Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Matt Gaetz u0026 Democrat Spar Over Pledge of Allegiance" video.

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  18.  @rjkmusicmedia  The problem with the woke left starts with their hijacking of the word woke. Its not the only thing wrong with them, but right now its the most prominent thing. Until recently woke was African American street slang for "Are you awake to our actual circumstances." Prof Mark Blyth (Brown U.) has pointed out a study by the City of Boston. The average white person has a net wealth of just over $240,000 while the average black Bostonian has a net wealth (assets less debts) of $8. Yes if you gave every black person in Boston a $10 note you would more than double their wealth. Until a couple of years ago woke had nothing to do with police killings. It was about basic things like services, education, jobs, but mostly opportunity. That's what CRT was about. Why, after all these years of programs costing millions and millions are these people still in this situation? Then we all got to watch George Floyd die and it blew up into a lot more. Then far left saw an opportunity and jumped in with other issues and they hijacked the word woke to suddenly mean a lot of things. That really angers me because redefining language for political gain is one of the main things Orwell warned about. Yeah I had Orwell (AF & 1984) fed to me in high school. Hated it then but grateful for it now. After that came the rise of the Social Justice Warrior movement. Its not that they hadn't existed but suddenly they had a word and they flipped that into a narrative which is NOT TO BE QUESTIONED. That's a trait common to all political extremists both Left & Right. Again I learned that from studying Orwell. The narratives they use might be different but their responses to anyone who questions it is the same. This is why the woke left will fail and fail dramatically. People don't like being forced to believe something especially when its nonsense.
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  19.  @rjkmusicmedia  The Right are a shorter story, thankfully. Its pretty similar and almost identical. Lots of poorer rural folk compared to their city cousins who show them little respect despite the fact they feed and clothe those city folk. It breeds resentment and resentment can be taken advantage of. In this case its a small group of insanely wealthy old men like Charles Koch, Barre Seid and Rupert Murdoch. They are ruthless and don't give a damn about anything except what they want. Backing them up are a successive generations of equally narcissistic scum like a certain Florida representative. PBS just re-posted a Frontline episode first aired in October 2012 about the effects of "Citizens United" (see below) They interviewed people involved including Jim Bopp the lawyer who pushed that case. The straight up denial of undisputable facts by these people is unbelievably infuriating. When shown the damage they've done, they just don't care. Facts are irrelevant. They have their ideology and just don't care. If you ask why I reacted to you the way I did. That's why. You asked for facts. I gave you simple undisputable facts and you just went "No - don't care." That's exactly what the people behind Citizens United did. Here's the PBS episode go watch it -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xxiIejOmSo It might be 10 years old but if you want America to survive you better get your head around this. Take note of the guy about 25 minutes in who was a sitting REPUBLICAN and how they attacked him. The Radical Right have spent most of the last 10-20 years exterminating mild Republicans and now they are coming for the rest of America. Their main Leftist opposition is split into 2 camps. A bunch of clowns bought and paid for by other billionaires and another bunch of delusional clowns who are so stupid they should be under supervised care. Trapped in the middle are around 200+ million Americans who are tired and confused at all the noise.
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  25.  @rjkmusicmedia  On the AUKUS deal. I worked with an electrician back in 2006 when the replacement sub stuff started. He was American and before coming to Australia had been in the US Navy as a nuclear power plant operator/technician on a Nimitz class. We had some very interesting conversations. That included the utter nonsense of having diesel electric subs when we had so much water to cover. I have drawn up a plan we we do a 3+2 deal with the UK and get 3 with an option of 2 more Astutes BUILT IN BRITAIN. They'd be copies of the most recent one Agincourt which has the new improved PWR-3 reactor. We get them built in the UK but the project includes and Australian workforce, paid for by us. FROM AN ENGINEERING and PROJECT MANAGMENT and ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE 1) We don't need to spend billions building infrastructure to make them. We'd still need infrastructure for maintenance but we already have most of that. 2) Britain gets to save money (which it needs) by delaying the construction of the Dreadnaught class. 3) Britain gets ~2,500 Australians paid for by Australia spending money in Britain. Its not much but better than nothing until you consider that its like importing cash. 4) Because we'd be rotating through people we'd get about 10,000 Australians trained in among other things nuclear power systems. In other words we right their cost off as a training program. 5) BAE, Rolls Royce and other British contractors win and win huge. They don't have to redesign anything. They just make more of what they already know how to make. In engineering that's ab-fab, because you have already sorted out the manufacturing bugs. PLUS those companies get some free labor to help make it even more profitable courtesy of our training program. 5) It opens up the possibility of you selling the Canadians a couple more subs as well. Its a super monster win, win, win all round. Its pretty obvious for you Brits. Its called jobs and profit. For us we save somewhere between $30 and $75 Billion and our Navy still gets what it wants. If after 3 we decide to go with the new sub that people are talking about then so what. We'll buy a couple of those instead of a couple more Astutes. Either way we end up with a fleet of 4 active and 1 reserve subs. And an Astute is at least an order of magnitude above what we have and at least 2 orders above what anyone else in the region has or will have in the next 20-30years. Other some a few greedy snots who were trying to screw everyone over with nonsense overvalued contracts, who loses?
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  26.  @rjkmusicmedia  Never heard the term Wonga loans before, but I know the sort. We have Wallet Wizard here - same smell different shite. 50% in 3 years is utter BS when blue chip stocks have averaged 7-8% returns for over a century. Every time some get rich scheme blows up there's always at least 1 expert who shrugs their shoulders and reminds everyone of that basic stat. Have you watched any of Gary's stuff yet? He's not like so many others. He's explained things like why people get burned trading when they are in a market place with people like what he was at Citibank. Its amazing to hear what people in those positions do and why they make money and the rest of us get screwed. Its not simply that he has a talent for reading trends, but its the level of information he used to get. He pointed out that even at Citibank there are the people who talk to the media and are on £60K and then there are guys like him on £1 Million+ a year and they never speak to the media. Its one reason he's doing what he is doing because the system really is rigged in favor of the 1% while maybe some do well, but the rest of us get screwed. The Americans released a report last September and anyone can access it. Just search "congressional budget office family wealth" I might have mentioned it already. What it shows its the top 10% of America have not only bounced back from 2008 but on average are 21.7% better off than in 2007. The next 40% are now about 4.6% ahead. Both lost a bit over 11% in the GFC. The bottom 50% of America lost 49.5% of their wealth in the GFC and ARE STILL 21.8% BELOW their 2007 position. Plus that data is only up to 2019. So it doesn't include the pandemic. That's 165 million Americans who are worse off in 2019 than they were 12 years earlier in 2007.
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  27.  @rjkmusicmedia  Couple of thing. Over time even the most blue chip of stocks only average about 7.5% paid as dividends. You need to split capital gains from actual dividends. There's way too much emphasis on capital gains these days AND its pushed by people with vested interests. On taxing the wealthy, that simply has to happen. Many of them pay almost nothing and many of there companies pay nothing. Here in Australia we have subsidised the construction of new LNG export facilities to the tune of over $10 Billion. In the last few years those companies that we subsidised have made in excess of $140 Billion and PAID NOTHING. This is where economists have utterly farked us over as a society and by society I mean the entire human race. They promoted the crap out of trickle down economics and foreign investment. Trickle down is a lie but foreign investment is a scam. At every opportunity they screamed from the rooftops how great it is. What the people screaming never said was their take. As bankers they got transfer fees as the money came in and transfer fees again as the profit went out. The economists were paid by the bankers to keep pumping the mantra. This is what people like Gary are trying to tell people. We are being taken to the cleaners. There's a rand report that say's America's top 1% made $47 Trillion, but since that report its estimated they made another 8. If America is about 25% of the worlds economy then by proportion the world's top 1% have collectively made around $200-220 Trillion in the last 40 years, while the rest of us have been squeezed for it.
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