Comments by "Grenade Tennis" (@hughjass1044) on "Nomad Capitalist" channel.

  1.  @nickv4073  Who says you have to live your whole life there? Travel around, sample different places, find the best of everywhere.
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  2.  @MrBCWalker01  I think it's time you got off the internet for a while, came out of the basement and got some sunlight and a bit of fresh air..... and maybe a friend or two.
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  3. Money can move and increasingly, money is moving. Andrew is right; you're NOT going to change the system. You're naive and a fool if you think you will. Millions before you have tried and failed. The only thing you can do with a system as corrupt, broken and bankrupt as this one is to quit participating in it and contributing to it. Leave.... they hate you anyway or they soon will once they driven out everyone wealthier than you are and by then it'll be too late anyway. Go where you're treated best.... and don't look back.
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  4. I think it all boils down to that one famous old golden rule..... don't put all your eggs in one basket. The world is a very volatile place right now and it's likely to get more so before it gets less so. It's the very foolish man who does not prepare for that and have multiple backup plans.
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  5. A point that isn't made often enough or strenuously enough is that it is NOT the Jeff Bezoses of the world who are going to be most at risk of shit like this... it's the small and mid sized business people. Companies like Amazon, Walmart, Facebook etc are global behemoths with unlimited resources to lobby against and fight policies like this. The smaller, 10, 25, 50 person companies DO NOT and like any government always does, it is the smaller, weaker targets who'll always get picked on because 1) they have less capacity to fight back and 2) there is a greater probability of success which gives the government more to brag about.
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  6.  @MILE011  You still haven't explained to me how the US was/is responsible for the Yugoslav civil war.
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  7. Enjoy the Nomad Dad as much as the Nomad Son!
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  8.  @elonmusk9869  I'm thrilled for you.
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  9. Nomad Dad rocks!!!
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  10. Great to see you again, Dad; where ya been?
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  11. Good advice!
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  12. Jeez Andrew, this is the first time I have to disagree with you. You rate Turkish Airlines highly and maybe today they are but my experience with them in the 90s was terrible! The airport was like a mob scene; I don't think they've even heard of lineups there. Everyone was just in one big mob pushing their way to the front of the line and the plane itself was dingy, smelly and smoky. On the other hand, my experiences with Thai Airways were all wonderful. Clean planes, efficient service, smooth rides, on time... no complaints at all. Honorable mention for SE Asia regional - Vietnam Airways though I only used them twice. Phnom Penh to HCM City - 35 minutes and they served 2 snacks and a lunch. And you could have eaten all of it off the floor of the plane, it was that clean! Great, smooth flight, friendly staff who all spoke fluent English (and French), loved it!
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  13. The last 2 (at least) presidents of South Africa have been very clear that they want every single white person out of the country and they are prepared to resort to anything to achieve that goal. They are well on their way to getting there. Any white person with any wealth, talent, brains and a smidgen of awareness is preparing to leave if they haven't already.
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  14. "Can the US keep going like this?" Oh baby; they're just getting warmed up! What you're seeing now is just the beginning. This is what a society looks like when it's starting to die. You probably wouldn't think so but this is one of the major reasons why countries like China, Russia and Iran don't fear the US. We have all the best hardware, it's true, but we have a weak, decadent society with no resilience and no fortitude. Those are the marks of a strong nation and they are lacking horribly!
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  15.  @selohcin  A chain is only as strong as its weakest link and the weak link in the US military's chain is the political leadership. Adversaries have figured out long ago that you don't beat the US on the battlefield, you beat it by sapping it's resolve and weakening it's will to continue the fight. You wear it down by wearing it out.
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  16. I was aware that Lyin' Brian Williams had retired.... about that much at least, the world can rejoice, but I wasn't aware of the particulars of this incident because I don't watch MSDNC.... oops; I mean, MSNBC.... But I have trouble believing that he was really complaining about the same issues that we are. If anything, it's likely that what we call a descent into madness is for him A) not happening fast enough and B) is opposed by anyone. This man has the credibility of a dead skunk.
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  17. It's Jug-Meat. Spelled Jagmeet but pronounced Jug-Meat. And the NDP are what we call socialists around these parts..... because, you know.... the Bouffant Boy Wonder and his "Liberal" apparatchiks aren't quite socialist enough for us, apparently. And if you're thinking about packing up and getting the f*ck out of Dodge, I'd do it soon because there's going to be a fall election which Fidel's boy is going to win in a landslide for two major reasons - 1) The Tories are a dumpster fire who collectively don't know whether their arseholes were bored or punched and 2) The student council president we call Mr. Prime Minister plans on promising everything imaginable AND actually delivering. Tax and borrow, tax and spend, spend and borrow and around and around we go. Free childcare, free dental, free glasses, free college, free drugs..... you name it; free, free, FREE!! Pretty soon we'll all have our own assigned babysitter (unionized, of course) to feed us our din-dins and tuck us all into our beddy-byes.
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  18.  @lisalph8922  I was going to ignore your comment.... and to a large degree, I have.... I stopped reading at - "There is another option - anarchy" - for two reasons. 1) Your comment looks like a truckload of words that collided with a wall and 2) You don't know WTF you're talking about! So I decided to give you a little free advice... because it's Christmas. Firstly, either learn to be a lot more word efficient or hit the "enter" key a lot more often. No one is going to take the time to try to work through a mess like that. Secondly, get your nose out of the theory books and observe reality. There is no such thing as anarchy and there never will be. Anarchy is the absence of government hence the absence of control.... and that will never happen because someone will always take control. Go ahead and respond to this if you like but you'll be wasting your time. I won't read it.
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  19. One of your best videos, Andrew. Seldom heard to put better.
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  20. This doesn't surprise me one bit. The more fearful governments become and the more boxed in they are by their own failures, the more desperate they get, the more they lash out and the more straws they grasp at. The government is really the only entity that can arbitrarily change rules at will to benefit itself and grant itself more powers. These are powers it will NEVER willingly relinquish. So don't EVER delude yourself about the benevolence of a government. They are like any other organism - they are genetically predisposed toward only two things; self preservation and reproduction.
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  21. You know Russians, I know Russians, lots of people know Russians and many of the ones I know tell a somewhat different story about Navalny than what the western media likes to tell and that is that in reality, he was not what he was portrayed as. The western media is prone to manufacturing a certain image of people like Navalny based on the kind of person they'd like him to be and then pushing that on their audiences. In the first place, he was as much of a nationalist as Putin is. In fact, most Russians are. That's why Putin is as popular as he is. Very few people in the west understand this fact about Russia or they willfully blind themselves to it. Navalny believed, as Putin does, in the expansion of Russia's borders and the re-establishment of the Russian empire. He supported the annexation of Crimea (again, the vast majority of Russians do) and the oppositions that he may have held to the Ukraine war had more to do with the way it was being prosecuted than anything else. In short, he was not the saint that many in the west think he was. Secondly, and more importantly, he was admired in many circles in Russia for his opposition to corruption but not taken seriously as a leader. Many of the people I know have said that if he had ever stood for election against Putin in a free and fair contest, Putin would still win in a rout and that's because for whatever faults he may possess, Putin is seen as a strongman that can control the oligarchs and command respect abroad while Navalny was seen as a principled but terribly naïve figure who'd be unlikely to gain power and would probably be eaten alive by the thugs and gangsters who really rule Russia if he did.
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  22. Something to think about - At many universities across the country, everything is being segregated by race.... classes, dorms, clubs, even cafeterias. "Safe spaces" are everywhere and students regularly set curriculum and get professors silenced and fired. Within about 5-10 years, those people will be running our governments, our media, our major corporations and, to an even greater extent than they are already,, our education system. This is our version of what the German communist Rudi Dutschke called "the long march through the institutions." Have a great weekend!
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  23. The west is rapidly becoming the worst place to do or be anything that involves freedom.
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  24. I got such a chuckle out of Andrew describing these Europhiles who are so hung up on the place that they're willing to put up with anything yet still swear it's the best. I'm a car enthusiast and I always hear the same thing from fans of European cars. They think they're the best in the world and that they're impressing the hell out of people because they paid an astronomical price for some stupid Italian sports car that needs a ton of maintenance so is hardly ever on the road and all while looking down their noses at me who drives vintage Detroit iron on the weekends and practical Japanese stuff through the week. But I always get the last laugh as I get regular and largely trouble free usage out of mine while they stay home and pleasure themselves gawking at this European "classic" that's been up on blocks for months waiting for overpriced, hard to get parts.
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  25. Andrew is SO right! Individual results are like individual polls; they don't tell us much. Trends are what you really need to pay attention to.
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  26. Of course, the other side to all this largesse is that you create a culture of dependence and set up your own way back into power if you should lose it. You'll get very little pushback from anyone when you set up all these welfare schemes but try to take them away or even scale them back and the screeching could be heard on the moon!
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  27. Cramer is nothing but another TV blowhard whose job is to keep you engaged between commercial breaks. He's just trying to get attention. His whole schtick is ranting and raving and flailing his arms and making a spectacle of himself so people will watch to see what the crazy guy will say next. No different than Hannity, Maddow or any of the rest. As my dad once told me - "those who can, do; those who can't, talk." In all aspects of life, it's important to not let yourself get sidetracked by those who have outsized egos or who think they know everything. Follow the people who get results, not those who bark from the sidelines.
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  28. Don't blame you one damned bit, Andrew! I'd do the exact same thing were I in your place. It's the toxicity and the rage... all of it manufactured and distributed for profit and ratings... that is going to kill western civilization long before anything else will. It is in fact, those very things that are driving me to become a nomad, not the monetary side of things because I'm just not that wealthy. I simply find that I can't function in this environment any longer. Best wishes and thanks for all you've done and continue to do.
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  29.  @NorthStarPNW  First, how much do you trust what Trump says, second, how much wealth does Trump really have; even if we take the high estimates, compared to Bezos, Musk or any of the major corporations and finally, Trump has a long history of dodging taxes so he's made himself a target. It's likely a case of several different kinds of malfeasance at once.
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  30.  @NorthStarPNW  Besides, we're not even really talking about the same thing. I'm talking about politicians who formulate policy and pass laws that may favor a certain segment of the tax base. You're talking about the IRS which collects taxes in accordance with existing law. The IRS goes after people who illegally avoid taxes. Politicians, by way of the laws they pass, can help people legally avoid taxes.
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  31. You're right, it is going global and the best you can legitimately hope for is to stay a few steps ahead of it. I can't run forever? I don't have to run forever. I just have to run until I die and then the whole shit pile can burst into flames for all I care.
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  32.  @AS-hz8cv  It's not; don't bother.
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  33.  @ELee-zv5ud  Don't worry sweetheart, we won't. We'll sit back and laugh at you "brave hearts" from afar.
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  34. Don't look for governments to solve this problem..... they don't want it solved. They created it!!
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  35. Not much point in moving to a "red" state when red states are trending blue more every day.
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  36. China is not doing anything different than the USA did when it was at the same stage of development. China is looking after China.... as it should!! It's not China's place to supply the US's deficiencies and it's not China's fault that the USA is failing. The problem is that the US is in a snit because China is starting to horn in on their little game and the US doesn't like it. OK, fair enough. There's no reason in the world why the US should sit by and let China eat its lunch. It should fight back! The problem is that it's NOT doing that! It TALKS a big game but when it comes to action, the people in power do NOTHING because they're corrupt and have sold out to China (and whoever will pay them) ages ago. It would seem to me that if the USA really wants to be #1 in the world today, they'd prioritize looking after their most valuable resource - their people. They'd make sure they had the healthiest, best educated, most motivated workforce with the highest average wealth in the world but instead they've got 5 mile long lineups for food banks, college debt that people won't have repaid till their own kids are in college, major cities transforming into open sewers and people dying because they can't afford to go to a f*cking doctor!! America First, my ass!! More like corporate donors first! All this China bashing is just obfuscation and deflection.
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  37. Yet another manifestation of mob rule. The government caters to the mob because there's more of them and they don't give a shit about any kind of rules based order.
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  38. It will work marvelously for what they really want to accomplish...... getting votes from all the "Pauls" of the world. That's what it's meant to do.
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  39. If you think this isn't going to become a reality, you're either delusional or haven't been paying attention! Look at all the things that are a fact of life today that were poo-pooed as being ridiculous 40-30 or even 20 or 10 years ago and tell me why you think this will be different. Communists have always been big proponents of the theory of incrementalism and such things as the systematic dismantling of traditional support structures such as family and community. Some people think along the lines that things they view as ridiculous will somehow just poof!... become a reality overnight. They won't! It's a creeping process where they slowly break down your resistance until the way things are going seems normal or at least acceptable to you. "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened." Norman Thomas
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  40. A slight clarification on India vis-à-vis Russia..... They are not and never have been, fiercely pro-Russia. They are not fiercely pro-anybody. What they are is fiercely neutral, nationalistic, proud and independent. They are not interested in being in anybody's "camp" and the harder somebody tries to push them into one, the more they resist and turn towards the other. They are the modern embodiment of Lord Palmerston's famous quote - "We have no permanent allies and we have no permanent enemies. What we have are permanent interests." As Modi has said - "I have 1/7th of the world's population. I'll make my own camp." They have always kept their doors open to most anyone but they refuse to be anyone's "cheap date." They're not about to just fall in line with either the US, Russia, Europe, China nor anyone else just because someone thinks they should but they do take great pleasure in being obstinate and refusing to sing off of someone else's song sheet. One thing they've never forgotten, or forgiven, was the US siding with Pakistan in the early days. The US may have felt they had their reasons for doing so, but from the Indian perspective, that is something that won't be soon nor easily overcome and it is that as much as anything that pushed them closer to the Soviets. There are however, some serious cracks forming in the India/Russia relationship as India doesn't particularly enjoy being associated with a pariah state. They have also begun the slow but steady transition of their military away from Russian sourced gear towards that from western sources. The big winner in all that? The USA? Uh-uhh. France! See what I mean about India not wanting to dance to Uncle Sam's tune?
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  41. Bono of U2 fame was notorious for going around the world lecturing governments that they need to raise taxes while he and his bandmates moved their base of operations to a more tax friendly destination. Frauds! "Do as I say; not as I do."
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  42. That last sentence - "The priorities in these countries are all wrong and that's what causes these questions to be asked" - really said it all! This kind of thinking is being driven by the cultural, political and educational elites to divert the attention away from themselves. The situation for so many of the younger generations in legacy countries today really is very dire but their attention is being deliberately focused... BY the very people who created that reality.... TOWARD a concocted, made-up boogey man (those dastardly RICH people!) so that they can avoid accountability themselves. There's an old saying - "If you rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll be Paul's friend for life." You'll also have Paul's undivided attention and thus, be able to convince him of anything and fill his head with as much propaganda as you want. That's how you end up with the situation you have today.
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  43. Malaysia = Islamic extremists, Mexico = drug cartels, Serbia = hates westerners after the Yugoslav wars. Probably exaggerating but not by much. Then again, if you're flush with cash, they'll welcome it.... err, I mean you... with open arms!
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  44. "Who's really the President?" Classic!! Nomad Dad rocks! The reason we never see President Grandpa Simpson is because he's in his basement slurping pudding and being coached on how to get through a speech without nodding off or going off on some incoherent rant about something after which he'll need his diaper changed. That's why he needs a teleprompter. Crazy old coot can't keep two coherent thoughts straight in his head and at any given moment, he's about two seconds away from either a racial slur or a swearing session at people who aren't there.
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  45.  @LotusesGalaxyOcean  This is very true but I don't blame HR for that. Management controls HR and sets the parameters under which they operate the same as they do for any department. If they don't, then management is negligent. Responsibility starts at the top and the various departments are a reflection of the culture that management establishes..... or fails to establish.
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  46.  @LotusesGalaxyOcean  I never thought about that side of it but I suppose you're right. I guess that's why you have to choose your HR people very carefully and continue to stay on top of things very diligently. It's getting harder and harder to run a business of any size these days without certain people and their "agendas" sticking their noses into things. Guess that's one of the reasons why Andrew's channel has such a following.,
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  47. The reason why the Chinese are buying up all these assets where you live is the same reason why they're buying up stuff everywhere else.... because the values are exploding. Don't blame them; they're just smart business people responding to market conditions. And the reason values are exploding is a lack of supply due to restrictions put in place by various levels of government. And do you know why most of those restrictions are in place? I'll tell you. They are in place due to the #1 impediment to new home buyers.... existing home buyers! The more supply (of anything) there is, the lower the prices are so if governments take the muzzles off the developers and allows more homes to be built, the values of existing properties will fall which will enrage their owners and the politicians won't get re=elected. Yes; governments would love you to believe the problem is the Chinese. Or greedy corporations or immigrants or Vladimir Putin or just about anything or anybody but them. No one passes a buck or points a finger better than a politician. But trust me; they ARE the problem. Blame them.
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  48. @Aubrey Winchester Thanks! As I say, a variety of perspectives is what we should strive for. Andrew gave his based on his experience and you gave yours based on your own. It's not a thing where anyone is right or wrong, it's just opinions and they're all valid. And all that stuff you said about Uruguay... heard it all before and that's why I want to go! Haven't heard anything yet about the country that turns me off.
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  49. Yeah, but the health care monopolies are making out like bandits so everything will be fine. Relax and quit your bellyaching! Signed, US politicians.
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  50. This is what a society that's dying looks like. Just as a dying person might flail and thrash about trying to grab onto anything that might save them, so too does a dying society flail and thrash about desperately grabbing at anything and everything trying to get a few more minutes of life. California is circling the drain and the rest of the USA isn't far behind. If you doubt me, just consider - governor Gavin Newsom could be recalled and according to people I know in the state, he's not the least bit concerned about it. Why? Because he knows there's no one else around with the machine behind them that he does and he'll be re-elected in a landslide! Consider also that we just had a presidential election and the choices the two major parties saw to it that we were limited to were a senile old fool who barely knows what day it is and one of the most notorious con men in the history of the country! What do you think all that points to?! Get out NOW!!
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