Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "FRONTLINE PBS | Official" channel.

  1.  @inevolution1  James, Hitchens (whom you should Google up: an interesting and in some ways important fella) was -- like a lot of people whose IQs are just a wee bit too high -- a Trotskyite who eventually slowed down enough to become a widely respected commentator. He was usually on the moderate left, expressed with great wit and some sharpness, but sometimes on the right. A libertarian in both left and right senses: an ACLU guy, but also a Karl Hess-ish anarchist sometimes. The "very orthodoxy" that Hitchens is referring to here is flat-out authoritarianism of the Louis XiV, George III, Donald Trump kind. "L'etat c'est moi; Only I can fix it." That's the sense in which Hitchens saw (he died, sadly, very recently) Donald Trump as a throw-back.
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  2. Half right, Chris: there is some danger of what you say becoming true. Factually, however, we do control it pretty well. That is what this documentary exemplifies.
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  3. 🤣😂😎🤦‍♂️🤣 What a pleasure to be able to agree with Trump for once!
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  4. Masha Gessen is a treasure! Lucid, intelligent. Brilliant!
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  5. So careless, so wasteful, so expensive. His only legacy will be the massive contribution to the national debt. Here's the good news: if it's illegal to take emoluments, it's probably illegal to keep them. Trump may go on the history books for the largest fine ever paid.
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  6. "One out of five" is a singular noun, lady. Um, it might have something to do with that "one" in there, doncha think?
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  7.  @indonesiaamerica7050  Of course my analogies draw from history. Glad you noticed. Congratulations! My questions again: How do you like them? Which is your favorite? Is there any you think inaccurate? If so, why and where? You do seem to splutter a lot. Stop it. Try just answering the questions: they're drawn from history, remember?
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  8. Fool anonymous @indonesiaamerica7050  Blah blah blah. Can't answer a simple question, can you? Which of my analogies to Trump do you disagree with? How and why?
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  9. Why would they be evil? The Speaker of the House, indeed the leadership of both parties, are among the people leading the country. Their secrets are the national defense of the country. There is nothing for her to be ashamed of in that.
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  10.  @aprilgates4937  He has wars on right now in Niger, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and probably a couple of other places. He has dangerous confrontations going on with North Korea, China, Venezuela and probably a couple of other places. Both Americans and innocent bystanders are being killed every day. "You people are really messed up in the head! Seriously!" You were saying?
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  11.  @Infamous_B_C  Niger wasn't. The Iraq, Syria and North Korea situations are all of Trump's own creation although the fight against ISI was going on beforehand. I think there is a partial truth in what you say: the generals he so worshipped may have kept him under control through all his blundering around with North Korea and China.
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  12.  @utistudent099  I don't think that is "very true." All drivers are taught that, e.g. you pump the brakes on ice, you don't stomp them. Every driver -- 100% of everybody -- knows the difference between a stick shift and an automatic, regular and power brakes. Nothing in the realm of automobiles excuses Boeing for introducing a system which can suddenly take control away from the pilot without all pilots knowing about that in depth -- quite specifically knowing about it in depth great enough to understand the possibility of the new system trying to kill them because of a faulty part, or a faulty system-information report, as here.
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  13. But he didn't represent them wickedly enough for the radical right: he was defeated in the Republican primary by an extremist nutcase even uglier than himself.
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  14. ...or an audience, fuck, or flatterer. But not all autocrats are the same. Trump is neither Franco nor Mussolini. Trump is the essence of what Mussolini had that Franco didn't. Mussolini minus Franco = Trump.
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  15. Anonymous @indonesiaamerica7050  Troll, OK, you've had your little brain fart for the day. Now, is there anything there that you think is inaccurate? How would you feel about "Evita minus Stroessner equals Trump"? That would take the hairdo and the make-up obsession into account.
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  16.  @indonesiaamerica7050  Troll, Since you use the word "parse" you ought to know something about language, but you don't. My post is neither fact nor fiction: it is an analogical suggestion of Trump's character. I do prefer the Evita minus Stroessner one. How about you? The girly hair, the thick facial make-up? And if you subtract Stroessner from fair Evita you'd be in negative territory in places, wouldn't you? Cheers, little cultie.
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  17. Anonymous  @indonesiaamerica7050  lurker, Trump is not an autocrat because he is an incompetent. He sure would like to be. The argument against Trump is that his egotism, incompetence, and reactionary impulses a.) cause vast waste, and b.) allow competent greedheads like McConnell to steal everything in the store. FDR was not an autocrat, but he was a fine leader. You know nothing about us "you people" that you keep writing stupid insults about.
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  18.  @marcellaratliff1304  No, not a joke. A seriously wicked man, and a phenomenon, not a doctrine.
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  19.  @Infamous_B_C  You have no evidence for that. Trump actually has wars, no "wanted" about it.
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  20. At 11:04 poor lying Cantor confirms what the interviewer says while pretending not to: only after twisting arms did he come close to what the GOP had promised. His "Nancy didn't have the votes" is disingenuous. She was in the minority: she didn't have the votes to save a Republican President by herself. She did have he votes she had promised. The GOP was the bunch who didn't have the votes until the second time around.
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  21. Tough, smart, and decent.
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  22. "The government came down on him as a ton of bricks," says one of the soi-disant defense attorneys at one point. This is a sort of kissy-ass Mrs-Grundyism, a fake precision combined with a slimy pretend superiority, that ought to get people disbarred -- and their high school English graduation certificates revoked.
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  23.  @saltyclassicviews5305  Her husband is a major league property developer -- in California, where it has been difficult not to to make money in that racket over the last fifty years. It has nothing to do with her salary -- and you are very stupid to go around making cynical comments like that without doing your homework. You both make a fool of yourself and degrade the level of public discourse by making that sort of ugly, ignorant remarks of that sort. No doubt that's why you hide behind anonymity.
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  24. People who use random sets of initials, here "AR," as though they are unique in meaning and generally understood to be so, are one of those little irritations we'd be better off without.
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  25. 🤣😂🤣
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  26.  @12yearssober  Marrying a bright young guy who becomes a property developer? Does it every time... Uh, not quite every time.
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  27. A new verb, "to harbinge"??? The old French noun, not verb, was herbergere, a person who puts a roof over your head. Um... Good try, Peter. We'll see if it flies.
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  28.  @Infamous_B_C  What about whose book?
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  29.  @80sruler  That's just very silly. Editor of the Harvard Law Review is a.) an extremely competitive job to get, b.) a tough administrative/executive hustle, and c.) intellectual work of the first order.
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  30.  @jon00769  You're too pessimistic. Most of the US press is pretty sound. Fox is nuts and the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal is a giggle factory, but the major US press that I see from the outside is about as good as the British, Japanese and Canadian MSM that I follow.
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  31. Tim Alberta says "dispenses with" when he means "dispenses." To dispense is to give or to hand out. To dispense with something is to do without it.
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  32. Her husband has no "limo business" in China. He has made money on the US NASDAQ betting on Alphabet futures, an investment at arm's length from China. You're just repeating old -- ten years old -- inventions from Breitbart, and it's nonsense, fake "Thinker."
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  33. Frontline fails to say the obvioius and important bit of atmosphere: it's not just that the FDA does not supervise supplements and that there is no justiciable claim that they are "safe and effective," conditions which all legal "medicines" must comply with. The important fact, it seems to me, is that the FDA is prevented by law from intervening, supervising, or imposing such a condition -- and this ukase is the result of extremely expensive high-powered lobbying by this very wealthy industry upon the Congress. This is a commercial industry so profitable that it has been able to buy itself legal immunity.
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  34. You haven't done your homework, well-named "Sissy." If you had, you would have seen that she got to be one of the House Leadership by being exactly the opposite -- by understanding what other Members wanted and needed and working cooperatively to get it done.
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  35.  @Spencer707  RFK Jr. is a very sick man. His wife should get him to a doctor.
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