Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "The Hill" channel.

  1. Yeah I hated my high school teachers who made me study Orwell. We did both Animal Farm and 1984. It was difficult and borderline a cruel thing to do to teenagers. Then Trump came along and justified it. Here's some more quotes I have collected in recent months. Enjoy “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980. And few more: "When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent." ― Isaac Asimov “Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.” ― Rod Sterling in his introduction to the Twilight episode “The Obsolete Man” originally aired on June 2, 1961 on CBS. “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” ― Voltaire “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” ― Mark Twain “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche “I think it would be very, very, I think we’d have a very, very solid, we would continue what we’re doing, we’d solidify what we’ve done, and we have other things on our plate that we want to get done” ― Donald Trump answering the NY Times on his 2nd term agenda. August 2020. And a classic I recently re-discovered. “Nobody can get the truth out of me because even I don’t know what it is. I keep myself in a state of utter confusion.” ― Colonel Flagg of the CIA From the TV Show MASH sometime in the 1970s.
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  2. The Murdochs have done this for generations. Ghislaine Maxwell's father was a competitor of Murdoch and she was able to keep her name (and Jeffery Epstein's) out of the media for decades. Go back and look at the Hearst family and others. Big media has always meant big power. SO WHAT'S NEW IN THIS???????????? N-O-T-H-I-N-G
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  3. I have seen Saagar do some shit stories these last few months almost to the point cancelling my subscription. But this is his best by far, this is priceless. (edit) It had everything but a references to Oceans 11, 12, & 13, Rounders and the Italian Job.
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  4. Sorry but you're wrong -> it isn’t the powerful people Epstein KNEW, it’s what Epstein KNEW about powerful people. Whatever it was he KNEW somebody didn't want us to know what it was. My bet whatever "insurance policy" he had in place as in - "if an accident happens then information gets released" it got compromised. The real question is who has it now and what are they doing with it.
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  5. Mark Blyth has repeatedly asked the question about CNNs future considering their business model was simply "Trump Bad." When your business is so 1 dimensional you get hammered when that 1 dimension goes away. That's not a media thing that's goes to any business and quite a few major cities (like Detroit with cars) and more than a few countries.
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  6.  @knackyknack  I kind of know that having studied both. What most people really don't get is that when any of these political "isms" go too far the concepts of left and right don't matter as much. If your the person being shot by the henchman of a dictator it doesn't really matter if its an AK47 made in a leftist workers nightmare or if its an AR15 made in a Western capitalist factory. You're still getting shot and if the bullet hits a vital organ you're going to die. Go have a look at major environmental disasters and you will find out pretty quickly that the greed and stupidity of the Western Capitalists is equaled by the greed and stupidity of the Leftist/Communist/Socialist/Marxist world. You can look at the insanity of the Californian Aquifer or the insanity of the Aral Sea or Yong Ding or 3 Gorges and its the same brainless stupidity again and again. Once any society lets its "ism" of the leash its almost inevitable that like letting a rabid pit bull lose - you'll get bit.
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  7.  @knackyknack  I'm actually an Australian who went to college in America (U. Illinois) on a sports scholarship. I really love America, mainly because I got to see Americans at their best. It simply infuriates me to see what the Dems and Repubs have done. Its not one or the other ITS BOTH. The proof in that is that Trump had Steve Mnuchin (of Goldman Sachs fame) and Biden just hired 2 more Goldman Sachs plus a Blackrock and a McKinsey. WTF Where is the difference other than the raging twitter storms we wont be getting. that's the same Goldman Sachs who were caught red handed selling dud financial packages during the GFC. SO how the F are any of them being trusted to run America's finances. McKinsey have made billions in consulting fees sending jobs to Mexico, China and anywhere else there were no unions and cheap labor. Your right the issues go back way further than Trump. He's more like the inevitable conclusion of decades of abuse by the elite. I've watched a lot of Mark Blyth this last year and he has as good of a handle on this stuff as anyone. He's also been pointing out that ITS NOT JUST AN AMERICAN PROBLEM. All the stuff I first recognized 30 years ago I have watched Australia slowly adopt and go down a similar path. Just as America has a group of bankers running Wall St and the Treasury, we have similar and from what I know so does Britain and Europe.
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  8.  @lynnetitus648  I'm actually Australian and America right now is our entertainment. It used to be American Shows now its just America. I actually went to college in the states (U. Illinois) so I know Ohio has the excuse that its state mascot is a NUT, but what excuse do the rest of you have? Seriously you have people using Robinhood accounts to take money form the rich? 🤔🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️ We have a show in Australia called Planet America its a half serious news satire program, because its almost as if you're all from another planet. I have actually seen Americans at their very best. When I was at Illinois in the late 80s there were some boys doing profound shit that changed the world as we know it. The web browser like the one you're on right now was first developed when I was there. We had this POS system called Plato and a couple of boys down the street said lets make it usable like an Apple Mac with a GUI and they developed Mosaic and founded Netscape. At least when we watched Happy Days, The Brady Bunch, Friends, Seinfeld, Family Ties and all the others we new there was a fair bit of Hollywood BS about it. But not even the most drugged up Hollywood B-Grade whack job could dream up this shit. Florida, one of the WORST affected places for COVID on the planet just offered Japan to hold the Olympics. Really WTF (in giant neon lights) are they thinking. What country is going to send their best and finest to Florida instead of Tokyo. 🤚🤪✋
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  9. You forgot Think Tank which means Corporate or Elitist PR & Lobbying Machine.
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  10. As an Australian who was working in Canada when Trump tore up NAFTA and imposed tariffs on Canada I can vouch for that. Canadians are incredibly polite except when they're playing hockey or talking about Trump. I bet that anger is still there and just as fresh.
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  11. You forgot to mention that no matter who is in the White house Goldman Sachs always seems to have their people in there. They went from being in the middle of the GFC and ripping off everyone to running the US Treasury. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  12. As an Australian who was working in Canada when Trump tore up NAFTA and imposed tariffs on Canada I can vouch for that. Canadians are incredibly polite except when they're playing hockey or talking about Trump. I bet that anger is still there and just as fresh.
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  13.  @Wolfsheim23  I'm Australian but went to college in America. I did engineering but a bunch of my frat brothers were pre-law and loved arguing the amendments with me because I came form a different background with different views. The 1st and free speech around the world is a hot topic and has been long before social media. The question is one of "where do you draw the line and make someone accountable for what they say" For Americans there is that question that most never have to ask. And that is WHY was it so important that free speech was the 1st. Why wasn't a fair trial the 1st or anything else. The answer is actually in American history which almost no other modern country has. Americans had to fight for their independence and one thing the British officers did to the colonials was try and shut them up. If they spoke out against an injustice the British officers used Sedition and Treason laws and simply hanged people. The film last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day Lewis has a good example of it. Because of the American Revolution Australia, Canada and others never had to fight for independence and we never had to deal with that and we never really have. Most Australians don't know that we actually have much tighter restrictions on what we can say. We have many freedoms but they are not in our constitution as a basic right like America does. I actually think the US Constitution is one of the great achievements of human history. But it has 1 major flaw. The founding fathers never considered or predicted that people like Mitch McConnell would undermine 1 of the basic functions (checks and balances). They never expected groups like the Federalist Society would seek to influence and control ALL Federal Court appointees. The problem now is that America has all these "special interest groups" who twist the gift the founding fathers left to suit what they want without caring about consequences to others. Its basic selfishness mostly.
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  14. Who ever this clown is that's claiming there's admiration for Hilary is of his nut. Was he not paying attention when she was still blaming Bernie Sanders 4 years after losing to Trump? Its just staggering how delusional these "political strategists" can be. No matter what's obvious and clear they will simply spew idiotic garbage. And they all do it. No matter what side of politics or which country these people just say stuff they expect us to believe and its garbage.
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  15. I just wonder if its a getting to the point where its not a matter of IF but WHEN somebody puts a piece of metal into Charles Koch's skull l at high velocity. If you've seen any of the excerpts from his interviews (like the recent Axios one), he's a monster. He genuinely believes that any politician who he helped financially should do what he wants and they are not allowed to use their conscious or morals or ethics.
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  16. When he is dragged from his home and hung form the nearest tree by a mob of angry peasants no one should be surprised. Charles the 1st of England got his head chopped off with an axe as the crowds cheered.. Louis the 16th of France got his head chopped off in a guillotine as the crowds cheered. The Csar Of Russian and all his family got bullets. The Ceausescu's of Romania got bullets Saddam Hussein and his cronies got their necks stretched and we all saw the footage of the guards cheering. It does not matter how much money or power you have if you push it too far the peasants revolt. Nothing should scare us more than a peasant revolt because peasant revolts get nasty and brutal and destructive.
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  17. Yeah - the hypocrisy of the right is wearing very thin across the entire world. They are so like that kid in grade school who liked to annoy the quiet kid and any time the quiet kid reacted they jumped with glee. Then one day the quiet kid belted them when they had had enough and the annoying little smart ass cried and squealed how bad they were treated. Right Wingers - what ever they say and what ever they do is just fine and fair so long as they win. If anyone else wins it was only because they cheated.
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  18.  @EverettBurger  well put 👏👏👏
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  19. You are sadly right. Just have a look at the toxic ignorance of ZombieNinja Ted Smith who's comment (that was right below this one) is just a stupid childish finger point. BUT Sadly this is not an American thing. I'm Australian and our politicians are no better and their followers are no better. They don't take it as far as Americans do, and we aren't YET as toxic, but we are getting their. Don't forget Rupert Murdoch was born bred and raised in Australia. Before he arrived in America he had done the same in Britain and Europe. He has taken his media lead poison to the rest of the world. Plus as he has done it he's dragged many other competing services into the same toxic swamp. The documentary "Outfoxed" warned about that
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  20. As an Australian who was working in Canada when Trump tore up NAFTA and imposed tariffs on Canada I can tell you they are NOT INTERESTED. Canadians are incredibly polite except when they're playing hockey or talking about Trump. I bet that anger is still there and just as fresh.
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  21. Why is anybody surprised? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ Go back to the very foundation of the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover and how he operated it. It was an internal spy agency that was out of control for decades.
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  22. Matteo he's another good quote for you: “The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the world. No first world country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent” ― Gore Vidal
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  23.  @annamae6021  I doubt the 15 minute thing. She's NOT in Gitmo. But I think you are right she wont talk unless she gets the deal of all deals. The names she could name and dates, girls and places she could confirm would be staggering. Way too many powerful people don't want her talking, that's one thing we all know.
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  24. Actually that's kind of idiotic. Panicked people are not easy to control, calm people are. I truly do hope for your sake and Saagras sake that you are both right. Because on 30 March 2020 the American COVID count was 4132 dead and exactly 1 year later the number is 564,138 dead. This time last year many people were telling people like Dr. Fauci to shut up just as Sagaar was just saying. According to Saggar and many others in the media EVERYTHING the CDC, Dr. Fauci and other experts have done these last 12 months was wrong. If there is one thing that contributed to those 560,008 who died in the last 365 days, more than anything else its been people NOT listening to experts.
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  25. Well said in that you used the word parties (plural) not party (singular) because the same schism is on the cards for the Dems who have screwed the left side of American politics so many time that they will collapse as well. Here's 2 FACTS that will hurt the Dems. 1: Despite all evidence that Goldman Sachs is a disease that infects American economics. They were in the middle of the GFC where it was disclosed they defrauded customers on an industrial scale. Then Trump hired GS goon Steve Mnuchin as Secretary of the Treasury and just recently Biden hired 2 more GS goons plus a Blackrock and a McKinsey. What message does that tell the world -> Wall St. will do what it wants and no election can change that. 2: Despite all the promises made for $2000 stimulus checks to gain those 2 seats in Georgia and gain control of the Senate Biden has already started to voice that down to $1400. Even before he was took the oath he proved his word was worthless. And those are before we get to the subject of how they cheated Progressives in 2016 and 2020 and simply demanded they tow the line and vote blue.
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  26.  @virtuerse  I'm actually Australian, but went to college in America. I did engineering but a bunch of my frat brothers were pre-law and gave me an interesting education in the US Constitution. We used to argue endlessly over what system was better. 30 years later I am convinced they were right and that's not easy to admit. I honestly believe the the US Constitution is one of the greatest achievements in human history and Donald Trump just proved it. Every attack he made, every lie he told and every attempt to undermine it and HE STILL LOST - the system might be battered and bruised but it survived. BUT (and here is the real issue) America is not yet out of trouble. In engineering we do a thing called Root Cause Analysis (RCA). Its where we don't jus accept something failed but work out what was the thing started the process off that eventually lead to the failure. In the simplest way America right now has 2 huge problems - the money in politics and a dysfunctional congress. The Wall St issue is well known, but the dysfunction of congress is way more subtle. As an outsider (with some knowledge) the real problem is Mitch McConnell. Wall St. is obvious there's too much money on politics and that's not an American thing that's rampant across the Western World, its just America has (like COVID) got it worse than the rest of us. McConnell is the bigger problem. My frat brothers argued that America could never be undermined or be taken over by a dictator because of the system of checks and balances." The Senate is what it is with 2 from each state for the very reason *its not there for policy. Its there to assure every state that they have equal rights and that nobody can get to big that they lord it over the rest. But neither my frat brothers or the founding fathers anticipated Mitch McConnell. He has flipped the Senate from a body that checks the Presidents Appointments are sound and capable people, that checks the House have written sound and fair laws and perverted it into his own power palace where he dictates policy. Lets not forget how Mitch stifled the Impeachment trial or how he pushed through Amy Barrett. Those people appointed to the FCC, EPA, Education and other places were all approved of by McConnell. But most of all lets not ignore that the SCOTUS he stacked gave America "Citizens United" that basically let Wall St. have free reign over American politics. Its called "Root Cause Analysis" and it leads straight back to Mitch McConnell and the power structure around him. Worse what he has done stacking the courts can't be easily undone. Just know one thing - the American people do have friends in the world and we do want to see you get back on you feet. Those of us with brains realise that we can't deal with many of the issues we face without America functioning as a responsible nation.
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  27.  @theprimevegan5410  You forgot to add that the documentary "Oufoxed" should become compulsory viewing for everyone who wants to have an understanding of how America got to this point.
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  28. What do you mean by "our government?" I'm Australian - do you think we are any different? I was working in Canada a couple of years ago. When it came to politics it was like living in Australia only with snow! 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ Go watch DW or BBC and its the same everywhere across western democratic societies.
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  29.  @simonfarre4907  There's no Western Government that's not bent and twisted in some way. Its just way more obvious in some countries than others. The Nordic countries seem to have it less than many others. We are certainly not as bad as many but not as good as others. I think New Zealand by virtue of its size is less corrupted than us, but it still has issues. Canada and Australia are very close in population size, both are resource rich and both being exploited by locals and foreigners. The nest few years will be very interesting.
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  30. Its the fundamental problem with western politics these days. Its all about screaming and yelling at the other side. Its got NOTHING to do with getting ANYTHING useful done. All these bad faith actors (from all sides and corners of the politics) and trying to win political points in the next news cycle. Its why no country has even begun to truly address our major issues of wealth disparity, climate change, food security, water security,.............
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  31. Professor Mark Blyth from Brown U. (who I wish Rising would have on) has several times commented that CNNs business model has been "Trump Bad." They aren't alone in that. What do they have now he's gone? These people milked the Trump Presidency for 4 years, just as bad as Fox, OAN & Newsmax did.
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  32. Before Ivanka runs for anything she will have to fend of all the accusations of corruption and quite possibly criminal charges.
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  33. Well actually it doesn't matter if you believe in science or religion - We are not alone in the universe. According to science we now know that almost every star has planets and that many of those are in the habitable zone and that life exists. What form its in is the question. On the other hand every religion has spirits, angels, demons and other non-human beings. Either way we aren't alone and what we should be asking is: Where are they and can they help us with the mess we are in?
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  34. 1 and 59. Even the New York Jets are feeling good about themselves with those numbers.
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  35. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980. And few more: "When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent." ― Isaac Asimov “Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.” ― Rod Sterling in his introduction to the Twilight episode “The Obsolete Man” originally aired on June 2, 1961 on CBS. “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” ― Voltaire “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” ― Mark Twain “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche “I think it would be very, very, I think we’d have a very, very solid, we would continue what we’re doing, we’d solidify what we’ve done, and we have other things on our plate that we want to get done” ― Donald Trump answering the NY Times on his 2nd term agenda. August 2020. And a classic I recently re-discovered. “Nobody can get the truth out of me because even I don’t know what it is. I keep myself in a state of utter confusion.” ― Colonel Flagg of the CIA From the TV Show MASH sometime in the 1970s.
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  36. You con only examine something if it exists to be examined. Lindsay Grahams morals are like the square root of -1 an imaginary number.
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  37. You're right that's priceless and one to keep in the file of 2020/2021 quotes.
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  38. He's dead - that's the only thing we know for sure and probably will be the only thing we will EVER KNOW FOR SURE. Clinton partied with him, Trump partied with him, and a boat load of other powerful people partied with him. None of them want you, me or anyone else to really know what happened and they have the power to keep it that way. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  39.  @davidcobble2050  That would be a convenience no one would buy. The fact is she has names and dates and places in her head that some very very powerful people do NOT want heard by anyone e-v-e-r.
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  40. Yeah we sacked our coaching staff and BEFORE THEY LEFT they sold the star quarterback, the All Pro running back, the All American linebacker and others to other teams. The offensive and defensive coordinators took our playbooks including the signal systems and sold them on the open market. Meanwhile the office staff did a dodgy deal with all the merchandise while the CEO signed the worst stadium deal E-V-E-R!!!! We now have no players, a shite stadium deal, can't make anything from merchandise and the first game is next week. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  41. Can we all simply agree that Charles Koch is a $100Billion Dollar monster. There's that wonderful philosophical hypothetical - If you could travel back in time who would you kill or eliminate for the good of humanity. Charles Koch might not be at the top of the list but he's on the list. Go watch the Axios interview where he claims that politicians he helped elect should do what he wants ALL THE TIME. For anyone doing psychology or even a class in psychology its an interesting case study. 🧏‍♂️🧏‍♀️ Maybe the next Godzilla movie should be - Godzilla V Koch, Battle of the Toxic Giants
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  42. Damn I just had my BULLSHIT-O-METER recalibrated and now its broke again.
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  43. You're absolutely right but lets not forget Jared & Ivanka made made over 100 times what he made AND they did it from the White House. WHAT HAS TO BE ADRESSED is how and why he got that job just the same as how and why Jared & Ivanka got their jobs.
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  44.  @washablejunk281  Actually Dominion doesn't need any evidence, the whole planet knows what Giuliani said. Giuliani made the comments and made them publicly and now he has to defend what he said. He now has to provide a basis for his claims and even if he provides evidence of the form "this person said" or "this person wrote/published" Giuliani stood up in public and repeated it and NEVER RECANTED ANYTHING. The real killer is that Giuliani NEVER repeated any of those claims in a court in front of a judge. Did you even listen? Go back and hear what the guy on the right said about 3rd party labs having all the source code and hardware after 20:30.
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  45. Yeah - I can just see all the right wing conspiracy clowns screaming about "Bill Gates trying track everyone with the microchips he's installed in the ID cards." What will be fun is when their brains get fried trying to resolve how it would stop lefties voting and allowing Bill Gates to track them.
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  46.  @joe.oneill  I hear that Ted Cruz just bought a new car with a special exhaust so that when he pulls up at the lights it goes: "whatabout.....whatabout.....whatabout.....whatabout.....whatabout.....whatabout.....whatabout.....whatabout.....whatabout.....whatabout....." Josh Hawley and others have their on order.
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  47.  Jack Strawb  That's arguably one of the great problems across the entire Western World - the lack of accountability of BOTH elected and unelected officials.
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  48. As an Australian who was working in Canada when Trump tore up NAFTA and imposed tariffs on Canada I can vouch for that. Canadians are incredibly polite except when they're playing hockey or talking about Trump. I bet that anger is still there and just as fresh.
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  49. And you wonder why Nancy "miss corporate" Pelosi kicked her off committees????
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  50.  @bjornyesterday2562  Despite the cynicism your pretty right on point with that. KP has been sidelined (taken off committees) by the corporate Dems. Its Pelosi and the others she should be screaming at as much as anybody.
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