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

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. Strange comment
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  4. Even if you disagree with the sentiment, that last rap sounded pretty good actually.
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  5. 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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  6.  @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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  7. 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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  8.  @istvanglock7445  I haven't followed UK politics so I don't know.
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  9. Unfortunately he won and we must respect this.
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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. #DictatorsforTrump2020
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  14. Republican have a plan. That plan is currently to turn the US into an authoritarian state run by them.
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  15. 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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  16.  @RebelEight-z7q  no 50% of voters many don't vote.
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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. The dedication though is quite impressive.
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  22. 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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  23. Even though a bit underhanded not a bad ad.
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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. Based on other comments wait a couple of days because the queues will be terrible on the first 2 days.
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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. I think this might actually be the best ad from Lincoln Project. The make disappear punchline is pretty good.
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  30. The video too long, that's why they have the 1 to 2 minute ads.
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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33.  @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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  34.  @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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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38.  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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  39.  @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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  40.  @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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  41. 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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  42. 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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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45.  @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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  46. 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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  47. This one's the funniest yet.
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  48. 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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  49. 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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  50. 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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