Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder" channel.

  1. FINALLY SOMEONE has the guts to call out Matt Taibbi's hypocrisy. Taibbi's always presented himself as an incorruptible independent journalist and NOW he's the mouthpiece for a billionaire.
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  2.  @tim211292  I'm Australian and Rupert doesn't just take the 999 cookies he makes people PAY with their 1 cookie to watch his people explain how bad your life is and why its someone else's fault.
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  3. I'm Australian and we are also having to come to terms with Australia's past with respect to our First Nations people AND YES at times its damn uncomfortable. I was working in Canada a few years ago and they are in a similar situation. I don't know Canada's long term plans as they already have the Assembly of First nations but we have a national referendum coming up to change our constitution and help hopefully resolve some of that past by providing a voice to Parliament for our First Nations peoples. Its not too dissimilar to the Sami Parliaments in the Nordic countries. Unfortunately we also have a similarity with what's happening in Florida. We have First Nations people on the RIGHT who are against the "Voice to Parliament" and just like William Allen they are LYING. As he himself says when you say a mis-truth its a mistake but when you keep repeating it then you're a LIAR. I wonder what Jesse Waters makes of that considering who he works for??????
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  4. Yeah I just did look him up by typing "talk tv mike graham" into google. There's a Wikipedia page for him and it includes that story about growing concrete. It happened when he claimed a carpenter and climate change activist was a hypocrite for using timber. When the carpenter told him wood was sustainable and renewable while concrete wasn't Graham then made the you can grow concrete remark and ended the interview after less than 1 minute. I'm Australian BTW and am glad I'm not a Brit with this story.
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  5. Australian here: A number of years ago I was in a taxi in Sydney. Australian taxi drivers come form all over the world and they are a great source of basic information on places the media never report on. This particular taxi driver was from Liberia and I asked him "Liberia's a country we don't hear much about and what we do hear is mostly bad. So what happened?" He basically said when the French were in control it was basically developing and reasonably civil because they kept the various tribal issues in check. Then one day they just got up and left but handed all the weapons over to 1 tribe who then went on a rampage." The biggest problem with Africa is Europeans split the continent up according to what they wanted and that often upset the balances between the existing tribes and their boundaries. The most notable instance of this is in Namibia where there is the Caprivi Strip (in the North East). This strip exists because of a deal the Germans made with the British so that Germany could have access to the Zambezi River and a route to Africa's east coast, where the colony of German East Africa (now part of Tanzania). Its all detailed on Wikipedia. That strip runs right through the middle of several traditional homelands of different tribes. Those tribes now have parts of their homelands in Angola, Namibia, Zambia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. The European colonial era made a mess of Africa from which Africa has NEVER RECOVERED. Americans should be the last to talk about this stuff considering they ignored the advice some of their own people gave before they invaded Iraq in 2003. Eric Shinseki to congress in a public hearing that not only was Iraq a significant amount of geography to cover but there were ethnic/tribal conflicts with centuries of feuding and violent history.
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  6. I'm Australian and this is not an American problem. We have the same problem here. It might not be as pronounced or obvious but we simply don't have our media holding these sorts of politicians accountable. A MAJOR PART of that has been the weaponization of the media along political lines which is why these people keep getting softball interviews all the time. AND YES - every Australian is aware of Rupert Murdoch's part in that, but then we tried warning people what he was like. The Brits didn't listen when we warned them and American didn't listen either.
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  7. Australian here - OD has come under some scrutiny because of a couple of scandals at high schools they run here in Australia. What's gone on in those schools is a bit more than just creepy. Someone else commented "Handmaid's Tale and Da Vinci Code. What a terrifying combo." and that sums up what's been going on in these schools quite well.
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  8. God didn't save the Cherokee, Apache, Sioux, Mohicans, Seminoles or any of the others when immigrants came so why's he going to intervene in this????
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  9. Australian here and that summation is exactly what I see as an outside observer. I'm actually an engineer and have been trying to figure out why economists are driving all our economies into the ground. That story swings around to the Milton Friedman inspired, Ronald Reagan Reaganomics and Margret Thatcher Thatcherism revolution in the 1970s. Friedman was an absolute free market advocate. He believed that governments were inherently corrupt and incompetent and hos free market was the solution. Also out of the same University of Chicago mentality came the Neoconservative movement who also believed that governments were the problem not the solution which was also another thing adopted by Reagan. So there's been both a political and economic movement to push governments out of the way so that the business community could run everything. Margret Thatcher also introduced the world to external consultants effectively running government departments. YES - governments had always hired outside consultants but Thatcher jacked that through the roof. Here in Australia (right now) all of our government departments are effectively run by consultants (KPMG, EY, PwC,.......) and its a major problem. Go look up the PwC scandal. So you are SPOT ON that this is a huge problem in America, but its also a problem that America has exported to the rest of the world and we have all been stupid to accept it.
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  10. Joseph Stalin - “a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic” A few die in razor wire on the Texas border and its a tragedy where these people howl and scream that the border has to be defended. 19 students (aged from 9 to 11) and 2 teachers die at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas AND NONE of these people got in a convoy to go down to Texas and help out. The world has all but forgotten Sandy Hook, Columbine and other similar incidents. Maybe we should ask these people at what point it goes from tragedy to statistic to forgotten?
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  11. Watch Kayleigh McEnany's eyes in that first clip when she says there's cheering at Mar-a-Lago. Watch how here eyes dip. I don't think she believes a single word she said.
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  12. AUSTRALIAN HERE: (and I say this as a friend) The United States of America has NEVER Given a damn about human rights or international justice UNLESS IT WAS CONVENIENT AT THE TIME and to be fair US America's allies have backed it on many of the occasions it has stomped all over the basic rules it promotes. I cringe EVERY time I hear one of our politicians or journalists mention the phrase "rules based order" when it comes to countries like Russia. Every so often someone asks what they mean by "Rules based order" and it then goes from BULLSHlT to Embarrassing BULLSHIT in less than a heart beat. You Americans really do need to get over your view of yourselves on the World stage and don't panic so do a lot of other countries including Australia. In recent years we got a several "Wake TF Ups" from the small nations in the Pacific that we have taken for granted. Repairing that damage will take us at least a decade. Fixing America's reputation is actually going to be the single hardest task of the next POTUS whether its Kamala or someone else AND ITS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN QUICKLY. Unfortunately, thanks to the internet we can now see all of America's faults both internally and externally.
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  13. The amazing thing about this entire discussion is they are NOT even getting into the real issue which is the staggering power of Harvard and Yale which was where the Federalist Society started along with the University of Chicago. RIGHT NOW there are 4 Harvard and 4 Yale graduates on SCOTUS and the other one (Barrett) is a known FS member. When the last judge was selected the short list of 7 had 5 who were Harvard or Yale educated. Going back to the previous generation there were fewer Yale but more Harvard. You have to go back tot he 60s to start seeing more judges from a broader educational background. *Its as if America's other Law Schools simply don't matter. * FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America. Other than my personnel relationship with America, Australia is about to start spending several hundred billion on American submarines. JUST LIKE many other nations WE CANNOT AFFORD America to be unreliable and right now 4 out 4 sections of your governmental system are malfunctioning. A simple summary goes like this: SCOTUS is out of control and is handing out POLITICAL direction rather than legal decisions. The House is riddled with maniacs from BOTH parties who are more interested in which stock to buy or sell. The Senate is full of selfish geriatrics from BOTH parties who simply wont retire. The White house is being fought over by a pair of Geriatrics both of who are unfit for an office of that can decide the use of nuclear weapons. In ANY OTHER country Trump be in prison for January 6th and in many countries he would have already been executed. Notably Saudi Arabia and YES we know about the $2 Billion Jared has. Before anyone tells an Australian or anyone else NOT interfere let me inform you about AMERICAN interference in Australia. 4 AMERICAN companies (consultancies) basically run our government. One or more of Deloitte Australia, Ernst & Young (EY), PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and KPMG are involved in almost every government decision at both the Federal and State level. Even when we get a change in Government either Left to Right or Right to Left all that happens is that certain government officials swap places with their counterparts in the consultancies. We ACTUALLY CAUGHT PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) committing industrialised tax evasion and fraud. Despite the public outcry nobody has been charged and PwC has recently received NEW government contracts. These consultancies and our government bureaucracy include many graduates of Harvard and Yale.
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  14. Worst part of it is Tim makes an awful lot of us men look bad. Tim thinks he's some sort of problem solver and he's NOT. He's part of the problem.
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  15. Australian here - we know who Eric Prince is and we know what sort of person he is. He is everything America needs to wake up to regarding what went on during the Bush-Cheney years. One of these days America will need to accept what it let people like him get away with.
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  16. Yeah it must never be forgotten what Newt did when he was speaker, because of lot of what he did was a major step along the path that lead to where America is right now. Plus that's had a huge flow on effect to the rest of the world. That whole deregulation and globalisation push during that time lead to the 2008 GFC. A lot of what's going on right now has origins back in the 90s, 80s, & 70s and most of it goes back even further.
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  17. I'm Australian and DAMN THIS IS SERIOUSLY creepy. This isn't just regular Right Wing nut-job creepy. This is "Silence of the Lambs" creepy.
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  18. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. As an outsider looking in but also as one who has spent time in America I think America has sadly underestimated Jimmy Carter. His diplomatic work AFTER leaving office has ended up being incredibly significant and far more significant than other Presidents. If you go and look at the Wikipedia page for him at the end of the 2nd paragraph under Legacy - public opinion it says : "Although his presidency received a mixed reception, his peacekeeping and humanitarian efforts since he left office have made Carter renowned as one of the most successful ex-presidents in American history." I think that's actually a very good summary of how Carter is seen around the world. I think that if an HONEST history of America in the post World War 2 Era is written (that's not a partisan narrative) Carter might well be regarded as the BEST ex-US president of the era. He certainly underestimated how ruthless some of Reagan's people were, but then we are only now really starting to find out just how ruthless those people were, but then he also was more successful than anyone else at SOLVING the Middle East issues. He got settlement between Israel & Egypt which has been forgotten by too many. He tried harder than anyone else to settle the Israel-Palestinian issue and seemed to be ready whenever needed to go anywhere he was called upon to help AND he did those things without any need for a parade of fanfare.
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  19.  @cocoloco71  Sorry but I'm an Oz and NO farking way and to use some 1970s slang that pommie bastard is 100% all yours. On Wikipedia it has the following info. Graham was born (born 9 August 1960) in Hampstead, London to Scottish couple Archibald Graham, a newspaper graphic artist, and his wife Mairi McAleavey. So you can blame the Scotts BUT NOT us or even the Kiwis for that matter.
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  20. AUSTRALIAN HERE: For an outside perspective on this. I see the Federalist Society as a MAJOR THREAT to Western Society. FYI - I went to college in America (late 80s). I did engineering BUT a bunch of my friends were pre-law and they all loved explaining and arguing ideas on the US Constitution with me. So I got an unusual introduction to the US Constitution. I'd argue that any country could become a totalitarian dictatorship because that was the warning all Australians got from studying Orwell in High School. For generations everyone in Australia read Animal Farm or 1984 or BOTH in high school. So I was well versed in "If you're not careful this can happen!" My college friends, several who went onto become lawyers, would always answer that it was impossible for America to fall into a dictatorship (of any kind) because THE SYSTEM WOULD NOT ALLOW IT. The American system of CHECKS and BALANCES would prevent any group or any one person taking complete control. What we NEVER discussed was what a organisation like the Federalist Society could do given enough money. It just never came up. HERE'S the problem for the the rest of the world. We all do business with major American corporations. As was shown with the Steven Donziger case involving Chevron, IF an American company gets into trouble over sees they will drag the case BACK INTO the American Courts where the these corrupt judges owned by the Corporations RUN EVERYTHING and there is no contest. Right now in Australia we have a major scandal involving PwC (an American company) and their consulting to the Australian Government. That inquiry is turning up other issues with companies including KPMG, EY and Deloitte who are all American companies. We haven't yet heard about McKinsey or Boston Group but there are rumors out of Britain and Europe. Just the PwC scandal could end up in a litigation for well over $10 Billion. They actually tried to swindle (with their corporate clients who include other American companies) Australia out of $$$ Billions in tax revenue. What happens if they drag that back to an American court? The complete corruption of SCOTUS is a wider problem than just simply what it does to America. YES I will grant any American its more of a direct problem for you, but don't think its not a problem for us also.
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  21. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: I did my degree in the late 80s and during my senior year we had an alum who gave a special guest lecture on Terraforming Mars. We were all very excited to hear what he had to say. He started with "Sorry its impossible and here's why!" He then went on to explain just how big planets are and how much stuff you need to a job like Terraform Mars. The numbers are so large that its near impossible for people to grasp. Here's 1 simple thing maybe people can grasp. Imagine a dome (1/2 sphere) on Mars with a volume of 1km. Its about 1562 meters in diameter. So its not a small dome but is the sort of size you'd need for a colony its people, plants and animals. Other than all the materials needed to build that dome (which is substantial). You need 1.3 million tons of air to fill it. Most people don't think of air as weighing much. 1 cubic meter of water weighs a metric ton. 1 cubic meter of air weighs 1.3kg (sea level). There's 1,000,000,000 (billion) cubic meters in a cubic kilometer. So 1 cubic kilometer of air weighs 1.3 billion kilograms or 1.3 million tons. Now considering there's almost NO atmosphere at all on Mars let alone much Oxygen or Nitrogen to make Earth standard air from you have to ask: For the Mars startup colony where are they going to get 1.3 million tons of air from and how are they going to get it to Mars or produce it on Mars? Sorry to bust everyone's Elon Fantasy with math but then WTF I'm an engineer!
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  22. Australian here - YES we have had lots of QANON issues here too. The most amazing thing in this are the RIGHT wingers (where this stuff abounds) who are so into Family Values and yet its their nonsense that's ripping families apart.
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  23. Ronald Reagan stopped making them pay tax. 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂
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  24. Kudos to Emma for trying to be rational with irrational clowns like this. I'm divided on whether its worth trying to engage or expose them for what they are.
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  25.  @Falcon2609  When he's mouthing off about central America somebody should remind him of all the dictators in that region that the CIA put in place and supported. One of the reasons why Noriega was snatched and locked away was because he had all the dirt on them. What Noriega didn't have was back-up plan in case something happened and the information would get out anyway.
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  26. Yeah I believe there are some people called Apache, Sioux, Seminole, Mohawk and a bunch others who just raised their hands and collectively said "We support that motion! There's a boat. Bye Bye."
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  27. WHY NOT - if you cant get Captain Domestic Abuse to lead the military then call on Mr. "I'm a Lawyer who's here to make sure you're tortured legally" Duh Sanctimonious.
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  28.  @jackreacher8858  I thought trickle down economics means they get the cookies and we get the crumbs!!!!!
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  29. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. I can barely believe where America politically is these days. Sure America was always a bit of a basket case. I was there during Regan's second term and watched the 87 campaign season. It was bonkers by my standards. But this stuff is something else. Its like America has completely forgotten what made America such a fantastic nation. I studied engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and they dragged me into many of their discussions. So I got an odd education in the US Constitution. These days (and I have said this a lot in recent years) I believe the US Constitution is one of humanities finest achievements. Unlike Australia who inherited most of their constitution from the British, America started with a clean sheet and threw of a lot of stuff. Tt was fresh daring and brilliant. SADLY, it has been inherited by a pack of clowns with almost NO RESPECT for what it has. I used to be stunned and at times embarrassed by how well every American understood their nation because they'd all done CIVICS in high school. I was stunned to find George Buch de-funded it, because these days I want to see Australia have a similar class (but an Australian version) taught to every high school. I've seen the value it delivered and can now see the damage NOT having such a program has done. I really do want to see America back at its best because with the shear size of the US Economy the rest of the world will struggle to deal with issues like climate change and that's just one issue we have to deal with. There's also 3rd world poverty which is the source of the immigration problem the Right complain about. If we all stopped supporting dictators and helped those countries develop then there wouldn't be a refugee crisis.
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  30. Australian here - OD has come under some scrutiny because of a couple of scandals at high schools they run here in Australia. What's gone on in those schools is a bit more than just creepy. Someone else commented "Handmaid's Tale and Da Vinci Code. What a terrifying combo." and that sums up what's been going on in these schools quite well.
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  31. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. In all the years I have watched what's going on in America I have never heard such bonkers crap as Kristi Noem is speaking and there's a lot of bonkers crap in the world right now. What's even more bonkers than usual is how calmy she says this stuff. Thanks to the wonders of Wikipedia it doesn't take anyone long to look up the US National Guard and find out things like the fact all of the State National guards only exist through FEDERAL LAW and are jointly controlled by the States and FEDERAL Authorities. It also doesn't take long to look at the units and see that ALL OF THEM are part of the US Army or US Airforce which means their chain of command is through FEDERAL officers. So Kristi Noem is not commander in chief of anything, but the fact she thinks she is, is bloody terrifying because sooner or later one of these clowns is going to try something. Just so you know why this stuff concerns the rest of the world. America is still 1/4 (~24.6%) of the Worlds Economy and the US Dollar is still the worlds reserve currency that most of the World's international trade relies on TO BE STABLE. So when clowns like Kristi Noem threaten the stability of America she's also threatening the World's economy.
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  32.  @jujutrini8412  I just watched part of a NYT podcast (because I could not stomach all of it) where Nancy Pelosi said the election result was NOT a rebuke of the Democrat Party. The level of disconnect with these people is WORSE than anyone yet realises.
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  33. Same happens everywhere. The local reporters wont call out their own politicians as much as they will others. I'm Australian and we have the same problem here.
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  34. Yeah, the only problem is that he seems to prefer blondes.
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  35. American libertarianism is best described as: "We want the liberty to strip you of your liberty!"
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  36. I lost all respect with Sam a few weeks after he made he did a podcast where he went into what he called "moral ambiguity" which is where he claimed there are acts that in their very nature CANNOT be excused. This is what he calls "moral ambiguity" and that certain things have ZERO "moral ambiguity" and there is NOTHING to excuse it. My problem with Sam was that he DOES NOT apply this equally to the Israelis and Palestinians. He DOES NOT really (or clearly) distinguish that within each of these groups there is an incredible variety of ideology. He simply lumps everyone in each group into a single category which is just ignoring reality. He claimed in that podcast that what Hamas did was a crime and that there was NOTHING "morally ambiguous" to cloud that judgement - IT WAS WRONG and required a response. On that I do not fault Sam Harris. What Hamas did was WRONG and there is nothing "morally ambiguous" about that it was wrong and needed a response. I am yet to hear Sam Harris explain the "moral ambiguity" for killing over 12,000 children.
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  37. Then there's what happened to Genghis Kahn's fleet when he tried to invade Japan. That storm was named "kamikaze" (divine wind) because it saved Japan from invasion. Even better still she's forgetting that "small event" recorded in the Bible and how guy named Noah survived with is family and the animals on a rather large barge.
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  38. There's an analysis of his debating technique done a couple of years ago and its one of the things he does to overwhelm anybody who questions him. Its the Sherman tank versus Tiger Tank strategy. When your opponent is superior in every way you throw everything you have and overwhelm them. The end up being so busy working through what they can they miss that one guy who shoots them in the ass.
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  39. Frank Herbert - wrote in one of the chapter introductions in Dune Messiah. Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends to act more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary, royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy. - Politics as Repeat Phenomenon. Bene Gesserit Training Manual
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  40. "I think this guy so appreciates the sound of his own voice that he says things without really thinking about them a lot of times or without contemplating the implications of them." Pretty much sums up 335,236,943 people who live in a fantasy land called the United States of America. It especially applies to EVERY YouTuber, journalist, TV presenter, celebrity, Tik Tokker and wannabe star on the planet. I actually watched the Triggernometary interview with Sam Harris and that part of it made him sound like the one rational voice in America because for a change he was putting PERSPECTIVE onto the subject. How does Dave Rubin and the other Hunter Biden ranter compare whatever Hunter might have done with the fact Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump worked IN THE WHITEHOUSE and made a reported $400 million while they were they.
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  41. He's just proving that he is a techno-version of Donald Trump in that he's a techno-narcissist who'll throw anyone under the bus in pursuit of what he wants.
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  42.  @derekroberts5931  The first 999 are those giant novelty sized cookies the size of large Pizzas and the last one just plain regular.
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  43. I think it was Jon Stewart who pointed out that Tucker Carlson has been FIRED from every job he's ever held in the media because he just made stuff up. He's the adult version of that brat in grade school who'd just make stuff and tell any lie he could JUST to see how much chaos it caused.
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  44. When somebody wants to take away the cheap labor they provide.
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  45. Last time I checked you can't embarrass a narcissistic sociopath as they are incapable of feeling anything.
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  46. But then he's just one of a growing crowd of this type of media presenter. Way back in 2004 there was a documentary called Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism. It was highly critical of the Murdoch method of presenting OPINION as FACT rather than "here is what we can see" or "this is what we have been told." Towards the end of it there's a warning of how Murdoch's method was being adopted by other organisations as was slowly dragging the entire media system down a dangerous path to where actual facts would simply be replaced with opinion. Tucker Carlson has now been fired from yet another media organisation (ironically a Murdoch org) for telling more lies and making stuff up as he's done his entire career. He does it because it NEVER HAS ANY REAL CONSEQUENCES because there's always people willing to pay him money to keep saying the nonsense he says.
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  47. Australian here - OD have come under some scrutiny here from things going on in high schools they run here. Your comment is the perfect description of those schools.
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  48. Yeah but that's Piers Morgan. For every person he has on who has ACTUAL QUALIFICATIONS and/or ACTUAL EXPERIENCE and/or ACTUAL KNOWLEDGE of the subject he has on some clown who doesn't know crap but will throw back outrage. A perfect example was the recent show where he had Gary Stevenson one of the smartest and most knowledgeable people and especially successful banking traders and Piers had Dave Rubin who has ZERO qualifications, expertise or knowledge on the subject. Piers is NOT about debate he's about SPECTACLE.
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  49. American libertarianism is best described as: "We want the liberty to strip you of your liberty!"
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  50. I'm Australian and had to reply that to believe that I heard what I heard. I went to college at U. Illinois so I know the Midwest reasonably well. Do you get how much this makes my degree look bad? It used to be that the rest of the world looked UP to the American education system. Then we kind of wondered when a lot of American's couldn't find America, let alone Europe or Russia or China on a map of the world. Now your media people can't figure out which city is in which state.
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