Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "GOP Will JAIL Jan 6 Investigators Says Newt Gingrich | The Kyle Kulinski Show" video.

Are you seriously asking a GOP mobster about an "actual law" and not get a hypocritical answer. Don't forget it was recently disclosed that Newt Gingrich was having an affair as he pursued Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair. If they could monetize hypocrisy the GOP could pay off America's debt in a couple of weeks.
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Hey everyone a history buff and one that actually understands it. My mom was a high school teacher who loved history. You sound like one of her students and yeah you are right except the time frame is dramatically shorter. It took generations for Rome to degenerate and finally collapse. Even then it hung on for centuries as a religious Empire. The American Empire has risen, peaked and now starting its collapse in the space of about 70 years. I'm an engineer and normally hate economics and politics because its just a cesspool, but I have taken to listening to people like Mark Blyth because he like to rip it open and expose the BS. One of his compatriots is a historian, Adam Tooze, who specializes in economic history. Some of the comparisons he's drawn to past eras are amazing. Its not that we are repeating the collapse of Rome or other empires. Its like we are taking all the worst aspects of those collapses and doing them all at once. I call it neo-feudalism and I think it started after 2008 when the whole world got told that we have to pay for and support the billionaire class.
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@fighterck6241 I'm Australian and we studied British History because ours is so short and British History is the history for most of us. If you go back through British History its littered with examples of what's going on right now. Edward Longshanks was named the hammer of the Scots and made infamous in the film Braveheart. Go look at the shite he actually did and you'd think Trump was his direct descendent. Edward Lonshanks might have been his generations destructive POS but he was just one of dozens of European maniacs. Trump might be our generations destructive POS but he's also far from alone.
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@dominicfucinari1942 Yeah I have been wondering what America's future might be for a while and it might come a lot quicker than you think. Don't forget the Soviet block was there for decades without ANY HINT of collapse. Who thought it would or that Soviet Russia might break up and YET IT DID and it was quick. Sometimes empires collapse suddenly (like ancient Babylon did in 1 night) and sometimes they change (like the British Empire did into the British Commonwealth) and sometimes they break up (like Alexander's Empire which broke 4 ways after his death). I don't think America realizes how fragile it is or the rest of the world is. I'm Australian but went to college in America. Those years opened my eyes to my own country because I got to see it from the outside looking in. We might not be as fragile as a lot of places but we do have some serious weaknesses and people who want to exploit them. Go check out a guy named Clive Palmer, who's our Trumpian wanna be. There's this insane childishness that's "if I can't have it I'll smash it so no one can" mentality. Right now it might be more obvious in America because of Trump but its everywhere and sooner or later something is going to break. We'll all say "we never saw it coming" and after the instant replays go "Oh we should have taken notice of that, that, that,.... and all the other signs." Here's one subject to check out - WATER. You know the stuff we need to grow food and feed ourselves. The great southern Californian aquifer has been drained so far its now sucking in sea water and wells are starting to turn brackish. When that finally sinks in its going to be massive. There issues across the entire wheat belt and a huge waste dump in Florida that could poison the main aquifer. But then I look at Australia. The great Artesian basin that a massive part of our stock industry relies on has been under stress for decades. Our mango farmers in the far north who relied on bores to supply water for the trees kept planting and planting and the trees got bigger and bigger needing more and more water. Now there's too many trees for too little water. We used to have huge irrigated area for citrus near the juncture of Australia's longest river system, the Murray Darling. That's all dying because of upstream nut and cotton farmers are taking every last drop of water they can. In just one year a while back they STOLE (as in theft) over $2 Billion (with a B) in water. Every time I see a video on water somewhere and there's plenty. I just look around here and shake my head because in everyway Australia's headed for disaster while others are even WORSE off. As we get out after COVID we are going to face some real challenges. The biggest of which is ignorant people who don't care.
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