Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Robert Reich" channel.

  1. I'm Australian and that has to be one of the smartest most well thought out comments ANY American has said in my lifetime and considering how stupid the world sees Americans these days that's praise you wont hear too much.
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  2. Actually the best new word I saw this week was: GRIFTOCRACY Because this isn't really a kleptocracy where they just steal everything they can.
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  3. Aerospace engineer here: I actually work in industrial control systems and have worked across a number of industries. I am also formally qualified in 2 areas of safety engineering. Engineers across the board have been trying to tell people about the problem of economists and Accountants for decades and NOBODY WILL LISTEN. After the Boeing Max-8 accidents I wrote to Ralph Nader who's niece died in one of the accidents. I gave a lengthy explanation of what I knew part of the problem was, which is a formal safety review of how a the MCAS would respond to faults. That type of review is called a CHAZOP. Its a special form ot the standard HAZOP (Hazard & Operability) studies most engineers know about except its for control systems (hence the C in front of HAZOP). So after explaining what a CHAZOP was and telling Ralph Nader what types of documents to go and look for I got IGNORED.
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  4. Have any of you ever seen that classic "Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century" where Daffy Duck fights Marvin Martian over "Planet X"? With these 2 egotistical clowns its going to end the same way. Porky Pig dangling of the last shred saying "big deal"
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  5.  @DejaView  America has 330 million people and with the university system it has you should expect there to be some seriously smart well educated people. The proof is in technologies that have come out of America which are pretty damn incredible. But that doesn't change the basic fact that 50% of the population (just like everywhere else) has an IQ of 100 or less. We have 26 million in Australia and that means we have 13 million people with an IQ of 100 or less and NOTHING can change that fact. All any country can do is deal with it RESPONSIBLY and make sure everyone has a fair chance of a decent life.
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  6. Australian here - fell sorry you have to live next door to them. But then you do get the chance to beat them at Hockey each year.
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  7. This is nice and wonderful. Its simple and logical and a complete waste of time when such a massive block of the American population DON'T CARE. They are totally trapped in the rhetoric of a tiny handful of people who have complete control of what they hear. Until the Western World (not Just America) takes back control of the media from a handful of billionaires humanity is doomed.
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  8. Australian here - For starters we can get all the self-righteous Leftists TO SHUT UP. They keep annoying the crap out of people so much they end up SO FRUSTRATED that they vote for maniacs just to stick it to those self-righteous Leftists. Think about all the people Hilary Clinton called "deplorable" and then waved the middle finger at her. There was a great line in one of these discussions recently on what happened in 2024. Someone who voted for Trump said they "knew Trump was crazy but crazy doesn't look down on you." The implication being they were tired of being looked down on. This is NOT an American issue either. Its rampant across the developed World. Leftists are always playing the moral or intellectual superiority cards (or both) and then wonder why when people flip the middle finger at them. They have this stupid concept that complex policies mean people should vote for them. HALF the human race has an IQ of under 100 and they don't have the capacity to understand complex policies. So when self-righteous Leftists shove it in their face they don't like it and they end up reacting to it.
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  9. To bad they're now on every channel.
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  10.  @brassman7599  I'm Australian but went to college in America on a sport scholarship (late 80s). I love the place and the people but HATE the politics. I did aerospace engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and they used to drag me into their discussions. I knew stuff all law and politics but I had studied Orwell (1984 & Animal Farm) in high school. So i used to argue as Orwell warned that if you aren't careful ANY NATION could fall into a totalitarian nightmare because that's what Orwell warned. They used to argue that it was impossible because of the System of Checks & Balances. We never once discussed what would happen if that System of Checks & Balances was subverted because that concept simply did not exist in the late 80s. No matter how many times I argued what if people didn't care they'd answer we're "Americans and we do care!" Maybe after Trump, Elon and the other Oligarchs have stripped away enough stuff and broken enough stuff that America will care again.
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  11. EVERYONE - JUST STOP going on about policies Robert is 100% RIGHT. The average voter NEVER walks into a voting booth thinking about policies especially things like foreign policy. They want something simple like Obama's "Hope & Change" or Trumps MAGA. Go and watch Mark Blyth explain why someone like Elizabeth Warren DID NOT win the nomination in 2020 despite having the best understanding of banking reform that any politician might ever have had. Its here on YouTube just search "mark blyth trumpism" posted by McMaster Humanities. The video is titled "Mark Blyth - Global Trumpism and the Future of the Global Economy" and the question is at 1:19:54 YES its from 2019 but its themse are just as important now as they were then. If you are interested in how the world works then the whole video is worth the time and there's a brilliant explanation of why Bitcoin is a joke just before the Warren question. Listen carefully to what he says and you'll see why Trump's COVID response ended his presidency. All Biden had to do was say "I'm not that stupid!" Harris NEEDS to have 1 BIG SIMPLE SLOGAN which right now is "We aren't geriatrics! and we want to do stuff" which has a lot of people excited. Obama's was "Hope & Change" which people wanted but he failed at. Trump's was MAGA which tapped into how a lot of people felt and why his followers still believe in him. Bidens was "I'm NOT Trump" which tapped right into the suburban housewives who hated Trump. Harris & Walz need something very simple like "Our NEW future" or "A REAL Future" with an emphasis on "we are here for YOU" If they want a "lets go Brandon" they could go with "FTO" as in F--K the Oligarchs. It doesn't matter what they actually say just so long as people have something to chant.
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  12. What the neoliberals have ever understood is that the majority of human beings have empathy for other people or at least some empathy at some level and that makes them consider their effect on others. Neoliberals are (at their core) Ayn Rand's ideal of "me before society" types. In fact I have seen Yaron Brook the current head of the Ayn Rand Institute argue that "society doesn't exist." According to him its just a construct. Milton Friedman made the claim that "There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits...." and if you put "milton friedman corporate social responsibility" into google you can actually find the FULL QUOTE (like at Goodreads) which is “There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud” On many corporate websites (like McKinsey) they will put a FULL STOP after the word "profits" to imply that Milton Friedman never said the rest regarding open and fair competition without deception or fraud. Yes Milton said don't be deceptive or fraudulent and they mis-quote him which is at least deceptive.
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  13. HEY ROBERT THERE IS A GRAPH SHOWING FAMILY WEALTH Google "congressional budget office family wealth" The very first item should be a link to the report Bernie Sanders commissioned. That report covers the years 1989 to 2019 is an update of an earlier report that only went up to 2013. If you go to the governments web page the report and an Xcel spreadsheet with all the data for all the graphs is downloadable. The very first graph from that report has had almost zero coverage by ANYONE. Richard Wolff commented on the report when it first came out. Politico ran a story about it MONTHS later and Kyle Kulinski dis a short video on the politico report. I have NOT heard anyone including Bernie Sanders make any noise regarding this report and that is an Indictment on all of you. That FIRST graph shows the family wealth of the Top 10%, Middle 40% and Bottom 10% of America from 1989 to 2019. It shows that over those 30 years how the actual wealth of the Bottom 50% has FALLEN because the actual value has barely changed while the number of people it represents has grown. Even better is when you compare the data for 2010 to 2007 versus 2019 to 2007 because that shows the effect of the GFC and the recovery afterwards. Correcting for population this is what's happened. The Top 10% LOST 11.1% of the wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were UP 21.7% on their 2007 wealth. The Middle 40% LOST 13.3% of the wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were UP 4.6% on their 2007 wealth. The Bottom 50% LOST 49.5% of the wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were STILL DOWN 21.8% on their 2007 wealth. So the people who caused the GFC and were bailed out with $4 Trillion from bush and another $4 Trillion from Obama and got $3.5 Trillion in tax breaks from Trump collectively were $30 Trillion better off by 2019 than they were in 2007. Meanwhile the People who did NOT cause the GFC but were hit hardest by it had by 2019 NOT RECOVERED. Plus since this is the congressional budget office data, which is basically irrefutable. I will dispute the claim by Heather that the Bottom 50% have combined wealth of $3.5 Trillion because that would mean they have suddenly gained $1.2 Trillion in wealth since 2019 when the CBO said they were worth $2.3 Trillion and that's just 5 years and in that time COVID happened. FYI - I am an Australian Engineer and it should NOT be an engineer let alone one form the other side of the planet point this out to you or any other American. My interest in Economics is in Energy Economics which came form a small consulting job/task I did in 2016 about Australia's energy future which is a disaster in progress and a disaster that's being repeated around the world and a disaster CAUSED BY ECONOMISTS. If you want to know about that let me know.
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  14. AUSTRALIAN with an observation: The Lesson learned from 2024 is that the Clinton-Obama-Ivy League clown show that runs the Dumocrats is INCAPABLE OF LEARNING FROM THEIR MISTAKES. AND SO YOU ALL KNOW - in early 2019 Australian Labor (our Left) LOST an easily winnable election to the LNP (our Right) and then in late 2019 British Labor (their Left) LOST an easily winnable election to the Torries (their Right) running an almost identical campaign strategy to Australian Labor. Lots of policies that they simply believed & expected the entire population to vote for WITHOUT any explanation WHY. It was eerily similar to Hilary Clinton's LOSING strategy - remember when she claimed she didn't need to campaign in Michigan because they'd vote for her anyway???? So I asked some Brits here on YouTube on the BBC channel WTF was going on. One of them replied - British Labor like Australian Labor used campaign advisors from Clintons 2016 campaign. These people who have now lost or failed in AT LEAST 4 major recent elections - Hilary 2016, Australia 2019, Britain 2019 and Harris 2024. Plus lets NOT forget what actually happened in 2020. Biden might have won the Whitehouse but the Dumocrats were belted in the House, failed to win the Senate and got smashed in the state elections. YES WE KNOW. Plus through some of the worst failures of political leadership the US Supreme Court along with significant portions of the US justice system is now broken. YES WE KNOW ABOUT THAT TOO. What many Americans DO NOT realise is that your campaign advisors, consultants and strategists travel the world going from election to election to election to election to election to election to election to election to election.................. So when YOU here people say things like "Stop interfering in our elections!" this is one of the things we mean. Just so you guys also know the US State Department also funds programs in Think Tanks around the world. I discovered this because our Think Tanks (by Law) have to publicly disclose their funding. By chance I discovered that one of the main think Tanks here in Australia ASPI that advises our government on MILITARY POLICY also gets funding from the US State Department.
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  15. Australian here: As an outside observer you have just perfectly described the Democrats greatest weakness. They make assumptions that are usually terrible and wrong and end up having consequences the entire planet has to deal with. If you are all wondering WHY people on the other side of the planet care about this and will comment on this its pretty simple. THIS AFFECTS US TOO. No matter how for or against America a person is there are several inescapable facts. 1) America is still the worlds dominant military superpower. Despite the losses in Afghanistan and Iraq if America chooses to smash something they can and do it without anyone else being able to say NO. 2) Not only is America 1/4 of the worlds economy that we all interact with but the US DOLLAR (US$) is still the worlds reserve currency. Almost every international transaction and trade is either done in US$ or the currency exchanges are backed by US$. SO NONE of US can afford to have anything but a responsible and reliable US President and we haven't really had that since George Herbert Walker Bush was in the white house. Clinton could not keep his d*ck where it belonged. Bush 2.0 let Cheney and his goon squad run the show. Obama despite being a great Orator was a failure as a leader. Trump was what happens if you let Psychotic Bart Simpson into the White House. Joe Biden was there for a while before his age caught up and nobody knows who's been in charge since. For all appearances America is run by puppets controlled form the shadows by a small group of billionaires who now have so much control they get to select who's on SCOTUS and re-write the constitution as they see fit. The Democrats should have realised Biden was sliding and started to promote Kamala Harris 2 years ago AND THEY HAVE NOT. This whole "if you don't vote Joe the alternative is worse" rhetoric is IDI0TIC and not only do the America people deserve better but so does the rest of the planet.
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  16. EVEN BEFORE WATCHING THIS THE ANSWER IS - NOT SOON ENOUGH. (edit) That was with respect to Elon But with respect to Heather's comment about women finding it so hard to live in these times. WHY DID so many women VOTE for Trump??? She and lot of WELL EDUCATED women need to get of butts and go ask those women who voted for Trump WHY?
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  17. Yeah a score of 1 out of 10 is 1,000 times better than a score of 0.001 out of 10 But 1 out of 1 isn't what anyone wants.
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  18.  @catbb1000  I didn't say they don't exist, but they are outnumbered and out gunned.
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  19. I have the same message back to Robert and Co. regarding the title of this video. If the Left are so damn smart and have so many great ideas then how come they keep losing to clown shows? The Dumb-o-crats just lost to a guy who started ranting about eating cats & dogs during a public debate. His sidekick can't tell the truth no matter if he's awake or asleep. AND THEY STILL LOST TO THAT CLOWN SHOW Maybe (and its just a thought) that if the SELF-RIGHTEOUS ACADEMICS on the LEFT would STOP LOOKING DOWN on people and just expecting everyone to just believe all their crap because they think its clever then MAYBE, JUST MAYBE we would not be in the situation we are. Because when your options in an election are an arrogant pack of self-righteous academics who look down on most of the population and YOU KNOW DON'T care because they say it VERSUS a pack of clowns who at least tell you they care, even if you know they don't, then what's the choice. Just last week Jessica Tarlov on the podcast Raging Moderates said she heard a Trump voter say (after the election) "Yes we know what Trump says is crazy but crazy doesn't look down on me!"
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  20. ROBERT - Sorry but I am going to give you an answer you wont like. ITS YOU AND PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO ARE THE PROBLEM I'm an Australian aerospace engineer, educated in America who works in industrial control systems which are the sensor & computer system that run things like power stations, water treatment plants and factories. I work with a lot of electricians, welders, machinists and semi-skilled laborers. THEY UTTERLY HATE PEOPLE LIKE YOU with real emphasis on the word LIKE. Its not you specifically or personally but its people like economists, bankers, lawyers,.... which includes the people in government or who ADVISE government. The working class hate College and University educated clowns who look down on them with a passion you can't imagine because NO MATTER WHO THEY VOTE FOR the economists, consultants and lawyers step in and make sure the STATUS QUO stays in place. When people vote in a different government they are actually voting for change. How do you think they feel when NOTHING CHANGES???? To paraphrase Ronald Reagan (which feels weird). Economists are NOT the solution. Economists are the problem. I discovered how much economists interfere when I looked into Australia's Energy industry after a small consulting project in 2016. The energy crisis which is only going to get much worse is 100% the fault of economists. The stupid claim that the "free market is the solution to everything" is just nonsense. Thanks to the work of people like Mark Blyth, Steve Keen, Steph Kelton, Gary Stevenson and others I can now explain what ECONOMISTS HAVE DONE. They never understood how energy systems operate or how they need to be maintained. The same can be said for water systems, mining, manufacturing and I have worked in those industries. Trying to explain how these systems work to an economist is almost impossible because of how braindead they are. There's a pervasive and insane concept among economists that Mark Blyth has pointed out several times. "Economists see everyone else as problems they have to manage." What do you think happens when clowns with that sort of ideology start dominating the decision processes in industries like health care, education, infrastructure and energy that they have no training in or understanding of? If you want to talk about this let me know.
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  21. AUSTRALIAN HERE: Sorry but it wasn't Trump it was Rupert Murdoch who dragged America down into the gutter. We tried warning American and Britain what he was like but neither you or the Brits listened. Some Americans tried and made the documentary "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism." Trump is just the result of letting Rupert Murdoch and the slimy carp he employs having a free ride and zero accountability.
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  22. CAN YOU 2 JUST STOP HARPING ON ABOUT HOW NARROW THE LOSS TO TRUMP WAS For F⋃CK SAKE it should never have been close. FYI - I'm AUSTRALIAN and we are F⋃CKING tired of your brainless SHlT STORM that clowns like you 2 have created and we now have to deal with. It should have been easy. There was Trump howling about Haitians "eating cats & dogs" and then there was all the corruption of his presidency including the $2 Billion Jared Kushner got from the Saudis. Kamala Harris was riding high and Tim Walz added to it AND THEN THE DNC, CLINTONS, & OBAMAS STEPPED IN AND GANG F⋃CKED THEIR OWN CAMPAIGN It was the most ridiculous political idiocy in any modern democratic campaign and was even worse than Hilary's "I don't need to campaign in Michigan" stupidity that cost her against Trump. AND BY THE WAY That same clown brigade of campaign consultants who mismanaged Hilary's 2016 disaster did the usual American thing of telling others how to do things. YES ROBERT they came to Australia and screwed up Australian Labors 2019 campaign and then went to Britain and screwed British Labor's campaign. I got that from a Brit when I asked then why British Labor LOST using the same strategy as Australian Labor had used. YOU CLOWNS REALLY NEED TO WAKE THE F⋃CK UP
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