Comments by "SK ONTHEROAD" (@skontheroad2666) on "Neo-Nazi says he's emboldened by Trump" video.
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@HeiBred I understand that you are seeing it all play out from afar, and in the media, but please don't believe everything you see and hear. The media is out of control and has been for the past 4 years. The reason that the news keeps playing impeachment stories is because they are concerned their ratings will plummet after January 20th when Trump is out. They know that Biden is boring, when they can even get him out of his basement to answer questions. He spoke last night and it was ridiculous. With an impeachment story, the cable news channels will be able to continue to cover Trump and keep their viewership. Even at the expense of keeping the country divided. And Trump closed the borders early. But if you recall, when he did, Biden called him names for doing it, Pelosi did as well, and then pulled that stunt in Chinatown in SF. Then shortly thereafter we had the situation where Fauci admitted to misleading the country regarding face masks. For some reason, of all the international news I watch daily for work, in various languages to understand how the world sees the US, the virus and how it is affecting different countries across the globe, Sky News Australia is always very pro-Trump and reports from a right-wing, Republican perspective. Why? I can never figure out why Australians in particular, have their own equivalent of FOX News. But, if you have been watching that, alongside other, more left leaning news channels, you have likely gotten a well rounded view of what is going on here. Nonetheless, the stories they all run are the few outlier examples that make for interesting news. You can assume the whole country is that way. Just as the few nutjobs who stormed the Capitol don't represent every republican in the US. Or the 74 million who voted for Trump. (Side note--I also really enjoy Australia's 60 minutes! Much better than ours!)
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@HeiBred I don't know if you are an American living overseas, or just a foreigner interested in American politics, but what happened with Dr. Fauci and the masks was covered by every single news channel. Not just right wing media. You can type it into YouTube or Google and watch the stories. I was only pointing it out because you were Monday morning quarterbacking by saying that Trump should have responded sooner. Those who recall what happened here in the US remember how it played out. However crazy and awful he has been on many occasions, it still does not mean that they way they responded to the virus in the beginning was necessarily wrong, or was the cause of more deaths. And again,, I don't know what perspective you are viewing this all from,, however to state that you don't care for the Republicans or the Democrats, and at the same time say that bc I am trying to show issues that have occurred on both sides of the aisle, making them equally to blame, yet stating that that must make me a Trump supporter/and or a Republican and therefore a bad person is a bit disingenuous. This country is made up of 70+ million people who voted for Trump, or just voted against Biden/Republican, as well as 70+ million who voted against Trump/for Biden or Democrat. Either way, Trump is out, Biden is President and the entire country must find a way to move forward. We have enough issues to work through right now. We don't need to focus on gratuitous comments from the peanut gallery. It isn't helpful.
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@HeiBred I unfortunately hate golf (I am terrible at it but my son was captain of the team in HS, lol!)... but I love riding, and used to work with horses when younger (running a hack stable in Upstate NY in the summers during college). I used to compete as a hobby when younger, at camp in Colorado--Rodeo (barrels, poles and flags)--very American! At the dude ranch where I ran the barn, all of our staff came from Camp America and CCUSA, so I had many Aussies and Kiwis come work as wranglers and they produced the best horseman (with the ability to easily switch over to western style). While that was before the internet, when people still felt very isolated coming from Australia, and would save up for their trip abroad when they would then spend 6 months traveling America before they would go back and settle down, there are still some similarities now. Especially during Covid. I have been waiting over a year for a few surgeries so I have not really left my house much this past year. I understand what you mean about trying to manage the pain and get some sleep. And I too have been watching a ton of YouTube, which started for work, and then became quite a nasty habit I think.... 🤔 but nonetheless, it doesn't matter where one comes from, everyone has bias. Unless it is about something that they didn't even know existed--like asking a rural farmer in a fly over state who started working on the family dairy farm right out of HS and has never been out of his town, what he thinks about Maori culture, or other aboriginals (the small a being intentional), such as Torres Straight Islanders and Aboriginals (big A) and the issues they face in Australian society... I am going to take a leap and guess that the farmer will give you a blank stare back. Honestly, so would my husband! Maybe he might break into a Haka, but it would still take him a few minutes to put it together. Other than those isolated incidents, it is impossible for people to escape forming a biased opinion one way or the other. It is human nature. And it starts with the way one first encountered the person or subject matter and how it was presented to them. I am personally a little sensitive to the way the media covers Jared and Ivanka for example, as I know one of them and share common friends with the other (and I don't typically even write this much about it in the comments section online). The coverage was ridiculous from the start. At this point, it is pure conjecture and people hear stories about them which may as well be fairy tales. Yet everyone feels that they know them, what they are thinking, what they say and do--it is absurd! Having heard that go on these past 4 years, knowing that the media is simply making news up, how can I now believe anything they say or write? Unless it is sourced properly and confirmed. So when you say that Trump is anti-science or science illiterate, or would not listen to his scientific advisors (I don't recall if you said would not or did not), think back on where and how you heard this. And of course you would have formed a bias upon hearing it. The person reporting it probably influenced that bias as well. And that is the problem right now in America. On both sides. And what makes it worse is when people are stuck at home watching the news and that is their only source of news and opinion. There is no more water cooler talk at the office where you can hear other opinions or stories of other people's experiences. Or me saying Trump is NOT an anti-semite, they have it all wrong. Jared's father may be the worst person and criminal to walk the earth, but his mother is lovely and his father-in-law is not an anti-semite. All we hear, we hear solely from the media and the extreme outlier stories they cover to make a point, and make news. It is very misleading and we all fall victim to it. It is a big problem!
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