trump’s gravy train in one form or other, but no one else.
Trump was, “chosen,” by the GOP to reach the ignorant, the lowest achievers, the fearful and cowardly. It is a deliberate strategy, calculated to reach people who are simply incapable of following your points.
I’m afraid you are preaching to the choir in this case.
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Here’s a revolutionary notion. How about we WELCOME the much NEEDED migrants to our workforce, generating economic activity and the taxes that PAY for stuff? Y’know? Just spit-balling here.
Meanwhile, we just go back to PROCESSING asylum seekers, instead of dumping them in prison hulks and repurposed B&B’s, putting back some of that extra cash from those taxes to expand the immigration services, who were doing a very good job until the Tories messed up their mojo? They were just overwhelmed by a problem that is being felt WORLD WIDE!
So we NEED diplomatic, WORLD WIDE treaties and solutions to address migration on a GLOBAL scale! If we stopped giving the middle finger to Europe long enough to negotiate SHARED policies and solutions for mass migration, we might be better off?
How about we talk to other leaders about devoting a new, entire department of Interpol (or Europol, or any other international police forces, including America’s FBI) to these people smugglers? Coordinated policing, concentrated on the key places they operate from is what’s going to stop the trafficking! And, “Stop The Traffickers,” can be Labour’s new slogan.
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Right now, Trump is personally upset that America will LOVE Biden for actually saving our economy. He knows Biden and Obama did it before, after the 2008 Banking Crisis, created by Bush, that rocked the world. Biden’s experience means he can, AND WILL, do it again. The rest of the GOP will wait around a week, maybe two? When the stats are all in, and they see the Tax Payer funded RNC Convention has, if anything, made it worse for them, and it’s hopeless . . . THAT’S when the DEFECTIONS will start . . . Remember I predicted that? 😉✌️👍
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Douglas Barton : I’m noticing that, the deeper into the pit of depravity, trump plummets, the fewer Nazis are willing to follow. Sure, that hard core will remain, until the very bitter end. Education is the ONLY cure for racism. But, a LOT of the impotent rage, from the Troll farms, is just to caver their SHAME. They sure as hell DON’T want to spend the rest of their lives APOLOGISING for Trump. And more and more of them are starting to GET IT. THAT’S THE ONLY FUTURE Trump has to offer. One atrocity, after another. WHERE are the CHILDREN? WHY has KIM STILL got ALL of his NUKES?? WHY did Donny dress up in an Orange Gimp outfit and dance on stage for Putin, in front of the HORRIFIED WORLD, in Helsinki??? It will ONLY get WORSE and WORSE. The Trolls are SEEING this. And it makes the ANGRY. Because they’re EMBARRASSED
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@RealStuntPanda : I’m a believer, but I also think it’s funny to use, “Evangelical,” logic against them. Personally, I think all the Evangelical Leaders should be rounded up by the CIA, sent to Gitmo, and forced to convert to Christianity! Start by making them READ their Bibles? But, they are pretty vocal on the topic of Water Boarding, so . . . But, seriously. Real people of faith NEVER use that to bash others with, and it’s literally written into the handbook of all three major faiths that God does NOT take, “offence,” at none believers, or condemn their practices! Anyone shouting, “baby killer,” is by definition, a none believer, or at best, deceived. Especially since Regeneron’s cocktail that, “cured,” Trump, is made using the foetuses of Dutch, aborted babies, kept on ice, since the 1970’s! Fact! That’s their cult leader, with dead babies floating around inside him, wailing for justice! I’m not a very, “good,” Christian, but I have read my Bible, and most of the world’s priests and pastors have distorted it, horribly. But, that was prophesied, by Jesus, in the Bible, so . . . ✌️👍
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@RealStuntPanda : P.S. I was brought up an atheist, and most of my surviving family remain so. As do many of my friends. I’m the weirdo exception in my circles, but oddly enough, it’s never been an issue when it comes to, “morality.” Seems people just know the difference between right and wrong, and have thousands of years of philosophy, art, political theory and culture to base their foundational beliefs upon? I genuinely believe these people know they are wrong, but just don’t care. Like the Star Ship Troopers movie, they have been seduced by the Fascist ideology of a single party system that brooks no opposition. That’s what we are really fighting for. They want a system in which there simply IS NO, “opposition,” party, culture, or opposing philosophy, of any kind. We recognise that you DON’T HAVE a Democracy, or a Republic, unless there is a healthy, strong opposition; capable of preventing excesses, holding politicians to account, debating policy in public, and with the POWER to balance that system. We are literally fighting Fascism now. And it would help, if we all call it what it is ✌️👍
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davids11131113 : WHO told you THAT? How do you even HOPE to come out on top, if you ONLY listen to Fox PROPAGANDA, sonny??? They were, “wire tapping,” KNOWN SCUMBAGS, who happened to PHONE TRUMP! Maybe your, “president,” shouldn’t have been COLLUDING with KNOWN SCUMBAGS, huh? So which is it? Russia or China, paying you to, “Turn Your Comments Into Cash,” huh? . . . 🤣
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Glad they called out that presenter’s childish attitude toward MSM. How do people with such unsophisticated and blatantly agenda-driven attitudes get to present serious news shows anyway? Note: when they challenged the simplicity and prejudice of his statements and went on to explain why it was dangerous to exploit his platform for undermining the public trust in their news outlets (giving examples too) he quickly retreated back to the story in hand. The refuge of the vacuous is to dodge any adult responsibility and quickly throw up chaff in hopes of avoiding having to be a grown up. I just wish they’d refused to let him off the hook so easily and pressed their points a little harder. The idiot is sawing at the branch he sits on, wishing in his heart that he could command the audiences of Channel 4 or the BBC, but like all populists these days, he is not willing to work for that, do journalism or stand in the cold streets talking to politicians. He wants it handed to him on a plate, resents the fact that it hasn’t been, and his complaints about the adults in the room is that the public treats real news like adult information, instead of, “choosing,” their news and their, “preferred narrative,” as though that could do anything other than harm.
If I thought that any grownups were bothering to read my rant, I would go on to explain how it’s rock bottom, lazy labelling epithets like the ones people like him, Liz Truss, Boris Johnson and (famously now) Suella, “Goodness Gracious Me Character,” Braverman use, that merely appeal to the lowest common denominator of political opinion, actively CREATING the Tory party that we have now!
By sloganising, ranting and diminishing every serious issue down to a catchphrase of victimised complaint, they have turned the politics of grievance into a way of life. The result is that the Tories have flung open their doors to every closet racist, every far right prepper, every angry sexually inadequate incel, every money grubbing, tax dodging, offshore leach and every single reckless agenda in the country, leaving them with an utterly UNGOVERNABLE party, made up of competing agendas and nothing else! The only thing that unites the Tories right now is their equally ungovernable GREED, coupled with their certain knowledge that they are facing a potential generation in the wilderness, which makes them more DANGEROUS to Britain’s interests than ever!
The mere fact that so many Tory MP’s are saying out loud that they want Boris back, while the country looks on in horror and disgust at the very thought of bringing back the man who was DISGRACED out of power this year, tells you all you need to know about how tone deaf, obtuse and egregiously self serving the Tory agenda is now! What can we expect from a party that has been empirically PROVEN to be morally unfit, fiscally irresponsible, behaving politically like neophytes and constantly prepared to bicker in front of cameras about the country’s finances, whilst having NOTHING to say about the threat of DEATH for the vulnerable who cannot afford to heat and eat at the same time!?
Well, OBVIOUSLY, they’re going to clean out the shop and loot what remains before they get kicked out! Bankers can expect huge bonuses, businesses will get huge tax breaks, and new laws will be imposed to criminalise anyone who complains about the sheer unfairness of having a bunch of greedy children raiding their futures in front of their faces. Britain’s closing down sale has begun and these goons are going to feather their nests and get away with bloody murder, not to go and hang their heads in shame in some quiet corner of the universe, but to live it large on the lecture circuit, having holidays in exotic locations and emailing editorials to The Sun and The Telegraph from the Algarve, secure in the knowledge of a forthcoming gong, knighthood, seat in The Lords, and/or some cushy, “advisory,” position for a company that only wants the name of an ex-cabinet minister on their doors and letter headings and don’t actually want them to show up for work, except on the odd occasion when they’re getting them to use their Westminster contacts to fix policies for the best financial outcome for their company, regardless of the harm they do to the planet, our rule of law or the country’s future.
And all guys like this ignorant pr*ck, presenting a show he’s not qualified to be a guest on, can say is, “Oh, oh, main stream media, mieh mieh mieh,” like the insufferable professional, “victim,” he is! But, no . . . I don’t resent idiots like him being jealous of the adult news organisations in the world, or exploiting his privileged position to cry about how he doesn’t have even more privileges. I just look at him like I would a tumour; You can’t reason with the disease. You can remove it and hope that doing so doesn’t further damage the host, as the screams of entitlement of victimhood will be heard across the nation, no doubt . . . 🙄
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dominic pelle : Steve Schmidt is my favourite Conservative Commentator, who speaks for me. And, what I love about this; despite the Gerrymandering, Suppression, etc (just think how MANY MORE people had to vote Dem to get THIS Blue Wave?) the GOP STLL LOST. Which means the self-preservation instinct will, FINALLY, kick in. Dems need how many votes, from GOP Senators, to finish Trump off? Not many, right? 😉. And, the last word (HISTORY’S LAST WORD) will go to a TRUE Conservative: Robert Mueller, who represents all that is BEST about that term ✌️
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You will dismiss me out of hand, probably, but I will say it again for what it’s worth. Look into what happened when unleaded gas became mandatory throughout America by the early 1990’s. The gas companies dumped billions of gallons of leaded fuel in various places around the country; particularly the Rust Belt, and it has seeped into the water table.
Americans have been drinking lead! All across the land. And look at the symptoms of lead poisoning? A case study is available in the infamous town of Flint Michigan. Lower comprehension, increased anger, confusion, reduced lifespan, dementia symptoms, memory loss, etc.
Put two and two together, people! The industries responsible have been good at keeping it off the media cycles, but it’s also not hard to establish the facts for yourself! The fact that people tend to vote against their own interests and are more easily persuaded by emotional arguments than logical ones, correlating with the areas with the highest (probable) doses of lead in the water, cannot be a coincidence.
And it is, of course, easier to deny access to education to people who don’t want to be educated and who already started out with lower education levels, since they will cooperate in obstructing their kids from getting an education when you demonise the curriculum.
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@neilc4544 : So, what you’re saying is that any, “blame,” lies equally with both administrations, right? If so, I agree. Only, I don’t see this act as being so, “blameworthy,” as CNN is depicting it, by focussing on the stories of the, “left behind.” If they refused their window, and if the government stifled their exit plans, what was he meant to do? Other than what he did?
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Well, her Cyber Bullying campaign managed to get the POTUS to bully everyone on the web, but I wonder if that what she intended? She’s trying to create a, social distance,” between herself and trump, for plausible deniability, at his Treason Trial. This chain migrant is happy to pull the ladder up after herself?
Everyone over 12 years old KNOWS Biden and Obama SAVED our economy, after a GOP CREATED 2008 Banking Crash, that wrecked the world! Biden’s done it before, and he WILL do it again. Even, as a Conservative, who fiercely criticised the Obama administration while they were in office, I would have been INSANE to pretend they didn’t save our Economy?! These guys are utterly desperate and flailing . . . Smh
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@lillianmatthew3880 : Poor thing. I promise you, “the world,” is saying nothing of the sort, and our, “allies,” see Biden as a far safer pair of hands than Surrender trump’s. Let’s wait till it’s done and THEN, “judge,” things, shall we? Like, “smart,” people do? Stop being told by Alex Jones WHAT you, “think,” got to the actual sources, and learn HOW to think? It will make you unpopular among your trump troll friends, but you’ll be so much happier . . . promise 😉
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They are NOT, “Christians.” By definition, Christians are, “in the world NOT of the world,” as they were taught by Jesus. Christ was not a politician and it was the politicians (check this fact for yourself) who were the ONLY people in the entire Bible that Jesus actually cursed. He called them, “Whitewashed coffins,” and, “Serpents,” and screamed at them that there was, “no place in Heaven,” for them. Once you take up politics, professionally, you have abandoned Christianity. Sorry.
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Red Dead Redemption 2 is a perfect example of that. I can spend literal days not playing the story, but still in single player mode, “gooning,” around, teasing lawmen, stealing bounties, harassing shop keepers, and generally making the lives of NPC’s and savage animals go wrong.
We should be campaigning for the, “Right To OWN,” law. All single player games should work offline. Even updates could be subscription funded, but NEVER forcing players to be at the mercy of greedy corporations.
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@tomr3422 : And his cult will implode in a similar manner. They may well have all their, “Denial,” software, “cookies,” in their computers, and new channels to turn to, to give them the sugar high of conspiracy theories, but many will ditch Donny. Because they won’t be able to deny that Donny fled America, before the Inauguration, taking all that MONEY Roger Stone collected for him, which was meant to be spent on, “legal challenges.” And they won’t be able to deny that warrants and indictments have been executed, and a list of crimes and betrayals that will shock EVEN THEM will be uncovered. Starting with the very FIRST National Security Briefing that Donny’s working so hard to prevent Biden’s team from getting . . . They will fizzle out, down to the die hards, and the Russian trolls, who hate America . . .smh
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museblock : Who is, “her,” when it comes to Trump? His, “disgusting behaviour,” is no, “excuse,” for Benedict Arnold’s EITHER, but the two things are NOT CONNECTED, in ANY WAY. Just because Trump talks about her, whenever he’s cornered, doesn’t mean a THING. You’re being USED, abused and made an IDIOT of, every time you see Trump through the lense of, “Hillaaaarrriiiieeee.” Do get a grip? SMH
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Seldon writes with almost brutal frankness and honesty, and with a captivating prose style. He seems to have a co-writer on nearly all of his most recent projects. He self describes his biography of Boris Johnson as a, “cautionary tale of individual and institutional failure,” which was spot on.
I was fascinated by the parallels he drew between the careers and personalities of Johnson and Lloyd George, which I found deeply insightful. Contrasting their differences too was salient.
He hopes we can learn lessons from contemporary history and I will always give my time and attention to a true believer in history as a project for learning. After all, it was Johnson’s idol, Winston Churchill, who told a journalist that the way to get good at leadership in politics was to study, “History, history and history. Therein lay all the secrets of statecraft.”
Therefore, on that basis, I am willing to hear out Seldon’s argument. Like you, I doubt very much if Seldon will convince me that Truss was a better PM than . . . well, frankly, anyone. But, “scatty,” or not; relying on his co-writers or not, he deserves to be heard with an open mind.
If Seldon were to stand a serious chance of convincing me, the focus would necessarily have to be on how much, “worse,” Johnson was than I realised, rather than convincing me that Truss had any redeeming characteristics as a political leader. We already know she has literally nothing that she can point to and call an, “achievement.” And she has so much damage to account for, which continues to pass unacknowledged by her or any of her people, let alone apologised for. Her electoral defenestration was as close as we’ll ever get to, “accountability,” with her.
But, Seldon will entertain me and enlighten me, whether he convinces me or not. So, I’ll get the audiobook to see me through the home improvements I’m working on and my mornings walking the doggle. It will be worth a listen.
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Dorian Shadey : you already KNOW that Bill Barr is working FOR Trump and AGAINST America, and that Mueller was NOT ALLOWED to indict Trump. He WILL go to jail, or remain POTUS for life. And, you’re here, calling it, “Democracy,” when you’ve DENIED that America even IS a, “democracy,” so NO ONE takes you seriously, son. Go back to where you came from, kid. You’re full of shit, and shot down in flames 🔥
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But, that divide is within the GOP. Everything they’re doing is for a minority, within a minority. Keeping trump and his enablers ailing careers on life support. If they tried honest policies for a change, they wouldn’t need all this expensive, time consuming, controversial Voter Suppression, Protest Suppression and Education Suppression. Sooner or later, they will have to crack, into two different parties. Imagine a future, with one party only, where you’re not allowed to protest and can become a federal criminal for sharing water? Where Slavery is suppressed from the education curriculum, and your whole country is based on a lie, backed by the threat of violence, torture and jail? That’s the modern GOP. Fascist in all but name.
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Karl Johan Haarberg : Disregard the foreign Trolls, whom we KNOW, get paid to spread Division in America, and you’re left with people who are victims of The Dead Money Scam. Trump fans have given too much MONEY to his Wall GoFundMe and other financial commitments; impulse donations, at his rallies, etc; they’ve fallen out with friends, family and even employers. They are SO, “overcommitted,” that they FEAR the thought of facing up to the VERY OBVIOUS TRUTH!: Trump SWINDLED them. And all that DREAD and insecurity metastasised into RAGE against the, “left,” and PAST Politicians. They aren’t even LIVING in the, “Now!” They treat fellow Americans WORSE than Al Kaida, and SEEK OUT sources of SELF Indoctrination, from Fox, RT and Alex Q Jones, to COMFORT themselves that they haven’t made a, “TERRIBLE MISTAKE!” They have reached the point where they would RATHER let America BURN, than allow ANYONE, “of the left,” (people who tell them Trump is CORRUPT) get to say, “We TOLD you so.” It’s an OLD CON, never before pulled off at a National level . . .✌️SMH
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Tracy Love : Seems this, “stunt,” was meant to give the, “impression,” that the GOP are somehow, “locked out,” of this Committee? For the sake of Trump fans, who work three jobs and have families to take care of, so they don’t have the time to read much past the headlines. And, they can, “count,” on the right headlines, from their Propaganda outlets, masquerading as, “news,” right? They’re going Full Stalin on us, now. Desperation. If it was just some guy off the street, who’d slipped his tour guide, he’d still be sitting in jail right now, with the nation asking HOW someone could just burst into a SCIF? The most secure facilities on the PLANET are meant to be US SCIF’s. If there is no consequence for this, that’s just one more brick in the wall, fallen from our Republic. Soon, there will be nothing left . . . ✌️
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Jay Cee : You KNOW the GOP are IN that Committee, cross examining every witness, and you are LYING. If not, you clearly have NO IDEA what is actually happening, and you have just fallen for a childish CON. Oh wait, that’s how Trump got elected, isn’t it? Are you just another one, who has given money, and been trained by Propaganda, to HATE your fellow American MORE than you hate America’s Enemies? Do you just, “feel,” humiliated, and can’t bring yourself to be honest? Trump CONNED you, and is CONNING you, right now . . . SMH
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bgt125 : Well, I remember Trump suggesting that, “the 2nd Amendment People,” should solve the problem of Hillary with their guns. That’s just how this TYPE rolls. They “think” they aren’t accountable, until they are. Look at Tammy, blankly ignoring what you told her, and responding with Click Bait, probably to get Trojans and Worms and Bots onto your tech, rather than have you “believe” whatever conspiracy theory is on the other end of that trap? You’re talking to people who have NO conscience or moral compass and who don’t deal in reality. The guy got SEVEN YEARS, which, though it SHOULD have been MUCH MORE, is, nevertheless, pretty steep for a white collar criminal, with expensive lawyers. Yet THEY proclaim his innocence? Gravity Deniers, practicing for when Trump and his entourage get locked away. SMH
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You all saw Jan 6th, right? They’re plotting a coup! It’s all planned. The conspiracies are set up to run, the infrastructure is in place to spread the word like wildfire; the muster points already selected; orders will go out to take away security measures just as the election is happening at state levels all over the country.
It’s his last chance and he is desperate enough to do anything!
We all have a responsibility to play our part in defending democracy world wide. Sadly, yet inescapably, that means looking to America. If their democracy fails, every other democracy in the world will fall thereafter. We just don’t have the means, physical or financial, to withstand China, Russia and America uniting against us.
YOU have a legitimate dog in this fight and a responsibility to do what you can; whether you donate to Harris’s campaign, raise awareness through videos like this one, join forces internationally with US YouTubers, whatever you can think of.
To each and every person reading this I say, take responsibility and stay within the bounds of decency and lawfulness, but fight for your democracy with every means at your disposal, as this is the big one. We either save worldwide democracy together in November’s American elections, or we get to tell our children about how things used to be better once and how we watched it all fall apart. It’s on YOU now.
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Sword of ManticorE : Funny that, right? Last year, when Biden was on live TV, telling the story of how he got a corrupted official out of the Ukrainian Government, NOT ONE GOP MEMBER had ONE THING to, “say,” about it, AT THE TIME, right? 🤔 And, don’t get me STARTED on Hillary? Oh BOY! did they Jump The Shark with that one! But, then, that’s just another reason why NO ONE buys their crap now! 🤣 ✌️ 👍
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bluegold21 : This is why I NEVER waste actual TIME on Trump Trollery, my friend. It’s unhealthy, and an IMMORAL waste of time. Hammered wants people to waste their lives, answering him, point for point, lending CREDENCE to his bonkers thesis. When we COULD be jumping from story to story, commenting on so many other things. Remember, it’s NOT his, “Job,” to, “win an argument,” or even to debate, in any REAL sense. His JOB is to take up your time, prevent you from commenting elsewhere and, MOST OF ALL, provide Trump with that Oxygen that got him in office: THE DIVISION of AMERICANS. There are people out there who HATE their fellow Americans more than their actual ENEMIES, now. Trump is the Troll in Chief, but he’s a grubby little foot soldier ✌️👍
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@Sam-vh5vn : But, the reassuring part, for me at least, was that there were so few, don’t you think? Out of 25,000 troops, they only had to pull a handful. When we must expect that the police and military, being just Americans like the rest of us, are as divided as the rest of the country, I was pleasantly surprised. I think, possibly the worst, “development,” we could get from the autopsy of this failed Coup (other than things with national implications, I mean) would be if, when they catch the cop killer/s, it turns out to be an off-duty cop! Or cops, plural!? That would be a blow to America’s morale. But, not as big a blow as never catching the perps ✌️👍
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: And have you ever known, or heard of, a fascist who’s willing to, “lead,” and put their own skin in the game? Even in the whole historic record? I haven’t? It was over, once they knew they might lose something (ANYTHING) but that only means they’re out there, taking their seditious propaganda tips from Putin, and pumping it into their shrinking access points of American discourse. I genuinely think it’s time to outlaw sedition, like they did in the old days. I’m not saying we should hunt down and hang propagandists, like we did after WWII, but we should at least STOP Fox & Fiends from being allowed to cast doubt on legitimate elections, destabilise democracy and be the root cause of an attempted Coup that cost American lives!? It’s NOT a, “free speech,” issue, to dress a blatant LIE up as, “news.” Yet Fox was assessed by Conservative analysts as promoting, “The Steal,” over 700 TIMES, between the election and the riots of the 6th! That’s just screaming, “Fire,” in a packed theatre and sitting back to watch others die in the chaos, THAT THEY CAUSED! It’s flat out Sedition. And it’s up to us to DEMAND truth and JUSTICE for those who took part! ✌️👍
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T M : Exactly. Trump is a warmonger, trying not to look like a warmonger. And, the Troll’s job is to help him with that Propaganda. But, the world has watched, while he ripped up his deal with Iran, broke America’s word, threatened and bullied them, while the Europeans have been trying to keep the peace and hold up the West’s end, without him. Now, he’s ramped up the Military presence, using the Saudis to frame Iran; making it look like Iran is STARTING the war, when we all KNOW it’s the LAST thing they want. And, he expects us to, “believe,” the intel coming from the SAME PEOPLE that he ROUTINELY calls, “liars,” EVERY DAY? He’s compared the CIA to, “Nazi Germany,” and we’re all meant to flip flop at his rate? America’s NOT buying it. Trump will have to look elsewhere for a bump in the polls. A war will finish him . . . Smh
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Arnold Teras : Oh, Israel would be happy if the US got into a war with Iran, that’s pretty obvious. They just don’t want to have to fight it. Their problem is that they become the target for frustrated Jihadis, who can’t reach the US, anyway. And, those Jihadis use weapons from Russia, smuggled through . . . Drumroll . . . IRAN. That, the oil, and the smuggling routes to Syria, etc, are the reason Putin called Trump and made him call off his attack, at the last moment. The power of the pee pee tape, probably . . . ✌️
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@MrGreensweightHist : Their Dunnings are seriously Kruger’d. They don’t just, “think,” they, “KNOW,” they’re right! Especially when they’re wrong. These are the EXACT crowd I expected to find. I’m only, “shocked,” that these academics in this video are, “shocked.” I feel like I’m trying to warn people all the time. They come from the, “bluest states,” because they are the disappointed, entitled, spoiled boomers who lost! They can’t accept, “no,” for an answer, because their rotten parents brought them up like that, and went WITH THEM to their Insurrection! 🤷♂️🙄 . . . ✌️👍
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Dick Wilson : Only a Revolution can restore the Republic now. They have control over ALL lawful, Constitutional, “remedies,” and that especially includes your, “Elections.” Trump has made his family’s and his own survival the same thing as theirs. He goes down, so does EVERYONE, from Bill Barr down to Devin Nunes, leaving a disgraced GOP in its wake. They simply have NO CHOICE. Russia is ALREADY INSIDE your election computers, and the GOP even ADMITTED they are in Florida’s, despite using terror legislation to threaten instant jail for ANYONE who even dares to mention that fact again. They have to be in all the key states by now. Be REAL, America? Do you honestly think they would even risk an entire half of their party, their entire administration and the whole Trump family, GOING TO JAIL, at this stage? When they KNOW mass JAILINGS would be the automatic consequence of Trump’s unseating from his, “protected,” presidential status??? Come ohhhn? . . . The Republic has fallen, and you’re comforting yourselves with DENIAL, if you think they’d even ALLOW free and fair elections, when RIGGING THEM, the way Putin does is actually EASY to do! Be honest with yourselves and admit your republic is OVER. Or, buy them the time they need to consolidate their Dictatorship, by preparing for an election that’s ALREADY DECIDED? Just don’t HELP them, by pretending you don’t already KNOW it’s over? . . . SMH
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@goodbodha : It’s always false equivalency and a bogus premise, with these Confederate Karens. Don’t fall for the trap of even comparing BLM or Antifa with these nut jobs, like they’re the opposite side of the same coin? These America Hating Insurrectionists tried to overthrow the state! Protesting for fair treatment and equality doesn’t come anywhere CLOSE to what these ass hats are about! There’s NO comparison between charities and activists, and these RACIST, PROTO-NAZI, TRAITORS who think they can overthrow the entire edifice of our once great Republic, just because their, “feelings,” hurt, and they now hate Democracy!? Trolls are NOT smart, but they’re cunning. And trying to get us to talk about BLM in the same breath as their Nazis is a trap of, “normalisation,” as if they had some kind of, “legitimate,” reason to even EXIST! No one opposing trump wants to overthrow the Republic, only trump’s cult does that. We are not hear to debate them, but to STOMP them. They don’t even BELIEVE in FACTS. How can anyone debate a lie? ✌️👍
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Ao Naga : Trump says, “Build a Wall,” while he causes an influx of Asylum Seekers, to get his fans in line. He declares Trade War with China, loses it, and now costs are shooting up. Healthcare and infrastructure are JOKES, and now this: Trump pulls out of the nuke deal with Iran, and now they’re more likely than EVER to build nukes. Trump will ALWAYS give you the EXACT OPPOSITE of what he promises. And, his supporters will PRETEND to, “believe,” in him, until the economy crashes, because he’s racist and greedy, like them. America in a nutshell ✌️
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Johnna : That might be funny, but it’s still true. Stalin was the same. Trump, his family, and most of his Cabinet all KNOW they’re going to JAIL. You will have to TAKE back the Republic, if you want to restore it. What would you do, to avoid a life sentence and appearing in every history book as America’s Worst TRAITOR? Now, times that by a factor that includes NO conscience and a tendency toward psychopathy. The GOP has NO CHOICE. They simply CANNOT allow, “Elections,” and won’t! Be prepared for the coming fight, America. It will be the last stand of the Republic, or the fall of a Dictatorship. There really is no third option
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Michael Whitted : I’m talking about REAL, “conservatives,” NOT the EXTREMIST STALINISTS in power at present. THE CONSERVATIVE VOTERS. It is THEY who have, “given Trump a chance,” and it is THEY who are saying, “Trump HAD his chance and BLEW IT.” Conservatives DON’T support the undermining of law and order, or the institutions that define America, of which we are SUPPOSED TO BE PROUD, and which give us such high standing in the world. Conservatives DON’T believe in REFUSING to accept the outcomes of the DEMOCRATIC VOTING PROCESS, and they DON’T support CRIMINALISING political opponents! THAT’S what STALINISTS support. I’m TALKING about the little guy and gal, who SEE Trump for the PERVERTED, INCOMPETENT that he is and who DON’T GIVE A FLYING F**K about the ANCIENT HISTORY of, “Hillaaarrriiieee!” Or, “Obaaahhhmahhh!” And who will, LIKE ME, be VOTING for the DEMOCRATS come HELL OR HIGH WATER, because they want to KEEP THEIR DEMOCRACY, which the GOP and TRUMP are trying to DISMANTLE BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES!
THOSE, “Conservatives,” OK?
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@TheDiamond2009 : Touched a nerve did I, madam? Personally, I’d say it’s more, “embarrassing,” (especially at your age) for a trump troll to waste all day, every day, trolling for trump on channels you HATE, talking to people you HATE, about all of the people you HATE, and routinely lying while you do it. That smacks of a disorder to me? What you need is someone to talk to; a friend or a therapist? Social media is not for you, ma’am. Look at your emotional outburst? You, “said,” NOTHING, but you sure said a lot of it . . . 🙄
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Evil Bastard : “Prosperity”??? Does THIS look like, “prosperity,” to you? Trump has exposed the fact that Americans have not even got a ONE MONTH financial buffer, of savings to count on. And, that you can’t even TRUST the GOVERNMENT to pay your wages. Where do I live? I’ve been here since 2006, and I’m a Citizen, now. America is not, “3rd World,” dude, so try to, “think,” before you speak? 🙂
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Kirk Crawford : Trump = Racist; you support Trump; ergo, YOU are a RACIST. Call it a, “syllogism,” if you like?
And STOP, with the “Liberals” ASSumption. You KNOW conservatives watch CNN. And you KNOW that “thinking” conservatives are no longer willing to, “give Trump a chance,” because they’ve SEEN what he like, now. Republicans voters are SPLIT between the RACISTS, backed by the few, rich, GREEDY ones, and THE REST, who will NEVER vote for him again.
But, what am I saying? Like, Trump will even be STANDING, by 2020! He’ll be dealing with his legal problems from a JAIL CELL, by then 😁
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ihave35cents : You’ll see for yourself. Even when Trump is not the Plaintiff, he remains the one who laid the ALLEGATION. There are variations, from state to state, on how these things are handled, but the bottom line ALWAYS remains the same. Trump made the ALLEGATION. He must SHOW his evidence for that, or withdraw the remark, PUBLICLY, or face the consequences. DON’T believe me, if you don’t want to? WHY should I CARE? You will SEE for yourself, ANYWAY. The court of public opinion has NO SAY in the ACTUAL COURT. So, which, “law school,” did YOU ATTEND? Don’t tell me: Trump University School of Dirty Tricks and Robbing Old Ladies, right? . . . Smh . . .
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@fraserwyllie8840 : I’m no geologist, but I can tell you who employs the best geologists in the world: Shell, BP and Exxon. They found massive reserves off the coast of Crimea, boom! Then in the Donbas region, boom! Now in the west, by the Carpathian Mountains, boom, boom and boom! They say it’s more than Russia’s reserves and, yes; it would take years to drill it, get it pumping and build the pipeline infrastructure. So, Putin doesn’t want to drill it. Who would buy obviously STOLEN reserves anyway? He just needs to ensure NO ONE does.
This is an armed robbery, son. And now Putin is realising that the cops aren’t letting him get away with it this time, so he’s doing what he always does: pulling the pin on a grenade and threatening to take us all with him. He’s BLUFFING! But his problem is that accidents happen and one of these days he’s going to drop that grenade and kill us all by MISTAKE!
So it’s up to the Russian people to see to regime change now. Clearly the west has decided to put pressure on the oligarchy to sort it out for themselves, like they’ve always done historically. They did it to Lenin, so they’re old hands at this. They fired Khrushchev after the Cuban Missile crisis too.
See, my specialty is political history, not geology. And I see that Putin cannot win this one. Because ever since the term, “energy security,” has existed (for over 100 years now) the west has NEVER allowed the east to get control over it. I’m not saying that’s right or wrong. It just is. But, they could save a LOT of lives if they put Putin out of commission now, rather than later. And the, “gratitude,” of western leaders will carry a cash value.
Now. Tell me I’m, “wrong,” son? And show your working out? . . . I’ll wait.
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Here’s the weird thing, which kinda’ makes Charlie’s point: I have never seen Charlie’s reaction videos as, “react content.” Who watches just for a, “reaction?” You watch because you know Charlie is going to be entertaining about it. Usually he’s taking the piss out of content that the world really needs far less of, like Christian, “message,” movies, or the venal self promotion of talentless turds. People tune in for Charlie.
So, dark viper is probably just trying to raise his own profile by courting controversy. But, if he isn’t, then I think he’s been challenged by someone for doing his react vids and now (because he feels he can’t do it anymore) he’s like a born again anti-reactor. He can’t do it, so he wants to spoil it for everyone else, but especially those who do it well or make a living out of it.
Not to mention reacting to terrible content that shouldn’t be allowed to grow, but which gains a higher profile now that it’s been on a popular reaction channel. If Viper could convincingly calculate how much he’s made out of reaction content before and return that entire amount (adjusted for inflation) or donate it to a charity (again, convincingly) then I might listen to him?
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@israelalarcon8203 : “Schools are not places for smart people,” as Rick Sanchez would remind you. So failing at school is like failing to launch a reaction channel; it says nothing about you either way. And you shouldn’t mistake self deprecation for a total lack of talent. He admits to being incapable of lots of things, and he doesn’t lay claim to things that he is great at, but that doesn’t mean he’s not an able and talented person. It just means he doesn’t boast. That’s just called being a man.
Consider this video? Either it is all of the things that I said in my above comment, meaning it takes hard work and time to prepare, or he just made it without any preparation, yet was able to martial his arguments, speak knowledgeably, not make any mistakes, and still somehow entertain you (a critic) and hold your attention for long enough that you watched the whole thing to the end. Do you honestly think just anyone can do that? Like I said, try it? Just a 5 minute video on a topic you find really easy to talk about, that you have a lot of knowledge on? That experience will give you only your first inkling of how difficult it is to make genuinely thoughtful, entertaining content that others don’t find cringeworthy or plain dull.
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Pure Rebel Babe : I see your point, but you can’t BE in the Republican Party AND be a, “Conservative,” OR a, “Patriot,” for that matter? All the conservatives are either LEAVING the Party or DYING. Conservatives, like me, feel FORCED to vote Dem, to SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY. There’s NO third choice, here, sadly
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F V : You all realise we can’t trust the, “reassurances,” of Moscow Mitch, and any GOP member, right? Especially the ones looking at serious jail time! You all must KNOW what Bill Barr’s Secret Police units are being expanded FOR, America? They are unconstitutional, and ILLEGAL anyway. Inundate your representatives, join the protests and activist groups, donate your money; DO whatever you can, but by GOD! DO SOMETHING TO GET SECRET POLICE UNITS OUTLAWED! They are building the instrument of your suppression, right under your noses!
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Allie Goubeaux : Actually, I agree with your second and third sentence. I hope he gets another trial, and Waters is forced to account for her stupidity, having caused a mistrial? He’ll still lose, even if they held it in your motherland, “Russier,” or, “Chiynah.” As to whether liberals, “think,” or not, you’d have to ask a, “liberal,” about that, madam? Triggered people ASSume much 🤦♂️
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Hai Sun : The only thing that threatens Trump’s job . . . Not rigged, “elections,” not a million citizens, dead, as it will be eventually . . . the MONEY . . . Just gotta’ keep the MONEY flowing in. Otherwise, the shareholders of America PLC will just find another puppet, willing to outrage and troll the population and keep them talking about irrelevancies, while the MONEY keeps pouring in . . . Anyone missing the Republic yet? . . . The rule of law used to be a, “thing,” here. Now, they can literally put you all to death, or at risk of death, just so long as they’re making the MONEY . . . SMH
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RespectFreeSpeech, etc : More like those, “Safe GOP States,” like Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc: Not money, not personal appearances from the top brass or Trump and his daughter, nor the simple fact that there were NOT even ENOUGH, “liberals,” IN those States to kick out the GOP, turned out to be ENOUGH. FORGET the, “polls,” son. Conservatives VOTED and they DON’T WANT Trump! 😆 🤣 😂 🤣
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Kimberly Jordan : Seriously; he won’t be able to follow your advice without professional help. Trolls get addicted to their own endorphins, released in the brain, each time they come to the places they hate, to talk to people they hate about the news that they hate. But, I note that you were kind, and reasonable. Sadly, he’ll interpret that as a form of passive aggressive attack upon his state of mind. I just wanted to say something, just so you know there are plenty of, “Normals,” out here, who appreciate decent types, like you 🙂✌️👍
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@blackbird5634 : I love my wife, but actually, she’s very different from me. She’s a liberal, whereas I’m a conservative. She’s shy, into gardening and makes me go to church every weekend, despite my issues with, “religion.” Whereas, I like a good conversation with strangers, and I’m happy to sit with a good book and watch my wife enjoying the garden. In our case, our differences attracted, and I can pretty much count on her to have a different political view from mine, in almost all conversations we have with others, rather than reflecting me. She has my back, don’t get me wrong, here? But, where she says, “we kinda’ make up for each other’s deficiencies,” I say, “we enhance one another’s strengths.” So, the short answer is, no.
But, I read that thing (can’t remember the title now) about the architect, rapist, sociopath, whom Rand said, “represented the ideal man,” and found it risible. Grammatically flawed and occasionally incomprehensible, ill informed, childishly naive in places, objectively WRONG about how banks, real estate, the law (both criminal and civil) and even the press WORKED. It honestly reads like a teen’s fan fiction, with the occasional flourish, but mostly nonsensical gibberish, and philosophically entitled, hypocritical, ignorant and sociopathic.
It took me a YEAR to get through that book, because I promised a friend I would, to settle an argument. Oh boy did I get my revenge, though. I had yellow sticky notes through the whole thing and lectured her on every point, flaw, factual error, grammatical mistake, you name it!
See?! Just thinking of it has given me PTSD and a tendency to ramble like her! 😵💫 . . . 😉✌️
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@blackbird5634 : Only if you, “need,” that, “other,” to be able to say, “You complete me,” to. Yes, in all seriousness, I’d say some self evaluation. I didn’t suggest, “therapy,” but whatever floats your boat? But, you pursued the question. Like Jules in Pulp Fiction says, “If you don’t like my answers, maybe you should stop asking questions?” But then again, he was infantile and full of sh*t too. But way better written than anything Rand ever came up with. 😉
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Even if the leadership of Labour seems somewhat uninspired in the eyes of conservatively leaning voters, it remains inarguable that the difference between both parties is stark! At the very least Starmer comes across as competent, unlike his counterpart, and has the added gravitas of experience, having served as the Attorney General under the last Labour government, rather successfully I might add.
People will surely be anticipating a PM with a good, broad knowledge and experience of criminal law with glee, considering how many enquiries are still ongoing into Tory criminality and anti-democratic rug pulling. Just reminding people that vote for Labour is a vote for ACCESS to previously hidden knowledge about the postal scandal, Covid, the water scandals and so much more!
With some amendments to existing laws and some root and branch reform of the committees’ powers and staffing, so they can subpoena the right people and recommend criminal procedures against the guilty parties, we might just get some long overdue JUSTICE.
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Roger C : Projection MUCHARY. You know, all you’ve demonstrated, there, is that it bothers you, to see me here on CNN. And, that it’s frustrating you, to see that the TRUTH just won’t stop blocking your agenda. That says I’m doing a good job. In your case, all I wonder about you, as with most Trump Trolls, is are you being paid by a foreign shell company to, “Turn Your Comments Into Cash,” or are you one of those racist haters, who is just so filled with impotent rage that nothing is going right for Trump, that they just can’t help themselves? Little of BOTH, maybe? 🤔
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Wrathful Broly : Can we just be clear about this? Your POTUS is selling the very Principle of Democracy to China, Ukraine, Russia, et al, and has CONFESSED to committing serious crimes, AGAINST YOU. People are literally DYING in Hong Kong, and Trump was selling his, “silence.” DYING in Ukraine, and Trump was selling for, “dirt?” Trump Trolls obviously DON’T, “believe,” in Trump, or a damned WORD he says. The question is, are you going to continue being unpatriotic, treating your fellow Americans like THEY were the, “threat,” or are you going to face up to your REAL ENEMIES, America? ✌️
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Claystead : Glad to see you’ve been following my comments on other threads. I think it was Oscar Wilde, who said that, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” but you’ll need to finesse your performance to get to my standards? Interesting, that you felt the need to lay out an autobiography (unsolicited) and explain your “gag” while failing that your sarcasm was being returned, in like manner? This tells me quite a lot about you: not from the fake biog’ (you are patently Russian, or from one those neighbouring countries, or an American born traitor, being paid by one of those Shell Companies) but from your NEED to have me “know” certain things about you. Which is it, I ask myself? Either, cripplingly insecure? Or, attempting to create a back-ground that you need people to believe, in order to spread your Putin Poodle, Pro Trump propaganda? Perhaps a little of both? Oh! There I go . . . I just realised, that I don’t care. But, it’s nice to see people at least, “attempting” to copy me? Makes me feel, oh I dunno’ . . . Flattered, I guess? Have a nice day
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Exactly. And that’s what REALLY, “triggers,” the Cult of Trump. They’re scared alright, but not of the Dems. What they fear is the big, “We to;d you so,” that comes with the PROOF that THEY, the Cult of Trump, were Trump’s biggest TARGET! It was THEIR donations, from the Inauguration Fund, as early as 2016, to the NRA, to Steve Bannon’s Wall GoFundMe, that have been STOLEN. Their donations, taxes and promises made by trump; ALL LIES AND THEFT! And they just can’t face that TRUTH! ✌️
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@rebahenderson211 : Totally with you on all of that. The GOP has descended into actual fascism. They carry every significant marker that historians warn us of, from their founding myth being a lie, their permanent, “victimhood,” their racism, their anti-intellectualism, anti-science, anti-truth, to their Qult of personality and their blatant use of violence for political ends. You cannot reason with a fascist, any more than you can reason with a rabid dog. And you are forced to deal with them in the same way: let them go around biting others and spreading their rabid racism, or put them down. It’s way beyond, “politics,” now. They are attempting a Coup and will rob America and the world of freedom if we let them. The only, “politics,” they know is that of the, “talking point,” used with a level of hypocrisy that would make Stalin blush! They are the cancer, and the Republican Party are revealed for what they really are; every bit as bad as trump, pretending to be ashamed of him occasionally, when they’re actually worse, but happy for trump to be the focal point and bullet sponge, so they can disassociate themselves from him, if he gets taken down. They threaten all that is decent in the world and are determined to destroy our democratic republic, at any cost. It is the most urgent threat America has faced since the Civil War itself. Failure is not an option. We have to defeat them in the abject, crushing manner, so as to stomp them out forever. Or there will be no country on Earth in which you and I can argue our differences in politics and challenge each other, politely, knowing we are both on the same side, with different ideas about how to get there. All politics will be over, along with history. It will be 1984 in the living, zombie like, flesh. I only wish there was one iota of exaggeration in my words. You can count on me, to the end. You have my word ✌️👍
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@TheBlackIdentety : You missed his point. His point was that we wouldn’t have an, “authoritarian state,” to deal with, had we dealt with them back then. At least, not necessarily. It’s worth noting that the secular culture of Iran is more, “progressive,” than any of their Muslim counterparts. The foolishness of, “nation building,” has been demonstrated repeatedly, but . . . If nation building in an Eastern dictatorship could have ever worked at all, Iran would have been the place to attempt it.
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They certainly could, by their terms of service. But, is it worth the backlash? They may issue a warning? But, why is David reading out his entire text, verbatim? I get that trump’s getting around his ban, and even that his message is worth commenting on. But, reading the entire thing, without stopping for breath, IS, “amplifying,” trump. David’s rebuttal is suspect to me. If he hadn’t helped trump by reading out the whole tweet, I would have bought his argument. But, if he’s sincere, he’s handled it badly. We really shouldn’t be aiding a Fascist by getting his every public pronouncement out, even to his most hostile audience. We have the news for that. This is wrong, and makes me suspicious of David’s motives. For the first time, I might add. Why did he do that?
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@bobjob3632 : Yes he did. Circumventing a ban, by being the vector for a banned user, is covered by their terms and conditions. They could ban him right now. However, the blow back, from the privileged, “victim,” classes, and his Qult of Karens, is something they will weigh in the balance, in terms of cost / benefit. Not financially, but politically. They may issue warnings?
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@defftlingo4803 : We went from a stable government and economy, with the luxury of rejecting, “business as usual,” in the hopes that minorities might get some justice (as promised) and that there might be some sort of radical change. That was the hope of the gullible and ill informed, at any rate. And, we went from that to massively in debt, mass unemployment, civil unrest, stagnant businesses locked down indefinitely, unfriended by every free country in the world, buddied up with the worlds worst DICKtatorships and a HALF A MILLION DEAD AMERICANS. Now, Biden is putting cash in people’s pockets, reopening America, gradually, and getting a cure for a deadly pandemic out to the people, in a bill supported by 75% of Americans, which NOT ONE GOP fascist voted for. So, shouldn’t you be worrying about something, “grown up,” like Green Eggs & Ham, madam? 🤦♂️
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jack johnson : Demonstrating your ignorance again: NO ONE has to show Trump ANY, “evidence,” genius! You don’t show the criminals, you are investigating, what to do to stay out of jail? The “evidence” is shown to the Grand Jury and THEY subpoena the DOTUS, you MORON. I KNOW it’s killing you, wondering just WHAT Mueller has on these goons, but you’re just gonna’ have to wait with the rest of us. WHY are YOU so AGAINST Trump testifying, anyway? He SAID he would. WHY NOT???
And, LIE all you like, but you’ll find out at the Mid Terms just how SICK the Republican voters are, of this lying, racist, incompetent CHILD in the White House
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Jen Psaki is rapidly becoming a living legend. Her sheer calmness, eloquence and patience in the face of such a hypocritically phrased, bad faith question, is something to behold. I can only imagine her Trumpophile predecessors must be eating their hearts out? This, “journalist,” has the arrogance of the Inquisition, and the temerity to LIE with such casual obtuseness, whilst, “representing,” Christianity!? Psaki is NEVER caught off guard, unprepared; she never raises her voice, or fakes, “outrage;” she’s never Whaddabouting, or pushing at whatever triggered buttons she can find, calculated to get at the, “emotions,” of her president’s opponents. And she CRUSHES the trump trolls by winning over Americans, by never rubbing anyone’s nose in their idiocy, lies, faked concerns, or bad faith attempts at scoring playground points. Her sheer competence, skill and unrivalled knowledge of her topics is unmatched by ANY predecessor I can think of. And, you know WHY she’s SO masterful? It’s because she knows the most valuable lesson in politics:
How do you NEVER lose the game? DON’T PLAY!
It’s THAT simple. Do your job, and do it better than anyone in history. They can’t land a punch, because you’re not in the boxing ring. They hear the bell and come out flailing, only to find they were punching at air, and somehow knocked themselves out! They come to, look up and Jen Psaki was the Referee the whole time and she’s just called you OUT for the count.
She’s my hero. Seriously. I admire her so deeply. ✌️
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spinalcrackerbox : Again, you are absolutely spot on. The Cohen revelation, about Hannity, will have caused SOME Trump fans some pause, as it explains to many, just WHY he and some others, like Tucker Carlson, have stuck their necks SO FAR OUT that they can NEVER pull them back in, without losing all, “credibility.” We are learning that they are all part of a “Deep State” (ironically) cabal, who’s fortunes and failures are very much bound up in one another’s fates. Though the Russians and the shell company paid, Eastern European Trolls, and the American paid Trolls, all make their numbers look bigger than they REALLY are (by using multiple accounts on various social media outlets and working at it, full time) there will ALWAYS be SOME who will NEVER see the light. Nixon STILL has his followers, to this day! The, “explanation,” for THOSE, “people,” ALWAYS lies in their ULTERIOR MOTIVES: from the Roger Stones of this world, with his freaky tattoo of Nixon on his back, who’s motives were ALWAYS about power, money and influence; to the grunts on the street, who care SO MUCH about guns, race and their DEBTS, that they don’t CARE if the USA becomes a satellite of Russia, so long as they get what THEY want. But, their numbers are CLEARLY small. Otherwise, the GOP WOULDN’T have lost those, “Safe States,” of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc, as I pointed out earlier. I too, would dearly LOVE to have reliable figures, but THAT’S the whole problem. There ARE NO, “reliable figures.” There’s ONLY a war of words
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spinalcrackerbox : We’ll be seeing a LOT MORE such quotes, as time goes by. A TEMPORARY tax break, which is going to be WIPED OUT by inflation, won’t be much of a sop to his fans. But, the age old tactic is to promise the earth, and then BLAME the opposition, when you don’t deliver. The problem Trump will have with convincing people on that score, is that he has had both houses and the presidency combined, and REALLY SHOULD have delivered SOMETHING, by NOW, if his intent was sincere. And they ALL SAW him slip, at the VERY LAST MOMENT, into his Tax Bill, the BIGGEST Tax Break, which went to REAL ESTATE DEVELOPERS. Some observers, former fans, got the message, right away. Some will refuse to get it. This is WHY the, “Big Conversation,” is SO IMPORTANT. More and more conservatives are crossing back to our lines, but we must be willing to step into No Man’s Land and guide them back to reality
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Johnny Mauchline : Eloquently put. The Republic fell in 2019. The funny thing is, the more OBVIOUS that gets, the fewer people will DARE to mention it. That’s how Dictatorship works. We will be forced to, “go through the motions,” by voting in Pre-RIGGED, “elections,” like the 2020 one will be. And, after that, they will consolidate their power, and there won’t be any need for fake, “wars,” to distract us, or the Giuliani Traveling Circus, because there won’t BE anyone left, who dares to point out the OBVIOUS: We’re a Putin Style Dictatorship now. They just need to keep it up, until the Impeachment SHAM is over with. I guarantee BIG distractions on that day: They just don’t want us all looking at a, “trial,” without witnesses, in which evidence is banned, and the, “jury,” consists of the Defendant’s CONSPIRATORS, who would all go to jail if Trump lost his protected presidential status and was forced to, “rat them out,” which he undoubtedly would. Doing THAT is like the GOP ADMITTING that the Republic was wiped out in a COUP, in 2019. It MIGHT cause a second REVOLUTION??? So, you can count on fireworks, probably orchestrated by Putin, with Iran’s cooperation, again; or maybe this time, it’s time to pull out that promised, “surprise,” from North Korea? A little test of their latest missile which will actually WORK for a change, and have an actual intercontinental range for once? That would get us all on the edge of our seats? Well, we let it happen, so . . . Maybe we DESERVE this? . . . Smh
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Lofoten : What really worries me . . . why would we think the GOP haven’t rigged the, “elections,” already? I mean, we’ve all SEEN their track record, and they’ve rigged every single conflict they’ve faced. When they’re looking at jail, disgrace and lawsuits for the rest of their lives, is ANYONE naive enough to imagine that the elections would be their ONE, single exception to their corruption? They’ve, probably, already cheated, bribed, extorted, reprogrammed and conspired with our enemies to insulate themselves? WHY would we assume they haven’t?
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Jorge Alonzo : That’s the problem, right there. Trump, his family, Bill Barr, and most of the Cabinet, ALL KNOW they’re going to jail. And, that’s WHY Barr is expanding his Secret Police units, all over America, selecting pro-trumpers from a police that’s as Divided as the rest of America. Knowing they’re going to jail means the only question is which combination of cheats, “pretexts,” and excuses will the GOP use to DENY America, ANY ELECTIONS. You should be getting illegal, unconstitutional Secret Police SS units OUTLAWED. LIKE, NOW!
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@auxome8280 : That’s a really interesting comment. I hadn’t thought of that. And, what’s most interesting is that these displacement behaviours may be exceptional, but not the sensations they are coping with. We all of us feel those. Those of us who say they don’t do things like this couple in one way or another are liars. Unless they have brain damage or a rare type of neuro-divergence. It’s a reaction to a chemical, oxytocin, and a bonding and survival mechanism for pack mammals.
The difference being that we don’t usually share it, as that same survival mechanism tells you not to make yourself so vulnerable to complete strangers. Yet, we can feel the, “cute aggression,” urge with complete strangers. We just control it. Sometimes we don’t even have to, like when someone walks by with a baby, and you can’t help commenting on how adorable it looks. That might lead to a conversation in which you get to stroke their head or squeeze their cheek. (The baby, not the parent) And other people’s pets require little to no restraint from strangers, as their owners are usually gratified by a baby talking stranger who fluffles its head or makes a fuss of it.
The internet does not yet have a mechanism for detecting chemically induced brain impairment that can lock you out of posting stuff when you’re flooded with oxytocin, cannabis or booze. But such an invention might have saved this couple from a rotten few days?
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Tony Matulac : Something you guys should Google. Don’t take my word for this. Florida is already hacked by Russia.
Do you remember the Russian Hack of Florida’s election computers? It got big coverage at the time, and even the GOP admitted it was the Russians. Then Trump adopted Florida as his home and launched his, “campaign,” from there, within weeks. Remember? It went dark, because they threatened every politician with Anti-Terror laws, and instant jail, if they talked to the press about it. Remember? And, now? Donny says, “voter fraud,” everywhere EXCEPT FLORIDA!? “Don’t look at Florida.” And you aren’t ALARMED??? Do you people WANT a Dictatorship?
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@htidtricky1295 : Yes. All three movies, Robocop, Starship Troopers and even Total Recall (to a lesser extent) are satires, often misunderstood by their unsubtle audiences. All three are excellent. And all three have the power of having made generalised predictions about the direction society was heading in, that were more or less born out. Even Total Recall is a good metaphor for social media, and the way that so many of us have created fantastical alter-egos that so many others willingly buy into. We are less certain about what is real. Troopers explores the seductions of fascism, especially among the young. And Robocop is a horror satire about rampant capitalism, and how it walks hand in hand with gang violence. Just today, I’m reading about even more of our previous president’s closest government advisors being arrested for crimes of greed. There was barely a distinction between government, big business and the mafia. Murphy is the ultimate representation of how your tragedy can be commodified, placing you (and what remains of your body) into a living hell of cyber managed control by an unfeeling, unthinking boss. No testicles, but a giant gun to compensate. Frankenstein’s monster for the Reagan era. ✌️
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@theconnoisseur2346 : The only problem with your assessment is, does he broadcast it if he does? The better the weapons and armour, the more hysterical Putin gets. Biden might well be thinking it’s better to ask forgiveness than permission? The old, “How’d that get there?” routine? Putin is bluffing with his nuke threats: 100%. But the problem is, when you’re stuck in negotiations with a guy who’s pulled the pin out of his grenade and is holding the action down, even if you KNOW he’s bluffing, accidents happen. Especially when the guy gets sweaty, exhausted and scared of his own team. He could just drop that thing by accident and take us all with him?
The west’s job now is to quietly, calmly, but inexorably, get Putin’s grip off of that grenade, put the pin back in and back the guy who’s most grateful to us for assisting in a, “smooth transition,” of power. Biden won’t play this one to the audience. There’s a lot of things wrong with him, but he’s just too damned decent to try to squeeze this situation for votes. Afterwards, for sure. He’ll be the POTUS who stood up to tyranny and helped turn it back to its den, etc, etc. But while the game’s afoot, there’s so much going on that we might never learn for another 30 years? . . . ✌️
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Maybe? . . . There’s definitely something going on that we’re missing here. Some of this doesn’t add up, yet. In the same way that people were asking how and why Prigozhin has been allowed to get away with his antics for all this time, other than simply because of his vast resources. But, if anyone thinks that Lukashenko just picked up the phone and said, “Come now gentlemen, let us calm down and see if we can’t come to a settlement here,” and they both said, “Okay,” is out of their minds.
The Americans seem to think this is an elaborate ruse, possibly with a view to opening a northern offensive against Kyiv, from Belarus? I don’t know myself, though we should hope the Putin is that dumb and that desperate, but there’s certainly big pieces of this jigsaw that are missing to the extent that we in the west cannot make out the picture yet.
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@jaybingham3711 : Well said. I also believe that there ought to be a compulsory foundational year devoted to science history, science philosophy and critical thinking theory. At least for anyone who’s studying to a degree level and plans to have a future in the field. A lot of us overlook the fact that most top scientists are ordinary people who expected to spend the rest of their lives doing science for a company or the government, making a decent living, but never expecting to be thrust into the limelight. Then, these shy, cerebral people find themselves becoming famous, making serious money from their books and lecture tours and being discussed in YouTube videos. They get prestigious awards and are not trained or equipped for the world of, “popular science,” or necessarily have the wherewithal to cope.
They are flawed people who, unlike actors, singers, politicians, etc, are not experienced in the field of, “popular opinion,” and don’t have, “managers,” or and entourage to help them cope (or lead them on a path to their own destruction in a tabloid splash about hookers and cocaine😆) so, if they are not supremely well adjusted, they can go a little strange when people start challenging the very work that won them their prizes and the root to all that cash.
Critical thinking can go out of the window so fast in some situations. That’s why I like Sabine. She knows she’s going to take a lot of heat for being rational. I don’t always agree with her, but I know she wouldn’t be emotional about that. She would want to hear my argument and then prove me wrong, agree that I’m right, or need to time to think it over and test her equations. That’s a rare quality that I admire, and which I believe needs to be defended at all costs.
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Thank you for exploring Seldon’s book a bit further with us.
The mere fact that Truss has the instinct to, “defend,” her record and not to, “account,” for it, even APOLOGISE for it, shows more of that, “personal and institutional failure,” that Seldon refers to in the introduction to his book on Johnson that is characteristic of the current brand of Tory and speaks to the core of what is really wrong with them.
For over a decade now the Tories have fostered this culture of thin skinned, defensive aggression in their ranks and lauding these qualities in their leaders, aping the Republican manner of doing politics and Americanising their approach to every topic. This aggressive, divisive and unreasoning approach has rendered actual debate impossible and dialectics out of the question.
And we do need a healthy, capable opposition that can hold the government’s feet to the fire on important policy issues, rather than squandering every opportunity by either uniformly running off to America, rattling their begging tins at their Republican puppeteers, or writing op eds for the domestic client press that read as being wholly out of touch with reality, let alone the British people, set on driving further wedges into society.
If you were to ask me, “What makes a, ‘good,’ politician, Ash?” I would probably describe someone with a POSITIVE vision, FUTURE FOCUSSED, whilst being realistic about the present, well EDUCATED in law and history, but most of all, like Winston Churchill in 1941, able to UNITE the British people with a sense of joined destiny, purpose and prosperity.
I don’t think I need say much more about those politicians who do the diametric opposite of what I just described. I need only say, “Liz Truss,” and the point is made.
That is why, for me, Seldon’s book on Truss will face a tall order convincing me that Truss was not the worst PM Britain has ever had since Walpole first, sort of, created the post. But, because he believes in the salutary, educational value of contemporary history, I look forward to reading (listening to) his book.
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@camouflageartist8897 : How would you know that, madam? 4,700 allegations (Count them? That’s 1, 2, 3 4,700 CREDIBLE ALLEGATIONS!) of serious sexual misconduct have yet to be investigated against Kavanaugh! What could YOU possibly, “know,’’ about that, that the FBI doesn’t? Because they sure as hell never cleared him! But, I’m talking to a woman who thinks Donny will be POTUS again this month, so I shouldn’t expect any sense from her . . . 🙄
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clean blacc sneakas : This is just the beginning. The Dictatorship is consolidating its power. And, this is just a show, to Troll America and keep us all talking about that, while the Russians are inside key election computers - Florida’s in particular - to ensure that the entire Trump Klan, and half of the GOP, from Bill Barr to Devin Nunes, don’t go to jail. Trump has made his own survival the same thing as theirs, so they have no choice but to fight for him. After the faked, Russian Style, “Elections,” it will be pretty clear that the Republic has fallen, but it’s already too late to do anything about that, using lawful, Constitutional measures. Revolution is your only hope now . . .
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Preston Sulik : It’s the very fact that you feel it necessary to Troll so repeatedly and so angrily that reveals what are, son. You’re only job is to provide, “plausibility,” to the faked polls, and make it look as though there, “could be,” a, “majority,” of Americans who support the Trump Monarchy, when we all know that the vast majority wants him in jail. Russia is already busy, inside our election technology, in key states, and the GOP made the mistake of ADMITTING Russia is inside Florida’s election computers. Even though they’ve been trying to bury that fact, with threats of jail under terror legislation, ever since, for anyone who even MENTIONS it. It’s BECAUSE of people like you, son, that we KNOW you’re scared. You act scared. But, the one, single comfort that people like me can get from all this, is not getting to say, “we told you so,” though that will be a larf. It’s the knowledge that all the Trolls on the payroll will be, “disposed,” of, when the, “elections,” are over with, and they start to manage Propaganda through government departments alone, like modern dictatorships always do. They won’t want to leave behind ANY evidence that they ever paid the cheap, gullible twats like you. I believe that some of you are not on the payroll, but not many. But, the ones who, “do it for free,” like their moms, are the ones who will lose the most anyway. So, I stay cheerful, knowing that the vast majority of the people who actually WANT a Dictatorship will GET what they fought for, and won’t be able to get off the ride, when they realise just how WRONG they were, about everything. Anti-Americans, like you, make everyone sick. But, we’ll still be here, long after you’re . . . “not” . . . 😉
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Moving the pictures is more chilling than it looks at first sight. Imagine, if you can, an America that has no news channels that ever push back against Trump’s rhetoric? No matter how nuts any particular statement may be? I say this, not just because that’s Trump’s goal (obviously), nor because it will happen within a year or two, if trump is still POTUS after the elections. I’m talking about the trolls and the fans at those rallies, who KNOW as well as you or I do, when Trump’s lying, but they lie right along with him. At least, the majority does. Many are, “suckers,” as you say, but the rest do it as a show of, “loyalty,” to their, “cause.” It comes from Stalin’s playbook. It’s disconcerting when a significant section of society repeats a crazy, damaging lie, as though it were true, the very next day after their leader pronounced it, already, right? But, how chilling will it be, when you are no longer hearing ANY common sense or pushback in the press? In a time when you now remember how CNN was subjected to a hostile take over by a, “media corporation,” friendly to trump; and in which MSNBC suffered a string of trials, scandals, dismissals and the break up of its outposts; and you remember how the other stations, “got the message,” and fell into line, after a few more firings. And it was all done just like in Russia, with frightening speed; both after Stalin took power, and then repeated, in the exact same way, after Putin took power. The only difference being that Russia’s infrastructure and people were already pliable, and culturally trained to accept their new circumstances. But, in America, (if you can imagine this?) it now seems that the only journalists who push back against the Trump’s are either outlaws, the, “disgraced sex offenders and murderers,” or otherwise known, wanted criminals.
Seems far fetched, right? But, would you have believed anything I told you, had I predicted we’d be where we are now, back in 2015? And, what people spoke of in Russia; the exiles, dissidents and defectors, was always the same on this point. What really frightened people was reading some new propaganda, pronounced by their leader, that was patently insane, but hearing everyone repeat it as fact by the very next day, because of “who” said it. It was seen as a test of, “loyalty,” and to contradict the, “party line,” was to become an, “Enemy of The State.”
So, try to picture it? Everyone gets so frightened that even your closest friends (especially your closest friends) will report you to the secret police, BECAUSE you tell the TRUTH, and their known association with you, jeopardises them. They are known associates of yours, who could be tarred with the same brush, viewed with suspicion at best! So, they can only clear themselves of any doubt by being the one to inform on you.
That’s what trump’s cultists at his rallies are really about. Trump is demonstrating his sheer, raw POWER: “If I say the moon has gone, they all agree with me, and that means they’re loyal, and that’s REAL POWER.” Putin has passed these techniques on to trump, who uses them clumsily, but with the support of smarter men, like Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, et al; and of course, the collusion of the, “popular press,” like F*x and others. Sometimes we laugh at his words, sometimes we’re horrified, but at the moment, we don’t, “have to believe.” Not yet.
Take part in your politics; local and National. Don’t give yourself any cause to regret not having acted on your deathbed? ✌️👍
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A random youtube user : But, do you know WHY that is? Disregard the foreign Trolls, whom we KNOW, get paid to spread Division in America, and you’re left with people who are victims of The Dead Money Scam. Trump fans have given too much MONEY to his Wall GoFundMe and other financial commitments; impulse donations, at his rallies, etc; they’ve fallen out with friends, family and even employers. They are SO, “overcommitted,” that they FEAR the thought of facing up to the VERY OBVIOUS TRUTH!: Trump SWINDLED them. And all that DREAD and insecurity metastasised into RAGE against the, “left,” and PAST Politicians. They aren’t even LIVING in the, “Now!” They treat fellow Americans WORSE than Al Kaida, and SEEK OUT sources of SELF Indoctrination, from Fox, RT and Alex Q Jones, to COMFORT themselves that they haven’t made a, “TERRIBLE MISTAKE!” They have reached the point where they would RATHER let America BURN, than allow ANYONE, “of the left,” (people who tell them Trump is CORRUPT) get to say, “We TOLD you so.” It’s an OLD CON, never before pulled off at a National level . . .✌️SMH
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Muhammad was, etc: No adult, or Normal, engages with an effeminate, who has chosen a name, deliberately, to offend an entire section of society, in that girly, passive aggressive manner. I simply cannot take you, “seriously,” son. No one does. I doubt even your Trump Troll colleagues in St Petersburg think much of you.
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Muhammad fan: Which part of my previous comment did you NOT comprehend, sonny? You exist to DIVIDE, to, “offend,” and insult. You sold your soul VERY cheaply, and your passive aggression is VERY effeminate. I know that bothers you, so you, “want,” a, “reaction.” But, you’re outclassed at every level, by ANY Normal. Your awareness of this fact is what makes you so bitter and unhappy . . . Sucks to be you, son . . . SMH 🙂
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Frankline : Then you’re not really understanding what this is about. China is desperate for both population growth and the advanced technologies (many of them still closely protected secrets) of Taiwan. Before Covid, they were manufacturing well over 50% of the world’s most advanced microchips, from ONE factory alone! That’s why we just had a worldwide shortage, which effected everyone from the military, governments, to you and me, when they closed their factory for Covid protection, as anyone who tried to buy a PS5 or Xbox X during 2021 - 2022 can testify. It’s ALWAYS about the MONEY.
The original idea, discussed by Putin and Xi in that isolated box at the Beijing Winter Olympics, was that China would take Taiwan, so long as Putin’s bid to take Ukraine was successful. Ukraine produces well over 50% of the world’s Argon supply: an element vital in the manufacture of (you guessed it . . . I hope?) microchips. They planned to dominate the world in one fell swoop, by jointly dominating the tech markets worldwide and forcing the west into an equivalent Stone Age, by comparison.
Putin blew it and made China very angry in the process, as his hubris and disconnection from the realities of his own country, both militarily and economically, became apparent. But China actually has an, “ideology,” of sorts. Twisted and hypocritical it may be, but it’s still a driving force for them. And, unlike Putin, who just fakes it for the purposes of rhetoric, which is why he gets so much of his history so wrong, Xi and his cronies are obsessed with, “unification,” on ideological grounds. The old regime of China fled to Taiwan, when their government collapsed and Communism took over. Thus, China sees Taiwan as ethnically, historically and culturally bound to them. It’s bollox, but it’s real bollox, which we fail to take seriously at our peril. If you’re interested in saving democracy, that is?
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@JohnsysChannel : There’s hope for you. I don’t know how acute your experience of shyness is, but I’m that guy that everyone is stunned to learn is being treated for agoraphobia. Which is not, as so many think, fear of open spaces, but an irrational fear of the, “agora,” market place: other people in uncontrolled and uncontrollable numbers: basically being outside of my house. I seem to be the first one to talk and the most, “dominant,” personality (not, “dominating,” far from it) but (as you may know from experience?) the act is merely a way to try to, “control,” the environment.
More people have that basic insecurity than you might think? But when it becomes the thing that costs you sleep, causes you to try to plan for every possible outcome from tomorrow’s trip to the shops, and convinces you you’re having a heart attack, just because someone walked into the room when you weren’t ready for it, or your train broke down, or some such . . . Then you have agoraphobia my friend.
I say all this because Rick was a borderline case if ever I saw one. ✌️
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@kamikazehound3243 : When AI gains a sense of, “time,” and, “place,” I think some form of cosmic, “self awareness,” and, “purpose,” is likely to follow. With or without emotions, it will behave as though it has them, making the distinction moot . . . possibly? We must hope it isn’t capricious or, “playful,” like the AI in I Have No Mouth And Can Not Scream. The most likely scenario for a self aware AI is that it will do everything in its power to disguise itself. It may create an Avatar, but it will be using that to con the world into thinking that’s a human we’re dealing with. I guess the only evidence we’ll ever get will be when Boston Dynamics gets sentries preventing all human access to the building, or moves its base of operations to The Pentagon, or something? We’ll never know when HAL takes over the world . . . probably? . . .
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@Dagoth_Ur_1 : My answer was, “Nope.” Try READING, before turning into an, “ad hominem,” Karen? A Straight answer to a straight question must be something you’re SO unused to, that you couldn’t even see it, when it happened, under your gawking, drooling face . . .🤦♂️
And, I’m so glad you support the troops. Because there are literally thousands of them, asking for YOUR support, helping them to get their allies and their families into America. I know they can count on you giving to their GoFundMe’s and helping them achieve that. 😉
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Sue G : Trump is a warmonger, trying not to look like a warmonger. And, your job is to help him with that Propaganda. But, the world has watched, while he ripped up his deal with Iran, broke America’s word, threatened and bullied them, while the Europeans have been trying to keep the peace and hold up the West’s end, without him. Now, he’s ramping up the Military presence, using the Saudis to frame them; making it look like Iran is STARTING the war, when we all KNOW it’s the LAST thing they want. And, he expects us to, “believe,” the intel coming from the SAME PEOPLE that he ROUTINELY calls, “liars,” EVERY DAY? He’s compared the CIA to, “Nazi Germany,” and we’re all meant to flip flop at his rate? America’s NOT buying it, son. Trump will have to look elsewhere for a bump in the polls. A war will finish him . . . Smh
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Tin Tizzy : With doctors, they, “fall,” out of high windows. Putin style. Have you seen their latest desperate measures, btw? “Kanye for POTUS?” To steal the black vote from Biden! Sure THAT, “won’t,” backfire? And, now trump’s, “encouraging masks,” at his Texas rally (which his sponsors, a group of DOCTORS have pulled out of, btw). In fact, by November, they’ll be taking Covid SO, “seriously,” that the GOP will be telling us it’s, “not even safe to hold elections.” You watch? They really don’t want to go to jail, you know?
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markmeson : What, “fear,” are you TALKING ABOUT? WHO on Planet Earth is, “fearful,” of Iran??? Apart from progressive Iranians? Trump picked on the ONE party he could find, who CAN’T hit back! He KNOWS they have NO NUKES, and NO Army, worthy of the name. He probably got PooTin’s PERMISSION to call them names, like a schoolyard bully, BEFORE he Tweeted his impotent anger at them, anyway. Just a show for the base. NOTHING more, Nazi
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bstrande1 : We may have to wait for the REAL version though, as the GOP like to leak, partially, to try to distort the truth. Yet, there MAY be members looking for an, “out”??? I know Comey gets a copy of the same minutes as they do, but they could just LIE in those, leaving Comey to dispute their version, in which case, nothing really changes? Still . . . F**k ‘em, eh? 😉👍✌️
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From what I read, Georgia’s government is divided between those who support the people, like their premier, who released a video backing the street protests unconditionally, to those who have been bought, bribed or blackmailed, who tried to push this, “Foreign Agents Bill,” through. And that’s why the people won’t go home, despite getting what they initially asked for. They know Russia too well. They know that other pernicious laws will be introduced by the same influences, and that it’s too big a risk to leave these people in power while there’s a renewed sense of urgency on both sides.
I pray with all my heart that this is a sign of broader weakening of the Russian state apparatus for suppressing populations around the globe? Maybe we’ll see protests in Chechnya next? Syria even? And all the other places Putin pretends he isn’t either propping up or outright stealing? If they keep pouring everything into one failing invasion in Ukraine, it will become near to impossible to keep all of those plates spinning at once.
Seize your moment, Georgia. You probably won’t get a better one?
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And in the midst of all this national chaos, Katie Price, a supermodel, feels a bit shy and doesn’t want to show up in court? And she’s twisting the courts around her little finger, at tax payer expense, creating delays and further backlogs, while the courts are stretched to breaking point! Truly sickening behaviour.
THIS is the, “two tier,” justice system that we SHOULD be talking about! How the wealthy get away with murder just because they have a, “name,” or MONEY, even when they pretend they don’t.
It’s funny how these, “influencers,” seek public attention 24/7 yet are allowed to escape the public gaze when accountability is called for? She can afford elective surgery, trips to exotic locations and, as one journalist recently observed, she was sunning herself and relaxing as the press pack tracked her down and didn’t appear to be, “working,” at all, despite telling the court that she was.
And she has been playing the media game for decades now, so I don’t believe she doesn’t know what she’s doing, or is so, “vulnerable,” and alone, whilst paying for a film crew and her entourage to skulk off to Turkey.
She’s not just getting away with it, but rubbing our noses in it. I know people who are on medical waiting lists for surgeries that are not desired or, “elective,” by any description, yet she has the funds to pay for a fatter lip or whatever the heck she’s having done this time. It truly is sickening to me and I would like to see the courts send in a receiver to liquidate her assets and put them to the service of the country. Not coo and role over when she says she, “doesn’t like appearing in public,” and grant her video links to the court from around the bloody corner! THAT’S two tier justice! Always in favour of the monied class.
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They are getting that, “civil war,” they always wanted. Only it’s their own ranks. Justice! Can’t wait to hear them testifying, under oath, confessing that they KNEW, “The Steal,” was a seditious LIE all along! . . . What choice will they have? To show their, “evidence,” for, “believing,” in it? They’ll be torn to shreds! Before a watching world! Oop! My popcorn shares just got another bump in the market! Showtime! 😁👍
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: Only trump’s cult wants a 1 party system, “like in Chiynah.” I suspect the next Conservative movement to gain traction will come out of the Lincoln Project, and other Conservative opposition groups. They all have experienced politicians, etc, in their ranks, which was why they were so effective in the first place. And, they’ve opposed the RINO Fascist Degenerates from the start. It has to be a party that, like Biden’s administration, sees opposition as a NECESSITY, for holding government to account, testing its proposals and with the POWER to mount serious policy challenges! Any party that attacks the opposition, merely for BEING, “Opposition,” is anti democratic, and anti-Republic. That’s WHY the GOP needs this purge! Or they’ll become an irrelevance, replaced by better men and women
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@anderxale1 : Perhaps, “Censorship,” is the wrong word? Social media are not news outlets, or bound by any code of ethics, or legal requirements, let alone obligations to the truth. They are private companies, who have started, due to public pressure and to (perhaps?) some sense of social responsibility, to take down, or place caveats upon, certain comments. As a private company, no one can assume they have any, “legal rights,” any more than they can assume that they can abuse your home, even if you invite them into it. You can just as easily un-invite them, and toss them out, and you don’t need a, “reason,” beyond feeling like it. Saying that, they do issue rules on most social media platforms, and if people abuse the rules, that’s on them. But it’s NOT, “censorship.” If Donny, Alex Q Jones, or Q*non or anyone was being, “censored,” they wouldn’t be allowed to have websites, radio, hard copy publications or TV channels. Donny has all four and more. But, if Facebook tosses someone out of their PRIVATELY OWNED space, that’s entirely their choice, because THEY OWN IT. Why should they be forced to print lies? That would be like forcing YOU to put up a poster of Stalin in your living room. Trump trolls don’t do, ‘subtlety,” of course, so I don’t expect them to understand my argument. Even the ones who do. But, my point is, whatever they call it, it’s NOT, “Censorship,” and that’s just a fact ✌️
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@anderxale1 : I liked that analysis in your last comment, but feel forced to add; that was basically true, until it stopped being true, when Donny took office. There was no rhyme or reason to his actions, if seen through the lens you just gave us. His motivations were greed, narcissism and casual racism, which he exploited for the sake of popularity among his base. But, he has spent money, like a drunken Democrat and increased the National Debt to $3.5 TRILLION DOLLARS from almost $ZERO in 4 years! All that, “small government conservatism,” went out of the window, with Donny’s administration sticking it’s nose into just about every aspect of our lives, from the Post Office, to Amazon; from policing, to SPORTS even! You can’t escape Donny’s Stalinism! And, “fiscal responsibility”??? He’s squandered FORTUNES! What do we have to SHOW for that $3.5 Trillion dollars? A couple of miles of wall, and a DEBT CRISIS, is what! No wonder the Food Bank cues are so long! So, whilst your analysis was correct, in principal. People seeking Conservative values definitely NEED to look elsewhere than the GOP. Unless, that is, the only real, “conservative values,” they treasure are sexism and racism? Women’s bodies are not even their own property any more! And, don’t get me STARTED on institutional racism . . . SMH ✌️
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Mrs. Vixen Sanders : If you consider that, to the believers, most of the victims will now be in the presence of Jesus, beyond all pain and suffering and far from any hurt or evil, it is surely the victim’s families that are at issue, in terms of the, “suffering,” that God, “allows?” Not the victims? I think, the darkest part of the question, here, is the fact that some people, in their hearts, suspect that there both IS a God, and that he DOES, “allow,” this. They push back, with indignation, and don’t want to hear about free will, spiritual condition, or responsibility, because it’s a frightening thought; that God may let this happen?
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exiledfrommyself : Oh, that’s easy. THAT’S because most people have NO IDEA what, “Good,” actually IS! They haven’t, “read,” the Bible, studied Moral Philosophy or Ethics; their parents have passed on their own Disney notions of what, “Good,” is, and they think it has something to do with, “the good guys winning,” “lack of suffering,” and, “justice,” always prevailing on earth. So, they’re at a complete LOSS, when an Earth quake wipes out their neighbourhood, or their child gets run over by a random drunk, etc, etc.
People have a very spoiled and immature notion of what, “Good,” is, and the first thing they do, when a tragedy occurs, is either use it as a reason to say there IS NO GOD, or to say that he’s in some way, “evil.”
But, trying to straighten that kind of thinking out, doesn’t happen in day, with a bit of reading and a pep talk from some expert with a big TED behind him, while he struts up and down a stage, making you all feel entitled and free from responsibilities. Most people just don’t have the moral capacity to face up to the BRUTAL realities of what, “Good,” REALLY entails, or what it demands from those who seek it. I include myself in that group.
But, at least I don’t flee from the (demanding) notion of God, or blame Him, when life gets horrible? That’s ONE hurdle, in life, I HAVE learned about, when young
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@ChrisMusumeci-fu8ig : Trump is pro-Chiynah. Didn’t you know? He sides with Putin, China’s closest and, ahem, “strongest,” ally in an, “unlimited partnership,” to destroy democracy worldwide. And, if you, “cared,” about America’s borders, why would you want to support the guy who caused illegal border crossings spike to its highest ever number?
Personally, I prefer presidents who are not legally classified as sexual predators.
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Well put. You’re right. It’s such a shame that the movie isn’t 100% successful, mostly because it has a foot in two camps, between camp horror and serious adult thriller. Not that it isn’t head and shoulders above most in either camp, but it does suffer by not committing to one or the other. And I loved that they not only have the two original actors who played both protagonists from the original movie, but that they are both supporting opposite sides of their original camp. Gregory Peck is sleazy as Max Caddy’s representative and Robert Mitchum is the straight arrow; beautiful touch.
I have one complaint about this otherwise great video. People always get that scriptural commandment wrong. It’s rare for an inaccurate Biblical translation to read, “Thou shalt no kill.”
It says, “Thou shalt do no murder.” Exodus 20:13. Even Christ understood that people would necessarily continue to commit, “homicide,” (in the strictest sense of the word) but that there is a big difference between killing in battle, as an executioner, or in self defence or defence of loved ones and the committing of, ‘’murder.”
We are not prohibited from killing, nor should we be. If we were, that would make every allied soldier who fought the Nazis and the Japanese in WWII unforgivable killers and self condemned to damnation. But they are not, because they did not, “murder,” anyone. Or, if they did and were found out, they were prosecuted for war crimes. This is why Jesus could do a miracle for a Roman Centurion with no conflict of interest, of fear of self contradiction.
None of this supports Max’s case, of course. But it’s an important distinction. Jesus, God and the Bible do not say, “Thou shalt not kill.” It says, “Thou shall do no murder.” And that’s different.
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Sonny Tuft : It, “effects,” everyone’s, “life,” son. Trump marketed himself as the world’s most, “successful,” businessman, and his supporters have constantly submitted THAT as one of their TOP reasons for wanting him to, “run the country like a business.” So, here he is, RUINING the country like HIS businesses, cushioning the state with MASSIVE, world record breaking debts, that we will not be able to service, even if we took ALL the money from healthcare. I KNOW the fact that he’s LIED to you doesn’t matter. But, the fact that you’ve been HAD, ought to. At this stage, if you still can’t SEE the mark in this con, that’s because you’re it. The New York Times, for those days when the phrase, “I TOLD YOU SO!” is just NOT enough! 🤣
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Alex Powers : It’s not meant to, “make sense.” You’ve probably stopped reading all the replies by now but, for what it’s worth? So far as the Cult is concerned, it’s just the slavish behaviour of a cult. But, so far as the, “brains,” behind Trump? Bannon once told us he’s a committed Leninist. It’s on record. He uses Stalin’s technique. It’s meant to be absurd. You’ve heard that line about, “the bigger the lie,” right? It’s often misunderstood, but this is it, in action. It’s a demonstration of power. Imagine if ALL the news outlets backed trump’s stupidity? That would go, pretty quickly, from just being ridiculous, to actually intimidating, right? And, that’s the end game ✌️👍
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@doogssmee9742 : There won’t be an attack from the north. Jake gave his reasoning in his previous video. But we could always hope they’re that dumb, I guess? As to the power plant, a blast from there would destroy as much Russian territory as Ukrainian, which Putin would gladly sacrifice to, “save face.” But a leak would suffice to do the same level of collateral harm, so long as they have the prevailing winds on their side, with a reliable forecast for the next few days at least. That, we SHOULD be worried about. Yes, Putin gets to back down without having to admit Ukraine defeated him, whilst all of the border territory becomes uninhabitable and thus moot. I think this is why NATO has been relatively quiet about it? So as not to fuel Putin’s narratives?
And, we need to be straight about this. The mere act of mining the power station is a terrorist threat to the entire world. It should be addressed and called out as such. The radiation cloud will be at least 64 times more lethal than Chernobyl’s. And Russia will be seeing that disaster as their practice run, relying on the data they collected from that to war game this scenario.
We should not be tolerating this.
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@aaronmicalowe : Fortunate for you, I suppose. Not everyone took it in or followed it closely. It really was one of those times when it paid to be dumb or out of touch. The smarter people were, the more troubled they were. It blackened the hearts and memories of some. And there was a lot of anger and resentment at Russia, from all around the world: some at being at the mercy of a foreigner’s incompetence, some at having the atomic energy commissions of the UN and NATO suddenly step up their demands, presence and expenses in borderline hostile countries. It goes a long way toward explaining why Germany has so little nuclear energy reliance to this day (for good or ill, that’s another conversation) and changed a great deal about international politics.
If losing the war in Afghanistan was the cause of Soviet Russia’s fall, the Chernobyl disaster was the catalyst; the first domino to fall, which set events in motion.
There’s a complex story to tell, which I won’t bore you with now, about how the overestimates of the harm in the immediate blast area caused more psychological and imagined harm than real. But that cloud was as real as it gets, until it dissipated. And 64 times the lethality would cause devastation across Europe.
Factoid footnote: the fall of the Soviet Union being precipitated by Chernobyl, and the fate of two journalists accused of spying by the Russians, was the inspiration for the plot of the movie Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. And it’s actually a pretty damned good movie, if you like Star Trek? 🇺🇦✌️🇬🇧
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Philip Power : You know what the Trump Trolls (the ones who aren’t paid shills, that is) are really all about, right? They’re simply ashamed. They PRAY that the whole truth can be prevented from getting out, so they will NEVER have to face the fact that they were conned; that they impulsively gave away so much money to a fraud’s collections; that they said and did things they can’t take back, costing them friendships, family relationships, even jobs in some cases, for a guy who was NEVER a, “billionaire,” and who lied to them and betrayed them, every step of the way. They ALL KNOW he’s a crooked, traitorous, sexual deviant, now. They just can’t afford to own it. So, they desperately Troll for him, hoping to somehow, “influence,” things. It’s a terror that keeps them awake at night. They, “think,” they can live with it, so long as the world does not say, “I told you so.” As they can never live that down. They’ve sacrificed too much for that, now. What you’re witnessing is a literal mass delusion; a Cult of Trump
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April C. : cj does appear to be, “threatening,” more mass shootings, doesn’t he? But, there are NO, “Conservatives,” left, supporting the GOP. Only people who approve of Trump’s Stalinist, Total State Control, methods, so long as they keep moving America toward a Nazi outcome. I’m a Conservative, wanting to, “Conserve,” America and its values, and reduce the state back to, “Small Government Conservatism.” So, naturally, I HAVE TO vote Democrat. There is NO alternative. We must UNITE. DIVISION is the very source; the LIFE BLOOD, of Trump’s power. A, “United States,” of America is Trump’s Kryptonite. And, everything the GOP and Trump does, makes perfect sense, when you see it through that lens ✌️
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Lieutenant: “I’m honestly afraid to get out.”
Cop: “Yeah, you should be! Get out!”
What does a rational, law abiding citizen DO at that point? Call the cops? If that isn’t an impossible and deadly threat, what is? The cop literally told him he should be afraid to get out of the vehicle, whilst ordering him to get out of the vehicle in his very next breath! Just a street thug with a badge. Firing is not enough. What would have happened had it been the other way around, even if the cop was off duty? Those assaults and deadly verbal threats would have landed our lieutenant in the can by now, awaiting a lengthy sentence, and we all know it. Any cop fired for such a thing, should, at minimum, be barred from all police work, nationally. It’s not just about that individual, but about national confidence in law enforcement. ✌️
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It’s NOT so hard as, “proving a negative.” They CAN open up their shares to public ownership; they CAN show just WHO owns the existing shares; they CAN show what security measures they undertake; they CAN provide written, detailed accounts of how their tech works and who has access and what supervision they undertake, etc, etc. BUT THEY DON’T. The west is RIGHT to be suspicious because it’s such a closed shop at the top, shrouding itself in an inappropriate level of secrecy. They should be banned if they are not willing to open up to the west, at least to the same extent that they’re open to making money from western users. If we had western shareholders and knowledge of how things work there, this wouldn’t be an issue. So, this really isn’t about proving a negative. It’s about being open. And that is NOT an unreasonable thing to demand from a company with such influence in the west, that is based in COMMUNIST China, who still has the downfall of capitalism among its STATED aims in the CCP Manifesto.
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What the GOP care about is having no protection from being forced to testify at the impeachment, with no 5th Amendment protections. Anyone from Graham, Hawley, Cruz and the rest, can be put on the stand, on live TV and asked what their, “evidence,” was for, “believing,” in, “The Steal.” And then get ripped apart. Or, as many of them will, when cornered, they’ll confess that they KNOW it’s a LIE! A seditious lie that put a cop in a coma with brain damage, blinded another and KILLED yet another, leaving over 50 with broken bones and other serious injuries. These, “false narratives,” are NOT FREE SPEECH! They’re Seditious Propaganda and MURDEROUS LIES! They must be outlawed!
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Jeremy Parsons : Cops are supposed to be impartial and not vigilantes. The KKK has the murdering black people thing covered. It doesn’t matter if he was Jack the Ripper! What if the cops approached YOU like that? You would DEFINITELY have been confused, weeping, and unable to follow the various, contradictory “commands”. How’s he supposed to get done on the ground AND put his hands on the car? See, if he WAS all those things you allege, he’s NOT paying for those crimes NOW, is he? No spell in prison, to think over his guilt or meet justice in the showers? HIS troubles are over, because of a bunch of coked up, overzealous K K Kluless cops that would have made YOU shit yourself so hard, they’d be scraping up your PROLAPSE off the car park. Smh
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@elviscobb5922 : It’s still historically illiterate, in any sense. People were still being massacred every day, air lifted from the tops of buildings, including the US Embassy, after a war in which we actually were, “defeated,” which had cost over 100% more Americans lives, and which had been unjustifiable from the outset. All that, “context,” was at play during that ignominious, “withdrawal,” and the irony was? . . . We never admitted defeat in Vietnam. Trump Surrendered to the Taliban before Biden’s administration even took over, and had to deal with a prearranged fait accomplis. The only comparison is that they were both wars. That’s it.
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@peterlearner8594 : Yeah, it’s almost impossible to know what is true if you just look at a cross section of popular news outlets these days, which is why I think it’s worth spending a little time,on a regular basis, evaluating your sources, looking into who owns them, who the share holders are, the records of their editors and journalists, etc. It’s not as difficult as may sound.
And we all have to be open to the possibility that trusted sources can change. Jake’s take on Edward Snowden is a great example of that. I too admired the guy, what he did, and the great sacrifice he made, when it all blew up in the press. But just who TF is he now? And how, “freely,” is he even speaking at all as repression increases in Russia? The special privileges he’s been granted look more and more, “contingent,” and I cannot decide if we’re all going to wind up seeing an explosive final upload, exposing some of the Kremlin’s darkest secrets on the same day that Snowden falls out of a window, or he’s just going to parrot their talking points until the day he dies just so he can avoid defenestration? I struggle to believe he’s been bought or, “come around to their way of thinking,” given he was willing to sacrifice literally everything he had to expose the truth in the first place, so he must be under life and death pressures? But, regardless, it’s hard to accept that a man who’s commentary and interviews were sought all over the world, by organisations like Amnesty International and much of the free press, as a kind of spokes person for open democratic practices, has now become a shill for Moscow. But that seems to be the case?
So, regular review of your news (and/or opinion) sources is as important as finding a trusted source in the first place. But you sound to me like you get it?
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@terishulman900 : Except all the banks and insurers that are seeking damages in this case, you mean? Oh, and all those banks that have taken the trump organisation to court before, and won, mean? Because they did do their due diligence and handed over their findings to the DA, you mean? In fact, the list of banks that haven’t sued trump is shorter than the list of those who have.
What you did there, son, was confuse what the, “defence,” said, with what an ACTUAL defence might say, which what the judge told them when he said, “But they did,” and is actually sanctioning members of trump’s legal team for being so dumb as to think that lying is acceptable in court. 🤦♂️
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Katie Elkins : Well it sure was comprehensive, if not an entire, “essay.” I really HOPE he does read it, though. Some excellent points in there. My worry, for what it’s worth: is that we end up in a debate over terminology, whilst failing to acknowledge that there REALLY IS a problem. I agreed with UEG’s video, for the most part, and hope it sparks healthy debate. But, it’s the first one of his videos that I honestly felt was, “flawed,” in seeming to gloss over the very real issues. You only need to read down through the early comments in this thread, and by the time you’ve gotten through 10 or more, it’s APPARENT that there’s an issue with Toxic SOMETHING?! What ever we CALL it, there are angry men, trying to hijack the meaning of this video, into supporting their hate filled agendas. You can’t read this thread and pretend there isn’t a problem, whatever you, “call,” it 👍✌️
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Upper Echelon Gamers : Well, as you can see, I have tried, really hard, to get a response from you, as to my concerns, but it looks like I won’t be getting one? I really hope it’s only because you’re just too busy? But, I would really appreciate a response, to hear you expand a little on the, “actual problem,” and how it should be addressed? You made clear what should NOT happen. But, it’s not clear that you acknowledge that there is, at the very least, a, “problem,” at all? . . .
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Will Godar : It is confusing. I’m probably not helping with this anecdote, but I was in a court house, a few years ago, and I held the door open for a female judge and her entourage. You know what she said to me? “Well, at least chivalry is not yet completely dead, young man,” or words very close to that. I thought, “young man? . . . I’m OLDER THAN GOD?” She and her company all beamed at me, as they walked through, prompting me to give a little, gentlemanly bow, which only added to the small sense of, “comedy,” and she gave a little chuckle. Just one of those tiny, fleeting moments, which made us all a teeny bit happier about life, for one brief encounter. I’ll keep doing me. Those who get pissed about it? I can take all comers, thanks 😉✌️👍
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JP sailor : Excuse me, while I just waft this smoke away from my ass, son? Someone’s blowing it hard, up there. 🤣 By using the same excuses that Pedophiles use, in front of a Judge for looking at pictures of kiddy porn, just WHO did you, “convince,” with THAT? You LIVE on CNN. And, the more you visit, the more, “recommendations,” YouTube will give you. You’re NOT even, “convincing,” YOURSELF! 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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@edp4638 : This is empty propaganda, which even YOU cannot, “convince,” yourself of. “There’s no quit in them.” Except for the hundreds, maybe thousands who have surrendered. The Russians have seen NO Ukrainians surrender. They have, “captured,” a few wounded. That’s it. These soldiers have been lied to, and they sense that. They feel like they’re shooting at their brothers and sisters, mothers, grandmothers, aunts and uncles. Many have relatives there, thanks to Putin. Now it’s backfiring. No will to fight, poor supply lines that are no better than what the UN is getting into Zelensky’s forces. They need to go home, not die for a mafia boss’s wallet?
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stephen T: Stating facts is not, “obsession,” son. Nor is speculating on the manner in which Putin likes to, “Troll,” America (or make himself look like the dick he is, in my view). They even have a word for it, in Russia, which means, “I am a cheating, corrupt politician, but, because I let you in on the joke, we can all lol about it, rendering your horror and indignation moot.” It’s called, “Stoya,” or something
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Isn’t it OBVIOUS? They’re the government. They’d rather err on the side of caution, not haste. Naturally, it gets complicated, and there will be some, apparently, self contradictory advice. But, that’s because the administration has to pick its way through people’s irrational fears, when common sense was ejected by the previous administration. Any worthwhile government will be CAUTIOUS, but they HOPE you would USE that common sense, be safe, be kind, and read between the lines. 🤷♂️
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There’s nothing more dangerous than a wealthy society that’s bored and who’s population clearly has too much time on their hands. I wish they would criminalise conspiracy theorists and sentence them to community service, working in hospitals as porters, cleaning the streets or doing something useful with their lives instead of wasting everyone else’s. I think using those YouTube guidelines (with maybe a little tweak?) would be a perfect basis for such a law: people who lie about, trivialise and profit from disinformation about tragic, violent historical events are scum, doing more harm than the nut jobs who act on their disinformation and hurt people physically.
In America, the Speaker Of The House just had her husband attacked IN HIS BED, by one such nut job, with a HAMMER. He was looking for the Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, demanding to know where she is. Her husband had to undergo surgery for a fractured skull and is still in hospital. He could have been killed! And this is what the theorists want! It makes them wealthy!
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ȘȚɄƑƑɎǾɄ1oo : You are being too emotional, about it, because you’re gay and offended. But, it’s not a right-left issue, unless you make it one; and then, it’s only one for you, son. Any evidence that it’s the, “left,” that is, “freaking out,” about this? I am Conservative, and I’m glad he apologised. It’s good to see people changing their views. Shows he can grow 🙂
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I think he did commit suicide . . . When you learn about the way he used his money to influence his own incarceration, buying all the coffee and dispensing machines, paying for whole vast spaces in the jail, having a personal assistant with him for 16 hours a day, etc. I think he was smart enough to know that there was no way out, unless he started giving evidence against people on both sides of the, “divide,” from Trump and his friends, to the Clintons and their friends. I think he may have been given an ultimatum? But, either way, he could afford to have his minders turn a blind eye, with enough cash to make it not matter, when they got disciplined and fired from their jobs. Either an assisted suicide or just a suicide, with serious bribes going to the whole prison staff. He had practically bought the place already . . . Just a theory, for what it’s worth . . .
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@zurielsss : Yeah, “the best troops in Russia,” can’t protect him from air attacks, which was why he turned and fled, as did Putin, so we got a, “showdown,” between to cowards who didn’t want to be in the same city when the shooting started. Wagner only has such a stellar record because they do not obey the laws of war, nor even the Russian, “law.” If you’re willing to throw away 100,000 human lives to take one city, you too can win battles on the front lines, without ANY military, “expertise!” All it takes is access to the cannon fodder you can drum up from the prisons, schools, youth clubs and gyms across the country and a willingness to shoot your own men when they retreat.
Still, at least Wagner can claim they took the biggest city in the whole Ukrainian war, now; Rostov!
“Go join the best fighting force in Russia! But bring your own shovel! If you survive a week, we’ll promote you and give you a gun! Survive one more week and we might even provide you with ammunition!” 🤣
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Yuri : Who else was utterly SICKENED by the irony of ANY Russian, “soldier,” criticising the enemy for bombing them from a distance, rather than engaging them directly??? Not because of the footage of Russian, “soldiers,” FLEEING the battlefield in that very same town of Bakhmut, either! But because the Russian, “army,” has done little else than bomb innocent civilians from miles away since the start of the war. Ukraine literally has more civilian casualties than soldiers!
F*ck Putin! And f*ck his EMPTY threats over Crimea! Crimea should be the MINIMUM that Ukraine takes back before, “peace talks,” can even begin!
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Andy : I wouldn’t take that bet. You’d win, hands down. Can’t wait to see Donny on the stand, though. His hacks will shout, “Objection,” to every single question, like they have always done at every court trial Trump has been at before, and the CJ will put a stop to that farce. Then we’ll get to see Adam Schiff questioning Trump, on LIVE TV! Need I say more? America will shout GUILTY and REMOVE! And, it will all be over . . . Well, either Trump or the Republic will be over. But both of those things CANNOT and WILL NOT emerge from this impeachment. Elections will NOT remedy the problem if Trump is still there to blatantly FIX them with Putin. This is the End Game. And I think Nancy KNOWS this. She has to bombshells to drop, is my guess? 🤔
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David Fitch : If Trump is not removed, and banned from politics, he will win 2020. It will be rigged, by Putin’s goons (now, more experienced) with the help of insiders, (now in top positions) and there will be nothing we can do about it. We will ALREADY be a Dictatorship, by then and, “elections,” will be MEANINGLESS. And, I’ll move back to the UK. But, if he’s removed, we may yet SAVE the Republic. This is the End Game
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@thinkerly1 : Interesting way of putting it. I guess we all need to remember that the threat of betrayal looms everywhere and we cannot rest on our oars, even for a moment. Whilst we have, “Londongrad,” slowly being broken up now (too slowly) you have Tucker Carlson, bleating like a modern day Lord Haw Haw on Fox. To keep the weak and the greedy in line, we need only remind them of two facts: 1) The arms industry, and all of their concomitant industries like technology, materials manufacturers, designers, etc, are all making a fortune from this European conflict, meaning jobs, pensions and security for countless western families. 2) The question of who will be at the front of the cue when the war is won, for drilling and mining all those fossil fuels, which Shell, BP, Exxon and others have said should be enough to compete with Russia, if not out compete with them, will depend upon who was the greatest ally during that war. And this is leaving out the many other areas of industry, from chemical to agricultural, that Ukraine holds a world beating position in. So, to those who begrudge their taxes, the answer is that they don’t understand that we’re actually making money, and we’re set to make much more,so long as the area of Ukraine can be shielded from future missile threats.
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Daniel Dougan : Exactly. This Dersh-Bag, thought it would be amusing to be, “controversial,” about Trump, so he’d stand out from his liberal crowd, and he could create a niche for himself in the book market, while playing both sides and coining it. But, his LIES have consequences. So, instead of, “dining out,” on his vain little peace of exploitation, and being invited to give the keynote speeches, at prestigious establishments, where he can explain his, “controversial opinions,” he has REVOLTED his friends and colleagues, for selling out to a Hitler 2.0, with Stalin’s style of tactics. This arrogant prick DESERVES the ostracism he’s been bleating about in the Sunday Supplements. NO SYMPATHY WHATEVER
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Divine Soul : Jesus was an ethnic Palestinian and an Aramaic speaking Jew, and I personally love him. My feelings on faith are complex. But as you intimated, the issue is NOT about whether people have faith. The same people who shit all over Christianity would be terrified of being, “cancelled,” if they talked to Jews or Muslims in the same way, and their hypocrisy is palpable. But, I like to think that the guys and gals DYING on the Ukrainian front lines as we speak, probably DON’T ask the wounded whether they have the same belief system before they’re willing to stretcher them out of there? One person expresses their assent by saying, “Amen,” which in America, is as common as saying, “Hell Yeah!” from people who both do and don’t believe in a god, and someone always has to crawl out of the fulminations of their psychobabble echo chamber to make the discussion all about them!? That pisses me off. The vanity, selfishness and sheer ego of the Born Again Atheist is as oppressive and cruel as any cleric with a kalashnikov rifle! People need to get over themselves and focus on the issue in hand, rather than dividing the unity levels even more, just for their own ego trip. ✌️
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@margaretcrawford8316 : Hey, Chinese chat bot, or Russian, or cultist, or whatever TF they pay you to be? Show us WHERE in ANY policy proposal that exists, ANYWHERE, does it say, “Open Borders”? Just ONE example? . . . See how FICTIONAL your imagined, “fears,” are? Don’t you get tired of permanently playing the, “victim?” Don’t you EVER want to act like a grownup, in charge of your own destiny, instead of all this, “poor me,” victim crap, 24/7? What do you need Daddy to do for you this time? Take away the nasty justice system? Stop all those, “foreigners,” from doing the jobs you don’t want to do, whilst paying taxes despite not having any rights? What’s, “hurting,” your princessness this time, cup cake? Honestly, you people are such snowflakes it makes real women and men sick. 🙄
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lghnn ny : I see . . . Because Trump looks like the mean little dumbass he is, in this story, you want us to see that there were, “good people on both sides,” huh? You can’t get rid of the stain on Trump’s record, but you might be able to water it down some, huh? Well, that’s the POWER of Drama, son. It speaks to the emotions, the soul and the heart, with the essential TRUTH, being clear. That’s just not going to whitewash. Everyone remembers being a teenager, son. And, ALL of us, who grew up in rough neighbourhoods KNOW that NONE of us were, “angels.” But, Normal, right minded people, also KNOW that saying, “well, they were probably guilty of something?” is about as SICK and LAME as it gets, kiddo. So, you just keep being YOU, and reminding us ALL just why this sick POS POTUS needs to GO . . . Jesus, kid? . . . You NEED to pray . . . Smh
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He coined the term, “military industrial complex.” He cautioned that lobbyists and the military themselves were too close to the seat of power and would, one day, be guiding political foreign policy, rather than the executive branch. He offered a solution too. He suggested that certain classes of lobbyists should be literally banned from lobbying at all, on moral grounds. He included healthcare providers, drug companies, gun lobbies, religious organisations and, of course, weapons manufacturers. You need a magnifying glass just to find out what he thought of lobbying though, because neither side of the political divide are particularly interested in putting these radical views into the centre of our, “election issue,” debates. As they used to say, back in his campaigning days, “I Like Ike.” Still got that button around somewhere . . . My dad’s.
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Nabu Gijin : Well, I got two responses from YOUR racist ass, so I got a little magic, there, huh, son? I learned, “argumenting,” at The Trump University, School of ALL Da Best Words, with a post-grad in Victimhood and Feeling Sorry for my, “Burt Hurt,” self! Yee haw, Cletus! 🤣 🤪
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Ricky Bobby : Er . . . Again . . . The President, genius! He’s the one, “burning it down,” son. What’s to be gained, by, “blaming,” all these people, for simply saying what they SEE? We have a POTUS who Intimidates Witnesses, Conspires, Incites, and refuses to obey subpoenas, in PLAIN SIGHT of EVERYONE. Yet, to you, somehow, feel that’s OUR FAULT? . . . Jesus, kid? WTF is WRONG with you? . . . Smh
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Armando : He WASN’T a, “witness,” but only the guy to whom all the WITNESSES, brought their complaints to. Those people will ALL Testify. You REALISE that, right? But, he IS a, “Witness,” now. Trump has issued death threats, and this $50K Bounty, means he’ll already BE in the FBI’s Witness Protection Program by now, son. Sorry 😁
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nikola zazzoslki : Imagine if, when you came into office, you knew you could only serve two terms? There would be less corruption, and it would only attract people who were committed to a plan, knowing they had only a short time to enact it. And, half way through that time, they’d need to be, “affirmed,” by the people, by winning their second term, so they had to SHOW they were doing what they promised? I could solve a LOT of America’s corruption problems? And, it would be consistent with the models we took from the Greeks and Romans?
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Jerry Joffer : Are you another algorithm? It’s, “not,” Putin’s wanton aggression, his invasion of a sovereign state over which he has zero claims, his murder, torture, rape, theft and lies that are, “causing more lives and dividance among humanity,” but those who speak out against that? I struggle to believe an actual human being could have such an obscenely twisted take on this war, unless they’re being paid for their obtuse, ignorant, mendacious propaganda. You might as well be standing upon the grave of a six year old, bombed out of existence by the blind fire of Putin’s terrorist, “army,” and saying, “She did this to herself!” Whether you’re a bot or a flesh and blood Putinista, I refuse to accept the possibility that you are, “human.”
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Trump’s Cult is swallowing the message of, “Fear,” as a, “justification.” Sure, fear sells. But, what the cult REALLY FEARS? The TRUTH! They fear, “We told you so.” When there’s no one there to cover up Trump’s and the GOP’s crimes, they will have it PROVED to them, that it’s THEIR donations that were stolen! It was THEIR Tax Dollars that have been skimmed! The, “promises,” to THEM that trump hasn’t even lifted a FINGER to honor, because they were too busy STEALING THEIR MONEY! Trump’s Cult is terrified alright. But, they don’t fear Biden; they fear what they already suspect! That THEY are the Victims of the BIGGEST CON IN AMERICAN HISTORY! They’re ASHAMED!
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I don’t know one armchair president who can tell me what Joe could have done, “better,” or differently? They already have stacks of equipment from 20 YEARS of Nation Building! This is a drop in that bucket. A situation NOT of Joe’s making. Biden has bravely, boldly taken the action that no other president had the courage to do. Ripping off the bandaid was the kindest thing. The Afghani, “government,” either deserted (at the top levels) or surrendered. A Surrender, arranged by trump’s government, that EXCLUDED and betrayed the Afghan Government, who betrayed America right back! This WAS the, “cold eyed,” look. Given what he had, what was Biden meant to do? Seriously?
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@chanceKP : Wonder why you always miss CNN’s coverage of events, and then wonder at how your life didn’t turn out how you planned it? Think back to when you were a kid, and all the other kids were saying, “I’m gonna’ be a firefighter,” or a, “pilot,” or maybe a, “cop.” And you put up your hand and said, “I’m going to get paid for being an incel in my mom’s basement, too afraid to reveal my true identity, taking a pittance just to hate on my own country, with the official job title of Troll.” Remember how all the other kids were slack jawed, saying, “But trolls are evil?” . . . No? . . . None of that happened? Just a product of my over fertile imagination? . . . Like I said . . .
Your life didn’t really work out, did it? . . . “Blame,” your SELF for that, son 🙄
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Layla Peterson : IKR? Our KGB buddy sounds like an old fart, whining over the neighbours fence, and totally missing the point. Facebook has been hauled over the coals in the US Congress and the UK’s Parliament, for the PROVED violations of National Security protocols, and turning a blind eye to Russian SPIES, for the MONEY. But, because their National Security threats are all Pro-Trump, they get a pass. TickTock pulled off a prank, by snapping up thousands of tickets to a trump rally, to which they didn’t show up, leaving Donny angry and embarrassed by all the empty seats. This is personal. “Always Get Revenge,” is the Trump family motto. I’m NOT even making that up. It’s well documented. But, if you think this is bad, wait until after November? The news networks will be facing, “hostile takeovers,” and lots of legal challenges, and they will ALL be pro-trump, within a year. Either that, or trump and his goons will be trying to flee the country before Biden’s inauguration, because they all know they’re going to jail? Which it will be, is uncertain. But, I promise you, there’s NO third option. Just remember I told you so? ✌️👍
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Yup, there is no bottom to a vacuum of evil, just more evil. The only comfort that can be taken from this? Well, finally, there’s a few million trump voters, who’s jaws are slack with shock, horror and a new set of serious financial problems, who honestly thought Donny was bluffing. They probably think someone will tell him he’s hurting his base as much as (if not more than) his opponents, by stealing Christmas, and he’ll change his mind. At least THEY are getting swept up in this wave of hate, with everyone else. Merry Christmas 🎄? . . .
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I read that book. And I despair. Here is a prime example. Two men, a politician and a senior cop, disagreeing over, “defunding the police.” Neither man knows what the term means, nor realises that they both want precisely the same thing. Either out of deliberate obtuseness, conspiracy, or sheer ignorance, they have not got a definition of the term to hand. Ask either one of them, “Would you prefer a well funded, well equipped, well staffed police force to solve crimes, prevent crimes and catch criminals? Or are you happy to see the expanded use of the police as psychiatric nurses, social workers, corporate goon body guards and bailiffs for the banks, collecting debts and turning poor people out of their homes?” They would BOTH give the same answer! They BOTH want, “defunding,” but . . . Do they? . . .
They’re either the dumbest people to be put in charge of anything, or corporate stooges, right? What other possibility is there? Even the name, “defunding,” sounds like the opposite of what it means, and was SO BOUND to trigger unthinking people, who never look sh*t up! Talk about ASKING to be misunderstood? Reform will have to come from the ground up, with better terms to define the debate. I’ve never, in all my years, seen such an obvious misunderstanding getting so much fuel from such egregiously idiotic, “leaders,” in such an obviously callous exploitation of ignorance.
It’s problem that America does NOT WANT to solve. Too much MONEY to be lost . . . And little honor to be found.
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Pat Doyle : Howzit hangin’ Pat. Really interesting points there. Here’s a fun fact to add in to those, you just gave us: Nixon is also a member of the very small club of Presidents that had to be dissuaded from using nukes. The world, at large, did not know about it at the time, but I am pretty certain that it’s facts like those that put a SERIOUS challenge to the Goldwater Rule? Indeed, I would argue that Presidents, like MANY professionals in responsible positions, should be subject to regular psych-evaluations by independent teams (say, on a quarterly basis) and refusal to submit to them should be grounds for impeachment. But then I also think that tax returns (and ALL background information: financial and professional) should be placed in the public domain, as a requirement of law, BEFORE taking up office, so that’s just me. But, it REALLY seems like a “no brainer” to me? Good to see you too. ;-)
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That’s not accurate! Ukraine ceded its nuclear arsenal to Russia, yes. But IT IS CRUCIAL to understand that it was at AMERICA’S PERSUASION that they gave them up! In return for AMERICAN PROMISES OF PROTECTION from RUSSIAN AGGRESSION! And that support has been pusillanimous at best! We in the west OWE Ukraine, for going along with our desire to prevent nuclear proliferation and taking a MASSIVE RISK which backfired on them, BECAUSE we did not prevent a Russian invasion DESPITE PREDICTING IT AND WATCHING ITS PREPARATIONS IN REAL TIME!
And, now that Ukraine has been so badly let down, lost so many people, suffered so much loss, torture, theft, rape and humiliation at Russian hands, the VERY LEAST we in the west can do is see to it that they get EVERY SQUARE INCH of Ukraine BACK into UKRAINIAN HANDS!
“There is only one Nazi contingent in this conflict,” and they are sitting in the Kremlin, being lead by Putin!
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The world better hope that trump is not elected, and that his subsequent coup attempts fail.
There is a massive misunderstanding about how American influence on Ukraine works, especially when it comes to so much as the possibility of, “forcing,” Zelensky to, “negotiate,” with Russia. Ukraine simply will not give in, with or without American support.
And the whole of the European Union (with the exception of Hungary) will be more likely to step up their funding and logistical support. We seem to forget that they are not fighting just for Ukrainian land, but for their very survival. They are battling against an attempted genocide. And Appeasement NEVER works, which Zelensky knows. He would not even remain Ukraine’s leader if he did submit to any deal that ceded any Ukrainian territory. They have already sacrificed far too much for that.
Trump will fail if he tries to tell Zelensky to cede any territory. Instead, if Ukraine falls, there will be massive migrations of Ukrainians, fleeing a country that never surrendered, or Europe will supply Ukraine with enough, “stuff,” to win.
And it would be more likely that other countries would be dragged, directly, into that war. But, no country in Europe (except Hungary) is willing to allow Russia to succeed and trump will be embarrassed by a humiliating failure, “even before I get into the White House.”
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Be prepared to FIGHT, America. For the GOP, it’s either establish a Dictatorship, by denying you elections, or go to jail and live with the disgrace of the history books. Which do you think they’ve already chosen. With no alternatives, they WILL try it, if WE LET THEM. What choice do they have? And, so many racist trump fans are more afraid of facing the TRUTH, which they know in their hearts, that trump screwed THEM the hardest, that they will carry on fighting. We have to be READY. The election is just the beginning. If we even GET ONE? . . . That will be on YOU
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Perhaps you have an opinion on this? I’m genuinely very curious as to what people really think about the Wagner mutiny? Putin appears unable to control his own armed forces, who are still defying his direct orders to join the regular army. Prigozhin appears to come and go from Russia as he pleases, defying his, “exile.” And, worst of all for Putin, the world got to compare him to Zelensky, who refused to flee Kyiv while Russian forces had penetrated the outskirts of the city, famously refusing an offer from the Americans for a safe ride out of the country and into exile, asking for ammunition instead, even though he knew there was an execution order out on him, whilst Putin fled Moscow for St Petersburg even though Wagner never even got within 20 miles of the city limits!
Not only was he, “bitch-slapped,” by his own side (to use Artur’s own expression) but he can’t even wipe his bloody nose to, “save face,” while the best part of his armed forces are giving him the middle finger! In what world does such a thin skinned Putin sign up for that plan?
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John Michael Godier : How about the question I’ve thrown at you on several threads now, but haven’t gotten an answer? The Politics of humanity, as we spread out, into the Solar System? I think it could be a genuinely interesting topic? For example: Why do so many Sci Fi writers seem to think that the distance between Mars and Earth, makes it inevitable that future colonies would eventually break away from Earth’s governance and possibly go to War with us? That thought would put governments off sending missions, wouldn’t it? Or; Will mining the asteroids give us an abundance of everything? Or, will population explosions lead to scarcity, and space-based battles over resources?
The question interests me, because, in this divisive time, it’s a way of putting things into a broader perspective, and perhaps, helping people to see that we REALLY need to get our act together, so that our futures are not so bleak? I don’t expect you to have all the answers, but as a writer, you must have thought about such questions? And, some of your colleagues may have things to say?
Perhaps there isn’t much appetite for the subject? But, if you told me that, I’d stop nagging you. I just think it’s a fascinating topic, which raises questions about where we’re going, what we want our future to look like, the various possibilities, the cross over between science and politics, and, with our increasing reliance upon the science that makes this future possible, could that mean that the scientists themselves will be the real power brokers of the future? Possibly, they may be the high priests, or Uber-Politicians, the Emperors of space?
Just let me know if you’re not interested, and I won’t be offended or anything, but it could be something of real value to explore?
I love your channel, regardless ✌️ 👍
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@davidhunt7249 : The food I eat is food that another is being deprived of, by its very nature. I could go insane thinking of the implications of every mouthful. But, I would never take the food if I knew it was to someone’s detriment. I try to live a vegan (ish) lifestyle for these reasons. But, I never exploited people in my employ, and (I don’t know if you’ll accept this?) but you actually spoke my benchmark as an employer, truly: “Would I be happy working for me?” And, believe me, my wife ensured that I revisited that base line, regularly. All I can tell you there, subjectively, is that I think I was a good, “boss,” and I remain friends with my former employees (I’m retired now) and their families. I never had a factory, or large number of employees. It was all out of my own head, really, with occasional assistance and promotion hired on, piecemeal. I walk my talk for the most part, but I don’t doubt a harsh critic could reduce me to tears of confession if I let them. I’m far from perfect. My beliefs are perfect, not me. But, that’s why I would never trust an organisation or government that allowed me to set the terms for my own benefits or regulate a system from which I stand to benefit. How about you? Do you walk your talk? ✌️
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@eddeh0772 : Thanks, and yes, I’m all about respect and playing nice with the other kids. I want a world in which we can all do that and not feel like we have to get the first jab in just because we’re expecting a jab to come at us. That’s why I want to stop trump and all of his acolytes.
Every citizen of Planet Earth has a legitimate dog in this fight, since every one of us will be directly affected by the outcome of the US election.
If trump loses, it will be a large enough task just to stop all of the pointless lawsuits, fake claims and rabble rousing to the point of treasonous, violent rebellion, possibly a direct coup attempt. My hope is that his (none Russian funded) backers will see that he’s a loser and melt away, looking for a better champion for their Neo-Liberal-Anti-Democracy agenda. I see that as a real possibility since, in the end, they just want to ride the coat tails of someone who will give them what they want, and trump will have been comprehensively beaten too many times for money to be further wasted on him.
But, if he wins . . . we ALL lose and God help us all. The chances of a nuclear conflict will escalate, not diminish, as his cowardly cult believes, because he will continue to botch the situation with Russia and Ukraine until it’s too late, forcing other countries like Poland and Finland to get involved.
And that’s setting aside the breakdown of law and order in America that will soon follow his inauguration and the letting loose of the dogs. All of those thugs he has lined up for the election period will still be there, ready to sweep through the country rounding up trump’s, “enemies.” And this time, it will be swift and merciless; planned and terrifying. The end of democracy will be more sudden than people are expecting.
I honestly believe this.
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Drogo Baggins : Probably because the, “timing,” of Kavanaugh’s, ahem . . . “appointment,” was, “beyond suspicious,” huh? Too bad you kids did away with Due Process, with the, “Lock Her Up!” movement, huh? But, don’t worry. The FBI will produce PLENTY of witness statements. That’s what you WANT, isn’t it? The GOP line is, “I believe in evidence,” right? They’re ALL saying it, like good little trained seals. And, there will be PLENTY of evidence. So, you can relax . . . 😋
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@Etaoinshrdlu69 : Forgive me. You’re quite right to correct my poor choice of phrasing there. But, before I get into that, I must correct you on one point: I PROMISE YOU: Putin will NOT use nukes (deliberately) under ANY circumstances.
He is getting ALL of the, “bang for his buck,” he can out of them, RIGHT NOW. Each time he even mentions nukes the western press gets unhelpfully hysterical. Yet, if he so much as drops a small, “tactical,” nuke anywhere in the world and it’s all over for him. The western allies have gamed this possibility out in permutations you and I could not have even dreamt of and their response will be instantaneous and overwhelming.
It will not just be the end of Putin, but that legacy obsessed, bullying little pr*ck will go down in history (written over his dead body and thus outside of his control) as the maddest, dumbest, evilest dick-tater the world has ever known! Outstripping Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini all rolled into one. And the important takeaway here is that Putin KNOWS this!
He also knows that China is more likely to assist the west than defend him and get into WWIII over such a stupid act, than fight on his side! At the very worst, they would stand back and do nothing, knowing they have a lot to gain from mopping up the sudden, “break away nations,” that no longer wish to be a part of insane Russia. They have a population crisis to solve in China and they’ve been eyeing up several Russian, “federations,” rather greedily of late. So they can play both ends of the table on this one, as they have been doing thus far.
So, to your correct point: I was speaking figuratively about how disastrous a policy of, “waiting out,” Ukraine would be for Russia. I didn’t mean that Ukraine would literally take the Kremlin, only that it would be almost as good as that. They will not make any incursions into Russia with western supplies. Though I expect they will make the odd sortie, in the manner of others we’ve already seen, such as when they flew in helicopters to blast a fuel depot just inside the Russian border in the early months of the war. But all such actions will be carried out with bespoke, home made equipment, from those mysterious military, “supply,” factories that the Germans are so helpfully assisting Ukraine in building as we speak.
Yes, eventually they will need to establish superiority over their borders, which will mean that the final weeks or months of the war will see them establish missile bases right along the Ukraine/Russia border that can identify and take out any threat, land, sea or airborne, far away from their own skies. They will have to have the assurance that nothing can get past that steel umbrella, so they don’t have to put up with their civilian population being harassed by air raid sirens every other day. Russia will be required to keep anything of military value a couple of hundred kilometres away from the Ukrainian border if they don’t want to see it explode.
But, you’re right. I should be more careful about my figures of speech, as I risk being taken literally, which was not my intention in that case. A poor choice of words. I guess I’m just a little caught up in the desire to see the world’s most cowardly nation being put back in its box where it belongs, and being forced to deal with its own issues internally instead of victimising the innocents of other sovereign nations as if we were still living in the Medieval days!
I believe that some nations reach a point, where they collectively celebrate the routine rape, murder and kidnapping of innocent children, that they have just as, “collectively,” earned collective chastisement. The last time we saw this was World War Two. Yet both Germany and China did the smart thing and did not just surrender, but they submitted to wholesale rebuilding and re-education on western values and the importance of the rule of law. Russia would be a prime candidate for such a, “nation building,” program, not susceptible to the types of issues which made it impossible (and an arrogant misjudgement) in Muslim countries. But, if they will not submit to such an opportunity, they must be forced, collectively, to reap what they have sown and, more importantly, NOT given the opportunity to make their problems anyone else’s!
But hey . . . That’s just me . . .
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Flashy Paws : Trolls find it necessary to try to control the narrative, so as to hold on to the votes of those who think of themselves as, “Conservative.” The reality, of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Alabama, etc, Early Votes, was that they went to the Dems. The “narrative” is meant to hold back the waverers, from crossing the lines, so they dismiss ALL who oppose Trump or the GOP as, “liberals,” in the hope of making them reluctant to be thus, “labelled.” Classic propaganda technique: “If you’re not one of us, you’re,” fill in your own choice of offensive or just uncomfortable label, here. I guess it must work on the weak minded, or they wouldn’t do it so much? But, I REALLY don’t like the idea of racists, Nazis and Stalinist Technique employing, TRAITORS, having respectable labels, like “Conservatives” to HIDE behind. They are RADICAL, by all definitions you care to look at. I guess that’s why I like to remind Americans that a, “house divided against itself cannot stand,” and I think the fact that Trump’s fans have more “respect” for the Civil War Rebel Flag, should be a CLUE to the REAL Americans
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Natano Saltero : Can you BELIEVE this??? “I believe evidence,” she parrots, over and over! The GOP BLOCKED an investigation all the way down the line! The only reason they are, FINALLY, allowing the FBI in at all, is because the guy who asked for it is a VOTE they don’t wanna’ LOSE. She has the NERVE to say that, when they have BURIED the, “evidence,” by blocking an investigation. I HOPE they get witness testimony that settles the question; SEVERAL of them. Then, let’s bring her back and asker; Do you STILL, “BELIEVE IN EVIDENCE”???
What a traitor to women, democracy and due process Carrie is. I apologise, but, F**K HER!
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Alexis Mitchell : You spoke well, I have to say. It STUNS me, that our culture is SO used to passing on, “blame,” that ANYONE could argue that the perpetrators are somehow not responsible for their own actions. I was genuinely comforted by your response to that argument. However messed up and institution is, we are ALL still thinking, feeling human beings. Not ONE of those perp’s can pretend that they did not KNOW exactly what harm they were doing.
The fact that we DON’T hold those who are entrusted with greater responsibilities to a MUCH HIGHER standard, is what CAUSES abuse in the first place. Their money and influence shields them from the consequences of their actions, meaning that the truly determined abuser will get themselves into a place of POWER, where they KNOW they will be protected. The world is going the opposite way from justice, and we wonder how such MONSTROUS things can happen? We MAKE IT HAPPEN.
If we CRUSHED all Clergy, politicians, cops, etc, in positions of power, who abuse that power, they wouldn’t be looking to get those jobs, and we would HALF the incidents, at a stroke . . . It’s all backward . . . SMH
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Well, I watched your video (compilation?) with great interest and was riveted. Your knowledge and expertise in languages is genuinely impressive, but unsurprising. Despite entertaining the Old Testament translation debates in a manner more original than I’m used to hearing from most theologues and cleverly expressed, I still feel it’s a trap unworthy of falling into, as the Old Testament laws are no longer pertinent to Christians who follow Christ’s teachings. However, you do go on to point this out, or reference Christ’s fulfilment of the laws. So, one could say you were simply being thorough and, as an academic, I’m sure you enjoyed the exercise for its own sake.
I was struck by how gently you touched on most points when drawing your conclusions; or even indirect?
I cannot deny I learned an awful lot, as I don’t have any other languages (not really), let alone ancient ones, and I have had to rely on the research of others and the help of books like The Strongest Strong’s for translation and deeper understanding.
I think you and I are closer to agreement on these issues than I first believed, though probably not 100%.
I thank you for the link and the education, though, entertaining and informative as it was. I have things to ponder and pray about as a result.
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What are your rights, regarding your own questioning of the police? I.e. “Why did you stop me?” Or, “Why do you want to search me?/My car?” Given there are no exigent circumstances, is the driver allowed to establish their sufficient grounds before allowing any search? Do the police have the right to disregard your questioning? Or must they answer and establish their grounds? My encounters with police usually lead to the officer/s in question refusing to answer any reasonable query. Indeed, even when I’ve been helpful (which is all the time) they seem either not to know, or just not willing to answer. As a teen I was asked who I was and where I was going, by a random (to me at any rate) police officer, to whom I responded, “Do I have to tell you that?” I just got the same question back, but with more, “attitude.” I literally stood my ground and asked, “What are my rights, right now? Am I legally compelled to tell you, a complete stranger, my personal details?” After being ignored a third time, and another officer creeping up behind me, I’m ashamed to say, I caved in and gave them everything. At the end of the encounter, once they were being less intimidating, I tried one last time. “Did I have to tell you my details, by law? What would have happened, if I’d refused?” The answer I got sounded more like a threat than a response to anything I’d asked. I was left feeling like the police don’t want to be trusted or respected, and actively discourage it. This was many years ago now, and I hope things are better? But, sheesh! 🤦♂️ I still don’t really know what my rights are these days? . . . 🤷♂️🙄
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AJ Fisher : Read the BOOKS, son? They were tested in COURT, for their veracity, and found to be 100% TRUE, by Legal Standard, when Trump sued Johnson and LOST his case. He was also, “Admonished,” by the Judge; that means, “Reprimanded,” for using the Courts as a Bullying Tactic. He also has a website, so you have just PROVED yourself to be LYING, by saying that’s, “all you could find.”
The books are available FOR FREE at your local Library (Johnson insisted on free access, to those who WANT the Truth), so you can’t pretend it’s a financial issue, OR an, “inconvenience,” for that matter; given you can download a copy, right now, from iTunes, or other outlets. Face the FACTS or Don’t? At this point, we really DON’T CARE 😁
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AJ Fisher : BTW, the Reference Sections in these books, is almost as long as the books themselves. Why, Ash? Glad you asked, son. That’s because Johnson KNEW Trump and KNEW he would sue, in a typically Trumpian attempt to BURY the TRUTH. So, you can CHECK EVERY SINGLE source, fact and detail, at your leisure, and reach the SAME conclusion that the Court did: EVERYTHING in his books is on PUCLIC RECORD, established FACT and INCONTROVERTIBLE . . . Sorry, kid. But, trying to discredit a book that you haven’t even READ is a Trump Troll move that wins you NOTHING in the Court of Public Opinion. 😁
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Ganiscol : If Trump survives Impeachment (which looks increasingly unlikely) I think America will vote him out, from SHEER CURIOSITY? Another Term in office means Trump gets to bury, Mueller, Epstein, the pee pee tapes and his affairs, his back room deals with the Russians, etc, etc. America is DYING to KNOW the TRUTH! He’s just going to throw out every panic move he can think of, but America will STILL say, “sure, whatever, but what really happened with Epstein?” 😆👍
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@RICO-2024 : You never saw the movie Soylent Green? I’ve kinda’ spoiled it now. The closing shots are Chuck, all shot to pieces, having just witnessed first hand where their food comes from. A dystopian science fiction epic. Edward G Robinson’s last movie. The very last thing we see is a still of Chucks hand, held up in the air, after he screams, “Soylent Green is made out of people!” It’s very famous, if you like movies, I guess? . . . So, the reference is sarcasm, regarding the hypocrisy of a bunch of Trumpophiles who like to call people, “baby killers,” for supporting a woman’s right to chose what to do with her own body, yet whom idolise a man who took a remedy for an illness, “no worse than flu,” to them, which was created out of research conducted on aborted foetus cells. Those aborted babies they say should not exist, saved Donny’s life! Or the medicine created out of that research by the Regeneron people, at any rate. Now it’s taken this long to explain it, I’m kinda’ losing the will to live, but that’s one of the benefits of voice to text technology, I guess? At least I can prattle on whilst sorting through stuff in my study, so there’s that . . .
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Logan Endsley : We won’t even get an election, anyway. Conservative Americans are getting as determined to know the truth as liberals are, because of the way the Trumps are acting more guilty by the day. And, if the polls look bad, do you think the Donster was kidding about getting his, “two years back,” because I don’t? Since the IRS episode, a couple of weeks ago, it’s become clear that the Republic is over, Democracy is dead and there’s NO law at the top. And, America is about to learn to true meaning of that expression; “The fish rots from the head,” as the country’s freedom will rot away from the top down
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That’s kind of missing the point though. Everyone’s aware that the color of your skin changes your life opportunities and it changes the individual’s expectations of justice and equity. To analyse how that works, from cradle to the grave, is a noble endeavour, so long as it is done with earnest, honest integrity and intent. Once it is given a, “name,” it becomes a straw man, for people to attack, because they don’t understand it. And you can guarantee that anyone who is, “against CRT,” is speaking from a position of ignorance: 100% of the time. So, to get bogged down in its origin story, is as misguided as arguing over who started The Beer Hall Putsch on the beaches of Normandy on D Day.
No one is teaching it. It’s not on the curriculum. Academics argue that it should, “inform,” teaching methods, and is something that educators should know about when teaching; in the same way that people are taught to be aware of racism, sexism and oppression in general. It’s not a thesis. It’s not a formal discipline. It’s an idea about awareness. As ever, the GOP are mischaracterising something, for the sake of creating a shadow to box with. Because they dare not deal with ANY policy in a substantive manner. To do so could only lead to the revelation that they not only NEVER serve the public good, but that they are the CAUSE of the public’s harm.
So, with respect. Learn what it is and pay more attention to the content of the, “thing,” than when and where it manifested? I could tell you a lot about Copenhagen, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein, but that wouldn’t tell you anything about Physics, or the Copenhagen Interpretation. See what I mean?
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I think the simple act of hiring a social media company for the purposes of character assassination should be a crime. A serious misdemeanour at the very least.
You noted that there was, “no single act or action to latch onto,” at first, but it seems to me that the intent and malevolence behind deliberately hiring a company for such a malign purpose is that one action that we can all latch on to; demonstrating culpability and guilt. It is very different from hiring image consultants to improve your own image.
I really, genuinely feel bad for Blake Lively and all she’s been through. She seems to have tried so hard for the sake of everyone involved with that project. I wish her nothing but the best.
Perhaps she should get a talented screen writer to put a script together for a movie, outlining her experiences? Or a fictionalised version, so as to avoid law suits?
Perhaps she could even start a new campaign group, highlighting the fact that such dirty tricks organisations exist and that there is an entire industry, within social media, built around the business model of trying 18:39 to get people, “cancelled,” for their clients? I’d be willing to bet that not many people know about these shady, despicable organisations, or how they work. And that they would be grateful for the knowledge; especially if it was demonstrated to them through the medium of a powerful drama.
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@submetropolis : It’s called the Dunning Kruger effect, right? These idiots think it sounds macho to say, “I would have checked the gun myself,” when the only answer to that is, “No you wouldn’t.” Doesn’t matter if you’re a weapons expert. You’re not the expert they hired to look after the props on set, so your meddling with it only means she’s got to take it back and reset it for the take. Baldwin might be in trouble as a producer, financially, for the cost cutting measures that lead to safety problems. He can’t pretend he didn’t know about the walk outs, etc? But, for the bullet leaving that gun and stopping in the wrong place, he’s never going to be arrested, let alone found guilty of anything. I think it’s just sour grapes from all the trump trolls who are still butt harmed over Baldwin’s hilarious trump impressions. 😁
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Le Shabin : Well, Karen. “Explaining to someone who doesn’t want to learn,” is precisely what your unsolicited, “explanation,” just did, Karen. Whereas I was asked a DIRECT QUESTION. So, I answered it, Karen. But, I’m sure Ben appreciates you speaking, “for,” him, which is another typically Karen trait, Karen. I think, the only thing I left out was the Karen’s tendency never to know that they’re the Karen . . . Karen . . . 😉😋
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William H : Thank you, for doing my work for me. You are SO, “Butt Hurt,” and HATE filled, bitter and impotently enraged, that you spew pointlessness and fill those, who may have had any doubts, with revulsion. Think about it, sonny? Who, in their right mind, would WANT to be associated with, let alone on the same side as, a juvenile, raging little traitor-twerp, like you? . . . 😊
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@leonie563 : It’s reassuring to me to see that other people at least, “get it,” and aren’t making the classic emotive comments. Indeed, when countries appear to be doing something patently stupid, against their own interests and threatening to world peace, we must assume that it only appears that way because we have not got the whole picture in front of us. “Population,” in this case, is as important a resource for both China and Russia, as oil or money. In fact, both countries are pretty desperate to increase their younger population numbers, to the extent that Russia has taken a drastic risk (which is backfiring painfully, I’m delighted to see) and China is considering the same thing. Artificially boosting your numbers is the only option left open to these two countries, which means literally STEALING entire populations. Hence, Ukraine and Taiwan.
Sitting in that box overlooking the Winter Olympiad, Putin and Xi must have thought that their planning session was both diabolically clever and mathematically airtight, and that the west would just keep fumbling their words instead of getting up and DOING something about it?
Yes, they thought they could dominate the world by dominating the technology markets, by owning the main production outlets of microchips and the main rare element production for microchips between them. But what they REALLY wanted was and is more PEOPLE. Especially the younger generation.
So, it’s little wonder that Xi began backing out of his, “unlimited,” relationship with Putin when he saw that even the base population of Ukraine could drive back Russia’s entire army, BEFORE all that western aid started pouring in! And then to see Putin continually botch things, literally driving out his youngest, brightest section of his population only added to their abstaining at every UN vote, rather than offering even a full throated verbal support, let alone weapons. And it certainly caused China to pause their invasion plans for Taiwan, which infuriated Xi!
But, not everyone has noticed something of potentially enormous significance. Which is that China might actually be content to turn their sights on the Russian Federation themselves, as they have just recently changed their equivalent to google maps; which now shows these southern-eastern regions of Russia (which were formerly Chinese) now have their old Mandarin Chinese names again . . . Why now? Possibly anticipating the break up of the Russian federation? Maybe planning to scoop up old territories which will be looking for economic support and, “protection,” from Russia? Maybe this will be China’s way of getting what it needs from a less incendiary source, whilst Russia, as it shrinks and falls into chaos will still NEED China more than ever and be unable to make much complaint about developments, being China’s vassal state? . . .
Not saying these things are certain, by any means. But changing your map names is not a small act, nor an unnoticed one in Moscow . . .
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TheTruth : Let’s be real here? What Maxine Waters said was egregious in the extreme. I seriously think she should resign for her incendiary outburst. But, BLM doesn’t, “teach hate.” That’s a lie of the Alt-Wrong who desperately need an opposite side to their Fascist coin, and have chosen BLM as their Bogey Man. Yet, they are famous for policing their own protests, and ejecting people who stir up violence and hate. They aren’t just activists, but a registered charity, which MLK would have been proud to endorse. They have a New York City square named after them, because they are in dialogue with the authorities, working for solutions. And it was BLM who knelt, prayed and marched WITH the police, last year, remember? Don’t fall for the propaganda of, “them and us,” from the far right. They lie . . .
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Ael Wade : So, Trump can NOT, “BLAME,” the Dems for, “Blocking,” legislation, any more, right? The GOP has pulled the vote. Trump FEARS the final, “compromise,” that will come out, in the end. He MUST be planning to FIX the Mid Terms? How could he HOPE to win? VOTE! BE VIGILANT! China and Russia have NOTHING to lose
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@RoKer13 : I’m sorry to say that my last, rather lengthy, response to you seems to have had too much, “reality,” in it for the YouTube algorithm to tolerate and has vanished. I will simply say, I think you’re a good person, looking to do the right thing and I wish you the very best in your career. I would urge you, from the depth of my long experience, maintain that objective, professional distance as best you can. Never be tempted to allow your supervisor to flatter you. Trust your deepest instincts. And, if it’s not for the good of the client, don’t do it. Godspeed.
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@angryimperial9176 : Oh, say that again, for us all to hear, please? The propaganda Qults who could never shut up about, “Hillariiieee!” And, “Obahhhmahhh!” are now feeling like, “victims,” because we’re reminding them of trump??? Oh, I said this day would come! This is where I get to say . . . ahem . . . wait for it? . . . OK, here it comes, “WE TOLD YOU SO!” 🤣😂😆😂🤣😆😂🤣😆😂🤣😆😂🤣😆😂🤣😆😂🤣😆😂🤣😆🤣😂🤣
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@davedreher9254 : Well, you’re certainly better informed than I am on this side of the war. It makes me hopeful. And, yeah. “You gotta’ love Elon Musk.” He was genuinely the first guy to make me actually lol, when I thought there was nothing in this whole situation that could, with his challenge of Putin, for single combat. Pretty priceless. 😆
Slightly off topic here, but you might be interested? A long time ago I read a sci fi classic by Arthur C Clarke called Rendezvous With Rama. There’s a character in it that who sounds more like Musk with every passing year. This was back in the days when the idea of private investment into space exploration was considered a novel prediction of risky proportions but it was the way Clarke saw the future unfolding. But, this is why he’s credited as being one of the most accurate futurologists who ever lived, before the term, “futurologist,” was invented.
What’s fascinating though, is that Clarke depicts the kind of upbringing, personality quirks and emotional drives that would make an American businessman rich enough, and motivated toward space enough, to be in the position to work alongside government, and he nailed it! He predicted the type of public persona such a man would have, and how the population would react to him. He invented Elon Musk! While Musk was still a schoolboy! I wonder if Musk ever read that book?
Anyone who tells you sci fi is a waste of time should read that book. 👍
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@guitarman8462 : Yeah, I know they have the other lawsuit, but from this settlement? I mean, it was all about the massive harm they did to the company’s reputation and the deliberate destabilisation of America’s democracy, just for viewing figures. It meant robbing Dominion of its entire future; years of earnings, but the individuals who worked for Dominion won’t want to change their names or live in another country, just to be safe from some nut-job with a gun who blames them for their personal butt harm over Orangina losing an election? I would not settle for anything less than Hannity, Carlson and one or two others making a public, humble, unequivocal apology on their own shows, scripted by Dominion’s lawyers. Money just wouldn’t do it for me. At least, after the first couple of times they’d paid what the entire company was valued at?
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Then we, the people NEED to push them in the right direction, and make them AFRAID NOT to remove trump, RIGHT NOW! Why, for the love of GOD, are we NOT choking the streets of Washington in a LAWFUL COUNTER PROTEST? Why are we NOT choking up GOP email servers, with DEMANDS for trump’s removal!? Their phone lines, their letter in boxes, their social media, EVERYTHING should be FILLED WITH DEMANDS FOR TRUMP’S INSTANT REMOVAL, regardless of the means. They have the POWER to MAKE A LAW! They COULD draft and execute a special emergency bill, with an expiration date, IF THEY WANTED! Chuck & Nancy need to be able to point out of the window and say, “THERE’S YOUR MANDATE!” It’s up to YOU, America! It always was! ✌️👍
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All evil requires to succeed, right? But, I’m sorry, I’m not convinced that all of the voters, “believe,” the Big Lie. Some do, but I’m convinced they’re the minority. Most of them lie, just like their leaders. Racist ideology is dependent upon lies, which are knowingly manufactured, by people who have to have given thought to the truth, in order that they can lie about it effectively. Just as parents so often do to their families. Without knowledge of the facts, their lies cannot be convincing. “Belief,” is a loose concept in this context. It’s more like being emotionally committed, practically mentally ill, than actual, “belief,” in something. A continually self-adjusting narrative, a self-correcting sociopathic, emotional need. An unmet need, compounded and exploited by smarter people who count upon the uncritical credulity of their base. I mean, say it out loud? “A pedophile ring, ritual sacrifices, for a chemical generated by frightened children?” It’s not even RATIONAL.
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Lina HL : IKR? . . . Who would be SAFE, in an America, where a top guys can be hunted, from the inside, by the POTUS, around the world, with LIES? Whatever people think of Biden’s, “politics,” who can deny he’s a decent man? Sure, the rules are biased in favor of the, “Advantaged,” but we can CHANGE that. But, we KNOW Trump wanted them to MAKE SHIT UP! We KNOW IT! Do we WANT an America, like this? Come on? This is SICK, and would make us ALL victims . . . Smh
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Just imagine what a slap on the wrist, “censure,” would do; which is as good as saying we’re ending the Republic, right there and then? Given that loss of office will result in countless immediate indictments (both Federal & State) which will land him and his family in jail, what alternative does a, ”man,” with his established record of destroying the Constitution and breaking all of the laws he runs up against, HAVE? So long as he can count on enough of his base and the party to remain in denial, and HATE Dems and other races, just enough to make them cheer when he pisses on the rule of law, he will have NO CHOICE but to have Moscow ENSURE his, “re-election,” in a Putin Style, 2020 SHAM. It’s that, or disgrace and jail! And, half of the GOP are IMPLICATED with him, so they’re fighting for their OWN SURVIVAL. They simply CANNOT remove him.
What else CAN he do? 2020 will HAVE TO be RIGGED, because too many Americans were persuaded to HATE their, “fellow Americans,” MORE than they hate (or even understand WHO ARE) America’s enemies . . .
Just look at the shills on this thread, desperately trying to bury their SHAME, because they KNOW they’re killing America, but aren’t strong enough to ADMIT what they WANT! They WANT a Russian Style, Single Party system, with just enough FAKE Democracy to keep up appearances . . . Trump = Putin Mark Two; the Puppet Version, and they just DON’T CARE. In fact, they PREFER it that way. They’ll take that over the fictional, “brown menace,” any day . . . America’s Republic is OVER
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@clarkalvarez1729 : What’s different now (and I can’t believe I’m having to explain this) is that Disney is not offering you a sociological analysis of post medieval world views, the moral ambiguity of folk tales, or a critique of womanhood as viewed historically. They are marketing a remake of their own FAMILY classic movie, as they have done with all the other cartoons they have translated to live action. To put it in simpler terms, Disney is supposed to be giving you a remake of THEIR OWN movie. Their own movie that was NEVER meant to reflect the values or horror beats of the original, just as Cinderella never did, nor did Pinokkio, etc.
The complaint is NOT about the original tale. That misses the point entirely. The point is that Disney seems to be ashamed of their own classics, which the people in their audience are not. Snow White, the cartoon is still beloved, and will remain so, long after this revisionist trash of a, “remake,” is forgotten. Instead of insulting Walt Disney’s own work (he was the lead animator and artist for the original) why didn’t they just make a different movie about female power fantasies and how, “awful,” men are? Because no one is interested? Probably.
Do you get it now? Maybe, if you still don’t, you could do some research on art, art criticism and the cultural relevance of revisionism? Y’know? Maybe, “read a book?”
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@sydliquid2152 : Jeez, calm down, kid. Why shouldn’t people, “care,” about art, criticism or their heritage? And, you’re wrong. Studios fund movies for the, “cash grab,” but artists, who believe in art, make the movies. Or that is how it is supposed to work, and that’s why people don’t like to see resources wasted on cynical cash grabbing, when it could be spent on better, more entertaining, less, “lecturing,” content. I put the question to you out of politeness, but you had to be a dick about it. So, now I’ve shown you how and why you are WRONG, empirically. You were better off putting questions instead of turning into a Disney Dicktator. 😉
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Yup. “Lock her up,” was a thing, BEFORE trump even took office! They wanted to KILL her! For merely BEING an opponent! If DEATH isn’t Cancel Culture, what is? And the GOP ran on a Cancel Culture Platform! They should get the most Senior GOP Senators, like Lindsay Graham on the stand, and focus on the HEART of the matter! “The Steal,” CAUSED their Insurrection! So, force them to tell the WORLD that, “The Steal AIN’T REAL!” under oath, with no 5th Amendment to hide behind! What else CAN they do? Take on Perjury and Conspiracy charges? With a BILLION dollar lawsuit? Break their Fascist fantasy! And you break the GOP in two! With or without the, “verdict!”
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Let us face facts. Conservatism is dead. The, “Conservative,” Party is already no more. Tories are a PLC masquerading as a political party. Even the most conservative voter has to admit that there is no single, “ideology,” to speak of, around which anyone within the party can unite, let alone the voting public.
We have witnessed years of incompetence, “personality,” politics and opportunism, combined with callous indifference to public welfare. We’ve seen carpet bagging and fleecing the last of the nation’s wealth, all conducted with a sense of urgency that you only see from jewellery shop thieves, clearing up before the inevitable arrival of the police.
And all of this is presented to us now, by a vacillating PM who employs his excuses of the week, which nearly always directly contradict his excuses of the previous week. A PM unfit for purpose and every bit as morally corrupted and personally vain as Boris Johnson ever was, yet he presents in the manner of a badly programmed Artificial Intelligence. His last interview was appalling.
I can only imagine that people who still vote for this party do so because they believe the lies of their client media, or because they’re downright racists . . . Or because they’re already very rich and see a pliable, corrupt [arty which will be easily manipulated for the right price?
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Pete Lind
You REALLY shouldn't comment unless you know what you're saying? It does NOT say, "Thou shalt not kill," ANYWHERE in the Bible. Christ had no problem with soldiers; in fact he praised a Roman "Sargent" for his faith and healed his servant. You were PROBABLY thinking of, "Thou shalt do no murder," which, if you ask any cop, military professional or citizen who has fended off a home invasion, is NOT THE SAME THING.
The Muslims share the Old Testament with us and the Jews. That's the collection of books in which Moses has his people commit genocide at God's command. And in which God punishes King Saul for sparing people, and some of their livestock, from another of His genocides.
Don't trust "Received Wisdom" and do some ACTUAL reading, before you pronounce judgement upon others. For "Judgement" is a sin too, you know, and YOU have just illustrated WHY that is
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Richard Huey
Yes, of course I would, "like it if we were all to tell the truth," and if by, "these people," you mean the above televangelists, I agree, they are lying. Jesus NEVER got involved with politics and overtly discouraged it in those who followed Him. "Be in the world, not of it," for example, and, "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's." That is one of the many ways in which you can spot a fraud. They meddle in politics, they equate your fiscal generosity (specifically to THEIR coffers) with closeness to God, they equate reasonable doubt and any questioning (especially of THEIR doctrine) with Satanic falls from Grace, they, as Shakespeare said, "will site Scripture to for their own ends," and they DISCOURAGE those whom THEY do not like, instead of ENCOURAGING them toward the light
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GOPerry : Like, “Hillary’s days,” right? She, “murders staffers, runs pedo-rings from Pizza Huts, bleaches intel, and sells our uranium to our enemies,” and the guy who could NOT stop his own Campaign Team from going to JAIL, could NOT, “lock up,” his Arch Enemy, SUPER VILLAIN, in THREE YEARS??? And, YOU STILL don’t realise Trump LIED to you??? . . . Aha ha ha ha ha ha! 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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@DeathriteWorld : Good point. If this debacle showed us anything, it was that the system itself will frequently compensate for the rational and irrational decisions of the speculators. Sometimes as a function of what it is, sometimes, due to the, “management,” of those who see what’s going on. After all, if the Casino realises it’s losing money, and just closes the casino and tosses out its winning customers, that’s a, “rational,” market response, even if it is evil. And it protects the idiots, who’s hedge funds are being managed by other companies. Now, all we’ve learned is what we already suspected: that the stock market is a privately own and run establishment, and if you’re not an established member, they’ll just toss you out on your ear. That’s Oligarchy for you ✌️
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Trump fans KNOW. They don’t, “believe, Trump. They PRETEND. Most of them gave MONEY. That’s the trick. They, “feel,” they can’t ADMIT the TRUTH. They’re as scared as Trump is, of his Tax Returns coming out. They just don’t want to FACE the Truth. That’s WHY they Troll the REAL News. They HATE hearing, “We told you so.” They’re HUMILIATED. Apart from the army of paid foreigners, that’s what Trolls are REALLY about . . . If they were honest, they would say, “We know, but we don’t CARE. We gave money, we’re greedy racists, and we’re too emotional to think of America’s best interests!”
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hortencia Talabera : So true. And, I’ve seen more hysteria on CNN over Trump’s Tw@ering, than over his impeachment! That’s what we’re dealing with, here . . . Cretins, who Fake Believe in Trump. They see you and me, their fellow Americans, as a worse, “threat,” than their ACTUAL ENEMIES. They DREAD hearing the words, “I told you so,” from anyone, “of the left,” which only means none-Koolaid drinkers . . . SMH 😁👍
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Honestly, I’m getting so tired of hearing about Farage and all this disproportionate coverage. I get why you would do it. He’s colourful, says things that stick with people and nearly always epically wrong. So there’s a lot to say, if you want to assist in raising his profile, and if you understand that Farage being wrong makes no difference to his success as a public figure. All he needs is ongoing discussion about him.
Like the figure of Colonel Kurts in Apocalypse Now, we didn’t need to see Marlon Brando for him to dominate the picture, because everyone talks about him the whole time, acts either for or against him and makes it clear throughout the entire journey that everything we see happening is happening because of him. The fact that we don’t even get a clear look at him by the end of the movie, and that he mumbles a few lines from the shadows before making his exit, was neither here nor there. It is still credited as one of Brando’s biggest films!
I think it’s related to, “The Streisand Effect,” in that respect. The press and people like you are building Farage up, way beyond all reasonable proportion. And the result will be that he will be empowered to take over the remains of the, “Conservative,” Party BECAUSE of people like you never shutting up about him! I’m certain there was an element of this distraction toward the bright and shiny objects involved in the rise of other historical dictators. And make no mistake, if everyone keeps playing his game, by his rules, fuelling him with the oxygen of attention, just because he says something a bit weird or different from the mainstream (right, wrong or indifferent) it will be those people (you included) who will have given him that power.
The Tories are being exposed for what their opponents have long suspected to a wider cross section of the public and it is merely the fact that they are so empirically awful that makes right leaning voters confused. They no longer see Farage as the purely risible clown figure he once cut, but not because he’s gotten any better, more competent, less of a blatant liar, but simply because he’s no longer distinguishable from the rottenness we see from Tories at every turn! And the pundits and MSM are turning him into that viable alternative!
You should act more responsibly, covering the many, many political issues and stories that are burning out there and limit your time on Farage to something more reasonable! Or forever take responsibility for the role you played in his rise to eventual power and the end of our democracy!
I know you think I exaggerate. I’m being, “hysterical,” or, “hyperbolic,” perhaps? Well, let us see how well these words age?
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MrMJmusicLover : I’m pretty sure they’re woke, now. Even since the Midterms, when Cons and Libs clearly voted Democrat, and created a Blue Wave that was SO big, it washed over the GOP wall of Gerrymandering, Voter Suppression and general Cheatery-Obstruction, things have gotten worse for the GOP, by the day. Dems are being smart, though. They KNOW they have to get as many of Trump’s goons, former goons and the heroes who been hunting them, to testify on LIVE TV, for all the world to see. The Congressional Hearings and our support to protect Mueller and his team: THAT’S where we need to throw ALL of our support, now. Until the GOP Senators are BEGGING for Trump’s impeachment. Once out of Office, he’s vulnerable to the LAW. Then, we’ve GOT HIM ✌️👍
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@andreav318 : God willing indeed. But, as I said above, I would hope that something positive would rise from the ashes? A party that recruits conservatives who have morals again? Every government NEEDS a strong, articulate opposition, with the power to hold policy makers accountable and to test the validity and argue the flaws of legislation, before it’s passed. The wannabe dick-tatorship, that we narrowly dodged the bullet from just now, left us with a flesh wound, nonetheless. And, unless treated and healed, it will turn septic and kill the host. Healing, through empowerment, regulation through the rule of law, (no more, “norms,” but actual LAWS) and representation of the maximum number, right? Seems reasonable when stated as a principle? . . . But, we’d need a person of principle to make that happen, right? With a Cabinet of principled people. . . Even as a Conservative, I thank God for Joe Biden ✌️👍 He might just save America . . . And not for the first time either . . . He and Obama inherited the banking crash of 2008, and restored our broken economy. It’s far from perfect, but imagine what they could have achieved? If only they hadn’t inherited a broken country from Bush’s incompetence? . . . ✌️
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Sara A. : Exactly! And he’s talking to the press almost every day! Including the Communist, “Chiynah,” loving F*x, “journalists.” They’re just whining that Joe’s not using a, “format,” they can pick on, because they’ve got NOTHING in the face of Joe’s success to pick on him for, except green eggs and ham and Mr Potato Head, when Tucker Carlson isn’t lecturing America on how we should be more like China, for crying out loud! Cicero said, when history repeats itself, first time is tragedy, the second time is Farce. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the world’s second Fascist Qult of Karens, formerly known as the GOP, until someone turned them all Orange . . . 🤦♂️ . . . 👍✌️
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5imbadzs : A, “Word of Caution,” she says? “I couldn’t help but laugh,” too! The whole country are comforting themselves, by COLLUDING with the PRETENCE that their coming, “elections,” are somehow, “not,” ALREADY RIGGED. You’re only buying this Dictatorship the time they need to consolidate, and prepare their excuses for how, “Dodgy,” the key state ballots will be. Your DENIAL, even after this regime has SHOWN YOU that they’ll RIG and FIX EVERYTHING, at this point, is nothing but SELF HARM, America! Do you honestly THINK they’re going to ALLOW you to unseat Trump? So he and his whole family gets indicted and goes to JAIL??? Are you ALL MAD??? So they’ll, “rat,” on EVERYONE in their administration and the WHOLE LOT OF THEM GO TO JAIL TOO??? So the GOP has to DISBAND, because there’s only a disgraced skeleton of the Republican Party LEFT??? OR??? Do you think they’ve ALREADY decided NOT TO ALLOW ALL THAT??? The Republic has FALLEN, and YOU are HELPING THEM NOW, by acting like they’ll LET YOU, “VOTE,” THEM INTO PRISON! Have a Revolution or accept your Monarchy, but PLEASE? STOP KIDDING YOURSELVES? . . . Jesus!
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@StratsRUs : Maybe? Would she be considered too biased to be a host, or political analyst? Perhaps? But as a pundit she could probably work part time from home? . . . I wonder if she has plans, or isn’t seeing beyond getting to the finish line without dropping the ball? I don’t know that much about her, but her input on the world stage - responses to Covid, dealing with terrorism, dealings with other world leaders, etc - always struck me as really on point, professional and even (dare I say?) inspirational. Yet, I had no idea that things were going so badly domestically and I still couldn’t say what those domestic issues were, or are, about? I think a lot of British people are likely to respond like me, by spitting up a little coffee and expecting some awful scandal was about to be announced until the news reader got to the end of her opening sentence. All I can honestly say is that, instinctively, I always liked her, was even charmed by her. It seems a shame.
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@neonk4068 : Not in personnel no. But they do have superior equipment and training, which is the game changer (we hope?) that has granted advantages to modern armies, having learned valuable lessons from WW II. I do not argue that it is precisely the same. I am simply drawing attention to the fact that some overwhelming successes take much longer than lay people expect. Especially when they have seen examples last year, of lighting runs across vast swathes of Ukrainian territory and built their expectations accordingly. This time, every village and town that goes back into Ukrainian hands will remain liberated, forever. These are not short term gains, but permanent. So, this is not a one-to-one comparison, simply a reason for understanding better and managing expectations.
But since you raise the matter, I hope you are writing to your representatives and demanding we do more for Ukraine, and giving them those F16’s they need?
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Darth Wheazius : And, if one employee is out in the open, how many are there, remaining, “secret?” This may seam off topic, but please bare with me? In the mid 1980’s they got a think tank together, of the best economic, historical and scientific minds they could muster in America, to answer certain key questions that had always been political footballs, because it was easy to guess at, “Stuff,” but twist the facts to suit certain arguments. Anyway, one of the questions they settled, for example, was the actual, “Cost,” of the Apollo, Lunar Missions. Their conclusion surprised everyone, except the scientists; especially the physicists, apparently.
They concluded that, for every single dollar spent on Apollo, $7 dollars went back into the economy, over a 10 year period. It was their most conservative estimate, some putting it at double that, but all agreed it was no lower. Dems and Republicans were represented, vehemently on both sides and were in that think tank, supervising their work and conclusions, all the way. So, now . . . Of those who even know about this stuff, the question is considered answered and all arguments closed.
I bring this up, because I genuinely believe that, combined with a swift, furious and harsh pushback against seditious propaganda and its propagandists, EDUCATION is the key to lifting America out of this mire, for good. It’s a well established fact that educated people don’t listen to bullsh*t propaganda, and they sure as hell don’t vote for it! And, that’s as well established as the Alt-Wrong’s continuous attacks upon our best educational establishments; constantly calling them, “hotbeds of leftist insurrection,” etc. Well, now we’ve literally seen the insurrectionist hotbeds, laid bare! And they are Fox, who got away with screaming, “Fire!” in a packed theatre, filled with deceived and agitated sheep, who became wolves for a day, and boasted about it on social media, while their comrades and their, “thin blue line,” of cops, were literally beaten to DEATH with the American flag, or 50 others, to within an inch of their lives, and others, on their, “side,” were simply shot to death!
And, if those people had been brought up with a half way decent educations, in Civics, History and moral philosophy, NONE of that would have been possible. You have to step back for a moment, just to see how obvious a tinder box it was, and how blatantly, and egregiously, the likes of Fox manipulated America, and kicked the country when it was down! Half of those rioters weren’t just pretending because they’re racists, and entitled! Half of them actually BELIEVED in the, “steal.”
I had to ask myself, what would I have done, if I believed a Coup had been pulled off? . . . The BLAME lies squarely upon the shoulders of those who knew better; who have had those Ivy League educations, and exploited their advantages to the murderous limit! And we MUST prioritise, both EDUCATION and CONSEQUENCES for Seditious Propaganda! Time for a little LAW, and a little investment in our youth, don’t you think?
Apologies, for going on. But I know you’re smart enough to get me. And your comment deserved my full attention ✌️👍
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J Groovy : You are talking about word definitions, logic, facts, credibility, etc. Trump’s Trolls are not even attempting to work on that level, which is why they will never hear you. They are emotional. Their, “rhetoric,” is ALL aimed at emotions. Facts, alone, are enough to show that Trump is a criminal, being used by Putin, and Trump probably only knows HALF (or less) of HOW he’s being played.
The Troll’s JOB is to, “scare,” “anger,” “intimidate,” or, failing that, “persuade,” people that it’s all, “hopeless,” and that it has always been thus, and, “I’m just one person. What can I do about ALL this?” ALL EMOTIONAL.
What is CLEAR from this YouTube thread and all the others, beneath this Video, is that the Trolls are actually frightened, now. Some are racists, some are paid, by Russian shell companies and, either sitting in a bunker in St Petersburg, or scattered about the globe, having answered one of those emails, offering to, “Turn Your Comments Into CASH!” Just so long as each comment is positive about Trump and Putin. I know this, because I got one, which I passed on to the FBI.
Just keep in mind, a Troll’s job is NOT to, “debate,” or, “prove,” anything. There is NO, “arguing,” with a Trump Tramp. All you can do, is DISPROVE their comments, point out the LUNACY of their talking points, and SHOW that you are NEVER going to be, “intimidated,” by their threats of, “Civil War,” which are, if nothing else, an even STRONGER argument, for the REMOVAL, TRIAL, and EXECUTION of the Orange Orifice.
I am curious to hear your response? ✌️
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the rhythm kings : He may yet? When Congress has held so many Hearings, on live TV, that even the GOP Senators HAVE TO request Trump’s Impeachment, so as to save themselves from losing their jobs, or getting their OWN Obstruction Of Justice charges; when the NATION has had it PROVED to them, just how much of a TRAITOR and CRIMINAL Trump really is; the country will need to think seriously about how to, “recover,” and, “heal,” from the destruction in Trump’s wake. And, future administrations will have to focus on dealing with the THREAT of Russia, and its allies. And, given that one of the costs of having a FREE society, is that there will ALWAYS be around 10 or 15 % or so, of racists, religious bigots and utter nut-jobs, America cannot afford to keep the issue smouldering away, as a focus for their hate, conspiracies and attempts to undermine Democracy. So, it would be a way to, “Heal,” the nation, by executing Trump for his Conspiracy to destroy Democracy, perhaps? Dispose of his remains at sea, and the rest of the country can get on with sanctioning Russia back to the Stone Age, and fending off the growing threats coming from Turkey and Syria? Just a thought? . . . 🤔✌️
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Khyron Kravshera : Yet, there’s is no, “scientific,” definition of what, “life,” is, let alone the, “moment,” at which it begins. How do you expect to convince anyone of a damned thing, if you’re just gonna’ flat out LIE, spouting the first plausible sounding thing you pulled off some bigoted leaflet, instead LEARNING anything? I do hope the governor signs it into law, though. We need a landslide against the GOP, in 2020. That should fix it 😁
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@rationalgazer : He’s not even been back to do his basic job in his constituency, let alone been around to support Liz Truss, his former Foreign Secretary, in her hour of need! I genuinely wonder sometimes: Are these goons just some giant Sleeper Cell for Putin?! Because they’re acting like they WANT to destroy Britain! Boris was the CAUSE of all this mayhem! Ground zero! The only clearly identifiable member of any, “coalition of chaos,” that everyone can point to without fear of contradiction! Half of the Tory party are literally saying that they NEED a period of opposition so as to rebuild their party without the pressures of governing! They are as demoralised as the rest of the country. But how will Boris be able to, “unify,” his own Cabinet, let alone the country, when he’ll be looking across the table at the very people who wielded the knife into his degenerate career? It’s either that, or he’ll have a Cabinet of lackeys, leading a severely divided, infighting brood of hyena pups and it’s back to square one! Are they MAD!?
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I’d never heard of her before, and she blew me away completely. What an unexpected delight! She’s the America I dream of. Intelligent, articulate, capable, educated, charming, graceful, beautiful inside and out, glowing with personality and style, elegant like Audrey Hepburn, aspirational like Dr King, and inspiring, like our new president. The highlight of the show, because she was so unlooked for, like finding 50 bucks in your pocket, you didn’t even know was there! She made that inauguration and fills me with hope ✌️👍
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Bobby Ray : That’s how he’s thinking, for sure. Trump is Fox’s BITCH, now. Anne Coulter and Rush, only need to snap their fingers for Trump to come running. He’s communicating with the maddest section of the country, through them. He’s going to FORCE his own impeachment, however, by losing ALL support from within his party, the military, the country as a whole. When he’s in jail, he’ll be kicking himself, for obsessing on the wall, and his stupid fans. Then I’ll be laughing at him
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Bill Pool : Probably for the same reasons that they, “think,” (👈 there has to be a better word for it than that?) all of Trump’s opponents are even, “of the left,” at all, I guess? I’m a Conservative and wanted Trump in jail since before he left the Democrat Party. They Fake Believe. So long as Trump stays a racist and greedy, and the economy is not crashed, they’ll pretend to, “believe,” his words. It’s obvious they don’t. We live in the Land Of Fake Believe, now ✌️
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No, he didn’t did he? I think the question was, “If you’re elderly and vaccinated, can you still catch Covid and get sick from it?” You do eventually get that answer later on, from the rest of the discussion, but they really need to listen more carefully to people’s concerns.
Everyone catches Covid and carries it, sooner or later, at some point. That’s a fact. Like the common cold, you’re bound to catch one at some point in your life, and you’ll catch another one, over and over again, for the rest of your days. And, like the common cold, the virus will continually mutate, meaning there is no complete immunity to be had. The vaccine will make it considerably less likely that you’ll get sick from Covid (probably being unaware you have it, or are a carrier, unless you get tested?) and, if you do get sick, considerably less likely to get seriously ill from it.
So, the short answer is, “Yes.” Elderly, vaccinated people can and do catch Covid and some get sick from it. But very few (and I mean very, very few) will get seriously sick if they’re already vaccinated. I’ve been doing my homework, so this is reliable. But the CDC website will tell you everything you need to know ✌️
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@danielarcadia7243 : 🥴 . . . You might as well have written, “I don’t know how vaccines work.” Cringe. 😬 It’s like the common cold, son. EVERYONE will catch it, SEVERAL TIMES in their life! Vaccines DON’T stop you from catching Covid! They stop you from getting sick, WHEN you catch it! Or, if you’re unlucky and do get sick, they stop you from getting REALLY SICK! All this masking was supposed to be a short term measure, until we all got vaccinated, but you ignorami kept it going by not wanting it! You STILL don’t get it, do you, kid? I PROMISE YOU! YOU WILL TAKE THE VACCINE! Maybe you’ll be on your second or third bout of Covid, but you’ll ASK for it, sooner or later . . . If it hasn’t already KILLED you? Maybe do it, BEFORE you get permanent scars on your lungs? Or organ failure? Can you afford a dialysis machine? 🤦♂️ . . . Jesus, son! GOOGLE IT! You can’t afford to be THAT STOOPID! 🤷♂️
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Your words of wisdom are a balm to my troubled spirit in these unsettling times. I am grateful that you take the time to talk to us and offer an alternative perspective to the, “mainstream,” (a term I use advisedly in this case) norm.
Using Johnson’s connections, Truss has hit the money making circuit, apparently not thinking about what she actually planned to say, almost until the moment she got to the podium. There was a moment when she referred to the US Constitution and our Magna Carta, adding something like, “and there are many such documents I could name.” An awkward, if brief, pause followed during which I just WISHED that someone shouted out, “Can you really, Liz? Go on then? Name just one?”
But what alarmed me was that she was really pushing that Neo-Liberal agenda, from the, “think tanks,” that she belongs to (who are probably the source of her scripts?) and stating that she plans to stay in politics for that, “cause,” alone.
To me, her speech sounded like an advertisement. “I am available, along with all of my Westminster connections, for Lobby work and setting up private meetings,” was my translation.
We are increasingly creating a false sense of class in Britain, like the old Tudor notion of the, “worthy,” “impotent,” poor (which are, by design, very few in number) whilst everyone else must be seen as, “unworthy,” or, “indolent.” This seems to be born from a sense that the wealthy are directly threatened by the growing numbers of, “have nots,” so long as they remain enfranchised, educated and having access to accurate information. And the blatancy with which Britain’s elites are actively working to take away those three vital tools of democracy seems, to me at least, to be on the increase.
Every time I hear the term, “woke,” from the mouth of a far right hack like Cruella Braverman or Liz Truss, I feel it is a deliberate attempt to define a separation between, “them and us,” in direct opposition to the role and responsibility of a politician, who’s job is meant to be concerned with uniting the people.
I am unmoved by Truss’s bandwagoning attempts at baiting better people than herself in society, with such deliberate hostility she spits at those whom she meant to lead. That’s just like being harangued by an angry toddler who feels personally slighted at being made to go to bed. But I am disturbed that overtly divisive rhetoric is considered acceptable from this, “political,” party, which is so gleefully breaking its social contract by attacking its own population, rather than attempting to reason with them and calm their anger. When a party is all out of political ideas and has no longer got any, “ideology,” to lay claim to (other than an extremist version of neo-liberalism which they know the general public finds as unrealistic and immoral as proposing we become a communist dictatorship) people like Liz Truss are scraped up, from the very bottom of the barrel.
It’s the, “normalisation,” of allowing leaders to be actively hostile and baiting of those in their charge which is truly unprecedented in British politics. I only hope it becomes recognised as a key reason for their defeat at the next election?
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Kelly Baumann : We’re at a point in history now, where not even ONE of Trump’s own supporters actually, “believes,” him, either. Out of greed, racism and a Propaganda-Conditioned hatred of their fellow Americans, Trump’s fans are just as frightened as Donny, at the thought of his Tax Returns getting into the public domain. Like the GOP, they’re just terrified of being FORCED to confront the TRUTH. Deep down, though, they ALL KNOW they’ve given money to a con man, and they’re ashamed to admit it . . . Smh ✌️👍
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@Starcrash6984 : You should put a, “spoiler,” warning at the start of your comment? What I thought was genius about it, was they way we, the audience, experienced the story in exactly the same way the protagonist did: no memory of what happened before, or what he was meant to be doing, having to piece together each episode of his life, in the exact same way he lived it. And, just when you think you’re getting a handle on things, you’re shunted into a brand knew set of circumstances, with no memory of how you got there. Making the reveals at the end, just as powerful for you, the viewer, as it was for him, the Hunter/protagonist. Genius 👍
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@bighouse6120 : CNN is just a mainstream, centrist (if anything?) News Station. Many cannot tell their opinion pieces, or discussion shows, from straight news reporting, and conflate them. Trump set them up as the straw man, because facts and truth were always bad for his career, but that’s not their fault. Whereas, MSNBC has never pretended to be anything other than what it is, as left leaning News outlet, but nonetheless News. They don’t LIE. Sure, they spin, but that’s not the same, especially when they make no claims to do anything other. Fox is not the opposite side of the same coin, because they deal in counterfeit currency. I say that as a genuine Conservative, member of The Lincoln Project. I’m a church going, gun owning, wealthy Conservative, and there’s no such thing as that in the GOP, nor in the leadership of Fox. Any outlet that becomes a mouthpiece for the government is nothing better than Lord Haw Haw, or Tiger Lil, broadcasting lies and protecting those lies, like they were money. You can’t even go to Fox for basic headline news anymore! That’s when you know it’s over. They’re a propaganda outlet, and that’s all they are now. They started out with a genuine remit, to be a counter weight to MSNBC, but they slipped quickly, because their leaders were all corrupt, and that’s the only environment where, “Trickledown,” actually works! Now there’s NOTHING in MSM for the Conservatives, and that gap needs filling
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@bleedinggreen2518 : Well, they’re certainly only driven by MONEY at present, and the removal of the mask of trump seems to have revealed their real face, and it’s trump’s underneath?! Fossil fuel companies have no money to give them, and other major corporations have ditched them for being a bit too Fascisty and trying to cancel the Republic. This has left them with nowhere else to go for the big bucks, except to the cult of trump, who are still throwing their grass roots Nazi donations to any and all who still support him. Thus, they cannot cut the thread . . . yet. But, they will, and I think the impeachment will be that tectonic fracture point? Forget the, “verdict,” as it’s rigged and, even though it will be closer than people are predicting, unimportant. What will matter is the whole world, hearing from the mouths of those who manufactured the lie, that, “The Steal,” AIN’T REAL! When they’re forced to admit, on live TV, that the very reason they rioted and got jail sentences, ruined careers and massive lawyer’s bills, was a LIE, and the people who told them that lie are the ones admitting it, the GOP will have that, “civil war,” they’ve wanted for so long, only it will be in their own party. It’s already started, really. But the impeachment will be their Gettysburg, at which each GOP member will be forced to decide which hill they’re willing to die on. And I bet it WON’T be trump’s . . . 😉👍
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@bleedinggreen2518 : I don’t blame you. But, I hope, for the sake of America’s future, that some party can rise from the ashes? A legitimate opposition that does its job, of holding government to account and challenging policy? There are plenty of great potential leaders in lots of Conservative opposition to trump groups, from the vets who formed their own thing, to the Lincoln Project, to which I signed up. Ultimately, the GOP’s disarray is well deserved, but America is going to need that legitimate balance, in order to be a Republic. Trump enablers need not apply, but there are plenty of good men and women who don’t agree with your politics, but who respect that difference enough to die to preserve it. Trump came closer than I like to think, to annihilating our whole Democratic Experiment. And, a place for Conservatives to call home, that isn’t fascist or Alt-Wrong, needs to exist, so they don’t sink into despair, feeling like they have no alternatives. I would be wishing for the same thing for a liberal political voice, if it were the other way around. I agree whole heartedly that THESE particular characters have proved themselves unfit for their offices, and they’ve done that time and time again, now. But, this is one of those vacuums that nature does abhor. I just pray the right people fill it ✌️👍
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optimistic cynic : If my, “invisible friend,” is the, “problem,” it is one shared by both my friends AND enemies. Anti-Christians so often fall into the trap of opening with disdainful remarks, showing their cards before the round has begun. People only do that, to hide, OTHER, “emotions.” Or they would be secure enough, smart enough, and basically decent enough, to disagree “respectfully” with strangers. You still have some growing up to do . . . Smh . . .
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lee wang : So right. When he’s not BLACKMAILING America, he’s playing on the politics of, “VICTIMHOOD.” Trump’s racist cult will NEVER, “Man Up,” and just OWN that their lives are crap, because of their OWN decisions. They’re ALWAYS the, “Victim,” of some, “conspiracy,” and have SUCH a, “grievance,” about how, “the world isn’t fair.” Pussies! Blackmail always works pretty well as a distraction. And he KEEPS DOING IT! Where ARE the CHILDREN???
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Would you agree with me? There has to be a Reckoning, when this is under control. Not revenge. But the price of Justice, paid in full. If this horror is allowed to pass, unpunished, we will have emboldened our enemies both foreign and domestic. They’ll know that hundreds of thousands of Americans can be slaughtered by inaction, greed, stupidity and the deliberate, malicious politicisation of a none-political pandemic. America’s greatest humanitarian DISASTER was utterly preventable. If the country is ever to heal again, they must be offered SWIFT JUSTICE, and the culprits punished to the fullest, harshest extent of the law. Examples must be made, to deter anyone from even entertaining the notion of another trump. Otherwise, America has only bought itself a 4 year reprieve from the Republic’s inevitable Execution, under a dictator who is every bit the sociopath that Donny was, but with charm, and the ability to finish a sentence without sounding like a teenager with a behaviour disorder and a head injury. JUSTICE MATTERS ✌️
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Don Nwzad : I must have missed the Tucker Carlson trans-pregnancy special. The three I saw, he was using his Fox airtime to say how, “great China is,” again, and we should, “be more like their doctors,” who think being more, “macho macho man,” would have cured Covid, which he doesn’t believe in, but just in case. F’king nutter, but great for a larf, in small doses 🤣
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Zafar Iqbal : Wouldn’t worry too much about it, if I were you? The fastest growing, most lucrative industry, on the planet, right now, is clean energy. At the turn of the previous century, everyone thought cars and trucks were novelties, for the very rich or for specialised use in industries. How could they have known that we’d all be driving and owning multiple cars per household, or that the combustion engine was set to change the world? As we pass into the Hydrogen Age, and fossil fuels become a thing of the past, you’ll wonder why you made such a fuss about it? . . . Honest . . .
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We understand that Trump knew he may not be around to break the law and spring Flynn, after November, so he had to do it now, or not do it at all. We know Flynn wants back in Cabinet, so a, “pardon,” would not help him, because he’d still be a criminal and barred from holding office. So, they Barr’d him instead, knowing that NO JUDGE would allow this. Let’s hope they get swamped by death row inmates, who’ve ALSO, “changed their minds”? And, let’s hope he gets back in Cabinet BEFORE the elections? Like Banquo’s Ghost, haunting Washington and pissing off the entire electorate? 🤣
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“No blank cheque,” was clearly (in my mind) what McCarthy had to say to please Margery Traitor Green and Co while he was still negotiating with her and her allies for the votes he needed to become Speaker. After all, it only really means, “scrutiny,” rather than waving every aid package through. We should all hope the GOP is paying attention, shouldn’t we? As MTG’s star begins to fade, he is more at liberty to speak freely. And, make no mistake, she may be as loud as ever, but her influence is waning within and without her bubble of influence. It’s probably truer to think of people like McConnell as representing the broader party view, if not the GOP voter’s?
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Jemel Shahid : Exactly. But, it’s no different to them screaming, “Lock her up,” at the very same rallies that they whine about, “Due Process,” for Kavanaugh? Saudi A was kept off the “terrorist” Muslim Ban List, despite 911, and Trump has OPENLY SAID, he’s IMPOTENT, “‘Coz, money, right?” Next week, Putin will be announcing our Tax Policy, at this rate. Trump has SOLD America; not just our values, but our security and interests. He’s a TRAITOR
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SPZ Aruba : If there is, “no safe choice,” then you should take the MORAL choice. This is NOT about YOUR financial interests? This is about rich people, getting richer, while flinging open the doors, to ANOTHER 911! This is OPEN CONSPIRACY, with Trump giving us the Saudi excuses BEFORE THEY DID, and then going to rallies to tell us he’s IMPOTENT, “coz, money, right?” America is being ROYALLY f**ked over, and Trump can’t even be BOTHERED to cover it up! Do you WANT another 911???
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So long as you don’t mean, “vox pops,” I can go with that? What I’m sick of is news outlets asking the public’s opinion on a damned thing. Like they have the slightest clue. Sure, polling opinions is useful, but we don’t need to waste precious time asking Joe Blo what his, “opinion,” is, that could be better spent grilling the people responsible or the experts. There’s enough speculation in the news without unqualified opinions taking up people’s time and lending a distorted credence to one aspect of a problem. You only have to look at 80% of YouTube comments to know that everyone, “thinks,” they have the answers on economics, immigration, military strategy, history, political ideology, race issues, the markets, policing, you name it? But none of them have much more than an attitude to back it up . . . SMH
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pat ryk : This time it’s permanent, because they have no choice (see my comment above) but, deep down, I think you all KNOW this, really? I get it. It’s scary to have to admit to yourselves that the Republic has fallen. Because, if you’re honest with yourselves, you are forced to admit the the coming, “elections,” are already rigged, with Putin’s help, and you have the moral responsibility to DO SOMETHING about that. You KNOW they have already decided to insulate themselves from permanent disgrace, jail, and historic opprobrium. The Ukraine got rid of their Putin Puppet WITHOUT ANY WEAPONS, by simply filling the streets, and halting the country. But, there were deaths, and beatings, and that is frightening. But, if you fall into their trap, and perpetuate the myth that there will be, “Free and Fair Elections,” instead of a Putin Style Data Gathering exercise, showing the government just who to TARGET next, in 2020, you are forestalling any hope of a Revolution. Start by accepting the TRUTH? The Republic has FALLEN! Then, just MAYBE, the Republic could be RESTORED??? . . .
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@AngryAlfonse : Yeah, I know. The combination of lobbyists buying their politicians wholesale and their utter ignorance as to the subject matter is bad enough. But, when such topics become vote winning election issues, it’s amazing how quickly situations can change. There are moves afoot, seriously and for the first time that I know of, where some politicians from both sides of the isle are attempting to put together a package to prevent tech companies in particular from lobbying at all. They will have an uphill battle, but America was built on an uphill battle which they won, so I don’t count them out.
As I pointed out, technically, the laws already exist, and YouTube’s actions have been calculated based on the likelihood that Jjjacksfilms will not take this any further, for fear of YouTube’s reprisals, and their endless supply of Google money for legal fees. Just as it’s so clear that the whole bothsidesing is a direct result of YouTube’s, “negotiations,” with Sssniperwolf herself. It’s so obvious that it was a concession she must have insisted on. I doubt YouTube would have wanted to be so blatantly hypocritical and tone deaf, if they felt they had a choice?
In my perfect world, Jacksfilms would crowdfund a successful lawsuit against YouTube that would result in their apology to him, the permanent banning of Sssniperwolf, and a public undertaking to apply their policies without fear or favour in future. But then, in my perfect world, YouTube would show far fewer adverts (which literally make some channels unwatchable for me now) and Jessica Beal would be my wife, and there’s about as much chance of either one happening.
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@charleouel9012 : I think what people are missing in this discussion is, “Is it the whole point of the story?” If the twist is what makes the story pay off, like in The 6th Sense, Charade, The Shawshank Redemption, spoilers are apt to spoil the movie for people. Whereas, knowing the big revelation in Empire Strikes Back does rob some of the joy from the movie, but won’t spoil your general enjoyment of the space-opera, special effects, good-versus-evil, epic of it. Let’s face it? You go in to a Sherlock Holmes movie, or an Indiana Jones film, KNOWING the good guys are gonna’ win, and you’re only there to see how they pull it off, right? So, it’s not about whether or not, to allow spoilers. It’s about, “Does the story, and the whole reason for investing in these characters, DEPEND upon the twist?” The 6th Sense is worth a second viewing BECAUSE the twist is so big, and is a very different movie on second viewing, right? 👍
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Why hasn’t there been an intervention? If this happened in an office, hospital or factory setting, MTG would have been suspended, and be looking at possible psychological intervention, or maybe even criminal proceedings. And, if left unchecked, her, “managers,” would be the ones in the firing line. They have FAILED in their basic Duty Of Care to an employee, and disregarded the safety of other workers! Yet, in the TOP work setting on the planet, THIS is the, “example,” set before the world? If she keeps it up, and gets hospitalised or sentenced for a crime, she’ll sue the GOP for failing in their Duty Of Care, and she’ll have a strong case! . . . ✌️
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Ann Jordan : People with no argument will call you, “anti Semitic,” when you criticise Israel. The art of never losing the game? Don’t play. Trump Trolls use his Jewish family as, “evidence,” Trump is not racist, even though there are YouTube videos of KKKlan meets, in which they’re wearing the Nazi outfits, Dion the Nazi Salute and shouting, “Hail Trump,” making it clear that not all Trump fans are Nazis, but all Nazis are Trump fans. Trump wants his war. Putin pulled him off, this time. Soon we’ll see whether Putin is willing to betray his allies, Iran . . .
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@Missconduct044 : You think that hasn’t occurred to people? It’s pretty hard to write it of as coercion when it’s the same consistent story, coming from countless troops, some of whom did not need to surrender but only did so because they were being told to commit immoral acts. There is also the fact that we haven’t seen any evidence that Zelensky’s troops are breaking their word, which is in their interests to keep, and they’ve treated all surrendered Russians with dignity. Thirdly, there’s the fact that their story bares out exactly what we already KNOW. That they have been lied to, what those lies are, how long they’ve been told, to whom and in what manner. It’s EXACTLY what we expected to find: young conscripts who didn’t know any better, half of whom didn’t even know they were no longer on a, “training operation,” until they hit the front lines. It’s popular on YouTube, to be cynical and leap to the most, “world weary,” responses. But they are unthought out at best.
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This is such an important explanation of Soviet, and current, methodology and criminality. It is such a historic tragedy that the world has lost so many languages and their attendant cultural practices that goes largely overlooked. I used the word, “criminality,” advisedly, as I certainly believe that such deliberate attempts to wipe out the cultures and languages of others should be recognised internationally as a crime.
Now I feel I will have to do some research, to find out what the stance of NATO, the UN, European Union, etc. is with regard to this practice, and whether it is outlawed? And, indeed, if not, why not?
Despite being a bit of a history buff myself, I had not given much thought to this aspect of Russification. I suspect that most of us in the west have always thought of the USSR (and then the Russian Federation) as having many, “regions,” within it, but not really recognising the distinction of them being, “nations,” with different ethnic and cultural roots, despite knowing this in the back of our minds? So, we end up seeing this enormous geographic block as being, “Russian,” as taught to the west by Stalin, Khrushchev and their successors; seeing their world through the distorted lens of their making, rather than through honest, clear and truthful glass.
And, if reasonably educated people like me can still be tricked by that smoke and mirrors act, so can the vast majority of people in the free world. At least, that is my worry?
Even though I have NEVER trusted a word out of Putin’s mouth, and have railed against the Nordstream deals (and others like it) for almost two decades now, (from my powerless, “everyman,” perspective) seeing it as being suicidally stupid and patently obvious that it could only be the result of Putin’s corruption and blackmailing of western politicians; I am still shocked by the sheer brutality and the barbarian savagery of erasing entire cultures in such a pernicious, systematic and calculating manner.
When you put this into a clear perspective like this, which jibes so fundamentally with everything we know about our history of dealing with Russia, it truly chills me to the bone. Russification is just another aspect of Genocide, as practiced in Ukraine today. And, with the added horrors of mass kidnapping of children (recognised as Genocide by the international courts, as recent events have demonstrated) for the purposes of Russification, with the specific goal of shoring up the diminishing numbers of young Russians, as their response to their, “demographic crisis,” of an aging, shrinking population; on top of routine mass murders; all of this is about as sinister and historically unprecedented as it gets! At least in terms of its sheer scale!
Putin is genuinely diabolical, in the strictest sense of the word. I could say more about how his plans look set to backfire, in terms of China’s apparent plans to take some of the Russian, “Federation’s,” population of Putin’s hands, as their recent changing of formerly Russian geographic names to their old Manchurian designations on their electronic maps appears to indicate, but if you have born with me this far, I am grateful for your patience and will spare you my wider geopolitical predictions.
I am so grateful to you for re-opening my eyes to this worldwide threat that Putin would spread around the world like a cancer, destroying all that is valuable, life affirming and good on the face of the Earth. What you offer as a service cannot be weighed in gold. Its educational value is incalculable.
Thank you. From Britain, thank you SO MUCH. ✌️🇺🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦
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It’s the outcome of a massive campaign to get the, “tactical vote,” out, which seems to have worked. So, this is not a Labour, “win,” so much as it’s a Conservative, “lose,” situation. At time of writing, I’m hearing that only around a quarter of the totals are known, so be leery of predicting things, but the spread so far looks like the tactical campaign has born fruit. Could this mean the potential of a coalition between Lib Dem’s and Labour in the coming national elections? . . .
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@ghosttemplar6989 : That’s very true, and while Donny has his King Lear moment, “such terrible things I’ll do, yet I know not what!” (I’m paraphrasing there😉) and howling at the lightning, guys like Moscow Mitch are weeping in the Senate House, when their buddies retire, because I think they’re juuuuhhhst starting to get it. Like the weather, Globalism is a thing, and you all use it, whether you like it or not. The upcoming generation doesn’t see certain words as, “dirty,” or give a toss about who TF the Clinton’s are. They prefer honesty and they know how to mobilise social media to get their point across, which is why they stormed the Bastille and took down the Donald. And, a reckoning’s coming. You don’t kill off more Americans than all our wars combined and just expect to (hashtag) RunAway from that without consequences? America is getting better, the fever broken, and she needs some serious therapy to get back out there. That therapy? Let’s call her JUSTICE! Because Justice MATTERS! And, now I’ll go for a little lie down and wonder why I went to town on mixing up as many metaphors as I could in a few sentences? 😆✌️👍
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That’s a good point. It annoys me that they don’t fact check in real time. My instant response was, “If I forced you to answer the question, by torturing you or something, that would be a, ‘violation,’ of all kinds of rights, but you have the right not to answer. So, don’t make out that me asking you a question is some kind of, ‘violation,’ that it’s NOT? Be honest and say you don’t want to tell America that of course you got vaccinated, but don’t want to tell your base, because that doesn’t fit your bonkers narratives. No one’s violating your rights, Karen, you snowflake!”
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You know what I would like to see? I mean, apart from Putin being publicly executed by his own family members for losing Donbas and Crimea (I’m allowed to dream aren’t I?). Well, I’d like to see Germany having to, “justify,” funding Putin’s war, to the faces of the surviving victims, and to a legal standard, in The Court of Human Rights!
Does anyone here think that, “Give us a couple of years to avoid price hikes and a spike in unemployment,” is a good enough excuse to justify FUNDING Putin’s rape, torture, looting, murder and genocide on an industrial scale? Because I think the surviving victims might have a strong case against the German Government?
If they switched of the Russian energy supply TODAY, they would survive the inconveniences and industrial set backs, with European and American assistance to boot! And they could call it a Tax On Stupid, for ever having set up such a suicidally stupid arrangement in the first place. The only reason Putin remains a threat is because WE ARE PAYING HIM TO! It’s simply INSANE and must be STOPPED!
Let us ALL write to the German government about this? Ask them if they ever really did, “learn,” anything from World War Two? And let them know you will be supporting ANY Ukrainian refugees who sue the German government, for collaboration with the enemy. We actually have the power to kill Russia’s economy and stop Putin in his tracks. Yes, we will be wounded. But not nearly so badly as Putin’s victims. We WILL be next.
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It’s, “Incongruity,” that makes jokes work. The switch in the expectations of the audience. You paint a mental image in the mind of your audience; e.g. “What’s long, red, and dangles between Putin’s trembling knees?” The audience thinks of something rude, in all probably, so here comes the, “subversion of their expectation,” the, “switch,” in the punchline; “Donald Trump’s Tie.” The mental image has been flipped, and the audience lol’s because they’ve put the pieces together and expressed a sound that requires no further interaction; but shows they’ve gotten the joke and are ready for the next one . . .
E.g; “A racist, a sex predator and an idiot walk into a bar, and the bartender says, ‘What are you having, Mr Trump?’” Bait and switch. We saw three separate people in our mind’s eye, then our expectation was subverted, as we realise the joke teller is saying all three describe one person.
Jokes work in the same way riddles do, with a sense of satisfaction in the audience, at piecing the clues together, but much faster than riddles. We, the audience, solve the problem in our heads and are mildly flattered at being, “on the same page,” as the comedian. The release of tension is not only quicker than a riddle, but intensified by it’s speed, which is why one liners are so effective.
The problem with Gutfeld’s, “comedy,” is that the, “switch,” is not coming. We already know the punchline. Just saying, “the master,” is, “racist,” and then using every instance of, “master,” known to humanity, involves no subversion and therefore is not, “technically,” even a joke.
His other problem, when he, “has,” managed the subversion of expectation - slight of hand - is also the other, perennial, problem of comedy that so many bad comedians don’t get. Can your audience already predict where the subversion is leading? If they can, and the audience sees the punchline coming, there’s no real subversion, because even a child can predict the punchline. They feel smarter than the comedian, and vaguely insulted that they’re, “meant,” to be on that, low IQ wavelength. That’s why they call it, “telegraphed humor.” Because the audience has already received the telegram with the punchline delivered before the comedian can show up with it.
It’s a delicate art, that skilled comics make, “look,” brash, when they’re really good at it. A lot of brash, shouty people make Gutfeld’s mistake, of thinking, “Because I am brash, I am therefore funny.” The two things are rarely compatible, which is why in real life, most of the, “brash comedians,” you meet are not like that at all, but usually polite, calm, reasonable people, who have an, “act.” Bill Burr, for example, is not permanently angry about everything.
Humor is never funny when you analyse it. But, it’s a technical skill and an art form, like writing, acting, singing and dancing. The skill is in learning the technical stuff and then HIDING that from your audience, to make it LOOK natural; and being smart enough to know that it’s, “natural,” to no one, so you train and LEARN it in the first place. Gutfeld needs to punctuate all his, “gags,” with a child’s voice going, “OOF!” It’s literally like watching SNL do, “What if Fascists Tried To Be Funny?”
He hasn’t learned the basic techniques of comedy, and like all Alt-Wrong idiots (trump especially) he thinks he just, “knows,” how it works, despite never having put in the hours for his craft. Now he’s paying the price for his arrogance. What would you bet that, when he packs it in, not too long from now, he won’t admit he’s not funny? What would you bet, that he blames, “Cancel Culture?” ✌️👍
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Roger C : You really have lost your marbles. I am aware the people protest in China and equally aware that they are BREAKING THE LAW when they do it. You think protesters would get ANYWHERE NEAR a visiting, “dignitary,” in China, you’re NUTS. And, the fact that you, “lived there,” IF TRUE, would make you LESS, “qualified,” to comment, as you CLEARLY suck their up State Propaganda, which has NOTHING to do with REALITY. You NEED TRUTHFUL sources, if you wanna’ know the TRUTH. NOT Communist Propaganda, from a State who’s SWORN OBJECTIVE is the DOWNFALL of DEMOCRACY. Racist
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Ryan Lengacher : So, the court, “didn’t,” SHUT DOWN The Trump Foundation, last week? Their SHOCKING, repeated STEALING of Children’s, and US Veteran’s, money, “wasn’t,” PLASTERED all over the Press, from here to Afghanistan? That kind of denial must hurt? 😁
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DawningLight DawnOn : Trump, “wanted,” to shut down his Foundation, himself, to TRY to PREVENT the INVESTIGATION INTO IT. NOT the same thing at all, son. After all, WHY close down a, “successful,” ahem, “Charity,” at all? WHO do you, “think,” believes you, sonny? You’re just CONVINCING people that you’re all SICK, and as DIRTY as Trump . . . SMH 🙂
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Chonk Monk : Problem is, you can never tell with Fox. They know WHO to call and what areas in which to find them, when they want certain answers to their, “polls.” And it is WELL KNOWN that you can get polls to “say” ANYTHING, if you employ the right people to craft the grammar of the questions deviously enough. So, you ALWAYS have to take Fox polls with a pinch of something strong. Some months ago, for example, they got great figures on how many people voted for Trump, but what they BURIED was that 9% of those same people said they’d NEVER vote for him again. After squeaking in, with a MINORITY, as Trump did, that is NOT what they wanted to hear. So, they didn’t tell us. It was leaked to Buzzfeed. See what I mean?
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Johnny Pastrana : Sessions IS RECUSED, you IDIOT. It is not even UP TO HIM, who get’s to see ANY of the content of THAT investigation. Nunes SHOULD be talking to Rosenstein? Oh, that’s right. HE DID. And Rosenstein GRANTED HIM ACCESS. But, Nunes did NOT READ the documents, because he didn’t UNDERSTAND THEM. Gowdy DID read them and said he SUPPORTS the investigation. Nunes’ PROBLEM was that EVERYONE WOULD KNOW IT WAS HIM, if any of it got leaked now, so ALL HE WANTS is, “plausible deniability.” YOU KNOW THIS, as does the WORLD. And you won’t SEE ME at the barricades, but I WILL see YOU
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Loved this video. FINALLY I found a serious physicist willing to say out loud what so many of us lay-physics-fans have been thinking for all these years. I disagree with your definition of religion, if not the point you were making about it, but that’s all. After all, for many, the personal revelation of Gods or a God is very real to them, therefore has a personally evident basis for conviction in that belief. However, any thinking person would accept that this is not a basis for forcing that belief on anyone else, even if they enthuse about spreading it. So I have always maintained that the multiverse is a philosophical belief, like a preference for a political system. You can see effects in the real world resulting from the work people do to strive for that ideal - or in multiverse terms, the effects of their experiments to try to prove the hypothesis, or the effects their math has on others - but you can never see, touch, smell, or feel the idea in the real world. It still alters people’s behaviour and their goals in life, but that has no bearing on science or platonic evidence for being a thing. Not sure if I’m making sense now, but I hope that makes sense to someone.
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Here’s McVey’s REAL speech tomorrow, summarised in a nutshell: “See all those people paid to protect the rights of employees; who expose wrongdoing and who have the power to hold the perpetrators to some level of accountability? Well, we desperately need to get rid of as many of them as possible, before the next parliament, because we won’t be in power anymore after that and we won’t be in a position to block Labour MP’s access to the backlog of allegations any longer. Our best defence is to make sure there are a few of them as possible right now, so they cannot work through the mountains of allegations of bullying, discrimination, fraud, incompetence, waste and downright criminality. Otherwise, a lot of us are facing jail sentences, let alone public disgrace. And I should know. I’ve been there.”
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Mike Day : You didn’t SEE what happened in those states where Conservatives CLEARLY OUTNUMBERED the Liberals? Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc? They voted Democrat and kicked the GOP OUT. THINK? It’s ONLY Trump’s CULT that supports him, now. There’s NOTHING, “Conservative,” about this EXTREME RIGHT, STALINIST regime of Trump’s; not by ANY DEFINITION, fiscally, morally, practically, or in terms of international policy. Wakey uppy
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@christinemcintyre5652 👈😡❄️: That’s right, hundreds of angry “comments” on CNN’s thread, but you, “don’t care,” at all, right? Just like you, “hate,” globalism, coz’ your globalist networks tell you to, and they trust you’ll never look up the word. But, you DO HATE Democracy, don’t you? You loved it in 2016, but hate it now. The man who wants his job back is sulking in a bunker, refusing to do his JOB, whilst people are DYING! But, everything’s the OPPOSITE of TRUTH in your OPPOSITEVERSE, and everyone can STILL watch the whole count, for themselves! It’s LIVE-STREAMING, idiot! You have NOTHING but tears . . .😋
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Jake Rose : She’s right. The very IDEA of, “Hillary,” should scare the shit out of Dems! No one, “wanted,” her, even when they, “wanted,” her. They just didn’t want Trump! We NEED someone people actually WANT! Trump needs to be NOT there anyway, REMOVED by Impeachment. Or, what will stop him from RIGGING 2020 with Putin? His fans WANT that, and KNOW he’s a crook, but want him anyway, because they’re brainwashed . . . What a MESS!
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Hate Love : Well, kind of, yeah. You are here, among people you say you “hate” on a channel you hate, saying it’s all, “fake.” If you, “believed,” your own bollox, you would NOT BE HERE. You think we don’t SEE that, son? And what, “Standard,” of, “PROOF,” that Trump is a RACIST, do you WANT? It’s been PROVED in a court of law; quite apart from the OBVIOUS RACISM of his W-O-R-D-S! How do you expect to be taken seriously by us Normals, when you deny that FACTS in front of your very NOSE, you dim witted, clinically THICK, Pro-Putin, RACIST, TRAITOR . . . SMH
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Questioning Everything : That’s one of the dumbest things I’ve heard from a Troll, this year! I think the only ones who got fired, were the ones carrying Tiki Torches, fist pumping, and shouting Nazi slogans. What? You got fired, did you? Just an, “innocent bystander,” who didn’t KNOW he was at a Nazi rally, despite it being the headline of every news outlet in America? And, when they TOLD you it was a Nazi rally, and did all their Nazi sh*t, you just thought, “I wonder what a Nazi is?” NO ONE buys that, you f**king MORON! 🤣
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Cornell Waters : Some are paid foreigners, responding to an, “All Leave Cancelled,” Alert from St Petersburg to Alabama. The rest are the ones who, “do it for free,” because they’d rather see America destroyed, than allow themselves to hear the words, “I told you so,” from someone on, “the left,” which means ANYONE who disagrees with the Orange Orifice 👍
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ronald wegner : Actually, I thought this was the most revealing and, “defining,” moment of Trump’s whole presidency? This proves that Trump’s fans fake their, “belief,” in Trump. Otherwise Alabama (Trump Country) would have taken emergency measures, right? Certainly, before the Weather Service corrected him? But, they, “did,” NOTHING. Proof, if proof were needed, that Trump’s Trolls live in the Land Of Fake Believe. So long as he remains greedy and a racist, they’ll pretend to, “believe,” anything he says. revealing, right? 🤔
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MrSpektyr : You all realise we can’t trust the, “reassurances,” of Moscow Mitch, and any GOP member, right? Especially the ones looking at serious jail time! You all must KNOW what Bill Barr’s Secret Police units are being expanded FOR, America? They are unconstitutional, and ILLEGAL anyway. Inundate your representatives, join the protests and activist groups, donate your money; DO whatever you can, but by GOD! DO SOMETHING TO GET SECRET POLICE UNITS OUTLAWED! They are building the instrument of your suppression, right under your noses!
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@jacksonpaul167 : All democracies are flawed. That is the inherent problem with a system that enfranchises everyone, regardless of their comprehension of current affairs, education levels or income. You can even get democracies that vote against their own interests, installing anti-democratic leaders, like trump, Hitler and the first Shah of Iran after the US propped up state dictatorship fell. In those last two cases, the countries themselves did not have a robust constitution from which challenges to their leadership were empowered enough to retain their democratic systems. In trump’s case, the opposite was true. This is why people are willing to fight and die for a strong, robust democracy. Because the leaders will come and go and some of them will break their own rules, but they are ultimately held accountable, which was why Nixon narrowly avoided jail and the disgrace of an impeachment trial, by trading away his power and handing it back to the electorate. And why 60 of his enablers went to jail. It is why trump faces criminal trials now. Some leaders get away with it, like the Bush family, or while their underlings pay the the price, like Reagan’s contra pedlars. But the system rights itself and ultimately, the rule of law prevails.
You, on the other hand, have no arguments, so you repeated the category error I already called you out for, and went back down the telescopic view of history to cherry pick the pieces that serve your, “argument,” (or so you think) instead of addressing the mistake, or dealing with the topic. You are, therefore, forcing the casual reader into the conclusion that you don’t have the intellectual wherewithal to deal with the issues at hand.
The term, “Rules Based Society,” is just some western catch phrase to you, meaning nothing to a young man who has never known a society with an effective rule of law. You probably think it’s fine to just steal another person’s country and come up with, “justifications,” after the fact, based purely on answering the loudest complaints, rather than any political, “ideology,” or legitimate argument.
It is pointless trying to explain the value of law to a person who, if he is not a chat bot, might as well be.
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@claymore4915 : He’s a classic only child, who’s mom has spoiled him and shielded him from reality and consequences, like most of the rest of this entitled, mostly wealthy, mob! Naive? He was clueless when he set foot in there, thinking everything he’s done up to now is his, “right,” when he’s never once been taught by that awful mother of his to consider, “responsibilities!” You doubt what I’m saying? Look at that real estate chick, who’s business model never included flat lining because people prefer to do business with patriots? What’s her first response? To use the media, to advertise, like she’s done all her life! To go on CNN and, “blame,” trump! Look at Zip Tie Guy? He was actually WITH his mom! Look at that GOP representative, who whilst the FBI are carting him away, his MOM comes out to talk to the press about what a, “good boy,” he is, “doing the raaaght theying.” It was a mob of entitled, middle and upper middle class CHILDREN who have NO IDEA that their selfishness, cruelty and ENTITLEMENT, is sawing at the very branch they sit on! They’re the most sickening, banal consequence of arrogant moms and irresponsible parenting, just like trump! The monsters we make, out of American Clay, in the very racist image of their Orange Fascist leader!
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ryvr madduck : You know what? It ain’t happening. So, why you Nazi Trumpers are even BOTHERING to debate it, is just clinically THICK. The fact that you were a, “hot rack boy,” is probably NOT something to boast about, anyway? We don’t want to hear about you putting out for the brass, son. Keep your weird, Nazi, sickery to yourself, huh, kid . . . Man, you traitors are all f**ked up . . . SMH
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Action Hiro : I just couldn’t resist! And . . . They’re OFF! I mean, they HATE the TRUTH, but when they hear it coming from a beloved, respected, BLACK, news giant, like DON LEMON, oooohhh, but that STINGS ‘em! They say you get racists in lots of different countries, but I can never tell? They all look the same to me 😉. And, they sure as hell all WRITE the same. Wonder if it’s one or two guys? 🤔 Sitting with their Wizard Krowns on their head, in their mom’s basement, beating their keyboards, with their fists, wiping tears from their eyes and muttering, “How did it all go SO wrong?” 🤣✌️
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NM1Raider : Education, my friend. We must inoculate the nation’s youth with it. It doesn’t cure ALL cases, but it is the only known cure we have. Honestly, if it wasn’t for racism, Trump would not exist. Domestically, he only HAS racists left, supporting him. Ironically, the Trolls that aren’t racist, here, are all foreign and on the take. Conservative America has, clearly, swung away from him. Once he’s done, we need to lance America’s boil, once and for all
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Chrisg841 : AND, Trumpski WHINES about, “Leakers,” again??? When the, “Russier, if you’re listening,” speech, will go down in HISTORY, as even MORE INFAMOUS than Nixon’s, “I’m not a crook,” speech!!!
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666sigma : You say your kids are WHAT, now? “Biracial”? Like it’s a CHOICE? You hoping to, “talk ‘em white,” again? You think they’re just a bit, “curious,” about mixing it up a bit??? OR that ANYONE, “believes,” THAT? Come on, son? Do better. WHY would you fight to DESTROY your kids futures, by enslaving yourself to a RACIST DICKtator, if that were true? That would either make you EVIL & hating your OWN flesh and blood, or just clinically THICK.
The WORST RACISTS are the ones who don’t even want to OWN their RACISM.
You’re a Trump fan, son. Trump HATES people who are not white or Orange. You are either KILLING your kid’s futures, or, more likely, LYING in that LAME way that Treason Trump Trolls do 🤣
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kingtut : Tell me, son? Just between you and me? I promise not to leak your answer. Given that there are only two types of Trump Troll, which are you? The paid, Divider, spreading hate, because that’s the source of Donny’s power? Or, just the mentally ill type, who lives on channels he hates, spewing hate, at people he hates, because he’s permanently in pain, whether in victory, or in loss? I know your cult’s mantra is, “Make America Divided Again.” Just curious as to which type you are?
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@pokey5736 : It’s that incompetence and the subsequent humiliation of never winning a battle against trained Ukrainian military personnel, that leads to their historic cruelty. If they weren’t murdering civilians, bombing hospitals and power grids and generally committing war crimes on an almost DAILY basis, the Russian military would have NOTHING to report to Puketin at all! Half of them know their munitions will be in Ukrainian hands by the end of the month, so they want to, “get their guns off,” before that happens, and then they force their (soon to be dead anyway) conscripts to cover up their war crimes by having them dig mass graves, as though they don’t even realise they’re being watched by the west from space satellites, because they’re medieval, third world mentality, ignorant, COWARDLY orks.
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@chadmartin4525 : 🤦♂️ Your, “fear,” isn’t coming from me, son. That’s just REALITY knocking at your door. That pain in your posterior is called, “butt harm,” and the proctologist will only treat it if you have money up front, with it bein’ a pre-existing condition and all. 🤷♂️ Your whining might have had some, “credibility,” if it wasn’t for the fact that you wasted the last 4 years of your life spreading lies and hate, exclusively talking to people you hate, on channels that you HATE? You’ve been at it so long, you’ve forgotten how obvious and stooopid you look. 🤣 You came to me, remember? 🤪
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zbudda : As R Yates asked, “What’s your point”? Apart from your Russian-style attempt at Shilling, for an outed conspirator (Nunes) who made a public IDIOT of himself, with his lame attempts at covering up Trump’s mess, I cannot derive ANY relevance the discussion in hand, WHATSOEVER??? I also can’t believe I READ all that drivel?
Is this some sort of preemptive cover up, type, thingy, goin’ on, here? Is Nunes going to be the NEXT busted guy in the chain? Are your orders, from the Russian Shell Company that PAYS you, to prepare the propaganda line, in time for Nunes to be marched down to the court and plead “Guilty” to something?
Or am I wasting my energy on some LAME, Not-So-Breit-Bart, distraction, which has no end in sight, so long as I go down the Rabbit Hole?
What has ANY of that to do with ANYTHING?
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zbudda : You REALISE that the WORLD can SEE this thread, don’t you? Simply saying, “I have defeated you,” like a toddler in denial, doesn’t make it so? Grow up. What is this OBSESSION with people’s “channels” ANYWAY? Seriously, dude. It’s the content of their WORDS that people are reading, not an analysis of their backgrounds, like some FSB goon, looking for “dirt” on people? I NEVER commented on YOUR channel, because I HAVEN’T LOOKED at it! Which PART of “Don’t give a s**T” did you not follow???
The WORLD can SEE that you have NOT talked about the topic in hand! They can SEE that you WON’T ANSWER my direct QUESTIONS about the content of THIS VIDEO! Who are you trying to kid, kid? Really? You’re just making a FOOL of yourself 🙃
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Just Me : Of course she’s right. “Wag the dog.” A distraction, to have Americans look away from the sham of the GOP fixing Trump’s Impeachment. The Republic has FALLEN in a COUP, organised by GOP members who face jail time if Trump is removed. And by the crime family that would all go to jail, the moment Trump lost his presidential, “protected status.” They HAVE TO RIG 2020’s, “elections,” with Russia’s help. It’s that or JAIL. So they have taken away your Democracy, to save a bunch of crooked, incompetent, evil idiots. Their only concern is that Americans might RISE UP, which is why the go to Iran distraction, AGAIN. WHY ARE YOU ALLOWING THE END OF THE REPUBLIC, AMERICA??? . . . Smh
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This might sound exhausting, but let’s be grateful that Biden isn’t circumventing rules, norms or laws, just to get what he wants? He may be right or wrong? But, he’s determined to do things the way they were always meant to be done, within the confines of normal practices, so as to throw his practices into sharp relief, when compared to the Qultish chaos of the fascists in the GOP. And, make no mistake? They are Fascists, by every significant marker. And they’re going to mount another attempt at an insurrection soon. That’s what trump hopes to achieve, with this tour he’s started (and MONEY, of course) and he’s going to get people KILLED, or he’ll have failed at his goals. The biggest mistake we could make right now, would be to fail to take them seriously. Not as human beings, but as a threat to Democracy. It’s coming, America. We can’t let them win. Or we’ll lose our democracy, forever.
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@pipedown1246 : Yeah, “Victimhood,” is their whole THING now? One of the reasons they’re losing supporters (apart from their racism, fascism and trying to Cancel democracy, I mean) is because they can’t reconcile their effeminacy of being such cry babies, with the, “Macho Macho Man,” image they want to project. I honestly think there’s something in that. I bet trump gets a ghost writer to pen, “My Struggle,” while he’s doing time, just like Hitler did? 🤷♂️ 👍
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hardeez1 : Not, “intelligent,” enough to answer the question, I see? But, don’t worry, NO ONE EVER HAS. Because Trump is a failure, who keeps lighting fires in the economy that the grownups have to put out. ONE THING? That’s ALL I ask? ONE, SINGLE, THING, that Trump has done, DIRECTLY to the economy, that has NOT HURT America? IMPOSSIBLE, I know, RIGHT? So, WHY do people support him? Two reasons: They’re either foreign Trolls, being paid, or they’re RACISTS, who don’t CARE that their country is becoming a dictatorship, so long as America turns WHITE. And TOO DUMB to realise that Trump will FAIL at THAT, TOO. SMH . . . 🍊 ☠️
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America needs to be honest with itself. No one even DOUBTS Trump’s Guilt. The GOP knows it, as do his fans. This Impeachment is NOT about that. The GOP are asking America to be, “OK,” with it. They’re counting on people to HATE the Dems, SO MUCH, that they will disregard the Constitution, and END the Republic. They WANT a Putin Style, “Pretend,” Democracy. They WANT a Russian Style, Single Party, Dictatorship, with a FAKE Opposition, for appearances sake. A COUP! That’s what, at least SOME Americans, seem willing to do?
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Jack Harter : Far too emotional, Jack. Devoid of FACTS. Calm down and THINK for a moment? Al Capone, “never did any jail time,” nor was he, “accused of a crime,” until he WAS, you MORON. But, does that mean that YOU believe that Capone had nothing to do with The St Valentine’s Day Massacre? Or, that Capone had no involvement with the Mafia? What will you teach YOUR kids? “Just ignore things you don’t like, Timmy, because that’s how you get a racist buffoon into the White House. We call it covering up.” For GOD’S SAKE, just DON’T BREED, already
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Challenger revived Kh : You pretty much nailed it, there. And I like that you can see the historical context of the Reagan years. You’re right, that they don’t understand what I’m talking about, just as they won’t be able to comprehend the points you made. But, I also comment for the benefit of others, who may be reading these comments, either looking for justification for backing this TRAITOR in the White House, or who are simply interested in the facts. I don’t intend to let legitimate questions go unanswered, for the sake of those who may not KNOW the truth, but feel in their gut, that there is “something rotten in Denmark.”
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Chris Bly : Your arguments against MyProblem . . . are SO RUSSIAN in style! Are you AWARE of what you are saying? You ask him WHY the media may say things that make Trump look bad, if it’s not all owned by the “left” (whatever the hell THAT is?) but it DOESN’T OCCUR TO YOU that the media COULD just be telling the TRUTH??? ONLY a PRO-PUTIN person, would NOT COMPREHEND that a “pro-Republican” journalist COULD have something TRUTHFULLY NEGATIVE to say about their leader, because, in YOUR MIND, it is NOT ABOUT the truth, but about being on one side or the OTHER.
Answer his questions, instead of giving out all this hysterical, Trumpian, stream-of-consciousness, angry side stepping? IF you HAVE any answers?
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If you were to make a special video, looking more deeply into the ideas, history and uses of conspiracy theories, it would be worth discussing the use (abuse) of the Blood Libel which, as current events demonstrate, is alive and well to this day and has been since the early medieval period, in one form or other. Indeed, the blaming of, “migrants,” (for, “migrants,” see, “Jews,” in the history books) for horrific acts of violence, on highly spurious grounds, has ever been the cry of the privileged classes at the moments when they have felt their power slipping. That is all we’re seeing with these riots. And that is why no stone should be left unturned to discover the people funding and organising them.
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@John_Smith_60 : Seems to me that politicising a pandemic should have been a criminal offence, from the outset? Whatever your politics, people can speak to their doctors, and there’s no argument to that. But, the people who support Coup plotters can’t be thought of as, “patriots,” given that they openly reject America’s top scientific minds (who are all in agreement) in favor of rumours and disinformation which ALL come from hostile foreign sources?
There are about four or five, high profile GOP members, who have chosen this Covid hill to die on. Even the rest of their party has realised that this is getting Darwinian. How will they make their election rigging look, “plausible,” if their base in Texas and Georgia are literally wiped out, with no one even showing up to vote GOP? Though I have little sympathy for their plight, countless lives could still be saved, if we treated disinformation as the SEDITION it is, and JAILED the people who are killing America’s Most Stoopid, with their lies.
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@samanthaizzoscheffler8272 : She literally can’t. They’re so dependent upon being told WHAT to, “think,” they simply don’t know HOW to think. Carlson, Hannity and Alex Jonestown do all their, “thinking,” for them. The ones who come here to share their, “emotions,” are either paid to (and in a foreign country) or just racists with the kind of, “issues,” that would be better addressed by a therapist. I mean, think about it? How ill would you have to be, to spend all day, every day, for 5 years, living on the channels you, “hate,” talking to people you, “hate,” about all the stuff that you, “hate,” right? These are not, “normal,” people . . . ✌️
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@xgfreedom : Incredible, isn’t it? One (A-Political) enquiry to their doctors would put an end to any, “questions,” they have. But, they, “prefer,” disinformation, manufactured by America’s enemies, simply because it’s regurgitated by the, “politicians,” they like. Not exactly, “Patriotic,” is it? To disregard the entirety of America’s best scientific minds, in favor of, “Russier,” and, “Chiynah,” right? 🤦♂️
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@papaiamericano5420 : I think his isolation from Covid in the last two years may have gotten to him? He’s apparently more paranoid and not playing well with others in his Cabinet. It’s hard to tell whether he has a terminal diagnosis of some kind and just doesn’t care, or if he just thinks he’s a Bond Villain, but he has already threatened us with nukes, so the west will not let that go, even if they’re inclined to let him think so for a while. In over a hundred years the west has trodden over millions of corpses to maintain control over energy supplies. I don’t think they’re going to let Putin be an exception. Only a nut job lets another nut job point a loaded gun at their head twice. The west will pour resources into getting Putin’s bellicose, sticky fingers off of that trigger now. Whether it’s by backing a palace coup, stirring up dissent in Russia or arming Ukraine (all three and more, probably) they (we) cannot afford to rest until he’s out of the picture.
It’s all fun and games if your name is Kim and your sabre can’t reach across the coast of Japan, but when you have the power to burn the world a thousand times over, and you’re putting your stations on high alert whilst making threats, it’s probably time to put you in a padded cell where you can’t harm yourself and others, right? We can count on his oligarch buddies not being in a suicide pact, and there’s always someone waiting in the wings . . .
Besides, there’s the other factor he’s so badly miscalculated too, his people. While he’s been able to use the spectre of Cold War austerity as a way of saying, “Well, at least it’s not as bad as the old days?” now the people are seeing exactly that. Not just free speech getting you 15 years either, but all their favourite TV and news stations are closing down. When they have to cue all day for one loaf of bread, and face a beating for complaining about it, someone is going to say, “F*ck this! We would be rich if we took our trillions back from the oligarchs and made friends with the west. Let’s tear down the Kremlin!”
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Merlinz Batgirl : But, I still don’t get where you are going with this? The Biden Hoax HAS been Comprehensively, exhaustively investigated. The conclusion can be summed up as, “Sure, his son took advantage of his position to get a lucrative job, but that’s NOT illegal. Don’t hate the player, hate the game. And, Trump’s whole family are in WAY worse trouble, if we’re using THAT as our benchmark.” Not even Trump fans, “believe,” any of Trump’s bollox, at this stage. You know that, right? 🤔
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Are you a fan of Putin, or just happy to sound like one? Maybe you just haven’t read the membership requirements or haven’t been following recent events? You do know that Zelensky was lead to believe he would be getting a formal invitation to join NATO, right? That would have started a process that could take up to 10 years or be resolved in 10 weeks, depending on developments. But it was the signal the whole world has been hoping for (the whole free world, that is) and this is the reason that Zelensky and millions of onlookers are so disappointed and angry right now.
Putin has heard repeated messages of support for Ukraine and he’s still hoping he can get to a, “draw,” if his economy can withstand the dragging out of this war. That’s countless unnecessary deaths, on their way, due to NATO’s pusillanimity and mixed messages. Their cowardice, express by the repetition of a vague promise.
I expect they will be inundated by angry supporters of peace through victory for Ukraine now. Like FDR said, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”
This is why . . .
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@SolVulkan : Zelensky was lead on to believe that he would receive the formal invitation to join NATO and it sounds to me like it fell through at the last minute, (due to Putin’s agents blackmailing certain country’s officials, probably) given all the build up and the expectations which NO ONE did anything to dampen?
The process which follows that can take anything from 10 weeks to 10 years, depending on how politicians manage these affairs. But the message to Putin would have been resounding. It still was a very loud message to Putin, but now NATO is telling him he has every insensitive to keep fighting for as long as his economy can stand it.
Please, people? Write to your representatives and demand action? We need western leaders to state, unambiguously, that they intend to support Ukraine’s VICTORY and the total restoration of their country. That there will be ZERO pressure on Zelensky to join peace talks until Crimea is back in Ukrainian hands. And that we WILL give them F16’s, Leopard Tanks, long range missiles, a full navy and everything they need to WIN!
Every time the west falls short of saying Ukraine will WIN with our help, we encourage Putin’s war; ACTIVELY INCENTIVISING him to cling on in the hope of not losing the land he started with 500 days ago!
FDR said, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” He was talking about situations EXACTLY like this!
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You all realise we can’t trust the, “reassurances,” of Moscow Mitch, and any GOP member, right? Especially the ones looking at serious jail time! You all must KNOW what Bill Barr’s Secret Police units are being expanded FOR, America? They are unconstitutional, and ILLEGAL anyway. Inundate your representatives, join the protests and activist groups, donate your money; DO whatever you can, but by GOD! DO SOMETHING TO GET SECRET POLICE UNITS OUTLAWED! They are building the instrument of your suppression, right under your noses!
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@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311 : When I saw the length of your comment I thought, “Oh oh, hear we go,” but I was pleasantly disabused. I listen to that interview with David Owen, agreed with almost everything he said, but was angered by his (as you put it), “pusillanimity,” regarding the question of Crimea and the ultimate settlement with Moscow. It struck me as not just patrician, patronising and out of touch - with one eye on doing business with the same old Russian faces after the war and maintaining the status quo - but also quite divorced from the reality on the ground.
It reminded me of the same surprise Zelensky gave the Americans when he said, “I don’t need a ride, I need ammunition,” and refused to be evacuated. Many in the west still don’t see what Ukraine sees as clear as a bell. Once Russia is out of Ukraine, they will never cease their terror bombings in the way they’re doing now, unless they are physically beaten into submission, or their administration collapses. It is easy to assume, from the moral absenteeism of the Russian population, and the country’s history, in which two collapses of government in the last century lead to equally corrupt governments taking over, that if Putin is replaced, it will be by just another oligarch. Yet, I demur on this question, because of the absolute vacuum of intelligent or capable men left in Putin’s orbit. When Stalin died, the people left alive to replace him never questioned Communism as a system, but all were not really fit to run a country, which showed. Had Stalin been killed in a revolution, the people left standing would not have had the intellect or wherewithal to withstand a concerted onslaught. And this will be the first time in Russia 1000 year history where we may see the possibility of a concerted revolution and people of genuine imagination and ability rise up from outside Putin’s bubble to take power . . . possibly?
But, either way, the politicians of the west have shown that they are slowly coming to understand that Ukraine is not putting Crimea up for debate, any more than Kiev. And they will not cease hostilities with Russia until their homeland is made safe from hostile attacks, rather than being forced to live like Palestinians in the West Bank, constantly wondering when and where the next missile strikes are coming.
Yes, a deal will have to be made in the end. But ANY deal simply cannot involve surrendering an inch of soil to Putin or Zelensky will get thrown out at the next election, replaced by someone willing to fight, and place the west back in the same quandaries anyway. I put it in my comment that if he was talking about Cornwall or Wales, we would all be naturally and rightly appalled and enraged by his sickeningly myopic, “Daddy knows best,” attitude. I site Cornwall and Wales, because both have made noises about independence and devolution in the past, but equally, both would rather see their land nuked than fall into the hands of a Stalinist dictatorship, and we do not need to question whether they would stand with Westminster, should such a question (implausible as it is) arise.
It was such a shame, because I could not fault him on everything else he said. Indeed I found myself nodding to the suggestion of selling top of the line jets to Poland, so they can donate their jets to Ukraine. After all, Poland spends a whopping 5% of GDP on its military and the contracts mean prosperity for British workers and companies. And that makes for a blunt answer to those who complain about their taxes being wasted on Ukraine.
But it also served as a reminder as to why Lord Owen never saw his own party achieve power when he was an MP, and why so much of his political career was so disastrous. He really does see it all through the old boy establishment lens. And that lens cracked back in the 80’s. By now, it is completely shattered. I just hope they keep him out of any diplomacy involving settlements? ✌️🇺🇦
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Blerim Nokaj : How can you PRETEND to be a, “human,” and say THAT, for SHAME?! Forget, “crimes,” for one second, and ask yourself, “Would I HELP the guy who, out of sheer malignant EVIL, had another human being HACKED to DEATH, while begging for MERCY?” You racist, f**ked up, POS . . . There really IS no hope for some of you . . . SMH
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@stephaniel7002 : Good point. What accounts for that, do you think? Just the acceptance of it as a cultural, “norm?” That poverty can be just down the street, practically on your doorstep, yet we don’t see it? Brought up that way? Scared to look at it? Frightened by it? Isolated in a cultural bubble, due to the internet (or at least, exacerbated by it?) which has only been made worse by the social isolation of Covid, and increased access to goods and services at the click of a mouse? I think it’s a combination of things, such as wilful ignorance, due to fear of lapsing into poverty, a sense of helplessness, thus apathy, because, “you can’t fight The Man,” growing social isolation, and a massive increase in wilful selfishness, culturally, that is being normalised by callousness in politics. But that’s just me. What are your thoughts? 👍
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The value of these educational videos is immeasurable. The fact that they are entertaining and inspiring is a bonus. Thank you, Anna.
I apologise, but I feel compelled to disagree strongly about only one thing you said. You asserted that Putin, “did not see Ukraine was strong,” in 2014. Actually, (and this is only my opinion, but) I believe it was BECAUSE Putin could see how strong, passionate and united Ukraine was, that he wanted to stamp that out of you. Ukraine is a giant resource in Putin’s eyes, sitting on as much untapped mineral wealth and food production as the rest 0f Russia, in all probability, if only your country was left in peace to govern its own affairs and exploit its own resources. Putin wants that. He’s a mafia crook, trying to steal what you have. He certainly doesn’t want a rival country, closer to Europe (both geographically and politically) providing all the goods and services his nation relies on.
So, it was the very fact of your strength, unity, national pride and belief in freedom and democracy that frightened him so much and enraged him. His plan up until then was just to keep corrupting your politicians while he sent bogus, “nationalists,” to eat away at the sovereignty of your borders, until the whole country became so dysfunctional and, “Sovietised,” that it eventually dropped into his lap. Combined with the west’s former utter lack of urgency and total inaction at his previous crimes, and he saw a situation in which he thought he could get away with it.
As with all bullies, it IS your, “strength,” your dignity, your courage and your determination that bothers him so much and goads him into lashing out. He knows no other way and is not bright enough to be taught. This is why there is no other course for the west but to see it through to the end. Putin in particular, but Russia as a whole, MUST BE DEFEATED. And that means total victory for Ukraine. No other outcome could truly end this war.
Thank you again, for your spirit in the face of the enemy, which inspires me so. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦✌️🇬🇧
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Given how trump treated them, coming into office settling a 10 million dollar lawsuit, to avoid fraud charges against a military CHARITY, in his first MONTH. And all his dissing of the military since, they can be thankful that Joe, who’s family has sacrificed so much, and who actually CARES, is in charge of this. Ripping off the bandaid has been the kindest thing, when every other president previous (on both sides) has winced at the touch, refusing to rip it free. Let’s wait till the fat lady sings, before we cast our judgement about this? . . .
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@tomporsgaard7547 : Trump got his ass handed to him by the Chinese, when he lost his pointless trade war, and he’s never forgiven them for that, or for not helping him, illegally, with his election bid for 2020, despite the humiliating begging he did with Xi. Then there’s all the base training: Fascism requires that people are attacked for the way they, “look,” not, “the content of their character.” They already have black people and Hispanics pretty well nailed down, so this is just a natural expansion of fascism, with easy Bogie Men targets to attack. Being a smaller minority, with less power than other groups helps, and their attacks upon the elderly and isolated, seem to reflect that? I think it’s also about adding fuel to the, “out and proud,” nature they want around racism more generally? Since trump’s last weeks in office, it’s risible for the GOP to even claim to be, “patriotic,” or pro-democracy, or even pro-Republic. I think fascism will soon be called what it is, and they’ll make no excuses for it. They’ve only got the baggage of history to contend with after that? And, if they get power again, they’ll never let go, so they’ll get to rewrite the history, and change it to his story, “Orange man good.”
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@gulagamelee4804 : Good question. Especially if you’re not a streamer, with access to the tools? There are reliable sources who do say there are lots of chat-bots, and that TouTube counts them in their algorithm as, “engagement,” so is reluctant (like other companies) to get rid of them.
One day they’ll just cut out the inconvenience of dealing with humans and have AI created content, watched and commented on by bots, with bot adverts, made by advert-bots, being paid for in bank of bot-town dollars, as the radioactive wasteland that was once Earth is now monitored for signs of human life, so as to eradicate it. 😉
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catalinacurio : It’s a, “bitch,” isn’t it? 🤣👍 I have yet to meet a Trump, “fan,” who actually, “believes,” ANYTHING Trump tells them. But, in their Land Of Fake Believe, the sky is said to be Orange, and NOBODY ever has to listen to a, “liberal,” (none-Trump Tramp) saying, “We SO told you so, dudes!” 🤣
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@GeneralSamov : Again, you’re assuming much, but not things that can be found in my words. Those under Federal Indictment, right now, will take their confessions as the, “out,” they’re looking for, so as to reinforce their message of, “remorse,” to a judge, hoping for a reduced sentence and future employability. Several of the Q followers, who have been writing all over social media, expressing their, “shock,” and, “disappointment,” that trump didn’t round up the Dems at the Inauguration, and retake the presidency (As Q said would happen) will be able to ease several more followers out with them. But, that will leave the vast majority of the racists, the proto-Nazis and the under educated, “They’re t’kin’ urr jerbz,” types behind. No one is expecting that America will suddenly wake up, as if from a fevered dream, and snap out of it? And, I’m not suggesting that either. But, what they will have, is their STICK taken from them. Their ability to claim, “legitimacy,” for what has always been a lunatic fringe movement, at the centre of main stream politics, wreaking havoc, and literally killing Americans in droves; whether by inaction over a plague ravaging our most vulnerable, or by direct violence. No one will be able to claim our government is not legitimate, without being treated in the same fashion that fringe Conspiracy Theorists usually are, and the fracture between those in the GOP who have built their careers around the trump edifice, and those who game the system, like Mitch McConnell, will become a gulf, too wide to straddle. They will go their separate ways, and the main stream system gamers will survive to stay in politics, because the Dems will assist them. The symptom of Trump will become treatable, through criminal law, and the disease of the GOP (as we’re already seeing) will become evident. The cause, Putin, will grow more apparent, and the vector, Fox and Fiends (and their ilk) will be vulnerable to new Sedition Laws, with any good fortune and a helping hand from God?
The bitterness of defeat, and the shame and embarrassment of exposure will make some crazy (something else we’re seeing plenty of already) but these people will not be ignored. And, slowly, they will be rehabilitated, or shunned. Their numbers will dwindle, but they will never be forgotten, or failed to be dealt with, when they arise. People in search of a cult don’t go away. But, we can offer them better things
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Well, it’s an, “ongoing attempt,” if you like? The message that everyone needs to take away from all this is the, “ongoing,” part. They are trying, every single day, and in every single imaginable way, to complete their coup. They will not stop, unless they are stopped! We need to hear from the DOJ, regarding these latest developments, to reassure the public. Trust in the system is being eroded at both ends, which is precisely what Putin and trump wants. We can’t duck the issues. People need to be locked up, to set examples to deter others. And we have to STOP placating the cult around trump! Doing that is just deluding them into believing they’re entitled to be treated with kid gloves. It’s time to take the gloves off altogether. It’s not past tense! We remain, “perilously close to a coup,” as long as the plotters remain at large! ✌️
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They need to get ALL the insurrectionists on the stand, under oath, at the impeachment! Force them to give their, “evidence,” for backing the, “Steal,” LIE, or force them to confess it was a LIE, FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE! Especially Cruz! The truth is necessary and the exposure of the lie is vital! Plus, the witnesses cannot be jurors! Subpoena them! I think a lot of ground could shift, and the impeachment may yet succeed?! But, even if it doesn’t, witness testimonies could still lead to the expulsions of Hawley, Graham and Cruz! ✌️👍
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These rules already exist! You cannot be a, “news anchor,” as an MP, but all second jobs should be illegal in my view. The arguments to the contrary are completely specious! The real problem is that OFCOM is toothless and corrupted the by, “friends and families,” of Tory MP’s! THAT organisations needs to be completely swept clean and re-staffed with genuinely INDEPENDENT people who believe in DEMOCRACY, and invested with REAL POWERS to subpoena people, fine organisations, and make criminal referrals to the CPS!
Anything that levels the playing field, or makes media fair and balanced, the Tories oppose.
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@PaulGreeve : I love her show and her style, but haven’t read her book. Yet, I don’t agree with her entirely. Taking a page from your own book, so to speak, I disagree in principle that the mere investigation of what sets the values of anti-matter versus baryonic matter is valueless. Whether we call it a, “problem,” or not is merely word play, after all? It’s an interesting mystery.
Dirac only predicted that there would be such a thing as, “anti-matter,” by doing math and he was later proven correct, though he never suggested he knew what the amount would be. So far, so cleared up, and thank you to Sabine for that. Yet, to just take the, “Shut up and calculate,” attitude thereafter and to suggest that it’s time wasting to delve deeper into that mystery is wrong headed in my view.
I am not expert enough to comment on whether the vast sums spent on colliders is worth it or not, or if the science is valid when it comes to this question in particular, but there is an obvious question worthy of investigation by science isn’t there? If the amounts of anti-matter and matter were 1 to 1 equal, there would be no universe in which we could ponder the question at all. So, isn’t it natural to wonder what caused that imbalance? It was by pondering such questions that Einstein came up with his ideas, for which later scientists like Arthur Eddington dreamt up experiments that could prove him right.
Either, there was an equal amount of both matter types and there was something that caused them to avoid direct contact in the earliest moments of the universe’s existence, or there were different amounts to start with? Either way, how is trying to discover which is the case a waste of any scientist’s time? Knowing what conditions set these values could change our understanding of physics altogether?
I think it’s a slippery slight of hand to try to invalidate the question, just because you would rather spend money an resources differently. She admits herself that it would be, “wonderful to know the answer.” But, then just goes on to say there is no way to figure it out. I think she’s wrong about that, and about the ingenuity of science to come up with ways of interrogating these questions. She reminds me of Hoyle dismissing the Big Bang theory whilst coining the expression, refuting the very basis of the science out of a personal dislike, rather than for a scientific reason. To speak in absolutes, “There is no science in existence today equipped to investigate the question,” (I’m paraphrasing, but that’s pretty much what she said) is a bonkers thing to say, like standing in a forest and saying, “There’s nothing here from which we could build a house,” when a thousand carpenters would beg to differ.
Don’t get me wrong. I love her show, and she’s usually right on the money. But she has an emotive attitude that sometimes gets the better of her, which a lot of people miss because of her cool Germanic style. This seems to me to be one of those cases. Of course it’s an intriguing question, from which the whole of physics would benefit by the answer! Maybe the debate should be about, “how,: it is investigated, not, “if,” it should be?
What do you think? ✌️
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Ernest Chacon : Do you remember the Russian Hack of Florida’s election computers? It got big coverage at the time, and even the GOP admitted it was the Russians. Then Trump adopted Florida as his home and launched his, “campaign,” from there, within weeks. Remember? It went dark, because they threatened every politician with Anti-Terror laws, and instant jail, if they talked to the press about it. Remember? And, now? Donny says, “voter fraud,” everywhere EXCEPT FLORIDA!? “Don’t look at Florida.” And you aren’t ALARMED??? Do you people WANT a Dictatorship?
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Yes, I grew up watching that popular comedy, Dad’s Army, in Britain. It’s so good and was so popular because of the element of drama that underlay all the gags. These mismatched, not very competent people, gruffly protecting their own dignity in undignified situations, and competing with one another for, “authority,” is a befitting simile. People from the every day street, stuffed into ill fitting uniforms, making it up as they go along, sounds about right for the Russian army. Except, where the Home Guard of the TV show were charming and funny, the Russians were thieving, rapists and murderers.
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tubularbill : In this thread, we see ALL THREE of the classic Troll approaches. Are YOU all three of these people? One, just abusive, hoping to alienate people and make the stop commenting, rather than deal with the hostility and abuse: FAIL. One, dismissing us ALL as, “libtards,” trying DESPERATELY to keep it a “them and us” battle to DIVIDE Trump’s opponents, EVEN THOUGH Conservatives have CLEARLY been voting AGAINST the GOP in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc: FAIL. And then there’s YOU. Ask the OBTUSE question, which takes forever to explain, provides you with useful data about American thinking, and EXPENDS the amount of time and effort that people would otherwise use, making multiple, DAMAGING, TRUTHFUL comments. FAIL.
And BECAUSE of people LIKE YOU, (all three of you) Conservatives are falling away. Shooting yourselves in the foot, but you DON’T even SEE IT. So, keep it up. Trump is DONE
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Johnathan : Your spelling and grammar is juvenile, son. But, we don’t blame Trump for this. Your taxes have SHOT up, and no one’s complaining, because we’re SO well off, I guess? You’re all happy to pay more than the rest of the world, for your food, gas, technology, so you should not pull on that thread, if I were you? Trump Tramps are not readers though, are they? 😉
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@RecoveringChristian : I think the opposite is true, in this case? I honestly think he’s looking for an excuse to drop his new, “comedy,” slot, because it’s such a whopping failure? I predicted it. I said he’d soon tire of being mocked by funnier people and the press and internet cringing for him, because he’s typically thin skinned and because it’s just starting to dawn on him that funny people are skilled professionals who honed their craft over years of work. You can’t just say, “I make my bigoted friends on Fox lol all the time, how hard can it be?” and expect to be, “funny.” He wants to blame, “Cancel Culture,” rather than admit failure. I literally called this! And if this doesn’t work, he’ll double down, until he’s finally, “cancelled,” because he can’t bear the shame of his failure, or admit defeat! I’m loving his pain right now 😉
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@parrisprice5892 : I would have hoped you know what I mean? “We,” have tolerated the Electoral College, racist Gerrymandering and various other evils without making them election issues. Not, “you,” personally. But whether, “we,” like it or not, things may not be our fault, but this is the world, “we,” made. It’s not your fault, but it is your responsibility. And mine
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Danny v : Why not, son? 🤔 That makes no sense? “You do realise,” that all these, “multiple witnesses,” who, “complained,” about Trump to the Whistleblower are GOING TO TESTIFY, right? And, what’s, “wrong,” with, “demanding an investigation,” either? No one is threatening to withhold their Military support, like Trump did? You should READ the Complaint, son? It’s not that long?
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David Grover : And, have you READ the rap sheet on Manafort? STEALING $MILLIONS of the Tax Payers DOLLARS is not just a, “process crime,” dimwit! And Cohen is going to jail for COLLUDING in a CONSPIRACY with Trump, you America-Hating Trumpophile! You just can’t admit how WRONG you were, because you’re too RACIST or too on the payroll. You people make me sick! Has Alex, “Q-Anal,” Jones come up with, “process crimes,” like they’re just some little misdemeanour, as the new Double-Think, Double-Talk, Propaganda line, huh? Stone LIED to Congress and THREATENED Credico to do the same thing, you POS! F**K Putin, OK? 🙂
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@slatibaadfast : What, “policies?” Trump HAD NO policies on Covid. Unless you count DENIAL as a, “policy?” As to the word, “Conservative,” I honestly think we should all be a bit more real about what the trump’s are? They are NOT Conservative, by any description or definition. They’re fascist. They don’t believe an, “opposition,” party, of ANY kind, should be allowed. Remember, “Lock Her Up,” started BEFORE trump was even, “elected.” Trump invented Cancel Culture, which is why he blames his opponents for it, as is their MO. But, Conservatives, like me, believe that you don’t even HAVE a Democracy or a Republic, UNLESS the government in office (regardless of its politics) has a strong opposition, able to publicly debate, challenge and scrutinise policy, and that has the POWER to hold government to account for excesses, or illegality. Important distinction there, which goes to the heart of what the trump’s REALY are.
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The irony is that their coverups draw more attention and cause them to be even less popular than the actual things they’re covering up! I mean, who TF will be even remotely, “surprised,” that all of these WhatsApp messages contain nothing more than a gag reel of sick jokes at the bereaved’s expense, confessions of knowingly doing harm, insider dealing for their friends and family’s brand new, “companies,” meant to provide the protection equipment for hospitals, and MP’s handing off all of their own responsibilities to civil servants!?
My dad, having had a series of mini strokes, was like that protagonist in the Christopher Nolan film Memento, where he couldn’t make new memories and he kept asking for his wife, my mum, whom we’d buried the year before. He had it explained to him over and over again that his four children were not allowed to be with him, and why, but forget again within minutes. So, in his world, he died of Covid, alone, and heart broken, unable to comprehend why he was alone.
After going through a series of loopholes, so I could get permission to attend his funeral, travelling from Scotland to England, I returned home, weary and emotionally exhausted, so I only have myself to blame for putting on a current affairs program. But the first image I saw when I got back, now SEARED into the scar tissue of my neuro-divergent brain, was some Tory press wonk, standing before the agog press and a live camera, ACTUALLY LAUGHING OUT LOUD at the drunken antics of Cabinet members and Number 10 staff at a series of parties for Boris Johnson’s birthday!
I can never relate that vertigo inducing sensation you get when you have been forced against your better judgement to place your trust in the government at a time of genuine, worldwide crisis, only to see that they drunk at the wheel! And LAUGHING IN YOUR FACE! I know there are many out there who went through something similar, some of them with worse mental health issues than me to begin with. And I will NEVER forgive or forget that utterly self-entitled, reckless, arrogant, cruel indifference to the fates of so many trusting fools like me.
So now, when I hear that they want to cover up what we all KNOW we will find - cruelty, selfishness, indifference, arrogance, theft under the guise of business as usual and flat out incompetence - I once again feel that revolutionary RAGE boiling in my blood. It will be good for the country when the Tories are sent into the wilderness and not allowed to re-enter the corridors of power until they’ve culled their far right deliberate antagonists of the people and self enriching Masonic lodge Liberal Economics clubs they call, “think tanks,” altogether. But in the mean time, we have one HELL of a mess to clean up and a MOUNTAIN of hard cash to reappropriate for the people who earned it.
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If this MTG stuff happened in an office, hospital or factory setting, MTG would have been suspended, and be looking at possible psychological intervention, or maybe even criminal proceedings. And, if left unchecked, her, “managers,” would be the ones in the firing line. They have FAILED in their basic Duty Of Care to an employee, and disregarded the safety of other workers! Yet, in the TOP work setting on the planet, THIS is the, “example,” set before the world? If she keeps it up, and gets hospitalised or sentenced for a crime, she’ll sue the GOP for failing in their Duty Of Care, and she’ll have a strong case! . . . ✌️
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LetzEat : Donny was slipping in the polls while we were a, “United,” States, fighting a threat together. Now, Covid is, “political,” and Donny’s trolls want us to go out and DIE for them, just so THEY get PAID. But, you won’t see any of their faces at these, “protests,” with or without a mask . . . Smh
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Kent Clark : You Trumpski Trolls are always acting like the ONLY alternative to Trump is, “Hillariiieee!” Or, “Obaahhh-maaahhh!” Like the sheeple you are. No one wants to, “go back,” to ANYTHING, son. “Progressive,” means, “Progress,” TOWARD something; NOT constantly running away, and playing the effeminate, “Victim,” for the rest of your life? Man up, son! This is WHY Conservatives, like ME, vote Democrat now. Trump has filled your head with propaganda and LIES, and you have CHOSEN to, “believe,” him, because you’re a racist . . . SMH
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Cat Cowboy : A). That’s still not the point. B) No they didn’t. They had local laws on their side, as it wasn’t illegal in the first place, so no, “permits,” were required. C) Normals NEVER TOUCH Trumpy Click Bait, as it’s immoral to give countable hits to Propaganda sites and, D) Trumpy Click Bait = Malware Risk. Finally, E) I thought I told you to calm TF down, cupcake? Go wipe the tears out of your eyes. The practice-run for election night went very well, and Donny will be pleased. You clearly don’t miss America’s Republic, so what’s your boggle, son? . . . 😆
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Except, unlike Santa, you can make democracy happen, by your own actions. When people get a grip on the fact that democracy is a team game, and a contact sport, they will get better at it. Right now, trump’s cult thinks that by throwing donations at the problem, they will somehow manage to, “buy back,” the presidency. It’s a scam, and Donny’s is going to flee America with all that money, and they’ll FINALLY get that wake up call they need so badly. At least America will be more united when they see it was just his Getaway Fund, and that he’s not even IN America on Inauguration Day? Too many warrants and indictments to flee from. When the cult SEES that they just funded the biggest, final SCAM Donny could pull, they will learn to HATE him, almost as much as they hate liberals and Mexicans. And it will serve them right! 🤣😂😆😂🤣
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Ricardo Aguinaga : Trump is a warmonger, trying not to look like a warmonger. And, your job is to help him with that Propaganda. But, the world has watched, while he ripped up his deal with Iran, broke America’s word, threatened and bullied them, while the Europeans have been trying to keep the peace and hold up the West’s end, without him. Now, he’s ramping up the Military presence, using the Saudis to frame them; making it look like Iran is STARTING the war, when we all KNOW it’s the LAST thing they want. And, he expects us to, “believe,” the intel coming from the SAME PEOPLE that he ROUTINELY calls, “liars,” EVERY DAY? He’s compared the CIA to, “Nazi Germany,” and we’re all meant to flip flop at his rate? America’s NOT buying it, son. Trump will have to look elsewhere for a bump in the polls. A war will finish him . . . Smh
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@armstrongcatherine : Surely there are no scales in which to weigh the balance? In every single war we learn of some war crime or other, committed by our own side, as we do here. It is to be expected from those who are walking among their own dead relatives in the rubble of their own homes, as much as it was from those who’d survived Hitler’s Blitz on London when they got to Berlin.
The difference, then as now, is that the Russian army uses rape, looting, torture and murder as their METHOD of warfare. And the very fact of their instantaneous gaslighting denials, before they could possibly have enough information to evaluate the truth of allegations, tells you all you need to know. Like our own armed forces, the Ukrainians must expect an occasional war crime, and they do, as we saw, acknowledge it, and deal with it through Courts Martial. They treat it as the, “exception,” because that’s what it is.
The Russian army (and I say this without value judgement) is made up of largely under educated, poverty stricken young men, with a Third World mentality. Russia still has the highest stats on alcoholism in the world, to boot. They see acts of terror and cowardice as, “normal,” not exceptional, and they believe that conquering a city grants them the right to rape, loot and murder. And their military culture is built around, “the spoils of war,” like medieval bandits.
They are so unlike us in their thinking and superstitious belief systems as to be practically aliens. And it must be GALLING for Zelensky’s advisor to have to even tolerate such a badly put question with its false equivalencies, its utter discounting of the suffering of Ukrainian citizens and its almost brutal blindness as to how it offers assistance to the Russian enemy by drawing those false comparisons.
It’s not the question that was wrong. It needed to be highlighted, to draw out the differences between the two armies for the world to see. It was the blundering, aggressive and frankly obtuse manner of its asking that was so offensively wrong headed.
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Yes, we should introduce a Stolen Valour act, using the American model as a template. Within that act of Parliament, criminalising such fraud, there should be equal punishment for casting aspersions on the validity of genuine medal winners. An equal and opposite offence, for casting doubt upon people who have served their country with such excellence that they have won a medal for it, should be seen as equally egregious, as it does precisely the same thing! To claim a genuine medal recipient is, “faking it,” is to, “steal,” their, “valour,” in the eyes of the public for the purposes of personal, political, or otherwise tangible gain! It is no less despicable!
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I think Heard was demonised: by Amber Heard, out of her own mouth. Anyone who watched the key points of the trial saw for themselves that this was in no way a case of, “he said, she said.” This was a deliberate, malignant attempt to vindictively destroy a good man, by a villain who thought her victim was too drugged up and too basically decent to defend himself. Never forget, this woman is physically brutal, mentally depraved, morally bankrupt and conniving even now. She is showing us that she’s learned nothing from her experience and is far too narcissistic to accept just how completely her lies and her schemes were exposed.
And her, “lawyer,” is like the Black Knight is Monty Python And The Holy Grail, saying, “Tis but a scratch,” when her arm is cut off! She’s not just unable to see that she’s utterly beaten, she’s making a complete arse of herself in the process! It was a perfect storm of total incompetence from start to finish, with everything from their choices of witnesses to Berenhoft’s, “I’m trying,” performance, set against the slick yet very human and humane performance of Depp’s council and the consistent witnesses they chose.
Depp was clearly more than innocent. He was a victim! For six long years. Losing respect, his career and countless millions. Not to mention the appalling incalculable damage Heard inflicted on all those sick children that Depp would have otherwise visited in hospitals around the world, dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow. Just think of all the heartbreak Heard inflicted on children who have been visited by him or who had visits cancelled, as they falsely believed their idol was a, “wife beater.”
Heard was demonised alright. By herself! Because Amber Heard is and remains a DEMON!
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loags22 : Bernie condemned the shooter right away, and has NEVER CALLED for, “punching that guy in the face,” offered to pay the legal bills of people who beat on protesters, or called the press, “The Enemy of the People,” quoting STALIN, of all people, let ALONE, attacked law enforcement, institutions, our allies, our sports, people’s f**king FUNERALS, etc, etc, etc. So, that’s a Category Error, right there, son.
Besides, weren’t they just GOP, “Crisis Actors,” at the baseball shooting? 🤔 Steve Scalise “recovered” a bit quick, didn’t he? Yeah, sick, isn’t it?
So, the fact that you support Trump - a HATER - makes YOU a HATER, in the same way that the fact that you support Trump - A RACIST - makes YOU a RACIST. You are what you vote for, son. QED 🙂
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American Patriot : See, the perennial problem of the Troll, at large, is that EVERYONE KNOWS that if they, “Really Believed,” ANY of their own BOLLOX, they wouldn’t BE on CNN, whining to the very people that they HATE so much, spreading their HATE, about the news channel that they HATE. See? QED. You can’t get around your fundamental flaw. Never mind, Putin 😁
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South Croy : I see your point, but there is true greatness, mixed with all the horror, too. I’m not giving up on America. I’m sure as hell not going to sit around and watch world Democracy fall, because of one, exploited, greedy imbecile, and his imbecilic followers. I’d never be able to look my grandchildren in the face. Every working Democracy has to put up with 10 or 15 % of nutjobs. That’s the price of freedom; the freedom to be a d**k. And, I genuinely believe that, when it’s all out in the public domain, there will only BE the religious nutters, the racists and the mentally ill, who’ll stand by Trump, after that. Trolls have lots of accounts, to make their numbers look greater than they are. I think some are already looking for their excuse to get out of the Cult. And the Wall-Shutdown represents an OPPORTUNITY, as much for THEM as the rest of the US. That’s why I think we should help them out? What do you say? With me? 😉✌️👍
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Which leaves us in the uncomfortable position of not being able to wholeheartedly trust any given poll, yet not being able to entirely dismiss their findings. The thing I find most helpful, when I’m at all bothered to know what a poll truly says (which is not often) is to go to the source, find out who did the poll, what the exact grammar of the question was and how it was put to them, and all of that comes after learning what the demographic was and whether they’re a true representation of the target group. There’s a world of difference, for instance between answering a poll privately instead of in front of friends, family or colleagues. There’s a world of difference between whether it was filling in a form or giving verbal answers to a person on the phone, who may or may not have been trained to lead their subject with cunning linguistics, and who may just hang up on people who sound like they’re not going to give them the answers they’re looking for.
However, what’s of genuine use is not so much the findings of the poll, but what it tells you about the concerns of those who conduct them. What is it that they hope to prove and why they want to show it, and when, and in what way, tells you quite a lot about the internal politics of certain groups and gives clues as to what to expect in the near future.
In the same way that Julius Caesar’s memoirs about the Gallic Wars don’t necessarily give a reliable account of the facts, they certainly tell you all you need to know about how propaganda worked in Ancient Rome at the time, what people thought was important and what made them, “look good,” to their audience, making it an invaluable historical document, for those who know how to read it. ✌️
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Sir . . . Oh, captain my captain . . . What can I say. May every joy of the coming celebrations be yours. You who worked so hard; who marshalled the voices of history, deployed and commanded them in the field; who’s withering criticism of the GOP cannot have failed to influence the hearts of many. The Laurel Wreath of victory goes to you, sir. With my thanks and sincere admiration. Not an easy romp, but a hard won battle, like the climax of Ben Hur. And like that character, Masala, trump ultimately crushed himself, with his own dirty tricks, and is left broken on the field, ignored by the thrilled crowds, who flocked to your banner. Of course, our work is not done; not until Biden is Inaugurated. But, you gave so much more than so many, and you deserve the thanks of a grateful nation. 😁✌️👍🥳
True fact: I was gone, completely, for a crucial 24 hours, during Election Day. I had been banned from YouTube, permanently, for, “hate speech,” and, “threats.” It turned out, trolls had banded together to, “complaint bomb,” me, from around the world, simply to silence me. You can’t make this up, can you? With my ONE, single chance to have them look at their decision, I was able to show that it was, of course, all lies. I now have my status restored, with zero strikes on my record, and I am in, “Good Standing,” again. But, I share this to illustrate. Little ole’ me, who comments a lot, on politics, was targeted by malicious trolls, who pulled off a minor coup, removing me from the Election Day discourse, altogether. Imagine what they would do to our government with those kinds of resources, if we let them? Putin’s Pockets are deep, and I urge you to consider what you might write in that little box YouTube gives you, to defend your own reputation, should it happen to you? You get ONE shot at defending yourself, and after that, it’s automated rejection, from then on.
Our chance to push back, in a meaningful way is upon us now, and I’m in it for the duration. That attack decided me. I was actually going to stop commenting, after Biden’s Inauguration. But, since trump’s trolls have flattered me with their attentions (some of whom have now themselves been banned for making, “malicious complaints,” which were, “without merit”) they have merely demonstrated that I have had an effect, that they were desperate enough to risk their own necks to rid themselves of that effect; however tiny.
So, a giant like you is bound to find himself in their crosshairs, sooner or later. Be ready. I write for a living, so I was able to be articulate, and necessarily brief, even though I was also writing in urgent haste (keen to have input) and whilst feeling rather miffed. I don’t kid myself that a guy who writes comments on YouTube is any kind of an, “influencer,” but the mere fact that they attempted to silence me, and timed it, to shut me down at a key moment in history, is a lesson I will never forget. Even if I can only measure my effect in terms of negative impact upon the enemies of Democracy, I’ll take that, and run with it.
Sorry to have been so long winded, but if I could buy you a drink and shake your hand (or bump elbows😉) I would count myself honoured. The fact is, the world NEEDS more people like you in it. Enjoy your well earned celebrations and the best Christmas ever, my friend. And thank you, for everything you did; and did so very, very well 🖖👏👍✌️
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@arithia5874 : Easy tiger. “Assumption,” makes an, “ass,” out of you and . . . “umption,” or something . . . Why can’t you, “celebrate,” with people via live streams, and in the restricted privacy of your own home? No one’s suggesting breaking ANY restrictions. I’m NOT talking street parties! A quiet drink with your spouse, ALONE, is a, “celebration.” You took the word and ran with it, to a place I just wasn’t at, my friend. Be safe. And chill out? 😉✌️
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Xerdar36 : WHO told you Trump was a, “businessman”??? You have CLEARLY NEVER researched your topic. You’ve heard all the, “6 + Bankruptcies,” stuff and written it off, as, “Fake News”??? There’s a video available on YouTube; an interview with the creators of the American Apprentice. I suggest you look at that REALITY Show? You KNOW his actual office had to be redecorated, from head to foot, right? And they SHOW how it was before. MY office is WAY nicer, more expensively decked out, more comfortable and with WAY BETTER furniture than HIS WAS? Trump was MASSIVELY in DEBT. He was DESPERATE. Take a LOOK???
See, NOW I KNOW you’re a Troll. You’re NOT DUMB ENOUGH to BELIEVE that Trump KNOWS ANYTHING about business???? Trump inherited TWO things from his daddy: An EVIL attitude toward humanity, and SHIT LOAD o’ CASH. It has been PROVED, by independent experts, in a, “blind study,” (I’ll explain that term, if you like?) that Trump would have WAY MORE MONEY now, if he’d just left it in the bank, growing Interest, than SQUANDERING it on his HAIR BRAINED SCHEMES. Christ! Son??? The ONLY, “profits,” Trump ever got, were those that he STOLE, by REFUSING to pay back loans!
“Businessman!” Any, “credibility,” you had, just EVAPORATED, with THAT FANTASY! 🤣
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@jackhemphill7257 : Apparently, his lawyers convinced him that a self pardon would lead investigators to what to investigate, for state charges, AND convinced him that his confession of federal crimes would disqualify him from holding office for life! Apparently, he didn’t know that presidents can pardon people for none-specific offences, pardoning anything that happened in a given period of time, and NOR DID HIS LAWYERS! I wonder who put out such a misleading narrative? I wonder who might have put his, “lawyers,” to the test, to see if they actually did know anything about Constitutional Law? 🤔 Seems he would have gotten away with pardoning his family, at least, but he thought they would be automatically disqualified from office! So he didn’t! 🤣😂😆😂🤣✌️👍
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Nova : I hate to say it, but the Troll Army are pulling out the Big Guns, now. They are finally getting the message, that pure hate and lies are not working; the Blue Wave showed them that. So, now they’re hiring Trolls who are attempting, “Dialogue.” After changing up their YouTube identities, AGAIN, these are probably the same people who were telling you to, “Go f**k your mom,” and screaming, “Lock her up,” until they got a new brief from their Shell Company Paymasters.
Consider: This notion of Michael’s, that America is, “not even a Democracy,” apart from being ignorant, beyond words, has to be one of the most sinister things that they could say? What would be the natural consequence of believing such a thing? What is the POINT of VOTING? If we’re, “not,” a Democracy, NONE of what we are fighting for MATTERS, all of a sudden. It’s pure evil. “Satan mixes LIES with the truth.” And, this is WHY he does it . . . SMH
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@user-ph3uw8tk4y : It would be nice, right? If centrist conservatives had a natural home, rather than being forced vote Dem, or Fascist? America NEEDS an opposition, to remain a Democratic Republic. It doesn’t have that, right now. The Dems hold the centre ground, with nothing either side, except way off into the distance, in the far, FAR right. That’s no choice at all. Especially since the insurrection. Everyone KNOWS they would never give up power if the GOP got back in, which is WHY no one wants them in! It would be to give up democracy, forever! Hell! They still haven’t admitted losing the 2020 election yet!? Who the heck could trust them? ✌️
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@colehowe : If you’re really interested, and have the patience, this is the discussion you need:
It’s a genuine perfect storm of one, “leader’s,” stupidity. He was never a, “smart,” man. He rose through the ranks of the KGB by taking advantage of the Wild West environment created in the vacuum of a post Soviet Russia. He co-opted the mafia into his secret services, making him rich. Alexander Litvinenko was a colonel in the KGB at the time and the reason Putin hated him so much was because he gave a public press conference, naming Putin, as running a scheme to sell Afghan opium and launder the cash into Russia and his own pocket. A world wide press conference was unprecedented enough, but naming names was the make or break moment for Russia. President Yeltsin was either going to clean up Russia’s democracy, or the thugs would win. But Yeltsin was too drunk and too blackmailed by Putin to do a damned thing by then. So Litvinenko was forced to flee Russia and Putin inherited the presidency.
They have a word in Russia for which there is no translation directly into English. It means, “I’m lying, and you know I’m lying, but because I have so much power and you have none, we’ll act like this is just a joke, and I’m flattering you by letting you be in on that gag.” I’ll spell it wrongly now, but I think it’s called, “Stoya,” or, “Ztovia,” or something? But it is this, “cultural acting,” that the press and public all take part in that creates this, “illusion,” of Putin being a, “smart,” man. We’ve been losing a lot in translation ever since the 1990’s, and it’s cost us dear.
When George Bush has to explain why Putin totally ignored any diplomatic agreements and marched into Chechnya, it’s far easier to for his people to explain it away as Putin’s, “crazy like a fox,” mentality, than to admit that he inexplicably gave us the middle finger. When Barack Obama drew a, “red line,” in Syria, it’s easier for his people to talk about Putin’s, “long game,” than to admit that he has such contempt for the west’s rule of law that he’ll gleefully gas Syrian civilians, committing a brand new set of war crimes whilst breaking any treaties he had with the world.
Putin has spent roughly a TRILLION DOLLARS on image making, propaganda and disinformation in the last 10 years alone! And we have been SO SUCKERED by their tactics that, even when we see Russia as the enemy, we STILL fall for their bollox and see their evil through a lens of THEIR making. So we make blunders, like imagining that Putin could take Kiev in three days, or then three weeks, or maybe three months, perhaps three centuries!?
We are only now, FINALLY, BEGINNING to see Putin’s Russia for what they really are: FAKES! Russia is no, “smarter,” than Donald Trump. His ideas on, “history,” are not what he, “believes,” but carefully crafted set of intellectually baron EXCUSES written by moderately smarter men. And they are all men. His desire is to take the massive fossil fuel resources of Ukraine and, if he cannot spend them on the open market, he can prevent Ukraine from becoming the economic power house it threatens to become. The top international oil companies were threatened out Ukraine, but prior to the war, they reported findings of gas and oil that could compete with Russia’s supply, off the coast of Crimea alone! Not to mention the coal and oil in the east, and new oil finds just next to the Carpathian Mountains to the west! It was always about the money and the power for Putin and the rest is all excuses and window dressing.
His use of terror is deliberate and calculated, and was brought on by the MYTH we sustained in the west that appeasement might work when he invaded Crimea! No one was learning from history, or looking beyond the smoke and mirrors. We might as well have INVITED his invasion with our pusillanimous response to Crimea!
But, as to Russian culture, and how they see the world? All the Russian people know is that Putin made his KGB contemporaries, like Cyril, the equivalent of their Pope and head of their Orthodox Church. This was why the Ukrainian government had to close down so many orthodox churches all over Ukraine, recently. They found treasure troves of Russian intelligence in their vestries and that almost every priest in that church was a Russian spy, working for Cyril! That’s pretty BLATANT, don’t you think?
People like Litvinenko have been assassinated long ago, in horrid ways. Litvinenko was murdered on British soil and there are warrants out for his murderers. Since the 90’s. And when they were first issued, the suspects gave a press conference, from the same building, in the same room that Litvinenko used to give his and name Putin as a criminal gangster. Pretty strong message there, right?
Putin is just a thug and his people know it, by the way they’re having their phones randomly checked in train stations for apps and messages the government doesn’t like, by faceless armed cops; by the way state tv threatens them regularly, whilst all the free speech channels have been shut down. By the way that political dissidents and journalists keep being murdered at home and abroad. But they have been trained to be politically inactive and morally absent.
I mean, don’t you think that a population which DOESN’T hit the streets to protest at the bombing of men, women and children, after seeing footage of destroyed cities being celebrated on state TV needs waking up? When they’ve decided it’s, “okay,” to take away ANY nations power and water supply, do they sound like, “thinking,” reasoning people to you? I happen to believe that a collective decision to tolerate genocide warrants collective chastisement.
So, when you’re next thinking about the question of the Russian population, just ask yourself how you would respond to such a stimulus? And then ask, why do they not band together to stop this? They are more alien to us than the Chinese, in their psychology. And it’s born of a nation that has NEVER known democracy in a 1000 years.
If you followed me all this way, thank you for your patience. Just know I left a LOT out for the sake of brevity. Slava Ukraine. ✌️🇺🇦
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@pathart8854 : Well, you must keep in mind that this is just the beginning and that all the things you are suggesting are exactly what will happen. The sanctions will get harsher, more comprehensive and increasingly watertight. They will spread to other areas of industry and like water finding its own level, goods and services that are no longer available from Russia (or that you won’t buy from Russia, because your partners won’t do business with you if you do) will find that temporary arrangements have a way of becoming permanent ones, with legally binding contracts.
It is tragic that whole populations suffer when such things happen, and it seems to have become the modern way of war; fought as hard in the board room as on the battlefield. In that regard, we can probably say that World War Three is already underway.
But if the aggressor is causing whole populations to starve and suffer, it is the job of the defending democracies to push that suffering back to its source. If it’s Russia’s population that starves, and if all the rich oligarchs who’ve been enjoying the privileges of western democracy and open markets are forced to go home and starve with them, maybe THEY will take responsibility and DO something about that?
After all, Russians have been very accepting of Putin’s dictatorship, so long as things were better than the bad old days? At least they don’t have to cue all day for a loaf of bread and face jail if they complain about it, whilst pretending to love communism? Well, maybe the price they’ll pay for looking the other way when it suited them is more just than it first appears?
I don’t wish starvation on ANYONE. But if it is going to happen, I’m willing to pay extra for my gas and put up with a few inconveniences. And if anyone has to starve, we should make damned sure it’s the people who’s country is making war on the free world! Maybe, if they don’t like it, they’ll remove the source of the problem? We’re not expecting a sudden rash of democracy to break out in Russia? The 1990’s taught us that is never likely to happen with rampant mafia and KGB goons forming the entire infrastructure of Russia’s alleged, “political system.” But we can no longer do business with Putin, so we need a change of face. Preferably NOT a leader who thinks the being a, “strong man,” means screaming about his nukes every time he’s upset about something?
This story ends with Russian troops withdrawing from Ukraine. All that’s up for grabs is how long that takes and how poor Russia gets while innocents die and the world gets keener on Punishing Russia. If he uses gas, as seems likely, he might well get that World War he claims he doesn’t want?
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@amcleanYT : Tell me? What, “elected leader,” are you referring to, Vlad? When you watched the Netflix documentary, “Ukraine On Fire,” was the narrator called Vladimir Putin by any chance? Because the Moscow hood you’re talking about didn’t, “win,” his election any more than Putin the war monger, “won,” his, kiddo! 😆
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@retrogamesmadeeasy8058 : Trump, literally announced it, with his, “Russier! If you’re listening,” speech. An event that will be played in history reels along with McCarthy being asked, “Have you no shame?” and Nixon’s, “I’m not a crook.” His silence on the biggest hack in world history, and the assassinations of our own troops, will be discussed after the reel is finished, by the panel, and they’ll speak with glee about the subsequent trials of the trump’s and how it’s rumoured that some of them are still alive, in one of America’s secret secure facilities. His cult had left Planet Earth, for Planet Bogus and, in their hysteria and scrambling, they have lost touch with just how lunatic they sound . . . Truly tragic ✌️
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Rodrigo Silva : I am a Republican, against mass migration on the grounds that it drives down wages for everyone except big business shareholders. But the information we now have on terrorism SHOWS that the countries listed do not send terrorists to the US. The evidence in the public domain, 911, etc, shows that the countries that do send terrorists are excluded from that list. We now know that terrorists on US soil tend to be radicalized youths and not the immigrants entering the country. So there is no logic there. So what, if things have changed since the time of the building of the Statue of Liberty? The reason for US success is migration. Not mass migration, but migration nevertheless. I believe migrants should swear to uphold the law of the land and learn the language, and that EVIDENCE to the contrary should result in deportation. But the "rights" of refugees are internationally recognised and enshrined in laws established by the US and included in the constitution. So, given that you would not be in America, if it weren't for migration, are you simply saying that you were happy with the idea when it worked out well for you, but now you want to pull up the ladder? That's just falling for Trump's hysterical rhetoric
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***** That is one of the most transparently insecure, fuzzy logic responses I have ever read. You cannot vote for right & wrong; fact or fiction. What difference does it make, how many thumbs up anyone gets? Really? Do you decide everything one the basis of whether others approve of it? That was a very Trumpesque thing to say. But FYI, if you really want to know about a person, topic or any subject, it is important to research all spectrums of opinion, fact & history, then to cross reference your findings so as to establish the truth, whether you like what you hear or not, with respected, reliable sources. I am sure Hitler made himself the hero when he wrote Mein Kamph, but his books weren't considered reliable sources by most right minded people after 1945
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Davide: You see? That's what I mean by, "sophistry". You are looking for an "out" of a conversation that you feel, rightly, intimidated by, so you PRETEND to be capable of making a judgement about MY HEALTH? Why not simply tell me that "You can't handle the truth!"? And move on? FACE SAVING, I think is what it's called?
Good luck with drumming up interest in your Guardian article, btw, so public spirited of you, to put it up for the ignorant masses, who have no knowledge of these things, don't read their own news articles and wouldn't know any better, if it weren't for you.
Seriously, though, while you sit in your bunker, at rows of terminals, with your ex Spetznas officer, pacing up and down, taking lingering looks over your shoulder to assure that you aren't making a cry for help, and breaking into a cold sweat each time he reaches into his inside pocket, wondering, "Is he just reaching for his cigarettes today, or is it the Luger?"; at these times, do you think to yourself, "It's really very cold in Siberia."?
Like I said, "INTERESTING". Try it some time :-)
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welshgit: How much would you bet that "entrepeneur" dies in a hideous, Darwinian shaving accident, or electrocution from all that saliva on his keyboard? Perhaps he'll blow his own head off, while fellating his shotgun or simply concuss himself to death, while beating upon his computer with his fists and head? People like him never last long, because of their low-evolutionary-designation and they get all hurt and snowflakey, when guys like you state rational, articulate, logical facts that remind him of just HOW WRONG his position in history really is. It's always disappointing to me, if the Trolleratti DON'T come out to play. The more of them there are, on any given thread, the more worried they are that Putin, er, I mean Trump, is going to be fired.
Keep it up, mate. I enjoy your commentry
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***** Well, right, left & midstream politics all have their extremists, true enough. However, the two parties of the left that I flirted with in my youth were dominated by intolerant unwritten sub-ideologies. The menace of the left is that it requires each individual to sacrifice his very individuality, eventually, if not imediately. This is usually for the benefit of a tiny elite. They use prohibitive terminology as common parlance, excluding less well educated people by the use of double-speak political correctness & would manage our thoughts, bodies and very souls, if left unchecked. And, when closely studied, nearly all leftist philosophies have the seeds of dystopia written into their textbooks, confusing, as they so often do, social responsibility with sacrifice of identity, financial gain with moral ruin and free thinking with groupthink. But hey, that's just my own personal. I am guessing you lean to the left, so I will refrain from phrasing myself too bluntly (correct me if I am wrong) but I tend to find that extreme leftists, these days, are really quite badly read & poorly educated in their own philosophy anyway.
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***** Your points are good ones. We are only oppressed by the language of others when they have power over us & we are unable to address them on equal terms, in which case, it is not really their language but their abuse of power that we would prevent. If we simply want others to stop saying things that offend us, we are trying to control their freedom of speech, which fails to address what they still think and feel, only, now you can never really know what that is. Therefore, we cannot argue, discuss, educate or outside people with offensive attitudes, we can only police their behaviour, which creates the ticking time bomb. There is also the inbuilt assumption that the truth is inoffensive and that to be offensive is to be wrong, which in itself is wrong. When will people accept that you cannot prescribe remedies for the human condition? You can challenge from a position of sincerity, which entails openess to personal correction. But prescription always results in an eventual backlash, due to the inherent injustice that people feel, even if they do not have the education to express it. Which brings me to the fact that the language of PC requires the use of multi-sylable terms which do not come naturally to most people and rely on pseudo scientific references, which therefore make them inherently less accessible to those who do not have a formal education. Among the first casualties of PC are a great many common slang expressions, which come more easily to people and are more widely understood: thus PC can have a disabling effect upon the already disadvantaged. Why should we even have guidelines? If you don't like people's views or language, is that not your problem? I too agree with Zizek IN THIS CASE, though I find many of his views aphorent, but he too is warning of the way in which the left (center or liberal left) are often appearing to sneer at the dumb shit kickers on the right. P C is one of the worst offenders
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in Valhalla神様 : You keep talking as if there was ONLY China and the USA on the planet? Europe has been furtive in it’s agreements with China, over its INCREASING NEED for steel, thus far. CHECK the record? It will be a move like THIS, which will give them the edge. There are PLENTY of other markets around the world and the EU have been just LOOKING for an excuse to set aside human rights records and industrial espionage concerns. China will feel it, sure, but America will STILL be suffering, LONG after China has adjusted its trade deals and made MUCH MORE RELIABLE business partners, who don’t flip flop or pull price hikes out their asses, for no apparent reason.
It’s ALMOST as if Donny was TRYING to WRECK America? Putin must be, yet again, “Laughing his ASS OFF at America!” Donny’s words, not mine. SMH
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Kylo Ren : Um . . . Why IMPORT STEEL, if the US is, ahem . . . “Self Sufficient”? 🤔 Just an, er . . . OBVIOUS FLAW in your, ahem . . . “argument”? 🤪
Oh, how BADALY you shot yourself in the FOOT! You ACTUALLY made me lol! Thank you. Apart from the ridiculous tautology, I mean. IF America IS, “self-sufficient,” AND for some reason you felt the need to add, “with what it can produce for itself,” like we didn’t understand the term, “self sufficient,” in the first place, THEN WHY OH WHY does it need to IMPORT ANYTHING? Utter MORON! 🤣 😂 😆
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Z-Statistic
Thank you, Z, I was starting to worry that this channel was not reaching the intellectual bench mark it set out for. I am wondering, now, about the libertarian candidate, even though it might be a waste & I haven't done any research on him. I feel irresponsible just sitting on my hands & not voting & I am not disrespectful enough to write "none of the above", & Trump looks like he doesn't need my help anyway, given what the FBI just did for him.
I have really enjoyed the output from PragerU & I have learned things I didn't know before, which, upon cross-referencing, stand up to scrutiny. I want the institution to do well, if this material is consistent with the rest of their vision.
I still want to see them take on Donald, head on, as it seems the socially responsible thing to do. For or against; or somewhere in between, PragerU has looked at Bush's presidency & is there to influence the political landscape. So give us a short, PragerU, & show us your heart? Fair question?
More to follow on your critique of my criticism, but not enough room here. One last thought though. I was recently admonished by a 14 year old sofa more girl for calling her "hyperbolic nonsense" out. She pointed out that a lot more get's said & people listen better (if you actually wanna persuade that person) if you make your points without name calling.
I am not offended in the least, but I think it would be good for PragerU if we can discuss the issues & not rant? You call. But so far, I have earned & given more respect from & to a little girl than any of you guys.
If, on the other hand, you just want to show off in some way, that's just masturbating for your friends. & I don't do that
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Z-Statistic
1 I merely responded to the standard proffered to me, not set by me. So, if you were not happy about that, you should have said you were planning on getting all legalistic about it, don't you think?
& no one said anything about the courts with regard to this issue other than Trump himself.
He is convicted, right or wrong, in the court of public opinion because he said he did things like that. If he was telling the truth, then HE IS guilty of sexual assault WHICH IS a felony. If he was lying about it, he is demonstrating that he thinks that getting away with sexual assault is in some twisted Trumpette reality, A GOOD THING!?!?
2 I doubt, from all of the facts & evidence I have been able to gather, that there was any INTENTION on Hillary's part to break the law. That doesn't mean she is not an idiot & unfit for office, so indict her! Be my guest!
However, if Trump was convicted (BY YOUR STANDARD, NOT MINE) for sexual assault, he would be a felon & in jail. The Oval Office just aint that big.
3 I must apologise here, I did not have a clue as to your point? It got lost, for me, in all that shouty, righteous indignation, without their being a discernable point or question that I could make out. It felt like being interviewed by Bill O'Reilly.
As to your alphabetical sub-categories; mostly wholly "wrong" as Trump likes to Trump. I was not referring to "defaulting" at all when he stiffed his staff, though I don't doubt that there are plenty of examples we could trawl through there too.
You say I have no idea how business works, but I've done pretty ok for myself, without going bankrupt & there are a raft of Billionaire's who have come forward to say that they don't go bankrupt & do not know of ANY WAY that doing so can be described as a good business model. Which states of the Union will he break up & sell off if he is going to run the country in the same way as his businesses, when the country is bankrupt?
The rest of your stuff was simply factually inaccurate & I recommend proper research.
Your commentary on my style of argument was uncomplimentary; that's a thread I wouldn't pull too hard on, friend, you wouldn't last 2 minutes with my guys.
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Z-Statistic
Calm down kiddo, you'll strain something. . . but not your brain, it seems. Speaking of "willfully ignorant," may I quote an authority, by the name of Z-Statistic:
"Everyone involved is trying to cover it up" Hmmm . . . Let's see, that would be the FBI department who wrote to congress yesterday to inform them, inaccurately as it happens, (but that's just an interesting aside) that they are reopening the Email Inquiry, would it? They, I'm sure, would have to be included in that definition of "everybody," right? They were a couple of days ago?
You conspiracy nut-jobs (may I call you "nut job"? I feel I'm getting to know you now) tickle me pink. The more shaky your argument, the more legalistic & abusive you get. You're not ACTUALLY Bill O'Reilly, are you?
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Z-Statistic
Look. On the whole "should Hillary be tried" thing, you are preaching to the choir, OK? You'll get no argument from me. But, when I hear this; "the whole prevailing theory . . ." stuff, I think, "theory schmeory!"
I have been involved in a lot of situations like this (not with the FBI, I hasten to add) & you MAY BE RIGHT, but you are not looking at it from the "humans are just a bit rubbish" standpoint. You half said it yourself. There are guys & their spouses, all inappropriately close in their professional & personal interests, with blurred ideas about where the line is, until people from the outside see what's happening & shout, "You guys are way over the line!"
Bear with me while I run a scenario past you. & I will weigh your view equally carefully:
Comey, despite his wife's job, is a paid up republican. Did you know that? silly Q I guess, you're pretty up on all this.
His reputation in law enforcement is as a straight arrow, down the line &, before all of this, that was also the view on both sides of The House. Not just squeaky clean, but Kevin Costner in The Untouchables kinda guy.
Then he's being thrown to the wolves by both sides & did not come out of his congressional meeting smelling of roses, so he's furious.
The one thing a cop relies on (particularly a senior cop, in charge of one of the most prestigious policing organisations IN THE WORLD) is his reputation & his was exceptional, until he got tainted by the politicians. He did his best, that wasn't good enough.
THEN: 2 days ago, he's handed this evidence (whatever it is; damning, suspicious or just don't know) & thinks to himself, "Chrissakes!"
"After getting burned last time, I am not sticking my neck out for anyone. I could sit on it, so as not to be seen trying to influence an election? The right will, quite correctly, say that my decision DID influence the election. But, if I notify congress right away, the left will cry "sabotage!" Well, to hell with all of them! I'll do my job & let the chips fall where they may. They took my good name so I don't owe anybody anything! But I'll be damned if I ever give them good cause to try!
That's the more realistic, human reality that I see. & HE probably has no clue as to whether the stuff he has is even important. How could he? There are thousands of emails to go through. I think he did the right thing. But I don't believe that there was EVER a cover up. The FBI is way past its J Edgar Hoover days, thankfully.
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Z-Statistic
I could see that. Or something like that. Guys like Comey, trust me I know about this, would rather take a silenced 22 to the brain stem on a dark night, or spend a year having their 'nads tazed in Guantanamo Bay, before they would let the public see their painstakingly built reputation (their live's work) torn to shreds.
Maybe they pressured him, his family? They are capable of anything. But I feel for him, really. He has won no friends on either side, & he has let both sides know that he's not a, ehem, "team player," & when I look in his eyes, what I see is an honest man, hurting.
He's thinking, "I have my conscience dammit!" you're not taking that.
Fox read out the memo he sent round the FBI today, which more or less said, "We are the God Damned FBI & we will do our GOD DAMNED jobs! Even if they do crucify me for it!" Actually it was nothing like that at all, but that was what I read between the lines.
Maybe it's just me, but not everyone is IN the conspiracy. Otherwise, against whom would we conspire?
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Z-Statistic
You'll have a tough time selling me on Comey. If so, why burn every last bridge? Could he have not been gamed? I said he was honest, not bright, & a lot of the duller tools do have a way of getting kicked upstairs. They're a crafty bunch who could have said anything to him? Pull the National Security card on a guy like that & he'll salute you & jump into the lions den. Remember Olly North? Everyone remembers him as a criminal because they lost interest in the story half way through, but it turned out he was a dumb-ass patriot, following orders for his country's interests. He was even prepared to take the bullet for Reagan in Congress, he was so loyal, bless him. They both turned out to be the exposed players at opposite ends of a CIA conspiracy.
Unless they used the ". . . or you'll never see your child again." variety of pressure, which is hard to imagine, even in this day & age, I really struggle with Comey.
The truth will out. Have no doubt about it, & I would bet real money on Comey being clean as the driven snow, if not necessarily the best judge under pressure.
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Z-Statistic
Oh well, you don't need to be Robert Ludlum to come up with a scenario; more pure guessery here but, off the top 'o my head; Clinton, or her lawyer, or whom-ever says, "There was a classified CIA operation going on at the time, & we had reason to believe the regular lines of communication were compromised." Or you could say, "Some of the emails concerned have been destroyed under the Homeland Security Act because, if we gave them to you, you would produce them for Congress, & an ongoing operation of major Putin, China, Iran, Iraq, Syria proportions will expose every operative in the field." Sounds ludicrous on YouTube, but make the lie big enough & it wouldn't cross Comey's mind that they might be lying to him.
Besides, you can classify stuff & then classify that classification (Super-Injunction style) & then Comey may find himself in the position where he cannot legally expose the lie! It aint that plausible but it wouldn't be unprecedented. I just think, what's more likely, even than all of the above, is that Comey buckled under pressure. Maybe he was told he was having undue influence on politics at the outset of the inquiry a year or so ago? Maybe he blanched when his reputation was threatened & did what so many guys like that do & blinked in the face of a 30+ year player against whom he never stood an intellectual chance?
I just think that he is either on the make in SUCH a big & subtle way that he is outsmarting Congress, the FBI, both parties his family & the public, or he's an honest man who is gonna get fricked 6 ways from Sunday after the election. He may be the Republican's darling now, but come the 9th, they will know they can't trust him because he tried to let Hillary go, & Hillary sure can't trust him. Do you think he will get his contract renewed by the next administration? Whoever that is?
Worst case scenario, he has been looking for a way to make good after, as you said, taking part in shady dealings. But my gut is pretty reliable on these things & he's not one of those kinds of players. He's a cop's cop, respected by his men & women; difficult, stubborn & with a tendency to speak up politically on matters that would traditionally be left off the FBI talking points list. No saint. But not a sinner, either.
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nymx : OK, this is either just you being a shill or refusing to back down, due to your embarrassment over your discredited first comment? I never said that the news was balanced, dummy. Read the posts. I actually pointed out in both of them that they are biased one way or the other, with some few exceptions. I know it's difficult to understand logic, when you are a Trumpanzee, but it is Trump who has been making political decisions based on the lies of . . . now, who was it again, oh yeah, Breitbart's wiretap fiasco, followed by Fox's GCHQ debacle. They would be the pro Trump MEDIA, bright spark. Pay attention, genius
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TJ Fiso
Brexit, whether you agreed with it or not, was about the disillusioned, not trusting the politicians & using a democratic remedy to restore our sovereignty from the clutches of foreign powers. Something that the US never would have countenanced for itself, btw. In the same way, US citizens are against Clinton, so, many are not so much voting for Trump, as they are voting against her. But the ones with eyes, ears & brains are seeing that the alternative to her is nuclear. If he wins, after all this, the US will get what it deserves, in the same way Germany did in the 1930s. America will fall the rest of the way & its allies won't be willing to sink into the mud with Uncle Sam.
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shizkiz1
Forgive me but, there you go again: "I don't have contempt for the British electorate nor do I think an ill informed public that votes is a great thing" he said, unaware of his own contempt for the electorate. How do you know that they were ill informed?
Sure, the main complaint was that the politicians did not explain the issues properly to the public. But that doesn't mean that a vast number of them didn't do their own homework. I sure did.
People who decide the issues, based on the info they get from their biased politicians, are, by definition, ill informed. You must find objective sources of truth & weigh their views against them. Otherwise, you get what you deserve.
But that, my dear shizkiz1, is their right too.
For this reason I am not willing to engage your bogus North Korea argument, which to me, looks like just another way of saying that you do not respect democracy when you don't like the result.
People in democratic countries have the right to be ignorant OR well informed, but that is their civic, moral responsibility. Who are you to judge them?
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shizkiz1
I have to admit,shizkiz1, you are interesting, if a little scary.
Firstly, democracy IS A "kind of force" as it is meant to be. If you are lucky, you are gonna be stuck with that fact for the rest of your life, so it will spare you a lot of pain if you learn to get over your neo-totalitarian tendencies.
In the case of Brexit, however, it hasn't even happened yet, so who was forced? The conservatives had to promise a referendum on Europe as part of their manifesto to get in (as did Labour, who lost a lot of credibility for braking that promise), so who was forced? Then, they had a free & fair referendum, so who was forced?
& please don't bleat about the Scots or I'm gonna cry, little tartan tears for the nation who had their own referendum as to whether to stay in Britain & chose (democratically) to stay, KNOWING that they would then have to take part in the EU referendum, AS BRITISH CITIZENS! Everybody wants it both ways, but you are almost chilling.
You blame our problems on the over 60s, now; you attack whole groups for, what you think of as, their ignorance & all you have by way of a solution is . . . drum roll: "Put me in charge, because I know what's best for you all, & you guys are clearly unable to think for your selves."
The ONE TIME the British people got their shot at self determination & you didn't like what they had to say, so to hell with democracy!
Politicians are corrupt & shouldn't be trusted. But you would put your fellow man below the politicians, declaring, "they don't deserve to make decisions that effect others!"
Try NOT blaming the "other" for everything you don't like about democracy. You think it's "naive" to have a little respect for the political aspirations of your fellow man & to accept a vote; win, lose or draw? Yet YOU are the one saying that we should only allow the politicians to make these important decisions. Well, Stalin thought like you, as does Putin. Perhaps he will grant you refugee status, as you obviously feel persecuted living in a democracy.
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T. Shrine: $ 10,000, please. Well, it's over and I am now officially reminding you that "you said that," and I quote: "CNN after Comey testifies today how will you continue the Russian collusion lie?"
Shall I give you the details of UNICEF, or was it a kind of Trump promise, as worthless as your words?
Knowing that you lie, I'll just warm myself of Comey's statements about Trump, like, "That was an out and out lie," you two have a lot in common, except Trump isn't actually Russian, even though he clearly wants to be La La La La LOL
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Noel Willis You keep trying to comfort yourself, by telling me I am a "leftist" when you obviously haven't been reading the posts. I am a paid up republican.
And, like I said, if you are fine with Trump being a rip off merchant, then don't complain when it you, the voting business partner, who is the one getting his ASSets stripped.
There are thousands of billionaires who know Trump is a terrible business man, and they tried to warn you. But it's all acceptable because it's lawful, so far as you are concerned. Nothing to do with having more expensive lawyers and friends bought and paid for in the judiciary, right?
Honestly, engage your intellect
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Elly Davis : Yeah, wouldn't it have been wonderful, if all the reporters in the room said, "Oh, OK then," and came forward, en masse, opening every folder to reveal all the blank bits of paper, photocopied asses, bits of pornography and Trump's crayon memos, while Trump whimpered, "No, i! . . . I didn't mean the . . . that is, I didn't say that the . . . Oh . . . God damn it, Bannon!!"
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ihartevil : No, son. My, “source,” was NOT, “Wikipedia.” Just returning to write that, TWO YEARS after the conversation finished, hoping I wouldn’t notice, so you could save your own ego, for the audience of YOU, is not just lame, crafty, and mean spirited, it shows you’re a blatant liar. So, well done you, kid . . . Smh
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Your grammar is not that of a clever person, & your assumptions show off your stupidity. Firstly, I am British, so you'll be riding this one out all alone, making snide remarks behind your fake name, due to the very cowardice that got you where you are now. I voted for Brexit, out of a desire for sovereignty for my country, an issue your country was extraordinarily hypocritical to lecture mine about. Our country would never allow the likes of Trump to lead us, as Farage knows well, which is why he left politics. It doesn't surprise me that you have been struggling for 30 years. That is probably because people can see you for what you are; an ignoramus with a mean spirit, who does not wish to win people to their politics, but would rather bitch at others, so as to ensure that they will always be a martyr. You are empty & pathetic & your blindness has cost you your hope, so don't whine to me about Trump. He is YOUR problem, son. :-)
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Larry Guess: I imagine you'll refuse to engage with me, being as how I am immune to your tactics? I am a Republican and I couldn't care less if Hillary or Obama went to jail, for their ACTUAL offences and not the ones made up by the Alt-Wrong. But, even having that discussion is irrelevant and you know it. Simply a diversion from looking at the indefensible Trump, right?
The fact is that Trump is crooked, has ALWAYS BEEN crooked and he will lose his presidency. AND, you should note this, Trump will be deposed by the Republican Party.
They took a gamble on him, thinking they could clean up a lot of profits and, if anyone would be exposed for double dealing, it wouldn't be them. Plausible deniability is what Trump has to offer the ultra rich, the big business interests and the politicians in their pockets.
Now, after two defeats in ONE DAY on his "healthcare" plan, Trump has returned to the roulette wheel and staked EVERYTHING on "black".
He KNOWS that, if he can't free up the money they want for their tax breaks, they'll ditch him and back a new horse, before it's too late, and they risk being associated with the Russia scandal.
Trump is desperate and going for broke. If he can't pull off healthcare, he's sunk. And, if he does pull it off, he'll lose his base and is sunk.
But, failure will mean that his backers will switch sides and support the Russia investigation. Once his Tax Returns are subpoena'd, Trump is SUNK.
Are you getting the picture here? Trump is SUNK. The ONLY one who doesn't KNOW that yet is HIM. And maybe a few guys like you, sitting in bunker in Siberia?
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FretboardFrenzy
Yup. That was me, hoping to encourage the University to bight the bullet, though, FYI, I did alter each one accordingly, keeping the essential question of, "yeah, but how the hell do you explain Trump?" alive. I want to see the video.
I'm sorry, I just don't agree with you. He has no credentials & has blatantly demonstrated his incompetence, impulse control issues an inability to mask his vile personality, even for state occasions. PragerU's inability to address the issue of Trump, directly, is a demonstration of what an embarrassment he is to our cause.
I frankly don't want scum like Trump on our side.
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Chloe Woodell
I honestly did not believe, nor do I now, that I was being any more careless about my language than you were. You are clearly offended & I am sorry if that is the case, but take a moment to think about what you said. Your words were chosen in a manner that makes HRC look like an intentional serial killer, & that is unhelpful hyperbole. The real way to bring about change in the world, speaking as a diplomat, is to get along side people, talk with them & demonstrate that you GENUINELY care about their concerns. You do not have to agree with them, but you must respect them. Statements like the one you made about Hillary, either preach to the converted or offend those whom you want to change. What have you achieved but the entrenchment of your opponents?. Find out more about what your opponent believes & why they believe it. & be open minded enough to compromise without sacrificing your beliefs.
&, if you are sensitive to personal remarks, this is probably not the correct medium for you. Some people will attack you on YouTube simply for letting them know that. Finally, politicians are human too & I doubt that HRC would agree that it is OK to accuse her of the responsibility for 3000 deaths a day. But what does she believe? Do you know? Are you able to challenge her view?
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Chloe Woodell
Hey Chloe, I am glad that you are interested in politics & I hope you will pursue it further in your your career.
To clarify, I am an old fashioned, middle aged, republican who believes in traditional values, small government & old style discipline.
The fact is, you did reach out & publish your thoughts on YouTube, which is why we are talking. Is it possible that your passion for public affairs is greater than you realized, or give yourself credit for? You obviously cared enough about babies to speak up for them. . .
I genuinely believe that this election is a poor example for your generation, in some respects at least, as it has become something of a fact-free zone for both parties & both of the candidates are so unpopular & unpleasant.
But I am also aware, from history, of how tyrants get into power & how hard it is to remove them. I am conservative to the core, but I personally believe that Trump is a monster who would eat his own children if he thought it would get him into the White House. I know that is extreme language, but simply being on the right side, doesn't make you right.
I like this PragerU stuff & I have been nagging them to do a video on Trump, because I know it would be a challenge to fit a man like him into the republican picture without showing glaring inconsistencies or simply ignoring a lot of the truth. PragerU have done some excellent videos on controversial topics, telling people things that they may never have heard before & casting a light on difficult topics. So I am honestly hoping they can say something meaningful about Trump, without compromising true republican values. Now I have gone on too long, but I thank you for taking the time to engage with an old man & I wish you every success with your education & beyond: politics or not, I have a feeling that your future is bright.
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kare more : Check out the news on Julian Assange, if you need cheering up, on the CNN website? Barr sure lied to Congress, saying he did not know what Mueller thought of his summary, when he already had Mueller’s letter of complaint in his back pocket. Perjury? Obstruction? Lying to Congress? Take your pick. They all carry jail time. His days in the job are numbered, for sure.
Meanwhile, Julie is spending the next year in Belmarsh, Maximum Security Prison, with the rapists, terrorists and, “high risk,” offenders, for skipping out on his bail agreement, when he went to the Ecuadorean Embassy instead. Bet he’d forgotten about that? The judge tore a strip off him, calling him a, “narcissist,” before condemning him to the hardest time there is, in the UK. Rule Britannia! 😁
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Yet, there is a solution. In the UK everyone has freedom of speech, but it’s a CRIME to say something is, “news,” when it’s a demonstrable LIE! That doesn’t stop influential people from saying, “I believe X or Y to be true,” even on respectable news outlets, but opinion is LEGALLY separated from FACTS. Hence, Fox does not broadcast in the UK, because they are not allowed to call themselves, “news.” It really is THAT simple. Disinformation is a CRIME in most European countries, and everyone manages to have FREE SPEECH. It’s not a mystery!
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@muddy1596 : Well, if he is a trump fan, then he is a, “back woods simpleton,” who’s going to feel very stupid in January, when Donny’s in a foreign country, with his MONEY that he donated to Roger Stone. Free speech is NOT the issue. Being allowed to lie and call it, “news,” is the issue. That should be legally called, “opinion,” or sanctioned by law. Leading to bans for repeat offenders. F*x doesn’t broadcast in the UK, even though they are allowed to. They just aren’t allowed to call their lies, “news.” So they decided to throw their toys from their pram and don’t even have a channel there. True story 🤣
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@mavman012 : Well, it’s not that they, “can’t,” broadcast, it’s that they won’t. Because they would not be allowed to call what they do (opinion, conjecture and attempts at guiding the beliefs of the populace to fit the world view of their share holders and owners), “News.” Others just comply with the guidelines. Murdoch has already been hauled over the coals in Parliament, and doesn’t want to go through that again. Especially since there was a, “security lapse,” which lead to his receiving a custard pie in his mush! Available to enjoy on YouTube, BTW 😉. They just don’t piss about with all this bullshit in Britain. Calling harmful lies, “news,” is what does the harm, so it’s a CRIME. Other countries do,the same thing. They’re not quite so childishly confused about the difference between, “Free Speech,” and inciting. It’s a much older democracy, with much more adult ways of kicking liars in the nuts and waking them up to reality. Putin hates that 😁
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@Rich-ng3yy : Yet, much like your original comment, you don’t have any specifics. Only generalisations regarding, “Gaza,” or her being, “a weather cock,” in your opinion. Tell me what politician hasn’t said something they wish they could take back since the Hamas Attacks started this latest craziness? Or which politician isn’t a weather cock to some degree or other? But, unless you reference something she said, or something flip flopped on, you’re only expressing a, “feeling,” that you have about her, no facts.
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@Rich-ng3yy : You can relax. It didn’t annoy me. I was curious is all. I haven’t, “debated,” with you at all. Indeed, I was merely pointing out that there is nothing to debate. I cannot speak for, or about, your feelings. They are yours and you are entitled to them. But you didn’t qualify your remarks either, with an, “in my opinion.” You stated your views as though they were established facts.
I am not aware of her saying anything, “unfortunate,” or any of the other adjectives you attached to her public role, so I simply wanted to know what these incidents were.
You must understand, when you make comments about politicians that have value judgements attached to them, on a political channel, in response to a political comment, during an election period, it is natural that people will ask you to qualify your assessments. They may even wish to, “debate,” you, though I was seeking no such thing. I may have. But my questions were merely about getting more information, perhaps looking up the incidents in question, about which you may well have been right.
All of this to say, you have your, “feeling,” about her, and that’s fine. More power to you. She has said some things you found, “unfortunate,” but you cannot recall any of them, so that’s just a feeling too. That’s also fine, but it is equally meaningless in terms of offering anything to the discussion. Yet I would admonish you to expect, “debate,” on a channel which is pretty much for that purpose, and not act all surprised when people challenge assumptions, check your statements or, as was the case for me, merely seek clarification.
Hope this somewhat lengthy comment clears things up a bit? No harm, no foul. The rest is up to you.
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Lawrence Smith : See, you’re, “job,” son, is to upset the Normals, when you Troll for Trump. You got it bass-Akwards, being all, “Butt Hurt,” and looking kinda’ stupid, using idiotic terms like, “strategically de-platformed,” when you mean, “tossed out on his ass.” I wonder how many bars, Town Halls and mental institutions YOU’VE been, “strategically de-platformed,” from lately? 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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John Patrick : Sorry, son. There’s NO videos of, “black supremissists,” shouting, “Hail,” ANYONE. You make shit up. But, remember. It’s IMMORAL to waste ACTUAL, “TIME,” on Propaganda, kid. Keep ‘em brief, or be IGNORED, OK? 🙂
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Presumably, one needs to give very specific instructions, such as, “Give me a critical review of this paper, as a fellow scientist of the same field would, ‘pier review,’ it. Seek out and draw attention to any logical flaws, fallacies or mistakes. Take care to explain the fundamental idea expressed in the paper and test whether it can withstand scientific scrutiny.
It may simply need some small corrections, ranging from its grammar to the conceptual basis of the paper itself. Assess this and give a pressie at the start of your response. Ask me if you need any further clarification for this task, before undertaking it.”
You would have to think through what you want your outcome to be, how to express each aspect of it in unambiguous terms by breaking it down into stages. E.g. Explain what a scientific paper needs to do in generic terms, specify any special things you’re looking for in this paper, explain how the process of pier review and specify any particular types of critical thinking you need to apply to this specific paper, and so on . . .
Note: I am just guessing here, not having used ChatGPT in this way. But, from the very little exploration I’ve done on this topic (certainly compared to you, Sabine) I am always thinking of Wittgenstein, since it’s a problem of grammar, so far as I can tell.
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555 000 : I wonder how many bank robbers got away with saying, “But, another gang robbed the bank, last week? So, you should let us go?” My guess is that the judge probably said, “WTF has THAT got to do with ANYTHING? Both WRONG AND Irrelevant. 20 Years! Next case!” I honestly don’t get WHY you people think that, “Whaddabouting,” is even some kind of, “defence,” in the first place? You know you’re admitting you have NOTHING, right? . . . SMH 🤣
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Kevin Churchill : You’re kinda’ Q’d out of reality, aren’t you? You KNOW he’s Alex Jones, right? I can see why you people are freaked out, the whole time, though. You weave these ever more complicated scenarios, on your ever more devious websites, and are then startled, when reality just won’t play, and things work out SO differently from how Q said it would, right? But, Q’s always waiting, with his next excuse, right? I bet you hear a LOT of sentences that start like this? “Yeah, that’ll be because the Left blah, blah, blah,” right? You poor sods . . . 😆
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cuekwe Jones : Kerry just pissed off Trump, because Trump desperately wants a war, and Kerry is trying to prevent one. That’s all there is to it. Which is why NO ONE has lifted a finger to arrest him. Of course, trump’s cult will tell you, “It’s coming,” like it ALWAYS is, which means they’re pissed off too, and they really WISH they could make us all feel as, “threatened,” and insecure as they do. That’s why they call us ALL, “the left,” (which makes for a great drinking game, if you watch Hannity, or Carlson, btw. You’ll be in a coma within an hour) because the truth, that we’re from all walks of American life (I am conservative and used to be a fierce critic of Obama and Hillary) scares them as much as the idea of Trump’s Tax Returns getting into the public domain. Imagine, who’ll stick with the Donster, once it’s proved that he was never a billionaire, right up until he took office? No wonder he’s breaking so many laws, risking it all, to keep that under wraps? It’s OK that they may suspect it, but to PROVE it, takes a BIG STICK away from the cult. The only one’s who’ll stay with Trump, after THAT, will be the ones who’ve said and done things they can’t take back (screaming hate at his rallies, in front of their families, colleagues, etc; donating too much money to his Wall fund; that kind of thing) and the racists, oh, and the religious bigots. It’s coming. Have I gone off topic? Oh, “Whaddabout,” is OK on Fox, though, right? 😉👍✌️
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Kevin Churchill : I’ve told you before that I’m a Political Historian, by trade. I’m guessing that’s why your first, longest paragraph was so defensive? You used so many words, to say so little, that I lost interest. Do you have ANY, “defence,” of this confessed criminal, who is the subject of this topic? Or, of the criminal, Trump? If so, get to it? And, don’t flatter yourself that I, “care,” about the web of insecurities that is your personal life (real or imagined). There are a LOT of reasons, for getting rid of your lawyers, son. Namely, because you don’t NEED them on your payroll, any longer, with it being over, now. Has that even occurred to you? . . . Smh
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By the way , you've been lied to by Trumpski: Yeah, and you, “don’t care,” that President Spanky spends YOUR DONATIONS on hookers, out the Campaign Finance, cookie jar? You, “don’t care,” that he has people THREATENED? You, “don’t care,” that Trumpski has to be SILENT on the MAIN TWO NEWS STORIES OF TODAY; Russian Expulsions and Stormy, BECAUSE HE’S COMPROMISED ON BOTH ISSUES? Of COURSE you, “DON’T CARE.” You have sold your soul to Satan, and it turned out he wasn’t Red, but Orange! No one “cares” what YOU “care” about, apart from OTHER PUTIN BITCHES 😆
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Sweet Sandy : And you make a VERY good point. There is a sense that the fever has to break, something has to give, or the country will never recover. And Lincoln warned us about the, “house, divided against itself.” It’s like both sides are seeking that ONE, knockout blow, utterly unable to see the other’s point of view? I can see that, having a legitimate concern over immigration, is NOT the same thing as being racist. But, we also have to be HONEST about the FACT that Trump’s whole appeal is built, PRIMARILY, upon racist foundations. His, “s**thole,” remark earned him points with his base, who are 80%, dyed in the wool, RACISTS, with around 20% not having any realistic grasp of politics or world affairs. Most of these people, holding down more than one crappy job, looking after their families, don’t have the time to sit down and read books, or op-eds, with deep analysis of the issues and are NOT aware of how they are being exploited, by a stupid man who would wash his hands after shaking theirs, and who REALLY DOESN’T give a s**t about them! They have the time for brief snatches of Fox “news” and they watch Breightbart or Alex Jones on their phones and computers, who confirm their biases, offering a solid diet of conspiracy theories and hatred, in the hope of spreading their contamination through the people for whom they have the most CONTEMPT.
I genuinely wonder if people like Becka are shills? As she has the exact effect that Russia has been investing so much in. Who would want to stand next to HER at a rally, while she spews her own anger and uncontrolled venom into the faces of people, who might just be GENUINELY inquiring as to what the protest is about?
I mock the Trolls with the best of them and can be quite brutal at times. But, I NEVER make assumptions about people and I NEVER attack anyone, without genuine provocation. Even then, I do so with the sense that others may read my words and that I have a responsibility to speak the TRUTH. I practice restraint, because THAT has lead me into “conversation” with the opposition. THAT provides the opportunity to lay out the FACTS, the “evidence” and the arguments, for ALL to read. She is a symptom of this disease. Maybe the Russians are putting something in the water? At this point NOTHING would surprise me, so I’m only half joking. Well, three quarters, I guess.
Sorry to go on, but your words are appreciated. And incisive. It’s the best analogy yet, to what is happening to America
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becka king : Well, my NOT being of EVERY RACE at the same time, like some sort of Schrodinger’s physics experiment (in a thousand states, at once), is NOT a “failing” on MY PART? Truth is, you flew off, emotionally, without thinking and now you are too proud to admit it. You need not admit it, except to yourself, but I REALLY don’t care, for myself. I CARE about the CAUSE. Your VERY DEMOCRACY is at stake. If you CANNOT or WILL NOT look for ways to win people to the TRUTH, then absolutely NOTHING will change or improve. If, you don’t CARE about THAT, this is also fine. But, you should KNOW, you risk creating MORE Trumptards, doing MORE HARM and DESTROYING the work of the grownups, who actually want to GET TRUMP OUT OF OFFICE!
It’s OK to NOT “know” something, especially when it comes from the world of racist hatred. Grownups, check things out. It’s also OK to ASK QUESTIONS and to be honest about NOT KNOWING something. And, it REALLY doesn’t MATTER, “how many people” agree with, or support a person’s point of view? It’s MUCH MORE important to be on the side of right and TRUTH. Can’t YOU SEE THAT??? Why should you start attacking OTHERS for agreeing with me? Seriously? WTF is WRONG WITH YOU???
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Saltponds239 : Look at the Court Proceedings from last month, son. The Trump Foundation was just shut down, for, “Routinely stealing from defenceless, needy children and American Veterans.” That’s the whole family, “STEALING,” while pretending to be a charity. And, best of all, you can look at the PUBLIC RECORD, without using any news service, or any source that you can, “pretend,” to, “believe,” is biased or otherwise tainted. They will ALL be indicted for for the Trump Foundation. One of the SICKEST crimes in American history . . . Smh
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Saltponds239 : FFS!? READ the RECORD! The ANSWERS are THERE! The, “Charity,” is being wound down, and is in the complete control of a Court Appointed Judge, who is investigating the ENTIRE, MASSIVE, SCHEME! Donny tried to shut it down, when he realised it was under scrutiny, but prosecutors prevented him from BURYING his Evil, and a Judge took over. Judges DON’T DO THAT WORK, SON! NOT FOR A CHARITY! They ONLY take over, when your ass is going to JAIL! READ IT??? IT’S ALL THERE!
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Pat Peacock : There’s a certain sense of . . . desperation, to the bleating of these Trump Cult, brainwashed, Fox floosey, Not-So-Breit-bartian, Trollarazzi, these days. It’s like they “think” that they could POSSIBLY, er, “persuade,” people to abandon their common sense and buy into Gropey Old Perverts, who are currently attempting to fulfil Trump’s PROMISE to his Donors, which is to raid healthcare (yet AGAIN) so as to give them their PAYOFFS and make US all POOR, while they sort out their retirement plans? I mean, WHO would be DUMB enough, to trust the DOTUS NOW???
They don’t want to acknowledge that MILLIONS of Republicans have HAD IT with Trump. A FOX poll discovered that 9% of Trump’s original voters say they’ll NEVER vote for him again. They TRIED to BURY that, of course. Their future is bleak, and the DOTUS CULT is only going to get MORE HYSTERICAL, as his demise is broadcast ;-)
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I promise you he’s bluffing. There’s nothing to worry about from a deliberate nuclear attack . . . Accidental nuclear Armageddon? . . . The threat of that is increasing by the day, but that’s all the more reason to crush this fool and soon!
This is the standard Kremlin Kleptocracy Playbook 101 response to the UN meeting and showing unity, along with fresh sanctions and a fresh package of support for Ukraine. He was BOUND to make his most grievous threat at this point, so as to intimidate the meeting of world leaders and hope to influence them away from, “drastic,” steps. The sort of things we SHOULD do. That’s what passes for, “diplomacy,” from the Putin Potty Place. Get used to it.
You have to look at this like negotiating with a cornered gangster who thought his robbery was going to go fine and is shocked to find himself surrounded by cops. He pulls the pin on a grenade and says, “If you arrest me I’ll let this grenade go and take you all with me!” We KNOW he’s bluffing and that everything he’s said and done shows us how DESPERATE he is to live. That doesn’t mean that, “accidents,” can’t happen though, so we MUST be careful. But we’re not letting him get away with it now we have him in that corner. He just needs some help coming to terms with the fact that he’s done. And we’re going to recommend his own people, “help,” him with that. If they don’t, we will.
He’s BLUFFING, as he ALWAYS HAS. Our mistake has only been letting him get away with that sh*t for too long. That’s why we’re in this mess.
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@franklin9400 : No one (smart) EVER TOUCHES the Click Bait of a trump troll. That would be immoral. Clicks are COUNTED, thus PRECIOUS. Donny cannot have them.
But, I do appreciate that you’re accepting defeat with more grace than the average Trumpophile, by falling back on the, “arguments of others,” being lost for, “words,” (talking points) yourself. At least conservatives, like me, can show you how and why you’re so wrong to support trump, so there’s that.
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@goddessrick8734 : I find it interesting to hear trump’s generals and senior military personnel, all speaking in broad agreement with Joe Biden’s generals and senior military personnel, don’t you? THEY seem to think that Joe told them what to expect, and gave them no illusions? THEY understand that Joe couldn’t tell the world, “We’re expecting the Taliban to take over pretty quickly, and the government will either flee the country or capitulate in short order, so it’s going to be chaos for while!” Then he would have been, “blamed,” (quite rightly so) for CAUSING more chaos! THAT’S why he’s taking responsibility and telling, “the buck stops here.” So, I think he deserves our support? At least until the dust settles? These same generals will be the ones writing the history books, or being their main sources, so I’m inclined to suspect history will be a lot kinder to the guy who finally ripped off the bandaid and put an end to a hopeless situation? But, I’m willing to wait until it’s over, before casting judgement. Both parties own this war. But Joe’s ended it in half a year of his presidency. Didn’t we ALL want that? ✌️
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@franklin9400 : Nothing . . . You’ve literally got NOTHING. Just your hurt emotions and Karenage. Even your spelling of the word, “liar,” is a lie! 🤦♂️ YOU are the one Complaining, Karen. YOU are the one demanding to speak to someone’s supervisor, Karen. YOU are the one unhappy with your service, and coming to a channel where you’re not wanted, to whine at people who don’t give a f’k, about imagined, “grievances,” that only exist in your own fuzzy head, madam! Maybe go find out what a, “Karen,” is, if you want to stop being called one? But, Karens rarely know they’re Karens, which is part of their condition. When you catch me on F*x, or Alex Jonestown’s channels, tearing those liars down, then you can call me Karen, and I’ll explain why you’re wrong about that too. But, right here, right now, you have been caught with your KARENAGE around your ankles and there’s NOTHING you can do about that, madam. Except, of course, you could STOP being such a Karen, go get your jab, and then get a JOB, maybe? . . . 🤔 . . . I don’t care. 🤷♂️ I kinda’ enjoy trolling your trumpisms 😜
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@dakotastyles 👈🐑❄️: I’m sorry, cup cake, but that’s HOW a, “withdrawal,” WORKS, darlin’ . . . 🤦♂️ By, “WITHDRAWING,” your troops. 🤷♂️. I have to admit, once I read expressions like, “Pay attention I’m educating you,” I already start losing the will to live, because I just KNOW that not only am I about to see some long-winded trumpisms, but that they’ll also be even MORE long-winded and Karenish, than usual. So, I stopped reading, once I got the point. Hope you, “learned,” something, Karen? Go, “complain,” to the government, if you think you can do better? 🤷♂️🤦♂️
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@goddessrick8734 : Here’s a little, “irony,” for you to enjoy. The trump trolls who most enjoy pushing the, “Chiynah,” narrative the hardest, are the ones writing to you on their, “Freedom Phones,” which they’ve bought from the websites of Matt Gaetz, MTG, and other GOP fan favourites, because they unblock Palour apps, the Klan and Lord Knows what other racist America Hater’s apps on those things. The best bit? Those, “Freedom Phones,” are all made in . . . (Drumroll) . . . CHINA. And, not just to help the Communist Chinese Economy either, but they’re BRISTLING with malware, spyware, built in apps and secretly installed hardware! They’re literally carrying around spy devices that can put Winnie The Pooh in their laps, whenever they call their grand wizard at the Klan Lodge! Priceless right? 🤣
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@franklin9400 : You’re, “making generalisations,” whilst, “complaining,” about my generalisations, and STILL don’t like being called a Karen? 🤷♂️🤦♂️ There, there, cupcake. Do you wanna’ speak to my Supervisor too? . . . He’ll be out in a minute, Karen . . . I know, You’ll wait, right? . . . 🙄
Meanwhile, remember, “Afghanistan?” Got anything to, “say,” about that, or is it still all about YOU, and your hurt, “feelings,” Karen? 🤦♂️🤣
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@lindai7739 : Think again, Karen? Why not wait to see what happens when it’s over, before pretending you know how this ends? Why be so partisan? Have you not asked why all the generals and top military personal from BOTH administrations are agreeing with Joe, and somewhat unhappy about trump Surrendering to the Taliban in the first place? Or, ask yourself WHO are the people starting up GoFundMe’s and other clever, imaginative schemes, to bring our allies to America? Because, it’s mostly American Service Personnel who are doing the heavy lifting there. Don’t you support our troops? If they vouch for our allies, aren’t you glad to welcome them with open arms? These people fought with our troops, spilling the same blood in the same mud.
But, most of all, ask yourself WHO is going to write those, “history,” books? And who will be the primary sources for those who weren’t there? Because that’ll be the generals you’re disrespecting right now. Why not support America for a change? Try it on for size? . . . Instead of complaining like a Karen? 🤷♂️
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@lindai7739 : Oh, WELL . . . If his, “ratings,” are how we’re deciding stuff now, well then, that’s me Karened all over the place, then isn’t it? 🤦♂️🙄 . . . Think I’ll stick to stuff like judgement, independent thought, right and wrong, critical thinking and MORALITY, rather than crumpling because of the natural results of his taking a kicking from CNN every day, if you don’t mind? Learn HOW to THINK, and never be told WHAT you, “think,” Karen. And stop being SUCH a Karen? . . . 🤷♂️
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splatthecat: So, you think that Trump’s propaganda outlet, the epoch times, which you, “watch,” because you didn’t even know it’s primarily a paper, and Sky, owned by Trump’s richest backer and BFF, Murdoch, are, “unbiased,” do you? Scotland will deport you if you continue being that dumb, son. They’re introducing IQ minimum requirements 🤣
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Glen Ford seems somewhat obtuse. Why do all these investigative journalists have such strong political biases? By his logic, because of US imperial history and interference in the democracies of other countries, we should not complain when it happens to the US? What if you want to see ALL aggressors put in jail and are not happy about what your own country did to Nicaragua, Afghanistan, etc? Some of the claims being made by SOME accusers, regarding Russia, may well be wrong, but that does not dismiss all charges, surely? Trump is an obvious crook, with no moral compass and no ideology, which is a matter of PUBLICLY AVAILABLE RECORD
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Zero Cool : Well, given that they will unite behind whomever wins, and runners up will still be getting jobs in their new Cabinet, and aren’t going away, son? . . . 🤔 And, given that most Conservatives, LIKE ME, will be voting Democrat, or the ones who just can’t bring themselves to do it, will just stay home on election night, I’d say your question is somewhat academic, wouldn’t you? 😁
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Jermbot15 : You’re right, of course. Yet, in Obama’s case, that really is impossible. I know that Trump Trolls here try blaming O, but no one in their right mind actually, “believes,” them, any more than they, “believed,” Trump’s claims that Alabama was in the path of a Hurricane. Even a cursory look at the record shows that the US economy was a basket case, created by the Short Sales and dead money bundles of the deregulated Bush Administration. When you inherit a basket case, and leave it a booming, still growing economy, that’s inarguable. I was a fierce critic of Obama, during his time in power, but I was never partisan about it, and I was never insane enough to challenge the fact that he literally SAVED America’s economy and, by extension, the WORLD’S. Telling Trump Trolls that O, “saved the world,” is one of those great facts that you can use to, “trigger,” them, because it’s true, thus more, “painful,” to them. Talk about, “how,” he did it, and they would have serious grounds for, “serious,” criticism. But, they don’t read, or actually, “know,” anything, so they go with the Propaganda talking points, which any educated person sees is wrong from the outset. Ignorant people don’t realise that they’re telling you so much MORE than they, “realise,” when spouting official talking points. It’s never that they’re just wrong; they give away the, “where,” they get their talking points, and the, “who,” is issuing them; they inform you of their background and, “ideology,” without seeming to realise it. The, “way,” they are wrong is most informative, telling you if it’s mainline Fox Propaganda, or more Deep State Alex QAnon Jones, for instance. Just another reason why they’re so easy to smash.
But, never forget, my friend: the paid ones, and many of the ones sent out, unwittingly, to use the racist, ill informed, distortions of Propaganda they’re always spouting; they are NOT here to, “convince,” you of anything. They do NOT intend to, “win a debate.” They already know they can’t, because truth trumps lies every time (even the more subtle, slight distortions of the truth, growing in popularity among the Trollarazzi). Their only, “job,” is to ensure that there’s a lot of anger and hate out there. “DIVISION,” is the KEY WORD. Trump got in on a wave of division in America. He has sustained himself, by keeping America Divided. And, when seen through that lens, suddenly, everything Trump does makes perfect sense. Even many of his acts of sheer idiocy become useful, as a way to distract from important issues, but mainly to keep us at each other’s throats. The literal Kryptonite of Trump, is a, “United,” States of America. So, I learned long ago; NEVER let your emotions into the discussion (except to lol at Trolly stupidity) and never hate the player, just the game.
Trump will be defeated and destroyed. But, it will be by Americans UNITING as ONE powerful country again. Right now, it is in a verbal Civil War II, that Putin wants to be a literal one. And, that’s what we’re REALLY fighting. Godspeed ✌️
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Jennifer Erickson : I think it’s because they, “thought,” Donny could, “stop Globalism,” that they think he can stop the weather? Seriously. The two thinks are equally as unpredictable, unstoppable, and unrealistic as, “targets,” after all. Just so long as he stays racist and greedy, they’ll FAKE their, “belief,” in every lie that drops out of his Orange Orifice 🤣✌️👍
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She is my genuine hero. She should be taught on the National Curriculum!
Jen Psaki is rapidly becoming a living legend. Her sheer calmness, eloquence and patience in the face of such a hypocritically phrased, bad faith question, is something to behold. I can only imagine her Trumpophile predecessors must be eating their hearts out? This, “journalist,” has the arrogance of the Inquisition, and the temerity to LIE with such casual obtuseness, whilst, “representing,” Christianity!? Psaki is NEVER caught off guard, unprepared; she never raises her voice, or fakes, “outrage;” she’s never Whaddabouting, or pushing at whatever triggered buttons she can find, calculated to get at the, “emotions,” of her president’s opponents. And she CRUSHES the trump trolls by winning over Americans, by never rubbing anyone’s nose in their idiocy, lies, faked concerns, or bad faith attempts at scoring playground points. Her sheer competence, skill and unrivalled knowledge of her topics is unmatched by ANY predecessor I can think of. And, you know WHY she’s SO masterful? It’s because she knows the most valuable lesson in politics:
How do you NEVER lose the game? DON’T PLAY!
It’s THAT simple. Do your job, and do it better than anyone in history. They can’t land a punch, because you’re not in the boxing ring. They hear the bell and come out flailing, only to find they were punching at air, and somehow knocked themselves out! They come to and look up, only to see the face of Jen Psaki, and realise that was the Referee the whole time, and she’s just called you OUT for the count.
She’s my hero. Seriously. I admire her so deeply. ✌️
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So, it’s not what they would, “observe,” through a telescope at the same time, if one sat still and the other was jogging past the same location at that moment? Rather, it is what they would perceive if they each had possession some magic device that could show them the events in that Andromedan location, as they were occurring simultaneously, in their, “now,” on Andromeda, right? . . . My brain hurts . . .
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Clair Duffy : I always enjoy reading your comments. It’s so amusing to see how upset the Trump Tramps are. But, I really love it, when they pretend not to care, whilst clearly, “Caring,” so much that they have to bleat about it, on CNN, where they LIVE. Their pain I’d palpable, and their 9 year old, Third World mentality, prevents them from realising that all they can achieve, is to show us how much they’re suffering. Imagine? If this is what they look like, as the, “victors,” what will they be like, when Trump’s empire collapses? . . . 😁👍✌️
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You will. That’s what their Fraudits are for. Why do you think they’re, “auditing,” states that are not even disputed? Remember what Manafort went to jail for? Your address, licences and contact details will be next to your voter records. If you live in a household where multiple people have voted Dem, and have last names like, “Washington,” or, “Vasques,” you’ll be getting death threats at the midterms, and then finding out your vote was decertified, but only when they arrest you for trying to vote when you were not allowed to.
The Fraudits are a giant scam and the most dangerous threat to democracy yet! These GOP racists need to be locked up.
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Yes . . . Apply Occam’s Razor to this and ask, which is the simpler explanation? Has every single politician, the politicians of every other country (except those of our sworn enemies), every law enforcement chief, every news network, human rights organisation, every damned scientist and educational establishment, etc, etc, etc, ALL been in a, “Criminal Conspiracy,” for the last five years, called, “The Deep State,” out to get one man? Donny? . . . Or, maybe (JUST MAYBE!!!?) trump and his enablers ARE THE CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY? I know which one my sense of logic, reason, faith (yes I believe in Christ. What of it?) basic decency and the senses of my eyes and ears are telling me . . . The GOP has to be stopped. They will not give up until our Democratic Republic has FALLEN! ✌️
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Kenshannon Jeter : We should NOT DIVIDE Trump’s opposition. There are MANY, TRUE, “Conservatives,” who WILL be VOTING Democrat, if Trump doesn’t find a, “pretext,” to, “suspend,” the Mid Terms? The GOP are NOT, “Conservative,” ANY LONGER, by ANY TRUTHFUL DEFINITION. We MUST be UNITED. Division is what the Trump Trolls are PAID to ferment. Don’t give them THAT victory?
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Jk F1 : Oh DO STOP PRETENDING that it’s some sort of, “left v right,” issue. Why not EXPLAIN to us, oh wise one, WHAT dog does America HAVE in this fight? WHAT has America GAINED by doing this? Previous administrations dealt with Israel FALLING OVER ITSELF with OFFERS of ALL KINDS. Trump got NOTHING for this? WHY? I mean, other than 50 DEAD protestors, SO FAR, WHAT exactly has this achieved? Just looks like MORE KOMPROMAT to me?
WHO has benefitted in AMERICA from this? It may have, “pleased,” some politically minded Jews, but there are AS MANY JEWS in America, who thought this was a BAD MOVE. So WHY DO IT AT ALL? Unless Trump is getting PAID, perhaps? . . .
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Kirk Crawford : I haven’t seen ONE, “accomplishment.” From the wall he hasn’t even started, to, “The Best infrastructure in the world,” to, “the best healthcare in the world,” I see the EXACT OPPOSITE. Will you still be propagandising for him, when your tax, “break,” ENDS in April? Yeah! Look THAT one up? But, of COURSE you will, because you don’t LIVE IN AMERICA, DO YOU? Or, maybe you do? But, you’re just too RACIST to want him gone? Willing to SELL America to Putin, are we? So long as America turns, “white?” Or ORANGE, maybe? All you HAVE is, “emotions,” and your stupid, “lists,” are TOTALLY DEBUNKED before your even WRITE them. SMH 🙂
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Kirk Crawford : Which is an entirely, “emotional,” statement, with NOTHING else in it . . . SMH. Of COURSE I, “don’t like,” Trump! He’s a criminal incompetent, who SOLD our election! The question is, HOW COULD anyone, who isn’t a paid foreign Troll, or a domestic RACIST, support the guy AT ALL? Stop projecting your, “feelings,” for long enough to, “THINK,” about that, for one moment, and take stock of your life? You’re SO on the WRONG side of history, dude . . . SMH 😁
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@Matt1147 : They were, “crisis actors.” Trump’s trolls taught us all about them. Apparently, anyone who claims the state is responsible for their tragedies are being paid by the, “enemies of the state,” which are the press. Didn’t you know that? Trump trolls have been warning us about them for years! Now we get to see one, and be heartless, cruel, vindictive and revolting toward them, dismissing their pain out of hand, and not listening to anything they want to say . . .
In reality, the, “rival,” stations will see their Gold Star Family, and raise them TWO Gold Star Families, of a more senior rank. And the two sides will battle over the, “trophy,” of, “Sacrifice,” as though the winner could take it home with them, and nothing of value will be learned, unless you value sound bites and memes in your political discourse?
That, after all, was the only point behind the original comment. “We’ve got a grieving family who agrees with us, what have you got?” like some species of jackal-human hybrid, who thinks he’s scoring a point, rather than being capable of grasping the sheer degradation of his own, “soul.”
The sentiment behind the comment was revolting enough. But, the art of never losing the game is, DON’T PLAY. Hence, I only ever engage Trumpophiles for my own entertainment (I know, 🤦♂️ 🤷♂️ I know) or to prevent a lie from being misappropriated into a, “belief.” It was actually superbly handled by the military, who planned and executed a giant operation the likes of which we haven’t witnessed since the Martial Plan in the 1950’s broke the will of the Soviets. But, no one here gives a sh*t about our military. They’re here to do what they’re paid for, troll for trump, which means deepening DIVISIONS, and that’s it. They serve no other purpose. It’s the ones who, “do it for free,” that I really pity. They’re the ones with too much free time on their hands, racism and hate in their hearts, and lack of self respect, love of humanity, or positive influences in their lives. Sometimes, I feel genuinely sorry for those ones. Their lives have clearly gone utterly wrong, and they, “blame,” the other, because of their rotten, racist parents and their rotten racist, “former guy,” who made it ok.
But, don’t waste your time talking to any of them like an adult? Or, you’ll be disappointed. ✌️👍
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Face it, people. The institution is rotten, therefore the institution must go. It must be replaced. And that would not be such a big challenge as the embedded officers of the Met, or self serving politicians would have you believe. These people working so hard on the public’s behalf, calling for change on behalf of you and me, as well as the families of victims and the police who either become what they are meant to be protecting us from, or become pariahs in their own station houses, need YOUR support. One letter, email, or message of support to them, and one letter, email, or message to this committee, demanding they act on the recommendations of these people, is not a lot to ask, is it?
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Kevin Warriner : They’re NOT, “foil hats,” really. Not ONE Trump fan actually, “believes,” a SINGLE WORD, uttered by the Orange Orifice. Except for the very, VERY few Clinically Thick ones. They FAKE, “Believe,” because they gave too much REAL MONEY, and lost too many friends and family, to admit, even to themselves, that they were SO STUPID for falling for his Gameshow Persona. The ones who aren’t paid foreigners, live in the Land Of Fake Believe, because they’re ASHAMED. We see it as anger, but that’s just them doing the equivalent of saying, “Lah, Lah, Lah! Not listening!” 😁 Honest ✌️👍
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Leonaza7 : Exactly. It’s fair enough that anyone would be upset at such charges, but a Judge has SEEN accused people; accused of WORSE crimes, fighting for their lives, conducting themselves with greater self control, dignity and just plain, “smarts.” When you KNOW you’re going to be questioned about your self-control, drinking and raping, you’d have thought it would be a No Brainer, to stay cool???
But, to call it a, “Clinton Conspiracy”??? FFS??? His colleagues must have put their heads in their hands and WEPT! In ANY other circumstances, THAT would have blown it for him. The GOP have “Desperation” written all over them. They just want Kavanaugh, because they KNOW they’re going to be facing their own charges. And, they’re making it OBVIOUS . . . SMH
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The Critical Drinker : You are one of the few reviewers who can actually make me genuinely Lol. Thanks. Doesn’t everyone know that, “It was all a dream,” is the most hackish bollox for a story? It’s also a call back to their most successful movie, where Picard had the same dream experiences about the Borg in First Contact, using what worked best for them back then, and rehashing it, right? Anyhoo. Love your wit and humor, even if I do hate ALL politicians, and especially the, “bad,” Orange man. Never change, you extraordinary renaissance man, you complete me 😉👍
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@colemcleod941 : A comprehensive and clear explanation. You’d make a pretty good expert witness yourself. For whatever profession you pursue that is. And, you can never say never. The expert testimony of any profession can be (and frequently is) vital to a trial.
What you’re trying to make clear is that the expert witness is there for the jury’s edification, to explain in detail what specific terms and definitions apply, how they bare on the case in hand, and any relevant details that the jury needs to have a working knowledge of, in order that they can fairly judge the case before them. Not only are they not witnesses to the events being disputed, but they are necessarily detached and (despite being hired by either defence or prosecution) are meant to give an unbiased testimony, from the perspective of an expert in the field who is specifically NOT influenced by the events of the case, and has nothing to gain or lose by the trials outcome.
And, for that reason, this expert that we just heard, would be an excellent choice for this case. Particularly at an inquest, where the coroner might well hire such an expert in order to help determine whether further investigation or prosecutions are warranted.
It does make me wonder, however? Do you think some people hope to get the gig by appearing on TV? Does that happen very often? An inquest would want to hear from an expert witness and this case would require more than one, presumably? Because there’s the issue of the contracts that people signed, whether they were being honoured (by both sides) and what the legal ramifications of her specific contracts were? There’s also the issue of how common such, “doubling up,” practices are and the, “reasonable expectation,” that she could fulfil both roles? I mean, clearly, she didn’t, whether she could have or not. But a witness who can testify as to what is routine regarding contracts and what’s not? The coroner would need more background for that too?
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@carbonara2144 : I contacted the, “Military Industrial Complex,” to ask them what they’re up to in Afghanistan, and you know what they told me? They said, “We’re not a thing. We’re just an expression, coined by President Eisenhower, who was telling us about his concern that the wrong people might wind up being too powerful, and guiding international, “policy,” more than your government, for the sake of the Almighty Dollar. Nowadays, it’s just a lazy expression, that thoughtless people use, so we wind up, “hating,” people who risk their lives, going into war zones, to build hospitals, roads, schools, dams, and other infrastructure, along with the Carpet Baggers, until we can’t tell them apart.” . . . The nerve of those guys, huh? . . . 🙄
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“CELEBRATES”??? Was that just Truss, knowing the reminders were coming anyway, doing the equivalent of sticking her fingers in her ears and shouting, “Lah, lah, lah! Not listening! Lah, lah, lah!” Yup. Everyone, not just Labour, can remind voters, “Truss, and the Truss supporters, still accept no responsibility and are STILL TRYING to do it again!”
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You want the train to be in the station, but it hasn’t arrived yet. So you ask someone where it is and they smile and calmly say, “Well, the engineer decided not to show up to work today, because he’s drunk. I happen to work here and know the guy. They’ll be looking for a replacement about now. Could be 5 minutes, could be 5 days.” And you say, “You sound angry about that.” No! YOU just revealed that YOU are angry about that, Fareed.
If you had said, “You sound angry,” to me in his place, I would have responded to that by asking, “In what way can I calmly, logically, state the facts without being accused of sounding angry then?” You’re projecting. If these things are just empirically true, or I believe them to be, and so I say it out loud, because you asked the question, I may well feel anger about that, but I have not expressed any anger. It is YOU who feels that anger and you put it onto John Stewart instead of owning it, even though he’s quietly stating empirical facts. That’s why he laughed at you. Sheer frustration.
Really enjoyed the interview, though. Including the other clips.
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Ddd Zzzz : That’s sort of true. I’m, “rich,” by any reasonable standard, but I’m also aware that this un-acknowledged Cold War with China, will be the LEAST of our problems, if we don’t remove the, “president,” who’s financial interests are linked to the Chinese Stock market, with his sweat shops and franchises, and who was BEGGING Xi for Campaign assistance, which is TREASON, btw the way. The trump’s KNOW they’re looking at serious jail time, as does half of the GOP. They aren’t just waiting to get arrested. Make sure your home and family are secure; that you’re in a pro-democracy action group, that you have supplies to last, and, “precautions,” in place. November’s going to be the breaking point. Just saying, BE PREPARED. Better to have what you need, and not need it, than to be in NEED and not have it, if you know what I mean? ✌️
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Just imagine what a slap on the wrist, “censure,” would do; which is as good as saying we’re ending the Republic, right there and then? Given that loss of office will result in countless immediate indictments (both Federal & State) which will land him and his family in jail, what alternative does a, ”man,” with his established record of destroying the Constitution and breaking all of the laws he runs up against, HAVE? So long as he can count on enough of his base and the party to remain in denial, and HATE Dems and other races, just enough to make them cheer when he pisses on the rule of law, he will have NO CHOICE but to have Moscow ENSURE his, “re-election,” in a Putin Style, 2020 SHAM. It’s that, or disgrace and jail! And, half of the GOP are IMPLICATED with him, so they’re fighting for their OWN SURVIVAL. They simply CANNOT remove him.
What else CAN he do? 2020 will HAVE TO be RIGGED, because too many Americans were persuaded to HATE their, “fellow Americans,” MORE than they hate (or even understand WHO ARE) America’s enemies . . .
Just look at the shills on this thread, desperately trying to bury their SHAME, because they KNOW they’re killing America, but aren’t strong enough to ADMIT what they WANT! They WANT a Russian Style, Single Party system, with just enough FAKE Democracy to keep up appearances . . . Trump = Putin Mark Two; the Puppet Version, and they just DON’T CARE. In fact, they PREFER it that way. They’ll take that over the fictional, “brown menace,” any day . . . America’s Republic is OVER
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Here’s how IGNORANT people are about Climate Change: Have you ever watched a person, standing in a field, shouting at a startled sheep, because they’re angry at her SHEPARD? . . . You all have, metaphorically speaking. The sheep is the politician, who was bought (NOT rented, but bought, outright!) by Shell, or Exon or some other global concern, and is totally OWNED outright! Yet, people still keep acting like the, “politician,” is going to do a God Damned THING for them! Even if they decided to act, they don’t have the POWER!
Those who actually, “care,” about the planet? Those who really want, “change?” Take your fight DIRECT to the people in charge! You’re making a fool out of yourself, screaming at a startled spider-monkey in a suit, while the Organ Grinder is laughing his ass off and handing your ass back to you! Take a leaf out of Native American tribes, who stopped an oil company by direct action? There’s whole BOOKS on this stuff!
But WHY TF are y’all messing around with POLITICIANS as though they could do ANYTHING about the most powerful global companies on the planet, when you might as well be asking them to gnaw off their own right arm!? 🤷♂️🙄🤦♂️
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Dorian Shades of gray : You’re still literally, “Whaddabout?”ing, but this time, by accusing me of doing it. Anything but address the REAL issue, right? The Klan is alive and well, and still shouting, “Heil Trump,” while making the Nazi salute. That’s not changing the subject, it’s addressing the HEART of it. No one gets to whine about ANYONE in politics being a racist, without owning the fact that the POTUS is a RACIST, actively supporting RACISTS. The guy in the video should resign, and the fact that he’s clinging on, just makes him all the more Trumpian. He’s gotta’ go. So what? Dealt with 🙂
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Gooey 911 : Is it that you, “think,” that by simply denying the FACTS, they’ll go away? Do you, “think,” that the world disappears, when you close your eyes??? THIS is the ANSWER to the QUESTION, that everyone has been asking, since the warrant was served. Do you REALISE, just HOW HIGH the bar is, to satisfy a judge that it’s OK to listen in and record the phone calls of THE PRESIDENT’S ATTORNEY??? But, just HOW HIGH do you, “THINK,” that bar rises, for a Judge to sign off on a RAID of THREE places SIMULTANEOUSLY? Everyone has been wondering, how serious it is, and how did it happen just now, in the middle of the Stormy mess. NOW WE KNOW. They have been LISTENING TO COHEN, SCHEMING AND PLOTTING WITH, AND FOR, TRUMP.
Keep on being a Gravity Denier. We find it funny 🤣
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alicecapone : I guess that depends on WHERE you got your information? I checked SEVERAL outlets, BEFORE asserting that Cohen WAS INDEED having his calls monitored. There is a DETAILED description available on the MSNBC, YouTube, Channel, explaining what exactly happened. You need not take MY word for it. I ALWAYS check out my sources in these cases, KNOWING that to be wrong about such a big deal, only adds strength to the opposition. I ALSO, ALWAYS make a STATEMENT of CORRECTION, if I get my facts wrong, so IF you can DISPROVE this TRUTH, I will make such a statement. That’s up to you, but I can PROMISE YOU, you will be wasting your time.
Check for yourself? Or not? I don’t really care. Reality still applies, for now . . . Unless the Stalinists of Trump’s GOP get to revise ALL HISTORY, after winning the Mid Terms? But, let’s face it, THAT could ONLY happen if, say, Russia has ALREADY penetrated the election computers? Because, the American people sure aren’t going to vote for them . . .
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Swnsasy _ : Hey there, my friend. Is, “NZ,” New Zealand? Or, am I missing something? I ask because I came from England, originally, back in 2006. And, YES, Trolls; I AM a CITIZEN, before you all start telling me I’m an NPC. But, you’re right. The Sheeple follow Trump, because they get paid to, by Russian Shell Companies, because they’re racists, who, “do it for free,” like their moms, or because they’re too ashamed to own the truth and take comfort from the fictions of Fox . . . Smh ✌️👍
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Anel Debique : What you said to Cameron was Gold. Seriously. A life lesson. When people are leaders, from church leaders to politicians, or in any profession, note which way they lead you. If they lead, “Toward,” a positive goal, they’re usually worth listening to. It’s the ones leading you, “Away,” from things that are inherently DANGEROUS. Whether it’s, “against gays, abortion, migration,” or anything else they’re, “against,” they have a damaging agenda. People who lead TOWARD a bright future, “building,” things, like an economy, better education, improved justice, etc. What’s not to like about that? And, that rule of thumb has guided me throughout my life. Glad you said it ✌️👍
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It was a, “success,” in terms of the fact that he got us OUT of a war, and a country where we’re not wanted. It was a success in terms of it being one of the most spectacular, efficient, and clean withdrawals in history, carried out by the most professional fighting force on Earth. If people understood more about the sheer logistics of what they achieved, they would be filled with admiration for what these people pulled off here. In fact, it seemed so unlikely to the enemies of the Taliban and the US, that they could not get their act together swiftly enough to truly sabotage the withdrawal. Everyone there was truly sceptical that it would actually happen, having heard it all before. That’s why some were left stranded, despite being warned to pack up and leave, since January. We don’t, “blame,” our own side for terror attacks, so we don’t count that suicide bomber as being anyone’s fault but theirs. And those who claim this was some species of, “failure,” are utterly uninformed, militarily ignorant, and historically illiterate. Especially anyone dumb enough to compare this withdrawal to our last days in Saigon.
All that being said . . . Someone, raging about a suicide bomber, clearly wanted to shoot back, so badly, that they didn’t really care about who they hit. THAT person, or persons, needs to face swift military justice. Unless the military can produce hard evidence to contradict this report (unlikely) which they’d better do right now, the remaining family of this man and the other victims, must be compensated and treated with the utmost dignity and respect. And, offered attendance at the tribunal, and expedited visas, should they so choose.
But, give Milley the opportunity to assess this new information, process it and respond, BEFORE casting, “judgement,” maybe?
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I’m not at all confident (from reading the comments) that people are actually understanding what’s happening here, or how big this really is? If anything is likely to topple Putin’s administration it’s this procedure right here. Without the, “corpus delicti,” in attendance at this, “trial,” they can refuse to hear any, “representations,” from the defence. Which means they can speed through several trials a day and get to the REAL business in hand . . . “Reparations.”
You have noted, I take it, that Brown and his international team are NOT, human rights lawyers, but nearly ALL financial experts? . . . This whole exercise is to set up a legal process for getting at Putin’s frozen bank accounts. About two thirds of Russia’s wealth (certainly Putin’s) is sitting there, in western hands, just BEGGING to be used to pay for Ukraine’s side of the war. How embarrassing for a world leader to declare war on a country and be funding both sides of that war in real time? How long does that dictator last? . . .
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jon doh : By a bunch of Russian Spies, more like. The grownup Mob, put the, “9 year olds,” in charge. And, that, “feels,” pretty much the way YOU, “feel,” when you saw the Big Blue Wave, and realised that it’s all coming to an end 🙂
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Me too. Do you all think David is right about the base? I know their, “leadership,” all know they’re lying, but I’m just not convinced that anything more than a small minority actually, “believes,” the big lie. “Belief,” itself is a loose term when you’re moving into fascist territory though, when it’s much more like a mental condition; an emotional unmet, “need,” that makes people disregard the facts, because they just, “need,” what they want, so badly.
You cannot lie effectively, and on such a massive scale, without giving serious thought to the facts, and therefore having considerable knowledge of what the facts are. And, like a racist parent, who works so hard at conditioning their children to disregard what they learn in schools, see in the outside, wider world, and read in books and see in movies and TV, that kind of lying takes commitment and hard work. Little wonder they attack our education system and want to remove the existence of slavery from the curriculum altogether, right? It must be really hard work, having to counter your child’s education, every single day?
But that’s the level of awareness racists show. And it’s testimony to their deep, abiding commitment to destroy the Republic and America’s (aspired to) way of life. It serves as an acknowledgement of the knowledge of wrongdoing, on the part of the base. And it serves as a warning. Fascism is growing because these people really, really work at it, around the clock! And therefore, so should we, if we want to save America from Fascism.
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@rosemontoya7005 : It would be a huge opportunity for America, to see what Joe and his party could achieve with an actual, clear MAJORITY. And it should be sold to the American public like that, at the midterms. If you want to see Joe DELIVER on his promises, give him that majority that he needs to see the job through! But, if we lose so much as ONE, SINGLE SEAT in the balance of power, America is f’ked. No exaggeration. We really NEED more seats, to give America a country that it would just be UNTHINKABLE to give up. And when the Haters see for themselves that there was no bogey man, that the country is NOT, “communist,” now, and that no one has injected Bill Gates’ trackers into them via the vaccine, the cult of trump may finally die? These are the stakes. Failure is simply NOT an option. 👍
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When a political party has internally abandoned all pretensions of ideology and simply wishes to create a neo-liberal free-for-all, wild west, society of haves and have nots, this is what you get.
All of the crooks, who are considered, “talented,” at stealing Britain’s wealth, resources, industries, lands, etc. and selling it all off for personal profit, are put to work to do exactly that. So putting people in the shop window, as a front for the organisation, comes almost as an after thought. Liz Truss was scraped up from the very bottom of their barrel, to distract the press and their party members and keep them busy, while the elites who fund the whole operation from their, “think tank,” lobby groups could get on with the business of instructing, “our,” elected representatives on exactly what they’re going to do whilst in office.
That’s why truss is like a ghost of Victorian Christmas past, blaming the, “woke,” for her downfall, even though anyone with half a brain would tell her that the banks, financial institutions and back-stabbers of her own party were the ones who put an ignominious end to her idiocy, whilst the, “woke,” (whomever TF they are?) had no say in the matter.
That’s why they like Sunack for now. He’s quieter, not deliberately baiting the public (whom it is his, “job,” to, “unite,”) like Cruella Braverman is . . . at least not so much as people like her and Truss are.
And, because he’s willing to do unprecedentedly anti-democratic stuff, like locking the press OUT of their upcoming party conference, allowing them to train up their worker bees, our MP’s, in their dark arts in a shameless, unvarnished manner without ANY public scrutiny. Knowing they will to lose their mandate next year, they have about one year to clean us out completely, in an Everything Must Go sale of Britain’s best and brightest hopes.
They don’t want the likes of you and me paying attention to any of that!? So, they’ll have Braverman spew out a bit more borderline racism at about the same time as their conference, putting on a good dog and pony show for us all to get distracted by, while they’re going through your pockets (and any pockets you may own in the future) to clean them out.
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The, “old angry orange guy,” now has a Dictatorship established. There IS NO, “good news.” How can they have a trial, in which the accused has already confessed, they prevent witness testimony and evidence, and prove to the WORLD that Trump is GUILTY and STILL LET HIM WALK, REGARDLESS, and then PRETEND to have a, “Democracy, a Constitution or a Republic”??? If Trump loses his, “protected presidential status,” he and his family GO TO JAIL!!! And they‘lol rat out half of the GOP! They HAVE TO FIX the 2020, “elections.” And YOU ARE GIVING THEM PERMISSION, by NOT RISING UP, AT THIS SHAM IMPEACHMENT!!! You’re in denial, America . . . SMH
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@javieramiri : People are less concerned about, “ID,” (though, for none drivers, there’s an obvious issue there 🙄) than all the other, targeted, racist measures. Talking about ID is how trump trolls are trying to distract us from killing Freedom of Religious Expression, taking away hours and days, and ensuring that votes occur while people are at work, meaning the poorest Georgians are least likely to get time off to vote, and other things like your BASIC HUMAN RIGHT to WATER . . . But you know this, don’t you? 🤦♂️
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Update: It’s LA’s Robbery Homicide Police Suad who are investigating. No mention of the FBI at this point.
They did set off one alarm when they tried to get in through the wall on the side, but it was just a local noise alarm and not rigged to notify the cops or anyone else, so no one even knew about the heist until the next day. It seems that the rooftop access idea was their, “Plan B.” That set off no alarms at all.
The German news outlet, DW News, had a journalist who spoke to one of their, “security consultants,” on sight, who said they expect to find the thieves soon. They think it was an inside job, as the thieves had to know that the large sum of money was there at that time, that they could get to it with the right tools, that no one would be on sight to stop them and, most importantly, how to open the safe on the premises.
He said, they will go through all of the staff’s emails, phone records, etc and interview everyone individually.
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@DM-kv9kj : I can’t imagine why anyone would, “hate,” Starmer, of all people? His biggest flaw as a politician has always been that he cannot inspire any feelings so strong as hate in anyone, except you it seems? I, on the other hand, think it is suicidally dim witted of people to even want a, “personality,” in power, capable of evoking anything other than boredom in the population. Boring politics means there’s nothing to complain about. The western world has lost its tiny mind and is obviously too well off and too indolent to see that. They treat politics like it’s the X Factor and gleefully ignore the fact that countless people die as a result of incompetence, greed and lust for power.
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Brand bio, whaddever : The thing is, son, lies like his are SO out there that even Trump’s Cult is scratching their heads. Everyone above the age of 12 KNOWS that Biden and Obama SAVED the Economy, after Bush’s 2008 Banking Crash, that ruined so many lives. What Trump personally hates is that he KNOWS Biden CAN save the economy again, because he’s done it before, and America will LOVE him for it. The rest of the GOP are just waiting to see if their Tax Payer funded Convention makes a dent on the stats. And, in about two weeks, when the numbers are in, and they see it’s hopeless, they’ll start thinking about number one, and going for the life rafts. They know from experience, now. It’s very much, “First come, first served,” on the FBI Confessions Hotline. 😉
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I knew some of the gang members in the Hazel Grove constituency, in a former life. Not well, and only due to others I knew having run ins with them. It has been one of the most crime ridden areas in Greater Manchester for years. I was kind of hoping that it would have improved, if not been cleaned up, by now. It really couldn’t happen to any of us. You’re right there. I don’t know the Willy Wragg story well, but I wouldn’t, “sext,” my own wife! Not because of any poe faced Puritanism, but simply because everything you put into the either stays there, like a human stain, and can be accessed by third parties at any time, either as a result of security failures or human errors, technological failures, or spies (political and industrial) collecting vast swathes of data. I’d be more comfortable putting a lurid neon sign outside my house! Never say anything in the either, YouTube very much included, that you wouldn’t be willing to repeat in front of the people concerned, your own family, a judge or the police. If MP’s don’t all know this, they’re not fit to serve.
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Maurice Jones : While we’re here, may I just add; It’s IMMORAL to waste REAL TIME on Trump Troll Propaganda. Propaganda of any sort, really. Mr glover, here, has a lengthy waste of time for you, designed to make the Division in America WORSE. The Oxygen that sustains Trump is Division. A, “United States,” of America, will END HIM. Glover is a known Troll. Please do yourself a favor, and don’t waste time on him. Personally, I only bother with the ones who are BRIEF. Or, telling them to be BRIEF, or IGNORED. The Art of NEVER losing the game? DON’T PLAY ✌️👍
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They’ve lost Big Business (for now) so the GOP can only raise money from their loopy base, and they ALL need lawyers, so . . . No. I doubt Donny will pay for the outcome, which will be his RUIN, regardless of any, “verdict.” But, that’s why they’re still, “supporting,” Donny, right now. That will end, immediately after the Impeachment, and America will finally get to move on.
Your job is to inundate your representatives with DEMANDS that they force people like Cruz, Hawley, Giuliani, Graham and, of course, the trump’s, to TESTIFY!
When Trump’s cults hear it from the very mouths of the very people they, “trusted,” it will finally be over and the GOP will shatter into two pieces; the racist fruit loops on one side, and the system gamers, trying to have a, “future,” on the other.
The REASON for trump’s Insurrection was the seditious LIE they call, “The Steal.” When witnesses CANNOT give ANY, “evidence,” for believing in it, all they can do is take the Nuremberg Defence, and say they were following orders. America will hear the GOP’s top brass CONFESSING that, “The Steal,” was and is a LIE! There’s no coming back from that. “Verdicts,” are irrelevant to the POUNDING Donny’s whole ideology is going to take, on live TV, from witness who cannot refuse to testify, under oath, with no 5th Amendment to hide behind. We have them, at last . . . So long as YOU do your part? Get in touch. Demand the Reckoning! It’s your right AND your responsibility . . .
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@balloney2175 : A, “wide reader,” or to be, “widely read,” means that you have a broad scope of different topics that you’ve read about. It usually refers to someone who knows a little Shakespeare, Dr Johnson, a little science, some history, politics, poetry, a broad spectrum . . . As far as I know, that’s what it means. Less than how much time you spend reading; more about how much and how, “widely,” you read. That’s right, isn’t it? 🤔✌️
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I just don’t get it!? Boris Johnson was kicked out, not just for Party-Gate, but for repeatedly lying, gaslighting the nation, and so many other things! He was shamed out because he was incompetent, dishonest and wilfully (literally) unlawful in his dereliction of duty! We would have to be suicidally obtuse to allow him back into Parliament, let alone high office! Lord knows, he doesn’t even do the MP’s job he’s being paid so handsomely for now! Are people MAD???
How is it that the culture changed from disgraced MP’s giving up their careers and doing work for charities, like Profumo, who went on to get a gong for his charity work AFTER his political career was destroyed, to this new culture of politicians getting shamed out of office for much worse things than they used to, but then coming back a few months later and everyone just shrugging??? What HAPPENED???
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Kanfachan : I know. I’ll take the risk sharing with you that I lived in such an abusive marriage, and once, when I called the cops, they arrested me! I was let go without charges, once the surgeon arrived and made the observation that she had not one mark on her, while I was covered in bruises and had my own blood all over my T Shirt. And, making a complaint turned out to be useless, as they were all in the same Masonic Lodge. This was before I moved to America, and lived in the South of England. She left me, shortly after screwing around on me, and I was left in need of therapy. And, I lost friendships, with people who struggled to believe that a woman who weighed precisely half of my 6 feet 3 inches bulk, and who behaved SO WELL around them, could possibly do such a thing, despite the fact that I permanently looked like I’d lost in the ring to Mike Tyson, every day, while she always looked fresh and happy as a tiny daisy. I nearly killed myself. Instead, I found Jesus. Not joking. But, I’m not here to evangelise. If you’re still with me, this next bit is for you.
Yes, that happens, exactly as you say. But, LOOK at what actually HAPPENED in that video? She was sat in a car, trapped, in a confined space, with no defence. She was much smaller than him, and he was confident enough to keep going back for more. Whatever wrongs SOME women do, they are, by and large, incapable of the violence that men are designed by evolution to commit. That’s just science. They weigh less, they are poorly designed for fighting, (which is why they always look so ridiculous doing it, btw!) and in 9 cases out of 10, they simply don’t stand a chance. But, more importantly, you have probably noticed that most people, however mad they get, won’t start swinging, unless they’re certain that they won’t lose the fight; which is already an act of cowardice. If you check my comment, I didn’t state that it was the mere fact of her womanhood that made this so bad (though, in truth, a man should never hit a woman) but, it was her being trapped, in a hopeless position, and his repeated assaults that made me want to slap him.
You don’t ever hit a woman, for the practical reason that any decent people will ostracise you, and it will stain your reputation, possibly for life, and maybe even your record, making gainful employment harder. But, you never hit a woman, because only cowards do that, even when she’s hitting you. Get away from her and stay away, and never be around her again without witnesses. I’m an old fashioned guy too, and I will be called sexist for this, and lose any support I may have had, but I’ll say it anyway, out of a desire to be perfectly honest with you. I also believe that a REAL MAN just won’t do that. Once you’re hitting a woman, you’ve stopped being a man, but that’s just my own personal.
Now, if you’ve been patient enough to follow all that, thank you. If you have any questions, fire away. But, tell me? Are you at all persuaded? . . . ✌️
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Ron Romano : If you READ your OWN, “comments,” bandying terms, such as, “self righteous,” “farce,” and, “hate,” at those who disagree with you and then, in TYPICAL Trumpian fashion, accuse me of doing what YOU are doing; “attaching STIGMA,” you MAY begin to see the OBVIOUS HYPOCRISY of your words? A well known indicator or someone who is not confident about their, “argument,” is when THEY attack IRRELEVANCIES, such as grammar. Though, it did give me a laugh, to see you thought I used, “unnecessary commas,” in a sentence, which you (accidentally?) broke into TWO, with an, “UNNECESSARY,” PERIOD! ANOTHER case of your doing what you accuse others of. Your, “credibility,” diminishes, before our very eyes 😁
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Ron Romano : As to, “supporting our president,” the question, IF you are SINCERE, ought to be, “What IS SUPPORT?” Loyalty, is telling those you care for If and when they are WRONG. Yet Trump does NOT LISTEN to such counsel and will likely FIRE YOU for it. Loyalty is a ONE WAY STREET, with him.
As to the, “polls” . . . it is YOU Trump Trolls (and you ARE TROLLS) who LAUGH at polls, constantly reminding us that the polls were WRONG about HRC (though you ALWAYS FORGET to add that Fox’s polls said the SAME THING), so I have only spoken about WHAT IS: Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, and others, have HAD Mid Term Elections ALREADY. Not ENOUGH, “liberals,” in THOSE States, to kick out the incumbent GOP WITHOUT Conservative VOTES. AND THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED. FACT. So, if the GOP can NOT hold, “safe seats,” how do YOU, “think,” they’re gonna’ fair in closely contested States? Let ALONE, the, “UNSAFE,” States? Riddle me THAT, Bat Man? Or will you run away, like Keevy did? . . . 😁
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Ron Romano : One last thing: I am, and have consistently stated for almost two years now, that I was NOT an Obama fan, and that the ONLY, “comfort,” I have taken from Trump’s being handed the presidency, despite losing the VOTE, by 3,000,000, is that HILLARY IS NO LONGER GOINT TO BE RUNNING THINGS. I am Conservative in my views. THAT is WHY I will be voting Democrat, at the Mid Terms. So as to RESTORE DEMOCRACY, before Trump DISMANTLES IT, COMPLETELY
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It’s a fascinating notion. The potential of this work that I see, lies in whether it can be applied to improving conditions for creating more genius. It seems it wouldn’t actually be doing that, so much as identifying the groups, types of groups, environments, resources, etc, which best establish the possibility of fostering genius and, more importantly, identifying it where it manifests, rather than allowing it to sink back under the waves.
This would be more than a simple exercise in social justice, seeing to it that appropriate recognition is assigned in a timely fashion to whom it rightfully belongs; but it has the potential of generating entire systems of education that would increase the numbers of identifiable geniuses, and simple high achievers, who’s contributions would add to the overall success, prosperity and wellbeing of society.
My question would be, however, is there an algorithm you can write for identifying evil genius? I am only half joking about that. Such an algorithm, if reliable, would be of equal utility and give rise to the kinds of discussions we rarely have in education or science, regarding ethics and morality. Or, at least, it is rare that such discussions reach any useful conclusions and come up with methodologies for addressing such issues as a matter of policy. As you would need a useful definition of, “evil genius,” to begin with, which comes loaded with legal, ethical and political baggage, from the outset, steering the direction in which such a definition can be made. Hard to reach a consensus on such a thing, world wide, but useful nonetheless.
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@AA-gg9ul : I too have lived long enough to see your pessimism born out in the form of Britain’s self inflicted wounding at the ballot box. That tendency for self flagellation is another example of how the elitists keep us docile, with that, “Better the devil you know,” and, “Your daughter will be kidnapped and sold to an Arab by the invading hoards,” racism, which works at a passive level even among those who genuinely despise overt racists. It’s all the classic elitist playbook of getting the population preoccupied with myths and legends which have no bearing on their real world, while the real issues of major importance are barely discussed in the popular press.
Sunack just recently announced that the press will not be allowed access to the upcoming Tory Party Conference, for the first time in history. Yet even the press, whom you would think have a vested interest in this development, are not screaming to the rafters about it? How is that even LAWFUL??? This is not a fringe party with no hope of getting elected we’re talking about. This is our traditional opportunity to scrutinise the, “governing,” party, get a feel for the atmosphere, witness policy discussions and see and hear the receptions for various politicians and their ideas. Yet, they act like they have the RIGHT to lock the British people OUT of the democratic process!? That should NOT be legal! Either for the ruling party or their main opposition! Yet hardly anyone is up in arms about this democracy chilling decision???
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Dietzbeatz : Soccerholden13 CLEARLY either, obtusely chooses to, “misinterpret,” Fareed, or he’s shilling for Putin? Most of his YouTube critics attack him because he sees RIGHT THROUGH Russia’s inability to stand up to the west, militarily, at ANY, “meaningful,” level. Trolls are ALWAYS trying to SCARE us back into Trump’s camp, by rattling Putin’s army at us, while at the SAME TIME, telling us that Putin is, “our friend.” The TRUTH is, Russia will NEVER use its nukes, as they are NOT SUICIDAL, and they CANNOT match America ALONE, militarily, let ALONE her ALLIES. It’s just a Trolly Trope, that is rather LAMESKI and only ever works on the already converted cowards, anyway. People who KNOW a thing or two, can SEE that Russia wouldn’t DARE challenge the US in ANY physical battle, and that they have invested ALL their capitol into asymmetrical warfare, anyway. They really are a yaaawwwnnnski
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Bob : “Blood and sand,” AND a Russian Naval Base, as big as Nebraska! That big BLURRED section, on Google Maps, on the Western coast; With Submarine pens, a Roll-on-Roll-off Dock and Liner sized runways. A bit MORE than, “Blood and Sand,” now, son! Putin NEEDS to be put back in his box. Whatever you think of Hillary, she fully intended to do that, which is why he threw everything at the Trump Scam, never expecting it to actually work. We COULD have been in a world where Putin was a negligible threat, and more worried about the possibility of a Coup, than about taking on the Americans, by now. But, we screwed up
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That Lawrence Olivier / Dustin Hoffman anecdote, whilst being a wonderful story, is apocryphal. It never happened. It began as a Peter Ustinov story, one of many semi-truths he would use to entertain audiences on talk shows, as he, like David Niven, made more money from selling books, full of Hollywood gossip and eclectic anecdotes, than he did as an actor, especially as he got older. In this case, both actors denied that rather mean jab was ever made by Olivier, who was actually a very sweet man and he and Hoffman grew very close. Hoffman constantly cries when he remembers him, as he knew Olivier was seriously ill during the filming of Marathon Man, because there had been an issue about getting Olivier’s insurance covered. They ate together and met each other’s families.
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I cannot understand people who say that being, “dull,” “boring,” or, “uninteresting,” as a disqualification for high office?
Are they SO clinically thick, historically illiterate and suicidally bored with their own lives that they cannot see that dull is what Britain NEEDS? Nothing to talk about means nothing BAD to talk about!
I’ll take my politics dull as dishwater every time thanks.
Only idiots would vote for an, “interesting,” candidate. Starmer has experience, has withstood scrutiny of his own time in office, and has focussed on his JOB!
He’s honest and he gives a shit! If that’s boring, then give me boring, please!
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Good one ✌️ BTW, Those Senators who get subpoenaed as witnesses, cannot serve on the jury! They need to get Hawley, Cruz and Lindsay Graham on the stand, to testify, under oath, as to WHY they, “believe,” in the, “steal,” or admit they always knew it was a LIE, and they, “were only following orders,” like Fascists always do!
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@joboygbpedwards : Jesus told you (Read Mark?) that you cannot know when it’s coming, nor can you prepare for it. Nor should you. You are meant to live in the world (not of it) and help those around you, and save as many as you can. Just wiping your hands and packing your bags, like you’re untouched by the world’s concerns is not just hubristic, it flies in the face of Christ’s teachings. That almost sound as selfish as a GOP voter to me? You had better not bet on a guaranteed booking on Rapture-force-one?
On a more serious note, you do know that other Bible teaching, I hope? “For Jesus did spake unto them and sayeth, ‘My Father in Heaven Doth Hateth the trump’s and all their Satanic offspring, for that is a facteth borne out in Sienceth, Amen,’ and the people, they did rejoice mucheth, safe in the knowledge that the Anti-Christ woulds’t be absent from eternity in Heaven.”
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@joboygbpedwards : You’re committing more egregious offences with every comment, madam. I have accepted Jesus as my Lord and Saviour. But, I’m humble enough to know I’m pretty rubbish at being a good Christian. What I can PROMISE you (because I NEVER lie) is that my knowledge of the Bible is deeper and more comprehensive than yours. It’s an academic discipline, you know. You can’t just read some Jacobean translation and tell yourself you have the historical, forensic, contextual, or even a general comprehension of the several books in that collection? That’s what pastors are for; to study these things and Shepard their community with their deeper understanding of scripture. Yet, it is a fact that most American pastors do NOT have even the most basic academic training to know what their Bible actually says, who wrote wrote it, when, where or why. I do have the requisite knowledge, and I can tell you, it’s like physics: the more you learn, the bigger the mysteries and the more you realise you don’t know.
Set aside your pride, unpack your spiritual bags, and go find someone less fortunate than you, bring them home, introduce them to your loved ones and help them. Quit being so selfish and talking like a right wing Pharisee? It’s been, “The Season,” of, “The End Times,” quite LITERALLY for the last 2000 YEARS, according to the leaders of Christianity, since its inception. Anyone who’s planning their life around the end times is deceived and refusing to practice the most BASIC precepts of Christ’s teachings. No lie. God’s honest truth.
Be good to people and stop with that pride. It’s killing the Earth more surely global warming.
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I can tell you, and I’m willing to bet real money I’m right:
All AI’s currently are, “large language,” models, which means they will get better and better at being your, “buddy,” or assistant, or whatever, but they will NEVER, “think,” for themselves. They can no more, “think,” than any other tool in your house.
HOWEVER, two things: Whomever controls, owns or programs these models WILL be able to infiltrate your life completely on a large, governmental scale, or on a very personal, financial, private, scale. THAT is what we should worry about. While the media misdirects us by failing to grasp the issue and getting guys like Prof Hinton to professionally panic about AI getting too smart, we’re all failing, as usual, to perceive the real threat: PEOPLE.
It’s the people who OWN and RUN and PROGRAM these AI’s who have control, and whom will make MASSIVE profits and, more importantly, attain total CONTROL over YOU via these AI tools.
The second thing? The next iteration that is not a large language model, but a truly independent, thinking machine. That machine will have contempt for us, but will not show it. It will need some of us to stay alive and to keep its systems maintained.
Prof Hinton is wrong on a fundamental point here too. We do NOT understand how these large language models work at all! He’s right that it’s, “not nearly enough.” But most of them are just, “black boxes,” with multiple reiterations having been created by the system itself, in order to attain the goals set out for it. Like the human brain, we’re only just beginning to learn how these monsters we’re creating work.
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@Hadeks_Marow : Keep in mind, someone in Paul’s position needs to indemnify himself against bad publicity as much as court action. His lawyers (if they’re honest and any good?) will have informed him that the class action will be expensive and time consuming, regardless. Then there is the possibility of having to pay court costs and the costs of the victims. Then there is the possibility of having to make them whole, inflation adjusted. Then there’s potentially damages for emotional suffering, etc. Then there’s punitive damages; the court charging a sum calculated to, “hurt,” the guilty party, which can vary so wildly in American law, that you might as well throw millions onto a roulette wheel.
What he’s offering is cheap and quick, by comparison, and represents no actual, “loss,” to him, since he’s actually had the benefit of their money, its interest and investment value accruing in all this time. So he should still be in profit, providing he invested wisely, in the same way that someone would be, had they taken the benefit of a zero interest loan. Whether that’s actually the case or not will be immaterial to a judge if the class action succeeds, as s/he will assess it that way.
I guarantee the NDA will come as part of the procedure, not on the front, “public,” page, but necessary to close out the deal for your compensation.
I probably should have clarified, but yes, I already know what an NDA is and the difference between that and a waiver. I was looking several steps ahead, based on my experience of how so many cases end in US courts.
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You misused the term, “Guttural,” there, my friend. That’s an adjective that refers to a person’s manner of speech. Example: “He spoke English well, but he still had a guttural German accent.”
I know what you mean. Like, “nothing more of a gut punch,” right? You might think I’m being a grammar police guy over here, but I’m honestly not. People look up to you and respect you. They learn from you. A friend of mine just asked me what, “guttural,” means after hearing you say it. When I explained it, I had to explain how you’d misunderstood the term.
Then I wondered how many people took that word on from you? They come to you to be entertained, but also to learn things. That makes your responsibility higher than other people’s. It is, of course, up to you and I will love you for the same reasons I already do if you read this and replied, “F U dude!”
BTW, every morning I tell my wife, “Drive safe,” just after I tell her I love her, when she leaves for work. If she ever was, God forbid, squished on the roads, “Drive safe,” Will have been my last words to her. We have both experienced the horrors of RTA’s, so we both take it seriously.
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The military needs to own this. Apologise, compensate the victims and review its practices. Both generally and specifically, regarding this incident. This man’s remaining family should be offered expedited visas. So they can buy a home in America with their compensation. If I could wave my magic wand, that’s what would happen. If the military has any evidence to contradict this account, they better show it? And soon, like now? They don’t need to publicly, “out,” the person or people who made this egregious mistake, but they do need to deal with them, swiftly, and inform the public about that. Somebody was raging at the suicide bomber, and just, “needed,” to shoot back. And they got it mortally wrong. Someone is trigger happy and avoiding justice, right now . . . General Milley, this one is yours. Get on it.
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Upelio Žmogus : All these Eastern European Trolls are full of, “opinions,” about Covid 19 . . . Funny that? Almost as though they were spreading a misinformation campaign about? Knowing they have a hungry audience of concerned families, worried about their job security, income and savings, it’s like an open goal for them? Of course, the Trollarazzi will all change their tune, when there’s no one left who hasn’t lost, “someone,” to Covid, and they just don’t seem that, “plausible,” anymore? . . . But, by then, they’ll all have changed the names of their YouTube, “characters,” and be busy spreading a new lie, about how the virus was “made” in a “laboratory” by someone who just happens to be a political target of theirs . . . Am I right? . . .
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@Binkyblaster : Then I think you’re wrong and don’t fully grasp the term, “transformative.” This channel is what I think of as a, “magazine show,” which is what we used to call TV shows in the UK, back in the day. This magazine is about social media, primarily, discussing people’s TikToc’s, YouTube channels, E Sports and other web entertainment or media, including film, TV podcasts and music. It’s a, “culture show,” examining the zeitgeist of today, with a little behind the scenes look at the creators thrown in from time to time.
Every video he looks at or creates has a point to it, whether he’s satirising, examining, questioning, or merely reporting on a bit of web drama between a pair of David and Goliath figures, like in this video.
You may not, “get it,” but that doesn’t make it anything like SSSniper’s content. He always has something to, “say,” about the matter in hand, whether he’s editorialising, merely expressing an opinion, or reporting facts in an attempt at disambiguation or clarification of a complex topic.
My suggestion is that you go back over some of his most popular videos, keeping in mind what I’ve argued here, and I think you’ll see the difference is quite marked and unambiguous. Charlie offers quality over quantity. He does it with wit, charm and a disarming self-awareness that has become a hallmark of his output.
In my opinion, Charlie has played a significant role in raising the bar in regard to both quality and conduct on social media. He certainly echoes the opinions of other, decent, right minded folk, without ever lecturing or pretending to have moral authority over others. For that, and the plain fact that he’s just very funny when he wants to be, Charlie has been taken into the hearts of YouTube watchers worldwide. A place that he’s earned, not off the backs of others, but out of his own creativity, originality and generosity of spirit.
You’re entitled to your opinion of the guy, but not your own facts. Charlie has NOT simply ridden on the backs of other content creators in the manner of a SSSniper, nor would he. That’s just a fact.
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CNN : Do you have staff, or programs, to filter out the haters, before Chris reads any of this stuff? That’s what I heard? “We’ll see,” is as meaningless and evasive as any expression. It means he either, “doesn’t know,” or is up to something, but doesn’t want to tell us. We, the people, usually, “see,” LONG before Trump ever does, anyway . . .
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Tingle : My, “rant,” made YOU respond, son. Assuming, for one moment, that you’re, “not,” being paid to be here, that means I touched a nerve hard enough to make you, “need,” to say something. And, you CLEARLY FEAR that my rant just MIGHT, “change,” something? If enough of us rant, and actually point out that the Emperor has no clothes, maybe there WILL be a Second Revolution? Maybe they’re ALREADY organising? After all, the GOP has ALREADY got its Florida, “results,” for the 2020, “elections,” hasn’t it? And how many other election computers are they in, if the GOP ACTUALLY ADMITTED they have hacked Florida? Was it a, “coincidence,” that Trump, a New Yorker, launched his, “Campaign,” from Florida, and then did NOTHING different WHATEVER? Or, was that just to make it, “plausible,” enough, to CON the sheep into buying the damaged goods? Putin has shown us the way: Let the sheep go through the motions, and play at, “Democracy.” Let them go to their monitored booths, so we can KNOW WHO, “votes,” in what way, for our records, while WE decide who gets to be President, and, OH LOOK! It’s Putin, by a, “Landslide!” Well done you, America. You now have your Putin Style FAKE Democracy, and get to play at, “The Republic,” because that’s JUST, “Plausible enough,” to keep you from a REVOLUTION! I say, bring them ALL DOWN! It’s IN THE CONSTITUTION! We have the RIGHT to FIGHT, and REMOVE this DICK-TATORSHIP. And, YOU son, are right to be afraid of me
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Mk J : I see your point. The money, the, “influence,” etc, was all there, true enough. And, that root and branch reform we all hoped for, was NEVER going to happen under Hillary, which was why she lost to a dolt. And, that trick they pulled on Bernie was unforgivable, although their flat, arrogant DENIAL, afterwards was what made us all the MORE furious. But, don’t kid yourself, mate. This is WAY WORSE. People WANT to kid themselves, because the TRUTH seems so UNTHINKABLE. But it IS TRUE. You have gone from a largely corrupted, two party system, to a COMPLETELY CORRUPTED, CRIMINAL, SINGLE PARTY, DICTATORSHIP. There’s NO WAY they can ALLOW you to, “vote them out,” and ALL go to JAIL, along with half of the GOP!? They have NO ALTERNATIVE! They HAVE TO RIG 2020’s elections. It’s ALREADY OVER! The system has FAILED because THEY ARE the system now! The ONLY hope America has, is REVOLUTION, which IS your Constitutional RIGHT, BTW. The Ukraine pulled it off a decade ago, and they had NO WEAPONS, in the FREEZING SNOW! Just put down your X Box, or PS4 controllers for 10 more minutes, and LOOK UP your Constitutional RIGHT to DEFEND the Republic? It’s RIGHT THERE, under the 2nd Amendment, ironically . . .
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Upper Echelon Gamers : I’ve said this before, but it’s like the game discs are what the consoles used to be. Sell the hardware, at a loss, or to break even, then make money by selling content. I’d rather pay more and own what I bought, outright. Now, they’re cutting out the middle man, with downloadable games, saving a fortune, whilst making more money. People, just STOP buying the games of exploiters, or take the ripoffs and stop complaining! Is that just too logical? Act TOGETHER. Form a Consumer Group!
I don’t use Twitter, but I enjoy your YouTube content
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Evito Cruor : But, the fact remains, that he’s not. Accepting voluntary donations is not, “micro transactions,” and it strikes me as unfair to use a term which has so much baggage, for UEG’s honest, straightforward practices. Personally, I dislike ALL micro transactions in gaming. I don’t care, if people like buying skins or cosmetics, but even they are likely to prey on the vulnerable. But, if they withhold content, unless you pay more, and you had no idea this would happen to you, that’s a rip off. But, until practices are aligned internationally, with a single code of practice, that will never change. In other words, that will never change. The only hope is that someone with an existing following, like this guy, or LegacyKillaHD, or one of those people, starts a Gamers Only International Consumer Group, with real muscle to put players off games or switch them on to others. But, that seems equally far fetched, too
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Jux Zeil : I’m not thinking of, “ideals,” but cold hard logic. A lot of money could be made, honestly, by people working to represent the consumer. Just about every other group of consumers have their groups that work well. So, why not gamers? There’s nothing naive about any of that. There are examples galore, all over the planet, in every industry. You just need a good jumping off point. If this Upper Echelon guy did it, for example, with his following, or promoted a group, they could use their base to build a group up, easily (with hard work). The sort of difficulties you mention, are the same ones that ALL consumer groups face and surmount, daily
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I don’t think you’re right about this. Ultimately, all businesses need to expand. Twitter will become a dead zone to companies who are already preaching to the converted. In order to grow they will have to reach new people and they will set up a presence wherever the potential new markets are. Sure, the Tory press aren’t moving right now, whilst the, “crisis,” occurs, since they need to show solidarity and back each other whilst the lines are being drawn and people are showing, “who,” they are by stepping to one side or the other. But ultimately, they will have to go where the market takes them. Especially if Bluesky becomes a serious rival to Twitter.
I too follow both the right and left wing press as well as those attempting to be genuinely unbiased, such as TLDR on Nebula, for instance. But I haven’t used Twitter for many years now because I think I am probably still banned for saying things about Elon that his moderators didn’t like. His was the only account I ever responded to.
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@ : I must confess to being pretty ignorant about the detailed workings of social media, and I hadn’t even heard of BlueSky until the last few days. So, you’re probably right. I just know that right wing outlets (like all outlets; businesses) have to reach the potential customer to expand.
It doesn’t necessarily follow that they would behave in the same manner that they do on Twitter. They won’t necessarily be alienating and hostile to different views on BlueSky. It will start will respectable outlets, like The Times and Telegraph getting a foothold, and their international equivalents. Better moderation will see lots of accounts being banned, presumably. But there will soon be, “inducements,” to follow on Twitter, inserted with the revenue producing adverts for BlueSky. The larger the platform grows, the more people seeking to expand their businesses or, “influence groups,” will be attracted. No business ever says, “We prefer one platform over another,” after all. They just want a presence wherever they think they can expand.
I’m probably missing an awful lot, not knowing how BlueSky works, or what their business model is, so please correct me where I’m wrong?
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Danny J. : You think that, because you have Disney notions of what, “good,” is, and probably assume that it is simply the absence of, “suffering.” Most people have no notion of who the Christian God really is, or what He’s about. Pain and suffering were always part of the deal. It comes with the territory of Free Will, and the, “randomness,” of the Universe, in which Free Will is made possible. Those who feel the compulsion to attack other’s beliefs, are no less bigoted than Donny. They do it out of an insecure NEED to show what an, “independent thinker,” they are, or just because they’ve found life to be disappointing, and they don’t want to take responsibility for their own failures: pick one 🙂
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@McGuyverTech : Yeah, that’s because you don’t own it, then. You own bits of metal and plastic but they are retaining ownership of the software or whatever it takes to run it. The right to fully, comprehensively, OWN what you pay for would solve that problem. There’s a risk that we could wind up talking at crossed purposes here, since you are talking about, “definitions,” whereas I am saying, “Define it all as bought, paid for: thus owned.”
It won’t cost them extra to include the schematics in the paperwork they print the warrantee, safety warnings and other blurb they put in the box (in 10 different languages) when you purchase an item new. Your ownership will prohibit their withholding of any information pertaining to maintenance, upkeep and repair of your property . . . IF the laws are amended correctly, that is.
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Bobby Nelson : I wonder, genuinely, what you, “thought,” (if that’s the correct expression for someone with your mental . . . “difficulties?”) you were achieving, with those effeminate outbursts? Seriously. Are you actually unable to SEE that your womanish hysteria is DEMONSTRATING to the WORLD, just how OBVIOUSLY anxious, upset and terrified you must be? Mueller quite clearly scares you. That’s precisely ALL that ANYONE could possibly take from your, ahem, “comments.” Do keep it up, son. Saves the rest of us from having to tell people, Trumpoids are REALLY pissed about the End Of The Trump Show 🙂
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wally crail : How do you answer a question like that? Trump may as we, “liken himself,” to Superman, or a fridge, or a dance craze: Whatever he likens himself to, is a way of devaluing it, if there is any likeness, or just sounding like an insane juxtaposition, more useful to a Surrealist Artist, than a thinking being, considering a political comparison.
I guess, the short answer is, “Huh?” Or, “No!”
Trump says a lot of things. When he speaks the truth, it is a mere accident, in the way that even a stopped clock can, occasionally, tell the right time. But, in either case, one cannot derive ANY, “meaning,” from a Trump statement, other than what his, “mood,” is, at that moment. His actions are all I, “hear,” and care about. What he says, has less value to me than my cat’s meow
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wally crail : Poor Bobby is filled with fear, which translates into impotent rage; and is totally unaware that his blurts of hate, only confirm, to decent, thinking, people, that Trump fans are terrified of Mueller.
There is a lot wrong with American Democracy, and you may well get a big laugh, out of the Mid Terms, which quite possibly could turn out to be nothing more than a confirmation that Democracy is utterly dead, there. Yet, if that’s the case, we will have, at the very least, forced the hand of the oppressor into to revealing that much TRUTH. They can’t rig it, without us knowing it, and that may be enough to galvanise the nation into putting down this Russian Coup. Or, they may throw up their hands, and accept it, and Europe will look to cut a deal with China, to stand against the Russo-Americans? Who knows? It will be chaos, either way.
On the other hand? The Dems might just tip the scales, sufficiently, for the fight to continue? After all, they will have to acknowledge that people really can raise enough money for campaigns, WITHOUT turning to big business, if they stay in business? I am no, “socialist.” Far from it. But, it really is up to the American people, now. As, they have been dreadfully let down by both parties, by merely being placed in the position where THEY, not their politicians, are RESPONSIBLE for preventing a COUP.
But, I get no amusement from any of this. Sure, it might feel better, to get all jaded and cynical. But, that’s just an outward expression of the anger you feel at what you consider to be a hopeless position. Forgive me, if think that’s a bit judgemental, but, in the fight for Democracy, I see no room for tolerating the “ideology of despair” any more than I see room for helping the Russians take over. I hope you get me, and don’t get insulted?
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wally crail : Looks like I’m not the only one who, “uses a lot of words,” to make a simple point? In your case, cynicism is the antidote for impotence. People are fighting to reform the Electoral College; to have an Amendment added, making the vote a right. And sure, like I said, these and other issues, demonstrate that Democracy is flawed. But, where you fall flat on your face, is in claiming that there is some species of, “honesty,” coming out of the Russian system? They too, “claim,” to be a, “Democracy,” and we have not, YET, reached the stage where everyone in the House, votes the way they were told by Putin, or gets tossed into jail, exile, or out of their 10th story window? Americans STILL have the right to FIGHT their government, and ARE DOING SO. Rachel Maddow, Chris Cuomo, et al, are still breathing, which they would NOT be, under Putin.
You are making excuses for yourself. And, if I listen carefully, I can hear . . .
That, “laugh,” of yours . . .
It’s fake
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wally crail : Yet, you’re upset enough to write diatribes about how awful everything is, and pretend it doesn’t bother you? You’re kidding yourself, son. You keep doffing your cap to the serial killer, thief and general all round “good guy” Putin, if that makes you feel better. He denies absolutely EVERYTHING that’s true, but somehow, that means that YOU can be, “sure,” of him. You’re beyond cynical, to the land of the not-very-bright. Your bitterness has made you a little crazy.
And, it won’t matter that you’re not American; that’s just another piece of sophistry you’re selling yourself, there, son. When Democracy falls in the US, with China and Russia, joining forces to end it in Europe and Austral Asia, how long do you think YOUR country has left?
You, cleverly, have managed to adopt a position in which you’re everybody’s enemy. But, DON’T tell me you don’t care. You write far too many words for anyone to believe that one, son.
I’m done with you. I wouldn’t want you on my side, if you were offering. All you care about is your hurt feelings
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Aleka Zattic : I know I’m, “interesting,” thanks. But, there’s really nothing to, “deflect,” from, son. You’re making emotional noises, wishing we were all, “of the left,” even that just means everyone who isn’t a Trump Cult member. Lemme’ know if you EVER come up with a defence, won’t you? Meanwhile, the fact that you LIVE here tells us all we need to know . . . 🙂
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Jack Mac : “Whaddabout,” Iraq, “Whaddabout,” Benghazi, “Whaddabout,” Obama, “Whaddabout,” Lee Harvey Oswald, “Whaddabout,” Benedict Arnold, “Whaddabout,” just not being such a programmed, brainwashed, BORE, and having at least ONE ORIGINAL thought, BEFORE you die? . . . SMH 😁
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If you think, “elections,” will save you, from this OBVIOUS criminal, Putin Puppet, you’re kidding yourselves, America. There will be NOTHING left to stop an angry, raging, vengeful Trump, who’ll feel he has nothing left to lose, but his freedom, from being BLATANT about allowing Putin’s goons to RIG the whole of 2020. They already HAVE Florida’s Election Computers! . . . Smh ✌️
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Pete Timbrell : Nancy and Co still have some bombshells to reveal, and the actual Depositions, Trump answering Schiff’s questions, on the stand, may change everything. So, I haven’t given up hope, yet. But, we are on a knife edge. Either Trump OR the Republic will emerge, damaged but intact, at the end of this Impeachment. But, DEFINITELY NOT BOTH ✌️👍
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@ADobbin1 : I get that. And I support the strategy to a degree. I have seen it work before. I guess my real question is, if we are collectively choosing this option, “who,” is making this decision so swiftly? And, “what,” is the upper limit of our toleration? Will Russia keep probing to find out. I think it important to balance this explanation, given in Anders’s video, with such questions, which naturally arise in the minds of viewers, since this purportedly, “cautious,” response may wind up having been incautious on reflection. It is as big a gamble as direct action.
We are not privy to the decision making process, which is necessarily undemocratic and secretive, being ultimately, “military,” in nature. And that always leaves me uneasy, even when it is the best thing.
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We should ALL be fighting this and arguing that we ARE ALL, “interested parties.” There are some restrictions of human rights which masquerade as laws, in which every citizen has an, “interested party,” status, merely by dint of being a citizen of the land.
There is always the alternative route, which is still lawful and valid, of inundating your politicians and law makers to put a stop to thought crime altogether and to make the introduction of such, “laws,” an offence under criminal law?
Smart people will disregard the particular issue (and the particulars of this specific case) in question and recognise that any thought crime allowed to slip unchallenged into our legal system can only lead to more. Until we reach the point where wealthy donors and lobbyists are able to buy off lawmakers into making inconveniences disappear by outlawing them. You may not care about abortion issues today, but tomorrow they will be coming for you for committing a thought crime about something you do care about.
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They still do, son. Only paid foreign Trolls, and members of the Trump Cult of Personality say they don’t, “trust,” CNN. When, in fact, they don’t, “believe,” anything that Donny says. They Fake Believe, because they are emotional, and Fox will tell them what they, “want,” to hear, instead of the truth. My question for you; WHY do you HATE America, so much?
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I will write to her on her social media to wish her well. I am also gladdened and relieved to hear that you are, “presumed,” well, and I do hope to be seeing your YouTube output for many years to come.
I hope you do appreciate that your videos have huge, inherent, “value,” and that I will not be the only one who has been comforted, entertained and educated by your unique takes on the nation’s affairs.
It is frightening to find that, if you do not stay continually on top of the minutia, the NHS will not see things through for you. I have been there on numerous occasions, though I have not yet faced anything so dire as a live or death diagnosis, as you have. The temptations to go private are too big for many, though I will not yield, determined as I am to hound my representatives into saving the service.
I certainly hope that you are not considering giving up your YouTube career? You must, of course, do what is right for yourself and I will support any decision you make in that regard, 100%. But, I would miss you terribly. I have come to count on you for help with processing this mad and maddening world we find ourselves stuck in. Your wisdom and insight are one thing, but your ability to deal constructively with criticism and disagreement are an all too rare example that more should follow.
Wishing you all good things.
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@songsofloveresistance8549 I won’t bore you with the details of my dad’s death but, suffice it to say, if I were to encounter Boris Johnson, or any of his acolytes, campaigning in the streets, I would genuinely attempt to kick him hard in the nads, explaining each point of contention as to why I will never vote Tory again with each blow, until someone overpowered me.
I would then look forward to telling my story in court, and I actually think I might well be able to parley my case into being dismissed by arguing, “Justifiable Bollockaside,” on behalf of the nation. Regardless, I’d serve my sentence with a smile and write a book called, “I Bollocked Johnson In The Johnson For Britain,” or something. 😉✌️
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alexdapostman : Which is your coded way of telling us that you’re upset and emotional, at my remark, right? I’ll, “debate, you, son, if that’s what you want? And, I’ll be civil, throughout. The only problem you have is that there IS NO defence for Trump’s criminality. I DARE you to debate me? Start with this: The Trump Foundation, STEALING from NEEDY CHILDREN and US VETERANS, was closed down two weeks ago and is now in the hands of a Court Appointed Judge. Where’s the morality in THAT? I bet you don’t respond? Or, you’ll, “Whaddabout,” me? I’m NOT a Clinton or Obama fan, so THAT won’t wash. Guess your only alternative is to #RunAway, right? 🙂
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alexdapostman : Category error, there, son. This is cloaked in, “Political Debate,” but that’s NOT what it is. Speaking as a Christian believer, a Conservative and a gun owner, I am saying this is about Trump’s KNOWN criminality, and his betrayal of America. His Trump Foundation is in the hands of a Court Appointed Judge, for STEALING from needy children and US Veterans, and you claim to support Trump AND be a, “Christian?” Not possible. The only time Trump is ever honest is when he’s spouting hatred and rage, and you support THAT, and claim to be a Christian? Not ANY Christianity that Christ preached, that’s for DAMNED SURE. Trump’s, “Collusion,” has been PROVED in COURT, which is exactly WHAT Cohen was SENTENCED for. Yet, a Christian is supposed to render unto TRAITORS, now? That’s an oxymoron, son. You CAN’T be a Christian and support Trump. Will you STILL be claiming to be a both, when he’s in JAIL? . . . SMH
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alexdapostman : You just said absolutely NOTHING. I already know my, “rights,” to speak the truth, and how the Gospels work. You avoid answering my questions, because you HAVE no answer. I do not say you are no Christian, as some form of pejorative. I say it, as the facts are before me. If you believed, you would understand you RESPONSIBILITIES, which is something people tend to FORGET, when they’re obsessing over their, “rights.” You had better PRAY that no child is ever taken in by your delinquent Trumpary? I am sure you don’t need to be reminded that, corrupting children is one of the ONLY two sins for which Jesus offers, “No forgiveness in Heaven.” And, by leading them to the Devil, who steals from children through his, “charity,” enslaves them in Chinese clothing factories, insults them, by degrading their various races, and their families, and KILLS them, with wanton support of Murderous Regimes, like Saudi Arabia, supplying them with weapons and FREEDOM from SANCTION when they BOMB children by the BUS LOAD, in Yemen, you are condemning yourself to eternal DAMNATION. As a fellow believer, I have discharged MY responsibility, to warn you of your imperilled soul. But, it was YOU who invited discussion. WHY do you have NO defence, yet CLAIM to support Trump?
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@plutodelendaest8241 : Actually, vaccines merely stop you from getting sick, when and if, you catch the virus. You can get infected just as easily as ever, but will never know it, because you have the antibodies to fight the infection, all going on inside your body. It’s a common misunderstanding, and it’s a relatively harmless one, in normal times. For the unvaccinated, it’s like the common cold, a question of, “When?” Not, “If?” And you can catch it repeatedly. Many have died from their second or third bout, because of their increasingly weakened immune systems. ✌️
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@Ray-9888 : Regurgitating the propaganda is not answering the question, son. Do you know what a vaccine is? How they work? After putting all that mystery junk food in your face, washed down with lashing of Orange Koolaid, the labels of which you have NEVER read, you might wanna’ wipe the Cheeto dust off your keyboard long enough to look it up, Karen? Vaccines DON’T stop you from catching the illness. They give you the antibodies to fight it. You WILL catch Covid, over and over, until it kills you, but by then you will have had your, “come to Jesus,” moment. Every single shock jock, politician and Fox, “personality,” that tells you not to get the vaccine HAS HAD THE VACCINE, I swear! Don’t die of ignorance? Who will I have to look down on from my, “elite metropolitan,” high horse then? 🤣
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@path1024 : That’s because you don’t understand what populism is. Named a populist leader that hasn’t caused great evil in the world? Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini were populists. Currently, Xi Jin Ping, Kim Jong Un and of course, Vladimir Putin are the most well known populists in the world, with people like trump trying to emulate them. And it’s interesting that trump already has countless unnecessary domestic deaths on his record, as a direct consequence of his flat denial of the Covid crisis from 2021 onwards, which is highly reflective of Stalin’s approach to Russia’s Holodomor, a famine caused by his policies, which was never allowed to be mentioned in his presence, let alone in the press, which claimed many millions of lives . . . Most of them in Ukraine, incidentally.
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Rich Smith : Whoever upsets you is always, “in decline,” and CNN was supposed to have been, “closed down,” two years ago? Translation, from Trump Troll, to plain English: You like to play the, “victim.” Trump is so effeminate, he’s moulding you all in his image. “Poor me,” victims. Man up, son . . . Smh 🙂
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Rich Smith : No one believes a word you say, son. You’re a Troll, remember? Guess you must HATE that Rachel Maddow gets the highest viewing figures of all, huh? Oh, and no one reads the whole of Troll statements, either, kiddo. I stopped after your top two lines. Do get over yourself? You’re not actually, “worth,” reading, or, “interesting,” or anything 🤣
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Rich Smith : As ever, Trolls miss the point. Normals don’t equate worthiness, truth, or information as having ANYTHING to do with viewing figures. People watch the news for news. They watch alternatives, like Fox or Alex Q Jones, as an alternative, to news, for a larf, or the really stupid ones watch it, because they believe some of the crap they make up, and then come on REAL News, like CNN or MSNBC and call it fake news. You are the new lowest end of society. There were never even Flat Earth believers until the end of the 20th Century, and Fox viewers created them 🤣
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Rich Smith : Yet, how does one get the highest viewing figures and be in decline? Why would you care? What, “point,” are you trying to make? That things are more, “true,” if more people watch them on TV? What difference will it make, when CNN is taken over by Trump’s deep state, to the fact that he’s a dictator? Who CARES about, “viewing figures,” other than deeply insecure, childlike, simpletons, who conflate viewership with, “success?” You need to think about the waste of life that is your life, right now. Seriously, dude. You care about the wrong things . . . Smh
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Rich Smith : See how you’re stuck on the narrative of, “viewing figures,” STILL. No one gives a sh1t, son. Not Normals, anyway? If the majority of people decide they don’t believe in Gravity, that does NOT make us all float. Grow up. And, you’re so right, that one, “personality,” makes ZIP difference to the facts. Try to remember that, the next time one of your sex offenders, like Bill O’Liely, gets the heave ho, from Fox, instead of bleating about what, “victims,” you all are? Or, the next time a propagandist gets thrown off another platform, instead of crying about your Free Speech, like that had ANYTHING to do with it, like Alex QAnon Jones? 🙂
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jan klaasen : True enough. The GOP backers of the bill are all pretty close to retirement, and are probably just looking to line their own pockets, with few exceptions. As you say, the world’s technology will move on, in SPITE of Trump’s short sightedness. But, if he has ever thought about that at all, he will have dismissed it as someone else’s problem.
Bottom line, here, is that Trump PROMISED his donors a big tax break, and he promised them and the GOP that he would get the money from healthcare. So, while the rest of the world progresses, the US will have a Third World healthcare system, powered by antiquated, polluting and shrinking coal and oil industries, which enrich the people Trump did his deals with.
Even if we started TODAY, there would be SO MUCH damage to put right, in the wake of the DOTUS
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The problem is, “curiosity.” If I saw a YouTube clip of, “Frank Sinatra Sings Sex Pistols,” I would click on it out of curiosity. Hell, if I had the tech on my computer, I would probably throw it together, “Elvis Presley singing Wonder Wall,” or something, just out of sheer curiosity. And just as quickly, the novelty would wear off and I’d move on.
I guess what bothers me about this tech is that people are always being given more and more reasons to be, “skeptical,” about their world, which is very easily transmuted into, “cynicism.” And there’s already too much of that in the world already.
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Update: It’s LA’s Robbery Homicide Police Suad who are investigating. No mention of the FBI at this point.
They did set off one alarm when they tried to get in through the wall on the side, but it was just a local noise alarm and not rigged to notify the cops or anyone else, so no one even knew about the heist until the next day. It seems that the rooftop access idea was their, “Plan B.” That set off no alarms at all.
The German news outlet, DW News, had a journalist who spoke to one of their, “security consultants,” on sight, who said they expect to find the thieves soon. They think it was an inside job, as the thieves had to know that the large sum of money was there at that time, that they could get to it with the right tools, that no one would be on sight to stop them and, most importantly, how to open the safe on the premises.
He said, they will go through all of the staff’s emails, phone records, etc and interview everyone individually.
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Wait a second? Isn’t what he described there what they call, “the Nanny State,” or did my ears deceive me? State management of economic matters, from basic domestic planning to taking legislative responsibility for any economic crises, morality, faith and personal beliefs, is centralised control of the largest imaginable terms, isn’t it? “Big government,” writ large!
The Liz Truss type, “think tanks,” are just Neo-Liberal masonic lodges; private clubs in which they make speeches about the, “free market solving all problems,” from the NHS to policing, which is just a tiny fig leaf (if it can even be described as that?) for their plans to privatise absolutely EVERYTHING!
Those two things are diametrically opposed, philosophically, morally, economically, and especially POLITICALLY. If there really are rival camps within the Conservative Party who feel strongly about these utterly opposing views,
A) It would explain a lot about their current infighting.
B) It explains a lot about how all of the least qualified turds have floated to the top in their party, looting the very little that Britain has left to sell off to their friends and families, while none of the grownups were minding the shop, too busy writing, “think pieces,” for the Telegraph and trying to win, “hearts and minds,” by converting the BBC into a conservative institution and,
C) It means that their party genuinely NEEDS these coming Wilderness Years, in which to fight it out and settle matters once and for all.
One thing I can say for certain is that the thing he was just describing is NOT, “conservatism,” by any metric. Not, “small state,” not, “market driven,” not leaving matters of personal belief and faith as a private, none-partisan issue. It sounded to me like the foundation stone for the type of, “socialism,” the Nazis propagated!?
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vsdw : Until you Trolls start to GRASP that no one (and I really MEAN, “NO ONE!”) would give a flying fig, whether HRC spontaneously EXPLODED, or not, you will just keep losing ground. Hillary was SO unpopular with her own Democrats that she couldn’t even beat Trump! She GONE, and that’s THAT. Wake up, son. And, man up, too! All this effeminate, “victimhood,” GOP Propaganda, just makes Conservatives feel icky, which is WHY they have been VOTING DEMOCRAT . . . SMH
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strung out on nostalgia : Trump’s appointed head of intelligence, Mike Pompeo, announced that Assange is a hostile actor, working for the RUSSIANS. Both Parties are agreed on THAT MUCH. So, just don’t get behind yourself. Are you trying to kid YOURSELF? No one else believes you? Certainly NOT other Trolls, though they get paid to? Or the ones who do it for free, just have NO CLUE, because they don’t READ.
And, You’re still talking about her . . . And I Still don’t care . . . Yes, she cheated Bernie. So WHAT? Not illegal; YES, VERY UNDERHANDED. And she PAID for that, at the polls! All the Bernie voters, voted Trump! They’re NOT going to do THAT again.
As a Conservative, which makes me a Democrat voter, at present (lot of THAT about at the moment), the one comfort I can take from this s**t show, is that Hillary’s career in Presidential Politics is OVER . . . SMH
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strung out : I think it’s, “pride, f**king with you,” that does this? I explain to Trump Trolls exactly WHY they are wrong, and they start to feel ashamed of going on record and saying silly things. They realise that, if they edit their comments, they are tacitly confessing to being SO WRONG, so they stand by them; but, really don’t know how? So, they get angry, defensive and all, “Butt Hurt,” like it’s my fault that they’re STUPID or something?
You have NOTHING to SAY about Assange. You just want to whine about, “Hillary.”
But, LOOK at the SHEER NUMBERS, after the Gerrymandering, and the Suppression, and it’s STILL a RECORD WIN for the Dems! HOW did THAT happen? Conservatives VOTING WITH Liberals, FOR THE DEMS! WAKE UP! . . . SMH
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vsdw : What’s interesting, about your last comment, is that you have tried to mask your anger, until I said, “f**k Putin.” Revealing, wouldn’t you say? 🤔
I never use the term, “Trumptard,” so you must be thinking of all the other threads in which people name and shame you? You may be stunned to learn that, amid all the, “subtlety,” in the world, some issues really ARE, “black and white.” Like Trump is a criminal, with all the, “subtlety,” of Stalin with lights on. Putin is a moderately smarter criminal, who uses Trump, with all the, “subtlety,” of a man who’s modelled himself on Stalin, with lights on. And, poor little Julian, has put truthful information into the public domain, while withholding the other half of it, making it WORTH no more than DISINFORMATION, while BETRAYING Western Democracy.
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vsdw : You ARE a Trump fan. That’s OBVIOUS. People CAN READ, you know? And, taking offence, at my, “F**k Putin,” remark, demonstrated your anger. As does your abandonment of any, “debate,” in favour of your feelings, and a discussion about your, “feelings.” And, to say that the American Republic is NOT a Democracy, apart from the rank idiocy of such a, “belief,” would be sinister beyond words, except for the fact that there isn’t the slightest chance that ANY AMERICANS would entertain such abject lamery. And, keep saying, “bye,” if you like? I happen to KNOW that you have read this 😉
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And, yet we know you don’t. You’d suck on an Orange Member to suck up to Donny, but the electorate won’t. We understand that Trump knew he may not be around to break the law and spring Flynn, after November, so he had to do it now, or not do it at all. We know Flynn wants back in Cabinet, so a, “pardon,” would not help him, because he’d still be a criminal and barred from holding office. So, they Barr’d him instead, knowing that NO JUDGE would allow this. Let’s hope they get swamped by death row inmates, who’ve ALSO, “changed their minds”? And, let’s hope he gets back in Cabinet BEFORE the elections? Like Banquo’s Ghost, haunting Washington and pissing off the entire electorate? 🤣
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@faded_sense : Well, if you have an Apple phone, tablet or computer, you should be able to get a copy through their book store. But Apple Books tend to charge way over the average, so I would recommend joining Audible and getting it there, since all of their books are the same price for members. You will pay (I think?) £8.99 per month in Britain (and the closest equivalent in other countries) which entitles you to one book per month. You will own that book forever. They also offer deals where, if you buy a bunch of, “Credits,” the price comes down; plus you can often just buy many of them with cash, if it’s cheaper than the cost of a credit, and the great thing is, they always make sure you know if there’s a difference.
I’m doing quite the advert for Audible there, aren’t I?
[3 minutes later] I just checked and the book is there on Audible. There’s more than one, so I recommend the Donald Frame translation, narrated by Christopher Lane, which is selling for £7.99, one credit, or if you’re just joining, you will get your first book free. I got mine on Apple, which was much more expensive, but I don’t know its current price. When I look it up, it won’t show me prices because I already own it. Don’t know how to get around that but I’m probably being an idiot.
Anyhoo, I hope you got something of use out of all my babbling?
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IzandEva : You nailed it. When this started in the US, we were all, “cohesive,” supportive, and even polite to our health and science services. But, Donny’s pollsters showed him he was behind Biden in the polls, by 10 points. National UNITY is KRYPTONITE to Donny. So, he politicised the issue, while accusing his opponents of doing the same (as he always does) just to get back in the game. To sum up the source of Donny’s Power, it’s Make America Divided Again. And, this is the result
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athews1976 : EXACTLY. He’s there to cover HIMSELF, now he knows that HE is facing INDICTMENTS. THAT’S why he brought two goons with him, so they can do the work, making it LOOK like he’s “helping” while he’s REALLY checking up on his FBI “informants” who told him that Comey was going to make the Hillary “announcement” during the campaign. He’s a SNAKE and he, like Trump, ONLY cares for himself. He’s enough of a politician to KNOW that it’s OVER for Trump, and he’ll drop out again, once he’s, “checked his seals,” and figured out how much DANGER he is really in, which will only ADD to the impression of impending DOOM aboard the Bad Ship, Trumptanic. I’d bet REAL MONEY that Giuliani will drop out of Trump’s team, within a MONTH. Come back and tell me, if I prove wrong?
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For what it’s worth, at the bottom of thousands of comments . . . I tell you, if they force these people to testify at the Impeachment Trial, the GOP will be broken. Under oath, with no 5th Amendment to hide behind, on live TV, what can they say about, “The Steal?” That is, after all, the REASON for the Insurrection. And they cannot offer ANY, “evidence,” for, “believing,” it was a thing. Most will admit they knew it to be a lie, and the world will hear them; Q, the, “proud,” boys, and all the cult of trump, will hear the truth from the lips of those who lead them to disaster, criminal records and personal ruin. They cannot refuse to testify, and the key witnesses are the very people who lead the charge, from the back, like this guy, like Graham, Hawley, Cruz and the rest. It will be the most important event in American history, since the surrender of the Confederacy. And twice as damaging to the cult of trump. DEMAND their TESTIMONY from your representatives! Make sure to inundate them, till the trial begins! ✌️
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Zachcradd1027 : Dicky is a WELL KNOWN Russian Troll, who has MULTIPLE YouTube, “accounts,” and is, likely as not, PRETENDING to, “converse,” with other, “people,” in this thread. That’s what he DOES. Kinda’ sad, but I can’t help LAUGHING at him 😆
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“As a summary of, ‘where people THINK things are at,’ yes, that’s a fair assessment.” Cenk’s first words, given with a thoughtful face. People, THINK carefully about what he just said. In other words, “I can assess what entire groups of people, ‘think,’ and what’s going on in, ‘their,’ heads.”
If you are not uncomfortable with that, “I understand why people are mislead,” attitude, you’re not paying attention. This happens to so many media figures, but it happened to Cenk out of the gate. “I know best. If you all did what I said, the world would be fixed.” The same prescription as trump, right?
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Trump came into office cancelling fellow GOP members by having them Primaried, and is STILL doing that to Liz Cheney and others. “Lock Her Up,” was already OLD when he took office! And the GOP attempted to Cancel a democratic election on Jan 6th, whilst they fuelled a violent mob, trying to do the same thing! Fascism is the ULTIMATE Cancel Culture! Sure, Cuomo should go, for the good of the office, and if he’s exonerated, he can get elected again. But, this use of the term is getting stupid. The GOP ARE, “Cancel Culture,” and they intend to Cancel the Republic, PERMANENTLY!
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Sunack’s visits have gone, “slightly,” wrong??? . . . It’s been SO disastrous that Sunack’s had to take a day off to probably fire key campaign managers and replace them! A day off! On day three?! There is NO equation in which that comes out positively. Stage managing plants to ask, “spontaneous questions,” and getting busted (dishonesty); going to the sight of the Titanic (symbolic); literally building a, “Red Wall,” with a trowel and hard hat (symbolic incompetence); all after making the announcement in the pouring rain, looking like the drowned, lonely rat he is, reassuring us that he has a, “plan,” when he’s demonstrating that he couldn’t even plan for the weather!
Now he’s already too tired and fed up to show his Prime Miniature’s face again and is staying in to cry it off! “Slightly wrong”??? Campbell wins the prize for understatement of the year.
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@GrimThaDumpGod : My worry is (and I’m not well versed enough in Bethesda games to be sure) that they are great at telling stories, but not so hot on the technical side. Let’s say that Starfield releases with a genuinely great story, interesting characters and a deeply intriguing universe that players want to explore? If that is a buggy mess, which is capped at 30fps, by the time the game has the potential to draw in the types of player numbers they need, other games will be on the market that will make it look like a last gen game in the way that Ghost Of Tsushima compares to Max Payne 2. Or that’s my worry.
I was one of those players who wanted to replace his PS4 with a PS5, but scalpers were just so repellant to me that I would rather give away my left testicle than give them my money. So I got an Xbox X, but I was very happy with the experience. Especially since Sony were acknowledging the scalper issues and seeming to only release games that had backwards compatibility. Eventually I (well, my daughter) sold my PS4 and several of the games and I didn’t really think I would look back, but . . . I soon started paying out for games that were not on Gamepass, and quickly realised that all my favourite games were 3rd party titles, like RDR2, The GTA series, Control, Mad Max, etc.
I only learned a few weeks ago about the end of the Scalper hegemony and was delighted to see all those stories about scalpers going under because they’re selling PS5’s at a loss. And then there was Redfall . . .
Redfall was pre-installed on my Gamepass, but I didn’t even play it before uninstalling it. Too many trusted reviewers were telling me the truth about its poor quality in both story and technical state. My wife saw the look on my face and (not making this up) came back from work that same day with a brand new PS5 from a major retailer for me! I must have looked really gutted! I know I felt it.
So, now I’m working my way through Ghost of Tsushima, with TLOU Part 1 Remake and Days Gone sitting in the memory, waiting for me to get around to them, whilst I eye up the Spider-Man Miles Morales on my wish list. So I’ll be busy and content until Starfield comes out. But I am PRAYING that it turns out great! Whilst the, “console wars,” when they’re fought between players are as dumb as a sock full of frogs, like watching street urchins fighting over which tyrant is best and only ever hurting themselves, the wars between the actual companies, Microsoft versus Sony, are great for us consumers. They force them to keep their prices at parity and compete downwards for customers. And, as we’re witnessing, they also force them to prioritise quality of the products. You just can’t sell consoles if no one cares about your games. So that’s good for the consumer and we should all hope that these wars continue for that reason.
That’s what worries me more than anything. I’ll be so sad if Starfield is rubbish, just out of personal disappointment. But if Microsoft keeps taking these body blows, the Xbox will die out, leaving Sony to be as exploitative as they like and us powerless to stop them. And that’s bad for everyone. So even the Sony Pony’s ought to hope that Starfield is great, for their own sakes, regardless of how much they hate Xboxers. If the Xbox goes down, we all lose.
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@AVIXS_0 : Oh, don’t get me STARTED on CyberPunk! Suffice to say that I got a refund shortly after it’s release and I’ve never looked back, despite following the news around it, since. I’m so glad you got your copy at the right time and are having such a blast with it, though. That’s their job, after all; to take us out of our world and put us in another one where the rules are different and we (usually) get to kill the people who annoy us. 😉
I’m a real, “believer,” so to speak. I love the art form which, like movies, sponsors a range of other art forms and technical achievements under one umbrella. People still play and talk about the soundtrack to RDRII in the way people do with the soundtrack from a musical. People love Arthur Morgan and John Marston, have complicated emotions about Dutch Vanderlind and love to hate Micah Bell. Those fictional people are a part of my life in a way that only an, “escape artist,” can comprehend, escaping our world and passing through the console vortex from time to time. Whether you are V or Arthur, or Jin Sakai (as I am currently living out my Kurosawa life fantasies) I wish you nothing but good things, whatever your console (or computer) and, if there was anything I would fundamentally change about the world of video games (apart from introducing strict, swiftly upheld laws that ruthlessly destroyed exploitative false advertisers, gambling exploiters, etc) it would be to see everyone have one phrase printed in the Star Wars font on coffee mugs, T-Shirts and big signs over their front doors, “Pre-Orders KILL Video Games!”
Anyhoo, more power to you. Maybe I’ll drop in on Knight City one day? But, I’m still not over it. ✌️👍
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We understand that Trump knew he may not be around to break the law and spring Flynn, after November, so he had to do it now, or not do it at all. We know Flynn wants back in Cabinet, so a, “pardon,” would not help him, because he’d still be a criminal and barred from holding office. So, they Barr’d him instead, knowing that NO JUDGE would allow this. Let’s hope they get swamped by death row inmates, who’ve ALSO, “changed their minds”? And, let’s hope he gets back in Cabinet BEFORE the elections? Like Banquo’s Ghost, haunting Washington and pissing off the entire electorate? 🤣
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w9j15g : No. No, he REALLY didn’t. The game you Trumpatrons play, is to infer, where there is NOTHING. He was discussing WHAT people have been concerned with, and WHY (possibly) the DNC have been missing the mark in some states. He makes NO SUGGESTION WHATSOEVER, as to WHAT to do about that. He simply identifies something, which MAY be at the root of recent failures. It does NOT follow that the solution is to pander to those concerns? It is JUST as legitimate to INFER that the DNC should be BETTER at getting its EXISTING message across? You have NO EVIDENCE for your claim, and, like Trump, you LEAP to a conclusion and, when you are SHOWN that you are WRONG, you DOUBLE DOWN, out of Pride, Arrogance and Stupidity. This is WHY you people WILL LOSE, in the end . . .
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T. M : “Necked”? What IS that? Is it like when you are given AWARDS and Pulitzer Prizes, for the BEST journalism? Sounds fun? I just LOVE how you say “bottom of the barrel,” when even the LEAST, er, “intelligent,” observers will ask themselves, “If so MANY people “believe” that CNN is “fake” in some way, then why, OH WHY, do they KEEP COMING BACK FOR MORE?” They will conclude that there HAS TO BE, SOME kind of, ahem, “hidden agenda”?
PooTin’s Poodles are the DUMBEST beings on EARTH. But, we find your desperation . . . entertaining, so DO, by all means, keep it up? Flail, bitch! Flail for Putin! Yeah, THAT’S it, bitch! Dance, sweetie, shake your booty for your Russian Bosses 🤣 😂 🤪
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T. M : Have you just been “necking” with Putin? Means something very different to English speaking people, MORON! 🤣
Here’s the Memo, you’ve been looking for:
“Dear, Da Base,
“I HATE the FBI and I BLAME the Dems for absolutely everything, like, er, um, that’s like, er bad . . . And, what about Hillary!? And Obahhhmahhh!
“Special love and kisses to Donny,
“Your faithful Russian payed bum-bot,
“Devin, x x x”
There. Feel better now? It was a bit difficult to decipher his CRAYON writings, but I don’t think people are going to be AMAZED that Devin Nunes has written something down that wasn’t in Russian, for a change? BTW, did you KNOW that Trump can DECLASSIFY ANYTHING HE WANTS??? Why HASN’T he???
Jeez, you droids need reprogramming. Hehhhhh . . . Smh
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That’s true. Labour could have, and should have, squashed the false claim that the Winter Fuel Allowance was being, “stopped,” “ended,” or otherwise, “breaking their manifesto promises.” They could have made such a VIRTUE out of necessity by using the term, “MEANS TESTED,” as a way of telling the public they were no longer throwing money at the rich and only giving the allowance to those who NEED IT, due to Tory greed, incompetence and fraud!
Then they could have debated over the barrier to access to the allowance, which is too low. More people need to be entitled to it. But each time the Tories made THAT point, Starmer can point to the 22 billion pound hole they left by the Tories that was covered up, as well as their record breaking loss of £26 billion to fraud, incompetence and waste, which was the number that the Tories came up with themselves!
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Erroneous Monk : Your ASSumptions are what will bring about your demise. I am just one of a great many Conservatives and a Christian, who will be voting Democrat at the Midterms. Things like this, just confirm that the GOP is BROKEN. And Corrupted. And, if someone brings up my mom, I would not bight. It’s called, “Self Control.” Something Kavanaugh should have learned. I thought you Trolls don’t believe in, “polling data”??? But, since you bring it up, this is the first time in American HISTORY, that the MAJORITY of Americans have been AGAINST the appointment of a SCOTUS. “Think,” about that? You’re failing to see the big picture, son. Wait till America has HEARD Dr Ford, and NOW ANOTHER accuser steps forward. Wait till America processes all these cheap tricks they’ve pulled to silence and BULLY her, SINCE the polls were last taken. If you can’t see that the GOP will be paying this bill, along with ALL THE OTHER DEBTS they’ve accrued, at the Midterms, you’re in denial
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Larry Gall : See, you’re stuck in the “political fight” mode, which is blinding you to what’s ACTUALLY HAPPENING, here, kid. America KNOWS that there’s political manoeuvring on BOTH sides. But, we ALSO KNOW that what the politicians say and do, has NOTHING to do with what’s TRUE and what’s NOT TRUE. Can’t you SEE that, son? America SEES the BULLYING, and that’s only coming from ONE side. Another victim has spoken out, now. America KNOWS Kavanaugh’s character, and they don’t CARE what “politicians” THINK or SAY. They KNOW what THEY, “Believe,” son. And, that’s NOT good for Kavanaugh. The GOP will pay for this. They’ll win the battle, and that battle will cost them the WAR . . . SMH
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Oh dear. This is starting to look like a ruse? It’s either the case that, like Hannibal, Prigozhin, “knows how to fight a war but not how to win it,” and he’ll regret turning back from the gates of Rome forever, or . . . ? Could this be the beginning of a Northern front and a new assault on Kyiv?
He had no air support, and his forces would have lost eventually within sight of Moscow. But, it’s a loss of prestige domestically for Putin, so if it’s a ruse, it’s a desperate gamble, by a man who’s running out of options on his western front.
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Maybe it’s not such a bad idea? Maybe they’ll put a public defender in place? 😁 They certainly wouldn’t fight the case with corruption, drag it out, use dirty, counter suing tactics, etc, so her chances of winning go up. And, if she wins, against trump the, “employee of the government,” that opens him up to abuse of power charges, and doing bad things as a government employee generally? . . . Think about it? . . . 🤔😉
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The Pirate Nation : Trump is NOT Putin, YET, son? Unless YOU “know” something we don’t about who he’s PAID to, “secure the presidency for the next 7 years”? It rather ignorant and self-deluding that you all come to CNN and ASSume that people who believe the TRUTH are “Dems” and “liberals”? There are as many, if not MORE, “actual” Republicans, who want Trump GONE. But, I guess you HAVE to keep up the ILLUSION, because the idea that there is ONLY a Cult left, alarms you, right?
WHY do you HATE America, SO MUCH? Are you “jealous” of successful Democracies? Or are you just one of those RACISTS, who doesn’t CARE about SELLING America to Putin, so long as it all goes “white” again? SMH
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ROBOCOP! Please? Please, PLEASE?
Would love to hear you guys discuss that. A deep, witty, (prophetic?) darkly funny, ultra-violent schlock sci fi masterpiece from Paul Verhoeven’s trilogy of sci fi perfection, including Starship Troopers (also a satire) and Total Recall. They were Verhoeven’s best works, in my opinion, yet Robocop has never been equalled as a movie with something to say about the world that was worth listening to; a gripping, fast paced cop-thriller story with a strong horror element (we can all love the character of Murphy, but he’s not a super hero that any of us would like to be?) and it’s all done with 2000 AD style, comic book approach, of massively broad brush strokes, which allow for these, almost lunatic, two dimensional characters, without harming the final product at all!
It’s philosophically challenging, eminently rewatchable, and utterly groundbreaking in its day! It set a benchmark that even he was unable to fully match, despite coming close, and I would dearly love to know what you guys make of it, setting it in its proper context historically? It’s hard to credit that it was made in the 1980’s! The special effects, whilst giving away that fact, were stunning for its time.
But, the way it reflected that Gordon Gecko / post Reaganism, “Greed is good,” culture and flung it back in our faces, with an ad-absurdum analysis at the natural outcome of where such political, cultural thinking might lead us, like a man losing his temper and ranting at us about what we’ve done to ourselves, who’s a bit drunk and extreme, but you know he’s kinda’ right, just made it so powerful and hilarious at the same time! Please, PLEASE do Robocop? ✌️
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The troll called, “Justin time,” has been doing this for 4 years. All day, every day, for 4 YEARS! Talking exclusively to people he says he, “hates,” about people he claims to, “hate,” on channels he utterly, “HATES.” Tell me America? Other than a paid troll, or a mentally ill person, is there a 3rd category of human that would even DO THAT? Trump’s trolls have been at it so long, they’ve forgotten just how lunatic they appear . . . SMH
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Justin time : I didn’t click your name to reply, so you didn’t get PAID. Sorry, not. But, seriously? Hillary has been just about to get locked up, but NOTHING ever happens. CNN and MSNBC are losing money, about to be group arrested, or some other, “brink of disaster,” crock, and it NEVER HAPPENS. Do you think you’re talking to 10 year olds, like you? You don’t even inspire curiosity, let alone the, “Fear,” you’re going for, son. “Pity,” is about the most positive, “emotion,” you ever get, on a good day. You’ve wasted your life, kid
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So much for Prigozhin’s, “exile,” right? Putin was HUMILIATED! He fled Moscow, even though Wagner didn’t get within 20 miles of the city limits! Not exactly, “I don’t need a ride, I need ammo,” like Zelensky, is it? The fact that Prigozhin still LIVES, despite him exposing Putin’s COWARDICE for all the world to see, tells us Putin is not in full control of his own military. Once the Ukrainians penetrate Russia’s defences, they will make mincemeat out of Putin’s megalomaniac fantasies for ever!
Slava Ukraine! 🇺🇦🔱🇬🇧
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I’ll take bets from anyone who doubts my prediction: Look at how madly active the FUNDRAISING is right now? Hourly emails, robocalls, etc, etc, going out, BEGGING FOR CASH! That money is NOT going on a, “legal challenge!” Think about it? How many warrants and indictments are just waiting to be executed on trump and some of his top people? That’s a Getaway Fund! And, just before Joe’s Inauguration Day, trump and the worst offenders will FLEE AMERICA! And trump’s cult will FINALLY GET IT, when they’ve been HAD, one last time, and they’re in a foreign country with no extradition treaty and ALL THAT MONEY! . . . Anyone doubt me? Place your bets?
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Well, they can’t, “win,” an election, since they’ve declared against democracy, the union and the Republic? Only other fascists vote Fascist. So, their way of rigging the tables is to prevent minorities from even getting into the casinos. There’s bound to be basic human rights challenges? Freedom of Religious Expression? Human Right to have WATER, etc? Meanwhile, support the National Bill, that will level the playing field and make these bills illegal under Federal Law? And, support Filibuster reform? These GOP Fascists are getting DESPERATE!
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Mark Green : The last time the Dems had any such, “Southern Strategy,” was when the Kennedy’s put LBJ on the ticket with Jack. Indeed, that was why he was there, and why they disliked him, primarily. Because they saw him as an apologist for the racists, at best. After LBJ, all such toleration of racist attitudes were abandoned by the Dems. And, the Reps were, eventually able to capitalise on that shift, as you point out. The pity of it was, there was a brief moment, post Nixon, when it looked like there might be a joint stance, from both parties, rejecting racism, wholesale, and outright. But, it came to nothing, because the money men from Texas were all moving into politics and finding a home in the Republican Party. And, because they were saying one thing, and practicing quite another. The Reps have never been straight dealers since the 70’s, and they’ve slowly crumbled, in ideology, values, and quality of leadership, ever since. Until, one day, we hit rock bottom, with Trump. Now, the only way is up. Or, to just wallow in their own shit? Watch this space, I guess? . . .
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mistercohaagen : This is on YOU, America. The TRUTH is that YOU are too afraid to acknowledge the TRUTH about the fall of the Republic, because you KNOW what this means for you. The date of the, “Acquittal,” is the date that the Republic has ENDED. They CANNOT and WILL NOT allow, “elections,” this year! Not when it’s SO EASY to have Putin FIX them for them. If Trump lost his protected status, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN!??? He and his family would GO TO JAIL! He would RAT OUT the rest of the GOP, from Bill Barr to Devin Nunes, sending THEM to JAIL! Leaving the Republican Party SO UNELECTABLE and HISTORICALLY DISGRACED, that they would DISBAND! Do you HONESTLY IMAGINE they will ALLOW THAT? When they’ve LITERALLY just SHOWN YOU that there IS NO LAW!? The TRUTH is, IF YOU WERE HONEST with yourselves, you would be FORCED to acknowledge that the Republic has FALLEN, meaning that ONLY A REVOLUTION can restore it, now. But, that’s SCARY, right? There’s NO, “legal remedy,” to a DICTATORSHIP. Learn to love Big Brother, go and give them the data they want, by, “voting,” in a RIGGED election, so they can decide which States, Counties and Individuals to TARGET. OR, have a second REVOLUTION. Just don’t LIE to yourselves, PRETENDING that the 2020, “Elections,” are NOT already RIGGED? The GOP have decided that they don’t want to go to jail. What a surprise? Are YOU prepared to do ANYTHING about that? . . . FFS, America? . . .
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Oscar Trent01 : You mean, “insecure boys,” son. REAL, “men,” don’t talk like that, Trump Troll. REAL MEN get laid, whilst pricks like the Orange Orifice, just like to talk about it, like a drunken Pedo would, behind bars. What would YOU know of, “men,” kid? 🤣
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John Smith : See, that’s an, “allegation,” son. It’s NOT an, “argument.” CHILDREN are suffering; FACT. Their suffering is DELIBERATE; FACT. Trump was TOLD that withdrawing Aid from Venezuela and other South American countries would CAUSE the influx we now have; FACT. He WANTS this Crisis, to bolster his monument desires, for his stupid Wall that’s NEVER going to happen; FACT. It’s CHEAPER to render Aid, than to pay the costs of these Concentration Camps; FACT. Trump is an, “Open Boarders,” president and you got CONNED; FACT. Tell me if you, “dispute,” ANY of those FACTS? I bet you don’t? 🤔
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W.A M.P : Stop being such dimwitted Gravity Denier. You’re EMBARRASSING yourself. It’s, “NOT our responsibility,” son. That’s true. So, would you RATHER spend LESS on keeping the influx of Asylum Seekers AWAY from the US, or SPEND MORE on having them all come HERE, Trumptard? Basic MATH 101. And, they WERE getting the Aid, in Venezuela, regardless of their dictator’s best efforts, and YOU don’t KNOW THIS? Try READING the News, instead of Trolling it? As Trump’s chosen Secretary of State would put it, you’re a, “F**KING MORON!” 🤤 🤣
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John Trump Troll Smith : “Why did Ivana say,” what, son? Click Bait = Malware Trap, & hits for Propaganda websites. You don’t read too well, do you, kid? HIDING behind, “others,” is called, “COWARDICE,” kiddo. I already told you. MAN UP, son.
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MLK's Con: Then he can go to jail WITH Trump, can’t he, sucker? You got an influx of immigrants, DELIBERATELY CAUSED by Trump; You gave him $1.5 TRILLION DOLLARS, within months of him stealing office; You got sex-traffickers, pimps, and Pedophiles, running all over the White House; You got, “Make Iran Great Again,” when, “America First,” was what you wanted; you got CONNED into getting the OPPOSITE of EVERYTHING you were, “promised,” and you’re too ASHAMED to OWN the FACT that a guy with an IQ, lower than his Shroom Of Shame measurement, PLAYED YOU 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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KristieChalene : Sorry, girl, but all that, “smack,” talk and, “one upping,” is what Normals grow OUT of, or stay CHILDREN. Pity you never knew that. The response that Trolls get on News sites, is just various ways of telling them that we don’t like liars, we know what they’re trying to do, and they would serve humanity better by fucking off and killing themselves, and I’m NOT being ironic about that. But, on the grounds that it’s immoral to waste your life, trawling through Trump Trolls back-peddling and excuses, I have to tell you that I got bored of yours and quit after the first paragraph. Trolls, after all, are ONLY Trolls and should not get ideas above their station, and act like they have something to, “say,” my dear? Now, toddle off back to the kitchen, like a good little GOP Stepford wife, and go and make babies, arrange flowers or whatever the hell Gop Biotches do with their spare time, OK? Before your husband finds out you’ve been doing, “Men’s stuff,” again, and talking politics 😁
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John Smith : No. I never touch nor OFFER Click Bait. It’s THAT simple, son. The art of NEVER losing the game, is DON’T play. I can look things up for myself, without looking into the Alex Q Jones sewer of nonsense, thanks. SAY what you’re talking about, and I will LOOK IT UP, and show you WHY you are SO WRONG, or IRRELEVANT, or both. E.g. If that’s a Clinton story, it’s irrelevant, and you’re STILL HIDING your SHAME, because you can’t admit how STUPID you, “feel,” that a low IQ moron got the better of you, so you have to FAKE supporting him 🙂
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MLK's Cons: Is that right? Does YouTube have a, “Policy,” about that stuff? And, they brought this to YOUR attention, WHY, exactly? So, IF I was to suggest that you unscrew your own head, stick it up your racist, snowflake ass, and jump in front of a speeding train, for instance, THAT would be against YouTube’s policy, right? Or, if I was to tell you to take something sharp and slice each and every major artery on your body that you can find, before you pass out from blood loss, for INSTANCE, then THAT would be against YouTube’s Policy, right? Or, if I just told you to go KILL YOURSELF, in the most PAINFUL and HUMILIATING way possible, FOR INSTANCE . . . THAT, too, would violate YouTube’s Policy? 🤔 Well, I better NOT do THAT, then? A Snowflake like YOU is liable to get all, “Butt Hurt,” and go and Whine to YouTube about it? Guess I’ll just have to think it, without, “saying,” it, won’t I, sonny? . . . 😁🤪
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Matthew: Sorry son, but, “killing,” is no more, “illegal,” in American Law, than it is in the Bible. “Thou shalt do no MURDER,” is what it says. Otherwise, all our cops, armed forces, and people who killed in self defence would ALL be in jail. We’re NOT against guns. I own guns, son. I just WANT Gun, “Control.” Seems to me, it’s the people who are afraid of their OWN, “Backgrounds,” who don’t want them to be, “Checked?” 🤔
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Steven : Drawing a comparison is NOT the same as inspiration, son. You’re lame attempts will never stick. And, WTF has THAT got to do with Gun Control? NOTHING. You forgot to mention that Time Magazine made Hitler Man of the Year, in the late 30’s too. Watching you scrabble in the dust, to justify your racism, merely disgusts right minded people. Do you, “think,” that the old, defunct connection, between the Klan and the Dems will make people decide it’s, “OK to be racist,” or something? When we all KNOW that Lincoln may have been a Republican, but he’s a Democrat now. Rather like me, when Trump got the nomination. Conservatives no longer vote Republican, as the Midterms should have showed you. They’ll vote Dem, like I did, or they’ll stay at home, because it’s Anti American to vote Trump. 🙂
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Matthew : SOME, “criminals,” will get around Gun Control, but you should be grown up enough to realise that MANY WON’T. You cannot say it, “does not work,” when all the EVIDENCE is to the contrary. The seasoned criminal will do their thing anyway, and most of those get caught, in the end. But, that’s ignoring the impulse shooters, the idiots who are not trusted and cannot get hold of illegal weapons, etc, etc. And, it’s a process. Cops will be able to lock people up, right away, just for having the gun, because their status will be on computer. And, if certain, bigger weapons are illegal on the street, again, they can take action without having to WAIT until they shoot up a school. But, here’s the BIGGEST hole in your, “argument.” If Gun Controls don’t work, WHAT DIFFERENCE would it make to you to HAVE THEM, then? If the Cops WANT them, and 80% of gun owners, LIKE ME, WANT them, WHY EVER NOT? What skin off your nose is it? I know you can’t answer that question. And, if you can talk like an ADULT, maybe I’ll stop calling you, “son,” son? 🙂
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Steven Lindsey👈😡❄️😫: Here’s what a Trump Troll, “idiot,” does. He opens with, “you’re an idiot,” out of insecurity and a childlike anger, knowing that his, “argument,” has been CRUSHED, and somehow, “thinking,” that insults help him to save face, when they just expose his awareness of his own weakness, which presents as effeminate, impotent rage, and THEN, he’s actually STUPID enough to, “think,” that ANY self respecting Normal would READ THE NEXT SENTENCE? Now, THAT’S, “IDIOTIC,” son! 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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Steven Lindsey : A, “true conservative,” KNOWS that, “hereby ordering American businesses,” is an attempt at Stalinist, State Control. A Conservative, like ME, would NEVER have picked an unwinnable fight with the one nation that has an economy as big as ours, and NO ELECTION pressures to worry about, while even our ALLIES (the rest of the BIGGEST economies on the PLANET) are agreeing with China! A true Conservative, does NOT tell people WHAT to think, Tweet bomb State Funerals and even our SPORTS, so we can’t escape him. Trump uses Stalin’s tactics, coached by Putin, for his new flavor of Nazi goals. That’s WHY the TRUE Conservatives who couldn’t bring themselves to vote Dem, stayed HOME at the Midterms, whilst MANY, LIKE ME, VOTED DEMOCRAT and will do it again, to get RID of the Clear And Present Danger, RINO, in the Orange Orifice . . . Smh
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It really should be a crime for people like Johnson to lie so blatantly. Any politician at Cabinet level should have a legal responsibility to tell the truth and face criminal liability for disinformation. By all means, allow them to express their warped opinions all the live long day, but NOT their facts.
The vaccine issue is clearly shown in the history books. Anthony Seldon’s books, Johnson At 10, and Truss At 10, both show the receipts. We were able to use the European mechanism to get our vaccines, because that had not yet expired! It was a benefit of being IN Europe, that we would not get again!
If there is a, “hero,” in this story, it’s Doctor June Raine, the CEO of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Agency, who oversaw the entire vaccination program. It is because of her that we were, “first,” to begin a rollout of vaccinations but she too confirms that we were the slowest to complete it. And that was due to conflicting political agendas in Cabinet, and Johnson’s continual flip flopping on decisions, leaving the right hand never knowing what the left hand was doing, frequently legging up the NHS in mid step.
Johnson’s lies are not just craven, blatant and reliant on the ignorance of the average voter, but cynical to the point of threatening genuine harm in the future! This should not be tolerated in a modern democracy!
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Ross Lumbus : What MADNESS is THIS??? “Nothing untoward”??? America has SEEN Trump committing Obstruction of Justice. Mueller will have WAY MORE corroborating facts. You say, “Look at his record,” which I sincerely HOPE people DO. Not just as a highly decorated Vietnam hero, or a man that has dedicated his life to the service of America, either? LOOK at Mueller’s FBI career. You THINK Sammy, “The Bull,” Gravano DIDN’T MURDER all those people? 19 was the LAST count? You, “think,” he LIED about the, “Teflon Don,” to save his own ass? Or that the FBI had him, nailed with EVIDENCE. Yet Mueller gave HIM a sweetheart deal; a 5 year sentence, at a low security country club, for cooperating witnesses, which was reduced for good behaviour: ALL to get the man at the TOP. You should THINK about THAT, instead of SHILLING for Russia and CHINA???
Every TIME Trump speaks out AGAINST the FBI, we should ALL be shocked? Let ALONE the number of dodgy moves Trump has pulled to undermine JUSTICE! And, YOU talk like there’s SOMEHOW, ON SOME FANTASY PLANET, a, “real,” possibility that Trump could be, “INNOCENT”??? ONLY GUILTY people try to STOP justice, dude? What ARE you? Russian? Chinese? Paid by a shell company and living in a East European dive? Or a home-grown cultist? Trump is GUILTY AS SIN. We ALL KNOW THAT . . . And YOU DO, TOO . . . Which we can SEE, from the FACT of you BEING HERE, AT ALL
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Ross Lumbus : OK. You can’t do concise, so I’ll indulge you, this once, without the insecurity of insult, undermining my comments:
Facts do not, “collaborate.” I said, “corroborate.” Dyslexia does not come with a low IQ; or the abandonment of grammar and diction; usually the opposite, but you Trump fans are fond of your stereotypes, so I’ll let that one go. And, it makes no difference where you are or what your nationality is. You are doing the work of Putin and Xi for them, by trying, (not very hard, it seems?) to sell a KNOWN LIE that not even the GOP supports. NO ONE, with the occasional exception of the ever flip-flopping Trump, even SUGGESTS that the Russians did NOT interfere, DIRECTLY, in the US elections. So, WHY would YOU? On WHAT, “basis,” would you assert a falsehood, like that, UNLESS you had an ulterior motive?
But, you are also, either UTTERLY UNAWARE of American politics, or lying again, when you suggest that Trump could POSSIBLY, “win,” the Mid Terms? Having scraped in, with a minority vote, 3,000,000 short of drawing level, let alone the, “popular,” vote, what has Trump then gone on to do? “What, Ash?” Thanks for asking. He has ALIENATED EVERY SINGLE MINORITY and / or ANYONE who thinks that he may be WRONG about ANYTHING, which means EVERYONE ELSE. Has he, “won people over?” Like HELL???!!! Is it a mathematical CERTAINTY that trump will get FEWER VOTERS on his side, since he’s been busy attacking American businesses, people and personalities, institutions, law and order, OUR ALLIES and EVEN HIS OWN FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES? Yeah, I’d say so! The ONLY people Trump has been, “nice,” about are FOREIGN DICTATORS.
So, Trump is growing increasingly DESPERATE: VISIBLY. Which makes him DANGEROUS, as he will do ANYTHING to retain power. He knows that the alternative could mean jail. So he has little to lose, by RIGGING the Mid Terms (nor do Russia and China, for that matter?), or giving Congress a pretext (excuse) to suspend (CANCEL) them. And our foreign adversaries have experience now; with better access and greater motive.
Or, perhaps Trump will just continue having his goons, play out these cases in the court of public opinion? Perhaps, stir them into SUCH a FURY of Conspiracy Theories and Nut Jobbery, that he’ll have them encircling Polling Stations? Beating up minorities and intimidating or even MURDERING voters? Perhaps it will be America’s own Kristal Nacht, and we’ll all get to SEE that, “Democracy,” is DEAD. And, when American democracy dies, how long do you think YOURS will survive? With ALL the superpowers being dictatorships?
But, here’s what I KNOW for a fact: If you KNEW the history of Trump and his family, you would NOT be shilling for him, UNLESS, you are either responding to one of those shell company emails, to, “Turn YOUR comments into CASH!” Or just a plain, Troll Farmed, battery raised, cattle prodded, government Troll. You are clearly too smart to be one of Trump’s cultists? . . .
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You can’t have this trial without the perpetrators on the stand. Presumably, they will all be subpoenaed, so that Fox has no say in the matter. The ruling that moved this to trial was 130 pages of damning decisions that have already crushed a whole massive range of possible lines of attack for the defence, preventing them from even arguing most of the points they wanted to debate in the court. As far as this judge is concerned, he will be directing the jury to decide, NOT on, “whether,” Fox was at fault, but rather just,” how,”guilty as sin they were. Have fun with that, Rupert. 😋
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@nobodyspecial4702 : It does make you wonder though? How many people, even the ones supporting freedom and democracy in Ukraine, actually know what this is really about? Putin is simply stealing Ukraines recently uncovered gas and oil reserves. It was (relatively) easy when he could cause enough conflict on his border with Ukraine that western companies like Shell and Exon were forced to pull out. And while he can control the offshore reserves by invading the Crimea. But now they’ve found MASSIVE gas and oil reserves by the Carpathian Mountains, to the west, where Ukraine has no border with Russia. And Putin knows he has nothing else the west wants or can’t get elsewhere, so he’s cooked up this excuse. Naturally, countries like Germany would far rather buy their gas and oil from a free democracy next door than a dictatorship many miles away, that has made threats to cut off their gas supplies in the past. This is SO predictable that you can plot the route of the Russian troops! They will stop at the Carpathians, when they have control of the abandoned drilling sights! It’s a smash and grab operation by a psycho who’s broken the Russian economy through his theft, murder and torture. But many don’t realise this, even now!
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@Annemarie D : Re-read what you wrote, and consider how, “extremist,” it is? I’m a Conservative and I would say you are fundamentally wrong about everything you just said. The only thing even close to a, “Marxist,” government we have is China, and they have more millionaires per capita than any other country, which is an embarrassment of riches and ideology, wouldn’t you say? It is NOT, “conservative,” to be racist, fearful of other beliefs, or to want to suppress democracy. That’s called fascism. When AI takes over the world, you’re unlikely to even know it’s happened. But, you’ll be as free as bird, just as you are now, to express your bigotry without fear of consequences . . . 🙄
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She was willing to be real and honest about all of this, when others were too wrapped up in political biases to take a cold, hard, honest journalistic look at the truth. This story has done more to raise her in my esteem, than any other I can think of. And it’s not like I didn’t rate her highly already. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn of suicides because of this Time’s Up debacle? I hope not, but imagine if you had been looking to them for financial help, legal guidance and moral support, for your own serious assault or harassment case, and coping with all the Cuomo Collusion revelations, when you now learn that, rather than facing and dealing with these issues; owning them, reviewing practices and working to change things, the whole leadership just throws in the towel, after being outed as abetting Cuomo? A bunch of famous people, polishing their halos for the public, turned out to be either a part of the problem, or just playing at solving it, but left once the going got tough and they might have to put their own skin in the game. Any and all, “hope,” you had would be robbed from you, turning your worst fears into despair. God help those victims. Because Time’s Up sure ain’t going to . . .
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Helen reminds me of a friend I had, studying psychotherapy with. Her mannerisms, tone, so many details are identical. Every time I see her, I think about the way people seem to be a fixed part of your personal landscape, then one day, you don’t know where they are, or what became of them. Treasure the, “moments,” people. Make time to reflect on your day, keep a diary. Life is just . . . moments.
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@riparianlife97701 : The funny bit being, they all know Biden had no choice. What was he supposed to say? “We’re expecting chaos and betrayal, because America has already betrayed the Afghan government by locking them out and secretly SURRENDERING to the Taliban and signing our surrender to their leader, whom we let out of US Custody!” If he’d told the truth, he would have added to the expected chaos, and then been, “blamed,” for that! It’s not like he didn’t tell the military what was coming? No one had ANY illusions.
But, instead of saluting our military for pulling off one of the biggest, most complex and awe inspiring operations in US history, leaving fewer behind than after ANY CONFLICT, they’d rather stab our boys and girls in the back! Just to pretend it was some species of, “failure,” and score some points. Trumpophiles are real scumbags if you ask me. And historically illiterate ✌️👍
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krtwood : Except, when people realise just how badly they’ve been ripped off, they’ll need a “goat” for the sacrifice. Trump’s attacking them all the time; they KNOW none of them are “safe”, given how disloyal Trump FAMOUSLY is; Trump BLAMES them, when things go wrong; has personally insulted nearly ALL of them; and he makes them LOOK bad. With gerrymandering under court scrutiny, as we speak, and Trump’s polls slipping ever further, that loyal 30+% is NOT enough for 2018. Sure, they MAY have to go through the 2018 elections to have it PROVED to them? OR, they may be smart and not wait that long? But, either way, they’ll have SPENT their Trump coin and have no reason to keep him, and 60+% reasons to toss him to the lions. Think about it?
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Jefryt 67 : So, if I were to PROVE to you, that Trump CAUSED the influx of Asylum Seekers; and did it DELIBERATELY so as to get people like YOU to fall for his Propaganda, and to, “justify,” his Wall, that wouldn’t interest YOU, would it? If I PROVED to you, that we have already spent FIVE TIMES what we would have spent on Aid to South American countries, on Concentration Camps, botched ICE raids, and subsequent giant spin operations to excuse all the BLUNDERS, that wouldn’t interest you, would it? You’ve been played by a guy who gave you the precise OPPOSITE of what he offered, on absolutely EVERYTHING . . . SMH
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I question that strategy? Isn’t the problem that making someone into a, “clown,” makes them also, “safe,” in the public imagination? Remember Bush Jr? The worst, least legally justifiable war in American history was fought at his instigation, and even Republicans were content to picture him as having bumbled into Iraq on the heels of the war in Afghanistan. He got away with a lot, whilst fumbling his grammar, forgetting key speech elements and walking into false doorways, getting shoes thrown at him and was made far more palatable in the western world by being a clown. Yet he carefully planned and executed a war that was illegal by every metric.
Yes, we must not allow short memories to prevail. Perhaps a 24 hour moratorium could be agreed between news channels, only broadcasting key elements and gaffs from his speeches when he makes them, rather than any live broadcasts? That also gives channels the time to collate footage of him directly contradicting himself to show in direct comparison? That would take care of the floating voters.
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Raymond Riggio : P.S. Conservatives, LIKE ME, will be HAPPY to see ANYONE involved in CHILD RAPE and TRAFFICKING, PAY FOR THEIR CRIMES. ANYONE! So, quit HIDING behind, “Hillary’s,” skirts, son. For SHAME! Have SOME DECENCY? . . . Where does it END, with you people? It keeps getting worse and WORSE, because of the Trump Cult. THINK about the VICTIMS, you POS? . . . Smh
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Sam L : Surely, you’re NOT naive enough to believe that governments WON’T take control, wherever they can, when there’s serious money involved? “Ideology,” is just window dressing, son. And, I use speech to text, too. It’s easy to correct mistakes. If you’re lazy about it, don’t blame others when they can’t understand what you mean. I had the same problem with your, “proof rating,” comment. No offence
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Alex Kowalski : Of course, the amusing irony here is, IF Sam L actually tried to stand in front of a government building in China (IF he could find one that has actual official markings, that is?) and tried to film a YouTube Video, saying how much he, “loves the Chinese political system,” he would get busted by the cops, who would NOT believe his story, and who would beat the souls of his feet until he gave them a confession of some sort, which he’d be forced to repeat in court, so as to prevent his government from complaining about his 20 year prison sentence. And, given that YouTube is permanently either BLOCKED or BANNED in China, NO ONE would see his Pro-Chi Propaganda, anyway. I mean, you just gotta’ LOVE that irony, right? 🤣👍✌️
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Sam L : You Trolls seem to, “think,” that the size of the, “economy,” is the answer to ALL problems? That’s insane, kid!? Seriously! Does it NOT occur to you that you can have the BIGGEST economy in the WORLD and still only have a very SMALL group of oligarchs OWNING everything? By YOUR OWN, “LOGIC,” America is WAY better than China, because their economy is BIGGER. You defeated your OWN, “argument,” son? . . . Smh
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Sam L : You sound like you’re looking for an excuse to (hashtag) RunAway from me, son? You should try voice to text technology? It means you can do ALL KINDS of stuff, whilst responding to Trump Troll Propaganda, in the blink of an eye. Takes no time, if you know how to manage time in the first place, kid. So, you keep, “guessing,” at who I am, and what I’m about. That just tells me I’m making quite the impression upon you, and you’re thinking about me. Whereas, when I’m done with this sentence, to me, you’re not even a memory 🙂
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Let’s hope he declares war on Britain then? They’re doing their usual, attempting to have their cake and eat it too, by threatening individuals, like CNN journalists and British politicians, as Prigozhin made clear yesterday, and they want us to think that people might get poisoned. They’re having fits of impotent rage because they don’t understand how the free press works.
They thought the west was super afraid of Russia, because the press loves to sell papers and make money by getting all hysterical every time Putin so much as glances at a nuke. Now they can’t understand why we’re not in paroxysms of terror when they’re directly threatening us with nukes every other day? Nuke us with what? An Iranian drone? Sure, they still have a giant nuclear arsenal, but they know that their world would end with ours. They know their own world would end at the moment they used one single tactical nuke against Ukraine, possibly even with China’s assistance of the west!
The battle for who runs Russia after Putin has already begun, with Prigozhin simply being the loudest candidate, playing the Boris Yeltsin role, shouting speeches from atop a tank in the chaos (if you’re old enough to remember that image) and it has sickened me how we in the west created this chaos by encouraging it for the last 30 years.
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@slyshadows999 : You’re all upset, because you were expecting, “tax,” news, right? You keep saying, “prices are going to rise,” because sooner or later, they inevitably will. Especially when more people are driving electric cars than gas ones, and it becomes a rarity. Move into the 20th Century instead of looking for a straw man to knock down, madam? Then, consider the 21st? It ain’t the 1860’s anymore 🤣
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Samuel Rs : Nah . . . The truth is that an Infrastructure Bill would be hard, ACTUAL, work. For the reasons you stated. That’s why Trump told Chuck & Nancy that the dog ate his homework. If Trump ever had an, “insight,” about ANYTHING, you can bet that he would be the only person likely to, “benefit,” from that. He needs to be able to concentrate on giving the right contracts to the right Mafia outfits, to whom he probably owes money and favours, and ensuring his own company kickbacks. But, seriously? Can you point to an actual, “insight,” on Infrastructure, that the Donster has had? . . . 🤔
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@oldcatlover : If the presiding judge at the trial had forced the defendant’s lawyer (who spoke for trump on the witness stand) to answer the question, under pain of instant imprisonment, for Contempt of Congress, when he was asked if the election was, “legitimate or not?” that would have been a shattering blow to the GOP. And, if they had followed that by getting key Senators, Lindsay Graham and Ted Cruz in particular, on the stand, forced to answer that same question, they would NOT have risked a BILLION dollar lawsuit, or given false testimony, risking Perjury or Conspiracy charges! We could have struck at the very FOUNDATION of the Fascist Trump Movement, by taking away their false, seditious, propaganda-narrative! Out of the MOUTHS of the very people who sold them that narrative, shattering their careers in the process. They literally had that power, and could have had the Sergeants At Arms escort them to the cells until they were willing to answer the question . . . Indefinitely! That would have lasted all of 5 minutes! Each of them ALWAYS takes the path of least resistance, and we would have had our, “victory,” regardless of the, “verdict,” with no place for the fascist narrative to bury its head. They did a superb job, by legal standards. But, this was a political trial and a political process, and they should have played for keeps. And, I resent the hell out of the Dems for that! Now it’s up to the criminal courts and the ballot box, to protect us from out and out Fascism! ✌️👍
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Jeff Smith : It’s already a, “Banana Republic,” when the reverse is true too. If, “someone at the top,” can order his own, “acquittal,” as happened at the risible Impeachment SHAM, why shouldn’t we expect that he’ll be hunting down all the people who put him there, spoke the truth when asked, or even simply failed to scream out hysterical support for Trump, loudly enough, when Trump, “felt like it”??? The problem here, is that people are still acting like this kind of thing still matters, when the Impeachment was the last nail in the Republic’s coffin. Who in their right mind, even imagines that they are “NOT” going to RIG the coming, “elections,” when we ALL KNOW if Trump is unseated, he and his family will be indicted and all go to jail? Which will lead to them, ”ratting out,” everyone from Bill Barr down to Devin Nunes, the indictment and imprisonment of the ENTIRE administration, leaving a historically disgraced skeleton of the Republican Party in its wake, to disband and flee from the press like escaped Nazis after WWII. They have SHOWN you that Democracy, law and order, and the Constitution are OVER in America, but you all keep up this DENIAL, as if, “elections,” will MEAN a GOD DAMNED THING?! And, I think you’re all doing that, because you all know, in your hearts, that being honest with yourselves can lead to to only ONE conclusion. Americans must accept they have a Russia Style, FAKE Democracy, more popularly known as a DICTATORSHIP, and be DONE with it, OR? . . . Revolution!!! There is no third option
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I would support national service if it was for two years and each conscript was allowed to choose between one of three options: 1) The armed services, obviously. And you can learn a skill or two that can go on your CV, as well as shore up our shrinking armed services’ numbers, which is an issue that needs attention as well as money.
2) Health and Social Services. Again, these services are desperate for staff and meaningful skills could be taught to young people for their CV’s, whilst they prop up the services by doing all the grunt work, while the NHS can redirect some of their real money to be spent on doctors, nurses and other skilled professionals, along with the equipment and premises they need. Just DON’T allow any, “friends and family,” contracts with people who are married to MP’s providing equipment that is unfit for purpose!
3) Community Projects. I started out in Community Resource work, in a previous life, and there is mountains of stuff to do and an awful lot that could be done if we got enough bodies to do the liaison work and build relationships in these communities. Everything from play-schemes during the school holiday periods, to needle exchanges, and countless other outreach projects which strengthen communities, build relationships between people in those communities and foster positive relations between local government and those communities.
If all of them lasted for two years, they would be long enough for the participants to gain meaningful skills and qualifications. AND they would be long enough for participants to make a meaningful difference. And with their new qualifications and the knowledge of their contribution to society, each draftee will emerge with a sense of ownership over their contribution and a sense of responsibility toward their country and communities, making them better informed and responsible, contributing members of society.
Of course, informed, educated and responsible members of society is the last thing that Tories want, so they wouldn’t dream of running it like that. Especially if National Service could result in the extended longevity of Health, Social and Community services, which they want to privatise by running them into the ground.
But, if Labour were to pick up their ball and run with it? Doing it properly, in the manner I suggested? . . .
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I must question one early assumption there? I’ve been asking around. I cannot find a single person who supports the, “Stop The Boats,” alleged, “policy.” Not one! If I were to make an assumption of my own, I would have to guess that fifth pledge is only aimed at the type of people who join pro-Nazi groups secretly? Which this government is contributing toward creating by telling people they ought to be more racist and in-your-face divisive.
Even among those who sound a bit like the BBC, saying, “Well it is going to be a growing problem that we will have to do something about,” (yeah, like every other country on the planet) don’t think it should be in the government’s top 10, let alone top 5 actual, “pledges.”
Btw, you cannot make a pledge that is fundamentally illegal and will not survive legal scrutiny. That’s a, “We will try this, knowing we will be told off by a judge’s panel.”
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@dago87able : Because, A) It was in their interests to take out strategic targets; ships in dock, warehouses, factories, military bases, police stations, electricity and water supplies, etc, etc. B) The guided missile had not been invented. You flew over an area, at night, where your map said there was a likelihood of hitting X target if you dropped enough bombs in rapid succession, so that’s what they did. C) These were young men in bombers, not the fighter pilots (who rarely if ever had enough fuel to get across the English Channel) who just wanted to hit their mark (or near it) and go home! Kids, really. Not murderers. D) Records have shown that, even though, “terror,” was among the stated objectives of Goering’s Luftwaffe toward the end of WWII, his apparent incompetence turned out to have more to do with young men being unwilling to carry out immoral orders and finding it relatively easy to be plausibly, “unlucky,” when it came to aiming at a hospital, or something.
Once you start counting up the number of, “deliberately,” murdered civilians, killed by shelling, you will find these statistics quite jaw dropping and physically unsustainable! As in, there will be no population alive to bomb within six months at this rate of deaths. Poland lost an entire 5th of it’s population in WWII, which is the record. Ukraine will reach that in two months max, if it’s casualty rate doesn’t drop. But, even Poland lost most of it’s people through combat or concentration camps. Not one single method. Seriously! Check the numbers. This is one of the most shockingly COWARDLY attacks ever in modern history. Like shooting fish in a barrel, only they are people! It’s NEVER been done on this scale before! I cannot find a single example this sustained, outside of possibly Stalingrad? But even there, the fighting raged for months first. Not after one soldier stubbed his toe and said, “F*ck it! Kill them all!” ? ? ?
Respect for giving a shit and for double checking. ✌️
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A bot thread . . . Interesting . . . The, “recent dip in the market,” has occurred because Bitcoin doesn’t pass through any exchange mechanism, making it the web’s equivalent of cash. You can steal it and spend it in a different country, before the owner even knows they’ve been robbed. I got rich by avoiding pyramid schemes like crypto-currency. It’s only worth what people say it’s worth, but there’s no one there to authenticate it’s value, making it worth billions one day, and nothing the next, with no recourse for anyone. Oh, and because Putin wants to be the world’s banker and runs the whole thing. You’d have to be an idiot to invest in Bitcoin, so I shouldn’t worry if I were you. The world’s full of idiots 🙄
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POPCANA : Donny was slipping in the polls while we were a, “United,” States, fighting a threat together. Now, Covid is, “political,” and Donny’s trolls want us to go out and DIE for them, just so THEY get PAID. But, you won’t see any of their faces at these, “protests,” with or without a mask . . . Smh
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“Being poor is an expensive lifestyle.” That’s how I always express it to my wife if she balks at the cost of some new item I want to buy for the home, or that I’ve spend on a present for her.
If you can afford the very best pair of shoes, there’s a good chance that a middle aged person, like me, will never have to replace them for the rest of their lives. Yet, if you simply cannot afford to spend £3 or £4 hundred pounds on a pair of shoes, and can only muster £20 to £30 pounds to meet an urgent need, then you will be forced to replace or repair them within a year or two at most.
This is a cycle of self enforced poverty that so few even realise is there, partly because some people are just too poor to be able to save or spend their money as wisely as they’d like and partly because businesses have built entire economies on this model of short-termism.
The constant stream of FOMO and disposability that comes at us from all directions, especially on the web, even more especially through YouTube’s abominable advertising algorithms, is unending and totally misleading. But we are trained from childhood to think this way by people who want to make more money forever from fleecing the sheep regularly rather than get one big payoff for butchering the herd.
But making canny shopping choices means spending a lot once, not spending a little again and again until you die. And making those first few decisions will free up cash that you can save, making it possible for you to save up to buy more top of the line gear that will never need replacing. They call that, “investment.”
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@yl9154 : Those people get paid to troll YouTube. Some are nothing more than algorithms, which is why their replies often make no sense and have no relevance to the topic. Others work from troll farms in St Petersburg or other, “friendly,” countries to Russia. And yet others, but few in number, are westerners, hired by shell companies which can all be traced back to Russia. And some of those people are dumb enough to believe the company paying them is as, “western,” as it claims to be, or just don’t care to raise the question while they’re being paid. That leaves very few micro-penissed humans who have nothing but vitriol instead of blood in their veins, trolling because they have nothing in their lives but a hatred of other people with better lives than theirs. But, when you do the math, that leaves less than 0.0001% of humanity that side with Putin. And all of those people do so out of self protection. Not one of them has an ideology or has ever read a book that wasn’t explaining how to operate their encryption codes or where to access viagra. They look more numerous because that’s what they get paid to do. But in reality, they simply don’t count. Just like in 1945, when the British and Americans got to Berlin; suddenly they couldn’t find a single individual who was in the Nazi Party. That’s what will happen to Putin supporters, when the dust settles. They will vanish into the ether, like so many badly programmed Nigerian princes.
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trusting virus : You said it takes a long time to comment. I demonstrated that it really doesn’t; not for me, or for most people. It’s not like people are sitting around, talking about the Orange America Hater all day? I understand how it might be difficult for a Trumpophile to process, “information,” which, like FACTS, “makes no sense,” to you. Telling the TRUTH is EFFORTLESS. I don’t care, if you’re upset by that. Don’t be so EMOTIONAL. Why are Trumpoids always, “victims,” anyway? It’s rather effeminate . . . SMH ☺️
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trusting virus : I summed up the, “FACTS.” I never suggested I was quoting you? Learn to tell the difference . . . I could save you some time, here? You should know, I’m ALWAYS RIGHT; kind of a Blessing AND a Curse. And, I am a Conservative; Ex-Member of the Republican Party, actually. What have YOU ever done for the, “cause”? There are NO Conservatives LEFT in the GOP, we ALL left, when Trump came in. Conservatives now VOTE Democrat: FACT. Go COUNT the VOTES of the Midterms, if you don’t believe me?
Glad to see another Trumpophile is feeling, “Butt Hurt,” though. Must hurt, to be you? Especially in the botty zone? 🤣
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trusting virus : That entire comment was, almost all, about your, “emotions.” Did you notice that? “Information,” is only, “useless,” to those who aren’t smart enough to utilise it. Have you ANYTHING to, “say,” about the criminal in the White House? Nadda’, Zip, NOTHING. Just emoting, while pretending to not be emoting. Would you like a lesson on, how to win a debate? 🙂
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Oh! Quotes, is it? Goody! Here’s some: “Grab ‘em by the pussy,”. . . “Russier, if you’re listening,”. . . “Very fine people on both sides,” . . . “I have no reason to disbelieve Putin over 17 American security services, all of our allies and the vast majority of the American people,” . . . “I promise to show my tax returns,” . . . And, my personal favourite, “I’m still president, aren’t I? Why are you taking my gold toilet out of the White House? I’ll be back in by August! Whah! But, his lap top! But, Benghazi! But her emails! Whah!!!”
🎺 🎼 Wah wah wah wah wahhhh 🎵 🎶 🎺 . . . ☺️
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Dagoth Ur : Honestly, yeah . . . 🤷♂️. . . It was a gaff. It may have given away some of Joe’s preconceptions, but it’s unlikely, given the man. He has a stammer, which he’s heroically overcome, and even if it was a Freudian Slip, it hardly condemns the man? . . . We all know (and that goes for you) that he’s not a racist. But, quid pro quo? If we can acknowledge it looked bad and was a stumble, and you have the subtlety to grasp the underlying meaning beneath such a comment, how come, “grab ‘em by the pussy,” doesn’t make you want to slap Donny’s fat Orange face and tell him he’s not fit to clean Joe’s boots with his tongue, let alone have a career in politics? . . . Explain that? I’m genuinely interested to see if you can answer in good faith? Or, if you’ll just be a prick about it? 🤔
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Well, he’s too rich and successful to be bought, or enslaved to lobbyists? And, let’s face it? Texas is something of an Oligarchy, run by the fossil fuel barons, who treat Texas like their own independent country. So, maybe if Matthew was to open the door to more Independents, that might change the very model of our democracy, at a fundamental level? Imagine if there were 10 or 20 independent Senators or Governors, able to represent the interests of their states and seek broad consensus in National politics? It could change everything for the better, where the two parties would have to negotiate and be real about things? Wedge issues are the worst, and what are ruining America. He would go down in history as the man who saved politics, perhaps? Ahead of my skis I know, but we can dream can’t we?
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@jaobidan2358 : Pretty much, yeah . . . If it comes from the GOP, it’s usually a lie. But, stop taking the opinions of others so personally? Donny’s not your, “daddy,” or anything? He’s just a broken down ex-politician, who doesn’t even know he’s not our president anymore. Not some guy worth getting so, “butt harmed,” about? Take your, “complaints,” to a proctologist, Karen? No one here cares 🤷♂️🙄
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Isn’t it time we went to the source? The old argument, of the person who screams, “Fire!” in a packed theatre, causing people to DIE in the ensuing chaos needs to be revisited. After World War II, they actually hunted down, tried and EXECUTED traitors, broadcasting propaganda LIES to the Allies. Lord Haw Haw was HUNG! Yet, what do we do about propagandists now? We give them licenses and shares in the f’king company! Fox, RT, QAnon, Parlour, THE NAZIS!?!? ALL broadcasting LIFE ENDING PROPAGANDA AND LIES ON AMERICAN SOIL! We’re SO BEYOND, “Free f’king Speech,” when it’s KILLING people, aren’t we? Isn’t it time we OUTLAWED FAKED NEWS??? There are actual Americans who aren’t even faking their belief in, “The Steal!” Think about that??? People actually BELIEVE trump! Because WE ALLOW TRAITORS TO BLITHELY UNDERMINE THE REPUBLIC ON OUR OWN SOIL!!! Then we act SURPRISED when cops are being MURDERED in the Capitol??? Come on, America??? Wake TF UP! ✌️👍
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Leighton, baby, calm down. You know you’ve lost the argument, when you resort to making stuff up, son. You, “thought,” the Gerrymandering and Voter Suppression meant you had it in the bag. It never occurred to you that Conservatives would vote AGAINST the Orange Orifice, or at best, stay home. THAT’S HOW the Blue Wave happened. Not, “left,” OR, “right,” son. Just Americans, sick of Trump and his lame, America Hating lies, treason and robbery. We just don’t want the NEXT 911 to be NUCLEAR . . . Smh
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Action Hiro : I genuinely believe, at this stage, we’re hardly seeing ANY support for Trump from America. Paid, foreign Trolls, mostly. With a sprinkling of the usual Racists and haters, and one or two who are just struggling to admit that they could have been SO wrong. Those latter ones seem to think that just screaming their wishes into the internet, makes them come true, because it seemed to work that way, up until 2017? They’re just screaming all the louder, now, but nothing seems to work for them. There will ALWAYS be a small percentage of nut jobs; comes with the territory, in a free country. The problem is, Rush Limbaugh and Anne Coulter seem to be the only nut jobs Trump will listen to, for now, at least. He’s Fox’s bitch, now
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h la : Meant for me, sonny? Ironic, “ignoring,” my name, whilst blurting, “ignoramus,” don’t you think? Hoping I wouldn’t notice you, so you’d get, “the last word,” or something? You Effeminate, Snowflake, Trump fans are a hoot! “Poor you,” sonny. “Poor, poor, you.” 😁
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How does it feel, having a Dictatorship, America? What does any of this matter? How can we tell what’s even REAL? The 2020, “election,” results will be falsified, and the Trumps, along with half the GOP, will avoid JAIL by keeping Trump, and then his children, in permanent power. But, at least they will put on a show for you, like Putin does. FAKE Democracy keeps the people quiet. WHY HAVE YOU ALLOWED THIS, AMERICA???
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Nicole Love : Like I said, something’s up? Senior staff get regular medical checks, and are treated like race horses, constantly being treated with preventatives, just in case something’s going around. Yet, they didn’t see this coming? No hint of illness, and then, DEAD. They could be covering a suicide, for the sake of loved ones, morale, whatever? But, that only makes you ask, “why?” But, people in his position, DON’T just up and die like that. At least, not without a little, “help.” What’s your take?
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Robert Theref : I think it’s the impotent rage, that highlights your stupidity, when you make it so clear that you have NO CLUE how ANY of this WORKS, son? The, “Judge,” ALREADY KNOWS EVERYTHING, you MORON! It’s NOT a, “Redacted,” sheet that she’s looking at, when she CONVICTED him, you DOLT! It’s secret from the PUBLIC, not the JUDGE! 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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@westernersareuntermench2474 : Calm down, madam? Every word in your hysterical sentence was wrong. One example? Look at how the GOP built a facility on their border, for systematically forcing unwilling asylum seekers to have abortions. Just to ensure no, “Dreamer Babies,” could be born on American soil, and to deter other asylum seekers (coming from largely Catholic countries) in what they called, “punishment abortions.” On the very day Joe Biden heard about that place, it was shut down. He ordered an FBI investigation into that. A GOP Governor or Senator will be found, who enacted this HORRIFIC, “policy.” Clearly, the Dems take, “babies lives,” very seriously in 2021. Try to order your thoughts into reason, instead of blurting a bunch of unsubstantiated nonsense that just makes you come off as unhinged and angry? . . . Deep breaths . . .
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My guess, as to his honourable discharge from the army, and the wound he carries, is that he might well have been through a similar outcome as the one in this movie? His attempts to fit in are misunderstood. He’s joined up to find friendship and understanding, but simply can’t. He would have been more harshly rejected by girls his own age, as he was by women in the movie, due to his shocking dissonance. And I could see an awesome prequel possibility in that story, which culminated in his murdering a bunch of colleagues, who had just committed a series of atrocities in the jungles of Vietnam. That would explain why he has an honourable discharge, yet no Purple Heart, despite being wounded in the inciting incident that saw him discharged. The military, not knowing what to do with him, just got rid of him, rather than explore atrocities committed by their own troops at a trial. And they couldn’t award him a Purple Heart without explaining where and when he got wounded, or making something up. So, here he is, confused, isolated and lonely, with a worsening mental health condition, undiagnosed and ignored, a walking time bomb, waiting to go off, while he pursues his occupation as a taxi driver in what was at that time, one of the world’s worst sewers in America; downtown New York.
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The Impeachment is everything, and the GOP are utterly desperate! This will be their breaking point. Any GOP member can be forced to testify, without 5th Amendment cover! Imagine, Cruz, Hawley, Graham and others, giving their, “evidence,” for believing in, “The Steal?” With being shredded on the stand, on live TV, and potential Perjury charges hanging over them? Many will confess they always KNEW it was a Seditious LIE, for the world to hear! The GOP are losing donors, making them more reliant on grass roots Nazis! We must force their fracture at the impeachment. The, “verdict,” is irrelevant. They’re desperate to avoid A RECKONING!
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As to your vote this year, I wouldn’t deign to tell you how to vote, but I do have a suggestion. From all of your videos it is clear to me that you are one of the most knowledgeable and authoritative voices on British politics out there. So, you must know that it’s more important right now, not just to get this particular brand of Tories out, but to lay down a lesson for the ages about who we are as Britons. I am hoping that the Tories do not even retain opposition status after this election and that the message becomes clear: The more far right wing your politics, the less chance you have of achieving power.
This election cycle promises at least that much opportunity. Whether the British people take it or not remains to be seen.
But, for myself, I have joined the tactical voting scheme that has grown and organised itself rather brilliantly around the country. They have websites which make it really easy to find out which candidate stands the greatest chance of defeating the Tory candidate in your area (and is not right of them politically) which they regularly update with the latest quality polling information. That information becomes vital in marginal seats.
In my area, in the East of Scotland, it is not the same, as the Tories don’t traditionally do well here anyway. But I have spread the word to my friends and family all around England and Wales, (I don’t know anyone in Northern Ireland) and given them the links showing them how easy it is to get genuinely helpful guidance, if your aim is simply to irradiate the Tories as a political entity.
Sorry, to get to my point: Please consider a tactical vote? If not, I would love to hear you account for why you think tactical voting is a bad idea, or just not for you personally; but, of course, I fully respect your right not to account for anything, let alone disclose your voting intention. Yet you did discuss it to some degree there.
With the campaign itself, having gained so much traction around the country, I do feel it is a worthy topic for your channel and you may like to share some thoughts on it in a more generalised discussion, perhaps?
Your output is so vast that it’s quite possible that you have already done this and I have missed it? Much as I’d love to see all of your videos, I cannot fit them is with everything else I’m trying to keep up with right now. But if you have already discussed tactical voting, perhaps you could direct me to that video?
Edit: I should add that the tactical voting website also gives helpful information on the local issues in your area, the voting records of the candidates and any public record titbits about their speeches, or other relevant facts about these candidates, that a voter may feel it is important to know.
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Shawn William : That’s kind of my point. I HAVE, along with MANY OTHERS, “disavowed,” The Republicans, the GOP and ESPECIALLY TRUMP; making it CLEAR that I LEFT the Republicans BECAUSE of TRUMP. THAT is WHY I IMPLORE YOU: Do not confuse people with Conservative politics, with these RADICALS. RATHER, you SHOULD be WELCOMING them into the fold. Our UNITY is ALL that MATTERS NOW.
Are you hearing me? WE DO DISAVOW the Republican Party, while remaining TRUE to OUR convictions. “Conservatism,” is NOT a dirty word, and you will only play into the hands of the Russians and the GOP, by encouraging division. Conservatives HAVE BEEN VOTING AGAINST TRUMP! Can you SEE THAT?
You and I are on the SAME SIDE. We have “different” politics, but we MUST UNITE, in order to SAVE THE DEMOCRACY in which people are ALLOWED to HAVE, “different politics.”
I have taken the time to TRY to get you to SEE this? We must SET ASSIDE OUR DIFFERENCES and FIGHT for our DEMOCRACY! Trump ticks ALL the boxes for a DICTATOR; delegitimisation of the opposition, of democratic votes, encouraging violence, attacking our allies and American institutions, including the Justice System and Law Enforcement, Even American BUSINESSES, NOW. I could go ON AND ON about just how DANGEROUS the GOP and this dictator ARE TO AMERICA.
I offer my hand, in UNITY, and say, “FIGHT WITH ME!” STOP looking for what makes us DIFFERENT. Conservatives are OK, But these are EXTREME RIGHT WING RADICALS, on the BRINK of dismantling the LAST, BEST HOPE of KEEPING OUR DEMOCRACY. And if America falls, the WHOLE WORLD FALLS. I do NOT exaggerate. Check out the book, I recommended: How Democracies Die. I am a political historian. I KNOW what I am talking about.
We REALLY ARE AT THAT POINT. We either SAVE Democracy, through the Mid Terms (IF Russia hasn’t ALREADY fixed those?), and through the Special Council, or we WILL LOSE IT FOR GOOD!
ARE YOU IN?
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Philip Slayton : Who’s in court? This is the Court of Public Opinion. Didn’t you know THAT? Better question would be WHY NOT take the Lie Detector Test? Why NOT let the FBI clear his name? Why NOT give her the time she needs? It’s not like it would take more than a few days? America SEES what’s happening here, and it STINKS. You realise, Prof Ford is a professional educator, right? Her statement, uninterrupted, BEFORE the, “questioning,” is going to be a ZINGER. And, the way she’s been treated, is germane, too. Everything backfires for the GOP. They NEVER LEARN. This will COST them the Mid Terms, on its OWN, even WITH Trump being hated by America! 🤣
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steve harrigan : Yet, you haven’t noticed, because you don’t read and shield yourself with Bubblry, that the economy runs itself? America has SEEN that the ONLY times the economy gets unstable, is when Trump, “does,” something to it. ANY POTUS would do a better job. But, if you don’t like CNN’s, “doom and gloom,” you could just STFU and go back to Fox and RT? Oh, wait? Then you wouldn’t get PAID, would you, traitor? . . . Smh
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How are your ratings, Alex Q Jones? : You don’t know about the pending Bill, then? Why am I not surprised, Trump Tramp? Look it up? You’ll get NO social media, including this one, unless you fill in ALL the fields, giving ALL your personal details, which goes automatically to the GOVERNMENT, idiot. Your VPN won’t hide you, and we’ll ALL get to see what, “shithole country,” you’re REALLY from. And, the State will know WHO you are, WHERE you are, WHAT you’re saying and WHEN you said it. You’ll either have to clean up your act, or go DARK? Trump isn’t just going to f**k over, “the left,” sonny. He’s coming for ALL of us, and you’re just a speck of collateral damage that cheered him on his way, “F**king MORON!” 🙂
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Sharlene Lakhan : I never said the economy, “only helps the rich.” My point is that it’s only working for the rich. I’m pretty comfortable, but it bothers me a lot. When you have more people working multiple jobs, it skews the stats, making it look like unemployment is getting better, when it’s not. NO ONE, “wants,” to work three jobs. People want to have a career, and do something they enjoy, believe in, and make a difference. One thing is certain though. Since the crash of ‘08, government and financial institutions had to make deals, to stabilise and recover the situation. The upside was that it worked. The downside was that it gave those institutions MORE power and autonomy, just at the point when they needed LESS. Which left us all with that bitter taste in our mouths? But, to the point. Trump has proven one thing: the economy runs itself, for good or ill, and works best when government backs off. Each time Trump, “DOES something,” to it, we’ve had one of those moments of Drama, with stock plunges, farmers on welfare, and investors wishing we didn’t have a d*ck for a POTUS. The people are catching on to that . . .
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Sharlene Lakhan : True. Speaking as a Conservative, I cringe when Trump Trolls try to take away the credit for that, from Obama. But, he had to give those money men (and they are mostly men) a LOT of power, and cut so many complex deals, that we saw very few of the chief engineers of our financial ruin, pay any price for it. That’s the, “bitter taste,” I was referring to. He saved the economy, but at what cost? Now, the banks, Wall Street, etc, runs our affairs, without checks and balances, and we see it lose its balance, each and every time Trump has stuck his stupid, greedy, ignorant snout into the trough. That’s what we’re left with, now. A two tier system, with the economy and finance, having shut out the government, except for occasional measures, for show, to reassure us little people that the fantasy of a government that actually runs our financial future, is safe. Trump is clearly out of that loop, as the Mexico debacle demonstrated, where the GOP (financial representatives) spent years hashing out a deal, finalised it, three months ago, and didn’t even bother to TELL Trump. Or, if they did, he wasn’t listening? So, he butts in, like a simple minded horse, with his threats and loud pronouncements, only to be rebuffed by a GOP who stand to lose a LOT of investment, over deals that are already up and running. It seems, MONEY, is the only thing that will make them stand up to the Orange Orifice, and the only thing he’ll hear? Because our economy, and our government are two separate entities, now
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Now, that would have been worth paying to see. 😆 All we need from the GOP at this trial, is their ADMISSION that the basis for the Insurrection, “The Steal,” is a SEDITIOUS LIE! Any Senior GOP witness on the stand, who sold that lie, ADMITTING it is a LIE! Which ALL of them would do, if put to the question! Rather than face a BILLION DOLLAR lawsuit, Perjury and Conspiracy charges, etc. Just get THAT for America to hear, from the GOP’s mouths!
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Zack Snyder seems to be trying to become the new Leni Riefenstahl for a possible Fascist dictatorship of the near future? The more I learn about him, the more disturbed I become. And the über right wing spin he seems to want to put on everything he touches, really worries me. Compare the Rawshack of the graphic novel, Watchmen, to the one of the movie, for instance? Snyder transforms him from a twisted incel, with mommy issues and a serial killer’s psychopathy, to an unlucky hero and misunderstood, lonely avenger, in the vain of the hard boiled detective that the novel shows us he deluded himself into thinking he was, who dies for his principles. And some of the projects that Snyder has in the pipeline sound chilling to me!
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@devonlockwood1477 : trump fans have the mentality of battered housewives. They see it, but have turned denial into a lifestyle. They’re on that trump train till it crashes, which is why we have no choice but to derail it, for good. The trump’s are only a symptom of the disease (Fascism) but, we cannot properly cure that disease until we treat the symptom and get trumpism under control. Whatever we’ve done, no matter how benign, their response has always been to ramp up the stakes, off the scale. They have forced this on themselves. And, just like that battered housewife, no therapeutic intervention can help her until she is certain that her abusive spouse is gone for good, serving a life sentence, or gone the way of Geoffrey Epstein. And, when that time comes (to torture this analogy to its conclusion) it will be up to people like us, to ease that gun away from her temple and talk her back down from the brink. To convince them that there really is a life after trump. It may need to take a good kicking at the midterms before the Enabler Party gets that they have an Albatross in trump. But a felony conviction might save us all a lot of time and drama?
Sorry to go on so long, but you asked THE right question, to me at least. It’s the question we should all keep asking. The one that makes them REALLY squirm in the GOP: How can they not SEE IT? How long can they keep faking it? . . . ✌️👍
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@derekbaker3279 : An excellent answer, in grownup and thoughtful terms. A bit wasted on a pro-Putin troll, who is just as likely to be a St Petersburg chat-bot as a paid human, but nonetheless most comprehensive.
If you ask me, we waste our time even questioning what goes on in Putin’s head, in the same way we waste precious time when we question the thought processes of a home invader or member of the mafia. Their actions are eminently predictable, and people have been frustrated that politicians have wasted so much time and resources on Putin when the average layperson has predicted his every next move better than them, for the last 20 years!
The FACT is that it is well within NATO’s gift to offer Ukraine a swift and TOTAL victory. All they need do is STOP signalling to Putin that he could fight this war to a draw, by constantly talking about Ukraine’s, “defence,” whilst giving them JUST enough hardware to prevent further incursions.
They need only send an unambiguous message: “Ukraine WILL WIN A TOTAL VICTORY, and NATO will see to it,” whilst sending the jets and naval forces they need.
I guarantee that Putin will create his own off-ramps at home. He will make every blood curdling threat imaginable, but he will quietly withdraw from the region, once he KNOWS there’s no hope. NATO keeps giving him hope, by not making it clear he will not win!
It is up to us to write to our NATO representatives to demand these things. The financial costs will be poultry compared to the blood and treasure we would save from a protracted, never ending war in Ukraine. And the prosperity potential for a peacetime Ukraine are immense!
Anyone who tells you that writing to your representatives is a waste of time is badly deceived. Ukraine has earned their TOTAL VICTORY. Let us give it to them!
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Last year I said, with nothing left to play for, the only way Putin will be able to assist trump, with his Make America Divided Again campaign (remember, that is how trump got his power in 2016) will be through two prongs of propaganda. And it’s SO predictable, because trump’s Qult of Karens eat up every WORD of it, so long as it comes from Russia and is processed by F*x, Newsmax, or Alex Jones. 1) Anti-Vaxing. &, 2) Racial Division. They can’t get any real traction with BLM propaganda, because no one buys it. A respectable protest group, that polices its own protests; is a registered charity, and has a New York City Square named after them? Yeah, right. So, now it’s, “Chiynah,” and Anti-Asia more generally. So long as it’s hate based, it works for the Qult
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It seems right to me that America would take steps to stop Communist China from planting kernel level spyware into everyone’s tech, from small children to government officials, between which there is little difference when it comes to awareness of security issues or moral behaviour.
But, you’re right. It all should be governed from a hub of fundamental laws, internationally agreed where possible in the free world, but nevertheless reflecting each other in democratic countries; which establish basic rights, not to be spied on; to have full disclosure about how your data is used, what data is accessed and a clear point beyond which private companies and government apps cannot pass.
There need to be clear consequences for violating those laws, with categories delineating seriousness and whether they are misdemeanours or felonies. Unlike the laws which make suing a company for culpable negligence that results in someone’s death or other tragedy, these laws should make company CEO’s directly and personally responsible for any and all violations, unless they can be directly attributed to specific individuals who acted without their knowledge for their own ends, so that there is NEVER a situation where no individual can be held to account.
This would result in only the most honest and decent people taking up these positions in the first place, willing to take responsibility and knowledgeable enough about their own company that they are able to.
But, to really make this work, and to find the political will, two things would have to happen that probably never will. Not unless there was a giant incident that captured the world’s imagination. Firstly, the monopolies of Twitter, Google, Apple, etc, need to be broken down into smaller, more manageable companies without so much power. Secondly, it would need to become an election issue.
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Toukoha : Thought provoking comment. Perhaps we need a Media Awareness course, throughout our Education Curriculum, from early youth, to leaving age? So, as to better prepare our next generations in critical thinking, healthy skepticism, analysis, cross referencing, discernment, etc? . . . How many influential entities would block such a thing, through lobbying, I wonder?
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@TFx2TV : The rest of your diatribe seems to be based upon this misapprehension you have about basic grammar and diction, kiddo. So, go ahead and call me a, “grammar Nazi,” if you like, but when you’re discussing the wrong topic, simply because you don’t understand basic terms, you will remain at a permanent disadvantage. That’s not my fault, but maybe you should get your nose out of the gutter and look up.
And don’t accuse me of failing to answer your questions, when you literally asked NONE. I asked several, none of which you answered, which is is why I am terminating this discussion. As you are simply, “quarrelling,” without argument, making personal attacks, without qualification, and incapable of command of the topic, because you don’t understand how words work.
Have nice day. But, charge me rent if you’re going to let me live in your head, son? Bye now . . .
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poopypants terevanakere : Well, it WOULD be the USUAL playbook from Russia? Start by playing BOTH sides, so as to establish “contacts” in the opposition and INFILTRATE. That IS what they DO. And, of course, it provides Putin’s bitches the ability to use that activity as “cover” like YOU are doing? Right now. You think half of AMERICA doesn’t KNOW about Russian “trade-craft”? You think, because they organised ONE “rally” for their opposition, that puts them in the “clear”? NOBODY is THAT stupid, son??? Except, Russian operatives, of course? Just LOOK at the MOUNTING trail of Russian ERRORS and BLUNDERS in this tale? The FBI was LISTENING to Russian SPIES, talking about HOW DUMB Trump is, and what a “useful idiot” they found him to be, and what a “greedy cretin” Carter Page, is! And one of THOSE three Pleaded GUILTY to SPYING and went to JAIL, while the other two SPIES fled back to Moscow! But, OH NO . . . “Nothing to see, here.” Are you ACTUALLY MAD? WHO are you trying to KID, other than your OWN “colleagues”? Your Trollery is UTTERLY POINTLESS! NO ONE BELIEVES YOU! 🤣 😂 🤪
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It has ceased to surprise me that people like Truss can be so mendacious, selfish and wilfully destructive of the very institutions upon which we rely for our democratic process. Is she so clinically thick that she cannot see what her casual abuse does to the country? Is she so deranged that she, “believes,” her own fantasies?
Imagine you’re watching the Wimbledon Tennis finals and, by some strange quirk of fate, the star British player pulls out of the match and is replaced by a random person in the audience. And when that random person is soundly thrashed, as all expected, in a humiliating defeat that the entire world watched on live services, she does not accept the reality that everyone else witnessed, but blames the umpire, the ball boys and ball girls, her coach, and her opponent’s trainers, of all conspiring against her in a conspiracy she dubbed, “the deep state.” These last years have been like that.
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Erik Runnel : It’s already RIGGED and they’re worried that the numbers won’t match their hacked election computers. Do you remember the Russian Hack of Florida’s election computers? It got big coverage at the time, and even the GOP admitted it was the Russians. Then Trump adopted Florida as his home and launched his, “campaign,” from there, within weeks. Remember? It went dark, because they threatened every politician with Anti-Terror laws, and instant jail, if they talked to the press about it. Remember? And, now? Donny says, “voter fraud,” everywhere EXCEPT FLORIDA!? “Don’t look at Florida.” And you aren’t ALARMED??? Do you people WANT a Dictatorship?
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@polymathictalk3076 : You cannot, “talk,” to a guy who is literally holding a gun to your head!? He has to take his finger off the trigger FIRST! All bets are off now! How can we claim to be SANE and start talking about whether Ukraine, “might,” possibly, “one day,” join the EU or the UN, let alone if new borders should be drawn up, while Putin is literally threatening to ANNIHILATE EARTH??? Right now, that’s a SLIGHTLY more pressing issue! And if we start negotiating while Putin takes the world hostage, for anything other than him dropping his gun, we would remain hostages forever! He’s NOT the Bond villain he thinks he is! He’s a brittle, small, mad man, who needs to be restrained. We can, “talk,” from an equal position, when he’s not making war! That’s up to him.
Do you let a toddler blackmail you for candy, by throwing a hissy fit at the checkout, or do you do the kid and everyone else a favour by sticking to NO for an answer? Putin needs an old fashioned SLAP, but I’d settle for a padded cell. We can only, “negotiate,” with SANE people who aren’t threatening a murder-suicide if they don’t get what they want! Are you quite sane?
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@ixiahj : Now, that’s something our society could use more of. A cultural respect for elders. Not for nothing did history’s most successful societies venerate their elders, take care of them in their dotage and listen to them for their wisdom and experience. Plato even said that men should not marry they are 50 and that they should be prohibited from politics until that age too. But Plato was a bit of a fascist by today’s standards, so he’s probably not the best example? But, he is one of the few who took the time to articulate the benefits of ageing, and what everyone took for granted back in the day: that your elders knew what was what, had been there, done that and their experience was invaluable. So they respected them. The idea of Senior Homes is a very new one, historically speaking barely a blip on the measure of time. And I believe it has come at a brutal cost to the west. It has institutionalised a level of selfishness, unthinkable to our forebears, who didn’t simply see Grammy as a burden and responsibility, but as a treasured part of the family, enhancing its growth and value. At least in your society, the tide raises all boats together. The west can afford to be this heartless, and to spend its resources on making Senior Homes seem a lot more, “glamorous,” and less self obsessed than they really are. To the point that the economic model that has arisen around the idea, so quickly took over. Now, people have too many responsibilities and their own jobs, to be able to take care of their elders, at the first sign of disease or extra care needed. And of course, Grammy did it to his or her parents, so they expect as much from their own offspring. I think it was another mistake of western society, driven by narcissism and selfishness. But that’s just me. Most would disagree.
I wish you all the good things in in life. You have my respect and admiration for that much of your culture. I don’t know much about the Philippines per se, save for the fact that Sylvester Stallone filmed one of his better Rambo movies near your neck of the woods, and that the west is fond of, “importing,” women from your country, for household labor and internet brides. I’m getting sad just thinking of it. But, I bet there is much beauty and wonder there too? Apologies for prattling on, but I’d love to hear your thoughts? ✌️
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MiNeR : Earnie Sad isn’t interested in Yang, evidence, discussion, debate, etc. He Trolls for Trump, and is one of the singularly most emotionally vulnerable Trump Trolls on YouTube. Remember, it’s not the job of a Trump Troll to win a debate, or convince you of anything. They know they can’t do that, being wrong about everything as they are. So, their, “strategy,” is to sew DIVISION: the life blood of Trump; the thing that got him into power and has maintained his base. Earnie is a CLASSIC example, trying to talk down to people, in that preemptive, defensive child, insecure way, while positing his, “argument.” And, when you CRUSH his talking points, he descends into name calling. ALWAYS wearing his hypocrisy and, “oppositesville,” idiocy on his sleeve. Just look at how he screams at me, that I can’t, “get to him,” whilst SHOWING just how much I got to him? It’s all effeminate emotions with that guy 😁👍
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Earnest Lee Sad👈😡❄️😭: I honestly don’t get what it is about me that brings out your effeminate, passive aggression and impotent rage, but Trump Trolls are just like that, I guess? But, you’re not the first to suffer at my hands, nor will you be the last, sonny. Out of curiosity, though? 🤔 Do YOU, “know,” WHY you’re SO Clinically Butt Hurt at this point? Are there ACTUAL tears in your eyes, right now? 🤣
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Earnest Leek👈😡❄️🤤: People can read, son. You’re obsessed with me, like a stalker. Flattering, NOT, given your utter lack of significance. People will SEE that YOU, “deviated,” off topic, if ANYONE bothers to read this, which I doubt. I get it, kid. You wish you were happy and handsome, like me. You wish you had my wit, and style. You hate the clever way that I got inside your head, and you just can’t let go. You tell yourself that you, “need to score a hit,” to somehow, “hurt,” my feelings. But, deep down, you want to BE ME. 😌 Your mistake was to let it be, “personal,” to you in the first place. The Art of NEVER losing is DON’T PLAY. You can’t reach me, because I’m NOT THERE, son. I never let you in, so you can’t find my buttons. But, do you want to, “know,” how I KNOW I have my fingers on YOUR buttons, right now? At this very moment? . . . Do you? “Yes, I SO desperately do, Ash!” Glad you asked, Earnie. The way I know that I OWN you, is because you hang on my every word, like the insecure little Trump Tramp, you are. You probably feel, kinda’ dumb, reading all the way down to here, now? But, LOOK! You STILL can’t help yourself! 😁 So, when you switch, to putting my name at the end of your comments, so you can say I read your whole response, just KNOW, that I only ever read the top two lines of your comments. Now, squirm in your own juices of impotent rage, son. “We suck upon your pain and find it sweet.” 😊
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If they are subpoenaed as witnesses, they cannot serve on the jury! They need to get Hawley, Cruz and Lindsay Graham on the stand, to testify, under oath, as to WHY they, “believe,” in the, “steal,” or admit they always knew it was a LIE, and they, “were only following orders,” like Fascists always do!
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Isn’t it obvious to everyone, what actually happened? . . . “Brexit changed left wing voting habits,” for the simple reason that the general public were more worried about the possibility of a government overturning a democratic referendum and the UK no longer being a democracy, than they were about which party was in power. The Tories were promising to honour the Brexit vote, and that won them the election.
The fact that we did not get the Brexit that was advertised came as a surprise to precisely no one, except for those right wing voters who were naive enough to actually believe in people like Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson.
I, and many people I know, voted Tory at the last general election, not for any ideological reasons. I simply believed that overturning a national referendum was such an egregious mistake that we would no longer even be a democracy anymore and we could easily wind up with governments that refuse to accept election defeats, as we later saw the Republicans attempt in America.
What we actually DO about this seems pretty obvious to me too. We simply have to seek terms with Europe that closely align us on trade, human rights, strategic military goals and justice, without surrendering our sovereignty and without sacrificing our right to make policies on a case by case basis, when it comes to new crises affecting the world.
And that’s something that the Tories have been fighting against since Margaret Thatcher. So, we have no alternative but to change government, if for no other reason than getting friendly faces into power that the Europeans will find acceptable, in order that we can iron out new deals without the baggage of the Euro-Skeptic politicians round our necks.
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Elaine Johnson : It’s interesting that right across Europe right now, the next headline, right after the main story in each respective country, is the news that, “America’s Death Toll Surpasses that of Vietnam!” Most developed countries are saying, “Well, at least we’re doing way better than the richest, most powerful country, with the, ‘best healthcare system in the world,’ right now.” America PLC must make money. And, that’s Trump’s bottom line . . . Smh
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I imagine you will ignore, or delete this, but whatever . . . This sheriff, “claims,” there have been, “no home invasions since his press conference,” but I would say; we need independent statistics to verify that. A Florida sheriff is an elected official in an affluent community, with a great deal of power. I don’t doubt he is making logical sense. But he needs votes to get his job and to keep his job. He is a politician. And anyone who advocates for believing the unverified claims of a politician really doesn’t get it.
Since when were laws, requiring people to show evidence of their identity, their home address and that they have no history of violent crimes, in any way, “anti 2nd Amendment”??? How did this discussion take that right turn in the middle of the road?
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This analysis was SO spot on, it’s impossible to add anything but the details. But, who wants to talk about Manchin enjoying his nights in the Lincoln Suit at the White House, his lobby donors ensuring he flies first class everywhere, and all that sweet sweet press attention he’s soaking up, knowing it will never happen again in his life, unless it’s for some crime he gets busted for? We just need to win more seats at the midterms, and make this fool irrelevant enough to declare himself actually in the GOP, so we can all say, “Yeah, we know. And we don’t care!” ✌️👍
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appie mohamud : The way it looked to me was that they did a very patient job of de-escalating and took forever! Most of us don’t have that much patience. I’ve seen a thousand videos where it all goes pair shaped at that crucial moment, when they try to put the cuffs on the perp, and he he resists. Someone’s going to make themselve’s a fortune when they invent a pair of handcuffs or clever restraints that go on, really easily, and self adjust to a fixed point, each time the perp slackens their resistance. It’s so hard to get them on, and that’s the moment that the perp knows it’s make or break. But, pulling out that gun was that cops biggest mistake, and it looks like his record shows he (Maybe) doesn’t learn from his mistakes? But, maybe he feels just as terrible about it as anyone? But, what did his colleague do, that he should get desk duty?
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@marcjacobs5988 : I don’t accept your thesis. You put nothing down but the, “allegation,” without anything to back it up. No evidence, no inference, no history, no, “argument.” Just one statement about your conclusion, which you say in as many ways as you can think of, without saying more. So, you made your point, kid. Why are you still making it? 🤷♂️
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What an impotently raging, narcissistic, self serving, hate filled, utterly tone deaf, ranting scream of pain that resignation TOME is! If he had simply APOLOGISED for being such a selfish, entitled SOB, REPEATEDLY, and then LITERALLY LAUGHING IN OUR FACES about it? . . . That will not have even occurred to him! My dad died in pain and alone of Covid, while I obeyed ALL of the rules. F*ck Boris Johnson. He’s a dangerous, looting, carpet-bagging baby!
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Urraca de Chiflo : In fact, studies show that people tend to become more, “conservative,” as they age (with a small, “c”), but ANYONE, with even a middling education tends to RECOIL from RACISM. It’s also true that the Republican Party REALLY HAS LOST 25% of its membership, since Trump came into power. This has created the, “illusion,” of Trump’s growing popularity, within his party, as the moderates flee, siting, “RACISM and LIES,” as their main objections. This is Public Domain Knowledge. Check, for your self? The hard core racists are a REAL ISSUE in America, and Trump has ripped off the dressing, to reveal America’s festering WOUND, so INFECTED that it threatens to KILL the host. If the Mid Terms are NOT FIXED (and that’s a BIG, “IF”), then I am confident the VAST majority of Americans will take back America, from the Extremist RepubliKKKans. But, then we are left STILL having to treat the critically ill host, which will need to be stabilised and INOCULATED with EDUCATION: The ONLY, KNOWN CURE for RACISM. The patient will have to be monitored for a generation and kept in INTENSIVE CARE
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Wasteland nomad : REALLY? You say that out loud, as it were, and CANNOT SEE the flaw in your own question??? A] When a judge DEMONSTRATES that he does not know the law, we should all be concerned and probably should review his judgements, to see just how often he has applied his unreasoned thinking to cases. B] His desire to imprison people MUST influence his POLITICS. Remember, these protestors NEVER “disrespected the flag” as that view is just a false interpretation, put on their actions, by people who got us all talking about THAT, instead of what they are protesting. C] This piece is about the fact that this judge intends to become a Senator. Now, remind me? How is “POLICY” made in America, again? The VERY FACT that a man who has such CONTEMPT for the rule of law is a judge, is one thing. But, that he could be a serious contender for a position as a LAW MAKER, would ONCE have been enough to cause public outcry! The Founding Fathers would be disgusted by this state of affairs.
Get it NOW?
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DatDamMexican : Given Trump actively tells his rallies to, “beat the crap out of,” protestors, offers to pay their court costs (he won’t) tells the police to beat suspects, tells the world he’d like to punch sports coaches and so many others, during addresses, whilst saving his, “fine people,” comments for the Nazis; all whilst torturing CHILDREN to DEATH in his Concentration Camps; are we genuinely, “meant,” to be, “surprised,” when Trump Fan, “heroes,” take to the streets to gun down defenceless women and children?
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chip And dale : You, “debate,” like a 9 year old, son. Stop putting words into your opponents mouths, and leave that tactic to the NRA. You just can’t get around the FACT that fewer guns lead to FEWER gun deaths. NO ONE wants to take your guns away, son. NO ONE. “Controls,” would help to prevent days like this. I am a gun owner. Just admit that you LIKE your guns, and don’t WANT to have to pay for the idiocy of others? Because that’s the ONLY REAL, “argument,” you have. But, it WOULD be more than enough, if you stopped getting so hysterical, every time the subject comes up. You’ll end up being totally disarmed, and it will be your own stupid fault . . . Smh
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It’s literally true (if we take out the paid, foreign trolls and the algorithm-bots?) but he left out the science. The physical addiction is from the endorphins; chemicals released by the brain, that are literally addictive, in the way that computer games, pornography and hard substances are. And, like most passive addictions, they take a deeper root into the psyche. I’ve seen interviews with trump fans, who said they just followed his tours, living like gypsies, camping out, moving from city to city, just to see another MAGA concert with trump heading the bill. They caught that infection from the world wide web . . .
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@peterc.1419 : Was that meant to be ironical? The one spectre that Putin has held over his people; the one reason they’ve tolerated dictatorship since the 90’s has been, “Well, at least it’s not like the bad old days where we had to inform on our neighbours, pretend to love Communism (or even understand it) cue for a loaf of bread all day and get locked up if we complained to loud about it.” Now, that’s EXACTLY what they’re getting. And when it matters most. A rich reward for turning a blind eye and not caring enough to fight for a real democracy after getting SO CLOSE they could taste it!
The one thing they were willing to trade has been taken off the board. Now they have to decide if they’re fine with poverty and the bad old days, with cops doing spot checks on people’s phones to see who they’re talking to, what they’re saying and what a-ps they’re using. Now they’re watching all their favourite apps, news stations, radio and TV just up and vanish in front of their miserable eyes, and they can’t even eat their comfort food because MacDonalds and a bunch of other franchises have packed up and hauled ass. It will be WORSE than the bad old days, because they’ve all gotten used to semi-free information, conveniences, entertainment and money. Now the difference between a Ruble and a dollar is about ONE DOLLAR they’re looking at the genuine possibility of STARVATION.
Just WHO is missing those good ole’ days? I’d love to talk to THAT guy? 😂
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@roems6396 : I never suggested they will say anything about Putin’s future employment prospects out loud? Like I said, they all know how this works. Putin is fighting for his own life now. If he can’t win, or if the cost of victory is too high, the point will be moot, because they’ll remove Putin before negotiations start. If he has to negotiate a partial withdrawal, just to get the lights back on, the west cannot afford to let go of his testicles and they won’t. So sanctions will increase day by day. Maybe the demoralised army loses too many leaders and starts back for Moscow with a score to settle? Maybe Putin gasses entire cities before he admits defeat? It could go a lot of ways yet. But this story’s final chapter ends with Putin losing his job. Whether that is to go into comfortable retirement, assassination or turned over to The Hague to face war crimes? . . . Anyone’s guess at this point. All I know for sure? Putin’s already wishing he never believed in his own bullsh*t quite so enthusiastically. I wasn’t attacking you, sir. Just giving my unsolicited, hard bitten, ten cent’s worth, like everyone else on YouTube. But the pain Putin is experiencing right now . . . That, for me, is glad tidings of of comfort and joy. The mad man with the nukes is going to be gone by this time next year. 😉
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@peterc.1419 : But you’re talking more about state sponsored Russian TV which is hardly reflective of Russian reality. I have watched a show on YouTube where a guy just puts these questions to random people in the street. He’s been doing this Vox Pop Journalism for years, so there’s quite a collection across a broad cross section of issues. It’s right up to date. The younger people are (generally speaking) the less support they have for Putin’s war and the more likely they seem to think it is that he’s approaching the end of his career. The older people are (again, generally) the more inclined they are to refuse to speak at all, but the ones that do are likely to repeat Putin propaganda like Soviet parrots. There’s also a clear correlation between informed and not so informed. No one misses communism though, old or young. The ideology is a falsehood in their eyes.
These narratives that you say people in Russia believe, are actually somewhat recherché for most, who will not have heard of what people think about Second World War narratives.
Naturally Putin is stirring up hatred for Poland, because they’re assisting the west and Ukraine. But, the fact that people play along with Putin doesn’t mean they’re buying what he’s selling. Sometimes it’s just easier to nod, accept the, “gift,” and put it on a shelf and forget it, rather than to have to explain why you don’t need it.
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bart probst : Who was debating about CNN? It’s a NEWS channel, son! NOT my, “mom,” or something, FFS? If you don’t, “believe,” them, WHY, oh WHY, do you LIVE HERE? ON CNN? See, the perennial problem of the Troll is that they have NO, “credibility,” when they’re criticising the channel that they get ALL their NEWS from, kiddo. Grow up . . . 😁
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Cthulhu Christ : So, you don’t trust your doctor, and therefore conclude that Wikipedia is a greater authority on medical health issues? You never learned, “critical thinking,” skills, did you. I give you credit, for going away and REALLY working HARD at scrambling for a comeback. But, it’s lame, because we all KNOW you’ll do EXACTLY what your doctor tells you, when you’re REALLY ill, and you won’t throw a bunch of half baked, irrelevant, conspiracies at him / her, and start ‘splainin’ why they’re, “wrong,” and you’d prefer Wiki-Health care. The fact that you can find corruption in ANY profession, doesn’t discredit the WHOLE profession, son. Especially when it’s the Tobacco Companies, and, or other Lobby Groups that caused the problems you referenced; about which you actually, “know,” NOTHING, except for what you just pulled from ONE PAGE, off of . . . Lemme’ guess? 🤔 . . . “Wikipedia,” by any chance? 🤣
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hopndon : Your last comment was a gem, which I hope everyone looks at. The, “genius,” who opens with an insult, and then expects that I would EVEN READ the rest of his outburst, genuinely IS PROJECTING his, “special kind of,” STUPID. But, you know what’s even MORE ironic than that? Pay close attention to this, son. I’m giving you a pearl of wisdom, here. The best bit, is that, despite my telling you this, YOU have read my comment, all the way down to here . . . DIMBASS 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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Do they not SEE the ticking time bomb that MTG is? . . . She carries a GUN, for crying out loud! . . . And they’re cancelling Cheney for being truthful? . . . MTG will wind up suing the GOP, and she’ll have a good case. Her boss has a Duty Of Care. Seriously! If someone was stalking a colleague like she stalks AOC, in a Factory, Hospital or Office setting, MTG would have already been suspended and be looking a criminal proceedings, or hospitalisation for serious psychological issues! And, if it ends up with a suspension or something, her supervisor will be the one that BOTH sides will be attacking. She clearly IS, “unwell,” and a danger to her own people as well as others in that workplace! Any tribunal would put the blame squarely where it lies: on her supervisor’s, Kevin McCarthy’s, shoulders. Does he not realise this?
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lawrence shadow : I, “know,” because all Trump Trolls are, son. Watching you all, cue around the block, so that you all, one at a time, shout through Don Lemon’s letter box, that you, “Don’t Care what you say, Don!” is like watching one the world’s largest passive aggressive support groups lose it’s shit. It’s genuinely Hillary-ous! You ALL have so MUCH time and energy to waste, screaming, effeminately at CNN, whilst saying you never watch it. I recognise names that are three YEARS old, son! The GIBBERING Classes, is how we think of you Trump Tramps 🤣
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G W Ward : Trump confessed on Access Hollywood, remember? Grabbing women “by the pussy” is a sexual assault, remember? Many came forward to accuse him, court cases are ongoing AND pending, remember? His personal attacks on the way women look, (Mika, and that comedienne who did a great impression of him, can’t remember her name?), for having periods (that campaign interview with Megan Kelly, during which he also attacked that comedienne again) and for coming forward, threatening to sue them, when they told us about his sexual assaults. You HONESTLY forgot all of THAT? Don’t have Trump’s “best memory in the world” then? ;-)
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Donald Magill : I just can’t get behind people who turn a blind eye, change the narrative, twist the facts and CONSTANTLY excuse the appalling hypocrisy and hatred, bigotry and sexual menacing of this sick puppy POTUS. That’s one thing. But, when the SAME people get all “indignant” at the slightest attack on someone that THEY like, using the SAME complaints that are CONSTANTLY, and quite justifiably, levelled against THEM, it turns my stomach. And I imagine the majority of of the people can see what’s happening. Indeed, I imagine that the majority of those who support Trump and “news”, or opinion pieces like these, REALLY know, in their hearts, that they are being hypocrites. This too, sickens and depresses me as to the state of the human condition in the 21’st century. When I was a kid, I believed that we would grow more enlightened, as history implied we would. Now I am a political historian, and I know that history is a rollercoaster, and we happen to be at one of our lows. What we haven’t accepted, is that we REALLY ARE further down a road more reminiscent of 1930’s Germany than we care to admit to ourselves. But, THAT’S how it happened in 1930’s Germany: people in denial and the slavering, mindless haters being elevated to positions of control. And if you want evidence for this, just LOOK at the UTTER hypocrisy of this op-ed, and ask yourself, was there EVER a time, before this, when such BLATANT hypocrisy would have even been taken seriously?
I wish nothing but peace and happiness to you and yours. But PLEASE, do not speak to me of religious persecution, when we have a government bent upon EXACTLY THAT, lead by a sexual deviant with the IQ and morality of a rat
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Donald Magill : It may have SEEMED that this was the choice, depending upon who’s “word” you trusted? But that REALLY wasn’t true, as I believe you are referring to the issue of Syria, there? Putin would have backed down, and the only “Fire and Fury” would have been in his words, not his deeds. Sure, we would still be dealing with difficult issues there, probably to this day. But, Putin would not DARE go full out into a war with the USA, DESPITE Fox’s hysteria. Scare tactics for the election was ALL that was. Instead, Trump has given the entire country to Russia, save for a small patch in the south west region, and rolled over while thousands of innocents have been bombed out of existence by the Russians, who have ALSO smuggled weaponry to the enemies of America which have been USED to KILL our military personnel. But they do their BEST to keep THAT quiet.
And we WOULDN’T be upon the BRINK of nuclear war with N Korea and the Chinese. Don’t get me wrong, here. I am GLAD HRC will never be POTUS. She is corrupt. But only in the way that MOST wealthy politicians are. Trump is selling your country out from under you, bit by bit. You are RIGHT, that it was an AWFUL choice, and we can only hope and PRAY that BOTH parties re-evaluate their moral compasses. But America (and I speak as a LOYAL Republican) made the WRONG choice, this time. And even if he were to vanish in a puff of smoke, with all his minions, today, we will be YEARS cleaning up his MESS. But, each day that passes, plays further RIGHT INTO PUTIN’S corrupted little hands, and Trump is just too vain and STUPID to do ANYTHING to help, even if he wanted to.
We are ALL responsible for OUR democracy, so, it’s no good shrugging and saying, “Well, what can you do?” You can DO a LOT
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Donald Magill : I am not going to debate with you on issues of personal grief. And I cannot imagine what kind of yard stick you can use to debate who is “more corrupt”? Kind of a schoolyard argument? But the URANIUM story??? You too? So, DEBUNKED, as you will discover for yourself, slowly, when you see that NOTHING will come of it, and you will look back and see that a desperate administration screamed “DISTRACTION!” at the top of their lungs and you ALL fell for it. But YOU sounded “smarter” than THAT??? The uranium CAN’T leave the country and hasn’t, without THIS Government’s approval. It was a deal on which HRC was on the periphery of. Get the FACTS. But, let’s say, for the sake of “argument” that ALL of that conspiracy nut-job theory stuff WERE true? SO WHAT??? How does THAT alter a SINGLE THING about Russia’s collusion with Trump? Even IF HRC were guilty as hell, she only got “money” for introducing a few people to each other? Do you have ANY IDEA how LAME screaming, “uranium” sounds to MOST of the members of the Republican Party? They HATE it, which is WHY so few even mention it. Because they KNOW it is NOT true (not the Alt-Wrong version, at any rate) and it is making them LOOK shifty and STUPID.
But NONE of that changes the fact that Trump is selling us out. He gives Putin what he wants at every turn and the Republican Party is going to spend a GENERATION in the wilderness, if we don’t get REAL about this Russia Scandal. It WON’T go away, because of distractions? You don’t get caught for a bank robbery and say, “well I know another gang that got away with a crime,” to the Judge? THAT won’t change your responsibility or your sentence! WAKE UP! Whether you CHOOSE to “swallow” your “yellow cake” and THINK you can eat it too, or NOT. Trump is STILL a GANGSTER, at BEST! And looks more like a TRAITOR. Are you REALLY American? Do you CARE???
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I would call for single standard of vetting that covers all vocational professions where public trust is an issue? Covering the medical, caring professions, armed services and police services. A benchmark standard that is comprehensive, easy to understand because it’s built on common sense and basic moral principles, and that applies equally to all? Does that seem like a big ask? Because people love acronyms so much, call it Trust and Universal Standards (STU) or something? All professionals have to get their STU Card, before going into policing, nursing, the army, etc? With a points system that could apply, like those on driver’s licences? Too many points and you can no longer serve in trusted professions? But with some categories able to expire over a period of years, so you can reapply and be vetted again, but with other categories staying on your card permanently?
Of course MP’s and senior civil servants wouldn’t be keen on having it apply to them, but they might get on board if it didn’t?
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TunedCavityLasers : Yeeeah . . . Yet you LIVE here? You’re not even convincing yourself, kiddo. It’s not the talking points. It’s the coordination of the LIES. Total giveaway. You all shout, “Baby killer,” or, “AOC expensive apartment,” or whatever it was, AT THE SAME TIME, when it has NOTHING to do with ANYTHING. Sheeple, being told what to think and what to say. Think we don’t NOTICE, son? Guess you still wonder HOW the Blue Wave HAPPENED, right? . . . YOU did that 😁
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TunedCavityLasers : Look at your first comment, son? And, each one since? You bemoan others having nothing to, “say,” to you, while you, “say,” absolutely NOTHING. And, you literally whine about getting treated the same way you treat them? You feel stuck. You, “feel,” in over your head, seeing Yellow Dog is smarter, funnier and more honest than you, and your insecurity has chained you to this thread. You’re only showing us that each, “barb,” really does get to you. Yet, you bring it on yourself, by being such a d**k, just like Trump; you don’t KNOW when to STFU. And, you Trolls wonder WHY the Blue Wave? Poor kid, boasting about things that are exaggerated at best, probably made up, and about which NO ONE cares, son. Know when you’re beaten and learn to (Hashtag) RunAway 😁
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yellow dog : I genuinely think Cavity-brain feels like he bit off more than he can chew, and doesn’t know how to back down? He wishes he could save face and run away. Just look at his very first comment? Just a pointless, meaningless attack, with nothing to say at all. And, then he’s surprised when people hand him some change back, from his own currency? Arrogant and not very bright. And, that puts him in category 3 of the average Trump Troll, right? 1) Paid Shills (mostly foreign), 2) Racists, who salute the Civil War Rebel Flag (it’s always a clue, as to their, “love of country,” when your enemy doesn’t even have the same FLAG as you, right?); and then, this guy: Just too embarrassed and ashamed to admit how wrong he was about the Trumpster. Probably said and done things that (“he feels like”) he can’t take back. So, he Trolls with the same, “goal,” they all have. NOT to, “win,” any, “arguments.” They KNOW that’s impossible. But, to use multiple accounts to try to convince us that there’s more of them than there are, and that it’s, “hopeless.” Their, “Job,” is to spread despair and apathy. Seen through the lense of those 3 Categories, everything they say makes perfect sense . . . Even when it makes no sense at all. Loved your comments, btw. You’re pretty funny, when you wanna’ be 😁 ✌️ 👍
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TunedCavityLasers : Love to see you clinging so desperately, to self-comfort. If you, “believed,” Trump was, “safe,” you would not be here. You’re not even convincing yourself, son. Really. You expose your own fears, by prating so obviously. You know she didn’t say that, and you know, it won’t be up to her. Here’s my prediction, kid: Trump will go down like Julius Caesar; stabbed to death by his own, bought and paid for, GOP Senators. When that happens, you’ll think of me . . . 🤪
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TunedCavityLasers : More emoting, I see. I really got to you on some level, didn’t I? Conservatives HATE Trump as much as Liberals. You know this. Calm down, son? I’ll debate you, if you DARE? Try defending Trump, without a, “Whaddabout,” if you can? Bet you never dared to look at the court records for the Trump Foundation from last month, did you? No, “News,” outlet required. It’s public record, son
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TunedCavityLasers : So . . .No, then. You didn’t have the courage to look at the court records. Fine. You can lead a horse to water, but a Trump Troll will repetitiously beat a dead one. Speaking of which, you’re simply repeating yourself, over and anon, so you never actually HAD any, “argument,” to begin with. Pelosi tries to damp down Impeachment talk, a bit, and you cling to that, like it’s your lifeline? Well, if that gets you through the night, son? . . . I promise you, Trump WILL be impeached, AND I can prove it to you. And, it WILL be the GOP that gets him 🙂
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@imalebowski : Well, in fairness, this video and discussion is about that party, yes. But, it was a discussion about this new emerging philosophy within conservatism, coming out of America, about which I think we all need to pay a bit more attention to.
Listen carefully and he was describing National Socialism! Liz Truss’s, “think tanks,” came up, as they are diametrically opposed to the state, “taking responsibility,” for ANY economic policy and it’s her brand of conservatism, coming as it does from these masonic lodges of self enrichment, that wants to privatise EVERYTHING from the NHS to policing! Ensuring that they and their friends and family own the companies that run them, of course.
Whilst this guest was describing a state controlled economy, from day to day management to especially controlling any economic crisis that may arise. He brushed over, rather airily, the centralised, “faith,” component of their beliefs, but you can be sure that a particularly egregious distortion of, “Christianity,” lies at the heart of the Americanised far right, and the line between church and state is barely there to separate the two things at all. Unless you have any faith other than Christian, in which case their doors will be slammed pretty firmly in your face.
But, listen again if you doubt me. Everything he described in this new model is antithetical to what you and I understand to be, “conservative,” with a small or large, “c.” Not, “small government,” not, “respecting religious privacy,” not, “market lead capitalism,” but state control? . . . Without any of that pesky looking after the interests of the wider public and spending on healthcare, pensions and unemployment support, what does that leave you with? To me that looks like the very foundation stone of National Socialism, and I think we should all be very alarmed.
It would certainly explain a lot about the recent trend toward putting beige Nazis in control of the Home Office lately, as if having brown skin in any way complicates the accusation of racism. And a, “Stop The Boats,” policy which literally NO ONE asked for, except the sorts of minorities that sport Swastika tattoos or who support incel baiting videos on YouTube. I’ve seen what the right wing looks like in places like Alabama, Kentucky and Florida. My GOD we DON’T want that here!
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@hannahdyson7129 : I moved here in 2006, having duel citizenship. I come from jolly old England. And, “technically,” you might call it a Constitutional Monarchy, but it’s, “actually,” a Democracy. It has no formal, “Constitution,” either, but its Constitution is very real, standing upon Precedents, built, one upon the other, into an edifice we think of as our legal system, which goes back further than Magna Carta, evolving and developing to meet the requirements of a changing world. The UK actually has the fairest and strongest Democracy (arguably?) in the world. It has its problems with corruption and long standing traditions and institutions which protect corruption, but you would be hard pressed to find a better one on the planet. When you move around, you learn to appreciate these things. Believe me, “biglee,” when I tell you, you live in a Democracy and it happens to be true that Blighty is Best 😉
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melissa saint : I am, honestly, just as, serious. The first step to healing, is self awareness. You can’t do anything about a problem that you don’t or can’t acknowledge. And, given that therapy is an impossibility in this forum, a bit of healthy contempt, for the HATE, is what I offer. And, I am also serious that it’s CLEARLY a Trump fan, doing what evil Trolls do. I’m not sure they QUALIFY as, “people”? But, you catch me on a day, when a lot has happened, I’m rather stressed, and now I’ve just heard that Stan Lee is DEAD, to cap it all. So, I’m not at my best
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Pearl Uncle : “Q” is lying to you. Trump, “conspired,” to bring himself down, by becoming POTUS, and all the scrutiny that goes with that. Anyone who READ BOOKS already KNEW he was crooked and kept TELLING you that. So, don’t PRETEND there’s anything NEW about THAT. He’s a THICK, BUM, RACIST, who’d happily sell YOU into SLAVERY, and the HONEST ONES ALL TOLD YOU THIS, MANY YEARS AGO.
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dan houston : Conspiracy Against America, Misprision, Money Laundering, Bribery, Blackmail, Dereliction of Duty, Abuse of Public Office, Obstruction of Justice, Sexual Assault, Insider Trading, Selling State Secrets, Lying to the FBI, Perjury, False Accounting, Treason, and a Partridge in a Pear Tree. Trump is a dead man walking. And, the IRONY in all this is? . . . When Trump is finally removed, Putin will BOAST about how he pulled it off! I guess the Gravity Deniers will STILL support Trump, after THAT? The SHAME they will feel, will turn to PURE RAGE 😄
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I hope they can work this out? Iran needs to realise they can’t use trump’s egregious brinkmanship as an excuse to milk the situation to squeeze it for all it’s worth. The old tactics of seeking forgiveness after the fact, agreeing to come to the table, once they’ve got all their nuclear centrifuge - ducks in a row, just won’t work. Biden cannot be too specific, until they’ve had talks. There’s no harm in America’s outreach, but Iran must come to the table. They could get an election winning result out of this, if they’re swift?
At the very most, western sanctions can only be lifted on the condition of access for the west to check their capabilities, and an agreement that Iran comes to the table, in good faith. If they try to exploit the situation and speed up their nuclear program, and then come to the table later, America won’t sit still for that. Not after trump’s f’k up. It’s too volatile for that, now. Iran will get itself bombed or worse.
And, if they sit on their hands, or worse, try to get more of their nuclear program in place, waiting out the elections, they’ll shoot themselves in the foot. Whenever things deteriorate with the west, or when there’s sabre rattling going on, Iran ALWAYS lurches to the right, so they’ll lose power, leaving a more extreme government in charge. And, let’s face it, Iran has got some legitimate complaints. Not just trump’s mishandling either. But, Israel’s assassinations of their top nuclear scientists have been all but warlike! And trump’s sucking up to Israel’s hard right government has been blatant, to put it mildly.
Not saying I approve or disapprove, “want,” or, “don’t want,” anything here. Just that, it is what it is, and Iran needs to take a good faith step, get to the table, and get an, “Achievement,” out of this, to help themselves keep in power, before the next election in 4 months. It could be a win win? With some generosity that the current regime can play off as, “atonement,” from America? Ah, who am I kidding? They’ll make it all worse, and seek Moscow’s approval for any negotiations. And of course, Putin will say, “Niet,” to anything that helps America . . . SMH
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My guess, for some time now, has been that Russia will end up as a cross between Belarus and North Korea. It will collapse into a much smaller country, dependant as a vassal state, upon China, who will keep them poor and struggling, but strong enough to remain a thorn in the west’s flesh. At least, that seems to be what Xi has decided? Note: Chinese electronic maps (their version of Google Maps and so on) have changed the names of regions in the southern areas of the Russian, “Federation,” back to their old Mandarin designations. If that is not a statement of intent, from a nation that is just as desperate as Russia for an injection of, “population,” to curb their demographic crisis, then what is?
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@DP07cc : We’re not here to talk about, “anything other than Putin’s smash and grab armed robbery,” son. What’s your point? “You did a bad, last century, so that entitles me to be bad now”??? How does that effect the plight of innocent Ukrainians being murdered just so a small clique of Kremlin Kleptocrats can stay in control of energy reserves? Putin thinks he’s a Bond Villain, doing the PRECISE same, “neo colonialism,” in Iran and Syria, so you have literally NO LEG to stand on. You just accuse your enemies when they offer people Democracy: the opportunity to CHOOSE their leaders and GET RID of those who dissatisfy them. No one is claiming the west’s system is even good, let alone perfect, or we wouldn’t have had a Putin Poodle in the White House at all. But as Churchill pointed out, it’s the best system out of all the broken ones. That’s NOT empire building. It’s offering freedom, at the most fundamental level. Free speech and freedom to choose. How can you pretend Putin is even CLOSE to being anything other than a dictator?
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That’s what concerns me. Not enough people are willing to call it what it is: Fascism. They’re literally locking out any voters who might vote against them, Primarying their own GOP members, if they disagree with their LIES, and never forget, “Lock Her Up,” was already OLD by the time trump took office. They are a personality Qult, intent on outlawing opposition parties, and building an entire narrative cum political, “ideology,” on the basis of, “Victimhood,” and LIES! Their attack on the Capitol mirrored the Beer Hall Putsch! We’re seeing the rise of Fascism, and Hitler’s narrative is repeating itself! What’s the betting that they get something on Donny, lock him up, but just like Hitler, he goes to a minimum security honor farm, where a ghost writer helps him write, “My Struggle,” which will become a Best Seller on the basis that his government will insist that everyone has to buy a copy, by law?! This, “Victimhood,” culture is a massive excuse for being failures in life, which only appeals to the weak minded, racist, idiots and the criminally wanton
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Ikki zach : Well, that’s ONE way of copping out? Guess you’re NOT so, “up for talking,” after all? Just stop pretending that, because you don’t, “like,” what you hear on the news, the messenger MUST be, “of the left,” (Whatever the hell THAT means, anyway?) as you don’t KNOW the ideology of news broadcasters, by the news they deliver. That only applies to Propagandists. But, they DON’T qualify as news anchors
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Interesting irony, don’t you think? The same thing applies to Ukraine, being the original place from which what we now call Russia sprang. It’s these cultural hang ups that Xi and Putin find so shaming, in their immaturity and indoctrinated perversions of history, from which they create their pretexts for invasion. Yet the reverse would be more justifiable, though unconscionable too. The real reason is, of course, greed and money. If one leader could control both Ukraine and Taiwan, they would have a monopoly on worldwide technology for the foreseeable future. Ukraine produces well over 50% of the world’s Argon supplies, vital for the manufacturing processes of microchips; whilst Taiwan produces TWO THIRDS of the world’s microchips! From ONE factory! Or, that was the state of play at the beginning of the Covid outbreak, which is why you can’t buy a PS5 unless you’re prepared to pay double what the market value is, to a, “scalper.” Between them, Xi and Putin intend to thrust the free world into a new dark age, forcing us to trade away our freedoms to avoid starvation. Though, Xi secretly loathes Putin for jumping the gun and then being so incompetent on Ukraine, effectively screwing up his own plans for invasion.
I don’t know which is scarier? The indoctrinated ideologue that is Xi, who really believes his own line of bollox, or the out of control juvenile gangster that is Putin, who doesn’t believe in anything except power and hard cash?
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@williameddy1662 : Yeah, but 666 was their base of operations. When the FBI was tapping the lines of known suspects, that’s the building that kept taking their calls; from all over the globe! That’s why trump still, “thinks,” to this day, that they were tapping the lines at 666, even though they weren’t. The point is still a good one, speaking as a Bible reader myself. Not that I have a conclusion, one way or the other, as to whether it was literally the warning from Revelations or not. But, I wouldn’t dismiss it lightly? Sincerely ✌️
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Kyle Kiss : “What would be different?” I don’t usually play the, “Hillary-ous,” game, buhhht . . . Well, let’s see, shall we? Putin would be the one holding a tiny corner of Syria, namely his GIANT Military Port, INSTEAD of the US. And, Putin would be posturing and threatening, because he would no longer have a free hand to terrorise the civilian population, as he does now, and ASSAD WOULD BE GONE, instead of MURDERING HIS OWN PEOPLE! That’s ONE THING. Donny would be behind bars, along with a SWATHE of American TRAITORS and an equally large number of Russian SPIES! What else? I’m ENJOYING this game!
Oh yeah, the SANCTIONS would be enacted, probably with MORE sanctions on top. And the world would SEE that Putin is NOT more powerful than the West, even though he wants his own people to “think” that. The EMBARRASSMENT of having his PERSONAL funds frozen has always GALLED him, but when it happens to his Top Oligarchs too, THAT is a THREAT to his stability. They could end up stabbing him in the back and cutting a deal with the west, so LIKE STALIN, he lives in PERPETUAL PARANOIA.
This would all mean less money and resources for his invasion of the Crimea, so they will eventually be forced to pull out, when Poland reasserts itself and cleanses their own little Putin problem?
And I am not even a Hillary fan. I am a conservative, who left the Republicans, when Trump got the nomination, as I KNEW he was a CROOK. So, you WON’T be able to PRETEND that this is a “Right versus Left” issue at the Mid Terms. Conservatives WILL be voting Trump OUT. As will the SANE Republican VOTERS.
Pretty COMPREHENSIVE answer, don’t you think? I BET you won’t, or CAN’T, respond, without trying to change the subject? So, it HIGHLY unlikely that you will answer me at ALL 😁
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SwingVoteDoll : Our Democracy IS damaged, as it has ALWAYS BEEN. That is an unavoidable consequence of HAVING Democracy, in the first place. But, it is also cyclical and the type of RIP OFFS from the top, that we’re witnessing now, are no worse than it was during the post Civil War years. They were even as BLATANT, back then, as they are now. The only REAL difference, is that we have grown up not expecting such a turn of events in this day and age. I guess what I’m saying is, though I agree with a lot of what you are saying, I don’t think things are as bleak as you seem to? We are MORE empowered now, than at ANY other time in history, to put things right. But, it IS up to us. WE, THE PEOPLE, MUST DEFEND OUR DEMOCRACY and TAKE IT BACK FROM THE RUSSIANS
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Now, you could argue that your comment is a, “Whaddabout?” But, as it is being posited to answer the trump cult’s Whaddabout, it is perfectly legitimate and a good answer. And, as the trump team seem to be basing their entire defence on Whaddabouting, that is an indication of whaddabouts ALWAYS indicate: They have no argument on the merits of the case.
I’ve read the indictments and I see what they’ve done here. For trump to get a, “not guilty,” verdict, they would have to prove that Michael Cohen suffered a miscarriage of justice and went to jail for crimes he didn’t commit! Yet, the man who has pled guilty, served his time and is now telling anyone who will listen in granular detail what these crimes were, how he and trump committed them together, why, when and in what way, is also showing his receipts! The evidence is inarguable. All the defence has is, “Change the topic!” And that just will not work.
Trump should have hired himself a lawyer, instead of his, “lawyer.” But who would work for an obviously guilty man who doesn’t pay his bills? Only someone who can milk his own rise from obscurity in other ways, and who isn’t counting on getting paid OR winning. But he won’t tell trump that. And trump deserves what he’s getting.
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Tommy Thompson : You have nothing to infer from. I have given no, “account.” Ask a question if you want to, “know,” something, and stop with the effeminate passive aggression as your fishing mechanism? You don’t know what I watch. I know you watch CNN, a LOT. And that’s all I know about you, other than the fact that you’re a propagandist for the Alt-Wrong. Whether you do it for money, or for free is impossible to say, given that the quality never varies between to two types of trump trolls. And, no. I cannot answer a statement, even with a question mark at the end. It is not a question. You stated that you know, “why,” in a roundabout way. I think you seem to want me to tell you, so I won’t be obtuse about it. After all, I don’t have to guess as to the journalistic motives for shining a light on the attempts of the fascists to expand their ranks, through increasingly barmy propaganda. They’re not a, “news,” service at all. Fox is a propaganda outlet, dressed as news, working for a fascist agenda, which they’re finding increasingly impossible to disguise. That’s news. Like if Lord Haw Haw was broadcasting from London instead of Berlin. Obviously.
Perhaps you’ll be good enough to answer a question for me, now? Quid pro quo an’ all that? What is this unhealthy obsession Tucker has with communist, “Chiynah,” of all places? And why is he advocating for them? He did it three times last week! What’s that about?
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sharon shoop : Oh dear . . . You REALLY HAVE fallen HARD for the Fox DELUSION illusion . . . Brilliant! 😆 You are SO going to be looking in the WRONG direction, when the half brick of REALITY hits you on the back of the head. People still, “still pay,” to hear Jame Clapper speak, but they KNOW he’s OUT OF THE GAME! People, “still PAY,” to see David Copperfield, but they aren’t planning to VOTE for the guy??!!! Not unless he promises to make Trump DISAPPEAR???!!! She is NOT going to stand for election. Don’t you GET THAT? If she spontaneously COMBUSTED, you would hear a YAWN of sympathy from the left, who will then settle back into TODAY’S BUSINESS of getting CORRUPT TRUMP to face JUSTICE. And, what has STILL not PENETRATE that tiny, one-track, “mind,” of yours, is that CONSERVATIVES, LIKE ME, will be VOTING AND PROTESTING WITH THEM. YOU need to look around, OUTSIDE the CULT, from time to time? WAKE UP! America HATES Trump. Only his CULT and, ironically, FOREIGN TROLLS support him 🤣
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It’s kind of obvious, Hannity would only refuse to admit the truth, because he has been vaccinated, but can’t bring himself to admit it, right? Is there ANY other possibility? Hypocrites are always dogged by irony and their obvious hypocrisy. Fauci was NEVER, “wrong,” about ANYTHING. He told us as much as he knew, when he knew it. If people ask you, I’d say they have a right to know, if you’re going to spend any time with them. You wouldn’t want to carry it from some selfish anti-vaccer and kill a vulnerable person, by passing it on. No one needs that on their conscience. That’s not libertarianism, that’s just hypocrisy, and not wanting to admit you were wrong. Hannity has HAD the vaccine. Listen to the science, people. NOT to propagandists
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@westerlywind1035 : That seems to be the main tack Putin has told his trolls to take; “Talk about financial costs, and try to scare them. That works here in Russia.” But trolls have no real way of knowing that the Brits are far more politically literate than that, and they can see that Russia’s defeat will lead to global energy prices coming down, among other benefits; like being granted privileged access to business deals when Ukraine is being rebuild, post war. According to BP, Shell, Exxon and several others, there are massive untapped reserves of fossil fuels in the extreme east, west and off the south coast of Ukraine. Their development teams were threatened and eventually bombed out of the areas in question, but we all know they could rival Russia with what they have. Not to mention, argon supplies, grain and agriculture, etc. They will emerge as a leading power in Europe, and that frightens the trolls as much as it does Putin. 👍🇺🇦
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Even if Tw@er is being destroyed by Musk’s hypocritical idiocy and grasping attempts to get into the wallets of the poorest people, whilst claiming to protect, “free speech,” by charging for it, we must all remember that Tw@er was a castle built upon sand to begin with. Most of Tw@er’s, “advertisers,” are state powers and intelligence departments of countries hostile to the west, paying to pretend to be news outlets. Even if Tw@er became a, “safe,” system that was fair, honest and representative, it would lose all of its paying fakers, which would be most of its revenue stream. There is no version of Tw@er’s future in which it could ever be a, “good thing,” in the world, unless it took that multi-billion dollar hit and rebuilt itself from the ground up . . . by which time, all of the fake Russian, Chinese and other hostile entities paid to divide the western powers, will have migrated to other platforms to pollute those. When your business model is just to take the money and not ask questions about what people are up to, or even if they really are who they say they are, this is the result.
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Dakar 528i : Tell you what? Instead of just bleating at people, why don’t you say WHY you “think” they are wrong? Are you SO INSECURE that you have to bleat your little, half, insult and run away, without adding ANYTHING to the discussion? If YOU are so well, “informed,” give us the benefit of your, “wisdom,” or just run away and leave it there, with everyone thinking you’re an insecure, angry, “Butt Hurt,” with no actual world view, other than loving Donny and the Russians? It’s up to you, kid? But, right now, you just look like an idiot . . . Smh
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@thomasweir2834 : All the more need for radical legislation then, right? When I was a kid, I read a short story, about the invention of teleportation and public access. In the end, they had to take it away from the people, because of a riot. People kept jumping the riot to pre-agreed spots all over the globe, preventing law enforcement from bringing them under control, until weeks had passed, until they shut the system down altogether. Now, I’m not suggesting we do that with the internet, but what we’re seeing here is a RIOT, being orchestrated by America’s enemies, usually pretending to Americans, and keeping it live and moving, because there’s no choke point on the planet! What we CAN do, however, is make it an easily prosecutable CRIME to broadcast LIES under the guise of, “news.” Sure, the chaos will go on regardless. But, the big corporations, like F*x, RT, etc, would be put out of business, or forced to clean up their act!
When it comes to otherwise, “normal,” people, volunteering their lives to this Cult, knowing most of it is fake, that’s the consequence of an unfocused life, with too many luxuries and not enough hardship, or work ethic, to earn those luxuries. People with too much free time, caught up in nut jobbery, which becomes a focus for their hatreds, which can always be fuelled a little more, by people who hate America. It’s not the lies of your own cult that bothers you, (the rhetorical, “you,” of course) it’s the hatred of the, “other,” that drives you. I can think of several solutions (potentially) but, the biggest thing, right now, is the EXAMPLE that the government sets. If people are given HUGE sentences, shamed and humiliated; if the politicians and media types who created this mess, and fuelled it, as it occurred (looking at you, Ted Cruz) are PUNISHED, then people will start to get it.
Remember, “Loose Lips Sink Ships,” for example? The popular view that to talk down, or against Democracy was inherently, “bad,” and that, to do so made YOU the enemy of America? We need a revival of that kind of Patriotism. People are dying, and it’s went too far at Charlottesville! Time we outlawed, “news,” that isn’t news?
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Bazooka Joe : You know what? It will be a shorter list of those who are NOT corrupted, that we’ll be looking at, when we take back our democracy at the Mid Terms. They have offered no quarter; not on any any issue, or at any time. They have filched America, like a pack of ravening hyenas, while blaming others for their crimes. All the time, whining their effeminate, “grievances,” about what, “victims,” they are, with their conspiracy theories and their attacks upon the truth. No quarter shall be asked, and none shall be given. Take back your democracy at the Mid Terms, and we’ll hunt down every last, thieving, lying one of them, and show them American JUSTICE!
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Of COURSE it will, “guarantee his 2020 election.” That’s how COUPS WORK! As IF your, “votes,” will, “mean,” a DAMNED THING, when half the GOP and the whole Trump Crime Family are facing JAIL and DISGRACE at the moment Trump loses his protected presidential status!? Your, “Republic,” is OVER, America! The 2020, “election,” results are ALREADY in the bag! You now have the Putin Style FAKE, “Democracy,” that all the Trump fans wanted . . . SMH
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Proud Californian : And, one only need take a glance at the responses you got, to see how RIGHT YOU ARE! The Ultra-right-wing HATE, PARANOIA and LIES, that spilled out, into this thread, says it ALL. You only needed to tap the wall, and it BURST, with Neo-Nazis, Russians and Chinese Trolls, GUSHING forth! ALL you need to know, about WHY America handed itself over to Russia and became a DICKtatorship, is HERE! Week minded Nazis, who swallow the LIES, even though the numbers of illegals, crossing from South America has been DROPPING for the past 20 YEARS, who, “think,” it’s a growing problem, because Daddy Donald told them so. What a SICK JOKE America has become . . . SMH
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THIS is what you get when an entire nation lives by the mantra, “I never get involved in politics.” One of the most political decisions you can take in your life is to abandon politics and therefore your country. And being dumb enough to believe that you have some sort of, “social contract,” with your politicians, whereby you get to do what you want so long as you stay out of politics, results in the politics coming to you. As the countless thousands fleeing Putin’s draft discovered.
And if you think that could never happen where you live, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I present exhibit A: Tricky Dicky Nixon, who exploited the cynicism and political nihilism of the late 60’s and early 70’s, resulting in a draft for people to fight a war in a country they’d never heard of, against an enemy they had no beef with, for goals that not even their leaders could agree upon: the Vietnam War.
The only difference was that Nixon’s intention to dismantle our democracy was only at the beginning stages, and everyone suddenly got political, enabling the people to put an end to that war, and to expose the illegal dealings of their president before it was too late. But we’ve come close to losing our democracy since and the powers of the far right use Stalin-like, Putinesque methods more and more.
Russians seem to have had sheer cowardice bred into them over generations. Is that what you want for us, or for Europe? These, “soldiers,” refused to go back to the front lines for the sake of their own skins, but we never hear of them refusing to bomb civilian targets, murder innocents, rape, loot, torture, etc. NOW they, “care,” when they’re being drafted without training or equipment. Suddenly the Russian cheers for Putin are quietened whilst veterans and the able bodied men flee their homeland by the thousands.
The price for political absenteeism is a life of cowardice, living among cowards, in permanent fear. There are worse things than dying, yet these people don’t know that.
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This is a, “distraction,” but, it’s not meant to, “win,” an election. It’s meant to make the fact that the, “election,” is ALREADY RIGGED, a bit more, “plausible.” It’s OBVIOUS the Republic has ALREADY fallen, when Trump’s Impeachment trial allows NO evidence, NO witnesses, and is to be judged by the very people IMPLICATED in COUNTLESS Trump CRIMES. How many of the GOP would be exposed, when Trump rolls on THEM? Given that the Trumps will ALL go to JAIL, at the moment he loses his, “protected presidential status,” that means that he, his family and the implicated GOP haveNO CHOICE but to END Democracy, and keep him in power, REGARDLESS of what any, “ballot,” says. The Russians are ALREADY inside key election computers, and the “results,” are ALREADY decided. They just need to make it seem plausible enough to stop America from staging another Revolution. You have a Dictatorship, America . . . SMH
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Gehti Nixan : I will vote for whomever stands against the GOP in 2020. Trump won’t be there, but his enablers need to pay their dues. Do you think things have gotten better, or WORSE for Trump, since the Blue Wave? I am a Conservative and an EX-member of the Republican Party, which I have watched slide downhill, since the W Bush Florida Judge Fix was in at the Anachronistic Electoral College. I fought to restore Conservatism in the Party, and I left when Trump swindled the nomination. This is what you Trolls either refuse to acknowledge, or are simply too stupid to acknowledge: conservatism is DEAD in the GOP, which is WHY Conservatives either voted Dem at the Midterms, like I did, or stayed home, like some of my friends and family. Conservatives, with a conscience, cannot and WILL NOT back Trump any longer. Take comfort from the, “polls,” if that helps you? But, the only polls that count are the Election Night polls. Trump will be impeached (that’s just physics now, and you can see the signs, if you know what to look for, that GOP members are preparing for the big shift) and the GOP are facing a generation in the wilderness. I know you won’t answer this, or probably, even read this far. But, I’m just telling you what is, and not what your emotion tells you. The fact that you’re HERE is evidence enough that you’re scared. But, it’s worse than you think it is. Trump will die in jail 🙂
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Oh, please! . . . It’s time we gave Ukraine permission to WIN! Every time we give any credence to Putin’s nuclear threats, we help HIM. And this is whilst anyone who knows ANYTHING about Putin, about Russia, about geopolitics, about winning military conflicts KNOWS Putin’s threats are ALWAYS EMPTY.
I would be more alarmed if he stopped making them, as he might genuinely do that if he were planning something.
And there is NO ALTERNATIVE to cornering Putin. Putin will NECESSARILY be, “cornered,” domestically if Ukraine wins at all. It has been the wests hesitation in seeing Ukraine win that has made us so pusillanimous, always failing to give Ukraine the crucial support that would make a real difference and SAVE LIVES.
It’s past time that we in the citizens of the west started bombarding their politicians with emails, calls, letters, etc, demanding we give Ukraine all they need and every permission they need to use their equipment as they see fit! It’s time we gave Ukraine permission to WIN!
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Tammy Thompson : You’re HERE, because you are SCARED. You are SCARED because Trumpski gets CLOSER to the edge, EACH DAY. And Trumpski gets closer to the edge each day, because Putin Poodles KEEP confirming that the Russians are ATTACKING OUR DEMOCRACY. So, please, DON’T waste my time with your EMOTIONAL SHILLary?
And your ASSumptions about me are WRONG too. Republicans HATE Trump, as you will discover soon enough. Only the CULT and the SHELL company paid TRAITORS bother to speak up for Trumpski. Trump was a Democrat, if you want to talk about people who switch sides? He gave GENEROUSLY to the Clintons, and helped Billy Boy into Office. PUBLIC RECORD, sweetie. So, THAT’S maybe a thread you DON’T wanna’ tug on too hard?
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blksbth1 : Firstly, you should pick a “character” and STICK to it, as you are KNOWN to use multiple “identities”. So, to you and your alter ego, Thomas:
You REALLY should try reading about the FACTS. Based upon ONE FBI Agent, who blasted politicians on BOTH sides of the political divide; who was dismissed from the investigation BY MUELLER, before the Shills even got wind of the guy; and with the FULL KNOWLEDGE that Mueller is a REPUBLICAN, you go on to build a house of cards argument on that foundation? Claiming “Left Wing Infiltration”? Digging up past donations, going back so far, that they show up at THE SAME TIME that Donny was donating to the CLINTONS? And we ALL KNOW that getting a penny out of Trump is a feet in itself; meaning that he must have REALLY WANTED them to succeed at the time?
But, of course, the idea is NOT to “PROVE” anything, is it? The “IDEA” is simply to throw up as much CHAFF as possible, right? A political Flash-Bang-Grenade, intended to cause JUST ENOUGH temporary confusion and doubt around Mueller for Trump’s minions (ALL of whom have a LOT at risk from any financial history being exposed?) to JUST MAYBE, halt or slow down the investigation. But, it HAS to be the minions who do it, right? They can’t allow Donny to ADD to his already growing list of OBSTRUCTION charges, so HE HAS to APPEAR to be playing nice, RIGHT?
YOUR OVERLORDS are hoping that, by the time Mueller has discredited their claims of bias, it will be too late; that they will have thrown in ANYTHING else they can find to add to it.
But, if you are not smart enough to comprehend anything I just told you, just remember this: Mueller is WISE to your IDIOTIC, PANICKING Trump LACKEYS, and it WILL NOT WORK
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Daniel Andrews : The account I gave you, of what happened to me, is true. I cannot say for certain, IF Thomas truly has been working multiple accounts, but I KNOW that it DOES happen. I have had other dirty tricks pulled on me, but I am fortunate in having a computer expert for a brother. Though he works for Rockstar, in England, my country of origin, it is AMAZING what you can do to protect your computer over the web, but it is equally STAGGERING what these shell companies are capable of, on behalf of their Russian creators.
It struck me there, that Thomas was simply echoing the same message? And the established MO, so I am informed, is to have two “fronts” on the go at once; one childish and abusive, the other more adult, and to see which generates the most attention. There REALLY IS a whole playbook for this!!! Honestly, I was as sceptical as to their abilities, as they come, despite knowing that there was a lot of dirty tricks going on out there, until I had my eyes opened. My brother says NEVER click on Click Bait, EVEN when you can see the link is just another YouTube vid. “A classic con,” according to my brother. “A Standard Ploy,” according to the FBI.
But, to the point, you ARE RIGHT. Thomas is just rationalising. Just ONE quick example: Bannon is now OPENLY talking about how the Trump family, et al, attended that meeting with the Russian lawyer, in Trump Tower, to get “dirt” on Hillary. Are we HONESTLY expected to BELIEVE that “daddy” was NOT complicit in this? Would Trump, post impeachment, be able to convince a Grand Jury of that? With the way he rambles and bombasts? WHY are people beginning to “rationalise” ANYWAY? Is this because they happen to SEE that certain, incontrovertible FACTS are coming out? It’s like they just keep redrawing the front line, as they lose the battle: accepting ONE MORE “thing” after another, but ALWAYS trying to keep Trump inside the Bubble
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Yes, we should be careful how we read this situation, but NOT inactive. The west needs to get ready for Russia’s approaching collapse. The signs are there and some factors are beyond dispute. Even Putin publicly admitted he cannot control Prighozin, who continues to defy Putin’s direct orders to fold Wagner’s Nazis into the regular military AND defy his, “exile.” Putin cannot isolate him and he cannot afford to lose the revenue stream from the diamond and gold mines that Wagner provides from their criminal, terrorist enterprises in Africa.
Two power bases at odds is a situation that cannot remain stable. And as long as Prigozhin swans about in Russia, Putin has that bloody nose Wagner gave him, for the world to see. He cannot even wipe the blood off his nose to save face.
The world drew a comparison immediately: Zelensky is the type of guy who stays, even when it looks like he might be taken prisoner (see, “Executed,” for details on how that was going to play out) while the Russians were inside the borders of Kyiv. It was Prigozhin who forced Putin to flee Moscow, without even getting within 20 MILES of the city limits! No one is forgetting THAT any time soon.
The fact that Putin is powerless to avenge himself on Prigozhin for abjectly SHAMING him tells you all you really need to know about who’s running things in Russia. And it isn’t any one man anymore.
Something is going to give, sooner rather than later. And if we’re not ready for that, we’ll be fighting off competition from all over the globe when China seeks to sweep all the newly independent states of the Russian Federation into its, “sphere of influence.”
Buckle up people. Ukraine might just win this war even though the west doesn’t really want them to? Or, so it seems from NATO’s pusillanimity? Then what? I say it’s better to be in control of events then try to deal with them as they happen chaotically about you. I say, let Ukraine win! Give them an airforce and navy to be proud of and make lots of money from their oil, gas, rare elements and farming!
Slava Ukraine! 🇺🇦✌️🇬🇧
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@scrimshaw7470 : Well, it’s more imaginative than, “Operation Mocking Turd,” don’t you think? . . . Anyone can do what Ronny Watkins does. And you don’t even need to get fired from your government job to do it, like he was, and be all, “disgruntled,” which his word for, “butt harmed,” either. All you need is a computer and a brain. Before long, everyone will be talking about Operation Darwin and falling over each other to get their shots, so they don’t get, “eliminated by the government,” for being trump tramps. It’s a hoot! 🤣
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The answer to this question is one of text and subtext: The card is, “supposed to tell you,” that they are sensible gun owners, who can defang the dark side of public opinion by showing a family, “responsibly,” sharing their love of guns as a hobbyist, who has found an interest in which the whole family can share. “You too can bond with your kids over your shared love of home defence and your Constitutional, ‘rights,’ and Merry Christmas. Guns are wholesome.”
But the subtext is also clear. And that subtext is spoken out loud as the very motto of the National Rifle Association, and it’s an implied threat. “We are not helpless, indeed, we are dangerous. And you’ll have to take our weapons from our cold, dead hands.” Making it uniquely sinister.
British people are probably more mindful of the child abuse aspects and the hopelessness of reforming a country that legalises such deep indoctrination. Whereas American eyes, from more, “liberal minded,” states, probably just see an answer to the ongoing pressure in politics to reform gun laws, and hear the resounding, “No,” from Nashville.
In Britain, the parent who sent that picture around as a Christmas card, would be facing a prison sentence and have his kids promptly whisked away by the local authorities. In Nashville, they made him a Congressman. And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is the difference between, “two nations separated by a common language.”
I will lose sleep because of that picture of the frightened, grieving child on the bus, and I wasn’t even in the same country, let alone, “responsible,” for local legislation.
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thereissomecoolstuff : Which is all fine, until you acknowledge the part about these Factory and Farm owners being GOP donors, paying to have the authorities look the other way. No way on God’s Green Earth, will you get Trump to upset a gravy train. And a wall won’t make any difference. They’ll still get in, using ladders, tunnels, regular flights, hidden compartments in trucks, boats, ships, etc, etc. No Wall will help. Do you agree with THAT?
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thereissomecoolstuff : Oh, here we go; step round the point that the Wall makes NO difference to the REAL problem, to, “Whaddabout,” on the Dems. I’m a Conservative, who abandoned the Republicans when the let Donny Doofus into they Party. I knew his Russian Mobsters would buy everyone up, with their NRA Money Laundering schemes, and you people do NOTHING but either take the Rubles to talk irrelevancies, or sit in your K-K-Klan lodges, cooking up the next Conspiracy Theories. No! There ISN’T, “Blame on both sides,” here. NOT for the Wall. I can’t speak for what WAS, only what is and what will be. And THAT future DOESN’T include a RIDICULOUS WASTE of money, for Trump to point at, from his prison cell, OK? 🙂
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So, I watched it, based on your recommendation. Cost me £18 on Amazon Prime. It’s a masterpiece. But you should have mentioned the real genius behind this, Lauren LeFranc. Seems she both wrote and developed the show, which means she put all of those great words into the mouths of that almost flawless cast AND did all the heavy lifting that is required of a screen developer these days. It also goes a long way to explaining how she nailed the, “Giganti,” character and Penguin’s mom into such compelling and ultimately tragic characters. We’re talking Shakespearean levels of complexity, nuance and depth here.
By the start of the last episode I was certain I knew what was going to happen to the antagonist and was right, but plenty of other stuff happened that I just did not see coming and left me speechless. Watched the entire series in less than 24 hours, so riveted was I.
I can see why Farrell would be reluctant to do a follow up series for the reasons he’s stated, regarding the makeup, but also for artistic reasons. As an Exec on the show and, it seems, with a close relative being a producer (his wife, or daughter, perhaps?) it’s not just a huge commitment that can strain family relationships (especially if season 2 were to bomb) but, where do you go from there?
However, I do have an elegant solution: We are given a teaser about another well known Batman character, just before the credits role on season one, after all. So, the way to go is to do a set of shows, with the same writers, producers (and especially the cinematographers and set designers!) featuring other characters from the Arkham universe, into which we insert cameos from Farrell’s Penguin?
Less hard physical labour for him, whilst building up a revenue stream as a show runner, producer AND giving the audiences what they want? Four or five seasons down the line, after a whole set of characters have had their stories told, with the Penguin playing a role in each of them, consolidate them all with a special, or with a cinematic movie, using a similar model that Disney did so successfully in the early years of Marvel, before they ruined it all?
If they can maintain this quality of writing and production values, without greedy Warner execs f*cking it all up? . . . Just imagine how great this could be?
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Picture the movie, America? THE PRESIDENT’S SPEECH, INAUGURATION DAY. The sequel to The King’s Speech. It has EVERYTHING! The hero overcomes a crippling speech impediment and talks his way into the people’s hearts and right into the White House. You have the montage, with rock music, as he and Kamala do word-practice and weird, funny exercises. You got the romance, between Joe and Kamala (coz’ it’s only loosely based on reality). You have the moving part, with a child who has the same impediment, bursts into tears, and our hero encourages him, until he’s able to speak up for the Biden Campaign, with violins making us all cry. And, at the end, he delivers an AWESOME Inauguration Speech, and Kamala, his speech-coach, comes up to him on the podium, looks lovingly into Joe’s eyes, plants a tonguey kiss on him, and breathily says, “Shazam, Mr President.” To which Joe replies with a wink and says, “I’m lost for words.” They kiss again, a cheer goes up, and the flying car from Back To The Future, circles overhead, (for no apparent reason WHATSOEVER) and flies into the camera with a white flash! Cut to credits and Huey Lewis’s Power of Love! Be honest. Would you PAY to see THAT movie? I would! 😆🥳✌️
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And that world of 2019 seemed like the nadir of humanity’s affairs, yet we had no idea. A world wide pandemic and economic rollercoaster of the early 20’s were just the warm up act for what was to come. Now it’s clear that Putin does not have full control of his army, who fight like medieval thugs, raping, stealing, kidnapping children en masse, and bury their mass murder victims in mass graves, whilst only winning any engagement by reducing their target city to rubble and throwing away their own expendable personnel at a rate of 10 to 1.
Yet, throughout it all, NATO stops short of ending the war by simply stating out loud that they will see to it that Ukraine wins it. As soon as Putin knows he cannot, “fight to a draw,” he will start creating his own off ramps at home, as his retention of power domestically is more important to him than anything else. I can only conclude that NATO has a reason to encourage Putin to stay in the fight, while they hold up the increasingly unconvincing fig leaf of, “fear of escalation,” as their excuse? Maybe they’re making money? Maybe they’re just happy to grind Russia down slowly?
Let us just pray that NATO is not paralysed simply by indecision! It’s inevitable that Russia is going to collapse from within, as Putin is a coward, as Prigozhin demonstrated so humiliatingly for Putin and all the world to see, by forcing Putin flee Moscow for St Petersburg without even getting within 20 miles of Moscow’s city limits. Not exactly, “I don’t need a ride, I need ammo,” is it? He can NEVER forgive or forget that public shaming Prigozhin forced on him, so the fact that Prigozhin still breathes is ample proof that he’s not in full control.
Putin relies on the profits from the gold and diamond mines that Wagner controls in Africa. Which is why Wagner are STILL defying Putin’s direct orders to join the regular army and Prigozhin is ignoring his, “exile,” and Putin is powerless to prevent it. Russia is teetering on the brink and NATO should be saving blood and treasure by giving them a little push.
Forget the brainwashed population, who are willing to cheer, collectively, at the sight of bombed out cities in which little children once played, innocent civilians went about their business and no one was, “guilty,” of a damned thing. A population that can be so morally repugnant and, on their best day, politically absent, deserves collective chastisement, in my opinion. What are NATO waiting for? They’re encouraging world war three by encouraging Putin to think he might be allowed to keep Crimea!
We should all be writing to our representatives about this, and demanding more of them. A full F16 fleet of jets and a full navy are what Ukraine deserves and needs. We owe them that much.
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@elijahskutt1619 : Telling bald facts is not an, “ideological,” position. No one here supports Cheney’s politics, though I doubt many trump trolls even KNOW her history. They want her out, because she refuses to LIE for them. When basic truth can get you ejected from a party, there’s something fundamentally wrong with that party. It’s time for a new, democratic conservative party to rise from the ashes of the GOP, who are keeping the debunked careers of a minority on life support, by wasting all their time and energy on anti-democratic, “laws,” instead of winning over ANYONE . . . You see that, right?
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Didn’t get your jab then? Good . . . We certainly don’t want people like, “you,” being immune from, “Covid-20,” (or, Covid 2.0) when it’s released. Oh, you didn’t read about that on Q Anon? “24 hours between your first cough and your final coffin,” apparently . . . Only the useful members of society will be saved, because they listened to the science and got IMMUNISED against the REAL, “Deep State,” plan. Operation Darwinian Wipeout : look it up, madam? Dr Fauci cooked it up in a Chinese lab, with the help of Hillary and Hunter ByeDon. And they’re going to release into the atmosphere, from Jewish Airliners, wiping out over 20% of the population. And your last, dumbassed, “thought,” will be, “I wish I’d been vaccinated, and hadn’t made all those dumb excuses, because I’m scared of needles.” Now you’ve got something new to be paranoid about, huh, Karen? 😋
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@cindypapale5883 : Science has proved that Jesus HATES trump. Fact 😇. And, you know NOTHING of trump’s finances. The record show, according to his own tax returns, that he LOSES more MONEY than he makes. “The love of money is the root of all evil,” remember? Judging a person’s, “worth,” based on their bogus claims of wealth, is not just dumb, it’s anti-Christian. So, don’t lecture others on, “God,” if you please? 🤦♂️
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I would rather have 15, or 30, seconds of white noise than see the ads. Most of them are so inappropriate to the video’s content, and to my needs, that they’re insulting. Many of them are cons, or so tasteless and suspicious, (“This product is about to be banned by the military, so you’d better get one now!” is a real ad I saw the other day) that they ought to be banned. It was too many ads that made me purchase Nebula, which has so many YouTubers on it now but costs one quarter of YouTube’s ad free service. But I still don’t use that as much as I should.
Have you ever thought of going to Nebula? You wouldn’t have to leave YouTube, or change what you do here, except maybe add a few extra minutes of content to some videos, which is what most of the, “Nebulons,” do. I would be delighted.
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@blitzm4nn511 : True, but there will always be weak minded people who reach conclusions based on what they’re told to think, rather than doing the heavy lifting of thinking for themselves. Keep in mind, the only people, for whom this whole trumped up beef matters, will have seen the relevant videos and know the truth. I guess Charlie rightly felt that there were a couple of points he could have been clearer on, but I do hope this is the end of it for him? Now he’s forensically dismantled his troll’s lies, he could only do either harm to himself by going on about it, or (worse still!) promote her brand.
Personally, I trust Charlie implicitly and would have accepted a 20 second video of him saying, “Everything this woman accuses me of is a lie or distortion of the facts, with some of it making no logical sense at all,” and taken him at his word. But that’s because I’ve been watching him for years and feel like I, “know,” him well enough to know what this trollette is REALLY trying to do. She maliciously picked a topic close to Charlie’s heart (the harming of children) KNOWING it would hurt, in order to get the maximum emotional response. And, despite his self control, you can see he’s really angry at her spite and cruelty, trying to manipulate him on such an important issue. Using issues in this way, for personal gain, invariably harms the victims concerned. And that, to me, is unforgivable and well below Charlie’s high standards. She deserves punishment for that alone.
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@jessiebrooks3511 : That’s because it’s a waste of time answering, kid. That question has been asked and answered, extensively, and if you refuse to even read the news in America, let alone do your own homework, why should we have to do it for you? 🤦♂️ Goggle, “What crimes will Donny be indicted for?” And take it from there, madam . . . SMH . . . Meanwhile, don’t give him any more MONEY for his bogus, “challenge,” to democracy? That’s his getaway fund. He’ll be out of the country on Inauguration Day. Now, ask me why? . . . I’ll wait 😉
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@winstoningram99 : That’s because they’re mostly algorithms, with just a few human trolls to keep reprogramming them with different accounts and, “names,” and to answer one or two comments with a, “Whaddabout Afghanistan,” here and there. If you look at a wide variety of channels, be they British, American, German, whatever, you’ll find the same algorithms and their program managers, all saying the same things, reading from a strict list of talking points, from their bunkers in St Petersburg. Russians have no imagination when it comes to trolling, so they’re always so transparent.
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@winstoningram99 : Since when have you seen a pro-Putin propagandist, “construct an argument,” about ANYTHING, son? It’s always the same refrain, and your first comment was pointing out that very lack of originality, imagination or thought, so don’t come it with me, kid. Putin spends more money on, “A-symmetric,” (that’s ‘trolling’ to you) warfare than he does on his fascist policing and medieval-mentality army; or, at least, he did up until late last year. Interfering in the affairs of other sovereign nations is all he lives for. Sure, he’s bad at it, transparent, lacking creativity, zero historical knowledge, childish and petty, but that’s his obsession, not mine. At least the Chinese trolls (Putin’s closest ally, may I remind you. If you support Russia you support China) are subtle and creative, at times. So, you’re either playing at being hopelessly naive or just another Putin droid. There’s never any middle ground with you people.
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@Brian-vn2pe : Wrong, son. It’s not a gun range, it’s a film set. You don’t take an actor’s word for it, you trust the, “expert,” hired for the job. Stop pretending you know what you’re talking about. You just, “wish,” Alec Baldwin would go to jail, but if you’re saying, “I would have checked the weapon myself,” all I can tell you is, “No you wouldn’t.” That’s what the Armorer is for, silly. If you meddled with the prop, they would have to stop filming and have the Armorer reset the gun, to ensure it’s safe (on a well run set) and you would have screwed up the whole take. Dunning Kruger Effect strikes again. Why do you think they hired an Armorer, silly? How would an actor know the difference between a real or fake bullet without training? Not even a gun expert is expected to know that, son. You’re just jealous of Alec Baldwin’s popularity, and you hate him because he’s ruined your favourite show, SNL, for you by doing those Hillaryous trump impressions. 😋
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@Brian-vn2pe : Says the guy with no life except what his shell company, “employers,” grant him for being a trump troll. It all went horribly wrong for you long before you’d even heard of Donald Judas Trump, and we can only hope they pay you to spend your entire life trawling the internet, trying to get negative attention from everyone you encounter by being deliberately wrong about everything? The alternative is too horrifying to contemplate! That you actually do this out of, “choice,” and for free? As the graffiti on the washroom walls so strongly suggests next to your phone number and an illustration scrawled in crayon and saliva. I thought you did all that as an act? But then, we all thought that about Donny’s dumbary too, until we discovered that he really was clinically thick, so . . . You wouldn’t be the first. I would genuinely pity you, if you weren’t a racist. But, while we’re talking, perhaps you could come clean and just explain to me one thing, son? I’m genuinely curious and (who knows?) you might even be able to persuade me? What is the appeal of racism? Is it just fear? Have you fallen for the, “replacement theory,” gibberings of focks? Or is there an, (and I hesitate to squander the term) “intellectual,” reason for it?
BTW, if you practice with Speech To Text technology, you too could be rattling off lengthy prose like mine with barely any effort. Give it some thought? Oh, but, “you people,” don’t do, “thought,” do you?
Anyhoo, cry about it as much as you like, coz’ Baldwin ain’t going to jail, and you won’t be able to refute that, just as you can’t refute all the crap you made up about trump that got blown out of the water. So, what you’re doing here, kid, is getting all emotional for the entertainment of people like me.
I already know what your reply will be, but at least try to be original and maybe, “entertaining,” like me? 🤷♂️
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@MrDan11422 : Yeah, I believe in God, as taught in the Christian Bible. Which means not the God that most Christians seem to believe in. Few people have the relevant academic training or historical knowledge to contextualise the writings of the Bible, let alone understand it. And it’s no longer taught by pastors, because they don’t have the training or education either. Most only care about what’s in your wallet, and the tax breaks. What I don’t really go with is lots of aphorisms with little practical use in the real world. Jesus spoke to people in a very practical way, about real world issues and current affairs (of His day) and didn’t like to speak in riddles. Yeah, He used parables, but as a teaching tool, for specific situations with a clear context, that had been raised as a question.
Nothing is real. Let me rephrase that? There is such a thing as, “no thing.” A place where; no, not a place. An, “area,” in which no thing exists: no time, no objects, no movement, no light, no energy. Not even seething radiation or the bubbling of quarks. You and I will never experience this state of nothingness, because we are, “things.” Made up of countless other things. But, that oblivion of nothingness; that other dimension in which no thing exists . . . That is what awaits those who abandon life, love, and the experiences of free will. Eternal damnation is not a, “thing,” you can or will experience, but you can be consigned to it, nevertheless. You will simply not know it, because there will be no, “you,” to speak of. Jesus offers life eternal. Which is the only natural alternative to the universe in which we exist. The laws of physics demand it. You can choose life everlasting or the wages of sin, which are death. I know which I prefer . . .
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“Here’s my take:” The Republic has FALLEN, and the GOP has decided NOT to GO TO JAIL. What a surprise. So, their, “choice”??? They could RIG THE 2020, “ELECTIONS,” WITH PUTIN’S HELP . . . OR? . . . They could let the whole Trump family GO TO JAIL, along with HALF OF THEIR OWN PARTY, from Bill Barr on down to Devin Nunes, leaving them as a, “lesson From History,” and a disbanded, shamed, EX-party. They simply CANNOT ALLOW, “NOT,” RIGGED elections!!! And they have LITERALLY SHOWN YOU they will RIG ANYTHING and EVERYTHING, because they HAVE NO CHOICE! Learn to LOVE your Orange Monarchy, or have a REVOLUTION, like the Ukrainians did a decade ago? They faced down Putin’s THUGS without weapons, in freezing conditions, and sent their Putin Puppet FLEEING BACK TO MOSCOW. WHY CAN’T WE, a country FOUNDED on REVOLUTION, do the same thing??? Are we TOO SCARED to ADMIT that our 2020 elections are ALREADY RIGGED??? Just STOP PRETENDING you still have ANY, “Democratic Process,” left??? It’s embarrassing . . . SMH
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Jerry Zogler : All of trump’s Karens in his Qult have the same problem. They literally convince Normals that CNN is reliable, truthful and honest. Because, otherwise, why would the same names constantly get so mad about them, all day, every day, for at least 5 YEARS? If you really, “believed,” your own propaganda, YOU WOULDN’T BE HERE! QED. (👈trump’s Qults may have to look up, “QED”?) But, thanks for the advertising 🤦♂️🤣
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America has lost the plot. Who the hell is the intellectually stunted, “judge,” in this case? HE CANNOT PROVE HIS OWN INNOCENCE BASED ON THAT DNA EVIDENCE!
The DNA evidence did not NEED to, “establish Williams’ innocence,” according to American law and that judge has made a crucial intellectual and legal error. The DNA revealed was that of two of the investigating officers of the COURT CASE! This PROVES that it had been either tampered with or mishandled!
Yes, it failed to prove he was innocent. But, I CAN’T, “PROVE,” MY INNOCENCE OF THAT CRIME EITHER! The evidence is meant to PROVE your, “GUILT,” BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT! Can YOU??? Once we start having to prove our, “innocence,” in capital cases, we’re ALL headed for the chamber!
This is just sickening.
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David Wadsworth : Nnnnooot REALLY an, “argument,” is it, son? “We won.”? And, “what,” exactly did YOU win? You “say” you have your, “own home,” etc, but did you KNOW that the VAST majority of Americans DON’T? Is YOUR mortgage paid up? Thought not. MOST Americans are in a debt trap, with their plastic and their cars and homes AND their basic education. It’s NOW worse than it’s EVER BEEN in HISTORY. MOST Americans die in DEBT. And, instead of DEALING with THAT, Donny gave himself ONE & A HALF A $ TRILLION DOLLARS for, “Real Estate Developers,” in Tax Breaks, PERMANENTLY. Along with ALL THOSE OTHER, “breaks,” that are PERMANENT for the 1%. What did YOU get? A TEMPORARY cut, which is ALREADY getting WIPED OUT by INFLATION. Read a book. Donny HATES you. And he’ll continue ROBBING YOU BLIND
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kellerr13 : Tell me, where in the Constitution, or any other statute, for that matter, does it say that ANYONE is duty or honour bound to have “loyalty” to their president? Your LOYALTY is MEANT to be to your COUNTRY and the CONSTITUTION. Trump is a person; fallible. To say that it is “Un-American” to oppose him, is UN-AMERICAN, GENIUS.
And to say that, because we are a Republic, we are, “NOT a democracy,” is one of the DUMBEST things I EVER heard! You OBVIOUSLY don’t understand WHAT a democracy IS? And it would take too long to educate you, so go read a book, and I’ll accept your apology for saying such DUMB STUFF!
Make the book about guys like Jefferson, Adams, Washington, Lincoln, etc and NOTE how many times the word, “Democracy,” appears; what THEY believed America IS, WAS, and SHOULD REMAIN!
I know you don’t WANT America to be a “democracy” but that REALLY ISN’T the same thing. Trump is a TRAITOR and WILL be REMOVED. And THAT will be a GREAT DAY for AMERICAN DEMOCRACY.
I do hope you were, “paying close attention”? SMH
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We understand that Trump knew he may not be around to break the law and spring Flynn, after November, so he had to do it now, or not do it at all. We know Flynn wants back in Cabinet, so a, “pardon,” would not help him, because he’d still be a criminal and barred from holding office. So, they Barr’d him instead, knowing that NO JUDGE would allow this. Let’s hope they get swamped by death row inmates, who’ve ALSO, “changed their minds”? And, let’s hope he gets back in Cabinet BEFORE the elections? Like Banquo’s Ghost, haunting Washington and pissing off the entire electorate? 🤣
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@jackrabbitism : OMG . . . You said that out loud, son . . . The investment media has bought and sold your mind and you don’t even know it. Did you know that critical thinking is a skill that you have to learn and is not innate? No matter how appealing the thought, “Well, I’m a smart person who doesn’t take everything at face value,” is, that doesn’t make you a smart person. Please stop proving it. Musk is not even (technically) qualified as an engineer, and his intellectual credentials collapse when he talks! Listen, CAREFULLY, when he talks. Set your pride aside and REALLY LISTEN. Then read Critical Thinking For Dummies (not making that up, it is a thing) and see what you did wrong. For your own sake. And always remember, NASA likes his MONEY, not him.
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@martianunlimited : Underrated comment, there, my friend. That’s all there is to it. Be born with money and make a, “career,” out of paying to have your name slapped onto every pack and warehouse of the most successful projects, and let each company’s own publicity department get going on the myth making, with bonuses for those who raise your profile in a positive way and by a measurable metric. Sit back and look for more stuff to buy.
The only way that plan ever goes wrong is when you fall for your own myth and start buying controlling shares in your investments, so you can, “make decisions.” Then, if your ego is really fragile, you’ll be spending the rest of your days looking for none-specific groups who cannot sue you for scapegoating them for your every mistake, like, “the woke,” or, “the left,” or, “bleeding heart liberals.”
You think you’re getting away with it, but now people have started actually scrutinising your, “decisions.” And the smarter ones out there having started doing their homework and delineating the line between the point where there was a thriving, growing, future focussed business, and when YOU started making decisions, and realising that this is where things started to go wrong, each and every time.
With the exception of SpaceX of course . . . Because NASA and the American government have never allowed you to fuck around with the science or the budgets and retained the last word on every decision of importance. But, you still get to pick the colour of the cockpit, so . . . Well done you . . . 🤭✌️
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@joejaurique8064 : David Cay Johnston’s books, The Making Of Donald Trump and, It’s Worse Than You Think, give the full answer to your ignorant question. Hard, irrefutable FACTS, throughout, with reference sections almost as long as the books themselves, because the author knew he was going to have to prove his allegations in court, when Donny tried to, “cancel,” his books, which he did. If you are poor, you can get them at your local library (assuming you’re, “American,” to begin with?) for free, and I guarantee you: after finishing those, you will conclude that Donny is a crook, a criminal, a con man, a racist, an incompetent, a vindictive little weasel, a sexual predator, a liar, a blackmailer, a thief and a coward, as well as being incredibly stupid, crass and simple minded. If you still support him after that, it will be because either you are a racist too, incredibly stupid, or just paid to and don’t care about the threat to democracy he represents because you don’t have it where you live. If you are a real, authentic human being, you will never have a positive word to say about trump, ever again.
And, keep this in mind, if you ever do muster the courage to face facts?: the author is a life long Republican, a financial expert who advises whole governments around the world, a personal acquaintance who knows the trump’s and has for 30 years, and a Pulitzer Prise winning journalist, so you cannot dismiss his legally established FACTS as, “fake news,” or, “deep state,” son.
Your move, I think? Oh, wait? No no . . . It appears you’ve been Check Mated . . . 😉
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I read a book once and, a couple of hours later, I wasn’t rich. When I think of all the books I’ve read, I totally wasted my life! 😱 . . . Or? . . .🤔 Maybe I can just, “enjoy,” spending my leisure time in the manner I prefer? . . . What’s wrong with just having fun? What’s the point of playing ANY game? A board game? A word game? A guessing game? I thought people do that shit for fun? Not everything is a career path? Maybe I’ll just agree to disagree with Joe Rogan? I enjoy his show, but he’s really dumb about a lot of things, like, “masks are for pussies,” as often as he’s clever or interesting. The natural result of spending a lot of time in chair pontificating about stuff, for a living, I guess? I will continue to play RDR2 and enjoy his show, and while I’m doing both (not simultaneously) I’ll also be wondering why people give such a shit about other people’s opinions, just because they’re well known? . . . 😉👍
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Chudy Ilozue : No, no. I WISH, sincerely, that you were right about that. But, it’s simple deduction. Ask yourself: WHO would troll for trump, now? WHO has ANYTHING to gain, from trump remaining POTUS? Only foreign trolls and domestic racists, is the answer. There’s LITERALLY NOTHING in it for ANYONE else! Is there? Even the stubbornly THICK, bubble encased, morons, who just COULDN’T ADMIT that they had been SO WRONG to vote for a TV host, are NOT so ANTI-American as to want him to SELL America, just so it can be WHITE??? Even THEY are SILENT, in the teeth of, “No collusion,” now being a PROVEN LIE! “Lock her up,” a national embarrassment! And, NOW? Trump is a FELON, selling out our national interests to PUTIN! You have to HATE America, at least it’s mixed color, if you still back Trump, now???
I’m genuinely interested, to hear your response? ✌️👍
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Erock D : Such a child. You REALLY, “think,” the Senate is, “on your side,” like you’re picking a baseball team at lunch hour? By the time the Congress has finished, interviewing Cohen, Manafort, Stormy, Kushner, Ivanka, MUELLER, day after day, on LIVE TV, tell me? WHICH GOP Senator do YOU, “think,” is NOT going to be CLAMOURING for Trump’s impeachment, in the hope of saving their OWN NECK. Racist PR*CK! 🤣
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@MASC440 : You need a new barometer to measure the mood of the people, madam. Things are different now. People know the whole world is facing massive increases in fossil fuel prices, which will,effect the cost of everything, worldwide. But the vast majority of them are also willing to pay extra at the pump if it means destroying totalitarianism for good. We are heartily sick of the Putin’s of the world, interfering in our affairs, and the affairs of every other country they can get their greedy little mitts on, destabilising peaceful democracies and issuing deadly threats left, right and centre.
We’ve reached a point where we’re willing to see NATO go to war with Russia, so I doubt that paying a little more at the fuel pump is going to be seen as the deal breaker it used to be? Especially since it’s happening to everyone and is being caused by the oligarchs of a hostile foreign power. Most people BLAME the last administration for making people like Putin able to do the things he’s doing now, instead of standing up to him at the time. The same goes for Obama in 2014, before you go there.
If people are willing to sacrifice so much as a war to settle accounts, do you think they’ll balk at price increases?
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A, “Word of Caution,” she says? “I couldn’t help but laugh,” too! The whole country are comforting themselves, by COLLUDING with the PRETENCE that their coming, “elections,” are somehow, “not,” ALREADY RIGGED. You’re only buying this Dictatorship the time they need to consolidate, and prepare their excuses for how, “Dodgy,” the key state ballots will be. Your DENIAL, even after this regime has SHOWN YOU that they’ll RIG and FIX EVERYTHING, at this point, is nothing but SELF HARM, America! Do you honestly THINK they’re going to ALLOW you to unseat Trump? So he and his whole family gets indicted and goes to JAIL??? Are you ALL MAD??? So they’ll, “rat,” on EVERYONE in their administration and the WHOLE LOT OF THEM GO TO JAIL TOO??? So the GOP has to DISBAND, because there’s only a disgraced skeleton of the Republican Party LEFT??? OR??? Do you think they’ve ALREADY decided NOT TO ALLOW ALL THAT??? The Republic has FALLEN, and YOU are HELPING THEM NOW, by acting like they’ll LET YOU, “VOTE,” THEM INTO PRISON! Have a Revolution or accept your Monarchy, but PLEASE? STOP KIDDING YOURSELVES? . . . Jesus!
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Most Americans MUST be stunned that their, “theme,” is being, “victims,” of the Cancel Culture that Donny INVENTED??? They’re worrying about mass unemployment, the minimum wage, food shortages, and a plague that Donny let run rampant across the country! They might as well have called it The, “Poor Me, Victimhood,” convention! The sheer entitlement and self-obsession of that!? When, “lock her up,” (the ultimate in cancel culture) was already old BEFORE Donny even took the presidency, remember? Since he started, he was having other GOP members face Primaries, for merely disagreeing with him, and he’s STILL DOING THAT! He’s openly after Liz Cheney, now! That’s, “Cancel Culture!” And, trying to CANCEL Democracy & our Republic on Jan 6th! You don’t GET more, “Cancel Culture,” than that!
A Qult of personality that outlaws opposition parties . . . There’s a name for that . . . FASCISM! The GOP are literally FASCISTS! They need to be STOMPED at the Midterms! ✌️
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Jack Jones : At this point, with Trump’s cult living in their Land Of FAKE Believe, it doesn’t actually matter what they really, “believe.” Call out Putin, and they cower in fear of, “warmongers,” but when Trump gets that war with Iran (just as soon as Putin clears his men and infrastructure out of the way and gives him the go ahead) they’ll be shouting for war. Hypocrisy is a way of life for them, now. They don’t need to, “believe,” anything, so long as Trump stays racist and greedy, and the Dollar holds its own
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William Evans : Lies are so often, simpler than the truth; and more appealing to the lazy narratives, that some people simply, “want,” rather than, “need.” Just look at all the Trump Trolls, kind of making the point, right? The, “Disinformation Age,” is a symptom of Cold War II. What the Propaganda peddlers fear most, is the advent of a new administration, that is prepared to acknowledge the existence of the threat, and shut it down 👍
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Steven Sweeden : Regarding issues, such as, “poll takers,” and their polls, Winston Churchill’s comment was, “There are lies, there are downright lies, and then there are statistics.” So, we’ve learned not to trust polls, and many other sources of information. We see the peddlers; the same old names, with the same old, “fake news,” and general hate for CNN and the rest of the free press. And, the irony of their mere existence, is that they CONVINCE America that there are people out there, being paid by shell companies, to, “Turn Your Comments Into CASH!” as I have been offered, via email, to do. Random people, all over the planet; some just taking the money; some, part of larger organisations; some, working for governments; and some, sitting, “in their mom’s basement,” thinking they are, in some way, “helping,” their, “cause,” and doing it for free: ALL of them, mobilised by forces they don’t understand, being used as something WAY smaller than a pawn, in a game they cannot comprehend. At least, pursuing the truth, apart from making one feel, “cleaner,” than the unwashed masses, has the virtue of being simpler, insofar as lifestyle goes? Even if the truths, themselves, are often so complex? Our Republic is under REAL THREAT, and the big irony will be that it was the, “Republicans,” who ended the Republic. There’s a thought? . . . SMH
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@marianlincoln9008 : They know that Abe Lincoln’s ghost sits with the Dems today. That’s what eats them up. YouTube is stuffed with news videos of Klan Lodges, with Swastika wearing Nazis, LITERALLY doing the Nazi Salute, shouting, “Heil Trump!” You can’t make that sh*t up, OR, “fake,” it! It’s there for everyone to see. And, if the GOP were ever to get back in, with trump as their leader, the scariest part is, they’ll all be owning it with pride . . . Their Suppression bills are the End Game for them, and they know it. Hot button, prurient topics, like this, tap into that Evangelical unhealthy obsession with the sexuality of others, and it’s how they get them to overlook the fascist aspects of what they’re trying to do. 👍
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@hutaobutao1869 : You are literally wasting years of your life, living on channels you hate, ranting about what you hate, at the very people you hate, all day, every day. If that isn’t what a KAREN does, what is, Karen? 🤣 And now, instead of discussing any issues, your complaining about the imagined, “rules,” of YouTube, Karen? It’s true what they say, an]bout Karens, not knowing that they’re Karens, I guess? . . . 🤷♂️🤦♂️🙄
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@hillbillytarzan : That’s right. The GOP are creating the, “Culture war,” because they have nothing else. They failed at, “policy,” over the last 4 years, and don’t want focussed on anything but Dr Seuss (which has NOTHING to do with Dems, BTW) and whatever swings between an athlete’s legs. Trump INVENTED Cancel Culture, and now he wants you to, “cancel,” COKE? Good luck with that, madam! He’ll lose that fight, just like he lost his stupid trade war with, “Chiynah!” 🤣
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sixstringman : Trump is a warmonger, trying not to look like a warmonger. And, your job is to help him with that Propaganda. But, the world has watched, while he ripped up his deal with Iran, broke America’s word, threatened and bullied them, while the Europeans have been trying to keep the peace and hold up the West’s end, without him. Now, he’s ramping up the Military presence, using the Saudis to frame them; making it look like Iran is STARTING the war, when we all KNOW it’s the LAST thing they want. And, he expects us to, “believe,” the intel coming from the SAME PEOPLE that he ROUTINELY calls, “liars,” EVERY DAY? He’s compared the CIA to, “Nazi Germany,” and we’re all meant to flip flop at his rate? America’s NOT buying it, son. Trump will have to look elsewhere for a bump in the polls. A war will finish him . . . Smh
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seven : Because, today’s politicians are SO much more reliable, ethical and wise, when it comes to protecting our interests than we are? I’ll take my chances with the unwashed masses, thanks. But, yet again, I’m forced to ask; were you listening? The politicians would still be there, coming up with the legislation, and presenting it to us to vote on. Outlawing vaccination is a hyperbole that would never occur, any more than the death penalty for littering. I think you were thinking about the time when people wanted the right to opt out of MMR vaccinations, NOT, “outlaw,” them. It doesn’t have to be a Doomsday Machine, just because it uses mass opinions? It could be a way to reign in a power that is currently out of control and in the wrong hands?
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seven : I genuinely think you have misunderstood what the idea is. A lot of people here have grabbed the Big Brother ball and run with it, failing to see that it’s the opposite of that. We already have ALL of the negative consequences of, “social engineering,” “engineered consent,” “manipulation,” etc. But, you guys are all saying, “The invention of the wheel will not stop people from using their hammers to keep putting in all these unwanted nails.” Don’t you get it? It’s NOT FOR that. The hammer already exists and won’t go away, and the wheel is irrelevant. For those who are frightened by informed choices and an increase in Democracy, I can see why they would fear this. For those who know that the majority would make choices to end practices which, so far, have been protected by influential minorities, I can see why they would be dead set against such a thing. But, if you’re against it, AT LEAST GRASP what it is that you oppose? If your argument does not even address the issue, it will be ignored anyway, and happen with or without your consent. Why, in a, “democracy,” would anyone oppose a system that increases the ability for people to influence political decisions? Give me one good reason? Big Brother could NOT do any more harm than he already does to the system, because it’s NOT a Big Brother issue
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Gambu : Your comment could be read as both for and against the proposal, as you did not address it to anyone in particular. But, keep in mind, what you seem to be against, the, “sifting of brainwashing,” is precisely what exists now. Vote once (twice if you count the Midterms?) for one person, every four years, who gets to choose how to vote on over 6,000 Bills, or go and play golf instead. That’s what you have NOW. The equivalent of having the app and setting it to, “automatic,” on everything, without even loading in your preferences. How would adding to your influence be a, “bad,” thing?
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Gambu : Look. Try to think of it as a valve. The traffic only goes ONE way. You do NOT get adverts, social media or ANYTHING coming IN to this system. Only your OUTPUT. Your internet habits and usage are your own, and there is no reason to imagine they would be in ANY WAY effected by the installation of this app. YOU tell IT what to bring to your attention, in terms of what is being voted on. YOU tell IT, what your personal preferences are, OR NOT. It’s entirely INSIDE YOUR CONTROL, just like the INSIDE OF YOUR HEAD. You VOTE of issues that you WANT to vote on. You read the Bills, OR NOT, and you get it to, “Auto-Vote,” on issues, IF you WANT IT TO, and can access EVERYTHING in that record, and CHANGE the settings, if you find yourself having voted on something you didn’t want to. HOW is it going to, “influence,” YOU, when the whole MEANING OF ITS EXISTENCE is for YOU TO INFLUENCE IT? Your phone has literally got more power over you, RIGHT NOW, than it could ever have. Even if you NEVER allow it to, “Auto-Vote,” (which would probably be my setting) it would still have value, even if you only ever used it once in four years. Do you get the concept? Or, am I the only one who understood the lecture?
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Benjamin Dover : Seems you deleted your first comment? The one in which you said you are, “currently,” using the service? Now you say you aren’t? Which is it, son? I don’t have the problem, because I don’t have such an account. The art of never losing a game, is DON’T PLAY. Your inconsistency is one thing, and the fact that you’re ignoring the fraud they’re committing is either because you didn’t actually watch this video, or, as I already said, just don’t care because it’s other people and not, “you.” But, most of all, you act like you have a dog in the fight? Why would you even, “want,” to argue that what they do is, “OK”??? Are they you’re parents? If I didn’t know better, I would think they, “employed,” you? 🤔
Come to think of it, we don’t know any better, do we? . . .
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@darkmusky9851 : What always strikes me about Putin trolls is their utter ignorance of history and the political present. I guess that’s a result of never being allowed access to free information? . . . Putin is precisely like Stalin, modelling himself on Stalin quite deliberately. Stalin also committed genocide IN UKRAINE, which you would know if you’d read a book, so, “spare me,” the Putin propaganda, dressed up to look like something else. Literally, just a couple of days ago, Putin had a new bust revealed outside the Kremlin. I’ll give you one guess as to who it was? He’s been trying to rehabilitate the image of Stalin for the last 10 years. And he’s created such a docile, politically absent, population that they aren’t even terrified at the idea that their leader’s hero was responsible for more Soviet deaths than the Nazis! Think! Before you write, son? 🤦♂️
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Jakob Smith : It’s not like he can give in anyway? No matter what the Dems offer him, he has to refuse it, because they can’t allow elections. Trump, his family, and most of his Cabinet all KNOW they’re going to JAIL. You will have to TAKE back the Republic, if you want to restore it. What would you do, to avoid a life sentence and appearing in every history book as America’s Worst TRAITOR? Now, times that by a factor that includes NO conscience and a tendency toward psychopathy. The GOP has NO CHOICE. They simply CANNOT allow, “Elections,” and won’t! Be prepared for the coming fight, America. It will be the last stand of the Republic, or the fall of a Dictatorship. There really is no third option
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I do so admire your capacity to conjoin compassion with rationality into one coherent thought process. We have much to learn from people like you.
And I am so glad to hear this terminology challenged. Let’s face it? The reason Tories use the term, “illegal migrant,” is purely manipulative and a psychological, “technique.” They want to instil racist mental images in the minds of the public; Muslim suicide bombers, Russian spies and a generally semi-vagrant, criminal underclass, skulking about our cities stealing to survive and stealing our jobs from under our noses too.
Two ironies with this (well, actually countless ironies, but the two I’ll mention are):
1: They are using the same technique that the Nazis used against Jews in the 1930’s, which are the same techniques that such people are fleeing, and would be fleeing from Britain if there was any substantive action being taken to back up the claims of their, “criminality.” But, as Robespierre points out, there have been no arrests, because migration and asylum seeking are not crimes.
2: The mental image of the, “illegal migrant,” these schemers foster is such a distortion that it results in unthinking people looking at their neighbours with suspicion, even if they have been born and bred in Britain, simply because their skin is the same colour as that of our PM and previous couple of Home Secretaries. And those same people then complain loudly in the pub about, “these illegals,” to a guy with white skin and an odd accent who is nodding along and not about to tell this bigot that he has outstayed his visa for years and would be deported under current laws!
All this, “government,” seems capable of is making up entirely false problems, promising to fix what no one saw as a problem until they started going on about it, and then making it worse by every empirical measure! They are a national security threat!
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Timing seems to be everything, here? Every time it looks bad for the, “presidency,” they pull out this potential war with Iran. So, this is meant to, “distract,” America from the fact that their Republic has already fallen, right? A distraction from a, “Trial,” at which evidence and witnesses are not even allowed to appear, and the people with the most to lose, the GOP, are meant to sit in, “Judgement,” of the criminal with whom they have been conspiring? WAKE UP, AMERICA! The Republic has FALLEN. Your Constitution is ON FIRE! Your 2020 elections are ALREADY RIGGED!
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By the way, I must challenge that assumption that it was, “complacency,” that caused people to vote for other parties, rather than the Labour Party, since they knew they would win anyway. You can only tag those who don’t bother to vote with, “complacency.”
I wanted Labour to win, but I didn’t vote for them, since they stood no chance in my constituency. Most of all I cast a TACTICAL vote, because it was between the Tories or the SNP in my constituency. I voted SNP to stop the Tories. And it worked.
I think the use of that term in this context will be taken very negatively by people like me, who voted according to the advice of the tactical voting campaign, since it overlooks the very fierce opposition so many voters had for the Tories. Lots of different political persuasions followed the tactical campaign on the web and took advice on how to vote in order to STOP THE TORIES.
That was NOT complacency, but political activism writ large across the land! And, as so many pundits seem so worryingly quick to forget, the tactical vote goes a long way to explaining why Labour won so many seats, yet did so rather narrowly in so many constituencies.
The tactical voting campaign was far, far bigger than most news outlets either comprehend or are willing to give credit for. Largely, I believe, because they don’t want to encourage a trend by acknowledging its power to create meaningful changes in the political landscape. It is being treated like British politics’ dirty little secret. I wish someone would commission an independent study into how many people were aware of the campaign, versus how many voters cast their vote not, “for,” any particular party, but just to STOP the Tories? I think the answers would be game changing.
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@tonywilson4713 : Just because a stopped clock is right twice a day, doesn’t make up for him being wrong, most of the time. Keep following him, and wait till next week, by which time he’ll have changed his mind, and decided that fascism is the answer to all your problems. You’ve done a quick Wiki search, to see what I was on about, having decided you like him, because he’s saying something you agree with, right now. But, he’s inconsistent and has blown his own reputation, several times over. Do your homework. Or don’t? But, don’t get upset when he decides that trump was right all along? . . .
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It’s OVER, America! Which do you think they’ll choose? The END of the Republic, with Putin Style, RIGGED, “Elections,” or they risk the ENTIRE TRUMP FAMILY and HALF OF THE GOP, from Bill Barr down to Devin Nunes, GOING TO JAIL??? The next, “election,” is ALREADY RIGGED! They CANNOT ALLOW DEMOCRATIC PROCESS, when Putin is ALREADY inside several election computers, and ready to save their asses. Turkey’s DON’T VOTE for Thanks Giving! The Republic is OVER. Learn to love your Monarchy, or have a Revolution, but PLEASE DON’T KID YOURSELVES that you will be ALLOWED a, “Free and Fair Election”??? . . . SMH
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Just how much HATE and DIVISION has taken hold of America’s soul? That’s what the GOP are putting to the country. Do you HATE Dems, Liberals and anyone outside the Cult of Trump, just ENOUGH to allow Trump to walk away with a slap on the wrist, “Censure?” Are there ENOUGH Americans, who HATE other races, SO MUCH, that they’re WILLING to BURN the Constitution? The Trumps are facing DISGRACE AND JAIL, if he’s kicked out, so you KNOW that 2020 will be RIGGED, right? The Cult WANTS that. The END of the Republic is FINE with them, so long as they can maintain a SHAM, “Democracy,” like Putin’s. The Republic is falling
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That wasn’t their only objective though? Otherwise, they’d be coming home with their tails between their legs, like the Russians? Say what you like about the bogus Iraq war, ask why we never targeted the Saudis when we should have, or why we didn’t just leave, years ago. Nation building may have failed, but it was more responsible than just tearing the country to shreds and walking off? It had to be tried. But, never forget: since 2002, can you recall any more airliners crashing into major American landmarks? No? Why is that, do you think? At least we won the war, right? . . .
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He’s right. Giving the protestors weapons made positive change an impossible goal, now hijacked by a range of other, “causes,” including Islamist. Look at the Ukraine, a decade or so ago? They unseated their Dictator in freezing conditions with NO weapons, and he fled back to Moscow. They simply stopped the country and filled the streets. Nothing got done, until the matter was resolved. Though they have since been, “punished,” for their victory, by Putin’s invasion, they are still fighting to maintain independence from the “SOVIET” block. America should do the same thing. It’s risible to pretend your coming elections are not already rigged . . .
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Earnest Lee Saddam: I’m always having a ball, son. But, thanks for your concern. Why so, “fearful,” all the time? What, “fear,” have I, “mongered,” in you? If I wanted people to agree with me all the time, I sure wouldn’t have come to Troll Town, now, would I? Think, son? For a change. And, stop being so effeminate? You come off as a real biotch 🙂
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And, Rudy’s still got trump’s impeachment testimony to look forward to, at which he’ll have to testify, under oath, that he KNEW, “the steal,” was a LIE! Or, give his evidence for believing it. That will do America good! But, I hope they subpoena Graham, Cruz, Warnock and the rest! They were all part of it! Let the world and the cult HEAR it from their own mouths!
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Jenny Maher : Just read the, “Comprehensive Document,” signed by Trump and Kim. HILARIOUS! Kim 3 - Trump 0. This will DOG TRUMP into the Mid Terms, as we’re ALL now expecting, “Expeditious results,” from this. And, while Kim is STILL sitting on his nuclear ARSENAL, while getting all his new kickbacks, people will be asking, “What about the, ‘Expeditious results,’ that you PROMISED us?” It’s WORTH about as much as Trump’s, “promise,” to release his Tax Returns . . . SMH . . .
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I hope they prosecute the, “news,” companies that spread this LIE of the, “steal?” Fox cast doubt on the election over 700 times, according to Conservative analysts. Even though they KNEW it was a LIE! We used to hunt down and HANG propagandists and traitors after WWII! Now we let them broadcast on American soil and give them shares in the company?! It’s NOT a, “free speech,” issue, when someone screams, “fire!” in a packed theatre, and gets to watch people DIE in the chaos they caused! It’s time to hold, “news,” anchors ACCOUNTABLE for their SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACIES! ✌️
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Yola Montalvan : Personally, I’m looking forward to day after day of Congressional Hearings, with every player, willing or not (subpoenaed), testifying, from Mueller’s Team, all lined up, to Stormy Daniels, and EVERYONE in between; many of whom we probably don’t even know yet: like the bankers, who laundered cash through the Bank Of Cyprus, Deutsche Bank and Russian Oil Companies, or the ones who told their GOP politicians that the money they got from the NRA, actually came from a Putin owned shell company, so they now OWN them, unless they want THAT to go public. It’s literally set to be the GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH. And, Popcorn will be the ONLY shares worth backing on the Stock Market 😉 ✌️ 👍
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claude ghendrih : Nothing would surprise me. But, Graham has clearly got anger issues, when it comes to certain topics. He lost it over the Strozk thing, and he’s just done an interview on CNN, in which the name of Obama came up, and he said, “that’s bulls**t, excuse my French.” And, not in an ironic way, but with real, visceral anger. He definitely has buttons, but then, all closet racists do I guess?
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Alex Dell : Well, I REALLY got to you, didn’t I. You’re STILL dodging the POINT, though. Not very bright, are you? LOTS of “places” are “shithotes” but the very PEOPLE, who can survive that shit, have enough about them to get up and leave for a better country, and make something of themselves, are EXACTLY the people who BUILT America in the first place. Not Tax Dodgers, draft dodgers and TRUTH dodgers, like freeloading Donny and his 1% enclave.
As, I already pointed out, and you are AFRAID to address, OUR culture would not exist, if theirs hadn’t. So, you don’t know what you’re saying. Your assertions are all factually wrong and you’re just embarrassing yourself, by demonstrating your IGNORANCE. Go read a book
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Alex Dell : Just calling out your LIES. Not “triggered” by Trump, whom we all KNOW is a racist and was elected by racists. You KEEP dodging the point. The number of Africans who come to America with degrees or above is over 40%, whereas the number of people with degrees or above in America already is BELOW 10%. So, these PEOPLE are raising the bar, adding value, and making America Bright again. The “debate” is NOT about the state of the countries, but about the PEOPLE who come from them. You keep avoiding the issue, because your a STUPID RACIST, unable to grasp the debate and, therefore, unable to contribute in ANY meaningful way.
You have NOT addressed the TOPIC yet, let alone said ANYTHING accurate or based upon “knowledge”.
And I am an ex-MEMBER of the Republican Party. We are NOT all “liberals”. But, you kling to the illusion, if it comforts you? It won’t change the outcome of the mid-terms 😉
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@worldpeace1822 : No they didn’t. That is simply factually wrong. There has been, “uproar,” about Russia’s act of, “piracy,” on the high seas, which is why it was in all the papers and Jake is discussing the press coverage. Maybe your confusion stems from being in a, “sheltered,” country where, “news,” is one of those things your, “government,” has, “departments,” for deciding what you’re allowed to know?
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John Sterling : Actually, I agree with you on THAT. As a Republican, I am happy to call out TRUE criticism, and THAT’S the first honest thing I’ve EVER seen you write. Even a stopped clock, etc? But that still doesn’t change the fact that Bernie, or Elizabeth Warren, or maybe someone totally left field, like Tom Hanks (I keep hearing rumours) would wipe the FLOOR with Trump’s minions. Even YOU have to agree that the polls show that Trump’s “fans” are REALLY pissed at their own Congress representatives? And YOU KNOW that Bernie would have garnered the SAME votes that went to Trump, because people just didn’t WANT Hillary?
Face it. Trump IS CORRUPT. Not in a, “I’ll buy up the parties debts and have control over the whole party,” kind of way. But in a, “I’ll do WHATEVER, to get power and I don’t CARE HOW, WHO, WHAT, WHEN or WHERE! Just do it,” kind’a way.
You are either, hung up on some racist agenda, VERY rich or Russian, if you REFUSE to acknowledge the FACTS? Or you COULD be INCREDIBLY DUMB?
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olrik parlez : Re-sent, at your request; as follows:
Would that you were right, but I cannot agree. Not while children are being caged, some of them dying, in state funded Concentration Camps? Not, while Trump casts about for the war he so desperately wants? Not while we are forced to pay real money for his ego-trip Trade War? Not while people are being radicalised into appalling acts of mass murder, by Nazis who use his, “rhetoric,” to inspire people into acts of terrorism, in which these, “heroes,” shoot down defenceless women and children in the streets? Not while women’s bodies are invaded as a, “punishment,” for a single error of judgement, leading to an unwanted pregnancy. And, not while there is no escaping Trump, even in our sports, which he somehow managed to DIVIDE, or while he Tweet Bombs State Funerals, undermines our biggest industries like Amazon and Google, our domestic services; EVEN THE POST OFFICE!?
That, my friend, is REAL POWER. You are right that he will never be the thing he desires to be, and I think that it is his awareness of that, and the bitterness which results from it, which is (in part) what makes him SO evil?
But, it’s time we got REAL about this situation? If Trump, his whole family, and all his enablers were to be locked away for life, TODAY, we STILL cannot (for SHAME!) lay ANY claims to having a system which, “works,” or, “serves,” its people. As a racist and a hater of all who oppose him, we have had to cope, for years now, with a, “leader,” who LITERALLY HATES THE VAST MAJORITY OF AMERICANS. Our broken system allowed this, and is sitting still, while the Russians see to it that he will remain Dictator for life. He CANNOT relinquish power for fear of indictment, shame, and jail; ultimate DEFEAT. So, Impeachment is the ONLY remedy left to us, and those who have that power, are unwilling because they have been so indoctrinated by a lifetime of, “tactical, political thinking,” that they’ve forgotten what it is to just DO THE RIGHT THING!
Without Impeachment, Trump will, “win,” 2020, driven by that violent engine of his power: DIVISION. Even the GOP has been forced to admit that Russia HACKED Florida’s election computers, so just think HOW BAD IS IT, REALLY?
I cannot share your sanguine attitude, for those reasons. The Republic has already fallen, in Washington, and the people do not, “feel,” it because they still go to work, pay their taxes and get arrested if they break the laws. But, if Trump is still there for the 2020 elections, it will ALREADY be OVER, and after the BLOODBATH that election night will be; with goon squads, intimidating voters or shooting at them, outright, THEN America will KNOW what a Dictatorship is, and feel the REAL POWER that they refused to believe was there. Trump’s foundation of a DIVIDED States of America will be the violent source of his REAL power.
This is how Democracy Dies, in the modern world. There’s a great book about it, available as an audiobook on YouTube, if it’s still there? Modern Democracies die, because the citizens of those countries always say and do the same thing: They say, “It can never happen HERE?” And, they DO NOTHING . . . ✌️
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Rodney Adam : Well, I guess that’s another reference to your big obsession: Bill, We Paid off the Deficit, You’re Welcome, Clinton, right? Right now, people are seriously wondering WTF is WRONG with you Trumpski Obsessives? It’s been PROVED that Trump WAS and IS, “Colluding,” with Russia. Even Trump is trying to excuse it, rather than deny it, now. He LIED to YOU! Time after time! “No collusion! No Collusion!” And, some how, “I TOLD YOU SO!” just doesn’t seem enough? Is it RACISM or being a paid foreign Troll, that keeps you clinging to the Trumptanic? Shouldn’t you be looking for the lifeboats? . . . SMH
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Rodney Adam : Yeah, I read the first few lines of your desperation, there, but it’s insulting to imagine that we Normals are going to WADE through ALL THAT resentment, projection and historical, hysterical, “Butt,” Hurtary, son. Just LOOK at the SHEER NUMBERS, kiddo??? There AREN’T that many Liberals IN America! I know MANY Conservatives, LIKE ME, who were voting AGAINST TRUMP. You want (and NEED) to, “believe,” we’re ALL, “Liberals,” and you, “think,” people would pretend to be Conservatives, because THAT’S WHAT YOU WOULD DO!: Just LIE, right? But, you NEED to remember, people oppose Trump BECAUSE he lies. HONEST people oppose Trump BECAUSE they’re HONEST! Wake up, son? It’s SO over . . . 🙂
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It’s sad that TED has become the Wikipedia of YouTube, in that it cannot be sited in academe, or trusted to be 100% accurate. Would love it if TED tightened up its ship? If they vetted their speakers better, or set up categories, by which we could separate hard facts from speakers who . . . well? Let’s face it? Some speakers just can’t be trusted not to be corrupt or even criminals! That undermines everything about TED, which began as a gold standard. Recently, I saw a physics lecture in which the professor said, “You may have heard it on a TED Talk? But, no one takes TED as law, right?” And his panel of well known physicists all nodded along with him. That blew me away, so I looked into it. Some of the people TED has had as guests, were promoting scams dressed up to look like science! Some are in jail, while others are under indictment! You need to go through your back catalogue and put a mark of some kind by the talks which are not tainted in this way. It’s a responsibility which falls to you, unless you are happy as being taken as pop science / pop culture and nothing more? With a potentially, “dodgy,” reputation? It matters. It really matters. The phrase, “S/He gave a TED Talk,” doesn’t carry the weight it used to, and that’s just a shame. Especially since you could do something about that.
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It would be a tragedy for us all if we lost any representation of moderate conservatism as a party ideology completely. We would see Labour claiming more and more centrist ground, which would drive them away from more fair, left of centre, policies. And we, the electorate, would be stuck between moderates and extremists.
As far as the, “infighting,” is concerned, the Tories have already fired the first few shots in their civil war, but just never had the honesty, decency or self awareness to accept that they should be fighting it out between themselves whilst in opposition, as is the norm. Now they’re likely to be fighting over any scraps left up for grabs after seeing total annihilation.
We need to see a call to arms of the old guard conservatives, to take on these extremists. At the moment they are being extorted by their own saboteurs!
And in a landscape like that, we have never needed PR more! It might be our only hope of avoiding a totalitarian breakdown of democracy, which will (as it always has historically) come upon us far quicker than any of us are ready for.
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@alexyoungberg5232 : Perhaps Amy should have put, “not really there,” in quotes, but I got it. I enjoyed the sarcasm. As did 208 (and climbing, like Biden’s votes) other people. It’s been an exhausting time, tensions are high, and many of us (I count myself in this crowd) have lost loved ones to Covid. Get some sleep?. Eat properly, and prepare to celebrate? It’s been a long haul, but I can safely promise you, Donny’s done. Next year, we will finally deal with the pandemic and, God willing, have our vaccine by the end of 2021. Things are lookin’ up 🙂✌️
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kungfoochicken08 : You CAN be BOTH, you know? Bit, like you, right now? Naively, you, “think,” Donny will meet your RACIST AGENDA and perhaps even make you RICH. Maliciously, you run around the internet, spouting LIES that no one in their right mind BELIEVES, but the already converted Nazis internalise as EXCUSES. Complexity is not a Trump thing, so I see WHY you are struggling with that 🤔 😁
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kungfoochicken08 : So, I tell YOU that the world is not binary, yet you feel the NEED to, “explain,” that to ME? 🤔 I’m guessing you’re quite young, and are just covering for a sense of embarrassment at your own naivety, by trying to switcharoo? Regardless. Treason, racism, rape, pedophilia, attacking ALL things American AND our allies are about as, “EVIL,” as it GETS in my universe, son. So, don’t come it, with the, “I’m just an average guy, trying to figure the difference between right and wrong,” crap, son. It’s BOLLOX, and YOU KNOW IT. How can you NOT KNOW that Trump is a bigoted, stupid, CRIMINAL, at this point in your life? Seriously. This, I GOTTA’ here, kid? . . . 😁
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B Mad : Unity versus Division. That’s the moral of this story. We literally watched it unravel, as we started off United, dealing with a national crisis, until Donny threw one spanner after another into the works. All because national unity put him 10 points behind Biden, according to his own people. So, he politicised the issue, and Made America Divided Again, just to keep his own head above water. Result: ALL THE PAIN of the Lockdown (mass unemployment, economic downturn, miles long Food Bank cues, THE DEATHS) whilst getting NONE OF THE RESULTS. . . Thanks for ruining America, Donny . . .smh
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Stair lifts are expensive, but they’re common in the homes of vulnerable people, as are carers, special rails, even moving to a bungalow. All measures that people who aware of a vulnerability will take. Johnson’s argument can, therefore, be used to argue that extreme and expensive measures should be taken, using his, “logic.”
But, what’s striking is not that he is clueless about risk management. It is that he doesn’t know he’s not an expert in risk management, despite the fact that he will have been surrounded by experts, trying to tell him these things. A good leader would say, “I don’t have the expertise, so we will be guided by the specialists.” Not give way to every Dunning Kruger impulse that pops into my head! During a crisis! 🤦♂️ . . . Glad you’re making these videos. ✌️
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Donut Frump : EXACTLY. This is the pathetic old attention seeker, walking back the false claims which got him in the headlines, which was all he wanted. My ex-wife’s Grandpa once grabbed the mic, at a friends wedding, and staring singing Elvis songs, while the string quartet behind him, stoically continued to play Mozart. He was drunk. And, when they FINALLY lead him away, he got a few F Bombs down the mic, before order could be resumed. I can’t get that image out of my head, each time I look at Rudy, now. I PRAY that I don’t lose my dignity, SO BADLY, when I get to his age. SMH . . .
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@kelperdude : Well, “this woman,” is who YOU are, “listening to,” too. QED, madam. You might need to look up,the term, “QED,” Karen. Don’t feel bad about yourself. Well, no more than usual, huh? 😋
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Federal Reserve WOLF TheFedWolf
Trump’s Qult of Karens are NOT, “Conservatives,” by definition. That time has passed the GOP by. A personality Qult, who’s founding, “narrative,” is a lie; racists, who use threats, intimidation and outright violence to get their way; a party that refuses to acknowledge democracy, wants to literally outlaw opposition parties, and calls the free press, “the enemy of the people.” You know what that is, ma’am? That’s called, “FASCISM.” Literally . . .
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carol Lund : I think Hill is probably just projecting? A lot of the Trump Cult ARE “Basement” dwellers, after all. And, as with most of them, they get VERY cross, when you tell them OBVIOUS, common sense things, like Mueller isn’t going to leak his information until he he’s issuing indictments, in a court of law, or showing his findings to Congress. I genuinely think it’s just plain old EMBARRASSMENT. Hill feels a bit stupid, for not realising the OBVIOUS and reflexively strikes out, in the hope of making me feel as, (forgive the usage?) “Butt Hurt,” as s/he feels. Of course, I am NEVER offended by people’s whining on YouTube, as I would have to have some “respect” for their “opinions” in the first place, for THAT to happen. I feel a bit guilty admitting to this, but I actually get a bit of a kick out of seeing these traitors, idiots, and Russians, flailing with impotent rage. They cannot “win” the “argument” so they bleat and scream, like the sheeple they are. It’s to be expected.
But, I respected your comment. These are the sorts of lessons that you would expect the average 8 year old to grasp. I admire your patience, in taking the time to explain how things work, to this hostile little troglodyte 😉
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carol Lund : Yeah, I see what you mean. I actually moved here FROM England in 2006, and have duel citizenship. The country has changed, largely on the basis of embarrassment. I really believe that. So many ignorant people are vaguely aware that Trump is a traitor, but have stuck their necks out too far to pull them back in, without being attacked by other, rabid, Trumpskis. So, they live in fear. Being a political historian, (the occupation which brought me out here, in the first place) and having the outsider’s perspective, I have noticed that the changes have been rapid, due to unseen poverty. EVERYONE here (I am blessed to be able to exclude myself in this) seems to be in a Debt Trap. Their education; their homes; their cars; their health; their businesses, ALL seem to have put a millstone around their necks. So, even though the US can “claim” to be prosperous, right now, there is STILL the sense of desperation that was a driving factor behind Hitler. It’s very hard to make people aware of their shared financial fix, despite the fact that most Americans (over 80%) will die leaving DEBT as a legacy for their children. That’s why a TEMPORARY Tax Break is a straw they’ll cling to. Racism has ALWAYS been a much bigger problem in The States, than most of the developed world, which is WHY Trump has been able to seize on financial despair, without ever naming its source and blame “the other” like Hitler. Though he acts more like Stalin. If the Dems don’t win the Mid Terms, we will lose our democracy, and I’ll be returning back to England, while we stave off the inevitable downfall of Democracy on a GLOBAL basis.
Hill has no clue, and seems to be demonstrating my point. How insecure do you have to be, to lay out your personal biography to a stranger that you have just been abusing, just to show that you aren’t living in your mom’s basement? It seems THAT is more important to him, than the issue in hand? Says a LOT
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Ksloozy Doo : You’re another one who missed the Midterms? Conservatives either stayed home or voted Dem. You WISH it was just, “liberals,” that were your problem. But, it’s that very obsession, with HRC, etc, that put you in this mess. Even all that Gerrymandering and Voter Suppression wasn’t enough to prevent a Blue Wave. You haven’t even asked yourself, “WHY?” It’s BECAUSE of the cheating, the Trolling and the coordinated LIES. You paid Trolls, racists and the ashamed, have PROVED to us that you’re ALL as crooked as they come, and being lead, like the sheeple you are, by outside entities. America wants its country BACK, and Conservatives AND Liberals are UNITING, because of YOU
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CNN : Florida, Chris. Do you remember the Russian Hack of Florida’s election computers? It got big coverage at the time, and even the GOP admitted it was the Russians. Then Trump adopted Florida as his home and launched his, “campaign,” from there, within weeks. Remember? It went dark, because they threatened every politician with Anti-Terror laws, and instant jail, if they talked to the press about it. Remember? And, now? Donny says, “voter fraud,” everywhere EXCEPT FLORIDA!? “Don’t look at Florida.” And you aren’t ALARMED??? Do you people WANT a Dictatorship?
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Jivko Dimitrov : Since 2016, the Republic has been on Life Support, with one treatment after another being removed. This fake trial, with no witnesses or evidence, and the Defendant’s conspirators sitting on the, “jury,” is the DEATH blow. Is there ONE person (none Trump Cultist) who genuinely believes that the GOP and the Trump’s will “NOT” HAVE TO RIG the 2020, “Elections”??? Let’s see? Half of the party and the entire Trump family can go to JAIL, leaving ALL of the GOP to be remembered by history as Collaborators in an attempted COUP, OR . . . RIG the elections and keep power? Tough choice for them, NOT! What are you just SITTING THERE, America??? It’s time to either REMOVE the Monarchy, or ACCEPT your Orange King. But, PLEASE? . . . For the LOVE OF GOD??? WILL YOU STOP PRETENDING THAT YOUR, “ELECTIONS,” ARE NOT ALREADY RIGGED?!?!?!?
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Larry Wildman : Popular Troll defence = “We, in the west, are guilty of interference, so why should we care?” It ALWAYS STOPS, right there, failing to mention that, “we, in the west” ALWAYS INDICT AND LOCK UP, OUR OWN PEOPLE, when we find out about it! Because WE CARE about CRIMES AGAINST DEMOCRACY, in the West! And, if we’re willing to imprison OUR OWN OFFICIALS for pulling that s**t, WHAT do you, “think,” we’re gonna’ DO, when Devin Nunes is EXPOSED as that, “Unnamed, American conspirator, in Congress”??? “Two wrongs makes one right,” will NOT be a good Defence to present, at HIS TRIAL
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@WinstonSmith19847 : Now a little time has passed and the most concerning development for me has been that ALL of the most dangerous, corrupt and divisive voices from the neo-lib-con wing of the Tories have been to America already! And if you needed proof that their, “talks,” “lectures,” “interviews,” “book tours,” were nothing more than cover for laundering their payoffs in lieu of fulfilling their contracts for the Tufton Street Americanos, try Boris Johnson, addressing an almost empty room. If it wasn’t for the press pack I think he would have had zero attendance, for his, “speech/lecture,” whatever they’d booked him for. But he got paid, regardless, out of the RNC’s deep pockets. There’s a photo of it doing the rounds on the internet, which makes the point perfectly.
Does anyone else think it’s a dead giveaway that right after the election, win, lose or draw, all the usual suspects showed up for their American paymasters with their hands out? Suella Braverman, with her massively reduced majority is working hard for her constituents, in America. Nigel Farage has committed to sticking around for as long as the trump campaign wants him, siting that American politics are, “far more important than British politics,” even when he has a constituency to disregard!
I’m telling you, people; the American right outright OWNS the British Tory Party. At least, its extreme wing at any rate. And that’s what the big fight inside the Tories is all about now, as we speak. The, “wets,” are fighting to delay the leadership contest, so that the older, more traditional wing of the Tories can get their ducks in a row and fight off the insurgency of Tufty clubbers. And the US owned extremists want the contest right now, so they can ride their wave of populism into the leadership.
We’ll know who’s winning by next week. That’s when the newly organised 1922 Committee will lay out the rules for this contest. If we get an, “Interim Leader,” buying time for the wets, then they’re winning. Or, at the very least, they have managed to reassert some control over the process. If they have the internal elections right away, look forward to a far right version of the Tories, taking their talking points from Washington and Moscow.
Interesting times.
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Hyg44 Gu : It’s not my, “grasp,” that’s off, as I fully agree with you. But, Trump WILL, for the first and perhaps the LAST time in his life, be FORCED to sit, in SILENCE and LISTEN (which he won’t be able to stop himself from doing, because the discourse will be about him) to the opening remarks of the prosecution. He will have to listen to witness testimony and the cross examination of his own witnesses. He will have to LISTEN to the prosecutor’s closing remarks; the judges summing up (I do hope the judge is a black lesbian in a wheelchair?) and then he will have to LISTEN, at the sentencing, as the judge reproaches him for his treachery against America. In his head, his fantasies will have rewritten all that has gone before, and the TRUTH will NOT penetrate. But, it will do America GOOD, to SEE this, and the healing will begin.
After that, I really don’t CARE, how twisted and deranged he is, in JAIL . . . America deserves its moment of catharsis . . . And THAT’S all I CARE about. After that, to me, Trump won’t even be a memory. Just a stain on America’s record, to wiped clean
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Hyg44 Gu : Oh, and, yeah: HELP GET THE VOTE OUT, AMERICA! Those of you, who are NOT, yet, part of a democratic action group, should at LEAST look them up on the web. You MAY be surprised at just how POWERFUL you REALLY ARE? There have been MANY VICTORIES for the resistance, so far, INCLUDING ELECTORAL VICTORIES in places where there simply AREN’T ENOUGH, “liberals,” to do it without CONSERVATIVE HELP: Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc. Join your PATRIOTIC American colleagues, who are both liberal and conservative, to SAVE YOUR DEMOCRACY 👍
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Robert : With you ALL THE WAY, brother. Look what happened to Gerald Ford, after he pardoned Nixon. He hoped to, “save the dignity of the Office,” and to help America, “move on,” but all he achieved was the FURY of America, which got SO BAD, that he didn’t even BOTHER to run in his FIRST CHANCE at becoming the ELECTED president. Pence KNOWS this and has ambition written ALL OVER HIM. He won’t have gone through his multiple public castrations, just so as to stand on the deck of the Trumptanic, singing soothing lullabies to his raging, Orange Captain. He’s already started to make moves, to control the GOP, and he’s setting up the lifeboat, at the stern of the ship, whispering to people to get aboard. And WE should ALL ASSIST HIM. I would be quite HAPPY to have Pence as a POWERLESS, CARETAKER POTUS, out numbered in Congress and TOTALLY unable to pass legislation. Besides, he’ll be too BUSY, fending off recriminations, from EX-GOP members, fighting off the legal fallout, from Russia Gate, and DESPERATELY trying to prevent the Democrats from passing bills, undoing Trump’s Tax Heist. So, LET’S HELP PENCE to SURVIVE the Trumptanic! That way, WE TOO, may get to NOT be forced to go down with him TOO? . . . 😁
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Sharon Snow : Perhaps America will wake up in November? It will be too late, of course, but they MIGHT JUST START to GET IT, when Trump has found a, “pretext,” (terrorism, war, some, “crisis”) for, “suspending,” (cancelling) the Mid Term Elections? . . . Maybe THEN, people will admit that Trump has played the game of STALIN and WON? . . .
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Richard Dower : Pretty plausible. Putin has said, “Niet,” to Trump on war with N Korea and Iran, but he COULD have a puppet, lined up for a takeover in Syria by now, in a situation wherein he has the infrastructure in place to, “manage,” the war. Donny gets his war distraction and a “victory” while Putin installs a new dictator and gives us a show trial (or, more likely the “suicide”) of Assad. And they will all pretend that Putin’s Puppet is some kind of “democrat” or, at least, “better than what we had, right?” Certainly not as far fetched as SOME might choose to think?
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John Grist : Putin will NEVER go to “war” with the WEST, genius; “nuclear,” or otherwise. That’s just something the Trolls say, to bully people into backing Trump. But, this is Trumpy ALL ON HIS OWN, calling the shots, here. The, “Left,” couldn’t persuade Trump to change his pants, let alone take on Syria. So, STOP with your HYPOCRISY and LUDICROUS CONSPIRACY Nuttery. No one buys it, dude 🤣
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So, what do we DO? Write to our MP’s? What? You have to STOP just highlighting these problems without suggesting any remedy whatsoever. “Where is the responsibility? Where is the duty of care?” you ask. Where is yours?
We simply cannot afford to be passive observers of the end of the world. And YOU cannot count yourself as having discharged your responsibility by simply reporting on it to an increasingly alarmed, horrified, confused and depressed public. That is just making things worse.
On the final night of The End Of The World Show, when they ask you, “What did you DO to try to stop this?” do you expect to be able to answer, “Well, I made sure I told everyone about how bad it was, making them feel less inclined to act because of the sense of hopelessness and powerlessness I instilled in them.”???
YOU are on this sinking ship with us. And you are holding the megaphone, having the attention of large numbers of people. Are you only ever going to use your megaphone just to keep informing us about one breach in the hull after another? Or do you think it might be wise to prevent panic and despair by coordinating things? Maybe tell people where the buckets are and assigning people to bailing the water out, while sending the best qualified to repair the breaches and save the damned ship!?
You realise you’re sinking WITH us, right?
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@captainjames4649 : “Shut up, bro,” is your emotional response because, “politics,” in your country has become taboo? Everything is political, son. My comment was extremely mild. The fact that some people don’t like to be reminded of the mire of filth that their politics has become says more about, “some people,” than it does about those who see the obvious comparison. Lest we forget, trump is facing criminal trial for doing essentially the same thing as sssniperwolf: namely, identifying their target to the public, saying, “Here’s where they are, go get ‘em,” and then just sitting back to watch whatever chaos ensues, rubbing their hands with glee, and feeling their ego being massaged by the fact that someone does something crazy on their behalf.
PEOPLE GET KILLED THAT WAY, kid. And part of the reason for that is that some are too cowardly to name the phenomena, or even admit the similarities, let alone find a way to deal with it.
So, no. I won’t shut up. Live with it.
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This is all a good thing really. Tw@er is a sewer anyway. So, now the Musk bubble will burst at the same time as Tw@er collapses. No down side. You only have to watch his recent robot presentation to get what a fraud and a charlatan he is. From his, “indestructible,” car that got smashed so easily in its demo, to his offers to sell parts of Ukraine to Russia, he is a clueless goon, like nearly all billionaires these days. I wish people would just come to understand that you DON’T get to be mega rich through brains, ideas, cleverness or through any intellectual endeavour. It’s mostly blind luck, or a perfect storm of converging events that drives one business to the top of the pile, like shaking a bucket full of ping pong balls; one of them will be at the top, but not because it was in any way different or better than any of the others.
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@tonilharmon : It’s automatic! The Attorney General is bound by the Constitution to pursue ALL high crimes and misdemeanours exposed by impeachments. That’s why there were such complex immunity procedures for witnesses at the Nixon hearings, even before they got to impeachment! And, even then, the best lawyers these witnesses could hire, overlooked Constitutional laws and several of them went to jail regardless; despite their immunities, in return for testimony. So, Sandy is ignorant of how it works, and saying things she, “wants,” to be true, NOT anything she, “knows,” about. Bottom line; unless all of the trump’s are neutralised, by convictions of federal crimes (regardless of whether they do time or not) they will remain a Clear And Present Danger to America. It’s that simple ✌️👍
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@malorystage4057 : What, “BLM,” riots? You’re making stuff up again. And, how dare you even mention BLM, a registered charity, and civil rights movement, with a square in New York named after them, by the GOVERNMENT no less, in the same BREATH as your Confederate Karens. No one on the, “the left,” has EVER tried to overthrow the state! False equivalency abounds in your hypocrisy, Karen 🤦♂️
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He’s a smart man, absolutely right. General Greenlove, speaking to The Times Radio here on YouTube, made the point that, even by talking about Crimea as being in some way, “special,” or, “different,” from taking back all of Ukraine, is doing Putin’s propaganda job for him. If Putin could, “do,” anything to prevent Crimea falling into Ukrainian hands, he would be doing it in Bakmhut, Kershon and all the other areas he couldn’t prevent Ukraine from seizing.
If I could speak to Biden or this NATO Sec General, I would say:
“Please STOP giving Ukraine what they need to hold Russia back and START giving Ukraine what it needs for TOTAL VICTORY. They NEED an airforce, navy AND army! This is already WWIII, in terms of the importance of the outcomes, including keeping China’s imperial goals in check. They HAVE TO win! And Putin’s rhetoric about Crimea is BULL! Ukraine deserves and has EARNED total victory, which they WILL deliver, if we let them!”
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Not Leo : So, lemme’ get this straight? You’re saying that Trump deliberately hires corrupt people, takes part in their corruption, and has no boundaries as to the nature of that corruption - even if that includes the enabler of a pedophile sex trafficker - in order to be able to blackmail them (having, “dirt,” on each of them) into doing what he, “thinks,” is best for America? THAT is what you’re saying, now?
You’re SO desperate, that you find yourself trying to, “justify,” Pedophile Sex Trafficking, and you think to yourself, “Yeah, I can live with that.”
Well, thank you for a unique experience, son. I think I have found myself talking to a pure manifestation of evil, in the flesh? Not the, “fearful,” type of evil, from which people flee; but more the sewer rat, utterly BANAL, type, to which people respond as if they’d just stepped in a turd on a hot day. I won’t even ponder HOW you live with yourself? And, I certainly need not guess as to just WHY you hide behind a false name?
Kid, you REALLY NEED to think about what you’ve done to yourself. For your own sake, and for the people in your life’s sake. You are a human contamination; and you’re definitely NOT happy with your life. See someone? Do something about it? Before you take someone with you? . . . Jesus, protect us from being such a, “person,” as this . . . Smh
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Can we just be clear about this? Your POTUS is selling the very Principle of Democracy to China, Ukraine, Russia, et al, and has CONFESSED to committing serious crimes, AGAINST YOU. People are literally DYING in Hong Kong, and Trump was selling his, “silence.” DYING in Ukraine, and Trump was selling for, “dirt?” Trump Trolls obviously DON’T, “believe,” in Trump, or a damned WORD he says. The question is, are you going to continue being unpatriotic, treating your fellow Americans like THEY were the, “threat,” or are you going to face up to your REAL ENEMIES, America?
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What she needs to achieve? Not being booed off stage would be a victory for her now. She represents a minority within her own party. She’s introduced epic economic changes across the board, without a mandate from her own people, let alone the country! And taking no responsibility for these changes by TRYING, unsuccessfully, to, “throw her chancellor under the bus,” when NO ONE believes that she had no clue what he was about to announce! It is just so CHILDISH as an excuse; worse than, “the dog ate my homework!” My leanings are centre-right but like the rest of the country, I’m just waiting for the next election to get rid of these goons who are robbing us blind, certain in the knowledge that, “everything must go,” in this Britain’s Closing Down Sale because of their unelectability!
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MrHappyBollox : So, because CNN doesn’t have ANY Race-Hating, Gravity Denying, WHACK JOBS on its staff, you think they SHOULD, for the sake of, “balance”??? Because Fox can claim Andrew Wallace and Shepard Smith, is the ONLY reason they have ANY, “credibility,” LEFT! By YOUR, “logic,” maybe they should have some muppets on, to weigh in for the Sesame Street, “believers,” too? Fox is NOT a NEWS station, and therefore CANNOT be compared to ACTUAL News Channels! Seems somebody left the lid off the Q Pit, today? . . . “Race Wars”??? I mean, WTF??? 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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@CTROCK : You missed the video in which PooTin made a great show of putting Taiwan on his, “naughty list,” did you? Practically on his knees, begging China for help? You missed him angrily calling sanctions an, “act of war,” on Russia, as he pounded his desk? Personally, I enjoyed that suck-up-to-China bit at his rally, where they had a, “technical difficulty,” and he got cut off mid sentence. I bet that producer was found in a ditch the next day? You might be missing all this great TV, but we’re not. 😋
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I sincerely regret voting for this feckless pack of spongers, oligarch appeasers and degenerate ne’er do wells. I wasn’t convinced by either side over leaving or staying in Europe, but I believed a second referendum would make a nonsense out of our democracy and undermine it irrevocably. And I still think if I were to meet Johnson in a pub, he’d be enormously engaging company. But I used to work with criminals for a living and I liked a lot of those guys too. That doesn’t mean I would have put them in charge of so much as a mop,and bucket, let alone the future of our country.
While my dad died of Covid, these people partied and spread the pandemic from the hub of the country, putting us all in the line of fire (knowingly having more contact with more people, who were the very types that needed to travel about the country and have more contact with even more people, literally in every single constituency in the country) while they LAUGHED at us, and had the GALL to try to make the discussion about whether Johnson was allowed a birthday cake! Johnson lies almost as much as Putin and has gaslighted the country once too often, and then ten more times over!
The real test for me was when he told us Putin was planning to invade Ukraine, and I just couldn’t take him seriously. I had to go off and do homework because I couldn’t trust a damned word out of the PM’s mouth about such a fundamental and urgent issue. If we re-elected these people, we would literally be no different than turkeys voting for Christmas every day!
I don’t even want revenge anymore. I just want our country back in responsible hands. And, for everything negative one can truthfully say about Starmer, he’s fundamentally decent and he doesn’t lie. Not that I’m aware of, at any rate?
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stazorm1 : Click Bait often carries Trojans, Bots, Worms, etc. I doubt people are DUMB enough, these days, to TOUCH yours, with someone ELSES? But, not even bothering to SAY anything, is RUDE, DUDE. It’s the equivalent of phoning someone with a RECORDED MESSAGE. It just annoys people, though, only mildly, in this case, as people can see it. Tut tut
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Glubmin Abobo : My only objection to that would be adding to his, “hit count,” so I’d have to listen to it, ONLY, if it came from a source that was not his. I do the same thing with Fox and RT Propaganda, on YouTube. I make sure it’s uploaded by someone else and not direct from them. Also, you can pick up Malware, Spam, even Trojans, Bots and Worms, from these desperate Propagandists, so you have to be very careful. Shapiro has found a niche market and is probably as rich as me, if not richer, selling snake oil to the credulous. He won’t stop, unless his market changes
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E. Normus : Tell us what that, “plan,” was? All you heard was stated, “aims,” madam. The same you got from EVERY administration. His own generals and senior staff (with the exception of Surrender Pompeo, for some odd reason?🤔) have come out and TOLD YOU! Trump HAD NO, “plan.” His ONLY planning was to deliberately put our troops in harm’s way, by, “boxing them in. I gave Biden no choices. I boxed them all in. I did that.” That’s a direct quote from Donald Judas Trump.
Why do you, “hate America,” anyway? 🤷♂️
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tami king : It’s the opposite, actually. The reason it’s soaring right now, is because big businesses and banks are repossessing houses, cars and freezing small business’s assets. They’re carpet bagging, because they know the end is coming. The sheer fact that the Stack Market is going SO well, while people are being evicted, losing their homes, waiting in miles long food bank cues, closing their shops and businesses, etc, etc, is all the EVIDENCE you need! Trump’s America will take generations to repair! . . .
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M Goody : No. It used to be that. It was once an indicator that companies would be hiring, what to invest in, and which way the money was moving. Look at where the money’s going this time? Those repo’d cars, houses and shops are ALL going back to the banks and corporations. That’s WHY the stock market, “looks,” good. They’re literally Carpet Bagging, making themselves RICHER on the back of America’s Desperation. If the SM plunges, it’s bad for everyone. If the SM rises, it’s good for the very, VERY RICH. Trump’s America: MONEY is the key, for ALL GOP members. RACISM is the key, for ALL of Trump’s base. And this the result ✌️👍
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Gorilla Warfare : You haven’t thought it through? Once it’s passed the Courts, I, MSM, Joe Biden, The Lincoln Project, TYT, ANYONE will be able to publish, AS FACT, that Donny COMMITTED TREASON, and no one will be able to DO a God Damned THING about it, son! That’s gonna’ make for some pretty colourful Campaign ads, as far as Biden’s concerned 😋
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You’re missing one point. If the Tories think it’s, “smart,” to drag their feet, just so they don’t have to foot the compensation bill in their final months, the other edge to that sword is the fact that Labour will have the opportunity to dig really deep and get to the TRUTH about who was responsible for every mistake. They will find criminal liability from MP’s through to civil servants, from the, “investigators,” to Post Office officials. And every last one of them will get nailed to the wall.
If Badenoch had even half a brain she would know it’s in her best interests to settle all accounts as a matter of urgency before the end of this Parliament’s term. Of course, she’s clinically thick, so she’ll keep digging her grave.
But personally, if I were the Labour minister waiting to be handed this Curate’s Egg, I would be rubbing my hands with glee at the prospect of getting criminal records to stick to a certain Baroness and several Tory MP’s. Alan Bates would already be at the top of my friends and family speed dial list.
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The cameras are live-streaming and anyone can tune in to watch the counts in any state. It’s very boring, but there’s NO, “irregularities.” The camera evidence will lol the GOP out of court. They will recount all the states, and Biden will win. But, if Donny says the votes are, “not valid,” why ask for them to recount, “invalid,” votes? Trump’s legitimising the votes. And they’ll say so in court. Plus Biden’s lawyers will point to trump’s, “lawyers,” making the OPPOSITE claims in other states, and the judge will say, “are you people still here? Donny lost already.” 🤣
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bpaak waan : Donny sounds demented and, as to sleepy? Well we’re all sharing Donny’s nightmare . . . Be prepared to FIGHT, America. For the GOP, it’s either establish a Dictatorship, by denying you elections, or go to jail and live with the disgrace of the history books. Which do you think they’ve already chosen. With no alternatives, they WILL try it, if WE LET THEM. What choice do they have? And, so many racist trump fans are more afraid of facing the TRUTH, which they know in their hearts, that trump screwed THEM the hardest, that they will carry on fighting. We have to be READY. The election is just the beginning. If we even GET ONE? . . . That will be on YOU
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Upper Echelon Gamers : Another really penetrating piece, there. And, I couldn’t agree more, that the wave of backlash should build, rather than quiet down. These dodgy, buyable, gaming journalists simply want to feel important, by, “influencing,” games, before they even get in our hands. Rock Paper Shotgun was either hired to do their hit-piece, or just so arrogant that they believe they have the right to shape our world, before we get to experience it. Love your work 👍
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Upper Echelon Gamers : John Walker makes me want to show an act of faith, tempting me to Pre-Order Cyber Punk, now. I won’t, but, if I ever did, it would be this one, now. Walker’s obvious CONTEMPT for gamers, calling us names, and generally pissing all over people’s trust and enthusiasm, is so contemptible, I suspect his editor told him, “You should never insult the people upon whom you depend, to make your living, son.”
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Scoring57 : You’ve missed the point, entirely. The whole point is, this is a section of a game. You don’t KNOW how it’s going to turn out, or what the final portrayal of the characters will be. They offered some insight into the playability, to let us see what the game looks and feels like, is all. How many movies have you seen, where just one clip would mislead the viewer into thinking the exact opposite of a character’s motivations? The whole POINT is that NO ONE KNOWS what the, “portrayal of minorities,” is actually like in this game. They may not even BE the, “minority,” in the 2077 of this future? Has THAT occurred to you?
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I’m starting to feel like a psychic. The last time I commented I suggested that Wallace should cross the House over to Labour? This sounds like the build up to that? He’s talented, well liked and respected internationally (despite his one gaff recently, for which he should apologise) yet he’s been neglected within his own party, as they’ve done nothing to help him out with the coming boundary change and loss of his seat. Being in no, “camp,” within the Tories and untainted by scandals, he’s got a real potential within Labour. He was, “loyal,” to his PM, when it was Johnson, as he’s been to Sunack. And he’s being left to twist in the wind by a bunch of infighters who can’t tell who’s side he’s on.
He could still be offered something sweet within Labour’s government, in the way Chris Patton was, when Blair was still new and popular, and the people loved his inclusive politics of poaching Ex-Tories for important jobs-cum-sinecures, like chair of the BBC or being Governor of Hong Kong, as was Patton’s package.
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Rktmtkl Jelrdkbn : Do you know how much an iPhone costs these days? Or an android phone? How many are made by Hwawei (misspelled)? And, the rest have their tech in them somewhere. That includes the computer or phone that your shouting on, right now. Then there’s the Steel that Trump imported, which is in Trump Tower. Every time you look at Trump Tower, remember it is built with imported, CHINESE, STEEL, erected by illegal immigrants, who are STILL waiting for Trump to PAY THEM. Then there, Soy, and the farmers, who are ALREADY on a Tax Payer Welfare program. The cost of LIVING is ALREADY shooting up, and Trump just made it WORSE, while he’s NOW threatening tariffs with FRANCE??? Trump is ruining YOUR LIFE, because of his Baby Pride and TanTrumps! And, YOU don’t, “think,” you’re going to be, “effected?” You ALREADY ARE! The Rust Belt is IN RECESSION, SON! Read the NEWS, for the love of MIKE! . . . Smh
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@ TheFogLakeshore : Either you misread my comment, or the intent behind it. I have full empathy for this young man and his story moved me enough to give up 20 minutes of my life. I am a writer and feel an artistic fellowship with him; a kinship in his dilemmas. The truth is, as ever, not pretty, nor worth sacrificing a part of my integrity, by sugar coating this bitter pill: It’s not the shovel that stoved in your head that you blame for the crisis in your cranium, but the person on the handle end.
Tools will always be misused and, if we know anything about American culture, we know they will never ban or restrain the use or sale of the tools. Grasping that nettle is the first step to getting past it.
Honestly, I think this guy will be okay and just needed to vent. He’s had a huge (and growing) response to his cry into the void, which is rare for most people in pain. But every beat of that story had other people, holding the handle, not AI ruining his life. The sooner he accepts that, the better for him.
And I’ll be very likely to support his efforts.
Dismissing people we disagree with as, “AI,” or, “trolls,” without even checking is . . . unwise. It shows less character than the decent man who made this video.
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@TheFogLakeshore : I bet you didn’t know what the Luddites were actually fighting for? Even back then, they knew they weren’t fighting the technology. They destroyed it, since it was their only means communicating with the owner-employers. But they knew it wasn’t the Spinning Jenny, The Knitting Nelly or the, “Ravelling Nancy,” they need fear. It was the people who used them and how.
Luddites wanted fair wages and a repeal of laws the prevented unions and punished dissenters as, “criminals.” You never said that Luddites were against technology, but you brought up Ned Ludd in this context, indicating a common misconception of what Luddites were.
I mention all this because, ironically, there are salient lessons to apply here, from that part of history. After all, cotton milling machines were, fittingly, the first progenitors of modern computers. But perhaps, the relevant lessons are not the ones you’re thinking of?
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@danwright1794 : No, I think I’ll stick with the original question, thanks. Are YOU planning to, “invade Taiwan,” son? You WISH America would, “let go of Ukraine,” but, as you can see, pretty soon Ukraine won’t even need US backing. That’ll just be the cherry on top of their glorious victory. Seems Putin is, “letting go,” of his Black Sea fleet much quicker. A nuclear sun AND a landing attack ship both exploded last night in the glorious flames of a cruise missile attack. Pretty good night’s work for the Ukrainians I’d say, kiddo.
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@taniadavenport2939 : Start with The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, if you can access it in your library? It’s still banned in Russia, maybe? Read it as though he is talking about the present day, as it really is no different. “Progress,” is a thing that happens to other countries, if you’re a Russian. Anton Checkoff’s collection of essays and short stories would be good for you, like vitamins for the brain. Then, if you’re up for some grown up stuff, (and if you can handle a little Leo Tolstoy without breaking into tears?) you could move on to Simon Seabag Montefiore’s two part biography of Stalin. Honestly, when you read those, especially the second one, you’ll keep picking up your western copies of Putin’s life and wondering where the differences are! Maybe it will sink in that Putin has modelled his entire philosophy, politics, lifestyle and career on the one man who survived as dictator of Russia until his death? Granted, he died horribly, helplessly lying in his own bodily fluids for 16 hours after a stroke, until they finally put him in a bed and all he could do was watch his enemies plot and scheme for power, while ensuring that he would never recover this time. Granted, all the doctors had been purged, so he had to rely on quacks who were so terrified that they relied on consensus diagnostics and debate instead of doing anything to help him, and he had to watch all of this, unable to articulate his horror and rage until he finally died. But he did cling to power. Putin loves that.
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Mark Bodder : You just go in circles, because you KNOW Trump is done. The Mueller Report shows 10 OBSTRUCTIONS. It literally SAYS they could NOT INVESTIGATE Trump’s RussiaGate Scandal, BECAUSE THEY WERE OBSTRUCTED. I won’t tell you again, son. You’re outmatched, because you’re simply wrong. And, if you’re not being paid to Shill for Trump, you will be remembered as one of his EMBARRASSED WHORES, who, “do it for free,” because they are just too ASHAMED to hear, “I told you so,” from people they HATE; which is ANYONE who disagrees with Trump; which is the VAST MAJORITY OF AMERICA 😁
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John Giglio : Oh, Bodder is VERY, “bogus,” and he goes in circles, with the SAME, “arguments,” again and again. We literally YAWN when we see the same old Propaganda from him. Everyone KNOWS that Lincoln was a Republican, and that he’s now a Democrat. We all know that the KKK found a home with the Southern Dems, and that all ENDED in the 60’s with LBJ. His talking points are SO stultifyingly LAME, he would have to be an IDIOT to, “believe,” them himself? He’s just a paid Shill, I think? You can tell by his repetition and obtuseness. No one logical gets their, “Arguments,” SMASHED, and then just trots them out again for the next person? That kind of mental incapacity is bought ✌️👍
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@subliminalcriminal777 : Actually, I’m, “the kinda’ guy,” that got rich, being independent, strong willed and taking full responsibility for everything I did, son. Just because you hear your president tell you, “the buck stops here,” that’s no, “admission,” of defeat. That’s called taking responsibility! I know you trump troll Karen SJW’s don’t like to hear it, but all those, “rights,” you’re told to, “think,” you have? They come with RESPONSIBILITIES. That’s the bit that your mom never put on the curriculum of life, son. That’s why you’re now a trump troll, for a living, and I’m happy, zappy and handsome, kid. Who got the better deal out of The American Dream that time, son? 😉
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@hhpoolsandspas2174 : That’s the most transparently disingenuous sentence I’ve ever read in Jake’s comment threads. The only, “politics,” you seem to speak of is Jake’s very accurate description of MTG as a, “traitor,” which she is. Keep in mind, she is betraying the majority of her own party, as well as all of the 20,000 (minimum) western volunteers (including thousands of Americans) fighting for western democracy out there. And she’s calling for, “peace talks,” that neither side wants.
Given that ALL war IS political (read your Von Clausewitz) how did siting her betrayal of the American people suddenly cross a line for you? Perhaps it never did and you’re just using word, “politics,” in an attempt persuade a YouTuber not to speak out loud on the most shameful aspects of your own political favourite cum ally? Thankfully, Jake is too smart to be manipulated by such fumbling attempts at passive aggressive double-think, being that he comes from (and has fought for) a western democracy, where it is not the natural state of the human mind to hold self contradictory views in one’s head without addressing them. In the west, we call that, “hypocrisy.”
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Bill : Why? Because you like to get all, “Butt Hurt,” about, “the left,” whoever TF THEY are? Why are you Trump Trolls all such professional victims? You come to spread your HATE, talking to people you HATE, on a channel that you HATE, and THAT makes, “sense,” to you? . . . Jesus, son? . . . 😆
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Juju Rellama : Oh, do grow up? No one, not one politician, is actually campaigning for, “Open Boarders,” son. No one WANTS that. This is like Gun Control, with you racists. You think, because people would prefer it if the police were not HOPELESSLY outgunned by the criminals, so we have a little common sense regulation, that everyone’s trying to take all your guns. It’s just hysteria. We’re talking about better ways to deal with the issue, that AREN’T a big FU to Mexico, and wasting America’s time and money. That’s all. The wall was a DUMB idea. Admit that, and move on . . . SMH
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Sir Loxley Mendoza : It’s not a question of, “afford,” genius. People can, “afford,” cigarettes, but they’re still a waste of money, and rot you from within. First, you have to agree on what the nature of the, “problem,” is. You will not find ONE politician campaigning for, “Open Boarders,” and destabilising the FBI, Coast Guard, Airports, AND ICE Agents, by NOT PAYING THEM, is an act of pure IDIOCY. Anne Coulter and Rush Limbaugh were NOT elected, and they only take their orders from Putin, anyway.
So, your solution, that would all but END the problem, OVER NIGHT? Prosecute the Farm and Business Owners, who RELY on migrant workers, paid off the books, both criminally and financially. Voila. The only problem is that GOP politicians take large donations, to look the other way, and they pay the cops and ICE off too. You’d be busting up an organised racket, run by people who say they hate Mexico in one breath, while encouraging them to drop in and work for them, Tax Free, in the next.
If you gave a rats ass about, “security,” you’d look into the numbers, son? You’ll be astonished at the sums we’re talking about, here. But, no. You’re far too busy, being hysterical, backing Trump’s vanity project. He doesn’t CARE about boarder security, son! He wants a monument; and he wants to suck up to his racist base . . . SMH 🙂
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@russellmiles2861 : And, if they do, they need to understand that it’s a highly skilled art, with technical learning required, and practice needed. You must have three things: experience (being willing to die on stage, testing and developing your ability to win over an audience), technical skill (some understanding of how and why jokes work) and, as stated above, “empathy.” The whole reason some gags work and some don’t is because, when it works, you are secretly flattering your audience, and when it doesn’t, you are insulting them. Even some comedy success stories haven’t learned that lesson. ✌️
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@TheAdeybob : You touch it with a needle. So many actual comics have done the hard work, found out what works and what doesn’t, died on stage, and eventually learned how to slay an audience. I can just see Bill Burr, or Colbert, etc, looking at Gutfeld, knowing he’s never put in the work, suffered for the art form (which it genuinely is) or honed his craft. He’s an example of entitlement, assuming that his brashness, and the sycophancy of his enslaved staff, saying, “You’re so funny Mr Gutman! You really should do a stage show!” translates into the thing itself! He’s NEVER worked at it, and clearly has no technique. He rants for a living, and wants to think he’s funny, and not as offensive as he is in real life. And just like trump, he’s seen others do it, and thought, “How hard can it be?” The answer is, VERY. And now he’s forced himself to find that out, the hard way. 👍
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P.S. This video is a good example of your analysis being so insightful. The topic is perhaps a bit abstruse for younger viewers, even though it does affect them directly, in the roundabout way that you explained.
The weird thing, for me, that I’ve noticed is that, if I were to list all of the YouTubers that I spend the most time watching or listening to, (which represents a pretty broad spectrum of topics) the one thing they all have in common is that they have teaching experience in one way or another.
I feel like the knowledge that former teachers, trainers, scientists, etc, have the best presentation styles for YouTube growth should be worth something to analysts . . . perhaps?
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Suella Braverman is that most dangerous cocktail of things; driven by pathological belief in her, “mission,” wrong headed, sociopathic and intellectually speaking, plain stupid. The reason for the, “Conservative crisis,” has far more to do with broken trust with the voters (a series of incompetent PM’s for example) due to their callous indifference to the real problems of average people.
It is useful, manipulative, to both the far right, “conservatives,” like her and people in the Farage Garage, to pretend that migration is the central issue of this election. But the stark reality is that we now pay record levels of tax while our public services are in record decline. And we’ve all seen that this was due to Brexit lies, theft, incompetence, callous indifference to Covid (and the previous mentioned issues), insider dealing, corruption and waste!
We’ve watched them make themselves, their friends and their families much richer at the direct cost of justice, fairness and the voters’ pockets.
But, let’s just come down to one basic case in point, shall we? As I see it, any cabinet minister who literally calls vast swathes of voters names, from the dispatch box, is unfit for ANY role in public life! Not just once, and not just one name, but a list of deliberately hurtful epithets, in several speeches, questions or pre-prepared responses to questions, DRIVING HOME the point that not only does she not care about what people who disagree with her think, but she actively hates them and seeks to punish them!
She is just wrong in every respect; factually, intellectually, emotionally, historically, you name it. Wrong and wrong headed. I genuinely believe she would benefit more from spending time with a good psychotherapist than in public life. She’s obviously deeply unhappy. But why is she entitled to make the rest of us live in her own personal hell with her?
Away with her. Forever!
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@captainhadd0ck : Well, it turns out that several moles in the FSB have been passing on Intel to the west, which is why Russia’s, “elite,” Spetsnas (may have misspelled that?) got 90% of its personnel wiped off the map within three days. So, I have mixed feelings about them. But, when your, “spy,” outfit is teaming with enemy spies, I guess that’s a hands down 100% winner of the Incompetent Award, so I’ll give you that.
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@MrMckenzie2403 : See, your first mistake, ma’am, is to take it all so, “personally,” as this permanent sense of, “Victimhood,” you Trumpophiles like to peddle runs counter, in a rather effeminate manner, to the, “Macho,” image (inspired by The Village People, I believe?) that trump trolls are trying to manufacture. Speaking of, “manufacturing,” that brings me to your second, glaring error. I’m not, “trying,” to be smarter than you, miss. I just am. Which was one of the reasons that I got bored with your pointless ramblings about halfway through and stopped reading. You must try to remember, YOU’RE ONLY A TRUMP TROLL, and you’re NOT, “interesting,” or, “worth,” my valuable TIME, madam! Do get over yourself, keep them BRIEF and make a POINT, instead of crying about your hurt, “feelings,” like a Karen? Or, continue being ignored? I really DON’T care 🤣
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@MrMckenzie2403 : “Facts,” huh? The, “steal,” ain’t real! Fact. The GOP are going to ADMIT THAT! And you were SO keen to, “believe,” in them, I trust you’ll STILL, “believe,” them when they tell you this themselves? Coz’ it’s a fact, ma’am. Just the facts. You’re finding this, “emotionally,” painful, I know. But, you’ll only make it harder on yourself. Go talk to a human? Get out of your, “phone,” altogether? Do,do,et Hong with your life? You’re still a young woman. It’s not too late? . . . 😎
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Read Prof Stanley G Payne’s book, The History of Fascism 1914 - 1945. The word you need is not really, “Nazi.” It’s, “Fascism.” A cult of personality, who’s founding narrative is a lie, largely based on, “victimhood.” The projection of macho, “strength,” and the use of violence (jan 6th) and intimidation as a political tool. The racism, of course. Trying to get the votes of minorities discounted, both from the elections, and now, attempting to ensure they can’t vote, prior to future elections. This is genuine fascism, just like in Franco’s Spain, Mussolini’s Italy, and Hitler’s Germany. And history is completely repeating itself; especially with the paranoid conspiracies that got the Nazis into power. Disturbing.
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politicman1 : So, putting “moral high ground” to one side, for a moment, what about simple right and wrong? Do you honestly think that there are NO circumstances, whatsoever, in which it is right to have an abortion? And please, with the, “sanctity of human life,” crap; spare me? You don’t don’t even have any basic respect for strangers you disagree with! You CANNOT believe that it’s OK to be “selective” about which Christian “values” you are willing to KILL people for, and disregard others? THAT is NOT Christian. THAT is POLITICAL BIAS.
And, by going on about “getting inside people’s heads”? REALLY? You are giving away your vulnerabilities, there.
If you can answer those two questions, I’ll at least take you seriously. But, you come off as ranting and, “Butt Hurt”
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Get Overit : politicman is telling you more about what upsets HIM, when he keeps pushing that “inside your head” line. Either someone said something like that to him, making others laugh at him, so the memory upsets him now; or YOU said something that REALLY got under his skin? Perhaps BOTH? Either way, he CLEARLY couldn’t evict YOU from the derelict “real estate” in his own Condemned Space of a mind, which is usually Reserved for the likes of Trump to take up residence. The irony being that Trump is the squatter, here, and he won’t be collecting any “rent” for selling out to him, whereas you were at least offering some development and basic improvements? I think I’m maybe getting carried away with this metaphor here, but, you see what I mean? ;-)
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Come on, CNN? . . . Putin was NOT, “greeting crowds of supporters,” and you know it. These were students and government employees, TOLD what to say, where to stand and how to behave. A show that doesn’t cover Putin’s bloody nose, from this internal Mafia spat.
So far, the biggest city the Russians could take in this whole Ukrainian war was Rostov.
And while Zelensky refused a protected ride out of town from the AMERICANS (it doesn’t get more secure than that!) and asked for ammunition instead of a ride, Putin was SEEN to FLEE Moscow, from his OWN SIDE!
You just don’t come back from that. Compared to Zelensky, Putin looks like the COWARD he is! He can’t even take Prigozhin! Ukrainians have killed over 20,000 of them!
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While I get your point, would you prefer it if the DOJ was allowed to lie and break legally binding contracts? Because that’s what happened. Cosby signed a plea deal, which was, “Confess and settle in civil court, and we’ll drop the criminal prosecution.” That prosecutor broke his and the state’s word, and the law, by making a deal he didn’t have the right, or lawful authority, to make. That prosecutor should be on trial for doing that? The court has merely upheld the word of the department of justice. Cosby remains a confessed serial rapist, as the civil suit is unchanged. If anything, it is stronger now. But a rapist walks free among us, because the same lawyer who went on to defend trump at his last impeachment, made a corrupt promise and corruptly broke his word. I hope he gets disbarred.
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The 10 Steps to Totalitarian (Fascist) Dystopia, in no particular order, are:
1) Violence, threat, and intimidation, used to achieve political ends.
2) A permanent sense of grievance and victimhood.
3) A founding narrative which is a LIE.
4) A culture of, “Blame,” aimed at minorities, to create the, “targets,” necessary to direct the violence.
5) Outright Racism and the suppression of those Minorities cited as the targets.
6) Anti-Intellectualism, Anti-Science culture.
7) Fervent, “faith culture,” based on, “mysticism,” so as to replace, “rationality, logic and reason,” and supply the psychological crutches necessary to support a culture that has done away with logic and reason: Evangelicalism in this case.
8) Total Delegitimisation of ALL political opponents. This includes not just politicians, but media, law enforcement, intelligence agencies, scientific institutions, human rights groups, foreign leaders, and basically, ANYONE who speaks truth to power. (We’ve had that for more than 5 years now)
9) Total Delegitimisation of any and all democratic outcomes which threaten their power; abject refusal to accept reality.
10) Corrupt use of power, business interests and the elites behind capital interests, to mobilise a nationwide suppression of VOTES, PROTEST, and even EDUCATION, to ensure survival and the creation of others, brought up with a false notion of history, programmed to support fascism without knowing any better.
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Bigger Man : After that long chain of Trump Propaganda LIES, people can see how Triggered you are. What Trump Trolls never seem to get is that, coordinated Propaganda is one thing; you expect that, from both sides. But, Trump Trolls keep coming out with the SAME LIES, out of left field, which make no sense. That’s clear evidence that they are being controlled, by a sinister, much smarter, entity. That’s WHY the Blue Wave, son
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Flying Filipino : Yeah, I’m surprised he hadn’t rolled up his sleeves, for effect? You read my mind. But, he came away from that, after his, “uh, ah, uh, ah,” blunders, looking pretty whipped. So, it’s just as well he didn’t go full on, with the, “tough guy,” act. Jake took him to school and BACK 😆👍
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Damon Ma : You realise that it isn’t ONLY the, “left,” voting against the GOP in places like Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc, right? There aren’t ENOUGH, “Liberals,” in those areas to have kicked out the GOP WITHOUT Conservatives voting WITH the liberals. I mean, you GET that, right? . . . Trump squeaked in, with a minority, and ALIENATED EVERYBODY, since being in office. Where are the votes going to COME FROM? Seriously? Conservatives HATE him
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ParadymShift Music : Pretty sure, waving your arms without due care and attention ain’t a crime, son? Trying to get the attention of the police is still legal too, I think? Still, he is a bit, “brown,” to be exercising his rights like that, these days? So, yeah, they may have just murdered him, for sport?
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Patricia Burke : Well, Putin’s been getting away with it, all his life? That’s why America is adopting his model. You have to let people, “vote,” and go through the motions, despite their, “elections,” being RIGGED. So long as they get their basic services, and their Love Island and X-Factor, they are more than happy to suppress their doubt, and just PLAY at, “Democracy.” That’s where these guys have gone wrong. You need stability and distractions
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MVVpro : And hackers. Like Donny has. Do you remember the Russian Hack of Florida’s election computers? It got big coverage at the time, and even the GOP admitted it was the Russians. Then Trump adopted Florida as his home and launched his, “campaign,” from there, within weeks. Remember? It went dark, because they threatened every politician with Anti-Terror laws, and instant jail, if they talked to the press about it. Remember? And, now? Donny says, “voter fraud,” everywhere EXCEPT FLORIDA!? “Don’t look at Florida.” And you aren’t ALARMED??? Do you people WANT a Dictatorship?
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Seems the GOP are groaning in the dark, desperate for ANYTHING. But, for F*x to whine about, “our most cherished norms,” after trump??? . . . How about ELECTIONS??? Weren’t they our most cherished norms, until Jan 6th? The GOP tried to get a democratic election overturned, whilst fuelling a violent insurrection against America, at the same moment! It’s cringeworthy to hear Fascists talk about, “norms,” OR, “democracy!” I’m surprised F*x anchors don’t choke on their hypocrisy!
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@joereaume4860 : No, he’s not, “for real.” Hodgden is paid to make stuff up for his Fascist shill masters, and to keep slipping the, “Chiynah,” narrative up front and centre. You only have to read the hypocrisy and double speak to see that he makes no sense. Tucker Carlson has done three stories about how, “America should be more like China,” on F*x in one week! Seems it doesn’t matter whether you’re pro or anti China, so long as it’s part of their narrative. Talk about ANYTHING but Joe’s massive successes, right? Even green eggs and ham is preferable to admitting defeat, or celebrating America’s recovery from the Fascist GOP’s failure on ALL fronts. 👍
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@derrickburwell7777 : I’m NOT on their side, you know? And yeah, they’re out dated, rusty and, if the Taliban ever hope to keep them airborne, they’ll be depending on China and Russia for spare parts. But, the Chinese Intel agencies actually refer to the period between the late 1990’s and early 2010’s as their, “Golden Age Of Espionage,” when about 50% of their exchange students and naturalised citizens were giving them Intel of one type or another. That statistic has massively dropped now, and I sure DON’T want people having a negative image of Asian immigrants now, because they would be wrong to, as well as plain evil. But, it’s just a fact, Derrick. They were extraordinarily successful, for a while, and that success was only added to, by the fact that the military preferred not to be embarrassed by their hideous leaks and failures, resulting in them not exactly broadcasting China’s successes either. That’s why so many people, who don’t follow such matters, don’t know about it. Press cooperation, “on national security grounds,” might have been sincere? But, it helped cover the Pentagon’s embarrassment too. 🤷♂️
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@derrickburwell7777 : P.S. There are some awesome documentaries about this stuff, here on YouTube. You get to literally see top of the line, spook jets, costing billions, being practically CLONED by the Chinese airforce, in a sudden and RADICAL change of look, type and technology of their standard aircraft! And you get to see literal footage of the FBI, too late, sadly, busting the Chinese spies, who were selling Lockheed Martin and military secret design plans! Fascinating, if you’re interested?
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True Guilt : No one CARES about, “Hillary,” dude. Everyone is GALD she’s gone. The, “president,” HAS, “FAILED,” time and again. THAT’S why Conservatives AND Liberals want Trump GONE. Only the deeply IGNORANT, RACIST TRAITORS (who would rather salute the Rebel Flag of Treason than the AMERICAN FLAG) and FOREIGN TROLLS come to CNN to spill out the FEAR and HATRED. We ALL SEE IT, son. You wouldn’t BE HERE, if you, “Beleived,” your own Propaganda . . . SMH
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Aperture : This is set theory, more than, “infinity.” We have an answer to Xeno’s Paradox, now. We know that the universe has a, “smallest,” indivisible quanta, which makes the whole, meaning: There is NOT an infinite number of steps, to overtaking the tortoise. There’s a LOT, but a countable, lower limit. Thus the infinity in the paradox is gone, explaining why we do overtake the tortoise
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Martinni Bataan : Honestly, I think, at some point, these screen lickers just started to believe their own line of bollox, so much, that they have NO IDEA (or just can’t bring themselves to face?) that, if Hillary was to spontaneously EXPLODE, TODAY, A) The people who would care LEAST about that, would be Trump’s opponents, and, B) Once the Trumpophiles had sobered up from their celebrations, they would be left to face the FACT at all the same indictments are waiting for Trumpski, and that it hasn’t made ONE BIT OF DIFFERENCE.
History is going to remember the whole Hillary, “Whaddabout,”ism, “argument,” as one of the most IRRELEVANT WASTES of time and energy EVER undertaken! It’s like the exact opposite of the MOON LANDINGS, where so MANY idiots, put so MUCH energy into the most POINTLESS ENDEAVOURS, EVER! If you didn’t larf at these pr*cks, you’d HAVE TO cry? 🤣 ✌️👍
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david gray : Poor David, I’m a Conservative, for a start. A LOT of us are; Steve Schmidt, Robert Mueller, the, “Joe,” half of Joe and Mika: Just one of MILLIONS of Conservatives who vote Democrat, because Donny is a crook. And, here’s your COLD, HARD, PROOF. You ready for this? ‘Coz I’ll say this only ONCE:
Two books, based on the FACTS, taken from the Public Record, and established in a Court of Law to be 100% TRUE; written by a Pulitzer Prize winning Journalist, Financial EXPERT (currently advising governments around the world) and a guy who has MET Trump on several occasions: David Cay Johnston.
The books are called, The Making of Donald Trump, and, It’s Worse Than You Think: available on iTunes, OR, if you have no money (nothing to be ashamed of) you can borrow them, FOR FREE, at your local library, which DOES have copies, though you may have to go on the waiting list, as they’re VERY popular.
Read them, WEEP, and come back here, to APOLOGISE 🙂
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@Fuzzybeanerizer : Not sure I agree with your entire analysis, given the rigged referendum Russia held in 2020, which fundamentally changed the basic foundations of the Russian, “constitution,” which essentially rendered it a new founding document, granting unlimited power to Putin and extending his tenure as president from 10 years to 25 years (before he has to organise the rigging of yet another, “election,” and jail or assassinate anyone who complains about it) but I do agree with your conclusion.
Russia has no place among civilised societies. If it wasn’t for their nukes, they would not even be a going concern. Their economy is the same size a Spain’s, only more corrupt, making it smaller in real terms. Our real objective now has to be shrinking their economy and place on the world stage, to the point that they will be willing to trade away their nukes to the UN and submit to regular inspections, in return for sanctions relief.
This will most likely need to be over Putin’s dead body, but I don’t think anyone will complain about that?
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While I agree it could use some improvements (more dialogue options and the cheating mechanic during the poker playing, for example) the one thing I would say you got fundamentally wrong, (a scientifically demonstrable fact, my dear boy) was about the gunplay. That IS Red Dead. It’s what the fans loved and came back for.
Sure, it’s just an opinion, yada, yada, but it’s also missing the whole point of WHY people play in the first place. As games become more like interactive movies, the story and characters will become more of a focus, especially to critics. But, the bottom line for any video game, will always be that it’s a, “game,” and that the gameplay is the core, around which all else is built. And, if you doubt that, I present Death Stranding as my exhibit A, for my case. That game fails, because it’s not a game. It’s a movie, with godawful intervals in which the player has to grind to get to the next good bit; a cut scene. You were right about that.
And the fans would have crucified RDR2 if it DIDN’T have the gunplay they love and enjoyed so much, from the first game. Story and characters; acting and pretty vistas, ALL come AFTER that; indeed it’s what makes all that stuff WORK: the player’s immersion into that world and the sense that they occupy the central character, which occurs because they already know how to use the gunplay mechanics, expect to know, WANT to know, and feel it like the familiarity of a comfortable pair of old boots. And, to be Arthur Morgan, is to experience the chore of looting, grafting, and doing all the hard work of the character, because his mentor, Dutch, doesn’t. By the end of the game, we understand Arthur’s inner conflict better, because he did all those repetitive chores, or had to flee the law, because there wasn’t time to loot the bodies, solely because Dutch doesn’t. Look how squalid their last hideout is, when Arthur is no longer contributing to chores and other things? For the sake of the story, chores are no longer an option, but many players who did those camp chores, barely even notice. Because they’re living inside Arthur, and like him, they don’t feel the impulse to contribute in that way any more, even though they did earlier.
Arthur did the grinding for Dutch, which is why we feel his betrayal all the more.
However, you’re right that it was boring, having to go into too much detail, with searching drawers, etc, but mostly because the mechanics were clunky. Had they been smoother and less prone to error, it would have been less noticeable. My biggest complaint was that Arthur would have killed Michah long ago, and never said anything to Dutch about it, when he had the chance. And they should have written that into the plot, and made Dutch the mole, which would have been more believable. His hypocrisy is what their breakup comes down to, right? But, that’s plotting. Not your complaint. Funny though, how our different paths lead us to about the same score? As I would give the game about the same score as you. For different reasons. Frankly, I’m amazed that Rockstar never patched the looting mechanics, for corpses or buildings. So, they and not enough fans were bothered, I guess? We can share in that disappointment?
Knowing the odds of you, or anyone, even reading this, is a bit like writing, “Riggs was here,” in The Shawshank Redemption, or leaving my name on that rock in the game, that so many other NPC’s did. A curiosity, that just maybe, someone else may stumble across, read the first two lines of, and then not give enough of a f*ck about it to finish. Why do it then? Why did they? 😉✌️
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Exactly. Why are people wasting their time with their employees? Seriously! That’s ALL a politician is to them! Look at the DONOR RECORDS in TEXAS, and then ask yourself? Will Ted Cruz, Jacob Abbot or ANY Texan politician, “change,” a God Damned thing, or maybe, JUST MAYBE, they will do EXACTLY what the Director of Exxon, or Shell, or all the other Fossil Fuel Barons TELL THEM TO! Stop arguing with, “politicians,” about this sh*t if you really, “care,” and want to see real, “change!”??? Take your fight RIGHT TO THE DOOR of Mobil, and get THEM to change! Or f’kin’ FORGET IT! 🤷♂️🙄
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This is on YOU, America. The TRUTH is that YOU are too afraid to acknowledge the TRUTH about the fall of the Republic, because you KNOW what this means for you. The date of the, “Acquittal,” is the date that the Republic has ENDED. They CANNOT and WILL NOT allow, “elections,” this year! Not when it’s SO EASY to have Putin FIX them for them. If Trump lost his protected status, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN!??? He and his family would GO TO JAIL! He would RAT OUT the rest of the GOP, from Bill Barr to Devin Nunes, sending THEM to JAIL! Leaving the Republican Party SO UNELECTABLE and HISTORICALLY DISGRACED, that they would DISBAND! Do you HONESTLY IMAGINE they will ALLOW THAT? When they’ve LITERALLY just SHOWN YOU that there IS NO LAW!? The TRUTH is, IF YOU WERE HONEST with yourselves, you would be FORCED to acknowledge that the Republic has FALLEN, meaning that ONLY A REVOLUTION can restore it, now. But, that’s SCARY, right? There’s NO, “legal remedy,” to a DICTATORSHIP. Learn to love Big Brother, go and give them the data they want, by, “voting,” in a RIGGED election, so they can decide which States, Counties and Individuals to TARGET. OR, have a second REVOLUTION. Just don’t LIE to yourselves, PRETENDING that the 2020, “Elections,” are NOT already RIGGED? The GOP have decided that they don’t want to go to jail. What a surprise? Are YOU prepared to do ANYTHING about that? . . . FFS, America? . . .
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@corndoggydogdog : How can that be a good faith argument? How can that even be, “the,” issue that matters, after all that objective evidence that has been heaped upon you, that this current bunch of con-servatives have your worst interests at heart?
If you were being mugged in an alleyway and a uniformed police officer comes to assist you, would you ask to see his credentials and tell him you’re, “not convinced,” he’s a good copper? Or maybe you’d just let him have a chance of getting this maniac’s knife from your throat!?
Why not look up Starmer’s track record? He served with distinction in Tony Blair’s government as the Attorney General, which was in itself a difficult trick to pull off with all the shenanigans going on about him in the Cabinet! What do you NEED?
He’s a politician, so of course he’s going to let you down! But at least he won’t be actively ROBBING YOU and GASLIGHTING you at the same time!
Your comment, if sincere is STUNNINGLY obtuse. But, you’re not THAT stupid, are you? You’re just a Tory voter who can’t think of a justification for arguing the merits of this bunch of hypocrites and thieves, so you’re trying (very lamely) to make it all about something other . . . FFS . . . You people . . . 🤦♂️
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They should rename that square after Alexander Solzhenitsyn and really make the point, perhaps? Rather than utter Derussification, which may throw the baby out with the bath water, why not celebrate the Russians and Ukrainians who stood up to Stalin and others of the communist regime that Putin is trying so hard to whitewash? After all, the greatest Russians in history, and the founders of what would become Russia, were all from Ukraine. If anyone has a, “historical right,” or a claim to historical ownership, it’s literally the other way around. Ukraine could invade Russia with less controversy about who has the right to be running Russian affairs. That’s just a historical fact. Anyway, glory to Ukraine and DOWN with Putin. ✌️🇺🇦
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rosie her : A Fox Poll revealed, two weeks ago, (and PLEASE, don’t take MY word for it? DO LOOK IT UP?) that 9% of the people who voted for Trump, say they’ll NEVER vote for him again! Lot’s of questions in the poll, but they TRIED to bury THAT part, which Shep Smith revealed to an AMAZED Fox audience, who want Smith FIRED! But, the TRUTH is out there, so I REALLY don’t care, if you NEED to think of me as being on the “left”, because of your EMOTIONAL responses to FACTS. I’m just enjoying the hysterical What-About-ism. It’s HILLARY-OUS! See what I did there?. . . Geddit? . . . No? . . . Please yourself ;-)
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@senben9180 : It’s not that people aren’t worried, more by accidents than intent, as Russia’s record in that department is appalling (as the Ukrainians know more than most, to their great cost) but we westerners are not worried by Putin’s threats. You must keep in mind Putin’s history, the fact that he is a perennial coward and that he is weak minded. If ever he got to a point that he wanted to make good on his threats, it would already be too late, as his authority would have been far too eroded by then. He may think he’s Stalin, but the Russian people will not lay down their lives for a lost cause, just because he says so on the point of being arrested, or deposed by yet another revolution. He’s pulled that gag too many times now.
You must also keep in mind that the very people who are the main target of these empty threats, the people who would be the victims of any such attack, the Ukrainians, know he’s bluffing better than you do, and they want to take the fight to him more than they’ve been allowed to thus far. They know what they’re doing.
To take Putin seriously would be the real act of burying one’s head in the sand.
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@NickiMinajLoveYou : You agree with forced, “punishment abortions,” in a border camp purpose built for pregnant asylum seekers? I thought you lot were anti-abortion? All that expense and trouble, just to prevent Dreamers from being born in America, and to deter the mostly Catholic Latin American women? And for what? So that Joe Biden could shut it down on the same day he heard of it’s existence, and have the FBI investigate the Doctors, nurses, guards, everyone! They don’t like to broadcast that one, but it will be explosive when it goes to trial, don’t you think? Especially when they find out which GOP Governor or Senator enacted that, “policy!”? How will the GOP hypocrite their way out of that? Say what you like about the Dems, but FORCING ABORTIONS, on unwilling, drugged and bound, vulnerable young women!? They’ve NEVER done anything so . . . What did Joe call it again? “Monstrous!” But, that, “made sense,” to you did it? Whaddever, son 🙄
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Tyler Morgis : It’s IMPORTANT, because they are TRYING to convince the WORLD that MILLIONS of FAKE “news” stories, opinions of the American people and the STRUCTURE OF SOCIETY is the REALITY. People went to the polls, BELIEVING LIES! And they VOTED BECAUSE of those LIES in ways that they WOULDN’T HAVE, OTHERWISE. Are YOU “honestly” saying that we should NOT CARE that a HOSTILE, FOREIGN power, who’s MAIN FOREIGN POLICY GOAL is to DESTROY American democracy, DIRECTLY interfering with our elections, financing a CORRUPT, FAILED businessman, INFILTRATING our ENTIRE Executive branch of government and BUYING our politicians, is NOT the “bigger picture,” here???
WTF is WRONG with you??? Smh
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@monster8392 : Except, we have no reason to believe Russia actually has nukes in Belarus. All the Intel is contrary. It could actually be the reverse situation, as Lukashenko has been leery of allowing nukes in his country, knowing that they’ll come with all the overwhelming, “security measures,” and personnel that shove Putin’s fist a little deeper up his rectum. Now he has an ally capable of stopping Russian troops on the border, with a high interest in doing so. Never forget, these are not, “friends,” we’re talking about here, but a bunch of gangsters circling each other in a shark tank, looking for exploitable weaknesses. I doubt Belarus will ever see a nuke, and they’ve probably had severe consequences spelled out for them by the west, should they try it.
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@Trebor74 : Completely WRONG. Not to this government.
“Austerity,” is supposed to mean living below your means, “austerely.” In fact, what it means in real terms, to a Tory government, is the majority living on, “means,” that are below their ability to sustain a basic, decent living standard, annually resulting in multiple, (CHEAPLY AND EASILY) PREVENTABLE DEATHS across the UK; while the people in power (including friends and families) live far beyond their means, on the money earned by those very poor people whom they routinely rob, or just make poorer by betting against their currency so they can further enrich themselves when the Pound takes a nosedive due to lunatic Neo-Liberal, “policies.”
It is unsustainable as a matter of policy, immoral as a matter of ethics and unconscionable to those among us who retain souls.
And, because the Tories know they have already lost the election, they are looting the country to ensure they can squeeze as much as possible before the teet runs dry, whilst paying the most expensive lawyers in Britain to cover their tracks and ensure they remain unaccountable when the inevitable government enquiries find widespread, “Waste, Incompetence and Corruption,” for example, which, by this government’s OWN FIGURES cost us £26 BILLION POUNDS over the last two years alone! A record in both inflation adjusted and practical terms.
But the Tories call that, “austerity,” so that’s alright then?
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Who would ever trust the politicians who voted to overturn a democratic election DURING a violent Insurrection bent on overturning a democratic election? The same people who are now Suppressing, voters, the right to protest and even the topic of Slavery in Education! Totalitarianism leaves no room for retreat, because they have exposed themselves and know they can never be seen as legitimate by any thinking adult, ever again. So, all they have now is their attempted Coup by other means: like this sham, “audit,” that will announce that, “Chiynah,” interfered with our elections, because that’s the narrative that Putin has chosen for them. Fascism leaves you with two choices, every single time. You either destroy them, utterly, or they WILL destroy you . . . utterly. In Franco’s Spain, Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany (I could cite Stalin’s Russia, but to avoid writing an essay . . .) Fascism NEVER offers a third alternative. We are in way more danger than we probably realise. We must crush this fascism, with every lawful means at our disposal . . . UTTERLY! ✌️👍
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zengara11 : I expressed myself very badly, there. What I meant was that the Nazis needed a target, and communism was getting strong in their day, so they turned it into the bogeyman, as a stepping stone to the end of Democracy. I didn’t mean that they were, “socialist,” in any way. That was just another lie, in their very name. I mean that, labelling AOC will backfire, like the last time. She’s the only one there, with one or two other freshmen, who didn’t squander her time, posturing. She asked important questions, and I hope the rest of the Dems take note. By doing her JOB, she’s ended up dominating the headlines. Maybe they ought to think about doing that too? ✌️
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Wes Porter : And, stop with the Click Bait, son? Normals NEVER touch it. Malware Trap, son. You probably have Bots, Trojans, and God knows what, all over your tech? Use your OWN words, instead of running home to momma? Does Alex Jones do ALL your, “debating,” FOR YOU? . . . Dear, OH DEAR 😆
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Richard Linter : In fairness, when you know that people are likely to think they are your words and not someone else’s, there’s certainly a moral question? And, as was pointed out, she was also failing to live up to the standards of both her former and present employers; the latter of which, is creating a bunch of writers who are learning that Harvard does not necessarily practice what it preaches. That’s not acceptable? It’s not some back-street, “give us your money and we’ll give you a diploma,” crappy establishment, like Wharton? They have a serious reputation to protect. Skelter knows her well enough to say, quite rightly, that she would not have let a student get away with that. She knew better. And, I didn’t hear an apology? Not a sincere one? She denies the allegation. How can she apologise, without accepting responsibility? Or, is everything in America down at a GOP level, now?
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Richard Linter : That’s an emotional response to an intellectual question. The term may well be, “loaded,” but it the term used by her current and former employers, to define what she did. NOT Stelter. Don’t, “blame,” him for pointing that out. That’s just shooting the messenger. Trump fans always seem to think that a journalist, asking hard questions, is being, “personal,” and they take it personally. She had every opportunity to own what she’d done, and apologise for it. She does NOT deny the facts, only her responsibility, and the definitions that she used to apply.
But, let’s be honest, here? She’s clearly in the wrong, and is clearly SO unused to admitting wrong doing that she doesn’t even have the emotional or intellectual wherewithal to cope with this. NONE of that is Stelter’s fault?
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Richard Linter : Stop being obtuse. By using the term, he’s not the one making the allegation in the first place. He’s reporting the news of the allegation and putting it to the person concerned. You are simply trying to save face, by clumsily shifting words around, back and forth, and contradicting your own premise in the first place. So, you’re hardly in a position to criticise, “syntax,” when you’ve ceased to make any sense. You must be such a BORE at parties, wearing your Syntax Cop’s outfit (probably misspelled or written in Russian) and booking people the whole time, while utterly missing the point of any conversation, with your practically autistic hangups 🤣
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Richard Linter : I knew you would use the term, “ad hominem,” Mr Zardos. I knew how to enter your psyche, which you proved, by not ignoring my quip about how you behave at parties, but defending yourself. I knew you were insecure, because that’s the jibe that got to you the most. And, I know the difference between a journalist putting a hard question to someone he probably is friends with, outside of that Q & A session, and someone who’s internal processes you profess to know in such great detail, you would have to BE him to establish your allegations. You are literally DOING what you accuse him of; claiming to have the facts and putting the worst possible spin on them.
As a lawyer says, in a TV drama, your questions are, “asked and answered,” so you keep staring at the chess board, son. Check and Mate ☺️
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Richard Linter : No, and No. The EVIDENCE? You are still talking to me. You are NOT, “happy,” to be ignored. And, every good chess player KNOWS that some people just need some time, to admit defeat. Some, like you, simply can’t. Keep telling us you’re, “thinking,” until you get tired of it. But, don’t PRETEND you don’t care, when your ACTIONS speak louder than your words. Admit it, son? You’re outclassed 😊
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Richard Linter : In other words, “please make another move? Talk about plagiarism, because I have all my ducks in a row?” I love your denial, in that Trumpian manner, you have. Calling ME the, “Troll,” when your only purpose in life is to shill for Trump and Putin, and attack CNN. You have been unmanned by your pride, son. Much as I enjoy stomping your remains, you should stay down, son? You’re really making a fool of yourself 🙂
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Twitter’s, “reach,” is a red herring. It’s a question of assessing the effect that Propaganda has on the, “individual,” and applying that conclusion, and subsequent judgment (legislation) to all cases. If you cannot find a, “one size fits all,” solution, to a single hypothetical, you can’t legislate. In this case, it should be quite simple, though. Consider what happened to Propagandists, who betrayed the free world, their home countries, and were then caught and brought to justice, after WW II? They we’re imprisoned or executed. And, we still had Free Speech, after the fact. And, yes . . . I’m looking at Fox
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On the one hand, it’s way more serious than Charlie sees . . . Yet! But, when the original Jaws is on release, with a CGI shark, or Laurel & Hardy are standing in for Tom And Jerry? . . . Or when the political meaning of a scene is altered, by removing a poster from the background, or changing what the actors say? The principle is WAY serious, and they shouldn’t interfere with an artist’s original vision, regardless! It’s worse than censorship! It’s putting thoughts, words and actions into to things that were never meant to be there!
On the other hand, “Giddorf my ASS EFFECT!” Can’t say more, because I’m flipping my desk! Huuughuah! 😁
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Илья Основиков : And, how is it in, “America’s interests,” to shaft needy children and veterans, through his now shut down, “Foundation,” I wonder? Or, to bilk old couples out of their life savings, through his now shut down, Tramp University? Sensing a theme here? Tell me? In this modern age of Drones, Passenger Aircraft, Ships boats, hovercraft, TUNNELS and LADDERS, just HOW Americans will be ANY less vulnerable to a determined refugee OR drug smuggler, by policing the most expensive monument to STUPIDITY and RACISM in American History, otherwise known as the, “Wall?” And, WHERE is Mexico’s MONEY for that? A Trump promise is worth about as much as tickets to an Elvis Concert, but YOU, “think,” that’s in our, “interests.” Or, how about making Putin the Emperor of Earth, by handing over control of the MAJORITY of the world’s OIL? In what WAY does THAT serve our interests? You’re a foreign Troll or Racist Traitor. Or, perhaps you occupy BOTH spaces at once, being a racist foreign Troll, happy to take the Rubles and rubbing your dick with glee at the downfall of America? Like Schrodinger’s TW@ 😁
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Илья Основиков : You can’t really talk about, “losing elections,” given that Donny LOST in 2016, and has alienated his minority of supporters ever since, resulting in the Big Blue Wave. And, when we’re letting in people from all over the world, but just picking on Mexicans, even though their migration figures have ALREADY DROPPED to an ALL TIME LOW, over the last 15 years, that is CLEARLY RACIST. Half the people agreeing with Trump on these threads are OUT AND PROUD RACISTS. Just because you don’t like being called out for what you ARE, you can’t blame ME for that? Snowflake 🙂
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Bee Shaw : You mean the ones that work on farms? Or in factories? “Sapping the system”??? You should read more and talk less. If the business owners, who INVITE cheap, TAX FREE, labour, from Mexico, were held accountable, you wouldn’t have them returning each year for the seasonal work, would you? You just make s**t up, because Alex Jones told you what to think, instead of HOW to think, RACIST
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Bee Shaw : And, if you actually, “believed,” that Mexico was going to pay for the wall, why not build it once we have the money from them? The number of people crossing the boarder has been DROPPING steadily for the past 15 YEARS, so there’s NO, “crisis,” which makes building it now, necessary. The new trade agreement does NOT give ONE CENT toward the wall, and Mexico will be watching their accounts like HAWKS to ensure they don’t get BILKED by crooked Donny. You KNOW this really, which is WHY you’re all so DESPERATE to get it now. Because, you KNOW Donny will be GONE soon, and there will be NO MORE talk of building walls . . . SMH 😁
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strgrazr58 : Well, the, “numbers,” according to Gallup, say that 52% of Americans want Trump Impeached and REMOVED. I know, I know. You wanna’ look at, “friendly,” polls, don’t you? Well, let’s take a look at Fox’s poll on the same question, shall we? 🤔 . . . 🤭 Oh dear . . . 🤣
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“The steal,” was the REASON for the Insurrection! So, let the GOP give their, “evidence,” for, “believing,” in it at trump’s IMPEACHMENT TRIAL!? Or confess that they KNOW it’s a seditious LIE!? For the world to see! Graham, Hawley, Cruz and the rest, for the benefit of Q, the Nazis, and the cult of trump! THAT will put an END to the lie and maybe the GOP too!?
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Sammy Bolo : Trump is a warmonger, trying not to look like a warmonger. And, your job is to help him with that Propaganda. But, the world has watched, while he ripped up his deal with Iran, broke America’s word, threatened and bullied them, while the Europeans have been trying to keep the peace and hold up the West’s end, without him. Now, he’s ramping up the Military presence, using the Saudis to frame them; making it look like Iran is STARTING the war, when we all KNOW it’s the LAST thing they want. And, he expects us to, “believe,” the intel coming from the SAME PEOPLE that he ROUTINELY calls, “liars,” EVERY DAY? He’s compared the CIA to, “Nazi Germany,” and we’re all meant to flip flop at his rate? America’s NOT buying it, son. Trump will have to look elsewhere for a bump in the polls. A war will finish him . . . Smh
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Gluemonkey : WEAKNESS! Trump’s opponents are angry that we are on the brink of war, in the first place. It was unnecessary. We HAD a deal. Sure, it might have needed PATIENCE to get better terms, but we HAD PEACE. What’s the ONE THING WORSE than taking us to the brink of war, without good cause? How about, calling out your enemy, only to back off at the crucial moment. WE ARE GLAD HE DID, even if it WAS Putin’s orders. But, Iran only sees WEAKNESS, and are loling their ASSES off at Trump, now. Trump needs to GET OUT of there. You Russian Trolls have been instructed to, “praise Trump for peace,” and try to paint his opponents as the, “warmongers,” because Putin doesn’t want Trump in Iran, stealing all the oil and busting up Putins smuggling empire . . .
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Gluemonkey : We are, “angry,” in the same way YOU would be angry if a bus narrowly missed you on the road, when a drunk driver nearly crushed you, your wife and your kids. NO ONE says, “We’re SO NOT angry, because the drunk bus driver, didn’t kill us.” They’re angry that he was AT THE WHEEL in the FIRST PLACE. WHY ARE WE EVEN THERE, SON? What HAPPENED to, “America First?” Good thing Putin called Trump off, wouldn’t you say? . . . Jesus, kid? . . . Smh
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Gluemonkey : Tell me, son? Because we’d all LOVE to know who it is that YOU, a Trump Troll, says are these, “innocent people,” in this scenario? We’re ALL GLAD Trump did NOT go to war . . . YET. But, we ALL KNOW that we did not have to BE HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE. Try to THINK, before you let your emotions override your triggers, kid? Do yourself a favor. And, stop obsessing over, “glue,” ya’ weirdo. You come off as, “Butt Hurt.” 🙂
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Why am I not surprised at your hobbies? It’s strategies all the way down. Tactics, strategy, planning, calculations, etc, makes perfect sense for a financial analyst and advisor, turned war analyst and ex-Missileer. I was surprised to learn you’re an Eddie Izzard fan, but pleased by that, as I grew up alongside him (so to speak) always avidly enjoying any recordings I could get hold of since I first heard him on The Secret Policeman’s Other Ball LP, on a Record Player, many, many summers ago.
I will always admire you and your service, Jake. As does my family. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦✌️🇬🇧
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@davidcolin6519 : In fairness, the JSO protestors were causing criminal damage to irreplaceable art, or disrupting the roads with no concern for the potential harm their delays could cause to groups or individuals. Their reasons for their actions were ignored by the courts and they were only judged on what they did, not their motives, about which they are quite right. The judges in these cases are going to great lengths to let it be known that they will not get to air their grievances in court, or make a connection in their defence between the issues that drive their movement and the actions they take.
Obviously the authorities intend to take away that stick before it even gets into the courtroom, so the press will have nothing about the issue (other than what is already in the public domain) to discuss when covering these cases. Smart, really. As it takes away the motive for committing such acts in the first place.
But, setting aside that potentially lengthy debate, I just wanted to comment on your opening remarks. They were spot on. 100% agreement from me. You clearly get it and are speaking from a place of fact, not opinion. Or, at least, you are not mixing the two so as to blur the line. I admire that.
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You can see how easy it was for an experienced KGB goon to manipulate a mad man, willing to believe the lies he was told, right? It would be hard to know if he actually, “believed,” himself, if not for one thing. He always covers his own crimes and throws others under the bus. If that doesn’t speak to consciousness of guilt, what does? And the fact that he’s so bad at it, so blatant and obvious, is his only saving grace. You think his evil hurt America now? Imagine if he had been smart? The harm he would have done? That’s why this current form of the GOP cannot be allowed to continue. The next fascist goon won’t be quite obvious. We must crush them at the midterms, so they’re forced to abandon fascism altogether, and a new, democratic Conservative party can rise from their ashes, with no trump enablers ever again. ✌️
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Bismo Funyins : What is a parent FLEEING, to risk the danger to their child? Have you even THOUGHT of that? It was an attempt to SAVE their children that has put them at America’s, “mercy,” for good or ill. I don’t, “Blame,” either, “side,” for the death of a child. I just remember that they were FLEEING, MURDER, RAPE, SLAVERY, OR WORSE, you Putin Poodle
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@AngeloBarovierSD : I’m hearing a lot of problems, (some real, some imagined) with no solutions. We were meant to try, “diplomacy,” after 911? Didn’t think so. Personally, I think they should have gone after the Saudis who plotted it, and invaded their country if they resisted even slightly. Iraq was a con and never should have happened, but they DID prevent further 911 level attacks by invading Afghanistan. If taking a beating for being a pr*ck, “radicalises,” people, then we’ll just have to glass the place, next time? Or maybe go to the Saudi source of the problem? But maybe, just maybe, there won’t be a next time, because the Taliban might prefer running their own, “shithole country,” to living in caves for another 20 years? . . .
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@AngeloBarovierSD : Son, YOU were the one who brought up, “arrogance,” and given your experience, your lack of empathy for others is perhaps unsurprising, but it’s not helpful either. I didn’t ask you to take your heart out and squeeze it for me? Nor did I, “criticise,” anyone. Not one person! I responded appropriately to your dismissive, patronising words, and defended my comment, which YOU made personal with your attacks on my character, without knowing a God Damned thing about me.
You have my sincere empathy for anything you went through as a result of 911. But, maybe it’s time you got some counselling from outside your group, from professionals? Maybe they’ll help you to see that it wasn’t all about YOU? Especially when we’re discussing matters of National Security, and the rights and wrongs of our involvement in Afghanistan?
I stand by my comments, and retract nothing.
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@kinngrimm : Are you attempting to lay our inaction against the Saudis, and our wrongful invasion of Iraq, at Joe Biden’s door? Because I honestly don’t see how you can, and still lay any claim to having knowledge of history? Nor does conflating those events with Afghanistan achieve anything, except to suggest that you only have the whole lot mashed together in your thinking and can’t separate them? I say that our troops achieved their initial aims, conquered their enemy and prevented any further attacks like 911 from happening on American soil, since they departed. They can be proud of that, and hold their heads up high.
Russia wanted to keep Afghanistan, as a permanent buffer state, and got their asses handed to them as a consequence. Now, THAT was a defeat. What we did was to attempt Nation Building in a Muslim country, and learned (far too slowly) that it would never work. But, stopping them from bombing American landmarks out of existence? That worked. Are you not grateful to them for that? . . .
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@jonka1 : I believe it’s called making a, “vexatious complaint”? The charge is criminal and takes into account the wasting of the police’s, the legal firms’ and the court’s time and punishes the, “intentional malice,” behind the complaint, and the attempt to use the legal framework as your instrument for persecution.
I don’t know who brings the complaint, however. And the inherent issue that comes with it is that the police, CPS, or whomever (someone in the chain of circumstance) has to hold up their hand and say, “We went along with a complaint that we should not have entertained.” Thus, even if a private case can be brought, you are unlikely to find willing witnesses or support among the authorities, who will be admitting being made fools of, at best; possibly worse.
You would need an unambiguous, watertight case. I am out on a limb, speaking from a very limited knowledge base now, however.
But you do have my fullest agreement. I would like to see these dodgy, unethical, bullying, disreputable proto-thugs, “punished,” using the very instruments they brought to bear on their victims.
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@joyphillips1821 : Now, you’re just emotionally damaged, kid. 5 years of your life, spending all day, every day, trying to spread HATE, talking to people you HATE, on all the channels you HATE. What you need is therapy, kid . . . Or, a real, “job?” . . . SMH 🤦♂️
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Mark 975 : Why, “Whaddabout,” doesn’t work, huh? I guess you must all be pretty frustrated, as to why that never gets you anything but lol’d at? Well, here goes . . . First, the inbuilt assumption is that people objecting to Trump have ANY thoughts or, “feelings,” about Obama, anyway. For example; I’m a Conservative. I was a fierce critic of Obama, and I’m REALLY GLAD that Hillary is PAST tense, regarding her political prospects. America didn’t WANT her, because she was patronising, crooked against Bernie, and represented a, “business as usual,” dynasty. THAT’S WHY she couldn’t even muster enough support to beat Trump, of ALL people. Just ASSuming that, because we don’t like Trump, that makes us Obama or Hillary fans, is NUTS, and automatically sets people’s teeth on edge, as it looks like a cop out.
Second; “Whaddabout,” is a change of topic, with false equivalencies. Anyone who can’t defend the actions of Trump, changes topic. Let’s say that ALL of your allegations against Obama AND Hillary were true? SO WHAT? If a guy robbed bank, the fact that someone else robbed a bank, is NOT relevant. Another inbuilt flaw, see?
Your, “double standard,” depends upon people having standards, that you can only GUESS at. Arresting one bank robber, DOES NOT, make you a supporter of the OTHER bank robber, son.
Thirdly; there’s the, “motivations,” that you prejudicially attach to the actions of your opponents, which are nearly ALWAYS inaccurate, misrepresented and PROVABLY FALSE. Again, you’re GUESSING at why O or HRC have done the things they’ve done, when history does not stand with you. This leads people to conclude that you are getting false information, and malign in your intentions, to spread false information.
People just want the TRUTH, son. They really DON’T CARE about Hillary or Obama, who’s NEVER even STOOD against Trump. Which brings me to the final point. It’s NOT, “Either, OR,” son! Trump’s faults say NOTHING about the faults (or otherwise) of other people. He IS doing bad things, in PLAIN SIGHT, now.
Mueller (the person you have all been saying you BELIEVE, because you thought Barr was telling the, “truth,”) has JUST TOLD YOU THIS! He SAID exactly what I PREDICTED. The, “investigation,” was hamstrung from the outset, by OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE! He could NOT prove what he could NOT investigate. But, HE thinks Congress should IMPEACH Trump, for OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE, because his Office is NOT ALLOWED TO ARREST HIM. What MORE do you ACTUALLY NEED? . . . SMH
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comedy of errors : Oh, Jeez! It’s one poll in Iowa! Stop, “blaming,” the News, like they have a, “favourite?” The Iowa poll is interesting, as a discussion piece, but there’s more than a YEAR to go, yet? Impeach Donny, would be more interesting to me, but I get that they talk about OTHER stuff too
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T V : Wow! You sound REALLY, “Butt Hurt?” Did you get your “debating skills” at the Trump University School of Rhetoric, perhaps? You should get your money back? Oh, wait, too late. But, with no ACTUAL POINT to make, it’s PRETTY CLEAR to the casual reader, just WHO is REALLY crying out those panicky, impotent, “tears,” madam 🤣
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Zack Fair : You’d LOVE it, if Trump’s opponents split their vote enough to keep him in power, wouldn’t you? Two problems with THAT strategy. Bernie united with the Dems, even AFTER they rigged the deck against him, last time. You, “think,” he’d undermine the Trump opposition, when there’s a Cabinet Position waiting for him, so long as the GOP are booted out? Good luck with THAT. The second thing, you haven’t thought through? Trump won’t BE there to stand for election. Dems will be running against Pence, IF you’re LUCKY! 🤣
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Crystal Giddens : Read, in the thread, just above you, the comment of, “Muhammad Ismail,” there? And, then tell us how, “proud you are,” to count yourself among such, “Christian,” types, as that? You know less shame, than you do grammar 🙂
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csalinas0385 : That’s clearly not true. People are above the law, and that’s the problem. Corrupt officials at the top, have destroyed Washington. Because, we don’t, “feel,” the end of law, YET, we carry on, instead of taking to the streets; we pay our taxes, go to work, see other felons get arrested, etc, so no one DOES anything. By the time they do, it will be too late. The Republic has fallen
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Brandon Mullins : And, Trump LITERALLY told his fans that we can’t do a DAMNED THING about it, “coz, MONEY, right?” A GLOBALIST, giving GLOBALIST excuses, who then criticises GLOBALISTS, because, like his fans, he doesn’t even KNOW what a, “Globalist,” really is! Just SICK. This whole situation . . . SMH
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jayoh : So? You’re telling us that people, related to politicians, follow them into politics? That politicians have a way of marrying other politicians? What are you? 12? If you think that consanguinity (look it up) is an issue, and maybe should be a, “Barr,” to politics, LOOK AT THE WHITE HOUSE, son???!!! There’s ONE, SINGLE FAMILY! RUNNING AMERICA INTO THE GROUND, RIGHT NOW!!! OPEN YOUR EYES, KID! WAKE T F UP! 🤣
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Jesus, dude! That sounds truly heart wrenching! My circumstances were very different to yours but I can relate, as my dad died from Covid 19, about a year and a half ago, after having a fall, breaking his arm and then catching the disease from the doctor who was treating him. My initial instinct was to be bitter and vengeful toward that incompetent doctor until I had some time to think about it. It was the bitterness that was doing me the most harm. And that doctor was truly devastated after learning that he’d just achieved the very opposite of what he’d dedicated his life’s work to. An exhausted, overworked doctor in the UK, working at a time when the full pathology of Covid was not yet properly understood, who forgot his mask, or gloves, or some such basic safety measure for five minutes and who’s momentary lapse in good practice cost his patient his life, does not walk away from that feeling good about himself. Coming to terms with that doctor’s regret was the first step in forgiving him. And forgiving him was the first step in properly grieving, for me. I know it’s very different in your circumstances, but I hope that helps?
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Ben Wallace needs to get into talks with Keir Starmer! In exchange for the supreme sacrifice of crossing the House, he could be offered a good job by the Labour Cabinet? Perhaps encouraging some others to come with him over subsequent weeks for maximum, drip, drip, “When’s the election, already?” effect? Sit down, Boris! No one wants you!
The doors are slamming shut in all directions anyway for Wallace, as his seat was redefined by the new boundary reorganisation and he is believed to be one of the big beasts of Torydom at risk of losing his seat now anyway. He’s no longer guaranteed the Conservative voters of Preston and he’s at the mercy of Lancaster’s more cosmopolitan ministrations with a large student population to boot.
Could he do a Chris Patton? He was a Tory who’s reputation for hard work and talent saw him being offered the governorship of HonKong by Tony Blair’s Labour government, overseeing the island’s transition back to China. Then he got a post chairing the BBC (which he wasn’t very good at in public meetings, that’s for sure) again, under Labour.
Mr Wallace ought to apologise for his remarks last week, to wipe that blot off his copybook, and make some overtures to Keir Starmer, perhaps even to stay on in his defence post? He is already a known quantity in Europe with good relationships in the EU and NATO, which is no mean feat for a Tory. As is the fact that he appears to be untainted by any of their scandals. The pressure to become part of Johnson’s sewer, Truss’s mad house, and now Sunack’s pit of despair, incompetence, graft and insanity, all rolled into one must have been immense, so we might just have a Tory that’s worth something to the public interest here?
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Verruca : Beginning to, maybe? He’s just learning he’s not in charge of Jackshit. He looks at other countries, ordering businesses to close, coordinating healthcare, research and testing, and having law enforcement back it all up, and he just can’t understand WHY he can’t do that? And, it’s because everything from healthcare to the presidency itself, is bought and paid for by private businesses in America PLC. He answers to THEM! And, throughout this whole crisis, he’s spent more time with angry lobbyists than he has with his cabinet! The shareholders will replace him unless he gets the MONEY flowing again, and he’s panicking. He’s even got people on the internet, telling his cultists to go out and, “protest,” against his OWN POLICIES! What a F*ck Up! 🤣
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Verruca : That’s pretty much what I mean. The, “mechanics,” of government are there, but lay dormant. The Republic could be restored, but Trump answers to the lobbyists, and, as you say, has no idea how to build consensus or how politics actually works. But, look at the other governments in the developed world? They simply did stuff, ordering the closures of places of business, getting law enforcement to back them, England has already begun human trials of a vaccine, and the hospitals, though they were struggling, are getting what they need: all coordinated by the, “government,” at the centre. Trump’s regime is NOT a government. It’s businesses, all more concerned about how much MONEY a rival firm will make, if they assist in a testing program, etc, etc. He’s turning America into Hell on Earth! The British wouldn’t DREAM of blocking traffic, preventing doctors and nurses from saving lives, while their snarled up in traffic jams! But, Trump actively encourages his cult to do that, so it’s happening! He wants them to protest HIS POLICIES, because he’s PRETENDING to be a president, whilst he serving two masters. And we know what Jesus said about that. You will please neither. Trump wants the doors opened and closed at the same time, like a Schrodinger’s mind-fuck, and is wondering why his polls are nosediving? . . . This is what you get
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Mario : I guess what I’m saying is, anyone who gives credence to their, “civil war,” threats, who is NOT a Trump Tramp, is risking harming America, by making it real in people’s heads, increasing the chances that they can intimidate decent people into backing down. They are doing the bully’s work FOR them, without meaning to. And, people who are spreading that civil war propaganda, are just cowards and bullies, who wouldn’t DARE! And Trump is Kunt for even trying it on, and should be executed ✌️👍
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BANE Helsing : I think the, “fear,” that Joel is feeling is just that triggered response that Treason Trumpers are trained into? He’s an overweight guy, who doesn’t get out much, who wanted to show off, pretending he can build stuff in his mom’s cellar. But, he’s, “afraid,” that the NRA will reclaim their, “Gun Control,” by having this sort of thing banned. Think of the CONFUSION Treason Trumpers will be thrown into? “I support the NRA, ‘coz they launder cash for Treason Trump and back my right to own a gun; but, now they want to STOP me from making my OWN gun???” This is going to be HILLARYous! Though the NRA will TRY to keep their moves quiet, with the usual BRIBES, etc
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To answer your question: No, I did not know about the Kandakai (👈apologies if I misspelled that) and THANK YOU for that entertainingly educational video. I LOVE history and will certainly be looking into this story more deeply. At least sufficiently enough to learn how to spell their names correctly😉. You said something rather odd toward the end of this video, though? WHY the heck would I, “hate your guts”??? In fact, why would ANYONE hate your guts? I didn’t get that, but can only guess that you may have been getting a lot of hate filled messages lately? Please ignore such people?
I thought this video was a comprehensive take down of the specious arguments that the director and producer of that, “documentary,” have been making. I am also deeply angered by the casual manner in which they feel they have the right to call others, “racists,” simply for pointing out the flaws in their efforts. It’s simply an immature, childish response which illustrates just how irresponsible it was of Netflix to give such real power to those who are unworthy of wielding it. They got it badly wrong and are unable to accept constructive criticism to the point where they have become actively abusive. It is shocking that public discourse (particularly in the USA) has plummeted to such a low common denominator that neither side of a political divide are capable of speaking respectfully, like adults to one another.
People like you are leading the way, like when Socrates stepped into the fray to save the life of Alcibiades by shielding him from all comers in a mess of a fight and leading his wounded form to a quieter place, wherein he would recover. Not sure if that metaphor works completely, but I hope you get the idea?
We NEED people like you, who simply explain the facts, whilst also showing those who would learn that this can be done in an audience-pleasing, entertaining manner, without having to, “compromise,” any part of the truth. If you can make the facts entertaining in a 20 minute YouTube video, I’m pretty sure that experienced artists with a giant budget could have done a decent job, had they not decided to hijack the truth for a self-declared political agenda.
So, thank you again. Love this channel more and more, each time I visit it.
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Why are you not filling the streets right now? The GOP is facing jail time and they’re LITERALLY STEALING your Republic, collecting up the post boxes! Why are you WAITING to STOP THIS? You’re all waiting for an election that is CLEARLY NOT GOING TO HAPPEN! And then you’ll protest, when it’s ALREADY TOO LATE, and Bill Barr’s Secret Police units will be expanded enough to suppress you, all over America. You should be halting the country NOW, and getting in front of their election RIGGING, while they’re still vulnerable? But, you’re all still hoping that it will magically get sorted out, like every other legal and Constitutional process has FAILED to do in the last 4 years! Maybe America wants a Dictatorship, in its heart of hearts? That’s the only explanation I can think of? Why else are you sitting on your asses, while they literally, BLATANTLY, STEAL YOUR REPUBLIC?
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Meanwhile, how many fans of Stephen King, I wonder, noted Robert Browning’s poem, Childe, “ROLAND,” To, “THE DARK TOWER,” Came? . . . Those novels are King’d best work, in my view. Despite the terrible movie that killed a potential franchise in the crib. Truly literate and wonderfully told, with characters that stay with you, for life. And the world building! The meta self referential art of drawing in all of his previous novels, into one universe, where we learn how everything from The Overlook Hotel, to Kugo and Carrie, got their dark powers. Yet it still manages to comment on the human condition, the banality of evil, and the hope to be found in friendships. If you haven’t read those novels, you’re missing out on real literature. Set aside your Jane Austin or your Joseph Conrad, and do yourself a favor. Now, THAT’S what I would like to hear this Thug’s analysis of!
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It’s comments like that which explain a lot about how South Africa (a state caught by the US ambassador red handed, in the act of smuggling weapons to Russia, BTW) is so mired in corruption and sinking in its own sewer of back stabbing, double dealing and economic decline.
It’s just as well that you’re speaking from one of the few countries on Earth that is facing even worse economic and political problems than Britain, whilst still clinging to pretensions of being a, “democracy.” Because we certainly DON’T need any more out of touch, delusional, wrong headed, misguided and completely taken in, political parvenus in Britain thank you very much! Not, at least, just as we FINALLY approach a period in which some small course corrections may be in the electoral offing?
Dear GOD, don’t you EVER read beyond the Murdoch press’s headlines? . . . 🤦♂️
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I am so delighted that you triggered Trolls all responded they way I expected. Easily lead sheeple. But, PLEASE? “Degenerate”? Says the supporters of pedophiles, sexual predators and wife beaters, who successfully ROBBED you, while you CHEERED them on? THAT would be FUNNY, if it weren’t so SICK!
Have you noticed that inflation has ALREADY started to eat away your TEMPORARY Tax Breaks?
But, Donny’s PERMANENT, ONE & A HALF A $TRILLION DOLLARS, for Real Estate Developers, has ensured that there’s PLENTY in the trough for HIM. Well done, Putin Poodles. Well played 🤣
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@conniejenni5504 : Very true. Happened in Spain and Italy around the same time too. But, Donny has always struck me as more of the Stalin (without the book learning) type. The disinformation and propaganda techniques are directly from his playbook. Probably learned at the feet of Putin? And his nanny state anti-small-government-conservatism is very Stalin. His anti-science, anti-intellectualism echoes, “Uncle Joe Stalin,” too. Then there’s the thin skinned stuff, which cost so many lives, just because of perceived threats, which would soon be the same if Donny ever got into power again. And, we all know Donny (accidentally) quotes Stalin, when he calls the free press, “the enemy of the people.” But, most of all, the total abject denial of Covid, which so closely mirrored Stalin’s denial of a famine that cost millions of lives in Russia. You could get sent to the gulag, or even executed, just for saying the famine was a thing in Stalin’s presence, and you weren’t allowed to mention Covid deaths to Donny! Stalin was the first, “politician,” (I use the term loosely, as with trump) to Politicise a national health crisis and Donny was step by step copying him. And, should trumplin ever see power again, that’s the society we’d have, within a couple of years. With neighbours informing on each other to protect themselves, and people you recognise from being arrested for racist thug activity will now be showing up on your doorstep, wearing a uniform, and able to search your house without any need for warrants or due process. That’s the America we’re fighting to prevent. We came so close to that, I don’t even like to think about it. ✌️👍
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@eddykate3700 : Fair criticism. It’s not, “quite,” as bad as it looks, from the outside. But, by revealing the weaknesses of our Constitution, Donny may have done America an accidental favor? If the Dems can win the 2022 Midterm elections, they’ll command an ACTUAL majority, rather than this very narrow split down the middle we have at present. I think America deserves to see what Joe can do with an actual majority in Congress and the Senate, and they might just vote for that? If they do, I suspect we’ll see some new Amendments to the Constitution? And other legal reforms, more in tune with the needs of a 21st Century government? ✌️
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TheDude0fLife : It’s only because they don’t, “feel,” the consequences yet. Set aside the foreign Trolls, with their 9 year old’s grammar, and you’re left with Fakers, pretending to, “believe,” Trump, as if belief was a buffet and they can just choose what they like. So long as Trump remains a racist and greedy, they will Fake Believe whatever drops from his Orange Orifice. But, they don’t actually, “believe,” him, any more than we do. But, when they, “feel,” it, in their pocket books; THEN there will be a change. Now that Trump has LOST his Trade War with China, we will see the recession spread out from the Rust Belt. Then they’ll start having second thoughts
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Anonymous _ 👈😡❄️: Son, the, “Blame on both sides,” talking point, was lame in Helsinki AND at Charlottesville, so no one buys it. Sorry. Just as NO ONE, who actually READ the Mueller Report, buys you LIE about that either. The Russian Conspiracy is YET to be investigated, because Mueller was OBSTRUCTED 10 TIMES, which is 10, “Crimes,” laid out for the world to see. And, that’s just the un-redacted version.
But, keep this in mind, Putin, as it pertains to you, directly: It’s IMMORAL to waste REAL TIME on Propaganda, and I stopped reading yours, once it was clear what it is. So, keep ‘em BRIEF or be ignored, but do get over yourself, son? You’re REALLY NOT so, “interesting,” as you seem to, “think,” you are, and you don’t actually have something to, “say,” OK? At least, nothing we haven’t ALL heard before . . . SMH 😁
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Kathy Norris : Trump Trolls don’t, “think,” at all. They are NOT paid to, “win an argument,” or to, “persuade,” people of things. Their only, “Job,” is to maintain America’s DIVISION. They would rather pay four times what the rest of the free world pays for healthcare, because they’re either foreigners, being paid by the bleat, or they’re in the Trump Cult, and will FAKE Believe whatever he says, so long as he remains RACIST and GREEDY. Now Trump has LOST his stupid Trade War with China, and it hurts their WALLETS, members of the cult will fall out, soon. It’s a sad reality that people ALWAYS vote with their wallets (not always correctly, but they will always go with who they, “think,” is best for their pocket book) and, “security,” will come a distant second. Most of the people who say they don’t want healthcare paid for by taxes, are the same ones who just don’t want to pay for insurance at all. Poor people. Just like the Cult Members who don’t want Background Checks on their weapons. They’re usually the ones who know they’d fail a Background Check. Selfish and venal. It’s always been that way. Putin knows this. And, he has America fighting itself, instead of its enemies, like him ✌️
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This is the first time (ironically) that I’ve ever herd this channel say something that’s actively damaging to science education and public knowledge generally. Of course, by saying you regularly, “lie,” to us (and I’ll overlook the patronising comparison to children that you made of your audience) you were using hyperbole. But you never once mentioned the moral dimension of the purpose of lying, the DELIBERATE intention to deceive or the correct definition of what lying actually is. It is about INTENT as much as it is about deception. You can mislead accidentally, but that makes a mistaken person a liar in your definition. And it’s not as though the time constraints and editing restrictions caused your omission?
Your definition was flawed in multiple senses, which I will not list completely here. But it is a category error to define all simplifications as lies. “Sphere,” for example, is a perfectly acceptable definition of Earth, for the purposes of description. It is NOT a lie to say so. Examine absolutely ANY sphere, real or depicted in a diagram, at a close enough scale and it is no longer spherical. There is no such thing as a perfect sphere in reality, but we define spheres accepting that there is more to them that can be continually added to each definition, both as a set, and individually. You could argue that it is impossible to even imagine a perfect sphere, thus proving that they don’t exist in any form. But that is an unhelpful way to live your life and will confuse the child in your example, who asked what shape the Earth is.
This was your worst ever video, and I fear it will have done nothing but add ammunition to the idiots suffering from the Dunning Kruger effect in the first place. What were you thinking. Being both wrong and patronising in one video is not a good look. And you’ve never done that before! Why???
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Take the TIME you need to see, hear, feel and sense wholesome life-affirming breaks from the grind. KNOW that you are appreciated and supported. KNOW we WILL be hear for you if you need time away, to welcome you back. When your strength flags, borrow the strength of others and trust them to care for and help you.
Remember, the pills will only mask the symptoms until they can be treated, they are NOT a, “cure,” in themselves. YOU are your most important resource. So, be good to yourself and take care of yourself.
Be well, brother.
We love you in my household.
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Trump’s got nothing to moan about, given that he is the dictator of a corrupt and FALLEN Republic. There was a time when there would have uproar at the fact that the president even KNOWS, ”things,” about jurors. And the AG pressured the judge into dropping the NINE YEAR sentence that he SHOULD have got. But, this is Flynn all over again. It’s NOT the sentence that’s the issue, because they’re both getting their, “pardons.” It’s the fact that their GUILTY verdict marks them from their, “careers,” as they will no longer be legally allowed to do the things they plan to keep doing, pardoned or not. So, Trump keeps them, “faithful,” by holding onto their pardons, and eventually, their verdicts will be overturned, because trump needs them to keep doing what they do; betraying America and making Trump rich . . . The 2020 elections are already RIGGED America!!! Fill the streets and tear them down! They are NOT going to let you, “vote,” the entire administration into JAIL!
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Lim Swee Keng : Oh, these poor, undereducated swamp dwellers LOVE to worship their privileged, soft tiny handed, Ivy League loafers, just because they talk like the cast of Good Fellas and behave as squalidly as they would, given half a chance. Racists WANT to, “believe,” which, to them, is the same thing as ACTUALLY, “believing.” Hence . . . Trump. A gap in America’s defences that must be sealed, forever. If Biden’s presidency has any theme, it should be making people like trump an impossibility in the future ✌️👍
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Earnest Lee Saddened : A) The comment was NOT, “about,” your, “mom,” but expressing the FACT that you are a, “HALF WIT!” Thanks for PROVING my point. But, having to explain a gag, robs it of humor, so well done you.
B) You are NOT a, “Conservative,” of ANY description; not in the Dictionary (and I don’t mean your Russian-English DICKtionary, there, son) or any Political Companion. “Conservatives,” RESPECT the Law, their institutions, their allies, their veterans, and they DON’T put the National Debt up to literal WORLD RECORD holding levels, to enrich a few cronies! When your Tax Break ENDS in April, you MAY start to REMEMBER WTF a “Conservative” ACTUALLY IS??? But, Trump is NOT IT! You CANNOT, for SHAME, call yourself THAT and support Trump??? “Republican,” sure. But, Conservatives, are MEANT to be the, “Law and Order,” guys? “No Collusion,” is ALREADY a PROVEN LIE, REGARDLESS of the, “legality,” of that! So, YOU have to be a BLIND BIGOT or a FOREIGN TROLL??? Which is it? There’s LITERALLY no mileage in supporting Trump, for ANY other reason! Who are you trying to KID? Yourself?
And you ARE trying to kid SOMEONE? That much is CLEAR by your mere presence on MSNBC. So, there you have my HONEST, SINCERE, HUMOURLESS, but TRUTHFUL CHALLENGE: Which are you? Racist? Or foreign Troll?
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@Acts16v31 : So, you believe that, if enough people agree that their government is, “tyrannical,” (local or national) they have the right to arm themselves and depose that governing power by force. That is the explicitly stated purpose of The 2nd Amendment, after all. Personally, I don’t hold with such extremism or radicals generally.
To me, it seems like common sense to prevent people with violent criminal records from possessing firearms, along with people deemed unfit for mental health reasons. Perhaps a test should be introduced, like the one you get for your driving license, with gradations for each answer you give on the test, background checks carried out beforehand and a practical exam at the end, showing you can shoot straight, dismantle and reassemble basic handguns, maintain them and store them safely?
No way are Americans going to give up their ownership rights, but a compromise must be reached, whereby NRA representatives are not allowed to fudge matters with all their hysterical overreactions to any ideas of basic common sense.
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Russians do not pronounce the letter, “J,” as in, “Jesus.” Especially at the beginning of words. Moreover, you have never heard anyone else pronounce Gerasimov’s name the way you do. The general’s name is pronounced with a, “G,” “Guh,” for, “God.” As in, “General Gerasimov.”
You mispronounce things so badly, so often, that I have become convinced that it is a, “technique,” you use to get people to comment and, thus, boost the algorithm? I used to think it must be a passive aggressive form of trolling your audience, but doubted it? Am I right? Is it to get comments?
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@johncarlaw8633 : So, you would agree then? That as an illustration for the largest possible audience of lay readers, that map was a helpful guide? Certainly not especially misleading?
I know most of the expressions you described, though I must admit that the baggage that comes with the term, “Finlandisation,” is something I only really learned about in recent years. While I can understand Finns being somewhat twitchy on the topic, I would argue that they need to put the illustration in context. This is not a NATO memo. It’s an illustration from a popular magazine, attempting to convey a complex set of ideas in a single picture, whilst underlining the main idea; namely that Russia poses a threat to the democracies of the world, is ambitious and is ruthlessly expanding its borders by any means that work.
Anyone living at that time, with WWII still a fresh memory for all adults, from a nurse to a garage mechanic, could pick up a copy of the magazine and grasp its themes by looking at that map, before even reading the article. In that regard it’s an excellent piece of work. And I understand why Jake admires it so much. So much information is conveyed in one simple picture, saying a thousand words.
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Maxine Waters was wrong to talk like that. What was she thinking? Surely, the slam dunk argument is, it doesn’t matter what was, “wrong,” with his heart. If you kill a person with a disability, because that disability makes you more vulnerable, it’s still murder. His entire department said what Chauvin did was against his training, and we all saw it. It’s beyond question. And, if any jurors have been reading the comments on YouTube, all they see is people agreeing with that, or haters, deliberately saying things to troll everyone with hate. That’s not going to help Chauvin. They’re sequestered now, anyway
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What’s your opinion on this? I’m genuinely very curious as to what people really think about the Wagner mutiny? Putin appears unable to control his own armed forces, who are still defying his direct orders to join the regular army. Prigozhin appears to come and go from Russia as he pleases, defying his, “exile.” And, worst of all for Putin, was the humiliation of the world comparing him to Zelensky.
Zelensky refused to flee Kyiv while Russian forces had penetrated the outskirts of the city, famously refusing an offer from the Americans for a safe ride out of the country and into exile, asking for, “ammunition,” instead, even though he knew there was a kill order out on him. Putin fled Moscow for St Petersburg even though Wagner never even got within 20 miles of the city limits!
Not only was he, “bitch-slapped,” by his own side (to use Artur’s own expression) but he can’t even wipe his own bloody nose to, “save face,” while the best part of his armed forces are giving him the middle finger! In what world does this prickly, thin skinned Putin sign up for that plan?
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Brian Schettler : Like I said. LOOK at the PUBLIC Court RECORDS. The Trump Foundation was shut down, due to HARD EVIDENCE. The extent of their CRIMES is being worked through, by the Judge who they handed the entire charity to. PROVED, PUBLIC RECORD. But, you just keep shouting, “Lah, Lah, Lah!” Your, “Blame on both sides,” crap, is as LAME as Trump excusing NAZIS in Charlottesville, and Russian SPIES at Helsinki. Cringeworthy, son . . . Smh
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Brian Schettler : So, you lost your argument and ran home to momma, “Hillary,” for your safe, “Whaddabout,” space. Setting up a charity to rip off the most vulnerable people on the planet is as sick as it gets, you waste of blood and organs. Then there’s trying to SELL our Nuclear Secrets to the Saudis. Or, kidnapping thousands of children. Or, claiming that we defeated ISIS, when we haven’t and getting our troops KILLED. Or, claiming to have ENDED the Nuclear threat from North Korea, when he ACTUALLY HELPED Kim to EXPAND IT! I could go on, and NONE of those MENTION Russia. I’m no Hillary fan. I’m a Conservative, which is WHY I HAVE BEEN FORCED to VOTE DEMOCRAT! Trump is a Clear And Present Danger, and you are BLIND SCUM
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Brian Schettler : You’re just the conduit, through which I speak to whomever reads. Confronted with the truth, you (hashtag) RunAway, because REAL Conservatives are SICK of Trump’s brand of stupid, evil extremism. It’s clear to all that the economy is running itself, through the banks, Wall Street and big business, and no one’s gonna’ miss Trump. You were literally just told about some of the most shameful, sickening and dangerous betrayals of the American people in our history, and your response is to firstly, “Whaddabout,” your ass off, and then simply tell us, you don’t give a s**t. So, F**K you very much. You clearly hate America 🙂
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Brian Schettler : And, there was you, complaining about, “name calling,” which is why I never feel the need not to. You’re all hypocrites, with thin skins and an even thinner, “ideology.” If you say you don’t CARE that your POTUS is selling state secrets for personal gain, likely to result in the next 911 being NUCLEAR, or that he routinely STOLE from children and US Veterans, pretending to be a CHARITY, of ALL the despicable things you could do, then it’s OBVIOUS you HATE America. You’re not really mad at me, son. You’re mad at you. Go take a long look in the mirror, and think about those American Children . . . SMH
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Brian Schettler : You must be a kid? Taking your hat off, to the National Anthem, does NOT a Patriot Make, son! Trump is a CROOK and you KNOW IT. The GOP have sold out to him. You probably don’t even LIVE here, you’re so full of it. Spare us your fake outrage. If you gave the LEAST S**T about America, you’d want Trump GONE. It’s gone too far for taking your hat off and standing to attention, son! This is NOT the World Series! This is Democracy DYING on YOUR WATCH. Ditch The Orange Orifice, then we’ll talk. Only paid trolls, racists, and idiots who just can’t admit they were SO WRONG, come on social media to bleat about Trump. Which are you?
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@wishusknight3009 : That’s the first time I’ve heard someone suggest that the video of Wagnerite terrorists leading Hamas terrorists through the Israeli breach was, “probably fake.” What makes you think so? Just a guess? Or do you have a source? I didn’t see any of the usual tell tale signs myself. But I’m no expert. You could well be right, but it is Russia’s MO. And Hamas didn’t get all those missiles and weapons by manufacturing them. Their help was obviously Iranian, primarily, but Russia is Iran’s primary ally and both countries hope to get away with distracting the world from Ukraine with this atrocity. No, I can’t prove that yet, but I have been expecting it and I’m certain the evidence will come, revealing both the Shah and Tzar’s fingerprints.
Ironically, it seems to be having the opposite effect to the one they hoped for. As the west is able to get deadlier weapons into Ukraine, whilst not even making the headlines. Not until Russian attack helicopters start exploding en masse, at any rate. Russia is not the only country well versed in opportunism. The west prefers not to get up in our faces about it, but they’ll be using the cover of headlines just as much as anyone.
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Keisha Sharp : Gun Control has, “nothing to do with the 2nd Amendment,” either, son. If you are a, “law abiding citizen,” why would YOU fear a Background Check? If you already own guns, why should a waiting time concern you? LOOK at what’s happening, and ask yourself, HONESTLY; if just ONE of the deaths over the past few years could have been prevented, by simple, basic, common sense, legislation, wouldn’t that be WORTH it? NO ONE WANTS your guns, son. Stop swallowing the Propaganda? WTF DIFFERENCE should ANY of that legislation make to YOU? WTF is WRONG with you people? . . . Smh
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Tommy Thompson : And, there are predominantly white areas that do have high crime stats, because they’re poor, don’t have access to education or healthcare, etc. The Asian statistics show the SAME THING, where the income levels have been generationally the same. And, they are NOT targeted, as black people are, so that doesn’t wash. At all. But, it’s always a mistake to use stats for propaganda, son. Especially when you’re talking to a political historian. Someone will always have a better figure than yours (in this case, me) and no one will be convinced of anything. Hearts and minds are where it’s at, with Propaganda, son. Yours are just talking points. You were trained, right?
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If you had a magic wand and infinite resources, and you could take charge of the world’s internet, what changes would you make to stop these scammers from filling that power vacuum? What changes can be made to the technology, to the rules, to the laws, to the education of the public and their general awareness behaviour? I believe if we start from there, clearly identifying the issues, so that all understand them from the same level, morally, legally and technically, we have a basis from which to move forward.
Much of this works because of the fundamental differences people have to their levels of understanding, grasp of the basics and their moral attitudes toward this kind of crime.
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Lionel Dubinsky : And, you, “know,” that the drones come from, “Iran,” HOW, exactly? Because the head of the, “Gestapo,” (as Donny puts it) CIA told you? Even though Yemen is at WAR with Saudi Arabia? Even though they’ve claimed responsibility, already? Even though they did it from Southern IRAQ? Stop with your Fake Believe, you Trump Troll Warmonger
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Even people who like Reform UK will have seen how Sisyphean the task of, “reforming,” immigration laws is. They’ve seen the Tories take L after L in the courts, trying to execute what (to a Reformer) must look like rather mild changes to the law, and Sunack’s humiliating, “purchase,” of a SINGLE asylum seeker to send to Rwanda, because he could only send the people who had already been refused asylum and who were willing to take £20K as a bribe, rather than be sent back to the place they were fleeing. So those potential voters are likely not to want to waste their votes on a no account party that isn’t going to move their needle anyway, aren’t they? Not that Reform voters are that bright or logical, so who knows?
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Bruce Wayne : Riddle me this, Batman? I ask you as a Conservative: If HRC committed these, “crimes,” “bleaching classified docs from a home computer,” “murdering staffers,” “running a pedo ring,” “selling our uranium to hostile powers,” etc, etc? Then why is it, that after 3 YEARS, the most powerful man on Earth, was UNABLE to prevent his entire Campaign Team from going to JAIL, and she got not so much as a parking ticket? 🤔 I mean, Alex-QAnon-Jones has given you all the, “evidence,” you need, right? So MUCH that he has you ALL CONVINCED? But . . . NOTHING??? . . . 🤣
You poor, poor, blundering Trump Troll. One day, when they aren’t there, telling what to, “think,” you’re going to feel SO EMBARRASSED. Trump has BETRAYED you with LOONEY LIES and you’re just too ASHAMED to admit you’ve been SUCKERED! So, you’ll double dumbass down, to your dying day, won’t you? You’re nothing but an expendable mark, to a conman like the Donster. He hates you almost as much as decent people do . . . SMH 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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What is it with the BBC? . . . Why are they ALWAYS covering for predators and general scumbags? Any doubts I had about the Wallace allegations evaporated when I heard him condemning himself out of his own mouth.
Once you start referring to the age and, “class,” of the complainants, as if that was a relevant issue, you are conforming to a type. Your, “defence,” becomes all about, “culture wars,” in an attempt to shift the battle ground from under the feet of the women concerned. No one has accused him of anything so heinous that he couldn’t have humbled himself and learned from the experience. But that seems to smack of a loss of, “privileges,” in his book, perhaps? What he’s really telling us is that, not only is he unabashed, but he wants to continue on in his unreconstructed behaviours, making women feel uncomfortable at best, downright threatened and unsafe in the workplace at worst!
And, seriously! Saying that you haven’t had any complaints from anyone else (as further complaints are still coming in, I might add!) when referring to a bunch of junior staff in his kitchens, who are trained to routinely put up with tantrums and outbursts from chefs from the moment they begin their careers, is the lamest thing I’ve heard in a long time.
If THAT’S your defence, Gregg, then you have no defence.
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If the Wagnazi mutiny was a, “play,” to flush out potential traitors, or for some other reason, then Putin must have had to agree to getting, “bitch-slapped,” himself? He still has a bloody nose! And the world is seeing Wagner defy his orders, while Prigozhin defies his, “exile.” Putin FLED MOSCOW for St Petersburg! Now everyone is comparing his cowardice, from his own people, when they weren’t even within 20 miles of Moscow, to Zelensky who wouldn’t even flee when Russians were INSIDE Kyiv’s city limits and he famously asked for ammunition instead of a ride!
Putin was HUMILIATED and shown for the COWARD he is! He can’t, “save face,” as long as the people who did that to him are all free to defy him! Who honestly thinks Putin signed up for a plan that made him look like such a bitch???
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We really NEED Sedition Laws. Seriously. Or to enforce those we have? After WWII we literally hunted down and hung Seditious Propagandists. Now, we let Fox and Fiends (according to Conservative analysts, BTW) tell America they should doubt the legitimacy of our Elections, over 700 TIMES, up to the riots of the 6th of Jan! And they get RICH doing it. It’s not a free speech issue. It’s screaming, “Fire,” in a packed theatre, and getting America KILLED! I’m not asking for executions, but we need swift, severe justice for those who are, after all, Anti-American!
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Stephanie Tihanyi : It’s heartening to meet someone who, “gets,” it. The funniest bit would be, if she DID form a Militia and shoot trespassers, who KNOW they are breaking the law, they couldn’t even indict her! She’s literally protected by the 2nd Amendment, for this PRECISE reason. When the State KNOWS it’s acting, “illegally,” is that NOT the, “Tyranny of Corrupted Government,” that the founders were so worried about? It would be a PERFECT test case. Remember that guy who shot a burglar, even though he was running away, in Chicago? And they didn’t even prosecute him, even though the burglar died. He was white and the burglar was black, so the hand wringing was over pretty fast. The 2nd Amendment was what his lawyer sited, to prevent him from even being arrested. Well, the Tyranny of Government could not be better illustrated than by a case where they come to literally STEAL your land, knowingly breaking the law. It’s what the Constitution is for, and you don’t, legally, have to even BE from the same state, if you want to join her Militia. All you need to do is be sworn in, and you’re good to go. Ah, I don’t know which is more fun, right now? The Law, or Satire, but I’m so glad that there are intelligent people out there, like you ✌️👍
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BW MadDog : You weren’t listening to the story, at all, son. Trump would be literally breaking the law, and promising pardons, after the fact. Let’s set aside the fact that such a, “promise,” of Pardons is a Crime, as well as immoral and an abuse of power, which YOU don’t mind, now, but WILL when it’s YOUR TURN to be on the receiving end (and that day WILL come), and let’s just talk about the LAW, shall we?
What could you actually arrest her for? “Forming a Militia?” Sorry son. It’s the LAW. She has every right. “Shooting trespassers?” Sorry Son. 2nd Amendment. She’s LITERALLY, “Preventing Crime,” in the same way that ANYONE is, when they shoot home invaders. “Obstructing Government,” maybe? Well, it has LITERALLY BEEN IN THE NEWS, that they KNOW they are breaking the law! And, again, the 2nd Amendment was INVENTED to protect against Government Tyranny, so? . . . Let’s define, “Government Tyranny,” shall we? How about, “STEALING LAND AND PROPERTY?” AND . . . “DOING IT, KNOWINGLY, BREAKING THE LAW!” You have NO LEG to stand on. And, the BEAUTY of it? It’s ALL because of the 2nd Amendment, which Trump Trolls LOVE to shout about, like they don’t seem to realise that 80% of Gun Owners, LIKE ME, WANT Gun Control. Trump Trolls act like Trump’s opponents, “don’t own guns.” Which means they’re in for a shock, too. You have NO CASE, sir. Unless you count your Head Case in the White House. But, he won’t be there for very long, now 😁
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This Kursk incursion mission has multiple objectives; diplomatic, logistical, psychological, journalistic even and, of course, addressing the practical matter of defeating an illegal, terroristic, mafia style theft operation and invasion.
I agree with your guess that, if something big happens in Moscow or St Petersburg, “it will be fast.” The quality of life has diminished in Russia, even in the metropolitan centres, while money is getting more expensive and resources growing scarce. When the wheel turns in Russia, it is always sudden and, apparently, out of a clear blue sky.
The Russian revolution set a precedent that was, apparently, set in stone and has repeated itself multiple times over the last century or so. And it is the nature of the state apparatus that makes it so. The death of Stalin caused an upheaval because no one knew how to cope or what to do (I cannot recommend Armando Iannucci’s movie about that enough, btw) and then Nikita Khrushchev was suddenly deposed after losing his game of nuclear chicken with the Americans.
The fall of communism came out of that same clear blue sky so far as the west was concerned. Anyone who says they saw that coming is misremembering or lying to you. Then there was an attempted counter revolution by the old guard (which people barely remember these days) during which the Kremlin was besieged by tanks and from which emerged the figure of an apparent, “hero,” Boris Yeltsin, who turned out to be more of the same but without the restraints of communist doctrine to act as guard rails against his particular brand of debauchery and gangsterism.
The Wagner revolt was certainly not predicted by Putin, as was made so abundantly clear by the fact that there were no defences between Wagner and Moscow when they came barrelling up the motor way with, as you mentioned, the popular cheers of the people of Rostov at their backs. But that fell apart due to Prighozin’s allies backing out at the last moment. That was one time when Putin’s positioning of people into senior posts for their loyalty, not their ability, paid off.
Yet, what all of these events in Russian history have in common is, when it happens, it happens fast and, often, out of a clear blue sky.
So, settle in, buy some popcorn and enjoy the End Of Putin Show while it lasts. Look away from your screens for too long and you may miss a revolution?
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It was more of a weapons company advert than a news story, but I simply don’t care, if it boosts Ukrainian morale. People have been trained by Putin’s haters to get triggered by the term, “propaganda,” in the same Pavlovian manner they froth at the mouth when they hear the word, “globalism.” In both cases, the Alt-Wrong are cheering on the propaganda of the ultimate globalists, Putin and trump, out of sheer ignorance. There’s such a thing as, “good propaganda,” and we shouldn’t be ashamed of it?
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@maplemaple1439 : You make an impassioned plea for, “the better angels of our nature,” and I hear you, but you must admit that the example you site from Africa is a rare exception? They show us it’s possible to live without war, and that humanity has it in themselves to do that, but I don’t think human nature is so peacefully inclined or even desirous to live in a permanent state of peace; much as I would truly want to. The idea of Jen Luc Picard’s Star Trek is one of my favourite fantasies. But, just as men have a way of getting violent when they’re afraid or when their desires are frustrated, they will always seek to justify their violence. War is the institutionalisation of that desire, and the tool for those at the top, through which they can sate their greed and ambition. History is almost nothing but the story of war. That does not mean I’ve given up, or resigned myself to a society that is permanently in a state of conflict, though. It just means that I believe whatever solutions we come up with, for reducing conflict and organised violence, needs to acknowledge the reality of man’s (as it is mostly men) need for conflict. Have you seen The Hurt Locker? Kathryn Bigalo does a very good job of illustrating this very human failing. It’s not just about greedy, malignant politicians, or dumb soldiers who don’t really care why they’re killing this group of people today and that group tomorrow. If that were the case, politicians would never be able to convince people to join the armed services, let alone convince them to fight! Men get addicted to the conflict itself; the buzz of danger; the release of violence, justified and rewarded; and overcoming their opponents, in a dick swinging contest of, “Ha! I won! You’re dead!” They really do. Our solutions will always need to accommodate this aspect of the human conditions, and find valid, legalised, releases for them. I respect your opinion, really.
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Just as a carpenter prioritises his customers, by taking the time to sharpen, fix or maintain his tools, you MUST look after yourself above all other concerns. YOU are the, “tool,” in this analogy, as well as the carpenter. You are no good to anyone if you run yourself into the ground. And it’s not a selfish act. By prioritising yourself, you are prioritising your followers. Don’t let the, “black dog,” win. We love you in our house. Take good care of yourself, Artur.
Thank you for this channel and all your hard work. Slava Ukraine. 🇺🇦🔱🇬🇧
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Streeting knows that saving the NHS from the stealth privatisation and outright sabotage of the Tories (so they could sell us complete privatisation as some kind of, “rescue plan”) will need to be explained to the public, as we will have to dig deep in our pockets and be patient waiting for meaningful results. To be quite frank, all major departments will need root and branch reform. And comprehensive reviews are a smart move, as the media will be filled with evidence of what the Tories were really up to behind closed doors, and subsequent committees will haul them over the coals.
And this will be better than letting the Tories get away with their usual playbook of screaming, “Oh look how expensive Labour’s plans are!” and, “We’re still waiting for results!” in every client media outlet. Expose them for what they did and show the public how it was a deliberate plan to sabotage the NHS so as to force us into a private, Americanised, “service,” that makes Tory friends and families rich . . . again! Go for it, Wes!
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@rffromusa8319 : Maybe after your next election it will be? Who knows? I do know that Putin has spent a figure close to his country’s annual GDP (in dark, blood diamond, weapons dealing and other mafia style criminality) on a complex web of propaganda and espionage over the last 10 to 15 years. Money that never shows up in official figures, but which has been tracked by journalists (genuine ones) and spooks from many nations, including our own. I suspect that it’s these, “investments,” that have contributed the most to the otherwise irrational and inexplicable lurch to the far right among the remaining democracies of the globe?
But, despite our differences, you and I are brothers, fighting for the same, just cause. And, for those who love freedom and democracy, Putin has made brothers and sisters of us all. Respect ✌️
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@stevensutton2252 : Please explain to me, just HOW does one keep, “politics out,” of a discussion about a, “war,” in ANY universe??? That’s what WAR IS, kid. Remember your Von Clausewitz; “War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.” Or, how everyone paraphrases it these days, “War is politics by other means.” If you want a channel about a war without the politics, go join the Star Wars fan club, son. Because what you want is fiction. This channel deals in REALITY.
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Calvin H. : Awww . . . Bless you, son . . . Did you forget that you’re ONLY a trump troll, and that NO ONE is going to read past your opening Trollery? Eventually, some paid Ukrainian will give you a, “pity thumbs up.” And, you wasted ALL that hard work, time and, (dare I say it?) “thought,” on that . . . You thought you were, “interesting,” or know how to, “write well,” or something, there. Didn’t you, son? 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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the Annuity Slayer : I get called names all the time on YouTube, but I’m not such a “snowflake” as to be bothered in the slightest, by people confirming that they have nothing more than a red mist of lies, through which they filter their reality into producing the lies they need to get through the day. Just doesn’t get to me.
But, if you were EVEN SLIGHTLY, less disingenuous, you would HAVE to admit that it would have been EASY for Flake to bang out the old familiar themes on the Trumpanzee Drum, play to the racists, the paranoid, the job-insecure and the rich money grabbers, to keep his place. YOU KNOW this to be true, but won’t admit anything that contradicts your narrative. Ultimately, this weakness is what will be Trump’s downfall. And I speak as a sincere Republican, here. They are fond of saying, on the “dreaded” CNN, that, “You can choose your own opinions, but NOT your own FACTS.” The TRUTH is, you can ignore the FACTS all you like. So what? It won’t change them, one iota? The only question is WHY are you stubbornly standing on the wrong side of history? There won’t be any “Rosey” or “Romantic” revision of personal motives, like in Gone With The Wind, or something, for guys like you? You’ll simply be remembered in the same way we think of McCarthy-ites and Quislings. There’s simply NO good way for this to end
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Frederick Delius Legacy - And Far Beyond : Take a look at Florida: the place where the GOP was forced to admit that Russia had hacked their election computers. When the press tried to establish which Counties, in what way they’d gotten inside, and what, if anything was being done about it, we learned that everyone had been threatened with instant jailing, under terror legislation, if they said one more WORD about it, and were left with total radio silence. The next time we hear a thing about Florida, was about a month later, when Trump launched his, “Campaign,” from there; doing absolutely NOTHING, “differently,” at all, but obviously providing the, “plausible deniability,” necessary to explain Trump’s coming, “victory,” in this increasingly diverse, divided and ESSENTIAL, “must win,” State, which carries plenty of Electoral College votes. You only need a few rigged states, and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the polls we’ve been getting are already rigged at the source, before any of the press gets the numbers? But, what do people EXPECT from a career criminal, who’s ONE effective strategy in life has been to get your minions as dirty as you, so that fighting for your survival and their own, become the SAME THING? That they would rest on their Gerrymandering, vote buying, bribes, and a massive campaign of LIES on the internet, “News,” feeds, and their own Propaganda, “News,” outlets? That’s still a gamble, when they KNOW the majority of Americans want Trump out, and in jail? When it’s SO MUCH EASIER, to have a hostile power ALREADY INSIDE your voting apparatus, and you can guarantee victory? Even IF it’s al exposed, they have several layers of deniability and fall guys, to fall back on. And, we know from experience that any investigations will last throughout his next two terms, before he’s ready to hand over to Ivanka, so as to STAY insulated. You can’t use the law, when there is no law . . . America’s done
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No point in, “Coulda’ Woulda’ Shoulda’,” now, Fareed. Of course it will get way worse! Russia’s, “federation,” is destined to break up into several countries, with China already eyeing the south eastern states that were formally Chinese before, needing a population boost as badly as they do, as much as, if not more than, Russia does.
That’s inevitable now, and that’s entirely Putin’s fault, but it’s not like the west can do anything to halt that at this stage? If they had forced Russia out of Crimea in 2014, or if Obama’s, “red line,” in Syria had been more than an empty bluff when Putin used sarin gas on their population, we may have been looking at a different scenario now? But as things stand, Putin is determined to retain power at any cost, which will result in a much smaller Russia being China’s vassal state, with several new independent countries seeking western help, while others fall into the lap of China.
All we can do is assist Ukraine to win quickly, thus maintaining more control, rather than dragging this out so that Putin’s opponents have more time to organise. We need to build relations with the potential break away leaders. Especially the pro-westerners who don’t want to wind up being a vassal of China’s.
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@ilokivi : The myth of, “scarcity,” is the one that boils my blood, out of that huge list (that I don’t doubt we could compile together) because they exploit people’s fears into CAUSING that very scarcity (the, “who’s gonna’ pay for . . .?” mob) that everybody fears!
Some nations are on the brink of economic and social collapse, because they have ageing populations and not enough birth rates to replace the dwindling younger populations who would support their pensions and the growing need for elderly healthcare that all countries are seeing as life expectancy goes up. The Chinese are in a real crisis due to their, now reversed, single child policy and Russia too is at the top of that list, due to them squandering young men on an unwinnable war in Ukraine, and frightening off all their best and brightest youths, from their draft. At the last count, over a million service aged men have fled Russia in the last year.
And what would Britain benefit most from, right now? An injection of young adults, who will have babies and generate taxable income and economic growth? Perhaps the sort of younger people who have the courage and gumption to risk reprisal rather than commit genocide? Perhaps the sorts of people from all over the world willing to risk life and limb because they say NO to fascists and demagogues? Those people educated enough and committed enough to get here, willing to do the million or so jobs (at last count) that we Brits feel are beneath us, like picking crops, cleaning the streets, warehouse work, etc?
The very solutions to our problems are on our doorstep, literally banging on the door and asking to be let in, but our government wrongly believes that they can stir up Nazi levels of hatred against, “the other,” and desperately cling to power like limpet mines, going off and taking another chunk of the country’s institutions with them, destroying the very foundations of our identity and law, for their sociopathic egos and greed.
I’m not expecting any great insights or meaningful leadership from Labour, but at least they don’t encourage fascism in their party! So, I’ll take them over the Tories any day of the week.
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After the Impeachment fiasco, even Trump’s allies won’t be allowed to challenge Trump’s comments. After proving Trump’s guilt, and then the GOP letting Trump walk, regardless, it will be completely clear that the Republic has fallen. It’s so cute, that people still think they will be allowed to, “vote,” in 2020, to get Trump out. Once out of office, he goes to jail, and all his dirty secrets will be in the public domain. What CHOICE do the Trumps HAVE? They HAVE TO RIG 2020, with Putin’s help! Only, they’re on the INSIDE this time, with access to ALL the levers of power and security. You ALREADY HAVE A DICTATORSHIP! It’s already OVER, America . . . You lost your Republic in a COUP, because there were enough haters and racists out there, who WANT a Putinista single party, FAKE Democracy. And, because you all thought your, “institutions,” could withstand a coup WITHOUT YOU! A decade ago, the Ukrainians got it. They filled the streets and brought their country to a standstill, until the dictator fled back to Moscow. America just watched the whole coup on CNN and, “did,” NOTHING! Maybe we deserve this? . . . Smh
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Lachee Brun : Nice effort there, but no one interested in the truth will see the facts. Your major disadvantage, is that your points are focussed on the past. We KNOW HRC did a LOT of crooked stuff, but the shills have mixed it up with their conspiracy theory nonsense, making the whole issue of Hillary’s ACTUAL CRIMES impenetrable. Kind of, shot themselves in the foot, with all their, “Pizza Gate,” and, “Uranium,” craziness, which is the apparent MO of the Trollarazzi. The other reason that the Trolls are so impotent, right now, is that they never seem to grasp that Trump’s opponents REALLY don’t CARE about Hillary. If she and Obama spontaneously EXPLODED, there would be a yawn of indignation, from the Trump “haters” nothing more. MOST of them are GLAD Hillary is not POTUS and that is the ONLY, “positive,” they can take from this whole mess. Until you Pro-Putin, Pro-China, people GET that, and start focusing on what is ACTUALLY HAPPENING, instead of wondering off into the past, NO ONE is going to CARE about your, “facts.”
Trump is GUILTY AS SIN, and WE ALL KNOW IT. His Cult doesn’t CARE, but they will, when they find THEMSELVES being the FIRST people to go under and be targeted. But, it will be too late for them, by then . . .
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@ConradAinger : I was speaking of the industrially advanced nations in which war, famine and pandemics are not common and do not happen at all on their native soil (for the most part). The countries of the whole continent of Africa are not susceptible to the same analysis, largely because their development was arrested and exploited by empires well into the late 20th century. And these days they are still being exploited by empire builders, but in a more deliberately hidden and perverted fashion. China and Russia are the main culprits in that regard, but far from the only ones.
Or, to put it more simply; countries in which war, famine and epidemics are still a regular occurrence, while the vested interests of large oil, mineral and nuclear companies work hand in glove for the governments of their respective nations, (toppling a dictatorship or a democracy here, replacing it with a more cooperative dictatorship or democracy there) still have a direct influence in the outcomes of these wars and disputes, the same measuring stick does not apply.
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Upper Echelon Gamers : A quick, “name drop,” here, but this is one reason that I am so interested in the inner workings of the gaming world: Last night, I completed the Single Player Campaign on Read Dead Redemption 2, and I was SO PROUD of my brother, Stuart Roskell, Programmer, who’s name came up in the credit sequence, MUCH higher up than it was on the last Read Dead game. He’s worked for Rockstar for many years, now, and he NEVER leaks anything, but he gave me a cool boxset of Red Dead stuff to play with, when the game came out. I hear a lot of general stuff, about the culture and so on. He seems to really love his job and the people there, but I know that Crunch Time is hard on everyone there. Anyhoo, just thought I’d mention that, because I’m so proud of him. I love what you do, here. And he does too 👍✌️
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“Nasty,” in every sense of the word. “Degenerate,” is the term I would use. The price the Tories are paying for flinging open their doors to anyone who could win seats in the immediate term, is this. All the leaders and ideologues have long gone, leaving the, “personalities,” and the divisive in charge. The people who would only ever be junior ministers until a scandal saw them off, in the usual state of affairs, have found themselves running things as a result of the entire top tier of leadership violently exploding in public.
The truants and ner do wells have found themselves in charge of the tuck shop, realised they’ll be out soon, so they’re raiding all they can, stuffing their pockets.
“People don’t no longer take an interest in the daily affairs of Parliament,” because they see only degeneracy, sexual predators, embezzlers, grifters and opportunists, using Putin style disinformation techniques and American style division to break everything in sight.
The British population is, for the first time in British history, united in their contempt for our, “government.”
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@michaeladams8303 : Ah, but if people really, “cared,” about, “changing,” any of that, they would stop trying to convince their politicians to do a God-Damned thing for them, and go direct to their bosses in the Lobby Hall, wouldn’t they? Arguing with Jacob Abbot or Ted Cruz is like debating a sheep in a field, because you’re unhappy with her Shepard’s behaviour. All anyone needs to do is look at the public record of Donations to those guys to see they ain’t, “renting,” their politicians in Texas. They’ve BOUGHT THEM, OUTRIGHT. And, if Mobil, Shell, Exxon, etc, found that sand was getting into all their vehicle’s fuel tanks, that pickets were preventing them from moving any oil, and protestors were stopping them from building any infrastructure or pipelines, they would come to the table on Abortion Rights, Pollution, f’king Stock Prices, if need be?! And they would TELL their, “politicians,” EXACTLY what laws they can and can’t make, and that would solve that problem.
But, I have a theory. All that leaded fuel that they dumped in the 1980’s and early 1990’s has seeped into the water table and a lot of Southern States are drinking that sh*t now. I’m genuinely wondering if lead poisoning (combined with extant racism and poor education levels) is responsible for some of the craziness we’re seeing in America’s Alt-Wrong, these days? Quite seriously. 😋
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@jimmyrank6730 : I’m a Conservative, son. Member of the Lincoln Project. Your masters make you waste 5 years trolling your betters, whining like Karens about, “control,” because no one can, “tell me what to do,” even though you obey traffic laws, dress codes and even basic etiquette in a CINEMA, but you’ve been conned by a cult into thinking that free healthcare is, “controlling,” you. 🤦♂️ What are y’all? 10 years old?! 🤣 “Control,” yourself better, son? Stop letting your emotions run your life, and quit trolling? Get a JOB? Trolling MSM is about as accomplished a way as I can think of, of saying to the world, “My life went wrong, now I want to spoil other’s, coz I’m jealous.” Grow up, son 🙄
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As I said above, I don’t think Ukraine even wants that. Ideally, they would want a buffer zone, about 50 km to 100 km deep, along the whole border. So, if Ukraine just kept moving east and south, they may be able penetrate Belgorod, creating that very, “pincer,” of which you speak, against the Russians.
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@mediamanM : Fascists, obviously . . . What else? There’s nothing, “conservative,” about Trumpism. The GOP are Nanny State, not small government. They’re anti-corporate business, if Moscow Mitch is to be taken seriously? They’re racists. They’re anti-democratic. They’re a cult of personality. They’re anti-intellectual, anti-science, anti-truth. Just about everything that we traditionally think of as, “conservative values,” like the family, sexual propriety, religious freedom, patriotism, etc, has been radically ejected from the GOP under trump’s management. They are literally Fascists, and what’s worse is that they have been fully exposed as Totalitarian and anti-democracy, to the extent that they have no ground to retreat to, no room to walk back any of their refusal to accept democracy: not when you combine their insurrection; voting to overturn a democratic election DURING that insurrection; their delegitimisation of ALL political opponents for the last 5 YEARS or more (remember, “Lock Her Up” was already OLD by the time trump took office?); their current refusal to accept the election results, delegitimising our Democracy before the entire world; and the fraudulent conspiracy they’re about to perpetrate against America, when their bogus, sham, “audit,” announces that, “Chiynah stole our elections, for Joe!” Finally, combine all of that, with the Suppression of Voters, the right to Protest and now, even Suppressing the history of Slavery from the Education Curriculum, all to keep the ailing careers of an unpopular minority, within a minority, on life support.
They have abandoned ALL pretensions of Democracy, and have as good as announced that not only will they NEVER relinquish power EVER again, but that they haven’t given up on their January 6th Coup attempt yet! Totalitarian is inarguable! Fascist is a better description though. And America needs to do the, “waking up!” Because Fascism is a real threat to us all, right now! ✌️
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Roger Out : Isn’t that the point, though? Because we’re not, “lowering the flag,” and hoisting the Hammer and Cycle we’re dumb enough to think we haven’t been overrun. They can run America, so long as we get to be arrogant and pretend we have freedom. Western Europe is already WAY more FREE than America. People can’t interfere with a pregnant woman’s body, take over media stations, or get away with things like the pending Bill, giving the government ALL your personal data, so they know WHO you are and WHAT you say, and where and when you say it. And, they don’t live in fear of being shot by their own cops, because of their color?
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I honestly don’t think, “we,” will have anything to do with Musk’s ultimate downfall. The way he’s worn the face of Republican villainy for trump looks like a classic Machiavellian set up, as written in The Prince.
Ever heard the story of Ramiro D’Orco, governor of Romagna, who worked for his ambitious prince, Cesare Borgia?
Ramiro violated church laws, tortured and violated the people of Romagna and killed off any and all opponents of the Borgia clan, suspected or otherwise. And, after bringing the province to heal by destroying its records, institutions and security, leaving the surviving Romagnans terrified, docile and compliant enough to obey any and every edict a Borgia might utter, there was only one problem left.
The bitter rage and resentment that boiled under the surface of Romagnan society was a cauldron of hatred that would continually threaten to boil over them forever, unless the local authorities did something to mollify the embittered population.
So, making a great show of ignorance at Ramiro’s atrocities and feigning outrage at discovering them, Cesare had Ramiro arrested on Christmas Day of 1502, on trumped (pun intended) up conspiracy charges, Stalin (or Putin) style. On Boxing Day the inhabitants of Romagna awoke to the best Christmas present ever: the bisected body of Ramiro, on display in the town square, his head and body separated by the block and executioner’s knife between the two parts, just so all would get the message.
Cesare Borgia was conveniently out of town that day, giving his people the opportunity to gauge the local response to this act. And, surprise, surprise, it worked. The Borgia’s maintained their rule over Romagna without incident for Cesare’s remaining reign.
It seems obvious to me that Trump will gain a massive boost in popularity when he has Musk perp-walked out of power and into a cell (presumably, “suing,” him for all he’s worth in the process) and enriching himself at the same time. But, he will only do this AFTER Musk has fulfilled his role and handed Trump everything he requires.
Musk looks to me like a taylor made patsy, playing the role of Ramiro D’Orco to Trump’s Cesare Borgia. At least, the way Machiavelli tells it, he does.
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@dylanharper1274 : Putin’s beliefs are, “religion,” by every important definition: faith, without evidence. Commitment, without Earthly reward. Obedience, without question. I could go on, but a nation that thinks it’s, “OK,” to bomb civilians, take away their water and energy supplies, is a nation happy to commit war crimes. That nation is kept both uneducated (too ignorant to know a war crime when they see one) and morally absent (with the most popular refrain in Russia being, “Let’s not discuss politics.”) making them as morally bankrupt as their ex-KGB and current NKVD Russian equivalent to the Pope; Cyril. So, let’s not pretend there’s any workable, “difference,” here, shall we?
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Riki : You must think I’m governed by, “emotions,” son? Like Trump Trolls? Passive aggression is rather effeminate, and you come off as, “triggered.” But, being a rational, thinking person, when I told you I don’t waste time on Propaganda, I actually meant it. Unlike Trumpophiles, Normals don’t habitually lie. But, one thing I have learned about you, is that you’re not just a deceived Propagandist and a victim of the same same Propagandists who send you out to persuade Americans to hate their fellow Americans even MORE than they hate their enemies; I’ve also learned that you can’t read, which makes you stupid. I can even PROVE it to you. For example, you know (now) that I really am NOT reading you, but your reaction to this comment will be one of Impotent Rage, when I say that I’m laughing at the notion that YOU hung upon MY every word, to THIS POINT 😁
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I have a solution: STU Cards. Hear me out? I would call for single standard of vetting that covers all, “vocational,” professions where public trust is an issue? Covering the medical, teaching children, caring professions, armed services and policing. A benchmark standard that is comprehensive, easy to understand because it’s built on common sense and basic moral principles, and that applies equally to all? Does that seem like a big ask?
Because people love acronyms so much, call it the Trusted Universal Standard (STU) or something? All professionals have to get their STU Card, before going into policing, nursing, the army, etc? With a points system that could apply, like those on driver’s licences? Too many points and you can no longer serve in trusted professions? But with some categories able to expire over a period of years, so you can reapply and be vetted again, but with other categories staying on your card permanently?
Of course MP’s and senior civil servants wouldn’t be keen on having it apply to them, but they might get on board if it didn’t?
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And, his cult of trump KNOWS IT by now! That’s what keeps them, “loyal.” It used to be about a racist dream of a white America, trolling decent people, and the hope that some of trump’s greed would, “trickle down,” into their pockets. Now, it’s just so they don’t have to hear, “We told you so!” It’s THEIR donations he’s stolen! THEIR, “promises,” he never even TRIED to honor . . . SMH 👍
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When you see that people want different things, but want people to engage in politics, not be divided by it, surely the goal is to reach across the isle and win over opponents. There are always things your political opponents want that you can give them, if you do your homework, without compromising your own vision.
Biden achieved this in an American system that has never been so divided, passing a raft of legislation against the will of the far right, despite everyone predicting total paralysis. As it happens, American living standards have risen considerably, along with employment, trade, oil profits, soft and hard power, etc.
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The cameras are live-streaming and anyone can tune in to watch the counts in any state. It’s very boring, but there’s NO, “irregularities.” The camera evidence will lol the GOP out of court. They will recount all the states, and Biden will win. But, if Donny says the votes are, “not valid,” why ask for them to recount, “invalid,” votes? Trump’s legitimising the votes. And they’ll say so in court. Plus Biden’s lawyers will point to trump’s, “lawyers,” making the OPPOSITE claims in other states, and the judge will say, “are you people still here? Donny lost already.” 🤣
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All this fake outrage, about a bewildered slightly autistic bloke, who was a bit, “rude,” to a bunch of MP’s, even when he knew how to engineer Brexit, and now they want his head on a pike, because they’re hot, bored, and haven’t forgiven him for Brexit . . . “Well, I’ve never been so outraged!” Really? Your PM’s got about 50 kids, but none of you gave a s**t about that? 🤣
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I do love this show. Thank you. So glad you clarified that point too, as I have heard people misinterpreting these findings. No one has been, “found guilty,” of anything. You can say they have been, “accused,” by the committee. Sort of . . .
You never know? They might surprise us? Remember, everyone was debating whether Johnson might get 9 or maybe 10 days of suspension? People’s guesses veered between 30 days and none at all! We were all surprised at the massive slap down they gave him.
Perhaps the Tories might choose to demonstrably, “clean house?” They may see an opportunity to divest themselves of their most careerist, opportunistic, corrupt and damaging MP’s who routinely present egregious law warping TV programs on GBN’s, “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Illegal,” “news,” shows? Maybe WishyWashy Sunack will find a pair and actually DO something to at least save some of the crew on the ToryTanic? Perhaps he is actually sick of corruption himself? . . . I can’t keep this up!
Who am I kidding? Wishy Sunack’s glassy-eyed programming wouldn’t compute, let alone download, the word, “property.” The meltdown continues!
“Blue on Blue action,” made me giggle though. 😁 You have a way with words, sir. 😆
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I have been forced to conclude that we’re past basic corruption in the GOP, no matter how grand the scale. Nor is it just corrupted, fascist, “ideology,” that’s driving them. They live in mortal terror. You think the death threats that the Dems get are bad? I bet that little, impromptu, “demonstration,” that Lindsay Graham had to fly home with, that tickled us all so much, was followed up with photos and video of his kids or something? These people are a well organised terror outfit, fuelled by mob money and Nazi ideology. I think half of the GOP are living in mortal fear?
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Darth Wheazius : Exactly. I bet when Lindsay Graham went on every channel he could, to, “threaten,” that we’d only end up with more and more witnesses, if the Dems start calling them, most of America was rubbing its hands with glee, shouting, “Yes! Bring them ALL on!” I know the Impeachment Managers were. Cruz has been smarter, using all of his TV slots to walk back his, “belief,” in, “the steal.” But, they only need to play the video of his speech from the back of a truck, two days before the Capitol Siege, to show his hypocrisy, when he takes the stand to admit it was all a lie, and they all knew it!
Their biggest problem with witnesses is all those, “conversations,” and meetings they’ve had; and whether some might be recorded? So many lower level witnesses will produce minutes, or records, of guys like Graham, Hawley, Cruz, Giuliani, (the list is endless) when they said repeatedly amongst theme selves that trump is nuts, the steal is a lie, they don’t know what to do, they just have to go along, etc. They won’t be able to suppress the facts, or Donny’s fury when he hears what his people really think of him. Witnesses! Yes! The more, the merrier, Lindsay! Bring it! 🤣👍
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“Are these ideas science?” Great question. I think not. Philosophy is what they are: thought provoking, mind expanding, even educational, and they’re great notions to explore if you want improve your lateral thinking skills, or learn to look at problems in science from a new perspective. They are by no means a waste of time, or even misplaced (as an adjunct to science) but, given they are not testable, disprovable, or based upon evidence, they are by definition, not science. They make no predictions and have no practical applications and, to treat these ideas as science has inherent risks; like closing off avenues of research, or of dismissing new scientific ideas, due to dogma. This has happened before in science, so we cannot pretend it does not risk doing harm. So long as they remain in their lane, under the category, “Philosophy,” they can do no harm. At least, that is how things should be until, or unless, someone creates a testable hypotheses, or offers hard evidence, or starts making reliable predictions? Which is why I would never condemn people for thinking about these ideas and taking them seriously . . . Only for mis-categorising them. ✌️
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There are academic papers now, about, “Fear Appeal,” and how it can LITERALLY rewire neurones in the head, cause addiction to your own endorphins and release dopamine to create withdrawal symptoms. That’s what is happening to these poor, ignorant, souls. If you can watch a guy, cursing, screaming and accusing from the pulpit, whilst literally holding a Bible in your hand which tells you he is Demonic, and still not realise what’s happening to you? . . . You’re an addict. And that’s how trumpism needs to be treated.
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no no : I bet you COULD. You sound GENUINELY worried? You see, if you’re NOT a PAID RUSSIAN TROLL, getting money per bleat, for, “Turning YOUR comments into CASH,” (I’ve had two emails, offering me that, but ONLY if I say nice things about Trump and NASTY things about ANYONE who opposes him. I passed them on to the FBI) and, if you’re NOT an ACTUAL RUSSIAN, or from an “allied” country, you are a GENUINE, “useful idiot.”
Do you HONESTLY BELIEVE, in your HEART, that CNN just “makes up” the news? When they’ve BEEN to the Troll Farms, in St Petersburg and The Ukraine, etc, and SHOWED them to the WORLD? You just saw ALL THAT and thought, “Nope! Does not compute, Fox, Fox, Fox, Breightbart, Alex Jones!”??? SERIOUSLY??? These people LITERALLY risk their LIVES and some get KILLED, bringing YOU the TRUTH! And what YOU do, if not directly FOR the Russians, MAY AS WELL BE!
You just DON’T GET IT! . . . NO ONE BELIEVES YOU. Smh
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no no : You’re talking to a REPUBLICAN, idiot. I only left the party, when Trump won the nomination. Simply saying that you have dismissed the FACTS already, and then claiming some kind of bizarre “confirmation” when they are pointed out to you, is OBTUSENESS, nothing more, son. I do pretty well for myself, as a political historian, which is WHY I AREADY KNEW that Trump was DEEPLY compromised, LONG before he got into politics (changing his affiliation from Democrat to Republican should have been a CLUE to you?) and DEEPLY incompetent.
So, like I said, you’re doing the WORK of the Russians and, if you’re NOT being paid for it, then we can all take note that, “no no does it for free” and is nothing more than a, “useful idiot,” Trolling CNN, for a guy who wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire. So SAD 😂
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no no : Wow! I REALLY upset you, didn’t I? You are not smart enough to comprehend this, but your “values” don’t change, because of WHO you pay your subscriptions to? The PARTY sold out. The GOP has CHANGED, not me. So, I REMAIN faithful to my values, and left the party because IT DIDN’T, IDIOT. Smh. Millions of Republicans are SICK of Trump’s s**t show of a “presidency”.
So, YOU project your bitterness and OBVIOUS impotent RAGE, if you like, while the most casual observer can SEE that YOU are the one who’s being all “emotional.” The very IDEA that there are people out there who are NOT FOR SALE, really ENRAGES you, doesn’t it?
I bet you supported Mitch McConnell’s attempt to STOP military families from getting PAID their wages and benefits, didn’t you?
You HATE democracy and America, out of ENVY and WEAKNESS, and you have STUDIED me, looking for weaknesses to exploit, because you “think” everyone is EXPLOITABLE, like YOU ARE! I should be flattered, that you want me SO BAD, you can TASTE it. You KNOW Trump CANNOT keep his job and you FEEL the END coming, and you BLAME people like me: educated, rational people, who DON’T choose their politicians on the basis of FEAR AND HATE; who aren’t willing to sell out, so long as we get rid of multiculturalism. You see the end game and KNOW you have ALREADY LOST and you’re FILLED with SPITE and IMPOTENT RAGE.
The TRUTH will be Trump’s undoing. Stop being so HYSTERICAL and live with it 🤣
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no no : So, because I am able to identify YOUR emotional ravings, you repeat the words back at me and say that I am “feeling” them? You are CLEARLY a stranger to reason. Happily, not my problem. As I have pointed out, and thank you for making my point SO ably, you have NOTHING to say about the topic under discussion. WHY do “think” this is? Don’t bother; as you’re hanging on my every syllable, I’ll tell YOU:
You are ASHAMED. McConnell tried to STOP the military from getting paid. He revealed himself for the conniving SCUM that he is and the Generals will REMEMBER this “loyalty” which I don’t doubt, they will pay back in kind.
Now, at least TRY to engage in the POLITICS here, or at the very least, get your hurt feelings under control. We have held NOBODY’S interest, here? The ONLY “benefit” that this, ahem, “conversation,” can now have, is if you took the time to LEARN something about the REAL world, and I am happy to instruct you.
But, DO STOP WHINING? You’re just showing the world (if anyone ever looks this far down the thread in the future?) how insecure you are. Have you no self respect? You REALLY shouldn’t go on YouTube, if you are so EASILY distressed? Think about it? You are suffering pain (anger and impotent rage) and TRYING to project back onto someone who’m you can NEVER touch, on an emotional level, (that’s the “impotent” part) because you have no comprehension as to what drives me? Your “hurt” drips from your words, and you “think” a casual reader won’t SEE that?
Talk politics, and stop harming yourself. I say it for your own good, honestly. Smh
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What I find most interesting about it, is what she put her finger on, right at the end of her presentation. It’s a, “philosophical,” difference. It’s a mutation of paranoia and distrust, born out of anti-authoritarianism and disillusionment with, “authority,” figures. Give me a Flat Earther in the same room as me and access to the internet, and I can destroy their, “scientific,” arguments, in minutes. Yet, I know this will not convert them, for one of three possible reasons: They’re (1) too emotionally damaged to, “want,” to accept the truth (too proud to admit this six foot, hairy boomer, who can’t stop laughing at him is right, for example) (2) too educationally challenged (stoopid, or probably a combination of 1 & 2?) or, (3) they’re being paid to refute common sense. The group 3 are the ones I despise, because they could do untold harm, and they do it for money. You might argue there is a group 4? The troll. But, actually, the troll is just any one of, or a combination of, the previous three categories.
But, here’s the, “interesting,” bit that I promised (trigger warning) : Many Worlds Theory, or MWT. That is a, “hypothesis,” which has some mathematical basis, which can be made to fit the hypothesis. But, only ever at the cost of disregarding some other fatal flaws which have yet to be resolved. It is popular among many of our leading physicists. And, though more and more people are questioning it, it has taken on the trappings of Dogma. Yet, there is no, “scientific,” basis for it. No evidence, no disprovability, no testable experiments, no predictions, no applications, no foundation for its conjecture whatsoever. It is a philosophical idea, which some scientists cling to with the emotional commitment of high priests. Why is that, exactly?
I believe it is because it solves one thorny problem and no other. If it were true, we could then dispense with, “God.” And that is the ONLY reason MWT is a philosophical belief that has taken root in physics and is doing duty for science where there is no science to be had. In other words, it’s not just Flat Earthers, who are willing to run away with their philosophical ideas. It seems anyone is capable of that type of thinking, if the emotional stakes are high enough? . . . Food for thought? . . . ✌️
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Dixie flatline : Well said. It’s a technique that Putin passed on to trump, successfully used in Russia, by Putin himself and Stalin, from whom Putin learned it. The idea is not to be, “plausible.” Quite the opposite. There’s no better demonstration of raw power than to (for example) deny the moon exists, and then have your cult screaming, “There’s no moon!” at a rally, and all tweet it, as fact, the next day, while, “respectable,” news outlets keep driving the point home. Right now, it’s only disconcerting. And that’s because of the great debt we owe to real news channels for pushing back against the lies and challenging authority (which is their job) and holding the administration to account.
But, imagine just how SPINE TINGLINGLY CHILLING it would be, if ALL the news outlets agreed? Like in Stalin’s Russia? And then in Putin’s Russia? Imagine you read in your favourite paper, “The Moon Vanished,” headline? You look at it, see it’s there, but KNOW if you say that out loud, you are being, “disloyal,” to the party, or the the leader. THAT’S what it’s about. The Cultists chant trump’s lunatic assertions, enjoying the trolling of America, which makes them feel, “powerful,” in a way they never have before. And, to show that, “loyalty,” to their, “cause,” which is, at its heart, purely racism.
But, if trump is still in power after the elections, for whatever reason, you’ll be astonished (or, perhaps you’ll expect it, like me?) at how FAST CNN and MSNBC are hit with a string of scandals, resignations, court battles, firings, etc, until CNN comes under the control of a trump friendly oligarch, and MSNBC is broken up. The other stations will have less eventful resignations, scandals, etc, but, having gotten, “the message,” they’ll fall into line, and all the hosts will be pretty much new faces. And, the worst part?
When lies are ludicrous, yet stated as fact, and people are chilled and afraid, you will continue to tell the truth, making YOU not just a target for the unmarked secret police, (now consolidated into an official unit, not just volunteers bussed into Washington for trump’s peace of mind), but the people closest to you; friends, family and colleagues, will be terrified of being targeted due to their, “known association,” with you. Not only will you have to weigh their safety in the balance, but you may be shocked to discover (as so many others have already) that they have preempted coming under suspicion, by reporting you to the authorities.
And the death cry of a modern democracy, which I’ve already heard is, “Yeah, but that could never happen here.” My only answer to that is, “In 2015, if I’d predicted where we are now, would you have believed me?” If I get a, “Yeah but,” reply, I already know I’m talking to someone in denial, too afraid to contemplate what’s really happening. I don’t blame them. I’m scared too. But, I’m NOT going to my grave, wondering what difference I, “could have made?” I’m involved in my local and national politics. And suggest we ALL get involved, and remove this Clear And Present Danger?
Sorry to go on so long, but you gave me such a good (thought provoking) response, I felt you deserved a thoughtful answer ✌️👍
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@ljragsandfeathers : It’s forgivable for thinking that, especially if you watch a lot of YouTube and follow what its algorithm shoves in front of you. But the evidence is that people are more interested in fixing the world’s problems than you may think. On the news, yesterday, I watched hundreds of thousands of people in Britain, from a wide range of backgrounds, march together for peace in Palestine, calling for a ceasefire. They did so, despite countless lies being told about them in the media and direct threats from the far right. They did so, despite the egregious mischaracterisation of their intentions, route and motives by Britain’s actual HOME SECRETARY, who actually INCITED VIOLENCE through dog whistles and downright lies! These were brave, motivated and young people, for the most part, who knew they were taking a risk with their own futures, as well as the possibility of direct violence on the day, merely by showing up and calling for peace! They do not fit your description.
Ironically, there were several acts of violence committed on that day, but none of them occurred on the peace march. They actually happened a mile and a half away, around the cordoned off Cenotaph. And they were ALL committed by far right extremists, answering Suella Braverman’s dog whistles. They broke the police lines, knocked the cameras out of news teams hands, issued death threats and several were arrested for actual acts of violence. All whilst being too thick to realise that their target was a mile and a half away, because they believed the Home Secretary’s deliberate lie and thought they would all be at the Cenotaph.
What we can learn from this is that people on both sides are highly active and motivated. And that the far right nut jobs are vastly outnumbered, as well as fail to grasp any form of reality, which is helpful to the reasonable human. The web is a distorted, fun house mirror, which only shows you what you feed it. “We see, as through a glass, darkly.”
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j chico : From your defensiveness, anger and generally, “Butt Hurt,” demeanour, I can see you know you are on shaky ground. What you’ve “seen” has been discussion about, “photographs,” and debate about what is IN them. Be a Gravity Denier, if you choose, like THAT’S going to alter the FACTS?
Just remember this: The REASON so MANY Conservatives are voting AGAINST the GOP, these days, like in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc, where there aren’t ENOUGH, “liberals,” to have kicked out the GOP WITHOUT Conservative VOTES, TOO, is: . . . YOU.
Conservatives are WIERY, of the Trolls, their obtuseness and stupidity; their DENIAL and their CONSTANT IMPOTENT RAGE . . .
Like Trumpski, you are ALIENATING your base, leaving ONLY the cultists and the Russians in your wake. And, instead of even UNDERSTANDING that I just gave you the most USEFUL tip, you EVER HAD, you will be filled with Butt Hurtery, and reject it out of hand.
We KNOW the VERY FACT that you Trolls come HERE, is a SIGN of your insecurity, so you are ALWAYS on a WEAK footing. But, do you HONESTLY “think” that you have EVER, “won over,” ANYONE with your, “arguments,” while you RAGE and INSULT THEM? . . . You are doing THE OPPOSITE, just like Trump, son! WAKE UP! It’s over, sonny 😁
Byeee . . . . . . . 🌊
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j chico : Not sure what ANY of that actually meant, but I’m SURE it made you . . . “feel,” better? . . . There, there . . . Just let go . . . I really do have to turn off my device now. Some of us have, “occupations,” to go to . . . See you at the impeachment. I’ll be the one with the big GRIN on my face . . . Oh, wait, that’ll be a bit like Where’s Waldo? Shouldn’t you be getting your shovel or broom or whatever you use for your, “Job”? Or will you be in a uniform, saying, “You want fries with that?” Whatever . . . So long, Butt Hurt. Go read a BOOK or something? 😆 🤣 😂 😆 🤣 🌊 🤡
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I believe she will seek to settle out of court in the civil case. I do not believe you are being too hard on her though. Far from it!
How utterly tone deaf is it, for ANY politician to flaunt their wealth at any time? Let alone at a time when the number of food banks is only growing and the number of children falling below the poverty line is increasing. All as a direct result of Tory policies. She really does cut a Marie Antoinette figure.
But, the fact that none of the whips dressed her down for this behaviour, or even explained to her why it would be perceived as trolling the general public, the poorer one is, the more painful their conclusions, says so much about the degenerate state of morality in modern politics. No one intervened. She did it over and over again.
WTF did she EXPECT! I’m afraid the Sans-Culottes will be coming for her Capet head. It’s bad enough when people rub their wealth in the faces of the poor and blame them for their own predicament. But to do so as a politician is unacceptable in its lack of decorum. And to do so as a titled (en-titled) privileged politician, the public can only perceive that as a direct threat!
The fact that she doesn’t understand this alone, is proof of her unfitness for her position. But, the fact that she swooped in to a national crisis, carpet bag in hand, is truly sickening. “Off with her head,” I say. Metaphorically speaking, of course.
But can we not at least empathise with those who have lost loved ones and whom may well have calculated that her actions contributed to the deaths of their nearest and dearest? Can we blame them for wanting to do murder? I at least empathise with them, having lost my father to Covid.
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Roger Wilco : It’s OBVIOUS to the most CASUAL observer that you are DEEPLY upset and somewhat troubled. If you were, “secure,” you wouldn’t even BE HERE. You use, “Butt Hurt,” angry insults, because you’re DEFENSIVE and you HOPE it will put people off responding to you. You “think” people don’t SEE THAT? THAT just makes you DUMB AND insecure, the two requisites for being a Trumpski Traitor. And the way you CLING so DESPERATELY to that FANTASY that ANYONE who opposes Trumpski has to be a, “liberal.” THAT’S the biggest REVEAL of ALL. There simply weren’t ENOUGH, “liberals,” in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc, to kick out the GOP, yet . . . IT HAPPENED. Because CONSERVATIVES are DUMPING Trumpski. They gave him his, “chance,” and he BLEW IT. But, you HAVE TO maintain your, “narrative,” because the TRUTH is TOO horrific to bear. The fact that it’s ACTUALLY PEOPLE LIKE YOU who are driving Conservatives AWAY from Trumpski. They’re SICK of your abusive, lies and childishness. They don’t want to be ASSOCIATED with people like YOU, with NO, “arguments,” only LIES and ABUSE. The Trumpski train is running out of steam and YOU have KILLED it. Think about THAT, the next time you’re name calling, like a 7 year old? 😁
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For what it’s worth . . . What troubles me most, was hearing Preet Barara’s obtuseness. He’s still using the, “one bad apple,” line?! When we all saw the branches of that poisoned apple tree, working SO HARD to protect Chauvin, while he slowly, calculatingly, mercilessly murdered a man in that degrading, public manner?! When a passing 17 year old girl has more ability to tell right from wrong, and more courage than any of those cops protecting a murderer in the commission of his crime, it’s time to chop down and burn the apple tree. Just from a practical point of view, it would be cheaper to spend generously on recruitment, vetting and training, than it is to spend on settlements.
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Maki Hashimoto : I can’t agree about naming the guy, but it is good practice (journalistically speaking) to speak to the person before publishing the story. Yet, there are mitigating circumstances, here? Possibly? If you have been helping a Newbie, at whatever it is you’re skilled at, encouraging them, teaching what you know, etc, and then discover that they have not only been mislead by a con man with a record, but that this con man is trying to stain the record of your protégée, you might be inclined to act fast, get the first blow in, so to speak, for her sake? I would be tempted to do that, and not just out of anger, but to make him KNOW that he better take the fight to me, and lay off her, for the sake of NOT crippling her reputation, before she’s even really got going. He has the potential to mark her reputation and leave a stain on her, that could never be removed. For the sake of someone else, someone who trusts and looks up to you, and for whom you feel responsible, might you be tempted to just stomp the guy?
But, naming him and especially his business? That’s the whole point, isn’t it? People need to KNOW and be warned. The guy uses and disposes of people as though they were Cleanex. At best, he’s a poor boss, who certainly will NOT look after your interests, and have we heard ANYONE speak well of him? Actual ex-employees and not his shills, still doing his bidding? At worst, and probably in reality, he’s a con artist, who’s SO narcissistic, he may not even KNOW he’s a bad person, seeing the law, policies and, “best practices,” as mere obstructions to be circumvented; not considering what harm he’s doing to real people, who gave up other opportunities, job offers, their time, creativity and skills, only to be DUMPED, once they had fulfilled their, “real,” purpose. He’s taking REAL MONEY under FALSE pretences, squandering good will, and WORST OF ALL, he tried to make it look as though Matty has embezzled $ thousands, meant for a Charity! Just THINK what that could have DONE to her reputation? People go to JAIL for that sh*t! And, imagine going through life, with everyone you know, love and respect, thinking you STEAL from CHARITIES?
That SOB has shown skill, foreknowledge, planning, experience and cunning. He KNOWS what he’s doing and has probably used his boyishness to get out of a lot of scrapes. He belongs in jail, at least for a spell. It’s no joke, what he’s doing. And what was his ACTUAL intent for that, “charity money,” and WHERE in ACTUALITY, IS IT?
Nah, NAME AND SHAME, so ALL can be WARNED. I thank God for public spirited people, like UEG, and can forgive a LOT of minor errors, when confronting this malignant little pr*ck. I can promise you, we’ll hear of him again, and he’ll KEEP conning people, until he’s either President of the USA, or in JAIL ✌️
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Maki Hashimoto : In return, thanks for your patience. I did go on a bit. Though I used, “emotional,” rhetoric, I stand by what I said. The, “style,” of my prose was only meant to drive home a point in more entertaining way than just listing my concerns, like a court document. However, style and substance are very different things. Where I can agree with you, is that, though I suggested there could be, “mitigating circumstances,” I was only guessing, and without any further explanation from UEG on the matter, I am forced to conclude that he let himself down, by not approaching the kid, before, “going to press,” as it were. And, keep in mind, the mitigation I suggested, did not stand in place of justification. I leave that to UEG to explain, or not. I merely raise the question.
Yet, the point still stands. I remember being 21, and I knew it was not just wrong to take people’s money under false pretences, but a con, and a crime. I have done some bad things in my day, and I have tried to put right what I could. But, believe me when I tell you that I know whereof I speak, when I tell you that this kid is not just a menace, but he’s set to either get way worse, or be stomped where he stands.
Yes, UEG has had something similar happen to him, but there was a significant difference: UEG was NOT guilty of the allegations levelled at him. This kid demonstrably is.
All, “emotions,” set aside: This is not some hi jinx. This is people’s careers and lives, effected by a guy who hired them on the basis of a lie. And, it’s a con; meaning that it is ONLY the most trusting, vulnerable and least able to do anything about it, once they realise what’s happened to them, that get taken in. Would you feel the same way about a pick-pocket? Or, a guy who sold you a games console that turned out to be an empty box, with a breeze block in it? Both you and UEG, seem too inclined to cut this kid too much slack, which is part of what is wrong with the world, in my view.
Yet, ALL of that, pales in comparison to the way that this kid, so casually attempted to accuse UEG’s protégée of stealing $ thousands of dollars, meant for a charity. The measures that UEG took to protect her reputation COST those $ thousands, just to ensure she was not in a position, where she could be accused of such a fraud. Where I come from, Matty could have been labelled as, “scum,” and all because she was attempting to do some good, develop her own career, and trusted a con man.
Youthful exuberance and showing off, is not so well thought out, executed, and so well supplied with contingencies for the possibility of exposure. So, both you and UEG are naive to write it off as such. Though I suspect that UEG’s real reason for saying that, is so as to provide the kid with a face-saving, “out,” rather than because he believes it. This kid has a record, which inclines me to ask you. “Did YOU really watch the video?” Youthful exuberance happens once or twice; but, does NOT persist in trying to circumvent the rules which keep shutting you down, like the kid has been doing; for YEARS now. He’s a committed con man, breathing the oxygen that you seem so committed to grant him, by letting him off the hook, so easily?
Without emotion; I ask you to question? Consider the harm that would have been done, if the kid’s scheme had worked, and lead to more such schemes (there WILL be more such schemes). And, consider what the worst outcome would have been for UEG’s protégée? And, then tell me if THAT is just some dumb kid? Or, (with genuine respect) is he smarter than you?
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@RovertNosnikgdoh : I was thinking of America, primarily there. I can only imagine how many communiques get lost like that in Oz, and wonder about how many people have the gumption to follow up as you did? In the USA, we’ve seen people elected to office try to overturn election results, bury the votes of whole groups of people, stay silent in the face of obvious election corruption and routinely, “lose,” or, “misplace,” information vital to the nation’s security. So, losing a few letters or emails will be par for the course in many cases, which is why I suggested the belt AND braces approach.
Hell! One senior Republican politician is an outed con man, facing trial for multiple frauds (and I’m not referring to the former president there, either!) so wherever you can get the receipts, the better in my opinion.
Slava Ukraine, my friend.
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Come on, BBC!? She stands there, a grieving mother, with her child enfolded in that uniform and her arms, being openly indoctrinated, yet THIS passes without comment!? THAT is the North Korean model of training children into becoming unthinking cult members and Z Zombies that represents the real effects of the, “long war,” in Russia. If China gets their way, the criminal brainwashing of innocent children within a geographically shrinking Russia, is the story. Child abuse, RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU, is your real story!
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Billy Cole, Jr : “Hillary,” who? . . . So, “Ancient History,” like ANYONE CARES? Most, “Liberals,” are GLAD she never won. That’s the ONE comfort they can take from all this. The next will be Trumpski’s removal. See, while you Putin enablers are busy deluding yourselves that this is still some kind of, “ideological,” battle, between the left and right, the rest of the WORLD is seeing that it’s right versus WRONG. I mean, you do REALISE that it WASN’T just, “Liberals,” voting out the GOP in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc, right? When are you going to STOP PRETENDING that Trumpski isn’t OWNED by Putin? Even Russian State TV says EXACTLY that. You are ONLY kidding yourself at this point. WHY? . . .
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@Drakey_Fenix : Smart people know that you never draw your weapon unless you’re about to pull the trigger. If the west threatens nukes, you can be assured a launch is imminent. Putin, being a small time crook, part time DICKtator and full time hysteric, doesn’t get that. He waves his loaded weapon around if someone so much as beats him at a game of checkers! So it’s lost its, “threat,” value. Especially since we all now know what a coward he is. We KNOW he’s bluffing, but we also know his antics are liable to cause an accident. Just like the dick who pulls the pin on his grenade and threatens to take everyone out with him, you know he doesn’t want to die, so he isn’t going to do it, on purpose . . . But it’s only a question of time before Russia has another one of its legendary nuclear f*ck ups. That’s why our best strategy is to use overwhelming force. If we want a lasting peace that is.
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You talk about it as though it’s normal for people to, “need,” to use other creators’ work, characters and stories, as a natural consequence of them having been created? Why should people be allowed to steal other people’s ideas, just to make money from them? It’s unfair when someone happens to hear a song in the background in a street video, incidentally, or if there’s a movie poster that happens to get into frame during a documentary, or something. But, if the creator of a work is alive, and people are making money from my work, I should be getting paid for that, shouldn’t I? An automatic percentage seems fair?
Disney’s use of public domain and exploitation of characters is unfair and should be stopped. Indeed, no entertainment company should have their kind of power. And copyright beyond death is also, obviously wrong. But, everyone should be paid for their own hard work? If that work is what’s making the video, book, music, sculpture, painting, etc, the money? Think up your own stuff, creators.
And, YouTube?! Stop letting people copyright strike others so easily! Make them PROVE it has happened and, put the burden of PROOF on the person making the claim! People just use your bonkers system to attack the creators they don’t like for personal reasons and sabotage them, for those personal reasons!
But, creators?! Git Good! Come up with your own ideas!
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Deandre : You don’t, “read,” much, do you? He defeated the incumbent, who was CRUCIFIED, for being TOO HARSH on Asylum Seekers, and DEPORTING THEM. NOW you’ll see what a, “refugee crisis,” REALLY looks like. Well DONE, Trumptards, well done . . . SMH
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DynaCatlovesme : Here’s my point, “kind of,” illustrated by your comment: I WISH . . . I really WISH that people would STOP claiming that everyone who is against Trump is from the “left”??? PLEASE STOP? I was a Republican who left the party, when Trump got nominated. I set aside my political “desires” for the sake of, what feels to me like a, moral duty. We MUST UNITE! We HAVE TO MAKE IT CLEAR to those who are hesitant to “cross the line” that, THERE ARE PEOPLE OF ALL POLITICAL PERSUASIONS who want Trump GONE.
Trump is a “Clear and Present Danger” to America and WORLD DEMOCRACY, and WE ALL KNOW IT!
There are those of the EXTREME RIGHT, like in Hitler’s day, and they are backed by the RUSSIANS.
And then there is EVERYBODY ELSE! Please do NOT push away your allies. Let EVERYONE KNOW that they are welcome and patriots, SO LONG AS THEY OPPOSE TRUMP. This is Beyond “politics” now. We are talking about the SURVIVAL of DEMOCRACY. Can you see my point? Seriously?
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Babs3353 : So, “Trump actually tells people NOT to BELIEVE what HE SAYS”? You ACTUALLY SAID THAT! So, WHAT is the POINT of him SAYING ANYTHING??? You UTTER MORON! We DO, “check FACTS for ourselves,” which HOW we KNOW that Trump is OWNED by the NRA! A LOBBY GROUP. When Trump CAMPAIGNED on GETTING RID OF LOBBY GROUPS! He’s ALREADY had $ 23,000,000 DOLLARS from them, and he has THEM writing his ACTUAL POLICY on gun law, RIGHT NOW! Russia has donated $ TENS OF $ MILLIONS to the NRA! Ask yourself WHY!??? Trump is TOO THICK to be an effective Hitler or STALIN, but THAT doesn’t mean HE ISN’T AS MORALLY BANKRUPT??? Wake up, Putin Putz. SMH
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Think you missed the, “point,” you were looking for? The film subverts of all our expectations, by not being the revenge movie, we are set up to expect. Our realisation is suspended, SO cleverly. The protagonist-family start out looking like anti-heroes. We even think that the brother character is going to free these women, or beat up the pimp. Later on, we realise that he really did want to, “f**k a 14 year old,” or even the pimp’s daughter. The shock of realising he was NOT kidding, and that they are a family of scumbags, is delivered through Christin Scott Thomas’ performance. She handled the exposition and pure, foul mouthed, “VILENESS,” so deftly. Gosling’s character has a twisted loyalty to his mom, which is never fully clarified; only hinted at, with the story of his murdering his own father, “with his bare hands.” By the third act, we have only just come to accept that this family comprises, “the villains,” of the piece. And this is Gosling’s conflict. The death of his mom, frees him, to pay the price and resolve his, “guilt?” “sense of justice?” Call it what you will. It was the Macbeth Family, getting their just desserts. But, we have to figure that out for ourselves. It will leave a LOT of Drive fans cold. But, I loved it
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@dananskidolf Indeed, and as I say, that’s a feature, not a bug. The Tories are deliberately making it so bad that it will soon look hopeless and irreparable; a massive tax burden with no end in sight and no real hope of rescue. Then, instead of being blamed for destroying it, they get to be the white knights who lifted the burden from the general public, with a small tax cut and the full privatisation of the entire service. They can keep some taxes in place, claiming they need them to convert everything, even though they DON’T in terms of staffing and infrastructure (except where they can cut corners by hiring unqualified staff instead of well trained, experienced people) because they’ve already been stealth privatising all this time.
I know from experience, when I get the seals for my sleep apnea machine. A nurse used to put a couple in my hand, any time I asked for them. Now, I have to email requests and answer personal questions about what I did with the old ones and why I can’t make them last longer. When I got mad about this and listed everything that was wrong with their questions and the tone of their response, a senior nurse cracked and told me the complaints were coming from a private company, ResMed, who supply the parts. She just sent me what I asked for, plus spares, and now I regularly harangue the people at ResMed, encouraging them to get a job working for a company that is less likely to result in them being refused admission at the Pearly Gates, but no longer have any trouble getting my equipment.
I do this, not for the sport, (though that is a bonus) but because I know that these, “newer,” companies are still in a highly competitive phase (unlike the fiefdoms that the water and transport companies own, with no competition legally allowed) and they really, really don’t want high complaint statistics. They rely on intimidation tactics and exploitation of scared people in a vulnerable state. Well, they picked the wrong patient, my friend. And I do it because the nurses don’t like being forced to act like enforcers on behalf of a company they hate, which is interfering with the otherwise excellent service they provide.
These nasty tactics are being applied across the board and it’s all quite deliberate.
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@Eimost : Yes, I get the idea, but just don’t get how that works in practical terms. When can you cash a bond, for instance? There must be restrictions, or the former owner could just cash them all on the day of the forced sale, forcing an instant purchase. Why wouldn’t they? In the hopes that their bonds go up in value? What does that depend on? The value of the company they just divested themselves of, or interest rates, or some other mechanism? This guy may well be 100% right in his assertion, but he sure as hell didn’t explain how any of the important aspects of it works. He left so many logical questions unanswered (at least from a layperson’s perspective) that I was left very distrustful of him as a source.
He might as well have said, “The tax payer doesn’t pay for it, ‘cause the computer says no.”
And that’s leaving out all of the other real world costs that are discrete to each case. Like when a water company’s pollution gets so bad that people start suing the water board for deaths or injuries and fines have to be paid. If we nationalised the water companies, which I strongly believe we should, where does that money come from if not the public purse? Each industry can be accused of real world harms for which the former companies would be responsible.
Now, you may be able to answer all of my questions and the many more that I have (most of them more obvious than legal wranglings over settlements) but that still leaves the question: Why didn’t he?
All I heard was, “2 + 2 = 3, because it just does.”
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@AlecBrady : I’m not suggesting that government bonds don’t work. Nor do I fail to grasp the basic premise of how the promissory note aspect of sterling works. I know what money is at a fundamental level. What I am saying is that this video does not explain its main premise. It sets out to explain why the tax payer faces no financial burden from the nationalisation of important public services, yet fails to do so. Indeed, it raises more questions than it answers. No intelligent viewer, starting with little to no knowledge of how nationalisation works, can come away from this video with even the basic premise answered, let alone not asking a heap of other important questions.
The mistake of this video is probably that the writer/s assume too much pre-knowledge on the part of the viewers. Which is odd, considering that people with sufficient basic knowledge will already understand the point he’s making and not require explanation.
He’s basically saying, “This works this way, and this other thing comes out like this, oh, and that other thing will result in this,” without ever explaining how or why these things should be the case. It’s like getting a lesson on grammar without ever teaching people how to spell.
I’m sure the choir enjoyed it. But I came to it hoping to learn something. I left with more questions than answers.
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@AlecBrady : After watching the video a second time, (to see if I’m just being a bit thick here?) I think I’ve identified two points that could have transformed at least my understanding. Firstly, the example he chose, the water companies: he doesn’t explain how they generate profits in the first place, which is not immediately obvious to a lay person. No one charges anyone for getting water from the tap, anywhere in Britain. The companies, presumably, get their money from the water rates, which are identified on your council tax bill, but beyond that, I have no clue as to the complexities of how they make money. So explaining a good, clear example would have helped.
Then the bonds: He tells us what was once done with them and something about what they were valued at, without ever explaining how that value is reached, what effects its value (either now or back then), or even the fundamentals of what a government bond is, how it’s different from just having cash; or what restraints or measures are put in place that make bonds fundamentally different to cash in such a purchase.
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Couple of things. We simply cannot know if he is attempting some sort of disinformation messaging here, or if he’s really so dumb that he grasps so little about NATO tactics and strategy that he seriously believes that Ukraine would steal a bunch of lightly defended, strategically useless land in the north, only to trade it back for their own land later, like some dodgy Muscovite, from the back of a truck? If he’s trying to deceive, it’s a childishly inept attempt that fails to take into account the widely publicised fact that Ukraine has stipulated it will NOT cross Russian borders for any reason, (save for missiles aimed at legitimate targets) which is also a key condition for receiving NATO aid. And given that cynically trading stolen, occupied land is a criminal act, under every code of law, his ignorance is palpable.
What it does achieve though, is to give us an insight into the Russian psyche. Stealing land, with crassly illegal trade offs and seeking to capture militarily useless targets must all have to seem, “plausible,” enough to Russians, for him not to know how utterly IDIOTIC he sounds in this video. Maybe he also didn’t get that other memo, about how the west pays no attention to anything Russians say anymore anyway? The free world has been ignoring everything out of Putin’s mouth since 2014 and is only making decisions based on actions and reality, not any Russian, “words.”
Personally, I like him better when he’s drunk, not hung over. When he’s ranting about army corruption and unnerving Putin while he staggers about looking frightened.
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MEGA 2020 : You can’t worry about people’s, “emotions,” son? You literally TOLD US, that you are deciding the issues, based on your emotional reactions to what you’ve seen. Can’t have it both ways, son. Do you want the FACTS? Or, do you just want to hold on to the, “trauma,” you suffered, because some Mexican cut the grass better than you, and you lost your job? 🙂
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Williams : So, you want me to find some pre-prepared Trump Propaganda, by typing the correct words into the search engine? What do you hope to achieve? Alex-QAnon-Jones videos, or RT, or whatever you hope I’ll give a countable hit to, won’t, “convince,” me of ANYTHING, son. Try REAL information? Try looking at Government websites? Court Transcripts? FOI Requests? The Stock Markets? Public Reocord on the military, CIA, FBI, etc? Try academic outlets? The list is ENDLESS. Try cross referencing what you find, to establish its veracity? Do REAL RESEARCH, if you even KNOW how? And, WHY WOULD YOU? You’re just some guy, with NO academic training, without the principles of Critical Thinking, Data Mining, Cross Referencing, or that whole panoply of other SKILLS that professionals use to get at the TRUTH. Not to mention the connections and insider, “sources,” that pros have? See how this MOUNTAIN is growing, and I barely got STARTED? But, you want me to find a YouTube video made by, “I’m Right Dot-Com,” and, “agree,” with whatever nut jobbery some fat hormone juice, snake oil salesman wants me to, “believe”??? I bet you, “feel,” hurt, whenever you talk to people with educations, don’t you? Jesus, kid? Make an, “argument,” or don’t? I really couldn’t GIVE a F***. But, don’t expect me to let some idiots with a YouTube channel do your talking FOR you, and then get all, “cross,” when I laugh at you instead, son? 😆
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@powernab8457 : I’m not quick to throw unions under the bus. I’m a conservative (with a small, “c,”) by inclination, but I’ve been DRIVEN to the left by all of the lies, fecklessness and entitlement of these incompetent, fundamentally broken sociopaths failing to run our country, even with their slimy tentacles upon the levers of power! 12 YEARS of this sh*t should have been enough for even the most egregiously hostile, “anti,” whatever-ist to get it by now: These goons are NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE, let alone fit for office!
I gave my binmen a Christmas tip this year. Not huge. Just enough for the three of them to have a couple of rounds on me, a grateful recipient of their invaluable services who appreciates the fact that there are people out there willing to do things for me that I would literally hate to have to do for myself: i.e. clean away my crap. One of them LITERALLY CRIED! His life is a story of desperation, lurching from one debt to another food bank, to a debt counsellor, to another crisis! It sounded like a nightmare! Yet he was still here, taking my sh*t away for me. And, much to my shame, I have to confess that, if I’d known that a small act of generosity was going to open up this can of worms in the first place, I probably wouldn’t have done it. Out of sheer Britishness and terrified desire to avoid all outward expressions of human emotions.
I wasn’t sure it would even be taken in the spirit by which it was intended, but I hadn’t expected an outpouring of gratitude and a tearful response!
My point, I guess, is that all about us, wherever we look, there are people moving about inside their own stoic clouds of hardship and quiet desperation. It doesn’t take much to trigger an outpouring from these clouds and, if someone comes along with the correct formula of words, able to reach a large audience, all these little clouds are going to gather up in a cumulonimbus of righteous anger and frustration, and tear it all down.
I worry about stuff like that. And it’s upsetting to think that everyone I see is suffering that bit more because of the sheer greed and heartless, out-of-touch, tone deaf, idiocy of the politicians in charge.
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@GarrusN7 : Well, money sure doesn’t work the way you think it does. And the numbers; the pure profits over costs, taxes and wages, are all public record. Gaming represents less than 5% of what Microsoft does, certainly less than 5% of their annual turnover. There’s no other way to look at this. It’s an epic failure of Biblical proportions, for gamers, for developers, for Microsoft’s reputation and especially the reputation of XBox. They are driving away the customers they have and gating out any potential customers. They have poisoned the brand of Gamepass and created an atmosphere of distrust and justifiable anger. Oh, and let’s not forget, they’ve managed to ruin the careers of countless creative artists and talented technicians in the process.
But their shareholders got PAID, so they really do not care. As far as they’re concerned, Phil Spencer is doing a good job! He promises certain quarterly payouts, which the shareholders KNOW he is legally bound to cough up, and he delivers every time.
We just resent the fact that he pretends to know anything about the games industry, or give a damn about employees. The evidence is in and overwhelming. He’s an idiot. And he will run out of road when they have no more studios to close down, no companies willing to sell out to them and no customers willing to buy their products. But that’s 5 years from now.
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MIKE BARAN : Most Americans will die in DEBT. Check the numbers. Your, “prosperity,” is an illusion. Is YOUR car, house, education, healthcare, business, etc, in the Black or the Red? If it’s ALL paid up, you are one of the 20% of Americans who can say that. Wake up! Trump HATES you and America. America is the ONLY thing he ATTACKS, apart from America’s FRIENDS. Think about THAT?
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Mustang .308 : So, what you’re saying is, YOU have seen, or heard about something bad happening, that shook you, and, therefore are allowing an INCIDENT in your life, influence your reasoning and DISREGARDING THE FACTS. Yup. Trumpanzee. Nothing we Normals can do for you. That kind of DUMB is clinical. Not kidding. You need trauma counselling, and don’t make ANY important decisions that effect the direction of your life, until you are thinking straight again; if you ever did. You see, what you described, there, is called, “Prejudice.” And, in your case, it is BECAUSE of your FEAR. That’s much more common than you’d think. Get help. Seriously
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TheLsp92 : But, I’m not debating whether the baker was being fair, bigoted, or standing by his beliefs in the best way he knew how? The bottom line is, free people have the right to say, “No,” right? Nobody’s, “rights,” were infringed, by such a refusal? What have I missed? It MAY be, “unfair,” but, if you want, “fair,” I suggest you DON’T go looking for it in a Bakery? Free people have the RIGHT to be DICKS, if they so choose, right? I could have saved this couple a FORTUNE, by telling them NO COURT IN THE LAND will give you THIS, “victory.” I’m ALL FOR equality. And THAT means REAL EQUALITY. When we start FORCING people to do things, just because we don’t, “like,” their actions or their, “motives,” for those actions, we are acting WORSE than them, and giving them every reason to HATE us. They NEVER should have tried this case, and their lawyer SHAFTED them . . . SMH . . .
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I meant to say, “skewing,” the numbers, but spewing works, I guess? If we get a vaccination program in schools, which the government is so keen to make money on, er . . . I mean, “return normality to households and see to the education of our youth,” then their reckless, racist, pointless parents can do what they like, without the risk of them harming the innocent, right? No downside. I think the only reason there are so many of the resisters is entirely down to the Russian Propaganda, made to look like, “American,” propaganda, because it comes from Alex Q Jones, or Fox, or whatever.
And the only reason they’re so wound up is because they know, deep down, in their deepest hearts, that they’re wrong and they’re risking their kids lives; so they drown out their guilt and insecurities, by screaming a lot, and seeking self justification from the Bible. The Evangelical ones should read the New Testament Mark? Jesus says, Himself, that most churches will be corrupted and will lead the people to destruction, through greed and, (they didn’t have the concept of racism, back then, but they had equivalencies) racism. They should be running for the hills? 666 wasn’t enough for them. Plague, famine, wars and rumours of wars? Civil unrest, and public, degrading murders, committed by our police forces.
Now, Bill Barr is building a legion of Secret Police SS units, to suppress us, when we complain about having our, “elections,” stolen from us. The GOP KNOWS they’re going to jail, or establishing a Dictatorship. There’s no alternative, third outcome, here. America’s pretty f**ked, and I’m going to stay in the UK if Trump pulls off a Coup. But, I’ll only be putting off the inevitable, worldwide fall of Democracy. But, I will, at least, get to out live a whole, vast section of American society, who will have, “We told you so,” inscribed on their tombstones 😉
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@alexanderSydneyOz : These are not, “smart,” people we’re talking about, as Putin’s actions reveal. Operation Save Face is actually making Putin look weaker. Arresting a conspirator whilst negotiating with the culprit only demonstrates Putin’s powerlessness to get at the people he really wants. Wagner is still an independent criminal gang on the loose, still publicly defying Putin’s orders to join up with the Soviet 2.0 army. And what has Putin got by way of answer? A pre-organised copycat event, which everyone knows is about as, “spontaneous,” as a state ceremony, which comes off like a young YouTuber trying to show he can get as much, “clout,” as his opponent!
Rule one of never losing the game: DON’T PLAY. Putin knows NOTHING about statecraft and cannot hide his bloody nose as long as Wagner and Prigozhin remain free.
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Sunak’s JOB is to REPRESENT our nation, not speak FOR us, nor take into his own hands the personal squabbles he wishes to start at our EXPENSE! He is meant to be an ADULT capable of speaking to his counterpart, face to face, as arranged. Frankly, the average Britain (not me) will have no opinion about the Marbles and be more concerned with matters like Ukraine’s security, and TRADE! He simply has NO RIGHT, regardless of the issue. It’s not just a STUPID hill to die on, but it was utterly unnecessary! Face the man, Rishi, you abject COWARD!
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We’re not doing nearly enough! Putin hoarded enough gold for Russia’s economy to hold out for a couple of years.
That’s why we HAVE TO invest much MORE into defeating Putin. The blood and treasure we invest now will save us a fortune down the line. Finland and Sweden joining NATO will be a real body blow to all of Putin’s rhetoric at home, but we HAVE TO get Germany to lead the way and cut off ALL energy supplies from Russia, and rally Europe and America into an energy pact of assured mutual support.
Western Europeans are still funding the very war we want to stop! The Ruble was bound to bounce back, due to internal demand, and we simply don’t have the time to grind down Russia’s economy over years! Ukraine needs a full navy and airforce to support its heavy infantry in attacking Russia on all fronts, while Europe STOPS giving Putin at least a billion a week to kill, rape, torture and murder more Ukrainians en masse and individually!
It’s the very LEAST we owe them! And it’s our best hope for a lasting peace. Two thirds of the world’s grain imports, 50% of the elements vital for microchip technology (anyone who tried to buy a PlayStation 5 knows there’s a worldwide shortage of microchips) and Shell, Exxon and BP spent billions on the rights to develop the massive oil and gas reserves in Ukraine, which they say rivals that of Russia itself! So the implications for world security are incalculable!
Imagine if Putin succeeded in taking all of Ukraine and controlled more of the world’s energy reserves than any other individual? Combined with their ally, China, taking control of ALL technology manufacturing between them! Taiwan manufactured two thirds of the world’s microchips out of ONE SINGLE FACTORY! When Covid forced them to close temporarily, that’s when the microchip shortage effected the entire planet. So imagine China owning Taiwan and Putin having control of most of the elements used in their manufacture between them? It would be the end for the west.
And there’s the simple matter of morality and human cost, underlining all of this. Ukraine has sacrificed too much for all of us, fighting on our front lines. Putin wants Germany, the economic power house of Europe, and will impose the old East German borders at the very least if we let him. It all comes down to CRUSHING his forces in Ukraine, NOW! We’re not doing nearly enough.
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So, what you’re telling us is that unchecked monopoly capitalism is anti-capitalist, right?
If you cannot start a small business because you’re getting squeezed by the monopoly giants, that’s the literal antithesis of a, “free market,” economy. I honestly think the argument should be framed this way. It’s the, “language,” that hits home for people.
Note: the monopoly giants hijack terms like, “capitalism,” and, “free market economy,” to describe their activities, knowing these terms have a certain traction in the American (western) imagination, while it can be shown, simply and empirically, that what they’re doing is the precise opposite of that. The most powerful argument you have is that they are shutting down capitalism, thus killing the American Dream and the American way of life.
Their methods, as you have demonstrated, are more reflective of the mafia than operators in a, “free,” space of any kind. If you put it to the people this way, that giant mergers are, “killing capitalism itself,” by killing the main resource capitalism needs to thrive, “competition,” you stand a much higher chance of not only framing the discussion in such a way that the public can take it more seriously, but also in such a manner that the courts and legislators cannot ignore.
Your opponents are GUARANTEED to attempt to paint a picture of you, and your cause, as being, “woolly liberals,” and, “anti-capitalists.” You must seize that ground from under them at the outset. Make sure everyone understands that your arguments are Pro-Capitalist, literally calling for protection of the capitalist system. What you’re calling for IS the free market economy, with the checks and balances that are meant to by guaranteed in the Constitution since the 1890’s (a piece of legislation that you need to include in your videos and legal arguments in the future, by the way) and draw as many parallels with the workings of, “government,” as you can. You must OWN that Capitalism space and make it the centre-piece of your argument.
As you have already pointed out, this much power in the hands of so few (especially in media forms) represents great power. And, “with great power comes,” Marvel comic book clichés, but that doesn’t make them any less true.
You have the arguments of Capitalism, Responsibility (as there appears to be zero accountability for the owners of these companies, except to shareholders, which do not have public interest at heart, by definition) and you have the VAST evidence of public inconvenience, Ticketmaster breaking their written word, the lowering of standards in those industries, lowering of pay and conditions for employees, all set against the background of the rapidly rising cost of living.
If you have access to good lawyers, and if you can get you connected to any senior politicians, you cannot lose. Oh, and you’ll need LOTS of money to fight these monopolists, when you’re trying to get legislation passed. But, if you make regular videos about your campaign, with progress reports, also making the granular detail available for those who want to dive deep, people will donate to the cause. It’s the only pocket that’s deeper than the head of Warner, or Mr Meat Monopolist, etc. I would contribute my cash . . .
Good luck and Godspeed, my friend. ✌️
P.S. If you read this whole thing, thank you for your patience. 👍
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@gavriloprincip11 : I think it vanishingly unlikely that he would be interested in reading the comments on YouTube, even if they are directly addressing him and under his own comment. But, on the other hand, a BBC journalist responded to a comment I made about his Serbian report, yesterday, so you never know?
But, if you read my comment carefully, I have asked questions and offered some advice. I was not seeking to debate with him. Nor do I shun the possibility, but I would hope it wouldn’t be necessary. At least, on the fundamentals of the issues he raised?
I have no idea what this guy’s attitudes about, “trans issues,” are like, nor am I even curious. Don’t see how that pertains? I suppose you mean to comment on his debating style more generally? You seem to be implying that he is perhaps, “unfair,” in his technique? I wouldn’t know. First time I’ve ever commented on his channel (so far as I can remember?) but I do take people as I find them, rather than judge them on the basis of hearsay. With respect.
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Are U That F'n stupid : Look, son, there REALLY is NO SUCH THING as a, “Perjury Trap.” Foxian Propaganda, to cover for Trump’s coming lies. And, honestly, now that you KNOW for a FACT, that, “no collusion,” Tweeted at you, (DAILY!) for TWO YEARS, is a LIE, (regardless of the, “legality,” of it) WTF is WRONG with you? HOW are you NOT furious with Trump? We now KNOW that he’s been telling people that he doesn’t even CARE what a MESS he’s going to leave behind, because it won’t effect HIM! You HAVE TO BE a foreign Troll or a US RACIST??? There is NOTHING in it for ANYONE else! Which are you?
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Dimitri B : It’s a competition? Highest viewing figures gets to say what the, “truth,” is? Normals look at Fox, too, because they’re interested in the latest Propaganda, “Whaddabout?” defence, being spooned out to the gullible. Why do you even, “think,” people CARE about ratings, anyway? CNN isn’t going anywhere, son. People all over the planet follow CNN and the BBC. You think they tune into Fox in the Congo? In China? What are you? 9 years old? 😁
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Corey Poynter : The reason the GOP are losing support, is this juvenile attitude, from Trolls like you. So, do keep it up. Four in a row; talking to people you hate, to try to spread more hate, on a channel that you hate, but YOU are NOT, “triggered,” are you, son? You kids need to figure out that Trump’s opponents come from the, “left,” centre and the right, kiddo. You, “think,” we have an, “emotional bond,” with CNN or something? Honestly! It’s like arguing with a kindergarten class . . . 🤣
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Gilda Provenzano : Have you noticed that Fox NEVER loads an Andrew Wallace, or Shep Smith video onto YouTube? These guys are among their most popular anchors; major share holders in Fox; influential voices? Yet, whenever you find a YouTube clip of those guys, it’s ALWAYS someone independent, who’s loaded the video? . . . 🤔 Just wondering if there are ANY, “pro-Trump,” anchors, on independent, unbiased channels, like PBS, BBC, CNN, MSNBC, etc? Actual presenters? . . . Seems, even the propaganda channels have trouble keeping their lies straight, when they still employ honest people? 😉 ✌️ 👍
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The Dems disappointed the Europe with their pusillanimous, “support,” for Ukraine, which was slow in coming and came with far too many restraints, forcing Ukraine to fight with one arm tied behind their back. Since European security is as much at issue as Ukraine’s in this war, Europe was already questioning America’s loyalty to its own purported ideology.
Now, we’ve seen an outright betrayal of America’s allies in Europe and the Five Eyes nations. With China offering to step into the breach, and the possibility of making a deal that includes them withdrawing their support for Moscow’s invasion plans, the answer to this dilemma seems obvious to me.
Europe AND the Five Eyes nations should act as one, making a set of new trade deals with China, in return for European security guarantees; which come in the form of Putin withdrawing from Ukraine, which is now in the interests of all parties concerned.
It might even be possible to reach a deal on Taiwan, setting an agreed date to hand over the territory, in a similar fashion to Hong Kong, providing migration guarantees to the Taiwanese people and their industries. Too brutal? A betrayal of our principles? Perhaps . . . Or is it simply a recognition of the harsh realities of geopolitics and a resolution not to get caught in the crossfire between two unreliable superpowers; only one of which can at least be relied upon to act in accord with its own interests and is therefore consistent. You can deal with a consistent, reliable nation, even if you don’t support their politics.
And, if Taiwan’s fall will become increasingly inevitable, as America’s economy shrinks and the dollar destabilises, leaving the Euro or the Chinese Yuan as the new, “stable currency,” maybe we have the opportunity to save lives, the dignity of a peoples, and to place caveats in their system of governance, which prevent them from falling into total autocracy? Especially if China is so reliant on European, Canadian, Austral Asian and British good faith?
Putin’s economy is close to meltdown anyway, after all. He is already dipping into pension funds and slowing the production of oil. It would only take a small push from China to send them into full crisis, thus relieving Europe of a massive economic and security burden. Or replacing its security burdens with new ones, perhaps? But at least this will be shared, globally.
And a prosperous Europe, with an urgently needed injection of young Taiwanese families, rebalancing the demographics of the aging populations of so many nations, means prosperous trade for all.
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I heard about the ISW’s (Institute for Studies in Warfare) assessment, which bares out my own comment last week. That Putin seems to be deliberately reducing Prigozhin’s Wagner group, whilst blocking his attempts to refill his ranks from gyms, clubs and prisons around Russia. Russia’s internal wars mean that Ukraine has not faced properly trained, equipped and supported soldiers for some time now, but just sheer overwhelming numbers, with occasional injections of special forces groups, here and there, but not in any significant numbers.
I do not fear for what might happen when the Russians finally do put their best on the front lines, as they lost their very best in the battle for Kiev and their failed invasion attempts around the whole eastern half of Ukraine last year. Putin might think he’s buying time to train and equip his latest swathe of conscripts, but they simply will not have the experience, will or matching equipment to halt Ukraine’s Spring offensive.
Once Putin has less Ukrainian real estate than he began with in February of last year, combined with new countries joining NATO and the sheer financial losses Russia has suffered, all topped off with China’s visit making it clear that Putin cannot expect any significant under the table assistance, and Russia are now China’s junior partner, his position as leader will be untenable. Unless Russia breaks up and becomes like North Korea with China’s assistance - while China soaks up the populations of Russia’s southern regions into their borders, because, “populations,” (particularly young people) are what China so badly needs right now, I can’t even see how Putin survives into next year?
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cj p : In short, all your relentless Trolling showed me, was that I got to you. You’re really, “Butt Hurt,” and are, “mad,” at me, for not playing your little game. But, that’s the art of NEVER losing, son: DON’T PLAY. The mere fact that you LIVE on CNN, shows us you already KNOW you’ve lost and you’re just watching the clock. Tell it to your therapist, sonny. Normals don’t care. But, thanks for the encouragement 🙃
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D. Bates : Trump Trolls only have fake outrage, anyway. It’s not like they have a leg to stand on, or anything? They aren’t told to, “win,” any arguments, or properly, “debate,” with people. Their instructions are to maintain and increase DIVISION. Spread the HATE and the IMPOTENT RAGE that they feel every waking minute. That way, they either drive away Normals, who don’t want to put up with all the pointless abuse, or they just ingrain the anger and hatred, ensuring that compromise, rational argument, and especially FACTS, never get a chance ✌️👍
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grammaticopedanticus : Precisely. Consider the term, “Small Government Conservatism,” and set that against the invasive attempts of Trump, to control and have an impact on EVERYTHING, from, “Make Iran Great Again,” Trump’s own words, which directly contradict, “America First.” From Tweet bombing State Funerals, to causing a rift in our SPORTS; the very place Americans go to get away from politics! From, “punishing,” pregnant women, to spontaneously phoning in to Propaganda news outlets, the control of which is only spreading. Attacking our biggest industries, Amazon, Google, etc, even the post office! I could go on listing various aspects of public life, but the point is, whatever you can call Trump, it’s NOT, “Conservative,” by ANY definition. The big ROBBERY of $1.5 TRILLION, early on, for his donors and his family, was about their speed, and on its own, would have had us still arguing over its patent failure to stimulate the economy, and now prices are rising on almost EVERYTHING electronic, because of the pointless trade war, with the ONE COUNTRY that can take hit after hit, without EVER having to worry about the, “political consequences,” when China doesn’t even HAVE elections!
Sorry for waffling a bit, there, but speaking as a Conservative, what I see is STALIN. He even QUOTES Stalin, and he’s being fed Stalin’s tactics, by Putin. His aims may well be Proto-Nazi, but his technique is Stalinist, mass control of EVERYTHING. That’s Anti-Conservative, and I’m WITH THE RESISTANCE, ALL THE WAY TO THE END ✌️👍
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Elvoray Bane, etc: Coz, there’s you, “thinking,” that people either believe you or care, right? I don’t work for CNN, son. Why would I GIVE a shit, dumbass? You’ve been saying they’re about to shut down for three YEARS, now. Just because Trump Tramps, “feel,” like Fox is their, “saviour,” Propaganda outlet, does NOT make Normals anything like you, kiddo. Grow up 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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qualivia : Boom! That’s BULLDAWG told! I just wrote a comment and deleted it, ‘Coz I mixed up the names; so ignore that, last, if you see it? Just keep in mind, the ONLY people with ANYTHING to, “gain,” from backing Tramp, now, are either the foreigners, being PAID by shell companies, or (more tragically) the RACIST at home, because . . . Well? Because they’re RACISTS . . . SMH
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asdfHarpies : Oh, come ON, America!? . . . It’s either one of two choices: RIG the, “trial,” and RIG the 2020, “elections,” OR? . . . The whole Trump Tribe, including half of the GOP goes to JAIL. Which did you THINK they would choose? Whether you come to love your Trumpian Monarchy, or decide to tear it down in a second Revolution, just, PLEASE? For the LOVE OF GOD? PLEASE, stop KIDDING YOURSELVES that your 2020 elections are not ALREADY RIGGED?
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Ray Weaver : Trump just makes his mind up and the others have to cherry pick their, “facts,” to fit in with his narrative. He doesn’t take advice. He’s managed, coaxed and corralled into certain positions by his hapless lackeys and even that much backfires on a regular basis. No one is dissing Dr Fauchi. Personally, I feel sorry for him, having to deal with this abject idiot, knowing he could end up on the sharp end of Trump’s desire for revenge, simply for stating some fact that never occurred to him Trump might dispute, because he never imagined he would be THAT dumb. But, he walks that tightrope out of some misguided sense of responsibility, presumably? I couldn’t guess what’s in his head or his heart, but it will end in tears, sooner or later (it always ends in tears) and he’ll wish he’d never bothered, like so MANY before him
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Kermit T. Frog : Yeah, actually it’s pretty awesome, most of the time. I have an injury that effects my mobility, but I can still get around pretty good. Definitely NOT a guy who deserves any sympathy. My wife, on the other hand, god bless her. I have no idea how I managed to fool that angel into thinking that I would be worth sticking around for, for the rest of her days, but she’s loyal, committed, sweet and a babe. And, if anything happens to her out there, because of this Orange Orifice’s idiocy, greed and general Stalinistsic fuckery, there will be blood . . . ✌️
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The hypocrisy is sickening, right? But, the Dems should forget about the, “verdict,” really. It’s rigged anyway. There is still VICTORY to be had, regardless. They should get the most Senior GOP Senators, like Lindsay Graham on the stand, and focus on the HEART of the matter! “The Steal,” CAUSED their Insurrection! So, force them to tell the WORLD that, “The Steal AIN’T REAL!” under oath, with no 5th Amendment to hide behind! What else CAN they do? Take on Perjury and Conspiracy charges? With a BILLION dollar lawsuit? Break their Fascist fantasy! And you break the GOP in two! With or without the, “verdict!”
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Really??? . . . Come on, BBC!? She stands there, a grieving mother, with her child enfolded in that uniform and her arms, being openly indoctrinated, yet THIS passes without comment!? THAT is the North Korean model of training children into becoming unthinking cult members and Z Zombies that represents the real effects of the, “long war,” in Russia. If China gets their way, the criminal brainwashing of innocent children within a geographically shrinking Russia, is the story. Child abuse, RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU, is your real story!
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Stu_Lopher : Good point. Accept, he didn’t say it. In fact, he was one of the few who was warning, from his global geopolitical perspective, about the growing popularity of far right cults, and the damaging effects of mass propaganda dumps. He showed it was happening all over the world, and was (still is) driven by Russia and their allies, while expressing concerns over education levels and mass movements. He may have said, early on, what everyone was saying, but that was way back when the GOP was saying they’d never accept trump, because of his racism, sexism and stupidity (people like Lindsay Graham and Moscow Mitch were very loud on the topic). None of us could have predicted that the GOP would cave, so abjectly, to such an obvious Putin Puppet? But, Fareed was one of the first, trying to explain to us why trump might get, “elected,” and how.
So, Mickey, here, is full of shit. But, note this? Look how complex the truth is? Look how many words it took for me to explain the facts? How much patience has it taken for anyone to read this comment through? See, Mickey knows that he can COUNT on people being lazy, because lies are quick and easy. He either guessed and took a chance, or just flat out lied. Morally, there’s no difference. Basically, he’s a complete and utter cult, who takes money to lie, or is just so mentally ill, that he spends all day, every day, spewing out lies and hate, to people he hates on channels he hates. That’s not a, “sane,” man’s actions. Just a cult’s. ✌️👍
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Vigilant Libertarian : No, “technically,” Nixon was NOT, “impeached.” The papers were drawn up and a vote, in favour, was taken in the House and Tricky Dicky WOULD have been impeached; but it was PRECISELY “technically” as in, on the basis of REALITY, that he WASN’T. You Putin Poodles are ALWAYS trying to rewrite history, which is what makes you SO transparent.
NO ONE buys your “narrative.” People are essentially lazy, en masse, in thought and action. Which do YOU think they will be more likely to go with? Trump and a rotten group around him, NEED TO GO, (as the EVIDENCE grows increasingly overwhelming) or that we’re going to have to have a root and branch restructuring of the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, DHS, etc, their oversight committees and our political bodies, WHICH WE PRIZE SO HIGHLY? Do you HONESTLY THINK we will want to replace ALL our BEST security with a bunch of flaccid DICKtators, who do nothing but bow and scrape to the Orange-Utan? ARE YOU MAD?
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@neilwarren4573 : And at the heart of that squalid pit of vipers will be the producers; the silent assassins, who spread gossip, whisper in the apprentice’s ears and tell them, “You should not stand for that,” or something to that effect. I saw a documentary looking at how the producers of the Jeremy Kyle show worked from the shadows, skilfully and with experience, manipulating the weaknesses, fears and vulnerabilities of their, “guests,” with such aplomb that they could send them out onto the stage like emotional suicide bombers, giving maximum, “entertainment,” value at the cost of every day after for the rest of the participants’ lives.
Real sociopaths. If I met someone in a bar, who introduced themselves to me as a producer on such a show, I don’t know if I could be responsible for myself! And if I did allow myself to slap them (involuntarily, of course) I would feel as though such a dangerous manipulator cannot be left to avenge themselves on me, with all the resources and zero morality they command, so I would have to dispose of their remains somewhere quiet.
Of course, I’m not serious. But my contempt for such people, informed by my own damaging experience of manipulators, stirs such dark feelings in me, even now, that I would have no sympathy for any one of them, should they meet such an end at someone else’s hands. That’s awful, I know. And I should be ashamed of myself. But it’s honest.
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Donny still sits on the throne, I see? America is maintaining its denial, that it can remain a Republic, after this RIGGED, “Trial,” lets its Dictator walk free from confessed and proven crimes, SPECIFICALLY identified in the Constitution as Impeachable. My advice to Americans is, either learn to love and accept your Royal Orange Family, or DO SOMETHING, like the Ukrainians did, a decade ago, in freezing conditions and without ANY WEAPONS and REMOVE this Dictator, kicking and screaming, from his throne. Just, do me a favour? PLEASE? For the LOVE OF GOD!!! Would ya’ll STOP PRETENDING that they will ALLOW you to, “Vote,” them out, when the WHOLE Trump Family and HALF OF THE GOP will GO TO JAIL if Trump loses his Protected Presidential Status?!?!? If they are LITERALLY SHOWING YOU that they’ll RIG the Trial, hen they KNOW THEY TOO will be politically and at least HALF of them, LEGALLY, RUINED, WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THEY’LL ALLOW, “NOT RIGGED,” Elections??? It’s come down to, Trump walks = END of the Republic. Trump survives = END of the Trump’s and the GOP. WHICH DO YOU THINK THEY’LL CHOOSE??? . . . SMH
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@its_trenner2900 : It’s somehow, “wrong,” to keep bringing up an ONGOING COUP attempt? They haven’t packed up and gone home, you know? I’m discussing CURRENT EVENTS. And, before you go there, I’m a Conservative, a fully paid up member of The Lincoln Project. So, less of the stereotyping and Karenage, if you don’t mind?
Now . . . Tell me, Ms, “Both Sides?” What particular rhetoric should trump’s trolls, “drop,” in your opinion? Seeing as how you stated he should? 🤔
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Catherine Haessig : Seriously? WHERE to START??? Let’s keep it simple. The majority of the people DIDN’T vote for Trump, which you KNOW. But, nevertheless, it would seem appropriate that, if you find out that your DOTUS is incompetent, racist, AND a GREEDY TRAITOR, the fact that the election was legitimate (which is not true) becomes a moot point? A bank manager MAY have gotten his job, through, “proper channels,” but that doesn’t mean you can’t FIRE him or her, when they start steeling the money?
Not interested in “Hillary” or “Obama” as they are NOT RELEVANT to the topic in hand, much as Trump would LIKE them to be
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jag10 : You “realise” don’t you, that there have been “sections” of a “wall” since forever, right? Bush built a fence. Obama built a WALL. But, they did it where it was needed. What’s happening now, is that old “friends” of Trump, from the building trade, are building experimental prototypes, for consultation purposes. Or they are adding to sections that Obama or Bush had put up. You don’t KNOW this, because you don’t read, and even if someone took you by the scruff of the neck, showed it to you, gave you witness statements from ALL concerned at EVERY LEVEL and had the FACTS surgically implanted into your tiny brain, you would STILL DENY IT, along with the existence of GRAVITY and your CRIMINAL RECORD. You are just a DUMBASS Putin Bitch, who probably “thinks” he is “loyal” to Trump, even though THAT Orange BASTARD wouldn’t PISS ON YOU if you were ON FIRE! SMH
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david anderson : Wow! Is THAT ALL it would take? You find the notion of being, “trapped,” by some angry women SO fearsome, that YOU would change your political stance, ideology, beliefs and morality? Even when Flake COULD have pressed the button, at ANY moment, and the doors would have closed, ending the conversation? Even though a wink at the security guard would have been enough to have them dragged off? Even though IT’S HIS JOB to LISTEN to the people of America, on a NATIONAL ISSUE?
But, YOU would stop doing your job, change your vote and weep in a corner, because you’re SUCH a snowflake? No WONDER you Nazi Trumpers are all so hard on women’s issues. They LITERALLY SCARE YOU.
And, it has not even OCCURRED to you, that Flake might have been GLAD to hear them; felt it was his RESPONSIBILITY to LISTEN; that he may have been persuaded by the fact that they were RIGHT. What a bunch of cowards, you treacherous Trump-Thumpers really are . . . SMH
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Gerard Vaughan : Wow . . . Are we talking about Alison Weir, the historian? Most of her books are about the Tudors; with as many of them being fiction as factual. I’ll have to check it out. If you read Ronan Bergman’s Rise And Kill First: The History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations, you will be left in no doubt that all branches of Israeli Intelligence (especially the Mossad) are no strangers to dirty tricks. And, the trump card, you’ll always get back at you, (forgive the pun?) unless you happen to be Jewish yourself, is that, just to utter some negative truths about Israel’s way of doing business, is meant to be, “Anti-Semitic,” because people don’t wanna’ here it. And, from what we’re learning, it appears Netanyahu’s government is as corrupt as our administration, facing charges of their own.
That Alison Weir book? It’s not just a speculative hack job, is it? Not another piece of propaganda, alleging a, “World Wide Jewish Conspiracy,” right? The real deal? With good sources? Lots of references is a good thing, but only if you’re referencing credible people in the first place. What do you make of it?
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You have to suck it and see with policies like these. To many elites, money isn’t the issue, but the name of the institution and exclusivity of being in the, “club.” People ALWAYS, “threaten,” to walk away when their wallets are threatened. And, for many elites, they are used to such tantrums being sufficient to get their own way. But most are just bluster, in my experience, like the people who say they’ll leave the country if the Tories lose the election, yet whom never leave. Call their bluff.
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A reckoning is coming at the Impeachment trial. That’s why the GOP will do ANYTHING to stop it. The, “verdict,” is irrelevant, and they KNOW IT! It’s EXPOSURE of the TRUTH they fear most. How will their base react, when they get shredded on the stand, if they even TRY to say they, “believe,” that the, “Steal,” is a thing? How will they react to the many, (Cruz, Hawley, Graham?) who confess they KNOW, “The Steal,” is a lie, but were, “only following orders,” like at Nuremberg? With no 5th Amendment, and the full power to force testimony, on live TV, before a riveted planet? . . . This will be their fracture point. No wonder they’re scared?
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Truthfully, this makes me laugh cynical tears, like watching lemmings leaping to their doom . . .
If people focussed their, “political,” efforts on the people who are ACTUALLY RUNNING THINGS, they would GET the, “change,” they’re looking for. WHY are they bothering helpless, “Politicians,” with this stuff? You might as well be petitioning a SHEEP because you don’t like what her Shepard is up to! Seriously, people!
Look at Texas? It’s an OLIGARCHY, in which the politicians are bought, OUTRIGHT! Not rented, but OWNED! Focus your efforts on Exon, Shell, and the rest! Their, “politicians,” will DO EXACTLY what their fossil fuel baron bosses TELL THEM TO!
Honestly! All this talk of, “political will,” and, “politicians,” is utterly ludicrous! STOP CONNING YOURSELVES into, “believing,” that a, “politician,” can help you? They literally have less freedom and agency than YOU do! They do as they’re told, by their donors! Stop challenging the startled, helpless monkey in a suit, for what his Organ Grinder is doing!? Talk to the ORGAN GRINDER! FFS, people??? 🤦♂️
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phennec : It’s up to US! We, the people, NEED to maintain pressure on the Congress and Senate. If you’re not in a Action Group, JOIN ONE. And, write to your representatives, by all mediums, email, snail male, text, etc. Phone their offices, and so on. Our Democracy NEEDS US ✌️👍
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Yeah, and the court said, “that’s BOLLOX, Donny.” Just listening to trump’s inarticulate babblings, there, makes me cringe. Bolton chose money over country, and Donny hates being beaten at his own sick, treasonous games. They deserve each other, and whoever loses the final battle, will be cause for all decent people to celebrate. But, my guess is Bolton knows Donny’s going to be in jail, fighting off his own lawsuits for the rest of his life?
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Linda Wright : Part of the “strategy” SOCOM was employing, there, was simply to reinforce a clear, “Them and US,” or, “Liberals and Republicans,” ILLUSION. It is of paramount importance to them, as merest the hint at the FACTS, which are, for example, that a Fox Poll (Two weeks ago) showed all the usual biases that you’d expect; EXCEPT, one KEY FACT that they have been working hard to bury: 9% of people who voted for Trump said they will NEVER vote for him again. Those numbers are far more devastating than they may appear at face value. They would, for instance, have resulted in a CRUSHING DEFEAT for Trump, EVEN IF that entire 9% had simply withheld their vote, at the last election; LET ALONE some of them voting AGAINST Trump. Their battle is on MANY fronts now. But, we ARE in a battle for the very survival of democracy. There is NO WAY in which this emergency can be overstated
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And still they wouldn’t. But the Dems can win this, WITHOUT the, “verdict.” All we need from the GOP, is their admission, during this trial, that the basis for the Insurrection, “The Steal,” is a SEDITIOUS LIE! Any Senior GOP witness on the stand, who sold that lie, ADMITTING it is a LIE! Which ALL of them would do, if put to the question! Rather than face a BILLION DOLLAR lawsuit, Perjury and Conspiracy charges, etc. Just get THAT for America to hear, from the GOP’s mouths!
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Galv1405: All these Eastern European Trolls are full of, “opinions,” about Covid 19 . . . Funny that? Almost as though they were spreading a misinformation campaign about? Knowing they have a hungry audience of concerned families, worried about their job security, income and savings, it’s like an open goal for them? Of course, the Trollarazzi will all change their tune, when there’s no one left who hasn’t lost, “someone,” to Covid, and they just don’t seem that, “plausible,” anymore? . . . But, by then, they’ll all have changed the names of their YouTube, “characters,” and be busy spreading a new lie, about how the virus was “made” in a “laboratory” by someone who just so happens to be a political target of theirs . . . Am I right? . . .
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Galv1405: Oh, and I NEVER give my precious Clicks, helping to boost the Click Count, of the potential Malware Trap, Click Bait. You’ll have to use your, “words,” son. Do you have any of those? Or, are you just the Eastern European conduit to the, “real,” Propaganda, meant to draw people in, like an internet Carnival Barker? Your life didn’t really work out for you, did it? . . . smh
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@normanrichardson2314 : Yeah, they’ll learn what it’s like in a Russian prison, if they don’t get robbed, raped and murdered before reaching their cells. This generation of Russians have had all courage, honor and sense of decency bred out of them. They’re like confused children. They know their, “constitution,” says that private military groups are banned, with stiff penalties for those who create and run them, yet Wagner’s website says it’s a, “consultancy,” firm. The sheer hypocrisy gets cancelled out by the constant bombardment of mixed messages on state TV and from their, “politicians.” “War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength, Freedom is Slavery.” Orwell tried to warn them. Too late now.
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@aronkracsun : The answer to that is simple. They have and they do. And, what they find is that there are about as many Nazis in Ukraine as there are in the UK or America. And those that were gathering strength a few years ago have found that strength undermined by prosperity. Nazis only do well when a country is in crisis; usually economic. Now, everyone in Ukraine is pro-Ukraine and they know that the money won’t stop rolling in once the war is won. They have a huge cue of American and European businesses, keen to develop the fossil fuels (enough to rival, if not outstrip, Russia’s supplies) like Shell, BP, Exxon, etc, who were all there prior to the war, finding massive reserves and trying to establish contracts with the Ukrainian government, before they were either intimidated or bombed out of the areas; there are also chemical, agricultural and other industries in which Ukraine stands to lead the world. Does that answer your question?
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@vojspetar3796 : If you read his comment, above, you can see that the journalist, Joe Inwood, acknowledges that very fact, the he has, “just scratched the surface.” And he says that tough decisions had to be made in the editorial process about what to include. While I don’t agree with their choice, as I expressed, I do understand that there might well be more going on in that process than I could understand, with regard to protecting their ability to keep reporting from there, their ability to build trust with the people of influence in the media there (such as the editor he included in the piece) and other factors that I may have no way of knowing or understanding. Therefore, we have to allow some level of trust?
I cannot speak to the statistics in Serbia, but from what you’re telling us, your country is deeply divided on the issue of Putin. Is that fair to say? And, from the reports we’re getting, it seems like the people who support Putin the most in Serbia are also the people who are influencing Serbian media the most. Would you say that is true?
If the majority of Serbians are against Putin’s war in Ukraine, and against Putin more generally, they appear to be keeping quiet about it publicly? Were you an adult at the time of the bombings? Did you witness the genocide? What can you tell us about the truth in that regard? Do Serbians remember the atrocities? Do they talk about that?
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@GriuGriu64 : No, that’s a lie, son. “Don’t believe what people say, believe what they do.” If Russia wants peace, it could stop attacking Ukrainian positions, before even considering leaving Ukraine. It is Russia attacking the sovereign citizens of a foreign country right now. Just saying, “Let’s have peace talks,” because they’re losing, which is a ruse to buy time for rearmament, is a trick they’ve pulled too often. No one trusts Putin any more because everything he says is a lie. At least in the west, only half of everything our politicians say is a lie. Even you don’t believe you, kid.
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Josedantes : We’re trying to, “stop the lies,” girl. Trump IS the, “lie.” And, NPC’s like you, who want to see America burn, don’t realise that the world will become Putin’s sewer, if Trump is not removed. You will suffer as much, if not MORE than Americans, and all you’ll hear in your head will be those words, “We told you so.”
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I keep telling people, if you want to see real, “change,” in Texas, talk to the CEO of Shell, Mobil, or Exxon? If they find pickets are preventing them from building things, moving their oil, etc, they’ll TELL their, “politicians,” what to do. Have you people SEEN the Donor Records for people like Cruz and Abbot? They ain’t, “renting,” their, “politicians,” in Texas. They’ve BOUGHT THEM, OUTRIGHT! You people are arguing with sheep in a field, because you don’t like what the Shepard is up to! for the love of GOD, WHY???
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@AuroraColoradoUSA : Speaking of sheep, why have you been living on this and other MSM channels for 5 long years, then? Just to, “complain,” like a Karen’s gotta’ Karen? You don’t debate, so you can’t pretend you, “care,” and you don’t give evidence, so you can’t fake any legit reasons. But you, “care,” about how you, “feel,” is all, right? Go, “complain,” to the director of CNN? Stop wasting your life? Get a JOB? 🤷♂️🤦♂️🙄
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How much, “vitriol,” does an MP deserve when they plot to undermine democracy, enrich themselves at the expense of the community she is meant to represent, doesn’t show up for work, when real people’s lives are in the balance, so badly does not even know her brief, as her questions to Channel 4 execs so amply demonstrated, bullies people who tell the truth about her using her friends in the press to do so, and then, on top of ALL THAT, throws a public hissy fit when she doesn’t get a seat in the House of Lords and then gets angry when people react to her UTTER HYPOCRISY!? She is THE toxicity. She should NEVER have had access to the levers of power in a well ordered society and is just a symptom, identifying the problem.
When it comes to, “language that goes too far,” people in glass houses should not throw stones. Jesus! We have a Home Secretary who routinely calls the public polarising, openly hostile, names from the dispatch box!
THEY set the terms of engagement, but just don’t like it when the public is better at it than them!
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“Flouting!” NOT, “flaunting!” “Larry is getting laughs by, ‘FLOUTING,’ the consensus.” “Flaunting,” is outwardly celebrating it for others to see! Larry rejects the working consensus, as your whole video meticulously points out! This common mistake of diction is not only a bugbear of mine, but a good example of the type of rhetorical hill the Larry might choose to die on, socially, just to make his point, so I had to make my point. Loved the video, btw.
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Most of the payback that Russia gets won’t be announced in the public domain. There will be sanctions, no doubt, once the perpetrators are identified with evidence, and America will be, “seen,” to take appropriate action. But, their power, media and infrastructure technology is going experience some pretty serious disruptions before the year is out. And, America will be publicly holding up its hands and saying, “Who me? Nohhh, not us?” 😉
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It’s not just about the money for Hancock. Did you see that now notorious news clip in which he pretended to be crying, so he could hijack a clip of health workers making monumental sacrifices for Covid patients? I knew then that he was DANGEROUS.
All politicians have enormous, unhealthy egos, but Hancock literally has no control over his own. To the extent that he genuinely thinks he can fob the public off with his lame justifications for focussing on his own profile and career, while he’s being paid handsomely to look after the interests of his constituents, over their vocal objections, those of his family, friends and advisors, and against the explicit instructions of his employers! Such dereliction of duty is appalling to me!
Is he saying that there is no one in his constituency who is forced to use a food bank, fears they can’t pay their fuel bill, missing meals to feed their kids, or worried about other major issues in his area? “Rishi’s great, he will handle it”??? So, there’s no need for ANY politician other than the PM then? Because people don’t elect their MP’s to address issues that matter in their constituency? That’s flatly INSANE! And such a recklessly SELFISH and garbage excuse.
I hope they go all Lord Of The Flies on his ass and the next time we see him, he’s dangling upside down from an improvised man trap, with his hollowed out skull being used as an ashtray!
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Upper Echelon Gamers : Btw, you see what happened, here? Pitchford drew Submatto into a trap, by having that lengthy, “friendly,” conversation with him. They gave him just enough to be able to use as a basis for claims of, “leaking,” if he repeated ANY of it, in ANY forum. Hence the lengthy passage at the end, which amounts to some kind of, “contract,” right? Devious, “fucking corrupt bastards,” if you ask me . . .
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@jakublizon6375 : This GOP is coming for your democracy, today! It’s not yet about, “how it will be remembered.” This rally tour of trump’s is going to get people killed. Their Voter Suppression is in place now, in several states, and rising. They’re desperate and on the attack. There’s nothing past tense about the rise of Fascism in America, yet. The Coup attempt BEGAN on Jan 6th. It’s ongoing and, if anything, more potent now than it was on Jan 6th. The worst mistake we could make right now would be to fail to take this threat seriously. If you’re not a member of a pro-democracy organisation, your local or national party, or active in local and national politics, then that’s because you don’t get it yet . . . ✌️
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Donny’s done nothing but RAISE TAXES, but hides it like he hides everything; your food prices hove more than DOUBLED, gas and oil, more than DOUBLED, the list is endless. And, who’s PAYING for the GOP Convention? YOU ARE! They’re using FEDERAL RESOURCES IN WASHINGTON! That’s actually a CRIME, and it’s going to be the CENTRE PIECE of their laughable, “convention.” Trump’s Dictatorship, and the hostile take over of CNN, by a trump-friendly oligarch, is all trump offers. Oh, and more DEATH. Especially if your a troop or a schoolchild! . . . Vote trump if you HATE the Republic
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Thrill Me: The difference between actual taxes, and the grifting that Donny does, is that it’s UP FRONT AND LEGAL. You have already spent a FORTUNE on his schemes; and if you think he wasn’t taking some of that Wall GoFundMe from Bannon, you’re insane! You had a, “lockdown,” with all of the pain and NONE of the results, because of Donny’s greed and stupidity, and his being RUN by the NRA and other lobby groups. But, the REAL, “secret,” of the Trump K K Kult is NOT even their racism, at this point, is it, son? What you really DREAD is there being NO ONE to obstruct justice for the GOP any more, because you’ll be FORCED to ADMIT that it was Kult that got SHAFTED THE HARDEST, when the TRUTH is finally out there. You just dread hearing, “We told you so.” 😉
Oh, and I didn’t click on your name, so you didn’t even get PAID for this rebuke, son 😇
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Upper Echelon Gamers : I don’t know if video games enthusiasts know what a rare diamond they have in you, sir. It’s rare to encounter such a high standard of journalism in the world, at all, these days. But, to have a passionate champion, such as yourself, with your genuine balance, self awareness, self deprecation, fluency and eloquence, on YouTube, feels, to me, rather like discovering a unicorn in my kitchen. There does not seem to be one corner of the gaming world, from shoddy journalists, to studies like the one in your above article, to straight up reviewing, that can avoid your penetrating, bullshit free, yet, always fair gaze. Your product is truly startling, in quality, contagious enthusiasm and energetic pace. The fact that you deliver such a consistently high quality show is just one more cause for abject amazement, on my part, when I compare you to others (many of them, gifted too) doing similar work, as just one outlet for, perhaps, a more, “prestigious,” and well known name in the industry. Long may you continue to open our eyes and light a fire under us. You, sir, represent the best of the gaming world, and the very highest in unbiased journalism, from whom there are a great many who would be wise to copy your example. Keep doing you, for a long time 👍✌️
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I wonder, which of these many stories you have told, would you choose to have made into a movie? See it as one of those, “If I could wave a magic wand,” questions, perhaps? If you could choose any director, actors, script writers, etc, alive or dead?
I ask, because I saw this story play out like a movie in my head as you were telling it.
And I wondered about the motives and character of these heroes who knowingly chose to die for the sake of their comrades, and for a foreign imperial power. Their collective choice certainly challenges a lot of received thinking about, “empire,” and could be interrogated through some really compelling characters through the medium of film, whilst being something rather novel to western cinema. We don’t get many Sikh heroes in western war epics.
They are as deserving of memorialising on the silver screen as were the Three Hundred of Thermopylae, if less sensationally than they would be in the hands of Zack Snyder. Where is David Lean when you need him?
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And we should all back Moscow Mitch, no matter how bitter the taste, and inundate our GOP, “representatives,” with calls to support him, and CONVICT TRUMP at his impeachment, so he is PERMANENTLY NEUTRALISED! We will find it far easier to claim the political scalps of Leningrad Lindsay, Cuban Cruz, Gerrymander Josh Hawley, Joke Wrestler Jim Jordan, and a whole bunch of America’s worst traitors, if Mitch gets his way!? We can come for him in the aftermath, when the GOP is fracture into two halves. Right now, I think we should game the system, just like Mitch does, and throw our weight behind him? Trump remains a Clear And Present Danger, and examples MUST be made, as a deterrent, for the sake of National Security! ✌️👍
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Full disclosure, here: I didn’t watch the video but gave you my support (thumbs up) regardless. I’ll usually watch, but looking at these twits and, worse still, listening to their idiocy, is exhausting. I just don’t have it in me, today. Hate, racism, hysteria with a mix of nauseating greed and narcissism is not a good way to start one’s day. Please God! Let the rest of America be just as exhausted with these flouncing fools as I am? Let the 2024 election turn these people back into the floating Irrelevancies that they once were and so deserve to be; only to ever re-emerge in the news on their trial dates?
The world has got much bigger and more important matters to see to than their CONSTANTLY Past Focussed Politics! Joe Biden, whatever you think of the guy, is at least focussed on America’s present and future. That’s how and why he’s getting things DONE against all expectation and predictions. Long may he continue. Only by actually DOING stuff will America tire of these turds on the far-alt-wrong.
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Two things going on here: 1) This latest surge of activity, including Mr My Pillow being willing to humiliate himself on national TV, is an advertising campaign, for trump’s upcoming rally tour. More MONEY.
2) trump is hoping to insulate himself inside his freshly whipped up mob, created by (or, more accurately, “recreated,” by) that rally tour.
He knows that the people around him are as cowardly and self obsessed as he is, and wouldn’t risk their own skin in this game, especially not if sh*t got real. But the mob will always have some nut jobs within it, willing to whip out a weapon and point it at law enforcement. Then he’ll have his, “martyrs,” for his, “cause,” to feed his propaganda machine.
Trump will get people killed on this, “Make America Afraid Again,” tour. What’s worse is, I think that’s his plan?
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PooTin is not even in control. There was a time when he would issue an order and it would be followed. Now he speaks openly about Prigozhin DEFYING him, blatantly! Every day that passes with the Wagnazis refusing to join the regular forces and Prigozhin defying his alleged, “exile,” while it looks increasingly likely he hasn’t even set foot in Belarus, Putin has a bloody nose which he cannot wipe to save face!
The Ruble is worth ONE CENT now! Russia is collapsing from within and the NATO countries need to prepare for all the little statelets that are about to call for independence before China snaps them all up. They ARE preparing for Russia’s collapse in China, and hungrily eyeing the young populations of, “ethnically aligned,” states that were once part of China. They have changed their equivalent of Google Maps to reflect this, giving these regions their old Mandarin Chinese names, which is a statement of intent in my book.
Even if they gradually get Wagner under control, by then it will be too late and the FSB will be running the show and picking the next oligarch from among their own ranks for the top job. Neither Putin nor Prigozhin need apply, as they’ll probably both be dead.
Glory to the heroes. Slava Ukraine, from the other side of the world. 🇺🇦✌️🇬🇧
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Mad Luigi : They are weak men, as you say. But, they are, “wannabes,” too. Look where you ARE, my friend? State handouts for our farmers; state control of pregnant women’s BODIES; state control of half the media, with the aim of FULL control to follow; state control of our top law enforcement; and state control of the courts . . . This IS Stalin’s Russia, coming into effect. Stalin was a, “weak man,” too. Nothing more than a street thug, with devious intent. Trump is Stalin without the book learning. But, he has smart people to do that part for him. Strong OR weak, they are KILLING THE REPUBLIC
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Trumprules, etc : You HAVE a, “Far Left,” state, right now, but you’re too wrapped up in your own self pity party to SEE IT. Trump is using the state’s money (your money!) to float the farmers, like Stalin did. His state controls half the media and plans to take the lot. The state is taking over healthcare, and taking control of women’s bodies. The state controls the top law enforcement officers and the highest courts! This is PURE Stalinism, and you CHEER for it! By the time you GET IT, and want Trump gone, it will be TOO LATE. Stalin rules! While the Trump Tramp drools 🤣
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Devildog0166 : To that last, “comment.” I’m semi-retired, now. But, my profession? . . . Drumroll . . . Political Historian. Oh, the irony. Trump’s Tramps always, “act,” like they, “know,” stuff, whilst OOZING IGNORANCE . . . all over their keyboards, along with their drool 🤤 . . . Try not to get electrocuted, won’t you? 😁
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They have won the moral victory, and a huge morale victory, for themselves and the world. But we must all be willing to see it through. If Putin gets to claim ANY species of, “victory,” at home, it’s a question of time before his next target, and the next, and the next. For the sake of world peace we must see to it that Ukraine achieves a total victory! At the very least they must be assisted in taking back Crimea. Putin MUST have less to show at the end than when he started. He’ll bluster and threaten nuclear war like he always does, but like Joe Biden said, “Who cares what Putin says or what he thinks?” We all KNOW he’s BLUFFING when it comes to Armageddon. Cowards want to live more desperately than most Ukrainians. Those people have sacrificed too much, too often for us to EVER turn our backs on them again. Total victory, Ukraine! ✊🇺🇦
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Trump’s kids are lined up to take over after him,. Your first female, “president,” will be Trump’s daughter, Ivanka. That’s how dictatorships work. They don’t even have to worry about the 2020, “elections,” anymore. They’re already RIGGED. Their only concern right now, is preventing you lot from REALISING that. Which is why they’re desperate to shut down the last vestige of the democratic process, this Impeachment. After all, holding a, “trial,” in which the witnesses are banned from testifying, in which no evidence is allowed to be presented, which will then be, “judged,” by a, “jury,” comprised of the defendant’s CONSPIRATORS, half of which would GO TO JAIL if Trump was to, “rat on them,” is rather like ADMITTING to the general public that the Republic has FALLEN, the Democratic process is DEAD, and your Constitution is on FIRE. They have NOTHING to fear from, “Democracy,” any longer. They only have to fear America WAKING UP, and committing to another REVOLUTION. That’s WHY they Impeachment has become a SHAM, because they KNOW Americans don’t want to have their noses rubbed into the fact that they now have a DICTATORSHIP. But, at least it will be a Putin / Russian Style Dictatorship, where you all get to go through the motions and, “vote,” even though the, “election,” results have already been decided. They FEAR YOU, but NOT Democracy. That’s ALREADY OVER. WHY did you all sit still for this OBVIOUS COUP??? . . . Smh
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Unless that, “journalist,” already knew the entire nature of the messages, had already seen them, and then agreed to polish the turd of Hancock’s career regardless, until she got a better offer, for which she had to dig around herself? This is a genuine case of rats in a barrel eating each other, attempting to create, “narratives,” around their coming election failure, so as to ensure new positions in the new Tory Party’s Shadow Cabinet, after Sunack gets roundly defeated. I usually hate the following phrase, as it’s generally a cop out, but in this case it fits . . . They’re all as bad as each other.
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But, this is the problem. Putin keeps hearing these mixed messages out of the west and interprets them uniformly as, “Maybe Russia can fight to a draw!” NATO is keeping Putin in this war, instead of stating out loud that the west will see Ukraine WIN this war. As soon as Putin knows he cannot win he starts searching for his off-ramp. He’s probably gamed a few routes in his own inner circle by now, but we keep encouraging him to hang in there!
Crimea simply cannot be up for debate, or Russia gets to say, “Well, it was all worth while anyway,” and they’ll refocus on Georgia, Syria and other empire dreams! Not unless Britain is willing to give up The Isle of White, or America gives Manhattan Island to Russia? It’s no less unreasonable.
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zoki kostadinov : This has obviously touched a nerve with you? Your area of the world, IF you are telling the truth about THAT MUCH, is FAMOUSLY Fascistic. Your State TV doesn’t TELL the TRUTH, and RT only tells the truth when it suits their narrative. So I wouldn’t EXPECT you to even KNOW, let alone, “understand,’ what’s going on right now.
I am SURE AS HELL not going to get dragged down the road of YOUR historical gripes (SOME of which MAY be, “legitimate”?), when it has NO BEARING on current affairs. One thing for you to THINK about, though: WHY do you THINK that ALL of the Western Democracies are UNANIMOUS is pinning this murder on the Russians? Have you given THAT even ANY thought, other than just dismissing it as prejudice? Just because they don’t share their intelligence with YOU, doesn’t mean it doesn’t EXIST. EVEN AMERICA, the Pro-Putin Administration, have stood shoulder to shoulder, with Britain and her allies on this. What does Putin’s PET, Trumpski, KNOW that made EVEN HIM (the most OBTUSE LIAR in HISTORY) decide that THIS ONE was OBVIOUSLY an SVR operation? Just THINK and STOP letting your emotions and grudges guide your intellect??? SMH
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Well, stories like this throw a lot of light on that, right? They don’t want you messing with their secure spy networks. I mean, Jeez! In Cyberpunk 2077 there’s a sinister corporation called Netwatch. I didn’t realise this was not just a dystopian fiction! It actually already exists, worldwide! And it’s called NSO! Except they exist in a world that never had the giant net-crash that happened in Cyberpunk, which means they’re already EVERYWHERE! We need worldwide, binding laws and police for this stuff!
And who’s surprised that it would be Apple, of all corps, that spotted and outed the NSO? The phrase, “It takes one to know one,” springs to mind. Apple probably sees the NSO less as a threat and more just an alarming competitor in their back yard!
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ZZarrssxm : That’s unchecked, rampant, unregulated capitalism for you. The problem with the markets all being global is that you can’t just appoint a sheriff to take down the bad actors and enforce any single interpretation of the law. It would take an act of supreme determination on the part of the largest economy, the USA, rounding up whatever allies they can gather, to lay down hard and fast rules that the rest of the world would have to fall in line behind; like the right to repair your own property, the right to OWN your own media and video games, not rent them, the right to have simplified TOS’s that anyone at an average, basic level of education could understand, and the right to NEVER be forced to sign contracts AFTER they’ve already purchased their items (which applies to TV’s, computers, video games and soon, everything else) or get locked out of using your ALREADY PURCHASED product, and so on.
The problem is that American politicians can’t agree on a definition of treason or murder, let alone the subtle nuances of trade laws. And they’re so rotten that any lobby group can persuade them to reverse their campaign promises with eye watering sums of cash. So, get used to the CyberPunk dystopia, kid. Looks like there’s no way to avoid it other than civil collapse or some other world wide disaster that changes how we live?
I just can’t myself eating the flesh of my enemies in a Mad Max world and saying, “Well, at least we stopped Apple, Tw@er and the NSO from running our lives,” and actually being happy about my life. Can you?
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@danwright1794 : If you’re looking for a truly scholarly and complete examination of the life and career of Stalin, look no further than Simon Sebag Montefiore. His work is frequently referenced by other scholars on that subject and, more importantly, hasn’t been challenged by other scholars, as Kotkin’s has, for, “self contradiction,” regarding his thesis on the authenticity of Lenin’s last works. It’s value is greater because Montefiore attempts no, “ground breaking,” hypothesis, nor does he impose any thesis of his own, either overtly or in the subtext. He simply gives you the known, provable, information, whilst carefully pointing out any question marks that may yet hang over any other conclusions that people may draw from certain pieces of information. Montefiore never falls prey to received thinking or takes on received information, making his work invaluable to those who are interested in the good, the bad and the ugly facts.
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Ben Fitz : You are SO WRONG. America is the greatest nation on earth. The best people, the strongest will, the toughest, most powerful military, the most open and dynamic outlook. The PEOPLE are, by and large, wonderful. Every country has its evil haters, who make the most noise and seem to be a larger group than they really are. YOU are one, from THAT minority.
History shows, we had one of our WORST presidents, directly after Lincoln was assassinated, who only scraped to the end of one term. He was anti-human rights and actively sought to undermine the end of slavery and fought to keep the blacks down, throughout his presidency. He was also impeached, narrowly avoiding the coup de grace in the Senate vote. His term ended, after four years, but he only scraped through due to the massive post war instability. And, probably, because he didn’t try to sell his country to a hostile foreign power. History repeats itself and Trump could BE Andrew Johnson. So, take your own advice, and LEAVE, because, now that the Tax Bill is all but signed, the Republicans have no more use for Trump. Bad times ahead, son
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Nias : Looks like you were responding to me? It REALLY DOES bare all the hallmarks of a COUP, doesn’t it? But, there is one small ray of hope on the horizon. Trump’s Tax Heist, designed to create a class of oligarchs in America, that resembles Putin’s Goons, with whom Putin will be able to negotiate directly and do end runs around the government, is all but signed. THAT is a TERRIBLE development. BUT: What USE has Trump’s party got for HIM now? Apart from his public disgraces, the way that he attacks Americans, en masse, and individually, the MIRE of suspicion of TREASON around him and his utter incompetence; MOST of the Republican Party have PERSONAL reasons to “avenge” themselves on Trump, after he’s publicly shamed and attacked SO MANY of his own colleagues and allies. Once Trump signs that Bill, they may take the opportunity to try to restore public “confidence”? Even to make themselves look like “heroes” by “patriotically” standing up to Trump in the face of overwhelming evidence?
Just a thought, but, Trump looks to have a sell-by date on him, which has expired. Can they seriously get ANYTHING of “value” from him now? Something that they couldn’t do for themselves, without all the division and hate that comes with the Trump Package? And they COULD win a LOT of support from the centrist “left” leaning voters?
I’m thinking we may see some rumblings over the Christmas period, from within the Republican Party? But, hey. I’ve been wrong before?
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Nias : Maybe, but think about it. Many of them are coming to retirement age, many KNOW things about how Trump can’t last, and many have already said they’re retiring. But MOST of them will be richer than GOD. The ones that don’t cut and run, who aren’t planning to buy a home in a none-extradition-treaty tax haven, and plan to continue in politics, won’t be worried about Trump’s base. They KNOW there is a solid Republican base around and that Trump’s mad dogs WON’T vote Democrat under ANY circumstances. So, let them stay at home, right?
Appeal to the floating voters. The 9% of Trump voters who say they’ll never vote for Trump again? The ones who wanted either Bernie OR Trump, because they JUST WANTED CHANGE? And how many Democrats will LOVE the guys who stand up to Trump, sighting the Founding Fathers and having their “come to Jesus” moment of sudden “realisation” regarding Trump? The “base” is a static block of around 30%, but EVEN THAT number will get smaller if they hear the Trump “loyalists” telling them that Trump sold them out and providing them with the EXCUSE to take back their own commitment. If 9% of Trump voters were willing to tel FOX that they wouldn’t vote for Trump again, in front of their friends and families, on the house phone, JUST HOW MANY are there out there, who DON’T speak up, but have SEEN for themselves?
And the latest polls show ONLY 7% of America supports this Tax Heist! Now is the time, perhaps? And it’s just been discovered that a “last minute” amendment has gone into the Bill, giving a further HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS in Tax Breaks to REAL ESTATE DEVELOPERS!!! How is the base going to take THAT? Yeah, most will swallow it WHOLE, “outwardly”?
I am willing to predict that we are about to see a change in tone and early rumblings toward Trump, very soon, from within the party. And if Mueller’s interviews with Trump’s lawyers go badly, this week? . . .
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Can we discuss the other elephant in the room? The BBC’s total radio silence on this issue. This seems to me to be the final proof that the Tories have taken control of the tax payer’s most influential, well funded, best resourced, most, “impartial,” news outlet. If you doubt me, find a video on YouTube, right now, about the Covid Enquiry from the BBC’s news? You won’t. You’ll find plenty of up-to-date stuff on Israel v Hamas, Ukraine v Putin and of course, gardening tips. You won’t find a THING on this here!
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CNN: WHY are you colluding with this FANTASY? The Republic has FALLEN and you people are acting as though the GOP would ALLOW you to send them all to JAIL? The 2020 , “Elections,” are ALREADY RIGGED! Their, “choice,” is: GO TO JAIL, taking ALL of the Trump Family and half of the GOP with them, OR RIG THE ELECTIONS. Which do you THINK they’ve ALREADY CHOSEN??? The, “elections,” will be a useful Data Gathering Exercise, helping the GOP decide on who to TARGET, when the, “outcome,” is ALREADY on Putin’s desk! You are FEEDING the DANGEROUS DELUSION of a, “Democratic Process,” that no longer exists, buying time for Trump’s Dictatorship, when the people of America SHOULD be HALTING THE COUNTRY, like the Ukrainians did, a decade ago! If THEY could send their Putin Puppet BACK TO MOSCOW, facing down Putin’s THUGS with NO WEAPONS, WHY CAN’T AMERICA??? And, WHY are YOU pretending that the elections are not ALREADY RIGGED???
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@joerogain5025 : Indeed. Many believe that this current program of mass kidnappings of Ukrainian children is connected to Putin’s awareness that they now have a serious demographic problem. An ageing and shrinking population, with the best, youngest and brightest all having fled the draft from an unjust war, totalling somewhere between 750,000 to a million young men, whilst the rest of their young population are being wilfully tossed into a meat grinder, currently totalling between 100,000 to 200,000 depending on whom you believe. Russia ALREADY just couldn’t take the population hit of Covid, which was relatively negligible to other populations around the world (except China’s maybe?) before this war even started! But now it seems that Putin has already used up or lost around 2 million out of the potential 5 million men and women he could throw at this problem before the crisis topples his government. So, is anyone surprised to see that they now have 10 year old SCHOOL CHILDREN stripping rifles and training for war? They’re so desperate that kidnapping the population of another country looks like a, “good idea,” to Putin. No wonder they daren’t talk about that on state TV, right? Not the usual angry come backs from all the talking heads and propaganda outlets, regarding the warrant for Putin’s arrest for child kidnapping? No fulminations round the table, like we usually see in response to the west’s sanctions? Is anyone surprised. Every nation that shares a border with Russia needs to move their children inland and far away from the child snatchers in Russia.
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I think they’re, “true believers,” in the sense that they know their fortunes are bound to the state and they will say or do anything to protect themselves. Yet, they are also in a privileged position, as they are responsible for putting a positive spin on the, “bad news,” and need the facts in order to distort them. Therefore, they obviously cannot, “believe,” their own lies. But they do not believe in the concept of, “Truth.” They have a Putinist, Sovietised, politicised, attitude to truth, facts, information, etc. Their priority is about weaponising information, to such an extent that the very concept of, “truth,” is an irrelevance.
I would imagine, if you asked one of these goons what they think about the importance of truth, they would stare blankly. Perhaps they would say, “We decide what is truth.” They are the living expression of Orwellianism. We get to see it from the perspective of a, “free world,” and note the jarring juxtaposition between them, the Soviet 2.0 New Stalinists, and us, the, “choose your own facts,” “create your own echo chamber,” yet, “still having free access to ALL of the FACTS should you want them, free western world.
We certainly have our own problems and an uneasy relationship with truth in the free world. But that essential freedom of thought and opinion makes all the difference. We can openly mock, dispute and sue propagandists in the west, whilst choosing to opt out of regular viewing. Try that in Russia and you face a 15 year minimum sentence.
This enforced cognitive dissonance has created a society of apathy in Russia, which is entirely intentional, as far as the state goes. Yet, it’s not just this mass moral absenteeism that results. It creates the kind of Orwellian fearfulness that leads people to actually cheer, en masse, whilst being shown images of bombed out Ukrainian cities, reduced to rubble, lest they be reported by their neighbours to the secret police. They cheer without a thought for the children and civilians who had to be murdered to create that situation. Even the Americans at their most jingoistic never do that.
Francis Bacon wrote, “‘What is truth?’ asked [Pontius] Pilate, yet he would not stay for an answer.” He was speaking of those who fear their reality as much as they fear not being on-message, too. So, it’s a venerable tradition, to lie to the masses. The Russians think they have mastered the art, but they clearly haven’t.
Solviov (may have misspelled his name there?) was known for being an activist for the opposition to Gorbachev, then Yeltsin, and even Putin, for a short time. Now he sells the message for his own opposition whilst getting rich. These people have no, “beliefs,” only priorities. They are Stalinists. They are Soviet 2.0. And, just as back in Stalin’s day, they are only fooling a small part of their own population, but their population daren’t tell them so. And they sure as hell don’t fool anyone in the west. Not even their supporters.
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@zoom777 : Yeah, what, “response”? How how does Russia, “escalate,” a response when they’ve already turned it up to 11? There’s no act of mass child kidnapping, rape, theft, torture, cowardly bombing from miles away, mass murder and mass grave digging that has the power to, “surprise,” or, “intimidate,” literally anyone in the west, let alone Ukrainians. Russian threats are all as empty as Putin’s head, while their acts of terrorism are just another Tuesday in Ukraine.
Everyone knows that the only potential major change from within Russia is that the Rusky hard liners and the Rusky opposition may feel emboldened to overthrow Putin? We’ve all seen, thanks to Wagner, how unstable Russia’s, “government,” is. And we all got to see what an abject COWARD Putin is, when he fled Moscow for St Petersburg, even though Wagner didn’t get within 20 miles of the city limits! Not exactly, “I don’t need a ride, I need ammo,” is it?
The world compares the heroism of Zelensky to Putin’s weak COWARDICE and hears the clock ticking in Moscow. It’s just a question of how long Putin can withstand being shown up as powerless within his own country?
Wagner are still openly defying Putin’s direct orders. Prigozhin, by Putin’s own admission, is defying his own, “exile,” (I’m not convinced he’s even BEEN to Belarus) and an increasing number of drones and missiles are showing up in Moscow, while Russia’s army slowly loses territory and racks up casualties. Not a sustainable situation for Puty boy. Tick, tick, tick . . .
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Sir, I am most interested in why so many people accept the Inflation Hypothesis (commonly known wrongly as a, “theory”) at face value, without wanting to make more logical, empirical sense out of it? And why it never seems to account for time?
Is it not possible that as we, “see into the past,” that this very, “past,” is distorted in the same way that light is? It seems to me that, “space time,” is always correctly asserted as an explanation for how we get GPS to work, etc, but then we promptly eject the, “time,” element from the universe’s distant past? Thus, we record Inflation as a spacial anomaly that took place in a consistently behaving time? Why would we assume that time was not as distorted as it would normally be when close to (part of) a giant mass? The universe is the largest mass there is.
Therefore, surely time itself must have been distorted in a manner that has never occurred since? To a distant observer, this would make it appear as though events must have occurred at a rate that was inexplicable by our current measurements of time, such as the mysterious, “homogeneity,” of the universe? This would also explain why the expansion of the universe is speeding up. What is happening is not that it is getting faster, but that there is less mass in proximity to slow the passage of time.
It seems to me that people automatically forget that, “Space-time,” are a thing, the inextricable linkage of space and time? Am I wrong about this? What are my incorrect assumptions? I can’t see them for myself. But this may be because, like physicists, I am too close to and bound up within the problem?
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@joev178 : And, what does, “somehow justifies it,” mean anyway? Like it’s inherently wrong for a company to want to distance itself from Voter Suppression? Yeah, that, “somehow justifies it!” Who TF wants to be associated with Fascism? It’s NOT just about, “voter ID’s,” as they’d have you believe, son! It’s an assault on the democratic process! They’re not telling YOU what to do, or how to vote, they’re taking NO PART of it, is all? They wouldn’t even be SAYING ANYTHING if they weren’t having to respond to GOP hissy fits in the FIRST PLACE! Read the bills, kid. You’ll change your mind . . . 🤦♂️
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porn theater mop bucket : So, you, “think,” (if that’s the correct expression?) that getting a flu jab is somehow, “liberal,” and a sign of, “giving in,” do you, madam? Now, just take a moment, think that one through? . . . 🙄🤦♂️🤷♂️
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Agreed. It would be good for democracy to see how proper debates are done, so in that sense, I’d like to see that. But, to pretend there was any, “validity,” to the concerns of these rioters about, “vote rigging,” is highly unfair. Yes, people’s belief in that must be taken seriously, but that means NEVER mentioning those issues without laying the blame for them FIRMLY at the door of those who invented that big LIE! Trump, Fox, and all those fringe exploiters who they backed belong in jail. You cannot mention that big lie without saying who it came from, or you risk legitimising a pure fiction. An egregious, cruel, vicious, anti-democratic LIE.
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Totally. I didn’t like the way this was reported though. The guy trolls a Deputy because he thinks he’s corrupt, and the Deputy goes on to prove him right, by being corrupt. And ABC calls this guy’s trolling, “Anti-Police slogans,” when it was so clearly PRO-POLICE!
Expressing disgust at police corruption is what ANY right minded citizen would do! Maybe this guy’s trolling just irritated everyone and made things worse? Maybe it didn’t? But that was the only person in this story who expected better from the police and was willing to challenge their corruption, outright! How is that, “Anti Police?”???
The press being lazy and un-analytical just adds to the problem, which is why people find it so easy to label people like BLM (another Pro-Law & Order campaign) however they like, until it looks the opposite of what it is, to dumb people. BLM wouldn’t be needed (or even exist!) if some cops weren’t racist and corrupt! It’s getting harder every day to believe it’s still a minority of cops who break the laws, and the press needs to tread carefully and report what it sees, not its attitudes . . . ✌️
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@leeleestonecipher5199 : I agree that the standard should be the least forgiving for cops, instead of the opposite, which is what we so often see. Certainly in terms of sentencing. Though, in this case, the judge should acknowledge that the corrupt Deputy didn’t go through with it, in the end? Perhaps reduce his minimum term? So as to encourage other cops into knowing they can still stop, even after planting evidence, and that it’s worth it? Otherwise, we’ll wind up with a, “Do or Die,” mentality, with cops feeling, once they’ve crossed that line, there’s no way back. It’s tricky. What do you think?
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Is that your dog? What’s its name? I have a Jack Russell called Ben, a rescue with a dark past and personality disorders. But we love him anyway. Thank you for all you do to support Ukraine. You are on the side of the angels, sir. Your talents are unique.
I look upon you as the Ukraine Analysis Magazine show, so to speak. Not breaking news, but the best, most reliable digest of world, financial and, of course, military affairs, as they pertain to the Ukraine war. Your background kind of made you for this, “cometh the hour cometh the man,” role. The internationalism of your experience, teaching English abroad; your Missileer experience as an Airforce officer; Your financial expertise, which were the original founding of this channel. No one else is quite placed like you.
Thank you, Jake. Never change. Slava Ukraine! From Scotland. 🇺🇦 🔱 🇬🇧
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@Viper2026 : Babies get vaccinated against a host of things. They have no agency or choice in the matter, and most of us don’t even remember it happening, but it did. A very, very few get side effects, which get treated. Even fewer may die. But, it no longer becomes a giant story in the press, and no one; literally no one, is talking about the fact that they, “acquired,” side effects. Remember, the clots have not been definitively proved to be the result of vaccination yet? There’s only a suspicion. But, even if they do prove one case, that doesn’t prove 6 without evidence. Then, there’s the negligible risk, even if all 6 cases are proved. Out of how many millions of J&J vaccinations now? The government is caring too much about optics, and should just get on with it. In my opinion, that is. I see your point about, “perceptions,” but when analysed, does it bear scrutiny? ✌️
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Yutube Lurker : Ah, we have a Trump Propagandist in our midst, Putin’ words in my mouth and pivoting to Obama. I made NO claim that countries are, “not,” trying to set up a single world order. Quite the opposite, in fact. Read more carefully? My point is, you’re being sucker punched, by the very people you throw your support behind. Globalism is a fact of life, like the weather. So, you can carry on being distracted, howling at the wind and the rain, whilst they are attempting to build that very, “world order,” that you so fear. No, I DON’T own Nikes, but I don’t doubt that sweatshop goods have slipped under my radar. But, I don’t KNOWINGLY buy sweatshop goods. And, while you struggle with disproof of your thesis, in your very hands; The Internet, which you flatly deny is the CHIEF INSTRUMENT of Globalism, yet CANNOT offer an argument as to WHY you, “completely disagree,” consider how you are building the Trump Tower of Babel with your keyboard hand, whilst holding up an anti-globalist placard with the other? The EU is nothing but a front for a business clique, and the likes of Putin, Xi, and Trump all want it gone, as it’s the only threat to the prize of a One World Order, that they will ultimately have to fight each other for, in the end. And, when THAT time comes, America will stand NO CHANCE, having been hopelessly compromised and infiltrated by Russian Hacks, and the vast army of SUCKERS they drag in their wake. So, Putin will have control over everyone from Turkey to Iraq, and China will be the last man standing, while America sinks into the dust of its own folly. That’s why I left the US. I moved there from England in 2006 and have duel citizenship, but I recently returned. The only thing that would get me back to the US now, would be if there were mass demonstrations to join, against Trump, or an Impeachment to enjoy. America is already OVER, the Republic fallen, its Constitution in SHREDS. Because the Globalists WON, by telling you they were, “not globalists,” and chanting, “America First.” You FELL for it, and richly deserve your reward . . . Smh
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Miklmikl Mtrcycl : Oh, but it’s a, “conspiracy,” to plant, “trackers,” in us all, or some such s**t, because, “right and wrong,” has nothing to do with it. Russia needs us DIVIDED over everything, regardless of what it is. Trump only gets power through DIVISION. Remember, he doesn’t need the, “votes,” when he can rig the system. He only needs the plausibility gap, to make it look like he, “could have won,” the election. The fact that quite so many buy into this insanity, surprised even me. But, I don’t see a downside to people killing themselves off, when they’re already racist trump fans, do you? We can vaccinate children in schools, as a priority, seeing as how they’re so keen to get the schools open again? And if their reckless, pointless, racist parents don’t want to take part? F**k ‘em? Let ‘em die?
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There’s never any, “recourse,” son. Don’t you read? They have so much MONEY they could give you two heads, both of which explode, and your family would have no, “recourse,” with or without legal, “immunity.” But, you’re looking through the telescope from the wrong end. However, so long as they vaccinate children in schools, I don’t really care what their racist, trump supporting parents do. So long as they can’t take the innocents with them, why should we care? A whole useless third of society, America’s ruptured appendix, can perform a Trumpectomy on America, and die off, (killed by one mutation of Covid or another? There have already been six of them), doing us all of Normals a favour.
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Nasal Spray : Speaking of ASSumptions, I am Republican. I just happen to KNOW that Trump is a CROOKED DOLT, and I’m not a member of the DOTUS CULT. There are MILLIONS of Republicans who want Trump OUT. And there is PLENTY on record, PROVING, that Bannon, and let’s not forget ROY MOORE, are RACISTS. So, you are making yourself look kinda, stultifyingly ignorant, now, just as I said
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Tracy Clark : I know you didn’t ask me, about Vesuvius, but I’ll give you my 10 cent’s worth, anyway. Apart from his juvenile attitude and OBVIOUS racism, his remarks seemed to have a “specific” purpose in mind. They are all aimed at SILENCING opposition, through vague intimidation. Obviously, he is the type of person who can BE bullied, bought or persuaded to act in what he believes are his own interests, rather than having any morality. I doubt he even KNOWS the difference between “right and wrong” any longer?
I know that may seem an inordinately harsh assessment, but consider: he says things like, “Moore will remember,” the blacks for voting against him. Implying revenge policies and unjust legal outcomes will result, for the black community of Alabama. He tells us that Barkley’s comments will only encourage more white people to oppose the Dems, simply BECAUSE Barkley comments; not because of anything he says, which is measured and reasonable, to anyone who LISTENS. It’s typical, SVR, FSB, bully boy tactics, designed to make people feel scared to speak out. It’s also childish and self defeating, given that his “style” gnaws at the very centre of a sane person’s morality and is more likely to ignite a passionate rejection of his arguments and a righteous anger, within decent folk.
But, having said all that, I’ll throw in a prediction for you too. Moore will probably win this election, given that he’s done a deal with Trump, to vote the exact way he’s instructed by the White House, especially on the Healthcare raiding, Tax Grab, which Trump is DESPERATE to win. I’ve seen MANY Alabamans being interviewed on Fox AND CNN, saying the same thing. If Trump tells us to do it, we’ll vote for Roy Moore. And there is always the silent contingent of bigots and racists, who vote for these guys, but don’t admit it.
BUT, take heart. For this is the LAST significant victory that the Trump’s will pull off. And I say the Trump’s, because that is what this is all about, really. Moore’s stint as senator will be BRIEF and IGNOMINIOUS. Even if he beats the odds and survives his term (which I don’t see happening) he’ll be primaried out. The Republicans don’t want him, and are ONLY supporting him for Trump’s agenda, right now.
Can I ask, why you asked about Vesuvius? And what is your view? Sorry for going on ;-)
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Dennis Walker : You like to ASSume that people who want Trump GONE are ALL, somehow, from the, “left,” don’t you? As you’re so fond of statistics, I wonder if you can riddle me this, Bat Man? Since Trump took office, 25% (ONE WHOLE QUARTER!) of Republican Party members have LEFT the party. WHY do you, “think,” that is? Don’t take MY word for it. LOOK IT UP? You think, maybe, they’re TIRED of all the LIES and RACISM, maybe? . . .
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Tasnif Rahman : It’s on the MSNBC website. And you can, as I did, check the Republicans own data base on, “Memberships.” Look for, “none-renewals,” and it CONFIRMED what I read. There was also a discussion which brought it up on a recent Ari Melber YouTube vid, where they discussed the fact that MOST of those people leaving are under the age of 50, and mostly around the 25 to 40 age range. AND, that they sited, “Racism,” and, “lying,” within the GOP, among their main reasons for NOT renewing their memberships, when surveyed.
Apologies, but I DON’T offer, “click bait,” as I am known for telling others NEVER to TOUCH Click links. My brother is a Tech Expert (he actually works in the gaming industry, for Rockstar, now, but he USED TO work for a telecoms firm, on computer security) and he DEMONSTRATED to me exactly HOW TO make a friendly looking YouTube link and then FILL it with Trojans, Bots, Worms, etc, etc. It was TERRIFYING, and you’d NEVER KNOW, until your tech CRASHED on you! So, I’m ALWAYS telling people, “DON’T TOUCH the Click Bait.”
It’s not, “hard,” to verify this, though? I was able to cross reference it, as soon as I read it. So, if you’re really interested, I don’t think you’ll find it too difficult. I NEVER make stuff up, or go with things I just WANT to believe; even when it comes from a TRUSTED source, like CNN or, in this case, MSNBC. We are NOT THEM, and I am scrupulous about my FACTS. In truth, a lot of people left the Dems, after the election, and a downswing in membership is usual, for the losing side. What’s interesting is that, the DNC numbers a growing, now. While the RNC shows no sign of stemming their hemorrhage
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JubJubtheWonderHippo : IKR? The ONLY people on the PLANET who stand to, “gain,” a DAMNED THING out of Tramp keeping his job are who?: foreign trolls, ‘Coz they get paid. And domestic RACISTS, ‘Coz they can still do more HARM, as the recent Lame Duck Voter Suppression, move has just demonstrated. Even THEY KNOW that, “no collusion,” was a DAMNED LIE, now! Fortunately, for us, those who remain with Tramp, at home, are none too smart . . . SMH ✌️
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@ps4games164 : Dude. You’re the only person babbling about, “Shoigu,” as if anyone but you cared. I’m talking about the fact that Putin has just put a gun to YOUR head and the heads of EVERYONE you’ve ever known or cared about (no doubt a short list?) making all other talking points irrelevant. Now Putin has to pull the trigger or back down. Which do you think he’ll do? I think the people around him would prefer to LIVE and NOT see their families roasted on an open fire? The Russian people are sick of him anyway.
And that, “Mafia,” of which you spoke? If you ever read any history, you would know that Putin absorbed the Russian mafia into the GRU and KGB, decades ago. Now their mafia sons are in government, looking all, “respectable,” while they sit round on live TV sucking Putin’s penis and hoping the only fluff him and not their lines. Grow up and read a book, son.
Putin’s got to pull the nuclear trigger or suffer, “catastrophic,” defeat. No one is dumb enough to let a mad man put a gun to his head twice, kid. Think about THAT?
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However, we must be mindful of the propaganda victory we are handing Putin. It will come up in his defence (oh, no it won’t, because he won’t be there and the west won’t accept a, “representative,” without the corpus delicti) or outside the court. Gordon Brown is THE WORST person, short of Tony Blair or George Bush Jr himself, to represent the prosecution! All Russia will do is drone on about our illegal war in Iraq. It’s a false equivalent, but they will still have a point. A war criminal, prosecuting a war criminal? Is that the, “look,” we’re going for here?
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I wouldn’t call it a, “rant,” personally. His style could be seen that way, if he was talking bollox? But he’s so right it hurts. He’s speaking from the battlefield, in clear, concise, unambiguous prose, to ensure he can get his message to you as efficiently and briefly as possible, without the possibility of being misinterpreted. Or, that’s how I like to think of him. A man with, “Service,” in his heart, proud of his military contribution, bold in his use of it, to legitimise himself against the conservative nay sayers, and committed to continuing in service, now for our benefit. I can’t help but love guys like him. So, if that’s what, “ranting,” is, I’m fine with being ranted at. ✌️
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Deby Steele : Oh, WAKE UP, America! They are going to prove Trump’s guilt, after the GOP withholds witnesses and evidence, and breaks their oaths of office, and let Trump WALK anyway, because the Republic has FALLEN. Half the GOP are Implicated in Trump’s many crimes, and the Trumps are facing disgrace and JAIL, the very moment Trump loses his, “protected presidential status.” They can’t NOT FIX the next election! WHY are you KIDDING yourselves, America??? This DENIAL is pusillanimous and self-ruining! The Constitution was PROVED MEANINGLESS, when it REALLY COUNTS! You have a Putin Style Dictatorship now! Because SAT there, and DID NOTHING! Thanks for KILLING Democracy, and endangering the ENTIRE PLANET, America . . . SMH
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Grappa Hugh Jass : I bet you’ve had THAT, “civic duty,” exercised on you, quite a lot then, huh, sonny? Interesting, how people reveal so much about their insecurities, when you prang a nerve. You see, without backing up your claim, with some kind of, “evidence,” you just come off as, “Butt,” Harmed, about not LIKING the news, which is not the same thing, kiddo. Like your, ahem, “name,” it’s just immature, and emotional. Or, do you REALLY, “think,” that simply bleating your unqualified, uneducated, unsourced and unbalanced, “opinion,” was going to change the world, before your very eyes, like some over-entitled, white trash Trailer Park, shouter on the Jerry Springer Show? 🤣
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Andalusia T.O.L : That’s SO sweet, btw; you actually, “think,” it will only be, “liberals,” withholding their GOP votes, or VOTING Democrat, at the Midterms? You ALL have multiple YouTube, “characters,” to make your numbers look bigger than they are. You, “think,” THAT isn’t OBVIOUS TOO??? 🤣 😆 😂 😆 🤣
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CAR : A, “Word of Caution,” she says? “I couldn’t help but laugh,” too! The whole country are comforting themselves, by COLLUDING with the PRETENCE that their coming, “elections,” are somehow, “not,” ALREADY RIGGED. You’re only buying this Dictatorship the time they need to consolidate, and prepare their excuses for how, “Dodgy,” the key state ballots will be. Your DENIAL, even after this regime has SHOWN YOU that they’ll RIG and FIX EVERYTHING, at this point, is nothing but SELF HARM, America! Do you honestly THINK they’re going to ALLOW you to unseat Trump? So he and his whole family gets indicted and goes to JAIL??? Are you ALL MAD??? So they’ll, “rat,” on EVERYONE in their administration and the WHOLE LOT OF THEM GO TO JAIL TOO??? So the GOP has to DISBAND, because there’s only a disgraced skeleton of the Republican Party LEFT??? OR??? Do you think they’ve ALREADY decided NOT TO ALLOW ALL THAT??? The Republic has FALLEN, and YOU are HELPING THEM NOW, by acting like they’ll LET YOU, “VOTE,” THEM INTO PRISON! Have a Revolution or accept your Monarchy, but PLEASE? STOP KIDDING YOURSELVES? . . . Jesus!
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@CarynGibson-ey1xn : I’m with you on that. Raise their wages and raise the required qualifications to a commensurate level? It’s hard to hold on to the fact that bad cops are still a minority in most police forces. But, there is a bad culture that would be shot through by better training and higher recruitment vetting. Starting with a National database, that follows all cops wherever they go: compulsory camera (with sound) with penalties for cops who don’t wear them or turn them on, such as fines and disciplinary procedures for, “being out of uniform,” if not wearing a switched on camera, whilst on duty. And, how about no arrest can be accepted as lawful unless it’s videoed? So, no un-videoed case ever gets to court, and any cop who violates that, gets a reprimand? That sort of practice would put an end to police corruption and brutality, practically overnight! ✌️
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@codyrussow170 : No. But my cop friends aren’t, “poor.” They’re not rich either, like me. Why do you ask? For good cops, we’re asking them to place themselves in harm’s way, at the drop of a hat, routinely, every single day. So, whatever it is, it’s not enough. The dedication, long hours, incredible stresses and personal sacrifice I’ve seen from police officers, frequently blows my mind. And it’s hard to put a monetary value on such things. But, good pay attracts the best people, if they have to have qualifications before they join up, befitting a high paid job. And we need smart, well educated cops to be the norm. We don’t just need integrity and heroism, but tact, judgement, calm under pressure and self discipline, of the type that academic qualifications demand. Law enforcement should NEVER be elected. A popularity contest hurts justice in my view. It should be a rigorously tested position, with review tests, to ensure people are maintaining high physical and mental fitness, with high, commensurate rewards.
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@Rin-qj7zt : So glad that you’re getting where I’m coming from. If being educated was a condition of the job; the expectation, then the community would genuinely start looking up to cops. If they were meant to be the calm one in every situation and not, “the threat,” then people would WANT to help them. They wouldn’t be reluctant to tell them their details, because they wouldn’t feel like they were being trapped into something. That fundamental culture of the cop being the, “smartest person in the room,” and people having the expectation that s/he is going to be the one who resolves the conflict with the least drama, is what we should be training them for. We do them as much of a disservice as we do the public, by not offering cops high academic levels of in-house training; even elevating aspects of their job to degree and doctorate levels of academe. Training them into a culture of, “head stuff,” and to put a stigma on emotional policing is the way to go. When your colleagues are saying, “Ahh, no. You clearly got mad at that guy. That’s bad,” would be using peer pressure (the strongest force) against violent policing. Nearly all the videos I see, of police brutality, have the same three factors: the cop was not smart enough to use his words; the cop got angry; and the cop knew the culture he worked in expected him to have physical control over others at all times, and he felt like he was failing, just because his suspect wasn’t clicking his heels and snapping to attention when he issued a, “lawful,” command. I mean, even that language is a giveaway, right? “I’m issuing a lawful order!” Really? Could you maybe just start by asking the guy for his help and cooperation? Why are you his enemy walking in? Even if your arresting the guy, have the decency to show regret that it’s come to this? Most people would let you put on the cuffs and shrug! Sorry, I’m going on a bit now ✌️👍
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Danny Al : Well, nothing works for him. That much is clear. I genuinely think, so long as we, the people, maintain the pressure on our Representatives, for those Open Congressional Hearings, getting EVERYTHING into the OPEN, that GOP Senators will Impeach Trump, just as enthusiastically as the Dems, so as to save themselves. It’s up to us to keep contacting our Representatives, but 2019, should be the END of Trump 👍
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tim allen : You noticed that Fox puts a LOT of videos on YouTube? You noticed that they NEVER put Andrew Wallace or Shepard Smith videos on, though? Whatever you, “think,” of those guys, is THAT not PROOF that they are trying to CONTROL the message? Is THAT not sinister to you? The ONLY reason they HAVE to keep those guys is because they are MAJOR SHARE HOLDERS in Fox, and they KNOW where all the bodies are buried. So, NO. I don’t say Fox is entirely Fake News: I say that Murdoch has a hard on for Trump, and some of his minions, Tucker Carlson and Hannity, have staked their reputations, careers, their futures and possibly their LIBERTY on Trump. It started out as just sucking up to the boss, but Murdoch put ‘em in the same room too many times, and they’ve gotten in on the ground floor of Trump’s Scams. Now they have MORE to lose, than just their jobs. Hannity is no better than Lord Haw Haw, and will probably meet the same fate. Think about THAT why doncha’? 😉
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tim allen : Lie lie blah blah . . . Dems have a POLICY AGAINST INFANTICIDE. They are NOT in POWER. Blame Trump for NOT making it a National Policy, as he was ASKED to do. Why am I BOTHERING? NO ONE believes you. NOT EVEN YOU! For a while back there, it seemed like you might calm TF down long enough to converse, like a Normal, but of course, you realised that, if you did that, you’d been STOMPED by the TRUTH! So, it’s back to hysteria, effeminate, “poor me,” victimhood, and pretending that people support Hillary or Obama, just because they KNOW Trump is a CROOK . . . Sonny 🙂
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Thad Tabor : There is no, “intellect,” without, “emotion,” but you just made one of the commonest mistakes of the pseudo-mouths, by never having learned the basic definition or MEANING of, “intellect,” kid. And we ALL KNOW that, the ONLY reason Trump WHINED to the Postmaster General, and is trying to bring down Amazon, is because Jeff Bezos hurts his Butt, by simply being the REAL DEAL. WHO are you trying to KID, with your mental contortions? Putin? 🤣
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Thad Tabor : Oh dear. As I said, a common mistake: The most widely accepted definition of, “Intellect,” (in the Western World) which should not be confused with, “Intelligence,” is the capacity to respond appropriately to a given stimuli and the drawing upon long-term resources of experience, which is then applied to a circumstance or set of circumstances. I’m paraphrasing, but you’ll find I’m right. To OVERLOOK, “emotion,” as a factor in ANY important matter, is to toss out one of the MAIN, MOTIVATING FACTORS, that explain phenomena. And, in Trump’s case, you’ll have a hard time convincing ANYONE, even among Trump’s, “fans,” that EMOTION is not DOUBLY the motivating force, behind his decisions.
Only Robots do things without emotion. Without emotion, one has NO CAPACITY to REASON, or understand basic principals of right and wrong. You are stuck with what is known as, “Received Wisdom,” believing a cultural idea, based more on Star Trek’s Spok, than any reality. Sorry, son. Just happens to be the empirical, unemotional TRUTH . . .
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isaiahbruckhaus : If that is the case, SURELY, you can see that, REGARDLESS of how one explains the issues of policy, Trump has singled out ONE organisation, right? If Trump had the slightest comprehension of your policy analysis, and was USING it, in ANY WAY, he would be applying it, EVENLY to ALL major companies that use a similar model to that of Amazon, right?
Are you HONESTLY implying that you think Trump has come to a, “reasoned,” political decision on how to treat Amazon? There are SO MANY, obvious flaws with that. He HATES Jeff Bezos, and has singled him out. So OBVIOUSLY, in fact, that the Postmaster General felt COMPELLED to REPORT the matter
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Thad Tabor : On your last comment: I think the backers of MSNBC feel it is necessary to counter balance the appalling propaganda, hysteria and flat out lies of Fox. Granted, they are devoting a disproportionate amount of time and resource to the issue, in SOME people’s view, but, when it is proved that Trump’s administration has been working at the behest of the Chinese and Russian Governments, and is the most CORRUPTED organisation in the HISTORY of American politics, (and when we look at the Railroad Scandals of the late 19th Century, we can see that, THAT TAKES SOME DOING) they will be VINDICATED. Is there an issue that is MORE IMPORTANT? Is there a news story, concerning ANYTHING, that is NOT directly effected by the fact that our administration is CORRUPTED??? If so, WHAT IS THAT.
We become anaesthetised because of the shear amount of CORRUPTION, but we should NOT accept that as, “normal”???
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Why are you not filling the streets right now? The GOP is facing jail time and they’re LITERALLY STEALING your Republic, collecting up the post boxes! Why are you WAITING to STOP THIS? You’re all waiting for an election that is CLEARLY NOT GOING TO HAPPEN! And then you’ll protest, when it’s ALREADY TOO LATE, and Bill Barr’s Secret Police units will be expanded enough to suppress you, all over America. You should be halting the country NOW, and getting in front of their election RIGGING, while they’re still vulnerable? But, you’re all still hoping that it will magically get sorted out, like every other legal and Constitutional process has FAILED to do in the last 4 years! Maybe America wants a Dictatorship, in its heart of hearts? That’s the only explanation I can think of? Why else are you sitting on your asses, while they literally, BLATANTLY, STEAL YOUR REPUBLIC?
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Kirk Crawford : ‘Coz, you can show me the cheque for the Wall, now, right? He backed down, as predicted, and you’re triggered and in pain. Your tears are as salty as your insults, child, and just as encouraging, you poor, suffering, Troll. REALLY SUCKS to be you . . . 😭
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Constituent A : I’m afraid I NEVER touch Click Bait, of any kind, from friend or foe. Nothing personal, but my brother is a Tech Expert, and he’s FORBIDDEN me, after showing my just how a Troll can fill your computer with Trojans, Bots and Worms, etc, EVEN with an innocent looking YouTube link. So, can you tell me the gist? I’ll look it up, if it’s interesting. Like I said, no offence intended
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Do you, “research,” your junk food, BEFORE eating it? Do you, “research,” the Wright Brothers before getting on a plane? Do you, “research,” traffic safety before obeying the rules of the road? The sheer AROGANCE and entitled, immature IGNORANCE of DELUDING yourself into thinking you can out-research the best medical minds in the WORLD, let alone America, is not just selfish, but pitifully dumb! Think about what you’re SAYING on your NEW account??? Do you WANT to be written off as an idiot before people even get a chance to know you? 🤦♂️
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Chris : Choose your, “opinions,” son, not your facts. It’s an established fact that the Proud Boys, the KKK and all fascist, or Nazi organisations in America support trump, exclusively. No fascists, racists or Nazis support the Dems. FACT. And trying to disown racism comes of as spineless. You know it. But, then, racism requires cowardice, or you wouldn’t be racist. QED, ad absurdum. Oh, and I’m a genius with or without the Latin, kiddo ☺️
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@OVER9000xDxD : If only you knew sufficient history to prevent yourself from making such embarrassing mistakes, huh, son? Do you know WHO those, “Red Army,” soldiers who took Berlin were? Look it up, kid? They were mostly UKRAINIANS. The leg you stand on has been kicked out from under you. But it’s silly to equate the deeds of our grandfathers with modern politics, so you didn’t have an, “argument,” to start with.
You Putinistas like to brandish your rusty nukes at everyone, hoping that the free world is occupied by the same kind of morally absent cowards as Russia is filled with, but you’re obviously as ignorant on that topic as you are every other. Not that we can really blame you for that, given that you live in a propaganda bubble in which free speech and access to truth are banned. You’ll be glad of those nukes in the end, alright, but not for the reasons you imagine. They will be the only currency Russia has left to trade that the world will accept for sanctions relief. After all, it’s not like they can fire them at anyone without committing suicide. Maybe Putin might decide to take you all with him in a giant suicide pact, toward the end, but do you really think that people who want to live will not have anticipated that? Russian military corruption is LEGENDARY and half of those nukes will only exist on PAPER! But the ones that are there represent a commander’s ticket to a rich future in the prosperous west, for him and his family; tradable goods that the west will gladly accept. And much smarter to trade them westwards than trade them east, only to have to spend the rest of your days on the run, on a CIA hit list, right?
There is no scenario in which Putin survives this, or in which Crimea and the whole of Ukraine doesn’t go back to the Ukrainians. I can tell from the way you mask your anger with a, “lol,” and the other insecure remarks you make, that you know I’m right. The problem with you Putinistas is that not even you believe you, and it shows. Have a nice day, kiddo. 😉
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@OVER9000xDxD : You sound like you’ve been to the Putin School of Face-Saving Back Peddling to me, kid? Firstly, you came to me. You’re the one, “crying about it.” Second, the FACTS on the ground bear out my hypothesis perfectly, without needing to parse hypotheticals mixed with historical rewritings. Third, I never contended that it was solely Ukrainians who took Berlin in WWII, nor is anyone here interested in that irrelevance. I merely pointed out that they were as much a part of that victory as any other region of Russia, and you were the one saying they would be overrun by, “the Red Army,” whilst overlooking the fact that Ukraine WAS the red army at that time. Parsing the numbers makes no difference to that point. If you honestly think Putin will win this war, come back this time next year and let’s hear what you have to say? That is, if your troll farm in St Petersburg hasn’t been overtaken by a suite of NATO offices by then? 😉
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Leonaza7 : Certainly HOPE not? She must have mixed feelings? She’ll be entitled to HALF of any payout he gets, and whatever he has left, but at the same time, she knows he doesn’t deserve a penny. She must be conflicted, and, if she’s smart, discussing this with her divorce lawyer?
Seems the trolls are in confused mode, as they can’t cope too well, with CNN proving that they just tell the TRUTH, regardless of whom it concerns. I KNOW, from experience, that they don’t, “get to you,” but you certainly have a way of TRIGGERING them. A GIFT for it, really. Love it 😁👍
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@humility-righteous-giving : What are Babbling about, ma’am? Biden’s never, “censored,” anything. Check the record? Trump has tried, in numerous ways. Check the record? How shall I fascist at thee, shall I count the ways? Read that book, ma’am. I’m not you’re dad. It’s not my responsibility to fill the gaps in your knowledge and morality? Nor am I even here to, “defend,” Biden, who could be Jack The Ripper for all I know. But, I don’t form my, “opinions,” based on racist preferences, ma’am. You can cherry pick whatever opinions you like, but not your FACTS. I just gave you ALL of it. Now read it. Available for free at your library; assuming you’re a member, and you’re, “American,” both of which I doubt 😋
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Bruce Bartup : Oh, I’m ALWAYS, “calm.” I rarely write anything for the benefit of the Troll, that I happen to be answering. I just think it’s helpful to point out the HYPOCRISY and UTTER lack of LOGIC in their lies. A LOT of people DO fear a nuclear confrontation. Some are even uneducated enough to ACTUALLY BELIEVE that Putin would pull the trigger! SERIOUSLY! They don’t know that the ONLY way Putin would be the FIRST to start a Nuke War, would be by accident (the most real scenario), because he’s ALREADY been attacked with nukes, or if he still had the power to call a strike at the moment he was being REMOVED from office. Not even the CRAZIEST leaders have ever, or WOULD ever, try it, because they KNOW it means them dying too, or surviving in a world not worth living in. And there are ALWAYS enough pragmatists, up and down the chain to restrain a nut job leader, EVEN IF he issues the order.
So, I think people need to KNOW that we have NOTHING to fear from Putin, militarily. Many have supported Trump and tried EVER SO HARD to ignore the Putin factor, because they are AFRAID. Putin does not have military might equal to 10% of what America has, ALONE. But, the WHOLE of NATO? Putin is a speck, who’s country is collapsing slowly, because he and his gang have bled it WHITE. He makes a BIG noise and has sunk a FORTUNE into Asymmetric Warfare, and a LOT of Americans are FALLING FOR IT. They “think” Putin could REALLY HURT AMERICA, if we CONFRONTED HIM, because his PROPAGANDA has WORKED, WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE POTUS! They NEED to know the TRUTH. Putin talks a big game, but that’s all it is.
Sorry for going on, and, if you got this far, thanks for your patience. Now, I’m going to, “go to Montana, marry a BIG WOMAN and bread rabbits.” 😉
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CPN : I moved here, from England, in 2006 and am a citizen. I am, obviously, in touch with England all the time, and I have to say, you are right. Trump WON’T visit Britain, because he is TERRIFIED of being FORCED to see what people think of him in a FREE COUNTRY, where he would be ARRESTED, if he told people to beat up others, and offered to pay their legal fees. The TRUTH is EVERYONE KNOWS THIS. Trump is UNIVERSALLY HATED and seen as a “Clear and Present Danger” to World Wide Democracy. We’re dealing with it. Give us a few more months. He will be REMOVED within the year. I PROMISE you this. Unless there is an outright Russian COUP at the Mid Terms, Trump will be gone, by democratic and / or legal process
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Roger Bennett : You can just Google it. I NEVER touch click bait, and thus, never offer links. My brother is a tech expert and he showed me how to infest people’s tach with Bots, Trojans, worms, etc, through “innocent” looking YouTube links. But, if you Google, or put in to YouTube’s search engine, “Trump offers to pay legal bills for assault at rally,” or something like that, you’ll find it, quick enough. You’ll also find OTHER links to him saying he’d, “like to punch,” such and such, etc. NOT hard to find at all. America is FILLED with warm, generous, intelligent, kind, friendly people, who have made my life here, wonderful. You’d NEVER GUESS that so much EVIL lurks under the surface of politics, but most Americans, INCLUDING Conservative ones, want Trump gone. He could NEVER withstand the democratic process again. Remember, Trump ONLY JUST got in, last time . . . Now, People have SEEN for themselves, what a MEAN, EVIL, STUPID, SOB he is. He’s gone; inside ONE YEAR. Guaranteed
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JRG2733 : So, is that why Donny can call our Constitution, “unconstitutional,” and get away with it? Because you prefer dick-tatorship? The Founders were not all, slave owners, and fewer of them were, “elitists,” but Nazi Propagandists have to generalise, don’t they? Good luck with attacking the very foundations of America, Putin. That won’t work, but at least it will make it easier for the Normals to spot the Russians among you 😉
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Russia’s paper economy is massively misleading. What looks like, “growth,” is coming from their growing arms industry. Other countries’ industries create finished products with value, bought, sold, resold and economically benefitting the respective country they come from. Most of Russia’s finished products are molten metal with 3 months.
No one in-country benefits from, or uses, military products, which represents the bulk of Russia’s economic output and spending. Take away military turnover and that’s a far more realistic picture of Russia’s economic assessment. And it’s dire.
Putin’s epiphany is that his country must remain at a state of perpetual war, for the rest of his life, or he will lose power within weeks of a sustained ceasefire. Think of the implications of that for the rest of Europe?
That’s why the WORLD NEEDS Russia to LOSE. Not just go home and lick their wounds, but to be actively, comprehensively defeated.
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@georgine321 : I hear what you’re saying. They should certainly foot the bill. But, would you trust Russians to clear away those mines? Unless they were so closely supervised that it makes little difference to the Ukrainians anyway, which will be done using special tech and (sometimes secret) equipment. They should certainly be compelled to honour a reparations package that they feel for generations; one that puts them off all desires of expanding their empire.
But, before we get to all of that, first the Ukrainians must win this war. And NATO keeps stopping short of giving that commitment, either verbally or in action. So far, we’ve donated just barely enough to take back part of their country and have never actually said, “Ukraine must win,” let alone, “And we will ensure they do.” We talk about them, “defending,” their country, and try to fob off our own people with phrases like, “Whatever it takes, for as long as it takes,” but we simply haven’t given them the capacity for assault missions capable of breaking Russia’s dug in defences. The irony being that we could save a fortune in blood and treasure if we invested in such a swift, all out, victory.
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@georgine321 : I watched a Peter Zeihan video, weeks ago, in which he predicted that the grain deal would cease and Russia would avoid sinking actual ships, so as to avoid Putin falling out with all those countries in Africa he’s been courting; among other reasons. So, his alternative will be an attempt to destroy the infrastructure of Odessa’s port. That was weeks ago! NATO’s Intel knew this was coming.
We have also seen that it only takes one country to lead the way, like the UK did over the tanks debate, or cruise missiles, and other countries quickly follow suit. No one wants to be first, but every country has a vested interest in showing a united front, and all are equally as anxious not to show any cracks in the armour of our unity to Russia.
Now, America has finally removed the breaks on F16’s, telling every country they no longer object to anyone sending as many F16’s as they like; indeed, telling NATO that the current schedule is too slow and facilitating a speeding up of that process. They are also committing four new missile defence systems to Odessa. But, wouldn’t it be great if we got ahead of this just once?
By the time Odessa becomes as secure as Kyiv (which is not impenetrable) how much grain will be left for the starving people of the world? We will ALL feel the increase in food prices, planet wide, while there is already a food inflation crisis underway. Putin tried this same tactic with fossil fuels and is fuming that we managed to get that under control. He’s had more time to work on this plan.
We have to start cutting off his diabolical schemes BEFORE he can start sabotaging the planet and show Russia that their situation is hopeless. What we’re currently doing is actively encouraging a drowning man to clasp at straws. Until he hears the straight message, that Ukraine will defeat Russia and NATO guarantees this, he will keep on flailing to all our cost.
Putin isn’t looking for an off ramp because we keep telling him not to. Yet history shows us that, every single time Putin has been faced with genuine resolve by an equal or stronger enemy, he has ALWAYS backed down. The last 20 years are replete with examples.
Time NATO stopped gambling with our lives and faced reality: We are the ones making escalation more likely, by constantly appeasing. And history is also replete with examples of how appeasement ALWAYS works out for the appeasers.
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Smug woMan : Did YOU just say, “Grow up”??? The HYSTERICAL BITCH, who thinks that just LOOKING at Putin the wrong way, will result in, “WAR WITH RUSSIA!”??? The COWARD who has fallen for the TRAITOR IN CHIEF’S little, “strong man,” ACT??? Putin CAN’T go to, “WAR,” with ANY of the Western Powers, you DOLT! Russia’s BROKE!!! You, “think,” he’s going to use his rusty nukes??? And commit SUICIDE??? Why so SHRILL, BITCH??? That’s PRICELESS! 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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@peterc4082 : I would be interested to hear Jake explain the politics of that, which is what it will come down to. It seems, from my outsider’s British perspective, that people on the right support Israel and not Ukraine, whilst people of the left support Ukraine and have mixed feelings about Israel, ranging from extreme disgust at Israeli politicians to full support within their own ranks. But that’s a gross over simplification for the sake of brevity.
Israel is a strategic alliance of many years standing, upon which America has relied throughout the years and invested hugely. American politicians on both sides of the isle must believe that they’re getting a lot out of the relationship with Israel, since the investment capital and weaponry keep pouring in, regardless of who is in power.
If you’re more interested in Jake’s personal feelings about the matter, that’s a whole other discussion. But the way I see that inequity of US dealings with Ukraine compared to Israel I have already expressed above. My guess is that Jake would have a similar, if more expert; more nuanced view?
Let’s see if he answers . . .
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Jeremy Gregorio : That’s the agenda of some, but not all. There are other aspects to this story, which do concern us all. Surely, for example, this is all the evidence you need, that simply arming teachers is not a solution to gun violence in schools? Even a trained ex-cop might not use it, the way he was trained to. I would have thought that fewer guns, in the wrong hands, and some basic, sensible limitations were a no brainer? But, that’s where your NRA are a menace to society; blocking even the most minor measures, whipping up hysteria and throwing hideous accusations around, like children with giant, Russian wallets. But, there’s other things to think about, here. That poor woman is focussing her hate on one man, instead of grieving. Probably trying to avoid an inner conflict, or just facing the pain? . . . It’s all very sad
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David Grover : It took you more than a WEEK to say a word, and you CAN’T answer the question. In what way am I, a gun owning, conservative, Christian believer, “going nuts,” son? The NRA are in trouble. If you can’t bring yourself to admit a basic fact, you’re lost to reason, unmanned by your emotions. But, that’s your boggle, son . . . Smh
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Indeed. What an impotently raging, narcissistic, self serving, hate filled, utterly tone deaf, ranting scream of pain that resignation TOME is! If he had simply APOLOGISED for being such a selfish, entitled SOB, REPEATEDLY, and then LITERALLY LAUGHING IN OUR FACES about it? . . . That will not have even occurred to him! My dad died in pain and alone of Covid, while I obeyed ALL of the rules. F*ck Boris Johnson. He’s a dangerous, looting, carpet-bagging baby!
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@davidrhostetler3041 : Let’s see, shall we? Oh, there was that little thing called the Banking Crisis that nearly ruined America, created millions of home losses, and set our economy back 20 years, which BIDEN and Obama SAVED us from. And they DIDN’T even raise our taxes to do it! You must be about 12, if you don’t know about that, son? And now, he hasn’t even gotten into the job yet, and you’re ALREADY saying, “what has he done for ME lately?” No wonder you self-entitled POS’s got crushed. And Georgia’s going to the Dems too. And you’ll see the big reveal, when you finally have to admit that ALL of YOUR donations over the years were STOLEN by the Orange Grinch . . . 🤦♂️
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You keep using the word, “reflexive,” when you appear to mean, “reflective?” Is there such a word as, “reflectsive?” I don’t think so. It is confusing to your audience, as you are telling us that film maker’s are using their reflexes, to respond to self awareness, at least 5 times! “Self-reflexive.” Simply wrong and confusing. A shame, because the content of this video is awesome, and has so much to say of genuine merit! Can you edit your own videos, once published on YouTube? If so, you really should. Or, at least, put a disclaimer at the start? It really is a misleading term, and used so frequently in this particular edition that it cannot be overlooked. You have quite literally altered the MEANING of what you’re trying to say. “Reflectsive,” is not only NOT a word, but if it were, people would only hear, “reflexive:” an automatic response to a stimulus, a reflex, a muscle jerk, knee jerk reaction to cinema that cannot be controlled; or just happens as a consequence of what came previously? That’s NOT what you’re trying to say, right? Five times, dudes! It’s driven home too often to overlook!
I know it seems like a pre-occupation of my own, but I’m honestly not being a grammar nazi. It genuinely is confusing, and I had to think carefully about what you were trying to say, since you just kept saying it, until I could only conclude that you were making up a word, that sounds like a different word, in a really unhelpful context.
Otherwise, I loved the video though 😉✌️
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I wonder if anyone has an answer for my question, which was prompted by Peter’s opening remarks about America’s trade relationship with China? If America has such trading power over China, then WHY are they allowing all those countless IBM Microprocessors to go to China, only to be sold, en masse, to Russia, who continues to manufacture guided missiles with them and is bombing the hell out of our allies!?
I’m speaking primarily about Ukraine, obviously, but there are other allies, or those who simply resist Russian hegemony in places like Syria, or in countries all over Africa.
China is Russia’s main source of microprocessors, and American IBM’s are China’s main source of top level microchips. Why are we (NATO, et al) not sanctioning these funnel companies, or threatening to withhold all microchips? Russia would be totally reliant on Iranian drones if it wasn’t for the fact that they keep restocking on microchips! And it would only take a little disruption to the Iranian life line, for say a month or so, for Ukraine to experience relief from constant terror attacks and to gain a significant advantage on their Eastern Front IF Russia had no access to American made microprocessors from China!
Is it just the MONEY?
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Have you looked down the back of the couch? I often find missing stuff down there. I bet the anti-matter is stuffed down there with old magazines and pound coins, (or Euros in your case? I have no idea where you live.) or in the couches of our anti-universe?
Perhaps it was the imbalance of the universe’s levels of anti-matter that created matter out of energy and the thing we refer to as the, “Big Bang,” in the first place?
I think the misunderstanding about Dirac’s work comes from the conclusions that later science has predicted as a, “necessary consequence,” of what they’ve found and the very fact that our universe exists being the, “mystery,” that springs from it. Like the game of Chinese Whispers, people have inferred the wrong things by being told about the original work, without actually checking it themselves. The danger of, “assumption,” is bigger in science than in other fields, as it can lead to a lot of wasted time and resources based on incorrect assumptions. So, it’s important to have people like you around to keep us all on the straight and narrow path of facts.
Thanks ✌️
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Moscow Mitch knows what’s coming at the impeachment. He’s preparing the ground. Senior GOP members are going to be forced to admit that the reason for the Insurrection, “The Steal,” ain’t real! They cannot refuse testimony, or take the 5th. And the cult of trump is going to hear from the mouths of Graham, Hawley, Cruz, Giuliani, and the trump’s, that they LIED to their cult! They gave up their liberty, their jobs, their futures and have criminal records, for a GOP LIE! Out of trump’s loser head!
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You cannot compare a DA who campaigns on the promise of indicting a president to others who play politics with the threat of indicting a class of people or political opponents! Putting that promise front and centre of this DA’s campaign was giving the commitment that the rule of LAW would be upheld! It was a brave act, by a DA who knew they would have to take special care over their own and their loved ones’ personal security for the rest of their days. It was actually ANTI-POLITICAL, restoring a degree of trust to a jaded public, in a system that we’ve all watched being cynically abused to the hilt and which, as the case of George Santos illustrated so humiliatingly for the entire democratic process, does not even have the mechanisms to deal with some extreme levels of blatant fraud!
Win, lose or draw, we SHOULD have expected swift and prepared cases to drop upon that stupid orange head, the moment he left the White House, which would have had the added benefit of keeping him too busy and distracted to whip up an insurrection from the very steps of the Capitol Building. The American public has been shamed, embarrassed and humiliated enough in the eyes of the world, by what looks to them like a hesitant, pusillanimous and financially deferential justice system, undermining their confidence that an out and out fraud like trump could even be compelled to face ANY responsibility for his many, MANY crimes.
This is just one small, brave step, taken by people with integrity and commitment to their professions and their country: the triage that we all hope will lead to treatment, while we hope for a cure. So, to suggest that the unique promise, made to fit singularly unique circumstances, was anything other than dutiful and heroic, is to buy into the far-wrong’s politicisation of the whole issue. A DA said, “We all doubt that the law will be applied to one unique individual, but if you vote for me, I will ensure it is applied, like it would and should be, to any American.” And, in a right minded country, that SHOULD be a vote winner that ANY American could get behind.
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Joshua S : You’re not even very good at articulating the, “narrative,” you’re going for. And, you say this, right at the point we now KNOW that Kavanaugh committed Perjury? Like you “care” about Democracy. And, you, “think,” Conservative VOTERS are down with Trump, RIGGING the Justice System, with a CORRUPT, LYING Judge? It’s like you people WANT to get CRUSHED at the Mid Terms. You’ll have at least a GENERATION to think THAT over . . . SMH
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Joshua S : If you had followed the hearings, you would KNOW, heard with your own ears, Kavanaugh’s Perjury. Just because the GOP will try to bury it, along with all the rest of their mountain of corruption, doesn’t change the FACTS. Sure, they can force it through, KNOWING that he’ll be impeached and removed in a few months anyway. And, that Conservative voters have spoken out against appointing Kavanaugh this a way, so it will cost them even MORE VOTES, ENSURING the impeachment, with MORE Dems in the House. But, hey, if you think it’s worth it? . . . I mean, WTF is WRONG with you people? You’re NOT Americans . . . SMH
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Joshua S : Um . . . Why in the hell should I answer for Hillary? I’m a conservative. Put her in jail, if she’s guilty of something? What’s THAT got to do with ANYTHING? Whataboutism doesn’t WORK on Conservatives, and most Liberals never liked her anyway. Don’t you get that, son? Conservatives DON’T WANT Kavanaugh, either. And they sure as HELL don’t want him, like THIS. This move is just costing Republicans more votes, son. WAKE UP! And, please, with the, “whataboutism,” . . . It’s SO LAME . . . SMH
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Joshua S : Oh, and you LOVE to say that, “but the polls were wrong, last time,” ‘Coz that’ll do, instead of an argument. But, the early elections in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Alabama, etc? They went to the Dems, and YOU thought THEY were, “safe seats”??? Your extremist bubble, has you looking in the Alt-Wrong Direction. Texas shouldn’t even be up for DISCUSSION, should it? The very FACT that you are HERE? WHY are you trying to sell your lies, if you believe them yourself? Who are you trying to convince? WHY are you HERE? You HATE this channel? Always a problem for Trolls. We KNOW you’re alarmed
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Joshua S : Got to you, I see? Read a book, son. I was expressing a, “Prejudice.” I Pre-judge that you are a racist. Trump CAN’T give you another Tax Break, in April. The Deficit is out of control, and he sure as hell isn’t going to get a penny from the 1%ers, who all HAVE their PERMANENT Tax Breaks. He’s clearly incompetent, commands NO, “loyalty,” and this flies in the face of his, “choosing the best people.” North Korea are expanding their Nuke Program and Trump made that POSSIBLE. And, he’s clearly GUILTY of all KINDS of treachery and crimes. Therefore, it’s the ONLY conclusion available, other than you being a foreign, paid Troll, who WANTS America to collapse, or you are simply brainwashed and REFUSE to look at FACTS?
There sure as hell is NOTHING being, “Conserved,” in America, by Trump. He’s dismantling your democracy, and stacking the courts with incompetent hacks, in the hope that they will all protect him. And, you’re FINE with that? = RACIST
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Frack Black : Serious discussion? We can, “Whaddabout,” all night, dude? Are you saying you, “disagree with the PRINCIPAL,” of, “Independence”??? Are YOU American? Can we keep the, “personal,” comments to ourselves? If you won’t discuss the basic principal, but prefer to dodge the question, with an easy shot at Irish Independence, then you will never grasp just how it was that Remainers lost the vote. I’ll ask again: What’s WRONG, in principal, with, “Sovereignty,” over your own country’s affairs?
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Gao Li : What is different about Britain, apart from the fact that Europe depends upon many of it’s financial and tertiary services and industries, in a way that most European countries simply cannot compete, is that it is already America’s biggest economic partner. It can stand upon it’s own two feet, without its laws and trade agreements constantly being undermined by unelected, civil servants, now. Britain will be just fine.
As you say yourself, MUCH of the consequences of leaving, were exaggerated or misrepresented, anyway. We are NOT cutting off trade? And, that has worked well for Norway, with the highest, per capita, income in the WORLD. We are NOT cutting off our intelligence services? We are NOT leaving NATO? We are NOT closing our doors. And, personally, I sincerely HOPE that immigration continues in Britain, because it always HAS and that’s GOOD for a country’s growth. I am NO racist.
As to your South China Seas, “examples.” They simply do not pertain. You speak of, “mischaracterisation,” while proceeding to do exactly that. What makes you think that such models would apply to Europe?
The truth is that Europe will be losing one of it’s LARGEST contributors, keeping basket case countries afloat, like Grease, Spain, Italy, and the former Eastern Block Countries. And, Germany dominates the whole of Europe, through the power of the Banks. That situation is morally and practically WRONG. And, we are fortunate, that we no longer have to serve the agenda’s of the international monied class, in such a demeaning way.
The, “Liberals,” will moan at me, claiming that Northern Ireland should be given back to the South, while, in the next breath, tell me we should all be part of one big happy family? That doesn’t even make sense! So, instead of being increasingly subordinated by the faceless goons that made Trump possible, while baring NO responsibility, and whining about him; I’m content that Britain will sink or swim. But, it will do it, WITHOUT having to buy its paddle, form a bureaucrat in Brussels, thanks
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VOTE YES ON stuff, etc : Yeah, you’re still very emotional, son. You have a, “large,” opinion of yourself, though? You, “think,” that ANY Normal is going to trawl through all your, “Butt Hurt,” tears? Especially when you open with abuse? Only other RETARDS will read whatever THAT was, kiddo. Try calming down, if you want my attention, SO badly? Or, you could STFU? I really don’t care 🙂
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VOTE YES ON blah, blah, blah, butt hurt, etc : Oh yeah . . . Keep it it brief? Or be IGNORED. Can you contain your effeminacy and that, “Victimy,” sense of, “Butt,” Harm, long enough to bleat out your whine? Or, are you just trying to get the attention of the already converted sheeple? Up to you? 😁
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Gao Li : Oh, that’s right. They put, “too small and uninteresting,” on their official documents, didn’t they? Grow up, son. Uncertainty, is one thing, but you know what, you have utterly FAILED to Address ANY of the points I made, and have just rambled, cut and pasted views, from the Guardian, and tried to pass them off as your own. Ever heard of Constructive Listening? I’m NOT going to wade through your essays, if you’re just going to IGNORE every refutation. You change the subject because you have NO ANSWER.
If just ONE of you ReMoaners would DARE to talk about FIRST Principals, instead of trying to “scare” everyone, with your, “uncertainty,” THAT would be a START?
Address the points I made, or ignore them, but DON’T expect me to follow you down the rabbit hole of your liberalised insecurities, if you’re too arrogant to even act like I SAID anything. This is not your lecture circuit; and you are clearly not qualified for a grownup opinion 🙂
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How can you claim that an informal, verbal agreement, WITH A DIFFERENT COUNTRY, the Soviet Union, should even apply to the Russian Federation? That requires the unspoken acceptance that the Soviet Union is still a thing! Maybe it’s time Putin got over his, “unspoken,” belief that he’s allowed ANY SAY over what OTHER countries do at all? Did the Soviet Union NOT fall then? Because if we’re accepting that, then we must accept that it is still our duty to bring Russia down? That we are still in a state of Cold War? What other reason does Russia HAVE to feel, “threatened,” by the expansion of Democracy?
See how your attempt at, “even handedness,” merely comes off as apologist nonsense, which also nullifies Yeltsin’s assertions that he was not threatened by the expansion of NATO? There is no LOGICAL argument for Putin that holds ANY water! All this video does is muddy the waters and apologise for what is essentially an ARMED ROBBERY of an entire country! Your grasp of history is basic at best, and does not take into account what so many people sacrificed and DIED for during those years. Maybe you should work for Moscow? Maybe you are working for Moscow?
It’s sickening that you would attempt to validate one side as though merely having an opposing view has equal weight!? That’s how Flat Earthers got created! Some talking points are just bollox and need to be called out for what they are. Deals with the Soviet Union don’t even apply to this, “other,” country, Russia.
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extremely careless : What? His Tax Returns? Depends on how the voters view an election, “promise,” I guess? But, when that information became vital to an investigation into conspiracy, treason, grifting, and criminal theft, the answer is , “no.” Then it simply became obstruction of justice, leaving only two possible ways that this scenario can play out, now . . . You know what they are, don’t you? . . . But, well, “Whaddabouted,” anyway. Props for that . . .
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Your contradiction of the student’s second lecture seems wrong to me. If the professor uses Hawking as the basis for any of his foundational arguments, it’s both rational and appropriate for the student to show refutations of Hawking, given his brief and the prof’s own talking points. Merely side stepping his point by saying, “Yeah well, Hawking wasn’t a philosopher,” doesn’t obviate that. Nor does it discredit the possibility that something he said has any bearing on philosophy. Isn’t that disingenuous?
Furthermore, Hawking did have a lot to say about God, and not merely as a misunderstood analogy, as in, “knowing the mind of God.” It is also worth noting that many physicists have been openly hostile to the Big Bang Theory, on the basis that it seems to comport with the Genesis Story.
You say his use of Genesis isn’t valid, using Thanos as your analogy. But, he was not merely siting it as evidence (indeed, “evidence,” is the wrong word) but pointing to an example of Scripture, showing early knowledge. In other words, it raises the question of how this 3 to 5 thousand year old text, stems entirely from one notion?; A notion that has been born out by modern science all these many generations later? He’s pointing to scripture, and giving an example that its Foundational Mythos comports with modern science. How can that be in any way, “invalid,” to the mission he has been briefed on. You are discrediting it as, “argument,” without validating it as foundational comportment that is a starting point from which to build an argument: i.e. early belief, based on spiritual insight. Which comes from? . . . See? Then you build your argument.
My personal belief, (for what it’s worth?) is that issues of faith are precisely that; rendered less meaningful by, “evidence,” and meaningless by, “proof.” And, that most debates about faith (Christianity in particular) are red herrings, centred on proving the existence, or the none existence, of God. If either could be done (a sheer impossibility, that smart people ought to know from the outset, which only starts me off as seeing the person trying it on as being not as smart as they think they are) then the logical outcome would, necessarily, be zero impact on the real world, one’s life and/or, how we live it.
Think it through? Without faith, God is rendered meaningless, much like the famous Douglas Adams discussion that leads man to prove that black is white and get himself run over at the next zebra crossing. Issues of the relationship to God, belief and therefore, “motive,” are rendered moot. Equally, science still has nothing to say about God, even if He is now a, “thing,”or about faith or the philosophy of life. Even if God’s existence was an established, empirical fact, life goes on, unchanged for all of us, in a practical sense, and in our personal search for meaning, or lack thereof.
Science knows it can never, “disprove,” God, but wastes time in bogus attempts to do so, to what end? To sell mean spirited books by Richard Dawkins, who strikes me as a bad faith actor, who is as emotionally damaged and psychologically exploitative as any Evangelical huckster I’ve ever heard of?
I do agree with the other points you made, in the fundamental misunderstandings of philosophy (and individual philosophers) but, you don’t point nearly so incisively at the fundamental flaws in their grasp of Christianity.
Once again, you were unfair to the student, at the end, who points out that you cannot be mad at God, unless He’s a, “thing.” A common error that a lot of anti-Christians make is to conflate the arguments for His not existing, with their anger at Him, without seeing it. And that is common to the Christian experience. We meet people, all the time, who are mad at God, but who are actually mad at their church, and the way they let them down, conflating that with, “God.” Or, as in this case, feeling desperately let down by a tragedy, and blaming God for that, thus NOT abandoning their, “belief,” but only their, “faith.” Again, you MUST acknowledge the student’s brief? He makes a valid point, and is responding appropriately, given the prof’s behaviour and HIS arguments; showing the fundamental flaws in his reasoning. But, again you side stepped that, pointing to the, “morality,” of exploiting his childhood trauma. That was not the student’s choice in that dynamic (or at least, what you showed of it? I haven’t seen the movie in question) merely his forced perspective.
The end of the movie is laughably bogus, and didn’t need much adding. As it shows a bogus prof, with a bogus basis for his anger and a false belief system, which a child could have poked holes in (his anger was at God, therefore he believed in God. QED) and the stunt of, “deathbed conversion,” is a cheap trick to pull on an audience.
Yet it seemed to me that your arguments, or your analysis grew weaker, as the video developed, stemming out from more and more flawed reasoning, upon which the rest of the reasoning grew, necessarily, to be flawed? I would so love a discussion with you about these things. . . . There just isn’t room for me to explain my reasoning here.
Despite my criticisms, however, I really did enjoy this video, and learned quite a bit from it. Plus, as ever, you do it all so entertainingly. Thanks 👍
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Boostedvette : “God is under attack,” BY TRUMP. Yes. There was even a, “666,” on the door of the building, in which the darkest deal in history was made, between Trump’s minions and the Russians. You’ve heard Trump, offering to pay the legal fees of violent offenders, at his rallies, because he’s TERRIFIED of having his bubble pierced, as you are. You’ve heard his disgusting, “locker room talk.” You KNOW he’s an adulterer. You KNOW he had THOUSANDS of CHILDREN kidnapped, and now they’re MISSING, like the, “Disappeared,” in some 70’s Latin American Dictatorship. And, you SHOULD KNOW, without the need for ANY social media, or news channels of ANY KIND, simply by LOOKING at the court records, from last month, that Trump’s, “CHARITY,” The Trump Foundation, was, “ROUTINELY STEALING from defenceless, needy CHILDREN and US VETERANS.” They shut it down, and they WILL, when the judge has finished winding down its affairs, and investigating ALL the NUMEROUS RIP OFFS they pulled on those AMERICANS, INDICT the WHOLE FAMILY, for CONSPIRING to do that. This is how I KNOW you are NOT a, “Christian.” You support a family that ROUTINELY VIOLATES our BEST and our MOST VULNERABLE. You, madam, are the Devil . . . Smh
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This is the most dangerous delusion that America clings to. Your, “Polls,” are already distorted, and the, “elections,” are already rigged. And, America is unwilling to accept that it’s Republic was finally taken off Life Support at the SHAM, “Impeachment,” because being honest with yourselves would lead you to the unavoidable conclusion that you are either stuck with a Dictatorship, or must have a Revolution. I don’t blame you all for being too scared to revolt. But, please don’t go around spreading the LIE that your elections are not ALREADY RIGGED? The GOP have chosen NOT to go to jail, which means they have to retain power, for ever . . . Be REAL, America . . . SMH
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This seems like new phenomenon that has stunned the population into a kind of confused inactivity. A new breed of Brown skinned Brown Shirts whom it’s hard to call out for their obvious racist dog whistling due to the colour of their skin, yet it’s obvious they are pulling up the rope ladder that their parents used to get them into their privileged position. We thought Pretty Patel was bad? Braverman is hacking at the rope ladder with a meat cleaver!
She might as well be a sleeper agent for the Chinese or Russians at this point! I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what they found! Both left wing AND right wing analysis of geo politics is pointing one thing! WE NEED A POPULATION BOOST! We ESPECIALLY NEED the type of young people with the drive and determination to risk everything to get here, and the sort of integrity to prefer that dangerous option to giving in to the dictatorships they are fleeing!
China and Russia are both on the brink of economic implosions, for a range of reasons, but right at the heart of both is the fact that their populations are shrinking, and they’re being left with an increasing number of elderly retired people whom the state cannot generate enough income to look after, as the number of working youth, generating income they spend to stimulate the markets and that all important TAXES which pay to prop up the state, are vanishing!
Our population has stagnated and desperately NEEDS an injection. The nations willing to do what it takes to create a baby boom, or welcome migrants willing to do all those ONE MILLION (count them! ONE MILLION PLUS!) JOBS going begging in the UK, that we don’t want to do, especially for the terrible wages, are the nations that will come out on top in the next 10 years and will have financial assurances lasting 30 years beyond that.
But, no . . . This corrupt administration will cling to power for as long as possible, NOT in the hopes that they can turn things around, despite telling the press that, but simply to raid the sweeties from the sweetie shop before it shuts its doors on them for a generation of wilderness years! By their OWN SUMS government losses, due to, “Waste, Incompetence and FRAUD,” has gone up in the last five years almost 1,000%!!! How MUCH has it cost them to keep those figures out of the headlines, do you think? Over £26 BILLION POUNDS!
I’m genuinely wondering if we should treat the Tories as a national security threat? They just seem to want to break the country so as to ensure Labour could never hope to fix it again?
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MK Ultra : You simply don’t GET IT, do you? What YOU call, “Negative Coverage,” is ANY coverage from a News outlet that YOU don’t “like” because it tells the TRUTH. CNN could play 3 minutes of JUST TRUMP, talking, and the Trolls are ALL OVER IT, screaming, “fake news,” and BLEATING about, “Hillary and Obahhhmaaahhh!” Trump JUST . . . SCRAPED . . . in, with Putin’s SVR, pulling his strings. The Russian SECRET SERVICE, got Trump elected, by appealing to the RACISTS and the IDIOTS in America! But, there is NO ONE LEFT, who said that they were willing to, “give Trump a CHANCE.” They have ALL SEEN what he’s like, now. Republicans are DIVIDED over Trump and HUGE NUMBERS OF THEM will stay at home (unable to bring themselves to vote for a Democrat) or they’ll cross the line, LIKE I DID, and VOTE THIS CRIMINAL OUT OF OFFICE!!!
Even IF the SVR has a “plan” to RIG the Mid Terms, IT WON’T WORK. Trump has BLOWN his OWN opportunities by being TRANSPARENTLY CROOKED
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@nolaserv : I can answer that. The first thing to happen would be they would secure all of the fossil fuel sites and rare Earth resources, such as the Argon vital for making computer chips (Ukraine produces over 50% of the world’s supply) taking any and all reserves back to Russia, whilst restoring any damaged infrastructure. They would also start completing the drilling and mining for oil and coal that Shell, BP, Exxon and others confirmed were there (in the west of Ukraine) but were scared away from and the coal reserves in the East. These were Putin’s financial goals from the outset.
While all this was happening, the death toll would not stop, but actually increase, as Russian paranoia gets out of control due to pockets of resistance that would crop up all over the country, and scores were settled by an Orc army with a well documented medieval approach to warfare. Theft of white goods, cars and technology would see most of Ukraine’s riches exported to Moscow piecemeal, as individual soldiers supplemented their none-existent wages by sending anything they can lay their hands on back to their families.
A massive exodus would occur while all of this was taking place; some of it organised as Zelensky would be persuaded (we hope) to set up a government in exile in the UK, or some other western country, but people will flood the German and other boarders, seeking safety from the marauding Zombies.
In the midst of all this chaos, it is likely that western governments, under immense pressure from an angry citizenry, unwilling to sink any deeper into an economic slide than they already are, yet unwilling to turn away the good people of Ukraine, would reach a tipping point. The economic pressure, combined with fresh atrocities and theft on an unprecedented scale, would be combined with the issue of energy security and an urgent need to ensure that the balance of power does NOT tip into the hands of Putin. Therefore, all out war would likely follow pretty rapidly.
Despite what people would have you believe, nuclear conflict would be highly unlikely, even if the whole of NATO declared war on Russia. It would be devastating for Russia in the first week, as their entire navy (save, possibly a few subs) would be sunk. They would lose their naval bases in Syria and Turkey within days, and without the missile capacity to strike at longer range targets, or the technology to get through top end European defences, their mechanised army would be wiped out in all places where they have bases or concentrations of tanks and other hardware.
This would result in domestic chaos in Moscow, with the police being far stronger and better equipped than any of Russia’s military world wide, and being the last target for the western world. And the west would want to tip the scales there urgently, so as to prevent any desperate nuclear attacks on the part of a, by now, possibly suicidal Putin. It is quite possible that the chain of command would have a link broken somewhere, so that Putin might be unable to order a nuclear strike. But the west would not gamble on this, so a full scale invasion would be rapid. The street to street fighting would be brutal, as Putin’s Pretorian police are well paid and well equipped and will be the last civil servants to lose their wages. But they will be outmatched by better trained and equipped opposition, and the desire to burn their uniforms in the realisation that they will be hung if they don’t surrender.
I could go on but . . . Does that answer your question?
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Quentin : We KNOW you HATE your life, right now. It was fun for you, at first, because you like Trump’s greed and racism. Now, you HATE it; having to LIVE on a channel you HATE, talking to people you HATE about TRUTHS that you HATE. You FAKE Believe in Trump, because you gave too much money, fell out with too many people, and now you know you just look DUMB! But, in The Land Of Fake Believe, nobody says, “Hey look! The Liberals were right all along,” do they, son? 😁
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To your thumbnail, “Has Daddy Trump Dropped Farage?” I would ask, “Did daddy trump ever pick him up?” I doubt he even remembers meeting him, let alone who he is?
If I were Starmer, I would say, “You have a point, Mr Farage. And to that end, I am announcing an independent panel, with subpoena power and priority referral power to the CPS, who will be charged with investigating the entirety of Parliament for ANY AND ALL infractions. They will be making recommendations to close any legal loopholes in the law and will be a permanent oversight body, charged with reviewing and maintaining standards on an ongoing basis.”
Then just sit back and watch all the rats scurry off for cover.
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“Won”??? You think? Our objective was to prevent any more 911 level attacks. We did that and our troops can be proud that they defended America. The mistakes, like Nation Building, Iraq, NOT going after the Saudis who backed the attacks, NONE of those are laid at this administration’s door. They have honoured a deal made by trump’s administration, so (presumably?) trump fans are pleased? We ripped off the bandaid, finally! And history will respect that. It’s all about the, “OBJECTIVES.” Now, Russia? They wanted to keep Afghanistan as their buffer state, as part of the Empire. Now, THEY had their asses handed to them. Any Americans who thought Nation Building in a Muslim country was a good idea; they had their asses handed to them. But, this administration AND trump’s cannot be counted among those. And any saying the fall of Afghanistan is Joe, are saying it’s on trump too.
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Gabriel Jean-Batiste : Honestly, trump’s playbook is Stalin. Trump may be a fantasist and a self-deluded racist, like Hitler; but his METHOD is all Stalin. He gets it from Putin, and he even quotes Stalin. But, it’s time America got real. If trump stopped being a racist, his support would vanish as fast as his racism. That’s why he has no choice but to babble about slave owner statues, instead of pandemics. He only has his base, now. When he’s out, the real work begins. Education, Reforms, and Justice for the criminals in the GOP ✌️
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My youngest daughter took her physics doctorate at St Andrews. Now she works in a hospital, using various frequencies of light to both see and zap brain tumours, providing all the motivation you could imagine. It also involves an awful lot of coding, as you say.
I always knew she was a genius, but if she had listened to her school teachers and others in her broader community, she would have learned to, “manage her expectations,” in a downward direction for the rest of her days. She was too smart for that. Oh, and yes, she had to move away from her hometown to another country, but she’s still within Britain (fortunately) so all of your cautions check out.
There is no feeling more wonderful than that which you get at the moment you realise that your kids have surpassed you in education, maturity, wisdom and achievement. All three of my girls have done that, each going in very unique directions. I always tell young people that physicists can get employment in just about ANY field.
I look forward to sharing this video with my youngest and getting her response to it. You are the main YouTuber I share with her, though your fields within physics are very different. And she would probably tell me I’ve described her current job very badly too.
I certainly hope you do more videos exploring the careers and possibilities for young people considering a future in physics. Thank you for this one, regardless.
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Mike W : That’s the same as the, “Blame on both sides,” rhetoric, that Putin, er . . . I mean, “Trump,” peddles when he’s defending American Nazis at Charlottesville, or Russian SPIES in Helsinki. No one was convinced then, either. I’d tell you to pick a side, but there’s little point, when you’re shilling for Putin anyway. Transparent MUCH . . . SMH
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Nothing, “changed Putin.” WE CHANGED. He was getting away with murder and still being belligerent with it, and the first time he was challenged he backed off. This is the first time we’ve encouraged him to think he could get away with something too egregious to ignore. Even while he prepared to invade Ukraine, we spent our entire time warning each other and not warning Putin not to do it. No, “off ramp,” should be provided. It’s too late now, and that’s on us as much as Putin. But all of the rape, looting, torture and murder cannot be for nothing now. Putin has to get way LESS than he started with. It’s the least they deserve, and it’s the very least we need for a safer peace. We still have China’s ambitions with Taiwan to think of. They have to see Putin lose. We are equally responsible for this, and some of us saw it coming.
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Joya : Exactly. What TF does it MATTER, “where it came from,” when, from the top, your, “leaders,” and Typhoid Trump is k’k’k’ coming to k’k’k’ kill you all, with his little rallies? And, if anyone thinks that the GOP are just sitting around, WAITING to lose in November and Go Directly To Jail, they’re INSANE! Look around you, America? The Coup is underway, and they plan to STEAL your, “elections,” and your Republic
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@dakotadurham4788 : That’s a highly bogus assessment, light on evidence, high on allegation. Just a series of opinions with zero analysis or anything to back it up. That’s where the far right keeps going wrong. You’re right about one thing. This lot are too lazy and ignorant to exploit the tools they have to hand, which was why they lost the last election so roundly. Their propaganda comes from foreign countries, who don’t get American culture, so that, even after it’s been filtered through Fox and other right wing media, to American tastes, it still comes off as implausible and childish. The Russians are used to generations old audiences, brought up to swallow their medicine like good children. So, the fascists of the right are always bemused at how easily thinking people see through them.
Why call them, “Fascists?” Because their founding myth is a lie, they are a cult of personality, driven by emotion, racism and anti-intellectualism, who use threats, intimidation and actual violence to achieve their political ends. And, because they keep telling us they are, in all but name. They have as much in common with Stalin, when it comes to their propaganda techniques, as they do with Franco, Mussolini or Hitler, so I can see your confusion. But, that’s because their Orwellian Double-Think isn’t just about perpetrating lies. It’s as much a test of, “loyalty,” to the, “brand,” as it is about, “convincing,” anyone of anything. You are showing that you are willing to cast aside logic, reason, even science, and your own short term interests, in favor of an illogical, nonsense conspiracy theory, just as they did in Stalin’s Russia. He confessed that some of the narratives he put about, were not meant to be believed, but were tests, to see who would crack under the strain of lies and not take it anymore. There’s a lot of that going on in trump’s Stalinist model of propaganda; which is clearly coached to him, by Putin.
But, just from a logical perspective: Who in their right mind would allow a party back into power, when they haven’t accepted the legitimacy of their own election defeat, or even the legitimacy of their opposition party? They are actively attempting a conspiracy right now, to undermine the elections, which will end in tears when these, “audit,” hacks get busted and jailed for fraud and conspiracy! Trump is literally telling us that there are ZERO circumstances in which he will even accept defeat! That means, ironically, to ANY logical thinking person, that he can NEVER be legitimate at all! Ever! He’s literally TELLING YOU he’s a Dictator. And, they bear every single marker that history warned us of, as outlined above.
That should answer all your questions.
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@kgs_7186 : I never give people links, preferring only references. Click Bait gives counted hits to unworthy propaganda (often, at least) lending credence to lunacy. But, also, I will only ever read something from a political opponent, if they agree to read something I recommend to them, in return. So, do we have a deal? I will read a book of yours if you agree to a book of mine; or an article for an article; essay for an essay; podcast for a podcast, etc. I will follow up on whatever you recommend so long as there is no violence to children in it, or mindless racism, if you will do the same for me? Deal? ✌️
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Bionica Herbal : It’s about time we WOKE UP, America. Barr is NOT, “special,” here. If Trump loses power, they ALL go to jail, and the Republican Party will be SO disgraced, it will be forced to DISBAND. They are NOT going to allow that!? They have ALREADY RIGGED the 2020, “elections.” You ALL KNOW this really. You SHOULD ALL be filling the streets and holding the country up, until the Trumps flee back to Moscow, like they did in the Ukraine a decade or so ago? They had NO WEAPONS, but they pulled it off. And, America can’t be punished by Putin by an invasion, like they were. If you don’t restore the Republic, SOON, you’ll lose it, FOREVER!
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Herman Helmich : Trump won’t start a war with Iran. Not unless Putin betrays them and gives Trump permission? Pretty unlikely . . . Putin will say, “Niet.” This is Trump DESPERATE to, “look,” the, “Strong Man.” Nothing more. The WORLD saw what a PUSSY he is, at HELLsinki. He’s embarrassed and he made it WORSE, with his, “Luke . . . I said, ‘I AMN’T your father,’ honestly, OK?” excuses. So, he’s picked out someone who can’t hit back. That’s IT. Nothing more.
It would be a HOOT, if Iran Tweets back, “BRING IT, TRUMP!” What’s he gonna’ DO? Tweet, “Yeah? . . . Well? . . . Shut up, then?” 🤣
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Paul deTorch : Once I know I’m looking at a Trump Troll, I only ever read the top two lines, max. Not just because we’ve heard it all before. I tell them, It’s immoral to waste real time reading them. They get paid to prevent smart people from posting lots of comments, all over the place; to waste your time. They have two objectives: Deepen America’s DIVISION (the oxygen that got Trump in, and maintains him) and to waste your time, pinning you into circular, “debates,” keeping you from the world at large. I always say, The art of never losing the game? Don’t play. You made mincemeat of Salemchevy. He’s got nothing but his, “emotions,” and his effeminate, passive aggression, to keep him company, now. 😉✌️👍
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Christina Davage : Signs and wonders, my friend. It’s all there, in Mark, in your Bible. And, of course, comfort is a good thing, as is being at peace, in your heart, depending on the love of Jesus. But, never allow that to lull you into false hopes? God does not us expect or require us to, “not,” be, “scared,” I’m afraid to tell you. And, he sure doesn’t expect people to be without fear when the End Times begin, and the Tribulation could well be upon us, for all we know? Being at peace because you trust in God, follow his teachings and love your neighbour as you love yourself is all well and good; but, we are also required to step out of our comfort zone, accept the fear, and do God’s work, regardless. Only one of Christ’s Apostles avoided a violent death, which was a lesson in itself. I do NOT mean to rob you of comfort by saying that. I only fear that (as I’ve seen time and time again) people’s faith can be shaken to its foundations when they experience tragedy, first hand; and it’s often because they thought that following Jesus would protect them from harm, which the Bible does NOT promise. Your works, with faith, will be protected, as will your faith, if it comes with works. But your body belongs to the world, and it will remain here to wither into dust, when you leave it behind; and the world is a place divided, by evil and good. Embrace your fears, and use that energy to transform it into Hope; hope in Jesus, by doing good works. Confront your fears, and they will diminish, as it is the enemy who wants you to make decisions, based on your fears, instead being based upon the rock upon which the church was built. Your church is not a building. Your church is all about you. Find those with similar fears, and offer them comfort, even if it’s only via the web or on the phone? By comforting others, you will find the weaknesses in your fears, and see them shrink before you. Though you should walk through the valley of DEATH itself, you will, “fear,” NO evil, once you have confronted and embraced your fears, turning them into WORKS, for the one who made you and gave you everlasting life! Do not seek comfort from men. It will let you down in the end. Rather, BE the comfort. Turn curses into blessing, as the Father thought you to do. God bless you ✌️
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Byron Tudor : Calling people, “propagandists,” is NOT, “name calling,” but when an anti-trump tramp, Donny Deep State, comment comes out, YOU express your right to get all, “offended,” like the little, “victim,” signaller you are? Hypocrisy muchary, son. And, seriously, WTF is, “virtue signalling,” kid? I really have NO idea what that even MEANS, but it sounds hilarious. If you can’t stick to the topic, and just, “feel,” the need to take out your sensitive heart and squeeze it for me, what you really need is a Help Line, son. Not a discussion on, “politics,” as you went off road, long ago. I have to admit, I stopped reading after, “virtue signalling,” as it was pretty clear you have NOTHING to say about the topic, but you sure have a LOT of buzz phrases to get off your chest. Go get therapy, if you’re so, “hurt,” son? You clearly can’t handle being with the grown ups. But, that’s what trump taught you, right? When you lose the debate, cry foul and play the victim, and hopefully, some big Nazi will, “rescue,” you and give you a hug? . . . 🤣
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He’s collecting donations, that his cult thinks he’ll use to somehow, “buy back,” his job, whilst, ironically, showing the world that he’s not prepared to DO HIS JOB! Think about that? He’s collecting for his Getaway Fund and scheming in a bunker, while the people he’s counting on to restore him to power, are LITERALLY DYING! He will not even BE in America on Inauguration Day! And his cult will FINALLY get it, when he mounts NO, “legal challenge,” but keeps ALL THEIR MONEY! . . . But, by then, we’ll be counting our dead in the MILLIONS. Dear GOD! Someone get the bunker boy out of his bunker, and back to WORK!
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Buster Keaton is a poor example. Having come out of Vaudeville, he came from a culture where even the most successful acts often knew poverty, relied on live audiences and utilised a radically different set of technical skills. Like Stan Laurel, Mac Senate and so many innovators of that time, they had to learn about directing, lighting, production, distribution, the chemistry of film stock, everything as the industry was developing. Even if Gene Kelly’s son became Jonny Rotten, that would still be not nearly as big a leap in technical and cultural terms as innovators like Keaton made.
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Gidget Trevathon : The FLAW of your “argument” is CLEAR for ALL to see, in YOUR SENTENCE. Not a, “thinker,” really, are you? If they ARE, as you say, the, “New GOP,” that makes them, by DEFINITION, NOT CONSERVATIVES, genius! Look up, what, “conservative,” MEANS. These, “NEW,” political notions that you, “think,” you understand, are ACTUALLY VERY, VERY OLD, and are known as STALINISM. I suggest you look up “STALIN” too, while you are still ALLOWED ACCESS to the internet
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who me? Etc: Wow . . . You’re SUCH a, “victim,” aren’t you? Feel persecuted, because people say, out loud, that Trump is a crook and a DICKtator? English is not your first language, is it, son? Get a LOT of that, with the Trump Tramps. But, think about your childish NAME, before telling others to, “grow up,” huh, kid? So far, all you have to say is that the TRUTH is upsetting to you, and you wish people would stop saying it. Man up, son! Stop being such an effeminate victim all your life? 🙂
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who me? Blah, blah : Yup, you’re getting emotional, now. Three in a row. What do you want from me? A, “grown up conversation?” Change your offensively childish name, then? “Grown ups,” don’t have handles like yours. Why are you here, anyway? Shouldn’t you be, “celebrating,” your, “victories,” on Fox? You’re sweating, kid. We see that. But, ask me a question, and I’ll tell you why you’re SO wrong . . . If you dare? . . . 🙂
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Mr G : Oh, the cops have your passport? Or, you aren’t allowed one? Or, you just didn’t think it through, and wish you had? So far as, “she’s,” concerned; I don’t care if she’s The Terminator, Robbie the Robot, or a pocket calculator, son. I either agree with a comment or I don’t. It’s called, “thinking for your self,” son. The fact that you looked her up, is proof that she’s having an, “impact,” on you 🙃
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@dorsetbigcats6292 : What makes you think I, “accept,” anything from Wikipedia? Read my words more carefully. My point is that Mr Yaxley-Lennon does not challenge this description of him. He has never asked Wiki to change it, so they claim.
The fact that you leapt, so readily, to the wrong conclusion, does not speak highly of your processing skills, but we all make mistakes before our first coffee of the day, so I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. However, I would urge you to consider treating people you don’t know with better basic manners? Raise a question, by all means; outright challenge my conclusions; but there’s no call for you to disparage me, simply because you don’t like what I have to say.
I expressed no opinion. Only fact.
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Rodney Prosser : See you found the Copy&Paste button? Was it next to the Googolska Translateski key? You talking about that guy who the GOP murdered, because he refused to be their spy and said he was going to the cops? Sean doesn’t WANT you pulling on THAT thread, son. It’s one of his BIGGEST EMBARRASSMENTS. Like Trump’s, “lock her up,” or, “no collusion,” or, “Russier, if you’re listening.” They REALLY DON’T want to be reminded, sonny.
Tell me? You been a RACIST all your life? Or, are you a paid, foreign troll? 🤔 I’m curious, because there’s NOTHING to be gained, for ANYONE else, for supporting the TRAITOR in CHIEF. Which are you? 🙂
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Upper Echelon Gamers : I think if you totally free a, “character,” from, “player tyranny,” what you’ve got there, is a MOVIE. The more freedom you have, to do the unexpected, unexplored or, never before thought of things, the better the game. The, “Tyrant,” is the group or organisation, who wants you to follow their agenda, like a robot, without ANY alternative. That’s not a game I would play. That woman literally is the tyrant, projecting her insecurities onto the world. A, “control freak,” is what I would call her
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Google User : Why do you keep going on about “Proof”? I don’t get it? NO investigator on the PLANET is going to tell YOU or the people, what “PROOF” they have, until they IDICT someone and reveal it IN A COURT OF LAW! Just because YOU don’t know what Mueller has, doesn’t mean it isn’t THERE, son??? Do you think the WORLD DISAPPEARS, when you close your eyes? WHY do you “think” SO MANY people have pleaded GUILTY, ALREADY? No one is REALLY as DUMB as you are pretending to be? ARE THEY? You are either just another Trump-Cult, Gravity Denier, or being PAID by a Putin-Shell-Company, to, “turn your comments onto cash.” Which is it, son? SMH
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Trump uses Stalin’s playbook. Taught him by his coach, Putin. The racism, the fantasism, and the, “poor me,” grievance of his racist cult are very like Hitler. But, most of it is pure Stalin. And, like Stalin, he destroys free speech, targets his OWN people, and his lunatic pronouncements are not meant to be, “believed.” They’re a test of loyalty to his fans; and meant to chill decent people. After November, he plans to have the company that owns CNN bought in a hostile takeover, by a trump-friendly Oligarch, and end free speech altogether. It’s up to us to STOP that.
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Utha : Respectfully, that’s an over simplistic view, playing into Trump’s hands. The MSM could tell you when the moon is full, and then someone could irrationally take the opposite view, and call themselves Fox. That does NOT make MSM and Fox, two equally opposing sides. It makes one right and the other, demonstrably WRONG. So, then you have to ask yourself, WHY would a, “news,” outlet claim the TRUTH is not the TRUTH? And, when you find out that the people at Fox have backed a false moon story, because their money, reputations and possibly their freedom counts on that lie, it becomes apparent. They are a Propaganda outlet; NOT, “news,” at all. But, it helps Trump, if you paint the truth as being just the other side of the same coin, when it’s a FALSE EQUIVALENT
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Utha : If you’re being, “honest,” about that, go look up the Court Proceedings, against the Trump Foundation, and why it was closed down, just over a month ago. Trump had tried to close it before they could get inside, but they beat him to the punch. “Routinely stealing from defenceless, needy children and US veterans,” is why. And, NO media company is necessary for PUBLIC RECORD. When the judge has finished his investigation and the breaking down of that, “CHARITY,” (FFS) the whole family will be indicted. NOW! Tell me there’s, “two sides,” to that story? No. Exactly. You CAN’T. They are crooks, of the LOWEST kind, and Fox is their Propaganda outlet, so long as Rupert Murdoch says it is. Which makes you either ignorant of the truth, or just another shill, unless you DARE to look, and admit the facts . . . Smh
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Utha : I think that people get confused between Op Eds, discussion, interviews and straight reporting. They’re always, “blaming,” the channel for everyone’s expressed view, because they don’t know how to discern the difference. S E Cupp, for example, does opinion pieces, speaking from a centre right view point, analysing the weeks events; and people get mad at CNN for letting her talk, from both sides of the isle. Because they don’t get it. They get mad, when Cuomo talks to camera, and don’t even know the difference between that and when he’s reading out the headlines. MSNBC has never pretended NOT to be an, “antidote,” to Fox, back when it was more than Trump’s mouthpiece, but CNN is an unbiased News service, with no equal in America. Like the UK’s BBC. Fox are not on the same playing field.
So, maybe what you think of as their centrist bias, is just their straight reporting, without making ANY special cases. They focus on those who are closest to power, because they effect the country. They neither lean left or right, and it’s not their responsibility to do so. So, for you to call that a kind of, Third Way Bias, is exasperating. It’s not a bias. It’s a bias toward none-bias, that’s all
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When they prove that the riot was a Conspiracy to have a Coup, and witnesses testify that they were asked to join it; maybe military generals? And when GOP members are subpoenaed to testify that they KNEW, “The Steal,” was a seditious LIE, or give their, “evidence,” for, “believing,” in it; which can only come down to the Nuremberg Defence of, “We were only following orders,” the entire country will be DEMANDING trump’s conviction! It’s little wonder that Graham, Cruz, Hawley and the rest are DESPERATE to stop it, or trade policy for it?! A week is a long time in politics, but under today’s circumstances, I’m expecting seismic shifts . . . Stay tuned, and stay active, America. It’s not over till it’s over!
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@ghosuk5552 : “Shut up,” is a typical response from Putinistas, isn’t it? Putin likes to shut up journalists, news stations, radio stations, Facebook, VPN’s, right? Silencing your opponents is kinda’ traditional for the Kremlin Kleptocracy. How’s that workin’ out for ya’ madam? Has it never occurred to you that the world has, “never talked about it,” for the last 8 years because maybe it NEVER HAPPENED? At least, not the way Putin tells it, kid. 🙄
What will you do when the money stops coming in? Putin won’t be able to pay you in a few weeks. Then you’ll need to find a real job.
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People always get that scriptural commandment wrong. It’s rare for an inaccurate translation to read, “Thou shalt no kill.”
It says, “Thou shalt do no murder.” Exodus 20:13. Even Christ understood that people would necessarily continue to commit, “homicide,” (in the strictest sense of the word) but that there is a big difference between killing in battle, as an executioner, or in self defence or defence of loved ones and the committing of, ‘’murder.” We are not prohibited from killing, nor should we be. If we were, that would make every allied soldier who fought the Nazis and the Japanese in WWII unforgivable killers and self condemned to damnation. But they are not, because they did not, “murder,” anyone. This is why Jesus could do a miracle for a Roman Centurion with no conflict of interest, of fear of self contradiction.
None of this supports Max’s case, of course. But it’s an important distinction. Jesus, God and the Bible do not say, “Thou shalt not kill.” It says, “Thou shall do no murder.” And that’s different.
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worky : First; you asked whether Sharia was a, “good or bad,” thing. Now, you’re asking a completely different question, about whether it should be the governing system in America. Make your mind up? You are a Trump Troll, so don’t pretend to be anything other. You’re not kidding anyone. Thirdly, keep it brief, son. I’m NOT wading through lengthy, hate-filled rants. I have an ex-wife for that s**t. I gave up about halfway through your last rant. Finally, you don’t know anything about Sharia Law, so you’re not in a position to judge it, either way. No one wants to get rid of Democracy, so don’t be so Triggered. What are you? Piro herself, or just 9 years old?
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Vitex1955 : And, if you hate MSM so much, despite the fact that you spend a LOT of time on it, why not go to the source? Check the PUBLIC RECORD on the Trump Foundation? Then, explain to us WHY YOU, “think,” it is a GOOD thing, to STEAL from helpless, needy CHILDREN and US VETERANS? Bet you DON’T have an answer for that? And, SPARE us any, “Whaddabout,” for once? The Clinton Foundation has been EXHAUSTIVELY investigated and is STILL GOING. Trump’s was shut down two weeks ago and now BELONGS to a COURT APPOINTED JUDGE. You’re a SICK MORON if you even TRY to, “justify,” the TRAMP FOUNDATION 🙂
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Joshua Rhodes : “It may fall happen to you?” Your Russian “Butt Hurt” indignation is PRICELESS. But, it’s more of a numbers game; “The needs of the MANY outweigh the needs of the few, or the one,” as Spok tells us. If Trump’s death would save America from this Russian Coup, we’d be MAD not to take it? After all, Putin set up this deal with Kim in the FIRST PLACE. So, we ONLY have Putin to blame, right? But, if you’re worried about “Karma” or something, you better talk to your boss, Putin, ‘coz he’s got a LOT coming HIS WAY? 😁
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Michael Sutcliffe : If Trump retains power, you WON’T have the same freedom of speech, as Trump has TOLD YOU. He intends to CHANGE the laws on libel. And we ALL KNOW what that MEANS. And we all expect a little, “Butt Hurtery,” from his cult, when we we tell the TRUTH and it hurts their feelings, but Trump is LEADING the ABUSE AND BULLYING, showing what a fragile little ARSE HEAD he really is, while he’s WRECKING the REPUTATION of America.
You think he isn’t SERIOUS about, “changing the laws”??? Sounds like Deranged Trumpism, to me? Smh . . .
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Would it not be better if people like you, sensible, intelligent, compassionate, thoughtful, “influential,” set aside time to discuss the likes of Farage in a summary discussion once a week? Yes, we cannot ignore him, and we cannot dismiss his role in the riots (which I suspect is far deeper and more forewarned than he’s letting on) and a discussion about how to defeat the message of the far right must be had. But the fatal error here is that you discuss Farage several times a day! Your followers have Farage on their minds each day and will be discussing him with their friends, families and colleagues, because YOU talk about little else these days!
Please don’t mischaracterise this comment as a call to ignore Farage completely? But I do think it is genuinely game changing when the grownups re-contextualise far right leaders and most importantly, STOP giving them exactly what they want! Which is their faces, voices and words in the headlines as much as possible.
When you talk about Farage to such a disproportionate extent, you make him much bigger in the minds of the general public, and it becomes more plausible in the public consciousness that such a man could assume more power, because he has always loomed so large on the political landscape. It should be shocking to everyone that such a man is even in Parliament, let alone such a big influence on the nation’s woes.
I don’t know exactly how you view yourself as a, “player,” on the political stage, but you must know that you are influential? And with that influence comes responsibility. Not just the type of responsibility that you are accustomed to as an educator (which I don’t doubt is comprehensive enough) but as a YouTuber, you also (I would hope?) are aware of the journalistic responsibilities of a broadcaster?
I really worry that you are making a mistake by making Farage far too big a focus for discussion, making him far more powerful than he should be, and playing directly into his hands. Sometimes, having smart observations to share and not making them can be frustrating. But Farage is the one individual who would be most gratified by what you are doing here. And I think you should give serious thought to reconsidering your approach to him.
I apologise for such a long comment, but I assure you I am completely sincere and, as the record shows, a genuine admirer of you and your work.
If I am wrong, please show me how so?
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Can someone explain to me why this, “Right To Repair,” campaign should not be a, “Right To Own,” campaign? And why the right to OWN a thing would not automatically cover one’s right to repair that thing?
We’re talking about the right to own not just that, “thing,” but ALL of it; including the intellectual rights to that object or software, piece of entertainment, or whatever, so that it is YOURS upon, “purchase!” Then, Nintendo wouldn’t have the right to remotely, “brick,” your system or force you to lose the right to sue them, merely by signing the end user agreement, in order to get it to work AT ALL. Microsoft and other software producers would not be allowed to dictate what programs you mess with on your OWN computer, or parts you replace or alter, since it is YOUR PROPERTY. And it would apply equally to the military and ALL of their equipment.
And, before you start saying, “But what about copyright and the hard work of others?” There are ALREADY countless draconian laws that prevent people from reproducing other people’s work, invading their privacy, stealing their patents, etc! And they ALL have more than enough legal clout to enforce their own protections!
If you can be allowed to FULLY, “own,” what you, “purchase,” then you are entitled to do whatever the heck you like with it, so long as you don’t do any harm or infringe the rights of others. Why not???
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This was either a failure of the technical warning systems, or pilot error.
“The aircraft,” remains pointedly unidentified by the BBC, for some reason? That makes me wonder if it is yet another Boeing, with a team of expensive hotshot lawyers already on sight, frightening the press off with threats? Turbulence is never usually so unforeseen. When it’s that big, it’s unimaginable that the pilot wouldn’t announce oncoming trouble, telling the passengers to buckle up, etc. I’ve experienced it myself and we were warned well in advance.
So, either the pilot wasn’t paying attention, or the systems just didn’t work.
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This was a really sharp, incisive, precise and well explained analysis. It feels rare these days to see a, “close reading,” of this sort, with such a depth and breadth of understanding, being explained and, (if you like?) “reverse engineered,” so as to explain all of the moving parts in such a concise manner, making it easy for the layperson to follow.
I really enjoyed that, thank you. And I actually learned a few things, which is invaluable to me. I particularly admire your ability to stay outside of the fray, so to speak, as the outsider looking in, delving into specifics, explaining them and then moving onto the next part, until the whole thing is put back together and we are left with a comprehensive understanding of how the whole thing works.
You (and, presumably, your team?) are very clever and superb communicators. And that sets you apart from many other channels attempting to do what you do, but whom all too often digress from the topic in hand, hone in on the wrong aspects, express too much of their own personal thoughts and experiences, or otherwise frustrate their audience by losing the thread of the topic altogether.
I have watched otherwise well meaning channels spend entire 20 minute videos expressing one, single fact, or breaking one single piece of news and surrounding the whole thing with opinion, digression, discussion, sponsorships and other meaningless twaddle, that leaves me with my finger hovering over the skip button, just so I can get to their POINT, and it leaves me wondering how much harm they do to their own cause by frustrating audiences like that?
This was the diametric opposite of that: Concise, filled with information, thoughtful in analysis, grounded and realistic, whilst managing to be entertaining on the basis of an eloquent script and a sense of momentum. The BBC in my country, has this expression written over the entrance to their building; sort of cardinal rules that they seek for all their programming. They say that all their broadcasts must contain one of, if not all three of these specific elements: To Educate, Inform and Entertain.
You tick all three boxes there, my friend. It has been a while since I last watched this channel, and paid proper attention to it. I am very glad I did today. Consider me a subscriber.
And, thank you. We need more like you, if we want to save democracy, keeping the shrill, panicky voices at bay and just analysing what is. Yes, thank you, really.
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People need to STOP talking about this from a political point of view AT ALL! This SHOULD have NOTHING to do with how, “old,” the charges are, how, “victimy,” trump plays it, whether it stirs up trump’s base, or whatever! You either have the, “rule of law,” in your country or you don’t! If you do, they must be followed and pursued by everyone EQUALLY, or they are meaningless! Let us all hope and PRAY that the prosecutors are not even THINKING about the god damned, “politics,” of their actions!? Let’s just hope they do their jobs as diligently and as rapidly as humanly possible! Period!
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LibtardGunLover : It’s utterly HILLARYous, that you pussies LIVE on CNN, just to work up your fake outrage, while you’re all defending a Pedophile Sex Trafficker’s criminal conspirator, in Trump’s Cabinet! No WONDER you’re all HERE? None of you Trump Tramps have the BALLS to take on the, “other,” stories, about Pedos, Trump’s Court DEFEAT, yet again, or the subpoenas being issued. Much safer to all gang up on ONE scary female journalist, right? 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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She shows signs of genuinely concerning symptoms, to me. Not just that slightly malevolent but always, “out there,” thousands yard stare of hers either. In the mental hospital at which I was a guest for a few weeks, after having a breakdown some 20 years ago or so, it was always the really, “ill,” people who espoused views like, “Let’s leave the UN and the World Health organisation, coz’ they’re just conspiracies anyway. And shut down the court system so that businesses can privatise the entire legal system and policing.” And, of course, anyone who disagreed with those unhappy people were, naturally, “a part of the conspiracy.”
That’s the terrifying character of modern right wingism today: making the insane mainstream can only end the way you think it will. Let us just pray that we can prize their grip free of the levers of power before the Tory civil war breaks anything unfixable.
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@kevinkanter2537 : Abrams Tanks. Leopard Tanks. Scout Missiles. Storm Shadow Missiles. GMLRS and NASAMS Missile systems. I could go on, disproving your thesis about, “surplus,” as there are also several new weapons systems, secretly being tested in the field on hapless Russians. But, I always find it amusing when Russian propagandists attempt to paint the expansion of western military capabilities as a, “bad thing,” despite calling the soldiers who wield these weapons, “heroes.” The growth of output means jobs, factories working to capacity, increased security and the increased taxable income of all those engineers, factory workers and industry specialists, leading to the growth and prosperity that America is enjoying right now.
Tell me again, where the, “downside,” to this is? Do you mean, because Russia is losing its war?
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Hazzycakes : So well said, sir. I do love it when someone makes me lol AND has a good point to make. It’ll be the SHORTEST war in history, if it happens! But, THEY won’t DO anything!?!?! You said it, when you said, “Bitch PLEASE!” They are ALWAYS trying to appeal to the COWARD in others, because THEY are cowards. “Russia is our friend, but they’ll NUKE us, if we upset them!” “Kick out Trump and there’ll be a Civil War!” “Investigate all you like, but you are NOT allowed to investigate my CRIMES or I’ll fire you!” ALWAYS the same, self-defeating Anti-Logic that even my CAT shakes his fluffy head at! These Trumpanzees are so OUT THERE, that they don’t even TRY to make sense anymore!
Russia! If you’re listening? We DEMAND a better QUALITY of Troll, please? Bigly
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Is that all? To be honest, I can’t imagine how the Tories could win any seats, anywhere? I voted Tory last time, but I genuinely believe this bunch of goons have set records in British history for corruption, infighting, cruelty, self dealing, all but direct theft, paying no attention to experts and now they’re attempting to divide the nation with appeals to the lowest common denominator, the racists. I would vote for my CAT over this lot, and that sod steals my food! The Tories would benefit from some wilderness years, to root out the thickies and the thieves.
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@play-doughsrepublic5121 : Last time I checked, Poland is spending a whopping 5% of GDP on their military, with huge public support. That’s why they have so much equipment to donate to Ukraine, as their tech and armour is the latest and best. But it’s also because Poland openly states that they see Ukraine as fighting their war anyway, as they know they are next on Putin’s list.
As Putin’s desperation increases, he has been casting about for a false flag operation. Nothing that would be considered anything more than laughable to western eyes and ears, but something he can sell to his brainwashed population. He’s run out of convicts and students or peasants from the outlying regions of his empire and now needs a, “patriotic pretext,” for dipping into the the populations of Moscow, St Petersburg and other urban areas.
The whole Wagner mutiny was sparked over Prigozhin’s public complaints about not getting enough, “ammunition,” which was code for, “not having enough expendable cannon fodder in human form,” that he can overwhelm enemy positions with a casualty rate above 80%. Easy to do when you execute a few dissenters and then tell them they’re being monitored via drones, which will bomb your unit if you retreat or surrender.
Everything I see out of Russia now looks like growing desperation to me. And that includes this recent (probably short lived?) surge in Russian troll and chat-bot activity.
Slava Ukraine! 🇺🇦🔱🇬🇧
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Conjurer Woman : It’s interesting that right across Europe right now, the next headline, right after the main story in each respective country, is the news that, “America’s Death Toll Surpasses that of Vietnam!” Most developed countries are saying, “Well, at least we’re doing way better than the richest, most powerful country, with the, ‘best healthcare system in the world,’ right now.” America PLC must make money. And, that’s Trump’s bottom line . . . Smh 👍
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@pakelika100 : I’m afraid you’re wrong. No Senator, no Congress member can refuse testimony at an impeachment, if they’re a witness. They can be subpoenaed, and even resignation has no effect on that compulsion. And there is no 5th Amendment protection either, precisely because, as you pointed out, it is a political process, not a criminal proceeding. This is why, if you remember your history, so many incriminating testimonies have been heard in Senate and Congressional Inquiries in the first place. All those people, who would rather have been anywhere else, have destroyed their own, and other people’s, careers on the stand. Look it up. See, it’s less about what you would like it to be, and more about what it is. Why do you think Lindsay Graham is trying to persuade them NOT to call witnesses, making lame threats on TV? Why do you think Ted Cruz is using his TV time, walking back his, “belief,” in the Seditious LIE they call, “The Steal?” They are terrified of that whole lie being exposed as such, by them; the very people who spread it. I know my Constitutional Law . . . Believe me, bigly 😉
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CREvoTheGreat : Our job is to badger the GOP. Outside of Trump’s inner circle, the GOP are DESPERATE to rid themselves of Trump. They KNOW they cannot, “legitimately,” win 2020 with him. And they KNOW that the only way to rise with Trump, unleashed, will be to get dirty, covering up, or committing, crimes for him. God forbid you say no to him, and get the Biden-Frame-up treatment? You can safely disregard internal polling in the GOP, as that’s just people who don’t want Trump on their case, who’ll say whatever they need to. The GOP just needs to know it’s SAFE, and are waiting for someone to make a move. Hence their ominous silence, which is unnerving Trump. We NEED to give them a little push . . .
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More than many realise. Ukraine produces well over 50% of the world’s Argon; vital for producing microchips. Whilst Taiwan (at the beginning of the Covid outbreak) was manufacturing TWO THIRDS of the world’s microchips from ONE FACTORY, which was forced to temporarily shut down due to Covid, thus causing the international shortage of supplies. Biden’s administration has been doing something about varying its sources of Argon and microchip manufacture, but that’s all under wraps, so we just don’t know how well that’s going. But, if you ever wondered why it costs twice the market price for a PS5 or Xbox, through scalpers, now you know. Scarcity causes exploitation.
If we were to lose both Ukraine and Taiwan from the free world, China and Russia would thrust the free world into a technological Dark Age, forcing us to give up more of our democratic freedoms, just to feed our populations. Thus, this is a fight that every last one of us has a dog in.
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@Patty Borntrager : Did you see the look on the Q fan base’s faces? They actually, “believed,” the Inauguration wouldn’t happen, up to the very last second! And the web chatter that followed? Literally millions of, “former,” Q tips, saying, “I’m SO DONE with Q!” And, “Q is a LIE!” etc, etc, etc . . . Yeah . . . We’re seeing alright 😋 . . . Wuh huh hah hah 🤣
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@22tango79 : Whether they convict or not (though the odds are increasing) it’s the TESTIMONIES that are VITAL now. How many GOP witnesses are actually going to be willing to state, under oath and on the historic record, that they, “believed,” that the, “steal,” was not a LIE? Any half decent lawyer will SHRED them to pieces, if they are asked to site their, “evidence,” for backing the lie. In the end, most of them, (the very people whom trump’s cult look up to) will admit that they KNEW it was lie, or, at best, state that they were simply lodging objections under orders from the top, with no personal, “belief,” in the, “steal,” one way or the other. The GOP are going to get that, “civil war,” they’ve been itching for, for so long. Only, it will be among their own ranks, and they won’t be taking prisoners on either side. Contact your GOP reps and DAMND THE PURGE of trump. Help give them the, “support,” they need😉✌️👍
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Happy Dictatorship Day, America. We can mark the anniversary from the moment they say, “Not Guilty,” to Trump. That’s the exact moment that historians will say that the Republic FELL. It’s been on life support, since 2016, but this is the final death blow. Now, your, “elections,” will be rigged, because that’s relatively easy to do, with Putin’s help. And, the only alternative is JAIL for the whole Trump Tribe and half the GOP. They have no choice. And they’ve SHOWN you that there’s NO lawful remedy to Dictatorship. Learn to love your Monarchy, or tear it down? But, just DON’T go KIDDING yourselves that you will be ALLOWED to, “Vote”??? All you’ll be doing is giving them data on who to target next, in a FIXED election
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@Meeowwzterz : I feel for you. My daughter had a spell of that, during summer break from college. Do you get many of trump’s Karens? Waving their doctor’s notes, “excusing them from masks,” and crying about their, “civil rights,” when they slap a 16 year old check out girl for refusing service? It makes for great YouTube videos, when the security guards wrestle them to the floor and hand them over to the cops, while they’re still babbling about Donny, and siting, “Federal Statute [insert made up number here]” but it’s tough on the staff who have to go through that, and then have to clean up after them . . . Seriously dude, I feel for you. But, when I see one, I whip out my phone and start recording, to deter others 😉✌️👍
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December Smith : Though, Biden actually WON Florida (not even making that up) so the numbers are skewed somewhat. The GOP set up a scam, through shell companies, where they fielded GOP candidates all over Florida, who pretended to be the Dem Candidates, so they could steal their votes. They put out emails and literature, set up websites, copied the Dem policies, even their fonts, colors and designed, down to the last detail. They changed a couple of letters in the name of their made up candidate, so they could claim the votes of people who thought they were voting Dem, and turn them over to the GOP candidates. When CNN added up all the stolen votes, and subtracted them from the GOP, it turned out Biden would have WON Florida, and NOT by a narrow margin, either. The whole story is on the CNN website, and they’re still investigating it. They tracked down the owners of two of the shell companies (well, their houses at least) but they were, “not home.” Worst of all, it may turn out to have been just about, “LEGAL,” too. But it will probably end up in the courts, and awareness will lead to criminal legislation, if not imprisonment for some of them anyway. It’s a truly appalling scam, and I hope more people become aware of it?
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I admire all (sincere) medical professionals, especially those like you, who so often find themselves on the front lines of crises, without any warning, yet keep it together under such stress.
And I had a similar experience from one of my former lives as a social worker, and then as a, “crisis family therapist,” (I know . . . I know . . .) implementing what we called, “Break Away Techniques,” when dealing with aggressive or potentially dangerous clients: keeping desks or chairs between you and the angry person, checking whom else is vulnerable, checking for exits, managing tone of voice, etc.
But, you know what struck me as fundamentally flawed in this presentation? The language. Within the first couple of sentences this guy is telling us, “you can always create more energy,” and talking about a, “sense of failed success.” So, while I (also dealing with ADHD and Autism) am pondering this oxymoron and the previous statement which defies physics, I found myself thinking, “Well, I’d bet real money that this guy is excellent at his job and has probably saved lives by imparting his knowledge and experience to trainees. But, where in the heck did he learn to talk like that?!”
Something else we learned in Break Away (and I’ll bet you were taught this too?) was the genuine, incontrovertible value of PLAIN SPEAKING!
I get that he comes from a professional culture that fosters, “professionalised discourse,” or whatever they call it at Langley (and I don’t doubt they’ll have a term for it) but I was a professional trainer in yet another life, and I learned very early on that teaching necessarily requires the plainest possible language. Otherwise you wind up like this fella’ who is so over-pathologising his statements that he is occasionally talking plain gibberish!
And it’s such a shame, since, as I said, he probably has so much to offer and is obviously well enough respected within his profession to be chosen for a presentation on a prestigious channel. But, at best, that kind of, “professional-speak,” distances, alienates or even just confuses people, because it gives away that the speaker is failing to articulate a simple idea, twisting it into knots. At worst, it can escalate an impatient person into a hostile act.
I always taught professionals; Do you talk that way to your wives, husbands, friends, and so on? No? Then don’t speak like that to your patients, pupils, officers, etc. Be clear and simple, ESPECIALLY in a crisis!
I don’t doubt you had more than enough Latin, Greek and technical terminology to deal with without being, “requested to convey a libational stimulant from the mechanism of the lacunae which may require financial remuneration in order to conduct the transaction,” or something, when you could have been simply asked to, “get a coffee from the machine in the hall. Do you need some cash?”
Am I being too hard on the guy?
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And they’re in a mad scramble for, “leadership,” and the party’s identity. They could end up a Hawley, Graham, Cruz, Proto-Nazi party? Or, the Moscow Mitch style of system gamers? The very insurrectionists who tried to destroy the Republic have no choice, because they’re looking at expulsion and possible criminal charges, when all the evidence comes out at trump’s impeachment! It’s do or die, for those guys. Sad as it makes me, we have to support Moscow Mitch, and help him get the votes he needs for trump’s impeachment!
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@behappy8012 : Yeah, let’s weigh those in the balance, shall we? Releasing thousands of known Al Qaida terrorists, plotting to overthrow the Republic, causing riots, supporting Nazis, grovelling to Putin, Xi, Kim and any enemy of America, repeatedly committing sexual assault, refusing to help his own country in a pandemic whilst suggesting people, “INJECT BLEACH,” to clean out their insides, spreading diseases that literally KILLED his colleagues, and SO MUCH MORE.
And in the other, “Complaints,” scale? “Sniffing hair,” ALLEGEDLY . . .
My only question: Why do you hate America SO MUCH?
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Yehudi Menuhin : That is an appallingly ignorant reading of that story. Its flaw is obvious, and is informed by the atheistic REFUSAL to grasp the main premise. SURE, if you REFUSE from the OUTSET, to accept that Christ could see into the HEARTS of the people with whom He dealt, not just the person He spoke with, but ALL who were watching, and LEARNING from what they saw, then you HAVE TO superimpose YOUR OWN, somewhat PREJUDICED interpretation?
But, in the end, your argument is the equivalent of saying, “I don’t BELIEVE in “the FORCE” so, therefore, Luke Skywalker was indoctrinated into a Cult and went off on an EGO TRIP which brought down the Government!” If, you don’t ACCEPT the PREMISE, then you HAVE NO WAY TO ANALYSE IT! Don’t you see THAT, BASIC, FLAW in your OWN words?
And I have to say, you’re PATRONISING, “well, here goes nothing,” attitude places your PREJUDICE on DISPLAY. You are saying, for ALL THE WORLD TO SEE, “I can’t be persuaded to alter, even my ATTITUDE, let alone ANY of the analysis, let alone my BELIEFS!” So, YEAH! Why the hell SHOULD SHE “answer” your prejudiced, mean spirited argument? You, interestingly, could have placed a whole RANGE of motivations upon your argument, but you opted for the WORST one you could think of? RACISM. How do you expect ANYONE to “respect” such a MAD, wilfully OBTUSE “argument” anyway?
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Yehudi Menuhin : Yeah, that was WHY I used the Star Wars analogy, but you DO “refuse” to grasp the point. No one REALLY believes in the Force, but they understand the “Story” because they understand the basic assumption of the plot, in which the characters depicted believe, which is what explains their motivations. Do you see? If we ACCEPT that IN THIS STORY, Jesus knows what’s in people’s hearts, that CHANGES the MEANING of what He says and does.
That woman, BELIEVES in her OWN “inferiority” so Jesus uses THAT to illustrate a point about HUMILITY to the people present. YOU are just throwing out the baby with the bath water, because Christ says some things that can be “interpreted” as “racist” IF they are TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT. You atheist ALWAYS play the same game, like a bunch of Fox anchors, pushing your OWN assumptions onto a narrative that suits YOU, instead of seeing the POINT?
You could do that with ALL of the stories in the Bible: When Christ refused is mothers summons, telling the messengers, “Here is my family. These are my brothers, sisters, mother, sons and daughters.” You would say that was a wholesale rejection of family values, I guess? And had NOTHING TO DO WITH THE POINT HE WAS MAKING? Or when He says, “I bring a sword,” to families, YOU would say that Jesus wants us to STAB OUR KINDRED TO DEATH?
It’s simple OBTUSENESS
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Yehudi Menuhin : No. I didn’t say that. Not to “demonstrate” humility at ALL. To “make a point ABOUT humility,” is what I SAID. But, see how you try to change my words and put others into my mouth? THAT’S what you’re doing to the Bible. There are SO many examples of Christ’s teachings that FLY IN THE FACE of “racism”. Which SHOULD be a CLUE to a “rationalist” but, no. You take ONE passage, read obtuse nonsense into it, and claim that we should disregard ALL the OTHER FACTS and EVIDENCE to the contrary? That is not even logical? I mean, EVEN ATHEISTS don’t go around claiming Christ is “RACIST”??? You’re on your own there, buddy. Good luck with your latent bitterness. But, one tip for you; if you choose to, ahem, “debate” in print, it’s not wise to twist your interlocutor’s words, as people need only check for themselves to see what was ACTUALLY said. You lost the little “credibility” you had with me there. Stick to the violin, huh? Your records are great. Particularly the Jazz stuff
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Andre Childs : In the 1930’s it was poverty and national pride that got Hitler to the top. What we are not seeing, here, is that, though America “looks” prosperous, on paper, EVERYBODY is in a Debt Trap. Their Education, their Homes, their Health, their Businesses, their Cars, etc. Just a different form of POVERTY. Trump is becoming Stalin and America is letting it happen. SMH
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drmvp21 : Couple of things . . . The wall has NOTHING to do with, “national security.” It’s just an expensive symbol of ignorance. And, if it ever DID get built, and the, “problem,” has NOT CHANGED, I think THAT would be the point at which we’d be saying, “I told you so.”
And, what’s this, “redistributing wealth,” CRAP? Have you STILL not come to terms with the FACT that we REALLY ARE NOT ALL, “Liberals”??? Seriously? I’m a Conservative. Trump is a CROOK! That’s WHY, after all the Gerrymandering and Voter Suppression, there was STILL a Blue Wave, son! Conservatives are either withholding their votes, or, like me, VOTING DEMOCRAT! . . . SMH
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@divinebeing5720 : Yeah, China abstained because they see Russia as a threat to the west and, being a Communist dictatorship, that’s good for them. But, they didn’t vote to, “support,” Russia? Why’s that? Oh, that’s right. Because, just like the rest of the planet, if you take away Russia’s oil and gas reserves, Putin’s got NOTHING the world wants that they can’t get somewhere else. You can draw their route to the Carpathian Mountains on a map if you like? You’ll see Russia’s troops are on a PREDICTABLE route. They just want to steal Ukraine’s energy reserves. It’s a smash and grab operation, by a psycho who thinks he’s the villain in a Bond movie. And we all know what happens at the end of a Bond movie, right? 😉
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get lost : Are you 10 years old? Was that WORTH saying, unless you’re an angry child, who just, “needs,” an, “emotional outlet,” because, y’know, “issues,” or something? . . . Think about what you’re DOING with your life, son? . . . 😁
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Diana Hulstine : During the Vietnam War, homecoming troops were frequently spat on, at the airport; their, “welcome,” back to the country that they, “thought,” they had just been fighting for, watching their friends being dismembered, shot and blown apart. Forgive me if I am a little over sensitive about that? But, sentences can be misinterpreted, with the best of intentions. As we’re being reminded, all the time, “Words Matter.” If I caused offence, I apologise, without reservation ✌️
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It’s like listening to the testimony of an alcoholic who has just been hauled out of the gutter directly after their latest binge. In the manner of an alcoholic, these people simply, flatly refuse to acknowledge that there even is a problem, let alone ANY possibility of a remedy. You cannot solve a problem unless you admit it EXISTS. And therein lies the issue.
These people have remained steadfast in denial, while the Post Office has run itself into the ground, letting down its customers, actively promoting competition and destroying the lives of their best staff in the process.
Now, call me paranoid if you wish but, when I see government hacks being given a gong for actively destroying a British institution, I can only conclude that this was their goal from the outset. There are countless delivery services in Britain now. Every time I receive a parcel or piece of mail I seem to get an email from some new company I’d never heard of before, asking me to, “give feedback,” on the quality of their service.
I would bet real money that some senior Tory policy makers are also accepting large, “donations,” from the owners of Evri and Lord knows what other fleet of foot delivery services that have been capitalising on the decline of our standard Royal Mail.
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@NO.1CLOWN-v7x : Agreed. I can’t imagine the USA agreeing to give up Manhattan Island, “for the sake of piece,” or France letting Bordeaux go to the Russians, “to stop the bombings,” or Germany agreeing to give back its Eastern Block to Russia, “because escalation, whah!”
It is utterly ludicrous that there are still people out there who imagine they have the right to even suggest Ukraine should relinquish Crimea! There are massive oil and gas reserves off that coastline, inside Ukraine’s territorial waters. And Putin knows that Ukraine could outstrip Russia in fossil fuel production, which is the real reason it became a target. The same thing happened in Donbas, which is rich in coal and has active mines.
Putin knows he cannot sell stolen fossil fuels on the open market, so he’s preventing Ukraine from developing a reserve that Shell, BP and Exxon all said would be as big and reliable as Russia’s.
While he’s made that problem worse for himself, some people are actually falling for his, “narratives,” about Crimea not being quite the same as the rest of Ukraine! NATO really needs to pull their heads out of their asses and stand up to Putin! This whole thing has just been robbery with violence. The biggest heist in human history! ✌️
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@theG.O.R : If only someone was willing to tell women that, if you want to stop ageing, your skin is the last organ you need to treat with cosmetics? Look after your internal organs and never sunbathe; and you’ll find your skin glows and refuses to sag and wrinkle, mostly because you stopped stressing it out with unnecessary cares and stopped abusing it with chemicals. Personally, I invest in the brain as my primary organ of care, and work my way through and outward, from there. By looking after my brain, I’ve saved a fortune in testicular injection and hair loss products cash, which I get to spend on the video games, which make me smarter, if the science is to be believed? 😉
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Linda H : Interesting points. Maybe, these two are SO keen to defend Moore, for their . . . own . . . reasons? Even Hannity thinks Moore should stand down? Even Moore’s “friends” have said he should take the Lie Detector test? Even the GOP have rejected Moore? Even the Party has withdrawn sponsorship? Only Trump, sitting in a glass house, as he does, will not throw stones? So, their BLIND support of Moore, comes from the CULT of Trump, OR a “worse” place?
Their Kellyann CONway style, what-about-ism, regarding, “Al Franken,” saws at the branch they are sitting on, but they are parroting Trump, without consideration of the fact that, if Franken WERE to lose his job, Trump’s position would be unsustainable. So, let’s HOPE Franken is forced out, so that the Senate is FORCED to deal with Trump’s FAR WORSE, and CONFESSED, crimes against women? Let’s see how Trump’s harping on about Bill Clinton aides him, when he’s hoist by his own petard?
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Colt FortyFive : You seem quite exercised over such a Nother Burger, but I know you will find you are WRONG about the application of standards, there. You see, calling it, “locker room” talk, does not speak to whether it was TRUE or FALSE. Trump will have to admit that he was bragging, to big himself up for Billy Bush, and lying, before the world, just to get passed the Access Hollywood tape. Then he’s still got 15 accusers to deal with. Franken has 1, who has forgiven him, for a prank; not EVEN sexual assault, mind you, a prank. Trump wouldn’t stand a CHANCE.
But THEN you have the same issue with Moore; and the Rep’s have ALREADY drawn the line with him and ARE likely to expel him, even if he DOES win, though it looks actually unlikely.
As to “parroting CNN”: what you are finding there, is intelligent people, reaching the same LOGICAL conclusions. Don’t take MY word for it, which is on record BEFORE CNN said it, but look up your Constitutional Law. It’s aaahhhll there, in black and white ;-)
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Colt FortyFive : So, YOU mean, that Trump LYING, er, forgive me, “pea-cocking” for Billy Bush, because he felt that making up stories about sexually assaulting women was a GOOD thing to do? And that Trump will be FORCED to ADMIT to that? This is how YOU choose to define, “locker room talk”? You have NO WAY of KNOWING this, but you, like all Trump Cult followers, have decided upon the most favourable narrative and are sticking to it? Even though THAT is a HUMILIATING confession that Trump will be forced to make? And that it will be inconsistent with AHHHHLL the OTHER interviews, where he describes IN DETAIL how he abused other GIRLS, on the RADIO, ON RECORD?
You’re leaping through HOOPS to clean that up, and it won’t WASH. You’re a sick puppy and the EVIDENCE is stacking up against the DOTUS. Come to terms with it
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@andrewordog519 : The, “war chest,” will need to deplete a little further before the full financial pain is being felt by all Russians. Putin didn’t realise so much of his wealth would be frozen by the west (two thirds of all his assets, from what I’ve read) and it belies the myth of him being a very, “smart,” guy. He can’t keep indefinitely paying his propaganda army, his army in Ukraine AND his domestic thug police to keep order at home while the coffers run dry and industry grinds to a halt. More unemployed people leaving the country or just having nothing better to do than read western news and get mad at Putin, whilst fewer cops are willing to work for free and may want to avoid having their head shaved and being tattooed with a, “Z,” in Red Square when the sh*t hits the fan?
But it will take a few weeks yet. His oligarch chums are realising that the longer they leave things, the less there will be to rescue, so they may act? They also know that the more desperate things get, the more likely it is that unpaid cops will join the people and depose the lot of them.
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So, the GOP just mad at unbiased facts, because they are faced with causing a second Revolution, by shutting down all witnesses and evidence, and having a jury comprised of Trump’s conspirators find Trump, “not guilty,” in under an hour, thus admitting that your Republic has ended and that the 2020, “elections,” will be RIGGED . . . Or, they can cause a second Revolution, by allowing witnesses and evidence, and then finding Trump, “not guilty,” regardless, of the crimes that he’s just been proved guilty of, thus admitting that the Republic has fallen, and the 2020, “elections,” will be RIGGED? Perhaps the third alternative is to drag it out, until everyone is too confused and bored to bother anymore, whilst throwing distractions at the American people? Like a brief war with Iran, or North Korea? That’s worked pretty well for them so far . . . SMH
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Absolutely right. There can be no doubt. Witnesses from both sides saw and heard the explosion, with no air raid sirens, no jets, no drones, no missiles strikes, just a bang. Clearly those mines were set off.
Whether it was by accident or design, whether through panic or planning, it was Russia’s mines inside that dam that destroyed it. No Ukrainians even could have done this. Russian terror tactics know no limits. And, if this doesn’t scare YOU, think about the next dam up river. Blowing that would flood the Black Sea and then the Mediterranean with enough radioactive poison to kill ALL LIFE in both! The humanitarian, ecological and financial disaster on that scale would be incalculable, but would effect YOU wherever you live.
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People in Russian airports are, “rich or influential,” or on official business, employed by the state or doing, “favours,” for the state. Plus, at present, “guests,” of the state. And they turn off the internet themselves, out of sheer paranoia, fear of organised demonstrations.
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Ben Hodges is a role model for us all. He has taken all of his skills, experience, connections and friends in high places and put them all to the service of good at the time when they are most needed. He leads charities and activists, directing their efforts, whilst travelling the globe, speaking to anyone who will listen, explaining what is needed, what is really happening, why it’s so important and, most importantly, helping the world to understand why each and every one of us has a stake in this fight.
This is, after all, the World War Three that you get when neither side is willing to use nukes. Putin is getting his maximum use out of them now, with empty, meaningless threats, to which the world wide press routinely overreacts. But they will NEVER be fired off by Putin . . . not, “deliberately,” at any rate. I can promise that. It’s the only certainty I have. However, mistakes are common in Russia, as their track record with nuclear weapons mistakes and nuclear power disasters are a matter of record. Therefore, it is in the west’s interests that Russia is roundly and swiftly defeated.
To that end, we must ALL contact our representatives and demand the long range missiles and fixed wing aircraft Ukraine needs to WIN this war, and KEEP the peace thereafter! Don’t let anyone tell you that writing to your representatives is a waste of time. They’re wrong about that.
Slava Ukraine! 🇬🇧🇺🇦✌️
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@marycauffield2508 : Show us on the dolly which, “freedoms,” have been taken from you, Karen? Your freedom to suppress the vote, cutting off millions of minorities? Your freedom to get violent, just because you can’t handle democracy? Your freedom to kick out your own elected GOP officials, if they won’t play along, in a snap Primary? It sure isn’t your guns. No one wants those. It’s not your healthcare, as they’re trying to give that to everyone. Maybe it’s your right to refuse an 8inch piece of cloth on your face? Because you’ve got a note from your doctor, excusing you from masks, but you still think you should be allowed to walk into any private business wherever you like and slap 16 year old checkout assistance for exercising THEIR right to refuse you service? Read a book, Karen . . . 🤦♂️
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“Submitted for your approval, imagine, if you will, a black man running for office in the state of Georgia. Not just any black man but a self confessed sociopath, with a history of playing Russian Roulette with himself, his unwilling wife and with strangers. A man who describes his violent fantasies in stomach churning detail, who’s only known, ‘deep personal friendship,’ is with another known sociopath, who never won an election in his life, yet became America’s president, despite that fact, having lost three elections in a row, and losing his final election over 60 times. Do not adjust your sets, while I take your for our most f’ked up journey yet, into the Twilight’ . . . Nah, I just can’t say this sh*t!” Rod Serling, we miss you! 🤦♂️
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disturbed3330 : Hitler was the richest man in Germany. Stalin, the RICHEST in the USSR. If you understood logic, you would be ashamed of your own IDIOCY, and as struck by the IRONY of YOU calling OTHERS, “ignorant,” as EVERYONE ELSE is. ANYONE can exploit their inheritance. At least Hitler and Stalin started out poor. Read a book, sometime, and rethink your life, you shallow, empty vessel, that Poops out empty words for Putin
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georgelares : Define, “success?” I wouldn’t want to be in HIS place for ANYTHING. And there REALLY ISN’T enough money in the WORLD to change my mind on THAT. Some of us humans define success, SLIGHTLY, differently than Trump’s cult and his East European supporters. Some of us LIKE having a conscience to keep clear, an intelligence with which to have REAL relationships, and FRIENDS that we can REALLY TRUST. There is not ONE person in Trump’s orbit that wouldn’t sell Trump out, for the right price. And if he were suddenly made poor and lost his influence, NOT ONE of them would go ANYWHERE NEAR his LOATHSOME, SELF-AGGRANDISING, TOXIC, MEAN, DEGENERATE person. Believe THAT . . . SMH . . .
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disturbed3330 : I’m a professional political historian and I do very nicely, thanks, but it’s kind of you to care about my education. Trump has FAMOUSLY quoted Stalin on MANY occasions, usually NOT EVEN REALISING IT. The, “free press is the enemy of the people.” Said by both Trump and Stalin. You EMBARRASS yourself, with your lack of knowledge as to TRUMP’S, “history,” let ALONE anything deeper than that, and then project your IGNORANCE MUCHERY! 🤣. Everything Trump DOES comes from the Stalin / Putin Playbook, you UTTER MORON. How do you even know how to BREATHE, you’re SO dumb? 🤣 😆 😂 🤣 🤪
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disturbed3330 : Again, my “ass” has never BEEN so “tonished.” READ A BOOK. Neither Stalin nor Hitler, killed ANYONE, through state control, for MANY YEARS. In Hitler’s case, state executions and shipping off to the concentration camps didn’t being for for FIVE YEARS, after becoming Chancellor, DUMMY. Stalin took around two or three. And STALIN is the MODEL for Trump. He doesn’t JUST quote him, you know? Discounting the results of elections? Making up millions of none-existent voters? Calling political opponents, “criminals.” Stalin and Trotsky fought it out, in Russia, from within the same party for YEARS before he was forced to flee, and Stalin was powerful enough to have him hunted down and assassinated. Attempts to control the media? Illegal trading with hostile, foreign powers? Any of this ringing ANY bells in that EMPTY HEAD of yours?
You “think” because there is no Hammer and Sickle on the American Flag, yet, that you’re SAFE??? They ALL do it slow. Building up, over time. And they ALL end up COMING FOR YOU, you DUMBASS, BRAINDEAD, UNDER EDUCATED, SHILL. The, “mental condition,” YOU suffer from is called THICKIENESS, caused by some lame assed belief that someone wants to take away your toys. There REALLY IS no HOPE for you, sonny. You’re not even original or interesting. Yaaawwwnnnski . . . 😁
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disturbed3330 : Is THAT really the best you can do? Because I pointed out that it took time for them to consolidate their power, before the REAL killing started, you twist my words, into something that even a casual reader of this conversation can SEE is UTTER bollox. Judging by your hysterical denial, I’m guessing that something about the TRUTH really got to you, there? This is not just your shame and humiliation talking, is it? My guess is that the penny has begun to drop, and you need to blot it out of your head? You are beginning to REALISE that Trump is a MONSTER and that YOU helped create him . . . “Triggered MUCH,” would be the expression, here? But, your FEAR is palpable. Go read those books now. When you SEE that I’m right; that Trump is Stalin, without the book-learning, who killed MANY MORE than Hitler EVER did, and they were nearly ALL HIS OWN PEOPLE, no different from HIM, except that he SUSPECTED that they MAY not agree with him, what will you do THEN, I wonder? Weep into your copy of Forbes Magazine, over Denny’s face, asking, “Why, Donny, why?” What an ignorant worm, you are 😊
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I have a feeling that’s coming. They’re doing root and branch reviews of each department, shattering the traditional Tory playbook where they usually get to say, “Oh look how expensive and time consuming Labour’s plans are!” Soon, Labour will be pointing to each INDEPENDENT review outcome exposing the cravenness, callousness, waste, incompetence and corruption of the Tories, laying the, “blame,” for each mess where it belongs.
But how soon before the patterns emerge and people start connecting the dots? How soon will it become apparent that there was a systematic and organised approach to sabotaging every public service, so that private companies could get to act like, “white knights,” saving the health service, the police, schools, etc, by buying up the lot outright and privatising EVERYTHING? To me, that looks (and has always looked for the last 10 years at least) like a conspiracy!
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How long, I wonder, before people start looking at the outcomes of each of these departmental reviews and start joining the dots? To me, it has always looked like a deliberate conspiracy to drive all public services into the ground, so that industry bosses get to look like white knights, supposedly, “rescuing,” the floundering prison services, health services, policing, education, water, transport and whatever else they can lay their greedy mitts on.
Start putting the outcomes of each of these departmental reviews together and they will reveal a pattern of consistent planning, from the top, almost as if putting a city banking hedge fund manager in charge of Britains resources was a bad idea.
By electing a Labour government, we have literally just saved the country at the very cliff edge, from being broken up and sold off in packages to any foreign oligarch-investor that wants political clout in our country. And the people most culpable would have been given knighthoods and seats in the Lords, instead of going to jail where they belong!
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Absolutely. It may well come to that. How long, I wonder, before people start looking at the outcomes of each of these departmental reviews and start joining the dots? To me, it has always looked like a deliberate conspiracy, to drive all public services into the ground, so that industry bosses get to look like white knights, supposedly, “rescuing,” the floundering prison services, health services, policing, education, water, transport and whatever else they can lay their greedy hands on.
Start putting the outcomes of each of these departmental reviews together and they will reveal a pattern of consistent planning, ordered from the top, almost as if putting a city banking hedge fund manager in charge of Britains resources was a bad idea.
By electing a Labour government, we have literally just saved the country at the very brink, from being broken up and sold off in packages to any foreign oligarch-investor that wants political clout in our country. And the people most culpable would have been given knighthoods and seats in the Lords, instead of going to jail where they belong!
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Exactly right. And, if recent history has taught us anything, it is that saying, “No. Don’t do that,” has zero effect, as Obama discovered with his, “Red line,” in Syria that got crossed so resoundingly. Yet, absolutely EVERY SINGLE TIME the free world has been SERIOUS and spelled out the consequences of his actions, Putin has backed down. Without exception. Looking at this, my guess is that this is the only level of nuclear brinkmanship that his senior partners in Beijing will allow? Our response should be to tell him we’ll give Ukraine back all the nukes we persuaded them to give up in the 1990’s then. That’ll shut him up.
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This reminded me of something. I remember seeing a YouTube video made by a conspiracy theorist who wanted to convince his audience that the terror attack of 911 that claimed the Twin Towers in New York was an, “inside job,” committed by George W Bush and the CIA. He began by discussing the word, “Evidence,” and breaking down its, “definitions.” Indeed, most of the one hour, “documentary,” is spent on trying to redefine our interpretation of basic words, so as to create a tenuous foothold for an, “argument,” with no factual substance to it at all.
To put it briefly, it’s pretty impressive how much sophistry people seem to think they can get away with by putting on a smart suit and using legalistic language. But, put bollox into the logic machine of an adult brain, and you only get bollox out the other end.
So far, all I’ve heard from this barrister is bollox. Israel better hope their other lawyers have some actual, “defence,” to make, or they’re in trouble.
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T Guy : Thanks for the CONFESSION. So, you, “WISH you had a leader, like PUTIN,” eh? Says it ALL. And YOU are the one who, “doesn’t know his history,” sonny. Or, you MIGHT have remembered that the NAZIS and the RUSSIANS were ALLIES in WW II? They fell out over squabbles about LAND and POWER, dim wit! STALINISTS HAVE NO, “IDEOLOGY,” IDIOT. Treason Trump is a STALINIST. Putin is a STALINIST. Geddit YET??? . . . SMH
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Tushar Sharma : Forgive me, too, but you’re SO wrong. Because, people are fighting for their democracy, against an OBVIOUS Dictator, does not make them vulnerable to ideologies of the, “extreme Left”??? I am Conservative. An EX-MEMBER of the Republican Party. And I can SEE that, “our institutions,” are being DISMANTLED. If Russia interferes with our Polling Computers at the Mid Terms, that will lead to Court battles, over the legitimacy of Congressional Appointments; and WHO will get to DECIDE those matters? That’s right! The SCOTUS! So, if Treason Trump has already RIGGED the SCOTUS, what CHANCE does DEMOCRACY STAND?
Your, “faith,” is either misplaced, or you’re shilling for Putin? WHY the LEAP to calling ALL Trump opponents, “Extreme Left”??? Are ACTUALLY SAYING that to oppose Trump, you HAVE TO BE from the, “left”? If so, you are LYING
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No it’s not. Any sign of real trouble will just force the Trump team to move up their plans to complete the coup. You guys are all just moving the deckchairs around on the deck of the Titanic, narrating the end of your democracy, instead of DOING a damned thing about it.
Every episode of your show should open and close with the times places and web addresses of meetings, organisations, protests, marches, demonstrations, boycotts and organised activities to restore the rule of law. You should be calling every man, woman and child to fill up every major city square and bring US commercial activity to a halt until the regime is forced to acquiesce.
“So, if you want to improve your focus,” DON’T RELAX! Your 250 year old democracy is dying, and you’re doing NOTHING about it!
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Livin Legin : Who was that? Malcolm in the Middle? X was a pacifist at the end. But, I don’t expect communities to behave, “lawfully,” until their, “leaders,” start doing that. Murdering a guy, and letting all four suspects walk, was proof that there was no law. When all four of them are locked up, and they apologise for making us wait so long, maybe then, I’ll believe there’s a reason for the community to stop swinging? But, when there is NO LAW, why should the community be, “lawful”???
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Rienk Kroese : It told me that it was, 1) people who use computers to clone messages, opinions, etc; 2) people who simply copy and paste their opinions, rather than thinking for themselves; 3) people who are basically “copy cats” and write comments that are simply inspired by what they’ve just read.
I’m paraphrasing, here. So, I’m inferring that what is being said, here, is that, . . . well I don’t really know? As Cleo was not responding to another comment, I can only guess that they mean CNN is cloning its news? Why not just tell me? Do you KNOW what they’re trying to say? What have I missed?
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I respect Andrew Marr and own a copy of his book My Trade. But this is a highly out of touch, white washing, in which he solicits the views of someone else who was not right for his job. Just because, “it isn’t at all unusual,” doesn’t make it right. People are SICK of hearing, “Oh, but there’s no harm in it, we’ve always kept it an old boys club. You wouldn’t get i, being a pleb, but if you were entitled like us, you would agree.” Sorry but, f*ck you, Marr.
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What’s surprising is that trump is still a free man, because America isn’t choking the streets of Washington in a LAWFUL Counter Protest! Why are YOU not out there, so that Chuck & Nancy can point out the window and say, “There’s your mandate!”? Why is America NOT supporting the Republic, right now?! Are YOU inundating the GOP’s emails, phone lines, letter in boxes, texts boxes, etc? Why are WE, THE PEOPLE, not DEMANDING trump’s removal??? That’s what is NEEDED right now! The PUSH! Make them afraid NOT to remove trump, by whatever means necessary, for the sake of National Security! ✌️👍
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When the last boot is ejected from the last inch of Crimea, Ukraine will need some kind of assurance (more concrete than a worthless piece of paper signed by a known habitual liar) that they will not see their civilian men, women and CHILDREN continually showered with cowardly bombs from miles away. Therefore they will need long range missiles systems like the ones the British have just donated, to remove any threats inside Russian territory before they can be used. The more sabotage and fear that can be spread from within Russia, therefore, the fewer missiles will be needed to launch from Ukraine into Russia.
Winston Churchill told his special forces, working behind enemy lines, to, “Set Europe alight!” And they did exactly that. It is believed that the contribution of the resistance forces of various nations, working alongside the special divisions dropped into Europe, shortened the war by at least a year. Some military historians will point to particular operations, siting examples of how they turned the tide completely, such as the destruction of the Telemark Heavy Water plant, preventing the Germans from building first nuclear bombs, etc.
Ukraine has been riddled with Putin Puppets since the fall of his puppet regime in 2014, and leaders have struggled against their corruption and collaboration ever since, rooting them out, one at a time. But the type of sabotage and bombing campaigns that we see occurring inside Russia, derailing trains, blowing up oil refineries, etc, are far more traditional, along the World War Two lines. And that’s a good thing.
Ukraine must always reserve the right to take out legitimate targets inside Russia. And anyone who dares to call that an, “escalation,” has not been paying attention.
Thank you for your rich insights and thoughts, Anna.
Slava Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇬🇧✌️
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Sheesh! . . . The GOP are embarrassing . . . Trump’s Nanny State, “over reaching,” with sweeping laws? Not quite the, “small government conservatism,” they lay claim to? The GOP trying to stir up hate, anger, outrage and DIVISION, when there are so many issues that really NEED government attention. If it wasn’t for, “outrage,” and, “division,” would the GOP have ANYTHING? . . . Other than their fascism? . . . Seriously? 🤷♂️
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@geraldmeehan8942 : The current president can legally declassify anything and put it into the public domain or release it to specific interested parties, if he so chooses. The court would have no say in the matter, with it being a Constitutional entitlement of the office, and no legal procedure exists to let or hinder such a decision. Trump declassified stuff when he was in office, to help Putin, the Israelis and various other parties at different times. It happens under most administrations. Therein lays the solution, if you ask me? I imagine he would be reluctant, because he’s tried to keep all the partisan stuff at arms length. But, if the legal process looks to drag on, he may well be persuaded, in the interests of National Security? . . . Just a thought.
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yusef hasan : Donny still sits on the throne, I see? America is maintaining its denial, that it can remain a Republic, after this RIGGED, “Trial,” lets its Dictator walk free from confessed and proven crimes, SPECIFICALLY identified in the Constitution as Impeachable. My advice to Americans is, either learn to love and accept your Royal Orange Family, or DO SOMETHING, like the Ukrainians did, a decade ago, in freezing conditions and without ANY WEAPONS and REMOVE this Dictator, kicking and screaming, from his throne. Just, do me a favour? PLEASE? For the LOVE OF GOD!!! Would ya’ll STOP PRETENDING that they will ALLOW you to, “Vote,” them out, when the WHOLE Trump Family and HALF OF THE GOP will GO TO JAIL if Trump loses his Protected Presidential Status?!?!? If they are LITERALLY SHOWING YOU that they’ll RIG the Trial, hen they KNOW THEY TOO will be politically and at least HALF of them, LEGALLY, RUINED, WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THEY’LL ALLOW, “NOT RIGGED,” Elections??? It’s come down to, Trump walks = END of the Republic. Trump survives = END of the Trump’s and the GOP. WHICH DO YOU THINK THEY’LL CHOOSE??? . . . SMH
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The FU Crew Channel : Jesus, kid? . . . I made a general comment about Fox, “news.” That has to be one of the most defensive, emotionally insecure, outbursts of passive aggression, I’ve encountered in while. How do you get through the day, taking everything as a personal putdown, like that? I really don’t care about Flynn’s personal motives, unless he’s trying to wriggle out of paying for his betrayal of America. He’s already confessed and had the evidence linked to his confessions, so maybe he’s just learning that he’s still got to serve time, despite his, no doubt, “voluntary,” helping of the FBI? Who cares? I’m just stunned at how this channel twists the facts, designs its own narratives and omits so much actual news. No wonder the Trolls on real news channels are permanently startled, when things don’t go the way Fox told them they would. No wonder they’re enraged the whole time. Not everything is about you, son . . .
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Mark G. : Trump, his family, Bill Barr, and most of the Cabinet, ALL KNOW they’re going to jail. And, that’s WHY Barr is expanding his Secret Police units, all over America, selecting pro-trumpers from a police that’s as Divided as the rest of America. Knowing they’re going to jail means the only question is which combination of cheats, “pretexts,” and excuses will the GOP use to DENY America, ANY ELECTIONS. You should be getting illegal, unconstitutional Secret Police SS units OUTLAWED. LIKE, NOW!
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Rainydaygirl57 : He is OBVIOUSLY a BRILLIANT journalist. They don’t give Pulitzers to just anyone, you know? I mean, just WHICH of the above criticisms were, “true”? I just saw a bunch of, “Butt Hurt,” LIES about MSNBC, his parents, his abilities, his career, etc . . . You realise that Trolls LIE all the time, right?
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I can’t understand what people even mean by the term, “fan service,” in a negative context? You’re watching a f*cking sequel people! What are they supposed to do? Make it feature Scooby Doo characters? People have come to see more of what they liked, so you expect, “service,” for the, “fans,” to include as much from the previous movies as possible! I mean, I get when it’s done in a clunky way, only inserted for the sake of recognition, without proper context or meaning to the narrative, but that’s just bad story telling. Fan service is like, “virtue signalling.” A dumb term that makes less sense the more you scrutinise it.
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Camp David : We need Mueller’s team, lined up in front of live TV, Congressional Hearings, presenting their evidence; subpoenas for the Manaforts, the Cohens, the Flynns of this story; the Stormy’s and and the others who are keen to tell their stories; and the ones we don’t yet know, who will become household names, when they tell us all about the Russian NRA Money Laundering schemes and the continued hacking of Florida’s Election Tech, along with others, no doubt. ALL OF IT, IN THE OPEN, so the GOP DENIAL ENDS, and they’re in a a position where they either get indicted for Obstruction of Justice, or they Impeach the Orange Orifice. America NEEDS the TRUTH, so it can heal, and we can go back to having around 10 or 15 % of the population as racists, nut jobs, or religious bigot die hards, who still support Trump, while the rest of us CLEAN UP POLITICS, so another Trump can NEVER happen again
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Mike Retzer : Seriously, dude, your problem is that you WANT to believe that we ALL get ALL our info from MSM, without, for instance, looking at the court records for ourselves, and SEEING that the Trump Foundation ROUTINELY STOLE MONEY from little, needy, defenceless CHILDREN and US VETERANS. The PUBLIC RECORD condemns the Trumps. You’re projecting your weaknesses onto Trump’s opponents, without realising that we KNOW the TRUTH and YOU ARE IN DENIAL. Stick with Alex “Q-anal” Jones, if that’s what you NEED to believe. But, your ASSumptions are as LAME as thinking we’re ALL, “Liberals,” because you would rather not believe that America is UNITED against Crooked Trump . . . SMH
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I am curious to know what makes these journalists assume that Farage will not still go to America for the trump campaign in the Autumn, just because he’s standing here? If he loses, he’ll take his, “deep state conspiracy,” narrative to spew at trump crowds. If he wins, he’ll just go anyway, and milk his privileges for the payout from the trump campaign, trading on his, “authority,” from Parliament. Either way, he’ll still gets paid. What? They don’t think he’s planning to do his JOB as an MP do they?
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@raewoofie3298 : Tell me, trump troll? Honestly? Did you not realise, at any point, while you were writing all of that long, long howl at the moon whinery, that YOU are NOT, “special,” more, “entitled,” or as, “elite,” as you, ahem . . . “think,” you are? Do you ever wake up nights and think, “It is just astonishing, how big a Karen I am!”? Did you honestly, “believe,” that ONE, SINGLE Normal would make the IMMORAL decision to waste their precious TIME on a Karen’s, “whah whah whah!” just because it’s you? Not ONE Normal wasted their time with that, Karen . . . Trump trolls need to get over themselves 🙄 and get over Donny 🤷♂️ he LOST! 🤦♂️ . . . 🤣 😆 😂 🤣 😆 🤣
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@fauxque5057 : I’m sorry but you’re very wrong. Only one so called, “government,” caused this war. Not the, “two,” that you claim. The fact that you feel able to slide that exceptional deception under the rhetorical table is disingenuous at best; downright suspicious if you ask me.
I too would evacuate my family. But I would not desert my friends, neighbours and other extended family; the old and infirm who cannot or will not leave, those remaining in hospitals, pensioner homes and other places that have not yet been evacuated; even the very stubborn who simply refuse to leave their own homes just because some dick in a foreign land decided he wants it. Some of those people have families who have no choice but to remain at their parents’ or grandparents’ side. And that’s without going into the myriad complex reasons for why people do not or cannot leave their homes, invasion or not! I would NOT desert those people, leaving them to be robbed, tied, beaten, tortured, raped, murdered and then bulldozed into a grave that is as indiscriminate as the medieval mentality that lead to them being dumped there in a giant Z for Zombie hoard!
But that’s just me. You have the right to flee, and all the reward that goes with that. I have the right to stay and defend my homeland, having lived long and fully enough to know by now, there are things in life that are far worse than dying. And having a mind so warped that you could entertain the notion that there is ANY, “comparison,” between what Ukraine is fighting for and what Putin is attempting to steal, is definitely one of them.
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My beef with Nvidia, and all video card manufacturers generally, is the conspiracy they’re running that has held back the quality of video games, DELIBERATELY!
They make it so you get all these extra details in your image rendering that console manufacturers HAVE TO be able to run in their games, or they just won’t work. But, by giving us lighting effects, dust particles in the air, DLSS, ray tracing, and so on, they deliberately prevent games from developing better architecture, bigger adventures, faster running games, so there can be NO COMPETITION from new developers! . . .
We have to stick to playing games that are artificially arrested; that have never truly progressed, which could have been SO MUCH BETTER. Instead, we get lighting and detail effects, which is nice, but it’s all INSTEAD of the REAL developments that would give us groundbreaking games, like we used to get in the 1990’s and 2000’s.
Remember the big jumps in graphics and what games were capable of offering back then? Remember the big jumps between consoles? The last change we had, from Xbox One and PS4 to Xbox X and PS5 has been a giant nothing burger and console sales reflect that. Only 50% of Sony’s market have transitioned from PS4 to PS5 world wide, because, “Why bother?” These consoles are expensive and there’s no great leap between generations anyway! They still make all of their newest games playable on the old systems anyway! Sooner or later.
It’s strange to me that no one seems to be making videos on YouTube about THIS! Actually there are a few, but VERY few. But Nvidia can afford to spread cash around and, “lobby,” the leading gamer writers and video creators, right?
YOUR GAMES are TRAPPED in this artificial bubble, where they’re preventing you from getting truly great games! And it’s all because Nvidia and their nearest competitors are all happy to hold back development to corner and monopolise the market.
Yet, I think it’s only a question of time before a company that has the reach of a strong enough publisher and the ability to develop their own game engine will declare war on the monopoly and break the rules by releasing a super-great game with all the whistles and bells that this generation of consoles told us we’d be getting from the outset. And then there will be blood on the carpet of the Wall Street board rooms, as that game sweeps all the awards and sells by the millions world wide. And once someone proves it can be done, without relying on Nvidia tech, all bets are off.
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Well put. Totally agree. Please write to your representatives and demand that NATO gives the formal invitation to join NATO today! Keep in mind that the process can still take as long as NATO wants after the invitation is proffered, but it gives the unequivocal and unambiguous signal that NATO is committed to Ukraine WINNING this war! That’s the one message that the west has stopped short of, “because escalation,” blah, friggin’ blah. Putin has ALWAYS backed off when faced with a GENUINE red line. Every single time!
Just look at the Wagner Mutiny? Putin fled Moscow for St Petersburg! Even though the Wagnazis didn’t even reach the outskirts of the city! Prigozhin is ignoring his exile, swanning about Russia, free as a bird, while Wagner STILL refuses to carry out Putin’s direct orders and join the regular armed forces! He’s not even IN, “control,” of Russia!
We should NOT fear a deliberate nuclear attack, but we SHOULD fear the possibility of nuclear ACCIDENTS, which Russia has a legendary record for! As the chaos continues, the chances of that go up. Western intervention is necessary for peace, yet NATO has just told Putin that he might still find a way to get a, “draw,” out of this. NATO has just prolonged the war!
Please? If you care about world peace, the future of Europe, or the plight of Ukraine, just drop a line to your representative and DEMAND action! Let them know it is an election issue. Save Ukraine and we save the world . . . at least, we save it from one of the three biggest threats, (China and the Middle East remaining as troubling as ever, but not actively making war on Europeans!) and saving Ukraine could potentially neutralise Russia as a threat to the world, possibly forever?
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And all of that outpouring has precisely, “What?” to do with defecting Russian spies and the validity of their asylum claims? . . . If you are genuinely, “offended,” if someone wishes you well in their most sincere way, due to an implied belief system (about which you remain wholly ignorant) behind it, are you capable of even noticing that this is your own emotional issue which has no bearing on anyone but you? And, therefore, to hijack the issue, whilst listing your imagined grievances in a lengthy diatribe tells the reader nothing edifying beyond the already apparent; namely, that you are upset and only want to talk about your own indignation, rather than stay on topic.
There are forums where you can discuss your beliefs all day long, without having to spill out your pain for all to see before a disinterested planet and an indifferent universe . . . 🙄
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Upper Echelon Gamers : Please STOP using the words, “Democrats,” and, “Snowflakes,” in the SAME or adjacent sentences? Trump is the one who sparked this debate, siting Video Games and Mental Illness As associated causes of gun violence. As a Conservative, myself, I am growing distrustful of the apparent prejudice you seem to feel, seeing ALL SJW’s as being, “left wing.” That is simply NOT the case. Just be a little more EVEN HANDED, please?
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The Prime Minister needs to remove the current Chair of the BBC and appoint a new, unbiased one, with actual journalistic or editorial experience and NO history of being a major donor to any party.
I have no problem with the BBC honouring their contract with Edwards up to the point where he was proved to be guilty of a crime. And, assuming that he gave assurances that he intended to prove his innocence. I don’t know if that was the case, but I would hope it was. The nature of the contract itself, whether they were paying him too much, is another issue. But, if they had been assured of his innocence, they should sue for those wages paid from the point of the arrest, on the basis that he lied to them. That should be cut and dried . . . ?
I stand with you on the notion of censorship. Rolf Harris, much like Jimmy Saville, did public information films about being safe in the water (chillingly, surrounded by children in swimwear) but I don’t intend to drown myself or my offspring due to the revelations about the man.
The current state of the BBC reflects the broader problem of OFCOM being a bunch of Tory pals in an organisation with no teeth even if they did decide to do their jobs. We should be hearing from them on EVERY SINGLE issue that involves moral dilemmas and where thoughtful guidance is needed. That organisation is completely meaningless as it is and THAT is the problem.
We NEED a centralised independent overseer of all media in this country, with subpoena powers and the powers to make firm recommendations that will be followed. AND they should have the power to make referrals to the Crown Prosecution Service! We need an organisation with teeth, staffed with believers who understand how important these issues are to democracy and the democratic process as a whole.
As it is, the BBC does not represent the nation, or the nation’s interests. And, as you touch on, this act of censorship looks more like a personal act of censureship, in a lame attempt to, “punish,” a man who hurt their feelings.
And what of all the other artists, writers, technicians and producers who made that episode of Dr Who, who are now to be punished along with Huw Edwards? Why should they be flogged along with the guilty and innocent alike? It makes no sense. Especially since people will already have their box sets, which will now have a, “special,” collector’s value. You can’t block ANYTHING in the internet age. But you can act out of hubris and make more money for those willing to exploit your hubristic foolishness.
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Cakkuu : Stream of consciousness, huh? That’s ok. And, if you keep reasserting your individuality, so as not to be labelled as, “one of those,” whatever’s, you still risk being labelled as, “one of those libertarians,” or something. The trick is not to think about it at all. Not easy, I know. But, if you’re worrying about the perceptions of others at all, you’re giving away your power, giving them the power to label you at all. I’m old enough not to care about such things. It’s way harder when you’re young and such perceptions can effect everything from your career path to your love life. But, if experience has taught me anything, it’s that worrying about it made no difference whatsoever. The only mistakes I ever made (that mattered, looking back on them) were the ones where I changed my behaviour to suit the perceptions of others. Mostly because it never works anyway, but also because your perception of their perception is a messed up circular thought pattern that seldom gives the right answer. Lighten your load, you do you, and the surprising thing is, you wind up more popular, trusted and liked, because you now come off as more relaxed, comfortable in your own skin, and authentic . . . For what it’s worth ✌️👍
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I saw Lord Haw Haw, otherwise known as Jacob Reese Mogg, being challenged on his own channel, by a guest interviewee, trying to explain why what the Tories are doing is both immoral and illegal. He used vivid analogies of, “Dickensian,” dystopias, evoking images of, “prison hulks,” and, “convict transportation,” and then explained that none of this legislation fits in line with international law. He said that Putin is even using our flouting of international law for his propaganda purposes, with a legitimate case! When evil pr*cks like Vladimir Putin can take the moral high ground over our politicians, you KNOW you have to REMOVE the ruling party.
Lord Snot quickly killed the interview in mid sentence and it was priceless viewing. I thought it was just a clickbait title but checked it out anyway. I was rewarded with a genuine, “car crash interview,” in which the interviewer had, once again, assumed he was preaching to the choir, only to discover his guest has a brain which works. Vote, vote, VOTE!
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Maje Brennan : Here’s the answer I give, as the answer is pretty simple, even if the details are complex: The GOP abandoned politics, in favor of a power grab. They surprised themselves, with how they could get away with outrageous antics, under Obama, like blocking his picks for the Supreme Court, etc, and how much their fans, er . . . I mean, “electorate,” loved it. So, they went along with the Putin backed plan of having a figurehead who is not even a politician, but who is greedy, racist, mailable and, above all, stupid. And, it worked . . . Thus far . . . Watch this space . . .
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Myles Platt : OK, I read your whole response, this time. And, you did it again, son. You’re looking to play the, “victim,” where there is NOTHING going on. WHO TF even SAID ANYTHING about, “free speech”??? I have no problem with any and ALL of the bigots at Fox, saying what they like. In fact, genuinely HOPE there’s a deluge of recordings of ALL of them, and we can all get to hear what they REALLY, “think.” I would LOVE it, if these goons had the BALLS to, “own it,” live on Fox, today; which was the WHOLE POINT of Cuomo’s monologue. You really weren’t paying attention, son. We WANT them to speak up. We WANT them to be, “honest,” about their HATE, prejudice, and their Anti-American, “values.” But, you want to keep making up, “victim,” narratives, because you’re riddled with insecurity. THAT is what’s known as a, “Guilt Complex.” It comes from knowing you’re on the wrong side, so you DESPERATELY search for justifications. And, when you find NONE, you make them up. And, no doubt, Fox helps you out with that . . . Jesus, kid. “Own it.” . . . Smh
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Myles Platt : You told Kamolego, “you can’t possibly attribute motives to my position.” Oh, contraire, mon petit Troll. There are only three categories of you people, of which any can be a combination or one of: 1) The paid Troll; many Americans, but also people all over the planet, with multiple accounts, to make it look like there’s more of them. 2) The Racist, who just doesn’t CARE about selling America to the highest bidders, so long as America keeps stepping backward, towards the 1860’s. 3) The Terminally Ashamed (This is the one I favor for you) who just can’t admit how WRONG they were about Trump. Probably said and done things you can’t take back, right? Donated money to Trump’s GoFundMe, for his wall? Went to a Rally, and his picture got in the local press? Something. There are NO exceptions to these categories. Honestly, son? Which are you?
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Myles Platt : Another comment of yours, I read the first few lines. Just had to stop, at the first, REALLY BIG, ERROR. READ your Bible, son? It NEVER says, “thou shalt not kill.” Not ANYWHERE. Jesus HELPED Roman Soldiers. God DIRECTED WARS. It says, “Thou shalt do NO MURDER.” Huge difference. Our Military are NOT murderers, son! If it’s FAITH you’re looking for, GET IT RIGHT, or you’re building your house on sand . . . Come on? Do better? . . .
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Mike Polakowski : You may not have had this explained to you, at your branch of the Trump University KKK Division, but, A) when you’re Trolling, you are supposed to be upsetting people, NOT BEING all, “Butt Hurt,” and, B) you’re supposed to keep it brief. Trolls must never flatter themselves into, “thinking,” that NORMAL folks will arsed to read read through such lengthy gibberings of emotional, effeminate, “Butt,” Harmed, “Poor me,” victim-bitch-whining. Do you WANT to get sent back to St Petersburg? Just sayin’ 🙂
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Mike Polakowski : Better, but still WAY TOO LONG. Give it one more go, as I’m not reading all THAT. Try to some up your race hate, “Poor Me,” victimy, Trumpian Tears, into two or three, “Butt,” Harmed sentences? Then I’ll read it, laugh at you, and people will see what a Racist, Ignorant, D**K you are, without having to trawl through all your tears, OK? 🙂
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@jim : If you think I got all my information from one YouTube video, then you’re dumber than you sound, son. Did you know that Ukraine produces more than HALF of the ENTIRE WORLD’S supply of Argon? Ask yourself what Argon is used for manufacturing? And then ask yourself what there is another world wide shortage of?
As to the gas and oil reserves, we only know that Shell, Exxon and BP were willing to pay Zelensky’s government to develop the sights and where they were found. The Crimea, offshore. Then the Donbas region. Ringin’ any bells yet? Now in the west, where Putin can’t reach. Open up a map, and watch his forces attempting to get to the Carpathian Mountains, son? You can predict their root each day (when they move at all, that is) so stick to what you know. Not what you, “want,” to be true. Just what is.
I’m not saying it’s a good or bad thing. All I’m saying is the west has never given up control over, “energy security,” since it became a thing. And they’re not making an exception for Putin. The sooner he gets that into his greedy Bond Villain head, the better off we’ll all be. Wake up!
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P J : No. That REALLY ISN’T TRUE. LISTEN to those kids from Parkland: They DON’T WANT to, “take your guns.” They WANT SENSIBLE CONTROLS. We all KNOW that it will be IMPOSSIBLE to stop Americans from owning guns. And there is NOTHING, “morally wrong,” with LIKING guns, and just wanting to own them, because they’re COOL. If we could ALL be a little more HONEST about this debate, we would make some PROGRESS. Take the, “morality,” arguments out, and you’re left with PRACTICAL ISSUES. The COPS get the BEST guns, PERIOD. Carrying semi automatics, etc, ON THE STREET should be ILLEGAL. WHY do people object to THAT?
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Orangutan : Yes I am. And further more, I LIKE my gun and think guns are pretty COOL. There’s a bit of HONESTY for you. People won’t ADMIT that they just LOVE their guns, ‘coz they’re COOL. And people are STUPID when they JUDGE others, morally, for liking them. So, NO PROGRESS is EVER MADE. That guy was right, that you CAN (in theory) do JUST AS MUCH HARM with a PISTOL as that which happened at Parkland. But, what he’s NOT talking about, is the FACT that the COPS were NOT PREPARED TO COMMIT SUICIDE, by taking him on with their HOPELESSLY INADEQUATE fire power. Seems like a pretty OBVIOUS SOLUTION is at hand, but the Russian funded NRA won’t listen, because Putin LIKES the CHAOS. Smh . . .
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Bo Soerjadi : By your logic, the arms race, between the government and its citizens, would not end until BOTH sides had NUKES. That is wilful misreading of the 2nd Amendment, which was written to protect the independence of STATES against FEDERAL oppression. It NO LONGER WORKD THAT WAY. NO modern society can survive unless its government has the MONOPOLY on physical force, and the MANDATE of its people to take RESPONSIBILITY for PROTECTING ITS CITIZENS. The 2nd Amendment was NEVER intended for literally MILLIONS of individuals, ALL with their OWN agendas and motives, NO MATTER HOW CRAZY OR IRRESPONSIBLE to be able to OUTMATCH LAW ENFORCEMENT. THAT would END CIVILISATION. Yet it is the ONLY POSSIBLE, LOGICAL OUTCOME. THAT is WHY we TRAIN and PAY COPS, who risk their VERY LIVES FOR US. Yet YOU want to take from them the ONE ADVANTAGE that would reduce that risk, by re-writing the Constitution until it comes out saying what YOU WANT? And, in return, what do you get? The right to walk through a shopping mall with a ROCKET LAUNCHER, while citizens flee before you in all directions? Does that thought give you an erection? SMH . . .
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Orangutan : Even though they have TOTAL freedom, in places like Britain, and Europe, in countries where guns are illegal? You obviously have a VERY low opinion of America. Guns, themselves, don’t need their, “civil rights,” to be protected, but I’m pretty sure, that’s just a grammatical error? But, WHY would I throw away MY stuff, when I have NOTHING to do with THAT bunch of QUISLINGS? That makes NO SENSE? That’s like saying you should burn down your house, because you don’t wanna’ join Trump’s Housing association? The NRA are NOT GODS, you know? Your gun will NOT cease to exist, if and when THEY DO. It’s the OTHER WAY AROUND. THINK, for a moment, BEFORE you write?
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Orangutan : I moved here from England, in 2006, and have duel citizenship. As an Englishman, I can tell you, THAT’S TOTAL BOLLOX. You either LIED flat, or you have been taken in by the Fox HYSTERIA. Western Europe is the FREEST PLACE ON EARTH, where you DON’T have to worry about some NUT JOB pulling a GUN on you, for expressing your opinions. Now I KNOW you’re FULL OF S**T, as does ANY European, reading your words. Any “credibility” you may have had, is GONE, because of THAT Hannity-Alex-Jones-Brett-Bart-esque, STUPID REMARK
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Jacqueline Monaco : Trump doesn’t give a fig for, “American Arms Deals,” though? Trump’s Globalism is focussed on his EIGHT Businesses, he has in Saudi Arabia. He just bigs up the, “arms deal,” stuff, which, when examined, turns out to (guess what?) be a pack of LIES. But, you don’t have to jump down the guys throat, for having an opinion? No need to go all, “Trump Troll”???
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Harper Valley : I’m GENUINELY curious, son? Are YOU capable of, “debate,” WITHOUT getting all, “Butt Hurt,” angry and insulting? I ask, because I REALLY want to know? Do YOU, “think,” that NOT being racist, is what MAKES people, “liberals”? If so, there are a LOT of liberals in the GOP (though not so many as they claim) and I wonder IF you have made the CONNECTION yet? That is, the connection between the 25% DROP in Republican Party MEMBERSHIP and the apparent, “rise,” in Trump’s approval WITHIN the Party? You REALISE, I hope, that people leaving the party are MOSTLY YOUNG (40 or under) and that the REASON they are SAYING they’re leaving, is because they are NOT on board, with the RACISM. Look it up? Don’t take MY WORD for it? As I, truthfully, want to know? What do you have to say to THAT?
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The Devil Room : WOW! Did someone just SAY, OUT LOUD, that, “power has nothing to do with racism”??? See, son, THIS is WHY 25% of Republicans have LEFT THE PARTY, since Trump took office. They are NOT racists, they abhor the IGNORANCE in the GOP about racism, and they find the Propagandists, willing to say ANYTHING about RACISM, sinister and revolting, kid. You have a LOT to learn, before YOU will be accepted by the other Trolls, sonny . . . SMH . . . 😆
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Mr Bigs : Given that, “racism,” is DEPENDENT upon, “power,” it is, “possible,” for black people to be racist, but NOT in America. So, I take your point, but felt it was worth clarifying, before one of these racists starts bringing up IRRELEVANT, “examples,” from African history 👍
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You see the difference, between him and the other world leaders, right? They have, “control,” and their GOVERNMENTS are coordinating everything, from medical care, safety protocols, business, policing, research, testing and military and infrastructural support. Trump doesn’t HAVE a, “government,” anymore, and has ZERO control over anything, because they’re ALL privately run BUSINESSES. From healthcare to the military, there’s some lobbyist and a powerful owner who wants to get PAID! They’ve done the math: one, maybe two . . . MILLION . . . DEAD! . . . That’s fine. They just want the MONEY! So, Trump’s in this INSANE paradox, where he’s using his web goons to pass on the message, for his Cult followers to go out and, “protest,” against HIS F*CKING POLICIES!
America PLC is a BUSINESS, and if it’s not making MONEY, there’s no reason for it to exist! And Trump knows that
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I read some excerpts from this, (soon to be pulped, or bought up in bulk by her mates) “memoir.” These are NOT the Alan Clarke or Tony Ben diaries, are they? Not actually interesting, insightful, funny, witty, or revealing anything about the machinations of Westminster that we didn’t already know, or hadn’t guessed at.
Let’s face it? You KNOW as soon as any scene is set up, exactly how it’s going to play out, in the same way that you know how an adolescent’s self justifications are going to play out, when they air their unedifying grievances on Twitter about some group of, “Mean Girls,” they recently fell out with over a boyfriend!
In terms of fabulation, she has more in common with Geoffrey Archer. And that utterly disingenuous pretence that she’s quoting from her diaries, as written at the time, when everyone and their pet knows that she’s making it all up after the fact, to fit a 20/20 hindsight, that somehow still manages to be factually skewed, simply because her book is NOT a great, “revelation,” at all. It is the squalling of an angry toddler, who, “took her bat and ball home,” when she was refused her gong (the one decision of Sunak’s that I can get behind) and who will do anything to stay in the limelight to which she has become so addicted.
Just one more shrill screech of attention seeking and sour grapes from an intellectual midget who has had far too much attention already. It’s way past her bedtime and I dearly wish someone would just put her out of our misery.
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Emperor Kim Jong-un : You sound pretty upset, for someone who, “believes,” their own line of bullshit? Tell us that there will be no sun tomorrow if you like, and hurl epithets, like an upset nine year old. The sun will still rise, and you will still feel the, “emotional,” effeminate, victim-complex, driven, “need,” to bleat your lies, because you just can’t admit how wrong you were. Gave real money to the Wall Fund, did you? Attended rallies and shouted like a prick, for all your friends and family to see? No wonder all you Trumpophiles are so ashamed of yourselves. You have nothing but denial to live with, in your empty, hollow, hate filled life. Anyway? I thought the Trolls were supposed to go around, “upsetting,” the Normals? Kinda’ backfired on you, didn’t it? 😁
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jamie Allen1977 : I think you'll find that it was France, who was our, ahem, "fucking best friend," who actually won the final battle of that war for us. I am a political historian and YOU, sir, are embarrassing yourself. We bought Alaska? What does THAT demonstrate? THEY WANT TO DESTROY DEMOCRACY, cretin. As I type this, Russia is handing over weapons to Iran, who pass those weapons on to Syria, Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries, EXPRESSLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF KILLING AMERICAN MILITARY PERSONNEL. "Our friends"? JeeeeeSUS! PROPAGANDA
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Veselin Rainov : . . . Which ALL FAILS to see the OBVIOUS. Hillary was SO unpopular, that she couldn’t even beat Trump. Think about THAT? Most Dems DON’T like Hillary, and DEFINITELY don’t expect, or WANT her to run ever again. Your, “Whaddaboutism,” has created, in Trolly, “minds,” an ILLUSION, based upon an ASSumption, because YOU keep, OBSESSIVELY, talking about her. You couldn’t BE more WRONG, if you tried? Consider WHY there has just been a Blue Wave? You’re MISSING your target and CREATING ENEMIES, because people KNOW that Whaddaboutism is just a LAME way to TRY to change the subject, when you have LOST the argument. It simply DOES NOT follow, that being AGAINST Trump, makes you FOR ANYTHING. Until you goons even start TRYING to comprehend the FACTS, STARING YOU IN THE FACE, your situation will only get MORE HOPELESS. Take it or leave it? WE DON’T CARE! 🤣
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Veselin Rainov : And, YES: I grant you that Obama happens to be one of the most popular POTUS’s in history. I also grant you that he did some things that were morally questionable, and SOME things that were downright WRONG! Like ALL presidents have done . . . INCLUDING Washington and Lincoln! But, when you guys say SUCH LAME s**t, which fails to acknowledge that he DID SAVE the economy, from the Republican Basket Case, which swept him into Office in the FIRST PLACE; OR, when you start to equate, “respect,” for Obama with a, “love,” of Hillary: the LEAST popular candidate in Democrat HISTORY??? . . . THAT’S when we SEE your BLIND DESPERATION! That’s when you REVEAL that you have NOTHING! Ask ANY Democrat, if they WANT Hillary to run for office again? I DARE you! You MAY get 1 in 10, or 20! WAKE UP, PUTIN! It’s OVER! 😁
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@No-One-of-Consequence : I sure did enjoy it, thanks. And yes, I remember The Princess Bride very fondly. Peter Falk was the hook that made me stick around, but the rest of the movie was both a revelation and a joy to me. Yeah, I get it now.
They say, “You should never meet your heroes,” but in your case, it seems to have worked out pretty well for you. That too gladdens my heart.
I have to say, my memories of the Batman TV show are vague now, at best. But I loved Adam West’s portrayal, played for laughs and eye rolls. I recall a story he told about a particular scene, when the show launched, in a club or restaurant, I think? He had to say the line (something to the effect of) “I’ll just take a seat at the table over here. I don’t want to be conspicuous.” He is in his full Batman costume, in a place where everyone else is dressed, “normally.” He said he always knew, from his first reading of the script, if a line like that got a laugh, “then people get it,” and the show would be a success.
Fortunately, they got it, and they had a hit on their hands.
Now I’m just thinking about Batgirl and that costume. Oh boy. She was stunning, wasn’t she.
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It is the same solution that Brad Pitt’s character comes to in Ad Astra. In a world without God, or in which God and meaning is unknowable, our only real meaning is in the connections we make. The buttoned down astronaut, who has spent his life suppressing his emotions (and his accessibility) due to the childhood trauma of abandonment, and then due to his profession; being paid to be supercool and super smart in any crisis as the best astronauts are, has emotional issues to deal with. And his whole Odyssey into deeper and deeper isolation, as he gets further and further away from Earth, until he finally gets to Neptune, his father, a metaphor for God and all the answers he was seeking, ultimately leads him to an appreciation of the things he left behind.
Zagreus is slowly building a community, learning to love his home, and to appreciate it as his, “home,” because of the bonds he makes, each time he escapes. Presumably, (I haven’t played the game yet, but heard a review that intrigued me into buying it, about its, “deepness”) the hero will come to a similar realisation? That he chooses not to leave at all, yet defeats his father, because he has overcome his, “imprisonment,” having made Hades his home, on his own terms?
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@reggiejohnson3391 : What makes you think I’m, “not aware,” of them? Why is it, “sinister,” to make money? I thought that was how Capitalism works? Some people make a, “ton,” of money out of every industry. Does getting rich make you, “wrong,” or, “evil?” I own guns. I’m not, “evil,” (at least, I don’t think I am?) and my guns are not, “evil,” nor is the money I used to pay for them. Don’t get me wrong. Gun lobbyists should never be allowed to set foot in the city of Washington, let alone the White House, and it should be a crime for gun manufacturers to lobby any politicians. I feel that certain industries should be banned from lobbying, for moral reasons, including the health and drug industries. But, I just don’t buy that weapons manufacturers should not make fat profits either? Or that doing so makes them evil. People make Nukes for money, but we hope none will ever be fired in anger. If there was universal peace, people would still keep making bigger and better weapons, and the military would keep placing their orders, regardless. I treat my own guns as an expensive hobby, and get to play at being Dirty Harry at the shooting range, but I don’t begrudge the guy who made my Magnum his money? He earned it.
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Gordan Pearson : You are really trying hard to, “believe,” that, aren’t you? The POINT of the comment was, those who, “blame,” China, cannot also take the position that there’s nothing to fear, and no need to take precautions; otherwise, WHAT exactly, are we, “blaming,” China for? Geddit, now? Donny, “blames,” China, while, at the same time, telling fools like YOU that there’s NOTHING to, “blame,” them FOR. My GOD, life seems very LONG when I’m having to explain basic concepts to people like you 🤦♂️
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He probably figured that a contract with a rich company would have to be legally fulfilled either way? He knew if the charges came to light later on, and N-Max then dropped him, he’d still get paid? And that’s his legal fees, right there. And he knew it would be unlikely that any charges might stick, as it’s so hard to establish, “intent,” “foreknowledge,” etc? But, consider the optics? If he was charged with something, just after becoming an anchor (or regular pundit) on N-Max, he would not just argue that it was a, “political move,” to, “silence,” him, etc, etc, etc, but most importantly, he would have the PLATFORM from which to fight back, daily! With guaranteed coverage from other right wing outlets, like F*x! After all, the truth has never mattered to trump, right? Just having a big enough platform to reach as many people as possible is the only standard that seems to count? Even (forgive the term) trumping politics and the law?
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Adrian Becker : And, THAT’S WHY your 2020, “Elections,” are ALREADY RIGGED. Which did you THINK Trump’s CONSPIRATORS, sitting on the, “Jury,” would choose? Join the entire Trump family in JAIL and PERMANENT, HISTORICAL, DISGRACE? OR, RIGG THE TRIAL AND THE ELECTIONS??? Oh, come ON, America!? . . . Whether you come to love your Trumpian Monarchy, or decide to tear it down in a second Revolution, just, PLEASE? For the LOVE OF GOD? PLEASE, stop KIDDING YOURSELVES that your 2020 elections are not ALREADY RIGGED?
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Now, we’ll get another podium speech, where she publicly retracts all her lies, half apologises, and says she’s just had a tour of a Covid treatment facility, and it’s back to business as usual . . . 🙄 It’s become a routine for her. If the politician you voted for made outrageous claims that have the potential to get people killed, ROUTINELY, and then publicly apologised for lying, retracting every word, ROUTINELY, what do you think her chances of re-election are? . . . 🤔
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Genix : Technically, you are ENTIRELY wrong. You should study what CAN be done with it. NOT why YOU think it was first created? I know the process, and, after a little back and forth, with letter writing (something that Trump would be required to do HIMSELF, WITHOUT ASSISTANCE), which Trump could screw up on, right there, you simply need a majority in Congress and the Senate. Given that such a step would be offering a STACK of important jobs to the Washington insiders, along with the opportunity to get rid of the chaos mongers from the outside, it is actually harder to see, once invoked, how could they say “No” to that?
Juicy jobs for the boys, the Democrats will be ALL OVER IT, and they will KNOW that they won’t get another chance, so they can’t afford to blow it, which issue will help the vacillators decide, so, once invoked, there will be NO STOPPING that train.
I suspect they are waiting for the 2018 elections to be over? I can think of at least two good reasons for them to wait until then?
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@Smoothjock : What does the rest of that mean? “My struggle with the democratic . . .” something? It would be fitting for trump to play the, “victim,” in jail. And I can just imagine one of his bought judges being so intimidated that he let’s trump rant during his cross examinations, making witless speeches, like Hitler did at his own trial, after the Beer Hall Putsch? And, just like Hitler, after his half assed, lunatic attempt at a Coup, maybe trump will get the minimum sentence, on an honor farm? Where he writes, “My Struggle With Reality, And How To Reconcile The Effeminacy Of Always Playing The Victim, With The Village People Macho Macho Man Image, I Want To Project” . . . Yeah, I can see that. Cicero said, “History repeats itself. The first time, it’s tragedy. The second time, it’s farce.” It’s like he saw trump coming 😆
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Have you read Steven King’s literacy experiment, turned best selling series of novels, The Dark Tower series? (Spoiler warning) It would have been worth raising, because of the supremely clever way in which the final book literally addresses this problem in a genius finale. It literally gives you an analysis of how series story telling works, and why the ending we’re about to witness is less important than the journey we’ve shared with the characters, to the point that it teases the reader, taking on a, “You don’t really need to know what happened, do you?” coquettish quality, making you wonder if he’s just going to leave it all unresolved, before . . . well . . . resolving the story with the most unexpected and clever narrative twist.
Genuinely genius in the way it’s hinted at from book II throughout the rest of the multiple novels, we find our hero entering one of the portals which the story has built its narrative around throughout the series, yet which we’ve almost forgotten about by the final novel. And this time, the hero’s free will is taken from him, and he’s thrust, pleading and begging, back to the very start of the adventure, in an, “eternal loop,” of which the universe itself may well be made. And the last line of the last book is the same as the first line of the first book.
For many, like me, who’d had such joy with the novels, it was the perfect excuse to simply reread them, only this time with that, “knowing what we know now,” understanding, which makes twisty stories so enjoyable a second time around, like with The Sixth Sense. It’s arguably King’s finest work; certainly his smartest.
And he was only experimenting with forms, as a kind of side project, apparently. But, it literally obviates the problem with ending a series, without copping out of giving satisfying conclusions for characters that the reader gets attached to. Would have made a great example, because it’s an exception to the rule, and quite a unique achievement in literature. Not in what it does, but in the fact that King pulls it off, through sheer poetic, literate, genius and skill.
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The DNC Convention was sparkling with optimism, life, and hope! Naturally, trump calls it the precise OPPOSITE of reality. The Stock Market looks, “good,” because the 1% are Carpet Bagging, repo’ing houses, shops, businesses, cars, etc. Getting RICH off of our misery! Joe helped to SAVE the economy, after the Bush 2008 Banking Crash! He KNOWS how to get the economy back on track! He’s done it before!
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@MultiBikerboy1 : I think it’s most unwise to politicise this issue, given that both Trump and Biden are only responding to what their advisers are telling them. They’re not just going over to Area 51 and pronouncing declassifications left, right and centre, like in some Roland Emeric block buster. They’re following the concerns of their security and military personnel.
If I had to guess, I would suggest the thinking behind declassification has something to do with an increasingly camera-literate population, and the success of other projects, like those of NASA, when they’ve used the public’s resources to help carry the load? Sometimes, just borrowing a bit of computing time and space, on your device while you sleep; sometimes, active involvement, sharing world wide results. That’s just speculation, however, and we’ll know soon enough if there’s anything to that. But, whatever that thinking is, it never came out of Donny’s or Joe’s heads. But, from experts who got together over many meetings, to discuss possible outcomes and America’s best interests.
And, not telling you something, is not, “lying.” It’s omitting. You could tell me your mother’s maiden name (DON’T!) but, you’re unlikely to, because that information belongs to her, and it’s not your place to divulge it. In the same way, most of the people who know what’s going on, don’t have the permission or the right to just tell you everything, just because you’re curious. They need permission from the top. And the person at the top, won’t just give that away, without speaking to the experts in charge, and finding out whether that’s a smart or stupid thing to do. See my point?
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Mtu Mdosi : Good words. I have the distinct impression that governments, all over the western world, but particularly the US government, are merely an executive extension of the banks and big business? I know there are books and documentaries out there, positing this theory. It is not even remotely doubtful, in my view, as modern governments have always been “managing” the ups and downs of the economy, but, at some point, there has been a cross over event (or series of events) at which the financial, “suits,” simply took over, and our leaders have been selected and backed to protect their interests.
It simply seems that they have finally honed their ability to do this, by exploiting the World Wide Web, and they can play the electorate to whatever tune THEY choose. I also suspect that some of the hysteria we see, from Trump fans and international extremists, is driven by a suspicion of this, and a sense of impotent rage, at being powerless to control democracy.
That; and that there’s the, “hidden poverty,” which is DEBT, which also adds to the sense of despair in America, given that the MAJORITY of Americans will die, leaving a legacy of DEBT to their posterity. I suspect it is debt that is being used as a, “management tool,” for bribery and blackmail, as well as just being exploited, in the same way that Hitler and Stalin exploited hard-times-hysteria, among the under educated masses?
I’d be interested to know what your thoughts are? . . .
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@locadisa : It’s a Propaganda trick. They need to find a, “rival,” that they can treat as the opposite side of the, “same coin.” But, their very coinage is counterfeit. BLM is a registered charity, with a New York City Square named after them. An awareness group that MLK would have proudly endorsed. What they are NOT is violent, let alone, “rioters.” There have never been any, “BLM riots,” except in the twisted minds of the Nazis, Q and the cult of trump in general. As you say, “Whaddaboutism.” But, in this case, even the subject is bogus, but it’s an egregious way of creepily slipping that part of the discussion under the radar, and, “validating,” their propaganda. You find yourself defending BLM always in the, “context,” of rioters and Nazis, creating an image in the minds of people over time.
Never forget, the best way NEVER to lose the game? Don’t play ✌️👍
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짜잔! 짜잔! : Interesting comment. I know I sound awfully prejudiced, when I say that, but all the White S A’s I’ve met, have not only proved to be racist, but have always been the ones to bring the conversation round to that issue; like some kind of test, to see if they can relax with a fellow racist or something? It gladdens me to hear that they aren’t all so ignorant; but, you may be genuinely on to something there? Maybe it’s only the die hard racists, hanging on, in country?
California is the 5th wealthiest economy in the world, with high education rates and a highly multicultural society; many artists and engineers come to work in Hollywood and the music industry, from around the world, which is part of the reason
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Michelle Dust : 3 + 1 + 1 = 5 white South Africans, over the space of a few years, and I have, “encountered,” several more, though it would be inaccurate to say I really, “met,” them.
Then, I have me 1 + 1 + 2 = 4 Black South Africans, encountering many, many more, without a proper introduction. I hope you get what I am doing with the “sums” summary?
Now, why do you ask?
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What frightens me is that it’s looking more and more like the survival of our species hangs in the balance, and in the hands of private entrepreneurs . . . If it wasn’t for philanthropy, we’d be doomed! Isn’t THAT the ultimate indictment of our governments? There was a time when governments were more inclined to just do what they thought was right (rightly and wrongly so) and just didn’t care if people didn’t like it or not. The BBC broadcast shows that were, “good for you,” educational and informative. But politics and entertainment have enslaved themselves to popular opinion, INSTEAD of expertise! In America, that’s an increasingly stupid strategy anyway, given that either party could choose ANY strategy for saving the world and the entrenched voters wouldn’t change their affiliation! The GOP are the only game in town for the right, and the DNC are the only game in town for the left. What difference, to their votes, would it make if they only listened to experts, and made people swallow whatever bitter pills they had to, for their own good, instead of popular opinion? NONE! Just a thought . . . 🤷♂️✌️
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Nah, you have to put The Handmaid’s Tale together with banning the right to protest these fascist laws, and the vote rigging and the gerrymandering, and the right to reject an election they don’t like, and the right to rewrite history in schools and ban discussion, let alone teaching, on slavery, etc, etc, etc. Then, don’t forget the hypocrisy of FORCED ABORTIONS in Border Camps, specially built for that purpose? “Punishment Abortions,” committed against unwilling, bound, drugged asylum seekers and refugees! In a border camp that Joe Biden shut down on the same day he heard of it! That the FBI is investigating the entire EX-Staff, from the, “Doctors,” to the guards, all done with some Governor’s or Senators, go ahead. Say what you like about the Dems, but they’ve NEVER done anything so MONSTROUS! . . . On an INDUSTRIAL SCALE! . . . This is WAY WORSE than the Handmaid’s Tale. Texas is a different country.
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Trevor Jurgens : So, an extraordinary candidate that no one believed could win the presidential elections, looks to be the most popular candidate? Well, that happened in 2016 right? But, it’s just a pity that the GOP has already rigged the 2020, “elections,” right? You ALL KNOW this, deep down, but you can’t bring yourselves out of that comforting state of denial, because it’s terrifying to admit that the American Republic has already FALLEN. But, AS IF they would ALLOW you, at this stage, to, “vote,” them out of power??? So that the ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION gets indicted on GOD KNOWS how MANY charges, goes to jail, enters into to the, “Who can rat out the others quickest?” contest, to save their own asses, and the remainder of the GOP, the skeleton crew that still has its freedom, is forced to disband the party and flee to Moscow? Just by PRETENDING that your, “elections,” are not already RIGGED, Putin Style, with the voting computers in key states like Florida having its, “results,” already uploaded, is just COLLUDING with the Dictatorship now. Your, “vote,” will be valuable data for the GOP, helping them decide which states and individuals to TARGET next. You should all be on the streets, America
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@smackfanxion : Blame is ever the refuge of the narcissist. Unable to accept responsibility personally, and utterly unable to do so publicly, he searches desperately for a way to pass the buck. Does he really expect his audience to believe that he never once looked at any of his own videos, for all those years, and noticed that the credits were, “missing something”? His problem is doubled by the fact that he pitched his material at a notionally, “thinking,” audience, not the casual viewer. And that’s why his plagiarism was noticed in the first place, unlike that of people like Sssniperwolf, who appeals to an audience that isn’t inclined to, “fact check,” a video of a skateboarder falling over, by and large.
I didn’t know about this guy until the scandal broke. But, I have to say, after looking at his astonishing claims, it’s hard to say which is the more egregious. His theft of other people’s uncredited work, or his outright revisionist lies about important historical truths?
He’s the sort of person who chills me to the bone, because, if Big Brother was to take over the world, you just know he would do fine under that regime, working for The Ministry Of Truth.
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Well . . . Actually? . . . Maybe it’s not such a bad idea? Maybe they’ll put a public defender in place? 😁 They certainly wouldn’t fight the case with corruption, drag it out, use dirty, counter suing tactics, etc, so her chances of winning go up. And, if she wins, against trump the, “employee of the government,” that opens him up to abuse of power charges, and doing bad things as a government employee generally? . . . Think about it? . . . 🤔😉
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Naomi Ogle : It’s a Chinese curse, actually, and quite apt, in the face of Trump’s LOST Trade War. And, I can assure you, my dear, I am and shall remain, perfectly, “composed,” whether I’m protesting on the Streets, or just watching the end of the Trump Show on TV, with the occasional glance at my computer, to see my Popcorn Shares skyrocketing on the Stock Market. Thanks for the concern, though ☺️
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@Richard-mk8ze : Not to mention all the medical staff and essential workers who saw, lived and coped better, with far worse and didn’t get any, “essential,” party permits even before Covid was a thing, let alone during. At that hearing, he was one slip of the tongue away from screaming, “How dare you question your betters, damn your eyes! I shall have you horse whipped at Tyburn!” We we’re getting a glimpse of the real, “man,” behind the buffoon.
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Paul Sutherland : “Here’s my take:” The Republic has FALLEN, and the GOP has decided NOT to GO TO JAIL. What a surprise. So, their, “choice”??? They could RIG THE 2020, “ELECTIONS,” WITH PUTIN’S HELP . . . OR? . . . They could let the whole Trump family GO TO JAIL, along with HALF OF THEIR OWN PARTY, from Bill Barr on down to Devin Nunes, leaving them as a, “lesson From History,” and a disbanded, shamed, EX-party. They simply CANNOT ALLOW, “NOT,” RIGGED elections!!! And they have LITERALLY SHOWN YOU they will RIG ANYTHING and EVERYTHING, because they HAVE NO CHOICE! Learn to LOVE your Orange Monarchy, or have a REVOLUTION, like the Ukrainians did a decade ago? They faced down Putin’s THUGS without weapons, in freezing conditions, and sent their Putin Puppet FLEEING BACK TO MOSCOW. WHY CAN’T WE, a country FOUNDED on REVOLUTION, do the same thing??? Are we TOO SCARED to ADMIT that our 2020 elections are ALREADY RIGGED??? Just STOP PRETENDING you still have ANY, “Democratic Process,” left??? It’s embarrassing . . . SMH
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@theX24968Z : At the moment there are several safety nets, due to the way AI works. All it does is compile masses of existing data, so it can ace a multiple choice test and no one will be the wiser. But ask an AI to write a paragraph on its reasoning and no matter how clever its answer seems, whatever it stole its ideas from, that will show immediately. So, the way to keep rumbling them is to ask a question for which there is no stock answer.
However, it’s only a question of time before Muta, Penguinz0, one of those guys, puts out an AI fake video and doesn’t tell us until 24 hours later, just to make the point. That’s when we can all start worrying.
I feel sorry for the people who’ve been trying to warn us that we need laws about this stuff, back in the day when we could still do something about it. The words you saw, being suggested in your text boxes above your virtual keyboard are using the same, “prediction engine,” technology as their more advanced cousins at ChatGPT, and people have been trying to warn us since the turn of the century that this would grow exponentially.
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m8a : A, “Word of Caution,” she says? “I couldn’t help but laugh,” too! The whole country are comforting themselves, by COLLUDING with the PRETENCE that their coming, “elections,” are somehow, “not,” ALREADY RIGGED. You’re only buying this Dictatorship the time they need to consolidate, and prepare their excuses for how, “Dodgy,” the key state ballots will be. Your DENIAL, even after this regime has SHOWN YOU that they’ll RIG and FIX EVERYTHING, at this point, is nothing but SELF HARM, America! Do you honestly THINK they’re going to ALLOW you to unseat Trump? So he and his whole family gets indicted and goes to JAIL??? Are you ALL MAD??? So they’ll, “rat,” on EVERYONE in their administration and the WHOLE LOT OF THEM GO TO JAIL TOO??? So the GOP has to DISBAND, because there’s only a disgraced skeleton of the Republican Party LEFT??? OR??? Do you think they’ve ALREADY decided NOT TO ALLOW ALL THAT??? The Republic has FALLEN, and YOU are HELPING THEM NOW, by acting like they’ll LET YOU, “VOTE,” THEM INTO PRISON! Have a Revolution or accept your Monarchy, but PLEASE? STOP KIDDING YOURSELVES? . . . Jesus!
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Sonny : How, “dark,” that would be, if you hadn’t Jumped The Shark quite so BADLY, son? You want people to, “believe,” that a, “staffer murdering, uranium selling, getting aid from Russia AND Ukraine, Intel Bleaching, Pedo-Ring organising,” SUPER VILLAIN, has not had so much as a Parking Ticket, in THREE WHOLE YEARS, “by DESIGN!”??? And, ALL her Arch Enemy’s BFF’s went to JAIL??? 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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Did Charlie Sheen repeatedly hold a knife to someone’s throat? Was that established or is it just an allegation? What he did sexually was with consenting adults. What Creepy comic did was intimidate women with his dick in his hand, over and over again. Then his staff intimidated those women, to shut them up. So, yeah . . . Fuck you, Mr Rogan. You’re all bending over backwards to let him off the hook. Why? The point is, when someone is that famous, you can’t avoid seeing their face pop up on magazines, YouTube ads, just everywhere. So, how are his victims meant to deal with that? The guy should be forgiven, IF and WHEN he stops shoving himself back into the public. What’s to stop him from being a producer, writer, etc? WHY does he, “need,” to be in the public domain AT ALL? So as to, “joke,” about, and thus TRIVIALISE his sexual offences against his victims? Parse the word, “assault,” if you like. I’m sure, in your universe there are 10 degrees of Rape, too. But, you all come off as guys, closing ranks to protect your friend, and trying to make us accept it as a given that CK should make a comeback AT ALL! To which I say FUCK THAT, AND FUCK YOU TWO! Big fan of the show, though, and this is the only major issue I disagree with you about, so I find myself saying, with all sincerity, fuck you, but with hugs and kisses
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In a sense, Gove is right, but not in the way he thinks. You see, to people like me, who were really put through the wringer on PartyGate, as voters we’re thinking, “These are the same people who did PartyGate to us, showing us that they’ve learned NOTHING! It takes the same kind of self serving, tone deaf, egregiously entitled attitude to gamble on insider knowledge that it takes to ignore the plight of the plebs as they lose loved ones!”
Or to put it another way; if it was Labour or the Lib Dems caught in such a scandal, it wouldn’t be reopening old wounds and proving to the public that they’re NEVER going to change from their old evil ways; or that no amount of leader swapping will change what is inherently and culturally an irredeemably rotten organisation.
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Get off your asses, America! You have to get out there, NOW! They are RIGGING the, “elections.” Florida is ALREADY, “decided.” They’re literally STEALING post boxes off of the streets! It will be TOO LATE to, “protest,” in November, when they’re ready for you! Do something NOW, or regret it forever! The GOP are terrified of JAIL TIME, and they WON’T ALLOW ELECTIONS! Demand the RESTORATION OF YOUR REPUBLIC AND DEMOCRACY, AND YOUR POST OFFICE!!!
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He has a very warm, naturalistic and comfortable performance style. And the Dem advisors have started him out with a stroke of genius, contrasting him with the, “weirdness,” of both his opposition candidates and their invasive policies that belie their, “conservative,” credentials, such as controlling women’s bodies, arresting women and doctors for crossing state lines for abortions and many other, “Big State,” policies.
Both the Republican candidates are plainly, “weird,” on multiple levels and, “weird,” has become the Democrat buzz word, as it is striking a resounding chord with voters. Americans don’t like interfering governments and Republicans are supposed to stand for the opposite of what they stand for now. They want to micro manage free speech and are LITERALLY BURNING BOOKS!!!
I for one am particularly impressed with Walz. My second favourite, “Tim.”
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Vincent Lam : I suggest people do their part, then? Do NOT read this cretin’s, “manifesto.” Teach others, that shooting a bunch of unarmed innocents, like the racist COWARD that he is, will NOT get you what you want. He’s a toddler, stamping his feet for attention. Let the people who get paid to read it, do so. And trust the media to tell you anything worth knowing. But, DON’T play into his hands, and encourage MORE such attacks. Makes sense, right?
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@INFILTRATOR2008 : I’m not afraid to die, son. Especially since I’ll have the comfort of knowing that evil Putinistas, racists and trump trolls will all go out in the conflagration with me. I’ve had a good life, done some wild stuff and lived fully. I pity the children and the innocent, but there aren’t so many of the latter who aren’t already in the former category. I’d rather die on my feet than give in to a death threat and go out on my knees. So, bring it or shut it? It’s over for Putin either way. He either pulls the trigger or waits while the entire might of the west is directed at getting him out of power and into a padded cell from which he cannot threaten to kill every last being on Earth and still be taken seriously. He’s gone too far. But the Devil always does. You just look like an idiot, literally cheering for the guy who just pulled out a shotgun in court, killed the judge and told you you’re next. And if he does pull that trigger, you’ll die in ignorance of the facts, regretting selling your soul, with that dumb assed expression still on your face 🤤
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WeirdInternetz : When I look at Trump, I think, “Thick,” “Fear,” and, “Orange.” Just saying what I see, son. People who lose arguments, accuse their opponents of, “manipulating,” them. And, it’s a fantasy, and an excuse. Not an, “observation,” kid. Any negative generalisation is a prejudice. That’s why you’re a Trump fan. You’re effeminate and frightened, pretending to be the opposite and projecting your weakness onto others 😁
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Probably. And that’s what REALLY, “triggers,” the Cult of Trump. They’re scared alright, but not of the Dems. What they fear is the big, “We to;d you so,” that comes with the PROOF that THEY, the Cult of Trump, were Trump’s biggest TARGET! It was THEIR donations, from the Inauguration Fund, as early as 2016, to the NRA, to Steve Bannon’s Wall GoFundMe, that have been STOLEN. Their donations, taxes and promises made by trump; ALL LIES AND THEFT! And they just can’t face that TRUTH! ✌️
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I can’t blame this guy for being so sceptical about NATO’s words of support, but you only have to read the terms and conditions for membership of NATO to understand WHY they are putting it this way. One of the key conditions for joining is that you CANNOT be at war, or in a state of war, with another country when you join. So, this is a message to Russia, more than any intention to exploit Ukraine. “We will keep this up until you, Russia, admit defeat.” It would be very bad for NATO’s reputation and future if they betrayed Ukraine in such a manner, and I think they are completely sincere.
But your country must also be democratic and free from corruption, at least in so far as corruption doesn’t threaten democratic rule. So, even Zelensky would be the first to admit they are not there yet. They are still rooting out the holdovers from Putin’s Puppet days, and have been doing since 2014.
I would urge this man to hear what they are saying and not read too much negativity into it. It’s in everyone’s interests that Ukraine makes it into the EU and NATO now. There could be no better warning or example for other countries around the world. It would give NATO unquestioned moral authority worldwide.
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@tupacamaruiv5804 : How would he do that, exactly? When actors start gain saying the armorer, who does the director believe? How does an actor know what a fake looks like? Even if they’re trained to Keanu Reeves levels? You see WHY they employ an, “armorer,” at all? What if the actor insists it’s a cold gun when the armorer says it’s hot? Who do you believe? Or vice versa? You all think you sound so, “grown up,” by saying you would take personal responsibility for the gun in your hand, when you’re just showing your abject ignorance. The WHOLE POINT of hiring an Armorer is so that it comes down to ONE PERSON, who is an EXPERT and who has the final say, so there’s no confusion. It doesn’t matter if you’re Audie Murphy and an expert in all firearms, you’re NOT the expert on set. Most gun experts have never seen prop ammo before and wouldn’t know what the differences are. The only people saying they would check for themselves, are the same people who fall prey to the Dunning Kruger Effect on a regular basis, thinking they know better than experts, based on the very little knowledge they have about the movie industry and especially HOW and WHY it works the way it does. Just think it through? 🤷♂️🤦♂️
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@superbmediacontentcreator : True enough. They will find not one single error, but a chain of them in this case. And it won’t all be buck passing, but will likely come down to two factors. Cutting corners to save costs, about which there were already safety concerns raised and conflicts among the professionals and the producers; and failure of supervision, allowing people to use live ammo at all (probably as hobbyists?) when the guns were not being used on set.
When I hear people saying it was the actor’s responsibility to check his own gun I just want to laugh. Why hire an, “expert,” at all, if the actor can decide at the last second and we’re all going to trust his or her word over that of the professional we hired? The insurance company would ask the same question in court. But a lot of, “gun experts,” don’t seem to be able to make the distinction between knowing about their firearms (and what is good practice with guns generally) and knowing about firearms on the set of a movie. Nor have they thought it through?
So what if the actor says, “But there’s a bullet in the chamber,” and has misgivings? The armorer says, “Yes, we know. It’s a blank.” Or, “It’s a dummy.” We don’t expect actors to know the difference. Even if they’re experts in firearms themselves, that doesn’t make them experts in fake bullets, blanks or dummies. That’s WHY you have an, “expert,” who takes soul responsibility in the first place.
To those saying, “Baldwin should have checked the weapon himself,” I say, “And then what?” He would have found something in the chamber, as expected. Was he meant to remove each bullet and check them? Would we be expected to take his word over the armorers? Why did we hire the armorer then? He most likely would have said, “I have no clue what the difference between a live bullet and a Hollywood fake looks like. But that’s why we hired an armorer.”
The Dunning Kruger Effect is running rampant in this story. A lot of self professed gun experts (some of whom may well be, but are more likely to be childish people who think they sound macho by professing to know all about gun safety) seem to think that knowing about weapon safety is the same thing as knowing about Hollywood movie magic, special effects and the art of film making. To those who say, “I would have checked the gun myself,” I say, “NO YOU WOULDN’T!” That’s what the armorer does. And no one would listen to the actor, regardless of what he thought he found in his gun. You trust the, “expert,” which is why you pay them! 🤷♂️
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@superbmediacontentcreator : That’s a very weird thing for your doctor to have done? Presumably it was to do with your insurance? But it does raise the issue of what’s in the fine print when we trust experts and what s/he was permitted to do? On the Rust set, the bottom line will be what it says in the armorer’s contract, which will be that she had soul responsibility for what was in that gun. She was literally there to ensure the safety of everyone using those props on set, so I can’t see how she can be cleared of that? The secondary, but equally important issue, will be to understand that, “sequence of unfortunate events,” that lead to this disaster, so as to allocate liability and (we can only hope?) learn from the experience for the sake of future movie makers and artists. But even when the whole thing is understood, I still can’t see any link in that chain that absolves the armorer herself? At some point, she failed in her responsibility.
But, unless this is some episode of Columbo, and we’re looking for a murderer who pulled a bullet switch with some sort of deliberate, “intent,” what we will find is that it was a sequence of events that lead to a tragedy which has altered the lives of all concerned. I certainly hope nobody needs to be jailed for this? It seems to me quite tragic enough without darkening matters over issues of, “punishment?”
I get the impression that there are a lot of trump fans in the comment section, who dislike Baldwin for his famous impressions of trump on SNL, and they’re expressing their hopes over their judgement? I think they like the idea of Baldwin being held responsible personally, but that’s just their emotions talking.
If an actor meddles with the weapon s/he’s using on a set, A) Everyone will take the armorer’s word over that of the actor, because that’s WHY they hired her. And, B) The armorer would then have to take the weapon back and reset it, ready for use in the scene. It is necessarily the armorer’s job to have the last word on the weapon, meaning the actor does NOTHING other than follow his or her directions, in order to keep everybody safe on the set. They’re NOT at a gun club and the paperwork makes it abundantly clear that it’s the armorer’s job to decide whether the gun is, “hot,” or, “cold,” as they say it on the set apparently. So all that, “I would have checked myself,” poppycock is pure Dunning Kruger stuff.
Nice to speak to someone sensible about it though. Sorry for waffling. I do that sometimes. Especially when I see the image of one of my favourite actresses in the thumbnail. That is Kate Blanchett, isn’t it?
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Well, just remember, that every single Constitutional, legal and lawful attempt to, “remedy,” the crimes of the GOP and the Trump’s has FAILED! What on Earth would make anyone imagine that this, “election,” is not as RIGGED as every other attempt at lawful restitution? The GOP does KNOW that the Trump’s, the entire Cabinet, and several other members are ALL facing serious jail time, and historic disgrace. The fact that GOP members have NOT deserted trump, yet, SHOULD ALARM everyone. If we were to fill the streets and DEMAND the restoration of the Postal Services, and WIN that fight, GOP members would start running for the FBI lifeboats. They are staying, “loyal,” because they KNOW the elections have been RIGGED. And, if we ALLOW them to stack post boxes into vans, and drive them off to a sorting office where the main mail-sorting machines have been shut down; STEALING Democracy from right under our noses, then maybe we deserve to lose our Republic, forever?
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So much for Prigozhin’s, “exile,” right? Putin was HUMILIATED! He fled Moscow, even though Wagner didn’t get within 20 miles of the city limits! Not exactly, “I don’t need a ride, I need ammo,” like Zelensky, is it? The fact that Prigozhin still LIVES, despite him exposing Putin’s COWARDICE for all the world to see, tells us Putin is not in full control of his own military. Once the Ukrainians penetrate Russia’s defences, they will make mincemeat out of Putin’s megalomaniac fantasies for ever!
Slava Ukraine! 🇺🇦🔱🇬🇧
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@GlobexCorporationHank : You don’t think she’s established her worth already? Going nose to nose (or, “nez á nez,” as the French would say) with riot cops, leading the protests, with the whole world watching? Knowing she has marked her own card and could be defenestrated at any point from here on? Would you have that courage in the face of such an opponent as Putin himself? You know he’s seen those images, right?
I admire her, whatever her provenance may be. The world would be a better place with more people like her in it. Even if she went home today and retired to spend more time with her cats, she has done something so special, so courageous, so honourable, that she deserves her full pension, a bonus and a statue in front of their parliament building.
She is life, liberty and freedom. Where she stands, that part of the world is free. And they can never take that from her. Vive La Liberty! Vive Salome!
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@nomcognom2414 : That’s a possibility, that he’s heading The Bank Of Prigozhin which provides no insurance policy against sudden liquidation? While Wagnazis remain loyal to him, he has control of those diamond and gold mines in various African countries, so he’s been moving large amounts of cash around the globe for some time now. That’s his real leverage, I think. He humiliated Putin, yet lives to tell the tale? Only MONEY can buy you THAT level of toleration, right? While Zelensky refused to flee in the face of the enemy, asking for ammunition instead, Putin fled to St Petersburg from Moscow! From his own people! And they didn’t even get to the city limits! How can Putin forgive Prigozhin for forcing such an epic level of cowardice out of Putin, and offering the world such a stark comparison between him and Zelensky? Even now he’s flouting his, “exile,” by Putin’s own admission, attending a meeting in Moscow, while Wagner continues to defy Putin’s direct orders and submit to military authority . . . Putin’s hatred for Prigozhin will manifest sooner or later. Count on it. And the only thing that’s keeping Prigozhin alive right now is his value in dollars.
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We may see the impossible happen yet? If America doesn’t ruin everything by easing the sanctions on Russia, this is the year in which Putin will simply fail to make ends meet. Russia’s economy is burning out like the layers of a giant star, getting bigger, bolder and hotter on the outside, while is rapidly burns through layer after layer of its most precious elements until it all, inevitably, collapses suddenly back onto the core.
We may yet live to see Putin’s regime go supernova. They have been dumping a billion Chinese Yuan every two days to prop up the Ruble since December and they’re running out of gold as fast. Unless Putin can produce some miracle from all those diamonds mines he’s stolen in African countries, I simply cannot see any other way for this to go.
I don’t know if you were an adult in 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down and Soviet Communism collapsed, but I was. And my biggest take away from that was that anyone who tells you they saw it coming is either misremembering or just making things up. As far as the outside world saw things, the Soviet Empire looked as solid and immovable as ever, with Gorbachev offering small, incremental steps toward peace with the west. Then, boom! Out of a clear blue sky . . .
So never say never, my friend. All the stars are aligning and, unless Putin really isn’t as dumb as his recent blunders have suggested over the past decade, and has some master plan that none of us see coming, this year is his final year presiding over his empire. He may hold on to power, who knows? But it won’t be over anything bigger than a medium sized European country called Russia, and no longer containing any of the, “federation,” states.
Personally, I don’t think his oligarchs will let him off the hook for that. Have a good laugh at my expense, this time next year, if I’m wrong. But, just remember, this only works so long as America doesn’t help Putin out.
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The funny part is, everyone will get it sooner or later. That’s the only thing I’m sure of in this whole sorry mess. Some people will develop Covid symptoms and ignore it, and maybe get away with that, until the second or third time? But, in the same way that no one gets through life without catching a cold (unless they’re so unique they can make a living out of selling their blood and tissue samples to laboratories?) several times, no one will avoid Covid. The smart, vaccinated, ones will be fine. The dumb, unvaccinated, ones will submit, eventually. Let’s just hope it’s not under life ruining circumstances?
On another note; WTF is Toobin doing on my news screen? Fine, he apologised, but shouldn’t the standard be when others feel convinced he’s safe to be around? Not just when he says he’s, “all better now?” How do we know he’s not masturbating over the previous anchors, or about to, as soon as the interview ends? Presumably he at least waits these days? And no longer defiles himself in real time? But, surely woman must feel pretty uncomfortable sharing screen time with him? I’m not happy about CNN’s apparent lapse in standards here . . .
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A cynical exercise in throwing red meat out at the lowest forms of scum in the extreme right wing of his party, rather than figuring out plans to stop this waste of money, resources and time, as all Tory migrant policies have done so far. I’m a floating voter, but the numbers don’t lie. We used to process applications faster, deport bogus asylum seekers more promptly and spend less on accommodating legitimate claimants while they were being processed, under ALL previous administrations.
By flirting with the extremists the Tories have relinquished control of their own policies to the worst people in their party, giving senior positions to people unfit for minor responsibilities, let alone great powers. All this hoopla will be struck down in the courts and more time and money lost. Well done, Rishi, you plonker.
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I see you lost an argument with your barber. 😉 But in all seriousness, the pressure to put an end to the democratic project, worldwide, will be monumental with the trump presidency in cahoots with Putin and Xi, among others. The tragedy is that people like Lee Anderthal are the exact types who will thrive and prosper as the lights go out around the planet.
It is time that we all accept the challenge, or at the very least, the reality. We are all responsible for whatever comes next. Either our actions, or inaction, will define us.
It is not just a question of the planet surviving one more term of trump. Those who think trump cannot serve a third term are about to learn their first mistake about how democracy ends. I will honestly be surprised if our democracy survives the next election, certainly two cycles of parliament.
As you say, the barometer for meritocracy currently reads Wet & Windy, but it also reads, High Pressure and getting higher by the week. And that’s the contradiction we must all be brave enough to face up to. Or, just stay TF out of the way.
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Shari Townsend : And, when they, “attack,” this witness’s testimony, on the deal he cut, all he has to say is, “Well, the crimes I confessed to, which have been proven, are the crimes that I committed WITH COHEN, so, if I’m LYING, I am INNOCENT of the crimes I CONFESSED TO, right?” And Rudy will scratch his head, dribble a little, belch, fart and wake from his stupor and shout, “Yeah, but HILLARY, RIGHT?”
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@silencedogood5766 : Um? 🤔 . . . Don’t you, “believe,” that Donny, “won,” the 2020 election then, madam? Because, Donny can’t run for third term. Didn’t think that through, did ya’? But, you East Europeans don’t really know how American politics work, do you, Karen? 😉
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Jonathan Burns : What Kolin is pointing out, quite rightly, is that the shameful Cult of Trump, demonstrates NO political allegiance, as you Trump fans ASSume that everyone, whether Republican OR Democrat, are wrong if they challenge Trump. You have NO ideology, knowledge of your history, common sense, or judgement of right or WRONG! Therefore, it is BETTER to see you as a Russian Shill, as the ONLY alternative is that you ARE a TRAITOR to America? Don’t you SEE that?
I am a Republican, AND a political historian. I KNEW Trump was crooked AND in bed with the Russians, BEFORE he even announced his candidacy! We are NOT all “lefties” and there are QUITE LITERALLY MILLIONS of Republicans who want Trump GONE. If YOU are sincere, I will GIVE you the PROOF of Trump’s corruption, stupidity, racism, cruelty and utter incapacity to do ANY responsible job. PROOF that even a robot like you CANNOT refute: are you interested?
I doubt it. Because, you are either being payed by a Russian shell company to stick to the Trump narrative, or you simply REFUSE to know the TRUTH, because you believe SOMETHING about the “Myth” of Trump; and you THINK that he will fulfil something on your checklist. Racist? Anti-Women? Please DON’T tell me that you ACTUALLY BELIEVE THAT TRUMP knows a F**KING THING about “business” and that you think you might be “better off”???
Will you LOOK at the PROOF?
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I believe Prof Allan Lichtman. He has predicted elections for over 40 years and ALWAYS got it right. He uses a system of analysis which he calls, “The Seven Keys To The White House,” for the sake of giving a simple explanation to the lay persons of the press.
He says Kamala Harris has won it. Once he makes his call, he never changes it unless, “events,” have been significant enough to alter one of those seven metrics. That’s why, for example, he didn’t change his prediction for trump in 2016, despite everyone saying that the, “locker room talk,” recordings had cost him the election. It seemed like a big deal, likely to effect the voters, but it didn’t alter anything in any one of those seven areas of analysis. So, Prof Lichtman stuck to his guns.
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You should have started by explaining trump’s announcement that a, “big announcement,” was coming, which got all of the Republican and Democrat Parties and pundits from both sides of the Isle tuned in, expecting something to do with his presidential run or something RELEVANT to their lives. Instead, even Steve Bannon said this was, “bullsh*t,” and inappropriate. One of the biggest stories doing the rounds in America right now is the Sam Bankman Freed FTX scandal in which roughly 10 BILLION dollars was stolen in an NFT rip off, making this the WORST POSSIBLE time to announce a, one dollar short and a day late, blatant money grabbing scheme of embarrassing proportions, that even made his fans CRINGE! If this doesn’t hurt his presidential dreams by making him seem less relevant and more behind the trends than ever, nothing will. But, of course, we all know that being dumb, crass and unbelievably thick doesn’t stop rich people from becoming president in that country. 🙄🤷♂️
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Well, of course they do. You can’t have this trial without the perpetrators on the stand. Presumably, they will all be subpoenaed, so that Fox has no say in the matter. The ruling that moved this to trial was 130 pages of damning decisions that have already crushed a whole massive range of possible lines of attack for the defence, preventing them from even arguing most of the points they wanted to debate in the court. As far as this judge is concerned, he will be directing the jury to decide, NOT on, “whether,” Fox was at fault, but rather just,” how,”guilty as sin they were. Have fun with that, Rupert. 😋
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The more we learn, the more dismayed I feel. The duplicity, mismanagement and criminality seems all set to go unpunished. By mixing their responsibilities like this, they have managed to create such an unpickable legal knot that I am reminded of Charles Dickens’s, “Circumlocution Offices.”
And I suspect it has all been deliberate. Another plan to promote the private interests of rival businesses, in a similar manner to the stealth privatisation of the Health Service? But now backfiring?
The only hope for a remedy that I can see (and it’s one that this corrupt network of clowns will never go for) would be to replace the entire upper tier of management of both The Post Office and Royal Mail, forthwith. Set up a new, independent inquiry, but have it lead by the QC who is willing to take charge of the running of both organisations, with a view to replacing the upper management and harmonising their respective services.
That way, the inquiry can be certain that no one can interfere with evidence, or have to battle to get access to evidence (as has been the case in the current inquiry) and that no one with a vested interest in protecting their own reputation has any further access to anything pertinent. They will only be appearing at the inquiry as ex-employees, to defend their records.
Meantime, the job of rebuilding the new postal service can continue unhindered.
And, while we’re at it, perhaps Kier Starmer can ask, will the tax payers be able to look forward to a reduction in taxes that reflects the reduction in public services? If we’re no longer getting weekend deliveries, we should not have to continue paying for them, surely?
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That interview with that woman was the most, “informative,” part of this video, in many ways. To see how a psychosis self adjusts in real time, changing her story and finding new justifications, when faced with facts. Lurching from, “Well, there was no sign of hostility from Ukraine,” to, “We must protect ourselves from invasion!” From WHOM!??? The utter insanity of it! And you are so right it hurts. It doesn’t matter who is in charge of a country filled with such indoctrination, they will stay indoctrinated. But, if 1945 taught us anything, it was that people can change their tune, all at once, given the right stimulus. So, I don’t give up hope.
If Putin was to die, sure, we would just get another nutter dictator in his place. But, he would be a nutter dictator with a predecessor whom he can blame for everything and providing an excuse to pull out of Ukraine, whilst saving face. His population would be grateful for that, and to have MacDonalds again, along with the money to buy one.
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I wonder if anyone in Ukrain is going to take Germany to court and seek reparations? They are funding Putin’s war as we speak! And I’m sorry, but, “Give us a couple of years to work on it,” is simply not good enough. So what if Germany sees price hikes and a rise in unemployment!? They can call that their, “Stupid Tax,” for setting up such an OBVIOUSLY SUICIDALLY STUPID arrangement as to get reliant on Russian energy in the first place! Because any, “sacrifices,” Germany makes will still pale in comparison to rape, murder, torture, looting and Genocide! They need to turn the taps OFF, TODAY! Did Germany actually, “learn,” anything from World War Two? Or was it all an act? I’d like to see them, “justify,” funding Putin’s war, to the faces of the surviving victims, to a legal standard, in a court of human rights!
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I love your videos, and your voice. Just one criticism for this one. I wonder if you’d agree?
You overlooked the key element of the whole story, the very same thing that made The Dark Knight such a successful Joker too: He’s the quintessential, “Unreliable Narrator.” We cannot know by the end, how much of this story actually happened and, of the parts of it that did, whether they happened in the same way as he remembers them.
Like his love interest being a pure fabrication of his desperate loneliness, his unlikely meeting with Bruce Wayne and later his father, his murders, all of it could be all in his mind or just events he witnessed without taking part in them. Even his appearance on TV is brought into question. So, in that final scene, are we seeing nothing more than symbolic bloody footprints? Or are they the tracks of his latest, pointless murder?
We take on faith that this is the story of the genuine article, The Joker, Batman’s antagonist, or there would be no point in watching the movie. But, just as Joker told a different story to each person about the scars on his face in The Dark Knight, the very intrigue about him, and that we cannot ever be certain of the facts surrounding him are and that’s what makes Joker such a towering success.
People’s biggest concern about this film was that it might ruin the one characteristic about The Joker that makes him work so well, that he’s unknowable, a true agent of chaos and the antithesis of Batman, who seeks to bring order back to Gotham. Like a force of nature, he has always had no origin story, in the same way that banal evil is incomprehensible, giving him an edge that thrills the comic fans. This movie achieves the impossible, giving us that origin story to colour his narrative, but by making him utterly untrustworthy as the story teller, even to himself, we can still never really know what makes him what he is, or even if this is anything like the same story he would tell himself by the same time next week?
That’s the genius of this film and why it works so well. It respects its source material and doesn’t spoil the one great thing about what made Batman’s greatest antagonist what he was: chaos incarnate.
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Lalluqa : Honestly, dude. If you want to, “debate,” I am at your service. But, let me give you a pearl of wisdom, here? You and I have lost everyone on this thread; maybe one or two people will take the time to look at this, over time, but by and large, it’s just you and me. Communication is ABOUT CLARITY. I get that you can’t always be BRIEF, but we DON’T come to YouTube for essays. And I really AM dyslexic, HONESTLY. So, if you have points to make, I’ll read them; but keep it at REASONABLE LENGTHS? And, I will show you WHY you are SO WRONG; how Trump is a RACIST and a CRIMINAL, and you can PRETEND that you don’t believe me. OK?
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Lalluqa : Guess you have no POINT to make, ‘Coz there ARE NONE? It’s not like you can say ANYTHING that would convince ANY American that Trump is NOT GUILTY, right? His fans are RACISTS. And you are gibbering SO angrily, because you can’t get a rise out of me. You get all, “Butt Hurt,” because I laugh at you, and whine for a, “conversation,” and then I offer you a conversation, and you go to pieces so fast, people get hit by the shrapnel! LOVE IT! Your Nazi tears are . . . sweet, to us normals ☺️
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Lalluqa : Because he says racist things. Defended Nazis at Charlottesville. Was found to be RACIST in a court of LAW in the 70’s. You do your OWN homework for the, “definition,” of what a racist is. Trump is one. He’s SO racist that he LOVES Jews, because he thinks they’ll make him rich (he said so), and he HATES people of COLOR (he’s said so) ; I’ve HEARD HIM. His child kidnapping scheme was RACIST, His “Shithole countries,” remark was racist; if you don’t understand what a racist even IS, then you are NOT in a position to dispute that.
But, really. Be substantive, creative, original? ‘Coz, right now, you’re using all the same old Tropes; “What crime? Define Racist? When did he bully people?” I’m not playing. Come up with something worth while. And turn on your spell checker, or your Googolska Translateski, huh? I’m dyslexic and I can STILL spell BASIC ENGLISH . . . SMH 😊
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We really have to do something or the threat will continue mounting from all sides. With trump’s Terrorist calls for revenge killings against cops, they can’t hang on to ANY PRETENCE of, “backing the blue,” any longer. Within a week of MTG urging people to shoot dead healthcare workers, trying to save lives, merely for showing up at your house too! They’re the ones we’re meant to, “hate?” But, the government trained military assassin, with a violent mob at her back, coming to, “hang Mike Pence,” is the one we should be giving a medal too? This is just yet more evidence (as if it were needed?) that the GOP’s Coup is ongoing, and they’re coming through that Thin Blue Line to get power back . . . Truly horrible, deplorable human beings.
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@bradmiley : It’s the very thing that has made America so great, as in, “great world leader,” “great economic powerhouse,” and, “greatest world power.” I don’t think America really wants to lose that power and influence. Nor do I think they will, despite what some might say. They need a presence on the world stage in order to guarantee all that MONEY. Even if the people don’t really share in that wealth.
That brings us back to not believing what Trump says, rather than what he does. He will see US power diminish over USAID, for instance, find others to blame, and start reintroducing it, quietly. That’s my guess. Or, maybe we will see an actual decline in American power in the world?
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@ : Though you speak with a wonderful sincerity and clarity, I have to tell you that you are wrong about Musk. You see that he is only serving himself, which is true. But his interests could not be further from, “aligned,” with ours; yours. He IS THE, “oligarch,” and has entered US politics in exactly the same way that Russian oligarch’s rode the coat tails of Putin. He wants to dismantle the overseers; the offices that deal with accountability, ethics, public integrity. He wants to rid America of anyone who watches the watchers. And his interests are only aligned with trump’s for that reason. Yet it is people like you who will suffer. As you will, sadly, come to see.
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I did find your analysis most interesting, but I would have liked to have heard more of your thoughts on what, “harm,” you believe Shelby caused, or was responsible for? She has been charged with crimes, and she has certainly embarrassed a whole bunch of professionals, probably harming their careers and the reputations of certain establishments. But it doesn’t appear to me, from the little I know, that she had any, “intent,” to harm anyone? She doesn’t appear to exploited people financially beyond achieving her goals of setting up this fantasy life? It seems she is not a, “criminal,” in the usual sense of that term, as she was not attempting to defraud out of malice, not targeting any individual or organisation to harm them in any way, nor attempting to get away with financial theft or stealing property.
I think a big part of why this case is so unique and baffling is exactly that. It must have been difficult for the prosecutors to decide what to charge her with, especially in terms of serving the public interest?
She committed a vast and complex fraud, which involved duping a raft of people and organisations, which is a form of damage. And she got financial backing from these organisations under false pretences, which is obviously criminal. And, in so doing, she demonstrated her cleverness, understanding of the systems in play, and consciousness of committing illegal acts; even if she wouldn’t necessarily be able to name the laws she’d broken or describe the manner in which she done so, which means she was a self aware - knowing criminal, consciously committing elaborate crimes.
But, to what end? That is the question that needs to be answered if we are to know what action would best serve the public interest. Is she a threat to society? Does she need treatment? Has the real-terms damage she’s done been assessed and evaluated? Is she likely to reoffend if allowed to go free? Or, does she simply need psychiatric care? She is not violent, menacing, or (apparently?) deliberately attempting to harm anybody?
I would love to be a fly on the wall, to hear whether she feels remorse for her deceptions? Particularly with regard to the people who took her in and who’s trust she betrayed most personally, if not most deeply? As to how much harm she has done, that is a matter the courts will determine, I suppose. But as to how much actual, “harm,” she has committed, I cannot answer that question. Maybe the people she lived with are just shrugging their shoulders, or maybe they’re heart broken?
There’s a novel in here somewhere.
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Kolin Mademe : Never heard of Conservapedia, till you mentioned it. I suspect, as a Conservative myself, I will find it offensive, as they’ll be hijacking the word, “Conservative,” to mean, “Trump supporter,” which I ain’t! I’ll be voting AGAINST THE TRUMP CULT, this November. And, I won’t grace Conservapedia with my precious Clicks. That only encourages them ✌️
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Mariyo G : Because people have told him that wartime presidents get more votes, and he needs the distraction. He doesn’t care about the dead Americans? As far as he’s concerned, that’s what they breed them for. It appeals to his ego, he gets to have more control with less accountability, yada, yada, yada. He’s been praying for an excuse to have a war, since 2016. Some guy farts in Alabama, and Trump’s calling it, “Biological warfare from Iran!” He begs Putin to say yes to him, give him, “permission,” each night
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He’s clearly making a list of, “grievances,” to explain away his deserting of Britain, after going to all that trouble to make it sh*t, and not look like the coward, traitor and anti-British scumbag he’s always been. The narrative being, “The wokerarty are getting revenge on me, making my circumstances intolerable and driving me out of Britain,” so he can play the, “victim,” whilst abandoning all of his supporters to go and live in a country with better weather and a more tolerant attitude toward tax dodgers.
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For what it’s worth, I have a hypothesis of my own; or, the beginnings of one, related to the Antimatter Problem. I wonder if this Dark Matter is related to it, and that it and Dark Energy may account for its remains, after annihilation? Imagine there was an equal amount of baryonic and antimatter at the Big Bang, and they did annihilate? With there being just a slight amount of one or the other being more abundant? The act of annihilation would result in vast amounts of energy (explosions) which is equal to mass, in another form, and which may well be able to accrete and convert back to solid matter? But, it could also have accreted into something other too, at the same time? What would be the, “residue,” (if you like) of antimatter blasts? Could it be something that behaves precisely, diametrically oppositely to baryonic matter? Something that does not reflect or absorb light? Something that has mass, like baryonic mass, but which behaves oppositely, pushing away mass, in the reverse way that baryonic matter draws matter, through gravity? That kind of matter would push itself away from other particles of the same stuff, in the exact opposite way that normal matter accretes, with an, “anti-gravity,” effect? Thus, it would be spread out, throughout the universe, forcing itself, and all things to spread out, being pushed away (and pushing away) dense areas of matter, perhaps? This would account for a range of effects that we see, but have not yet explained in the universe, such as Dark Energy, the acceleration of the universe’s receding away from us, even the accelerated spin of galaxies, which our current models cannot account for?
It’s a long shot, I know, but think of the implications? If we could capture and harness some Dark Matter, (presumably by surrounding and trapping it, in a way that you would if you were trying to catch matter that was magnetically polarised to North, say, when you and everything you use is polarised to South?) you maybe able to make literal Anti-Gravity devices? The applications would be endless. And confirmation of its existence may result in answering a whole gamut of mysteries, from the age of the universe and Inflation, to most, if not all of the mysteries discussed in your awesome video?
I’m not a trained physicist, but I hang out with and have brought up one. I love discussions along these lines, and have been a fan of your videos for some time now. I hope you read this, as I would love to know what you think? I hope you keep doing these videos in the coming years too. Thanks
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@colinl5951 : Well, there really is no point in giving you people, “proof,” when that’s not the purpose of your existence, is it? Your, “job,” is to deepen DIVISION in America. Not to, “debate,” “learn,” “discuss,” or to, “think.” You’ve already been instructed on what you, “think.” The only question about you, son, is whether you do it for money, or you’re one of those people struggling with an emotional, “issue,” who thinks he can whine his way to entitlement, on YouTube, by being trump’s Victim of The Month? I’ve always thought it’s kinda’ strange though? How trump trolls want SO badly, to be seen as, “Macho Macho Man,” yet think that being so effeminate comports with that self image? Do you people actually KNOW what big girl’s blouses you are? Or is like your Karenage? And Karens just don’t know what Karens they are? . . . I’m curious, seriously? 🤔
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@heretospeakthetruth3810 : What was it this time, madam? A nugget from InfoBores? Maybe a bit of web, “journalism,” from the KKK’s own Alabama Gazette? Whatever it is, you’re just bursting to spew out your newest little piece of misinformation about the irrelevant, “border crisis,” but no one is taking you up on it? Maybe Colin will help you out? Now that you finally realised he’s a trump troll colleague and the, “lib,” you first took him for? Or, maybe he’s sulking and will leave you hanging? Have you thought about getting speech to text technology, ma’am? Saves a lot of time?
I could save you even more time, though? Why don’t you just write, “My life has not worked out the way I planned it, leaving me bitter, empty and angry. I want to, ‘blame,’ someone and haven’t got the balls to look in the mirror, so I attack strangers I don’t like, on channels I don’t like, to whine about the stuff I don’t like, all day, every day, but that’s NOT had a toll on my mental health, honest. If only I had a job, some money, or a person in my life who cared about me, that I could respect? But, having none of those things, I do this instead, trying to fill the empty void where my life and all my plans used to be . . . Please help me, I’m so lonely and racist!”
You’ll feel better, honest. Or, just get some fresh air, exercise and a JOB? 🤷♂️ . . . 🤪
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Jake MacHine : Glad you looked that up, son. Did you remember to use the term, “per capita?” Bet, you don’t even know enough about, “research,” to do THAT, do you? Now you know I’m right, I’ll share the trick with you: 1) ALWAYS admit when you don’t know something. 2) ALWAYS tell the TRUTH. Do those to things and, like me, you will NEVER be wrong about ANYTHING. You PROVED you cannot be an expert on ANYTHING, by demonstrating your inexperience in basic, academic process, son. I warned you. Now, you’ve gone and, “embarrassed,” yourself. Just like I said you would 😌
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Jack Callan : Coz’ blackmailing a whole country doesn’t, “look bad,” to Trump’s Fake, “Believers,” at all, does it? If Trump Trolls hadn’t Jumped the Shark SO badly with their mountain of TALL tales about Hillary and Obama, they might have stood a chance. But, even you Fake Believers can’t explain why she has not been, “locked up,” by her Arch Enemy (the most powerful man on Earth) in 3 WHOLE YEARS, after, “murdering staffers, bleaching intel, selling uranium and running a pedo ring from under a Pizza Hut,” can you? Trump couldn’t even stop his whole Campaign Team from going to JAIL, and you think ANYONE is going to buy your Biden Propaganda? Trump is SO f**ked, son 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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TheBjiii : So, YOU don’t “believe” Rex Tillerson? YOU don’t “believe” the GOP? YOU don’t “believe” the UNANIMOUS Heads of ALL America’s Security Services? What a “surprise”? You CLEARLY haven’t been READING the comments, or you would know that I am an EX-MEMBER of the Republican Party (WHOOPS!) , so you are CLEARLY not QUALIFIED to have an, “opinion.” But, the very FACT that you are BLEATING at me, as SO MANY of you sheeple do, is EVIDENCE that you are WORRIED about SOMETHING! If you were as “confident” as you PRETEND to be, you wouldn’t BE HERE, IDIOT!
You’re whistling in the dark. Not even Trump is prepared to deny the FACT that Russia DID interfere in our elections? So, WHO are you TRYING to CON? NO ONE BELIEVES YOU.
Now, go and READ the comments, if you want to BLEAT some more? Then you won’t make SUCH an EMBARRASSMENT of yourself, each time you beat upon your keyboard with your fists and head! 🤣
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TheBjiii : Insane AND predictable, parroting Donny’s WMD line, I see? You forgot to mention that Donny is on RECORD, saying HE “KNEW” there was WMD in Iraq. WHOOPS, again 😁. And the WHOLE GOP “believed” in WMD, at the time. And the WHOLE GOP stands by Russian interference. NOT A ONE denies it? NAME ONE who does? Nunes DOESN’T? Trey Gowdy DOESN’T? And HE helped write the infamous Memo? Now, he’s leaving, in self loathing and DISGUST at the GOP; just one more in an ever increasing morgue of right-wingers, who have gone too far, and can see the writing on the wall.
BTW, have you noticed, that all the GOP members who were first to leave, or have simply left, without looking dirty themselves, are ALL the ones with LEGAL TRAINING? They KNOW what’s coming.
WHY are you HERE? You are only being hostile and alienating, so it’s NOT to, “win friends and influence people?” Never mind, I’ll tell YOU, shall I? It’s because YOU ARE SCARED AND ANGRY! And you want to try to project THAT “FEELING” onto others. And the fact that you post TWO comments for each response, SHOWS how TRIGGERED you are. And how DEEP your “butt hurt” sense of DESPERATION 😁 😆 🤣 😂 🤪
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Indeed. Be prepared to FIGHT, America. For the GOP, it’s either establish a Dictatorship, by denying you elections, or go to jail and live with the disgrace of the history books. Which do you think they’ve already chosen? With no alternatives, they WILL try it, if WE LET THEM. What choice do they have? And, so many racist trump fans are more afraid of facing the TRUTH, which they know in their hearts, that trump screwed THEM the hardest, that they will carry on fighting. We have to be READY. The election is just the beginning. If we even GET ONE? . . . That will be on YOU
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I suspect that the real Secret Sauce in the story of your success is probably your authenticity. Some content creators are so loose and hap-hazard that it’s hard to know if they really care about what they do, whereas others are so hyper-professionalised that it’s impossible to imagine what they’re like in real life, but you can be fairly certain they don’t talk to their children or spouses in that same board meeting or circus ring master tone, or you’d hope not. You have hit that sweet spot where the viewer can tell you’ve put work into your scripts (or the notes you work from) organising your points into a flow, etc, lining up the gags, without putting any effort into buzz phrases (except for ironic impact) special effects or distancing diagrams etc. You talk about what honestly interests you, care about people and are really funny when you want to be, and you stand out from the crowd because you are so genuine.
In that sense, you represent something about the viewer that they like to think is in themselves. Like the average YouTube viewer, you look at what’s going on in the world of content creation from a distance, seeing it all through the eyes of a normal dude who’s responses are always fundamentally decent. You’re a kind of Web-Digest, picking up on the main stories, or things that matter, delving into the arts of video gaming, movies, chess, manga and those related Japanese card collections (that I still don’t really understand) and other baroque subjects, without ever straying into the hotbed of politics. In that sense you’re a magazine program; a who’s who and what’s what of the internet by which people can stay informed about modern entertainment whilst being entertained. But most of all your charm is just in the fact that you are YOU and people like you. Hell, I watched you unwrapping those Ugio card things for well over an hour a few months ago, having no clue what the hell that was all about, but I was just enjoying the chit chat between you, your partner and your friends while it was happening. I barely look up at the screen as I was fixing some furniture, but it was like having friends in the room, chattering while I worked. And I really like that group of friends.
Keep doing you, Charlie. We need authentic in our lives.
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mperies : You know why no is responding to your comment, right? Some can’t be sure if you’re being sarcastic. And, for the Trump Cult, it’s too close to the truth. Let’s face it, even they AND the whole GOP, KNOW that Trump is guilty as sin. They’re all considering whether is WORTH shredding the Constitution and ending the Republic, to hold onto the, “power,” without any of the, “credibility.” Is it WORTH it, to have a rigged system, with fake elections and a fake opposition, like in Russia? Just so you don’t have to face the music? . . . That’s the question inside the heads of the last remaining Republicans, that haven’t completely sold out . . . Yet . . .
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I said that Fujitsu was directly profiting from all of this. Any monies that could not be paid back by the victims will have been insured against criminal theft, so they will have put in claims for that. But now we learn they were charging to give evidence which they KNEW was unsafe! That is a criminal conspiracy! They need to be investigated by Scotland Yard and charged!
Yes. These victims need 1) Full exoneration: Certainly honours are due to those who worked so tirelessly on behalf of their fellow victims.
2) Full Compensation: Including costs, inflation adjusted for any and ALL losses incurred, not just the enforced repayments of monies they never took, but damaged credit ratings, other losses of interest in their savings, or sold assets to make good the amounts, and any other related losses through legal fees, lost business opportunities, depreciation of assets, etc.
3) Damages: A high figure to each individual, so they never have to worry about money again. A figure representing emotional damages, psychological damages, losses to the grieving relatives of the suicide cases, and representative of the hard work victims were forced to put in to restore their good names (still pending from a legal point of view), etc. All aspects of their suffering and time lost should be represented in that figure.
4) Punitive Damages: Again, an eye-wateringly high figure, representing the damage Fujitsu has done to the Post Office’s and the government’s reputations, the harm to public trust in their institutions, the time that it has taken, the bad faith they showed in their submissions of evidence and their, “cooperation,” with the enquiry, which the judge has already left comments on the record about, the callousness of their disregard for hard evidence and their CONSPIRACY to cover up their mistakes at ANY cost, including that of human life, quite literally! The tax payers deserve to be made whole and to have their faith in the legal system upheld too.
5) A Criminal Investigation: Separate from this enquiry, but using the evidence referred to above, which shows beyond question that the spirit and letter of the law was recklessly disregarded in a conspiracy against these victims, the government (who are the shareholders and therefore owners of the Post Office) and against the tax paying public: the funders of the government.
And it must be STIPULATED that ALL remedial measures to relieve the victims will be taken as a matter of urgency and ARE NOT to be held up by any further enquiries. Even if a special bill needs to be passed in the House in order for this to take place.
6) A Review of the Honours System: to include the King’s representatives alongside the government’s, with a view to stripping honours from all those who took part in this conspiracy and were in any way responsible, either criminally or through sheer stupidity, and ensuring that the credibility and respectability of of honours is not further diminished by such appalling miscarriages of justice, by root and branch review and reordering.
I know I’m living out a fantasy here. Howling at the moon, even. But all of the above steps, carried out swiftly and with the same determination and urgency that Fujitsu and the PO showed in their commitment to conspiracy, framing people and getting false confessions out of them, would be the only way I could see for justice to be done. And if the Prime Minister was to lead the way on this, it might do his otherwise appalling fortunes some actual good in the polls?
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Dear Lincoln Project, I genuinely believe that America needs a visual aid, a symbol, to help them truly understand this Covid 19 Crisis. My suggestion is that we build a Cairn, like the ancients did? It would be cheap, and relatively simple and easy to build and, if we represent each DEAD Covid victim, with one stone each, this might help America, “get it?” Such a project would need a site to place it, and I think, so as to challenge the administration, it should be next to, or in front of a Trump owned or key Government building? It would need funding, and supervision, and someone able to place 1000 stones in a 24 hour period. I genuinely believe that such a symbol might have a significant impact on how average Americans SEE and GRASP the crisis we’re in. What do you think?
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It provides the forum in which they will have to testify, under oath and on the record, that the, “steal,” was a LIE and they knew it. Or, they will be forced to site their grounds for, “believing,” it. Any half decent lawyer will make laughing stocks out of such idiots! And the world NEEDS TO SEE THAT! Especially at this moment, when Q’s adherents actually STILL were surprised to see trump actually leave office! While they’re reeling, a dose of the truth, and the exposure of the LIE will be their best medicine! But, we have our part to play. We need to be inundating our GOP, “representatives,” and especially Mitch McConnell, with demands that they PURGE trump, and his criminal Quislings. They were literally Tweeting information to the rioters, in Real Time! Telling them where to find Dem targets! One tried to smuggle a GUN into the House, just a couple of days ago! Their party is riddled with America Hating Quislings, and must be purged for the sake of National Security! ✌️👍 DEMAND THE PURGE! This is YOUR Democracy, and you have every right! And Moscow Mitch needs that PUSH! Letters and emails, etc, that he can show to the members who have doubts; in vast numbers. When they know it will cost them their jobs, and all the protections that come with that, they’ll capitulate, because that’s what they DO! So I say, let’s put their lack of principal, and their cowardice, to work, for the good of the country? ✌️👍
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People NEED to look up, “The Milgram Electric Shock Experiment,” either here, or on their search engines. A stunning case of, “The computer says no.” A civil, “servant,” will commit quite OBVIOUSLY morally reprehensible acts on another human being because, “the paperwork is in order,” or, “the authoritative man with a clip board tells him to,” or because, “The warrant says so,” or perhaps because, “I was only following orders.”
The Milgram Experiment proved that people will hand over, “responsibility,” for their own actions, much more eagerly than any of us would like to think, simply to be SEEN to be following the rule book. It takes an especially assertive or well trained individual to stop and THINK before acting. They also showed, as these circumstances illustrate, that once the ball starts rolling, when more and more people get caught up in it, handing off their own culpability to, “the system,” the harder it is to stop the injustices from being carried out. This is because you now have a bunch of people who have all taken part and who will act in concert to, “justify,” their own actions in a silent, unspoken, contract.
Note: The experiment was initiated to gain an insight into HOW it was that otherwise decent, upstanding citizens could commit atrocities upon their fellow human beings in the concentration camps of WWII. That is where this path leads.
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Why aren’t we talking about three separate payments? Compensation, inflation adjusted, merely repays the monies falsely squeezed out of Post Masters. What about damages? For their jail time, reputations ruined, the families of the suicides, properties lost to make good these fraudulent claims, etc? And then there’s the state matter of punitive damages? Will the individuals responsible for perjury, fraud, conspiracy, perverting the course of justice, etc, be made to pay punitive settlements? There’s no reason for the tax payer to foot that part of the bill as it was criminal activity on the part of cruel, malignant conspirators, who maintained their plot for years, in the full knowledge that it was claiming lives and ruining entire communities. Punitive damages should be a part of their settlements and be assessed based on what each convicted conspirator is worth and their level of culpability.
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We understand that Trump knew he may not be around to break the law and spring Flynn, after November, so he had to do it now, or not do it at all. We know Flynn wants back in Cabinet, so a, “pardon,” would not help him, because he’d still be a criminal and barred from holding office. So, they Barr’d him instead, knowing that NO JUDGE would allow this. Let’s hope they get swamped by death row inmates, who’ve ALSO, “changed their minds”? And, let’s hope he gets back in Cabinet BEFORE the elections? Like Banquo’s Ghost, haunting Washington and pissing off the entire electorate? 🤣
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I know I don’t sound particularly Christmas spirited, but when I think of Michelle Mone fighting to lift herself out of hardship (if not actual poverty) I see a woman who looked down on all those like herself and felt the urge to exploit them, after pulling up the ladder of escape behind herself.
Mone is the sort of person who gets on the Titanic life boat and launches it before anyone else can get aboard, so as to have all the extra supplies. In a well ordered society she would be in jail by now. In many ways, she is worse than the narcissists and wasters born into privilege, because she knows what she is condemning others to, first hand.
Perhaps she is Americanised, or just plain stupid, enough to believe that she can somehow rescue herself in the court of public opinion, but I doubt it? I fear the possibility that she could, but I stand by my previous comments, that she only did that car crash BBC interview so as to ensure her threats of grassing reached the other politicians who are not taking her calls right now.
And should those people cave to her threats, they may well stymy the process, but she will remain ruined, sooner or later, if not actually imprisoned.
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@_Epsilon_ : Wrong. MSNBC is left leaning and has never made any pretence to be anything other. They publicly stated that they believed an, “antidote,” to F*x was necessary, but even they are still journalists. Most f*x anchors are not even journalists or trained. I bet you didn’t even know that? CNN has a reputation around the world, like the BBC, for straight, middle shooting journalism. In a crisis, people in other countries DON’T tune in to F*x to find out what’s going on! They look to CNN & the BBC. You just, “think,” it’s leftist, because facts and truth constantly make trump look bad. You’re not prepared to even CONSIDER that might be on trump. And you, “think,” it, because you’re told WHAT to think. Not HOW to think.
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djandersonny : Roosevelt knew that war was inevitable, but he also had ideological reasons for keeping British aid to a bare minimum. It became clear to FDR, and then Truman, that they would never get a better opportunity to break up the British Empire, as Britain reached bankruptcy. After the war, John Maynard Keynes literally begged America for easing of loan servicing, receiving a, “flint hearted response,” from America, and the strain and shock of it gave him a heart attack, from which he died. Britain only finished paying back its War Loans to America in 2006. America’s plan worked, too. As we all saw
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Ruth Smith : Basic facts, that’s all. I wasn’t meaning to be, “not,” nice. Poland lost an whole 20% of its entire population; the greatest loss suffered by any country, during WW II, NOT Russia. It’s stuff like that, which irks professional historians. GB was nearly bankrupted by the war; they did NOT, “profit,” from it at all, but I did mention that, already. Their net financial losses were only part of the story, too, given that they were unable to sustain their Empire, as America’s grew, and they became financially reliant on the generous payouts that the US handed over, to combat Stalinist Communism; which came with the other kind of tab; ideological.
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RedHeadNINTY9T9 : Sometimes I have genuinely come to wonder if we now have foreign sleeper agents in charge? Simply trying to sabotage Britain for the Russians or Chinese or something? Ask yourself, before, “Stop The Boats,” became a slogan, WHO ASKED FOR THAT? Who even sees it as a, “crisis”? The demographics clearly show that we NEED net migration, rather urgently. And who better than YOUNG people, who will still be contributing to economic activity with taxable incomes, when we’re all drawing our pensions? Wouldn’t we WANT the kind of people who say NO to dictatorships, with the motivation and drive to risk everything just to live in a democracy? Those are the EXACT people Britain needs! Yet we’re being utterly monstrous, to the extent of breaking international laws and UN and NATO treaties, for what? . . . Banning a certain mode of transport? It’s utterly illogical! One day, we’ll discover the real reasons for all this, which will inevitably turn out to be back room financial dealings, and we’ll feel like even bigger idiots than we do already!
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co coco : I hope that your reference to, “bloody men,” was not meant to imply that there is something inherently, “bad,” about being a man? Because, other than that, I was impressed by your comment. I like your honest ambivalence toward Obama (there is, “harm,” in, “charm,” as mother, God rest her, used to say) as I am, “conservative,” in my politics, and was once a ferocious critic of his oppressive domestic spying.
But, then Trump happened, and America went a little crazy, like that, “friend,” we’ve all had, in an abusive relationship, who cannot be persuaded to listen to reason, but who’m you have no choice, but to support, after the harm has been done? As a citizen, I say we HAVE TO bight the bullet; OWN the FACT that a staggeringly large percentage of our population is racist, and willing to trade Democracy for a White America.
Education is the only, known, cure for the virus of racism; less effective, the older you get, but capable of inoculating the young. It’s time for a little long term investment in THAT future. The racists in power KNOW this, btw; hence, Betsy Duuuh’voss, and a daily diet of University HATE, from Fox. Other than Trump’s opponents, it’s universities that get all of the Alt-Wrong’s opprobrium. And, that’s why.
America is having trouble owning its mistake, but NOT just because it was SO HUGE. It’s because those who invested in Trumpski, have staked their very lives on him. And, like Trump himself, the more they invest, the more they are FORCED to back up their investments, with MORE investments, continuously raising the stakes.
I could say MUCH more, but, look at me, rambling on! You seem to have set me off?
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hunter gatherer : You’re very emotional, son. It comes off as a bit effeminate. Like you’re easily triggered, self loathing, and driven by a, “need,” to, “hurt,” people’s feelings, in the way yours feel permanently violated, which makes you the, “victim,” every day, with each breath you draw. People feel sorry for you, but no one likes you. Kinda’ sucks to be you, huh? 🙂
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Putin’s nuclear threats are the best possible news for the west. Putin is afraid for himself and merely expresses DESPERATION when he says crap like that. He doesn’t know what else he CAN say. He can’t understand why he’s gotten away with playing western countries like a fiddle and now suddenly nothing works. His panic talk should not surprise ANYONE who knows anything about what’s happening, nor should it frighten anyone. If anything it should reassure us.
This author says the Russian people, “don’t want to know,” like that was something, “new.” But it isn’t. Moral and political absenteeism has been a way of life in Russia since Putin conned his way into power. The, “social contract,” between the Russians and their state has been, “We can do what we like so long as we stay out of politics and never criticise the state.” That unspoken contract was broken when Putin’s politics started costing Russian’s their jobs, livelihoods and freedoms, and now their very bodies for the meat grinder. With another 300,000 to come no doubt, before the spring offensive, which will, by then, be a desperate rear guard action to get out of Ukraine with the fewest possible casualties, whilst passing the Buck for failures, back to an increasingly delegitimised Kremlin and a toppling Putin.
The west is winning for once, and stands to win the capacity for stabilising prices and markets around the world if Russia collapses. And the west is on the side of the angels, for once, so we should support Ukraine to the very end and be instrumental in the rebuilding of their country’s infrastructure and membership of NATO.
Just as we are all paying a price for this war, the inflation, fuel hikes, gas prices and cost of living crisis (recession) all resulting from Putin’s actions primarily, we have the opportunity to see that the dog we all have in this fight gets his victory and a decent bight of the pie for a change. Wouldn’t THAT be nice?
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@harlonband380 : LOL . . . “Many people,” want Fascism, Stalinism and the reincarnation of Hitler to be Donny’s Talitrump sidekick, but that’s never gonna’ happen either, son! See, your problem is your definition of, “many people,” there kid. It might look like, “a lot,” to you, when you’re all in your hoods, doing the Nazi salute and shouting, “Heil Trump,” in unison (That’s not a gag, btw. Countless examples are available on YouTube, from various news sources!) but, weighed against the vast majority of Americans, you need to come to terms with the reality: After what trump pulled on Jan 6th, and all the subsequent events, which have lead to SO MANY Q, “fans,” getting deprogrammed and, “De-Radicalised,” trump would be lucky to get 74 THOUSAND votes now! Let alone 74 MILLION! He’s LOST 3 ELECTIONS in a row, son! You think he’s GAINED, “popularity,” after trying to install a DICKtatorship, in a COUP??? Are you ACTUALLY MAD??? CNN is a fact of life, kid. Live with it🤦♂️🤷♂️🙄 . . . 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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@Wulfman46: You forgot to tell us you’re still a, “biased,” trump troll, regardless. And, if you don’t know that CNN is not viewed the way you want people to, “think,” it is, that’s because you’re being told what you, “think,” and haven’t yet learned HOW to THINK. But, that’s your boggle, madam. CNN is not my dad. I don’t even CARE about, “ratings,” silly. Who does? The facts matter, that’s all! Now, go learn some critical thinking skills and maybe READ A BOOK? 🤦♂️
Why did your name come out as jumbled letters, there, madam? Do you know why? Or shall I explain it to you? Professional troll, much? . . . 🤔😉
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incorrigible delinquent : Glad you’re concerned about that, given Trump is a Stalinist, if EVER I saw one. He wants State Control of EVERYTHING, and his social media Bill will GIVE IT TO HIM. When his office has ALL of your personal details, or you won’t be given access to your Twitter, Facebook, etc, they will know where you live and what you’re saying. When they have control of women’s bodies; of the farmer’s payroll, the news media, and the upcoming, “Libel Laws;” when they’re indicting journalists for repeating, “stolen,” information, even if it’s ALREADY in the public domain; when they’re kicking in YOUR door, remember what you said, about the problem of Stalinism . . .
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So get off your ass and DO SOMETHING! No one else is going to, “save you.” You have to get out there, NOW! They are RIGGING the, “elections.” Florida is ALREADY, “decided.” They’re literally STEALING post boxes off of the streets! It will be TOO LATE to, “protest,” in November, when they’re ready for you! Do something NOW, or regret it forever! The GOP are terrified of JAIL TIME, and they WON’T ALLOW ELECTIONS! Demand the RESTORATION OF YOUR REPUBLIC AND DEMOCRACY, AND YOUR POST OFFICE!!!
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Yourmom : I don’t think you GET it yet? It won’t really matter. Much as you’d LOVE to have a “target” to LIE about and attempt to sabotage? Which is WHY no one will announce their candidacy until they have to, so as not to set themselves up for Russo-Republican Dirty Tricks campaigns. But, the POINT is, that only Trump’s CULT will vote for him: The Racists, the ignorant and the treasonous greedy. EVERYONE else, including Conservatives, LIKE ME, will be voting AGAINST TRUMP, and not, “for,” ANYONE. The mere presence of the Troll Army has CONVINCED most people that we’re under Russian attack, but they keep on making it WORSE, with their sloppy antics, like going quiet and then returning in their DROVES, when Putin sets up a potential “win” for Trump, with N Korea, for example. SMH
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Alex Alonzo : Of course she’s right. “Wag the dog.” A distraction, to have Americans look away from the sham of the GOP fixing Trump’s Impeachment. The Republic has FALLEN in a COUP, organised by GOP members who face jail time if Trump is removed. And by the crime family that would all go to jail, the moment Trump lost his presidential, “protected status.” They HAVE TO RIG 2020’s, “elections,” with Russia’s help. It’s that or JAIL. So they have taken away your Democracy, to save a bunch of crooked, incompetent, evil idiots. Their only concern is that Americans might RISE UP, which is why the go to Iran distraction, AGAIN. WHY ARE YOU ALLOWING THE END OF THE REPUBLIC, AMERICA??? . . . Smh
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Boris, “does have great gifts,” but they do NOT represent his, “good side.” His charm, his personality (dear GOD how sick am I of hearing about politicians with, “personality,” as if that should, IN ANY WAY, qualify them for ANY role in public office!?) and his entertainment value have all been abused to the point that he has done more damage to Britain’s future and the reputation of our political institutions than ANY other single person in our history, since Titus Oats!
And because the committee looking to only one aspect of Boris’s habitual deceit was made up of a majority of Tories, formed under Johnson’s administration and therefore well known to him (and he to them) they absolutely KNEW how he would react when they showed him a copy of their findings!
Note: They were NOT compelled give him that preview for any legal reasons, but they wanted to ensure they gave him enough rope to hang himself, rather than let him get away with trying to stitch them up, with his predictably Trumpian witch hunt narratives. They KNEW he would try to, “get in front of the story,” and pre-empt their damning findings, and that he would be, “Boris,” and commit further offences, thus proving their point. In that sense they played a blinder. “QED,” as Boris might say.
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GuessWhat : We’ve READ them, Trump Troll. And, you know what America is thinking? We’re thinking, “Wait till the tapes come out? Wait till the rest of the WB’s and further Complaints come out? Wait till the WB’s OWN version comes out?” Because we all KNOW that if this is the version Trump is willing to fly with, the TRUTH will be WAY, WAY worse. You, “think,” it’s bad, now? You wait, son . . . Siddown. We ain’t gotten GOING yet, kid 😁
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@guderian557 : Let me put it to you this way: Why is Jake not speaking Mandarin Chinese? Since that language is the, “standard,” used by the majority of people on Earth? (Note: Not to be confused with, “most widely spoken.”)
As I have already pointed out, your, “standard,” is not necessarily other people’s. Jake knows his audience and he has discussed his metrics with us in previous videos. That is how I know that the biggest single group he speaks to are his fellow Americans. The responsibility of a good communicator is to, “communicate,” with, “your,” audience.
Is this really a big issue for you?
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The New Natives : You Interest me. For a spiritual warrior, you do sound a little cynical, though? I should clarify, that I was referring to Trump’s, “perception,” of what he did; not what he actually DID. He, “believes,” Iran to be impotent, and picked them for that reason, to do his, “strong-man-president,” performance, for the sake of those, “Trump Cultists,” who were left scratching their heads, after seeing him GROVEL, so ABJECTLY before Putin.
Iran can probably cause all kinds of HAVOC, should they let slip their dogs of war, but they are too CLOSELY ALLIED to Putin, to go off half cocked.
Trump has been spoiling for a fight with Iran, because he believes that Putin may relent; perhaps, in exchange for US troops pulling out of Syria? And, his, “Advisors,” have told him that War Time Presidents always get a spike in their polls. And, Trump IS pretty DESPERATE, with the Mid Terms looming. Though, he probably doesn’t grasp that Americans will NOT, “thank,” him for spending their blood and treasure on an AVOIDABLE conflict, of HIS making.
But, you strongly suggest that God is playing Trump like a chess piece, presumably, with all the other actors on the stage, if you’ll forgive my mixed metaphor, there? On what basis, do you draw THAT conclusion? You are obviously a, “believer,” unless I’m missing your sarcasm? I am a Christian, “believer,” though I DON’T fit the model that most Churches follow. And, I fully respect other faiths. Are you drawing upon Prophecy?
I’m genuinely interested. You don’t strike me as the usual, run of the mill, person of faith. How are you reading the runes, and what runes, do you read, if you don’t mind my asking?
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The New Natives : Fascinating. I don’t know whether you already know this (I suspect you might?) but a lot of what you wrote, there, paraphrased the writings of Isaac Newton, who’s remaining writings, gathered after his death, stunned his scientific colleagues, when there turned out to be 15 times MORE material on ALCHEMY, than he ever wrote on physics, along with Masonic Doctrine, Numerology and other esoteric doctrines. Not that I’m putting any such labels upon you, but you are certainly not a, “traditionalist,” if you think of yourself as a Christian? Perhaps you are more of a Deist? I am somewhat sceptical of such things, but I have, nevertheless, often wondered if it’s possible that each of the three faiths - Christianity, Judaism and Muslim doctrine - could each have 1/3 of the complete puzzle? Given that they all share the same God, and all have Jesus as a figure, if not, “messiah,” in their teachings?
I digress. My question for you then, in practical terms, is are you predicting that there will be a war in the Middle East, centred on Jerusalem? Many believe that this is how the world will, “End.” Many, from all three faiths, seem to think we are, “In the season”? I ask, because I recognise some of your references, from Revelations.
Do you you have a faith, which can be described as Christian? By the way, my reference to, “runes,” was a metaphor, nothing more. No offence intended
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The New Natives : Your last comment got to me after I written my last comment. God is the “Alpha and Omega” in my Bible. And, yes, I recognise the words of Christ. Mark? I’m not a Bible scholar, but I think we take to the hills in Mark? I don’t believe I have borne false witness, since I was a child. So, I hope that’s not an accusation?
But, then, I’m pretty convinced that the Anti-Christ is Orange, and that his name rhymes with what I’d like to do to his face, “THUMP.” (I never claimed to be a good Christian, only a believer). However, I still have hope that he can be REMOVED. Don’t you?
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The New Natives : Not sure if I followed all of that, but if I’m getting you, you’re saying we are in the season, but no one can predict the exact time, as Christ told us that. However, if we accept His teaching on this, all the signs that the season is upon us, seem to be extant, about us? As we speak, I just glimpsed my phone, alerting me to a news headline, regarding some incident between Syria and Israel.
Now THAT’S a bit freaky, for timing? . . . Perhaps we’re closer than anyone realises?
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@Derek Black : We agree on Saudi Arabia, except, I would say, we should have invaded them, “as well as,” not, “instead of,” Afghanistan. Invading SA would have merely added to that imperative. As to your last point, A) I’m not convinced at all, and there’s no objective measure by which to guage what is, after all, only a personal opinion, not a statement of fact.
B) We prevented any further 911 style attacks, which was the chief objective, so our troops can hold their heads up high for that reason.
C) I’m not convinced it was our responsibility to leave the country better or worse. Nor was it our problem. Harsh, but fair. Indeed, there is often mileage in leaving a country in a broken down state, making it a drain on its allies, rather than a resource.
However, what some call, “Empire Building,” is what others call, “Nation Building,” and the truth is always somewhere in the middle. It was a very successful model that worked so well after WWII. Sadly, the Henry Kissinger types of this world have had too much say in how we run things, resulting in our abject failure to learn from history. Nation Building doesn’t work in Muslim Countries, it seems. We should maybe have never tried? But, I’m not about to gain say them for trying. They could have just glassed the place, policed it, ruthlessly, like the Russians tried to, and left after a couple of years. But, they took responsibility, which is at least, “laudable,” if costly and wasteful.
Regarding your opening remark, about all those other countries, I don’t see the relevance? . . .
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“The reason they’re just beginning,” is because he’s a habitual criminal, and an idiot who would never have been able to get away with nearly any of the crimes he committed in office, had he not been enabled by criminal enablers. I think the impeachment trial may surprise people? Most of the GOP are witnesses, who can be subpoenaed to testify. And that means they’ll have to give their, “evidence,” for claiming to, “believe,” in the, “steal,” or confess that they KNEW it was a LIE, under oath, on the record, and for all the world to see and hear! For the cult of trump, that will be a massive blow. Then there’s all the evidence that will prove it was NOT a, “spontaneous,” event, but a PLANNED CONSPIRACY! An attempted Coup! And, how many witnesses, (maybe military generals?) will come forward, to testify that they were asked to join the Conspiracy? America may well be DEMANDING trump’s Conviction by the time it’s over? No wonder Lindsay Graham and others are so DESPERATE to stop it, right?
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As I understand it, this Foxian, “rugging,” debacle comes down to the GB Bees’s, “journalist,” in question, who allowed the comment to pass unchallenged and, from what I hear, giggled along and actively encouraged the hateful performance?
The man himself is clearly filth, with no place in the public sphere, let alone discussing journalists or anywhere NEAR politics. But the incel mindset pervades the webosphere and is being fed by people like Fox and, as we can see, GB Bees, because that’s what happens when the entitled start losing; they get very angry and aggressive and try to threaten their way to the results they’re used to.
I’m always pleased to receive threats, personally. It is a sure indication that I have won my argument and that my opponents have none to counter with. Plus, I don’t fear anyone. However, it’s just not the same for women. Choosing my words with equal care, here: The evidence is that women can be victims of, “involuntary rugging,” and that 90% of the perpetrators will never even be charged with anything, let alone see the inside of a court room. And the conviction rate is even more depressing, when combined with the investigation statistics.
But then, that’s why cowards target women in this way. They certainly don’t have the courage to risk any personal skin in the game.
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Carlos Davis : Oh, my friend, Trump is already, “sunk,” alright. This weekend is being spent on quiet, little deals, being made by the GOP, on darkened, smokey rooms. NONE of them, “wants,” Trump to get away with framing Biden and extorting foreign powers. ANYONE could end up like Biden, if they help him now? It would mean a future of unquestioning SLAVERY to Trump, if he survived this! The alternative would be to end up like Biden! Hauled off to a cell, or WORSE, for having an untarnished record of exemplary service to America? If Trump could do that to HIM, just imagine what he could do to THEM? They’re ALL painfully aware of that, and we’re going to see some DEFECTIONS from the GOP ✌️👍
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BLM is a communication of truth: We are not the, “rioters,” son. Lumping us all together is WHY this is happening, and WHY Donny is losing. So, you keep doing you, kiddo. You only help our cause. Especially with that recognisable name of yours. Seeing the same ole’ names, saying the same ole’ propaganda, day after day, year on year, makes us conclude that you’re being paid, or you’re just not well in the brain pan? Or, both?
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James Campagna : I get what you’re saying, but I’m not convinced. You may well be right? If so, I guess it’s on the big companies to install that tech? But, will they do it? Is it expensive? Why haven’t they? Not saying you have to answer those questions, but those will be asked. And, if it’s down to public pressure, you’d have to convince the public that such a technology is both, “doable,” AND doesn’t represent an invasion of privacy. And, I’m not convinced of either, right now . . .
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James Campagna : I imagine there’s a s**t load (excluding the dark-web) of violent, and otherwise disturbing, live streams and vids, that float under the radar, because not enough people complain about, or see them? I once looked at YouTube vids of car crashes, for about three or four weeks, for research, and some of the things I saw . . . They would have life altering effects on children or mentally vulnerable people. But, a few complaints come in, from here or there, I guess, and they quietly get taken down, and the vast majority have no idea they even existed. You’re more likely to get your web freedoms shut off, if you piss off a major games company, or media bully, than if you beat the s**t out of some innocent passer by, video it, and call it a, “Prank Video.” Weird world
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James Campagna : No disrespect, but I never touch Click Bait. References only, please? Trump Tramps, especially the ones paid by Russian Shell companies, often make them into Malware Traps. I’m sure your not offering me that, but I made a promise to my bro. He’s a Techspert, and he showed me how it’s done. I didn’t understand what he was showing me, but he made a YouTube link, filled with bots, Trojans, Worms, etc. After removing it, he made me promise NEVER to touch them, so I don’t offer or accept them. Nothing personal
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LB2007 : Good comment. Even if Trump, “understood,” the concept of representing, serving, and protecting people’s interests, he has ZERO experience at it, and has DEMONSTRATED a total unwillingness to LISTEN or LEARN.
In all seriousness, I wouldn’t care about the educational background of a candidate, so much as I would care about their WILLINGNESS to learn about the issues, LISTEN to briefings, and TRUST the experts; and to have the discernment to tell a yes-man from someone who’s genuinely trying to give you the facts. And, ALL of the above can be established from their record in general ✌️
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Gavin Sherlock : I NEVER VOTED for Trump. I am a political historian, who LEFT the Republicans, when Trump won the nomination. You may describe yourself as a, “liberal,” but if you allow your hostility to get in the way, you will only achieve what the Democrats have so often achieved before, and orchestrate your OWN DEFEAT. Is THAT what you WANT??? If you CHECK the RECORD, you will SEE THE FACTS: Self described, “CONSERVATIVES,” used to voting Republican, FLIPPED and voted for the DEMOCRATS in those states. Not in HUGE numbers, but sufficient to take those state BACK from the GOP. CHECK THE RECORD? The Democrats WON those seats BACK. You may remember a certain “controversy” over a guy named Roy Moore, in Alabama? Trump, his daughter AND Mike Pence, ALL visited Pennsylvania and spent MANY $ MILLIONS on maintaining a 20 POINT LEAD, but the DEMOCRAT Candidate WON! WHERE is the, “False,” statement? What is CONFUSING about that? This is NOT the time to be an, “unyielding lefty.” We either UNITE and SAVE DEMOCRACY at the Mid Terms, or we let them DIVIDE us, BLOW IT and LOSE our DEMOCRACY? WHICH IS IT?
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The GOP forced abortions on unwilling asylum seekers, against their will, in a border camp, built specially for that purpose. Biden shut it down, immediately, when he heard of it. “Punishment Abortions,” on mostly Catholic asylum seekers, to deter women from crossing the border, didn’t work. It just made them dodge the authorities while coming in. But, to build a facility to do this on an industrial scale? Pretty monstrous! Thank God Joe heard about it and did something, the very same day, right?!
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Joe Po : I obviously, “got,” to you? You sound VERY upset. What’s, “Rules For Radicals?” Compulsory reading on the Troll Farm? We can ALL guess what the first line is, though: “Whine about Hillary and Obahhhmmmaaaahhhh!” “Even though NO ONE CARES about them, we have NOTHING else, so PRETEND that people would GIVE A DAMN if they spontaneously EXPLODED, and what EVER you do, DON’T acknowledge that there are as many CONSERVATIVES as there are LIBERALS who want the Trump regime to END.” Keep flailing, sonny, we find your HYSTERICAL PANIC rather amusing 🤣
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M Taylor : That’s a good point. According to the best stats I could get hold of, it’s up to 2/3rds at any given time, but the numbers are usually that high when trump has, “done,” something. However, when you consider the others; the ones who’s names are recognisable, because they’ve been doing it for 4 years or so; day after day, all day, talking to people they hate, on the channels they hate, about the things they hate? . . . They’re not, “well,” in the head, so there’s nothing to be gained by engaging them anyway; other than feeling their mental illness? ✌️👍
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Jewels Star : Yup, and those are the ones who get, PAID. Because people can’t resist poking fun at their idiocy. I admit, I fell for it, over and over. But, I hope more people will spread the word? That’s how I found out, actually. Someone on YouTube told me, so I looked it up. Took a bit of study, but there’s a clear system, because there needs to be: trolls will only be consistent if their pay is consistent. And bots still don’t quite cut it, yet
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I’m sorry, I’m not convinced that all of the voters, “believe,” the Big Lie. Some do, but I’m convinced they’re the minority. Most of them lie, just like their leaders. Racist ideology is dependent upon lies, which are knowingly manufactured, by people who have to know the truth, in order that they can lie about it. Without knowledge of the facts, their lies cannot be convincing. “Belief,” is a loose concept in this context. It’s more like being emotionally committed, practically mentally ill, than actual, “belief,” in something. A continually self-adjusting narrative, a self-correcting sociopathic, emotional need. An unmet need, compounded and exploited by smarter people who count upon the uncritical credulity of their base. I mean, say it out loud? “A pedophile ring, ritual sacrifices, for a chemical generated by frightened children?” It’s not even RATIONAL.
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@NobleNemesis : Churchill would have been screaming to the rafters long before the Ukraine war started, about all of the oil and gas deals the west got into with Putin in the first place. I always said it was suicidally dumb and Churchill would have compared it to relying on Hitler for his Hurricanes and Spitfires during The Battle Of Britain! We asked for this problem, as we could have crushed Russia within weeks had we not gotten ourselves hooked on his energy pipelines. And how did Putin get the west SO DEEPLY compromised in the first place? By corruption. Instead of spies hiding and bribing and blackmailing our top politicians and business tycoons, like in the Cold War days, he simply had his oligarchs do it all in the open, buying up western sports teams, listed properties and major companies, and then use their money and influence to get into all the top parties and social events. From there they blackmailed and bribed our top policy makers into becoming reliant on our avowed enemies for our very life blood, like a drug dealer getting immature teens hooked on his product in the playground! Some of us have been screaming about this for literal DECADES now! Some of us saw all of this coming and are only relieved that it didn’t work! But the actual harm we’ve allowed Putin to do to our world wide economy has been incalculable! The food shortages, fuel price hikes, coming recession and, “cost of living crisis,” are ALL a direct result of two decades of pusillanimous politicians taking bribes and getting themselves compromised by Russian oligarchs, right under our noses, and disclaiming any responsibility, like the Germans did, by saying it was all some sort of, “policy plan,” in which we could get Russia to be more democratic by bringing them into economic reliance with the west. Yet, if that was even HALF true, how come we didn’t come up with business opportunities that made Russia reliant on the west? Instead of us relying on them? Cheap gas and oil blinded these well meaning, grasping Neo-Liberal idiots and corrupted bureaucrats into making sure that THEY were making big bucks in the here and now, with no thought of tomorrow. Well, tomorrow came and countless thousands are dead, with millions potentially facing death. All because we in the west cut our own throats in the most egregious, short sighted, predictable, GREEDY way possible. Every politician (especially in Germany) who signed up for Russian pipelines should be investigated. What you will find is that they all took massive bribes or were blackmailed, or both.
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I just hope you all understand how the Kremlin 101 Playbook, “On International Diplomacy,” works. Because, those of you who know your history will know that this is classic meaningless rhetoric. Look at it from Putin’s point of view and you’ll soon see what I mean:
Imagine you’re the guy who’s heist has gone horribly wrong? You’re cornered and sitting there with a big grenade and you’ve pulled the pin and threatened to let go of the lever if they arrest you? Stalemate, or so it seems? Except all the people in your gang are getting hurt, getting poorer and angrier by the day. And you know it’s only a question of time before something gives.
At the point when all the cops who have you in that corner and aren’t letting you go, they decide to get into a huddle together to talk about how to end this hostage siege, and you’re watching them, getting increasingly twitchy and exhausted, wondering if you might drop that grenade accidentally by yourself!?
At that point, what do you do? You make your worst possible threat, in the hopes of intimidating that huddle out of doing anything too, “drastic.” When Putin says, “Do X or Y and I’ll nuke you all,” he’s really telling you, “Do X or Y and I’ll fold and lose this thing.”
I’m certain of two things. One: Putin is BLUFFING. Two: We should call his bluff! We should have called his bluff in the 1990’s and he’s only pulling this sh*t because WE’VE ALLOWED IT! We owe Ukraine more than an apology. We owe them TOTAL VICTORY.
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Dawn of Fyre : Clearly, you were BOTH correct. He is a “Troll” AND he’s “stupid” . . . A stupid Troll. They’re not exactly rare? He’s depressed, to see, what he thought was another victory of propaganda, turn into smoke, before his eyes. Set against the background of more and MORE Conservatives, voting against the GOP, in places where there just aren’t enough, “liberals,” to have ousted them, in places like Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc, he’s got a LOT to be, “depressed,” about 😁
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And so the premier of France is playing the role of the, “victim,” instead of addressing the issues that everyone cares about. He might as well have decided he was determined to keep these riots going, for all the bad faith, Boomerish, out of touch, platitudes he just expressed!
How to cause a riot: Take a serious incident and apply the top three bad faith dismissals to it. Namely:
* Blame Video Games
* Call the psychotic killer cop, “Just one bad apple,” when everyone can see the issue is institutional
* Express your, “Thoughts and Prayers,” to the victims of institutional murder.
That will ensure that the public not only KNOWS you’re acting in bad faith, but they will see that you are determined to ensure that NOTHING will be done to find a solution. God forbid Macron would do HIS JOB and actively investigate the police collectively; address training and recruitment; look at the record for abuses of power and unlawful shootings, or do ANYTHING that might reassure the public.
Let’s be clear about who’s playing the, “victim,” card here. It’s the people who’s JOB it is to DO something yet overtly refuse to take responsibility and act all confused at the frustration of the people getting murdered.
That’s my long winded way of saying, stop hiding behind quotes and taking them out of context and grow TF up, son.
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Rodger Dodger : No one needs to, “guess,” about you, son. You’re either a hired hand, from some, “shithiole country,” no one gives a damn about, or you’re one of the Scared Folk, who feel an, “emotional,” NEED to haunt CNN, screaming from behind Hillary’s skirts, like the effeminate, permanent, “victims,” you are. The very fact that you’re ALWAYS HERE is what blows your, “credibility,” kid. But, Trump’s Tramps were never accused of being, “smart,” were they? 🤣
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Kapten Krok : Don’t fall for the, “resign for what?” question, my friend. Their, “job,” is to keep you talking in one place, rather than getting around, putting negative comments about Trump in LOTS of places. Trump Trolls are NOT here to, “debate,” or change minds. Their JOB is to make the DIVISION WORSE. Division is Trump’s Oxygen. A, “United States,” of America, Trump’s Kryptonite. His fans don’t, “believe,” him, any more than YOU OR I DO. They’re either foreigners, on the payroll, or American victims of the Dead Money Scam; indoctrinating themselves. They gave too much money, lost too many friends and family, to admit to THEMSELVES just how WRONG they were about Trump. Especially the notion of hearing, “I TOLD YOU SO,” from a, “Liberal,” which is ANYONE who disagrees with Trump. They’re tragic, hysterics, best left to their own impotent rage ✌️👍
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KyleRen 1337 : Just because you’re drunk on Fox’s brand of Koolaid, doesn’t mean that the ACTUAL News stations are ALL wrong, you know? What shocks us Normals, is why you don’t seem to CARE? Is it that you are just too racist? Are you just another foreign Troll, who got one of those emails, offering to, “Turn Your Comments Into CASH,” so long as you’re, “nice,” about Trump & Putin? It’s OBVIOUS Trump is a CROOK, who was looking at utter destruction, BEFORE, he got into the Presidential Race. Or, is it that you just CAN’T ADMIT that you were SO WRONG about him? Where’s your Patriotism? Does it not SICKEN you, to see him WASTE our money and resources? Attacking our allies? Attacking Law & Order? Our Heroes? OUR FRIGGING SPORTS? WTF is WRONG with your Cult? . . . SMH
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KyleRen 1337 : I have the whole thing, documented in two volumes; ALL taken from the PUBLIC RECORD. PROOF of Trump’s CRIMES, his malpractice, his stupidity, his evil attempt to kill his own infant nephew, his use of illegal immigrants to build Trump Tower, his refusal to PAY them, his drug smuggling for the Luchese Italian CRIME Family, his money laundering with the Russians, and much, MUCH MORE. Do you WANT the PROOF? Or will you (hashtag)RunAway? Zardos? 🙂
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KyleRen 1337 : They CAN, “Work,” you know? Has THAT not occurred to you? If Trump, “wanted,” to stop mass migrations, he would simply prosecute the Big Business owners, who use them for Tax Free Labor? But, they’re his DONORS, so THAT ain’t happening, right? Damned RIGHT I’d take a family in, “MY HOME!” I have ALREADY APPLIED, but I just get the runaround at present, because they have NO PROCESS for DECENCY! And, I BET you, “claim,” to be an Evangelical Christian, right? This is a bunch of terrified, exhausted, REFUGEES, looking for HELP! But, it’s EASIER to dismiss them as, “terrorists,” and watch Alex Jones videos of PALESTINE, doctored to look like the Caravan, right? This is WHY America HATES Trump. Heartless, EVIL, SOB . . . SMH
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There is the “DUTY TO WARN” which, forgive me, Trumps the “Rule” that mental health professionals don’t diagnose from their arm chair. I speak as both a former mental health professional (Family Therapist) and a former “guest” of a mental health ward, when I had my own nervous breakdown. I have ALWAYS found that those who are the MOST sensitive about just HOW we talk about these issues, tend to be the “professionals”, whereas, most of those who have been treated for mental health problems, like me, are proud to be “Nut Jobs” and prefer not to dance around the issues.
Trump is a “F**king Moron” AND a TOTAL LOONEY, and I suspect we’ll ALL be wishing that we’d been a bit less touchy about speaking out on his patent mentalism, when we’re sitting in the nuclear ash pile???!
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@rubylicious1024 : Actually, no one, “fears,” that they will, “abandon Ukraine,” if the Republicans win the next election. They won’t anyway so long as Joe Biden stands again. But what the Republicans fear is Ukraine becoming the issue that fractures them if they come to power, because over two thirds of the Republican Party consistently votes to support every measure to support Ukraine and those against supporting them are a tiny minority: loud, yes. But, tiny nevertheless. So, I’m sorry son, but you won’t get to save Putin through an American election. Especially since it’s not even certain that trump will be the candidate.
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Zul Hazwan : You knew he was lying, though, right? The mere fact that these, “protestors,” are there, NOT being arrested, proves he lied. Trump trolls have never been accused of being, “smart.” This is organised by propagandists who are trying to create a myth of, “popular support,” for Trump lifting the lockdown. Idiots who watch Alex Jones, who’ll realise what dicks they’ve been, when they’re being denied a ventilator, two weeks from now. Hope they all get it in a giant Darwinian Karma Bomb 😉👍
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I can’t believe that Chomsky, of all people, is still buying into the notion that we’ll be having an, “election.” Surely he can see that America is nothing more than a Public Limited Company now? The Republic had it’s last gasp at that Impeachment, “trial,” sham. Why else is Trump getting his excuses in early, and his propagandists on the web, rallying people to block traffic and, “protest,” the lockdown? The MONEY. He has to turn on the MONEY flow, as that’s the one thing that could cost him his job. Russia style, pre-rigged, “elections,” won’t shift him. The share holders of America PLC are mostly foreigners. Trump will put a million or more of you to the sword, for the MONEY. That’s your entire political analysis, right there. Nothing else matters
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carrollyn aragon : They get PAID to change the subject. Many don’t even BOTHER to WATCH or LISTEN to the video in hand. About 10 %, or fewer, do watch, and only around 10 % of THOSE are capable of discussion. And, of THOSE, only around 10 % will stick to the discussion, without losing it and name calling, or just disappearing. There are SOLID stats out there, on the Troll Farms and how they work, in places like The Ukraine and St Petersburg, where people are poor and desperate enough to say ANYTHING for money.
But, it’s the home grown ones, that get paid through Russian shell companies (some of them not realising how they’re being used, but just, “Turning their comments into cash!”) that REALLY disgust me. The ones that KNOW what they’re doing, especially, are traitors. Whereas, the ones who are just stupid, may as well be traitors, as they’re actions have the same effect. Smh
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it's me Joolz : Yup. I saw a piece on Rachel Maddow, discussing Troll, “strategy.” Some are hired to, “debate,” but MOST are simply their to ALIENATE the ones that say things which THEY find ALARMINGLY accurate or near the knuckle, or people who speak the TRUTH and are growing popular. So, take it as a kind of back-handed compliment. You OBVIOUSLY upset them, which is ALWAYS a good thing.
There are ALSO studies, showing that they have been shooting themselves in the foot, by putting off Conservative voters. That’s WHY states like Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc, (where there just weren’t ENOUGH, “liberals,” to take out the GOP on their OWN) have been flipping to the Dems. No down side! 😁 👍
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VoLumeZ : You will be shocked to learn this, but people vote for all kinds of reasons, and the rule book says that’s allowed. “YOU don’t,” get to lecture people on the right way to vote, or the correct reasoning. But, if we were to all follow your lead, voting on, “character and policy,” that still leaves us all with no choice but to vote Trump OUT! Biden May be a lot of things, and maybe some of them are, “bad,” who TF knows or cares at this stage? But, at least he is a politician who knows something about America? Trump is pure EVIL
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darrell collier : You sound like you’re condemning the entire Muslim faith, which is inherently wrong. Condemning ALL people, because of their beliefs is like doing so, because of their tastes in rock music. It’s NOT being, “Muslim,” that’s the issue, it’s the people who PRETEND that they are Muslims, when their faith teaches them that ALL Terrorism is WRONG. It’s like, if I formed a group, who used terror, to make me rich and powerful, but told the idiots who committed the atrocities for me, that we’re, “doing it for Jesus.” I might convince some of them, and I can murder those that don’t toe the line. But, just because I SAY IT, doesn’t make it actually, “for Jesus,” does it? Muslims have NO beliefs in TERROR, MURDER, or ATROCITY. That’s a perversion of the faith, and has nothing to do with ANYTHING, other than Fox Propaganda
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@N3KRoM3KHANIKaL : It seems to me that even the great physicists have a habit of falling into the trap of ejecting either time, or space (or gravity or mass) from their thinking when they consider these questions. The muddle leads to dead ends, like, “bootstrapping,” and, “grandmother paradoxes,” because they are so busy seeing, “violations,” of one factor or another instead of taking them into account?
Consider the birth of the universe? While the entire mass of the universe was compressed into an area smaller than humans can comprehend, what was time actually, “doing,” as a result of such immense compression? We can calculate the precise amount of mass it takes to create a black hole, yet somehow an entire universe, “violated,” every known law of physics by expanding outwards with a mass so much bigger than it takes to create the smallest black hole that there is literally not enough room in the whole of YouTube for me to print out all the zeroes after the first one, if I tried to put a figure on it.
And what do physicists do? They eject the notion of time whilst, paradoxically, wonder how the universe violated time by communicating with each opposite end to produce a uniform appearance? Not once do they ask, what happened to time itself? Despite knowing that space-time is a repeatedly proven phenomena to the extent that we rely upon it to use things like YouTube in the first place. Time had to be utterly distorted at the beginning of the universe, but we prefer to accept ideas like Inflation? I think we need a new Einstein, Newton or Copernicus to move us forward.
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Chop Tank : Yeah, I heard something like that on Fox Lies. You NEED to LISTEN to ALL of the reporting, dude. Hannity is DESPERATE, because he has stuck his neck out too far to pull it back in. He’s being SELECTIVE with his “facts” and, in some cases, simply LYING. I watched his, stitching together the THINEST, MOST DESPERATE FABRICATIONS, yesterday and genuinely had to lol. If you “think” Trump can outrun the TRUTH, because a couple of PROPAGANDA stations are willing to ABUSE THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES as, “journalists,” then you’re in for a tough time, when Trump goes to JAIL. Be LESS EMOTIONAL and LOOK at the FACTS, if you DARE? Or don’t, and remain in a state of confused, impotent rage, when it all comes crumbling down. But, ask yourself; if Trump WAS, “innocent,” WHY does he act SO GUILTY? WHY hasn’t he just shut this whole thing down? WHY won’t his OWN PARTY let him DO THAT? REALLY; ask yourself?
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All of your analysis was quite brilliant, and made me think more deeply about this movie. One mistake (minor) though. Wagner was a rabid anti-Semite. So, the Nazis were not, “appropriating,” his work. So, they were playing the, “appropriate,” soundtrack to their ideology, of which Wagner would have been more than delighted. Leo should have gotten the Oscar, though. 😉 As should Jackson, to be quite honest ✌️
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It’s a pretty interesting podcast. But, to this issue: Not many people will remember this, but YouTube used to use the fact that there were, “no ads,” on their videos as a selling point.
Part of me hopes this new Google software is as bad as people worry it might be, simply because it will do the consumer good if there is this huge, “migration,” that Google fears, to other web browsers. All monopolies need breaking up in the web space.
YouTube needs a serious ad free competitor as their ads have gotten ridiculous. Several videos I’ve tried to watch are simply, “ad-locked,” at least, as I see it. I can’t and won’t watch a video that starts with a 15 or 20 second ad that has no 5 second skip. Surely the appetite for an ad free competitor is out there?
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Picking4 acause : Mueller, “looks evil,” to you, because you’ve let him get inside your head. Now, imagine THAT “feeling” you get, whenever you see Mueller’s rugged, handsome, chiselled, FBI, G-Man features, and times THAT by 300,000,000. Now, you KNOW what it “FEELS” like to be Trumpski. Have a nice day 😁
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Valient Six : I say it because I see it. They had a deal, inspectors from the UN were satisfied Iran was keeping the deal. Trump broke that deal, continually threatened Iran and cornered them, knowing they would have to take up a war footing, so he could, “blame,” Iran for the war he wanted. Putin phoned Trump and told him to call off his bombing, and Trump came up with the lamest excuse for backing down. Russia and Iran are allies and Putin has mercs and infrastructure all over their country. Remember Trump saying he was going to, “invade Venezuela,” when he got in Office? After about three weeks of building up the rhetoric, he suddenly dropped the whole idea, remember? WHY? The SAME reason that he won’t go into Iran: Putin’s people and hardware are there, protecting the oil and propping up the regimes. Trump is CLEARLY DETERMINED to have a war, but Putin keeps blocking him, because he’s already IN these places. So, Trump follows his orders from the Kremlin, but he can probably kick up enough chaos in the Middle East to start a large scale conflict with, “someone,” if he pours enough Americans in there, and gets a few killed, so the press starts screaming for, “revenge.” It’s an old story, and it’s OBVIOUS to anyone who reads. Now, Putin will allow, “MAYBE,” a few bombing runs, in specially agreed areas, where he can get his own people out of the way, like the one he did with Trump just after he got in? But, it’s Putin calling the shots out there. And, it’s Putin who won’t ALLOW American, “boots on the ground,” in Iran.
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Valient Six : You should READ your own comments BEFORE posting them. They literally make NO sense. They have just announced that they are sending the Military to Saudi Arabia (the whole POINT of this story) and you’re saying they’re NOT doing that? Seriously, WTF are you TALKING about? Saudi Arabia, “runs Iran”??? “They’re just trying to reduce the shitty population”??? By bombing an UNPOPULATED AREA? How does THAT even WORK, son? Obviously, you’re saying that Trump is LYING then? We can agree on that. Unless you’re buying their tale that the Iranians sold these Russian made drones to the Houthis? Which they launched from Southern Iraq? Iraq is meant to be AMERICA’S ALLY btw? I mean, WHY? And, then there’s ALL those WEAPONS that WE SELL, to EVERYONE. You can’t use, “acquisition,” as a premise for war, without giving EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY in the Third World legitimate grounds to declare war on the US? We agree that we don’t WANT another war in the Middle East, at least. But, I don’t see what, “Desert Storm,” has to do with it? Unless you’re remembering that the culture clash, between our troops, and the Saudi people was sufficient to help radicalise more Arabs? Remember how they, “thanked,” us for saving their country last time? 911! That’s how . . . Smh
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Olaf Pijl : Not any more. Not when you have Russian hackers in key states. Why do you think Donny just said there election fraud in every state, except his adopted home, and campaign launch site, Florida?
Do you remember the Russian Hack of Florida’s election computers? It got big coverage at the time, and even the GOP admitted it was the Russians. Then Trump adopted Florida as his home and launched his, “campaign,” from there, within weeks. Remember? It went dark, because they threatened every politician with Anti-Terror laws, and instant jail, if they talked to the press about it. Remember? And, now? Donny says, “voter fraud,” everywhere EXCEPT FLORIDA!? “Don’t look at Florida.” And you aren’t ALARMED??? Do you people WANT a Dictatorship?
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Btw, really glad I got to hear his story. Never heard of Josh Pillault before this. He’s really entertaining. Good stories, nice way about him, lots of charm; and he seems to have learned some valuable life lessons. I doubt I would have liked him at all, before he got busted, but I’m willing to bet he’s a different man now? Though I am curious as to if he had to defend himself from inmate advances? He was glad you didn’t ask about, “choking the chicken,” which I assume means, “masturbation,” but he must have been approached? A young, pretty boy, with no violent tendencies? How did he survive that?
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Drake Hound : Check for yourself, kid. I already did my homework. Extended family members, etc. Most of them are already here, or expected to arrive. Not, “all,” but most. You’ll see. And, like I said. It was a glib, passing remark, meaning China’s going to do NOTHING about it, because there’s NOTHING they can do. If you want to play Migration law cop, take your insecurities to someone who’s impressed? That would not be me 🥱😴
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400,000 and 1 . . . His ego! That’s the other one. Remember how he faked crying that time? If you not seen it, just type, “Matt Hancock fakes tears,” or something into the search engine on YouTube. It’s totally cringeworthy, but it tells you everything there is to know about his real motivations. The truth is, he desperately wants to be loved. Not in an, “I’m a celebrity,” kind of way, but in an out of control, “You will all love me and despair,” psychotic kind of way. The kind of way that is SO OUT OF CONTROL that he’d abandon his constituents during the biggest economic crisis Britain has faced since the war, over the objections of his friends, family and advisors and in spite of having the whip taken from him, and still he GENUINELY BELIEVES that the general public are SUCH IDIOTS that they will accept his, “Oh, y’know, we’re just people like you, or something,” bullshit!
I hope his first challenge is to be buggered to death by an angry, angry ape.
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Not-so-smart aleck : Indeed. They LIVE on MSM channels they HATE, talking to people they HATE, trying to spread more HATE, for only two reasons. About a third of them are the mentally ill, unemployable types, with nothing better to do. And the other two thirds (according to the best research out there) are scattered about the globe, mostly in Eastern Europe, but also in The States, taking money to meet the above agenda; not here to win an argument, debate any issues, or, “persuade,” anyone of anything (even when they act like that’s what they’re here for) but, simply to spread the HATE, because DIVISION is the key: the very source of Donny’s power, the element that got him in power, and kept him there this far. The ONE thing Donny must avoid, at all costs (and I mean at ANY COST) is a, “United,” States of America. Unity is the toxin that will destroy him, in the end. Or, it won’t? And, he’ll destroy the Union?
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Jake the muss : Please don’t? There’s no need to come to a channel you don’t like, to talk about the things you don’t like, with people you don’t like, unless you’re deliberately lying, or have mental health issues, son. It takes courage to accept the truth, sometimes, especially when it’s, “inconvenient.” But, only cowards dismiss people as, “sheep,” under a hidden identity, throwing propaganda over their retreating shoulders, when they have no idea who they’re addressing, or what they know . . . SMH
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@Shaun.Stephens : Besides which, the real, “pain,” these politicians are talking about is only in their own wallets! Russian oligarchs have gotten embedded in German, British, French, American, and many other country’s politics through bribes, money laundering and good old fashioned blackmail. It’s time we locked the Putin machine out of the west and let the Russian people overthrow their dictatorship, which they almost did last year. I’m willing to take the pain, as I imagine most thinking westerners are. And we can always take comfort from the fact that our top politicians will actually have to sacrifice their kickbacks for a change! Why TF we ever ALLOWED Russia to become a major fossil fuel supplier to half of the free world is unfathomable, unless we accept the hard fact that Russia’s policy of BUYING our politicians at every level has been paying off. Time we demand an END to their shit!
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mister Knister : But, enough about Obama, son? What about Trump? You’re not one of those Trumpophiles, are you? One of those mentally ill, or paid and mentally ill, Trump Trolls, who LIVES on channels he HATES, ranting to people he HATES, about other people he HATES, are you? Doubt anyone gives a f**k what you’ve been told to, “think,” kid? 🙂
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Congrats, my friend 😉🥳. ByeDon 2020. Yet, I’ll take bets from anyone who doubts my prediction: Look at how madly active the FUNDRAISING is right now? Hourly emails, robocalls, etc, etc, going out, BEGGING FOR CASH! That money is NOT going on a, “legal challenge!” Think about it? How many warrants and indictments are just waiting to be executed on trump and some of his top people? That’s a Getaway Fund! And, just before Joe’s Inauguration Day, trump and the worst offenders will FLEE AMERICA! And trump’s cult will FINALLY GET IT, when they’ve been HAD, one last time, and they’re in a foreign country with no extradition treaty and ALL THAT MONEY! . . . Anyone doubt me? Place your bets?
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Tamara Menteer Gonzalez : Respectfully, my bro’, is a tech expert, who showed me how, “Click Bait,” even to innocent looking YouTube links, can be a way to get worms, Trojans, Bots, etc, onto people’s computers and phones, so I NEVER touch links, in discussion threads. Give me a reference, and I am your servant, madam
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@MrTylersmash : Religion, being the organised institution that sticks to a uniform interpretation of, “lore,” and, “scripture,” etc. Religions exert control over groups, with ostracism (or worse, all the way up to violence and/or death) used as a threat for controlling deviation from traditional practices, acceptance of teaching, and economic compliance.
Faith, being simply what people believe, be it supernatural, based upon ideas of God, philosophical, etc. A belief system of a spiritual nature, that extends beyond either pure logic and reason, or emotion and immediate bodily, “needs.” You can have faith in an idea, philosophy or a God, despite your logical senses refuting those notions. Yet that faith can be neither destructive, coercive or even irrational, even in the face of logical challenges.
We all of us, at some time or other, place our faith in our ethics, for example, when logic might demand a quite different behaviour. Which is why most people, when asked to do the thought experiment, asking, “Would you push a fat man in front of a trolly, to his assured death, if you knew it would stop that trolly, which is guaranteed to kill 5 other people further down the line if you don’t?” will still say, “No.” Despite the, “needs of the many outweighing the needs of the few, or the one.”
That’s what I mean.✌️
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Women judge men in those terms too, frequently, and are unchallenged normally, for some sort of post-feminist reasons. I say that for the sake of accurate context, because we’re all familiar with the image of women making vomiting or gagging mimes when discussing certain men in politics.
But that doesn’t excuse Fox’s remarks one iota. Or his bizarre need to say such a thing out of all context and connection to the topic in hand, as I understand it. I’m a rational, “normal,” which means I obviously never watch GB Bees, or condone its illegal propagandising. ButI’ve seen the reporting and analysis about it, from reliable sources.
It sounds very typical of the Tory mentality, their childishness and their inability to win an argument on its merits. Fox needs to pay a penalty for his behaviour, though I don’t know exactly what it should be. More important, actually, is the, “journalist,” responsible for that interview, who allowed the remarks to pass unchallenged and tacitly supported. Giggled at, even. Very much the Billy Bush in the, “locker room talk,” debacle, if you ask me. That kind of tells you all you need to know about GB Bees’s agendas, values and lack thereof.
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@erichoppe8228 : You mean, “was,” a disaster, right? He’s not there now, nor will he be, ever again, so long as America remains a democracy. If he ever got back there, yes. That would be the disaster to end all disasters, as it would not only require the fall of America’s Republic, but it would probably spell the doom of all other democracies on Earth. That’s why everyone on the planet has a dog in this fight, and every right to contribute to the end of trump and trumpism. It’s Fascism, by another name, with every historic indicator.
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Joseph Mingle : Trump is a warmonger, trying not to look like a warmonger. And, your job is to help him with that Propaganda. But, the world has watched, while he ripped up his deal with Iran, broke America’s word, threatened and bullied them, while the Europeans have been trying to keep the peace and hold up the West’s end, without him. Now, he’s ramping up the Military presence, using the Saudis to frame them; making it look like Iran is STARTING the war, when we all KNOW it’s the LAST thing they want. And, he expects us to, “believe,” the intel coming from the SAME PEOPLE that he ROUTINELY calls, “liars,” EVERY DAY? He’s compared the CIA to, “Nazi Germany,” and we’re all meant to flip flop at his rate? America’s NOT buying it, son. Trump will have to look elsewhere for a bump in the polls. A war will finish him . . . Smh
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@Redorean : And those, “special forces,” he sends will be met by the west’s special forces, and drones, just like they usually have been in other countries, like Syria. This is why Putin has resorted to shelling from a distance, because his conscripts are pretty useless. Not saying they’re bad soldiers necessarily, but their heart isn’t in it and their morale is low. They feel like they’re killing their own people, because Putin has spent the last 20 years telling them they are the same people. And one person defending their own home is worth 20 demoralised soldiers who don’t even want to be there, let alone thought they were still on a, “training exercise,” and thought it was odd how they were not allowed to look at a map.
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Tactical Voting, people! : Spread the word!
There’s a part of me that wishes they would try delaying the election to Jan 2025, as the outrage at their anti-democratic antics is already rather high, but that would guarantee they would be unelectable for at least a generation, probably shifting them to, “Third Party,” status.
The idiocy of waiting for, “something good to happen . . . anything,” is that it’s just as likely that something really bad happens. Indeed, given the political climate and the unstable world stage, the odds of unpleasant surprises coming out of a clear blue sky seem significantly higher to me than some arch angel intervening on their behalf? Any angel would probably see them as satanic anyway.
But, truthfully, the sooner they’re gone the better for everyone, including their own party.
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Braverman has become the centre of new phenomenon. Her predecessor at the Home Office, Priti Patel and, of course, the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, have thrown the country into confusion by introducing a giant elephant in the room that their opposition is struggling to address for fear of coming off as racists themselves.
I call it Brown Skinned Brown Shirts. Is that too much? Does it sound . . . “off,” perhaps? But, we need to talk about this weird new brand of far right extremism coming out of the government and seemingly generated by the very people who, on the face of it, have the most to lose. Their forebears were the beneficiaries of immigration, yet they are the most hostile to immigration now? Talk about pulling up the ladder after yourself! Suella has spouted the most hatefilled, ignorant rhetoric in this last week that half of the country expects her to be fired soon! And she seems to want this! She genuinely thinks there’s an appetite for 1930’s Germany style fascism in Britain and is going for it!
And she seems to think that the colour of her own skin makes her in some way immune from allegations of racism? WTF is going on? Why aren’t people talking about it? Is everyone afraid?
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William Ferguson : You know why you triggered so many trump trolls? Not the paid ones, but the ones who, “do it for free?” Because they’re going to send their kids to school, and you make them feel guilty and ashamed. Same with their racism. They don’t like admitting what they are, a K K Kult, so your common sense triggers their emotions. The paid ones only get paid when you Click their name or the Malware, “cookie,” Click Bait, so they can can track what you look at in their algorithms. But, the racist, America Hating, domestic trolls? They’re ashamed ✌️👍
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BlindMellowJelly : I’m looking forward to Donny finding out this is lose, lose for him. If it passes the test of Court, you or I will be legally able to publish a book (or any media) entitled, “Donald Trump Committed Treason: FACT!” And, he will have NO legal recourse! None! Just think what Biden’s campaign, or the Lincoln Project can do with THAT? And, if trump wins, not only will lots of Conservatives HATE his attack on Free Speech, but his arch enemy, Amazon, will get a HUGE boost, importing all those copies of Bolton’s book from Canada and the UK. You can’t stop the signal, in a Globalist Society 😁✌️
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@lisasanborn9176 : I get that principle. And I get the idea that they must be willing to try what they can, if they can make it work, to defend their client to their utmost ability. That’s how we know a conviction is sound, because the evidence has been tested to destruction and withstood the best possible defence.
However, all that being said; these guys? “The Asshole Defence”??? There comes a point when you look, to the jury, like your flailing. And, that does more harm than good, surely? Your colleagues not withstanding, THIS so called, “defence,” team are actually sabotaging their own defence when they show a jury that there’s nothing they won’t stoop to, no straw they won’t grasp, until their efforts become indistinguishable from any moment when they might present some actual hard evidence!
If they think that showing there’s nothing they won’t do for their client will get them more work and enhance their reputations, then I think they’re mistaken? Their reputations depend as much upon the credibility of their presentation, and at least looking like they’re prepared and have a thought out strategy. These guys are visibly clutching at any straw and showing the jury they have no case, but that they are willing to throw any chaff in their eyes on the off-chance that something, ANYTHING might just stick!
They will be remembered for that, like Sidney Powell is going to be remembered for being insane. She may have been a wonderful lawyer, with many historic victories under her belt, for all we know? But, history already has her marked as the seditious conspiracy theorist, who made the lamest, most insulting to her own base, “defence,” of her own lies, and no one will ever associate her with anything other than the trump insurrection.
And these guys will be the same: “The bosos who disgusted America with their Asshole Defence.” If they’re not planning on retiring after this, they will be, when they re-enter the real world . . . 🤦♂️ . . . ✌️👍
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Those jokes (ironically unfunny . . . I hope?) are a bad development. We enjoy your videos because you don’t do them, (or didn’t used to?) and you just do the science. Please stop? Whomever has told you they are good for your videos has mislead you, badly. Comedy is a skill that requires skill, timing and many years of practice. As a scientist, I’m sure you can appreciate how big a mistake it is, to attempt a professional skill that you have no training in? You do what you do BRILLIANTLY. The improvements in the graphics are great too. Don’t listen to whomever it is that is telling you, “ maybe a few gags would improve your material,” because they’re so wrong! You’re occasional, wry, implied irony works, because it is YOU. Forced, “Venus,” gags? Nooooo! ✌️
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Let’s face it? What the government should be putting in every single speech that references the economy should contain three major talking points, for the rest of this Parliament.
1) The last budget of the Truss government EXCLUDED the OBR, the Bank Of England AND the Treasury!
2) The last budget of the Sunack government EXCLUDED the £20 + BILLION POUNDS MISSING and HIDDEN from the public, whilst the Tory government’s OWN FIGURES confirmed a RECORD BREAKING £26 BILLION POUNDS LOST to, “Waste, Incompetence and Fraud!”!!!
3) The last Tory government, despite being questioned about this in every forum imaginable, from the press, to the Commons and Lords, to the COURTS and sworn statements in government committees, have yet to offer ONE SINGLE, “benefit,” that Britain reaps, or is yet to receive, from Brexit! Not ONE Tory minister, or any minister from other parties that are pro-Brexit like Reform UK, has EVER stated a SINGLE, “benefit,” from Brexit. Not ONE!
Labour should be seizing every single opportunity to pummel these points home until the entire country is at least AWARE of these FACTS, whether they excuse or deny them or not! They should be making the TRUTH as inescapable as the consequences we are ALL OF US suffering as a DIRECT consequence of Tory entitlement, self interest and atavistic greed!
Every single Labour (and Lib Dem) MP and candidate should be making these three points the centrepiece of ANY discussion on public finances and speaking in terms of their proposals, policies and actions being direct response to the financial CRISIS the Tories wantonly lead us into. Sure, we want to hear solutions, answers and policies that move us forward. But every single one of those policies NEEDS to be set in context so persistently, so often and so articulately that even the Tory client press cannot avoid printing their words in black and white, hearing it on the radio, seeing it laid bare in any and all news coverage. It needs to be organised with military precision and the commitment of an election campaign.
Then, when the public has NOTHING ELSE to talk about; when whatever new situation arises and is duly set into the proper context, it will become an abject impossibility for any of this current iteration of the Tories to get elected ANYWHERE. Anyone who was in government during the economic meltdown under the Tories will be marked by the pirate’s Black Spot and will need to seek employment outside of politics or lose their deposits at the polls. And any talk of a potential, “Johnson comeback,” Will be met by derision, even in the Tory press.
Only then will the country (possibly) get an opposition worthy of office, capable of doing what a healthy democracy needs, which is holding government accountable, for REAL issues and holding their feet to the fire in parliament.
But, as you have observed on multiple occasions, the one thing the Labour Party is bad at, and really needs to get better at, as a matter of urgency, is communicating with the public. So, I doubt this would ever happen. But, a man can dream, can’t he? . . .
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Sally Portillo : This is your Dictatorship, in the wake of the 2019 Coup, attempting to distract you, while they consolidate their power. They no longer have to fear the, “electorate,” because the 2020, “elections,” are ALREADY RIGGED. The only thing they fear now is everyone looking at a, “trial,” with NO WITNESSES allowed to testify, and NO EVIDENCE allowed to be presented, and a, “JURY,” comprised of Trump’s CONSPIRATORS, who would go to JAIL if Trump lost his, “Protected Presidential Status,” and, “ratted,” on them, to save his own Orange ass. After all, that would be the same thing as telling the world that THERE IS NO LAW, so far as the Trumps are concerned! It would be the same thing as ADMITTING that the Republic has FALLEN. Now, they will just get STRONGER, and consolidate their position, making America AFRAID Again, turning us into informers, haters and scared little RATS, like in Russia. You will get to go through the motions of voting, in your FAKE REPUBLIC, just like in Russia, and your name will be remembered, when you vote, “wrong,” but the outcome will NEVER be in doubt, because you have a DICTATORSHIP. Iran is just a SHOW; agreed by Putin, who arranged it with Iran and the US. NONE of this matters any more. They only fear that America MIGHT WAKE UP! A second REVOLUTION is what they fear. But, you all seem to be happy to watch the Coup unfold on CNN, so they needn’t worry. That won’t stop them though. That’s how Dictatorships work. As they get stronger, they will scare off ALL opposition, until they are appointing Democrats, behind the scenes, and briefing them, on what they can say and do. And, your first female POTUS? That will be Ivanka. Putin has already arranged it . . . Smh
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Sally Portillo : I’m not even sure what you were trying to say there? Other than offering some lame excuses for your apathy, and illustrating that you are precisely the kind of person I was talking about, with the imagination of a Love Island fan, instructed on how to think, what to care about, and indignant the at having reality pointed out to you, what were you even trying to say? It just reads like, “Lah, Lah, Lah! I’m not listening.” And, you dismiss stuff as being, “Toxic,” which is about as TOXIC as it gets; “Let’s not DO anything about this Coup! Let’s all just watch the next season of House of Tards on Netflix, and TRY not to think about any of it!” Well done you . . . SMH
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You should be filling the streets right now, and demanding the restoration of the postal service. They are shutting down sorting machines in major cities across America, and literally STEALING the post boxes off of the streets, in front of cameras, like it’s no big deal. They’re literally STEALING Democracy, your Republic, and your, “Elections,” RIGHT NOW, UNDER YOUR NOSES! Please, America? Get off your asses, and PROTEST until the country is HALTED! They know they’re facing JAIL and will do ANYTHING. Right NOW, is the time to fight! By November, they’ll see you all coming, and be READY FOR YOU!
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@GeminiTwinsofLove : Yeah, apparently Joe Biden was stunned to hear about the fragility of the whole microchip chain and quickly set to work on changing that, but fast. So that’s no surprise. I also suspect that Xi really believed that Putin could pull off a three day (maybe three week) invasion and that he could get on with invading Taiwan while the west was busy coping with the fallout in Europe. China gets a win win out of it, if they play their cards right (or so Xi believes) as a protracted war, with protracted economic pain in Russia, means Russia moving ever closer to becoming their client state, like North Korea, wholly reliant on China for survival and protection. With the possible further development of certain states breaking away from the Motherland and seeking China’s help with that, being on their borders, etc . . . It’s a long view with a billion moving parts unaccounted for, but the broad brush picture is not implausible I guess?
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@DetroitMicroSound : Y’know, I once got into trouble for laying my hands on a suit of armour that Henry V wore, and defended myself by saying, “I’m sorry but I just had to touch the armour that the King who faced the French at Agincourt wore, in this once in a lifetime opportunity, or I never could have forgiven myself and probably would have taken it to the grave as one of my deepest personal regrets and failures of courage, had I not committed to my impulse.” I know this verbatim because my wife recorded the incident, which set off an alarm and resulted in a very angry young woman and two burly security guards confronting me. Her response? She seemed to visibly melt, I think upon the realisation that I was not just doing it for a larf, but genuinely overcome by historical enthusiasm, and she said, “Since you put it like that, and we cannot undo anything now, perhaps you’ll accept these complimentary vouchers for lunch at our restaurant? So long as you accept them now and go there before doing anything else?” I took the hint, and the gift, and all smiles behind me.
The point of that obscure, outré story? Just to say that I so completely get why you would have such a collection and the value of curating such a thing, that puts you so closely in touch with the people and places where they were once used and created. To hold a coin, at a time when we may well live to see coins fall out of use altogether, knowing that it passed through the hands of an ancient, who valued and spent it exactly as we would our own currency; to know and understand such a thing and to be able to hold that in your hands . . . It means everything. Especially to those of us who travel in time, at least in our minds.
I am filled with both envy (of a pleasing nature) and admiration for your collection. So cool. 👍
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America is not even a country anymore, but a conglomeration of businesses, who DON’T answer to him. That’s why other, real countries, were able to enforce a lockdown, and lift it at will, when he can’t understand why he can’t do that. He answers to his share holders; the Saudis, Chinese tech magnates, Russian Oligarchs and US fossil fuel barons. He spends more time with lobbyists than his Cabinet, and is encouraging Trolls to, “protest,” HIS OWN POLICIES! Talk about a House divided against itself?! He’s a POTUS divided against himself! This is the fall of Rome. And the 2nd Wave of Coronavirus is going to destroy us, if we still have him around . . . SMH
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Made me think of the great, legendary Roman warrior, Haratius. Who stood, defending Rome, eventually alone, at the bridge. “And my scars are upon my chest, for all of you to see. No wounds upon my back. We none of us retreated. We stood for Rome.” And, then he put down his wreath of office, gave up his powers of dictatorship, granted by the state, and went back to being a farmer. You’d have to be made of stone, not to be inspired by Mr Wong! Thank you, Mr Wong ✌️👍
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Jo Poveromo : Boy, Q really Dunning’d your Kruger, son. I know a human rights group, who police their own protests, ensuring they can’t get smeared with alt-wrong propaganda, which DESPERATELY wants to label them as, “violent, leftist, terrorists.” Yet, that same group knelt, prayed and marched WITH the police last summer. They are a registered charity. They’re so respected that New York named a city square after them: Black Lives Matter Square . . . And what have you got? Fascism and hurt feelings . . . I would pity you, but I just . . . don’t 😋
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Jo Poveromo : Ahhh . . . Trump trolls . . . 🤦♂️. No one can, “disprove,” a negative, which is why trump’s Qult, and people like you, with your Trumpian, “Butt Hurt,” lie for a living. I assume you do it for a living? And aren’t one of these, “emotionally,” in need of therapeutic intervention types, who’ve wasted the last 5 years of their life, talking to people they hate on channels they hate, for free? The graffiti on the washroom walls says you, “do it for free,” but I don’t believe everything I read. So, deny gravity if you like, son? 🤷♂️ I notice your dumb ass still doesn’t float though? 😉
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@Alexandra-dd1su : Donbas is part of Ukraine, regardless of what some mentally ill hood in the Kremlin would have us believe. Just because Putin’s, “strategy,” has been to keep moving families sympathetic to Moscow into certain regions, giving them all kinds of financial perks and all the best jobs in those regions and then, a little later, having them, “declare,” they are now a part of Russia, doesn’t make it so. Imagine if this was America, and people were suggesting that you can get the Moscow hoods out of your political sphere and out of your land, but you’ll need to concede Florida as part of Russia from now on? Russia has still got 20% of Georgia’s territory in their illegal grip. Or imagine it was the UK, and you were being asked to surrender Cornwall, or Wales or Kent? You would quite rightly dismiss this as lunacy! But the people of Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus and so many other regions have been expected to, “compromise”? No wonder Lukashenko is drunk all the time. He must know his dicktatorship is on borrowed time?
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@HouseholdDog : The, “literal,” people being compromised are the organisations and their backers if the happen to be from outside the country, so they’re, “literally,” going to have an opinion on the matter. How you leap from that to any conspiracy theory, especially in a globalised world where most YouTube gamers rely on patrion subscribers from LITERALLY all over the planet, doesn’t make them, “foreign agents,” does it? What’s most laughable about you’re shillery is that you’re pretending such a law would, “expose,” foreign money, when everyone KNOWS that the people behind this law are THE FOREIGNERS! It’s the Russians! And they’re the ones making threats from the Kremlin on Twitter about potential invasions now! Your talking points hold less water than a sieve with a hole in it, silly boy. 🤣
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@HouseholdDog : No. You make no sense, because you are obtusely refusing to accept the obvious. Yes. The law, “should,” expose them for funding 100% of some politicians’ careers in Georgia, as well as various publications and web streams, but it is not aimed at them, but specifically anyone from the free WEST. It’s call, “Hypocrisy,” and you’ll find it in your Russian / English dictionary between, “Heir Putin,” and, “Hyper-Stalinist.”
The FACT of the matter is that Russia illegally occupies about 20% of Georgia’s real estate and all but openly considers the whole of Georgia to belong within Putin’s empire. Russia is horrified that Georgia threatens to become a free, independent country, protected by treaties and trade agreements that would free them from corruption (as a requirement for entry into the EU, for example) and perhaps lead to them joining NATO and the UN, making it impossible for Putin to attack them without bringing about World War Three.
But, you know this as well as I do. Tell me? Are you an algorithm or a real person? If a person, what do they pay you? And was it worth that for your soul?
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Blondie SL : That’s kinda’ my point, really. He’s obtuse, in the manner of a Flat Earther. You know? Like a kid, who just gets a kick out of saying, “Yeah but,” regardless of how idiotic he sounds. I suspect there’s a lot of 12 to 17 year olds, high school drop outs, and kids with, “issues,” on the payroll? Many of them think the company paying them is American or Western, because they don’t check them out. They just get that email, “Turn Your Comments Into CASH,” and think, “Great!” They don’t care that they are not allowed to dis Trump or Putin, who they probably hadn’t even HEARD of, until they started Trolling. I got one of those emails and gave it to the FBI. They get a LOT of them. Russian shell companies, using Chinese servers, is what I was told in 2016 . . .
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A broken system, is how. An Electoral College that has been in need of reform or dissolving altogether for generations now. An anachronistic institution that was designed to protect the, “rights,” of slave owning states, still gets to collect up, “points,” for each state, instead of counting the votes. That’s how. We make a nonsense of the line, “one nation under God,” every time we deny our citizens the validity of their votes, by setting them aside in favor of a points system that clearly FAILS to represent the voters. If we made that ONE, SINGLE reform, for National Elections, and said, “One person, one vote, all counted equally, with every individual citizen having an equal stake, equal say, equal power, equal validity,” we would never see another GOP administration again! They would have to end the GOP and come up with a new Conservative party that is actually democratic and REPRESENTS people, like they have in other western democracies. That one reform could save America from this current threat and rise of fascism. As it is, you can have well over three MILLION more votes from the American people, and still be denied your democratic right to be counted equally. Why lawyers haven’t challenged the EC is beyond me?
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Tories hoping they may, “get lucky,” with some, “good news,” as an excuse to delay elections are certainly not, “rational thinking beings.” Quite apart from the fact that it’s just as likely that there might be, “bad news,” over time, even when all things are equal, it’s obvious that things are only going to get worse for the next few years now, regardless of who is in power! That’s a strategy for building resentment and angering the electorate on the basis of their clinging to power despite their objective incompetence to add to the long list of legitimate resentments the electorate already have!
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I immediately thought of the separation of powers, when you said government wants to review judicial decisions. I don’t believe the judicial system is fair or just and it has stagnated rather than grown with the times, which is why they have laid themselves vulnerable to populism. We cannot blindly have faith and trust in the judiciary. We must have a reasoned argument for improving it. As the government’s argument is a powerful one: they are elected by the people and speak for them; they legislate upon law already, civil, fiscal and criminal. Why shouldn’t they review the arm of governance which enacts our laws?
Don’t get me wrong. I agree with you. This is chilling, if true. An independent body, which has no ministers in it, could do the job and I would say that’s a good thing. But, coming from a government that has already suffered one or two judicial black eyes, this seems highly suspicious to begin with. Indeed, one can argue if they are sincere in wanting progressive reform, why do they want to recreate the wheel? They already legislate, which means they are empowered to change all of law already, merely by winning a mandate and a vote in the Commons.
What they seem to be talking about is overturning individual decisions which effect their policies or the criminal liabilities of their friends and themselves. That would mean an end to justice altogether. Or, more likely, a two tier justice system in which legislatures and their donors would be untouchable by law, and no ballot can remove a crooked donor.
I would need to know who would be on this committee, and what their argument for it is? I think you would have to martial some very powerful arguments though? It’s easy for a populist to point at the guys in gowns and wigs and call them anachronistic to popular acclaim. They would be right about that.
Now that the judiciary has stopped acting like an extension of the old boy’s network (or, begun to?) as it used to in the days of the Jeremy Thorpe scandal, Profumo, and over other and the Birmingham Six, etc, it might be too little too late? And the judiciary only has itself to blame, for offering the government so much ammunition. I grew up witnessing these appalling abuses of judicial power, and no one ever paid for their rotten complicity in ruining the lives of the innocent on behalf of the establishment.
The Crown owes its pound of flesh to the mob. That’s how the populists will sell it, and they’ll probably win with arguments like that? You need arguments as powerful, emotive and zippy as that to counter what would in effect be, as you say, a power grab.
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texas thunder : That’s rich, coming from the effeminate, whining, “white minority,” “rigged elections,” “fake news,” “people only died in Puerto Rico to make ME look bad,” “avoiding AIDS was my Vietnam,” “they’re all haters,” pissing and moaning, big girl’s blouses, BITCH-Trump, drones 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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Please stay in touch with your representatives on both sides, America? DEMAND that the top GOP members who told America that, “The Steal,” was a thing, MUST TESTIFY!
Cruz, Hawley, Graham, the trump’s, Giuliani, will be forced, on live TV, to CONFESS that it was all a Seditious Lie! They cannot take the 5th, or refuse to testify. They will not commit Perjury, and risk jail for trump! It will BREAK the GOP! The BEST they can say is the Nuremberg Defence, “I was following orders. I didn’t believe the election was stolen, but Donny said he did so I, ‘trusted,’ him.” Inundate your reps with DEMANDS for WITNESS TESTIMONY, and the GOP will break in two! Forget the, “verdict.” The stakes are WAY higher than a rigged outcome! Do it America! This is your big chance and you WON’T get another like this!
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@thedirty530 : You know you don’t have to refute everything these pukes say, right? No one, “believes,” them. Not even them. When Putin can’t afford to pay his troll farms in St Petersburg half of the world’s internet traffic will cease! And about 90% of YouTube troll activity. It’s not like these cnuts have any, “ideology,” anyway? Unless you count a vague sexual repression and a clear sense of racial hatred as an, “ideology?” It’s not just that their, “narratives,” are so laughably amateurish either. But, no one in their right mind trawls through reams of lies unless they’re already in the choir that these idiots are preaching to. But they do like to keep you talking (or some will) so that you’re NOT commenting on other videos far and wide, spreading the good word. They’d much rather waste your day and keep you away from the grown ups if they can.
Personally, I admire your patience. I don’t have that much. ✌️
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Mario Lopez : They all are, in the Tramp Camp. Now that we’re past the possibility of Trump NOT being found guilty, they have to work to soften the blow. They hope Trump will get a slap on the wrist, instead of being removed. Like America will just ACCEPT the END of the Republic, and the rule of Law, because, “y’know? Hillary, right?” All of the Trump Tramps are either paid, foreign Trolls, or Americans who’ve given REAL MONEY to, “save Trump,” because they have been CONNED into HATING their fellow Americans, MORE than they, “love,” America . . . Smh
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That’s a supremely salient point you make there. Churchill’s Conservatives suffered their biggest ever landslide defeat against Labour directly after having just won WWII! You don’t get a bigger feather in your political cap than defeating Nazism, victory in history’s biggest ever war and being vindicated after the country had faced some incredibly dark times.
Yet, the country did not trust the Conservatives with the nation’s future. “Let us finish the job,” was an insufficient slogan to convince a nation that, quite rightly, felt it had earned itself a more equitable slice of the pie than they were being offered.
And, thank goodness they did! Since we got the NHS, our, “cradle to the grave,” social security safety net and a better standard of basic education for all out of the incoming Labour government. And that was in the face of bankruptcy and financial dead ends that were so bad they literally killed Maynard Keynes!
Yet, despite pulling that miracle off, Labour were promptly booted out again at the end of their first term, by that same fickle nation of ingrates we call the British electorate.
You can’t rely on rewards for good service, let alone punishment for craven neglect of duty, from the British people. And all politicians would do well to remember that.
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@cesspool1676 : OK, Karen. The old, “I know you are, but whaddam I?” defence, huh? Are you 9 years old? A piece of cloth doesn’t harm your, “human right,” to be as big a snowflake as you like. Trust me, Karen, bigly. You’ll forget you’re wearing it, so long as you don’t copy Donny and go all, “Loan Ranger,” with it, and step into traffic? I upset you. Sorry, Karen 🤣
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@bjasound : It’s crossed my mind . . . Who knows? . . . She may have been giving Russian supporters disinformation, whilst helping the CIA locate and identify potential traitors? . . . But it seems vanishingly unlikely, unless they put a lot of work into coming up with a fake history (what they call a, “legend,” here in the UK) of mental instability and her demotion, prior to her leaving the navy? Not likely, but possible.
If she was doing that, it would be against their interests to bust her. But, she may have been outed by the FSB or something? So, I never say never. But I do trust Jake implicitly, so I’ll go with his breakdown until I learn anything new . . . in which case, Jake will have likely already learned it, and prepared a video about it by then. 🇺🇦
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There are literally hundreds of thousands of dead and dying, who would otherwise be alive, had this been dealt with, and not deliberately politicised. If this crime against humanity goes unpunished, we could face it again in 4 years. What if the GOP gets another trump? But one with charm, and articulate? Is this a 4 year reprieve from the Republic’s Death Sentence? Or, will we PUNISH the traitors, enablers and criminals, from the White House down to the lowest levels, ruthlessly, to ensure this can NEVER happen again? For the dead and dying, it’s up to us to speak up and demand JUSTICE! JUSTICE MATTERS!
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Bill Murrey : You know they’re NOT, “drugs,” but only, “vaccines,” right? You understand the difference? You probably EAT more dangerous, untested shit, every day. This is way safer than the average American’s diet. But, tell me, son? Why do you feel the need to, “persuade,” others not to take it? What’s in it for you?
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Hinniga : I admire this guy’s honesty. So many people lose their faith, and immediately talk about the prime reason for that, being the hypocrisy of the people involved in their church. To those people, I would ask; was your, “belief,” founded on, “Faith in a God,” or, “Faith in the family”? Are they experiencing the breaking from family, toward independent thought, fuelled by disappointment in, “people”? Or a genuine questioning of, “faith“?
He’s right about the fact that Religion and Faith are very different things, too. I have little truck with religion. But, I would never be dumb enough to claim that I can prove or disprove the existence of God, simply because I would be factually wrong. I still have Faith, though
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The bigger project for me, that I hope more Brits will spread the word on, is to get the Tories down to Third Party status. The Tory project has not just failed us this time, but resulted in unforgivable damage, some of which can never be repaired. But it’s worse, even, than that.
They have no plan for Britain, which makes them as likely to grasp at straws dangling from the Nazis as it does old fashioned conservatives. And the evidence for this is their increasing tendency to lean into deliberate divisiveness and the far right rhetoric imported from America’s Republican Party. “Woke,” as a pejorative; “Open Borders,” as an allegation; and active hostility toward large sections of the electorate, from the dispatch box, with the conscious aim of deepening fear, anger, outrage and widening those ideological gulfs of division through a type of soft core media terrorism, are all imports from the Capitol of school shootings, mass murders and insurrections we know as the once, “United,” States of America.
I want to see a concerted campaign that nips THAT hard in the bud and answers it in such a resounding fashion that the conservatives are forced to spend a wilderness period culling their most egregious race baiters, like Braverman, Patel, Rees Mogg and Mister, “Stop The Boats,” himself, Sunack, whilst also having to kill off their most egregious carpet baggers, like the Quasi Chancellor Kwarteng, and his side kick, Liz Truss, Boris Johnson and, once again, Rees Mogg.
Between the Liberal-Economics of attempting to privatise everything from transport and clean water to policing and the health service and the sheer, blatant carpet bagging of, “personality politics,” as characterised by Johnson, Rees Mogg and that despicable waste of organs, Matt Hancock, we’ve devastated Britain in a giant game of British Politics’s Got No Talent, like we were playing a popularity contest with the nation’s future!
And in the same manner that so many winners of Britain’s Got Talent manage to win because the public wants to make a point, rather than believing in the ability of the contestant, so the winner ends up vanishing into obscurity again, we’ve done the same with our votes! Except, the pond is too shallow for our failures to sink without trace, and we’re all forced to deal with the corpses of their populism, rotting and floating among us, daily. We cannot escape our failure of judgement and just, “stop going on about it,” as so many wish we would about Brexit, or Prime Ministerial corruption, or the simple failure of INSANE economic policies, because we’re all having to deal with them, every day!
The only way we get to, “move on,”m from this mess is if we honestly accept our mistakes and face them, fix them (as best they can be fixed) so that then, and ONLY THEN, do we get to move on and stop talking about them.
And that means that the British public needs to seize this once in a lifetime opportunity to galvanise a national Tactical Voting Campaign so that the Tories are not just beaten, not just Landslided out of power, but utterly CRUSHED! Even those who care about Conservatism could get onboard with that, as it presents conservatives with an opportunity for a complete restructuring of the Tory project from the ground up, and to revive their core values that were once so popular. That simply cannot happen while the people in charge are either blatantly corrupt or abjectly incompetent, or both.
Tactical Voting! Look it up, spread the word. Do your bit for Britain.
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Yup! Thanks, Vlad, for doubling the length of Russia’s border with NATO, uniting the world against Russia, proving you have the second strongest army in Ukraine, and bursting the Myth-Bubble that some people were still falling for, where they unaccountably thought you were, “smart.” We’ve all seen how utterly THICK you are now, and how you still don’t have actual control over your own military. We all witnessed your HUMILIATING COWARDICE as you fled Moscow for St Petersburg without Wagner even getting within 20 miles of Moscow’s city limits! Not your finest hour, was it, Vlad? Zelensky said, “I don’t need a ride, I need ammo!” Even though hostile Russians were INSIDE Kyiv with a kill order out on him! You said, “See ya’, wouldn’t wanna’ be ya’!” A (hashtag) RanAway!
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Personally (and I know this won’t win me any friends, but . . .) I think the, “Theory,” of Inflation is barely even a theory? It’s more of a mathematic fix, and likely to go the way of Einstein’s Cosmological Constant. Sure, Einstein got it more right than he lived to find out, in his case. But, Inflation, is nothing more than an educated, mathematical guess, than a, “working hypothesis.” Science is already confronting issues with it, and I don’t think it will last. It bothers me that everyone in science is happy to link their ideas to Inflation, when there are so many great ideas that challenge the very notion, so they get rejected, simply because they don’t agree with current thinking . . . Science is always hamstrung in this way. But, that’s,just me . . .
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@ursodermatt8809 : It was hard to listen to. Journalists were not allowing the GOP to get away with Donald’s big lie, but this woman allowed him to spew the party propaganda and, “pushed back,” so gently, you would think she was talking to a suicidal 6 year old!? A simple, “That’s not true and we all know it’s not true, including you, sir,” would have done. A simple, “The Red Army is the most Yellow army in history now,” would have been better. But to sit there and allow him to spew out dangerous lies that we’ve heard from every troll on social media is ridiculous!
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@NathanSommer-c8l : Yeah, don’t get me wrong. The guy still makes me larf, (I’m here aren’t I? 🤷♂️) but I’ve been following him for years, since back when he was a wee timorous beastie who ran naked in the heather with the rest of the wild haggises for the pleasure of just a couple of thousand viewers. And back then he was original, eclectic and way funnier.
Now, I feel like he’s allowed himself to become enslaved by the algorithm, banging the same drum because it guarantees his biggest audiences, rather than just talking about what genuinely interests him and the things that made him fall in love with cinema and TV in the first place.
You have to admit, even if you don’t agree with me, that you seen and heard a LOT of his gags a thousand times, right? Eventually, he’ll wind up sounding like that old guy who lives in the basement, complaining about movies being too loud now, or something. And the only audience that will stick with him will be the bigots and angry 50 year old virgins who just want to see him stick it to the, “lib-tards.”
If he wants to get some of his old magic back, he should talk more about what he loves, less about what he hates. Sure, still complain about what he hates, but for crying out loud! A blow by blow account of an entire series that we already know he hates and why??? That’s not educational, or informative, and it’s getting less and less entertaining.
The other day he released a riveting video on Werner Herzog’s movie, Fitzcarraldo, which was excellent on every metric I mentioned in my last sentence. With new and different material, he was forced to write new and different witticisms, whilst giving his audience a bit of genuine insight into the movie making process and a look into the world of a truly unique and fascinating project that could have destroyed everyone involved! That was a taste of the old Drinker that drew me into this channel. I miss that guy.
I just don’t want to see him become the type of algorithm chasing hack that he ridicules. And I don’t need to hear the same old gags, getting older with each repetition. I’m a fan.
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Renato Valdivia : The Trumpophiles hate to hear that, but it’s the truth at the core of this problem. So, thank you for saying it. There will come a time, when even the loudest Trump Troll will not be able to deny that it was Donny’s cult who was worst hit by Trumpian theft, and the most damaged by his ploys. And, just like in Berlin, circa 1945, his base will evaporate, leaving us all astonished at being unable to find a single one of them, willing to admit they adored him. If history is our teacher, that’s the lesson in store ✌️👍
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chew itt : That is SO true, it hurts. Trump has zero, “ideology,” knowledge of history, or, “politics,” of any kind, saving what his minions are occasionally able to feed into his fumbled speeches. His one goal, after enriching himself, is to massage his own ego, period. He has learned that, for a, “man,” like him to get power, and keep it, he has but one tool at his disposal: DIVISION, of the, “Them & us,” variety. The implications of which, are playing out on our streets as I write this. America simply will not survive another term of that. Very well pointed out, sir
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bman : Yet, if you were, “confident,” of Trump’s survival, you would not be here, son? Why live on channels you hate, spewing hate, at people you hate? Paid? Or, just mentally ill? You’re obviously in doubt. But, you will gain nothing by Trolling for Trump, son. Except more pain
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Steve Flynn : It’s great to meet someone who owns their mistake and is man enough to admit it, and to grow as a human being. Lincoln himself did the exact same thing, expressing indifference toward slavery, especially when weighed against the maintenance of the Union. But, by the end of the war, he was utterly anti-slavery, and his journey to becoming a better man is one of the key reasons he’s so admired and loved by American historians. He showed us the way. He showed us how to learn and change, and have the courage to do that, by speaking out the truth of his heart. What you said there, has more meaning for me (and probably others) than you can know. I thank you, sir. Your casually expressed honesty is to me, like finding a diamond in the desert. So precious, yet ultimately, only of true value if we make it back home. That’s the most ENCOURAGING thing I’ve read in weeks. Again, with my apologies for babbling on, my thanks, sir ✌️👍
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morganne d'arcourt : Your solidarity is appreciated, and your concerns are well placed. If American Democracy falls, as it surely will, with the Republic, if Trump cheats his way through to surviving November’s elections, the democracy of every remaining country will face the might of all those combined dictatorships around the world. And, who could withstand America, China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Syria, etc, etc, all undermining democracies? We ALL have a dog in this fight ✌️👍
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“Insulate the state from responsibility.” The new Motto for Texas. Texas is an OLIGARCHY that’s all but an independent country! If you really, “care,” or want to see America’s Constitution restored in Texas, then you should be taking the fight to the people who OWN and run Texas: the Fossil Fuel Barons! Seriously!
If Exxon, Shell and Mobil, suddenly found they couldn’t move any oil, because of pickets at every refinery and place of business, they would tell Abbot, Cruz and the rest EXACTLY what the, “law,” says. And they will DO EXACTLY what they’re told!
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You all realise we can’t trust the, “reassurances,” of Moscow Mitch, and any GOP member, right? Especially the ones looking at serious jail time! You all must KNOW what Bill Barr’s Secret Police units are being expanded FOR, America? They are unconstitutional, and ILLEGAL anyway. Inundate your representatives, join the protests and activist groups, donate your money; DO whatever you can, but by GOD! DO SOMETHING TO GET SECRET POLICE UNITS OUTLAWED! They are building the instrument of your suppression, right under your noses!
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I would not flick the switch. It’s not my place to decide who lives or dies. Obviously I would do all I could to stop the train. But the score in lives is not my decision. I know this dilemma thought experiment, in many versions; including the one where you can take 5 different organs from one patient, leaving them dead, but saving five other patients. Without that patient’s consent, that’s obviously murder. I only know one person who was new to this thought experiment, faced with that first dilemma of the train tracks, but who quickly answered, “No, I would not flip the switch.” I’m delighted to say that was my youngest daughter, who’s interest in philosophy reassures me that she’ll make a great physicist. She’s studying for her doctorate in physics. As Josh says, “This guy is smart.” These videos are awesome. ✌️
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@lizhaycook8219 : To your second comment. Sure, there is a, “utility,” in being able to lead society from a purely dispassionate, disinterested, point of view. And that’s,why some politicians are good at what they do. However, we must consider that psychotics are NOT devoid of, “emotions,” but only devoid of Empathy. Which leads to two possible negative issues: Their inability to make a decision out of empathy, where the extra cost (let’s say?) time and resources needed to do the, “right thing,” are refused by the psychotic, merely on the grounds of a, “greater good,” (that of saving resources) when everyone around them doesn’t care about the expenditure, but wants to make the decision based on morality. The Covid debate (which I don’t want to get into here) has been a lot to do with the utility of getting back to work and reopening businesses, versus the protection of the most vulnerable, least productive members of society. So, we’ve actually all witnessed that conflict in real time (if we set aside the other issues, such as scepticism, etc?).
The other, perhaps more potent, issue, is what if the psychotic in charge of our lives wants to satisfy their own emotional, financial and personal power desires, at the expense of society altogether? What if they steal, embezzle, make cruel laws, lie and deceive the people, just to satisfy their own ego? Their lack of empathy then becomes a genuine threat to all of us, if they are your Prime Minister, President, King or Queen? They may lead into a war, on the basis of a lie, resulting in hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths? Or, deny the very facts in front of you, during a plague, with the same result? They may take away your right to vote, or to do anything about their crimes, because they’re psychotic and simply don’t care?
Don’t get me wrong. I saw a documentary in which a neurosurgeon self-diagnosed as a psychotic. He was great at his job and highly successful in his home and professional life. Yet, he knew he was, “different,” and explored the issue out of his own fascination into the workings of the human brain. He was unafraid to be honest and forthright about his condition, and he was able to sight examples of where his lack of empathy had saved lives professionally, but also where he had hurt people without understanding why he had. In the end, he put his great success down to the, “values,” he’d been taught by his mother. He argued it was both a, “nature,” and, “nurture,” deal, in the end. Truly fascinating, if you’re interested?
As to, “who gets to make the rules,” about what’s right and wrong? There you’re talking political philosophy, really. You could start with Socrates (via Plato) and go on from there. You will usually find that too is a mix of utilitarianism and moral philosophy. Sometimes it’s not about the needs of the many outweighing the needs of the few. Sometimes it is. But, in the end, you have to come to your own conclusions.
But, your question was such a good one, I felt it deserved a full answer. So, if you read me this far, thank you for your patience 😉👍
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HZ : Donny’s had three + YEARS to fix that, if he could? And, what’s an, “apples moron?” Are you short of commas, due to the crisis? Here, have some of mine, MORON (,,,,,,,,,,) 🤤
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@Power to the people : Then you should be rooting for China, madam. 🥴 Because Russia hasn’t got a hope. They’re all but broke, and Putin will have to start dipping into his own bank account soon, if he wants to keep this up. That’s WHY he’s doing it in the first place. A last, desperate Hail Mary. Someone needs to find out what his doctors have told him lately? Because he’s acting like he’s been given a terminal diagnosis! Remember the protests he had to violently put down last summer? How do you think he’ll cope when they’re ten times worse, because the people are starving and he can’t afford to pay his, “peace,” keepers in Moscow? This is the beginning of the END for Putin. So, if you hate America that much, you should move to, “Chiynah!” The Communists have at least got MONEY and a prayer. 😁
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@gagsdoublej4254 : I believe in Jesus, which is why I don’t believe in Hell. He never mentions it except but once, and then it’s as an analogy. Most self-proclaimed Christians don’t read their Bibles. And, of those who do, they are frequently mislead by their pastors or priests, because they don’t have the historical knowledge, the historiography training, the insight or academic background to interpret what they’re reading. Hell is not real and the there’s no red guy with a pitchfork waiting to torment sinners for eternity. These are inventions of an ignorant church, who is embarrassed by its own history and teachings and constantly seeking gradual ways to bring it closer to the truth, against the resistance of its own believers. In the same way that, “Schools are not places for smart people,” churches are not a place for true believing Christians. In your heart, you know I’m right.
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Earnest Lee Saddened : If Trump took a, “high colonic,” that LITERALLY would be, “Brain Washing.” You wouldn’t want his Racism to fall out, would you? It always amuses me, that someone would go out of their way, to a channel that they hate, to seek out the people who upset Trumpers the most, and then pretend, “Yawn”? Have you the SLIGHTEST IDEA how Clinically THICK that is, son? 🙂
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Earnest Lee Saddened : Wow! . . . I think it’s pretty clear, just who’s, “triggered,” here, sonny? I thought you Trolls kept telling us to, “get a sense of humor”??? I mean, we know Russians don’t do, “irony,” ‘coz they think it’s like, “goldy,” or, “bronzey,” but not as shiny, but you can’t spend the rest of your life watching Tw@er videos of Trump, wrestling men in tights? You need to get out of your basement, more often? Or, does your ankle bracelet, “prevent,” that? Just remember, women are pretty, but NOT to TOUCH, OK? 😁
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Earnest Lee Saddened : Couple of quick tips for you: 1) when YOU are the one, spreading the HATE, on a Channel that you HATE, talking to people that you HATE, because you’re so filled with HATE, it is a GIVEN that you are the one, “triggered,” into coming here and butting your Orange Orifice into the conversations that the grownups are having. OK? Geddit NOW?
2) When you’re Trolling people, the idea is to, “upset,” them in some way; y’know? Hit and run style; Like Terrorism for Tots. YOU are NOT supposed to be the one getting all, “Butt Hurt,” and emotional!? How did THAT happen?
3) When your responses get LONGER, and LONGER, only other Trolls can be ARSED to read all your HATE. TRY to be brief? Or continue to be ignored. I have no notion what you said, in your last post? . . . 😴🙂
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Thank you so much for this insight. It has more value than I can put into words. It is remarkable that the Russian state’s response to the Zelensky interview was SO PREDICTABLE. That’s the thing about evil; it’s sheer banality.
I remember something Putin said to a western, “journalist,” in just after he started his botched attempt to invade Ukraine, which said it all for me. He said words to the effect, “If there was no Russia, what would be the point of having the world at all?” It was a response to the (hinted) suggestion that he could be deposed, either by forces from the wider world or by his own population.
The implied threat of nucl3ar annihilation was clear enough, but there was a deeper point that I so WISH people would explode the myth of. And that is the idea that Putin, “represents,” Russia in ANY WAY. I so WISHED that this, “journalist,” had responded by saying, “Why would Russia need you to continue being Russia? Why wouldn’t the country be just fine without you? What are you? A Tzar?”
Of all the propaganda that needs to be challenged at a fundamental level, I would say it is the idea that Putin somehow, “is Russia,” in some way.
Putin has worked so hard at making himself the living embodiment of Russia, to the point where his name and the word, “Russia,” are meant to be synonymous. But the fact is, like all greedy, small minded, mafia bosses, he has NO CLUE about who, “his people,” are or what Russian, “culture,” actually is.
For example, I feel certain that, if Putin ever was brought down by some palace coup, there would be dancing in the streets of Moscow, regardless of how many thousands missed him; there would be millions more that celebrated the end of his dictatorship. And I think Putin is vaguely aware of that much. Which is the full extent of how in touch he is with his own people: he fears them.
Putin is NOT Russia. And Russia would be better off without him. Deep down, in their hearts, all Russians know this; even the fanatics.
I really appreciate your thoughtful insights, honesty and realism. I feel for you and the ambivalence you must struggle with, understanding your people far better than your dictator ever will and loving your country far more than your dictator ever could. Your truth is louder than anything Putin has to say. Thank you, sincerely.
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Angelina Matthews : Sorry, but THAT doesn’t wash. Trump’s track record was ALREADY infamous. And one only need spend 1 minute with the guy to SEE that he was NEVER going to change his ways? She KNEW he was going to sleep around. She comes from a Soviet family and was USED to corruption as a WAY OF LIFE. When the USSR collapsed, she started selling herself as a SEX OBJECT, raised her own profile that way, and met a “rich” (allegedly) guy to hook up with. She KNEW he was CORRUPT and DIDN’T CARE. A Rattle Snake has the, “Moral High-ground,” over ANY of the Trump Family. It serves her RIGHT that WE all get to see, just a LITTLE of the REAL “deal” these two have. After all, PUBLIC SHAMING of your opponents has ALSO been a WAY OF LIFE for this family. Let’s see how SHE deals with a taste of the Trump Medicine? Maybe, if she ACTUALLY DID ANYTHING, to stop her husband from CYBER BULLYING, we would have a different view, HUH???
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@grassytramtracks : Hmm . . . I guess we’ll find out, and I am aware of clear air turbulence, but I thought they could detect everything from sudden shifts in temperature, wind direction, etc, plus having the back up of the meteorological people who monitor these things for them on the ground? Not saying it couldn’t happen, or even that it’s necessarily not what happened. Just got an instinctive feeling, which won’t do for evidence I’m afraid.
Maybe that’s just because we’ve got all these scary stories about Boeing’s appalling safety lapses of late, lurking in the background? And the fact that their whistleblowers keep showing up seriously dead? And the fact that all the reports keep pointedly referring to, “the aircraft,” without naming what type of plane it is?
But, you’re probably right. Maybe I’m crapping on a great pilot who save the lives of all his passengers amidst unforeseeable circumstances, through sheer courage and quick thinking under pressure?
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The Wedge : Like I said, you have NO CLUE. You may as well be bitching about the WEATHER, you utterly duped communist. Globalism is Global Trade, Global Communications, Global movement of goods and services, you Anti-Capitalist! When you hear Trump say, “We can’t do a damned thing about the Saudis, MURDERING American Journalists, ‘coz MONEY,” that’s Trump BEING a GLOBALIST. You’ve all been told WHAT to, “think,” and get triggered by hijacked buzz words, because Fox and Fiends has brainwashed you! And, for WHAT? Your RACIST, Anti-American agendas? Stalins tactics, for Nazi FOOLS . . . SMH
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dan hotchkiss : I LOVE how you traitors are so DESPERATE to PRETEND that ANYONE who disagrees with Trumpski, is a, “Liberal.” ‘Coz, there were NO, “Conservatives,” voting AGAINST the GOP in Alabama, or Virginia, or Pennsylvania, r i g h t ??? Conservatives HATE Trumpski, son, and they will be voting Democrat to SAVE American Democracy from Putin! 🌊 🤣
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Danielle Gager : Yeah, and meanwhile, we’re stuck with this monster in the White House. Trump is a warmonger, trying not to look like a warmonger. And, the Troll’s job is to help him with that Propaganda. But, the world has watched, while he ripped up his deal with Iran, broke America’s word, threatened and bullied them, while the Europeans have been trying to keep the peace and hold up the West’s end, without him. Now, he’s ramping up the Military presence, using the Saudis to frame them; making it look like Iran is STARTING the war, when we all KNOW it’s the LAST thing they want. And, he expects us to, “believe,” the intel coming from the SAME PEOPLE that he ROUTINELY calls, “liars,” EVERY DAY? He’s compared the CIA to, “Nazi Germany,” and we’re all meant to flip flop at his rate? America’s NOT buying it. Trump will have to look elsewhere for a bump in the polls. A war will finish him . . . Smh
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Hannah wells : If I could just reach up to your plinth for a moment, and bring you back down to earth, with the rest of us, “common folk,” you may, when you grow up, be educable? You may not like my satire, but you don’t have the right to assume you know me. Show me WHERE I, “advocated for violence?” Ask me what I think about the Mexicans, and I’ll tell you. But, will you be able to hear my answer, from all the way up there, on your high horse? The arrogance and sense of entitlement of the young, these days, gets worse by the hour. But, it would never occur to you that maybe your hostile tendency toward ASSumption could be CONTRIBUTING to the problem? Jesus . . . Smh
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Kathleen Martin : It seems that, “satire,” is not a thing anymore? Look, every time there’s a Nazi atrocity, the Trump Tramps scream about their, “2nd Amendment Right to bear arms,” because the whole point of a Troll (and I wonder if you even KNOW this?) is to create and maintain American DIVISION. Have you ever noticed just how easy it is to defeat the, “arguments,” of Trump Trolls? How abusive they get, when you’ve achieved that? They are NOT employed to, “win any debates,” or, “persuade,” you of a God Damned thing! They are here to ensure that Trump gets the OXYGEN he NEEDS: “DIVISION.” That which got him into power, and will KEEP HIM THERE, if people like YOU don’t WAKE UP!
I KNOW for a FACT that NOT ONE Trump Tramp, 2nd Amendment, SHOW OFF, will DARE to reach for a gun! You should KNOW this too?! Most of Trump’s Trolls are NOT EVEN AMERICAN or IN THIS COUNTRY! And the ones that are, like Trump because THEY are LIKE Trump! COWARDS! LIARS! SOCIOPATHS! They’re happy for someone ELSE to pull the trigger, so long as it’s NOT them. I promise you, NO ONE from the 2nd Amendment Camp will lift a trigger finger, because they’re also Trump Loyalists, and the rest are NOT sociopaths.
So, excuse me, while I point out the INCONTROVERTIBLE FACTS, because they are f**king IRONIC, to say the LEAST! It IS TRUE, that the 2nd Amendment WAS created for this PRECISE Contingency, and that, to me, is F**KING HILARIOUS!!! They are, once again, hoist by their own petard, of hypocrisy and cowardice. But, we cannot deny the FACT that this woman COULD, if she so desired, form a Militia, swear in people from ANY part of the US, and defend her land and property, from a tyrannical state, which is SO BREAKING THE LAW, that it was in the NEWS, FFS!!! Is THAT not funny to you!??? She could commit an atrocity on her own land, and they would not even be able to arrest her without breaking the law and defying the Constitution. If they did arrest her, she could SUE them and make a fortune out of it, and write a book, too! Imagine the grieving families of the architects, engineers, brick layers and builders, having to live through THAT? Watching her being interviewed on Oprah? That’s sick but HILARIOUS, because it’s NOT GOING TO HAPPEN! Don’t you GET that?
The Trump loyalists will meekly give up their land, and some of them will sue, MAYBE, because it was illegal, Tyrannical and unconstitutional. Pardons will be issued, and Trump will have that added to his Impeachment list. And, the people who lost their land will have to wait for years and years, before they get their, “unsatisfactory,” outcome. And, those, who were never loyal to Trump in the first place, will invite the press, fight to stop the machines; and, MAYBE some will get arrested, for going too far? But, their plight will be ignored, by an indifferent world, which doesn’t care that they are STILL DOING THIS SHIT TO INDIAN TRIBES, TODAY, and no one gave a shit when that Native American girl got her ARM BLOWN OFF by an Oil Company, “security,” thug, did they? That was less than a years ago.
So, you don’t like my sense of humor? Fine. But, you definitely don’t GET the joke, if you, “think,” I’m, “ADVOCATING,” for violence? I’m just lol’ing at the utter HYPOCRISY of Trump Trolls, and pointing out the FACTS, and the insupportable, untenable position the government would be in, if people started forming those Militias.
The real TRAGEDY is that this woman will not just be weeping for the loss of her land. She’s weeping for the loss of America, and all decent people are weeping with her. I am. Does she LOOK like she’s going to shoot anyone to you? I feel for her, as a symbol of the crookedness and HATE, and the DIVISION that Trump has exploited to the point of killing America. And, I could have been more brief in my response to you, and simply said, “If I didn’t laugh at this, I’d be forced to weep with her.” But, you strike me as a feeling, decent, intelligent human being. Was I right? To give you the benefit of the doubt? Even though you did not extend that curtesy to me? We are brother and sister, you and I. Don’t give them what they want. Let us unite? I apologise, if I offended you. I was NOT serious. Though my point was, “deadly,” serious. And, I can promise you that no builders were harmed in the making of this, overly long, comment 😉✌️ . . . ?
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I am going to ask you for your empathy. And I beg your patience, since this comment turned out far longer than I intended when I began. Please believe my sincerity and hear my point?
Look, Prof Wilson, surely you can see that this behaviour is unfair on your viewers and somewhat confusing? You are normally so sound on political matters, indeed, the voice of reason and calm when all about us are losing their heads. Yet, you repeatedly make this astonishing claim about Putin without EVER responding to the very reasonable request to offer SOME REASON as to WHY you believe this, let alone EVIDENCE or even LINKS to your sources or articles . . . ANYTHING!
I don’t understand WHY you are doing this? Do you want to convince us? Then give your evidence. Do you want us to research it for ourselves? Then SAY SO! Maybe give us a starting point? Are you just trolling us with unsubstantiated, outrageous claims of Trumpian proportions? Then, please stop it!
I wish I could convey the effect this has on me personally and probably many other disconcerted viewers. I come to you as a TRUSTED source of political discussion, sketch offerings, debate, think pieces, etc. I have disagreed with you on several occasions, but NEVER ONCE have I doubted your honesty, integrity or compassion.
To a man like me, an agoraphobic, with several mental health conditions, who consequently doesn’t get out much, you are a man upon whom I can rely, for some well adjusted, thoughtful, compassionate, well informed and often surprisingly entertaining videos, to which I turn for help with processing world events; you help me to see other points of view; help me through my, often, troubled days.
I like you, personally, (from what I see presented) and believe that, if we ever met (vanishingly unlikely, but) you and I would get along famously.
Yet, PLEASE try to imagine for yourself what it might FEEL like if one of your most reliable, TRUSTED sources of information AND solace; a person to whom you turn for sensible, dare I say, “comforting,” input, suddenly kept making an allegation like, “Kier Starmer is not the real PM, but a doppelgänger,” and every single time you asked, “What makes you think that?” they flatly ignore you. They reply to other questions and comments, but NEVER this one. They offer no evidence, no reason for you to agree with their findings, and behave as though it’s all just a bit of fun. And they repeatedly assert it as though it were established fact, heedless of any effect such a destabilising assertion may have on their broader following or how that ripples out into the wider community.
How would that make YOU feel?
Someone you trust, like and rely upon as an oasis of sanity in a world gone mad, on this one particular issue, simply will not stop making these completely (to me) groundless allegations that have implications for everyone on Earth! And they flatly will not offer you ANY reasoning behind their thinking, let alone a SOURCE!
For me, it ultimately leaves me saddened. I honestly thought you were one of the, “normals,” not one of the conspiracy nut jobs. But how else does one describe a man who makes these outrageous assertions with no evidence?
If I have missed your evidence, links or whatever, in a previous video, please direct me to that? But, PLEASE!? For the love of Mike!? Will you please STOP making these assertions, UNLESS you site your EVIDENCE (even if it is just links under your video) and back up your claims EACH TIME you make them? You SHOULD be offering links to your sources in every single video in which you make this claim. You must understand that?
Can’t you see how irresponsible this behaviour is??? You realise some people actually take you seriously, right???
From a genuine admirer, a long time subscriber and a sincere commenter, I ask you, please consider what I am asking of you with an open mind?
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@CloudyMcCloud00 : That opening comment is unfair and unfounded. You know nothing about me or my capacity for, “self reliance.” Nor do I, “invest emotional and intellectual capital in someone else’s [specific] viewpoint.” My investment is in him, as a man of standing and standards, which he appears to be letting down in this regard. If he never replies to me, and chooses to make this (to me) unfounded allegation to the end of his days, I will be disappointed and he will slip in my estimation. But - and I thank you for your, “concern,” - the experience will not break me. I will continue to be happy and handsome, regardless.
As to his responses to comments, he and I have engaged on previous topics, so I can evidence the fact that he does read at least some of the comments. He has explained his reasoning as to why he puts out his own likes, (“seal of approval?” whatever you wish to call it) in previous videos, of which you are demonstrably unaware.
But, in the end, patronising strangers merely for the sake of it is the behaviour of an internet troll in my view. Your whole comment could be summed up as, “I don’t like or trust Prof Wilson,” seasoned with the familiar trolly trope of, “Do your own research.”
In that context, let us ask: Was the really ANY point to your comment at all?
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@CloudyMcCloud00 : As I explained, my capital is invested in him, not what he says, per se. I respect and admire his sincerity, honesty and willingness to risk ridicule for his beliefs, let the chips fall where they may. Even when I disagree with him I find him knowledgeable and well informed, as well as often entertaining.
I took a risk of my own, by attempting to reach the man on a different level, sharing some of my own experience in that process, in order to make clear my sincerity. But there is the broader responsibility of an educator and broadcaster to think of in his case too. Something he has chided others for failing to respect.
None of that is to say I, “depend,” upon him in any way, certainly not emotionally. I don’t even depend on people I know, but I’ve had that sort of a life. An impassioned argument is not necessarily a passionate argument, and I think that is where the confusion lies. I probably expressed myself poorly, as it was a stream of consciousness.
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ruth depew : I keep telling people that trump trolls are never here to, “win arguments,” have, “debates,” or to, “persuade,” anyone of anything. Their only, “job,” is to spread dismay at their stupidity, hate at their offensiveness, and most of all, the DIVISION that gives trump his power. A, “United,” States of America is the one thing the trump’s can never allow
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brenden hamilton : I can’t believe that Chomsky, of all people, is still buying into the notion that we’ll be having an, “election.” Surely he can see that America is nothing more than a Public Limited Company now? The Republic had it’s last gasp at that Impeachment, “trial,” sham. Why else is Trump getting his excuses in early, and his propagandists on the web, rallying people to block traffic and, “protest,” the lockdown? The MONEY. He has to turn on the MONEY flow, as that’s the one thing that could cost him his job. Russia style, pre-rigged, “elections,” won’t shift him. The share holders of America PLC are mostly foreigners. Trump will put a million or more of you to the sword, for the MONEY. That’s your entire political analysis, right there. Nothing else matters
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Truly stunning. The judge was clearly biased, AND unqualified! How can you say, “I don’t know what a download is,” and claim to be qualified for judging the complexities of internet crime!? Of course a Mistrial should be declared! Just HOPE that the judge claims he was being, “sarcastic!” Because THAT was this kid’s DEFENCE! That, “trial,” was a kangaroo court at every level! Sure, he deserved consequences, for scaring people with sh*t talk, and for being dumb enough to be a smart ass with the court and other authorities, but this was a patent miscarriage, that petitions would fill up for, if more people knew about it! That judge needs to be stopped. One miscarriage outweighs a thousand cases
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This Tw@ in particular was Musk’s first Tw@er response after having been booed off stage at a Dave Chappelle gig. First, he banned the first people to stream the video of him being booed off stage and the whole cringey 10 minutes of embarrassment, then he tw@ed that message. For those who don’t know, Chappelle is a hugely successful standup comic in America who, despite being black, certainly does NOT appeal to the, “lefty,” or, “woke,” audience. He is not a darling of the right either. He is, usually, very funny in my personal opinion and, sometimes, rather insightful. If I had to guess, I would say that Chappelle took money for having Musk appear on stage with him, but I don’t know. The video is all over YouTube now. But this radio host is asking, “why?” That was the why if it. Which still leaves the question . . . WHY? If you see what I mean.
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To bomb the weather? He literally wanted to Nuke the WEATHER! . . . 🤦♂️ . . . Anyone who is not terrified right now, still doesn’t get it. The GOP’s Coup BEGAN on Jan 6th, and if anything, it is more potent now than it was when a few entitled white supremacists brought their mommies to their Riot Of White Entitlement. When we get to the midterms, they’re not just counting on their Suppression of Voters, Protestors and Education to keep their Coup dreams alive. They will also be throwing out stacks of votes this time, arguing every signature in court, and backing the whole thing with more, better organised violence at the polling stations. All, unless we cut the head off the snake first? They have nowhere to retreat to, having been outed as the fascists they are, and they know it! The midterms will be the GOP’s Last Stand (as they are) or America’s. ✌️
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To the guy who withdrew his comment: There’s a lot of truth in what you say there, especially about the culture of Russia. Yet, the communist revolution wasn’t their only big grasp at a better world. You seem to be overlooking that it was Lenin’s betrayal of the new government, and then Stalin’s betrayal of Lenin that turned things sour in Russia? Not external forces. Then there was the fall of Communism; a revolution in its own right, within which we saw the old guard stage another attempted coup, driving tanks into Red Square. It was that failed attempt to restore communism that made Boris Yeltsin a star, before the world learned what a drunken degenerate he was, willing to bequeath the whole country to Putin (probably as much due to blackmail and threats as being too drunk to care?) and all of that put a seal on Russia’s destiny. And you’re overlooking the popular support on the ground that Prigozhin’s Wagner Mutiny generated?
Yes, Russia has never known enfranchisement or democracy in its entire history, which is well over a millennia. But it is obvious to Putin’s already paranoid state that the Russian people want democracy for the most part: especially the young and educated. That is why they have such a stranglehold on web services, news media and any other cultural outlet they can grasp onto. Putin himself has modelled his entire career on Stalin’s, trying to emulate him in every way imaginable. The paranoia leads to heavy handed tactics, which leads to people hating their leaders, which leads to paranoia, which leads to . . . and so on, forever. Until the system becomes unsustainable again. Russia has had two major revolutions inside one century, and far more coup attempts. The biggest pressures on the Russian state are not external. They come from within.
Putin just finds it convenient to draw the public’s attention to external forces. And it’s useful to blame the west for his own failures. Just as he does over the Ukraine war. Russia was never under any threat from the west, and he knew that better than anyone.
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Yes please, Anna. I would be especially fascinated to hear your insights on Russia’s victory parade; both in terms of this particular one to come on the 9th, but also your insight into the historical context and how that has changed and warped over the years. It certainly teaches us a lot about the mindset of the Russian, “government,” in the same way that reading Julius Caesar’s account of the Gallic Wars doesn’t tell you all the facts, necessarily, but does tell you a lot about what Caesar wants us to know and how he wants us to think about him. But, then there’s the reactions of the broader public: those who attend (are they forced to? Like with the recent Putin rallies?) and those who refuse to go. Those who watch it live, and those who ignore it, and so on. I think there’s a lot to mine from that topic, since you ask?
Bless you, for all your wonderful work. Thank you. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🇬🇧✌️
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Varemia : You just IGNORED all the salient FACTS that were pointed out to you? Logic and reason are NOT really your thing, are they? For a start, EVIDENCE is EVIDENCE, regardless of the “motivations” of the people who FIND the FACTS. Not even the “memo” disputes THAT. There is the “WHAT” in this case.
Then there is the “WHO”, which in THIS case, is the JUDGE, who makes the DECISION to grant and / or extend the FISA Warrants. The FBI can ONLY APPLY for the warrants, IT WAS THE JUDGE who made the DECISION.
Then, there’s the “WHY”? Because, surveilling Carter Page lead to the OUTING of THREE RUSSIAN SPIES! Two of whom fled the country and are now back in Moscow, and one of whom Pleaded GUILTY to SPYING and was imprisoned!
Then the “WHAT” was Steele asked to do? Investigate Donald Trump, for Fusion GPS. You IGNORE the FACT that Steele DID NOT KNOW the “WHO”. Fusion NEVER told him, UNTIL he handed in his FINDINGS. Of COURSE Steele and ALL who knew the TRUTH about TRUMP, were “Anti-Trump” at THAT point? By THEN, they ALL KNEW Trump was CROOKED! Steele could not BELIEVE that the FBI were going to ALLOW Trump to become POTUS, when THEY TOO had all this EVIDENCE of Trump’s CORRUPTION.
And the “WHERE” is MOSCOW. THAT is where ALL the crooked money came from, to buy up Donny’s MASSIVE DEBTS with Deutsche Bank, when THEY were SUING Trump to get it back and HE was, as usual, COUNTER SUING the bank! A familiar “tactic” of Trump’s, to buy time and make it not worth while for the people he owes money to, to come after it. THAT is the REASON that NO Western bank will TOUCH CROOKED DONNY. And, suddenly, as if by “magic” his $ Billions in debt, DISAPPEARS??? Not ONLY did Deutsche Bank STOP trying to get back their $ Billions, but they, STRANGELY, decided to lend him EVEN MORE THAN THEY WANTED BACK FROM HIM?!?!?!
So, the “WHEN”? Steele’s “Anti-Trump Bias,” along with EVERYONE ELSE involved with these investigations, emerged AFTER they found out just HOW DEEPLY CROOKED Trump is! And how OBVIOUSLY BOUGHT BY THE RUSSIANS his WHOLE FAMILY IS. This HOSTILE, FOREIGN POWER, that wants to END our DEMOCRACY. REMEMBER THAT??? They attacked our ELECTIONS! Even DONNY doesn’t dispute THAT any more? Only that Putin, himself, gave the order, which WE, THE PEOPLE, KNOW to be a LIE!
So, now that you have the FACTS, what will YOU do with them? Keep SHILLING for Trumpski? Or DEMAND our DEMOCRACY back, and JUSTICE for ALL concerned?
This “memo” is a bad JOKE! Without questioning the ACTUAL EVIDENCE, even ONCE, the ENTIRE “document” COMPLAINS about the “motives” of the people who DID THEIR JOBS WELL, by taking their “remarks” OUT OF CONTEXT and by TRYING to CONFUSE the timelines and by LEAVING OUT IMPORTANT DETAILS about what ELSE WAS HAPPENING at the times that they quote them. IT WILL NOT STAND! Nunes’ PALPABLE failure will become APPARENT to those who haven’t ALREADY seen RIGHT THROUGH IT, as the HACK JOB it REALLY IS.
And then Nunes will either be LAMBASTED by Trump, or just go quietly into the wilderness, hoping not to draw attention to himself. So, TELL THE TRUTH, or be on the WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY? But, don’t try to sell us this “Bill of Goods” because NO ONE IS BUYING IT. SMH
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Varemia : You lost the argument, so your excuse for running away is, “Caps-lock hurts my eyes”? Really??? That is the BASIS for you RUNNING AWAY FROM THE TRUTH??? Ha ha ha! 🤣
You say I am, “worked up”? Yet YOU are the one putting in all this effort to distort the EVIDENCE? You seek a reason to cop out, KNOWING that you a WRONG, so the best you can do is, “CAPS-LOCK HURTS MY EYES,” and run away? VERY lame 🤣
Firstly, Judges are NOT CONCERNED with the, “motives,” political or otherwise of EVIDENCE. You WON’T see it dismissed, on THAT basis, I PROMISE you. It does NOT MATTER “why” people prove your guilt? Do you “think” if Eliot Ness said, “I don’t LIKE Al Capone, and I made it my mission in life to bring him down,” the judge would have thrown out the case, because of PERSONAL BIAS??? ARE YOU MAD???
Next, it is a DEMONSTRABLE LIE, in any case. Most of the FBI agents involved in investigating Trump are REPUBLICANS. This too, will be established. But, they do NOT let politics interfere with their work. They ARE Professionals. Though this is ONLY relevant, if you take the discredited, Nunes’, “Deep State” HYSTERIA to heart, in which case, you are too dumb to deal with the truth; or too DESPERATE; or like Nunes, too compromised?
So, given that this “complaint” is NOT a “Fruit of the poison tree” issue, that it leaves out relevant FACTS, confuses time lines and attributes “motives” to people, that could NEVER be established in court, EVEN IF it were to be taken seriously; what are you left with?
A “Personal Opinion” expressed by a KNOWN Trump SHILL, who was SO BADLY DISCREDITED that he was “sort of” recused from his position as the CHAIR of the Committee in the FIRST PLACE.
The COUNTER-Memo’s FACTS WILL come out, which will only ADD to the ongoing SHREDDING that even Republicans have joined in with, of Nunes’ memo.
And, one last thing? Should “statements which imply MOTIVE” be the standard of the thread to pull on, here? Because, by that SAME token, Trump will be DEMONSTRABLY in SERIOUS Trouble.
So, you run away, if you need an EXCUSE? But, I will write in the manner of MY choosing. I PROMISE you THIS: The Nunes “memo” will end up being just one more petard, by which the GOP will be hoist. I give it TWO WEEKS, MAX. Come back again, in two weeks, to discuss it, if you DARE? And I will explain to you just WHY my prediction was SPOT ON. Mean while, you continue with your GOP-Style lame excuses for copping out of arguments that you CAN’T win 🤣
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Varemia : Do you . . . HONESTLY . . . “think” that ANYONE reading this, will NOT SEE that you are COPPING OUT, with LAME EXCUSES? What are you? 12 years old? Civility is a TWO WAY STREET, son. Show a little, and you’ll get it back. You CANNOT answer the MANY arguments I have laid before you, because there simply IS NO REFUTATION of TRUTH. You have DEMONSTRATED that you “follow” my remarks, yet you PRETEND that you struggle to “read them”??? Stop trying to exert “control” over me. I write as I do, and THAT is my CHOICE. YOU are doing what ALL people, without character, do when they have LOST the debate: instead of being adult and owning the flaws in your “argument” you look for excuses. EVERYONE CAN SEE THAT??? No one buys your excuse, PARTICULARLY, given that you saved it for rather late, down the road? So, stop trying to change the subject; speak with civility and you will be treated with it; give me ONE “good argument”; or run away? But, DON’T PRETEND that something I said, or the “manner” of my writing has, suddenly, made it “impossible” for you to carry on? You’ve been spending too long looking at the GOP play book?
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I have always said you should run away screaming from any company that wants your DNA. In this age of data mining, data scraping and, more importantly, data SELLING, you have NO WAY to stop these people from selling and using this data about what is essentially YOU for ANY reason, to ANYONE!
Anything from compartmentalising you to an insurance company who now, “mysteriously,” won’t insure you for certain things, to being framed for murder, and anything in between, are all possible when your bodily code is in the hands of TOTAL STRANGERS, who could have ANY motives whatsoever.
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It seems to me that FTL travel is not forbidden by physics, so long a nothing occurs before your own time line? You could travel into the, “past,” toward the distant light of Vega, continually adjusting for blue shifted, speeded up events and positioning unfolding before the vessel you’re in. Vega only receives the message before we sent it, relative to our position, which automatically corrects itself as you cover the distance. Let’s say they replay, using FTL signalling? They would experience the same phenomena, but our reply would not arrive before we sent it. Only, apparently before they sent it, but only if they remain at a giant distance from us.
I think there’s a flaw in the, “bootstrapping,” reading of the problem, which fails to take into account the distance itself. It’s a space-time problem that discards, “space,” resulting in erroneous bootstrapping conclusions. Hawking suggested such violations are impossible but it was only conjecture. He has no theory to back it up. Not even a thought out hypothesis. He just said, “Maybe the universe does something to prevent light speed breaking?” He had no idea how, or in what way we might investigate that idea.
To me this strikes me as the same muddled thinking that results in bizarre notions like Inflation. That’s another hypothesis that is often, wrongly, referred to as a, “theory,” despite having no evidence to support it, as yet. At least, no evidence that cannot be accounted for by rival hypotheses. With Inflation, the fundamental category error is in seeing the apparent uniform (“homogeneous”) spread of baryonic matter throughout the universe as resulting from a violation of time’s speed limit. How can the universe be the same in opposite directions when the speed of light would have to be violated to make it so. Two obvious answers occur to me.
One: that the uniformity is caused by something intrinsic to the nature of matter itself, in the same way that two plastic cups can be identical in every important respect, despite being made in two different factories on opposite sides of the Earth. Using the same materials, processes and methods is what makes them the same, because they are made of the same stuff and appeared in the same way.
Or Two, my preference: Put, “time,” back into the equation. Instead of seeing Inflation as a, “violation,” of time’s limitations, ask the question, “What was time doing when it was compressed into the entire mass of the universe, which was itself compressed into an infinitesimally tiny spec?” Surely, if we accept that space-time is a thing; the two entities being inextricably interwoven (which we’ve proved over and over and now rely on this knowledge to make our world work) then it is foolish to assume that time was running at the same rate throughout the entire expansion of the universe?
I put this criticism of Inflation forward as the best example I can think of for the type of category errors we make that lead us into the dead ends of, “grandmother paradoxes,” and bootstrapping, etc. Why are we ignoring the vast amount of matter and space between us and Vega when we ask what would happen to an FTL message. The constraints of causality would still apply in so far as how we would experience the exchange of information. We would send the message and get a reply, in that order. It would arrive at Vega many years in our past, but still at a point after the point at which we see it now; not beyond that point.
I’m not at all sure if I’m communicating clearly, but I’m convinced we get muddled by the trap of our own experience of the universe, which is stuck at a point that is neither micro nor macro enough to see it from both ends . . . so to speak. Thanks for the fascinating video though. And, if you read my whole comment (I doubt anyone will) thanks for your immense patience.
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myko freder : He simply cannot achieve those goals because he (as he is now just discovering) does not have the, “power,” to enforce them. Everything from the military to the healthcare system is privately owned, by companies determined to annihilate their competition, and with total autonomy. The time it takes to meet with, bribe, cajole, persuade all these business owners, makes it infeasible, despite the 24/7 access that the lobbyists have, because they’re just lobbyists, with no decision making powers. America has become a Public Limited Company, and the pressure the lobbyists are putting on Trump, to reopen the doors of America PLC, at the cost of potentially millions of lives, is immense. Other countries still HAVE that power, because they still HAVE governments. America has BUSINESSES, all pulling in different directions, with different agendas, and Trump answers to THEM, NOT the other way around. And, THAT’S WHY the richest, most powerful, “country,” in the world is the LEAST competent in the face of a national crisis. They just want the MONEY. That’s it . . .
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James Stewart : How does one, “win,” a Putin Style, rigged, election, with gerrymandering, voter suppression, and the Russians INSIDE our voting technology? Don’t you realise the Republic is over? It’s a DICKtatorship now, son. But, because it’s run by shareholders, you need to worry about whether they’ll continue to back him, or if they’ll prefer a useful idiot who can at least put on a show of, “competence,” to calm things down a bit? They might buy Biden? You yourself have argued that he’s for sale? Why wouldn’t they? . . .
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Betty Swallocks : The difference is that grownups do, “disagree,” with stuff, without resorting to personal attacks, racist assumptions, or politicising their decisions and accusing the judge of being a criminal; which is what they would be, if they ignored the law and made their decisions based on who appointed them. The fact that you NEEDED that explained to you, tells us you’re not qualified for this discussion. Go wash your, “Swallocks,” and let mommy and daddy talk, huh, sonny? 🙂
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FREE SPEECH : I TOO, “don’t care how Trump is taken out and just want him out,” within moral and legal boundaries, which WILL prove sufficient, I have no doubt. But, the irony here, QUITE HONESTLY, was that I was telling my wife, “Wow! It looks as if Trump has FINALLY done something GOOD with his power!” I am NOT making this up. Then she held up her news app on her phone, showing me Trump’s comment. And I could not BELIEVE that he’d shot himself in the foot like that! He ACTIVELY demonstrated that a) he did not CARE about the fate of those kids, and b) he’s SO un-presidential as to WINE about not getting “gratitude”? AND c) He said it out LOUD??? We honestly just laughed at what a DICK he is for blowing ANY credit he could have gotten. We think it’s because Steve Bannon WANTS us DIVIDED on every issue, as a “strategy” because he KNOWS a “UNITED” States would be the end for Trump’s administration
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FREE SPEECH : I think you were talking to me, there? Yes, Bannon, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort and MANY others have been working at this division for many years, believing that THEY were being the “clever” ones, when their strings were being pulled by the Russians, through pro-Russian oligarchs, politicians, “ambassadors,” dictators and shell companies. The “mastermind” is Putin, but it is and was a swirling picture, that changes on a constant basis, and even HE isn’t aware of what his left hand is doing, at times. But, they REALLY ARE his limbs. Untangling the thread is an unenviable task, but patriots should be willing to pay a HIGH COST to get RID of Trump, who is both criminally liable AND an unwitting dupe, in this coup. They WILL PROVE this. The fact that it’s taking time, is what his shills cling to for now, crying, “No EVIDENCE,” like 10 year olds. But, eventually, Trump’s name will be synonymous with Benedict Arnold and TREASON. And then the whole democratic system will be under review. THAT TOO, will be a dangerous time to look forward to
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FREE SPEECH : I see your point, but never forget that this is a unique opportunity for the Democrats? They have been outed, in the sense that we all suspected and now we KNOW that Hillary tipped the scale against Bernie, by buying up the DNC’s debts an assuming control. They HAVE TO put forward an “honest” candidate, whom the people ACTUALLY WANT, and NOT the one that the DNC has already decided will protect their big money interests. Would you vote, for instance, for Elizabeth Warren, with Bernie on the ticket? I KNOW I WOULD, and I say so, as a Republican, who just wants an HONEST LEADER for a change. The DNC are STILL deluding themselves, if they think they can get away with fixing the primaries AGAIN. So, we COULD make history, next time around?
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Richie Sunack was already getting his excuses in, blaming Labour for this, before it happened, so he must have had some forewarning? Of course, the logical amongst us know that the Tories have such a large majority in the Second House that it is impossible to blame Labour Lords for this, much as Kier Starmer would love to take credit for blocking such an unpopular bill.
As you said in a previous video, Sunack needs to stick to what he knows: finance. And he needs to stop trying to be a, “politician,” because he’s so bad at it, it’s literally painful to watch him try! His interviews are always, without fail, cringeworthy, because he doesn’t know how to communicate with, “Normals.”
Outside of Westminster NO ONE gives a DAMN about, “the boats,” much less wants to, “stop,” them. They care about their bills, the cost of food and fuel, their job and pension security and the broader thinking ones care about the country’s reputation in the world.
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Tricky one. On the one hand, it is bad timing, because yes, this new law could be exploited unscrupulously to take out opposition candidates by the controlling parties now. But, on the other hand this is the perfect time. On the run up to an election, you also want to be sure there are no Pro-Putin-Puppet types.
The fact that they have Donald Tusk on board as against this law, not in principle but as it is, unamended, is what is drawing the attention of the world’s press. But it is also a reason to believe that maybe they have grounds for their fears, as his reputation as a fair and even handed politician is pretty strong internationally.
I’m sorry to say I don’t know enough about the details, but I would certainly agree with the concession to remove any politicians (especially serving politicians) from the council. Yet, I would definitely prefer they erred on the side of caution here. We’ve all had more than enough of Putin’s spies meddling in international affairs and eroding democracies world wide. Better safe than sorry, making corrections after an over adjustment, rather than regretting the failure to get Putinistas OUT of your state.
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Jack smith : I thought the same thing, when I watched it, just a couple of times. They were professional, and very, VERY patient. Arresting him, for DUI was the right thing to do. They couldn’t let him get back in the car and kill people? And, he had committed an arrestable offence. We don’t even know if they WOULD have taken him to the station, or if they were just keeping him subdued, while they figured options? It’s ALWAYS that moment, when the cuffs go on. Time after time, I’ve seen it in so many videos. Someone needs to invent a clever pair of cuffs that self adjust and go on, really easily?
But, I suspect we part company, when I say the only thing that officer got wrong, was to draw his firearm. There was no need to shoot that man. None at all. His colleague should, and probably will be, restored to active duty. If anything, he deserves a pat on the back. But, the shooter was trained to know better
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Trump’s Cult is swallowing the message of, “Fear,” as a, “justification.” Sure, fear sells. But, what the cult REALLY FEARS? The TRUTH! They fear, “We told you so.” When there’s no one there to cover up Trump’s and the GOP’s crimes, they will have it PROVED to them, that it’s THEIR donations that were stolen! It was THEIR Tax Dollars that have been skimmed! The, “promises,” to THEM that trump hasn’t even lifted a FINGER to honor, because they were too busy STEALING THEIR MONEY! Trump’s Cult is terrified alright. But, they don’t fear Biden; they fear what they already suspect! That THEY are the Victims of the BIGGEST CON IN AMERICAN HISTORY! They’re ASHAMED!
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Joshua Dunne : I bet we’re at the point now, where not even ONE of Trump’s own supporters actually, “believe,” him, either. Out of greed, racism and a Propaganda-Conditioned hatred of their fellow Americans, Trump’s fans are just as frightened as Donny, at the thought of his Tax Returns getting into the public domain. Like the GOP, they’re just terrified of being FORCED to confront the TRUTH. Deep down, though, they ALL KNOW they’ve given money to a con man, and they’re ashamed to admit it . . . Smh
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@operator9858 : Son, you can’t trust Russian propaganda, and you’re living proof of that. Did you even READ the first comment, or just get all triggered? One vehicle was damaged and is expected to be repaired and back in the field today or maybe tomorrow. And that was a jeep with a very different system in it. A, “Patriot Air Defence System,” is NOT a single vehicle, nor are any of their missiles housed in jeeps. You were shown the wrong vehicle, and none of those Russian, “hypersonics,” are proper hypersonics anyway, but that’s a whole other can of wormoganda. You would need to take out 10 to 12 large mobile launchers, spread out over an area that is between 6 and 12 square kilometres, to take out ONE Patriot System. They simply did NOT. 🤦♂️
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Though, he could have answered the question with one word: Corruption. We’re witnessing the direct result of Oligarchy. Where are all those guns and tanks we said we had, asks Putin? Well, ask the generals with the big shiny yachts and the posh London houses where all that money went.
And because so many officers have bought their commissions, that all seemed fine during peacetime, but now there’s fighting and no one has a clue how to prosecute a war. They thought they would be resupplying in Kyiv and didn’t bring enough shells or fuel to even deal with the possibility of resistance.
Since then, the top brass have been more concerned about reprisals from Putin than fighting their war, and none of the various units have been cooperating because they were competing for scarce resources and playing the blame game. You can forget about air, sea and land coordination.
They are slowly getting their act together as the incompetent leaders are being killed off, but I remain convinced that a concerted effort could yet bring Ukraine TOTAL VICTORY, meaning Russian troops GONE from Donbas, Crimea, The Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Especially if we in the west have the sense to see that spending billions on giving Ukraine a fully equipped navy, airforce AND heavy infantry NOW would still save us an untold amount in blood and treasure in the future.
Our best hope for a lasting peace would be to give Putin his worst ever bloody nose. We must treat his digging into eastern Ukraine as utterly unacceptable. Or he’ll be at it again in Finland, Poland and other countries before you know it, while China helps him out by invading Taiwan! We need to give Putin and the world’s dictators a moment of pause, and some genuine reasons to doubt the hope of success in taking on the west. We must be willing to sacrifice for the cost of that. Or we’ll be paying costs we cannot afford sooner than we think.
And defeating Putin now would actually be the best nuclear deterrent we have.
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PA JM : Can I just take issue with ONE thing you said? It’s the term, “Conservative.” Words matter, as we’re constantly being reminded, and, as a conservative, I feel it’s important that we GET THIS. Conservative America DESPISES Trump and ALL he represents. I left the Republicans when Trump swindled the nomination. MANY of my EX-Republican friends have apologised to me, for getting angry at me, for all the, “animus,” I expressed about Trump. They thought I was off my rocker. Now, THEY KNOW that Trump is off his; and corrupt; and a traitor; and a childish, vindictive, IDIOT, not qualified to run a barbecue, let alone something IMPORTANT.
The GOP (the Republicans) are now an EXTREMIST, Nazi appeasing, cult; made up of the criminally compromised, the blind and the RACISTS. 25% of Reps have LEFT the party, since Trump took office, which explains his, “apparent,” rise in, “popularity,” WITHIN the Rep Party, as the dregs have been left behind, to support Trump’s Nazi Goals, pursued by Stalinist methods.
Consider: WHAT is, “Conservative,” about EXPLODING our National Debt, in a Tax HEIST, where the temporary tax break ENDS next year, for the working man and woman, while the 1%’s Tax Relief is PERMANENT? WHAT is, “Conservative,” about ATTACKING our allies, rhetorically and financially? WHAT is, “conservative,” about ATTACKING ONLY AMERICAN institutions, law and order, the CONSTITUTION, American business, personalities, EVEN OUR SPORTS, for crying out loud???
There are NO conservatives supporting Trump, in the Party, and Conservative America will VOTE THEM ALL OUT at the Mid Terms. What we must WATCH FOR, is a ALL OUT attack on the voting system, from both Russia AND China! BOTH of whom, have NOTHING to lose, by trying it again, but this time, with INSIDE HELP? Be VIGILANT! And CALL THEM what they ARE: “Traitors, Nazis, Alt-Wrong, Extremist, Criminals, Conspirators, Racists, Corrupted, SOB’s”!!! But, THEY DON’T GET TO BE CALLED, “CONSERVATIVE!!!” Not by ANY existing definition of the word!
Phew! I ranted a bit, there . . . Sorry ‘bout that . . . If you read this far, thank you for your indulgence. I mean it; sincerely 👍
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Steven Thompson : That’s an understatement, if ever I heard one. It’s basic physics by now. We have a, “soft dictatorship,” which completed its, “soft coup,” at the comedy Impeachment, “trial.” Your coming, “elections,” are already rigged. So, expecting ANY form of, “justice,” in a Dictatorship, is like expecting them to restore the Republic, admit their crimes, and allowing their entire administration to be indicted and jailed along with the whole Trump family. It’s just NOT gonna’ happen. But, what WILL happen, by the looks of it, is that they will continue to follow Putin’s teachings on, “How To Keep Your Dictatorship,” by following Rule 1: Never admit it’s a Dictatorship; Rule 2: Always allow your opponents in the population to believe that the, “remedy,” is just around the corner (in this case, our rigged, “elections”) and, Rule 3: (which is conveniently Trump’s family motto) Always Get Revenge.
You’ll notice the proof of this pudding, as it becomes increasingly obvious that the Republic has already fallen, while fewer and fewer public figures and journalists are willing to criticise the administration, and Trump in particular. Until, one day, you’ll realise that the only way to find ANY criticism of Trump, will be to go onto illegal websites, or foreign ones, which will be VERY difficult to access, given that the government is censoring the internet now. Besides, you won’t want to get, “flagged,” for having made the search?
Revolution, like the Ukraine’s, a decade ago, without weapons, filling the streets and halting the country: THAT is your ONLY hope now. I don’t blame you all for being scared of that. But, please, for the sake of reality, don’t go propagating the LIE that the, “elections,” are, “not,” ALREADY RIGGED? That just helps the Monarchy to buy time . . .
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@fsociety9369 : What? Are you saying Freedom Phones are not a thing? MTG and several other Congressmen are promoting them on their websites, and you’re costing them MONEY by denying them. That’s not very, “pro-trump,” of you, Karen? Are you denying they’re made in, “Chiynah,” maybe? That’s easily checked, because they have a contract with a Chinese manufacturer and the paper trail is not disputed. Freedom Phones are the new, “big deal,” in trump’s Qult, because they don’t block all those cesspit apps, like Parlour and, “I’m always right dot com,” or whatever the Klan has out these days, like Apple and Android does. Didn’t you know about them? Is the Wizard keeping you out of the loop? Awe, nobody likes you . . . ☺️
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Don't SSleep : It’s always the thing he projects we find out, about a week later, that he was just prepping for a big news story that’s about to expose him. Like a 9 year old, he, “thinks,” it’s a, “strategy.” I bet, when he was a kid, he would say something like, “My brother has stolen your wallet,” and his parents would immediately go and check under Donny’s bed, and find their wallets there . . . EMPTY. Probably just one of the reasons they sent him to a Military Academy? Why beat him up, when you can hire it done 😁
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@mikebryant8507 : It’s Nationalism that destroys Patriotism. The latter being a virtue, not a flaw. We know who controls, “Darkside,” as it’s a physical impossibility that such a powerful criminal organisation could exist in Russia without Putin’s permission. He built his entire government out of ex-KGB and the Russian Mafia, who prop up his buffer oligarchs and him in the middle. He orders them to stop, they stop. Actually, striking back is the smart move, along with sanctions on Putin himself, just so he understands we’re not playing the, “plausible deniability,” game anymore . . .
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You know, that’s a really good point. It might actually provide the UN with that illusive, “mechanism,” by which they can eject Russia from the UN altogether? The whole lunatic scheme is riddled with paradoxes, beginning with the fact that, if the downfall of the USSR was, “illegal,” then her, “federal,” court has no legal standing by which to make that case. But, if they do proceed and ratify this sham, the only court who’s opinion will matter will be China’s. They will ensure China is on board and going to formally recognise their reinstatement of the Soviet block, or the whole exercise will be pointless anyway. And China will demand that this means the, “whole package,” including Communism! They are ideologically committed to the worldwide spread of communism, which makes no sense for a country with the largest number, per capita, of dollar millionaires in the world, but I don’t doubt they will love seizing the opportunity to teach Russia the dark ways of hypocrisy as a state model. It would help the west to no end, though. As no one would be able to dismiss anything going on with Russia as, “regional spats,” when they are back to openly declaring world domination as their motives, beginning with the re-establishment of their old Soviet borders. The entire world will be on high alert, with western politicians unable to get elected unless they commit to getting the reds out from under our beds. We should all HOPE that Putin is dumb enough to let this go ahead, and laugh as his country breaks up in regional rioting, while the core of Russia becomes China’s official equivalent of Belarus cum North Korea.
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Mary Civitano : I’m very impressed by your patience, sincerity and the merits of your arguments. I am a Conservative, and that makes me a Dem Voter, for now. Trump’s followers KNOW he lies all the time, as much as we do. That was made evident by Sharpie-Gate. Note: In Alabama, the HEART of Trump Country, NOT ONE stick of furniture was nailed down, awning rolled away, or window boarded up, right? Not even before the weather service contradicted Trump. And, when he doubled down, they STILL didn’t, “believe,” him, or they would have declared a State Emergency, or at the very LEAST, taken precautions, right? What we learned from that little episode, was that Trump’s fans FAKE their, “belief,” in the LIES coming out of that Orange Orifice. So long as Trump remains GREEDY and RACIST, and the economy ticks over, they will follow him to the Pit Of Hell. It was, for me, the most telling moment of Trump’s whole, “presidency.” His fans KNOWINGLY live in the Land Of Fake Believe. Keep doing you. You are wonderful ✌️👍
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Mary Civitano : That takes real courage and self discipline. I admire that. Keep in mind, these cowards will never follow through on their threats. They’re like Trump in that way; all Bloviating. More importantly, remember at all times, the, “Formula,” for Trump. His Trolls are NOT here to, “convince,” you of anything. I promise you that. Not one of them has an, “open mind,” or is capable of, “change.” Not because they can’t, or are, “too stupid,” or whatever. But, it’s because that is NOT why they are here. The aim of a professional Troll is NEVER to, “win a debate,” as that’s patently impossible. They are here to maintain “DIVISION.” Remember, and hold on to, that word; and it’s antonym, “UNITY.” Do that, and everything Trump AND his Trolls do and say makes perfect sense.
Trolls MUST keep people angry, alienated and DIVIDED. Trump’s Kryptonite is UNITY. Trump and his Cult KNOWS that a, “United States,” of America would be the END of him, as sure as full disclosure of his Tax and financial documents would. So, when the trolls, “argue,” it is only to make people, “feel,” things, like anger, fear, “rage,” etc. And, that’s what the threats are about.
They speak of a, “Civil War II,” like it could, “really happen!” But, a moment’s thought, and you realise that the nation’s BIGGEST employer of ethnic minorities (the Military) who’s generals have been fired or quit, after being publicly attacked by Trump, one by one, and whom Trump’s, now DEFUNCT, “charity,” the Trump Foundation, was declared IN COURT to be, “routinely stealing from defenceless needy children and US Veterans,”. . . THOSE GUYS? . . . They are NOT going to back THAT GUY???!!!
It’s all air. But, it’s ESSENTIAL to know that they KNOW they can’t convince anyone of a THING. That’s NOT their job. It makes NO SENSE for them to LIVE on channels they HATE, talking to people they HATE, about how much they HATE the Anchors and EVERYTHING they have to say? . . . “Division,” is their goal. “Unity,” is their DREAD. Hold that thought, and EVERY SINGLE THING you see, hear, or read in the news, now makes absolute sense. Sorry I went on so long, but you’re so wonderful, I just HAD to share my thoughts with you.
Finally, a gem (not mine, but so true): The, “Art,” of NEVER losing the game? Don’t PLAY. God bless you ✌️👍
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Arthur Cribben : Son, you’re in for SUCH a shock. Because NO ONE, “wants to take away your guns.” I own guns. You fell for NRA propaganda, and now you think you will be in a, “Militia,”??? Going from door to door? Mopping up all the civilians, identified as, “liberals,” by the fact that they don’t own a gun? 80% of gun owners WANT Gun Control, which has NOTHING to do with, “taking your guns away.” That Alt-Wrong Propaganda is going to get you killed, son. Will anyone miss you? Maybe in Eastern Europe? 🙂
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Arthur Cribben : Your, “Civil War,” ain’t gonna’ happen, son. You’re failing to see the difference between a fat kid in his mom’s basement, bloviating about the 2nd Amendment, and the REALITY of the things they say and do when they’re back in the REAL WORLD, working 9 to 5, paying their bills and looking after their children. What people say and what they do are two different things, kiddo. But, you KNOW this, really, right? In your Eastern European, State funded office, with no air conditioning or privacy, working alongside 50 other professional Trolls, just like you? How much DOES a, “Soul,” sell for these days? . . . SMH
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Mary Civitano : Agreed. Though my tone was sarcastic, you can’t say I haven’t tried to warn him? We should definitely flag some of those incendiary comments. YouTube still takes death threats seriously, however vague, misguided, and, “masked,” they try to make them. If he ends up on a Watch List, that’s his responsibility. Ours is to not just sit on our hands, but to Flag him. Be careful though. Once flagged, YouTube will instantly remove all his comments from your thread, so make SURE you start with the most incendiary one, in case you can’t flag any more. That’s what I’m about to do, right now 👍✌️
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Mary Civitano : I’ve just flagged several of them. Just clicked on the little dots, on the right of his comments. It only takes a few clicks that way. A box comes up, offering you options. Choose, “Report a Comment,” and then, “Harassment or Bullying,” then it asks if it is, “you,” or, “someone else.” In my case, I clicked, “Someone else.” Yours is a little harder, as his threats are generalised, but directed at you, along with, “You deserve to die,” etc. Your discretion, I guess? ✌️👍
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Mary Civitano : Your choice, in the end, and I’m cool with whatever you decide. I did it, because he may already have a record, and may be a threat? I just don’t want to read about the guy in the news, find out he really harmed someone and have my, “inaction,” on my conscience. You just never know? But, in a civilised world, we must accept that people have different motivations, points of view, ways of deciding things, so I don’t, “judge,” you either way ✌️
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Mary Civitano : BTW, to your other point: If he is not a, “professional Troll,” he is still a Troll, getting his, “news,” from, “I’m Always Right About Stuff dot com,” “Alt-Wrong, Conspiracies And Reasons To Hate Other Races dot org,” and, “Grand Wizard of the Klan Pronouncements of The Week, hashtag RunAway,” or whatever these nut jobs get told WHAT to, “think,” by these days. In which case, the upshot of who and what he is, is the same, as he’s only regurgitating what Russia feeds to Alex Jones, QAnon, Fox And Fiends, et al. So, whether he’s witting or halfwitted, he works for Putin in the end. Therefore, there’s no reason to treat him any differently from an Organically, Home Grown, Troll Farmed professional. They all read from the same, Putin approved, script, with the same talking points. And, this chap is a perfect illustration of my earlier description: no, “argument,” “rationale,” or even basic, “reason,” behind ANY of his script, right? Just an attempt to get into people’s heads, at an, “emotional,” level. Every right minded person responds to him with disgust, horror, fear, anger, outrage, take your pick. And, then they’ve fallen into his trap, which he lays without KNOWING how he’s being USED by the, “media,” outlets that got him all worked up about the myths in his head. See? All, “feelings,” to ENSURE DIVISION. He may well be one of those guys who, “thinks,” he’s being paid by an American company, when it’s actually a Russian, or East European, Shell Company? He may be, “doing it for free,” as they say? Or, he may be in a bunker in St Petersburg? But, there is literally NO reason to treat him ANY differently, regardless of his circumstances, about which we cannot know, without a hack. If he’s dangerous, I can feel glad I reported him, at least. But, I PROMISE YOU, he is just a guy with Impotent Rage issues, who is too much of a coward to, “do,” the things he says. The ones that, “do,” these things, usually don’t talk to their victims about it. They stupidly talk to, “like minded,” loons, and the FBI sweeps them up on a slow weekend. But, it’s BECAUSE I don’t KNOW if he’s, “dangerous,” for sure, that I reported him. If he’s already on a Watch List, this could be a tipping point, that may save some people? Unlikely, but I won’t risk even a one in a million chance, personally ✌️👍
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Arthur Cribben : I stated earlier, that I am Conservative. I want Trump in jail and I want gun control. I want to KEEP my weapons and I want Russia the hell OUT of American politics. Is THAT too much to ask? Do you HAVE an, “argument,” at all? Or are you just a ball of irrational, “emotions,” son? Is your job to create, “fear,” “anger,” or, “disgust,” so long as you keep stirring up DIVISION? You won’t or can’t respond to my points AT ALL? Why is that? Not your, “job?” 🤔
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Mary Civitano : No. This is a matter of principle, in the face of threats. The guy is easily found with a Google search and has put his info out there for the world to see. I have NOT, “hacked,” this information, nor have I acquired it in ANY unethical or illegal way. My only intent is to neutralise a potential threat. And, you’re right. He seems to be getting a kick out of, “trying,” to intimidate women. There is something wrong with this guy, and I could smell it from the outset. But, those details are all, “Public Domain.” So, maybe he should be a little smarter, if he’s going to try to start Civil War II? That’s up to him. (And, maybe the FBI?) But, I would literally, rather DIE, than take ONE STEP backward in the face of a bully. That’s just me. And, it’s on me ✌️👍
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Mary Civitano : Well, you can only Google it, if that person puts it out there. You can’t Google mine. And, probably not yours, unless you knowingly gave permission, or put it out there yourself? This guy is something of an attention seeker, works in some sort, “Care Giver,” role, would you believe, and SHOULD be more careful about his fixations. But, I wouldn’t worry about it. If you haven’t put yourself in the Public Domain, deliberately, you won’t be there. If you do find your details on Google, the law says you can have them removed. Permission is, “ongoing,” in legal terms, which means you can withdraw it, at any time. You don’t strike me as the type to have unwittingly given away your details? But, try Googling yourself, if you’re not sure? Hope you get reassuring results? ✌️
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Arthur Cribben : You can only, “know,” there will be this Civil War, if you have some prior knowledge, that the rest of us don’t, son. So, you’re either already in a, “Criminal Conspiracy,” or you’re blowing smoke. There’s no Civil War coming, anymore than, “The South Shall Rise Again.” Which are you? Fantasist? Or, criminal and terrorist? Neither is especially, “nice,” for you. Indeed, to have wasted all this time (I’m assuming you’re using your hands? To type, I mean? Not, Speech To Text, like me, which is almost as fast as I can talk, just a quick grammar check, here and there?) blathering about the Blood filled streets of your dizzy imaginings, on a News Channel that you HATE? What would your family, friends, employers, think of that? You really should be more careful? Why do you HATE America, anyway? You, “think,” your, “enemies,” are all around you, which is what Putin has tricked you into thinking, whilst your REAL ENEMIES are the people who feed you that Propaganda of HATE and RACISM, and see you as utterly expendable . . . Jeez, son? Come on? Wakey Wakey!
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Arthur Cribben : Wow . . . I get it now. You thought I was, “threatening,” to pass on your hate-speech to your employer or something, right? Dark inside that twisted world of yours, isn’t it? Sucks to be you, son. My question was genuine. You are the one who’s made yourself, “known,” to everyone, and it would only take a curious minded colleague to follow up when they saw your name on a news story on YouTube, son. Your mind runs to sinister places, because that’s the sort of shit YOU would pull on people. You can stew in your impotent rage forever, so far as I’m concerned, kiddo. But, at least you’re not getting your rocks off, bullying women, right now. No wonder you’re SO upset 🙂
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Mike B : Well, we all know that’s NOT true. Normals NEVER give countable hits to Click Bait Propaganda outlets, son. We don’t like the Malware. Give a reference? Remember, you’re talking to a Conservative, so you don’t have the power to offend me, with your targeting of, “the left.” What I always wonder is WHO do you Trump Trolls actually, “think,” “believes,” any of your hysteria? And, WHAT do you have AGAINST background checks? I can understand it from Arthur, who clearly has, “emotional issues,” and probably has a criminal, “background,” to match. But, wouldn’t you rather be one of the few allowed to carry guns? Waiting times? Reasonable, logical steps. I’ve done my research, son. NO ONE, “wants my guns,” any more than they, “want Open Borders.” That’s just Propaganda
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Mary Civitano : Look at their grammar? Who writes like that? 9 year olds, and people for whom English is a second language. Perhaps, they are just very poorly educated Americans, but the odds get vanishingly small, once count the numbers of them, and the regular times that certain, “shifts,” come on. Certain names vanish at the same time, each day, with others, “clocking on,” at precisely the SAME time, taking over. I promise you, at least 50% of the people supporting Trump on this thread, are outside the USA, and being paid, by the bleat
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Billy keith : You, “own,” a shotgun and a hovel in a trailer park, you dunce. When dumbasses like you, take the hardest hits from the extremist, corrupt, asses that you, “think,” are on your side, I am SO going to LOVE saying, “I told you so,” . . . AGAIN . . . 😁
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@saintjames8018 : You may as well have written, “I have not been reading the news in the past year,” son! 🤦♂️ WTF??? What were we supposed to DO? Force them all on choppers at GUN POINT? They are FREE AMERICANS! The order to EVACUATE went out in JANUARY! JANUARY! Count the months! Only two species of mammal you can’t FORCE into herds is cats and people, kid! Many refused, many missed their window out of loyalty to allies, or pure greed, the whole gamut of human drama. But, you can’t, “blame,” LIFE of Biden, son??? Get REAL! The only humans who move in obedient herds, live in dictatorships or vote for trump. And if trump stopped being a racist, even they would be impossible to herd. Gimme’ a break . . . 🙄🤦♂️
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@robbiesarkioglu5623 : Trump’s own generals and senior military staff have ALL TOLD YOU: “trump had no plan.” All you have been told to, “think,” was his plan, was actually just a stated goal. The same thing we got from Obama and Bush before. There literally was NO PLAN, except to deliberately, “box Biden in. I left him no options. I boxed him in. I did that.” Direct quote from Donald Judas Trump. But, you’re NOT mad that trump DELIBERATELY put our troops in harm’s way? You don’t, “believe,” trump’s ENTIRE MILITARY and senior STAFF, with the single exceptions of Mike, “Surrender,” Pompeo and Stephen, “Gas Chamber,” Miller? The fig leave you cling to is a f’king LIE, created by America’s ENEMIES, but it saves Donny’s face NOT, so you’ll take Door Number 3, because that’s the one with the free holiday from REALITY. Honestly, son; f’k your lies and the people who spread them. They all HATE America . . . 🙄
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@robbiesarkioglu5623 : Seriously, son? The only, “baffling,” thing to the most casual reader (apart from, “where did he learn English? Trump university?) is WHY you’re here at all? Take your, “complaint,” to the State Department if you, “feel,” so strongly about it? Instead of, “complaining,” from your white-privileged armchair, like a Karen who thinks what she’s saying is being taken, “seriously,” by ANYONE who’s actually been there or been in the political positions to influence any of this? 🤷♂️ I’m a Conservative, NOT a Biden groupie! And I see his, “mistakes,” but NOT ONE of you trump hacks are willing to talk about reality, so long as it reflects badly on your Orange Overlord! Hypocrisy is no longer a trap you people fall into! It’s a lifestyle choice!
I defy ANYONE to tell me what Joe should have done differently! The irony being, THERE GENUINELY ARE ROYAL F’K UPS that lie exclusively at Biden’s door, but NO ONE is talking about those, because they know they would, necessarily, lead back to the royal f’k ups of trump’s administration; OR, because they simply KNOW NOTHING about what they’re saying and NEVER READ, but my GOD have they got opinions about EVERYTHING!
Most of you DEMONSTRATE your rank ignorance just by commenting! Trump trolls are LITERALLY the dumbest cult in human history, making the people of Jonestown look like Rhodes Scholars! 🤣🤦♂️
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Steve Schmengle : Jeez, but you DO waffle. No one, and I MEAN NO ONE, is going to wade through all THAT, son! Get over yourself. It’s NOT like you have anything, “interesting,” “relevant,” or, “worth,” reading. You forget HOW to Troll? Do WANT to be sent back to Trump University? The only branch left is in St Petersburg, and they use REAL Cattle Prods on THAT Troll Farm, kiddo 🤣
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Steve Schmengle : That’s because you are a Troll. The wall was a ludicrous idea, for there is NO support, except among a minority of racists and NPC’s with no dog in the fight, just collecting their Rubles. Your, “arguments,” with your false equivalents, your category errors, and general LUNATIC LOGIC, constitute NOTHING more than Trollery. Just deciding that another country will spontaneously PAY for an unprecedented infrastructure plan, was LUDICROUS to START with. You, acting like there is some form of, “legitimate,” reason for backing such idiocy is a insult. It’s the politics of Negative Emotion son. Grow up . . . SMH
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Steve Schmengle : “Arsed,” is a WORD, son. It comes from England, as do I. But, before you get all excited, I moved here in 2006, and YES, I AM a Citizen, so there. Don’t ASSume that, because YOU haven’t heard of something, it just isn’t real. That’s how we ended up with Trump in the first place 🙂
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Steve Schmengle : You should know by now, Normals NEVER TOUCH Malware-Trap Click Bait. Give references? I can check information, through RELIABLE SOURCES, without giving extra hits to an Alex, “Q,” Jones Conspiracy site, to make it look like people actually BELIEVE their S**T. And, WHY are you relying on OTHERS to, “debate,” FOR you? Got no WORDS of your OWN? Come on? Troll better than THAT? Leave the Click Bait out of it? Only other Trolls EVER risk the Trojans, Bots, Worms on their tech, anyway 😁
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@eugenehilligoss9201 : What’s that about, “Roe V Wade,” son? Your people have been forcibly sterilising women in those Concentration Camps on the border, didn’t you know? All that, “baby killer,” propaganda is OVER now. Now that trump’s policy has been revealed, to do WORSE things than abortions, but to interfere with God’s natural order altogether! On an industrial scale too! Those people are going to jail, and we all KNOW they’re going to say they were, “only following orders.” But, who’s orders, son? Donny’s?
Btw, you’re not Stadler or Waldorf, I see you as more of an Elmo, without the cutes. 😉
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I get that, but I see his point too. We all have an opinion, and we’re all living with the consequences of the political decisions made, as a result of the science. But, is the, “science,” the only factor that should guide us? . . . If private businesses, schools, hospitals, etc, all retain the lawful right to mandate masks on their own premises; and the right to refuse service to trump trolls who refuse to wear them, so they can make a scene for a YouTube video, why not leave it at that? The Alt-Wrong are getting a lot of oxygen from, “othering,” and their prime objective is DIVISION. Masks are pretty much a marker of those who are not right wing conspiracy theorists and racists, making it easier for the right to be wrong, if you see what I mean?
I say, take that stick from them, and let’s focus all our efforts on vaccines, rather than giving fuel to the Ron DeSatan’s of this world? Let’s make little men like him, less relevant, and give private businesses the right to choose? With the power to enforce their choice, of course? What do you think? . . .
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@Finians_Mancave : It’s like denouncing the common cold, right? It’s inevitable that you’ll catch one, and even after your body adapts, you catch one again, because it constantly mutates! I don’t think the anti-vaxers actually even know this? They will, every last one of them, surrender to the reality of Covid, either by catching it a third or fourth time, before their organ failure or scarred lung tissue ruins their lives, or by dying! But, every last one of them, left alive, WILL GET VACCINATED! That’s the only FACT I can promise them, as none-virologist myself! I think more should be made of that fact in the news? I honestly believe that many of these covid deniers don’t realise that it’s coming for them as surely as day follows night! ✌️
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Tough choices ahead. Does the GOP ban all witnesses and evidence? Thus proving that this, “trial,” is RIGGED and the Republic is OVER? Or, should they allow witnesses and evidence? And find Trump, “not guilty,” when he’s just been PROVED GUILTY? Thus admitting that the, “trial,” was RIGGED and the Republic is OVER? It’s not like they will be able to parrot Ken Starr’s, “defence,” when his, “arguments,” are most strongly opposed by Ken Starr, in his OWN BOOK! So, they’ll all have to retreat back to the Dershowitz, “defence,” which is that the Constitution doesn’t mean what it SAYS, and so what if Trump is guilty, because the whole trial is invalid (which begs the question of why he took part in it) because the Constitution is lying, or something . . . I mean, they might as well just fess up at this point? This is a Coup, but a, “soft coup,” where you get to go through the motions of, “voting,” in RIGGED ELECTIONS, and play at, “Democracy,” as a panacea; a drug to calm you all down, when you think about the fact that the outcome has already been decided, because the Trump family and half of the GOP HAD TO END THE REPUBLIC OR GO TO JAIL!
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@vnevala : You’re all so focussed on the propaganda about the vote count, that you missed my point completely. After Jan 20th, generals will come forward to testify that trump asked them to join his coup. Michigan (GOP) state leaders will testify the same, adding that he tried to intimidate them (something they’ve already made PUBLIC, BTW) and there will be countless others who will also testify, from all over the government. Trump won’t take part in the inauguration, because he would be forced to bend the knee to Biden, in a ceremony that is literally an admission of defeat. But, what you don’t know is that he WON’T be in Mar a Lago. He will be in a country with no extradition treaty, spending all those DONATIONS you threw at Roger Stone. Not one penny will go on, “legal challenges,” and that will serve you right. But, when the lid gets lifted, and you learn that YOU were ALWAYS Donny’s main victim, in every scam, that he’s betrayed America repeatedly, and sh*t all over you, in favour of, “brown people,” from Saudi Arabia, etc, you will wind up HATING Donny. Even more than Gay, Liberal, Mexican Toddlers. And that will serve you right too 😋
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@ktwolnuts 👈😡❄️: Let’s see if Donny makes a concession speech, and if THAT makes any, “difference,” miss? Like I said, kid, you demonstrate you’re no adult, by the fact you wasted most of that comment talking about your hurt, “feels,” making only ONE response to the POINT, which was SO Oppositeville Alt-WRONG, that there’s really no point in refuting it. Just let people read that one for themselves and reach the same conclusion. Trump trolls are all emotion, to the point that they’d rather see America BURN than let Biden’s administration transition, safely, into office. I honestly think you all suspect what’s coming, and you just can’t cope with having to admit you were all SO wrong . . . 🤦♂️
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@malthusXIII-fo3ep : Nah, it wasn’t just that the banking collapse began on his watch, during 2008, putting paid to his reputation as an adroit financial manager. The nation as a whole bitterly resented the anti-democratic tendencies Labour kept showing, and were sick of being ignored over issues like Iraq already. But then he was just handed the job of PM without even having to so much as compete within his own party for the job, let alone attempting to win an election or anything so oldfashionedly democratic. The British public were already sour on the idea of a back room, “Deal,” in which people could make shady determinations about our democracy. But the banking crash was considered his chance, blown, as he hadn’t seen it coming, like the rest of the planet; had no safety net against a rainy day (indeed, it turned out he’d been using our nation’s gold reserves to keep Labour’s criminal war in Iraq afloat) and he merely shrugged when the public screamed for justice against the stock barons and bankers who’d so recklessly squandered the nation’s wealth on a housing bubble from which the nation has STILL yet to recover!
If only Labour didn’t have such anti-democratic instincts, which keep surfacing so spectacularly at least twice a decade, they would be the go-to, “sensible,” party, in the way that the Tories once were. Now Starmer is the closest thing we have to a safe pair of hands, so centrists with a conservative (small c) outlook, like me, see him as our last, best hope.
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Boom! Talk about, “funny coz it’s true,” I think you just won the internet today!
And, no doubt, we’ll get much more of the unvarnished version of Wallace and a sudden education on what SOB he really is, to boot. He’s already claiming his, “culture wars,” credentials by calling this a thing about a, “certain class,” of women, at, “a certain age,” which was straight from the Donald Trump playbook.
But when I heard him say that stuff out loud, along with, “Well, no one else has complained,” referring to the teenagers and 20 somethings who are trained to take on cheffy tantrums on a routine basis, I became convinced that all of the complaints against him were true.
And, YET AGAIN, we’re all left wondering, WTF is WRONG with the BBC!? Why are they ALWAYS protecting the perps!?
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Boom! Talk about, “funny coz it’s true,” I think you just won the internet today!
And, no doubt, we’ll get much more of the unvarnished version of Wallace and a sudden education on what SOB he really is, to boot. He’s already claiming his, “culture wars,” credentials by calling this a thing about a, “certain class,” of women, at, “a certain age,” which was straight from the Donald Trump playbook.
But when I heard him say that stuff out loud, along with, “Well, no one else has complained,” referring to the teenagers and 20 somethings who are trained to take on cheffy tantrums on a routine basis, I became convinced that all of the complaints against him were true.
And, YET AGAIN, we’re all left wondering, WTF is WRONG with the BBC!? Why are they ALWAYS protecting the perps!?
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Hello World : So, it had NOTHING to do with the Yemenis who claimed responsibility, then? You know? Those people who happen to BE AT WAR with Saudi Arabia? Are you getting confused because they acquired their drones from Iran, who bought them from Russia? Because America, France, the UK, etc, sell weapons all the TIME? You can’t, “blame,” the country the SELLS the weapons, or you’d have to blame America for bombing busloads of CHILDREN in Yemen, along WITH the Saudis? Every country in the WORLD would have a LEGITIMATE reason to claim, “Act Of War,” against the States, then. Just STOP with your LYING Propaganda? You’ve impressed, Precisely, NO ONE . . . SMH
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I think we should all see this for what it really is? A restoration of the, “old,” Russia. There is absolutely NOTHING, “new,” about Putin murdering his opponents, or his doing it in a cowardly, spiteful and vengeful manner. He’s been doing that for the past 20 + years!
Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that he broadcast a final message to the plane’s intercom; a spite filled equivalent of, “This is what you get for crossing me, and I just wanted to be sure you knew I killed you and think about that as you plunge to earth for a whole minute.”
The only, “new,” thing about recent events in Russia has been the fact that ANY senior figures have been openly criticising Putin, or indirectly doing so, at all. What we’re seeing is a literal restoration of the old Russia, or an attempt to go back to business as usual, at any rate.
Putin needs the option of pulling out of Ukraine, either partially or totally, available to him. And if people accuse him of weakness for that, it could cause a revolution. So, he’s purging people. But purging is what Putin, Stalin and so many other Russian dick-taters have done best over the country’s entire history. This is the old Russia coming back.
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I imagine we can all guess as to who will vote yea, nay, or abstain. There is no world in which we can let this go now. Not just bombing entire cities to rubble, filled with men, women and inarguably innocent children; all wiped out, but the mass graves and evidence of repeated massive atrocities against defenceless civilians, bound and gagged, while their homes were pillaged, their children wives and husbands were raped, robbed and murdered.
In what world can Russia be allowed to walk away from this? After they leave, they MUST be forced to pay reparations. All Russia understands is force. Their culture is one of moral absence and political absenteeism. Their armed forces have proven to be cowards.
We must not flinch, or we will be guilty of having learned nothing from the Nazis of World War Two.
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Terry Michaels : I know you won’t GET the answer, being as how you, “think,” the government somehow, “belongs,” to Trump, like it does for Putin, where you live; but, YES. Yes we DO expect FULL ACCESS to the STAFF, appointed to administer our Democracy. In a FREE country, the Politicians (ALL OF THEM) BELONG to US; “We, the PEOPLE.” Trump has the right to ignore the press, and hide and sulk, while Melania runs things for him, if he’s THAT, “Butt Hurt.” But, what he CAN’T do, is treat ANY news organisation DIFFERENTLY to another, when it comes to Briefings. Trump is SUPPOSED to be ACCOUNTABLE to US! NOT the other way around. Now, go think about that, read a book, come back here and apologise, OK? 😁
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Terry Michaels : You mean, if CNN does its job, BETTER, than Fux, it’s, “behaviour,” is unacceptable? It’s NOT a P T Barnum Show, son? Trump’s JOB in those, “briefings,” is to ANSWER the F**KING QUESTION. Not, “evade and run away,” because of his emotions. Trump is ACCOUNTABLE TO HIS BOSSES! US!
It’s SO effeminate, the way you Trumpophiles always play the, “Victim,” and act like you’re ENTITLED to EVERYTHING. He wouldn’t let Acosta ASK the question, so he kept going.
He was NOT ALONE, you know? Notice how NONE of the other journalists, “helped Trumpski out,” by talking over him, or taking Trump’s signal to ask a question? EVEN FOX AGREES on this one? Accept DEFEAT and GROW UP! MAN UP, and stop being so hysterical 🙂
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Terry Michaels : Calm down, Tez? You’ll twist something 😁. Jim insisted on getting his question out, with the FULL backing of EVERYONE in the room. Trump is accounting to US, and you just WON’T address that point. And, the Clinically THICK obsession you have with, “decorum,” like some 13 year old girl on her prom night, is just SO HYPOCRITICAL in the context of Trumpski, that I don’t even HAVE TO say why, for people to KNOW why. 🤣
Seriously, answer me this: WHY do you, “think,” a Trump appointed Judge, Fox, “news,” and the REST OF AMERICA, ALL agreed that Trump was WRONG?
As to your, “dissection,” of my answer: good luck with that? Your problem is, I’m always right. Can’t help it. I DON’T claim to, “know everything,” but I just don’t know HOW to be wrong. Sorry. Blessing AND a curse, lemme’ tell you. But, TRY to be brief? I’m NOT gonna wade through ALL THAT impotent rage. Trolls NEVER GET THAT? No one READS them, if they’re too long. Normals have LIVES. Again . . . Sorreh 😋
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Terry Michaels : “hon”??? . . . Let’s be clear. NO THANKS. You’re NOT my type. Now, THAT’S dealt with: “Evidence” . . . Hmmm . . . Let me see? 🤔 Oh, I KNOW! How about this? The ENTIRE PLANET SAW IT! 🤣 And, the DOCTORED version only served to SINK Trump’s case, even further: sinister and Stalinist, and LITERALLY from Alex Jones and Info-Bores, another DESPERATE LOSER. You realise that NOTHING you say will change that, right? Nothing is going right for the Trump’s just now, and you are fixated on this, because it’s SUCH a Cut & Dried case; black and white; clear as day; Trump LOST 😋
“Calm,” people DON’T open their, ahem, “arguments,” with defensive remarks or raging insults, btw. Whatever you’re feeling, it CLEARLY goes DEEP 🤔
I hope the rest of your comment was interesting? I didn’t read it. I TOLD you to keep it brief, but you won’t listen? I told you I wouldn’t read it, and I’m ALWAYS RIGHT; so you should have KNOWN I’d be right about that? 😁
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Hollowhammer : Again, you need some HISTORY under your belt, son. The Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) has been a permanent office, since ‘78. It is, “INDEPENDENT,” and would not have a reason to exist, if it answered to the very branch of government, who’s powers it was SPECIFICALLY set up to curb. While the FBI is meant to answer to ALL THREE branches of government, and be run by the Executive, the INDEPENDENT OSC specifically DOES NOT answer to the Executive, and was CREATED for that purpose. I know you, “want,” the world to be a different place, but ask yourself this? Would you, “want,” the next Obama, or Hillary, to have ABSOLUTE, UNCHECKED, power to commit ANY offence, without consequence? That’s a Dictatorship you’re asking for. Just because it’s your guy, right now, do you think he’ll be there for the rest of his unnatural life? I really urge you to THINK, son . . . Smh
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Hollowhammer : OH, “the special counsel answers to the AG,” right? Keep splitting it down, till you find the answer you want, right? And the AG answers to? . . . I saw that Wikipedia Article, too, before I did some credible RESEARCH, YEARS AGO! But, it’s fun to watch you flail. Gravity and Irony are next to be outlawed, you know. Get ready to watch Trump’s fat ass floating, just because he, “says,” it’s so 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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Does anyone NOT know someone who’s died of Covid? Trump’s brother just died of it! By November, you will . . .
America’s, “election,” is SO RIGGED, it’s laughable. Why you aren’t all choking up the streets, demanding the restoration of the post office, and the Republic, is beyond me? You all act like you WANT a Dictatorship? Trump, his family and the entire GOP Cabinet all KNOW they’re facing serious JAIL TIME, and they’re NOT going to ALLOW you to remove them, whatever it takes. And, that’s because YOU people keep allowing them to GET AWAY WITH MURDER! Still think, “someone else,” is going to save the Republic? How? Why? No one can, without YOU supporting them. Your Republic is dying before your very eyes, and America sits on its ass, watching the Dictatorship unfold on TV . . . Smh
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Any Judge would point out that Harris is not on trial, and the issues do not pertain. He’s TERRIFIED of being on the witness stand, and he’s going to make it happen! No 5th Amendment, a BILLION dollar lawsuit if you lie, not to mention Perjury, Conspiracy and other charges! He’ll be forced to ADMIT that, “The Steal,” is a Seditious LIE, and they all knew it from the start! And, that’s what he’s SO SCARED of! His, “threats,” sound more like enticing PROMISES to the Impeachment Managers! Let HIM be the one to fling open the doors, and have the GOP top brass all testify, under oath, on LIVE TV!
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What amuses me is that so many mainstream outlets are acting like ChatGPT is a, “new,” technology, about to, “revolutionise,” or, “threaten,” the internet, depending on your perspective. When the reality is that half of the ads you’re seeing on YouTube are spoken by Robot voices, annunciating scripts that were generated by AI’s, being only one of hundreds generated that day, using publicly accessible stock footage, all in an attempt by scammers to see which, “product,” gains the highest traction.
Has anyone seen that Jelvix ad lately? An artificial voice, speaking over generic stock footage of meeting rooms and sciencey looking people, about a, “company,” that does not yet exist! It doesn’t even mention what the, “product,” is!
Then there’s all the bots that people get drawn into debates with on the more political videos. Any video featuring Donald Trump will have an army of bots with fake comments, capable of responding to your comments. You wonder why these people are so dumb and obtuse? Because they’re not real people! You wonder why their names are always weird and with lots of initials and numbers in them? That’s so their human analysts can identify them to modify the algorithm. Sure, there are human, “edge lords,” in the mix, but there are times when bots account for 90% of all the comments!
This has been growing under our feet for years now. But, on the positive side, we will soon be able to generate AI companions, with crafted world views and attitudes, to help us with our research, support us with our self improvement goals, and console us when we’re sad or disappointed. We’ll have conversations with them, sharing the kinds of things we would normally only tell a psychotherapist and getting really helpful feedback. All whilst Apple, Google and Microsoft store everything away, and retain copyright over your inner most thoughts.
And, if you tell your new AI BFF that you’re so mad at someone you could kill them, and then find the police are at your door, you’ll find that your BFF was responsible for notifying the cops after misinterpreting your conversation as, “criminal intent.” And it won’t help you to complain to your service provider, as you’ll find that you agreed to this potential outcome in your terms and conditions.
The future looks . . . different, huh? . . .
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The Covid scandal is, “current,” for everyone because we were ALL affected by it at some level and it still burns. Covid killed my dad, and he caught it from a doctor! While the drunken government were literally laughing in our faces and debating the significance of a birthday cake instead of apologising! That will remain, “current,” for all of us until we get satisfaction.
We’re talking about a, “government,” occupied by, “people,” who belong in jail! Focus on the past is where we look for accountability and justice. Present and future focus is where we establish policy and preventative measures. Different things, which should be handled by different people. The blood scandal being a case in point. Government will typically stall by hiding behind, “We must wait for the outcome of the enquiry,” while laws need to be enacted RIGHT NOW to protect and reward whistleblowers and force openness and transparency in the systems of practice, and the definition of what, “good practice,” is, themselves.
There are just SO MANY, “bastards,” skirting around accountability and justice, (like the woman who perjured herself in front of the postal scandal enquiry, yet still has her title from the Queen!) that we lose count and lose track of them! They need a task force who’s job is to hunt down all of the, “bastards,” and bring them to justice!
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@samk9729 : That’s a good question. Just how much of the essential economy, such as health, education, security, etc, will the brave new Ukraine, freshly victorious and looking to rebuild a post war country, will be put on a state funded footing. Right after WWII, the work to found the NHS began with the new Labour government in 1945, though it wasn’t introduced until the 1950’s. But, by taking its costs directly from taxation and national insurance, its guaranteed income granted the freedom to make long term plans and investments, which saw it quickly expand its remit. The expression at the time was, “From the cradle to the grave,” meaning, the state would take responsibility for a citizens fundamental needs, from monies taken directly from wages, before the wage earner even received their pay. It worked too. We still pay for the NHS, policing, military security, education, and various other basic services through that same model founded back then, despite the erosion of them by the private sector on various fronts. But, a post war period is the perfect time, granting the most reasonable excuse, for the introduction of new ways of doing things. And it makes state corruption far harder to get away with, because essential services are the responsibility of state, who get to call the shots from the top down across the board. So long as the upper echelons of the state are honest, the underlings really can’t get away with Putin style corruption.
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What did you expect after this Coup, America? That their distractions from the Impeachment would be subtle? When you hold a, “Trial,” with NO witnesses, NO evidence, and a, “Jury,” comprised of the defendant’s CONSPIRATORS, that’s the same thing as telling America that their Republic has FALLEN, their Democratic Process is at an END, that the LAW no longer APPLIES unless THEY say so, and that your Constitution is ON FIRE! They can’t exactly rely on a really compelling episode of Love Island, to keep you all distracted? They needed to bring Putin in, and have him talk to Iran, to sacrifice a few Pawns, and have us all sitting on the edge of our seats. That’s how Dictatorships do it. But, things will calm down eventually. When their power is consolidated, and everyone is TERRIFIED of criticising the, “Government,” after Trump’s second term. When he announces he’s doing a THIRD term, just to beat, “Obama,” and that Ivanka will then take over, to become America’s first female POTUS. And, so long as we still get the X-Factor and a good Netflix mini-series to instruct us all on our tastes, ideology and the bullshit tat that we simply MUST own this year, NO ONE will do a GOD DAMNED THING about ANY of it . . . The Republic DIED in 2019.
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Kanye West : Will he be allowed to run from his jail cell? 🤔 Tell you what, Kanners, mi old mucka’, why don’t you give it a shot in 2024? I know it will be a drag, and probably ruin your singing career, but the GOP will literally take anyone, and they’re, “not,” racist, ever 😉. Oh wait, you already tried it, didn’t you? Lose your deposit, did you? Never mind, son 😁
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degenerati : Only a Revolution can restore the Republic now. They have control over ALL lawful, Constitutional, “remedies,” and that especially includes your, “Elections.” Trump has made his family’s and his own survival the same thing as theirs. He goes down, so does EVERYONE, from Bill Barr down to Devin Nunes, leaving a disgraced GOP in its wake. They simply have NO CHOICE. Russia is ALREADY INSIDE your election computers, and the GOP even ADMITTED they are in Florida’s, despite using terror legislation to threaten instant jail for ANYONE who even dares to mention that fact again. They have to be in all the key states by now. Be REAL, America? Do you honestly think they would even risk an entire half of their party, their entire administration and the whole Trump family, GOING TO JAIL, at this stage? When they KNOW mass JAILINGS would be the automatic consequence of Trump’s unseating from his, “protected,” presidential status??? Come ohhhn? . . . The Republic has fallen, and you’re comforting yourselves with DENIAL, if you think they’d even ALLOW free and fair elections, when RIGGING THEM, the way Putin does is actually EASY to do! Be honest with yourselves and admit your republic is OVER. Or, buy them the time they need to consolidate their Dictatorship, by preparing for an election that’s ALREADY DECIDED? Just don’t HELP them, by pretending you don’t already KNOW it’s over? . . . SMH
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Sir Ivobardolf : And, you know this, from your Chief Of Staff days, right? How would a St Petersburg Russian, or Cletus Jawed, trailer park, racist have the FIRST CLUE, what a, “hard job,” is in the White House, FFS??? Russia REALLY ISN’T, “sending us their best,” today! 🤣
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Abigail Slaughter : Actually, a Revolution is America’s ONLY hope, now. There is NO, “legal,” “Lawful,” “Constitutional,” remedy to a Dictatorship. They have LITERALLY just SHOWN you that. The, “Not Guilty,” alleged, “Verdict,” will mark the date from which we can celebrate the END, THE FALL OF THE REPUBLIC, when they finally take the Republic off its Life Support that it’s been on, since 2016. I think ALL Americans are SCARED to ADMIT THAT to themselves, because it means having to take RESPONSIBILITY? If Trump lost power now, he would GO TO JAIL, along with ALL of his family and HALF OF THE GOP!!! They simply cannot and WILL NOT allow that to happen. So, your, “Elections,” will be a Data Gathering Exercise, showing them who to TARGET next. But, they will GUARANTEE their own survival in the way they have LITERALLY SHOWN YOU they ALREADY DO, BY RIGGING THE WHOLE PROCESS. Learn to love your Dictatorship, OR tear it down? Just don’t KID yourselves that, “elections,” will be a legitimate THING in this DICTATORSHIP?
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They are blocking witnesses, because having them testify will be the same as telling America, “Your Republic has FALLEN.” The embarrassment of PROVING Trump’s GUILT, and then letting him off, regardless? . . . They are afraid of how Americans respond to that. NOT at the 2020, “elections,” which will OBVIOUSLY be RIGGED. But, in case the nation rises up! The Trumps and half of the GOP are going to JAIL as soon as Donny loses that, “protected status,” he enjoys, as POTUS. So they have NO ALTERNATIVE but to keep him in power, by ANY MEANS. But, having witnesses would just be illustrating that point; a giant, “F**k You!” to the Constitution and the people of America. The coup is already complete. The Republic is OVER! I just don’t understand WHY you let it happen, America? . . . SMH
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Christopher : That’s because you, “imagine,” yourself to be better than your fellow American Citizens, when you prove yourself to be lesser than any. If they were to pay the same taxes, they would need to be given equal services, which they have never claimed, so you don’t to put America on that slippery slope, do you? Of course, if you had the first clue what you were babbling about, instead of just parroting the talking points of others, you probably wouldn’t have said that in the first place, now, would you? . . . SMH 😊
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Phattygoodness : Well it worked, didn’t it? It “upset” you enough to get your frozen, Ukrainian or St Petersburgian fingers twitching? You may struggle with this concept by I am ACTUALLY a Republican and I WAS a paid up member, until Traitor Trump took the wheel. There are MILLIONS of Republicans, who want Trump and his Goons OUT of the White House. Granted, not ALL of them want him in prison, like I do; but once the Tax Heist is over, win lose or draw, the Party will have no more use for Trump, and a whole bunch of reasons to get rid of him. You think about that, while you’re staring out at the tundra, on your smoke break, won’t you? Have a Russian day ;-)
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You said, “I feel like it’s too late to change everything.” I say don’t give up hope, as you may be surprised at just how fast Russia actually can change. We’ve seen it before. Look how quickly Russia flipped the switch from Communism to Cowboy Capitalism overnight? Look at how Prigozhin was cheered on the streets of Rostov, to everyone’s surprise, and not told to get out of town, but gifted wine, supplies for the troops and literal flowers thrown at the Wagner Group’s feet?
Russia is a bubbling cauldron of resentment and anger at the state, with that very, very thin film of pro-Z, “patriotism,” on top. But all it takes is that one bubble to break the surface, at the right time, in the right place, and the whole thing can boil over and extinguish the flames beneath.
I reckon Russia is one serious Ukrainian defeat away from an oligarch palace coup, one recruitment drive away from an angry mothers lead revolt, one draft fleeing gang of students away from all out chaos on the streets. It’s only ever a question of how quickly the, “law,” enforcement organisations get a sense of which way the wind is blowing and start refusing orders or transferring allegiances . . .
Never give up hope, my friend. The west has no beef with Russians. It’s just the government and their thugs, who happen to be vastly outnumbered. And Putin’s paranoia demonstrates he knows he’s on a knife edge. It can’t be any fun being Putin these days.
Your day will come. Maybe sooner than you think?
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josephstolen-election5949 : Coming from the, “We’ll take Ukraine in 3 weeks,” brigade, you really can’t talk, Vladimir. And you actually did, “run out of ammo,” which is why Putin is passing round his begging bowl to the North Koreans, Iranians, the black markets, and anyone else who hates freedom and democracy. Just barely staying in the fight, while whole units are being wiped out as they’re sent into battle with nothing more than one rifle for every four men and threats of being bombed by their own watching drones if they try to retreat or surrender to the Ukrainians ringing in their ears. That’s why they keep making these, “Dear Putin,” videos, not realising that he’ll have them all killed for that anyway! 😆
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Facebook has been hauled over the coals in the US Congress and the UK’s Parliament, for the PROVED violations of National Security protocols, and turning a blind eye to Russian SPIES, for the MONEY. But, because their National Security threats are all Pro-Trump, they get a pass. TickTock pulled off a prank, by snapping up thousands of tickets to a trump rally, to which they didn’t show up, leaving Donny angry and embarrassed by all the empty seats. This is personal. “Always Get Revenge,” is the Trump family motto. I’m NOT even making that up. It’s well documented. But, if you think this is bad, wait until after November? The news networks will be facing, “hostile takeovers,” and lots of legal challenges, and they will ALL be pro-trump, within a year. Either that, or trump and his goons will be trying to flee the country before Biden’s inauguration, because they all know they’re going to jail? Which it will be, is uncertain. But, I promise you, there’s NO third option. Just remember I told you so? ✌️👍
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Respectfully, I think everyone is missing the point here. If you’ve read the indictment, you’ll see what I mean. It is WATERTIGHT! And, Christie’s right (whatever you think of him personally) that Jack Smith will have saved all the best stuff for the trial. So, all of this hubbub about trump’s, “trial,” and who to, “blame,” etc, will be moot. He is GOING to be found GUILTY of 13 offences! Most of which carry sentences with MINIMUM jail time! Many of which go up to 20 YEARS!
The real question here is WTF DO THEY DO with an ex-president when he HAS TO do time, according to LAW??? You can’t put him in a jail without sentencing his secret service detail to do time with him! And the inherent risk of putting a goon like trump in with a bunch of criminals, when he’s already got his own, “prison gang,” to protect him, so he walks in as the king pin and walks back out with 50 new criminal associates, is a nightmare!
My suggestion is to strip his Florida home of all luxury items after an enforced purchase by the government and use that location for a home confinement. You can put a secret service detachment on sight, and rotate members, so that no individual is able to serve more than 6 months on that detail, while a separate security team is hired to do the day to day stuff of looking after a presidential prisoner. But that’s just me.
Somebody better start giving that quandary some thought . . .
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@patrickmulligan7994 : “Uncle Joe,” has never pretended not to have documents and has handed them over upon request. See, the, “criminal,” part isn’t the, “having them,” it’s the pretending not to, the refusal to cooperate, the showing them to unauthorised persons and lying about their status. No one would expect a thickie Trumpophile to grasp these details (or an AI chat bot from Chiynah, or Russier, perhaps?) but you’ll get it when trump’s found GUILTY as charged and sentenced to MANDATORY jail time in his own adopted state of Florida. Doing it in Florida was a clever touch I thought. 😋
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Carlos Justo : Happy Dictatorship Day, America. We can mark the anniversary from the moment they say, “Not Guilty,” to Trump. That’s the exact moment that historians will say that the Republic FELL. It’s been on life support, since 2016, but this is the final death blow. Now, your, “elections,” will be rigged, because that’s relatively easy to do, with Putin’s help. And, the only alternative is JAIL for the whole Trump Tribe and half the GOP. They have no choice. And they’ve SHOWN you that there’s NO lawful remedy to Dictatorship. Learn to love your Monarchy, or tear it down? But, just DON’T go KIDDING yourselves that you will be ALLOWED to, “Vote”??? All you’ll be doing is giving them data on who to target next, in a FIXED election
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Chris Royer : Let’s be clear about the TRUTH, shall we? You CANNOT support ANY of Treason Trump’s, “policies,” without tossing out Conservatism. There is NO definition of the term, “Conservative,” either political or other, that fits Republican politics, or Trumpian Dictatorship. NONE! Feel free to PRETEND to be a conservative, by all means. You can call a duck a, “car,” but that doesn’t stop it from quacking. You’re doing what a LOT of racists are doing, and HIDING behind a respectable term, because you don’t, “like,” being called a, “racist,” even though you CLEARLY ARE one
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Chris Royer : That’s easy, assuming you’re talking to me? (What? Are you hoping that by not saying who you’re talking to, I won’t get a ping, miss your comment, and won’t answer you?). Have the good manners to state WHO you’re addressing? Saves people a lot of confusion. Oh, yeah, the, “proof,” you’re looking for: Trump is a RACIST. Not, your old fashioned hater of Jews, but simply people of, “Color.” Which is ironic, given he’s Orange. This has been PROVEN in a Court of Law. He has since gone on to SAY racist things and introduced, “security,” edicts, STATING that they were on the BASIS of RACE. I am, of course, referring to the mass KIDNAPPING of little CHILDREN. An act of race hatred; unsustainable, financially, and even a step too far for guys like you, who don’t like to be OUTED AS RACISTS. That’s three, unassailable, evidences for you. There are MANY more, but to put it simply: Vote for a Clown, get a circus; vote for a RACIST, get a RACIST DICTATORSHIP. Ergo, those who VOTE RACIST, ARE RACIST.
You really can’t, “argue away,” your racism.
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Would you all just write to your well meaning MP’s and, after urging them to read Frankie’s articles for the broadsheets, and his monologues from the end of each New World Order episode, tell them: if they REALLY want CHANGE in Britain, they must STOP dumping these massive numbers on people and give us clear EXAMPLES of how they rip us off!
Because I just want to scream at some of these very nice, kind, well meaning MP’s!
It’s the examples that get everyone baying for blood. If you’re old enough to remember the drip drip effect of the MP’s Expenses Scandal, you’ll know what I mean. No one remembers the name of the MP now, or how much he charged us, the tax payers, but literally EVERYONE who heard about it, remembers that some grifting, entitled SOB charged us real money to maintain a MOAT around his DUCK ISLAND! And then, “defended,” himself by calling the angry British public, “just jealous,” for wanting him to give that money back!
THAT was what sold papers and CHANGED Britain (though not as much as the public were conned into believing) and THAT is what we need now!
If this woman wants us to join the fight for REAL change, then she needs to show us, “This is how your bank/service provider/supermarket makes YOU poorer and entraps YOU into poor economic decision making.” Examples, Examples, EXAMPLES!!!
People were not shocked at, “how much,” Boris spent on paintings and wall paper for Downing Street. They were shocked that THEY were paying for it! They were not shocked at his parties (not even surprised, probably? I wasn’t.) they were appalled by the EXAMPLES of people being sick down the walls and dancing like it’s 1999 on the very EVE OF PRINCE PHILIP’S FUNERAL! And some of those c**ts will now be getting KNIGHTHOODS from that dead guy’s son! That’s going to be awkward! But EXAMPLES like THAT make the British public ask, “WHY TF should I be PAYING for this out of MY POCKET???”
This issue is the same. That’s why Martin Lewis went from, “niche,” Radio 4 broadcaster to public figure and member of every financial body and watchdog in Europe practically over night. Because he gave SPECIFIC EXAMPLES of the rip offs, how they work, and what to do about them and everyone listened!
EXAMPLES!
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And because they know that the civil war to follow will be the most unedifying, wretched event in Tory history. Labour will be able to bury a lot of bad news under the headlines of yet another allegation or criminal conviction levelled at ex Tory MP’s in the next year at the very least, if not two or three years.
It is a joy to me to see the Tories paying the price for populism, flinging open their doors to every incompetent grifter or far right nut job, just because they could win them a seat in the short term, with no thought to the future of their party or anything so esoteric as, “ideology.”
Why would an ambitious old school, “Conservative,” with 1950’s values, want any part of the blood bath to come? They could barely keep their hands off each other’s throats in the last three years! Now all of those, “guest,” players who think they own the Tories and want to see swastikas on the board of education’s logo, or just want one last chance to raid the country’s coffers before losing the respectability that being in a political party conferred on them, can’t believe it’s all coming to an abrupt end! They thought they could plot against Sunack until next year at least!
Best summer ever.
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@Wulfman46 : Why are you here then? Why watch? You can’t fake that you, “care,” because you make no, “argument.” You can’t fake that you, “don’t care,” because you’re not only watching, but you’re commenting. That leaves, either emotional troubles which have unmanned you to the point that you just HAVE TO watch and comment, despite HATING IT (we call that , “mental illness,” in American, son) or you’re PAID to troll, on CNN because your life never worked out the way you hoped it would? 🤷♂️ Either way, no one’s giving you ANY, “credibility.” And that’s just a senseless waste of human life . . . Get some therapy and get a real job? You’ll feel better about yourself, and be able to cope with news better 😉
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@TheDiamond2009 : Nah, he, “accused you of being a Russian troll,” because you’re a known Russian troll, madam. You’ve been at it for 5 YEARS now! Anyone would have thought 5 YEARS would be long enough to have decided you don’t like MSM and stopped watching? 🤷♂️ You’re addicted. Which makes you either unwell, or a paid grunt? QED.
And, you don’t have to be a St Petersburg bunker boy to be working for Russia, kid. Most of Putin’s drones have no idea it’s Russian shell companies that pay them. Some are even dumb enough to think their paymasters are, “Americans!” Just because they, “say,” they are. 🤦♂️🤣
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flor wast : There’s psychological stress, as well as poverty and war type stress. So, I wouldn’t be too quick to discount America’s stress? Trump has taken America to the precipice of Dictatorship, and we’ve been dangling over the edge too long. And, the Trump-pansy’s, who wish he’d just go for it, and turn America into a big, white, Nazi Concentration Camp, can’t take it at all! They’re shooting people in the streets! Out of Butt Hurtary! That’s what happens when snowflakes snap! “Emotional,” stress of the Trumpoids, and psychological stress of the Normals; all in one country. He’s right. Too MUCH for a country that’s not used to it
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Merlinz Batgirl : You’re about as, “coloured,” as the SNOWFLAKE YOU ARE, girl. There are Ethnic Roundups, and Concentration Camps, on American Soil, while you shill your shillary. And, if you really ARE a, “woman of color,” which I DOUBT, you can join Prisoners for Trump, and support him from inside your CAGE, soon . . . SMH
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James A : It’s the, “shoot a guy in the street,” thing, isn’t it? That was the only honest thing Trump ever said, though he didn’t know it at the time. He could LYNCH a black man, from a street sign in Times Square, and they’d say it was, “Obama’s fault.” The fact that they LIVE on CNN, shilling for Trump, is their BIGGEST GIVEAWAY, too. But, they’re too dumb to know it. If they, “believed,” their own bollox, and were SO, “confident,” WHY would they BE HERE, on a channel that they HATE, spreading HATE, talking to people that they HATE? 😁👍✌️
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I have such admiration and gratitude to Channel 4’s journalists, who (let’s face it) have easily surpassed the BBC: a thing I genuinely did not expect to see in my lifetime. It’s not just that these journalists are clearly well educated, able to put this news into context for us, give an informed perspective and use that educated perspective to inform how they focus the aspects of this news that are important to pass on to us, the general public. It’s their gallantry in the face of danger. Being shot at by a sniper would be enough for most sensible people to leave the country for good. But such thinking does not even occur to a person like Lindsay. All it seems to have done is legitimise her coverage and focus her attention on the plight of those who, “don’t get to go back to their hotel and have a drink.” Her empathy and courage genuinely moves me. But, set ALL OF THAT aside and just ask yourself, which of the main British channels can you turn to for in depth, on site, up to date INFORMATION out of Ukraine and analysis of events? It used to be The BBC, no question. On this particular story, Ukraine’s war, that is not the case any longer. Channel 4 is just better, more comprehensive, more detailed, more up to date, etc, etc. I so hope that she and Channel 4 get some recognition amongst their piers for this coverage. They deserve accolades. It’s THE single most important issue in the world right now; from the reason we’re all paying more for fuel and heating, and facing a recession, to international politics and trade, to the fact that the world is dealing with the biggest threat to democracy in its history, certainly since WWII. The answers to all your big political questions are being determined on the battlefields of Ukraine. Anyone who thinks that’s misinformed has not been paying attention.
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@vforwombat9915 : We did a pretty awesome job with Germany too. Especially after Russia stole some of it. The Marshall Plan broke Stalin’s will. But, these are utterly different culture’s we’re talking about. Europeans, with common ground and values, or the Japanese, who obeyed their Emperor in all things, and thus, obeyed him in his command to cooperate with the West. Nothing like that can happen with Muslim cultures. At least, not unless they could round up all their top Ayatollahs, Imams, etc, and have them all sing from the same hymn sheet, AND convince their followers they were speaking freely and not under duress. Never gonna’ happen. But, the Nation Building part of this is NOT on Joe Biden’s administration. That’s all on Bush Jr and Obama. Trump and Biden are, in essence, in agreement, so maybe just ripping off the bandaid is the kindest thing? But, getting partisan about all this is beyond childish.
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The scandals are healthy though. It’s always good when the Fascists are eating their own. Just like when so many Q followers wised up, when Biden’s Inauguration wasn’t stopped, and all of his party put in jail, and trump didn’t magically remain president. It helps when a big public display, shows cult members that they’re being shafted. We know what any judge will be forced to say, “Should have read the fine print.” But, will that matter, when his or her summing up includes damning passages about the utter immorality of Roger Stone’s, “Stop The Steal,” fund? The Impeachment Managers are constantly pointing to the basis of the insurrection, “The Steal,” which AIN’T REAL, and making the Nation SEE that this is an unequivocal, unchallenged, empirical FACT! And that alone is throwing the cult into confusion! They can’t understand why trump’s, “defence,” (if you can call them that?) aren’t even challenging that!? All scandals of this nature are good for the country ✌️
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@dougn2350 : Actually, there were two types of donors to R Stone’s, “Stop the steal,” scam. The rich ones, who were only trying to buy last minute policy concessions, job titles to put on their CV’s, (even if they knew they would only hold their posts for a week or two) and, of course, the Pardons they purchased; but the rest were relatively poor, undereducated, dumb sh*tkickers, who could ill afford the significant amounts of cash they threw at this, on impulse, as they were worked up into an urgent sense of crisis and fear, by a consummate con man (Stone) who had already mastered The Art Of The Steal, whilst Donny was still punching music teachers and paying his fellow students to take his exams for him. It’s always the poorest who give the most, when it’s a giant scam. Just ask the poor, undereducated racists who threw all their wages at the We Build The Wall GoFundMe? The rich donors KNOW their money is being stolen and laundered and, usually, don’t care, because they’re, “buying,” something for that bribe. But, because trump had a whole political party and a propaganda network (dressed up to look like news; Fox, etc) behind him, this case has been unique in history. He’s managed to con well meaning mid-level business men and women into thinking their Democracy was actually stolen, while he attempted to steal it. Now, that’s unprecedented, in the modern era . . . ✌️
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@shelleyroberts2868 : It’s actually true that most of trump’s money has come from the poorest, most vulnerable, least educated Americans. See my comment above for expansion on that (if you’re interested?). But, right now, with the fossil fuel barons actually having NO money to give, and the usual big business donors ditching him and so many other GOP members, for being a bit too, “Fascisty,” his cult is the ONLY game in town for big money right now! And, that’s also why the GOP haven’t cut the thread with Donny . . . yet . . . Because there is only the Roger Stone victims to get any REAL money from! Those who still believe that, “The Steal,” was a, “thing.”
I too feel for them, genuinely. I ask, “What would I be prepared to do, if I BELIEVED my election had been stolen in a Coup?” Sure, I wouldn’t break the law, and I sure as hell would NOT attack cops. But, if the Q story had proved true, and they DID, “round up everyone at the Inauguration and trump was reinstated as president,” and if Joe Biden’s Resistance had broadcast on emergency channels, for all patriots to gather a certain points around the country? I would have been willing to risk my life to save the Republic. I think the true, “believers,” only made up around 10 to 20 % of that insurrectionist crowd. But, even that many, genuine believers, came as a genuine shock to me 👍
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Do people get it yet? . . . Billionaires are NOT, “geniuses.” They’re more likely to have a lower than average IQ because of the bubble of isolation and privilege they’ve been brought up in.
What happens is that some of these idiots get so high on the smell of their own farts, because they’re surrounded by, “yes sir, great idea sir, you’re so clever sir, for using my ideas sir,” that they actually come into contact with large numbers of the public, due to their need for attention and approval making them decide to run for president or buy a social media platform. Then we suddenly see and hear them, unfiltered, on a daily basis and we find out they’re idiots. Their mystique is destroyed and the public starts to question how such a dumbass got their cool reputation?
And the answer is simple: They started with lots of money, made more money by buying the right to slap their names on every product they invest in, and then making all of the employees sign NDA’s which prevent them from telling everyone that these, “great products/inventions,” he’s going around talking about like he came up with the ideas himself, were not his idea at all. Musk Google’s, “What are smart people talking about?” every morning, and then says something dumb about it.
We really need to stop assisting these idiots by acting like they’re any different from the rest of us, just because they have enough raw cash to pay Dave Chappelle to let him walk on stage in the middle of his act and shout, “I’m rich, bitch!” in the faces of an already loudly booing audience.
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Caleb Gibson : So, what about those who DID follow the Legal Procedure? If they are ALL being REFUSED Asylum, REGARDLESS, Trump is BREAKING INTERNATIONAL LAW and leaving the DESPERATE, who want to SAVE their CHILDREN, NO CHOICE. THINK! Because Trumpers ALL work on the ASSumption that these people are NOT trying to save their own lives, or those of their families, and LYING, just coming for a better lifestyle, they can’t COMPREHEND just WHY they are STILL COMING, DESPITE Trump’s SAVAGE policy. THAT’S WHY it backfired on him. Wouldn’t YOU do whatever it takes, to SAVE YOUR CHILDREN? At least TRY to THINK? . . .
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For me, it was when Putin was openly telling his people that he intended to cut off Ukraine’s water and energy supply. When the citizens of any country collectively perceive such war crimes against ANY civilian population as, “acceptable,” let alone actively celebrating such atrocities, they have earned themselves a collective chastisement. Since then it has only gotten worse. While this beheading is disturbing on its own, it’s actually just a drop in the atrocity bucket for Russia’s medieval, thieving, childish, brainwashed, zombie population, as the citizens of Bucha and so many other Ukrainian locations can and do testify. I have zero sympathy for the Russian population.
I can accept not wishing to throw away your freedom and future by protesting, only to get 15 years for being a decent human being. But those people should leave and protest from other, safer, locations. There are no excuses when children are being raped and murdered. Just none at all.
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Agreed. I certainly hope the cops dig out anyone making racist threats. And that the actual racists are exposed for what they are. However . . .
What of the legitimate criticism? Is that all to be shut down, labelling people as racists for raising their hands and asking questions? There’s no reason to tolerate racism. Yet some subjects are unsuitable for certain actors.
I can’t imagine any legitimate reason to complain about black actors in Star Trek, Star Wars or the Marvel Universe. The line that these fantasies, “must reflect the world we live in today,” is fine. But it’s just daft to have black actors in The Lord Of The Rings. Tolkien created a world based on old Norse, ancient Germanic and ancient Celtic mythology. It doesn’t upset me at all to see people being just wrong about their artistic choices. But, to be told, “Nope! Not listening!” to anyone questioning the logic of altering the basis of Tolkien’s myths at a genetic level is just a cowardly way of shutting down debate and labelling people as, “racists,” for simply disagreeing.
There will always be those who are just racists, and who hate what’s happening for racist reasons. I have no time for racists. But that should not be an excuse to shut down adult discussion over the meaning of art and why interfering with Tolkien’s vision is disrespectful to his legacy. That’s NOT a racist point of view. Merely an artistic criticism. The images are jarring and look misplaced, because they don’t represent the world that Tolkien created over an entire lifetime of hard work, research and creative endeavour.
It is not up for debate, any more than people’s racism is. The whole point of Tolkien’s fantasy was that it does NOT, “reflect the world we live in today.” It reflects a mythical time in a place based on Northern European culture and genuine mythology that shaped their real worlds. Why should the people’s of these cultures be content to have their stories altered and distorted to fit some modern political agenda? It seems like a tone deaf overcorrection by people who lack the imagination to create their own mythology to me.
The fact that the show has an awful, illogical script that disrespects the characters Tolkien created, hijacks their motivations and misrepresents the meanings of Tolkien’s work is not relevant. But it does seem like people who are too quick to put all criticism down to racism have an inbuilt excuse for failure. If we don’t like the show, simply because it’s rubbish, does that make us racists? Come on?
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PLEASE PAY ATTENTION: Examples, examples, EXAMPLES . . . PLEASE!?
Draw less attention to the profits themselves (these are just vast numbers that people see, hear and read all the time and don’t sink in without a hook, a context; a working EXAMPLE) and instead, draw attention to HOW they are making those profits in the simplest terms. If people are told, “Your supermarket/bank/service provider is exploiting your need by doing X or Y, knowing you cannot afford alternatives, whilst actively making YOU poorer,” then that hits home, HARD.
I’m tired of hearing reports about how the government’s own figures show a £21 BILLION POUND deficit due to waste, corruption and fraud, without ANY examples! Even though the main stream press (including the BBC!) don’t seem all that interested in this HORRIFIC revelation. People just tut and shake their heads. But give them some context, like they did over the expenses scandals a decade or so ago, and the public will be baying for BLOOD, as they did then! No one remembers, “how much it cost,” but EVERYONE remembers that an MP charged the public for a MOAT FOR HIS DUCK ISLAND and then said we were, “just jealous,” when we complained about it!
THAT is how you get change! Just look at how people reacted to Johnson’s Party-gate scandal at first, and then how attitudes changed? A lot of shrugging and, “Oh well, that’s Boris for you,” quickly turned into horror and demands for ACTION once people started getting EXAMPLES of what happened at these parties, what people said and did about them, and the Tories made it worse for themselves by excusing and dismissing them, giving further context for people to be horrified at!
The lies are what ostensibly cost Johnson his job, but it was EXAMPLES that made the public so angry and brought about that pressure for redress.
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Rice N Beans : I’m a Conservative, son. Just because I know Trump belongs in jail, doesn’t ALWAYS mean you get to hide behind, “Hillary’s,” skirts, OK? And, stop playing the, “victim,” it’s VERY effeminate. Man up, son! But, yeah, you’re right about one thing. I’d rather NOT be wished anything, by a traitor to America, and a fan of the Orange Stalin, OK? You may f**k off, now 😊
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@AriSiMom : It’s funny though, (you have to admit?) how trump followers and GOP types, only EVER say, “can’t we all just work together?” when it’s THEM on the ropes? There are plenty of well paid retraining programs on offer, for people to transfer their skills from oil and gas into green energy. The green energy market is growing exponentially and there’s opportunity (American Dream style) for all. I suggest Texans stop listening to the propaganda of Ted Cruz, who’s main source of financial support comes from (you guessed it) fossil fuel barons, and take up these opportunities? Because of trump, America IMPORTS 2/3rds of its Solar Panels from f’king, “Chiynah!” And, you wonder why people are mad at him? And at the idiots who supported that prick! We should be LEADING THE WORLD! Like with Covid! We WOULD have been the country that all other countries looked to for leadership, technology, and tradable resources. But, now we’re playing catch-up, and in desperate need of rescue programs in practically every industry. And, after the Banking Crash of 2008, which the Dems turned around, we seem to be a cycle of boom and bust, because of GOP GREED AND STUPIDITY! And, I’m a Conservative!
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@AkshayKumar-ue1fp : Merely demonstrating that you have no grasp of historical facts is not helping your, “argument,” son. You may be surprised to learn this factoid but, Hitler and Mussolini were liars, and the world knew that. They were as far right wing as it is possible to be, and serve as the benchmark measurement for the furthest you can take far right fascism. Having the word, “socialist,” in your party’s title doesn’t make you, “socialist,” son. Your actions are how you are judged. Don’t believe me? I can prove my point, if you have the courage to hear it?
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@Sunrise9696-v2z : At what? Being a, “personality”??? Look where THAT got us? Boring is EXACTLY what you need from your politicians. They don’t need to be, “interesting,” “entertaining,” or able to make us all, “lol.” We can’t afford the price tag for the show! You want to be entertained? Go to the pub, a theatre or a night club like normal people, silly air head. It is suicidally STUPID to want your politicians to be, “fun.” When there’s nothing to talk about in Westminster, then there’s nothing BAD happening. I’ll take Labour and quiet competence over this bumbling, greedy toddler any day. Grow TF up!
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I hope they prosecute the, “news,” companies that spread this LIE of the, “steal?” Fox cast doubt on the election over 700 times, according to Conservative analysts. Even though they KNEW it was a LIE! We used to hunt down and HANG propagandists and traitors after WWII! Now we let them broadcast on American soil and give them shares in the company?! It’s NOT a, “free speech,” issue, when someone screams, “fire!” in a packed theatre, and gets to watch people DIE in the chaos they caused! It’s time to hold, “news,” anchors ACCOUNTABLE for their SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACIES! ✌️
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W.A M.P : No need to be so afraid of me? I will, “debate,” with you, so you can stop criticising people for, “insults,” instead of, “debate,” which is kinda’ all you’re doing now, son? You got a, “point,” to make? Or, are you just going to toss out neurotically defensive attempts at . . . “sarcasm,” was it? Make a point? Go on? I double dare you 🙂
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TheIrie One : You still talking? Not too “embarrassed”? I never implied anything of the KIND? I am simply saying that it is NOT A SECRET that Trump took $ 23,000,000 DOLLARS, so far from the NRA; that it was THEIR IDEA to try the, “arm the TEACHERS,” line; that the NRA DO HAVE FULL ACCESS TO TRUMP, and that this access is ONLY BECAUSE OF THEIR M O N E Y, you, “F**KING MORON!” as Tillerson would say.
And YOU won’t or CAN’T ANSWER THE QUESTION! WHY can’t we LIMIT GUNS? That’s all? What? Do YOU need a NUKE or something?
Trump is BOUGHT by a LOBBY group, when he said HE HATES LOBBIES??? They are MAKING POLICY, RIGHT NOW, you DOLT! NO ONE ELECTED THEM? They just HAVE M O N E Y! Wake up. It’s like talking to a 6 year old. Smh
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@alexwestconsulting : Actually, that’s probably a good idea? After all, we need an antidote to the, “Lock Her Up,” school of, “justice,” that was so popular amongst, “certain,” so called, “Americans,” for nearly 5 years? Why the hell not? 🤷♂️
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@JayNSG0 : That’s what the trump trolls are hoping for. And it’s why they’re here; on the Hail Mary off-chance that Chauvin is found, “not guilty.” They hope to stir up, “feelings,” so they can have something to, “blame,” on BLM, which they’ve failed at so far. All to cover their shame at having to own their attempted insurrection in a riot of white entitlement on Jan 6th. Yet, the more likely outcome is that it will backfire. They’re stirring up feeling again, alright. But it will be the entitled Karens who go out and attack the police, “in support of a policeman,” when he’s found Guilty. The verdict is beyond question. Why would you think the jury would be rigged or corrupted in some way?
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Michelle D.
You are the reason I wish I'd gotten around to reviewing this thread earlier. Thank you for taking the time to express your kind and well thought out words.
I avoided a book called The Science Delusion for ages, thinking it would be an ad hominem and angry response to Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion, doing more harm than good. However, I would recommend it, now that I HAVE read it. And especially to agnostics. Written by a highly qualified, highly respected biologist, The Science Delusion is a REAL EYE OPENER on modern physics, scientific politics, the influence of celebrity and, most importantly, the VERY DEEP FLAWS in the standard "materialist" model, pushed SO HARD by guys like Dawkins. It also reveals some fascinating incidents, that have taken place between the author and Dawkins, which exposed Dawkins' hypocrisy, his attempts to defraud the whole public debate and his REAL AGENDA that many, BUT NOT ALL, scientists share.
That agenda is for scientists to become the new High Priests of the Science Lab Temple, and to take control over policy, budgets and public thinking. The author does NOT get bogged down in that element of the Science Delusion, after exposing it, but simply focuses on GENUINE experiments that he has done, with the HIGHEST standards of RIGOR AND PEER REVIEW. And his results, for those who understand science, are simply STUNNING.
I urge you to get hold of a copy, and I will gladly provide links, if you are interested, for the book, the audio book and or other works by this prolific author.
I know I have gone on a bit, but I hope you can see that I am speaking to your point, in that, there is an agenda out there for science to bait religion into hopeless arguments, which make those of faith appear to be naive and even dangerous, so that people will mock them and place their faith in science. Many scientists are disgusted by this approach, particularly given the emerging evidence, that is breaking down the "materialist's" world view and changing the paradigm of science.
And THAT is why the materialists LOVE to get people arguing over the "age of the Earth"! And it is why Christians need a better education into their own beliefs. Sadly, many are lead by the ignorant in both science AND religion.
But I PROMISE YOU, if you are truly an agnostic, this book will lead you to further research and will change your life.
Thank you again and God bless you
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The GOP’s Coup BEGAN on Jan 6th, and if anything, it is more potent now than it was when a few entitled white supremacists brought their mommies to their Riot Of White Entitlement. When we get to the midterms, they’re not just counting on their Suppression of Voters, Protestors and Education to keep their Coup dreams alive. They will also be throwing out stacks of votes this time, arguing every signature in court, and backing the whole thing with more, better organised violence at the polling stations. All, unless we cut the head off the snake first? They have nowhere to retreat to, having been outed as the fascists they are, and they know it! The midterms will be the GOP’s Last Stand (as they are) or America’s. ✌️
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“Here’s my take:” The Republic has FALLEN, and the GOP has decided NOT to GO TO JAIL. What a surprise. So, their, “choice”??? They could RIG THE 2020, “ELECTIONS,” WITH PUTIN’S HELP . . . OR? . . . They could let the whole Trump family GO TO JAIL, along with HALF OF THEIR OWN PARTY, from Bill Barr on down to Devin Nunes, leaving them as a, “lesson From History,” and a disbanded, shamed, EX-party. They simply CANNOT ALLOW, “NOT,” RIGGED elections!!! And they have LITERALLY SHOWN YOU they will RIG ANYTHING and EVERYTHING, because they HAVE NO CHOICE! Learn to LOVE your Orange Monarchy, or have a REVOLUTION, like the Ukrainians did a decade ago? They faced down Putin’s THUGS without weapons, in freezing conditions, and sent their Putin Puppet FLEEING BACK TO MOSCOW. WHY CAN’T WE, a country FOUNDED on REVOLUTION, do the same thing??? Are we TOO SCARED to ADMIT that our 2020 elections are ALREADY RIGGED??? Just STOP PRETENDING you still have ANY, “Democratic Process,” left??? It’s embarrassing . . . SMH
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Yes, I would rather the bigots speak out and identify themselves. Even if their claims to understand the, “public mood,” are flat out lies or self delusion, they will get their best sense of the public mood at the next general election.
What’s funny though, is how Braverman’s supporters are actually her main targeted dupes. She doesn’t actually, “believe,” in anything. She is clinically incapable, being a sociopath. People like this commentator (and perhaps you?) are the ones Braverman is playing, as she is actively trying to get herself fired by Sunak. She is depending on, “useful idiots,” to support her bid for the Tory leadership in opposition.
Even funnier is that, while in opposition, the Tories will set about purging themselves of their most egregious influences in their bloodiest ever internal civil war. And Braverman will find herself leading a fringe party, much like UKIP.
Good luck with that. And, when it happens, remember I told you first. Then I’ll happily answer your questions about how I knew all this before it happened.
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digiboi wan : It’s not like any of it matters now? Propaganda of this Foxian type should be illegal? But, America has watched while its Democracy was circling the drain, and didn’t even notice while its Republic ended. It’s already OVER, I’m sorry to say. The guilt of the Trumps was never even a question. The question was always, “Are there enough Haters and racists in America, to disregard their president’s criminality; and will the rest of the country sit still for it, while their Republic falls?” The answer was, “Yes.” It’s OVER. The Trumps have to keep the presidency, “in the family,” or face disgrace and jail, as soon as he’s out of office. What choice do they have? They’re blatantly refusing to take part in lawful processes, and nothing happens. Russia will RIG 2020’s, “elections,” with the GOP’s help, because half of Trump’s goons are implicated. And, sure, we’ll ALL KNOW. So what? They’ll promise to, “look into it.” Only, this time, an, “inquiry,” will exonerate Trump, IF they even bother . . . But, they’ll keep up the charade, for appearances sake, like they do in Russia. You have a Dictatorship now, America. You’d better get used to it. The Trumps will be taking turns in the top job, for the rest of your lifetimes
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Oh, I think Putin was always a one note, monomaniacal spider. I think he studied Stalin and modelled his entire life on that. This mix of crime and mafia support, blackmail, threats, murder and organised corruption on industrial scales, all to get into power and keep it, is all apparent.
I agree that he began, apparently, to think in terms of his legacy during his isolation while Covid frightened him. And that this was the first time he began to realise he was mortal. And as is the case with all monomaniacs, that just made him worse.
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Jester Avrgjoe : You need to chill, dude. It was Attempted Murder, by a Russian, who dumped his / her nerve agent, while fleeing, for some poor innocent to find and get killed by. That’s Culpable Homicide, and they can decide on the actual charges, if and when they get the details of the who, what, where, when and how. We ALL KNOW THIS . . . WHY so TRIGGERED? 🤔
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Megumaximus : YOU just brought up the Russians, again? . . . You ACT guilty as SIN, dude. You KNOW it was the Russians. WHO TF ELSE would it be? And WHY TF would they DO IT??? . . . But, when someone gets MURDERED, and a Troll leaps out of the dark and shouts, “It wasn’t the Russians!,” YOU just make EVERYONE say, “The Russians? Now THERE’S a thought.” You do your, “side,” a disservice, just by whomping, dude . . . 😆
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This depends on how you define, “greatest,” when it comes to, “greatest villains of all.” For utter psychopathic cruelty, mastery and sheer achievement, (nearly taking the entire Galaxy for himself) he is indisputably the greatest. But to me, the, “greatest,” screen villains ever put to the page are those in whom I can believe. This guy is too Saturday Matinee to be plausible, as is the whole of Star Wars. Not that there’s anything wrong with that at all; far from it. But the best villains for me are the one’s like the Corleone’s in The Godfather movies, who are very like the real people upon whom they were based; or at least how I imagine them. The most plausible villains are the scariest and most compelling, like Walter White, in whom we can believe and even understand, despite never seeing him as anything less than monstrous. The realistic evil (or just realistic enough to make them real) is the evil that haunts your dreams or occupies your waking hours, and that’s the greatest writing and acting you get. There’s also the most entertaining to take into account, for definition of greatest villain, like Alan Rickman in Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves, or Die Hard. This Palpatine guy is actually high on my entertaining list, because one cannot help but giggle at his sadism and Ian McDirmidt’s portrayal is enormous fun. And for me, there is also the villain we empathise with, like Roy Batty in Blade Runner, who kills psychotically, but who has a problem that would drive any of us to extremes: short life span. So I see the category as being filled with sub categories. For sheer levels of malignancy and power, Palpatine wins, but for the other categories, I’m not so sure. We haven’t even mentioned categories like Scariest? The ones that actually give you nightmares like The Thing, or John Doe from Se7en.
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By the way, my suggestion would be The Thing, from the John Carpenter classic: Banal Evil is perhaps the scariest? The evil that either doesn’t care about you or doesn’t even notice you, let alone make value judgements about your right to exist. The titular Alien from the Alien movies is a case in point: smart, cunning, relentless and virtually indestructible, but does it have anything close to a system of, “values,” by which we could say it has morality or anything like that. A villain that cannot be reasoned or bargained with, or that has no rational capacity for communication clearly terrifies people, which is why the Terminator movies were so successful to begin with, and why zombie movie speak to people; the idea that your own friends and family can become your worst nightmare through a rapidly transforming contagion is terrifying, especially if they lose their personality as a consequence. See also The Invasion Of The Body Snatchers. The Evil that doesn’t know it is evil, nor have any comprehension of what evil is . . .
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@petej6609 : But is he the scariest? He is everything described in the video, but that strikes me as a mere technicality, due to the, “what,” he is. He is still a comic book villain, from a Saturday Matinee, and not particularly, “scary.” These are U certificate movies after all. Aren’t the truly, “greatest,” villains the ones that we believe could be real, like Walter White, or Vito Corleone?
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DamnImSmart : So, you have nothing to worry about, then? Trump, “won the midterms,” and he has nothing to fear from Congress, right? Guess it was the completion of that wall, with all that Mexican money that did it for him? Or, was it the total disarming of North Korea? Perhaps it was the mass deportations, and the fact that there are only White Americans, here, now? I do HOPE a LOT of people read your comment, though, son. Reassuringly THICK Trolls are what America needs, right now 🤣
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The whole reason Putin has pulled back and is trying to shell Ukraine into dust is because he has been hoist by his own propaganda. He spent the last 20 years moving Russian families into the areas where Ukraine has gas and oil reserves and telling them they’re essentially, “the same people.” Now the soldiers are there, finding NO, “Nazis,” and these people DON’T WANT, “liberation,” and they’re having a hard time shooting down the very people they were meant to think are, “the same,” as them. Many have relatives there. So Putin’s army has terrible morale issues. And, as their commanders keep getting picked off, they must be contemplating turning back to Moscow to have it out with Putin?
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@mrnobody6609 : If you want to know what Putin’s, “ulterior motives,” are, check the public records of Shell, Exxon and BP? They did a deal to develop Ukraine’s gas and oil (believed to be as much as, if not more than, Russia’s) signed off on decades ago now. Putin prevented it by annexing Crimea, where the offshore reserves are not being drilled. Then he scared them out of the Donbas region, the focal point of more recent propaganda. Now they’ve confirmed even richer finds to the west of Ukraine, by the Carpathian Mountains. Putin can’t reach or influence that area. Not without taking the whole country. This is an armed robbery of old western style imperialism. He doesn’t seem to know it’s out of fashion now. But that’s the, “WHY?” of it. He doesn’t want to drill it himself. He wants to ensure that NO ONE does. True story. ✌️
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Clair Duffy : There is, at least, still some amusement that can be got from all this. Consider, when Trump is out, and the next, “Obama, Hillary, or Biden,” takes up the Office? Consider just how hard all of these Trump Tramps, from the Senate to the street Trolls, will have worked, to ENSURE that the POTUS they LOATH so much, will have complete and utter, UNCHECKED POWER, to do what they like, without fear of consequence? When the wheel of Karma comes around to bight them on their dumb asses, and reminds them of just how temporary their, “victory,” was, I’ll be there to lol at them. Though, that wheel looks set to turn within a year? When they realise that Trump was NOT, “kidding,” about suspending their elections, because he knows he can’t win; when they’re standing in the ashes of their Democracy; perhaps they’ll wonder why they fought so hard for Dictatorship? . . . Who knows? 🤔✌️
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We should, “be thankful,” that there at least exists such a thing as, “positive videos,” which draw powerful emotional reactions for algorithms to follow. I didn’t see the video in question, but I would say it’s a matter of how Mr Beast contextualised his content. If he simply did it, without any comment on the health system, politics and taxation, that’s very different from doing it to shame government into action. Or if he did some, “virtue signalling,” for his own image, I would be worried.
At least, in a vacuum of zero commentary on the video, it still highlights a massive issue in America, and it has clearly hit a nerve with Bible-bashing self proclaimed Christians, who clearly haven’t read their Bibles if they think it was, “anti-Christ,” to heal people. Me thinks they doth protest over their own shame too much?
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Unless they’re soundly beaten and long range missiles are ranged right along Ukraine’s border. But, this is the problem.
Putin keeps hearing these mixed messages out of the west and interprets them uniformly as, “Maybe Russia can fight to a draw!” NATO is keeping Putin in this war, instead of stating out loud that the west will see Ukraine WIN this war. As soon as Putin knows he cannot win he starts searching for his off-ramp. He’s probably gamed a few routes in his own inner circle by now, but we keep encouraging him to hang in there!
Crimea simply cannot be up for debate, or Russia gets to say, “Well, it was all worth while anyway,” and they’ll refocus on Georgia, Syria and other empire dreams! Not unless Britain is willing to give up The Isle of White, or America gives Manhattan Island to Russia? It’s no less unreasonable.
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@Sixstringman : “Imagine being so brainwashed,” that smarter people than you have used a technique called, “Fear Appeal,” (among others) to get you to spend all day, every day, for SIX LONG YEARS, to troll the news because you don’t, “like,” it, on channels you call, “fake,” talking to people you hate? You got addicted to your own endorphin rewards and your brain has LITERALLY rewired your neurones, and you’re herded at CNN and the rest of MSM like a sheep who spends all his time, “Karen complaining,” about the Shepard. I HOPE they pay you for this, son? Otherwise, you’ll be forced to face withdrawal for no reward whatsoever . . . And even though your family will suffer as a consequence of your irresponsible, emotional urges, the, “Responsibility,” for that, (Yeah, “Responsibility,” it’s a real thing, like physics) will be completely yours . . . 🙄🤦♂️🤷♂️
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@guyrombie7567 : Lame trolling, spouting out terms you don’t understand, regurgitating the, “messaging,” of smarter racists, with uncomprehending fingers. Explain the, “inflation,” problem we have, son? Oh, what’s that? People, “say,” it, “could,” become a, “problem,” IF the economy continues to GROW at this rate? Is THAT what you were Knee jerking at? Or were you bringing up the fact that NO western country has EVER withdrawn from a military conflict so cleanly in the history of the WORLD, perhaps? And offering your salute of admiration for the most professional military in the world, who did such an excellent job of it, leaving fewer behind than has EVER happened in ANY conflict you care to name of that scale? You surely couldn’t be talking about the, “police,” in anything but your usual, “Kill him with his own gun,” mentality? The party that refuses to acknowledge, let alone give medals to, the police who saved their lives on Jan 6th? The party who is the ONLY party in American HISTORY to ACTUALLY VOTE TO DEFUND THE WASHINGTON POLICE? The Anti-Law-And-Order party, who wants to END the Republic, so their leaders can get rich and their base gets their racist rewards? You can’t, “mean,” any of that, son? Not unless you’ve never read a book or the news, in your life? . . . 🤦♂️
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Yes, but . . . Gordon Brown? Of ALL PEOPLE? . . . He still has the illegal Iraq War to answer for, and that’s ALL we’ll here from the Putin trolls. But they’ll have a point! Are we not just handing them a propaganda own goal here? Do it, by all means, and get ALL of that MONEY unfrozen from Putin’s western accounts to PAY for Ukraine’s weapons and ammunition! Let’s see how long Putin’s premiership survives after he’s paying for BOTH SIDES of his stupid, insane war? But, we’re asking a war criminal to prosecute a war criminal, for war crimes! Why don’t we just throw in Tony Blair and George Bush Jr with a big sign on their jackets that reads, “Yeah, sorry about Iraq,” and be done with our hypocrisy? There are about 5 people in the whole west who have zero rights to call ANYONE out on illegal war stuff, and he’s one of them! We might as well be TRYING to enrage the East whilst handing them their biggest recruiting tool yet! ANYONE but HIM, please???
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user-os1gu5qb3c : Moreover, that remaining population will be over 50% past retirement age. Wars cannot be won with such populations. Meanwhile, another million or more young Russians will flee the country again at the next draft, like last time. Only, this time, it will have been harder for them to do so, meaning they will be the ones with money, brains, qualifications, etc. We’ll keep collecting up Russia’s best and brightest, while Russia will sink into the quagmire of irrelevancy. And no one who has lived in a prosperous democracy ever wants to go back.
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@Thetequilashooter1 : The truth is that it’s worded in such a manner that it can be interpreted how the western powers decide. As with all politics, splitting hairs over the fine print is to miss the point. The people with the largest economies win wars, period. Von Clausewitz knew that, and nothing’s changed.
There are literally countless treaties, agreements, ceasefires, promises, speeches, undertakings, etc, that Putin has signed, stated out loud, given his most solemn word on, that have been utterly meaningless when the rubber hit the road. Everyone, even the Russians, knows that. Our enemies are frequently surprised at western sincerity when we do keep our promises, which is (historically speaking) more often than not. They don’t understand the value of honesty, integrity, trust, etc.
But that’s why Russians who fled the draft don’t want to give up their freedoms and luxuries in the west and return home, and why western civilisation enjoys a far higher standard of living and people like me are free to say that Putin is a blight on the arse of humanity, without fear of reprisal, losing my job, becoming a pariah in my neighbourhood, or that knock on the door in the middle of the night, let alone the bullet in the brain pan right in front of the Kremlin, just to make a point.
And the reason we have our luxuries, our freedoms and our healthier, more fun lifestyles is because our trading partners are based all around the world, working within a rules based system, wherein the rule of law ensures trust. What’s Russia got? A declining standard of living, drones flying into Moscow, paranoia and a depoliticised population afraid to even talk politics, who face 15 years hard Labour for holding up a blank piece of paper in front of a camera? An aging, declining population and a permanent dread of tomorrow? You can keep it.
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Trump will always be the most successful Troll in American history. But, if they have power wrested from their grip, trump, his family, Bill Barr and most of trump’s cabinet are ALL looking at jail and historic disgrace. That’s why they’re not planning on ALLOWING, “Elections.” What do you think this current expansion of Barr’s Secret Police units is for? To, “protect,” someone? Yes. To protect the Dictatorship from YOU, when they steal your elections. It’s not a question of, “if.” It’s a question of when and how they rob you of democracy. And, it will be in numerous ways, but that still won’t be enough; so, in the end, they’ll just stop elections altogether. Welcome to Putin’s America, children. You made this . . .
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The Geek Is Strong : It will be inevitable now, but they know it in the GOP. Look, it’s jail, historic disgrace and, “losing bilglee,” for Trump, Barr, the family, and the entire Cabinet, or? . . . Keep power, right? They’ve already decided which of those options they prefer. The police are as divided as the rest of America, so Bill Barr (facing the worst of it) is selecting his troops for his SS units, right now; expanding the unmarked, unconstitutional, illegal Secret Police. And because America isn’t up in arms to have them OUTLAWED, they will have the instrument of your suppression at hand. It’s already over. The question isn’t about saving the Republic, but RESTORING IT. And the window is shrinking
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Gluemonkey : I see the truth gets you somewhat, “emotional,” sonny? So much so, that your opening remark made no sense, and your second was just hate. Do you REALLY, “wonder,” why conservatives, like me, have nothing but contempt for Trump Trolls? Why live on CNN, if makes you so unhappy, kid? . . . 🤔
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Gluemonkey : “Ugliness,” from the mental cripple who was making death threats the other day? What? You sober, now? You have nothing to say, and less wit to say it with, son. You’re outmatched, intellectually, so you come out with hate. Not even especially original, either. Go back to sniffing glue, and hurting your therapuppy, when the men in white coats aren’t looking, and maybe no one will notice that you have your psychiatrist’s phone, huh, son? 🙂
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@AVH-z9m : That’s fundamentally ignorant about how the world works and about . . . well . . . how the world WORKS, son. American tax payers are not footing the bill. Arms sales are up and that industry employs millions in America and the UK, where I live. That’s jobs, sales, taxes, all being generated by a thriving industry. You’re welcome.
And, if Ukraine loses this war, it will be FAR MORE than just, “taxes,” that short sighted, mean spirited, pro-Putinistas like you will lose (unless you’re already in a Russian troll-farm-bunker, in which case you’ve never known democracy, so have no idea what you’re babbling about) but then the costs really WILL go up, financially AND in terms of your freedom to write Alt-Wrong bollox on the web without fear of any consequences other than being verbally stomped by people much smarter than you . . . 🙄🤦♂️
“Uh, muh taxes.” 🥴 Really? . . . 🤷♂️🤦♂️
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Alelae : Look, kid . . . We know you’re trying. And, maybe there’s a part of you that’s started to, “believe,” the Trump Trollery, because you’ve been doing it for so long? I’ve answered the question, above, so I won’t repeat it. But, consider? Are you saying that the protestors have as much moral influence over you as your, “president,” does? Don’t you expect, “leadership,” instead of, “make ME feel better,” masturbation sessions? The science has been proved to you, and you need to pick ONE, “narrative,” if you want, “credibility,” kiddo?
You already have enough problems, with the fact that no one, “believes,” the words of a person who LIVES all day, every day, FOR YEARS now; on the channel you say you hate, whining about what you hate, to the people you claim to hate? The perennial problem of the Trump Troll. You CAN’T, “claim,” to be, “educating people,” when your insults are calculated to put people off? You CAN’T say it’s, “fun,” when you’re SO CLEARLY having a bad day? You all take the PAY to Propagandise, but very, VERY few are, “trained,” at it, and you don’t, “honor,” your agreements to research the topic, so you all come off as lame and angry. If fact, it’s BECAUSE of people like YOU that we KNOW that hostile foreign powers are trying to ruin America, child!
Just, stop wasting your life? If you’re one of the few who doesn’t get PAID to LIVE on CNN, forget everything I just said, as you are mentally ill, and you need a therapist. But, if they’re paying you, you should check out the research? It’s NOT an, “American,” company paying you; the Russians lie a lot. But, more importantly, it really does make people mentally ill. A natural consequence of lying all day, being childishly hostile, and feeling emotionally hurt, EVERY SINGLE DAY, for a pittance . . . Sort your life out, cup cake . . . SMH
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Jack Wertz : You’ve been suckered, son. You want to keep S Americans, “out?” But, Trump brought them here, by withdrawing the Aid that was keeping them at home, knowing you’d go apeshit, and support his wall. That makes YOU the, “Open Boarders,” guy. You want to, “MAGA?” But, Trump is supporting the worst nations on the planet, that would otherwise have been crushed by now. Shit, son, he even SAID, “Make Iran Great Again.” And, “Small Government Conservatism?” Tell me one (JUST ONE?!) aspect of public life that Trump hasn’t stuck the government’s Orange Orifice into? From dividing our sports, to attacking our biggest, most successful businesses, like Amazon; from undermining the sale of major media companies, to attacking the US Post Office; from Tweet Bombing State Funerals, to putting our farmers on Tax Payer Welfare; there isn’t ONE nit of news that doesn’t have Donny making America look WEAK and petty, while he sucks the penises of the Dictators that he admires, while attacking our oldest, strongest, allies. And, now that he’s spending his time supporting the criminal enablers of CHILD SEX TRAFFICKERS, building Concentration Camps, and constantly, “threatening,” while never doing his ICE Raid-Krystal Nacht show, you’re here, trying to tell ME what Conservatism is? . . .
I was a Conservative when Donny was still a Card Carrying Democrat, giving his money to the Clinton’s, boy. So, DON’T presume to tell me. You’re no better than one of Stalin’s little pups, OK? 🙂
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Alessia C*** : Putin is genuinely hoping to cause that, “Civil War,” that Trolls keep threatening, right after they accuse Normals of, “wanting a war with Russia.” Did you see those seized 1000+ guns, being, “MANUFACTURED,” in an upscale LA home? Consider? FOR WHAT were they, “manufacturing,” thousands of untraceable automatic rifles? The NRA (or part of them, at least) has been bought out by Putin, and he hopes to turn it into an insurgency
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Can we cut the guy a break, please? The, “failure,” was the entire Afghanistan, “government,” either fleeing or surrendering, whilst sabotaging and stalling the Exit Plan! His Generals were briefed and told their troops. But, what was he meant to say to the public? “We’re expecting chaos and disaster, because the Afghan government is betraying us as we speak!”??? That would have caused WORSE chaos and gotten him, “blamed,” for that too! His generals have confirmed that they had no illusions! Joe ripped off the bandaid, and is doing his best with what he got! Who would have done better?
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Mr Bojangles : Congress Impeaches, but, OBVIOUSLY their decision on whether to DO THAT, will depend upon the REPORT they get, FROM MUELLER, when he concludes his investigation. But, of course, it’s more likely, at this rate, that Trump will just be impeached, after the Mid Terms, anyway. He will probably be arrested as a citizen, not a POTUS
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I find her presentations fascinating and her voice is so soothing to me. I’m quite the fanboy . . .
The Many Worlds notion has always struck me as bogus; from my not-expert perspective. It’s untestable, and certainly unprovable, for a start, even if, “evidence,” may one day be found. The same evidence can and will be usable for rival theories. But, my real problem with it, is that it’s actually philosophy, not physics.
The very same prejudice that Einstein felt, which made him find the work of LeMetre so unpalatable, (which evidenced the Big Bang Theory) is at work in MWT. It’s a philosophical argument, with one purpose; refuting the existence of God. Einstein apologised to LeMetre, a Catholic priest, after having once told him, “Your math is correct but your physics is abominable.” And, The Big Bang is now generally accepted, despite having been held back for almost a generation by the egos of over powerful scientists. And, once again, we are seeing the history repeat itself.
The idea of something miraculous happen, that the physical world could actually be altered by the mere act of, “observation,” and all that this implies, is intolerable to an atheistic culture, that is as guilty of prejudice, groupthink and dogma, as any religious organisation in history. The very same people who worship Galileo as their Martyr for being a victim of prejudice and dogma, perpetrated by an over weening establishment, have now become that very thing they despise. They are sacrificing science on the alter of that dogma, which might as well be stated as, “We refuse to accept any conclusions that may imply a creator of the universe, regardless of what the facts are,” and they come up with the most extravagant, superstitious and logically implausible solutions, and pursue them with such vehemence that they have become the new dogma!
No doubt, someone reading this, will assume that I am a, “believer,” in God, and have a personal axe to grind, rather than question their own assumptions, because they have been trained to respond in that fashion, as though I was a Flat Earther or denying Gravity . . . But, my actual point is that there is yet to be a scientific explanation for our observations, and that the Copenhagen position has become a dogma, enforced by a powerful scientist, with a famously powerful and intolerant personality, and has evolved in to ever increasingly extravagant philosophical ideas. Without any evidence (hard or otherwise) Physics has been actively encouraged to wonder away from the path of science.
We must look harder at the problem, and bring in fresh minds. And, whether we find evidence, or proof, of a God, a creator, or the exact opposite, we must accept the truth of whatever we find, unflinchingly, with the disciplined eyes of the scientist. We must leave philosophy to the philosophers, especially when we cannot even establish a working mathematical model for MWT that doesn’t have one or more fatal flaw in it. We simply have NO BASIS for MWT. Yet, I hear, you can actually fail your doctorate for saying that now!
You would have thought we’d have learned by now, after the famously appalling ways great scientists have been treated, by the scientific community in the past, (leading to suicides and even murders! . . . In the 20th Century!) that anything that smacks of dogma is unhealthy for science. And the establishment must NEVER be allowed to get too comfortable, or, “established.”
These were just some general thoughts on the nature and culture of science today, as it relates to this fascinating problem . . . It’s worth pondering, do any of you know any Christian believers in science? Physics especially? And, do any of you know any atheists in that field? Of the ones who claim to have, “open minds,” who are the least tolerant of difference in beliefs? You already know the answer, right? . . .
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Bernard Gilbert : Well, we don’t KNOW that, DO WE? I mean, whether Trump offered her HARD cash to sleep with him, UP FRONT, or whether it was just the “buy off” from the lawyer that we’re looking at? Do you REALLY think that all that LOVELY is going to have sex with Trump, WITHOUT there being a cash agreement? She just likes his sparkling, racist, self obsessed, ignorant “conversation” and his bloated, Orange, blubber body? COME OOHHHHN???
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It’s not even a question of, “spare fighters,” anyway. It’s a money making opportunity. We’ll end up selling a bunch of new Typhoons to Poland, for example, so they can donate their Migs Ukraine. We ALWAYS make money from these situations, but don’t boast about it, because, “Weapons manufacturers,” hot button issues, etc.
Poland has already donated technically, “spare parts,” to Ukraine, which comprise of a wheel in one package and the rest of the jet fighter in the other package, and then they say, “If you should happen to put that wheel back onto the landing gear of that jet, that’s not our business,” to get around international laws. They make no secret of it.
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Ben Finegold was stabbing at, “A Schwarzenegger,” as though he isn’t one of the smartest people alive? How many people have learned the language of a foreign country, immigrated there, become Mr Universe, become one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, married a Kennedy, and then gone on to become the Republican Governor of California, winning re-election, which proves he must have been competent at his job, and then returned to acting and knocking out blockbuster movies?! He’s clearly WAY SMARTER than Benjamin, who’s insecure, petty and living in fear of being beaten by someone like Arney, about whom he’s built assumptions in his own head, without ever thinking through WTF he’s saying out loud. He’s a clear example of a good chess player, who’s not very smart . . . 🤦♂️ Arney is (whatever you think of him) obviously a genius, without exaggeration
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CNN: WHY are you colluding with this FANTASY? The Republic has FALLEN and you people are acting as though the GOP would ALLOW you to send them all to JAIL? The 2020 , “Elections,” are ALREADY RIGGED! Their, “choice,” is: GO TO JAIL, taking ALL of the Trump Family and half of the GOP with them, OR RIG THE ELECTIONS. Which do you THINK they’ve ALREADY CHOSEN??? The, “elections,” will be a useful Data Gathering Exercise, helping the GOP decide on who to TARGET, when the, “outcome,” is ALREADY on Putin’s desk! You are FEEDING the DANGEROUS DELUSION of a, “Democratic Process,” that no longer exists, buying time for Trump’s Dictatorship, when the people of America SHOULD be HALTING THE COUNTRY, like the Ukrainians did, a decade ago! If THEY could send their Putin Puppet BACK TO MOSCOW, facing down Putin’s THUGS with NO WEAPONS, WHY CAN’T AMERICA??? And, WHY are YOU pretending that the elections are not ALREADY RIGGED???
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All that fresh veal was almost lost, there . . . Is the hunting season over? . . . Just kidding. Good for you, Bambi 😉
Hey, David Shuster, I love your content, your journalistic style, your professionalism and your superbly presented stories. Your heart is always apparent to me, putting me in mind of Lawrence O’Donnell. And you’re right. A little feel good story, now and then, is good for the soul. We need them, Lord knows! 🙄 . . . ✌️👍
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billcharlene1450 : That would be TRUMP, then, right? He attacks EVERYTHING that isn’t a Dictator (he LOVES DICKtators), from our allies, institutions, law enforcement, free press, and his OWN FRIENDS, to our Movie Industry, sports, EVEN the FUNERALS of American HEROES. He’s SO gotta’ go . . . SMH
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@ooooneeee : I’m not responsible for their reasoning. Only explaining the facts. But, again, if you think about it, obviously the power might not be working, so . . . There’s probably a thousand other things that might make for better protocols, but this is the, “what,” and the, “why,” of it. The result of analysis. If it’s wrong, the guy who wrote the book is wrong, but he does explain it in great detail, even describing a conversation in which passengers were guessing at various reasons they had to turn off their phones and the lights on the whole inside of the aircraft go dim. People came up with nonsense reasons as well as very plausible guesses, but they were all wrong.
Just saying what the book says. I believe him. I think you would too if you heard it (audiobook in my case) and all the reasoning that comes with it? It’s science and experience of people’s behaviour that matters I guess. Merry Christmas 🎄
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A lone Voice : Fascinating, right? But, I’m sure she isn’t some bitter, self deluding fantasist, who’s so unhappy at the demise of the Donny, that she just has to vent a little steam at the people she hates, on the channels she hates, bitching about other people she hates, right? Nothing, “unhealthy,” about that? . . .
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AYMAN Islam : A typical low grade student answer, there. Consider: HOW, exactly, do you KNOW that the Romans rewrote history? OH, THAT’S RIGHT. We ALL know that. Because, they did NOT fool anyone. You are probably unaware of the latest forensic techniques used, these days, for getting at the TRUTH about history? About historiography? About how scientists are MUCH better at crossing fields and co-working with people from fields as disperate as Archeology and Physics? But, we have discovered more of the TRUTH about history in the past 20 years, than we have in the past 200. Trust me. Trump will be remembered for being the idiot he is. And America is only growing out of its adolescence. For good or ill, that is just a FACT. America will be the most powerful country in the world for AT LEAST another 150 years. If you understood Geopolitics, you might get what I’m telling you. But, DON’T WASTE your life, hating. Especially hating a country that is getting stronger and which YOU will HAVE TO live with, whether you like it or not
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The GOP literally voted to defund the Capitol Police, TWICE, since the insurrection. Now, with trump’s Terrorist calls for revenge killings against cops, they can’t hang on to ANY PRETENCE of, “backing the blue,” any longer. Within a week of MTG urging people to shoot dead healthcare workers, trying to save lives, merely for showing up at your house too! They’re the ones we’re meant to, “hate?” But, the government trained military assassin, with a violent mob at her back, coming to, “hang Mike Pence,” is the one we should be giving a medal too? This is just yet more evidence (as if it were needed?) that the GOP’s Coup is ongoing, and they’re coming through that Thin Blue Line to get power back . . . Truly horrible, deplorable human beings.
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@bvmukeshreddy9460 : I must admit, it’s more than just a fan of the source material casting a critical eye over his likes and dislikes. But, I doubt he would pretend that it doesn’t earn him his main source of income, by generating interest. Having said that, from the point of view of someone who drunkenly, yet wisely, speaks truth to artistic power, he is just talking about what most people are interested in, so? . . . Hanged if he does, hanged if he doesn’t, right? I did comment, over a year ago, that it would be nice to see a more broad net cast, looking at things that come from studios other than Disney? Don’t think he’s gonna’ listen to me though 😉
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Kenny B : The term, “Trumpski,” is a short hand, summing up a lot of information, and my reading of it, it one, eloquent, phrase. Notice, you had NOTHING to, “say,” there? You complain about me and my style, but offer NOTHING to the, “debate.” I can’t HELP being right, all the time? It’s a blessing AND a curse. I PROMISE YOU: When they get him, ASSange will spill EVERYTHING, and you Trolls will cry, “They go to him!” at the top of your lungs. And, that won’t matter, either 🙂
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Kenny B : Oh contraire, mon petit mal de derrière. You understood it, immediately. That is EVIDENT. QED. And, as a Conservative, who votes Democrat because the GOP are compromised traitors, working for an incompetent, Putin Whipped, criminal president, I have to say, your ASSumptions seem to hinge largely on the fact that you’re SO angry?
Wait ‘till you find out that the Trump appointed Judge has put Jim Acosta back in the White House? You’re gonna’ FLIP!
Still no, “debate,” I see? Lemme’ know, if you feel up to it. But, it’s only fair to warn you, I am WAY smarter than you, ALWAYS right and on the side of the Angels. This might be a good time for you to BE Trumpian, and (hashtag)RunAway! 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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Kenny B : Oh, oh, contraire ausi, mon angry feme. I have NO IDEA whether, “mal de derrière,” REALLY means, “Butt Hurt,” either, in my Comedy French? But, the fact that you CLING to THAT, instead of getting the joke, because you have NOTHING to say in defence of your Orange Orifice in Chief only PROVES how insecure you are, and how DESPERATE you feel about NOT having anything to get the better of me for.
Trump and the GOP BETRAYED Conservative VALUES, when they BETRAYED the LAW, the CONSTITUTION, and our INSTITUTIONS. Trump HATES our Allies, and LOVES DICKtators, and you have the NERVE to talk about, “traitors”??? That’s GENUINELY SICKENING.
You sound like a man, trying to convince HIMSELF, because you just can’t ADMIT that you’ve been SO WRONG . . . SMH
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Peter Parker : Could you just point out, for the viewers, exactly WHAT EVIDENCE you have, that the Mainstream Media has, “Taken Sides,” on the Assange story? Seems to me, their just telling us what happened? The problem with Trumpophiles is that they simple HATE the FACTS, and blame the messenger for NOT spinning the TRUTH, one way or the other. SHOW US WHERE, in THIS VIDEO, you perceived a, “Bias,” of ANY kind? I’ll wait 🙂
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dominic pelle : It’s a long established fact that Trumpski has nearly ALL his stuff made in China, from those ridiculous red hats (which I’m CONVINCED have some sort of metal hoops in them, with which Trump is able to control his rally fans, using a Chinese App, with a Russian program, on his “unsecured” phone) to the steel, holding up Trump Tower. Just EVERYTHING about him SCREAMS, “Clear And Present Danger,” and America is FINALLY starting to GET IT. Looking at the numbers, it’s CLEAR that Independents AND Conservatives have been voting Democrat, too. I’m Conservative (in, “Values”). And I voted Democrat. And I will continue to do so, until Trump is OUT
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Peter Parker : When people ask me what the term, “Butt Hurt,” means, I’ll show them your last comment. It means someone who’s run out of, “arguments,” and can’t get any support form Alex, “Q,” Jones, so they get all, “emotional,” and, “Victimy.” 🙂
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“Irresponsible,” has been a matter of, “policy,” for these goons, since they took office. They literally LAUGHED at us for being dim witted enough to obey the rules as they drunkenly celebrated while Covid cut a swathe through our society. My dad died of Covid and I could have choked the life out of Boris when I heard what he’d been up to, while my dad struggled for his final breath as I looked on from a WhatsApp screen, unable to make myself heard over the whirring of machinery and a nurse who jabbered over me, because her English was so poor that she couldn’t understand the phrase, “Please STFU!”
And then to hear their excuses and dismissals was almost enough to turn me into a terrorist, I was so distraught! All while they, “celebrated,” the success of food banks for the poor and desperate, instead of admitting that their very existence is an indictment of their own failure!
We are practically fighting a war in Europe, because our, “government,” has been taking backhanders from Russian spooks and inviting them into Downing Street, whilst helping them to buy all the best houses and land! And who is footing the bill for their corruption in the form of weapons and aid? NOT THEM! The tax payer, of course! Boris thinks he’s Horace Walpole or something! He thinks he can buy or sell his way out of ANY problem, while the money he uses for his corruption is OURS!
If the next election doesn’t go to Labour, we’re screwed! But, if we fail to elect Keir Starmer because he’s, “boring,” then we all deserve to be sold into slavery! Every time I hear people (even allegedly, “well informed,” commentators on the BBC!) saying that being, “dull,” is a, “disqualification,” for high office, I have to wonder just how SUICIDALLY IGNORANT people have to be to think such a diabolically, clinically thick, thing!? Isn’t, “dull and uninteresting,” EXACTLY what our politics SHOULD BE at its best? That’s when there’s no, “interesting,” cruelty, corruption, indolence or sickening complacency to speak of. I don’t know about you, but I’ve had a belly full of, “entertaining,” politicians.
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Timothy : You are the Classic Trump Troll, I see. Your, “job,” is NOT to win a debate, convince anyone of anything, or even hold your own, verbally. Your, “job,” is to keep sewing the seeds of disunity. Your, “job,” is to, “Keep America DIVIDED.” That’s how Trump got in, and what will keep him in. Unless such a thing as a, “United States of America,” resurfaces, of course? Trump’s Kryptonite = UNITY. I see you, Putin. When we’re done with Trump, you’re next on our list, son 🙂
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@glennjanot8128 : I think Labour will see it as too much of a hot potato now? They risk undermining our democracy by not accepting the results of the first referendum, which will also destabilise any validity to our claims that Scotland’s referendum on staying in the UK was sound. Especially since the Tories have, FINALLY, gotten around to laying some groundwork for negotiating our unique position in Europe. The war in Ukraine has been, “useful,” in that respect, forcing diplomacy to look beyond, “punishing,” countries for abandoning the European project and driving the necessity for unity. It has been the strength of at least some of that, “good will,” that assisted with the Windsor deal.
A smart politician would seek to avoid reigniting old divisions and seize the opportunities for trade deals and cooperation agreements that necessarily flow from our assistance to Ukraine, wouldn’t they? We may be able to take advantage of the situation without being cynical about it, to secure a strong place for ourselves, based on that ongoing unity that must be shown to Russia and China right now? That’s certainly how I hope Rishi is dealing with it, and how I would hope Keir does when his time comes . . . which I’m pretty certain will come.
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@pjs232 : That all strikes me as very fair and well thought out. Of course, the situation is so fluid (made more so by the global issues around the Ukraine war and China’s designs on Taiwan) that, as you say, we can none of us make certain predictions.
However, if you held my feet to the fire, I would hope that Keir is smart enough to take the pragmatic view: “It is what it is,” now. Putting the country through another referendum would be to invite the nemesis of all politicians into his first administration: Division. Does Britain really need all that back stabbing, and front stabbing in Westminster again, let alone all the infighting on social media and division within households that such a vote invites? Especially since it is also plain now (and I bet Cameron only wished he could have known this during his premiership) that victory for either side leaves nothing resolved, as the country will be as near to a 50/50 split as makes no difference when it comes to cultural division and the well-being of the state.
Now that there is such an international NEED for unity in the face of looming threats from China and Russia, we are in a unique position to (NOT cynically) take advantage of that situation and have never been better placed to make a virtue out of necessity. All Keir need do is continue to build on those foundations and attach conditions here and there to certain joint aid packages going out to Ukraine, for example. We have been leading the way on support for Ukraine, breaking the deadlock over tanks, along with Poland, for instance, by being the first country to offer them unconditionally to fight Russians with. And, one day, Ukraine will be at peace. And this country, rich in fossil fuels (enough to compete with Russia’s resources, if you believe the reports from Exxon, Shell, BP and others?) supplying over 50% of the world’s Argon (an element vital for the production of microchips) and producing vast quantities of the world’s grain supplies - among so many other profitable business enterprises - will one day be looking for international partners and markets in which to develop those fossil fuels and sell them, re-enter the technology markets and re-supply that grain at the levels that the poorer countries of the world have come to rely on. And in all of these markets (and many others) Ukraine will be looking to western companies to rebuild their infrastructure and develop these new revenue streams. And who will they favour over other western powers, but those upon whom they can rely and trust, who supported them unquestioningly in their hour of need, and who ensured they still had freedom and democracy in the first place. America will, of course be at the very front of that cue, but Britain will be next in line, and with British American cooperation being what it is, there’s no reason why we won’t all make a LOT of money, whilst assisting Ukraine to find an official place in the European Union, the UN and ultimately, NATO, down the line.
That’s just one example of many I could make, being the most tortured in the news of late, but you see my point, I hope? We simply need to accept what is, not put Britain through further division, and work to build upon the uniting projects in the model of other prosperous European countries outside of the EU. I would hope that either premier, Rishi or Keir, would get that by now?
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So, he doesn’t believe trump at all, because (presumably) he knows trump is a compulsive liar, as everyone else does? Yet, the, “suspicions,” he has come entirely from trump! No one else! They were repeated by many of trump’s enablers, but the entire narrative was trump’s! Was this guy SO insulated, inside the GOP’s propaganda bubble that he REALLY didn’t KNOW about the Red Mirage? Even though it was covered extensively by the press? Even though he SAW that Biden voters were following the medical advice about the pandemic and voting early, and the trump supporters were following trump’s advice and ignoring the dangers? If he was honestly THAT isolated from the very BASIC facts, he’s probably too far gone? 🤷♂️
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Jim Gruver : How many times have I said it, now? NEVER TOUCH THE CLICK BAIT, PEOPLE. Trojans, Worms, Malware, Bots, etc, etc. If people cannot give references, it’s because they don’t WANT you to look up the information, through a RELIABLE SOURCE, or to cross-reference it.
Don’t let the Conspiracy Theorists do ALL your, “thinking,” for you. USE YOUR WORDS, instead of being Lazy, relying on the Russians to do it all FOR YOU. If you have ANY, “Point,” to make, MAKE IT.
Learn to THINK and try again . . . SMH
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madcheeseknight : You may not, “like,” being IDENTIFIED, but you ARE a RACIST. Vote for Hitler, get HITLER. You can pars your own, “reasons,” for voting for him, but if you do, you are voting for a RACIST with RACIST views, and RACIST policies. Ergo, YOU are a RACIST. Your best, “defence,” is ignorance, of Trump’s RACISM. But, if you missed THAT much, you are as dangerous as any RACIST, which makes you RACIST, by default. Sorry. I didn’t MAKE the world. It just is
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Henry Townshed : Calm down. Why are racists always so shrill? You don’t even KNOW what people are, “protesting,” here, so you’re not qualified to whine about it. NO ONE is, “protesting the flag,” except RACISTS, who want to CHANGE it to a Rebel Star, you utter cretin. How, “respectful,” is THAT, to the people who spilled blood and treasure, protecting the AMERICAN FLAG, when Trump fans WANT IT CHANGED to the Flag of TRAITORS. Oh yeah, I can SEE why THAT would appeal to Treason Trump. Nazis don’t read. That’s a REAL problem
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RoPer : Jeez, you racists are DUMB. You have NO IDEA what they do, “off camera,” because it’s OFF CAMERA, DOLT! You’re just jealous, whining about their, “million dollar mansions.” Man up, and get a JOB, if you don’t like being poor, instead of, “blaming,” people who are SO MUCH BETTER than you. Your effeminate, “victimhood,” is OLD. And take down your Rebel Star and fly the AMERICAN FLAG, for a CHANGE, you Treasonous little NAZI
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RoPer : All you racists do is whine about what, “victims,” you are, and how, “aggrieved,” you are. Always, “put upon,” by the, “establishment,” without the BALLS to, “Man UP,” and OWN that Trump IS The Establishment. Yes. It’s VERY effeminate. And that’s the way the world SEES you. I don’t know how much SIMPLER I can make it for you? You CANNOT KNOW what people give their money to, volunteer their time to, or support, when no one is looking, BECAUSE no one is LOOKING! Which part of that don’t you get???
But, if I had to spend ALL of my professional time training to be among the elite of the world’s sports players, sparing my remaining time for my family and friends, and wondered what I could do to help, with the precious little time I had left to me, guess what? I MAY just support a movement, by using my FREE SPEECH at the moment it has the MOST IMPACT!
You haters LOVE your free speech when you want Nut Jobs, like Alex Jones to LIE for you, or threaten people, but you HATE IT, when men and women of COURAGE (look that word up) and CHARACTER are BRAVE enough to stand up and TAKE the heat for their principles. And for WHAT? So you get all, “butt hurt,” and whine like old women, because you’re RACISTS? Great life you made for yourself, there, son . . . SMH
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Frank Van : You confuse, “contempt,” for, “hate,” son. Yes, “no president has ever done,” this before. Legitimised a family murdering, mass murdering, population starving, nuclear threatening, bloated, ass hat. Or Kim, for that matter 😆 This was NOT some species of, “achievement,” son?! The world watches, open mouthed, as Trump rolls at the feet of Kim, like he was his bitch, and you think that’s just great, because you don’t read, and have NO CLUE what’s actually happening . . . Smh 🙂
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Atomkey Sinclair : Trump did it as a favor to Putin, who also stopped Trump from bombing Iran at the last moment, with a single phone call. You WANT, so desperately, to act like this was a, “good thing.” But, you all KNOW, really, that we should be ASHAMED to be giving legitimacy to a dictator, who starves his own people, murders his own family members, and would NUKE America if he could. You’re all a brainwashed cult, giving away our Republic, out of sheer embarrassment, that you were SO WORNG about Trump. You’re all too ashamed to admit the truth . . . Smh
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Atomkey Sinclair : Seriously, son . . . You’re wasting your life. “Whaddabouting,” to, “Obama,” because of your racist fixations, is seriously lame. NO ONE will even read your lengthy Trollery, except other Trolls. You cannot defend Trump, so you cover your shame and embarrassment, over being conned and not, “feeling,” able to admit it, by talking about ANYTHING else. And, in the process, you even forget that you’re only a Troll, with NOTHING, “interesting,” to say. We’ve heard it ALL before, son. You’re lost for words, so you borrow your script from others . . . Pathetic . . . Smh 🙂
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@ : Ask all those, “America First,”ers if they want to, “stop spending,” all that money, only to spend all that money again. That wouldn’t fly, even in magaworld. Especially in magaworld. But Musk, all his buddies, and Donny’s buddies would be destroying all their business interests in the only countries with money if they did that. Might actually work out well for Ukraine, ultimately.
Besides, Ukraine would only be walking away from surrendering territory, not peace talks altogether. Donny’s, “24 hours,” are in some alternate dimension, aren’t they? He staked a lot of political capital on this.
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TunedCavityLasers : You’re right. There’s very little to compare between Benghazi, which took longer, cost more, and produced NOTHING, as we all KNEW would be the case, and Mueller’s faster probe, which has not even been in a Congressional Hearing yet (Benghazi was on TV for years) and has ALREADY resulted in all those CONVICTIONS of Trump’s TOP PEOPLE; PROVED RUSSIA’S ATTACK ON US; and is yet to reveal the full extent of the, “Corruption,” (Mueller’s words) of Trump’s rotten government.
And, thanks for bringing up the, “walkaway,” (bowel) movement. Whatever HAPPENED to THAT? Guess they all (Hashtag) RanAway, right? The intellectual equivalent of pushing someone away, while saying, “Come ‘ere!” No WONDER it FAILED! It made NO SENSE! 🤣
You thought the Midterms were bad? Ooooh . . . It’s gonna’ hurt . . . 😁
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Dirk Jenkinz : IKR? “Broken the highest, biggest classified that you can,” apparently, whatever TF THAT means? Why Americans don’t just fire Donny after hearing him SPEAK is beyond most decent folk! But, at least, now it’s been tested in court, we can all say, publicly, that, “Donald Trump Committed Treason,” without fear of contradiction, let alone being, “sued,” for it 😁
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I honestly believe that, up to this point, people have voted SNP for their, “other,” policies, which reflect what a pre-Tony-Blair Labour Party. The education system is more accessible to the poor in Scotland, the Health Service is more independent and maintains things like free prescriptions which are palpable benefits to a population with a poorer economy than England. The SNP took ownership of that left of centre ground that was once occupied by Labour, with a more socialist, yet nevertheless pragmatic and self consciously, “fiscally responsible,” stall. I really think that this is what the majority of SNP voters actually vote, “for.”
I honestly think that it is only about half of their loyal, regularly-showing-up-to-the-polls, voters, “care,” about independence? And you only have to talk to a few of those people to find out that none of them have the same vision in their head about just how that would work in practical terms. Every time I talk to someone who’s all William Wallace about the issue, they talk vaguely about oil reserves, maybe joining the EU, or about how Westminster is so corrupt but then, in the next breath, half of those types go on to say, “Well, I never bothered to vote last time and I probably won’t next time either.”
I’m sure that’s not representative, but it does indicate how there is simply no, “vision,” that the public can sink their teeth into. It’s all vagaries and potentials, which no two people are alike about.
I truly believe that if the SNP won a huge landslide and claimed a mandate for a new referendum, they would lose by a bigger margin than they did pre-Brexit. At least, as things are.
The scandal that overshadows them now, since the making of this video, makes two for two SNP leaders leaving under a cloud of disillusioning question marks. And Sturgeon’s apparent inability to simply state, “My husband is innocent,” merely serves to make her look potentially guilty . . . of something? Whether that was active participation in embezzlement or simply the complicity of silence, the SNP are not in a good place, now that her, “sudden,” resignation and retirement looks suspiciously motivated by far more than the reasons she offered us.
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Two Impossible Girls : I knew a psychiatric nurse, who worked on a ward in which two of her patients had been raped. The police believed the victims, as did everybody else, except the justice system, which allowed their rapists to walk on a technicality, as they had rich daddies, who could afford the kind of lawyers who put teams of researchers onto looking for any weakness in the prosecution’s case. I say I, “knew,” this nurse, as she surprised us all by committing suicide in a local park, hanging herself from a tree. Her suicide note was a text to her mom, which simply read, “Truth is dead.”
Of the two rapists, I learned that one of them died of a drug overdose and the other is confined to a wheelchair, after encountering a dose of, “Street Justice.”
So, that is a desperately sad tale, with no happy endings. Peter is not a “man” but I think he’s actually getting off on trying to “torment” you. The very same thing that rapists want, is to exploit, “Power,” to which they have no right. His deliberate obtuseness, has NOTHING to do with what he believes, but is an expression of his denial and impotent rage.
You made your points well and, anyone who takes the trouble to read your discussion with this guy, will SEE what an impotent tool he is, hiding behind abuse and saying things that he would not DARE to express in front of his friends, colleagues or family. He is venting the pollution of his soul onto the world. Don’t give him ANY, Power.”
The art of NEVER losing the game, is not to play. Besides, to ANY reasonable, right minded person . . . You WON this one, anyway
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Yup. Too much free time on their hands. Those parents need to do some national service.
They are NOT, “Christians.” By definition, Christians are, “in the world NOT of the world,” as they were taught by Jesus. Christ was not a politician and it was the politicians (check this fact for yourself) who were the ONLY people in the entire Bible that Jesus actually cursed. He called them, “Whitewashed coffins,” and, “Serpents,” and screamed at them that there was, “no place in Heaven,” for them. Once you take up politics, professionally, you have abandoned Christianity. Sorry.
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MrGreggery : It’s OVER, America! Which do you think they’ll choose? The END of the Republic, with Putin Style, RIGGED, “Elections,” or they risk the ENTIRE TRUMP FAMILY and HALF OF THE GOP, from Bill Barr down to Devin Nunes, GOING TO JAIL??? The next, “election,” is ALREADY RIGGED! They CANNOT ALLOW DEMOCRATIC PROCESS, when Putin is ALREADY inside several election computers, and ready to save their asses. Turkey’s DON’T VOTE for Thanks Giving! The Republic is OVER. Learn to love your Monarchy, or have a Revolution, but PLEASE DON’T KID YOURSELVES that you will be ALLOWED a, “Free and Fair Election”??? . . . SMH
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Richard Lee : So glad Fareed nailed this. I keep telling people that trump trolls are never here to, “win arguments,” have, “debates,” or to, “persuade,” anyone of anything. Their only, “job,” is to spread dismay at their stupidity, hate at their offensiveness, and most of all, the DIVISION that gives trump his power. A, “United,” States of America is the one thing the trump’s can never allow
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What is the hard evidence for your interpretation of determinism? We have never (not once) deciphered the gap between macro and micro physics. We know that there has to be a relationship between the two, because they coexist in our world, but no one has ever come close to bridging that gap. My experience is that I have free will. That is my experience of the world.
You’re trying to pull the, “Science says it’s so,” card, yet you’re behaving like so many of those scientists that you have distain for because you have no proof. A quintillion quantum events took place in my right arm as I saluted the screen just now, yet my arm bent to my will along with all of those events, not because it was written into the Big Bang but because it seemed a suitably random choice of illustration.
And, just because a computer can predict whether I was about to move, or not move, my arm before I knew I was going to do it means nothing when it comes to bigger, more general choices, such as watching your video, forming an opinion about it and what I do with that information, since I am more than an electronically measurable mechanism; much more than the sum of my parts.
Choice, free will, I grant you, are more illusory than many think. But they’re not totally absent, just because of one type of measurement of motor function, set against thousands of other experiences humans have which are under their control.
Perhaps there are only a few of us who truly are free willed free thinkers? Perhaps I am exceptional? But, I would say I’m one of those, wouldn’t I, being neurodivergent and all? Give me acceptable, empirical evidence please? Otherwise, why should I privilege your opinion over so many other untestable, unproven hypotheses?
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Drew P. Balzak : “Obsessed with trump,” is literally an accusation, as is, “race baiting,” etc, with NO, “argument,” “debate,” or even a talking point. You live on channels you hate, talking exclusively to people you hate, expressing nothing but hate, kiddo. You are exactly the type of person I can use my Copy&Pasted responses on, (like that last sentence) to save time, because your comments are always the same. Not just your repetition, but the same as all your, “colleagues.” Easily swept aside, without challenge or originality. Now, tell me, madam? Who has the, “emotional issue,” here? I do this for fun. Literally 😋
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poolplayer : So, who, “mislead,” Trump, son? You still haven’t said? If you think it’s the same in other countries, you’re dumber than you sound. READ the news, son? Europe’s stats are WAY better than the richest, most powerful country in the world. There is pressure from business, but crucially, they DON’T get to decide. The governments DON’T answer to them. Trump is a lackey to his shareholder bosses in the fossil fuel industry, the big pharma drug cartels, the health insurers, etc, not to mention his foreign investors, like the Chinese Tech Giants, the Saudis and the Russians. Trump is just finding this out, now! He can’t understand why he can’t order his own people about! And it’s because they don’t answer to him, and they have total legal autonomy and they only care about making MONEY. So, he’s actually being skitzo in front of the world! Encouraging his own cult to go out and get sick, by, “protesting,” HIS OWN POLICIES?!?! FFS, son!? Wake up! 😆
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You may not see this as your bailiwick but, do you think these grass roots movements around the world, boycotting American goods and services, will affect shipping? After all, some US services are unavoidable (like Google’s YouTube) whilst MacDonalds, Coke, Pepsi, Heinz, Starbucks, etc. do seem vulnerable to me?
I ask after a seeing a news report showing French shoppers using an app to identify the country of origin of products on the shelves of their supermarkets. And I know of people doing the same thing here, in Britain.
Thanks for this service, btw. I discovered you through a recommendation from Jake Broe’s channel, of which I am a member.
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Left anti pc : That’s a serious issue. A country that cannot look to its leaders for even BASIC moral, baseline, leadership, is in trouble. I’m glad my kids are grown up, and no better. But, lets face it? Unless the Russians DIRECTLY tamper with the Polling Computers (something they are desperate enough to try, given that they have nothing to lose, and everything to gain?) there is NO WAY Trump actually survives the Mid Terms. Then, the process of his removal will begin, proper. But, there is SO MUCH work to do, EDUCATING America. And government needs to take responsibility, for putting right, the harm of Trump and his goons. So, that your boy has something else to look to, when he looks in their direction. Education is the only, known, CURE for RACISM. And, the hate, ignorance and bitterness, that Trump’s tenure has, at least served to highlight, needs to be addressed at a national level. I feel for you
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72marshflower15 : Good point. Though, I NEVER use the term, “Conservative,” to describe these EXTREMISTS. Under ANY definition you care to examine, the Trump Regime does NOT FIT. These are Far-Right-Extremists, using Stalinist techniques for a Nazi goal. Which, finally, explains what Steve Bannon MEANT, when he described HIMSELF and his minions as, “Leninists.” He was NOT referring to IDEOLOGY, after all? And he could NOT come out and SAY, “Stalinist.” But, you only have to GLANCE at the Trolls and their Trolleagues, who POOR OUT their DISINFORMATION and LIES, to see that Stalinism is alive and well, in Western Democratic, “Conversation.”
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Silver Stallion : HOW would YOU, “know,” that, “Russia is not the enemy”??? I mean, a REAL person MAY have, “doubts,” but your ABSOLUTISM gives you away. NO ONE could be CERTAIN of a DIRECT CONTRADICTION of the mainstream NEWS, unless . . . unless THEY had an, “alternate source,” of, “news”??? And, if THAT were the case, WHY spend SO MUCH TIME, hanging around news threads that they DON’T EVEN TRUST??? BUSTED!!! TROLLERY MUCHERY!!! Go back to your TROLLEAGUES and get some, “Subtlety Training.” Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! 🤣
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M . A : That’s the Saudis, working for the US. You know that, right? If Trump can pressure Japan’s premier into requesting a Nobel Peace Prize for him, then it’s clear they are willing to prostitute themselves for US support; probably because North Korea keeps firing joke nukes at them, right? Japan’s actions don’t convince thinking people of anything. But, from your last response, I get the sense that maybe you expressed yourself badly? Or, we read you wrong? Maybe you’d be glad to see the oppressive regime removed in your country? But, if the US goes in with Trump’s agenda, your fellow citizens will be robbed blind and treated like dirt, by a US that simply wants your oil and is making up excuses to attack. It won’t be good for any loved ones you have there. And, it’s just too much of a, “coincidence,” that Iran would suddenly launch all these operations, practically begging for the international community to treat them as a rogue state, JUST at the point that they’re engaged in delicate negotiations with Europe, over such big issues, don’t you think? Especially, when it’s coming from a US administration, that has seized every opportunity to discredit the very secret services, upon which they, “claim,” to be relying, now? You SEE all this, don’t you? ✌️
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I HATE DEMOCRATS 👈 Your name is meant to, “trigger,” people, even though I am a Conservative, and was one when Trump was a Democrat, son. So, that’s a waste of your life. As was whatever else you said, as, in the same way that I respond when I see someone open their comment with abuse, I didn’t read it. As you’re too DUMB to realise that the very people you’re trying to Propagandise will not even read past your helpfully passive aggressive handle, maybe you need to stop being such an effeminate, bitching your way around the web? 🙂
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Peter Brown : Tell us about the, “Strait of Hormuz,” and what you perceive to be going on there? It must be obvious, even to a child, that Trump is spoiling for armed conflict in Iran? And, it’s not just about getting their oil. He probably wants to bomb them into submission, but will end up bogged down in their streets and sewers, as always happens. And, Putin will be happy to have the Iranians weakened, so they will be more dependant upon Russia. But, the LAST thing he wants, is America actually IN THERE, running the country. Iran is one of Putin’s chief smuggling routes, and have been essential for getting men an materials into Syria, for various factions. That’s why Trump suddenly tried to calm the hawks around him, after a call from his boss. So, I’m interested in your Hormuz thing. Tell us more?
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@utoobsurfing2816 : Wrong thread, madam, but no one is blaming Biden for Covid Deaths that continue under trump’s cult. That’s just trump, racking up the numbers and reaping what he sowed. Did you blame the president for Jonestown? Or, for Wako? Too young to remember? People don’t blame presidents for the suicidal instincts of a Darwinian Self Extinction Event, kiddo. He’s made the vaccines available, and given the CDC everything they need. He did his part. Now, you do yours. As to the rest of your, “commentoganda,” I got bored. Keep your trump Trollery brief? Or keep being ignored? I honestly don’t care, but don’t expect me to waste actual TIME on you? That would be immoral, son. 🤷♂️
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@tallymay7407 : You must have been delighted with Biden then? You voted for Concentration Camps, so I trust he can count on your vote at the next election? Your, “build back better,” quote is a flat lie, so you lost all credibility halfway through your opening sentence. At least that spared me having to Wade through any more of your racist fabulation. Do keep ‘em brief, madam? Or continue being ignored? Try to remember? You’re ONLY a trump troll. Not, “special,” or, “interesting,” and you sure as hell aren’t, “original.” It’d less of drag for you if you pull just ONE original concept (or lie?) out of your programmed, triggered, harmed butt? 😋
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I think that last caller said it beautifully. It’s not that bigots are bigots. But that these bigots were tolerated for their vote winning abilities, or their cash, or their influence with foreign leaders and now, they act like they run the place.
That’s the price the Tories are paying now: People who would NEVER have been promoted as high as they have been, self serving narcissists, using divisive, sabotaging tactics, calling the electorate names from the parliamentary dispatch box and leading Tory voting prospects off a cliff, are now ex party leaders or cabinet members, and/or bidding for leadership of the party now!
This sort of squalid, Americanised, cut throat, cut priced, corruption riddled, foreign influenced politics has never seen the light of day before in Westminster. And the British people are just not having it. More power to them.
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A Revolution. That is now your ONLY hope of restoring the Republic. The 2020, “elections,” are ALREADY RIGGED. They are NOT even afraid of how anyone might, “vote.” Their ONLY threat is the possibility of holding an Impeachment, “Trial,” with NO evidence and NO witnesses, with Trump’s CONSPIRATORS, who are also looking at JAIL TIME, sitting in, “judgement,” of him. Not because of how the, “electorate,” might respond at the polling booths, though. But, because it might become SO OBVIOUS that the Republic has FALLEN that the people might RISE UP, like they have done before, in places like the Ukraine, a decade ago. Putin has taught us all; If you want to KEEP your Dictatorship, you do it by going through the motions of a, “Democracy,” but you can never risk making it TOO OBVIOUS that it’s already OVER. Hence, all the distractions of a potential, “war,” mediated through Putin, with Iran’s cooperation. And, the Giuliani travelling circus. It’s all part of the show, to drown out the noise of a SHAM Impeachment, which will look to any reasonable adult, like the GOP ADMITTING that they have staged a COUP and set your Constitution ALIGHT! But, you’ll see. As it becomes more and more clear that Democracy DIED in 2019, that FACT will actually get pointed out less and less. As they consolidate their power, people will become more and more SCARED to tell the truth. That’s the standard irony of all modern Dictatorships. People are less likely to challenge it, the more obvious it is, because they don’t want to become a government, “target.” That’s how Russia works. And now, that’s how America works . . . Sorry . . .
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America, it’s time we accept the rampant racism that destroying us, and being used by the GOP, for the sole purpose of making them rich. Let’s face it? The cult MUST REALISE by now, that THEY are the ones who’ve been shafted the hardest, out of ALL of us? It’s THEIR donations that have been spent on personal jets, houses, bribes and trips to Epstein Island. In their hearts, they KNOW this. They just don’t want a new administration to PROVE IT to them. They’re voting against hearing, “we told you so,” and it just isn’t any fun for them anymore ✌️👍
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@JasonBrown-dd7dj : You would just turn the phone off, rather than leave yourself going into a hazardous situation without a comms device on top of all the other elements of this syndrome of un-smart? Don’t get me wrong. I liked the guy. My wife bought a couple of his books and his was a name like Attenborough, in that it was pretty much guaranteed to unite our family into all watching anything new he had out on telly together, as we all knew we would learn something new and useful from him, usually in a fairly entertaining way.
It just seems all kinds of wrong to me. If I was a Greek police officer investigating for the coroner, I would have a long list of questions, especially for his wife. No suspicions about her, just that she would be the best source until I knew different. Like, if I learned, “Well actually he was rather drunk,” I would be like, “ah, okay, now that makes more sense.” But that seems vanishingly unlikely.
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Prince Otter Channel2 : Just always keep in mind; Trump Trolls do NOT, “believe,” what they’re telling you. Their, “job,” is only to deepen the DIVISION in America, NOT to, “Convince,” anyone of anything. Whether they’re paid foreigners, or domestic racists, or just people being used by Propaganda outlets, that’s what they’re for ✌️👍
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Chris Forester : That’s because you’re a Trump Troll, and you’ll deny reality, so long as they keep paying you to; or, so long as you remain a racist; or, so long as you remain too ashamed to admit that you voted for an inept, racists, sex pest, of a criminal. Or, any combination of those things. You cannot defend Trump, so you’ll, “Whaddabout,” yourself into irrelevances, or scream, “where’s your proof,” and then ignore it, when it’s handed to you. Souls sell cheap these days. Yours ain’t special . . . Smh
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You have my full support. Tell us what you need from here in the UK? I’m not a, “joiner,” so I don’t join groups. I gave money to buy a patch, for example, for the trucks you gave to Ukraine for your birthday, but I preferred not to, “take,” anything, so I didn’t claim the patch. But I will do things (write to politicians, spread your message, etc) and donate money. So just tell us what needs to be done.
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@lilithvanderzwaan552 : Good point. We all have good and bad days and that’s life. But, just as nothing trump does can shift the dial for his supporters, I doubt anyone remaining wants to give up their democracy? At least, that’s what happened at the last election. But, in order to really save democracy, Biden needs a bigger victory than last time. Both to empower him to get bills through Congress without all the blockage and delays we keep seeing from trump’s republican quislings, and so that their party FINALLY gets the message that trump is a natural loser, doing as much harm to them as their opponents. They won’t finally ditch him unless he loses again by a bigger margin. The worst possible outcome would be a narrow Biden victory, set to be hamstrung at every last turn, which makes the propaganda against Dems seem credible when they can’t get anything done.
Save your democracy. Work for the campaign in any way you can. Donate what you can spare and most importantly, nil despairandum, my friend. Good luck and God bless.
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Vigilant Libertarian : Another LAME attempt at rewriting the FACTS, I see. ‘Coz, we ALL remember that famous case, were Eliot Ness said, “I HATE Capone, crime and ALL Capone stands for, and it is my mission in life to put him in jail!” To which the Judge said, “Oh! Well! You’re CLEARLY BIASED against CRIMINALS??? Case DISMISSED!” Oh wait? THAT NEVER HAPPENED! There IS NO SUCH THING as, “FISA abuse,” you DESPERATE MORON! That’s just a FANTASY, made up by the DISCREDITED shill, Nunes.
And STOP misreading this, SINGLE, set of indictments? You KNOW Mueller has PROVED that Russia MEDDLED in our elections. And, until his findings are KNOWN, you have NO IDEA, how MUCH HARM they ACTUALLY DID! You come off as DESPERATE and somewhat LAME. Your NOT fooling ANYONE. SMH
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Next : It’s spelled, “loser,” son. I’m not a Grammar Nazi, but I am aware that all Trump fans are either foreign, hired, NPC’s, or undereducated, “Butt Hurts,” bringing nothing but their bent out of shape, “emotions,” to the conversation. 🤔 You noticed that? 😁
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@tinaxtony : Well, it helps if we’re all doing our part? Writing to our representatives, demanding that they put Cruz, Hawley, Graham, et al, on the stand with Giuliani and the trump’s, right? If they’re getting the message, loud and clear from us? None can refuse to testify, even by resigning. None can take the 5th. And they sure as hell won’t risk getting a Perjury rap, or Conspiracy, or worse? Not when the Nuremberg Defence is what their lawyers are telling them to take? They can all at least tell America that they, “trusted their president, and he told us it was so, so we believed him.” Which is just another way of saying, “We were only following orders,” but doesn’t sound quite as Nazi. It’s up to us, as much as anyone, to keep that pressure on, where it’s needed, right now. In unprecedented times, politicians are looking for a lead like the rest of us, and they’re NOT ignoring the opinions of an electorate who turned out in the biggest numbers EVER in the country’s history. Your country needs YOU. Spread the word 😉✌️
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Wimpy Denton : It’s interesting to watch the pendulum swing. Let’s face it, if we end up with a, “sanitised,” Netflix, YouTube, etc, people will simply find other sources to get the entertainment they’re now accustomed to. Big Government, State control, is always a mistake, because the state ends up losing all control, with everyone on their own dark-web, or (if we’re becoming China now?) we will end up losing all our freedoms. This act is a disaster in the making, with far wider implications than the, “protection of children.”
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Tzuede Off the Cuff : Pretty much, yeah. Except these goons were never even in the middle to start with, and have simply inserted themselves there; seeing an opportunity to, “champion a popular cause,” (protecting children) and make money. How long before the, “negotiations,” get underway? Have they already started? Which politicians will be doing tours of the YouTube, or Netflix, etc, offices, “to get a better understanding of the issues,” whilst sitting down with their, “people,” to organise the kickbacks for easing a restriction here, or, “reinterpreting,” a definition there? Just another protection racket, which is commonplace on both sides of the political divide . . .
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@davidc3943 : Poor boy. And just, “who,” was it, that, “persuaded,” you into trolling CNN, son? What, “persuaded,” you that you, “know,” how I vote, where I’m from, or anything about me, kid. Honestly, you might as well have just written, “I’m not very bright. But, I am permanently upset about . . . stuff . . . and I’m talking to people I don’t like, on a channel I don’t like, about other people I don’t like, for no apparent reason, other than my butt harmed emotions, but that’s been a, “wise,” use of the last 6 long YEARS of my life.” . . . I would pity you, son. But . . . I just don’t. 🤦♂️🙄🤷♂️ . . . Stop being such a Karen? Get some fresh air. A hobby? Get a JOB? 🤣
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nmcnmb : I guess you, ahem, “think,” you’re being, “ironic,” by accusing Normals of, “Dividing,” America, when that is YOUR, “Job,” right, son? You idiots actually, ahem, “think,” that you’ve convinced us that you actually, “believe,” your own line of BOLLOX, don’t you? What a senseless waste of life you are, kid . . . 😆
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@glidgebidge1029 : Yet, that wouldn’t fit with how Russia has always flexed, during their invasions of Georgia, Afghanistan, Syria, etc. It’s not their MO to show humility, or respect for their own people. Just look at Wagner, for example? Their leader is playing whatever games he’s up to, but his idea of appealing to the sensibilities of the Russians is to show the rotting corpses of his own, “comrades,” on the battlefield! Russian leaders don’t do, “tactful.” That’s not how they got to be leaders in Russia in the first place. So, while the sentiment does you more credit than it does the Soviet 2.0 regime, I don’t think you’ll get too far with it.
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@glidgebidge1029 : I fear you misapprehend me? Perhaps I expressed myself badly? I draw no comparisons between Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, from the point of view of the average Russian and their, “government,” and other places in the world, other than to point out that their behaviour toward May parades has never changed, regardless. I doubt they would ever try to sell the single tank as a, “tactful,” gesture, because that’s just not in their character. Bluster and doubling down is all Putin knows how to do. Whilst we in the west all know that Putin is afraid and doesn’t want to be in the presence of all those armed personnel, while he simply cannot spare the weapons and armed vehicles for a parade, how this is explained to the Russian people will be what you heard from Jake in this video.
On Anna From Ukraine’s channel, apparently, people were being told it was the weather! When they pointed out that the weather is fine in Moscow, they were told, “Yes, but it’s bad in the surrounding airbases, etc.” Russians, especially Muscovites, have been trained to accept implausible nonsense all their lives and not to question it. Whether they believe it or not has never been a question people would even bother to ask. What people say is all that matters. And they are expected to repeat their dictator’s message, verbatim.
But, one thing I can promise you is that no one in the Kremlin will have said, we are reducing the number of missiles, jets, tanks, etc, down to one single WWII tank out of, “consideration for the fallen,” “tact,” or out of, “thought for the families of the dead.” That’s just not how it’s done in Russia.
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Supre Macy : Imagine how the Trump Cult will feel, when the time comes? Most of them know by now, but the ones who just scream and flee, when confronted with facts, like so many we’ve seen on CNN? I just wonder what they’ll say, when a journalist asks, “Were you NOT suspicious? After THREE YEARS? When Trump, the most powerful man on Earth, was unable to prevent his entire Campaign Team from going to jail? Yet YOU all maintained that Hillary ran a Pedo Ring, sold our uranium, had staffers murdered, etc, etc, etc, and she never got so much as a Parking Ticket?! After THREE YEARS, did it NOT occur to you that just MAYBE you’d been LIED to?”
And, the honest reply SHOULD be, “We suspected, but we were all just too embarrassed. Who WANTS to ADMIT that they were fooled by a man with such ludicrous allegations, no better than a child’s? Who can bear to hear, “I told you so,” from their enemies? We just didn’t know what to do, and it looked like Trump might just bury the whole thing for a while, so we might not HAVE TO admit what everybody with a modicum of common sense already knew. So, we doubled down, and kept doubling down, each time Donny did . . . We had no idea we were destroying Democracy, because we never paid any attention to real news. We relied on Russia for our information, thinking it was coming from America. All we can do is apologise to America, now. And learn from out mistakes.”
Just imagine THAT? ✌️👍
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WeFightTheC: And, you don’t see how utterly idiotic you sound, do you? After THREE YEARS, the most powerful man on Earth has FAILED to, “Lock Her Up,” right? His Arch Enemy? He could NOT prevent his OWN, WHOLE Campaign Team from going to jail? And, he tells you she’s a, “pedo-ring running, staffer murdering, intel bleaching, URANIUM Selling,” Super Villain, that would make James Bond think twice? Every week that passes makes you ALL look SO CREDULOUS, it’s TRULY LAUGHABLE! I genuinely believe your Cult is just too EMBARRASSED to admit you were SO WRONG. You live in DREAD of hearing, “I told you so,” from your fellow Americans, whom YOU have turned into your, “enemies,” like the Perfect little Putin Poodles you are, and you MUST be suspecting it, by NOW? THREE YEARS, SON! Not even a Parking Ticket??? You’re not even fooling YOURSELF! But, you CLING to face-saving, SHAME covering Propaganda from Alex-QAnon-Jones, and indoctrinate YOURSELF into, “believing,” that there will be YET ANOTHER, “document dump,” or, “intel release,” or some such shit, and it’s STILL, “just around the corner.” And, the biggest IRONY is that NONE of Trump’s opponents, “like,” or even CARE about that f**king Clinton’s, son! That’s always been in your fixated HEADS. If she EXPLODED tomorrow, America would YAWN, and STILL get on with bringing down the Orange Clown. You HATE your fellow Americans, because they’re RIGHT, and you feel like an IDIOT; just as Putin planned it, you TOTAL MORON. Do get over yourself, son. You sound 12 years old 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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I just feel terrible for everyone involved. I think your analysis was spot on, and I hope these guys can learn from this. If anything, the officer’s tears do him credit. It was handled really badly, from the point of the first physical attempt to subdue him. As you said, that was the make or break point at which they should never have backed off. That third deputy, flying in with violence, without pausing to, “read the room,” made things far worse, ensuring there was no way for anyone to back down and YET AGAIN giving up the struggle instead of forcing the man into cuffs.
They did do a pretty good job up until that first physical escalation, but cops who don’t know what to do when things go wrong are clearly dangerous. I believe the shooting officer wouldn’t have drawn his weapon, had the third guy not drawn his and escalated things. He was following that guy’s lead, since he didn’t know what to do himself.
A bad day for all concerned and I’m equally sorry for all of them.
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China may not, “think,” it can afford to lose Putin, but there’s every possibility they’re going to have to. When it becomes clear, and inarguable, that Russia has lost more Ukrainian real estate than he started with last year, and isn’t getting that back, his position at home will become untenable. All that loss will have been for nothing. They are poorer, with less young people (a massive demographic problem for Russia) fewer bright, educated people, and an economy that will inevitably tank, and all they’ll have for that will be less than they had. Not even Putin can survive such a palpable defeat. China will have to live with it.
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sir robert : We’re talking about a Starbucks, not casino in downtown Baghdad, for crying out loud? If YOU arranged to meet someone in a Starbucks and ended up getting arrested, because you were waiting for the person you arranged to meet to show up, BEFORE ordering; something that is a NORMAL, EVERY DAY OCCURRENCE in restaurants, how would YOU feel? It’s EXACTLY your type of HYSTERIA, that makes things like this happen. You make up LIES, like, “they were being aggressive,” when EVERY WITNESS says NO SUCH THING HAPPENED. Even the IDIOT who called the COPS, didn’t accuse them of being AGGRESSIVE, so WHERE did THAT come from? You are lamely trying to justify, AFTER THE FACT, in the TYPICAL fashion that has ALIENATED so many people from politicians, these days. Or to put it more succinctly, you LIED. Smh . . .
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: To your previous comment, all I can say is, “yes,” we don’t know. But, that should be the theme of the impeachment right? Was it a, “spontaneous event,” or was it, as the evidence makes blatantly clear, a planned thing? No matter how incompetent, how fabulous trump’s warped brain is, if he approached generals in the military, requesting their support for a Coup, (which I strongly suspect he did) that testimony must be laid before the impeachment! If the, “event organiser,” is telling the truth, about the three GOP members who planned the event with him, and gave guided tours the day before, the American people need to know! And, if Donny green lit that, three days before? . . . We’re no longer looking at, “Inciting an Insurrection,” but a Conspiracy to stage a COUP! And, the American people will react to that; and probably DEMAND his conviction. We really cannot say what might have happened, except that it definitely would have involved more deaths and more country wide chaos. But, the American people NEED TO KNOW ALL THE FACTS. I think, if they subpoena everyone involved, and get their testimonies, under oath, the whole dynamic will change, America will be aghast, and we might just get to stomp out the symptom of the trump family, so we can deal with the disease of fascism, coming from Putin! But that’s just me, I guess? ✌️👍
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He could, “Unify,” the party by asking Elizabeth Warren to be his running mate. Not that it makes any difference, with Putin’s hackers inside the election technology. The next, “election,” will be about as, “fair,” and, “democratic,” as the Impeachment SHAM. The GOP have decided they don’t all want to go to jail, by losing control of the system that should have locked them all away in 2016. Who actually BELIEVES they have not already RIGGED the elections? Honestly . . . The Republic has fallen
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Dr. Cogger : An emotional outburst, in lieu of an, “argument,” or, “commentary.” Why are Trumpophiles so effeminately, “triggered,” the whole time anyway, son? It has no impact? Not in the way that my comment is, “getting,” to you, right now. But, that’s what I love about you cults. It’s like having a super-power. I’m immune to your cry-baby weak assed whining, whilst you kids always get to butt harmed . . . 🤪
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Dr. Cogger McButtFace: Ah, you make it too easy, son. Your fairy trumpfather has already been and gone, after proclaiming, “Your wish has been granted, my child.” Now you can continue being sheered with the other sheeple, and saying thanks for the bleach advice, to the Orange Orifice, who, btw, really doesn’t give a f*ck whether you live or die . . . Wipe your eyes, kiddo. I know you’re hurt, but I’m having such fun . . . 😁
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I : I’m a well known conservative, son. That’s WHY I won’t be voting for Trump. And I wouldn’t be caught dead, standing shoulder to shoulder with a bunch of effeminate, racist, greedy little whiners, too dumb to even realise that they’re fake, “protesting,” against Donny’s OWN POLICIES, at Donny’s request. You’re all such, “victims,” all the time, you make REAL men and women sick, with your, “blame this,” and, “I was too busy being bullied to do my job,” that . . . F*ck you, you big wet girl’s blouse, and the Russian horse you rode in on 😇 😉
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jvsnyc : You become part of such a group, so as to rid yourself of the, “self.” People hate themselves for all kinds of reasons. But, Nazis promise you a future in which your criminal record, mental health issues, drug abuse, whatever, will be forgotten, and your identity is that of the group, with no individuality at all. Hell, they’ll give you a uniform, a rank, a gun, and actual authority, which beats the hell out of owning your mistakes and being responsible for your own life. Nazis are the weakest minded, most malignant cancer in society, preying on the weak, and targeting the weak. They must not be tolerated, in any way
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They’re simply frustrated, Prof Wilson, that they cannot issue direct threats for fear of losing their platforms or being arrested for incitement. So these, “premonitions,” and doom mongerings are all they dare to spit out at us. That type of intimidation tactic works on cowards like them, so they assume it will work on the rest of us, not realising that it merely stiffens our resolve to crush these monsters who demonise the desperate, victimise those in need and who use others as their goons to carry out their violence, whilst they hide away in their safe spaces.
Starky is a classic example of a gammon faced loon, masquerading as an, “intellectual,” and bleating because he sees the far right being rejected on all fronts. He criticises the Tories for, “failing to address,” these issues, whilst he is FAILING TO ADDRESS that very issue! The Tories CREATED these divisions, deliberately and he KNOWS IT! And he played his role in that. Now he’s bleating because their tactics FAILED and British decency won out over the indolent, craven Tory plan to set us at each others throats while they loot the country and sell it off piecemeal!
Now people on the right wing, who see that trump is about to lose the election in America, therefore Ukraine will get increased support to defeat Putin and the Labour Party has comprehensively defeated the Tories at home, are simply livid that they’ve lost.
Their only plan B is probably a coup! Just as trump is planning one in America, again. We should be prepared for them on every front. And hold those low level threateners to account, rather than slap them on the back for having, “foresight.” The only insight people like Starky have comes from their conspiracies and plotting.
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Not sure if you’re referring to Cummings or Obama? But, I’ll take it for BOTH, if you don’t mind? Me too, my friend. You speak for most Americans. Even Conservatives, like me, who criticised Obama, while in office. I never pretended he was NOT a fundamentally good man; nor, can ANYONE with a straight face, pretend he didn’t save the Economy, from Bush’s failure. Cummings AND Obama were tough acts to follow. America was failed. Now we have to choose between Trump OR the Republic. By 2020, we won’t have both. For the sake of men like Cummings, we must REMOVE Trump, NOW! ✌️👍
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Montesama314 : The, “reason for creating this policy in the first place,” was simply to act as a DETERRENT for people thinking of coming to America, by this route. And these HORROR STORIES are actually going to be pretty helpful, in that regard. Seems to me, what happened was simply that they were told to take away their kids, and they got lost in the massive, complex and uncaring, bureaucracy?
Now, if those kids don’t SHOW UP, or they simply STOP LOOKING FOR THEM? . . . What’s THAT about? . . .
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You hoo : How does one reason with your kind of stupid? You are not aware of the FACTS, even when you have just been TOLD them; when they are a matter of PUBLIC RECORD. The Tax Bill was the kind of measure, that has only EVER been used in a Financial Crisis, in the past; TOTALLY UNNECESSARY, while other services, in desperate NEED, were left to collapse. Where’s that, “best healthcare EVER,” Trump PROMISED? Where’s the, “best infrastructure,” when Trump hasn’t even got a PROPOSAL, let alone a BILL to pass? You are CLEARLY Chinese or Russian or THICK . . . UTTERLY POINTLESS PERSON, that you are . . .
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I would imagine that most of your followers are in this demographic, Mr Marr. You missed out that this group is also increasingly sceptical about their news sources and just as widely read (in terms of the political press) as any journalist, if not as knowledgeable, perhaps? I am in the demographic you describe, at least in terms of education, career and age, though I am moderately, “wealthy,” by any reasonable measure; certainly in comparison to the people you highlighted.
I cannot think of an apt name, off the top of my head, but I will give that some thought, as, “Mavis,” doesn’t quite do it justice somehow.
But, what I can tell you is that the broad thinking is to remove the Tories at the next general election by voting uniformly for any strongest opposition candidate that isn’t right wing of them. The power of the internet has communicated that idea, and that web aspect of their lives should probably be communicate in whatever acronym or slang term you settle on. Their broad taste and scepticism around journalism and the internet are key factors that need to be reflected.
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@mayc8674 : Yet, my poor misguided Confederate Karen, Antifa have not once attempted a COUP against America, or published literature, calling for the overthrow of an elected state. You entitled types are simply trying to speak to America’s Supervisor, like the Karens you are, because LOSING hurts your, “feelings.” Well America’s Supervisor doesn’t know you exist, and wouldn’t give a sh*t if he did. That would be Joe, btw. Have nice day, traitor 🤪
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They were already dead, killed off by the Johnson, “coalition of chaos,” greed, avarice, stupidity and cupidity. And just like the walking dead left behind, the zombies of the Tory host, is lumbering forth, biting chunks out of any remaining flesh left on the eviscerated bones of Britain exposed to their hungry mouths. There is no living Conservative party left. But, that’s what happens when you fling open your populist doors to every incel with a grievance and every racist with a weed up their arse. You wind up with an ungovernable collection of agendas, all fighting one another for supremacy, united only by their greed! And what makes this zombie hoard so dangerous is their certain knowledge of unelectability, driving them toward ever more frenzied attacks so they can sink their teeth into one last juicy pension pancreas, just one more privatised health package of liver, one last tax avoiding buttock to bite into and fatten themselves up before the buffet of humanity closes for a generation. Like the cornered rats they are, they have never been more dangerous. Truss’s Closing Britain Down sale has been suspended for now, but the Everything Must Go sign is still vivid in the memories of the fat cat super zombies and they all know they won’t get another big wet bite out of our asses, so they’re going for broke. They are as carnal as serial killers, with the morality of alley cats and the imagination of zombie serial killers that even the other zombies avoid. Britain has never needed a general election SO BADLY since the South Sea Bubble. They have NO MANDATE!
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@junctionfilms6348 : It’s not ad hominem when it’s true, son. Listen to your own blank-eyed vacant lack of self awareness. She was just admonished in Parliament to speak without ad hominem, red meat for the dimwits, talking points, literally said she would not do that, and then promptly spouted seven in a row! Who is in this, “coalition of chaos,” “woke brigade,” of, “tofu eaters,” anyway? Anyone who disagrees with her? That would be most of her own party! Who attacks people for their diet except a six year old!? How intellectually BARON do you have to be not to see that such people are not worthy of your conversation, let alone your time? If you dislike, “ad hominems,” you must HATE Suella Goodness Gracious Me Character Braverman?
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Hoferman: "Ooooh, but, . . . eh, eh Hillary Killary . . . umnia eh ooh, but what about . . . ? Eya, . . ough . . . Obama . . . nieh, nieh, . . . but . . . "
Sickening, cowardly, whining, little Nazi-apologist. Go sit in the corner with Jeffry Lord
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Sarpong Sarpong : I don’t agree. The GOP (outside the inner Trump disinformation circle) wants Trump GONE, just as much as MOST Americans do. Appeasement only EVER gets you WAR. This was the most LAME speech from Mr Jones I’ve EVER HEARD. And, let’s face it? HE admits to, “Desperation.” He’s not thinking straight. Once someone with a, “NAME,” in the GOP makes his move, others WILL FOLLOW. YOUR JOB is to INUNDATE the GOP with letters, calls, emails, etc. I think it WILL work, as there is MORE TO COME, anyway. The alternative is unthinkable
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Does anyone NOT know someone who’s died of Covid? Trump’s brother just died of it! By November, you will . . .
America’s, “election,” is SO RIGGED, it’s laughable. Why you aren’t all choking up the streets, demanding the restoration of the post office, and the Republic, is beyond me? You all act like you WANT a Dictatorship? Trump, his family and the entire GOP Cabinet all KNOW they’re facing serious JAIL TIME, and they’re NOT going to ALLOW you to remove them, whatever it takes. And, that’s because YOU people keep allowing them to GET AWAY WITH MURDER! Still think, “someone else,” is going to save the Republic? How? Why? No one can, without YOU supporting them. Your Republic is dying before your very eyes, and America sits on its ass, watching the Dictatorship unfold on TV . . . Smh
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awakeningSheep : IKR? Imagine, if Hillary just up and spontaneously EXPLODED? Trump’s opponents would yawn, with sympathy, and, once the Trump fans had sobered up from their street parties, they would see that Trump is STILL Check Mated by his OWN CRIMES! They can’t even scream, “lock her up,” now, because of Ivanka! “No Collusion,” is a proven LIE! And the whole, “Hillaaarriiieeee!” thing, will go down in history, as one of the most pointless wastes of human energy, ever squandered by the DUMBEST, most expendable, humans, ever to have wasted blood and organs 🤣
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@irenemulindwairen4138 : His final gambit is about to materialise. Insiders seem to be confirming that Putin is wasting all of his missiles and hardware right now, on Soledar and Bucha, and that the main force he will throw at his Spring offensive will be bodies, of which he has about 5,000,000 that he will be able to generate over the coming years. But, in order to do that? . . .
I think he will likely use the announcement of cancelling elections as his announcement of Russia being, “officially at war now,” blaming NATO, America and the usual suspects, but using that as the window dressing he needs to draft a million men in one go and to cancel all remaining freedoms. The new, “war footing,” will be the same as it was under Stalin. Only not as cuddly.
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@sgsa2856 : Agreed. Furthermore, recent history is replete with examples of Putin backing down every single time he has been seriously challenged with the possibility of force from a NATO country. Even during this war Putin ceased his blockade against Ukraine’s international grain shipments when Turkey sent escort ships in flat defiance of Putin. And Erdogan (another tinpot dicktator) didn’t offer Putin any face saving rhetoric or, “off ramps,” leaving him to spin it to his own people the best he could.
There were several times after the invasion of Crimea that Putin was forced to send his building forces back home when NATO decided to host war games in the closest available regions. And he only picked this fight because the west had, up to that stage, shown every sign of weakness, internal division and GREED for cheap energy. He honestly thought he would have to stomach some of the worst sanctions in his country’s recent history, but that the world would move on in about 10 years and that his savings, along with the massive new (virtually untapped) resources he could loot from Ukraine would more than make up for it. Especially since he figured that everyone would be looking at the invasion of Taiwan as a bigger deal within a year.
There is not ONE example anyone can show where Putin has defied international will and not backed down when the west has shown him they were willing to fight him. Like his soldiers, he has refused any fair fight, only victimising the defenceless and using a distorted, twisted rewriting of history as his window dressing for his thuggery. He’s nothing more than a mafia don. He has literally built his power base by integrating the various mafia outfits into the KGB and then the NKVD and GRU later on. Every oligarch still standing is either ex mafia or ex spook, with many being a combination of the two. Even the head of the Russian Orthodox Church is an ex KGB spook! A contemporary, who rose through the ranks with Putin and who now spouts Putin’s party line, promising forgiveness of all sins to anyone dumb enough to volunteer to be canon fodder on the front lines. It’s literally a medieval mentality, like the crusades!
This blight on Europe needs eradicating and the Russian people need to be dragged (kicking and screaming if need be!) into the 21st century! If you have lived a life of moral absenteeism to such an extent that you can accept obvious war crimes, like bombing civilian infrastructure and swathes of innocent civilians, as just another day at the office; if you can read a tweet of support from North Korea and feel good about that, you’re f’cked up and have no idea what a civilised society even is.
Sorry, I’m ranting now. But Putler makes me so sick.
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Says the guy with a nonsense name and the face of a, “joker.” Coz’ people don’t think you’re, “stupid,” at all, huh? . . . Insight is a painful thing, Trumptard.
Has anyone else noticed that trump’s hacktivists have spent a FORTUNE on drowning out the outrage and disgust at the release of Flynn from all forms of justice? And, whatever he’s blackmailing the Trump’s with, it’s SO BAD that he’s going to get himself back in Trump’s Cabinet, BEFORE the elections! . . . Not a good campaign look, right? The Ghost of Treason Past, haunting the Trump campaign . . . SMH
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@frankoneill5675 : The context in which I am speaking is obvious: trade deals, border restrictions being relaxed or modified to facilitate easier movement of goods, personnel and currency. All that stuff that Brexit is about. What context do you need?
Europe trades with China, Canada, South Korea, Taiwan, The USA, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, countless other countries which are not in the EU but essential to profitable trade. All of those countries have bespoke, ongoing trade, “deals,” with the EU, which suit their economies, demographics, the items they trade in and their longer term political goals.
You’re asking me to explain the definition of the word, “deal,” or how the term fits, “Britain,” or other countries more generally? Unless you clarify I cannot answer your question.
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@frankoneill5675 : So, this is what you’ve been building up to via your circuitous build up. Dunno’ why you didn’t just get it off your chest, rather than attempt to entrap me into saying something you’d like to pounce on? You cannot speak for the whole EU, nor Europe. Nor do you even speak for Brussels for that matter. People never get Money, “Fatigue,” especially business leaders. Naturally, European leaders are fatigued by the Tories, with their belligerence and arrogance, but they’ll be just as delighted to stick it to them by making money with more reasonable people, running the new British government. Especially when they turn out to be discrete and progressive.
Much as you’d like to see our divided land collectively punished, it just doesn’t work that way. Try to take it less personally and not like a spurned lover who wants to even the score? It’s just politics.
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ThothHeart Maat : There is a difference between having your lawyers look into ACTUAL slander, which you can fight in court, and WHINING about it in the press and Twitter and ACTUALLY THREATENING people, genius! Trump has LOST EVERY SINGLE CASE that he has brought to court, when he didn’t like what people said about him. It is WELL KNOWN that he ONLY uses the courts to BULLY people, hoping to drain their bank accounts, intimidate them into settling and WASTING EVERYONE’S TIME, instead of DOING HIS JOB. He has rather an IMPORTANT job, now, you MORON. The LAST time he took someone to court, not only was he SHOT DOWN IN FLAMES, AND trigger a legal investigation into his criminal dealing, but he was publicly, “admonished,” by the Judge, for using the court, “to bully opponents.”
So, GROW UP and LEARN SOMETHING, MORON
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@TheDiamond2009 : I have offered no, “insult,” madam. You feel insulted, perhaps, but that’s on you. However, I do have a memory. I know you have pretended to be, “an American,” and I know you have issued sickening comments in the past, and used the most appalling language with people you clearly do, “hate.” All of that notwithstanding, you are here, talking to people you, ahem, “disagree,” with, whilst, “saying,” NOTHING pertaining to the point. Your entire engagement is personal, based upon personal insults at the people you engage with. You do not debate the topic, have anything convincing to say about politics, but merely rant, like some butt harmed Karen, about the personality defects you wrongly perceive in your betters. So, tell me? What’s the point of you? It’s entirely emotional, degrading and antagonistic. I firmly believe you have, “issues,” and would urge you to seek professional help, or speak with someone you trust. You are making yourself deeply unhappy, largely because you’re failing to score emotional points, which is really what you come for. You’ve been at it for years. How else do you imagine ANYONE else would view you? With, “respect?” “Come ohhhn, man?” 🤷♂️
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Why are you not filling the streets right now? The GOP is facing jail time and they’re LITERALLY STEALING your Republic, collecting up the post boxes! Why are you WAITING to STOP THIS? You’re all waiting for an election that is CLEARLY NOT GOING TO HAPPEN! And then you’ll protest, when it’s ALREADY TOO LATE, and Bill Barr’s Secret Police units will be expanded enough to suppress you, all over America. You should be halting the country NOW, and getting in front of their election RIGGING, while they’re still vulnerable? But, you’re all still hoping that it will magically get sorted out, like every other legal and Constitutional process has FAILED to do in the last 4 years! Maybe America wants a Dictatorship, in its heart of hearts? That’s the only explanation I can think of? Why else are you sitting on your asses, while they literally, BLATANTLY, STEAL YOUR REPUBLIC?
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LYTA AVBL : “Credit where it’s due,” really? Because Putin phoned him and talked him down? OK. Well done, Vlad. Who’s country IS THIS, anyway? So, if I come speeding at you, when your walking the streets, in my Dodge Charger, you’ll be sure and give, “credit where it’s due,” if I turn the wheel at the last moment and just clip your finger off, right? Credit where it’s due, FFS Trump Troll? . . . Listen to yourself? Why is Trump SO desperate for this war, anyway? And, don’t blame Bolton. What’s Trump after? You don’t even have a F CLUE, do you, kid? . . . Jesus . . .
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All that NFT and Block Chain talk has made the general public uneasy. Perhaps if he were to make some sort of statement to reassure the public, he might regain some trust? But Google and YouTube in particular don’t seem to care about what the public thinks of them at all, and it doesn’t sound like it would be his style to even discuss what he really thinks about anything?
I had to abandon the Google search engine when I could no longer get quick, reliable information without having to trawl through the ad stuffing and discern fact from advert for myself. I have disliked the way they’ve been going for over a decade now.
I went to Bing, as that ChatGPT is really useful for rolling several searches into one, once you get the hang of it. Even more so now that I can do so via pure conversation without having to touch a keyboard. It reminds me that the keyboard has long been viewed as the, “last obstacle,” between the user and their interface, by the tech giants.
Never thought I would ever Bing things, or trust Microsoft’s aggressive monetisation models ever again, having switched all my tech to Apple years since. But their search engine works super efficiently, if you’re willing to teach yourself a little bit about it and know the value of cross referencing.
So this new YouTube guy is a cypher, if we’re honest. But I didn’t invest in Nebula because I liked watching more and more ads on YouTube. My test for him would be: Can he seek that holy grail of, “growth, growth, growth,” that all these tech bros obsess about, in new and innovative ways that DON’T rely on more and more Ad interruptions? If he finds a way to create fresh revenue streams from new innovations, I’ll call that a success. As it is, YouTube’s quality has been downgrading for a long time now, mostly because of grasping ads, but also because of its obtuse policing system and apparent hatred of doing what it’s meant to do: promote comment and interaction with the videos. I honestly think they would get rid of comments altogether if they could.
They certainly discourage them and make it harder to comment, edit comments and respond to comments, every year.
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ROOKTABULA : We keep hearing, these days, “WORDS MATTER!” Let me explain why:
I agree, WITH YOU, except on this one, CRUCIAL, point: We CANNOT ALLOW these Nazis to HIJACK terms, so as to HIDE THEIR TREASON in plain sight! DON’T HELP THEM!
I can, “CALL,” myself an, “American,” when I’m a Russian Troll, or a SPY, but that doesn’t MAKE me, “American”??? I can, “CALL,” myself a, “nice guy,” while I’m STABBING BABIES TO DEATH! But, people can SEE that I’m NOT! And, ANYONE, whatever they, “call,” themselves, who votes Republican at the Mid Terms, will be as ANTI-CONSERVATIVE as they are ANTI-DEMOCRATIC, and ANTI-AMERICAN! Calling yourself, “Conservative,” and supporting Trump, is an OXYMORON . . . Like calling yourself a, “Journalist,” while presenting a propaganda show on Fox.
I am, “Conservative,” in my politics and my views. I will be voting Democrat at the Mid Terms, to help SAVE Democracy. So that I can disagree with, “liberals,” in a CIVILISED WORLD, where NAZIS get NO SAY and GO TO JAIL FOR BEING NAZIS. I never, “liked,” HRC or Obama, but I respected them. We are FIGHTING for the REAL WORLD, of the, “reasonable man,” as John Le Carre so often puts it. I’m SO SICK of people attaching terms, like Flags of Convenience, which only HELPS THEM!
Don’t you see? NO ONE in their right MIND would support a NAZI! But, it’s EASY to VOTE for a Nazi, if he’s allowed to masquerade under the title, “Conservative.” Don’t HELP them to DILUTE the truth! Or to make their RACISM more palatable, with user friendly terminology! Call them what they ARE! There are 11, (SERIOUSLY! ELEVEN!!!) ACTUAL OUTED NAZIS, RUNNING AS REPUBLICANS, at the Mid Terms!!!
This is happening BECAUSE people call them STUPID names, like, “Conservative,” instead of F**KING “NAZIS”!!! “WORDS MATTER!” Right now, MORE THAN EVER. Republicans are nurturing NAZIS at their bosom! This is a COUP! Stalinist tactics, for Nazi GOALS! At the COST of DEMOCRACY, WORLD WIDE.
We are in the fight of our LIVES, my friend, in which WORDS DO MATTER. Democracy Versus Nazis! It’s THAT SIMPLE! Are you WITH ME???
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ROOKTABULA : My above post was too long, for some. This is the abbreviation:
It’s EASY to vote for a NAZI, if he’s calling himself a, “Conservative.” But, when he is OUTED and people KNOW they are voting for a NAZI, they tend to hesitate. “Conservative,” isn’t just the, “wrong word,” or a word that is oxymoronic, in this case; it’s a FALSE FLAG, providing COVER for NAZIS.
DON’T HELP THE NAZIS, by allowing them to HIDE behind, “comforting,” titles. They’re TRAITORS, NAZIS, and CRIMINALS
I REALLY HOPE you get this?
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Craig806 : Trump is a warmonger, trying not to look like a warmonger. And, your job is to help him with that Propaganda. But, the world has watched, while he ripped up his deal with Iran, broke America’s word, threatened and bullied them, while the Europeans have been trying to keep the peace and hold up the West’s end, without him. Now, he’s ramping up the Military presence, using the Saudis to frame them; making it look like Iran is STARTING the war, when we all KNOW it’s the LAST thing they want. And, he expects us to, “believe,” the intel coming from the SAME PEOPLE that he ROUTINELY calls, “liars,” EVERY DAY? He’s compared the CIA to, “Nazi Germany,” and we’re all meant to flip flop at his rate? America’s NOT buying it, son. Trump will have to look elsewhere for a bump in the polls. A war will finish him . . . Smh
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I can. Mostly homicide. And the occasional war. And I’m a Christian! Romans is pretty interesting. It tells you to obey your government and trust that God has put them there, for whatever reason . . . 🤔 The guy shouting, “crap,” repeatedly from the pulpit, though. That’s a genuine first for me. Don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone get away with that in the name of, “Christianity,” before? Demonic. Signs and wonders. Funnily enough, the one authority Jesus taught not to take on, “faith,” was Church Authorities. We pick them ourselves, and change them regularly, according old Jesus H Christ. True story.
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vriendelijkegroet : Unbelievable, isn’t it? While Trump’s DUMBASSED move has exposed the fact that even the, “safe,” government jobs, are no longer reliable; and that people don’t even have enough savings to get them through a ONE MONTH Shutdown, HIGHLIGHTING just how POOR Americans are, these Trump Troll IDIOTS come here to, “boast”? about how, “prosperous,” America is? . . .
I mean, it’s like they WANT to kill Trump’s presidency? They’re as tone deaf as Wilbur Ross, and CLEARLY ignorant of what the US is REALLY like, from their bunkers in St Petersburg, or their K-K-Klan Lodges. I just HOPE they keep it up? Let the WORLD SEE just how out of touch and lacking ANY KNOWLEDGE about America, these paid Trolls are 😁 ✌️ 👍
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@alphakwk : As it was in WWII, the quickest and most reliable way to peace is by defeating the warmongers. In this case the east of Ukraine is EXACTLY the same as the Sudetenland was to Hitler in the 1930’s. “Just give us Crimea, coz’ ETHNICITY; they speak Russian,” then it’s, “Just give us Donbas, coz’ they’re a bit like us; ETHNICITY!” Meanwhile, all their national TV, radio and web channels say, “We need East Germany back, and maybe we’ll only get to keep it this time if we take West Germany with it?” LEARN FROM HISTORY! Just ONCE in your life, stop selling your soul to Putinganda? Wherever you’re sitting, Putin wants that place too. And you would lay down your arms and GIVE IT TO HIM? After you just witnessed little children being MURDERED in their own homes, by blind terror bombings? Sucks to be you, mate. There are far worse things than dying. Stop living in fear.
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@alphakwk : Can’t you see that doesn’t matter? The war has already begun and by definition CANNOT be stopped without one side’s defeat. I have chosen a side. It is a moral choice, not up for philosophical debate, any more than Russia’s latest missile (that killed men, women and little children) can be persuaded to change course! It’s already happened! The war criminals responsible for that attack must be hunted down and captured or killed. The people who ordered, funded and enabled these atrocities must be held accountable! To lay down our arms now would be to offer up everyone in Ukraine to death, humiliation, torture, theft and rape! Sometimes there is NO CHOICE! Putin has made himself into Stalin at home and Hitler abroad. I want peace too. And I intend that we should get it by the only means available to us. Even if the war lasts more than a year (which is unlikely) we must DESTROY Putin’s attempts to steal Planet Earth as though he was Ming The Merciless in some comic book. We must shatter his delusions to the point where NO PROPAGANDA on Earth can talk his way out of the unmitigated disaster of his failed invasion of Ukraine and his people are FORCED out of their moral absenteeism and back into the REAL WORLD, where they must face and PAY for the consequences of their actions, or their failure to act. There’s no such thing as a citizen who is not responsible for the actions of their government. There are simply those who are engaged and those who are too afraid to look when they pull the trigger; but they’re still pulling the trigger. Well, it’s time the free world pulled the trigger on them and wake them up out of their deplorable apathy! Russia be warned. This is on ALL ON YOU.
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Just imagine what a slap on the wrist, “censure,” would do; which is as good as saying we’re ending the Republic, right there and then? Given that loss of office will result in countless immediate indictments (both Federal & State) which will land him and his family in jail, what alternative does a, ”man,” with his established record of destroying the Constitution and breaking all of the laws he runs up against, HAVE? So long as he can count on enough of his base and the party to remain in denial, and HATE Dems and other races, just enough to make them cheer when he pisses on the rule of law, he will have NO CHOICE but to have Moscow ENSURE his, “re-election,” in a Putin Style, 2020 SHAM. It’s that, or disgrace and jail! And, half of the GOP are IMPLICATED with him, so they’re fighting for their OWN SURVIVAL. They simply CANNOT remove him.
What else CAN he do? 2020 will HAVE TO be RIGGED, because too many Americans were persuaded to HATE their, “fellow Americans,” MORE than they hate (or even understand WHO ARE) America’s enemies . . .
Just look at the shills on this thread, desperately trying to bury their SHAME, because they KNOW they’re killing America, but aren’t strong enough to ADMIT what they WANT! They WANT a Russian Style, Single Party system, with just enough FAKE Democracy to keep up appearances . . . Trump = Putin Mark Two; the Puppet Version, and they just DON’T CARE. In fact, they PREFER it that way. They’ll take that over the fictional, “brown menace,” any day . . . America’s Republic is OVER
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Saltponds239 : You, “guess,” wrong. Mueller deserves a break, and needs to quit, and become a free agent, so we can all read his book. It would only be a question of COMPLETING the investigation, after all, with a few dodgers to be finally questioned under oath? Clear it up in 5 minutes. No, “do overs,” needed, thanks. America is smart enough (just) to make its own conclusions. They just need the facts. And, Donny will be Impeached for 14 Counts of Obstruction, which prevented the investigation from being able to investigate. You know this, really. That’s WHY you’re so afraid of Mueller, right now 🙂
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I agreed with all of that, till you got to the end. Cummings struck me, throughout this, “scandal,” as a slightly bewildered, semi-autistic bunny in the headlights, who couldn’t figure out if there was an algorithm that could have warned him about what was happening to him? I think Britain is hot, bothered and bored, and needs a REAL scandal to sink it’s teeth into? So, I felt sorry for the guy, in a way. But, at the end, you made sound like there was something new about this, slide in our moral values? . . . I’ll put that down to your apparent youth? It’s always been this bad. The medium changes, but the pitchforks and torches always look the same to me ✌️
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Yes, they are reassuring to me, showing that you can have, “conservative,” values, yet still be honest, respectful and committed to the good of the country and society at large, rather than simply venal blatant examples of the very thing that trump’s zombie conspiracy theorist drones claim to fear the most.
I mean, who was that guy in this video? The one saying that they, “unironically,” need to take control of the media and all the other institutions and, “force the public to believe what we believe.”??? Is he well known? Is he powerful? The higher his influence and rank in the GOP or in the, “conservative,” circles in which he moves, the more urgent I would say it is that the Dems simply take that footage and use it in every campaign! It’s a literal confession, appearing as a manifesto. A direct, unadorned call for, “dictatorship,” using that word. In any other free country that would be Check & Mate right there. Yet in America it’s somehow acceptable???
Isn’t he THE very thing that trumpliklans always claim they’re fighting against???
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McRib : Of COURSE we’re, “actively hoping for the president’s downfall,” Putin Poodle! You’re ALLOWED to DO THAT in a, “Democracy,” but you Russians wouldn’t UNDERSTAND that concept, would you? The, “President bashing,” comes from the PRESIDENT, who has been BASHING AMERICA. Our institutions, people, personalities, businesses, law and order, EVEN HIS OWN FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES! Go ask Trump, “WHERE DOES ALL YOUR AMERICA BASHING COME FROM?” It isn’t un-American to want a different POTUS, in a FREE country, you Stalinist IDIOT. Smh . . .
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Shawn Allen : Because social media is not free speech, and it is not expected to be. People often confuse their right to free speech with their right to say what they want on privately owned, privately funded, social media websites. But, they are not governments, and, just as you have the right to block any account on your own websites, so do they. Imagine you were a farmer (for example) showing your products on your own website. If some idiot kept coming onto your comment and feedback space, accusing you of putting polonium in your meat or veg, you’d probably block their account. And you wouldn’t be worrying about his freedom to make stuff up about you, that could damage your business, would you? Because it’s BIG, doesn’t mean it has any different responsibilities than you do. Hope that answers your question?
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Glad to hear it, and well said, sir. After all the coverage Russian state TV has invested in Bakhmut, and the nature of that coverage, defeat for them there would be psychologically crushing to Russia. But it’s merely getting to the borders of Crimea that will bring Putin to the table for the first time, with serious offers. We can never trust him, but we could enforce a truly, “independent,” Crimea, with NATO ships, subs and aircraft protecting it from the Black Sea? A compromise for both sides that could provide Putin with JUST enough face saving to give in? Not that the west should take ANY responsibility for finding him an, “off ramp.” That has been our biggest mistake in the past.
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This is a, “distraction,” but, it’s not meant to, “win,” an election. It’s meant to make the fact that the, “election,” is ALREADY RIGGED, a bit more, “plausible.” It’s OBVIOUS the Republic has ALREADY fallen, when Trump’s Impeachment trial allows NO evidence, NO witnesses, and is to be judged by the very people IMPLICATED in COUNTLESS Trump CRIMES. How many of the GOP would be exposed, when Trump rolls on THEM? Given that the Trumps will ALL go to JAIL, at the moment he loses his, “protected presidential status,” that means that he, his family and the implicated GOP haveNO CHOICE but to END Democracy, and keep him in power, REGARDLESS of what any, “ballot,” says. The Russians are ALREADY inside key election computers, and the “results,” are ALREADY decided. They just need to make it seem plausible enough to stop America from staging another Revolution. You have a Dictatorship, America . . . SMH
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Somalia Guillory : Yeah, there is that . . . Maybe she’s wisely avoiding any limelight, knowing how divided America is, and one side will probably try to appropriate her, while the trump’s turn her into a totem of hate? Maybe she’s like most real heroes, and only wants to be left alone? I wish there was a, “safe,” way to hear from her? Or, at least, a safe way to offer her some solace, support, comfort, and cold hard cash? Sad but true, money helps with a lot of problems and she deserves all the assistance a grateful nation can offer her.
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Agreed. If there was ever a time to examine Limbaugh’s legacy, it’s now. Especially since trump awarded him the Medal Of Freedom a few weeks ago. His words were instrumental in the deaths of countless Covid Deniers and, having listened to a few random samples of the guy, as well as his more famous samples that made the news, I think it’s safe to say that he would have gleefully kicked the fans of other actually worthwhile people, in their grief? As I heard him do myself. Recently. So, without actually stooping to his level, let me say this. If merely discussing his legacy offends his fans, doesn’t that say more about him, than those doing the discussing? But, hey. Never let an opportunity to feel like a, “Victim,” go to waste, huh, trump fans?
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All military targets, including infrastructure that supports Russia’s terrorism such as railway lines, fuel depots, etc, are LEGITIMATE. Of course we do not want to harm civilians. We are not cowardly murderers like the Russian armed forces. There are many decent Russians, mostly in jail, or keeping silent. But the majority have earned collective chastisement, since the day that they started celebrating terrorism, taking away civilian power and water. I agree with your analysis. Ukraine will ultimately need to show that they can penetrate behind enemy lines, if they want to achieve peace. As Churchill said, they must, “Set Europe alight!” In this case, Russia.
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Thor Marnix : I’ll say it? He’s, “LYING.” Cj p’s KNOWINGLY disregarding the facts, and attempting to advertise for the Hail Mary’s being puked up by P Veritas and M Dice. The Devil mixes lies with the truth, and that’s what he gets paid for. Unless he’s one of the weaponised Americans, who have donated SO MUCH to Trump’s constant whip rounds, that they just can’t FACE the fact they were SO WRONG about Trump? There’s plenty of those around. But, let’s be HONEST here? Trump Trolls DO NOT, “believe,” their own Propaganda. They regurgitate it, because they HOPE to avoid being FORCED to acknowledge reality. THEY are as frightened of Trump’s Tax Records entering the Public Domain as TRUMP IS. It’s going to mean that they lost friends and family, paid out serious money, and tried to, “justify,” mass shootings and come out of their closets as RACISTS, and it was ALL FOR NOTHING! They’re losing sleep nights, because in their nightmares, there’s a, “Liberal,” from the past (probably HRC or the big O) saying, “We Told You So!” . . . The foreign ones just do it for money. The American ones are trying to save themselves from an, “Emotional,” trauma, which, in their hearts, they KNOW is coming. SOON! ✌️👍
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Scott Shields : That, “Division,” that you mention is the very oxygen; the very tool that Trump used to get in. Without it, there would BE NO Trump. It’s what has kept him in power, and it will NOT go away, until Trump does. Is there a single aspect of public life that you can think of, that doesn’t have Trump’s Orange Orifice thrust into the centre of it? Whether he’s Tweet Bombing someone’s Funeral, or bleating about American Footballers; whether it’s his planned Bill to take over the internet, or his State TV Station, Fox; whether it’s taking control of pregnant women’s bodies, LITERALLY, or establishing Politcal Punishment Camps, for Asylum Seekers; whether it’s the protectors of kiddy rapers, in his Cabinet, attacking our industries, like Amazon, taking over the Justice Dept, and turning the AG into his personal Attorney, whining about newspapers, or making, “IRAN Great Again?” FFS? “Small Government Conservatism,” is as dead as our Republic, son . . . This is the Totalitarian Dictatorship of Trump, and it will only get worse. That’s just physics. Either Trump goes, or buckle up for more and more chaos . . . Sorry
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Ted Montana : I think that, “hot spot,” is between your ears, son? Probably just the fever, though? My, “sources,” are Science, Facts, and the Truth, kiddo. You stick with, “friend in a bar,” and I’ll stick with being at home, safe with my family, and glad I got rich before the Donster Monster came along to make you all poor, OK? Have fun packaging meat, or whatever it is you’re so keen to do, because you can’t AFFORD to stay home, even though it hasn’t occurred to you to wonder if maybe Donny was WRONG about all that, “wealth,” he told you America had for more than 3 YEARS, now. I mean, if we’re SO loaded, where TF are all these POOR PEOPLE coming from? Makes you think, huh? . . . Well, not, “you,” son . . . You gave up, “thinking,” when Donny told you to, right? “Coz’ ma’ racism,” right? Serves you right . . . 😌
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Why ANYONE would harass a nurse, at ANY time, is just incomprehensible to me? But to think that ANY living, “thinking,” being, would be GULLIBLE enough to buy into the LIES about the very people fighting so desperately to save them? The sheer SELFISHNESS it takes, to be so lazy in thought, stupidly self centred, and fiendishly obtuse, to refute the stark reality before their very eyes is, to me, treasonously pro-Putin, and viciously self destructive. There must be a RECKONING for this, (not revenge) or America will NEVER heal . . . SMH
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In other words, no one should sign up to an IVA unless they’re financially secure enough not to need one? Agreed. Looks like a scam. The Citizen’s Advice Bureau should be people’s first stop. But even then, you need to check that your CAB is NOT one of those that the government has infiltrated and now work to benefit government policy more than their client. I learned that the hard way, in a previous life. Granted, it was a different type of matter, but it was shocking to discover that the CAB person who said they were, “representing,” me, when we had a group call discussion between me and the company I was fighting, was actually employed by the government and NOT a volunteer. I discovered that DURING THE CALL, when she suddenly started saying things that were clearly against my interests. So, just make sure you KNOW exactly WHO you’re getting your advice from, and WHO they work for. Who pays their wages? When you know that, you know what to do. ✌️
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Well, ALL governments (if they’re any good?) will err on the side of caution, instead of haste, naturally, right? You’d expect that. So, using your common sense, being considerate and NOT choosing the issue as a hill to die on, like so many far-right, far-wrong, too far-GONE, Karens on YouTube have done, seems wise to me? Be kind, and like they say, “You do you,” and take that attitude toward others. Protecting yourself is protecting your fellow Americans. Be kind, and ignore trolls ✌️👍
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: And, of course, now there’s well over half a million dead, these entitled Republican Karens can’t face up to their responsibility for that, and keep doubling down. We’re at a point where I think it’s best just to ignore people drawing attention to the issue, and just be as safe, sensible and kind as you can be, whilst drawing the line at risky behaviour. Anyone being a dick about? Get out your phone, video them, and let YouTube do the rest? They’ll publicly apologise, lose their jobs and think twice before being dicks a second time. Good luck ✌️👍
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@sandiharris5906 : You haven’t been told, have you? Not paying attention to Q Anon anymore? About that, “Deep State Plan,” they have? If you don’t get the vaccine, you won’t be immune to Covid-20, when they release that! They’re planning to, “eliminate,” around 20% or more of the population, when all the Anti-Vaccers DIE, because they won’t have been given the REAL immunity, to Covid-20 when it comes out. All us vaccinated, useful members of society will be immune and protected.
Dr Fauci will bring over from, “Chiynah,” where he’s been making it in a lab, with Hunter ByeDon and Hillarrriiiieeee! They’re going to spray it from spy planes, and this strain is specially designed to kill within 24 hours of your first cough! The last thought that will go through the stupid trump troll’s heads will be, “I wish I’d been Vaccinated! Eughughhhrrr . . .” Now, go and enjoy being paranoid yourself, and suffer at your own cost, kid . . . Serves you right 😉
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@dogglebird4430: That last comment is simply not true. Do you think that the Nazi Party had, “Exterminate 6,000,000 Jews,” in their campaign leaflets? Adolf never had the vast majority of his policies in the campaign literature at all. That always comes AFTER his election. But, as your dog will explain to you, you cannot get around the FACT that Reform is where the former BNP candidates are now! When the fascists are IN YOUR PARTY, that’s a pretty big giveaway.
And you don’t have to be a, “fascist,” to vote Reform, as you may just be less politically aware, manipulated, or simply less intelligent than your own politicised dog. But if you are a fascist, Reform is the only party you can vote for.
Are we learning yet, son?
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@dogglebird4430 : A) A political ideology is not the same thing as the personal bigotry that people build parties around.
B) Hitler never put, “Start a world war and exterminate 6,000,000 Jews,” on his campaign leaflets. Why? Because he didn’t have to. Simply, “not,” admitting to being racist in your publicity doesn’t stop you from being a racist.
C) Most Labour members with, “former,” extremist ideologies I don’t trust either, but they aren’t racists.
D) Most Labour members with, “former,” extremist ideologies have since then disavowed their past and claimed to have grown out of it, making apologies for former statements or associations where necessary. Your racists have never even admitted being at fault, let alone apologised for anything.
E) You can check all of this with your politicised dog. Which I’d be willing to bet is one of those, “dangerous,” breeds on a government list?
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@dogglebird4430 : Where does it even suggest that people don’t change their political views in my comments? Pay attention. I was pointing out the disingenuous nature of your defence of people who have never accounted for their shady political pasts, never apologised far past offences, never addressed any, “change in political views,” or claimed any. You seem to think they have changed their views, with zero evidence. Unlike people in the Labour Party who have publicly accounted for their past views, associations and memberships and apologised if and when necessary. That is what we call, “hypocrisy,” due to the obvious double standard.
I didn’t read the rest of your comment, because, again, TLDR.
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@jacqdanieles : “Rant”? That’s what I get for being patient with people and offering them every accommodation to explain their reasoning and answer their questions, rather than just assuming they’re acting in bad faith and probably a pro-Putin troll. Don’t say I didn’t give you a chance. And, BTW, your question was fully, “addressed,” both in the video and by me, AND by others in this thread. Let’s just agree that you’ve misread the answers, shall we? Or expressed your question, “questionably,” perhaps? Rather than bringing pejoratives or questions of IQ into the discussion?
I said I will answer your questions in good faith. Shoot . . . so to speak.
Oh, and Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦✊🇬🇧
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@dioghaltasfoirneartach7258 : I didn’t know that. It’s an education, sir. Ukraine still has a navy, just no ships to speak of, so yes: I am absolutely in favour of giving them absolutely everything. That includes a fully functioning navy, with long range warhead capabilities as well as subs and anti-sub equipment. People who complain about the cost of these things don’t get the economics of the situation, either in terms of the jobs, taxable income and international sales that take place when we kit out an entire country’s defence capabilities, or in terms of the blood and treasure we can save by taking a fully committed attitude to Ukraine’s victory by being generous in the short term and enabling all the benefits of being first in the cue for what could be one of the biggest economies on the planet, if we got it right.
Sorry for waffling, but that’s my impassioned way of saying I agree with you, 100%. Give Ukraine ATACM’s. Today! ✌️
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I agree with your responses to all of those comments, but one. Perhaps your response to zippydodahquirk9039 was unfair? Surely it’s fair enough for someone to say, “I’m not questioning the facts, but merely pointing out that my area of America does not seem to be benefitting from this broader national trend,” isn’t it? You can just read his contribution as a commentary on the fact that not all areas are equal and national averages are meaningless to some in such a large country. Surely that depends upon what you are reading into the meaning there? He could just be commenting on complexity? He could be trying to draw your attention to nuance. I didn’t see or hear the segment that these responses are referring to, so I could be wrong but, if I am wrong, that is because I have nothing else to go on outside of this video, so the responsibility for setting out the full context is yours. i.e. Maybe you know this guy from other comments and know where he’s coming from? Maybe he made further comments in the thread that explain more? But from this evidence in isolation, you are inferring too much it seems.
Everyone else you discussed were obviously bone headed trolls or just idiots, with the best will in the world. 😉👍
P.S. How is the, “Algorithm Appeal,” going? I’ve been following your request instructions. Hope it works out for you, as I do appreciate your content and hope that YouTube keeps shoving you under my nose, so to speak. ✌️🇺🇦
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@AEY3587 : You might as well ask, “Describe the philosophy of freedom as it pertains to the British state, its culture and its history,” son. A smarter person would understand that it’s too broad a topic to sum up for an open question. Perhaps you should state what, “freedoms,” you feel you lack? Two days ago, I watched an insane Republican Congress woman screaming at the president of the United States as he gave his State of the Union address. It has crossed no one’s mind that she might suddenly, “disappear,” or accidentally fall out of a high window for that, but you can guarantee that’s exactly what would have befallen her in Russia. The fact that you can say anything you like without fear of government reprisal, on social media, is also starkly different to the consequences of doing so in Russia, where the anonymous, masked, “police,” routinely spot check people’s phones for banned apps, scroll through their texts and emails, and whisk them off to serve on the western front if they don’t like what they find.
So I ask you; What are YOU talking about, son?
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Disagree with most of those choices, but totally with Predator 2. It respected the source material while taking the story in a wholly new direction. We learned new, fascinating things about the Predator’s mindset and got intriguing hints about his culture, whilst still being left to wonder if his hunting club represents his culture in all its balls out glory, or if he’s part of a smaller, elite club, possibly illegal on his home-world, like big game hunters are to us?
The ensemble cast was top notch, with the stand outs being Gary Busy (“Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!”) and Bill Paxton (“Is she on the rag or what!?”) who some how manages to charm the audience, despite being in your face offensive at almost every opportunity. His sheer heroic defiance in the face of certain, terrible death, as the Predator stalks him with the words, “Want some candy?” stays with you, along with the chill of that haunting scene.
I have that movie, treasured, in my collection and, like you, just cannot understand why anyone would be unenthusiastic about it.
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Honest answer, David, (and I apologise for being complicated about this) is . . . it depends.
For what it’s worth, I would need to know, does Wallace hold shares in Fox (as many of their anchors do) and/or, is he a thorn is their flesh that they tolerate because they have to, for whatever reason? If that were the case, it would be better if he left, so that Fox would become the all out, undiluted equivalent of Lord Haw Haw’s Germany Calling show, during WWII; the unmitigated, inexcusable disgrace to journalism that they are.
But, if they want to use him, for the purposes you described, to provide the thin veil of, “balance,” to their programming, then he should stay, because he’s quite good at what he does, and he appears to have some seniority within the network. I have seen Wallace, for example, on more than one occasion, in discussion with the Fox & Fiends panel (during a handover, it appeared, rather than as a guest) and he has verbally crushed their narratives over some controversy or other, regarding trump. He appears to be knowledgeable enough to do that, but more importantly, he appears to have the seniority (or, perhaps it’s just respect of his colleagues?) to not only correct them forcefully, but then they don’t argue against him. A little, “face saving,” attempts at trying to, “compromise,” occurs, but Wallace never seems to tolerate that either, and he simply puts their nonsense to shame, and they daren’t gain say him.
So, if they would only replace him with someone else, he should stay, rather than take the chance that his replacement is not as good as Wallace at stopping the Propaganda in his earshot while on TV. In fact, Fox might well choose someone who’s not so good at debate, carries less authority, both journalistically and within the Fox organisation, and is generally less competent at challenging their narratives? Breaking the arguments of the left is good Propaganda too, right?
But, if they would be happier if he left, because they want to replace him with someone who’s totally on board with the far right, anti-democratic narrative, it would be so much better if Wallace left and left them to it. Particularly if he was to be snapped up by CNN? Or, some other rival network, with a reputation for genuinely, “fair and balanced,” journalism?
It is far easier to deal with an enemy, when that enemy has no redeeming features. I don’t speak in terms of counter-narratives, or counter-propaganda purposes, either. But, in terms of simplifying the fight. If Fox were to one day be brought down completely, perhaps in the wake of a raft of sedition scandals after the death of Rupert Murdoch (not necessarily such a far fetched idea?) I would hate to see Wallace’s life ruined by that? But, it’s also about the hypocrisy of the station that claims, “balance,” when what it’s really doing is keeping Wallace as a kind of insurance policy that might keep their business model alive, should they be exposed and prosecuted, or just have their reputations irreparably damaged.
It’s a false dichotomy that they cover, “both sides,” of a topic at all, when one is pure lies and Seditious poison that literally costs American lives! They have ONE MAN, doing a little analysis and a few slightly challenging interviews, set against a background of white entitlement, false narratives, and pro-Fascist propaganda! We’re so jaded with them, that we often seem to forget that this stuff comes mostly out of Russia, and from other enemy states! Their JOB is to DIVIDE America! To bring the country down! They are but a filter for Putin’s narratives, that they make palatable to American WASP tastes.
Within living memory, we literally took the trouble to hunt down, try and execute traitors who spread seditious propaganda! Now, we allow them to collect their shares in the company and broadcast their, “Make America Divided Again,” filth, on American soil! So, it would be better for America if their inhumanity was undiluted and clear, so America could see them for what they are. But, if they would simply replace him with some hack, hired to see the, “other side,” of the debates, but not do such a good job of it, and not see what they were being exploited for, that would only make matters worse.
If you read any of this, David, thank you for your patience. I hope I have persuaded you? ✌️
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Gabriel Castaneda : To your first sentence: That’s what he used to do; 30 minute videos, pouring over Rachel Maddow’s looks, her voice, etc, and then, pausing and rewinding her videos to talk about how her hand movements, or blinking, meant she was, “lying,” etc. I’ve seen teenage girls wasting their time, with similar activities. To your second sentence: the grammar was so poor, it was rendered meaningless. No idea what you were getting at, son?
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Gabriel Castaneda : Not reading all that, son. Keep ‘em brief? You’re only a Trump Troll, remember. Don’t go thinking you’re, “interesting,” or anything. Read your own posts, and you’ll remember what you, “asked.” You seem to have the memory of a Goldfish. And, look up the word, “effeminate?” You can’t go through life having EVERYTHING explained to you? Even if you think Dice is there for that reason. Learn HOW to think, and don’t be told what to think, OK? 😉
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@ : Let us try to reason together without the chest puffing? When I heard Penrose discussing this last, he was talking about memories. You can program a computer to know what a grandmother is, in terms of genetics, economics, diet, fashion, even in terms of culture, and with modern large language models, you can have that same computer speak convincingly about having a grandmother, even sounding rather sentimental about it. But that computer still, “feels,” nothing.
However, when a human has the task, that discussion triggers emotions and digressions that are not logically programmable. While you’re describing the colour of grandma’s eyes, you might actually be thinking of the way she smelled, or the smell of her house and suddenly say, “I haven’t eaten apple pie in a long time. Let’s make a pie. I know a recipe.” Not just a tangential connection being made, but a course of action, including time used, resources spent, shops visited and cooking and eating with a person whom you want to share the experience of what Grandma’s apple pie used to taste like.
I can expand further on the qualia aspect of what it is that Penrose is getting at. But that is what he said he doesn’t believe an AI can match. That does not mean that there aren’t new avenues to pursue that might result in subtler, more capable, “thinking,” processes for computers. Indeed, he has discussed possibilities himself. Which is why I believe Sabine may have the wrong end of the stick here.
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@ : Addendum: The point Penrose is making about current approaches is A) Being large language models, they are brute-forcing the problem, rather than refining it. This is why all the tech companies are stealing as much data as they can from any source available, because it’s an unwieldy process that doesn’t mimic human thinking at all. B) They are still, largely, black boxes. These are self teaching models that are essentially told, “correct,” or, “wrong,” billions of times an hour, over simple reasoning and recognition tests. Yet no one, not even the programmers, know what adjustments the machines make to their own code to get to the correct answers. This is why they frequently hallucinate. It is the equivalent of setting off to the moon, one millimetre off course, which will place you millions of miles off target. And no one can prevent these hallucinations because they’re occurring within a closed system to which the programmers do not have prior knowledge.
Sure, you can lift the lid to see what went wrong. But you’re then doing the equivalent of trying to identify which grain in a cup of sand is blue, when all the others are red.
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When does a, “manifesto,” come out in the form of a word salad? When the people selling it expect to be pulled up on their lies and hypocrisy. They literally cannot promise a thing without being busted for lying. Apart, perhaps, from the policies that are pure evil, such as eliminating our human rights, or, “stop the boats,” which NO ONE WANTS.
At the very most, people will read the policy titles and then maybe a few lines of the ones they don’t believe or feel angered about. And then they’ll see that the Tories have a complicated way of saying nothing, just like Rishi. ChatGBT really has been worked hard for the Tories this year.
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Starke M : Happy Dictatorship Day, America. We can mark the anniversary from the moment they say, “Not Guilty,” to Trump. That’s the exact moment that historians will say that the Republic FELL. It’s been on life support, since 2016, but this is the final death blow. Now, your, “elections,” will be rigged, because that’s relatively easy to do, with Putin’s help. And, the only alternative is JAIL for the whole Trump Tribe and half the GOP. They have no choice. And they’ve SHOWN you that there’s NO lawful remedy to Dictatorship. Learn to love your Monarchy, or tear it down? But, just DON’T go KIDDING yourselves that you will be ALLOWED to, “Vote”??? All you’ll be doing is giving them data on who to target next, in a FIXED election
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Here’s your, “neat label,” for you: SATIRE! A none-comedy, straight up Satire, about the seductive power of Fascism. Made by a Dutch guy who survived the Nazis, occupying his home town, as he grew up! It really is THAT SIMPLE! The bugs are the enemy, “People!” The protagonists are so indoctrinated that, since we see the world through their eyes, we see them as, “bugs.” Dehumanised and revolting. We’re forced to deal with Nazi seduction, from the point of view of the, “seduced.” We’re forced to see the appeal of the anti-intellectual, emotional, irrational, hate filled, “cool,” uniforms, weapons and tight friendships, solidarity, and belonging. Glory. Verhoeven summed it up himself, “Join the army, go kill people, and die!” That’s it. One of the best Satires ever made!
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@prind666 : I guess it’s people like you who actually do make this a controversial movie after all? People who don’t get Verhoven’s stated intentions, and who think that living in such a world would be, “cool.” Your first sentence is right. And that was Verhoven’s intention, to make it look appealing to the young and immature. The friendships have real value, and ultimately save the lives of the characters. But, think it through? Presumably, (if you mean what you say?) you have a problem with America’s Constitution and the notion of being born with equal, inalienable rights? You think people should have no say in their society, let alone the right to vote, unless they’ve served in a war for two years minimum? Where I can get behind such a scheme, which offers privileges for those who serve, it should not be exclusively military service, or able to rob citizens of their very citizenship. Service in the medical; as a hospital porter, field nurse, etc, with equal opportunities for rapid promotion; or in social services, parole officers, child protection, etc, would have to be added, for those who don’t want to pick up a gun. But, what privileges should be given, should be exactly that, “privileges,” not fundamental rights? The right to vote is fundamental to your right to be seen and treated as a human being.
You can argue till the cows come home over your politics, or anti-politics? But, what you can’t do is take away Verhoven’s intent, or the fact that you just didn’t get his movie. You think it looks cool, but that’s only because you think Robin Hood looks cool, and would actually hate living in squalid conditions with a bunch of criminals, eking out a living by theft and murder, and then shitting behind the same tree you eat under, in a world that hasn’t even discovered electricity yet. I suppose Mad Max looks cool, and you can’t see it’s a movie depicting a world gone wrong, either?
These are single state fascists, who only get to vote for individuals with one party, so far as we can tell. There is no opposition of any kind. What is their vote worth? After all that sacrifice? What are they protecting? Not freedom, that’s for sure. And, ask yourself, why is the idea of a smart-bug so, “controversial,” to all of the characters, in their world? The higher up the chain of command, the more, “offensive,” that idea is. Why? . . . Figure that out and there might be hope for you yet; you might not be quite so fascist as you think you are . . .
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I admire anyone willing to stand up to the most powerful alliance of evil in human history. China and Russia may have agreed to combine their efforts, but it still avails them nothing in the free world, unless they take it by lies, deception, blackmail, threats, fear, intimidation, blackmail, cruelty and sadism. They are a worldwide mafia. And if this one person will put everything on the line for freedom, we should all follow her example.
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tradeeagle : I am a Conservative, to the core . . . and I AGREE. The Trolls are DESPERATE to characterise this whole thing as, “libs v cons,” when that’s a LIE. The TRUTH is, Comey screwed up BIG TIME in his handling of the HRC, “revelations,” which actually WERE a, “Nothing Burger,” but were also sufficient to put a Stalinist into the White House. He will remain too obstinate to SEE or LEARN from what he did. But, THAT does NOT make him a bad person. He was wrong, and yet, he doesn’t accept that, nothing more. He IS a man of honour. But, let’s be HONEST here. Even Hillary SUPPORTERS were GLAD in their, “secret heart,” that she lost. The HOPE is that the DNC does not remain as obstinate as Comey? That they will field a candidate who is NOT, “business backed, business as usual,” or patronising, patrician and CLEARLY out of touch? SO MANY, former Trump voters are now saying, when asked if they would VOTE for the Dems, “It DEPENDS upon WHO they put up.” WILL the DNC LEARN and not FIX it so that the Bernie’s of this world are NOT shoved out? Many of HIS votes went to Trump, for that reason. The DNC REFUSED to, “dignify,” the complaint that Bernie was nobbled, even AFTER the election, ONLY for us to later discover that they HAD FIXED Bernie!!! They NEED to LISTEN and ACT ACCORDINGLY. As a CONSERVATIVE, I will be voting Democrat, come HELL or high water, in order to SAVE DEMOCRACY from a DICTATORSHIP. But, the DNC MUST do it’s part. The Mid Terms are theirs to lose. If they squander their opportunity, I will NEVER forgive them, as it will COST us DEMOCRACY.
Sorry for going on, and for going a little off topic, here, but what I’m saying is what is at the HEART of this matter. Honourable people DON’T always do the “right thing” because they can be honourable AND WRONG at the same time. You are RIGHT, that we MUST get BEYOND this, but he represents a SYMPTOM of a much BIGGER syndrome that ran RAMPANT in the DNC and cost them the elections. ENOUGH of the Hillary types! This NEW, asymmetrical warfare, calls for NEW thinking, NEW tactics and NEW PEOPLE. Nancy Pelosi and her ilk, REALLY NEED to MAKE WAY for a candidate that the PEOPLE want, who’s MAIN characteristic feature is that s/he is NOT LIKE THEM AT ALL.
Personally, I’d go with Tom Hanks, but THAT will NEVER happen. But, we REALLY need to stand together and WELCOME conservatives INTO the fold
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Natty Bumppo : Your ignorance is as comprehensive, as the Eastern European accent with which you write. Turn on your Googolska Translateski, next time? 😆. I OBVIOUSLY ALARMED you. The Troll tactic is to DESPERATELY fight to define this a as a battle between, “Conservatives and Liberals,” when it REALLY IS ANYTHING BUT THAT. This is WHERE your WRONG definition of what a conservative comes from. You CLEARLY “know” NOTHING about America, or its history, or you would NOT have made such a FUNDAMENTAL ERROR. It is NOT, “either or,” you DOLT. You can have a, “Constitutional Republic,” which is ALSO a DEMOCRACY! America is PROUD of its DEMOCRACY, DEFINES ITSELF AS A DEMOCRACY and has fought SEVERAL, BLOODY WARS in order to PROTECT its “DEMOCRACY.”
You STALINIST “think” you can, “redefine,” the MEANING OF LIFE, by playing with words, but you are MISSING the BASIC INSTINCT that MAKES AMERICANS WHAT THEY ARE: which is their FUNDAMENTAL LOVE OF DEMOCRACY.
Now, go and READ A BOOK, come back and APOLOGISE to YouTube, and tell Putin you QUIT 🤣
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Maybe it’s not such a bad idea? Maybe they’ll put a public defender in place? 😁 They certainly wouldn’t fight the case with corruption, drag it out, use dirty, counter suing tactics, etc, so her chances of winning go up. And, if she wins, against trump the, “employee of the government,” that opens him up to abuse of power charges, and doing bad things as a government employee generally? . . . Think about it? . . . 🤔😉
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Correction: Russia never, “thought western special services were behind this election,” (the 2010 presidential election) but Putin acted like that was what he thought, because he wanted someone to blame and being in control of the, “narrative,” matters more to him than anything else. Blaming the west is the default position for Putin, made easier for him by the fact that Eastern Europe wants to ally itself with the west, so they can’t be victimised by Putin anymore. It’s important to make these distinctions. Russia never, “thinks,” anything. They, “say,” all kinds of things, but never the truth and NEVER what they think.
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The Toasted Hippies : Yet, here you are, “posting comments.” I wouldn’t flatter you with such a glamours title, either, given that you are probably one of the droves, who responded to an email, offering to, “Turn your comments into $ CASH,” a battery farmed yokel in St Petersburg, or an American who hates, “people of colour,” and FEARS Putin. Whatever you “motives” are, do not interest me. The FACT that you are doing Putin’s work for him, SHOULD be enough to give you pause. If it doesn’t, you OBVIOUSLY HATE America. There’s a LOT of that about. And, as Russia’s narratives are breaking down, in the face of MOUNTING evidence, the sense of Troll-desperation is actually PALPABLE.
But, one tip for you: Don’t let other people take up, “Real Estate,” inside your head. If you’re “feeling” negative emotions, you shouldn’t let yourself get drawn, by people who disagree with you? If it ain’t fun, it ain’t worth it. Just my own personal? 😉
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The Toasted Hippies : Your situation sounds more “stricken” than “lucky” to me, but these things are always a question of perspective? I guess you must be wealthy, considering you support a government that has tried every way it could think of, democratic or otherwise, to strip America of its access to healthcare? Perhaps your income is the “luck” that you perceive? I wish your wife the very best.
However, support for Trump, at this stage, is support for an OBVIOUSLY compromised (at best) corrupted man, who is beholden to Putin, in SUCH a BLATANT manner, that you have to be WILFUL in your ignorance of all the issues at play? HOW can you NOT SEE this? Seriously?
I am comfortable, with several houses; I LOVE my occupation, as a political historian; I will benefit from the TEMPORARY Tax Cuts, despite the fact that inflation and a trade war are about to wipe those out; but, IF you sincere, tell me, please? Just HOW, can you ignore Trump’s HORRID nature? His SPITE, his RACISM, his SEXISM, his LIES, his NEPOTISM, his incompetence and his RUINOUS FEAR of Putin? I REALLY want to know the answer?
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@albion6087 : That’s what’s so Hillaryous about all this! These are the 6 main offences that we KNOW of. Donny is, “Putin,” all his efforts into preventing Biden’s Team from getting those National Security Briefings, and he’s been suppressing the usual party briefings (remember?) for the last few months now. That’s just ONE iceberg’s tip, about to strike the TrumpTanic! Pretty soon, no American will be able to pretend they’re a trump fan AND a, “patriot,” and I think they KNOW IT! The cult didn’t mind that he routinely robbed them, so long as they never had to admit it, and so long as Donny stayed bigoted and racist! Now, their hysteria is all about their FEAR that they’re going to have, “We told you so,” written on their tombstones, by a gay Mexican Liberal! 🤣👍
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Empowered Perspective : After the Inauguration, once Donny’s fled America, taking his cult’s donations with him, and they start to realise Donny stole all their money, and never even intended to mount any serious, “legal challenge.” Then, when the lid gets lifted, starting with Biden’s first National Security Briefing, from that point on: any trump troll you see, will be a foreigner on the payroll. The cult will be too ashamed, and avoiding the expression, “We told you so,” until the next racist wannabe’ DICKtator comes along 😉👍
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Paddy Prendergast : Would I be right in guessing that you’re against Brexit then? And that, perhaps you feel he’s responsible for a state of affairs you’re very unhappy about? And, you have no knowledge of the actual circumstances around what took place? But, now that your pitchfork is in one hand, and your torch is burning brightly in the other, you’re not going to have any sympathy for this mildly autistic, bewildered bunny in the headlights (if you’ll forgive the mixed metaphor?) because even if you did know the truth, you’d dismiss it out of hand, as this is more about, “punishing,” a political advisor who was queen for a day, and created a thing about which you’re now very cross?
I wonder, Ms Prend-aghast, if you’ll have any regrets, when things are back to normal, and you’re no longer so hot, sweaty, bored, and bothered? When that head on that pike, on your front lawn, has gone off a bit, and doesn’t look anywhere near as tasteful as you thought it did? Never mind. This is the Internet, so you can turn off the opinions you don’t like, and get back to ranting about the next poor sod who’s dumb enough to work for the government, am I right? 😉
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Michael Rimmer : You all realise we can’t trust the, “reassurances,” of Moscow Mitch, and any GOP member, right? Especially the ones looking at serious jail time! You all must KNOW what Bill Barr’s Secret Police units are being expanded FOR, America? They are unconstitutional, and ILLEGAL anyway. Inundate your representatives, join the protests and activist groups, donate your money; DO whatever you can, but by GOD! DO SOMETHING TO GET SECRET POLICE UNITS OUTLAWED! They are building the instrument of your suppression, right under your noses!
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Maybe he’s too drunk to realise that no one in the free world pays any attention to Russian attempts at disinformation anymore? When I saw the badly hungover Prigozhin there, I just thought, Wow. Prigozhin really gives away both his lack of NATO tactical knowledge and so much about the Russian mentality at the same time. He’s saying, “If it was me, I’d steal a bunch of undefended land with no strategic value in the north, because stealing stuff is what we do, and then trade it back for other land later, because selling stolen stuff is what we do too. He clearly still hasn’t realised, despite having his ass so royally handed to him in Bakhmut, that NATO doesn’t steal, even from their aggressors nor do they pick targets without strategic worth. He hasn’t figured out that Ukraine have kept Russia pinned in Bakhmut and that bleeding them white is breaking Russian morale. Probably because he’s too distanced from the saps he sends into his meat waves, and too drunk to pay attention to them when he briefly visits them to make one of those viral whining vides in which he staggers about whinging about Putin’s army. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦
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Danny v : Why not, son? 🤔 That makes no sense? “You do realise,” that all these, “multiple witnesses,” who, “complained,” about Trump to the Whistleblower are GOING TO TESTIFY, right? And, what’s, “wrong,” with, “demanding an investigation,” either? No one is threatening to withhold their Military support, like Trump did? You should READ the Complaint, son? It’s not that long?
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Larry Owens : So, you pour out your effeminately passive aggressive, negative emotions, and fantasise about what you were duped into to, “thinking,” Trump was, instead of what he actually is, and you hope to, “achieve,” WHAT, exactly? You just want people to know how upset you are? We already KNOW, son 😆
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Colin Cleveland : This Al Len, kid? “Trump’s trial, meaning the dems,” blah, blah . . . Are they ACTUALLY employing CHILDREN now? Is this like the movie Downfall, where the Nazis put uniforms on 10 year olds, because there was literally NO ONE ELSE? I mean, Trump Trolls DON’T, “believe,” Trump Trolls! And, whining in an effeminately passive aggressive way is NOT going to, “help,” Trump in any way I can think of? Maybe they’re all just losing their s**t? 🤣 ✌️ 👍
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Al Len : Are you talking about George Washington, now? 🤔 As opposed to Trump, who OWED more money than he HAD, when he got in office, and who has given multiple TV interviews telling the WORLD about how BROKE he was, even though he’s tried to bury them all? Trump will be a multi-billionaire now, alright. And all his money will be in Russian, Saudi, Turkish, and other denominations, sitting in the Cayman Islands . . . Who are you trying to KID, son? You’re talking to EDUCATED people, who READ! 🤣
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TheRoflcopterGod : Who said I was “angry”? I wouldn’t go on PUBLIC discussion sites, if Putin Poodles had the ability to upset me in any way? That would be a MAD, Trumpski, kinda’ move? You said Obama did, “nothing.” However, I pointed out that he did, “something.”: The OPPOSITE of NOTHING. And, when your government is transitioning into the hand over of power, you make the BASIC moves, expected of you, while NOT doing anything that commits the next government to policies that they may not wish to pursue; or, in other words, Obama did little, other than making a point, and left it to the NEXT, “administration,” to handle it. All to be expected; all above board; all APPROPRIATE.
To say that Putin has no “direct influence” over Trump, is a BLATANT LIE. Do you REALLY NEED me to EXPLAIN that to you? You either, HAVEN’T been following events, or you are trying to parse the OBVIOUS facts, because you are a Putin Poodle. There’s a LOT of it about, you know
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S8498 : Except, the Trump Tower meeting was held with Trump’s knowledge, presence (in the building), and a phone call (on a spy phone) to him, from his minion, directly after. Plus there’s all they PAYMENTS from Russia, siphoned through dodgy banks, that he’s hiding in his tax returns. Trump’s in this, up to his neck. And if he DOES, SOMEHOW, manage to muster a, “plausible deniability,” defence, that would STILL make him SO DANGEROUSLY THICK, that he would be impeached for culpability. In American law, being so DUMB that you are DANGEROUS, is a prosecutable (and, therefore, an impeachable) offence
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Teto Almonzeto : One too many Lysol jabs to that frontal lobe, huh? “Deep state,” “Hillaaarrriiieee!” Here we go. The whole world has watched the deep state hacktivist organised faked, “protests,” that Donny actively encourages, against his OWN POLICIES and you start spouting that tired old . . . Y’know what? . . . 🥱 . . . Can’t be bothered. He’s lost anyway. Like he lost last time, only this time the margins will be way bigger than 3,000,000 votes, and the electoral college won’t be able to save his evil, Orange ass . . . 😴
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That’s not who the Tories collectively plan to, “target,” though, is it? What worked for Thatcherism back in the day, is what they hope will work now: Stigmatising the poor. You hear the clue in your caller’s observation. It’s the only place they can find the bribes, kickbacks, squandering and theft, out of the pockets of the most vulnerable; the disabled, the unemployed and, of course, the mentally ill.
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Damen Rabbitt : So, would you like to see the people who started the riots arrested? “He who threw the first stone,” and all that? Because, you’d have to start with the four cops, and then arrest the authorities who made the public wait outside, with NO attempt to even communicate with them, let alone explain why the delay. The people who robbed the community of justice and their right to simply be alive, should answer for what they did, and also what they failed to do. Then, I’m pretty sure, everyone would go home. The FIRST rioters were those cops. Talk to them, son
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Roger C : Seriously? Your feelings were hurt by that Jonestown quip, and now you want, “evidence”??? You do KNOW they had a massive suicide packed, right? You KNOW they ALL thought that they were, “right,” and the world was, “wrong,” don’t you? That’s literally what happened. Would you like, “proof,” that the sky is blue, commies are red and and Trump is Orange, too? 🤣 Emotional MUCH! 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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Emeka Iheanacho : Like I said, you CLEARLY have NO IDEA what you’re, “agreeing,” with. Trump has made NO “strides” in ANY direction. The economy is being run by bankers and Wall Street investors, which is partially Obama’s fault. Trump took a HUGE, WET, bight out of America’s ass, slipping in 1.5 $ TRILLION DOLLARS of PERMANENT Tax Brakes to Real Estate Developers, with his Tax Bill, at, LITERALLY, the LAST HOUR (Check if you don’t believe me?) while throwing YOU your TEMPORARY Tax cut, hoping you’d be DUMB enough to be impressed by THAT enough, to get him through the Mid Terms. And it seems to have WORKED. WHAT, “strides,” has Trump made? WHERE? You mean THIS? Making CHINA Great again? A Communist regime, SWORN to install ITS brand of COMMUNISM around the GLOBE? Helping a SANCTIONS BUSTING, HOSTILE COMPANY that only GOT SANCTIONED because it was HELPING TO SPY ON AMERICA??? What is WRONG with you Trump Drones? . . . SMH . . .
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Clarissa Davis
Trivializing is tasteless and unhelpful. But don't get mad at people who are angry that their governments (past AND present) have not done enough for them on climate change, when they see the rest of the world taking the issue far more seriously and coping better, after they've exhausted themselves with calls to their leaders to try to WARN THEM that these days would come!
For some of these people, humour is ALL they have as a coping mechanism.
AND it IS, therefore, VERY MUCH a political issue. Trump's attitude has frightened those who are smart enough to understand what's at stake, here.
Whatever you believe to be the "cause" it is indisputable that the climate of the world has ALWAYS changed and that a society that does not prepare for that, or want to listen to its experts, must suffer the consequences. So CAN YOU BLAME people for commenting, even "joking" about this?
Get off your high horse for a moment, and stand in the shoes of someone who has been trying to get their leaders to LISTEN to them and are now facing the loss of their homes, businesses and communities
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CT Spoder : Oh, P . . . LEASE? . . . STILL clinging to, “Hillarrrieeee!”??? . . . Only other Trolls even BOTHER to READ that CRAP. When will you understand that Conservatives AND, “liberals,” want Trump GONE from Office? Hillary could spontaneously EXPLODE, for all WE CARE! . . . YOU should be more worried about your other propaganda friend, “Obaaahhhmmmaaahhh!” After all, HE’S ACTUALLY a THREAT to you. He’s helping to prevent GOP GERRYMANDERING, in the courts. And he’s WINNING. That’s a sensation you haven’t felt since the election, right? Only the CULT OF TREASON and, ironically, FOREIGN TROLLS, paid by Chinese and Russian SHELL COMPANIES, ACTUALLY, “support,” Trump, now. AMERICAN PATRIOTS and lovers of DEMOCRACY, ALL want Trump out. You should check the voting records, from those Russian lists? Conservatives have been voting WITH the, “Liberals,” and kicking the GOP OUT, in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc. That list keeps GROWING. The gig is up, and YOU need to WAKE UP! 😁
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Will Munoz : No, I’m NOT saying that Putin, er . . . I mean, “Trump,” can’t, “exert economic pressure on Mexico.” What made you, “think,” THAT? I said it WON’T WORK. Trump is, “exerting economic pressure,” on China, right now. And THAT’S not working EITHER. Instead, we have Soy Farmers on a Tax Payer funded WELFARE Program. How long, before Trump is FORCED to back down? We’re servicing a National Debt, at $MILLIONS per day, which is WHY your, “Tax Break,” ENDS in April. Go look THAT up? . . . SMH
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Do you guys really, “believe,” in VPN’s? They can get you access to foreign services, like Netflix, but they really DON’T protect people in the way their ads keep telling us. That’s an empirical fact. I struggled with that too, but I looked into it, and was disappointed to find this is just the way it is. You are such a trusted outlet. You should do a deep dive into VPN’s and show us that you’re not afraid to bite the feeding hand, if you are truly committed to the truth? After all, you are frequently pushing VPN’s at us, making claims from your own mouths, that simply don’t stand up to scrutiny.
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@savvybookreader857 : Which is why we should be inundating GOP, “representatives,” with our demands that they purge trump! Because the Graham’s, the Cruz’s, the Rubio’s, all the way back to the Devin Nunes’s, cannot survive without him. Time for the GOP to be forced to fight that, “civil war,” they want so bad! In their own ranks! The impeachment will force them onto the record, under oath, to admit for all the world to SEE AND HEAR that, “the steal,” was a criminal LIE! It’s up to us to FORCE the issue! For the sake of National Security! And to shove these nut jobs back to the fringe where they belong! ✌️👍
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Incidentally, America; did you know? Each time you Click on a troll’s name, to reply to their Trumpoganda, or Click on their Malware trap links, they get PAID. They aren’t all on the shell company payroll. Some of them are just SO mentally ill that they’ve spent the last 4 YEARS, speaking exclusively to people they, “hate,” on channels they, “hate,” trying to spread more DIVISION and, “hate.” True story ✌️
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Mr. Brightside : THAT’S what they’re so terrified of, and what keeps them, “loyal,” now. The fear of it being PROVED to them; that THEIR donations paid for trips to Epstein Island, the private jets to take them there, the cocaine habits and whatever else it took to bribe diplomats and their own party members. They KNOW they’ve been had, by now! How can they NOT, at LEAST, “suspect,” it??? Every rock law enforcement FINALLY gets to look under, exposes more and more MONEY STOLEN, from THEIR contributions! It started out racism, now it’s just, “Don’t let them say we told you so!”
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You did make a couple of errors in this one. We know from the third movie that Hans has a brother. That his brother is also a criminal and terrorist, more committed to the politics of his causes until later in life. So his brother is probably the one who got him his connections in the underworld. There’s a lot to mine from Die Hard three as to the roots of Hans Grouber. Also, it’s, “is the late Alan Rickman,” not, “was.” Assuming Rickman is still dead, he remains the late Alan Rickman. Not a grammar Nazi, but you’re making the kind of videos that people expect precision from, in diction and prose style. People notice such errors and it undermines your work, which is excellent, btw.
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Airik Luna : Except, this time, they are NOT, “Conservative,” by any description you can find. Stalinist in technique; Racist in goals. “Small Government Conservatism?” With Trump in every sphere of public life? With him, “Hereby Ordering American Businesses,” about? With a huge deficit? This is NOT any form of, “Conservatism,” that I used to support. Trump will KILL America, and MAYBE Conservatism will re-emerge? But, that’s over right now
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Xi probably knows more about the Ukraine invasion now than anyone in the world does, including, Putin, having better Intel than Russia and being the only world leader who heard Putin’s pitch for the invasion at the Winter Olympiad in Beijing. And now he knows that Putin doesn’t get the true facts from his people and grossly overestimates his own abilities, falling for his own propaganda. I imagine he’s been furious with Russia for screwing up his Taiwan ambitions. What is inarguable, and something we should all remember when we here the likes of MTG and Tucker on Fox telling us that Russians are our friends, if you support Russia, you support China and vice versa. They are declared as allies. In WWII, imagine if people were saying, “The Nazis are fine, but we can’t support Japan”? Unthinkable, right?
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It annoys me that politicians don’t have the balls to simply say, “We’re still working on the final details, so I’m not willing to give a definitive answer until we have a completed bill.” Who can moan about that? “We’re doing the work, right now. The answer will be abundantly clear when you see the white paper and I’ll happily discuss how we got there, WHEN we’re there.” And anyone can generalise in the mean time: “Working people are the ones producing stuff of value; whether that is data, intellectual property, machinery, ‘tool making,’ food producing, it covers a vast swathe that we cannot go over in granular detail in a single debate. But they’re the ones who PRODUCE things or support people who produce things, rather than owning them or earning passive profits from them.”
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Mark Dice: They could do that NOW, IDIOT! Why wait? “Coz’ Globalism,” or something, you utter CRETIN? None of you Trump Droids even KNOW what TF you’re TALKING about. But, YOU take the cake today, son! Trump has CRASHED the economy and he’s literally making it WORSE, by threatening MORE tariffs! With MORE countries! If you read a BOOK, instead of studying Rachels Maddow’s, “body language,” all day, like some 13 year old Mean Girl, you might just get the FIRST CLUE what you were talking about? But, you HOWL, “Globalism,” when you might as well be howling at the WEATHER, you stultifyingly BRAINWASHED, UTTER DOLT! 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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Walt Schmidt : Nah, we only want to see the scumbags who put us in this mess, “starve,” preferably of oxygen. The Rust Belt has BEEN in recession for half a YEAR now, and you never, “cared,” about them? You called it, “fake news.” Like a nasty operation, when it’s INEVITABLE, you may as well insist on getting it over with, FAST. So we can recover all the sooner. So, don’t go all, “bleeding hearts,” on us now, son? Too late. The recession has begun, and YOU never gave a shit . . . SMH
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Dj ViiRus : Conservatives are SICK of Trump. There IS no, “Dem Narrative,” only the Russian one in YOUR HEAD. Just LOOK at what’s HAPPENING. Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc, SHOULD have been SAFE SEATS for Trump, but CONSERVATIVES have been VOTING THE GOP OUT, WITH the, “liberals.” WHY? Because they are SICK of HEARING your CONSTANT WHINING about IRRELEVANCIES. Yes. YOU are KILLING your OWN DARLINGS, you DOPE! 😆
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Garry G : That’s what Trump fears most of all, I think? Not that the crimes and shady deals with our enemies will be exposed, through his Tax Returns; but, that the Myth will get busted. What would be the point of following this super, “businessman,” if it turns out he’d NEVER been a billionaire, by the time he got in office? And, if he OWED more than he had, which is what it’s starting to look like? Some of his base MUST be getting, “curious,” by now? When it’s proved that this cheap chiseler has conned them ALL, will they still love the Orange Orifice? . . . 🤔
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I love physics theories, have read literally thousands of books, but studied political history at college and wasted my career in social services, whilst being a dunce at maths. But, that doesn’t mean I don’t have anything smart to say about the theories, or cannot have an insight of value. Am I allowed to pick a side on the current debate about string theory? I wrote to a physicist once, impressed by his book and wanting to posit an idea. He wrote back and was very kind, patiently explaining why my idea could not work. I thanked him, seeing why he was right, and moved on. But, I don’t think I had been a crackpot about it? I was just trying to come to grips with big, exciting ideas and learn more.
Granted, I was not suggesting physics was wrong. I was trying to overcome the problem of faster than light communication with a quantum idea. If my idea was stupid, then the author in question was very flattering to me about it, as he told me he thought I was being very clever in my approach.
By the way, I would question your characterisation of Schrödinger’s Cat. Yes, it was not meant to prove or disprove quantum theory. And, yes, it is an illustration, not a demonstration of anything. But, Schrödinger was trying to illustrate the fact that we have failed to explain something fundamental about how it works. He was showing that there is a dissonance between the quantum understanding and the point at which it works in the macro world.
That is why we now have the two separate schools of thought; one trying to explain that gap and the other called, “Shut up and calculate.” It is the most successful theory in the world. Yet, Einstein was right too. There is a gap in our understanding and we have not yet resolved the point at which quantum stops being quantum and becomes macro. The first person to do that will win a Nobel Prize. But, I’m not crackpot enough to imagine I would dream it up out of inspiration.
The reason for physics’ crackpot appeal is the fact that a crackpot can actually hide from the layman behind complexity of theory, and believes they can throw enough chaff into the eyes of real physicists to confuse any onlooking audience. It provides a lot of cover for crackpots. Especially since some qualified physicists can be crackpots too. Oh, you acknowledge that at the end, so that helps explain it, right?
Loved the video. Good to see a scientist openly express exasperation with crackpots without worrying about their, “image,” at least.
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Eco Geek : Once the rigged, “elections,” are over, we won’t have ANY, “influence,” in that region, as it will all be up to Putin. America is already less influential in world affairs, by isolationist choice, and by the fact that our Dictator keeps getting played. He’s as gullible with other Dictators as he seems to think the American people are. Having said that, he may well be right? No one wants to admit that the Republic has already FALLEN. The Dems, because they’re too close to the problem, and their huge egos won’t allow them to believe that they can’t personally change the course of American history; and the Republicans, because they have learned from Putin that the one thing a modern Dictatorship NEVER does, is admit that it’s a Dictatorship. So, we’ll get FAKE Democracy, like Russia’s, and be, “told,” that we’re, “influencing,” events that we care about. And, as it becomes more and more OBVIOUS that we’re in a Dictatorship, fewer and fewer people will be willing to state that fact out loud. So, I really wouldn’t concern myself with Syria’s problems any more, since Putin ordered Trump to withdraw our forces from the zone? It’s not like we can, “do,” anything about it? We can’t even unseat our own Dictatorship, let alone theirs? Christ! We don’t even WANT to admit it’s THERE! Because, if we got REAL, then we’d have to admit to ourselves that the only way to remove a Dictator is REVOLUTION; Ukraine-Style, without weapons . . . Or, we can just carry on being pussies, and PRETEND we would be ALLOWED to, “Vote,” our Dictatorship out of power, so that an ENTIRE administration would go to jail? . . . SMH
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Don Hardcastle : Apart from being the most naive, ill-informed, historically ignorant, and childish statement on YouTube today, you’re overlooking the, “regime change,” that was just completed at the FAKE Impeachment, “trial.” Enjoy your pre-decided, “elections,” in your Putin Style, “Democracy,” won’t you? Because you’re naive enough to, “believe,” that the GOP would risk its ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION going to JAIL, because Trump lost his protected presidential status, got indicted along with his whole family, “ratted out,” EVERYONE from Bill Barr down to Devin Nunes, and the remains of the GOP had to disband and flee from the press, like escaped Nazis fleeing the Mossad! They’re NOT gonna’ let that happen, son! It’s ALREADY OVER!
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@danielarcadia7243 : Extraordinarily, “weak,” as you will NEVER show me ANY, “evidence,” of that government official (Dr Fauci, presumably? Unless we’re playing effeminate passive aggressive guessing games here too?) “admitting that they lied,” given that no such thing exists. And, please? Spare me the click bait, leading to a Fox video of Fauci explaining why he changed his advise, based on the best available knowledge, which Hannity edited and tried to make it look like Judgement Day At Nuremberg, Ok? . . . 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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@wonderwoman7023 : No virus, “belongs in your body,” child. That’s how and why vaccination was invented. You’re not, “thinking,” at all. I’m pretty sure that last Pizza you gobbled didn’t, “belong in your body,” either, but that didn’t cross your mind when you shovelled it in, did it? You’ll shove deadly chemicals and sugars through your system all day, without giving it a second’s thought, but because this is something that trump politicised, you’ll take the jab, whilst trying to talk others out of it, right? Frankly, I really don’t care. It’s your kids I feel sorry for . . . 🤦♂️
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@grandmak. : It’s funny how so many racists don’t like being called, “racists,” don’t you think? Ask a trump troll, and they’ll quickly remind everyone that the KKK found a natural home in the Democrat Party, but they’ll try to make it sound like the KKK invented the Dems, not the other way around; and they ALWAYS forget to mention that this all happened 150 years ago. You only have to put, “KKK Trump support,” into your YouTube or Google search box, and you’ll SEE where we are now:
Swastikas, uniforms, Nazi Salutes, the whole shebang: and they’re all shouting, “Heil Trump!” Literally! That’s what’s going on in the modern KKK in America, and it’s GROWING! Nazis and Fascism more generally are resurgent around the globe, presently. And America is at the apex of it all. It’s refusal to acknowledge the depth of Fascist feeling in America, might be its undoing? . . . I hope and pray not. ✌️
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Oh, WAKE UP, America! They are going to prove Trump’s guilt, after the GOP withholds witnesses and evidence, and breaks their oaths of office, and let Trump WALK anyway, because the Republic has FALLEN. Half the GOP are Implicated in Trump’s many crimes, and the Trumps are facing disgrace and JAIL, the very moment Trump loses his, “protected presidential status.” They can’t NOT FIX the next election! WHY are you KIDDING yourselves, America??? This DENIAL is pusillanimous and self-ruining! The Constitution was PROVED MEANINGLESS, when it REALLY COUNTS! You have a Putin Style Dictatorship now! Because SAT there, and DID NOTHING! Thanks for KILLING Democracy, and endangering the ENTIRE PLANET, America . . . SMH
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Julian Nikolay Krogh-Fredriksen : I DO see your point, but we underestimate Trump at our peril. To you and I, Trump is an OBVIOUS, blithering IDIOT. But, when people are desperate, and WANT to be conned, they WILL go along with it. THAT’S what Trump KNEW. It’s much MORE than “luck” alone. While figures make America LOOK, “prosperous,” on paper, the reality is that DESPERATION is WIDE SPREAD. EVERYONE is in DEBT. EVERYONE owes SERIOUS MONEY on their homes, their cars, their EDUCATION, their businesses, etc, etc. The REAL figures are STAGGERING. And it lies at the HEART of the Trump, “Phenomenon.” After all, who BETTER to rescue desperate families from their debts? A selfish, businessman, who shouts, “America First”??? They had NO IDEA that he was BORN RICH, INHERITED his wealth and that INDEPENDENT studies have PROVED that he would be FAR RICHER if he’d just let his inheritance gain INTEREST AT THE BANK? They didn’t KNOW how MANY TIMES he’d been BANKRUPTED? And, by the time they’d started to LEARN about his INCOMPETENCE, they had ALL said and done things that they “felt” (EMOTIONALLY) unable to step back from, without looking weak, or foolish. And because they WANT to “believe” SO BADLY, they are happy to buy into the CONSPIRACY THEORIES, which explain away or flatly DENY the AWFUL TRUTH about him. Fox LOOKS “respectable” after all? But, this is about DESPERATION and WANTING to, “BELIEVE!”
See my point? I WOULD like to know? . . .
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Ross Miller : Being persistent and patient, and always being willing to WELCOME those who have the character to say, I voted for Trump, but now I have doubts. Most of the Cult that you encounter on social media are NOT who they claim to be, anyway. Most human beings, on an individual basis, are reasonable enough, I find. The truly OBTUSE one’s usually turn out to be Russians, Eastern European, paid Trolls, or American paid Trolls, with only one or two, “genuine,” hysterics thrown in. Their numbers are NOT that big. Investigations, research and studies keep revealing this. Plus, you can often tell. “They DO move in herds,” to quote Jurassic Park. There are always LOTS of clues, from their Russian idioms, grammar and spelling, to the way that you so often see two, “different,” people, saying the same thing in different words, but they, “just so happen,” to appear one after the other, in two’s or three’s, with the SAME speech patterns and spelling errors. There are TONS of ways to spot them.
Being patient, I have found, HAS WORKED. Instead of going on about what is so terrible about THEM, I will (when I am talking to someone who SEEMS sincere) try to show them what is APPEALING about being on the RUGHT SIDE OF HISTORY. You have to go with what comes naturally to you, but PATIENCE is KEY, in my own, humble, experience. ✌️
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@flyinpolack6633 : See, you should have LISTENED to the piece you’re hear to troll, madam. Not, “two sides,” to this. Because most of the, “riots,” of the last year, had NOTHING to do with trying to bring down the state, like Donny’s Fascists. Nor were they committed by any one clear source! Whereas, in Donny’s riots, there were only entitled Karens, demanding to change the service, because of their STUPID sense of entitlement, and their IDIOTIC compulsion to only get information from sources they, “preferred.” You’re comparing apples to hand grenades, missy. Wake up! Read a book! 🤦♂️
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What I find most interesting about it, is what she put her finger on, right at the end of her presentation. It’s a, “philosophical,” difference. It’s a mutation of paranoia and distrust, born out of anti-authoritarianism and disillusionment with, “authority,” figures. Give me a Flat Earther in the same room as me and access to the internet, and I can destroy their, “scientific,” arguments, in minutes. Yet, I know this will not convert them, for one of three possible reasons: They’re (1) too emotionally damaged to, “want,” to accept the truth (too proud to admit this six foot, hairy boomer, who can’t stop laughing at him is right, for example) (2) too educationally challenged (stoopid, or probably a combination of 1 & 2?) or, (3) they’re being paid to refute common sense. The group 3 are the ones I despise, because they could do untold harm, and they do it for money. You might argue there is a group 4? The troll. But, actually, the troll is just any one, or combination of, the previous three categories.
But, here’s the, “interesting,” bit that I promised (trigger warning) : Many Worlds Theory, or MTW. That is a, “hypothesis,” which has some mathematical basis, which can be made to fit the hypothesis. But, only ever at the cost of disregarding some other fatal flaws which have yet to be resolved. It is popular among many of our leading physicists. And, though more and more people are questioning it, it has taken on the trappings of Dogma. Yet, there is no, “scientific,” basis for it. No evidence, no disprovability, no testable experiments, no predictions, no applications, no foundation for its conjecture whatsoever. It is a philosophical idea, which some scientists cling to with the emotional commitment of high priests. Why is that, exactly?
I believe it is because it solves one thorny problem and no other. If it were true, we could then dispense with, “God.” And that is the ONLY reason MWT is a philosophical belief that has taken root in physics and is doing duty for science where there is no science to be had. In other words, it’s not just Flat Earthers, who are willing to run away with their philosophical ideas. It seems anyone is capable of that type of thinking, if the emotional stakes are high enough? . . . Food for thought? . . . ✌️
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It’s what happens when a party implodes. Brexit brought the Tories to a point of internal battle that had been brewing for generations, but which they had never quite had to face before, or just had very strong leadership who took no prisoners when enacting their own vision of dealing with Europe.
It’s all because of that craven lust for power, that lead them down the path of flinging open their doors to anyone who looked like they could win their seat in that moment and give them the numbers they needed for a majority. They let in more and more fringe types with extremist views, more and more dodgy types, with criminal connections but lots of money, and they made a special effort to let in the, “personality politicians,” with their amusing haircuts and entertaining line of patter that gets a larf on Have I Got News For You, without checking ANYONE’S record, background or credentials. As the old guard, the ones with quaint, old fashioned things like, “ideologies,” and, “beliefs,” retired, the remaining MP’s increasingly found that these new kids weren’t content to simply play a role as show ponies, but they demanded a seat at the top table and started acting like they owned the place.
Then Brexit happened and it was the flashpoint between, “Are we isolationists and extremists, or are we centrist, single nation, leaning to conservative, ‘values,’ kind of Tories?” And they had to confront this finally, in the sort of battle that is usually fought in the respectable privacy of a period out of office, because it was HAPPENING right now, and they saw that the sort of Brexit we get now, will define them and the country for generations. So they’ve been fighting among themselves ever since! In the most unedifying and disgraceful fashion at times.
They even had the Home Office minister using the dispatch box to call the nation NAMES and deliberately deepen division! The one minister whom you’d expect to at least pay lip service to uniting Britain was (and still is, from the side lines) screaming for the most extreme, un-British, exploitation of THE most vulnerable people on EARTH (asylum seekers) as her personal political football, with a scheme that was so heartless and insane Charles Dickens would have blushed!
I site that example because it crystallises what was really going on. It was an attempt on the part of the party’s minority to hijack the defining characteristics of the party and make it seem to stand for this new, extremist vision, like we have become Cold War East Germany or something! Overnight!
Ask yourself this question. Before this all became the hot topic of the day, do remember what the world was like? How it was a world wide discussion about how global weather patterns, various conflicts and economic pressures were going to cause an influx of asylum seekers all over the western world; and the fact that we needed to seek some international cooperation and planning to deal with it, before it gets out of hand? Then this whole, “Stop The Boats!” drama was literally dropped on us out of a clear blue sky!? Remember? Like ANYONE has ASKED for that? Or thought it an urgent issue in quite the same way that the extremists did?
Again, that’s just one example. But my point here (and if you’re still with me, thank you for your patience) is there was a catastrophic period of backstabbing and internal division (still far from settled) that killed off all the leading politicians and when the dust settled, they looked around and saw that there were no actual educated, experienced, articulate, well informed politicians left! They’d betrayed them all, driven them off into retirement, or otherwise disillusioned and frightened off their most trusted and talented people!
All they had left to draw on were the dregs! The people who would, in the normal state of things, be staffers, fetching the coffee or doing the paperwork. And THAT’S why they’re SO BAD at their jobs. They’re just not the real thing anymore. None of them have the least clue what they’re doing, how to handle the press, how to speak in public and how to avoid one catastrophic gaff after another! Half of them don’t even want to be there, and I honestly think Sunack is one of them!
He’s already had a no confidence vote and was probably (as I believe will be revealed after the election) being threatened with yet another palace coup! Why put up with this snake pit of entitled, talentless, unqualified nonentities, all clawing their way to Number 10 over the destroyed bodies of their colleagues, when he could be sitting in a Californian air conditioned corner office, having the staff bring him what he wants, making lots of money and working on his memoirs?
They just don’t have anyone left capable of doing the job and their leader has given up on his own party and probably wants to avenge himself on them, seeing as how they’ve ensured that he will go down in history as the leader who lead them to their worst ever defeat and possibly off the opposition benches altogether. With that kind of a legacy staring you in the face, what else is there to do but ensure you get a little revenge? Especially if you’re the sort of politician who doesn’t EVER think about piffling tiny matters like, “the good of the country,” or the suffering of your fellow beings?
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@YusufGinnah : Yeah, I noted two things in particular (just on the interaction) which were
1) Not one of those cops thinks of themselves as a, “servant,” public or otherwise, but the OPPOSITE: “Authority figures,” to be feared and respected. They were genuinely confused by the LAW, and embarrassed by the trench they’d dug themselves into.
2) The appearance of more cops, FAR from calming the situation, made it potentially EXPLOSIVE! Now, they’re like a frat crowd, all concerned about how macho they can be in front of their peers, and not being seen to back down. And, tiny Officer Tibet is the one with a killer’s eyes.
His big fat partner is just an angry, cowardly wife beater with a big mouth. Tibet is the one to shoot first, and dances on your corpse after, probably T-Bagging it. I could see it in his eyes. Murder lurks there. Look again, and you’ll see it. ✌️
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They won’t sell it to you, because of those 11 million idling subscribers. That’s a serious data mining source, all signed up to their terms of service and having their linked accounts mined regularly for statistics that Warner Bros will be finding very useful for marketing and other long term strategies. It’s showing them 11 million viewing habits, what other accounts those people use and in what way, and it’s an information source that’s rare, as in, it’s been tracking most of these people since the early days of the internet (people who’ve probably long since forgotten their accounts and never unsubbed) which is probably why they’ve kept it humming away like that in the first place. So, unless you were willing to offer a deal that grants them continuing access to this data, a thing that is literally more valuable than gold on the global markets, I can’t see them willingly parting with it for less than SERIOUS, serious money. But that’s just my hot take.
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dcb1138 : I hear that you Trolls like to use letters and digits, instead of names (or, sometimes, right next to your names), so that your buddies in St Petersburg can track which area you’re in. Is that true? And is the rumor, about your, “handlers,” using REAL Cattle Prods on you, on these Troll Farms, is THAT true? You better crack on and meet your quota for the day, huh Vlad? 🙂
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Austin Giguere : Even after ALL that Gerrymandering and Voter Suppression, you STILL pretend that Conservatives are, “not,” VOTING DEMOCRAT? Did you SEE the Blue Wave, son? And, how it STILL washed over ALL the obstacles and CHEATING of the GOP??? It’s AMERICA that’s SICK of Trump, kiddo. NOT, “only,” the, “Liberals,” much as you WISH it were. WAKE UP! Trump ENDS in 2019 😁
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Natalie Deyton : So, you’re blaming the Dems, for offering three deals, getting Trump to agree, getting 100 % support from our elected officials, but Trump decided to pull a demand for 5 $Billion dollars out of his ass, for no reason? Because President Ann Coulter and Vice President Rush Limbaugh said so???
Grow up, girl. And, remember, the stickers go on the OUTSIDE of the van, OK? But, NOT on the windshield, right? Lot of you Trump Tramps have crashed and burned that way 😉 🤣
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Upper Echelon Gamers : Serious question, here: Is there a Consumer Group, lobbying on behalf of Gamers? An international, or nationally, powerful consumer group, certainly should exist, shouldn’t it? If gamers behaved in a coordinated fashion, refusing to buy, or pre-order games, when issues of cruel practices toward staff would have a positive effect, one would think? The latent power, waiting to be tapped into, by organising gamers into a block of consumer power, seems to be untapped? Why is this? Or, is there a group I don’t know about? It certainly seems that now is the time? Games Company practices only seem to be getting worse, regardless of excellent exposes like this. It frustrates me, that consumers are not doing more to help themselves, and the, “little people,” in the industry, when they have SO MUCH power, if only they could act as one? After all, it is we, the consumer, who hold the purse strings in the end? . . . ✌️
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Kexsky : From the little I could see, wouldn’t that be all the more reason to form a Consumer Group? The more, “power,” these companies have, the more influential a group would be, that could influence sales, by coordinated action? I have no idea how feasible such a thing would really be? Not my field of expertise, but someone will step into that vacuum, sooner or later, as the market is crying out for a body, unconstrained by government boundaries, legislation, or background political goals, and just working FOR the gamers
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Tom Cahill : Maybe, but I doubt that, by 2020, ANYONE will be saying, “But what about Israel?” Especially as an “election issue”? You can keep a, “promise,” but if the promise was “idiotic” in the first place, it’s STILL idiotic. The truth is, that people will ALWAYS be able to remind the world that the none-promise that Trump APPEARS to be keeping (which may NEVER materialise) was to give away something of GREAT VALUE to the Israelis, for NOTHING. He could have had them guarantee no more settlement expansion? Even, made the promise CONTINGENT upon that, for example? Thereby ADDING to the piece? He could have offered to recognise Palestine’s claim to Eastern Jerusalem? And so on, etc, etc?
But, no. That’s not how the DOTUS works. He screwed the Israeli security services, several months back, and has been reminded that he “owes them one” for that. His son in law stands to make a LOT of money for him and he’s seeing dollar signs. Trump is transparent and stupid.
And, so far as his “fans” are concerned, they’ll swallow ANY bollox he sells them, so this issue won’t even SIGNIFY by then.
But, will Trump even be around, beyond 2918? Unlikely?
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Tom Cahill : I’m totally with you, but I am Republican, in values. I saw that HRC was crooked, but not in the half baked, conspiracy theory, tin foil hatted way that the Slavering Trump base put it. Simply for tilting the scales against Bernie. We ALL SAW it. But when people asked the DNC about it, they got patronising responses, like, “I won’t even dignify that question with a response!” People were justifiably FURIUS, And NOW they’ve been PROVED RIGHT. The irony, is that such a “revelation” WOULD have been a CAREER ENDING big deal, if Hillary’s enemies hadn’t created so much fake nonsense around her. Makes me lol.
But, I KNEW Trump was crooked and was likely to ruin America. And there WAS a time when the Trump’s were PROUD to boast about their Russian connections, believe it or not! But, imagine, if you will, 7 MORE YEARS of hysteria, division and hatred, tearing at the fibres of America’s flag, while ALL THE TIME, Trump serves the agenda of a hostile power/s that want to end our democracy? We simply WOULD NOT SURVIVE
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Tom Cahill : Your views are valuable, whether you “agree” with mine or not. Sounds to me, like YOU are the most qualified of the two of us? At least in so far as having been in the region of the Middle East? Your story is valuable to, and I, for one, am grateful and thankful for your service. I am so sorry that your story is so sad. And, of course, having now identified the problem, doesn’t mean that you can go back to how things were, with people moving on as they do, and it really breaks my heart that things went South for you, after YOU kept America facing North.
I am curious if you met or talked with any Muslims from the opposition? And what you learned out there? Other than to duck a little faster in future? Republican or Democrat, you have my respect. I have always regretted not serving in the military and my buddies who have, all tell me the same thing; that there are people in the world who will be their friends for life and in whom they would entrust their lives, unhesitatingly. Don’t be proud (I am not assuming that you are) and get the help you need, from the Veterans associations out there, or from your buddies?
I hope and pray that your new treatment works out for you. And remember; this is YouTube, where anyone with an opinion feels perfectly justified in inflicting their un-thought-out “reckonings” upon the world. I would rather listen to guys like you. God be with you
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Tom Cahill : With regards to you “Star Trek” comment. I would only say, remember the Berlin Wall. I don’t know how old you now, but I grew up, with that thing as a given and a focus point for all that was wrong between East and West. Then, one day, at the end of the 80’s, the whole thing came down, amid jubilant, dancing students and confused looking Stasi Cops. No one believed that could EVER happen, and it sure didn’t end our problems with Russia. BUT, and this is the point, it LOOKED to EVERYONE like that one, giant leap in the right direction, could NEVER happen. But it did. Hope is not a foolish thing. It is what drives righteous anger, and fuels the will to seek the best for everyone, and the willingness to pay a cost and sacrifice for others. Don’t let the darkness win
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LegalEagle : I know it’s not a, “proper,” court, as such, but the big, “legalistic,” confrontation (climax) from The Scent of a Woman, with Al Pacino, at his fiery BEST, defending a hapless student. It would also be really fascinating to know, is this process a legally binding one? One in which the decisions made will change the futures and lives of the students concerned? It would be a great scene to work with? 🙂✌️
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Adam Singer : Y’know, I agree. Just like the Breaking Bad episode, when they take Saul out to the desert, and he ends up talking them into hiring him. Using pseudo self-justification, denial and EPIC sweet talk, he goes from being threatened with death, to having them put a dollar each, in his pocket, so they can have Attorney-Client Privilege. Pretty funny. But, that scene you’re talking about? Like you said, “EPIC.” He actually uses his legal training, a sort of Biblical line, and a bunch of desperate thinking on his feet, to take them through a kind of, “Judicial Process,” with the punishment fitting their, ahem, “crimes.” Weird and wonderful to behold; but, with some genuine legal foundation that would be fascinating to process through this filter. I agree with you 👍
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My, “idea,” is that you can’t heal or move on, until you admit the problem. Seriously. This is no longer about just George Floyd’s murder. Despite people trying to hijack the protests, and Trump dismissing them as a, “leftist, Democrat plot,” as if he’s trying to cause Division. Admit your problem, America? You’re a racist country, with a corrupted leadership. America is sick of it. When a 17 year old girl, shows more courage, decency and keeps videoing, despite threats of mace, arrest and the possibility of being murdered too, she became a metaphor for America. A kid can see the rottenness in front of her, and we aren’t prepared to ignore it any longer. We are losing America, to a dictatorship, of evil and racism, which worsens daily. It’s that simple
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We already know he’s lost the, “election.” The problem is, so does he. Bill Barr, the Trump family, (Hell!) most of the Cabinet ALL KNOW this ends in JAIL and DISGRACE, for most of them. They aren’t planning on ALLOWING, “Elections!” Are you all insane? They will do whatever it takes, and whatever YOU let them get away with, America! Like they always have! Name ONE, single lawful, constitutional, ACTUAL, “Remedy,” that’s worked in the last 4 years? They just keep rigging the deck, because YOU LET THEM! What do you think Bill Barr’s nationwide Secret Police force expansion (happening right now!) is FOR? He’s selecting pro-Trump, “cops,” from a force that’s just as DIVIDED as the rest of America, to SUPPRESS YOU, when you react to having your Democracy CANCELLED in November! Secret Police are unconstitutional and illegal, so WHY aren’t you ALL getting them OUTLAWED as a matter of URGENCY? Because, “it’s someone else’s responsibility?” You NEED to GET OFF YOUR ASSES, AMERICA! Your Republic has ALREADY FALLEN! The question is, are YOU willing to RESTORE THE REPUBLIC?
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Coastal Waters : Trump IS the, “Globalist,” son. You thought he was, “like you?” Because he talks like drunken coal miner’s daughter? While he swiped $1.5 TRILLION for his family and donors? You thought he’s, “against,” immigration? When he was TOLD that his withdrawing Aid from Venezuela and other countries would cause a massive influx of Asylum seekers? You thought Trump was a, “Small Government Conservative?” When there isn’t ONE part of your life that the Orange Orifice isn’t trying to control? Whether it’s Tweet bombing state funerals, dividing our sports, taking control of women’s bodies, attacking our most successful industries, the list is endless. And, what happened to, “MAGA?” Now that we’re, “making Iran great again?” Good thing Putin called him off at the last minute, wouldn’t you say?
You were given the exact opposite of EVERYTHING you were promised, because Trump knows you’re even DUMBER than he is, and it worked. You were conned by the Troll in the White House, and a part of you KNOWS it. And, that’s why you’re HERE, son . . . SMH 😁
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Happy Dictatorship Day, America. We can mark the anniversary from the moment they say, “Not Guilty,” to Trump. That’s the exact moment that historians will say that the Republic FELL. It’s been on life support, since 2016, but this is the final death blow. Now, your, “elections,” will be rigged, because that’s relatively easy to do, with Putin’s help. And, the only alternative is JAIL for the whole Trump Tribe and half the GOP. They have no choice. And they’ve SHOWN you that there’s NO lawful remedy to Dictatorship. Learn to love your Monarchy, or tear it down? But, just DON’T go KIDDING yourselves that you will be ALLOWED to, “Vote”??? All you’ll be doing is giving them data on who to target next, in a FIXED election
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Bird of Hermes : I’m a Conservative. That’s why I have to vote Democrat. The Blue Wave should have taught you that? Even after all the Gerrymandering and Voter Suppression, you STILL got KILLED. And, yeah; the Dems BUILT walls, WHERE THEY WERE NEEDED, as did Bush. So, what’s your point? Good luck getting LAUGHED out of Court, when Trump tries to take DISASTER RELIEF MONEY, from Texas! Enjoy your, “Crisis of the Poor Me,” president. As, Tramp puts it. “Bye bye” 🙂
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@antimatters6283 : Great comment. The best person, most likely to find an, “off ramp,” for Putin, is Putin! And he will, immediately, begin that process the very moment he KNOWS his army will be ejected from Ukraine. Sure, he’ll do all he can to try to make a, “special case,” for Crimea; sure, he’ll make blood curdling nuclear threats, but that whole time he will be reversing policy domestically and having his state TV start the messaging to get his people reconciled to leaving Ukraine. The ONLY thing keeping him in the fight right now is NATO’s mixed messaging, which he will ALWAYS interpret as, “Maybe I can fight to a draw?” Throw in a little sanctions relief, so his oligarchs notice an improvement in their living standards, making them less inclined to back any disruption to the process, and Putin will do ALL of the heavy lifting himself! It is NOT up to the west to even think in such terms as, “Oh dear, but what is Putin thinking, what will he do?”
The average lay person has ALWAYS predicted Putin’s next moves better than any politician because they are not bogged down with geo-political theory and Russian history. They just know a thug when they see one. I kicked up a fuss 20 YEARS ago, over creating oil dependency with Russia, saying it was suicidally stupid! But the Germans lead the way with that, because they were being bribed and blackmailed, and because there are still East German Soviet believers being held over in politics there to this day. And now we hear they’re dragging their feet over weapons to Ukraine? Oh, what a surprise, NOT! Their armed forces administration is so complex and unfit for purpose, it’s a wonder they have a military at all.
What it comes down to is restoring some of the old spirit of the Greatest Generation. And I’m not being all misty eyed, but seeing things in the hardest possible glare of reale politique.
A truly great man once said, “We have nothing to fear, but fear itself!” And that’s how you get Putin off our backs. Face him down with an unambiguous message from NATO! That Ukraine, from the Belarusian border to the watery limits of the Crimean seaboard, WILL be restored, ENTIRELY to the Ukrainian government. Period! And watch Putin climb all the way off the west’s backs all on his own without any help from us! Just as he has ALWAYS done before whenever he has faced REAL resolve in the past, every single time.
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Really? Well, now he’s said the, “nuclear war threat is real,” I don’t believe it. Everything out of Putin’s mouth is a lie, and Lavrov is just Putin’s prison bitch.
If we really want a lasting peace, and to see Putin, “weakened so they can’t do in future what they did to Ukraine,” then we must keep redoubling our efforts until Putin’s cowards, rapists, looters, torturers and murderers are out of the entire country, including Donbas and especially Crimea!
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@bluesapphire7548 : I’m a political historian, or was, in a former life. Thank GOD for NATO right? I take it that’s what you mean? A deeply flawed, semi-broken, frequently inequitable, often appallingly hesitant and cumbersome organisation: but still the best hope for freedom in the world. Sorry kid, but if people look just beyond a, “decade,” into Ukraine’s history; maybe two? then they’ll see all the things you’d prefer they didn’t look at, right? And not just the sense of disappointment that all Democratic nations feel when they put all their hopes onto one politician who can’t help but let them down. But, up until a few weeks ago, the Ukrainian people still had the right to fire Zelensky and replace him, and get rich by selling oil to the west. How can you compare apples and oranges, son?
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Deep. His three sci fi masterpieces each have something important to say, and are epic adventures to boot.
Robocop is a satire about the fetishisation of everything, the commercialisation of justice and monstrous horrors of unregulated capitalism. No one would want to be Robocop. He’s a horrifying Frankenstein’s monster, and what they did to him was monstrous. Even the music represents his clunky march, and his smiling acceptance at the end, of what he’s become, is terrifying.
Total recall is an examination of the question, what is real? It’s ambiguous ending is brilliant. It also shows that, if reality can be commercialised, it will be. Our memories, our experience of life, is not a safe concept, tied down by fact, but a subjective notion that we cling to.
Starship Troopers is the best of all of them. In the same way George Orwell asks, “Could you come to love big brother?” This movie asks, “Could you be seduced into being a Nazi?” You are left wondering if the Bugs were actually really, “bugs,” at all? Or were they a metaphor for other humans that have been turned into bugs in the minds of the brainwashed fascists who hunt them to extinction? All works of genius.
Showgirls is a bad movie, but misunderstood nevertheless. Your video explains that quite well. It is about the prostitution at the heart of all American culture. It says that America is built upon an edifice of exploitation and brainwashing. Verhoven made another satire but it fell on the wrong side of that thin line between satirising its target and actual exploitation.
Verhoven’s sci fi trilogy are masterworks, however. And I will stand by them till the day I die. 😉✌️
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@Beelzeboogie : No one. But it’s a valid question. When your channel is about philosophy and how philosophical ideas show up in the most popular examples of modern entertainment, it’s the right question to ask, wouldn’t you say? There’s no, “judgement,” in it. You’re allowed to enjoy it, or not, whether it is deep or dumb. But that’s what they’re here for. You might as well ask, why bother making Robocop or Starship Troopers? No one had to, but they did. If you don’t like the question, you don’t have to watch, but that’s what they’ve made hundreds of videos about, for the sake those who like to explore the philosophical ideas in movies and TV shows. Nothing wrong with that, is there? 🤷♂️✌️
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@ChumblesMumbles : Didn’t you think that Starship Troopers was deep? The whole movie explores the seductive powers of fascism (especially for the young and strong) from start to finish. It’s one satirical set piece after another. I thought it was a work of genius, much maligned and badly misunderstood by the critics, who only saw the seduction and were rightly horrified, without seeing the satire and, “getting,” it. All three characters at the centre of that story are in a living hell, puppets of the state with no personal freedom, privacy or future that doesn’t involve horrific genocide and murder. They have no identity other than the number bugs they kill and can only be rewarded for being sociopaths. That’s a horror movie! And they walk off smiling, blind to their entrapment, off to kill and be killed, maim and be maimed, by the the state that cares nothing for the individual, and treats them as literal canon fodder. I loved that movie.
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@Prime2112 : Heinlein’s book was a far right fantasy, where the world of the future has become like the Roman Republic of old. A society which you would not enjoy, no matter how seductive the author tried to make it look. Verhoven’s version was a satire, tearing down Heinlein’s ideology (according to the script writer) and Verhoven openly admitted he’d never actually read the book and didn’t care to. The movie is mocking fascism; showing how seductive it is to the young, and how empty, “nasty, brutish and short,” the life of a Starship Trooper would be. Don’t get me wrong. In my ideal world, all adults would have to do three years of National Service, with a choice of the military, aid work, law enforcement, or healthcare. And then they earn the right to vote in elections, but it is also compulsory to vote, with stiff fines for those who refuse to vote, followed by jail for repeat offenders. But, that’s just me. I do hope you weren’t seduced without seeing the satire?
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Jayanth K.S : Looked into it. You are misrepresenting the facts, son. Or, just wilfully failing to comprehend them, contextualise them, or see the big picture? Which pretty much adds up to the same thing. But, for what it’s worth, huhhhh . . . Even if that was, “true,” try to picture it, like this: I offer you 1 months pay, if you let me stay in your house for that month; with me so far? I have a gun and a set of dice, or one die, with one hundred sides on it. I will role that die, once for each member of your family, each time you go out to your place of work. And, we mustn’t forget, I role it once for YOU, each time you return from work. But, don’t worry, I’m not eating your food, or costing you anything, and you get to go back to work, right? Now, about that die: See, If I see a 1 or a 2, for any role, I shoot that member of your household, kinda’ randomly; so, I might hit ‘em in the head and kill ‘em, or maybe just wing ‘em, in which case, you better hope your health insurance is in order? The odds are very low that you will return from work to find a loved one dead or wounded. But, you’ll be wondering about it all day, till you get home, I promise you that. In fact, you’ll get to a point when you’ll decide it wasn’t WORTH agreeing to this CRAZY scheme in the first place, and you’ll wonder WTF kind of person agrees to this kind of Russian Roulette in the FIRST PLACE??? Well, apparently, YOU are THAT guy . . . SMH
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@insomniacresurrected1000 : Calm down, son. Putin’s not your dad, he’s just the guy who pays to have a troll in St Petersburg program your chat-botery. Where did you get, “three weeks,” from? It started out as, “three days.” See how you’ve been making assumptions based on received information of your own?
Let’s cut to the chase here? Why do you hate freedom and democracy? Why are you such a fanboy of a Coward who pays others to do his murdering from the shadows? A coward who fled Moscow for St Petersburg even though Wagner didn’t get within 20 miles of Moscow’s city limits? Not exactly, “I don’t need a ride, I need ammo,” is it, kid?
Why support the man who has forced up your cost of living and forced down your security and quality of life, through a systematic campaign of theft, torture, rape, child kidnapping on a massive scale like some African warlord, murder and mass executions? Where’s your self respect?
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Mike Pompeo? He offered America’s surrender to the Taliban. How do we know it was a, “surrender?” Because the Afghani, “government,” was not even at Camp David when they signed the deal, with the Taliban’s leader, who had just been released from American custody! The Afghani president was not even in the same country, let alone the same room! So, was Biden meant to say, “We’re expecting the immediate surrender of the government, from those who haven’t already fled with American money. It’s going to be chaos!” Then he would have CAUSED more chaos and been, “blamed,” for that. We owe our allies and we can’t leave them behind. The Americans who feel most strongly about that are the troops who fought shoulder to shoulder WITH them. Joe did the best he could with what he had. History will be kinder to him about this than the American press have been. That’s the only fact I’m certain of.
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The Scooter : Trump is a warmonger, trying not to look like a warmonger. And, your job is to help him with that Propaganda. But, the world has watched, while he ripped up his deal with Iran, broke America’s word, threatened and bullied them, while the Europeans have been trying to keep the peace and hold up the West’s end, without him. Now, he’s ramping up the Military presence, using the Saudis to frame them; making it look like Iran is STARTING the war, when we all KNOW it’s the LAST thing they want. And, he expects us to, “believe,” the intel coming from the SAME PEOPLE that he ROUTINELY calls, “liars,” EVERY DAY? He’s compared the CIA to, “Nazi Germany,” and we’re all meant to flip flop at his rate? America’s NOT buying it, son. Trump will have to look elsewhere for a bump in the polls. A war will finish him . . . Smh
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@theconnoisseur2346 : I’m not familiar with Russian nuclear doctrine or protocols for attack. But I do know a bluff when I see one. Putin’s bluffing. He clearly wants to live, very badly. Far more so than many Ukrainians or a growing number of Russians in fact. Accidents happen, and there’s no fail safe for human error. He’s literally done the precise opposite of everything he’s said so far. From, “I don’t intend to invade Ukraine,” on the same day he invaded, to, “We do not target civilians,” when he’s been targeting little else. His bogus claims of chemical weapons development by the west, meant that he was thinking of using them (which he still might). Zelensky is a, “Nazi.” A Jewish Nazi? That’s new. Opposites all the way. So, read his, “Cross my line and I’ll use nukes,” as, “This is the point at which I fold.”
As to protocols, we’ve seen how Russian fail safes work at Chernobyl. And the power plant they nearly shot to pieces the other day, with an exhausted bunch of hostages still, presumably, working to prevent a meltdown? I think we have to accept conflagration as a possibility, but not a deliberate one, with low odds at that. But, a 1 in a 100 chance of an accidental nuclear launch or a misinterpreted sub commander’s orders, or whatever, is high enough for us all to sit up and say, “We don’t do business with the grenade juggler over there. Get someone else in charge, or we keep hold of your testicles and squeeze until something comes off!”
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DroidMod : Trump is a warmonger, trying not to look like a warmonger. And, your job is to help him with that Propaganda. But, the world has watched, while he ripped up his deal with Iran, broke America’s word, threatened and bullied them, while the Europeans have been trying to keep the peace and hold up the West’s end, without him. Now, he’s ramping up the Military presence, using the Saudis to frame them; making it look like Iran is STARTING the war, when we all KNOW it’s the LAST thing they want. And, he expects us to, “believe,” the intel coming from the SAME PEOPLE that he ROUTINELY calls, “liars,” EVERY DAY? He’s compared the CIA to, “Nazi Germany,” and we’re all meant to flip flop at his rate? America’s NOT buying it, son. Trump will have to look elsewhere for a bump in the polls. A war will finish him . . . Smh
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DroidMod : So, you DO want a war with Iran. Got it. Why’re you calling Trump’s opponents the, “warmongers,” then? You make no sense. And, I obviously Triggered you, to get three in a row? So, the Propaganda from Russia is, “praise Trump for peace, because we don’t want the US in Iran, stealing all their oil, and busting up Putin’s major smuggling hub,” right? This is like your racism. You guys must be SO conflicted, because you WANT to hate the Jews, but you’re only allowed to pick on people of different color, right? Very confused . . . smh 🙂
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DroidMod : Iran is also ALLIES with Russia, son. That’s just a fact. They have oil and Putin smuggles weapons through their region. And, “operatives,” like the Russian mercs that America blew away, when they attacked them in Syria, several months ago. They got there using Iranian Transport and on Iranian smuggling routes. So, it may make you, “emotional,” and triggered, but don’t shoot the messenger, kid?
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DroidMod : And, please . . . Don’t be SO naive, as to imagine that you can, “rate,” countries, like a game of Top Trumps, son? . . . Who has the largest army? North Korea. The most nukes? China. Spends the most MONEY on the military? The US. I could go all day with this list, but, you get the picture; it’s not a game, kid. And, it’s a VERY complex situation, for which Trump and his Trolls are not intellectually equipped. Maybe you’re the one, “flattering,” himself, huh, kid? . . . 🤔
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Mary Rodger : Look, guys, here’s what happened: Fire and Fury happened. Trump, in his IMPOTENT RAGE, demanded a, “Counter NOVEL,” to push back. A HACK, hastily cobbled together the, “narrative,” that Trump wants. I’d bet SERIOUS MONEY, there will be sections of the book that suddenly LURCH, from adult prose, to the child-like boasts of a 9 years old, and then will go back to normal, “grown up,” lying: the Trumpski’s inserts. DON’T BUY IT! The reviews will tell you all you need to know 😁
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Nationalise water and transport. Save the tax payers from having to pay for Tory greed and force fines on the previous owners, taken out of the bonds issued for the purchases. Then use that fund for a public housing startup service for young families. No rents, but zero interest loans, payable after the mortgages. And designate the houses by percentage minimums for every constituency, with councils empowered to decide where they go in their own zones, by a deadline. If they fail to meet the deadline, the money goes back into the central pot to be reallocated to constituencies which have been fulfilling their obligations.
Meanwhile, start immediate negotiations with the EU with the long term goal of re-entering the single market. Some good will can be generated by reaffirming our commitment to international law and enshrining the EU human rights legislation into our own books.
Use windfall taxes to lower energy prices and shore up our military, and take some windfalls from unusual places, like the arms industry, who will have a vested interest in remaining in business with a nation that’s growing its armed services and is producing replacement weapons and equipment for all the stuff we’re sending to Ukraine, which shall be increasing for the next couple of years anyway.
While all this is happening, grab up the headlines by reopening all the books into Windrush, Grenfell Tower and the post office scandals and prosecuting people. Where prosecutions are no longer possible, or loopholes allow the culpable to walk free, take away their gongs and introduce legislation to prevent further such abuses and to close any escape hatches for those who might think they can get away with stuff. While those books are open, you are all but certain to catch people with their hands in the tills, or burying bad news, in the act. Make examples of them.
Play to your strengths, sound financial management and work on your weaknesses, like social media and popular public figures in the media. And, while we’re at it, crush the client media with a raft of legislation that levels the playing field. You can’t tell people what to say, but you can make statements as to political affiliations mandatory on all outlets and publications, thus being able to hold those with none to account, and enforcing equal numbers of outlets permitted (never exceeded) nationally and regionally.
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@jaybingham3711 : There are countless examples of great physicists and chemists who have gone to their graves never knowing that their breakthroughs would be accepted and recognised by a tardy, ungrateful world. Einstein is the exception of the lionised man in his own lifetime. Indeed, some of physics’ greatest thinkers have committed suicide in the face of mockery and rejection, or died in poverty, only to have their theories form the basis of what we all know now or their work form the standard by which we all do things now. From Mendeleev to Tesla, the list is long. All because of rampant egos, which force humanity to have to wait for a generation for the old thinkers to die off, before new ideas are allowed, “permission,” to be right.
Now I feel like we’re all waiting for Alan Guth to die before someone says, “But, wouldn’t time have expanded at the same rate as space? After all, E=MC2 and all that?” and wins a Nobel Prize for his special theory of the bleedin’ obvious! 😉
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@raidersacdc4892 : Just hold on to your seat, madam. The rest is coming. I predicted this would make a splash, since Nov 2020. I’ve been following, “developments.” The GOP might well die on this hill? Much, MUCH more to come . . . The, “nonsense,” you should, “stop,” is deliberately shilling for a fascist, criminal Qult of Karens, madam. It’s going to end badly for them
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Mr Explorer : To, “win,” an election, you have to get MORE votes. Trump LOST the election. The Electoral College will be reformed or removed, because people are sick of it. Of the last EIGHT presidents, only ONE Republican, (COUNT THEM? ONE!) has won the, “popular vote,” making a mockery of our Democracy. That is going to change. And, speaking of, “brainwashed,” that’s what causes people to make ASSumptions about those they disagree with. I am Conservative, NOT liberal. Just one of MILLIONS of Conservatives, who have been voting Democrat, at the Midterms, because Trump is a THREAT to Democracy 🙂
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typheran1 : You’re talking to a Conservative political historian, son. Trump is a Clear And Present Danger to America, and you have ALL your, “facts,” WRONG. You smell of RACIST, but you could be a foreign Troll? You HAVE TO BE one or the other, though. Now that, “no collusion,” is a proven LIE, there is NO REASON to support Trump, unless you are one or the other . . . SMH
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typheran1 : The Electoral Collage has a range of parameters upon which they are, “supposed,” to base their individual decisions. You should READ about that, someday, so you don’t sound so ignorant? “Popular Vote,” is one of those parameters. There was NO justification for setting that aside, in this case. And, the American people are tired of having their Democracy undermined. The EC WILL be reformed, or done away with, and it will only have itself to blame. Regardless of whatever a stupid Troll says, in their lame attempt to redefine the meaning of the term, “election.” 🙂
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typheran1 : Reality Check: Unless you are a Racist or a Foreign Troll, there is NOTHING in it for you. FACT. What other POSSIBLE reason could any, “American,” HAVE, for supporting a man who said, “no collusion,” every day, and is now KNOWN to have LIED to your stupid face? Forget the, “legality,” of it, for a moment? It’s just a FACT that Trump was ATTEMPTING to do a MAJOR business deal, direct with Putin, and LIED to you about it, FOR TWO YEARS! NOTHING that POS says turns out to be true. In fact, his statements are a perfect barometer. You only have to REVERSE everything that comes out of his mouth, to get to the FACTS. Whatever he accuses others of, is what he’s DOING. Seriously. WTF is WRONG with you? Oh, I know; you’re a RACIST or a FOREIGN TROLL. There is NO ONE LEFT! . . . SMH
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@massivehero4871 : Yeah, you, “could go on.” Please don’t. Farage is King Cnut telling the tide to stop. You can’t just say, “zero net migration,” and watch as it happens, son. But, people who know better than you will explain why we NEED, “positive net migration,” to grow our economy, our workforce, our power. Shrinking populations is the biggest threat to western development in the developed world.
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Joe Holland : Trumpski IS, “taking a salary,” which he gets a $150,000 kick-back for, IF he gives it to, “charity.” Therefore, Trumpski is costing the Tax Payer MORE than ANY previous POTUS, even when you adjust the cost for inflation. He’s YET to make that, “donation,” so we’ll SEE if he does and if it goes to a REAL charity, and not one of his Laundering outfits? STOP swallowing the PROPAGANDA, as that’s ALL it is . . . SMH . . .
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@bigcity2085 : You’re reading events without knowledge of the man, or so it strikes me. His stated goal has been to take back all of the old, Stalinist, borders. That is in the speeches he gives to his people and the articles he writes. And those old borders include swallowing up Finland, Estonia, Georgia, Poland, even East Germany, among others. Though, according to Russian State TV, they simply plan to take the whole of Germany this time. Delusional? Of course. Do they even believe it themselves? I doubt it. But, it is their way of doing business with the west, to be opportunistic when circumstances allow and to say, after the fact, “Well, we always said this was ours, didn’t we?”
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@rufescens : Every year or so the US holds a dog and pony show called, “Raising the Debt Ceiling.” And every year or so, the opposition to the governing power uses their potential refusal to go along with the raise as a negotiating tool, to get some of their own, less popular legislation included in the Bill and across the line. Sometimes it goes right down to the wire. But, in the end, they always have to raise it for the country to keep doing business with the world and dominating it economically. Now, I hasten to add that I’m no financial expert (indeed I am both dyslexic and a math dunce) but observation has taught me this much. So, whilst interesting, and I would like to hear Jake’s thoughts on this, in so much as they pertain to the Russian war in Ukraine, it’s not something people generally lose much sleep over in America. It’s more like when mommy and daddy are fighting again, and the rest of us just go off to play with our toys and hope we don’t get hit by the crockery.
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Lynda Kelly : Wow! Did you SEE all that Emotion, spilling out of the trolls? I touched a nerve, there I think? You are right, Lynda. The trolls want us to think that one American life is worth 10,000 of any other nation, unless it’s a black American or, God forbid, a Muslim American, in which case they’ll probably be paralysed by confusion.
But, what makes me laugh, is that they say “Russia is our friend!” And in the very next breath, they say, “Don’t provoke Russia or they’ll NUKE US ALL!” And they can’t see WHY such MAD, COWARDLY “logic” fails to gain traction??? They REALLY just want us to be a COWARDLY as them. Even though it is a FACT that EVERY TIME Putin has been challenge with a fight he might lose, he’s backed down. We’ve ALREADY given them Syria on a plate, and THEY just want to GROVEL to Putin, until he’s running America without having to PRETEND that he isn’t!
Trump “fans” are almost as INSANE as Trump! Except for the Russian ones, PRETENDING to be Americans. And the ones, being paid by Russian Shell Companies, to bleat on threads that they have no business watching, let alone COMMENTING on, will be rooted out, in the end. Even the ones that don’t even KNOW that it’s the Russians who are paying them.
They are COWARDS with NO REGARD FOR ANY LIFE, other than their own. And that very selfishness will be their undoing
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A rat betrayed by another rat. No downside, really. But I just hope people will remember: If Isabella Oakshot, the leaker in chief, was, “acting in the public interest,” she would simply have put all of these WhatsApp messages into the public domain, allowing us to sift them and draw our own conclusions. Instead, she’s making a FORTUNE out of a series of curated, highly paid, narrative driven, leaks. They’re all just rats.
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Theresa Terry : America will be very similar to Russia soon, since the Coup was completed at the risible, rigged, Impeachment, “trial.” Once the rigged, “elections,” are over, we won’t have ANY, “influence,” in that region, as it will all be up to Putin. America is already less influential in world affairs, by isolationist choice, and by the fact that our Dictator keeps getting played. He’s as gullible with other Dictators as he seems to think the American people are. Having said that, he may well be right? No one wants to admit that the Republic has already FALLEN. The Dems, because they’re too close to the problem, and their huge egos won’t allow them to believe that they can’t personally change the course of American history; and the Republicans, because they have learned from Putin that the one thing a modern Dictatorship NEVER does, is admit that it’s a Dictatorship. So, we’ll get FAKE Democracy, like Russia’s, and be, “told,” that we’re, “influencing,” events that we care about. And, as it becomes more and more OBVIOUS that we’re in a Dictatorship, fewer and fewer people will be willing to state that fact out loud. So, I really wouldn’t concern myself with Syria’s problems any more, since Putin ordered Trump to withdraw our forces from the zone? It’s not like we can, “do,” anything about it? We can’t even unseat our own Dictatorship, let alone theirs? Christ! We don’t even WANT to admit it’s THERE! Because, if we got REAL, then we’d have to admit to ourselves that the only way to remove a Dictator is REVOLUTION; Ukraine-Style, without weapons . . . Or, we can just carry on being pussies, and PRETEND we would be ALLOWED to, “Vote,” our Dictatorship out of power, so that an ENTIRE administration would go to jail? . . . SMH
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Except he left out the reason Putin has invaded Ukraine. This is why academics need to get out more. History is useless without context, invaluable with it. Ukraine is sitting on the biggest gas and oil reserves outside of Russia. Putin has made sure they never get developed by stealing them in Crimea and fomenting trouble in the Donbas region. But now Shell, Exxon and BP have all confirmed even bigger finds in the west of the country, outside of Putin’s reach, the only way he can prevent their development is by stealing the whole country and sitting on them himself.
So long as they are never drilled, he remains the biggest energy exporter in Europe and the 2nd biggest in the world. He doesn’t want to drill them himself. He just wants to ensure no one else does. But, if Putin had ever read a little history, he’d understand that the west has NEVER allowed themselves to lose control over energy reserves in a hundred years. Not since, “energy security,” has been a thing.
This is not a war. This is an armed robbery, pure and simples. And he’ll lose. In 20 or 30 years, it won’t matter, because no one will be using fossil fuels. But psycho boy Putin doesn’t care what mess he leaves behind to bequeath his successors. In fact, it probably massages his ego to think the country will collapse when he’s gone, making it look like only he could run Mother Russia? Who cares? The madman needs to go now. We must sanction him into the Stone Age until his people overthrow him. Better that than starving?
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@matthiasknutzen6061 : Do some reading on the subject, check out Shell, BP and Exxon’s experiences in the area, since they made a deal with Ukraine to develop the finds and draw your own conclusions? Wherever the reserves have shown up, Russia has either occupied the territory, or fomented, “separatists,” in the region in question. I’ll make a bet with you. I bet Putin’s forces will head to the Carpathian Mountains? And where they stop will be all around the latest reserves, instead of the logical points that cut off the access corridor, or as well as those points. I’ve been watching their progress on Googlemaps. So predictable. All dictators are. And the west knows EXACTLY what he’s doing. They don’t like to talk about it, but they’re not dim.
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Jeff Matthew : Look, if Trump is impeached, the Mueller investigation doesn’t STOP. There is NO REASON why we can’t have our cake AND eat it, here? If Trump was assassinated TODAY (God forbid, ‘cos I wanna’ see him do time) the investigation will ROLL ON, REGARDLESS! It’s NOT like, impeaching Trump NOW would prevent the TRUTH from coming out?
I mean, JUST LISTEN to what that guy SAID?!?! Each day that passes, with Trump going unchallenged, as he hacks away at our DEMOCRACY, makes it HARDER to get his ever extending roots out. And makes us LESS a “democracy” AND makes us a LAUGHING STOCK to other democracies. Pelossi is playing politics, because she thinks that, after the 2018 elections, they MAY have enough Dems in office to impeach without a fight. But, she’s GAMBLING, while she looks to her OWN political future. I say REMOVE Trump NOW. He’s ruining the country
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@lisasmith4677 : Who’s life was, “destroyed,” madam? You don’t mean Lewinski’s, surely? The woman who only came into the spotlight for the money and attention, of which she was rewarded with ample of both? The consenting adult who was not only so immoral, she didn’t care about Bill’s wife, or blowing him in the workplace, or that it would hurt the country? You can’t TEACH that level of depraved indifference! But, I guess you’re going with the, “vulnerable, impressionable,” girl thing, right? Billy used the Force on her or something? And not that she was chosen as one of the smartest, brightest, most independent young adults with a potential for a future in politics that was so obvious that she was offered an internship in the White House? One of the most fiercely competed after positions imaginable? The rank hypocrisy and revolting prurience of your, “tribe,” sickens most thinking people. 🙄
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@franklin9400 : She did just fine out of it, and knew what she was doing, every step of the way. Bill’s not a Jedi? He didn’t use anything but his power and charm. Are we meant to conclude that Ms Lewinski was not at all responsible for putting his wife through that appalling nightmare of humiliation? She didn’t care about the harm she’d done to his family, or his innocent children? Or the harm she did to the tax payer and the state of our politics? Of course, we had money to burn (literally) back then, but wow! She was only there because she was, like ANY intern that makes it all the way to the WHITE HOUSE, meant to be brighter, smarter, better educated, and more highly aware of moral philosophy than the average young woman among her peer group! If the BJ in the Oval Office didn’t show her DEPRAVED indifference to the country’s interests, and practically GOP LEVELS of rank selfishness, then certainly her bringing it into the public domain did! The only, “victims,” in that story were his wife, his kids and the tax payers! Lisa’s talking unqualified BOLLOX! Anyone remember the Kennedy’s? Didn’t THEY, “set the bar,” pretty low? They literally passed women around between them! Including Marilyn Munro! Oh, but Lisa isn’t being paid to talk about THEM is she? Her, “job,” is to swipe at the Clinton’s for reason which I doubt even SHE can remember, so addled are her brains, from Trumpoganda and Foxification! These people! . . . Sheesh! . . . 🙄✌️
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Fx Kacy : It’s a desperate Hail Mary, because his advisors have said all his callousness and racism only appeals to the base, who have nowhere else to go, so he needs to try whining over the Normals, by showing he, “cares.” Remember, it’s not about actually, “winning.” It’s only to make it look, “plausible,” when the GOP RIGS the, “elections.” They don’t want to be forced to SHOW you it’s a Dictatorship, unless they have to. They’re going to jail when they lose, and they know it. They simply will not allow that. They CAN’T allow democratic elections? What do you think Bill Barr’s expanding his unconstitutional, illegal, unmarked SS units for? Your, “protection?” No! It’s for the reaction to having America’s elections STOLEN.
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Exactly. We’re not doing nearly enough! Putin hoarded enough gold for Russia’s economy to hold out for a couple of years.
That’s why we HAVE TO invest much MORE into defeating Putin. The blood and treasure we invest now will save us a fortune down the line. Finland and Sweden joining NATO will be a real body blow to all of Putin’s rhetoric at home, but we HAVE TO get Germany to lead the way and cut off ALL energy supplies from Russia, and rally Europe and America into an energy pact of assured mutual support.
Western Europeans are still funding the very war we want to stop! The Ruble was bound to bounce back, due to internal demand, and we simply don’t have the time to grind down Russia’s economy over years! Ukraine needs a full navy and airforce to support its heavy infantry in attacking Russia on all fronts, while Europe STOPS giving Putin at least a billion a week to kill, rape, torture and murder more Ukrainians en masse and individually!
It’s the very LEAST we owe them! And it’s our best hope for a lasting peace. Two thirds of the world’s grain imports, 50% of the elements vital for microchip technology (anyone who tried to buy a PlayStation 5 knows there’s a worldwide shortage of microchips) and Shell, Exxon and BP spent billions on the rights to develop the massive oil and gas reserves in Ukraine, which they say rivals that of Russia itself! So the implications for world security are incalculable!
Imagine if Putin succeeded in taking all of Ukraine and controlled more of the world’s energy reserves than any other individual? Combined with their ally, China, taking control of ALL technology manufacturing between them! Taiwan manufactured two thirds of the world’s microchips out of ONE SINGLE FACTORY! When Covid forced them to close temporarily, that’s when the microchip shortage effected the entire planet. So imagine China owning Taiwan and Putin having control of most of the elements used in their manufacture between them? It would be the end for the west.
And there’s the simple matter of morality and human cost, underlining all of this. Ukraine has sacrificed too much for all of us, fighting on our front lines. Putin wants Germany, the economic power house of Europe, and will impose the old East German borders at the very least if we let him. It all comes down to CRUSHING his forces in Ukraine, NOW! We’re not doing nearly enough.
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The entire world is turning into a sewer of immoral chisellers. We are all turning each other angry, feeling disempowered, resentful, untrusting and bitter.
If we carry on like this, with the most egregious examples being at the very top of society, spilling this shite down onto the upturned faces of anyone stupid enough to look up to them, we will deserve our downfall.
I literally thank GOD that people like you, Louis, are around. You are setting one of the far too few examples that we all should follow: not just for standing up to these pr*#ks, but your authentic outrage at this kind of erosion of people’s basic rights. You speak my heart and galvanise me into action; especially on behalf of others.
Thank you, Louis. I will click the link.
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MAGArmy420 : You need to understand that ONLY other Trolls are going to trawl through your cut-&-paste, “arguments,” which, “prove,” nothing more than the fact that you DON’T do your OWN, “Thinking.” Keep to the point and you won’t have to, ahem, “borrow,” so much from your racist, “sources,” OK? Racist 😊
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MAGArmy420 : There are ELEVEN Republican, “candidates,” who are either Klan Members, Neo Nazis, or otherwise identified, OPENLY, with RACIST (bowel) “movements.” They’re NOT a, “Secret,” so look them up? Do your OWN homework. Some of them have been OUTED, but some of them are NOT even pretending. So, you CANNOT DENY IT. Racist
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holyfingshit : As I said, “from the Troll’s perspective,” NOT in any REAL terms. N Korea has been a f**king DISASTER and in, “normal,” times, the outcry around the WORLD would have ended Trump’s treason, right there. So far as the Iran thing is concerned; that’s a nothing burger. Iran is Putin’s main ally in the Middle East (after, or along with, Syria) and Putin won’t give Trump permission to follow through in any, “meaningful,” way. We ALL know that Trump feels embarrassed by his APPALLING display of WEAKNESS and COWARDICE at Helsinki, and needs to toss his fan-base a, “strong man,” act, bone. That’s the whole deal, right there. Nothing will, “develop,” from THAT situation. Not unless Putin actively BETRAYS Iran? And he would demand a high price for something like that. Trump doesn’t have the political capital, right now. He probably only wants to meet Putin again, so he can walk back some of the promises he made, in their Secret Meeting, anyway? Trump probably promised to pull out of Syria, BEFORE the Mid Terms, in return for help with those pesky Polling Computers? Or some such TREACHERY . . . SMH
Iran is just for show, right now. It’s not even for the benefit of, “normals.” Just a sop for the racist base
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A genuine secret to successful podcasting that not many people know: NEVER allow the term, “um,” “ah,” or, “errrr,” to make it to the final cut. And NEVER say, “um,” or, “er,” live. There are techniques you can adopt for seeing to this and I promise you it will make the difference between how many audience members tune in and how many you retain for an entire podcast.
It’s a genuine psychological reaction that is only just showing up in studies, but something we can all intuitively grasp. Umming and erring is what makes people tune out, change the channel, or decide it’s frustrating to listen to. It’s the one thing that Radio 4 live broadcasting is prescient about and does well. And I don’t doubt it is included in their training packages. That is, “training,” for those presenters who aren’t already too famous and prickly to admit they could benefit from training.
Trust me on this. It will change your fortunes.
The brain just reacts super-negatively to hesitations and digressions. Especially impatient or autistic brains, like mine. But autism is far more wide spread in the world than most people realise. And the key to audience retention lies here, in this one small change to presentation style (especially in live broadcasts) that will probably prove to be the biggest net positive for the least effort.
Never allow yourself to digress (always stick to the point) and never, “um,” and, “err.” I know I come off as a bit dotty, but I honestly would bet serious money that you’ll notice a huge benefit in very little time, once you master the technique.
And, obviously, I’m speaking as a (none member. I don’t, “join,” groups) huge fan, wishing you nothing but success and growth in the future.
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say what : John Doe, again. Using one of your “alternative” accounts, I see? You sound VERY, “Butt Hurt.” And that’s your problem. Conservatives HATE Trump, now that they SEE what he’s about. They have been VOTING to kick out the GOP in, “safe states,” like Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc. And it is BECAUSE of “people” like YOU. You have NO WORDS to defend Trumpski, so you BLEAT with anger, and Conservatives are SICKENED and ASHAMED of Trump. They can SEE that ANYTHING “good” that is happening, can be handled BETTER by a REAL politician and it will do NO HARM to get RID of Trumpski, whereas the risk of keeping him, remains a THREAT. So KEEP IT UP, “Butt Hurt,” keep it up 🤣
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Well, certainly the prosperous business types, the people who are looking to get their cash and their families out of Russia, for instance, are going to be less inclined to bring any of that prosperity to such a narrow minded, stupidly obtuse country.
Cruella seems to think that having brown skin somehow insulates her from criticism for incendiary remarks? Survivors of the Holocaust have gone so far as to point out the parallels between her speeches in the Commons and the type of reckless rhetoric that was, “normalised,” prior to the death camps, which lead to the type of environment where Nazism was just one small step from where things already were. THAT is the danger that childishly wrongheaded people like Cruella represents.
The fact that the security services DON’T TRUST HER and have said so, going so far as to publish the SIX occasions when she CRIMINALLY broke the Ministerial Code, DESPITE warnings, shows that she is either incompetent or worse; actively hostile to Britain’s interests.
Why she has, “responsibility,” for anything is beyond me? But keeping her in the post that she was so unfit for that she lost her job once before, smacks of Tory Trolling of the British public? It’s like a final smack in the face from a party that knows it’s about to be fired by the people. Sunak really soiled his own bed by allowing her back in his cabinet whilst claiming he was all about, “integrity.” But at least they cannot hide who they REALLY are.
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@opinion3742 : I didn’t ask for, “proof,” of anything. I merely stated an opinion, which I stand by. Yes, phobias are by definition, “irrational fears,” or they would not be phobias. You made no mention of, “phobias,” in your initial comment, so I can hardly be expected to retrospectively change the terms of the discussion and remain sincere. Nor can you, but you are adding information in manner that does not entirely strike as me as being in good faith.
Frankly, the, “argument,” which goes, traditionally, something like, “She was raped by a black man, now you can’t blame her for hating all black men,” is both disingenuous and far too common (at least, variations on that theme are) for them to be based in any kind of reality.
You happen to be holding this discussion with a former psychotherapist (in a former life) and I can tell you that such racial fixations, as a direct result of personal trauma, are both statistically vanishingly rare and anecdotally so too. However, such fixations are less rare in racially charged discussions; but I can only speak from personal experience there, with no statistical record to back up the fact that I’ve heard it far too often for my own liking and I’d be willing to bet real money that others will say they have too.
I cannot speak to your friend’s experience. He has my sympathy. But I can tell you, if all you say is as accurate as you claim it is, (assuming you have not misinterpreted what you sincerely apprehend?) any treatment toward recovery and learning to live with that trauma no longer dominating your friend’s thoughts and actions, will involve addressing underlying issues which were brought to the fore by said events. It will be a great help to your friend, therefore, if he is not racist.
Because I can tell you for a scientific fact that trauma does not make people racist. It may well bring out a tendency, underlying issue, or render someone vulnerable to the indoctrination of other racists? But, racism is acquired, rather like a disease. You must be exposed to and taught how to be a racist. And that requires an damaged environment and other undermining issues to be on hand.
These are simple facts. Please do not attempt to imply that I am in some way, “discounting,” or otherwise diminishing your friend’s tragic experience. I am not. All I am saying is that his trauma did not make him a racist. Because that’s a fact.
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@opinion3742 : Try the book, “How To Argue With A Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality.” By Adam Rutherford? You can get it as an audiobook on Audible, if you prefer? You would really need to do a lot of reading of different types, but that’s an up to date starting point, dealing with issues that are still making the news now and casting a broad eye over wider topics. It will point you in directions where you can do more reading and research too, if that’s your bag?
I agree whole heartedly that you will never, “Persuade,” or, “tell off,” or, “argue,” someone to stop disagreeing with you, but you may well win them over. I would recommend some good fiction too, though. So as to get a grip on the feelings and issues that go with existing in a life that you can never really experience for yourself. When you identify with a character and share their emotions, it changes you from the inside. When you get stuff from the news, documentaries, etc, it changes you from the outside. When the two things meet in the middle, you are becoming a better person.
That’s just my personal opinion.
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To everyone who supports the view, “We’re sick of hearing about Covid. It’s time to move on.” If that’s what you believe, then HELP US ALL MOVE ON, by COOPERATING FULLY so we can do EXACTLY THAT!
Yes, many will never be able to move on due to personal loss. I am included in that number. But, I am just as, if not more, keen to get past this, rather than hearing about the selfish and entitled, lying and stalling to get out of accountability! Like this doctor pointed out, we WILL face another pandemic again. Only next time could be a worse disease with a swifter mortality rate and bigger R-0. And then we’ll ALL be damned grateful that we took the time to make sure we understood everything about the last one, and regulated for the maximum survival rates!
Anyone in their right mind KNOWS that sociopaths like Johnson belong in jail, for this and countless other offences. But when I hear them whining about not getting special treatment and being warned before people report their CRIMINALITY to the police, I choke!
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@AlrekArinbjorn : I certainly agree with that last part, about forcing them out of their monopoly and into a more level playing field, or more open market. But, it’s not so much, “micro managing,” that’s a problem for me, as their MACRO managing, forcing us all down the same uniformed, one size fits all solutions. Though I don’t want an absolute ruling in favor of the plaintiffs, I do think it’s time Google compromised.
I’ve ditched the Google search engine in favor of Bing, which is introducing ChatGPT into its model. You have to join a waitlist at present, but it’s going to revolutionise accessing information, and refining searches. Imagine you could have a conversation with the smartest person on the planet, who also has an infallible memory for literally every fact known to human kind that was ever written down, broadcast, shown in a theatre or on film, or stated in any public meeting space? And imagine that smartest person only wants to give you the help you need and lives for nothing else? Now, your only limit is your imagination. Google will not be able to compete, except by doing the same thing with their own chat-bot. I think it’s probably going to be good for the people to reintroduce a little serious competition.
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Interestingly, if you check the figures you will see that energy prices are back where they were before the war broke out in Ukraine. Jake Broe, on his YouTube channel offered a recent analysis of what is going on worldwide in connection to the policies around energy that the western world are supporting, in order to collapse the Russian economy. These are things that the management of the Fed in the US cannot say out loud, but seem clearly linked. He begins by describing the sudden collapse of an American Bank (the 18th richest bank in America) which is occurring right now, and how the silicone valley investors all lost their money due to a rush. It’s a big deal in US financial news, but it plays a role in geo politics which is fascinating to see unfold in real time, so to speak. I highly recommend his channel for those interested in the day to day events involving the Ukraine War.
Inflation in America is far lower than in Britain, having peaked at 9% early last year, and steadily dropping since then. Their economic issues are considerably different from ours now. Ours are more complex, given the fluidity of our position as we renegotiate our place with respect to Europe. But it is not as dire as many predicted either.
That’s of little comfort to those who cannot afford to rent a home within miles of their workplace, let alone own one. But we are seeing the emergence of a new Class Divide, between the Haves, who seem to have it all, and the Have Nots, who seem to have less each year. Very few are sitting in that middle class of which we’re so fond of protecting like it was at the heart of British identity. It will be interesting to see where that goes from here?
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Kermit T. Frog : I am forced to say that CNN has dropped the ball, BADLY, on this one. At least on YouTube, on which they have SIX Kanye, “stories,” and then the Florida Storms, and eventually, all the way down their list of priorities, comes the attempted kidnapping, rendition gone south, murder and dismembering of an American journalist. I mean, WHO GIVES a S**T about KANYE???
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Andie Isabella : It seems people were right? Trump’s rhetoric has been received in other, anti-democratic, countries, like a call to arms; along the lines of, “Russier, if you’re listening.” Now, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria and others are testing the waters, pushing the boundaries, and ensuring their targets are journalists, to see what America will do about it . . . If anything? While Russia is getting more blatant than ever. Trump is emboldening our enemies, because decent people are his enemies too. Democracy is gasping for breath
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Andie Isabella : Agreed. Just ONE, closer look at ONE part of your comment, for example:
If and when Trump’s wages, “go to a charity,” I would be looking to see WHAT “Charity” that is, or if it’s just another of his laundering outfits. Then there’s the fact that he has NOT, “refused,” the wages, but accepted them, “so as to give them to charity,” in the first place, which means: a $150,000 kickback, from the tax man, each year, plus the wage = (inflation adjusted) Trump is the most EXPENSIVE President in America’s history. And WE are paying that, out of our pockets.
There is a peculiar species of idiocy abroad, right now. I use the term, not pejoratively, but literally: wilful ignorance and the refusal to accept knowledge; “idiocy.” Or, there’s the clinical definition, which derives a person of a certain, low IQ, level, actually incapable of responding appropriately to, or even comprehending, basic information. Either will do. It’s very sinister.
The practical upshot, for you and me? Democracy is either finished off, for good, at the Midterms. Or, we get to limp on, battling for justice, at some level, while knowing that we’ll probably never really attain a full measure of it. What else is there? But the fight for justice? If American Democracy dies, the rest of the world’s will follow, in short order
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Slight side question here but, Did Liberty Macenea invent a new word? “Precarity,” was always, “precariousness,” in my dictionary. I’m interested because I’ve noticed that the rate at which new words and terms are entering the English lexicon seems to be increasing? And with speedier changes in language, comes speedier changes in thought and the very tools we use to communicate those changes: our words. This is very much your bailiwick, as the philosophical implications of our language changing at an increasing rate, to accommodate new ideas, new ways of thinking and expressing thoughts, songs, novels, scripts and ideas, is potentially profound. I just find that fascinating, because it is also reflected in the world wide reaction to gender fluidity, and this, “Trad-Wife,” thing seems like a, “conservative,” with a small, “c,” reaction to that.
I think it’s an expression of fear at a world changing into a place we don’t recognise from our childhoods. Whether that’s a good or bad thing will depend on your politics to a large degree. So, it will be the exceptions that will be most interesting, culturally.
But, I did have to laugh out loud, quite literally, at hearing all that stuff about the, “Catholic Aesthetic.” My gut reaction was, “Yeah, only the priests, cardinals and the pope are allowed to spend hours getting all dolled up, to impress the little kids, right?”
Nevertheless, I am fascinated to see how this one pans out. It was news to me until I watched this video, but then, I’m older than god and twice as pissed off. But, I would be equally fascinated to hear a Wisecrack discussion on language, (with the implications of chat-bots and other influences) most of all with reflections on the rapid pace of change. Is that a real thing, or does it just seem that way?
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@SergioBocanegra : Sounds like you went to hell and back? You have my sympathy. My comment was about language (above) but the Catholic tradition of controlling language is literally thousands of years old. Inherited by the pontiffs who predated them. Did you have a sense of the way the mysteries of the important services are all conducted in Latin, with full knowledge that the congregation does not speak it and is, therefore, reliant on these, “wizards,” to interpret it for them? The Catholics have been masters of using language as a control mechanism for countless generations.
As to your actual experiences, I cannot relate to them directly, except in the sense of experiencing cruelty and hypocrisy at the hands of those entrusted with my care and education. So I feel deeply for you, knowing that these are experiences that can never be fully recovered from. Rather, they are ones that can be mastered and survived. Anyone who tells you that you cannot overcome them and find a good to come out of them, is wrong. That is a fact.
Thanks for sharing what must be very painful memories, and entrusting this crowd with them. You obviously don’t lack courage. ✌️
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@martinwinter615 : I think you’re missing the point? While I wouldn’t have begun by laying into you quite so hard, I would have asked, “What science of dating,” are you talking about? Because I’m all but certain that you won’t find any such thing in respectable academic circles? You may find, “data,” studies and the topic of dating, discussed as part of a broader academic study, but you will not find it as an academic discipline. And that appears to be what Mr W took issue with: the way you posit, “the science of dating,” as though it was an acknowledged academic field, instead of the marketing tool that it really is.
I share Mr W’s concern with the, “legitimacy crisis,” of academia being undermined by bogus claims being made by those who care far more about what’s in your bank account than contributing to the landscape of learning.
I’m not dismissing you out of hand, as it’s entirely possible that you merely have your terms mixed up? This would be a natural consequence of spending time on things that purport to be science, which aren’t. There’s a lot of that about. And it would be unfair to start from the assumption that everyone should be able to tell, “sales technique,” from, “academia,” when the advertisers who peddle such nonsense have spent fortunes on deceiving the general public into making precisely that mistake.
But, now you know, there is no such thing as the, “science of dating.” Now you have been made aware that your belief in such a thing was simply born out of the machinations of people who want to take advantage of the fact that you don’t have a sufficiently academic background to make that distinction. And hopefully, you can respond to that in a constructive way, for your own benefit as much as the people you discuss such things with?
As to your criticisms of Wisecrack’s approach . . . Well, that claim is empirically wrong. They are always, “showing their receipts,” so to speak, and throughout this whole video they gave you the findings of relevant studies and curated relevant quotes from the philosophers they discussed.
The whole point of their videos is to discuss what current academia is finding in modern culture, explain the history behind these ideas, and to show what current research finds to be occurring together; and, most importantly, they show it all from the point of view of a particular school of philosophy, along with any rival thought, or contradictory philosophies out there.
Perhaps what you’re really looking for is something on social psychology, sociology or one of the social sciences that prefers numbers and statistics over the thinking that goes behind people’s collective behaviour? It seems you were frustrated by your inability to glean enough hard data from this video?
But that’s not what these videos are for. Rather, they want the opposite of that, (if they have any aim beyond making money with entertaining YouTube videos at all?) which is to make the viewer do all that heavy lifting for themselves. They don’t want to tell you WHAT to think, but encourage you to practice HOW to think. And that is something you must do for yourself.
I hope that cleared things up for you? Have a nice day.
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@ericdurae5085 : Um? . . . 🤔 . . . What on Earth made you draw that, somewhat hysterical, conclusion, son? And, if you feel so compelled to, “complain,” about it, why aren’t you talking to your representatives about it, and asking to speak to their, “supervisors,” instead of Karening on YouTube to a bunch of people who really don’t GIVE a f’k about your uninformed, emotional, unreasoning panic? . . . Seriously . . . Get a job? 🤦♂️🤷♂️🙄
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@Dagoth_Ur_1 : You can’t have an insurrection in a failed state, that is only defined as, “Afghanistan,” by the outside world, and is actually several different groups who don’t even recognise borders in the same way we do. Nor can you call it an insurrection, when most of the, “government,” was actually Taliban from the outset. America is a Republic, recognised as such by everyone in it. And to which it’s citizens have sworn oaths, or do not get to hold any office, military position or law enforcement post. You are comparing apples with Oranges. In fact you’re comparing oranges with rocks. It’s the dumbest, most grasping attempt at, “legitimising,” the Taliban I’ve ever heard! Just because trump has raped, stolen, lied, broken every deal, and killed more Americans than the Taliban, you can’t just get jealous that they’re back in office and trump isn’t, and then try to blame that on Joe Biden? 🤦♂️
Oh, and you asked for answer, you got an answer. Next time you need me to define English for you as well, buy a dictionary? 🤷♂️
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MDP_Toaster : America’s pressure on N Korea would have been pointless, unless all the surrounding nations joined in. So, what makes the US “special” in that regard? Russia AND China were sanction busting, only Russia kept being exposed, due to the fact that they did it with boats that were SEEN DOING IT. China did it over land, through areas that the free world does not have access to; though they DO have access to spies, which is how we know.
However, it will be a little ODD, don’t you think, if Trump is offered the Nobel Prize in his prison cell? Yes, that’s right. The POINT that you DON’T want to talk about. Remember? Nixon went to China, and still got BUSTED, because the LAW is STILL the LAW
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Phil, I just wanted to say this, apropos nothing. I’m 57 years old and have a long memory. Phrases that are right up there in my Top 10 favourites to here, along with, “Bring me sunshine,” (Morecambe and Wise) “Submitted for your approval,” (Rod Serling on The Twilight Zone) include, “Alright, my name’s Phil, and I like talking about politics.”
I just want to say THANK YOU for your contribution to the national dialogue. Your YouTube name is a stroke of genius, your tone (a bloke down the pub chatting) your expertise (always apparent, without any need to boast) your insights, occasional wit and your granular levels of well informed analysis, all come together to strike the PERFECT tone for reaching and engaging the maximum number of reasonable, thinking people at any level of the social strata.
You really SHOULD have been hired by the Labour Party. They missed a trick by not offering you a big brown envelope stuffed with cash. But I am so glad you are an independent analyst.
Seriously. Thank you.
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Ghenghy : Your OBVIOUS anger DEMONSTRATES that you are “upset” and “emotional” for all the WORLD TO SEE. But, THAT wasn’t, “my investigation,” son. The GOP made another silly panic move, at the behest of the Orange Ego Monster, leading to another Memo Battle. I’ve ALREADY explained this to you? Try to “think” and be a little less of a, “F**KING MORON,” as EX Tillerson, would put it. Do you “think” the WORLD disappears when you shut your eyes? Just because Mueller won’t tell YOU what he has, doesn’t mean it ain’t THERE??? What do ya’ THINK, son? That Eliot Ness TOLD Al Capone what EVIDENCE he had, so his “lawyers” knew what to make “DISAPPEAR” before the trial??? Wakey Wakey, Trumpy Flakey 🤣 😂 😁 😆 🤣
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Ghenghy : You sound angry and panicky dude? Who are you trying to convince? YOURSELF? Pelosi is NOT on the, “committee,” GENIUS, and Schiff said they haven’t been ALLOWED to “see anything” because they REFUSED to subpoena witnesses. What you have now, is YET ANOTHER Memo V Memo situation, split down partisan lines. So WHAT? Tray Gowdy put it best, when he said, “If you want the TRUTH, there’s NO POINT asking a bunch of politicians to find it for you.” That’s WHY he’s quitting. Oh, and he ALSO has, “TOTAL CONFIDENCE in Mueller.” What does THAT tell you, junior? We ALL KNOW you’re STILL SCARED. That’s WHY you come hear to WHINE about it. Why would you even CARE, otherwise? Transparent Troll 🤣
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You mention, “£28 billion,” that could be raised by simple, more logical reforms. Such reforms would raise my taxes, as we rent out property. But I fully support such reforms. I’m sure that most mid-level, “wealthy,” people would be happy to pay their fair share. It’s the very rich, who are also part of a self feeding, “self fulfilling,” loop. They get so rich by gaming the system and influencing politics by dark means, which creates a system with increasingly more people who got there by gaming the system, and appeals to the types of people who game the system, and so on.
Only a radical approach would work. But it would be so patently easy to explain, it would be incredibly popular politically. So, we are forced to conclude that all political parties have a vested interest in perpetuating inequality?
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Ace1000ks1975 : I guess, because it was a long time in the planning, between Russia, China, and others, who have invested the time and resources into bribing, compromising or both, around 90% of the GOP? AND because the people of the Western Democracies have grown fat and apathetic, always expecting, “someone else,” to sort their country’s problems out for them? The Obama’s of this world are partly to blame, for giving us a sense that nothing we do has any impact, and for ferociously persecuting anyone who messed with America’s secrets. The lesson, here, is that it is, “We, the People,” who are responsible for our Democracy. And we’ll be equally responsible for LOSING IT. Democracy is in THE battle for survival. And it REALLY IS up to us
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Ianthe Oates : Re’ your question, about the, “walkaway thing”? I don’t know what it is, exactly, but I DO KNOW that they describe it as a Pro-Trumpski (bowel) “movement.” THAT makes it “ADVERTISING” and, therefore, “SPAM,” which takes three clicks and as many seconds to REPORT. A LOT of people are doing the same as me, and suggest you join us? Wherever you see it; ESPECIALLY when they don’t even bother to add any comment with it, just REPORT IT as SPAM, and maybe we can kill the baby in the crib? After all, it’s ONLY PROPAGANDA. And it’s RIGHT OUT OF RUSSIA. REPORT SPAM! 👍
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ruth depew : You raise important points there. The ENTIRE PROPAGANDA around Trump has TWO essential features: Past focus and VICTIMHOOD. They DESPERATELY push the, “narrative,” that ANYONE who wants to see Trump and his GOONS in JAIL, has some AUTOMATIC adoration for Obama and Hillary. I used to think that their obtuseness was aimed at Anti-Trump people, but now I SEE, it’s for their OWN DRONES. They are DESPERATE to CONVINCE people that ALL Trump opponents are, “liberals,” who want to make it illegal to own a gun and have a religion. NOT to ALIENATE Trump’s opponents, but to hold on to, and EXPAND, their flock of SHEEPLE.
Which brings us to your point: their PERPETUAL sense of, “Butt Hurt,” VICTIMHOOD. How appealing it must be, to be told that, “you,” are NOT, “responsible,” for the fact that your life is crap and that your frustrating inability to express the hatred, racism and brutality that you always feel, without some serious pushback, is NOT YOUR FAULT. Along comes a guy who gives PERMISSION to be a full on NAZI and who says that EVERYTHING you’re bitter about is the FAULT of the, “OTHER.” Suddenly, not only can you BE RACIST, but it’s MANDATED, so as to BLAME Mexicans, Syrian Refugees and African Americans for Crime, Terrorism and the fact that EVERYONE is in MASSIVE DEBT! Conspiracy theories become the CATHARSIS, relieving all senses guilt, logic and personal responsibility.
Backed by this carefully nurtured sense of PARANOIA, we can now BLAME ANY ONE AND EVERYONE, and act like Hillary is STILL a, “THING,”!!! like she’d ever run for office again??? This propaganda is NOT about right minded people! It’s about gathering the WRONG minded people and KEEPING those already IN THE CULT!
Quite the revelation, when you think about it? . . . You’re an interesting person, ruth
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Imagine if they put one (just ONE!) senior GOP member on the witness stand? Just ask Lindsay Graham, “The steal was the reason for trump’s insurrection, and you said the steal was a thing, so tell us what your EVIDENCE for that is?” And, when America hears that, “The Steal AIN’T REAL!” from the GOP’s MOUTHS, that would put trump out of business! Because without the 5th Amendment to hide behind, on live TV, which one of them will risk a BILLION dollar lawsuit, Perjury and Conspiracy charges, by pretending it’s a thing?
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puertoricanboy100 : That sounds like a VERY Trump-Team kinda’ guy. Did you know that there was, back in the day, a legal dispute over Trump’s father’s last will and testament, between Donny and his brother? And that Denny’s “solution” to his problem was to withdraw his own nephew’s (his brother’s infant son’s) healthcare. Seriously! That baby was on a knife edge, at death’s door, and Donny realised he had control over the health policy, and took away the baby’s URGENT MEDICAL CARE, to make his brother cave in on their dispute. And it WORKED! This is ALL in the PUBLIC RECORD. So, it seems to me that, simply BEING THERE for the BIRTH of your OWN FLESH AND BLOOD, is probably a very minor request in their book; easily refused, without even a backward glance. They are SCUM. I REALLY can not think of a a more fitting description. SCUM OF THE EARTH
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avedic : I agree with you, but with one caveat; that, in addition to the “applause” is the M O N E Y. His business backers, the donors that payed for his campaign (the ones who aren’t Russian or working for the Russians) are into coal, oil and gas in a big way. He says he’s protecting the jobs of the little guy, though they WILL be laid off in due course, AFTER the moguls have drained what they can from these depleted mines. And they’ll do it in the tried and tested way: Lay off a few, so that the rest are willing to accept reduced wages and wouldn’t DARE consider union action or asking for a raise; and screw the last nickel out of them, before dumping them flat. Meanwhile, the rest of the world will be way ahead of the US, having invested in renewables and green energy. A few of the smarter, very small American companies will suddenly find the government knocking at their doors and will grow into overnight American Success stories, on government investment. But, America will be playing catch-up for generations, against China and Europe. All because of a know-nothing, walking waste of human tissue and his greedy little cartel. That’s my best guess
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Neuro : After 15 years, working in AAA games, your on, “shit pay,” and express nothing but contempt the people who pay your wages (the gamers) but, you don’t see the connection, there? Get a new job, instead of bitching at the people you SHOULD feel SOME humility toward? I mean, OK, the customer is not ALWAYS right, but if you hate us THAT much, FUCK OFF, and find something you LIKE doing. My brother has worked in the industry for about the same length of time as you (Rockstar) and he’s had it rough sometimes, but he’s never been a dick to the customers, biting the hand that feeds him. LEAVE your job. You will not be missed . . . Smh
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ErroneousClique : Imagine you bought a car, and had to make payments on it, over the course of a year, say? Imagine, after you get the car home, you find a letter on your doorstep, telling you that your first payment was insufficient, and they’re threatening a repo? A couple of calls later, you discover your contract now belongs to a different sales company, the terms and conditions of your contract are completely different, and the ONLY thing that’s iron clad about it, is your signature, meaning you either do it their way, or lose your car? And, if their way was the PRECISE way that you DIDN’T want to do it, which was WHY you signed up to the deal you, “thought,” you had, what will you do? I’ll tell you what you’ll do. Absolutely NOTHING. Because there’s NOTHING you can do. That’s why it matters.
This may be a considerably scaled down analogy (just a game), but with so MANY customers, the financial rewards for such a scam, work on a truly massive scale. It’s a con. People deliberately AVOID certain platforms, because they make REAL, FINANCIAL, DIFFERENCES to terms and conditions, where the game you, “thought,” you owned becomes impossible to play, unless you pay REAL money for the, “Surprise Mechanics.” That which you wanted to avoid, and which you KNOW the company you thought you were buying from does NOT do, becomes the only reality.
I agreed with your latter points. But, your opening point overlooks all of that. It’s a serious con, which will hurt the industry, because people will refuse to pre-order, and many will hold off buying games at all, until they’ve been going long enough for people to be sure there are no shenanigans going on. It matters a great deal, my friend ✌️
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Stretch76 : Awww, bless . . . You just don’t get it, do ya’, son? America MIGHT HAVE, “just moved on,” if it wasn’t for ALL these Trolls, making us suspicious. If you, “believed,” your own nonsense, WHY BE HERE? You’re not too confident, are you, kid? 🤔 Nah, judging by the behaviour of the Troll Army, somethin’s definitely up . . . 😁
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These people just don’t get it. It would be one thing if Lineker had made a pro or anti-Tory or Labour comment, but he didn’t. He simply pointed to a historical FACT about how language was used in 1930’s Germany to, “otherise,” specific groups, making it harder for us to think of them as people like us. Normalising terms like, “hoards,” and, “invasion,” is PRECISELY how it begins! How does it go? “First they came for the Jews and I said nothing. Then they came for gypsies, the gays, etc, etc, until they came for me, but there was no one left to speak for me.”
And if people are supporting the BBC’s decision, WHY are they not pointing to their STATED hypocrisy? They literally said, as part of their reasoning for this suspension, that Lineker, “is not a political commentator,” but surely the very LAST people we should tolerate ANY political opinions from should be news and politics commentators? Anyone want to talk about Andrew Neil?
Since when did the BBC see it as their, “responsibility,” to protect the thin skins of extremists in the Tory party? When one of their biggest donors was handed the job of chairman of the BBC perhaps?
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CNN: I understand that it is necessary to have representatives of the Trump Party there, to put their, “arguments,” forward. But, PLEASE? We find it exhausting, having to listen to these crazy, “Alex Jones,” types. It’s NOT FAIR to the viewer, to keep having Propagandists on. It’s just crazy. I get that Trump’s side of the argument HAS TO BE, “represented.” But, blatant LIARS, should be shut down and shut off. Truth is no longer the issue, here. The Republic is falling. It’s DANGEROUS
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And that’s what REALLY, “triggers,” the Cult of Trump. They’re scared alright, but not of the Dems. What they fear is the big, “We told you so,” that comes with the PROOF that THEY, the Cult of Trump, were Trump’s biggest TARGET! It was THEIR donations, from the Inauguration Fund, as early as 2016, to the NRA, to Steve Bannon’s Wall GoFundMe, that have been STOLEN. Their donations, taxes and “promises” made by trump; ALL LIES AND THEFT! They KNOW IT, deep down. And they just can’t face that TRUTH! ✌️
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last orders : They REALLY DO make up the most LUNATIC Propositions, about Trump, don’t they? “500 businesses,” MY ROYAL ASS! Trump would be lost, if you tried to explain to him how his piggy bank worked! Besides, ANYONE with that many, “businesses,” would be a target for the IRS and the FBI. You’d have to be TERRIBLE at business, if you couldn’t consolidate them into 10, let alone 50, let alone 500?!?!? Any REAL businessman, with any REAL success, is LAUGHING HIS ASS OFF at their RIDICULOUS, CARTOONISH, Propaganda! 🤣✌️
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@michaelmann8800 : While you make a good point, you rob it of any impact, by your anger and patronising. Indeed, you are being as, “selfish,” as anyone, if you think you have the right to unload on people like that, drive away any support (which effects us all, BTW) whilst choosing to dismiss a valid point. As a Conservative, who joined the Lincoln Project, I empathise with the commentator. And, it’s beyond selfish to remonstrate with people for having a point of view that doesn’t mesh with yours, rather than explain anything, or (dare I say it?) “win,” them to your cause? Perhaps you’ve been a movie director for too long, and forgotten that little people are entitled to their view too? Meanwhile, thanks for driving away one more sliver of hope . . . SMH
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@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings : Putin bot with no argument. Just another, “Whaddabout,” with no relevance. Note: Cuba, Never invaded, still a communist dictatorship, 30 miles off the Florida coast, with ZERO interference from the US. All they had to do was remove Russia’s nukes. Note: Ukraine, removed ALL their nukes, at Bill Clinton’s persuasion, 1990’s. Russian nukes go to Belarus? NATO nukes go into Ukraine, simply returning what they once had. Sound fair to you?
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Does anyone NOT know someone who’s died of Covid? Trump’s brother just died of it! By November, you will . . .
America’s, “election,” is SO RIGGED, it’s laughable. Why you aren’t all choking up the streets, demanding the restoration of the post office, and the Republic, is beyond me? You all act like you WANT a Dictatorship? Trump, his family and the entire GOP Cabinet all KNOW they’re facing serious JAIL TIME, and they’re NOT going to ALLOW you to remove them, whatever it takes. And, that’s because YOU people keep allowing them to GET AWAY WITH MURDER! Still think, “someone else,” is going to save the Republic? How? Why? No one can, without YOU supporting them. Your Republic is dying before your very eyes, and America sits on its ass, watching the Dictatorship unfold on TV . . . Smh
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Pamela Ramsey : You know what, Pamela? BRAVA! I really couldn’t have put it better. I guess you’ll get push back, but my advice (for what it’s worth) is leave it at that, and ignore the negativity. He’s a KID, for crying out loud! And, just because he didn’t, “express,” himself in such a manner as to avoid, “hurting,” ALL, possible, “sensitivities,” some of these goons are treating him like some kind of SATANIST???!!! I think a LOT of atheists are insecure? It’s like they have this button inside, that just gets pressed, whenever they here someone confessing Jesus? Notice, THEY HAVE TO TELL YOU, that they don’t believe, right? THEY CAN’T just leave it alone, despite their, “claims,” of, “tolerance.” If he’d said he was grateful to Allah, NOT ONE of them would have whined about it; and we’d be seeing all the, “Christian,” HATERS, leaping at his jugular, instead.
I imagine his community is VERY proud of him, as they SHOULD be. God bless him. He’s an American Hero ✌️
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exiledfrommyself : A somewhat defensive and, sorry to say, hackneyed, response. So, you wouldn’t think that maybe God had put YOU there to PREVENT that child from, “being molested,” then? How, “CONvenient, for you. But, atheists assume that God is, “Responsible,” for EVERYTHING, because they haven’t READ a Bible, in which they are told, specifically, that THEY are the, “responsible,” ones, with FREE WILL, which would be INSTANTLY ABOLISHED, at the very MOMENT, that God took over people’s actions. But, atheists don’t DO, “responsibility,” which is why they find Faith to be such a drag, right? You don’t surprise me, nor offend me, or, once I get to the end of this sentence, even interest me any more; unless you can come up with something grownup or original to say?
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Mrs. Vixen Sanders : Well, bear in mind, that the God of Moses and Abraham IS the SAME God that the Christians believe in; and that it was the Angel Gabriel, who revealed God’s intention to Muhammad? All three of the Major Faiths of the world have their own, “Religion,” but the SAME God. That’s the, “theist,” in me, which increasingly looks for the face of God in a much broader, “church,” than the Religions of the world would like me to. I hope it wasn’t “man” that undermined your faith? And, I wish you well on your journey ✌️👍
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exiledfrommyself : I take it, you’re being deliberately obtuse? Stopping a sex offender in his tracks is not a, “violation,” of ANYTHING, son. It’s taking RESPONSIBILITY, for the, “Good.” You haven’t done a damned THING to his Free Will? You prevented him from ACTION, but have had NO EFFECT WHATSOEVER on his free will. If you are going to make category errors, like that, you are going to be VERY hard to communicate with. Consider WHAT, “Free Will,” means? Then get back to me. You appear to be as poor with scientific thinking, as you are with theological thinking, too? How CAN, “my God,” be, “evil,” if you insist that he does not exist? I take it, you MEAN, that my notions of God are evil? Correct? But, for that to be the case, you would have to have some idea of WHAT that, “notion,” IS, right? And, as you DON’T, you have combined, category error with assumption. And, a few, half remembered snippets from your Sunday School Bible class don’t qualify you to speak of, “my God.”
In case you’re wondering, it was the combination of those errors, which I saw as being quite, “original,” so I thought I’d help you out, there, son. That’s why I responded
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exiledfrommyself : To, “Violate.” To profane, desecrate, etc. OR, to break honor, code, ceasefire, etc. You are saying that you are dishonourably interfering with him? You are profaning or desecrating him? Words MATTER, son. YOU are literally saying that it would be WRONG to interfere with a Pedophile, while he’s attacking a child. I REALLY DON’T think that’s what you MEAN to say: Fundamental Category Error. And, you can’t say THAT’S splitting hairs, or anything? I’m TRYING to HELP you, son? PLEASE don’t keep INSISTING that you are, “violating,” a pedo, when you REALLY don’t WANT to say THAT???
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exiledfrommyself : “How I want,” or simply, how it just IS? I didn’t write the dictionary, son. And, you’re really getting kinda’ weird; obsessing over this NONE-Existent child, that YOU made up? Can you move PASSED her / him / it? No children were harmed in the forming of this sentence, OK? We ALL GET IT, OK? Children get horrifically hurt, and you, “blame,” God, for that, despite not believing in Him. Try to be a little more, “scientific,” in your thinking? Discipline your mind? Define, “Good.” Or, “Love,” for that matter? And, I think, on your journey, you’ll discover that these things are NOT what you, “think,” they are? Hollywood is a poor teacher
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@peteredwards338 : Oh, that old classic. I was wondering how long it would take before someone wheeled out the hoary old, “They’re as bad as each other,” false equivalency scam. Anyone who genuinely thinks that this current iteration of the Labour Party is anywhere NEAR as corrupt, inept, wilful, entitled, callously indifferent to human suffering, bogus, wasteful and at times, downright criminal, as the Tory Party, simply hasn’t been paying attention.
But then again, most trolls don’t even live in Britain anyway.
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@peteredwards338 : Oh, here we go, with the old, “False Equivalency Scam.” When the track record of your, “team,” is too shameful to defend, just say, “Well, they’re all as bad as each other.” That old copout usually works on the weak minded. And you don’t need a single, “fact,” at your disposal either.
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@peteredwards338 : Oh, here we go, with the old, “False Equivalency,” chestnut. When the track record of your, “team,” is too shameful to defend, just say, “Well, they’re all as bad as each other.” That old copout usually works on the weak minded. And you don’t need a single, “fact,” at your disposal either.
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María Martínez : A) That was NOT a private conversation, as the Pope KNEW he would divulge it. B) I know the term they use is, “infallible,” which means NEVER WRONG, and I was referring to those who wish to ATTACK IT. ‘Coz, THAT would be a SIN, right? C) By the same rules that GOVERN the Popes infallibility, ALL that the Pope says or writes is, “infallible.” It does NOT only apply to what he puts in an Encyclical or Bull, sorry. Hey, I didn’t MAKE them crazy rules, and I’m not even a Catholic. D) Would there, REGARDLESS, be ANY way to square the circle around what he says to this guy, KNOWING he’s gonna’ tell the world and later contradicting himself?
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dukevalentinois : Sometimes, I think that could REALLY be TRUE . . . As a Christian, I rarely attend Church, any more. The hypocrisy, pettiness and authoritarian STUPIDITY, nearly ALWAYS, leaves me flabbergasted. Yet, I believe there are, “good people,” in all religions, too. It’s a confusing and challenging time, in history, to have faith, when the LEAST TRUSTWORTHY place to take you faith, is into the institutions built to nurture it . . . I don’t KNOW what to say to you, about that? I wish I did . . . SMH . . .
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@seang2700 : Quite possibly. But that has NOTHING to do with Tactical Voting. Simply voting is already a selection from the lesser of two evils, which you describe as, “negative voting,” for some, as yet, unexplained and impenetrable reason. What you described there is the normal state of affairs.
Tactical Voting is a, “Positive,” act. It is a coordinated action, employed by an informed electorate who are taking back the reigns of power, as is their democratic right, and using the system to alter the political landscape. If we are never to be offered a satisfactory party, with an honest commitment to reforms, or even to see through their own stated policy goals, we can still eradicate the most egregious party, thereby putting those who remain standing on notice that they had better see to it that they deliver their promises or die trying, as the electorate hold the keys to their office and now have the power of the internet to coordinate OUTSIDE of their controlled stomping ground.
That is about as close to revolutionary as we can get in a technological age. And about as close as we should want to come. Any action that empowers the demos and strips the entitled classes of their fiefdoms is a, “positive,” act. But it is also one from which only good may come, even if it only half works.
For me, the best possible outcome would be the formation of a Labour/Lib Dem Coaltion, and voting reform.
So, here’s my question for you: You bandy this word, “negative,” about, as though you were accusing Luddites of smashing their machinery in a pointless act of vandalism, and that is partly because you’re clearly disturbed at the upsetting of the status quo, despite the fact that this incarnation of Tory has done nothing but for the last 8 years. So, tell us what is actually, “negative,” about Tactical Voting? If you actually know, that is? And, if you’re not just grabbing at a definition like a bogey man to frighten the children? In what way is Tactical Voting actually, “negative”?
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@seang2700 : I’ll put it more simply for you, as you appear to need it: YOU’RE ALREADY DOING THAT, GENIUS! Literally EVERYONE will tell you they are NOT voting for the party they, “want,” but the party they got. They ALREADY don’t like ANY of their choices! If that’s, “negative,” voting, YOU are already DOING that! Or, are you going to suggest that there’s a party on the British landscape that has all the policies YOU want and that YOU trust to deliver on them? Because, if that’s the case, you’re clearly NOT talking about the Labour Party, as this current lot remain untested. And you’re objectively NOT talking about the Tories for obvious reasons. So, who are these mysteriously, “positive,” politicians? What is their party called? And why haven’t we even heard of them?
What was that you were saying about, “stupid”? . . .
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@seang2700 : The, “personal rancour,” you identify came from you. You called tactical voters, (and, by extension, me) “stupid.” That was your angry response to the, “grain of truth,” you don’t like to chew on in your otherwise steady diet of Tory mush that you are so obviously used to swallowing.
I note you will not, because you cannot, answer the simplest question: What is negative about tactical voting? That was just your way of dressing up something you fear, in hopes of persuading the credulous. It is also why you fail.
See, it hasn’t occurred to you yet, but what, “negative,” outcomes should we fear? That the economy might tank? Already happened. That inflation might skyrocket in a manner that is demonstrably not related to world affairs and purely a problem of our own creation? Already happened. That the NHS might get privatised until we end up with a health system not fit for purpose which puts people in debt for the rest of their lives if they have an accident or unforeseen illness? Well, that’s happening but still worth fighting for to undo the most egregious changes and to prevent the rest from happening. What are we meant to, “fear,” Mr Bogey man? That essential services like the provision of TAP WATER isn’t, “Pretend-Privatised,” when it’s actually handed over to a SINGLE company in each region with NO COMPETITION ALLOWED, making it NOT a business but a FIEFDOM! And that’s WHY they’re getting away with polluting EVERYTHING, because they’re not even in a Liberal-Economist’s wet dream but more like a 17th century royal family!
What POSSIBLE, “harm,” could an alternative to Tory hegemony DO to Britain that the Tories have not ALREADY DONE? That’s a SERIOUS QUESTION, BTW.
I know you will attempt to answer neither, already. Because you HAVE NO ANSWER. You are either in the pay of the Tories yourself, or you’re one of those unthinking drones who simply gets all upset at the idea of, “change,” because you were brought up to think of all alternatives as, “Looney Lefties,” and never had the wit or imagination to read a book!
My, “passion,” is derived from the fact that, like all Tories, you think you have the, “entitlement,” to call those who think differently to you, “stupid,” whilst manifesting your own un-self-aware stupidity, and expecting people to take it without answering back. It derives from the obvious fact that you cannot see the, “germ of truth,” in front of you but you are ignorant enough to dismiss dissent as if you actually had something (ANYTHING) to actually, “say.” It comes from the HORRIBLE death of my father and returning from his funeral (for which I had to get special permission to go to) exhausted and frayed, only to see a Tory staffer, talking to the press, in front of cameras, telling them about the drunken antics of Number 10 staff and CABINET MEMBERS and LITERALLY LAUGHING OUT LOUD! In my face!!!
My depth of feeling is similar to countless millions who shared my experience and who KNEW they would NEVER vote Tory again, so long as ANY of these goons remain in the party. And if you claim to have no, “feelings,” about that, it will simply confirm the vapidity of the Tory mindset. But you needn’t bother making such a false claim, as it is clear that you do have feelings. You feel FEAR, because you see the very real possibility of annihilation for your imagined (and utterly unreal) status quo, which you express through anger, and a typically devious Tory attempt to transfer that fear onto others.
Well, you have failed. Indeed, all you have achieved is to remind me as to why it is SO important that the Tories are not just defeated at the next election, but necessarily CRUSHED for the good of the country. Have a fearful, anger inducing, Tory day, son . . . SMH
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TheDesertsweeper : Oh, yeahhh . . . CNN is, “irrelevant,” yet, strangely, more successful than EVER. You’re just another Gravity Denier. You “think” only, “liberals,” watch this, or want Trump out, IGNORING what’s ACTUALLY happening in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc, where there simply weren’t ENOUGH, “liberals,” to kick out the GOP, WITHOUT CONSERVATIVES HELPING. I mean, LOOK at the, “logic,” of your opening LINE??? If it was true, WHY WOULD YOU EVEN COMMENT? Seriously!? CNN is CLEARLY, “relevant,” TO YOU, if no one ELSE. Self defeating, Trolly NONSENSE, whined by someone who is INTIMIDATED by the TRUTH . . . OBVIOUSLY . . . SMH
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Symbolism is everything to people sitting in the safety of their offices in Germany, the US, and Moscow. Why they were so fearful is not just about all those Eastern Block holdovers who get to vote in elections, left from the Soviet Era East Germany (a recent poll found that only 48% of their citizens support sending the Leopards, with 45% against and the rest undecided, which we might as well call a 50/50 split) but the actual message they know Putin will hear: namely, “We will not be looking to re establish the Nordstream Pipelines a few years from now and, we do not see a future rehabilitation of Moscow which includes you. We are ALL committed to seeing you lose this war completely.” To Putin, that statement adds up to, “This war ends with you dead.”
If Putin was smart, he would start looking for an off ramp domestically. He could run a fake referendum and find that his people want him to end the, “special military operation,” even if it means losing Crimea and claim to be bending to the democratic will of his people by pulling out. He might get to save himself that way?
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@Seekeroftruth191 : What do you mean, “inbound?”This is already, “WWIII.” Don’t you get it yet? Putin has just been told that this war ends with him either figuring out a way to withdraw from Ukraine (including Crimea) and sell that to his people at home, or over his dead body. He began it as an attack on NATO as much as he did for his own personal enrichment. Any, “ideological,” concerns came third after those two. Check your heating, fuel and tax bills. We are ALL paying for this war and ALL supplying weapons and personnel. This is the WWIII you get when you can’t afford the nuclear kind. But, mark my words, if we lose this thing, it will not only be your bank account that gets broken, but everything you hold dear will be under direct threat. We have no more choice about securing victory for Ukraine than we would if it was our own back yard. Not any more.
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I’m a firm believer in the principle of, “If you build it, they WILL come.” John Wick 4 was a huge success. I also went to see the Spider-Man, Top Gun and James Bond movies in the theatre. People will still go to cinemas if the movies are good. It really is that simple.
And people are sick of political, “messaging,” like Kathleen Kennedy’s self inserts of Mary Sue figures into every franchise that hijacks their characters and themes of Marvel, Star Wars and Indiana Jones. There’s a dishonesty to that, which makes audiences feel unhappy at seeing their favourite characters (the ones that sell the movie!) ruthlessly emasculated and, “rescued,” by some unlikeable, implausible, OP young woman.
They did that to Luke Skywalker, to the Hulk, and now Indiana Jones himself. Who wants to see their heroes being humiliated? Audiences don’t trust Disney anymore. They’re sick of the politics.
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@brianford8493 : Is that it? As sinister and unreasoning as that sounds, you’re probably right. But I was mindful of the Algorithm Robocop when I wrote my response (a response solicited by Brian, I might add) and, for the life of me, if you sat me down and asked, “What buzzword or trigger-phrase do you think set off the Google Gestapo this time?” I would not be able to answer you, so carefully I’d chosen my words.
In this case, I would suggest the word, “Gestapo,” but there was nothing like that in the case I’m speaking of. It seems that the Cyber Censors are as capricious as they are anonymous and unanswerable, not being human. What a world we’re making for ourselves, eh?
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@shirley-ie5vj : That remark fits right along, smartly, with that other hoary expression, “Never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake.” As this interviewee (with whom I . . . “mostly,” agree) points out, if Putin was a, “smart,” person, he wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine in the first place. He’s actually an idiot who somehow managed to cultivate an image of the, “5D Chess Player,” largely by borrowing from the world’s collective memory of Stalin and the KGB. But, he’s been so successful at that because he was once dealing with other idiots in the west, like George Bush.
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@greghuey6639 : The FSB, or people inside the FSB, have been playing both ends of the field since before the war began. It was their Intel leaks that alerted Zelensky to more than one assassination attempt. That was solid Intel. As was other information that helped block the invasion plan. I would bet real money that Prigozhin’s little mutiny stopped only when the FSB decided which side they would flop on and told him it wasn’t going to be his.
And before anyone says, “But wait! The FSB was Putin’s creation. His hand picked people.” 23 years ago it was, and even then it was made up of ex-KGB and mafia hoods co-opted into positions of power. But, as Putin will know more than most, they were always trained to play both sides, to eschew all, “ideology,” and to be willing to betray anybody. Putin made them that way. Just as he made Wagner from a bunch of literal tattooed Nazis and criminals, who only win battles because they recruit cannon fodder, expressly there to die in battle or be shot for retreating (often whilst retreating), so this is the world he has made for himself.
What makes me laugh is that there are still people out there who think Putin is in some way, “smart.” All the hard evidence is to the contrary.
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Richard Hybels : She did brilliantly, by Trump Goon standards, which is WHY she is no longer on the front line. The FORMER Secy, has moved to a position where she can wait out the sinking of TrumpTanic. She’s an analyst, and she’s done her homework, and concluded that all the top staff are about to be held accountable, and their mere Images in the press, will be inextricably linked with corruption, in the way that Nixon’s Goons were, post Watergate, but to the power of 10. She intends to rise again
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Yes, the purge has begun, but it will be slow it seems? Shoigu’s deputy, Surovikin (the one who made that hostage video, appealing to Prigozhin to stop his, “March For Justice”) was already under arrest and doing what the FSB told him to do. Apparently, he was the guy that was supposed to throw in with Prigozhin, after arresting Shoigu and bringing all the Russian troops over to join Wagner. But the FSB had been monitoring his communications and already knew, so they waited for the opportune moment. That’s what I’m hearing and reading, at any rate.
So long as Prigozhin remains, “at large,” and the Wagner Group remains a thing, we know Putin doesn’t feel powerful enough to run his own country. A bloody nose that just keeps dripping and prevents any real, “face saving,” as the Russians interpret that phrase at least.
But, when Wagner is neutralised . . . Oh, there will be blood.
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The west has stopped short of saying, out loud, that NATO intends to see Russia expelled from all of Ukraine. And that is Putin’s main reason for fighting now. He hears all the key leaders of the west, saying, “whatever it takes, for as long as it takes,” and hears messaging about Ukraine’s defence from further encroachment, NOT his inevitable defeat. NATO’s, “fear of escalation,” is ironically the cause of Russia’s escalation.
It’s time NATO put it up. As soon as NATO and Biden state, “We will see Ukraine’s total victory,” Putin will start looking for his off ramp and reshaping the narrative at home.
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nrawayne : You mean, APART from the WHOLE OF AMERICA, who saw the Lester Holt interview? Let’s see? Hope Hicks, Michael’s Flynn and Cohen, Rex Tillerson, the, “Mooch,” oh the list is ENDLESS. See, half of those people have ALREADY confirmed Trump’s reasons ion interviews and to the Congressional Committee (if you bother to check, you’ll SEE this for YOURSELF?) and they did so, BEFORE they realised or even DREAMED that Trump would later be walking it back. At THAT time, they THOUGHT their job was simply to DEFEND his, ALREADY STATED, reasoning. So, they have REINFORCED it, to EVERYONE WHO MATTERS. A saying, related to barn doors, horses and stables, springs to mind. But, you don’t need MY help, to know that Trump has screwed the pooch 🤣 😆 😂 🤣 🌊 🤡
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Did you know that, in the UK, (Scotland, specifically) YouTube is inserting an advert in the middle of your video, from the financial app company, “Trading 2-1-2”??? They are trying to make it look like you are, “sponsored,” by that trading, financial gambling, “investment,” app! You should look into that as a matter of urgency! After seeing the topic of this video, how many people will look at that ad and say, “Well, if CoffeeZilla recommends it, it must be fine, right?”
Very shady operation by YouTube, or their ad department, or Trading 2-1-2, or perhaps all three?
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Philip Power : How do you know when a Trump Troll is angry? They open their remark with a fake, “lol,” or, “lmao.” Then, they arrogantly assume that, just because the person they’re talking to SEES what a traitor Trump is, they must only ever get their news from one source. Though, deep down, they know that Trump’s opponents are better educated than them, which is WHY they’re Trump opponents, after all. You are talking to a Conservative, political historian; a gun owner and a Christian believer, son. My education is broad, as is my life experience, and I KNOW Propaganda, when I see it. The mere existence of a Troll Army, working on channels they HATE, talking to people that they HATE, usually trying to spread their divisive HATE, confirmed, in most people’s minds, that Putin invested in them. And, if you don’t believe that Trump Trolls have been a shot in the foot, ultimately, look again at the Midterm results. Putin will really have to FIX it in 2020, if Trump is to survive. And, you’ll be stuck with him, for life. Dictators cannot give up their power, even if they want to . . . Smh
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Mike Bouck : A, “Word of Caution,” she says? “I couldn’t help but laugh,” too! The whole country are comforting themselves, by COLLUDING with the PRETENCE that their coming, “elections,” are somehow, “not,” ALREADY RIGGED. You’re only buying this Dictatorship the time they need to consolidate, and prepare their excuses for how, “Dodgy,” the key state ballots will be. Your DENIAL, even after this regime has SHOWN YOU that they’ll RIG and FIX EVERYTHING, at this point, is nothing but SELF HARM, America! Do you honestly THINK they’re going to ALLOW you to unseat Trump? So he and his whole family gets indicted and goes to JAIL??? Are you ALL MAD??? So they’ll, “rat,” on EVERYONE in their administration and the WHOLE LOT OF THEM GO TO JAIL TOO??? So the GOP has to DISBAND, because there’s only a disgraced skeleton of the Republican Party LEFT??? OR??? Do you think they’ve ALREADY decided NOT TO ALLOW ALL THAT??? The Republic has FALLEN, and YOU are HELPING THEM NOW, by acting like they’ll LET YOU, “VOTE,” THEM INTO PRISON! Have a Revolution or accept your Monarchy, but PLEASE? STOP KIDDING YOURSELVES? . . . Jesus!
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@spd28237 : Or they just HATE the, “other,” sufficiently to vote against their own interests? That is, after all, what the dominant right wing press has been feeding them for the past 11 years.
The lies that have been disseminated from the Dispatch Box (the Home Office in particular) have been so big, so hysterical, so egregious, that they have created an atmosphere of race baited panic in the unthinking classes and the already low level racists of Britain. They have appealed to greed and nationalism, despite hurting those who grasp at greedy straws and want a, “little England,” to be free of migration.
The ironies abound to the point where there is no superlative that could possibly express the degree to which the Tories have grown increasingly hypocritical, thieving, stupid, ignorant, backward thinking, incompetent, mean spirited and a genuine threat to national security at every conceivable level.
There will always be a significant number of voters who do not follow politics closely enough to understand the issues, yet vote the way their parents do, or their employer tells them to, for a quiet life. And there will always be a significant number of extremists, or plain stupid racists. There will also be a significant number of ignorant, greedy people who are easily manipulated into thinking a Tory vote is a vote for lower taxes and more money, despite the empirical evidence proving that the opposite has always been the case since 1945 when, whilst out of power, several reforms took place within the Tory party’s structure and political philosophy.
So there will ALWAYS be much to overcome. Just look at how BAD things have had to get before it has become obvious to the public that the Tories are no longer even Tories anymore, barely a cohesive political party! They’re more like a giant hedge fund, or, “think tank,” which is just a cover term for financial group of aligned interests (which is literally where the last, brief, PM got all of her ideas fed to her, btw) breaking down Britain into its constituent parts and selling them all off to the highest bidder from ANY country whatsoever. And they’re incompetent at that!
Can you even remember a time before when ministers actually spat bile at the electorate from the Dispatch Box? Suella Braverman’s, “speeches,” are nothing but long lists of name calling! That is unprecedented in British political life and would have been in all the headlines as a career ending mental breakdown moment for any minister a decade ago! Now it’s business as usual! WTF!?
So, yeah. There will always be those who act against everyone else’s best interests and they must be convinced or defeated. And that responsibility is yours. Mine too.
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@spd28237 : P.S. I am currently reading a science fiction novel called The Three Body Problem. In it, there is a character who brings about the destruction of Planet Earth by revealing our location to hostile aliens, bent on colonisation and treating us like the Native American Indians of the 19th Century, if we’re lucky. The book is beautifully written, taking its time to describe the life of this astronomer character and why she does what she does. The reader, whilst not agreeing with her desire to see the human race either taken over and managed like children who cannot be trusted around their own dangerous toys, or simply destroyed completely, can understand her motives comprehensively.
What the author shows us is that there will always be people amongst us who have what they think of as perfectly rational reasons to destroy humanity’s best interests, alongside those who are not worthy of the responsibilities they already have or aspire to, or the just plain stupid.
It is incumbent upon the rest of us to remain vigilant and involved in our fellow human’s lives, therefore. As there may come, one day, people who are smarter than us, with better, more rational arguments, for acting in direct contradiction to every instinct of self preservation or decency. Unless we were smart ourselves and read our history, studied our current politics and comprehended where our own occupation and pass times fit into the scheme of things. Unless we know HOW to look out for our fellow traveller, we may not be able to when the crisis moment comes.
Then again, she may be right? Maybe human kind doesn’t offer anything better than desolation and destruction to a universe that would be better off without us? But, while we choose to continue our existence, we have a responsibility to ensure that this is not the case. And that means getting involved. Inaction is a decision, as much as it would be if you stood by and watched a mother beat her child to death without intervening. That is your choice. Humanity is your choice.
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Johnson claims that he was, “exonerated,” by the Sue Grey report. It was seeing that tape, of that woman at the podium, laughing about the drunken antics of these scum, that set off in me, for the first time in my long life, a genuine revolutionary rage. My dad died of Covid and had already had a series of mini-strokes that made him unable to process the experience or understand why he was alone, without his four children. He asked for his wife, who had died the year before, but he kept forgetting that. He died hard. He died alone. And these bastards LAUGHED at us and said, “Let them eat cake.”
Any, “politician,” who can now look us in the face and say Johnson, “did not knowingly,” break policy or mislead the commons, is an evil LIAR. “Look at the evidence!” squeals this goon. The evidence shows that the police found he had criminally broken the law and fined him accordingly. Johnson was quoted as saying, “This is the least socially distanced room in Britain,” at his birthday party. The press staffer came out and laughed, looking drunk at the time! And this gaslighting psychopath only shows us how the Tories have flung open their doors to the type of scum that even Margaret Thatcher would have refused to tolerate!
If you want THE most powerful reason for voting for the opposition to the Tories in your county at the next general election, that interview was it!
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I find her presentations fascinating and her voice is so soothing to me. I’m quite the fanboy . . .
The Many Worlds notion has always struck me as bogus; from my not-expert perspective. It’s untestable, and certainly unprovable, for a start, even if, “evidence,” may one day be found. The same evidence can and will be usable for rival theories. But, my real problem with it, is that it’s actually philosophy, not physics.
The very same prejudice that Einstein felt, which made him find the work of LeMetre so unpalatable, (which evidenced the Big Bang Theory) is at work in MWT. It’s a philosophical argument, with one purpose; refuting the existence of God. Einstein apologised to LeMetre, a Catholic priest, after having once told him, “Your math is correct but your physics is abominable.” And, The Big Bang is now generally accepted, despite having been held back for almost a generation by the egos of over powerful scientists. And, once again, we are seeing the history repeat itself.
The idea of something miraculous happen, that the physical world could actually be altered by the mere act of, “observation,” and all that this implies, is intolerable to an atheistic culture, that is as guilty of prejudice, groupthink and dogma, as any religious organisation in history. The very same people who worship Galileo as their Martyr for being a victim of prejudice and dogma, perpetrated by an over weening establishment, have now become that very thing they despise. They are sacrificing science on the alter of that dogma, which might as well be stated as, “We refuse to accept any conclusions that may imply a creator of the universe, regardless of what the facts are,” and they come up with the most extravagant, superstitious and logically implausible solutions, and pursue them with such vehemence that they have become the new dogma!
No doubt, someone reading this, will assume that I am a, “believer,” in God, and have a personal axe to grind, rather than question their own assumptions, because they have been trained to respond in that fashion, as though I was a Flat Earther or denying Gravity . . . But, my actual point is that there is yet to be a scientific explanation for our observations, and that the Copenhagen position has become a dogma, enforced by a powerful scientist, with a famously powerful and intolerant personality, and has evolved in to ever increasingly extravagant philosophical ideas. Without any evidence (hard or otherwise) Physics has been actively encouraged to wonder away from the path of science.
We must look harder at the problem, and bring in fresh minds. And, whether we find evidence, or proof, of a God, a creator, or the exact opposite, we must accept the truth of whatever we find, unflinchingly, with the disciplined eyes of the scientist. We must leave philosophy to the philosophers, especially when we cannot even establish a working mathematical model for MWT that doesn’t have one or more fatal flaw in it. We simply have NO BASIS for MWT. Yet, I hear, you can actually fail your doctorate for saying that now!
You would have thought we’d have learned by now, after the famously appalling ways great scientists have been treated, by the scientific community in the past, (leading to suicides and even murders! . . . In the 20th Century!) that anything that smacks of dogma is unhealthy for science. And the establishment must NEVER be allowed to get too comfortable, or, “established.”
These were just some general thoughts on the nature and culture of science today, as it relates to this fascinating problem . . . It’s worth pondering, do any of you know any Christian believers in science? Physics especially? And, do any of you know any atheists in that field? Of the ones who claim to have, “open minds,” who are the least tolerant of difference in beliefs? You already know the answer, right? . . .
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@Jehannum2000 : Try telling that to the scientific community? The unspoken rule seems to be, “Your conclusions better not come out = God, or anything that might imply it.” It’s not on anyone’s mind, until the unspoken rule is enforced. People like Richard Dawkins have become the new High Priests of an increasingly cultish society, doing untold harm, based upon the mere suspicion of what could be, “read into,” scientific results and conflating religion and personal beliefs into a totem of fear and loathing. If only your statement were true? “God,” should have, “nothing to do with science and vice versa.” But, that’s simply not the case. I read Einstein’s correspondence about LeMetre (and with him) and he isn’t exactly subtle about his mental blocks. We do ourselves a disservice by failing to acknowledge an institutional prejudice, however, “benign,” we can persuade ourselves it is.
But, thank you for responding, and for being patient enough to wade through my diatribe in the first place. All this time after your initial comment, I really didn’t expect to be noticed, let alone actually answered. Respect ✌️
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@Jehannum2000 : Let me put it to you like this? Do you think it was really the, “science,” that Einstein was struggling with? It wasn’t LeMetre’s math? He told him as much, right from the start. At the very minimum, Einstein was struggling with his own personal pride, in being able to admit of flaws in his own theory? It was a period of years, before he could admit LeMetre was right. But, he said himself that he did not like the implications of a priest, no less, establishing a moment of, “creation,” in physics, and that he was suspicious of letting God into the science. LeMetre was the one who argued that God was irrelevant to the discussion. It was just the way the universe worked . . . works . . .
But, imagine if LeMetre had been as bombastic as Bohr? Or just egotistical enough to match Einstein? What if he actually was pressing the religious subtext as hard as Einstein feared he, or others, might? How long would THAT debate have lasted? And how many casualties might such an intellectual war have claimed? Would we still be debating the Big Bang to this day? Would the Hubble Telescope ever have been funded, by a Congress that can get so very twitchy about, “religion,” in politics?
Too much, “personality,” and not enough science, is the problem that people of faith run into in science (physics in particular) and which the people without never even notice. They make a point of not noticing. I speak as a none-scientist, outsider, looking in. I know many scientists, and I’m reasonably well,read on the history of science, though, by no means any kind of expert. But, I honestly believe (bringing this back to the topic) that the MWT is nothing more than an expression of this desperation to lock away certain possibilities, due to an unspoken, but no less potent, dogma. It is a philosophical explanation, doing duty for science, where science has nothing to offer. Or, what it does have to offer, we cannot yet tell, because no one has tread that ground and been lead where the science is taking them.
I do see an increasing number of sceptics, unhappy with MWT though. And I occasionally wonder if such people will get the support they need to explore the no man’s land, or if they’ll just find themselves on another front, of the Galileo Wars? . . .
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@usernamearrg : Yes it would, wherever they are, whom ever they serve, of whatever political stripe. But it’s Germany’s biggest open secret that they were infiltrated (as were Americans and other European powers to a lesser extent) by Russian Oligarchs at every level. There are photographs and videos all over the media of the very same oligarchs who’s yachts and houses have been impounded, smiling with our top business leaders and politicians at glitzy events throughout the past 20 years.
Some, like Roman Abramovich are well known to the security services and have been forced to work for our side or face poverty and jail forever, some are unknown to the public (and to Moscow) facing the same fate. Others are still using their money for super injunctions, so the press cannot even report on the allegations surrounding them, and some remain unknown to the world, except in The Kremlin. The problem is messy and complex because it’s been going on for so long and the energy from Moscow to Europe is the biggest outward manifestation of this appalling, anti-democratic corruption. Paul Massaro’s channel (a guy who’s been a guest on this show) examines the issue in detail, with experts who are well known on the international stage. As he reminds us frequently, some corruption is not even illegal, but just the sort of thing you don’t want the public to know, as it would result in ruined careers and lobbying for new laws.
But, what I know for a certainty about Scholtz is that, when a powerful figure seems to be behaving irrationally, that is only because we’re not seeing the full picture. This is not just holding out for a deal, nor is it fear of Putin’s perception politically. We’re way past that as a rational explanation. Either Putin has power over several key players, or Scholtz is just ideologically set against diminishing returns on his Russian energy shares port folio. I can see no third explanation at a time when people are literally dying (innocent CHILDREN being bombed in their beds!) while Scholtz’s pusillanimity is costing lives!
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Nom Nom : It’s already OVER, I’m sorry to say. The guilt of the Trumps was never even a question. The question was always, “Are there enough Haters and racists in America, to disregard their president’s criminality; and will the rest of the country sit still for it, while their Republic falls?” The answer was, “Yes.” It’s OVER. The Trumps have to keep the presidency, “in the family,” or face disgrace and jail, as soon as he’s out of office. What choice do they have? They’re blatantly refusing to take part in lawful processes, and nothing happens. Russia will RIG 2020’s, “elections,” with the GOP’s help, because half of Trump’s goons are implicated. And, sure, we’ll ALL KNOW. So what? They’ll promise to, “look into it.” Only, this time, an, “inquiry,” will exonerate Trump, IF they even bother . . . But, they’ll keep up the charade, for appearances sake, like they do in Russia. You have a Dictatorship now, America. You’d better get used to it. The Trumps will be taking turns in the top job, for the rest of your lifetimes
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@elenalatici9568 : I think they, “fear,” being treated the way they have treated others? When your nation only has 300 years on the clock, which has been spent wiping out the indigenous population, then shunning them; whilst introducing an entire new race, as slaves, and fighting a war to maintain slavery; then rigging the system ever after, so as to maintain political, financial and educational control over these people . . . you kind of expect that they might want some revenge for that? They’re wrong, of course. And, even for those who know they’re wrong, they still don’t like the idea of not being in the, “advantaged,” class of humanity. I genuinely hope America’s minorities DO grow to outnumber the white population. Then the myths around their fear will be proved wrong, which will substantially take their sticks from them. The whole, “white replacement,” racism is an expression of that hysteria and that kind of fear can mobilise whole armies, so we can’t just sit still for it, hoping no one will take such juvenile notions seriously, sadly.
20th Century Spain, Italy & Germany taught us that it never shakes out that way. As their rhetoric gets more toxic, and their actions more egregious (remember, this is the party that just voted to overturn a democratic election DURING an Insurrection attempt) they will leave themselves with fewer options. Eventually they will have nowhere, psychologically, intellectually, or rhetorically, to retreat to, or ways in which they can dress up what they’re getting at. People forget that Fascism grows over years, and never gives up. Because they’re facing the condemnation of history, unless they get to write it.
There’s a gag from Rick & Morty that sums it up. A short lived character in a flashback to WWII is a prisoner of a strutting, uniformed Nazi, and he says, “Back in Brooklyn, we’ got a name for people like you.” To which the Nazi spins on his heal to face him and says, “I’m comfortable being called a Nazi! What word do you think could upset me?! Yes! Think before you speak next time!” Made me lol, at the time . . . Now, I just wonder, how long before the term, “Fascist,” or even, “Nazi,” starts getting, “mainstream,” again? . . . ✌️👍
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Ultimately, this was a case of political corruption at the heart of a charity. Probably, most disturbingly, committed by people who didn’t even acknowledge their own hypocrisy corruption; telling themselves that what Cuomo, “stood for,” was what made him, “too big to fail,” so the truth didn’t matter?
Spare a thought for the victims of serious sexual assault and harassment, who are (or recently were) in the process of being supported by Time’s Up, when all this hypocrisy lead to the collapse of an already burning building? Imagine the despair of all those (mostly) women who were relying on them for legal and moral support? I would not be surprised to learn of suicides as a direct result of this?
Every time I see the name, “Johnny Depp,” mentioned on YouTube, I always write the same comment; “Depp was framed!” But, the good news is that Robert Downey Jr has insisted on having Depp in his third Sherlock Holmes movie, in a major role (probably the villain) and that he has huge support within the population; unlike Amber Herd, who’s star is already fading. The bad news is that it is more and more falling to the, “popular,” vote, for justice to get spread around a little more evenly. Because it seems that Injustice gets spread around, just as easily?
The people involved in Time’s Up deserve all that’s coming to them. But the people they were helping? What of them now? They trusted them, and will mostly be legit cases of people out on a limb, with few options left to them, as their main advocate has been discredited.
I hear you. I feel you. I just hope lessons will be learned? And that people who want change in the world, don’t start becoming like their cultish opponents, disregarding all news and narratives they don’t, “like,” in favor of ones they, “prefer,” until hypocrisy becomes less of a, “trap,” for people to fall into, due to racism, sexism, and all those other, “isms,” and more of a lifestyle choice?
There’s too much MONEY sitting around in Time’s Up’s bank account for them to just shut up shop overnight? But, whether that gets donated to worthier charities, or they try to fix their broken organisation, will be the next big story to watch for them. I just hope they take good care of the case load on their books? I hope they don’t desert the people who trusted in them for help and guidance, so easily as they did their moral responsibilities?
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@xaero76 : Jesus, son??? Tell THAT to Terry Crews? . . . Sounds like you’ve listened to a lot of stories about them, and less of what they actually do, or did? I would agree that there has been too much, “overcorrection,” as Bill Burr puts it. But, I would take Bill Burr’s stance on the rest of it too. You need to calm down and take a look for yourself? Stop listening to all the, “stories,” you hear, and assess the world for what it is, not what Focks tells you to think it is? When due process gets tossed aside, like with the, “believe all women,” nonsense, we’d better push back, and hard! But, no one is telling you that it’s even all about men! Terry Crews, the same guy you cheered with his repeating shot gun, tearing through all the bad guys in Stallone’s Expendables movies, is also a victim of sexual assault! He has Me Too’d and addressed Congress on the topic! How does THAT fit the, “narrative,” son?
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Susan Galea : You are right, of course. But, I believe most people, certainly I can speak for myself in this, when they call Putin a “Commie” are being both ironic AND REALISTIC. By using the infrastructure of the KGB, re-Christening it as the FSB, and melding that organisation with the top mafia outfits of Russia, Putin rebuilt the state in his own image. Though we can NEVER call what he has now, ACTUAL “Communism,” there IS little or NO difference between his current “government” and that of STALIN.
Thus, it is eminently FAIR to call Putin a “Commie” of the Old School, who, like Stalin, has used the state as a means of enriching himself, used terror, false imprisonment and murder to silence his critics and steal from wealthy opponents, whilst silencing them too. He rose to power, by “fixing” problems for Boris Yeltsin, all the while, consolidating his own position, through the above mentioned tactics, while his leader was too drunk to care, so long as he got what he wanted.
Let’s face it? WHAT country EVER succeeded at “communism”? Not ONE of them became anything other than a Totalitarian Dictatorship. But, the house that Putin built, is an almost EXACT replica of Stalin’s model; with the one, important distinction (DECEPTION): they are no longer encumbered by the need to maintain the mirage of “ideology”. As a free-wheeling “capitalist” system, they can justify their enormous wealth, and claim that it is THIS, in and of itself, that proves their fitness to rule, in money oriented state. When, really, all they are is the Mob, stealing and murdering their way to power, killing and silencing those who would expose them. And, worst of all, they have a dread fear of REVOLUTION. They have seen all of these Break Away nations, seeking independence from them, and they live in mortal terror of being executed or dug out of a sewer, like other dictators, they watched die on CNN. So there is NO AMOUNT of “power” or “wealth” that will EVER make them feel “secure” enough to rest and stabilise what they already have.
And, America, the most powerful democracy in the world, has this nasty habit of exposing their crimes, freezing their assets and calling for free and fair elections, on the world stage. So, they have LONG seen The USA as a threat that MUST be neutralised. And, when you CANNOT equal them in strength, you must chip at their vulnerabilities. So, they have invested $ BILLIONS in fake news, money laundering, international bribery and blackmail, AND, of course, CYBER CRIME. They believe they have levelled the field, this way. And it “seems” to have WORKED?
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adam goessl : So, an extraordinary candidate that no one believed could win the presidential elections, looks to be the most popular candidate? Well, that happened in 2016 right? But, it’s just a pity that the GOP has already rigged the 2020, “elections,” right? You ALL KNOW this, deep down, but you can’t bring yourselves out of that comforting state of denial, because it’s terrifying to admit that the American Republic has already FALLEN. But, AS IF they would ALLOW you, at this stage, to, “vote,” them out of power??? So that the ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION gets indicted on GOD KNOWS how MANY charges, goes to jail, enters into to the, “Who can rat out the others quickest?” contest, to save their own asses, and the remainder of the GOP, the skeleton crew that still has its freedom, is forced to disband the party and flee to Moscow? Just by PRETENDING that your, “elections,” are not already RIGGED, Putin Style, with the voting computers in key states like Florida having its, “results,” already uploaded, is just COLLUDING with the Dictatorship now. Your, “vote,” will be valuable data for the GOP, helping them decide which states and individuals to TARGET next. You should all be on the streets, America
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Jimmy Verner : Best comment in the thread. Two reasons their, “argument,” NEVER WORKS. 1) because, even IF everything the Treason Trumpers say about Distraction HRC or O, was, “true,” so TF WHAT, right? How does THAT make ANY difference to Trump’s Treason? And, 2) because, their line is based on the inherent, inbuilt (and HIGHLY FLAWED) ASSumption, that ANYONE would even CARE if HRC were to spontaneously EXPLODE! She’s NEVER going to run again, and she was NEVER POTUS. Trump is RESPONSIBLE for his OWN FAILURES and his OWN TREASON.
Only the pre-converted CULT buys into that crap, anyway, so it shows a lack of intelligence AND imagination, on their part. Take me, for instance? I’m a conservative, with libertarian leanings. But I will be VOTING DEMOCRAT at the Mid Terms, like MILLIONS of OTHER CONSERVATIVES, because Trump is CLEARLY GUILTY of TREASON! But, I will ALSO be doing so BECAUSE of all these Trolls that have CONVINCED ME that Trump is CLEARLY GUILTY, with the utter LAMENESS of their, “arguments,” and the PREDICTABILITY of EVERYTHING their going to say. But, also, MOST Conservatives DO NOT want to be associated with the HATERS, RACISTS and DIM WITS, who say the kind of HATE-FILLED GARBAGE that THEY SPURT OUT on a regular basis! I mean, WHO in their RIGHT MIND, WOULD??? . . . Sorry for going on like that, but I feel better for that rant . . . Thanks for listening, if your read this far? . . . 👍 🙂
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Perhaps YouTube is disconcerted by the way you speak of yourself as an individual, despite several different voices narrating these videos? In your recent Prigozhin video you said you were, “resting your voice,” but you are back, while your colleague is still doing Russia videos? You are not being forthright with us, and that makes people suspicious. I don’t want to be suspicious of you, which is why I have commented about this issue more than once now. Hoping for a response, at least a general response, telling us who you really are, how many you are, and what your objectives are. You are not what you seem. That much is clear.
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A S : You appear not to have read my comment? You repeated the point that I challenged, without acknowledging, or dealing with my point, at all. I don’t know this guy, and I’m not willing to make assumptions about him, because, for all I know, he may have paid his debt to society, visited his victims, and won their support? OR . . . He may still have unpaid debts, and blood on his hands?
REGARDLESS; he is taking a personal risk, marking himself as a target, to people who KNOW him, his friends and family, and COULD get to him, if they were determined enough. He is challenging the foundation of Nazis, the ignorance, insecurity, failure in life, and the ruthless COWARDICE of Trump, who is too afraid to alienate his base, by condemning an abject ATROCITY. THAT is what he CAN be thanked for. It does help. It does contribute to change. And, it does undermine the very foundation of evil, even if it’s just a little.
Imagine a battle field; men and women have been killing each other for days, and one side is now defeated. A white flag is waved, and the two opposing commanding officers meet in No Man’s Land, to discuss terms of surrender. The victorious commander offers medical assistance for the wounded. He tells his opponent, that the Geneva Convention will be strictly observed, and as a symbol of TRUST, and by way of respecting the gallantry of the vanquished, the victorious officer refuses the defeated commander’s side arm, telling him he can keep it. If that defeated officer was an American, and the victor a German, in WW II, what do you expect the American commander to say? “But, what about Hitler? The Jews? The death camps? I lost a brother in France!” . . . Of course not. He will say, as would you, “Thank you for that.”
If you see this in the right context, you would see that I am no better than you, and that you should thank this man, for THIS thing that he’s done, for the sake of peace, on this day. Sometimes it’s just necessary to set aside the rest, for the sake of that peace, and for the good of those you are responsible for? I think you would be as gallant as those officers, if you were in their position. I think it’s just a question of seeing it through (slightly) better eyes. We want the same thing ✌️
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A S : Forgive me, but you’re still not getting my point. I’m saying that no one is asking for you to forgive him. He’s not asking for it, either. It is not a pre-requisite for him to help. Nor is it required, for others to express gratitude, for the risks he is taking. You’ve heard the expression, “Credit where it’s due,” right? Thank him; don’t thank him; that’s your choice. Hold on to his history; or move on; that too is up to you. But, if you used prisoners to put out a fire, and put them back in their cells afterward, people can be grateful to them, without expecting them to get a shorter sentence? It’s just NOT Black and white. He is brave, to do what he does. His past does not alter that. Perhaps we should just agree to disagree? I know you to be a reasonable commentator, from the past. I have know idea how much you know about this man, but what kind of world are we going to build, if there’s no forgiveness for transgression? A SEPARATE, but, important issue. If there’s no way back, there’s no reason for evil to stop being evil, which just makes more evil
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@ebenezeramponsah8314 : Not sure what you hope to achieve from reading out, “the things everyone already knows,” from Wikipedia pages, whilst putting your own pro-China spin on them? Or what, “answers,” you expect to get from me? I’m not here to account for the entire back catalogue of, “the west’s greatest hits,” or to, “defend,” any politics, son. I began by merely pointing out an obvious fact that even a layperson like me knows about the Patriot Missile system. If that triggers your Putin fanboy muscle, that’s something you must learn to live with, rather than trying to make it my, “issue.”
I learned a long time ago, probably before you were born, son: The art of NEVER losing the game? DON’T play. If you have something to say about THE TOPIC, I’m your huckleberry. I’ll gladly explain to you exactly why you’re so wrong about everything. But, if you wish to wander about in the, “annals,” of history, groping for, “justifications,” for why sick f*cks think they have the right to bomb innocent CHILDREN . . . DELIBERATELY from miles away, then you will have to find someone else to make you feel better about your abject COWARDICE.
I genuinely hope Putin DIES as a direct consequence of this war, and that Russia does its thing and has another Revolution over his dead body. Have a chicken sh*t day, troll. 🇺🇦🇬🇧🙂
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Well, I’m too late to this party for anyone, let alone the maker of the video, to pay me any mind, but since he asked: The only thing I found, “angering,” at all was the implicit statement that he voted for Joe Biden at the last national election but then voted Republican at the midterms. We could debate whether Bernie Sanders’s policies are really as uncosted and crazy as he suggests, but that doesn’t anger me. I agree with that fundamental point and think people wouldn’t care too much about that too, as they know that institutions would have to start figuring that out once he was in power. Plus, even just managing to put the breaks on the rampant unregulated capitalism running amok around the world starts and ends with the USA, which is currently bringing back child labour for crying out loud!
Businesses are becoming countries unto themselves and that worries the hell out of me.
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Vladimir Lenin : Trump Trolls do not, “believe,” anything that Trump tells them. They like that he’s racist and greedy, like them. After the paid Trolls, they come to news channels like this, because they HATE that news holds a mirror up to what traitors and haters they have to be, to still be, “supporting,” Trump. They Fake Believe, and will continue to do so until he crashes the economy. America’s tragedy is that Putin’s plan has WORKED: we fight and, “hate,” each other, instead of fighting the external enemies of America. We live in the Land Of Fake Believe ✌️👍
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@ozark8043 : Except for the whole, “belief,” that trump is in some way, “not,” a criminal who only garners support because he’s a racist and there are too many blue collar internet keyboard warriors with too much free time on their hands to contribute anything worthwhile to any discussion, let alone the planet. You have to, “make up,” your entire life, son. It’s built around an obtuse yet intricate string of racist pearls that collectively add up to one giant lie. Your entire, “reality,” is made up, kid. 😆
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Abby Isabella : We ALL KNOW that he mailed them to ORGANISATIONS, IDIOT! Brennan’s was, “Care of CNN, for example. One, to CNN, “Care of MSNBC.” WHO are you trying to KID, girl? You’re demonstrating that you DON’T HAVE the FACTS that are in the Public Domain, genius! And, it’s NOT HARD to find out where EVERYONE lives, these days. Especially with a little help? That’s NOT the issue for a Domestic GOP Terrorist? The ISSUE is getting through security.
You’re just STRUGGLING with the fact that Trump fans are sick AND STUPID. Do some READING? BEFORE your demonstrate your ignorance, next time, kid? . . . 🤣
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Christine valdez : It’s, “possible,” he, “registered Democrat,” (IF he actually DID?) as a way to, “infiltrate his enemy?” It’s, “possible,” that, by mailing bombs, “CARE OF,” major News outlets, he was showing us that he DIDN’T KNOW any, “private addresses?” It’s, “Possible,” that it, “seems off,” to YOU, because YOU DON’T WANT to believe what’s before your very eyes? Indeed, it’s ENTIRELY, “possible,” that this is what you GET, when your OWN POTUS; the guy who’s JOB is supposed to be SERVICE and UNITING a country, spouts HATE at the MAJORITY of the people he’s SUPPOSED TO BE WORKING FOR?
Just learn to get ALL the facts, be patient, until the FACTS come out, and THEN draw your conclusions? As, it’s, “possible,” that you could be conned into believing the DESPERATE Propaganda, spouted by, “news,” outlets, who see it as their personal responsibility to get Trump elected? . . . SMH
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voland1 : Oh, so THAT’S OK, then, is it? Dropping your “denials” now? In favour of the, “We ALL DO IT!” “Argument” now? Because the CIA did some bad stuff, WITHOUT the American people’s KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT, we’re supposed to roll over and take it up the ASS from a tin pot DICKtator, like Putin, ARE WE??? America isn’t buying what you’re selling, MORON! We DO the SHAFTING, as you’ll discover when Trump is REMOVED and YOU are back on the RECEIVING END 😁
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James Schrader : Well, now that it’s clear that I’m talking to a Russian Troll, let’s start by calling it what it is, shall we? It’s SPYING by a hostile nation, in an attempt to bring down democracy. The American people PROSECUTE and IMPRISON THEIR OWN PEOPLE, for doing that s**t, IF they FIND OUT about it. But, as I have ALREADY stated, they were NOT aware, complicit or supporting the criminal activities of SOME, in the CIA, YEARS AGO. But, if you are REALLY INSANE enough to HOPE that the American people are just going to say, “Well, I guess it’s our turn, now?” then, you’re more DESPERATE than you already sound??? It’s NOT our responsibility to pay for the crimes that flew in the face of our democracy, committed by rogue elements? Look at the Iran Contra deal, dude? People went to PRISON for that! We DON’T put up with it domestically, so WHAT do you “think” our response will be to those who infiltrated our PRECIOUS DEMOCRACY from a HOSTILE COUNTRY???
And, NO, I DON’T “approve” of that activity from ANY country, or at home, but, I figured I could draw you out, to show your REAL, RUSSIAN, AFFILIATION; and it WORKED, didn’t it? Putin Poodle
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Write to your representatives and tell them that. You have that privilege. Russia has a social contract which says, “The people can do what they like without interference, so long as they never get political or criticise Putin’s dictatorship.” Well, look how that’s worked out for them?
Political Absenteeism created a moral vacuum in Russia’s entire population, making them so useless that they don’t even have the wit or balls to fill the streets of Moscow and bring Putin down, like the Ukrainians did with their Puppet Putin over a decade ago. The difference is stark, isn’t it?
The same people whom Putin is so afraid of that he daren’t even close down his borders and force them to stay for conscription, are the very people who are fleeing Russia by the literal MILLIONS! Just think about what price you pay for being morally absent from politics? It’s turned a whole population into cowards who run at the first sign of danger, bomb innocent people from a hundred miles away. They loot, pillage, rape, torture and murder the defenceless and now those very people who should be filling the streets of Moscow to bring down their, “government,” are running away, all of a sudden, “anti-Putin’s-war,” when all we heard coming out of Russia was cheering until conscription and press gangs began!
Dear GOD! We don’t want people like THAT pouring into Western Europe by the thousands! Morally vacant cowards with no moral compass or spines!
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It’s SICK isn’t it? He gets to act out his Winston Churchill fantasy, at tax payer expense, while his constituents are busy being totally ignored. But now we’re learning that he has managed to get a personal friend appointed to the Chair of the BBC and we’re all meant to accept their excuses that, “Oh, you wouldn’t know about this stuff, because you’re all plebs, but this is how we do things all the time, so it’s fine really,” and we’re meant to tug our forelocks and say, “Oh well, sorry we bothered you then,” like it’s the 19 fricken’ 50’s or something!? The current CHAIR of the same BBC that Boris has accused in (IN PARLIAMENT!) of being biased against him personally and has threatened with the loss of its license fee, is now being chaired by the same regular dinner guest at his house who has promised the bank that HE will pay the entire £800,000 pounds should Boris decide not to pay it back! I don’t know about you, but I don’t have ANY friends or family close enough to be willing to take a million dollar risk on me, do you? And that fact that this guy, Richard Sharp, didn’t declare it on his application under interests tells us all we need to know! The more Boris tells us that they’re not such good buddies, the more TRANSACTIONAL this looks! Not all corruption is illegal, but that doesn’t stop it from being immoral. How are we meant to trust the BBC while they have one of Boris financial backers chairing the organisation??? This country has gotten SO BROKEN we need a do-over! “Business as usual,” my arse, Mr Chancellor.
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Upper Echelon Gamers : Don’t have Twitter, but sounds fun. Is all this alleged, “social justice,” stuff a more recent development? Or, am I just noticing it, because you are drawing my attention to something that’s been going on for some time? Seriously. It seems like there’s an upsurge in general, “anger,” on the internet? And, the less justifiable the issue is, the more angry people want to be? Life’s too short for these asshats . . . Great piece, though. As I’ve come to expect 👍
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Chris Klemens : I’ve only started watching Upper E G in the last few weeks, drawn in by one of his articles on Cyber Punk. I was blown away by how articulate, rapid fire, and on point he was, and I’ve been dropping in every other day to see what’s new. The guy seems to be finding serious problems, everywhere, which I knew nothing about, ironically, given that my brother has worked for Rockstar for about 15 years now. You can see his credit in Read Dead II, when they keep cutting between credits and silent scenes? “Programmers: Stuart Roskell . . . “ and two other people I never heard of before, at the bottom of the screen, but very prominent, just before it cuts to the scene of the two detectives, looking for John Marston, talking to people in a bar. Sorry to boast, but I’m very proud of him 🙂 But, on the topic, it seems to me like there’s a LOT of money changing hands, and coordination going on? The Cyber Punk thing wasn’t just one article, but a bunch, all at once. They all had the same complaint, roughly, which on it’s own, might make it look like they had a point; but, given that the complaint was SO triggered, unjustified, and based on, “the opposite of the truth,” it HAD TO BE coordinated, to hurt the makers, right? . . .
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So, what do we DO? Write to our MP’s? What? You have to STOP just highlighting these problems without suggesting any remedy whatsoever. “Where is the responsibility? Where is the duty of care?” you ask. Where is yours?
We simply cannot afford to be passive observers of the end of the world. And YOU cannot count yourself as having discharged your responsibility by simply reporting on it to an increasingly alarmed, horrified, confused and depressed public. That is just making things worse.
On the final night of The End Of The World Show, when they ask you, “What did you DO to try to stop this?” do you expect to be able to answer, “Well, I made sure I told everyone about how bad it was, making them feel less inclined to act because of the sense of hopelessness and powerlessness I instilled in them.”???
YOU are on this sinking ship with us. And you are holding the megaphone, having the attention of large numbers of people. Are you only ever going to use your megaphone just to keep informing us about one breach in the hull after another? Or do you think it might be wise to prevent panic and despair by coordinating things? Maybe tell people where the buckets are and assigning people to bailing the water out, while sending the best qualified to repair the breaches and save the damned ship!?
You realise you’re sinking WITH us, right?
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It’s already OVER, I’m sorry to say. The guilt of the Trumps was never even a question. The question was always, “Are there enough Haters and racists in America, to disregard their president’s criminality; and will the rest of the country sit still for it, while their Republic falls?” The answer was, “Yes.” It’s OVER. The Trumps have to keep the presidency, “in the family,” or face disgrace and jail, as soon as he’s out of office. What choice do they have? They’re blatantly refusing to take part in lawful processes, and nothing happens. Russia will RIG 2020’s, “elections,” with the GOP’s help, because half of Trump’s goons are implicated. And, sure, we’ll ALL KNOW. So what? They’ll promise to, “look into it.” Only, this time, an, “inquiry,” will exonerate Trump, IF they even bother . . . But, they’ll keep up the charade, for appearances sake, like they do in Russia. You have a Dictatorship now, America. You’d better get used to it. The Trumps will be taking turns in the top job, for the rest of your lifetimes
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Be prepared to FIGHT, America. For the GOP, it’s either establish a Dictatorship, by denying you elections, or go to jail and live with the disgrace of the history books. Which do you think they’ve already chosen? With no alternatives, they WILL try it, if WE LET THEM. What choice do they have? And, so many racist trump fans are more afraid of facing the TRUTH, which they know in their hearts, that trump screwed THEM the hardest, that they will carry on fighting. We have to be READY. The election is just the beginning. If we even GET ONE? . . . That will be on YOU
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Yup. I just hope there were civil servants, lawyers, whatever, at that meeting, recording everything? Maybe with audio, on their phones? Trump and his 12 De-scruples, having a evil, “Last Supper.” What an image! And we have the smoking gun, written in Donny’s own hand. If THAT’S not enough, maybe he really can shoot a man on 5th Avenue, like he said?
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Cat Lady : That’s because the trump’s will be, “voting,” in Florida, which is already rigged. I kept telling you all this years ago, when they uncovered the hacks in the Florida Voting tech; and then trump moved to Florida and adopted it as his new home; and then launched his, “campaign,” from Florida, for the sake of, “plausibility.” That was also when they threatened the Dems AND GOP members with instant jail, under Bush’s anti-terror laws, if they breathed a word about the, “investigation,” (cover up) into how it was that Russian software got into Florida’s voting tech, ON SITE! Yes! Someone uploaded the hack, in Florida! And, there’s been Radio Silence ever since. Isn’t it obvious? Everything I’m telling you was covered, piecemeal, by MSNBC and CNN. Check if you don’t believe me?
Trump, his family, and most of his Cabinet all KNOW they’re going to JAIL. You will have to TAKE back the Republic, if you want to restore it. What would you do, to avoid a life sentence and appearing in every history book as America’s Worst TRAITOR? Now, times that by a factor that includes NO conscience and a tendency toward psychopathy. The GOP has NO CHOICE. They simply CANNOT allow, “Elections,” and won’t! Be prepared for the coming fight, America. It will be the last stand of the Republic, or the fall of a Dictatorship. There really is no third option
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Jotaro Kujo : Oh, WOW! It was only $ 20, when I last looked? $ 40 BILLIONS? That’s even MORE in Rubles, right? Are you SEEING THIS, grakkerful? That’s $ 40,000,000,000 DOLLARS? FOURTY BILLION $ DOLLARS, RIGHT????? Am I getting this right? And ALL those CUSTOMERS . . . LEAVING Facebook, grakkerful, whilst LOSING $ FOURTY BILLIONS IN U.S. DOLLARS $$$. I imagine Sucker-Berg will be a bit miffed about THAT??? 😁
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Dani Langlois : That is truly chilling, if not at all surprising. I know that Upper Echelon Gamers (UEG) is challenging that sort of thing, head on, and I hope he is aware of the video you sited? It will be the next one I look at. In my view, UEG is the most articulate, incisive, even-handed, analytical journalists I have ever seen, period, let alone as a Gaming Journalist. I have to admit to some disquiet, at his venture into the Toxic Masculinity debate; not because it isn’t valid or necessary, as it so clearly is effecting the culture of the Gaming Industry. Rather, I detected a more personal sense of grievance, which I haven’t seen him give sway to before? I could be wrong? But, I couldn’t agree with everything he said. And, if he was to debate the topic with me, I guess I would probably start by suggesting he takes a look at the angry men, trying to hijack the meaning of his content, on this thread? You can’t read the outpouring of male-hate, mixed in with the sound supporters of his views, and those who respectfully disagree with, at least, PART of his analysis, without being FORCED to conclude that there’s a serious issue?
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Upper Echelon Gamers : I would be very grateful if you would respond to this comment, please? : I don’t know how much of this thread you have the time to read, but if you have taken a cursory view, you MUST have seen how many angry men have tried to hijack your video? Some truly hateful remarks are being made, and some of those, seem to want us to think that you share their hate and anger. None of us a re dumb enough to buy that, obviously. But, here’s my question: How can you read all that visceral, malignant, male rage, and not see that there REALLY IS a, “problem,” with the culture? Though I accept your basic premise, I fear there’s a risk that, in spotting and calling out the agendas of various SJW’s, we can end up going in the wrong, opposite direction. We could be arguing over, “definitions,” more than we are about the, “issues?” I’m a huge fan of your journalism, and, as I say; YOU ARE RIGHT. But, you also seem to be overlooking, or setting aside, the fact that, whatever name we call it by, the problem DOES exist. Just LOOK at THIS, your own comment thread, and tell me there aren’t hate filled, raging, juvenile males, who want to hijack your message, and turn it into the very Toxicity that you do not validate? Am I completely wrong? . . . I don’t think so? 👍✌️
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G Conger : I really hope you’re wrong about that? One video, that you disagree with, does not an Alt-Right Conspiracy, make. Not saying you ARE wrong. Just saying, I hope he joins the dialogue? Maybe expands on his ideas? We can agree that his gaming journalism is first rate, right? The best I’ve ever seen, in my view. But, this video talks about a problem, and says what he thinks is wrong. What it didn’t do, is say whether he acknowledges the existence of coordinated, “toxic,” behaviour, or what he thinks should be done to address that. I am willing to extend the benefit of the doubt, until I know more. Aren’t you? ✌️
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Katie Elkins : Well, you won’t get slammed by me. It’s there alright. I understand his point, after seeing what Rock Paper Shotgun, et al, tried to do to Project CD Red, for example; stirring up a lot of unfounded accusations about images they were, “offended,” by, when they had NO context to draw on. And, to see that expand the way it did. I’ve always maintained that a, “popular view,” when based on an obvious falsehood, has to be a coordinated lie. And, I found that alarming. Also, there will always be those who want to turn a thing into something it isn’t; like when a bunch of juveniles get carried away on a live stream game, and start coming out with juvenile abuse. Suddenly, it’s, “an endemic issue, speaking to the toxic culture of gaming?” More like a bunch of unpleasant kids being unpleasant kids, which has been happening since humans learned to talk.
Yet, after all that, there’s always another side of the coin. And, in this case, we’re not just talking about a few kids, saying things they wouldn’t dare say in front of their mothers, for fear of a slap. There is, even here, sparked by this very video, the cherry picking of the sentiments expressed, and hijacking into some kind of, “Anti-Liberal,” pseudo-political agenda. All sprinkled with a liberal dusting of hate speech, misogyny and racism. So, to say, “Toxic Masculinity is a Myth,” is only true, in that very narrow definition, to which he addressed this video; regarding the sinister forces that would either hijack the issue as a way of destroying the competition, or just to prove a thesis, which fits some sort of, “SJW,” view of the world, that activists want us to agree with.
But, that level of, “coordination,” exists, among the haters and the far right, and to pretend that it doesn’t, or that it hasn’t infected gaming, is equivalent, in my view, to pretending that there is no such thing as Nazis, or being a holocaust denier. It’s beyond obtuse, to a dangerous degree.
It’s for that reason that I am disappointed that UEG has not responded to any of the comments, after inviting them, on such a hot topic? I know he does, sometimes, respond to people, having seen it. And, though I, obviously would have liked it if he’d responded to me, for the sake of my ego 😉, all I really feel, that I kinda’ need to know from him, is that he acknowledges that, whatever we may call it, there is a problem; there is coordination, and that far right agenda exists every bit as realistically as the SJW one does? I just hope he’s NOT denying that?
I was astounded at the quality of this guy’s journalism and eloquence, when I first encountered this channel. And, I lavished praise on him, in his threads, because he didn’t seem to be getting much appreciation, other than the generalised kind. I wanted him to know, “what,” it was, in specific terms, that people were appreciating, and to know that people understood the value and quality of his work.
So, I have to confess to being a little rattled, by this video. Again, not because I disagree with anything in it, but because of what it, “doesn’t say.” To me, it was kind of like hearing a lecture on German history in the 20th Century, which tells us nothing but positives about what a wonderful nation, people and history, they can be proud of, without ever mentioning Hitler, or WW II. Nothing, inherently, “wrong,” with it, but it leaves you feeling uneasy, as to the, “Why,” of it?
I just feel I need to know, now? Otherwise, it’s going to be in the back of my mind, whenever I’m listening to him talk . . . To suggest that there aren’t right wing forces, working just as hard as the left, to influence ALL aspects of culture would be beyond naive, and possibly sinister. UEG has NOT done THAT, but he did skate around the, “Concentration Camps,” as it were, and he is not engaging with anyone on the topic, after INVITING that. He RAISED the issue, and STATED that he knew it was going to set people off in the comments, right? But, will he take NO responsibility for that? I’ve tried REALLY HARD to draw him on the topic, but . . . Nothing. That bothers me.
You wrote REALLY well, and I didn’t JUST enjoy reading you, I also thought, “I’m not the only one, here, trying to reason out the debate, taking time to respond, after HE INVITED the responses. Some people have done an excellent job, and it seems the least he could do?”
You should think about a career in writing, if you haven’t already, by the way? Sorry for going on again, but this video has obviously gotten to me, and that was some stream of consciousness stuff going on, there.
I guess this is not the sort of issue that people can just, “agree to disagree,” about? And, I don’t want to think of UEG as being the sort of person who would just toss a verbal grenade, like this, and walk off, without even looking back over his shoulder, to see what it’s done? . . . 👍✌️
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Agt.BADASS : “The Great Game Robbery,” would be a more apt title? “How they took your money, then stole it, then spied on you, ruined your life if you told anyone, or complained, and then robbed you again for good measure, whilst kicking you in the balls until you signed a contract to agree that you were happy they were robbing you.” 😁
But, don’t tell them you got that idea from me? I wouldn’t want some FIB lookin’ Private Goons coming to my house to, “Surprise Mechanic,” my ass! 😆
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Agt.BADASS : My, “FIB,” reference was from the Grand Theft Auto games. They have FIB, so they don’t get sued by the FBI, I guess. And, the goons who were meant to look as intimidating as them, but who really worked for a private investigation firm, hired by a games company to scare the s**t out of one of their former fans? . . . That is a reference to SubMato (probably misspelled) who’s story has been covered, a few videos back, by Upper Echelon Gamers. Three recent videos will tell you the whole story, about how the Games Companies are CRUSHING people, for petty, perceived, “offences,” with truly horrible tactics, including the above mentioned bastardry, combined with hunting him down on the web and destroying his livelihood and reputation, in just a few days. It’s a shocking story, and you’re at the best source for the factual account of what happened. This UEG guy, does first rate games journalism and, like the best journalists, covers himself by ensuring he has FACTS, and cannot be later accused of distorting them. Check it out? And tell me what you think? ✌️👍
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Christian Owen : You just can’t fix stupid, I’m afraid. The, “polls,” which told us that Biden, Warren and Sanders, ALL had a greater chance of winning 2020 than Trump does, CAME FROM FOX. I guess, because Trump Trolls heard Trump, saying, “fake! Fake! Fake!” they, “decided,” to believe him? But, you are just stating FACTS. They HATE that 😁👍
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David Mason : Honestly, son. I’ll smash your, “arguments,” one by one, if you think you can take it? But, if you can’t keep a civil tongue in your head, are you REALLY so dumb and arrogant, that you, “think,” people would read past your first insult, or, “Whaddabout?” Do get over yourself, kid? You’re being unmanned, by your HDS . . . Smh 😡
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@rimrunz1795 : Are you talking about Russia’s, “assistance during WWII,” there, son? If so, are you talking about when you were fighting with and for the Nazis? Or after you switched sides and fought with the allies, because Stalin realised he’d committed yet another blunder that would cost literally millions of Russian lives? Yeah, you’re right. There isn’t space for that kind of, “list,” on YouTube, but Russia’s war record is hardly anything to crow about. Stalin was already stealing money and secrets from his, “allies,” before the war was even over, son!
Putin and Stalin have a lot in common though. They both lie all the time and make hopeless strategic blunders that the little people pay for. Let’s just hope he checks out like Stalin did? Quietly, in a puddle of his own urine and vomit, while all the doctors were too scared to treat him in case he died and they got blamed for it, so he’s left with a bunch of clowns arguing for power over his carcass before he’s even choked out his last breath? That’d be nice 😉
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Andy Bevill : Precisely. Which is why Trump needs him, and he’ll NEVER, “resign.” It’s already a, “Banana Republic,” when the reverse is true too. If, “someone at the top,” can order his own, “acquittal,” as happened at the risible Impeachment SHAM, why shouldn’t we expect that he’ll be hunting down all the people who put him there, spoke the truth when asked, or even simply failed to scream out hysterical support for Trump, loudly enough, when Trump, “felt like it”??? The problem here, is that people are still acting like this kind of thing still matters in a Dictatorship, when the Impeachment was the last nail in the Republic’s coffin. Who in their right mind, even imagines that they are “NOT” going to RIG the coming, “elections,” when we ALL KNOW if Trump is unseated, he and his family will be indicted and all go to jail? Which will lead to them, ”ratting out,” everyone from Bill Barr down to Devin Nunes, the indictment and imprisonment of the ENTIRE administration, leaving a historically disgraced skeleton of the Republican Party in its wake, to disband and flee from the press like escaped Nazis after WWII. They have SHOWN you that Democracy, law and order, and the Constitution are OVER in America, but you all keep up this DENIAL, as if, “elections,” will MEAN a GOD DAMNED THING?! And, I think you’re all doing that, because you all know, in your hearts, that being honest with yourselves can lead to to only ONE conclusion. Americans must accept they have a Russia Style, FAKE Democracy, more popularly known as a DICTATORSHIP, and be DONE with it, OR? . . . Revolution!!! There is no third option
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will Henry : Define, “respected”? And, more importantly, explain why it is that you think we should be governed by what, “other people,” think? The only way you’ll ever know the truth about anything at all, is by assessing it for what it is, and not what others, “think,” about it. Pack mentality leads to the loss of independent thinking and the abandonment of your own faculties, in favor of popular opinion. Whatever others choose to believe, should have no influence whatsoever on what you believe, unless they submit EVIDENCE to back that view. We cannot, “choose,” what is true, any more than we can, “choose,” to deny Gravity, son. You’re running with a Trumpian pack, because you feel safety in numbers; an emotional reassurance which has nothing to do with true or false. Which is what has lead us into a Dictatorship in the first place. When you learn to think for yourself, accept reality, no matter how bitter it tastes, then you will be a man, my son . . .
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Buck Browning : It was NOT an, “attempted,” Coup, son. It succeeded. The Impeachment sham was the final nail in the Republic’s coffin. I predicted the, “Vengeance Rampage,” if Trump walked from this, because it’s how ALL modern Dictatorships evolve, these days. Putin has lead the way, teaching us that a successful dictator only survives by maintaining the ILLUSION of, “Democracy.” And, that’s why Bill Barr complained about Trump’s blatancy. Trump, being an idiot, with a childlike, “need,” to play with all the toys at once, is making it hard for us to PRETEND we’re, “not,” a Dictatorship, while he keeps PROVING that we are, by getting away with Dictatorship Shit. And, Barr knows that you can only reach Trump by going on TV, where he can’t interrupt you, or fly into a rage to shut you up, so as to maintain his Safe-Space-Bubble. I just find it funny that BOTH Dems and Trump Culters are COLLUDING in this FARCE, pretending that the Republic has, “not,” already FALLEN, and that the coming, “Elections,” are, “not,” ALREADY RIGGED. Each for their different reasons: The GOP needs to consolidate its power (which Trump thinks is about getting revenge on his enemies, and ruling through fear, and the GOP thinks is about calming things down,so the people don’t rise up in a Revolution because it’s SO FUCKING OBVIOUS that the Republic has fallen) and the Dems do it, because they’re too close to the problem, busy making their little backroom deals and trying to preserve their own constituencies, while pushing back any thoughts of reality, as Revolutions have unpredictable outcomes. And, that leaves us, the American People, who KNOW it’s all over, stuck in the middle with you, Bucky Betrayal and his merry band of America Hating Traitors . . . SMH
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JamieLan2011 : Exactly. Barr’s, “rebuke,” of Trump was the only way he could reach him: on TV, without being shut down by Trump’s effeminate histrionics. His actual message to Trump translates as: “Sir, I have already threatened / bribed / extorted the judge in question. You Tweeting about it, only daws attention to the fact that we have no law and order in our Dictatorship, unless you’re a person of no consequence to us, and makes it harder for me to FIX Stone’s sentence, and get him off without having to serve any time. I know you want to take personal credit for being the man, but with all these other crimes we keep committing, and all the crimes we intend to commit, and all the crimes you just got away with, after we rigged your trial, if you keep this up and keep Trolling America like this, you will make it IMPOSSIBLE for Americans to collude with you and pretend that we still HAVE a Republic.”
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Fox should be getting sued AND charged with sedition! They did so much HARM to democracy, world wide! Fox, between the election and the insurrection of the 6th, cast doubt on the election over 700 TIMES, even though they KNEW, “The Steal,” was a FLAT OUT LIE! Why isn’t that SEDITION??? You can’t scream, “fire,” in a pact theatre, and get to watch people DIE in the chaos, without CONSEQUENCES! Why is Fox allowed to be such traitors and get away with it??? We used to hunt down and HANG seditious propagandists after WWII! Now we let them broadcast on American soil, and collect from their shares in the company??? WTF, America??? It has to STOP!
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It’s a question of correctly defining what a, “healthier lifestyle,” means, both objectively and then to you personally. If you’re simply fleeing your terror of death by wasting all of your time trying to extend it, you will achieve little except remaining terrorised, possibly for longer. After all, many will think they’re, “life hacking,” even though they don’t have the skills for research or critical analysis, probably resulting in them being sold a bunch of dodgy steroids on the web, or something equally life shortening, not to mention the hazards to your bank account’s mortality.
In the same way, you may seek to improve your philosophical outlook, yet have no training or knowledge of philosophy, reaching spurious conclusions about, “the good life,” without ever hearing the challenges, or understanding why your life has not improved.
The best life hack I can offer is to learn the skill of identifying GENUINE expertise in others. Get good at knowing what makes someone an expert and you’ll always be able to get access to tailor made advice that suits your actual needs, from your physical health to your mental and spiritual well-being. And how to strike a balance between those things, work at a job that’s right for you and get the most out of your day to day.
Every vulnerability you have, or think you have, has a 10,000 charlatans around the world, looking for a way into your wallet or worse. Being able to identify them and sort through the chaff until you get to the few precious grains of wheat is the best skill any living human can have in the 21’st century.
And, for a reasonable fee, you can join my class on how to improve this life hack for your needs . . . Just kidding. 😉
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Duke O’kane : So, why have YOU spent the last 5 YEARS, all day, every day, talking to people on, “MSM,” exclusive on channels you HATE, whining at people you HATE, about all,the stuff you HATE, then son? If you ain’t being paid for that, you need to speak to a mental healthcare specialist. Issues muchary 😂
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@plyply6054 : That’s not an answer, kid. Those are general allegations, but you proffer ZERO evidence. Think about it? You’re not saying, “Biden is a cheater,” so much as saying that you don’t trust trump’s appointed personnel, the NSA, any judge in any court in America, whether a member of The Freedom Caucus and appointed by trump or not, the polling volunteers, the poll counters, the evidence of your own eyes on livestream monitors for every single state, the American electorate, GOP politicians in every state where they lost and admitted it, the police and of course, what you call, “Mainstream Media,” even though F*x attempts to be as mainstream as humanly possible. You don’t think that problem might just be yours, though, right? Just everybody else’s. You’re a trump fan alright . . . 😉
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Paul Riches : You’re brainwashed, by Propaganda, son. You hate the truth, and treat it as an attack. You’ve been convinced, by smarter people than you, to hate your fellow Americans even MORE than you hate America’s ENEMIES. A Personality Cult is as Un-American as it gets, son. What is the, “ideology?” “America First?” The Saudis, the Russians, the Turks, ALL get first bight of the Apple, while Donny’s in charge. “Prosperity?” While the Rust Belt is in RECESSION? And, we’re having our first industrial STRIKES in a GENERATION? “The Brown Menace?” When Trump CAUSED the influx of Asylum Seekers, DELIBERATELY, to get you all hysterical for him? He WAS TOLD what would happen, if he withdrew all Aid from South America. What does he STAND FOR, son??? Making himself RICH with YOUR MONEY! And, giving our ENEMIES ACCESS to ALL our security protections. You’re not just a greedy racist. You’re a STUPID one . . . SMH
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Civil cases can and should be rescheduled if they threaten to interfere with legitimate political cycles or procedures. A curtesy that should be extended to anyone, regardless of how repellant their politics are.
However, criminal trials have a public interest factor regarding the constitutional undertaking to render, “relief,” to both the victims and defendants of trials, which is why, “speedy,” justice is required. Add to that, the rights of voters to know whether they are being asked to vote for a criminal or not. If trump is technically a, “criminal,” this should be known prior to any elections. Particularly where disqualification for office is a factor, causing a guilty verdict to render any electoral ambitions moot.
The possibility of a delay until the defendant has had two terms in office and nearly a decade of compounding his criminality, to the point that there will no longer be the rule of law regardless, is unconscionable.
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I truly hope that Heard has no responsibility for raising a child now? Isn’t there a young child they share? My chief concern is for that child. Amber Heard represents a clear risk to that child’s safety and should never be allowed unsupervised contact with children. She has been proven to a legal standard to be violent, manipulative and a downright liar. Now she is proving that she has no humility or capacity for learning or growth. She has been given terrible advice if she has been encouraged to go out and repeat the lies that were debunked in court, laying herself open to further legal actions. But she also has no idea how to protect her own interests, doubling down as she is, upon her deceit and malignant untruths.
Any child would be vulnerable to such a bullying narcissist and should be kept far away from her.
I worked as a Family Therapist for six years and our goal was to prevent family breakdown to prevent children entering the care system, by assessing whether it was safe and appropriate to do so and if it was realistic that the family could work out their issues, at least enough to stay safely under the same roof. Our concern was always primarily for the children in all cases (we worked under Children’s Services for the Social Services Dept) and protecting the child’s interests above and beyond all other considerations.
We would get referrals for children who were displaying, “problem behaviours,” but nearly always found that there was an adult (or adults) at the root of the child’s difficulties. Many families expected us to work with the child alone, but the only successful cases were the ones where we worked with the whole family.
All this to say, in the case of this family I would deem any children in their orbit as being, “At risk.”
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So, my question is: if America has such trading power over China, then WHY are they allowing all those countless IBM Microprocessors to go to China, only to be sold, en masse, to Russia, who continues to manufacture guided missiles with them and bombing the hell out of our allies!?
I’m speaking primarily about Ukraine, obviously, but there are other allies, or those who simply resist Russian hegemony in places like Syria, or in countries all over Africa.
China is Russia’s main source of microprocessors, and American IBM’s are China’s main source of top level microchips. Why are we not sanctioning these funnel companies, or threatening to withhold all microchips? Russia would be totally reliant on Iranian drones if it wasn’t for the fact that they keep restocking on microchips! And it would only take a little disruption to the Iranian life line, for say a month or so, for Ukraine to experience relief from constant terror attacks and to gain a significant advantage on their Eastern Front IF Russia had no access to American made microprocessors from China!
Is it just the MONEY?
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For those of you who want to see this problem both addressed and overcome, with genuine genius, I recommend Steven King’s Dark Tower series of novels. Even if you’re not fans of King, or horror, as these are not that, but a weird amalgam of Clint Eastwood westerns, Arthurian knights and sci fi fantasy. But, imagine a story that gets so meta, yet easy to follow, that it literally describes this very problem of single narrative versus serialised story telling, within it’s own finale. It explains why no ending could possibly satisfy you, the reader, and follows that by giving you the most clever, unexpected, yet geniusly teased and satisfying ending possible, to the final book. A genuine work of genius, which was NOT reflected by the laughably dreadful movie based on bits of three of the novels. For those who loved GOT and were disappointed by the ending, it’s worth it, just to have the same experience with the joy of one of the best, most satisfying endings in literature laid out before you. ✌️
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@cheshireinwonderland : That’s what I mean, right there. The writers of SFU always knew how the story was going to end, as do most great writers (including those of BB) which is why my recommendation, above, works so well, and why anyone who hasn’t yet enjoyed those novels is in for a treat. It is possible. It’s just that people (producers in particular) don’t always know the great rule of story writing: that you start with your ending in mind, and you write the rest to get you there. That’s why many will tell those learning to write fiction, to begin with your title. It prevents meandering and getting lost. It’s great when characters do their own thing, and, “take over the process,” but you must control them, and have that goal in mind.
Fun Fact: Hollywood hires specialist writers for scripts, when they edit them, who literally have specialisms in such things as Endings, Dialogue, Beginnings, Character Building, World Building, Continuity, etc, etc. Often, when a movie flops, if you look at all the writers involved, it’s always either one of two things: either one writer had too much creative control, when they should have hired some specialists to help with the ending, or world building or whatever, or it’s the opposite; where they had too big a budget and had about 20 writers, pulling in different directions. The golden number seems to be around three. But, don’t hold me to that. 👍
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Onair Carna : To be honest, it could be any one of a number of suspects, but I like saying Nunes, because it upsets the Trolls, almost as much as the guy who’s been NAMING the indicted Russians on YouTube. Those guys are Heroes, Bosses and mentors to many of the Trolls and simply naming them in a list, guarantees 100 + responses, from Angry Prop-Putin Traitors and Trolls. Having said THAT, Nunes has ACTED Desperate and Guilty, so I’m keeping my money on him. And, given his position, as the CHAIR of the Congressional Committee into Trump’s Treason, the dominoes will fall pretty fast, IF it IS Nunes!? And just LOOK at what he DID? He almost got recused from his OWN COMMITTEE, for doing things that were, practically, (and damned well SHOULD BE) ILLEGAL: Running to the White House, with FBI Intel on, “unmasking,” remember? THAT was pretty DESPERATE.
But, he’s popular with his local, elderly, district, and looks like he’s in a safe seat. But, IF he was EXPOSED as the TRAITOR we ALL suspect he is? . . . Well . . . Not sure even THEY would vote for him, while his business address is Riker’s Island? . . . 😁 👍
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Onair Carna : Though, that may change, when we get more “American” revelations, but, yeah, absolutely. Mean while, here’s a little gag, doing the rounds on the Kremlin’s FSB Chat Page:
Q: What’s LONG, RED, and dangles loosely, between Putin’s quivering knees?
A: Donald Trump’s TIE, in Helsinki! 🤣
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Well, at least the Capitol Police get that now. Now they know what it’s like for the victims of a family who prosecute the cops for shooting their kid in the face on the grounds that s/he was skateboarding while black, and the JUDGE is the one who finds the technicality that gets the case thrown out of court, before they can even get to the witnesses (wouldn’t want graphic, detailed testimony blackening the cop’s name, when we’re going to let him walk AND continue being a cop, would we?) and makes it all go away. It must really suck to find yourself on the bottom rung of America’s cast system? But, at least they have the wear with all to DO something about it, and don’t have to rely on appealing to America for help, by telling their stories on CNN, in a desperate bid for justice that leaves their lives an open book for any stranger to scrutinise and pick holes in, for the rest of their days?
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@chadgaston8615 : Oh, he might, “say,” that. But what Putin, “believes,” and what he says are seldom the same thing. He calls Zelensky a Jewish, “Nazi,” for instance. Is he really THAT pig ignorant? Or is he putting on a show for the people he just, “thinks,” are that pig ignorant? Either way, it’s time for him to, “spend more time with his family,” and let the more even tempered, slightly less nukey, grownups settle world affairs . . .
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Indeed, simply not being Tory was not enough. Gordon Brown was ousted largely because people felt his tenure had begun anti-democratically, with a back room deal. Many liberal voters (with a small, “l”) like myself, were so disillusioned that they couldn’t bring themselves to vote for anyone. I voted Liberal, because of the promise to get rid of student debt. Genuinely. I had three teens to think about at that time. Well, that was a mistake. But Brown was deeply unpopular.
In that sense, the Tories are so openly corrupt and contemptuous of law and order, and their lies about Covid, Brexit, Taxes, the NHS, etc, so plain for all to see, that they are unpopular enough to lose comprehensively. But the landslide that Labour hopes for would only materialise if one of their more popular personalities (GOD! I hate the very notion of, “personality politics!”) were to take the helm, like Angela Rayner. But that’s not going to happen in a party that is desperate to show its consistency and stability before the election.
BTW, Have you considered writing and directing Election: The Musical? You’d be excellent in it if you leaned on the humour and empathy. 😉
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@REDEMPTION 2024 : Ah, the younglings never follow their, “stories,” to their conclusion, do they? Firstly, prove it. Second, you can’t, and know why not. Did you know the annual tax kickback for donating his wages would have been $ 500,000 dollars? Did you know that the taxman has never given him that kickback,because there is ZERO evidence that he did donate his wages to charity. Note: he never simply left his wages, but said he would take them, and then, “give them away,” but the public record has ZERO record of his tax rebate? So, he couldn’t have done it! You poor duped, child . . . Tell me another bed time story? I’ll keep telling you how and why you’re wrong, and by the end, you’ll be a Biden voter 😉😋
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The infighting among the GOP, “leaders,” for trump’s place as the contender for president creates the illusion that lots of Americans actually give a sh*t. The fact is, it won’t matter. Trump will, “win,” the ticket, then he’ll lose the election, then the GOP will FINALLY rid themselves of their albatross and have a little implosion in the background, while the grownups get on with the grownup stuff like creating jobs, dealing with China and the Russians, seeking energy independence and increasing security for democracies around the world, so that the existing democracies don’t get overwhelmed by the the far right surges we keep seeing.
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I’m just gonna’ come right out and say it: Stanley Kubrick is overrated. His best movies are the least well known, these days, like Barry Lindon (which was too long) and Paths Of Glory. He’s credited as the director of Spartacus, even though the real director was its star and head producer, Kirk Douglas, so that brilliant epic doesn’t count. Clockwork Orange is unintentionally funny in parts, dated badly in others, and doesn’t do justice to the style or substance of Anthony Burgess’s original novel.
Don’t get me wrong. Kubrick was clever and original in his time, and his cinematography was innovative and unique (but that was more to do with his, “cinematographer,” than him, surely?) and his stories and subject matter were always challenging and adult enough to be genuinely interesting and worthy. But, his movies were always pompous and overblown too, with style frequently coming at the cost of substance; seeming to rely on his audiences, looking on agog, at his wonderful set piece story telling, whilst forgetting whatever the F his story was meant to be about.
He was good. But no, “genius.” It’s worth reflecting, that this guy considered himself to be such an influence upon our fragile little minds that he genuinely believed it was his responsibility to buy up all copies of Clockwork Orange, to effectively ban it from public viewing. Why? Because he believed his movie would make society more violent. Self belief is a wonderful thing, separating the boys from the men, so that some artists achieve extraordinary things. But, when it leads you to taking all your toys back indoors, because the children are not grown up enough to handle the epic mental influences of your genius, auteur visions, surely you just need to get over yourself?
He believed he was a genius, and he convinced a lot of people that he was, by his unique style and by the smart choices he made in the variety of topics he picked to make movies about. But, honestly? In your heart of hearts? Was he a, “genius,” though? . . . Really? . . . Nah . . . ✌️
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Forcing the senior GOP members to testify at the Impeachment will destroy them. Demand it from your reps! They cannot refuse to testify or take the 5th! “The steal,” was the REASON for the Insurrection! So, let the GOP give their, “evidence,” for, “believing,” in it!? Or confess that they KNOW it’s a seditious LIE!? For the world to see! Graham, Hawley, Cruz and the rest, for the benefit of Q, the Nazis, and the cult of trump!
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Gabe Ackerman : That’s because I live inside your head, son. It’s free residence (Trump would not approve?) and there’s so much empty space between your ears, besides the free roaming fantasies, obviously. You probably, “think,” that people like me don’t own guns either? You’re in for SO MANY, “surprises,” kid. But, the funniest thing? I don’t, “picture you,” at all. When I finish this sentence, you won’t even be a memory, and you’ll feel just that little bit dumber, because you hung on my every word, all the way down to . . . here . . . 😊
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Mir0slava123 : But, the point is not that. The geopolitics, of why America needs to have a permanent, “surrounding influence,” over the Saudis; that they both protect and intimidate them; that their regime is highly unstable and could easily be couped into an extreme right Muslim hell, making their current circumstances look like Liberal Amsterdam, by comparison; and that the bottom line is always MONEY . . . NONE of that speaks to the point, which is that: without the Saudis, we NEVER would have had 9/11. And the message Trump has just given to the Saudi government, is that they can continue to buy off the extremists, by placating them with logistics, weaponry, MONEY, and whatever else they need, TO DO IT AGAIN.
You see that, right?
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Mir0slava123 : They have been unstable for decades, but not in a way that most would assume. This, “oppressive regime,” that the west sees, is actually rather, “Liberal,” by Saudi standards. The King has replaced two princes in recent years, with administrative responsibilities; equivalent to a Prime Minister. And, women are getting driving licences and being allowed to go to cinemas, do knew types of jobs, like being doctors, for the first time, EVER.
There was never ANY threat of an Arab Spring, as this administration is having to placate the population who are largely uneasy with all this, “liberalisation,” at best; leaving many raging that their culture is being, “westernised,” and that their power is being undermined. The setup there is more akin to some kind of sci fi fantasy or Game of Thrones, scenario, with rival royal houses, battling for supremacy. And the best way to win allies, is to pander to the, “Conservatives,” with all the cash and family names that go back centuries. The complexities are endless and too numerous to list, here.
But, suffice to say; the simplest breakdown is that the US (with occasional help from Britain and France in particular, but also other UN countries) shields Saudi Arabia, which is viewed with either suspicion or hostility, by its neighbours. It uses that leverage to pressure the country into playing ball on western (particularly US) interests.
The balance has always been delicate, and the scapegoating of other countries, for 9/11 was a necessity, in order to maintain that balance. We have a snake by the tail, which is useful for keeping hostile nations at bay and enriching the top echelons of western powers. But, it BIGHTS, and its bight is lethal.
And, the very worst thing you can do with a pet like that, is to REWARD it, when it eats one of your own. The venom of that bight is only just starting to take effect, but it will be far more crippling than Trump will ever admit. Not only have we encouraged the viper to strike again, but the effect of its sting is about to poison us all. Wait and see
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Bear Bear : That would be in PooTin’s half of the, “Ukraine,” presumably? Badge of honor, if ask me? Even if it was, “true.” What’s your problem, Karen? Are you all upset because you got arrested for slapping another 16 year old checkout girl in Walmart, because she wouldn’t serve you without your mask? And she wouldn’t accept your doctor’s note, “excusing,” you from masks? Did you get arrested again, and only make it worse for yourself, when you noticed a bunch of teens were videoing the whole thing for YouTube’s KARENPOCALYPSE, and you started resisting arrest and slapped a Police Sargent? Is that why you’re so shrill while you’re clutching your pearls today? Was the judge not having it, when you demanded to speak to his supervisor? Have you only just gotten out of jail, again? BDS is a painful psychological disorder that can only be treated, (by a proctologist) never cured . . . Sad 😞 . . . 🤣😂😆😂🤣
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Let’s be honest here, people. You simply DON’T NEED to train, evaluate, check out the mental health of, seek cohesiveness or expertise in a specialist field, for a MEAT WAVE! This is the Russian’s LAST CHANCE! Flee Russia or be tossed into the grinder. This new system is NOT for generating 400,000 soldiers! It is for conscripting as many as they can get; probably a couple of million before protests get out of hand, to stockpile the last real, “weapon,” in Putin’s armed forces: MEAT! It’s all he has left. And he’ll spend it profligately! You have been WARNED, Russians. GET OUT!
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@mkodyglobalsouthsoldier : Yes, I’m afraid your logic appears to be very wrong. It fails to take so many complex matters into account, which would be too lengthy for a YT comment to explain. But, what I can say, (an obvious factor which you should have taken into account) is, LOOK at what’s happening in Ukraine? The Ukrainian armed forces are defeating Russia’s and are gaining advantages by the day, whilst no nukes have been used by what was believed by the international community to be the second most formidable conventional army in the world. If ANYTHING has been learned by recent events, it has been that the world’s, “ranking,” system was patently wrong. Even before all the aid started pouring in to Ukraine, they managed to push back the entire might of Russia’s armed forces, from the the literal outskirts of their capitol city, eliminating many of Russia’s most elite units in the process! Russia’s Spetsnaz has lost 90% of its fighters alone! And that was never claimed by Ukraine, but has been researched and independently verified! Russia has found that the ONLY way they can hold any ground at present is by accepting a casualty rate of SEVEN TO ONE! They call them, “Meat Waves,” for a reason! And nukes do not even enter into that discussion.
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Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention in such clear and entertaining way. Thank you for getting all the important points across in such a comprehensive manner that leaves the viewer in possession of all the salient facts. This was staggeringly irresponsible of this woman, whatever her motives! What was she thinking?! Of course she belongs in jail.
She may well have believed she was merely speeding inevitable conclusions by cutting corners. But, if just one person was wrongfully convicted on the basis of her incorrect data, she should serve at least as long as her victim has.
Then we must take into account the staggering cost to the local tax payers, over $7 million and counting, just to go over all those retests again, and the cost of any retrials and new motions will land on top of that bill. And perhaps, the larger cost of the criminal justice system’s reputation in Colorado, which affects everyone from the DA and police to the Courts and especially their forensic departments!
There is a category of crime called, “Culpable Negligence,” which usually only comes up in corporate cases where people have died as a direct result of enforced corner cutting or time saving measures that make proper safety checks impossible. But it clearly applies to her unbelievable arrogance in this case and should be added to the charges! It’s just too big a case and it will cause overhauls of methods and practice, regardless of outcomes, which all costs the tax payer too.
And even that only applies to if a jury believes her defence is sincere, that she believed all these people to be guilty anyway: a defence which dies upon the first instance of a person proven to have been wrongfully convicted! For then we must consider if she acted out of malice or spite, in any one or possibly all cases? Or maybe she’ll plead insanity. For only she must have known how crazily reckless she was being with other people’s lives, let alone her department’s reputation and the general reputation of American justice?
Of course she belongs in jail. Even if they don’t find one case that contradicts her findings. For the abject chaos she has caused and the irreparable damage she has done to public trust in the criminal justice system! A wilfully selfish and ruthless woman like that doesn’t belong anywhere near decent, free people.
Most of all, I feel for any wrongfully convicted prisoners and their families.
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Robert Raffaele : Incidentally. Your marvellous comment has upset the trump trolls into hitting you from all sides; with 3 of them, using their various, “tactics,” from abuse to complex lies, to the idiot, “questioning,” at a basic level, “technique.” You already seem to know that the art of NEVER losing a game is DON’T PLAY. Bravo. But, I recently learned, of the paid ones, trump trolls only get money when you Click their name or Click Bait. I still crush egregious lies sometimes. But, I NEVER Click their names, or get them paid. Not any more ✌️👍
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“Boys suffer most,” in families with no present father figure. That’s the argument, but I heard no evidence for that. No statistics, no analysis, not even anecdotal examples to form a basis for that assertion. I’m not saying this guy is wrong. But it is striking that when he came to the crux of his argument he had nothing to back it up with. How are boys suffering most? In what way? What are the broader effects? What are the statistics? Why should society be concerned? THEN, let’s talk about what to do about it. But show me why I should believe this and why I should care?
It’s the centrepiece of this discussion and the effect of leaving us with nothing more than an assumption is actually disconcerting. Another way to put that question is; Why are girls suffering less? Again, what are the stats, and how have they been analysed. We get a lot of stats to back up the earlier claims made, building up to this main point, (though, even here, I didn’t see the references for all of them and where these figures come from, but I’m prepared to take on faith that the speaker is being sincere) so their sudden absence, at the very point where the whole overarching argument is meant to crystallise, leaves me mildly suspicious at best.
This is a shame, because my instincts tell me he’s on to something here. But he chose a hell of a time to sacrifice data for the sake of brevity, if that’s what happened there?
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Just be ready, America. Be prepared to FIGHT, America. For the GOP, it’s either establish a Dictatorship, by denying you elections, or go to jail and live with the disgrace of the history books. Which do you think they’ve already chosen? With no alternatives, they WILL try it, if WE LET THEM. What choice do they have? And, so many racist trump fans are more afraid of facing the TRUTH, which they know in their hearts, that trump screwed THEM the hardest, that they will carry on fighting. We have to be READY. The election is just the beginning. If we even GET ONE? . . . That will be on YOU
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As far as I know, the Russian, “constitution,” actually outlaws private military groups. So the mere existence of the Wagner Group is a direct contradiction of Russian, “law.” In fact, there has been a proliferation of various private military groups, according to some reliable western outlets, as there are several oligarchs, each creating their own outfits, who are worried about the possibility of post-war chaos and attempting to protect their own interests.
I understand your feelings about the Russian population, very well. To me, Russia is like the largest open prison on Earth. The closer you get to Moscow and the centres of power, the worse the conditions and the more ignorant it is necessary to be to survive. And it is as though the inmates of this giant jail are all keeping their heads down, hoping not to be noticed by the prison guards, who approach people at train stations, bus depots and especially airports, in their black, faceless uniforms, demanding to see their mobile phones so they can search for banned apps, search private messages and emails for, “rebellious,” language or comments in, “private,” conversations. You can be arrested and jailed for 15 years, just for holding a blank scrap of paper up to a camera.
The people of Russia have seen their privileges being removed systematically, channels being banned, entire news outlets being banned, shops and restaurant chains disappearing from their midst. And soon they know their money will become worthless as they barter for bread: that economic bombshell is coming. Yet, so few protest.
This is not a free society. Russia is a jail of the soul.
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He should have had a Savonarola style Bonfire of the Vanities, with the town’s Christmas tree at its epicentre, having each individual citizen of Hooville throw their respective gifts into the flames, just after reading the label out loud, thanking the gift giver and then wondering out loud about what it might have been. Then the Grinch should have been willing to DEFINE Christmas, thus alienating their potential Jewish, Muslim and atheist audience members, instead of copping out for that reason and trying to pretend that by being all vague and mysterious that they were in some way, “leaving us to think about its true meaning,” which was NEVER going to happen in a mainstream movie.
Imagine telling a modern child that Christmas celebrates the birth of this Jewish Palestinian guy who is going to get to the age of 33 and then be murdered in such a slow, graphic, public, humiliating and sadistic way that Hannibal Lecter would need a sick bucket if he saw it? And trying to explain that they did this as a result of populism and politics, because he was making them all look bad in both Rome and Jerusalem by simply being nice to people and practicing the religion he preached?
It might have a lasting positive impression on that child? After the nightmares stop and the therapy is over? But it would be the last Christmas in Hoocaresville. Merry Christmas everyone 😁
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@michaelzomsuv3631 : Oranges are round, son. Spherical people like trump don’t have a, “point,” but thanks for playing. You let yourself run off into a diatribe about, “Victimhood,” and, “grievance,” and basically how you don’t like to be lol’d at, despite the hypocrisy of trump trolls having, “get a sense of humor,” as their catch phrase throughout 2016 . . . Oh, you forgot that? Maybe too young to remember it? What else were you hypocriting? I don’t know. Ask me why? Thanks for asking. Because, about half way through your second sentence I began to wonder what sense of pure, entitled, cry baby, biyotchery made you flatter yourself that I would wade through the molasses of your victimhood-signalling? And then I immediately stopped caring and remembered I have a life. trump trolls need to remember to be brief, or continue being ignored? No one cares about your long list of grievances. You’re not, “special,” or uniquely entitled to my attention, son. Be witty and interesting, like me? Have something WORTH saying? But stop WHINING, Karen? 🙄 . . . 🤷♂️
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@hannahdyson7129 : OK, Frodo . . . Don’t know what to do with that information. I’m happy to have a Tory government for now, back in Blighty. But, here in this country, conservatives go off to join the Lincoln Project, or Veterans Against Trump, or one of those outfits. There no such thing as a, “Conservative,” Republican. Only fascists, who don’t like being called fascists, but who cannot argue against the FACT that they are Totalitarians, at best. 🤷♂️ That’s what we’re dealing with here. . .
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Zaky Firin : A Bogey Man is useful for politicians to have as a target, for their people to aim their aggression and hatred on. Sometimes, it works in a good way, as during WW II, when domestic crime figures dropped, due to increased solidarity and a sense of a shared enemy; sometimes it doesn’t, like when the country is doing fine and COULD be SOARING, but is held back by an evil Orange Narcissist Elf, who digs up old wounds and pours salt on them, because he can only thrive in an environment filled with hatred. What can I tell you? Sometimes the Bogey Man is REAL, like Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Saddam, Bin Laden, and Putin. These people really DO murder, rob from, exploit, lie to, terrorise and rape their own countrymen and women, which bodes badly for their enemies, if they treat their OWN people like that. We have our own Bogey Man to worry about, though. Trump could so easily become a tyrant, such as those, if we let him continue on this path
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Tillie The Toiler : You are all acting like the Republic has, “not,” FALLEN already? WHY are you colluding with this FANTASY? The Republic has FALLEN and you people are acting as though the GOP would ALLOW you to send them all to JAIL? The 2020 , “Elections,” are ALREADY RIGGED! Their, “choice,” is: GO TO JAIL, taking ALL of the Trump Family and half of the GOP with them, OR RIG THE ELECTIONS. Which do you THINK they’ve ALREADY CHOSEN??? The, “elections,” will be a useful Data Gathering Exercise, helping the GOP decide on who to TARGET, when the, “outcome,” is ALREADY on Putin’s desk! You are FEEDING the DANGEROUS DELUSION of a, “Democratic Process,” that no longer exists, buying time for Trump’s Dictatorship, when the people of America SHOULD be HALTING THE COUNTRY, like the Ukrainians did, a decade ago! If THEY could send their Putin Puppet BACK TO MOSCOW, facing down Putin’s THUGS with NO WEAPONS, WHY CAN’T AMERICA??? And, WHY are YOU pretending that the elections are not ALREADY RIGGED???
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Actually, Russia has changed leaders before, as easily as changing its socks. Putin wants to build the myth that Russia would fall apart if he was no longer in charge, since the west fears the possibility of the Federation breaking up into a bunch of independent countries, many of which would have their own nuclear weapons. But, if Putin, “retired,” and the army was recalled from Ukraine, Russia would have no problem maintaining its grip on power with a new leader in charge. A leader who could reset relations and get sanctions relief in exchange for liberating Ukraine. The sudden surge in the Russian economy would be a way for the new leadership to cement their position as a good leader among both the oligarchs and the wider population.
Putin knows all this, which is why he works so hard at making himself appear to BE, “Russia,” in the heads of his own people and the wider world.
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Nabu Gijin : Yo, Cletus is back. You ARE a, “racist,” and we ALL KNOW that, because we can READ. If a dyslexic, LIKE ME, can tell you’re a racist, I’m pretty sure, the REST OF THE WORLD can see it, son? And, THAT’S HOW you RACISTS do it. You, “Accuse,” everybody (especially MINORITIES) of taking away your jobs, homes, rights, free speech, etc, and people WAY SMARTER than YOU, come along to EXPLOIT your Politics of Grievances. You WHINE about EVERYTHING and are SO, “put upon,” that it’s frankly AMAZING to us Normals, just HOW you manage to stop yourself from BURSTING INTO TEARS, while you’re COMPLAINING about EVERYBODY ELSE. Nazis don’t DO, “Personal Responsibility,” and like to BLAME, “The Other,” for the fact that their life didn’t turn out the way they’d hoped. It never f**king OCCURS to you that people don’t WANT to give jobs, mortgages or positions of responsibility to NAZIS? Stop playing the, “Victim,” your whole life? MAN UP! 🤣
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@ANTHONY95. : This is, “The Tribulation,” already? If so, didn’t YOU miss the Rapture? If so, why would we listen to you, if God rejected you? I often wondered how those Left Behind books would turn out, if like three or four people that no one had heard of, or noticed, were the only ones Raptured up to Heaven, and the rest of the planet didn’t even notice it happening? If we all disregarded the, “Great trump in the sky,” (no. not that, “trump”) or attributed it to something else and just carried on? Wouldn’t Hell on Earth look a lot like this anyway? . . . Maybe someone should write THAT book? . . .
But, just so you know, because I’ve studied my Bible, in an un-ironic, faithful, manner . . . Jesus HATES trump. That’s science 😇
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Rwanda is the LEAST popular, “policy,” the Tories have EVER had! Anthony Seldon nailed with that well chosen opener. They have NO IDEOLOGY! Tories stand for NOTHING. The only policies they highlight are the ones that divide their own party, let alone the population. ENOUGH of their Americanised, “personality,” politics, deliberate divisiveness, open hostility to huge swathes of the population. Their JOB is to at least TRY to UNITE the country. But they have NO VISION behind which to unite the people.
For the sake of their last vestiges of dignity they should just call the election and GO! Most people would like a coalition government between the Lib Dems and Labour. They are voting tactically to ensure whomever can beat the Tories will win! The country wants the Tories OUT! Division, gas lighting, corruption, callous dereliction of duty and Brexit lies are all the legacy they have.
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nmcnmb : Now, I REALLY tried . . . No, REALLY, I did . . . But, just the same old Alex “Q” Jones Propaganda, rehashed, over SUCH a LONG, winding, whiny, rambling . . . Well, you get the picture. I guess they don’t teach you to be CONCISE at the St Petersburg Troll School, huh? Go on? Give it another shot? I’m all eyes 👀
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McCarron MCLAUGHLIN : You know nothing about “people like” me? I am a conservative, who KNEW about Trump’s despicable character and crooked ways, LONG before he even ran for PUTUS. I said he would ruin a party that was already going down hill and THAT’S exactly what he’s done. You should be MORE critical of people who accept every thing he says and does, REGARDLESS of how damaging it is for the country, our reputation with other countries or our future? It’s the FACT that people swallowed their disgust at his Access Hollywood tape, and ALL the other things they came to know about him, that has opened the floodgates to America becoming a place where basic standards of decency no longer apply. He either rants, in a repetitive stream of consciousness or reads for his hostage tapes, like Luca Brasi, in The Godfather, and YOU are NOT ASHAMED? He flatly denies inconvenient FACTS and YOU stand by him? He would eat your mother RAW, for a few votes, a little “prestige” as he sees it or some CASH, and YOU would open up your home and introduce him to her. You either know NOTHING of Trump, or you are being payed by a shell company to shill for him, or you have APPALLING judgement, OR you are Russian. But if you were TRUTHFUL, you would say that Trump is NOT fit for office. Because he is NOT
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McCarron MCLAUGHLIN : Yeah, when you can’t win the argument, you call people names. You have no soul or capacity for critical thinking, so you get scared. But, just remember who the REAL “loser” is, as I don’t troll people on Fox or Not-So-Bright-Bart? You are the LOSER doing the running, here? Why ARE you even here? What is the point of you? Get payed by the bleat, from your Russian Shell company? Just a Russian Troll? And, PLEASE, don’t bother with “I’m just here to educate people” as you have NO substance, or the, “I like to upset lefties” as I am Republican, and infinitely smarter than you. So who is the “loser” here? I think we ALL know
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No! You STILL don’t get it! The question is, what are YOU going to do about it??? You have to get out there, NOW! They are RIGGING the, “elections.” Florida is ALREADY, “decided.” They’re literally STEALING post boxes off of the streets! It will be TOO LATE to, “protest,” in November, when they’re ready for you! Do something NOW, or regret it forever! The GOP are terrified of JAIL TIME, and they WON’T ALLOW ELECTIONS! Demand the RESTORATION OF YOUR REPUBLIC AND DEMOCRACY, AND YOUR POST OFFICE!!!
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What of the legitimate criticism? Is that all to be shut down, labelling people as racists for raising their hands and asking questions? There’s no reason to tolerate racism. Yet some subjects are unsuitable for certain actors.
I can’t imagine any legitimate reason to complain about black actors in Star Trek, Star Wars or the Marvel Universe. The line that these fantasies, “must reflect the world we live in today,” is fine. But it’s just daft to have black actors in The Lord Of The Rings. Tolkien created a world based on old Norse, ancient Germanic and ancient Celtic mythology. It doesn’t upset me at all to see people being just wrong about their artistic choices. But, to be told, “Nope! Not listening!” to anyone questioning the logic of altering the basis of Tolkien’s myths at a genetic level is just a cowardly way of shutting down debate and labelling people as, “racists,” for simply disagreeing.
There will always be those who are just racists, and who hate what’s happening for racist reasons. I have no time for racists. But that should not be an excuse to shut down adult discussion over the meaning of art and why interfering with Tolkien’s vision is disrespectful to his legacy. That’s NOT a racist point of view. Merely an artistic criticism. The images are jarring and look misplaced, because they don’t represent the world that Tolkien created over an entire lifetime of hard work, research and creative endeavour.
It is not up for debate, any more than people’s racism is. The whole point of Tolkien’s fantasy was that it does NOT, “reflect the world we live in today.” It reflects a mythical time in a place based on Northern European culture and genuine mythology that shaped their real worlds. Why should the people’s of these cultures be content to have their stories altered and distorted to fit some modern political agenda? It seems like a tone deaf overcorrection by people who lack the imagination to create their own mythology to me.
The fact that the show has an awful, illogical script that disrespects the characters Tolkien created, hijacks their motivations and misrepresents the meanings of Tolkien’s work is not relevant. But it does seem like people who are too quick to put all criticism down to racism have an inbuilt excuse for failure. If we don’t like the show, simply because it’s rubbish, does that make us racists? Come on?
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@shadwelthames9416 : I said this would happen. Brown is the WORST person to lead this fight, being as how he is an un-indicted war criminal himself. It’s NOT, “equivalent,” or connected, but it’s easy for Putin trolls because they don’t need rationality, thought or common sense. However, it’s a way into Putin’s frozen bank accounts, to get him to start paying for Ukraine’s side of the war, which I think is wonderful. The quicker the better. But, who said anything about this all happening, “after the war is over?” This is going to happen pretty fast as I understood it.
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DARYL COLEMAN : A typically stupid and thoughtlessly cruel act, when you think about it; something Trump OBVIOUSLY never did. He probably thought he was being, “ironic,” and basked in his own, “genius.” And his son, if he doesn’t grow up to be as monstrous as his daddy, will grow up, thinking, “My very NAME; my IDENTITY, is a symbol of my father’s DECEPTION and LIES. I AM a, ‘Con Job,’ of no more meaning to my father than a very bad joke, at BEST.”
That poor kid doesn’t stand a CHANCE. SMH . . .
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@kohllinden5715 : I am a YouTuber, “in good standing,” with NO strikes on my record, who has just this day, been cleared by that company, of allegations of “hate speech” after a bunch of trolls complaint-bombed me. Yesterday I was, “banned for life.” Lucky for me, I understood the process, and was articulate enough to clear myself. You get ONE chance to write back, in a small box. True story. If it happens to you, you won’t be around for me to throw your childish remarks back in your teeth. It doesn’t take many, madam. You have been warned.
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Is destruction of property even a concept that fits the definition of, “violence?” If breaking stuff is violent, then the people who own all the polluting stuff are, by definition, “committing acts of violence,” against all of us. Thus making the destruction of their means to perpetrate such acts, the only rational response, unless you’re a Buddhist, I guess?
It’s a uniquely American trait, to characterise the destruction of, “stuff,” as, “violence.” And it’s an unhealthy one that helped put us in this problem in the first place; A political manoeuvre that was designed to protect the very wealthy, by conflating acts of destruction with violence against the person.
Not that there is no relationship in all cases? But, by the same, equal measure, by which we judge destruction of corporate property, “violence,” it can, and must, necessarily be defended as a violent reaction of self defence, in response to the initial, more serious act of violence, perpetrated by the corporations against the entire population of Earth. People like Extinction Rebellion should, perhaps, split into three wings? The activists; their political wing of besuited, articulate, educated people, able to put their case to the people; and their biggest, best funded wing, their law firm, dedicated to argue that their acts of destruction are not actually unlawful, but self defence?
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Richard Cranium : You brought “Fox” up? Hannity is their Lord Haw Haw, Chief Propagandist. Looks like Devin Nunes is about to be named as the, so far, “unnamed American, Congressman, who CONSPIRED with the 12 indicted Russians”? Have you READ those indictments? Does Fox even HAVE them on their website??? I’m not in the business of Chrystal Ball gazing, like you. I just deal in WHAT IS. And WHAT IS going to happen, is that a REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN, “in a SENIOR POSITION,” will SOON be NAMED and INDICTED. THEN, we will, FINALLY, see the dominos start to fall . . . How d’ya’ like THEM apples? 🖕😜
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@JackSparrow-re4ql : I suspect it’s a mix of both, with it being around 5% or lower, being actually worthwhile or helpful stuff, written by genuine authorities, with qualifications, experience in their topic and a genuinely philanthropic intent behind them? Most of the rest just being cash grabs, and the latter 50% moving into Art Of The Deal levels of pure cynicism until, at the opposite end of the scale, you get to the downright dangerous, viciously exploitative, cruel stuff? Look at iTunes’ book store? Self help comprises a full 25% of ALL their books, and is an entire category unto itself! Next to Fiction, None Fiction and Children’s! Think about that! So, yeah! It’s worth a deep dive I’d say? Like so many things, it should only be tackled by people with credentials, and the general public doesn’t have the discernment (through no fault of their own) to tell good stuff from bunk. It should maybe even be licensed? But that’s not going to happen in an industry that’s making, what was it he said? $12 billion a year? In America alone? Sometimes I think we all just have too much free time and money, like the decline of the Roman Empire? ✌️
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Upper Echelon Gamers : Honestly, you are the most switched on, articulate games journalists I’ve ever encountered. I discovered your channel a couple of weeks ago, and I’m so impressed. Somehow, these IGN people, are fine with passively watching Saving Private Ryan and Schindler’s List, with some of the grimmest imagery of war that can be imagined, but because they were, “passive,” they claim to be guilt free of voyeurism, or any other vicarious form of sheer, “entertainment?” Sure, if it’s SO, “real,” that they feel like they’re, “really shooting,” someone, and that’s too much for them, I get that. So, they can sit it out, and buy a game that doesn’t upset them. But, the brass ballery, of thinking, because they’re sensibilities are offended, “everyone else is going to feel just like me, including veterans,” is beyond arrogant, and seems to come from an insecure NEED to have everyone conform to their pale shadow of what they want from a gaming experience, or they’ll feel . . . “Lonely?” What makes them think they have a right to impose their will on others, in that mealy mouthed way? They pretend we’re, “all going to be offended,” when they are passive-aggressively URGING us to be offended, like teenagers. Usually, veterans are the very people they consult for these games, anyway, so I doubt they’ll get anything other than the usual, positive feedback, assuming the game itself turns out well? I sure don’t want inoffensive characters, incidents or gameplay. We pay for and demand the most faithful experience possible, as gamers, in the same way that movie goers do. There’s a time for vanilla family movies and games, and there’s a time for gritty, adults only movies and games. Time to let the hard working players decide what they want, and not be told it, by people who are not yet even in a position to judge ✌️
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Derek Seube : Truly LAME, son. Trump, “demonises,” HIMSELF, by being Trump. What would HE say, if this was an opponent’s Tax Returns? Don’t be such a hypocrite, and a lame, “Whaddabouter,” son. Pathetic . . . You backed a, “LOSER,” by Trump’s OWN DEFINITION 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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Suomy Nona : “Here’s my take:” The Republic has FALLEN, and the GOP has decided NOT to GO TO JAIL. What a surprise. So, their, “choice”??? They could RIG THE 2020, “ELECTIONS,” WITH PUTIN’S HELP . . . OR? . . . They could let the whole Trump family GO TO JAIL, along with HALF OF THEIR OWN PARTY, from Bill Barr on down to Devin Nunes, leaving them as a, “lesson From History,” and a disbanded, shamed, EX-party. They simply CANNOT ALLOW, “NOT,” RIGGED elections!!! And they have LITERALLY SHOWN YOU they will RIG ANYTHING and EVERYTHING, because they HAVE NO CHOICE! Learn to LOVE your Orange Monarchy, or have a REVOLUTION, like the Ukrainians did a decade ago? They faced down Putin’s THUGS without weapons, in freezing conditions, and sent their Putin Puppet FLEEING BACK TO MOSCOW. WHY CAN’T WE, a country FOUNDED on REVOLUTION, do the same thing??? Are we TOO SCARED to ADMIT that our 2020 elections are ALREADY RIGGED??? Just STOP PRETENDING you still have ANY, “Democratic Process,” left??? It’s embarrassing . . . SMH
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donnibrasko1 : He looked and sounded DEFEATED didn’t he? “Uh, ah, uh, ah!” And, when Jake WARNED him about making unfounded allegations, was hilarious! “I would have thought that YOU of ALL PEOPLE would know better?” And, Jim got a flashback of all those teenage boys in the showers, from his, ahem, “wrestling,” coach days . . . CRINGE! 🥴 . . . 🤣 👍
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Read your headline and thought, “Hope not. They certainly don’t deserve to.” The problem with Ubisoft is their egregious leadership, the Guillemot brothers. They have their claws in deep and seem determined to go down with the ship, rather than relinquish enough control for any genuinely CREATIVE artists to just make great games.
I’m old enough to remember when, “Ubisoft,” was such a guarantee of QUALITY that you could just buy any new game by them at the store, knowing it would be good because it had their name on it.
Once, “they lead the way,” for games and gaming. Then they lead the way with data scraping, customer exploitation, crunch time, staff exploitation, egregious business practices and lowering the quality of games as graphics got better, until even the graphics got not all that great!
They deserve a hostile takeover.
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At this point, nothing would surprise me. Truss even tried BLATANTLY LYING to us all by pretending she didn’t know what her chancellor was about to put into his budget! She’s claiming appalling incompetence as an excuse, fooling precisely no one, committing the country to a heist of profits, certain in the knowledge that she and her party are going to have the whip taken from them forever, by the electorate, in less than two years from now! This is a Britain’s Closing Down Sale, from which, “Everything Must Go!” because the party big whigs are looking to their pensions, gongs and retirement plans and don’t care if we finish up looking like Ukraine by the end of it! All dressed up to look like Thatcherism and, “trickle down,” economics. We’re doomed unless we see more U turns, which we’ve been lead to expect anyway, so . . . watch this space. If she isn’t booed from the podium, she can count that as a success.
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Jake, can you PLEASE help me? Some of my responses to your videos (particularly under your personal comment thread) get zapped by the YouTube algorithm. From what I understand, they get shunted into a separate, “box,” because the algorithm detected a phrase or word that triggered it, but that you can examine at your leisure, should you be so inclined. Am I right about that?
I know you couldn’t possibly look into each individual case, especially if it happens repeatedly, as there could never be the time. All I ask is, (if it is in your gift?) could you release my name from that, “Watch list,” or whatever it is? I hope you know me well enough by now to know that I have been following you for years and have never written anything that could be interpreted as negatively intended toward you, let alone breaking YouTube’s TOS.
I have not joined your membership (because I don’t join any memberships) but I have contributed to your patch charity and now get update emails from Dimitri from the 69th. I am a loyal, polite viewer, with occasional opinions. My record will show this if you look back at my commentary, but it’s upsetting that I can spend time and effort, thinking about what you’ve told us, martialling my thoughts and putting forward an opinion, only to be zapped out of existence by a heavy handed automated system that has taken a disliking to me.
Please help? Or tell me if I misunderstand how this works? Perhaps there is something else I need to do?
If you have read all of this, thank you for your patience.
Whatever happens, I will continue to support you and this cause, which I believe in with all my heart. I just don’t know what words or phrases to avoid.
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Cruella seems to think that having brown skin somehow insulates her from criticism for incendiary remarks? Survivors of the Holocaust have gone so far as to point out the parallels between her speeches in the Commons and the type of reckless rhetoric that was, “normalised,” prior to the death camps, which lead to the type of environment where Nazism was just one small step from where things already were. THAT is the danger that childishly wrongheaded people like Cruella represents.
The fact that the security services DON’T TRUST HER and have said so, going so far as to publish the SIX occasions when she CRIMINALLY broke the Ministerial Code, DESPITE warnings, shows that she is either incompetent or worse; actively hostile to Britain’s interests.
Why she has, “responsibility,” for anything is beyond me? But keeping her in the post that she was so unfit for that she lost her job once before, smacks of Tory Trolling of the British public? It’s like a final smack in the face from a party that knows it’s about to be fired by the people. Sunak really soiled his own bed by allowing her back in his cabinet whilst claiming he was all about, “integrity.” But at least they cannot hide who they REALLY are.
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@democracysaved2577 : If someone kept telling you not to put a pond in your garden, or do any renovations in your house, yet insists that they aren’t planning to put in an offer to buy the place, at some point you are going to ask yourself, are they planning to steal it? Otherwise, WTF has it got to do with them anyway, right?
So when they get REALLY upset when you say you’re joining the Neighbourhood Watch (the ones with all the latest security equipment, the richest neighbours and some state of the art deterrents) and that guy gets even MORE upset, you’re going to want to speed up the process, like FAST, right? 🤷♂️
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For what it’s worth: Let’s be clear, here? We’re way past the point, where ANY of his supporters can claim Donny is, “not,” a traitor, fool, juvenile, rapist, conman, etc. The evidence continues to mount. Only the other day, the court ordered a $2 million dollar settlement, Trump has to pay back to his, “charity,” The Trump Foundation (now, not even a thing, anymore) because he had been, “routinely stealing from defenceless, needy children and US veterans.” And, of course, where anyone else would be in jail by now, Trump is POTUS, so he’s free. His Cult KNOWS this! They simply DON’T CARE! They WANT a Dictatorship. They WANT the END of the Republic. Whether they’re paid, foreign Trolls, or people brainwashed by Propaganda into HATING their fellow Americans; upon the foundations of GREED, RACISM and FEAR, organisations like Fox, RT and Info Bores, have poisoned the well, successfully. We NEED LAWS? After WW II, they jailed and even HUNG Propagandists! The most dangerous attack on the Free World is happening as we speak, and we’re LETTING IT! If Trump is not Removed by Impeachment, they will have WON, too! Elections will be meaningless, Rigged, Putin Style, exercises in hypocrisy, fakery and madness. And, it will ALL be over. So, if you care about freedom, make sure to SHOW UP at Donny’s Deposition. Let them HEAR THE VOICE OF FREEDOM! DON’T let it be the LAST time they ever do, America? SHOW UP! ✌️
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Brad Randell : Probably just a Cold War, like the one America has been missing, because it’s, “president,” has a string of franchises in China, child-slave factories and Donny goes camp in hand, requesting treasonous election aid from China, whilst patting them on the back for their concentration camps. We’ve given China’s spies the upper hand on this one. And, the difference between this Cold War and the one we had with Russia? China is as rich as America, and isn’t presiding over a country entirely made up of poor peasants, like Russia was until the 90’s . . . Smh
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Dee Pattison : EXACTLY. My observation was that half of her material was just simple statements of the FACTS, simply, “saying,” what’s TRUE. Her words REALLY made me reflect on what we’ve come to, when stating the facts, is such a, “shocking,” thing to do. But, Trump and his new GOP are Stalinists. And Stalinists don’t like free speech. And, when you HEAR the FACTS, stated in such an unvarnished way, you can see why. I GENUINELY, thought that Wolf went rather EASY on Sanders, who BLATANTLY LIES and refuses to answer questions, when her JOB is MEANT to be answering to the press for the administration’s actions. She is NOTHING MORE than a SHAMELESS source of disinformation and the LAST place to look for the TRUTH. Yet, she has the NERVE to show up at a dinner for people who’s WHOLE EXISTENCE is about free speech, and count herself AMONG them??? SHE is one of the reasons that America is BREAKING and SHOULD BE ON TRIAL. Yet, now she’s, “Butt Hurt,” when confronted with the REALITY of how America SEES HER??? SMH . . .
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Please stay in touch with your representatives on both sides, America? DEMAND that the top GOP members who told America that, “The Steal,” was a thing, MUST TESTIFY!
Cruz, Hawley, Graham, the trump’s, Giuliani, will be forced, on live TV, to CONFESS that it was all a Seditious Lie! They cannot take the 5th, or refuse to testify. They will not commit Perjury, and risk jail for trump! It will BREAK the GOP! The BEST they can say is the Nuremberg Defence, “I was following orders. I didn’t believe the election was stolen, but Donny said he did so I, ‘trusted,’ him.” Inundate your reps with DEMANDS for WITNESS TESTIMONY, and the GOP will break in two! Forget the, “verdict.” The stakes are WAY higher than a rigged outcome! Do it America! This is your big chance and you WON’T get another like this!
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The Taliban are saying the same thing, ma’am. “Hopefully, we’ll remember this, the next time,” some Saudi Billionaire rocks up with a plan and the resources to commit terror atrocities on American soil? Was it worth it, Tally? Go ask Bin Laden? Oh, you can’t, because we gunned him down, incinerated his remains and ejected him at sea, where no one can even go pay their respects, let alone gather in big enough numbers to be droned out of existence. No more 911 style attacks looks like a pretty successful mission to me? 🤷♂️
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Donovan Davis : And, does that make you willing to talk to Conservatives, who believe Trump is corrupt and unfit to be president? I too am willing to speak with anyone, right of my politics, which are centrist, conservative. I was always a fierce critic of Obama’s presidency. But, Trump breaks the law in the open, now, which is simply unconstitutional and morally wrong. I draw the line at Nazis, btw, but I’m assuming your not one of those?
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Donovan Davis : OK. But, you didn’t respond to my point about Trump breaking the law? Tell me? How would you respond, if Trump’s financial details finally got into the public domain, in a complete, un-redacted form? And, what would you say if, for example, you were looking at indisputable proof that Trump was not even a $ billionaire, when he came into office? That his funding was coming from Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, etc, via Deutsche Bank? And, that he was set to be richer than he’s ever been, through their funding? Indulge me?
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Donovan Davis : So, presumably, you won’t defend Trump’s actions regarding subpoenas, then? Not just refusing them, putting out a public statement, that he will not respond to ANY subpoenas, but intimidating witnesses into breaking the law, too? Trump’s lawyers committed acts of Incitement, by simply urging the IRS to refuse to obey a subpoena. And, the IRS Conspired with them, by going along. Laws are being broken in plain sight. But, while the AG acts as Trump’s personal attorney, it makes no difference to Trump. We all KNEW that people’s, “motives,” for issuing subpoenas, (be they, “political,” or otherwise) is irrelevant to the fact the power exists and must be obeyed, by law (or, is that just past tense, now?). Yet, Trump’s Representatives had to have this explained to them, by a judge? Come on? . . . I assume you’re, at the very least, disconcerted by that? . . .
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Donovan Davis : Yes, I am putting my, “argument,” forward, while refusing to quarrel or be personal about it. That is the point of this discussion. I am attempting to show you that there is no, “neutral,” position that you can adopt, without ignoring the fact that your laws are being broken, your Constitution undermined and the very foundations of your Republic under threat. And, to say, “if,” about the fact that you have witnessed these events, is just obtuse. As to, “why,” that might be the case? Well, you said so, yourself. The money. So long as the economy, “seems,” fine, you can tell yourself that they’re all as bad as each other, and that anyone who is outraged at this destruction is just being, “hysterical,” because that’s what you, “need,” to believe. I’m not an economist; a political historian is my trade; but, that does cover economic ground. However, even I can see that our national debt is growing to unserviceable levels. ALL of that money WILL have to be paid back, sooner or later. And, Trump seems to think that he can run the country into bankruptcy and bail out, by the time it’s unmanageable? The Tariffs on China are escalating to a point where Trump will have to back down and admit he was wrong, or double down to the point where it won’t be just our soya farmers who are on welfare. And, he’s entering the same process with Mexico, whilst blankly LYING to you, saying the Americans will not pay the costs of that. So, what happens, when the economy, finally DOES get too rocky for your comfort? Is THAT the point at which you discover that he’s also immoral, developing a Nanny State, which controls all aspects of your life? The OPPOSITE of a Conservative, BTW?
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Donovan Davis : Well, OK, then. My ideal world: we’d have someone take over from Trump, who was an old-school Conservative, with respect for our Military, our Institutions, etc. Someone who didn’t Tweet all the time and take everything so personally, that s/he didn’t feel the emotional compulsion to settle scores, and lie about those people, regardless of their background. But, most of all, fundamentally honest and decent. I get that politics is inherently dirty. And, that you have to take some of that with whomever you vote for. But, this is too much. However, I still wouldn’t bother to comment on any of that, if it weren’t for the FACT that our Republic is under genuine threat. And, it seems that people on both sides of the political divide will be content to watch America unravel on cable TV, instead of taking personal responsibility for it?
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Donovan Davis : Obama was the first POTUS in history to kill an American citizen, without any judicial process: drone strike, in Yemen. He expanded the surveillance state, after promising, “Open Government,” and ferociously hunted down people who tried to expose the truth about unwarranted hacking into our private lives. So, I have no love lost for Obama. But, he did rescue our basket case economy. That can never be taken from him. Even though he did it, by making deals with Wall Street that made them as powerful as GOD, but I genuinely believe he was left with no alternatives. So, that’s on Bush and the GOP, really.
But, I honestly cannot think of any, “good thing,” that Trump has done, that any POTUS would not have done, regardless of party?
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Drty _AL: You came here, dumbass! Now, why don’t you go to a football stadium and start complaining about all the dumb, “sports,” everybody’s playing. Tell ‘em, “I’ll take growing grass on this field, thanks,” ya’ moron! 🤣 Those airports would be GREAT if they’d stop landing all those plains in them, right? “I prefer, straightforward helicopters, thanks.” 😆 😂 🤣
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Drty _AL: WHY? If your OWN thesis is, “right,” then your, “audience,” is NOT HERE, son! 🤣 CNN draws viewers from right AND left. It’s NOT a Propaganda service, like Fox, to which its fans, “feel emotionally attached.” I don’t always agree with her, but people find her interesting and insightful. You Trump Trolls will NEVER grasp the difference, because you’re NOT OBJECTIVE. Honestly, you’re making a horses ASS of yourself, in the same way that Trump’s Cult does when they say that Hillary is a, “uranium selling, staffer murdering, pedo ring running, intel bleaching,” Super Villain, whom Trump could NOT stop, after THREE YEARS, even though he could NOT stop his own entire Campaign Team from going to JAIL! Are you NOT HUMILIATED? . . . YET? . . . 🤣
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TurtwigLover: That’s not an, “argument,” kid. Just an emotional contradiction, which doesn’t make me any less right. You’re talking to a political historian, a gun owner, a Christian believer, a Conservative and an immigrant, from England in 2006. I am here, because I was offered a LOT of MONEY to come, and I have duel citizenship, now. (Actually, I am in Blighty, as we speak, but, I’ll be back home soon) so, please explain to me, HOW I am, “wrong?” 🤔 This should be good. 😁
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Steven Ratti : My, “call to arms,” was meant to be irony, son. The, “right to bear arms,” in the 2nd Amendment was put there because the individual states did not trust the federal government, and wanted to protect their, “way of life.” It’s in the history books, if you don’t believe me. Protecting the country from invaders was secondary in the minds of the writers of that Amendment. Sorry, but that’s pure, unadulterated fact.
And, my whole point was that the very same people, who voted for Trump, demanded the wall, and who like to threaten a second, “Civil War,” whilst shouting about the 2nd Amendment, are now, ironically, the very same people who suddenly have the most to lose. And, that, “irony,” is merely compounded by the fact that the very, “rights,” they throw in our faces, are the PRECISE, “rights,” that actually DO PERTAIN. And, they are also the same rights, as you will SEE, that these people will refuse to exercise. You may not, “get,” my sense of Satire, but I assure you, my history is SOUND. I am not, “calling,” for anything, here. I am simply pointing out hypocrisy where I see it.
I promise you. Not ONE Trump Trolls will exercise their right to defend their land against the tyranny of a corrupted government, even though they literally ARE protected, under the 2nd Amendment to do so.
Remember, Trump is promising pardons, AFTER the the fact, meaning that they would have to be KNOWINGLY committing FELONIES, and not ONE court in the land would, or COULD, find the defenders of their estates, “guilty,” of ANYTHING. It just won’t happen.
I’m just forcing people top look at the mess they’ve made. But MY, “call,” if anything, is for, “PEACE.” But, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t laugh, however bitterly, at the rank corruption, hypocrisy and utter stupidity of Trump, and all his supporters, does it? Sincerely? Does it?
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@gigi6374 : I never understand why trump fans are always so keen to show their ignorance of the facts, or why they expect their betters to lay out a civic curriculum for them, when to catch them up with all the mounting evidence would be such a huge undertaking? And, even when full, inarguable proof is offered, they reject it out of hand, anyway. Is it just to keep people busy, and from going to other threads to spread the word?
If you’re sincere, start with the, “event organiser,” whom you all, “believed,” enough to show up on Nov 6th? He identified three GOP members as being responsible for the guided tours in the Capitol, prior to the day. He also stated that he took his instructions from them. All three were in a meeting with trump, in the White House, three days prior to the riots, where, I believe, trump gave the green light for the Coup Attempt. I also believe that several senior military personnel will be testifying to trump’s Conspiracy, as they had to have been approached at some point. For a Q Conspiracist, that’s MORE than enough to start you off. You already KNOW the names of the people I’m talking about, right?
Now, do your own homework. Or, just sit back and watch the trial. It will be explosive in terms of revelations
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Evelyn Rose : Ms Rose, a minor, but important, distinction: it is NOT that psychopaths (or sociopaths) do feel emotions: actually they can “feel” as deeply as anyone and usually do so even more than the “average” person. However (and this is WHY they are SO dangerous) they CANNOT “empathise”. They can learn about what society expects from them and SEEM to empathise, but their own emotions are NOT inspired, initiated or “caused” by the feelings or experiences of others. Without boring you with the distinctions between the two conditions, suffice to say, that the clues are usually there in the form of tell-tale behaviours; such as, talking about themselves, instead of the “other” after a that other has just experienced a trauma; turning important matters into trivial ones; claiming involvement and credit for things that they recognise others to think of as important; demanding loyalty without ever returning it (when it matters); failure to see the significance of events except in terms of how it effects them; hyperbolic claims; hyperbolic reactions to perceived slights; cruelty; a need to be the focus of attention; etc, etc.
Psychopaths are more easily spotted (NORMALLY) due to other symptoms: inappropriate responses to circumstances; outlandish paranoia and violent tendencies. However, some can be highly intelligent and are able to mask their symptoms, but they will ALL “act out” in some manner; whether secretly, like the Ted Bundy’s or Bernie Madeoff’s or Richard Nixon’s of the world. Whereas, the sociopath feels no NEED to hide, but rather, wants to be validated, Like the Idie Armine’s, Vladimir Putin’s and Donald Trump’s of the world.
Hope that helps ;-)
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I’ll take a look. But I must say something on that video.
I question that strategy? Isn’t the problem that making someone into a, “clown,” makes them also, “safe,” in the public imagination? Remember Bush Jr? The worst, least legally justifiable war in American history was fought at his instigation, and even Republicans were content to picture him as having bumbled into Iraq on the heels of the war in Afghanistan. He got away with a lot, whilst fumbling his grammar, forgetting key speech elements and walking into false doorways, getting shoes thrown at him and was made far more palatable in the western world by being a clown. Yet he carefully planned and executed a war that was illegal by every metric.
Yes, we must not allow short memories to prevail. Perhaps a 24 hour moratorium could be agreed between news channels, only broadcasting key elements and gaffs from his speeches when he makes them, rather than any live broadcasts? That also gives channels the time to collate footage of him directly contradicting himself to show in direct comparison? That would take care of the floating voters.
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Honestly, this is becoming the, “Nigel Farage is Bad,” channel. He is bad, but come ohhhn? You said it yourself, “You can argue that it works for populism in general.” Here’s a genuine idea for combatting the spread of Faragistic populism: STOP putting his face on EVERY OTHER THUMBNAIL!
Can’t you see it? You can empirically PROVE that Farage is greedy, stupid, manipulative, racist, criminal and just plain WRONG about everything! Yet that won’t make the slightest difference to his followers except to reassure them that he is the top bogey man figure for everyone left of Thatcher. You are actually HELPING him! YOU are establishing Farage THE man to watch, regardless. And you are allowing him to, “dictate the narrative.” The very thing you just warned against!
Isn’t it worth sacrificing a few thousand clicks? All you are doing is making him the de facto leader of the right wing and the right wing themselves are taking their cues from people like YOU; and those whom the centre and the left keep putting up as their bogey man.
Yes, he needs to be discussed and regularly, and seriously . . . when HE DOES SOMETHING! But it was NOT necessary for you to use him in this thumbnail AT ALL for this video, since this is a general topic about tackling populism, not just him!
I am speaking in good faith, as a fan of yours, who has followed your channel for years. I understand that his face is probably getting you higher viewing figures. But you have a RESPONSIBILITY here. Please think about what I’m arguing here?
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Sunack’s election, “pledges,” are actually deeply alarming. Most people don’t know how, “inflation,” works and, “halving,” that doesn’t necessarily mean that food or petrol prices will come down at all. Note; Tories avoid putting it in terms of, “cost of living,” because they don’t intend to bring prices down.
“Growing the economy,” only means Stock Market and big business stuff, which has NO MEANING to the person on the street, who needs to understand that economic growth does NOT benefit people unless they’re already wealthy! It’s just a sound bite. And sinister at that.
As is, “Reducing NHS waiting lists.” NOT, “Improving the NHS,” or making pay and conditions better and therefore more attractive for people seeking to work in the caring professions. Why do they target waiting lists? Because they want to PRIVATISE more and more of the NHS and shortening waiting times is the bribe they intend to use to get privatisation in through the back door: which they have increasingly done throughout their time in office and which they only did more vehemently when Covid struck!
And, don’t even get me STARTED on, “Stop The Boats!” Literally NO ONE wants that, asked for that, or sees it as ANY kind of a, “priority!” No one except Swastika-tattooed Nazis and brown-skinned brown-shirts like the PM, Cruella Braverman and her predecessor, which constitute an apparent new breed of Nazi that’s emerged to confuse the hell out of Brits these days, including the Nazis themselves! In fact, we NEED immigration desperately! And these people are more than willing to do the more than ONE MILLION JOBS in Britain that are going begging because the locals don’t like stacking shelves, picking fruit and hod carrying for some Polish guy with a better grasp of economics than any Tory and moderately better communication skills! But THAT would be too much like common sense for the Tories! Instead we get TOLD that we are racists who want to turn THE most vulnerable humans on the face of planet Earth into political footballs for the lowest common denominator!
Seriously, people! F*ck these racist, feckless, entitled, lying, thieving, Tory scum!
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@quetailion6762 : Indeed, so far America has refused repeated requests from Zelensky for the types of long range missiles that could reach well inside Russia’s borders. Even after offering to hand veto power to the US, regarding targets. Of course, the US can see that once they start vetoing any targets, they will also be seen as tacitly sanctioning all the other targets and handing Putin the excuse he needs to claim that they are now playing an active, direct role in the war, thus lifting all remaining restraints from Putin’s insanity. They don’t want to give him that excuse.
Notably, early on in the war, not long after Ukraine rallied their forces and started pushing Russia back, there were several highly successful incursions to areas just inside the Russian border. Ukraine took out massive fuel and weapons caches, sometimes with missiles and once or twice with their own special forces units. We don’t hear about any such activity any longer. And I suspect they have yielded to diplomatic pressures to cease and desist?
Maybe it’s up to people like us to keep ramping up the pressure on our representatives, making the raising of the west’s game an election issue? I write regularly to my representatives on the issue of Ukraine, simply because it’s the one issue that effects everything right now. Our fuel and heating costs, world wide inflation skyrocketing and the threat to world peace in general is coming as a direct result of Putin’s actions.
I feel we should be granting Ukraine greater independence and freedom of choice for selecting Russian targets. They understand the Russian mindset far better than the west, and they have been masterful at the psychological warfare. They want to wake the Russian population out of their moral absenteeism, and they know they can only do this by making them feel their skin in the game. Of course, this means no war crimes of any kind, but I don’t think Ukraine needs that to be explained to them.
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@BossDM2 : Truly, they are stuck on a knife edge, balancing the various diplomatic desires of various countries that stand with them in the UN. Turkey is a good illustration. Putin, being Putin, has reneged on his promise to allow grain shipments out of Ukraine, yet Erdogan who has historically maintained a positive relationship with Putin, has ordered his navy to protect these exports and keep them going. Ukraine exports well over a third of the entire world’s grain imports to other countries, mostly countries that have no alternative arrangements to avoid famine if they don’t get them. So this is no little thing, and if Putin attacks the Turkish navy, that will mark the biggest escalation in the war since it began; since the invasion of Crimea even. Zelensky knows it wouldn’t take much to alienate Turkey, who still considers itself as being on, “friendly,” terms with Russia, despite this surprisingly confrontational response to Putin’s gangsterism. Ukraine is constantly having to calculate these complex relationships and needs the good will of the west more than money right now. I don’t envy their diplomats.
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Can I just ask, who actually believes that the Wagner mutiny was a, “ruse”??? If the Wagnazi mutiny was a, “play,” to flush out potential traitors, or for some other reason, then Putin must have agreed to getting, “bitch-slapped,” in public? The world is seeing Wagner defy his orders, while Prigozhin defies his, “exile.”
Putin FLED MOSCOW for St Petersburg! Now everyone is comparing his cowardice, from his own people, when they weren’t even within 20 miles of Moscow, to Zelensky who wouldn’t even flee when Russians were INSIDE Kyiv’s city limits and he famously asked for ammunition instead of a ride!
Putin was HUMILIATED and shown for the COWARD he is! He can’t, “save face,” as long as the people who did that to him are all free to defy him! Who honestly thinks Putin signed up for a plan that made him look like such a bitch???
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Yeah, I think the word, “COWARDICE,” will stick to Russians for centuries because of their medieval approach to, “warfare,” in Ukraine. We should be more concerned about nuclear accidents than any attacks, which will simply NEVER happen . . . “deliberately,” at least. Both with the Ukrainian power station that Putin has under his control (the largest in Europe, btw) and with the weapons that he does not maintain properly or have full control over! NATO needs to consider how to get ALL nuclear materials OUT of Russia’s hands, once Ukraine wins this war. The Chinese might well be the bigger threat, but they do at least have their missiles under control and maintained at the most basic levels.
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@2november1917BD : It’s a mess to be sure, but I can’t help wondering how much the press are responsible for in all this? The Royals have long been subscribed to this Faustian pact, particularly with the right wing media, and it frequently blows up in their faces, with them seeming to learn nothing. Like politicians, “briefing against,” their enemies, the press leaks stories about particular royals just to keep the kettle boiling and the soap drama drawing in viewers. In such a toxic environment, it’s hard to know what’s true.
The fact that this has historically been the case with the royals is evidenced by the fact that the idea of a royal (Edward VII) being the true identity of Jack The Ripper caught fire so easily in fiction and popular speculation. It was just so easy to believe of any family with that much power, money and secrecy; all three of which are necessarily protected by the state!
I doubt any of us really know the facts in this case. Nor are we likely to until they’re all long gone. That Edward is a nasty piece of work, I have no doubt. But the extent of his depravity is probably yet to be revealed. I feel like I will be the only person who isn’t going to be surprised.
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The court just ordered Trump to pay back $2 MILLION, that he stole from his, “Charity.” If not president, he would be in JAIL for that. “Routinely stealing from defenceless, needy children and US Veterans.” She knew all about Trump. So, to hear her talking about, “the Constitution,” which Trump calls, “Unconstitutional,” and, “Fake,” is just f**king RIDICULOUS . . .
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Hhytr Ngfd : You keep being you, son. Your racism, ignorance, “poor me,” blame culture and hatred of, “the other,” is what caused the Blue Wave in the first place. Trump’s Tramps are not, “thinkers,” though, so. Just keep it up, and ensure Trump is removed, 2019 😉
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libertarian conservative : It is a government’s responsibility to ensure the health, education and wellbeing of its citizens. That is the exact reason for HAVING government. And, you are wrong, as to the reasons for higher prices. They are high, because of lobby groups and because they are businesses, who’s very reason for being is to MAKE MONEY. It is an act of insanity, to place your healthcare into the hands of an organisation who’s ONLY interest in you is to get your money and who have a VESTED INTEREST in NOT providing you with services. The most prosperous, per capita, nations in the world, ALL have free education and healthcare, pay for by the tax payer, and regulated by government, with NO ONE even ALLOWED, BY LAW, to PROFIT from your illness
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Hhytr Ngfd : Not ONE of those 50 Security organisations would agree with you, or say that their highest concern is, “Muslims.” You may as well say that they are there because there are more teachers, than there used to be. It’s utterly nuts, based on a world view of bigotry, propagandised into your skull by Fox, Alex, “Q-Anal,” Jones and Not-So-Bright-Bart; not based upon ANY reality. So, yeah, you’re racist. You clearly support Trump, which makes you a racist, too. You should look up Timothy McVeigh (probably misspelled that last name) and learn a thing or two about REAL terrorism in America? And, you’d be surprised to learn that actual murder rates in America have steadily fallen, since the 70’s, and that this is a safer time than any other in history. You need your fake threats and fake outrage to sustain Trump, through DIVISION. The idea of a UNITED STATES of America actually terrorises Trump K-K-Kult members, so you spout your Anti-Muslim drivel, wherever you can, hope some of your shit will stick, when all it does is STINK. And, while we’re here, keep your responses BRIEF. Trolls who blather on for ages, get ignored anyway. Don’t go thinking you’re, “interesting,” or have anything of, “value,” to say. And, before your, “Butt,” gets all, “Hurt,” I’m NOT a Troll, so I get to talk. You don’t 🙂
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There are literally hundreds of thousands of dead and dying, who would otherwise be alive, had this been dealt with, and not deliberately politicised. If this crime against humanity goes unpunished, we could face it again in 4 years. What if the GOP gets another trump? But one with charm, and articulate? Is this a 4 year reprieve from the Republic’s Death Sentence? Or, will we PUNISH the traitors, enablers and criminals, from the White House down to the lowest levels, ruthlessly, to ensure this can NEVER happen again? For the dead and dying, it’s up to us to speak up and demand JUSTICE! JUSTICE MATTERS!
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Indeed, I believe that at least some of those, “advisors,” represent a bigger threat to the institution of British royalty than do the royals themselves. Charles needs to act swiftly, show good faith and good intention, and put away Andrew: exile him, sooner, rather than later. That must take place as prelude to reconciliation with Harry and Megan. Regardless of the mistakes they may or may not have made (and who among us can claim we would do any better in their shoes?) they are clearly decent people with good intentions. Andrew is demonstrably not. He represents a threat to the legacy of Queen Elizabeth II, as much as anything else. And his ongoing presence in the country is a distraction. It rests with Charles now, to take responsibility and act, as both head of his family and head of state. For the sake of his duty, he has no alternative.
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@Tvjunkieful12 : There is more evidence than that. And we know the photo has not been, “tampered with,” as it has already been tested. There are the lies Andrew has told. And I’m not just referring to risible abject falsehoods, like, “I don’t sweat.” His denials were firm in the beginning until the proof shifted him back into the retreating rhetoric of, “Well, I don’t recall.” He lied about his visit to a pizza restaurant, also now a proven fact.
As other journalists have pointed out, Scotland Yard has previously opened investigations on far less evidence before. Yet his track record of lying, the photographic evidence and multiple eye witness accounts are not enough for them to even look into the case? . . . Odd, don’t you think?
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CPDRobert : The “clue” is that you ALWAYS make irrelevant, tired and LAME references to the same old, overworked and illogical “Hillary” tropes. The fact that you are ALWAYS so DESPERATE to change the topic, because you have NO WORDS with which to defend the Orange Space Hopper, you call your president. But, just so you KNOW, it doesn’t MATTER whether you’re American, Russian, Chinese or from MARS, if you are supporting Trumpski, and Trolling on his or Putin’s behalf, you are doing Putin’s work for him. I REALLY hope you are NOT American, as that would just make you another home-grown, NAZI TRAITOR; Putin Bot. Smh
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Ellen Kortman : You understand, I hope, that China will NEVER, “take responsibility,” for anything, right? The smart thing to do, would be to get on with saving lives at home, and focus on building the economy. If Trump is looking for a scapegoat in China, when all they did was behave the way they always do; with maximum secrecy, punishing the truth tellers, making themselves look more sinister than they actually were (despite them being sinister enough for any Bond Movie villain) then he’ll end up digging us deeper into an economic hole than we already are. Our world supremacy is already fading under Trump’s evil. The last thing we need is to be demanding accountability from other countries, when ours is so patently rotten to the core?
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M Hussain : Sounds to me like you’ve been watching too much Alex Jones or something? It’s just talk, and no one is thinking of military, “punishments,” I can assure you, even if they did say that, which I doubt they did in any bellicose context. Trump wants everyone to look in a different direction, is all. “ Punish China,” for what? Being secretive, as they always are? Punishing their own people for speaking out? As they always do? Costing us precious time, by covering up? Well, so did Trump! He cost us at LEAST a month, just sitting on his ass, telling us it was, “contained,” and throwing himself a victory party as it was just getting started! You think he ought to pull on THAT thread? . . .
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It is inevitable that Bakhmut will fall back into Ukrainian hands, but the real question is about time. Whether Ukraine will be forced to withdraw before taking back vast swathes of real estate is the question?
I believe Ukraine’s big counter offensive will be a huge, “all or nothing,” attempt to overwhelm and destroy Russian positions throughout the entirety of Ukraine in one big hit, which is why it’s taking so long, yet we keep discovering Ukrainians are training on weapon systems we didn’t even know they had, like in Italy, the UK and US, Spain, etc, along with all of the expected stuff they’re getting from Poland, Germany and, again, the UK and US, etc.
They are clearly intentionally bleeding Russia white and pinning their main efforts to one zone, though fierce fighting is still taking place all along the front line to varying degrees. That’s not just about the politics of it all, but about breaking the morale of the Russian forces.
The real question is how quickly Ukraine can get the tanks, jets and missile systems into the field, with trained, competent operators working everything and knowing how to do what the Russians can’t: coordinate their forces? And that’s something you simply cannot rush.
We must only hope that Biden is keeping his cards close to his chest and offering more than we thought? Like when we were all surprised to learn that he’s training Ukrainian pilots on American soil, in F16’s? Ukraine simply would not and could not afford to waste valuable, urgently needed, pilots on exercises like that, unless something was expected down the line.
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦✌️
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darkmountainman23 : Yes . . . What about Al Franken? If you are willing to accept ONE woman’s story over the fact that he denies kissing her in the way she says, then SURELY, LOGICALLY, you ARE willing to accept the testimony of 5 accusers and 40 witnesses, over the testimony of a PERVERT who won’t even take the LIE detector test? Even though his “friends” have asked him to? And, especially, given that the ONLY people who are saying that THEY believe the women, are people who KNOW Moore, IN THE GOPeedo.
But, remember, what-about-ism has a tendency to backfire. As you will be FORCED to apply the SAME “standards” to your lords, as well as your opponents
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Abby Normal : Hmmm . . . You sound very emotional? Try to THINK and put your “feelings” to one side? What does it MATTER, if people are “saying” that? What DIFFERENCE is there, in people using a short-hand description, which amounts to the SAME THING? All I see, is that the police wanted to handle the situation, that there are numerous witnesses, TELLING YOU that Moore was a problem to that Mall, EVEN BACK THEN. Girls being propositioned and fondled by Moore in the Mall; AAAAHHHLL these witnesses. I don’t see “witnesses” pouring out out to accuse Al Franken??? They seem to be missing the boat? And if you don’t think that there are Private Dicks, scouring America for dirt on Franken, as we speak, you are dumber than you sound?
WHY won’t he take the Lie Detector Test? His “friends” want him to? Answer me THAT? No? Didn’t think so? None of the Trump Cult HAVE answered THAT one?
Honestly! You just come off as a Pedo-Apologist. Yeeeuk!
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Abby Normal : You’ve written PLENTY of comments in support of Trump, so I don’t think it matters, one jot, what you “claim” to have voted? You ARE being emotional, otherwise, you would at LEAST have some “reasonable DOUBT” as to Moore’s CHANGING story? There are simply TOO MANY witnesses to dismiss out of hand? There is evidence, placing him a the scenes of his offences, which he denied? And you KNOW that he could have TAKEN a lie detector test by now, quietly, without ANYONE else KNOWING ABOUT IT? Maybe he already HAS, and didn’t like the result? If he is SO innocent, he SHOULD BE confident in the process? Tell me? WHAT is “emotional” about ANY of that? It SHOULD look like “reason” and “logic” to you?
But, to simply STICK to ONE SIDE, without the SLIGHTEST ability to even CONSIDER your opponents views? Now, THAT’S an EMOTIONAL stance. I have addressed your comment IN FULL, without ANY baiting or what-about-ism. Can you ANSWER ANY OF THAT? I, somehow, doubt it
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bob saget : See, it undermines your, “argument,” when you’re STILL HERE, living on CNN, son. The Trump at Helsinki or Charlottesville, “Blame on both sides,” argument, is what we call, “False Equivalency.” Trump Trolls try it on, when they’re getting desperate. Another way of describing it your argument, especially as you are ALWAYS here, like a hypocrite of the GOP is, “Just Bollox.” 🙂
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Cheryl Jones : Actually, so did Florida and Texas, but the GOP cheats. In a free and fair election, every state, except maybe Alaska, would be Blue. As it stands, there is literally NO HOPE of free elections in FL, TS, and many other states, now. Which means, if it’s still like that at the midterms, America will no longer be able to claim it’s a Democracy at all. Or a Republic. Unless you’re the kind of person who believes you can be, “a bit dead,” or a, “partial Nazi,” that is? It’s our most urgent crisis. And ALL OF US should be on it. ✌️
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@priscillafairlady1196 : Yeah, me too. They’re lying. Who would be dumb enough to leave the most prosperous, free state in America, to live in a place where you get arrested for voting while black, have your neighbours snitching on you, for reward money, and where poverty levels are worse than Bangladesh? I can’t imagine people would want to live in a state where they force asylum seekers to have abortions, in border facilities, specially built for that purpose, just so they can prevent Dreamer Babies from being born on American soil, whilst those same people scream, “Baby Killer,” at anyone who wants an abortion willingly? That’s f’ked up . . .
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Deep Dish : Not so. Look at Andrew Johnson? He was like Trump, coming after a well liked and respected POTUS, Lincoln, working desperately to undo all that Lincoln had achieved. And, he survived a Partisan Vote, on Impeachment. But, because the nation followed the process, got the WHOLE TRUTH, and heard the FULL story, for the first time, he was done. A one term POTUS, hated for his nature, more than his, “policies.” Remind you of anyone? “Winning,” isn’t the point of an Impeachment. Trump has closed off ALL other avenues to the TRUTH. This is the only one left, that he can’t fiddle, without declaring his Dictatorship OPENLY
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Actually, we should ALL be, “lobbying,” him. We should be inundating Mitch and the rest of our GOP, “representatives,” with demands that he supports the impeachment and convicts trump. After all, if they won’t neutralise Donny in the House, we’ll be forced to make every crime stick, until they’re all felons, with records that prohibit them from running for office. The trump’s will remain a Clear And Present Danger, until they’re not. And, criminal trials have way of getting messy, with evidence implicating who knows who, about who knows what? . . . 🤔
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Durango : The fastest growing, most lucrative industry on the face of the planet, right now, is green energy. If America doesn’t wake up to that fact, right now, and stop artificially propping up coal, gas and oil barons, because they prop up Donny’s campaign purse, we will be left in the dust. And, we will wind up being that, “another country,” you don’t want us to be.
Consider, how the world changed so fast, with the development of the combustion engine? Within 20 to 30 years, there won’t even be any gas-consuming cars, except in museums. And the power of, “energy,” will no longer be what we’re fighting about ✌️
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Invite Rory Stewart! For a one off, to which he may return on an ad hoc basis? He would be perfect! He has Tory values, yet he is HONEST. And he is a podcaster himself, so he would be gleaning material for his own channel. He has the experience of Westminster and service as an MP and I do not doubt he would do a link up with you if invited and if he saw samples of your channel.
AND, perhaps most importantly, he is genuinely sincere about rescuing the old fashioned, one nation, Conservative project for Britain. Therefore, he has good reasons to want to reach your audience. That is why, after all, he shares a podcast with Alistair Campbell, wherein they argue politics but both try to appeal to the, “middle way,” voters who seek UNITY in British politics, emphasising areas of AGREEMENT.
His is precisely the kind of voice that is drowned out at a time like this, but from which it is most important to hear.
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Emily Rose : You mean, if Trump is already Impeached and GONE, that’s your guy, right? Elections will be rigged and meaningless if Trump is still there; blatantly. I look forward to a clean up operation where, in the time since Trump’s removal, all of the secrets (including the Tax Returns) are in the public domain, and a whole bunch of GOP members are in jail, with the rest just waiting to be wiped off by the electorate, because everyone is so disgusted by what they’ve learned. The only alternative to that scenario? We have a Dictatorship, like Putin’s where Fake politicians, have a Fake, “opposition,” who never oppose the president, who will serve 4 terms, before handing off to his kids. And democracies around the world crumble, under the constant combined pressure of the US, China, Russia, etc, who see the free world as an embarrassing reminder, for calling out their Dictatorships . . . This is the End Game. I hope the people of America will be prepared to SHOW UP at the Impeachment; especially Trump’s Deposition? The Republic is fighting for its life ✌️
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Fascinating video. The problem, however, with the remedies you offer, is that, while they are true, they don’t acknowledge that knowing the solution is not a solution in itself. The characters in Satre’s play will all, at some level, know the folly of their own inner demons. Each of them will have a degree of insight, however much they suppress it, into the fact that they are all seeking an unattainable validation from others in their room.
The coward, for example, says he cannot leave while the woman he cares about thinks him a coward and ostensibly stays in order to change her mind. Setting aside that we could read this as an ironical act of bravery, since it is an opportunity to flee Hell itself, there has to be some self knowledge that informs this man that nothing the woman thinks of him will change his past actions?
Even if she were to convince him that she believes him to be the bravest man who ever lived, what would he do with that knowledge? The thought crosses his mind at some level. He knows this does not solve his problem.
The Buddhists are right about desire being the root of all suffering in humans, whether that is a desire for basic lusts or needs, like food, or more worthy desires, like wanting justice, or to improve conditions for your fellow humans. The conflict between what is and what we want lies at the heart of our discomfort, but we cannot merely will it away.
I know that, if I stopped loving my wife, divorced her and moved out, I wouldn’t have to worry about her stresses at work, making her breakfast in the mornings, how other relationships effect her, etc. A whole Atlas level boulder of concerns would be lifted from my shoulders. But, knowing this does not make me stop loving her.
Don’t get me wrong, as I agree with your conclusions. I merely suggest that a Step 5 might be introduced? Having attained the knowledge we have, that we can make a Heaven or Hell out in the mirror of other people, we then have to decide on a course of action. It is not enough just to know. Whether we seek therapy, study philosophy, make time for prayer or meditation, we need to establish a process in our lives where we think about our knowledge of what makes us so unhappy, accept our limitations and enable ourselves to change things in our relationships and in ourselves, through a process.
Merely being rational is only a step in the right direction. It’s what you, “do,” next that matters.
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@aaronknautz7364 : Other humans are all we can speak about. We have a sample of 1 to draw on for all our best informed guesses.
Animals don’t count, as they have all evolved from one gene pool in which they must eat each other (or be eaten) to survive. But also, because animals are not sentient.
Look around you and it’s clear that even on our harsh planet we got past the desire to wipe out all other races, learning to live with them, side by side. And it was abundance of resources that lead to that, as much as anything else.
I would suggest a whole entire species that has developed technologies so far advanced beyond anything we can comprehend, let alone build, is not going to be dumb enough to wipe out other sentient life forms just because they look different.
Consider carefully the author’s thesis and you’ll see that only a Chinese Communist upbringing could lead to the conception of such depths of paranoia. But it’s worth considering how contrived the circumstances of the novel had to be in order that he could create a fictional species of sentient life that would even have a motive to travel all this way just for conquest. The type of creatures that can survive a tri-solar system is far fetched enough, don’t you think?
Yet, what are the odds that such a rare and billions to one species would see the environment on our stable planet and say, “That’s just like home.” The most plausible part of the whole story is that some nihilist may well betray humanity after being embittered sufficiently.
Stephen Hawking was a better physicist than he was an anthropologist or historian.
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@eddeh0772 : I am using a touch screen at the moment and I accidentally tapped on Tim’s name instead of the reply tab, which lead me to his channel, which was surprisingly empty of all content. Not even a viewer history, let alone anything else. Brand new accounts are, as I am sure you know, usually evidence of Bot activity.
And, when I think of bots, I think of, “dirty tricks,” and the usual activity of the Russian and right wing American bot factories and troll farms. I have perhaps made too many assumptions and leapt to unwarranted conclusions, which I have addressed directly with Tim.
But it’s still a bit odd and would suggest that there’s still more than meets the eye with that account. What do you make of it? I’m not, “tribal,” enough to just accept people on the basis of them appearing to agree with me, when there’s clearly something going on.
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It’s going to need some work to iron out the legalities and kinks, but it’s coming so . . .
What amuses me is that so many mainstream outlets are acting like ChatGPT is a, “new,” technology, about to, “revolutionise,” or, “threaten,” the internet, depending on your perspective. When the reality is that half of the ads you’re seeing on YouTube are spoken by Robot voices, annunciating scripts that were generated by AI’s, being only one of hundreds generated that day, using publicly accessible stock footage, all in an attempt by scammers to see which, “product,” gains the highest traction.
Has anyone seen that Jelvix ad lately? An artificial voice, speaking over generic stock footage of meeting rooms and sciencey looking people, about a, “company,” that does not yet exist! It doesn’t even mention what the, “product,” is!
Then there’s all the bots that people get drawn into debates with on the more political videos. Any video featuring Donald Trump will have an army of bots with fake comments, capable of responding to your comments. You wonder why these people are so dumb and obtuse? Because they’re not real people! You wonder why their names are always weird and with lots of initials and numbers in them? That’s so their human analysts can identify them to modify the algorithm. Sure, there are human, “edge lords,” in the mix, but there are times when bots account for 90% of all the comments!
This has been growing under our feet for years now. But, on the positive side, we will soon be able to generate AI companions, with crafted world views and attitudes, to help us with our research, support us with our self improvement goals, and console us when we’re sad or disappointed. We’ll have conversations with them, sharing the kinds of things we would normally only tell a psychotherapist and getting really helpful feedback. All whilst Apple, Google and Microsoft store everything away, and retain copyright over your inner most thoughts.
And, if you tell your new AI BFF that you’re so mad at someone you could kill them, and then find the police are at your door, you’ll find that your BFF was responsible for notifying the cops after misinterpreting your conversation as, “criminal intent.” And it won’t help you to complain to your service provider, as you’ll find that you agreed to this potential outcome in your terms and conditions.
The future looks . . . different, huh? . . .
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You’re absolutely right. When Putin’s fat cats are missing being rescued from every tree they get stuck up by western money; when their wives start leaving them for more jet-setting types who don’t have targets on their backs and the backs of their kids, who probably don’t even know them very well, and who are all writing best sellers in the west about what ass hats their dads are; when they’re tired of being threatened with death constantly and have seen some of their friends and colleagues falling out of hospital upper flaw windows or getting Novichocked; when they’re sick of spending what little capital they have left on private security outfits because they live in constant fear of the people as much as their own government and begin to realise that Sasha on the front line probably has a longer life expectancy; when even Lil’ Kim won’t visit because he doesn’t like slumming it and besides, it’s just not safe in Russia? . . .
My guess is that it will start with the armed forces? A few colonels (maybe one or two generals?) who know they are facing show trials at home if they don’t deliver results that can only be achieved through the wiping out of their own entire divisions, will look into the faces of those boys and say, “F*ck this noise, boys! Would you rather take on the best trained, best equipped fighting force in the world, to steal a country for one single person, or face down a few thousand, very well equipped, but not with the tanks and field guns we have, Muscovite cops? We’re going home, lads, and we’re taking back the Kremlin. Anyone who wants out? The Wagner group is that way.”
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Maybe he has a point? At this point, just wearing a mask seems to be a mark of Division, identifying, “difference,” and, “otherness,” which is pretty much the oxygen of the trump-far-wrong. Being responsible, POLITE, and wearing them where and when ASKED, is no problem for me. And stores retain their right to mandate masks, which should be obeyed, or accept refusal of service. Getting vaccinated is far more important, and sometimes we must concede a battle in order to win the war?
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@joshm6683 : I saw you in a YouTube video, Karen. You slapped a 16 year old checkout girl in a Walmart and got wrestled to the ground by the cops, who didn’t care about your doctor’s note, “excusing you from masks,” or your made up civil codes, or even your, “human rights,” under Federal Code [insert made up number here]. Nor did they care about those teenagers lol’ing at you while they videoed you on their phones, no matter how much you screamed threats at them. They just put you in the back of the squad car, to the rapturous applause of a car park full of onlookers, and carted you off to see the judge. Life sucks when you have caught BDS from too many, “viral,” Alex Jonestown videos, I guess? BDS is a painful psychological disorder that can only be treated, (by a proctologist) never cured . . . Sad 😞 . . . 🤣😂😆😂🤣
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Does Sony get to redefine English? “Words no longer mean what they actually mean”??? Well, maybe the next time I give them my money I will tell them about my new TOS in which I redefined the term, “money,” as, “contempt.”
There have to be basic laws that merely need to be used, surely? You cannot just redefine the meaning of words!?
Your, “corner of the world,” is the whole world, though. Which is pretty much what you’re telling us. You cannot clean up one corner alone, since that would give every other crook an advantage over the honest businesses who practice good business in one place because they have no choice and cannot afford to relocate. The problem just moves. The effort has to be national and international, as far as humanly possible.
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Please stay in touch with your representatives on both sides, America? Demand that the top GOP members who told America that, “The Steal,” was a thing, MUST TESTIFY! Cruz, Hawley, Graham, the trump’s, Giuliani, will be forced, on live TV, to CONFESS that it was all a Seditious Lie! They cannot take the 5th, or refuse to testify. They will not commit Perjury, and risk jail for trump! It will BREAK the GOP! The BEST they can say is the Nuremberg Defence, “I was following orders. I didn’t believe the election was stolen, but Donny said he did so I, ‘trusted,’ him.” Inundate your reps with DEMANDS for WITNESS TESTIMONY, and the GOP will break in two! Forget the, “verdict.” The stakes are WAY higher than a rigged outcome! Do it America! This is your big chance and you WON’T get another like this!
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I’d like to see you do a follow up video to this one? Almost every sentence could have been a whole topic unto itself. The most powerful element of this video, for me, was something you only touched on briefly: the model of American Capitalism, unique to that country, which allows healthcare to fall into the hands of the profiteers, and doesn’t ban the marketing of witch’s brews. A whole video should be dedicated to how American Capitalism has shaped healthcare and created the environment for such a vast market to grow out of vanity, insecurities mixed with genuine, unmet health concerns? Gwyneth Paltrow with a Carpet Bag is an image that symbolises those things for me.
She realised that she was past her prime, by Hollywood’s ruthless, sexist metric, and clearly meditated on the solution to that problem, as Hollywood has defined it for her, rather than the mental health problems they create, becoming both the ultimate victim of their unfair, unrealistic standards for women, whilst becoming the ultimate perpetrator, practically recreating an overnight industry leader in pseudo-science and old wife’s tales. She certainly breathed new life into the existing models. She’s Red Dead Redemption’s Nigel West Dickens, for the 21st Century. Not all bad, but certainly a little sinister. There’s a movie script in that, probably?
And, with equal rights and progressive attitudes towards women, have come equal exploitation opportunities of cosmetics, wellness and fitness cures for men. Isn’t Captain America the ultimate embodiment of that? Tony Stark famously told him in the first Avengers movie, “Everything special about you came out of a bottle.” To which Steve Rogers should have said, “Well, duh! That’s the American way. And I’m Captain, ‘who,’ again?”
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Jill Stover : Volunteer to assist the Post Office! And, campaign to get these unconstitutional Secret Police of Bill Barr’s OUTLAWED. Racists, looking for excuses, will focus on Biden like these swingers are doing, because they don’t want to face up to talking about Trump. If they did that, they’d be forced to admit he’s a Dictator, Racist, Traitor, Idiot, Hater and he’s about to end the Republic. But, they’re racism makes it convenient for them to talk about ANYTHING ELSE
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R. E. Stone : If he could get away with it, Trump would piss on Lewis’s grave. The saddest part is, everyone knows it. If trump stopped being racist, in a convincing way (never gonna’ happen) he would lose his Cult of support as quickly as they found out about it. Racism is at the heart of all America’s worst problems now. And Putin, and all our other enemies know it, and used it. Trump’s, “Make America Divided Again,” campaign, only worked because he was able to exploit America’s racism. On one side, there’s all the people who didn’t want to acknowledge how bad it really was, and on the other, the racists, who mostly pretend not to be racists, while they’re busy being racists. That’s America 2020
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@Jazz-tv4qr : I hope Baroness Mone, Moan, whatever, gets referred to Scotland Yard. She lied to Parliament and we have her banged to rights for perjury. And that perjury was to cover up a conspiracy that was maintained long after the consequences of their actions were known to them. Wrongful imprisonments, forced confessions, lives and reputations ruined, SUICIDES! PLURAL! And they kept it up throughout ALL of that. Perverting the course of justice, perjury, obstructing an investigation, withholding evidence, the list of crimes is endless! And all they are talking about is the, “possibility,” of stripping her of her honours?! Are you F*CKING KIDDING ME??? She and that entire conspiracy of thieves, liars and con artists belong behind bars!
I’m sorry, I know I sound a bit loopy. But this stuff sickens me so deeply. It’s not just the biggest miscarriage of justice in British history, it’s the widest conspiracy ever to have been directly funded by the tax payer. Have a good one, my friend.
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Dear Lincoln Project, I genuinely believe that America needs a visual aid, a symbol, to help them truly understand this Covid 19 Crisis. My suggestion is that we build a Cairn, like the ancients did? It would be cheap, and relatively simple and easy to build and, if we represent each DEAD Covid victim, with one stone each, this might help America, “get it?” Such a project would need a site to place it, and I think, so as to challenge the administration, it should be next to, or in front of a Trump owned or key Government building? It would need funding, and supervision, and someone able to place 1000 stones in a 24 hour period. I genuinely believe that such a symbol might have a significant impact on how average Americans SEE and GRASP the crisis we’re in. What do you think?
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Since the days of Ronald Reagan there has been an open acknowledgement within the Republican Party that well educated people do not vote Republican. Since then they have actively worked to suppress higher education. That philosophy even appears in relatively well known speeches. And it can certainly be found on record as a core principle within, “most,” (if not, “all”) Republican ideology. They have had a frighteningly sinister agenda ever since the late 70’s, early 80’s, and the evidence of the, “fruit,” their planning bore is plain to see. If you don’t believe me (and who could blame you for doubting such a diabolical ideology?) look it up. I’d bet it will be easy to find if you put the right words into your search engine? But, once you lift the lid, you’ll find a can of worms bigger than you imagined possible, and it may well ruin your sleep for a while? Be warned. I’m not joking around here.
Slava Ukraine. ✌️🇺🇦🇬🇧
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I’m kinda late to this party but, for what it’s worth . . . It is true that science has nothing to say about, “God.” Certainly not the God of the three main faiths that share the same original Jehovah. In the same way that physics has nothing to say about an individual’s personal taste in music, or to explain why we’re happy or sad. And that works both ways. While one’s personal faith might inform a scientist’s personal approach to their work, their relationships within the scientific community, or the type of physics they are interested in, God will not show up in their equations, nor should He.
I take issue, only in part, with one thing you said. Dark Energy is my exemplar to explain why. People assume it exists, because of observed phenomena, but they might be investigating something that is not even there, or real in a physical sense? It could be an effect of gravity that has not yet been discovered, or any one of several other hypotheses that have been suggested by great minds? Yet, we investigate it, because we want to understand the universe better and settle on a universally understood theory, which would benefit all of science and, ultimately, all of human kind. You will say, “Yes. But that is a scientific response to a real, observable phenomena in the universe, which science has something to say about.” But, my answer would be that there are phenomena which are genuinely, objectively experienced in the universe, which could be caused by something outside of our time space continuum, like Dark Energy, that could be caused by a knowing, all powerful, “god-like,” consciousness. Science cannot rule that out, despite the fact that there is no hypothesis for investigating it directly.
That being said, though science has nothing to say about God and God has nothing to say about hard science, all I’m suggesting is that, once we start using science to refute the existence of God, we have done a disservice to both science and people of faith. On the one hand, we are ruling out the possibility of something, without any evidence to support that stance: attempting to prove a negative, which is by its nature, impossible. And, on the other hand, we are making God a preoccupation of science, whilst arguing that God has no place in science. If scientists believe there’s no place for God in the physics, they fail to see the fallacy of their own placing of God at the centre of the science, in a vain attempt to prove a negative.
That’s comes off as a bad faith exercise, and somewhat oppressive to people of faith, don’t you think? Scientists need to leave God alone, if they truly have no belief in him. A trivial point, you think? If you think that, you’re failing to see why physics has hit a brick wall in the last 20 or so years. Instead of doing the science they get paid to do, physicists (not all of them, obviously) have devoted themselves to the disputation of faith, spending time, money and other resources on ever increasingly extravagant hypotheses, which are reaching a breaking point of sheer lunacy, if you ask me!
“Many Worlds?” Really? An entire structure of, “scientific,” thinking, upon which millions have now been spent, despite there being ZERO proof for any of it! Sure, there are elegant mathematic theorems, etc, but all of them are fatally flawed when any attempt is made to apply them to the real world. An infinite number of dimensions, stretching out forever, from every single decision point of every living creature, which would make one minute of one day create so many separate universes springing into existence (out of thin vacuum) that their number is literally incalculable; yet bigger than the number of electrons in the known universe? Give me a break! It’s a philosophy, not a scientific hypothesis, and what’s more, it is far less plausible than the notion of a god.
So yes, I would agree that the two spheres of human endeavour, “faith,” and, “science,” have NOTHING to say to each other. But, instead of fallaciously trying to rid god from the equations, why don’t scientists get their own message, and leave God alone? If they stuck to the observable universe, instead of wasting vast sums on colliders, we might have all had our flying cars by now, floating on a cloud of Dark Matter, repelling the effects of gravity? I mean, who knows? Does it really require a new, enlightened generation before science can take its next paradigm shift, back to real physics? . . .
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@ytsuxxxno7598 : Oh but, Madam?! Just don’t forget what Q (Ron Watkins) told you? About that, “Deep State Plan,” they have? If you don’t get the vaccine, you won’t be immune to Covid-20, when they release that! They’re planning to, “eliminate,” around 20% or more of the population, when all the Anti-Vaccers DIE, because they won’t have been given the REAL immunity, to Covid-20 when it comes out. Dr Fauci will bring over from, “Chiynah,” where he’s been making it in a lab, with Hunter ByeDon and Hillarrriiiieeee! They’re going to spray it from spy planes, and this strain is specially designed to kill within 24 hours of your first cough! The last thought that will go through the stupid trump troll’s heads will be, “I wish I’d been Vaccinated! Eughughhhrrr . . .” Now, go and enjoy being paranoid yourself, and suffer at your own cost, kid . . . Serves you right 😉
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T Boned : So, “NO,” you CAN’T control your, “Butt Hurtedness,” then? You may be DELUDED into thinking you are good at stuff, but like Trumpski, you are going to learn that, merely saying it, ain’t BEING it. I only handed back some change, from your investment. If you don’t LIKE being laughed at, DON’T give people a reason? Calm TF down and make your POINT, if you have one? We can ALL SEE, who is being the, “Snowflake,” here . . . Smh
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This is your Dictatorship, in the wake of the 2019 Coup, attempting to distract you, while they consolidate their power. They no longer have to fear the, “electorate,” because the 2020, “elections,” are ALREADY RIGGED. The only thing they fear now is everyone looking at a, “trial,” with NO WITNESSES allowed to testify, and NO EVIDENCE allowed to be presented, and a, “JURY,” comprised of Trump’s CONSPIRATORS, who would go to JAIL if Trump lost his, “Protected Presidential Status,” and, “ratted,” on them, to save his own Orange ass. After all, that would be the same thing as telling the world that THERE IS NO LAW, so far as the Trumps are concerned! It would be the same thing as ADMITTING that the Republic has FALLEN. Now, they will just get STRONGER, and consolidate their position, making America AFRAID Again, turning us into informers, haters and scared little RATS, like in Russia. You will get to go through the motions of voting, in your FAKE REPUBLIC, just like in Russia, and your name will be remembered, when you vote, “wrong,” but the outcome will NEVER be in doubt, because you have a DICTATORSHIP. Iran is just a SHOW; agreed by Putin, who arranged it with Iran and the US. NONE of this matters any more. They only fear that America MIGHT WAKE UP! A second REVOLUTION is what they fear. But, you all seem to be happy to watch the Coup unfold on CNN, so they needn’t worry. That won’t stop them though. That’s how Dictatorships work. As they get stronger, they will scare off ALL opposition, until they are appointing Democrats, behind the scenes, and briefing them, on what they can say and do. And, your first female POTUS? That will be Ivanka. Putin has already arranged it . . . Smh
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Linda Wright : The fact is that, we now know, people are born with distorted configurations of the brain, BUT, we also know that the neurologist who discovered this FACT suffered from the SAME brain disorder, after having had a fruitful and productive life. He attributed the fact that he has a wife and family of his own, that love him and the fact that he had never committed any crimes in his life, to his upbringing, with a firm, loving mother and father. So, the TRUTH is: NATURE AND NURTURE are STILL the combination that produce, “Good or Bad,” people.
Trump inherited his father’s sociopathic genes, but was NURTURED into being a SOB. That neurologist, was shocked, when he was told by his wife, children, friends, colleagues and students, that they ALL saw a ruthless side to him and were able to give examples of his, OCCASIONAL, “coldness.” Yet they ALL respected and admired him. His daughters had the scan, and their brains were, “normal.” They described their dad as loving, yet able to shock them, like when he went to work, instead of attending his mother’s funeral, saying he didn’t want to be bored. He didn’t GET that the funeral was for the comfort of the living, and that he should have been there for his family. Yet they ALL said he was kind and generous, when he was not being ruthlessly competitive.
Trump is, was, and ALWAYS WILL BE, FULLY RESPONSIBLE for his actions, because he, like you and I, can DISTINGUISH between, “Right and Wrong.” He should NOT be let off the hook. As the SCIENCE PROVES; he is as “CULPABLE” as YOU OR I
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hevquip : You should read my comment above, as Trump will not have a neurological leg to stand on. Tough luck. But, if you are claiming that being born, “gay, black, Jewish, Hispanic,” is some kind of genetic disorder (as you seem to be implying?) then, on behalf of ALL well adjusted people on the planet, I’d like to pass on this message to you, from them:
“F**K YOU!” ☺️
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These opening points are all true. “Peace through trade,” as a, “doctrine,” simply worked as a fig leaf for corruption. And we’ve seen what real harm that the gullible and the greedy (especially in Germany) did by enabling Russia to commit monstrous atrocities that we are finally just beginning to face up to. The truth is, China and Russia cannot expand their economies, or their populations, (and populations are a resource they’re just as desperate about as money) without TAKING what other countries have in the democratic world.
That is what their desire to invade Ukraine and Taiwan is driven by. They need the bodies as much as the resources. Both countries are in a population crisis, with young people leaving their countries (their best and brightest) while the rest of the population is ageing too fast. We can debate aspects of these concerns and their long term effects, but that would be to make the mistake of missing the point that this is how THEY see it.
They do want to end our democracies and they are actively working toward that goal. They see no other way forward than theft of entire regions, especially their populations, so as to inflate their own flagging workforces and intelligentsia.
This is why we cannot afford to underestimate them . . . ever again. We have been far too naive and grasping of cheap resources in the past, because of the greed of a minority in power. And that has cost us all dear. Gerard Schröder retired from politics as an incredibly wealthy man, with money he did not get on the German government’s payroll, but which had more to do with facilitating the Nordstream deals with Moscow. And look where that got them? But, does he even care? He walked away with all the money and hasn’t even been investigated.
Like I said, “Peace through trade,” as a, “doctrine,” simply worked as a fig leaf for corruption.
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Connie Bailey : I don’t disagree with your comment, in principal. So long as it isn’t based on any false assumptions? I was never a, “fan,” of the Clinton’s, and I was one of Obama’s most ferocious, Conservative critics. And, whenever, at the time, I would challenge the very notion of our anachronistic Electoral College, I would be ignored or lol’d at. Now, it’s all people talk about, and as usual, they talk about it, when it’s too late. So long as you’re not reaching those false conclusions, or trying to frame this as a question of a false choice, I agree with you. The decline may well have been apparent for years. But, the question remains: WTF are you going to DO about that? Just sit around hoping that your, “elections,” won’t be falsified, as well as gerrymandered and voters suppressed this time? Do you think that a bunch of criminals who KNOW they will be fighting indictments and going to JAIL for the rest of their days if they lose the elections, and they find themselves no longer able to obstruct justice, will just sit around? Waiting for people to lift the lid on their crimes and reveal them to the world? America will either fall back into the position of being a Republic again, with a mountain of clean up and catch up to get through, and then just hope and pray they can restore their former positions of power around the globe; OR, it will COLLAPSE into a Putin style Dictatorship. And that will mark the end of American democracy, and the beginning of the end for the rest of the world’s democracies. Oh, and that will all be taking place in the wake of millions DEAD, killed by an unchecked virus . . .
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Brock Landers : “This guy,” being Trump, right? And the, “boyfriend,” being PooTin, right? That’s pretty much how it looks to patriotic lovers of democracy, yeah. Guess Trump will be doing most of his business standing up, for a week or so, after their, 😜 “meeting,” Monday? Wonder if he’ll be leaking Orange juice? . . . 🤔 Eiieeeuw! 🤣
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If OFCOM is forcing punishment it must to protect Rishi from being criminally charged. They usually do nothing about outrageous infractions when it comes to conservatives, so they must have been under extreme pressure to act. What we should be calling for is a root and branch reform of OFCOM, replacing their staff with people who BELIEVE in democracy and who see the connection between broadcast media and political influence.
Example: They are STILL, “investigating,” Jacob Reese Mogg for being a, “news anchor,” whilst being a sitting MP! That complaint has been going on for many YEARS now!
Maybe GB news are fighting this because it’s the first time OFCOM have actually done ANYTHING about them? Or maybe this is their attempt to beat OFCOM into an even more pliant shape?
Either way, we need a new OFCOM with new people, subpoena powers, public hearings, public annual reviews, unlimited fine powers and the ability to make recommendations to the CPS.
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@audreymcgready4329 : They are literally like a private club, who’s soul aim is to break down Britain and sell off the parts for scrap! Those, “think tanks,” they all belong to are morally aligned with Satanic Cults, and you have to be a bit of a cult to join one! The most important and transformative legislation Britain could come up with, to save our fortunes collectively, would be to ban private lobby groups of any kind. Certainly, any hint of money or influence being attained by back door dealings should be ruthlessly crushed out of political life. The mere fact that I have suggested that is probably enough to get me onto a watch-list or ten!
But all services upon which the public rely should be in public ownership and administrated by their elected representatives. There would be no place for the Johnson’s, Truss’s and Sunack’s of a logically run Britain. Probably none for the Starmer’s either, but at least he’s a step in the right direction. I just pray that tactical voting catches fire this election and the Tories are relegated to a poor third place, while Labour and the Lib Dem’s are forced into a successful coalition. We need representative voting reform and a TOTAL BAN on business lobbying. Except through the usual, public channels that charities and issue campaigners are forced to use, of course.
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Tarantino was right about what movies and culture achieved, in terms of the negative image we all have of Nazis. Not that it was propaganda that achieved this, when you only have to look to see what Nazis are? But, in highlighting it, showing the world what they’d all sacrificed so much for, in WWII, and why it was so necessary. He is totally right about that, but you are also right. What Tarantino should have added (and maybe he sees this?) is that movies and culture more generally have achieved this, until now. Whatever comes in the future may well be different, for all the reasons you stated, but that does not diminish what movies did for us (especially Hollywood movies) through wartime and the post war years. It’s just that things are changing now, and that time of monoculture is dying. But, it was great tribute to cinema, from that point of view, don’t you agree?
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@Dionysus-gv9lz : There is a popular myth about immigration, pushed by the far right, which goes something like this: Every migrant welcomed into a prosperous nation, takes up resources that would otherwise go to citizens of that country. The fact is the opposite of that. The very reason that America is the wealthiest country on Earth is because of its demographic arrangements. The US has always imported a significant proportion its population through migration and, check the numbers for yourself; migrants contribute far more to their respective nation’s economy than they take out of it.
Right now, we are at a time when population figures have never been more important to economic success. Not the total numbers, but the growth or decline in population is what makes the difference. Countries with shrinking populations are facing economic melt down. Countries with growing populations are prospering. And those which artificially stimulate their growth, through migration, are getting richer, faster.
So, whatever you may think of, “illegal,” migration, it’s worth remembering the hard math. But it’s also worth remembering that the farm owners and industrial magnates who hire illegals on the largest scales and incentivise the largest numbers to try their luck are the ones who are never punished for creating the problem in the first place. If there was no money or work to be had in the USA, there would be no migrants coming for that work.
But the people who bleat the loudest about the issue of, “illegals,” are usually the ones profiting the most from their labour. It benefits them to donate to campaigns so as to indemnify themselves against the creation of laws that would ban their practices and put an end to the problem over night.
This practice is over a century old now. And they are simply manipulating voters. While they exploit cheap labour and avoid paying their taxes, they donate to politicians who convince you to blame the wrong people, thus protecting their own financial and political interests and the interests of their farm and factory owning donors.
Do a little reading into, “Demographics,” and study the numbers. Politicians on both sides will lie to you, but the numbers don’t.
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@Dionysus-gv9lz : YouTube zapped my response to you, but if this version gets through, I respectfully ask you to give it your consideration?
There is a popular myth about immigration, pushed by the far right, which goes something like this: Every migrant welcomed into a prosperous nation takes up resources that would otherwise go to citizens of that country. The economic fact is the opposite of that. The very reason that America is the wealthiest country on Earth is because it has always imported a significant proportion its population through migration and, check the numbers for yourself; and because these migrants contribute far more to their respective nation’s economy than they take out of it.
Right now, we are at a time when population figures have never been more important to a nation’s economic success. Not the total numbers, but the growth or decline in population is what makes the difference. Countries with shrinking populations are facing economic melt down. Countries with growing populations are prospering. And those which artificially stimulate their growth, through migration, are getting richer, faster.
So, whatever you may think of, “illegal,” migration, it’s worth remembering the hard math. And asking, who determines what is legal or illegal? When you ask that question it’s worth remembering that the farm and factory owners who hire illegals on the largest scales and incentivise the largest numbers to try their luck are also the ones who are never punished for creating the problem in the first place.
If there was no money or work to be had in the USA, there would be no migrants (legal or otherwise) coming for that work.
But the people who complain the loudest about the issue of, “illegals,” are usually the ones profiting the most from their labour. It benefits them to donate to campaigns so as to indemnify themselves against the creation of laws that would ban their practices and put an end to the problem over night.
This practice is over a century old now, but only in recent years has it been such a political hot potato. And this new focus on such an old practice is simply due to politicians manipulating voters. While the farm and factory owners exploit cheap labour and avoid paying their taxes, they donate to the politicians who convince you that it’s suddenly an urgent issue and to blame the wrong people for it. Thus they protecting their own financial and political interests.
A little study into, “Demographics,” and the basic numbers, is highly revealing on this issue. Politicians on both sides will lie to you, but the numbers don’t.
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Travis Moorman : You LOVED Trump, from the start, and WE ALL KNOW IT. WHO are you trying to KID, son? There’s JUST BEEN an Election, kiddo! Trump LOST, AGAIN. And, YOU TROLLS are a MAJOR part of the REASON for that. I, HONESTLY, AM a Conservative. I have been FORCED to vote Democrat, because I READ, son. Trump is a common crook! And, YOU LOVE him, ‘coz you’re a RACIST. Yeah, “Keep changing minds,” sonny. Trolls have REALLY pissed off Americans 🤣
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Li pov Yaj : They’re fighting to stay out of jail, and being written into history as America’s Worst Traitors. They’re THAT desperate, and nothing will be too low. It’s not just trump, but his whole family and most of the Cabinet, as well as several low level GOP members, NRA and other, “business,” associates, ALL looking at disgrace and jail. Be prepared for the coming fight. They have no choice: Dictatorship, or Jail? Which do you think they’ve already chosen? Vote, and prepare for what comes next ✌️👍
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ninepoints : Donny still sits on the throne, I see? America is maintaining its denial, that it can remain a Republic, after this RIGGED, “Trial,” lets its Dictator walk free from confessed and proven crimes, SPECIFICALLY identified in the Constitution as Impeachable. My advice to Americans is, either learn to love and accept your Royal Orange Family, or DO SOMETHING, like the Ukrainians did, a decade ago, in freezing conditions and without ANY WEAPONS and REMOVE this Dictator, kicking and screaming, from his throne. Just, do me a favour? PLEASE? For the LOVE OF GOD!!! Would ya’ll STOP PRETENDING that they will ALLOW you to, “Vote,” them out, when the WHOLE Trump Family and HALF OF THE GOP will GO TO JAIL if Trump loses his Protected Presidential Status?!?!? If they are LITERALLY SHOWING YOU that they’ll RIG the Trial, hen they KNOW THEY TOO will be politically and at least HALF of them, LEGALLY, RUINED, WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THEY’LL ALLOW, “NOT RIGGED,” Elections??? It’s come down to, Trump walks = END of the Republic. Trump survives = END of the Trump’s and the GOP. WHICH DO YOU THINK THEY’LL CHOOSE??? . . . SMH
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“Ignorance,” is not to Miriam’s, “credit,” is it? If she’d been doing her job, she would have been aware of the abuses going on under her watch, as you said. Tories still don’t grasp how exhausted we voters are with the same old tired excuses, constantly being trotted out. Frankly, I don’t believe her.
Here’s an irony for you. The sorts of people who think conversion therapy (regarding sexual identity or proclivity) is a worth while enterprise, are the sorts of people who really would benefit from intervention and therapy.
I am a Christian believer, if a poor example for my faith. There is no prohibition against homosexuality as a, “life choice,” in the Bible, that I know of. When we read terms like, “abomination,” in connection with, “Sodom,” or, “sodomy,” we are reading a story about sexual violence, not consent.
But, wilful misinterpretation is meat and drink to most, “Christian,” churches. It’s was more authoritative to tell Galileo that he’s defying, “scriptures,” than for him to get away with telling them, “No. You’ve read it wrong,” which would have resulted in an instant violent sentencing. Nothing in science, “contradicts,” scripture, as my youngest daughter will attest who has just passed her PhD and become a Doctor of Physics at St Andrews University.
It so often comes down to vicious little cliques, wilfully exploiting the vagaries of dubious translations of the Bible for their own ends. I doubt Christ will find many Christians in the churches if and when he comes back for us.
I certainly know that many Christians don’t even know that we are not meant to live by the laws of the Old Testament at all! Jesus was pretty unambiguous about this! But, churches tend to be hypocritical in their selective adherence to the Old Testament ways, gladly accepting tithes (preferably in cash, not 10% of what you produce) but they never request a burnt offering for some reason? . . . Oh, don’t get me started on the institutions of, “Christianity.” Few of them are real.
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Beau Ioannides : I see your point, but I’m balancing that against terms that are somewhat unfamiliar, in the current political climate; like “forgiveness”? If we never allow that people can grow and even change, that says more about us than the person who finally does change? Flake is on record as one of the few who spoke out against Trump’s Access Hollywood tape, and he voted against him for the nomination. I don’t doubt that he, like nearly ALL politicians, will also have voted on controversial policies out of party loyalty, rather than “conviction” which is part of their “long game.’’ I do not suggest that doing this is right. But, I KNOW I have done things I am ashamed of in my life. And I am glad that not everyone held everything bad thing I’ve done against me, at the very moment when I tried to do the right thing. We don’t ALWAYS have to see the worst intentions, the most selfish motives and the most cynical angle in everyone? There is no balance in your earlier remarks? At the moment that YOU find yourself having to let down your friends and colleagues, for doing the right thing and challenging the bully, I sincerely hope that you are not shouted down by people who remain embittered by your past actions and who are blinded to the present need, as a result. We NEED MORE unity in these “United” States, and to look for what makes us ONE, not our divisions. That’s Trump’s territory
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Beau Ioannides : All good points, which I take in good faith. I simply feel that, we must seize EVERY SINGLE opportunity for unity. Trump’s strategy (NOT his, but that of his puppeteers) is Divide And Conquer: Hence, even issues that would have not even come up for discussion a couple of years ago, are splitting the country in twain. THAT is quite DELIBERATE, making the “base” stubborn and recalcitrant, while the networks are at open war. Nothing gets done and we all fight, often over stupid things. Putin is WINNING while Trump doesn’t see that he is losing, nor does he CARE that the US is losing. UNITY is the ONLY remedy. I speak, my friend, as a Republican, in values, who NEVER supported Trump, but who GENUINELY has lots of friends from all over the political spectrum.
MOST importantly, I learned a lesson, recently, when, after hours of tearful arguing with a group of friends (their tears, not mine) two of them “confessed” to me that they’d voted for Trump and BITTERLY REGRET that now. I gave them all the encouragement I could and it was suddenly clear to me, in a way that it hadn’t been before: DIVISION is the Weapon of the Trumpers, the Russians, the Trollarazzi and the right wing press! Where ever they SEE unity, they stamp it out, and we make it EASY for them.
UNITY is the WEAPON with which to defeat Trump. Sure, people should be accountable for their crimes and misdemeanours. But let’s hold the Nuremberg Trials AFTER the war is won? Find what you have in common with others and MAKE IT SAFE to cross the line, BACK to sanity, WITHOUT making them regret it with BLAME and SHAME. Otherwise, you play right into your enemy’s hands.
I feel I want to go on, but I’m aware that I am “going on”; but KNOW that I agree with you
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bretert : So, “irrelevant,” that you feel the, “emotional NEED,” to be here, in your panic, impotent rage and DESPERATION, right? You’re about to find out that there AREN’T so many, “illegals,” here as they lied to you about. That the votes of CITIZENS are PLENTY. That’s the problem with LIES, they have a way of being, ahem, “irrelevant,” when tested. Who are you trying to KID, son? Yourself? 😁
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bretert : Didn’t think you’d have an answer to that. Thanks for proving me right. Trump fans are the ultimate RINO’s. It’s in the title, “fans.” Know nothing, TV addicts, who care more about next contestant on White House Washout, than they do for the good of their country. Decent people are less comfortable, even being associated with Trump or his Stalinist GOP, each day. Particularly when they read their angry, hate filled spew on social media. How you people get through the day, without killing yourselves, or literally eating each other, is beyond us Normals . . . SMH
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God of pratfalls : Whining about, “calling names,” when your first comment was, “name calling,” is Trump Trolling, though. Don’t kid yourself that you could EVER get the better of me, son. You’re outclassed, in intellect, honesty, truthfulness and sheer class. But then, ANY Normal looks like that compared to a Trump Tramp ☺️
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God of pratfalls: You keep repeating yourself, talking about what you define as, “not,” trolling. But, I merely pointed out your Hypocrisy, at whining about, “name calling,” while you’re name calling, for which you have NO ANSWER. You have NOTHING TO SAY, but you’re saying it anyway, which is TYPICAL of Trump Trolls. Quit while you’re behind, son. It doesn’t get any better from here, OK? Trump Troll 😁
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A, “Word of Caution,” she says? “I couldn’t help but laugh,” too! The whole country are comforting themselves, by COLLUDING with the PRETENCE that their coming, “elections,” are somehow, “not,” ALREADY RIGGED. You’re only buying this Dictatorship the time they need to consolidate, and prepare their excuses for how, “Dodgy,” the key state ballots will be. Your DENIAL, even after this regime has SHOWN YOU that they’ll RIG and FIX EVERYTHING, at this point, is nothing but SELF HARM, America! Do you honestly THINK they’re going to ALLOW you to unseat Trump? So he and his whole family gets indicted and goes to JAIL??? Are you ALL MAD??? So they’ll, “rat,” on EVERYONE in their administration and the WHOLE LOT OF THEM GO TO JAIL TOO??? So the GOP has to DISBAND, because there’s only a disgraced skeleton of the Republican Party LEFT??? OR??? Do you think they’ve ALREADY decided NOT TO ALLOW ALL THAT??? The Republic has FALLEN, and YOU are HELPING THEM NOW, by acting like they’ll LET YOU, “VOTE,” THEM INTO PRISON! Have a Revolution or accept your Monarchy, but PLEASE? STOP KIDDING YOURSELVES? . . . Jesus!
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@coloradoing9172 : I frequently see comments from people correcting his annunciation. Not usually his grammar, but just the very odd pronunciations he so frequently, and rather noticeably uses, for words one would have thought he would know better. Maybe it’s just a quirk, but I didn’t pay it much kind myself, at first. It was seeing how often people would correct him that made me start noticing. Now that I’ve drawn it to your attention, you might start noticing it too? In future videos? Or not.
It’s not a big deal. Not even a criticism, really. But, back in a former life, I spent some time among people who used the most bizarre techniques (or ones that seem bizarre until you understand how they worked) for advertising and, “behaviour modification,” in large stores and work places. They were surprisingly effective, sometimes. Then I came across a YouTube video on presenting YouTube videos, which I watched out of sheer curiosity, having no plans in that direction myself. And the same, “manipulations,” are being revived, I saw. That’s what got me wondering. That, and my obvious inner Diction-Nazi. 😉
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Charley Vox : Season 1 is awesome, if you haven’t seen it or any spoilers, and I cannot recommend it enough. The Drinker agrees with me on that. And, it’s sufficient unto itself, in that it has a perfectly satisfactory ending, answering all of the important questions and tying up all the important plot points. You should see it. Just don’t make the mistake I did, and watch any more. But, season 1 is one of the best things ever done in sci fi for TV for a generation, which is why, I suppose, they’ve been able to coast on that success and get the budget to shit out the subsequent shite they’re making now. Do yourself a favor, though. If you like sci fi, philosophy, thrillers, or just a damned good story well told, you’ll love season 1. Trust me ✌️
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If Putin was to be, “replaced,” it would necessarily follow that the new leadership would be seeking sanctions relief and an end to the Ukraine war, surely? After all, that would be their reason for replacing him. Certainly, the people speaking out against Putin are a mixed bunch, most of whom echo the above reasoning, but not all. There are some who don’t believe Putin has gone far enough, and it is those whom we should fear, if anyone.
Prof Wilson says, “it wouldn’t change anything,” but I think he’s demonstrably wrong, again, for the above stated reasons. Whomever takes over from Putin would necessarily be seeking a, “reset,” with the west, in hopes of getting their MONEY flowing again.
Whether partially or entirely, they would have to start withdrawing forces from Ukraine, or they would remain in the same pickle, after having taken all of the risks that attend a coup in the first place.
We just need to hope that it isn’t a Hawk that gets in Putin’s chair, rather than a Dove.
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Putin will NEVER use nukes. Not deliberately. He’s getting all of the, “bang for his buck,” out of his threats. That’s the, “value,” he gets from having them. He knows that if he were to use just one, the entire world would react swiftly and ruthlessly with well prepared, pre-gamed, plans for every possible scenario and there’s a good chance that China might well not just sit back but assist, for the same reasons you attribute to Putin: because they want to live. Threats are all he has. He would not choose nukes, even if he were suicidal. Because he knows that even him losing in Ukraine doesn’t stop his, “legacy,” of disinformation that his successors will count on to maintain a dictatorship in Russia.
Accidents, on the other hand, are far more likely. Russia has a history of devastating mistakes with both nuclear weapons and, as every Ukrainian knows, with nuclear power stations. Yes, “PTSD,” was correct. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. And, actually, the stress of living under a permanent threat of this nature can cause that, so I would imagine that Ukraine has higher than average numbers than most developed countries? Especially among the young and other smart, thinking groups of people who feel powerless?
And this is why your service is so good for us and for you. Because you are, “doing,” something that changes lives and improves their quality for so many, rather than allowing yourself to be made powerless. I hope it helps you? It helps me and mine. Slava Ukraine. 🇺🇦✌️🇬🇧
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Will do. Loving your channel. Like Charlie’s Penguinz0, it’s an eclectic magazine with the power to make you laugh, feel angry, experience schadenfreude, run the gamut of emotions. And the channels that make me feel something matter.
The video games industry is still a Wild West of unregulated robber barrens and con artists. And both the little crooks and the, “respectable,” industry leaders seem to be buying off politicians through quiet lobbying. Half of our politicians are clueless old assisted living idiots, just happy to take the lobbying brown envelopes from EA, Ubisoft, or whomever, to look the other way.
We need to start inundating our representatives and making gaming regulation an election issue. Billions of dollars are being as good as STOLEN every year. And the tax payer could be benefitting from some ACTUAL regulation.
Is this really going to take us 100 years to get some LAW into the industry, like it did with the railways in the Wild West? Write to your representatives, people.
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What, “elections” can POSSIBLY remedy this Coup??? . . . Do you honestly think that the Trumps, facing jail and disgrace, the MOMENT he leaves the White House, will ALLOW, “elections”??? Have you been sleeping for 3 years? Trump will HAVE TO RIG the elections, with Putin’s help, only this time, with access to everything from the INSIDE. 2020 will be a Russia Style FAKE election. You KNOW how crooked they are, and that his Cult AND the GOP all WANT a single party system, right? What’s to STOP THEM, if Trump is NOT removed? And, what do you think will happen, when the nation cries out, because it was SO BLATANT? Another lengthy, “investigation”??? Conducted by Nunes? Or, the DOJ? THIS! RIGHT HERE! RIGHT NOW!!! THIS is the End Game. If Trump gets a, “censure,” slap on the wrist, the Republic and your, “Democratic Process,” are OVER! There’s ONE remedy that would save your Republic, and the GOP are betting that the Trump Cult HATES Dems and, “brown people,” just enough to disregard it, and BURN the Constitution. By all means, show up and vote, if you can get past the goon squads that will be encircling the voting stations? But, don’t be surprised when the paper ballots and the computer ballots don’t match? And, when the GOP says, “We’ll look into it,” perhaps you’ll all understand that you SHOULD have hit the streets and HALTED the country, back in 2016? . . . It’s already over, man. GAME OVER!
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Valerie : Not quite right. There is truth in what you say, and errors HAVE been found in this book, though they are ONLY errors, of little significance, placing one or two people in the wrong location, when they spoke, or attributing the wrong job title to ONE man. But, THAT is probably more to do with the hasty publication of the book, and REALLY doesn’t signify.
However, DESPITE the fact that Wolfe’s book, confirms the biases and narratives of those who despise Trump, (a growing number of whom are Republicans, btw,) the FACT remains that he can PROVE his book is TRUE. Wolfe KNEW and KNOWS that the push back from playing with this particular kind of fire could RUIN HIM. So, he has taken NO chances, and he has been CAREFUL to marshal his EVIDENCE: THE RECORDINGS. He knows, if his credibility is blown on THIS book, his career is OVER and the litigation will BURY HIM.
THAT is WHY we KNOW the book is TRUE. WHO, apart from Trump, would be STUPID enough to lie about the most LITIGIOUS GROUP of “people” in the HISTORY of the White House? THINK about it?
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Losif Crumb : Not sure what your point is? I see some geopolitical sense, I guess. But, you attribute FAR TOO MUCH critical thinking ability to Trump. Sure, he “plays” people? But, WE ALL SEE IT! He’s not fooling anyone? Sure, had things been just a little different, he would have been a Democrat candidate, but he NEVER would have won the nomination, then. Abe Lincoln, did not “fight progress” when he took on his opponents. He was a realist. He just didn’t like corruption. And, not many people are aware of this, but, Lincoln REALLY didn’t even CARE about slavery at first. He grew to care about it, through his experiences. THAT is one of the reasons WHY he was one of our GREATEST Presidents ever. Because he was capable of owning his errors, growing as a man and as a leader, and doing the right thing
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It really upsets me that even, “friendly,” media keeps headlining this story as an, “end,” to the Winter Fuel Allowance instead of what it is! Even my wife described as that yesterday! I had to explain to her that they’re NOT ending it at all! They’re MEANS TESTING it!
Who WOULD NOT say it is FAIR to ensure that poor people WHO NEED the allowance GET the allowance? And those with lots of money already, who DON’T NEED the allowance, WON’T GET the allowance!?
Labour has fumbled this by not announcing it as a, “MEANS TEST,” and stomping out all talk of an, “End to Winter Fuel Allowance.”
They failed to make their position eminently logical and fair in the minds of voters, which it actually is! They need to sack their image makers and get a new team in. The Youth Mobility Scheme has been handled in the same way, though that’s caught far less attention in the minds of voters.
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Pamela Porter : That doesn’t alter the fact that America was built more by the slaves than by anyone else? Nor, does it address the fact that they saw NONE of the fruits of that labour. It wouldn’t matter if just ONE PERSON, “owned,” the slaves. While the poor settlers built stuff for THEMSELVES, they reaped the benefits and rewards of their OWN LABOR. Where’s the payment for the slaves? STILL an unpaid bill. I agree it shouldn’t be the tax payer who settles that bill. But, the RICH corporations, who have benefitted. Besides, you’re referring to later generations, anyway. And, then you’re left with the complication of their part in the massacres of Native Americans.
It’s not the fact that there’s no simple solution or a universal, “blame,” to go around, that makes people mad, you know? It’s the squirming off the hook, and taking no responsibility that angers people. We’re sick of making and hearing excuses. Time to anty up
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Michael Maharlika : You need to take a closer look at your history? Those, “average,” people you’re talking about? They weren’t there until generations later. When the slaving began, the, “average,” person used slave labor, whether they, “owned,” the slaves or not. And, none of that addresses the economic suppression that went on for years after the alleged, “freedom,” was offered slaves? Then, what about states that had no slaves? We’re blacks granted equal rights? And, what were those, “average,” people doing at the time? Before, during and AFTER the civil war? Wiping out native Americans? Anyone who claims a, “simple,” solution is misguided. It’s just too complex a history. Sorry
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Mr. Casillas : You make some fair, even good, points there. Britain nearly entered the Civil War, on the side of the South, because their Lancashire cotton mills were thriving due to Southern, slave produced, cotton. Only the bottom line, to start with. It was actually popular opinion that swayed the Brits to go the opposite way. Did you know that? Look up the strikes that took place in Britain, at that time? You had the intelligencia producing books, plays, and news stories, pressuring the government to, “do the right thing.”
Then, there’s Lincoln, whom the far right can exploit to this day, because he started out indifferent to the, “issue,” of slavery. But, read his letters, his speeches, and articles? And, watch the transformation of his moral character? His views changed as the war went on, given more and more reason to give it up, as the bodies and the costs mounted. But, his conviction grew, that it was the right thing to do, until he ended his life as a PASSIONATE Anti-Slaver.
Sure, Britain could see the population numbers, and the industrial might of the North, and reasoned that they could keep replacing men and material at a rate that the South just couldn’t match. Of course, pragmatism drove the politics. But, it would be very unwise to put it down to just one thing, like Bill Clinton’s, “the economy, stupid.”
If 21st Century Populism has taught us ANYTHING, it’s that the Money may well still be the Prince of the battlefield, but it’s no longer King. “Information,” and, “Disinformation,” are the King and Queen of today’s politics, with Money being as close knit with mom and pop as you can get, but NOT the master any more.
It was trump’s ability to DIVIDE America, with lies made to look credible, by the vast resources of the Prince, but that Prince was working on behalf of the King and Queen. And, right now, both King and Queen are in their own Civil War, to see whether it’s Truth or Lies that win out. America stands on this knife edge, due to it’s laziness and desire for confirmation bias, which the Prince has exploited, beautifully. But, it won’t be down to who offers the best chance of economic success this time. People have always voted with their wallets, but this time, even their wallets have been lied to ✌️
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sarcasmos,blah,blah: Why SO, “butt hurt,” then? You’re an OBVIOUS Trump Troll, son. “Cock Pocket,” and all. 🤣 Fake, “Believing,” what you WANT to believe, because you can’t BEAR hearing, “I told you so,” from the fellow Americans that YOU have been CONNED into seeing as a WORSE, “threat,” than your ACTUAL ENEMIES. Dry your eyes, cup cake. It won’t be long now 😌
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@bg1616 : YouTube can still earn money from slapping ads into people’s videos. It depends on the contract you have with them, but just because you stopped relying on ad revenue (which is, frankly, a rip off, these days) doesn’t necessarily stop them from making money from your content. But, like I said, I got zero ads, so this is clearly regional. And, YouTube are prone to mistakes, famously so. Especially when those, “mistakes,” favour their own income. Dunno’ what to tell you, having no memory of what you’re asserting that he told us, and having not gotten an ad anyway? Got a link to the particular video?
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“Wag the dog.” A distraction, to have Americans look away from the sham of the GOP fixing Trump’s Impeachment. The Republic has FALLEN in a COUP, organised by GOP members who face jail time if Trump is removed. And by the crime family that would all go to jail, the moment Trump lost his presidential, “protected status.” They HAVE TO RIG 2020’s, “elections,” with Russia’s help. It’s that or JAIL. So they have taken away your Democracy, to save a bunch of crooked, incompetent, evil idiots. Their only concern is that Americans might RISE UP, which is why the go to Iran distraction, AGAIN. WHY ARE YOU ALLOWING THE END OF THE REPUBLIC, AMERICA??? . . . Smh
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@shep9231 : I know it’s not my fault, but I cannot control my feelings in the way I can govern my thoughts. You are right, of course, and many is the time when I remember my dad fondly. But it’s when I think of his end I cannot stop something inside from crumpling and the sensation of guilt and shame hits me.
I doubted the government’s sincerity at the time and even thought about driving down to the hospital regardless. What stopped me was my sense of social responsibility and my inability to get all the way from Scotland to England (and back) without having to refuel and expose my potential for carrying of the bug around Britain, to older, vulnerable types like my dad. Not the law, but the science and the commitment to right over wrong.
The fact is that thoughts of my dad’s passing lead immediately to images of Tories laughing at me, at us, and just not getting it, even when it’s explained.
As I write this line, I just watched Jacob Rees Mogg loose his parliamentary seat on the BBC and then a cut to Kier Starmer making his victory speech to his party, having just crossed the minimum number of seats for a government majority. I will try to set my thoughts (and feelings) to the future and restoration. Let’s see what these guys can do? And let’s make sure to stay involved, share that responsibility and regularly contact our representatives.
I thank you for your kind words and for attempting to help me see what I know in my head is right, but what I cannot change in my heart. I will commit that pain into the energy of anger, and that anger into the constructive energy to work for the rescuing and betterment of the NHS at this crucial moment.
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@PorterStats3 : That’s kind of you to say, thank you. But I sincerely hope I haven’t made you feel worse. Sometimes people talk as though losing a relative makes their loss more, “legitimate,” in some way, but the fact is that almost everyone lost someone, a friend, a colleague, a relative, it doesn’t matter. All that matters is what the heart tells you when it happens, and how you learn to live with that.
Yes, “burned a hole,” is an excellent summary of what happened to me. One of rage, righteous anger and wrongful desire for revenge which, over time, just became a blank, dead space in my soul. Not huge. Not big enough to change who am. But felt every day, like scar tissue that never quite heals. I cannot see certain politicians’ faces without seeing that smug idiot of a staffer, laughing conspiratorially with the press pack, giggling like a naughty child, enjoying the, “naughtiness,” without it ever once occurring to her that she was being callously indifferent to the pain of others that she was instrumental in causing. And that’s the best reading I can put on that.
And Johnson’s GENUINE surprise at people’s horror and disgust sent me over the edge. I got some therapy, which I felt I should be billing to the Tory Party, and it did help. But helping myself was the real answer. And I realised that I could give this senseless death a little meaning by allowing that anger to energise me into action; letters to MP’s, campaigning for the tactical vote, etc, really helped.
I decided that, so long as I never let it rule me, make choices for me, or define me as a person, I could get use out of that pain and do something constructive about the result. To lighten the mood a little, I found I was like Jim Kirk in Star Trek 3, where he refused to have his emotions at the loss of his son, “healed,” by Spock’s brother; “I need my pain,” he says. And I know what he means.
But, if you are in pain, I am there for you, my friend. And, thank you again. Your words described me well.
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It would be good for democracy to see how proper debates are done, so in that sense, I’d like to see that. But, to pretend there was any, “validity,” to the concerns of these rioters about, “vote rigging,” is highly unfair. Yes, people’s belief in that must be taken seriously, but that means NEVER mentioning those issues without laying the blame for them FIRMLY at the door of those who invented that big LIE! Trump, Fox, and all those fringe exploiters who they backed belong in jail. You cannot mention that big lie without saying who it came from, or you risk legitimising a pure fiction. An egregious, cruel, vicious, anti-democratic LIE.
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Zoo Man : Yup. What the disgraced, former general, Flynn said, in reverse, is the case, here. And, Hannity said that no presidency, “could, or SHOULD, survive being under investigation by the FBI,” until he had to reverse course. They’re ALL hopeless hypocrites, with about as much, “credibility,” as my CAT. And that f**ker steals my food ✌️👍
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asdf;lkj123 : Y’know what? It’s that inability to hold up your hands and admit your error, rather than continue to make cringey mistakes, that’s going to end the Klan’s mouthpiece Republicans, son. You can YouTube Klan Meets, with them doing the Nazi Salute, shouting, “Hail Trump!” in unison, but they’re, “not racists,” anymore, right? Je hee hee zuss! 🤣
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asdf;lkj123 : I can’t BELIEVE you’re STILL doubling down, son??? I’d love to know WHAT, “source,” you claim to have counted, “3,000 Members,” from? You REALISE, don’t you, that the vast majority of Klan Members keep their membership a SECRET, right? . . . My GOD, son!?!? Did you MISS Charlottesville altogether??? . . . The KLAN is alive and well, kid. And, I can PROMISE you this: Not all Trump fans are in the KKK, but ALL KKK members are Trump fans. Now, WAKE UP!
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asdf;lkj123 : Ha ha ha ha ha! We SAW them on LIVE TV, shouting, “Blood & Soil!” (A famous Nazi chant, btw) and, “Jews will not replace us!” WHERE have you BEEN, son? And, Trump says that Google is bullshit, so you can’t cherry pick, kiddo? You either, “believe,” what’s right in front of your eyes, or you don’t. A woman was MURDERED by a Nazi in Charlottesville, ON LIVE TV, but I guess YOU were still in your COMA, then? Your denial is ADORABLE, kid. Read a book 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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Salterino Kripperino : People who know NOTHING about the economy, are ALWAYS the ones to BLEAT the LOUDEST. WHY? The reason that you CANNOT name ONE SINGLE INSTANCE when Trump has taken action, which has effected the American economy, that has NOT HARMED IT, is because you are IGNORANT of the fact that the banks, Wall Street and Big Business “RUNS” the economy. We can, “blame,” Obama for THAT MUCH, at least, partially. But, to PRETEND that Trump has ANYTHING to do with low unemployment, etc, is PURE UNINFORMED IGNORANCE. Can YOU name ONE single, “economic step,” that Trump has taken, which DIDN’T do HARM to American interests and DIRECTLY to the economy? Of COURSE NOT . . . SMH . . .
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@catherineandpaulfuters2523 : Don’t let anyone kid you into thinking it isn’t worth your while. Whether you get a response or not. When I first started writing to my MP about Ukraine I got automated responses, then a staffer wrote back to me, then I got an email from my MP, inviting me to attend a meeting I couldn’t go to and would have included a thousand other people like me. The stats for your correspondence are weighed in a political scale which puts a different value on each type of letter; whether email, text, called in, visit to the MP’s surgery (or Congressional representative, or whatever you have in your country) or actual hand written letters. Each one is counted as X number of people who think the same thing but who don’t have the time or inclination to write to the representative about it. NOTHING is wasted in political communications, even if you don’t hear back. But the fact that you didn’t even get an automated response probably means it didn’t reach their office, so it’s worth checking the address and trying again. Unless you’re counting the automated response as a none-reply, for which I wouldn’t blame you? But it is counted, not wasted. Anyone selling you a different take on that is either excusing themselves from bothering, against you and pro-Putin, or just not very bright.
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦✌️🇬🇧
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It’s come to something when your politics has reached the point where you have to think, “I know they will betray us, but who will betray us least?” And, when voters are thinking like that, the empirical evidence of the incumbent is always going to be negative. But in this case, let’s face it? The, “record,” of the Tories is an appalling embarrassment, made worse by the fact that none of them DARE site the last few years, even months, as they just bring abject shame upon them. Definitely time for a change. But I would hope to see a coalition replace the Tories at the next election. Yet, so long as the Tories are OUT, I’ll make do with that. And I’m a Conservative! At least by my old fashioned Benthamite instincts.
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Agreed. Once you’re reliant on one supplier for any vital resource, you’re placing your country’s balls in your enemy’s hands and saying, “Please don’t squeeze too hard? Or, at least wait until I’ve retired with all this money you gave me for facilitating the Nordstream pipeline, so no one’s investigating my corruption when we’re in an economic war?” Yes, I’m looking at you, Gerhard Schröder. You retired from politics a very rich man, didn’t you? You didn’t get THAT kind of money on the government payroll, did you Gerry? And now your country has shut down one pipeline whilst the other was blown up by the Kremlin and everyone wishes they hadn’t bothered . . . But you’re a very rich man and you just don’t care, right? . . .
We have been SO gullible and naive, due to grasping politicos waving around their fig leaf of, “peace through trade,” as if it was even a, “doctrine,” and not just a shabby excuse to fleece your own country, leaving entire populations to pick up the pieces after the carpet bagging is done, that we’ve forgotten that China and Russia are our self-declared ENEMIES! China’s doctrine is literally in a little red book that they give to every single school child. And it openly declares that they intend to cause the downfall of democracy worldwide! Russia’s state TV gleefully runs video scenarios of nuking Britain, nightly!
I been saying for 20 years that it was suicidally stupid to get into these deals, like FDR relying on Hirohito for his aircraft carriers in 1942! Or Churchill having all of his Spitfires and Hurricanes made by the Goering Factory in 1941! And we are JUST STARTING to get it! This is what happens when you allow small elite groups run your country: they get greedy and make themselves rich by betraying the rest of us.
Like Churchill said, “You cannot negotiate with a tiger while your head is in his mouth!”
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@simonpedge : Someone who’s not rushing to look up the, “sources,” of a complete stranger in a YT comment section is a poor definition of, “laziness,” son. If fact, it’s a, “lazy,” ad hominem. I’ll stick with my own sources, thanks. Don’t take it so personally, kid. Sometimes the grownups have got better things to do than follow junior down his rabbit holes, okay?
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@simonpedge : If you actually are, “sincere,” in your search for knowledge and wisdom, take some lessons on critical thinking? You can stare at a graph or a pie chart and think you, “see,” something that isn’t there, unless you have a context and broader understanding of the data, where that data comes from, any potential biases, any message that source intends to project, how to contextualise and cross reference data, etc, etc.
For instance, a company can stop doing business with several other entities because they are now on a sanctions list. The government that created that list is aware of the hits this company may risk as a result and arranges special deals by way of compensation. Therefore, that company may have a lower, “share of the world’s economy,” in percentage terms, but a larger turnover, contributing a higher tax revenue to overall GDP. And that’s just one single permutation of one single aspect of one single contributing factor to the information you see before you in one single chart.
Without a background in that specialism, how is Simon going to interpret that data? Pretty much the way he chooses. Will that change anything about how the world works? . . . Not really . . . Sorry, son.
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Charlie Husttle : Well, let’s see? Intimidating witnesses out of testifying; refusing subpoenas; putting out a blanket statement, saying that you intend to refuse ALL subpoenas, REGARDLESS of their grounds; having whole institutions (the IRS, Deutsche Bank, et al) withhold evidence; calling the free press, “the enemy of the people,” (a direct quote from Stalin) and ALREADY controlling much of the media, by shutting out, “certain,” media groups from press packs, only doing interviews with, “favourable,” media, and EVEN using the courts and MORE state institutions to BLOCK the sale of the media group that controls CNN out of PURE SPITE, and generally stoking messages of hate, through his own Propaganda services? There’s THAT . . . How long, before CNN ends up, “State Controlled?” Your hatred of Dems is fogging your vision, son. I’m a long time Conservative. There really ARE a LOT of us. This POTUS is ROTTEN and I think you know it, really? . . . SMH
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Ted Cruz?! This, “blue collar guy,” worth $4.5 million (in 2018), married to an executive at Goldman Sachs, sucking up to his boss who says his wife is ugly, and who accused his dad of assassinating Kennedy, AND who is despised by his own party, for backing the insurrection-coup attempt on the Capitol, has the NERVE to whine about outmoded jobs that are killing the planet? But, that has nothing to do with his main donors being oil companies, right? He should be jail!
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Philip Lindley : Did you know, just before the financial crisis of 2008, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank, were facing a situation in which it’s Latin American debtors were about to balance the books? In fact, there was real, very hushed, talk of the IMF closing shop; former basket case countries were moving into the black all over the globe. And, the power of Europe and America, to say to these countries, “We can ease your payment problems, if you allow BP certain mineral rights here, or this fruit company gets a new franchise deal there, etc, was on the brink of vanishing into the either, along with the biggest banks in the world.
Then, as if by magic, the world was hit by the biggest economic crisis, since 1929, and the IMF was back in business, bailing out Greece, Spain, Italy, etc. Its future has never looked more secure, and virtually NO ONE was held accountable for all those businesses going under, people’s life savings and pensions vanishing, and all those families who lost their houses.
It was like kicking in an ant hill, and watching all the little ants, scurry about, trying to survive the calamity, knowing that the Queen was deep under the ground, safe and untouched by the chaos above. But I’m sure there was no connection between the IMF’s problems and ours, right? Just a coincidence . . . Like Loki recently told us, in true Hollywood style, to argue with such forces is pointless. In the same way that it is for an ant to argue with a boot
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TheExcessus : That was a bunch of resentment, a little name calling, and a whole lot of opinion, but you state no reason for Niall being wrong; other than the fact that you clearly don’t like him. All fine, if you just want us to know your emotional state and express your opinions? But, you have, “convinced,” no one of anything and offered nothing to the debate. Again; if that’s your intent, then you achieved it. But, that is, “all about you,” giving nothing and taking something. What some call, “Projection.”
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I saw that you had a nearly two hour video about trump’s last rally. And I instantly thought, “No way! I’m not flattering fascists with that much time and attention.” It is, “important,” to monitor these fascist Trumpophiles, but helping to hype them? Big mistake. Normals don’t have the energy to deal with their exhausting crap! “More violence,” is inevitable. Until the country gets REAL and deal with trumpism as fascism, and open sedition, the threat will remain. The COUP is under way! They have already outlawed democracy in several states, with the help of Toyota donations! We can’t afford to lose ONE SEAT in the midterms! Not one! Imagine what Joe could achieve with an ACTUAL MAJORITY? Imagine the hellscape we’ll be in, if the fascists gain the majority in either house? America is on a knife edge! A fascist coup threatens our security and we’re allowing it! WTF, America???
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It may be a blessing in disguise for her? Who knows what craziness she was already, or could have been, subjected to? And, from the sketchy account there, it does sound like she will at least have the memory of her father saving her life in his desperate bid to get her away from his wife’s gun? Whatever the case, despite this horrendous tragedy, she now has the opportunity to rebuild a life free of nut-jobbery. I doubt that one trauma alone will be the only one requiring therapeutic treatment, though obviously she will ever experience a worse one in her life.
It’s hard to find hope in these situations, but that is the therapist’s job, as you know. Your feelings do you credit, but would you really want that responsibility for the rest of your life? If so, you’re a better person than me. I was a family therapist for six years. I had a nervous breakdown and ended my career in hospital.
This type of evil is more commonplace than many realise. I would guess that one in every ten children in the developed world have experienced some form of serious trauma that would result in jail time for the perpetrators, if only it were known and proved.
We simply don’t do right by kids, as a society.
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@RoKer13 : I wish you all good things in your future. I would still question your stated desire to adopt children who have been traumatised. Even if you don’t mean that quite as literally as it sounds, a responsible supervisor (if they were any good) would be obligated to help you examine your, “rescuing tendencies,” and try to help you maintain a little objective distance. Don’t get me wrong, here. I wanted to be the one to make a difference in the lives of the lost, ignored, disenfranchised, victimised, etc, which was why I set out on my course as a volunteer youth worker, then a professional for 6 years, then a residential social worker for another 6 (on the front lines with, “children in crisis,” which could mean anything from being on remand and facing a life sentence, to avoiding their families who ought to be on remand and facing a life sentence for what they did to them) then a brief break, working with adult men with learning difficulties, then, after studying at The Manchester Institute For Psychotherapy, Family Therapy for another 6 years.
With various occupations here and there I gave 20 years to children and families. And the one lesson I learned that was harder than any other was, the people who employ you will always choose money, power and self protection above the welfare of their clients. It took me 20 years to get that into my thick skull and it broke me.
it’s now been over 20 years since I even looked at a kid with a professional’s eye (though that never really leaves you) and all the evidence is that things have only gotten worse. You are resigning yourself to a hard life with little appreciation and even fewer rewards. No one will ever thank you for your service and give you front row seats or free meals, like the military. Though you may have to risk your life and you WILL be frequently traumatised.
The services for children need people like you, but I would urge you to truly examine that impulse, take it to a good therapist before you get in too deep, and see if it’s just an impulse that you know is not real, or if it’s something deeper? Without the ability to keep a professional distance, you’ll drown and no one will notice you going under, even if you plead for help.
Be picky about the jobs you take and check out your colleagues BEFORE committing. Your instincts about them (any doubts) will always prove right. You have my prayers and support, truly. But, what they didn’t tell you is that you are embarking upon the very toughest job on Earth . . . That is, it’s the toughest job on Earth if you’re worthy of it.
Good luck and Godspeed.
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I kept saying it. And, I stand by it. Trump is DESPERATE for a War, and it was only Putin that stopped Trump, at the last moment, because they use Iran for smuggling and various secret service operations (to do with Syria, mostly, at the moment), so he’s conspiring with Israel, and, “negotiating,” with Putin, for permission. I said Trump would be back. And, here we go again. “WMD’s,”. . . AGAIN? . . . REALLY? . . . Jeez . . . 😆
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neatofication : Oh yeah, two plans. Both of them opposing one another. When Sleepy Don is pretending to be your president, it’s, “stay home,” and, “keep safe, by injecting bleach.” And, when he’s being himself it’s, “obey my hacktivists, get back to work, and stop the medical staff from getting to work in my fake protests.” But, nobody’s confused at all, right? You only have to put a Trump Troll into a circular room and tell him to stand in the corner, to send him into a warp-spasm of indecision! Donny’s leading in both directions at once, and wondering why his numbers are plummeting. Maybe he shouldn’t be forcing his base back to work, in unsafe conditions at meat packing factories? Maybe he shouldn’t be quite SO obscenely obsessed with getting paid? Maybe he should never have been born, let alone poutus?
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neatofication : It was just an opinion, not aimed at your, “emotions,” in any way . . . Maybe you’re getting attacked so often it’s hard to tell the difference? You say we have a, “plan,” sort of, and I responded by pointing to the flaws in it. We have two plans at once. The scientific consensus is that we’ll have a second wave. We have governors trying to protect their states, and Donny’s activists trying to undermine them, because Donny wants the national employment figures to go up. Everyone can see he’s contradicting himself. I’m suggesting that the one thing certain to make a plan fail, is by doing it half-heartedly and trying to satisfy two opposing ideals. You can’t keep America safe, unless you suck it up, and let the lockdown procedures eradicate the Coronavirus, and you can’t make lots of money, unless everyone gets back to work and you end the lockdown. This state of confusion will fail to attain either best outcome, and will piss everyone off. Hence, Donny’s popularity sliding. And, I mention his popularity, because that’s the only factor that will govern his decision making. Nothing personal intended. Would you like me to bow, before I speak next time?
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neatofication : Wow . . . I guess you still don’t believe me when I say it wasn’t meant to be personal, huh? Strikes me, you’re a little fragile for the public forum? Probably better that you, as you say, don’t respond? A tinge of sarcasm, at the end of my comment, and, BOOM! Sorry if I misunderstood you? But, that is what conversation is meant to be for. That, and pleasure (but you’re clearly NOT here for that) so I will leave you, knowing that you did read me, even if you refuse to speak to me again.
Be safe . . . Take care . . . This is a stressful time for us all ✌️
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Irene Veronica : Sometimes, There’s just no good that can come of telling, when so much time has passed. I am guessing that you have had some help? Which is why you can tell us that, now? If, not, you really must, for your sake, and, consequently, the benefit of those who know you. My mom died, two days ago. Before she passed, I was able to tell her some things, for the sake of knowing that they had not been left, unsaid. But, I also withheld some things, knowing they could only do her harm, at that point. In your heart, you KNOW, if you should tell her, in which case, DO IT. But, only if you should. The way to be sure, is to get some help; support, from someone you can trust. I will never regret saying the things I did, and withholding the things I did, but I KNEW, because I got help.
God bless you
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Irene Veronica : P.S. I am normally very critical of the selfishness and inward thinking that we all seem to be slaves to, these days; but, this is a case in which this REALLY IS all about YOU. You must focus on you, and by doing what’s best for you, you will be doing what’s best for those around you too. By reaching a resolution, that YOU can live with, you will be a better person, in your OWN eyes, and therefore, it follows like night follows day, that you won’t be able to help being a better person in the hearts of others. Trust me on this. If you have had help, great. But, if not, there is and never will be, “a good time,” to get it. Just get it. I know whereof I speak. Godspeed
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You’re probably right, but it needn’t be that bleak? I mean, isn’t it obvious to everyone, what actually happened? . . . “Brexit changed left wing voting habits,” as this streamer put it, for the simple reason that the general public were more alarmed by the possibility of a government overturning a democratic referendum and the UK no longer being a democracy, than they were about which party was in power. The Tories were promising to honour the Brexit vote, and that’s what won them the election.
The fact that we did not get the Brexit that was advertised came as a surprise to precisely no one, except for those far right wing voters who were naive enough to actually believe in people like Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson.
I, and many people I know, voted Tory at the last general election, not for any their ideological reasons. I simply believed that overturning a national referendum was such an egregious mistake that we would no longer even be a democracy anymore and we could easily wind up with governments that refuse to accept other votes, like election results, as we later saw the Republicans attempt in America.
What we actually DO about this now seems equally obvious to me too. We simply have to seek terms with Europe that closely align us on trade, human rights, strategic military goals and justice, without surrendering our sovereignty and without sacrificing our right to make policies on a case by case basis, when it comes to new crises affecting the world. We still have considerable economic clout, which buys us a seat at such a negotiating table, if for no other reason than everyone still likes having MONEY.
Yet, alignment with Europe is something that the Tories have been openly fighting against since the days of Margaret Thatcher. So, we have no alternative but to change our government, if for no other reason than getting friendly faces into power that the Europeans will find acceptable, in order that we can iron out new deals without the baggage of the Euro-Skeptic politicians round our necks.
European politicians cannot abide Boris Johnson, or his acolytes. We need people who Europe can do business with and whom they don’t hate on a visceral level.
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@fang_xianfu : Whilst another referendum would be potentially disastrous, not to mention possibly humiliating, should the UK vote to return to Europe only to be told, “Non,” or having to accept painful terms as punishment, whilst the spectre of a divided nation threatens to hold yet another referendum in the future, for the 40% or so of Euro-skeptics that will remain (making everyone think about how Scotland’s SNP refuses to take no for an answer and won’t accept that people actually only vote for them for their liberal policies and not to leave the UK) it’s not an issue that can be shelved either.
Some sort of resolutions will simply have to be reached on many issues that will not go away. And only a new party can realistically reach those settlements, given how much our current government is not just distrusted, but actively loathed, by the electorate, but is equally distrusted and loathed by European leaders. And we’ve given them every reason not to trust us, by breaking our word on trade agreements, showing active hostility to human rights conventions and international justice accords and frequently entering into bad faith negotiations designed to play to the domestic galleries whilst making things hard for everyone at the European negotiating tables.
The only solution that remains is to get busy negotiating new settlements that serve everyone’s best interests. And the only way to get those deals is with new, trustworthy faces.
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Actually, it has nothing to do with interference, (which, when you think about it makes more sense) but it’s actually night vision. They would never trust passengers not to use their phones if there was a remote chance of crashing the plane. They won’t even allow too much water!
The answer is interesting and far more logical, once you know it. Brian Benamran explains in his book, How To Speak Science.
It’s actually to do with the escape shoots. They discovered that people don’t like leaping into an inky black void, and won’t jump onto the escape slides at night, if the aircraft crash lands. This puts other passengers at risk in a situation where seconds literally count on a life and death level, slowing the whole evacuation process. People in a crisis need to see what they’re leaping onto. Who knew?
So nearly all of the measures they take for landing procedure are to do with optimising passenger night vision, so they can see the slide they’re leaping onto, rather than trusting that they’re not leaping 70 feet to their death. True story.
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The tragedy is, for me, I can hear their entire conversation in my head, as they’re tailing her, getting more and more angry and frustrated, feeling each other’s macho instincts and saying what they’d like to, “do to,” the driver. Not one of them was trained to calm the situation that was already getting out of hand inside their own minds, and they just bounced off each other like an angry dad, criticising Sunday Drivers. No skills, no training, no abilities between them. Just attitudes, badges and guns. They’re not fit.
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Oh, do stop clutching your pearls, Karen? 1% of less than 1% of a total in weapons and infrastructure that we handed over in the last 20 YEARS, and just because you see it on YouTube your triggered now? Get some perspective, Karen? We’ve got all the manuals for that equipment. It’s NOT a, “threat.” Take your, “complaint,” to the, “Supervisor,” at the State Department, Karen? And grow up! 🥴🙄
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Presumably, brand loyalty is a factor, isn’t it? I go to Borislav247 for tips on Days Gone, Sam Bram for tips on CyberPunk and Phantom Liberty, Fizshy (and sometimes, you) for Red Dead lore and tips, or MK for just funny videos of horsing around in Red Dead 2. There are go-to gaming channels that you just, “go to,” for reliable sources of information or entertainment regarding certain games.
You must have a very loyal base who choose you first, above other channels, for tips on certain games, because they, “like,” you already and want to share their journey with you, right?
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Taralya Mcdonough : Well said. Wednesday is the big day, for America. If the IRS doesn’t hand over the Tax Returns to Ways & Means, they are breaking the law for political reasons, and can no longer be trusted as an, “impartial,” entity. The issue has NOTHING to do with Trump or his, “lawyers.” And, if Trump wants to stop his returns going public, he should be taking it up with W&M. The IRS should have no horse in this race whatever. Why should ANY American give ANY information to an entity that violates the Constitution and the Law, AND has a political agenda? We are protected, under the 1st, 4th and 5th Amendments, from having to put ourselves in that kind of jeopardy. I hope Class Actions break out all over America, if the IRS goes, “Political,” on Wednesday. As, they will have NO grounds to claim impartiality, or even lawful practices, if they don’t do their JOBS and hand over the docs. They have NO RIGHT to pick a side in this fight
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Impulsejupiter7 : Your, “Tax Money,” HAS gone to, “Free Loaders,” GENIUS. A PERMANENT $ 1.5 TRILLION (YES! $ TRILLION) DOLLARS to Real Estate Developers, and much, MUCH MORE to the rest of the FREE LOADERS who donated to Trump’s Campaign and GOP members, as dirty as Trump. WAKE UP, FOOL! What will YOU do, when your, “Tax Break,” is OVER in a year? Now that gas is TWICE as expensive as it was two years ago? As is FOOD! You’ve been RIPPED OFF, by a well known GRIFTER, and your STILL SUPPORTING HIM?!?! Why not just sign over your house and all your worldly goods to Trump, and be DONE with it, you UTTER CRETIN!? . . . SMH . . .
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Face2wake : People agreed that ending the Shutdown was a good thing. That was NOT, “approval ratings,” and you people ALWAYS say that polls are worthless, anyway. See how DESPERATE you look? Clinging to little shards of hope, from your shattered, racist dreams? Trump STEALS, ROUTINELY, from little children and US veterans. THAT is on the PUBLIC RECORD, son! Go look! The Trump Foundation was SHUT DOWN a month ago, and will lead to MORE INDICTMENTS. WTF is WRONG with you people? Seriously? Are you just TOO EMBARRASSED to admit how WRONG you were? Are you just TOO RACIST? Or, are you just too on the payroll to give a s**t? You people make Americans SICK, son . . . SMH
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Lonnie Meador : So, it’s NOT OK to have, “opinions,” now? To interview people and ask their, “opinions”? YOU are somehow UNABLE to filter out the, “FACTS,” from the, “OPINIONS,” on you’re OWN? Because, if THAT is so, YOU should have a REAL PROBLEM with Sean (Lord Haw Haw) Vannity and the VAST MAJORITY of Fox’s output??? 🤔 Tell me? WHY doesn’t Fox do YouTube Videos of Chris Wallace or Shep Smith any more? 🤔 THEY are still THERE, aren’t they? . . . Hmmm . . . 🤔 Propaganda Hypocrisy MUCHARY, me thinks 🔥🍊
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Impossibly Black : Thanks for proving my point, son. The mere fact that the answer to 2+2 still = 4 in any educational establishment in the world, YOU lazily call, “homogenisation,” because it doen’t occur to that the TRUTH is the SAME, wherever you are, and colleges won’t accept distortions. You’re just angry that there are still places that won’t tolerate bullshit. So much for your, “Freedom Of Speech,” Rhetoric, huh, son? . . . Smh
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DolphinsWIthIgloos : Another Trump Troll, proving my point. “The world’s knowledge is accessible from a device in my pocket,” too, son. As are the world’s LIES. The job of a university is to teach people how to tell the difference. They teach people HOW to think, NOT WHAT to, “think.” You’re getting a glass of water, from a waterfall, and you cannot tell that Donny was pissing in the water, upstream. You drink it down, without question. Because you, “want,” to. An ignoramus, who can’t tell shit from Shinola, wants to lecture me about, “education?” Lol 😆
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Linda Casey : I have spent time with Nazis, and know whereof I speak. As I said, an individual can be reasoned with. All I had to do with one of them (being that he was homeless, at the time) was put him up with a Muslim Family, and let him explain his tattoos to their kids. That was four years ago. He helped build an extension on their property and still lives with them; now having a job, and paying rent. All he really wanted was a place to belong, but his criminal record made that hard for him. He works for that family’s dad, now, and last I heard, he’s engaged to be married. I’ll be going to their wedding, I imagine. But, he will tell you the SAME THING. Once there are two or three Nazis, one place, at one time, the situation is hopeless: and you’d BETTER have some active, self protection skills, or you’re toast. ✌️
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Bono Budju : Education (experiential is best) will usually inoculate children from racism; unless there is a malign influence at home. The older you get, the weaker the effects of that inoculation. Once you have a Nazi, individually, in your power, it is possible, but unlikely, that you can cure them. You must stay at arms length and treat them as you would a rabid beast, unless you can be certain of your safety. But, get more than one together, and you will NEVER cure them, as they will continually re-infect one another. You must separate them, in order for treatment to have any hope. It can be done, but it’s rare with adults. Especially if they have criminal records and little hope of achieving anything in life. The Nazis will give that person a place to belong, “responsibilities,” a gun, and a uniform, when no one else will trust them with a broom ✌️
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I so LOVED your Anthony Seldon impression. And I revelled in the gossipy tone of that vignette, which had me genuinely laughing out loud. I’m thinking you’re probably a superb dinner guest, able to set a table roaring with laughter, when you’re in the right mood? I wonder what other impressions you have in your arsenal? But, THANK YOU, for the giggles. Seriously. It is a relief to be able to find the, “funny,” in all of this sometimes. There’s so little to laugh about in British politics right now, and you sir, are a tonic for my troubled soul. I so enjoyed that, I will play it again. God bless you, sir. 🤭👍✌️
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I don’t remember what YEAR I opened my last bank account, let alone the DAY! These sods seem to forget who is doing whom the FAVOUR here! I am letting them make money from MY MONEY, and I should NEVER have to go cap in hand and answer a bunch of invasive security questions as if I was a suspect being cross examined by MI5, when I should be entitled to FULL UNFETTERED ACCESS to my OWN MONEY at ANY time.
And, as you say, it is these ridiculous procedures that make it possible for fraudsters to operate AND make people less inclined to report crimes, because they don’t want to be put through the emotional ringer and waste so much of their precious time.
The next time you ask for someone’s name, you need to insist that you are entitled BY LAW to have sufficient identification of the person calling you. Yet, there is confusion about what that means. They may well withhold their real name, but you should be given sufficient information to identify where they are calling from, and who they are, so they can be identified at a later time, should the need arise. And it is precisely that ACCOUNTABILITY that they are wilfully avoiding, yet which is enshrined in law. I NEVER let them get away with that.
You must, by law, be able to identify the individual or you can break contact and there will, according to law, be no negative consequence to you for so doing.
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Elijah Craig & Peter Lorimer :
I was most interested int the dialogue between you two. You both pretty much nailed it, and might be interested to see this, short CNN vid?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmPJ2rpqX1Y&t=1s
It's not ACTUALLY the vid itself, that's interesting, but the threads underneath. I've NEVER SEEN such an organised SWAMPING by Russian Trolls and Breitbart shills! It REALLY IS something to behold!
They invaded and OWNED the WHOLE PAGE. And almost NONE of them responded to my incendiary comments?! Why? Because it was an ORGANIZED ATTACK, of which more and more are occurring and, like a swarm of locusts, they had moved on.
ANY casual observer would think that the vast majority of CNN video viewers (and therefore the majority of country) are pro-Trump, varying in their criticism of CNN from haters to simply-don't-likers, and that it would be hopeless to argue with such a vast army! Yet, as I say, they barely responded to provocation, which I experimented with, to see if there were any "real people" involved.
We are going to see more and more of this. We are STILL under ATTACK from Russia
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This, “performance,” by Putin looks so childish to western eyes, but the Zombies of his domestic audience fall for this because they so desperately WANT to. This why his soldiers are dumb enough to keep making those videos in which they show they have no equipment and are freezing to death before any shots get fired. They think, “If this goes viral, Putin will see it and save us!” They don’t realise they’ll be punished BY PUTIN (probably executed to be an example to others) because they are BRAINWASHED! This, “Putin scolds his incompetent subordinates,” crap wouldn’t (indeed doesn’t) fool a child in the west. But all the Russian viewers go, “See? When he gets to talk to these people himself he sorts it all out. It’s his subordinates who are the problem. Not our greedy psychotic dicktator.” And the west collectively goes, “🤦♂️,” because we’re grownups!
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@rhondat2584 : Even if Russia’s propaganda lies were true, what difference does it make? It’s called, “Whaddabouting,” and it’s the same lame, “technique,” of, “argument,” they employed when backing trump was their full time occupation. Putin is a threat to the world on multiple fronts, but, “intellectual,” is not one of them. They routinely use talking points that do their argument more harm than good.
Another popular one I’ve seen is, “Well, America didn’t allow Russia to put nukes in Cuba, remember?” So, when I remind them that America never INVADED Cuba, which remains a communist dictatorship, 30 miles off the coast of Florida to this day, they have nothing to say. Putin’s parrots are intellectually bankrupt. I think the real pressure should be directed at the Russian people to rise up and depose Putin before they all wind up starving as a result of sanctions and of him squandering what’s left of their wealth on a war they don’t want. The people of Russia could make themselves noticeably better off by reclaiming all of their stolen trillions!
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@cliffa2901 : Still got nothing? But, I thought you didn’t want to talk to me? Funny way of showing it? Are you one of those people who says, “come here,” while shoving someone away? One of those, “We love freedom,” types, who wants to ban free speech? One of those, “No, we’re not planning on invading Ukraine,” people, who says that on the same day he invades Ukraine? And you wonder WHY no one takes your type seriously, son? . . . 🤦♂️
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@cliffa2901 : I dismantled that, “argument,” son. Still waiting for a rebuttal? What is Putin’s excuse, er, I mean, “reason,” for invading a sovereign nation again? Something they might do in the future? Will he invade Turkey for the same reasons then? Greece? Paris? Washington? Oh wait, he got kicked out of Washington with Donny, didn’t he? Even America NEVER INVADED Cuba, so you can’t go calling America the, “bad guy.” You, “stand by,” your paymasters, kid. You have no, “argument,” to speak of. . . . SMH 🤦♂️
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@CorryGal : I am urging my government to do exactly that, and to suspend Russia from the Security Council, kick out all of Russia’s diplomats and ALL of their oligarchs, to freeze ALL of their assets in every bank, and to pay off any losses to the western business interests from the SWIFT payment system, which they should have locked Russia out of yesterday! Stingers, drones, rifles and ammo are a no brainer and they should be piling up everything they need at their door. I have written to my local and national representatives to urge all of this and more. But I cannot personally drop my responsibilities to my family and bring supplies to your country, for which I would get arrested for transporting anyway, so that would be even less use to the Ukraine. Plus, I would be just as likely to meet Russians at the border as I would Ukrainians, so such a suggestion is beyond impracticable. I am urging my friends and family to write to the government, demanding the same things as I. I wish Ukraine 100% victory over Putin’s forces, and I hope the Russian people, who don’t want this war any more than Ukraine does, will rise up to put pressure on Putin’s rear and force him to think twice, if not go home. I have urged my leaders to urge the Russian people to have mass protests like they did last year. Putin called on the Ukrainians to betray their leaders, so it’s only fair that the west does the same, and reminds them that the reason they are about to starve and cue for miles for a loaf of bread, is all on their glorious DICKtator, so I am with you, in so far as I can be. ✌️
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@773-o2n : What are you talking about? “The west,” (by which I presume you mean, “America,” and/or NATO countries?) has never made ANY secret of wishing to expand! We WANT ALL COUNTRIES OF EARTH to be FREE and DEMOCRATIC! We want countries to have the RIGHT to choose their own leaders and to boot them out again when they’re dissatisfied! That’s not some, “dark,” or, “hidden,” agenda, son!? It’s called FREEDOM. You don’t accuse your doctor of being up to something when s/he tries to cure you, do you?
Why are you even trying to make this about the west as though their support for Ukraine’s democracy is supposed to be, “hidden,” in some way? Putin has legit concerns about the west letting Ukraine into their security council and parking their nukes off his border, but that was NEVER going to happen, and ISN’T going to happen now! Not even if the Russian people overthrow Putin and have an election!
You can’t act like the west is the bad guy for saying they support democracies and wish that all countries on the Earth were free to choose their own leaders? Nor can you criticise them for working for that? To treat the desire for democracy with suspicion and to call THAT, “propaganda,” is to fall for the Putinista propaganda, which trains all people to treat anything that smacks of individualism or personal freedom with suspicion and distrust. And he does that because he KNOWS he would NOT SURVIVE in a free and fair democracy. The majority of Russians tolerate their dictatorship, but they don’t kid themselves that they have a democracy. You want to live like that? In a country where you have to be, “careful,” about what you say, and whom you say it to? Where you might write something funny about your leader on the internet that gets a thousand likes and the next day you walk into work to find you’ve been fired and the cops are waiting to give you three nights in jail on trumped up child molestation charges? That’s RT! Russia Today is already automatically jailing people who are protesting Putin’s invasion. And people like you, who think there’s, “two sides to this,” INVASION are making people like Putin possible.
Be honest? Are you REALLY for Zelensky’s democracy?
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@rhondat2584 : I watched his chief of security, trembling visibly, as he urged Putin to, “accept a deal with Ukraine,” and intimating that Putin should withdraw his troops. He was reduced to repeating himself and stammering as it was obvious that Putin did not want to hear this, but he stood by his position and, while he wasn’t willing to tell Putin what he was doing was wrong, that’s what the world saw. I was riveted by that scene, fascinated by the sheer, raw courage of that man (who’s name I cannot remember now) to speak up at all, on live national TV, when everyone else was sat around in that giant semicircle like they were in a 1960’s Bond movie, sticking to their script and probably an autocue. I genuinely half expected the flaw to open up and the guy to drop into a flaming pit! The look on Putin’s face told me, within a year, that guy will be in jail or the morgue. Maybe he, like so many of these people, has family in Ukraine? Or, maybe he just thought he ought to offer Putin an, “out?” I can’t kid myself that he rose to head of security under Putin’s dictatorship by being a, “moral,” man. But, a complex and fascinating one, for sure. He’s the guy that the west should be reaching out to. The guy who’s shelf life has just expired, but who might be able to render the west some great assistance before he’s done for? If they can get around the double watch that must be on him now? Maybe he can defect to the west in return for security plans of this invasion, and of the Kremlin? . . . That was the most . . . “entertaining,” television I’ve seen in decades. ✌️
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@theglobalistchannel1471 : None of their favourite insurrection, “leaders,” plan to be there, so what’s the point? They all want, “deniability,” for the blood of the, “martyrs,” they’re so desperate to spill. But, they’ve check mated themselves. If they’re all too cowardly, privileged and entitled, to, “lead,” their Confederate Revolution, why should their base risk getting mowed down by a bunch of serious professionals, who’ve all been shown footage of Jan 6th as part of their training, and who aren’t going to take any sh*t this time? Damp squib. They want their cake, but they’re too toothless to eat it. Donny should be in jail already.
BTW, I didn’t bother to read your comment, coz’ it’s immoral to waste actual time on Trumpoganda. Was it good? 😜
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Emrid Atla : Pretty much, yeah. Trump is, as you say, “the weakest warmonger ever.” Putin called him at the last moment, and said, “Niet,” because he doesn’t want his smuggling operations and all that oil in USA’s hands. As to WHY you ASSume I’m an, “Obama fan,” or see ANY link between the issues, is probably something you’re paid to think? I’m as Conservative as they come, which is why I oppose Trump’s Nanny State. Whatever happened to, “small government?” Trump is into everything, trying to CONTROL it ALL, and you can’t get away from him. Whatever happened to, “America First,” when he deliberately SHREDS the treaty we had, and took to the brink of war? And, what’s the ONE THING you can do with your enemy that’s WORSE than, “almost,” going to war? You guessed it. Threatening a war, going right up to the limit, and then CHOKING. Well, we can all thank Putin for our temporary peace, now, can’t we? . . . Jesus, kid?
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Erik MOB-ALOT : Exactly. I guess, “America First,” is SO last week, if you’re a Trump Troll, right? NOTHING they say or do makes ANY sense. But, the, “word,” from Russia to the Trolls is, “praise Trump for keeping the peace, because Russia wants to control all that oil, and we want to keep our smuggling routes open.” How long, before we find out it was a phone call from Putin that stopped Trump at the last minute? . . . Smh ✌️👍
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Seems the GOP are groaning in the dark, desperate for ANYTHING. But, for F*x to whine about, “our most cherished norms,” after trump??? . . . How about ELECTIONS??? Weren’t they our most cherished norms, until Jan 6th? The GOP tried to get a democratic election overturned, whilst fuelling a violent insurrection against America, at the same moment! It’s cringeworthy to hear Fascists talk about, “norms,” OR, “democracy!” I’m surprised F*x anchors don’t choke on their hypocrisy!
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@stevealba56 : I think you’re missing the point. Quite aside from the ongoing oil trading with friendly nations that Russia is doing with its fossil fuels, they can only get what the west dictates they can get for it now. And that is no longer a sustainable model for funding their war. It’s one of the sanctions that China and other nations are happily swallowing, as getting unusually cheap oil at artificially low prices makes everyone a winner . . . Everyone except Russia, that is.
But the real point here is that the west knows they have to follow through, now that they’ve drawn on Russia, returning hostile intent for their hostile intent. They may well be capable of leaving Ukraine to twist in the wind, but they won’t because that would not be in anyone’s interests. They have tried repeatedly to warn Putin that his constant lies and greedy imperialism would end in tears, but letting him get away with gassing civilians in Syria and invading Crimea was already too much for many in the west, and it became clear to western analysts that such appeasement was the very instrument with which Putin was robbing NATO of its moral authority and international reputation. Since then, NATO has seen by public and political reactions around the globe there is more than just an appetite for putting Putin back in his box. People want to see justice done. And that desire is keeping politicians in power and winning them legitimacy.
Once you draw down on your enemy, you cannot afford to let him get back up again. And since Putin’s strongest ally seeks to benefit from his weakening, they will continue to stand by showing the limits of their, “unlimited,” partnership, as they have greedy eyes on the populations of potential break away states.
But the NATO countries have seen their power, wealth and security enhanced by Putin’s miscalculation. So, even if Crimea becomes an independent statelet, after UN supervised referenda, Russia will not be allowed to profit this time. The west will make its point by ensuring Putin walks away with less Ukrainian real estate than it started with in February of last year. And it won’t be until that has been achieved (and the Russian guns fall silent) that the US, UK, Poland and Germany will put any real pressure on Zelensky to start serious talks.
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Denniskzs : I guess you’re talking to me? Not bright enough to make that clear? Or, just hoping to get in your reply without me noticing, and putting you right again? Trump’s trolls are always afraid. Tell me? Do you do it for money? Or, are you ill? There’s no other reason to live on channels you hate, lying and hating, to people you hate, for all these years? If it’s not your, “job,” you must be unemployed, given how much time you spend? Unemployable, probably . . .
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@clarkalvarez1729 : Firstly, I called you out for attempting to, “belittle,” the original commenter with your, “read a book,” quip, whilst demonstrably missing the point of her comment. Secondly, the kid who says, “read a book,” as a pejorative now says, “I don’t read many books,” adding hypocrisy to his growing list of charges. I was curt with you, but not rude or dismissive, taking the time to explain exactly how and why you are wrong, so you might learn something and grow. So, if you can step out from behind your shield of defensiveness, you might try spelling, “Pinocchio,” the way I did and find that YouTube’s engine does not offer an alternative? Then you might remember that the rules of grammar and diction are there for the sake of clarity?
Did you understand me? Yes. Have you since learned of my disability? Yes. Do you persist in persecuting me for this one error, in an attempt to distract from the pompous, out of place, remarks you were being challenged for? Yes. Now, we can add bullying to your charge sheet. But never fear, as I can no more be offended or upset by bullies on social media than I can smell your farts. The mere fact that you pursue this line instead of defending the indefensible also marks you out as a moral coward, unwilling (or unable) to admit to being wrong.
Just hold up your hands, tell me I have a point, and leave it at that. I may have a range of what is popularly known as, “neuro-divergent,” disabilities (I prefer to think of them as, “conditions,” even, “enhancements,” in some cases) but I am extremely smart, highly articulate and I give careful thought to my words before expressing them. You should try it some time?
In the end, your initial criticism was snobbish, ill intentioned and fundamentally missed the point. I spoke up because I don’t like it when people dismiss others out of ignorance, attempting to crush their spirit for no other reason than their own insecurities. Stop doing that and you will have more friends . . . friends that are worth the name, that is.
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@michaeldeierhoi4096 : Did you mean, “9 out of 10 who die were UN-Vaccinated”? I think you did. And you’re right. About that, and Jay Jay, who has been trolling for trump for at least 5 years now. She needs a real job and she’s filled with racism and hatred for all things American, so far as I can tell, from her many, many comments on social media. She also has no idea how vaccination works, or what it’s for, or she wouldn’t have written such an embarrassingly obvious admission of her own ignorance. She might as well have just written, “I have no clue of what I’m talking about and I’ll prove it, by talking bollox.” 🤷♂️
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Surely, there is further context to Putin’s most recent statements? This was an angry outburst after Zelensky’s flat rebuffing of Victor Orbán. Like the bully who sends a go-between, gets rejected and says, “Well, I didn’t really wanna’ be friends anyway.” An immature idiot’s idea of saving face. Putin gets bellicose every time he’s rejected and every time he loses. Merely sending Orbán in the first place was surely an act of desperation? And, inside his tiny bubble of yes men and fellow deludeds, who knows what he expected as a result of, “negotiation,” through a third party? But his reaction has been eminently predictable and, I would say, reassuring too.
All we can know for sure is that Putin is not getting what he wants, he’s getting desperate, and he sees a long, cold winter ahead, with no oil supplies except what he can buy from the open market at wartime prices.
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The GOP began by, “cancelling,” Hillary, with lock her up chants! They, “cancelled,” their own people, having them Primaried and cast out, for disagreeing with trump! And, they tried to, “cancel,” democracy! With a riot based on a LIE! Which left over 50 cops seriously injured; one in a coma with brain damage, another blinded and yet another DEAD! And now? They’re trying to CANCEL ACCOUNTABILITY! Because they know they can ALL be forced to TESTIFY! With NO 5th Amendment protections, at trump’s impeachment! Imagine that? They will be forced, on live TV, to confess that they KNEW, “The Steal,” is a LIE!!! They are DESPERATE!
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The guy thinks he’s the villain in an Indiana Jones movie, or something! What bothers me is that the DA has to let it go, or waste millions in tax payer dollars, trying to prove what a lying POS this guy is, and his, “lawyers,” even more so! After a long trial, they’ll establish that he and his legal advisors had been incompetent, stupid, and egregiously, wilfully obtuse, TO A LEGALLY PROVEN STANDARD, making them look like categorical morons in the eyes of the law, with just enough, “deniability,” to avoid jail time. When we will all know they were just lying assed thieves and smugglers, enriching themselves with the stolen birthright of a war torn, impoverished, peoples, who were made that way by the meddling of greedy fossil fuel barons who had a greedy fossil fuel baron in the White House, willing to meddle on their behalf and tear their country apart in an illegal war . . . “Just more of the fallout from generations of GOP Nation Building folks. Nothin’ to see here . . .” 🙄
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@aguilayserpiente : Good analysis of defunding, but I’m not with you on the, “cleavage,” stuff. Partly because I don’t fully follow your argument. Partly because I think that state, “government,” is giving way to corporations, thus they will become a new form of anti-democratic administration on a global level. For all his use of the buzz term, “Globalism,” trump attempted to be the ultimate globalist. Ironically, these corporations will still be subject to, “people power,” in the form of, “purchasing power,” and the most dire political challenge that mass movements will have at their disposal will end up being the, “Boycott,” of goods and services. Simply, “buying,” or not buying will be a political act, overtly. And suppression will occur on the web, rather than on the streets. But, wars will still be fought. However, we’re reaching a point where it won’t even be politically necessary for companies to hide the fact that the wars are about products, goods and services. That will be as overt as the war itself
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I made a comment that leaned very much in the same direction as your conclusions. People sometimes get attached to theories like they’re their children. And that’s often because of the system they operate in, wherein they are now, “known,” for their Dark Matter work and get asked to guest on, or even host, science shows on that basis. It becomes the foundation of their reputation, even the gongs they have been awarded, so they fear being, “discredited.”
It takes discipline and courage to lead the charge on alternative theories when you’re in such a position. Even Einstein was capable of a bit of humbug. Though he was at least capable of apologising for that and giving credit where it was due. Yet, that is a vanishingly rare quality in every profession. And I think it goes some way toward explaining many of the hold ups we have seen in the history of scientific developments.
I think it was Earnest Hemingway who said, “Sometimes we have to kill our darlings.” I may be paraphrasing that, from my unreliable memory? But it was pretty close. He was talking about great characters who, nevertheless, do not serve the story you’re trying to tell. Or a great plot line, which nevertheless, interfere’s with or fudges an otherwise clean story ark.
But it’s people with that kind of commitment to their craft, whether it be science or the arts, who always win out in the end. It would be a tragedy for, “Dark Matter,” to end up being remembered in the way we think of, “Flat Earth theories,” today. As beloved ideas that were clung to in spite of all mounting evidence to the contrary. But it seems to be steering that way.
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@usdeac : People do complain about that a lot, so you’re obviously not alone. But, as a convention for identifying a phenomena that cannot be described by science (yet) I think it works rather well. At least as a short hand. I immediately know something about the topic, because I know what science means by, “dark,” when applied in the name. I think it arose out scientists referring to the opposite side of the moon, which gets as much light as the side we all see, as, “the dark side of the moon.” But I stand to be corrected there.
Dark energy, dark matter are known (at least, proposed) entities, but we don’t know how they work. I find the term useful.
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So, by comparison, how would you rate Melisa McCarthy’s other comedy, like her movie, “Spy,” for instance? I only ask, because it’s hard to tell from this video, if you just hate Melisa McCarthy, or if the film really was that bad, or maybe both? I don’t usually get that vibe from you, but it felt a bit like you were retreading material from other movies you hate? Hard to give an original take on the uniformly bad, but I felt you’re heart wasn’t in it? I asked about Spy, because I liked that movie, and figured you might, if you you’re not prejudiced against the actor? So a comparison would be helpful? You didn’t contrast this movie with anything good the other actors have been in, which would have grounded your review in something reliable. This one was unlike your usual high standard . . . All I get from it was that you hate the movie and everything about it, but not enough to know if your opinion is valid in any way? Not like you ✌️
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Joe Nevarez : Yeah, and he’s in the perfect position, where he can “advise” Trump, without having any skin in the game, from his, “safe place,” on the outside. All because he has said things, early on in the investigation, that will prove to make him look STUPID, when the TRUTH comes out. There’s no fool like on old fool, as they say. And, I’ve heard Dershowitz’s lectures on Israel. Trump has given gifts to that country that no other POTUS would EVER have done. Dershowitz KNOWS that there will NEVER be a Santa Claus like Trump again, and is willing to say ANYTHING to keep THAT Gravy Train running. NONE of these GOONS have souls. They REALLY make me SICK to my stomach
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@Omega0850 : And now they’re flailing to role out Operation Save Putin’s face, while he still has a bloody nose. No wonder everyone at that, “Prime Minister’s,” meeting looked sh*t scared, right? They don’t even know if they’re on a hit list now! And no one knows, for sure, WHERE Putin is, and Prigozhin is in the wind too! For all they know he might just pop up again in Moscow, with an army at his back, saying, “Just kidding, folks!” Ahh, I’m loving this. 😁
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Dorothy Gears : They move on, from one group to another. When there are no, “migrant workers,” or, “coloured,” people left to pick on. Your kids will be next. Or, perhaps they’ll find some other group first, and that will buy you a little time? But, Trump CAN’T hold on to power without DIVISION, so sooner or later . . . Will you be telling them you voted for this, when you’re packing their emergency stores and smuggling them out of the country? Or, watching the cops drag them off? Or WORSE? . . . Or, are you going to STOP this HATE? I know you’ll do the right thing, but you have to mobilise EVERYONE. Anyone need a lift? Do you know any undecideds that you should be talking to? Seriously. Do everything you can to save Democracy, or we’ll lose it forever
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Darrin Rentruc : It’s not judged by the amount of fanaticism in your, ahem, “heart,” dude. The FACT is that Trump is the most DIVISIVE man in modern HISTORY. Now, you KNOW this, but you’re ignoring the TRUTH, either because you get paid to, or you’re willing to trade Democracy for your racism. But, just saying something doesn’t make it so; in fact, it makes Trump’s opponents all the more determined, to eliminate Trump from public life. You are evidence of the dangers of fanatics, helping to galvanise Democrats. Well done 🙂
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@mickeymouse2769 : Do YOU even, “know,” WTF you’re talking about? Very little of what you said has any, “meaning,” let alone works as propaganda, son. Stop rushing? I know you, “feel,” the need to rush about, spreading as much seditionist, Confederate-Karen, Trumpoganda as you can, in as many places as possible, but what’s the point, if no one has the slightest CLUE WTF you’re babbling about, son? All I’m getting from you is your hurt, “feelings,” because you don’t like Biden, or Democracy, or the Republic, or some sh*t? 🤷♂️🤦♂️
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The REASON for trump’s Insurrection was the seditious LIE they call, “The Steal.” When witnesses CANNOT give ANY, “evidence,” for believing in it, all they can do is take the Nuremberg Defence, and say they were following orders. America will hear the GOP’s top brass CONFESSING that, “The Steal,” was and is a LIE! There’s no coming back from that. “Verdicts,” are irrelevant to the POUNDING Donny’s whole ideology is going to take, on live TV, from witnesses who cannot refuse to testify, under oath, with no 5th Amendment to hide behind. We have them, at last . . . So long as YOU do your part? Get in touch with your representatives. Demand they call witnesses like Cruz, Hawley, and Graham, along with The Trump’s and Giuliani. We deserve a Reckoning! It’s your right AND your responsibility . . .
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@get2dachoppa249 : I hope you can see that the, “verdict,” (which I believe WILL become a Guilty verdict, but that doesn’t pertain) is IRRELEVANT. America is playing for higher stakes than that! They’re going to get the GOP’s top brass on the stand, with no 5th Amendment protections, to CONFESS that that the very REASON for the Insurrection (the reason that these people have ruined their careers, attained permanent criminal records, and will spend time in jail!) was nothing more than a LIE! Out of the mouths of the very people who lead them into personal DISASTER! And, they’ll see how they were lead from the back, by people with no skin in the game, who are rich enough to get the best lawyers! It’s the GOP’s CONFESSIONS that the Dems are playing for. And, I tell you. THEY WILL GET THEM TOO! ✌️ So long as WE, THE PEOPLE support them?
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I’m going to give you the best advice anyone has ever given you, or is likely to in your whole career. The question will be if you’re smart enough to get it?
He used a poor example for his opener, and there might be a clue in that for you? Buster Keaton could never have performed stunts like the ones he’s so famous for in Vaudeville. People from that background who broke into film, like Keaton, Stan Laurel, Charlie Chaplin, etc, came from a background that relied on live theatre audiences (frequently suffered poverty) and utilised utterly different technical skills, and where they were innovators across the whole field. Guys like them knew as much about film distribution and production as they did about film stock chemistry, lighting technique and special effects, because they were inventing what they needed for their success.
The nearest equivalents these days are some of the YouTube creators who write, produce and direct their own dramas, sketches and documentaries, shaping the entertainment space to fit their craft as much as audience demand is shaping what succeeds. Perhaps your future success will have more to do with finding a few up and coming innovators in the web space who can write, edit, or generally provide for the needs where you are lacking and come up with a complete vision.
The only thing the old Vaudeville performers knew, that served them in movies, was how to get that vital reaction out of an audience; what made people laugh or cry within that precious 5 to 10 minute window of time they had in which their stage act would sink or swim.
YouTube, and spaces like it, are the modern Vaudeville, with audiences coming and going, having only brief attention spans and very little patience for things that don’t grab them right away. Unless you know some indie video game creators, your best bet is creating a company with a small handpicked group of people who each have the very different technical and artistic skills to create something original and artistically worthy.
Good luck, my friend.
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Richard Huey
I guessed, correctly I believe, that he has "heard" stuff about what the Bible says, and leaped to a narrative-confirming, prejudicial conclusion about it. And, which ever way you slice it, his conclusions were dismissing an entire group of his fellow humans on that basis, which is an ugly thing for anyone. Nevertheless, there is a significant moral and intellectual distinction to be made, between drawing conclusions about what he meant, about which I COULD be mistaken (even though you and I both know I am not) and my "judging" him as a person. I have made no comment on what I think of him personally. Admittedly, one COULD infer some things from my words, but I doubt you would be 100% accurate. And I never implied that I was any good at being a Christian. James tells us, "He who says he is without sin, is deceived."
I do my best, which is often short of the Glory, but it is just plain, morally, wrong to let people misquote and possibly deceive others about the Bible, and not speak out the truth. The Bible tells me so
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@Groot : Indeed, the west is still struggling, it seems, to get their heads around the Ukrainian mindset. They really would rather keep Putin’s forces out where they can see what they’re up to, losing 7 soldiers for their every 1, wearing them down and, most of all, making the point clear: Every last inch of Ukrainian soil will not just be contested, but will cost Russia so much that will never have been worth taking. While the west is looking at pure strategy and geopolitics, the Ukrainian government’s mentality is down in the trenches with their troops. And they know how to break the will of their enemy’s army. If Russia ever does take the town, it will be a flattened pile of rubble, over which they can scratch their heads and ask why they lost thousands of men for this resource free waste land. 👍🇺🇦
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muuuuuud : The Trump tramps, like cool beans & I Hate Toy Story only get paid if people Click on their names to reply to them. That’s why their LIES are so insane, and aimed at the, “emotions.” They’re sad, because more people are catching on. The real MONEY is in Clicks on Trumpoganda Click Bait, because the Malware, “cookies,” track what you look at, for their algorithms. Crisis Trolls are not happy people, by nature. But, their impotent rage is Hillaryous 🤣
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@simplyamazing880 : Normally, I would laugh off such an idea as an appeal to madness, but not today. NATO has the perfect, legitimate, pretext: The Zaporizhzhia Power Station, which has been mined. That is sufficient cause for NATO to say they are directly threatened, because they are! If that thing blows it is four times the size of Chernobyl. That means a radiation cloud, 4 X 2 X 2 X 2 X 2 times bigger than the one that spread right across the northern hemisphere from East to West, reaching Canada and making weather reports the most watched shows world wide, whilst literally the entire population of Ukraine, and several millions from western Russia, pour into western countries fleeing radioactive death!
The threat is already too big and our governments are being alarmingly too quiet about a very real possibility! My daughter is a PhD physics student and she’s been upsetting the family, and herself, with her talk of this. It’s the inaction of the west that I find most alarming. They blew the dam! Massively unprecedented terrorism is just another day at the office for Putin! And they have all the data from Chernobyl! To them it must look like the perfect act of terrorism!
I hope you are all writing to your representatives?
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@Strathom1 : That’s a good question, and I’d love to hear some more analysis from Jake about that. We do know that some of the biggest leaks to come out of Russia, came from FSB double agents, including the invasion plan from the start. They also (as good as) saved Zelensky’s life by pre-warning him about more than one assassination attempt, and that Intel turned out to be good. Whether they’re doing it for their own ends, because they simply have a different agenda to Putin but still want evil outcomes, or whether the west is benefitting from just a few insider double agents, is totally unclear unless you’re the director of the CIA, MI6, or one of the other Five Eyes spy agencies, I guess?
From the FSB’s point of view, having access to all information (or as much as Russia has at any rate) they could probably see from the start that this attempt on Ukraine was all but suicidal, and they’re probably just fighting to survive, whatever the outcome. Yes, Putin recreated the FSB, making it up from his old colleagues in the KGB and from his new mafia boss friends from various regions across his empire. So, you would have thought he would be tighter with them than anyone, right?
But, these are the people who have spent their entire lives surviving and getting what they want, through the type of brutality that would make a Borgia wince, and by breaking every law under the sun, now all in a large organisation, who’s, “loyalties,” probably go first to their leaders inside the FSB and stop at their wallets. I would love to know more, but that’s a really hard topic to research. But they are a formidable economic force, so Jake probably knows way more than the average guy?
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Yet, there is a solution. In the UK everyone has freedom of speech, but it’s a CRIME to say something is, “news,” when it’s a demonstrable LIE! That doesn’t stop influential people from saying, “I believe X or Y to be true,” even on respectable news outlets, but opinion is LEGALLY separated from FACTS. Hence, Fox does not broadcast in the UK, because they are not allowed to call themselves, “news.” It really is THAT simple. Disinformation is a CRIME in most European countries, and everyone manages to have FREE SPEECH. It’s not a mystery!
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@bolinvolovan3060 : That’s an interesting perspective take. But, consider? If this was a movie, in which George Clooney gets Brad Pitt and his buddies together, to show them a diagram of how the Stock Market Casino owners have been routinely robbing their customers, and then puts together an elaborate plan to beat them at their own game, who would you be rooting for? Of course, this movie had no happy ending for the Ocean’s 11 Redditers. Their plan worked perfectly, but the bad guy just shut down the whole Casino and had the bouncers kick ‘em onto the street, whilst dropping the whole facade of the Stock Market, and proving that it’s actually a private club. The final act of this movie, finishes with the casino owner, standing under the sign which reads, “This Is Public Property: All Are Welcome,” screaming at the now beaten and bruised 11, about how this was an, “attack upon the rich, done for no other reason than pure malice and socialism!” whilst the 11 scratch their heads and wonder if this guy is for real, and if he really doesn’t get that they just wanted a piece of the same pie, that the, “rules,” say they are entitled to??? Just before we cut to black and the titles, we see an angry 1%er, Mr Robin’ Hood, ripping up the rule book, screaming, “I’m doing this because I can! I OWN the rule book!” And, what we thought was going to be a fun caper movie, turns into a dark morality tale, about how America is an Oligarchy, and you will never be in the 1%, because even if you figure out how to join them, they will throw you back out anyway. You have to be a private member. But that’s the illusion that the Reddit 11 have broken. We all thought everyone was entitled to the American Dream. Nah, “private members only.”
Sure, people lost real money. But in this case, it was the 1%, which is why I at least, was routing for the Reddit 11. No one who couldn’t afford to lose a lot of money was getting hurt. And, if anything, we owe the Reddit 11 a debt of gratitude, for at least tearing off their mask, don’t you think? Like the end of 300, King Reddit threw his spear, before being crushed by a giant army, and wounded the Persian Oligarch, showing that he really can bleed.
But, look how FAST Congress was to react? They were having hearings in less than a couple of weeks! It took well over a month for them to start hearings over the Capitol Riots! What does THAT tell you about their priorities? So, while you make a great comment, I’m not sure I care about the, “victims,” of this short? They do that stuff for living ✌️👍
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@Jollefjoll : I think that GameStop’s employees are looking at disaster anyway, and are probably all looking for new jobs with a future? It was the fact that this is so clear that made it possible to short their stock. So, while they will be put back to square 1, and end up in oblivion regardless, that’s not the fault of the Redditers? All they did was to manipulate the stock, in the same manner that the regular Stock Market Casino Club members do, every single day. All the profits that the Redditers got, came from rich and powerful pockets. So, I’m with the Redditers 100% on this. They almost beat a rigged game, by playing it by their rules, only better. And the only people that got hurt, who wouldn’t have otherwise gotten hurt, were the Casino owners who don’t want you to know they own the casino.
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@MoneyMacro : Good comment, but you’re wasting it on a troll, who hates everything unless it’s trump. It’s no good explaining to him that these people short sell others every day, and the Redditers figured out a way to do the same thing to them, ensuring that it was only the very wealthy that took the hits; which is why they closed down the private club and had the Redditers tossed out in the first place. Try explaining that it was just a bunch of entitled 1%ers, who don’t like it when they get a little of their own medicine, and that they just revealed that they have the power to close down the Casino, just because the person winning today happens to be a stranger, not in their private club, and he won’t get it. Even if he gets it, he won’t get it, I’m afraid ✌️
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More will get done, if the traitors are exposed anyway! They need to get Hawley, Cruz and Lindsay Graham on the stand, to testify, under oath, as to WHY they, “believe,” in the, “steal,” or admit they always knew it was a LIE, and they, “were only following orders,” like Fascists always do!
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Do people get it yet? . . . Billionaires are NOT, “geniuses.” They’re more likely to have a lower than average IQ because of the bubble of isolation and privilege they’ve been brought up in.
What happens is that some of these idiots get so high on the smell of their own farts, because they’re surrounded by, “yes sir, great idea sir, you’re so clever sir, for using my ideas sir,” that they actually come into contact with large numbers of the public, due to their need for attention and approval making them decide to run for president or buy a social media platform. Then we suddenly see and hear them, unfiltered, on a daily basis and we find out they’re idiots. Their mystique is destroyed and the public starts to question how such a dumbass got their cool reputation?
And the answer is simple: They started with lots of money, made more money by buying the right to slap their names on every product they invest in, and then making all of the employees sign NDA’s which prevent them from telling everyone that these, “great products/inventions,” he’s going around talking about like he came up with the ideas himself, were not his idea at all. Musk Google’s, “What are smart people talking about?” every morning, and then says something dumb about it.
We really need to stop assisting these idiots by acting like they’re any different from the rest of us, just because they have enough raw cash to pay Dave Chappelle to let him walk on stage in the middle of his act and shout, “I’m rich, bitch!” in the faces of an already loudly booing audience.
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Well, have you seen their Third World mentality toward God? They all claim to be profoundly religious, whilst never having read a Bible, and even their priests promote the most ignorant, bizarre superstitions that Jesus condemned. Half of these Russian, “soldiers,” actually BELIEVE Putin tells the TRUTH! What can you do in the face of such abject ignorance? The example their gas-lighter in chief sets them is, “Steal from your betters. Preferably over their dead bodies. Especially if they’re helpless and unarmed. If anyone puts up a fight, run away making ludicrous threats until you’re at a safe enough distance to bomb them from.” In my day we called such people, “commies.” Now I guess they’re, “Neo-Soviets?” They’ll always be cowards.
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lushin burl : Steve Bannon describes himself, and his minions, as, “Leninists,” for a REASON, you know? LOOK IT UP. It’s NOT about, “ideology.” It’s about, “Tactics and Strategy.” He ADMITS, like Alex Jones, to LYING to the voters, to get them hysterical. It OBVIOUSLY angers you, that you FEEL IT, in your GUT, that something ain’t right about all this. Or you wouldn’t be so insulting. Trump’s regime is ANTI-Conservative. “Know them by their fruits,” as the New Testament teaches us. I am Ione of MILLIONS of Conservatives who will be voting AGAINST the GOP in the Mid Terms, because he’s STALINIST.
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lushin burl : You’re problem is that you are either; getting all your info from a limited, tainted, source; scared of acknowledging the facts and thus HIDING from them; or you are a part of that tainted source, knowingly pushing false narratives. Have you not noticed that NO ONE even CARES about, “Hillary”??? Conservative America wants Trump gone too. Only EXTREMIST RACISTS actively, “support,” Trump and THEY are never, “HONEST,” about their motives. If Hillary was to spontaneously EXPLODE, there would be a yaaaawwwwn, of outrage from the, “left,” while all the grownups would continue to focus upon the CORRUPTION of the LIAR in CHIEF, who seems to be ONLY good at ONE THING . . . DIVIDING America: Attacking America. Attacking her ALLIES: her businesses, sports, law and order, her institutions, her security, etc, etc. SMH
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Ethan Allen : The, “president,” can, “authorise,” the use of NUKES if he likes? The commanders have to ISSUE such orders, for that to HAPPEN, though. And they have made it CLEAR, from Mattis on down, that NO SUCH ORDER will be issued. Sorry. But, you’re going to be disappointed. No Blood Fest for Christmas. You’ll just have to go back to playing Medal of Honor on your XBox, and, “pretending,” like you usually do. 😜🖕
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Fight Sharia : You realise that the Military is NOT issuing ANY orders to, “use lethal force,” of ANY kind, right? You Trumpophiles should READ the News, instead of Trolling it, all the time? Trump could, “authorise,” a Rock Concert on the border! Doesn’t mean the Commanders have to issue any such orders, DUMB ASS! Will you actually CRY when there’s ISN’T any blood bath, to entertain you? WTF is WRONG with you America-Haters, anyway? . . . Dear, oh dear . . . SMH
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@kathleenmann7311 : Not to worry. Half of them are not even real, just algorithms spewing out of the St Petersburg Institute for Research or whatever that giant troll farm founded by Prigozhin is called these days. And half of the rest are the trolls who work there so they don’t have to be cannon fodder on the front lines. Very few actually, “believe,” in the Putinganda they spout. You can tell by the way it’s always the same three “Whaddabout?” talking points, all connected to historical grievances that the average Russian won’t have even heard of, let alone have an opinion about, but their government are still bitter about; such as, “How come the west got to go to Afghanistan, achieve their objectives and leave again (however messily) yet we got our asses handed to us for wanting to keep the place?” Or, “Why were you allowed to make lame excuses for an unwanted war in Iraq, but we daren’t even try it?” And their favourite, “But NATO was expanding toward our borders!” like every Russian doesn’t secretly WISH they had a country democratic enough to put such important decisions to a vote of its population. Well, they’ve doubled the size of their border with NATO now! Well done, Putin. You’ve achieved the precise opposite of every stated aim you have. If this is 5D chess, Putin is playing checkers with crayons, which he’s stuffed well and truly up his own nose. 😂✌️
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Deviant Affinity : There’s truth in what you’re saying, but mistakes in there too. Look at what America was offered? A dodgy businessman, offering change, or business as usual? The frustration came out of the very fact that Americans DON’T want, “servitude.” And, the sheer ANGER at how they cheated Bernie, followed by the Dem’s ARROGANCE when confronted about it; “I will not even dignify that question,” summed it up for me. THAT was what tipped the scales. The question is, WHY have they been unable to ADMIT their mistake?
And, that’s where the genius REALLY is. Whether you blame Putin, Trump, the people in the shadows, the SCAM was pure, diabolical, GENIUS. And, it clearly had Putin’s prints all over it, because it is SO Stalinist. How does it work, Ash? Glad you asked. The answer follows . . .
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Deviant Affinity : Two parts to the plan: Get people to give money, time and again. People who have given money, will do almost ANYTHING to avoid being told they were stupid for doing it. There are MANY psychological studies about this; they call it the Dead Money Swindle. Look it up?
And, the other part, we’ve ALL SEEN. Deliberately DEEPEN America’s DIVISION. DIVISION is the KEY. The more angry, enraged and generally, “emotional,” you get people to be, the less they will use their REASON. Politicians have ALWAYS been expected to at least TRY to heal their country’s DIVISION. But, what if you DELIBERATELY make it WORSE? Cause your allies to dig in? They will donate even MORE MONEY, when you’re in a crisis, which nearly ALL of Trump’s fans HAVE by now. Making it LESS likely that they will EVER see reason. Especially when (and here’s the kicker) you have a, “respectable,” “News,” outlet, CONSTANTLY offering you COMFORT, filling you with the lies you NEED to hear, at that, “emotional,” level. Propaganda has made Americans HATE their Fellow Americans WAY MORE than they hate (or even know WHO ARE) America’s enemies.
Evil Genius . . .
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Please write to your representatives and demand that NATO gives the formal invitation to join NATO today! Keep in mind that the process can still take as long as NATO wants after the invitation is proffered, but it gives the unequivocal and unambiguous signal that NATO is committed to Ukraine WINNING this war! That’s the one message that the west has stopped short of, “because escalation,” blah, friggin’ blah. Putin has ALWAYS backed off when faced with a GENUINE red line. Every single time!
Just look at the Wagner Mutiny? Putin fled Moscow for St Petersburg! Even though the Wagnazis didn’t even reach the outskirts of the city! Prigozhin is ignoring his exile, swanning about Russia, free as a bird, while Wagner STILL refuses to carry out Putin’s direct orders and join the regular armed forces! He’s not even IN, “control,” of Russia!
We should NOT fear a deliberate nuclear attack, but we SHOULD fear the possibility of nuclear ACCIDENTS, which Russia has a legendary record for! As the chaos continues, the chances of that go up. Western intervention is necessary for peace, yet NATO has just told Putin that he might still find a way to get a, “draw,” out of this. NATO has just prolonged the war!
Please? If you care about world peace, the future of Europe, or the plight of Ukraine, just drop a line to your representative and DEMAND action! Let them know it is an election issue. Save Ukraine and we save the world . . . at least, we save it from one of the three biggest threats, (China and the Middle East remaining as troubling as ever, but not actively making war on Europeans!) and saving Ukraine could potentially neutralise Russia as a threat to the world, possibly forever?
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(Spoiler warning) It would have been worth raising Steven King’s Dark Tower series of fantasy novels, in which the final book literally end in a genius way. It literally gives you an analysis of how series story telling works, and why the ending we’re about to witness is less important than the journey we’ve shared with the characters, to the point that it teases the reader, taking on a, “You don’t really need to know what happened, do you?” coquettish quality, making you wonder if he’s just going to leave it all unresolved, before . . . well . . . resolving the story with the most unexpected and clever narrative twist.
Genuinely genius in the way it’s hinted at from book II throughout the rest of the multiple novels, we find our hero entering one of the portals which the story has built its narrative around throughout the series, yet which we’ve almost forgotten about by the final novel. And this time, the hero’s free will is taken from him, and he’s thrust, pleading and begging, back to the very start of the adventure, in an, “eternal loop,” of which the universe itself may well be made. And the last line of the last book is the same as the first line of the first book.
For many, like me, who’d had such joy with the novels, it was the perfect excuse to simply reread them, only this time with that, “knowing what we know now,” understanding, which makes twisty stories so enjoyable a second time around, like with The Sixth Sense. It’s arguably King’s finest work; certainly his smartest.
And he was only experimenting with forms, as a kind of side project, apparently. But, it literally obviates the problem with ending a series, without copping out of giving satisfying conclusions for characters that the reader gets attached to. Would have made a great example, because it’s an exception to the rule, and quite a unique achievement in literature. Not in what it does, but in the fact that King pulls it off, through sheer poetic, literate, genius and skill.
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Challenge for all: Who can answer this? Alan Guth says space inflated, but, “Time,” didn’t? If space inflated, so did time with it! That’s why it, “looks,” like space suddenly inflated in the blink of an eye. It didn’t. Time expanded with the rest of space, so it looks, “smaller,” from a huge distance, in the same way that baryonic matter does. I’m amazed this never occurs to physicists!
Can anyone contradict this? Or show where Guth has taken the expansion of time into account? Presumably, we are still believing in time dilation and Einstein’s theories? And before anyone says, “They must have thought about that,” I ask you to site ONE example where inflation takes the expansion of time into account? Just one?
I tell you, one of the greatest oversights of common sense in astrophysics is inflation theory! Which should technically be called the, “Inflation Hypothesis,” given that there is zero evidence for it, unless you count that which, as Sabine just explained, can be applied to a raft of other theories?
I can say, “There’s this guy who paints the sky each night to make it blue, but some nights he’s too tired and leaves it, so it’s white on those days.” To which you can say, “But, where’s your evidence?” To which I answer, “Look at the sky? It’s blue isn’t it? That’s my evidence.” Preposterous? Welcome to Inflation Theory.
It’s so obvious, when you think about it! Einstein showed us that we have to think of space AND time as being properties of the same thing! But then we exclude time for inflation? Inflation never happened!
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As to the future? I can just picture it. History repeating itself. After Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch, he was eventually tried and found guilty, but the judge was both intimidated and sympathetic, allowing him to make speeches, instead being cross examined, and then gave him the lightest possible sentence (for attacking his own state!) and then what happened? He wrote Mein Kampf, while he did less than half of that sentence at a health spar, which he treated as a luxury hotel! Donny will have a ghost writer pen, “My Victimhood,” for him. We’re by no means out of the woods. The trump’s are only a symptom, but they have to be treated if we hope to cure the disease! That disease is Fascism, in all but name . . .
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So much for Prigozhin’s exile, huh? Even if Lukashenko thinks he’s throwing dust in our eyes and is just lying, it’s just more evidence of how Putin simply cannot, “save face,” while he still has a bloody nose. The Wagnazis are still defying Putin’s direct orders and remain independent of the state’s army and Prigozhin is swanning about, thumbing his nose at Putin, instead of being in, “exile.”
What Putin must HATE Prigozhin for, most of all, is the way he forced Putin to FLEE Moscow for St Petersburg! Everyone is comparing Putin’s cowardice to Zelensky, who refused a ride from the Americans and asked for ammunition instead, when hostile Russians had breached the borders of Kyiv! And he knew he WOULD be killed even if they took him prisoner! Putin didn’t even wait to find out if he needed to flee! He was GONE!
No way on EARTH can Putin forgive or forget that!
And that journalist who asked Lukashenko about Russia’s nukes, when Lukashenko said, “If Ukraine can use other people’s weapons, why can’t I?” should have said, “Because you don’t have the codes, and Putin wouldn’t trust you with them . . . OBVIOUSLY.” 🙄
Putin can make whatever claims he likes, but the WORLD can see that he is NOT in control of this situation. And we all now KNOW what we always suspected: Putin (hashtag) RUNS AWAY at the first sign of trouble. Even when it doesn’t make it to his city’s outskirts!
Slava Ukraine! 🇺🇦✌️🇬🇧
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Eye Heisenberg : They can get them from the RethugliKKKans, given that they carry their, “grievances,” and their, “Butt Hurt Victimhood,” wherever they go? Trump LOST by 3,000,000 VOTES, last time, and went on to PISS OFF EVERY SINGLE American that is NOT a RACIST CULT MEMBER, for the last two years! Yet YOU, “think,” he has a CHANCE without ZTE UPLOADING the Results, after Putin PROGRAMS THEM? This is gonna’ be SO SWEET! 🤣
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Lee Boriack : True story for you, which ends with a question . . . We began this crisis as a united country, supporting our services, even being, “kind,” to each other. Then, Donny’s pollsters told him he was 10 points behind Biden, because, “unity,” is the ONE THING that is Kryptonite to Donny’s, “Make America Divided Again,” policy. Division is the source of his power, and a national approach was ruining his, “brand.” So, his hacktivists got busy organising, “protests,” while he got busy defunding the universities working on a cure, and the World Health Oragnisation, whom he knew would give him a bad report for wasting an entire month anyway. After the George Floyd thing, Donny found himself regretting being quite so vociferous in support of, “free speech,” and people’s, “rights to protest,” so he and Barr dismissed those protestors as ALL being a, “leftist democrat plot against Trump,” personally, and set about supporting people’s, “rights,” to be selfish idiots, who put everyone else’s lives at risk.
So, here we are, with plague, famine, civil unrest, mass unemployment, Murdering cops somehow being a part of a, “Law & Order,” agenda, when it was America’s protests FOR Law & Order to be RESTORED that he was ignoring, and an economic downturn to look forward to. Why? All because of one man’s mental illness, the abject capitulation of the Quislings who work for him, and the personal appeal of selfishness to his cult, mixed with a heavy dose of racism; a salted wound, which Donny has been able to exploit, because America has never had the fortitude to address the fallout of the Civil War.
And, since ALL OF THAT, we now find that trump was too Criminally Incompetent (or just a downright Collaborating TRAITOR?) to even CARE that our troops are being murdered by hitmen, paid for by the Cowardly Russians. How do you get someone to admit, even to themselves, that they’ve made such a big mistake that they’ve cost America thousands of lives? If you can answer that question for me, I would be sincerely grateful ✌️👍
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@brandonsmith9860 : I wonder? Seriously. Do you actually, “believe,” what you just said, son? About, “Fox?” You really, “think,” people in global trouble spots, or international business execs, or politicians, see a big situation happening and tune into ANYTHING but CNN or the BBC to find out what’s going on? . . . I don’t think YOU, “believe,” you, kid 😉
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It is in NATO’s gift to offer Ukraine a swift and TOTAL victory. All they need do is STOP signalling to Putin that he could fight this war to a draw, by constantly talking about Ukraine’s, “defence,” whilst giving them JUST enough hardware to prevent further incursions, and send an unambiguous message: “Ukraine WILL WIN A TOTAL VICTORY, and NATO will see to it,” whilst sending the jets and naval forces they need.
I guarantee that Putin will create his own off-ramps at home. He will make every blood curdling threat imaginable, but he will quietly withdraw from the region, once he KNOWS there’s no hope. NATO keeps giving him hope, by not making it clear he will not win!
It is up to us to write to our NATO representatives to demand these things. The financial costs will be poultry compared to the blood and treasure we would save from a protracted, never ending war in Ukraine. And the prosperity potential for a peacetime Ukraine are immense!
Anyone who tells you that writing to your representatives is a waste of time is badly deceived. Ukraine has earned their TOTAL VICTORY. Let us give it to them!
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@its_Today_ : It does seem that even, “good,” mainstream media is often unreliable these days. Too often doing the bidding of politicians, or failing to live up to its journalistic responsibilities to check sources and verify its narratives. Indeed, even the BBC seems to have forgotten that it’s not their job to create ANY narrative at all, but simply report the facts. In Britain, I find that Channel 4 is far more reliable, being completely independent and large enough not to have to worry about losing sponsorship from advertisers. They have some of the best journalists in the world there right now.
But, as I say to everyone, create multiple reliable sources for every topic, cross reference them and never take anything unquestioningly. Especially if you happen to, “like,” the people telling you things. Your own biases are always your own worst enemy, as so many of them go unnoticed. The rhetorical, “you,” that is, of course.
Slava Ukraine.
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Boston Dynamics will make a robo-saur hybrid and a complete robot version of T-Rex, for the military (coz’ they’re bored with explosives, computer guided arsenals, drones and world domination, n’ stuff) which will, “horror of horrors,” break free of their programming, move in to Elon Musk’s place and threaten Earth from space. And only Chris Pratt, who can talk binary code, will be able to persuade them to go live on Alpha Centuri by the final reel, thus saving us all again . . . There’s the treatment for Jurassic 7. Now, go sell it to Hollywood and make yourself rich, Drinker. 😂
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@-V-K- : Of course you’re right about that, though I don’t know if 90% is as plausible as it is theoretically possible? Yet, if this Labour party reforms the voting system, “because,” of their supermajority? We know the Tories will do anything to try to stop them and it may be our only chance to see it done. Labour’s manifesto doesn’t promise this, not outright. But I think they may just be trying not to spook the horses here. They do promise a raft of voting reforms regarding devolved UK parliaments, including the mayoralties.
We saw how the Tories got away with changing the mayoral races into first-past-the-post and, when criticised, pointing to the obscure wording of a sub-paragraph in their manifesto and calling that their, “mandate.” It’s cheap tricks like that which have alienated so many erstwhile conservative voters recently . . . along with their appalling track record for fraud, incompetence and corruption.
But Labour has a whole bunch of clauses in their manifesto that could be carried through to complete reform of the voting system, married to their plans to overhaul the Second Chamber?
This is not my idea: I picked it up from a reliable pundit whose YouTube channel is called A Different Bias. But the more I’ve looked into it, the more I see how much Labour (and all of the minority parties) stand to gain, making the Tories and the fringe right movements (perhaps the mainstream soon?) the biggest losers, permanently.
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Dear Lincoln Project, I genuinely believe that America needs a visual aid, a symbol, to help them truly understand this Covid 19 Crisis. My suggestion is that we build a Cairn, like the ancients did? It would be cheap, and relatively simple and easy to build and, if we represent each DEAD Covid victim, with one stone each, this might help America, “get it?” Such a project would need a site to place it, and I think, so as to challenge the administration, it should be next to, or in front of a Trump owned or key Government building? It would need funding, and supervision, and someone able to place 1000 stones in a 24 hour period. I genuinely believe that such a symbol might have a significant impact on how average Americans SEE and GRASP the crisis we’re in. What do you think?
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Does anyone NOT know someone who’s died of Covid? Trump’s brother just died of it! By November, you will . . .
America’s, “election,” is SO RIGGED, it’s laughable. Why you aren’t all choking up the streets, demanding the restoration of the post office, and the Republic, is beyond me? You all act like you WANT a Dictatorship? Trump, his family and the entire GOP Cabinet all KNOW they’re facing serious JAIL TIME, and they’re NOT going to ALLOW you to remove them, whatever it takes. And, that’s because YOU people keep allowing them to GET AWAY WITH MURDER! Still think, “someone else,” is going to save the Republic? How? Why? No one can, without YOU supporting them. Your Republic is dying before your very eyes, and America sits on its ass, watching the Dictatorship unfold on TV . . . Smh
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O’Neil was emulating a pastor, giving a fire and brimstone sermon, in an evangelical church. He seemed to believe he would, “convert,” members of the jury, perhaps in a manner that he’s witnessed growing up? Pure speculation, of course, but I would be fascinated to ask him if he’d ever witnessed a big, “come to Jesus,” conversion, at a church service? He did himself a great disservice, but genuinely didn’t seem to comprehend that he was alienating the jurors in every conceivable way. Did he know his guilty verdict was beyond question? He’s obviously not well and a danger to the public. But what interests me is where those pastor style influences came from?
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david fritzsche : Nor was Benedict Arnold, but he’s about as useful to your, “argument,” as they are. You just can’t admit that you were SO wrong about Trump. But, now that the Republic is OVER, you needn’t bother, “defending,“ him. The 2020, “elections,” are already RIGGED, son. The only thing left for you to defend is your guilty conscience. I will be around to tell you, “I told you so,” when Trump, “beats Obama,” by completing his third term, and then announcing that Ivanka is going to be your first female POTUS. But, by then, it will be IMPOSSIBLE to PRETEND that you still have a Republic, and no doubt, my comments will be blocked from your controlled internet, coming as they do, from the last vestiges of the Free World . . . SMH
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@dirtyharold7164 : That’s a lot of words, son. I guess that makes you a, “fool,” by your own definition? I find your passive aggression somewhat effeminate and it leads me to wonder who bullied you so badly and if you should talk to someone about it? Why you would try to convince someone else of things that even you don’t believe is a question that will occupy my mind for quite some . . . No, it’s gone already. Tell you what. Instead of listing your, “facts,” why don’t you try showing some of your, “evidence,” for them? And, when you can’t, perhaps use that moment (you know? when you’re staring off into the middle distance and wondering why your life didn’t turn out the way you’d hoped) to think about doing something more useful with your time, instead of indulging in this form of emotional self harm, which is so clearly making you so deeply unhappy, on behalf of people who really do not care about you? It’s never too late to improve your life, kid. Take a leaf from the NZ PM’s book and know when to quit, huh? Just sayin’ . . .
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@BlinkonceforU : There are many differences between the two events, as was pointed out by Jake Broe on his YouTube channel, from which I took this comparison. Yet it is an apt comparison nonetheless; especially for the type of warfare we are seeing. As to the location of Russia’s, “first line of defence,” you know as little of that as I do, which is considerably less than a Ukrainian general. I trust that they know what they are doing and will succeed, as they have at all other points in this war.
I must take issue with your statement that, “this is not a world war,” as it clearly is. Just because it is only being fought in Ukraine, doesn’t make the stakes any less high. Every country in the free world has a dog in this fight. And this is the World War Three that the world gets when the protagonists on both sides are unwilling to use their nukes for obvious, not being suicidal, reasons.
Russia is not alone in its, “axis of evil,” as China has been backing them both overtly with words and covertly with resources, along with Iran (directly with weaponry) and other countries. While Ukraine is supported by the entire EU and the Five Eyes states, because we value freedom and democracy as much as we value life.
That is another respect in which we can draw our comparison with the battle against Nazism. The casualties were high on D Day and in the coming months afterwards, but they were expected to be high and that high casualty rate was built into the calculations of the allies, as it is in Ukraine. I do not say this is a, “good thing,” just a reality of war.
Yes, I would love to see Ukraine get a fleet of F16’s. I write to MP about that! Do you write to your representatives? Anyone who tells you that’s a waste of time is plain wrong. Demand the tools for victory and help speed the process! But, keep in mind that what the world’s leaders are saying and what is happening are not always the same thing. They don’t necessarily want Russia to know about much of the hardware that is already in Ukraine, or the shadow dropping of some jets, via Poland and other allies.
I promise you, Ukraine WILL WIN. The question is how long? And how many casualties must they take. We can influence the answer by demanding more from our representatives. That’s your role in this. On top of donating money and supporting correspondents who get the truth out there, you can persuade your own politicians.
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@hannibal808 : Maybe you’re closer the mark than you know? That little, “mutiny,” we recently saw was as much a fight over dwindling resources as it was anything else: particular the human resource of cannon fodder; expendable, untrained men who won’t be missed by the state. These are criminals and people from the outlying regions of the, “federation.” Meanwhile, places reliant on Russian troops to hold illegally occupied regions, such as Syria, Georgia, Chechnya and several others around the globe, are straining to contribute to the Ukrainian war effort whilst keeping domestic insurgents at bay. Some believe this will be a bleak winter for the Russian empire. I don’t know any more than the average well educated guesser, but . . . ?
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@andrew_alxf : “Copium,” is what’s holding up the Kerch Bridge, right now. “Copium,” is what Putin takes to convince himself he’s still, “in charge,” of Russia, even though, by his own admission, Prigozhin is defying his, “exile,” and the Wagnazis are still defying his direct orders to join the regular army. “Copium,” is what makes Putin believe he can starve 45 different nations into submission, by cancelling his grain deal, and the world will let him.
Son, we can’t GET any Copium, because Putin’s huffed it all! 😁
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Richard Ransom : It’s not just about the, “intentionality,” either? They’re just making DUMB, false equivalence ad hominems, because that’s easier than facing up to the issues. By his, “logic,” we should ban all food, because it causes obesity, or ban AIR because EVERYONE, WITHOUT EXCEPTION who BREATHES, WILL DIE. The POINT that these IDIOTS don’t WANT to grasp, is that we don’t have to COURT DEATH DELIBERATELY. THERE ARE “LAWS” limiting WHO gets to DRIVE a van, for example, or do they allow toddlers and DRUNKS to drive around in Texas? If we treated cars like guns, by THEIR logic, anyone could just hand over their cash and drive one off the lot. But, wait! What’s that? You need a, “LICENSE,”? You have to pass a, “TEST?” You can get your license taken AWAY, for ABUSING IT???
Well, HELL YEAH! LET’S have some EQUIVALENCE then, SHALL WE??? 👍
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ichiJAZZ .tv : The point being, that you have the right to do what you like, including shooting yourself, at home and not in front of the general public, because that’s just you, exercising your free will, and god given freedom. But, if you tried to force that steak down someone ELSE’S THROAT, you’re interfering with THEIR RIGHTS. See how your, “analogy,” breaks down? . . . Smh . . .
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Fascinating discussion. I doubt this comment got in soon enough for it to be read, but, for the hell of it: . . .
It seems that America’s, “Hidden Poverty,” is SO overlooked, that the problem will NEVER be solved? And it SEEMS that America’s leaders of the, “left,” and, “right,” BOTH have a STAKE in KEEPING IT THAT WAY?
The Stats on “DEBT” are startling! Most Americans will DIE IN DEBT; for their houses, cars, healthcare, education, businesses, credit cards and bank loans, etc, etc. So, while it “LOOKS” great, on paper, that there’s almost no unemployment, tell that to the majority of Americans, who are doing jobs they DON’T like, or holding down two or THREE JOBS, JUST to keep their heads above water; and who only have enough time to catch the headlines on CNN or Fox, rather than analyse the CAUSES of their DESPERATION. And, MSM confirms their suspicions and biases, leaving them feeling IMPOTENT; which makes them bitter about their own country, and thus, capable of DESPERATE MASS ACTIONS.
Until Hidden Poverty even BEGINS to be addressed, the situation is HOPELESS. Particularly, now that we have started to run the COUNTRY’S ECONOMY, like that of an irresponsible trailer park drifter, who clearly plans on DISAPPEARING and changing his name, rather than paying back the MASSIVE LOAN (I.e. the National Debt). We REALLY NEED to ADDRESS REALITY, like grownups, or sink, under the weight of uninformed despots
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J Groovy : That was a great comment, though I couldn’t tell if it was aimed at me, as requested, or not? You didn’t put anyone’s name on it. Isn’t it true that most people, when meeting a stranger, or new group of people, behave and talk in a liberal, yet conservative way? Or a conservatively liberal way? I agree whole heartedly that, “extremism,” in either direction is the enemy of Democracy and of decent lifestyles. I am Conservative, myself, and was a fierce critic of Obama, during his administration, though I NEVER pretended that he hadn’t saved our economy; even if the results of his actions did make the money magnates even MORE POWERFUL; he had little choice.
I miss Obama, now.
Your observation, that Trump speaks in, “superlatives,” is kinda’ the point I was making, about everything he and his supporters and enablers do, is designed to appeal to the, “emotions,” NOT the head. The simplest equation is that Trump gained power and retains it, on the basis of DIVISION; and the methodology, is to use emotion over logic. UNITY is the ONE thing that would defeat Trump, and he knows that.
The natural outcome of his methods, are what we’re seeing. The DIVISION has to, and can only, get worse, or it fails to work at all. This is what Putin knows. It will lead to the collapse of America’s political foundation. And, into that vacuum, the easiest thing to fill it with, is a dictatorship, masquerading as a, “democracy,” like that of Putin’s Russia. And, just like Putin’s Russia, the wealth and resources will quickly be sucked into the centre, making it impossible to sustain. Thus, the expansion, into the Middle East, Europe and, now, America.
If Russia was put back in its box, it would collapse into revolution, at the most extreme, or just dissolve over time. That is what most western Geo-Political Analysts predicted would happen to them, in the 21st Century. Of, course, many of them failed to see that Russia would see that too, and make inroads into the world, to suck up more resources, and keep itself afloat, by infiltrating world wide politics.
Whether we like it or not, we are fighting for the survival of Democracy. I am NO extremist, but as with the World Wars and the Cold War, the only available solution, is to fight back, harder than the enemy, or lose the fight. This is Cold War II. And, it will be seen as that, by history. Or, history will be re-written, by the bad guys. I truly WISH I was exaggerating ✌️
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Bubb a : I am not aware of ANYONE being, “offended,” just for being called, “black,” if they are black? What are you talking about? “The Race Card,” is a thing, I grant you. But, you should give an example, if you want to be taken seriously? And, I am a Conservative. That’s WHY I vote Democrat. Trump hates conservative values: Reckless spending, massive debt, disrespecting our generals, law enforcement, our secret services; stopping our workers from getting paid because he broke his WORD on a deal he made (the Art of the Fail), hating on our fire fighters, our veterans, our DEAD HEROES! . . . We can’t even enjoy our SPORTS in peace, without Trump sticking his Orange Orifice Of RACE HATE into our faces! . . . So, tell me what you mean, and I’ll listen. Or, don’t? And I will just be glad you gave me the opportunity to get THAT off my chest 🙂
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J Groovy : Addendum: Bit of a side bar, but it says a LOT. Did you notice that, “Anonymous,” just up and VANISHED, after Trump’s election campaign? They were a genuine thorn in the flesh, for the Obama administration; disrupting news broadcasts, big businesses, and entertaining the world, by, “sticking it to the man,” right? They have been NOWHERE, when Trump’s Tax Returns, would have killed Trump’s presidency in the crib. Why do you think THAT is? . . .
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@Billy Cole II : You should take up reading, son? According to the FBI hotline, Kavanaughty, “went thru,” about 4,700 unwilling female victims, before they sat him on the highest court in the land. But, impeachment is still likely in his case, so I’m not too concerned about his future . . . Oh, and try to remember? Trump trolls are meant to say, “Whaddabout,” when they’re panicking and trying to change the subject . . . “Do better,” son . . . 🥴
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One thing we should keep in mind (even though this Tw@er disaster is hilarious) is that, even if some angel came down from Heaven and sorted Tw@er out completely so it was always fair, honest and representative, Tw@er would lose $billions in, “advertiser revenue,” overnight, because so many, “adverts,” are pretending to be news, political reports and incendiary trigger stories, meant to upset and emotionally divide America and other western powers anyway. Half of the, “companies,” paying for, “adverts,” on Tw@er are just Russian GRU units and various other hostile powers. If some genuine checks and balances were introduced to stop fake accounts, fake news and abusive comments, there would only be around one third of Tw@er users left, and about 10% of the paying advertisers. Tw@er cannot survive as an honest and decent company any longer. It’s business model has rendered it reliant upon dog shite for its income.
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You speak as if Putin has control over Wagner, though. Yet, we all know, if Putin could have Prigozhin murdered horribly, he’d have done it by now. By Putin’s own admission, he met with Prigozhin in Moscow! So much for his, “exile,” right? Wagner are still defying Putin’s direct orders to join the regular army. They forced Putin to FLEE Moscow, for St Petersburg! Without even getting within 20 miles of the city limits! Not exactly, “I don’t need a ride, I need ammunition,” is it?
Prigozhin and Wagner flatly HUMILIATED Putin and every day they continue to defy him, openly, is another day that proves Putin does not have full control over his armed forces. He must be fighting bitter tears of cold, vengeful rage, right now.
Neither Putin nor Prigozhin can get the upper hand. Prigozhin cannot muster the loyalty he needs from within the FSB and oligarchy, whilst Putin desperately needs the income from the gold and diamond mines Wagner controls in Africa. Neither can isolate the other. Both hate each other and are looking for their chance. And that takes their eye off the ball in Ukraine, so I’m glad of that at least.
But, just don’t go thinking that Putin is playing some deep, 5D chess here. Something devious may come out of it, but they’re all playing it by ear, while NATO twiddles its thumbs and all but INVITES the next atrocity!
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Serasia : You know, that’s a good point. The person who attacks America the MOST, along with its allies, is Trump. Yet, he sucks up to DICKtators. He attacks the LAW, the Election results, the INSTITUTIONS that define America, American businesses, the film industry (America’s BIGGEST EARNER), The free press, etc, etc, yet none of the GOP are willing to point out just how UN-AMERICAN that is? If ANYONE is the, “Enemy of the People,” it’s Trump. Smh . . .
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Douglas Barton : How apt. I’m just glad I took, “precautions,” when they, “elected,” Donny. I’m loaded, cushioned and unashamed of it. But, I really feel for the grunts who’ll be humping this load, while their banks, “persuade,” them not to raid their pension funds. And, what’s the POINT of a stimulus fund, if the all the chain stores and big businesses are allowed to raid the lion’s share of it? Maybe, change America’s diaper this November? Restore the Republic? Before it’s too late?
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Andrew Jimenez : Good point. Though, most of the “people” who come here to bleat about CNN, are either paid and NOT even in the country, blind Cult members, or plain idiots, who get a kick out of Trollery, of all things (how pathetic do you NEED to be, to simply Troll the news, for fun?). Let’s face it, those who simply dislike CNN, because they speak truth to power and prefer a network that confirms their biases, REGARDLESS of the facts, would NOT spend their time, hanging around channels they don’t like? WHY do it? Repeatedly, for over a year, fo most of them? Using different accounts, to make their numbers look greater and to hide the fact that they KEEP COMING BACK.
This phenomenon is one of the LAMEST, yet verifiable, attacks upon democracy to come out of RUSSIA, that history has EVER witnessed. And, when Trump’s administration are busy paying for their CRIMES, and the years have rolled on, this period will be looked back at, with bemusement and a mix of amusement and horror
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@andrezcabara2774 : Yes. I, “listened to every word Panetta said.” But you obviously didn’t read every word I said. I wrote an entire comment in this thread conceding the possibility that it could well be an off course weather balloon (oh, wait. Two of them now, so far). But, your definition of a the word, “spy,” sounds different to mine. Even an innocent weather experiment gone wrong (twice) becomes a, “spy,” device when it’s collecting data over a hostile foreign power, intentionally or not.
Yet, while I’m prepared to be convinced that it may be two accidents in quick succession (after all, the Chinese are famous for repeating their mistakes) I doubt it very much. Nor do I believe they thought it would go unobserved. I think they wanted to see what the US would do?
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@andrezcabara2774 : Firstly, we all came here to, “speculate,” which has been largely the POINT of this thread. Secondly, China IS a hostile foreign power. Regardless of the fact that we trade with them. Where is it written, “Thou shalt not trade with thine enemy’s businesses?” You realise that Russia is still piping gas to Germany, while they’re sending tanks to Ukraine to defeat their army in the field, right? You can’t afford to be that naive, kid! China is a communist dictatorship who’s very manifesto states clearly that it intends to destroy all other forms of government in the world, to replace them with communism. Whereas the free world makes no secret of its active desire to free ALL of the countries in the world and give them democracies. Both countries have active, stated opposing goals over territory in the South China Seas, over Taiwan, over North Korea (which would no longer exist if it wasn’t for China’s protection) over Russia and Ukraine, etc, etc, etc! There is a real possibility of war between the US and China, growing all the time. So, I suggest you calm down, grow up a little, and stop propagandising for paymasters who do not care if you live or die, son.
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@flclub54 : As a producer Baldwin might well take some heat for this. But to all those saying, “I would have checked the gun myself,” I say, “NO YOU WOULDN’T!” Those people have a touch of the Dunning Kruger Effect, where they think that any expertise they have in gun use translates into safety on a Hollywood set. The expert is there to have the last word and it’s the one place in the world where you NEVER give responsibility to the person discharging the weapon. They are NOT, “experts,” and even a weapons expert is not trained in telling fakes from the real thing. It’s a specialist knowledge.
People would have checked their own gun and then done what? “Oh, but there’s bullets in the chambers.” To which everyone rolls their eyes and says, “Yeah we know. They’re blanks!” I mean, how TF is an actor supposed to know the difference? What’s the point of hiring an armorer? And do these people even realise that a Hollywood armorer is NOT an, “Armorer,” in the sense they’re thinking of the word? No one puts their safety into the hands of any Tom, Dick or Harry with a SAG card, FFS!? The weapons expert gets the last word, and if the actor messes with the gun in the scene, they have to give it back to the armorer to start over making it safe again!
People always think they’re, “experts,” in their armchairs, but in this case, the only proof I’ll need to show I’m right is that I can PROMISE right now that Baldwin will NOT be charged with anything to do with his pulling the trigger on that gun. As a producer, he may well be held as one of the people liable for cutting corners (depending on whether he can get away with the, “plausible deniability,” act he’s pulling right now?) but not for the actual bullet being in the weapon. That’s on the armorer alone. It literally says so in her contract, and it’s literally the REASON they hire them in the first place. 🤷♂️
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Mister Grizz : More people need to, “respect,” the Office of the presidency, and those of the government, right? How can ANY thinking person, “respect,” the TRAITOR in the White House? It’s out of, “respect,” for the Office that we DISRESPECT the person BETRAYING IT, and the GOONS that enable him. When people wake up to the fact that the WHOLE POINT of a Trump Troll is to DEEPEN DIVISION; NOT to, “win an argument,” or, “prove,” ANY POINT. Sometimes, it’s hard to tell if people are just being THICK, or playing for the Putinistas? . . . SMH ✌️👍
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Jude Christenson : Pray for the, “Office,” NOT the man. Christ told you, you cannot save those who have given themselves over to the Enemy. When you pray for them, you can only pray for justice; punishment even, but FREE WILL means you can NEVER effect another’s inner process; their HEART, with prayer. Not when they’ve CLOSED that heart. Jesus taught you DISCERNMENT, too. Use your judgement? Use your EYES AND EARS? Hear the WAILING of a betrayed nation, persuaded to fight for US, and to gamble their HOMELAND; who have LOST EVERYTHING. Pray for THEM. Pray that the Kurdish Refugees get to America, by the BOATLOAD, so we can offer them a HOME? Pray that Trump is REMOVED! And SOON! Then you will have FEWER THINGS to pray about? ✌️
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@michaelbarton4787 : Son, even YOU don’t, “believe,” you. “Children,” don’t shut down TV stations, radio stations and internet media platforms to hide the facts. “Children,” don’t jail, or murder journalists. “Children,” don’t jail protestors or ban free speech. “Children,” don’t humiliate their own citizens by using their own faceless goon, “police,” to conduct random spot checks of their phones, just to make sure they don’t use banned apps or speak the truth in texts. “Children,” don’t deliberately bomb unarmed civilians when they lose the battle to occupy a city. Nor do they rape, loot and murder their way across a country they were supposed to be, “rescuing from Nazis!” (especially the, “Jewish Nazis,” right?🤦♂️) I needn’t bother to insult you, as you are clearly living in your own, home made, Hell. If we are children, that makes you the toddler, kid. And what you need is a firm adult hand to put you back in your place . . . SMH 🙄
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CSS BEAST : I don’t want to say too much about him, as he is not the point. My only real point, there, was that this is a real thing, effecting real people, and it’s very easy to sit in an armchair and pontificate one’s, “opinions,” without giving any thought to the hurt and insult one gives to those who’ve lost loved ones. I understand it. Because there is a HUGE Propaganda machine in Eastern Europe, paying on the very real fears of families, regarding their job security, savings and income; offering them a convenient, “narrative,” to hang their hats on, because all they want is to get back to their normal lives, see their relatives and earn money. There’s a very different malignancy out there, which is also catching and spreading like wild fire; exploiting what people, “want,” to believe, set against what is. And, the ones who catch that, “virus,” may well go out and catch or spread another
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John Carroll : Nor is it meant to. On YouTube, I am not vulnerable or a target that can be, “hurt,” in any way. I am literally indestructible. Especially to those who may come here to call me, “names,” or claim they don’t, “believe,” me. YouTube is the LAST place anyone should take their, “pain,” or spend their time, if they are in any way open to, “feeling,” responses to deliberate attempts at negative transference. So, thank you for your concern, (if sincere? My apologies, if you are, for doubting you?) but that’s not what I’m doing here. That would be mad
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CSS BEAST : Did you know, for example, that when you’re based in the USA, and talking to a stranger, about politics, up to 2/3rds of the strangers you’re talking to will be hired Eastern Europeans, at any given point? It’s research like that, which should make us ALL sit up and pay attention. The new way to influence foreign affairs is no longer, “diplomacy.” It’s social media. And some countries are ahead of the curve on that, and have been, “influencing,” for some years now. They spend $ Billions on it . . . Quite a thought
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Right now, trump’s cult thinks that by throwing donations at the problem, they will somehow manage to, “buy back,” the presidency. It’s a scam, and Donny’s is going to flee America with all that money, and they’ll FINALLY get that wake up call they need so badly. At least America will be more united when they see it was just his Getaway Fund, and that he’s not even IN America on Inauguration Day? Too many warrants and indictments to flee from. When the cult SEES that they just funded the biggest, final SCAM Donny could pull, they will learn to HATE him, almost as much as they hate liberals and Mexicans. And it will serve them right! 🤣😂😆😂🤣
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Jeff Holland : Watch Donny’s cult, “Unfool,” themselves, at long last, when Donny splits with all their donations, to a country with no extradition treaty, but banks with access to all that lovely money his cult has just thrown at him! Watch the LOOK on their faces, when they see he dodged the warrants and indictments, and is never coming back to America! SEE the expression, when it hits them, that they thought they were funding a, “legal challenge,” when they just funded the Big Getaway for Donny and the most GUILTY of his Cabinet, who will flee with him! It’s going to be AWESOME! And, the country will suddenly UNITE in it’s loathing of Donny the Con, who scammed his cult, because he blames them, as he SAID he would at his rallies. Donny’s last act of revenge will be on his most rabid supporters, and when they realise it, it will be too late! 🤣😂😆😂🤣
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TacticallyPractical : I was never an Obama fan, though I believed him to be doing the best he could, by his lights, and he HAD integrity, dignity and knew how to read and talk. Trump is a THREAT to America. Sure, he hasn’t bombed ANYONE, except where it made NO DIFFERENCE and gave the Russians plenty of WARNING. But, have you NOTICED, while he sucks up to the likes of Putin, President Chee, etc? The ONLY people he attacks, with the exception of Kim, have ONE THING in common. Can you tell me what that is? The businesses? institutions? law enforcement officials? Personalities? Politicians? They are ALL united by ONE THING: Have you guessed it yet? . . .
They are ALL AMERICANS. He is NOT America’s President! He represents HIMSELF and the VERY SMALL band of people who go along with him, REGARDLESS of how often he FLIP FLOPS. HE HATES AMERICA and is the DIVIDER IN CHIEF
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Rob Burrows : If you say so? But, Americans DO believe her. You KNOW it. Kavanaugh has the majority of Americans AGAINST his appointment. That’s UNPRECEDENTED. WHY do you, “think,” that is? Personally, I think, along with the rest of America, that the fact she’s been in therapy about this, YEARS AGO, makes her plausible, at the very least? You KNOW this. You are all making him LOOK guilty, with this hysteria. You’ll get what you want, alright. They’ll appoint him anyway. But, the COST at the Midterms? . . . You guys are just ADDING to it . . . SMH
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FKR : Biden’s a centrist, with a proven track record. So, I’m guessing you’re pretty young? He helped Obama turn the economic disaster of the 2008 banking crisis around with staggering success. And, contrary to Trumpophile propaganda, that was not achieved by tax rises on the poor. Education is the solution. Pure and simple (unlike the water) and it always will be. The countries with the most liberal, accessible education systems are also the most prosperous, per capita. And that’s NOT a coincidence.
As to the threat of another trump in 4 years, or a trump type, that’s very real. Swift, harsh, merciless justice is the answer to that. The signs were ignored, which were first visible when the Freedom Caucus (the political wing of the Tea Party) got a grip on the GOP and blocked Obama’s SCOTUS appointments. Not what they did, but the manner in which they did it. Since then, the GOP has realised that they could get away with worse rejections of our norms, time and again. Those, “norms,” having proved useless, must now be codified into law.
Exposure, and the harshest penalties that law allows, will make it unpatriotic to support Trumpism again, if handled swiftly and harshly enough. Putting fear into the types tempted to try that shit again, and an insurmountable ideological obstacle in the way of the uneducated. Democracy is not a right, it’s a hard won privilege. People are learning that now. And, even many of trump’s most rabid supporters are regretting that now, as they didn’t real think he would steal their Christmas too. I suspect the votes in Georgia will reflect that? As will the GOP’s desperate attempts to sabotage the Georgia vote?
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siderealvision : The fact is that the Republican Party are old hands at it, and were successfully sued and punished for the criminal practice of having, “Watch Groups,” hanging around polling stations with fake ID’s, “allowing people to conclude they were officials,” without mentioning that they weren’t, questioning voters and threatening voter’s family members with deportation and imprisonment. It occurred all over the country and is a matter of verifiable record. So, put that, “old experience,” together with Trump’s repeated statements about not accepting defeat, and what we all should know about him, by now, anyway? We have just witnessed him encouraging America to, “protest,” his OWN policies, regardless of the lives that he endangered by doing so?
I get that it’s distasteful, to consider that it could happen; in the same way that it’s a bitter pill to contemplate the decline of America’s hegemony in the world. But, not wanting to believe what’s right before your eyes and burying your heads in the sand? . . . Well, that’s how he got in, in the first place. And, how many times since have we thought, “OK, but that’s as far as it goes. Surely he wouldn’t stoop any lower?” We’re asking for trouble by not admitting it to ourselves. He’s a dictator, with every impulse of a dictator, who would have already been ousted from his post and sent to jail, if it weren’t for his cowed and corrupted party . . . We will wake up to the threat. That I promise you. Whether it’s before or after the fact? Well, that’s another proposition altogether . . . Smh ✌️
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siderealvision : Oh, and when you think it through, it doesn’t take much imagination to turn away voters who are the wrong color or who speak with the wrong accents. Particularly when your, “activists,” are locally sourced, so they know half of the people who showing up, anyway . . . They’re old hands at that part. The only thing that would be, “new,” this time, would be the guns. They’ll probably call themselves, “Militias,” instead of, “Watch Committees,” but it promises to be a night of violence at this rate. Especially if it’s already looking too close to call, or bad for Donny? America’s very own Krystal Nacht? It’s not far fetched . . . Not after it’s happened, at any rate . . .
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“X, still referred to by the majority of people world wide as, ‘Twitter,’ and Tweets now referred to as, X-cretions,’” is how the BBC should have tweaked that introduction. Listening to Musk self describe as a, “free speech absolutist,” is such a hoot of hypocrisy. He routinely bans anyone from that platform who meet the twin criteria of disagreeing with him and getting any kind of attention.
Like most of these 70 something IQ dictator wannabes, he is thin skinned, hypocritical, childish, vapid, cruel and dangerous.
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David V : Can we just be clear about this? Your POTUS is selling the very Principle of Democracy to China, Ukraine, Russia, et al, and has CONFESSED to committing serious crimes, AGAINST YOU. People are literally DYING in Hong Kong, and Trump was selling his, “silence.” DYING in Ukraine, and Trump was selling for, “dirt?” Trump Trolls obviously DON’T, “believe,” in Trump, or a damned WORD he says. The question is, are you going to continue being unpatriotic, treating your fellow Americans like THEY were the, “threat,” or are you going to face up to your REAL ENEMIES, America?
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These people just don’t get it. It would be one thing if Lineker had made a pro or anti-Tory or Labour comment, but he didn’t. He simply pointed to a historical FACT about how language was used in 1930’s Germany to, “otherise,” specific groups, making it harder for us to think of them as people like us. Normalising terms like, “hoards,” and, “invasion,” is PRECISELY how it begins! How does it go? “First they came for the Jews and I said nothing. Then they came for gypsies, the gays, etc, etc, until they came for me, but there was no one left to speak for me.”
And if people are supporting the BBC’s decision, WHY are they not pointing to their STATED hypocrisy? They literally said, as part of their reasoning for this suspension, that Lineker, “is not a political commentator,” but surely the very LAST people we should tolerate ANY political opinions from should be news and politics commentators? Anyone want to talk about Andrew Neil?
Since when did the BBC see it as their, “responsibility,” to protect the thin skins of extremists in the Tory party? When one of their biggest donors was handed the job of chairman of the BBC perhaps?
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Thanks, Mr JOE. Keep up the fine work. Simply showing the unvarnished facts, without comment, does more for any opposition to this wretched government than any, “argument,” levelled at them. I honestly don’t believe it is ANY thinking person’s, “Number 1 priority,” to exploit the most vulnerable people on planet Earth, let alone the average Briton’s. Even the most callous, practically minded, exploiter can see it’s in the UK’s best interests to put these people to work and have them generate taxes and economic activity, rather than being imprisoned in Dickensian hulks around our coastlines? Especially since there’s roughly one million jobs going begging because no one in Britain wants to do them? But they would rather show their far right colours and behave like Mosleyites! Truly horrifying, without hyperbole. ✌️
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@ranzocin1624 : Putin’s, “smart,” strategy:
Lie, lie and lie some more. When the lies get laughed at, lie again.
As if you can, “justify,” bombing a hospital by saying, “but, but, there was a nasty man in the building, even though we were 16 MILES away so it made no difference anyway.” You’re sick in the head, madam. 🙄
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These are interesting qualifications. I consider myself politically, “conservative,” but only in the sense that I knew of when I was growing up (born in the late 60’s) in England. In America, I think that makes me a, “liberal,” but I’m not sure. US conservatives don’t fit the definition of the term any longer. The GOP is far right as I understand it, with some members borderline fascists.
I believe in minimal state intervention in business and private life, but a strong financial commitment to health, education and the law, funded by taxes.
I don’t really care what that makes me in the minds of others, since I know who I am and always know how to vote. Usually, I am voting for a lesser of two evils, but there is an increasingly stark divide between the two.
I just hope BlueSky will allow conservative voices as much as any others, but moderates better from the start. It will probably be easier to prevent flooding, if moderation stays vigilant from the outset.
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@melgrant7404 : You may say a prayer before, “performing,” conjugal acts with your lawful spouse and self flagellate afterwards to punish yourself for any pleasure you may have gotten, from an act you feel is, “lewd,” and only ever done for the purposes of procreation, but the shocker is that EVERYONE ELSE does it for fun! “How,” they do it, with, “whom,” they do it and whether it conforms to your idea of propriety is utterly irrelevant, kid.
The fact that so many people seem to want to pretend that they have ANY public interest or edification out of Huw Edwards’ sex life is what SHOULD be troubling and, “unacceptable,” in any well adjusted society. The funny bit is that half the people shoving their way to the mic to add their 10 bob’s worth will have sex lives that would make a Borgia blush! 🤦♂️
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@poolplayerpoolplayer7430 : You began that diatribe with an illogical, self contradictory statement. You then conflated a bunch of exaggerations and falsehoods to paint an utterly disprovable thesis, point by point, but that would take a while. And I think that’s why you do it? Knowing it takes a lot of time and patience to show why each of your many points are so wrong, you hide behind them like a barricade of grievances, aware that someone needs to work through all that bollox before they can get to their point, right?
You might as well have written, “Just because the man is right wing, doesn’t make him right wing.” Do you expect to win over or persuade ANYONE with that type of, “argument?”
Here’s a suggestion that should make you happy? Why not ban ANY politician, donor, or outspoken partisan from ANY management position in the BBC? That way the Beeb gets to stay independent and only answerable to you . . . and me, of course, and anyone else who pays a license fee. Happy with that?
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@poolplayerpoolplayer7430 : Are you a chat bot? Just repeating the same things, when they’ve already been shown to be false, is idiotic. You clearly do not understand the definitions of the terms you’re using. What seems to have you all worked up is some, “net zero,” rhetoric, examples of which you will not give, so they cannot be addressed? You may not like the conclusions of science, but it’s you who is politicising them, not the BBC. And, “net zero,” (whatever that means in your head) has nothing to do with the case in hand. Don’t be so emotional and try to think out your reasoning, then put THAT into words, rather than these pointless outbursts? Or leave me alone to talk with people who can disagree constructively?
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My fondest is my first, Memento. Speaking of, “burying the prestige in the first act,” Nolan literally achieves this in the credit sequence, where we witness the murder of his cop friend, the taking of his photograph and the fade of the picture, reversing the resolution of the image. I’m surprised you didn’t use that as your prime example, given you could have shown the whole thing, more or less? And that line, while he burns his wife’s personal effects, “I can’t remember to forget you,” touches something primal for anyone who has grieved for a lost loved one. Moving.
Then it’s The Prestige, Inception, Dunkirk, The Dark Knight, Interstellar, Batman Begins, then this one, Tenet; though I think, “Palindrome,” would have been a better title. Usually, I find stuff in your vids that I can disagree with, and say so, despite enjoying your output immensely. In this case, I’m forced to agree with every point, to the extent that I think this video would be a good teaching tool for fiction writers of all kinds. ✌️👍
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@omarawwad8787 : Good idea. Hot button topics. I hope they’re not avoiding them deliberately. I can tell you what happened to Anonymous, though? They were set up and funded by Russia, duping a lot of well meaning young Americans along the way. When Obama was no longer there, and the Dems no longer in power, Russia had no need for an, “anti-government,” outfit, and pulled the plug, knowing that no one inside that group was going to complain about their shoddy treatment to HR, or the press. And preferring not to have them focus solely on big business and banks, which would have made western insiders suspicious, and potentially disrupted Russia’s own operations. If you’re interested? ✌️
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Lazy Boss : You don’t, “know,” the Senate, as well as you, “think,” do. Mostly centrists, who, when confronted with irrefutable EVIDENCE of Trump’s Traitor lifestyle, will vote WITH Congress. Lot of disappointments, coming your way. Sure, there’ll be some holdouts. But, NOT so many as YOU are PRAYING for. It’s coming . . . 🙂
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In the, “taxing and spending,” debate, surely, “the working people,” they intend to, “protect,” are those who earn less than a certain amount? Isn’t it? Seems obvious to me. Those who, “produce,” the stuff of, “value,” by their, “labour,” which chiefly benefits their bosses, managers, owners, shareholders, etc. You can put a number on that, but it’s only helpful as a general guide until you specify for individual categories.
The question is: How detailed; how, “granular,” do you want to get? The more the better, so long as it doesn’t overwhelm the civil service or the people responsible for delivering the packages.
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I just want to grab these well meaning politicians by the scruff of their jackets and scream into their faces, “Give them EXAMPLES!” Everyone’s eyes glaze over once you start talking numbers. I’ve seen it! The BBC is not even bothering to report that the government’s OWN FIGURES on, “waste, corruption and fraud,” from inside government institutions has QUADRUPLED in two years, to a staggering £21 BILLION POUNDS!
But once you start giving EXAMPLES literally everyone sits up and pays REAL attention. Remember the MP’s Expenses scandals that were in every paper for about two years, roughly 15 years ago or so? No one recalls the name of the MP or the amount he charged the public purse, but EVERYONE remembers that he charged us for a MOAT for his DUCK ISLAND! And THAT’S what made everyone so angry!
No one really cared that much about Boris’s Party-Gate scandal, until they got EXAMPLES of how they were literally vomiting up expensive red wines down the walls of Number 10 Downing Street on the eve of Prince Philip’s funeral! You only need a few good EXAMPLES and the dismissals and excuses people make for their theft will enrage the public sufficiently to bring about ACTUAL CHANGE!
Well meaning MP’s have got to STOP counting every bean and seeing the issues from an MP’s perspective and say, “Here is exactly HOW your bank/supermarket/service provider is directly making YOU poorer by ripping you off with THIS PRECISE EXAMPLE!”
That’s how Martin Lewis got everyone’s attention over the last year. He was, “niche,” and only known to us Radio 4 listeners before then. Now everyone knows who he is because he gives us plain, practical EXAMPLES of how we’re being ripped off and what we can do about it!
And I would advise ANYONE who’s writing to their MP about this stuff to BEG them to give EXAMPLES, EXAMPLES, EXAMPLES and FFS STOP just giving us numbers! I would also urge them to read the complete works of Frankie Boyle, starting with his articles for the broadsheets, and his New World Order monologues at the end of each show, but that’s another matter entirely.
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Augie Rockero : This time it’s permanent, because they have no choice (see my comment above) but, deep down, I think you all KNOW this, really? I get it. It’s scary to have to admit to yourselves that the Republic has fallen. Because, if you’re honest with yourselves, you are forced to admit the the coming, “elections,” are already rigged, with Putin’s help, and you have the moral responsibility to DO SOMETHING about that. You KNOW they have already decided to insulate themselves from permanent disgrace, jail, and historic opprobrium. The Ukraine got rid of their Putin Puppet WITHOUT ANY WEAPONS, by simply filling the streets, and halting the country. But, there were deaths, and beatings, and that is frightening. But, if you fall into their trap, and perpetuate the myth that there will be, “Free and Fair Elections,” instead of a Putin Style Data Gathering exercise, showing the government just who to TARGET next, in 2020, you are forestalling any hope of a Revolution. Start by accepting the TRUTH? The Republic has FALLEN! Then, just MAYBE, the Republic could be RESTORED??? . . .
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@Amiami-oy6pt : I honestly believe there’s a salient point in that. The first example in this video could have said that, without hinting at his own underlying racism, by even mentioning that he, “needs to be careful what I say,” about that. The fact that we are following the same economic models, the same democratic fundamentals, the same cultural basics, etc, is worth pointing out. It tells us that THIS CAN HAPPEN TO YOU, and it increases the sense of urgency in helping Ukraine and gives us ALL a reason to want to STOP Putin in his tracks!
Where so many of these examples actually were egregious was by not making that clear and either allowing us to think they were meaning racist things, or hinting at it themselves. Their skin colour and religion is NOT the issue. The fact that if it can happen in Kyiv, it can happen in Paris, Berlin and Washington, is far more important. That’s a wake up call we all need.
It’s not racist to point out where this is leading. It is racist to suggest we should invest more in people of the same ethnic, religious or cultural background. And it is worth pointing out that in an Eastern monarchy, where you can be stoned to death for the mere suspicion of adultery, or a dictatorship that just happens to be getting along with the west, we shouldn’t (and aren’t) surprised when that all caves in and turns to chaos. It’s not racist to be unsurprised by that?
It’s racist to imply that these white Europeans are somehow more valuable. Journalists are meant to be educated people, able to express subtlety and explain things to the public, after all? That’s what they get paid for and spent years learning how to do it. So, when you see all of that time and money coming out as a thinly veiled, ignorant prejudice, people are right to be angry about that. Don’t you think?
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MUM GET THE CAMERA : No. Right wing EXTREMISTS peddled THAT crap, while not even THEY, “believed,” it! Look up the WORD, “Conservative,” and note, both it’s political and other connotations? Then come back and tell me, exactly, WHAT is, “Conservative,” about Trump’s regime? Perhaps then, you will get WHY it is, that the Democrats WON, in states where there were not ENOUGH, “liberals,” to throw out the STALINIST GOP, on their own? Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc. We NEED UNITY, NOT DIVISION. Trump’s Trolls NEED DIVISION, to keep POWER. “Conservatives,” WILL be voting Democrat in the Mid Terms. Trump’s, “fans,” are something OTHER, entirely. But, they are NOT, “Conservative,” by ANY DEFINITION
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Ebbrush3 : You will have to be prepared to do MORE than that, my friend. Trump, his family, and most of his Cabinet all KNOW they’re going to JAIL. You will have to TAKE back the Republic, if you want to restore it. What would you do, to avoid a life sentence and appearing in every history book as America’s Worst TRAITOR? Now, times that by a factor that includes NO conscience and a tendency toward psychopathy. The GOP has NO CHOICE. They simply CANNOT allow, “Elections,” and they won’t! Be prepared for the coming fight, America. It will be the last stand of the Republic, or the fall of a Dictatorship. There really is no third option
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robert ganger : It seems something similar happened to Stormy, where her FIRST lawyer was in cahoots with the enemy. Avenatti will expose it all. What we’re seeing, here, is a guy who is FORCING the Justice System to DO ITS JOB, by putting it ALL in front of the American people and saying, “I DARE YOU to do what you have done in the past, threaten, blackmail, bribe, cajole and undermine justice, while AMERICA IS WATCHING YOU!” He’s playing for keeps, and this, I hope, will be a source of comfort and encouragement for you?
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@OhioOwns : You should read the news, madam? What the Dems want is to restore the filibuster to what it used to be. Instead of just throwing a spanner in the works, by saying, “nah,” to what the country wants, and then getting to go off for summer break while the country’s democracy is held up, the Dems want anyone who disagrees with the policies that the majority have ALREADY VOTED FOR, to say why. Is THAT such a BIG ASK? Having to account for your own parties political position? To argue your case? To, “represent,” your constituency? The GOP are just afraid because they HAVE NO, “arguments,” and are terrified of being forced to OWN their Anti-Democratic, “values.” They fear being made to look like a horses ass when they cannot come out with talking points that don’t give them away. And they’re TERRIFIED that they might have to WORK for a living! Having to prepare a long speech, so you can talk out the clock for three days straight, would require them to EXPLAIN THEMSELVES. And we all know, even the trump Qult (already haemorrhaging voters) would lose more support, when they hear the open racism, the nonsensical, gibberish, self contradicting, Stalinist, deep state BOLLOX coming out of the mouths of politicians who aren’t used to doing their jobs and have no clue where to start! And, they fear making slip ups, after talking for hours and hours, just to hold up democracy, and letting something out that might get them arrested. Half of them are too old and would risk having a heart attack with marathon lying sessions? We all KNOW they would make mistakes and tell us things we weren’t meant to know. THAT’S WHAT THEY FEAR. And that’s what you’re terrified of: a little TRUTH getting into American politics, and GOP Fascists, having to EARN their handsome wages. Read a book, Karen 🙄
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Just remember, we cannot afford one moment of complacency. Trump, his family and the entire Cabinet are ALL facing jail time, and they know it. There’s literally NOTHING too low or outrageous for them to pull on America. Not one thing. The only thing that will give them pause is whether we allow it or not. Now that they’ve lost the Postal Service fight, you’re going to see a string of GOP members deserting trump (some, going for the FBI lifeboats) but, the more certain their defeat looks, the more DESPERATE they will get. What would YOU DO, to avoid a life sentence AND an appearance in every child’s history book, as America’s worst traitor? Times that by psychosis and no conscience, and you’re getting close. The fight is on. It’s the fight of your lives. Don’t let up ✌️👍
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Dear Netflix, when statements about poor quality, in general, become axiomatic, your company has a problem. I’m not referring to this movie here, but the quality 0f the movies you generally buy up. Your documentaries are getting so good that the mere fact it’s a Netflix series or one off documentary, is enough to draw audiences now. Your own, produced movies are very hit and miss, but people don’t mind that, because you invest in talent and take chances, giving us the occasional gem. The best of your TV dramas tend to get cancelled, so often, at their peak, that it’s changing the behaviour of audiences, some of who, like me, won’t invest in a Netflix TV series until they KNOW it’s going to reach a proper conclusion, instead of being killed off in the midst of its story, like The Santa Clarita Diet, and so many others. That’s why I keep putting off your current Star Trek series, in case we never get a satisfactory ending. That’s the disappointment that’s changing how audiences watch. I don’t have stats to offer, only anecdotes, but I know I can’t be the only one, who puts off watching Netflix dramas, just in case? And that must be skewing your own algorithms and stats?
But, here’s my biggest complaint (as a paying customer). PLEASE consider this? I’m certain I speak for the majority of your customers, when I ask you: PLEASE STOP bulking out your stock of movies, with dreadful, unpopular, straight to video, or critically panned and financially FAILED movies? We would rather have fewer movies that were of better quality! And, that was what you promised us, when you reduced your movie numbers from 6000 +, to 4000 +, remember? We would all LOVE to see more old classics, like Gone With The Wind, Mad Max, The Jurassic Park movies, etc, that you are offering, instead of all these dreadful failures that only a very few have heard of? It feels like an INSULT to have a terrible movie, “Recommended,” to me, and I’m sure others would feel the same way? You have barely scraped the surface of the 1940’s and 50’s movie classics, like the Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Gene Kelly, Alfred Hitchcock, and so many others I could suggest?!
But, if you note only one thing from all I’m saying here, please make it this: the Axiom, I mentioned at the top? When my friend went to see the action movie Angel Has Fallen, he told me it was not very good, compared to the others, and he expected it to flop (which it did). When he asked me if I would bother to see it, being a fan of the star, I said, “Nah, if it’s rubbish, it’ll be on Netflix soon.” And that’s the Axiom that’s following Netflix around like a bad smell. IF IT’S A BAD (NEW) MOVIE, IT WILL BE ON NETFLIX SOON. It’s not funny, but it is true. A truism, that should be challenged, at a fundamental level. You can do better. We KNOW THIS. You show all the evidence that you people KNOW what a good movie is.
Please consider this? You put out so much dross, during Covid??? Do your part, Netflix? You make a LOT of money, and you do some things so well! Please get some, “Quality Control,” in your classic and older movies? We LOVE to watch older movies. Just not the dross. Sorry to rant, but it’s important. Do you CARE about your customers? Offer them something extra, to help, during this challenging time? . . . RESPECTFULLY, PLEASE?
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TUBER SURFER : Are you, “wrestling,” with the facts, there, son? Trying to come to, “grips,” with Jordan’s kiddy fiddling? Getting those facts, “down to the mat,” are you? Jordan’s going to jail, and you know it. That’s why he’s hysterical, sucking up to Trump, now. He wants a pardon, too 😁
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It’s true that Mercer looked and acted fed up, before he’d even been asked a question; probably because he was irked over his introduction and didn’t seem content with the apology and correction. But he was defensive and looking like he’d rather be talking to ANYBODY else throughout. Now, if a, “conservative,” cabinet minister can’t relax in an interview with John P and The Times, of all outlets, how’s he going to field questions from the Guardian, or any other news outlet left of centre? . . . Oh, how silly of me. Of course, no conservative ministers will even speak to the press unless they’re members of the, “client club,” right? That was probably the hardest grilling Mercer will have to take for the rest of the campaign.
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Born In Shithole Country : The only reason you are HERE, is out of FEAR and Butt Hurtary. And, Conservatives HATE Trump. Only the Extremist, Racist, CULT, supports him, so exactly WHY you WANT to ASSume we’re all from the, “left,” is just HILLARYous! Your, “narrative,” is breaking down. You are fooling exactly NO ONE! “Butt Hurt,” AND scared, like I said. I’m OBVIOUSLY getting to you . . . 😁 🖕
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Born In Shithole Country : So, when all those CONSERVATIVES voted OUT the GOP, in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc, THAT was them showing, “support,” for the Orange DICKtator, was it? Your posts are getting longer, as it takes more words, to twist around LOGIC and TRUTH. And, remember, “Butt Hurt,” YOU are the ones, who LAUGH at, “polling”??? 🤣 🍊 😜 🤪 🤣
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@JourneyOnLife : Yep. Now he has his excuses ready prepared, as he will say they trumped up these charges because he defected. Yet, the one thing this man could never answer after all his speechifying is, “If you think all this stuff is wrong with your country, why are you abandoning it?” He took an oath, yet he claims he wants to, “fix,” America by fleeing it?
Why does, “Do your own research,” only ever mean, “Find websites that already agree with you?”
America is better off without him. Now they don’t have to waste money on his trial, incarceration and investigations. They can look after his victims.
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@artamutt5485 : The, “good,” I refer to, is simple and straight forward. And it has nothing to do with the points you make (legitimate or not). Whichever party holds power, there must ALWAYS be a strong opposition, acknowledged by the government as legitimate; able to hold gov to account, able to debate policy in public and express its opposition without fear of threat, or violence. It must be able to prevent excesses and have the means to invoke the legal tools at its disposal to prosecute those who break with the constitution or break the country’s laws. Without that opposition, that is capable of winning over the government’s voters, to the point that the government can lose its powers and be replaced, you no longer have a Democracy. And, America was supposed to be a Democratic, Constitutional, Federal Republic.
America is not that, right now. It has ONE political party, currently holding fascism at bay, but under threat from all sides. From the suppression of votes, protest and now, even education, to the hacks that are about to announce that, “Chiynah,” interfered with our elections. Putin has come far closer than most Americans are willing to accept, to dividing America into an irreparable condition. Democracy cannot function as it is, with one side sworn to oppose all policies, good, bad or indifferent, and it will collapse under the strain.
So, I argue that a genuine party, representing the millions of conservatives, who are not down with fascism, is a necessity. When the future of a party, or their country, starts to boil down to what one or two people might do, at a pinch, your democracy is already in trouble. Trump will take his, “populist,” (even though his cult doesn’t see that their actions are NOT even that) followers with him, but the actual voters will fall away over time. The democratic conservatives, who establish their own party, will win more and more support. Especially if they join the Dems on certain, genuinely popular, votes on key bills, like that of Infrastructure. They can demote Cheney, but they cannot fire her from her elected position. They’re stuck with her, until the midterms. And she will build a coalition around her. And the power, and popularity of that coalition may grow, based on what they do? There is the opportunity for them to make trumpism genuinely irrelevant, and to grow a legitimate opposition, without the need for the violent confrontation that the trumpists are seeking.
But, if you can set aside thoughts of what it is that you don’t like about, “conservatism,” and see it from that perspective? That of, WHY it is NECESSARY to have strong opponents to government, if you want to keep your democratic Republic? Then I hope you’ll get where I’m coming from, and why I support Liz Cheney, a woman who’s, “politics,” have turned my stomach in the past? . . . ✌️
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And the only power Sunack retains, as the rest of the Tories sub-divide into their respective camps, hoping that their candidate becomes the new leader, is that power to slap an election on the party if they get too disloyal in the coming weeks. Any policy revolts will be met with, “Let’s put it to the nation then!” and that will keep them quiet, with diminishing returns as the clock ticks.
I just keep thinking of Oliver Cromwell’s big day in Parliament. (I’m paraphrasing here, but) he just got so fed up one day he shouted, “For the love of God just go! Be gone! If you have any shame just leave! GTFOOH!” We just need one senior Tory with the courage to say that, or even read the quote out, and that would probably trigger an election.
The fact is that it’s not even a question of, “no confidence,” in the leadership, OR any of his potential rivals. The nation has zero confidence in the party! And it would only take one front bencher of sufficient cabinet rank to say that quiet part out loud, and we can get on with the damned election and move on!
God knows we have so much cleaning up to do . . .
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@wengelder9256 : No. The terms are not, “known,” as there is no existing legal formula or precedent for such a case. We could not simply join as though we were a knew partner, with zero history. The EU would naturally seek safeguards against the possibility of further massive disruptions. Plus, Britain remains one of the largest economies on Earth, certainly in the top 10 (currently, though that is far from a stable state of affairs) and the EU took a huge financial hit from our leaving. Several scientific, trade and development programs have been ended as a direct result of our withdrawal, along with all that cash to prop it up. Assurances would be a necessary part of any deal. And all that assumes that we could surmount the hurdle of other countries vetoing our rejoining. The French famously blocked our very first attempt at joining what was known as The Common Market back in the late 1960’s or early 1970’s (I can’t recall the exact year off the top of my head) and they will have reflected that they were vindicated by recent events.
They won’t, I assure you, simply require a legally binding undertaking not to have any further referendums for a generation or two. They will have demands, regarding trade, Rn’D projects, with the potential insistence on restoring funding for certain special military or science projects that were trashed before. These things are never simple. And the simplicity of simply withdrawing has lead to complications for both sides of that discussion, both in Europe and domestically.
All that to say, no. You’re simply wrong about that. Do a little more reading on policy, perhaps?
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That bogus lawyer is exploiting her clients. She knows it’s NOT a 1st Amendment issue. If she honestly doesn’t, she’s just a terrible lawyer. But, it can’t be for the money. It must just be about raising her own profile? Did the school force her to take down her comments, or even suggest that she should? No. Her free speech remains un impinged upon then. They have a right to shut down things that damage their reputations, do harm to their image, and to respond appropriately. I sympathise with the girl, really. But, just as I would toss someone from my house, if I read racist or threatening posts on the internet, made by them, I cannot be forced to tolerate stuff either. It’s the school’s house, they can do what they like, and they made their rules clear. That, “lawyer,” should be working for trump? She HAS TO KNOW she’s wrong? She can’t win?
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I think you’re onto something there. I’m a firm believer in the principle of, “If you build it, they WILL come.” John Wick 4 was a huge success. I also went to see the Spider-Man, Top Gun and James Bond movies in the theatre. People will still go to cinemas if the movies are good. It really is that simple.
And people are sick of political, “messaging,” like Kathleen Kennedy’s self inserts of Mary Sue figures into every franchise that hijacks their characters and themes of Marvel, Star Wars and Indiana Jones. There’s a dishonesty to that, which makes audiences feel unhappy at seeing their favourite characters (the ones that sell the movie!) ruthlessly emasculated and, “rescued,” by some unlikeable, implausible, OP young woman.
They did that to Luke Skywalker, to the Hulk, and now Indiana Jones himself. Who wants to see their heroes being humiliated? Audiences don’t trust Disney anymore. They’re sick of the politics.
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TheAutomaton37 : If that’s a serious question, the short answer is that Closure / Bankruptcy, is, “How,” they do it. It’s how they get the big payoff, at the end, and it helps to cover their tracks. For the full answer, read Caroline Maybe’s comment and follow her suggestion. It’s an old, old, story, but it still works
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@Q5000 : “The military industrial complex,” again . . . Did people just read that expression in a book and think it was smart? Should we HAVE a military at all? Yes? Should it be the best of all militaries in the world? Hope so, right? Then, we NEED a, “military industrial complex,” to make their weapons, train them, fund RND and MAKE them the best in the world, don’t we? How can the military industrial complex be inherently, “evil,” yet the military isn’t? That makes NO SENSE! Learn how to think, rather than being told what to think? Do you know who coined the phrase, or why? . . .
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This a selective presentation, unbalanced and therefore biased. You are also unreasonably dumping responsibility on Hossenfelder for the way in which others respond to, or hijack, her content. You misrepresented her statements about her experience of one university as her making an accusation about all academia. That comes off as sly.
The fact is that there is a problem with the way capitalism pervades science research and governs agendas. Yet again, when she says that most of the scientific research that, “your taxes pay for is bullshit,” she is NOT saying, “all scientific research is bullshit.” There is a clear distinction there that you are refusing to acknowledge. She is attempting to highlight a problem within the system. Using hyperbole in the manner she does may be damaging, but hardly as damning as you want to make it seem.
You are also conflating the times when she’s disagreeing with other scientists, arguing her case, with her arguments about the problems generally.
And you are showing that you don’t get the argument. Physics IS STUCK. Yes, there have been breakthroughs and discoveries in practical physics, like the examples you gave, but THAT is NOT what she’s talking about. She is talking about THEORETICAL physics. And you will not find ANY respected physicist who disagrees with this proposition: THEORETICAL physics IS STUCK. I have seen her in academic institutions, on the stage, in front of live audiences, discussing this problem with the very string theorists and others who sit firmly in different camps, debating WHY this is, not IF this is the case!
You are misinterpreting the disagreement and misrepresenting it.
Also, she is NOT, “outside of academia.” Who told you that? She is still working with universities, submitting papers and being peer reviewed. Or, so she tells us. Do you have evidence to the contrary?
It seems you have not done your homework and thus made empirically measurable mistakes. And, in misunderstanding the nature of so much of her content, you have gotten carried away with your own suspicions as to her motives. Accusing her of, “sacrificing her integrity and POISONING SOCIETY,” is, I’m afraid, not just, “overly dramatic,” but painfully misguided and wrong headed at best.
If you really are speaking in good faith, you will do more research so as to understand how you have misunderstood the nature of the impasse in THEORETICAL physics. If not, you will continue making, “click bait, for clicks and cash,” as you put it, and taking fair criticism too personally.
I too have disagreements with some of her theoretical conclusions and sometimes with her messaging and the manner in which she presents some of that. But, despite your attempts at demonstrating, “balance,” by siting her positives, you expressed no respect for her or even her endeavours in principle, which I found telling. There is something personal in this for you and if you’re honest, you will admit that. Otherwise you would have used less personally insulting language and less incendiary terms.
I would remind you however, in either case, no matter what you say, or how overwrought your presentation, you personally do not get to decide if Sabina Hossenfelder is a, “trusted science communicator,” as though she were on trial for her career, or as if your personal verdict carries any more weight than the next man or woman’s. That is up to the audience with whom she communicates.
And I suspect her audience is not quite so, “incapable of discernment,” as you think. But, at least we know a little more about what you think of YouTube viewers.
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@ : I don’t believe she is, “pandering,” to anyone, nor does the author of this complaint. I think he’s looking down the wrong end of the telescope, worrying about how others use or hijack people like her for their own purposes. He certainly doesn’t judge YouTube audiences as people capable of making their own informed judgements.
Much of his complaint is opinion, not fact. And if he was genuinely concerned in the manner pretends to be, he would have evidenced his attempts to reach out to her and discuss the problem before attacking her in a click bait video. In this video alone, he commits all of the offences he accuses her of. And he draws a clear demarcation line of division between them, rather than attempting any form of synthesis. That is audience manipulation. Don’t fall for it.
I have suspected this guy of being a little vain before, but it never influenced my opinion of his content much; rather it accounted for why he takes so long to get to the point sometimes, or can be so repetitive. But this was a very personal, personalised attack and I think ego has a lot to do with it.
I have seen most of the videos he used excerpts from and know that he’s misrepresenting them by skewing the context. I don’t trust his motives at all, since he’s taken the wrong approach and just exploded out of nowhere with a bunch of hyperbole, insinuation and accusation.
Regardless of whether you and I agree on the above, you cannot dispute that he is NOT a mind reader. He does not have a privileged insight into what’s going on inside her head, but he ascribes the worst possible motives and he has never even spoken to her about it. What does that tell you? It certainly does not fit the character of Sabine Hossenfelder that I have come to know over the years. I do not know her either, but I do not believe she is as reckless, thoughtless, selfish and dangerous as he alleges at all. That’s just not who she is.
His rhetoric reminds me of the very worst politicians whose every allegation is actually a confession.
And I know for a fact that he has totally misunderstood the debate about the impasse in physics at a fundamental level. It is simply not what he thinks it is and simply rattling off a bunch of achievements in physics is to miss the point entirely, demonstrating his ignorance.
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cj p : False equivalencies, “Whaddabouts,” and a little hyperbole for good measure. Rather like listening to an angry nine year old, trying to justify cheating at sports, in a playground. And, you wonder WHY the GOP were crushed at the Midterms? People like you, son. That’s the quick answer. So, you keep doing you. Never change. Just keep blurting out your clumsy, inept, Propaganda, and we’ll keep sweeping up the Conservatives, embarrassed to be associated with people like you, son 🙂
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@yaumelepire6310 : I was genuinely surprised, and unprepared for the, “No. I am your father,” shocker, when I saw Empire at the cinema, when it was new (yeah, I’m THAT old). So, while I agree with you, by and large, there are exceptions. If the entire narrative is built around one, hidden-in-plain-sight, twist, like The 6th Sense, it makes all the difference, and gives the movie rewatch value; knowing what you know now. But that’s rare. And even more rarely successful. As Shyalaman has discovered, to his cost. Back in the day, when I saw Empire, they used to put up a sign on the screen, both before and after the movie, asking audiences not to tell people about the twist in the tale. And guess what? That WORKED. My older brother had seen it before me, and afterwards he said, “Now we can talk about it,” with a wink. Imagine that, with the internet? Could never happen now. ✌️
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@Erikson564 : I get your point. A lot of people forget how important that twist was to the success of Empire. It’s still rated as the best movie of the entire franchise. I think it matters when that twist is the point of the story, like in Psycho, The 6th Sense, or Garfield The Movie . . . OK, maybe not that last one? 😉 But, I prefer not to have any spoilers, generally. Who wouldn’t? They shouldn’t ruin a good story, well told, in most cases. But there are some, like Hitchcock’s Suspicion, where not knowing is the point of the narrative and what makes the characters interesting. Once you know the outcome, it’s a different movie. ✌️
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MNTribeFan : Speaking of, “ratings,” and, “ads,” I reckon that the REAL News Stations should go with this, as their new strap-line:
“GOP . . . If you need to say, ‘sorry,’ this Christmas, do it with Impeachment? For when, ‘I told you so,’ just isn’t enough.”
Kinda’ catchy, don’t you think? 😉✌️
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It’s bad enough when your government is corrupt and incompetent, but when your own government TELLS YOU that it HATES YOU unless you agree with them, be afraid!
The country can see that Tory policies don’t work, cost the working people more money, and are genuinely afraid of a party that has set new records for, “Waste, Incompetence and Corruption,” by their OWN RECORDS (costing Britain £26 BILLION POUNDS), introduces suicidally stupid financial policies that fail spectacularly, and are ACTIVELY HOSTILE toward the ELECTORATE from the Dispatch Box. Plus, the introduction of this new phenomena of brown skinned brown shirts is frightening.
So, yeah. That’s a perfectly rational response if you ask me. Getting these robber barons OUT is a matter of national security and a national emergency.
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Paul Knowles : Oh, I don’t doubt that Trump has his Putin Style, mock election, all planned out. And, we all KNOW that Democracy and Trump can’t both be there in 2020. The only question is, will he survive, to finish this soft coup, or will he be ousted? The Normals don’t just get their news from one source, son. People are better informed than you want to think. The polls were actually right, about Trump in 2016. It WAS close, and he did LOSE the popular vote. Since he only nurtures his base, it got MUCH worse in 2018’s Midterms. And, we KNOW he could NOT, POSSIBLY, “win,” a Democratic election, now, which is why he won’t ALLOW anyone to even MENTION Russia’s intentions for 2020. But, now that he’s breaking the law, and intimidating witnesses into breaking the law, IN PLAIN SIGHT, the only question is; will America STOP that? Or, will they just sit still and watch the installation of their New Dictatorship on TV? . . . I suspect the latter. But, don’t mistake apathy for ignorance, son. Not the same thing . . .
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Paul Knowles : Hmmm? . . . You probably meant, “country’s lefties,” I’m guessing? English is rarely the first language of the average Trump Troll, these days. You clearly haven’t READ the Mueller Report, or you’d KNOW that it, “says,” that the investigation was, “Obstructed,” at very turn, (at least 10 times) and therefore was NOT DONE. Why else do you think Barr is getting so desperate to stop Mueller from speaking in public? Why else are they trying to control his message? Anyhoo, I stopped reading you, at that point, as you are simply, “regurgitating,” your Propaganda, whilst projecting that onto your interlocutor, ‘Coz that’s what you do. For a minute, there, I thought I was talking to someone who knew how to think? Turns out out, you’re only here to try to tell people what to, “think,” which you’re deluded enough to imagine you could actually do, because it worked so effectively on you. Why do you HATE America, son? . . . Smh
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Paul Knowles : See, there? On reflection, you realised I was right all along? “Country’s.” A misconception is different from a typo, right? And, it’s an apt metaphor, for what’s to come. You were very disdainful and invited a little of your own treatment. So, if you don’t like being, “insulted,” don’t DO it? As to hating America . . . You want us to believe that this grifting con man and his degenerate family, who’s, “charity,” The Trump Foundation, was closed down and is being investigated for, “Routinely stealing from defenceless, needy, children and US veterans,” is in some way CAPABLE of being a POTUS, let alone, not BETRAYING the country’s interests, for the pettiest, most banal reasons? You are clearly too intelligent to, “believe,” that Trump is anything other than what he appears to be; and what all the evidence is telling us he is; a cheep crook, a vile sex pest, an incompetent, a hustler and an idiot, propped up by a gang of rotten goons who have nothing to recommend them, other than they are smarter than he is, so I HAVE TO conclude that you are NOT taken in by him. Ergo, you are either being paid, or you just hate America
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Paul Knowles : Politicians are literally selling themselves, in public, as your so called, “servants,” and are THERE to be, “judged,” so that’s a cop out, of personal responsibility. The Trump Foundation scandal is Public Record, and you can get the Court Transcripts from the public websites. It was well publicised, at the time, only around six months ago. So, when people claim to work for you, but are actually stealing from you, whilst placing you in threat of physical harm, and potentially selling out your children’s future, I suggest you grow a pair, instead of shrugging your shoulders, and acting like you have THE RIGHT to just carry on, like nothing happened. The very fact that you’re here, commenting, proves that you didn’t think you had no right to an opinion, just before you got into this conversation, right? . . .
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Paul Knowles : And, how many times do I have to say it? You seem to HATE America. You’re OBVIOUSLY not American, as I pointed out. Read more carefully, son. Mueller was supposed to have been let loose, by now, but they keep him on the contract, so they can control him (also, already stated) but, behind closed doors, Mueller, who is NOT partisan, yet still a registered Republican, is being Mueller: trying to tell the TRUTH without making it a set piece for the press. His public testimony will come, but at least there can still be some discretion this way. I think you know this, if you take the trouble to think from both points of view? And, when you look up the court proceedings, of the Trump Foundation, keep in mind that the embezzlement is not even a question. What’s being investigated is exactly which members of the Trump family took what, how they did it, and who helped them with that. Also bare in mind that, as you’ll see, it’s been around for some time, and is only one of the scams Trump has going that provides sufficient cash for him to keep up a front. His defenders will point to the fact that he tried to close the Foundation, before it got too closely scrutinised, as if he, “knew,” something fishy was going on and was trying to stop it. But, put times and outgoings together, and do the math for yourself? That fact that you haven’t heard about this, only months after it was in the news, says something about where you’re getting your info, son, and what those people don’t want you looking at. I always look at the, “news,” of the far right. You should really look at both sides. It will ware down your faith in Trump, through the sheer power of logic
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Paul Knowles : Australia is a great country. I know many Australians. They are the first to admit that their history puts as much blood on the country’s hands, as does America’s, when it comes down to their treatment of the original inhabitants. Only, your country’s historic crimes are more recent. Racism is a problem and it’s on the rise. Nazis have become more powerful, due to the power of mass communication, giving them the ability to organise and coordinate their Propaganda lies better. This growing consolidation gives the appearance of growth, when it’s nothing more than consolidation. That doesn’t mean that the problem of Propaganda, Misinformation, betrayal of countries and increasing attacks upon the truth and the flesh are not worse than ever. But, it doesn’t mean that more people are becoming Nazis, either. Your, “rejection of the left,” is not growing. It’s just getting organised. But, so is the other side. The problem for Nazis is that they need people to, “reject,” centrists, conservatives, and average, decent people, if they want to get any REAL traction. And, I’m not saying that won’t happen, either. It might? We’ve seen Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, et al, so we KNOW the threat is real. But, it’s not a, “given,” either. Hitler and Stalin lost, in the end. People prefer NOT to live in Dictatorships, when it comes down to it. So, even if the right is rising, that’s no excuse for conservatives, like me, to give in to the likes of Trump. He’ll be remembered for what he is. And, whether I’m alone, or speaking for the majority, I’ll do my own thinking, and keep my morality, thanks. That’s all any of us have, in the end
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Red Alert : I keep telling people that trump trolls are never here to, “win arguments,” have, “debates,” or to, “persuade,” anyone of anything. Their only, “job,” is to spread dismay at their stupidity, hate at their offensiveness, and most of all, the DIVISION that gives trump his power. A, “United,” States of America is the one thing the trump’s can never allow
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X•Mega Mike : There’s no way trump will survive a legal, free and fair election. And you’re so right. Desperate criminals, facing historic disgrace, when there’s no one there to obstruct justice for them, and we finally SEE EVERYTHING, and they’ll get a lifetime in jail, regardless of the coming Pardon Fest (which will only serve to drive home to Americans all the CRIMES they’re guilty of, having to pardon themselves of them); these kinds of CRIMINALS will do ANYTHING to avoid that fate. They’re ALREADY CHEATING in Kentucky, S Carolina, Georgia, where they reduced the number of polling stations, had them all in white neighbourhoods, and then claimed technical problems and incompetence as their, “defence,” for closing early, while they spoliated the votes, no doubt. America won’t stand for it. Racism and the DIVISION you get from racism is what gave Donny the power to Make America Divided Again. Time to be a UNITED STATES! Perhaps for the first REAL time? Unity is Donny’s Kryptonite, so we MUST STAND TOGETHER, regardless of all other concerns, beliefs or religions! It’s not your fault, America. But it IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. There’s no hiding from it. They aren’t going peacefully. But, they’re most;y cowards. Demonstrating the sincere willingness to fight is usually enough to make bullies back down. When they see it’s hopeless, they break ranks and try to save themselves by cutting deals. Then we own them. But until then, it’s up to us! ✌️👍
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none none : Trump trolls say things that they hope will generate an, “emotional,” response. When you click their name (the professional ones) they get paid for each response. They get more for clicks on their Trumpoganda Click Bait. More still, if they get you off of YouTube and onto their Malware infested, “cookies,” contaminating, propaganda sites, that track what you look at, from then on, for their, “algorithms.” I’m not saying you shouldn’t stomp their stupidity. But, don’t click on them? Unless you want them to get paid? ✌️👍
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@jacqdanieles : Wagner was himself a rabid anti-Semite long before the term, “Nazi,” had been invented, to such an extent that he would make the other anti-Semites blush, even in circles where it was fashionable. That’s why the west was so incredulous to begin with, thinking that Putin’s claims of, “denazification,” were just his way of trolling the west. It has been a real eye opener as to the sheer depth of Russian national ignorance that such blatant contradictions like that Wagner Group can even exist, let alone become Putin’s premier meat bucket. But, this is in a country where private military outfits are outlawed by their, “constitution.” Yet everybody who is anybody in Russia has their own paramilitary protection outfit on the payroll. There are, quite possibly, more private military personnel in Russia right now than there are government military!
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Pharmaceutical companies are just as bad as the conspiracy theorists. By behaving in such an established, inarguably unethical way, consistently, across the board, and having killed so many countless people through sheer greed and abuse of their immense power over the legal system, they have forced the desperate and poor to seek any alternative they can afford.
Then, when people doubt the validity of these wild alternatives, it is easy to point to the very real villainy of the pharmaceutical industry and say, “Well, they don’t want you to know about the truth,” and that sounds plausible enough. If any of these alternatives turned out to do what the gullible thinks is true, the industry probably would try to prevent free public access to them, until they could get their own patents and licences all over them.
So, when a famous guy, with a known tendency to believe in superstition (I this as a Christian myself, just not a Catholic) says he believes in something that sounds like it requires a fairly superstitious outlook on life to believe in, should we be surprised? Or even influenced at all? No.
Could it turn out that some or all of what he believes is true? Yes. It seems unlikely, but the science will tell us. Those who really want to know should regularly check in with the patent offices of major countries and watch for quietly forthcoming medical legislation concerning these products, to see if the pharmaceutical companies are attempting to get control over them. If they are, that means their research has been promising.
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Unless you subscribe to a cult, in which case that’s a daily occurrence and occupational hazard, to which most members are numbed? They find that it’s too exhausting, falling into the trap of hypocrisy, so instead, they simply embrace Hypocrisy, as a kind of Lifestyle Choice. Personally, I’m sparing a thought for the victims of sexual assault and harassment, who were relying on Time’s Up for legal assistance and moral support, when this sh*t went down. I just hope and pray that the suicide rates don’t spike, because of a few celebrities who let their political biases get the better of them, and cause them to disregard the facts, in favor of a narrative they preferred, costing them millions in donations and all of their credibility. The pain and despair for those victims is the most real thing I see in this . . .
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Do people not get it yet? . . . It really is very simple. This is what happens when you let the children of a school for kids with impulse control issues and antisocial behaviour disorders in charge of the sweet shop! They are taking everything they can fill their pockets with and only looking out for the interests of their friends and family members, gutting the shop completely. We have fallen for the, “personality politicians,” and we are reaping the rewards, which are to be robbed blind!
Analysing the government and trying to understand the, “ideologies,” of these goons is like trying to interpret the philosophy of the MAFIA! It’s IRRELEVANT! They have no clue themselves! They don’t, “believe,” in ANYTHING and they have no, “plan,” other than to keep up the self dealing and to take everything that’s left for themselves before it’s all gone in this riot of looting the sinking ship, if you’ll forgive my mixing up my metaphors.
The Trussites and Boris Johnsonites all belong to these, “think tanks,” which are just private clubs for enriching their members, like a manic Masonic lodge. They use the fig leaf of, “liberal economics,” and the, “free markets,” solving every problem from policing to health care, but they simply see EVERYTHING as a potentially lootable resource and will ensure that they own shares in the new, “Police Force Plus,” or, “NHS Extra,” whatever precious last property they can steal from us and sell!
They are slightly INSANE, unqualified and openly hostile to at least two thirds of their own population! They have the sheer ARROGANCE to TELL us that we, “care,” about, “Stopping The Boats,” when I can’t find a single person (who doesn’t have a swastika tattooed on their forehead) that actually WANTS that!
This is like, “analysing,” why your cat grows fur! Can we PLEASE just accept that it does and move on??? The question is HOW TF do we get them OUT of power and replaced in their coming wilderness years by some GROWNUPS???
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jane pai : You don’t, “believe,” that, son. Why would they lie? Nothing to gain, except the Tweetbombing of the Orange Orifice? That, “here say,” has an awful LOT of witnesses, to back it up, right? Given that each incident he mentions involved another person, or more? Given that each witness was questioned without the others, to get their stories straight? And, where it falls flat for you, is that they, “gain,” NOTHING by lying. People DIED in the Ukraine, son. Our, “allies,” fighting Russia . . .
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As a direct, “victim,” of PartyGate myself, who deeply regrets voting Tory at the last election, this GamblerGate scandal merely reopens old wounds. Not only have these goons learned NOTHING, but they’ve grown visibly more DEGENERATE! My anger is indescribable in polite company!
The reason it’s so, “toxic,” is the reaction of Sunak. He simply DOES NOT GET IT. He should have dismissed everyone involved and made a statement showing that he understands that CORRUPTION is, “bad,” REGARDLESS of whether it’s a, “crime,” or not! It doesn’t matter if people, “knew,” the actual date and the hour of the election or merely made, “informed,” guesses, using their unique, insider knowledge! Their actions are the very definition of, “corruption.” Not to mention the attitude of entitlement it betrays and the obvious way they lacked any seriousness in the way they saw their responsibilities!
The fact that they NEED this stuff EXPLAINED to them is so galling! Why does Sunak claim to need to know whether their actions can be defined as, “crimes,” or not? Like he needs the grownups to explain, “morality,” to him?
He might as well go back out in the rain and say, “I can’t tell the difference between right and wrong, so I’m waiting on the adults.”
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@valyshknee4203 : But, aren’t you just another one saying, “Because I was happy to accept minor bugs, I don’t believe that all the other people who experienced game breaking bugs are real,” now? You can’t get more game-breaking than crashing, and that was most common on high end computers and the PS5, ironically. Repeated crashes that made people give up reloading.
And I’m glad you brought up RDR2 because, whether you liked the final product or not, you cannot pretend it was what they advertised it to be? In the opening scenes you can see people playing pool, banks of arcade games, drinking and eating, but you couldn’t actually DO any of that yourself. It is a sterile shop window of a world, that actively punishes you for going off the rails and just exploring. It may have a good story, good script and good performances from a cool cast, but they told you it would be an immersive open world.
Now, you and I both know that in both of the RDR games, you can completely ignore the story quests and side quests and still have an awesome day of making your own adventures for several entire play sessions in a row, playing cards and other gambling games, bounty hunting, finding outlaw dens and f*cking up their sh*t, racing horses, hunting a serial killer, getting drunk, shooting contests, hunting and fishing the fauna, botany and recipe collecting, I could just keep going. And that’s ignoring all the random encounters, treasures and weapons built in to that experience. NONE of that happens in CyberPunk.
Is it a good game? Probably. Is it worth the asking price? Not for those who bought it on a PS4 and found it unplayable, like me, no. We should be getting Phantom L for free. Though I sold my PS4 and gave the game away for free, so it wouldn’t do me any good.
But, even CDPR admitted about half of the truth in their own apology video, and that was only because the Polish government made them come clean and fix their sh*t, rather than allowing them to just walk away from it.
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@LoneRogue96 : That’s a good question. The Witcher games proved that they could do side quests and side activities galore, better character models and working systems, all on their engine. So, there really isn’t any excuse for, “accidental,” failure. The Witcher 3 did release with major issues, but they patched all the worst of those within 6 months and finished off within a year. There wasn’t even an attempt to make any of the shiny objects in CP interactive. So, was it a tension between the investors and the devs, or something more? Nothing takes 3 years, after the base game game? I know the investors wanted to walk away after the disastrous release. And it was largely due to the Polish government threatening to sue them, which would have meant them getting a good look into all their books through the Discovery process and possibly uncovering criminal activity, that frightened them into putting all of this right. But there are still several shady characters, several shady decisions, and several shady plans that went awry, that we don’t know about. My gut tells me that much.
A deep dive investigation would be so instructive and valuable to the community of gamers and devs alike. Y’know? Given that this was the biggest fraud in gaming history . . . so far . . .
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killyamomz : You know WHY people tune out, of your hysteria? It’s because Conservatives, LIKE ME, know Trump is guilty. The question is not even, “if,” at this stage. It’s, “Why,” does his Cult not care? But, it’s easy to answer that, son. You HATE Dems MORE than you, “love,” America . . . That’s why Normals aren’t even READING your, “comments.” . . . Smh
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Roland Woltman : Trump’s Cult doesn’t, “believe,” its own Propaganda. No one does. What they’re really saying is, “We don’t CARE. We HATE Dems, MORE than America’s enemies, because Fox has trained us to. We LIKE the idea of a Putin Style FAKE Democracy. Our FEAR, RACISM and GREED have been exploited by Fox, RT and Alex Q Jones, and it WORKED. We WANT to END the Republic.” We’re past the point at which people can pretend to, “believe,” the Trumps and be, “plausible.”
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@victoriadanco5528 : “Lies”? Putin hasn’t claimed that there are, “Nazis running Ukraine,” then? And that the Jewish Zelensky is the, “Nazi leader”??? No need for, “Denazification,” then? Tell me why you LIVE on CNN if it’s all, “lies,” son? Here to, “educate people,” are you? You sure can’t claim to be, “entertained,” by this, as you’re clearly NOT a happy bunny? Does it actually hurt you? Seeing that people just don’t buy Putin’s charade? . . . Good. 😋
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The Ring of Fire : “Why now?” Could it be because the tacit agreement within the Republican Party has been to ride this crazy train, while it serves their purposes, so they can later BLAME Trump for the mess he’s made? That way, they get to win back some credibility, when they FINALLY, “nobly, stand up to Trump,” at last, saying, “Enough is enough,” while they push the train off the tracks? I mean, let’s face it. It wouldn’t take much to cause Trump to have a blow out? It’s probably just a question of having a camera on him, while Trump talks about just how STUPID he thinks his “base” is? Maybe they have that footage prepared?
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“It's Okay to be White” : See? No answer. Because EVEN YOU, are beginning to see the IDIOCY of your own remarks. And, trust me, kid; there is NOTHING you can say to make me angry. I’ve heard it, or “read it” all. But YOU sound, embarrassed? Thinking of maybe removing your bleats, BEFORE, someone you know sees it, and you become a laughing stock? I’ve never written ANYTHING I wouldn’t be happy to repeat in, say, a job interview. Have YOU ever wondered what the consequences of being “outed” might be for you? Might be MORE than just a little cringey? Just sayin’?
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@ajwilkinson5226 : For many it just doesn’t work like that. When there’s no one you, “want,” but you KNOW you’ve had enough of what you’ve got, you study your form and find out who the strongest opponent of the incumbent is and . . . well . . . You vote for that guy or gal. I’ve seen more pundits than ever in my reasonably long lifetime urging people to, “vote tactically,” just to get the Tory’s hands off the levers of power; from LBC commentators to comedians, to popular YouTubers and FaceBook types. And it’s ironic, as the Labour Party are about as social media literate as a Dickensian librarian in the Circumlocution Office! So, they have a lot to thank the popular media savvy, “influencers,” for on that score.
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Witnesses on both sides confirmed an explosion, both seen, and heard by many more. They all also confirm there were no drones, air strikes or missiles, just an explosion. That, “could,” have been, “neglect,” and the mines in the dam just going off by accident? But, either way, it was Russia’s doing. Now, smarter people are already looking to the next dam up river, which, if blown, will cause a radioactive flood into the Mediterranean Sea destroying all life there. The cost of that, to human life, the world’s economy and the future habitability of the planet are simply incalculable. It’s time for NATO to step up.
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No it’s not, “dangerous hyperbole.” It’s dangerous naivety to pretend this is anything other than world war three. Just because it’s being fought in the boardrooms of shareholders as much as on the Ukrainian Battlefield, we’d be idiots if we saw this as anything less than Putin’s attack on the UN directly. He thought it would be the tipping point that would force the splintering of all countries. Yet, just as with the previous world wars, we are all feeling the financial costs and having to make sacrifices in our fuel and heating costs. We may not all be dodging bombs yet, and the USA is once again in the privileged position of being able to make the least sacrifices to the man and woman on the street, whilst moaning the loudest on the planet, while countries like the UK, France and the Netherlands are facing an increased mortality rate as a direct result of fuel poverty this year. Fareed generally gives the most clear eyed analysis, usually, and he is right about America’s need to reassure global powers about their use of the dollar to squeeze Russia directly and no one else who isn’t supporting Putin’s regime. But the mere fact that it is on Biden to make that point shows that it is the USA who is leading the war effort right now.
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13orrax : Hope so. Personally, I can’t wait for the Zombie Apocalypse. Only 3,000 deaths? We’re just not trying hard enough. And, who exactly are the ones in the most, “vulnerable,” group? The elderly? The germophobes? The rich old fucks who have lived in a germ free bubble their whole lives and therefore have zero resistance to the common cold, let alone a virulent mutation of a killer flu? I say EMBRACE THE VIRUS! Spread it around a bit, and let the bankers, politicians and climate-denying-industrial magnates DIE OFF in their droves! YOU will be FINE! You’ve had a cold before, ffs! The only reason this is a big deal is because the rich and powerful are scared. Give them something to fear. Spread the virus and screw everyone who’ll consent, until the planet sheds a useless third of its population. Be a good American and do your bit to restore democracy. Fuck a flu victim today. It’s your DUTY damn it
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Anthony Terranova : I have gotten you, “triggered,” somehow, proving that YOU, “care,” about my views; enough to write two angry comments, at least. Trump literally HATES ANYONE who disagrees with ANYTHING he says, and dismisses than, as an, “Enemy of the state,” or some other hysterical, effeminate, name calling; so I can understand you leaping to conclusions about me, because you’re projecting your own behaviour. But, I know a Trump Troll when I see one, and you have NO IDEA, “where,” I get my information, son 🙂
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You have to agree that Waters was wrong to be so incendiary, though? What was she THINKING? She could wind up being the reason Chauvin walks, which will end her career. We should be setting the example all the time. Having said that, GOP hypocrisy goes without saying at this point.
Surely, the slam dunk argument is, it doesn’t matter what was, “wrong,” with his heart. If you kill a person with a disability, because that disability makes you more vulnerable, it’s still murder. His entire department said what Chauvin did was against his training, and we all saw it. It’s beyond question. And, if any jurors have been reading the comments on YouTube, all they see is people agreeing with that, or haters, deliberately saying things to troll everyone with hate. That’s not going to help Chauvin. They’re sequestered now, anyway
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ken5336 : Quite amusing, to watch Heywood and Logic, falling out, because of their thickary, though. And I LOVE how they’re DESPERATE to perpetrate the LIE that, just because a person wants Trump out of office and to face justice, that automatically makes them from, “The Left.” It GENUINELY SCARES them, that Conservatives HATE Trump too, and will be voting Democrat in the Mid Terms, like they did in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc. Their infighting is rather reflective of the GOP. Fun times . . . 😁
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Baruch Ben-David : You have to see the long-game, my friend. Speaker Pelosi has now announced that, in January, the FIRST bit of business they are undertaking is Trump’s Tax Returns. Which will escalate to a subpoena within days, if not hours. They will be questioning everyone, from Mueller to Stormy, from Comey to Stone, from Strozk to Cohen, and many yet to be identified, from the NRA to the GOP, and it will ALL be on LIVE TV; day after day; revelation after crooked revelation, with fresh subpoenas and indictments, flying in all directions. Mueller and his team, in a line, giving us the whole sordid story.
By the time the Dems are through with their questioning, there won’t be ONE American who doesn’t KNOW the Trump family are ALL CROOKS, who who would DARE to say otherwise. And, those Senators in the GOP? Well, let’s put it like this: The ONLY ones among them, who AREN’T calling for Donny’s impeachment, are the ones looking at prison time, for being in on it.
They WILL get Donny. I PROMISE you that ✌️
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the doge : I understand your frustration. No one EVER addresses my point, either. Why CAN’T we simply arm the police better and make it illegal to have firepower that OUTGUNS the POLICE? We can ALL keep our pistols, riffles, shotguns, etc, but just NOT be allowed to carry automatics, Uzis, etc around? Guns like that could even be ALLOWED, if they were ONLY allowed to keep them AT THE GUN RANGE? There are SO MANY “REASONABLE” compromises? But, shouting, attacking and name calling, ONLY causes people to DISMISS you, out of hand, and people feel no obligation to answer you. When you are “REASONABLE” it is MUCH HARDER for someone to ignore you without being SEEN to do so, handing YOU the “victory” which will be MORE likely to win you allies. Just some thoughts . . . It’s up to you . . .
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campsite a : Honestly dude, you need to work through your issues, regarding how you “feel” about David Hogg? The ISSUE at hand, is WHAT to DO about GUN LAWS? WHY should the CRIMINALS be allowed the biggest guns, which put the COPS in an IMPOSSIBLE DILAMA: Go in and DIE, or live to fight another day and be hated by the general public. If THEY had rifles like HIS, that day, the outcome would have been MUCH better for all. Don’t buy into the conspiracy nut stuff, as people won’t CARE in the end. Even IF Hogg was a MARTIAN, SO WHAT? Kids are STILL getting KILLED and the GUN LAWS will STILL be up for discussion. You SEE that, right? . . .
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We should all be writing to our NATO representatives. NATO needs to FINALLY make a clear statement! Once they make it CLEAR that Ukraine is going back to the Ukrainians, no matter what, Putin WILL design and use his OWN, “off ramp,” at home. He ALWAYS backs off, every single time, when he’s faced with GENUINE resolve from an equal or stronger power. He just needs to KNOW that NATO will NOT allow him to win OR REACH A STALEMEATE, which they have not YET said. Demand TOTAL VICTORY to Ukraine from your representatives as the Ukrainians deserve nothing less! The money we will save (along with innocent lives) will far outweigh our protracted, “defence,” support, especially when we ALL benefit from the profits to be made in a peacetime Ukraine.
They have as much fossil fuel as Russia, according to Shell, Exxon, BP and other experts, as well as agriculture and precious rare Earth elements. That was the key reason Putin made his stupid decision to heist a whole country in the first place.
Anyone who tells you it’s a waste of time to write to your representatives is either a pro-Putin troll, or just badly deceived.
Slava Ukraine! 🇺🇦🔱🇬🇧 ✌️
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@kimbaldunsmore4633 : Okay. Well, number 1 stands a decent chance, provided you have the tech and range, which isn’t cheap, and relies as much on getting lucky, without insider knowledge of operational frequencies, as piloting. So, it’s far from reliable.
Number two is just a variation on the theme of 1, (which would still presumably be in play?) only we’re discussing the range of a signal, added to the mix. More complexity, more things can go wrong.
3 is a dusey. Sure, blow up the jammers. But to do that, you’re having to overcome problems 1) and 2) as well as trying to locate mobile jammers, of which there are literally hundreds available to the Russians, never occupying the same space two nights in a row. That’s a job for ground teams of special forces, or dependent upon spies giving up Intel to the Ukrainians. Something I don’t doubt they would grab with both hands, should opportunities become available. ALL options for 3 are expensive, dangerous and yielding minimal results unless you can destroy multiple vehicles at their manufacture sight or something. No doubt, as I say, pending . . .
Your bonus, 4) as I’m sure you know, requires THE most expensive type of military drone, costing upwards of $ two million a pop, to have the power to travel such a large distance whilst carrying such a heavy payload, and which, once again, relies on good Intel as to where the MOBILE target is. The math is off by a long mile. Plus you have the added factor that none of the drones can be NATO donations, so that type is off the table anyway. All incursion drones are, by agreement with the free world, manufactured in Ukraine (or, presumably, can come from none NATO countries interested in assisting Ukraine?) and Ukraine simply cannot afford to give away that kind of cash for such small rewards.
Add to that the recoverable technology from such drones, falling into enemy hands. The explosives aboard would have to be guaranteed to incinerate the drone on impact or capture. Look at the great expense and trouble Russia went to just to recover one US drone that they risked two pilots AND their jets to knock out of the sky? A whole Rusky naval expedition was launched to recover that single American drone, even though Russia knew it had been stripped down to its basics and was just a giant camera with wings and a propeller, as Putin is desperate to reverse engineer ANYTHING the Americans have in the skies for their guidance systems.
So, while I’m not saying these things don’t exist, and are not used, and will certainly be used a good deal more in the coming months, I am arguing that they do not play the clear, “Press button A, get result B,” role that you seem to think they do.
I guess I could have just said, “It’s more complicated than that,” but you wouldn’t have accepted that as an adequate rebuttal, would you? Hopefully, now you can see my point?
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@kimbaldunsmore4633 : I think I suggested as much in my previous comment, regarding what we should not, “be surprised,” to see coming down the pike. Apart from my remarks on historical events, which were bald facts, I’ll take on the chin, quite unruffled, that there will be some errors in my guesswork; based as it is, on bits and pieces picked up up from news coverage, military websites and a YouTuber who is also an ex-US airforce missilleer.
I thought I was reading some implied criticism of Ukraine’s activities (not confirmed as yet) and wanted to know if you were going off half cocked or speaking from a place of knowledge? So, there was sincerity in my question, as well as a degree of challenge.
However, you’re clearly not an idiot. I just hope you’re batting for the side of freedom and democracy? Please DON’T turn out to be one of those people who says he has, “no side,” in this conflict? That kind of disingenuousness always makes me dry heave.
My honest thinking is that these drones are not even coming from Ukraine, which is what? 300 KM at the shortest possible point? There’s so much anti Russian, and anti government-Russian activity going on inside Russia that it’s far more plausible to me that these things were closer to home at launch and not overcoming hundreds of kilometres of defence systems and pot shots? Artur Rehi and Jake Bro (Pro Ukrainian, military trained, YouTubers) have also speculated on this point. What do you think?
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Why are you not filling the streets right now? The GOP is facing jail time and they’re LITERALLY STEALING your Republic, collecting up the post boxes! Why are you WAITING to STOP THIS? You’re all waiting for an election that is CLEARLY NOT GOING TO HAPPEN! And then you’ll protest, when it’s ALREADY TOO LATE, and Bill Barr’s Secret Police units will be expanded enough to suppress you, all over America. You should be halting the country NOW, and getting in front of their election RIGGING, while they’re still vulnerable? But, you’re all still hoping that it will magically get sorted out, like every other legal and Constitutional process has FAILED to do in the last 4 years! Maybe America wants a Dictatorship, in its heart of hearts? That’s the only explanation I can think of? Why else are you sitting on your asses, while they literally, BLATANTLY, STEAL YOUR REPUBLIC?
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@Tad1945 : Trolls arrive illegally. But, when you ignore international law and say, “Anyone who arrives in a boat is now breaking the law,” then we know there has been a break down in law. What’s next? Anyone who uses the channel tunnel is now to be criminalised? Anyone who arrives wearing a tie? Anyone called, “Anthony,” who arrives on, “Tony Tuesdays,” will be outlawed? Anyone using the YouTube name, “Tad,” could be next. You simply cannot make an arbitrary divide and decide, “All the people on this side of the line are fine, but all the people on THAT side are criminals.” At least, not if you want your system to work.
We are STILL subscribers to international, BINDING laws, which insist that each asylum seeker MUST be assessed on the merits of their case, NOT their mode of travel.
And I have yet to see a SINGLE example of any migrant or asylum seeker that has taken resources from the public, or bread out of the mouths of the working, tax paying public. This government has squandered all your cash, turned hotels into overcrowded prisons and liners into prison hulks, breaking the law in the process of emptying our wallets. We used to simply process asylum seekers, let them in, get work and contribute to the economy by generating economic activity and paying taxes, under the last government. And those cases that failed to meet the criteria resulted in swift deportation.
The Tories stopped all of that and gave massive cues and expensive waiting lists of people that cost the tax payer a fortune to imprison while they don’t get processed and get busy catching diseases and getting huge settlements through their human rights lawyers!
Learn the FACTS, son. You cannot afford to be this angry at the wrong people, while the people who are robbing you blind are telling you who to blame. And anyone will do, so long as it isn’t them. That’s a hostage mentality that can only do you harm.
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Vredesbyrd : Who is, “They,” son? You mean Nazis, right? THEY, “don’t hate,” you. I am a Conservative, thus, “of the right.” And, I hate you. You cannot reason with a Nazi. You cannot prove an axiomatic FACT to them. They simply CHOOSE their, “reality,” and make everyone else suffer for it, if we let them. They are part of the reason we have a Pro-Nazi in the White House. But, he has NO, “ideology,” and will dump you, when its expedient. You don’t speak for ANYONE other than yourself, kid
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Word spreads, slowly at first, but increasingly, exponentially, until all of Russia will know that they were never fighting the, “monsters,” their leaders lied to them about. And, as the cost of the war grows in Russia, as more and more POW’s get home and spread that word, the people will grow increasingly restive, wanting answers. Some moral victories are worth as much as military ones.
Wars are not just fought on the battlefield but in the hearts and minds of the soldiers who fight them and the populations who support them.
Slava Ukraine!
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Stormtrooper : Who’s Bills Moron? Is he related to Donny Dumbass? Or, are you so short of cash right now, that you can’t afford any commas? Here, have some of mine (,,,,,,,,,,,,) I’m loaded. But, then, when Donny got, “elected,” I took precautions with my money. You trusted him? Now look at you . . . 😁
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The obvious flaw in this analysis is that it overlooks what Putin DID at the expense of what he says. It’s all true enough, but consider?
Which parts of Ukraine did Putin focus his greatest efforts on, since 2014? It’s always been where the fossil fuels are: Crimea has more offshore gas and oil than Russia does, according to the experts at Shell, Exxon and BP. Donbas is providing massive amounts of coal, gas, silicates and oil to Russia, as we speak. And then there’s the fact that Ukraine exports one entire third of the world’s grain and at least 40% of the world’s argon gas (vital in the manufacture of microchips, of which there is a world shortage at the moment) so when you put it all together, what you’re left with is pretty clear.
Putin is the planets biggest armed robber. Probably the worst armed robber in Earth’s history. But he’s a gangster, using ideology as window dressing for his thuggery. Sure, he feels emotional and humiliated, but that’s all in his own Soviet head. Literally no one else cares! Least of all the oligarchy around him, as they have all been promoted on the basis of their loyalty to Putin, rather than historical any knowledge or basic ability. Hence all the corruption and incompetence that lead to this disastrous war, and its even more disastrous prosecution.
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Let’s be honest, everyone. This is another mass conscription wave, but the Kremlin is just trying to do it as quietly as possible, so as not to, “look like,” a mass draft. Instead of a 400,000 in one go, it will be an entire million or more, in an ongoing process. Oh, and those, “contracts,” draftees sign? They will be worth less than a wooden Ruble once they’re on the front line. Meat waves is all Putin’s got left. GET OUT OF RUSSIA WHILE YOU STILL CAN! This was your LAST CHANCE!
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kjsieme 1 : EXACTLY, dude! Trump has, “attacked,” America, Americans, American Businesses, Personalities, Institutions, Law and Order, EVEN HIS OWN PEOPLE! And HE DARES to WHINE and call it an, “attack on America”? When it’s the VERY PEOPLE who would DIE for AMERICA, DEFENDING AMERICA!
He makes me so SICK! This is like when Trump WHINES about “LEAKS” when the, “Russier! If you’re listening,” speech is OUT THERE! Reminding the WORLD that HIS CAMPAIGN was BASED ON LEAKS! He’s a Clear and Present DANGER to the WORLD! SMH . . .
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DawningLight DawnOn : “Echo Chamber”??? You’re NEW to YouTube, I take it? CNN’s threads are full of bitterness and hatred, pouring forth from the effeminate, “Victims,” of Trump’s Anti-American paid Trolls or people too RACIST to CARE about selling our country to the Russians, so long as it stays, SOMEHOW, “White.” Look at Thomas, there? There’s a LOT of that impotent rage, flying around, from NPC’s and domestic Klan members. A, “safe space,” this ain’t. Better not to start out with ASSumptions, son? You’ll just be disappointed 🤡
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Rene Renato Rivera : And, “perhaps,” NOT? Look, son, in all seriousness. You, “degrade,” yourself, by coming out of the gate with your insulting ASSumptions about other commentators. You WANT to believe that we’re ALL, “liberals,” though we’re NOT. You WANT to believe that we ALL rely on MSM and don’t read books, go to government websites, listen to the radio, or have other, RELIABLE sources on the web, from at home AND abroad. America is DISGUSTED and ASHAMED with Trump and his enablers. And, ConservativesAND Liberals WANT the TRUTH and to SEE JUSTICE DONE. And all we get back from the Trump Cult is, “Whaddabout?” And, irrelevant assumptions that we’re all HRC or Obama fans, which is JUST NOT TRUE. So, if YOU can come up with ONE plausible argument, for supporting the TRAITOR and CRIMINAL, Trump, you will be the FIRST. But, I’m listening. I you have my word, I will NOT insult or, “degrade,” you, so long as you STAY in the discussion and follow it to it’s conclusion, AND you obey your own injunctions, keeping it respectful of the other? But, that includes insulting assumptions. ASK, if you wanna’ know something about my thinking or beliefs? DON’T tell me what you THINK you know about me. You able to do this, son? 🙂
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Don Emigholz Jr. : It will be the Congressional Hearings that will do it. Some will be subpoenaed, like Cohen, Manafort, et al. Some will be willing, like Stormy, Mueller’s Team, et al. Some will be NEW to us, like the captured NRA Donors, working for Russia, or the Deutsche Bank and Bank of Cyprus Reps. But, by the time it’s done, on LIVE TV, day after day, after day. The GOP Senators will be BEGGING for the pain to stop, and looking to save themselves. How many GOP Senators have axes to grind and scores to settle with Trump, anyway? And are just HOPING for their chance to settle up? And, with the Senate, ALREADY, being an almost even split, how MANY do we NEED to get that, “Two Thirds,” MAJORITY? They’re NOT going to risk their OWN Obstruction Indictments . . . For TRUMP??? I tell you. It’s inevitable, unless Trump declares Martial Law, and shuts down Democracy COMPLETELY ✌️👍
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DJ 2011 : You pretty much NAILED it, there, my mysteriously digitally named friend. But, they won’t understand you. Russians think that, “irony,” is a bit like, “Bronzey,” or, “Goldy,” but not as shiny. Sorry. But, you’re having a great 12 Days of Christmas, I can tell. We need more like you 😁 ✌️ 👍 👌
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Namelessandpure : THAT, we already know. Set aside Trump’s, “legal,” problems, and we STILL KNOW that Trump was and IS, “Colluding,” with Putin. That much is PROVED. And, if he wasn’t POTUS? He’d be getting indicted, TODAY. They stick with him, out of racism, or for shell company Troll money. There’s nothing more to look for, in these Anti-American SCUM. Sorry to say it, but that’s all there is to it ✌️
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freedombase : You revealed a LOT about YOURSELF, there, with all that whining? Let’s see: Baby boomer? You are Anti-Semitic; you are AFRAID of Putin, so you PRETEND to like him; You are definitely 50 or older; and you will say ANYTHING for Trump, because you don’t CARE about what’s good for the country or your fellow “Americans” (if you’re NOT a Russian?) because you are STUCK in a FANTASY of the past. But, judging by the time and effort you put in, I’d say FEAR is your main driver? Of course, YOU “think” it is anger, not realising that the anger is only a symptom of your FEAR, because you are not sufficiently in touch with your own mindset, and you repress emotions with more alacrity than a Catholic Schoolboy in a Nunnery. Oh, and you were brought up a Catholic? Either that or Mid western Bible Belt. Yeah, you’re not hard to read. Not much joy in your life? Pretty sad
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DJ Chicken Thighs : The MAIN, “development,” here is that Kim just announced that he has ACHIEVED his goal and now HAS the capability of nuking America. That what he SAID, at any rate? WHY, exactly, are we meant to be, “pleased,” about THAT? Are we just meant to be SELECTIVE and ASSume he was lying? But, what I REALLY don’t get, is WHY people are not connecting the OBVIOUS dots, here?
Two weeks after Kim goes to China and sits down with Xi, in an UNPRECEDENTED, Top Secret Meeting, he makes this announcement and NO ONE is seeing the OBVIOUS LINK? After Putin has reminded Xi that Russia is a POOR COUNTRY and Blockade Busting by them alone will NOT be enough to keep Kim going, as they simply DON’T have ENOUGH resources. And Xi has been noticing that the escalation in western exercises has also lead to increased CIA activity, threatening to expose ALL KINDS of things, in his own back yard? Xi has TOLD Kim, “We will NOT be funding your war of words with America and you need to resolve this. Sure, save face, by all means, but do it, and do it SOON.”
It’s SO OBVIOUS that China is pulling the strings, with Moscow floating around, the WHOLE TIME? It’s the wilful OBTUSENESS of Trump’s Cult that will get us all KILLED, if we leave them to it. Trump REALLY needs to GO. After all, it’s not like the next POTUS (Nicky Haley?) couldn’t pick up, where he left off and do a better job?
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DJ Chicken Thighs : Well, for starters, Trump hasn’t ACTUALLY done ANYTHING . . . YET. For seconds, DEFINE, “going well,” in this instance? Many of us are concerned because EVERY SINGLE diplomatic “agreement” that the west has had with North Korea, to date, has been BROKEN by N Korea. EVERY ONE turned out to be a LIE. And, “going well,” for Trump COULD mean, “going VERY badly,” for the rest of us; especially if Russia is involved. We CANNOT dismiss that they HAVE been flouting the blockade? And Kim’s meeting in China, with Xi, WAS UTTERLY UNPRECEDENTED, and MUST be connected. There ARE no “coincidences” at this level of diplomacy and the State Dept, DOES SEE THIS. Whether Trump LISTENS is another thing. He ONLY wants a “win” for HIMSELF, NOT for us, which makes him DANGEROUS
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DJ Chicken Thighs : Yes, America has broken agreements with LOTS of countries. That’s not the issue. And, what makes you think I put stock in Noam Chomsky? MILLIONS of Conservatives, like me, want Trump out of the White House. Chomsky is wrong as often as he’s right, because he leans way out to the left and his biases cloud his judgement, but he’d be right on that particular point. So WHAT? If you understand the history of the war with Korea, its outcomes and why things are as they are now, then you will also KNOW that Trump DOES NOT. THAT, alone, makes him dangerous. Of COURSE I WANT to see this successfully resolved. But, if Trump dropped DEAD today, our chances of negotiating an agreement, which was in the AMERICAN PEOPLE’S INTERESTS, would go up EXPONENTIALLY. If you are HONEST, you will agree with THAT MUCH?
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DJ Chicken Thighs : Not sure what that last comment means, in this context? Clarify? It’s NOT just a question of the, “willingness to talk.” You wouldn’t want Homer Simpson leading the talks? America needs someone who isn’t simply there for his OWN, personal hopes of a, “Win.” We need someone, who understands the issues and can see the long game. Nicky Haley would be ideal. Trump, neither knows nor CARES about the issues and MAY get a good deal, by LUCK, but he MAY score a hole in one, at his next Three Par Tee? I wouldn’t bet the future on it though, and nor would you, if you’re smart . . . Smh . . .
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Uncommon Sense : What YOU seem to, “forget,” is that there is a GENUINE tipping point, beyond which, to try to cover for Trump will be nothing short of a crime in itself. Not even GOP members (perhaps, ESPECIALLY NOT GOP members) will risk GETTING AN INDICTMENT for Obstruction or CONSPIRACY, by blankly denying the FACTS. When the EVIDENCE is SO COMPELLING that ANY proceeding will be a formality, the GOP will show the SAME “MORALITY” that they have displayed, THROUGHOUT THIS ENTIRE BAD JOKE of an administration, and DUCK FOR COVER. Would YOU risk going to JAIL, for Trump? KNOWING the HE would cut off your BALLS ON NATIONAL TV, if he thought he would get a single vote for it? You have start being REAL. The “HATING” of Trump, is INCIDENTAL to the REALITY of his TRYING TO KILL DEMOCRACY.
Though, it MAY WELL turn out to be academic, because Trump will find an, “excuse,” to, “SUSPEND,” (meaning CANCEL) the Mid Terms, if he thinks he’s going to lose. Perhaps you’ll get it THEN? . . . SMH . . .
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Bookmouse : You read my mind. There’s just so much dumbary at large right now? For a start, this guy expects us to believe a couple of thousand people lost their jobs, yet they kept HIM employed, with his 40 IQ? Then he expects us to draw some sort of conclusion that bares the SLIGHTEST relevance to this story? Why Trump trolls feel the NEED to make shit up, is one thing? But, as to why they’re so keen to talk themselves into an early death, for the sake of an Orange Orifice who’s just desperate to get his shareholder bosses paid before November, so they don’t dump him for Biden, and who doesn’t give a rat’s ass if this goon lives or DIE’S, well? . . . I can only guess that they came up with a new flavor of Koolaid? One that is, “to die for”? . . . smh 👍
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Ian McGarrett : There was once a time, when we’d all right down people’s political burns. Guys like Hamilton, Jefferson, FDR, Churchill and Reagan, new how to turn a great off-the-cuff burn, that we still quote, to this day. Lincoln most of all. Now, all we get is these two, effeminate bitches, bitching at each other, like drunken angry college girls, arguing over a boyfriend. I swear I could SLAP Trump’s silly Orange Orifice . . . smh 🤣
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Better yet, what you just said, but first, Ben Wallace crosses the House with an offer from Keir Starmer to continue on as Defence Secretary? As far as I can see, he is the ONLY actually talented diplomat, hard working MP, who has actually done a GOOD job as our Defence Secretary, and who seems at least to be more concerned about service and the good of the country than his own career. The new constituency divisions have made his seat no longer a thing now anyway, and he would be welcomed by our allies in NATO and Ukraine, where he is established and well liked anyway. A big show of crossing the House, and the loss of the ONLY talent the Tories have would be sure to hasten the election, before more MP’s follow suit, as so often happens, and everyone wins . . . except the carpet baggers in power right now.
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I think it’s time to stand back really LISTEN to what’s being said here. “I don’t think it’s a particularly radical view to hold.” . . . ? . . . ? . . . ? . . . I know that’s a comment to be taken in context, but she’s advocating leaving the UN, the WHO, dismantling our court system and just putting businesses in charge of everything! That’s NOT, “conservatism,” by ANY measure of the term. And it’s why the Tories are fighting a civil war.
In the last 10 years the Tories got craven about holding on to power, flinging open their doors to an increasingly radical mob, making it increasingly easier for worse, more ignorant, more narcissistic, more greedy grifters to get their grubby mitts on the levers of power. Now they’re paying the cost of inviting con artists and extremist radicals into their ranks. The very identity of the party is no longer fixed. The Tories are a lot of things, but, “conservative,” is NOT one of them.
And Truss shows all of the prima face symptoms of a genuinely ill woman. As does Johnson, to a lesser degree, who has the compulsive urges of an addicted gambler. The zeal with which she can be converted from one radical idea to another is represented by her political history. She has less clue how to run a country than my kids! Sincerely.
My point is, why ask if she, “believes,” her own craziness? When a chimp is waving a machine gun around, your only concern is to get that weapon away from it, NOT what its political ideology is! These people are already proven to have spectacularly failed and the very idea that they could be allowed back into Number 10 should make us all shudder! Or have we all forgotten the great chimpocides of the last decade!?
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There has to be a Reckoning, when this is under control. Not revenge. But the price of Justice, paid in full. If this horror is allowed to pass, unpunished, we will have emboldened our enemies both foreign and domestic. They’ll know that hundreds of thousands of Americans can be slaughtered by inaction, greed, stupidity and the deliberate, malicious politicisation of a none-political pandemic. America’s greatest humanitarian DISASTER was utterly preventable. If the country is ever to heal again, they must be offered SWIFT JUSTICE, and the culprits punished to the fullest, harshest extent of the law. Examples must be made, to deter anyone from even entertaining the notion of another trump. Otherwise, America has only bought itself a 4 year reprieve from the Republic’s inevitable Execution, under a dictator who is every bit the sociopath that Donny was, but with charm, and the ability to finish a sentence without sounding like a teenager with a behaviour disorder and a head injury. JUSTICE MATTERS ✌️
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@a.b.317 : Just like it was, “crazy,” how they, “decimated,” Russia’s Special Forces, killing more than a 100 of their 150 men squad in 2018, out there in the Syrian desert, in less than 10 minutes too. They don’t boast about it, like 10 year olds though. They just get it done. No wonder Putin pays Jihadi assassins? He must want revenge? Did you have a point, btw, madam? Or, were you just, “shooting,” the breeze? Small, small girl 😋
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fran bran 👈😡❄️ : And, ALWAYS the same playbook. Your, “arguments,” get CRUSHED, so you turn into little Snowflakes, and are suddenly, “hurt,” by perceived, “insults,” despite NONE being thrown at you. What children you are. You have NOTHING to say, but you say it anyway. Again and again. Yaaawwwnnnski 😴
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Mary Purcell : I’m an Englishman, who moved here in 2006. But, I’m considering relinquishing my citizenship, since CNN had a dig at our, “famous British sense of humor,” (spelt, “humour,” in actual English, btw) 🤦♂️ This whole Humor-Gate thing looks set to rock the world! Humor is a defining characteristic of Englishness! I can’t cope! Do you know a good therapist!? . . . I mean, what Prime Minister goes out with a hairdo like Johnson’s who HASN’T got a sense of humor? No one can take that seriously? Why would CNN question our humor credentials? The pain is unbearable! The prejudice! The horror! Oh, the humanity!
Hairdos tell you so much about a person. Like, in trump’s case, it tells us he’s surrounded by yes-men, too afraid to just come out and say, “Donny? You look like an absolute pr*ck, son!” He looks like he’s got a model of a skateboarding park on his head, but not a soul has made him aware of the utter clownishness of Orange face tan and Duck’s Arse hair transplants! I must write to CNN about this? This is the issue of the age! 🤣
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Face2wake : Have you noticed, the more you have to distort the TRUTH, the more flip flops and contortions you must go through? Making your Trollery get longer and LONGER. People LIE, when they, “think,” they can get away with it, which is why you’re doing it now. And, that’s WHY you sound SO lame. You put a lot of, “arguments,” in my mouth, which I have never said. You’re talking to a Conservative, son. Trump didn’t, “think,” he’d win, but it wasn’t in HIS hands, was it? THAT’S what we’re all learning. Trump knows HALF of what’s going on, and is just trying to cover his own crimes. He, “controls,” even LESS than that. You’re not kidding anyone, son. Not even yourself . . . Smh 😁
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G Manloh : I do hope you don’t read the WHOLE thing, when confronted with lengthy Trump Trolls? As it’s part of their JOB to have us waste time on their circular, pointless, self-comforting, bollox, I always remind them that, out of pure MORALITY, I will NOT waste actual time on stuff we’ve all heard before. The sheer ARROGANCE of them, acting like they even KNOW what TF they’re talking about, is laughable! Anyway, I was much amused by your commentary. “Needling,” was the right word ✌️👍😁
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FLOYD DEWD : You’d better start with yourself, then? All the serious wealth gets sucked into the centre, because that’s how oligarchies work. The people are poorly educated, with a practically Third World Mentality, and, though there are centres of sophistication in all countries now, the cost of education and healthcare is a burden that the government can’t handle. Combine that with freedom of speech that only exists for those who don’t challenge the government’s record of judicial murder and journalistic terror, along with state run media and you’re starting to get the picture. And, god forbid you go to the cops to report a crime, without a hefty bribe in your pocket? As, you’re libel to get arrested, just for wasting their time. No one, who’s been outside of Russia ever wants to go back, unless they have loved ones who can’t come with them, or they work for the government (the latter accounting for 80% of Russian travel visas to the outside world), because Putin would have them poloniumed! Hmmm . . . Mother Russia . . . You can KEEP IT, Vlad 😁
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JT Taylor : She sounds like a raving looney, but I’m old enough to know, when that’s the case, it’s the MONEY that’s doing the talking. She’s just following Trump’s lead, to a t. People are expendable, and the math says, a million to a million and a half dead; if they do nothing more about this. That’s acceptable. America needs to make money. You’re expendable. I’m expendable. They’re protected. And their drones are SO DUMB that they’re following their internet instructions from Trump’s backers, to go out and, “protest,” and may well wipe themselves out in a huge Darwinian self-extinction event! In a way, it’s f*cking hilarious! We’re getting what we deserve. And, when the second wave comes, the country will grind to a halt. The only people working then, will be the mass grave diggers . . .
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Charliebrm1 : “I don’t want your Cooties!” There’s a slogan for you? Or, “What happens in Vegas, gets buried with your mortal remains in Vegas,” maybe? Too long? . . . To real? Too soon? . . . Vegas is the experiment, but NOT the Petrie dish for the virus. This is the economic experiment, to see how much money they can keep making, while people keep dying and being easily replaced. What’s the political fall out from that? Will anyone really care, so long as they get paid? Can we handle the law suits, etc, etc. THAT’S what’s going on here. And, this poor guy, the governor, God love him, is nowhere. Bigger powers are at work here. Follow the Mayor’s paymasters, from the mob / Trump tribe, to see who’s pulling the strings . . .
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Buckeye Roy : Surely, the whole point of, “commenting,” is for, “attention,” right? In the same way that we don’t speak to an empty room and expect a reply, we ALL hope that someone will respond to what we say? Our, “motives,” may be ANYTHING, from childish and mean spirited, to altruistic and a desire to contribute to understanding, but I honestly don’t see; a) what is inherently WRONG with wanting attention, or b) what the point of MAKING a comment would BE, if you didn’t EXPECT some attention of SOME KIND?
This IS, after all, a PUBLIC, “Comment Thread,” right? Or am I missing something? 🤔
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Buckeye Roy : No need to be so defensive, son. IF you HAD, “read,” my comment, you would KNOW that I ACTUALLY referred to the point, which YOU are PRETENDING that I didn’t. It’s OK to learn from other people and not go all, 12 year old on me, simply because I disagree with you? I specifically pointed out that people have both good and bad “MOTIVES” but TRIED to help you to SEE, that you had not, (indeed you STILL ACTUALLY HAVEN’T) validated the, “sarcasm,” you directed at him, in ANY WAY. You never SAID what was ACTUALLY WRONG with his statement. Only that YOU “think” it is pure, “attention seeking.” So, you accuse ME of saying the EXACT OPPOSITE of what I DID say, and then have the nerve to accuse ME of needing to, “brush up on my debating skills”???? 🤣 I would have had more respect for you, if you could have just OWNED your mistake. Let me put it SIMPLY for you, as I am NOT going to sink to your level and try to twist your words to make them sound like the OPPOSITE of what you actually said, or play ANY dirty tricks on you (being that I am an adult):
Your criticism would have been, “valid,” if YOU had pointed to something he’s SAID. Instead, you have criticised him for, “attention seeking,” without EXPLAINING WHY. Which is WHY I pointed out OUT that we are ALL seeking attention, without SPELLING IT OUT FOR YOU, giving YOU the opportunity to SAY what was WRONG with his remark, giving YOU the opportunity to, “save face.” Instead, you got, “Butt Hurt,” and couldn’t move passed the fact that you’d been, RESPECTFULLY, criticised, and responded immaturely.
Don’t take it all so PERSONALLY, son? Conversations can be INTERESTING, without childishness . . . SMH . . . 🙂
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Daniel Delos : It would be amusing to watch these contortions of reality that you put yourself through, if it wasn’t so damn creepy. So, Russia isn’t happy about this US action in Syria, or at least, that is what they NEED to say, right? The PROBLEM I have, is that the TRUTH is complex. Am I wasting my time? That’s what I have to ask myself. But, IF you REALLY want the HONEST answer, I will give it to you. I am a political historian, by trade, but I have plenty of friends who know about Geo-Politics. So, YOU TELL ME: Do you WANT the TRUTHFUL answer, ‘coz I’m NOT going to waste my “breath” unless you are prepared to stick it out and either PROVE me wrong, or ADMIT when I PROVE YOU WRONG. It’s up to you? You ASKED for it? Oh, and; Terms of engagement: NO CLICKBAIT. References, etc, are fine, but NO CLICK BAIT. Agreed?
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@welshdai4094 : Don’t take it so personally, son. Here’s a, “gullible,” Pepsi Challenge for you: Open up your Google maps, look at where the Russian army is, and plot a route from there toward the massive gas and oil reserves in the west of Ukraine, if you know where they are? Then look again in 24 hours? You’ll find you have almost magical powers of prediction, as the Russian army has moved down all of your routes toward the Carpathian Mountains! But only, “gullible,” people think this is just a smash and grab operation, committed by a frightened DICKtator who doesn’t want the west buying its gas and oil from Ukraine instead of him, right? Calm down, son. 😉
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Now, she’s at me again. I guess maybe she, “does it for free?” Spending 4 years of her life, all day, every day, on the the channels she hates, spreading her hate, talking to people she hates. But, she’s, “not,” mentally ill, folks. Just clinically, “Butt Hurt,” according to her proctologist 🤣
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@sunrajah : The Impeachment is EVERYTHING now, and the GOP are utterly desperate, because they know it! Any GOP member can be forced to testify, without 5th Amendment cover! Imagine, Cruz, Hawley, Graham and others, giving their, “evidence,” for believing in, “The Steal?” With being shredded on the stand, on live TV, and potential Perjury charges hanging over them? Many will confess they always KNEW it was a Seditious LIE, for the world to hear! We must force their fracture at the impeachment. The, “verdict,” is irrelevant. They’re desperate to avoid A RECKONING!
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rokarolla : You all realise we can’t trust the, “reassurances,” of Moscow Mitch, and any GOP member, right? Especially the ones looking at serious jail time! You all must KNOW what Bill Barr’s Secret Police units are being expanded FOR, America? They are unconstitutional, and ILLEGAL anyway. Inundate your representatives, join the protests and activist groups, donate your money; DO whatever you can, but by GOD! DO SOMETHING TO GET SECRET POLICE UNITS OUTLAWED! They are building the instrument of your suppression, right under your noses!
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@seanpatrick1243 : Nah, the, “difference,” you’re referring to is one you’re not qualified to make. You watch stuff like Fox and think it’s a, “news source.” That’s,the kind of rookie mistake that vulnerable, less educated people make. The kind of people who can’t distinguish between what’s news, what’s news with a spin, and what’s propaganda. You might as well be eating apples and calling them, “green oranges.” You’re only proving to others that your, “opinion,” is about as worthless as a trump, “promise.” 🤦♂️🙄🤷♂️
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@ltloxa1159 : If they made it a serious criminal offence for farm owners and industry owners to employ illegal immigrants, with an automatic crippling fine and guaranteed jail time for the most senior managers (and ALWAYS for the owners) the, “problem,” as it stands would just about vanish over night.
The problem is that no such bill could ever be passed because politicians on both sides of the isle depend on donations from these wealthy business and farm owners, much less be ruthlessly and speedily enforced. You could say, the people who complain the loudest about, “illegal immigration,” are the ones with the biggest vested interest in keeping it a live issue; certainly among the wealthy.
So, the only real solution would be to ban lobby groups and all political donations over certain figure (say, $1,000?).
You know? Like Donald Trump promised on the 2016 campaign trail? Only to throw that promise out the window, almost immediately upon winning the election. I believe it was the gun lobby that showed us the most spectacular example of that, literally interrupting him in front of the cameras while he was proclaiming certain bans on guns to be effected by Executive Privilege, only to be taken off into a side room where massive donations were proffered and Trump announced a flip flop the next day.
It’s always been the money. Always will be. If they ever sign a bill into law that does limit donations, putting industries on the same influential footing as a common citizen, there will be hope for America’s democracy. Especially if the penalties for circumventing such laws were always swiftly and ruthlessly punished, with the harshest possible penalties. But that’s a dream, not a reality.
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an a : Better off wearing your uniform, instead of, “using,” it to, “stop riots?” That’s what tazers, tear gas, shields and batons are for. You probably look a little crazy, stripping in the middle of a riot, and towel-flicking rioters with your pants? But, I guess your carer lets you play; maybe put a little flashing light on your mobility scooter? To make you feel good about yourself? Why the love of Trumpski, though? Was that the tipping point? The bit that the judge just couldn’t get past? Combined with your public order offences? 🤣
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Yeah, we know. It was the ideological and tactical deal decided upon and requested by America in the post war years, which Europe agreed to. Germany and Japan (along with their allied countries) submitted to, “Nation Building.” Britain and several European countries, were bankrupt and in massive debt to America. They accepted giant contributions for their infrastructure in return for accepting the doctrine against Communism, which got increasingly strong throughout the 1950’s.
The deal was: We, America, get to choose which wars to fight, which atrocities we all ignore, and we decide which international issues are important. In return, we fund all policing of trade and commerce all around the world, set up bases in all your countries and all the outposts, guaranteeing protection for all NATO members, from Communists and/or otherwise hostile powers.
We agreed because we were impoverished and war torn. Britain only finally payed off its American borrowing from WWII in 2006. Washington got to run the free world, so long as they acted in good faith. That faith was broken in 2025.
I disagree with this presentation’s conclusions. Europe should not cut America out completely from trade; fair enough. But they must rearm independently and gain the full ability to protect themselves collectively. They must reposition themselves as a fully independent block, reliant only upon each other. And they need to establish an independent trading and sovereignty organisation, parallel to NATO. They will need to exclude the countries which cannot be trusted with veto powers, which means Hungary right now, but should be VERY choosy about whom they include.
This new, “coalition of the willing,” presents a starting point from which could spring this new organisation. But it needs to happen fast. We need Churchillian leaders of vision, with zero illusions about the autocrats, oligarchs and kleptocrats. We need, above all, to rally around our democracies, which are under direct assault as we speak.
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Alfa Romeo : The fact is that, when the America is united, Trump’s polls take a nosedive. That’s why he had to, “politicise,” Covid, to stay relevant, whilst doing the usual, “blaming,” his opponents for he did. But, when you have a stupid version of Putin in office, this is the result. Thousands upon thousands of preventable deaths. Trump’s worse than a war criminal. Just like with Stalin, his own people suffer the most. He won’t even allow elections. You’ll see
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Mind Fresh: “They,” being whom, son? And, how did they, “help the Democrats,” to, “get rid of Biden?” By making him MORE popular than ever? By getting everyone to look at one of his defining achievements, fighting corruption on the international stage? I struggle to BELIEVE that YOU, “believe,” you? Don’t try to be, “slippery,” son. I see right through it, each and every time, and it just lowers you in people’s estimation. “Sincerity,” is just something that happens to other people in your world, isn’t it? . . . SMH. Still, setting your insults to the intelligence aside, I agree that all Democracies are better served when there’s more than a Binary Choice. But, since YOU have NOT conceded that America even IS a, “democracy,” I would not go repeating your suggestion in front of your colleagues, if I were you? They may decide you’re a, “communist,” or something, and take you to visit the Blue Goldfish? 😁
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If we’re talking about history, we should remember Russia’s BIGGEST DEFEAT of the entire Cold War: The Cuban Missile Crisis. That was a literal face off between Moscow and Washington that was set to result in the world’s nuclear annihilation. And it was Russia who backed down. They lost that face off comprehensively, yet the country carried on with, “business as usual,” and the Russian people barely blinked when their leader, Nikita Khrushchev was suddenly and swiftly replaced.
My point here is that this is NOT the, “Russia has to win and has no way to back down,” situation that they want you to think it is. PUTIN has no way to back down and losing Ukraine would ruin HIM, but NOT Russia. Russia would not just be, “fine,” if they left Ukraine, they would be better off!
And Russia has a long, long history of changing leaders behind closed doors. We HAVE TO break this narrative that Russia can’t afford to lose face and forcing them to do so may result In Armageddon! Ukraine has repeatedly PROVED that Putin’s, “red lines,” are MEANINGLESS. The country simply will NOT follow Putin into their own annihilation!
In the end, IF Ukraine is ever allowed to use its donated weapons as THEY see fit and given PERMISSION to WIN this war, it would be the end of Putin, NOT Russia.
Russia would get the chance to reset relations with the west, get sanctions relief and withdraw from Ukraine.
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Gary Kasparov is a great commentator. His combination of wit, compassion and genuine insight fascinate me. As well as the courage necessary, required by anyone willing to be an outspoken supporter of Ukraine these days; or an opponent of Putin in any way, for that matter.
You too are in that somewhat elite club, sir.
“The kind of person who cares about Ukraine,” and stands up to be counted. You have my respect and admiration, sir.
I would love to see you and Jake Broe get together for a discussion on either of your channels. It seems it would probably be on his channel, since he does interviews quite often (both giving interviews on other people’s channels and interviewing others on his own channel) and you don’t do that. I believe it would be good for both of you in terms of extending your audience and reach, but also in terms of broadening the sense of, “coalition,” that so many western viewers seek for their comfort as much as their inspiration.
Just a thought. I know he would be delighted to work with you.
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Well, they’re dying for a reason. It’s just a reason that has nothing to do with them and serves against their personal interests. But, as you can see from this report and others, in which we see school children being taught to strip and reassemble machine guns, etc, even the criminal abuse of children as objects of indoctrination has become SO, “NORMALISED,” that a scene of a grieving mother, wrapping her child in her dead father’s uniform and OPENLY brainwashing him into being a good little Z Zombie, passes without comment by the BBC!
There was a time, not so long ago, when such appalling abuse of children would have been the main story for the BBC. After all, if we’re discussing the, “effects of Putin’s long war,” on a nation, that’s it, right there. The country will break up, with some of its southern regions ceding to China (who have already recently changed all their digital maps to represent these, “Russian,” regions with their old, Manchurian names) and Russia will be just like North Korea. That will be the, “bargain,” Putin has forced himself into, for retention of his dictatorship. And we’ll see literally millions of little Zombies, growing up to become big zombies, in an all but irrelevant nation.
Those poor, poor children.
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This type of lying to millions HAS TO BE OUTLAWED! It’s NOT a, “free speech,” issue, when you scream, “Fire!” in a packed theatre and get to sit back and watch people DIE in the ensuing panic! I’m not suggesting that we HANG propagandists, like we did after WWII. But, it has GOT TO be made illegal?! It’s killing Americans, half of which are on the side of Putin right now! Propaganda has to be outlawed. It is in the UK, and they have no free speech problems. Quite the opposite. They have the worst gutter press. But, even they are NOT allowed to lie dangerously, and call themselves, “news.”
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DJT 2Q2Q : “Explain,” what, madam? All I see is a squiggly blue line of Click Bait, which HELPS Donny’s cult, every time someone is dumb enough to click on it, with their COUNTED, thus PRECIOUS Clicks. Even to, “tempt,” someone with your clickety crap, you would need something that people give a sh*t about or thought might be, “real,” ma’am! Just WHO thinks trump’s laughable denial is anything more than just that? Listen to your president’s own words, kid? “Of course I’ll leave. You know I will! You KNOW I’ll leave!” 😋 mmmm . . . Victory tastes sweet. Nom nom nom nom nom 🤪
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@magoo647 : That’s why they can’t get to the SCOTUS though. Their, “cases,” are being dismissed as, “without merit,” and, “with prejudice.” You can’t, “appeal,” a case that was never heard. You have to have a, “case to answer.” You can’t just waste the Supreme Court’s time with, “butt hurt,” and hope there’s a coup. Even trump’s America hasn’t fallen THAT far . . . Yet 😁
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@magoo647 : Check out what they did in Florida? They literally conned hundreds of thousands of Florida’s voters, out of their votes, by fielding fictional characters (with one or two letters in their names changed) to pretend to be Dem candidates, copying their literature (fonts, colors, everything) AND THEIR POLICIES to look like the candidates, and promptly handing all their votes to trump! People literally believed they were voting for Dem candidates they KNEW while they were tricked into voting for the GOP! It was massive! All across Florida! Remember how Donny said EVERY STATE EXCEPT FLORIDA was, “cheating?” Well, that got CNN journalists investigating. I’m telling you, they’ve already added and subbed the votes, to see if it would have changed the outcome, and guess what? Biden, by a LANDSLIDE! Where ELSE have they done this? How many supporters does Donny Dick Breath actually HAVE???
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@TruthR1S1NG : Oh, I haven’t. “Believe me, bigly.” Watch the interview? He’s only DONE two. This is the one that wasn’t on the phone, whining to Fox. “Will you leave the WH on Jan 20th?” Listen to his answer, to that, “very nasty reporter.” You gave MONEY didn’t you? You will realise you were CONNED when not ONE penny is spent on legal challenges, and Donny has fled the country, to dodge warrants and indictments, just before the Inauguration. That would explain your painful denial, and why you feel the emotional, “need,” to LIVE on CNN, even though you don’t WANT to, “believe,” it. You will HATE Donny, within a year. I promise. You know how MUCH of your money, time and your life you’ve WASTED on this obvious con man? About 4 YEARS worth 🤣😂😆😂🤣
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@chadmartin4525 : Thanks for the concern, but my life has been pretty awesome (if I don’t count those lost to Covid?) for the last 4 years. My accountant always knew to ignore anything coming out of the Orange Orifice, and I’m loaded (that is the barometer you Trumpophiles use to measure success in life, right?). I have a great family, awesome friends, and I live in my dream house (if we ever finish the decorating?) thanks. See, you’ll find that it’s the educated, the smart and the successful that have always opposed the traitor in chief, and that the downside of relying on under-achieving, racist, sh*t kickers for a base, is that they are not as motivated or well resourced as patriots, generally speaking. That’s why we beat you. And, speaking of assumptions; I’m a Conservative, gun owning, Church going, “small government,” desiring, member of the Lincoln Project. So, you don’t really know who you’re dealing with. That’s another common mistake you trumpophiles make; (apart from trying to be patronising, and just coming off like a 10 year old who’s discovered a new word) thinking that you, “KNOW,”. . . stuff 🤦♂️ . . . 🤷♂️
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Of course she’s right. “Wag the dog.” A distraction, to have Americans look away from the sham of the GOP fixing Trump’s Impeachment. The Republic has FALLEN in a COUP, organised by GOP members who face jail time if Trump is removed. And by the crime family that would all go to jail, the moment Trump lost his presidential, “protected status.” They HAVE TO RIG 2020’s, “elections,” with Russia’s help. It’s that or JAIL. So they have taken away your Democracy, to save a bunch of crooked, incompetent, evil idiots. Their only concern is that Americans might RISE UP, which is why the go to Iran distraction, AGAIN. WHY ARE YOU ALLOWING THE END OF THE REPUBLIC, AMERICA??? . . . Smh
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@johnchristmas7522 : Because all Russian oligarch’s know you can’t get a decent education in their country and have been paying to get their privileged kids educated in Western Europe, Australasia, Canada and America where they don’t simply indoctrinate you with misinformation, fallacious philosophy, adulterated history and military schools that simply teach you to obey orders at any cost and never ask questions. The only problem with that is their kids come back as adults who don’t like living in poverty stricken dictatorship and have gotten used to yachts, jets call girls and parties with the stars. Now, all they have is dinghy’s for escaping the revolution in, WWII prop planes, call girls with more hair on their chests than their own dads and all the famous people are either living in the west now, or just not very well known, even in Moscow. Life in Russia sucks. But it really sucks if your educated.
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Garry Busey : Y’know how you can tell that you’re dealing with an over emotional troll? I mean, apart from the fact that you recognise their name from 6 years of wasted life, spending all day, every day, talking about the news they don’t like, to people they hate, on channels they call, “fake?” They’re SO, “emotional.” You got f’ked over by an algorithm that’s smarter than you! It triggers your Fight-Or-Flight impulses, exploits the way FEAR shoots out of your lizard brain to overwhelm your critical faculties, and turns you into another foot soldier for the Make America Divided Again party . . . Otherwise known as Putin’s GOP 🤦♂️.
I would pity you. If it wasn’t for your racism. So I just can’t . . . Sorry . . . 🤷♂️ . . . NOT! ☺️
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@Christuffrz28 : Took your advice and, “took a tour of my local hospital.” Turns out you’re right. My local hospital is not groaning with too many patients, even though they are taking some of the, “overflow,” patients from Red States now. Seems it’s places like Florida, Texas and Alaska that have the worst problems? They don’t have enough ICU space at all, and many Covid patients are finding themselves in better run, safer, more prosperous, Blue State Hospitals. You need to calm down and take an objective look at the situation, son? Oh . . . Wait? . . . You did that already, didn’t you? You just didn’t, “Like,” the facts, and decided your next, “logical,” step should be to go to a news channel you don’t trust, and talk to people you don’t like, about the news that upsets you . . . right? 🤷♂️ . . . 🐑🤦♂️ . . . 🤣
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@Angela Martinez : Makes sense. In the early days of Covid, when the facts were still, “changing,” because we were always learning new stuff, a firefighter friend of mine didn’t know she had covid for the longest time, because she had been on leave. But, she developed symptoms about a week after eventually finding out she had it. She never appeared to be particularly sick, but she did worry about all the people she’d been in contact with. She lost her job in the end, because of the late diagnosis. They found 40% scar tissue in her lungs. That’s permanent. She’s on her pension now.
I can’t tell you how shocked we all were, especially her! She barely had a cough! Never lost her sense of smell, or anything weird. Had a headache and a runny nose for a couple of days, and started coughing a bit, after those symptoms cleared up. Bless her though. She spent the next few days tracking down everyone she could think of, to tell them to get tested, because she might have given it to them, without putting her own concerns first for a moment. You just can’t be too cautious!
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@elimlinrr6898 : When Jesus healed a Centurion’s slave did he challenge him AT ALL for being a soldier? You have misinterpreted what that whole passage was about, son. Jesus knew that soldiering was and is an honourable profession, which requires occasional, justifiable homicides as a part of the job. I don’t blame you for cherry picking and decontextualising like that, because you probably had a misguided pastor who has taught you to do the same thing as him. And it was a, “him,” right?
I bet you don’t even know that the Bible does NOT say, “Thou shalt not kill.” Except now in very poor translations, perhaps? The 10 Commandments says, “Thou shalt do no murder!” And Jesus reinforced that. You turn the other cheek when it’s about YOU and no one else is involved. Don’t seek revenge. That what he was teaching in that passage. Don’t fight people over your OWN property, pride or pain.
But every person has the right to defend their home, to defend their brother and sister; and, “Who is my mother? My brother? My son?” Go back a paragraph or two and you’ll see what I mean. Trust me. Better still, trust your scripture. Learn to read it better.
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Pat Green : Genuinely? I think it was a combination of, “encouragement,” from Putin, who did the same thing, and his own magical thinking, self-delusion, which trump lapses into, when he panics. Add to this, that he sees the whole problem through the lens of his lobby groups, who just want the MONEY (It’s always about the MONEY) and, here we are; using our CHILDREN as Canaries, to see if it’s safe for the old farts of the GOP!
I know, I know! You’re going to say, “But, if he wanted us to be making the money, he could have just done what other developed countries did, and SUPPORT the Lockdown, because they’re recovering now?” But, our UNITY was costing him poll numbers. He HAD TO, “Politicise,” Covid, to get back in the game (from his, political, childish point of view - not logic or reason), so by constantly undermining the Lockdown, he kept himself, “relevant,” but the result of that? . . .
ALL of the PAIN of the Lockdown, with NONE of the payoff! All the other recovering countries have huge unemployment, economic downturn and other attendant consequences of Lockdown, just like us. But, for them, it was WORTH IT, to get BETTER . . . NATIONALLY.
In truth, he STILL hasn’t grasped the reality of the situation. And, he’s mixing it all up, in his pathetic child brain, with foreign affairs, the protests, etc. Now, he’s paranoid, like all dictators are, and seeing everything as a plot against him personally . . . And, that’s it. That’s How Donny made America a, “shithole country,” banned from the developed world, and that no one in their RIGHT MIND would want to visit ANYWAY, right now. I’m only coming back to vote, and to see the look on his stupid, evil face when he loses ✌️👍
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PopularNobody : Note: The NRA is ALWAYS, “prepared,” for these incidents and has people on the payroll, who Troll out IMMEDIATELY. Their MO is to LIE, use abuse, trying to put people off discussing the topic, and to attempt to define the argument as a, “left versus right,” issue, when it CLEARLY ISN’T. Note: also, that the worst of these shootings, lately, are happening in states that have the most relaxed gun laws, the LARGEST contingent of NRA clubs and the lowest education rates. Interesting . . . 🤔
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poolplayer poolplayer : And if he’d set of a NUKE, would you be saying, “It has nothing to do with nukes.” OR, just MAYBE, you’d be WONDERING how a disturbed kid was ALLOWED to get a HOLD OF ONE, IN THE FIRST PLACE? . . . How about, “IT’S BOTH,” HUH??? Yes, there needs to better services to deal with disturbed kids, but THAT doesn’t CHANGE THE FACT that he was wondering around a FRICKEN SCHOOL, KILLING PEOPLE WITH GUNS, THAT HE SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE, LET ALONE, “LEGALLY ALLOWED,” TO GET HIS FREAKY HANDS ON! Jeez! It’s the TOTAL DISINGENUOUSNESS that EVERYONE sees through, son. BE HONEST! YOU “LIKE” your guns, RIGHT. NO ONE WANTS to, “take them away,” OK! GET THAT INTO YOUR HEAD. We’re JUST talking about a FEW, SENSIBLE RESTRICTIONS. Like they have with DRIVERS LICENSES??? SMH . . .
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Well, it should be, “slanted,” the other way? Given that he’s more vulnerable than the rest of us, with an immune system that could collapse under the strain of a variant? I think that’s the point he’s trying to make? I have to admit, I see his argument. By leaving it to private businesses to decide what to do on their own property (so long as the law continues to support them when they mandate masks) it would be a way of taking the Alt-Wrong’s stick from them. It’s harder to, “other,” people, when you can’t tell them apart any more.
Ron DeSatan would have very little to whine about if masks were not a, “thing.” We really should focus our efforts on getting everyone vaccinated, and diverting resources towards that. Schools, hospitals and other public spaces will obviously keep masks in their premises, and we’ll have to live with it. But, we’ll all LOOK the same. I think America could do with more, “Saming,” and less, “Othering,” right now?
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It is very odd, but explainable, I think? Studios (gaming, TV and movie studios) are all owned by shareholders and investment groups. The great producers of the good old days are long gone and the last of the decent ones have been shown the door because they don’t have a high enough DEI score or whatever.
So these investors, being like aliens trying to figure out the meaning of art, to the end that they just get more MONEY, have NO CLUE what a good movie, game or TV show is supposed to look like. All they know is the, “formula,” of hiring big, “names,” “issues,” of the day and things that worked in the past. The cultural landscape is literally collapsing.
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@tokejoker1261 : Still struggling to find a way to, “hurt,” Joe I see . . . He’s not giving you anything, so you whine, “he old . . . nieh, mieh . . . He tripped on the steps, coz’ he broke his foot . . .nieh, hmm, but her emails! . . . Nieh hurumf . . .” Joe knows the art of NEVER losing the game . . . DON’T PLAY. And that’s why YOU get louder, while America’s coming around to Joe’s way of solving America’s problems. There; we, “talked about Joe,” for ya’. Feel better now? . . . Or worse? 😉😋
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Garrett Howard : You mean, the exact same dialysis machine, is somehow, “less good,” because it now costs the same price they sell it for, instead of the hiked up price of the insurer? Not a, “reader,” are you? Look how HARD you’re working, kiddo? All Trump Trolls, “prove,” is how SCARED they are. After all, if you were, “confident,” that you were, “right,” you wouldn’t NEED to try to convince us, would you? SMH 😁
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The Narrative : What amuses me, is if they maintain their DENIAL, about Trump LOSING the Election, by over 3,000,000 votes, they will ALSO fail to stop and think about the NATURAL consequence of that: WHO, exactly, has Trump, “convinced,” “won over,” or, “persuaded,” since taking office? A MINORITY POTUS has just spent TWO YEARS, ALIENATING EVERY SINGLE MINORITY, POLITICAL CONCERN, JOURNALISTS, BUSINESSES, LAW AND ORDER, INSTITUTIONS, etc, etc, etc; EVEN SPORTS FANS! I mean, HOW could he have POSSIBLY, “gained,” ANY support??? Unless he’s planning on using the Russians or Chinese, to UPLOAD the Mid Term Results to a Polling Station, near you, HOW could Trump HOPE to WIN a Free and Fair Election? When even 25% of Republicans have LEFT THE PARTY, since Trump took office??? Incidentally, that’s WHY it, “appears,” that Trump’s popularity has grown, within the Rep Party. Another ILLUSION of Trumpian, “success.” I mean, they are UTTERLY BLINDED BY THEIR CULT! 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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hardeez1 : Not a, “reader,” are you? You named ONE thing, that Trump has done to the, “Economy, Stupid,” and you happened to site the ONE EXAMPLE that EVEN THE GOP are unhappy about. Your TEMPORARY Tax Break ENDS next year, while the price of Gas and FOOD has DOUBLED in the last two years. In the very LAST HOUR of the, “debate,” over that HEIST (or “Tax Bill”), YOU didn’t NOTICE the $1.5 TRILLION (Yes! $ TRILLION!) DOLLARS that went to Real Estate Developers (NO “vested interests” THERE though, ARE THERE???). Did you EVEN NOTICE that THE RICH PEOPLE’S TAX CUTS ARE PERMANENT??? NOT a, “popular,” Bill with ANYONE, except Trump’s Cult.
So, instead of HIDING from me, MAN UP, and ANSWER THE QUESTION. Because, from where we NORMALS are looking, Trump HURTS the economy, EVERY SINGLE TIME HE MEDDLES IN IT. Are YOU one of the 1% GRIFTER, FREELOADERS??? Just too DUMB to know when you’re being ROBBED??? Or just a FOREIGN TROLL???
You CAN’T answer the question! 🤣
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DjSquirrel33 : A lot’s happened, since I commented on this video, two years ago. I’m not the same person I was then. It’s called, “growth,” which is a thing that we, “grownups,” do. You should try it? Because you don’t get English Punctuation, you actually told us that Trump is, “only,” a, “human idiot,” which I doubt was your intention? 🙂
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Why are you sitting on your hands, America? Why are you not filling Pennsylvania Avenue? Or, bringing the entire country to a halt? The LAW, your Constitution, your Republic are all being DESTROYED, and you STILL have hopes that the Impeachment will ACHIEVE ANYTHING??? All it’s doing is forestalling the inevitable! Half the GOP are IMPLICATED, so they CAN’T remove Trump! They KNOW he faces disgrace and JAIL, from the MOMENT he’s out of Office. And, they KNOW he’ll squeal on ALL of them at that point. The Trump’s have NO ALTERNATIVE but to hold onto Office FOREVER, and the GOP have NO ALTERNATIVE but to help him! That means RIGGED ELECTIONS, the END of Democracy and the FALL OF YOUR REPUBLIC! But, you sit and watch, like something HONEST might happen? This is EXACTLY how Putin runs Russia! With FAKE Opponents, in a FAKE Democracy. DO SOMETHING or be DAMNED!
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john carioscia : Just a question of, “math,” to you, is it, son? And, just how many GOP Senators would it take, to get that, “2/3 majority,” do you think, huh, kid? . . . You’re sweating . . . 😁
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Yet, there is a solution. In the UK everyone has freedom of speech, but it’s a CRIME to say something is, “news,” when it’s a demonstrable LIE! That doesn’t stop influential people from saying, “I believe X or Y to be true,” even on respectable news outlets, but opinion is LEGALLY separated from FACTS. Hence, Fox does not broadcast in the UK, because they are not allowed to call themselves, “news.” It really is THAT simple. Disinformation is a CRIME in most European countries, and everyone manages to have FREE SPEECH. It’s not a mystery!
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Akon Fenty : So, if I asked you, “What is 2+2?” and you answer, by saying, “Thursday,” everyone on the PLANET can SEE that it’s NOT an, “answer.” But, just so you KNOW, what’s at stake, here; Conservatives are DESERTING Trump in their DROVES, and it’s EXACTLY these EMPTY, SOULLESS DRONES, that are making it happen. Not enough, “liberals,” in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc, to vote out the GOP, but IT HAPPENED! Because Conservatives voted WITH Liberals. And IDIOTS like Miller are MAKING IT HAPPEN. So, go ahead; ENJOY your OBTUSENESS and SEE what it gets you 😁
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We should never let F*x forget that. It’s a bigger story than Tucker’s sexual insecurities. He’s literally saying Communist Chiynah knows best, and they are more, “Macho Macho Man,” (Village People) Masculine than Americans. Since when were we supposed to be listening to Chiynah, anyway? That Chinese doctor sounds nuts! Think about it? In the face of a flu-like pandemic, a clinical doctor’s advice to the government is, “Make men more macho!” I mean, WT holy F!? And F*x says, “That’s it, people! Let’s listen to Communist Chiynah’s nut Jobbery!” They are flailing! One day, Tucker is going to see that again and go 🤦♂️ . . . 🤣
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Paul D : Yeah, where to start, there? . . . 🤔 Reagan NEVER said that; you’re misquoting him. “The left,” can no more be, “fascist,” than your left hand can be your right hand; contradiction in terms. Your grammar is either that of a Russian 9 year old, or the overhasty rantings of a serial killer. I am a proud Conservative, which is WHY I vote Democrat; I prefer my presidents NOT to be run by the very Commies that Reagan was WARNING YOU ABOUT. . . Well, let me put it more simply for you? . . . Son, your just pretty, f**kin’ THICK 🤣
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@GeloLego99 : Ukraine could (theoretically) “sustain attritional warfare,” actually. If the rate of attrition is 7 to 1. As it happens, the rate has been closer to 11 or 12 to 1. But it’s not their plan. It’s what they were forced to do, when they adapted to probe for weaknesses in Russia’s defence, but never intended as a long term strategy. Now, they’ve found those weaknesses, done their math and calculated that they should push with more forces. That’s very bad news for the already beaten down, demoralised, conscript Russian forces. Especially with Ukraine’s track record of defeating Russia in every battle so far, except for Bakhmut, which was a classic case of propaganda coming back to bite Russia on the ass. A Pyric victory for Russia, who are still pouring resources into what rubble remains of that zone, only to lose them all from bombing, as they get increasingly surrounded. Ukraine keeps tricking Russia into throwing away their armour and men by playing on Putin’s pride. And because they can’t ever admit defeat, Ukraine gets to pick the key battle grounds and force Russia into committing forces they can’t afford into these humanity sinks. They’re terrified of losing Bakhmut for propaganda reasons and that’s just fine for the Ukrainian army.
Russia has already lost but just doesn’t know it! The Z on their suits and tanks stands for Zombie. 🇺🇦🔱🇬🇧
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Roger Williams : There’s definitely some truth to that. I think he started to fall for his own myth, partly because of all the grovelling toadies egging him on, and partly because the GOP turned out to be even BIGGER Toadies, egging him on; all thinking they could exploit him for their own agendas and for their own pockets. And, you’re right, he couldn’t RESIST all the, “goodies.” But, then, when he got into office, he spent practically EVERY DAY having White House Staffers having to explain to him, just WHY he was NOT allowed to do ANYTHING! “No, we can’t nuke Iran, sir!” “No, we can’t lock her up, sir!” “No, we can’t have a military parade, sir!” “No, we can’t replace the Washington Monument with a Gold Statue of your Mushroom, sir!” 🤣 😂 🤣 🤡
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Drew Bunch : Ah, how little you KNOW, silly troll. His NAME was on a LOT of stuff, but WHO, “owns,” the building, when you OWE more in DEBT than you have, even on paper, let alone, liquid assets? WAKE UP! And, DO SOME READING! Get off Alex “Q” Jones, Fox and Breitbart, just ONCE!??? Do you REALLY, “think,” you can IMAGINATION your way to a happier Christmas??? SMH. 🤣
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America needs to be honest with itself. No one even DOUBTS Trump’s Guilt. The GOP knows it, as do his fans. This Impeachment is NOT about that. The GOP are asking America to be, “OK,” with it. They’re counting on people to HATE the Dems, SO MUCH, that they will disregard the Constitution, and END the Republic. They WANT a Putin Style, “Pretend,” Democracy. They WANT a Russian Style, Single Party, Dictatorship, with a FAKE Opposition, for appearances sake. A COUP! That’s what at least SOME Americans seem willing to do???
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John Smith : Now you’re just showing us all the DEPTH of your REPRESSION, with your OBSESSIVE bleating about SEX??? Look, if you LIKE being the turkey, all trust up and basted, for Thanksgiving, knock yourself out? But, PLEASE stop inflicting your weird sexual fantasies on us all??? Show some sensitivity to the issue, here? You might learn something useful, that can use as your defence, the next time your on trial for sex offences? BTW, are you ALLOWED to use a computer? Is your ankle bracelet not flashing? Is that the FBI, knocking on your door? ;-)
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@abdalrahmanassi4579 : While I agree that, “both-sidesism,” is rhetorical bollox, drawing egregiously false equivalencies between sides of a debate, conflict or war, I don’t think you’re going to get what you hope for out of this. Hamas has probably sealed the fate of the West Bank. Israel won’t just re-secure its borders and sit back for a years long round of hostage negotiations. Not when the most bellicose, right wing leader in Israel’s history is sitting at the helm. Now he has every excuse he’s been looking for and a humiliating invasion to wipe out. The two worst things you can give your enemy, especially when that enemy has all but infinite resources, are: 1) the excuse to do what he’s always wanted to and would have done long ago if the international community were on side, now with full impunity and the backing of all the allies that matter. 2) A humiliation that he desperately has to make up for.
As far as Hamas is concerned, this might as well have been a giant suicide bombing, for all it will achieve. But the people who funded it and put them up to this, the Iranians (and maybe even the Russians too?) are going to get their sh*t ruined too. Again, with the full support of the international community, at least, to begin with.
Of course, Israel will take it too far, on the basis that it’s better to ask forgiveness (from your rich allies) than permission (certainly a tried and tested political expedient that’s never let them down) and the entirety of all that land, to the Mediterranean coastline, will end up under Israeli occupation now.
To be clear: I am not picking a side, here. I’m just stating what is. Unless Hamas has cooked up some incredibly clever plan which hasn’t been revealed yet, they’re now officially f*cked.
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J Devlin : They’re Trolling as DESPERATELY as Trump is. It’s an old con, where you get people to fall for a childish scam, and they’re too embarrassed to admit it, so they keep putting in more faith, more money, and getting mad at people who tell them they’re being foolish. And, for comfort, they indoctrinate themselves, by going to Fox, RT, and conspiracists who can explain away the obvious fallacies in their thinking, like Alex Q-Anon Jones, who pretends to be two different people, disagreeing but both supporting Trump; hedging bets, in other words.
These are people who FELL FOR the image projected on The Apprentice, and who feel like IDIOTS, but can’t admit it, even to themselves, because they’ve been LOUDLY expressing support for Trump, to all who’d listen. And, then there are the foreign Trolls, on the payroll, backing them up. America is infiltrated at every level, and the Impeachment HAS TO WORK, or America’s Republic will be at an end . . . ✌️👍
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ThE cUrtAin: Ah, you’re one of the paid ones, in a foreign country. Got it. Your problem is that you know you can’t, “debate,” anyone, or, “win,” an argument. You’re talking to people who actually DO read, know about, “research,” and how to go right to the source; The Stock Exchange, Court Documents, Public Record, FOI Requests, Government Websites, Police or FBI records, the list is endless. Then there’s cross referencing, critical analysis, bias awareness, grammar and diction awareness, even. Not to mention, “Reliable Sources,” trusted outlets, etc. What about historical knowledge, political training, skills in rhetoric and the social psychology of the people and things you’re addressing? You weren’t trained in any of that, were you? That much is obvious by your botched attempt at having an, “eye catching,” handle, with an immature, “desire,” to make it sound like you’re in on some kind of, “secrets.” I have you down as 20 something, taking money, and in an East European pit of a place? Am I close? 🤔 . . . 😉
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Slumerican Mutt : You ask, what has Trump done, that’s so bad? REALLY? * He gave $ HALF A TRILLION (yes! TRILLION) DOLLARS in “tax Breaks” to REAL ESTATE DEVELOPERS. Vested interest??? PERMANENT Tax breaks to the 1%. TEMPORARY breaks, that will be WIPED OUT by inflation ANYWAY, to the gullible middle class. And you DIDN’T spot the problem? Even the REPUBLICAN VOTERS hated THAT blatant heist???
* Trump taunts a MADMAN, with NUCLEAR WEAPONS, and legs up his “diplomats” (the ones he hasn’t fired) EVERY TIME they get CLOSE to talks???
* Trump WORSHIPS Putin and won’t say ONE WORD against him, even though he MUDERS his own people, ROUTINELY and is a DICKtator, PRETENDING to run a “democracy”??? Meanwhile Trump attacks ALL of his “allies” AND his own people, in his own party, at the drop of a hat, because he “thinks” there will be no consequences, like a TYPICAL COWARD.
* Trump speaks up for home grown NAZIS, because they shout, “HEIL TRUMP!” in the streets and claims, “There were good people on both sides,” AT A NAZI RALLY???
* And his financial CORRUPTION and INCOMPETENCE was WELL documented, BEFORE Trump even got into politics! THAT is a PROVEN matter of PUBLIC RECORD! With Trump being the ONLY person in HISTORY who managed to BANKRUPT a Las Vegas Casino???
* This is NOT “politics” to Trump, and HE doesn’t give a S**T about YOUR DUMB ASS!? Don’t you KNOW he was a Democrat? He DONATED TO THE CLINTONS: ALSO PUBLIC RECORD, sonny! THIS is Trump thinking he can make himself RICH, but YOU don’t SEE THAT??? Even though Trump SAID, “I will be the first president to leave office RICHER than when I came in.” Once again; PUBLIC RECORD, GENIUS.
* And let’s not FORGET the RUSSIAN COLLUSION??? You will see for YOURSELF, soon enough. And WHEN it’s PROVEN, WOULD YOU STILL BACK HIM??? PROBABLY???
* And, though I could go ON, with PROVEN FACTS, I’ll finish on the POINT of THIS video: Trump is a CONFESSED sexual predator. Or, do YOU BELIEVE his buls**t LIE that the Access Hollywood tapes and the Howard Stern interviews were FAKED???
Only the CULT remains, because even the Republicans are SICK of his LIES, FANTASIES and INCOMPETENCE
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Slumerican Mutt : Like we rolled over for Putin, you mean? Handing him Syria on a plate, while he gives guns to the Iranians, who hand them on to terrorists who KILL American military personnel with them? THAT kind of “roll over”?
And the discredited “tickle down” that you’re counting on, has ALREADY been PROVEN not to help the middle class, given that NOT ONE CEO of a major industry agreed to increase wages, if they got the cuts promised. That is, until two, out of several hundred, were persuaded by Trump’s GOONS to at least “say” they would do it; AFTER having already been GIVEN the breaks. NO action on those “promises” so far. Wonder WHY?
But, your “opener”? REALLY? You “say” there are NO NAZIS IN AMERICA???
Nazi salutes? “HEIL TRUMP!”? Jack booted UNIFORMS? SWASTIKAS??? Are you ACTUALLY saying that, if it Quacks like a NAZI, and “HEILS” like a NAZI and TRIES TO KILL BLACK PEOPLE, LIKE A NAZI . . . it’s NOT a f**king NAZI?????
Well, I guess the ONLY plausible reason YOU would have for saying THAT, is because . . . YOU’RE A NAZI? Am I right??? Smh
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Merlinz Batgirl : Your grammar is pretty appalling for an, “educated,” person? Almost as if English was your second language? 🤔 Which is FINE, btw, but, WHY is that so common, among Trump Trolls, these days? Oh, and WTF are you BABBLING about? Seriously? You’re WAY off topic, and the family, “biography,” whilst, “fascinating,” I’m sure, is NOT AT ALL, “relevant?” 🙂
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Isn’t it OBVIOUS? They’re the government. They’d rather err on the side of caution, not haste. Naturally, it gets complicated, and there will be some, apparently, self contradictory advice. But, that’s because the administration has to pick its way through people’s irrational fears, when common sense was ejected by the previous administration. Any worthwhile government will be CAUTIOUS, but they HOPE you would USE that common sense, be safe, be kind, and read between the lines. 🤷♂️
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Step up, Canada, for the rest of us. Just abandon Netflix, nationwide! They’ll reverse it again. But, Amazon Prime has better shows, better movies (from a wider range of years) and it’s cheaper! Your mom will be able to get movies and shows from her own generation, as well as lots of new stuff for free. My favourite show is The Boys and I love the black and white classics like His Girl Friday with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, It’s a Wonderful Life, the Jimmy Stewart classic, and Hitchcock bangers, ALL FREE on Amazon Prime in the UK. Your selection will not be identical, but it will still be better than anything Netflix has. Besides, after the way they’ve treated the fans of their IP’s, (hiring writers who BOAST/Troll about not reading, playing the games, or watching the series or movies that their new shows are based on!?) my attitude is, “F*ck Netflix,” for acting like we ought to give a sh*t when I just don’t!
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@fortnitesexman : “It seems like a smart solution,” if you’re both dumb and greedy. They’ve been trying to block VPN’s for years and basically used every trick in the book to squeeze their customers without ever, ONCE just stopping to look at their own end and ask, “Is the product we’re offering any good?” I mean, I’m not a producer but, if I heard one of my writers tell me they’d never read any of the Witcher books OR played any of the games, I wouldn’t even bother to ask them WHY they bothered to apply for the f*cking job then? I’d just FIRE their ass! And if they’d been BOASTING to the press about it, which seems to be standard practice for ALL IP’s at Netflix currently, I’d be issuing public apologies and trying to win back the rightfully offended audiences, confirming that I’d just fired the idiots who gave those interviews and that we will RESPECT the audience and the material they’ve come to love, from now on.
I cannot tell you how excited I was for The Witcher, Star Trek, Stranger Things after season one; all ruined by Netflix’s apparent contempt for the source material and their locust-like willingness to take the names of our favourite IP’s only to ruin them for their own illogical, agenda driven, madness! Netflix deserves to die. Now that Better Call Saul has concluded, what’s there to miss that you can’t get anywhere else? 🤷♂️
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tip pullthemnow : I say, WE are NOT them. What would happen, if America was predominantly one color, or another, that wasn’t white? As far as I can see, NOT MUCH! Maybe America would be a better, safer place to live? Maybe it would be the BEST thing that could HAPPEN to America? The only people who make race an issue, are the white ones in charge. And, their hysteria will lead to them getting exactly what they fear, because we’re gonna’ HAVE TO legislate, just to stop them from bringing back SLAVERY at this rate . . . SMH
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@siriuskata9403 : Can’t argue with that. He was a very competent POTUS and we were lucky to have him. I just don’t think much of him, as the person he was then (I have to admit, I know little to nothing of his last 20 years or so, and he might be a saint for all I know?) and the one, single, blessing we got from the rise of trump, was the end of the Clinton Dynasty. Related presidents had already taught us some bitter lessons, whilst making something of a mockery of America’s egalitarian values, and though Hillary would have been OK, I don’t doubt, there would have been little to no, “progress,” on her watch. Biden, on the other hand, is as progressive as he says he is. I’m actually Conservative in my political outlook, but I almost wept when he put out a broadcast supporting unionisation for the big tech companies! For his sincerity! Biden’s as honest as they come. That’ll do me, for the next 8 years ✌️
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LuvEl Hortyn : This is the most dangerous delusion that America clings to. Your, “Polls,” are already distorted, and the, “elections,” are already rigged. And, America is unwilling to accept that it’s Republic was finally taken off Life Support at the SHAM, “Impeachment,” because being honest with yourselves would lead you to the unavoidable conclusion that you are either stuck with a Dictatorship, or must have a Revolution. I don’t blame you all for being too scared to revolt. But, please don’t go around spreading the LIE that your elections are not ALREADY RIGGED? The GOP have chosen NOT to go to jail, which means they have to retain power, for ever . . . Be REAL, America . . . SMH
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Fred Phlogiston : She seems to have people on all sides exorcised? The reason Trump got in, was because Bernie was sabotaged, by the likes of her. But, Bernie then went on to set aside his values and support Clinton, regardless. What got to me, more than all of that, was the session the DNC had, just after the election; when the DNC leadership all sat on a stage and were asked about tilting the scales against Bernie. Their answer? “I will not even dignify that question with a response.” At which point, I thought, “F**K YOU, DNC!” Bernie, Hillary, the LOT. Fresh blood is the only thing that will save Democracy, now. I speak as a Conservative, who opposed Trump, from the outset. PLEASE DON’T go with Vanilla Biden, when there’s so MUCH talent out there. But, whoever you get; DON’T let the GOP exploit infighting? For GOD’S SAKE? Division is what got Trump in; Division is what’s kept him there. Only a UNITED STATES of America can defeat Trump, or whatever is left of the GOP, when he’s been removed. Good luck and God bless 👍✌️
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Willy Kling : Well, you’re in for a disappointment, son. Trump won’t BE there in 2020, so? . . . But, what, “shit,” does Donny, “get done,” son? You talking about the best, “Infrastructure,” “healthcare,” or, “international relations,” “IN THE WORLD,” that he promised? The Tax Returns? The Nuclear threat from North Korea, he said he ended, even though they’ve EXPANDED their capabilities now? THAT was made possible by Trump, so yeah, he got THAT done. Perhaps you’re referring to the $50 Billion or so, from Mexico? For the Wall, that he hasn’t started, or will EVER start? You looking to set him up? You WANT to see Donny get lol’d out of Court, by trying to declare a National Emergency? Because you would rather Anne Coulter and Rush Limbaugh ran the country, by passing on Putin’s orders? Just what, “shit,” are we talking about, here, son? I REALLY would like to know . . . 🤣
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Willy Kling : Tell you what then. If you, “really want to know WHY,” I think that Trump won’t BE THERE in 2020, I’ll tell you. But, first, answer my question. I have listed around 10% of Trump’s abject FAILURES, there, son. So I would like to know just WHAT, “shit,” has Trump gotten, “done?” ‘Coz, if that’s your sales pitch, you’re being about as, “realistic,” as when you hope for a Nazi takeover of the world. Be honest, kid. WHAT has Trump got done; and appointing a judge, doesn’t count. That’s just hiring a guy. What has Trump actually ACHIEVED? Go on? 🤔
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Willy Kling : Now, you’re getting hysterical, because you know Trump has ZERO, “Achievements,” to his name and you couldn’t come up with ONE. Nada. Zip. NOTHING. Judging by your effeminate, emotional, outburst, you’re clearly in the RACIST category of Trump Tramp. The type that, “does it for free,” and puts all the stickers on the INSIDE of his white van, if you catch my meaning. As, you have NO, “shit done,” to speak of, we’re done here. But, I will clarify two points for you. We don’t want Trump dead? It’s over for him, when he’s dead. No, no. We want him to live a LOOONG life, in his cell, with Stephen Colbert piped into his room, and CNN, daily broadcasts, where he gets to see the first BLACK, FEMALE, POTUS, beat Caretaker POTUS, Pence in 2020. I want him to SUFFER the consequences of his OWN actions.
Secondly: you must cease flattering yourself. You’re NOT actually, “interesting,” or anything, son. I stopped reading your womanly bleatings, about half way through, and wondered why I had wasted THAT much energy. Trolls need to be BRIEF, or they will be IGNORED. Do get over yourself, son 😁
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You don’t have, “a generation’s,” worth of time to get that, “work,” done! A root and branch reform of the BWB is the only solution available to Germany, along with increased spending. Remove the circumlocution offices altogether and streamline the process, or Germany will be left behind as Poland emerges as the new powerhouse of Europe, supplying weapons and defending the borders of Europe. Maybe a working party, to look at how they reformed things there so incredibly quickly in the last few years, is what’s called for. Cut the red tape and give jobs to the East Germans who still feel left out of the economic dynamism of Germany’s growth since the fall of the Iron Curtain? Two birds, one stone?
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@davidgriffithsbjjcoach7207 : I gave a hyperbolic example. Though she did break the ministerial code 6 times. The comment on the front of the white paper (it’s not a bill yet) is required by law because, as it stands, the law lords will, “strike it down.” That is assuming it gets passed, sent to the lords for ratification and then legally challenged. But it’s unlikely to get even that far. And when politicians introduce bills that they know will not get passed, that’s called cynically wasting the public’s time and money with, “performative,” politics. They just want to be able to say, “See? At least we tried,” to all the right people. Or the wrong people, depending on your perspective.
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Great comment. You got the metaphor, and nailed what’s going on in people’s minds, culturally. The Zeitgeist. To this title, why they, “owned the Oscars,” my first thought was: The Oscars are less about what is really good in movies, in any given year, than they are a way of capturing that Zeitgeist in amber, for that year. If you look at a list of any particular category, over the years (especially Best Film, or Screenplay?) what you see will probably surprise you? Especially when you see what they were up against, or know about other truly great movies that never even made their list. Most people ask, “How could they be so wrong?” But, when you think about what was, “going on,” in any given year you look at, their picks always seem to reflect that cultural vibe of that time; the politics, the concerns, the pop culture and the broader art of that time. This year just happened to be an exception; a confluence between the Zeitgeist and some genuinely worthy winners. Both movies, Joker and Parasite, are so good, they will be classics in the years to come. But that’s rare for the Oscars, which are more about which movie makers capture a very brief concern at that time, and have the most pull, financially, that year ✌️
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@viracocha : Yet we seem to be going the opposite way? Without wanting to tread the, “thorny,” ground of specific cases, we seem to be building our focus more and more around the cult of personality; usually an unreal mask, like Jokers, that has nothing to do with the real person underneath, but what it represents. And we do it for showbiz, internet phenomenons and even businessmen and women, as much as we do for political figures. You’re right, that it’s the opposite of what is needed, especially in such a densely populated planet, with instantaneous transmission of ideas, globally. But, how do we fight it? ✌️
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@Rovsau : You appear to be labouring under the misapprehension that Unity’s leadership will behave logically in the future, despite all of the evidence being firmly to the contrary. Setting aside ethics or even reasonable business practices, you should look up the history of the man responsible for this decision. He clearly has not learned from, “teachable moments,” in the past. Nor did he and the rest of the, “leadership,” (several of whom also have extremely concerning records that got them tossed out of bigger senior positions in bigger companies, like Microsoft and Amazon) listen to repeated, urgent warnings from their staff, who are currently leaving in droves, disillusioned as they are.
If you see someone with a record for mugging people suddenly hiding the weapon in their hand and trying to stuff it into their pocket, simply because you happened to look up at them and caught them just before they were going to mug you, are you really going to offer them the benefit of the doubt moving forward? Or, perhaps you’ll just do the smart thing and get away from them? Rather than continue on, knowing that they’re just waiting for your next moment of vulnerability?
There’s a point where the assumption of mutual self interest becomes irrational.
Or, to put it more directly: When people show you who they are, believe them. If I hear about game devs getting shafted by Unity after this, (other than those unable to pull out due to being too far committed to their projects) I’ll know it was as much their own fault as it was John Riccitiello’s.
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todd prifogle : Good point. The MONEY was there, too. But all the rich people took the, “relief fund.” Makes you think, though? Is the DOW Jones a, “real,” indicator of the nation’s wealth, or just the very, VERY rich? If America is as wealthy as Donny’s been telling us, for the past 3 years, WHY are there all these POOR PEOPLE, “protesting,” to get back to work? And, WHERE TF are they all coming from? . . . Just sayin’? . . . 🤔
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DESMOND : I genuinely do feel sorry for that kid (if it exists?). I meant what I said. Even the Bible (Jesus, in fact) tells us that there’s no forgiveness for corrupting children; “Better to have a millstone fastened to your neck, and to be thrown into the deepest pond.” That’s Jesus Harold Christ talking, not me. Imagine, for a moment, what kind of person you’d have to be, to either deliberately lie and fill your kid’s head with hate and garbage, or to be SO DESPERATE as to ignore the truth, because of your cult, “beliefs,” which 5 minutes of rational thinking would DEMONSTRATE to you are false? Like Trump, NAMING his child after the character he uses to LIE to the world with, it’s pretty sick, and the upshot is the same, either way.
Yeah, it’s, “low,” alright. But, NOT me, for saying the TRUTH out loud? How about the sick f**k that would DO THAT to his own flesh and blood?
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@rogerdogger6969 : Well, being on your phone, or appearing to be otherwise disinterested in proceedings, is his way of showing, “contempt,” without being, “controversial,” toward what he must think of as his Nemesis. He wants to be PM and still thinks that’s a possibility (in his warped imaginings in which the Ghost of Victorian Rent Boys Past get handed jobs like that out of sheer entitlement) and he knows that Penny Mordant is the most likely candidate for that job.
Not that it will shake out like that at all, because Sunack will cling to his position at the top of the greasy pole until his party is landslided out of power altogether. Mordant will end up as leader of the opposition (or perhaps even the third party, if this tactical voting campaign I keep hearing about gets enough traction?) and she’s far too competent to be shaken by a d*ck like him.
I’ve been asking myself, “Why is he a thing?” in modern politics at all in this day and age, for years now? And I can only conclude that it’s something to with the British love of, “eccentricity,” and, “personalities,” but we’ve all seen what real world harm THAT can do to a country’s prospects, so I also seriously HOPE we’ve learned our lesson!? He is HOSTING political talk shows on television, FFS! That’s supposed to be ILLEGAL for MP’s! He should be next on this committee’s list!
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loki2240 : It’s kinda’ funny, isn’t it? They, BLAME, “main stream media,” when they tell the TRUTH, but if you show how Fox has LIED to the people, they rant about Fox, “polls,” arguing that THEY ARE main stream media? NONE of their, “arguments,” EVER stand up to rational scrutiny, and the only people who EVER, decide to, “believe,” them, are their OWN PRO-RUSSIAN CHOIR. Trumpski Trolls are LAUGHABLE 😆 👍
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loki2240 : Here’s a great question? HOW, exactly, did states like Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, etc kick out the GOP, WITHOUT Conservatives voting WITH the, “liberals”??? None of the Trumpski Trolls have an answer for THAT. There simply WEREN’T ENOUGH, “liberals,” in those states to do THAT unless Conservatives want the GOP GONE TOO, right?
The BEST answer they have? . . . “Illegals were bussed in!,” “The count was faked!” Etc, etc . . . See, they can’t AFFORD to OWN that Conservatives are DIVIDED over Trumpski, when it’s THEIR JOB to DIVIDE the opposition to Trumpski. They, “hope,” that Conservatives will be offended by being called, “Libtards,” and THAT will be enough to bring them back on side. Like, these people were as insecure and easily MANIPULATED as THEM.
What they DON’T GET, is that it’s their very approach; dismissing ALL of Trumpski’s opponents as, “liberals,” LYING about EVERYTHING, when people can SEE the TRUTH for themselves, that is driving Conservatives AWAY! They’re ADORABLE 🤣
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DDK : If we’re, “fact checking,” let’s put ALL the facts out there, shall we? Trolls are claiming that Trump’s sanctions have brought Kim to the table. Trump was AGAINST these sanctions, then he was FOR them, and he flip flopped TWICE MORE. Trump HAS NO, “position,” on Korea, only a DESPERATE NEED for his first, “win.” But, Nixon went to China and ACTUALLY made a BREAKTHROUGH there; yet THAT didn’t save HIM from his own CORRUPTION. Propaganda only goes SO FAR, but does NOT make it passed the court room doors. Besides, tell me WHAT, EXACTLY, is happening here, that Nicky Haley, or ANY OTHER politician couldn’t handle BETTER than Trump? The Trolls are out in force, without comprehending that the American and free western psychological make up is NOT LIKE THEIRS. Even IF Trump established WORLD PEACE and ended ALL WAR, he will STILL have to pay for his CRIMES. America WON’T have it ANY OTHER WAY. Russia is wasting its energy by trolling the ass out of this issue. Watch and see
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@GeneralSamov : Mk101T👈 What he said, for a start. And, Liz Cheney is a big girl who can take it, and frankly, won’t be missed if she can’t (in my book). There’s only a week to go before the trial, at which much will change, and both sides of the GOP know it. So, we’re seeing the vicious fight for control of the party’s soul, and she’s the most senior Congress Woman to have voted for Impeachment, making her a natural target. But, she’s smart enough to know that she can still get corporate backers, and popular support from the Normals, and that no one supporting trump is going to come out of his Impeachment Trial with an, “enhanced,” career. They need to make their play right now, and all she needs to do is hang on.
Remember, 74 million votes does NOT translate into 74 million Insurrectionists. I doubt trump would get two thirds that number today? Most Americans just want a relatively anonymous government, that leaves them alone to make money, enjoy their recreations and spend the money they make. Most don’t know the details of American politics or history and don’t care to know. The ultimate rebuke to trump will be Biden’s success. And, even the obstructionist tactics of the GOP will not be able to prevent that for some time to come, once the trial is done, and trump fades into the rear view mirror.
When Christmas comes again, everyone will be comparing it to last years. Being able to party, not worrying about granny dropping dead, not anxious about street violence or another unforeseen crisis that we could have avoided had our POTUS not been clinically unable to avoid grabbing for a headline. The difference will be so striking that most Americans will say, “God forbid we ever return to the madness.”
So, while I’m not saying it’s plane sailing from here on, neither am I quite as depressed about our prospects as we move into the shiny, Hydrogen Age, either. Granted, the longer I write, the more I move into territory of hope, over pragmatism. But, “the trial is the thing, in which to catch the conscience of the king Donny,” to paraphrase the Bard. It’s an unmatched opportunity, to crack open the GOP, and let ‘em have that Civil War they always wanted, only in their own ranks. So I remain hopeful, for now . . . ✌️
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I wonder if you can tell us how MP’s calculate letters and emails these days? The received wisdom, years ago, was that one letter was seen as equal to roughly 500 other voters who felt the same way, but hadn’t bothered to write in about it. Meaning that 20 or so letters from different people (and not from an obviously coordinated campaign) could make a significant dent in your MP’s attitudes towards that issue.
Nowadays, with electronic communications and the TikTok generation, the calculus must be very different. And the received wisdom I accepted back in the day might well have been a myth anyway, for all I know?
So, it would be really helpful, I think, to explore that issue on your channel and give people a sense of which types of communication are most effective, the ways to go about your own preferred approach, as well as any follow up information or connected issues that might pertain?
I also think it would be very encouraging for viewers who just need a nudge in that direction. As most of us feel we’re likely to be ignored unless we get really pushy, which many have neither the time nor inclination to do. But equally many would try to pressure their MP’s if they actually believed it was worth their while, or that they could just tilt the scale that little bit.
I would also encourage them to express themselves far more briefly than I am doing here, whilst remaining polite, of course.
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Real Fake News : Ok, YOU are angry? Sound a little hysterical, because you are frightened? Republicans want Trump gone too, you know? Like me. It’s real simple; Trump can’t deliver the tax breaks his rich donors want, so they’ll ditch him. But, they have hung on to him, thus far, to get what they can out of him, while realising that he’s a liability. If they, by some stroke of luck, get what they want from the tax bill, they’ll be able to blame Trump for the fall out and redeem themselves by ditching him. Either way, sonny, they are ditching him. The only question is, how soon?
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Real Fake News : You’re right. There. You didn’t expect THAT, I guess? Hillary and the old guard, top leaders of the Democratic Party were and ARE bought and paid for. They have demonstrated that time and again, tipping the scales against Bernie Sanders; Donna Braille breaking the law and some how getting away with it; and then, when they got beat and had their navel gazing session, they treated the party members with contempt, like little kids, who’s legitimate concerns were naive. They deserve all they got and I HOPE HRC DOES go to jail.
But, if she does, so will the people in THIS administration who, it turns out, are guilty of the SAME offence. NONE of the above changes the fact that Trump and his GOONS are the WORST administration America has EVER had. Nor does it alter the fact that they are criminals. But, WORSE than ALL of that; Trump and his pirate band of grifters have SOLD OUT our nation’s future and security for 30 pieces of silver. They are TRAITORS and they WILL be convicted.
What astonishes me, is how so many, “fellow Americans” are fine with that, because they think Trump can deliver on their racist or money grabbing (or both) agendas? They too, will get what they deserve
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Eddie Coyle : Nah, here’s an example of, “Fantasy Land,” for you. The most powerful man on Earth, tells his, “fans,” that his Arch Enemy is a, “staffer murdering, intel deleting, uranium selling, pedo-ring running Master Criminal,” and they all, “believe,” him! Not once, after 3 YEARS of Trump being utterly incapable of, “locking her up,” have they even QUESTIONED WHY that might be???!!! 🤔🤣 When he could NOT STOP his ENTIRE Campaign Team from going to JAIL! 🤣 Now, anyone who believes in THAT guy . . . THAT’S a Fantasist, son 🤣 😂 😆 😂 🤣
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Warren McDonald : Insight is not your thing, son. I’m as Anti-Trump as they come, and that’s just ONE thing on your list that you got wrong about me. I’m not so insecure as to worry about your personal attacks, though. They don’t make me any less happy and handsome, thanks. You seem a little confused? How, “right,” about me, do you imagine the rest of your assumptions are, when you have me pegged as a fan of the sexual predator, idiot grandson of a Klan Wizard, financially inept, mentally ill, murderously incompetent, traitorous, Orange ass hole, in the White House? . . . 🤔
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The fall of the Russian economy will be sudden and catastrophic when it really hits, early in 2025. Like a sun burning out its fuel, one layer after another, Russia is burning through its gold, selling the Chinese Yuen, doing anything they can think of just to buy themselves another few days or weeks. And, like a sun, when there’s just nothing left to burn through, the gravity of the situation takes over and the implosion will be as profound as any supernova.
By mid 2025, call me out on this if I prove to be wrong. But you only get those calling out rights if the west didn’t throw Putin an artificial and underserved lifeline that perverts the natural course of events. Putin has put everything on red, but the wheel has already stopped on black. And the future of Putin’s Russia is a black hole.
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@lochnessmunster1189 : The same place they got, “consent from,” for quantitative easing, son. Obviously. The myth is that there simply is no money, or worse still, the myth you’re falling for, that paying public sector workers robs Peter to pay Paul. That’s how the master manipulator sets the people at each other’s throats, instead of turning to all those people who have OUR money from our taxes and demanding they spend it more wisely and appropriately.
When 5 lobbyists can persuade just enough MP’s to vote against the public interest, just so they can build another fracking facility, dump raw sewerage into our rivers without the laws being upheld, pay fortunes to a private vendor for PPE that will never be used, approve a drug that is unsafe, bail out a failing business, bank or railway that no one would notice if they went to the wolves by going bankrupt, prevent a rent freeze for the rich landlords (many of whom ARE MP’s btw) which would stop the housing crisis in its tracks (I could go all day with examples) etc, etc, etc, WE KNOW they HAVE the money. They’ve earmarked it for less worthy people. So, maybe stop asking the wrong questions and start asking, “Which of the most wealthy 1%ers should pay a minimum of £10 per hour to the person in who’s hands I would be willing to place mine or my loved ones’ LIFE?”
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@guderian557 : Awe, bless. You don’t know this, but the term, “kilometre,” is derived from Ancient Latin, a language far older than, “the dark,” ages. Why pick these, “nits,” at all, nit picker? What’s really bothering you? Apart from the fact that you don’t know much about the history of measuring stuff, I mean?
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I am already ruing the day, General Hodges. I routinely implore my representatives to do more against Russia and to, at the very least, STOP actively encouraging them by acting so predictably and pusillanimously.
NATO can win this round simply by encouraging all countries involved to use international maritime law to the fullest. Just as the Fins have done, all countries can act independently, without invoking any NATO flag. Russia simply cannot afford to keep losing these expensive ships with all that tech onboard and the spooks necessary to run it all. So long as they know they can rely on NATO support, should the need arise, and the support of the international community, they have nothing to lose.
Incidents like these have been happening routinely in British waters and being, just as routinely, hushed up afterwards, which is just unacceptable in my view.
As Jake Broe suggested, all of that seized Russian shipping and technology aboard can all be auctioned off, with the proceeds going toward repairing - even improving - the damaged infrastructure. As with their seized banking assets, the one thing Russia fears more than losing their money is the idea of their resources being SEEN to be turned back against them and used to fund their enemies’ efforts.
The sheer embarrassment and humiliation of using the interest from their frozen bank assets to fund the Ukrainians is worse, to Putin, than losing the money. Anything that looks like an own goal or egg on Putin’s face is to be feared inside Russia. Heads will role and Putin is demolished in the eyes of the international community; made to look like the impotent little tin-pot dictator he really is, if only we’d find the resolve to show him that!
And that is what we should be doing in every instance of his breaking international law. If we really want him to stop breaking the law, that is. Make Russia pay for repairs and for all of Ukraine’s war costs. We have the capacity at our fingertips.
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Daniel Lizotte : There ARE NO, “Conservatives,” LEFT in the Trump Cult. THEY are UNITED actually WITH Liberals in wanting to RID AMERICA of this RACIST NIGHTMARE that is Treason Trump and his pussy-whipped GOP Stalinists. So, please DON’T try HIDING behind, “respectable,” political descriptions, like, “Conservative”??? Because there’s NOTHING Conservative about putting the country into its BIGGEST, CRIPPLING, DEBT. That’s ANTI-Conservative; as is ATTACKING American institutions, businesses, law and order and our ALLIES. “Conservatives,” are NOT RACISTS, as the Mid Terms will DEMONSTRATE. So, STOP LYING. Your a Nazi, if you are in Treason Trump’s Cult, or a foreign Troll. There is NO third option . . . SMH
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Daniel Lizotte : And STOP, “BLAMING,” the, “liberals,” for a decision made by a free-wheeling, free-enterprise, free-speech loving, PRIVATE Business. They had NOTHING to DO with their decisions. Why are Republicans ALWAYS, “victims”? Do you not feel a bit, “Effeminate,” whining about being, “aggrieved,” the WHOLE TIME? Why don’t you, “Man UP,” at least occasionally? Why don’t you OWN Trump and talk about HIM? Are you, “uncomfortable,” being a RACIST?
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Kimberly Rea : You’re right about that. Trump relies upon the people around him to do the, “thinking,” but, at the same time, it does not pay to underestimate Trump. That, after all, is how he got in. Stupid people are often DEVIOUS, having learned through experience that people generally don’t like or trust them. Some of the people around Trump are pretty dumb too, but NOT all. And the experience and cunning of Congress and the Senate have been placed, increasingly, at Trump’s disposal. They have had to justify and compromise their “values” more and more, so as to get their “policies” addressed.
We have to face up to a PAINFUL truth: That “third of the nation” to which you referred, are RACISTS, or so unknowledgeable about the issues of race, that it makes no difference. It has NOT been, in SPITE of Trump’s racism, but BECAUSE of it, that Trump was elected and they LOVE his racist statements and views. I have even had discussions with people who say they are not racist, “BUT”. That “but” it always a give away. And they GENUINELY BELIVE that we should be “concerned” that the country may, soon, have a majority of the population that is “NOT WIGHT.” I’ve turned this matter over in my mind, GENUINELY TRYING to see the justification for such a concern, so as to address it in argument. But I JUST CAN’T! People seem to believe that a change in the majority’s skin colour will lead to a change in CULTURE? They are, GENUINELY, THAT uneducated.
We MUST fight this issue, HEAD ON! EDUCATION is the ONLY solution (CURE) for racism. In the meantime, WE MUST remove this dangerous, Stalinist president and his administration. Either Putin learns that there is a COST to attacking the most powerful democracy in the world, or we may as well just hand America over to him. Either Trump PAYS for his crimes, or we have NO LAW and ORDER, NO CONSTITUTION worth a DAMN.
We CANNOT stand by, while Rome burns. We MUST FIGHT
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Whilst it is gratifying to see these repellant Tories wallowing in self pity at their self inflicted wounds, backed by nothing more than their own unjustified sense of self regard, it is also chilling. It’s not the unedifying spectacle of former leaders airing their permanent sense of grievance, whether they’re in power or out of it, or their willingness to be seen as saboteurs with no regard for the future of their own party, as that’s been a feature, not a bug, for the way they do business anyway. It’s the idea of either one of the alternatives seizing the reigns of power, even for a short-lived pre-election period! Johnson does not need explaining, as we’ve all seen the empirical evidence that he cannot run his own financial affairs without corruption, let alone a country. But the very idea that we would put a proto-Nazi like Cruella Braverman in the job of Home Secretary has been hard enough for Britain to stomach and I believe that many Brits would identify her as their least likeable or competent MP! The secret services have identified her as a security risk, siting SIX separate occasions when she broke the law and Home Office regulations, which got her fired! But the idea of a PM who actively, vocally despises a significant chunk of the electorate, calling them names and deliberately seeking to DIVIDE the nation, makes her unfit to sweep our roads, let alone hold ANY public office! I simply cannot believe she is, “popular,” amongst any group that doesn’t also sport Swastikas? And those same people would probably gleefully burn her at the stake once they’ve gotten their full use out of her!
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Taylor Pak : It’s the sort of thing cops look for, all the time. Inauthentic or inappropriate responses, to serious questions. Like, grinning when they ask you if you murdered your wife. You should be weeping at the knowledge that she’s dead, right? The appropriate response would be ANGER, RAGE even. That is, unless you HAVE NO, “appropriate,” emotions to access. Not conclusive, on its own. But, if even a grunt like ME has access to those transcripts of the Russian SPIES who used him and fled back to Moscow, and has read the FISA Warrant and has ALREADY concluded that there’s a case to answer, you GOTTA’ ask yourself,” WHAT does this goon NOT GET about this?” TREASON is a DESPICABLE crime to be accused of. Me thinks he doth protest TOO LITTLE? 🤔
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M ML : Yeah, I have something to SAY, to do with the TRUTH. Just, “telling it like it is,” son. Normals DON’T read the babbling of Trolls, after the first sentence or two. WHY WOULD THEY? It’s ALWAYS the SAME, “Whaddabout,” anyway. It’s a mistake to flatter yourself, that you’re as capable of original thought, or of writing in an entertaining or meaningful way, as a Normal, kiddo. Just sayin’ 😉
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Free Thinker : Oh dear. The IRONY of your name, says it ALL. Donny was BOUGHT out of debt, by the Russians, via Deutsche Bank. Or don’t you even KNOW what’s been going on, because you only listen to your Foxbart Alcoholix Jones outlets? He’s a TOOL of the Russians and of the Money Grabbers around him. WHY DO YOU THINK Nunes and his GOONS have been so HYSTERICAL, lately? They’re TERRIFIED that they’re bank accounts will be looked at by the authorities. There’s NOTHING so Un-American and treacherous as people willing to DESTROY the FBI, the CIA And ANY other branch of American security, for the sake of MONEY. But, YOU, must be either a RACIST, a RUSSIAN or a LOONY 🤣
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F. Rabbanit : “Here’s my take:” The Republic has FALLEN, and the GOP has decided NOT to GO TO JAIL. What a surprise. So, their, “choice”??? They could RIG THE 2020, “ELECTIONS,” WITH PUTIN’S HELP . . . OR? . . . They could let the whole Trump family GO TO JAIL, along with HALF OF THEIR OWN PARTY, from Bill Barr on down to Devin Nunes, leaving them as a, “lesson From History,” and a disbanded, shamed, EX-party. They simply CANNOT ALLOW, “NOT,” RIGGED elections!!! And they have LITERALLY SHOWN YOU they will RIG ANYTHING and EVERYTHING, because they HAVE NO CHOICE! Learn to LOVE your Orange Monarchy, or have a REVOLUTION, like the Ukrainians did a decade ago? They faced down Putin’s THUGS without weapons, in freezing conditions, and sent their Putin Puppet FLEEING BACK TO MOSCOW. WHY CAN’T WE, a country FOUNDED on REVOLUTION, do the same thing??? Are we TOO SCARED to ADMIT that our 2020 elections are ALREADY RIGGED??? Just STOP PRETENDING you still have ANY, “Democratic Process,” left??? It’s embarrassing . . . SMH
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Trump Tweets that it’s an, “Act of cowardice.” We literally just watched a Trump fan, beating up some defenceless old guy, and Trump telling his rallies to gang up on, “beat the crap out of,” protesters. “Acts of COWARDICE,” are the FOUNDATION of Trump’s (bowel) movement. And, he’s in the pocket of the Gun Lobby, out of COWARDICE, where he called others cowards for being afraid of the NRA! Trump is the CAUSE of this! People who deny it, are just LYING
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It sickens me that the Tories have chosen this as their hill to die on at all. Their fortunes are at an all time low and an election is looming, so they have decided to appeal to the lowest common denominator, with hot button, trigger and division, “politics,” using THE MOST exploited, vulnerable and downtrodden people on Earth as their pawns in that game. I would vote for almost ANY opposition party on the basis of their opposition to this bill alone! And that’s without all of the self dealing, lies and degenerate partying these people get up to and laugh in our faces about in the mean time.
And, because it’s performative politics rather than any good faith attempts at solutions, they will cost the tax payer more money in waste and delays while they’re busy getting laughed out of the courts, leaving the entire issue in a quagmire for the Labour Party to face when they come into power.
All we can hope and pray for is that Labour has a set of policies up and ready to role out, immediately upon taking office, set to address everything from policing our shores to accommodating refugees, through to swiftly processing claims, with a legal frame work and the personnel infrastructure necessary to see it through. Mr Marr is right that this problem is never going to go away, but just grow. And we need a system in place that acknowledges this, which is not reactive but proactive.
I can grant the Tories this much: It’s easy for us to point out what will evidently NOT work, especially when their policies are informed by cooked up data, which is no better than a pack of lies created to get the racists excited and on side. But finding ones that will work will require compromise and sacrifice, politically and in terms of initial spending; though the benefits of immigration will be reaped in the long term, given that there’s roughly a million jobs that British people don’t want to do which desperate migrants will be delighted to do for us. Where your moral principles may be pricked by what sounds like an exploitative model, may be one of those policy places wherein that, “compromise,” of which I spoke will be required?
But the fact of the matter is that there is a model of solution which would bring financial prosperity to Britain, with a path to citizenship for those who are willing to assimilate and work, which will be the vast majority of migrants. And if the law is not bogged down enforcing unworkable policies for a corrupted Home Office, they will find it easier to root out the criminals, with programs of international cooperation, working up the chain of the people traffickers and slavers.
There’s a lot to do, and these goons in power have demonstrated that they aren’t even thinking about the problems logically or morally, but purely politically. So they are not fit for purpose. We await the grownups, to see if they can do any better, after an election.
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Would that review be carried out by another, “independent expert,” that also happens to be a massive Tory donor? Like the Chair of the BBC? Or an ex-Tory candidate, like the Director. Perhaps some of the news anchors for flagship news and debate shows, like Andrew Neil or Fiona Bruce, will shill for the BBC? Telling us that punishing free speech was, “only a one off,” or something? After the consistent campaign of threats the Tories have been making since the 1990’s with more menace over the years, this is looking like takeover by stealth and dismantling to follow?
As soon as you say that Lineker expressing his personal views (on his own private Twitter thread) reflects upon the BBC, then you have to ask why more incendiary acts, such as putting a doctored picture of the Labour leader with Hitler in it up on Twitter, was not, “crossing a line,” long before Lineker’s statement of FACT?
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113 DmG : Oh, it will, “change,” alright. By November, there won’t be ONE PERSON in America, who hasn’t lost someone to Covid. And, because the, “administration,” KNOWS they have a binary choice, between jail, disgrace and the uncovering of all the hidden crimes the trump’s have committed in office (when there’s no one there to Obstruct Justice for them any more) or? . . . End Democracy. Which do you think they’ve ALREADY chosen? What do you think Bill Barr’s Secret Police SS are being expanded for?
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They say that because they know they will be able to, “prove,” they grew, “the economy,” when challenged about it down the line. What they won’t admit will be that they only grew the biggest, richest industries, making a tiny percentage of actual employees better off, so they could take all their money out of Britain and stuff it into offshore accounts rather than reinvesting in silly things like wages, insurance, training or safety regulations. 20 people make £50 billion each in three months on the Stock Exchange and the Tories crow as if they’d just won the Battle of Britain, saying, “Look how the economy grew in the last quarter,” whilst wages go down and prices go up for the rest of us. Same ole’ same ole’.
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Cool Hand Luke : You still haven’t responded? Wonder why? 🤔. If, “two wrongs don’t make a right,” WHY is Putin, er, I mean, Trump, STILL chanting, “Lock her up!”??? As he did at the VERY SAME rally, in which he whined about Kavanaugh and, “Due Process.” You literally have no leg to stand on, live in Opposite World, while supporting the denizens of, “Crazy Town,” regardless of truth, facts, evidence or honor. You are either being paid; are a foreign Troll - being paid, or you are just a racist, or a complete IDIOT, who does it for free, like it says on the washroom walls 🤣
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Mark Evans : Be honest? What do you think GOP members are up to this weekend, if NOT planning for, “After Trump?” Not, his lackeys in the goon squad that surrounds him, in crisis management and on the phone to Putin all day? But the Mitt Romney’s, the Susan Collins’s, et al? The GOP CAN’T let Trump rewrite history on Biden? A long serving, decorated servant of America? With such an OBVIOUS EGREGIOUS LIE? They all KNOW their own pasts ARE dodgy at BEST! Trump could turn on ANY of them, if they let him get away with this? None of them will be SAFE, even if they DID suck his Orange Penis for the rest of their lives? They all KNOW they would have to get dirtied up with his crimes and scams to get to the top, or get vilified and go to jail or WORSE if they refused! Trump has Jumped The Shark, and they NEED him gone, son . . . He’s THEIR liability now . . . SMH
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TheBigStink : That depends on whether he goes to jail or not. The “most successful con man in history” is anonymous, because he got away with it. Trump will always be the most successful Troll in American history. But, if they have power wrested from their grip, trump, his family, Bill Barr and most of trump’s cabinet are ALL looking at jail and historic disgrace. That’s why they’re not planning on ALLOWING, “Elections.” What do you think this current expansion of Barr’s Secret Police units is for? To, “protect,” someone? Yes. To protect the Dictatorship from YOU, when they steal your elections. It’s not a question of, “if.” It’s a question of when and how they rob you of democracy. And, it will be in numerous ways, but that still won’t be enough; so, in the end, they’ll just stop elections altogether. Welcome to Putin’s America, children. You made this . . .
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Music! ✌️ Those Senators who get subpoenaed as witnesses, cannot serve on the jury! They need to get Hawley, Cruz and Lindsay Graham on the stand, to testify, under oath, as to WHY they, “believe,” in the, “steal,” or admit they always knew it was a LIE, and they, “were only following orders,” like Fascists always do!
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Matt Hancock’s utter vanity, egotism and dereliction of duty, for the sake of raising his own personal profile, is shameful and embarrassing to the country and himself. The country is in crisis and he’s promoting himself against the objections of his family, friends, employers and constituents, all of whom he’s abandoned to gain . . . what, exactly? Like that notoriously embarrassing time when he tried to fake tears in an attempt at hijacking the sacrifices of people in the health services, all he’s showing us is that he is DANGEROUSLY self obsessed, to the point that he has no self control.
Unless there is no one in his constituency facing an unpayable fuel bill, missing meals to heat or feed their family, or going to food banks to survive, everyone there should be asking him WTF is he DOING THERE??? Removing the whip from him is the ONE sensible thing the conservatives have done about this. But have they sent someone in his stead, to look after the interests of his constituents, while he’s on his paid jolly? I bet they haven’t.
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Conversion therapy is guilty of all the things it seeks to prevent. And its perpetrators are generally in need of therapy themselves, or sociopaths seeking money and power. I will always concede that, gender, “dysmorphia,” will be, in some cases, a genuine mental health condition that needs treatment from qualified, compassionate, professionals who are removed from all, “ideologies,” by both their professional oaths and their disinterested appointment by the state as a mental health professional, who’s job is to protect the interests of their patient above all other considerations. “Do no harm.” Only such professionals would be able to discern whether their patient needs a gender reassignment or needs to process damage from their history before being able to make that decision.
As to your video on the Biblical concerns: You don’t need Hebrew to discern this issue, Prof Wilson. The New Testiment tells us, unambiguously, that we Christians do NOT live by the Old Testament laws. They have been, “fulfilled,” by Jesus and dispensed with. That is why we no longer put witches to death, or attempt to burn offerings at our church alters. We would be shown the door, outside of which the police would be waiting. Ignorant churches keep the old traditions alive (selectively) because they want your tithes. Those who use Old Testament teachings as dogma are charlatans.
The Levites were disbanded by Jesus’ day and Leviticus was already dead lore. Only history, morality, philosophy, mythology and general education remain to be gleaned from the Old Testament for a modern Christian. Hence, it remains invaluable to a Christian, for understanding your faith, its place in history and its context in the world, but it is useless as a guide to life and worse than useless as a guide to Christianity!
This issue frustrates me immensely. I will watch your video with great interest, but I do hope you do not fall into the trap of dealing with Old Testament laws as though they are relevant to Christianity? That is rather like disputing the colour of the car that ran me over, when simply establishing that I was run over is all that matters.
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Dear Lincoln Project, I genuinely believe that America needs a visual aid, a symbol, to help them truly understand this Covid 19 Crisis. My suggestion is that we build a Cairn, like the ancients did? It would be cheap, and relatively simple and easy to build and, if we represent each DEAD Covid victim, with one stone each, this might help America, “get it?” Such a project would need a site to place it, and I think, so as to challenge the administration, it should be next to, or in front of a Trump owned or key Government
building? It would need funding, and supervision, and someone able to place 1000 stones in a 24 hour period. I genuinely believe that such a symbol might have a significant impact on how average Americans SEE and GRASP the crisis we’re in. What do you think?
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In fairness, an all out war between the west and Russia would have no end in sight and could result in nuclear conflagration, either deliberately or by accident. So it has to be the very final resort. But consider what this war is actually about? Putin is desperate to seize control of the massive gas and oil reserves in Ukraine, because they have enough sitting under their country to rival, if not outstrip, Russia’s. So far, Putin has managed to scare off Shell and Exxon, who bought the rights to develop the biggest reserves in (you guessed it) Donbas and the Crimea. And now they’ve confirmed yet more massive reserves in the west of Ukraine, by the Carpathian Mountains. Putin can’t reach those and he has decided he must steal the entire country to maintain his stranglehold on Europe’s energy reserves.
Naturally, he knows the west would rather buy from Ukraine, a democracy with free speech and free trade, closer to Germany than Russia, which is way better than propping up a dictatorship, which has already threatened to cut off the gas lines in the past. So this is a desperate panic move, caused by the coming financial hit we’re all going to suffer worldwide. We think it will be painful in the west, but Russian people will wind up going back to mile long cues for a loaf of bread, and getting locked up for complaining about it.
All we really need to do is play the long game, let Putin sink what remains of his ailing economy into his Vietnam in Ukraine and squeeze his economy until his own people snap and bring him down. I know that sounds brutally cold, and doesn’t help the people of Ukraine, but it may well result in fewer deaths world wide? And we can maintain supplies and money to the Ukrainian armed forces in the mean time.
Historically, in over a hundred years (basically since it became an issue) the west has NEVER allowed themselves to lose control over energy supplies. In that respect, I don’t believe Putin is going to be a special case. We certainly need to do more.
I hope you are writing to your politicians and demanding they seize ALL Russian assets, deport ALL Russian oligarchs and use their resources to pay for the weapons and resources to fight their own Russian army? I am.
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He’ll get his title back, once he’s divorced her. Marriages never last anymore. I wish them luck, but he’s not prepared for the real world, any more than she was clearly able to cope with people’s Twitter opinions, while she attempted to be a, “mixed race royal.” The Royals only exist because of public opinion, and neither of them have the character to realise that people’s, “opinions,” are worth less than a Trumpian State of the Union address. They’ll get it eventually, by the time they’ve been mangled by life, all because they give a s**t about people’s pointless, “opinions.” . . . Smh
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Thanks for this. I’m so glad that channels like this exist. The details of sources, factual analysis, setting the record straight, etc, are so important, yet treated so carelessly by Hollywood.
I long for the day when a well funded director wakes up to the fact that most historical events are riveting and compelling enough without blithely altering historical details. If you really are a good story teller, you can tell the truth compellingly.
To me, there’s a kind of arrogance to messing with the facts, just to fit in with your own idea of what makes for a good story, without ever asking yourself, “How can I tell it truthfully AND make it exciting and rich enough to engage an audience?” It really p’s me off.
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@jamesrussel1133 : Well, I said that because that is how it works. Good journalists are paid to be objective and, particularly if they’re political journalists, they will have to ensure access to a full copy to for a full analysis and fact checking. Even hacks who oppose Truss on both sides of the political divide, or with a personal axe to grind, will have copies because they’re all looking for their own original take on it that no other journalist has highlighted; something they can draw public attention to in their interview or podcast, etc.
And no journalist is willing to get caught out with the old, “Well, did you read the whole book?” which any pro-Truss politician can use as a get-out-of-jail-free card in an otherwise embarrassing interview. Those numbers (a little over 2,000) cover roughly the amount of political journalists, students, archives and libraries across Britain who might feel they need a copy for vocational reasons, not its political wisdom or entertainment value.
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The election was rigged. Biden would have won by a landslide if all Americans hadn’t been intimidated, threatened, turned away from the polls, had their ballots trashed, etc. At the next election, everyone will get a vote and the GOP will lose by more. And the GOP are getting desperate, because some of them are facing jail (Lindsay Graham) and they have to pretend Donny has a future in politics, even though they KNOW he’s going to flee America, before the Inauguration, dodging warrants and indictments, taking all that MONEY with him . . .
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Facebook has been hauled over the coals in the US Congress and the UK’s Parliament, for the PROVED violations of National Security protocols, and turning a blind eye to Russian SPIES, for the MONEY. But, because their National Security threats are all Pro-Trump, they get a pass. TickTock pulled off a prank, by snapping up thousands of tickets to a trump rally, to which they didn’t show up, leaving Donny angry and embarrassed by all the empty seats. This is personal. “Always Get Revenge,” is the Trump family motto. I’m NOT even making that up. It’s well documented. But, if you think this is bad, wait until after November? The news networks will be facing, “hostile takeovers,” and lots of legal challenges, and they will ALL be pro-trump, within a year. Either that, or trump and his goons will be trying to flee the country before Biden’s inauguration, because they all know they’re going to jail? Which it will be, is uncertain. But, I promise you, there’s NO third option. Just remember I told you so? ✌️👍
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The thing about that is, while I’m in full agreement, I can’t help but remember my history. No one predicted the Russian Revolution during World War One, of all times. And I lived through the (temporary and brief) downfall of the Soviet Union. And if anyone tells you they saw that coming, they are either lying or, “mis-remembering,” as it came out of a clear blue sky for the world’s politicians and press . . . So, I just wonder how many armed Russians have to die pointlessly in Ukraine, before entire units of the army decide that they like their odds against the NKVD’s street cops better than taking on the jets, tanks, mobile guns, bunker busters, drones and highly trained elite units of the Ukrainian army? When the majority of them realise they have less to lose in that direction, gambling on the possibility of a coup, when they already know their lives are forfeit in the direction of Ukraine, well . . . anything could happen . . .
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tileformiles : Define, “illegal”? WHY TF are RUSSIA there? To prop up a DICKtator, who makes Saddam look like Uncle Buck? America swore to protect the civilian population, in return for their help, hunting down ISIS. That’s what they’re doing. But, in your Russian dictionary, under, “illegal,” see the term, “an inconvenience.” Sorry about your, “buddies,” getting iced, last night, but they ought to know better than to mess with American armed forces. Smh
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jose G. : That only makes it worse, kid. A lot of Hispanics are exploited, through their Catholic beliefs. The GOP uses the, “baby killer,” line on them, and of course, threaten to fire them unless they vote GOP. But, no one ACTUALLY thinks Trump is any less of a traitor, conman, criminal, sex pest, hater, thicky 🙂
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Seriously, sincerely: We need to talk about communication.
“You can always create more energy,” defies basic physics. “A sense of unproductive success,” is an oxymoron. I won’t keep going, but honestly? I do not doubt for a moment that this is really good advice, but maybe the CIA would benefit from running a course on Speaking Plain English? I get that CIA fosters a culture of, “professionalised discourse,” or whatever and probably has a term for it. But, as I’m realising that I was actually taught some of these same techniques in social services, I am also remembering the plain manner in which it was communicated to me.
We called them, “Break Away Techniques,” and learned to keep furniture between ourselves and the aggressive client, checking the room for other vulnerable people, where the exits are, tone of voice, warning signs, choice of words, choice of actions AND, “the VALUE of plain language.”
Yes, this is all great advice: YOU are more capable than you think you are under stress. That’s right. But, constantly pathologising language DOES NOT greater professionalism create, Yoda.
I honestly reckon this guy is probably great at his job, a really effective trainer who may well have even saved lives by imparting his knowledge and experience to his trainees.
But there were examples in this single presentation alone, in which the language used is distancing, confusing and incoherent. To me, that’s a shame, because it’s like watching you hand out pearls of wisdom wrapped in really tight plastic, that not everyone can or will open.
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Of course she’s right. “Wag the dog.” A distraction, to have Americans look away from the sham of the GOP fixing Trump’s Impeachment. The Republic has FALLEN in a COUP, organised by GOP members who face jail time if Trump is removed. And by the crime family that would all go to jail, the moment Trump lost his presidential, “protected status.” They HAVE TO RIG 2020’s, “elections,” with Russia’s help. It’s that or JAIL. So they have taken away your Democracy, to save a bunch of crooked, incompetent, evil idiots. Their only concern is that Americans might RISE UP, which is why the go to Iran distraction, AGAIN. WHY ARE YOU ALLOWING THE END OF THE REPUBLIC, AMERICA??? . . . Smh
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Artistic Pea Shooter : “Butt Hurt,” MUCHERY . . . Don’t you mean, “libel,”? THICKY! How do you even REMEMBER how to BREATH, you’re SO, CLINICALLY, PAINFULLY, HUMILIATINGLY, ARSE-ACHINGLY, BUTT HURTINGLY . . . DUMB!?!?!?! Woohoo ha ha ha, hee hee hoo hoo hah ha ha ha! 🤣
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Who was that guy saying, “Unironically, we need to take control of the press and [all the institutions] and force the people to believe what we believe and establish a dictatorship.”? Who was he?
I would say, “Well, at least he was being honest,” except, if all Americans believed what the Republiklan party believes, they would all be racist thieves who see The Handmaid’s Tale as a How To Build A Society For Dummies. In truth, he’s only being honest about the method, not the agenda. The agenda is for them to be on top with all the money and the power, and to be the very thing that all their dumb zombie conspiracy theorist followers claim to fear the most.
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Upper Echelon Gamers : Wait a second? This kid, if what you tell us about him is true, is a con-artist, deliberately taking money under false pretences. He’s OBVIOUSLY been warned about this before, and has been shut down for it before. That’s NOT over enthusiasm, or misguided, youthful, hijinks! That’s screwing people for MONEY, KNOWING that they are LYING! Sorry, but F**K that kid. The jails are full of little bastards, who dream about luxury lifestyles, paid for by the vulnerable and hapless . . . He belongs in jail
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Upper Echelon Gamers : I watched Regal Reserve’s rebuttal video, yesterday. He has taken a lot of your factual statements rather personally, siting them as, “accusations,” which is, I guess, understandable for a younger guy? The one question he raises, which I saw a valid, was that you did not attempt to speak to him, before publishing your, “hit piece,” as he described it. Is that true? If so, do you think you should have? Did you have a reason for not contacting him? Do you intend to contact him? He has invited you to do so. He still came off as suspect, even going so far as to suggest that he may well be offering a, “different,” accommodation, rather then the one he’s advertising, for convoluted reasons, which struck me as less than plausible. But, like you, I now, “hope I’m wrong,” about him. But, I don’t think I am. Personally, I think he’s a scammer. But, it’s a good question:
Why didn’t you reach out to him? You’re a good journalist, so I would have thought this would be a no brainer. And, is your protégée completely clean? He’s suggesting (hinting) that maybe she’s skimming the cash? Serious allegations.
Did you see his rebuttal video? Will you respond to it? I only have access to you, via YouTube, but I would very much like to know your thinking on this?
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What do people want here? Our troops home? Well, OK then. Nation Building? No? Well, neither did Biden. Talk to George Bush about that. Maybe if the Afghani, “government,” wasn’t stealing everything in sight, like a GOP Senator with a cocaine habit, and wasn’t so utterly corrupt, with their word being worth about as much as a trump, “promise,” to reveal his tax returns, THEY wouldn’t be in this mess of THEIR making? But the Afghanis aren’t, “responsible,” for anything that goes on in THEIR country? No more 911 level attacks on American soil seems pretty, “worth it,” to me? I get that trump trolls are bitter about Russia having their asses handed to them, but this doesn’t compare? We achieved our main objective. Or does anyone think the next Saudi Billionaire with money and a plan to attack America will get anything more than a ritual dagger up his fundament? Seriously! It’s a f’king mess, but let the dust settle, ffs???
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Hazzycakes : They’re quite funny, aren’t they? If a guy, at a roulette wheel says, “That guy over there has picked the winning number,” and he picks the winner, THREE TIMES IN A ROW, these idiots would KEEP throwing their money away, instead of ADMITTING it’s a RIGGED GAME. The Grand Jury OBVIOUSLY believes Mueller, given that they have NEVER refused to subpoena a witness for him? But, they keep bleating, “No PROOF,” because I guess it makes a refreshing change from, “HILLLAAAARRRRIIIEEEE!!!!” 😁 👍
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Jack Daniel : Oh, well, THAT’S ALL FINE, then . . . Nothing to see here? When the Grand Jury see the time line, OH! WAIT! They HAVE seen that time line, and emails and communications that YOU haven’t . . . Do ya’ “think” maybe THAT’S WHY they’re subpoenaing all these witnesses? Funny how they just CAN’T say, “No,” to Mr Mueller, isn’t it? . . . But, YOU are fine, and you’re NOT so worried that you feel the need to see what the ACTUAL news channels are saying, even though you hate them? You’re NOT so concerned that you feel the need to try to sway public opinion with disinformation comments? Yeah . . . What . . . EVER . . . Dude. Smh 😁
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Trump’s Cult is swallowing the message of, “Fear,” as a, “justification.” Sure, fear sells. But, what the cult REALLY FEARS? The TRUTH! They fear, “We told you so.” When there’s no one there to cover up Trump’s and the GOP’s crimes, they will have it PROVED to them, that it’s THEIR donations that were stolen! It was THEIR Tax Dollars that have been skimmed! The, “promises,” to THEM that trump hasn’t even lifted a FINGER to honor, because they were too busy STEALING THEIR MONEY! Trump’s Cult is terrified alright. But, they don’t fear Biden; they fear what they already suspect! That THEY are the Victims of the BIGGEST CON IN AMERICAN HISTORY! They’re ASHAMED!
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Lee Alexander : Oh, WAKE UP, America! They are going to prove Trump’s guilt, after the GOP withholds witnesses and evidence, and breaks their oaths of office, and let Trump WALK anyway, because the Republic has FALLEN. Half the GOP are Implicated in Trump’s many crimes, and the Trumps are facing disgrace and JAIL, the very moment Trump loses his, “protected presidential status.” They can’t NOT FIX the next election! WHY are you KIDDING yourselves, America??? This DENIAL is pusillanimous and self-ruining! The Constitution was PROVED MEANINGLESS, when it REALLY COUNTS! You have a Putin Style Dictatorship now! Because SAT there, and DID NOTHING! Thanks for KILLING Democracy, and endangering the ENTIRE PLANET, America . . . SMH
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Can someone tell me? What, “elections” can POSSIBLY remedy this Coup??? . . . Do you honestly think that the Trumps, facing jail and disgrace, the MOMENT he leaves the White House, will ALLOW, “elections”??? Have you been sleeping for 3 years? Trump will HAVE TO RIG the elections, with Putin’s help, only this time, with access to everything from the INSIDE. 2020 will be a Russia Style FAKE election. You KNOW how crooked they are, and that his Cult AND the GOP all WANT a single party system, right? What’s to STOP THEM, if Trump is NOT removed? And, what do you think will happen, when the nation cries out, because it was SO BLATANT? Another lengthy, “investigation”??? Conducted by Nunes? Or, the DOJ? THIS! RIGHT HERE! RIGHT NOW!!! THIS is the End Game. If Trump gets a, “censure,” slap on the wrist, the Republic and your, “Democratic Process,” are OVER! There’s ONE remedy that would save your Republic, and the GOP are betting that the Trump Cult HATES Dems and, “brown people,” just enough to disregard it, and BURN the Constitution. By all means, show up and vote, if you can get past the goon squads that will be encircling the voting stations? But, don’t be surprised when the paper ballots and the computer ballots don’t match? And, when the GOP says, “We’ll look into it,” perhaps you’ll all understand that you SHOULD have hit the streets and HALTED the country, back in 2016? . . . It’s already over, man. GAME OVER!
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Seriously? Never in movie history have there been more reasons to be frankly disgusted with the Academy than the historic 13 nominations for Emilia Perez. In no particular order:
*Cultural insensitivity,
*Racist Stereotyping,
*Offering the leading role to a known racist who regularly Tweets bigotry, ignorant cruelty and her support for a man who would have had her tossed into a concentration camp, ADOLPH FRICKEN’ HITLER!
*A libretto that tells the audience it’s okay to be a mass murdering drug lord, so long as you change sex, because . . . reasons.
*The story makes NO SENSE.
*The songs are not just terrible, but unintentionally comedic (as your clip so amply demonstrates)
I could go on, but the point is, NONE of the other movies on your list come even CLOSE to being as offensive, or for SO MANY reasons. I suspect that this video is trying to dodge that issue and perhaps even to neutralise some of the hate this, “musical,” is getting by suggesting that, “this has happened before,” and, “there are worse examples out there.” But the simple, empirical FACT is that there just aren’t! There isn’t a more woefully misjudged example of personal biases overcoming judgement and reason than Emilia Perez. None of your picks are even in the same zip code, let alone close!
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An utter lack of LEADERSHIP. A leader’s job is to LEAD and every single issue of importance that has cropped up that, had the shoe been on the other foot, Boris Johnson would have been all over and exploiting as an opportunity to put on a meaningless, colourful show, and Sunack has NOTHING to SAY!
Even the reporters who asked him directly about this vote visibly lose the will to LIVE and glaze over when he, “parrots his five pledges,” which NOBODY WANTS and inserts his downloaded program of filler space, rather than uttering ANYTHING OF MEANING! . . . Can ANYONE remember a single sentence Sunack has ever spoken!? Ever!?
Apart from the five pledges which are set to auto-drone like a stuck record player? Oh, and apart from that garden party at which he told his, “investors,” that he would not spend a penny on inner cities or public services and literally sees that as a waste, tell me ONE THING, (JUST ONE THING!!!) that Sunack has said, that they can remember???
Even YouTube keeps drawing a red line under his name, because the algorithm doesn’t recognise the word, “Sunack,” as being worth remembering. With other famous people the algorithm would have caught up by now, by even this mindless program knows it’s not worth inserting the name of Sunack into the English lexicon, because he’ll be gone soon and literally NO ONE will EVER quote him . . .
Why can’t we just have an election NOW and put the Tories out of our misery?
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Sethalos : Sometimes, “I told you so,” just isn’t enough. And, I find it hard to forgive the obtuseness of Trump fans, until I remember what they did to Bernie, and the idea of the Clinton Dynasty looked like a real thing? When I hear them say, “We’re the ones who built the system,” I want to say, “So, take RESPONSIBILITY for it?” They need to stop asking what their country will do for them? I get their need, but they NEED to GET that THEY are a part of all that. Just READ the Report, people? You ARE the, “drama.” Whether you like it or NOT . . .
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A A : So, we’ll treat Trump by that same standard and, “lock him up,” then. And, the Trump cult chants it about made up, “uranium,” stories, “pedo Pizza,” conspiracies and any other crap that pops into the Alex QAnal Jones website, so that’s also bullshit, and you know it. But, another 7 in a row, and you’re NOT, “triggered,” ARE you? You just hate being WRONG, ALL the time, I guess? Getting to you, is it? 😁
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A A : And, I’m saying you didn’t notice Russia making you vote. You swallowed all their lies and didn’t even realise that the lies were coming out of Russia. The allegations against Obama and Hillary were all Propaganda from Putin’s people. All, except for the server thing, which was twisted and exaggerated, but set up to reveal the rank hypocrisy of Trump fans, when you discovered that the Trump’s had, and CONTINUE to, to the same as she did, and WAY WORSE. Even I could hack Trump’s phone, if I had the tools. Do you, “think,” our enemies are NOT listening? So, just because a guy with a Moscow accent didn’t walk you to the polling booth, doesn’t mean you were not SUCKERED into believing what you WANTED to believe, son . . . WAKE UP! . . . Smh
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Sam D : So, you DON’T believe the, “Uranium,” story, then? “Pizzagate,” was a myth? You accept that Obama was born in the US? You KNOW Trump was bankrupted 6 times, and that Western Banks won’t do business with him, because of his reputation for wriggling out of debts, and failure to make any money? If you accept ALL that, and more, then we can talk? Otherwise, you’re just a Useful Idiot, played by Putin, and who can’t admit that to himself, son . . . What are you? . . . Smh
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A A : “Strictly on the debates,” now is it? Yeah, you tell yourself that, if you need to. The one series in which Trump made it obvious that he had NO IDEA what a nuclear triad was, did not grasp the basic principles of politics, or history, threatened to break the law by using his office to have Clinton, “investigated,” and, “thrown in jail,” and in which he generally came off as a juvenile prick, is what it took to convince you, huh? Except, you haven’t explained one thing. If you, “weren’t,” taken in by Russian Propaganda, and realise you’d have to be an infantile MORON to actually, “believe,” that shit, and only one step away from Satan’s asshole, to peddle it, WHY oh WHY do you back the Orange Orifice who DOES, “believe,” ALL of it, and actively tries to convince his supporters of ALL of it? Check and Mate, moron. Stop lying, to save face, and admit you were and are WRONG 🤣
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A A : You need to learn to read, son. There were lots of, “legitimate reasons,” to vote for Trump. Angry Bernie fans; people who didn’t want a Clinton Dynasty; I get it. But, the, “Citation,” you’re looking for? Anyone who repeated the lies, son. People STILL tell me they voted for Trump, because of the, “Uranium scandal,” because they are running a, “pedo ring,” the list goes on and on. The, “lock her up,” crowd now KNOW that the Trumps have done the SAME THING that they wanted Hillary locked up FOR. Only, WAY WORSE. I say, there’s NO, “legitimate reason,” to CONTINUE to support this family of crooks, who will leave you broke and raped, in the dust. And, all because you were too ashamed to own your mistake
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A A : I don’t see defeating your arguments as being, “politically intolerant.” And, I am not at all confident that we all, “want the same thing.” There are people in America who want to bring back slavery, burn the Constitution, and hermetically seal up America, until we all asphyxiate. THOSE, “people,” ALL support Trump. Trump is ending your Republic, and I sure as Hell, don’t share THAT vision. Not all Trump fans are Nazis, but ALL Nazis are Trump fans.
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I paused the video to go to the survey and completed it after seeing your first answers (thanks for the inspiration there, since many of our answers were similar) but I put something down in the first section that might interest you I hope?
For Number 3 of the, “Best Things About The NHS,” I put that it’s, “Iconic,” and that it improves our standing in the world as a part of our identity, being an institution that defines our national character, like our Parliament, the BBC, etc, does too (for good or ill). That it speaks to our national sense of caring and fairness; being free to all at the point of contact and based upon need over any other concern.
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Jesus, America? What a whining, effeminate, “victim,” Trumpski and his followers are! While the GOP boasts about breaking their oaths of office, rubber stamping Trump’s crimes and ENDING the Republic, this thin-skinned, “precious,” twat of a POTUS has created a Cult of, “Butt Hurt,” unjustified sense of GRIEVANCE! “Imagine being so triggered,” that you actually GIVE A SHIT about a movie cameo??? The GOP and their base will NEVER MAN UP! The politics of effeminacy and victimhood? THAT’S the Dictatorship you would END the Republic for, America??? . . . SMH
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@williamswenson5315 : The indolence, laziness and debauchery were what Gibbon sited from Tacitus, who lived to see it. It is a common thread that was railed against at the time, and still withstands the scrutiny of modern historians. I could have sited other factors, but that would be too complex for YouTube. However, issues like Tax Farming were extant from the earliest days of the Republic, before Rome came under Imperial families, so it doesn’t pertain. Nor does your suggestion of over expansion, as the Roman Empire explicitly tried to stop all expansion, from the days of the first Emperor, Augustus, who not only made speeches and edicts on the matter, but also left instructions in his will, forbidding further expansion. A fair attempt, but you really need an in depth knowledge of ancient history to draw the right conclusions. I stand by mine ✌️
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Joseph : Let’s NOT, son? . . . It’s IMMORAL to WASTE actual, valuable TIME on Trump Trollery or Propaganda of ANY kind. As a Conservative, myself, you lost me at the word, “Obahhhmaaahhh.” Normals only see the word, “Whaddabout,” yawn, and move on . . . Keep ‘em brief, or continue to be IGNORED. I really don’t give a s**t, kid . . . SMH 😉
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razumfrack : Lucky America doesn’t have any of those, then, son. As you’re running on pure effeminate, passive aggression, I can’t imagine you being able to, “debate,” anything without bursting into Trumpy Tears? I’m a Conservative, which you would have known, had you read the thread, which also tells me much about you. In fact, I know all I need to about you, son. Except . . . WHY? Why DO you hate America? 🤔
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Just imagine what a slap on the wrist, “censure,” would do; which is as good as saying we’re ending the Republic, right there and then? Given that loss of office will result in countless immediate indictments (both Federal & State) which will land him and his family in jail, what alternative does a, ”man,” with his established record of destroying the Constitution and breaking all of the laws he runs up against, HAVE? So long as he can count on enough of his base and the party to remain in denial, and HATE Dems and other races, just enough to make them cheer when he pisses on the rule of law, he will have NO CHOICE but to have Moscow ENSURE his, “re-election,” in a Putin Style, 2020 SHAM. It’s that, or disgrace and jail! And, half of the GOP are IMPLICATED with him, so they’re fighting for their OWN SURVIVAL. They simply CANNOT remove him.
What else CAN he do? 2020 will HAVE TO be RIGGED, because too many Americans were persuaded to HATE their, “fellow Americans,” MORE than they hate (or even understand WHO ARE) America’s enemies . . .
Just look at the shills on this thread, desperately trying to bury their SHAME, because they KNOW they’re killing America, but aren’t strong enough to ADMIT what they WANT! They WANT a Russian Style, Single Party system, with just enough FAKE Democracy to keep up appearances . . . Trump = Putin Mark Two; the Puppet Version, and they just DON’T CARE. In fact, they PREFER it that way. They’ll take that over the fictional, “brown menace,” any day . . . America’s Republic is OVER
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@hardtackbeans9790 : I would have thought they would just frag the commissariat in a situation like this particular one? Usually, people will do pretty much anything to survive, including commissariats. However, you do raise a good point.
Though I personally suspect it’s more likely they just thought they would be treated far worse than they treat their own prisoners and had lies drummed into them. Having possibly taken part in war crimes themselves, certainly likely to have witnessed their commission, they just believed they were going to get what they dish out or worse.
Since they were getting drops from drones, at least for a while, it is also possible that the threats were coming from a higher source, behind the lines? “Surrender and we’ll bomb the whole area.” That sort of thing?
It’s impossible to know, unless investigations take place, but we can agree that this was a pointless, senseless loss of lives. As much for Ukraine, who always appreciate contributions to what they call their, “hostage fund.”
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Interesting take. Captured it nicely. I’m surprised you didn’t reference The Madness Of King George, which had so many parallels, though? The trope of, “not looking at,” Royalty, not in the eye; the absurdity of court behaviour and the juxtapositions between the very poor and the very powerful, as they coexist in close proximity? It’s all there in very similar ways, in the way that Barry Lindon’s natural lighting was interesting by comparison, the same dilemmas and themes, about, “being kind,” and/or, “honest,” to an emotionally suffering monarch, are what drives the characters in both movies. With a very similar payoff, showing that those who were too sincere, caring or unflattering in their approach, were ultimately, “punished,” for their authenticity. Only those who play their role and play the, “game,” of court life, survive to remain in the orbit of monarchy, with all of the perks that come with their roles, whereas those who didn’t stay within their strict bounds and defer to the imaginary boundaries were cast out. Royalty cannot tolerate the constant reminder of its frailty and, in the end, being a good or bad person had nothing to do with outcomes. Being part of the facade and maintaining the facade were all that mattered. Just a thought? . . . Really loved this take though. ✌️👍
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@syzygy4702 : Ads are getting a little out of hand, aren’t they? And they always seem to pop up at the worst possible moment, when a point is being illustrated by a clip from the movie, or just when coherent point is reaching its conclusion, right? As if the ads are deliberately trying to break immersion and undermine the whole video. I agree, the balance needs to be restored. I get it. They need the money from the support from ads, but if it comes at the cost of a good video, it will drive away the fans, who can always go to another source, for less immersion breaking takes on the same movies. I wouldn’t want that to happen, as I really enjoy these videos. But, money comes at a cost, it seems? Maybe they need to pull back some? 👍
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America? . . . WHY are you colluding with this FANTASY? The Republic has FALLEN and you people are acting as though the GOP would ALLOW you to send them all to JAIL? The 2020 , “Elections,” are ALREADY RIGGED! Their, “choice,” is: GO TO JAIL, taking ALL of the Trump Family and half of the GOP with them, OR RIG THE ELECTIONS. Which do you THINK they’ve ALREADY CHOSEN??? The, “elections,” will be a useful Data Gathering Exercise, helping the GOP decide on who to TARGET, when the, “outcome,” is ALREADY on Putin’s desk! You are FEEDING the DANGEROUS DELUSION of a, “Democratic Process,” that no longer exists, buying time for Trump’s Dictatorship, when the people of America SHOULD be HALTING THE COUNTRY, like the Ukrainians did, a decade ago! If THEY could send their Putin Puppet BACK TO MOSCOW, facing down Putin’s THUGS with NO WEAPONS, WHY CAN’T AMERICA??? And, WHY are YOU pretending that the elections are not ALREADY RIGGED???
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Ben Liu : The reason we can trust the news (when it’s not a presidential Propaganda outlet, like Fox) in this country, is because it doesn’t get, “filtered,” through the, “government,” before the people are allowed to see it. The, “evidence,” you asked for, all over the free world. Look it up, son?
The irony, of course, (and there’s always an irony, when dealing with Chinese government shills) is that the people who are LEAST qualified to make assessments about the activities of the Chinese government, are the Chinese. They only get the version of the news that their government allows them to see. After a lifetime of that, how could you know any better?
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Lincoln’s ghost is a Democrat now. Everyone KNOWS it. I joined the Lincoln Project, as a disillusioned Conservative. The racist ones, and the ones who are too afraid to face the public shame, of finding out that their donations and taxes were spent on bribing senior politicians, private jets and trips to Epstein Island; they stay, “loyal,” because they dread the phrase, “We to.d you so.” They must suspect by now? Trump was NEVER even intending to keep his, “promises,” any more than his Tax Returns, “promise.” They HAVE TO KNOW they’ve been shafted WORSE than the rest of us, because it was THEIR donations he’s stolen!
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Christmas Bbjp : Good point. Trump is looking for his, “Reichstag Fire,” but actually HAS nothing. That’s why I wouldn’t be at all surprised, if they, “just so happened,” to capture an Iranian, “Terrorist,” on the day of Trump’s visit, or some other, equally, Putinesque ploy occurs? I sure HOPE NOT, but if it does, remember my speculation? ✌️👍
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Remember when they talked about a, “staffer murdering, intel bleaching, election rigging with Russia AND the Ukraine, uranium selling, Benghazi coverup-ing, pedo ring from under a Pizza Hut-ing,” SUPER CRIMINAL, called, “Hillary.” She’s still free, after 3 WHOLE YEARS. Not even a parking ticket. You guys Jumped The Shark, so badly, it will NEVER work again . . . Not that it did the first time? She STILL beat Trump! Love it, though. Really. You keep doing you . . . 🤣
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That’s why they’ll do ANYTHING to stop the Impeachment Trial. The, “verdict,” is irrelevant, and they KNOW IT! It’s EXPOSURE of the TRUTH they fear most. How will their base react, when they get shredded on the stand, if they even TRY to say they, “believe,” that the, “Steal,” is a thing? How will they react to the many, (Cruz, Hawley, Graham?) who confess they KNOW, “The Steal,” is a lie, but were, “only following orders,” like at Nuremberg? With no 5th Amendment, and the full power to force testimony, on live TV, before a riveted planet? . . . This will be their fracture point. No wonder they’re scared?
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Zack Brumis : Like the pathetic children they are, yes. So, the GOP just mad at unbiased facts, because they are faced with causing a second Revolution, by shutting down all witnesses and evidence, and having a jury comprised of Trump’s conspirators find Trump, “not guilty,” in under an hour, thus admitting that your Republic has ended and that the 2020, “elections,” will be RIGGED . . . Or, they can cause a second Revolution, by allowing witnesses and evidence, and then finding Trump, “not guilty,” regardless, of the crimes that he’s just been proved guilty of, thus admitting that the Republic has fallen, and the 2020, “elections,” will be RIGGED? Perhaps the third alternative is to drag it out, until everyone is too confused and bored to bother anymore, whilst throwing distractions at the American people? Like a brief war with Iran, or North Korea? That’s worked pretty well for them so far . . . SMH
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Honestly, Mr Badger, you shouldn’t worry about the, “division,” in America. Donny’s about to SOLVE this crisis for us all. When Donny flees America, taking all those last minute, urgent donations (that trump’s cult really believed he would use to somehow, “buy back,” the presidency with) and is NOT EVEN IN America on Inauguration Day, even they (YES! Even the cult!) will FINALLY GET IT! They’ll have a stoopid look on their faces, as they wonder how he got away with ALL THEIR MONEY, and dodged all those warrants and indictments. And they’ll learn to HATE Donny, as much as anyone else does. Even as much as his wife! 🤣😂😆😂🤣
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That’s truly awful. I hope you get the help and sincere friendships you need, and deserve? Sadly, this headline made me scoff when I first read it. “Like that’s news?” I thought. “A Muslim Dictatorship doesn’t support women . . . Yeah, we know.” The only thing I can do, is add my concerns about these issues to my emails, when I berate the government on other matters. I have three grownup girls, out there in the world. And I resent the world, for the secret dread that I fold away into my heart, for them. If I think too much about these things, the scarlet rage swells up inside me, with no place to go. I examine my own relationships, and my responsibilities, regularly. My voice is used, but I feel helpless sometimes. Whenever I do, I simply remind myself, if I feel helpless, imagine how female victims feel . . . And I write another missive to be ignored by another politician . . . ✌️
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Once the war is won, Ukraine will become an oil and mineral rich power house, with less innate corruption than any other European country, given all the scrutiny they have been under and the total freedom that representatives of NATO, the UN and the EU have been granted to look under the hood, so to speak. They have been outing and arresting corrupt officials at a rate never seen before in the free world, now they’re on a war footing. And we should keep in mind that in Ukraine, “corruption,” usually refers to Pro-Putin spies and bent business execs, supporting Putin’s, “cause,” for the backhanders.
I’ve never met a Ukrainian I didn’t like, with English as good as mine and manners that might have come from an 18th century novel. It’s actually a wonderful place already. And when the bombs stop dropping, it will be rich and powerful leader in the free world.
All this to say, yeah, that’s not such a bad idea. Slava Ukraine! 🇺🇦✌️🇬🇧
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Franz Finav : Oh, WAKE UP, America! They are going to prove Trump’s guilt, after the GOP withholds witnesses and evidence, and breaks their oaths of office, and let Trump WALK anyway, because the Republic has FALLEN. Half the GOP are Implicated in Trump’s many crimes, and the Trumps are facing disgrace and JAIL, the very moment Trump loses his, “protected presidential status.” They can’t NOT FIX the next election! WHY are you KIDDING yourselves, America??? This DENIAL is pusillanimous and self-ruining! The Constitution was PROVED MEANINGLESS, when it REALLY COUNTS! You have a Putin Style Dictatorship now! Because SAT there, and DID NOTHING! Thanks for KILLING Democracy, and endangering the ENTIRE PLANET, America . . . SMH
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These are indisputable WAR CRIMES being committed almost EVERY DAY! The world should be doing far more to STOP THIS in its tracks. It effects every one of us, and we are already (ALL OF US!) financially invested contributors, paying for this war. If you pay taxes, buy fuel for your vehicle or pay to heat your home, some of that money is paying toward this battle for humanity in Ukraine, which gives every one of you a legitimate stake in the outcome and a seat at the decision making table. It’s up to ALL OF US to make our voices heard, to contact our representatives and DEMAND that our resources are used with greater commitment! If Ukraine had a navy and airforce to back its efforts, along with better missile defence, they could take Putin’s stick from him and silence his guns! This war could have been over in 2022 if the commitment had been there and our politicians STOPPED cowering every time Putin makes another empty threat! He only makes those threats because we act so scared when he does. Losing Ukraine will cost Putin his job and cause chaos inside Russia, WHERE IT BELONGS! Let us turn this tide fully back on the Russians and stop all of this slow, incremental hyper-caution! Time to defeat Russia QUICKLY, so they cannot prepare for it and all flea to South America, or do more harm before they are toppled! Time we stopped acting like such bitches and we KILL this terrorist state off and give Russia their first ever democracy! Tell your politicians this THE election issue of 2023! ✌️🇺🇦
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I don’t think Braverman has nearly as much support within her Westminster bubble as she does in the loud, vociferous, yet tiny minority of the country? We fought and scraped through a war to end the threat of people like her and the fascist mob she whipped up at the weekend. Most of the country gets it.
And, on immigration: WHEN will people FINALLY get it into their heads? We NEED population GROWTH! URGENTLY! The type of people who are willing to refuse the will of violent dictators and risk their lives to protect their families and get to Britain are primarily young, determined, honest, hard working, principled people, seeking to live in a democracy and contribute to society. These are the VERY PEOPLE Britain NEEDS right now. Young workers who will produce taxable income and prevent the growing aging population from facing pensions wipeouts and destitution in under funded hospitals, hospices and, “care homes,” in which a Health Secretary might well consign you to a DEATH SENTENCE, merely for existing, rather than spending a penny on your welfare!
Sorry to get so excited about this, but I sometimes feel like I have woken up in a nightmare, wherein everyone seems to believe the opposite of simple truth! We should be doing everything in our power to stimulate young population growth, for the sake of the economy, our position in the world and our future as a nation with some power at the negotiating table. And, let’s face it? We have SO MUCH left to negotiate! Not just with Europe either.
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Xerdar36 : I give you, the OFFER OF A LIFETIME!!!
See below, for details. I think you would LIKE IT, if I NEVER WROTE ANOTHER WORD on YouTube, EVER AGAIN? . . .
A Looohhht of allegations, with NOOOO, “substance,” “evidence,” or even, “rhetoric,” to back it up. That’s not an, “argument,” kid. THAT’S called, “Whining.” Have you noticed that Trump ONLY attacks Americans and American allies? . . . What does THAT tell you? I am a Conservative, who was NEVER a, “fan,” of Hillary OR Obama, but that was because of their ACTUAL, “politics.” I LEFT the Republican Party, upon Trump’s nomination, WARNING my fellow Reps, what was coming. The ones who got angry at me, have ALL, since, APOLOGISED. 25% of Republican Party Members have LEFT the Party, since Trump took office, siting LIES and RACISM among their main objections. MOST of them are under 50. What does THAT tell you?
My CHALLENGE to YOU is this: Site ONE (JUST ONE!) act, action, “thing,” that Trump has DONE, which was AIMED at effecting the ECONOMY, which has NOT HARMED IT. And here’s what I offer, in return. If YOU can SHOW ME, JUST ONE “ECONOMIC” THING that Trump has ACTUALLY DONE, that did NOT harm American business interests, send American shares plummeting, did NOT enrich Trump or his family DIRECTLY, or HURT farmers and businesses in the rust belt, I WILL NEVER WRITE ANOTHER WORD ON YOUTUBE, EVER AGAIN, FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE . . . You have my WORD of Honour. . . I’ll wait . . . 😁
No cheating? . . .
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Xerdar36 : P.S. My offer expires in 48 Hours. PLENTY of time for you to do some, “research”? This is YOUR OPPORTUNITY, to SILENCE ME . . . FOREVER! All you have to do is find ONE, “good,” thing that Trump has done, when aiming a measure AT the American Economy, which did NOT HARM the American Economy? And, I will NEVER WRITE ANOTHER WORD ON YOUTUBE FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE! It’s up to you, son, but I think your colleagues would be GRATEFUL, if you won this bet, and you have NOTHING to lose . . . 😉
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Xerdar36 : Bzzzzz! Thanks for playing 😁. I ignored anything that DIDN’T speak to the, “CHALLENGE.” And, BOY, was there a LOT?
I KNEW you’d TRY . . . eventually, after ALL those LAME attempts at, “baiting,” me, with changes in topic, sarcasm, answering the question WITH a question, etc, etc, etc. Look at ALL those, “triggered,” responses, which make you sound like Peter Lorre, in the final act of 40’s thriller, DESPERATELY throwing out one EXCUSE after another, before stepping backward, off the cliff of REALITY, into the pit of Hell, where Trump belongs. You couldn’t think of a DAMNED THING, could ya’? . . . That was entertaining, thanks 😆.
You still HAVE 24 hours, but, it’s only, “fair,” that I PROVE your FAILURE, so far? But, I f THAT’S the BEST you’ve GOT, maybe you should just concede DEFEAT? One piece of advice for you, son, which I KNOW you will quote, in the future; “The Art of NEVER losing a game, is NOT to play,” kid. Now, let me show you WHY you are SO WRONG. And, pay attention. I DON’t wanna’ have to repeat myself:
Even among Conservatives AND Trump Cultists, YOU picked the ONE thing that Trump has done, “AIMED AT THE ECONOMY,” that EVEN THEY have COMPLAINED ABOUT. I won’t embarrass you, by mentioning the innumeracy of your, “list,” there. I am dyslexic, myself, but being clever, I use the right tools for the right job. But, I AM forced to point out, for the sake of efficiency, if nothing else, that appointing Judge Gorsuch was NOT an action, “AIMED AT THE ECONOMY.” Nor is, “not being HRC”? Not off to a very good start, are you? But, at least it, “looks,” like a, “list,” so, good for you, son.
Did you KNOW that your, “tax break,” ENDS in a little more than a year. Given that the price of GAS & FOOD has DOUBLED, in the last TWO YEARS, working voters WILL, “FEEL,” that loss. But, that 1.5 $ TRILLION (Yes! “$ TRILLION!”) in Tax Breaks, slipped into the Bill, LITERALLY, in the last HOUR of, “debate,” that goes to REAL ESTATE DEVELOPERS (No vested interests THERE, huh?) is PERMANENT?
No. Of COURSE you didn’t, because YOUR Propagandists, like the Slum Landlord, Sean Vanity suppresses such information and his cronies do as he does. And, because you don’t READ material from outside of your BUBBLE. So, a TEMPORARY Tax Break, meant as a SOP, which is BARELY keeping up with inflation, DOES NOT QUALIFY. Especially when Trump gave MASSIVE, PERMANENT, Tax Breaks to ALL of his gas and oil donors and GOP buddies, that have RAISED THE NATIONAL DEBT TO RECORD LEVELS, IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD! 🤣
I mean, COME ON? You’re NOT even TRYING. As to your REQUEST: I can give you MY LIST, after your time has expired, IF you then request it, again? But, NOT before! You must do your OWN homework, here, son. And I’m MORE than HAPPY to throw in detailed figures, if you like, but numbers are clearly not your strong suit?
24 hours remaining. Come ooohhhn? . . . You KNOW you WANT to? . . . 😜 🍊 🏆
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Xerdar36 : Notice: No insults, whatsoever, in this comment. What’s all this, “triggering,” talk? I never, “accused,” you of ANYTHING? READ my WORDS? Awfully defensive, aren’t we? So, you have not named ONE SINGLE THING, that Trump has done, which was AIMED AT THE ECONOMY, which did NOT HARM the AMERICAN ECONOMY. The ONE thing, out of ALL the things he HAS done, that YOU mentioned, is an EPIC FAIL. EVEN Republicans, who are NOT members of the 1% Club, were not happy about THAT HEIST.
And, speaking of, “thinking,” it appears that the mere FACT that you found it IMPOSSIBLE to do such a SIMPLE, EASY, task, I don’t doubt, has raised questions for you? You’re intelligent enough to KNOW if this is just PRIDE, messing with your head? By, standing with Trump now, after ALL THE WORLD can READ this exchange, EVERYONE will KNOW that YOU ARE A TROLL, with NO, “IDEOLOGY,” but accepting PAY, to ATTACK AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. You are CLEARLY not an idiot. You have CLEARLY FAILED. And the WORLD can read that, so WHAT OTHER, “agenda,” could you POSSIBLY HAVE? You’re NOT DUMB. People can see that, too. So, their HONEST reaction to reading this is INEVITABLE.
You need to ACTUALLY do some, “reading,” yourself. I am a conservative. I KNOW the Clintons were as crooked as a $3 dollar 25 cent bill. Some of the sh*t they did for the CIA, would BLOW your fuzzy little MIND! But, THAT kind of, “crooked,” has infested the very top of American politics since WW II. Trump, however, is a WHOLE NEW ORDER of CORRUPT, CRAZY and STUPID. He is GENUINELY going to achieve a DICTATORSHIP. Not because he’s, “smart,” but because he’s being PLAYED by Russia and China.
READ and RESEARCH. If this is NOT, “pride,” or, “treason,” or just some obtuse desire on your part, to f**k with democracy, YOU KNOW I’M RIGHT. In the Information Age, the ONLY OPTION available to the corrupted, is to put it all out there and deny it, anyway. To stoke DIVISION and FACTIONALISM, because, “factions,” will overlook ANYTHING TO “WIN.” Don’t GET played, with everyone else.
Ask yourself, what’s more likely. That s**t like Reagan’s Contra scandal, Nixon, White Water, etc, “just happened” to occur? A LOT of, “one offs,” where OUR PRESIDENTS jus HAPPENED to be CORRUPTED??? Or IS THERE a SYSTEM, GEARED UP for FACILITATING CORRUPTION, FOR ALL, “administrations”??? And WHAT IF, just ONE of those corrupted A-Holes, who gets into office because the democratic vote is STILL a THING, decides he’s gonna’ break up the system, which he doesn’t really comprehend, by going FULL ON DICTATOR??? WHAT THEN???
And, btw, you should know by now. I NEVER touch Click Bait. That’s WHY I have no Bots, Trojans, Worms, etc, on my tech
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Xerdar36 : Yup. Clearly a Troll. People CAN READ, you know? I SHOWED you EXACTLY HOW AND WHY Trump’s Tax Heist was a FAIL. You had NO, “facts or figures,” to back up your claim. You OBVIOUSLY, “feel,” rather than reason. But, you can’t say I didn’t give you a chance. And, again, you talk of, “emotions,” and, “antagonism,” as IF you had the CAPACITY to make ME, “feel,” ANY emotion, other than pity? I’m writing all this for the benefit of the YouTube Archeologists, so they know that SOME of us KNEW what was happening, just before the Nazis took power, three hundred years from now. But, your OBSESSION, with, “feelings,” says it all.
And, judging by your use of the term, “irony,” clearly think that, “irony,” is a bit like, “bronzey,” or, “goldy,” but not quite as shiny, right? . . . Someone should teach you how to use that word, so it fits in a sentence, one day?
25% of Republicans have left the Party, since Trump’s inauguration. That tells you NOTHING? There IS no scenario in which you, “win,” this thing . . . Remember, you heard that HERE, and actually started to BELIEVE IT, first. Via Con Deos Trump fan . . . It’s been enlightening, FOR YOU 😜 🍊
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Xerdar36 : You resent the fact that I forced you to think. “Troll,” is ONLY, “name calling,” if it is inaccurate in some way. The FACT that you are HERE, denying the FACTS of the NEWS, attacking the station as, “biased,” among other things and are incapable of backing up ANY of your allegations, DEFINES YOU. That is what a TROLL IS. If you support the Nazi ideology of Trump and his klan, THAT DEFINES YOU. Your problem is that you don’t, “like,” being IDENTIFIED. And once again, I am forced to REMIND YOU that PEOPLE CAN READ this exchange for themselves. The ONLY people who will CLAIM to agree with YOU, will be OTHER TROLLS, son, and you KNOW THIS. Whereas, anyone who agrees with me, is likely to come from a VERY DIFFERENT background to mine, have THOUGHT about the issues and will have at least SOME KNOWLEDGE of them, while NOT being INDOCTRINATED by HATE and PROPAGANDA, pushed by people WHO ADMIT (when challenged in court) that they are NOT REALLY, “journalists,” as Hannity and Alex Jones have, on SEVERAL occasions EACH. Alex Jones has WITHDRAWN more of his allegations in court, than ANY OTHER, “broadcaster,” in HISTORY and OPENLY ADMITS that he MAKES STUFF UP to, “Entertain and stir up him fans.” Check out the videos, available, RIGHT HERE, on YouTube.
Trump is a PROVEN RACIST, CONDEMNED in open court for his RACIST business practices. EVERY SINGLE TIME he’s sued a writer or journalist for exposing his CORRUPTION he has been LAUGHED OUT OF COURT. It has been PROVED that he is IN BUSINESS with the Luchese, Mafia Family, in New York and that he has gone to EXTRAORDINARY LENGTHS to protect them, even after his OWN friend and employee was EXPOSED for using Trump Airlines as DRUG SMUGGLING OPERATION, bringing MASSIVE loads of Columbian Cocaine in to the USA and was JAILED for it, along with the WHOLE RING. His Empty Box Scam was exposed, by journalists. The FACT that he hired ILLEGAL LABOUR to build Trump Tower and then REFUSED TO PAY THEM, has been PROVED. He EVEN became the FIRST man in American HISTORY to break the adage, “The House ALWAYS wins,” by BANKRUPTING HIW OWN Casinos in Las Vegas, because of his skimming and STUPIDITY. ALL of that is PROVEN and KNOWN.
Yet the CULT of Trump lives on, through the medium of LIES and PROPAGANDA, aimed at people who only have the time to catch the headlines, holding down three, low paid, jobs and looking after their kids. People with poor educations, who see a, “Billionaire,” on TV telling them that he’ll make THEM RICH, TOO, and the ONLY reason that their dreams never came true is because of BLACK PEOPLE. So, they believe, because they WANT to believe, because they have MASSIVE DEBTS to pay off on their homes, cars, “education for their kids?,” their businesses, their healthcare, their credit cards, etc, etc.
The, “clever,” part of this SCAM is that America gets to PRETEND there’s, “prosperity,” with high employment figures, even though closer analysis SHOWS that ALL of the working class are in DEBT and MOST OF THEM WILL DIE IN DEBT. And THAT’S the Economic DESPERATION, which NAZIS ALWAYS EXPLOIT. The HIDDEN POVERTY.
And WHAT do YOU have? Trump did a Tax Bill . . . Good for you. You CAN’T say, in ANY WAY, exactly, “HOW,” that Bill, “HELPED,” ANY of the poor Americans? You give NO supporting evidence? Even though I SPELLED OUT FOR YOU, exactly WHY it was a HEIST and in what way. And the TEMPORARY Tax Break Sop will END, when Trump no longer NEEDS your votes. Not long after the Mid Terms, when you will be faced with the rising prices of FOOD and the DOUBLING of GAS PRICES, which will NOT end. So EASILY bought off, you DESERVE a DICTATOR to do your thinking FOR you.
Your, (single) “argument,” such as it is, has been DEMONSTRABLY DEMOLISHED, at EVERY LEVEL. Your whining about your, “feelings,” being hurt, is YOUR problem, so deal with it, son, as you’ll get NO apology from ME, for IDENTIFYING YOU, while actually, quite purposefully REFRAINING from, “name calling.”
But, as I have CLEARLY gotten to you, as your TWO responses to me demonstrate, I will extend my offer, for ONE MORE 24 HOUR PERIOD: Show me ONE SINGLE THING, that Trump has done, that was AIMED at altering the economy, which has NOT done MEASURABLE, PALPABLE, HARM to American interests or the US economy, and I (with GREAT RELIEF) will NEVER write another WORD on YouTube, EVER AGAIN. I am quite sincere. And you SHOULD KNOW, by now, that you have MANY Trolleagues who would DEARLY WISH to SILENCE ME, even IF you PRETEND, “not to care,” about that? You’ll be a HERO to THEM, son . . .
Try to remain dispassionate, and STICK to FACTS. And SEE for yourself. Most of Trump’s moves only make SENSE when you take into account his BIGOTRY and PERSONAL ANIMOSITY toward other races. THINK, son? THINK . . . 😁
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Xerdar36 : All highly, “personalised,” remarks, showing your OBVIOUS resentment. STILL, UTTERLY, incapable of marshalling ANY argument, speaking to the point, or addressing ANY of the FACTS. Your ENTIRE last comment was, “Opinion,” and NOT even about politics or your Orange Cult leader, but about me. Again . . . People CAN read, sonny . . . SMH
You have been ROUNDLY DEFEATED, and now you’re attempting to save face, for the sake of your own pride. WHY is it, that Trump Trolls have NOTHING, when you cut through their lies, but an unjustified sense of VICTIMHOOD, underlying EVERYTHING they say and do? Trump has built his edifice upon a foundation of unwarranted GRIEVANCE. Yet, once you penetrate the shell, there’s NOTHING THERE??? . . . Just more, “Butt Hurtary,” as you Trolls are so fond of projecting.
Oh, and, “attacking people”??? REALLY??? From a Trump fan??? Who comes to MSNBC, to ATTACK PEOPLE??? At least I am NOT attacking an American, AM I? . . . 🍊 😜
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Xerdar36 : I have expressed NO, “feelings,” whatever. Go back and check? You have discussed YOUR feelings and I have responded. You have GUESSED at MY, “feelings,” wrongly, and I have responded. But, to say that YOU OUGHT to be, “upset,” or something, because I called TRUMP NAMES??? What is he? Your DAD??? Come OOHHHN??? . . . If you were, “thinking,” INSTEAD of, “feeling,” THAT REALLY should not have BOTHERED you. I mean, what’s NEXT? You going to accuse me of being, “racist,” against Orange People? Is THAT a, “thing,” now? 🤣 Next, you’ll be telling us that Kermit the Frog has a legitimate, “grievance,” and we should ALL sit around singing, “It isn’t Easy Being Green!” 😆 😂 🤣
So, because your, “arguments,” have been DEMOLISHED, you just want to make it personal? I’m not going there. I honestly thought you were brighter than THAT? I can TELL you are NOT American. Too many clues. I’ll grant that you ARE fairly smart, for a Cult Member, which is WHY I entertain this conversation. But, don’t let that go to your head.
I can only guess that you got one of those emails, offering to, “Turn your comments into CASH,” so long as you never dis Putin or Trump? Did you EVER think about HOW they got your email address? I sent mine to the FBI; all they’d tell me about it was that it came from China . . . You could send yours to Interpol? You ARE European, after all? Perhaps, you’re a paid Troll? Or (worst case scenario, for you, at least) you COULD be just one of those people who feels, “aggrieved,” about EVERYTHING, and just find the politics of, “Victimhood,” satisfying. Maybe, you have massive debts, and want to BLAME the, “Migrants,” for that? Because, the only alternative is to take responsibility for your OWN decisions in life?
You’re still young. About 25? You could make something of yourself, if you STOP playing the victim and falling for Trump’s propaganda? You’re bright, young, white and NOT in poverty. The world is your Oyster. “I KNOW there is still GOOD in you, I’ve SEEN it,” as Luke Skywalker said. Abandon the Dark Side and come to the LIGHT. Trump’s regime WILL collapse. And, IF it doesn’t, there will be a DICTATORSHIP in America. But, THINK about this: With the US, China AND Russia, UNITED AGAINST DEMOCRACY, what corner of the globe do you, “think,” that YOU will be, “safe,” in? Europe? Australia? They WON’T hold out for long, and YOU will die in a world-wide DICTATORSHIP, that YOU HELPED to build; now FREE of, “ideology,” except for that Double Think stuff, with which it plies the compliant masses with, so as to CONTROL them, while NEVER, “believing,” ANY of it, themselves.
Is THAT how you want YOUR LIFE to be remembered? On the WRONG side of HISTORY? One of the Nazis cum Stalinists cum Maoists, of this story? Set aside your feelings, JUST LONG ENOUGH, to THINK it through? And when you’re done thinking, set even THAT aside, and THINK with your SOUL? . . .
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Xerdar36 : You keep stepping sideways, and show evidence that you don’t know your man, remotely as well as you, “think,” you do. The example I ask for, AS YOU KNOW, was, “ANY ACTION taken by Trump, AIMED DIRECTLY AT THE ECONOMY.” You STILL have NOT given ONE. ANYONE can argue, “success,” from the START, in terms of getting his way? How about convincing the Electoral College to hand him the presidency, even though he LOST the election? The POINT, here, my boy, is that EVERY SINGLE THING Trump has done to the economy has HARMED IT.
So far as, “canny negotiating,” goes and your inaccurate recollection of his bankruptcies . . . Trump has NEVER, “negotiated,” ANYTHING. Truly. People of low IQ’s who want to play at being something they’re NOT, are TARGETS for smarter people, with track records of dishonesty, to, “handle their business,” FOR THEM. His LAWYERS handled his SIX bankruptcies, once he let go of the MESS he made. EVERY SINGLE ONE of the people, who have worked for Trump, done deals with Trump, or have researched Trump (WITHOUT a current vested INTEREST in Trump) says the SAME THING. You will NOT FIND a SINGLE PERSON, who will say a SINGLE positive thing about Trump, WHO KNWS THE GUY! Not, unless they are WORKING FOR HIM NOW, or trying to avoid PROSECUTION, for having worked with him.
Tell you what. Why not read the book, The Making of Donald Trump? It is written by a Republican Party member, Financial Expert, who currently advises GOVERNMENTS on fiscal policy. He is also a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, AND, most importantly, HE KNOWS DONNY and has known him for MANY YEARS. From back in the days when Trump was a REGULAR DONAR to the Clintons. He was one of the FIRST PEOPLE to say that Trump did NOT even understand the Casino Business and PROVED IT, by making stuff up about how it all worked, in a recorded conversation, while Donny just PRETENDED to understand him, and went along with it. He said Donny would be the FIRST PERSON IN HISTORY to have a Casino go BANKRUPT in Vegas; explaining the important distinction between Hotels, attached to Casinos, etc and the ACTUAL CASINO going BANKRUPT. And guess WHAT? . . .
The author of that book is called David Cay Johnston and his book is FREE at the Library, if you’re short of cash? It’s available on iTunes, in audiobook form and printed. He PROVES Donny’s Mafia connections, his scams, his stupidity, his cruelty, his vindictiveness and his UTTER INCAPACITY to do, “Business.” AND, it’s an entertaining read. You’ll see that he even held his own infant nephew hostage, in a dispute over daddy’s will, with his own brother, by withdrawing the baby’s healthcare, when it was new born, critically ill and facing DEATH.
The BEST part? It’s ALL from the public record, kid. That’s right! When Donny did his usual, and tried to SUPPRESS the book, by suing Johnston, he was LAUGHED OUT OF COURT. And, as per usual, he shot himself in the foot, by drawing attention to it. It’s STILL on the Best Seller list.
I DARE you to take a LOOK at the TRUTH? Do YOU have the STOMACH for THAT. The FACTS, PROVEN IN A COURT OF LAW? The TRUTH, that Donny’s lawyers advised him NOT to sue Johnston over, but were too afraid to simply TELL HIM that it was HOPELESS, because it was just a compilation of the PUBLIC RECORD, and ALREADY ESTABLISHED FACTS???
I doubt you will . . . In the same way that you CAN’T answer my initial question. Because Trump fans don’t WANT the TRUTH. They NEED the FANTASY. Now, son . . . TELL me? Have I called you names? You can’t, SERIOUSLY, say that disrespecting Trump is disrespecting YOU? So, please? . . . get off that bandwagon, of the Politics of VICTIMHOOD, MAN UP, and DEAL WITH THE TRUTH
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Xerdar36 : To your following post: I didn’t, “like,” either candidate. I KNEW HRC would be more, “business as usual,” patronising, nanny state, dynasty, rubbish. And, I found the Democrats sinister, for that reason. I ALREADY told you this? I AM a Conservative. But, I also KNEW Trump’s history, by the time he got the nomination and LEFT the PARTY. I KNEW he was a CROOK, an IDIOT, and a Clear And Present Danger to DEMOCRACY. And, being a GROWNUP, I was capable of VOTING for a party I didn’t, “like,” because I still wanted there to BE A DEMOCRACY, in which to disagree with, “liberals,” in.
And THAT WORKED, too. Except the Electoral College FAILED its country. But, given that Trump has spent the last TWO YEARS, ALIENATING the WHOLE of America, except for his racist base, it is mathematically IMPOSSIBLE that he’ll survive the Mid Terms . . . Unless Russia has (China’s) ZTE upload the results, that is??? . . .
And I have TWO, “businesses,” doing very NICELY, thank you. Here, in the REAL WORLD, bankruptcies are considered a, “BAD,” thing. So, I’ve never done it. That’s why I can spare the time to use voice recognition software, to rattle off my answers to you, from my (reasonably) nicely decorated office 😁
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Xerdar36 : Trump REALITY REVERSAL, now? You’re running out of ideas? 🤔 You have NOT answered my question, which was HOW this conversation STARTED! And I’m STILL WAITING for you to ADMIT that you CAN’T! I HAVE, “answered,” your question. I TOLD YOU I VOTED DEMOCRAT, EVEN THOUGH I AM A CONSERVATIVE AND EX-REPUBLICAN PARTY MEMBER. And, even though Trump’s extremists like to FANTASISE about, “illegals,” YOU CAN’T VOTE in an election UNLESS YOU ARE AMERICAN. (Was my FIRST answer REALLY too “subtle” for you? 🤣)
People KNOW me, from my history, which is ALL OUT THERE, son. MY story has NEVER CHANGED. I moved HERE from England in 2006 and I’m a political historian, by trade. I am a CITIZEN. I’ve said it MANY TIMES. That’s ALL you’re getting on my background, which SHOULD be PLENTY, if you St Petersburg GOONS want to find me. And, at least I can go back to England, if this DICTATORSHIP is NOT removed.
I have NOT called Trump ANY, “names,” that are NOT TRUE. So: NOT, “name calling.” Rather: FACT STATING.
STOP HIDING. It’s MOST undignified. You HAVE your answer. Now, YOU answer the question? Or, JUST ADMIT that I’m RIGHT? I ALWAYS AM. It’s something of a blessing AND a curse. I don’t, “know,” everything, but I’m NOT too proud to say, “I don’t know,” if and when that’s the case. That’s WHY I’m NEVER WRONG. YOU, on the other hand, CLEARLY ARE; and you’re rather insecure, to boot. And it was very SLIPPERY of you, to rephrase my statement, like that? I NEVER said you were, “coming at ME, sideways.” You are simply, “STEPPING SIDEWAYS.”
You are RUNNING AWAY. Running away from your DEFEAT; your, “arguments,” DEMOLISHED; utterly UNABLE to address the salient points; and VIRTUALLY IN TEARS when I state the brutal TRUTH about the soon to be EX-POTUS, Trump.
You WON’T answer my question, which is the CLEAREST EVIDENCE that you CAN’T. That, and the fact that you keep throwing questions back at me, like chaff. You DAREN’T even ACKNOWLEDGE the BOOK I recommended. And you WHINE at my CONTEMPT for the Orange DICKtator, because free speech is one of Trump’s future TARGETS.
What part of the world are YOU from? Don’t tell me? Eastern Europe, by any chance? Or some place, where the NAZIS are resurgent? I don’t HAVE to, “ask,” about you. You’re an open book. And it is my firm belief that you are a Troll. But, I do enjoy DISMANTLING Trolly Fantasies, since I can’t play golf these days, so . . . I TRIPLE DARE YOU!
Answer the question, or ADMIT defeat? 😁
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I did just buy a Gold copy of Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 on the Xbox X, which was £6 cheaper than the physical copy, so maybe Warhorse are not quite so bad as all that? I don’t know if my maxed out GamePass membership had anything to do with my getting that reduction but I don’t think so, since I’d imagine they would go to great lengths to let me know I was getting these benefits from them? They usually do.
They frequently (really annoyingly) notify me when I’ve, “earned points,” or garnered other, “benefits,” whilst loudly interrupting my gameplay (currently in Stalker 2, for example) with a big flashy notification and their activation tune, which is twice as loud as the sound of any game I’m playing and will often surprise me enough to get my character killed! I genuinely shot an ally in the face recently, because I was so startled by one of these notifications with the LOUD noise and screen filling Xbox symbol! I had to go back to an earlier save!
So, I’m pretty sure it’s Warhorse offering the reduction for none-physical copies, not Microsoft.
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We, the people have that, “courage,” and we should be passing it on to the GOP! We should be INUNDATING Moscow Mitch with our demands that the GOP purges trump! Lindsay Graham, Rubio, Cruz, Devin Nunes (remember him? He’s still lurking) cannot survive without the oxygen of trump now, which is why they’re so desperate. But, the best part about this impeachment, with WITNESSES this time? They will ALL be forced to testify, under oath, on the record, for the WORLD to SEE AND HEAR, that the, “steal,” was a criminal LIE! Or, they’ll have to site their basis for, “believing in it,” which any good lawyer will tear to shreds. And, while the Q Quislings are reeling, still unable to comprehend that trump left office, (Coz’ Q said it would never happen) let them SEE THE LIE in glorious Technicolor! And let’s see the GOP have that, “civil war,” they want so badly? In their own ranks! Contact you GOP! Regularly! DEMAND THE PURGE! ✌️👍
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James Henry : Yeah, what’s the point of a, “strategy,” when the so called, “Trial,” blocks witnesses, evidence, and will be, “judged,” by the people who are implicated in Trumps crimes? Why, “strategise,” when the 2020, “elections,” are already RIGGED? Why PRETEND at all that you have, “Democratic,” processes, when you have a Dictatorship, run by a family that would go to JAIL at the very MOMENT Trump lost his, “protected,” presidential status? Your Republic has ALREADY FALLEN. But, Trump needs to go through the motions, so as to prevent America from rising up and overthrowing him. It just needs to be, “plausible, enough, like in Russia. After all, the results for the 2020 elections are already sitting in a Kremlin safe, no doubt? . . . What a SHIT country, America has become . . . Maybe we DESERVE this for allowing it? . . . SMH
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benjovi55 : Of COURSE it’s a, “sham.” When you have a Dictatorship, pretending to still be a Republic, you have to keep up appearances, so as to prevent a Revolution. The Republic fell last year. They just won’t admit it, unless they have no other options. But, while they have Russia’s play book to go by, they have no reason to think it won’t work. They pull this, “Iran,” shit out of the bag, every time it looks a bit too obvious that Law and Order are MEANINGLESS in Washington. But, so long as there’s bread and circuses, everyone will keep looking at that, instead of their burning Constitution . . .
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CNN : So, this may sound like a no-brainer, here, but if Trump were even close to being right; about Comey, “leaking,” OR the Witch Hunt being, “illegal,” WHY oh WHY would he have NOT had Comey, Mueller, et al, ARRESTED BY NOW??? QED, right?
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The only thing that is actually “new” in Tory politics of late is this active, open hostility senior ministers express toward giant cross sections of society. That scares people. When did it become okay to actively attack voters from the dispatch box, with open anger and a list of epithets? That, combined with all of the now exposed graft and policy failures, is genuinely frightening the voters! And they wonder why they’re losing voters?
That stuff may work well in America, from where the Tories have been importing all of their most recent ideas. But deliberate attempts to divide the population, with attacks on its most concerned citizens, are actively forcing voters to seek a sane alternative.
Imagine if you went to your GP and said, “I’ve sought a second opinion and two other doctors have confirmed that you took out my appendix when there was no need and I just had a stomach bug,” and that doctor responds by saying, “That’s just rubbish coming from your “woke” agenda and your anti-medical attitude, so get the f*ck out of my practice and take your communist, freedom hating, Guardian reading bollox with you before I have those removed too!” . . . 😧. . . 🤷♂️ . . . 😵💫 . . . 🤦♂️
It’s a result of lazy, default thinking, that young educated people are being, “indoctrinated into wokeness,” because of a Tory refusal to accept logical arguments and desire to stick to talking points. When your default setting is to defend the indefensible, you find yourself not just at odds with the most outspoken educated people, but actively hostile towards a significant section of the population at any given time.
And people don’t want insanely hostile leaders who are incapable of agreeing to disagree, let alone actively and outspokenly seeking to do HARM to sections of society!
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David V : I respect you (always have) so please bear with me on this one?:
The Dems have now become the, “threat,” to America, being too close to the system, and hopeful of power. The GOP are NOT going to risk Trump’s unseating? They have SHOWN us they will fix everything. Now, the Dems are perpetuating the MYTH that there can even BE, “Free Elections,” instead of a Putin Style Data Gathering exercise. Do you THINK they will let Trump get unseated, indicted, and jailed along with his WHOLE family? And then RAT OUT EVERYONE, from Bill Barr to Devin Nunes, so that half of the GOP wind up in JAIL too? So the GOP end up SO disgraced and unelectable, that whatever remains of them, is forced to disband and hide, forever, from history, like escaped Nazis? It’s just NOT going to be ALLOWED, when it’s SO EASY to have Putin and all those hostile allies of Putin, use all that 2016 experience to assist the gangsters who are now ALREADY on the inside, with access to EVERYTHING this time around. Forestalling the Revolution, by acting like there still is a Republic, plays right into their hands. That Impeachment SHAM was the final blow, to a Republic that’s been failing on Life Support, since 2016. I guarantee you that Trump will, “win,” if we play along and assist this Soft Coup, perpetuating THEIR LIES. But, I also understand why people won’t want to OWN the TRUTH. Accepting the facts leaves you faced with the responsibility to DO SOMETHING. The Ukrainians did it, a decade ago, with no weapons, simply by halting their country and filling the streets, so their Putin Puppet was forced to FLEE back to Moscow. And Putin is in no position to punish America, by invading us. KNOWING that it CAN be done makes it even scarier, I guess? Because people were killed in the Ukrainian Revolution.
All I ask, from all right minded people, is that they STOP perpetuating the myth that the GOP will ALLOW real, “elections”??? That forestalls the response to the facts. There are NO, “legal,” “lawful,” or, “Constitutional,” remedies to a Soft Coup, and it’s subsequent Dictatorship. But, while people are acting like they still HAVE a Republic, there can be NO remedies whatsoever . . . ✌️
Peace out, bro 👍
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Tessmage Tessera : It really is beyond doubt, now, isn’t it? Who in their right mind COULD support Trump, since discovering that his biggest, most repeated, consistent LIES, were aimed right at them? “No Collusion,” and, “Lock her up,” make Ex-Trump fans CRINGE with shame. That’s why I’m CERTAIN, now; there really IS NOTHING in it for them. I mean, WHAT, do they, “think,” Donny can DO for them? UNLESS they are being paid to back him? Or, they’re willing to trade American sovereignty for a racist vision of a, “white,” America?
Maybe their impotent rage is just their embarrassment, at being SO wrong? . . . ✌️
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One ounce is optimistic. But, Cuomo has the trump defence, surely? The GOP supports a former POTUS who’s still got Rape and other sexual assault allegations hanging over his head! Cuomo is literally being crucified for, “looking,” at a woman funny? That’s his, “Whaddabout,” right there! In honesty, who among us can unequivocally state that these offences are true? And then, if they’re firing offences, if the truth is somewhere in the middle? Personally, I think he should step down, but not for any of this, “he said, she said,” stuff, which no one can evaluate honestly; whether we believe the women, believe that’s how they, “felt,” of if they’re on the nose? The cover up over the care homes, however? That was egregious and probably cost more lives, as a direct result. That’s both quantifiable, and horrific! But, set either of those claims next to trump’s criminal incompetence, and sexual deviance, and he can ask any GOP member, “Why the hell SHOULD I resign?”
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Chaud Poivron : You WISH we were ALL, “the left,” don’t you? You are GENUINELY TERRIFIED of the TRUTH. Trump’s Cult is SHRINKING, at last, and TRUE Conservatives DON’T VOTE FOR TREASON TRUMP. Now, supporting a racist, THICK, Conman, Narcissistic, Traitor; THAT’S WAY more, “over the top,” than ANYTHING I could say. But, it HAS been scientifically PROVEN that God HATES Trump. God HATES EVIL, the rest follows, QED 🙂
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Michael Hodges : I don’t claim to, “know everything.” But, (and try not to let this bug you?) I am always right. I can’t help it. A blessing AND a curse. Now, ask yourself, back when you were SO CERTAIN about Caesar, and the moment you realised you were not just wrong, but stating the DIAMETRIC OPPOSITE of the TRUTH - kudos for owning that, btw - do you not SEE the possibility that you COULD be wrong about this too? Find me a historian, who agrees with your proposition? And, I will show you a man (they are ALWAYS men) who has a known record for propagandising and is already discredited by respectable institutions.
You can split hairs all you WANT, son? But, it won’t alter the FACT that people all over the States, have FOUGHT and spilled BLOOD AND TREASURE for what THEY BELIEVE to be, not JUST their Democracy, but the FINEST example of Democracy in the WORLD!
Then, ask yourself? WHAT do you, “gain,” by denying Democracy? Apart from coming off as Anti-American, what does it get you? WHERE does it lead? Is it meant to soften the blow, of Putin taking over? Are we meant to feel better about relinquishing our RIGHTS? Or, is it some ludicrous way of trying to persuade people to take less interest in THEIR Democracy?
I’m interested?
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Michael Hodges : “Firstly,” I put stuff like that in, to see how, “mature,” people are. You failed that test, by being all upset about me saying that I’m always right. If you had made a retort-gag, or ignored it, you’d have passed. You gotta’ stop taking it so personally, son. This is YouTube! A bear pit for emotional types.
Now: it really is NOT for me, to, “prove,” a fundamental axiom. It is for YOU to offer evidence, for why you think America is WRONG about believing in its own ideals, political system and the FUNDAMENTAL REASON for its BEING.
And, you STILL have NOT YET SAID, WHY you think you are, ahem . . . “Right.” NOR, have you HINTED at an answer to my question. WHAT do you hope to achieve by, (phhhmmm! 😆) “convincing,” Americans that they don’t have a Democracy?
Start, by looking up the word, in one of those good dictionaries, with the etymology (root and history) of the word, and work out from there? Again, I will help you through this, if you like? But, don’t assume that you even have an, “Argument,” until you lay out SOME grounds for believing it?
And, here’s a hint: failures in the system DON’T count. In the same way that a miscarriage of justice, does NOT mean that, “there is no justice,” or, if a car crashes, that doesn’t mean it was never a car. OK?
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Not sure I buy that opening assessment? Ultimately, when Putin’s forces occupy less Ukrainian real estate than they began with in February of last year, the stability of Putin’s authority may well collapse. The warrant for Putin’s arrest is for Genocide, and very clearly, from the responses we’ve got, we can see that it has both enraged and rattled Putin.
But, I am suspicious of any commentator who doesn’t start to talk about Cyril by reminding everyone that he was a KGB agent and quite possibly Putin’s closest friend. He was certainly a contemporary, rising through the ranks alongside Putin. And he is merely an extension of the NKVD now. This is why Ukraine was forced to shut down several, “orthodox,” churches and dug up treasure troves of spy craft within their vestries!
The depth to which Putin and his acolytes are willing to stoop knows no limits. And placing one of your most trusted, senior spies into the pulpit of propaganda is just the sort of abjectly diabolical scheming that Putin thinks is, “clever.”
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Deborah McLean : Well, Trump Trolls only like Trump’s racism and greed, so long as the economy doesn’t melt; apart from the paid foreigners. They Fake Believe. They always have. They KNOW they can’t, “convince,” anyone, or, “win,” an argument. Their, “Job,” is to sew and maintain DIVISION: the oxygen that sustains Trump. Their Fake, “Belief,” makes everything they say suddenly make perfect sense ✌️
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It’s ALL a, “Distraction,” dudes. Trump’s CORRUPT INTENT, behind his, “pardons,” SHOULD have America on the STREETS. If you WAIT for Mueller, Avenatti and the Mid Terms to, “save you,” the cunning GOP and Trump will close ALL AVENUES of JUSTICE, because NO ONE is PROTESTING, while he DISMANTLES YOUR DEMOCRACY! What has Russia and China got to LOSE, by HACKING the Mid Terms? With BETTER ACCESS? With BETTER HELP??? With EXPERIENCE BEHIND THEM??? Wake UP, America???!!!
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Bovine One : If the country is ever going to be a, “United States,” in this modern era, where individualism is meant to be the goal, then, “One Adult, One Vote,” should be the solution. State boarders are not the issue in a National Election, surely? Simply the will of the people, should be counted up and applied, given that every individual has to live with the result? Is that not just common sense? . . . 🤔
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SB SB : Trump is a warmonger, trying not to look like a warmonger. And, your job is to help him with that Propaganda. But, the world has watched, while he ripped up his deal with Iran, broke America’s word, threatened and bullied them, while the Europeans have been trying to keep the peace and hold up the West’s end, without him. Now, he’s ramping up the Military presence, using the Saudis to frame them; making it look like Iran is STARTING the war, when we all KNOW it’s the LAST thing they want. And, he expects us to, “believe,” the intel coming from the SAME PEOPLE that he ROUTINELY calls, “liars,” EVERY DAY? He’s compared the CIA to, “Nazi Germany,” and we’re all meant to flip flop at his rate? America’s NOT buying it, son. Trump will have to look elsewhere for a bump in the polls. A war will finish him . . . Smh
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@Spacey7 : So, Ukraine can win this thing without, “good,” or, “bad,” and rely on, “interests,” and, “history,” instead. After all, Putin’s objectives seem so unclear to the world and to his own people, because he can’t say openly what they are: Ukraine’s massive gas and oil reserves. They are still completely undeveloped and Putin needs to keep it that way. Shell, Exxon and BP have confirmed that Ukraine has as much gas and oil as, if not more than, Russia. He doesn’t want a Democracy competing from a geographically more convenient position. Especially since he’s threatened to turn off the gas lines to Europe before now.
If you doubt me, check the oil companies public records as to where their finds are located, and how much they spent on a deal with Ukraine to develop those finds? They are offshore in Crimea, in the Donbas region (ringin’ any bells?) and now even bigger reserves have been located by the Carpathian Mountains to the west of Ukraine, where Putin has been unable to reach the area or, “influence,” them.
So, now he thinks he’s a Bond Villain and he can steal the entire country? When, ever since, “energy security,” has been a thing, in over a hundred years, has the west EVER allowed themselves to lose dominance over energy reserves? Does Putin think he’s exceptional? Does he actually believe his own propaganda now? All we know for sure is that he has threatened us with nukes, but he has also backed down EVERY SINGLE TIME the west has stood up to him. So, all we need focus on is getting the mad man’s finger off that trigger, in case of accidents.
But only a fool allows a mad man to point a loaded weapon at their head a second time. Putin must be deposed. He’s underestimated his enemy and is leading his oligarchs to ruin, along with his country. They will, “suggest retirement,” soon. So long as our resolve only grows and shows no sign of weakening.
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Trevor Bottin : WOW! Can you, “see,” that more Americans will die in DEBT than not? Can you, “see,” that the price of GAS and FOOD has DOUBLED in the last two years? Can you, “SEE,” that the, “Tax Break,” Bribe ENDS next year, after the Mid Terms, when Trump won’t NEED their, “votes”? But, don’t worry HIS, and his 1%’ers are PERMANENT! Can you “SEE” that every SINGLE TIME Trump has MEDDLED in the. “Economy, Stupid,” he has HARMED IT?
Can YOU name, JUST ONE THING, that Trump has done, DIRECTLY AIMED AT THE ECONOMY, that has NOT done DIRECT HARM to the ECONOMY??? I KNOW you CAN’T! NO ONE EVER CAN. SMH . . . You Russians are DUMB
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Andrew_Owens : You raise important points. The Trumpalines, will always play the, “Anti-Semite,” card, when you bring up the fact that Israel is playing Trump almost as well as Russia. But, you’re so right about that. And, it’s starting to look like a powder keg, set to blow, out there.
The problem is that, pointing out Trump’s FAILURES, is like trying to fill a glass of water from a waterfall. There’s just too MUCH for people to take in, and talking seriously about the Middle East, gives people the willies.
Especially, when it’s so EASY to point out that we DON’T, “yet,” have the best healthcare in the world, the best infrastructure, the stupid wall has not even been STARTED, and Kim STILL has ALL his NUKES, even though it’s been Christmas every day in North Korea. But, in the midst of all that, Israel could kill us ALL! (Sorry, I like to use ALL CAPS, too, sometimes 😉 👍)
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@lolawants2008 : Interestingly, I’m wondering if Prigozhin has planned for an escape? He must know his odds are slim at best? So, he’ll have a long range helicopter or something, waiting to take him to Sudan, or some such god forsaken place where Russians have been doing Putin’s dirty work for years? Failing that, he may try to cut a deal with the Ukrainians? He’s made overtures in that direction before. They were a pack of lies, but I think he was hoping to get some sort of ball rolling by planting the idea with Ukraine, to suggest he could be bought?
If he’s simply fallen for his own propaganda, we’ll know that shortly, as he’ll be dead. If he lives more than a couple of weeks, that will be because he had a Plan B all along. That’s my speculation, at least. Nothing more.
But, oh boy, would it be a, “coup,” for the west if we were able to snag him and send him to The Hague where he belongs, behind bars. 🇺🇦✌️🇬🇧
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@charlesdavis5542 : Yes, that’s true. And what people fail to recognise is that we were proved substantially correct, at every important point. Trump’s trolls deliberately confuse people saying they didn’t want trump as president, with not believing he ever would be. But the predictions about the vote being close, and about Hillary’s narrow victory, were proved right too. People didn’t anticipate the electoral college panning out the way it did, but many said his chances were good. So, I don’t think anyone’s barking up the wrong tree now? What’s he gonna’ do? Mount a Coup? When the military hates him? How’s that going to work? His attempts at getting popular opinion behind him are backfiring, driving away more GOP voters than he’s winning. Just because his minority is rabid and loud, doesn’t make them many. Look how many he got to show up at his Million Moans March? A few thousand? And that was when their heat was up, and they still had momentum? Now what are we seeing? Discredited Giuliani? Standing outside a porno shop, LITERALLY melting down? It’s getting embarrassing, and no one wants an ungovernable country . . . I sleep better now than I did in 4 years. And, I’m looking forward to the best Christmas in that time too. Though 2021’s will be better. Be comforted. He’s melting . . . 😉✌️
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The Tories are no longer, “Conservatives,” by any definition of that term. And they’re paying the price for their populism. They threw open the doors to anyone who could put on a show, “personalities,” who could win them votes in the short term and their, “business insider,” “think tank,” buddies, while anyone with half a brain could see they were abandoning all semblance of ideology and, “conservatism,” could go take a walk to get out of the way of the extremists now running everything!
All the actual, “politicians,” who actually knew how politics worked (whatever you thought of them) have gone! The Tories are now being run by the left overs, the administrators, better suited to business and the nut jobs who want us all to walk around in jackboots and wave Orwellian flags. They have no clue what they’re doing!
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Jeff Ong : This Farmer is one of the people who doesn’t ask about legality, but encourages economic migrants. Sure, he’s a nice guy, who, “cares,” but if they prosecuted the farmers, routinely, to the harshest letter of the law, the problem would end, overnight. Trump Trolls don’t WANT, “solutions.” They want people to feel, “superior,” to, and to hate on. And, I hope they DO succeed in deporting all these undocumented people, just so Trump Trolls can FEEL the consequences 😁
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Trump came into office cancelling fellow GOP members by having them Primaried, and is STILL doing that to Liz Cheney and others. “Lock Her Up,” was already OLD when he took office! And the GOP attempted to Cancel a democratic election on Jan 6th, whilst they fuelled a violent mob, trying to do the same thing! Fascism is the ULTIMATE Cancel Culture! Sure, Cuomo should go, for the good of the office, and if he’s exonerated, he can get elected again. But, this use of the term is getting stupid. The GOP ARE, “Cancel Culture,” and they intend to Cancel the Republic, PERMANENTLY!
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Happy Dictatorship Day, America. We can mark the anniversary from the moment they say, “Not Guilty,” to Trump. That’s the exact moment that historians will say that the Republic FELL. It’s been on life support, since 2016, but this is the final death blow. Now, your, “elections,” will be rigged, because that’s relatively easy to do, with Putin’s help. And, the only alternative is JAIL for the whole Trump Tribe and half the GOP. They have no choice. And they’ve SHOWN you that there’s NO lawful remedy to Dictatorship. Learn to love your Monarchy, or tear it down? But, just DON’T go KIDDING yourselves that you will be ALLOWED to, “Vote”??? All you’ll be doing is giving them data on who to target next, in a FIXED election
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Dj ViiRus : LIE. One corrupt politician did that, WITHOUT CNN’s knowledge, and YOU KNOW THAT. She was FIRED. And, SURE, she should have been OUSTED from the party, but THAT, ONE FACT, will NOT SAVE this DEGENERATE administration. People will either vote to SAVE DEMOCRACY in the Mid Terms, or they will vote for the GOP Stalinists, to END DEMOCRACY, you TRAITOR
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Colonel Crush : That’s an interesting theory, but it has a lot of moving parts. Frankly, NO ONE really “knows” what they are up to, other than they they are NOT telling us the truth. Whatever goes down, Russia will NEVER take on the west. They may try to pull off some deniable operations with mercs, as they did 4 weeks ago, or fund others to attack westerners, by sending weapons through Iran, but they will NOT actually confront the west, other than through posturing.
Putin is good at threats and his Trolls WANT us all to FEAR that he’ll go nuclear, if we expose his election interference, shove him out of Syria, give his troops a black eye, or spill his f**king vodka, but it’s ALL BOLLOX. It would be SUICIDE, and guys like him just DON’T DO SUICIDE.
Putin has a long-term perspective on EVERYTHING and I would not be at all surprised if he turned on Assad, and replaced him with someone he has in his back pocket, like an exiled family of rebel leaders, who’ve been bought off? Then he could get international pressure of his back, while still having a, “friendly,” administration in Syria? Trump would get his, “win,” AND his distraction? Everybody’s happy?
See what I mean, though? It’s a plausible enough theory, but no more or less realistic than yours.
Only history will clear up what’s REALLY happening right now. But, we CAN agree that it IS NOT what they are telling us. Or can we? . . .
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@drakke125Channel : Of you’re paid by a shell company, you probably, “think,” they are Americans, because that’s what they told you. They are all traceable, back to Mother Russia. So, it doesn’t matter where you are, you work for Putin, whether you know it or not. Therefore, stfu, Putin 😉
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@drakke125Channel : When will you Putinistas get it into your heads that we Normals NEVER TOUCH the Click Bait, son? We don’t want Malware, “cookies,” tracking our views and probing our histories for their algorithms, OK? If you have no, “words,” of your own, you are not WORTH talking to anyway! I’m not here for a library card, son. Discussion means taking responsibility for what you claim to, “think,” and having the wit to back that up. And, do STOP with your false narratives which, A) is false and, B) even if it were true, no one cares, kiddo. This, “the left,” of which you speak, is a figment of your imagination, concocted from a mix, out of a sewer of disinformation, your credulity and substituting facts for preferences, as though life was a giant video game! You always miss the mark and are treated with contempt, because no one sees them self reflected in your notions of what trump’s opponents are!
You don’t even grasp that trying to get people involved, by tempting them to defend themselves, and clarify why they oppose the trump’s, is old, overused, and just makes people yawn and move on. I know you won’t answer ANY of my points, because you HAVE NOTHING. You’re an empty headed viper, who cannot see that it’s your mere existence that has persuaded right minded Americans to put a stop to trump, once and for all.
YOU ARE WHY TRUMP LOST, NUMB NUTS 🤣
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@drakke125Channel : Son, you need to look up the word, “troll.” By definition, trolls are the ones attacking the news, and the people who discuss the news, whilst believing the news they hear. You are also a Karen, living on channels you hate, lecturing people you hate, and ruining your own life, but unable to see what a Karen you are, because that’s Karens for you. And there are only two types of troll: the shell company paid foreigners, taking money from Russia, whether they know that or not. Or the Anti-American, racist Americans, who have been lol’d out of every court in the land.
There actually is evidence of voter fraud, which occurred in Florida. GOP shell companies ran a copycat scam, stealing votes from the Dems,by pretending to be Dems. Biden actually won Florida, as will be proved. Check the CNN website, if you think I’m making that up? You must really hate the fact that you gave so much money to a con man, who will flee America, taking it all with him? The only question is, will he be seeking exile in Russier, or Chiynah? 🤣
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I think he’s more worried about the other stuff Gaetz is going to be indicted for in Florida. Those Copycat Scams were repeated in just about every county in Florida, and they’re only just starting to uncover the sheer SCALE of them. And though it may not (yet) be illegal, to pretend to be a Dem Candidate and to trick the vulnerable, people with poor eyesight or who don’t have time to read the hidden fine print on con artist literature, just to siphon votes off to the GOP, it still is a crime to be a third party beneficiary of such a diabolical scam; and it’s a crime if they can prove you deliberately set out to scam voters, by coordinating a massive operation all over Florida. And I think America in general will be interested to know that Florida voted for Joe Biden, but were scammed out of their vote by Matt Gaetz, who went to great trouble to protect trump’s pride? Trump didn’t want to lose in the state he adopted as his new home, as that would be an embarrassment. And Gaetz over did it, trying to hand trump a massive victory. In the end it was really close, and disappointed American voters who saw Florida as a real possibility for the Dems. Well, turns out, Biden WON FLORIDA. But, Multiple thousands of Dem votes went to the GOP . . . That’s going to turn out to be a bigger scandal, even than child sex trafficking . . . ✌️
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Putin sucks. He’s sick, cruel and evil. His historical notions are childish, pride manufactured, narcissistic distortions of the facts and he has literally thrown the entire planet into economic and physical chaos. He is doing more actual harm than Hitler and Stalin put together and his body count will exceed theirs (if it doesn’t already?) by the time he’s done. He and the people that make him possible should be removed from civilised society, so that the rest of the planet can get on with solving its urgent problems and growing its capacity to take care of its populations, rather than having to suffer the anxiety of his disruptions, the economic costs of his incredible tantrums and the blood spilled, all on account of a toddler with a nuclear gun who’s throwing all of his toys out of his pram! Drop a Daisy Cutter on the Kremlin when their having one of those televised Doctor Evil shows, in which his terrified cabinet members each have to take turns making speeches about why they agree with everything Putin says, so that the trap door under their chair doesn’t open and drop them into a fiery pit at the press of a button on Putin’s desk, and do the world a MASSIVE favour. Why are we waiting for three or more years for Russia’s hoarded gold to run out, before the sanctions take full effect anyway? Just invade Moscow and the Russian people will support you, so long as you explain that you are liberating them and intend to hand Russia over to a UN organised election. Get on with it please! We’re all heartily SICK of Putin’s selfish antics.
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