Comments by "Orwellian Horseman of the Apocalypse" (@DennisMoore664) on "Democracy Now!" channel.

  1. I don't think I've ever heard Juan use it. It should tell them something when their own co-host won't use the word.
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  2. The cops effectively did the same thing with Kyle Rittenhouse. Some things never change.
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  3. I'd use another four letter word for excrement or feces but I'm a vulgar person.
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  4.  @Eli_PC137  Damn Eli that was a brutal reply, What makes you think I'm saying okay? It's absolutely heartbreaking and totally wrong _regardless of where the refugee comes from_. That you would make that kind of heartless, fucked up assumption, along with your reply itself - dude, get help. That kind of anger is unhealthy and is only making you sick.
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  5. That he still has an entourage is even more disturbing. WTF is wrong with some people?
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  6. We've had a few inflection points in each decade since the 60's, but there are important differences between now and any time before from the position of population levels and distribution, technological advancement, and being globally interconnected both in the way you mentioned and with the ability physically move cargo, raw materials, or even people. What frightens me more than anything is how many of us common folk can be convinced to punch down and/or sideways instead of at those responsible parties.
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  7. Weeks to months? More like slim to none or practically never. Even when a jury finds them guilty they rarely see prison time.
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  8. I get the whole if-it-bleeds-it-leads thing that happens in the news, but there have to be more positive things going on in the world like the story from South Africa. Shame we so rarely hear about them.
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  9. Preach, Brother West - Preach!
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  10. If someone is male and people want to identify him by his ethnicity doesn't that still make him a latino and not latinx? I don't think he's identifying as transgender, but even if he was the masculine and feminine forms of latino/a are still perfectly useful to describe people. The U.S. Left needs to stop with the "Latinx" thing because the rest of the world isn't playing along.
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  11. Until you get the uncles, fathers, grandfathers, doctors, teachers, clergy, and every man who uses their position of authority to rape and impregnate women there has to be an exception for rape period.
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  12. Christianity also brought you the Crusades and the Inquisition among a wide array of more recent horrors. And to spread the love around, all the rest of them have their own attending historical and modern baggage. Religion doesn't stop people from being shits, it just gives them a way to fool themselves into feeling better about it.
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  13. Wish they'd hurry the fuck up.
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  14. The things that Representative Ocasio-Cortez is saying. Damn! I bet she's making some powerful people very nervous and that's a brave and dangerous thing. Maybe even just a little naive, just a little bit. I'm sorry y'all but history and all that, ya know? <Enter sarcasm mode:> It's not like the intelligence and security agencies of the US have ever done anything underhanded or illegal - no coupes or assassinations or any of a wide variety of intimidation and dirty tricks or just inept bungeling of an operation - nope, not our team! </end> . Trumps response tn that Bill O'Reilly Interview - "There are a lot of killers. You think our country's so innocent?" It was one of the rare times I could agree with him. I'm certainly not in lockstep with AOC or some of her supporters ideas and propositions, but I have much respect for what she is saying and trying to get started. The status quo does not like a trouble maker, though. History...
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  15. You can tell everything you need o know about a country by the way it treats, or more appropriately mistreats, protestors.
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  16. Most Senators who go to DC have always been rich AF. The Bernie Sander's of the world of politics are few and far between. (Not saying you're wrong, my dude)
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  17. Fun fact - neither did the Turks. In fact Turkey remained neutral during World War II until February of 1945. They were even actively selling a key mineral for making stainless steel to the Nazi government until 1944. No Turkish troops ever saw combat.
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  18. STRIKE STRIKE STRIKE! FREE PALESTINE! And that Dmitry Ivanov is one brave dude! Hope he survives prison and gets out in less than eight years.
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  19. I'd argue he's awesome at prayer - and other useless activities.
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  20. Blessed are the Peacemakers. They are the best of us.
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  21. The American People want Nikki Haley and the rest of the Trump Trainwreck to stop making America great again - if this is winning We've had enough already, thank you very much! Look, you guys got more done than anyone else ever in the history of everything and you are definitely better than Barack Obama - heck we barely even remember the guy - didn't he have a family or something? Hey, I've got an idea about doing something else super bold and exciting. No President has ever resigned after only one year in office - you could totally be the first! That would be HUGE! And it'd be a win-win because you could be done with the lying FAKE media, all this super-dumb and totally fake Russia stuff, and get back to do all those important things you need to be doing at Trump Tower. Remember Trump Tower? It has all that shiny gold and has such a better view than that crappy old White House - Public Housing, YUCK! Am I right? And your people would get it - some swamps just can't be drained. All I'm saying is think about it - you know it makes sense - and it would be all that anyone would talk about and argue over for years and years to come. You're time as President would eclipse the next ten people who will hold the office - at least!
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  22. We've done an awesome job at modernizing the Taliban's military capacity. Gotta love that Military Industrial Complex.
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  23. Absolutely! Part of the tragedy of all of this is how you could include any of dozens of other places in deep crisis around the world. I wince when I hear people qualify the tragedy in any one place. It's all horrible and it is all heartbreaking and there's not a damn thing any of us can really do about any of it.
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  24. I've read enough about life in the pre-colonized Americas to know it was generally less communal paradise and much more of a violent and harsh way of life with numerous examples of very deadly, even genocidal at times, warfare and slavery practiced between tribes. The numerously myriad ways people were creatively tortured and sacrificed to gods by indigenous cultures throughout the western hemisphere are terrifying. Anything resembling human, civil or gender rights completely depended on the individual tribe someone was in and often didn't exist for those outside of the tribe. Capitalism has it's problems but I love indoor plumbing and wouldn't want to give up the local sewage system that cleans up our collective mess. And toilet paper - loves me some toilet paper! And so do most people in the US. The Establishment oligarchs, kleptocrats and plutocrats know most people prefer a comfortable prison of having stuff and needing someplace to keep their stuff to the minimalistic freedom of a nomadic way of life. They control the cultural status quo and the governmental bureaucracies that run everything; and since they have all those people with guns and the authority to use "legitimate" violence, that is not going to change until they want it to change. We can and should occupy wall street or a pipeline construction site when they are doing something wrong. It is always good to fight today for a better tomorrow. But people need to stop trying to reclaim a world that never really existed. It isn't any more realistic than the wingnuts who want to make America great again.
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  25. This is just getting started - DOJ doesn't move all that quickly but they'll probably get involved. This has become more high-profile than chief Cody expected. I have a feeling the big fish in that small pond are going to get gnawed on by some Federal sharks before this is over.🦈🦈🦈
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  26. Why are they newspeaking "Mass Grave" into "Collective Grave"? Unnecessary modification of language by officials raises concerns.
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  27. This again? FFS - "In order to determine its origins, we reached out to a number of experts at the Orwell Society — whose patron is Richard Blair, Orwell’s adopted son — and The Orwell Foundation, which brings together Orwell scholars and awards the Orwell Prizes. Representatives of both organizations said that this quote could not be attributed to Orwell. A cursory internet search indicates Newsweek claimed Orwell wrote the statement in the 1940s. The quote was attributed to a collection of Orwell’s essays in “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945.” But we were unable to find the quote in an archived version of the book online. Leslie Hurst, a trustee of the Orwell Society, told us that this was not an Orwell quote, as it could not be found in his “Complete Works” collection. He believes the line was loosely copied from a sentence about fascism (not elections) from an Orwell essay titled “Rudyard Kipling“: Whoever coined this phrase seems to have copied the construction of a sentence from George Orwell’s 1942 essay “Rudyard Kipling”: “Those who now call themselves Conservatives are either Liberals, Fascists or the accomplices of Fascists,” which suggests a certain intelligence and knowledge of Orwell’s work, but while the statement “A people that elect […]” may be true it does a disservice to attribute it to Orwell. Benedict Cooper, publicity officer for the society who had most of the Orwell library digitized on his computer, also could not find the above quote in the collection. Hurst also pointed us to Wikiquote, which he said “is very good with misattributed Orwell quotations,” but the above quote was not listed there. We also reached out to a number of academics, and we will update this post if we receive new information. Given that expert institutions associated with Orwell’s work have not heard of this quote, we rate this claim as “False.” Nur Ibrahim Published 30 November 2020"
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  28. That post (displayed at 3:30) is yet another example of the self-serving, fear mongering lies of one of the biggest problems and threats today. I don't think we should defund or abolish the police, but many of the people doing the policing need to go and the way it's being done MUST change. Instead of being another country where the police are part of the problem we need them to be part of the solution but that sure as hell isn't happening and I don't know what it' is going to take to make it happen. Maybe not have ex-soldiers suffering from PTSD and other broken people become cops would be a start.
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  29. Wonder what would happen if the convention got attacked and they had their own mass casualty event. Probably still nothing.
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  30. The suicide gun deaths and homicide gun deaths should not get added together. They are different problems that deserve their own conversations. It also gives the extreme pro-gun advocacy groups an opportunity to point out that just like there are people who want to actually not have a police force there are also people who want to live in a world without guns. That would be an amazing word to live in, but that's not the world we live in. In this world, I prefer both being well-regulated but available (within reason) if I need them.
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  31. The sentence against Mr Aguilera-Maderos is wrong. Mandatory minimums need to be done away with. Even the judge in this case recognizes the injustice here - "I will state that if I had the discretion, it would not be my sentence," the judge said.
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  32. I wish the writers strike would end so Seth Meyers could do his Rudy impression for us about this newest scandal. (And everyone else could get back to work too, of course)
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  33. I get that the part at 2:20 where Amy describes the conditions in Mexico as being dangerous and inhumane including torture and kidnapping are used to make an impact about how bad it is for immigrants in Mexico. But we need to remember that all those things happen to vulnerable people in the US too, especially to women and children. People seeking asylum, or not seeking permission at all, are some of the most vulnerable to all kinds of predators in every aspect of their lives here. And that's hoping they aren't actually predators themselves here to continue to prey on their fellow immigrants as they make the easiest targets. The US is certainly statistically better than Mexico but probably not by much for migrants and not at all for the people who are physically, sexually, and financially abused as well as tortured and kidnapped. And if someone is in the country illegally there isn't much recourse or reason to report things that happen to you besides going to church and praying to God and maybe talking to a priest. You can risk going to a clinic or hospital if things are bad enough, but forget the police or other authorities. And it's almost winter again.
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  34. I suspect it's a mix of the blockade and the leadership of the country that was responsible for so much of the suffering of the Cuban people, but Communism was not the problem. From this outsiders perspective, having only heard about how Communism is such a dead-end political theory, Communism has worked surprisingly well in Cuba in spite of the blockade. I'm not saying it's a workers paradise, but find a country that doesn't have sociopolitical problems and I'll show you the exception that proves the rule. Perhaps even the blockade and being largely isolated from the West, especially the United States, has kept Cuba free from some of the darker aspects of being an ally and playground/exploitable resource of the U.S. and it's corporations. It would be interesting if China and Cuba signed a treaty to do an end run around this whole mess.
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  35. Same bad attitude - different uniform. I was waiting to hear him say he was going to bust a cap in someone's head. It's a shame how all the people we're supposed to trust keep turning out to be such assholes.
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  36. At the very least they all need to be not be police officers anymore or ever again. I don't know how any of them can even live with themselves.
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  37. The fascists are kissing his ring. Zuckerberg and his Moloch-spawned software are a big part of what's wrong with the world today. They both need to go - or at least be broken up into smaller parts and distributed so they can cause fewer problems.
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  38.  @janiekcarney5482  That's like arguing the government shouldn't tackle gun violence after a mass casualty event. It's time to stop being polite about these issues and others.
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  39. They're representing their constituents. It's just we aren't them.
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  40.  @thesauceman8457  Because "we' aren't in charge. Our elected officials can fiddle around with domestic policy but foreign policy is out of "our" control. Anyone who thinks this is a Republic, let alone a Democracy, is fooling themselves. There is only one word to describe the U.S. - oligarchy. Always has been - always will be a nation of the 1% for the 1% by the elected officials of the 1%. "Fighting fire with empty words while the banks get fat, and the poor stay poor, and the rich get rich, and the cops get paid to look away as the one percent rules America" - just as true today as when Queensryche recorded Spreading The Disease back in the 80's.
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  41. ...against our own human species and every other thing in existence. Some of us humans are awful pains in the ass and have some need to visit that misery on everyone and everything around them. Luckily there are other humans who are the opposite. If we could just figure some way to isolate those assholes early on and at least keep them out of positions of power and influence the rest of us would be much better off.
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  42. As another US citizen it's perfectly understandable. Are you really from here? Have you not seen your fellow US citizens? We're awful!
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  43. Proud boys aint so proud no more.
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  44. It's like they only want sheep who will play along with their narrative
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  45. Respect, my dude. It sucks having to bear the shame of our ancestors, national leadership and the misdeeds or worse atrocities of the worst of our fellow citizens. But for those of us with a conscience we have to own that shit.
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  46. The way law enforcement officers who have screwed up (and their peers and supervisors) try to deflect and make out as if they are not only good, responsible and righteous but often the aggrieved party is both telling and pathetic. Fire them, revoke any qualified immunity, and bring charges against each and every one of them that was on duty that day.
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  47. Those aren't Black police officers. All cops are just lighter or darker shades of Blue. But in this plantation nation, race still matters.
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  48. As long as those in the ruling system keeps the majority of people distracted and arguing about these issues and not the ruling system, they win and nothing has to change. The rulers used to primarily rely on the church and their supported claim of Divine Right to help maintain order and their hold on power. But with each advance from the printing press to radio to television to online versions of traditional media and now social media, the ability to get into and direct our attention to the distraction of the day has become ever more finely honed. The next step might be some kind of augmented reality or a neural interface.
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  49. Democracy Now has the best score.
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  50. Jimmy Carter is the only living president in my life for whom I have even a modicum of respect. Adios, mon ami - you were one of the good ones.
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