Comments by "" (@charlesvan13) on "Sargon of Akkad on Liberalism, Intersectionality u0026 Immigration" video.

  1. The "experts" were also saying the US economy would be hurt (irreparably) by Trump's election. Paul Krugman (Nobel Prize economics): "the economy will never recover from a Trump presidency." But then unemployment dropped, GDP growth increased, and the stock market went up. It's genuinely astounding how someone lauded, like Krugman, can be wrong more consistently than someone with a highschool education. He also predicted, around 2000, that the internet would have an insignificant effect on culture and economics.
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  2. I never was impressed by Paul Krugman. He always sounded like a mediocrity. Every single one of his NY Times articles is in favor of high government spending Kensianism. But then he never intelligently makes his case. He just complains that it is obviously true to any smart person, and the people opposed to it are just bad racist people. The masses are correct to be suspect of elites. It's some phenomenon of being educated beyond your intelligence. Another person like that is Rachel Maddow; a Rhodes scholar, who promotes the goofiest conspiracy theories on her show. She routinely hypes up mundane stories, even when she knows better. Just a couple days ago it was "The Trump white house edited out part of the press audio for the meeting in Helsinki." It was the press pool copy, unedited. And of course, it wasn't even over anything. She thought they edited out the question to Putin "Did you prefer Trump in the election?" Everyone knows the Russians prefer Trump, or anyone who's not a neocon, over Clinton.
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  3. In 1998 Paul Krugman wrote: "By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's." That's not just wrong, it's one of the most ridiculous statements I've heard.
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  4. One can be highly educated and really dumb. Krugman actually recommended that Greenspan cause a housing bubble in 2004. Dubya may be dumb, but he's not that dumb.
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  5. I always wondered why people like Thunderfoot through a fit over Brexit, but were fine with Scotland leaving the U.K. The EU is just an organization, like the UN, while the UK is a nation that has existed for centuries.
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