Comments by "earthstick" (@earthstick) on "David Starkey Talks" channel.

  1. I wish Trump had been as hard on Keir Starmer as he was on Zelenskyy. How could he sit there and let Starmer claim we have free speech when people are being locked up for social media posts and we have a man in solitary confinement for a civil offence?
    1200
  2. If only he was called Steir Kalmer, but sadly we are heading for a storm.
    47
  3. No TV, No Licence, No BBC. That is a tax strike.
    46
  4. Jenrick changing mind does show bravery, but why did he initially get it wrong? Is he just changing his mind to please the voters, and, hypothetically, he will change his mind again after getting into power? He could just be an unprincipled people pleaser.
    24
  5. So the party was organised by the head of propriety and ethics, and the karaoke machine was supplied by Sue Gray herself. Why didn't this come out at the time?
    21
  6. This cannot be the first time in history that a civilisation has had traitors in it's midst who bring in outsiders to overthrow the civilsation. Well the Romans didn't prevail but some other people might have. Can we not learn something from a previous episode?
    17
  7. The tolerance paradox: If you tolerate the intolerant then there is intolerance. If you do not tolerate the intolerant, then there is intolerance.
    7
  8. 'Shut up you lot', well said.
    7
  9. Arnie's other catchline as the Terminator was 'I'll be back'.
    6
  10. DOB's good name for them. But it's not just grey-haired old ladies, it's almost all women. My sister-in-law boasts about how many beings she has to look after: two children, their friends, a dog, a brood of chickens, and my mother. Women measure themselves by how many beings rely on them. Our forefathers let them have all this power, and now we are in this mess.
    6
  11. If we bred more, then governments would not need more people to service the debt. Feminism has reduced fertility. It is as David said, we have a feminie compass.
    6
  12.  @martinstephenpowell  Yes a lot is being able to afford a child. Here's the irony. When a women go to work, the combined income of the household goes up. That means they can borrow more for a house. But that just puts house prices up, so then both partners have to work just to afford somewhere to live. Now women must work and they do not have time or the money to raise childrem. It's a trap.
    6
  13. Magical thinking, 'let there be light, and then there was light'. I have to say though, all we are doing, and all we have ever been doing, is talking about it. And as I have said before, 'we can't talk our way out of this...'.
    6
  14. Essays that state the conclusion in the introduction and then repeat in the conclusion; this is exactly what an acquantance once did in a biology essay. The teacher gave him an A and for ever more he went around thinking he was a great scientist and essay writer.
    6
  15. In a parallel universe our counterparts elected Steer Calmer, and everyone lived happily ever after.
    6
  16. Other nations in the two great wars gained, while Britain lost. America got the empire, Germany got the industry, and Jews, although not a nation at the time, got Israel. We lost almost everything.
    5
  17. David is on Ed Dutton's channel and his own, it's a Starkey double bill this evening.
    5
  18. Perhaps David could cover the origins of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain and separate history from legend. There is a tale that Hengist and Horsa were employed as mercenaries by Vortigern, they rebelled against their employer and began taking the country. It even has its own decapitation event in 'the night of the long knives', where Nennius and Geoffrey of Monmouth claim the celts and Saxons were discussing terms of a truce when the Saxons pulled knives from their boots and killed the Celtic leaders.
    5
  19.  @rusticrye5413  Well plenty of Conservatives must have known this.
    5
  20. Well he is a Turk.
    5
  21. Kaiser, Tzar, Caesar and our own Sir, that is pronounced Sar. Where does sar originate? With Caesar, or something earlier?
    5
  22. I used to joke that Thatcher invented global warming to be rid of the coal miners.
    4
  23.  @martinstephenpowell It is hard to avoid because as you say women want a career, and that's completely understandable. The problem is that what we have tried so far has got us in a possibly irreversable mess. If we don't fix this, then it looks like its over for us.
    4
  24. This is why I suggested putting them on cruise ships anchored offshore, but within our territory, while their immigration requests are being processed. The ECHR/Supreme Court cannot make objections based on claims that they are being deported, as they did with the Rwanda scheme, because they are within British waters. Yet they do not set foot in our country and cannot cause trouble for the citizens here. Moreover, being put on a cruise ship will be a deterrent.
    3
  25. Ignorance is bliss
    3
  26. There is a disease that attacks Cavendish bananas. It is a blight that we hear about every so often. In fact, the reason we eat Cavendish bananas is that Panama disease killed most of the plantations of the Gros Michel variety, which we ate exclusively before Cavendish.
    3
  27. Surely woke has it's origins in the Frankfurt School. They all moved to America between the first and second world wars. America was furtile ground and after WWII, the dominant nation. Their ideas spread easily from America to the nations of it's forefathers.
    2
  28. I am actually serious. We managed to get 500 asylum seekers, whatever you call them, onto the Bibi Stockholm. All I am suggesting is that it is put a bit further from the coast. If they don't want to wait for their claim to be processed, then they can say they want to go home, and there will be no problem finding them when if their claim is rejected. People pay good money to spend months on cruise ships.
    2
  29. The confusion over equality is this: We are equal only in our requirements to live in this world. The basics are easy to argue, air to breathe, food to eat, water to drink, and shelter. But we are not equal in our ability to independently achieve those requirements.
    2
  30. What to do about Davos. I'd like to say our politicians should not be allowed to go. Certainly everything they witness at Davos should be made public, afterall they are there at the taxpayers' expense.
    2
  31. You mean the empire the Normans started?
    2
  32.  @jamesmccann355  The Saxons and Danes were still here after the Norman invasion and so those people took part, but I argue the Saxons did not initiate or lead. What I mean is that the Saxons had about 500 years of free rein and where else did they conquer from England? Not even Wales or Scotland. They lost to the Vikings and King Cnut, then finally to the Normans. All Britain's exploits happened after. The Anglo-Saxons had 500 years of opportunity and yet nothing. Within a few generations of Norman rule, we were, for better or worse, crusading around the world.
    2
  33.  @jamesmccann355  Yes, there is a marked advancement in those periods. But Britain lost its empire, and America ascended after WWII. The very people who call themselves Anglo-Saxons have the power again, and in barely a generation everything looks rather shaky. I don't know if there is anything to this, but there seems to be a guilt embedded in the colonies. At least some of America exhibit a guilt for taking the country from the Native Americans, although the Australians, New Zealanders and Canadians do not seem to have quite so much. But I reason that the Anglo-Saxon holds dearly the notion of consent being required for lawful rule. This makes their position untenable because the Anglo-Saxon has always invaded and taken lands from the inhabitants without their consent. The Norman monarchs on the other hand saw themselves as the instruments of God. God does not require consent to rule because God is the greatest and has no equal. To require consent would be to deny that God is the greatest. Instead, you either accept God's rule or he kills you. So the psyche of God's instrument is not weakened by guilt.
    2
  34. You're railroaded then.
    2
  35. He always was. He never said much, looked uncomfortable, and was talked down to by Konstantin. It’s what put me off Trigonometry.
    2
  36. Who creates property? Is it the goat herder who wanders from pasture to pasture in search of food for his goats? No, it is the farmer who takes up permanent residence on the land and farms it season to season, generation to generation. The farmer creates the village that grows into a town, then a city. And it is the nomad who is afflicted by loss of pasture land.
    2
  37. Since New Labour, the two parties in the FPTP system have become very similar. If there are only two parites to choose from, and they are almost identical, then there really is no reason to vote. Which ever party wins, you get the same leadership.
    2
  38. Reform won't do anything. They don't have the balls, the expertise, or the sense.
    2
  39. But to describe him as a 'high achieving prime minister' is going a bit far. Brexit had been mainly prepared before him, he himself described it as oven ready. All he had to do was serve it up, yet even that is flawed. Northern Ireland is a problem and so is the fishing. He has been completely incapable of enforcing the border, despite Britain being an island nation. And the covid response is something from dystopian cinema. Now his chancellor has allowed criminals to steal £4.3B from honest working people. Really, where is the list of achievements?
    2
  40. And they make their women wear Burkas, not to hide them from Muslims, but to hide them from the indigenous people. So that they indigenous will never mix with their women and they will never integrate.
    2
  41. I have been chronicling the events of the last 2/3 years.
    2
  42. It's interesting that Keir Starmer used the words 'standing army' regarding Policing the civil unrest. Our own British army is now so small that some no longer count it as a standing army. And there is a rumor that the army barracks housing illegal migrants are being used to train Afghan migrants as soldiers. If there was a plan to invade our country from within, then that plan could proceed for some time, but ultimately we would realise and oppose it. The army are the final obstacle to overthrowing the indeginous people. It appears the national army has been weakened and an opposing army is being assembled.
    2
  43. The 'elite' may think they are guardians of all, but the reality is that they are the guardians of none. From the notion of equality, no one can be put before another. Whatever you have is only temporary.
    2
  44. If the definition of British is diluted to mean nothing, it makes it easier to assimilate, because there is nothing to object to. But the meaning of assimilation is equally diluted.
    1
  45.  @jamesmason8436  Yes ok, but I use them as an example because they succeeded the Saxons. The Saxons did very little IMO. But doesn't our monarch descend from William?
    1
  46.  @jamesmason8436  And Anglo-Saxon rule ended in 1066. So why are we still calling ourselves Anglo-Saxon? They had about 600 years of rule, and it ended almost 1000 years ago. They contributed somewhat to our history, but they left very little in the way of artefacts, they did very little outside England. Common law must be their biggest contribution. Law by consent, well I think that is weak anyway. They gained England by a combination of force and deceit, so by their own code it is unlawful. So do they follow the law of might is right? Well, they lost fair and square in 1066.
    1
  47.  @xotan  And the Anglo-Saxons did not speak English. Look at the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. Written during the reign of Alfred The Great, but not in English. If you want to read it in English, then you will have to read a translation - to English.
    1
  48. @Capri-o3v There is no alternative is there, that's why we are railroaded. Reform is a godsend to the establishment. A fresh party to con people with for a few decades. I hope I'm wrong, but lets see.
    1
  49. I appreciate the videos, but when on a sinking ship, debating how it happened should be left until you are on dry land. Right now we need to talk about how to stay alive.
    1
  50. Did Starmer have to lick the road clean with is tongue?
    1