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

  1. State Attorney General is an elected position. I don’t know of any exceptions to this.
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  2. I was thinking how little I know about the Ukrainian generals leading the Ukrainian defense forces. I enjoyed this video, but I was hoping it would inform me about Ukrainian military leaders.
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  3. How do you compel the willfully lazy to exercise? Trump supporters and conspiracy theory believers are mentally lazy. They cling to their lies to avoid mental exertion. How do you propose they be made to exercise their minds? I agree with you, but I don’t see how “education is the solution” is a practical solution. How can we motivate people to use their rational minds? Tell me your ideas about that? It sounds laughable, but a National quiz show featuring random calls to the populace to answer logic problems? Wouldn’t you begin to study up on logic if your neighbor won $1000 last week for merely answering a logic question? I know, it sounds stupid, but I have not been able to come up with better.
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  4.  Paul Muggins  I appreciate your concern. Some of it is warranted. But the IRA in the 70s had decades of experience, lessons learned, etc. And while we might be deeply disgusted by their methods, and we might disagree with their cause, they did have a cause. The fascist anti-government coalition in the U.S. has neither experience nor a real cause (that they can openly espouse—the White Nationalism is for internal consumption only). Their false cause doesn’t stand up to even weak scrutiny, and the population that might support them as happened during “The Troubles” is already turning on them. On top of all that, they’ve got really shitty opsec. This doesn’t mean that there aren’t a handful of competent domestic terrorists that can cause damage and hurt a lot of people, nor lone wolves acting outside of their networks, but that was already the case before Trump. This also isn’t the first time the U.S. has had to deal with a domestic group that relied on political violence. The KKK was effectively dismantled in the 70s and 80s by federal law enforcement.
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  5.  @solarwind907  The problem is that you can’t just jail people willy nilly. The legal basis is sketchy at best, and we’d need to be very careful about how such laws are enacted. I do agree there should be consequences for those that are misleading the public during this crisis, but I don’t think our criminal justice system is the way to handle it.
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  6. You didn’t watch the video did you?
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  7. I think Washington wrote that when he was struggling to maintain discipline during the winter in Valley Forge. American soldiers were suffering under poor conditions and wanted to return home for the winter. I think at the time he wrote it, he had some doubt he’d be able to hold the Continental Army together. When we think about our history and our leaders from the past, we should remember that they weren’t guaranteed any wins. They had to face each crisis without the confidence that the problems would be overcome. I always tried to keep that in mind when Bush and Obama were presidents. Whatever I thought of their policies, I knew they were doing their best and doing what was right for the entire country. I felt the same way about the elder Bush, and I feel that way about Biden. In a real crisis like this, it’s important to support the President, regardless of party. May god or whoever is up there guide the hand of President Biden.
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  8. I think he’s just beat up and exhausted. He’s been fighting the Trump administration since Trump first announced his candidacy. I would appreciate a stronger mea culpa, but he’s been fighting the good fight for our country and for Democracy longer than most anti Trump conservatives.
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  9. Hiiiiii Tim!!!
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  10. Good questions and good answers.
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  11. Soooo clever.
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  12. That’s a terrific strategy for moving supplies, alright. Maybe the Red Army is blocking the road to protest against U.S. vaccination mandates?
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  13. Give the feds time to build a case. Hopefully they are going after the bigger fish behind this treasonous assault, including the biggest turd in the pond.
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  14. The final furlong? What is this metric crap?
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  15. If it were only that simple.
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  16. What’s crazy is that some believe in the delta variant insofar as they believe variants somehow prove Covid is a scam.
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  17.  @garypuckettmuse  She’s an old school conservative, not one of these extreme right wing pseudo-fascists. Uh, I mean “populists”.
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  18. In the closer elections, it’s going to be difficult to assign credit to any one group with 100% certainty. All efforts by all members of the alliance made it possible. The win in Georgia wouldn’t have even been possible without first the great effort by the Black community to get out the Black vote. However, the margin is so thin there, it’s likely that the GOP voters voting for Biden helped get him across the line. Trump mouthpieces have bragged about the unprecedented turnout for Trump, and it’s true that they got many new GOP registrations and then got those people to vote. But here is a telling statistic: of those Republican voters that voted for Trump in 2016, only 80% voted for him in 2020. Republican voters. As far as whether they voted for one candidate or against the other, there six of one, half dozen of the other. It doesn’t much matter.
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  19. The Russian economy is taking a massive nosedive, and that’s why they can’t reopen their stock market. They don’t want the Russian people to see the size of the crater.
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  20.  @richardmoloney689  Buy when the market has bottomed out, and then be prepared to wait a long time.
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  21. No Fly Zones are imposed after you achieve air supremacy. To achieve air supremacy means you’ve knocked out enemy air defenses and their fighters cannot challenge your fighters. Do you see the problem? For NATO to impose a no fly zone, they’d have to attack Russian air and ground forces. This would expand and escalate the conflict, and you might as well just attack Russia.
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  22. Hahahaha, no. 😄 This came up a while ago among the fans of TLP, and they said, “we are a non partisan, pro democracy group, not a political party. We care about democracy as our single issue”. Rick himself has pointed out that forming a new national party is extremely difficult (many have tried) and they just don’t have the resources or expertise.
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  23. With the new military aid package, we can just hire Russian troops to switch sides and fight for Ukraine. If they don’t want to fight, offer them a two week vacation at Disney World instead.
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  24. You can’t wait to turn the U.S. into Russia, can you? You’re a Putzi.
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  25.  @kenofken9458  Offer a beer bonus in addition to the pay.
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  26. They will try.
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  27. Pullet Surprise
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  28. But Mexico was going to pay for the wall.
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  29. Beyond Handmaid’s Tale, she has her Mad Adam series, which seem more and more prescient—although some of the developments are wildly sci-fi.
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  30. Lol, I had assumed he was a Republican. Does the leftist wing of the Dem party think he’s a DINO, or am I misreading them?
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  31. Reagan wasn’t perfect, but you do know that he was responsible for bringing millions of undocumented people out of the shadows and putting them on a path to citizenship. Reagan didn’t vilify immigrants as you claim. Nor did he vilify democrats (although you didn’t accuse him of this, its worth mentioning.) He was lifelong friends with Tip O’Neil, the Democratic Speaker of the House. I’m just saying, if you’re going to criticize Reagan (and there’s plenty), stick with the facts.
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  32. Lol, it’s true. You sound like a true fan.
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  33. Your first sentence is fine, but your second sentence is bullshit and Russian propaganda.
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  34. Many Are Getting Arrested MAGA!
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  35. Or admit conservative democrats into the caucus instead of knocking them off. The democratic left has been slowly eroding its own center-right, which is partly how the gop was able to grab a thin margin in the house.
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  36. I’m kind of partial to Rick. Steve is a straight shooter, but I like Rick’s colorful language and artistic turns of phrase. Give a listen to the podcast he does with Molly Jong-Fast, The New Abnormal. Although they’re on opposite sides of the political spectrum, it’s not a point-counterpoint show. They’re mutually supportive, have an underlying respect for each other, and are funny as hell.
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  37. “We are not averse to buying Gucci” 😄
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  38. He was fighting Trumpism from the moment Trump announced his candidacy. 30-40 years ago, he fought the nativist authoritarian wing in the GOP led by Pat Buchanan. Over the past 5 years he’s been a pariah. He’s not a Johnny-come-lately to the fight against Trump and Trumpism. The most you can accuse him of is misdiagnosing the cancer that was eating away at the GOP between the time of Buchanan and Trump.
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  39. On one hand, the increased belligerence between the U.S. and the PRC is fueled by Trump’s political needs as the U.S. moves closer to the November election. On the other hand, it’s a mistake to assume that that belligerence will lessen if Trump is re-elected (or finds a way to stay in power). While Trump does follow his own logic, it’s a mistake to believe that he is a rational actor, or that there are rational actors in his administration that can tone down the Trump administration’s policies. Trump will gain some political benefit among his hardcore supporters, but they key is that “getting tough” makes Trump feel better about himself personally. Does this sound crazy? It’s a craziness that the U.S. has suffered through for the past 3 1/2 years, especially during the last 4 months. I can’t emphasize this enough, but look at Trump’s response to the pandemic. Look at his response to the BLM movement. Look at these responses both in terms of the rhetorical and the practical. The not very well concealed thread seems to be that each action and each statement’s purpose is to boost Trump’s own psychological need to feel powerful because he feels weak personally. The guiding principle of U.S. policies, both domestic and international is not even greed, it’s one man’s inner fears. The world is already praying that Trump lose the election and is replaced by a rational actor. Laws prevent non-U.S. citizens from contributing to election campaigns, but there is a way for individuals to help, namely non-partisan organizations whose purpose is get-out-the-vote. It’s important that they be non-partisan, neither Republican Party nor Democratic Party. Their purpose is to register voters, insure those previously registered are not removed from the voting rolls, and providing transportation for voters to reach polling places. Some organizations are working to prevent voter suppression, which is becoming an issue in GOP controlled states (for example, closing polling locations to only a few, limiting the hours that the polls are open, limiting the use of mailed ballots). To put it plainly, the international community can help democracy in the U.S. by supporting pro democracy non-partisan NGOs.
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