Comments by "Orwellian Horseman of the Apocalypse" (@DennisMoore664) on "FRONTLINE PBS | Official" channel.

  1. 15:51 - there are few things I hate more than someone taking a piss on me and trying to tell me it's raining. (this whole program makes me deeply angry. I've known this was coming coming since I was in grade school. Don't know where they were but I was being warned about environmental catastrophe over and over back in the 70's and 80's. Most anyone who says they didn't know using polluting products like fossil fuels was going to be a problem didn't want to know because they had an immediate profit motive at stake. And now their grandkids and the rest of the world are all pissed off at them and they want to minimize their part - freaking people.)
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  2. Maria Hinojosa is a great Journalist. Excellent person to do this program.
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  3. Putin - the leader Trump wanted to be and still will want to be in 2024.
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  4. 2021 and it's only gotten worse in so many ways. I said it somewhere else just recently - I thought we were all supposed have mini-fusion power plants for our homes right next to the landing pad for our flying cars. Instead we are the first years of the Age of Cyberpunk hoping things don't go all Soylent Green.
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  5. And then there was the nightmare of the American Indian schools where children had been removed from their families to be "civilized". Entire history.
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  6. Wish I had a Mr Hat puppet that could describe how Frunk Luntz makes me feel.
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  7. It's not a competition. Both those wars and most of the rest of the ones we've been in were terrible in many ways and for many different reasons. But if it was a competition then either the US Civil War, or more likely the American Indian wars, was the worst or most shameful war we were a part of. None of that takes away from how we yet again abandoned our allies in Afghanistan. Between this, how we abandoned our Kurdish allies in Iraq, and how Trump pulled us out of the Iran Nuclear deal I'll be amazed if anyone has any faith in US promises for at least a generation or two. At least the Ukranians love us - for now. Wonder how long till we abandon them to the Russians. I love my country, I just am constantly embarrassed and ashamed of the people running it. We really are a kakistocracy.
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  8. Nobody wins in Afghanistan except the gravediggers.
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  9. Totally gross and completely believable from a culture of unaccountability. That's law enforcement.
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  10. The Neo Con's thought they were going to get the equivalent of the Philippines in the Middle East by overthrowing Saddam. The Middle East had other ideas.
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  11. I like that he brought up Rush Limbaugh when he was pointing to Gingrich and Clinton as part of the problem in the 90's, but he should include Frank Luntz in that list. I'd argue the Luntz was even more damaging than Limbaugh.
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  12. Getting old aint for the weak or faint of heart. Especially in a for profit healthcare system where the elderly are all often treated like they are overreacting and/or in the way.
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  13.  @robertpace901  I sense Frank Luntz doesn't want to be vilified into his old age and is hoping people will forget his part in getting us here. If he wants contrition I want a loud and clear mea culpa which his ego will probably never allow. Limbaugh is shameless and will always be so.
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  14. You could see the understanding in the wife's eyes when he was telling her about the driverless trucks already in operation. The future is finally happening.
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  15.  @yourmommashouse  "Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it." - James Baldwin I think most people would agree that we won't be able to stop using oil in every way that we do in the next few years or even decades, but we can stop using it for some things much more easily and quickly than others. We can and are using alternatives for powering our cities and industry, in a variety of ways involving transportation, and to replace plastic packaging.
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  16.  @robertpace901  I did and I thought of our posts. I won't say I'm glad he has cancer because that's not something I'd wish on (almost) anyone, but I also can't say I'll shed a tear for him when he's gone. Besides, someone else will be taking his place. Like the song sez - the road goes forever and the party never ends (Joe Ely's version thanks much).
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  17. Pretty much, at least until they break down and are abandoned by the side of the road like old Russian vehicles and tanks that were left behind. Though the Russians may have done a better job at scraping their gear before they pulled out in '88/'89.
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  18. Graveyard of empires yet they never learn.
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  19. Desperation is a powerful drug. Then there's the lottery - just gotta get six numbers in a row and it's winner winner chicken dinner. Hey - someone's gotta win and you can't win if you don't play. Which brings me back to my opening sentence.
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  20. Loves me some Frontline.
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  21.  @TheLinuxYes  Except I don't watch the cable news shows anymore - cut that cord a long time ago. But it doesn't matter if it's the corporate line from the MSM or from Democracy Now, The Majority Report, TYT or Jimmy Dore on the Left or the Epoch Times and Blaze TV on the Right. Everyone has their own take and regardless of whether it's real or fake news very little of it is good news. And to say there aren't problems in a lot of countries is so obviously wrong that I probably should even be wasting my time with this reply. You most be living in a very different world than the one the rest of us are in.
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  22. I thought everyone wanted to be able to see the doctor of their choice and have access to health care. I don't know anyone who is happy with their health insurance providers in general and especially the hoops they have to jump through and being told that fill-in-the-blank isn't authorized or covered under their plan.
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  23. Loves me some Frontline
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  24. Watch yo ass! We're all on our own in this world - especially on the roads. Dashcam videos are a good reminder of the crazy stuff that happens out there.
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  25. Didn't they go by in a blink.
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  26. Freaking love Frontline.
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  27. It goes back the the Neo Con's and The Project for the Next American Century. Some of the leaders were the same Republicans who served in the first Bush presidency and came back for the second one which they basically ran the first term. They wanted a country that was centrally located in the Middle East where they could have lots of military and Intelligence bases while also being able to get private corporations in there to exploit the resources. We thought Saddam was our guy, but he'd become difficult so they needed to remove him to get the ball rolling. When 9-11 happened it gave us that much more of an opportunity to find a way to invade the country they really wanted to go in to and turn into something like we have in the Philippines or Okinawa.
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  28. @SelfAccountable Shame you don't accept or exemplify ANY of them. Pinko commie - that's funny. If only you knew how wrong you are. Time for you to be muted, troll boy. Have a good one.
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  29.  @jimhabsfan  You should find the intro scene to the HBO series The Newsroom. Jeff Daniels' character, Will McAvoy, is being interviewed at a university when a student uses the "America is the greatest country in the world" line and he has this angry speech about all the ways in which the United States isn't a leader in the world in any positive way anymore. Most of us know it's true and has been for a long time - whether we'll be honest about it or not is another thing. "First step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one. America is not the greatest country in the world anymore " —Will McAvoy
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  30.  @Raydensheraj  Appreciate the references. Good descriptions too. Seems like sometimes there is a willingness to work with other groups that they might consider an enemy-of-my-enemy or if it is some kind of means to an end, but "Neo Confederate Christian Nationalists mixed with fascism" sums it up really well.
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  31.  @09rja  It wasn't specifically Climate Change, but environmental devastation in general and much of it having to do with burning fossil fuels. They showed us this black and white film called "Ark" (Rolf Forsberg - 1970) in our grade school around '77 or '78 and the TEOTWAWKI genre was already well established in film and books both fiction and nonfiction. I grew up in Santa Fe though so maybe with it being a very lefty place my exposure to environmental issues was increased.
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  32. " @09rja  Loved that show! You're actually kind of proving my original point. There was plenty of warnings in our mass media and popular culture on a wide variety of potential environmental problems including ways the climate could change either naturally or due to us. And like you said, much of the concern was principally focused on the more immediate threats of nuclear war, nuclear and toxic waste pollution, and the ozone layer, but for me it's all part of the same larger problem of people trying to avoid an environmental catastrophe (or not).
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  33. Mitch McConnell is one of the worst of a bad bunch. He bears much of the responsibility for the problems and division in the US today. His name will reviled in the history books alongside Reagan, Gingrich, and Trump.
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  34. An updated story would have better than an old one from a decade ago, although I suspect little has changed in the past ten years as the failed War on Drugs grinds on decade after decade.
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  35. I suspect my browsing history and comments are not any worse than many others and probably a lot less than yet more. Hell, all of this might be a simulation anyhow so screw it. Just enjoy the ride.
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  36. Wait...there will be more. We're only a fifth of the way into the century and if the Climate Crisis (or any of the handful of other truly catastrophic events) isn't averted there are going to be a lot more places that end up looking like Mosul at 1:49:58.
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  37. I'd argue there is a gaggle of Sith lords waging that war against the rest of us, but I take your point.
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  38. @SelfAccountable Leftist vitriol of the left? Where else would Leftist vitriol come from, buddy? Lighten up, Francis. Like there isn't vitriol from all sides including in your reply and especially on full display at Trump Rallies. Be honest - it made you happy to post that angry reply. And what's wrong with you that you are celebrating the death of anyone? I'll agree that Robert Earl Keen is a great musician too but I still like Joe's version better - to each their own. You were just going out of your way to be disagreeable and nasty at that point. Maybe going back to Matthew 7:5 might be a good idea, brother. Then follow it up with 7:6 because you're just wasting your breath on a grunting leftist pig like me, right? GTFOH.
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  39. And yet people from all over the world keep coming here both legally and without getting the proper documentation. The money given to traffickers to get in the United States is unreal. And more than a few end up as domestic slaves or disappeared all together. The whole world is mess - except New Zealand. It's how you know that's where the worlds elite will be moving if things get too bad.
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  40.  @miguelcarter1949  Stranded? None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you... you're locked in here with me!
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  41.  @miguelcarter1949  "thats exactly why America requiring literacy in English" There are at least two errors here in your attempted use of the English language. What was that about literacy, Mr Kettle?
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  42.  @seanberthiaume6909  Human decency FAIL!
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  43. Well, almost everyone. He enriched himself and the donor class real good.
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  44.  @Justin.D.DC4L  Indeed! But when you own the machines that print the money... Then there's that classic quote from Smedley Butler that everyone already knows.
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  45.  @TheResistance-ye8bh  That we trained. If you are going to try and blame me personally for what the US government did then you need to take that blame on yourself too. Even if wherever your from wasn't part of the coalition in Afghanistan you are prospering from the order of the NATO states.
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  46.  @TheResistance-ye8bh  As was I.
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  47.  @jenwendy7  Hosed people of the world unite!
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