Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Secular Talk" channel.

  1. To the West Virginian. I saw this vid recently and the panel has 2 University professors. 1 is a progressive political economist and the other teaches Marxism and BOTH have justified why certain demographics voted Trump. The link is to a specific point where Richard Wolff (the Marxist) uses West Virginia as an example of how the Dem Establishment has abandoned parts of America. Here's the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc&t=3165s I just want to know are they right? Is it a case that many people from places like West Virginia have been voting out of frustration that they have been ignored by the establishment?
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  2.  @meechisminners  Thanks for that. I think you're absolutely right it is complicated and there isn't any simple answer even when there are a number of common things. I'm Australian but went to college in America on a sports scholarship. The vast majority of my experience in America and with Americans since are all positive. There are exceptions but I can say that of Australians as well. I was in Canada working a few years ago and that was the same. I've worked with plenty of Brits, New Zealanders and South Africans and its all the same. But what I have seen in America these past 4 years (in fact last 20) is painful to watch. Its like watching a good friends tear their life apart. If there is one thing that does bother me its there isn't a lot of effort to understand WHY. America is an awesome country, but it has its issues (as we all do) and there are so few people asking WHY. Instead there are so many people just righting off entire slabs of the country as irredeemable. We have similar problems here with basically elitist snobs who think the rest of the country is beneath them and some so far beneath them it would better if we built a fence around them and never let them out. I think Biden will be a lot better in simply being more rational, but I worry he wont deal with some of the real issues because they are hard and they are difficult and to people around him solving those things won't win the next election. Thanks for the reply - Take Care & Stay Safe.
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  3. Do you know that when they first used the guillotine people complained that it took away from the spectacle AND SKILL of using an axe?
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  4. Actually go back and listen to some of his interviews where he's speaking about football. I checked to see if there were any noticeable signs of CTE (as in degradation). I saw an interview form about 6-7 years ago and the difference between then and now is staggering. His CTE issues are very serious and he should be in the care of people who know how to handle CTE patients. Certainly he should not be running for public office in any jurisdiction. The people who are pushing his candidacy should be outed for just how depraved they are.
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  5. Great point and there's another one and why I no longer listen to him on anything. For anyone who wants to go back and check it out. Sam Harris did a podcast AFTER the 7/10 attacks and went at length to describe that there was "No moral ambiguity!" regarding Hamas and he went right into the "death cult" explanation. That's fine as any reasonable person should agree with Sam's assessment that there was no moral ambiguity regarding what Hamas did. I want to know why Sam doesn't apply the same "moral ambiguity" analysis to Benjamin Netanyahu? Because we can argue about any of the stats about Gaza but one of them stands out and that's the now more than 16,000 children who have been killed. Among those children the ones who could have been school teachers, nurses, doctors, engineers, artists, mechanics, welders, plumbers, famers or any of 100s of other professions will now never fulfill whatever notions of a future they wanted or dreamed of. I'd like to see Sam put his "moral ambiguity" analysis to that and explain why those children needed to die.
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  6. Just was obvious was the number of questions and time he was given during the debates. The scary thing in this is if the establishment Dems don't wake up they are going to create the exact same conditions that got Trump elected in the first place. Honestly I have no idea what its going to take any of the political establishments anywhere in the western world to wake up that there are massive slabs of our populations in revolt against them. Brown U Professor Mark Blyth calls it Angrynomics and wrote a book with Eric Lonergan about it. I don't think Biden's team realise that they are on a knife edge of America falling into another civil war or a second revolution. A civil war will be way worse, but a revolution won't be good either. One thing I feel for certain is if Biden tries to simply wind the clock back to 2012 then it won't go well.
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  7. The best assessment of the pros & cons of Warren was by Mark Blyth in July 2019. He was one of the very few who predicted both Brexit and Trump 2016. During the Q&A after a lecture on Global Trumpism (which is totally worth spending time on) he was asked about Warren. The link is time stamped to the question on Warren. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4794s
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  8. I was wondering what to say and I would have to say something very similar. Another thread above included that they got taken by the propagands despite thinking they were immune to that, but if there is only one view you are hearing then that's the only thing you can believe. Its what political people rely on. Paraphrasing Orwell if you repeat something enough times you can make it the reality people believe. Look what Trump does, he kept repeating "Fake News" until he got people to actually distrust all the news services so much that now millions of people have almost no grasp of reality.
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  9. Its even simpler than that and KYLE IS 100% WRONG The most basic part of gun safety is: If you pick up or are handed a gun it is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to check its status. What anyone else has done is almost irrelevant. THE MOMENT you take possession of a gun you are responsible for what happens until someone else takes possession of that gun. There is no way around this point.
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  10. Actually it should become an Olympic Sport. Just imagine how much of a ratings winner it would be.
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  11. No they did try something. They tried to convince an entire nation that there was hope for some positive changes that would help every person in that nation. And by the way (and this is a message to America) you can substitute references to EVERY Western nation in the above statement.
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  12.  @510SPINESPLITTA8  I haven't heard them say Nile to Euphrates but certainly have heard them say coast to the Euphrates. My question is do the Lebanese, Syrians, Jordanians and Iraqis KNOW what is meant by "Greater Israel?" Go look at the Wikipedia page on Greater Israel and use the link to the "Brook of Egypt" that's in the comments for the map. It explains where and why they think that is.
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  13.  @510SPINESPLITTA8  YEs and that's an awful lot of Lebanese, Syrian, Jordanian and Iraqi territory. Plus a bit of Egypt just to make it interesting. And AGAIN I am still wondering if any Lebanese, Syrian, Jordanian, Iraqi or Egyptian people KNOW?
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  14. Yeah, yup, duh - facepalm. I saw an interview the other day with Edward Niedermeyer by Nathan Robinson at Current Affair who Kyle just panned over his comments on John Fetterman's campaign strategy. the Interview was 7 Months ago. The book "Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors" was published in 2019 and its been ignored until recent months. I'm an aerospace engineer who works in control systems and automation and its pretty clear to every respectable engineer on the planet that Elon's full of shite. Most engineers have met people like him and they are usually salesmen who can make any promise they like to get the deal SIGNED but don't have to deal with the issues of DELIVERING that deal. One company I worked for we (the engineers) knew when we were screwed because the sales manager made more noise than usual about how great of a project he just sold and how "we'd enjoy the challenge." Elon does exactly the same thing. He did it with driverless cars, electric trucks and hyperloop to name a few. His people joke about it calling it "Elon Time."
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  15. As an Aussie who's spent some time in California, I'm really surprised California would do this because they are so pro-pot. Of all the Americans I met Californians are the most laid back and if "Its not harming me or my family then leave people alone." I wouldn't call Californians libertarian but I would call them free choice advocates. That's because I see libertarians as the right wingers who want the liberty to strip others of their liberty like the current SCOTUS. Californians always seemed to me to be more nuanced when it came to this sort of thing. So what's changing?
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  16. Way back in the 90s the discussion about the death penalty came up at work and someone mentioned a British documentary where a couple of film makers just looked at the facts. They did not go either pro or con on the subject just what the facts were. Where the methods came, how long they take, how many are botched and in what way they are botched. I found it at the video rental store (it was the 90s) a few weeks later. What stunned me was how little I actually knew about the subject. Like how long various techniques take. It was a long time ago but I remember a couple of things. 1) The worst was electrocution which most people have the idea that its a pulse of volts and bang no heartbeat. More often than not the person does not die from the voltage but from the internal damage done from burning which can take almost an hour in some cases. 2) The cocktail being used at that time (mid 90s) for lethal injection was developed by 2 Nazi doctors who experimented on mentally retarded orphans. The information was recovered in the aftermath of WW2. 3) If hanged and the hangman got the drop right and the knot in the right place it was near instant from the neck being snapped. If not the person could either strangle slowly taking up to several minutes or be decapitated as happened in Iraq with Saddam Hussein's half brother. 4) Stoning, which is still practiced in a few countries can take hours. 5) Beheadings are either instant or so ugly it can't be described. 6) The firing squad is either instant or so ugly it can't be described. The ugliest fact however was during first 90years of the 20th century less than 10% of all people formally executed by "the state" (as in any nation, state or jurisdiction) were charged with a crime and given a trial. Over 90% of all the people formally executed in various nations and states were never charged with any crime let alone given a trial. They did not go into how many people were later found to be innocent.
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  17. People like this need to realize just how easy it is to check up on things. Quick check on Wikipedia and it shows a lot of stuff including she's the current director of the Hoover Institution. Click on that and the first sentence says: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace is a conservative American public policy institution and research institution that promotes personal and economic liberty, free enterprise, and limited government. Note those last 3 things economic liberty, free enterprise, and limited government. They are the calling card of Libertarians, but wait, it gets better go and look down the list of people associated with the Hoover Institution and names start jumping out. H.R. McMaster - I remember him from documentaries. He was one of the military architects of the Invasion of Iraq. Thomas Sowell - Well know climate change denier among other things. John Yoo - the lawyer who wrote the torture memo that lead to atrocities with prisoners at places like Abu Ghraib and Bagram Air Force Base. They're 3 that I recognized at a glance and I'm certain others will be known to you guys. These are the sort of people Condolezza Rice doesn't just work with but directs at an influential think tank. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  18. Same here, I have been around guns for many years and even used to compete in rifle. KYLE IS 100% WRONG The most basic part of gun safety is: If you pick up or are handed a gun it is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to check its status. What anyone else has done is almost irrelevant. THE MOMENT you take possession of a gun you are responsible for what happens until someone else takes possession of that gun. There is no way around this point.
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  19. As an Australian watching this from a long way off I can see something VERY VERY UGLY about to happen. Either the judge needs to slap this clown so damn hard he does not get up or its going to end by other means. I went to college in America and I know that American history has an incredibly long history of vigilante justice. This clown is NOT Donald Trump but thinks he can get away with stuff as if he is Donald Trump. To be fair he and so many others have been allowed to get away with a lot of shitty behavior, but this Sandy Hook thing is so different. These people suffered an incredible loss and he has not only rubbed their faces in it but made millions off of that tragedy. Somebody will break and then things are going to go kinetic to say the least. If I can see this from the other side of the planet I don't know why the judge can't.
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  20. Go and see what the CIA did in Iran, Guatemala, Chile and Indonesia to name a few. Chile is a particularly ruthless case. I just watched a vid the other day about neoliberalism and they showed photos of Milton Freidman meeting Pinochet. The Iranians still hate America for what they did in 1953 and many will never forgive America for it. The democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh who had made the stupid move of nationalising the Iranian Oil Industry.
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  21. Yeah I've pointed out the same book. You might have seen this book talk Rick gave -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIiaFMOfbwY I'm just linking it so others can see it.
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  22. ITS WORSE THAN KYLE IS SAYING I have been trying to highlight this report for over 6 months ago when RICHARD WOLLF mentioned it. The report was published in SEPTEMBER 2022 nearly 10 months ago. Anyone can find the report just google "congressional budget office family wealth" and the actual home page for the report should come up. On that page you can not only download the report but an Excel spreadsheet with all the data in the graphs. Here's some facts from the data of the very first graph in that report which is the one shown by Kyle at 4:26. From that graph you can not only get the effect of the 2008 GFC by comparing the 2007 data to 2010 but also the recovery by comparing the 2007 data to 2019. Adjusting for population and averaging the data on a per person value: The Top 10% LOST 11.1% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were 21.1% ABOVE their 2007 value. The Middle 40% LOST 13.3% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were 4.6% ABOVE their 2007 value. The Bottom 50% LOST 49.5% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were STILL 21.8% BELOW their 2007 value. So after the GFC that they caused the Top 10% got around US$4 Trillion from Bush and another US$4 Trillion from Obama and have since recovered and by 2019 were US$20 Trillion ABOVE their 2007 value. Estimates have them at least US$8 Trillion above that during the COVID Pandemic. The current collective value of the Top 10% can be estimated to be above US$90 Trillion compared to an estimated collective value of US$2.5Trillion for the 165 million people who make up America's Bottom 50%. This is neoliberal economics in overdrive. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America on a scholarship this is my gift to you all. Apologies if its blunt, but I do love America and the American people. I do want to see America back at its best and right now America is NOT at its best. And so you know this sort of neoliberal brain virus is doing just as much damage in Australia. We are in the midst of a full blown double crisis of housing and energy and our genius economists have said things like "its just the markets adjusting."
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  23. Yeah but maths is a subject where people learn about LOGIC and REASON. You can't win this garbage if people are thought to think logically.
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  24. That's maybe as good as any statement so far. For 2 years all we heard was how Trump's base was shrinking AND THEN an extra 11 million (over 2016) turned up and voted for him. That's not a simple 4 or 5 point error that's closer to 20%.
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  25. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I did engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law. I had studied Orwell in high school (Animal farm and 1984) and I used to argue that ANY country or nation could fall into an Orwellian nightmare if it was NOT careful. They used to argue that is was technically impossible in America because there were too many checks and balances. As an engineer I'd describe them as safety functions. What we never discussed was what would happen if somebody took out one of the safety functions. My friends assured me that one of the main safety functions was SCOTUS. Alan Dershowitz on Fox pointed out they are out of control as they are not adjudicating on cases they are just throwing out precedents. If you are wondering this should concern other nations? Because its destabilising America and making America an unreliable partner. Please don't take that as a slight on the American people, its not. I know from my friends that the vast majority of Americans either don't believe this garbage or don't understand the consequences. But here's where Australian, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Britain and all the other countries who TRADE with America or have SCURITY agreements with America or BOTH have an issue to consider. WHAT DOES a destabilised America mean for our trade and security? WHAT DOES a destabilised America mean for any treaties that America has signed?
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  26. @Winston It started with Reaganomics and Thatcherism, better known now as neoliberalism, which promoted corporate monopolies. It didn't do it openly or as a stated goal, but the policies and actions did exactly as planned. Its why we have "To Big to Fail" banks and other businesses.
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  27. Here's the link to the guardians series on Pegasus -> https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/pegasus-project
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  28. There are 2 basic facts in this disaster that NONE of US should forget in the morass of specific incidents. 1) October 7 was a horrendous crime and those responsible should be pursued and held accountable. 2) Killing 15,000 children in response to October 7 is ALSO a horrendous crime and those responsible should be pursued and held accountable. We can say all that we like about anyone of 1,000s of other things or specific incidents BUT in BOTH those CASES those responsible should be pursued and HELD ACCOUNTABLE. To NOT hold those responsible accountable might be as bad as the crimes themselves because all it will do is encourage others. Maybe the next worst part of this is the UGLY indifference the celebrities at the Met Gala showed. If we ever wondered if the the sanctimonious self righteous garbage so many celebrities pump out regarding various causes they claim to believe in then this proved that when it comes to publicity versus morals & ethics celebrities will put publicity before anything.
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  29. There is one other thing that almost all Americans seem unaware of and that's any country that trades internationally. Ever since the 1944 Breton Woods Agreement the US Dollar has been the reserve currency for the world. YES Breton Woods no longer exists as an agreement as its been replaced, but the US Dollar's position still remains as the reserve currency and its stability is vital to world trade. YES people trade in all types of currency and they shift in value constantly, but at the center of trade is the US Dollar. SO ANY THREAT to the stability of the US Political System is also a threat to the stability of the US Dollar and with it a massive threat to world trade. So if you want to know who might want to assassinate Trump there's a rational reason for almost every country on the planet. FYI - I'm Australian and if the US Dollar goes off the rails all our trade with Japan, China, South Korea and the rest of Asia goes off the rails because most of its done in US Dollars. Even the stuff that isn't done in US Dollars, requires currency and in the international realm currency trading revolves around the stability of the US Dollar.
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  30. If you look at the time stamps she just talked for almost exactly 2 minutes to NOT answer a YES/NO question and avoid dealing with a subject. I wonder how long she would take if asked about insider trading?
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  31. NO its NOT Justice YET It will be justice only when he has been charged tried, sentenced, all his appeals have been dismissed and his sentence has FINISHED in around 3,000 years.
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  32.  @nickgangone9541  Or at least the after effects of too much crack in his past.
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  33.  @thehumanity0  It all depends on how Yang pushes this new party. If he takes a leaf out of the Tea Party playbook and makes it a pseudo faction of the Dems then that's a very different thing than a whole new party. The other thing he could do is form it as a re-imagined 21st Century FDR Bull moose Party. The idea you can't have a 3rd party just flies in the face of reality. America has had numerous other parties in its history. Plus the Dems and Republicans have swapped places. It was the GOP lead by Lincoln who were the egalitarian leftists and freed the slaves while the Dems were the party that created the KKK. Even in the Regan years Regan had to fight against the Libertarian Party to get the GOP nomination. Its all a matter of how its sold to America. If he could muster the progressives who are already in congress and then its actually foreseeable that they could have what other countries call the "balance of power." Its when a major party doesn't hold enough of a majority to pass legislation in their own right and requires a coalition partner to get things done. Its effectively what the Tea Party did. Go look at Israel, its perfect example of that.
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  34.  @shadyd2544  I agree except its gone further than most people realise. 30 or 40 years ago had we started changing we might have had a chance, but the feed back loops in the climate have started and they are very complex and very, very difficult to get back under control.
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  35.  @Sabundy  I'm an engineer. Its hard explaining how ridiculous Hyperlolypop is. If you haven't heard it was first written about back in 1904 by Robert Goddard who is the father of modern rocketry. Its about as sensible as saying I have this amazing new way to power vehicles using grass as the input fuel and water as the lubrication system - I call it the hyperhorse.
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  36. Do you get the worst part of that interview and this law suit? Go back and check her interview with 60 Minutes Australia, that broke this whole story. She gave him an easy way out. During the interview she said words to the effect that Epstein might have been blackmailing him (who knows???). Irrespective she gave him a reasonable way out and instead he did the dumbest thing possible. Its part of why she ended up suing him. But just think if he'd have taken a completely different line. He could have said that his marriage was over (true) when he was introduced to this beautiful young lady by someone he thought was a friend and that he thought she was about 21. Who could have argued with any of that. He could have apologized and set up some sort of fund for her kids and supported her charity. Yeah people would have called him stupid and a few other things, but he wouldn't look like a criminal or a sleazy ignorant spoilt brat.
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  37.  @itssteve6018  Hooray for you. WHAT ABOUT THE 5,595,495 WHO HAVE DIED? What about the millions who have been hospitalized? What about the 1000s of medical personnel who have died as a result of trying to help those people? If you don't like being called a self centered ignorant shite, then don't be a self centered ignorant shite!
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  38. ITS ACTUALLY WORSE THAT KYLE IS SAYING Please encourage Krystal and him to interview Professor Mark Blyth from Brown about this. Recently he pointed out a Rand Corp study that said between 1975 and 2017 the TOP 1% has increased their wealth by $47 Trillion. For those interested here's the link to that study -> https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA516-1.html And here is a Time article about that report -> https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/ Mark has also pointed out that in the last 12-18 months of COVID that has increased by at least ANOTHER $8 Trillion. Note that this include more people than just the billionaires like those poor sods only worth a few $100 million like Tucker Carlson, Kanye West,... etc. I honestly believe Mark would be a great interviewee for Krystal, Kyle & Friends. For those who don't know who Mark is he's a political economist. He doesn't just look at the politics of countries or the economics of the markets. He looks at how the economic systems and political systems interact with each other. He was one of the very few people who predicted BOTH Brexit and Trump 2016. He recently wrote a book called Angrynomics with Eric Lonergan which is about the general anger and frustration people have with the world these days. Here's the 3 minute primer -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXJD5rE4omY
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  39.  @johnlewis9158  Couple of things. 1) Trump himself is NOT traditional working class and never was, BUT he has reached out to part of America's working class and one it very effectively. Love it or hate it he has been very effective at getting people onto his side. 2) The working class is NOT traditionally nationalistic, BUT when motivated by populists can become nationalistic in very quickly. Robespierre did it during the French Revolution, Hitler did it (obviously), Stalin did it in his way and now Trump has done it in his way. 3) In what way has the Left co-opted anything in the media or the institutionally ANYWHERE. In terms of private ownership more media is now owned, operated and driven by right wing oligarchs than at any point in history. As for institutions, both the military and police are dominated by right wingers in terms of inside those forces and in politics. As for universities no doubt there is considerable Left wing influence in the social sciences but then why wouldn't there be. However the business schools and law schools are dominated by right wing money and its been that way for decades. 4) What new incarnation of the Left are you even talking about. That is such an idiotically garbage line. *What's new about people wanting health care or education or people wanting to join unions? All that stuff was around for decades until Reagan started pulling it apart. Buddy why don't you go see your doctor and get a bumper prescription of reality.
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  40. Yeah Kyle just did a story of how $500 a month would help homeless people and this POS gets $9,000,000 for FAILING TO DO HIS JOB. Sagaar Enjeti over at Breaking points did a recent story about how one of the World Economic Forum's speakers was complaining about how a survey had revealed that the elites trust each other but the general population doesn't trust them at all. THIS IS WHY.
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  41. Your sentiment is on the money but DO NOT lay the foundation of the next Trump Presidency by re-fueling the resentment that gave the world that last 4 years. ABSOLUTELY PUNISH those who stormed the capitol. They killed a cop and that MUST have consequences. Lets just sit back a moment and let the new AG Merrick Garland and the DOJ do their job. Don't forget the seeds for WW2 were laid in the treaty of Versailles which hammered the German people and created the resentment that Hitler weaponized. Trump did the same when he took advantage of people who had been left in the gutter by both parties. People seem to forget his base gave the middle finger to people like Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush. No one should want to help lay the foundation for another Trump presidency (him, his son or his daughter) by creating more resentment. EFFING NAIL the scum who trashed the capitol and killed the cop, but avoid creating a platform for the next Trump.
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  42.  @limedickandrew6016  Exactly f--king how? If you want to draw a distinction fine but don't make a lame no brain function comment. Here's my distinction. Charge the people who did things deserving of being charged including the politicians and others (like Giuliani) who incited this disaster. BUT DON'T dump a blanket over everyone that fuels UNECCESSARY resentment. The people who get charged and their friends will resent it, that can't be helped. But dropping a blanket over the entire South - C'mon man. The British, French and others tried that and it didn't work and we got WW2 and 50million dead to read about in history books and watch on film.
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  43. Best words Kyle has said in a while "the fact that this guy ever had any power when he's been wrong about everything is a true indictment on the system"
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  44.  @Madamchief  I like that - we're like feral Canadians. Having been in Canada for work I know they'd like that too. You can also fell a little better after today. America finally found a way to hold one of your elites accountable. JUST DON'T LET IT BE A 1 OFF EVENT. Now go get the rest of them.
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  45. YOU ARE DEAD RIGHT I'm Australian but went to college in America and first hear about this report over 6 months ago when RICHARD WOLLF mentioned it. The report was published in SEPTEMBER 2022 nearly 10 months ago. I went and checked it against the Australian data which is presented a little differently but tells the same basic story. Anyone can find the CBO report just google "congressional budget office family wealth" and the actual home page for the report should come up. On that page you can not only download the report but an Excel spreadsheet with all the data in the graphs. Here's some facts from the data of the very first graph in that report which is the one shown by Kyle at 4:26. From that graph you can not only get the effect of the 2008 GFC by comparing the 2007 data to 2010 but also the recovery by comparing the 2007 data to 2019. Adjusting for population and averaging the data on a per person value: The Top 10% LOST 11.1% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were 21.1% ABOVE their 2007 value. The Middle 40% LOST 13.3% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were 4.6% ABOVE their 2007 value. The Bottom 50% LOST 49.5% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were STILL 21.8% BELOW their 2007 value. So after the GFC that they caused the Top 10% got around US$4 Trillion from Bush and another US$4 Trillion from Obama and have since recovered and by 2019 were US$20 Trillion ABOVE their 2007 value. Estimates have them at least US$8 Trillion above that during the COVID Pandemic. The current collective value of the Top 10% can be estimated to be above US$90 Trillion compared to an estimated collective value of US$2.5Trillion for the 165 million people who make up America's Bottom 50%. This is neoliberal economics in overdrive and its made a mess of the developed world.
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  46. Ask the Romans how that worked out - oh sorry they collapsed Ask the Greeks, Persians, Mongols, Egyptians how that worked out - oh sorry they collapsed Ask the Imperial Russians how that worked out - oh sorry they collapsed and got shot by their own people. Ask the Germans how that worked out - oh sorry they got bombed flat. Ask the Japanese how that worked out - oh sorry they got bombed flat and then got nuked. Ask the Soviet Russians how that worked out - oh sorry they collapsed. Ask the British how it worked out - oh shit that ended in the American Revolution followed by granting independence to Australia, Canada, New Zealand,......... You know there is one subject that Americans suck at worse than Geography and that's HISTORY.
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  47. Very good description of at least 50% of the worlds democratically elected government officials. Its a disease not particular to any party but it is way more prevalent in the established parties. Its also why many of the worlds democracies are having serious institutional issues. These issues differ from country to country or state to state but once you strip back the particulars certain commonalities emerge. Narcissistic people who know how to get elected by preying on public anxieties are incredibly common. They use emotional rather than rational arguments and campaign issues. Most of all they understand that big bold simple messages work, while complex policies for everything don't. The mistake others make with them is NOT confronting their lies head on with blunt reality. Raphael Warnock should have confronted Herschel Walker with very simple statement. "You paid for abortions and you lied about it." "You abandoned your children and you lied about it." Be simple, be blunt, be direct. Its how the GOP win. Its how Machin and Sinema win.
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  48. I checked the actual MSNBC vid for the interview that's here on YouTube and at 6:35 they mute her. It has to be some of the crappiest journalism in the history of journalism. Do you think MSNBC would do that to Hilary Clinton????
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  49.  @jl8942  I've seen Mehdi Hassan many times, but I am not a regular viewer and I have NEVER seen him do this before. And she wasn't ranting she was stating a list of facts. Also I am NOT a Marianne Williamson supporter. I'm not even American, I'm Australian but went to college in America. Irrespective of where I am from the most basic fact is that the world cannot afford to have America malfunction. America is 1/4 of the worlds economy and the US Dollar is the worlds reserve currency. Even a partial collapse would be a disaster for the world. Even the Russians can't afford to have America malfunction because a lot of their Oligarchs have their money hidden in Idaho, Texas and Delaware - 3 of the worlds premier places to hide money. I hate to throw it back at ya but America wanted to be the worlds superpower and with that comes RESPONSIBILITY. Right now America has 2 political parties with billionaire backers who are completely out of control. It cant end well for America and by extension that means the rest of the world too. Sorry for the rant.
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  50. From Australia - That's actually a bloody good idea. We'd do that here as well.
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