Comments by "Martin Maat" (@MartinMaat) on "The Lincoln Project" channel.

  1. Florida is better for you. Easier to part and push into the ocean. Or if that would be impractical, the wall would be shorter.
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  2. How creative. And it would actually mean something, make sense even, if it weren't for your array of prime ministers over the last 40+ years.
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  3. I am not an American and I really want to laugh down at this but I can't because I am terrified.
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  4. ​ @Frenite Less government spending? Did you ever bother to look up how much TFG added to the national debt compared to other presidents? Free trade, really? What about the import taxes on Chinese products? And then there's that little thing called fascism which is hardly conservative. You are not making sense.
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  5. Yeah, what was that about? Raises his hand, makes it a finger, wiggles it, shakes his head. wtf
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  6. It's called a dog whistle.
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  7. ​ @jamesgroom1615 That's the sole reason why they put up with him. If he runs as an independent, democrats will win 50 states at the next election. Trump uses this as leverage, he can make the entire party dance for him.
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  8. Each episode makes me laugh all the way through and then it ends and it sinks in: this is bad.
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  9. Water coming out of a sink is usually not a good thing. Sinks are for draining water, that's where the water goes in. Not just in Georgia. I'm not sure about your prison cell though.
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  10. Yeah... The voice. She went off the cliff apparently, would be a Trump supporter now. Haven't heard much about her since the eighties.
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  11. ​@peterg5383I am getting "Type mismatch"...
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  12. People watch car wrecks. Anything disturbing.
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  13. As someone living at the opposite side of the Atlantic ocean I find this scary too.
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  14. The fact that either of the two major parties has a chance is proof it is soaring.
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  15. I can hear him say it.
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  16.  @23merlino  40+ may be a bit harsh, I wanted to include Thatcher. There may have been some (and only some) not particularly horrible people since, but you can hardly call any of them witty or compassionate or whichever of those casually spouted qualifications not applicable to Trump.
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  17. Yeah... so you basically have one option. Which is really a contradiction in terms. Some democracy.
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  18. These pillows are lumpy AF alright. And I have proof, I'm going to release it next week.
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  19. Girl power!
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  20. Well... They did something really stupid and are being burned for it. Some share holders may still come to their senses in time. It will be interesting to see this play out.
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  21. How touching. Right after he gave some fascists the green light to wipe out about 2 million people.
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  22. They even lie about stuff that does not matter. It has become their default modus operandi.
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  23. Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV. There!
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  24. He's obviously joking. You ARE slow ones!
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  25. I never saw this man speak before. He is so unattractive, he should not be an issue. Apparently, according to polls, he would still be regarded as favorable by 10% of democrats (which still does not necessarily mean they would vote for him). I imagine those people never saw this video either and merely had a Pavlov response to his name.
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  26. She's actually quite effective as a politician. She's an anarchist, she wants to get rid of the government. So she went to Washington to sabotage it. Throw sand in the machine, poison the well. Is she doing great or what?
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  27. It looks like I cannot say anything bad about your political system.
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  28. No, they're not claiming he's innocent. They know he's guilty but they just don't care.
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  29. Ban it Ron. Come on, make showing this woke propaganda movie illegal in Florida. Do it for the children, you have to protect them. This movie is way too pink. Disgusting feminist poison.
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  30. And all that, alledgedly, without a single drop of alcohol.
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  31. It's been a while since I heard a republican talk policy.
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  32. How is this good? It is just another slap in the face of the poor and oppressed. Wrong time, wrong Israeli government to express support for the state of Israel.
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  33. You have some moles amongst you I say. Better call them out before it's too late!
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  34. I used to be puzzled by these things but in the end it's just another church.
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  35.  @TroIIingThemSoftly  Yes it does. It shows that when push comes to shove, like when it is time to vote, none of the perceived qualities listed mean shit to the British public, they will vote for the most humorless, cruel, horrible people just the same.
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  36.  @bobcprimus  I challenge you on Sunak. Sunak is the worst and no better than trump. Trump mainly spouts nonsense, Sunak spouts diabolical poisonous sewage.
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  37.  @mikchi5150  You talking to me? I'm Dutch.
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  38.  @Lea-zf7lm  Honour? Really?... Lying, cheating, diplomatic disaster Boris Johnson, honour?! Self serving corrupt-to-the-core genocidal maniac Rishi Sunak, honour? Are we on the same page of the Oxford Dictionary?
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  39.  @jazzthedog86  Fair enough, I don't see a religious component in Britain. But there's plenty of narcissism going round.
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  40.  @s2wheels  That would make really good television, it would beat the coronation.
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  41.  @WickedDandelion  Yeah, well. I looked up the list yesterday and found Gordon Brown, the one who made no impression at all that I had totally forgotten about, likely because he was sort of sane and descent, only lasted 3 years, the shortest of them all. We already know the next one will be horrible, bought and paid for by big business like any conservative, defending genocide like Sunak. If this is humor, it is pretty dark humor.
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  42. No, that is not silly. If not, that would make it easy for an authoritarian government to bar popular opposition candidates from being elected.
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  43. Utterly pointless and shameless video. What is the idea here? "Putin bad, Putin not with Israel, so Israel good"? You are siding with a racist, fascist, genocidal apartheid state that is in the process of committing one of the greater war crimes of our time. This makes your critisism on the Trump lot for being authoritarian and being a danger to democracy rather moot. "but Hamas!" FU
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  44. I used to worry about trumpism and what it could mean to the US and to the world. These days I worry more about Genocide Joe and what he and his lot is doing to the world.
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  45.  @josephconner3742  I am not blaming anyone for anything (although I probably could). I am only stating that a two party system, with one party not being a sensible option for being off the scale, does not provide you with a real choice. You basically have to vote blue just to prevent mayhem. Whether you agree with the Biden policy or not. North Korea and China also have one party. And they call themselves democracies too. If I were an American I would vote for Biden too. But only because the alternative would be horrible. It's not like I would be represented. You are at best a flawed, watered down democracy. Not every vote counts due to the federal system (states should be irrelevant in federal elections). By the time you get to vote, the options are very limited. And most candidates are bought and owned by rich people, they do not primarily represent voters, they represent their donors. And by the looks of it most of you are fine with this and perceive it as normal. But I understand you have bigger problems at the moment than to worry about the quality of your democracy.
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  46. I agree. Elections are a long way, Trump may go to prison and there's #2. Just as evil and smarter.
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  47. That bobblehead impression wasn't bad.
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  48.  @denniswallace4868  Call it what you want, there will definitely be a big screen with lots of hexadecimal numbers on it.
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  49. Catchy.
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  50. I am a little disappointed. Bring in André Antunes please. He would know what to do with it.
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  51. Well almost. In your case it means taking money from SOME people all your life and then support them in whatever endeavor they may pursue. Like wiping out a couple of million people in the middle east for instance.
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  52. Christian Nationalism strikes me as an attempt to avoid the more apt term Christian Fascism. Go on, the base wouldn't mind.
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  53. He is defending YOUR (poor excuse for a) democracy alright. Abroad however he is defending fascism and genocide. Woop-ti-doo!
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  54. So, you install fascist dictators around the globe but you don't want one for yourselves?
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  55.  @vimes3702  I am afraid fat Donny's fans will continue to like her after fat Donny went to jail.
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  56. Strong start, not so great sequel. Focusing on hostages now is like making a point about the color of the gas chambers in Auschwitz. Your bombs are the issue, no water is the issue. If you need it (which you shouldn't): hostages are not exactly immune to bombs or lack of water either.
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  57. So, "more war" is the argument against Trump? The only positive about Trump is that his foreign policy might be less desastrous than that of Biden and you bring that up to stop him? You people deserve Trump.
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  58. Blue janoside or red janoside. Your choice.
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  59. Janocidal maniac.
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  60. They don't care if they win or lose, their seats are safe either way. They're taking money from the same donors as republicans, all is well in Washington.
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  61. Most of them are running for vice president. Some are hoping trump will be in prison before the nominee election and they will be an acceptable second choice to the trump fans.
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  62. Jill Stein is a woman.
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  63. Comment instantly deleted?...
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  64. Among republicans, sure.
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  65. You may be missing the point. Dark means invisible here. Like white can mean blank, unspecified.
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  66.  @steveblankenship5474  I haven't watched this particular thing because it is not on the platform I dwell on (YouTube) but I do follow anything trumpy and I am not even an American. It is just fascinating, it is worrying and it beats any kind of entertainment. I want to see him and his movement go down. Twitter has a lot of users and this was probably promoted so the threshold of clicking on it for daily users of Twitter was probably low.
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  67. I love the crying child routine. Well played.
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  68. Yeah, well. Joe is supporting fascists in Isteal and in Ukraine.
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  69. Why is he singled out?
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  70. @jeffreypoirier7786  Manners aside, they both serve the same masters.
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  71. These are the things that make him rich, liberals making fun of him. He started off asking $200, yesterday was up to $500, these mockeries are just free nation wide ads.
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  72. And he blew it all by showing us who really owns him when it is about matters of life and death.
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  73. They are war criminals no better than the likes of G.W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
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  74. You moral bankruptcy is beyond complete when you criticize Donald Trump for not supporting Benjamin Netanyahu.
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  75. Maybe if they could have them comment on these clips in a smart way with a draggy voice. That could be fun. Like Ozzy man.
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  76. Is this a response to Joe's stage dive? I was actually impressed by that.
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  77. Not a great example. The US created this mess with their "unwavering support" of the Israelian apartheid state. To now talk about "the Jewish people" is cheap campaign talk. This isn't about "the Jewish people", it's about desparate resistence against a fascist regime that has all the power and yields it every day to oppress he poor some more.
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  78. Cut the crap folks. Israel is steps ahead of what trump world is only dreaming of and Genocide Joe is actively supporting them. Do you really want to be complicit?
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  79. At this moment he is competently supporting genocide. It would be nice and make it easier for people to vote for him if he would instead make a credible effort to stop it.
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  80. It would be nice if the next 4 years could be less janosidal than the current term.
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  81. It took me a while to figure out, this must have been a football match (I know, "soccer"), probably in England. How disappointing.
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  82. There's a whole bunch of them in Israel going full fascism. They already had apartheid and they killed the separation of powers just yesterday. So they're not immune to it for sure.
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  83. Hurray. Defending democracy at home, supporting fascism with everything it entails abroad.
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  84.  @heathermccall8015  No, he's not supporting Russia.
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  85.  @samholcombe3129  All very well, republicans are not in federal government. The US siding with what is possibly the most racist and fascist government of any country today, that is carrying out a violent genocide, is entirely on the Biden government and the democratic party condoning it. The Lincoln Project's message is not credible. It puzzles me what their motives are. Israel is steps ahead of what trump world is only dreaming of. Biden unconditionally supports them nonetheless and TLP totally ignores this and keeps portraying Biden as if he would be the lord and savior against fascism. I can only guess they are bought and paid for too and cannot afford to change course no matter what. Or they just don't care about democracy as much as they want you to believe and they are just working for the same folks that own Biden.
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  86. That musical score doesn't help. It makes an important message sound cheap, as if I am watching some run off the mill C-class action movie.
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  87. The irony is that fascists aren't true republicans, they are monarchists. They want an all mighty king to suck up to. And yet some want states to leave the federation. It makes no sense, idealogically.
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  88. She blinks a lot. I am inclined to believe that is just the chemicals from the pancake on her face rather then the lying and whatever is left of a concience acting up.
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  89. I suspect the lady who was so nice to offer MTG her pillow was not a republican. But I guess it was just too good to not include.
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  90. Yeah, vote blue and all. But is this bad? I understood he wants to legalize abortion up until about 3 months into the pregnancy, which is common in civilized countries. It seems to me he is picking up the pieces of the mess his fellow republicans made. Of course, promising to have a vote is a trick. With a republican majority that bill would not pass and that would be it.
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  91. ​ @Themadcelticshoe No, them guys want to allow parents and their doctors and their child to make a good decision for their child. Democrats as a political party have no interest in this. Big pharma may have. Actively selling meds to patience is a problem, hence your opioid crisis for instance. Allowing capitalism to run health care is purely a right wing made problem. Most countries have something better and cheaper that primarily helps patients. But this wasn't about health care, was it? "You guys" want to prevent children to learn anything about history by banning books and instead pushing a state narrative. Are you OK with that?
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  92. This would have made sense if we had not seen the current administration wholeheartedly support fascism and crack down on people opposing it.
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  93. Black people cheering on Hitler... It doesn't get any better than that. There weren't enough black people in Germany at the time to get people worked up about. To him and his lot though they would have ranked shortly after Bonobo's.
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  94. Now that's energy. That's enthusiasm. Who said anything about trump fatigue?
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  95. Having big business pay their fair share of taxes is a bad thing now? That whole special status thing was indefensible from the start. It seems to me they are finally doing something right. If they want to crack down on air travel companies for having pink planes rather than for destroying the planet, by all means, please do.
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  96. I wonder how this would help Republicans. Democrats know what this is about, they won't be tempted. Plus, they all hate Manchin. Republicans who are not keen on Trump but are reluctant to vote democrat however would seem more likely to be tempted and split the republican vote. And there are a lot of those. Am I missing something?
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  97. 1:11 Oh, the irony.
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  98. Yes, literally. Let that sink in. Your "democracy" was fucked long before trump.
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  99. PAB. I looked it up and learned something.
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  100. Same ad that worked for MTG.
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  101. Stop it folks, ultimately they all roll with the money, Joe Biden no less than the others. Look at him lay at Bibi's feet, serving the most racist fascist government in the world, making money for the war machine. This is just another ad in that same circus. Democracy is merely used as a word here to make you believe there's good and bad, as Hollywood has taught you. In the three presented options there is no good and bad, they're all more of the same bad, just different names.
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  102. That background music turns a significant speech into a mockery.
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  103. Better publish the names of democrats in congress who oppose a ceasefire in Gaza. That would be more meaningful right now. This is no time to praise Joe Biden.
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  104. The AIPAC's preditor is approaching... Was I the only one hearing that?
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  105. Alright, you want every member of Hamas dead. Suppose you get that, what will be your excuse to continue to defend Israel for what they have been doing to the Palestinian people for decades? Hamas is being used as an excuse, as a justification for decades of human rights violations. Isn't it GREAT they (allegedly) killed babies? This makes it so much easier to ignore all Palestinians for at least another ten years and steal more of their land. And now Israel is starving Gaza, 2 million people (which they can because they control everything that goes in and out of there). And you and your president will conveniently look the other way again like you have been doing for 75 years. Because "terrorism". The inappropriate outrage seen in the US and Europe, over this rare act of resistance against an oppressor who has all the power, is quite appalling.
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  106. This sounds surreal at a time things are falling apart for him personally and the US alike.
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