Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Dad Saves America" channel.

America is suffering from misgovernment, disgovernment, and malgovernment. We need to get more active in politics, from local to national, to save the country.
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The problem with this public / private demarcation, is that short of declaring everything a state, county, or city matter, there is no way to determine "public interest". The Great Barrington Declaration did not emerge from the "public" sphere, it emerged from Civil Society -- some private actors coming together to get the right answer in the right way -- which turns out to be in the "public interest". Individuals need to be able to be made aware of these answers, and decide for ourselves.
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Public sector unions should be banned from making political donations, as they are funded from money taken from employee paychecks. If you are a contractor for the government and give money to the people who sign your paychecks, that's called a kickback and it's very illegal.
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"More saloons than churches" I'm curious what the story is with the political power of the bordello-keepers. They were absolutely huge in the city during the Gold Rush. Did their power wane, or simply evolve? If you had Silicon Valley billionaires in thrall to such people, it would explain a lot about our current culture wars.
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Walz is a toad. Give him a furry hat, and he would fit right in, in the old Soviet Communist Party.
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"The stakes feel so high because they are so high, because the decisions are so centralized" Yeah, the only way to resolve the toxicity of our political debate is to DEcentralize.
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One serious problem with relative economic advantage is that it pushes overspecialization. When this hits resource-rich countries, this is called "the resource curse" or "Dutch disease", and is recognized as a problem that squeezes other (desirable) productive industries out, as the foreign exchange it brings in puts other forms of local export out of business. When this hits countries who specialize in something like Finance, you get Britain: "A very rich city [London] attached to a rapidly declining country." The fortunes of the city -- which are not enough to support the country's massive welfare state, by the way -- suppress the fortunes of the hinterlands. America is seeing the same thing, with financial services in New York and information technology in Silicon Valley (and increasingly, government contracts in Washington) overshadowing other ways of making money.
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We have a country where there is enough free speech and free inquiry, that we can tell early on that Jay Bhattacharya was right and Anthony Fauci was wrong. This is good, but not enough. What we need is a country where we are free to implement the Great Barrington Declaration, and ignore the NIH when the NIH is full of s**t.
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"How are you going to make food producers more competitive?" Deregulation, maybe?
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"We can't return to the patterns of ancient wisdom, because we don't live in their world" Please stop asserting this without evidence, particularly because it's far enough from truth to be false. Trivially speaking, we do not live in the world of 2000 years ago, but human beings are similar enough -- and insofar as we have a different point of view, it is largely one transformed by Christianity, per Tom Holland's book Dominion -- that we can, we should, and we must have yet another revival of "ancient" Christian beliefs as we have had century after century.
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"Work brings human dignity" If we gave as much human dignity credit to mothers as they deserved (and if we didn't have the government incentivized to monetize every human interaction and every moment of every human life), we'd solve the inter-generational labor imbalances that threaten our civilization's survival. We'd probably also solve the mental illness epidemic, the autism epidemic, the problem with anti-social uses of social media....
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"Your $80k costs the rest us $100k" No, it's more like "We could either keep $100k local by paying you, or ship $80k overseas." Keep shipping enough of those $80ks, and you just keep getting poorer, and poorer, and poorer.
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"The reason we have so many different car models is because we have so many overseas trading partners" What? No. Overseas, our car companies have totally different product lines.
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"Always forward!" Twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!
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"We all have to figure out how to leave each other alone" Except in that obliviousness, the Woke mind virus grew and spread. "You do you" got us here. Some things can't be tolerated, and it was a mistake ever to do so. We need to go back to a more traditional education and value system, the sooner the better.
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"Rebuttable presumption" is another way of saying "guilty until proven innocent". Family Court generally is a travesty of justice.
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@jeanburk9539 Rice paddies in a desert are a questionable choice, though.
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@x1k790 If sensible people were more active, we wouldn't need any kind of revolt. If there were enough active people to win a revolt, that would be enough to win without a revolt too.
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@osiris7208 Unfortunately, the people talking most about psychopaths, sociopaths, and malignant narcissists are... the psychopaths, sociopaths, and malignant narcissists.
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"The Fed pumps money into the economy by buying Treasury bills" -- In other words, they pay off the national debt. Seriously, what's the difference here? I mean, Treasury bills ARE the national debt. When the Treasury needs money not covered by revenues, the Treasury gets it by selling these bills. (Many of which are bought by the Fed already, by the way.) Has the Fed ever simply forgiven the Treasury of those debts? Presumably, the bearer of the bond has the right not to collect if it so chooses. Similarly, when the other holders of these bills are paid on time (we haven't defaulted) would they necessarily care if the Fed forgives the debts it holds?
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"What does American civil conflict even look like?" Well-armed small groups of Conservatives put up toll gates on all major freeways, preventing urban areas from getting fed, until all Blue cities surrender. In particularly intransigent cities, they cut off the water supply. The war is over in less than two weeks.
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"I don't care what you do in your personal life, but I do care what you're pushing on kids" Yeah... how has that worked out for you? I'm starting to be convinced that any public expression (or even evidence) of these p**verse ideologies needs to be criminalized, or they're going to come for the kids.
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If Kamala Whorish wants to be unburdened by the guilt of the behavior that gave her a political career, she is free to repent and be forgiven. The pride that keeps her from repentance is the same pride that makes her think herself qualified for high political office, though.
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"Our elected representatives haul tech CEOs in front of them and scream at them for the cameras" Yes, and the tech CEOs nod politely, ignore what the senators say, then go back to their companies and obey whatever any Deep State apparatchik tells them to do.
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This lady would rather hang out with New Husband rather than be a mom. This is what feminism gives us -- instead of holding men to a higher standard (be a dad instead of hanging out with New Wife) they just want women to be as awful as men.
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