Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Shocking New Jan 6 Footage Has GOP Going Full Lunatic" video.

  1. 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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  2. Yeah, the only problem is that he seems to prefer blondes.
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  3. It was the Capital not the WH (Whitehouse) where the insurrection happened although there were crimes of sedition happening and the WH too.
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  4. ​ @ittt6339  I was in college in America in the late 80s and got to see the 85 midterm and 87 POTUS seasons firsthand and all I thought of was WTF isn't it good were aren't this bonkers. BUT I WAS YOUNG AND NAIEVE because by the 90s our politics was already following on. Interestingly in 2010/11 I saw the back 1/2 of a lecture on the death of journalism that was om super late one night. I didn't find out for several years that it was given by Robert McChesney who was a major contributor to the documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (2004). He's the guy near the start describing the scene from the Godfather Part 2 about Cuba. In this lecture I saw he was describing how the ratio of journalists to PR people has flipped since the end of WW2 from 5:1 to 1:5 It to 50-60 years so nobody really noticed except a few academics like Robert. By the early 2000s across the Western World many journalists we simply gotten rid of because of the vast expansion in communications as well as the corporatisation by people like Rupert Murdoch who simply bought everything he could. the days of every town having its own newspaper ARE GONE because shareholders want profit not stories on Farmer Jones cows or the local kid with dreams of the big time. Later on I found the Robert McChesney is a professor at my Alma Mater (U. of Illinois) but I he started there after I graduated. There's actually a few really good interviews he's given that are here on YouTube. Every time I check I keep finding older stuff that says people like him were trying to warn us about these media issues for a long long time BUT NOBODY WAS LISTENING and now we are paying the price. And it's a recuring theme with a few issues. We are finding out just how bad the climate is as well as energy and water systems. Energy is of interest to me because I'm an engineer and that problem is so staggering that at times I wonder what will happen because I can't get people to listen and the media are so bad. We have so many stupid people making so many stupid claims we can't have a sensible public discussion BECAUSE at the core of it all is a media that thrives on conflict AND DOES NOT CARE.
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  5.  @BradloRaul  Its called political narrative and sociopaths like Elise Stefanik don't care. I once had someone describe to me the concept of High Machiavellians. They aren't your regular "the end justifies the means" type because they are at least tempered a to some degree by societal norms or expectations. These are the "anything and everything goes" to get what they want types. Morals and ethics have no place at all in their plans.
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