Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Thom Hartmann Program" channel.

  1.  @L98fiero  Yes ask the Iranians, Guatemalans, Chileans, Indonesians and a few others what its like to elect a government they US does not approve of. When I was in college in America (late 80s) the New Zealanders put a complete ban on nuclear vessels. NOT just nuclear armed but also nuclear powered. America tore up the ANZUS treaty over it and Americans went nuts. People actually came up to me all aggravated and upset that New Zealand would dare tell America anything. When I mean aggravated they were going nuts. Their brains shorted out and blew fuses. They could not handle the concept that ANYONE would tell them something like the New Zealanders did. When I told people "Its their country, they are allowed to chose for themselves." Americans went bonkers, like genuinely bonkers and a few times I was scared it was going to get violent. There's actually a problem with BOTH sides of American politics (the liberals and realists) where its hardwired into both that with foreign policy America has the superior system and others must acknowledge and accept America's ideological superiority. I recently saw a 2017 lecture by John Mearsheimer - U. Chicago REALIST professor and one of the fathers of the neo-cons. He explained how the American LIBERALS can't help themselves interfering in other countries they feel aren't giving their citizens an acceptable liberal democratic system. He was 100% right about the American liberals but totally avoided that his side "the realists" who are almost hyper Machiavellians. They'll interfere with any country that has resources they want and do it by what ever means are effective. America is unlike almost every other nation. They DON'T have a left and right like the rest of us have. They have 2 Right wing variants that are like the 2 sides of a coin. They are also identical in most ways accept for how they exercise power. One side believes every voice should have its chance to be heard and the other side believes their voice is the only one that should be speaking. And they both agree that America has the right to interfere in other countries.
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  2. Trump tore up NAFTA and other treaties and agreements while Putin tore up Budapest. The lesson is DON'T trust superpowers and especially don't trust them when they have narcissistic maniacs in charge. They will do whatever they want, whenever they want, however they want and not give a damn about the rest of us. In the end the rest of us are just pawns for them to sacrifice in their games.
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  3.  @markfeland2285  Really I heard from this guy that Mississippi was the most corruption free state in the world. He was this guy about 6'2" with a beard, mid 50s and going a bit grey. Said his name was Brett something and was wearing a Packers shirt.
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  4.  @walkertongdee  How and Why? Common don't just make the claim tell everyone WHY and HOW he's what you claim?
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  5. HEY THOM: you are going to have to do a major retraction and apologise. AT 6:40 It was Jared Kushner NOT Hunter Biden who got the $2 Billion form the Saudis and got several hundred million from Qatar to bail out his family's business. The case with Hunter Biden is about his time in Ukraine and his deals with China. They might be sleazy but they weren't as abd as what Kushner has done.
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  6. THIS DIDN'T AGE WELL. Pomerantz resigned and Trump was never charged or indicted or anything else.
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  7. This clown who called in has the same crap argument that we hear all around the world and its the same stupid shit from the same selfish clowns everywhere.
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  8. @Just Be Crazy as it sounds that's really good analogy to the stupidity that's gone on. Well done.
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  9. That's a really good point, that goes a lot further than just the Fed. And the same can be asked of almost any country, it just might NOT be as "in your face" obvious as America.
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  10. To all of Thom's watchers. Trump endorsed Kari Lake whos running for governor of Arizona had a train wreck interview with Australian 60 Minutes that was broadcast free to air only hours ago. Before she stormed out she abused the reporter and gravely insulted Australia. FYI - I am Australian, I went to college in America and this might blow up. This wasn't some silly rant by some clown on YouTube this was a Trump endorsed candidate going off the rails. Don't forget Australia, Britain Canada and others just spent most of the last 20 years supporting America in Afghanistan and Iraq. It wasn't popular anywhere, but we stood by America. I was in Canada for work when Trump tore up NAFTA and hit them with tariffs. How do you all think this makes us feel about America? We are all now asking if there is anyway we can believe that America will be a reliable trading or security partner going forward.
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  11. That's because America's (and by extension the rest of the Western World's) entire economic model was designed by the father of "Greed is good" Milton Freidman. Make no mistake Freidman was incredibly intelligent, but just like Hannibal Lecter or a James Bond Super villain he was also insane. Go look up some of Thom's videos on him.
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  12. HEY THOM: Here in Australia the program Planet America reported this week that according to stats in 2017 there were over 112,000 transactions that were DENIED because people had made "mistakes" on the forms to buy a gun. Only 12 times were people charged with a crime like Hunter Biden is now charged.
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  13. BECAUSE THERE IS NO LIMIT TO GOP HYPOCRISY!!!!! If they win and retain power then ANYTHING is acceptable.
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  14.  @sr2291  Never said she didn't but has she actually passed the bar? That's one of the other things that's been pointed out. There's sitting judges who have NOT passed the bar that might have been to law school and got their JD. That's why they are referred to as NOT qualified instead of UNqualified.
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  15. American Libertarian ideology 101: "I demand the liberty to strip others of their liberties." This is the amazing thing about the American Libertarian mindset. They are 1,000,000% of the view that "Nobody, NOT the Government, NOT the teachers, NOT the police, NOT science, NOT anyone with actual expertise and especially NOT the voters has the right to tell me what I can and can't do, BUT as sure as the sun comes up I'm going to FORCE my views, my standards and my rules on everyone else."
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  16. To ALL I was checking something the other day. Just after Trump lost the 2020 election he ordered/allowed the execution of 3 Federal prisoners. It was very unusual because it was the first time in over 140 years a president had ordered or allowed anyone during the Lame Duck period. There is no law it just became tradition to leave it to the incoming President. What I found were 2 extraordinary facts. 1) After the riots of January 6th Trump had or allowed 3 more executions on January 13, 14 and 16 of 2021. yes in the post January 6th turmoil when there was no effective government 3 people were actually executed and we KNOW trump had the 3 in November and December killed because he told everyone he did it. 2) Between July 14, 2021 and September 24, 2021 Trump had or allowed 7 executions to take place. There is no doubt that some of those crimes were horrendous and justice might well be served by executing those perpetrators. Since the resumption of executions in 1976 the US Federal Government has only executed 16 people. Mostly its done by the states. Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Senior, Clinton, Obama and Biden COMBINED had NOBODY executed. Bush Junior executed 3, one of whom was Timothy McVeigh the Oklahoma Bomber. Those 3 happened in June 2001, June 2001 and March 2003 so were nowhere near the election campaign for 2004. Trump did not execute anyone until July 2020 when the campaign was underway. In fact 1 happened during the GOP convention on August 26th and another the day after the convention on August 28th. The timing is bizarre and leads to only one conclusion - Donald Trump had 7 people executed to help win the election as his campaign faltered over his mishandling of COVID, and when that failed he lashed out and had 6 more people killed. WHY NOBODY IN THE MEDIA IS POINTING THIS OUT IS A MYSTERY.
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  17. I understand this guys point of view because he's African American but he is completely IGNORANT of what White Supremacy actually is. Its NOT the be all and end all of every problem. Its fundamentally a racial superiority issue that EVERY tribe and culture has some version of. Irrespective of if you take a look at ancient or modern history we see the same thing again and again and we have so many examples that HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH WHITE PEOPLE. Thom's example of Korea is just one example of the entire Asian continent. Dig a little and you will find examples of this racial superiority in all of them. At one time or another they have all used some form of racial superiority to to do great harm to each other and there was not a WHITE PERSON ANYWHERE. FYI - I'm Australian and yes we have a serious issue with White Supremacists but we also have some other racial issues that HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH WHITE PEOPLE. We have sizeable communities of Pakistanis and Indians and others form the sub-continent and you have to be damn careful what you say around them. Most of them are fine but like every culture there are those few who have this racial superiority trait and they can fly off the handle. Another 2 groups we have to be very careful with are Vietnamese and Cambodians. There's several 1,000 years of conflict there and there is NOT A WHITE PERSON INVOLVED. This guys claim that the African conflicts are 100% the fault of White People is just nonsense. There are tribal conflicts going back 1,000s of years just as there is everywhere else. I can understand his point of view being African American but he's simply WRONG.
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  18. HEY THOM - the only person who cost Hilary Clinton the 2016 election WAS HILARY CLINTON. As numerous people have pointed out: 1) She was NOT well liked and aggravated as many people as she brought on board; 2) She was a neoliberal whose husband had signed NAFTA into existence causing many factories to close and jobs to be lost. 3) Despite all the claims of broad popular policies the only one that was ever mentioned was "First Woman President." 4) WORST OF ALL - She flipped off the people of Michigan and announced she'd instead do fundraisers with the New York Elite who were the people making the decisions that closed factories and destroyed towns all across the Rust Belt. She then LOST Michigan(16), Ohio(18) and Pennsylvania(20) a total of 54 EC votes which Obama had won in 2012. had she won those 54 votes she would have beaten Trump 281 to 250.
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  19. Actually some of them like Disney because it reinforces their fantasies. Some of them like the NFL because its shows that black people are only good for certain roles in society. The do hate those NFL players, like Colin Kaepernick, who buck that fantasy. Some of them like targets especially when those targets are in the shape of a deer. Some of them like certain parks especially the ones they can shoot stuff.
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  20.  @taniagordon2589  I'm an engineer and back in college I did a sociology class as an option on "technology in society" and one of our case studies was the M16 the military version of the AR15 and yes there are some differences. The bullet dynamics of the AR15 were specifically designed for maximum damage to a human body. Its not just the shape and size of the bullet but how it spins and tumbles. Don't be shocked it was designed for war and the task in war is to kill the enemy. Its the result of several thousand years of warfare experience and strategy. The idea that AR15s (and similar) belong anywhere but a battlefield is utter nonsense.
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  21.  @StacyWorth  SHIT4BRAINS lets get it right. Hillsdale WAS (past tense) a fine college. Now its an indoctrination centre pumping out mindless meme pumping drones. And lets put it correctly. The American Far Right Believes in THEIR freedom it does not believe in the freedom of other people except in the context of "You are free to choose what we tell you to choose." Don't talk about freedom when your people just stripped millions of American women of their freedom and with it everyone's freedom to keep their medical records private. Yes DlCKHEAD I know exactly what the American people just lost. Roe V Wade was first decided on the basic right of privacy between a patient and their doctor. Thanks to you and your people the US Government, any State Government or any federal or state agency of those governments can now access your medical records. Yes Stacy if any part of the US government wanted to check the records of Stacy Worth Huntsman to see what her mental health is or has been or if she ever had an abortion then YOU Stacy Worth Huntsman can't stop them because your people took that protection away from you. Who's the ignorant one?
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  22.  @StacyWorth  Unfortunately this is where self righteous hypocritical psychopaths like you are dead wrong. And before you start the self righteous Christianity barrage DON'T. Jesus told his people to preach the Good News to the world. HE DID NOT GIVE ANYONE THE RIGHT TO FORCE THEMSELVES ON ANYONE. That's before we get to the insane hypocrisy of people like you who demand people give birth and at the same time demand those children are not given an education or health care before you send them of to kill or be killed in the WARS you people start.
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  23.  @StacyWorth  YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I DO AND DON'T BELIEVE and yes I am screaming that back at your foul and disgusting arrogance. Go read Matthew 7 and this time put aside your arrogance and actually listen to what Jesus said about people with YOUR ATTITUDE.
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  24. If I have rage its because of ARROGANT SELFRIGHTEOUS PIECES OF DISGUSTING GARBAGE LIKE YOU
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  25.  @StacyWorth  And by the way when you do bother to look at Matthew 7 pay particular attention to verses 15 through 23 because its all about YOU and people like YOU.
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  26.  @StacyWorth  And when you get tired of denying that Jesus is speaking about YOU and people like YOU in Matthew 7 you can look up all the times he spoke to the Pharisees BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE.
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  27.  @StacyWorth  YOU ARE NOT A CHRISTIAN YOU ARE A PHARISEE Its the self-righteous arrogance and the way you attack people that gives you away.
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  28.  @StacyWorth  I NEVER SAID IT WAS You claim murder is wrong but you will happily send those children to war. You will happily execute some of them whether they are innocent or not. This is the problem with self righteous people YOU NEVER LISTEN. You people wont even listen to Jesus. He never forced his teachings on others. He used reason and common sense. He actually cared about people and their welfare. You need to start reading your bible instead of bashing people with it.
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  29.  @StacyWorth  Ans lets be crystal clear I NEVER SAID I SUPPORTED ABORTION OR KILLING BABIES That's your assumption.
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  30.  @StacyWorth  YOU REALLY HAVE LOST IT HAVEN'T YOU. Look at what you just wrote. You're now accusing me of WHAT YOU DO. JUST GO AWAY and take your pills.
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  31. If you do bother to pick up a Bible anytime soon, the try Matthew 7:21-23 That's Jesus and he's talking about PEOPLE LIKE YOU.
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  32.  @StacyWorth  I suspect from your delusional memes that you are actually software bot. ITS THAT OR YOU ARE PSYCHOTIC. You are certainly NOT a Christian. I do not consider evangelical fanatics like you who think they have the delusional right to FORCE themselves on others to be Christian.
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  33.  @StacyWorth  Jesus was never smug, snide, rude or forced himself on others. Your entire rant is over the fact you can't handle having your precious cesspool of radical indoctrination called out for being the dump that it is.
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  34.  @StacyWorth  And for the record I am not backing out of any of my ORIGINAL STANCE. HIllsdale is a SHlT school that teaches radical fundamentalism. Forcing your beliefs on anyone is WRONG. The World would be a much better place without disgusting sanctimonious hypocrites LIKE YOU.
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  35.  @StacyWorth  If you don't take advice from strangers then WHY ARE YOU HANDING IT OUT.
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  36.  @StacyWorth  You're not discussing IMPORTANT IDEAS YOU are being an rude disgusting self righteous FANATIC. You rant about radicalised leftists - well what about you and your precious Hillsdale? Its your blind hypocrisy that generates hatred. If you think me such a bad person then F⋃CK OFF and STOP HARASSING ME.
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  37.  @StacyWorth  If people get angry at your behavior smart people STOP and think WHY IS THAT PERSON ANGRY AT ME? But then you are too self righteous to be self reflective.
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  38.  @StacyWorth  People HATE self righteousness and you have one of the WORST cases I have ever seen.
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  39.  @StacyWorth  AND SO WE ARE CRYSTAL CLEAR Nobody has ever really rejected the Bible or Jesus, but MILLIONS of people have rejected people LIKE YOU. Now go see your doctor and get that tumour removed.
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  40.  @jimstoner6884  I know Australia is responsible for Murdoch, we tried warning the Brits and America what he was like and NONE OF YOU LISTENED. And Yes Australia is currently run by a conservative coalition at the moment. I'm glad you know that because on another thread on this page we were just described as radical communists. That's separate from what Kari Lake just ranted and raged about. I just checked the interview isn't on YouTube yet, but I expect it will be shortly. Kari Lake went bonkers and didn't realise the cameras were still on. We are actually kindred sprits here. I have been trying to tell Americans for months that all this political BS isn't an American thing. Its going on everywhere. The difference is that America is deeper down the hole than the rest of us. We even have our own version of Trump here. He's a billionaire mining magnate named Clive Palmer. His campaign so far has been straight out of the Trump play book. Its all based around fear and isolating people from reality. Dude we are on the same side here. Trump getting back in is a huge issue for us. If he takes America further down the hole that has both huge security and economic implications. Because of globalization, which America shoved down our throats by the way, all of our economies are interlinked. UNDERSTAND THIS - IF AMERICA FALLS WE ALL FALL.
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  41. IMAGINE what the NRA and other gun advocacy groups would say if the police were handing out the details of what sorts of guns various people had? IMAGINE what the libertarians would say if the Electoral commission started handing out the details of what money various PACs and Super PACs were getting and who they got it from??
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  42. Ukraine isn't actually getting money its getting hardware and most of the hardware is surplus or becoming outdated. Basically America is emptying its warehouses and getting rid of the stockpiles. That means those stockpiles will have to be replaced. That means some very juicy contracts for American military manufacturers. So when Biden sends a $billion to Ukraine it actually means a $billion contract for a supplier. The money is NOT leaving America at all.
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  43. The better question is why have NONE of them ever been held accountable. This is why Donald Trump was laughed at when he spoke at the UN. America has become a sad joke. Americans constantly talk about the "rules based order" and howl that Putin is a war Criminal and needs to be locked up and then lets people like Elliot Abrams, Henry Kissinger, John Bolton and others walk around free. One of the most notorious of these people is John Yoo who was Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel and wrote the infamous "torture" memos that allowed water boarding and the other "enhance interrogation" methods and that lead to the atrocities at Abu Ghraib and Bagram AFB. On Wikipedia it says "A report by the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility stated that Yoo's justification of waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation methods" constituted "intentional professional misconduct" and recommended that Yoo be referred to his state bar association for possible disciplinary proceedings." But that was overruled in 2010 by Senior Justice Department lawyer David Margolis. John Yoo now serves as the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. America doesn't hold people accountable it PROMOTES THEM.
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  44.  @WEREFEAT003  In what way is that greedy psychopath Hilary Clinton a Marxist??? If your going to slander that cow then use your words properly. Besides most of those clowns who preached Marxism and Leninism have been proven to BE WRONG in so many ways that to take anything they said (or still say) without clarification to be idiotic. Your also forgetting how people twist things to mean whatever they like. In a few ways Marx wasn't that different to Adam Smith in that he thought the elite of his day who were mercantilists were out of control much they way we see our current oligarchs as out of control.
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  45. YEAH THERE IS A GROUP MANIPULATING THE GOVERNMENT They are called billionaire donors like Charles Koch, Robert Mercer, Rupert Murdoch, etc. and they operate via their Think Tanks like the Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation and CATO Institute.
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  46. When they listed the top 25 in congress for insider trading the top 4 were GOP *BUT there were more Dems on the list than GOP. Nancy Pelosi was the top Dem at #5. The corruption problem in Washington isn't Donald Trump, its Donald Trump PLUS the GOP and PLUS the Dems.
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  47. Oh, please don't go there.
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  48. The moment you mention any links to people like Charles Koch and the CATO Institute then you know its a nasty as all hell fascist entity with bad intentions. Add in people like the Mercers, DeVos family, Peter Theil (an admitted anarcho-capitalist) and you know there's nothing good about any of this stuff.
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  49. The most ridiculous part of the entire "woke" discussion is that up until a few years ago it woke had NOTHING TO DO with LBGT rights or anything on the political Left EXCEPT for the economic situation of African Americans. This is where people on the Left repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot and fail to get things done in meaningful ways. 1) They grab a hold of a cause; AND THEN 2) Hijack the public discussion with a convenient tag, like woke; AND THEN 3) Make it the center piece of EVERYTHING they see wrong with the world; AND THEN The Right come in with their culture war BS and bash the hell out of everything turning it into a gigantic ugly shitfest.
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  50. Trump hates ANYONE who gets noticed at his expense. He's a pure narcissistic sociopath with compulsion issues. You don't even need to be a psychologist to see him for what he is. He can't handle not being the centre of attention or handle rejection and cares so little for other people he will do anything to be the center of attention and be incredibly destructive towards anyone who rejects him.
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