Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Assassination Attempt and A Changing World || Peter Zeihan" video.

He's trying to normalize this. Or, he doesn't like the fact that Tucker Carlson predicted this and he didn't.
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@BlobThoughtsMTG No. Excitement for Trump is through the roof.
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@janitorizamped He's normalizing it by providing context. He wants us to say, "We are brilliant and aware people. [Meh] We know that this kind of thing is inevitable in this kind of situation [it isn't]. This is just something that we're going to have to expect for a while." That's called "normalization".
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@thehorse1sbrown He's been fired for making an awfully lot of valid points, or at least for asking valid questions.
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@swirvinbirds1971 Well, yeah. Remember, Nevada was the one where Trump's name wasn't on the ballot for the primary, and so "none of these candidates" flattened Nikki Haley in Nye County by a vote of 2171 to 407. Biden (on the Democrat side) only got 1795. I suspect that if the primary had been held after the debate, "none of the above" would have performed better there too.
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@thehorse1sbrown Ha, looks like my comment wasn't clear enough. Take another look and see if it makes more sense now. Tucker said what his bosses didn't want him to say, and that's why he has to be his own boss now. It suits him. =)
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@markruhland3035 Sticking to what he knows is good and all, but he should learn that sometimes it isn't anywhere near the whole story.
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@mikemush9741 Lol, nothing the fake "influencers" can do are going to stop this. They need to give up their shenanigans and figure out how to negotiate with America First, and be willing to lose some ground. Probably a LOT of ground, on positions like immigration. The good news? America still has the kind of spirit that can be set to work staving off the threat of great power naval competition and the world wars it leads to, but the Deep State needs to do two things: 1. Take Americans' needs seriously. Go back to Pericles' funeral oration. Are regular Americans as well-off for our time as regular Athenians were for their time, or do we need to concentrate on our own prosperity for a while? 2. Make the case to Americans. The question "Why do we have to be the world's police?" has gone unanswered so often as to be considered a rhetorical question now. Used to be, Mahan was everywhere, you can't read a book on global strategy from a couple generations ago without his being referenced like everyone knew exactly who he was and what he was about. Maybe he got so overexposed that everyone just assumed he would be everywhere forever. But a funny thing happened, and his thesis about great power competition just simply fell off the edge of the map, seemingly a victim of his own success. If we want Americans to know why we're doing all this, we have to tell them. I'm happy to help out with this. This is part of the solution. Only, Trump and America First is the other part of that solution. If we don't put America First, we aren't going to be able to maintain our posture as world police and guarantors of peace.
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@ThatOneScienceGuy The "chunks" she got were really not all that "large."
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@danielwnorowski2553 Could you provide a little more context for your question?
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@sixfiftyfive2386 As with everything, check the checkables. The stuff he's checkable on, he does pretty well.
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@marekwojcik7153 I think you're confusing deliberate "normalization" -- a push to adjust people's expectations -- with incidental normalization, which is an adjustment of people's expectations simply by pointing out that there is a justification to change those expectations. I'll give Peter the benefit of the doubt, and say that in his case it's just incidental.
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