Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "GOP Senator In Hot Water After Being Implicated In Trump’s Fake Elector Scheme" video.

  1. As a counterpoint and some perspective. I'm Australian but went to college at Illinois so the Badgers are a rival. I went to Wisconsin a few times and there's nothing fundamentally wrong with Wisconsin or Wisconsin people. Every nation, state, tribe and village that's ever existed has had its idiots and at times let those idiots be in charge. We've got them here in Australia and we 've elected them to office too. We've done the "I don't like this person or that person so I'll try this person over here who's at least saying something different." YES - we do stupid things too. Here's a reason why Wisconsin is worth saving - the Green Bay Packers. Look across American pro-sport and there's this one anomaly. In stead of being the private property of some millionaire or billionaire there's this one team that's just owned by "normal people" (if you can call Packer fans normal). Do you know that's WHY the Packers have fans across the world? The Packers are the one club in America that people around the world can relate too. Its the one American club that's like all their clubs. If I put all the NFL fans in Australia in a room by far the biggest group are the Packer fans. Other than the Packers, the cheese isn't too bad and by Australian Standards at least Miller Genuine Draft is drinkable. American beer is so "not good" that Americans drink Mexican and Canadian beer when they can. So for Wisconsin to have made one of the very short list of American beers that's drinkable should be considered a plus.
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  2. I'm an Australian who went to college in America (late 80s), I did engineering but a bunch of my frat brothers were pre-law and we used to discuss things like the Bill of Rights, because Australia (like many countries) doesn't have one. Its all covered in our laws and legislation. I'd studied Orwell (Animal Farm & 1984) in high school and I used to argue the ANY NATION could fall into a totalitarian dictatorship if it wasn't careful. My frat brothers were adamant that it could NEVER happen in America. They assured me that it was impossible BECAUSE the Constitution would NOT ALLOW FOR IT. I forget all those details but basically the US Constitution has "checks and balances" that act as redundant safety functions (sorry I'm an engineer). I suspect that nobody can believe that these people actually tried to get around all of those "safety functions" built into the constitution. I've heard a few (very few) people comment to the effect "thank goodness the constitution did work as intended or America would be a dictatorship." I'd be interested in your thoughts.
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  3. Actually there was a time - they guy in charge at the time got in trouble because he believed slavery was wrong. His name was Lincoln.
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  4.  @guacamole7493  You must be a millennial. Its called knowing about history DK-HED
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