Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Amanpour and Company" channel.

  1.  @みょん-b2p  Actually, Putin thought he could waltz right in, take Kyiv, and install a puppet government before the West could react. He was not expecting fierce resistance. He thought he could keep NATO members divided and did not expect them to get their shit together so quickly.
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  2. I do believe that is the Lincoln Project plan. Did you see the ads they made for the Georgia runoff? My understanding is that they worked with Stacy Abrams’ organization and the two dem campaigns to get it out there.
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  3. What also makes logistics complex is corruption. Imagine the tires on your supply truck disintegrating from dry rot, because the logistics commander bought old and poor quality tires and pocketed the difference? At least you’d finally understand how he could afford a Ferrari on his salary.
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  4. Shout it! Newt Gingrich was the architect of the great divide.
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  5. Maintenance problems as well. The tires on many of these vehicles seem to be of such poor quality that they are disintegrating from dry rot. Probably some army commander was given a budget to buy new tires and the money disappeared into a Swiss bank account. That’s just a visible problem. If they cut corners on tires, who knows what other maintenance failures they’re suffering from.
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  6. The problem with hagiography is that it denies the bad, not that it exalts the good. Demonization has the opposite problem. I was a Reagan Republican. Over the years, I’ve recognized his many flaws. He was not as great as I thought, he was subject to the generational failings of conservatism, some of his policies were misguided, and he suffered from Alzheimer’s at the end of his second term. But I also recognize his greatness which is both timeless and was transformational at the time. It’s important to understand the context and the national zeitgeist at the time: a demoralized America. We were in a bad spot as a country. Reagan was able to communicate a different vision, an optimistic vision about America’s place in the world and our place in society. Perhaps Reagan doesn’t deserve the all the adulation Republicans gave him. But he earned the title “The Great Communicator”, and he fulfilled that function of the Presidency, that of a leader changing the course of the country and the world, as no president has since. To sum up, Ronald Reagan should be appraised for both his positives and his negatives. My opinion of him, despite his flaws and failures, is still positive. I wouldn’t go so far as to call him the greatest President, but I can’t think of anyone greater since he was President. Maybe Obama might have been greater if he had not had to face the intransigence of racism so deeply rooted in our country.
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  7.  @johncameron3152  where did you read or hear about these attempts?
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  8.  @meta37  Whats even worse about these people clinging to ignorance is how they fight the truth so tenaciously, attacking those that try to inform the public with medical information or practice safety protocols. The other day, a man in California physically attacked a teacher for wearing a mask.
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  9.  @igaluitchannel6644  This interview was about historical contexts. You would know this if you paid attention while watching it. I’m surprised you’re not interested in history, given your interest in the ancient technology of film stocks.
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  10. Oh, if it were so simple.
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  11. I can’t give you specifics, but starting a business creates a lot of red tape. Building permit approvals can be a headache, and some building regulations make building expensive, which makes low income housing less profitable. Zoning limits land available for multi family dwellings. How’s that for a start?
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  12. Runway destruction isn’t as effective as you might think. In some cases, runways can be repaired in hours. The general tactic is that you go after the fuel, maintenance facilities and any planes on the ground. But most important, you destroy any air defense assets first. Even in WWII, bombing airfields wasn’t effective at denying air capabilities to the enemy. I also suspect that Ukraine is able to have maintenance performed outside its borders. I’ve not heard anything, but it stands to reason that the Ukrainian Air Force could get its jet fighters repaired in neighboring countries.
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  13. As low probability as Putin sleeping on Tucker Carlson’s couch (which would make a great sitcom, by the way. Call it “Crashing at Carlson’s.)
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  14.  @maryannlammersen6536  What specifically did you read? Do you also realize that the Lincoln Project has said it is not interested in pursuing policy issues, but in promoting democratic values. Do you not know that they are currently in Georgia, spending time, effort and money to defeat Purdue and Loeffler? Do you listen to their podcasts or livestreams to understand their actual thinking? Have you heard them talking about how their thinking has changed? I’m not saying you have to like them or their conservative politics. I’m just asking that you avoid mischaracterizing them.
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  15. Yes, but no. Just call them fascists. They’re not just anti conservatives, they’re anti American.
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  16. That’s $3.45 x 10^14 or $345,000,000,000,000. I had to check the math. That’s actually $345 Trillion, not $345 billion. You’re off by a factor of 1,000. The point of confusion people have is that a billion has 9 zeroes and a trillion has 12 zeroes.
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  17. That “social class” being white men, presumably? I’m glad that a student of history sees that this cannot be framed as economic class conflict.
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  18. So, price fixing? Gee, that’s always worked out well. I could see putting in short term anti-gouging ceilings in response to the covid crisis, but prices of goods set by the state has a very poor record, unless your goal is to increase hoarding of goods and growing black markets.
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  19. This isn’t a CNN channel.
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  20. The Democratic Party has always been a “big tent” coalition of different factions. You don’t have to give up the progressive wing, you just have to make room for moderates and conservatives. You have to find common ground within the Democratic Party for moderates and conservatives—which some seem unwilling to do. Joe Biden might not be the best president (or maybe you think he is), but he was a candidate that stood on that common ground and attracted voters from across the political spectrum.
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  21.  @2Uahoj  Disney was already paying taxes, and they were paying the debt on the bonds issued by the Sandy Creek district. If you dissolve the district with the bond obligation, the obligation retrocesses to either the state or the county, and the payments for the bonds are spread out among all property owners (within the state or county, depending on how it works out). So Disney will be paying less than they were previously because the burden will now be shared among other property owners. Congratulations, you just gave Disney a tax break. You might want to have a look at Article I, § 10 of the U.S. Constitution and Von Hoffman vs City of Quincy (535 U.S. 71) to understand the legal underpinnings of why the Florida Legislature can’t unilaterally dissolve Sandy Creek.
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  22. More than just greed, but the same underlying motivation. Greed is just one form of the unbridled ambition for absolute power.
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  23.  @frankfreeman1444  he’s a Google shill. 😆
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  24.  @TheEvertw  I think most of the Lincoln Project has left and renounced the GOP. The lone hold out, afaik, is Michael Steele, the ex-RNC chair.
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  25.  @francisamielguevarra7203  None of what you wrote is true.
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  26.  @tpelectric1  Been to too many Number Six dances, have you?
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  27. He could be combative, but he was never underhanded. He was (and remains, afaik) good friends with Jon Stewart, despite the gulf in their political opinions. He was also very combative against the Pat Buchanan wing of the GOP back in those days. Bill Kristol argued in good faith for his positions. But I agree. He has opened his mind. I dare say he has had to take a hard look at positions he once held and whether they really served the country.
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  28. I’ve been watching a nurse/nursing school professor’s channel over the past year and the comments have been taken over by QAnon Antivaxxers. The lies and misinformation they spread is disgusting. Without hyperbole, I say these people are a cancer on society.
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  29.  @jayneneewing2369  It’s the enforcement of a no fly zone that leads directly to war. The U.S., NATO, or any country, even a person like you and me can declare a “no fly zone”. The trick is enforcement. If you can’t or aren’t willing to go to the mat, it’s a joke. That said, what if U.S. announced its planes were going to fly a certain corridor? This gets you somewhat of a no fly zone, more of a no-shoot zone.
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  30. Sadly, many Americans are still entering Mexico via jet planes.
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  31. Incidentally, The Villages is one of the many Sandy Creek type corporate districts. I thought it was interesting that the legislature was purely focused on retaliation against Disney that they forgot about the other districts.
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  32.  @raelbluesista  Splitting it will effectively kill it. Speaking as an ex-Republican with an idea of how deep the rot goes, that’s a good thing. Let the non-racist and non-fascist conservatives either vote as independents or join the Democratic Party. Reconstituting the moribund Center-Right faction of the Democrats would give them a voice while benefiting the party as a whole, especially in electing Democratic candidates in Red States. That is probably the healthiest course for the next decade, if not longer. You potentially get all the benefits of a majority while also having a counterbalance to the progressives.
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  33.  @beaudarcey9586  Honestly, antifa is a trivial group that Trump and his minions have seized on to beat up liberals. If anything, it’s the fascism of the extreme right that has shifted everything, so that even moderate republicans have been purged from the GOP and ridiculed as socialists. Even conservatives with solid credentials have been forced out and replaced by rabid extremists who march in lockstep with our white supremacist president. Which is not to say there aren’t seeds of authoritarian extremism on the far left. But social welfare is not socialism. Safety nets to protect the vulnerable and unlucky are not a slide down a slippery slope. Liberals are not the enemies of conservative, nor vice versa. In a democracy, we are partners with different points of view. I hope that with Trump’s fall from power, we can end this division and get back to the business of solving our nation’s most pressing problems as partners.
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  34.  Punk Shark  There was formed an unholy alliance with principled conservatives and “social conservatives”, aka “values conservatives” aka so called Christian voters. Most of the leaders of the social conservatives were rank hypocrites and con artists. The followers were the weak of mind and the fearful, who were also hypocrites that professed the love of Jesus while holding hate in their hearts. This match made in hell for temporary advantage culminated in Newt Gingrich’s scorched earth politics and the deep divisions we are suffering from today. The GOP took gullible followers and made them even dumber.
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  35. It apparently doesn’t want grammar, if you are representative of the country.
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  36. Good Lord. Behold the Human Pretzel, the nth wonder of the world.
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  37. And profoundly underestimated the problems within the GOP that have led us to our current peril.
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  38.  @lladnar69  Good point. That said, until we get Trump out of office and the GOP held to account, I’m not going to point my fingers at the Democrats for fucking up in 2010. Still, Obama out-organized Hillary Clinton in 2008 to win the nomination. Why did that organization evaporate in 2010? Hubris?
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  39.  @RobertGolden1952  Is the bridge engineering unit stuck at the back of the convoy? 😆
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  40. The experience of being stuck in the mud while you’re slowly picked off will surely be valuable in the future.
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  41. The two are related, but experienced differently depending on your skin color, religion, and sexual orientation. So while I don’t disagree with what you are saying, I’m leery of your emphasis of one over the other. But don’t worry, we can walk and chew gum at the same time (the trick seems to be doing them in sync, haha). However you made a BIG point. It’s up to us. I’ve heard the revolutionary left, the actual Marxists, say things like “Your institutions will not save you.” It’s meant to demoralize us and soften us up for their revolution. But they have a point, because our institutions won’t save us without our saving the institutions. If we want our institutions to save us, we must realize that those institutions are US, and must be strengthened and maintained. And in some cases, reformed from the foundations. Anyway, I appreciate your point of view and your nuanced understanding of the various intersections of the social and the economic. I suppose we agree 90%, and the remaining 10% can be worked out.
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  42. If you’re going to blame the victims, why not blame the entire nation for allowing Trump to be elected in the first place, since this was all foreseeable and preventable if the American people had the brains? How can we be considered smart enough to vote? No, we are not going to substitute a non democratic system in place of our democratic one because too many were fooled and are still fooled by Trump.
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  43. He’s thinking 2024 and couldn’t give a damn about how he leaves Florida. He’s willing to stake the well being of every single Floridian on winning the nomination, and to do it he has to keep the crazies riled up.
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  44. After the inauguration, it’s not McConnell’s call. He won’t be the Senate Majority Leader.
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  45. Same could be said of you or me, taking a broader picture. The point is, what are we doing about it today?
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  46. The stalled convoy isn’t defenseless. They have air cover and surface to air missiles. The A10 is best used after you’ve achieved air superiority and knocked out your enemy’s targeting capabilities. Right now they’re using Turkish supplied drones to pick off vehicles one by one. The drones are able to penetrate the defenses.
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  47. Wow, you’re such a model of masculinity. Democrats should be emulating you.
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  48. I don’t think the Lincoln Project should form a political party. I think they should start a school of political communication, teaching their hard hitting techniques and promoting their principles of American Democracy.
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  49. Yes, there are many things we can do to help prevent the spread and to protect ourselves, but these are not replacements for the vaccine (as you’ll probably agree). For example, I take Vitamin D3 at a fairly high dose (but still within the safe therapeutic window). I saw an interesting image in a video. It was slices of Swiss cheese, with each slice representing a preventative measure we can take. The more layers you use, the better you are protecting yourself and your family.
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  50. If only that analogy would become more perfect.
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