Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "The Lincoln Project" channel.

  1. One thing that surprised me is how calm and collected Nancy was despite the situation.
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  2. As an Aussie please save your country, we in Australia have agreements which should be honored, we gave up the idea of nuclear weapons because we have an agreement in place, I don't trust the Republicans especially Trump to honor that agreement. Please vote Blue, I am a center right Australian.
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  3. To the second question, yes he's on Russian tv all the time. The beautiful thing about it for Russia is they can do honest direct translation and limited editing, no need to make stuff up.
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  4. I am not American but have to say this really really effective. I have biological niece and non biological niece and this ad would work on me if i was American.
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  5. She is like your friends, she just parroting Putin's position which is indirectly Trump's position as he referred to Putin as a genius for invading.
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  6.  @KittykatOz  American Exceptionalism is inward looking arrogance that the US is always the best. If the US is always exceptional then no reason to look at why other countries are better on whatever key measure is being looked at. So excuses are then made of it being someone else's fault.
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  7. He is so blatent about it, that's the amazing thing. It's the thing that I believe will lose him the election. It's not a given but some who would support him otherwise would think this is crossing the line, they would prefer the other candidate win rather than these really dirty tactics.
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  8. It's virtually a carbon copy of the original " it's morning in America" ad for Ronald Reagan. Search for it and you should be able to find it. Ronald Reagan was probably turning over in his grave from what his Make America Great Again slogan became, now he can rest in peace again and don't think he would mind the Morning in America being used for Biden. Biden has much more of the characteristics of Reagan than Trump will ever have.
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  9. Anyway most federally elected Republicans have already caught the virus , so what conclusions should one reach? Speaking from another land so not my business but just curious.
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  10. There is a bit of whoever keeps their mouth shut has a better chance. Both candidates are prone to major stuff ups but one is President so can't go completely silent especially now because he has made himself almost a daily news item.
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  11. @Real M You mean the people afflicted with the America Virus known as Qanon, unfortunately it has infected the English speaking world. It'll go away I expect but needs time and the infection rates outside of the US aren't quite as bad.
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  12.  @bignose8614  Nah, my observation from Australia is Trump is highly problematic but Johnson is maybe not the best choice but he doesn't incite social division or certainly not in the way Trump does. Division in the US is the greatest threat to their country in a way.
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  13. That's the playbook of every authoritarian.
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  14. Video games are nothing to do with anything, every wealthy country has equal access to video games however one country the US has a homicide rate 5 times that of the average wealthy country and guns (peaceful people with guns would not be a big issue but the US isn't peaceful) and culture are to blame.
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  15. Reed Galen's appeal is great, I would seriously consider sending you money but I'm Australian and even if I could get around donation rules I wouldn't want to. I send my best wishes, while I think your democracy needs to be refurbished as in the constitution needs changing first you need to keep it a democracy before considering what needs to be changed.
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  16. Hey that's not fair, Mary Trump is against many of the things Donald does.
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  17. Obviously it will be Toyota Corporation USA or whatever it's called. Should corporations be allowed to contribute political donations , in my opinion no and unfortunately it's the same in Australia. If you want any sort of free market allowing only US majority owned corporations to donate well what do you think would happen. Same thing laws will start to be put in place to protect the US companies at the expense of the consumer. Truth is that already happens to some extent in the US which is a bit protectionist.
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  18. Good ad.
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  19.  @Dandelionfleur  Don't sugar-coat the numbers , excess deaths are more than 300,000 and most of the non Covid 19 deaths are to do with the handling of the pandemic.
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  20. The Communist Party of China is anti union too, how about that.
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  21. Didn't mind the Christian Taliban guy, at least he's honest about the policies which makes him more honorable than the rest.
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  22. Historically that's not the way it tends to go unless you are a racial or ethnic group they don't like, the regular way is you put a Trump flag on your balcony or in your yard so you won't be attacked. The US isn't like that yet but viewing from afar it seems like some rural pockets in certain states aren't that far away from becoming like that.
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  23. I have read through the comments on this thread. Don't you realise those passionate about Trump and those passionate about getting rid of him are peas in the same pod quite often. Until you as Americans can talk to each other without insults not much can change. See who voted for Trump who is his base? It's the "disadvantaged" poor white male. White males in the US are much more likely to die a violent death than any other group due to suicide plus of course but at a lower rate homicide. Don't listen to these people s concerns at your peril. Same applies on the other side the poor minorities with the Democrats taking advantage of them. What is the difference with a poor racist white and a poor racist black? They are the same , but open racism towards white people is currently actually acceptable. Even in some cases when the mayor is black , the police chief is black and officers involved in an incident are black it's still the white man in control apparently. Think about that. Best of luck to your nation but you need to bridge the gap in talking first and then look at disadvantaged communities regardless of racial make up as the same as most of the problems are the same. Inflaming each other can never produce long term results.
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  24.  @phyrestorm999  I understand your electoral college system which is sort of like the Senate system of many countries ensuring that minorities (by state population) get a more significant voice. I think it is appropriate for a Senate but for your president I think every citizen should get an equal vote noting millions of citizens have no right to vote. If it's a really small territory no harm done and is relatively normal around the world however elimination of about 1% of citizens who reside in Puerto Rico is wrong. Another serious problem is states decide on electoral boundaries in a partisan manner and decide on eligibility criteria and voting procedures and rules. A true overhaul us required. Australian has a very different form of government with independent state and federal electoral commissions deciding electoral boundaries and enforcing the rules of the Federal or State jurisdiction ( in the case of a state election) and the problems I described don't exist here.
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  25.  @joostdriesens3984  RINO is Republican in name only. It's about hunting members of his own party who he doesn't agree with. This isn't even against the opposite party.
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  26. I am not American but seems a bad system, getting rid of the electoral college would change nothing much actually without making voter eligibility uniform across the US . Every state can make their own criteria regarding felons or ex felons. Number of polling booths per potential voter needs to be written into law, the worst case I have heard of is one voting location for 700,000 people or something like that. The constitution regarding this doesn't need an oil change it needs the engine reconditioned. The oil change won't do anything much on it's own because the other problems will get worse.
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  27. President Joe's the man, a real man, of course not perfect but but one of the greatest USA presidents ever.
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  28. Wouldn't she be considered a moderate these days?
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  29. Actually rats as taste testers isn't a bad idea, I am guessing a rat would run away from KFC or McDonald's if it can smell other options because the food not healthy enough.
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  30. He does because he treats them with respect and listens. Trump was an autocrat who listened to no one and even worse he would offend anyone, actually offended allies as often if not more often than adversary. He certainly never offended Putin.
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  31.  @peoplewatchingtoday7231  I know the majority of the population might not be like her but 20% of the population is large enough to say normal. One in 5 people give or take are like her. In some states it's possibly over 50% and the majority. I am not saying the majority are like her , in the end Trump didn't get re elected.
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  32. I hope things go ok with your daughter. It's completely abnormal for a person your daughters age to have any real interest or knowledge about politics other than who the president is (exception rare individuals who might find it interesting at that age , however they won't be name calling others if that's the case).
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  33. Good puns
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  34. The numbers are scary. 60,000 had died back then , now look at the numbers. Get vaccinated people.
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  35.  @phyrestorm999  a clear majority stops any challenges and provides a sort of higher legitimacy to whoever might be president next year.
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  36. What about the millions of sheep following Comrade Tucker Carlson who just yesterday got them to believe that the US is funding a bioweapons lab. Even showed a clip of Zhao Lijiang , the propaganda mouthpiece of China running similar conspiracy theories. Now that Trump's gone they might have the phone numbers of Zhao Lijiang and Sergei Lavrov to make sure they are in complete alignment. It's funny countries banning CGTN and RT but still allowing Fox to operate.
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  37. They can't in areas where hospitals fill up and lots of evidence it's harming the healthcare workers mentally. I am in a country where the virus has been contained and my observation is in some countries including the US the medical staff are not being cared for or recognized as much as they should be.
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  38. The US is a strange country, basically the toughest vaccination requirements on the planet for entry into schools especially in Mississippi being the toughest of tough rules. Then Covid 19 comes along and Donald Trump politicizes it and supports antivaxxers who support himself undermining his only achievement on the covid 19 response making that fail too. The US was the fastest to make vaccines available and has ended up with the world's lowest vaccination rate for a wealthy country (Hong Kong being an exception and failed even worse getting aged people vaccinated however I expect they are correcting that now). Things could have been so different, US people aren't intrinsically different to say UK or Canadian people it's the government that's intrinsically different where almost one entire side of politics will watch hundreds of thousands die and support the conspiracy theories because they think it's politically advantageous. If Trump handled covid 19 better he would still be president. So that's your only consolation prize, a different president.
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  39. Gage King Trump mentioned several times that maybe he'll get a third term and if you haven't noticed he still hasn't conceded his defeat yet, the first US president not to do so, he claims to be the president in exile right now. You must be aware of that fact right.
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  40. I always wonder if Rupert Murdoch wasn't given US citizenship which he needed to create Fox News etc. in the US and he was still in Australia would things in the US and Australia be different. Murdoch does control a lot of media in Australia but only Sky News Australia is sort of equivalent to Fox and doesn't have quite the same following I think.
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  41. It's true and it's not, the combination of Trump and Fox "News" is a propaganda rival to the Communist Party of China and just like Wumaos, Trump Republicans only believe their trusted sources which only includes one MSM channel Fox News. Trump supporters and Wumaos are very similar in fact, they both hate Australia, they both believe the "facts they have researched" many of both groups are outright racial supremacists.
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  42. I wouldn't go that far but on the international stage he's far far better than Trump and has united countries rather than trying to divide and insult everyone. Biden is a true diplomat and listens to other world leaders. One recent meeting stands out, he called a virtual meeting of the Quad , leaders of Japan, India and Australia and himself. Pretty sure questions were asked of the Indian PMs position on Ukraine because of their abstention on the UN vote condemning Russia. Whatever was said in that meeting we don't know, if it was Trump assuming he didn't green light the Ukrainian invasion which he probably would have he would be bad mouthing Modi , that's how Trump is.
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  43. He's literally killing people internationally by cutting off USAID.
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  44. I am a bit of an alcoholic so for entertainment purposes only i wouldn't mind having a drink with Hegseth.
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  45.  @jeffanderson7591  I agree Trump defected to the side of the virus after a 2 week soft lockdown he started pressuring states to reopen, from memory it was actually that quick because had to reopen by Easter at the latest. In Australia we held out against the virus for 2 months and all but one state succeeded in no more harsh lockdown, the remaining state that had a second lockdown harder than the first has now succeeded and only 17 cases of community transmission confined to 2 states in the last 7 days.
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  46. As an outsider I agree it's technically possible but unfortunately highly unlikely. If Democrats keep the House and Senate that would be great.
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  47. With LED actually that's fairly bright.
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  48.  @BroadwayJosh  Rupert Murdoch has been a proud American for 35 years and not an Australian citizen. He's all yours mate and we don't want him , our Murdoch owned Sky News Australia is bad enough, sometimes as bad as Fox News.
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  49. Almost all white racists prefer Trump and almost all black racists prefer Democrats. It doesn't say much at all actually, most people will not vote for one party or another based on this issue alone. There is clearly a number of white and black people that would prefer segregation in the US. So this might be your only issue but if you are totally against racism then you can't really support either party by your own standard. I am not American and thank goodness my country Australia although not perfect isn't that bad. Ask yourself why Hispanic people of any race including a white immigrant from Spain that just got off the plane or a black person from Africa might be able to access programs involving affirmative action in the USA. If you can answer my question with logic you have lost the plot, as your country has. I wish you the best of luck.
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  50.  @davidpaz9389  Are you vaccinated?
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  51. You can only send a 48 day eviction notice so be a little patient and have to wait until the eviction notice is certified.
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  52.  @avengingmime  it's still sharia which roughly translates as religious law.
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  53. Unfortunately you are absolutely correct. Are you for Putin or real democracy?
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  54. I do think this ad is particularly heavy hitting because it's a man that is universally seen as a good guy. I am not American and I think he is a hero in the true sense.
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  55.  @tenderbrown74  your comment is interesting, hopefully those in your state dig a bit deeper as in how much energy and at what stage those untaxed corporations get cut off from electricity. Chances are unfortunately while paying no tax they have the cheapest and most reliable electricity. I am not saying that's the case but if I was Texan I would be looking in that direction.
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  56. Looking from the Australian context, I don't think Americans are in the center at all. Your idea of center is far right or left and has been forever basically. While you might rate reasonably high you don't really believe in free trade and rank 25 on the economic freedom index. You give handouts to heaps of big corporations in various ways using tax dollars especially in healthcare. That's far right , the center gives handouts to humans in need which the US doesn't like to do because corporate donors to political parties are too important to consider the people. You have far right wing everyone has the right to semiautomatic weapons to kill as many people as they want until the good guy with a gun takes you out which is often after 20 deaths or so plus many others injured. This is not a second amendment issue otherwise fully automatic weapons could not have been banned but in effect they are. Then like recently with debt forgiveness of student loans you lean to the far left. There's nothing in the center in the US, constantly leaning far left or right and creating a complete mess for a wealthy country, highest homicide rate, median adult wealth not even making the top 20 yet somewhere about number 5 for average adult wealth , lowest life expectancy despite by far highest overall spending on healthcare. The US is simply the wealthiest most powerful developing nation on the planet.
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  57. You already know their answer to that , more guns and arm every teacher.
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  58. That's the day of the notice , not the possible eviction.
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  59. It's irrelevant because the trial has partisan jurors, that is Republican senators. Jurors even in a court room can't be charged with anything for deliberately letting someone off. They can only get in trouble for lying when questioned during jury selection, however this does no apply to the impeachment.
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  60. This ad was powerful and well made.
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  61. The reverse Midas touch.
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  62. You need a preferencial voting system or automatic run off , same thing but has different terminology in different places. But you also need one vote one person and for the Federal government to run it because eligibility differs in each state. Until those issues are fixed almost no candidate will be considered legitimate by all.
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  63. If it was the early 70s he would probably be in jail by now.
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  64.  @danpictish5457  That's tough, I hope you are doing ok and take care of yourself.
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  65.  @ewrock7635  If you are genuine in your comment, I would suggest life has to move on, unfortunately can't save those who refuse to get vaccinated and can't keep trying to protect them when they refuse to follow rules anyway. I am in Queensland Australia and we went from Covid 0 to opening up and very few mask mandates left, just vulnerable settings such as hospitals and nursing homes. Of course it's sad to see so many dying.
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  66. Hey why did they put Gorbachev in there, he was a good person ending the Soviet Union. He wouldn't endorse Putin's behaviour.
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  67. Go and watch Fox, OAN and Newsmax for 1 week 5 hours a day plus a couple of hours on private Facebook groups of the Q genre. No other sources of information permitted. Next week you'll be telling me how your current statement was all wrong and how you have seen the light. Unfortunately the damage does cross borders, an example is the conspiracy theory which was started outside of Australia regarding relatively remote indigenous people but they all have access to social media and they became terrified that the Northern Territory government was taking them away to be killed rather than quarantine to save lives, I actually stumbled accross a clip of an indigenous person who felt like this was happening to other community members and was genuine as far as I could tell. While the majority would not think like this can you imagine thinking that way, that you are being led to your death.
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  68.  @txrick4879  Speaking as an Australian in a generally right leaning state totally agree with your assessment. Regardless of party every state will keep it's character, which is a good thing and why a Federation can be successful. Leaving any one party in power too long causes problems because they become lazy and don't care, this is human nature, if nothing else good make the Republicans fight to keep the state. Also I think doing that one box per county crap will backfire big time , if something like that was done to me I would make sure I vote against them now, it would certainly motivate me big time because it's not acceptable. Best of luck from Queensland Australia.
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  69. If you compare to best practice or at least attempted best practice if you add East Asian and South East Asia and Australasia together, it's a population over 2,000,000,000 and less than 1,000,000 cases, compare that to the US. Unfortunately some countries like Philippines and Indonesia probably can't stop it but they are low income countries with crowded slums where it's near impossible to stop but at least they have achieved slowing it down and tried.
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  70. Finally, while it doesn't fix every problem or even come close at least one part of the public healthcare spend in theory is going to be at market rates, not drug companies setting non market prices.
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  71. No idea, I am from a part of the world where the vast majority believe in doing what has to be done to protect our society. We are referred to as the [communist] dictatorship of Australia. There's a lot of irony in that statement, Right wing Communist Party of China has plenty of racial supremacists and has declared Australia to be the enemy, the US is referred to as a country that they want to work with. The enemy of my enemy is my friend comes to mind. Trumpers and CPC loyalists actually agree on a lot of things especially when it comes to Australia. For more info go look at the main CGTN channel on YouTube and read through comments whenever Australia is mentioned.
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  72. Pol Pot did that but with ruthless efficiency killing all the academics.
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  73.  @jocelynjohnston8257  sky News is English and owned by some American company ( Murdoch sold out years ago ) , Sky News Australia is still Murdoch controlled and from some things I have seen not sure which one a bit more extreme but my money on the Australian one when it comes to supporting Trump, amazingly Trump supporters flocked to it when Fox was out of favour.
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  74. They can't see that happening any time soon though and the second in line DeSantis seems like the same but smarter many describe him as
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  75. No , you can say you hope they get voted out. Trump tried doing what you suggest actually but the military didn't go along with it, be thankful that is the case.
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  76. Some of you have said has it always been there under the surface and the answer is of course, look at any dictatorship in history but especially Japan and Germany because we all know them from WWII , think how those populations behaved with probably 90% support. In other words only a small minority of us are capable of withstanding brainwashing, you will never know you are that way unless you become brainwashed but at some point realise that was the case and consider yourself stupid which is psychologically very hard. So vast majority have it in us, stress and having no control over something is apparently a precursor for believing in conspiracy theories, so for many covid 19 has reinforced there support for and belief in Trump.
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  77. @Chris Koczka looking from Australia it's interesting and disturbing at the same time. The US has become so polarized, I doubt that these things are occurring in Australia to anywhere near the same extent. It's hard to see how the US will change course at the moment. Of course I hope it does.
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  78.  @greenbrain8725  I would suggest they are hangers on, take Trump away and even the modern MAGA supporters don't care, they will crash and burn. I say modern MAGA because it's a slogan originally from Reagan and that was mostly not the same.
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  79. Conservative is the opposite of radical. So radicals like the fellow in the clip are smart, could have fooled me.
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  80. Hope you are doing ok and making some sort of recovery. Take care and best of luck.
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  81. The Jan6ers might very well become vigilantes hunting down illegal immigrants. If i was a legal or illegal immigrant in the US i would be afraid of these people.
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  82. The pre eminent Q representatives are actually female. They are spearheading this.
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  83. Yes it was a Reagan ad and Make America Great Again was a Reagan slogan, I think what it became would have him turning over in his grave but he would be ok with this pro Biden ad and can rest in peace now. Search for the morning in america ad you should be able to find it.
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  84. Can't be certain of that, if didn't do it wouldn't someone else have emerged in the same space?
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  85. I know if he was in Australia or New Zealand and an election was held with Trump being the leader of a party, noting our different system that party would be crushed to the point of becoming a minor fringe party. He could never become leader of a major party though because he is very inflammatory and divisive.
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  86. They have youtube analytics which would give a fairly accurate count of who the viewers are.
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  87. I think it's mauve at the moment.
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  88.  @agriperma  If you look historically many Jews were for Hitler in the beginning. I remember seeing some documentary and the person speaking was a child at the time of Hitler's rise and there was old film or photos of him in his pint sized NAZI uniform. Trump is certainly good at propaganda and like it or not many Hispanic people listen to Trump saying Biden is like Castro and will turn the US into a communist country. Normally a reasonable person would just say that's ridiculous but go and look at a Trump rally in Florida , some people believe him or at very least think it's ok to make that argument.
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  89.  @agriperma  thanks for that, interesting. I am not American so don't really know much.
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  90. As Islamic terrorists are often converts the same is true of people who change from far left or right to the opposite, they are the most radical. Funnily enough diehard Trump supporters are genuine bonafide socialists, they loved his anti free market rhetoric and how the US was going to fence itself off from the rest of the world. Unfortunately the Biden position seems little different.
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  91. It doesn't matter because Trump says you can't believe the data of any other countries, but he can't say anything because we are allies. He actually said that about South Korea but to a Trump devotee all the countries in the West Pacific including Australia my country and New Zealand are lying and don't test much. Of course we don't test much if it's only precautionary in many cases. We are advised in Australia and NZ and I am guessing other countries also any symptoms no matter how small please get tested.
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  92.  @paulklp8262  destroyed is a bit strong, reformed if possible in both cases, not saying it's possible or not I don't know. Personally I think the Republican Party will change over time , less likely the CPC.
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  93.  @thisisisabella3634  A far right socialist crushes the workers in favour of the corporations. In totally free market no regulations would exist for workers and employers which doesn't work that's why every country on the planet has a minimum wage and most places will limit how easily a boss can fire a worker and how easily a union can strike. China has 100 USD billionaires in parliament , they are considered part time and they meet once a year usually to vote on legislation. From memory called the standing committee or something like that. Think about that number of billionaires and how many in US parliament which you call congress. I know people from the US tend to think of socialism as social welfare only but corporate welfare is fine and protectionism is fine. Having higher levels of corporate welfare like agricultural subsidies and less social welfare normally ( not counting pandemic handouts) doesn't make a country less socialist. If you look at the US in the economic freedom index by Heritage Foundation the US is fairly highly rated but still a long way from the top, this index is the best guide to how socialist a country is, however it does include corruption which isn't a socialist or non socialist thing which might skew things a bit.
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  94. Speaking as an Aussie, some of your candidates for significant government positions are as scary as hell. In Australia we have some who are a bit crazy but actually I support them, they aren't from the 2 major parties and will never have real power but keep free speech alive so that they can be rebuked. Just saying I guess actually vote for these crazies if they aren't from a major as in 2 party system otherwise be scared as hell they could actually be governing you.
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  95. Run with their own argument against them, pretty sure Republican states on average spend less on healthcare and education than Democrat states. However the Republicans are big spenders when it comes to their higher prison populations on average. When locking people up is the policy in it of itself something isn't right.
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  96. Maybe it's someone can't have everything, I consider her very attractive physically but nuts.
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  97.  @finn8248  calm down if you can for your own sake. Things will change I believe , but only if American look outside of the US. If the majority which still seems to be the case accepts some of the highest healthcare costs for a government because uneven social medicine is good versus the communist cheaper option adopted by all other OECD countries. Note no country prohibits people travelling to the US and buying the possibly superior non emergency care. The federal voting system is crap because you don't actually have one, eligibility is decided by state. How about having a government run by elected officials rather than the elected king chooses the unelected executive government. The US had possibly the best democratic system for a nation about 220 years ago. At the time a musket was a sophisticated military weapon and having a wagon with true round wheels was the state of the art. Your democracy is like those other examples, don't hang on to it, appreciate history and move on.
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  98. I am guessing permission was granted to use these names at least I hope so because otherwise the families could be very annoyed that a dead loved one is being used in a political campaign.
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  99. They control government why would they attack the other side right now? Election time yes go for it but not now.
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  100. The move to the Whitehouse means less scrutiny on his illness, Trump doesn't really care because if he dies not his problem and if he doesn't it's a lot easier to hide him for a few days inside the Whitehouse. He still has a full medical team available and pretty likely the Whitehouse always had a full intensive care setup inside the Whitehouse if something was to ever happen and traveling wasn't advisable, I would put money on it there is a mechanical ventilator there. If he is not seen for a few days get suspicious and look out for prerecorded videos that might be tweeted.
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  101.  @kelperdude  you're one of these nutters I think who will simultaneously claim Biden is just following the Trump plans on vaccine rollout and overall approach on this matter ( and you would be correct except a little more organized) and Biden is communist wanting to lockdown the country ( you would be incorrect, he has done nothing more than asked people to wear masks which is pretty pointless because only minimal benefit on its own) despite media rhetoric border still wide open just like with Trump only stopping foreigners from entry, meaningless probably USA isn't exactly a sought after tourist destination at the moment actually. Policy almost identical but Biden at least isn't encouraging people to get infected, so he jumped the bar for current US political standards.
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  102. It's in the eye of the beholder. Trump supporters are in alignment with Putin and Xi, so they would refer to China and Russia as allies and visa versa. Looking from afar even if Biden isn't perfect it's far better than the last guy and least know that the US is an ally. To be fair Trump didn't do anything bad with the US Australian relationship but he did do some harm in Europe I believe which Biden has corrected.
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  103. @netherkevin  you're entitled to your opinion.
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  104. Trump said within the last day if the voting rights act passes Republicans will never win again on Fox news as shown on YouTube. I think an ad of that might be helpful. This ad a bit confusing.
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  105. Technically the charismatic one in the ad was Osama I thought.
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  106. Hope you are doing ok now. You take care of yourself.
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  107. WABTT doesn't have the same ring to it as MAGA.
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  108. To be fair 2 comments were correct. "It'll go away eventually "and " it'll probably get worse before it gets better"
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  109.  @oldfogey4679  the last election was not contested but quite a few people not happy winning popular vote by 3,000,000 which was a losing election. So there are many who would prefer a popular vote. As far as saying you don't trust the mob with nuclear weapons and a million strong army, instead you trust 50 different governments to carry out an election to a high standard is rather surprising and surprises me that anyone agrees that different rules for eligibility in all those states is seen as fair.
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  110. Replace "civil army" with "militia groups" and your comment is more meaningful.
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  111. At the moment the Russia Ukraine war is contained, elect the Republicans it might not be, while I think Australia could contribute a little more , we aren't the US, you by agreement have nuclear weapons and we don't. Please vote Blue the Republicans and or Trump may well start WWIII.
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  112. He would write it and knowing how things likely work a lawyer would probably check it over.
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  113. The only export from Australia that is almost something to be ashamed of. You guys should consider vetting the millionaires in future. Indirectly because of current events as in covid 19 Fox News has killed more than any terrorist could ever dream of and many of the Fox followers are quite happy about the situation.
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  114. I agree with your sentiment however that is the US system, the operational government is run by 1 individual who nominates the entire government, secretaries of this and that. I am Australian and the idea that one person nominates elected or unelected officials to make up the cabinet seems absurd. You have an elected king or queen operating in a similar fashion to an absolute monarchy. The US Constitution was great over 200 years ago, now it's actually a rather backward document.
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  115. This one is a ten out of 10 troll.
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  116.  @bigdaddyjim9135  what's wrong and stupid? Give me some context.
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  117. He wouldn't be allowed in another country at the moment, he's still infected and even after that he could only enter most other countries if it's for government business which sort of means he would need an invitation. Maybe Brazil or UK where they understand infected heads of government lol.
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  118. In Australia we had Kevin 07. This Kevin is only trying to get the highest backbencher position. Literally 0 power why on earth does he even care?
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  119. Here's an interesting thing that might relate to what you say, really I don't know what to make of it. China's position is they want to talk to the US to sort out differences which has been far more aggressive than Australia in my opinion but that could be my bias speaking and maybe China doesn't see it that way, however simultaneously it also holds the position which they have held since Australia called for the WHO enquiry into the origins of covid 19 that Australia shouldn't be communicated with until it complies with settling some Chinese grievances, one grievance I found particularly interesting and that was that Australian media outlets including our government funded one even if not explicitly stated are reporting negative things about China. Both Australian political parties on the core issues relating to China totally agree with each other but do disagree at the edges in how this might be best dealt with communication wise from my impression.
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  120. @Gage King You didn't notice January 6, that wasn't a peaceful transfer of power that was a failed coup d'etat. Yes he failed , failure doesn't change the moral culpability.
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  121. @Gage King He referred to BLM riots as peaceful, that crowd understood what peaceful meant and they followed his orders extremely quickly actually, when he said go home after 3 hours they did. Every convicted rioter so far has said they were doing it for Trump and it's laughable that they were doing it for Biden because as you know he already had the votes, they didn't need to do anything to ensure the victory of someone that had already won. Reason nobody in Congress was harmed is because they failed to get to them.
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  122. @Gage King You are a fool , what makes you think I am left or right. How is saying BLM rioters burning down cities whilst being called peaceful by Trump at every rally left or right, just like saying the Jan 6 attempted coup d'etat failed. Some did bring fire arms and as we know from Oath keepers texts they failed to get there weapons on site. Failure after failure for the coup attempt, it was still a coup attempt by a bunch of losers if you want to call them that.
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  123. We just need the US to honor it's agreements. Trump unfortunately indicated he wouldn't.
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  124. Kari Lakes comment was on point, she agreed she is an election denying deplorable. As someone looking in from the outside, support this position of hers.
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  125.  @davidpaz9389  Not knowing if it was your choice , Biden couldn't convince people of the same political leaning as you to take Trump's vaccine, hence the US problems regarding covid 19. Not sure why you blame Biden for the behaviour of Trump supporters who don't trust the Trump vaccines.
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  126. Most authoritarianism is through money not guns, create the laws that favor one group over another and you can oppress them, they will even vote in favor of their own oppression if the propaganda is good enough. Case in point the socialist US spends more on publically funded healthcare than Australia on a per capita basis yet we have universal healthcare. Although so far I have never actually got a response defending higher taxes for less services to this comment I have put literally 100 times or so , it's clear to me this makes people uncomfortable. I have had a couple of responses saying that they want to buy insurance etc. well nothing stopping people doing that in Australia should you choose that. Apparently low cost universal services (the savings are in part from those who want to buy their own at minimal subsidies) is communist, I would argue it's common sense, I hate high taxes and my money being burnt.
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  127. Maybe run the new Tucker position which a day or so ago was actually Biden's position and he going after Adam Kinzinger. Don't worry Tucker will probably change back again, whatever he thinks viewers want at the time, basically a media prostitute.
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  128. She is normal, there's at least 50 million more just like her in the US. Watch only Fox and a few far right conspiracy channels for a month and see how hard it is to keep your current opinions. It'll be harder than you think.
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  129. Imagine if you refused to watch any of the smaller mainstream media and only went for watching the biggest of the biggest mainstream media company's Fox News and instead of actually watching their news which on their YouTube channel is almost non existent and chose or can only get YouTube to just listen to editorial from Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingram et. al. Trust me or experiment yourself do that for just one week and you will start to believe Joe is the devil or something. CNN or MSNBC aren't much better in editing out things that don't support their agenda but the editorial for the most part isn't anything like that on Fox.
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  130. I saw a clip of Bannon on Rachel Maddow's show on MSNBC's YouTube channel I think it was. Bannon's plan is fill all the secretary of state positions with Trump loyalists who will refuse to certify election results etc. to create a constitutional crisis. That's consistent with the attempted coup d'etat on Jan 6. So long as Trump is still alive you will have problems.
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  131. I have to laugh, really a population of a few million in the hurricane path and 4 thefts have occured. Most absurd thing I have ever heard.
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  132. Trump probably isn't a direct threat but he has radicalised many, it only takes a few of them to become terrorists and they can do a lot of damage. Trump used rhetoric that for example the Oklahoma Bomber used. Economically he has done a lot of damage because the US government debt has skyrocketed especially with his handling of covid 19. If Biden's tax plan gets through this might help a little but because your country is in a really deep hole getting out will become more difficult I expect but being the biggest economy in the world you can get away with things other countries can't. The corporate welfare in the US doesn't make up for lack of social welfare for humans and this is the most stark difference between a country like my country Australia and the US. Australia is more free trade and less industry welfare but relatively effective social welfare. As an example the US governments spend more as a proportion of GDP on healthcare yet it's not universal and from a holistic approach has lower outcomes because life expectancy in the US is about 4 years lower. Covid 19 has shown how deficient the US health system from a holistic point of view is, 500 covid 19 tests in the US by the end of February and no contact tracing or quarantine to speak of , so hundreds of cases from China if that became millions of cases and much more cases came from Europe anyway with again no quarantine. In comparison Australia 10,000 tests by the end of February for 1 fifteenth of the population, contact tracing and quarantine for all arrivals, on testing South Korea with about 1 fifth the population of the US 100,000 tests by the end of February. US people could have handled it being done properly and Trump would be the greatest president ever but although the initial failures don't seem to be his fault the continued failure to the point of encouraging people to infect each other certainly was and to use his own words allowing the virus to spread throughout all states and territories he should be punished. Maybe he will be in the end we wait and see.
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  133. While I love it what's with the Channel 9 Australia cameraman clip from some time ago I am guessing, they could use anything against you.
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  134. I doubt it because any aggressive orders he gives will be met with very strong resistance. He can't really start any international problems because the US is a mess internally. He could I guess cause problems in the next week, I think it's only a matter of time before a highly armed "peaceful protest" goes horribly wrong, this is a real risk , no opinion if it could spread though. I am not American , just observation from afar.
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  135. ​@timemaytell4669 There would be mixed opinions about Trump in Australia. Go and check a few youtube clips on Sky News Australia, they're pretty much a carbon copy of Fox news. So people who watch them are Trump supporters. The thing about Trump is he is so unpredictable so the question is would he follow through with getting the US out of NATO for example. It seems for whatever reason Trump likes Russia and hates China which is completely inconsistent but makes sense in a protectionist way. This does mean however from an Australian perspective we are less concerned than the Europeans. Also Trump wanting to start a trade war with China will probably help countries like Australia and Canada as we compete with the US on agricultural products in particular and China of course will retaliate. Trump if he gets in and realised his tariffs on China plus 10% on all other countries will do the poor people in the US huge harm with more inflation on everything from food to electrical appliances. Australians really don't understand Americans and your politics because we think both sides are nuts in the US, no secure border, public healthcare spending in excess of Australia but not universal etc. and it seems like neither party wants to fix things that are truly broken. Internally you have very serious problems leading to the lowest outcomes in most metrics for a high income country.
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  136. That's the number 1 point, usually there aren't tanks rolling down the streets, in fact that's rare.
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  137. Basically a cry wolf defense would work. Even though people posting violent threats on Trump's own YouTube channel all Trump needs to say is I didn't believe them, militia groups have been threatening to overthrow the government since the civil war so I had no reason to believe that they would carry through. Truth is even the police didn't believe it which is why they were unprepared without any intervention from Trump. So you need hard evidence, Trump doesn't leave any hard evidence, he knows how to talk like a mob boss, in other words " take care of" could mean "kill" etc etc. Use common language and you can never be convicted.
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  138. I think you need to change your voting system. What is a 2 party duopoly state seems to have disadvantages. The extremes of both parties would join other political parties in a multi party system. Agree with all your comments though. But just suggesting real changes might be needed.
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  139. Next they'll be burning seatbelts, it's a logical progression after the masks.
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  140. Don't run this one, it looks like something I would see on CGTN. Amusing the converted will get you nowhere.
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  141. Unless you are clairvoyant how can you predict the future. Maybe the US needs to hit rock bottom and after that there's reform of the political system which appoints a limited term king at the moment and some adjustments to the constitution they consider a religious text. Not many political systems in the world have the entire executive government unelected and chosen by one person , the elected chief executive AKA president.
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  142. You can't say that the CEO of Toyota North America is a US citizen, he would have made the decision I would expect and I suspect he is getting unfriendly phone calls from Tokyo about now.
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  143. It's about numbers, Ukraine has 70 million people and so long as they are armed they can't be beaten. Texas only has 25 million or so, about the population of Afghanistan and that's hard enough to take as we know.
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  144. This is insane, he has agreed to cut social security and Medicaid. He will be blamed when that happens.
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  145. They probably don't vote.
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  146. I heard a cruel joke yesterday, the antivax nations should be given carbon credits for all the extra deaths resulting in lower carbon emissions. Anyway a proportion of them are actually stopping to breath on a daily basis in reference to your original point.
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  147. Seems they can't find the middle ground very easily.
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  148. The sound track is chilling.
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  149.  @eandsm4620  see the top 2 responses to the original comment, people confused about their friends/associates behaviour, I responded to that saying most of us can be brainwashed given the right environment, it doesn't mean someone was always like that.
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  150. I wouldn't think so.
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  151. Florida's real cases are set to explode, won't see any major rises in deaths for a few weeks yet because there is a delay from actions taken. The reason I say real case numbers is because if I am a Floridian and not in a high risk group and get infected I might not bother being tested because the virus is everywhere so I can't make any difference.
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  152. There's a bit of irony in the last comment "we're trying to burn the Republican Party to the ground", well so is Donald Trump, so an unusual coalition. Maybe you could do an "Unusual Coalition" Ad.
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  153. Strange comment
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  154. Even if you disagree with the sentiment, that last rap sounded pretty good actually.
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  155. Can only last another 10 years or so I would suggest, Trump isn't exactly a spring Chicken, he's an old rooster that will gone within about 10 years. However if he did get back in in 24 he will do as much damage as he can because he literally has a vendetta against the US itself because he was voted out.
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  156.  @williamm.3456  in answer to your hypothetical question, no idea, even she couldn't answer that because it never happened. I doubt the the motivation for the book is money because it probably wouldn't be much at all. Regardless it is wrong to act with prejudice against anyone. That is what people accuse Donald Trump of, if someone says everyone who is a relation through blood or marriage is as bad as Trump in the reasons someone has an opinion he is bad then the accuser is no better. Isn't that actually one of the reasons people don't like Trump? I am a foreigner and totally agree the US should control it's border for everyone concerned however Trump's rhetoric saying illegal immigrants are mostly rapists and murderers but some are not isn't helpful at all. That's just one example and given the US is a very violent country when compared to other high income countries making people angry isn't going to help the situation.
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  157. Trump has endured a couple of days of love however, one missed and one didn't get a chance to take a shot.
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  158.  @istvanglock7445  I haven't followed UK politics so I don't know.
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  159. Unfortunately he won and we must respect this.
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  160. Texas your governor has said stuff you I'm the man. A bit reminiscent of one of the final scenes of Training Day with Denzel Washington . Metaphorically speaking let this situation end the same way as the movie. I may not be American but I do share the same common values, if I saw this happening in a poor developing country I would feel sorry for the population. You are not a poor developing nation and have nothing to be afraid of. As bad as they are , you have the power , not them, procedures in place will ensure the vote count is fair and they can't stop that.
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  161. According to the doctors medical briefing he still has intensive medical care available in the Whitehouse with doctors and nurses available 24 7 or another way to put it he has better medical care available at " home" than an average person has in a hospital.
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  162. As "make America great again" was Reagan's slogan, he will be turning in his grave. It's like the swastika, previously it was a good symbol for everyone.
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  163. #DictatorsforTrump2020
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  164. Republican have a plan. That plan is currently to turn the US into an authoritarian state run by them.
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  165. Well I live in a "lockdown state" , the state of Queensland Australia, population 5 million, while things will change when borders are opened up in the future the current situation is everything open except free travel and 7 deaths from Covid 19 so far, or 28 deaths if you adjust to Florida population. I disagree that Florida got it right.
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  166.  @RebelEight-z7q  no 50% of voters many don't vote.
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  167. Republic versus monarchy indicates who the head of state is and nothing else. Whether a country is a current democracy depends how the government came to be, if Trump somehow hung onto power the US would not be a democracy for however long a period that lasted. How a democracy elects people is largely irrelevant. Australia is a constitutional monarchy, eg we have a Queen but we are certainly a democracy but with very significant differences in the operation of the government and all members of the government including executive positions are held by elected officials but the ruling party selects from within it's elected officials who does what. The Queen and the governor general or Queens representative do very little even though technically they have veto power for example under normal circumstances, about 50 years ago the opposition party held the senate and cut funding to the government which led to the Prime Minister being sacked and an election called, since that occured both parties have guaranteed they won't do that move again but of course that is a gentleman s agreement, Trump would do it for sure. A lot of things are held together by convention only not law as is the case everywhere. The US has one person the president who is head of state and the leader of the government and selects the entire executive government which is unelected. North Korea is officially a Republic but I would suggest in practice a monarchy and technically a democracy but one that doesn't really allow opposition parties.
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  168. Trump is actually extremely similar in behaviour and style to former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra . His base was the poor and the same sort of rhetoric coming from a billionaire who says he's not a politician. I believe Trump has probably studied up on how other leaders did what he has just done, I would say he has studied Reagan's success previously and the slogan Make America Great Again actually comes from the Reagan campaign. Trump is no Reagan though.
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  169. One thing that comes into play now is whether or not the President is in hospital on election day. Given the statistics available there will be somewhere between a third and 50% chance of this occuring. If he was to die from it and the theoretical possibility of this is probably around 4 to 5% based on data available this will likely occur after the election if it happens because in general it takes quite some time to kill you if you are receiving good hospital care which is certainly a given with this president. Let's hope if he does decide to take hydroxychloroquine it is a low dose because a high dose will increase the chance of death however a low dose may reduce the chance of death if not taken with too many other drugs overloading the liver.
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  170. The Lincoln Project can do ads that the Democrats can't. This ad is an example and would probably be seen as too risky for the Democrats to run it.
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  171. The dedication though is quite impressive.
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  172. If Trump is re elected it could be something to do with government debt. The stock market in the US is being supported by unsustainable budget deficits caused by very low taxes. The Congressional Budget Office which is non partisan was pointing the unsustainability of the federal government budget well before this year.
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  173. Even though a bit underhanded not a bad ad.
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  174. The speed at which such viruses mutate I wonder how many variants can be now considered made in the USA. New Zealand has just recently had issues and it's interesting to listen how they have tracked down the strain to give an idea of where it's from. In the US if they could do it you probably have like the New York strain and Texas strain etc.
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  175. The irony is that statement by Trump was correct. China did work hard and only a handful of cases ever went directly from China to the US. China has also defeated the virus for all intensive purposes. The millions of cases are home grown.
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  176. Based on other comments wait a couple of days because the queues will be terrible on the first 2 days.
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  177. Well things do magically disappear when you go 'round a corner. If you prefer burying your head in the sand like an ostrich and that apparently works for the ostrich because I guess it can remain still until trouble has passed. So don't knock Trump on his methods the Whitehouse isn't a beach with sand.
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  178. It's scary that the ad against him is he isn't a complete nutter. Wanting to keep guns out of the hands of gangsters and mentally ill, gee how radical.
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  179. I think this might actually be the best ad from Lincoln Project. The make disappear punchline is pretty good.
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  180. The video too long, that's why they have the 1 to 2 minute ads.
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  181. From the little I have heard about Critical Race Theory it's divisive and virtually states that an entire race of people who weren't even alive at the time are guilty of something. Do they teach that 90% of the slaves sent from Africa were sold by Africans for example which shows that the world was a pretty brutal place a couple of hundred years ago regardless of race, everyone was colonizing everyone else and enslaving them across all continents. It's only the US pretty much that can't come to terms with it's history and move on. While other countries like mine , Australia aren't perfect we seem to have less problems. This holiday is good and will help people move on I believe but CRT will send you backwards.
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  182. The majority of comments in this thread and the original comment is disturbing. Why is one violent mob considered better than another violent mob? That's a question for anyone who supports whatever violent mob. Certainly don't want either in my country and you should want the same in your country. Whenever a violent mob takes to the streets it should concern you. Not that's ok they're my violent mob. You have one of the most powerful militaries in the world and paramilitary police units in all large cities, let them take care of things and if they don't vote for whatever the opposite party is. Some states and cities are effectively one party states because people want it that way, so if you keep voting the same mob back in no matter what you can expect an unaccountable group of politicians because you made them untouchable. In a democracy it's your collective right to be stupid maybe discussions should be had about why people prefer this status quo in so many areas of the US.
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  183.  @wokuginger528  I am Australian and you are making some pretty wild assumptions. Australia is a peaceful country with only one 6th the per capita rate of homicide and has a 90% plus clearance rate. We also don't believe in killing each other with a virus and mitigation measures that kill people and on that score if the trend has continued in the US since 3 October when excess deaths were recorded from Jan 26 to October 3 was 300,000 including 200,000 by covid 19 directly meaning 400,000 plus deaths now or if trend about 450,000 . This is a rate about 40 times that of Australia. If you believe a country that internally has everything open and no paramilitary police is somehow more authoritarian so be it. The violent mobs be they Antifa or heavily armed protestors which according to the FBI went on to make a threat on an elected officials life , the governor of Michigan you are nuts. If you believe killing innocent people for your freedoms to basically kill and possibly get away with it especially in Chicago with a homicide clearance rate of 53% last year , which was apparently an improvement you are nuts. Trump was right bring in the military however his grand standing was pointless, get all levels of government to agree then military comes in to clean up what is worse than many low level war zones. Good luck with whatever it is you consider freedom.
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  184.  @thisisisabella3634  No the CPC is far right socialist. Socialist if you look it up just says government controls means of production, far right does it differently to communists which have the state own everything. China started off far left and has become far right, noting far left and right are close together just like centre left and right are close together. Bernie Sanders voters voted for Trump over Hillary on average. I think Bernie Sanders is a good bloke actually and on social issues he's right but a bit far to the left on certain issues for my liking noting I am not American so really my opinion is nothing more than that.
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  185. It's not just Russia, China will be thinking it might be a good time to take Taiwan and and probably parts of Philippines.
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  186. You forgot the other major ally, Communist Party of China. All have near identical philosophy. Yes racist East Asian and racist whites can get along, remember Germany and Japan were allies.
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  187. Forgive Trump's failures but if you believe Biden is a better candidate then try to vote him in. To hold onto anger only hurts you.
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  188.  Sheri Pardue  Because I am Australian, I don't have any real skin in the game. From my Australian perspective I couldn't support either side and would vote for least worst which would be decided by what I consider most important and whether the other candidate would do a better job. So for me it's all hypothetical. The key societal measures of the US are worse on all accounts basically. If compared to the most similar countries culturally , the 5EYES countries of which Australia is one, the US has lowest life expectancy, highest incarceration rate, highest homicide rate, highest suicide rate, largest wealth inequality, highest government debt to GDP, highest proportion of the population who are illegal immigrants (US and South Africa also, refer to them as undocumented residents) and arguably healthcare inequalities in excess of the other countries which all have universal healthcare, noting Australia probably still spends less as a proportion of GDP on public healthcare than the US. So if I was an American with some general knowledge of the world my position is where do you start. The internet means anyone with an internet connection and basic skills can find out a lot of information in literally minutes. What is your starting point if you don't mind telling me other than get rid of Trump? which I can certainly understand many people wanting that.
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  189.  @BrianHolmes  I said "like" or the 5 EYES countries, meaning US, Canada, UK, Australia and NZ. You are still a rich developed country.
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  190.  @BrianHolmes  I'll give you an example to ponder on. Look at the covi sars2 response in USA and Australia. Australia relied on the US and WHO primarily for information and advice on the beginning, on paper we did exactly the same thing until mid March. So why is it the per capita deaths are at this point in time in the US are 20 times that of Australia? We are both federations where the states run health. Think about that for a minute, not a single US governor had the courage to close a state border, in Australia 5 out of 8 major jurisdictions (4 states and a territory) closed their borders in quick succession. This is common sense, it's impossible to control a virus if you allow infected people to continually enter with no restrictions. The US completely failed at first detecting the virus and then at containment. Do you think your president would have behaved in the same manner if he was accountable to his colleagues? He is king , he chooses the membership of the unelected government (secretaries in the US and called ministers elsewhere) and can fire them at will meaning they will act in a less open manner than if power is more balanced. Donald Trump has in no uncertain terms pointed out the power of his position. The people of the US are just people, the failures are not because Americans are stupid but the system where in the president's case controls the entire government like a king is a little outdated. Change the constitution on not only this matter but others and the US can advance especially socially more quickly.
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  191. So what, do you want a system like Venezuela where fuel is subsidized or do you want pricing to be international market pricing? There might be [,I think probably there is] problems with retail pricing in the US not actually representing the international oil price however but that's a different issue. Internal competition policy in general in the US is not optimal, labor union and big money interests inside of the US both are damaging.
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  192. We sort of know Trump's playbook when it comes to non white females. Let's see how the electorate reacts to his sexist and racist overtones. Trump will not be able to help himself.
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  193. I watched several of the pre 2020 election Trump covid spreading events and that's exactly what he did, all politicians do it to be fair but he took it to the highest level. At the beginning of the speech he would roll out his socialist credentials and how Joe wasn't a [socialist] like him and was going to cut Medicaid/Medicare for a Florida audience for example and cut farm subsidies for an Iowan audience etc. then about 20 minutes later to the minute just about he would be talking about Joe being a socialist, after a few rallies he thought bugger this not a single bit of pushback so just said Joe is a communist and the US will become like Cuba or Venezuela. The cheers for the pro socialist and anti socialist Trump at the same rallies were indistinguishable. They were putty in his hands.
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  194. She's a converted lefty and they say converts are usually the most radical. I think she is compelling evidence of this theory.
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  195.  @susansuewwilliams  all communists are socialist but not all socialist are communist. The US has limited socialism on a level slightly higher than say Australia or New Zealand, see Economic Freedom Index by Heritage Foundation which is a pretty good guide of how socialist a country is. The US likes to direct it's socialism to the corporate sector and farmers, not to provide a social welfare safety net including healthcare which people in the US for some reason don't like. People in the US prefer to pay more in taxes for what is a substandard public healthcare system which isn't universal. Consider the last year it's likely the public healthcare bill has blown out considering all the Covid 19 costs and just the ppe alone and 400,000 excess to normal deaths. The universal healthcare system run by Australia has possibly led to 15,000 excess deaths ( population adjusted number) however we won't know the real number until the complete year is accounted for and it's possible Australia increased life expectancy because fewer deaths from things like the flu. So the socialists supporting your current system in the US are totally ok with this and are often beneficiaries of the socialist system in place like old people on Medicaid. The majority of people in the US have decided for now that's how they like it. No true communist countries exist anymore where everything is state owned and no private enterprise, North Korea is pretty close though.
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  196. I remember watching another video on this channel. About playing dirty. I had a pair of leather sole shoes about 30 years ago and they are as slippery as anything, whether Donald made it up or it's true I will pay it and the water thing is certainly true, because he doesn't want his face at a bad angle or a drip on his tie. Could someone tell him that natural white skin versus whatever he does to get that funny facial skin color is actually ok. Just a bit of make up for the cameras is good enough. Maybe everyone one was scared to tell him or they might be fired. I think the next video could be of how many people he has fired, I think he might not have realised he isn't on the apprentice any more.
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  197. This one's the funniest yet.
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  198. Fair go, criticize about whatever but finding Ukraine on a map for anyone outside of Europe we almost all couldn't including myself and I suspect you also. Finding Italy or UK or France or something as in large western European countries is something that's reasonable.
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  199. You have basically described why the US is the only failed wealthy state in the world. This doesn't mean everyone is doing poorly just like in low income countries there are rich people doing very well.
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  200. The swamp has some infections going around. Be careful of the swamp it carries subtropical diseases known to infect bats and humans. Batman watch out.
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  201. The Heritage Foundation historically believes in free market capitalism, it has been overrun with other ideology at this point in time.
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  202. Not so sure, if Republicans control the senate they might just obstruct everything so government doesn't function which has the possibility of working in their favor. It might backfire also. I am not American but just my observation is anything can happen. I certainly hope you are correct because even if some things he did were actually good the bad he did was far worse in my opinion.
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  203. Yes we can. I don't think Trump is going to start a world war or something.
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  204.  @cybele_m  I don't think 2 or 3 or whatever number of people required to launch a nuclear device would follow the order. He doesn't literally hold launch codes, he has along with the vice president and a few others (should the president not be capable or dead at the time) a method of contacting whoever needs to be contacted in some secure way. The "launch code" would be some sort of communication code, not literally to launch a weapon.
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  205.  @Horrid1960  The middle East is actually relatively peaceful at the moment and even though it's extremely slow I see things as getting better. Iran might be an issue and my personal view is continuous harsh sanctions probably has a negative effect. In the end if Iran does want a nuclear device they will get it, the raw material cost of a nuclear weapon is less than $1,000,000 at market rates so a drop in the ocean for a country of 83,000,000 people or about $0.02 per capita is not much. Same applies to North Korea. The real reason for sanctions has nothing to do with money or to stop capabilities, it's to cause delay and to hope the population will overthrow the government , which seems counterproductive to me. If another country was hurting my country, my enemy would be the other country even if I hated my government. Whether Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapon or not at this time I have no idea, I don't trust intelligence on this matter much because Iraq was invaded on that premiss which turned out to be false.
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  206.  @cybele_m  I hope your relatives stay safe as is possible. Of course nobody outside of the need to know circle would know the procedure of launching a nuclear weapon otherwise a potential enemy knows exactly who to target.
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  207. I think it's time to suggest it and yes I'm not American but Biden is the modern version of Reagan.
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  208. Dam your ads are good. This was professionally done and sounds like a US style ad.
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  209. Your statement is totally true Canada failed initially in the same way as the US and while not turning it around completely at this stage has done a lot better. I don't know but I am guessing divergence occurred at the same time Trump started contradicting Fauci. Fauci and the CDC did fail in the beginning which was significant but at least it would appear not intentionally.
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  210.  @AmericanVermin  how dare you deface Burger King, AKA Hungry Jack's in Australia as the ad goes " the burgers are better at Hungry Jack's" , I am a bit of a free market man and I quite like Macca's too.
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  211. Holey moley 2,000 comments and over 250,000 views in 8 hours. The Lincoln Project is really getting traction now.
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  212.  @jb888888888  it's over the top. The main thing that needs to change is a specific requirement of number of voting locations and staff per population of legible voters. Nobody should have to queue for more than about 30 minutes during a peak period.
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  213. Are not all lives equal, what's wrong with just having murder, up to the judge about the sentencing?
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  214. No he doesn't. Although I don't know what the actual system is the president having the nuclear codes is a myth. He has a coded way to send a message to some general somewhere and then it would require more than one person to activate anything. The safeguards would be enormous but the government isn't exactly going to tell people what they are.
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